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FAIR PAJARO VALLEY
One of the Most Fertile
Sections in the
World.
THREE CROPS A YEAR.
The Climate Is Equable and
the Water Supply In
exhaustible.
WATSONVILLE ITS CENTER.
Strawberries Shipped Nine Months
of the Year— The Home of
the Apple.
WATSONVILLE, Cal.. May 27.— Down
through the beautiful valley of frait —
Santa Clara— turning at Gilroy into a
picturesque pass, along a winding river,
the traveler comes into the comparatively
fcmall valley of Pajaro, which is one of the
wonders of the world, because of its ex-
treme and unequaled fertility. Without
fear of successful contradiction, it can be
affirmed that the yield per acre is greater
in Pajaro Valley than in any other locality
of this State or land.
Pajaro stretches out on either side of the
Pajaro River, which separates Monterey
from Santa Cruz County. This 50,000 acres
of foothill and valley land of unexcelled
fertility, which lies partly in Monterey and
HOME OF G. H. BEEWINGTON IN THE SUBURBS OF WATSONVILL.E.
partly in Santa Cruz.extends from Monterey i
Bay and Aptos foothills to the Santa Cruz
range with its redwood canyons on the east.
Dark Loma Prieta stands, as if keeping ;
guard, at the north, and the Gabilan range j
sweeps around to the southward. Near i
the foothills to the south there is a chain !
of lovely lakes, which are used by the |
pleasure-loving for boating and fishing,
and by the practical for irrigating the large
strawberry fields found in the vicinity,
which require an excess of moisture. The
old Spanish grants have been subdivided
into small holdings, which are under a
most complete and thorough state of culti
vation.
Twenty acres in Pajaro Valley, well
planted and carefully tilled, is enough to
make a happy home and independent liv
ing for a family.
Eastern and Middle States people, who
have associated large fenceless tracts of
land and the gang-plow with California
ranch life, should visit the many valleys
and their branches which are tucked away
in this great State by the Western Sea and
view the result of fertile soil and blessed
climate. Nine months in the year straw
berries are shipped from this point. Many
of the best strawberry-fields, notably those
of George H. Brewington and the Lake
farm of Ira L. Thurber and Daniel Buck
ley, produce three tons per acre during the
Beason. In the heart of the valley, im
mediately adjacent to Watsonville, rows
of berries have been planted between
young fruit trees, which have been known
to yield from two to iwo and a half tons
per acre. Two and three crops of anything
that will mature in the line of vegetation
can be grown here during the year — nere,
where the water supply is inexhaustible
and the climate very equable.
The soil is rich alluvial and very porous,
retaining the moisture from heavy winter
rainfall, and absorbing from The little
branches and the larger streams, the
Corralitos and Pajaro rivers, which flow
through the valley to the sea.
Watsonville, the geographical and com
mercial center of the valley, a thriving
town of about 3000 inhabitants, is located
at the junction of the .Fajaro and Corralitos
rivers, about five miles from a good sea
beach— Camp Goodall— where surf-bathing
and clam bakes are a pleasant possibility.
As it is not all of life to win dollars from
the cultivation of the soil, this healthy
resort is appreciated.
Where mother earth is so bountiful
STRAWBERRY RANCH, PAJAKO VALLEY.
hard to particularize, but it is safe to
mention apples as the specialty in the fruit
line. Aside from the soil being adapted
to apple culture, the cool, even climate
prevents the apples withering, as the
products of warmer localities almost in
variably do. The codlin moth does not
mar the apples of Pajaro, as this little pest
does not thrive in the extremely cool
nights which are the ruie here, because of
the nearness of the ocean.
The best Eastern markets admit that
apples of the tinest and best keeping qual
ity in the world are shipped from this
little valley adjacent to the bay of Monte
rey. The choice yellow bellefleurs, New
ton pippins, white and red pearmains,
Romanites and Smith's cider, which go per
fectly packed in 50-pound boxes to the East
ern markets, have redeemed California's
reputation in the East. "California can
not produce as good apples as the East,"
will never be heard after the 87,000 apple
trees which have been planted in the val
leys and canyons tributary to Watsonville
have come into bearing. The wonderful
quality of the apple product and the large
profit per acre yield has brought about ex
tensive planting of apple trees which, when
in full bearing will produce 2,000,000 boxes
annually, or 4000 carloads.
