The San Francisco call., 1896-09-21

OUT wheat helds and stock OF al kinds run
ming around loose. To-day can be seen around
the town hundreds of young and thriving
orchards and vineyards, and the fruit on the
three-year-old trees the best that could be
eaten, for size, favor and taste"
Nipomo, San Luis Obispo County, rejoices
over the appearance there of anew paper, the
editor being L. F. Jones and the name of the
publication the Bee Nipomo is little more
than ten years old, but it has made rapid prog
ress IN that period, and its people are just the
KIND TO show substan tial appreciation to the
right kind OF local paper.
The Keswiek Smelter has shut down perma-
nently. Itwas run as monthly magazine.
The publication fell in because the editor and
the business manager fell out. The business
manager travelled away with all the books and
accounts of the concern and left the editor
alone to pacify the creditors.
The Pomona Beacon, Democratic weekly
paper, has come to the wise and laudable
conclusion that patriotism should supersede
politlcs, and for that reason it is now putting
In telling licks in the good cause OF Mckinley
and Hobart.
The Amador Repubticdn announces thatJac
son Is now assured of bank and railroad.
The bank will be estab ished by V. w. Gaskill
in connection with San Francisco and Jackson
capitalists. The railroad from Stockton, which
Will connect with a steamer line from San
Francisco. will be completed to Jackson in
about eighteen months.
Franklin H. Austin, at one time Secretary OF
State 10 the late King Kalakaua, and who re-
Gently essayed journalism in Ventura, has
torn himself away from the brain-racking
labors OF the sanctum and VIII now court the
| goddess Of fortune from the lecture platform.
Santa Barbara paper informs US that he will
| lecture on the Hawaiian Islands. The exactlo-
cation is not given.
The Compton Enterprise has completed its
| first half-year volume. 1t is clean, newsy
paper and seems to be on the high road to sue
! cess
The Indicator, formerly published at Moreno,
has changed its place of abode to Riverside,
where it is issued as weekly relation of the
Riverside Daily Ne,Us.
The name Of the latest addition to Oakland's
| list of newspapers is 16 to 1. The editors and
proprietors are Jesse L. Edmundson and w. D.
Wasson, and the same young men have also
purchased the East Oakland Matt. 16 to is
neatly printed on good paper. Needless to
say, it is an organ of the free silverites, and
the Mail will doubtless have its tune played on
the same instr ument.
The California Raisin-prowers' Exchange
has proved OF very material benefit to the
vineyardists, who will profit by doubled
price.
The San Diego Sun thus expands upon the
| subject:
Grape picking, which began about one week
ago In the Ell Cajon Valley, is now in full blast
and at least 400 men and women are en-
ployed in this industry in the Cajon Valley
alone. A careful estimate of this years crop
by those best qualified to judge places the
amount at about sixty-fve carloads or 780
tons. This is trifie larger than last year, al
though the lack of rains last year damaged the
crop considerably. The irrigated vineyards,
however, yielded much better than last year,
and this, with slightly increased acreage
accounts for the output
"The price, which is the all-important thing
to the rafsin-grower, as it is indeed to most
industries, promises to be much better than it
was last year i'll 1894, for which thanks
may be given to the California Raisin-growers'
Exchange, which has thus far been able to
hold together enough reisin-growers of the
State 10 represent rs per cent of the total out
put of about 1000 carloads, estimated for this
year. Last year the price averaged from to
Ia cents in the sweatbox and was so ruin
ously low that 1T not only took away all the
profit, but came very near bankruptiug the
majority of the growers who were already
sorely crippled by the depressed prices of the
past three or four years.
ain "a and 80 desperate and determined at
tempts were made TO induce the growers TO
combine. Partial combinations were effected
both years, but were invariably broken by
some OF the Fresno growers, who, it ap-
pears, had borrowed money at high rates
of interest. and becoming scared, or being
pressed by creditors, consented to sell small
quantities of raisins at less than the price
fixed by the combine. This, of course. knocked
the combine price into a cooked hat and it
wasn't long until California raisins weren't
worth anything in the Eastern markets. This
may have been pleasing to Eastern buyers.
and of course it didn't trouble the money
loaners seriously. but ii was tough on the
growers. 1t resulted, however, in bringing
them TO realization of the stu alton, and the
combine this year is said to be as hard and
tough as pine knot and able to withstand ali
the attacks that may be made against it from
the outside. The average price which it is ex-
pected Will be obtained this year is 3 cents in
the sweatboxeS. or about $4,000 for the FL
Caion crop, and in the neighborhood of $780,
o0o for the entire crop of the county"
The Amador Republican advertises that it
will be sent to any address in the United States
for one year, giving premium of four big
Mexican dollars; on receipt $4 United States
coin. The offer holds goUd until November A.
as after that date the paper may have to insist
on gold coin.
The Winters Independent endeavors to balance
its favors equally as between the Republicans
and the Democrats. In an editorial paragraph
in recent issue the paper opined that Bryan
would be elected, because "the American peo-
pie believe in men who can rustle.'' As ii to
cancel the effect of that utterance and main
tain IS reputation for impartiality the Inde-
pendent proceeds TO throw Bryan down and
walk on him in the very next paragraph,
which infers that the American people are OPP
posed to the vain pretensions and the mis-
representations INDUCED in by the elocution-
ist from Nebraska: "The country must have a
revenue equal to its expenditures, and none