The San Francisco call., 1895-10-15

K. +. Gregory and E. A. MCGEE will be the
directing forces of the new enterprise, and,
as they are able men, the fortunes of Kern
ought to take an upward turn.
The Bakersfield Californian, illustrating
lts assertion that few if any portions of
the United States, not to say the entire
world, afford such opportunities to young
men Tor self-advancement and acquisition
OF comfortable competence as California,
relates the story of young man who
went to work as farm laborer at $26 a
month, and by sobriety, thrift and intelli-
gence advanced to the management and
then to the ownership of farm, and then
to the proprietorship OF a fine business
block in Bakersfield. The Californian
truthfully adds:
Ihls is not by any means an isolated
case, for the greatest number of successful
men IN IRIS State to-day began life in the
same humDle manne,-without capital
other than their own muscle and good
sense. Tnls State is full of Just such
chances to-day. There is an urgent de-
mand for reliable men of intelligence and
sobriety, who will remain Tor long term
in the same employment. In every por-
ton of the State ranches NAV be rented
which the former owners have allowed to
run down and deteriorate. Any active. in
dustrious, intelligent and sober young
man, with capital enough to buy team,
tools and a few provisions, can take one
OF these ranches and work out his own
salvation on it, just as IN the instance
cited at the outset. The State is full of
large Iandholders who are only too anxious
to encourage such men in every way and
help them toward success"
The Crescent City News and the Orsaon
Observer give additional particulars of the
narrow-gauge railroad which is to run from
the copper mines of the Waldo region, in
Southern Oregon, to join Hobbs, Wall &
Co.'S railroad at Chetco for Crescent City.
The Elmer-Brown Copper Mining and
Smelling Company is organized with
capital of 100000, and the machinery for
the mines at Waldo is on the way. "Such
road" says the Ne,os, "although built
for the purpose of carrying copper, will in
short time command considerable trade
from the merchants and farmers. and
travel will be great compared to the pres
ent. Crescent City will be to Southern
Oregon what Yaquina Bay is to Northern
Oregon. A line of fast and commodious
steamers will be put on and we will assume
our place among the thriving towns of the
coast. The two leading industries of the
counties named are mining and lum bering,
and both would be redoubled with such
road. Within a few miles of Smith River
Valley are vast deposits of copper, chrome
clnnabar and iron which would be operated.
and in Curry there are borate of lime and
other mines. Josephine is blessed with an
immense mineral wealth, and all could be
reached by the proposed railroad. No
three counties that adjoin on the coast
have such vast and varied mineral re-
sources awaiting development, with plenty
OF building material and fuel close at hand.
Aside from the mining industry sawmills
would spring up all along the route to saw
the stately pines that otherwise would be
left to decay. Between the ocean and
Waldo are fertile spots that would make
homes for many and open a market"
The Daily Record of Stockton, having
more than successfully weathered the
storms assailing the first six months of
newspapers existence, has started hope
fully on its second volume The keynote
of its success is found in the following,
taken from its columns: "We claim no
superiority OF intellect, but we do claim to
know how to publish a clean, decent,
newsy, tolerant, attractive newspaper, and
furthermore, we have found that it pays"