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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03
Increasing Raisin Crops.

In 1895 the raisin product was $780,
600 pounds; in 1894, 1903, 900. 600
pounds; in 1895, 1000, 900 pounds
and in 1896, $4,000, 900 pounds, saws
r. G. Allen of National City, Cal.
Last years crop is larger than the crop
of 1896, but it is not yet known inst
what it amounts to.
Good prices and good business pre-.
vailed in the raisin industry in 1899
but the panic of 1898 lowered prices.
Prices in the last two years have fallen
off third.
Packing is much improved now by
stemming machines that will stem
seven or eight tons per day and almost
all ralslns are now marketed in fifty-
pound boxes without paper.
The latest innovation is the seedless
rsisin and dried in hot draft to clear
away dust. Ten million pounds were
so treated this year.
The cost of production varies with
the conditions. About 2 cents per
pound in the sweat box is the cost of
growing, picking and packing, divided
evenly between the first and the last
two items. If every pound could be
sold for 3 cents by November 1 the
grower could get good wages and good
interest on his investment. Many,
however, tried to speculate and so lost
money. The demand for seedless
ralslns is fast becoming so great that
nearly all the crop will soon be seeded
before sent to market.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03
Guarding Against Frost.


When cold spell continues over a
period OF several days, it has been a
question in the minds Of orchad.
lists when to fire up, says a oorrcs.
pondent to the Los Angeles Her.
aid. The juice of moderately-ripe
nave or seeding oranges is 10 per
cent sugar, which will not CONCEAL
above % degrees. Tests show that "a
degrees for a period of two hours pro-
duced no injury, and why? Let us
take an orange from the tree, break the
peel into pieces and drop into a vessel
of water. The film of floating oil will
answer the question.
When the mercury reaches 90 de-
grees 1t is time to start the fires, unless
the time be as late as o'clock a. m,
in which case it will be unnecessary;
but we must look we'll to the depres-
sions, If there be any in the orchard.
1t may be necessary to begin sooner
there.
1t has been suggested that elbow
ers, or mixers, driven by gasoline
SA6AAOo Va ClCOtIlO UOlOIst WOulQ 90
the work in better manner than tres,
and we believe that trial of that kind
will be made. For the present, how
ever, we must depend on the little
baskets Of coal. The Copley basket is
made of wire; holds about ten pounds of
coal, and is supported by iron rods
driven into the ground, thus giving a
free draft. A little kindling in one
side facilitates the lighting. This
basket, or the one made of hoop-iron,
may be had for about 10 cents each.
We are met upon every hand with
The statement that You cannot warm
all oUt Of DOORS" Ths fact that the
small amount of heat radiating from
Fbt little fires was not of itself suffi-
lent to influence such large area of
'old air, was the faotor that brought
'bout these investigations, which give
nope that in Southern California the
range crops of the future may be amp
y protected.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03
Raisin Culture.

paper on ''Rsisin Culture" was
recently read by r. G. Allen of Ma.
tlonal City, before the California State
University Farmers Club Institute. at
Los Angeles. He said that VINEYARDS
did better in valleys than on hillsides
and was Of the opinion that raisin.
growers seemed to be entering upon n
third stage of its existence-that of
prosperity. The first stage was one of
enthusiasm, when every body went into
the business. Result, over-production.
Then followed the second stage. dis.
couragement, and many gavs nm the
culture. The third stage is prosperity
and the present one. Ten wears 400
there were $4,000 acres in Muscat
vines; now there were about half that
acreage. The Ansheim disease had
killed off some of the vineyards and
owners OF oyhers had converted their,
into lemon orchards.
In San Diego county the acreage had
remained about the same, say 5000
acres. Ralsins, as a rule, grow best ON
blilsldes. They should b. planted in
rows. After fifteen years of exner;.
ence have found it best to set them
about twelve feet by eight feet apar
and run the rows from east to west to
get the SUR.
Twelve feet gives plenty of room for
wagon road when needed.
In pruning the vines should be left
completely of the ground, and it il
best to head them high.
Opinions differ as to the value of
summer pruning. but find it pays
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03
SAVING UP ALoc.
How Planks Are Cut In a Great weut.
ern SawmiII.


