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The San Francisco call., 1897-04-04

| A single old apple tree in the orchard
of Mrs. q. Hefner, at Central House, In
Butte County, yielded forty boxes OF fruit,
| which sold for 81 so per box. Mr.. Avery,
in Placer County, from twenty-five trees
of Royal Ann cherries, obtained 825 boxes
of fruit.
III Yolo County s240 was realized from
| an acre of apricots. In Glenn County $3.50
,, was realized from an acre OF black berries
Down in Yuba County the hop fields, d ur-
ing good years, gave their owners as
high as $500 an acre. In Butte
an acre of tomatoes yielded $780,
In Glenn County an acre of almonds has
been known to give in a single season
$3.50. Table grapes in Sacramento County
realized as high as $500 an acre. Vege-
| tables in Colusa County have returned
$1,000 an acre. Bartlett pears in Sutter
County gave $1144 an acre. Apples in
Butte have given 1867 an acre, and cher
ries in Sacramento have yielded $500 an
acre. S. ]. Nikirk of Nelson, Butte
County, cut 80 bushels of barley per acre.
Rey yman e. Evans, near Gridley, cut five
crops of alfalfa per acre and raised 313
bushels OF potatoes per acre. Joseph Gar.
della, near Orovilie, cut 200 sacks of cab
bage averaging 65 pounds per sack on one
acre.
Texas is greater in area than the whole
State of California, yet the Sacramento
Valley, which is less than a twentieth
part of the State, produces three times as
much wheat as all of Texas dces This
valley yields six times as much wheat as
either Alabama or Arkansas grows; five
times as much as the four Middle States,
with an area of 81, 900 square miles and
population of TO- 600, 600, and Twelve times
as much as the six New England States,
with an area of Is, 600 square miles snd
5000, 600 people.
There are i'll fact but thirteen States in
the Union that grow as much wheat as the
Sacramento Valley, and of the total guam
tity exported from this country the valley
grows nearly one-eighth of it.
While wheat is the most important
grain crop of the valley. it's farmers grow
in addition immense quantities of barley,
corn, alfalfa and other products. The
single county of Butte has more acres of
barley than the whole of Arizona. The
county of Yolo has more acreage in barley
than the State of Washington, and Sacra-
mento County more than Oregon. SO that
these three counties grow more barley
than these three States.
The county of Suffer has mors acres of
barley than the Blue Grass State, Kansas
has less acres than Tehama County, and
Pennsylvania less acres than Solano
County has. In the matter of exact
figures, while Kansas has $4,000 acres
OF barley, Tehama County has $1,000
acres; and while Pennsylvania has %, 900
acres, the county of Solano has 35, 900
acres. Even such q great grain State
as Illinois does not produce as much
barley as Butte, Glenn and Colusa coun-
j ties in this valley. The Sacramento VAL
ley yields more bushels of barley than all
of the States south of Mason and Dixon's
line combined.
The immense land holdings in this val.
ley have been a curse to it and have held
back progress. These land holding in
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at three tons to the acre, the yield would
be 1000 900 pounds each year.
There is no better fruit region in the
world than the Sacramento Valley and all
varieties of fruit, except a few of the
purely tropical ones, are grown here. No
fruit produced in the valley does better
than the peac5. The peach orchards OF
this valley include fully 100000 trees,
yielding an annual product of $50, 600, 900
pounds, and if the average value per acre
is $50-a low estimate-the gross returns
from the peach orchards alone would be
81, 900. 600 year. The values of these or
chards cannot be less than six times this
amount.
The Sacramento Valley has the largest
peach orchard in the State-the Abbott
orchard in Sutter County-emb bracing 425
acres. The first fifty acres were planted
in the spring OF 1888 and in the summer
OF 1885 the trees yielded $4,000 worth OF
fruit. In the summer of 1886 the yield
amounted to $4,000
The peach is extensively planted in both
Northern and Southern California, there
being no county that does not contain
this fruit In abundance. or the 81, S26
acres of trees now bearing peaches in the
State the Sacramento Valley contains
81 ,687 acres, or more than one-third of the
whole.
= 1t is but few years since this valley be-
gan to be known as prune region, yet
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%,HE North Berkeley Theater is open.
SHkS OF all stations of Berkeley the north
eyxSS end Is the last to get theater. The
one it has is q novelty, and destined to be
fully amusing. 1t has boy who is only
10 years old for a manager. The actors
are all of like tender age. The odd thing
about them is that they are all playwrights
in way. They have already produced a
tragedy on Washington's birthday of
their own composition. Moreover, they
built their own stage, devised their own
system OF footlights and illumination,
and have drop-curtain which rises and
falls at the instance of some invisible
agency, Just like the drop-curtain of the
real big theaters in the city They have
not yet progressed-these precocious and
imaginative youngsters-to the dignity
ana glory of set OF sliding scenes; but
they have an orchestra" which plays
one tune, with variations principally
variations of an involuntary sort.
This temple OF the Thespians, this
North Berkeley Theater was opened on
Washington's birthday. Periodically en-
blazoned with the American flag in various
sizes was the auditorium and the row of
dazzling footlights was flanked at either
end of the banner of the brave and the
free.
"Tickets, please" demanded the youth.
fnl guardian of the door from little miss.
II haven't any ticket" said the incipient
new woman"
Cant 60 in them" was the response.
