The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25

engage in Embarrassing. AS a matter of
fact there have been many failures, but the
proportion, as more and more is learned,
| is now reduced to minimum and failure
| is the outcome OF circumstances wholly
| apart from the vital considerations of soil,
climate and market. The tendency of
Embarrassing is to develop much greater
| thrift, care, attention. industry, study and
| intelligence than the Eastern farmer
is likely to display on his Eastern farm.
Evidence OF this fact is manifest on
every hand. drive through an orchard
or vineyard district will discover condi-
ton OF things which makes an interesting
social study. Neat fences, tasteful and
well-kept houses, finely cultivated flower
gardens, handsome horses and buggies,
fruit trees trimmed with the care and pre-
cision of cypress-hedge, the land so fine,
clean, smooth and absolutely free from
weeds that it appears suitable for lawn
party. All these and many more evidences
OF intelligence and prosperity abound
here to degree unknown in the agricul-
tural districts of the Eastern States.
During the last sixty days l have sold
$4,000 worth of the lands at Chino, the
most wonderful industrial center of South
ern California. These sales have been
made largely to the farmers already here,
who have during the past five years been
leasing the lands they have now purchased.
This is a most encouraging feature, as
these farmers are the best able to Judge of
the value of the lands. The country sur
rounding is settling up very rapidly, and
numbers have built during the past six
weeks. I am selling off great deal of
this land in small pieces, and therefore the
people now building or moving on the
ranch are occupying their own lands. and
will proceed at once to improve and
beautify their homes in way that would
never be done under a lease of the land.
Under this condition, and with the wonder
full sugar industry so firmly established.
we can readily expect Chino to forge ahead
in the prosperity already inaugurated, and
build up of itself and from itself COM
munity of wealth. My offices in Los An
geles are daily visited by Eastern people
who wish to inquire into and in many
cases invest their capital in this industry.
California proudly claims the possession
Of the first establishment in the country
where beet sugar was successfully made
augurated which is destined unquestion-
ably to become of the highest Importance.
The products of that and the other beet
sugar factories established as well as of
those certain to be in operation before
long, will, when appropriately marshaled,
form monument both to the enterprise
of those whose capital and energy have
caused that production and to the wise
provision of law by which it was made pos
sible. A visit to Chino would be an object
lesson to those who are ignorant or skepti-
cal as TO the vast and varied character of
the resources of the Pacific Coast, and
would be at the same time an irrefutable
demonstration of the falsity of the claim
that the United States cannot in
time produce every ton of the immense
amount of sugar consumed by her people,
and even enter the markets of the world as
an exporter. This is perhaps looking a
long way ahead. The task of merely sup
plying the home demand is one that will
require years in its completion, and which
will bring prosperity to thousands of farm
ers and others, as it has already to those
engaged in the industry on this coast.
Professor Henry of the Agricultural Col
lege Of Wisconsin,, after a personal visit
and thorough and extended examination
in the direction of the manufacture of beet
sugar in California, has declared that Cali
fornia can, without difficulty. and without
a perceptible diminution of activity in her
industries, supply the entire United States
with sugar from the beet root. In most
excellent article upon this subject, written
several years ago. Professor Hilgard of the
State University gave as one of the most
promising points in beet-sugar production
the fact that the saccharine perez ntage of
beets produced in this State was much
higher than the average in Europe.
While in the central portion of this coun-
try it varies at the best from II to Ia per
cent, in California the average is from 16
to II. 1t is of interest to note what Pro-
lessor Hilgard concluded as to the posi-
bilities of beet-sugar production in this
State: California alone could readily
supply the entire present and prospective
sugar consumption of the United States,
and still leave ample room for orchards
and vineyards and the production of the
home supply of breadstuffs. It is perhaps
not probable or deslrab BILE that this one
branch of production should be pushed to
this extent, but it would be strange, in
deed, it, with such extraord mary climate
advantages, it failed to attain a yery
prominent and lucrative position among
the agricultural industries of California
"For many years the factory at Alvarado
was the only one in the State and, indeed,
in the entire country In 1888, however,
an extensive beet-sugar plant was erected
at Watsonyille Santa CruZ Comfy and
has been invery successful operation since
that date. From the commencement the
greatest success has attended both the cul-
tivation Of the beets themselves and the
manufacture of the sugar. Besides obtain
ing large supplies of beets from farmers
the company operating the works have
several hundred acres under cultivation on
their own account.
"The stimulus given by the bounty
placed upon the sugar by the last Con.
gress caused the erection of large beet