The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-22
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Some important Happenings in
the South
THAT MAY PLEASE OUR READERS
An Assortment at Newsy Events That
Occurred in our Midst That Cannot
Fail to Interest.

enrolled Maccabees.
Gold quartz assaying $125 per tor
has been found in Lyle creek.
The A. & p. company will establish
a creosote plant at Flagstaff.
John Calvin of San Bernardino hai
sold the Waraw mine for 5000.
The Rowland olive orchard and mil
at North Pomona has been sold Il
Eastern parties.
Tho 7oa,look for grain crops il
o ange county this year is better thar
for many years past.
ne man who claims that Seligmai
is ON government land has filed ON tn
entire town site as homestead.
The action OF Riverside in putting il
a rock crushing plant of its own il
commencing itself to other municipal
tiles.
Mining about Williams is opening
mp actively and the mines in the Crane
Canyon are attracting especial atten
ton.
Redlands proposes to build an cleo
trio railway, three miles in length
from Casa Iona hotel to Smiley
flights.
Superintendent s. A. Muir of the S.
p, Is considering the advisability OF
converting his Opera block into hotel
at CoveDa.
The members of the Baptist church
of Los Angeles have decided to build
a parsonage on the lot adjoining the
church building.
There has been $4,000 in cash
raised at San Diego towards the build.
ing of the proposed railroad connecting
San Diego and Ramona.
The Bolsa creamery, near Santa
Ana, is nsing 5000 pounds of milk
daily. and is shipping some 800 pounds
of butter per day.
The acreage in wheat in Orange
county has been largely increased this
year; nearly 8 acres will he harvested
on the San Joaquin ranch.
Whittier has population of $500.
Its shipment OF oranges for this season
so far is forty carloads and 5000, 900
was received for its walnut crop this
year.
DIR. p. g. CORNISH. physician Of the
A. and p. at Flagstaff, has been made
chief surgeon of the A. aud p. hospital
association. with headquarters at Albu-
qurque.
Z. b. Kent Of Yuma has been offered
500. 900 for mining claim he recently
located in the foothills in the Harqua
Hills. The ore assays 1000 ounces
silver to the ton.
Riverside has litter of freak kittens,
one has eight legs and two tails, and
another has six eyes. The eight-legged
one is dead, but the one with six eyes
is living and thriving.
J. NJ. Quinn, secretary of the His
torical Society of southern California,
has been elected member of the
American Historical Association of
Washington, d. 9.
The new canaigre company has
grown to such proportions that the
Santa Fe company has established
new station two miles west of Rialto
on the main road and it will be known
as Rosena.
The site of the mortar battery, south
Of the Coronado hotel, has been trans.
ferred to the United States. The con.
sideIation stated in the deed was
$2,0S1.55. The parcel of land contains
40.63 acres.
Rev. Father Closa is having the
steepls ON the old Mission Church at
San Juan torn down and will have the
same repaired with a tile roof This
will add attraction to this famous
building.
Business is reported to be on the
boom at Williams. The Saginaw
Lumber company has large force of
men busy erecting building to take
the place of their mill burned last
summer.
Work is actually in progress now
on the long talked of and much needed
read from Crown valley down to the
Winchester valley. Citizens of Crown
valley are grading a thoroughfare
down Oxley canyon.
]. L. Dryden. who represented San
Diego county i'll the State Assembly.
is in Los Angeles and may not return
to San Diego for some time. He has
written book on the labor problem,
and will have it published soon.
Eagle Rock shows its appreciation of
a boulevard from Los Angeles to Pasa.
dena by agreeing to donate a right of
way 100 feet in width, and to grade
the same according to the engineers
specifications throughout the length of
their valley.
Something of the value of the Corona
Mining and Milling company's prop.
erty in the Tauquitz district in the
San Jacinto mountains was made evil
dent by the sale of one.twelfth inter. |
est to Harold Kenworthy. of San Ga.
briel. for $4,000.
Gov. Rowland. will. it is stated
exchage stations as manager of the
Santa Monica Soldiers Home with
Gov. Smith. The former has as yet
heard nothing officially concerning the
matter. Gov. Smith is now at the
Leavenworth home.
A Covina man has grown q radish
4 the white Russian variety. weigh
ng pounds and 8 ounces. This rad.
sh, which was planted In the first
week Of January. was perfectly sound
and rs tender as the ordi-
AIRY small turnip radish.
Honey men are feeling good all over
outhern California. as the prospects
'r plenty Of honey bearing flowers is /,