New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-10
AT THE GOLDEN GATE.
UAIIFORNIAS INDIAN SUMMER-ExpoRTs
AND IMPORTS.
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San Francisco, Nov 9.-Nothing could surpam
the weather which has followed the great storm.
1t is like the Eastern Indian summer only about
ten degrees warmer Old farmers declare that they
never saw grass and oats grow as they have grown
during the last week and reports from all quar-
ters OF the State sanguine Of a good crop. Il
is the ideal season for Eastern tourists, as tina
tswny yellow Of the fields and hills has changed to
vivid green, and the plague OF dust is ended.
City real estate has been unusually active 70
Gently heavy sales taking place in the Western
Addition and south of Golden Gate Park The
best criterion OF the demand for property is tho
auction sales At one sale this week of property
in various parts Of the city ex-senator Fair bOught
more than half of the lots offered. One block
three streets from the park, among the sand DIMES
OF the south side, sold for more than $4,000.
Corner lots brought $50 per front foot, and inside
lots about half this amount. This whole block
sold about four years ago for $4,000.
The Southern Pacific Company reports this year
the largest sales of flaming and timber lands for
six years Most of the good land owned by the com.
pany has been sold, but the lands sold this year
average one-third higher than last year.
MANY creditors are searching for Aaron Friendly
who managed the Rhode Island Jewelry Company,
jewelry and silvervare, obtained mainly from
New-York firms, spent the proceeds in rotous
living, and then decamped
Investigation Of the wreck Of the steamer
Granada, on the Mexican coast, is proceeding
slowly here The officers assert that the dark,
stormy night and the strong shoreward current
were to blame for the steamers loss; while
number of captains testified that the current
was known to exist, and ought to have been
guarded against
The Union League Club, formed on the plan
of the New-York organization Of the same nama
has largely increased it, membership recently.
and has decided to build new clubhouse.
San Franciscos exports by sea for October
amounted to S4,469,300, OF which more than
one-half was for Great Britain For the ten
months of this year the exports were s33, 100000,
a gain of 81 900, 900 over last year. The wheat
exports for October were 1,ls7,77l centals. at
sl,34 per Genital. The -four shipments for
October were 120,37s barrels, and for the year
956, S82 barrels valued at trife over "a, 100000
Within a short time Starr ~ Go. have sold
10000 tons of -four for Europe; their Hour
shipments to Europe, since July l, have been
1856 barrels, nearly six times the amount
shipped last year.
Last year was the first time for twenty-thres
years that a cargo of wheat was shipped from here
goes have cleared for Rio and two for Monte.
video. Thirteen vessels have cleared for Europe this
year with canned salmon. They carried in al
255,400 cases. Shipments by sea OF CALIFORNIA
wine in the same period were 2,402,594 gallons,
worth 1862, 900. The duties on imports at San
Francisco last month reached 100000. The total
for the first ten months of this year Is Ssh 34OO.
With the exception of last year. this is the largest
amount for corresponding period for decade
The first statue erected in this country to
workinman will soon be unveiled in Sacramento.
II is in honor of E. j. Stevens, late master me-
chanic of the Southern Pacific, who had for years
been in charge of immense railroad shops in Sacra
mento. The funds contributed entirely BY
workingmen.
There will be legal fight over the proposition
of the Sacramento authorities TO destroy Suffers
Fort The attempt TO buy the property and preserve
the fort as historical curiosity failed, and now
the city has passed an ordinance TO run a street
directly through the old fort. The owners insist
that this cannot be done, as Suffers deed convey
ing certain lands to the city specially the
ground on which it stands.
The Tulare City saloon keepers decided not to
pay the 81 90 quarterly license demanded by the
authorities, and all closed their doors Monday
night Since then Tulare has been a genuinely
=" dry town. and all the tipplers have to take
ride to neighborng towns to get drink.
There was much unnecessary alarm caused by
the escape of eight Apache convicts in Arizona.
Imaginative newspaper correspondents in Southern
Arizona sent out reports of bands OF Apaches being
seen in various quarters but the whole scare ended
in the successful escape Of the Indians who evil
IDENTIFY had the help of Apaches from the reserva-
ton in killing their guard.