The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-02
ALONG THE COAST.
interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
A Number Of miscellaneous JOttiBgs
Briefly and CURLY Told in This
Column.

Briefly and CURLY Told in This
Column.
Pasadena citizens are taking active
measures TO establish the new college
for women.
The granite for the county jail at
Hanford will be furnished by the
quarry near Exeter.
BY the use of tsnnin extracted from
the canaigre root leather can be tanned
in ten or twelve hours.
Work has been begun upon the water
works system of Palo Alto. The water
supply will be obtained from wells.
F. e. Pedro of Alameda has leased
about 800 acres to be used in growing
asparagus and will endeavor to induce
osnnery to start there.
A popular vote will be taken in
Spokane, Wash, ON the question of a
loan of $500 for the installation Of
an electric-lightiDg plant to be owned
and operated by the city.
An expert cigar manufacturer
has carefully examined tho tobacco
grown in San Diego county from Ha-
vana tobacco seed and gives the opinion
that this tobacco is worth 35 cents a
pound.
Olive growing is to be one Of the in.
dustries of the Lucerne vale, in few
years. Already trees are being planted
quite extensively, and another season
will see large area of land cultivated
to the fruit.
There has been rich strike in the
Huachuca mountains, about twelve
miles from Wilcox, near the Fortuna
and Singed Cat mines, and four miles
from the Southern Pacific track. 1t il
reported to be the richest find evel
made in that part of the Territory, anC
miners are much excited over it.
The first number of the California
Coloni zation Call has appeared. 1t il
a publication devoted to the Salvation
Amry's plan of putting the unem
ployed upon farm colony. 1t is pub
lished by Major Winchell of the Saliva
ton Army and is headed with state
ment of the plan of Commander Booth
Tucker.
Miners in Wyoming are arranging
to call convention for the purpose o
devising ways and means of bringing
the various mineral industries of tn
State before the public. The ANAL
Mining Company has made an assign
ment of its mining property to tn
Sheriff for the benefit of its creditors
The debts amount to $21 ,305.47.
Santa Barbara is in the singula
position of. finding that she is destroy
ing her sea beach by hauling it away
The sand removed for filling lots
not replaced by the waves, and tn
prospect seems to be that If the practic
is continued the present handsom
beach will be reduced to a skeleton c
rocks.
Sacramento is again discussing he
water supply. The trustees propos
to continue using the river water, bu
to put put in filters. The filterin
plant will cost $25, 900, and the Sac
ramento Record Union, which want
water brought in from some othe
source, insists that the filters will nc
remove the dangers of disease due t
pollution of the river at Folsom.
The orange shipments from River
side last week amounted to 37,0S
boxes, one Of the heaviest for the sea
son. This brings the total for the sea
son up to $685. boxes, or 1878 car
loads of twenty tons EACH This
only thirty-five carloads short of tn
total for the season last year. TIL
navels are all cleaned up, but tn
seedlings of late budded varieties ar
likely to bring the seasons total u
to 2200 carloads.
During the last year the Nevad
County Narrow Gauge.railroad earne
$25, 841.85 in excess Of its expenses
and was enabled to pay off $4,000 c
its bonded indebtedness, notwithstand
ing the unusual loss of $40, 900 by fire
and as President Kidder suggests, tn
company has bright future before II
In his report he also states that tn
travel on the road will warrant
further reduction Iof fare about tn
first Of June or July.
A movement is ON foot among
number of business men of Pomona {
establish there an ice-making plant I
cost from $4,000 to $12, On
proposition Is to operate the ice plan
in connection with the San Antoni
Electric Power Company. The pric
to consumers last season was about 8
per ton in large quantities and 1 cen
per pound for small quantities. 1t
said ice can be manufactured Their
and sold with profit at considerabl
lower prices.
M. M. Baker, a linotype operator i
the office of the Post. Intelligencer, a
Seattle, Wash. has made a new world
record for eight hours machine com
position, setting in that time 1851
ems of solid nonpareil. The feat wa
performed during ordinary workin
hours, i'll composition on a book no,
under publication in the office, fror
manuscript copy, and with no pre-
liminary preparations. Baker, who
an extraordinary rapid operator, sim
ply made the announcement that h
would attempt to beat the record, an
requested that man be detailed {