The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-30
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

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Territories.
Fresno styles itself 1.-The Chicago Of Cali
! fornia."
1t is predicted that hop growing is one of
AriZona's coming industries.
Portland. Oregon, has 423 saloons-one
for every 100 people of the population.
| A half-interest in ten-acre orange grove
| at Riverside sold the other day for 1900
! just 5000 per acre.
The Southern California Fruit-packing
| Company Of Los Angeles pays out $500
per week for wages.
An average of five carloads daily of Dor
| phyry rock is shipped daily from South
| Riverside to Los Angeles.
! Twenty-one Catholic Sisters of Charity
| have been granted certificates to teach III
| the public schools of Texas.
An association has just been formed
which proposes to set out 1000-acre lemon
orchard in san Diego County.
| Kern County is coming to the front as a
| peach-growing section, forty cars of that
! fruit having lett Bakersfield for the East
! last week.
| Orange County fruit-growers, after expert
| mentatiOn, incline to the oFinion that kero-
sene spray, rightly applied. will kill all
| scale on fruit trees.
a Palouse County (Wash.) farmer reports
that his recent crop on III acres Of land paid
| the purchase price of 119 acres, leaving him
| a surplus OF S56S 81.
1t Is claimed for the petroleum found in
| the vicinity Of San Diego that 1t can be
| used in lamps without being first subjected
to the refining process.
The Farmers Alliance of Clackamas
| County, Oregon, is arranging to carry out a
| thorough educational campaign among the
farmers of that district.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company
| has informed the Oregon authorities that
| it will not reduce its freight rates as or
| dered by the Railroad Commission Of that
State.
The Pomona Progress considers it Curl
| Gus fact that neither Mrs. Fair nor Mrs.
! Hopkns-Searles left dollar of their vast
| estates, acquired in this State, for charitable
or public uses.
1t is said that more covered wagons, filed
| with immigrants from the East, bound for
| Western Oregon. are to be seen on the road
| now than ever were in the days before the
advent Of the railroad.
The city fathers of Santa Monica have de-
| clared the track OF the Los Angeles and Pa
cifc Railway within their corporate limits a
| nuisance. There is not much left Of it ex-
| cept two streaks of rust
During her stay at Seattle Sarah Bernhard
and q party of her people went cunning for
bears, but Tor some reason or other bruin
declined the honor Of showing up as target
for the divine Sarah and she got no bar.
The Los Angeles Courthouse is at last
completed and paid for The original plans
| called for $4,000, but as usual there were
extras extras w which brought the t1tal cost up to
S51S,S01. 1t is beautiful building, and
one to be proud Of
On application of Fred Harvey, who owns
the eating houses on the Atchison and Santa
Fe line. the company is enjoned from put
ting dining-cars on the road, west of tile
Missouri River. Harvey has time con-
tract with the company.
The Relief Committee at The Dalles still
find plenty to do, and the wants of no in
considerable number OF people are being
supplied. About forty families are reported
as having received aid, and supplies are still
coming in from outside sources.
A big enterprise is nearing completion
near Central Point, Jackson County, Ore
gon, whereby the Rogue River will be turned
into new channel for distance of several
miles and the bed mined. The ground has
been thoroughly prospected and shows up in
good shape.
A busiuess-like person in Los Angeles
offers salvation for body and soul for 10 per
cent of ones income. He is worse
monopolst says the Stockton Independent,
than the insurance ring, who do not charge
as much as that on anything but extrahaz-
| aTdous risks.
There are two towns in Oregon nine miles
apart. Parties living in these towns who
wish to communicate with each other by
mail can do so in exactly four days, that
being the time In which Uncle Sam will de-
liver letter and bring back reply between
these two points.
The State Board of Trade is authority for
the statement that California shipped East
during the year 1890, 49S, 344, 752 pounds OF
vegetables alone. This includes potatoes,
onions, peas. beans, etc. This Is 1892 car
loads of ten tons each. The vegetable trade
has only just commenced.
The San Diego Sun says: They are having
daily showers al San Jacintn, which come
from the evaporation Of the Salton Lake.
Their origin and drift have been watched
from the summit of San Jacinto Peak,
, and there is no further room for doubt
as to the effect the lake is having upon the
rainfall.
A correspondent of the Redands Citro-
graph wants the school affairs of that place
, administered with fair play and no lob.
berry," There has long been a prevailing
|. suspicion that the southern citrus belt wan Is
the earth. and here is positive proof. Red
lands will be wanting purified politics next