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tants. Passing on 11.7 miles further, we
are at

CARBONDALE—Here are extensive coal
mines, operated by the Ione Coal Co., who
load on an average fifteen cars per day—
150 tons.

At Michigan Bar, pe miles north,
large quantities of the best pottery are
manufactured, which finds its market over
From Carbondale it is 6.7
miles to

Tonz—the end of the road, 27.2 miles
from Galt. This place is in Amadore
county, in a section devoted to mining and
agriculture.

The coal mines located here have yielded
about 200 tons per day during the year
1877. A new vein of coal, struck towards
the last of the year 1877, opens up an al-
most unlimited deposit. Placer mining is
carried on to some extent on Sutter Creek.

The News, a weekly paper, is published
at Ione, which is also a pointfrom which
fourteen mining towns, large and small,
draw their supplies. Some of these are
reached by stage as follows: Volcano,
population, 500; West Point, 300; Jack-
son, San Andreas, Mokelumna Hill, Sut-
ter, Amador, Drytown, Plymouth, and
Fiddletown. These places are from ten to
fifteen miles distant. From Ione it is
fifteen miles southeast to Mokelumna Hill,
(pronounced Mokel-m-ne,) county seat of
Calaveras county. This is one of the early
mining towns of the State. Placer mines
were worked as early as 1848, and are
worked to some extent at the present time;
but quartz mining and agriculture are the
principal occupation of the people. It is
a pretty little town; the streets are orna-
mented with shade trees on each side, and
has some beautiful gardens and private
residences, with good schoolsand churches,
several good hotels, and one weekly news-
paper—the Chronicle—the oldest paper in
the State. Population, 1,200.

We will now return to Galt, and start
once more south.

Acampo—is a small station where
trains seldom stop, 5.4 miles from Galt,
and 2.9 miles from

Lodi—The country along here has
been settled up very much in the last four
years; the fields are pretty generally
fenced and well cultivated, and some fine
vineyards of the raisin grape can be seen.
Many new buildings attest the thrift of the
people. Stages leave this station daily—

CROFUTT’S NEW OVERLAND TOURIST

except Sunday—for Mokelumne Hill, 35
miles east.

Castle—is six miles from Lodi. Our
train rolls along through fine broad bottom
lands, dotted here and there with white-
oak trees, which, at a distance, appear like
an old New England apple-tree.

Six miles further, just before reaching
the next station—on the right, that large
building is the Stare Insane AsyLuM.
The grounds devoted to the use of the
asylum occupy 100 acres. The first build-
ing in view is the male department; the
second, the female. We are now in the
suburbs of

Stockton—the county seat of San
Joaquin county. Population, 13,000. Ele-
vation, 23 feet. The city was named in
honor of the old naval commodore of that
name, who engaged in the conquest of
California. It is situated on a small bay,
of the San Joaquin River, at the head of
navigation; navigable for crafts of 200
tons; yet steamboats of light draft ascend
the river (San Joaquin) 250 miles farther.
Stockton is situated in the midst of level
plains, celebrated for their great yield of
grain. It is the center of an immense

in trade. In early times, the only trade
epended upon for the support of the
city was derived directly from the work-
ing of the mines to the eastward. Some
of this trade is still retained; but, com-
pared with the tremendous grain trade
which has sprung into existence within
the last six years, it sinks to a unit. The
city has many beautiful public and private
buildings, thirteen churches, fourteen pub-
lic and many private schools; is lighted
with gas, and well supplicd with water,
the latter from an artesian well 1,002 feet
deep, which discharges 360,000 gallons per
day—the water rising ten feet above the
city grade. There are several good hotels;
the Yo-Semite and Grand are the prin-
cipal ones. The Independent and the
Herald are daily papers, published here.
The city is embowered in trees and shrub-
bery: most of the private residences and
gardens of the citizens are certainly very
tastefully ornamented with all kinds of
vines, shrubbery, and flowers.

The soil around Stockton is “adobe,” a
vegetable mold, black and very slippery,
and soft during the rainy season. This
extends southward to the Contra Costas,
and west about five miles, where the
sand commences and extends to the river.

Stockton, for several years after the com-