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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-28

tIfclal means have acted TO keep its
population altogether disproportionate to
its area. Now. there fore, that the fruit
industries are assuming such proper
tons. the necessity for good class
OF labOrers becomes more apparent.
The fruit industry does not demand
steady employment of extra labor. 1t
has its seasons Of picking, packing, dry
ing. stoning and the like, when an army
of men is required, but the ordinary work
of the ordinary small vineyard or orchard,
after the first outlay. can usually be done
by the working proprietor. There are
kindred Industries, springing from the
growing ana marketing of fruits, which
call for a similar spasmodic supply of la
| bOrers.
As time goes on This demand. regular in
its rise and fall. will doubtless continue
and be met Small vlneyaIdists have been
known TO complain that it did not pay
hem to pick their grapes, owing to the
low market price for the fruit and the
cOmLaratvely high price of labor These
conditions are unnatural and must adjust
themselves. The price of grapes will ad-
vance with the increasing demand for
California wines and grape products; the
natural increase OF pros perity will bring
the laDorer'S hire within the means of the
small employer. while affording a profit
able prospect 10 the free born American
toiler. Indians and Chinese have OBJ
tanned much of the vineyard work in this
State in the past owing to their docilty
and cheapneSs. but the superiority of in
telligent labor and its economy in the long
run are aspects of the problem which are
! surely. if slowly, permeating the State.
/ One indication Of this is the Geary act,
supplemented by the McCreary act, by
which Chinese are henceiorth excluded
! from the State.
! In the same way the gradual development
! of the State is certain to call for honest
! labor. which will be satisfied with honest
! pay IN a cores pOnding ratio. Railroads
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utaries, are over hundred mining claims.
The so-called dead Stanislaus channel
runs for twenty miles parallel with the
present Stanislaus River. Upon this chan
1el is situated the famous Table Noun
tain. Other systems are found in Yuba.
Plumas, Butte, Amador, Calaveras and
Tuolumne counties. Scientific opinion is
divided whether these channels are
ancient rivers; the popular opinion Is that
they are. AT any rate. they are we'll
enough defin ed to warrant the expenditure
of capital in their development. The ele-
vations of the bedrock are so we'll known
and the geological structure of the country
has been so well studied that little risk is
taken in exploiting them.
The general theory of these auriferous
channel deposits is that they lie on the
bedrock of old buried rivers, contain some
gold throughout, but are by far the rich
est on the country rock at the bottom, and
are covered from nothing up to 1900 feet
deep with volcanic ashes. tafa, lava and
mud from eruDtive agencies active after
the gold-bearing gravel deposits were
formed Sluicing away the entire superin-
cumbent mass by the force of water,
thrown from large noZzles under immense
pressure, is hydraulic mining; running
drifts TO extract only the rich layers on
the bedrock is drift mining.
Collaborating quartz veins are principally
found on the western slope of the Sierra
Nevada all the way from Plumas to Mari
posa and in the northern counties of
Shasta. Sskiyou, Trinity. Humboldt and
Del Norte. There are also many Lodges in
San Bernardno and San Diego counties.
Mining has now settled down to bust
ness basis ana in every mining county
there is renewed activity. Ali the lOdes
are not get discovered. The eldest quartz
mining section is Nevada County, yet new
lodes are being discovered. The mining
people are not the rough and uncouth
characters falsely depicted by sensational
writer's. The people are intelligent. en-
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old, obsolete methods, shiftless ways,
down-at-the-heel indiferentism have pre-
vailed too long. These conditions cannot
long withstand progress, and in them
selves afford an opportunity to the live,
ambitious man with capital OIL intelll-
gent training and aptitude.
OF the man with the capital of "a trade
at his finger ends'' it is not necessary to
dilate. The information necessary to his
purpose is now segregated under the heads
of various labor organizations and fur
nished to the mem bers on demand. This
is one of the methods admirably conceived
to prevent the congestion of the labor
market by local overcrowding. While of
late many trades have suffered from the
prevailing financial stringency, there is no
room 20 doubt that with the development
of the State in due course will come pro-
portionate Improvement in trade circles.
The recent situation OF THE unem-
plOyed'' in San Francisco speaks volumes
against any laborer coming to California
without some definite prospect OF employ
ment. A sum of money over and above
travelling expenses TO provide against con-
tingencies is absolutely required, even
although a job has been obtained be-
forehaud. In fine, nothing but diSinter-
ested, exact and reliable information
should tempt the ordinary laboFer TO leave
a fair livelihood to come west.
For all labOrers who are here, however.
the elements OF health and hope embodied
in their lot may be further emphasized
Both conditions belong peculiarly to the
country districts. City life is opposed to
thrift, which is labor's lever. Some of
these things seem platitudes to many of
us here, but it may be we'll to impress
upon the world that such truths obtain in
California. Round and about the Golden
State so many complimentary fictions have
been woven that they form a glitterlng
glamour of romance, difficult to dissipate.
California is DO Utoala for the Idle. the
clerk, the man who "tan do anything"
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terprising and hospitable. and mining is
pursued amid all the surroundings of
c!viliZati on.
The silver mines Of California are mainly
found in Mono, Inyo and San BernardinO
counties east of the Sierra Nevadas. They
are not now prof,a BILE on account of the
depressed silver market, but they consti-
tute very important mineral deposits,
which better transportation facilities
would develop into greater activity.
San Francisco is the best manufacturing
center for mining machinery and supplies
to be found anywhere. Besides furnishing
the districts Of her own and adjoining
States. she ships yearly many expensive
outfits to Mexico. Central and South Amer
lea aud other foreign countries.
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sources of supply SAYS California and Her
Resources Rich paying placerS were origi-
nally worked along the banks OF streams
in almost every mountain county, and the
immense product for many years, includ-
ing the banner year of 1863 was obtained
almost exclusively from this source. The
gradual failure Of the surface placers
led UP to the discovery and exploitation of
quartz lodges. drift mining of large beds
of auriferous gravel and TO hydraulic min
ing. In the prosecution Of these new
methods veins have been worked 10 adepth
of 5000 feet. tunnels and drifts run for
miles into old lava-capped channels, whole
rivers diverted from their beds and noun
tains of gravel slulced away.
To-day mining is chiefly prosecuted
under the branches Of vein, drift and
hydraulic. The last two methods are en-
ploved to open up vast beds OF gold-bear-
ing gravel and the bedrock deposits Of old
river channels oyerlaid hundreds Of feet
by volcanic deposits. The gold bearing
deposits are located mainly on the western
slopes of the Sierra Nevada, in the coun-
ties of Plumas Butte, Sierra, YuDa, Ne
vads, Placer, Ell Dorado. Amador, Gaia
veras and Tuolumne.
There is an ancient channel called the
Dead Blue RiveI," which extends from
Downieville in Sierra County. almost due
south through the counties of Nevada,
Placer and Ell Dorado, distance of sixty
miles. The gravel is blue in color and is
overlaid by volcanic matter. Upon this
channel are located the richest drift, and
HYDRAULIC mines in the State. It's elevation
at Downieville Is 5000 feet and at Placer
vile $500 feet above the sea. and it may be
traced through Eureka. Quaker Hill,
Dutch Fiat, Gold Run. Georgetown and
Placerville. 1t has been estimated that
this channel has yielded $1,000. 600 for every
mile of gravel. and that S25O,00O.00t has
been extracted from its bed.
Other channels are more or less broken
ND and are not continuously connected.
One begins a. the northeast part OF Shasta
County and thence runs southwest
through Shasta into Trinity and across
Hum boldt County and ends at the ocean
| at Gold Bluff. In Siskiyou County, a ong
and adjoining klamath River and IT'S rib
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condition to this expansion of our numbers.
When we hear the fruit-growers express a fear
that we are growing or about TO grow gre alter
quantity Of wholesome fruits, more nutritious
nuts and more human food generally than
there will ever be any market for let them pom
der the facts OF the census The future that
their children will see will make greater de-
mands upon the resources of the horticulturist
Where there is now hundred pounds of fruit
grown a thousand Will be called for. 1t does
not take prophets vision to see the teeming
millions with which their grandchildren will
mingle, pressing eagerly on to occupy every
acre of ground in all this vast continent. All
The available land suitable for horticulture that
science OF man can bring under cultivation
will be needed.
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THE PRECIOUS METALS.

