The record-union., 1893-02-07
FOOTHILL FLOATINGO.
Matters of Interest at and in the Vi
oinity of Folsom.
The Great Power House-Free Labor
on the Canal-A Real Log Cabin
The New Bridge.
From the Telegraph. FEBRUARY 4tb

The visitor to the State Prison will see
with surprise the great change that has
taken place there during the past six
months. The improvements made there
during the past few months are numer-
GUS. The massive dam, power-house
and subsidiary appointments speak vol
umes for all concerned in the result at
tanned. by their works shall We know
them." is an excellent practical test for
practical people. We saw the ponderous
water gates lifted and lowered by the
simple turn of a little wheel in the hands
of Captain Charles Matthewson.
Ihe great compressor, with its load of
fitty tons weight, responded to the same
touch as though it were feathers weight.
1he great pump, with its fourteen-inch
cylinders and twelve-inch pipes, by which
1t throws one thousand gallons of water
minute, and forces the same up to an
/ elevation OF Two hundred feet if desired
this great piece of mechanism worked as
| steadily, smoothly and noiselessiy as
! chronometer.
Truly the power-house is fifty named.
1t is worthy of our great State. Indeed
the PRISON OF to-day, with its immense
mechanical facilities, is one of the mar
is insignificant when compared with the
possibilities of the future.
FREE LAoR ON THE CANAL.
The first step toward the employment
OF free labor on the canal has been taken.
a house for the storage OF tools has been
moved down to Robbers Itavine, at
which point the work OF the conVicts will
end. At the end of Leidsdeorl street cut.
just where the prison road starts, the
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OF the week there viii be another build
ing erected for storage purposes. These
/ buildings are being erected by the Fol
som Water-Power Company, which in
corporation intends to push the work as
rapidly as possible.
In order to secure and hold the street
railway franchise in Sacramento, they
will have to hurry up matters. They
Will have to have their electric power
house up within year, as they have to
! use the electricity on their road. The
power-house at the prison is the property
OF the State and cannot be used by them,
as they have no control whatever over it.
IL Is expected That the work on the canal,
i'll which free labor Is to be employed,
VIII be started about May.
NO PRINTERS THERE.
Some wag has introduced bill to have
the state printing done ut the Folsom
Prison by the convicts. We interviewed
Warden Aull on Monday as to the num-
Der of convictS confined III the prison
here, whose occupations were that of
printer. He informed US that there was
not one, that there never had been one
and, further, that he mad never known
of printer convict.
IL viii thus be seen that the votaries of
the art preservatlye of arts are alaw-abid-
ing and strictly honest class of people.
who never stray from the narrow paths
OF virtue into the broad and alluring
highway of sin and transgression. The
measure might as well be killed.
IN the euphoneous ana expressive lam
guage OF one of our local politicians, THAT
there thing don't CO."
''oLD TIMES, Rox."
On the upper side of the prison road,
near the cut, log cabin has been erected
by couple of men. 1t is a small affair.
but IS one OF the genuine kind. 1t looks
familiar to many of our settlers, some of
whom were born in houses of the same
material, and brought back many recol-
lections of their childhood. To a great
many it is genuine curiosity, and many
mad never seen one except in picture or
at thealer. The outside is heat in ap-
pearance, and those who have lived in
them say they are warm and comforta-
BILE.
FROM NATURAL CAUSES.
a COrOner'S ING QueSU was held on the
remains of the late John Tomilson on
Saturday afternoon. The jury returned
a verdict OF death from natural causes.
Deceased settled here in early days, and
was known to old timers all over the
State. lie was very ingenious man,
and invented number of mechanical APP
pliances, several of which would have
brought fortune to him had he secured
patents OH them.
DIED IN ARIZONA.
Peter wager received yesterday the
news of the death of his niece, Mrs. Mary
Cullen, a lady who was we'll known here.
Her death occurred in Tucson, Arizona.
on January 30th. Deceased was a sister
of John White, the railroad engineer, who
was killed at Latrobe by the explosion of
a locomotive.
MINOR ITEMS.
The work on the suspension bridge is
progressing nicely, and if nothing in the
way of an accident occurs, it will be far
ahead enough by Monday to defy wind
and storm.
The American River Land and Lum-
Der Company are preparing to send down
a lot of logs in the spring when the river
rises.