The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-06
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A Summary of Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to suit.our Busy
Readers.

the slot machines by ordinance recently
passed.
Santa Barbara county is to have a
poor farm. 1t will be made self-sup-
porting.
The city council of Santa Cruz has
adopted am interpretation ordi-
nance.
Redlands, Cal, seeks a free postal
delivery. claiming that she has been
entitled to it for long time.
1t is said the Valley Road will build
feeders TO penetrate the country in the
neighborhood Of its main line.
The Snell-Heitshu Woodland Com
pany. the largest drughouse in the
northwest, is now out of existence.
A Winchester man has gone into
onion culture on large scale. His
crop will net him several hundred dol.
lars.
Lost cargo of the Sunol has been
found in San Francisco harbor. Nine
teen thousand dollars in gold bars will
be recovered.
The mines of Butte, Montana, use
1900, 900 pounds of powder yearly,
the Anaconda nearly two-thirds of this
amount.
Most of the foundries of Stockton are
at present engaged in filling orders for
mining machinery for the Mother Lode
section of the State.
Alaska's yield of gold this year is
estimated at $40, 900, 900, which is con-
siderable more than the big territory
cost the United States.
The famous Vulture mines, which
have produced more than $4,000, 900
of gold, were sold on the 9th to H. NJ.
Love, of Chicago, and his associates.
In the first three months of this
year, $4,000 tons of pig iron have been
shipped from Alabama to Europe,
against 10, 900 tons in all of last year.
An experienced fruit grower and
fruit handler says prospects are good
for double the amount of prunes Cali.
fornia has ever produced in one year.
1t is now an almost settled fact that
the almond crop is an entire failure
through the section around Paso
Robes, owing to two or three heavy
frosts.
The late frosts have done quite a
good deal of damage to the fruit trees
in the Verde valley, Arizona, and
vicinity, especially to plum and april
cot trees.
The total revenue collected in Napa
county for the year ending March 81
1897, was $415, 970.S6; and there was
a cash balance Mt the end of the year
of SOS, 463.
The month of March this year was
the coolest ever known in Montana.
The northern and stock portions of the
State suffered the most and Texas cat
tie Jared badly.
The Shasta Lumber Company IS
property in Shasta county, locally
valued at 100000 and mortgaged
for $500, 900, has been sold at San Jose,
on foreclosure for $S7 900.
The Kalama river salmon hatchery
has completed its seasons work, hay
ing turned out over 5000, 900 fish DUR
ing the year, the loss of eggs and
young fish being very light.
A rich strike has been made in the
Blood gold mine at Callierville in Cal
averas county. The opening is six
feet by from eight to twelve inches.
1t is claimed to assay $1,000 a ton.
Census Marshal Wardell of the San
Francisco Board of Education, has dis.
covered that nearly $50, 900 was lille.
gally obtained from the State two
years ago by means of stuffing the
census rolls.
The first wheat grown in the State
was i'll San Diego mission in 1878, the
Indians tilling the soil under the
directions of the padre. Now the an.
nual produt of the State averages 49,
900 900 bushels.
Seventy men have been let out in the
construction department at Mare
Island. This is due to lack Of funds.
Money will grow less between now and
July, and further reduction in the
force will follow.
The sulphur hot springs near the
Mexican boundary line at Tia Juana,
are to be developed on grand scale
as health resort. Jesse r. Grant and
A. ]. O'Connor of San Diego and DR..
A. l.. de Vasquez of Mexico are behind
the project.
The Los Nietos Walnut Growers As.
ISOLATION handled 2,S13,64 pounds of
English walnuts, or more properly Ma
deria nuts. of the crop of 1896. This
brought in the very respectable sum of
Sis6, 905.S0. This sum was realized
from little over 1900 acres and is
but small fraction of the nut industry
Of Southern California.
The Cudahy- Packing company is
developing new oil field in Los An
geles. While boring on the corner of
Macy and Center streets at the depth
Of 500 feet it struck good flow of the
lightest and therefore the most valuble
oil yet found in the city. The COM
pany will at once sink ten or twelve
more wells.
The Santa Rosa Republican holds
that the value Of the hill lands in the
county is not appreciated and that
there are thousands of people in the
towns here and elsewhere. living from
hand to mouth as day laborers, who
might soon make pleasant home from
which good returns would be secured
by going into the hills and wisely
handling even but a small tract of
and.
There is the greatest planting of