The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-04
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
summary OF Late Events That Are
Rolled Down 20 Salt Our Busy
Readers.

Flagstaff, Arizona, has contracted
for water works 10 cost tS5, 900.
For the fiscal year ending June 30th
2274 immigrants landed in San Francis
co, bringing with them t2i4,52O.
l. ID. Applegate, in Klamath county,
Oregon, sheared 81 600 pounds Of wool
from 27OO head Of sheep.
Tails OF Kern Co, Cal, ground
squirrels are worth two cents each de-
livered 10 the county supervisors.
Mr.. Dole OF Honolulu, U. s. A., has
signed a contract with the Scrymser
Co. for a cable thence to San Diego,
Cal.
Now that Hawaii is annexed, no
vessel flying foreign flag can do bust
ness between this coast and the islands.
Oregon lumber is leaving for the
East at the rate OF so NJ. feet per day
from the various lumber mills OF Port
land.
The Postal Telegraph Co. has bought
the Rocky Mountain & Postal Tele-
graph Co. and will operate it as part
Of its system.
The drouth has sent southern Cali
iornia cattlemen into the Yosemite
park, from which they are being
elected by U. S. officials.
Surveyor-G General Blair reports a
notable shrinkage in the applications
for u. S. mineral surveys since the
new rule governing patents went into
effect.
The Crows Nest Pass Railway, b.
c., is completed TO Elk river, and it is
expected that by the middle OF October
traffic will be possible from Mcleod
TO ROssland.
Heldmair & New, Chicago contrac-
tors, have the contract for the construc-
ton OF the breakwater at San Pedro,
CAL, harbor. II is thought now that
active work will soon begin.
At Gray's Harbor, WASH, there is a
scarcity OF labor. Sawmills are pay
ing 81. so per day for men. There is
room for 100 laborers in the mills at
the harbor at steady employment.
The Wellborn-Seaver +. Co. will
build plant for the manufacture of
steel at Chihuahua, Mexico. The iron
ore from the Cerro de Mercado mine at
Durango will furnish the raw material.
Charles Fair claims to have success
fully experimental with q plan to man
ufacture illuminating gas, for use in
San Francisco, of 35-candle-power, at
cost OF 80 cents per Nj. cubic feet,
from garbage.
From the Columbia river, during
the year ending June 30, '9S, $780,
$50 centals of wheat valued at $l2,-
1877, 762 were exported. Exports of
-four for the same period were 9O7, 89l
barrels, valued at $3.50, 707.
June shipments of redwood lumber
from coast ports were IA, 900 M. feet,
falling off of 5000 NJ feet for the
same month last year, and for the half
year ending June Both decrease OF
over II, 900 NJ. feet.
At Fresno, CAL, the drouth affects
the San joaquin Electric Co.'S long
distance transmission plant, which is
barely able at present to furnish power
or light on account of scarcity OF water
in the San joaquin river.
The bingham T. & 7. Co., of Jo-
hannesburg, South Africa, has ordered
1000 M. fir lumber Tor Delagoa Bay
from Pacific Coast mills. This COM
pany has shipped $4,000 NJ. lumber
from Puget sound and b. c. to South
Africa in the past nine months.
The fourth ocean log raft built by
IL. f. Robertson at Stella, on the CO.
lumbia river, WASH, has started for San
Francisco. 1t scales between 1000, 900
and 5000, 900 feet, is 600 feet long, SO
feet beam, draws 20 feet OF water and
is cigar-shaped. The raft is insured.
The ANNUAL report of the surveyor OF
the port OF San Francisco shows that
in the year ending June 30th, 81,
there were $4,000 tons of dutiable
goods imported; in the same time in
'9S there were 977, 1868 tons. The in
crease in exports is larger. In 81
there were 1894 tons of dutiable
goods, and 81, 1884 in 9S.
The projected contract between the
Spreckels sugar refineries and Los
Angeles oil producers for the daily de.
livery Of 500 barrels of oil for year
has fallen through. The price named
was Sliac barrie f. o. b. Los An,
geles. Oil is now 81 per barrel, spot de
livery. Southern Caliiornia's present
San Francisco shipments average Is,
900 barrels monthly.