Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-09-15

| examples OF the county. Probably no
| finer display of ores has ever been made at
"a State Fair than this constitutes. 1t is
quite too large, and the exhibits too nu-
merous to justify more than reference to
them now. They will all be found to be
worthy of close examination. As the iso-
| thermal lines that assure citrus fruit capac
| ity to Amador's foothills sweep through
| that county, so too, quite from end to end
| of Amador, the great mother lode of gold
| quartz is found to be well defined from the
Mokelumne at one end almost to the
| Costumes at the other, a magnificent
| stretch of twenty-five miles, and upon
which to-day there are no less than CSC
| stamps crushing the ore and preparing it
! for parting with its wealth. There are
| twenty chief and largely operated mining
! properties and hundred lesser ones; but
as the mineral wealth of Amador is only
| touched as yet, it cannot be said that these
lesser properties may not ere long become
of first importance.
| We revert once more to the water power
OF Amador. One canal system carries
water from the Mokelumne river thirty-six
miles east of Jackson, and leads through
| out the county. Another carries water
| from the Costumes and covers territory up
| to the Sacramento line. These systems
! guarantee power at the lowest of 262 feet
pressure and from that up to 600 and 700 feet,
| thus affording the best advantages known
in the State for cheap mine operation and
for milling and manufacturing.
| The county produces from paying and
working mines copper, asbestos, iron of
| fine quality, slate in good quarry forma-
ton, coal in great quantities, porcelain and
| flre-clay, limestone, marble IN great va
riety, and some of exquisite beauty and
almost understandable delicacy of tints
sandstone, red, gray and white, that for
building purposes are exceeding economic
in working, since they are soft and elastic
when taken out, and harden by exposure.
The new bank building in Sacramento is
now being built of Amador building sand
| stone, and is a single example of the
| splendid capacity of the county. Clay
| shipments and stone exports from the
| county are now very large and steady.
! Granite IN variety, soapstone. limestone,
| lime ochre, are all on exhibition in the
Amador display, and deserve the critical
examination of architects and builders of
the State.
In timber the county is specially blest
There are, on the TANKS and sleeps of the
Sierras, almost inexhaustible forests, prac-
tically intact. of sugar pine, cedar, yew,
maple, laurel, etc. Some cross sections are
shown, and one cross-cut of huge sugar
pine, not by any means the largest, mea-
surfing seven feet in diameter. Larger
could have been had, too, but this lesser
one was taken for convenience in handling
One sugar pine board a inches in width, is
shown, that has not in its y feet of length
a solitary flaw, knot, check or defect while
boards of cedar 16 feet long and "a inches
wide are exhibited, that are perfectly
clear"
While Amador is so rich in minerals.
woods, water-power and genial climate, she
| has even greater wealth in the capacity of
her soil to produce. We cannot begin to
catalogue the magnificent exhibit made of
fruits, grains and vegetables. There are
oranges as good as any Sacramento or
Placer can grow; peaches, apples, prunes,
plums, grapes and berries of the very best
quality in flavor and keeping capacity;
| Nuts, up and down the whole gamut of
production, from shell-bark hickory and
| English and American walnuts to the best
grades of almonds; from chestnuts to
pecans, from pig nuts to the old-fashioned
and juicy butternut; so, too, here we find
examples OF the "paw-paw," so familiar TO
all Western people; the pomegranate, the
nectarine, the lemon, lime, the white Adri-
| attic and the old black Mission figs
ounces, Japanese persimmons, pears,
Hungarian and French prunes, ETC.
In grapes an especially fine showing is
made that we would gladly dilate upon at
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| and brandies of fine quality, delicate flavor,
and all those fine qualities that should dis
tinguish these beverages, are made in ANA
| dor, the industries rapidly expanding and
promising much for the section in the early
| future.
In dried fruits, sun-dried and evaporated,
Amador makes one of the handsomest,
best and most extensive displays we have
ever seen. In grains, wheat, rye, oats,
barley, are shown in bag and on stalk. One
| brand OF oats we are assured produced
forty and one-half bushels to the acre,
raised on the side-hills at that. Barley
from near Jackson yielded fifty pounds to
the bushel and Messenger wheat fifty-six
and one-half. Corn of high excellence is
shown, the stalk being heavy, compact,
lofty and the ear full, large and with
kernels unshrunken, and producing meals
than which no better are ground in the
State.
Potatoes of superior quality are grown
throughout the county, as also all manner
of vegetable production.
Amador county Is practically free from
| debt, her rate of taxation is low; the para
| Lying boom" has never afflicted her; her
climate is OF the very best California
affords, salubrious, invigorating and
ealth-giving; indeed many of her resorts
are gaining notoriety as sanitariums. The
county is well supplied with good schools,
churches and other beneficent institutions
Her society is stable, clean, and the state
of morality high and of vigor and strength.
The Preston Industrial Juvenile Reforma-
tory ordered by the late Legislature has its
seat in this county. Here, too, is the
United States Agricultural Experimental
Station, under direction of the Faculty of
the State University. This station occupies a
plat that has the four classes of soils chief
in California. A remarkable combination,
as if nature had here provided the exact
and best of all spots for an experimental
station.
We have failed to refer to all the pro.
ducts of Amador, emitting tobacco and
hops, for instance, and detailed refer
ence to the quality of the apples of the
county, that give the lie to the stories that
California can grow no fine apples to the
splendid exhibit of products of the 90"
Ranch of George Woolsey, in Amsdor' 8
display-a fair within itself-to the great
cube of 16S tons, showing the amount of
gold taken out of Amador's hills; to the
tine display. made by the ladies in their
booth OF fancy and practi cal needle work,
etc; to the jellies, jams and preserved fruits;
to the mining and milling machinery man
uiactured in the county; to the indurated
clay shown; to the minor minerals and
their extent; to the soils and their chemical
constituents-the truth is, there is so much
to write of in Amador's display, and it so
thoroughly and exclusively advertses
the county that it is impossible to compass
it in single article, or do more than we
have done, merely refer to chief excel
lences.
OTHER EXHIBITS.
Il George H. Ramsay has collection of
Photographic and photographic views of
cities, towns, ranches, mines, mountain
scenery and industries of California. These
pictures are designed to show up the beauty
and grandeur of our State and its resources
before the people of the East. Mr.. Ramsay
hopes to secure the assistance of the Boards
of Trade of the different counties, his in
tention being to exhibit these views
throughout the East
Joseph Neumann, the veteran silk grower
and manufacturer, has on exhibition speci-
mems of the Rhamnus California, cascara
sagrada and wild coffee plant, on which the
native silk-worm feeds. He also exhibits
specimens of the latter. In a pamphlet on
the subject, issued by him, he says: II do
! not say too much when l claim that when
our billy and rocky lands, which to-day
would not bring one dollar an acre, will be