The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 25, 1904, Page 7

Statements Mak Excellent Showing (g Given Careful Study Robertson. PRODUCTS. is estimated was $670,058. velop the min- uct factory, in the county | | other IN RICH SONOMA COUNTY. Trade supplies some | to v engaged in agr sssessed wealth is $27,000,000 production of wealth from | cultural pur- inhabitant, iren and all other non-pro it another wa , it is | Trade. st south of the Gold Ridge i a district of low, to the sea, bare of trees th a rich sward of na or nearly so the year | newed interest was manifested in pub- largest creameri in the State are situ dairy country. to the sea. Except- Sonoma and the Gualaia | e sorings of fresh in the county. THE SAN FRANCISCO. CALL, MONDAY, 'JANUARY ~25, 1904 IN ITS HOME CITY AND Sonom:x Is Pictured Fully by A S daice. <+ - —————% Among the latter the more noted are the Geysers, Lytton and 1 s White Sulphur Sp ar Santa Rosa One of the aphical feat of canyon | R flo e tallest and wood trees in the on the bottom lands of this canyo! argest MEDAL-WINNING OLIVE “The culti e olive and manufactur cts is an creasing inc yma County. It has one d thousa trees, mostly in bearing Olive oil made Sonoma C k a gold e Paris »ok s tolearn t ng wine. It e hich will the chea nufacture of , but Ame ngenuity will in the end sh it sxport of olive 1\ Sonoma will then be among rgest products. There is a considerable quicksilve m in Sonoma One mi rneville has been successfully worked for twenty vears, and there | are othe ines of great promise near the Geyser Spring, in course of development « of the most profitable indus- Sonoma County s poultry- It vie of $2,000,- | is cash amount , tha fertile soil abunc . no ex- >me of heat or cold, and deductions present them W 1athematical certainty yject lesson is golden pop- and blooming roses mytho month 1 hills of fecund 11 furnish it for the | most skeptical.” s LT LARGE POWER PLANT. Butte County Hears of an Enterprise Promising Benefit. The Chico Record gives of the new power and Eastern Butte Coun water of a large stre | cated and an electric an account plant for s that the wate besides fur and other pose: ishing mining | On November 1903, John C. Boyle located inches of water of the Middle E the time it was thought the loc: s m for the | Palermo Land and Water Company, but now it develops that the appropria- n of er was made for local and isco capitalists. sed to build a dam six at the foot of Ba | Canyon on the Middle Fork of F There will be a fall | of 600 feet, generating the great quan- | tity of electrical power equal to 20,000 [ horsepower. A power station will be | established on the South Fork just be- | low Bidwell Bar. From here the power | will be taken to San Francisco and points, via Oroville. | A portion of the water will be carried | across the South Fork in a syphon and emptied into the Palermo ditch, which will be enlarged to carry the increased volume of water. This will be fu'nished ;arties along the line from Bidwell Bar to Ordville, inclusive, for irrigating and mining purposes. . IVE SUISUN. PROGRE! The Vallejo News gives an account of | a recent meeting of the Suisun Board of The following officers were elect- ed: E. Dinkelspiel, president: J. Len- I ahan, vice president; L. W. Taylor, sec A. Hilborn, treasurer; W. L. s, J. T. Cooper and Lewis Pierce, was a large attendance and re- mprovements which the board has | in contemplation. | effort to secure through Congressman county. | Metcalfe an appropriation by Congress ys there are run-|for the improvement of Suisun Slough sportioned in volume to [ so that navigation by that waterway which supplies the largest in the coun- will be greatly facilitated. A local com- pany owns a freight steamer which plics between Suisun and San Francis- v miles, turns|co, and nearly al the freight shipped to its way to the Pacific jand from S teamer. In some places at low tide the treams of the small | water is not of sufficient depth to fioat riles morth and an | the boat, which causes serious incon- and | venience to traffic. With the expendi- ture of about $20,000 the slough can be dredged so as to be navigable at all imes, w the business interests of Suisun and a large surounding territory. 's Great Wealth _ s to | State originally grew in- | in | | the ather | - | River and take the water out by a ditch | S | on the Mooretown Ridge on the line of | & | the Smith survey. | we have. Among these is an | isun in transported by their ich will be of great benefit to OROVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TELLS OF THE MANY ADVANTAGES THAT ARE TO BE ENJOYED e NI (1 )M o | { | A BROWN STANE | FRrRoNT ERECTE Wit HIN THE PasST Six mMom-THsS | T SRS o & 4]1. NSTITUTIONS OF OROVILI WHICH ILLUSTRATE SOME FEATURES OF THE MATERIAL OF THE HANDSOME CITY THAT OCCUPIE SITUATION IN HEART OF BUTTE “ITRUS FRUIT REGION AND GOLD FIELDS. £ asied - | Representative Organization Evinces Desire to Make Concerted Movement That Shall Bring Greatest