The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 26, 1903, Page 6

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'cicck. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 o'clock, T0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER Call subseribers contemwlating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to thelr new @ddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented .y a local agent in wll towns on the coast. PROFITS IN FRUIT. fruit-growers o that along d of land and tions, many more suc- fr growing, nor to st be ause Men are not alike ne men have not twenty-dollar gold ter how favor- not in at anything justry of this State uccessful, that it hat it is is permanent icts of E have been e markets of of tree or vine in Califor- putside of the State. Europe and oranges b ntrol of the g ious fruit products ies that bite and emies that feed vines, and by parasitic now much about We have q how to fungous e 1 re pe e whol s here to stay and that the ban- to cross the ocean and rnia ested, the i the industry labor em- to our prosperity, it is of vital all on a permanent foun- interesting examples of fruit-growing are quite remote from our large cities and kets. They are found in neighbor- hoods that are still “country,” where fruit-growers live in the midst of their orchards and do as much of their own work as the magnitude of their opera- The Sacramento Valley furnishes excellent examples of this kind. The orange and are the most flourishing tions will permit olive ¢rchards of t in the world There the orange reaches perfection in the highest latitude in which it is found in any country. Alongside of it are the olive and the date. The latter ripens in latitude 40 degrees 30 minutes, | and no true date palm grows as far north elsewhere on the planet But the orange, olive and date are simply the wit- nesses to the existence of a climate that is kindly to the leading commercial fruits, and in the same val- ley all the stone fruits and pears and the pomegran- ate flourish. The prosperity of fruit-growing there is promoted by the abundant supply of canneries and drying establishments. These are so numerous that no orchard is distant from thém a very long haul, and the farmers’ teams, which in the spring have been used in cultivating his orchards and vineyards, are profitably in servick the rest of the year in haul- ing fruit to the shipper, the canner or the drier, where there is an immediate market and the check follows delivery. The earliest fruit in that valley is the cherry. The results of this crop in Sutter County may be accepted as typical. The Sutter County Farmer, the excel- lent paper so long edited by the late George Ohleyer, gives the returns on the cherry orchard of Giblin Brothers. below Yuba City. It is a three-acre or- chard, with 302 trees, which produced thirty tons of fruit this season. It sold 2t 5 and 6 cents per pound and netted, after taking out cost of cultivation, $2430, or about $850 per acre. The product was nearly 200 pounds per tree, and the net earning of cach tree was S8 34. At 5 per cent the value of each tree is $166 Bo. We safely challenge any part of the world to show a higher value in any sort of fruit tree, industry, and are entirely | VEGETARIAN COLONIES. HERE is unusual activity in this country on the T part of the dietetic reformers. The dietists are divided into two great camps, the meat-eaters and the vegetarians. The latter are again divided into two camps, composed of the people who want their vegetables cooked and those who take them The meat-eaters are rather to be classified as omnivora, since they also consume fruit and vege- tables. But the vegetarians rigidly draw the line |and eat no fish, flesh nor fowl. They are preparing | to found several colonies in this country, from which raw. | the use of meat is to be rigidly excluded. | There is no disputing that too much meat is eaten | when it is a table staple used three times a day. The vegetarian movement will do much good if it call attention to and curb excesses in the use of a flesh But it is doubtful whether the vegetarian cult will make headway along the lines which it seems | to be following. It is claimed that the strict vege- | tarian people are stronger physically and clearer men- %tal!y than those who use meat. The people of the | East Indies are generally vegetarians, on account of | religious scruples. They regard the animals as the | probable tenements of human souls, and will neither | kill nor eat them, for that would be a sort of can- | nibalism. Indeed they look upon the occidental | meat-eaters almost exactly as we look upon the can- | nibals, and the exposure of butcher's meat in the | people. | stalls and on the block is as great a shock to them |as