The San Francisco call., 1895-11-25

enormous QeDC teStlfleS." The chicago
exposures also are cited, and the Ledger
contends: 1.-The great increase of taxes in
Chicago proved to investors that some
thing was rotten, just as our own high
taxes have driven investors away from
Tacoma. The exposure of the corruption
and its cure reassured everybody, as it will
reassure everybody in our own case if
only the work is thorough. The ulcer can
not be removed without pain. Partial
removal will not work cure. The last
vestige of it must be exposed and re-
moved"
H. L. Herzinger, undismayed by the
fact that Ukiah already has two able
newspapers and that the rest of Mendocino
County has four, has started the Herald at
Ukiah. 1t is to be independent in poll
tics, and evidently the main fight of the
new paper is to work increasingly and in
tefligently for the advancement OF this
garden spot of the State.
The Chico Chronicle Record gives the
cheering news that natural gas has been
discovered on Mud Creek. eight miles from
Chico, by P. G. Richardson on his farm,
and that enough of the gas is now going to
waste to light the city of Chico. For
twenty-five years the presence OF this gas
has been known, but it was not until an
Eastern man who had formerly been IN
the oil business saw the place and tested
the gas that its great value was ascer-
tanned. An abundance OF oil also escapes
to the surface. Every discovery of this
kind only strengthens the conviction of
Lo+ Io,, har dlu q
aware OF the incredible wealth lying I'M
developed in California.
The Capay Valley Neps has undergone
change OF name and ownership. Here
after it is to be known as the California
Populist, weekly, and f. f. Caine is the
editor.
The Fresno Republican, commenting on
the wisdom of THE CALL in Its appeal to
fruit-growers to cooperate and supply
Eastern merchants directly with their
products, calls attention to deplora Bile
obstacle in the way of some growers. 1t
says: probably THE CALL is sound in its
opinion that the farmers have the lntelH-
gence necessary to such cooperation, but
were it published nearer the interior
than it is it would realize that as far as
many OF the farmers of to-day are con-
cerned there is something more than the
question of intelligence involved. No
amount of good sense will help large
proportion Of the growers unless some
other source of financial aid than the ad-
vances made by dealers is provided They
might like to co-operate, but, on the con-
trary, they must have cash. The best that
such man can do is to enter his dying
protest against the system that has helped
to impoverish him, refuse to have more to
do with it and financially die at once in
stead Of prolonging his suffering, only to
attain the same end-this in the eve mt that
financial times do not Immediately i'm
prove. But as to the growers who are not
thus reduced to the last extremity the duty
of cooperation is clear" Are not the in
telIlgence and public spirit of California's
leading men sufficient to assist the unfor-
tunate ones out of their trouble? For il
those who are not so hampered do coop
crate it is clear that they will enjoy ad-
vantages which will make it impossible
for those struggling under the old condi-
tions to remain in the business.
The Napa Register asserts that the diff
cuties attending the proposition to utilize
the waste water-power of Clear Lake are
in way of easy solution. 1t says, on the
authority Of Colonel O. e. More of San
Francisco, that the General Electric Com
pany of New York, which has millions of
capital and owns many of the large elec-
tric plants Of this country, and which built
the Folsom works, is ready to take hold of
this enterprise whenever it can gain abso-
lutte control of the water and secure fall
sufficient to develop 10000 horse power.
1t can secure control from the Clear Lake
Electric Power Company and get head of
$50 feet by carrying the water down the
side of Cache Creek Canyon in fiume.
AS this does not appear to contemplate
lowering of the lakes level, and as the
electricity developed will be sufficient for
the purposes of numerous towns and cities,
the plan is admirable.
Lynn Lyman has disposed of the San
Jacinto SearchHght to Stivers & Boughton,
who announce reduction in the price of
subscription and a paper printed entirely
at home in the future.
The Woodland Mail editorially calls at
tention to the offer made by Claus Spreck-
els to the farmers thereabout to furnish
them with seed for sugar beets and in
structions for planting and cultivating, in
order to ascertain if beets will grow well
there, and adds: ut is to be sincerely
hoped that this generous offer will be taken
advantage of. A meeting of the farmers
should be held and some concerted action
taken in the matter. Should our soil
prove to be adapted to the raising of sugar
beets (and there is no doubt but what it
wilD this new industry may become firmly
established here, and those wheat-growers
who are struggling for an existence may
be enabled to stem the tide of adversely
and finally land in the harbor of pros
perity. Once it is demonstrated that we
can raise beets successfully, either Mr..
Spreckels or local capital may be induced
to erect sugar refinery here"
Fresno County also is alert on the SUBJ
ject OF sugar-beet culture. The Fresno
Erpositor says that 1.-THE Chamber of Com
merce has taken hold OF the matter of as
certaining the adaptability of the soil and
climate of Fresno Comfy To the culture of