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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1927
Page
6
As the Legislature nears adjournment the rush to pass bills increases with limited scrutiny. Proposals seek standardization of California fruit and grain, covering juice grapes, grape fruit, lemons, dates, persimmons, artichokes, carrots, pomegranates, and more. The plan includes a California Standard trade mark for state produce.
A $75,000 appropriation was approved to form a committee to study the state revenue and taxation system and propose a new plan to meet escalating government costs. Southern California shoreline landowners battled a bill to bar them from pre empting the ocean front, protesting a looming monopoly that would shut the public from the water and urging Legislature to intervene.
A heated dispute surrounds a proposed congressional reapportionment that would shift one northern California seat to Los Angeles. The fight intertwines with hydraulic mining and Wright law amendments. Advocates trade votes, crossing lines as they seek to win support for favored measures, leaving final results uncertain.
The Assembly adopts appointing a commission to handle Boulder Canyon Dam dealings and represent the state in negotiations with other states and the Federal Government. The chief justice begins reorganizing California’s bar under the new law, which takes effect in 30 days, with stricter bar requirements ahead.
A committee will study pensioning state employees and report next legislative session. Assemblyman Coombs of Napa secured a 55000 appropriation to aid dependent crippled children, funding braces, operations, and treatments when parents cannot pay, with no designated treatment facility specified.
Longstanding feud resurfaces as effort to pass hydraulic mining legislation gains traction. The bill includes a $200,000 dam appropriation, seen as clashing with the governor’s economic program and risking a referendum if signed.
Commercial gun clubs and individuals who charge for hunting on preserves must pay a license of 25 dollars for American citizens and 100 dollars annually for non citizens. Their premises fall under the jurisdiction of the Fish and Game Commission.
It is proposed to establish special juvenile courts in the state’s two principal cities where judges would devote their work exclusively to juvenile cases.
California enthusiasts foresee a chain of cotton textile mills using Acala cotton from the San Joaquin valley with Corcoran hosting the first plant to produce cord tires and related goods. E B Moore of Berkeley touts the venture as boosting local markets and city wealth while new mills may emerge in the San Francisco bay region.
Turlock nurserymen say the season ending now is among the most successful since 1922 with active planting of new orchards and vineyards in the Turlock Irrigation District despite February rains. About 300 acres to freestone peaches and 600 acres to cling peaches, 250 acres to apricots, 250 acres to late shipping plums and English walnuts, and one grower planting 100 acres to walnuts. Land already prepared for next season.
Najol introduces a health product pack of Black Mission figs from the California Peach and Fig Growers association. The exclusive Fresno drug store item follows eighteen months of development to create a stable market for Black Mission figs without disrupting distribution of white fig varieties in groceries.
Representatives of the Old Mission Canning company of North San Diego offer growers $40 per ton at the roadside and provide plants at cost to grow pimentos in Vista. They project an average yield of six tons per acre with cost about $100 per acre, and occasional maximums of twelve tons. Potential net per acre ranges from $150 to $250 over a six month season.
William A. Ashbury of Merced, split between a barber shop and commercial honey production, traps swarming bees in baited hives in trees near an oak grove. In two years his hives grew from a few to 345, adding 306 this year, with a goal of 1,000 by the end of 1928.
Deciduous fruit shipments from Tulare County in 1926 surpassed the prior year and yielded the highest income among local industries, per a report by Frank R. Brann Tulare County horticultural commissioner. Watermelon and cantaloupe shipments were strong, while raisin table and wine grapes again added to credits rather than losses.
Dr. F. H. Whitehead state deputy veterinarian will arrive to start TB testing for all cows in Mendocino. Testing begins in Yorkville Booneville Philo and Navajo districts and spreads to coast towns thereafter.
Two thousand acres on the west border of Tulare Lake south of Stratford, part of the Clawson ranch holdings, was sold from H. Clawson to C. H. Glenn and E. J. Sharp. The reported price was 200000 dollars, the largest land sale recorded in Kings county for many months.
W G McMillin state purchasing agent says the state can produce shoes at 1.75 dollars per pair. The state shoes are manufactured for inmates of state institutions rather than sold on regular markets.
The California Cotton Credit corporation doubling its capital to 2 million dollars now offers 6 percent loans to cotton growers in the San Joaquin Valley. It operates a Tulare branch within the Federal intermediate banking system via the San Joaquin Valley Cotton Growers association, targeting this year’s plantings.
The Bankers Association of Imperial Valley offers a registered son to the winner of a pig feeding contest run by agriculture clubs. The animal becomes the winner’s property for one year. the winner gains permanent rights to litters the sow produces. The sow itself will pass to next year’s contest winner.
California agriculture officials update import standards for feeder sheep from the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. Dr J P Iverson says sheep must be scab free and dipped before crossing the state line to protect California's sheep industry.
The honey harvest is increasing in Kings County as bees collect nectar from vast blossoms. The central San Joaquin valley counties including Kings, Tulare, Kern, and Fresno lead in this largely underdeveloped industry, with rising production and promising volumes for apiarists.
Prepared by the National Geographic Society, the article describes Labrador's inland expansion due to a Privy Council boundary decision, its stark coasts, Arctic climate, and rugged ecology. It highlights human resilience, sparse capital, and abundant resources from fish, fur, seals, and berries, plus the potential of pulp industry in Newfoundland.
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