July 17, 1886 (4 pages)

iL Daily op [Oor, Invigoraught. D custoVv: a trial. wr of the. ny new Ory, prs. Made er Steel 2 ed. ae nd owna FENcE tree, and NG AND 1 to conp Barbed splendid By using undsome be with 80 to 100 iny kind. ida City, jyl0 ractors. sealed prothe Clerk’s W ednesday, the Courtthree and a d seasoned 4) feet in ly pine e place; also ol of the red at the ret day of eserve the visors. 'Y, Clerk. td IRM. N, t,) ILOR i _M. Morehouse of the State Board of Equalization were engaged yesterday in making an inspection of the county assessment roll for the current year. — Mr. Dunn is the gentleman who once thought heknew morelaw than did the Attorney General of the State, ‘and whoby 60 thinking kept Nevada county out of about $21,000 of railroad tax money for four years more OF less. _ After all, it is to his credit that*he had the courage to do what he believéd was right, especially as 1t was not \ @ popular move. . Hersert SuapE, the Maori, who stands 6 feet 2 inches in his stock’ ing feet and weighs 276 pounds, Ed. Smith who claims to be the ex-middle weight champion of , England, and other arenic luminaries, will tonight give a boxing exhibition at Grass Valley. Itis announced that James Rodda of this city will attempt to stand up four rounds before Sladeor Smith for a purse. Joun and Edward Coleman, Theodore Wilhelm, W. G. Hudgon and Rev. R. H. Sink, of Grass Valley, also J. H. Helwig, of North Bloomfield, were in town Thursday “evening to attend a meeting of the Order of the Temple,which is a branch of Masonry. =2= -—--— Georae E. Turner and family expected when they started from here on their Eu-opean tour to go East by the Southern Pacific route. Upon arriving at San Francisco they change their plans and passed Colfax eastward bound Wednesday evening. is A SPECIAL meeting of the City Trustees will be held next week to decide upon plans and _ specifications for stone abutments to the Broad and Main street. bridges across Deer creek, and to make arrangements for advertising for bids to do the work. GeneraL Jonn A. Loaan has been invited by a resident of this county to come. up here during his visit to this Coast next month. He replies that he will not know until he reaches San Francisco whether he can come or not. et I Tue Record-Unioh speaks of Rev. Fred E. Shearer of the San up country to visit his mine on the Little Yuba. Our geography shows no such a stream as the Little Francisco Occident coming Yuba in this section. > oe -Gus, Brown, of San Francisco, is ambitious to wrestle catch-ascatch-can style, best two in three, with any man in Nevada county of 125 pounds weight, for $100 or more a side. Persons desiring to join Prof x lished by the Company and givjing a list of the Government and —* : i : \ A Chance for Everbody to Get a Good Farm. eek We have received from Wm.’ H. Mills, Land Agent of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, a copy of the pamphlet just pubRailroad lands in California open. to pre-emption, homestead or purchase, We make some extracts from it, and they will be found to contain much information that is: of interest not only to homeseekers, but to the general public as well. These lands have been classified into three general divisions, viz: Primary foothill, or the region immediately above the level valley ;,, middle altitudes, and the summits of the Sierras. The railroad lands may be purchased in any quantity to suit the purchasers. The Government latid may be obtained under the homestead and preemption laws of the United States in quantities not exceeding three hundred and twenty acres, that is, one hundred and sixty acres by homestead and one hundred and sixty by pre-emption.As these lands are immediately contiguous to railroad lands,the intending set.tler may purchase without settlement the railroad lands upon the market; and may acquire, by processes of homestead and pre-emption, three hundréd and twenty acres of Government land, thus obtaining a larger quantity of land than can be. purchased by any: process of primary disposition of the soil outside of the grants to railroad companies. These lands, being within the limits granted to railroad companies, are consequently already supplied with railroad communication with the markets of the world. Exceptas to the lands embraced in the region denominated the summits of the Sierras, they are susceptible of a high state of cultivation, yielding profitable return to the labor expended upon them,in the way of fruits of the semi-tropical and) temperate zones. In a more densely settled country they would be deemed highly valuable, and their value will rise steadily with the increased population of this State. Lands, inferior in point of fertility and productiveness and climaticadvantage in the States of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, are worth today from twenty to forty dollars an acre. That they ure obtainable at the Government double minimum price, or stiil accessible to the homestead and pre-emption locator, is'due simply to the mathematical fact stated at the beginning of this article, to wit: California embraces within her limits one hundred and eightyone thousand square ~miles, occupied by a population of less than one million inhabitants—four hundred thousand of whom. reside within a short distance of the great commercial metropolis of the coast. It must not be assumed th.t the first settlers of any country occupy 4nd3 of the Sicramanto plains ;' cheap rates. Hitchcock’s elocutionary class in the basement of the Methodist. Church should do so at once, and get the benefit of the whole course. E. P. Gaytorp, of George C. Gaylord’s grocery establishment, leaves tomorrow for San Francisco on a visit of pleasure and for the its best portions. ments are usually determined by very superficial causes; one leading determination, however, exerts a very great influence in locating the pioneers of any new country, to wit: market. Initial settleAccessibility to Navigable streams are benefit of his health. Tue Transcript will tomorrow publish all or a portion of the questions submitted at the teachers’ examination recently held in this city. Joun T. Suurtiterr has abou concluded to be a candidate for the Republican nomination of Justice of the peace in this township. C. E. Cuincu, reported by the Grass Valley papers to have gone to Montérey, is seriously ill at his home in Boston Ravine. W. A. Cowpery, formerly of rincipal.of the public schoo! at Liverthis city, has been elected more, Alameda county. Ep. W. Brack, the telegraph operator, expects to leave here Tuesday to re-enter the employ of the festern Union. & : ————_~ a PREsipENtT CLEVELAND has namt. Asalready indicated above, the . the town of Washington, this ed C. G. Russell as postmaster a county, ——<—<$ > + 8. A. Bunrincn’s