The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-21
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A Summary Of Late Events That Are
Rolled Down TO Suit Our Basy
Readers.

Tickets are being sold from San
Francisco TO Chicago, via Portland, for
s2S net.
Columbia river Gamers expect to
put up 500, 900 cases (forty-eight lib.
tins) salmon this year.
At Ontario. Oregon, $4,000 worth of
wool has been shipped daily since sheep
shearing begun.
1t is announced that the salaries Of
engineers and firemen on the Northern
Pacific Railroad are advanced 10 per
cent.
The auditing department of the
Southern Pacific Company has issued
the financial report OF the fiscal year.
1t shows an increase Of 81, 900, 900 in
the profit Of last year.
San Francisco shows an increased as
sessment of $500, 26l ON personal
property and real estate in 1913, the
assessment Of last year being $347,-
954, $50 against 1851, 7S4, O94 for the
present year.
The past year the Highland, CAL,
Fruit Growers Association has handled
20, 743 boxes of oranges and 1905
boxes of lemons. The cost of packing
the oranges was $29,016; of the
lemons, 1896.
Churchill Bros. at Summerland,
Cal, have contracted TO deliver to II.
T. 0xnard $50 barrels of oil per month
for five years at 80 cents barrel, to
be used for fuel at the beet sugar fac
tory at Oxnard.
At Pasadena, CAL, oil is used for
fuel in burning brick. This is said to
be one of four brick factories in the
United States that have successfully
adopted this fuel The Pasadena fac
tory consumes sixty barrels daily.
The Philippine Islands has but one
railway, from Manila to Dagupin, 1913
miles. This railway has a single track
of steel rail, is well built, and the
bridges along the route are of iron or
stone of excellent construction.
During the eleven months ending
June 80, '9S, the United States mint
in San Francisco has coined in gold
$4S, 931 900, and in silver 1889, AL.
This is the largest year coinage in the
history of the mint.
A company has been formed for the
cultivation of ginger, which grows
wild in the States of Guerreo, Puebla
and Chiapas, Mexico. An acre will
produce 1000 pounds of the root at a
cost of or 3 cents pound put at the
seaport, and it is worth 20 cents in
New York.
Two trainloads of cattle are shipped
daily from Ontario, Oregon. 1t is
estimated that 400 trainloads are con-
tracted for shipment, representing -
900 carloads (l92, 900 head, worth on
the range $4,000,000 Most of the
stock comes from Harvey and Malheur
counties.
]. p. Morgan & Co. are the purchas-
ers OF the Spokane and Northern Rail-
road property, presumably for the
Northern Pacific. 1t is believed the
roads will be operated jointly by the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern.
The price paid for the property is said
to be IS, 1000, 900.
After Senator White and other OBJ
structionists had spoken their pieces,
U, S. Senate, by vote OF AZ to 21--2
to passed the resolution annexing
the Hawaiian Islands. 1t had already
passed the House. The President
signed the bill on the 18th, and the
Island Kingdom is part of the United
States. The Philippines come next.
1t is again asserted, this time in the
Los Angeles, CAL, Review, that the
California Eastern railroad is to be
extended from Marvel, San Bernardino
county, to Goode Springs, Nevada, a
distance of seventy miles. 1t is said
that the Campbells of Salt Lake, who
own valuable lead mines at Goode
Springs, have guaranteed an average
freight of 800 tons OF lead ore per week.
A meeting of the Auditing Board to
the Commissioner of Public Works was
held in Sacramento recently. The
board arranged Tor the use OF stone i'll
the place of sand on portion OF the
contemplated work on the Newtown
Shoals upon recommendation of the
Government engineers. Work on the
Newtown Shoals will be commenced
as soon as possible. The work on the
cut-outs on the San Joaquin river is
progressing.
The big timber raft that left Astoria,
Or, June 2, in tow Of the tugs Rescue
and Monarch broke in two somewhere
in latitude ~ north, longitude 1913. 40
west. The Monarch brought in 225O
NJ. feet of lumber; the Rescue is towing
about 2000 NJ. feet, and million feet
was lost. The raft was built on the
Columbia river by Inman, Paulson &
Co. for the d. H. Bib Lumber Co.
and was originally 376 feet long, 4S
feet broad and II feet deep. 1t wal
bolted together by ITO bolts, % feet
apart.