Eastern commission-houses send repre
sentatives to this valley during the season
to buy the fruit on the trees and 6hip on
their own account. Several large firms
are located here and have developed exten
sive markets in the East and in Europe,
and are engaged in shipping. They buy
the orchards when in the blossom stage,
contracting to take all apples, large or
small, grown in the orchard, to prop trees
if necessary and to pick them, the owner
having absolutely nothing to do but keep
the trees healthy and cultivate the soil.
Scurich Bros., M. Rabasa, M. N. Lettu
rich & Co., N. Baza, A. N. Condit & Co.,
Prettyman & Wolf, M. L. Woody and the
Gravosa Fruit Company are among the
heavy shippers from this point.
In the Corralitos district, about six miles
back in the valley, the fruit-growers have
a large co-operative fruit-packing ware
house, where their fruit is pooled, so to
speak, and carefully and uniformly select
ed and packed.
Such organized effort secures and com
mands better markets, and the selecting of
fruit will bring up the reputation of the
locality where it is grown. As California
is undoubtedly going to produce all the
fruit for the United States in time, it is
gratifying to see union of effort.
San Francisco is the distributing point
for the strawberry, raspberry and black
berry output of this valley. During the
season, which continues from April to De
cember, about 1000 carloads are [shipped.
These are the figures of persons perfectly
VINEYARD OF J. KOSSI, IN THE FOOTHILLS OFF PAJAKO VALLEY.
conversant with the daily shipments from
Watsonville and Pajaro station, just across
the river. At the present time three car
loads per day of strawberries alone are
being shipped.
The profits derived from the culture of
small fruits when prices are even fair are
very large. George H. Brewington, the
pioneer strawberry-grower of the valley,
says the average yield of strawberries is
about sixty chests to the acre, each chest
weighing on an average eighty pounds.
The average cost of production is $2 per
chest. Prices per chest have varied from
$3 to $6 during the past few years.
Mr. Brewington^bought twenty-five acres
eight years ago, for which he paid $100 per
acre. This land was graded and prepared
THE SAN FRANCESCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 18tf5.
for berries at an average cost of $25 per
acre. After preparation the expense of
plants is considerable, at it requires 18,000
at a cost of $ 2 50 per thousand. Mr. Brew
ington also planted Newton pippin and
bellefleur apple trees on the same tract.
The returns from the berries in the years
paid for the land, as well as all expenses
for both the ranch and family. After the
trees came into bearing berry culture was
discontinued and the strength of the soil
given up entirely to the trees. The net
proceeds from the trees has so increased
WESTEBN BEET-SUQAE FACTORY OF CLAU3 SPRECKELS, WATSONVILLE, OAL.
that the 25-acre tract, bought for $2500, is
now worth $1000 per acre.
Mr. Brewington is such an enthusiast
over Pajaro Valley, which has given him
such a lovely home, that he will submit his
books to the inspection of any one really
interested in cultivating the soil and mak
ing a home in the valley. There is still
land here and there in the valley and foot
hills ranging in price from $70 to $300 per
acre.
The Call correspondent was shown a
quarter acre planted in blackberries just
off the garden reservation of an 18-acre
ranch near Watsonville, on the Aptos
road, which had realized $175 last year.
Many of the small holdings which are be
ing developed by the comparatively poor
men who have bought them and are paying
for them by yearly installments have good
crops of blackberries, sugar beets or beans
growing between the trees, the profit of
which will pay for the land and a little
more. An acre or two set apart for parden
and chicken-raising and another half acre
or a piggery will provide for the family.
Cows can be had from $20 to $35, and
horses, since the bicycle craze is so ram
pant, can be bought from $45 to $75.