father is visiting that gentleman at Truckee. Ex-Suprervisor H. L. Dar is farming at Wardner, Idaho. Piano FoR RENT, at Brand & Sticn’s, jy17-3t EE For fifteen years I was annoyed --With severe pain inmy head and discharges into my throat from My sense of smell was ‘much impaired. By the use of _Ely’s Cream Balm I have overcome these troubles—J. B. Case, St. Dennis Hotel, Broadway, New ; 4 Catarrh. York. f the primitive channels of--commerce, hence settlements wil. generally follow along their banks. Later, when railroad communication has extended the profitalle area of agriculture, other and even _. better portions of the country will t. be open to settlement. Up to this time, the most profitable return made to labor. has been in the direction of the. cultivation of fruits. The lands exhibited in the pamphlet, as refers to the foothills and the middle altitudes—that is to say, the altitude below four thousand feet, are adapted to profitable fruit-growing embracing a great variety of horticultural products—oranges, lemons, peaches, apples, pears, apricots, nectarines, grapes, figs, cherries and berries. The very best fruits grown in the State are produced in the region represented by the lists of lands which follow. exhibit embraces one million six hundred and twelve thousand two hundred —and-—forty-seven acres, classified as follows: Within twenty miles of the acres of railroad land. acres of railroad land. line of the Central Pacific Railroad dn the primary foothills there are one hundred and six thousand seven hundred and ten acres oi government land, and fifty-five thousand eight hundred and two In the upper foothills, one hundred and eighty-four thousand nine hundred and forty-one acres oi government Jand, and eight thonusand four hundred and eighty nen two hundred and two acres of government land, and eight thousand four bundred and two acres of railroad land. en Total of government and railroad land along the line of the Central Pacific Railroad, five hundred and seventy thousand five. hundred and thirty-eight acres. __Here, then, in a belt forty miles wide, commencing eighteen miles east of the city of Sacramento, the capitol of the State, and tu the State line, a distance not exceeding sixty-five miles, there ure five hundred and seventy thousand five hundred and thirty-eight acres Of.available lands, open to the settlers under-the homestead and pre-emption laws of the United States, or offered for sale at very THE UPPER FOOTHILLS. The Government lands open to settlement along the line of the Central Pacific Railraad, in the upper foothill region of the Sierras, are very extensive, and examination will undoubtedly discover many superior tracts of fruitland which may be had almost for the asking. In this upper foothill region, which extends along the flanks of the Sierras between the 2000 and 5000-foot levels, will be found some of the best lands in the State for the raising of the hardier fruits and berries, which do not develop the best flavor in the warmer belt below. Already this part of the fruit region of the foothills is noted for the excelience of its apples, which is due to the fithess of climate for the development of their best qualities. The unoccupied lands lie in El Dorado, Placer, Nevada and Sierra counties, and the range east and west may be roughly marked by the railroad stations of Colfax and Cisco. The latter station is at an elevation of nearly six thousand feet, but it is upon 4 spur of the Sierras, and the lands which are indicated lie to either side, at a much lower level, ranging from 2000 to 4000 feet, with a few instances, perhaps, where 5000 feet are reached. The roughness of some of the country in which these lands are situated is at first repellant to a farmer fresh from the Eastern States; but it has been proved more than once that there is very little of ic that cannot be made more productive, acre for acre, tuan any land in those States, and be converted into pleasant, profitable and beautiful homes by men enured to toil. The Very Latest. Two newspaper men and several other bloated capitalists held an open air meeting on Broad street yesterday afternoon and talked over-establishing a beer garden and music hallon the summit of Sugar Loaf Mountain, just north of town, with a cable railroad leading up toit from the bed rock on this side. The proposition was to inaugurate a summer resort something afterthe plan of Telegraph Hill observatory at San Francisco, and all the gentlemen present thought it a good one. The two reporters were suddenly called away on important business during the middle of the discussion, and the mecting adjourned to such time as would suit their convenience. Se Re A Restful Nights, Day» Free from Torture, Await the rheumatic sufferer who resorts to Hostetter’s Stoinach Bitters. That this benignant cordial and depurent is a far more reliable remedy than colchizum and other poisons used to expel the rheumatic virus from the blood, is a fact that experience has satisfactorily demonstrated. It also enjoys the advantage of being —unlike them—perfectly. safe. With many persons a certain predisposition to rheumatism exists, which renders them liable to its attacks after exposure in wet weather, to currents of air,changes of temperature, or to cold when the body is hot. Such p2rsons should take a wine glass or two of the Bitters as soon as possible after incurring risk from tke above causes, as this superb protective effectually nullifies the hurtful influence. For the functional derangements. which ‘accompany rheumatism, such as colic, spasms in the stomach, pa!pitation of the heart, imperfect digestion, etc., the Bitters is alsoa most useful remedy. It is only necessary to-obstinate cases to use it with persistency. Mrs. Mus & GRISSELL have pureice cream at their store on Bread street, which they will keep .on hand afternoons and evenings during the-warm weather. . No 10 eent dishes served. All are invited. jl5-3t ——— > i In the timber and grazing belt two hundred and six thousand] commenced the manufacture of' Dr, PexxixeTon, dentist, Broad Her Present Condition and Future Prospects. (8 F. Spirit of the Times.] While some portions of Nevada county have an elevation of 8,000 feet, and are covered with snow the greater portion of the year, the lower districts are scarcely above the ocean’s level, and are. seldom visited with snow storms or frosts. A number of clearly defined:channels extend lengthwise of the county, and along their beds proceed the streams that find tead in the Sierras. They are crossed by several high ridges at intervals, the main ones running at right angles with the mountain chain hat extends along the eastern boundary. “Of course there could not exist in a section like this, which is so diversified by . canyons and mountains and