Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-12

| and in a direct line about four miles north
| OF CoiiaX. Less than year ago n Chicago
| syndicate purchased lands at this point.
| amounting to about three thousand acres,
| ana divided 1t into twenty-acre tracts for
| the establishment of a colony. with CEN
| trai portion set aside for town purposes
| Two stool, companies are rapidly pushing
forward improvements-one looking after
| the town proper and the other to the clear
Ing and planting Of the colony tracts.
| The town company has used about two
! hundred acres Of as picturesque land rs
could possibly be utilized, setting aside
commodious grounds for magnificent
! hotel and summer resort; picnic grounds.
! plaza, schools and villa lots of one to five
acres, and in the neighborhood of twenty
/ lve blocks divided into lots for residence
purposes. The town site is on undulating
ground, about 2,400 feet above sea level.
! and covered with magnificent growth of
pines and oaks as straight as an arrow and
free from underbrush. On the crest of the
hill will stand the hotel, which is to cost
$4,000, and work on which will begin
next week. Carpenter shops and houses
Tor the workmen are already built: and
adjoining the town site fires are now burn
ing kiln Of brick for foundation pur
poses. A saw-mill and lumber ward on
the property affords unsurpassed facilities
for building material Water for domes-
tic purposes will be piped from the crystal
spring of an adjoining mountain, with suffi-
cient head to supply the tallest building,
and from the South Yuba ditch for horti-
cultural and fire purposes, piped with
sufficient head to throw streams higher
than any building that may be erected.
In thinning out and clearing the grounds
trees are left i'll such manner as to pre-
sent the most pleasing appearance; and
with the new hotel properly conducted,
the Just right altitude, the delightful eli
mate and beautiful scenery, Chicago Park
Will become one ofthe most popular health
and summer resorts, and favorite for out
of-town residences on the whole Pacific
coast.
THE LAND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY.
Of the tract, up to the present time.
about one hundred and twenty-five twenty
acre tracts have been surveyed, and of
these one hundred have been sold. Many
purchases were made by Eastern people,
but Californians have also been liberal pa
irons. Of the former, many, if not all,
are well-to-do Eastern people, who are en-
gagged in business, but having visited this
section and discovered its capabilities,
have determined to have home here.
Several have built houses and are improv-
ing their own tracts, while many prefer
ring to continue their business while their
lands were being brought from a wild to a
cultivated state, remain in their present
localities while the improvements are
pushing forward, intending to come on as
soon as the lands are ready to produce
Rather than to trust to Tom, Dick and
Harry, thoroughly managed improve
ment association, employing a large force
Of men, is engaged in clearing and plant
ing to trees and vines tracts for such peo-
pie as desire, and the transformation from
the wild slopes TO beautiful vineyards ana
orchards, is almost beyond comprehension
and if not so sudden, equally as wonderful
and decidedly more permanent than the |
astonishing creations of Aladdin and his
magical lamp.
GRASS VALLEY.
Seventeen miles from Colfax and we
reach Grass Valley, than which there is no |
more beautiful mountain town in the
Stste. 1t has population of about 1000,
and its people are intelligent, industrious,
prosperous and contented. The State
Board of Health gives the town the lowest
death rate Of any in the State. Mining is
the main industry, and it is a paving and
permanent one, we'll supplemented bv the
growing horticultural interests. The mines
yield gold TO an amount that averages over
4 hundred Thousand dollars monthly. and
hundreds OF men are EMPLOYED in the mines