The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-28


Interest dividends, rents, etc., are thus
Kept at home for reihvestment and
financial drain is TINS prevented. A bright
future awaits Woodland while there has
not been boom during the past ten years,
there has been a healthy, steady growth"
Our able Democratic contemporary, the
Los Angeles Herald, shows the true spirit
IN declaring that the holding OF the Re
publican National Convention at San
Francisco lis a matter of vast Importance
to the whole West and the entire region
to the westward of the Mississippi should
work to that end" 1t then adds that IAN
effort should also be commenced to secure
the Democratic National Convention for
the same city" Its breadth of under
standing is clearly expressed in the follow
ing declaration:
''The National gatherings of the two
great political parties are usually repre-
sentative affairs in many other that parti-
san respects. They call together the vari-
Gus types of American life and invariably
include some Of the most influential and
enterprising as well as many of the
Wealthlest men of the country. Including
the multitudes that always attend the
conventions out of motives of sympathy,
interest or pleasure, hundreds of individu-
ais Will go to both assemblies to whom the
great West is as little known as some
countrles on the other side of the Atlantic.
In TACT, 1t can be safely said that scores
Will go to these conventions who
have better personal acquaintance
with Great Britain. France and Ger
many than with the western half
OF their own country. To such the
advantages, resources and progress of
the West would prove veritable reyela-
ton. Many of these gentlemen are or
Will be members of Congress, and as such
hold positions on committees having the
disposition of subjects vitality affecting
important Western interests. To get to
san francisco they would have to traverse
an area hitherto practically foreign to
them, and to the natural needs and Just
demands OF which they can hardly be
expected to give that intelligent and equit-
able consideration they bestOw on parts of
the country with which they are more
familiar.
The various problems confronting the
developing West that in one way or an
other require the applicat ton of Federal
power or the expenditure of National
funds present themselves more under
standingly in the light of personal obser-
walton than when viewed exclusively
through the plants and petitions of others.
After such an extended journey to the
western limits of the republic the dele
gates and their friends would return East
with the kind of knowledge regarding the
far West that in time would bear fruit in
more statesmanlike and broader gauge
treatment of our interests than we have
been favored with heretofore"
W. NJ. Denig, inspired anew by mem
cries of the intrepid service of Denig's
Pony Express, which in the early days
delivered letters and papers from loved
ones at home to the miners in the gulches
and on the mountain tops in old Gala
veras," has started at Stockton the publ
cation of bright weekly paper which he
has named Denig's Pony Express.
The New Whatcom Blade, expressing pity
for "the man in the choking East, whose
wife and babies are crowded into dove-cote
tenement rods above Uttered alley in
smoky city," declares that he is accessible
to reason and is anxious to better his con-
dition. How he may be enabled to do
this the Blade intelligently shows in this
paragraph: "The Puget Sound region is
heavily laden with crude wealth, pregnant
with native treasures-animal, vegetable
and mineral. We, living in the midst OF
these conditions, are more or less aware of
that fact, but there are millions of people
far away who are ignorant of these peer
less inducements. Therefore it is the
duty OF every newspaper on Puget Sound
to impress the fact upon the great army of
Eastern readers that Puget Sound invites
development and offers prosperity and
plenty, invites the sturdy hand of indus
try to land glutted with the weslth that
gives birth and life to conteutment and
happiness"
The Paso Robes Independent resents the
attack which has been made on John T.
Doyle for his adverse opinion concerning
the bonds which the Southern Pacific
Company has been trying to float in order
that it may be enabled to extend 1t. coast
line to Santa Barbara. 1t quotes this from
the attack on Mr.. Doyle: "The Southern
Pacific Company has religiously observed
every duty owed by it, either to the public
or It's creditors, and stands before the pub
Az eO-Nuy do q 1HOubt Ol Iududge-
ment and sound financial policy and de-
clares that when the town of Paso Robes
was started "the railroad tried its level
best to iniure, and did boycott the place,
and by looking over some of the old maps
the name of Paso Robes does not appear,
whether Intentionally or not we do not
know, but it is claimed by some people
that it was done with malice aforsthought.
Be that as it may, the railroad shows but
little sympathy for the farmer, and only
lowered the grain schedule in this county
when it was compelled to, because the
farmers talked of hauling to tidswater and
shipping to the City by that route" It
cites other matters, and adds: eve hope
the company can sell its bonds and finish
It's coast line, for it will never amount to
much until that is an accomplished fact,
and as to the statement that we might
have to wait till doomsday' if it did not
Hoat the bond is all rubbish, for it loses
every day the road remains unfinished"
Irrigation in Kings County is being
pushed, as the following from the Hanford
Sentinel indicates. tGSurvevors ara at work