streams, any extensive valleys of arable land. Only a few hundred acres here and there are found. The entire soil is of a reddish ferruginous ochre, or gray color, and consists of side-hill or table land. All of this land is highly productive when properly tilled, however. The sheltered depressions, especially, hold forth strong attractions tothe husbandman. All the productions of the temperate zone con be grown; the grape and fig are found in astate bordering on perfection; other fruit, such as apples, pears, peaches, plums, nectarines, etc., attains a size and flavor that the products of but few other sections equal. But little attention has been paid ito farming in Nevada county. Since its organization in 1851, the prime industry has been that of mining. eee Se The population, according to the census of 1870, was 19,134. The vote of the county at the election in 1884, was4,215. Although but little grain is raised in the county, yot in the production of fruits, of the very best kind that belong to the temperate zone, a portion of Nevada county can not be excelled. The fruit :egion is all in Grass Valley, Rough and Ready townships, and in wettern portions of Nevada, Bridgeport and Little York townships. These fruit crops are a certainty every year, and the excellence of the production insures thehighest prices in the market. Inthe higher altitudes the apple can be produced in unlimited quantities and of unsurpassed excellence in all respects. The fruit capacities of Nevada county ought to give it, and can give it, a population more than three times that of the present, and it is not at all improbable thatin the not distant future her fruit crop may be a greater source of revenue than all her mines great as they are. The vine flourishes in the lower altitudes, and good wines have been made from grapes grown at the altitude of 2,500 feet. The county is well supplied with schools -and churches. Every neighlorhood has its school-house andi the smallest places these hous¢s are used for public worship. \The county has three daily, yveekly, one semi-weekly, two weekly newspapers and one monthly newspaper. One of the most important public enterprises inaugurated here in many years is the organization of a Fair Association, in conjunction with Placer county, in connection with the beautiful park and mile-track belonging to the association, which is situated half way between Nevada City and Grass Valley. The center of the county. is reached by the Nevada ‘County Narrow-Gauge Railroad. This road runs from Colfax,on the Central Pacific, to Grass Valley and Nevada City, a distance of about twenty-four miles. From the two towns named fine wagon roads run to all parts of the county. Some of these roads are splendid results of passing by easy grades, over sharp and high ridges. The scenery of these roads is unsurpassed on the coast. The altitude of Nevada county, varying as it does frora a few feet to 8,000 above the level of the sea, must necessarily give rise to a great variety of climate. Snch is. the case. While in the western portion of the county frost is of very rare occurence, at the top of the Sierras—at Meadow Lake, for instance—scarcely-a, night_ passes without at least a white frost.” It snows but rarely below Rough and Ready, and at an altitude of 2,500 feet the fall of snow is light, or lies but.a few days on the ground; but on the summit snow is often by far as in the same altitude on the eastern side of the continent. ron the Central’ Pacific Railroad, ofthe best-in the State in every equable. The winters are not severe except at the highest altiNevada City, the county seat, is 207 miles from San Francisco, and 69 fr.m Sacramento. It lies in a dee p basin of the Sierras, on both sides of Deer creek, fifteen miles from Colfax, the nearest station and it is the terminus of the Nevada County Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company, distance twentythree miles and a half from Colfax, where it connects with the Central Pacific Railroad. Since its construction it has done an excellent business; has been well managed in every particular, and has added greatly to tie importance of the county, which is one particular. Nevada City is surrounded by extremely rich quartz and placer mines. It contains a population of 6,000 inhabitants. Two. foundries are kept busy manufacturing machinery and supplies for the mines. Four breweries, a planing-mill and a sash factory, and six blacksmith shops flourish. The court house is a fine structure, erected at a cost of $75,000. Washington schoolhouse is a large two-story: building, in the construction of which over $15,000 was expended. The schools are well conducted, and the educasurpassed by other towns of the same size. creditable looking edifices, adorn the town and show the moral status of the people to be up to the average. * * -# Grass Valley, known as the “Queen of the Quartz,’’ with a population of about 7,000 persons is situated at the-head of the foothills, on the line of the Nevada County Narrow-gauge Railroad, in a beautiful valley, intersected with a network of ledges, some of which have been worked 'since the fall of 50. “It doubtless stands first ‘among the mining towns of America. In round numbers, the production of these ledges has been estimated at one hundred million dollars and the district as yet has ‘not. been more than merely scratched on the surface. Nearly all the ledges stand within a distance of fouror five miles from tl.e town, and there are no hydraulic mines in the neighborhood nor any contest over. ‘‘slickens.’’ * * * * North Bloomfield, is situated fifteen miles northeast of Nevada City, on the high ridge between the Middle and South Yubas. North San Juan, 13 miles north of Nevada City,is reached by stage from Nevada. Two lines connect it daily with Marysville, 40 miles distant, whilst. all the neighboring towns are easily and regularly reached. Perched at an elevation of about 2,000 feet, on the ridge of the belt covered by winter snows, it has a climate where frosts are slighly felt and most favorable to vigorous health. Thetown oc u pies a lovely site, the houses being well built, embowered in gardens tional advantages afforded are un-. ed Five churches, all}. Nevada County at the Bay. About all of the best and most} enterprising counties in the State that have anything worth showing, will make exhibits of their horticultural, agr:cultural, mineral and other products at San Francisco during the week of the Grand Army Encampment. Chattanooga Post of this city and the vuther Posts in the State north of Sacramento and Marysville have joined together and rented Platt’s Hall, and the space therein will be apportioned among them for such purposes as they may see best to put it to. Most if not all of them will make displays in