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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-03-29
BTcYc1IsT ARRESTED.

Syracuse. N. Y, March 2S-John s.
Johnson, the blcyclist, was arrested
today on a warrant sworn out by a
firm Of bicycle manufacturers who
nave contract with Johnson for tho
coming season. johnson has decided
TO turn professional in order to race
with HolIben, in France, In alleged vic.
ianlon OF the existing contract. Bail
was fixed ait $1,000.
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NEW SLEEPING CAR COMPANY.

Kansas City. March GA local pa
per says: The Williams Palace sleep-
Ing Car Company has been organized
with a capital stock of 5000, 900. TO
manufacture new car unequaaled
In point Of comfort. convenience and
elegance BY any sleeping car now in
use. The new car Is the invention Of
local railroad man The leading
shareholders Of the company are east
ern capitalists. The main feature OF
the car Is the berth, which disappears
at the will OF the passengers into the
wall Of the car, and is confined In a
space Of l rs inches. Mattresses Of
air are to be used. and all bed cloth
ing can be put In the lockers UNDER
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MARINE INTELLIGpNcr

san francisco, March 2S.-Arrived-
Garcelon, from Clallam Bay.
Cleared-Wellington, for Nanaimo.
Departed-Bark James A. Borland.
for LabaSha.
Freights and charters-American
ship Sterling. lumber from Puget
Sound TO Philadelphia.
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SAN FRANCIScO RAc,rc

San Francisco, March 28.-,F!ve. fur.
iongs-Centurion, 1905 1-2.
Five and one-haf furlongs-Annie
Moore, 1:12.
Five and one-half furlongs, Charles
A., 11O IA.
one mile-Lucky Dog. 1a4
Mile and one-half steeplechase-Wnd
Oats, 1925 IA.
Five furlongs-Mainstay 1903 IA
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PROHIBITION RAILROADS.

Fort Howard, wis. March 2s.-.The
st. Paul Railroad Company has sum-
marily dismissed eleven engineers and
tnlrty hremen from It's division run
ming into this city because the men
frequent saloons when OF duty. This
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is in accordance with a recent deter
mination Of the company TO diacoun,
tenance the practice.
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Washington, March 2s.-President
Cleveland signed the proclamation Of
the new japanese treaty March n. and
tne fact was made public as the state
department today.
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meath the sealts of each section. The
berths will be made of steel and alu-
mimi.
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THOMAS MOKKO,

The Blacksmith whose shop is oppos
ite Cutting cannery, is now prepared
to do such odd jobs as making new
cannery coolers, repairing old ones,
making new fshin boat irons, and re.
pairing old ones. and all ether black
smithing that requires first-class work.
nlanship.
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they Lack Lille
Violin

Lessons given by Mr.. Emil Thielhorn,
graduate Of the Hamburg Con-ervatory,
Germany; also a member of the Chicago
Musical Society. Studio, corner Of 18th
and Commercial streets, up stairs.
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nayhap

