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Smyrna times., 1898-10-05

A steamboat line between Philadel-
phia and Dover, the first that has been
in operation for many years, run its
first boat Friday by way of st. Jones
creek and the Delaware. Vineyard &
Vineyard own the line.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-01

TO t RENT-Four rooms over JolI1
 | on East Second. Inquire at stos
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-01

OST--A little pug dog; with whfI h- in left eye. Will answer to Cuba. Return to 703 South Walnl
 and be rewarded.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-01
Supposed wrec,sers Arrested.

Chattanooga, \ oy. 9.--Oficials nave arrested Luke and Thompson Yann and Lex Cantrell near Acworth, Ga, on sns- picion of having attempted on the night of Oct. 8 to wreck 2 passenger train on the Western and Atlantic railroad on . hign enbanknent near AcIlworth. One of the Yanns has confessed, and all three have been held to court.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-01
ARKANS AS RIVER P ! ACKE. EFT !, Go
ED N0wLANp, pres. @ Gen. mnsr.

6. H. PRlLP0T. General Age. Boat Leaves Memphis every Tues day at , D. m. Boat leaves Pine Bluff every Fri day at II a. m. We make lowest rates from and to all points.
 Telephone No G6 for general in formation.
 Grace station will still be con tinued for Nos, l and until Scptem- Der 2d. after which the two passen-
 tstOp there
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ORANGE

of F. NJ. Wilbur at a cost of s1100; o. H.
Burke, s1100; A. ]. Harding, s1100; Otis
H. Spencer, 5000: w. S. Barker, $3.50;
Chas. Harter, $500; Chas. Edelman, $3.50;
Leonard Honadel, $3.50; Nelson T. Ed
wards. $3.50: John Hansen, $3.50; Samuel
Sollenberger, $500; j. C. Gregg. $500; Mrs
Mary Hall. $500; Chas. Lightball, $f75,
Mrs. Southworth Gel Modena), $780,
Among the other buildings which have
gone up are the Music hall, by Garfield &
Harris, at a cost of $1,000; E. T. Parker's
packing house and store room, SIPS; F.
j. Crocker, barn, $500: Ehlen & Grote,
warehouse, $500; A Meacham, carpenter
shop, $500; Lucien Small, blacksmith
shop. $685. The number of small cot
tages, additions, barns, windmills. ETC..
that have each cost about $500 seems to
be nearly endless, and one contractor
stated that his years work would alone
amount to almost $4,000.
Our ranchers have not been one whit
behind our townspeople in improving
their holding, but as each one works I'M
der conditions peculiar to himself. it
seems impossible to reduce their efforts
to monetary basis with any degree of
accuracy. While this is true, still there
is no doubt but that Mr.. David Hewes
leads the list, for he, with his foreman,
Mr.. r. w. Jones, has put nearly $4,000
worth of improvements upon his ranches
during the past year, and during the
coming season another thousand will be
spent In fumes alone upon the Hewes
ranch, to say nothing Of the other i'm
provements now under consideration.
One of the most important industries
developed during the past year Is that
of olive curing. Our young olive or
chards are just coming into bearing, and
James Hill, Sons & Co. of Los Angeles
have established a plant for handling not
only the crop of this valley. but that of
other places, which has been shipped in
The plant is under the management OF
Mr.. George Robb, an experienced olive
man, and sometimes 100 barrels are cured
In week.
Mr.. w. w. Perkins has about nine
acres devoted to roses and seven acres
to other useful and ornamental shrubs
and plants. In January he will ship
about $4,000 rosebushes to New York.
JOHN EASTWOOD.
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About thirty miles north Of Los An
geles, nestled between the mountains
where the Santa Clara river finds its
source, lies Newhall. known even as far
as the Atlantic coast as a retreat for
those who suffer from pulmonary trou-
bles.
But perfect climate is not Newhalls
only excuse for existence. She has set
pace during the year of 1897 which
other towns in the same class will find
rather difficult to follow.
| In the spring of the year began the
development of much of the gold ter
ritory, with very fiattering results. One
of the new pacers that has been opened
| is the Ratsburg camp. This camp, sit
uated to the nroth of Newhall, has, dur
| ing the few months that it has been
worked yielded in the neighborhood of
$4,000, all of which has been taken out
by men who We're previously unem-
ployed. The placer has been worked en-
tirely with dry-washers.
Scattered about in other canyons and
gulches the yield of gold has been in the
same proportion. The gold output for the
year can safely be put at $4,000, while
it is probable that it will exceed that
This gold is some of the finest that is
taken out in the state. AS shown by the
mint certificates, it averages from 94f
to 965 fine-a record to be proud of.
In the oil district the Pacific Coast Oil
company has developed some new dis
tricts of their territory, and the past
year have put down two wells in the
Moore canyon. The Palmetto Oil COM
pany have been engaged in sinking some
wells on their claims in the TowsleS
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ity for 20 boilers of 300 horse power.
warehouse 15Ox5O feet, machine shop.
5Ox25 feet Office 36x24, two stories. all
having brick walls with concrete found
atoms. In addition there are the seed
mousse 6oxio feet, "mouse-proof, the
peet sheds with the automatic dumping
device, capable of holding thousand
tons or beets, also the pulp silo 700 feet
long, into which the cossettes are con-
Veyed after the sugar has been extract
ed and which after going through cur
ing process makes very valuable stock
iced, much priced by the farmers and
feeders.
ms year. in season for the crop of
1898 the capacity of the plant will be
increased to 800 tons of beets per dav.
the machinery therefor being now on the
way from the works of E. H. Dyer & Co.
of Cleveland, Ohio. The water required
2,o0o,oo0 gallons daily, is supplied by four
large artesian wells, ten inches in di-
ameter, reaching depth of 439 to AZ;
ieet' ana flowing with sufficient pressure
10 reach the second story without pump
ing. The two-inch test we'll was sunk
to depth of 7O9 feet, but with no better
results.
There are now being fattened on the
by-product, the beet pulp. over HOO head
of cattle from the Arizona ranges, which
in few weeks will be fit for the Los
Angeles and other city markets.
About three thousand acres. of beets
were cultivated this season on the Los
Alamitos and Los Cerritos ranches and
next season the acreage will be more
than doubled to meet the requirements OF
the increased capacity Of tine factory.
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BAKERSFIELD

