The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A Summary of Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

The experiment of raising oysters in
Humboldt bay has proven very sue
cessful.
There is said to be much scale on
the citrus fruit trees in Los Angeles
county.
The deoiduous fruit crop Of Califor-
MIA will fall short this year. except in
peaches.
The stenographers of the police courts
in San Francisco get from $500 to
$500 a month.
Oscar T. Shuck has issued the first
volume of an Historical Abstract of
San Francisco.
In some par is Of Tulare county this
seasons sheep shearing has been given
entirely TO Indians AID Chinese.
Eleven thousand pounds of garden
seeds were shipped from San Jose to
eastern points during the past week.
Fresno county spectators estimate
that 1000 carloads of raisins will be
produced in that county this season.
+. E. Convey, the Stockton inventor,
has devised safety signal which e. p.
Huntington says is the best ever made.
A syndicate of English capitalists
has started to develop some gold min.
ing properties in San ,Iacinto district
Oil boring promises to absorb the
entire business frontage of the little
town of Summerland, Santa Barbara
county.
The Alameda county federation o.
trades protest against the employment
of San Francisco musicians in that
county.
The chemist of the San Francisco
Board of Health has discovered some
more fragrant authorizations of food
stuffs.
Eastern contractors offer to take
1895. 200 of the bonds of the Linda
Vista Irrigation District in San Diego
county.
The average number of patients at
the Stockton Insane Hospital in April
was 1912, at cost of 1873 cents per
capita per day.
Reports received from all fruit
growing sections of California are to
the effect that fruit prospects were
never better.
Fowler and Hurst have sold the ex-
tension of the Lucky Baldwin mine in
Harrison Gulch to +. II. Roberts of
Sacramento. for $50, 900
Last year the crop of pears in Suisun
valley yielded 5000 boxes. The crop
this year will probably be between
20, 900 and 80, 900 boxes.
The people of Stockton have been
enjoying strawberry war. Dealers
have been selling the fruit at from five
to seven baskets for 25 cents.
San Diego reports that Mexican
oranges imported there have been found
badly infected with worms aud a
spread of the disease Is feared.
AT Sequel paper mill plant for
the manufacture of manila paper is to
be established at a cost of $4,000.
The machinery has been ordered.
The Butte Reduction Works, at
Butte, Mont, owned by W, A. Clark,
have been almost destroyed by fire.
The damage is estimated at $4,000.
Henry Lund, the Swedish consul,
addressed the regents in the matter of
establishing chair at the university
for the teaching of Morse languages.
A special rate of $2.75 per ton on
crude oil has gone into effect between
Chino and Santa Barbara. This is in.
tended to encourage local consumption
Of oil.
The report of the grand lodge of In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows re.
Gently held in San Francisco, shows a
loss of 1864 members during the past
year, but an increase of $37, 900.
The Alvarado beet sugar factory in
county has contracts cover
ing 5000 acres of land, with 420 farm
ers. The factory management pays
out annually to farmers the sum of |
$4,000
The prevalent opinion is that the
grain crop will not amount to 20 per
sent above an average yield in the
State. Some dealers of Stockton think /
hat there will be heavy output from
;he State.
The State Board of Examiners is
considering resolution which shall 1
compel all State institutions to keep
heir expense within the appropriation. |
Il passed there will be much neces sity |
or economy.
The new laundry ordinance in Ala
media forbids any one sleeping in build |
ngs used for laundry purposes. This
PROVISION seems to be aimed at the !
jhinese, who sleep, eat and live in
heir laundries.
The Chamber of Commerce of San
francisco sent message to the house
4 representatives and the senate of
he United States urging that steps
'e taken to secure the appointment of
bipartisan commission to suggest
egislation involving finances and the
medium of the country.
Ex-Assemblyman V. 4. Bangs and
G. Z. Bangs of Modesto. have received
Vord from Kalamazoo, Mich, that by
he death of their stepfather, II snry
'rees, ON April SOth last, they have
een left one-fifth interest each in
Is estate. worth from 81 1000, 900 to
10000, 900. The gentlemen will go
last to look after their interests. Both
I the heirs are farmers near Modesto.
he estate consists of bank stocks,
onds, securities and town property in
For the purposes of enoampments of
he National Guard and Fourth of