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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-18
Tobacco Culture. .

| have been experimenting for the
last five years on the Vienna vineyard
near Livermore with tobacco Gull
ture," said E. G. Hahn at the Liver
more Farmers Institute. have sue
ceeded i'll producing a good quality of
tobacco. / find the seed must be sown
in hot bed in order to have strong
early plants. and prefer Havana seed.
The soil must be of a black, sandy
lean ii possible and sheltered from the
trade winds. which are most damaging
to the plants. Tobacco will grow in
any soil if rich and moist enough and
we'll attended, but quality differs ac-
cording to location. Prepare the
ground as well as for potatoes and
plant in rows three by two feet apart.
Keep we'll pruned and the bugs off,
which is the most important part, then
wait until it natures. Oftentimes
more can be made from ten acres of
tobacco than g acres of hay or grain,
but what we need is cooperation in
having home production patronized.
California deos not produce much com.
pared to Eastern States, yet she is
about the third largest consumer OF
tobacco, and what is more, we smoke
the highest priced cigars. There is q
prejudice against the domestic article
and the demand issfor foreign brand,
though t be i'll name only. Give US
plenty of encouragement and we will
find its market abroad as we'll as oul
wines, wheat, fruits and other pro
ducts. We have soil and climate
then why not take advantage of it?
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-18
The Ten-Acre Farm.

A farm of ten acres can be made to
produce all of most things large
family needs, and can be run, says
Green's Fruit Grower" at small
expense. 10 begin with, a driving
horse and two COWS can be kept on it,
at small expense, and the horse will
give world of pleasure to the family,
while the COWS, if SO managed that one
is fresh i'll the spring and the other in
the fall. will furnish milk and cream
in abundance. and ought in addition to
furnish all the butter needed.
Then quarter of an acre of poultry
yard stocked with forty or fifty hens
will give eggs and chickens in abund-
ance, and few turkeys for the holt
days. An acre in garden and small
fruit will furnish vegetables and
fruits sufficient for the family wants,
so that there will be constant sue.
cession from the time asparagus comes
in April until winter sets in, and then
the cellar will be stocked with pre-.
served fruits and vegetables to last
through the winter.
Allowing two aches of land for pas.
ture, ore for garden and truck patch
which includes small fruits, and halt
an acre for ornamental grounds around
the house, we have six and half acre.
left to cultivate.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-18

The practice of using smudge to
create smoke in the orchard is growing
and the reports show that where used
at the right time has been very effec.
tive. In little hand book issued by
w. H. Harmon, of the Weather
Bureau, an easy and not expensive way
to make smudge is to pack damp
stable manure in common grain sacks,
by which it can be conveniently
handled. They are distributed through
the orchards in rows of from 100 to
2o0 feet apart and about fifty feet be.
tween sacks in each row. When it is
found necessary to protect, small
amount of coal oil is poured upon each
sack and ignited. Ii is usually un.
necessary to fire more than every second
OF fourth sack, the remainder being
left for later occasions. These sacks
will burn with a smouldering fire 70,
several hours.
In some instances wet straw was
used with good effect. The pruning.
from the trees should also be left where
they will be most convenient as they
are excellent smudge material. Dur.
ing the frosts of 1896 number of de
vices were tried in which the fire,
were built upon some vehicle by which
they could be moved about the orchard
These devices We're found to do a large
amount of good, as they can be NOV d
to the section of the orchard wher,
most needed and also give more uni
form distribution of heat.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-18

At recent meeting of citrus fruit
growers held at Los Angeles. 1t was
shown that it cost the California grow
or 10 cents per cubic foot TO get his
product into the Eastern markets,
while the Mediterranean grower was
able to reach the same destination for
10 cents per box, says the Santa Bar
bara Press. in addition, Mexico IS
rapidly becoming a formidable compe-
titor TO our local growers. Last year
over 400 boxes of oranges were shipped
from that country to the Eastern mar
kets. while this year nearly double that
quantity will be offered for sale. 1t
can readily be seen that with the low
price of labor in both Sicily and Next
co, protection is essential TO our local
lemon industries. Some idea of the
magnitude of the orange and lemon
product of State may be obtained from
the statistics as to the number of trees
in bearing; Orange trees, 1850, 964,
and lemon, 209, 466. This great num-
Der is nothing when compared with
the statistics of trees planted, but not
yet bearing, which gives the surprising
total of /, TAP, 500 orange and 917, 73s
lemon trees. A protective tariff will
allow the grower to keep up his price
of labor. The prospect of the whole
industry depends on the action of th'
Committee of Ways and Means i'll thi
matter, and the citrus growers are t.
be commended for their unanimity o
action in getting representatives Il
/ Washington to put matters in tn
proper light.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-18
THE MINING INDUSTRY
What they are Doing in the
Mines.
ALL BRANCHES ARE REPRESENTED.
Briefiets that Are of Interest TO All
CIasses-News from All over
the Country.
Mining outIook.