it would be to us if the material were human. Yet ! these radical anti-flesh eaters, these vegetarians con- ‘ firmed in their faith and practice by ages and ages ‘o" inheritance and training, are ruled by a few meat- eating Englishmen, who hold in check a thousand | times their own number. In fact, the meat-eating | races and nations are the masters of the world and | rule it. We will not say that this is because they | eat meat, but if in such eating there are all the evils | visible to the vegetarian eye, the meat-eaters rule in | spite of it, and the vegetarian races ev here fail to | hold their own against them. It may be said that this is merely a physical test, and that in the intellec- | tual field the resuit may be different. But in that | form of activity the meat-eaters hold the record. | | Science and art, literature and institutions, founded | and maintained and promoted in the land of the | meat-caters, lead the world. The vegetarian races | may be profound thinkers, but their thoughts have | made no permanent, visible imprint upon the affairs | the world. The meat-eater may not think as | uch, but hi stinctive activity produces more. Another argum m: ent in favor of an exclusively vege- table diet is based on the immanence of the com-‘ mon bond of life. The animals, it is said, have life ‘ which man does not give and should not take away. ‘ But the orders of the animal kingdom differ. The | | carnivora have their share of the immanent life and { by their nature prey upon their brother and sister One | unmoved by its plumage, song | or other contribution to the beauty and gayety of nature. Even the insects chase each other under | the ground and over the ground and through the | air, that the chaser may live by eating the chased. In all nature life is sustained by preying upon life, animals with success and considerable relish. bird eats another bird, and there seems no good authority for laying it down as a scientific axiom that nature intended to suspend | the rule at man. | gain, those who argue from the immanence life admit that does not cease with its animate forms. Science will agree that there is the same life the sto and stones, and all the flora of the | world, and in the radical of every plant that there is in man. If then it is wrong to use for food our | first cousins, the ‘beasts, birds and fish, what right have we to live at the expense of our second cousins |and close biological blcod relations, the vegetables and arth? How do we know what bit- | ter tears are shed by the eyes of our kin, the po-‘ tato, 2s we bake him in the oven to devour his body for ou” own sustenance? Every grain of wheat and corn that we eat hath and we kill it. It is full f the same immanent essence and has the same des- | tiny the roast beef we eat, the ham we boil and the shad we plank. Can we measure the misery of | y lettuce, our kinswoman, whom we cut from her | stalk and mangle in an acid and oily bath for a salad, increasing the poignancy of her wounds by rubbing in pepper and sait? Does not the blood of our con- gener, the turnip, cry out against us from the ground? | of it vits of th and what agony of thought may run through a| cabbage-head as we boil it with our corned beef or gammon! If the slaughter of animals to give us food | is murder, as the sentimentalists insist, the heartless | sacrifice of our vegetable relatives is murder in the | second degree. | If evolution be true, we have passed through the | | modification of environment to our present form, | ! bringing with us some of the characteristics of our | bioiogical ancestry clear back to the time when we | were *“demned moist uncomfortable” parts of the primal mud slime, and we have brought the capacity to stand a mixed diet along with us from the long procession of tooth, claw and cud-chewing life from | which we descended. i Congratulations are due to San Jose and Los | Gatos because of the beginning of work on the elec- tric railway that is to connect the two places. The , Santa Clara Valley has scarcely a rival in the State | for fertility, and the inauguration of this road but | marks another milestone in the remarkable progress | of that beautiful section. PERENNIAL WARFARE. f HE war between sheep and cattle men on the T public range opened early this year and prom- | ises to progress with greater slaughter than usual. As the desert gains on the meadow every year the feed grows less and the strife over it in- | creases. This year a new cause of disturbance ap- | pears, or rather it was new last year and is carried over, and promises great addition to the carnage and destruction of property. The miners in Wyoming have drawn a dead line and’ ordered the stock men not to let a hoof cross it. No reason is given why the miners