California News Review Highlights State Projects and Taxes
California News Review reports on plans for a yacht harbor at Coyote Point near Burlingame and San Mateo with backers including A. W. Deuel. It covers tax revenues from bank and corporation franchise taxes, and notes Red Bluff’s bid to host state traffic officer training. It details dam-and-dock repairs in Richmond, forest watershed protection efforts, rising 1929 natural gas waste, and various mining, aviation, and highway projects across the state. It notes Fresno’s water system case, Morro Bay surveys, and Stockton plaza parking concept as a rural-urban balance of development and public works.
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Coyote Point
Burlingame
San Mateo
Red Bluff
J. J. Barree
California
Reynold E. Blight
Richmond
H. J. Brunnier
San Francisco
Capital Assembly
Sacramento
State Forestry Board
Claude G. Brown
State Railroad Commission
Kettleman Hills
Brown
Angels Camp
Domingo Rolleri
Albany
Fresno City
California Superior Court
California Water Service Company
Leymel
United States Supreme Court
Santa Rosa High School
State Chamber of Commerce
Gardiner Spring
Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce
County Board of Supervisors
Sonoma County
Patrick's Point
Humboldt
State Department of Public Works
Griffith Company of
Los Angeles
Ventura County
Conejo
Point Reyes
Monte Rio
Coast
Northwestern Pacific Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington, D. C
Goat Island
Lighthouse Division
Morro Bay
San Joaquin Valley
Kings
Tulare
Fresno
Kern
War Department
Otto
Catherine Bushaw
Sutter County
Stockton
Los Angeles Airlines
Department For Commerce
Oakland
Bay Region
Banta
Tracy
First joint deciduous and citrus school opens in San Joaquin
UC extension opens its first joint deciduous and citrus school for the San Joaquin Valley. Growers from many sections attend while extension speakers lecture on better orchard care. Zwissig Dairy's 360 cows average 389 pounds of butter fat in the last year, well above the state average of 246, due to eliminating non-producers and better breeding methods.
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University of California Extension Service
San Joaquin Valley
Extension Service
Zwissig
Hear Decoto
Alameda-Santa Cruz
Fresno Farm Bureau weighs Sacramento River canal plan
The Fresno County Farm Bureau considers a cement lined canal proposal by I. Teilman to move surplus Sacramento River water to the San Joaquin Valley, enabling irrigation as far south as Kern County with a single pumping plant and water passage to Shaft er.
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Sacramento River
San Joaquin Valley
Kern County
Fresno County Farm Bureau
I. Teilman
Shafter
Yucaipa Apple Growers Begin Widespread Tree Pruning
After weeks of rest and the busy harvest period, Yucaipa apple growers are now engaged in pruning. The trees have grown large making pruning time-consuming. Most plan to prune themselves, but larger operators employ dedicated crews for the task.
Wild dogs threaten Tule River ranches near Porterville
Ranchers along Tule River southwest of Porterville report a band of half wild dogs preying on livestock. Farmers have not shot any dogs yet. The nocturnal killers have slain several sheep and calves. Similar reports come from nearby Tulare areas. Efforts will be made to exterminate the dogs, most of which are believed to be strays.
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Tule
Porterville
Tulare
Digger pine eyed for commercial boost from oleoresin
Digger pines, among the few in the world to produce heptane, may gain major value if oleoresin can be harvested in quantity. Nevada County hosts large stands, with N T Mirov leading trials for a neutered byproducts plant in Nevada City this spring and summer. Cooperators will receive cups, gutters, and resin collection guidance, as heptane grows in automotive use.
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California
Nevada County
N. T. Mirov
Nevada City
California cattlemen push tuberculosis checks to guard herds
California veterinarians conducted large scale TB tests in 1929 with 190 822 cattle tested by private practitioners and 213 749 by animal industry division veterinarians. In four of seven free area counties 9% of stock was TB free, and these districts were named modified tuberculosis free by USDA. Dr J P Iverson noted many herd owners seek accredited herd status to ship cattle nationwide without TB restrictions.
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California
Division of
Animal Industry
State Department of Agriculture
Modoc
Lassen
Plumas
Tehama
United States Department of Agriculture
J. P. Iverson
United States
Liguria Olive Products Company faces multiple suit filings
Olive growers sue Liguria Olive Products Company for money due on contracts totaling 2528.23 with plaintiffs Rudolph Behrens seeking 882.12 and D H Smith 1644.23 for olives sold last year. The Liguria plant near Exeter was recently razed by fire, a total loss.
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Liguria Olive Products Company
Rudolph Behrens
D. H. Smith
Liguria
Exeter
California asparagus dealers keep profit amid dieting trend
A University of California report says California supplies 63 percent of all U S. asparagus. Despite more acreage, prices rose in 1929 as demand for asparagus on toast or plain increased, showing business remains strong for California growers.
