The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-10
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Brief Notes From Pacific states and Terri

Brief Notes From Pacific states and Terri
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San Diego County had S76,2i9 on hand
October 1st.
Riverside expects shortly to have free
postal delivery.
Cotton will soon receive her water supply
from eight artesan wells.
There is talk of warehouse for wine
being erected at Los GatoS.
A th0usand-acre almond orchard is to be
planted In Antelope Valley.
Evanston, Wyo., was treated to quite a
heavy snow-storm the other day.
Oakland spends about 100000 year for
charitable and benevolent purposes.
The weekly payroll of the Chino beet
sugar factory is from $500 to $1,000.
The Eugene Oregon iUe works are now
able to supply the city with an abundance
OF the homemade article.
John Houser of Azusa has one acre of
young orange trees that this season went
3lS boxes (frst crop aud sold for ssh 80.
Orchardists about Grass Valley and Ne
vada City are becoming alarmed at the
spreading OF the San jose scale in their
vicinity.
Now that Parnell is dead the country pa
pers are talking about 'the uncrowned king"
again. 1t is time that phrase had its peri
0dic airing.
A fish, packing establishment is being
erected at ROseyille. The products pre-
pared for market will be sardines, anchovies
aud barracuda, and also smoked and cured
halibut
Some enterprising people in San Diego
are building up profitable business On the
sale OF wld-fiower seed. for which there is
an extensive demand from tourists and in
the East.
A jont-stock company is talked off in
Suffer aud Yaba counties to buy the old fair
grounds in Marysvllle and improve the
same, and make it thing OF beauty instead
OF the eye-sore that it nOwis.
Otto Gage, Il clerk in Sonoma hotel, re-
ceiyed a blow in the nose the other day,
which made that organ bleed profusely
Physicians have been unable to check the
hemorrhage, and Gage is slowly dying.
The Goldeudale (Wash.) Sentinel says su-
gar cane can he grown In that section with
out difficulty. GOldendale Is by no means
the only section Of the State where The peo-
pie have no difficulty in raising Cain.
Joe Shannon of Tacoma went to bed
drunk the other night, and his wife, procur-
ing pistol, fred it at him and then took
their child and fed. giving herself up. 1t
was found, however, that she had not hit
him.
There Is great excitement at Elsinore and
the section Is believed by some to be on the
verge of another great mining boom. Rich
Lodges OF sand carbonates are being discOy-
cred, bearing huge quantities of silver and
lead, and gold quartz assaylng $50 ton.
The new railroad from Fresno to the
mountains Is progressing rapidly, and Tues
day the first excursion was run over the
completed portion. The road was found in
excellent condition. The grading force has
reached the San Joaquin River, twenty
three miles from Fresno.
married couple named Craig went to
Eugene, Oregon, about month ago. They
were we'll satisfied with the town and talked
of going into business One evening
shortly after arriving, however, Mr.. Craig
arose from bed about 10 o'clock and taking
the money belonging to his wife about
$1,000 disappeared, and has not been heard
from since. Mrs. Craig has now returned
to her home in the East.
company owning a 100-acre ranch in
Death Valley, relates the Virginia City
Chronicle, conveys water seven miles
through iron pipes, and then have barely
enough to irrigate with. The land produces
eight crops of alfalfa each year; pretty good
for a desert, and a whole sermon on the
value of water. If Nevada had opportuni-
ties of irrigation even to such limited ex-
tent as this Death Valley ranch, her soil,
which is generous. would be a source of con-
tinual income to the thrifty rancher.