The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 11, 1904, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1904 MARYSVILLE GIVES EXAMPLE OF UNITED ACTION TO UPBUILD SOLIDLY ITS MATERIAL INTERESTS Makes Review f Advantages That Ch .;7:1\\ r 4} Enjoys. Allurements Are Up by Re- Marysville Comm « ree. wide F VEGETATION. lus- he cam- the »auat hours tall foot- and the arly days ines still mbered ep and cat- mmer. equal Thanks- picked drift- n twenty MARYSVILLE PROSPEROUS. of Yuba, quick yarent Never sper on the fu- | at | 1 1 the achieve- | The con shown 364,000 sani- way m- g of s mprovi been have | are genuinely which the h they bus asphaltum, ocks, where is laid in and crushed s in the res " ke, which is practically f the city, and which € of fifty acres will be constructed, bor- ornamental trees 1 will be placed E an effect secured few cities the sige of boast. In addition to has ten blocks One of these, lving in the center o1 strict lawn, flowers, tropical n benches, a fountain nd, where band con- nce a week during It is the purpose the clith to at once improvement of two ks mentioned, one in of the city and the slern seetion. All this is for & place of 5500 t the same time in- of prosperity that ka b BUSINESS ENTERPRISES. TH fecling of enterprise ex- ists & £ e merchants of the eity, &ud is evidenced in the improvement hamber of | AND TO ADD TO wes. SEo Tromes o R . GamneTy WOMEN IN OFFICTAL POSITION WHO ARE EAGERLY STRIVING TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH THEY LIVE. + > Women of the C ivic Organization Enthusiastically Undertake Large” Work That Has for Joint Purpose Adornment find Utilit y. Systematically Subdivide the Details of the Task in Hand That Great Success May Be Achieved. In October, in response several | urgent requests from the Federation of ; to Women's Improvement Clubs of the| cramento Valley, a meeting of the| women of our city was held to consider | the proposition of forming such an or- | 4 { | ganization in our midst. This proved,d | | tant and best moves | Common Counetl | tion. | only from Yuba County, but also from rent parts of the city | | | is already im- | aging popular measure and a Women’s Civic! Improvement Club was organized*Octo- 16, 1903, with seventy-six original | charter members | The charter was left open until No- | vember, and before that time 203 wo- | men had enrolled their names thereon, | which places the Marysville Club in the first ranks as to charter membership. | We have now reached a totai of 261 names and our membership still con- | tinues to increase. Upon the ber ¢ organization of the club I {had the honor to be chosen president | {apd have a most eflicient corps of offi- | | cers in the following Vice president, secretar; Mrs. surer, Mrs. George n; ecutive committee— Brittan, Mrs. J. R. Garrett, | H. Aaron, Mre. Cline Bull Lewek. All of these, in| Mre. David Powell Philip C. C. Thomps Mrs. M. T. Mrs. F. W. and Mrs. S. | fact the entire organization, are repre- | | sentative women | They of the community. | are_commencing their work with | enthusiasm and an earnestness of pu pose that means success. We have | | been cordially supportedand encouraged 1 in our undertaking by the men of our | city, who have done all possible to aid | us and who have privately and in news- paper interviews expressed themselves | s thinking this ore of the most impor- | ever made in! Marysville. Our regular meetings are held in the City Hall on the first Tues- day of each month, the Mayor and having placed the same at our disposal and courteously ordered it to be prepared for our recep- | FOR CIVIC We 3 IMPROVEMENT., stand for civic improvement in a | urging upon property owners the beau- BY MARGUERITE COULT JOHNSON, PRESIDENT a’()ME broad sense of the word as to all that! beautifies and improves. While an or- ganization composed of 261 women can- not but have its moral effect for good in a community, yet we gre forcip® no moral or social ref6rms, merely appeal- ing to our citizens in general by en- deavoring to’ make our city more at- tractive. Y ville is a beautiful city, quaint old-fashioned. Situated at the junction of the Yuba and Feather riv- , lying in that delightful climatic re- gion where the citrus fruits and roses vie with each other in beauty, she s possessed of all that goes toward mak- ing an interior town attractive. The committees of our Improvement Club have been appointed according to the wants of existing conditions. A street committee,with Mrs. P. J. Flan- nery as chairman and Mrs, J. R. Gar- rett and Mrs. M. T. Brittan as con- sulting chairmen, have under their pecial care the looking after the con- dition of all streets and alleys, the tifying of their premises, the placing of