Mesa free press., 1897-10-08
Vanderbilt to. Good Springs will be
started soon.

curing facts, figures and data to aid him
in his efforts to have Congress set apart
as public park and reservation ali of
the unsurveyed portion of San Rafael
mountains in Santa Barbara county.
including Iaca lake, covering something
like 800, 900 acres.
The Landmarks Club of Los Angeles,
which has done such good work in re-
pairing the mission at San Juan Capis-
trano, has now undertaken to partially
restore the main building of the San
Fernando mission. This is one of the
most extensive missions in Southern
California, but at present some of the
rooms are being used to herd sheep in.
and the whole structure is rapidly fall
ing to pieces. AS landmarks of an age
unique in the history of our country-
nay, the world-these missions ought to
be saved from the ravages of time and
destructive carelessness of the sheep
herders.
The shutting down of the Los Angeles
oil wells caused some little interest in
railroad circles, as both the Southern
Pacific and Santa Fe are heavy con-
sumers. 10 an official of the latter the
query as to the effect on his road
brought out the fact that the road is
using about $50 barrels of oil per day.
They have fifty locomotives that are oil
burners out of total of ffty-five on
this division, but the company has at
Los Angeles two oil tanks with capac-
ity of 1000 barrels, that are full
enough to supply them four months at
the present rate of usage. Then the
company has several large contracts
with dealers at very low figure that
are yet to be filled, and in addition they
have their own wells at Fullerton to
draw upon.
Within the last two weeks notices of
intention to construct 5000 miles of local
torial Secretary of Arizona. There were
thirty-one separate filings of almost as
many separate lines of railroads. If a
quarter of them are ever constructed,
Arizona will have cause to congratulate
ture, not without considerable of a
branches, finally passed a law to the
effect that all new railroad lines on
which active work should be COM
menced within one year from the pas
sage.of act should be exempted from
the country, municipal and Territorial
taxation for period of fifteen years.
This was known as the bill to encour-
age the construction of railroads in Ari-
IONA, and its passage was bitterly but
fruitlessly opposed.
Private enterprise in Southern Cali
fornia is inaugurating a public service
that the United States government
seems slow to materialize. Messrs.
Judd & Dixon, Los Angeles Herald
agents at Azusa, Covina and San Dimas,
are putting up lock boxes at private
residences in the country in which they
can deposit not only the Daily Herald
for their customers, but also the letters
and papers, which they obtain daily at
the postofice and deliver every morn
ing. In this way they deliver the Her
aid and mail daily for 81 per month.
This system is growing in popularity,
and unless the government takes hold
of the NATTER it is very probable that
the system will extend to other Sec
tions of Southern California, until the
people of the country, as we'll as those
of the city, can have their mail deliv-
cred at very slight additional cost.
Los Angeles will be lively place
next month. The Knights Templar,
Odd Fellows and all-round old sports
will be in this city next month by the
thousands. The Templars are to hold
their State conciave here, beginning
on the 9Th, continuing to the 9th. 1t is
expected that there will be at least four
or five thousand of these visitors. Two
communicates, the Golden Gate of San
Francisco and the California of Oak
land, will come in a body, and Masons
of this degree will gather here from all
over the State. On Saturday, the 9th,
the Templars will be taken by special
Southern Pacific train to San Pedro,
where they embark for Catalina. The
District Fair will be held October 18th
to 23d, and special efforts will be made
to secure large attendance from all
over the State. From October 18th to
28th the Odd Fellows of the State will
convene in this city and there will be
at least three thousand of them. To
all of these affairs the railways will
make special rates from California
points, so it looks as if the strangers,
alone, would make things lively here
! this fall
Jerome, Ariz., money is slightly be-
low par to day. To the uninitiated be
III kuOWu L1dG COIlSlSI6
of S. and $40 checks, payable to bearer,
issued here on Prescott bank and
signed by local merchants. The checks
are interchangeable among merchants
here, and have heretofore passed on
presentation without signature at face
value. A new deal, and distasteful
one, is that made by one big store here,
as per the following notice: "From this
date all bearer checks must be endorsed
by party presenting, otherwise they
will not be cashed by us. Positively no
exception. Don't ask it," AS Jerome
checks are passed about till worn out,
they will have to be made hereafter
about three feet long to hold all the
signatures. The animus of the new
move is the fact that the store in ques-
tion paid $35 for check for 35 cents,
and couldn' trace it back to the payee.
The development of the waters of
Mill Creek, above Redlands, in which
DIR. Baldwin and other Pomona people
are the prime movers, differs very
materially from all the other electrical