New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-28
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
CROP PRoSPECTS-NEw BUILDINGS--IRRI-
GATION-SUGAR
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San Francisco June 27.-Despite predictions of
croakers, California has the promise this year of
an excellent crop of wheat, fruit and wine.
Wheat is being harvested throughout the State,
and, while not a bonanza crop, it will yield far
more money than for several years, because OF
the higher price of the cereal The fruit crop
will be larger and of finer quality than last
year. but of course growers can't expect to secure
such large returns. because Eastern fruit has
done we'll. The report that the California prunc
crop is a failure is absurd. 1t grew out of the
fact that the prune trees at Pomona had light
crop, but the great prune orchards of the Santa
Clara Valley which yield three-quarters OF the
States crop, were never before in inner condi-
ton The season is late, but the warm weather
this week has ripened apricots and peaches, and
all canneries are in full blast. The acreage In
bearing fruit will be increased fully one-ffth this
year, while next season will see still larger
increase
One year ago charges were brought by brick
layer that the walls in one wing OF the new
City Hall were stuffed with debris. The con-
tractors showed that the brickayer had bad
record. and no adequate investigation was made
This week, in opening a doorway through one
of the main walls, pocket one foot square was
found and all around it the bricks were very
brittle and tie mortar poor. AS all the con-
tractors have been paid, nothing will probably
be- done.
The big Mills Building at Montgomery and
Bush sts. is attracting much attention. This week
the enormous iron girder that spans the main
entrance was put in place. AS it weighed twenty
TONS this was work that required nice calcu-
lation The lower stories of the building will be
of snow.whte Inyo County marble probably the
11na fou
stones already laid show to great advantage. The
new Croker Building, at Market and Post stS,
will not present so fine appearance, because the
granite used is not so beautiful stone marble.
One of the last of the pioneer buildings Of
San Francisco is now being demolished. Ihs is
the old Macondray Building, at No. 204 Sansome-
st., built by Captain Macondray in 1850, and Tor
the last sixteen years occupied by the book
sellers, Payot, Upham & Co. All the materials for
this building were shipped round Cape Horn from
Boston For twenty years it the headquarters
Of the great tea importing firm of Macondray ~
Co.. and for a long time situated directly on
The water front.
Colonel Richard j. Hinton, chief of the irriga-
ton inquiry, is now here engaged in collecting
facts for a report irrigation on the coast.
Colonel Hinton declared that the finest system of
storage. conveyance and distribution of water he
had seen is that of the Bear Valley Company In
San Bernardno County. He thought this system
as near perfect as any that could be devised. lie
was much interested in several new irrigation
schemes in San joaquin Valley. From here ne
goes to the Puget Sound country, and thence 10
Washington.
The quarantine officer of the State Horti-
cultural Board has seized $4,000 orange trees
from Tahiti, which infested with five diner
ent varieties OF scale bugs They were all IN
tended for San Bernardino County, and II per-
mitted 10 enter without proper fumigation, they
would have spread the deadly scale disease
throughout the choicest orange district OF South
ern California.
Four California sugar factories have filed APP
plication for bounty this year, among them being
.he China Beet Sugar Factory, which has 1000
acres in beets and expects to turn out 100000
pounds of sugar This will give the China factory