The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-15
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information Gathered
Around The Coast
ITEMS Of GENERAL INTEREST.
A summary Of Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

Wheat buyers are paying Sl.oo Tor
the new crop at Visalia.
Ii is proposed to establish LABOR
exchange store in Reedley.
It is announced that California |
man will start an ostrich farm at Salt
Lake.
The Southern Pacific is making ex-
tensive improvements ON its tracks and
other property in Reno.
Work has commenced upon the grad
ing for the new steel bridge across
the Tuolumne River, near Modesto.
Near Martinez is an establishment
at which California claret is made out
of sulphuric acid and last years pulp.
The total value of property in Los
Angeles aggregates SOS, 900, CUBAN
increase of about SO, 900, 900 over last
year.
The California Commission for the
Insane met recently in San Francisco.
An effort is being made to reduce the
expenses $40, 900 month.
Tickets for the west bound trip from
Chicago to San Francisco for the
Christian Endeavor Convention in
the latter season are only $40.
The Free Gold Mining Company,
with a principal Office at Genoa, Doug
las county, New, has been incorpo-
rated. Capital stock $40, O00,0O
Many of the farmers of Sonoma
county are experimenting with small
acreage of tobacco this year. Some
have planted as much as five acres.
To increase the efficiency of the
navy officials are in session planning
for maneuvering squadron in the
North Atlantic, beginning the LIST OF
August.
Los Angeles has about $1,000 bar
rels of oil in reserve. Dealers ask 81
barrel for it. As consumers object
to the price there is a prospect of a
glutted oil market.
The Southern Pacific depot at
Clovis, Fresno county, has been de-
stroyed by fire. No other property was
destroyed, the cars standing near by
being removed to place of safety.
During the first half of June there
were shipped from Huntington and
Ontario 600 carloads of cattle. OF
about 10, 900 head. This, at an aver.
age of $50 head, would mean $500,
900.
Wells. Fargo & Co. have estab'
lished a number of new offices on the
line Of the Valley Railway. The new
offices are located at Escalon, Elm.
wood, Geneva, LIE Grand, Sharon an6
Lankershim.
A company of capitalists has begun
work ON railroad in Alaska. The
railway will be thirty-six miles long
and of the narrow guage style. but by
its use the route to the gold fields will
be considerably shortened.
an anti-saloon league will be organ
lied in Hanford. One of the chief CD
iects of this organizations is to secure
by legislative enactment the privileg,
of voting on the question of prohibit
ing saloons every two years.
1t is said that the Chino sugar fac
tory will spend this year $685. 900 TO
crude petroleum fuel; will take lao,
900 tons of beets, extracting .herefron
IS, 900 tons of sugar worth. 81 365, 900
and pay the farmers about $3.50, 00c.
Work has been commenced on tn
valley Road bridge across the st
John river north of Visalia. 1t viii
be two spans, 10 feet each, with owe
,00O feet of trestle approaches. Tn
bridge will be completed July 25th
The crop report from Clovis in Ii
Gates that wheat in that vicinity vii
come up fully to estimates heretofor
made At Reedley it will run littl
above the estimate. Near Caruther
it will run somewhat below owing t
the rank growth of alkali weed.
The bark Nicholas Thayer has al
rived at San Francisco from Loring
Alaska, with 2s,220 cases of came
salmon. She is the first Of the salmo
feet to arrive and has come dow
much sooner than was expected Th
Thayer brings news that the run {
salmon has been very fine and ths
big catches have been made.
During the past few months numbe
of Eastern cattle buyers have bee
purchasing cattle in she Willamett
valley, and they have all been cor
veyed out Of the country. Eugene bs
been dubbed az sae cattle center {
Western Oregon, and the Eugen
banks have handled the money ths
purchased at least 10. 300 head Of on'
two. three and four-year-old cattle
The price spaid TO the grower wa
from 80 to $50 per head.
The California Beet Sugar Stat
and Land Company Is preparing
handle the beet pulp from the suga
factory, which will amount to owe
80, 900 tons, and is utilized by tbei
for fattening cattle. They have ha
twenty teams at work several day
cleaning three of their silos, each {
which is 1900 feet long and forty fe'
wide.
The present outlook is that the on
put of cured prunes in Oregon an
Washington will be between 80 an
100 per cent greater in the aggregat
than it was two years ago. AS nes
as could be ascertained the shipment
of cured prunes from the two State
that year amounted to about 4 500, 90
pounds. This year the shipment
will probably be- in The aggregate b,
tween 7,000,0 900 and 10000, 90
pounds.
The San Francisco and North Ps