The San Francisco call., 1896-04-06
COAST EXCHANGES,

The Importance OF the orange industry
in the northern part of California is some
times overlooked. A distinct point in
favor of that region is noted by the Oro-
vile Mercury when it says that the orange
crop in that section is marketed from four
to six weeks earlier than in most orange
growing countries. 1t adds: This gives US
the advantage of the highest prices and
also avoids any chance of frosts, should
they visit this section. The largest
orchard here ships thousands of boxes
year already, and our orange
groves are all comparatively young.
For the navel variety this past
season this orchard realized, f. o. b. cars at
Oroville, an average price of 81 AZ box.
These parties were offered contract dur
ing the first of the season for 81 so box
1. o. b. cars for the entire navel crop. They
realized from the acreage picked $500 an
acre this past season; these trees were
planted seven and nine years since. The
orchard referred to is the Oroyille Citrus
Association of Thermalito" With such
profits as this, sure to be maintained, there
is an extraordinary incentive to plant
orange trees in Northern California.
The extraordinary progress which Stock
ton is preparing to make under the stimu-
Ius of the Valley road is indicated by an.
nouncements made in the papers pub
lished there. The Mail says that strong
company is being organized to generate
electricity at the Salt Spring Valley reser-
voir, whence it will be conducted to Stock
ton for manufacturing purposes. The
power will be ready for delivery May /.
The enterprise is in the hands of Eastern
capitalists.
The Independent SAYS that the Stockton
Gas and Electric Company has made a
successful test of its new 15O-horsepower
dynamo and is ready to furnish power for
running light machinery. Stockton is
responding promptly to the influences
which are operating to make it great
city.
The Los Ange les Express notes that salt
in inexhaustible quantity, in chemically
pure state, has been discovered near
Dandy, San Bernardino County, along the
line of the Saute Fe Railroad, and that it
will be extensively mined and shipped
The mines are to be handled by Los An
geles company. and they bid defiance to
Liverpool or any other place on earth in
the matter OF supplying a pure salt at
low price. Extensive contracts have al
ready been made with packing houses in
Chicago and Kansas City to take the Cali
fornia salt instead of that from Liverpool
and the Eastern States.
The Contra Costa Gazette Martinez) and
the Oakland Tribune are vigorously at
tempting to revive the old scheme of a
finely macadamized road connecting the
two counties. a correspondent OF the
Tribune makes strong argument In favor
OF the project. He calls attention to the
fact that only fifty years ago the land on
which the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, is
situated was selling at 81 an acre. The
enterprise of people has made all that
difference that now exists. Such road
as the one proposed would cost about $lo.-
600, and would open up a productive
region of 81, 600 acres worth s., 600 OOU, and
would enable the products to be shipped
to San Francisco. Enthusiastic meetings
are being held, and the hope is INDUCED
that this important highway will soon be
an accomplished fact.
The San Bernardino Times-Inder is urg-
Ing its people to accept proposition
made by Eastern Gamers to erect q can
merry if bonus of $4,000 is subscribed,
to which the company will add $25 900.
The offer was made to Redlands, but the
people there have been slow to respond.
The Fresno Republican announces that
Clovis is rapidly building up. The new
$4,000 schoolhouse will soon be com pleted.
The Woodland Mail calls attention to
modest enterprise which is prospering
there and which teaches an eloquent les
son of the resources of that section It is
broom factory, turning out hundred
dozen brooms month and selling them