These small ranches in Pajaro Valley are
self-sustaining from the first— that is, for
an industrious family who will all put a
shoulder to the wheel and work while the
home is being paid for. Work is not so
irksome in this pleasant, invigorating cli
mate, where the plain little board houses
can be covered in such a very short time
with vines and rarest roses, which in this
land of flowers can be had from the ojdcr
residents for the asking. Ornamental
trees and shrubbery are very cheap at. the
nurseries found in every locality. Mr.
Waters, the nurseryman of Wntsonville,
has an exceptionally large variety of hor
ticultural, viticultural and ornamental
stock.
Shrubs and ornamental trees attain a
wonderful growth in the rich soil and
humid atmosphere of this valley, where
the winter temperature is never below 45
deg. and summer never above 80 deg.
Beans and cabbage are very successfully
grown here; of cabbage, 4000 heads per
acre. Vegetables of all kinds come to won
derful perfection, yielding: a continuous
crop when properly changed and planted.
Hops *re really a specialty and are quite
extensively cultivated in this vicinity,
notably by the Kodgers family, who have
fine ranches and beautiful homes in the
suburbs of Watsonville. The price of hopß
fluctuates, being so dependent on failnre of
crops in other parts of this country and in
England that only those with money can
afford to take the chances. The gain at
times is phenomenal.
Prunes and cherries g"rown on the rolling
land are very fine, turning out wonderfully
in the drying. Fruit grown on the foot
hills does not lose weight, shrivel and
shrink like that of the lowland.
Clearing is going on far up on the very
mountain sides. Plowed tracts planted in
prunes, olives and grapes are seen quite on
the perpendicular, where, of course, land
is cheap. The possibilities of viticulture
have hardly begun to be appreciated, but
foreigners are coming in who will show
that the very mountains are susceptible of
grape culture, and everybody knows that
olives will grow on very high and even
stony ground.
J. Rossi has the most extensive vineyard
in the Pajaro country. The best of * dry
■wine grapes are producing in fine quality
and large quantities where a few years ago
was live oak and chaparral thicket.
The fine cherry orchard of W. H. Bow
man in this same Corralitos district has
some of the largest trees in the State. Mr.
Bowman has a large acerage in other vari
ties of fruit, and extensive drying con
veniences.
Poultry-raising is a very profitable in
dustry in this valley. The Hotel del
Monte. Monterey, Pacific Grove, Aptos,
Capitola and Santa Cruz— all popular re
sorts open all the year— are within a forty
mile radius on the bay of Monterey, and
cause the demand for chickens and eggs to
far exceed the supply.
Then over $1,000,000, it is said, goes out
of the State annually for poultry. Why
should this be when there is land and to
spare immediately tributary to San Fran
cisco, while young men walk the streets
idle, and the highways are dotted with
idle men with their blankets strapped
across their backs?
It is also asserted with authority that
California does not produce more than one
half the pork consumed within its borders.
Why is it that the young men, middle
agea men and even old men who are barely
existing in the populous centers of the
country or on the closely cultivated, worn
out hills of New England and the wind
swept prairies of the West do not band to
gether and colonize the valleys and foot
hills of this State, where they can raise
pigs, chickens and various crops between
the trees, and be self-sustaining while or
chards are maturing?
The most important industry of Pajaro
Valley is the Western Beet-Sugar Factory,
PECK BLOCK, WATSONVILLE.
of which Claus Spreckels is the founder
and chief stockholder. This large milling
plant was built at Wateonville in 18S8. It
has been enlarged since, and to-day it is
the best and mubt modern-equipped beet
sugar factory in the country. One thou
sand tons is a small day's run in this plant.
Mr. Spreckels, The exporienced and suc
cessful sugar-grower and manufacturer,
recognized the value of such a location, in
the midst of rich alluvial soil, which pro
duces large crops of beets containing a
high percentage of sugar.