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California
University of California
United States
Dairy survey eyed for Kern county dairy program
Dependent upon a Federal appropriation a survey of the dairy situation in Kern county may be made. L W Taylor farm adviser said after consulting with George K York of the division of markets State Department of Agriculture The survey would detail facts useful in outlining a constructive program for dairy improvement in the county.
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Kern County
L. W. Taylor
George K. York
Division of Markets
State Department of Agriculture
Irrigationists Protest Kings River in Sequoia Park Plan
Fresno County and Alta district irrigationists unite to oppose including Kings River Canyon in the Sequoia National Park extension. They fear loss of reservoir sites for future water impounding while the park already sits in Tulare County and Key Kings River scenery is valued as park property.
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Fresno County
Alta Irrigation District
Tulare
Fresno Counties
Kings River Canyon
Sequoia National Park
Tulare County
Kings River
UC Extension Workers Campaign Against Canadian Fowl Flu
University of California Extension Service workers launch organized drive against fowl flu. Disease not yet widespread in Hayward poultry, but present elsewhere. Research department begins study into origins to shape preventive and curative measures.
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University of California Extension Service
Hayward
Walnut Growers Association Distributes Second Cull Nuts Payments
Checks totaling fifty thousand dollars were mailed to Santa Barbara County Walnut Growers Association members for a new grading of cull walnuts. The season’s crop totals reach about five hundred fifty thousand dollars, with a second payment of similar size expected in late February to close the books.
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Santa Barbara County
Walnut Growers’ Association
Fly ing Squirrels Found Nest in Clinton District
Carl Thoms and Pacific Gas and Electric line crew report discovering a flying squirrel nest in Tuolumne County Clinton district while burning brush for a new power line. The sighting marks the first observed nest in the Mother Lode in a decade amid sparse local squirrels.
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Carl Thoms
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Tuolumne County
Clinton
Bankers report renters purchase Kern county farms
McFarland bankers note several former tenants of northern Kern county farms buying their rental properties. Buyers include CG A Reid who bought the Oelke ranch Lester Ingram who took the Kraft place E C Cozart who acquired the Frank Evert ranch and Herman Bonkosky who purchased eighty acres northwest of McFarland Others are Mr and Mrs James F Hollaway of Riviera who bought a twenty acre Elmo highway tract partly in grapes and partly to be in cotton this year J E Williams of McFarland has leased the S C Emmons sixty acre ranch about a mile east of town
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McFarland
Kern County
CG. A. Reid
Oelke Ranch
Lester Ingram
Kraft Place
E. C. Cozart
Frank Evert
Herman Bonkosky
James F. Hollaway
Riviera
Elmo Highway
J. E. Williams
S. C. Emmons
Beekeepers Seek Pooling Honey Output in California
Steps toward pooling the honey output of California were under way with an appeal issued by George J. Brown, president of the California Beekeepers' Association, urging honey producers to use market facilities provided by the California Almond Growers' Exchange. A series of meetings for discussion of the project has been planned by officials of the Beekeepers' Association.
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California
George J. Brown
California Beekeepers’ Association
California Almond Growers’ Exchange
The
Beekeepers’ Association
Lettuce Pickers Strike for Higher Wages Across Three California Cities
Four hundred workers in El Centro Calexico and Holtville walk out demanding better pay. They seek either one dollar per hour or six cents per crate for packing, up from seventy five cents an hour and four to eight and a half cents per crate in current terms.
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el Centro
Calexico
Holtville
Evidently His First
In the jumble of Pittsburg traffic an excited man jumped from his car which blocked traffic and ran to a passing street car shouting a bizarre claim. He cried joyfully that a boy weighed eight pounds and fourteen ounces, trailing the car as pedestrians stared.
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Pittsburg
Always the Best Lady at Hardware Counter
A brief comic exchange centers on a shopper requesting “the 12-penny” nails and a clerk offering options 8-penny, 10-penny, or 12-penny, with the shopper insisting on the best. The humor hinges on the phrase I always take the best.
Profit in Gardens Boosts Farm Yields
The Farm Journal notes that ignoring garden potential wastes profits. An intensively cultivated garden of one acre can yield about 1500 dollars in commodities yearly, while a good corn yield from an acre is worth around 60 dollars.
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Farm Journal
One Prescription Made Family Doctor Famous
Dr Caldwell's syrup pepsin prescription made his name worldwide in 1885. He wrote it for constipation symptoms such as coated tongue headaches gas nausea biliousness low energy and poor appetite. Demand grew as it provided quick relief, leading to the syrup being packaged for ready use in drugstores.
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Dr. Caldwell
Four Corners of the Earth
Caldwell
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