should do this. It is difficult to see how | grazing and mining conflict, unless it may be that both require the use of water and the miners have | commit suicide. | can be found this threat should be eagerly welcomed | seen from Signal Peak. cue from destruction of the public range. The con- sequences are being reaped in lawlessness and waste of life and property, and in the permanent destruc- tion of the sole potential wealth that was in about four hundred million acres of the public domain. Other consequences are falling upon all the people. The destruction of the pasture is obsoleting the most economical production of meat, and the price is putting it beyond the reach of a considerable part of our people. The livestock business is being driven out of the country. Since our last reference to that branch of the subject it is said that 20,000 more Americans have turned their backs on their country to settle in Canadian Northwest Territory, because there by a liberal leasing policy they can get the area of graz- ing land required to successfully carry on the stock range business. This stream of American enterprise is being ‘elt like the infusion of new blood into Canada, and already packing and refrigerating plants on a large scale are projected to take away from us our export trade in meats. It is seldom that any country has so deliberately 'driven over its borders a trade of such importance as that in livestock, at the same time increasing the cost of living to its own The Agricultural Department gave timely warning of what was coming and stands ready now, if Congress would act and protect our ranges, to undertake restocking them with the grasses and val- uable forage plants which they once produced. We read every day of the demand by labor for higher wages on account of the high price of meat, and the protest of employers that they can stand no further advance. The demand was begotten on the range when the stock men, having no freehold or leasehold rights to protect it, literally hogged the grass and left desert behind them. This is a large country with a busy people, and it is hard to get them to trace economic effects back to their causes. | I they had time to do so both employe and em- ployer would be knocking at the doors of Congress with a demand that it do something to put the range under protection and to restore its capacity to carry stock, to the end that food might be cheap- ened and the purchasing power of labor’s wages be increased. e —— The report comes from Belgrade that it is stated that at a meeting held last Sunday the assassins of | King Alexander and Queen Draga decided that if an attempt be made to prosecute them they will all If no other incentive to prosecute and their path made as easy as was the road to the royal bedroom. LUMBERING THE SIERRAS. HE people of the valleys of California have had a very indefinite idea of what lumbering means in the mountains. The fires that follow the ax and saw are spoken of in the papers, but without much effect on public sentiment. The forests in our mountains are as surely melting away as did those of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and every- where outside the Federal reserves moisture, shade and soil are disappearing. The lumbering operations | are usually carried on remote from the public high- ways and railways, and the forest fires are not near settlements and are permitted to burn all summer, extending from lumbered tracts to virgin timber, and destroying millions of dollars’ worth of prop- erty. The few who cry out against this destruction are looked upon as cranks, and the “practical” people go on stripping the country and leaving it bare and blear behind them. What it means to lumber de- structively may be seen now near a much traveled road. In the mountains, nine miles west of Wa- wona, is Signal Peak, rising 80oco feet and heavily timbered nearly to the top. From it the Cowchilla Range drops away like a great buttress, and standing on its summit, which is marble, one may view the mountains for hundreds of miles and look over the Coast Range to the far ocean. From that point, looking southeast, may be seen the limit of lumber- | ing and just how far destruction had crept up the mountain side. Beyond that live scrubby chaparral and vast spaces bare even of brush cover land that | once was heavily timbefed. The sequence of ax and fire stripped it. At present another sight may be Beginning at the former frontier of destruction is a railroad that coils like a mighty snake around and through the forest clear up to the lofty peak itself. It is a lumber road built to facilitate the milling of all the timber on the road ; to the Yosemite, from where the highway crosses the shoulder of the Chowchilla Mountain clear