The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-11
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.


Territories.
Santa Fe, N Mex, declned considerably in
population between the years 1880 and 1890.
The salOonmen OF Los Angeles have organized
10 resist lie nse ordinance recently passed by
the Supervisors.
Pomona is now shipping navel oranges to
market, the first OF the season, aud said to be OF
very high quality.
Westminster and Garden Grove In Orange
County, have been offered S37 5000 at per
cent interest, all payable In I'VE years. TO build
beet sugar factory.
leading Los Angeles grocer who has just re-
TUNED from the East. says he found everywhere
in his travels The best California wines sold as
French, under French labels.
The Australian grasshopper parasite, which
eats forty hoppers an hour and keeps on indeii-
nitely, Is 10 be distributed all over the country
beiwe n now and next summer.
Riverside orange growers are considering the
best way TO market their crop. Some think the
best way Is to sell TO The packers on the tree but
local organization Is largely favored.
An effort is on foot TO organize Board OF
Trade IN San BeTuardino. ana los OF the citizens
ana business firms have signhed their willing
ness TO become members OF the same.
}. +: Lelb OF Alameda County received be-
tween Sll 900 and So, 900 from seventy acres
OF Iiunes this year. Last year. which was an
exceptionally good year, lie cleared $4,000.
The Atlica Is the n. me of a new variety of
olive grown In Alameda County. 1t Is a free
stone, OF good size and flavor. Tie olive Is
receiving considerable attention In Alameda
County
The public schools at Chino are so over
crowded that the day has TO be dividt and only
half the children received at u time. Tn. sugar
factory lheie mas caused perez ptible influx OF
population.
The Philadelphia Record, commenting on the
fact that Englishmen are going into Italy to
grow olives, says they had better come to Cali
Iornla, where the opportunities for the business
are unexceed.
Cattle. thieves are said to be getting In their
work In Long Valley, New. The Sierra Valley
Leader advises summary proceedings with any
same propensity.
Major Schnitger State Fish Commissioner OF
wyoming, announces that There VIII be 1O7, 900
young trout Tor distribution In May next. This
Is The only fish that amounts 10 anything under
cultivation in Wyoming waters.
1t Is now slated that Alaska coal OF a good
quality VIII be delivered IN Pacific ports at 81 a
ton. An exchange claims 1t likely. howey eli,
that the Alaska dealers will soon enter the com.
Dine ana Keep prices up to 50 to $12.
In June. 1890. the population OF the State OF
Idaho was, exclusive OF Indians only $4,000.
To-day, says the Boise Statesman, according TO
careful aud conservative estimates made by Sec
rotary OF State A. J. Pinkham. there are 10000
people within our borders, including the Indians,
OF whom there are not more than 5000.
Last Friday being the tenth anniversary of the
nrst publication OF Tho Los Angeles Times that
sGi,sp paper issued twenty.foqr-page
edition, devoted to Los Angeles and the sur
rounding country. The paper Is OF great inter-
est, as showing tho phenomenal growth OF that
section In tho past decade, and is admirably
adapted TO further the Interests OF Los Angeles
IN the East, where II should be largely circulated.
The Pomona Progress says: Two OF the
Duarte lemon. growers inform us that by curing
as high as S21 tree. Que man has realized
$500 from lorly-eight trees planted on half an
acre OF land. This year he planted about seven
four years he and his family of six persons, have
had better living and saved more money from
orchard land than they did from seventy acres
OF corn land-eveE Ia boom years for corn.