The winter has been exceedingly
favorable so far for mining, says the
6. F. Chronicle. The heavy rainfall
in the lower valleys is banking up
stock of snow ON the higher ranges,
which means good deal TO the min
ing industry, for it promises not only
to give employment to the monitors
which the Debris Commission has
tolerated TO run, but it means good
water supply for the operating of
quartz mills and electric light and
power plants, which are multiplying
with unprecedented rapidity in the
mining districts of California these
days. The rainy weather is, of course,
interfering with mining operations in
a few localities, but that occurs in the
same localities every year and it there
fore figures among those things which
may be seasonably expected, and it
plays no depressing part in the record
of the mining industry. From Lower
California to the Yukon the note issu-
ing from the mining districts is cheer
full and sonorous; it speaks of new in
vestments. In the latter foreign CAPT
tai is still conspicuous, but home CAPT
tai is growing less timid, and while
stock specializing is under ban, legiti-
mate mining continues to gain strength
and popularity, and commensurate re-
wards are in prospect. If this state of
the mining industry has not already
favorably influenced business generally
it cannot fail to do so very soon. The
volume of the yellow metal flowing
from the veins of the rocky ranges is
increasing daily.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-18
Dairy NnteS.

The creamery at Meridian, Suffer
county, is about ready for operations.
1t requires between II and IL quarts
of ordinary milk to make one pound
of butter, or, say 2S pounds of milk to
make a pound of butter.
A COW must make $50 pounds of
butter year to pay for her keeping
alone without giving a cent of profit to
her owner to paying him for his labor.
This implies that she must yield at
least /, 200 quarts of milk.
Cows must be examined as to their
individual qualifications. 1t is not
always the heaviest mixer that is the
most valuable. There is a marked
difference in the amount of milk and
butter different COWS will make from
100 pounds of food.
In the creameries of Australia and
New Zealand it is the general rule to
heat the milk before separating to from
l60 to $50 degrees. This is practically
pasteaurizing both the cream and the
skim milk before Swimming and may
be one reason why Australian butter is
SO satisfactory to the English markets.
Kind treatment, regularity of milk
ing and feeding exercise marked
effect ON the yield and quality of the
produce of a dairy cow. Harsh treat.
ment disturbs the nervous system, ir.
regular feeding disturbs digestion
while irregular milking causes unnec.
essary suffering.
When corn fodder is given to the
COWS and sheep to pick over do not
throw the refuse stalks in the barnyard
to be trampled. but cut them up, OF
shred.them. so as to convert them into
absorbent material in the stalls OIL
barnyard. They can then also be more
readily handled for use when spreading
manure.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-18

The total production last year was
the largest since 1890, and there was
only one other year since 1870 in
which so large total was recorded,
that being 1899.
Deducting the amounts from British
Columbia and the west coast of Mexico
the production in 1896 is given at
$121, 949, 536, against $117, 1896, 9SS in
1895 ,$104, S44, 112 in 1894, SOB, S27,
623, in 1898. $1l1,259, sos in 1892,
Silt, 946, 500 in 1891, and $126, 1904, =
500 in 1890.
The exports of Silver during the
past year to Japan, China, the Straits,
etc., are stated as follows: From Lon
don, $33, 96S, 500; San Francisco, 3d.
947, 776; total, $43, 916, 1896, as against
$43, 956, 7S7 in 1895. Pounds sterling
estimated at 81 "a.
M. Valentine aslo gives much and
valuable information in relation to the
product OF Gold and Silver and com.
age in the United States and Mexico.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-18