behalf of their respective localities, the Supervisors of the counties to be represented giving from the public funds an appropriation sufficient to cover the expense. Among the counties doing so already are the following: Fresno $3,000, Los Angeles $5,000, Santa Clara $5,000, Santa Cruz $1,000, Butte $500, Tehama $500, Yuba $300. Some day next week a delegation of citizens will wait upon the Supervisors of this county and request them to make an appropriation of funds large enough to inake a sLowing: of the fruits, grains, vegetables, minerals, et., of this county, that will bea credit to this regiun. It seems to usthat any reasonable sum devoted to the purpose would be well investMr. MeGlashan Artives. Hon. C.F. McGlashan, President of the anti-Chinese Executive Committee, arrived here yesterday morning to attend the meeting of the Republican County Central Committee of which he is a member. He reports the movement against Chinese cheap labor tobe progressing finely in all parts of the State, and says he now feels more firmly convinced than ever ofits ultimate triumph. The boycott organization is, he says, daily growing stronger despite all reports to the contrary. He recently returned from a trip to San Joaquin county where he saysthe {most effective kind of work is being done against the Mongolians. A State Anti-Chinese Convention is called to meet in San Francisco September 20th. > County Board of Equalization, Fray, July 16, 1886. The Board met pursuant to adjournment, all the members being present. F. M. Pridgeon, presiding. Ordered that the assessment of G.8. Maker on the Great Eastern oe it being assessed to Eastin & o. Board adjourned until 10 o’cl’k tomorrow morning. F, G. Bearry, Clerk . By W. D. Harris, Dep. _<—_-—--—On the Trail. Sam LInlow, Sheriff of Yuba county, wasin town night before last searching for a man who had stabbed another one during an affray at the Oregon Ilouse. ‘The dren’s Untrimmed Hats the third time we are obliged to enlarge our premises. _ Having leased the store adjoining us we shall make extensive alterations and must have our stock . out of the way. Therefore for the next two weeks we will sell At Reduced Prices. sold ‘for wear for Ladies and Misses, is HACK HAT No. I, trimmed as in cut, with daisies set in puffed mull, and ribbon bow, for $1.50. LAWNS ARE HAVING A GREAT RUN. PARASOLS FOR LADIES AND CHILDREN mining claim‘for $300 be cancell}. seen from fifteen to twenty feet deep. The winters are not as cold The rainfall, however, is much heavier than in the valley regions of the State. At Nevada City, the ‘county seat, altitude 2,600 feet, the average rainfall is 52 inches. and orchards. North San Juan is in faet-.a representative mountain town of the mining region. Rough and Ready is eight miles southwest of Nevada City on the stage road from Marysville to that place. It depends on both mining and agriculture for its trade. The locality was settled upon by the overland emigrants of 1849, who found gold plentiful in the ravines and flats of the neighborhood. Fortunes of from ten to fifty thousand dollars were found ina ringle season. The diggings, however, worked out and flush times are past. Although snow sometimes falls the weather is never so cold but that the orange, lime and pomegranate can be cultivated. © Truckee is on the eastern slope of the Sierras, and is one of the principal stations on this section of the C. P. R. R. It has—a_fairsizei and increasing population. A large amount of the lumber used on the railroad along the mountains, ties, trestlework, etc., .was supplied from the magnificent timber that grew in the vicinity of Truckee. The Truckee River furtransportation of logs, the town lying on the banks of this splendid stream. Though. millions of feet of lumber have been cut down the surprising power of renewal keeps the logger fully employed with the promise of steady work for many years to come. Putting up ice is also an important resource. The town is located inthe midst of scenery the most romantic and grand to be found in the State._ Why Has S8ezedont . was in Nevada City, but he failed nishes power for mills and the]'Become the staple dentrifice of America? Simply because it is impossible to use it, even for a week, without perceiving its hygiene‘effect upon the teeth, the officer had heard the guilty party to find him here. To most children the bare suggestion of a dose of castor oil is nauseating. Why not, then, when ones, use Ayer’s Cathartic Pills? They combine every essential and valuable principle of a cathartic medicine, and being sugar-coated are easily taken. ——— ome Grand Opening. On Saturday otgning. July 17, the Arbor Saloon and Music Hall, corner Pine ‘and Commercial Sts., will be formall you will find g music, singing; etc,, every evening. The best of wines, liquors and cigars. Everything first-class. Dan. P. SHEEHAN,Proprietor. P.S.—I am prepared to teach clog, jig, reel andsong and dances and club swinging at reasonable prices. j16-2t When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she wasa Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she c’ung to Castoria When she had children she gave. them Castoria DR.WOODS Prepared from the Active Medicinal Properties Contained in eh, Deen Gleter B Boot, Blood es », [and all other diseases arising trom s Bilfous State of the stomach, or an inactive or . The climate in the greater part of & : ee REDINGTON & 0O.,8. F., Wholesale Agts physic is necessary for the little . 4 opened. Here. _ To accommodate our greatly increasing trade, for CHILDREN’S UNTRIMMED HATS We offer hats that we have 50 cents at 35 cents. 75 certs at 50 cents, One Dollar at 75 cents. And all others in proportion. One of our Popular Special Shapes for every “day EeFOUR FIVE-CENT FIGURED DRESS ry Probably we have in stock the Most Elegant Ever seen in this city, and sold for less money. All orders promptly filled. MRS. LESTER & CRAWFORD, Near Union Hotel, Main St., Nevada City. COMPARE AND JUDGEFOR YOURSELF ae Fac simile.of the ordinary Ham, now Facsimile of the Celebrated “Our Taste being placed on the mark~t, and claimed to Ham, taken from selected hogs, trimine be as good as the ‘Our Tasiv.” and cured expresslY for fa: cy trade. Always fresh, bright and delicious. ‘00 The OUR TASTE HAMS arefalways fresh,[bright, juicy and tender asia chicken. A slice for‘breakfastlis. indeed: delicious ASK YOUR GROCER FOR THEM. Hall, Luhrs & Co., Proprietors, Sacramento StandardBoot &Shoe FACTORS. We make to order : Men’s Fine Sewed Shoes, $7 to $9, Men’s French Calf Boots, $8.50, Men’s Miners’ Boots, $6, Ladies’ French Kid, $6.50, REPAIRING : _ Men’s Soles and Heels, $1.25, Ladies’ Scles and Heels, 75 cents, Children’s Soles and Heels, 50 cents. All kinds of BOOTS AKD SHOES “AT. SAN FRANCISCO PRICES. . Broad Street, — NEVADA CITY.

