The record-union., 1899-08-19
THE BRIDGE FOR FAIR OAKS.
PETITIONS ARE IN COURSE OF
PREPARATION.
Letter From Property Owners in
Chicago Who Are Coming
Here to Reside.

Inc people OF talr oaks ana orange
vale are again agitating the matter of
the construction of a bridge across
the American River between here and
Folsom, and petitions will be presented
to the Supervisors at an early day ask
ing that one be built.
Recently E. |. Calvin, who represents
several owners of property in Fair
Oaks. received a letter (Which appears
below from them, dated at Chicago,
asking him to lay the matter before the
Supervisors and urge speedy action.
The signers to this letter all intend
soon to establish permanent homes IN
this county, and they are prominent
and well-to-do people. George Straith
is connected with the large commercial
house Of Clement, Bane & Co., Chica-
go; o. w. Ruggles is General Ticket
and Passenger Agent for the Michigan
Central Railroad, and George E. King
is his assistant; T. Q. Bramball is in
the same Office with the latter two; A.
]. Hodge is prominent Chicago busi-
ness man.
Several Of the persons whose names
are signed to the letter have had plans
prepared in Sacramento for handsome
dwelling houses, and one calls for
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people are preparing to come to this
county to live. They hold frequent
meetings in Chicago at which they dis
cuss their plans for removal hither.
In another letter Mr.. Ruggles writes
that many of the Fair Oaks property
owners back there are subscribers to
the Record Union" and take a deep
interest in matters concerning Sacra-
mento, especially the letters from Fair
Oaks which appear in its columns
which are eagerly looked for.
OrangevaIe has joined hands with
Fair Oaks in the matter of the proposed
bridge and other needed public i'm
provements in that part Of the county,
which has received very little atten-
tion, they claim, at the hands of the
authorities.
The site generally preferred for the
proposed bridge is about in the center
of the Fair Oaks tract, which would
equally accommodate both the Fair
oaks and Orangevale people. The
building of the bridge would, it is be-
lieved, increase the travel between
these points and the city fully one hum
dred per cent, as the present route is
long and the roads hilly and rough.
The Supervisors have assured the
people of that end of the county that
whenever the matter is laid before that
body in proper shape it will receive fav-
orable action. A petition was filed last
year, but new ones are now being pre-
pared. Following is the letter referred
to:
Chicago, July 2S. 1899.
Edward I. Calvin, Sacramento, Cal
Dear Sir: The undersigned, citizens
Of Chicago and owners Of property at
Fair Oaks, Sacramento County, Cal,
have read the recent publications in
tie Sacramento papers relative to pub
lie improvements in that section of the
county in which, both as property
owners and as prospective residents.
we have an especial interest; and as
you are upon the ground we would
ask you TO make the necessary and
proper representations upon our behalf
TO the Board of Supervisors or such
other officials as may have jurisdiction
OF the matter
We allude particularly and especially
TO the great and growing necessity for
improved means of transportation to
and from Fair Oaks. It's natural base
of supplies and gateway for ingress and
egress, is Sacramento and it seems to
US JnaI II Is 10 the interest Oh the CIT
liens of both these localities to i'm
prove such means of transportation
that business relations between the
two localities may be fostered and in
creased.
Most of US have been upon the
ground and have some knowledge of
the conditions from personal expert
ence, but we all know, either from per-
sonal observation or from interested in
quiries that upon the settlement Of
this question depends in greater or less
degree, the time within which it <lay
seem advisable TO US to build and be-
come actual residents of that locality.
Most important of all is good.
strong, safe bridge over the American
River at the most convenient point that
engineers may decide upon, connecting
what is known as the town site of
Fair Oaks with the railroad station of
Salisbury but a short distance TO the
south. The early construction of this
bridge we believe could not fail TO ma
terially cheaper the transportation of
freight between Sacramento and Fair
oaks, and would therefore exercise an
important influence in the upbuilding of