The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20

oAty- VI from Underwater on the bay OF gan |
francisco, south of Napa, or from point
OF connection with a railroad system al
READY connected-up the Napa Valley, on
Ihe east side, with connection to Napa
ooda Springs, northward through Conn,
cage and Chiles valleys into Pope, with
connections to Berryessa Valley; thence
by Butts Canyon into Lake County, into
the Loconoma and Guenoc valleys, with
connection to Middletowp and neighbor-
ing mines and springs; thence to Lower
Lake and thence by lake shore to Kelsey
vie ana to terminus at Lakeport, the
county seat OF Lake County; also to tllr-
nlsh electric power where needed along the
hne from Lakeport to Vallejo AID Mare
Island. The electric power is to be pro-
cured from electric works of the company
situated on Cache Creek, the outlet OF
Clear Lake. The length of the proposed
railroad is about eighty-hve miles-sixty
miles from Napa to Lake and eighteen
miles to Lakeport, with the addition of
some miles south from Napa."
The annual review published by the
Santa Rosa Republican Is an able and thor
ough exposition of the beauties, resources
and progress of Sonoma County. 1t is
gratifying to learn from it that nearly
100000 was invested in permanent i'm
provements in that city during the past
year.
While so much attention is being turned
TO the installation of electric plants to
utilize the water-power of the mountains
the Lodi ReUieaV-Budget calls attention to
the enticing invitation which the Moke
Iumne River offers. According to our
contemporary such a plant could be adj
vantageously placed at Westmoreland'
bridge, where the old MoKelumne Ditch
Company located its dam, and have fall
OF several hundred feet, all that would be
required under any circumstances to gen.
crate the electric current, and this not
twenty miles from Lodi on direct line.
Ii plant were put in there it could sup
ply Stockton and all the neighboring
towns with just such power and light as
is to be furnished Fresno.
The Enterprise is a bright and promising
paper which has been started by M. HI.
Mccarthy at Castroville, Monterey County.
With reasonable charges for trsnsporta-
ton and with an abundance of crude oil in
the State, California ought to be able to
compete with the Standard OIL Company
IN supplying refined oil to this market. 1t
is announced by the Redlands Citrograph
that the Puente Oil Company has decided
to erect refinery at Chino. It will have
capacity of 500 barrels a day and will be
ready to start up in the early spring.
The Kern County Californian publishes
the following interesting news: Senator
Goucher intends to start a newspaper in
Fresno. 1t is to be a straightout Demo
cratic paper and is 'to tell the truth
Those who are acquainted with the Sena-
tors sledge- hammer style trust that he has
his life insured for large amount, and
that he has plat in the new Fresno GEM
etery set aside for him."
J. Faunt lie Roy has succeeded James f. !
Lyon as publisher of the Guadalupe SEN
taeet, which, though only little over
year old, ably reflects the prosperity of
that progressive community.
The San Bernardino Inder announces
that G. B. Hughes has filed a claim on
100000 miners inches of water in LytIe
Creek, at place called Miller's Narrows,
on the land of J. N. Miller, for the purpose
OF constructing dam and reservoir. The
power is to be converted into electricity,
which will be distributed all through the
valley for light and manufacturing pur-
poses. The surplus is to be carried down
in cement ditch to the Grapeland irri-
eating system.
In beginning its fifth volume, the Santa
Barbara Flag expresses confidence in the
continuation of the prosperity which has
rewarded its efforts in the past.
The Winnemucca ,SilUer State. quoting
the Deeth Tidiags, calls attention to the
need of irrigation in Nevada and the facih-
ties which abound for introducing it. Irri-
CATION is necessary to the further develop
ment of the State, and concert of effort to
remove the aridity which checks settle
ment would invite q large accession of
capital, enterprise and population. The
one practical plan is the storage of water
in reservoirs. Our contemporary adds:
Each succeeding spring witnesses in Elko
County, and the entire State for that mat
ter, swollen rivers, creeks, streams and
brooks doing considerable damage and no
good whatever. A system of storage
reservoirs would save all this waste until
1t was needed later on in the season. That
1t would require good deal of capital to
accomplish this work as it shonld be done
is foregone conclusion, but then capital
is never backward wherever a sure and
profitable investment is opened. Every
valley in Elko County is more than capa-
BILE of supporting over double its present
population were these reservoirs erected,
and consequently every inch of water
stored would be sold and utilized before
the season was over at big profit to the
projectors and of untold benefit to our
agricultural and cattle industries"
The Ventura Press, having entered upon
its twenty-tirst volume, is just old enough
to enjoy its triumphs of the past without
a dlminution of its hopes and efforts for
the future.
One of the first large results of developing
the petroleum stores of California is an
nounced by the Stockton Independent. The
Union Mills of that city changed from
coal-burners to oil-burners. The change
was made so quickly that the only delay