signs with the names of streets up- on them wherever such signs are mis: ing, the enforcing of all city ordinances that pertain directly to streets and sidewalks, and lastly the attempt to have erected a crematory for garbage. | This is a powerful committee and one | whose work will be seen in the re- forms effected. PARKS AND DRIVEWAYS, We have in Marysville a number of public parks, only one of which. known as Cortez Square, is in an advaneced state of cultivation. This, while very beautiful, still lacks many things, and situated as it is in the very center of the town, it has been placed under the care of a competent committee, hav- ing Mrs. G. H. Baird as chairman and Mrs. Philip C. Knapp and Mrs. Cline Bull as consulting chairmen. One of the first things this committe will do is to plant bright flowers in profusion, which will greatly add to the beauty of the park. | | | On the leading driveway of the town is Napoleon Square. This has only heen commenced. The committee appointed to bring this park to completion is headed by Mrs. F. B. Moors as chair- man, with Mrs. 8. Lewek as consult- ing chairman. This is a very active committee and by summer they will have made of Napoleon Square a_beau- tiful park. On New Year's eve they gave for the benefit of their fund an elaborate ball, which, while it was the event of the season, netted the lddies a handsome sum as well. Nineteen hundred and three was brought to a close amid merriment and the new vear ushered in with great glee. The third committee on public parks is the Yuba Sauare committee. with Miss Schimpf as chairman. This park is to be commenced, but with the ef- ficient committee in charge it is safe to predict in time a beautiful sauare. One of the crying needs of our com- munity is a more perfect system as to the care of our City Cemetery and the building of a levee about it. A stroug committee has been given this matter in charge. Mrs. Dora Coombs is the chairman, with Mrs. David Powell and Mrs. Cline Bull as consulting chairmen. This committee will agitate and effect in time the building of this levee, as they will be supported by the general public in this great work. universal sentiment being with them in their undertaking. They will also endeavor to place the cemetery on a self-sup- porting basis, as is now being done in so many of the other cities. In the heart of our city nestles a natural lake, fed by living springs. To improve this lake as to surroundings and to build a boulevard around it for walking and driving is the work of the Ellis Lake Committee. The chair- man is Mrs, 8. Ewell, with Mrs. F. W. H. Aaron and Mrs. George C. Thomp- son‘'as consulting chairmen. This com- mittee, on December 10, gave a de- lightful entertainment in the Marys- ville Theater, netting a goodly sum, which will enable them to proceed at once with work, according to the di- rections of a competent landscape CIVIC IMPROV MENT CLUB. gardener, and Marysville will shortly be able to boast of a natural lake made beautiful by artificial means which many another city would give thousands to possess. LOOKING AFTER FENCES. l¢ The Fencé Committee, with Mrs. Carrie Berg as’chairman and Mrs. J. R. Garrett as censulting chairman, is composed of some of our leading property owners, who will try to use persuasive arguments to induce every one to remove fences from their prem- ises. Nothing so adds to the beauty of a town as the throwing open to full view beautiful gardens and well-kept ! lJawns, and this is a feature in which | Marysville excels. It is hoped, in time, that all will be brought to heip in this movement, manv having already sig- nified their willingness to assist in this reform. Realizing that nothing so enhances the beauty of the scene in our climate a8 shade trees, a Treeplanting Com- mittee has been appointed. The wife of our Mayor, Mrs. George W. Harney, has taken the chairmanship, with Mrs. David Powell as consulting chairman. ‘This committee will, among the first of their work, establish an Arbor day in the latter part of Jantary for annual | celebration. Every child will be asked to plant\a tree, the same to be chosen according to the advice of competent authorities on the matter. One of the most important commit- tees, as to the comfort of our citizens, lfi the Streetsprinkling Committee. Mrs, arold Cornforth is the chairman and Mrs. T. Brittan. the consulting chairman. This committee will urge upon the proper authorities the need of a universal system of streetsprink- ling to take the place of the limited one, as to district, now in effect. We feel that the city authorities will cheerfully respond to this demand, as nothing could so improve the condition of our city through the hbated term. With a universal system