The record-union., 1897-08-10
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

OF Germany is all r1Sht. Ii that mas
yielded to treatment, the Vacaville Re
porter suggests that the medical gem
tlemen put in a little of their time treat
ing the Emperor of Germany's head. 1t
has been badly swelled for some time.
KLONDYCITIS.
Nevada City Herald: The man who
has courage, good health, and money,
and is out of employment, can make no
mistake in going to the new Ell Dor
ado at the proper time The man with
out these requisites had better stay at
home. The proper time to go is an i'm
portant question. Captain Neville,
owner of the Rawhide mine in Tuolumne
County, says he would not advise going
even next spring, but that it is better to
wait until the spring following when
there will be some sort of conveniences,
and with just as good a show for lucky
strikes as to go earlier. He lived in the
country for years and comedies that it
is fabulously rich. When he was there
he says ''it was no uncommon thing to
see Indians using gold and tin for bull
lets, and trade them to the Hudson Bay
Company, pound for pound. for leaden
bullets. They would not tell Where they
got the metals, but would leave the
trading posts in May and return in Sep
tember." Notwithstanding all this, the
Captain insists that for the thin-blooded
Californian, or anybody who has never
been there, to venture at this time OF
year to trust himself to the perils sure
to be met, is next to suicide All the
blankets and fianels you can pile on, he
says are no better than mosquito nets
to keep one warm in the winter.
NO FURTHER SEARCH FOR PROS
PERITY.
Los Angeles Express: No financial
Nansen or Industrial Andree need go
sailing or ballooning to find prosperity.
1t is here and there and everywhere. 1t
| is spelled with a big P, and is so plain
that even the calamity howIers cannot
lany longer shut their eyes to its pres
enee.
| Nowhere is it more general than in
Southern California and nowhere else is
tits continuance insured by so many ele-
ments of support. In fact, everything
seems ito be coming our way" here in
the land Of sunshine. Grain crops, fruit
crops, the yield of honey, the output of
the mines and the yield of the oil wells
dn COHiDlDS To rev dIu the iI1Ouotly
Igaged in these various enterprises.
THE REDWOOD FORESTS.
San Jose Mercury: The necessity of
the State or of the Government setting
aside a section of the redwood forest
that adorns the northern half of the
California coast before it is completely
denuded is emphasized by John Muir
in an article contributed by him to the
! Atlantic Monthly" Mr.. Muir points
out that there is not single specimen
of the coast redwood in any national
park and says that it is only by gift
or purchase that the Government can
get back into its possession a single acre
of this wonderful forest. Commenting
upon the statements made by Mr.. Muir
| the Call" remarks that his article will
| be of more than ordinary interest to
lCalifornians, nasmuch as it makes plain
| the amount of waste and destruction
which is going on in our magnificent
| forests 1t is not that trees are being
cut for the purpose of clearing fields,
making roads, providing timber for
bridges, mines and other works of util
ity, of which Mr.. Muir complains, but
that so much of our forest is literally
wasted by the careless and incons:derate
methods in which the wood is being
taken, and by the devastation of fires.
| Mr. Muir's earnest appeal for the pres
ervation of the redwoods is in line with
the proposition advocated by the "Mer-
curry" and other newspapers of Central
and Northern California of the State ac-
quiring by purchase the forest in the
Big Basin.
STATE AID FOR ROADS.
| Stockton Independent: In an address
before a convention of road improvers
in Peoria, H., a few days ago Mil
waukee wheelman said:
we propose that the States shall
help to build, and divide the total cost
between the people of the locality who
are most directly interested. This is
not a theory only, but has been prac-
tice with great success in New Jersey,
| Rhooe Island, Pennsylvania and Mas
! sachusetts. New Jersey farmers are
en- husiastic over this State aid system,
and the towns and counties are glad
to pay their share of the cost of these
roads, SO long as the State pays it's
| share.
1.-The Farmers National Congress has
! passed resolutions in favor of State
aid and John M. Stahi, the able and
energetic Secretary of that organiza-
| tion. is one of its warrnest advocates. .
| This position is so correct that it
needs little argument to support it. All
classes use the roads and a large pro-
! portion of those who use them pay
nothing toward their Improvement. 1t
| is to the interest of merchants in towns
and cities that the roads should be good
for travel at all seasons; for the ply
| sicians that they may be able in all
| weather to reach their patients; for
pleasure and health seekers that they
may not be confined within the limits
of cities with improved streets, and to
the householders that farmers may be
able to reach the towns with their pro-
duce in all weather. What the latter
pay in taxes they will save in prices
| of produce; what the doctor pays in
| taxes he will save in time, wear and
| tear of horses and vehicles, and mer-
| chants will save still more in having
their trade rendered more steady, and
| being exempt from the dullness of mud
| blockades and the extension of trade
| into the. interior, while farmers will
save as much or more on the reduced
cost of transportation of goods to
towns remote from railroads. and the
reduced necessity for keeping large
numbers of horses to do what a lesser
number can accomplish on good roads.
The tax will fall equally on those who
reap the benefits and the benefits will
| be realized earlier
J KNOCK up HOUSES.
San Jose Herald: A New York firm
has received orders for lot of houses
TO be built in sections for shipment to
the Klondyke. That kind of work