The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-17
ALONG THE COAST.
Interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
A Number OF miscellaneous JottlnKs
Briefly and Curtly Told in This
Column.

The Utah d Pacific road from Mil
ford, Utah, has finished seven miles
westward
A new railroad from PERKS to Lake
View, Cal, seven miles long, is to be
in operation December !.
The Sunset mine. near Cumberland,
Wash, has been bought by the Co.
operative Mining Syndicate, for $780,
900. 1t has four veins of bituminous
coal
The Pacific States Telephone Co. is
the new title of the consolidated COM
panies with wire extending from
Portland to San Diego, the longest in
the world.
English engineers are surveying for
railroad from Batopilas, Sonora,
Mexico. 1t is expected that the new
line will have it's terminus at Topolo-
bampo on the Gulf of California.
In the bids for extending the north
and south jetties at Yaquina Bay, Or,
Christie, Lowe 81 IIeyworth of Chicago
are the lowest bidders - $5l1 $40.
There were eight other bids, ranging
from 5000, 900 to $847, 6sS.
The proposed extensions of the Mex
lean Central railroad, the plans of
which are before the departm ent for
approval comprise line from Durango
to Guanacevi and one from Durango to
Guadalajara.
The buildings for the new naval sta
ton will be located on Yerba Buena
Island, San Francisco bay. They will
accommodate 300 apprentices. Con-
gress has appropriated $50, 900 for con-
struction.
The Atchison, Topeka Il Santa .Fe
trains will be running into San Fran
cisco solid from Chicago before next
September" is what +. p. Ripley,
president of the Santa Fe, said in San
Francisco recently.
Three carloads of lumber and ma
ehinery arrived at Johannesburg, Cal,
Tor the California Borax Co., that is
erecting works at Borax lake. They
propose to erect a plant capable of
turning out 100 tons OF refined borax
a month.
Oil developments at Summerland,
Gal, progress. The Beresford Il
Hickey new well yields eighteen bar
rels per day. Experimental operations
on one OF the Treadwell wharf wells re-
suited in flow of eight barrels in
iorty-four minutes.
The railroad surveying party in
southern Utah is supposed to be work
ing Tor the Southern Pacific, laying out
a new route to California. The Rio
Grande Western is thought to be in
accord with plan to connect with its
line between Richfield and Maryvale. !
Utah.
The Great Northern Railway has
500 men at work on the Cascade tun-
mel, in Washington, about evenly
divided between the two ends. The
progress made is about $500 feet. All
the work is in rock; nevertheless, the
rock has a tendency to fall and the
tunnel has to be timbered.
AT Vancouver, b. c., on the Goth.
was burned the Hastings sawmill; $50
men are out of employment The mill
was OF daily capacity of 800 Nj feet.
The machinery was all destroyed. as
well as the wharf and company's mill.
The owner is the Royal City Planning
Mill Co., and the loss is several hum
dred thousand dollars.
The Mexican government has granted
a concession for standard gauge rail
road, $50 kilometers in length, with
large subsidy, to the Inguaran Copper
Mining Co., in which the Paris Roths-
childs are interested. The railroad is
planned TO connect the mines with the
bay OF Iitnatanezs, on the Pacific
Coast, and will be an outlet for copper
production.
Inc Hawaiian sugar crop of 1889 is
estimated at 2SS, 900 tons; l80, 900 tons
70 san Francisco. There are thirty.
1lne sugar corporations on the islands.
With a combined capital stock of $2s.-
"a 800. Four of them, representing
us, 800, 900, are California properties;
california owns SO per cent of sugar
operations in Hawaii.
The September report of the Los {
angeles, CAL, oil producers trustees c
hows 2S, 236 barrels of oil sold BY
mem during that month, more than $
vice the quantity sold by them dur
ng the preceding month. The ouan. /
ity Is storage, owned by the trustees, !
vas at the close of that month IS. 2S6 !
'arreis. The average price received 4
! the wells during September was Y
".si cents per barrel. The trustees 9
stimate that the shortage for the /
resent month in the Los Angeles
eld will be 25, 900 barrels. 5
y. Gumnerson of Melbourne, Aus !
ralia, tells Puget Sound mill owners
hey must greatly improve their pro.
ess OF dressing lumber il they hope
compete with Scandinavian lumber a
len OF the Baltic sea for Australian ]
fade in finished ,amber products. /
australia now imports 20, 600, 900 feet il
washington fir annually, of which S
ielDourne uses one-thrd. All this S
owever, consists of rough lumber and 4
eavy timbers. Australias supply Of v
nished lumber is shipped from Nor 4
'ay and Sweden. o
Consul-General Goo6now writes n
'om Shanghai; 81 desire to suggest e
? chambers OF commerce and boards u
trade OF the United States the desir- Q
hility OF keeping ON file in American a
onsuiates in China, and especially in d
ms one, copies of the commercial p
ireetorles of their cities. ana often l
ppealed to for lists of firms handling p
pecihc lines. For example, g German
'eated at kyao-chau Bay asked for a