The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-09-10
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 il still far above the average height
at this season OF the year.
4 very large deposit OF kaolin has been
found in the vicinity OF The Dalles on
the Oregon side OF the Columbia.
The NJ. +. Church (South) proposes TO
inaugurate Mt 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 Puyalup,
WASH, has this year made and sold slO,-
600 worth OF tree sprayers, all OF them
having found sale in Oregon and Wash
ingIon.
A Mexican while prospecting in the
hills north of Castle Dome in Arizona
found a silver bar weighing lO4 pounds.
There is considerable speculation as to
how the bar got where II was found.
The payment OF the interest on the
S20O, 900 OF bonds issued in 1885 by Mar
icopa county, A. T., to the Maricopa and
Phoenix railway Is to be enjoined, and
the legality OF the bonds issue is to be
tested.
Up to 6 A. M. on Saturday morning
the Chino (San Bernardino county, Gal. }
beetsugar factory had turned out this
year 2,870, ,059 pounds OF sugar. Of this
quantity $4,000 pounds were from the
syrups of 1891, and the balance was from
this years beet crop-2, 3d., 900 pounds.
w. A. Merralls, a mining engineer ol
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 tc
rubber or gold in euch work. The solder
it is claimed, is also applicable to Ger
man silver.
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 an army OF buy
ers in the market IRON San Francisco
A majority of the pickers are Chinese
although number OF Nevada indiana
have already come to engage in the
work. While the redskins are there fol
the purpose OF working, they are moi
rushing pell NELL into the hop fields
A well-known grower says there is 6
prevailing opinion that the Indians anc
Chinese have this year pooled theil
issues and are going to put up the pric'
of picking to a point that almost meanl
ruination to the growers. They are nov
paving 30 cents to 81 per hundred
pounds to pickers, and this will prob
ably be increased at the rate of cents
per hundred.
The total assessed valuation OF al
railroads in Montana, as fixed by thu
State Board of Equalization, is $9,2S7,
532. representing twenty.nine railroad
with an aggregate mileage OF 1852. Th'
Northern Pacific main line has mile
age of 1925 and its rolling stock is val
ued at 81 ,635 per mile for assessmen
purposes its rails at 500 per mile; tn
roadbed $500 per mile and the roadwa
500 per mile. Its main line AM
branches have combined mileage @
1.274.76, valued at "a, 1881. The Grea
Northern and it's branches count ,05
miles, valued at $3,712,701. Rollin
stock on the latter road is assessed q
$50 per mile; rails, $1,700; roadbed
81. 700 and roadway $l00 per mile
There is an increase Of the assessabl
value of the railroads over 1891 OF 81
5O6, ,142, due to the construction OF tn
Pacific extension of the Great Northern