The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-12
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
a summary 80 Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to suit our Busy
Readers.

Contr iry to expectations the olive
crop Of Pomona will be very light this
year.
The Hollister sewer bonds of $780,
900 have been sold to f. w. Fratt of
Sacramento for $500 premium.
A large patent medicine laboratory
IS to be established in San Francisco
by an Eastern corporation this fall.
w. r. Kennard, is the advance agent.
The Market-street Railroad Com
pany in San Francisco asked the Board
of Equalization to reduce the assessed
value of its franchise fromi 81, 500, 900
to 81 ,500.0 900.
Beneficial effects in the real estate
/ line are expected ON this coast in
early spring, both from the Alaskan
gold field discoveries and the passage
of the new tariff.
The orange shipments from River.
side for the season aggregate 730,5S6
boxes, OF $3.50 carloads. Nine car
loads of lemons were shipped the past
week. 1t is estimated that the seasons
output of lemons will be seventy-five
carloads.
The books of the County Auditor
show that the running expenses of
Pacific county, Wash. exclusive Of
salaries. for the fiscal year ending
June 30th were $754S. 38, as compared
with $13,046.49 the preceding year or
saving OF $5498.11.
The first car of apricots leaving the
Santa Clara valley this season has been
shipped by the Berryessa Fruit Grow
ers' Union of San Jose to Hamburg.
Germany, via the Sunset route and
steamer. The shipment consisted of
1000 twenty fve-pound boxes.
One Of the chief features of the Cali
fornia dried fruit market is the export
demand for new-crop prunes. The
opening price Of az cents for the four
sizes is not looked upon as excessive
! by foreign buyers, who, having small
crops of their own, have turned to CAL
ifornia for supplies.
Reports from the State of Washing.
ton state that the $50 shingle mills in
that State are running now to their full
capacity to supply the increasing de-
mands from the East. The number of
shingles shipped from the State during
the month Of June was 500, 000, 900,
which is 80, 700, 900 more than during
the previous month.
The shipments of green fruit from
California to the Eastern markets have
exceeded thus far this season the most
saDguine expec tations of the fruit
growers of the State. Up to and in.
Guiding July 22d. the number of loaded
cars shipped ont Of Sacrament, east
bound, by the southern Pacific Com.
pany, amounted to 1854, as against
LOAF for the same time last year,
The wheelmen of Portland, Oregon,
have organized branch of the Cali
fornia Associated Cycling Clubs of this
State, and will promote two big meets
under its rules on August Ia and Is,
for which a valuable prize list is
offered. Many California riders will
attend, and the competition between
the cracks from this State and those
of the Northwest will be very interest
ing.
The fruit-growers of The district
around Healdsburg have formed com
oination and unless local fruit packers
pay them 81 per ton for free stone
peaches they will dry the product OF
their orchards this season. The can.
merry men say they do not want the
freestone peaches at any price, and
should the oIchardists refuse to sell
them clings they will have no diff
Guilty in securing all the fruit needed
from outside localities. Both Gamer.
les are now operating heavily on black
berries and pears.
News received at Redding from Hall
City, Trinity county. where the recent
important mining discovery was made
tends to uphold the belief that the
moher lode has been struck. The only
authentic assay made of the ore here
tofore showed $l5.l7 per ton. but as
this did not represent the entire width
OF the vein belt, an assay representing
200 feet across the vein was made by
ex. Assemblyman Frank L. Fowler
which gave an average return of be-
tween 81 and IS per ton. Should the
entire vein prove as valuable as at thai
point the wealth of the lode would bt
hard to calculate. The ore is fire,
milling, and could easily be handled
at s ton. Many prominent mining
men are being attracted to the discov
cry.
Returned miners from the Alasks
and upper Yukon mining country
bring stories of fabulous diggings il
that forzen region, we'll substantiate6
by heavy sacks of the yellow dust
During the last week so many of these
successful Adventures have arrived al
Pacific Coast ports with the fruits Of
their toll that the 40 mining fever il
again in full sway, and many are
leaving lucrative positions to join il
the rush for the ''diegings." Sc
many are starting at this season that
grave fears are entertained by the
thinking ones for the safety of those
already there as well as those going
in view Of the impossibility of taking
in a sufficient quantity of supplies tC
keep SO many through the frozer
months.
| The waning fortunes OF the Sunset
irrigation district in Fresno county
has resulted in the inception of still
more gigantic enterprise for the irri
cation Of the vast area of dry but rich
lands lying in Fresno and Tulart
counties, between the sloughs and the
Coast range mnnntaina Its SUCCESS