The San Francisco call., 1896-07-27
COAST EXCHANGES.

COAST EXCHANGES.
The Jackson (Amador County, Republican has
iu lniied its promise of a daily edition, which
naoe its Initial appearance last Thursday. II
Is a model little paper in every respect, hand
sone, wei arranged and well edited, and Ii
proudly floats the banner of Mckinley and
hooart In his first number the editor says:
me OBJECT OF this paper is to speak SIX times
eHcn week, in no uncertain tone, OF the vast
resources OF Amador County and the bright
iuture Tor Jackson and the entire region
.hrough which runs the world-famous mother
loue' We believe that the beginning OF
marvellous development, both in mining and
otner industries, has been insugurated in this
section OF California, and we propose TO cast
IN our mite and help it along as rapidly as
possible. should our venture meet with the
approval and patronage of the people of ANA
oor County sufficient TO justify the outlay, the
Ddtty Republican will be enlarged from time to
time In manner commensurate with the sup
port it receives"
The Lodi ReVieiU- Budget has changed hands
ana comes out with & new brand of politics.
george Shoals, the new editor and proprietor,
formerly conducted q Democratic paper in
south Dakota. He has tackled the Bryan-Sewall
colors to his mast in the Lodi publication.
1t Is opined that the town of San Bernardino
Is very prof table journalistic field judging
from appearances. The Sun of that place in
iorms US that ga Populist paper was recently
launched there and that it is q settled fact that
local mining journal will shortly make its
appearance. More than this, it is said there
are to be two new dailies one Republican and
the other Democratic. In fact, the air lately
mas been full of newspaper talk. It has been
even said that some of the established Jour-
mails We're to change hands, several local CAPT.
talists who had once been engaged in news
paper work in this city contemplating profit
able investment
Yolo County has a new weekly paper, the
winters Independent, edited by B. ]. Waugh.
II makes very respectable appearance and
proclalms its mission to be to acQuaint the
world at large more fully with the resources
OF the productive country around Winters and
10 do battle for the cause of free silver.
L. w. Alum, who for the past three years
has been city editor OF the Riverside Daily
Press, has vacated that position and will be
succeeded by A. F. Clarke, one of the proprie-
tors OF the paper, who has hitherto been en-
gagged in editing the Ontario Record, which he
and his brother owned and have just sold.
Mr.. Alum purposes 10 start a new morning
Republican paper in Riverside about August
10, to be called the NelDs.
There is rejoicing in Ventura over the grati-
flying news that all the formidable obstacles in
the way OF the proposed 0jai Valley Railroad
have been removed, and that the enterprise
will be pushed forward with all possible speed.
The Ventura Weekly Democrat says of the pro-
iected line, which will make Ventura the mar
ket OF the fertile valley of the 0jai: sThe
$4,000 required of our citizens in cash and
right of way is practically provided tor. The
hberality Of our citizens generally makes n
credttable showing, and 1t is safe to predict
that not one Of those who have made the Ojai
Valley Railroad possible will regret the part
they took in promoting it by means Of cash or
accessions in the matter of right of way. The
right of way, with the exception of few
short gaps, has been secured and these few
property-holders will assuredly be reasonable
and not retard the progress of the project by
exorbitant demands. We are authorized to
announce that the building of the road is now
a certainty, and its cons truction viii be COM
menced by Captain Cross as soon as few
minor details are earranged-probablyn OF later
than September l."
The Redding Free Press furnishes a timely
object lesson in the article which follows:
"The. news that the Shasta Lumber Company
will start up will be received with gladness by
the people OF Round Mountain and Montgom-
cry Creek William Hers, who was here Satur-
day, says that the settlers have been having
hard time 10 make both ends meet, and the
starting up of this enterprise not only fur
nishes employment, but gives home market
for produce which the settlers raise. As
Major Mckinley says, what the people need is
some gainful occupation to make them happy
and prosperous. Protection is greater issue
AID more reaching in its effects than the free
coinage of silver. Manufacturing enterprises
in Shasta County make a market for labor and
O market for the products of the farm and or
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the circulation OF the money now held in
bank. A demand for lumber makes the in
vestment of idle capital In the lumber fields
productive Of returns to the capitalist and cir
culates money among the people. These 125
men who viii be employed by the company
will scatter money all through the county. 1t
is the policy of the Republican party TO restore
confidence by passing those laws which pro-
tect American products and furnish gainful
employment What has made the lumber
trade so dull is the removal of the tariff by
Democratic administration on Canadian ium-
Der, bringing the lumber product of 8 foreign
country into competition with our own lumber
and creating stagnation Of the lumber
trade
Ex-Judge Hastie OF Clayton, Contra Costa
County, while digging for water last week dug
into promising coal prospect, and q CORE
spondent of the Martinez Gazette thus refers to
the discovery: 1t is in hard sand rock and on
the water level, but not enough work has been
done to prove its value. There is o chance for
home capitalists to come in and develop IL If
they want to, for the Judge lacks the necessary
means. There is on top of the supposed vein
ten feet of solid ground, with quartz boulders
weighing from one to 1000 pounds each, and
1t takes both time and money to move them;
but everybody hopes the Judge will succeed in
getting to the coal possible, for II will
benefit his neighbors as well as himself more
and more as the work progresses.
The town of Riverside has nearly completed
its new electric-light works and the Refer
states that arc lights, for which the town has
been paying $15, will now cost only 81 so
each, while q sixteen-candle power incandes-
cent lamp will cost three-quarters OF cent an
hour. $50 you Can put in as many lamps as
you want all over your house, and If You burn
say three lamps three hours on the average,
which is about right for the average family,
your lights viii cost you only 50 10 per
month"