ROM January l. 1919,
to January /, 1892, the
product of California'S
gold mines added ST.
80. 900, OO0 to the bull
lion wealth of the
world. The silver pro-
duction up to date is es-
timated at S36,000.000.
Almost every county
in the State has pro-
duced more or less of
the precious metals,
though the greatest or
iginal producing dis
tricts. whether of quartz
or auriterOus gravel,
still rem ain the chief
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temperature, and of width varying from
80 to 80 miles. before reaching the barren
portions of the Sierra, gives an area so
extended that it may well be called an
empire.
A very large portion of the entire Coast
Range is admirably adapted to horticul-
ture. From the little plains. bordering, in
places, on the ocean, the hortculturist
has been gradually creeping up the foot
hills. until in many places the very sum-
mits have been reached, and all through
this area he has found excellent fruit
land. Indeed. it has been found here as
upon the valley side that the fruit grown
upon the foothills and mountain tops is
superior in flavor and often in size to that
grown in the valleys. Through all this
region the apple, the pear, the plum, the
prune, the cherry, the olive and the fig are
grown in great luxuriance. Excepting
upon the very SUBMITS. where the some
times semi-ocean winds in bloss0ming time
interfere. tho apricot. the nectarine and
the peach find a congenial home. while
the grape does almost equally we'll in all
parts OF the State.
Toward the south the orange, the lemon,
the lime and even the banana are success
fully grown, while the nut-bearing trees
thrive wherever they have been planted
throughout the entire extent. Ga the
coast the temperature is more equable
than in the interior valleys and during
the growing season the fruit is often
bathed in the ocean fog. Fruit grown
here differs in many respects from that
grown more inland and is often several
weeks later.
The coast.belt fruit area comprises the
! Coast Range, including the foothills on
| both slopes The northern part OF this
! has been but partially tested. The soil is
fertile and varied, requiring the exercise
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-28
IRRIGATION.