ern SawmiII.
w. $. Harwood contributes ssTha
Story Of Pine Board" to the st. Mich
olas. After telling Of the cutting down
Of the tree, and its progress from the
forest to the mill, Mr. Harwood says:
Up from the yellowish- depths
of the slOw-moving river, flowing SO
steadily on its way TO the sea, comes a
huge, dark-brown thing with a shining,
dripping coat. 1t is our log, entering
upon its last stage. 1t passes at once
up a long incline called the "slit"-a
trench Of wood about eight inches deep
and two feet wide at the top, so hol-
/ lowed out that the largest log will lie
I in it securely as it is being drawn up
The incline by the stout chains with
which the slit is equipped. Projecting
pieces of steel on this chain serve to
keep the log steady, its great weight
causing 1t 10 sink upon these pieces of
steel, which are like sharp teeth. A
workman, standing at the side of the
slit, by means of lever throws up two
powerful steel-pointed arms which lift
The logs out of the slit and throw them
upon tables, from which they are roll
ed down to the carriage which leads
TO the saws. When the log reaches the
carriage it is thrown upon the frame
work by the "nigger'-a long, ratchet
ed timber or piece of steel. This frame
work is like a section of an ordinary
hat-car running ON a regular railroad
cfa
carriage, and at signal from the head
sawyer, who directs the cutting of the
log, regulate the thickness of the plank
or board by the levers of the carriage.
When the log has been adjusted 1t
rapidly advances to the saw, and in a
very few seconds its water-soaked
sides have been tripmed by the sharp
teeth, The carriage flies back to the
starting place with the swiftness of the
wind; and it is enough to make one
shudder to see it go. You expect every
instant that one of the men will be
thrown off and terribly injured They
learn to balance themselves, however.
though there are frequent accidents.
One instant of inattention on the part
of the head sawyer, who regulates the
speed of the carriage by his lever.
would send the carriage flying back to
the end of the mill with tremendous
force, and probably kill both of the
men. One of the men on the carriage.
called the setter" fixes the width of
the board to be sawed, on signal from
the head sawyer; the other man is the
second sawyer.
As | stood one day In one Of these
mills, watching the men flying forth
and back on the narrow carriage, and
almost expecting that one or both of
them would be thrown off in the swift
ness of their fight, l took out my watch
and timed them and found that they
travelled on an average, on this little
railroad not more than twenty feet
long, one hundred and sixty-eight thou
sand feet day, or about thirty-one
miles.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03

ern Pacific system will be fumigated
&C the end Of each trip. DR.. Gardner
the mead surgeon Of the railroad, at
San Francisco. has completed arrange
ments for clearing the cars of the dis
ease germs that might lodge in them
from carrying disease infected psssen-
gers, and the work Of famigatiDg them
will be iDsugurated in few days.
Adele Carr. the I0-year-old daughter
Of Thomas Carr, who is visiting the
grandparents, Mr.and Mrs. Mark Carr,
at Penns Grove, near Petaluma, found
powder flask and threw it into the
kitchen stove. The flask contained
half pound OF powder, and the ex-
plosion wrecked the stove, broke all
the windows in the house, and set fire
TO the girls clothing. The little girls
injuries may prove fatal.
The primary election law, which
Judge Gray Of Tulare county has de-
clared constitutional, will come up be-
fore the State Supreme Court in bank
on February 21st next. The action
was commenced by the Representatives
Of the Peoples Party in Tulare county
to restrain the Board Of Supervisors
from proceeding as directed by the
law, urging that IL would entail the
illegal expenditure Of the public funds.
Hume Bros. d Hume, of San Fran
cisco, salmon packers. have sued the
Alaska Packers Association to recover
500, 900 damages. The plaintiff COM
pany claims that it has gone to great
expense in preparing the business of
catching and canning salmon along the
shores of Alaska, and complains that
the Alaska Packers Association has
enclosed the best fishing grounds with
lines and buoys, thus preventing others
from fishing. The defendants, it is
alleged. also hired armed men to see
that no one but the company's EN-.
ployes fished on the grounds.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03
FOR THE FARMERS.
Some Interesting News for the
RuraIist
SPOKEN OF IN THIS COLUMN.
= Few Sensible Hints to Suit the Busy
ACCOMMODATIONS That May
Benefit our Readers.
Peach Trees and Buds.


