The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-08-27
NEWS NOTES.

The Southern Pacific Company is
discharging all the Chollos employed
on that road through Arizona and
filling their places with Indians.
81. M. Merriweather, president of the
Cooperative Mining & Milling Co.,
pany expects to put i'll new machinery
and will also add plant for treating
the concentrates from their own aud
other mills.
A gentleman representing some
French capital purchased the Cerro del
Orc mine, near Nogales, Ariz., for
$240, 900. M. Duchatnet, chief
engineer, will soon arrive and super
intend the erection of the machinery at
the mine
The citrus growers in Riverside
county, as well as those in other vicin-
titles, are much annoyed this summer
by the large quantities of green oranges
dropped from the trees. This occurs
every season, but the loss has been
unusually heavy this year and will seri-
ously affect the next orange crop.
The German press dwells ON the fact
that by the amalgamation of the three
last independent firms at Mannheim,
Bremen and New York the Standard
Oil Company controls the petroleum
market of Germany, and the "Staats-
burger Zeitung" calls upon the Govern
ment to take vigorous measures to pre-
vent sudden rise in prices.
The report is current that the South
ern Pacific will build its road up town,
and tear up its old track from town to
Polhemusville and beyond. The main
line will be through Anaheim on
Santa Ana street and south ON Olive, to
intersect the Santa Ana line mile or
two south of town. The Tustin line
viii be the through line to San Diego.
A San Jacinto camper ON returning
to Eden Springs found that his flour
cask had been opened and spilled over
the camp. Then no spied mountain
lion watching him from the brush,
and he made off. The beasts nose was
covered with flour paste, as after nos
ing in the flour it had been to the
spring.
AT the meeting of the Board of Trus-
tees, of Elsinore, the report of engineer
Tabor who was employed to make an
estimate of the cost of a water system
was read. For water system suffi-
Client reservoirs, pipe lines, boilers,
pump, engine, digging of trenches for
pipe, etc., in fact, having the plan
ready to deliver water to consumers,
10000. will be required.
A Kansas City, Mo-, dispatch says
that while running to fire heavy
hook and ladder truck ran into pile
OF rock that had been heaped in the
middle OF street and left without a
danger signal. The truck was over
turned and Andy Mcdonald, the driver,
was instantly killed, his neck being
broken, and Assistant James Beggs,
Truckman Bert Dill and Hoseman
William Clark were all painfully in
jured.
A message flashed over the wires to
Christiana, August 10, from Nansen,
the young arctic explorer, announcing
his return to civilization, after Jour-
ney OF three years and twenty days in
desolate Northern seas and amid the
vast ice-fields that border the Arctic
circle-a journey made in an effort to
reach that goal of explorers. the North
Pole. He did not accomplish the OBJ
lect OF his voyage-he failed to reach
the North Pole, but he touched a point
four degrees nearer the goal than any
other explorer has done, and he has
brought back the members of his ex-
petition in good health and sound of
limb.