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

| by the leading citizens of both Nevada
City and Grass Valley, and where it i.
| endeavored to afford superior educational
advantages. The institution has main.
| tanned school for two years, and the curric.
ulum is presided over by faculty of seven
Instructors, and is literally patronized. On
Q torest-clad eminence near by. overlook
ing this elegant property the Nevada
County Land and Improvement Associa-
ton have in contemplation the early cree
ZION OF a magnificent summer-resort hotel
NEVADA CITY.
This is the northern terminus of the
narrow gauge, and is the county seat OF
Nevada county. The population numbers
between five and six thousand people. and
the principal resources of the place have
| been the Immense mining interests and
ifeighting traffic with upper mountain
towns. Many of the mines in this locality
were worked by the hydraulic process.
which, when enioined by the Courts
ceased work, and caused q general business
depression. From this the town is gradu-
ally recovering, but misunderstanding
| between owners of quartz and drift
mines and the members of the Miners
Union has caused temporary stagnation.
Fruits and berries, however, form no in
considerable source of revenue, and the
surrounding vicinity is fast being improved
In this direction. The surplus shipped
over the narrow-gauge from this point last
season amounted to over $40 tons.
This city, like Grass Valley, is cele-
brated for beautiful, healthy and coy
homes, and is also lighted by gas and cleo
trlclty. 1t has water system unexcelled
by that of any city in the world, and its
principal streets are planked and well kept.
1t has ten schools of different grades, with
twelve teachers, and has religious organi-
cations OF all denominations, well furnished
with churches. There are stores of every
KIND, four large hotels, an efficient fire de-
partment, theater, and armory hall, the
largest In the State, north of Sacramento
There Is dancing academy, two large
foundrles, about twenty quartz mills, two
newspapers-the DAILY Transcript and the
DAILY Herald, also branches of almost
every fraternal organization known. The
Citizens Bank ranks with the safest insti-
tutlons in the State, and the town gener-
ally IS such place as would prove desir-
able for home residence, when its claims
to merit are compared with that of any
city in the Union.
COLONY DEVELOPMENT.
That which comes more nearly TO the
popular idea of the proper way of peo-
ping country is the colony system. and
the prosperity of any section SO divided
is so incomparably superior to where land
holdings are in large tracts, that argument
in the matter is superfuorls. To this
more than to any other cause does Fresno
enjoy her present degree of prosperity.
At this time numerous colony schemes are
on foot throughout this section, and the
suc9essful development can but be of ma
terial advantage to everybody and every
interest in the immediate vicinity of a
colony location. Principal among those
on foot at present is the Chicago Park
colony, heretofore described the Traver
colony, of 900 acres just north of Chi
cago Park; the Glenbrook colony, be-
tween Nevada City and Grass Valley, 600
acres, and the Penn Valley colony, lying
some ten miles west of Grass Valley and |
embracing soE.e 1000 acres.
On these lands every twenty-acre tract |
Is sufficient, if properly cultivated, to |
maintain family in comfort and afford a |
better home and more surplus money than
can be derived from farm of eight times
that size in the East.
PRICES or LANDS.
Lands vary in price according to dis
lance from railroads, variety of soil, their
evelness, water facilities and the ease with
which they may be brought to subsection
Generally, however, bearing these condi-
ions in mind, lands vary from $40 to SIS
ger acre. a good fair average for the sec