of sprinkling, Marysville would prove an attractive place to summer for thage living in cocl climates. Although warm through the days, the nights are delightful. The Feather River is unparalleled for beauty, especially on a moonlight night, and is used for boating and bathing extensively through the sum- mer season. We have and will have more attrac- tive parks, Ellis Lake will soon be an ideal boating lake, the boulevard a beautiful driveway and, last of all, the water supply in Marysville is one of the | best in California. There is an infusion of sulphur, which can be increased or lessened at will, in the public supply, which makes and keeps our people healthy. Nowhere are more beautiful complexions noticed among schoel chil- pose of our Civi¢ Improvement Club to bring this matter of an unexcelied whter supply into prominence. OUTLOOK IS PLEASING. In fact, Maryvsville, surrounded by a prosperous farming community and fruit district: with its beautiful river, parks and lake; with the Buttes, famed for their beauty, breaking in the dis- tance ‘the monotony of the level; with its golden oranges in winter, its golden poppies in the early spring and its mag- nificent roses all the year—Marysville, which has produced men like Stephen J. Field and ranked in early days third be proud of. It was named by my grandfather for a woman, for sweet and gentle Mary Covillaud, and to-day the women of Marysville are banded together with one common purpose— the improvement and beautifying of their city. The above sketch, as requested, gives some outline of how our work has been commenced and is progressing. Every woman feels an enthusiasm, every woman is taking hold with a will. We have received congratulatory letters from the San Francisco Outdoor Art League and from many of the improve- ment clubs throughout the State. We feel there i§ nothing teo great for us to achieve. Our motto, “Scenes must be beautiful which, daily viewed, please daily,” tells our object. Time alone ean tell our success. of business properties and building operations in general. The plans are now drawn for a new business block to be erected on the principal street at a cost of from $25,000 to $30.000, and several other substantial buildings are also being comsidered. Marysville’s supremacy among the cities of this northern section is due to her advamtageous location, at the | junction of the Yuba and the Feather | rivers. Her direct trade comes not Sutter, which is one of the richest agri- cultural and horticultural counties in the State. In addition to this, Marysville is the most northern terminal shipping point California. Her freight rates are same as those enjoyed by Sacra- ento and San Francisco and, taking ivantage of this situation, she has extended her trade in greater or less extent to all of the counties north as far as the State line. The farmers during 1903 were favored by good ecrops .and excellent prices, while the prospects for the coming sea- gon as regarded now are very encour- Eight inches of rain have al- reatly fallen and the soil has been very favorable, for tilling and planting. Early sown gram is already up and looking strong and vigorous. The fruit industry has become one of great importance to Marysville. The crop last year, while not exceptionally large, was satisfactory and good prices prevailed. The two canneries of the California Canners’ Association, one in Marysville and one in Yuba City just across the Feather River; a mile dis- tant, put up over 2,500,000 cans of fruit during the season, principally peaches and Bartlett pears. The Sutter Preserv- ing Company, a new enterprise estab- lished during the past year, made a total pack of over 1,500,000 cans more, | the choicest vintages produced from | the abundant vines which stud the including asparagus. string beans and tomatoes, together with pears, peaches and other fruits. At these .canneries mcre than a thousand men and women, boys and girls were employed regularly throughout the season at good wages. While it is yet early to make safe pre- dictions for the coming yeaf, it may be said that all the conditions have been exceptionally favorable so far for an abundant crop. The Marysville Winery, owned by an enterprising citizen of Marysville, G. Sieber, is stocked to overflowing with ! farms of Yuba and Sutter counties. This winery annually supplies several million gallons of the finest wines for export. The Sperry Fiour Company’'s Buck- eye Mills located here is one of the most modern mills in the State. It has a capacity of six hundred barrels of flour a day and has been running stead- ily during the past year. The Marysville Woolen Mills, whose products are famous throughout the West, have also extended their trade and several