Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-15
HAPPY lone.
SHE WILL HAVE THE PRESTON
SCHOOL oP INDUSTRY.
The Prison Directors Decide to Accept a
Site Therefor-Plenty of Good
Water Assured.

The San Francisco Call of yesterday
states that on Monday the State Prison Di-
rectors held an informal session in the
Palace Hotel and agreed to go in body to
lone on Saturday, accompanied by their
engineer and several experienced agri-
culturists and fruit growers, and inspect
the tract of land offered them by the lone
Coal and Iron Company, of which Stephen
P Gage is President and which is one of
the collateral corporations of the Southern
Pacific Company. Director Sonntag, who
at the meeting on Saturday expressed lis
intention of paying no further visits to
lone, he having but last week examined
this land, yielded to the requests OF his
associates and agreed to accompany them.
This tract is situated upon the Muletown
range, on the turnpike between lone and
Sacramento, one-half mile north of lone,
and on an average is 100 feet above the
town level.
While the Board will not formally &C.
cept this property until its next regular
meeting, there is no doubt of its being the
site selected. The price asked is below
that asked by owners of surrounding prop
erty, the company contracting to sell 200
acres at $50 per acre, and donate 100 acres
in addition to the State, while $40 900 was
asked for $50 acres Just across the road.
The company, it is stated, were not COM
petitors for the site, but the Board after re-
ceiving the bids OF the others went after
Mr.. Gage and urged upon him the sale of
this particular portion of the vast tract his
company owns, at a price which would
10 he 10
the buildings at once without waiting for
another appropriation, and after consid-
ering the matter he made the offer stated
above, by which the State has an option on
300 acres of land for Sc 000
Bernard lsaacs, who On Saturday offered
to sell his water rights, yesterday signed
contract to that effect, by which he agrees
to convey to the State the first, exclusive
and perpetual right to $50 inches of water
from Suffer creek. his two bitches, each
about nine miles in length, together with
the right of way in case they need enlarg-
ing at any time, the site of Henderson,
reservoir, twenty-seven acres in surface
area and estimated by Colonel ven Schmidt
(the engineer of the Board) as having a
capacity of 274 600 900 gallons, and to con-
struct dam for the reservoir at cost of
$4,000 for 300. He further guarantees
that the water supplied will develop $50
horsepower throughout the year.
This proposition, as well as that of Mr.
Gage, will, beyond all doubt, be accepted.
and will result in the State securing 800
acres of good land with sufficient water for
domestic purposes, irrigation, power for
the generating of electricity for lighting,
etc, at total outlay of SCI, 500, leaving
them balance of sos, 800 out of their ap-
preparation of $3.50 600, with which to COM
mence work at once.
1t is the intention of the Board to make
the buildings of substantial character,
with the main structures centrally located
and with cottages scattered around. There
is a fine quarry of red sandstone six miles
from lone, and this material will be largely
used.