"Well," said the little miss, decidedly.
"I've been invited and l am going in and
that is all there is about it"
Past the astonished young doorkeeper
she grandlv swept and took q seat
iumphantly in the front row. The door.
keeper looked little dazed, but paid his
attention for minute to the other comers
Then he looked at the little new woman
and said, You can't set out until you
buy ticket"
The show began sharp on time. The
comedians; also lent hand to raise and
lower the drop curtain did not forget to
carry his "cashbox," having a hole in its
lid to drop pins through, to place of
cover; was ready at the proper time to
take part in a shadow" boxing and wrest-
ling bout and later was villain OF the
deepest and darkest dye, with a fierce
mask enveloping his face and his humor-
Gus eyes glaring fiercely through two hori-
zontal Sits in the mask-a home made
affair OF muslin-the Sits unfortunately
being out of line, so that it was difficult
to catch the glare of both eyes stimuli.
taneously.
The tragedy was preceded by an olio.
The orchestra, which consisted OF one
small boy, played a tune. which was, as
has previously been said, principally vari-
ations, although once in a while the tune
got chance to be heard. Hardly had
the effect of this triumphant music died
away, when professor Carbon" with a
decided and Frenchy accent on the last
syllable OF his name, was announced.
This professor does not belong TO the
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600, the returns would be $3.50, 900. Thus
the value of the peach, prupe and pear
crop of this valley would be somewhat
over 81. 500, 900 each year.
California has 19, 527 acres of apple trees.
and OF this mum ber the Sacramento Val
ley contains 1895 acres.
The fig OF California rivals il it does not
surpass that OF Asia Minor, and of the
52l3 acres planted in the crop in the State
Sacramento Valley contains more than
one.fifth of the whole.
The apricot is one of the noted fruits of
the Golden State, and the orchards bear
ing this fruit cover more than 80, 600 acres
OF this acreage 1853 acres are found in the
Sacramento Valley, which produce more
than a fourth of the total crop.
The cherry orchards of California cover
672s acres, and in this valley there are
1926 acres planted in cherries, more than
a fifth of the entire acreage OF the State.
There are in the Sacramento Valley in
round numbers 5000 acres OF raisin and
table grapes, and the crop is estimated if
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Greece has an area of 25 900 square miles
and a population of over 1000, 900. yet she
does not produce half the wheat this val
ley does.
The Sacramento Valley produces more
wheat than Holland and Denmark COM
bined, yet their areas cover four times as
many square miles as this valley, and
their population is six and half mil
lions. while that of the Sacra mento Val
ley is but a fifth of one million.
The farmers of this section grow one
and half times as much wheat as was
grown in the famous valley of the Nile
and more wheat than is raised in the
countries of Switzerland, Servia, Norway
and Sweden com bined.
While this valley contains but three
eigntieths of the area of the State it pro-
duces three-eighths of the hops raised in
California. The hop yield in Yuba, Y olo
and Sacramento counties leads all other
parts of the world. At Wheatland 307
bales of hops were taken from BIZ acres:
in another field of AZ acres 355 bales were
taken, and from a field of 125 acres 1886
bales were taken. The net weight OF
these 1886 bales was 29S, 900 pounds
As the Pacific States raise nearly so per
cent of the hops of the United States the
industry here is an important one When
New York and Wisconsin raised two
thirds of the whole crop OF hops in this
country the average crop per acre was $50
pounds. In England the average crop is
75o pounds per acre. In Seatz, the lead.
Ing hop dis rict of Austria, the yield is
from $50 10 400 pound. per acre. Wash.
lngton Is famous for its hop production
and its farmers raise enormous crops of it.
Kings County averages 2140 pounds per
acre, while the average in Yuba County,
in this valley, is 2340 pounds per acre, that
being the highest average in the world.
In 1910 the United States grew 23s 5o2
pounds OF hops, while in 1891 the Sacra-
mento Valley produced 2 431. 200 pounds
of the same product, or 1,oOO. 600 more
pounds than the whole country produced
in IS40.
The average yield in Wisconsin i, 443
pounds per acre, in New York SAT pounds.
in Oregon 1125 pounds, in Washington
1925 pounds and in California 164S pounds.
Southern California is famed the world
over for the variety and abundance of her
fruits The area known as "Southern
California covers $1,000 squar. miles
while the area OF the Sacramento Valley
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now, of the 49, 2s1 acres in California, we
have in this valley II 281 acres, or nearly
one.fourth of the total.
That 1t is great pear region may be
seen from the immense shipments of pears
made from here every year. and from the
further fact that while the State has
%, 742 acres of this fruit, the Sacramento
Valley contains 1868 acres, or considerably
more than one-third of the whole.
The eight-acre peach orchard of Giblin
Brothers, in Sutter County. averaged 1858
an acre. William Wolfskili, in YoIo
County, from eighteen acres of pumpkins
gathered crop of ITO tons. From five
acres of land in Yuba County G. w.
Hutchins dug 7S0 sacks of potatoes, aver
aging liz pounds per sack. He harvested
from seven acres OF beans 1S9 sacSs of the
vegetable that averaged IS pounds a sack.
He cold them at 50 Is per hundred, the
returns from the crop being in round
mum bers $40 an acre.
Four acres of blackberries in Yolo
County gave the owner 1925 an acre.
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Size in Hats.