The year 1897 will be remembered in
Bakersfield more distinctly than those
that went before it chiefly for the rea-
son that it has seen the completion of
the work taken in hand by the Power
Development company in transmitting
the force of gravity acting upon the
waters Of Kern river into electrical en-
ergy that may be used for mechanical
and industrial purposes. The fact that
power of the most serviceable sort can
now be had at cheap rates places this
city in a position to become great man
ufacturing point.
About $225000 was expended in this
work, principally in Kern River canyon,
fourteen miles from town, where a flume
two miles long was constructed across
the face of a precipitous bluff and the
waters thereby diverted are turned into
an iron pipe leading to the power house;
the electricity thus developed is con-
Quoted by cable to the transforming
station, whence it is distributed to con-
Sumers.
Besides being put to various small
uses, electricity generated by this plant
Is already being used to light the town,
to pump water for a recently organized
public water company, and for several
cold storage plants.
In the matter Of building done dur
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daily, giving employment to between so
and 100 men, who receive good wages
the year round. All of the supplies for
these employees are bought in Fullerton
There are abut thirty business houses
in Fullerton; in fact, almost every bust
ness is represented here. During the
past year number of new enterprises
have been established in Fullerton. and
more than 70 new residences erect
ed. There are only two high schools in
orange county: one in Santa Ana, the
other in Fullerton. -Four teachers are
employed in the Union High school here,
and three in the public schools. The
town has five packing houses, which give
employment to large number of hands
the year round; an ostrich farm; plan
ing and grist mills; public library; four
notes; large general merchandise
stores; seven warehouses; nurseries:
a good water system; newspaper: drug.
stationery, grocery and provision stores;
bank with paidup capital stock of
$4,000; timing and plumbing establish
ment; meat markets; hardware store:
blacksmith shops; lumber yard: dry
goods stores, etc. There are three
churches here-Methodist Baptist and
Presbyterian-also number of LODGES.
Fullerton, in proportion to it's size and
population, is one of the most importa nt
shipping points in the state, and is con-
sidered one of the liveliest towns in
Southern California.
EDGAR JOHNSON.
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ing the year, the most important bust
ness structures are the Schurra building
on Chester avenue and the Cohn block
on Nineteenth street. Many fine resi-
dences have gone up and gratifying
number of smaller homes have been
constructed. Indeed, BODYBUILDING has
been feature of Bakersfield's advance
ment this year.
An important addition to the progress
of the town has been the establishment
of the Electric Water company. Here
tofore a serious drawback to the conve-
nience Of the people has been the scare
ity Of water for fire, domestic and irri-
eating purposes. This deficiency the
new company proposes to do away with
and has adopted the plan Of erecting
pumping stations sufficient to supply
the needs of limited districts, each SUBJ
system being Independent Of every other
excepting that all will be under the same
management and will be operated with
the same power-electricity.
The outlook for 1898 is very promising
in view of the fact that the Valley road
will then be constructed to Bakersfield
and this town, in addition to the ordi-
nary benefits to be derived from railroad
competition, will be q terminus of the
system for an indefinite period-a thing
important in itself.
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FULLERTON