The large five-story factory building,
with its tnree great receiving bins, each,
1000 feet long, capable of holding 6000 tons
of beets; the immense cistern, which holds
the flow of two artesian wells, from which
is drawn the daily water supply of 2,000,
NEW HIGH SCHOOL BT7U.DINO, WATSONVILLE.
000 gallons; the large boiler-house and
Btorage-rooins, offices and spur railroad
tracks are on a large tract of land near
the Watsonville depot.
At this season the factory is closed
down. About forty men are at work
cleaning the machinery and getting every
thing in shape for the annual run. The
years of '94 and '95 were fruitful years in
deed, Mr. Spreckels having contracted for
11,000 acres of beets, which yielded 143,532
tons of sugar. Mr. Spreckels eenda ex
perienctd men out through Pajaro and
the neighboring valleys of San Juan and
Salinas to contract with the farmer to pay
so much for the beet product of his land
for that season, the sugar company fur
nishing the seed and paying a uniform
price, $4 per ton, for beets showing 14 per
cent sugar and 50 cents additional per ton
for beets grown on rich soil showing higher
percentage. Some beets bring $5 and $6
per ton from being planted on rich soil
and carefulJy cultivated. The plowing
under of fresh beet tops, which the farmer
often sells, is recommended as an excel
lent fertilizer, and one that will highly
pay.
Beet sugar raising is very satisfactory
here, where the resxilt is from 15 to 30 tons
per acre, and the farmer knows just what
-he is going to receive for the product of
his land before the crop is planted.
The company this year has contracted
for but 7000 acres of beets as against 11,000
acres last year. The cut is because of the
sugar bounty being removed by the
"Wilson bill. The woodchoppers of the
mountains will feel. the effects as well, for
the sugar factory will not consume the
usual 20,000 cords of wood for fuel. The
lime-rock quarry men around Santa Cruz
will feel the cut also, as the company will
not require the 5000 tons of lime rock
usunily consumed in the process of sugar
niaking.
During the sugar-making season 300 men
are employed. The sums of money
turned into the avenues of trade in Wat
sonville and vicinity by the establish
ing of this gigantic enterprise are enorm
ous.
The same company constructed a nar
row-gauge road from Watsonville to Moss
Landing, nx miles away, where the coast
line of steamers touch, thence to Salinas,
a distance of 23 miles. This road is pay
ing dividend*. W. C. Waters is the ca
pable manager of the combined enter
prises. Tfais competing road has brought
about low freight rates. The Southern
Pacific Company has reduced rates to
terminal and Eastern points about one
half.
The refuse from the beet-sugar factory is
being utilized for the fattening of cattle,
who like the sweet, nutritions food. A
company of which Mr. Sprecfcels is the
head has the Cooper ranch, known as
Moro Cojo, leased, where thousands of cat
tle are prepared for market by feeding in
the immense silo there constructed. The
summer home and magnificent deer park
of Mr. Spreckels is near by, at Aptos-by
the-3ea.
At Corralitos, a village of the valley six
miles from Watsonville,. is found quite i
large daper-mill, owned by Peter C. and
James Brown. They manufacture straw
wrapping, straw board and binders board,
all of which is sun-dried. The daily out
put of the Corralitos Paper-mill, which
employs fifteen men, is about five and a
half tons.
With such rich tributary land in small
holdings and the large enterprises men
tioned, how could Watsonville, 101 miles
from San Francisco, with competitive
transportation, avoid being the most
thriving town of 3000 inhabitants in the
State? It has good business blocks; two
strong banks, one building and loan, with
modern safety deposit arrangement at
tached.
The Charles Ford Mercantile Company,
which was organized by the late Mr. Ford
rather on the co-operative plan, by admit
ting trusted employes to partnership, ia
the largest general merchandise firm in
the county.
The People's Furniture-store is a mod
ern establishment, with a carefully se
lected stock.
Madden & Sheehy carry a good
stock of fancy and staple dry goods,
A. L. Bixby, W. A. Spreckens, P. J.
Friermuth, Martin the jeweler, Burbeck
& Co., books and stationery, Baxter, the
hardware man, and many other equally
enterprising and "up-to-date" business
men, keep things humming in Watson
ille.
