The San Francisco call., 1897-10-04
THE COAST PRESS.

Walker Jones has sold the Mountain View
Register to g. K. Estes, an experienced news
paper man of San Jose. The Register improved
IN every respect during Mr.. Jones proprietor
snip thereof, and now Mr.. Estes will endeavor
10 raise the standard of that paper still higher.
In honor of it's twenty-first birthday, the
Fresno Republican has issued a souvenir en-
titled "lmperial Fresno" 1t describes the
varied resources of that city and county, and
the Illustrations are many and beautiful The
work constitutes an excellent advertisement
Tor that section of California.
The editor of the Orange County Herald con-
iesses That he entertains the human longing
ior coin, but he scorns to disgrace his profess
sion by refusing any tine. honored medium
Oh subscription exchange. Hence he sdver-
uses that he "can us. stovewood, butter, eggs,
chlckens, Dull calves. pumpkins, hay, peiro-
euin, spuds, salt pork or any old thing like
that Delinquent subscribers who are long on
any OF these articles and short on cash might
tarry long enough on this announcement to
stamp 1t indelib!y in their memory"
An important newspaper change has taken
place IL Santa Rosa. The Democrat, of which
Hon Thomas L. Thompson was proprietor, has
be en- sold 10 the Press Publishing Company,
ana as soon as the necessary details in re-
gard 10 the transfer can be arranged the two
papers Will be merged into a morning daily to
De known as the Press Democrat Grant o.
hichards Will be the editor-in-chief of the new
paper IL is rumored that Mr.. Thompson will,
IN the near future, become connected with the
Brazilian consulate here, and that he will also
represent big Rio Janeiro commercial COM
pany which has offices in the principal ports OF
the world.
oaSdale wants more factorie of different
chine shops, etc., to supply the demand of her
sister towns. The Oakdsle Leader saws: ave
nave the cheapest and best motor power in
the state, and all 1t needs is little capital
ana perseverance, to put it to an available use.
Our SOIL Is all that can be asked for-of MANY
varieties and very productive We are strictly
In IL ior all kinds of tropical fruits; oranges,
lemons, olives, etc. growing here to perfection
and yielding good crops. With all these ad-
Vantages Oakdale cannot do otherwise than
prosper"
The Los Gatos Mdil urges that attractive
burg to get into line with the progressive
towns OF the State ana keep step TO the grand
march OF public improvement 1t remarks
that even little Ben Lomond, in the foothills
OF the Santa Cruz Mountains, is making ar.
rangements to double her accom- modations to
meet the demands of the public next year;
San Jose will build one of the fuest theaters
In the State; Santa Cruz is leading out for
another public school edifce, Mountain View
VIII erect handsome public school building.
and Los Gatos ought to lcse no time in profit
Ing by their examples.
The Oroviile Register reports that q number
OF farmers on the west side of Feather River
in the vicinity of Gridley have organized an
association among themselves for The purpose
oferecting large levee to hold the waters of
Feather River from their lands This levee
VIII begin at the Ord ranch, owned by Rey.
man Evans, and will extend south two and
a half miles. 1t will be six feet high, six feet
wide on top, ana forty-two feet on the bottom.
They Will push building the levee with the
utmost dispatch, some furnishing money and
Others teams and men, and will get the leyee
completed as early as possible. The top of the
levee will be two feet higher than the high
water mark OF 1881.
An enterprise of great moment to Tuol u mne
County is the construction of a dam across
the North Fork of the Siauislaus River near
Lyons Fat, by means of which, it Is es IL
mated, an ample supply OF water will be Sc
cured to run all the mines along the line of
bitches in that section all the year round.
Some $4,000 will be expended in the work
which will be completed by next June. The
Iuounlne IndeDendent states that Sin place of
there being two or three idle months in the
year and hundreds OF men out of employment
all will in future be engaged, 10 say nothing
OF the development work that will follow and
provide for numerous more hands. AS an in
vestment IL is said that the dam will pay for
itself, during the usual shortage of water, next
year"
The dawn of Bakersfeld's new era is redden-
ing into the luster of day. A hydro-ele ctric
plant now furnishes light and heat to Kern
County's capital, and the Cdlifornicn has pub
lish- an illustrated descriptive article with
reference to that valuable i'm provement The
electricity is developed at the mouth of the
canyon OF Kern River, sixteen miles east of
Bakersfield. The water has a fall of 1913 feet
to the water-wheel. Theoretically 10 cubic
feet OF water per second, falling 1913 feet de-
veiop for this company 300 horsepower
The 10 coo volts are transmitted to Bakers
field over a line composed of six copper wires
and twenty-six sawed redwood poles placed
125 feet apart This electric power will be
used for lighting, for running electric rail
ways, for manufacturing and for pumping
water in irrigation.
The Stockton Mdii editorialIy pays a hand.
some tribute to Que of the builders of the
West. II declares that "the broad public
spirit and genuine affection for the State
which has led Claus Sprecxels to invest his
many millions in California and to spend the
income OF those many millions here at home
is worthy of honor and applause. He has
built in the San Joaquin Valley a railroad. he
has erected great beet-sugar factories, thus
bringing employment and comfort TO many
thousands of persons in the interior. In San
Francisco he has erected the finest business
edifice on this coast and has built a magnif-
cent home. His investments are made to earn
him money, OF course. They are not charit-
able undertakings. But they furnish employ
ment to industrious men, put money in cir
culatiol, stimulate trade, build up and enrich
the commonwealth and are big with benef-
cent results. We shall continue, doubtless. TO
disagree with Claus Spreckels at times. But
no heat OF disagreement shall ever cause us to
forget that all his time, his ability and his
vast wealth are wholly expended in his own
State and among his own people