The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-27
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
a summary Of Late Events THAT Are
Rolled Down to suit Our busy
Readers.

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At Biggs, Cal, $50 acres OF hemI
this year has yielded the growers from
1920 10 500 per acre.
Near Fresno. CAL, body of land
comprising over 25, 900 acres is beins
planted in wheat.
The Northern Pacific Railway Co
has reduced its passenger rates 20 pei
cent in the State of Washington.
Coast lumbermen have advanced tn,
price Of lumber from 500 and $l(
per NJ to sll, cargo delivered.
English purchasers have secured tn,
Coalinga wells of Fresno county, Cal,
for locally stated price of $500, O6O.
The citrus fruit crop Of southern
California for the season amounts &c
$4,000 carloads, representing 81 900,
900.
The stock Of oil on hand October |
in the Los Angeles field and in storage
was 10, 900 barrels less than on Sep.
temberl.
A $25, 900 paper manufacturing plant
is to be erected on the Truckee river,
twenty miles from Reno, Nevada.
Track is laid on the visalia, CAL,
division of the Valley Road to Corcoran
Junction, twenty-four miles from vi
salia.
The Oregon Short Line will lay TO-
0oO tons steel rails on the main line
from Glenn's Ferry, Idaho, to Hun
tington, Or.
Custom house receipts in San Fran
cisco the first week of October were
SOL ,O95.0S, total since January of
$4,627, 704.32.
The value of five expectations of
henequen from Merida, Mexico, in
August to New Orleans, New York
and Hongkong amounted to 81 COG,
0SS.4
Three hundred tons of grapes ON the
vines in Santa Clara CO., Cal, have
been sold for 80 ton. That price is
considered equal to about Is cents a
gallon for wine.
The Stockton d Tuolumne County.
CAL, Railroad Co. will issue bonds 10
the extent OF 1000, 600, payable forty
years after date and bearing per cent
interest.
Track laying on the Utah & Pacific
Southwest from Milford to Phoebe.
New, was begun on the nth. Pres.
McCune says it will never be stopped
until the road gets to the Pacific.
The Esquimalt & Nanaimo railway
has been extended to Oyster Bay,
eleven miles from Nanaimo, B. G.. The
shipments of coal during August from
Vancouver island were rs, 700 tons.
The controlling interest in the Spo-
kane & British Columbia Telephone
and Telegraph line from Spokane.
wash, to near Rossland, j. G., was
sold last week to O'Brien, Reddn e
Go. for 1855, 900.
The engineering work on the Sacra-
mento river, Cal, undertaken by the
Commissioner Of Public Works, is pro-
crossing. The five dikes Mt the New
town shoals and the overflow weir AT
the mouth OF Feather river are nearing
completion.
The government Of New Zealand
offers prize Of $40, 900 for improve
ments in the process of treating the
native fiber (Phormium tenax. or
New Zealand flax. The successful
competitor will not be required to sur.
render title to his invention.
BIDS have been asked for by the In
terror Department for work on the
Buttes reservoir in Pinal county, Ari-
IONA. The construction of this dam
means the conserving of water sufficient
TO reclaim more than 300, 900 acres in
the valleys of the CHA and the Santa
Cruz.
The Territory OF Hawaii, u. s.. has
authorized the sale of $50, 900 of bonds
to erect and improve the system Of
water works. Bids for the construction
oil the pumping works and for the
necessary water pipes and mains will
he asked from constructors and mann
facturers on the coast.
Stockton, CAL. reports an increased
now of natural gas, which is to be util.
ized TO operate gas engines, which in
turn generate electricity for light and
power service. The cheapness of this
natural gas has also reduced the cost
of fuel. Numerous wells have been
sunk Of late, but the supply does not
seem TO diminish.
The Pacific Car Equipment Companv !,
has incorporated in San Francisco
capitalized for $3.50, 900, of which
$223, 900 has been subscribed by ]. II. !
Thompson. $4,000; A. G. Rumble
$500 W.. ID. Huntington, $50 900;
X. Gorrill, $1,000; NJ. L. Requa. $1,000:
q. H. Strong, $1,000; F. w. Fry, SEQ.
900; II. L. Huntington. $40, 600.
At Tacoma, WASH, the Tourist
Hotel, under construction by the North
ern Pacific Land Co, was burned ON
the 18th inst. There had been ex- +
pended on the structure up to date
5000, 600. On September goth the Ia
coma WOODEN mills burned, with loss
Of $50 900.
The recording at San Bernamino.
GAL. last week Of trust deed from
the Pacific Bcrax 4 Redwood Chemical
Works 10 the Indian a General Invest
nent Trust Of london to secure n ,
second mortgage u $3.50, 900 was the j
Hose OF the recent deal which trans i
ers the works from Alameda Co. Cal
. the Atlantic side Of the continent.
The construction Of the jetties at The e
Sewtown shoals, on the Sacramento d
CAL, river, near Rio Vista, will soon 6
y completed. The work has been o
Home by the Commissioner Of Public Il
Norks, IN accordance with plans an. n