The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-04-08

raisins. Three or four cents a pound
makes them remunerative-far more so
than grain"
The Pogdronidn: 1.-THE manufacture
and the rapidly increasing use of the two
wheeled and rubber-tired vehicle called
the bicycle is responsible for the develop
ment OF an agitation favorable to gen.
eral and improved system of roads, On
this coast we hear but little on this sub
ject compared to the publicity given it in
| the Eastern States. There it is rapidly
becoming an issue in local elections, and
so strong is the demand for better roads,
and so general is the call therefor, that
we may expect to see it one OF the lead
| ing issues in national elections in the
near future"
Colusa Sun: at is possible to build
good hard roads. 1t is possible to run
wagon by electricity. 1t is possible to
! generate the electricity by water power.
Electrical power can be transmitted
twenty or thirty miles with loss of Thu ee
or four per cent. Then why is it not
practical to run q double wire-one for
each way, like the street-car wires-over
our principal roads and haul our loads
and run our buggies by power furnished
! by Stony Creek ? This will be done, but
hardly by the men who fight water. 1t
will be, but we will not see it. We can't
get road for common mule to travel.
+ We hardly hope to live to see one good
road leading into Colusa.n
anderson VuLIey NelrS: 1.-THE parole
bill is being widely discussed at present
and many varying opinions offered con-
corning it. OF one thing all may be GER
tain. The kindness of the measure will
reform no one. If any of the paroled
prisoners have concluded that it is better
| policy to lead honest lives they will be
benefited. There is a class of prisoners
! whose crimes were committed in mo-
ment OF passion and under circumstances
unlikely to ever occur again. These will
no doubt serve the interests of society
outside of prison walls much better than
within them"
Chico CtrOnicle-Record: evidence ac-
cumulates that the Chinese Six Com
| panies are engaged in a conspiracy to
prevent the execution of an America
! law. Evidence accumulates also that tn e
exercise by these companies of the meth
| DDS by which they control Chinese labor
ers is incompatible with the duty any
foreign resident owes TO the Government
under which he lives"
! Marysvilie Democrat: 'The occupa-
! ton of the tax title buyer is gone. The
last Legislature knocked him out by a
law providing that the State shall buy all
property sold for delinquent State and
county taxes. This will enable the owner
to redeem his property at any time
within five years by the payment of the
prescribed penalty. In this way the
State gets a lien on all delinquent prop
erty, and profitable trade is knocked
out"
Fresno Erpositor: 1.-The members of
the late Legislature need not worry them
selves about the health of Sacramento, as
they will not have occasion to go there
again as members of that august body"
Referring to the Sacramento Industrial
Improvement (Factories) Association the
Placer Republican says: 1.-The project
should be a success. Sacramento has
been sorely in need of such an organiaa-
ton for many years, and if the objects
/ shall be even partially accomplished, the
people of the Capital will owe to the Sac
ramento Industrial Association a debt of
gratitude that should be everlasting"
Amador Record: 1.-The law passed for
the purity of elections by our late la
mented Legislature is, TO take it all in all.