The San Francisco call., 1898-02-13

San Bernardino has four banks, fur l nishing ample facilities, and all of them ln excellent condition and in handsome l quarters. They are the Farmers FIX change Bank, the San Bernardino Ma | tlonal Bank, the Bank of San Bernar- dlno and a savings bank. The soundness toned.
 NEWSPAPERS = The newspapers of | San Bernardino are not surpassed by any city of this size in the country. They fishing daily and weekly editions. which are well patronized. They are the Free owner and editor. and J. w. Headen city editor; the Times-Index Republican,. F. ". Richardson, publisher and editor, and c: A Whitmorei city editor; the Sun Re;;. publisher, and Kendall Holt, city editor. There are thirteen other papers published in the county.
 HOTELS-The city is we'll supplied with hotels-the New St. Charles, the Stewart and the Southern, besides a number of other smaller hotels and apartment houses. The restaurants of the city are
 CITY GoTERNMENT-The city gov- ernment is composed at present of the denn n5o or L. Thomag Monroe eIste stewapt sPtes1 A. Wees and M A. Pace; Recorder, J. D. Paris; Attorney, Colonel c. C.. Haskell; Marshal, William B. Reeves; Clerk, Le-r gare Alien; Treasurer. Marion Aldredge; Assessor, Jeff McElwain.
 RAILROAD FACILITIES-The city is well provided with railway lines, being al routes: It also has connection by rail with Redlands, Riverside, Cotton and Highlands. There are, all told, sixty ar- rivals and departures of trains each day. The county contains 415 miles of standard gauge railroad, 12S miles of motor line and 15 miles of streetcar lines. The city is situated on the famous kite-shaped track of the Santa Fe route.
 The machine-shops of the Santa Fe system are located here. They constantly employ a large number of skilled mechan- averages $55 .000, nearly all. of which is ex- pended in the city. These shops and the railroads combine to make this railroad town in a measure.
 OTHER INDUSTRIES Several cream cries are operated in the city and vicinity, with capacity of n,0O0 pounds of milk daily.
 The stores and business houses of the city are large, and are usually construct ed of brick or stone. They embrace all lines of mercantile pursuits. The city enjoys considerable wholesale trade with the neighboring towns, and goods are oc- casionally shipped to Arizona and New Mexico.
 The manufacture of flour has lately been receiving considerable attention. The San Bernardno Roller Flour Mills c. V. Suman, proprietor have recently been erected in the heart of the city, and are run constantly at capacity of seventy barrels of flour per day. Only home grown wheat is used, which is found to produce a finer grade of four than the northern grown grain. The motive power is water.
 The city Is we'll lighted by the San Ber- nardino Electric Light and Power Com pany, which has a ten-year contract for public illumination. There is also a gas company and another electric light com pany in actual working existence, besides several in embryo. The electricity is gen. erated by Waterpower.
 The Southern Hospital for the Insane is in San Bernardino County, five miles from the city limits, and is a lofty pile of buildings, beautifully located on the sun- ny slopes of the San Bernardino Range, surrounded by groves of oranges and tropical plants, and directly under the snow-capped mountains. The view from this spot is sublime. J. W. HEADEN.