The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-15

County is the place which will supply the
United States with oranges within few years.
We knew we we're sending out the best fruit
which goes to the market, but we were hardly
prepared for the statement coming from the
records at Sacramento that we have more
orange trees than any other county in the
State.
"There are now ESQ, 900 trees in bearing and
100000 more young trees are set out, and the
crop win, therefore, be increased four-fold in
three or four years when these orchards come
into bearing. And the revenue from this crop
of citrus fruit is immense. Last season Red
lands oranges commanded the best price paid.
and there are half a dozen districts which are
yieing with it for the palm.
Sand with all this acreage in oranges, saying
nothing about lemons and deciduous fruit. it
is hardly beginning on the land in our val
ley Some Eastern passengers coming up on
the overland on which 1 took passage looked
out OF the windows as the train sped ives tward
from San Bernardino and saw nothing but
waste and uncultivated land and wondered
what it could be utilized for. Yet but few
miles off were orange and lemon orchards
stretching away for miles, and the land they
were speaking of is equally productive. Back
in the mountains vast reservoirs are being con-
structed, and when the water is brought down
the whole valley will become one vast orange
orchard.
'The newest thing in mining news is the
road which San Bernardino County has inst
completed into Randsburg. The road brings
the trade of that new camp tributary to San
Bernardino, coming in by Victor and the
Cajon Pass. That camp gives greater promise
than any ever discovered in the State The
original ledge is forty feet across, pay ore all
the way, with four-foot streak that is fabu-
lousy rich. Other strikes have been made in
the radius of seven miles, and the camp is al
ready furnishing employment to several hun
dred men, and as soon as the winter rains
come and the temperature moderates the num-
Der will be largely increased.
''The intOlerable summer on the desert pre
vents prospecting generally, but mining men
tell me that more prospectors will go out this
fall than ever before. The Randsburg ledge
and the Desert Queen and other good finds to
the east OF us have excited interest in mines
and the season promises TO be an active one.
Politically we are all torn up, but McKin-
ley win come over Tehachapi with good ma
jority, and we will send Bowers back to Con-
gress from the Seventh District When BRYAN
was nominated. and in the few weeks succeed
ing, the free-silver people kicked up such
dust that we seemed to be lost; buttwo months
served to clear the atmosphere. 1t was nothing
TO be alarmed at. In one precinct that know
of just out of town, Mckinley Club with
forty members has been organized The
precinct gave Estee but twenty-five votes two
years ago, and the population is not increased.
In another one the Mckinley Club has IO6
members, more than half the total number of
voters, and month ago the Bryan people as
serted that there were not enough Republicans
there to officer club
"Ot course there are parts of our county
which are strong for the free-silver candidate
but the idea that he is going to sweep the
southern counties is founded on an estimate
OF the situation made six weeks ago. The Re-
publlcans have been at work. The meeting
held In our city three weeks ago, when s. NJ
Shortridge was there, has started the ball all
over the county, and the sound-money Demo
Gratis are also doing noble work. If Mr.. Bryan
carries this State he must look elsewhere than
to Southern California for his majority"