Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-09-06
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Payment Of Interest on Railroad
Bonds to be Enjoined.
THE NATIONAL GUARD OF NEVADA.
A Solder Applicable to Aluminium and
German Silver Discovered by
a Mining Engineer.

Yuma Is to have an experimental
farm.
Heavy rains are falling in Southern
Arizona.
Interior counties OF Nevada are very
enthusiastic for the new railroad to Salt
Lake.
The Colorado river is falling slowly,
but is still far above the average height
ut this season OF the year.
A very large deposit OF kaolin has been
found In the vicinity OF The Dalles on
the Oregon side OF the Columbia.
The NJ. 4. Church South proposes to
inaugurate ut Phoenix an Arizona dis
trict high school. The buildings will
cost 100000.
All the saloons at Wardner, Idaho,
have been closed. Miners have been
holding secret meetings OF the union in
some OF them.
The National Guard OF Nevada has
gone into camp for the first time in its
history at Treadway's Meadow with
nearly 400 In the field.
One manufacturing plant at Pnyallup,
WASH, has this year made and sold no.
600 worth OF tree eprayere, all OF them
having found sale In Oregon and Wash
ing,on.
A Mexican while prospecting in the
hills north OF Castle Dome in Arizona
found silver bar weighing lO4 pounds
There Ia considerable speculation as TO
how the bar got where II was found.
The payment OF the interest on the
$20D. 900 OF bonds issned In 1885 by Mar.
icopa county, A. T., to the Marlcopa and
Phoenix railway Is to be enjoined, and
the legality Of the bonds issue ia TO be
tested.
Miraculous cures are reported by Santa
Teresa at Nogalea, A. I. Teresa was or
dered from Mexico several months ago.
owing to her sympathy with the Yaqu
Indians and her supposed disloyalty to
Mexico.
A curious fish has been found on the
beach at Port Oxford, Or. 1t has legs
and toes, tail and spiked nose, and
no signs Of scaes OF nnv kind. II is the
first marine wonder OF the season in that
locality.
The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency
reports twelve failures IN the Pacific
Coast States aud Territories for the past
week, a. compared with thirteen for the
previous week and twelve for the cor
responding period OF 1891.
A colony OF some fifty families OF
Scandinsvians from the vicinity OF Spo-
kane and the Palonse country, Wash ;,
are looking for location in Lone county,
Or, where they can get several thousand
acres Of land in body.
Up to 6 A. NJ. on Saturday morning
the Chino tsan Bernardino county, Cal J
beet-sugar factory had turned out this
year 2,870, 900 pounds OF sugar. OF this
quantity $4,000 pounds were from the
Hyrups OF 1891, and the balance WAS from
this years beet crop-2, 352, 900 pounds.
w. A. Merralls, a mining engineer of
Los Angeles, claims to have discovered
a solder for aluminium, process which
has in vain been sought for during the
past thirty years. The invention will
be OF great value in dentistry, alumni
ium being admittedly far superior to
Rubber or gold in such work. The solder,
1t is claimed, is also applicable to Ger
man silver.
The Southern Pacific Company at San
Pedro is endeavoring to shut of the
Terry landing from the boat that is reg
ularly rowed TO Terminal island, place
popular on Sundays and holidays, and
the citizens propose to condemn a right
OF way Tor street across the Southern
Pacific's track to the waters edge, 80
that they can reach the ferry. There is
some bitterness over the matter.
man found i'll in shanty on the
outskirts OF Sacramento was taken to
the hospital, and when stripped for a
bath each leg was found encircled with
q garter made Of canvas, doubled and
the edges sewed together. The garters
had apparently not been off his legs for
many months, II for years. Each con-
tanned fifteen $40 gold pieces, making
500 IN all. lie also had $Sin his pockets,
lie had every appearance OF being
tramp.
The sloop ldler, which sailed from
Seattle last June with party of pros.
pectora for Alaska, has returned after an
unsuccessful cruise. The party consists
oil George Fisher, August Anderson. M.
l.. johnson and Sam Sanner. They
prospected on Sumter and Sheen Islands
and found many good quartz lodges
All the valuable claims have been 10.
Gated.
Hop picking has commenced in Cali
fornia ON SOME OF the down-river ranches
and the crop is said to be very salts
factory. There is quite al army of buy
ers in the market from San Francisco
A majority Of the pickers are Chinese
although number OF Nevada Indians
have Already come TO engage in the
work. While the redskins are there Tor
the purpose oil working, they are not
rushing pell NELL into the hop fields.
A weli-known grower says there is a
prevailing opinion that the Indians and
Chinese have this year pooled their
issues and are going to put up the pric-
OF picking TO point that almost means
ruination TO the growers. They are now
paying 30 cents to 81 per hundred
pounds to pickers, and this will prob
ably be increased at the rate Of 8 cents
per hundred.
The total assessed valuation of ali
railroads in Montana, as fix-d nv the
State Board OF Equalization, Ia IS, 2s3.
6S2, representing twenty nine railrosds
with an aggregate mileage OF 1852, The
Northern Pacific mar line has mile. |
age oil 1925 and its rolling stock is val. |
ued at 81 ,635 per mile for assessment |
purposes its rails at 800 per mile; the |
rosdbed 500 per mile and the roadway |
800 per mile. Its main line and
branches have combined mileage o
1,274.76, valued at "a, IFS, 1891. The Great |
Northern and its branches count .057
miles, valued at $3,7l2,70l Rolling
stock on the latter road is assessed AZ
1910 per mile; rails, Sl,700; roadbed
81, 700 and roadway 800 per mile
There Is an increase OF the assessable
value OF the railroads over 1891 of 81
506. 142. due to the construction of the
Pacific extension Of the Great Northern,