The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-07-25

similar excitements in the early days
of mining in California know that 1t is
very unsafe to give full credenee to
them. There was Gold Lake with its
bottom covered with the precious met
al, and afterwards the Fraser and the
Snake River excitement. Thousands
and tens of thousands rushed off to the
new fields. Many men abandoned
good claims that were paying well with
the expectation of accommodating great
fortunes in a little while. In every
case they found that the reports that
lured them away were gross exagger-
ations and not more than one in TWEEN
ty We're successful. Thousands Of
them found themselves far from home
without a cent and had to beg their
way back to California, glad of the
chance to come in the steerage.
| ALWAYS POPULAR.
Oakland Tribune: With the public
Colonel Croker was always popular.
The fact that he was a native son en-
deared him to the present generation
and the old-timers liked him for his
fathers sake as we'll as his own. He
was liberal patron of the sciences, as
witness his recently paying all the ex-
penses of an astronomical expedition
and he was as popular in social circles
as he was respected in business life
That he was a true Californian and
had every confidence in the future of
the State is shown by the fact that all
the investments of his inheritance were
made mere. He was in every sense a
representative man and that this was
recognized, was proved by his being
selected by the last Republican State
convention as a delegate to the nation
al assembly. He will be long missed
in the circles in which he moved and
the State generally will deplore. the
passing of a good man.
A LABOR EXPERIENCE.
Alameda Encinal: A fruit grower in
San Bernardino County hired all the
white help he could find to work in his
orchard gathering and cutting april
cots for drying. He went out into the
highways and byways and gathered all
the idle men who would work Then
he went to his friends and begged
them to come and help him if for no
more than three or four days, so that
he might not suffer loss. Still he
could not obtain help sufficient to take
care of the rapidly ripening fruit, and
as last resort he obtained number
of Cinnamon and put them at work.
but without displacing a single white
man. Then all the white men struck
on the ground that they wouldn't work
by the side Of Chinese And of such is
the idiocy of too many laborers.
IS WHEAT A STANDARD?
Colusa Sun: A Tulare farmer re-
marked the other day that he had tried
grain raising when wheat was worth
81 40 per GENITAL, and he had tried it
when it was worth only 70 cents, and
somehow he always came out about
the same end of the horn whatever
the price and never would have gotten
on anyhow if it had not been for the
hogs, horses, cattle and poultry he
turned off When he was raising
grain he was not doing much else and
although the work of raising grain did
not take half his time he had to live
all the year through and the grain he
could raise would not support him no
matter what the price. There is a
good deal in this way of looking at it.
1t is a phenomenal business which,
prosecuted for one-fourth or one-half
the year, will support a family all the
year. There must be something to
take all the time if one is to live all
the time. General farming will do this.
Grain farming alone will not and there
fore grain farming alone will not pay
Tulare Register.
May there not be something in the
contention that wheat is the real STAN
dard of values and that all other things
go up and down as with that product.
Wheat at a dollar a Genital will buy
more than it would when it was a dol
lar and half. But there is not the
remotest doubt of the fact that farming
must be more general to pay on any
thing like small scale Great farms
we'll managed may for a while longer
make money on wheat alone. but the
small farmer who must make his own
labor count cannot any longer depend
on wheat alone, and to make general
farming profitable one must have
water.