The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-11
COAST ITEMS.

Matters of Interest From Pacific States
and Territories.
Mono Lake is now frozen over its entire
surface.
The Monterey Cypress celebrated its third
anniversary by enlarging.
Under It's new management the San Diego
Sun Will be Republican paper.
The net profit of the water department of
Portland, Oregon, for 1890 was SIC, 963 80.
The railroad has reduced the freight tariff
on hay from Nevada to San Francisco So a
ton.
A bill is to be introduced in the Legis-
!ature at an early date to dissolve the Colusa
irrigation district.
g. i. Barr, editor of the Cloverdale Re-
vellle, has just patented a mailing-machiue
for newspaper offices.
A blue gum tree at Whittier has grown
forty-hve feet in one year, according to an
affidavit signed by r. a Lowe.
Three carloads of sugar-beet seed were
received at the Watsonvlle refinery last
week The seed came first from Germany
for distribution to the farmers.
A boy named Charles Aiken was fatally
Injured last Tuesday at Enterprise, Oregon.
While at work near barn a gust of wind
loosened board which fell on the bows
head.
A company of local capitalists of Grass
Valley have formed a company, with 500, 900
place. The ore Will be tested by the Pollok
process, a Scotch invention.
The San Bernardino Times-Index saws
the Bug Commissioners up that way have
discovered red scale in Ii number of places,
together with variety OF other scale, and
that they are now fumigating the trees with
prussic acid
The Ukiah Dispatch and Democrat SAYS:
The shipment of lumber from Mendocino
ana SonOma Counties 10 Southern and for
elgn ports Tor the SIX months ending Deceni-
Der 81, 1890, were as follows: Foreign
ports, 2'9Oo, 422 feet; southern ports, As, 709,-
1914 feet
The Sacramento Record Union of jan
uary 10Th was printed from stereotype plates
on Its new Goss perfecting press for the first
time. The Issue was handsome typograph-
ically, az well as valuable historically, for il
gave sketch of all the newspapers that
started in that city from April IS, 1919, to
date.
The Watsonville Pajaronian says: San
Benlto County is having coal boom, and
several locations of coal veins have been
made recently by parties who propose to
develop them. San Benito County is rich in
coal, and If the railroad WAS extended from
Tres Pinos to Huron the coal veins of that
county would soon be developed.
New Whatcom has forty-three saloons,
says the Bellingham Bay Express. Count
ing rent, license, etc.. it costs at least $1,000
to run each one of them. This requires a
profit on the liquor sold of S129, coo each
year. Most of the saloon-keepers are max
Ing little money. consequently the profits
on the liquor sold are at least S200, 200 per
year. and the money paid for it is between
100000 and $5O0,0O0. That is enough to
buy a corner lot in Anacortes
The Nevada State Journal says: A very
effective and cheap method of clearing
grease-WOod has been devised by Ed Clark
He uses two iron rails twenty feet long, one
about four feet behind the other, and
chained together at each end. These are
drawn by eight horses, and cut swath
through the brush twenty feet wide, and in
the soft. mellow ground the rails pull all of
the brush up by tie roots. Mr.. Clark, bv
this method, clears twenty-five acres day
of brush land that would cost at least So per
acre to clear with grubbing hoes by the old
method.