thousand dollars’ worth of new.machinery has recently been in- stafled. The wool growers of this sec- tion had a good year and the seasén’'s clip sold at more than average prices. MINING OPERATJONS. In southern Yuba, along the rich bot- tom lands bordering the Bear River, are several great hop flelds, one of them being‘the largest in the world. The season’s crop in this product wag good, the prices remunerative and the industry is increasing in average and | importance. One of the recent enter- prises in this particular district, which added to Yuba's assessment roll last year, is the operation of dredgers on the Bear River in quest of gold. The Yuba Consolidated Mining Com- pany, of which W. P. Hammond is the general manager, has also been pros- pecting with Keystone drills during the past yvear on the Yuba River about twelve miles ncrth of Marysville. The results have evidently been very satis- factory, as large tracts of river bhottom land have been bonded and eleyen hun- dred tons of machinery for the con- struction of two immense dredgers are now en the way here, part of it having already arrived. 5 This important enterprise, with others which will fcllow, will be another fac- tor in Marysville's progress during the coming vear. In the same locality the State and Federal Government is at work in building immense dams for the purpose of impounding debris and otherwise improving the channel of the Yuba. The sum of $800,000 already ap- propriated will be expended in carrying cut the plans of the engineers in this direction. Quartz and placer mining in this country has also made surprising advancement within the past few months, Old claimg have been reopen- ed and many ne es located and Yuba seems destined to recover much of her old-time glory as a mining county. The Bay Counties Power Company’s electric plant, situated about sixteen miles east of Marysville, on the Yuba River, furnishes chedp light for city and power for our manufactur- ers. This compaWy also transmits pow- er to the more distant cities of Bacra- Jose and to tial and encouraging uriz the twelve months of 1903. e ness conditions are good, the shipme by rail and the passenger traffic was larger than in any previous year, the banks are carrying large sums of mon- ey for depositors, the merchants are pleased with the story ledgers, many of them having dome a greater business than ever before, the pebple both in town and country are generally prosperous and the future for all branches of industry—farming, mining, stockraising, dairying and fruit growing—holds out nothing but the brightest hopes to strengthen and in- spire continued effort. ——— BUILD LUMBER MILLS. Large Additions to Increase Output of State’s Building Materials. A large &mount of interest centers in the affairs of the California lumber mills. Some facts are supplied by Wood and Jron, a trade publication of this city. They follow: The Sanger Lumber Company ecut this season over u'.m,ooo feet of lum- e Verdi Mill cut for the past sea- son wes about 9,000,000 feet. Minor & Co. of Eureka are installing a new shingle mill at Warren Creek, near Ferndale. The Turner Box and Lumber Com- D“‘:;ihll started its new plant at Loy- al . The Holmes Eureka Lumber Com- pany has decided to build a new band ‘saw mill at Bucks) with a capacity of 50,000 feet ver day. Messrs. Williams, McFaul and Hass vgl erect a saw mill about three and a balf miles north of Newport. The month of November, 1903, was a record-| er for foreign shipments of lumber Eureka. Not only was told in their — there more feet of that article shipped, but the value of the'cargoes has ex- ceeded anything ever shipped from Humboldt County in any previous single month. During that month there was shipped from that port to foreign ports 5,068,000 feet of lumber, 573,000 shingles and 11,250 fancy pickets. The total value of the exports was $135,959. In addition to the -above there was shipped to cffshore American ports 308,- 000 feet of lumber, 600,000 shingles and 30,185 split pickets. ————— New Bank at Palo Alto. PALO ALTO, Jan. 10.