The San Francisco call., 1896-02-24

The canal will begin opposite Steven
sons Island, in the Colorado River,
twenty-six miles above Yuma, taking the
water required from that stream. It will
run east along the mesa that skirts the
d1ia bottom to point where the .mesas on
opposite sides of the Gila approach each
otner. There the water will be conveyed
under the river by means of immense IN
verted syphons to the mesa on the south
ern side of the bottom lands. Thence
canal will follow the mesa west toward the
colorado River, passing through the town
OF una, which is on the Colorado at the
junction of the GiIa. Beyond Yuma
tunnel 5000 feet in length will be cut
through the mesa point and at its mouth
fall of eighteen feet will be obtaine ed.
From this enough power will be generated
to supply the town of Yuma with electric
lights and run electric street-car lines. To
this point the length of the canal will be
hfty-three miles. Water may then be con-
veyed along the Colorado to the line. and
even into Mexico. for irrigating purposes
IN the rich bottom lands. The total COST
will be about 500, 900, which is furnished
by Phoenix and New York capitalists. The
nrst few miles of the canal will follow an
old slough or prehistoric canal tn at runs
from the Colorado along the mesa. Engi-
neers say it must have been canal built
many years ago. This is indicated by the
regularity of the banks and the lines of
cottonwood growing thereon"
An evidence of the progress of Los An
geies is furnished by the Los Angeles Jour
nal, which in its issue of the Goth inst.
gives full account of the extension made
by the Los Angeles Iron and Steel Com
pany for the manufacture of galvanized
iron. Last week ''the first sheet of gaIvan-
lied iron made entirely-that is, rolled as
we'll as galvanized-wes of St. Louis was
turned out" In order to make this i'm
provement the company sod $40, 900 worth
OF stock. The plant is the fifth OF its kind
IN existence, being a new invention of
English origin. Its valuable feature is its
use OF petroleum instead of coke for fuel.
Now that Santa Rosa has successfully
carried out it's plan of establishing public
water works by the issuance of bonds it is
encouraging to read the following in the
Alameda EncinaJ: 1.-THE proposition to
bond Suisun for Sac, 900 to acquire lands,
water rights of way necessary for the con-
struction aud com pletion of public water
works was submitted to the voters of that
town yesterday and was carried by vote
of 145 to 6. The present water supply,
controlled by the Suisun and Fairfield
Water Compan is inadequate and the
people demanded water supply to be
owned and controlled by the town. Bonds
will he iscnoH for tho ont
bearing interest at 5 per cent. Suisun has
paid the present company $15l,792 in
thirty years."
The Contra Costa Ne,cs, noting the fact
that Antioch has organized a Board of
Trade, is urging its citizens to follow that
example. There certainly can be no ade-
quate progress without intelligent CO.
operation, and the communities which
neglect that duty cannot hope to keep
pace with more energetic towns.
The San Jose Mercury says that Milpitas
is soon to have vegetable cannery The
town is situated in region admirably
suited to the growing of vegetables, the
gardens which are already in existence
giving abundant returns. 1t is deplor-
of canned vegetables consumed in Cali
fornia are shipped hither from the Eastern
States, when local Gamers. with so favor
able climate to assist them, could
produce much better article at lower
price and with generous profits. Milpitas
is in the heart of the most densely popu-
lated section of California; it has perfect
conditions OF soil and climate, and but
trifing transportation charges to the con-
suming centers. A vegetable cannery
there ought to prove highly successful.
Such an institution will raise local values,
extend local industries, increase the popu-
lation and add to the general prosperity.
The Crockett Record indicates an inyit-
ing opportunity for the profitable invest
ment of outside capital in the erection of
houses there. The town has not a suffi-
cient number for its needs. Land is held
at reasonable prices and rents are high.
There is rail and water communication
with San Francisco. This is only one of
scores of ways in which money can be
proftably invested in California.
Recently THE CALL, quoting the Citro-
graph, announced that Redlands is soon
to have electric lights. The fact is that
Redlands has had electric lights for two
and half years and that it is now pre-
pairing to supply Riverside.
The Enterprise, published at Baden, calls
attention to two important industries
which are in operation and projected there
and which bear an important relation to
the City. These are the pottery pipe and
terra-cotta works of Steiger Sons and the
Wallace brick works. Our contemporary
adds: These recently acquired indus
tries not only represent a large amount of
capital invested and large number of
operatives employed here, but their pres
ence is an additional inducement to other
investors and factories to locate at this
point. Bricks, tera-cotta and sewer pipe
are staple articles in the line of building
MATERIAL
The Bee has been making careful esti-
mates of the population of Sacramento
and announces that it is between 10000
and $1,000 and steadily increasing.
The Santa Rosa Republican, in its issue
OF the 18th, published handsomely illus
trated page devoted to the admirably ap-