iL Daily op [Oor, Invigoraught. D custoVv: a trial. wr of the. ny new Ory, prs. Made er Steel 2 ed. ae nd owna FENcE tree, and NG AND 1 to conp Barbed splendid By using undsome be with 80 to 100 iny kind. ida City, jyl0 ractors. sealed prothe Clerk’s W ednesday, the Courtthree and a d seasoned 4) feet in ly pine e place; also ol of the red at the ret day of eserve the visors. 'Y, Clerk. td IRM. N, t,) ILOR i _M. Morehouse of the State Board of Equalization were engaged yesterday in making an inspection of the county assessment roll for the current year. — Mr. Dunn is the gentleman who once thought heknew morelaw than did the Attorney General of the State, ‘and whoby 60 thinking kept Nevada county out of about $21,000 of railroad tax money for four years more OF less. _ After all, it is to his credit that*he had the courage to do what he believéd was right, especially as 1t was not \ @ popular move. . Hersert SuapE, the Maori, who stands 6 feet 2 inches in his stock’ ing feet and weighs 276 pounds, Ed. Smith who claims to be the ex-middle weight champion of , England, and other arenic luminaries, will tonight give a boxing exhibition at Grass Valley. Itis announced that James Rodda of this city will attempt to stand up four rounds before Sladeor Smith for a purse. Joun and Edward Coleman, Theodore Wilhelm, W. G. Hudgon and Rev. R. H. Sink, of Grass Valley, also J. H. Helwig, of North Bloomfield, were in town Thursday “evening to attend a meeting of the Order of the Temple,which is a branch of Masonry. =2= -—--— Georae E. Turner and family expected when they started from here on their Eu-opean tour to go East by the Southern Pacific route. Upon arriving at San Francisco they change their plans and passed Colfax eastward bound Wednesday evening. is A SPECIAL meeting of the City Trustees will be held next week to decide upon plans and _ specifications for stone abutments to the Broad and Main street. bridges across Deer creek, and to make arrangements for advertising for bids to do the work. GeneraL Jonn A. Loaan has been invited by a resident of this county to come. up here during his visit to this Coast next month. He replies that he will not know until he reaches San Francisco whether he can come or not. et I Tue Record-Unioh speaks of Rev. Fred E. Shearer of the San up country to visit his mine on the Little Yuba. Our geography shows no such a stream as the Little Francisco Occident coming Yuba in this section. > oe -Gus, Brown, of San Francisco, is ambitious to wrestle catch-ascatch-can style, best two in three, with any man in Nevada county of 125 pounds weight, for $100 or more a side. Persons desiring to join Prof x lished by the Company and givjing a list of the Government and —* : i : \ A Chance for Everbody to Get a Good Farm. eek We have received from Wm.’ H. Mills, Land Agent of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, a copy of the pamphlet just pubRailroad lands in California open. to pre-emption, homestead or purchase, We make some extracts from it, and they will be found to contain much information that is: of interest not only to homeseekers, but to the general public as well. These lands have been classified into three general divisions, viz: Primary foothill, or the region immediately above the level valley ;,, middle altitudes, and the summits of the Sierras. The railroad lands may be purchased in any quantity to suit the purchasers. The Government latid may be obtained under the homestead and preemption laws of the United States in quantities not exceeding three hundred and twenty acres, that is, one hundred and sixty acres by homestead and one hundred and sixty by pre-emption.As these lands are immediately contiguous to railroad lands,the intending set.tler may purchase without settlement the railroad lands upon the market; and may acquire, by processes of homestead and pre-emption, three hundréd and twenty acres of Government land, thus obtaining a larger quantity of land than can be. purchased by any: process of primary disposition of the soil outside of the grants to railroad companies. These lands, being within the limits granted to railroad companies, are consequently already supplied with railroad communication with the markets of the world. Exceptas to the lands embraced in the region denominated the summits of the Sierras, they are susceptible of a high state of cultivation, yielding profitable return to the labor expended upon them,in the way of fruits of the semi-tropical and) temperate zones. In a more densely settled country they would be deemed highly valuable, and their value will rise steadily with the increased population of this State. Lands, inferior in point of fertility and productiveness and climaticadvantage in the States of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, are worth today from twenty to forty dollars an acre. That they ure obtainable at the Government double minimum price, or stiil accessible to the homestead and pre-emption locator, is'due simply to the mathematical fact stated at the beginning of this article, to wit: California embraces within her limits one hundred and eightyone thousand square ~miles, occupied by a population of less than one million inhabitants—four hundred thousand of whom. reside within a short distance of the great commercial metropolis of the coast. It must not be assumed th.t the first settlers of any country occupy 4nd3 of the Sicramanto plains ;' cheap rates. Hitchcock’s elocutionary class in the basement of the Methodist. Church should do so at once, and get the benefit of the whole course. E. P. Gaytorp, of George C. Gaylord’s grocery establishment, leaves tomorrow for San Francisco on a visit of pleasure and for the its best portions. ments are usually determined by very superficial causes; one leading determination, however, exerts a very great influence in locating the pioneers of any new country, to wit: market. Initial settleAccessibility to Navigable streams are benefit of his health. Tue Transcript will tomorrow publish all or a portion of the questions submitted at the teachers’ examination recently held in this city. Joun T. Suurtiterr has abou concluded to be a candidate for the Republican nomination of Justice of the peace in this township. C. E. Cuincu, reported by the Grass Valley papers to have gone to Montérey, is seriously ill at his home in Boston Ravine. W. A. Cowpery, formerly of rincipal.of the public schoo! at Liverthis city, has been elected more, Alameda county. Ep. W. Brack, the telegraph operator, expects to leave here Tuesday to re-enter the employ of the festern Union. & : ————_~ a PREsipENtT CLEVELAND has namt. Asalready indicated above, the . the town of Washington, this ed C. G. Russell as postmaster a county, ——<—<$ > + 8. A. Bunrincn’s father is visiting