The herald., 1897-10-24
SAN B.ERNARDINo

SAN BERNARDlNO, Oct. 23.-(Regu-
lar Correspondence.) Baseball cranks
are jubilant in San Bernardino, after
reading the following from the manager
Of the -All-America baseball
teams. He writes: yours of October
5th to Baltimore forwarded to me. Will
say at the present writing I am unabls
to say just the time would suit us to
gva you a date, but feel We can come
to some arrangement for a game, at
least l am rot positive whether We
shall enter California by way of Los An
geles or Sacramento; as soon aS we
know what we want, and have laid our
plans, we will correspond with you
more fully. You can rest assured we
will give you a chance Your offer not
exactly on the lines we would make a
contract, but when I submit our offer
I feel confident you would accept same
as we have no trouble at any point in get
ting game. People are wild for the at
traction, and the business is simply tre-
mendouS." AS this is the only point in
this neighborhood, nearer than Los An
geles, where the visitors can play, their
coming will draw an immense crowd.
AS they are booked for Fresno for No
vember 25th, If they come the northern
route they will probably reach Los An
geles and here the following week. IT
they come by the southern route they
will be here week or two ahead of that
date This is Sunday town for base
ball. and the visitors are advised to play
here on that day of the week.
just as the building boom has struck
the city the price of lumber has been ad-
WI iah will o GO
stop all operations nearly, except where
the lumber was engaged before the
jump-up. There are. dozen residences
now in process Of construction, and
many more are planned.
The horticultural commissioners Of
this county refuse to take a hand in
looking after the Introduction of the
Mexican orange worm, unless the fruit
is shipped to some point in this county.
as the law will not allow them to inter-
rupt traffic going through the county,
and they have no desire to shake off even
one of the worms to find lodgment in
this section.
A letter has been received here from
r. E. Norton, who is located on the Little
Minook, in the gold fields of Alaska. H.
writes very hopefully Of the situation,
but states that one man has already
been frozen to death.
W. S Barnes, district attorney for
San Francisco, expects to make visit
to San Bernardino this coming week to
look after some mining interests he holds
in this neighborhood.
DR.. A. S. Russell made the trip in
from Hesperia down the mountain can
yon yesterday on a bicycle in safety and
quickly While not century run, 1t
was worth Century" to make 1t on d
bicycle.
A company has been formed, callei
The Rose Cyanide company for the pur-
pose of working over the tai,ings of ths
Rose mine in Holcomb valley, of which
there are from 10000 to 10000 tons thai
will go from IS to So per ton, and the mill
is turning out twenty tons per day The
gold in these tailings cannot be secured
by any other process than the cyanide
and this company will put in a plant
capable of handling fifty tons per day
and expect to have it running in six
weeks. The parties interested are W.
w. Burton, James H. Playter and Frank
M. Gallaher, of Santa Barbara, and Geo.
P Brown of De la Mars Mercur mines
| in Utah. They have abundant capital
for carrying on the works.
The County Anti-Saloon league will
hold a convent ton in this city next Sat-
urday at the Congregational church
that promises to be very interesting
The program Is long one, commencing
at $3.50 in the morning