Your mind is on repairing your house
this spring; possibly on building new
one. If so. remember we are carpen-
tiers and builders with a shop full Of
tools always willing to do such jobs
and want your work.
MILLER & vOSNEY.
Shop on Ilwaco Dock.
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that the 25-acre tract, bought for $500, is
now worth $1,000 per acre.
| Mr.. Brewington is such an enthusiast
over Paiaro Valley, which has given him
such lovely home, that he will submit his
books to the inspection of any one really
interested in cultivating the soil and max
ing home in the valley. There is still
land here and there in the valley and foot
hills ranging in price from $40 to $500 per
acre.
| The CALL correspondent was shown
quarter acre planted in blackberries just
off the garden reservation of an 1S-acre
ranch near Jacksonville, on the Aptos
road, which had realized $175 last year.
Many of the small holdings which are be-
ing developed by the comparatively poor
men who have bought them and are paying
for them by yearly installments have good
crops of blackberries, sugar beets or beans
growing between the trees, the profit of
which will pay for the land and little
more. An acre or two set apart for garden
and chicken-raising and another half acre
or piggery will provide for the family.
Cows can be had from $40 to $685. and
horses, since the bicycle craze is so ram
pant, can be bought from $45 to $75.
These small ranches in Pa aro Valley are
self-sustaining from the first-that is, for
an industrious family who will all put
shoulder to the wheel and work while the
home is being paid for. Work is not so
irksome in this pleasant. invigorating eli
mate, where the plain little board houses
can be covered in such very short time
with vines and rarest roses, which in this
land of flowers can be had from the older
residents for the asking. Ornamental
trees and shrubbery are very cheap at the
nurseries found in every locality. Mr..
Waters, the nurseryman of jacksonville,
has an exceptionally large variety of hor-
ticultural, viticultural and ornamental
stock.
Shrubs and ornamental trees attain a
wonderful growth in the rich soil and
humid atmosphere of this valley, where
the winter temperature is never below As
deg. and summer never above so deg.
Beans and cabbage are very successfully
grown here; of cabbage, 1000 heads per
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he Is going to receive for the product oil
his land before the crop is planted.
The company this year has contracted
for but 1000 acres of beets as against II .OoC
acres last year. The cut is because of the
sugar bounty being removed by the
Wilson bill. The woodchoppers of the
mountains will feel the effects as well, fol-
the sugar factory win not consume the
usual 10000 cords of wood for fuel. The
limerick quarry men around Santa Cruz
will feel the cut also, as the company will
not require the 5000 tons of lime rock
usually consumed in the process of sugar
making.
During the sugar-making season 800 men
are employed. The sums of money
turned into the avenues of trade in Wat
sonville and vicinity by the establish
ing OF this gigantic enterprise are enorm.
Gus.
The same company constructed a mar.
row-gauge road from jacksonville to Moss
Landing, SIX miles away, where the coast
line OF steamers touch, thence to Salinas,
distance of % miles. This road is pay
ing dividends. w. c. Waters is the ca.
pable manager of the ombined enter.
prlses. This competing road has brought
about low freight rates. The Southern
Pacific Company has reduced rates to
terminal and Eastern points about one
half.
The refuse from the beet-sugar factory is
being utilized for the fattening Of cattle,
who like the sweet, nutritious food. A
company of which Mr.. Spreckels is the
head has the Cooper ranch, known as
Moro Colo, leased, where thousands of cat.
tie are prepared for market by feeding il,
the immense silo there constructed. The
summer home and MAGNIFICENT deer mark
OF Mr.. Spreckels is near by, at Aptos-bv.
the-sea.
AT Corralitos, village of the valley six
miles from Watsonville, is found quite q
large diaper mill, owned by Peter c. AND
James Brown. They manufacture straw
wrapping, straw board and binders board
| all of which is sun-dried. The daily out
put of the Corralitos Paper-mill, which
employs fifteen men, is about five and 3
half tons.
With such rich tributary land in small
| holdings and the large enterprises men
toned, how could jacksonville, 1O1 miles
from San Francisco, with competitive
transportation, avoid being the most
! thriving town of 5000 inhabitants in the
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! acre. Vegetables of all kinds come to won
derful perfection, yielding continuous
crop when properly changed and planted.
Hops are really a speciality and are quite
extensively cultivated in this vicinity,
notably by the Rodgers family who have
line ranches and beautiful homes in the
suburbs OF jacksonville. The price of hops
| Huctuates, being SO dependent on failnre of
crops in other parts of this country and in
England that only those with money can
afford 70 take the chances. The gain at
times is phenomenal.
Prunes and cherries grown on the rolling
land are very fine, turning out wonderfully
In the drying. Fruit grown on the foot
hills does not lose weight, shrivel and
shrink like that of the lowland.
Clearing is going on far up on the very
mountain sides. Plowed tracts planted in
prunes, olives and grapes are seen quite on
the perpendicular, where, of course, land
is cheap. The possibilities of viticulture
have hardly begun to be appreciated, but
foreigners are coming in who will show
that the very mountains are susceptible of
grape culture, and everybody knows that
olives will grow on very high and even
stony ground.
j. Rossi has the most extensive vineyard
in the Pajaro country. The best of dry
wine grapes are producing in fine quality
and large quantities where few years ago
was live oak and chaparral thicket.
The fine cherry orchard of w. II. Bow
man in this same Corralitos district has
some of the largest trees in the State. Mr..
Bowman has large acreage in other vari-
ties of fruit, and extensive drying con-
veniences.
Poultry-raising is a very profitable in.
| dustry in this valley. The Hotel del
Monte. Monterey, Pacific Grove, Aptos.
Capitola and Santa Cruz-all popular re-
sorts open all the year-are within forty-
| mile radius on the bay of Monterey, and
cause the demand for chickens and eggs to
far exceed the supply.
Then over $1,000, 600. it is said, goes out
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partly in Santa Cruz, extends from Monterey
Bay and Aptos foothills to the Santa Cruz
range with its redwood canyons on the east.
Dark Iona Prieta stands, as if keeping
guard, at the north, and the Gabilan range
sweeps around to the southwark Near
the foothills to the south there is a chain
of lovely lakes, which are used by the
pleasure-loving for boating and fishing,
and by the practical for irrigating the large
strawberry fields found in the vicinity,