Prof. DC. Mechan of Philadelphia
says that III .oh Of the unsuccessfu al
growing of peaches comes from poor
soil. We have long known that the
! peach tree was gross feeder, and
unless supplied with nutriment each
year failed to produce good fruit.
There is another point recently
brought out, which may be of much
value to our peach growers, says George
g. Swan of FL Cajon, Cal. 1t is re.
tarding the buds during the warm
spells of our cool weather.
In my "a years experience here there
have been three OF four seasons in which
we had very few peaches. A warm
spell in Decemb or January followed
by a cold snap did the business. Trees
IN cool situations and on the north side
OF bill did not fare so badly as those
exposed to full sunshine.
The warm weather starts the buds.
a cold spell coming suddenly ohills and
retards the sap, blighting buds and
bearing wood. The wood dies back
and has to be renewed. Some years
ago when Mr.. ShiDn, the peach expert
OF the state at that time, was here. |
asked him if the trees were affected in
his section. He said they were.
Lately the Missouri station has made
some very interesting experiments.
Years ago, on the other side of the
Rockies, my mother, when DESTROYS of
prolonging the ourrant season, spread
quilt over some of the bushes, and
these bushes had fruit long after that
upon other bushes was dried up. Think
OF covering Mr.. Culbertson's peach
orchard this wayl 1t would take all
the quilts in California. Now tn
Missouri station shows that tr -
sprayed with whitewash remain prao.
tlcally dormant till April, while on
those not sprayed the buds sw lied in
February and March. Eighty rer cent
OF the whitened buds passed through
safely, while only 30 per cent of the
unwhltened ones escaped winter kill.
ing. Thermometers covered with the
color OF the peach W ia registered on
sunny days from ~ to 20 degrees
more than those covered with the
whitewash. The whitewash was
parts water, | skin milk, enough fresh
'laked lime to make thick wash
sprayed through bucket spray pumn
-once IN Dec -mber and three times
'1ter' at cost of 10 cents per tree.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03
NJ king Comhs.

The cheapest combs are made from
hoofs, but are subjected to costly and
ingenious processes of manufactures
circular saw cuts the horns In assortsd
sizes, the tips being used for the han.
dies Of knives and umbrellas. Very
nigh degrees of temperature are noe.
essary as the hoofs and horns have 70
De heated to make the fiber soft. Whom
the pieces are cut they are placed ha-
tween screwblocks and pressed aat
Acids are frequently used for sta,n,nc
an imitation of turquoise-shell. and this
cannot be detected by casual obsarv.
er The rough surfaces of the comb oro
by wheels covered by wa,rus
skin. Polishing is the last process
which Is done by wheels covered with
leather of different degrees of softnass
-Elgin Courant.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03
ambassador White Not Treated Ms
courteously

courteOusly.
Washington. - Embassador White
cabled the following to the Secretary
Of State:
The statement in the morning
papers that Mrs. White and myself
have been treated discourteously is
absolutely and entirely without found. .
alton. The Emperor and all Others
have been most kind to us. have
never needed to call the attention of
any person to any slight whatever
The notice regarding my reception was
Identical with that always issued after
the presentation of an ambassador
from any great power to the Emperor y
The cablegram has reference To nub.
llshed reports that Embassador and
MRS. White had been ignored and not
given the attention and courtesy dne
his rank by high officials of the Cor.
man court, and that it had been neces.
sary to admonish the offending officials
by notice in the court circular ~
Germany. 1t appears from the cable.
grams that the SQUIRT circulars notice
which gave rise to the published 70.
port. is simply belated notice. sncb
as IS always issued after presentst;on
OF an ambassador to the Emperor
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.

