The San Francisco call., 1895-12-30

The Chico Enterprise has been leased by
Watson Chalmers to G. E. Small, one Of
the brightest of Western editors.
The Mount Pleasant (Utahl Pyramid,
published by Williams g. Boyden, two
bright men from Plumas County, Cali
fornia, has entered upon its sixth year
with every indication of prosperity and
stability.
The Stockton Independent, discussing the
selection of stone for the new ferry build
ing at San Francisco, defends California
stone and shows that while some sand
stones may have failed to stand the test of
long exposure to our coast climate there
are other stones whose permanence has
been found unfailing. California gran
ite," it rightly says, twill certainly stand
for all time, or at least as long as the ferry
depot to be erected will be used. The mat
ter of cost seems to have turned the atten-
ton of the authorities from the possibility
of using granite in the ferry structure, but
it would be worth the time and cost to in
vestigate the matter before decision is
reached. Amador County granite is new
building material that should be examined
by the Harbor Commissioners. Beautiful
samples of the stone are to be seen in the
Stockton free library building and it is
safe TO say that no better or handsOmer
building material has been placed in any
building in this State. The columns orna-
menting the front of the Hazelton library
were Quarried near lone, in Amador
County, and were sent in huge blocks to
mills in Nevada, where machinery is To-
Gated, and came here in a finished state
That the stone is everlasting no one will
doubt; the beauty of it is not excelled any,
where. The only question then is as to
the cost of getting out the stone in shape
to use in the building. 1t cannot be said
that this state does not contain first-class
building-stone since the Carrara quarries
in Amador have been opened
The enormous industry which the build
ing of railroad produces is shown by the
Stockton Independent. In discussing the
Valley road it says that although since
July l a vast amount of material has been
handled in the yards, it is only begin
ming of what is to follow. 1t adds: sWhile
the yards have been in use there have been
discharged at the wharf forty-six barges of
wood material on which there were 223, 728
ties, 157 900 iineal feet of piles and 1855, ,139
feet of lumber and timbers. Counting the
ties and piles as board measure there were
7059, ,296 feet of ties and 1,6S5, 500 feet of
piles, making a total of II, ,100055 feet,
lumber measure landed at the yards. Out
of this there has been taken something
over 78, 900 ties and piling bridge timbers
by the train load, and it continues to come
and to go in like manner, though at pres
ent only the Diling and bridge timbers are
being sent forward. Besides the wood ma
terial landed at the wharf the company
has there received some hundreds of tons
of rails, about 100000 tieplates, angle bars
and tishpiates by the thousands, bolts and
spikes by the hundreds OF kegs, and hun
dreds of pieces of bridge iron. Though the
amount of lumber received thus far has
been enough to stock five or six common
sized lumber-yards, not more than one
third of the first order of ties has arrived,
and the orders for piles and bridge timber
which have been given out and not deliv-
cred are larger than those which have
been already landed"
The McMinnville Orr Transcript is
ndppy " dHuOuuCc tudI dlCuOuSu lG Is only
little over six months of age it has de-
veloped the strength of a giant from pop
ular recognition of the fact that it is a
virile agency OF progress.
The Saturday Beacon, published at Po-
mona, announces the beginning of it's
sixth volume. 1t justly points to its
growth and popularity as evidence of its
worth.
PERSONAL.
DR.. ". s. Taylor of LiYermore is at the Palace,