The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-06
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENEAL INTEREST
4 Summary OF Late Events That ARE
Rolled Down to Suit Our busy
Readers.


The Southern Pacific has cut the sal
mon rate ont OF Portland to New Or
leans TO SO cents hundred.
The San Diego, CAL, Flume Co. is
daily furnishing 1000. 900 gallons OF
water from its thirty.seven wells.
The railroad TO Globe, Arizona, will
be in operation Nov. 10.
A numbering business is to be estab-
lished at Hood River, Oregon, and a
large mill will be built at the mouth
OF the river.
In Santiago canyon, twelve miles
from Santa Ana, CAL, Ignite coal is
being mined and meets with ready sale
at a. 90 per ton.
About one-half Of the 500, 900 asked
for deep drainage and mining ON the
Comstock, Nevada, lode has been
pledged by the Comstock mining com
panies.
Pendleton, Oregon, wants to nego-
tiate for the sale OF $4,000 worth Of
water bonds and 500, 900 of outstanding
city warrants at a rate not exceeding
8 per cent
Quicksilver receipts at San Francis
co in August were 2l49 TASKS, against
1879 TASKS for the same month last
year. The foreign exports were S75
TASKS this year, against 294 in 1897.
Near Biggs. CAL, $50 acres of hemp
this year yielded the growers from
$l20 to 5000 per acre. A mill OF large
capacity has been built and is crushing
and baling the product for market.
Near Butte, Mont, on the lOO0-ioot
level OF the Original mine, cave-in
killed d. Poletto; six floors were
crused in. About twenty-five men
we're working near Poletto, but escaped
injury.
When the Sunset Telephone and Tele-
graph Company completes its long
distance line joining in general sys-
tenn the States of California, Oregon,
Washington and Idaho, one can talk
direct from San Diego, CAL, to Boise
City, Idaho, distance OF l943 miles.
The Bellingham Bay, WASH, I'M
provement Company have decided to
pursue the same method in the recon.
struction OF their big mill that was
pursued when it was first built, viz.
erecting small mill to cut the lum.
Der that goes into the big one.
The steamer Charles Nelson plies be-
tween San Francisco and Seattle in OPP
position to the Pacific Coast Steamship
Co. The Cleveland and Lakme will
follow the Nelson. Passenger rates
on the new line have been cut to SIP
flrst-class and " steerage. Freight
rates have also been reduced.
Contracts for material and supplies
for the system OF wharves, docks and
elevators now under construction by
the Great Northern Ry. Co., at Seattle, I,
wash, and aggregating in value mp
wards OF 500, 900, were let this week.
A lumber contract for 5000, 900 feet
has been let to three mills on Puget
Sound.
The Louisiana purchase made Amer
lea steamboat nation the acquisi-
tlon oil Texas and California made
America railway and telegraph ma
tion, and incidentally, the events of
1898 must bring America to the front
IN the only line in which she is back.
ward and feeble, i. e., marine ship
ping, to the great profit of the west
half of America.
The San Francisco 81 North Pacific
X. X. Co., which operates the line to
ukiah, CAL, has leased it's entire road.
plant and rolling stock for twenty
years to the California Northwestern
ny. Go. The consideration is the full
net revenue OF the road. The Califor.
ma Northwestern is new railway in
corporation, to build connecting line
from the S. +. q N. P. G. through
Mendoicino county, Cal.
The Japan-American CONNIE rcial
journal, paper published in Tokyo,
states that two items OF commercial in.
teiligence have OF late greatly i'm
pressed the Japanese. One is that :
american iron manufacturers are able ,
TO undersell the English market, and
the other that the contract for the
Dnliding and equipment of the new
electric railways of London has been /
given TO Americans as the leaders az /
the world in the new industry.
The Oregon Short Line from Salt I
Lake City, Utah, to the Nevada State !
boundary will DO built by A. w. Nc.
Cune OF Salt Lake and w. L. Hoee of {
Anaconda. The new road, financed nv 8
the Oregon Short Line, will be known {
~ The Utah q Pacific. The Union
Pacific graded the roadway nearly the {
entire distance ten years ago. The
oregon Short Line will furnish rails
and equipment, in payment for which
1t will take the new coinpanys' bonds.
The annual report OF the Northern
Pacific Railway Company, successors
10 the old Northern Pacific Railroad
Company, shows gross earnings of
$23, 697 ,716 and net revenue OF $l2.-
6S4 S4S. The remarkable thing seems
TO be that the operating expenses
should fall below so per cent OF the
gross earnings. The additions and inn
pfovements charged up to income and
radnctions IN values OF property and
taxes are set down at 81 ,494, 500, leay-
ing . clean net revenue Of eli, 977, Os5.
A man returned from an extensive
trip through Mexico says: ..The I
greatest CRY heard was lack OF work /
men. Railroad contractors and farm q
ars are worrying about the scarcity Of /
labor. largely due to the opening up OF q
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