The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-24

they desire 20 visit their families there.
A strike ufsy ensue.
The Southern California Power Com.
psny has let the contract for furnish.
ing the piles of the lectricline from the
power house in the Santa Ana Canyon
to Los Angeles 10 the Perry Lumber
and Mill Company. -Four thousand
poles will be used. the contract
amounting to about 100000.
Miss Ellen Beach Yaw has returned
to California. and will be at her sum-
mer home at Tropico during the sum.
mer. Miss Yaw has been engaged for
two special concerts To be given at the
Chautaudue assembly this season and
will also be heard ON several other
important occasions.
The tailings of the Good Hope mine
at Perris will be worked over ard il
is estimated that from one hundred to
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
will be secured in this way. The tail.
ings will run from 81 to IS per ton
and will be worked by the cyanide
process.
The placer mines at Dale City. San
Bernardino county. are attracting at.
tention. These locations are being
worked very quietly. Two men in
the camp have $1,000 to show for about
six weeks work and as high as two
and on half ounces has been brought
in as the result of days washing.
The largest nugget yet found was
worth $15.
The special sale" idea is spreading
rapidly in Los Angeles. A butcher on
Broadway announces special sale of
meat For some time past the news
boys have had special sales of papers
ON the streets every Saturday, when
they offer five evening and weekly
papers for a nickel. We may soon
expect to see special sales advertised
by the tamale and peanut stands.
Riverside county is very much in
the apricot business. The crop is
rapidly developing ON the 100, 600 trees
in bearing in the county and will be
large and fine. The assessors returns
show 2l5, 900 apricot trees growing in
the county. Mr. Henry Lilly of Elsi-
more has 1000 bearing trees, fifty of
which he says will yield over 1000
pounds of fruit each. A fair average
yield is from 800 to 600 pounds to the
tree.
Several capitilsts have been APP
preached on the subject of building an
immense smelter in San Pedro contin-
gent on the construction of the harbor
there. Ed O'Neal of Denver, mil
lionaire, who is interested in the Globe
Shelter at Denver says he is willing
to risk 81 900, 900 in smelter at San
Pedro if an additional million can be
obtained. This smelter would be able
to handle all the ores of Southern CAL
ifornia.
According to the figures of the City
Assessors books the total value of
inside the limits of Los An
seles will aggregate $4,000, 900,
which is an increase of about So, 000,-
100 over the year before. OF this in
,rease about 81, 900, 900 came from the
districts of vernon, Pico
Heights and Highland Park. OF the
the greater part of the new
is on Broadway between First
and Fourth streets.
There is some chance that certain
electric wires in Los Angeles will be
'uried in compliance with the recent
ity ordinance. The West-side Light.
ng Company has purchased the exclu-
i've right to the Edison lighting sys-
EN-, which is said to be most salts
actory one for distribution of power
without the use OF poles. When the
leal is completed the name of the
Nest-side Company will be changed to
he Edison Electric Light Company.
md the entire Edison system will be
Utilized here.