The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-09

All iiohoS aio puSy, CraQe is pTiSh, eho III
tells are crowded and prosperity shines upon
every occupation. Our contemporary says:
New mines are being opened and old
ones more vigorously exploited with good
results. Our depot platform is crowded
with mining machinery and mining ap-
planes, and scarcely freight train ar
rives without new machinery for use in
our mines. Our vast stores of the precious
and almost all other kinds of ores and
metals are beginning to be understood and
appreciated by capitalists and investors
from all parts of the world. With water
power unlimited all around us, with for
ests OF choicest timber second to none,
with climate all that one could wish and
soil that produces all that the wants OF
man require, Shasta County, with its I'M
limited resources, is just beginning to be
understood and appreciated and is in the
dawn OF prosperity that us realized by
few OF her citizens"
The wonderful changes which rapidly
come over progressive community in
California are exemplifed in the case of
Alameda. The Argus, i'll celebrating It's
eighteenth birthday, not only draws atten-
ton to Its own history of prosperity and
power, but gives an idea of what Alameda
was eighteen years ago. at was town Of
one-fifth its present population. 1t was in
tensely rural. There were practically no
street Improvements. There was but one
railway line. There was but one sewer in
the whole city-through portion of Park
street. The trip to San Francisco con-
sumed an hour and ten minutes, the fare
being twenty cents. The business part of
Alameda lay between Railroad and Santa
Clara avenues. There were long stretches
of lonely road between Park street and the
West End
The Truckee Republican gives some in
teresting information concerning the ice
palace which the enterprising residents of
that city are building. 1t is going to be an
exceedingly handsome affair." and as few
Callfornlans have ever seen an ice palace
it will be strange and beautiful novelty
to them, particularly at night. when it will
be brilliantly Illuminated with electricity.
The people there have arranged with the
Southern Pacific Company for special low
rates SO that all the residents of our semi
tropical coast will need to spend but little
time and money to see this bewitching ex-
hibition of one of the climatic possibilities
OF the State.
The Redding Free Press announces that
there were recently sent down from the
United States fish hatchery at Baird 5000
salmon eggs, consigned to Ireland, %, 900
to Germany and 10000 to the industrial
exposition at Atlanta. During the sum-
mer's run 100000 salmon eggs have been
taken. The fall run furnished 100000
more. Mr.. Bass recently returned from
the California State hatchery on Battle
Creek, where he secured 5000, 900 salmon
eggs which he shipped to Oregon. The
value of this important industry is thus
further indicated by our contemporary
1--WE learn that the California State hatch
cry on Battle Creek made a phenomenal
catch of salmon eggs during this season.
They took over 10000, 600 eggs, and were
catching them at the rate of 200, 600 per
day when the storage capacity became
overcrowded and the work of taking the |
eggs was abandoned for this season. This |
hatchery will probably be transferred from
the California State Fish Commissioners |
to the United States Fish Commissioners |
before the opening OF next season. 8 run" |
r. r. Bunker, one of the best and oldest |
newspaper men on the coast, and father of |
w. M. Bunker of the San Francisco Report, |
has sold his interest IN the Martinez Ga |
sette to his partner, Wallace C. Brown. |
Mr. Bunker has earned the rest which he |
proposes TO take as he has been one OF the |
hardest working of the able editors con-
nected with the interior press, and has
NJ ha or !
in the State.
The Chino Valley Champion, in an able
article on the sugar-b beet industry, says |
truly that the production of beet-seed is
bound to become an important business
and offers special inducements to energy |
any capital. 1t then says: 1.-The endeavor
III the European seed farms is to produce
a mother beet containing Is per cent sugar
with yield that may be depended upon.
During the season just past the average of |
the entire Chino ranch was about 15, and the |
mothers filing the requirements for seed |
could easily be selected with sugar per-
centage of Is, with the conditions of good |
yield as WE'LL Our farmers are each year |
growing their crops from seed produced |
in country where beets have never been |
grown OF as high quality as they are
here in the open fields. 1t seems to |
us reasonable. that with these natural
conditions we should be able to grow beet |
seed of a much higher quality than that |
which we import and from it produce |
higher grade field beets. Regarding the
sufficiency of the market to warrant start
ing seed farm on large scale the grower
would depend upon his ability to produce
seed satisfactory TO the growers and manu-
facturers, and upon a reasonable growth
and expansion of the beet sugar industry
in this country"
The Independent Calistogian announces
its entry upon the nineteenth year of its
existence. Since its young editor, c. A.
Carroll, assumed charge last July the paper
has shown an accession of the energy and
public spirit which have made it prosper
Gus and influential during its long career
The Crescent City Record calls attention
to the necessity for better transportation
facilities to bring the products of that rich
section down to the seaboard, and indi-
Gates the profits which would accrue to the
builders of railroad. 1t calls attention to
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