The record-union., 1897-08-23
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.
Biggs Notes: The Record Union OF
| recent date lays great stress on the
certainty it claims has taken the place
of the uncertainty existing in business
circles previous TO the tariff bill. We
are glad to learn of this as we had
a doubt about the times being as hard
as some of our exchanges pictured
them. Now We are certain of it. While
the rise in the price of wheat (due 10
the failure of crops in other parts OF
the world and not to the passage of the
/ tariff bilD with the discovery OF fabu-
lous mines in the frozen North (Which
We do not think the American tariff
bill is responsible for) will tend to make
times much better In the immediate
future, we do not look for permanent
good times until after the second battle
at the polls has taken place, and our
financial policy is taken out or the
hands of those who control it for their
own benefit and not for the benefit OF
the people at large.
THE TRUTH IS.
Yuba City Independent: The Sacra-
mento Record Union in announcing
editorially that the State Department
of Highways is about to get to WORK
animadverts right sharply upon that
body for its past neglect of duty The
truth is, the people of this State, as 10
a majority, do not want good roads II
they are to pay for them There IS
broad field for the educator along this
line.
FEMALE REPORTERS.
Portland Oregonian: The confessions
| of a female reporter on san fraii-
cisco new journal" reprinted in the
"Oregonian' yesterday from the Sacra-
menlto Record Union" interested
great many Portland people, and gave
them an insight into the methods en-
ployed to secure the stories which are
a leading feature of these newspapers.
! In this connection it is worth While 70
narrate the process by which the san
! Francisco EXAMINER year since
manufactured page of startling fiction
/ out of a curious incident which origl-
mated at The Dalles. A young woman
| a Swedish servant girl, fell into stu
| por. from which she was not aroused
| for forty days. She was brought 10
Portland, where physicians discovered
what was the matter with her, ana
awakened and permanently cured her,
| by copious internal applications of hot
water. On this basis of fact, which
was interesting enough in itself, the
| Examiner" built a remarkable tale.
Two rivals for the beautiful Dalfes
girls hand were created. They fought
! a duel over her One of them was
| credited with having an evil eye, and
| it was suggested that the girls rofts
days' slumber was due to his NAL
efcent orb. A great picture, ntroduc-
| ing fashionably dressed males and fe-
males, attending the lovely Invalid, was
| introduced. She was brought to Port
land, where the skim of renowned sur
geons. who tried to discover the cause
Of her strange malady. was long oa1-
! fed 1t was worms. And so the story
went on, ad nauseum. OF such Is the
new journalism.
| CALIFORNIA LEADS.
Nevada City Herald: The reports OF
gold discoveries on the Klondike, even
| if no allowance is made for exaggera-
| tion, do not give any evidence that the
new district will be equal to California
! As Professor Davidson said: 'Califor-
MIA is a greater mining country to-day
| than the Klondike, rich as the klon-
! dixie mines may be. For thirteen years
mn TO 1889 our product was 19,0O0 900.
In 1889 the product was SS1 100000 of
placer gold or nearly 81 100000 every
/ four days. Can the Klondike ever
reach that?"
| In addition to the great gold pro-
| ductiveness of the past, to which FRO
! fessor Davidson referred, We have the
| rich discoveries of to-day, which are
not inferior to any that have been
made in the frozen North. 1t hardly
| seems necessary to point the moral oil
these facts to any one who is capable
of understanding a moral If they read
it. A word to the wise is sufficient.
Stick to California.
WEALTH WAITING IN CALIFOR-
Stockton Independent: The rich
strike in Mariposa County on Tuesday
outdoes any Klondike or Coffee Creek
discovery For many years Mar1posa
County was neglected and mining was
sluggishly followed. The men who IN
vested in the mine began work less
than a wear ago and sunk many thou
sands before they reached the wealth
they sought. They did not work in
the dark but had a competent engln-
eer directing their efforts, and their
faith in him and in the science he prac-
ticed has been richly rewarded. Eighty
thousand dollars in sight and a million
| in immediate prospect should be
stimulus to others to make like efforts
along the Mother Lode, whose rich
ness is not half uncovered. Such mines
cannot be worked by poor men, OF
course. but they are not the only kind
! to be had. Frank Mcpherson, for
several years a printer on the "lnde-
pendent." returned to his native coun-
" Tuolumne, less than two years ago
and began mining. During last year
he and another young man worked
gravel mine in a very modest way.
drifting instead of by hydraulic power,
/ and have taken out as high as 500 a
week. Their gains have been invested
in another mine that promises to pay
them much better. This is, of course,
not equal to Klondike stories or Coffee
Creek boastings, but it is rich reward
for young men whose principal capital
a couple of years ago consisted of cour-