that gentleman at Truckee. Ex-Suprervisor H. L. Dar is farming at Wardner, Idaho. Piano FoR RENT, at Brand & Sticn’s, jy17-3t EE For fifteen years I was annoyed --With severe pain inmy head and discharges into my throat from My sense of smell was ‘much impaired. By the use of _Ely’s Cream Balm I have overcome these troubles—J. B. Case, St. Dennis Hotel, Broadway, New ; 4 Catarrh. York. f the primitive channels of--commerce, hence settlements wil. generally follow along their banks. Later, when railroad communication has extended the profitalle area of agriculture, other and even _. better portions of the country will t. be open to settlement. Up to this time, the most profitable return made to labor. has been in the direction of the. cultivation of fruits. The lands exhibited in the pamphlet, as refers to the foothills and the middle altitudes—that is to say, the altitude below four thousand feet, are adapted to profitable fruit-growing embracing a great variety of horticultural products—oranges, lemons, peaches, apples, pears, apricots, nectarines, grapes, figs, cherries and berries. The very best fruits grown in the State are produced in the region represented by the lists of lands which follow. exhibit embraces one million six hundred and twelve thousand two hundred —and-—forty-seven acres, classified as follows: Within twenty miles of the acres of railroad land. acres of railroad land. line of the Central Pacific Railroad dn the primary foothills there are one hundred and six thousand seven hundred and ten acres oi government land, and fifty-five thousand eight hundred and two In the upper foothills, one hundred and eighty-four thousand nine hundred and forty-one acres oi government Jand, and eight thonusand four hundred and eighty nen two hundred and two acres of government land, and eight thousand four bundred and two acres of railroad land. en Total of government and railroad land along the line of the Central Pacific Railroad, five hundred and seventy thousand five. hundred and thirty-eight acres. __Here, then, in a belt forty miles wide, commencing eighteen miles east of the city of Sacramento, the capitol of the State, and tu the State line, a distance not exceeding sixty-five miles, there ure five hundred and seventy thousand five hundred and thirty-eight acres Of.available lands, open to the settlers under-the homestead and pre-emption laws of the United States, or offered for sale at very THE UPPER FOOTHILLS. The Government lands open to settlement along the line of the Central Pacific Railraad, in the upper foothill region of the Sierras, are very extensive, and examination will undoubtedly discover many superior tracts of fruitland which may be had almost for the asking. In this upper foothill region, which extends along the flanks of the Sierras between the 2000 and 5000-foot levels, will be found some of the best lands in the State for the raising of the hardier fruits and berries, which do not develop the best flavor in the warmer belt below. Already this part of the fruit region of the foothills is noted for the excelience of its apples, which is due to the fithess of climate for the development of their best qualities. The unoccupied lands lie in El Dorado, Placer, Nevada and Sierra counties, and the range east and west may be roughly marked by the railroad stations of Colfax and Cisco. The latter station is at an elevation of nearly six thousand feet, but it is upon 4 spur of the Sierras, and the lands which are indicated lie to either side, at a much lower level, ranging from 2000 to 4000 feet, with a few instances, perhaps, where 5000 feet are reached. The roughness of some of the country in which these lands are situated is at first repellant to a farmer fresh from the Eastern States; but it has been proved more than once that there is very little of ic that cannot be made more productive, acre for acre, tuan any land in those States, and be converted into pleasant, profitable and beautiful homes by men enured to toil. The Very Latest. Two newspaper men and several other bloated capitalists held an open air meeting on Broad street yesterday afternoon and talked over-establishing a beer garden and music hallon the summit of Sugar Loaf Mountain, just north of town, with a cable railroad leading up toit from the bed rock on this side. The proposition was to inaugurate a summer resort something afterthe plan of Telegraph Hill observatory at San Francisco, and all the gentlemen present thought it a good one. The two reporters were suddenly called away on important business during the middle of the discussion, and the mecting adjourned to such time as would suit their convenience. Se Re A Restful Nights, Day» Free from Torture, Await the rheumatic sufferer who resorts to Hostetter’s Stoinach Bitters. That this benignant cordial and depurent is a far more reliable remedy than colchizum and other poisons used to expel the rheumatic virus from the blood, is a fact that experience has satisfactorily demonstrated. It also enjoys the advantage of being —unlike them—perfectly. safe. With many persons a certain predisposition to rheumatism exists, which renders them liable to its attacks after exposure in wet weather, to currents of air,changes of temperature, or to cold when the body is hot. Such p2rsons should take a wine glass or two of the Bitters as soon as possible after incurring risk from tke above causes, as this superb protective effectually nullifies the hurtful influence. For the functional derangements. which ‘accompany rheumatism, such as colic, spasms in the stomach, pa!pitation of the heart, imperfect digestion, etc., the Bitters is alsoa most useful remedy. It is only necessary to-obstinate cases to use it with persistency. Mrs. Mus & GRISSELL have pureice cream at their store on Bread street, which they will keep .on hand afternoons and evenings during the-warm weather. . No 10 eent dishes served. All are invited. jl5-3t ——— > i In the timber and grazing belt two hundred and six thousand] commenced the manufacture of' Dr, PexxixeTon, dentist, Broad Her Present Condition and Future Prospects. (8 F. Spirit of the Times.] While some portions of Nevada county have an elevation of 8,000 feet, and are covered with snow the greater portion of the year, the lower districts are scarcely above the ocean’s level, and are. seldom visited with snow storms