which require an excess of moisture. The
old Spanish grants have been subdivided
into small holdings, which are under
most complete and thorough state of Guilt
walton.
Twenty acres in Pajaro Valley, well
planted and carefully titled, is enough to
make happy home and independent liv-
ing for family.
Eastern and Middle States people, who
have associated large fenceless tracts of
land and the gang-plow with California
ranch life. should visit the many valleys
and their branches which are tucked away
in this great State by the Western Sea and
view the result of fertile soil and blessed
climate. Nine months in the year straw
berries are shipped from this point. Many
of George II. Brewington and the Lake
farm of Ira L. Thurber and Daniel Buck
ley, produce three tons per acre during the
season. In the heart of the valley, i'm
mediately adjacent to jacksonville, rows
of berries have been planted between
young fruit trees, which have been known
to yield from two to TWO and half tons
per acre. Two and three crops of anything
that will mature in the line of vegetation
can be grown here during the year-here,
where the water supply is inexhaustible
and the climate very equable.
The soil is rich alluvial and very porous.
retaining the moisture from heavy winter
rain fall, and absorbing from the little
branches and the larger streams, the
Corralitos and Pajaro rivers, which flow
through the valley to the sea.
jacksonville, the geographical and COM
mercial center of the valley, a thriving
town of about 5000 inhabitants, is located
at the junction of the Pajaro and Corralitos
rivers, about five miles from a good sea
beach-Camp Goodall-where surf-bathing
and clam bakes are pleasant possibility.
AS it is not all of life to win dollars from
the cultivation of the soil, this healthy
resort is appreciated.
Where mother earth is so bountiful it is
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the largest general merchandise firm in
the county.
The Peoples Furniture-store is mod
ern establishment, with a carefully Sc
lected stock.
| Madden & Sheehy carry a good
stock of fancy and staple dry goods,
A. l.. Bixby. w. A. Spreckens, P. J.
Friermuth, Martin the jeweler, Burbeck
d Co., books and stationery, Baxter, the
hardware man, and many other equally
enterprising and "up-to-date'' business
men, keep things humming in Watson
lille.
The hotels are specially good and well
patronized; the Mansion and Lewis lead.
Among those who are ever ready for any
| movement along the line of progress are
Charles Polk, j. S. Menasco, DR.. Waters,
]. J. Morey, George w. Hurst, A. w. Cox,
r. P. Quinn, Robert Eaton, John T. Porter,
James Waters, J. A. Llnscott, F. A. Kill
burn and DR.. Bixby.
The Pajaronian, under the business
management of G. G. Radcliffe and edited
by W. R. Radcliffe, is one of the most pro-
gressive and practical papers in the State.
The Rustler, edited by Joe Hetherington,
is appropriately named. 1t came iuto the
the quarterstretch and is under the wire on
good time. The little daily Transcript,
run by the brothers Peckham, works hard
and faithfully for the community and will,
no doubt, win reward.
The leading fraternal societies are very
strong here. The Odd Fellows have fine
building of their own.
All the different religious denominations
are represented and have good men in
their pulpits and good church property.
The ladies of the w. G. T. U. are trying
very hard to build up good public library
and reading-room. They have been given
the use of the Odd Fellows well-selected
library and by Titles they will see the
fruition of their very laudable hopes.
There is a strong bicycle club here of 100
members. They have private athletic,
reading and club room for their social use.
A. w. Cox is president; J. Lee Burbeck,
L. d. Mclean, A. M. Cupid, E. L. Clark,
G. D. Stresser and Ed Henry, directors.
One of the leading small enterprises is
the cider and soda works of S. Martinelli
located here. The pure apple juice void
of injurious chemicals is put on the market
by Mr.. Martinelli, who is gaining a wide
reputation.
Many modern houses are seen in this
busy town. The new high school build
ing, which has been erected at a cost of
about $50, 900, is one of the handsomest in
the State. And the schools here are well
conducted under L. w. Cushman, the
principal, who is graduate of Harvard.
DIN n. Marsh, a graduate of Stanford, is
making success of the history and Ian
RI
Berkeley graduate, who is at the head of
the mathematics, is a valued teacher. G.
E. Morrill, has charge of the excellent COM
mercial department, which is so large as to
require separate building at present. He
uses the Ellis patent cabinets, and the
work is all thoroughly practical. The
corps of grammar teachers are practical
and progressive.
On this round globe can we find rarer
spot than this valley of Pajaro?
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does not thrive in the extremely cool
nights which are the rule here, because of
the nearness of the ocean.
The best Eastern markets admit that
apples of the finest and best keeping quail
ity in the world are shipped from this
little valley adjacent to the bay of Monte
rey. The choice yellow bellefeurs, New
ton pippins, white and red pearmains,
Romantics and Smiths cider, which go per-
fectly packed in 50-pound boxes to the East
ern markets, have redeemed California S
reputation in the East. "California can
not produce as good apples as the East, !"
will never be heard after the $1,000 apple
trees which have been planted in the val
leys and canyons tributary to jacksonville
have come into bearing. The wonderful
quality of the apple product and the large
profit per acre yield has brought about ex-
tensive planting of apple trees which, when
in full bearing will produce 2,000,0 boxes
annually, or 1000 carloads.
Eastern commission-houses send repre-
sentatives to this valley during the season
to buy the fruit on the trees and ship on
their own account. Several large firms
are located here and have developed extern
sive markets in the East and in Europe,
and are engaged in shipping. They buy
the orchards when in the blossom stage,
contracting to take all apples, large or
small, grown in the orchard, to prop trees
if necessary and to pick them, the owner
having absolutely nothing to do but keep
the trees healthy and cultivate the soil.
Scurich Bros, NJ. Rabasa, M. N. Lettu-
rich & Co., n. Baza, A. N. Condit & Co.,
Prettyman & Wolf, NJ. L. Woody and the
Gravosa Fruit Company are among the
heavy shippers from this point.
In the Corralitos district, about six miles
back in the valley, the fruit-growers have
a large cooperative fruit-packing ware
house, where their fruit is pooled, so to
speak, and carefully and uniformly select
ed and packed.
Such organized effort secures and COM
mands better markets, and the selecting of
fruit will bring up the reputation of the
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THREE CROPS A YEAR.
The Climate Is Equable and
the Water Supply In
eXhauStibIe.
WATsONvILLE IT'S CENTER.
Strawberries Shipped Nine Months
OF the Year-The Home Of
the Apple.

