The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-27
ALONG THE COAST.
Interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
4 Number Of Miscellaneous JOttings
Briefly and CURLY Told In This
Column


lighting the city for $4,000 year.
At Stockton a harvester is being
built that will cut fifty -foot swath.
The dropping of prunes continues
and is causing considerable complaint.
A movement is on foot to establish
two cooperative beet.sugar factories
in Orange county.
Experiments of tobacco culture in
San Diego county are promising better
than during any previous year.
The fertilization at Lime Point, on
the north side of tine Golden Gate, will
hereafter be known as Fort Baker.
The San Francisco refinery has sent
out a notice of another advance of one
eighth of a cent a pound ON refined
sugar.
A dispatch from Stockton says three
dredgers have been put to work re-
claiming 10000 acres of land on Union
island.
More rain is needed in Orange
county to insure a crop of barley. The
bee men will also suffer a heavy crop
without rain.
When passenger trains are put on
between Stockton and Hanford. it is
expected to make the trip between the
two places in four hours.
The Santa Rosa Wooden Mills are
again in operation. The capacity is
over 100 pairs of blankets daily. EN-
ployment is given to many people
there.
A woman suffrage bill was rejected
by the British Columbia Legislature by
majority Of three on the 9th inst
This is the smallest majority ever cast
against such measure.
Chairman Edgar of the Santa Ana
Chamber of Commerce has appointed
committee to further investigate the
matter of establishing a sugar beet
factory in or near that city,
The latest in rose carnivals is the
Santa Rosa idea of having a carnival
engineered and run entirely by little
tots yet in their teens. There will be a
procession, coronation and all the usual
i fiummery.
Lively times are dawniDg in Guerne.
vile. Thirty five men are now en-.
/ ployed at the quicksilver mines, an6
the Sonoma Lumber Companys mill
will employ over hundred men al
the mill and logging camp,
Three cent fares for workingmer
have been inaugurated in Cincinnati
on the Main street electric line. Thu
reduced fare is accepted from all pas
sengers between 3 and in the morn
ing, and and in the evening.
The gathering of gravel in Nap
creek for the San Francisco market j
now facilitated by the use of dredger
which scoops up the material and load
it into the schooners, enabling them t
load at high tide as we'll as at low.
AT the annual meeting of stockhold
ers of the Alabama Mill at San Mi
guel five directors were reelected an,
S. g. Pugh and c. A. Miller were new
ly elected. The mill shows profit O
"a, 200 for the year, So. 600 over liabil
tiles.
An injunction has been brough
against the California Cream Tarta
Works, of San Jose, seeking to clos
them. The proceedings are in tn
name of the Attorney e eneral. 1t
claimed that the smell from the work
ruins the homes of those living near.
A railroad project to connect Sa
Luis bay and the upper San Joaqui
valley was discussed at the recent an
nual three days joint convention G
the Farmers Alliance of Montere
and San Luis Obispo counties, he'll
in San Miguel. Such a project woul
cost $3,000,000 and would hav
branches to Fresno, Visalia and Bakers
field.
Poles are on the ground and an eleC
trio line will soon be built connectin
the Garlick power plant at Cople
with their National mine and mill 8
Old Diggings, distance of three an
half miles. This will make tn
third mining plant in that district I
be run by electric power from Copley
} which is on the line of railroad, tie
miles from Redding.
The well-established firm of Wi
liams, Brown q Co.. wholesale shil
ping and commission merchants,
San Francisco, is in financial difficu
, ties. Its liabilities are said to be abor
5000, 900, but its assets are believe
to be sufficient to meet most of il
obligations. If the creditors will graz
an extension of time the firm hopes [
resume business. For tho past eigi
7 years the firm has been recognized s
3 one of the most active houses in I'll
! Australian import trade.
Eight scienti fic enthusiasts hay
decided to organize the Pacif
Coast Geological Society in Sa
: Francisco, the object of whic
shall be the maintenance in ths
city of an elaborate geological ga
den. 1t was agreed tnat $50, 0C
would be needed to set the probe,
. going in proper shape, and ProfessC
Torielli spoke confidently of raisin
the sum, saying that one wealthy Sa
Franciscan has already promised $35
s 900. The Supervisors will be asked |
F. aid the geological garden idea.
A stock company recently organize
at Honolulu for the purpose of estal
fishing a homing pigeon service b.
tween the Islands of the Hawaiia
group has created demand for Be
; GUM birds raised in local lofts. Mir
> pairs of carrier pigeons have been sci
from Alameda, and it is believed tina
the entire shipment will number 4O
: birds. The homing service will be {
: great value to the islands from con
mercial stnndpoint The agents {