HERE is a touch OF ro-
nance a about the won-
derful effects of irriga-
ton In California that
i'm parts to the subject
peculiar fascination.
Indeed, a I'm o st too
much emphasis has
often been bestowed
on the desert made to
blossom like the rose''
by the application of
lnnumerable " silver
rivulets of the life
giving element"
Too much accentua-
ton can hardly be
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-28
FOR THE LABORER.

EFT NOT any laborer
elsewhere deceive him
self into the belief that
work ia easier to get in
California or easier to
do. Work is work any
where, and the EN-
'ployer usually gets the
worth of his money
wherever he may be.
But there are certain
conditions in California
which make work here
more desirable because
more healthful an d
hopeful
Chief among the con-
curse, be reck0ned the
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HORTICULTURAL WEALTH.

OR THE general read
er some facts upon the
peculiar desirability of
California as a fruit.
growing country have
been gathered from the
State Board of Horti-
culture.
According to Secre-
tary LeloDg, Califor-
MAS first great advan-
tage. comes from its
geographical position.
An Ocean-bOund length
of nearly 500 miles, other
conditions being such
that there is but little
p.orlyaA iiGoro,oa -,
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bat nothing we'll. Her pr yes are not for
the thriftless, the happy-go-lucky, the
good-natured good-for-nothing, who is
shipped West by his despairing relatives
as a last resource. All such may starve
as well in California as elsewhere; they
will certainly not meet with any more
favor here than elsewhere.
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FOR SMALL INVESTORS.

HE ASPECTS of Cali
fornia which particu-
larry interest prospec-
tive settlers with small
capital are industrial.
For agriculture and its
kindred specialties, for
com mercial enterprises
of all kinds California
seems peculiarly en-
dowed. The small CAPT.
talist will always be
welcomed in this State /;
he is the man wanted,
and some of the best
gifts of the State are
ready to be laid at his
feet.
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Balance in favor of California, s526 so.

Balance IN favor Of California, S526 so.
Suppose the net profit was The same, you
have the advantage of a superb climate with
neither biZZaIdS. snow nor ice; over $50 clear
days in which labor can be performed; less
acres 10 cultivate, and more leisure days and
nights in which 10 enjoy the society OF your
family and neighbors. The eight acres of al
falfa can support the stock IN pasture and with
hay.
On the California farm there were half the
cows to feed, half the horses to work. half the
hogs to care for. hall the crop 10 cultivate. half
as much work TO cut the three crops of alfalfa
as TO harvest the oats and hay in Iowa, and
about half the running expenses. There are
no costly houses to build, ana no expensive
barns for stock owing 10 the clemency OF the
weather.
] leave you 10 figure on the value OF 40 acres
in California, which produce $500 90 more
than 100 acres in Iowa, with the other advan-
tages added.
Businesses ,of all kinds flourish in Cali
fornia. The increasing Importance of
horticulture and vinicuture have made
commission men more and more needed to
handle the enhanced products. Wine
manufacturers. Gamers, bottlers. labelers,
cold-storage concerns. boxers, packers.
land agents, contractors, tree-seiiers,
windmill agents, lumber merchants and
hundreds of others are the natural off
shoots of California's great characteristic
industries. The ordinary supply trades
can always find good openings. and East
ern methods might probably seize 0pportu-
mites unnoted here.
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= The I0ufth yen a VlneyaTd OF IabIe Grapes
= should yield from TWO to four tons. worth from
$50 10 $40 per ton.
Orange or lemon orchard-The cost OF
lemon or orange orchard depends upon what is
paid for the land. Estimating the first cost OF
the laud at 5000 per acre. the cost of ten acre
bearing orchard can be given as follows:
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ditions must. of course, be reckoned the
undeveloped state of the country. Ar.
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=: Pears and peaches should, with favorable
:eOnditiOns, produce enough 10 pay expenses the
: fourth year. Peaches often produce 500 TO
!: 81 5o~ an acre the fourth year. Prunes and
spears Will not be in as good bearing condition
before the sixth year peaches are in the
fourth.
T. Vineyard Of table Grapes-Mr. C. w. Reed,
one OF tie pioneers in fruit growing in the Stale,
,:-estimates tile cost OF a vineyard as follows:
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:. Masses OF statistics do not help the ln-
: tending settler. but few straightforward
tables on the result of experience in small
orchard and vineyard may strike both eye
and understanding. According to A. L.
Hatch, in recent report of Governor
.Markha ms, the cost of deciduous fruit
orchard not including landl is as follows:
=. Per acre
Frees, labor. stalking and planting S25 to $50
:Prfnins and cultivating. first year.. 10 TO 10
Pruning and cuitiyatlng, second year.
.. Iransplanting ............. 3 to 5
: Pfnnng and cuitivatng, third year. u to ID
Pruning and cultivating, fourth year. 10 to Is
" Total...................... .........S 65 to $50
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COST OF FARM AND STOCKING IT.

