Amador ledger., 1901-08-02
From Our Exchanges.
oALAvERAs CITIZEN

The alarm of fire spread through the
district Saturday forenoon and the
Banner fire department. responded
with us usual promptness. The fire
com menced in the haystack owned bv
Pete Dahl, on Jack Tone fat, where it
destroyed about 10 tons of grain hay.
From there the fire spread in two di-
rectlons, one tongue going toward the
tables near Luco Hario's, the other 60
ing toward Michelsou's like a race.
morse. In very short time the tables
on both sides of the Esperanto were a
mass of flames. By hard WORK and
plenty of back fires the lower end of
the tire was kept under control. When
the danger had passed it was found
that the fire had burned over a snace
OF about three miles wide and five long
and at last accounts was still sneedine
toward the higher attitudes. Aside
from the burning of Dahl's havstacIl
and the pasturage for stock no damage
OF any Importance was done. How the
fire originated will probably never be
known. There seems to be two opin-
ions here, but the one generally &C
cepted is that the haystack was dslib-
erately set on fire. What the motive
was is to us as much mystery as how
1t was started.
We are informed that the parties
who have recently been looking at the
copper mines at Copperopolis have
secured an option on the Harmon
property at Campo Seco for $500, 600 in
thirty days. The Campo Seco copper
mines have been worked right along
1or some time past and have paid well,
and should they pass into the hands of
the new company will be operated on
very extensive scale. The gold taken
from the copper ore alone pays for the
labor spent in mining. The mines are
permanent and are of great benefit to
that section of the country in which
they are located.
At the Hot Air Development Co.'S.
works on the Calaveras river, Adam
Jackson, Ed Vaudeville and Henry
Brlght are operating gravel PROPOSE
tlon winch bids fair to become a bon
ANA IN the near future, as we under
stand from one of the owners some of
the gravel which has been extracted is
SO rich that by using the glass freely
ne can pretty near' see gold in it,
STOCKTON MAIL.
Judge Davis of Marysville yesterday
afternoon sentenced W. F. Jones to
htteen years in San Quentin for rob-
perry. Jones, in company with George
sumner, entlced a young man named
George Curtiss up Feather river in a
boat July 18th, and when few miles
above Yuba City ordered him to turn
over the money in his possession,
which he did. After threatening to
murder the victim if he disclosed the
crime the assailants made preparations
to flee, but were unprecedented. Jones
pleaded guilty. Sumner will be tried
later.
lone VALLEY ECHO.
Stone Brothers, the contractors at
the standard plant, received their big
steam shovel at the depot Tuesday.
IL LOOK two fiat cars to hold it, and it
weighs 40 tons.
The county supervisors are unani-
nous on the feasibility of sprinkling
the jackson road literally with oil,
and the Intention is to begin as soon as
possible. The result of oil on the
rocky ridge has demonstrated that it
Is the only proper means for subduing
the dust and putting the road in a
condition to effectually resist the rains
of winter.
More freight has been received at
the lone depot this month than has
been recorded in the roads history.
And it helps to keep lone up in the
progressive procession.
The watering trough put in at the
Ionzl spring on the Amador road, by
ID. Mccall, is a great public conven-
lence and should have been put there
years ago.