or frosts. A number of clearly defined:channels extend lengthwise of the county, and along their beds proceed the streams that find tead in the Sierras. They are crossed by several high ridges at intervals, the main ones running at right angles with the mountain chain hat extends along the eastern boundary. “Of course there could not exist in a section like this, which is so diversified by . canyons and mountains and streams, any extensive valleys of arable land. Only a few hundred acres here and there are found. The entire soil is of a reddish ferruginous ochre, or gray color, and consists of side-hill or table land. All of this land is highly productive when properly tilled, however. The sheltered depressions, especially, hold forth strong attractions tothe husbandman. All the productions of the temperate zone con be grown; the grape and fig are found in astate bordering on perfection; other fruit, such as apples, pears, peaches, plums, nectarines, etc., attains a size and flavor that the products of but few other sections equal. But little attention has been paid ito farming in Nevada county. Since its organization in 1851, the prime industry has been that of mining. eee Se The population, according to the census of 1870, was 19,134. The vote of the county at the election in 1884, was4,215. Although but little grain is raised in the county, yot in the production of fruits, of the very best kind that belong to the temperate zone, a portion of Nevada county can not be excelled. The fruit :egion is all in Grass Valley, Rough and Ready townships, and in wettern portions of Nevada, Bridgeport and Little York townships. These fruit crops are a certainty every year, and the excellence of the production insures thehighest prices in the market. Inthe higher altitudes the apple can be produced in unlimited quantities and of unsurpassed excellence in all respects. The fruit capacities of Nevada county ought to give it, and can give it, a population more than three times that of the present, and it is not at all improbable thatin the not distant future her fruit crop may be a greater source of revenue than all her mines great as they are. The vine flourishes in the lower altitudes, and good wines have been made from grapes grown at the altitude of 2,500 feet. The county is well supplied with schools -and churches. Every neighlorhood has its school-house andi the smallest places these hous¢s are used for public worship. \The county has three daily, yveekly, one semi-weekly, two weekly newspapers and one monthly newspaper. One of the most important public enterprises inaugurated here in many years is the organization of a Fair Association, in conjunction with Placer county, in connection with the beautiful park and mile-track belonging to the association, which is situated half way between Nevada City and Grass Valley. The center of the county. is reached by the Nevada ‘County Narrow-Gauge Railroad. This road runs from Colfax,on the Central Pacific, to Grass Valley and Nevada City, a distance of about twenty-four miles. From the two towns named fine wagon roads run to all parts of the county. Some of these roads are splendid results of passing by easy grades, over sharp and high ridges. The scenery of these roads is unsurpassed on the coast. The altitude of Nevada county, varying as it does frora a few feet to 8,000 above the level of the sea, must necessarily give rise to a great variety of climate. Snch is. the case. While in the western portion of the county frost is of very rare occurence, at the top of the Sierras—at Meadow Lake, for instance—scarcely-a, night_ passes without at least a white frost.” It snows but rarely below Rough and Ready, and at an altitude of 2,500 feet the fall of snow is light, or lies but.a few days on the ground; but on the summit snow is often by far as in the same altitude on the eastern side of the continent. ron the Central’ Pacific Railroad, ofthe best-in the State in every equable. The winters are not severe except at the highest altiNevada City, the county seat, is 207 miles from San Francisco, and 69 fr.m Sacramento. It lies in a dee p basin of the Sierras, on both sides of Deer creek, fifteen miles from Colfax, the nearest station and it is the terminus of the Nevada County Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company, distance twentythree miles and a half from Colfax, where it connects with the Central Pacific Railroad. Since its construction it has done an excellent business; has been well managed in every particular, and has added greatly to tie importance of the county, which is one particular. Nevada City is surrounded by extremely rich quartz and placer mines. It contains a population of 6,000 inhabitants. Two. foundries are kept busy manufacturing machinery and supplies for the mines. Four breweries, a planing-mill and a sash factory, and six blacksmith shops flourish. The court house is a fine structure, erected at a cost of $75,000. Washington schoolhouse is a large two-story: building, in the construction of which over $15,000 was expended. The schools are well conducted, and the educasurpassed by other towns of the same size. creditable looking edifices, adorn the town and show the moral status of the people to be up to the average. * * -# Grass Valley, known as the “Queen of the Quartz,’’ with a population of about 7,000 persons is situated at the-head of the foothills, on the line of the Nevada County Narrow-gauge Railroad, in a beautiful valley, intersected with a network of ledges, some of which have been worked 'since the fall of 50. “It doubtless stands first ‘among the mining towns of America. In round numbers, the production of these ledges has been estimated at one hundred million dollars and the district as yet has ‘not. been more than merely scratched on the surface. Nearly all the ledges stand within a distance of fouror five miles from tl.e town, and there are no hydraulic mines in the neighborhood nor any contest over. ‘‘slickens.’’ * * * * North Bloomfield, is situated fifteen miles northeast of Nevada City, on the high ridge between the Middle and South Yubas. North San Juan, 13 miles north of Nevada City,is reached by stage from Nevada. Two lines connect it daily with Marysville, 40 miles distant, whilst. all the neighboring towns are easily and regularly reached. Perched at an elevation of about 2,000 feet, on the ridge of the belt covered by winter snows, it has a climate where frosts are slighly felt and most favorable to vigorous health. Thetown oc u pies a lovely site, the houses being well built, embowered in gardens tional advantages afforded are un-. ed Five churches, all}. Nevada County at the Bay. About all of the best and most} enterprising counties in the State that have anything worth showing, will make exhibits of their horticultural, agr:cultural, mineral and other products at San Francisco during the week of the Grand Army Encampment. Chattanooga Post of this city and the vuther Posts in the State north of Sacramento and Marysville have joined together and rented Platt’s Hall, and the space therein will be apportioned among them for such purposes as they may see best to put it to. Most if not all of them will make displays in behalf of their