The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-20
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.

1Iinfrt luUbI anu the fOdl
mines at Nanaimo, B. C.
The shops Of the Spokane Falls &
Northern r. X. have been removed
from Spokane, Wash, TO billiard.
The Los Angeles, CAL, Street Rail-
way Go. has been formed to control the
street railway system Of that city.
In '97 the Grays Harbor, Wash,
Commercial Co. manufactured 40, $780,.
260 shinlges and 35. 62s NJ. feet of lum.
Der.
There has been a generous fall OF
rain and snow in the mountains and
valleys OF California, giving great satis-
faction.
At Sanger, CAL, forty men weekly
furnish two carloads Of redwood for
the American Lead Pencil Co. Of New
York
San Francisco's uncompleted city
hall has cost TO date $5,677, 208 81.
The cornerstone was laid Feb 20, III,
and it has been good thing.
The State Government Of Hidalgo,
Mexico, bought the Pachuca water
works for $3.50, 900, payable in INSTALL
ments within ten years.
Control OF the Hawaiian Sugar Co.
has passed from the Spreckels to a local
syndicate of bankers and brokers. The
transaction involved 5000, 600
The largest single consignment of
Alaska salt salmon received in San
Francisco reached here last week. 1t
consisted Of 1000 barrels and was sold
for $50, 900.
Secretary of the Navy Long will
award a contract for the building of
the coast defense monitor Wyoming TO
the Union Iron Works Of San Francisco
for 1876, 900.
The Manufacturers and Producers
Association favors the State Exposition
of California products, to be held III
Oakland, CAL, from Nov. 18th to Dec.
Sd.
The Southern Pacific r. r. Co. will
soon begin building in various parts OF
California twelve steel bridges, aggre-
eating half mile in length and cost
ing 5000, 900.
The U. S. Treasury Department has
raised the Everett, Wash, Reduction
Works to the grade of bonded smelter,
which will henceforth do its own re.
fining.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad will
establish new transpacific line. The
steamers Tartar and Athenian, of over
$500 tons, will run between Vancouver
and Vladivostock.
The Santa Fe Railroad will light its
limited train running between Chicgao
and Los Angeles, CAL, 2245 miles,
with electricity evolved from the fric.
ton of the car axles.
The Bellingham Bay & British
Columbia Railroad is to be extended
into the Mount Baker mining region,
probably with the ultimate intention
OF going on over the Cascades.
Work has begun on the Utah & Pa.
ci6c r. R., which, beginning at Salt
Lake City, Utah, under the auspices
of the Oregon Short Line, will ulti.
mately connect with Los Angeles, Cal.
The twentieth century battleshir
Ohio to be built by the Union Iron
Works at San Francisco, will be an i'm.
provement on the Wisconsin, now
building at that company's works
under Government plans.
The Oregon Sugar Co. s plant at La
Grange, Oregon, started up last week.
II is locally estimated that this year {
crop will keep the factory busy day
and night for three months, and that
the product will be 10000 tons Of
sugar
At Santa Cruz, Cal, the new powder
works plant has begun operations. The
daily output is now 6OOO pounds.
Enough orders for smokeless powder, al
80 cents per h., have been received tc
keep the mills running day and night
for two years.
AT Port Angeles, Wash, bonus Of
$15, 900 has been raised for the Pitts.
burg Glass Works to be located at that
place. The Pittsburg men agree tc
commence work inside of ninety day.
and must complete the works before
demanding any OF the bonus.
"A mountain of Fuller's earth" ha.
been discovered near Peso creek, ii
Kern county, Cal. A contract has beer
let by the Los Angeles men who ar,
developing it to Il. Salcido to deliver
fifteen tons. Heretofore its production
has been limited to England.
The Circuit Court has decided thai
the city of Santa Cruz, CAL, must pa,
5000, 900 and interest at 5 per CEN
from April 4th, '94, on bonds issued b,
the city for improvements. The bond,
were placed in the hands of agents
who disposed OF them to Eastern CAPT
talists. Interest and costs increase thu
debt to nearly half million dollars.
Work in Santa Ana canyon for tn,
Southern California Power Co. is abou
done. The wires have been strun,
through the city. 1t is intended /,
carry a current OF 5000 volts and I,
deliver it in Los Angeles at loss o
10 per cent The one order for thi
, wire was 10000 The cost of the in
sulators was over sl4, 900. 1t is proba
BILE the wires will be in place and tn,
machinery ready 10 turn on the current
about Nov. LIST.
The Gridley, CAL, Herald says tina
T. X. Flemming OF Biggs is working NJ
plan to complete the ditch and irri
eating outfit of the Feather Rive
Canal Go. in Butte county. This com
pany was organized in 1891, capitalize,
for 81 900, 900. Thirty thousand dol
lars have been spent on the ditch, an,
it is estimated that SIS, 1000 more will
be necessary to put water ON the land
II is proposed to provide for irrigatin,