The morning call., 1891-11-14
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.
Ventura bean-growerS average this year
SO to $40 an acre net on their crops.
The Southern California Medical Society
VIII meet at Riverside December I'd and Sd.
Haywards has a new newspaper, the Hay
wards Herald. which starts out promisingly.
1t Is reported that Boston capitalists are
DESTROYS Of purchasing the Temescal tin
mines.
c. NJ. Blowers of Hanford, Tulare County.
claims to have netted S907 from 81 acres of
apricOts.
W. B. Hunt of Ventura County recently
ieiled an oak tree on his place that cut up
into twenty-eight cords of wood.
The Los Angeles County Supervisors re-
Gently ordered the dismissal of clerks whose
salaries amounted to 5000 month.
at the low figure of cents pound many
of the raisiu- growers OF California claim
profit In their crops of $3.50 an acre.
The Naphtha Launch Works, opposite Ia
coma, Wash. have been partially destroy ed
by the rising of the waters of the Puyallup
River.
Three hundred thousand ramie plants are
to be set out on the famous Newhall Ranch,
near Camulos, the scene of Helen Jack
sons novel, "Ramona."
Travel to the Yosemite has almost en-
tlrely suspended, though the Review says
an occasional party of tourists still venture
to brave the biting frosts.
Recent official reports show that the
southern Pacific Company is doing the
largest bus mess this year OF any year in its
history, and making larger net profits.
There is so great a demand for peach trees
this year in the Sacramento Valley that one
nurserymau has gone East for 200 900 trees,
and another has sent an order for 90, 900.
The recent fine weather has had the effect
of ripeDlng the second crop of grapes about
l.nS tI3tOS and the harVpst fhus
longed. Grapes are still hauling to the
winery there.
The San Diego Board of Education has
introduced the study of Spanish into the
public schools of that city, and recommends
it as the best modern language for the study
of the pupils.
George Shaw of Santa Ana is the pos
SCISSOR of relic of old California DAYS in
the shape of rusty. broken bayonet which
he recently found at the bottom of an old
wash between Elsinore and Riverside.
A number of cases of CHAMBERS are said to
have appeared recently about Tehachapi.
The disease is supposed to have been
brought in by sheepman, who, in coming
from Southern California, brought an in
fected mule with him.
Reports continue to come in of washouts
and heavy rains in the Northwest. Rail-
road travel and traffic is almost at a stand
still in the Puget Sound country, and in
Washington the Pacific Division is the only
line of the Northern Pacific that is not
blocked.
The most valuable invention that has ever
been gotten up, says the Pomona Progress
is 10-cent umbrella, made of willow twigs,
covered with tough paper and intended only
to lend IN case OF rain. 1t is valuable not
for any intrinsic merit, but for what it will
Save.to owners of silk umbrellas.
A San Bernardino paper says that the San
Antonio Electric Light and Power Company
offers SlXteeU-caUule IncannpSpant
lights for commercial purposes at the rate
OF 81 month on its o'clock circuit, or
81 so month on its II o'clock circuit At
this rate electricity is cheaper than petro-
leum for Illuminating purposes.
On the San Ysidro ranch, in Montecito
Santa Barbara County. is single Seeding
lemon tree. which was planted twenty-five
years ago, and of which careful record has
been kept for the past year. During the
past twelve months the tree has produced
thirty boxes of fruit. or q total weight in
fruit of fully one ton.
The Kern Californian SAYS: A fiye-year
old sllver-prune tree in H. A. Blodgets or
chard this year yielded fruit enough to make
200 pounds OF dried prunes. That is tosay
this tree has yielded S35 worth of prunes at
present wholesale rates. One hundred and
eight such trees to the acre. yielding at that
rate, would be almost too much income per
acre.
The Lpmoore Leader says: DR.. Butler
brought over from the coast Range sam
pie bottle OF the COalinga coal oil. 1t is
dark. cOtfee-colOred liquid and burns readi-
~ when match is applied. 1t was taken
from well near Coalinga coal mines. which
is now yielding about five barrels day. A
larger well is being sunk at this place by
steam machinery. There is no doubt it is
the genuine stuff.
The Salt Lake and Los Angeles papers
state that the money for railroad from
Salt Lake to Los Angeles via the southeast
ern part of Nevada has been raised, and
that the road is a sure thing. Ex-Mayor
Workman of Los Angeles. who spent a
month in Salt Lake looking to the further
ing of the project, has returned to the for
mer city, and says that S5000.OOO has been
raised for the road.