The Hawaiian gazette., 1880-04-28
ENTrED STATES.
Pacific Coast.

Pacific Coast.
The Board of Trade of San Francisco have lost
no time after the departure of De Lesseps in pub
fishing report made by their committee on the
subject of Isthmian canals. The most conspicu-
Gus members of the Board took pains to treat De
Lesseps with distinguished hospitality while he
was in that city, and the famous engineer has now
another opportunity to measure the difference be-
tween social courtesy and business alliance.
New quartz discoveries are reported from Baker
River, W. L.
Five feet of fresh snow fell at Lake Tahoe during
the recent storm.
The Santa Cruz Powder Works Company have
discharged their Chinaman.
The wool clip east of the Cascades Oregon, will
be at least 100000 pounds.
Coal is known to underIie fully 10000 square
miles of the Territory of Montana.
The recent fire at Battle Mountain, Nevada is
supposed to have caught from spark from a To-
connective of the Nevada Central Railway, which
fell upon the roof. The entire loss is estimated at
$4,000. Huntsmans Hotel was insured for less
than half its value.
A Gazette reporter was sent to Wadsworth
Nevada, to collect information about the routes
the steam wagons are to run on. Prominent
freighters and teamsters are doubtful of their sue
cess. Fuel and water are scarce on the roads to
lone and Belleville. The owners of toll roads are
opposed to them account of freighting teams.
An engine was tried at the Rye Patch mine and the
Rabbit Hole mine but was unsuccessful. 1t is now
Indications of active resumption of railroad
construction in the Willamette valley Oregon, are
apparent. The Oregon and California Railroad
Company call for ties for branch roads to Silver
ton and Lebanon, and the Oregon Railway Com
pany solicit tenders for ties to extend their branch
road to Dallas. The Silverton and Lebanon
branches are to be completed by midsummer, and
the Dallas extension is to be finished by the Goth
of May.
The New York Herald referring to the Senate's
authorizing artesian wells on the plains, advocates
the opening of these perennial fountains in trans
Mississippi districts, where the summer rainfall
is deficient, believing that they will enhance the
value of the national domain, and clear the way
for the great tide of emigration now rolling toward
the Eastern Rocky Mountain slope. 1t may not be
easy to tap the great internal water reservoir on
the plains east of the Rocky mountains, but the
deeper the bore the fuller the perpetual stream
is eXempified in the artesian we'll at Greenville,
near Paris, which was not started until nearly
eighteen hundred feet of soil has been perforated
and four years were spent in boring. 1t has
thousand-fold repaid its cost, discharging consid
erably more than half million gallons every
twenty-fOur hours
Atlantic States.
The Chicago Inter-Oceqn's Washington special
says The monthly statement of the Bureau of
Statistics shows the balance of trade In favor of
the United States, that has been kept up so long
has fallen OF from twenty mime and one-half mil
lions in 1880. During the twelve months ending
with February the falling off was over $92,0O0OOO
The New York Herald says: The Celestials have
secured lease of nearly every store in the lower
end of Mott street. They asked the Rudgers Fire
Company to lease them dwelleng- house at No. 3,
but the company responded by saying they would
sooner pull down the building than allow a single
Chinaman to live in it. Tom Lee offered large
advance on the present rent of the place, but was
fatty refused on the ground that Chinese are a
nuisance. determined effort is being made by
property-holders in the upper emit of Mott street
to prevent the colony from spreading, and to all
offers of high rents they give stolid denial They
feel that, if the Chinese get sufficient Roadway,
they will take possession of that quarter of the
city. The tactics employed by the Chinese to get
possession of house next door is to disgust the
tenants, who leave, and then they offer to pay a
good sum in rent.
Herald Washington special says !: An American
resident here, who has interests In California has
addressed Congress some facts and figures relating
to the commerce of California with China, which
deserve general attention. He shows TO members
of Congress that in 1878 California sent to China,
IN round numbers, 900 barrels of -four and in
1873, 235000: that, besides this China takes more
than half of the whole quicksilver product of the
State. Should the proposition now before Con-
gTess for double duty ON Chinese rice be adopted
China would doubtless levy duty on -four, which
Is now duty free. The San Francisco Bulletin and
Market Rerieio naturally oppose the movement as
Fery injurious to important industries of their
State, but the country at large has also interests
IN Chinese commerce, as the Pail Mall Gazette of
London recently made plain. 1t said: During the
last four years, ending 1871 British imports into
China of manufactured cotton and wool have been
nearly stationary. After falling in 1873 from
6625,511 pieces to 4611 $50. The decrease has not
indeed, been only in quantity but in value which
has fallen with the quantity. In these four years
there was no less steady and significant increase
in the imports of American goods at Shanghai.
The British Consul at Shanghai gives table
showing the yearly decrease in the demand for
British fabrics from 1874 to 1879. Last year the
imports at Shanghai were respectively, English
drill 1853 pieces; American, 55,10S pieces of
English sheeting, 81 pieces American, 59,943
pieces.
A Washington special says The Pacific Mail
Steamship Company has filed paper with the Sem
ate Judiciary Committee declaring that no contract
has been signed between it and the Poetic Rail-
roads with reference TO the matter upon which an
+ investigation has been ordered, and that accord
ingly it has no existence in fact. Senator Bailey
who introduced the resolution asking for an in
yestigation said this evening that if what is as
ser.ed by the Steamship Company shall turn out
true, of course there could be legislation pro-
hibiting that which does not exist.
A Herald Washington special says The House
Committee on the Pacific Railroad, at its meeting
to-day, heard the report of the subcommittee in
favor of investigating the contracts between the
Union Pacific Railroad and the Pacific Mail Com
pany, and referred the report back to the sub
committee, with instructions to begin the inquiry
by inviting the representatives of the leading in
terests involved to appear and explain those con-
tracts. The following will be asked to appear
Jay Gould, James Keene, Mr.. Hart and Messrs.
Dillon and Huntington.