The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-31
COAST ITEMS.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
The Banning Herald began its third year
last Friday.
The drift at the Extension claim, near
Downieville, is now in 4456 feet.
The public reading-rooms at the yelling
ton coIlieries have been ordered closed.
A new town has been laid out on Puget
Sound that stagSers under the name OF
Mukiteo.
The people of Santa Fe, n. Mex, are
anxious TO have the town lighted by
electricity.
Vashon Island, the great sporting ground
of Puget Sound, was burned over last week
by a forest fire.
The match factory at National City, San
Diego County, is turning out strikers at the
rate OF !, 400, 900 a day.
There is wheat enough at Portland, Ore
gOn, to load tifty-seven ships, an to giye
So, 10000 to the farmers.
Rev. Mr.. Frazer of Pomona was thrown
from his buggy last Monday, and received
internal injuries that may prove fatal
The Petaluma Imprint says the new
ferry-bOat Ukiah on the Donahue line will
be put into commission about October LIST.
David Tully expects to gather Skinner
pippins of "a pounds weight from his
mountain ranch, four miles from Julian,
San Diego County.
The Republicans of Idaho have nominated
George l.. Sharp for Governor, Norman Il.
Wiley for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and Willis
Sweet for Congress.
The Riverside Press says many of the
orchards there are infested with the San
Jose scale, and prompt action should be
taken to destroy all infested trees.
small schooner owned ana sailed by
two Makah Indians took 1000 cases of dyn-
amite from Port Townsend to Juneau.
Aaslyn Ia Troo W. mi
pauy.
The City Trustees Of San Bernardno are
managing the finances with so much
economy that they have a surplus of $50, 600
and the next tax levy will not be more than
60 cents on the 500. Last year the rate
was 80 cents.
w. ID. Parsons has a nice mountain ranch
in Fresno County, 400 feetup in the air, yet
he raises corn, cucumberS, Chile peppers and
other choice vegetables. He has started an
orchard that promises to bear all the semi
tropical fruits.
In Del Norte County Mr.. Nickel and Nj
Tack are anxious TO be nominated and
elected County Assessor. If the latter gets
In the people will call his roll "a paper of
Tacks"; if his hated rival wins, his work
will be called "a roll of Nickels."
The Yuma Sentinel of Saturday says:
j. Is. Glover of the United States Quarter
masters Department will arrive here to-day
of the soldiers buried at Fort Yuma to the
Preside of California There are 100
bodies buried in the Fort Yuma Cemetery.
The Del NOrte Record says: A bone
shark, said to have been forty feet long.
was seen up the coast on Thursday by
the divers and crew who are locating the
wreck of the Brother jonathan. The shark
followed their boat for about 200 yards
One of the crew who has been in the
southern latitudes says that the shark was
the largest one OF that species he had ever
seen.
The Humboldt Times of Saturday says:
The whale captured by William Whaley at
Samoa on the Peninsula" proves TO be
right wEale-the only one of that species
cast ashore in this vicinity Its dimensions
are 10 feet in length by about 40 feet "bIst
measurement" 1t is estimated that the
body will produce fifty barrels of oil and
the head about forty gallons of sperm oil,
while the jaws will yield over thousand
pounds of that valuable commodity known
to commerce as whaleb0ne, which sells at
S. to So per pound.
The Phoenix Herald says: William Glib
son raised some good cotton on his place
one and a half miles east of town this year.
The staple is not very long, but the fiber is
of good quality. He only had n few bushes.
only enough to add one more to the grow
ing list of successful cotton-planting in
this valley. The specimen was exhibited at
o. l.. Gibbs Office, where an experienced
planter explained this morning that such
cotton was good for two and n half bales
or 200 pounds of lint cotton or 1900 pounds
of seed cotton per acre. At cents per
pound the lint was worth S53 and at 90
cents per hundred the cotton seed would
add at least 81, making an income of $40
per acre for this crop. Such figures beat
alfalfa at least.