respective localities, the Supervisors of the counties to be represented giving from the public funds an appropriation sufficient to cover the expense. Among the counties doing so already are the following: Fresno $3,000, Los Angeles $5,000, Santa Clara $5,000, Santa Cruz $1,000, Butte $500, Tehama $500, Yuba $300. Some day next week a delegation of citizens will wait upon the Supervisors of this county and request them to make an appropriation of funds large enough to inake a sLowing: of the fruits, grains, vegetables, minerals, et., of this county, that will bea credit to this regiun. It seems to usthat any reasonable sum devoted to the purpose would be well investMr. MeGlashan Artives. Hon. C.F. McGlashan, President of the anti-Chinese Executive Committee, arrived here yesterday morning to attend the meeting of the Republican County Central Committee of which he is a member. He reports the movement against Chinese cheap labor tobe progressing finely in all parts of the State, and says he now feels more firmly convinced than ever ofits ultimate triumph. The boycott organization is, he says, daily growing stronger despite all reports to the contrary. He recently returned from a trip to San Joaquin county where he saysthe {most effective kind of work is being done against the Mongolians. A State Anti-Chinese Convention is called to meet in San Francisco September 20th. > County Board of Equalization, Fray, July 16, 1886. The Board met pursuant to adjournment, all the members being present. F. M. Pridgeon, presiding. Ordered that the assessment of G.8. Maker on the Great Eastern oe it being assessed to Eastin & o. Board adjourned until 10 o’cl’k tomorrow morning. F, G. Bearry, Clerk . By W. D. Harris, Dep. _<—_-—--—On the Trail. Sam LInlow, Sheriff of Yuba county, wasin town night before last searching for a man who had stabbed another one during an affray at the Oregon Ilouse. ‘The dren’s Untrimmed Hats the third time we are obliged to enlarge our premises. _ Having leased the store adjoining us we shall make extensive alterations and must have our stock . out of the way. Therefore for the next two weeks we will sell At Reduced Prices. sold ‘for wear for Ladies and Misses, is HACK HAT No. I, trimmed as in cut, with daisies set in puffed mull, and ribbon bow, for $1.50. LAWNS ARE HAVING A GREAT RUN. PARASOLS FOR LADIES AND CHILDREN mining claim‘for $300 be cancell}. seen from fifteen to twenty feet deep. The winters are not as cold The rainfall, however, is much heavier than in the valley regions of the State. At Nevada City, the ‘county seat, altitude 2,600 feet, the average rainfall is 52 inches. and orchards. North San Juan is in faet-.a representative mountain town of the mining region. Rough and Ready is eight miles southwest of Nevada City on the stage road from Marysville to that place. It depends on both mining and agriculture for its trade. The locality was settled upon by the overland emigrants of 1849, who found gold plentiful in the ravines and flats of the neighborhood. Fortunes of from ten to fifty thousand dollars were found ina ringle season. The diggings, however, worked out and flush times are past. Although snow sometimes falls the weather is never so cold but that the orange, lime and pomegranate can be cultivated. © Truckee is on the eastern slope of the Sierras, and is one of the principal stations on this section of the C. P. R. R. It has—a_fairsizei and increasing population. A large amount of the lumber used on the railroad along the mountains, ties, trestlework, etc., .was supplied from the magnificent timber that grew in the vicinity of Truckee. The Truckee River furtransportation of logs, the town lying on the banks of this splendid stream. Though. millions of feet of lumber have been cut down the surprising power of renewal keeps the logger fully employed with the promise of steady work for many years to come. Putting up ice is also an important resource. The town is located inthe midst of scenery the most romantic and grand to be found in the State._ Why Has S8ezedont . was in Nevada City, but he failed nishes power for mills and the]'Become the staple dentrifice of America? Simply because it is impossible to use it, even for a week, without perceiving its hygiene‘effect upon the teeth, the officer had heard the guilty party to find him here. To most children the bare suggestion of a dose of castor oil is nauseating. Why not, then, when ones, use Ayer’s Cathartic Pills? They combine every essential and valuable principle of a cathartic medicine, and being sugar-coated are easily taken. ——— ome Grand Opening. On Saturday otgning. July 17, the Arbor Saloon and Music Hall, corner Pine ‘and Commercial Sts., will be formall you will find g music, singing; etc,, every evening. The best of wines, liquors and cigars. Everything first-class. Dan. P. SHEEHAN,Proprietor. P.S.—I am prepared to teach clog, jig, reel andsong and dances and club swinging at reasonable prices. j16-2t When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she wasa Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she c’ung to Castoria When she had children she gave. them Castoria DR.WOODS Prepared from the Active Medicinal Properties Contained in eh, Deen Gleter B Boot, Blood es », [and all other diseases arising trom s Bilfous State of the stomach, or an inactive or . The climate in the greater part of & : ee REDINGTON & 0O.,8. F., Wholesale Agts physic is necessary for the little . 4 opened. Here. _ To accommodate our greatly increasing trade, for CHILDREN’S UNTRIMMED HATS We offer hats that we have 50 cents at 35 cents. 75 certs at 50 cents, One Dollar at 75 cents. And all others in proportion. One of our Popular Special Shapes for every “day EeFOUR FIVE-CENT FIGURED DRESS ry Probably we have in stock the Most Elegant Ever seen in this city, and sold for less money. All orders promptly filled. MRS. LESTER & CRAWFORD, Near Union Hotel, Main St., Nevada City. COMPARE AND JUDGEFOR YOURSELF ae Fac simile.of the ordinary Ham, now Facsimile of the Celebrated “Our Taste being placed on the mark~t, and claimed to Ham, taken from selected hogs, trimine be as good as the ‘Our Tasiv.” and cured expresslY for fa: cy trade. Always fresh, bright and delicious. ‘00 The OUR TASTE HAMS arefalways fresh,[bright, juicy and tender asia chicken. A slice for‘breakfastlis. indeed: delicious ASK YOUR GROCER FOR THEM. Hall, Luhrs & Co., Proprietors, Sacramento StandardBoot &Shoe FACTORS. We make to order : Men’s Fine Sewed Shoes, $7 to $9, Men’s French Calf Boots, $8.50, Men’s Miners’ Boots, $6, Ladies’ French Kid, $6.50, REPAIRING : _ Men’s Soles and Heels, $1.25, Ladies’ Scles and Heels, 75 cents, Children’s Soles and Heels, 50 cents. All kinds of BOOTS AKD SHOES “AT. SAN FRANCISCO PRICES. . Broad Street, — NEVADA CITY.