Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-11-19

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An Avalon correspondent writes that
during the fall and winter many i'm
portant improvements will be made be-
fore the summer season of '98 opens.
Additional shade trees to the number
of 5000 or 5000 sSe being set out in rows
2Ox4O feet az - These trees when
matured viii shade the rear of the
camps, while the old trees protect the
fronts of the tents from the sun.
Escondido citizens have held a meet
ing for the purpose of taking steps to-
ward the establishment of cannery in
that valley. A committee consisting OF
the following citizens was appointed to
investigate the feasibility of the plan !:
7. M. Hyne of San Marcus, DR.. l.. d.
Hillery of Poway, Ray Trussell OF San
pasoual, J. Frazer of Bear Valley and
Charles A. McDougall of Escondido.
Pasadena's latest acquisition in the
way of railroad is being constructed
between Hotel Green and the new an
mex. The road is built on solid steel
supports and is forty feet from the
ground. The cars will be run in an
Enclosed passage, crossing Raymond
avenue and then through the hotel
park, distance of about 100 yards.
The Journey will be made as noiselessly
as possible, and electricity will be the
motive power.
Track laying on the Westminster ex-
tension of the Santa Ana and Newport
railway was completed October II, the
northern terminus at present being on
the Smetlzer celery ranch, ten miles
distant from Newport Beach. The
9th was record breaker on the new
line. With force of thirty-four men
5000 feet of track were laid, the last rail
on the new line being laid at 5:25 pm.
The supervisors of San Diego county,
after two-weeks' bitter struggle of the
contesting parties, have fixed the rates
to be charged irrigators under the water
system of the San Diego Land and
Town company at $3.50 per acre per
wear. This is a substantial victory for
the ranchers, as the company recently
increased the rates to 81. The ranchers
ttcontended for the former rate, and it is
now granted. The case will be appealed
by the company.
The annual election of officers of Par
tiarchs Militant at Los Angles resulted
as follows: Grand Patriarch, o. W. Fri
wine, Sacramento; grand high priest,
J. w. Harris, San Francisco; grand
senior warden, Joseph Foster, San
Diego; grand scribe, W. H. L. Barnes.
San Francisco; grand treasurer, Geogre
w. Lemont, San Francisco; grand re-
preventative, J. T. Doran, P.M.P. Tu-
lare; grand trustees, H. S. VIM, PIG.
P, Marysville; F. A. Week, Pep,
Eureka; W. S. Potter, Pep, San
Francisco.
Eastern tourists are arriving in San
Diego much earlier this year than here
tofore., One day the latter part of last
week over sixty trunks and other pieces
of baggage arrived on one train, and all
the pieces, SO the transfer company re-
ports, belonged to people who had
never been here before. Other indica-
tions of the early travel that is setting
in is the manner in which vacant
houses and rooming quarters are being
taken up. There has been unusual
activity along this line the past two
weeks.
Glass sand has been discovered in
large quantities in Antelope Valley by
E. M. Hamilton OF East Los Angeles.
The sand is a very fine grade and
promises to be quite factor in the
manufacturing industries of Southern
California. A few months ago patry
of eastern mechanics sent an expert to
the coast to find glass deposits, if any
existed, and report upon the desirability
OF locating factory here. 1t was found
that the glass sand around this city was
of an inferior grade, and the scheme
was given up. This last discovery may
revive the scheme.
The Pasadena Country club has ac-
quired by gift six acres OF beautiful
land covered with live oaks, and COM
handing prehensive view of the
San Gabriel valley. This was given it
by George W. Patton of San Gabriel,
and the Sharon estate of San Francisco.
The golf links are three miles in extent
and lie over particularly beautiful
bit of country. Plans for the club house
are not complete. 1t is to be most
picturesquely located on bluff over
looking Wilson lake, and will be hand
some and complete in every particular.
There will be an assembly room, bill
lizard room dining room, dressing rooms
and lockers for men and women besides
wide verandas and a full and elaborate
kitchen and servants department.
The first of the large guns to defend
San Diego port from foreign foe has
arrived. The weapon is ten inch rife,
shipped direct from the Watervleit
arsenal, New York, and weighs $1,000