The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-01
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Some important Happenings In
the South
THAT MAY PLEASE OUR READERS.
An Assortment of Newsy Events That
Occurred In our sIidst That Cannot
Fail to Interest.


over baseball and bicycling.
The walnut crop at Rivera is est.
mated at 10, 900 sacks against &c, 900 |
last year.
The Watsonville creamery has COM !
menced operations. 1t can handle &c.
600 pounds daily.
Arizona produced 125, $50 ounces of
gold last year, an increase of 30, 9O8
over the preceding year.
Fishing and hunting is fully in or.
der at Catalina and the sports of the
gun aud line are having great time.
By actual count there are 1877 der.
ricks and 13l oil wells in Summer.
land. The number of tanks is not re-
ported.
DIR. Bailey of Santa Ana has grown
King Solomon's lily II inches in
length; it is dark purple, in color
also in smell.
The two and one.half miles of road
to be built between Chino and Pomona
will be completed by the Southern Pa
citic at once.
The crop of lemons for this year
from Morena and Pacific Beach is
estimated at not less than twenty-five
carloads.
Charles Kerr, of San Jacino, who has
5000 acres in grain this year reports
that his wheat crop will be the best
harvested in years.
Long Beach has voted SIC, 900 bonds
to be expended in building a high
school. Only four citizens out of 1873
were against the issue.
Pasadena is somewhat excIted over
what is believed to be the work of fire
bugs. Several vacant houses have
been set ON fire of late.
Two large warehouses are being
erected at Helmet which will be leased
by Jules Kaufman and Sons of San
Jacinto for grain storage purposes.
The Gold Coin mine at Randsburg
has been closed by receiver and will
not open up again until the matter of
its ownership is decided in the courts
San Diego and Riverside counties
have formally and officially consented
to take action under the Pico law to
create the State of South California.
The Pomona Fruit Exchange stands
by the Southern California association
and will ship it's next winters crops
as in the past, through the association.
Twenty of the "schoolmarms of
Riverside county have been married OF
engaged during the past term, accord
ing to statements made by Superinten-
dent Hyatt.
A local granite company is shipping
building stone from the Santee quarry
| to San Francisco. 1t is an excellent
quality of granite and the demand 70,
it is extending
Riverside will have another park
the result of the patriotism of the
Englishmen of that town, who propose
to present the city with an improved
park to be called Victoria.
Many ella monsters have been
killed in the neighborhood of King.
man the past few weeks. 1t is sup.
posed the late rains have driven them
from their usual abode.
The Riverside Humane Society has
filed articles of Incorporation. The
directors are Sarah E. Molo, Pauline
Schermerhorn, ]. p Baumgartner, A.
G. Christen and S. H. Herrick.
Prospects for the raisin crop in E.
Cajon continue to be good. The ont
put of raisins this year will probably
be fifteen to twenty per cent greater
than either of the two past years.
Riverside and San Bernardino coun
ties are talking of another compromise
on the suit of the former against the
latter. This is about the tenth time
that such talk has been INDUCED in.
The lemon growers of Redlands ant
vicinity have incorporated under the
name of the Redlands Lemon Growers
Association. A packing and curing
house will probably be erected at once
At Mojave mining is fairly on the
boom. The great finds in the noun.
tains near that place have given an
impetus to mining in that section
never felt before in the history of that
part
A block at the corner of | an6
Eleventh streets, San Diego, has beer
selected as the site for the annual en-
campment of the Southern California
Veterans association, which meets il
August.
All the property of the San Diego
and Town Company, at National City,
was sold recently to the highest bid.
der. 1t was bought in by b. P. Cheney
and w. l.. Post, who represented a
Boston syndicate.
Santa Ana believes it is about to
have beet sugar factory. The story
is that the Clarke Brothers, who built
the Alamitos factory, desire to erect
another and look favorably upon Santa
Ana as location.
The British residents of Southern
California are endeavoring to raise a
fund Of 1000 to be used in founding
a house for waits in Los Angeles, the
work being done in honor of the
Queens Diamond Jubilee.
The expedition sent out from ThrooI
Polytechnic Institute. Pasadena. to ex.
plore Santa Barbara. San Clenente
and San Nicolas Islands, and gather
valuable relics, has returned home
safely with very good collection.
The Creamery association of San
Bernardino has declared the first divi-
dend since the establishment of the
enterprise. The dividend was per