The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-13
COAST EXCHANGES.

getic Board of Trade is well illustrated in
the case of Visalia. The Times of that city,
in review of the causes which secured so
much prosperity for the community last
year. says:
'In the first place, we think much of the
good work can be credited to the Visalia
Board of Trade. It was this body that
began the agitation for the Valley Rail
road about one year ago. At that time it
was not known that the railroad people
could Be induced to build two lines south
OF Fresno and it was fight between Vi
salia and Hanford to see which city
could get the road. The Board of Trade
had voIuminous statistics collected and
printed showing the resources of the east
side of the valley, and after sending sew
eral committees to the City to confer with
the directors OF the Valley road, finally
induced those gentlemen to come to Visa
liza to inspect the country and see for
themselves what they could expect in
the way of freight and passengers if they
adopted the route WIN ich we contended
was the best. 1t was while in Visalia
that Vice-President Watt first suggested
the wisdom of building two lines south
of Fresno, and if Tulare and Kings coun-
ties do all they promised the railroad peo-
pie they would do, then before the next
wheat crop is ready to move we will have
competition to the Southern Pacific. If
nothing else hsd been accomplished dur
ing tn past year we would have plenty to
rejoice over"
But that was not all. BY sending an ex-
hibit to the Atlanta Exposition Tulare
County secured the gold medal for the
best peaches produced in the United States
Through the efforts of the Board of Trade
the farmers we're induced to experiment
with beet-culture, with so excellent results
that beet-sugar factory will be built, and
will distribute $780, 600 annually among the
people. a great work achieved was the in
corporation of and beginning of work on
the kaweah Irrigation and Power Com
pany's electric plant, which win mean
manufacturing on large scale. The cree
ton of a fourmill, and the paving of the
streets were other useful achievements.
That Visalia is determined to throw into
the present year the same energy which
brought so much prosperity in the year
Just gone is proved by the efforts which
are now being made to establish a fruit
cannery there. It seems somewhat strange
that so necessary and important an enter
prise has not been started before The
Visalia Delta announces that 4. D. Cutter
OF San Francisco, president of the Cutting
Fruit Packing Company, has made prop
osition for the establishment of such a
cannery. 1t contemplates cooperation on
the part of the people, and is now under
consideration.
]. Pentecost. for the past three years
one of the publishers of the Middletown
Independent, has left that paper to accept
the secretaryship of the Alaska Improve
ment Company, and will hereafter live in
San Francisco.
That quicksilver mining in the region
between Mount ST. Helena and Clear Lake
is an important industry is seen from this
information published by the Napa Regis
ter: Following are the number of TASKS
of quicksilver shipped from the various
mines during the month just passed, as
reported by the station agent at Calistoga:
Napa Consolidated. AIS; Etna Consoli-
dated, 305; Great Western, 255; Mirabel,
235; Sulphur Bank, 634; total, 1854 TASKS,
making an increase of $50 TASKS over the
November shipment. The total shipment
for the year just ended amounted to l I'LL
400 pounds, against 1878 pounds for
1884,
A proposition has been made to the San
Jose Board of Trade by w. S. Body of
Philadelphia to build glass works in San
Jose if a tract OF land of about half an acre
with railroad facilities were given the COM
pany. He and his associates would put
$4,000 to $4,000 in the plant and felt sure
OF success. The cheaper products would
be at first made and later finer goods
would be turned out. The works would
employ from seventy to one hundred peo-
pie, which would be increased to five hun
dred IN three years.
This proposition met with such favor
that committee was appointed to secure
the site needed.
Having disposed OF the Lodi Sentinel,
Ruggles Buck are to begin the publica-
ton OF high-class society, literary and
political weekly at Stockton.
Says the San Jose Ncus: f. W. Gran
dali, one of the California Dried fruit