The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-08
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

The inhabitants of Downey, who
keep poultry, are having time with
chicken thieves.
The Police Commissioners Of Los
Angeles are making a crusade against
the nickel-in-the-slot machines.
. The young oranges have been drop
ping from the trees at Redlands, and
there will be only moderate crop.
Redlands has graduated this year
the largest high school class in the
history OF that place. The class con-
tanned 10 members.
The Mission fathers of Santa Bar
bara are putting a second story on
their building to give greater school
accommodations.
The people OF Riverside county are
engaged in warm discussion over the
proposed purchase of building for q
county courthouse.
Santa Monica is agitating for a
sugar factory. There is large amount
OF land contiguous to that city avail
able for beet growing.
Fifty white sien are employed dig
ging canaigre near the TETON ranch,
Kern county, and seventy Chinese will
also be put to work there.
A Santa Barbara man who has dis
posed of 500 head of horses within
the past few months asserts that
the horse market is all right. 4
Large ureosote works are soon to De
erected at Williams. The works will
be one Of the most powerful and
complete in the United States.
4 Postmaster Matthews Of Los An.
geles objects to the practice Of mer-
chants in accepting postage stamps in
payment from country customers.
Fire destroyed the barn, hay and
some machinery ON the ranch Of the
Indian Industrial School, near Tucson,
few days ago, causing loss Of about
$500.
According to the school census just
completed, Chino has .olimbed up tC
second place among the towns Of Sar
Bernardino county in point of popu
lation.
Riverside has had another big In
dian row, stabbing affair, etc., ali
coming from the prohibition of whisky
sold in that burg by holes in the wall
drug stores, etc.
A black bass caught at San Diego {
few days ago weighed 246h pounds
and when hung up with its tail JUS
touching the floor it was considerably
taller than a six.foot man.
Santa Ana people say the Southern
Pacific Company proposes building {
ranch to their celery fields. Next yea
the celery growers expect to have be
tween 900 and 800 carloadssof the pro
duct to go East.
The observation car which thu
Santa Fe Company has been running
on the run from this uity to Lo
Angeles via Orange, has been takei
off and will not be replaced on tn
run before fall.
A Corona sweet potato weighing
thirteen pounds is exhibited at River
side. This was one of a pair of swee
potatoes grown on the boulevard nea
the Hotel Temesoal, the pair of whicl
weighed twenty EIGHT pounds.
The Highland Fruitgrowers' asso
citation has footed up the returns from
oranges for the year and finds then
very satisfactory. Twenty-seven thou
sand seven hundred boxes Of orange
and twenty hundred and fift,
boxes of lemons were handled.
The advent of the canaigre industr,
has revolutionized Rialto and its en-
virons. There are 500 men at work a
present planting out and gathering tn
tanning root, and this number will b.
doubled in the fall. About 5000 acre
have already been planted out.
J. A. Scott, superintendent of tn
Puente Oil Company's refinery a
Chino, reports an immense demand
for his gasolines and distillate. TIL
gasoline he is making is superior t,
the Standards and the engine distil
late is constantly reaching out int,
new markets.
An oil man makes the statemen
that 2 900, 900 barrels of oil will b.
the output for Southern California thi
year. We shall pass New York an,
Indiana in the rank Of petroleum pro
ducing States, and may crowd Yves
Virginia for the third place in few
years.
1t is reported that A. Levy purpose
chartering l000-ton vessel to load a
Hueneme for Europe when the whar
is extended. With the fine facilitie
for loading at that place, large YES
sci would receive very quick dispatch
besides saving a large amount Ct 'lool
freight" charges.
The extensive sulphur deposits neal
San Felipe landing, in the gulf of Cal
ifornia, concession for which was OBJ
tanned few months ago by Anthem,
Godbe of Ensenada, are to be worked
by the Mexican Sulphur Company, al
American syndicate composed chiefly
of Philadelphia capitalists.
Several years ago a swarm OF bees
settled in the attic of the residence OF
George Armstrong, at the Coronado
vineyard. They swarmed, and with
the succeeding swarms have remained
there ever since, and all the honey
Armstrong has had is what melts and
drips through the ceiling on hot days.
There is grewsome story that
comes from Anaheim about the viola.
tion Of the grave Of young man
named Virgil Smith, who was buried
at that place twenty years ago. His
relatives recently went to have the
remains taken up and removed to
Downey, but on opening the grave il
was found to be empty. The body