The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-08-13
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information from All
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
A Budget OF Miscellaneous JottlngS
Briefly and CURLY Told In this
Column.

so brisk that it is difficult to get as
many iron workers as are needed.
San Francisco and Portland are
working to get that japanese steamship
line in place of San Diego.
The Congregationalists of San Diego
are about to begin the erection of a
new $40, 900 church edifice.
The wire scoop in use on the Oak
land and Alameda electric street car
line has already saved three lives.
Excursionists from Oregon are being
deliberately entertained by citizens of
Eureka, who are making big bid for
Oregon trade.
The Southern Pacific has abandoned
the franchise it had from the old San
Joaquin g. Sierra Nevada Narrow
Guage railroad.
.kThe unemployed of Sab Francisco
have held meeting to denounce the
plan proposed by the Salvation Army
for aiding them.
A combine of the shingle manfactur-
ers of Humboldt county has been
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TO a money making basis.
Work has begun erecting poles and
running wires for the purpose of light
ing Cotton with electricity under con-
troll of the city authorities
1t has been decided to postpone the
proposed Carnival of the Golden Gate,
which was to have been held in the
fall. until next spring.
The Mokelumne river has broken it's
dam at Woodbridge, and the farmers in
the San joaquin will have difficulty
in irrigating their lands.
News has reached Pomona that Ed
ward M. Clark and Harry Sanford, for
mer residents of that town, have been
found dead in the Colorado desert.
The railroad mems railroad project
has been revived at San Diego, and it
is expected that the work of building
to Yuma will BIO begun within sixty
days.
The intense heat ON the Colorado and
Mojave deserts, as high as 1874 and 1873,
has dried up many springs depended
upon by prospectors, hundreds of whom
are now out.
A gold vein has been struck sixty
miles from San Diego, which, at a
depth of sixteen feet, yields ore worth
$20,0 ton. This vein is three and
one-half feet wide.
y Next month the San Francisco Art
Association will inaugurate evening
classes of drawing from the antique
and life at the opening of the Mark
Hopkins Institute of Art.
The bean men in some parts of the
Santa Maria valley are complaining
that the birds are taking their beans.
Some fields are nearly entirely de-
stroyed by these little pests.
The Washington State fish hatchery
has been located ON Baker river, few
miles above the point where it flows
into the Skagit. 1t is proposed to.get
the hatchery into operation at once.
The shoemakers of San Francisco are
organizing as home industry union.
They will cooperate with their en-
ployers and with the Manufacturers
and Producers Association of Califor-
mia.
The directors of the Orange County
Fair company have decided to hold the
fall race meet during October. The
races will begin ON Tuesday, October
9th and will continue to Saturday,
October 10th.
The Tacoma chamber of commerce
has been reorganized and the new COR
poration is called the Tacoma chamber
of commerce and board of trade. A
lumber produce, manufacturers mari
time and real estate exchange is added
The San Francisco Chamber of Com.
merce is urging the establishment of a
carrier pigeon service between that
city and the Farrallon islands, also
with the managers of the ocean steam
ship lines, with view of utilizing
them on outward-bound steamships.
Beginning October /, the treasury
department will enforce the law passed
by the last Congress compelling the
employment of only American citizens
as engineers Of vessels. Fully one
half OF the engineers sailing from the
ports Of this country are foreign born.
Nine-tenths Of the space of the fall
exposition at Mechanics Institute. San
Francisco, has already been awarded.
The electric exhibit will be of a novel
nature. Another new feature will be
a salmon hatchery, and an exhibition
of deep sea fishes on ice together with
an exhibition of net-making.
The work Of grading the site of the
Masonic Widows and Orphans Home.
year Decoto, began the other dav
t,-R. Stone, the contractor, with sew.
F--Feafns and twenty-five men. will
push the work rapidly. 1t is expected
that the corner stone can be laid earlv
In October. The building is to cost
$50. 900.
California pampas plumes are in de-
mand. Very few are to be had in San
Francisco and the price is advancing.
All this is due to the fact that the
Republican National Convention
adopted the plume as party emblem.
me largest grower of the plumes in
California is a woman. She writes to
Secretary Filcher of the State Board
OF Trade that she has orders for 8. OOO.-
uoo, which will about exhaust the WIS.,
ible supply in this State.
The building of sugar factory ON
the Alamitos ranch by the Bixby com.
pany u said to be assured. Contracts
nave already been let for the burning