Fullerton is one of the youngest towns
In orange county, and is on the Southern
California railway, between Santa Ana
the county seat, and Los Angeles, be-
ing only twenty-five miles from the lat
ter city and ten miles from the former.
The town was "staked" out during the
latter days of the BOOM and has grown
rapidly in population as well as in COM
mercial pursuits. During the past
three years Fullerton has almost
doubled in population, there being now
fully 1000 inhabitants in the town. The
town being situated near the foothills.
and the soil being rich, makes this sec
ton one of the finest orange and lemon
districts in Southern California. Last
season 246 carloads of choice oranges
were shipped from Fullerton and Pla-
centia and it is now estimated that the
orange shipments will run up to 275 car
loads this season. There are but few
sections IN this state where the English
walnut Is grown successfully, and Full
Ierton is one Of the favored localities.
during the season just closed about
seventy carloads We're shipped east. and
VIII bring in to this locality 500, 900 for
Wainuts alone. Lemons, vegetables.
wool, hay and grain are also shipped
from this place in large quantities
there being sent out about 400 carloads
OF the latter annually. There are a
large number of producing oil wells near
the town, and hundreds of barrels of oil
are being pumped from Mother Earth"
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As the crow flies, situated % miles from
Los Angeles, four miles from the ocean,
and IA miles from San Pedro harbor
Los Alamitos, but year old, shows a
wonderful growth. The results of the
past season show this eection to have
been the record breaker in richness OF
beets produced. In this great artesian
belt, the moisture remains during all the
season but a few feet from the surface,
and rises to the roots of growing crops
by capillary attraction. Here are fif-
teen to twenty thousand acres of soil pc
culiarly adapted to beet culture and trib-
utary to the factory of the Los Alamitos
Sugar company.
Where one year ago was herders'
camp, there has on the great sheep ranch
sprung up a town having all the advan-
tages of church, school, water system,
railroad and Geographic communication,
with good hotels and goodly number
of enterprising business houses, where
all the necessaries and many of the lux
uries of life may be procured.
The Southern Pacific company has
extensive yards, a commodious depot
costing $4,000, and it is expected will soon
extend the line on to San Pedro deep
water harbor, making communication
with the outside world easy and COM
plete.
Within the year the Los Alamitos Su-
gar company has completed it's plant,
and brief description of the building is
as follows:
The main building is 2e0x66 feet, of
brick, supported on steel frames with
solid cement foundations extending
many feet underground. The annex or
boiler house is 1s6x72 feet. with capac-
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The town of Santa Paula has shown
healthy and continuous growth almost
since the opening of the year. During
the last few months. however, the num-
Der and value of building improvements
which have been carried on almost justi-
fy the statement that the town is expert
encing real building boom. There is no
better indicator of towns prosperous
condition than the conversion of capital
into real value. And, besides being an
evidence of confidence in the future con-
dition of trade, the tendency to build is
in itself a stimulant to all other lines
of business. This is especially true of
Santa Paula, which is self-contained
town, furnishing from among its own
resources both labor and material for all
needful improvements.
1t has been many years since carpen-
tiers, builders, masons, plasterers, paint
ers. plumbers and other mechanics of the
building trades have been in such con-
slant demand. The steady growth of
these good times, as we'll as the pros
poets and projected plans which will be
carried out within the next few months.
indicates a degree of permanency in
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NEWHALL