The hotels are specially good and well
patronized ; the Mansion and Lewis lead.
Among those who are ever ready for any
movement along the line of progress are
Charles Polk, J. 8. Menasco, Dr. Waters,
J. J. Morey, George W. Hurst, A. W. Cox,
R. P. Quinn, Robert Eaton, JohnT. Porter,
James Waters, J. A. Linscott, F. A. Kil
burn and Dr. Bixby.
The Pajaronian, under the business
management of G. G. Radcliff and edited
by W. R. Radcliff, is one of the most pro
gressive and practical papers in the State.
The Rustler, edited by Joe Hetherington,
is appropriately named. It came iuto the
field last, but the Rustler has come down
the quarterstretch and is under the wire on
good time. The little daily Transcript,
run by the brothers Peckham, works hard
and faithfully for the community and will,
no doubt, win reward.
The leading fraternal societies are very
strong here. The Odd Fellows have a fine
building of their own.
All the different religious denominations
are represented and have good men in
their pulpits and good church property.
The ladies of the W. C. T. U. are trying
very hard to build up a good public library
and reading-room. They have been given
the use of the Odd Fellows' well-selected
library and by littles they will see the
fruition of their very laudable hopes.
There is a strong bicycle club here of 100
members. They have a private athletic,
reading and club room for their social use.
A. W. Cox is president; J. Lee Burbeck,
L. D. McLean, A. M. Cupid, E. L. Clark,
C. D. Stresser and Ed Henry, directors.
One of the leading small enterpriees is
the cider and soda works of S. Martinelli
located here. The pure apple juice void
of injurious chemicals is put on the market
by Mr. Martinelli, who is gaining a wide
reputation.
Many modern houses are seen in this
busy town. The new high school build
ing, which has been erected at a cost of
about $30,000, is one of the handsomest in
the State. And the schools here are well
conducted under L. \V. Cushman, the
principal, who is a graduate of Harvard.
Olin N. Marsh, a graduate of Stanford, is
making a success of the history and lan
guage department. Miss Rose Ryan, a
Berkeley graduate, who is at the head of
the mathematics, is a valued teacher. G.
E. Morrill has charge of the excellent com
mercial department, which is so large as t«
require a separate building at present. He
uses the Ellis patent cabinets, and the
work is all thoroughly practical. The
corps of grammar teachers are practical
and progressive.
On this round globe can we find a rarer
spot than this valley of Pajaro?
NEW IDEA AT WRIGHTS.
A Summer School to Teach
Agriculture and Economics.
Some Eminent Lecturers.
A Camp Located in One of the Most
Picturesque Regions of the
Scenic West.
WRIGHTS, Cal., June 2.— The Farmers'
Encampment projected by Highland
Grange, No. 303, Patrons of Husoandry,
and enthusiastically indorsed and sup
ported by the entire community at
Wrights Station, will, according to every
omen, be a great success from its very in
auguration. The scheme has met with
the favor of leading agriculturists and busi
ness men throughout the State.
For a summer camp the ground selected
and now being cleared for the purpose is
an ideal location. It is on the El Toyon
ranch, some four miles southeast of
Wrights Station, and is reached by a well
made and well-kept road that pursues its
winding course up the mountains, through
a most picturesque country, and affords
the traveler a veritable panorama of de
lightful views.
At Wrights one finds a community of
comfortable homes. There are no un
sightly cabins, but everywhere is the ap
pearance of thrift. The houses are built
with an eye to architectural beauty,
and evidences of taste and culture
are to be found outside as well as inside
of these modern rural residences.
The traveler through this settlement
finds himself continuously giving expres
sion to sentiments of pleasant surprise as
new scenes unfold themselves to view in
rapid succession, until, reaching the sum
mit on the El Toyon ranch, he beholds a
prospect transcendent in its magnificence.
