The San Francisco call., 1895-05-19
OUR EXCHANGES.

0hihSs cAPicsseu py JneSe WOruS occupy
to-day almost wholly the attention and
the energies of the journals of California.
They employ the investigations of reporters
and engage the thoughts of editors.
Around them is woven all that is brightest
and all that is best; all that is most real
and all that Is most ideal in our State
Journalism. Records of acts or of aspira-
tlons In the direction of these things are
found In every newspaper of every section.
Pick up any California paper of recent
date and you will find either reports of
enterprises begun or editorials urging
them. The papers of the State are too
numerous for US to quote from all, and it
would be an exhausting task to attempt to
select the best. We can do no more therefore
in our review of exchanges this week than
to take up few at random, and by extracts
from them show examples of how earnest
and how active is the press of California in
promoting everything included in enter
prise, improvement and progress.
The Willows Journal declares the condi-
ton of that section to be most promising
and says: "We even see and feel the new
blood permeating the almost corpselike
body of the Sacramento Valley" AS evi-
dences of the changed order of things it
cites the facts that in the northern part of
Glenn County private enterprise has con-
structed an irrigation system which in a
few years will add millions to the wealth
of the county; the Central District Canal
Company, which two years ago was sup
posed to be dead, has this spring elected
new board of directors pledged to carry
out the enterprise, and finally number of
the large landowners have expressed
willingness to sell a portion of their lands
IN small lots on easy terms to actual
settlers. These things surely point to the
coming OF greater prosperity for the
county and the Journal is justified in say
ing to its readers: "Spend your time talk
ing up your lands, your town, your eli
mate, your resources, your people. Praise
the good of all these and forgive the bad
and Glenn County will prosper beyond
your widest Imagination"
According to the information of the Los
Angeles Herald, ga number of enterprising
and public-spirited gentlemen have under
consideration plans for carrying out the
project that will build railroad with Los
Angeles and Salt Lake as the terminal
points" This project has long been talked
of, but this year there may be something
more than talk. The enthusiasm for en-
terprise, which prevails all over the State,
is of course felt with more than ordinary
intensity in such center as Los Angeles,
and this will stimulate the project. 1t is
worth noting, also, that the work of San
Francisco is having its effect on the minds
of the Angelenos, and the Herald says:
"It is not much that is done in the Bay
City that we need emulate, but the ex-
ample set by its property-owners is one
that those of our city should immediately
observe and promptly follow. Which one
of the great earth-owners we have viii
start the tracklaying2"
A number of wide-awa axe, sagacious bust
ness men in Chico are talking of organiz-
ing Board of Trade to advance the inter-
ests of the county, and are having the in
huential support of the Chronicle Record,
which says: Reorganization is the secret of
a community's progress and the earlier
Chico's solid men form themselves into
Board of Trade or an improvement club,
as it might be termed, the earlier will
Chico begin to gain in standing among the
cities of the State" There can be no ones
tion of the truth of that statement. Chico
has abundant resources, but so long as
they are unknown to the world, they will
remain undeveloped. Cooperation and
judicious advertising are the first steps for
the public-spirited people of the place to
take in the path OF progress, and, indeed,
when they have been well taken much
progress will have been already accom-
plished.
Over in Redlands the opportunities for
the establishment of manufacturing in
dustries are good, and the CStroqraph is so
diligently and persistently making them
known to the world that it can hardly be
long before enterprising capitalists take
advantage OF some of them. The town has
excellent railroad facilities, being touched
by two overland lines; has chean electric
power and an abundance of raw material.
The Cttrograph points out that there is
produced in the county not only large
quantities of fruit capable of making the
finest jams and jellies, but also sugar for
preserving purposes. Moreover the county
contains an excellent clay for making
pressed brick or terra Gotta articles AS if
these were not enough, the CitrOgraph
urges that woolen-mill would also pay,
and finally recommends the construction
OF an electric line from Redlands to On
tario as profitable enterprise.
"A most excellent showing of what has
been done in Petaluma by local subscrip-
tlons to promote manufacturing establish
ments has been madein terse article by
correspondent of the Courier According
to this statement the people of Petaluma.
during the last twenty years, have sub
scribed upward of $4,000 to such enter
prises, and as result the industries of the
locality have been enriched by woolen-
mill, fiourmill, a cannery, pickle and
preserve factory and silk factory. The
writer closes by suggesting the construc-
ton OF a larger hotel than any now in the
city as the next step of local enterprise,
and judging from the record the town has
made for itself in the past it would seem
foregone conclusion that ift this undertaking
should please the public mind it would
very soon be carried to success.
In Antioch there is talk of generating
electricity by the power of the tides and