The San Francisco call., 1896-04-20

with people, and they are mostly strangers who
nave purchased property here or IN the imme-
diate vicinity. There is no doubt in my mind that
oakoale has the brightest prospects OF any town
this part OF the State. Taking into consideration
the excellent facilities for rrigating the land sur
rounding Oakdale for miles on either side 1t Is
plain that the country is going build up pakdae
and not oakdale build up the country, hence one
can readily appreciate the very attering future OF
our town.
The Alameda Argus indirectly calls attention
10 one OF the most delightful sources OF health
ana pleasure lying ready to the hands OF the
people hereabout 1t is familiar fact that
Witn1n recent years summer outing IN mouse
boats on the bay of San Francisco has become
a regular thing. From the primitive AFFAIR OF
nrst eHort we are advancing to elegance and
luxury. Our contemporary says that George
n. blanchard of the Spring Valley Water Works
has sold his old lark" and has decided on plans
Tor new one to cost $4,000. The hull isto be
eighty feet long and thirty-four feet wide and
Will carry two-story house containing eight
or nine rooms and fitted with hot and cold salt
water baths, a bowling alley and electric
lights. This will be the largest floating house
on the bay.
The San Bernadino Sun announces another
Oh the important discoveries that are con-
stantly being made in California. 1t says:
Hues Thomas and John Wood returned to this
city sunday night after two months prospect
Ing trip on the desert. They bring the news that
they made valuable discovery on their trip In the
shape OF deposit Of borax, five acres In extent
whicn they found about sixteen miles nortn OF
Barstow, and as evidence of the verify OF their
story they bring with them some samples OF the
rock which assays per cent better than that
taken from the mine Of the Pacific Coast Borax
Company at Calico, and 90 per cent better than
that mined in Death Valley.
While many of the larger cities OF the State
are holding the public attention with their
hestas and rose carnivals, it is pleasing TO read
in the Mountain View Santa Clara County
Register that the ladies of the Library and
Exchange in that place are preparing to hold
rose fair there on the 23d and Oath inst. There
will be an excellent programme, including
drama, tableaux and music.
The Riverside Enterprise is calling attention
TO the profits deriyable from the cultivation OF
canaigre. Says our exchange:
1t is very profitable crop when intelligentiy
handled. as has been demonstrated by expert
ments No finer soil for its cultivation and propa-
CATION can be found than the decomposed granite
and sandy loan of Riverside County Returns
can be had in few months from the time OF
embarking in the business of growing it, And a
market can be found for it right here without the
expense Of shipping long distances.
Guadalupe, Santa Barbara County, is feeling
the new impulse of progress. Evidence of its
advancement is thus given by the Standard
hat wonderful change since the first OF
the year-graveled streets and sidewalks, a
new SIC, 900 school building, and now comes
new brick block on the main street."
According to the San Diego Sun the newly
organized Citizens Traction Company OF that
city is rapidly converting the cable road into
an electric system.
The Fresno Republican says that new day
is dawnfng for the historic old town of Cente--
vile, as ]. N. Kilgore has purchased 140-acre
tract. inclu1ing the townsite, and is preparing
to rejuvenate the place.
The oil wells at Coalinga, Fresno County,
says the Fresno Republican, are promising q
handsome yield. One well is down $50 feet
and is producing forty barrels OF oil day. The
other is $40 feet and is to be carried down to
1900 feet. Says our contemporary:
The most remarkable thing connected with the
district is that the oil is of the best quality pro-
duced in the United States. The theory Of geolo-
gists has been that frst-class coal oil would
ever be found on this coast, because the forma-
tions are not old enough. But theories count for
nothing at Coalinga. Compared with the best oil
produced anywhere else this coast the Coalinga
product is as 81 to IL. manufacturing company
of San Francisco, which uses in It's business high
grade OF oil, which it imports from Peru, in South
AMERICA because 1t cannot obtain it in the United
States was sent gallon OF the Coalinga oil. After
putting 1t TO the test it declared equal to the
Peru oil.
Another San Francisco company which uses
250O barrels of crude Oil each month for fuel in its
firebrick kilns has tested the Coa!inga product,
and says that 1900 barrels of 1t will go far as
2b0O other. n offer has bpen m al da
by a company to refinery on the ground
and buy the entire output at So 81 a barrel. This
is exceedingly high price, and is TWO and half
times than the Los Angeles oil sells for. The
Oil flows from the well without the aid of a pump.
Experts in the business predict that a much
greater flow will be struck. Tanks have been pro-
vided for saving the OIL and others will be taken
to the wells as needed.
Later news from the Republican is to this
effect:
News reached Fresno yesterday that the 60O-
foot well at Coalinga is improving daily. After
being plugged several days it was opened, and
thirty-ive barrels flowed out in an hour and a
quarter.
That Nevada is awake to the new order of
things is evidenced by this announcement in
the Virginia Chronicle:
Lima is the narne of the new town which has just
been organized on the Nevada side OF the State
Line district. 1t lie but few hundred feet the
Nevada side, but affords the best location for a
townsite to be found thereabouts, as all the min
ing claims nearly can De made tributary to 1t.
The Los Angeles Journal gives this important
information:
A full corps Of engineers and surveyors has been
put into the field Ell Paso, beyond the frontier
and they are now heading toward the Pacific
Coast This means that the Sierra Madre Trunk
line, known as the Gulf, Rio Grande and Pacific
Railway. INTENDS to build transcontinental line
through Northern and Central Mexico. The Ell PAso
Telegram, and Mericdn Herald have given consider
able to the project holding that it is destined
| to be an important factor In the development Of
rich mineral and timber regions In Mexico. The