to Fish Camp and up to Signal Peak. Travelers on that road are familiar with that splendid forest. Part of it had been so conservatively lumbered by Miami mill that the fallen timber was hardly missed, because fires had -been excluded and the young trees had rapidly filled the places left vacant in the ranks. It was a most agreeable experience to pass from the hot and dusty plains below into the grateful shade and by the clear waters of that forest. It guarded on one watershed tributaries of Fresno River, and on the other Big Creek, the largest confluent of the south fork of the Merced. From Wawona Signal Peak is seen, and dropping from it a skyline of forest, made up of yellow and sugar pine. That evergreen skyline has been one of the beauties of the mountains. ‘The great basin in which the Hotel Wawona stands is protected against lumbering by the foresight of the Washburnes, who in constructing the finest mountain resort in the country have heightened rather than harmed the primitive grace of the forest. They own the forest on one side, and the Yosemite reserve protects it on the other, but unfortunately neither goes to the skyline, and soon Signal Peak will be lit up by the forest fires that follow the slaughter of timber. Those who visit the Yosemite now have to cross cight long chutes, hear the puffing of a dozen donkey-engines that are pulling the logs to the chutes, and pass through the smoke of the fires that are stripping the mountain of all trees too small for the saw. It may be a valuable object lesson because it is not remote. Thousands of people have to see it. - They see drought and dust and ashes where there were sylvan shade and tinkling waters and clear, cold springs and a carpet of mountain flowers, concluded that all there is in the public streams is theirs. But, whatever the reason, the order is is- sued. In the same county there were several battles between the miners and stock men last year, and a good string of murders made up the season’s record. When it is remembered that this bloody contention is caused by the claim of exclusive right to the public domain, whereto one has as much right | as another, it will be seen that that domain is with- | out law, except the rule of might. The miner does not eat grass, and yet claims the right to keep stock from eating it, when the grass is on the public do- main and belongs to the whole people. It has been a mistake in Congress to so long neglect the res- | Of course men have a right to do as they please with their own, but the laying bare of .the thirty sections that are tributary to that lumber road and are now being stripped means impairment of the fertility and production of thirty sections in the -San Joaquin Valley. Hydraulic mining had to yield to the more important and permanent interests of agriculture. The miners owned the mountains they sluiced into the rivers, and the waters which dissolved them, and the gold that was in them. It was all their own, but they were not permitted to s0 use it 2s to injure others. By and by it may dawn upon California that the same yule is applicable to those who own our mountain forests. b the | 180 FEE | FIRST OF THE GREAT TWELVE-IN BAKER, PHOTOGRAPHED WHI | AT POINT BONITA. CEB A7 FUNT BONITH ARDE]), CH GUNS WHICH ARE TO CONSTITUTE LE BEING TAKEN ASHORE AND HAULED UP THE MAIN BATTERY AT FORT OVER THE HIGH BLUFF has been landed at its final destination. | The weight of the gun is 125,000 pounds, | without the carriage, or half a million | pounds altogether, and the task of raising | such a mass of steel up a steep Incnne] | is distinctly formidable. The Government wharf at Bonita Point, | constructed two years ago, was quite un- | equal to sustain such a tremendous | | welght as a twelve-inch gun and a special | | method had to be contrived to haul the | gun up to the high crest of the bluff, as well as to land it upon the solid rock | | foundation of the beach. A temporary | crib was first constructed, into which at high water a barge could find shelter. As the tide declined the barge was PERSONAL MENTIO Judge E. C. Hart of Sacramento is at the Grand. A. C. Bingham, a banker of Marysville, is at the Palace. J. H. Hill, a merchant of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. C. S. Goodwin, a mining man of You Bet, is at the Lick. J. W. Kaseburg, a capitalist of Rose- ville, is at the Grand. R. C. West, a wine manufacturer of Stockton, s at the Grand. H. Thornton, proprietor of a hotel at Los Banos, is at the Lick. { Assemblyman F. E. Dunlap of Stock-| ton is registered at the Lick. | S. N. Griffith, who Is interested in sev- | eral electric enterprises in Fresno, Is stop- ping at the Occidental. Willlam D. Huber, president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and | Joiners of America, arrived in the eity | last evening and is registered at the, Grand Hotel. | General Warfield, commanding the Sec- ond Brigade, N. G. C., left this morning | for Santa Rosa, where he will inspect | and review the First Infantry Regiment, which is encamped there. it o Ry Californians in New York. NEW YORK, June 2.