The San Francisco call., 1896-07-20

vastly improved in appearance The URion-
Democrat is no fiedgling, for twas started away
back in 1853.
According to the Marysville Democrat, one OBJ
lect OF the capitalists who have taken. stock in
Ihe Marysville and Nevada Power and Water
company Is 10 construct stone wall 100 feet
hlgh al Deer Creek Earrows in the Yuba River.
the same to be of solid masonry and substan-
ual In every respect. "When this wall is fin
isheo IL VIII hold large area Of water in the
Mooney Flat territory above that point, which
water IS to be used to propel the necessary
machinery to furnish electric power. This
power will be sold and conveyed to the mines
IN -lnat vicinity, Browns Valley and other
points, also to run machinery at Smartsville
ana Bonanza Ranch, where q canning plant
VIII De constructed for next years fruit crop.
Lines Will be run into this city and electric
ngnt ana power viii be sold to consumers.
supervisor Conrath IS experimenting the
"orA now Under way, gang of men having
commenced TO run drift in the bank at the
narrows preparatory to taking out rock. W.
W. Naggoner, surveyor and one of the in
corporators, is at the site of the proposed
dam ana making the survey and plans OF the
Work, ali OF which indicates that the company
means business"
one OIL the successful papers of Southern Cal
iiornla Is the Redlands Citrograph, now in its
tenth year. Its typographical beauty is on
par with Its editorial efficiency, and. on the
whoie, the Citrograph is model weekly news
paper.
A weekly paper, to be called Industry, is
ABOUT 10 be started in Oakland by company
OF Populists. If circumstances warrant. the
sheet may be made daily affair when the
campaign gets hot enough to sizzle.
The Summerland Advance informs us that
operations on large scale are soon to be CON-
menced In the Summerland oil district. A big
zeal is now on, providing for the shipment to
San Francisco of 10, 600 barrels-420, 600 gal
ions-ot crude petroleum weekly. Another
'spouter" has been struck there, and the oil
shoots thirty feet above the casing. In regard
TO this new well, the Advance says:
"A few mornings since the men engaged in
drilling for II. L. Williams, at depth of 173
ieeI, struck oil in such quantities that it
spouted thirty feet in the air from the mouth
OF the we'll. AS soon as the gas pressure was
relieved 1t subsided, however. The we'll is at
TINS writing being sand-pumped, and is max
ing showing that delights the heart of Mr..
Williams. The oil is of a higher gravity than
any heretofore struck in this vicinity.
"This strike is of more real Importance than
1t shows on the face of it. All the wells bored
along the beach show that as they go farther
to the northwest the oil stratum gets closer to
the surface. There is quite strip of terri
tory between Mr.. Williams wells and the
Moore wells that has not been tested, but all
oil men agree that the stratum reached by Mr..
Williams at q depth of fifty to eighty feet is
the same one struck further down at depth
OF 150 to 200 feet. Mr.. Williams, in drilling
this well, penetrated the upper stratum and
went beneath il, piercing another deposit that
has heretofore only been surmised. 1t prom
ises TO be great thing for the oil industry,
and development of this well will be awaited
with considerable anxiety. 1t is the opinion
that 1t will fow forty or fifty barrels daily"
F. J. Perry, an experienced Colorado news
paper man, has taken hold of the Ramona
Sentinel and will endeavor to make that paper
equal to any weekly paper in the land of
petroleum, natural gas and orange blossoms.
The Berkeley Gazette on opening its fourth
volume points with pride" TO the fact that
success has smiled upon it from its birth and
that it could not ask for any better fortune
than it has been favored with. The Gazette is
q good nome paper and the Berkeleyites who
have helped it have helped the town and
themselves.
The Santa Rosa Farmer, devoted to the agri-
cultural interests of Sonoma County, is five
years old and has established for itself repu.
tstion as an authority on farm subjects.