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The building: of a railway from the terminus of the Southern Pacific to the mineral belt will mean a great deal for the future prosperity of Amador county. The amount of freight now leaving lone for different towns or the county is something enormous, and it has long been evident that the building of a railroad would be a paying invest-ment. jThe Amador Traction Company will ask for a franchise to build an electric railway from lone to Jackson, Sutter Creek, Amador City, Drytown, Plymouth, and Volcano, these being the principal towns of the county, but the first move will be to build to the larger towns—Jackson and Sutter Creek.At present the exact route of the road is not known, but surveyors will be at work in a week to determine this. No time will be lost in the construction, and the management expects to have the road in operation before November 1st.D. McCall, of lone, also has a plan for developing the resources of Amador county. Ho proposes to tioatstock in Amador county sufficient to raise $150,000, which will be used to construct a railroad from Sutter Creek to the timber regions in the higher altitudes. There are fine marble quarries and immense bodies of timber in Amador county which only need transportation facilities in order to mve errmlnv-
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Jackson Amador Ledger
Jackson, California, US
Fri, Apr 08, 1904
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