A size in hats is one-eighth of an inch.
According to the English method the
smaller diameter OF the head is taken as
the starting point. One-eighth of an inch
increase in this shorter diameter makes
little more than three-eighths in the cir
cumference. The French and German
hatmakers have rule slightly different
from this.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-04

There is an orchard in Jersey containing
&C, 900 pear trees.
The herald., 1897-11-27
BIG BATTLESHIP IOWA
Is GIVEN A THOROUGH TRIAL
AT SEA
The Cruiser Proves Herself as Good
Ship as Floats-The Brooklyn
Is Docked

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-The naval
trial board has made report upon the
recent two days trial Of the big battle
ship Iowa at sea that thoroughly sus-
tains Commodore Deweys comment
that the ship was as fine type of ship
of her class as there Is in the world. The
board said in part:
"The vessel under all circumstances
behaved well, being very steady and
rolling and pitching but few degrees.
Her high free board forward adds great
ly not only to the comfort of the men,
but to her seagoing efficiency and the
power Of the firing of her guns under all
circumstances. Altogether her seagoing
qualities appear to be excellent. The
speed was 13.45 knots, but this was un-
der natural draught and with a poor
quality of coal. The machinery worked
well in every particular.
SAFELY DOCKED
NEW YORK, Nov. 26-The armored
cruiser Brooklyn was dry docked to-
day in timber dock at the New York
nary yard in Brooklyn. Because of the
ships immense displacement the task of
getting her into dock was looked for
ward to with some anxiety. It turned
out, however, that with the exception OF
the port bilge keel fouling the side of the
dock and cutting through the timber fol-
foot. the Brooklyn was docked in tip
top fashion. 1t is the same dock that the
Texas smashed with her bilse keels Is
months ago.
The herald., 1897-11-27
LINES OF TRAVEL
PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP co

The company's elegant steamers SANTA
ROSA and QUEEN leave REDONDO at
II a. m. AID PORT LOS ANGELES at 2:3O
p. m. for San Francisco, via Santa Barbara
and Port Hartford Nov. 4, 8, IL. 16. 20. "a. q.
Dec. q 6. 20. IA, IS. %. 26. 80 Jan. g. Z II. Is.
10. %. ~. n. Leave PORT LOS ANGELES
At 6 a. m. and REDONDO at IL a. m for
San Diego. Nov. O. Q. 10. II. IS. %. $3.50. Dec.
T. s. H. IL, 90 "a. 49, Jan. /. s, o. 13. II, a. 25. 20.
Cars connect via Redondo. leave Santa Fe
depot at 9:45 a. M, or from Redondo rail.
way depot at $3.50 a. m.
Cars connect via Port Los Angeles leave
8. p. r. r. depot at 1885 p. m. for steamers
north bound.
The steamers EUREKA and COOS BAY
leave SAN PEDRO and EAST SAN Pc
DRO for San Francisco. via Ventura, Car
tpentsfia, Santa Barbara, Gaviota. Port
Hartford. Cayucos. San Simeon. Monterey
and Santa Cruz at $3.50 p. m. Nov 1. s. Q.
la II, q. Is. 20. Dec. g. T. II. Is. 19, 23, a. 81,
Jan. 4. 8. IL. 16, 20. "a. 2s. Cars connect with
steamers via San Pedro leave g.. p. r. r.
(Arcade depot at 5:O3 p. m. and Terminal
railway depot at 5:15 p. m.
The company reserves the right to change
without previous notice steamers, sailing
dates and hours of sailing.
w. PARRIS. Agt.. 12A w. Second IT.. Los
Angeles.
GOOoALL. PERKINS & CO.. General
Agents. San Francisco.
The herald., 1897-11-27
Salaries Advanced