Good Possible From Its Labors. BY L. V. HENDRICK, SECRETARY OROVILLE Oroville has had a Chamber of Com- | res merce for a number of years, but not until about eight months ago citizens of this place seem to awake to a full realization of the importance | of such an organization and evince a desire to make a concentrated move- ment forward on the lines of progress | set out by such an organization as we now have. The old Chamber of Commerce was given new life at a banquet held last May, at which were present the promi- | nent business men of Oroville and those living in and about here most | vitally interested in the welfare of the town and surrounding country. Sup- port was pledged to the new organiza- tion, and W. Oroville Mercury, took the secretary- | ship and retained active management until he went to Sacramento to enter upon his new duties. of Mr. Beard and the necessary retire- ment of others who subsequently un- dertook the work retarded somewhat progress which it was expected would be made, but Oroville is still alive to the importance of the work and there seems to be no reason why | a great deal should not be accom- | plished through the organization. PRODUCTS ARE EXHIBITED. An office has been opened on a prin- cipal street in Oroville, where products .cretary can be found. Here visiting tourists may be given literature de- scriptive of our county and its re- sources. . They may here see samples of our oranges, of our olives, our deciduous fruits, our cereals, view specimens from our mines and gain within a few min- utes’ time an excellent idea of what It takes time to gather a good exhibit of this kind, and as our | office has been but recently opened, the work has hardly more than been be- gun, but it is part of the general plan of the Oroville Chamber of Commerce to have on display here fair samples of all our staple products and to use our office to good advantage in im- pressing visitors with the fact that we have a wonderful country here, where aid the | | age; A. Beard, now secretary | of the Sacramento Valley Development | Association, who was then editing the The resignation | | diversity re placed on exhibition and where the | | years, has given the town a wonderful | inviting fields. The objects of the present Chamber of Commerce are set out in to consider ville and Butte C to encourage enterprises caleu to increase the prosperity and promote and protect the industrial, commercial, manufacturing, agricultural and mining interests; to attract immigration by advertising the varied resources of the county; to pro- mote the building of good county roads; to promote the construction and exten- sion of canals for irrigation and drain to promote the building and ex< tension of railroads, and to promote the prosperity of Butte and other counties of the Sacramento Valley through affil- iation with the Sacramento Valley De- velopment Association. GOOD OPPORTUNITIES. We believe that ours is a land of op- ‘ i { | portunity such as is not readily found elsewhere, but never have we taken energetic steps to let the outside world | know what we have. | Oroville is situated where the valley | meets the mountain, at the foot of the western slope of the Sierra Nevadas. | It receives its support through a great of industries. TLumbering, mining and stock-raising are carried on’ in the higher altitudes, fruit grow- ing is a leading industry in the foothill | section, and all of the products which have made the Sacramento Valley fam- | ous grow near at hand where the val- ley stretches away from the foothills. Dredger mining, an industry which | has sprung up within the past five impetus. Twenty-two of the giant gold-finders are now at work taking cut the yellow metal, and many years —probably a quarter of a century--— will have elapsed before the available zround will have been worked. Some | valuable orchard land will of necessity be sacrificed, but the quantity of good land which will be destroyed is very small and nearly all of the work is con- fined to a ¢istrict which was turned topsy-turvy by Chinamen in the early | seventies. MARK NEW ERA. The coming of the dredger marked a new era in Oroville's existence. The town is built on a rich bed of aurifer- ous gravel and the big machines have CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. come close up to the town limits. They would like to come inside, but they can't, and Oroville will always remain as she is now, the golden oranges above the ground and the yellow metal below the surface. The shortest route from San Fran- cisco to the East lies through the Teather River Canyon and Beckwith Pass. A railroad route must pass through Oroville. We have reason to expect that the route will be taken advantage of in the near future, when we will be in di- rect communication with the East, and our Chamber of Commerce will then be of additional advantage to us. We have mines of value to be opened up; forests of timber awaiting the ax and mountain streams to be harnessed