The San Francisco call., 1895-11-18
COAST EXCHANGES.

The great value of a sugar beet factory
to a community and the State is graphi-
cally set forth by G. B. Collender in COM
munication to the San Luis Obispo Tribune.
Deep interest mas been created in that
county by proposition from some capi-
talists that they will establish sugar fac
tory there if the people will give them a
bonus OF 1000 acres of land and contracts
with farmers to cultivate from 5000 to 1000
acres in beets, the capitalists agreeing to
pay 81 a ton for beets running IA per cent
of sugar and 25 cents ton additional for
each per cent above IA and 25 cents less
for each per cent below IA. It is the hes
itation of the people to agree to these
terms that causes Mr.. Collender to write.
He says that the 4000-acre bonus is really
trifing taking the benefits into account
"For instance" he says, 'from Pismo
and the Oak Park country to Santa Maria
there is at least 40, 900 acres that will grow
sugar beets. Hence only one-tenth is re-
quired as subsidy, and any one owning
land in the above section, Pismo to Santa
Maria, can well afford to double this subsidy
rather than lose the enterprise. A sugar
beet plant of the capacity of that at Chino
will cost $500 900 and will work 800 to 1000
tons of beets per day. The pulp of these
beets will feed from 400O to 5000 head of
beef cattle. The factory requires thirty
tons of lime per'day and consumes about
200 barrels of crude oil as fuel each twenty
four hours. Its water requirements are
100000 gallons daily. About 200 hands
are employed at the mill. The products are
trainload of twelve cars of sugar shipped
out each day. Such plant located any,
where IN our county, with its varied train
of auxiliaries, would add probably So ,00O,-
600 in assessable property to the county
and would double or treble in value all
of this vastness should be encouraged and
eagerly pushed by every one and by the
county at large"
That the benefits of the beet-sugar indus.
try are fully appreciated IN Yolo County
was recently proved by an article in the
Woodland MoiI. There had been rumors
at Woodland that Claus Spreckels had an
idea of establishing sugar factory in that
vicinity. Mr.. Spreckels arrived, according
to the Mail, in company with Thomas Ma
gee. and to the Mail he said: 81 am un-
able to say anything further than that Mr..
Magee and l are here to look over the Fair
ranch. If the soil is what it is represented
to be / will buy it and establish a beet fac
tory--a permanent one, too" The Nail
says that he inspected the property, and
adds: "He was not very favorably i'm
pressed with the Fair ranch on account of
the excessive high water that floods that
district. He intends to further consider
the matter" It is hoped that conf
munity which is SO alert to the advantages
of such an enterprise will not be disap-
pointed and that it will do all in its power
to forward the matter.
In the following paragraph the Stockton
Independent calls attention to an interest
ing thing: California may have a hard
name for crime and criminals, but it is
well to remember that very few of the
criminals are Californians. Durrant is q
Canadian; Brady, the train robber, is an
Illinoisian, and his partner, Browning, was
a Missourian. Kovalev is Russian; st.
Clair and Hansen, who were recently
hanged, were both foreigners, as was also
Young, who suffered for the murder of his
benefactor. Chris Evans is a Canadian
and the Sontags were from Minnesota.
Fredericks, the all-around ruffian and mur-
derer, was German, and McNulty, who
killed fellow-stevedcre, was Nova Sco-
tian. These cases, cited from memory, 90
to show that California criminals are not
Californian"
The Santa Clara Journal insists that the
construction of the municipal works and
their turning over to the city should be
celebrated by public demonstration. It
calls attention to the fact that Los Gatos
celebrated the laying of third rail by
the Southern Pacific Company. Municipal
construction and ownership of water works
certainly constitute very important step
forward, and as the achievement repre-
sents a high order of intelligence and
public spirit on the part of the people, the
city should receive all possible benefits
which would flow from a generous adver-
tisement of the fact.
The Marysville Democrat, returning to
its attack upon THE CALL for warning the
people OF the Sacramento Valley against
the danger of taking the Southern Pacific
magnates into the proposed colonization
scheme, takes the broad ground that it
makes no difference whence the money
comes for forwarding the enterprise, and
that the main consideration is the bring
ing of settlers into the valley. It seems to
us that in view of the sufferings of Califor-
MIA farmers by reason of the excessive
transportation charges exacted by the
Southern Pacific, the main and first con-
sideration ought to be the building OF
competing railroads. Is it morally right
to invite settlers into region where ruin
ously unjust freight charges make farming
Improbable? Would it not be far wiser