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Nov. 26-Vice Presi-
dent Warner of the Missouri Pacific to-
night said in regard to the general ad-
vance in salaries: There were only Q
very few men who were cut in 1893. En-.
gineers, conductors, trainmen, telegraph
operators, agents and machinists were
not cut then. 1t has been decided to re-
store the 10 per cent to such office clerks
and few officers who had held their
positions unchanged from 1893, when the
reductions were made, to date, the total
amount of which. will be between $4,000
and $4,000 annually.
The herald., 1897-11-27
EAST SIDE NEWS
Notes and Personal Mention From
Over the River

Mr.. and Mrs. L. r. Johnson Of Pasa-
dena avenue took their Thanksgiving
dinner at Alpine tavern on Mount Lowe
Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs T. o. Langford and fam
lily spent Thanksgiving at Santa Monica.
Mr.. and Mrs. Boyd Dilley of Truckee
are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. e. L.
Higgins of Hayes street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Stockwell gave
a family Thanksgiving dinner Thurs
day at their home on Downey avenue.
DR.. Harris of Richmond, Ind, is Wis.,
iting his brother, Mr.. Harris Of North
Daily street.
Mrs. l.. M. Melick of North Workman
street, who has been very i'll for the past
week, is slightly improving.
Rev. P. S. Myers conducted the SER
vices at the Brethren church on Han
cock street yesterday morning. There
are large number of brethren from ad-
jacent towns in attendance at the mis-
sionary meeting which is being held this
| week.
An old-fashioned New England
Thanksgiving dinner was enjoyed by 8
| large number Of the relatives of Mr.. an6
Mrs. George e. Adams at their hospita-
BILE home on Pasadena avenue Thurs
| day.
The w. c. T. U. rally at the Baptist
church last evening was fairly well at.
tended and much interest was mani
tested by those present.
The herald., 1897-11-27
SUNSET CLUB
November Meeting Held
Last Night
DINNER AT MASON D0REE
THoUaHTFUL PAPER By GEORGE
s. PATTON
DINNER AT MASON DoREE
On passing Of the Theory Of lures.
trained OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
by General Discussion

The meeting of the Sunset club last
evening was one of the most interesting
in the clubs history. J. s. Slauson pre-
sided. and between fifty and sixty MEM
bers sat about long table in the Maison
Doree and discussed, first the menu,
with marked singleness Of purpose; and
later. the paper Of the evening, when
more diversity Of opinion was evidenced.
Following the dinner, the usual busi-
ness was transacted. An amendment to
the bylaws was adopted whereby appli-
cations for membership shall be submit
ted first to the clubs officers, then to a
secret committee Of five, who, after
passing upon the application, Will re-
turn it to the officers.
Georgd 8. Patton was the speaker OF
the evening and read thoughtful, able
paper on 1.-THE Passing of the Theory of
Unrestrained Competition. or Laissez
Faire. as Applied to the Economic Prob
lem." This general subject was di-
vided in to (a) phenomena Of Period
Of Transition" and (b) Drift of Current
Economic Tendencies"
In introducing his subject Mr.. Patton
referred to the gradual and widespread
growth Of the subject Of social phenom-
ena; Of the abstract theories which have
now become practical and pressing ques-
tions. Reference was made to the phe-
nomenal sale Of Bellamy's Equality"
and to the universal interest which can
look undIsmayed upon him who declares
his belief that the race is about to take
one of those steps in the social evolution
which are the historic landmarks Of its
upward progress.
This evolution has been marked by its
The herald., 1897-11-27
THE CAPTAINS CRUELTY
The Judge Advocate Deals Leniently
With Lowering

