The San Francisco call., 1896-02-24
COAST EXCHANGES.

Good results of the recent visits to all
parts of the State made by members of the
Bureau of Highways are becoming mani
fest in the more progressive communities.
Ii the people cooperate with their Boards
OF Supervisors as they did in tie following
instance, narrated by the Los Angeles
Times the problem OF good roads would be
quickly solved:
"At last one community has found out
how to improve Its roads. The people
living north OF this city, from the city lin
its to Tropico and Glendale, have devised
a way to get good roads out of their taxes
The plan is this: The taxpayers got to-
gether and agreed to give SO many days
work with a team, or to pay so much
money into a general fund. With this in
hand they proposed to the Supervisors
that they would haul to the road any
amount of good gravel the board would
shovel into their wagons, and spread after
it had been put into the proper place. An
excellent bed of disintegrated granite was
uncovered at Tropico and the work was
begun. The Board of Supervisors provide
men to load the wagons and to level the
gravel on the road. A big line OF teams is
at work, and most of three miles from the
city limits to the store at Tropico has been
covered with good coat of this. The re-
suit is an ideal road"
The Riverside Enterprise notes kindred
spirit of progress on the part of the Board
of Supervisors of San Bernardino County.
The board passed an order providing that
signboards and posts be placed along all
fIa La IL l.
county, so that the travellers on these
sandy as well as dangerous wastes might
be safely guided to their destination. Fol-
lowing this very sensible action, the board
at it's last meeting made arrangement for
the locating of water-tanks on the des ert
where the scant supply of spring water
might be saved for the use of travellers.
Our contemporary says this of the good
results that will follow:
"a well-known prospector of this city :,
in speaking of the work of the San Ber-
nardino board, said that it would advance
the development of the mines of that
county many years."
The DEVELOPMENT of oil in various parts
OF the State is proceeding steadily under
the stimulus of the profits which are ac-
crulng to well-owners in Santa Barbara
and Los Angeles counties. AS result Of
the operations in Fresno County the vi
salia Delta notes the fact that new town
called Oil City has been started in the oil
regions near Coalinga by Captain Barrett
of Selma, and adds: Zone well is being
put down now and machinery ordered for
three more. The first we'll is being driven
for artesian water and will be sunk 1000
feet, II necessary; the other wells are for
petroleum. The captain is from Pennsyl-
vania and is familiar with the oil busi-
ness. Lately he made trip East, visiting
the oil regions of Pennsylvania and the
principal cities OF the East, and claims to
have enlisted capital to carry on very
large business in the new town.
The Los Angeles Journal announces that
DR.. T. G. Cotter, physician to the Terrific
rial Prison at Yuma and chairman of the
citizens committee which made arrange
ments for right Of way for the new Colo
rado River canal through that town, has
been visiting Los Angeles. He predicted
that the irrigation facilities thus secured
will increase the population of Yuma to
10000 in five years and bring $4,000 acres
OF fertile semi-tgopical fruit under cultiya-