The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-15
COAST ITEMS.

A cable line to the Philippines Vi
Hawaii is an existing necessity.
About $500. 900 salmon eggs hav
been placed in the Fraser river.
At the Mare Island, Cal, Govern
ment Navy Yard 100 men are busy.
Fifteen miles of narrow gauge rail
road are to connect Truekee and Taho
City, Cal.
The U. g. Government has acquire,
the Philippines; an cutie, for Pacifi,
Coast trade.
The Crows Nest Coal Co. are said I.
be trying to secure 500 miners fol
their mines at Fernie, b. G.
Sacramento, Cal, proposes to spend
*4O, 200 in a water supply from the
north fork Of the American river.
Victoria, BIC, has surplus of $50.
223 in the city treasury, $1,000 o.
which is to be used for water works
Improvements.
The U. 5. torpedo boat Davis, at her
trial "trip at Portland, Or, Nov. "a,
averaged 23l2 knots per hour. In two
hours she made SO miles.
Nine miles of the railroad from Col.
conda, Nevada, to the mines OF the
Glasgow Co. have been graded and the
rails are ready to be put in pla e.
The Seattle, Wash, city council has
awarded the contract for the Cedar river
water works to Gain & Byone Of
Chicago for 81 $50, 900.
Packers rates from White Pass 10
Lake Bnnett are Az cents per pound
on large shipments and 5 cents per
pound on shipments OF one ton or
under.
In an oil well under the sea. in Sum.
merland, Santa Barbara Co., Cal, last
week, was made a strike of natural
gas, in large quantity, as yet unre-
strained.
The Blue Lakes Water Co. is build
ing new power plant at Blue Lakes
City, near Mokelumne Hill. Cal.
aluminium will be used for electrical
conduction.
To yield of dry wines in California
TINS year, 1t is calculated, will be g..
oOO, 900 gallons. The product last year
was "a 900, 900. Sweet wines will be
about half the product of last year.
The growing Of sugar beets in Contra
Costa and Solano counties has proved
success. One farmer>in Contra Costa
Is said to have cleared $50 an acre
from fifty acres OF land planted to
beets.
The Los Angeles, Cal, Times, saws
the Santa Fe r. X. Co. has purchased
from the Southern Pacific half inter
est In all trackage rights between that
city and Bakersfield, thus giving Santa
re Its entrance into San Francisco.
Captains j. ]. Meyler, United States
Army, Engineer Corps, who has charge
OF the fertilization construction work
on Ballast point, near San Diego, states
that the contractors have nearly com.
pleted the excavation work for the
fourth and last gun emplacement.
The newt U. S. OF Central America
composed of the republics of Nicara-
qua, Salvador and Honduras. which
had its birth November LIST. had an
area of 10000 square miles and a
population of 1000, 900. Its great inn
portance was due to its coast line and
the fact that in it will lie the Nicara-
qua canal. The tripartite republic
however, went to pieces last week.
From April 1st to June 3Oth, 9s. the
U. 5. Government chartered fourteen
ships ON the Pacific Coast, having a
total tonnage of 41,l52, and CARRYING
capacity of 500 officers and Il, 059 men
with their complete outfit of camp and
garrison equipment, arms, ammuni-
lion, medical and subsistence stores
or voyage OF over 1000 miles to the
The payment for service
'eSels, under charter to June 3Oth.
SO, was $3l9,764
The .. S. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. was
uccessfully launched at the Union
ron Works, Potrero, San Francisco. |
he keel OF this vessel was laid Feb |
uary 18th, '9S; length 374 feet; beam,
2 feet; depth of main deck, "a feet 6 |
inches; depth of superstructure, AZ
Get; draught of water, 80 feet inches;
isplacement, IL, 525 tons; speed, 16
nots; two sets triple expansion en-.
ines, indicated H. p, IL, 900; high
ressure cylinder, 33la inches; inter.
,ediate 81 inches; low pressure, IS
nches; stroke 48 inches; revolutions.
20; eight single cylindrical boilers lG
,et inches diameter by 10 feet long;
'tal CRATE surface, $50 square feet;
'tal heating surface, 81, POS square
'et: steam nressure 1SO nounds