The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-06

or. perhaps, he is already beginning to see
his crop in sight. At any rate, his society,
as it appeared last night, is thing of
fact-it has been organized, with officers
duly elected, and was incorporated last
month under the laws of this State.
1t is a possessor of land, too, for Mr..
Wilderman stated that he and William
McCrindle of Oakland have given, free of
all encum brance whatsoever, 20, 900 acres
of land in Lower California to the society
land which, according to him, is situated
in the San Rafael Valley, "about six miles
from the harbor at Ensenada," and con-
slsts of a little over 'thirty-one square
miles of the old Santa Catarina grant"
What is still more, Mr.. Wilderman says
the land can be easily irrigated.
mis- is the plan OF organization OF the
Worlds Christian Cooperative Society,""
All applicants must believe in the divinity
Christ, and each member must put into the
investment fund 500 or its equivalent.
That is all, and the names of thirty-nine
members are already upon the society's
roll. The officers are: President, G.. W.
Wllderman;. first vice-presidept, P. Ay-
hens; second vice-president. George Rus
urer, R. B. Roseberry; board of
trustees-Messrs. Wilderman, Russell and
Lasley, William McCrindle, G. P, Cook,
Rev. Jonas Bushell and Donald Munro.
Rev. Jonas Bushell is the pastor of the
Congregational church at Port Angeles,
Wash, and Mr.. Russell is miller and
millwright.
The society intends, when it gets 1000
members or more, to go actively into the
business, upon thoroughly cooperative
basis OF wheat-raising and hour-milling,
and the officers are not to receive any sala-
ries. Of the net profits 80 per cent is to be
equally distributed among the members in
monthly dividends ana 10 per cent is to
always go to swell the permanent invest
ment fund formed of the 500 membership
subscriptions.
1t starts out with gold quartz mill, a
map of the region contiguous to Ensenada,
an office apd $4,000 in pledged subscriptions
as available assets, in addition to the land,
and its expenses are light as yet. The
quartz mill served the purpose of ocular
demonstration last night, as did some hot
cakes from unbolted flour the night pre-
vious, G. E. johnson, who is enthusiastic,
having been responsible for the hotcakes.
There were also two bottles of -four in
sight the smaller being filled with bolted
flour to show what could be done by the
process which the society patented last
December.
This process is unique. By the centrifu-
gal principle of the quartz mill, which is
to be adapted to the work of grinding,
said Mr.. Wilderman, the wheat is crushed
into powder, land the faster it goes, the
finer is the wheat ground" was his san
guine assurance. From the quartz mill the
first "break'' is to be sucked up by an ex-
haust fan and blown through an air sepa-
rator into a bin, whence it is to pass
through -four and bran separator into the
packer 1t looks easy in type. and the
society has, accordingly, and in Difference
to popular notion, limited days work
to only eight hours for any one man, with
the understanding that the man who does
not work will get none of the dividends.