Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-30
LOWER LAKE.
The People of that Section Want Rail-
road and Want 1t Badly.

The People of that Section Want q Rail-
road, and Want 1t Badly.
EDS. RECORD UNION Fearful that mis-
apprehension may be created in the minds
of some because of resolutions Endorsed By !,
vocating the construction of rzilroad
hence, via Rutherford, l desire to tell the !
railroad men, and the public generally, |
what l am quite sure is the sentiment of |
this people. | have lived here since this |
c,uniy was = bowling wilderness and !
know the people we'll, and am quite GER
tain that | know what We all want in the |
railroad line. First and foremost We want
a railroad, end we want it in the superla-
tive degree. OF course if we can't get the
one we want, We viii gladly hsil the
whistle of Donahue's locomotive as ii may
come laundering through the bills from
Hopland 10 l4akeport. But, especially, the
people of the lower end of this county
want The Southern or Central Pacific to
build here. Ii Will give Us accommodate
tons that no other road can afford II will
create and control traffic which the road
Of Air. Donahue cannot. For reasons given
by me in a letter to Il Sacramento paper
about two years ago, which have now
passed cut of memory, doubtless, we again
appeal to Messrs. Stanford Huntington,
Croker u Co. TO come to us by way of
Cache Creek canyon.
! The reasons assigned before have since
! been largely augmented, and we feel conf
dent that the Inducements of freight and
travel are such nov that the road would
| prove profitable one to the owners from
! the very beginning of its operations.
! Within the past two years there have been
thousands upon thousands of acres planted
to tree and vine in Lake county. VIZ have
| for years been shipping large surplus OF
fruit from old orchards by way of teams
| over the hills to the Sacramento and other
valleys, which was very expensive and of
small profit. The approaching season will
find Lake county with an enormous fruit
surplus without paying facilities of ship
| ment. The travel hither for about seven or
eight months of the year, | venture to say,
will exceed the expectations of the most
sanguine. 1t is only modest estimate to
place the number of visitors here during
the summer at 10000, even with the print
tive and unpleasant means of locOmot;on
now available. and what the increase of
that travel would be were a railroad built
10 Lover Lake, we would hardly want to
make conjecture.
Beside the mining and fruit interests and
surplus grain product Lake has a large
output annually of live stock. Beef and
mutton and hogs are driven out by the
thousand every year, and much loss at
tacheS because OF the necessity of driving.
The large shipments of wool in the spring
and fall of the year now costs the producer
ore cent per pound. never less. Our sup
plies are correspondingy high in price be-
cause of the mountain schooner's freight
tax. With a population of about 10000
which is rapidly increasing, an immense
acreage of vines and trees. the great wealth
of our woods and forests and pineries, and
the certain travel of the spring summer
aud fall Of the year, makes US confident
that the construction of the road from
; Flu nsey's to Lower Lake would be no IN
certain speculation. We want that road
because it viii afford US q means of exit tc
an Eastern market. San Francisco is al
ready more than a5undantly supplied anc
our supplies will have to 60 elsew here tC
market If we want to ship to an Eastern
market we want to go there without The
necessity of going by way of San Francisco
= or any other out of the way point
I seems TO us that the friendly greeting which
. we are anxious 10 extend that Capay road
together with the certain inducements W,
have by way of trade and travel, ought t.
be sufficient to induce its extension dis
a lance of but little more than twenty mile
. 10 Clear Lake. ANY point at the lower enc
I cf the lake would command the business
: | of the country, and when the owners of tn
> road are ready to leave Us, their way woul,
lie before them TO Upper Lake, Bachelo
: Valley. Blue Lakes. and on out TO Mendo
d ciuo county without a hill to contend with
Concluding let us assure you that We wan
a railroad very badly but the Rutherfor
: route is not our first choice. Respectfully
: ID. NJ. II.
& Lower Lake. March &c, 1889.