Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-02

munlty that has only mining to support it. |
foisom Is a town OF at least 1000 inhabit- !
ants, has excellent sewerage and is the CEN
tral portion OF fine fruit section The
town presents very neat and tidy appear
ance. Some two years ago it was almost
entirely destroyed by fire. The business
men rebuilt with surprising rapidly, and
to-day the town presents better appear
ance than at any time in its history. There
is no town of its size in the State where
merchants carry better stocks of goods,
larger or more varied, than in Folsom
The business houses of J. II. Burnham,
druggist and banker; Cohen & Co, gro
ceries, hardware and produce dealers Jos.
Fiel, general varieties; E. R. Levy, wines
and liquors Brown q wager, hardware,
and j. Heyman, clothing and dry goods,
are on an equality with similar houses on
j and K streets in this city. A represent
alive of this paper was in Folsom few
days ago, and in stroll up
ONE SIDE OF SUFFER- STREET
And down the other, noted the following
business places: John Kelley, wines and
cigars; E. L. Nichols blacksmith shop;
Natoma livery, feed and sale stables, J. K.
-hIOSOlubSi, AluGIltdI GN-
change Hotel, John A. Graham, proprie-
tor (first-class in every respect; new ton
serial rooms, Chas. Tong, chief artist;
Washington Coffee-house, John Shannon,
proprietor; Imhof & Spaulding, dealers in
hardware, tinsmiths and plumbers; Nc
Kuen Bros, wines and liquors; John L.
Houx, druggist; S. Cohn, grocer lone of
the largest dealers in the interior); Mrs.
McNamee, groceries; Jacob Hyman, En-
porium of Fashion large dealer in dry
goods, clothing, etc.; Isaac Fiels, Post
office, toys and fancy goods; Ed. Levy, i'm
ported wines, liquors and cigars, and bill
lizard parlors; Louis Lazard saloon Chris
Ecklon, Granite meat market; J. II. Stur-
gis, manufacturing jeweler; Louis Klumpp,
saloon and billiards; J. II. Burnham, deal
er in drugs and medicines, and general
banking business; Louis Joerger, shoe
maker; A. Borgis, barber shop; Brown &
4agers hardware store, full line of paints,
oils, hardware, tinware, lamps, etc; Emil
Miller, variety store; Charles Weaver,
harness shop; Jacob Miller, furniture
dealer and undertaken; A. Cohn, variety
store; j. II. Meredith, drugs; New West
ern Hotel, Charles Zimmerman; J. Odam,
blacksmith John L. House, marble cutter;
Stephen Foster, livery and feed stable;
Louis Wager, wholesale and retail dealer
IN beer and soda and all kinds of liquors;
Charles Charley, groceries; Andrew Ely,
saloon; Hof d Farmer, blacksmiths;
Miss Mary Mills, fancy millinery; Steve
Addison, dealer in lumber and commission
merchant; Stephen Foster, dealer in lum-
Der, shakes and shingles; Railroad Hotel
and Restaurant, d. A. James, proprietor;
Weston P. Truesdell, teacher of the piano,
violin and guitar, notary public, Job
printer, editorial writer and proprietor of
the Folsom Telegraph There are no flies
on Brother Truesdell. The town is
WELL SUPPLIED WITH CHURCHES,
The Catholic, Methodist and Episcopalian
all being represented. The school is in a
tiourishing condition, under the manage
ment of Prof S. Z. Blanchard, assisted by
Mrs. Spaulding. The Odd Fellows and
Masonic societies each own their own hall
The order of Workmen, Chosen Friends
and Native Sons of the Golden West also
have organizations in the town. Fire
mans Hall, in the center of the town, is
used for town meetings and large public
assemblies. The Justices of the Peace are
Hartford Anderson and j. Fl. Sturgis, both
good jurists, men of age and experience.
The Constdbles are John McCombs and
w. Davis, and the lawyers Frank Esta-
brook and Judge Crosette.
As a manufacturing center, Folsom is
destined to be the first in the State. Her
position on the American river, where
there is always large volume of water
running to waste and sufficient power to
drive every factory in the State, saying
nothing of her geographical position in
the center of the great valley, only twenty,
miles from the capital are advantages
that viii soon be utilized