The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-08
ALONG THE COAST.
interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
Briefly and CurtIy Told In This
Column.

The Nicaragua Canal would boom"
Pacific coast lumber interests.
From nine acres J. N. York har.
vested 742ls bushels Of barley at Wes-
ton, Oregon.
Freight rates from the Pacific Coast
to New York ON lumber and shingles
are SO cents.
Hop contracts at Geryais, Wash.
amount TO $50, 900 pounds, at prices
from to 10 cents a pound.
1t has been decided to extend the
Sierra Railway twenty miles from
jamestown, Cal, to the sugar pine
belt.
Fifty-seyen carloads OF sheep-oyer
5000 head-were shipped last week
from Porterville, Cal, To Griswold.
Iowa.
The San Diego Union says that to-
baeco raising in San Diego county.
CAL, is success. Some OF the plants
are feet high.
Mexico has twenty-one blast fur.
naces in operation, two in eourse of
construction, seven rolling mills and
two partly finished steel plants.
By Nov. lst., '9s, the Snooualmie
Falls Power Co. expects to have its
plant in operation and be furnishing
electric power in Seattle, Wash.
The first steamer of the California q
Oriental Steamship Co. will sail from
San Diego, CAL, for Japan and China.
via Honolulu, in December.
At Baker City, Oregon, the local
sales OF wool to date aggregate rs. 900
pounds, all OF which has been con.
signed to Eastern buyers. The price
realized was IL to l2IS cents per
pound.
Inc annual revenues under Spanish
rule in the Philippines amounted tn
about $40, 100000 The annual ex-
ports from the islands amount In
about $40, OOO, 900 and the imports to
$4,000, 900.
The first railway cars to be used in
Alaska were shipped to Skaguay last
week. They are to be used ON the
White Pass d Yukon Railroad which
is now in operation twelve miles from
Skaguay.
The Esquimalt, B. c., Marine Rail-
way, Ltd, have sold their entire
plant and ship building business to n
company which has been formed under
the name OF the British Columbia
Marine Railway Co., incorporated with
a capital of 5000, 900.
Oil from Coalinga, Fresno Co.. Cal
is sold at $l.30 per barrel, delivered in
San Francisco. The cost of transport
tatlon is AZ cents per barrel, leaving a
net return of SO cents per barrel to
the producers. Four wells Weld 540
barrels per day.
AT La Grande, Oregon, a $500. OOo
beet sugar factory is rapidly nearing
completion. Over 5000 cords of wool
have been piled upon the factory site
Over 100 men are at work ON the
buildings, and setting up machinery
"hen the factory starts it will give
employment to 100 persons.
The contract for the construction nj
the San Pedro, CAL, breakwater has
been signed by Heldmaer & Men The
contractors of Chicago, and Major
Charles Z. l.. B. Davis, United States
engineer, representing the Government
IN san Francisco. Work begins three
months from the date of signing.
The Kootenay Railway and Nav;o,.
ton Co., Limited, has been formed IN
into one system the Kaslo
q SLOGAN Railroad and the Interna.
tional Navigation and Trading Co, Lin.
tied, and to connect these directlv
with the Great Northern and Nortb.ro
raolhc Railroads by a line either
owned or controlled by the company,
The capital is 500, 900.
II. G. Petit of snohomisb. wosh
IS born trader. He reached Dawson
last fall 5000 in debt. He sold his
paddock to an old miner flor 500. and
going back bought all available nad.
locks of incoming Klondikers. which
he sold at Dawson for $50 each
FfOVs AnCii nc DtRHn SDApn a
ting in Klondike claims and is nav
back from London, where he sold his
claims for $200,0 900.
The report OF the Iron Mounts;,
Railway for the year ending Jnna
5oth, vs., is not invigorating from a
transportation point of view. IT,
Iron Mountain Railway runs from IRON
Mountain to Keswick, in Shasta Co
CAL, distance of seven miles. and i
operated almost entirely as an ore road
IN connection with the Iron Mountain
Mine. The operating expenses of the
road for the year are shown to be $66..
1888, and the total earnings. which
we're in the shape of freight receipts
amounted to $l7S.55, leaving a deficit
u $64, 939.9S. Still, in connection
With the smelling operations, the rail-
'oad is paying investment.
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