The altitude here is 2100 feet. To the
southwest the waves of the mighty sea are
driving against the rocky shore their char
iots of foam. The headland seen in the
distance is Lighthouse Point at Santa
Cruz, extending out like an arm protecting
the bay from the charge of the wave bat
talions of the Pacific; and there, nine
miles away, rise the white homes of the
city of the Hqly Cross. The shoreline of
the bay spreads out like a painted map.
save for the hoary-haired breakers that
keep plunging incessantly in their vain
war against the land.
To the left of Santa Cruz, and a little re
moved from the shore, is seen the village
of Boquel, and further on, Capitola, "lean
ing her back up against the hills, with the
tip of her toes in wave." Even Monterey
Point is plainly discernible, and one is al
most enraptured with the glorious picture
of sea and bay and cities and mountains,
half framed by the sky above and half by
the green wilderness of redwoods and oaks
firs, madrones and laurels, at the gazer's
feet.
Turning to the northeast, one beholds
the great Loma Prieta, 4000 feet high, only
three miles away. From that mountain
peak one may see the bay of San Francisco
and the valleys to the north of it.
„ The camp ground is in a grove on a gen
tle hill slope, facing the west, only a few
hundred yards from the summit.
It were difficult to enumerate all the ad
vantages possessed by the rancho El Toyon
for such an encampment. Nature has
been lavish with her gifts here, and art
is now devoting her efforts toward making
the paradise complete. The brush if be
ing cleared from the camp ground, and
roads are being built and bridges con-
Btructed for the anticipated host of camp
ers. ;By the first of August scores and,
perhaps,' hundreds of tents will 7 be pitched
in that rest-inviting shade. Plenty of pure
water from mountain springs is not the
least among the blessings of this mountain
spot, and hard by are several natural sul
phur wells which are freely patronized for
. their health-aiding properties. Mountain.
streams full of trout are within call dis
tance of the camp.
Considering all these things, it is not a
matter of wonderment that Highland
Grange should undertake the splendid
chance above set forth or that the leadine
educators of California should lend their
hearty co-operation 10 the end that a sum
mer school of agriculture and economics
may be permanently established here.
On Saturday afternoon some 200 of the
families of Wrights Station were repre
sented at the picnic on El Toyon. When
the festivities were concluded the assem
blage resolved itself into a meeting for the
purpose of considering the subject of the
encampment. Edward F. Adams, one of
the energetic, public-spirited men of
Wrights Station, presided and outlined
the plan of the farmers' summer school, as
set on foot by Highland Grange and no\r
under the direction of the State Grange.
It was at this meeting decided, after much
favorable discussion, that the whole com
munity should unite in hearty labor to as
sure the success of the big enterprise.
The following resolutions, offered by
Colonel W. H. Aiken, were unanimously
adopted : J
Resolved; That the people of this vicinity
recognizing the public spirit which has
prompted Highland Grange to promote an en
terprise calculated to improve the material
welfare not only of this community but of th«
entire State of California, do hen-l.v v\ C dll
themselves to sustain and support the eran™
by all means within our power in opening an 1
maintaining here a permanent ca-np of instrur
tlon, under the ownership and control of th«
State Grange ot California, at which th»re
shall yearly be systematic study and discussion
of all problems, whether agricultural or
economic, especially affecting the conditions of
rural life.
We will aid from year to year, according to
our means, in building the roads, clearing the
grounds, erecting the buildings, establishing
the library and in all other ways in making
the camp and vicinity agreeable to our guests
and a spot where all interested in the vital
problems of the day may pursue their study
under the most competent leadership, while
enjoying a season of quiet rest and recreation
in our health-giving climate and under the in
spiration of the pure air and the magnificent
outlook which these mountains afford.
We adopt the camp as a community enter
prise under the local leadership of Highland
Grange, and whether grange members or not
will serve upon committees and in all bimilar
ways will aid to forward the work.
While thus pledging ourselves to our utmost
effort we ask the aid of all other granges and o(
all persons interested in the moral and ma
terial welfare of our rural population in secur«
ing to the institution a stronger endowment
than the unaided effort one small commu>
nity can give it.