The Judge Advocate Deals Leniently
With Lowering
CHICAGO. Nov. 26.-The Tribune to.
day prints the following:
The finding of the court-martial is that
the accused is guilty as charged in the
specification and that he be reprimanded
by the reviewing authority. The court
is thus lenient in view of the good char
acter Of the accused as shown in the
evidence"
The foregoing is, according to the
statement Of a man who knows, the ex-
act verdict Of the court-martial which
has just completed it's labors in the case
Of Captain Lowering Of Fort Sheridan
charged with brutal treatment of Pri-
vate Charles Hammond.
The first ballot resulted in seven men,
bers of the court-martial voting guilty
and five mot guilty." The usual court
martial is composed of thirteen members
but Major Randolph, who had been de-
tailed to attend the court, was unable to
do SO and so twelve men sat as jury to
decide the fate of Captain Lowering.
There was a vigorous effor. made tc
have those parts of the specifications
charging Captain Lowering with cruelty
and brutality stricken out. 1t was fin
ally decided to consider the charges as
they were set forth in the specifications
and the decision was reached withou;
making the changes.
The herald., 1897-11-27
Tong Troubles

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26.-The
Chronicle says that the Chinese mer.
chants of this city have combined tc
suppress the murderous highbinder so.
cieties. These business men have signed
a compact not to submit to further
blacknlail and without their usual in
come the highbinders will be forced tt
leave the city or go to work.
Over twenty highbinder societies are
affected by this arrangement. While ths
exact membership of these societies is
not known, it is estimated to be in the
neighborhood of 1900. All Of these are
not fighting men, but they have beer
affiliated with the tongs and have beer
furnished money when occasion de-
manded.
The herald., 1897-11-27
In the Case Against Martin
Thorn
MRS. MACK WAS NOT AWITNESS
THE CASE PROVED WITHOUT
HER TESTIMONY
IF Thorn Takes the Stand the Woman
Will Take the Stand in
Rebuttal
associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
NEW YORK. Nov. 2e.-The trial of
Martin Thorn, charged with the murder
Of Guldensuppe, was resumed at Long
Island City today. The first witness was
the barber, Keene, whose examination
had not been concluded when the court
adjourned last Wednesday evening. In
reply to Mr.. Howe's questions this wit
ness admitted that the stiletto which he
had shown to Thorn had a poisoned
point and he seemed to be very uncom
Portable after having made this admis-
sion.. Then he said he only kept it as
an ornament, afterwards explaining
that his brother had made him a pres
ent Of 1t.
Edward Speck, a bartender, Cari
Merich, barber and John Gotha, were
the principal witnesses during the day
testifying substantially as they did or
the first trial.
Detective Dennis Sullivan identified
q piece of the surface from the Wood
side cottage which had bullet hole in
1T. The witness also identified two
bullets found in the bath room and the
room adjoining. These bullets were OF
80 caliber, and evidence was introduced
to show that they fitted the revolver
found on Martin Thorn when he was ar
rested.
At $3.50 a brief recess was taken and
when the court reconvened District At
torney Youngs announced that the pros
ecution rested it's case. The court then
adjourned till Monday, when the de-
fense will begin it's case.
Lawyers Howe and Moss, who have
diligently defended Thorn, met with a
serious and unlocked for obstacle when
after the brief adjournment, District
Attorney Youngs informed the court
that the people rested their case.
It was generally expected that Mrs
Mack would be put on the stand to re-
iterate her confession, and the lawyers
who had been assigned to look after
Thorn's interests thought that she would
repeat her statement Of two weeks ago.
Later in the afternoon District Attor-
ney Youngs said that he was not pre-
pared to say whether Mrs. Mack, who
had made such a famous scene in the
first trial by her confession, would be
produced or not. The case, as far as the
district attorneys opinion went, was
fully proved without the woman's tes-
timony. Later on, however, one Of Mr.
Young's advisers said that in the cas-,
the defense put Thorn on the stand the
prosecution would certainly produce
Mrs. Mack in rebuttal.
The herald., 1897-11-27
new company and John W. Gates presi>
dent Of the Illinois Steel company ~
president.
A MISSING MAN
A San Francisco Car Inspector Il
Probably Murdered

SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 26.-Andrea
Satto, car inspector of the Third-avenue
street car line of New York City, arrived
here last Sunday. On Monday he dis
appeared under circumstances that
cause the police to believe that he has
met with foul play.
Reaching the city in company with his
wife, Satto stopped on Sunday night at
the Brooklyn Hotel. The next afternoon
the couple engaged rooms at 230 Mont
gomery avenue, paying for one week in
advance. In paying the bill Satto took
from his pocket roll containing nearly
$500, which action, it is thought, may
have led up to his disappearance. Leav-
ing his wife in the room the Inspector
went out for his baggage and has not
been seen since.