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PERHAPS There Is No County CALL, THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1904. 39 AMADOR IS RICH IN MINES AND FARMS THE IONE AND EASTERN RAILROAD Gold-Producing District of the 'Mother A New Standard Gauge Line Lode Offers Fertile Land to Those Into Amador County. Who Would Grow Fruits or Grain Impetus Given to the Activities, and By Superior Judjrc R. C. Rust. mine and excellently equipped with largest in- county one of the power hoists the Resources of a Famous there Is no State and a fine forty-sta.mp mill. The in California more favored mill is not running at present owing by nature or more varied in to the closing of the mine for several Section of the State. years its than Amador during the litigation widh the resources, Kennedy that fa-, PERHAPSCounty. has been decided In vftr of the Argonaut. Operations were In making history, Beck, The situation among the foothills of resumed about one year ago and rock tba of railroads have E. San Francisco, Cal. The direc- the Sierra, where the is I* now being been a mighty, force toward diminishing tors are: Francis E. Beck. Henry P. elevation taken out and in a few \u25a0pace, eliminating Hoey. S. J. F. Burgin. Wil- too too low, makes crushing the Inconveniences of C. Scheeline neither high nor months willbe resumed. travel, reducing liam Pardy Sr., G. X. wendling and Jack- its grassy The famous Zeile, the cost of freight and climate most equable. Its in the town of above all, civilizing: son Dennis. plains and valleys, spring Jackson, which has been running stead- ' Early in'May of the present year. H. E. rich Cor and ily thirty-five In the foothills of Amador County Is winter grazing, and for years. or more, is re- C. Feusier. who knows the Sierras thor- its verdant moun- building its hoist and situated the town of lone, a terminus of oughly, was engaged a9 chief engineer. tain meadow lands for make a sixty-stamp survey summer mill operated by power. the Southern Pacific. From this point the The flr?t preliminary was made on stock raising an important and profit- electric This Iona and Eastern Railroad Company is the north side of Sutter Creek. But on ac- able industry. also is a splendid mine and one of tne of being right old properties building a standard gauge steam railroad count unable to secure of richer or more productive soil whose value deep oper- way, the surveying corps was called In can be ations have proven. It was closed to the towns of Jackson and Amador and nothing dona till July, when found in our State than the down for a years City, a of further bottom along the term of until dis- distance twenty miles. This the County Board of Supervisors granted lands Mokelumne coveries in the 1700 and 1900 foot railroad will serve, the population of th» a franchise and the right of way by Mar- and Cosumnes rivers, where the choic- Kennedy, lev- tell was company est fruits, els of the which it adjoins on tfcree towns above mentioned and will bought by the midway melons, berries and vege- the north, transport freight passengers between Jackson and' Sutter Creek, to tables every variety induced a company to re- the and for places of grow in rich open it with Creek, Plymouth. which the line will be extended. profusion, ready market for which is the results above men- the towns of Sutter The actual work of construction began tioned. Volcano, Mokelumne Hilland other points, August by Sup- found in the cities of Stockton, Sacra- carry In the Atlas Contract and and Francisco, The Central Eureka near the town and will the freight to and from ply Company, which afterward sublet to mento San and in the firm of & Petterson the con- tewns along the great mother lode; of Sutter Creek is another of the rich the great mines of the mother lode, in- the Kricksnn mines struction of first section from lone to while carload shipments are made to that has improved with depth, cluding the Zeila. Argonaut, Kennedy, the it is well equipped a Oneida, South Central Martell. the Eastern markets from the ranches with steam hoist Eureka. Eureka. way and terminals hav» been in lone Valley. and a forty-stamp mill run by elec- Wildman. Keystone, Bunker Hill and Fre- .Rlsrht of power. purchased and seventy-eight acrea, at Shenandoah Valley, tric mont mines. lone, bought from . in the northern lumber, oil, were the>Paciflc Im- part of the county, yields the finest The famous Keystone at Amador TRt. PROTON SCHOOL Of UnDUoTRY. The inbound freight willbe provpment Company for the yard3. depot grapes and peaches in the market, and City xs one of the oldest mines on the mining machinery, supplies and mer- and shops. its production in grains and other mother lode, having been in operation chandise. The- outgoing- freight will be The grtat part of the grading has been large. steadily for over fifty years. is ore. sulphurets. tailings, live stock and completed, most of which was rock work cereals is It lumber and marble. of amount In the higher altitudes the finest equipped with steam hoists and*a six- This school wa» opened July 1. 