The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-23
OUR EXCHANGES.

Commenting upon the visit to that town
of some Chicago capitalists interested in
the railroad project from MERGED to San
Francisco, via Newman and Corral Hol-
low, the Newman Tribune says it was sug-
gested to the visitors that the road should
be built via Mount Hamilton to San Jose,
and the Tribune indorses the suggestion
by adding: This route would be the more
profitable to the railroad as we'll as prov
ing greater benefit to the West Side
The road could be built through the noun
tains, via the Orestim ba Creek, where
there is but little grade, and connect with
San Jose. Should the road take this
route it would open up fertile country
that heretofore has had no communication
with the outside world. We refer TO the
San Antoine and several other valleys in
the Coast Range Mountains.
This suggestion is undoubtedly good
one, as all who are familiar with the coun-
try can agree. There are no difficulties
along the route that could not be economi-
cally overcome by modern engineering,
and the advantages to be derived from it
would increase every year with the in
ereasing development of the country.
The Hanford Democrat is one of the
earnest papers of the interior making q
vigorous fight for the employment of
white labor to the exclusion of Chinese
and Japanese; and its best efforts seem to
be needed in the fight, for it says: "Sev-
eral of the vineyards hereabouts have con-
tracted with japanese to pick their grapes,
the contract price being lilo cents per
Of II in
our vineyards to-day, gathering grapes at
2 cents per tray, and apparently well salts
fed with their earnings. There are enough
white people here wanting work to pick
every grape grown in Kings County, and
as they are willing to work, and are work
ing for less wages than the Japs, they
should be given the preference"
White labor working for less wages than
japanese puts a new phase on the labor
problem, but it only emphasizes the re-
sponsibility of every employer to the
working people of his community. If we
expect to build up an American State we
must lay the foundations firmly on the
basis of American labor and American
wages in every county and in every In
dustry.
According to the Arroyo Grande Herald,
there has been lively fishing IN that section
of late, and even the farmers for a time
snapped the plowline for the fshIine.
The Herald says there came into the bay
at Pismo first, school of sardines and
then followed in close pursuit skipjacks,
yelIow-tails and barracuda. The big fish
were after the little ones and the whole
bay around the wharf was one seething
wriggling and squirming mass of fish,
spray and dangling lines" The catch was
equal to the best fish story on record, and
it is said that at one time ton and half
of fish was lying on the wharf. at would
be impossible" adds the Herald, "to emu
merate the number of people who called to
show US big fish, ranging from fifteen to
twenty-five pounds apiece. These big fish
sold for only % to so cents apiece.
The advantage to fruit tree of living in
university town, where there is at all
times an atmosphere of high culture, is IL
lustrated in story told by the Berkeley
Gazette OF pear tree growing in garden
on University avenue in that city. Ac-
cording to the story the tree was planted
five years ago and came into bearing two
years ago. The first year it bore two crops,
the second one being about halfgrown at
about the time the first one was ripe. This
year it is astonishing the natives by start
ing in on the third crop, as there is now on
the tree ripe pears from the first crop, half
ripe pears from the second crop and bios
SONS for the third crop. This is good
record and justifes the belief that no mat
ter how long the star of empire may take
on its westward way the pear of empire
has already arrived.
Out of the deserts of Arizona there has
sprung up another industry that promises
to add to toe wealth of the Pacific Coast
and render useful many acres of land that
might otherwise long remain barren and
worthless. This is the cultivation of the
wild canaegre root and it's shipment to the
East for tanning purposes. The San Diego
San reports that it already amounts to a
considerable industry and says: "a steam
chopping machine was brought on which
local machinist altered so that instead of
mincing it shaves the root into thin slices.
These are then put into large cylinder
and pressed into bales for shipment. The
project is a success"
This, however, is not all. Out of the
success of the canaegre industry has come
project for establishing tannery some
where in Southern California. Thus one
enterprise leads to another and Pacific
Coast development goes on with con-
stantly increasing rate of progression.
The energy with which Humboldt
County has set about improving her con-
ditions and increasing the facilities for
developing her resources has aroused the
emulation of Del Norte, and in a recent
issue the Crescent City News gave Wig
orous and forcible expression to the new
spirit of enterprise that has been awakened
there. In an article nearly two columns
in length it sets forth the advantages and
resources of the county, points out what
Improvements are needed to render their
development sufficiently profitable to
attract settlers, and calls upon the pro-
pressive element of the people to unite in