Senator Quay has introduced reso
luton appropriating S25, 900 for an in,
vestigaton of the Seminole lynching.
The inter partisan statehood conven.
ton at Kingdsher, o. T., adopted a
resolution petitioning Congress for the
admission Of Oklahoma as State.
Hoar introduced in the Senate an
amendment making the terms Of offic
OF President. Vice. President and Con.
gressmen expire April 3Oth instead Of
March 4th.
A joint resolution has been passed
by both Houses of Congress instructing
the Geological Survey to publish 49,.
900 copies Of map of Alaska, with
information for gold miners.
The charges that the Government is
annually robbed Of from six to eight
million dollars in payment 10 railroad
companies for transportation of mails
is soon to be the subject OF Congress
sional inquiry.
Lewis Of Washington offered an
amendment that Spain be notified of
the Withdrawal of the Consul q eneral
from Cuba and the breaking off of
diplomatic relations. The speaker
ruled THE also out of order.
The United States Senate has passed
the new immigration bill by vote of
40 to 2S. 1t makes it necessary for an
Immigrant to be able to read or to
write before landing in the country.
The following bills have been intro.
duced in the House: BY Mr.. Brom-
we'll of Ohio-To make all employees
on all public engineering works, in
trusted to the engineering department.
except in employ Of contractors. an. |
pointive by the officer of the corps in
,harge. BY MIR. Lewis of Washington
TO establish the eight.hour law in
vi States and Territories. By Mr..
Sauerhering of MISUNDERSTANDING.
ng the false branding of goods. BY
dr. Sullivan of Mississippi-Requir-
ng railroads to honor tickets which
AVE been transferred. BY Mr.. Ma.
'uire of California (by request)-To
'rescribe the manner of holding cleo.
ions for Representatives in Congress.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03
When TO Fumigate,

A correspondent of Ontario, Cal.
desires to know how late citrus trees
can be fumigated for the black scale
with reasonable certainty of success.
says A. l.Cook. If scales are bad on
the trees l should spray or fumigate
even up to March if | could not do il
earlier. 1t were better to fumipate in
October, November or December. as
the younger the scale the more suscep-
tible they are to the spray or gas. Yet.
when the scale have taken possession
their work is so serious that "better
late than ever" is very wise motto To
adopt 1t is true, also, that until
some natural enemy like the Chalcid
flies or the Rhizobius come to our
relief, we shall have to fumiyate at
least once in three years to secure the
best results. Even il October and
November, there are frequently soma
scales so mature that they survive
fumigation, and SO the work can
never be done once for all even though
we were SO wise that every orcbardist
would fight the scale. There are two
changes that vii! probably be made in
future in the methods of fumigation.
One, to use more cyanide; the other.
to leave the tents on longer. The lat.
ter could be done with 10 added ex.
peuse and it would make the treatment
immensely more effective. A gentle.
man who has had extended experience.
says that the time the tents can remain
on the trees may be doubled and the
amount of cyanide doubled with no
harm to the orchards. Another saws
oy dong this the red and probably the
purple scale can be wholly destroyed.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03
LATEST NEWS NOTES

The salary of Prince Hohenlohe, the
Imperial Chancellor of Germany, has
been increased to 100, 900 marks.
The capital of Amboyna, one of the
Moluoca Islands, has been destroyed
by an earthquake. Fifty persons were
killed and 200 injured.
The Society of German Sugar Pro.
ducers, at special meeting in Berlin,
dopted a resolution declaring the
abolition of bounties would only be 40.
ceptable provided all countries abol-
ished direct and indirect bounties. A
further resolution was adopted calling
on the Government to give the sugar
producers year notice.
Two thoughtless boys caused great
mischief by applying match to a
spray of coal oil issuing from a small
aperture in the Standard Oil Com
pany's pipe line from Sisterville and
Warrington to Morgsntown, in West
Virginia. Fifty acres Of forest and
held were soon ablsze. Two small
bridges and two barges were burned.
A IL the oil in ten miles of six inch
pipe, nearly 2,000 barrels, was con-
sumed.
Professor Nordenskjold, the Arctic
explorer, has informed the Swedish
Academy of Science at Stockholm.
Sweden, that the Foreign Office has
received intelligence that several per-
sons worthy of credenoe saw Professor
Andree's balloon early in August in
British Columbia seven miles north of
Quesnelle Lake. in the district of
Cariboo. Tie Professor regards the
news as being of sufficient Importance
to call for closer Investigation.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03

