The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-30
OUR EXCHANGES.

porary depression caused at Angels Camp
by the Utica mine disaster has passed away
and the outlook for the camp is now bright
and promising. The Echo says: 1.-THE COM
pany are at work again with a full force,
with strong probabilities of more extensive
operations and a larger payroll than ever
before. Many properties are being sold
and bonded to outside capitalists, and
among the number some are sure to be
Systematically and extensively developed.
The hope that has long been cherished of
an electric plant that shall supply chap
and abundant power for all our names is
about to be realized. Estimates and sur
veys have been made, and company with
ample capital and experience is complet-
ing the preliminary details of the great
enterprise. An era of progress and pros
perity seems assured"
1t is pleasant to note that it is not in the
mines only that the enterprise of the
people is showing itself, but that consid-
cradle improvement is under way in the
town. There is demand for better kept
streets and roads, and an evident intention
to make Angels attractive to visitors gen.
orally as well as to miners.
Some time ago we copied from the Ere
mont (Wash.) Pioneer the statement: 1.-THE
almost weekly chronicling of the death of
some Populist newspaper in the State is
the best evidence of the decay of Populism
in Washington"
Now comes the Vancouver (Wash.) Reg
lister and says: at would be difficult to
crowd more untruth in less space than the
above paragraph occupies, and as THE
CALL is an honorable, upright journal on
all occasions it will surely correct the
above glazing falsehood."
OF course, as we do not know the origi-
nal statement to be falsehood, we cannot
do more than give the Registers evidence
ON the other side. 1t declares: 1.-THE newly
established newspapers of that political
faith have in numbers more than kept
pace with those which have suspended"
This is as far as we can go in the contro-
versy and the settlement of it we must
leave to the State interested in it.
Healdsburg, according to the Enterprise.
is growing rapidly and steadily, for the
good and sufficient reason that it is backed
up by "a valley where oranges grow side
by side with peaches, plums and pears
olives hedge in fields of wheat, oats, rye
and barley; potatoes and the ramie plant
jostle each other; squashes hide in the
shelter of canopies of hops; apples and
figs, walnuts and prunes, ounces and the
pomegranate ripen in the same orchard;
corn grows among the wine-vines; cur
rants in the shadow of the mulberry !;
gooseberries hard by the persimmon; al
monds look on strawberries. and the black
berries climb over fences that bound beam
fields; roses and heliotrope, pansies and
yiolets, geraniums and the most delicate
of ferns thrive out of doors in every season."
With such resources the growth of the
town ought to have Chicago movement;
but we learn from the Enterprise that the
roads of the county are "about the poorest
in the West" 1t is hard to get the prod
ucts out and hard TO get settlers in. In
fact Healdsburg is a kind of Eden sepa-
rated from its neighbors by hard road to
travel.
Up to last year San Francisco was about
as large a market for fruit as the growers
around Porterville desired, but this year,
according to the Enterprise the output is
expected to reach fifty cars and the grow
ers are thinking of reaching GU for mar
kets in the East. The Enterprise declares
"Porterville is soon to be the most impor-
tant p ONT for citrus fruits in the State of
California; it will not be long before 600
cars of oranges and lemons will be shipped
from this vicinity" As a consequence of
these expected large shipments Porterville
desires to be on the line of the competing
road through the San joaquin, and there
can be li.tle doubt the development of that
section will in the near future necessitate
an amount of freight transportation that
will be of Importance to railroad men.
In description of the great irrigating
canal to be constructed from the Colorado
and ella rivers, and whose route Is now
being surveyed, the Arizona Sentinel of
Yuma says it will irrigate 175, 900 acres in
Arizona, 1000, 900 in Mexico and at Steven
sons Island large canal can also be taken
out on the California side which will irri-
gate an immense tract of land in the
Golden State. If the scheme is carried
out Yuma will thus be made the center of
one of the largest irrigation districts in the
world and great prosperity would be hers.
In the meantime, however, Judge Ross
decision put a cloud on the horizon.
The Bodie Miner has changed hands
three times within the last ten months,
changing policies every time it changed
owners. During this time it has been Re-
publican, Democratic and independent.
1t is now owned by the Miner Publishing
Company and edited by K. L. McCarty,
and we trust will be sufficiently indie
pendent to save itself from future sale and
the possibility of having to change its
politics once more and set up for Pop
ulism.
We had good many fiestas and fes-
rivals this year, but next year they will be
everywhere in the State and brighten with
new joy nearly every week of the fruit
and flower season. Among the towns
likely to hold celebrations of this kind is
Napa. and the Register advocates the
establishment of an annual CHERRY Fes-
tivar' In that county in June. We of
course will be invited to the frolic, for the
Register in urging the subject says to it's
readers: "Let US begin to move in the
matter OF grand demonstration of some
sort. Whatever is done along that line
will have the cooperation of the Half
million Club in San Francisco"