for their power. Lands can be obtained here cheaply which will grow aimost anything. The oranges which may be produceq are unexcelled in the world. Our olives are so popular when pickled that our packers cannot supply the de- mand: deciduous fruits grow luxu- riously, and our grain farms are of the best. Water for irrigation is unlim- ited in supply. It seems to us t there is so much to atract the atten- tion of the capitalist and the home- seeker here that all that is necessary to build up our country and better our condition is to keep awake and make an organized effort to let the people know what we have. Our efforts will not be confined to advancing the interests of Oroville alone. The county and the Sacramen- to Valley will receive attemtion from us, and we are now circulating Butte County pamphlets and Sacramento Valley literature from our office. Those who belong to our associa- tion pay one dollar a month toward its support. The board of directors are eight in number: C. L. Bills, R. S. Powers, L. M. Alexander, E. Tucker, M. Reyman, Warren Sexton, W. T. Henn and R. M. Green. Mr. Bills is president. The directors meet month- Ay and the organization as a whole, annually. A Chamber of Commerce or like'or- ganization is almost a necessity in this day of advancement. With a good substantial organization of this kind we are moving forward in the line of general progress—without it we would be lagging behind and miss- ing the good things that would go to our more enterprising neighbors. 3 PALO ALTO IS AWAKE. Extended Advertising for the Stan- ford University Town. The Palo Alto Times says that the Palo Alto Board of Trade is preparing for more extensive advertising of Palo Alto. It continues: “It has come to be thought a nec- essity that our promotion work shouid deal largely with Stanford University and its great architectural beauty and superior educational advantages. This institution is undoubtedly the greatest factor in the growth of Palo Alto and cannot be given too much prominence. Yet we should not dwell upon this one point to the exclusion of others, as has been the tendency heretofore. While none too much has been said about stanford, too little has been said about Palo Alto. “This tendency should be remedied in the literature that is being prepared for distribution during this year. Our town is becoming important of itself and has many features that will appeal to people who may not be directly in- fluenced by educational matters. We should dwell upon its desirability as a place for homes, as a place where in- vestment in realty must increase in value. We should show the equality of climate, the natural healthful condi- tions, the beauty of scenery and many other facts. This should be done both by well-selected views and pertinent ! descriptive articles. We make these suggestions without any purpose to dictate to the committees having the literature in preparation, but to em- phasize the necessity of having the lit- erature so prepared that it will ac- complish the greatest possible good. The pamphlets to be issued will have a wide circulation and not only the first edition of 5000, but many more thou- sands should be had in view in their preparation.” —_——— This week 25 per cent reduction on every heater in stock. San Franciseo Gas and Electric Company, 415 Post street. * g o CLOVERDALE CITRUS FAIR. Elaborate Arrangements Are Being Made for a Grand Display. SANTA ROSA, Jan. 24.—Arrange- ments are progressing favorably for the next annual exhibition of the Clo- verdale citrus fair. Many new fea- tures will be added this year, and particular attention will be given to the illumination of the pavilion by the Cloverdale Light and Power Company. The attractions will be numerous, and the residents of the “Citrus City” i are busy planning artistic designs with which to display their products. Henry J. Crocker of San Francisco and the Itallan Swiss Agricultural Colony have signified their intention of mak- ing exhibits. Attorney Clarence F. Lea of this citv has been chosen to deliver the opening address. The fair will open February 18 and close Feb- ruary 22. | $60,000, ana this | ifornia Legislature. | Steinbeck, following this i Steinbeck Reviews Events in Which Stockton Is Concerned. W. P. Steinbeck, president of the Stockton Chamber of Commerce, at the annual meeting of the chamber deliv- ered an annual address, in the course of which he told of the work organization during the yvear 1903. The chamber supported a plan to divert the flood waters of Mormon channel into the Calaveras River. It was necessary to raise $60,000 to pay for the rights of | way for the canal and for land required for the canal. A bill was drawn by the chamber calling for an appropriation of was passed by the After the bill was passed the committee which had been instrumental in securing favorable con- sideration for it worked to secure rights of way. With few exceptions the owners of property along the line of the canal have promised to accept