Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-09-09
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.

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,
out is stiil lar above the average height
at 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 M. E. Church (South) proposes to
lnaugnrate at 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 Puyallup,
WASH, has this year made and sold s10,-
600 worth OF tree eprayers, all OF them
having found sale in Oregon and Wash
ington.
A Mexican while prospecting in the
hills north of Castle Dome in Arizona
found silver bar weighing 104 pounds
There is considerable speculation as to
how the bar got where it was found.
The payment OF the interest on the
$200,000 of bonds issued in 1885 by Mar
icopa county, A. T., to the Maricopa and
Phoenix railway is to be enioined. and
the legality Of the bonds issue is to be
tested.
Up to 6 A. N. on Saturday morning
the Chino (San Bernardino county, Cal.
beet-sugar factory had turned out this
year 2,870, ,A59 pounds OF sugar. OF this
quantity $4,000 pounds were from the
syfups Of 1891, and the balance was from
this years beet CROP, So, ,059 pounds.
w. A. Merralls, mining engineer of
Los Angeles, claims to have discovered
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,
it is claimed, is also applicable to Ger
man silver.
The Southern Pacific Company at San
Pedro is endeavoring to shut off the
ferry landing from the boat that is reg
ularly rowed to Terminal Island, a place
popular on Sundays and holidays, and
the citizens propose to condemn right
OF way for street across the Southern
Pacific's track to the waters edge, so
that they can reach the ferry. There is
some bitterness over the matter.
A 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
garter made of canvas, doubled and
the edges sewed together. The garters
had apparently not been off his legs for
many months, If for years. Each con-
tanned fifteen $40 gold pieces, making
$500 in all. He also had $S in his pockets.
He had every appearance of being a
| tramp.
The sloop Idler, which sailed from
Seattle last June with party of pros
| pectors for Alaska, has returned after an
unsuccessful cruise. The party consists
of George Fisher, August Anderson, M.
l.. Johnson and Sam Sanner. They
prospected on Sumter and Sheep Islands
and found many good quartz lodges.
All the valuable claims have been To-
Gated.
Hop picking has commenced in Cali
fornia on some of the dewn-river ranches.
and the crop is said to be very salts
| factory. There is quite an 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 for
the purpose of working, they are not
rushing pell nell into the hop fields.
A well-known grower says there is
prevailing opinion that the Indians and
Chinese have this year pooled their
Issues and are going to put up the price
of picking to a point that almost means
ruination to the growers. They are now
paying 80 cents to 81 per hundred
pounds to pickers, and this will prob
ably be increased at the rate of C nts
per hundred.
The total assessed valuation of all
railroads in Montana, as fixed by the
State Board of Equalization, is s9,2S7,-
532, representing twenty-nine railroads
with an aggregate mileage OF 1852. The
Northern Pacific main line has mile
age OF 1925 and its rolling stock is val
ued at $l,6S5 per mile for assessment
purposes; its rails at 500 per mile; the
roadbed 500 per mile and the roadway
500 per mile. Its main line and
branches have a combined mileage OF
| l,274,76, valued at s4, l7S,331 The Great
Northern and its branches count l,057
miles, valued at $S,7l2,70l. Rolling
stock on the latter road is assessed at
$50 per mile; rails, $1.700; roadbed,
$1,700 and roadway 500 per mile.
There is an increase OF the asseseabIe