The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-24


very successful citizens fair. These colonies
consist of all small bulldogs, run on the CO.
operative principle, and the fruits are pre-
served, dried and canned in the colonies them
selves They have had the Government at
their backs and the result is that it has proven
boon to the originators, the property holders
and the country
care not some portions of California over
irrigated"
"Well, in some places where the drainage is
not good and the soil has been originally of
fair quality it is said to have had an adverse
effect upon the fruit"
"Why irrigate an already fertile country%'
"The Santa Clara Valley, an already product
I'VE country. is to be irrigated, but the drainage
is good, and it will be vast improvement upon
what ii has been.
"Take the arid lands in California, cut up
into small holdings and colonize, and you will
have the most successful country in the
world"
'What about getting the people here?"
Now there you have competitors in the
Southern States, but the Anglo-Saxons will all
come to california. You have a Haf-million
Club, and If it goes to work Los Angeles will be
one only of the many successful colonies in the
State"
United States Senator John H. Mitchell Of
Oregon, who is in town for a few days on legal
business was talking last evening at the Cali
fornia about times in Oregon. tThe crops all
over and of all kinds are the best we have had
in years, and things look very bright. You
know that Oregon is becoming great fruit
producing country. Dnring the last few years
great deal has been done i'll that way in
the eastern part of the State. Prunes grow
splendidly as well as many other fruits. There
is large territory in which fruit can be
grown. The growth in population of Oregon is
steady. The census lately taken of Portland
showed, / am told, population of about
80, 900. This is large increase over the
Federal census of 1890, which showed less
than $4,000"
The attaches of the Baldwin Hotel are not
the only people about the big hosiery who are
wondering where they are going to be Sat"
when the new management take hold The
politicians who have pre-empted quarter Soc
tons are not certain that the work done is
going to be sufficient to enable them to hold
possession.
Peppers squatters in the lobby are relying
on the fact that Macmillan having hired
rooms upstairs for long time they can hold
on to that section of the house under rght-of-
way title.
The Lanigan forces have long laid claim to
and hold possession of the big billiardroom.
They are figuring up the games of billiards and
make up the assessment required to hold their
title.
But then a new feature comes in. Beyond
the bar in the old grillroom is to be Nose
Gunst's cigar-stand. His side-partner. Charley
Asher, and Katzenstein take the bar and
billiard-room, and they are all supposed to
take an interest in politics occasionally, and
all titles may be upset, particularly as Asher
is the Company in the firm of Stone, Stanton
b r. l., Iaoe 81, y TIL Afrl
Then 1t is suggested that as the genial Will
liam Began of the Louvre is to move his estab-
lishment over to the basement of the Baldwin
there will be an opportunity for several fac
lions to make locations there.
Whether Barclay Henley and the Occidental
Club people will want to come in out of the
cold, now since they have decided that there is
a hoodoo on the old Peck mansion, or be salts
fed with Langdon's saloon on Stockton street,
is not certain. At any rate that is not far from
the Baldwin and they will not be far from the
political center If the hotel remains the stamp
ing ground of the politicians now there.
Congressman Barham has been over large
part of the State since his election trying to be-
come familiar with its resources and needs.
and says that he is going to devote his time to
trying to get for California her share of the ap-
propriations at the next session of Congress.
"The great difficulty that will confront us" he
said yesterday at the Occidental, sis the fact
that we are not troubled with bursting treas
ury. In fact, there is an enormous deficit and
Congress is going to be very parsimonious.
Then, you know, there are only nine of US and
they won't amount to six bits there. What we
should have to help us is club of business
men to go in and talk to the members. No
lobbyists. We don't want any of them about,
but good, energetic business men who know
how to talk.
.sTake the question of opening the gravel
mines with Government assistance to care for
the debris. Do you know If the California
gravel mines were near Chicago they would
have bill through and the mines opened in
no time? Congress would have to pass bill
to get rid of them.
ssThen they don't know the resources of this
State in Washington and set us down as lot
of liars when we tell them the bare truth. The
holding of a National convention out here
would do no end of good in educating the right
people about the resources and needs of this
not--they cannot believe US.
81 told story during the campaign to illus
trate that / had been up at the Yellowstone.
and on my way back met some young Eastern
men on the train, coming to see California. |
suggested that they go and see the big trees.
They said that they would like to do so. AS
they were going to Santa Cruz told them that
they could drive out few miles to some big
trees there, not our largest, but OF good size.
Then told them of a church at Santa Rosa
which had been built out Of single redwood