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—Mrs. N. Blaisdell, at the Hol- land; Mrs. Dulard, Mrs. C. W. Hobbs, Mrs. J. K. C. Hobbs and Miss E. W. Hobbs, at the Albemarle; Dr. M. A. Ma- | honey, at the Darlington; H. M. Stearns | and wife, at the Continental; F. L. Dever, at the Herald Square; W. H. Hatfleld, at | the Imperial; W. Jones and wife, H. Rey- | | nolds and wife and Miss Willlams, at the | St. Denis; A. M. Kidd, Miss Marshall and D. B. Marshall, at the Marlborough. From Los Angeles—P. J. Mallory, at the Rossmore; E. B. Plerce, at the Contl- nental; E. R. Balkas, at the Park Ave- nue; P. G. Widney, at the Hoffman. From San Jose—S. N. Rucker, at the Hoffman. - From Santa Barbara—W. J. Willetts, at | the Murray Hill. ————— Californians in Washington. ‘WASHINGTON, June 25.—The following Californians registered at the hotels to- day: At the New Willard—A. H. Heber of Los Angeles, At the Wilmington—Mau- rice B. Wells of San Francisco. —— e News in Army Circles. The following named officers of the army general staff have been ordered to leave for Manila on the transport Thomas, which is scheduled to sail July 1: Colonel J. B. Kerr, Twelfth Cavalry; Lieu- tenant Colonels W. A, Simpson and H. P. Mec- Cain of the adjutant general's department; Ma- jor W. A. Mann, Fourteenth Infantry: Captain | lepartms W. W. Gibson 'of the ordnance d ders = - -+ HE first of the great twelve-inch | aground, floating again at the next high | the elevation where they are stationed the breech-loading rifle guns that are to | Water. In the interval the great gun was | guns will have a gange of fifteen to | e riounted on the Datteries at|Tolled on a timber foundation, resting | eighteen miles and will shoot accurately g e Potne assived | upon the way planks which extended elght miles. The weight of Fost; BRar; tHenie Y | from water level to the top of the bluff, s 1000 pounds. from the East some time ago and| niging vertically 180 feet and a total length for raising the great gum up of 500 feet, built over a gulch and having | an average incline of 22 degrees. Sixteen cables of 5%-inch best Manila | rope were attached to the gun and cradle, | while four capstans, operated by steam | power, wound up the cables at the top of | the bluff. Counterwelghts of lead, weigh- 154,000 pounds, balanced the welght of tue gun. ta Bluff were conceived by Lieuten- ant Colonel Thomas H. Hanbury of the United States Corps of Engineers and executed by J. H. G. Wolff, engineer. The contractors who furnished material and supervised the work were George Davis & Son. It is a matter of some congratulation on the part of the engineers of ‘he United With a force of sixteen men ard four | States army that all the work of erect- horses the gun was finally landed just | ing fortifications and preparing the back of the battery on Bonita Heights | portant post of Bonita Poeint for o pancy and defensive operations has been accomplished hitherto without calilng for the services of contractors. The first ard only exception to this rule has been In the employment of contractors for rais- ing the great gun up the steep incline at Bonita Point. on Monday. The work of elevating it pro- ceeded without accident and continuing in all about eighteen hours. The great guns, with which Fort Baker will in time be equipped. will command effectively the north channel of the en- trance into San Francisco harbor. From Twenty-fifth Battery of Field Artillery has been given temporary station at the Presidio. s ey S s hor grta e ) Speclal _information supplied daily to | business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cali fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. ————— O. 8, City. The definition of the Indian word Winnebago | is dirty water. i . | MARY J. HOLMES_A. E.. City. Mary Townsend’s California glace fruits and candles, 0c a pound, in artistic fire- | J- Holmes, the novelist, is living in Brock- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern | port, New York. friends. 715 Market st., above Call bldg.* _ iR e i | PUNCH-A. E., City. All punches, Last year is claimed to have been the | whether fruit or other, contain either most prosperous ever enjoyed in Canada. | claret, white wine, champagne or liquor. SUNDAY CALL'S « SUMMER FICTION NUMBER . =={ OUT_NEXT SUNDAY |== You'll Buy This. It’s 2 Pictorial Gem. “BETWEEN TWO FIRES” By Mirs. C. N. 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