New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-05-10

CROP PRosPECTs-STRIKES-THE TrATA-
SPECULATION IN STOCKS.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.

IBY TELEGRAPH TO TIE ThlbUNfsl
San Francisco. May 9.-Crop reports gathered
from all parts of the State this week show 'ha'
California will have bonanza" year. from
half an inch to one inch Of rain fell IN nearly
all the counties this week, helping gram "n .s
fruit. From all accounts. the wheat crop VIZ
be the largest on record, because Of the sfea"y
increasee acreage Land which has not been Gull
tivated fer several years was sown TO gram sn'0
season because the soil retained so much moisture
from the excessive rainfall Of the previous year.
The dry autumn and the early winter az one .iine
threatened great disaster but rains came III 1iio'
and since then have been regular and amps'
The fruit crop win also be the isrgesU III 0 -,
history Of the State, and with increases % %pp-
ances for drying and canning, 1t ousnt " 'iAs
large profits TO the growers.
strilevs I'm this city have been taught lesson
This week which they will remember four'eeh
months ago all the iron-moulders In tne Guy "ei'
called out because the foundrymen refuseo " az
cent an arbitrary number of castings lor uaS
work. The iron trade was seriously ln!uTeu, %
MANY contracts for work had to DC seh' I"''
Af,er abous two months the foundrymen pro-
nosed 20 COMPROMISE but the strikers woula hs'en
10 no reasonahle terms. Then the strikers fesoi'e
10 force and one man was shot and severai "eie III
uped. But the foundrymen grew more oe'er-
mined 40 time went on, and continued 70 inpoiV
wo,l,,pen frum the East, with the result that
nearly al establishments are now running on iuiA
time. This week the strikers proposed arbitra-
ton but the foundrymen replied that there were
No differences to settle All shat was left TO
the Iron Mouiders' Union. If it wished 10 settle
the strike was to instruct its members to apply
for work. They would be given employment II
there was work TO be done. This is the heaviest
blow trasssunionisn has ever received on this
coast for n virtually proves that any assocla-
tion of employers can win against the unjust de-
mands Of their men, The foundrymen have
demonstrated their right to make rules Tor the
Governments of their own shops and to hire such
workmsn as they please.
The ynelo-dramatic conversion Of the CHILEAN
steamer Itata into an insurgent privateer In san
Diego harbor and has escaped with United States
deputy marshal on board, have caused much dis
cussion here. 1t is incredible that the Federal
officials ON shore should not have suspected the
steamers purpose, she was forced TO get up
steam. The Gillian Consul here warned his Min
lister I'm Washington that foul play might be looked
for. Here sympathy all along has been in favor
of the CHILEAN insurgents, because of authentic
renorts of Balrnacedas dictatorial acts so that 1t
is unfortunate that the insurgents have taken
step which lays one of their vessels open to seizure
by the United States
The aftermath of the Presidents visit includes
some curious features. One Of these is the formal
announcement by the Society of California
Pioneers that hereafter they will not take part
in any public ceremony unless they be given the
foremost uhce. This action was due 10 the cavalier
way in which the Pioneers were treated by the
local Reception Committee. They were not al
lowed to prsent any address of welcome, and no
time was assigned for visit by the President
TO their hall, visit which he expressed by tele-
graph desire to make. As she Poneers were tie
founders of the State, they do not relish this
sliaht at the hands of men who never saw Gall
fornia until after the historic year of 40.
Pine-st. and Pauper Alley have worn the look
Of the old "bonanza' days this week, as large
crowds Of speculators were attracted by the rapid
fluctuations in the leading Comstock mining
shares. Consolidated Virginia touched S2l early
in the week. but has since fuctuated from SIS to
$40. Ophir and Best and Belcher have shSwn
great activity, but neither reached $40.
There is no question that much paying ore is
fhat 4 will III be worked If different mine man
ayers would unite and push work, DIVIDENDS couid
be paid in half dozen Of the best mines
Among the pictures in the Art Exhibition
which opened this week the place OF honor
senting live oaks and an old adobe house IN
MontereN Emile Garrison has some excellent
studies in still life. and there are good landscapes
by YeIland. PHI and Keith.
The fine statue of The Ball Thrower,' the work
of o deaf mute Californian sculptor, Douglas
Tilden, will soon be placed in Golden Gate Park
near the Garfield statue II has been pronounced
by experts the best bit of figure work ever seen
here.
The Southern Pacific Company has decided &c
place ticket agents on all it's trains In California
This step is rendered necessary by the wholesale
"knocking down by conductors. Receipts or
divisions where ticket agents have been put on
have increased from IS TO 100 per cent. On
certain runs, of which the receipts were formerly
$500, the train agents have turned in $3.50. Chief
Engineer Hood, of the Southern Pacific has just
returned from Yuma. II has been decided K
change the line of the track for twenty-five miles
east Of Yuma, so as to bring il up on high ground
out Of the danger of washouts. The weather j:
too hot now for construction, but bids are out
and work will begin next September
H. w. Turner. Of the United States Geological
Survey, will soon start on an investigation OF
the gold belt of California. The State Minine
Bureau is engaged In similar work. and the two
results will be valuable for comparison.