The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-08
COAST ITEMS.

OroVi!le has decided not 10 incorporate.
Dates have ripened perfectly in San
Diego this year.
Oregon on Wheels " will soon be ready
to start for the East
The SEQ O00-bushel elevator of the North
ern Pacific Railroad at Tacoma is full
The Anaheim Gazette says the white scale
has appeaIe ed in the orchards OF Garden
Grove.
The Oregon Statesman says that it takes
nearly half the revenue of the State TO run
the State Insane Asylum.
The Coast Democratic press is now be-
ginning to driyel about an even: that took
place in the Cleveland family this week.
According to the CitrUgraph, a Chicago
syndica is negotiating for the purchase OF
about $4,000 worth of land near RediandS.
E. 2. Norwood of Cucamonga has this
season gathered 100 pounds of almonds from
a single tree aud Sold them for II cents
pound
1t is said that this month tho population
about Fresno will be increased by two car
loads of families from Illinois, two from
Nebraska and one from Tennessee.
Judging from the Nevada papers it looks
as if winter mad begun there in dead earnest.
Light Snowfails are reported In the valleys
and the mountains are white down TO the
foothills.
In Ellensburg, Wash, the other day q
Chinaman walked dOan the street whist
ling Annie Rooney" and was followed by
an Indian playing Home, Sweet Home"
on the harmonica.
The Rogue River, near Central Point,
Oregon Is 10 be turned into a new channel
for eyeral miles and the old channel mined.
| The ground has been thoroughly prospected
aud shows up in good shape.
Another beet-sugar factory is TO be estab-
| lished in Los Angeles County. Some OF the
| leading business men of Los Angeles are
| Interested In the project, and, 1t Is said, are
| prepared to see it through.
Orange County is the first to perceive the
| business posi- bIlities In a starch factory,
| and company has been formed to erect
| and operate one to utilize the surplus from
| the annual potato crop OF that section.
or the Bear Valley dam the California
lrrigatiOnist says: Although the present
| dam has been repeatedly attacked by So
| called experts, it stands to-day solid eX-
ample of the fallibility of mere theorists.
The Government coast-suryeyors, says
| the Spokane Spokesman, have found
Indian Bay, on Shaw Island, to be natural
! dry-dOck, and they are now making sur
| veys TO the end that dry-dock may be
! established there.
Timher-OwnerS in ClatS0p are becoming
| alarmed at the appearance Of new worm,
| about an inch long, that Is attacking the
| timber forests. The worms eat the leaves,
and the trees that they fed over last year
| are dead this season.
Up in the Olympic Mountains many elk
are being destroyed for mere sport. The
| mountains are the stronghold of this animal
| in Washington. and unless measures are
| taken for their protection They will soon be-
come extinct in the State.
A man named Reardon from Los Angeles
| went to Bakersfield the other day and
| bought nine car-lOadS OF potatoes from Chi
| namen who have heard nothing of the man
| since. AS the man promised to pay at q
| future date the Cinnamon are out 800.
Manuela Fimbres, the only female convict
| in the A riZona Territorial Prison, was par
| doned by the Governor and discharged re-
| Gently. She was provided with plenty of
| comfortable clothing and sent to Tucson,
| where the Sheriff of Pima County sent her
| ON TO Mexico.
The Pomona Progress says: Barley has
| not been in such demand for four years, and
wheat has not brought such prices since
| 1883. Over in San Jacnto Valley wheat
| farmers are offered 81 80 per Genital for
their crops, but few who can will yet sell.
| They want 81 90.
| A Seittle widow whose husband was
| drowned in May last through the alleged
neglect of the Electric Railway Company TO
provide proper walk over a place where
their track crossed, has begun suit against
| the company for 5000, which is the Yalua-
| ton she places on her late husband.
The RedIands Facts declares that the pos
| sibilittes of fruit culture in that section are
| far from known TO those who Judge the
county simply by the orange orchards.
| Higher up the valley are untold thousands
OF acres adapted to apples, cherries, prunes,
| elc., and the Facts thinks that the day is
not far distant when Redlands will send out
as many pounds of apples and cherries as
| she does of oranges.
| Commenting upon the fact that W. w.
J Astnr is about to take up his residence in
| England, the Historian says: The only
item of possible interest to Astorans is that
"he has abandoned the great Astor library
| to its fate" just what ''lts" fate Is, is as
yetan undetermined question. Ii 1t is going
to disintergrate it would be gracious thing
for w. w. A. to send it or fragment of il
to Astoria. The Historian will guarantee to
raise funds for suitable building if the son
of his grandfather will send the Astor
| library to Astoria.
A bulletin giving facts in regard to the
successful growing. curing ana keeping of
lemons is now going through the State
printing-h0use at Sacramento. 1t was pre-
| pared by Mr.. Garcel0n Of Riverside, who
has accumulated snug fortune from his
lemon orchard. The profits are put at from
| $500 to $1,000 per acre and quite boom in
| the planting of lemon orchards is reported.
| The opinion is expressed that there are
| places In the northern and central portions
| of the Stale at which this fruit can be
| grown successfully.