Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-11-26

The steamer Albion is back from the
Mexican west coast. Mr.. Sattley, the
representative of the Los Angeles mer-
chants who went down on the vessel.
has arrived here and reports prospects
for trade good, just as soon as the new
steamer Tor the service now building in
England reaches Ensenada.
The mother Of 4-year-old Riverside
girl reproved her for some misdeed, and
shortly after, seeing her intently study
ing the pages of a newspaper, asked
what she was reading. ooh, nothing"
the child replied. "I'm just looking
for an advertisement of another
mother"
Southern California farmers will have
to learn to return to the soil something
of the fertility which is taken out OF it.
The idea that we can 60 on raising i'm
mense crops year after year without do
ing anything in the way of fertilizing or
rotation of crops is unreasonable, not to
say absurd.
A man buried in Tempe, Arizona.
cemetary, was recently removed to
another. When taken out, the coffin
fell apart, disclosing the fact that the
head of the corpse had luxuriant
growth of hair, and the beard had
grown until it reached the waist. When
buried the old man was bald headed.
A deed of trut from the Santa Fe Pa
cifc railroad to the Union Trust COM
pany of New York has been filed for
record in Prescott, Ariz. The amount
involves SIG, 900, 900 and includes lines
belonging to the railroad company be-
ginning at Albuquerque and extending
to the Needles, together with the rolling
stock and improvements.
The Lamanda Park and Sierra Madra
electric railroad, which connects with
the road running from Los Angeles to
Pasadena, has decided to extend it's line
through Lamanda park and Sierra
Madra along the foothills. A 5OO-horse
power engine, costing $40 900, will be
purchased and new and enlarged dyna-
mos placed in the system.
Old man Clark of San Diego. scout
of the Apache wars, is forming an ex-
petition to avenge the death of Captain
Porter and his shipmates, recently
killed by the Ceris on Tiburon Island.
A rapid fire gun and rifles and ammuni
ton enough for hot conflict is to be
taken if the Mexican government
grants the necessary permission and
measures.
Redlands is boasting over the fact
that the cheapest electric power in the
United States will soon be available for
large manufacturing industries there,
and that, owing to the low cost of power
at that point, Redlands being almost at
the source of supply, the establishment
of manufacturing industries will be
justified there. 1t may be that before
many years Redlands will become a sort
of Pacific Coast Niagara Falls.
J. E. Gedney of Mesa Grande is in
San Diego with a proposition to have
the Cuyamaca railroad extended from
point near Lakeside to Ramona. The
proposition is that subsidy be raised,
say of from $1,000 to $4,000 per mile, and
offered to responsible contractors to go
ahead and complete the road. Mr..
Gedney is of the opinion that subsidy
of $4,000 or $4,000 could be raised
from San Diego business men and resi-
dents who are interested in seeing
railroad pushed into the back country
and toward the desert.
Five hundred men are rushing the
work of the Southern California Power
company in Santa Ana canyon. The
big fume being constructed will have
capacity of 1900 inches of water and
the power developed will light Pasa-
dena and operate the Los Angeles rail-
way company's system of electric cars.
OF the Is tunnels the largest will be
21OO feet in length. Work on the power
house at the foot of the falls has already
been commenced. The line to Los An
geles will be eighty miles long, and the
power supplied will consist of $4,000
volts.
Work on the Ojai railroad is progress
ing rapidly. The contractors have pro-
vided their force and have one gang
working at Long valley, while the other
is stationed at the Ayala place, about
three miles from town. The culvert
builders have completed nearly all of
the small! culverts and bridges. The
grading will be finished at this end of
the line in about two weeks. when the
laying of the ties and rails will COM
mence. The cars on the Ojai Valley
railroad will soon be ready to convey
passengers.
What degrees of cold will the olive
tree endure? and at how high an elva
ton will it bear in this state? are ques-
lions often asked and in answer would
say that Prof. JOS L. Cline states that
oil va trees at Galveston. Texas bore last