The morning call., 1891-11-20
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Territories.
Portland. Oregon, Is trying to raise cap
ital TO build dry-dock costing $4,000.
A. b. Fox of Ontario shipped lemons to
Chicago last week and expects to get So
box.
The shipments of fresh deeiduous fruits
from this State this year amounted to $500
carloads.
Wyoming will have 5000 feet of space in
which to display mineral specimens at the
| Worlds Fair.
:, A Danish colony is about 10 settle in
Capay Valley, Yolo County, on land of the
Southern Pacific Company.
Sngar-beet tops are sold about Castroville
| at 70 cents load on the ground, and cattle
get sleek and fat on them.
A Paris wine-dealer writes to San Fran
cisco that the total production of Califor-
MAS Zinfandel could be sold in that city.
The Board of Trade of Del Norte County
is being urged to memorialize Congress to
revoke the extension of the Hoopa Reserye-
ton.
The San Diego Union claims that the
greatest mineral development on the Pacific
Diego.
The Eugene (Oregon) Guard remarks that
1erryman would do good business at sew
| eral OF the street-crOssings in that city row.
| ing people across.
Bradstreets manager says that business
AZ LUIS aBSclco SHOWS 4 marKeQ increase
this year over last. Collections are easier
and confidence firmer.
The Keno Gazette quotes John w. Mackay
as saying that there is enough low-grade ore
IN the Con. Virginia to keep 200 stamps
running Tor twenty years.
TWO sweet potatoes from the Mission Val
ley, weighing "a and 81 pounds respectively,
are ON exhibition at thesrooms of the San
Diego Chamber OF Commerce.
Considerable natural gas escapes from
nne OF the artesian sulphur wells at Santa
re springs, SO much, in fact, that it is be-
| ing used Tor heating purposes.
General Freight Agent Smurr of the South
ern Pacific Company estimates this sea
| sons orange crop in California at 5000 car
loads, but some consider this an oyeresti-
! mate.
The Daily Historian says: Honey from
California worth cent a drop is for sale
here. Fine honey on the Nehalem cannot
be brought here; no roads. That is not
| business
| Southern Pacific employees at Oakland
| complain that the pay-car, which eleven
months In the year gets around about the
| ga. Is always late in December. and never
! gets around till after Christmas. This is
| presumably to keep the boys from neglect
| Ing work 10 spend their money at holiday
| time.
The Fresno Republican gently warns
saioon-keepers of that burg to check their
| IL.
| they have all That saloon-keepers ought TO
wish for-low license and plenty of GAM
| Dling-and II they move any further they
VIII arouse an opposition that will down
| them.
The San Bernardino Times Index boasts.
with Justifiable pride, that while Its city Is
we'll lighted and guarded by a strong police
force, possessing paved streets and sewers,
water works and other good things, the
| general tax rate for city purposes, includ-
ing the levy Tor schools, is only 80 cents on
| the 500.
| MERGED County has adopted the colony
plan In earnest, and her big grain and stock
| ranches are being rapidly converted into
twenty.acre home places. The census re-
| turns OF 1900 will show wonderful results
| accomplished in the San Joaquin Valley,
but in no particularly section will they be
| more surprising than from MERGED County.
The Stockton Independent says of San
Joaquin County that besides its natural gas,
It's varied industries, its superior CONNER
cal advantages. its cheap lands, the best
courthouse in the interior and its general
prosperity, it has the lowest tax levy in the
| State. Ii there is county in California
where the kicker should languish and die
for want Of exercise. that county is San
| Joaquin.
To the long list of food fishes caught in
these waters says the Historian, is to be
added the mackerel. Five fishes that looked
to be mackerel We're caught here yesterday,
two of the wharf and three In boat. One
| of the fishes will be sent to the fish sharp at
the Smithsonian Institute. Washington, to
decide upon its classification, but nearly
every one who saw them yesterday said they
| were mackerel
California is the first State to respond to
| Chief Buchanan's request that each State
| contribute the trunks of three of its most
characteristic trees, to be used in construct
| ing rustic colonnade for the Forestry
Building at the Worlds Fair. California 8
contribution includes sugar pine furnished
| by Towle Brothers Company of Alta; a
| redwood, by j. F. Cunningham of Santa
Cruz. and seQuoia. by Smith Comstock of
Tulare.
| 1t does seem little curious, says the Gen.
trail Californian, that the Sacramento Union
| should lead the press of the State in the
light against large land holdings, but no one
can doubt the sincerity of its crusade. Can
1t be possible that Huntington is also going
| to take the octopus out of new spapers
| vi course 1t is for the interest of the rail-
| road to have the lands in the State all occu-
pied and improved for it will increase their
| business.
1t is reported that the Catholic Theo-
logical School, which was to have been es-
tablished in San Rafael. is to be located
near Palo Alto. in order that the students
may have the benefits of the museums,
Libraries and other advantages of Stanford
University. The privileges which Senator
Stanford has granted to this school are not
likely to be denied to others, and, as con-
| sequence, the great institution which he
has founded will probably be made the
| nucleus around which will gather a host of
other schools, seminaries and colleges, the
| whole making Palo Alto the greatest educa-
| tlonal center In the world.
There is great lawsuit pending in Lassen
County, involving about eighteen plaintiffs
| and 120 defendants, over water rights on
the Susan River. The plaintiffs, most of
! whom are old and wealthy settlers, located
| on the lower end of the river many years
| ago, and have been using the water for irri-
| CATION all these years. In the march of civ
| lllZation hundreds of people have settled
along the upper part of the river, and very
naturally diverted some of the water. Thus
| the amount flowing to the lands of plaintiffs
| grew less year by year. There is money on
| both sides, and no doubt the case will not
end until settled by the Supreme Court.
Labor Notes.
The Building Trades League has decided