canyon. A new company, The Sierra
Madre Oil company, is developing new
territory in the same neighborhood. 1t
is their intention to drill several wells
as soon as the necessary preparations
can be made. All these claims are west
and southwest of the town.
On the east side of Newhall another
oil company is engaged in drilling a
well, with fair prospects of obtaining
clear oil. Already they are getting a
small amount, and so great is the refine
ment it has undergone that it can in
it's natural astte be burned in an ordi-
nary lamp.
The farmers have had their share Of
the good things during the past year, as
more than 1000 sacks of wheat and 5000
sacks of barley will not be more than a
fair estimate Of the seasons production
The little busy bee has worked himself
into high favor this year. and the New
hall beemen have shipped twelve or
thirteen carloads Of honey to eastern
and foreign markets. No finer honey
| is produced in California than that pro-
duced in the neighborhood of Newhall
and it has a most enviable reputation
in the eastern markets and is eagerly
sought after.
The above is fair estimate of what
has been done in Newhall during 1897
The traveller, gazing out of car window
may often wonder what attraction New
hall possesses, but it has always beer
said that once person had lived in the
place for short time and left it he has
always had a longing to return to the
little town at the head of the Santa
Clara valley.
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existing conditions which is flattering
and encouraging.
The extensive operations of the Union
Oil company, with Santa Paula as a dis
tributing center for pay rolls and sup
plies, are one of the mainstays of this
towns welfare. The amount Of cash
which is put into circulation monthly by
the Limoniera company, by the N. w.
Blanchard interests and by other large
wage-payers contributes not little to-
ward the business of Main-street mer-
chants. The growing Importance of the
Limoniera companys already large in
terests has as yet scarcely been appre-
ciated by Santa Paula citizens, but with
in the next two or three years the
amount of new money" which the sale
of the products of these immense lemon
orchards will bring into Santa Paula will
be q most potent factor in the further
development of the town. Main-street
merchants. almost without exception,
report a flattering increase of business
done in 1897 over business done the pre-
vious year. The Ventura County Lum-
Der company's sales over the county
were SO per cent larger than in 1896.
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Since the beginning of the present year
the work which has been accomplished
here in the way of improvements has
been very considerable, and further i'm
provements are going steadily on. The
city has more than doubled it's popula-
ton in the past ten years, and large
portion of the grounds within the city
limits has been transformed from vine
yards to beautiful gardens, with hand
some private residences, graded and
graveled streets and cement sidewalks.
In saying that Anaheim enjoys the dis
tinction of being the only town in Orange
county that has established during the
year a new electric light plant and a
complete water system. there is nothing
invidious or uncomplimentary to other
towns in the county, but the fact of hav-
ing done so demonstrates the enterprise
of its citizens and the confidence which
they have in the future prosperity of the
city.
The total cost of the new water sys-
stem and electric light plant was about
SO 900. improvements are constantly
being made to the plant, and new en-
CINE ard dynamo, the cost of which has
been provided for in the above estimate,
will be installed before the close of the
year. The new electric light plant is Of
1000 lights and the machinery and ap-
paratus is of the best. All the machinery
is inclosed in a suitable building, and is
fully protected from the effects of the at
mosphere.
Another very important public i'm
provement which has been planned and
executed this year is the new addition
to the public school building located in
this city. which was created at a cost of
S42SO. The architectural design of this
structure conforms as nearly as prac-
ticable to the building adjoining it, and
is a two-story frame building of four
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rooms. 1t is thoroughly equipped with
all the modern appliances for heating,
ventilation, etc, and, together with the
old building, is probably the largest
school -edifice in the county. The total
cost of this magnificent structure, in
Guiding the cost Of the grounds, was