The ground should be well soaked in
the spring, but receive no water after
June.
After ten years investigation no one
can explain the mysterious Anaheim
disease, which damaged thousands of
acres.
Mildew is foe Of the raisin vine
here, ana cut worms have done it great
damage.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03
One of the Fortuaa.

nave you heard from your son who
ago?' lnonths
Yes; got a telegram from him 20,
terday." nun yes
Has he had any lucky"
flne. He's been sick In Seattle and
,ne doctor has ordered him +, cow
back home" eone
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03
Washington F,a,

The Woman's Cooperative Society.
OF New Whatcom. Wash. is energeti-
cally engaged in booming the flax in.
dustry. A gentleman is building a
twlne factory at Silver Beach, the
Lake Whatcom suburb of New What.
com, land the spinning machinery is be.
ing built, and will be finished and set
up ready for operation by the a5th of
this month. The manufacture of
twins and rope will commence to SIM.
ply the fishermen of Puget Sound. A
large quantity of Whatoom county
max fiber is on hand for the purpose
already retted and scutched.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03

John Eads, accused of completely in
the swindliDg operations in the city of
Mexico, in which Francke of Chicago
was victimized to the amount of $780,
oOo, has been arrested at Tlantltopal-
pam. State Of Vera Cruz. and four de-
tectives have gone to bring him back.
Other arrests are impending
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03
Llttle Hope for the rsrritorie..

Cnicago.-A special to the Tribune
from Washington says: The fate of
the Territories now pressing forward
Tor Statehood already has been praoti-
cally settled and, unless the unexpected
happens. there will be no Territorial
Legislation this session.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03

Many of the striking engineers have
resumed work in the Clyde yards at
Glasgow, Scotland. and general re-
sumption is expected. This indicates
the end of the great strike which has
lasted SO many months and has cost so
much money.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03

Kate Forsyth, the Actress, Not Dead.
A cablegram has been received in
this city from Kate Forsyth, the ao.
tress, announcing the death of her
mother. Mrs. Kate Forsyth, in Lon
don. The similarity of the names led
to the annou ncement at first that the
actress had died.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03

The fortnightly mail service between
Auckland, New Zealand, and San
Francisco. has at last been ARRANGED
and will be inaugurated on April Isl.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03

lows are now MIXED by machinery
ou. the milk is watered by hand. as
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-20
CHAPTER III.

We went on again at a rapid trot, and
ehortly after sunset we were mounting
the rugged trail leading to the pass.
While we were stumbling up the stony
track guiding our pauting horses, here
beneath lofty, overhanging wall and
there around the brink of an unfathom-
able abyss, an uproar of shouts, cries
and rifle shots burst out. apparently
few hundred yards beyond.
Forgetting all prudence, dug spurs
into my horse and rode recklessly up the
path, followed by my troopers as reck.
less as myself
In two minutes we came to an open
plateau broadly illuminated by the
newly risen moon where, amid the
fash of firearms, the CLINT Of waving
steel and yells which would have made
music for q carnival of fiends, a score of
dark figures were struggling and whirl-
ing to and fro around small group.
one or two of whom wore the light, hut-
tering garb Of women.
saw one of the shapes on horseback
bend down and drag one of the females
to his pommel. Then another figure on
foot darted toward him. There was a
double stream of red fire, and the shape
on horseback Threw up par OF naked
brown arms and pitched headforemost
to the earth. The figure on foot assisted
the female to the ground, then clasping
both hands before his face sank in a
heap at her feet.
The whole of this picture impressed
itself upon my brain in a succession Of
lightning flashes. Then 1 was in the
midst of the melee. / have no clear
memory of what came after. l recall
only a confused plunging of Infatuated
horses, o wheeling and slashing of sa-
bers, the reports OF carbines and revolv-
ers, q trooper rearing his charge to
make down blow here, another bend.
Ing far out Of the saddle to deliver