Tie California farm was planted-32 acres to
peach trees, acres sowed 10 alfalfa, and pea
nuts planned between the tees. The Iowa
farm had 40 acres pasturage, 40 corn 10 feed, 10
ensllage, 20 corn TO SELL 0 hay. 40 oats TO sell.
GROSS YIELD.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-04-03

throughout the state show republican
gains in many instances over McKinley's
last vote, notably IN smaller places. At
Columbus last April, the democratic
candidate was elected by 200.
IN OTHER STATES.
Returns from municipal elections
throughout Michigan show almost uni
versal republican successes. n
In Helena, Mont, republicans elect
their entire ticket with the exception of
city treasurer and two aldermen.
Des Moires' republicans elected the
entire city ticket.
A straight republican ticket was elected
in Yankton, N. D., and for the first
time in many years the same party
carried Wahpeton, N. D.
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Gov. Tillman Endorsed.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-Governor Till
mans view of South Carolina's difficult
les is undoubtedly reflected by Senator
John Irby, who, in 1890, was sent to the
senate from South Carolina to succeed
General Wade Hampton on the same
populstic tidal wave that carried Mr..
Tillman into the gubernatorial chair.
Discussing the situation. Senator Irby
gave expression to his opinions as fol-
lows:
"The public do not understand the
true reason of all this trouble in South
Carolina. 1t is a mere pretense and
fraud on the part of certain citizens in
Darlington that it is an honest revolt
against their private rights and homes.
The dispensary law of the state forbids
the sale of liquor other than is author
lied by it, and persons have no right to
prostitute their homes bv making bar
rooms out of them and then crying out
against what they term an invasion of
their private rights;
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Pacific RAILROAD B,lls.

WASHINGTON, April 2.-Three bills are
now being considered looking to the col
lection of $10O,OoO,OOo indebtedness of
the Central and Union Pacific railroad
companies to the government. Two of
them are now before the house COM
mittee on Pacific railways. One was in
troduced by Geary, another by Brown
and third by Boatner. The Geary bill
provides for the foreclosure of the gov
ernment's mortgage on the two roads,
and the appointment of a committee on
the part of the government to manage
the roads, and Geary says his desire is to
make the men who have grown rich out
of the railroads pay the government
what they honestly owe. From what
can be learned the Brown bill is not
likely to be agreed upon, but after it and
Geary's bill have been thoroughly dis
cussed new measure will be reported,
embodying the features of one or the
other. The Boatner bill also provides
for judicial procedure to compel the COM
panies to make restitution to the gov
ernment.
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List of Patents.

Granted to Oregon and Washington
inventors this week, reported by G. A.
Snow & Co., solicitors of American and
foreign patents, opp. U. S. patent Office,
Washington, D. G.
d. K. Bill, Hillsboro, Oregon, horse
collar and hame; G. B. Pulley, Cleone,
Oregon, stump extractor; G. B. Rostel,
Jacksonville, Oregon, truss.
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Heartless scoundrel.

PATERSON, N. j., April 2-John Mar
tin, well to-do contractor, betrayed
Annie Van Dorm, of Passaic, and
promised marriage. After child was
born, Martins cousin, John Duncan, of
Brooklyn, offered to marry the girl un-
der an assumed name. The g.rl was
drugged, taken to a minister and the
program me carried out. Martin lived
with Annie several months, quarreled,
and then told her the truth and deserted
her. Martin has been arrested for con-
spiracy, and released on 81 900 bail.