about $4,000.
Among the private buildings that have
been erected during the year may be
mentioned the one-story brick business
house of Stephen Kistler, on Center
street, and used by him as a bakery. con-
lfectionery store and restaurant, and on
the adjoining lot neat cottage which
he occupies as a residence; the fine two
story residence of j. B. Rea, at the cor
ner of Broadway and Philadelphia
street; the beautiful cottage completed
this year by F. Stanley on Lemon street;
1.-THE six-room cottage of Mrs. Scott on
North street; the one and half-story
cottage of August Backs on Lemon
street. and numerous other cottages
that have been erected this year.
There is also the corrugated iron ware
house built for the William Lutz COM
pany by Fritz Ruhman, and the same
kind of building built by Miller and
Maggie for L. NJ. Davidson, a plumber.
The Anaheim Union Water company
| is constantly making improvements
within the city limits in the way of cul-
verts, cement bitches. headgates, etc.
Anaheim is one of the oldest cities in
Southern California, and, according to
her population, is one of the richest.
Her population is made up mostly of
good, sturdy citizens, and with ample
railroad facilities, soil whose production
cannot be beaten anywhere. and the
finest climate on earth, there is no just
reason why she should not be in name
what she is in reality, the garden spot
| of Orange county.
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surveyor and the plans and specifica-
tions for the construction of the bridge
have been adopted by the board of SUI
pervisors, and work will be commenced
| at an early date. The bridge when COM
pleted will consist of twelve steel and
wood spans, each eighty feet in length
with twenty-foot roadway and sixteen
feet of clear headroom. y trestle APP
proach of 800 feet on either end of the
trusses with a roadway of twenty feet
will constitute the total length of the
| bridge. EmbankmentS of earth from
| fifty to sixty-SiX feet base and from five
| to twelve feet in height, with a thirty
foot roadway, will constitute the APP
proaches to the bridge, the estimated
cost of which is $4,000.
The Ventura and Ojai Valley railroad
is another important adjunct to the ma
terial progress of the county. The grad
i ing of the roadbed was begun in August
and the laying of rails is now progressing
at the rate of one-half mile per day. Its
entire length will be sixteen miles, and
it's course leading through the beautiful
Santa Ana valley will make it one of
the most strikingly scenic railways in
the country. This road will have the
which is one of the most picturesque
and healthful spots in Southern Cali
fornia, being nestled between high, and,
in some instances. almost perpendicular
mountains. which are in most part COW
cred with stately oaks and sycamore,
pierced with romantic canyons. possess
! ing a high, dry atmosphere, and yet
heretofore has been comparatively
| 11nlxnpyx-r RI thp Io1ao
seeking people of the southern tier of
/ counties. Tapped with excellent rail-
road facilities, with it's picturesque
beauty and health renewing climate it is
destined to become in the not distant
future one of the great pleasure and
health resorts of the globe. The Won
derful hot sulphur springs of the grand
canyon of the Matilita, possessing almost
incompatible medicinal qualities, will be
easy of ingress and egress by way of this
road, and the coming season will no
doubt find hundreds of the sick and
work-weary people from all parts of the
country seeking relief from the hot,
gushing waters of the Matilda
The new union high school building,
lately completed, evidences the latest
addition to the long list of excellent
school buildings in the county. 1t was
erected at a cost of $4,000. and contains
modern appointments, and is conducted
on progressive ideas.
The California Asphalt companv has
erected within the city limits of Ven
tura d plant having a capacity of 900
tons of asphalt, 800 barrels of distillate
and 800 barrels of sulphuric acid per
month. The plant is owned and oper-
ated by eastern CAPITALISTS. and the
products thereof are mostly shipped to
the eastern markets The asphalt is of
very superior quality and is used princi-
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CncIassl1led freight ..............'... z5I,4I
The total shipment of perishabl'
products from Orange has been 4S3 car
load this year, against 292 last year, or al
increase of 191 carloads.
The year 1897 has been one of unprece
dented growth and improvement. TIL
list of new cottages is creditably started
with $4,000 residence by Captain !. M
Hart, and is closely seconded by thos