The Walker mine at Greenwood. Ell
parties in San Francisco. There is
five-stamp mill on the property and
good work is being done.
t.The Sierra county Enterprise says
that it is reported that the quartz at
the Bigelow ledge, styled Sierra Buttes
No. 2, in Sierra City, is yielding a
profit of about 81 ton.
1t is reported by the Trinity Journal
that valuable gravel deposit was re-
Gently uncovered by slide in the Bloss
& McClary mine at Trinity Center.
The slide came from the mountain.
On its being piped away a rich lead
was discovered.
The Sierra Valley Record says: To
show how prospecting for quartz is on
the rush, miner near town knew of a.
small spring up a mountain side, took
small pan full of earth to the spring.
to test it. To his surprise he found
five men there when he arrived, one.
panning and four waiting for the same
purpose.
The claims in the Granite Wells dis
trict, twenty -four miles east of Jo-
hannesburg. have just been bonded to,
a San Francisco syndicate for $780,
900, Their expert has carefully ex-
amined the property and his report re-
suited in the transaction. Nearly all
the ore i'll this district requires smelt-
ing
The Sonora Dem GRAFT says: Tire
mines around Yankee Hill are showing
up well. The Silver Queen owned by
George Mapes is being steadily worked.
1t is high grade sulphurets PROPOSE
ton. The ore is crushed by three.
stamp mill and the sulphurets is treated
at the Selby works in San Francisco.
Seven tons were shipped last week.
The CASTOR Ridge Mining Company
of Nevada county, operating the Ger
man and California mines, has bonded
the Gambrinus, which adjoins the
California. The property is located
on CASTOR Ridge. The Lucky AL,
owned by W. II. Mead of Washing
ton, and G. o. and f. w. Sawtelle of
Marysville, is supposed to be an extern
sion of the Gam brinus, and it is III
splendid ore now. E. |. Hutchinson of
Oakland, who is stockholder of the
company, has just returned from
visit to the mine.
g. W. Grayson, Jr., of Oakland. and
Harry II. Hunter of Yreka, have organ
lied company to work the Blue
4 Gravel mine at Greenhorn, little
over mile south of Yreka, says the
Yreka journal. They have commenced
sinking a shaft below the old shaft,
where there is about thousand feet
of blue gravel on bed rock. not yet
touched, and after making a thorough
prospect to satisfy themselves of the
richness of the ground, will either
make some terms to purchase or lease.
the claim. The claim contains a creek
bed channel of blue gravel that has:
always yielded channel ranging from
100 to 900 feet in width. Work was
suspended last summer on account of
oaving and foul air in the shaft, and
up to that time over 5000 had been
taken out.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-18
FOR THE FARMERS.
Some Interesting News for the
Ruralist
SPOKEN OF IN THIS COLUMN
Few Sensible Hints to suit the Busy
Agriculturist.-Items That May
Benefit our Readers.

We are indebted to John J. Valen
tine, President Wells, Fargo & Co, for
a copy of his annual report, showing
the production of Precious Metals ON
the Pacific Slope in 1896. The report
shows in the aggregate S54, 399, 242
Gold; $50, 7S4 1868 Silver; $2S, 500, 305
Copper; s., 1856, 026 Lead, making a
total gross result of Sl26, 2S9, $50
for the States and Territories west
of the Missouri river, including British
Columbia. The commercial value at
which the several metals named have
been estimated is: Silver. &c per OF.
Copper, lie per lb. and Lead, So pei
cwt.
Mr.. Valentine gives the total produc.
ton by States and Territories as fol.
lows:
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-18

Bills have been passed providing that
surgeons and assistant surgeons of SOL
olers' homes may be appointed from
others than those disabled in the service
OF the United States; for the recogni-
ton OF officers of the Army to whom
medals of honor have been awarded by
placing the letters IN. H." after their
names in the Army registers; extending
TO persons attached to the Army the
privilege of being made the recipients
OF medals of honor (this in addition to
officers and mem.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-18

Truman p Lawrence, of Fort Glib
son, Miss, sued the Pullman Palace
Car Company for damages received by
being beaten by porter, and was
awarded $34 900, but the Court rcut
down the amount to SIS 900.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-18

The Federal Council of Berne,
Switzerland, has submitted to the
United States Government the draft
of new extradition treaty, to super
sede the present treaty, which permits
Swiss citizens to be extradited to the
United States contrary to the Swiss
extradition laws.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-18

resolution was ruled out of order
in the Assembly in favor of County
government bill separating the office
OF County Auditor from other offices.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-18

lotdl .tt-'rs- 'rFL-"' -7S'sN
The gross yield in 1896, shown
above, segregated, is approximately as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-26
BIG MINING SALE.
English Capitalists Purchase San
Juan Property for $4,000.

