The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-20
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
4 Summary of Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

Forty-fve acres of the big Oakland
marsh are to be filed up at once.
Maderit is to have Touring mill
with capacity of so barrels a day.
The Stockton creamery started last
week. 1t is to be run on the co-opera-
tive plan.
The only onyx factory this side of
Buffalo has been established in Phn-
nix, A. T.
The new sugar factory at Salinas
Will employ 10000 acres of land
planted TO beets.
A tunnel under the Oakland-Alameda
estuary at a cost of $1,000 is under
consideration.
1t is believed that fully so, 900 sheep
have been sheared within twenty miles
of Pomona this year.
The plans adopted for the annex to
Hotel Green in Pasadena call for an
expenditure of 5000, 900.
The San Pedro Oil Company has .
we'll down 700 feet at San Pedro with
favorable indications for oil.
Business men in Walnut Creek and
Concord will go to work next week to
improve the road to Mount Diablo.
A report just published gives Cali
fornia's product of gold in 1896 at
$17, 181, 562, and of silver at $422, 436.
Chino sugar beet growers rejoice in
the fact that this is by far the best sea-
son they have ever had for growing
beets.
The Supervisors Of Santa Barbara
are after all offenders against the law
relative to mutilation and destruction
to shade trees.
The California Asphalt company will
probably erect refinery at Ventura
soon, the purchase of land for that pur-
pose being made.
Lands near jacksonville that former.
ly went tenantless at $3.50 per acre,
now lease for 81 per acre, for cultiva-
tion Of the sugar beet.
The orange crop of Highland is prac-
tically all forwarded to the market,
and the total for the season is 265 cars,
as against 245 cars for last year.
The Valley road is making rapid
progress in the work of laying out the
route. The directors have secured a
right-of-way in Contra Costa county.
The city engineer of San Diego in
sists that the Moreno dam, which is
to form a part of the 81 800, 900 NUM-
cipal water system, is insecurely built.
The engineers of the San Francisco
and San Joaquin Valley Railroad are
busily engaged in locating the line
between Point Richmond and Stock
ton.
The annual report of the Southern
Pacific railroad for 1896 shows gross
earnings $44 ,666, 466, operating ex.
penses $31 ,962, 206, net earnings, &c.
| 704, 400.
The total revenue collected in Napa
county for the year ended March 81,
1897, was $4l5. 970. SO, and there was
a cash balance at the end of the year
of IS, 463.
Steps are being taken in Visalia to
organize fruit exchange. 1t will be
capitalized at $50, 900, and great bene,
fits to the town and county are hoped
for by its formation.
The Southern Pacific Company il
shipping dressed beef in carload lots to
Portland, Or, and Puget Sound points
for distribution in the Northwest, al
there is shortage in that region.
One of the latest mineral discoverie.
of note in Southern California is re-
ported from Elsinore, near which place
large body of low-grade collaborating
ore is said to be in process of develop
ment.
There is an electric war in Ukiah
where an old company doesn't want q
new company to have franchise
Between Point Richmond and Stockton
the Valley road will have tunnel one
mile long.
The City Trustees of Pomona hav,
destroyed $4,000 worth of bonds
voted last year to provide the city will
water works. The bonds were de
stroyed under the authority of an act
of the late Legislature.
Saints Rest, way station on Lake
Tahoe, has been totally destroyed by
fire. The people. who were sleeping
barely escaped with their lives and nj
property was saved. The flames
spread to the adjacent forest and tiume
! The Eureka Lumber Company who's,
mills are located a short distanc,
above West Point. are going to built
some six or seven miles of railroad
The road is to extend from their mill
up into the timber belt and will b,
sed for logging purposes.
The railroad commission has decided
that there is no law to force railwa,
companies to produce their contracts
The point came upon the hearing o
the charge for discrimination brought
against the San Joaquin Valley roaC
by the Union Transportation Company
The foothil lis of Sonoma mountain
are going to be stocked with the DEM,
pheasants, and eventually they will
spread throughout this and Marin
counties. A number of Petalums
sportsmen are going at it in syste
matte and practical way. and it il
thought they will accomplish tangible
results.
A new law of Idaho provides that
none but citizens or those who have
declared their intention to become
citizens may be employed in the mines.
Manager Huntley last week notified all
the aliens at the De Lamar mine to
quit or take out their first papers.
Most of them declared THAR intention