The San Francisco call., 1897-03-08

eighteenth year. Inc paper occupies nlgn
place among the journals OF the State, and ap-
pears to be enjoying the fruits OF brainy enter.
prise.
There is another mound in the newspaper
graveyard OF Northern California. The Ukiah
Herald has yielded up the ghost after fifteen
months of vain endeavor to create place for
itself in Mendocino County.
William Allspaugh is now associated with
W. NJ. Denig in the publication OF Denig's
Pony Express at stockton. Mr.. Allspaugh pur-
chased the interest of w. L. Howell who, it is
said, contemplates starting new Democratic
paper in stock ton.
The Grass Valley Telegraph looks brighter
and fresher than ever, having just donned a
new dress of type, with all the latest frilis ana
fancies of the printers to adorn 1t. A
newspaper in order to afford such stylish at
tire must be enjoying a considerable degree
of prosperity.
Salt Lake City has new journal the Onur
Illustrated Saturday Night, the objects OF which
are to prove the value of a new method of
illustration by means Of specially prepared
onyx plates, and to serve the people OF the
metropolis OF Utah with an up-todate illus
trsted weekly newspaper
the list OF Berkeleys newspapers. is neatly
pot up and cleverly edited weekly OF six
teen pages. 1t is rather distiuctively family
journal, containing many literary and freside
amusement features, rs well as current news
and timely comment on passing events. E. c..
Overman is the editor and Anthony P. Morris
the manager.
Salinas is going ahead rapidly in the way of
industrial progress. Not only is she going 10
have an immense sugar factory, but a shoe
factory has just been started there. and the
Salinas 0wI reports that big cooperage works
will soon be established in the town. Beer
kegs will be the chief output, as the tint er
(yhi.e oak) required in their manufacture is
Sbundant on the Monterey coast.
The Adm Argus says that it is astonishing
how many business men can be talked into
taking space in a chart, or frame, or register,
or some other thing that has no excuse for ex-
istence "a scnemer VIII get more for his
wor rthless card than a country publisher with
good circulation would accept Tor whole
months insertion. 1t is people thus duped
who complain that advertising does not pay"
San Jose surpassed all rival festas a year ago
with its rose carnival. The Campbell Visitor.
printed in one Of the suburbs of the Garden
City, suggests that a fruit carnival be held this
year In preference. Every cltlZen OF santa
Clara County is interested either directly or
indirectly in the fruit industry, and the Visitor
is convinced that such an affair would meet
with popular favor and be magnificent sue.
cess.
The Bodie Miner Inde1 gives the mining
world pointer that may be said to verge on
the sensational. 1t is this: "a well-known
Bodeite, who worked for two-thirds of a gener-
alton on the COmstock, confidently asserts
that to MS certain personal knowledge there is
a considerable body of ore in the Be!cher min e
which has been Systematically covered up and
concealed for more than a fteen years He SAYS
he worked in it and saw it, and knows whereof
he speaks"
The Johannesburg Netos, published in one of
the thriving towns OF Caiifornia's desert min
ing region, declares that stories which have
appeared in exchanges from distant parts of
the country, describing the Rand as an abso-
lutely barren district, are far from true The
Ne,0s proceeds TO enIighten the outside world
as follows:
"a careful study of the elements com posing
its surface soil, together with knowledge of
the conditions necessary to prolific farming
country, leads one to take quite an opposite
view of the situation.
"The first element necessary to q good crop
is moisture. This most important feature we
have. Six and twenty-five hundredths inches
OF rain ana snow have already fallen here this