Denver, Nov. 26.-A mining deal in
which the consideration was S19O.OOO
was completed in this city and in Tel
luride yesterday. Two highly promis-
ing properties of the San Juan region
change hands and English capital be-
comes interested in the development
of the mine.
For five weeks past three English
men have been making their head
quarters at the Brown hotel. The Wis
itOrS We're usually nOn-cOmmunicative,
but it leaked out gradually that they
were engaged in a large mining deal,
the exact nature of which, however,
was not given out for publication.
Yesterday the veil of secrecy was
for the first time removed. The three
gentlemen are the president, engineer
and metallurgist of the AngIO-Conti-
mental gold syndicate, limited, of Lon
don, England.
The special object of their trip to
Colorado was to make a thorough ex-
animation of the Terrible and Butter
fly mines near Telluride. If the ex-
animation proved satisfactory, the
president of the company was author
lied to purchase the properties
Negotiations and experimental runs
of ore concluded yesterday and the
deal was closed by the payment of
$25 900 upon a total consideration of
mill and the contract provides that the
plant shall be in operation within four
months. The experts estimate that
100, 900 tons of ore can be reached
through three tunnels in the proper
ties, and they will be greatly disap-
pointed if the mine does not prove a
Treadwen or a HOmestake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-26
DORA CLAWS LOVER.
Admirer of General Clay's Child
Wife Takes Poison.

Valley View. Ky, Nov. 26.-Another
sensational episode in connection with
Dora Richardson Clay leaving her hus-
band, General CaSsius Marcellus Clay,
occurred night before last, when Will
Bryant, CleH Richardson's brother-in-
law, tried to commit suicide by taking
poison in Richardson's house. He was
staying with Clel when Dora came two
weeks ago. They have been much in
each others company and the neigh
bors believe they are in love with each
other. Bryant's life was saved by a
prompt application of the stomach
pump and today Dora has been nursing
him back to health.
Bryant refused to say why he at
tempted self-destructiOn and bushes
and nesitates and stammers when asked
if it was on account of Dora. Bryant
was frequently at CIelPs house when
he lived on the generals farm, but one
day the general ran Bryant of the
place, threatening to shoot him. Bry-
ant is q years old, rather a handsome
boy and occupies about the same sta
ton in life that Dora did before she
married the master of Whitehall. His
attempt on his life has worried Dora
greatly and all day yesterday she was
more melancholy than usual.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-26
OPPOSE AUTONOMY.
is Receiving Hundreds of
Protests.

Madrid, Nov. 26.-The clause in reIa-
ton to the tariffs in the governments
proposed scheme of autonomy for Gu
ba provides for the creation of a mix
ed commission to be composed of Gu
bans and Spaniards, which is to fix
the tariffs.
The rates fixed by the commission
are to be adopted by the Cuban cham
Der of deputies and then approved by
the Spanish cOrtez before they become
effective. Should the mixed commits
sion come to a deadlock the cortez is to
be the arbiter of the question at issue.
Prime Minister Sagasta has received
over 100 dispatches from persons and
organizations in Catalonia, Biscay and
other provinces, asking that the auto
nOmy scheme be suspended. A mem
Der of the cabinet said today, however,
that the opposition to the scheme must
soon cease.
Naturally" he added, 1.-The proposed
reforms were opposed by number of
persons who by the past system had
amassed great riches, but the govern
ment was determined to carry out
what it considered a patriotic work
and its decisions must be respected
1t is said that the ministry of the
colonies will be abolished after the ap-
plication of reforms and that colonial
affairs will be conducted by the prime
minister.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-26
DYNAMITE FOR
GENERAL LEE.
An Internal Machine Found
Near the Office
Of the United States Consul
General to Cuba.
THEY SAY IT'S A JOKE.
Spanish Officials Make Light of
the Circumstance
But Extra Guards Are Placed
About the Consulate.

