The San Francisco call., 1903-12-14
Facts and Figures
Show States
Position.
Interior Keeping
Pace With the
Advance.

Alden Anderson, report that 1858 car
loads of fresh fruit have been shipped
out of the State during the year 1908.
Mr.. Anderson hopes the annual average
| of shipments may be brought up to
| IL, 600 carloads The Davisville Almond
| Growers Association, meeting at Davis
vile, reported that it had sent out OF
| California during the season % car
| loads of almonds. The value was S4S, ,469.
| The Les Angeles Chamber of Com
merce figures out the population Of
/ Southern California counties to be 416.-
500. In 1900 the total was 305. 10. The
counties are now rated by the Chamber
of Commerce as follows: Los Angeles
PSI, 900. Orange $4,000. Riverside 10000,
/ San Diego $4,000 Ventura $4,000 Santa
Barbara $4,000.
During November $40 permits to erect
buildings in Les Angeles were issued,
says the Herald. The expenditure in
volved in making these Improvements
was $1,1S3,s14
A cement plant to cost 81, 900, 900 will
/ probably be located in Santa Cruz
| County as the result of the report Of a
committee sent TO investigate plant
at NaDa Junction
| CONSTRUCTION work on the Bakersfield
Ventura electric railway has been be-
/ gun at Oxnard. The first section OF
/ track to be laid will extend from OK
nard to Hueneme.
/ A new steamboat company has been
/ formed at Stockton with a capital
/ stock of $1O0, 900, so says the Stockton
Independent. to put in operation YES
sells for handling freights on the San
| Joaquin River next season.
The Tulare Register reports that
/ Tulare will have another butter tac-
tory The dairying industry in Tulare
County is growing
The San Diego Union reports that the
silver Gate Touring mills in San Diego
may be reopened.
| The San BernardinO Times-Index
saws that line of automobile cars will
be constructed to run into Death Valley
and bring out bOrax, taking the place
| of the present mule trains and making
an annual saving of 100000
The Colfax Sentinel reports that the
lime works on the Bear River, three
miles from Colfax, are approaching
completion. The capacity of the kilns
will be from 100 barrels to 125 barrels
per diem.
The NaDa Valley Packing Company
is reported to be about 10 put up a new
cannery and cottages for working peo-
pie employed.
Within sixty-nine days the deposits
in the national banks in Los Angeles
increased 81, 1855 This showing ex-
cludes the state and savings banks.
The Newcastle News says that New
/ castle has become an all-the-year-
| around shipping point Berries and
cherries begin to move in April. From
that time to the date for beginning the
shipments of oranges there is no break
in shipping The oranges. olive pro-
ducts and dried and canned fruits will
/ keep the shippers busy until berries
again ripen.
The Berkeley Gazette says that the
/ Judson Iron Works at Emeryville will
supplant steam power with electricity.
o = : : : : : : : : o
will then be increased threefold. More
orange groves will be planted and
orchards will multiply. Alfalfa and
dairy farms will be established and
| thousands OF acres now owned and
| farmed by a single owner will pass
into the hands of many hundreds OF
| people whose diligent husbandry. as
sisted by abundant water at the proper
time, will thus form that portion OF
| the great Sacramento Valley into "a
picture no artist can paint"
| There is practically no dormant sea-
\ son in California. Plant life grows
/ throughout the year. With irrigation
seeds can be sOwn and products hRr-
vested in most every month OF the
year. Six to eight crops Of alfalfa are
gathered from the same field annually
where irrigation is properly applied
/ and the soil and climatic conditions are
suitable.
STRIKING COMPARISONS.
Three hundred to five hundred pounds
of water is required by nature to pro-
duce one pound of dry matter. A prac-
| tfcal demonstration OF the power Of wa
ter in agriculture is shown BY the pro-
ducts of California last year. Three
million acres in wheat and barley, non
irrigated. produced commercially s22.-
| 600 600, while the product of 300. 900 acres
of irrigated land sold for $50 900. 900. a
very great contrast.
A part Of the southern desert is be-
ing reclaimed by diverting the waters
of the Colorado, where the cost Of land
Is 81 25 an acre and the water right
alone costs $40 an acre. Here the wa
ter value exceeds the land value 1900
per cent
America is entering boldly into the ir-
rigation age. AS population increases,
personal liberty must be restriC ted and
room must be provided for those who
choose to abide among us Their homes
will be sought mainly in the fertile val
leys. the possession of the California
rancher. Thus comes the disintegra-
tion of the bic. ranch, the conversion Of
it's broad acres into the home farr.,
the nobIest abode of man.
1t is true that any man. with the
expenditure OF less physical md mental
exertion than is necessary in the pur-
suit OK livelihood in the city or town
can live better and make more money
on ten acres of good land In California
and free himself from the cOntamina-
&fov- - orooofn1 coaunorc1ifun ,0r,.r-