The San Francisco call., 1897-11-01
THE COAST PRE- IS.

The annual review and harvest edition OF
the California Fruit-Grower contains mucn
valuable statistical and historical matter con-
corning the fruit industry of this State, ana
represents much care, labor and expense. 1t
IS an excellent reference numbsr.
The Iuotumne Reflex, bright weekly pub
Ilshed in Sonora by Il. A. Helmore, bids fair to
become one of the prominent journals OF
that section OF the country. The initial num-
ber Is repiete with live matter, and, judging
by the advertisements. the merchants OF
Tuolumne County are able to tell good thing
when they see it.
The Los Gatos Mott is defendant in libel
suit, brought by the president OF the Board OF
Town Trustees of that place. Ten days ago q
complaint in the case was filed, asking for
$2S9 damages, upon which the Santa Clar a
Journal remarks that when man sues a
country editor for $299. with the expectation
OF getting it, there is no longer any question
about returning prosp sperity.'
The Escondido Tins has just begun its
twelfth year. The paper has done creditable
work for the advancement OF the interests OF
the town in which it is published, and now
calls upon the citizens 10 pull together for the
establishment of needed industries and for the
settlement of vital municipal questions, in Or
der that strangers may be attracted tnith er
and induced to locate and become home
builders.
The town of Bakersfield is again discussing
the subject OF incorporation. The leading
women Of the place have enlisted themselves
in the cause, and the Californian declares that
there IS NO more potent factor in the COM
munity than the Womau's Club, and that its
determination to make Incorporation an issue
is directly in line with the aims and purposes
OF the organization. Their interest and in
fiuence N the movement will insure 1t sup
port in quarters where heretofore there has
been only an antagonism which led to defea
The Board OF Supervisors of Hum boldt
County have made proposition TO the uper.
v1sors OF S1skiyou County to the effect that If
The latter body would order the construction
OF wagon road from Sawyers Bar to the
county line Hum boldt County would omplete
the road to tide water. And there is a oisp os-
ton manifest to accept the proposition. The
Dunsmuir Herald says that ''Siskiyou County
should seek an outlet by this wagon road by
all means. 1t Will help the county in many
ways and bring new settlers in from the coast
that otherwise would hot come, and it may be
we can market products OF Siskiyou TO tide
water"
The Los Angeles Times is authority for the
of greater development in the country towns
OF Southern California than the presen t, es-
pecially in the way of the erection of resi-
deuces. Ontario and North Ontario have
made great growth in the past few months
Chino has really been booming. Pomona has
every carpenter at work. Half the houses in
Azusa smell OF fresh paint, SO rapid has been
the growth. Covina has been building ex-
tensively, but there is not vacant house in
the town; and so it goes everywhere, the
country districts keeping pace with the towns.
This building activity is not carried on for
fun, but is made nee assary by the constant in
crease in population.
In describing Butte County and its re-
sources the Oroville Register presents the fol-
lowing facts: Butte Couny's area is 1863 square
miles. II lies on the west flank of the Serras-
more than half the county being amid the
foothills, while the remainder is in the Sacra
mento Valley. The county is we'll watered by
the Feather RIVER and its numerous tribu-
taries and by several large creeks which flow
into the Sacramento River, which touches
the western border of the county. The
climate is semi-tropical and the orange,
lemon olive, fig, loquat and guava flourish
luxuriantly. The mountains are heavily tim
bered with sugar and pitch pine, oak, cedar,
msdrona, etc, Stockraising and fruil-grow-
ing ere extensively carried on in the foot
hills. GRAIN hay and fcuit are produced in
large quantities in the valley. The rainfall in
the valley is twenty to twenty four in ches in
the foothills at 1900 feet thirty-six inches and
in the mountains forty-eight to fifty inches
The total assessed value of property
is $l3 $40, ,526, rate OF taxation 81 S5 on the
hundred. value of county building. 800, 900.
There is fifty-nine miles of railroad, l IA miles
of telegraph lines, $50 miles of tele lephone
lines and $50 miles of irrigation bitches and
canals. There are Seventy-five school dis
tricts, 104 teachers, 4l6S school children one
normal aud TWO high schools, and in 1896 the
total school expe penditures were $78, ,244. All
county sch ools have eig ht-month terms
According 10 the Yreka Journal, no county
in the State has shown q greater prosperity
tbal has Siskiyou. at is true there has been
no boom, but i'll every section of the county
there has been a steady growth. Around
Yreka great deal OF building has been going
on, and the town has improved both in popu-
lation and in business. In the entire western
section new mines nave been developed and
every town has felt the benefit of this in
creased activity In the mines. Especially has
this been SO along the Klamath, where several
wealthy companies have Invested largely and
introduced big plants. Sfskiyou is rapidly
approaching the lead as a mining county and
will no doubt head the list in few years
especially as quar- mining is picking up nad
lodges are being developed. The dairy inter
ests are also quite factor in this county, an
increased demand for Si>kiyou butter and
cheese having been ielt during the past
son. In the Mount Shasta section the mills
have all been in operation this season. and
under good tari # the lumbermen viii! ali get
good price for their lumber and next year
we will see greater activity in this line. The
new road which has been built over squaw
mountain will open up vast belt of timber
and will largely increase the output of lum ber
from Siskiyou. No county in the State has
greater resources than Siskiyou, and her fu
ture is certainly very bright" =
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