The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-11
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Rolled Down to Suit Our Busy
Readers.

Redlands, Cal, proposes to have an
electric street railway system.
The San Francisco Mechanics Insti-
tute will hold no exposition this year.
Douglas county, Oregon, has 100
OF dried prunes ready for ship
ment.
The pumps at Coronado Springs,
CAL, are raising $50, 900 gallons Of
water daily.
P. l.. Oroutt OF Boston has bought
As 900 lbs. wool in eastern Oregon at
1915 cents.
Never before was the Pacific ocean
so full OF vessels as now. The war and
the Klondike did it.
Flagstaff, Arizona, has contracted
with &. w. Sturtevant, Jr., for water
works to cost $50, 900.
The new freight rate on rough pine
or redwood lumber from San Francisco
to New York is 80 cents.
From Astoria, Or, were shipped last
week twelve carloads of Columbia river
salmon to London, England.
The walnut crop of Orange county,
Cal, for this season amounts to 475
carloads and is valued at $500, 900.
Fresno, CAL, is shipping forty car.
loads OF melons daily to the trade GEN.
tiers OF California and the Northwest.
Twenty-Five carloads OF combined
harvesters were recently shipped from
Stockton, Cal, to Oregon and Washing
ton.
The Northern Pacific land depart
ment during the year ending June SO
sold GIG, 679 acres of land, OF which
500, 900 were in Washington.
One hundred and fifty horsepower
will be furnished by the Big Creek
Company, Santa Cruz, CAL, to operate
the machinery at the powder works.
Domestic and foreign shipments of
redwood lumber from Humboldt, Del
Norte and Mendocino counties, Cal.
last month were 1,055, S55 feet.
Fresno, CAL, papers say meadows
that have been boggy for years have
dried up and are dusty. The streams
and springs are nearly all dry"
The gross earnings of the Mexican
National Railway for the second week
OF July were $ll3,374.97, against 500.
4ll.53 for the same week last year
Estimates in California of the per
cent of different timber sawed are as
follows: Redwood so, yellow pine 20.
sugar pine Is, Douglas spruce 10 and
fir 5.
Onr Alaskan possessions, which we
acquired in 1867, extend 1900 miles
farther westward than the Hawaiian
Islands, which we have just acquired.
At Santa Cruz, CAL, w. p. Pevton
this week discovered process Tor the
condensation of ether that effects a saw
ing of $400 day at the powder works.
The S. +. & S. j. Valley road, Cal,
has let contracts for grading two miles
OF road on the extension west OF Stock
ton, between Stockton and the San Joa.
quin river.
The North Pacific Coast railroad.
operated in Marin and Sonoma conn.
ties, Cal, for the year ending Decem.
Der 81, 1897, earned 1856, 993. so; ex
penses, $245, SS5.73.
Salt Lake City, Utah, proposes to
at once float a $500, 900 issue Of
straight twenty-year gold refunding
per cent bonds with which to take mn
the 1888 issue of per cent bonds
Sept. /.
The whaling crews at Point Barrow,
Alaska, to whose relief an expedition
was sent from San Francisco ON the
revenue cutter Bear last fall are in
good condition and were at no time in
danger OF famine.
The seasons surplus wheat crop i'm
the Columbia river basin and William
cite valley is estimated at 1860, 900
tons. 1t is thought that at least a5, =.
OOO,O 900 bushels of grain will be ex-
ported through Portland this year.
In Los Angeles, CAL, placing the
electric, telegraph and telephone wires
underground has cost 5000, 900, and it
is estimated that before the work is
completed the outlay will reach three
quarters OF million dollars.
A default decree against the city Of
Spokane, WASH, for $l52, 900 in favor
of the Rhode Island Mortgage and Trust
Co. has been set aside by the Supreme
Court OF the State. The Judgment was
for street grading.
In the Sacramento, Cal. railroad
shops 1888 men are employed. Recent.
ly tine shops have turned out 100 cars
for hauling crude petroleum in South
ern California. Each car carries a
cylindrical iron tank which will hold
5000 gallons of oil.
A farmer at Peatlands. Orange
county, CAL, has harvested sixteen
tons OF good barley hay from three
and one-half acres OF land, and is now
planting the same ground with celery.
AND still, says the Los Angeles Times,
this is dry year.
A. A. Robinson, reelected president
OF the Mexican Central Railway Co.
at the annual meeting, says that the
exports of Mexico for 81 were valued
at STA, 900, 900, OF which the exports
of metals were worth $50, 900, 900,
and all products OF orchard, farm
and forest $s2, 900, 600.
Patriotism and Free Soup Kitchens.
Havana. Havana continues calm,