The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-22
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.

An expert report on the Philippines
finances says there are $45, 600 900
in circulation on silver basis, and an
export trade in '97 Of $4l 200, 900.
Quicksilver exports from San Fran
cisco for the first eleven months OF 81
were 49I3 TASKS, worth $174, 405; for
the same period in '9s, 57G9 TASKS,
worth $2ll, 5S2.
j. J. Hill, President Great Northern
Railway, has bought the tax certifi-
Gates on the old Union Pacific road be-
tween Tacoma and Portland Prior.to
93 the Union Pacific spent $4,000, 900
in this line and the abandoned work
and property has been since held for
taxes.
Eastern papers say that "the longest
telephone communication successfully
established in the world" is now in
operation between Boston, Mass, and
Little Rock, Ark, 1900 miles. Similar
facilities have for some months been
established between San Diego, Cal,
and Boise, Idaho, 1900 miles.
Consul Williams writes from Manila
that during the three months ended
September 30, 1898, the value of the
declared exports from that consular
district to the United States were:
Hemp, 1000 bales, $57, 503.35; hats,
10, S03, at 20 cents, $1,000. 60; cigars,
"a cases, $l329.92; grass cloth, $l56-
Al; total, 500, 95O.27.
There was !about So, 500, 900 in the
Spokane, Wash, banks last week, and
the bankers did not know what to do
with it. There has not been bank
statement for two months, but when
the last was made the banks were
carrying about 65 per cent. Soon, by
reason of the LIE Roi sale, about 81,
100000 more money will be thrown
into the Spokane banks.
At Topeka, Kansas, on the 9Th inst,
the board OF directors OF the Santa Fe
Railway Co. made formal approval o.
the purchase of the San joaquin Val
ley line, by which the Santa Fe will
run trains into San Francisco. The
chairman of the board said that the
war had opened greater possibilities
for the West, and that San francisco
will be much more important point
to the road than it has ever been.
The town of Republic, Wash, claims
to be the banner town in the United
States for sending registered matte
through the mails. Up to Nov. IL, il
the present quarter, there were $50 reg
istrations. For the same period on'
city with 10, 900 population had onl,
40 to its credit. So great has been thu
registration that the postoffice authori
ties upon one occasion sent letter o
inquiry, thinking an error on the par
OF the postmaster had been made
The figures astonished the depart ment
The new executive committee of tn
California State Miners Association
met recently in San Francisco. TIL,
Secretary was authorized to expenC
5000 in furnishing an office. 1t wa
decided not to have the Association
headquarters in the new ferry building
1t was ordered that county association
that have failed to pay the required II
per cent to the State Association b.
Immediately called upon for sucf
amount. A motion was carried that
the coming State Legislature be asked
to set apart one-third OF its Paris Elk
position appropriation for the purpos,
of a mineral exhibit there.
A tariff for shipments over the 81
berian Railroad as far as Irkutsk hal
been published. Irkutsh is the grea
, trade center of Siberia and the western
, terminus OF the Chinese caravans owe
the desert, which have for ages brough
a large part of the tea consumed il
! Russia. The new tariff on tea from
Irkutsk to Moscow is 2 1-3 rubles pc
pood, with separate charge Of
kopeks per pood for crossing the Yen
, issei and kopeks for crossing the Ok;
great rivers where the bridges ar,
not yet completed. This is at the rat,
: of $3.50 per 100 pounds. The rate OIL
high class freight in the other direc
} tion is about the same. The distanc
/ from Moscow to Irkutsk is about 340'
miles.
The total value of the imports il
. Apia, Samoa, in 1897, according t.
the American consul-general, wa
1929, $50, of which nearly half ($l57,
695) was from the Australian colonies
The United States sent goods to tn
value of $53,4l5. The export
amounted to $3.50, 1893, of which $l25,
$50 went to Europe, SOL, 1906 to tn
United States, SOL, 473 to Australasia
$l4, 2s3 to Hawaii, etc. I:.lOf copr'
tnative producb 10,691, $40 pound
we're exported from Samoa. The con
sul-general adds that large percent
; age of the goods from Australia are Q
American origin. 1t is stated that al
goods originating east of California ar
sent to the Atlantic seaboard, theme
to Sydney to Apia. and are delivers
: there cheaper than they can be oil
) tanned directly from San Francisco.
r At Phoenix, Arizona, it is estimate
q that enough water is wasted from Sal
{ river each winter to irrigate 1000, 90
acres in the Salt river valley. 1t
purposed to store these winter floods
to be drawn from as needed during til
summer months, by constructing
reservoir in the mountains sixty mile
northeast of Phoenix. The y. S. CO.
eminent has granted the Hudson Re
4 eryoir & Canal Company the Toni
basin, to be used as storage reese
voir. 1t proposes to build a dam /
the head of the canyon where tt
river energies from the basin, creatir