It was announced that A. P. Roache,
master of the State Grange, had appointed
the following-named gentlemen to servo
on the committee which shall have charge
of the educational feature of the camp:
Principal C. W. Childs of the State Normal
School, San Jose (chairman); Rev. 8. Good
enough, lecturer of the State Grange, and
Edward F. Albans of Highland Grange.
The department of economics at the en
campment will be under the immediate
direction of Professor E. A. Ross, acting
head of that department at the Leland
Stanford Junior University. The topics to
be treated in the course of lectures by Pro
fessor Ross and others in the line of eco
nomics will be partly as follows: "The
Farmer as Buyer," a proposition involving
the trust problem ; "The Farmer as Seller,"
treating of the option idea and specnla
tion among farmers; "The Farmer as
Debtor," bringing in the money problem:
as "Taxpayer," covering the subject of
tariffs and taxes, and as "Transporter,"
treating of public highways and roads,
railroad and steamship transportation.
The agricultural lectures of the encnrnp
ment will be delivered by Professor E. W.
Hilgard, E. J. Wickson, C. \V. Woodworth
and Charles H. Shinn, all of the agricul
tural depatment of the State University.
In addition to the summer school feat
ures there will be daily informal discus
sions on such subjects as may present
themselves outside of the prepared course,
and musical and literary entertainment.
Within the next few days a ladies'
auxiliary committee will be organized at
AY rights, the object of which will be to
provide for the comfort and entertainment
of those who attend the encampment.
Chairman Adams will appoint a citizens'
committee on encampment to-day.
Highland Grange has already begun the
collection of a library of works on agri
cultural and economic subjects, and such
a library will constitute no unimportant
feature of the camp.
The hotel and boarding-house people in
the vicinity of Wrights are being so organ
ized as to conveniently take charge of all
who may desire accommodations.
A general committee of publicity and
promotion will be organized by the State
Grange from the grangers of Central Cali
fornia.
The Farmers' School will formally open
July 29, but the grounds will be in readi
ness for campers in about a fortnight.
Hood's at the Head
It is because Hood's Sarsaparilla is the
greatest blood purifier that it is able to
cure disease that other remedies cannot
*rasS£)k— touch. The following
Jgj|jpisjg||few is the experience of
AktfjK S3 "For a long time I
J&S §» was in poor health.
I Lmj *B My bones ached, nay
jB^BL liver and stomach
4Kj^4, v^ me and my
TT^ ' I petite was poor.
SLJ^u^^^Jgllln fact, I had n * m
«lßfcl3»«rJO'*ES or ambition. I was
dyised to tako
HK^^wßHiillHood's Sariaparilla.
I used two bottles and improved so much
that' I bought six more. Hood's Sarsapa.
rilla proved a great investment. It has
made a different person of me. It was the
only medicine during my three years of
doctoring that had any effect. It is at the
head of all blood remedies, and I would
not be without it at any cost." Jobs
Lotton, 885 Thirty-fourth st., fhicago, 111.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Is the Only
True Blood Purifier
Hence it gives perfect health, steady
nerves and a good appetite. . .
Hnnri'c Pi Ila th» after-dinner pill and
riOOq S If II IS fumy cathartic 200.
a Dr. Gibbon's Dispensary,
01*3 KKAK.VY ■ ST. Established
in 1834 for the treatment of Private
Diseases, Lost M.iuhot"!. < Debility or
disease weariOKpn body and mind acd
Skin Disease". The doctor cures when
others fail. - Try him. Cliargee low.
Cuminiaraßteea. Call or writ*.
»r. jr. F- OIBBON. Box IM?, Son ITandaoo.
RARE CHANCE !
TO LET— A LAKGK STORE ON THE WATER
front of Sausaltto, opposite the Ferry Landing.
• Admirably adapted for a cash grocery-store. ■ Apply
' on the premises, to J. E. SLINK E Y, tiausallto. Of
i at. toon 9, 233 Keara^-rt,, X to 2 *. k,