Havana, Nov. 26.-The tube reported
to have contained dynamite which was
found by a man subsequently arrested
by the private Waterman of the Amer
lean consulate building yesterday aft
ernoon near the door of the consulate,
is classed in official circles as being
nothing more than a joke. The man ar
rested is to believed to be the individual
who placed the tube where it was
found, but in order to guard against
any possibilities, the Spanish officials
are taking precautions to guard the
United States consulate and to protect
the United States consul general, Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee.
Rear Admiral. Vicente Manterola has
arrived from Spain and has taken
charge of the admiralty offices.
With him came also 300 soldiers and
275 Seamen. Senior BarrerOna, former
ly chief of police, now in Spain has been
summoned by the governor general to
attend the inquiry into the circumStan-
ces under which Senior Galvez, the
Portuguese consul and his son, met their
death on the SantO VOnia road while
going to join the insurgents.
Ell Diaric Del Marina says that there
is no ground for the rumor that Senior
Guzman and Senior Jose COngosta, the
secretary general of Cuba, have had a
serious quarrel as to policy. The I'm
ion Constitutional, on the other hand,
declares that they have had a serious
difference of opinion.
From today there will be a daily dis
tributiOn of 1000 ratiOns, instead of l.
900, among the reconcentrados at Ma
tanzas, and tomorrow in infirmary bat
TALON viii be organized. Several sugar
estates near San Fernando and in the
Nativadad district of Sancti Spiritus
have been recovered by the Spanish
from the insurgents. The latter lost
several men and had several taken
prisoners.
Pardons have been extended to 60
persons guilty of forcible resistance"
in various localities of the island.
Among these are ten women and also
% subjects of foreign governments The
list includes Mrs. CIemensia Arendoa,
Mftaldia Ferrer, Maria Teresa, Roalia
Garcia, Emilia Cordoba, Pentaleona
Catilla and InOcencia. Aracoin-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-26
M'KINLEY IN GOLD.
Statue of the President to Cost
$1,O5O,GOO.

New York, Nov. 26.-Ada Rehan in sill
yer is to be outshone by Vim. Mckinley
in gold, according to the Herald of to-
day. The added fame which the actress
acquired by posing for the Montana
statue of solid silver exhibited at the
Worlds fair is to be approached, if not
eolipsed, by the president of the United
States. who will furnish the figure for
hfe-sized statue of solid gold This will
be the most costly lump of precious metal
the people of the modern world have ever
seen. So says F. D. Highly of Chicago,
who has been retained by western mill
Iionaires to furnish such d statue for ex-
hibitiOn at the Paris exposition of 1900.
Mr.. Highly was in the city yesterday on
his way to Washington to get the consent
of President Mckinley to pose for the
figure.
AS Mr.. Highly took a prominent part in
the headquarters management of the late
national Republican campaign and has
asked for no office. he is confident of
success in this mission.
You know said Mr.. Highly. 'that
designed and built the Montana statue
at the Worlds fair, for which Miss Re-
han posed. I suppose it was because of
my experience that have been retained
to build this statue, which, with the base,
will contain bullion to the value of $780,
900.
while it was designed primarily to first
exhibit the statue at Paris in 1900, the
directors of the Pan-American exposition,
to be held in Cayuga island, in the Nj
agara river. in 1899, are anxious to have
it completed in time to exhibit there first.
1t is likely that this arrangement will be
made
4 cannot divulge as vet who the capi-
taIists are who are back of this project.
but there are a half dozen of them and
everything is ready to begin work on the
statue as soon as the design is COM
pIeted."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-26

for a short time during the day, as
Mrs. Mckinley was not feeling well
enough to remain at church during the
services.
The White House was unusually quiet
all day. Some of the executive clerks
were in the offices attending to the cor
respOndence which was pressing, but
none stayed all day. The president al
so looked over some of the important
work he had on hand. There were few
visitors during the day and those who
came called by appointment. Office
seekers were conspicuous by their alb
sence.
The President and Mrs. Mckinley had
as their guests at dinner the Vice Pres
ident and Mrs. HObart, Ensign and Mrs.
Smith, the latter a daughter of the late
President Hayes, Mr.. and Mrs Abner
Mckinley, Miss Barber and Master
Garrett Hobart.