The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15
and extend to it the fullest patronage pos
COAST EXCHANGES.

The Hollister Bee has changed hands, Harry
Johnson retiring from its editorial manage
ment, and being succeeded by Edward Series.
Inc pohcy OF the paper remains the same.
angels Camp is being agitsted on the sub
!ect OF incorporation and the Mountain Echo
Is earnestly pleading with the people of that
prosperous mining town to move in the mat
ter without delay, to the end that many
needed public improvements may be the more
speedily secured
The Fresno ErpoSitor has begun war on the
Chlnese lottery games of the Raisin City. II
remarks that conservative estimates OF the
amount drained from that city annually into
the coIers OF the shrewd heather sharps,
place the sum at no less than $4,000 The
EIpoSttor should be commended for its stand
in behalf of law.
The Merced Star having recorded the fact
that one OF the citizens of that city owned a
hog which weighed $50 pounds at two and a
nan years OF age, the Los Banos Enterprise In
dulges in stage laugh and speaks thus:
william Birch, our lum ber-dealer. has
berKshlre only fourteen months old which
weighed one week ago 5o6 pounds. Size up to
mat with your Mereed River porker."
The Santa Cruz Sentinel is jubilant over the
prospect OF the establishment of a woolen mill
In that city. 1t says: Colonel Hum bert, who
desires to establish wooden mill in this city,
wants donation of land besides buildings
sufhcient to accommodate machinery for the
manufacture of 100 pairs OF blankets daily.
An effort Is now being made to comply with
the terms upon which Santa Cruz can secure
the mill. Already the +. A. Him Company
has offered to donate two acres of land on
River street and rs, 900 feet of lumber. w. H.
Lamb who has the matter in charge, says
that offers OF land, money, material and labor
will be accepted
Los Gatos wants new drainage system,
new Town Hall and an electric-light system of
her own In order 10 get those things the
AG1E 1avors the issuance of bonds. 1t declares
that "the people of Los Gatos to-day will favor
anything in the bounds of reason that will
tend to better the condition of the place; any
legitimate enterprise that will have tend
ency to give employment to the unemployed,
to enhance the value of our properly, to bring,
capital to the place and TO put Los Gatos where
she has been and where she belongs-in the
foremost rank of the live interior towns of
California"
The Santa Monica Outlook, in its 1897 special
edition, has outdone all its previous effdrts
and has issued a number that will mpare in
general excellence with the best product OF
any paper outside the big cities. It's illustra-
uons are superb, and the printing and paper
frst-class. The history of Santa Monica is told
In manner full of interest. and many an
fastener will open his eyes IN wonderment
as he reads of the transformation of sheep
range into one of the Eden spots of California.
Editor d. G. Holt has earned distinguished
praise by that edition, and his work will be OF
great benefit to Santa Monica in attracting at
tention to her numerous advantages.
Auburn wants caunery. The Argus of that
place observes that all indications point to
splendid fruit crop in the coming season. The
paper continues:
at is early to talk of this but not too early.
The sun will very soon begin to ride high,
and his mellowing influence will bring the
blossoming and the fruiting before very long,
and every element of economy calls for a can
merry as q necessary adjunct TO the fruit in
terests of our county.
Another thing-Auburn should develop a
pay day of good dimensions Every month
brings 10 Lincoln through her pottery and
cannery lin the season) very well padded
pay roll. The same is true OF Rocklin
through her roundhouse and her quarries.
Auburn must try to develop something to
correspond with her sister cities. few
thousand dollars to welI-paid laborers every
month in city like ours is contamination de-
voutly to be wished. In what better way can
this be attained at present than by opening
cannery?'
The Watsonville PdjarOntdR, in its interest
ing Sugar Beet" items, informs us that "the
last beet of the campaign went into the mill
elevator last Saturday afternoon, and the big
whistle proclaimed the end of the cutting sea-
son. large part of the mill crew was laid
of at the close of the week, only enough be-
ing retained to handle the closing syrup. 1t
is expected that the last of the sugar will be
run out tomorrow. 1t has been long and
successful campaign. The mill handled
greater tonnage of beets than ever before, and
the production OF sugar was over so per cent
greater than the big run two years ago. In
mill and on fields the run and season were
about as perfect as they could be, and the
cord made is apt 10 be a star one for years.
The crop of 1S94-95 was surpassed by the
1S9697 crop, the latter being about 10, 900 tons
greater. In sugar showing the difference was
more striking. the crop just milled showing
1000 tons of sugar in excess OF the crop two
years ago."