The record-union., 1896-03-14
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions of Interior California
Newspapers.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov,
ernmentaI, Practical, Theoret-
ical and Current.

Marysville Appeal: Mark the predic-
ton: DR.. jameson win not be punished;
he will be honored.
FROST AND FIRE.
Riverside Press: We confess that,
after much experimenting with fires for
frost protection, we have been inclined
to be skeptical about the results claimed
to have been obtained by Mr.. Copley
this season with his little baskets of
coal. But we have made a careful ex-
animation of his orchard, and must
confess that it has been marvellous.
The cold, as everybody knows was in
that neighborhood at least, the severest
ever known. So much SO that Mr.. Cop
ley, hopeless of saving the crop under
such conditions, did what little he did
in a half-hearted way and only upon
a small section of his orchard The
contrast between the leahess trees on
the higher portion of his orchard and
the green and thrifty appearance of the
tract where fires were kept is so radi-
cal that no one who examines it can
doubt the fact that the difference is
due to the treatment given. On the
section were the fires were maintained
the fruit is sound and juicy as any in
the valley, while around in that i'm
mediate neighborhood there appears to
be hardly a sound orange left The
number of fires kept in this experiment
was far larger than would be practica-
BILE or necessary if all made use of this
method, but the writer has no doubt
that had he made use of the same
means he would this season have saved
dollar for every cent of cost involved
The citizens committee who have been
investigating the various plans sug-
gested are much impressed, and propose
shortly to give test of the Copley plan
upon forty-acre orchard when the
conditions are favorable, noting the in
fluence on the temperature of the or
chard itself and upon those contiguous.
The fact that this plan is the cheapest
as well as the easiest to use of any
makes its general adoption probable, if
the further tests shall confirm the con-
fident claim of its originator.
THE COMING YEAR.
Alameda Telegram: Every indica-
ton points to a year of prosperity for
California. From the interior the re-
ports are exceedingly bright. It has
been found that the damage caused by
and large fruit crop is assured. Wines
are bringing double the prices of former
years. The mining industry is exhibit
ing unwonted activity. The high price
Of wheat has brought much money into
the State; in fact, it has been years
since the prospects have been as en-
couraging. Now, If the San Francisco
6ailies will devote more of their space
to setting forth the above facts, and not
frighten prospective investors by pub
fishing that the State is held in the ire
morseless clutch of the octopus and
her every industry being ruined, every
industry will be given an impetus and
California enjoy an era of great pros
perity.
FEMALE SUFFRAGE
Stockton Independent: The woman
suffra gists are impo1itic. Their decla-
ration that their principal object in
seeking the ballot is to accomplish pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic will mass
against them all who are not prohibi-
tionists, which necessarily includes
many women. Should they succeed in
gaining the ballot, they have no assur-
ance that they will be equally successful
with prohibition, because all the women