WATSONVILLE, CAL. May 27.-Down
through the beautiful valley of fruit
Santa Clara-turning at Gilroy into a
picturesque pass, along a winding river,
the traveller comes into the comparatively
small valley of Paiaro, which is one of the
wonders of the world, because of its ex-
IRENE and uneQualed fertility. Without
fear of successful contradiction, it can be
affirmed that the yield per acre is greater
in Pajaro Valley than in any other locality
of this State or land.
Paiaro stretches out on either side of the
Paiaro River. which separates Monterey
from Santa Cruz County. This $4,000 acres
of foothil and valley land of unexcelled
fertility, which lies partly in Monterey and
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for berries at an average cost of $25 per
acre. After preparation the expense of
plants is considerable, at it requires $4,000
at cost of 81 90 per thousand. Mr.. Brew
lngton also planted Newton pippin and
bellef1eur apple trees on the same tract.
The returns from the berries in the years
paid for the land, as well as all expenses
for both the ranch and family. After the
trees came into bearing berry culture was
discontinued and the strength of the soil
given up entirely to the trees. The net
proceeds from the trees has so increased
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OF the State annually for poultry. Why
should this be when there is land and to
spare immediately tributary to San Fran
cisco, while young men walk the streets
Idle, and the highways are dotted with
idle men with their blankets strapped
across their backs? ana
1t is also asserted with authority that
California does not produce more than one
half the pork consumed within its borders.
Why is it that The young men, middle
aged men and even old men who are barely
existing in the populous centers Of the
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years of '94 and '95 were fruitful years in
deed, Mr.. Spreckels having contracted for
II, 600 acres of beets, which yielded las, 532
tons of sugar. Mr.. Spreckels sends ex-
perlenctd men out through Paiaro and
the neighboring valleys of San Juan and
Salinas to contract with the farmer to pay
SO much for the beet product of his land
for that season, the sugar company fur
nishing the seed and paying uniform
price, 81 per ton, for beets showing IA per
cent sugar and so cents additional per ton
for beets grown on rich soil showing higher
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conversant with the daily shipments from
jacksonville and Paiaro station, just across
the river. At the present time three car
loads per day of Strawberries alone are
being shipped.
The profits derived from the culture of
small fruits when prices are even fair are
very large. George H. Brewington, the
pioneer strawberry grower of the valley,
says the average yield of strawberries is
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country or on the closely cultivated, worm
out hills of New England and the wind
swept prairies of the West do not band to-
gether and colonize the valleys and foot
hills OF this State, where they can raise
pigs, chickens and various crops between
the trees, and be self-sustaining while Or
chards are maturing?
The most important industry of Pajaro
Valley is the Western Beet-Sugar Factory,
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percentage. Some beets bring IS and Sc
per ton from being planted on rich soil
and carefully cultivated. The blowing
under of fresh beet tops, which the farmer
often sells, is recommended as an excel
lent fertilizer, and one that will highly
pay.
Beet sugar raising is very satisfactory
here, where the result is from Is to 80 tons
per acre, and the farmer knows just what
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locality where it is grown. AS California
is undoubtedly going to produce all the
fruit for the United States in time, it is
gratifying to see union of effort.
San Francisco is the distributing point
for the strawberry, raspberry and black
berry output of this valley. During the
season, which continues from April to De-
cember, about 1000 carloads are shipped.
These are the figures OF persons perfectly
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PECK BLOCK, wATsoNvILLE.

