The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-04-15

llon OF its scope, must be advertised for
ten days in daily newspaper. and the
franchise must be awarded 10 the highest
BIDDER. The enactment of such law is
PROOF OF the rapid growth of sentiment
tnat franchises to exercise special priyl-
leges, which create form of property
that often becomes very valuable, should
no longer be given away by our local
Governments, but should only be issued
on the basis of allowing the community
70 participate in the profits"
Santa Ana Blade: 'If three hundred
representative men of this county meet
In convention and pull in harmony with
one another they will be sure TO move
the Capital. In point of fact such con-
vention will be one of the most moving
things ever known in California. San
Jose Mercury.
But the mercury will have to go
good deal higher than it is at present be-
fore the Capital or the capitol will be To-
Gated at San jose"
Pasadena Star: Pomona has gone
wet on the license question, the advo-
Gates of that system of regulating the
liquor traffic having elected yesterday
high license Councilman and Marshal.
The opposition elected the remainder of
the ticket"
''oh OOSS 4hcFCUTy. Ii IodCTdIl0ulO Gail
generate electrical force for use in the
city by water-power fifty miles away,
why can we not make the same use of
the water power in the mountains around
san Jose? This Is a question that it is
worth while for capitalists to inquire
into"
Willows Journal: "a farm needs the
closest attention that man can give it.
some there be that imagine otherwise.
Many man will spend money and labor
on grain and neglect his orchard. and yet
wonder why his fruit is poor and scarce.
Culuvating and spraying bring quicker
response from the orchard than almost
anywhere else. Fruit is becoming less a
luxury and more necessity of life with
every year. 1t is better to have a
large number of a choice variety
OF trees, those proven to be adapted
to your soil and climate, than to at
tempt variety of kinds. Fruit grow
ing is the pleasantest and most profit
able of employments ifconducted wisely,
and 1t Is also the most vexatious if
run on the happy-go-lucky principle.
Farmers, don't you think the best thing
you can do this spring would be to i'm
prove your orchard? Set out more tress
and shrubbery. Take care of it we'll, and
IN few years it will be more profitable
to you than any other part of your farm"
Fresno Republican: "The Oakland
Times does not materially oVerstate the
case when it says the people who have
succeeded in closing the Worlds Fair on
Sunday have played into the hands of the
devil. Chicago dive-keepers are not,
speaking exactly, the devil, but are doing
about as much to boom the hell business
as anybody on EARTH"
Los Angeles Express: 1.-THE talk of re-
moving the Capital from Sacramento has
had the good effect of infusing the citi-
zens OF that place with new energy. A
company has been formed there with the
object of utilizing the enormous water
power developed by the great dam at
Folsom, across the American river. The
transformation of the water power into
electricity and transmission to the city
by wire are easily practicable. In this
way Sacramento would be enabled to
operate large manufacturing enterprises
at comparatively small cost. The pro-
Ject seems to have great merit, and if sue
ceSSfully carried out it will make little
difference to the city whether the Legis-
lature keeps or not"
Fresno ErpOSitor: 1.-THE discussion re-
garding the proposed removal of the
State Capital has somewhat subsidized.
The people generally are settling down
to a conviction that the Capital will not
be removed. There are three good
grounds for this belief. One is that the
resolution authorizing the removal will
not stand the test of judicial construction,
and the second is that the people will de-
feat removal at the polls. The third and
best of all reasons, however, is that It
will be morally impossible for San
Jose to raise the cash bonus of 81 ,000, 900,
a million dollars is great deal of money,
and when town no larger than San Jose
attempts to raise it by popular contribu-
ton and voluntary gifts it grows to be
most fabulous and appalling sum. Any
way, as business investment the State
Capitol is not worth 81, 100000 to San
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