1S94, and structlon Is both Industrial and technical, rived from a course of instruction at th6 later on and necessitated the use large ty-stamp to the present time 640 boys have been en- and emphasis Is directed toward attaining Preston -The business of the company for the of powder. The three largest trestles qualities of winter apples and moun- mill and several Huntington School Is shown In the fact that first year after construction Is have been built and another Is under con- grow mills. It a splendid rolled." This year the number Is 15S as three distinct results in forming the char- no student leaves the Institution without estimated tain potatoes in abundance. has. record as a compared year. forty pupils, viz.; having as follows: 75,000 barrels of oil. 15,000.000 struction. gold producer. j to 104 last There are acter of the studlousness. a been secured employment, and of About five miles from Jackson and officers, employes. thorough comprehension feet of lumber. 20.000 tons general freight. The first track laying was done In Sep- The Hill, teachers and The an- of a trade and all the students so placed during the past in the higher foothills the Govern- Bunker near Amador City, nual expense including salaries and Im- the upbuilding of a good character. year only rwo have not retained their ment, through the medium of the Uni- is another mine that was closed down provements is $50,000. The class of in- A practical example of the benefits, de- places. versity of California at Berkeley, a number of years and then taken main- hold tained a Government experiment sta- of again, and is now one of the tion for twelve or fourteen years, dem- gold producers, and no longer a- ven- \u25a0 EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES A PROMINENT onstrating the fitness of climate and ture. FINANCIER soil for horticulture and viticulture, as The same can be sajd of the Fre- -.' OF AMADOR COUNTY AND PROMOTER veil as agriculture, in all its branches. mont Consolidated near Drytown, be- ing TOWNS This experiment a THE station also demon- consolidation of the Gover and A Liberal Common School Education Amador's Lendinjr Exponent strated the mines. This of Pro- adaptability of the climate Fremont mine is splen- Within the Reach of Every gress. and soil of this section to the growth didly equipped and will add another " of the olive. A number of the ranch- page to the history of deep quartz Child. Jackson Dennis is one of the most pro- ers embarked in that industry and are mining in Amador County. The school census gives a population of OF AMADOR gressive and influential citizens of Ama- producing olive oil in quite large quan- Space will not permit of any men- 23S9 children between the ages of 5 and dor County, and ItIs due to his untiring tioning many efforts tities and of fine quality. This indus- of other properties along i 17 years. There are forty-three school that this section of the State has try bids fair to assume gTeat propor- the mother lode, some more or less districts In the county, so located that the Show a Substantial Popula- been brought into public notice of late. tions in the near future. Less than a developed, and others in their virgin advantages our common Mr. Dennis has been a resident of Sutter state, of liberal school month ago Isaw at the residence of but all of which in the future system brought easy access of • Creek for the' last twenty-five years and are within and Varied Enterprises during P. F. Allen at Forest Home, in the will add to th wealth and impor- every family. Sixty-three are tioii that time he has held numerous 1 teachers positions gained northwestern end of the county, navel tance of the mining industry in Ama- grammar primary of trust and the confi- oranges dor County. employed In the and ' Thriving dence all his and lemons growing and schools, average for in a Condition of fellow citizens. thriving in the air, an of one teacher Mr. Dennis has always been a promi- open the fruit be- There is a vast expanse of country every thirty-eight The figure ir.g of size and appearance. lying lode, census children. nent in the miningIndustries of his fine The east of the mother and in school term averages from, eight to" nine county.
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