The record-union., 1897-04-25

| for the Dingley bill. But the South
has been gradually getting over its
fear of such legislation and the more
| it diversifies it's industries, the more it
will support such legislation. The
| solid South is almost a thing of the
| past.
GREAT UNDERTAKING.
Modesto News: The most stupendous
industrial undertaking that is to-day
growing under the hand of man is the
great Trans-Siberian Railway of Rus
sia Its cost when finished will be
$500 600, its total length 400 miles.
1t will be completed in year more
! The western part of the road runs
| through the grain growing Siberian
country and is already finished. This
will bring the wheat of Asiatic Russia
| heavily in competition with that of
America. The flush days of American
wheat export are over.
THE ORIGINAL NAVEL ORANGE
TREES.
! Los Angeles Herald: A little ranch
in Riverside contains the two original
trees from the buds of which has de-
seconded the great forest of navel
orange trees which to-day produce two
|
| California, and in the near future will
produce nine-tenthS of such crop.
The patriarchal trees were imported
from Brazil about thirty years ago by
the Government Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington and hence they
have been named Washington Navels.
| With them We're several other navel
orange trees, which were sent to Flor
ida. The two trees sent to Riverside
| both produced the superior navel
orange which has made for itself such
a record and made for Southern Cali
! fornia such a reputation as an orange
producing country. The other trees
sent to Florida have never been heard
from-at least they have never made a
record. In fact, the navel oranges pro-
duced by them were not superior to the
seedlings grown in that State. Again,
the Washington navel orange sent to
Florida from California did not keep
up the reputation of the fruit here.
| Hence it has been concluded that the
climate of Southern California has
been the cause of developing this SUI
perior fruit.
The Herald suggests that these two
! Riverside trees should be secured and
should be made public property in some
way, so that they can be taken care~pf
at public expense, and be so placed that
they may be visited by the public
| AS the soil and climate of Riverside
was instrumental in developing this SUI
perior orange, it is but right that Riv
erside should retain these trees if her
people so desire, but they should be
purchased by that city and placed in
| the public park and carefully cared for.
In this ma nner they can be kept to
ripe old age, to be admired by the peo
pie who fully appreciate the good they
have done.
WHAT IS NEEDED.
| Riverside Press: The Golden Gate
Carnival at San Francisco has been
abandoned. Only about one-half the
necessary money was subscribed, and
after a protracted and acrimonious
wrangle in the committee the affair
was declared off. The event was plan
ned as an offset to the Los Angeles
| Fiesta, but it will be necessary for San
| Francisco to catch some Of Los An
geles' spirit of enterprise, preliminary
| to success in any proposition of this
sort The carnival never got beyond
| the stage of some very ''Vociferous and
| halycon' announcements which the
country papers were expected to pub
| lish as an act of charity to the great
metropolis at the Golden Gate.
SUGAR BEET SOIL.
| Stockton Mail: A gentleman who has
| for years been interested in the up
building of Stockton, and has been adj
vocating our agricultural products,
compliments the Mall on urging the
cultivation of the sugar beet and the
building of sugar refinery at Stock
ton He points out the fact that no
point in the State is so advantageously
| located as Stockton for the establish
ment of a sugar factory as it COM
mands the entire San Joaquin Valley,
with its tens of thousands of acres
adapted to the culture of the sugar
beet. This is quite true, and should be
| taken into consideration in arousing
sentiment in favor of locating such
| factory here
Experiments should be made with
sugar beets ali over San Joaquin Coun-
| ty during the present season, to the
end that a basis may be obtained upon
which capitalists may calculate as to
the size and character of works that
should be built here.
THEY ARE ALARMED.
Marysville Appeal: Nothing has so
alarmed the element which controlled
the Popocratic organization OF last fall
as the Prospective dissolution of the
partnership which then existed. The
| free silverites see that without the
/ PopuliStS their. phance of S1cceSS is ab-
solutely gone and are terrified that the
partnership is to come to an end. Mr..
| Bryan,s special organ, the Omaha
World Herald sounds the note of
alarm in a recent editorial, in which it
urges the continuance of the fusion be-
tween Democrats, silver Republicans
and Populists, saying: Get together.
| That IS good advice to the Populists,
silver Republicans and Democrats. 1t
means the selection of a silver man to
the United States Senate at the next
session of the Legislature: it means a
solid phalanx of silver followers in all
campaigns from now till 1900. 1t would
| be worse than folly for the Populists
| to refuse to fuse with the silver Re-
publians and Democrats at this time
and the disastrous results would extend
considerably further than the local
campaign
| THE WAR IN EUROPE.
| Los Angeles Times: significant
statement is contained in a recent dis
patch from Athens to London paper,
telling how four Russian officers, who
refused to lombard the insurgents on
the Island of Crete, We're tried at Sc