the amounts offered in payment for their land. Work on the canal will probably be completed this year. In May, 1903, so reported President the electors of Stockton voted overwhelmingly in favor of bond- ing the city in the sum of $160,000 for the construction of a municipal electrie lighting plant, thereby placing their in- | dorsement upon the efforts of the Chamber of Commerce to obtain such a plant. SHERMAN ISLAND CUT. President Steinbeck reviewed the ef- forts of the Chamber of Commerce to prevent the diversion of the waters of the Sacramento River into the San Joa- quin River by means of a cut through Sherman Island. A strong delegation from the chamber attended the conven- tion in San Francisco concerning the river interest, and “the large delega- tion so dominated the meeting that the friends of the Sherman Island cut-off deemed it expedient to adjourn the con- vention without attempting to procure the indorsement they wished.” The chamber also appointed a com- mittee of five to go to Sacramento to oppose the passage of a bill to effect the diversion of the Sacramento River waters into the San Joaquin. The com- mittee secured the desired amendment to the bill before the Legislature. The committee also had a Stockton man appointed on the auditing board. Among the other things accomplished by the Stockton Chamber of Commerce in 1903, President Steinbeck reported | that an amendment to the State law regulating the awarding of contracts for municipal lighting was secured, and that the amendment rendered it possible to make contracts for municipal light- ing for any term not to exceed four years. The amendment ‘of the law opened the doors for competition. In November last the chamber took part in the celebration at Manteca in honor of the completion of an irrigation system in Southern San Joaquin Coun- ty. The chamber lent active aid to the Western Pacific Railway in its efforts to obtain franchises within the city of Stockton; it entertained a party of Ger- man agriculturists who came to inquire into the resources of the State; it sent special representatives to the Trans- Mississippi Congress at Seattle and the National Irrigation Congress at Ogden. A resolution was secured setting forth to the Congress of the United States the needs of the San Joaquin River. Concerning the work of advertising, there was rhatter of special interest in the president’s address as follows: ADVERTISES LARGELY. “The bulk of the advertising done has been by means of the Gateway magazine. Postal cards statiang that the magazi-e will be mailed to any address upon receipt of four cents in postage have been sent to all names and addresses of persons 0 have signified a desire to come te California. During the year 2050 of these people have written to the Chamber of Com- merce inclosing pestage and have re- ceived the Gateway magazine. “Other copies of the Gateway maga- zine to the number of about 2000 have been distributed by the California Pro- motion Committee, the State Board of Trade and the Southern Pacific Infor- mation Bureau. More important than these distributions, however, has been the distribution on the part of the Santa Fe railroad of 25,000 copies of the Gateway magazine, which it printed and circulated at its own expense. “In adition tc the Gateway magazine the Chamber has distributed 10,000 pamphlets in the form of catechisms regarding the products and industries of Stockton and San Joaquin count: 3000 illustrated cards; 2000 copies of a very creditable annual edition of the Daily Independent. This makes a total distribution of literature year of 44,000 pieces. The total cost to the Chamber for printing has been $55. “Exhibits of the products of the county have been maintained during the vear at the State Board of Trade rooms in San Francisco and at the local headquarters in Stockton. According to a report from the manager of the State Board of Trade 24,475 people have viewed the exhibit at that place. The register at local headquarters shows of the| during the | OF EARNEST WORK WHICH IT IS PERFORMING TO PROMOTE PROSPERITY Scope of Operations Grows Broad and Far Reaching. PEREL S S Important Proceedings In- augurated to Secure Good Results. L - * 1373 namcs for the year, of which 474 were from the Wast. Aseonly about one in five register it is co vative to say that 6800 people have visited the local headquarters during the year and that 2370 of these were Easterners. During the year the local exhibit has | been enlarged and improved until it is believed to be the meost attractive and complete exhibit of county products north of the Tehachapi MAKE OTHER DISPLAYS. ‘In addition to the exhibits men- tioned, the Chamber made a disvlay of San Joaquin County products at tha | State Fair in Sacramento in Septem- ber. Owing to an gement made with a citiz 3 T at Sacra- mento the Chamber rece ed $500 for making this exhibit. The total cost of making the display was $531 90. The cost to the Chamber was there- fore but $31 90, and in return for this | the Chamber came into ¢ ion of | exhibit material of the estimated | value of $250. | “During three months in t | of this year, when colonist rate | the East were in effect, the Chamber | maintained a special representative at the State Board of Trade room v | special fund was rais | e, and the amc in excess of the cost |~ “The work of preparing an exhibit | for display at the Louisiana Purchase | Exposition which is to open at Louis, Missouri, in May, has beer to a joint county commis hosed of members of h Supervisors and representat | Chamber of Commerce. The on has had a man in the field gath- | ering material, and has been actively engaged in the work of preparation for the past six months T the Board of | pense has been borne by | e of the Supervisors and it is the commission that the money now on hand in the special county funds, to- gether with what can yet be appropr ated, will be sufficient to carry out the work as planned. If this hope is | fulfilled there seems to be no reason rhy San Joaquin County should not the most attractive and county exhibits on dis- play at St. Louis “The Chamber of Commerce began | } comprehensivi ear 1903 with a debt of $1105 57, it wi feared by some that the | effort to pay this debt while meeting | the current expen of the year | would injure the efficiency of the | chamber. Such has not proved to be the cas The chamber has not only | paid current expenses while con= | ducting a successful campaign f v municipal electrie Jight t, ai rt- ing canal and other matters spoken | of in his report, but it has paid off its debt and Dbegins the year with 07 nd y income of \ $467 to its « | | PROGRESS IN INTERIOR. sterners Eager to Gain All Possible Information About State. The Palo Alto Times says that Palo Alto, with an assessed valuation of | $1.6 5 and a population of 3200, has | $517 per capita, nearly twic much | as the per capita of the two wealthiest | towns in the State. | The Woman's Civic Improvement | Club of Marysville, so writes Mrs. | Marguerite Coult Johnson, president {of the club, has, through the Ellis Lake committee, invited Super | ent McLaren of Golden Gate Park to | carefully view the field in Marysville. The boulevard will probably be com- menced soon. | The San Jc Herald says that the |agent of the San Jose Chamber of Commerce, who has been sent to Los Angeles tofinterview the E ple in the south, finds the eager to gain all possible about California. The members of the board information of man- agement intend that having an agent in Los Angeles shall be g iecn made profitable *h gttention as ra County. Enterprise reports by attracting possible to S The Dav that a factory will be ablished in Davisville. A The twelfth anniversary exhibition | and fair of the Cloverdale Citrus Fair Association will be held from February 118 to 22 inclusive at Cloverdale, So- noma County. The Humboldt Times reports that the population of Eureka, according to the census just taken, is 11.111. This is a gain of 3784 as compared with the census that was taken in June, 1900, or a gain of 51 per cent. In four years | Humboldt County gained 6559. The total number of dwellings in Eureka is 2004, of which 149 were constructed last | year. There are 289 business and other | buildings. During the four years end- ing December -31, 1903, the arrivals by sea numbered 85417. This is the es- sence of a long report that has been made to the Eureka Chamber of Com- been granted for an electric railway between Lodi and Stockton. The Suisun Republican says that there is much land around Suisun that could profitably be devoted to pas- turage for dairy stock and the returns would be quicker and more profitable than from some products now in vogue. The Visalia Times predicts that the fruit crop in the vicinity of Visalia will be heavier this year than ever be- fore. The starch fratory to be built at Stockton will be the only one of its kind west of the Mississippi River. The Stockton Mail says that it will give employment to fifteen persons at first. The capacity will be four tons dalily. The Arroyo Grande Herald says that 50,000 boxes of apples were packed at Arroyo Grande last season. Of 35.000 boxes packed by one concern. practi- cally all have been forwarded to Aus- tralia and Mexico. Mayor Lynch has proposed that | vallejo shall celebrate its fiftieth an- niversary. The News says that such an affair would largely advertise Val- Jejo all over the State. “It will bring visitors by thousands to appreciate our splendid climate and unexceiled facilities.” it says. At the annual meeting of the Napa Board of Trade an entirely new board of directors was elected. The members of the new board are R. P. Lamdin. E. L. Bickford, Frank Horstmever. James G. Kyser, Willam Shwarz, B. W. Par- sons and Joseph Levinson. ——————————— Fine Leather Goods. Wrist bags. chatelaines, pocketbooks, cardcases, letter cases and billbooks. Best goods at lowest prices. and lettered in gold free of charge. Sanborn, V“Lh Co., 741 Market street.