The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-13
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A summary Of Late Events That Are
Rolled Down TO Suit Our Busy
Readers.

Grass Valley, Nevada Co., Cal,
figures on putting in 1870 sewer
system. IL needs IT,.
The Great Northern Express Co. has
taken hold OF the Oregon Railway g.
Navigation system.
A PriReville, Or, firm has shipped
73, 900 sheep TO Chicago from Baker
City, Or. valued at $3.50, 900.
1t is locally figured that 1000. 900
pounds Oregon ,and Washington wool
remain over from last years clip.
The Union Iron Works of San Fran
cisco has a further U. S. government
contract for three torpedo destroyers.
A new submarine telephone and tele-
graph cable, 400 feet i'm length, has
been laid across San Diego bay, Cal, at
a cost OF $4,000.
The Secretary of the Navy recon-.
mends for new works in the navy yard
at Mare Island. 1891 $50, and for
Puget Sound, 500, 500.
The earnings Of the Mexican Central
railway system for the second week of
September were S20S, G52-an increase
OF $9l37 over the same time in '97.
The Marysville, Cal, Democrat esti-
mates the amount aid for hop picking
this season at Wheatland, CAL, on a
basis of 90 cents per 100 pounds, at
I $53, 1920.
Oregon's hop crop for 1898 is esti-
mated to represent 1000, 900, the
yield being go, 900 bales, or ~, 900, 900
pounds. The prices quoted are from
8 to IL cents.
The Southern California citrus fruit
crop amounts to $4,000 carloads, OF
which II, 900 carloads were oranges
and the remainder lemons, represent
ing $4,000, 600
The United States government will
build coaling station at Mission Rock,
in San Francisco bay, where battle
ships can safely coal and take on sup.
plies.
Puget Sound lumbermen will build
another sea-going raft of the same size
as the two towed to San Francisco this
summer and will contain 1900 M. feet
lumber.
The $4,000 Los Angeles, CAL, 4
per cent twenty and one-half-year
average various bonds have been
awarded +. d. Shepard & Co., New
York, at 1926, an income basis of
1885 per cent.
Over 200 people are employed in the
cranberry marsh at Ilwaco, Wash,
picking. They are paid so cents per
box of sixty pounds. 1t will take six
weeks to harvest the crop.
H The gross earnings of the Mexican
National railway for the second week
in September are given at sos, $40. AZ
AN increase of $l2,4O6.92 over the
same period last year.
Locomotive engines were imported tc
Yokohama in 1897 to the value KoI
e3l6,4 While the United States
shared this trade with Great Britain,
the latter. hadsthe larger propoitio Of
it.
OF the dynamo electric machinery
imported to Yokohama in 1897 the
United States supplied nearly seven.
tenths of the total, Germany and Great
Britain sharing about equally in the
remainder.
The Manufacturers and Producers
Association of California has resolved
that in its opinion the connection OF
the United States with the Philippines
should be in such form as would pro.
tect our people and their industries.
Compared with previous reports,
California's prune crop shows a con.
siderable shortage. The yield early in
the season was estimated at 100, 900,
900 pounds, but now the estimate has
been cut down to 60, 600, 900 pounds.
The California and Oriental Steam.
ship Co. will operate line OF steamers
between San Diego and Hongkong,
using three vessels from 1900 to $500
tons and beginning December next.
The Santa Fe road has contract with
them for shipping freight.
4 Merchants of Canton, China, who dc
business with the United States, have
protested to the United States Consul
against the appointment of +. r. Will.
liams as Viee-Consul ON the ground
that they do not wish to have all their
invoices examined by competitor in
business.
The Philippine National Assembly
has decided to request the Americans
to recognize the independence OF the
islands; to establish a protectorate
over their internal affairs; to induce
the powers to recognize their independ.
ence, and to appoint joint commits
sion to arrange details to "reciprocate
the Americans services.
Dawson is to have electric lights this
winter. A full plant, including five
dynamos and apparatus for operating
twenty arc and 1000 incandescent
lamps, was taken north on the steamer
Dirigo. The outfit weighs thirty five
tons. There is a small outfit already
at Dawson, which was expected to be
operating 800 incandescent lamps by
September 18th. The charge for the
arc lamps will be $l4 day and for the
incandescents so cents.
The Pacific Coast Co. (successor TO
the Oregon Improvement Co. for the
seven months ended June Both shows
gross earnings $S,0Si 500, operating
expenses and taxes $3,S95, 145, net
income from operation 1886, 1856. These
results are attributed to the fact that
the reorganization committee and the
company have established close rela-
tions with the dominant transportation
interests in the Northwest, and to the