The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-07

Charles L. Denohue has leased the Santa
Barbara Independent. In his salutatory the
new proprietor says: at is our ambition to
give to the people of Santa Barbara and vicin-
ity bright, newsy paper that will be Tree
from any personal attacks whatever, believ-
ing our success will largely depend upon the
quality and quantity OF news published, and
not in airing our own personal grievances"
The paper was formerly supporter of the gold
standard. it remains Democratic, with the
difference that it has flung aside its gold
buckler and lance, and viii henceforth do its
fighting with spear and shield OF silver.
On September l the Los Angeles Record cele-
brated, in a large and creditable edition, its
first anniversary the pioneer penny paper
OF the Pacific Coast. at was predicted,'' saws
the Record, "that the penny proposition would
not take in Los Angeles because of the slight
circulation of pennies in this region, and be-
cause of the alleged prejudice that prevails in
this State against pennies. The publishers
however, realized that Los Angeles is essen
TALLY an Eastern city, as its population is in
the main composed of those who have within
six or seven years resided in the East where
the penny has been a current coin for thirty
years, and who therefore have no prejudice
which old residents of California are sup
posed to have inherited from the mining days,
when the two-bit and four bit pieces were the
SnAlleSI CnanSe. Inc puOllSnerS OF the Record
believed that for this reason the common cir
culation of the penny could be brought about
more easily than anywhere else in California,
and the results have demonstrated that they
were correct"
The Plumas National Bulletin has opened
Volume XXI. 1t is an able, substantial
newspaper, and good authority on mining
matters.
Santa Barbara rfu hat
are seventy-one oil wells in operation in Sum-
merland; that six new wells are being sunk
and that the present daily production of oil is
$50 barrels. The same publication saws:
within three months there will be hundred
wells in operation in Summerland, with a pro-
duction or output of from 500 to 600 barrels
per diem. This is a conservative estimate. We
have not yet begun to appreciate what Sum-
merland is or the part 1t will play in the future
OF this city and county"
The Livermore Herald advises every foothill
farmer in Alameda County to ego to prospect
ing; to bore, drill and dig about their farms;
to look for indications of cement. lime pot
ter's clay salt, building stone, glassblower's
sand, gas, oil, coal, manganese, cinnabar, gold
and silver. The reasons for such suggestions
are contained in an article OF which the fol-
lowing is a liberal extract:
ION the southern slopes of the hills that
sAAAI tAe uOILueIu boundary OF LnlS county,
about five miles from Liyermore is the farm
OF G. G. Munich. Upon this farm there is a 20
acre patch covered with springs, more or less
mineral in their quality, and abundant in their
flow. Most of them are mildly favored with
sulphur and iron and one or two of them are
quite briny. For years there has been running
TO waste from these springs immense quanti-
ties of the finest natural gas, and no one knew
II. Mr.. Munich could now illuminate his house
and provide himself with all the fuel for heat
ing ana cooking purposes by simply catching
the natural discharge OF gas from these
springs. The people of this valley are in prac-
tical and unmindful ignorance of what is I'M
der their feet. Mr.. Munich has simply con-
tented himself to plod along in the good old