The record-union., 1897-01-29
Voice OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression OF
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on Sub-
jects of Living and News
Interest.

Oakland Telegram: The good ROADS
movement is receiving Endorsement at
the Farmers Institute recently held In
the northern part of this State NO
class of people have a more direct or
vital interest i'm the Improvement OF
highways than the owners OF farm
property. Their votes should always De
found in favor of good roads
UNKNOWN COUNTRY.
Colusa Sun: What a pity it is that
the interior Of California still remains
an unknown country to the metro-
politan journals. Only few days ago
THE "Call' talked about the treacnerouS
currents of the Sacramento and the san
Joaquin interfering with Navigation al
Mare Island. Now see how the 'Bulle-
tim talks about the Sacramento RlVer:
In ten hours the dredger would make
600 feet of river bed deep enough 10
float the class of vessels that make the
trip round Cape Horn AT this rate
it would not take many years to make
a new river bed to Sacramento IN place
of the old channel that the mining de-
brls has filled up. The return of the
river to it's bed would relieve some
thousands of acres of the best farming
land in the world from danger of floods
during an ordinary season. Farmers in
the Sacramento Valley are now COM
peeled to build enormous levees, the cost
of which absorbs pretty nearly all the
profits of an average crop"
MINING REVIVAL.
Vacavlle Reporter: From every por-
tion of California comes the pleasing
story of a revival of interest in mining.
New properties are being developed and
old ones reopened and it is pretty GER
tain that there will be this year more
mines in operation than has been the
case for several decades. 1t is possible
for any one possessing a good mining
property to secure capital to operate it,
and we shall doubtless see foreign CAPT.
tai seeking the rich possibilities of Cal
ifornia properties as the scene of large
Investments All this means added
wealth to the State and an increase in
the general prosperity of the people Of
the entire Pacific Slope.
THE SCHOOL LAW.
Redding Free Press: 1t has been sug-
gested, and the suggestion is a wise
one that the school law should be
amended to provide that no new school
a less number than ten scholars. Under
the law five scholars only are necessary,
With other conditions, to form a dis
triot. The number should be ten. The
idea of paying a teacher $50 or $50
month to teach five scholars is pre-
posterous. We understand that the
Supervisors, the School Superintendent
and the Board Of Education coincide
with this idea
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
Daily Peoples Cause: The United
States Congress has adopted measures
which will please those opposed TO
capital punishment. They have abol-
ished it for all except three crimes
against the Government Treason is
the only one punishable with death for
a certainty, and the other two are death
or imprisonment for life.
MINING INDUSTRY.
Calaveras Citizen: It is a matter for
congratulaJtion that the citizens of Cal
ifornia are arwaking to the Importance
OF the mining industry and showing
their confidence in the mines of their
own State by investing as literally as
non-residents. The time has passed
when the California mine-owner regard
ed his hole in the ground" merely as a
gold-brick swindle to rope in the ten
derfoot European or Fastener.
THE OLIVE.
Oroville Mercury: The Mercury has
frequently referred to the growing de-
mand for ripe picked olives, not only
an this State, but ali over the Union
a few years ago it was almost an i'm
possibility to find a market for even the
few gallons put up in this State, but
now all is changed in this regard, for
Notwithstanding the fact that orchard
after orchard has since come into bear
ing the fact repaains that all of these
olives will be disposed of by the middle
of March. and the people will have TO
do without them the rest OF the year or
at least until the new crop comes on
next November. This is the first year
that people have made inquiries in this
part Of the State to buy olives on the
trees, and the larger part of them have
been sold in this manner for $50 per
ton on the trees, the purchaser to
gather them at his own expense. There
are at least two orchards here in this
vicinity that will yield a ton and a
half to the acre this Year If we have the
usual season. Indeed, one of our cfti-
ZenS mas already received an offer of
$500 for his crop on the trees, this
year though there is not a bud in sight.
the buyer taking the chances of the
crop.
THE OLD STORY.
SAN Jose Herald: Two Kentucky
towns have become bankrupt through
the failure Of the First National Bank
of Newport, Kentucky. This Illus
trates the wisdom of keeping public
funds in city and county treasures un-
Jess banks furnish absolute security for
them. The only excuse for depositing
public funds in banks is either lack of
secure public vaults or the desire to
retain the funds in active circulation.
OTHER TOWNS JUST THE SAME.
Placerville Mountain Democrat: The
swamps of the Middle West were first
sraver,sed by corduroy roads" made of
logs placed side by side in the mud.
When one end of a log happened to
sink the other would rise up as warn
ing to travellers who were liable to be
drowned because they were not born to