Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1905-03-23

this means OF advert tising, tIerr are
thousands Of real estate agents il
California busy trying TO get pco
pie here and hHslcr still trying tC
sell the visitor some real estate
when he gets here. | have never
seen state where as near all real
estate property is for sale as her,
in California. | believe three
fOurths of the land in this county is
for sale and it seems to be the case
all over the state. In the little
town of Corning with its 1000 OF
l 200 inhabitants, besides the pro-
motcr Of the NJ. w. colony with his
$4,000 Office. there are five or six
other real estate dealers.
At the Lewis and Clark ENDOSi-
ton to open 1T Portland, Ore, in
June, California Is to have Il S4U.-
600 building to display her products.
There is one thing the promoters
of this place deserve great credit for
however; that is fhe pains taken to
advertise the place III the best class
of magazines and newspapers, and
in that way have drawn mostly the
best class of citizens. | doubt if
You can find the equal in this state,
of educated, refined, law-abiding,
chnrch-going people, as are found
| here at Corning. The town has six
churches and, am sorry to say,
two saloons and two hotels with
''bars" to them. But the new class
! Of citizens coming in are working
to uproot the liquor traffic here en-
tirely.
| There is but one negro IN this vi
cinity, but few Germans, Il few
Swcdcs, English and Scotch. Most
Of the northern, central and New
England states represented; some
few Chinese.
But few states have . better or
more liberal school system than has
California. This town has fine
graded public school with seven
teachers-all lae,ies- The principal
gets 1925 Il month and pays S25 Of
her salary to teacher that gives
lessons III physical culture. The
first assistant teacher gets s75 per
month. The other four get SO
| each. / am told the school will last
nine months. Besides this graded
school, Corning has Il public high
school, that belongs to eleven dis
tricts OF the county. The principal
ofthe school, Mr.. o. +. Graves, gets
sl50 per month and his three assist
ants, ladies, get sll0.
Besides an excellent public school
system, California has Il fine state
university at Berkeley, and Palo
Alto, the great private university,
Iceland Stanford Jr., University is
located. Founded by the late Sen
ator Stanford, who owned y vine
yard of 5000 acres, about seven
miles from Corning, just across the
Sacramento river, said to be the
| largest vineyard in the world. The
property is still owned by Mrs.
Stanford. Mrs. Stanford died few
days ago, since this was written
In addition to schools mentioned
there are normal schools in the state
To people that are used to mud
hub deep during the winter the
| roads here are quite a pleasing rev
elation. Roads here that are prop
ery graded are good the year round
this adobe gravely land packs
down almost as firm as stone and
makes 4 fine, smooth road with lit
tle gravel. l have seen no place
where there are more bicycles used
than here. There are probably Il
thousand in this vicinity. Preach
ers doctors, editors, carpenters and
almost everybody uses them.
There is probably no state in the
union where working men arc try
ing harder to ''protect their rights"
than here in California, with trades
unions, socialist organizations, CO.
operative stores &c. There are over
fifty Rochdale cooperative stores
in California: This system of CO.
operation, organized in the town of
Rochdale, England, In 1911, and
has been successfully carried on IN
England and elsewhere in Europe
ever since. This is the mercantile |
system the Grange tried in the
United States anG failed, because
they did not comply with the rules.
There is a Rochdalc store in Corn
ing and for the amount Of capital
invested, is doing more business
than any store here. Shares are
500 each, and no one can own
more than one share. Eight per
cent interest is paid each share