The San Francisco call., 1897-10-11

- Ivan, DiiSub weekly newspaper Is tue
berkeley Herald, which has just celebrated its
eleventh birthday. 1t is edited with admira-
Bile taste and discretion.
The Stockton Daily Record is now in its
sixth volume. II has made remarkable prog.
ress In the three years of its existence, and
ranks to-day as one of the prosperous and in
huential newspapers of the San Joaquin Val.
ley.
Long Beach has lost its Eve. The publishe r
1ound mat the patronage of the town was in.
sufhcient to MAINTAIN d daily paper. Long
Beach is still pretty well supplied with news
papers, the Breaker and Press now dividing
the local field
The San Leandro Standard is booming the
project oil fruit cannery for that place and
the prospects are good for the establishme Mt
OF an enterprise on the cooperative plan
cannery of sufficient capacity to ham
die all OF the fruit III that section that
cannot be disposed of at remunerative figures
in its fresh state
Inc western WdtchmdR, published at
EUREKA, has entered its fourteen tn year. 1t
claims that 10 its persistent work is due largely
the credit of the Humboldt bar improvement
ana the wagon road TO Oregon ana has
Planned campaign for the immediate future
ior the agitation of system of wagon-roads
reaching into the interior and particularly
into The mining sections OF Sskiyou and
Trinity counties
The Hanford Sentinel is convinced that King
County ought to hold fair, and makes the
boast that at such an exhibition would be
shownthe best and finest herd OF short-horned
cattle, the best draft horses and as good fruit,
gram ana poultry as in any county in the State.
"A county fair would bring producers to-
gether, would lead 10 closer acquaintance,
knowledge OF neighborhooi effort, and
would certainly lead to better efforts all along
the line
Inc san Jose Mercury observes that the sue
cessful experiment of free rural mail delivery
at Campbell in Santa Clara County, and a few
otner places where it has been tried, has so
iaVoraply impressed the Postal Department
with the value OF this service that it will be
generally introduced in rural districts that are
quite thickly populated But the department
Will ma 1t necessary to pay the carriers
better salaries than those at Campbell are now
receiving.
The Fresnor Expositor is desirous of seeing
mountain summer colony established over
near the raisin center. Such a colony, 1T
argues, would mean the retention there of the
very large sums OF money tnat are annually
carried out to the sea coast. The supplies for
ucn colony would be bought in Fresno and
would not cripple the town as the abse tees
now do every summer. 1t would mean the
creating OF business for and among our own
people, rather than for another community.
Let US work for the establishment os q series
OF resorts along the high Sierras, and keep
our people and our money at home"
The agricultural resources of the country
around Chico are discussed in the last issue OF
the Chico Enterprise. That region rarely
II n n aff has a
the result under the most unfavorable circum-
stances. Its proximity to noun tains on either
side and the many streams which meander
through the valley into the Sacramento, render
the SOIL moist aud fertile. The crops of this
year-cereal and fruit-have been good, and
the prospects of a remunerative price gives
the farmer a strong faith and confidence in
the future OF this section, which should fur
nish abundant inducement TO others to cast
their lot with u.s."
The Elko New Independent maintains that
we Nevada considered equally with othe-
States her so-ealled deserts would be deserts
no longer. "Were her natural irrigation re-
sources husbanded by proper methods; were
her share OF Federal appropriations set aside
to her TO be expended for her bene fit, her sup
posedly desert lands would smile forth in
their abundance and furnish home for mil
lion people with an independent living at
tached to the home. Like the Riverside OF
California it would disappear from the map as
desert spot and reappear as a paradise re-
generate"
The village of Analy, Sonoma County, has q
weekly paper, the Standard, which will inform
the word at large of the beauty and fertility
of that section of California. and labor to at
tract homeseekers to the favored locality. 1t
opines that not many years VIII pass until
every acre OF ground, from the summit of the
Occidental ana Freestone hills to the Laguna,
from Forestvile and Vine Hill to Sc ebastopoi,
and from English Hill 10 Blucher Valley
northward will be under cultivation, and the
whole of Analy township one vast and con-
iinuous acreage of orchard, vineyard, fam
and garden.
The live, brainy young business men OF AS
toria, Or, have decided that tbs growth of
that city can be greatly accelerated by the
formation OF an industrial club. whose object
will be to promote and stimulate every new
enterprise that would be beneficial alike to
the promoters and the city. To this end says
the Cathlamat Gdzette, suitable building has
been secured, where an exhibit of the prod
ucts OF the entire Columbia River, on both
sides. will be made. The club will be the
clearinghouse OF ideas, tending not only TO
bring about closer and more harmonious
action on all matters calculated TO advance
the common good, but to collect and dissent
nate suitable advertising matter pertaining
10 the many varied indust tries of that section.
Substantial Improvements are being made
in San Luis Obispo harbOr, the last Congress
sional appropriation of $45 900 being avail
able for the construction of The much-needed
breakwater q I Port Hartford. The Breeze states
that about $4,000 tons of rock will be dumped
into the ocean under The contract now being
carried out, and about four months will be
required for the work, which "will extend the
breakwater line 500 feet beyond its present
outer terminal. Some 24-foot water has to be
worked in on the present line. The top of the
breakwater is 20 feet wide and six feet out of
water at high tide. The wid tn OF the base
will depend upon the depth of the water, as
the outside wall viii slant one foot in three of
depth, while the inside wall Will slant one
foot iu one of depth"
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