The San Francisco call., 1896-03-09
sell great deal of butter. We also produce
large amount of beef. The wool industry cuts
some figure too, but that is light.

sell great deal of butter. We also produce a
large amount of beef. The wool industry cuts
some figure too, but that is light.
Just now we are starting up good many
mills. The numbering interests are reviving.
We are making good many shingles and some
of them are going East. There has been quite
an i'm petus 10 the shingle business lately. The
shin giles that are going East are fancy ones.
''There is an enormous amount OF redwood
up there as yet untouched in any way. 1t is
simply astonishing the amount there is. l
don't know whether it will soon be a better
Price or not.
"Lately several buyers have come in from
the timber sections of the East. They have
been looking around, and l believe in some
instances they bought timber. The redwoods
are now attracting attention. L think tle
market ought to improve.
"As for Eureka, the chief town of that region
1t now has between 1000 and 5000 people.
There is some building going on and it is rea-
sonably prosperous.
az have lived there long time and like the
place. To my mind Eureka is one of the pleas
an test cities TO live in in California"
Thomas r. Brown, a well-known business
man and politician of Seattle, has been travel
ing for the past two months for the betterment
of his health, and has finally landed in the
Lick House. He was in Prescott, Ariz., for a
while in search of that dry air which is found
in all its untamed and uncaged robustness in
Arizona and Fresno.
He said last night that Arizona was not to
his liking. He found its vaunted health resort
to be dead, level piece of country traversed
by wide and deep irrigation bitches which
impressed him with the dread of malaria in the
summer time, and that is why he chose to leave
the country before the summer, with 120 de-
grees Fahrenheit in the shade, could have an
opportunity of pre-emp pting any of his adipose
tissue.
He was informed, however, that there was
no malaria there. He prefers California, and
told wide circle of listeners last night that
he discovered in the Julian mining district in
San Diego County one Of the finest sections for
apples that he ever saw west of the Rocky
Mountains.
1t is situated sixty miles east OF San Diego
City, 1900 feet above the level of the sea,
where there are copious falls Of snow and rain
in the winter time. Here he found several
thriving apple orchards, maryof them from
twenty-five to thirty years old and in prolific
bearing. Owing to the SHOWS and the cold OF
the winter season and the light atmosphere
and suaye temperature of the summer the trees
are free from the Goblin moth, the scale and
the other ills that the apple is heir to. The
fruit he praises highly for its excellent flavor
and appearance.
Mr.. Gum, who has an sO-acre apple orchard
in that region, informed Mr. Brown that he
averaged from S21a cents to 81 Is per box for
his apples delivered in San Diego The fruit
| is hauled by wagon to the Cuyamaca railroad
terminus at Foster, which is twenty-five miles
from San Diego.
When Mr.. Brown was in Phoenix he saw
Whitelaw Reid, the New York journ alist, who
is spending the winter there. Mr.. Reid's
health is improving wonderfully in the land
Of the cactus.
Mr.. Brown said that when he left Seattle the
closing down of a large number of shingle and
lumber mills had made times very dull in that
part of the country.