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Austin G. Grorham of Denver, has gone 

 to New York in the interest of his coal 

 properties at Marshall and also to confer 

 with some Eastern capitalists regarding a 

 new Colorado railroad. 



Colorado has about 100,000 acres in 

 fruit trees. 



The available coal supply in the state 

 according to United States geographical 

 report is 45, 197, 100,000 tons. 



The average yield per acre of Colorado 

 farm lands is as follows: Wheat, 25 bush- 

 els; oats, 40 bushels; corn, 40 bushels; 

 potatoes, 250 bushels. 



Value of agricultural products in 1896 

 was $28,685,000. 



CALIFORNIA. 



The supervisors of Ventura County this 

 year have laid along the high roads 55,000 

 feet of 4 and 6-inch pipe, with standing 

 pipes at convenient intervals, for filling 

 water tanks, and will have the entire 

 avenue from Ventura to Nordhoff, eighteen 

 miles in length, regularly spr'nkled next 

 year. They have also let a contract for an 

 iron bridge over the Santa Clara River, 

 1,000 feet long, to cost over $25,000. 



The creameries around Westminster are 

 doing a big business. One creamery uses 

 about 5,500 pounds of milk daily; another 

 one uses 7,000 pounds. The farmers get 

 about $1 per hundred pounds. The 

 amount of money distributed annually 

 among the farmers by these two creamer- 

 ies is about $45,000. 



The Colton, Cal. cannery's output this 

 season was 2.400 cases apricots; 22,785 

 peaches and fifty tons dried fruit. The 

 season began July 1 and continued about 

 three months. 



The Sunset Irrigation District has been 

 dissolved by Judge Webb of the Superior 

 Court. 



All the canneries and packinghouses in 

 Southern California have been running on 

 full time this year and the pack is larger 

 than ever before, while most of the pro- 

 duct has already been sold at a good 

 profit. The Whittier cannery hauled 



over three hundred tons of fruit from the 

 San Gabriel Valley, around Azusa, and 

 also brought in fruit from the San Fer- 

 nando Valley. The pay roll of the Whit- 

 tier cannery has exceeded $6,000 a month 

 this year, while several times that amount, 

 has been paid out for fruit. 



Fresh fish are being shipped east in 

 large quantities from San Diego. 



The Southern Pacific railroad is to build 

 large tanks for storing petroleum for use 

 in locomotives; at Indio a tank with a ca- 

 pacity of 50,000 gallons: Crafton, 12,000; 

 San Bernardino, 12,000; Yuma, 50,000; 

 Summerland, 30,000; at Los Angeles there 

 is a tank with a capacity of 200,000 gallons. 



It is estimated that 600 tons of tissue 

 paper will be required to wrap the 12,000 

 carloads of oranges that are expected to be 

 shipped this year. The Western Paper 

 Bag Co. has already sold 300, 000,000 wrap- 

 pers. The paper conies from Kaukauna, 

 Wis. 



The lima bean is one of the important 

 crops of Santa Barbara and Ventura coun- 

 ties. 



Five hundred tons of green fruit have 

 been handled by the Duarte-Monrovia De- 

 ciduous Fruit Association of California 

 this season. The fruit was dried. 



The Oxnards are figuring on the erection 

 of a beet sugar factory in Ventura County, 

 Cal., with a capacity of 2,000 tons of beets 

 per day and costing $2,000,000. 



There are now five creameries in San 

 Diego county. One at Escondido, one at 

 San Luis Rey and three at San Pasqual. 



Ontario expects to have a fruit packing 

 house soon. 



The Santa Fe railroad is building its 

 own locomotives in the shops at San Ber- 

 nardino. 



Tobacco is being successfully grown in 

 Southern California. 



East Los Angeles is to have a new 

 brewery. The foundation is being laid. 



"Tell ine, my good friend, did you ever 

 take a bath?" 



"No! What, 'ave you lost one?" 



