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season, and the price realized from the 

 crop was from 3 to 4 cents a pound. 



California the past year has produced 

 and packed enough prunes to give every 

 boarder in the United States just four 

 pounds. 



Glaus Spreckels, the sugar King, says 

 he will invest $1,000,000 in three new 

 beet sugar factories in California. 



There is a prospect of a beet sugar 

 factory at Anaheim in the near future, an 

 Eastern syndicate having taken hold of 

 the proposition in earnest. 



The San Bernardino, Arrowhead & 

 Waterman railway,and the Harlem Springs 

 resort are both about to be sold, and 

 everything points to F. Kohl, of Centralia, 

 111., as the purchaser. 



A Ferris rancher reports a second crop 

 of ripe peaches during 1895. The fruit 

 was not so large as the first crop, but was 

 well matured and of fine flavor. 



In one week San Jose shipped East 

 551,670 pounds of canned fruit, 1,014,925 

 pounds of green fruit, 4,026,285 pounds 

 of dried fruit, 107,280 pounds of wine, and 

 170,850 pounds of garden seed. 



P. W. Morse, of the Watsonville Beet 

 "Sugar Factory, announces that there will 

 be no reduction in the prices paid for 

 beets by his company next season. A 

 straight price of $4.00 per ton, irrespective 

 of sugar content, will be paid. 



Another industry is about to be de- 

 veloped in Southern California. The first 

 -cargo of guano ever taken from the 

 Channel islands, off Santa Barbara, was 

 'brought into that place recently. 



The Antelope Valley Association is the 

 name of a strong organization just com- 

 pleted and composed of all those who are 

 interested in the welfare of Antelope 

 valley and are willing to work for its 

 progress. It will work for the whole 

 valley as the Los Angeles Chamber of 

 Commerce acts for Southern California. 



The newspapers are urging the organi- 

 zation of fruit growers, so that the profits 

 of middlemen may go to the producers. 

 Small farms and diversified crops are also 

 advocated. THE IRRIGATION AGE is well 

 read throughout the State. 



COLORADO. 



The mining improvement is not local to 

 Cripple Creek. The whole State is involved. 



Taking the State as a whole, the increase 

 of population can not be less than 300 

 daily, or at the rate of 100,000 a year. 



Notwithstanding the mining excitement, 

 agricultural lands are selling and irri- 

 gation enterprises are being pushed for- 

 ward. 



The good effects of the remarkable 

 mining development in Colorado are 

 directly apparent in the increased State 



revenues. 



The railroads are reaping a harvest, and 

 the officials are in a happy frame of 

 mind. 



W. S. Stratton, the luckiest single 

 mine owner at Cripple Creek, is arrang- 

 ing for the erection of a large electrolytic 

 reduction works, either at Cripple Creek 

 or Colorado City. 



It has been discovered that almost nine- 

 tenths of the West Creek district, one of 

 the new gold fields, is in a United States 

 timber reservation, and persons working 

 there are liable to imprisonment for 

 trespass. 



From the Gilpin district $75,000,000 

 has been taken during the past thirty 

 years, and the product averages $2,500,- 

 000 a year. 



The Leadville district is yielding 

 heavily of gold, but generally mined from 

 deep levels. Depth in all districts shows 

 no signs of exhaustion. In the Gilpin 

 district some of the mines are down 2,200 

 feet. There are scores of producing 

 districts in the State. 



It is not to be understood that all of 

 the 600 companies organized and claiming 

 ownership of properties in the district of 

 less than thirty square miles are dividend- 

 payers. Of 125 of these companies that 

 are considered worthy of note, in the stock 

 of which there has been more or less 

 trading, only nine are reported as 

 dividend-payers, thirty-two are producing, 

 fifty have some ore in sight (generally of 

 too low a grade to ship), and thirty-four 

 own prospects that they are about to 

 develop. 



Of a monthly production now amount- 

 ing to fully $1,000,000, the greater portion 

 comes from those classed as producing 

 mines, and the proceeds are generally 

 reinvested or are used in operating ex- 

 penses. 



The estimated Colorado products for 



