New-York tribune., 1908-04-05
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
French Bankers Investigate San
Francisco and It's Prospects.
fRr Telegraph 70 The Tribune. J

too A1rfI -Four prominent French
bankers OF Paris have been here TINS "eeh- IL
eating San Francisco and It's prospects
T,douard Julhiet, of the Banque De o"ioI q
-Is;o-ra. Tacoues de Neuhies, Of the Bahque Ue
NsnAies and son of Baron de Neuhles' ono
the managers OF the Bank OF fTanOe'
Monier and J. MaIlet. private bankers OF tLe
I1~anch cepital The Banque de L Union FarlsleIiie
=. ,.as+ad in United Railways These visitors
,rAra greatly impressed with the extent OF 'ne
r.hab;litation work and expressed great Aai'N 40
the future growth OF the city
,,. snnsrvisors decided this week 10 preserve
the iron dome OF the City Han as laloIA -, -
+ha cf+v that was The proposition 10 tear o0"H
+ba dome and regard the City Hall as mercy ten-
norarv quarters tor public offices was Voleo ooMH
bacause of many sentimental pleas Iroili - |
inent persons TO save the dome Inc lily " -.
ba mn in shape for occupancy for a nlooeRalo
-,o,r+ but there Is a strong sentiment IN 1aVor
- clearing II away and building modern CltS
Hall on the same site
At a large meeting Of Leland STANFORD 'ul-o- ~
University alumni this week resolutions We
adopted condemning the student a1alrs coIilii1 -
for its action in Furnishing the students "io 'ooA
-, 4, tho recent campus parade, and urging lhe
faculty to permit them to return 10 lhe IN
der a pledge of good behavior me Ieso4u'i
also declared that the parade was not an oi I, So
fvad demonstration against the university au'ofi
., % President Jordan asserted, but was an
tn,nrorptu protest against an unpopular professor
At the head Of the student AFFAIRS committee anu
aIso against the alleged ambiguous rules mat ne
nad promulgated The alumni also requested repre-
sentation at the president coI410A0 ~
I'D student affairs monthly
1,.,,.d Oliver a well known pioneer merchant ol
,his city and Sacramento died this week deeu
-I,e+v-two years. Mr. oliver came = CaIIIoTH40
with one hundred other young Ne" iOiA- - 20
Tho bark Stafford. reaching here IN August -'1
u b.a baen connected with the A I. Stewart
cornnsnv in New York. and he engaged IN the orS
goods business in Sacramento and this city
-,,s soDoua County Cooperative Poultry Asso-
citation fortnight ago opened store III same
Rosa which has proved a success NO" e'"i 1Ila
d Co,ati have Joined the association ana seiec'eu
- mo, as manager. He controls the largest egg
hacking plant on this coast, If not IN me world
The output amounts to one carload or -FOUR nun
dred cases day. 1t is expected 'hat '4e GU
onerative ASSOCIATION will break the power OF the
commission men who have made prices here TO suit
themselves
The McCToud Lumber Company resumed opera
-. .Lts zvask after the shutdown last fall Over
o,e thousand men began work, but only g part OF
the plant is running last year at this time TWO
thousand were employed
The Bully Hill Mining Companys smelter az
DeIamar Shasta County. was started this week
for the first tima in two years The company mas
enlarged and improved the smelter at cost 81
s,oo zoo and has built railroad from Delamar 10
the Southern Pacific above Kennel. distance Of
eighteen miles at cost of 100000 TO transport
ore coke and supplies. About five hundred men
began work eight hour shifts
Two men in Santa Monica fitting out
nedtion 10 search relics OF the Aveunt people
in Santa Monica Mountains. recent landslide
disclosed the skeleton of a man only inch
short of eight feet high and bones of many men
of large size have been found The discoveries
we're made land owned by Frederick H. Ringe
millionaire. who is himself ardent collector of
Indian relics
The raisu growers OF Fresno considering
forming a pool to sell their entire crop to G.. T
Turner of San Francisco. who represents a large
packing firm. Turner has agreed to buy all the
hoIdover crop at a minimum of four cents pound
IL 70 per cent OF the s pooled. is esti-
mated that the growers hold ten thousand tons OF
rasins.
Hartman and Huntington will fight this sum
mer at Los Angeles for the large ocean beach pas
senger traffic. Hartman this week put on his Los
Angeles Pacific system the finest and fastest cars
ever seen on :his coast
I,umbermen Of Washington State believe that
James J. Hill is wreaking vengeance upon them
for their part In forcing through the legislature
the anti-raflroad measures. He has increased lur-
ber rates 25 per cent on FIR and nearly as much on