—The First National Bank of Palo Alto will open for .business to-morrow and Palo Alto will then have two banks to meet the necessities of a growing ecity. The new bank will begin business with a peid up capital of $30,000. The board of directors includes E. P. Gamble of the firm of Proctor & Gamble of Cin- cinnati, J. D. Radford of the First Na- tional Bank of San Jose, George E. Crothers, secretary of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University, As- semblyman Marshall Black of Pale Alto, F. E. Booth, director of the State Bank of Arlington, South Da- kota; Sylvester Strong, capitalist and former head of the Strong Elevator Company of Minneapolis, and Clarence E. Childs, president of the Brookings Land and Trust Company of South Dakota and of Co-operative Land ahd Trust Company of Palo Alto. The following officers have been chosen: president, Clarence E. Childs; vice- president, Frank E. Alfred W. B Henry P. Bennett. A general banking business will be done. —_———— . Mexico now has 11,185 miles of rail- way. dren than are seen here. It is the pur- | city in our State, is, indeed, a city to| ITS NATURAL ATTRACTIONS Charms of Localities Are Described by the Residents. Growth of Enterprising Chico Is Outlined Effectively. P R The Chico Epterprise in a special edi- tion groups the significant facts con- cerning the advancement of Chico. “Two years ago,” says the Enterprise, “Chico stood in careless repose With two straggling suburbs, the one in the south ard the other the north day the city is full to overflowing, and no less than six hustiing suburbs are stretching out into the rich orchard and farming districts. “Two years ago lots calling for To- there were or vacant buyers inviting houses throughout the residence por- tion. To-day there is not a lot to be had within the city limits proper, while but very few are without completed or partially completed buildings upen them. “Two years ago there were the usual number of vacant throughout the city. To-day we have many fami- lies Hving in tents because no houses or rooms are available houses Twh years ago not more than 4 haif dozen new homes were being built at one time. To-day over 200 homes and other buildings are going up within the eity and suburbs. “Business blocks had vaeant depart- ments then. Not a single business house has a vacant room to-day, while by building and remodeling many new stores have been provided, and new brick biocks are in contemplation for 1904, “Two years ago the Chico School Dis- trict had three school buildings. To- day there are five and yet not room enough for the puoils. “Two years ago the Chico postoffice had just been made the center of twen- ty-five miles of rural delvery. To-day there are fifty miles. The postmaster and one assistant and one rural deliv- ery carrier attended to the business of the office. To-day there is a foree of eleven employed, including four who have charge of free delivery throughout the city. “Two years ago ten cars of freight sent frém the Chico depot in one day meant good business. This year over fifty loaded cars have gofie out in one day.” To this pleasing review of progress in Chico the Enterprise adds facts that are given In condensed form to fit the space avallable. Chico has two sub- stantiagl banks. Thousands of tons of fruit and almonds are handled every year in the packing houses, cannery and drying yards in Chico. One of the best flour mills in the State is in the city. The Sierra Lumber ‘ompany has 10,000,000 feet of lumber awaiting the operation of the new plant to be soon completed. This concern will employ about 100 men regularly in turning logs into lumber. Barber, a factory town, a southern suburb of Chico, is already laid out. The Diamond Match Com- | pany is putting in a great plant at Bar- ber, in which fully 1500 men will be employed. The State Forestry Station is about one miie from the city. A Government experimental seed farm will be established about three miles distant. The franchise for an electric street railway has been granted by the City Trustees. This line will connect with Barber on the south and Chico Veeino on the north According to the Los Gatos Mail, the electric road between San Jose, Saga- toga and Los Gatos will be ready to op- erate as soon as the poles can be set and the wires strung. The Dunsmuir News reports that the citizens of Dunsmuir have decided that they will have a State bank. At a meeting 40 per cent of the stock was taken. The San Diego Union reports ghat the San Diego Fruit Exchange will pack fruit at San Diego for the county. The fruit will be shipped to San Diego from Lemon Grove, La Mesa, Bl Cajon and Chula Vista. The Marysville Appeal says that George Thresher and Charles Little- john find the orchardists favorable to the proposed irrigation ditch of the Butte County Canal Company. According to the Los Angeles Times, Ventura County has produced more than 1600 tons of walnuts during 1903, which are worth something like 3240 per ton. According to the Fresno Republican there were shipped from Fresno last year 2000 carloads of seeded raisins. The Stockton Independent says that the almonds produced in San Joaquin County ecual three times the product of the United States cutside of Cali- fornia. The Plumas National Bulletin reports that the last year has been the most prosperous Plimas County has had in twenty-five years. PLACE YOUR ORDERS EARLY | |