The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-25

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iornia now figures a population Of $780,
235.
The Sacramento river, Cal, has
beer stocked with 10000, 600 Young
salmon.
From Astoria, Oregon, 100 carloads
Of cold storage fish will be shipped this
season.
The railway being built over the
White Pass, Alaska, will require 49,
600, 900 feet Of timber.
CALIFORNIA; July contribution to the
Government internal revenue receipts
was 81 900, 900.
The Marysyille, Cal, cannery Is
packing 60, 900 cases of fruit this sea-
son and employing 400 people.
The city Of San Franchises total
assessed valuation is 1868, "a, O6l-
about So, 900, 900 in excess Of last year.
The Los Angeles, CAL, City Council
advertises for bids for the purchase OF
city bonds to the amount of $40, 900.
The Los Angeles, Cal, Chamber Of
Commerce has declared against govern
ment acquisition Of the Philippines.
The Monterey & Fresno r. r. pur-
poses building l40 miles of road be-
tween Fresno, CAL, and Monterey this
season.
Since April LIST there arrived at Ia.
coma, WASH, 10, l40, 1870 pounds Of
tea, on which the revenue to the
United States was 81 ,0l4,O72.
A railroad will be built from San
Diego, Cal, to Yuma, Ariz., the Trib-
me asserts, by the owners of the sui
phur mines on the desert
The seasons salmon pack at Vanoou-
yer, b. c., is 10000 cases. So far
there has been no steady run, and the
fishermen are not making wages.
The railway from Iguala to Cocula,
Mexico, will be in operation within
thirty days, and from Cocua to Maris-
Gala it will be finished within few
months.
G. l.. Conner OF Bakersfield, CAL,
is harvesting $1,000 acres of wheat,
planted in what was once the bottom
Of lake, that is yielding from twenty
to twenty-five sacks TO the acre.
The estimated beet output near La
Grande, Or, this season will be so, 900
tons. 1t will take 500 wagons, two
loads Of two tons each, thirty days to
move the product to the factory.
San Diego, CAL, shippers report a
good demand in the Fast for lemons
AMI shortage oil the crop in San Diego
comfy. They are paying pa cents
poupA-a
An olive oil mill and citric acid
factory will be erected by f. d. Neff
for Andrew Mentally of Chicago, on
the latter's place at la Mirada, Cal.
The building will be of brick and will
cost $12, 900.
The new $50 IL. p. engine of the
Pasadena q Los Angeles, Call, Eec-
trio Railway Co. is being placed.
About $4,000 worth of copper line
has been put in. The improvement
will cost over $50, 900.
According TO stock taken last week
by the Oil Producers Trustees, the
total quantity OF oil in Los Angeles,
CAL, above ground, July so, was &c.
900 barrels, showing decrease since
June 30th of 30, 900 barrels.
At Corvallis, Oregon, trainload of
500 head of cattle is being made up
for the North Dakota ranges. The
prices paid are: For heller yearlings,
sl2; for two-year-olds, SIG; yearling
steers, $l4; two-year-olds, SIS.
The Chino factroy expects to crush
the product of 1900 acres of beets this
season, OF which $500 acres will come
from Chino and 5000 from Anaheim.
The new Oxnard factory in Ventura
county will work the product OF 1000
acres.
Forecast Official Hammond has a
theory that the occasional dry seasons
OF California are caused by temporary
shifting of the Japan current north
ward, nearer to the Aleutian islands,
thus bringing it ito the coast in a
cooled condition.
Nelson, B. c., has sold to the Bank
oil Montreal $4,000 city debenture
bonds bearing 5 per cent and running
twenty years at 9Sts. The CITY
bought the plant and franchise of the
Nelson Electric Co. for $50, 900 each
and now owns the light and water sys.
TENS, which will net SIS, 200 year.
The Great Northern's new train
mems schedules went into effect re-
Gently. Work train conductors wages
have been advanced from $50 to 500.
and work train brakemen's wages have
been advanced from $50 TO sos. 9th
erwise the scale is unchanged. The
new schedule is really an intern, eta
tion Of conditions applying to overtime
above ten hours, which are uniformly
the same on all divisions.
Two Valparaiso corporations. the
Pacific Steam Navigation Co. and the
South American Steamship CO., are
preparing to establish joint line from
Panama north TO San Francisco and
way points. Their representatives
have recently closed deal with the
Nicaraguan government by which they
will have joint line from Panama
north to the ports of Cornito, San Juan
del Sur and Ocos, the latter being
Guatemala.
Santa Barbara reports striking
rich How Of petroleum at Summerland.
Cal. The well was sunk beneath the
ocean bed from platform which runs
ont on the beach. The new well
struck q How from oil sand at a depth
Of 3a5 feet and the oil flows TO the sur
face. There are other wells at Summer
land, but they require pumping. This
new well Of Mr.. Treadwell's oyerfiows
the pipes and runs directly into the
tanks The well il believed to have
tapped the mother iode,'of oil