of which Claus Spreckels is the founder
and chief stakeholder. This large milling
plant was built at jacksonville in 1888. 1t
has been enlarged since, and to-day it is
the best and most modern-equipped beet
sugar factory in the country. One thou
sand tons is spall day S run in this plant
Mr.. Spreckels, lhe experienced and sue
cessfui sugar-grower and manufacturer,
recognized the value of such location, in
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about sixty chests to the acre. each chest
weighing on an average eighty pounds.
The average cost of production is So per
chest. Prices per chest have varied from
$3 to 50 during the past few years.
Mr.. Brewington bought twenty-five acres
eight years ago, for which he paid s1o0 per
acre. This land was graded and prepared
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hard to particularize, but it is safe to
mention apples as the speciality in the fruit
line. Aside from the soil being adapted
to apple culture, the cool, even climate
prevents the apples whitening, as the
products of warmer localities almost in
variably do. The Goblin moth does not
mar the apples of Pajaro, as this little pest
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Slater It has good business blocks; two
strong banks, one building and loan, with
modern safety deposit arrangement at
tached.
lhe Charles Ford Mercantile Company
winch was organized by the late Mr.. Ford
rather on the cooperative plan, by admit
ting trusted employees to partnership, is
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ooo gallons; the large boiler-house and
storage-rooms, offices and spur railroad
tracks are on large tract of land near
the jacksonville depot.
At this season the factory is closed
down. About forty men are at work
cleaning the machinery and getting every
thing in shape for the annual run. The