The San Francisco call., 1897-09-27


Thomas Kemp has resigned the editorial chair
OF the Palo Alto Times to A. C. Stephens.
The San Diego Sun has adopted typesetting
machines and simultaneously introduced sew
eral new and interesting departmental feat
ures, which tend to make that publication
strictly up to date in every particular.
The Lodi Revte,o- Budget has changed its date
OF publication from Thursdays to Saturdays
and is bent on present ting its readers with
more newsy paper than ever. While making
numerous improvements to augment lis value
as news-medium, the RevieoO Budget has cut
down its subscription rate fr ON ST. to 90 cents
year.
The Woodland MGd has issued a very cred
liable special edition devoted to q description
OF y olo County's advantages to home-seekers
and investors That part of the country is now
famous for its broad acres of wheat, orchards
and vineyards and its rich natural resources
are attracting steady stream Of desirable set
tiers
Farmers in the vicinity of Pleasanton, Ala
media County, are jubilant over their prospects
OF boom prices for sugar beets. Rival beet-sugar
companies are bidding against each other
for next years crop, and alre ady the price hes
advanced 80 cents on the ton. The Pleasanton
Times declares that at this rate beet-growing
Will be the most profit table industry in all Liv
ermore Valley.
The Redding Sedrchlight estimates, from data
secured on a trip through Shasta County.
that nearly 500 tons OF prunes will be gathered
and about as much more of peaches, pears,
nuts, etc. This VIII easily distribute 800, 600
among the fruit-growers and emp Dyes for the
season, sum that will grow larger as the ad-
ditional acreage already planted comes into
hp n am ia
The Cathlamet (Or.) Gazette reports that the
lumte7 business in the Webioot State is show
ing signs OF revival which are indeed crafty
ing. While the price of logs has not advanced
on the Columbia River, the demand is excel
lent. and the export trade is very good. All
the Portland mills are running continuously,
and in some cases night and day and still are
unable 10 supply the demand for export
orders.
No man who is willing to work need go idle
these days. There is a demand for laborers in
the fruit districts. The Watsonyille PdjGr0-
nidR observes that the only shortage in that
locality is in the matter of fruit-p.ekers. In
all branches of work in the Pajaro Valley
there has been an unusu ally heavy call for la
borers this season, and the supply has not
reached the demand. The fruitp packers could
find work for nearly twice as many men as
they now have.
The special edition of the Palo Alto Lire Oak,
issued Wednesday last, presenting the varied
interests of that town and its enyirons, is
superb piece OF work from an artistic stand
point, and valuable paper for the informa-
ton it contains. Palo Alto, the seat of Stan
ford University. is located in one OF Califor-
MAS garden spots, and it's proximity to San
Francisco makes it a favorable place for subur-
ban residence The Liue Oak predicts that by
the close of the century the town will have a
population of 5000.
That Suffer Creek is on the top wave of pros
perity is shown by the Amador Reco d. which
AYERS that people who have not been in that
foothill city for the past two or three years
would now find astonishing changes in the
place. New buildings adorn the main streets;
an electric plant furnishes light and power; a
big laundry does business for large part of
two counties; a well-equipped foundry firm
is kept rushing with orders; scores OF new
dwellings have sprung up in the resi-
dence district, and a conservative estimate TO-
day puts the population of Sutter Creek at
2000, against 1900. according to the census
Of 1890.
The Big Butte Quartz Mining Company is
about to utilize the flow of water from Shep-
herd Ditch TO operate large electric plant,
from which it is proposed to supply the city
of Chico with light and power. The Chico
Enterprise states that the same company is
about to mine a,ong Butte Creek. "lt is
wel[known fact that by taking the water out
of the creek rich deposits of gold can be
cured The company viii hume about one
mile, and by placing strong dam al the
lower end of the f1ume lay bare the bed OF this
creek. AS high as Sl2 to the pan has been
cured In this way, and number OF miners
living near Centeryille have taken out con
siderable gold"
The Ontario Record is urging upon the pso-
pie OF that charming town the necessity of
ganiziug Board OF Trade, in order that the
best in terests of he place may be properly ad-
vanced. 1t declares, very sensibly, that 'indi-
yidual effortis commendable and of great bene-
fit, but OF necessity the best results can only
be obtained through organized body" and
adds: "What we lost directly from not adver-
tising Ontario when the Christian Endeavor-
ers were here this summer would pay the en-
tire expense OF first-class Board OF Trade for
years to come. We lost in the past through in
activity; now let's get in and get everything
there is in eight"
The Seattle Prsss-T Times reports peculiar
grievance from the farmers of St. John in
Washington State. Their story is to the effect
that the coyotes are eating all the water
melons. 1t is claimed that these pests have
never been so numerous and bad as this sea-
sol. This is occasioned by the good condition
of horses and all other vegetable feeding ami
mails. These are well fed and able to keep out
OF the coyotes reach, which leaves but little
for the pests to live upon. During the day
they steal chickens, but at night, when these
are safely housed, the coyotes dine on water
melons. AS unreasonable as this story may
seem, it is verified by some very honest and
veraeous farmers of the st. John district.
Sacramento wants sugar factory. William
r. Gi rd of Chino declares that there is not an
acre of ground between Sacramento and Will
liam Johnstcns ranch, fifteen miles down the
river, that will not grow beets of good size and
quality. The Bee advises the people of Sacra-
mento County 10 take steps a once TO procure
a beet-sugar factory, and it believes that If the
matter is gone about in the right way there is
no reason why, in another year, site for a
factory should not be selected and work CON-
menced. "Such an enterprise would mean
much TO the city and county of Sacramento.
1t would mean increased population, increased
wealth ard big boom in all lines of trade.
What is more the impetus given to CONNER
cial and industrial life in our midst would be
las ting in its nature. new future is opening
to California that promises ere long to make