The herald., 1897-12-02
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
SANTA BARBARA

SANIA bARBARA, Dec. 1.-(Regular
Correspondence.) The building of a
wharf at Summerland seems certain.
Oil operators who are paying high
freight rates for their product between
that place and San Francisco are back
of the movement. With a wharf, the
tank steamers will carry the stuff for
IA cents per barrel while the railroad
charges three or four times that amount.
Summerland oil brings from S1.30 to ST. so
per barrel in San Francisco, while In
tanks at the wells the price fuctuates
from 55 to so cents. The freight makes
the biggest part of the difference. 1t
is proposed also to sink wells alongside
the wharf, as the oil strata extends into
the sea. Between the profit from these
wells and the wharfage on oil and
produce it is expected that the enter
prise will be a success. The contract
for the construction of the pier will be
let within a few days.
STREET SURVEYS
The old and court-worn matter of the
surveys of the streets of the city has
been the subject of another opinion by
commissioner in the supreme court
1t is in the Oglesby and Baker cases on
Laguna street lines, and holds that the
present lines should stand, affirming
Judge Cope's decision in the superior
court The opinion is unfavorab BILE to the
city.
BEET SUGAR
The Union company of San Francisco
has come to the front with another prop
osition for the farmers of northern
Santa Barbara county They first asked
bonus of 5000 acres. for which they
would erect a s1,OOO,O0O beet sugar fac
tory somewhere between San Luis
Obispo and Santa Ynez. The ranchers
did not enthuse. Now the company is
willing to accept $500 acres. No decision
has been reached.
ROBBED A MAIL BOX
The United States mail box at the cor
ner of de la Vina and de la Guerra
streets was broken into last night. it is
supposed by some of the tramps who are
doing" the town. 1t is not known
whether or not any letters or other mail
were stolen. One letter was found in the
box this morning with the corner torn
off. The thieves took the paddock. The
mail had been gathered about o'clock
in the afternoon, and as the box is not
in a business portion of the town the
supposition is that nothing of particular
value was taken.
FEASTED HIGH
Tramps last night broke into a loaded
freight car at the lower yards and FEAST
ed on choice groceries, such as clam
choWder, stuffed olives, Huylers con-
fections, Smyrna figs, etc, and made
away with quantity of other goods in
the same line. Two attempted hold-ups
are also reported. The police are now
! engaged in making a roundup of the
tough characters that have been max
ing life miserable for Barbarenos for
several days. They will be put at work
on a rock pile.
NOTES AND PERSONALS
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton B.sHale are ex-
pected to arrive within few days, after
spending year on journey around the
world.
Magnolia lodge, No. 242, T. & A. NJ,
will hold the annual election of officers
Friday evening.
The common council will hold a regu-
| lar meeting tomorrow
| The football club of Santa Barbara in
tends making the Southern California
university team proposition for game
here during the holidays. The managers
of the two elevens have been in corro-
spondence for several weeks, but no
definite agreement has been reached.
Los Angeles asked Santa Barbara to pay
their expenses both ways. As Ventura
is likewise counting on a game with the
university boys, the local team thought
Ventura could stand one way fare for
the visitors. But it develops that the
university team also struck Ventura for
expenses both ways. Santa Barbara and
Ventura are considering now what Los
Angeles intended to do with those double
fares.
a suggestion has been made to the tree
committee of the board of trade that the
route of the electric car line from tho
Arlington to the mission be lined with a
double row of the cocos plumosa, new
but very handsome tree that was grown
for the first time in California by Santa
Barbara propagators two years ago.
''An Hour With Whittier" was enjoy
ed at the parlors of the Unitarian church
last evening. Mrs. c. M. Gidney read
a paper on the religious poetry Of Whit