The record-union., 1897-10-14

day and they found that there is now
four miles of new road that win last
for ages. Perhaps another mile will
be completed before the work is sus-
pended for the season
Butte Yuba and other counties have
talked much about getting rock crush
ers, but Tehama County knew a good
thing at a glance and at once started
to make permanent roads that will
need very little or no repairs and will
be good for all time to come.
BE CAREFUL.
Oakland Tribune: The Eastern pa
pers are getting more and more worked
up each day over the great demand in
Europe for California fruits and are
calling the attention of their own grow
ers to the necessity of at once organ
izing and endeavoring to capture some
of the trade. 1t is too late. California
products have made such an enviable
record in the European marts that it
viii be impossible for other States to
dislodSe them. We must exercise great
care, though, in living up to our repu-
tations for if irresponsible fruitmen
take advantage of the situation by ship
ping Ioor material and relying on the
word California to sell it, cur boom will
soon come to an end.
A WORD TO SACRAMENTO.
Tlllare Register: A proposition has
been made by the Oxnards to erect a
thodsandton sugar factory at Sacra-
mento upon a sufficient guarantee that
10, 300 acres of beets will be grown next
year. 1t would seem that little induce
ii
to go into business which is almost
certainly profitable. Until the United
States produces what sugar it con-
sumes sugar may be produced at
profit and of this profit growers viii
get their share From the nature of
the case beets must be grown near the
factory, and those with money invested
in the business cannot afford to under
take a cinch which will discourage beet
growing. And even if prices should
drop after while the land is clear OF
the crcp each year, as no expensive
preparations have been made as in the
case of planting trees and vines. It is
not necessary to plant all ones land to
beets but some beets have been found
good to grow wherever a factory has
been established.
PREPARING FOR ACTION.
San Jose Mercury: The Republicans
of Southern California are the first in
the State to begin preparations for the
| heated political contest that viii take
place a year hence. Without organiza-
tion effective work is impossible, and
| recognizing this fact they have formed
| the Republican League of Southern
California, for the purpose. as one of
its members says of strengthening,
uniting and harmonizing the Republi-
cans in that portion of the State. The
league Will concern itself only with
State and National affairs and will not
interfere in any manner with county
and city politics. 1t will not be con-
fined, in fact, to the country south of
Tehachapi, but win reach this side OF
the divide and embrace Kern, Tulare,
Fresno, Inyo, Monterey and Santa Cruz
Counties in each of which, as we'll as
in the lower counties, respectively, a
branch Of the league will be formed.
Undoubtedly the league comes to fill
a decided want in Southern California
and the State. In no section of the
State was the Republican party so seri-
ously affected by the inroads of the free
silver doctrine last year as in Los An
geles County.
TIMES AND THE THEATER.
San Diego Union: A very trustwor-
thy indication of better times is found
in the liberal patronage that is now be-
ing accorded to the theaters all over
the country. For several years the
playhouses have been struggling with
adverse conditions. According to East
ern papers, all this is changed now, and
in the larger cities the theaters that
present good plays, and some that fur
nish OILY mediocre entertainments. are
crowded nightly, and at many of them
1t is necessary to apply several days in
advance in order to obtain good seats.
The fact is that with persons of mod
| crate means theater- going is regarded
as luxury. 1t is one of the things that
are first cut off when people find if
| necessary to retrench, and it is not re-
sumed until they feel assured that they
| can afford it. Consequently, the way
| they are fiocking to the playhouses now
is an evidence that they feel sufficient
ly prosperous to indulge in the luxury
| to which they were accustomed prior to
the recent season of hard times.
CURRIED WITH A RAG.
Los Angeles Times: The Emperor of
Germany has excluded bicycles from
the district in which he is hunting. and
gives out that any Internal wheeIman
who goes scorching past him when his
highness is out riding, shall be declared
guilty of les majestic. All of which is
convincing evidence that somebody
| ought to make Bill a present of a
wheel. Many a horse se-drivink crank
has been cured of his inclination to
be an autocrat of the road by learning
to ride the festive steed that is shod
with wind and curried with a rag.
THE FREE MARKET.
| Stockton independent: The State
Grangeis after the Harbor Commission
ers for their neglect to establish the
free public market in San Francisco
for which the law has made ample pro
vision but which the commissioners
find means Of evading. The change in
the attitude of the commissioners to-
ward the market is unaccountable Be
| fore the law was passed they all pre-
tended to be Jealous in favor Of having
one, but as soon as it became their duty
to carry out that law they saw all sorts
of distractions in their way, and ignor-
ing the mandatory character of the
Act. have done nothing in the matter.
The indignation of the farmers is more
wild than natural. The zeal of the
commissioners before the law was pass