The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-11
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Ben C. Maddox editor of the Visalia Delta,
who is IN town with the committee TO confer
with the directors of the new, road was telling
yesterday at the Lick of the county seat Jug
Cling done by the Southern Pacific in some OF
the southern counties in the past "Visaha beat
them," he said, Gin the county-seat war in
Tulare County, and they have never been
friendly to the town since. They located the
town of Tulare City, eleven miles from Visalia,
made it the end of division, built machine
shops, and built up quite a little town, and at
tempted to get the county seat moved from
Visalia there, but in spite of all the work
they did to influence the electors were
beaten. They pursued similar tactics in
Stanislsus, MERGED and Fresno and were
successful. Knights Ferry was the county
seat OF Stanislaus, but they had it moved to
Modesto, and Knights Ferry has gone down
very much. In MERGED County Snellings was
the county seat and quite a fourishing town,
but they had the seat of the county govern
ment moved to MERGED, and Snellings is now
merely little village. In Fresno the county
seat was at Millerton. They had it moved to
Fresno, and to-day Millerton has not even a
postofice.
"When they found that they could not get a
local branch built into Visalia by the Southern
Pacific the people raised enough local capital
to build two branch roads, one to Goschen,
miles, and to-day Visalia is the largest and
most prosperous town in the valley excepting
Stockton and Fresno. Our streets are paved
with asphalt and lighted by electricity, and we
have an excellent water service. In fact, 1t Is
live modern town. 1t is the oldest in that
part of the State, having been founded in
1850, before there was any gold excitement in
that neighborhood
Attorney C. A. Faughinbaugh, representing
the Franklin Line and Oil Company of Mont
pelier, Ind, is at the Golden West Hotel. He
has come with view of establishing q depot
for the handling OF his company's oils in this
city.
eve have extensive oil wells near Mont
pelier," said he yesterday GAS you can i'm
agine, we are having hard fight with the
Standard Oil Company, which is doing its best
to freeze US out Of business by leasing all the
wells it can. The feeling against the Standard
is very bitter in Indiana, however, and we are
able to hold our own with the great monopoly
except in the matter of freight. We are now
establishing pipe lines, and can pump oil
distance of 1877 miles at an average cost of so
cents barrel We control large petroleum
field in Southeastern Kansas, and are arrang-
ing to put in $50 miles of pipes and pump our
oil right into Kansas City. 1t is only by pipe
lines that we can hope to compete with the
Standard Oil Company, for by its system Of re-
bates on freight it nearly always freezes out all
competitors. The Franklin Line and Oil Com
pany is a new concern with capital of
So 900 900. We now operate thirty-fve wells,
with an average flow of 270O gallons each a
day.
G. p. Carnen of the Green Mountain and
Cherokee mines at Crescent Mills, Plumas
County, who is staying at the Russ. says that
during the past winter there has been more
snow in that county than in any other winter
for over thirty years "Plumss suffered
severely on account of the closing down of the
hydraulic mines, but during the past year
good many permits have been granted
by the Debris Commission, and there
is promise of greater prosperity. Prospecting
for quartz has been more active the past year
and considerable Eastern capital has been in
vested. What is wanted is more capital to
develop the mines that have been discovered.
Plumas has produced in the past great deal
of gold, particularly from the hydraulic mines,
and then there is the Plumas Eureka, which
has been mined steadily for forty years, and
from which over twenty millions of dollars
have been taken. The English company that
owns 1t now has paid many millions In divi-
derk1s