The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-11
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
important information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A summary of Late Events That Are
Boiled Down TO Suit our Busy
leaders.

will meet early in February.
Arizona last year mined 5000. 900
ounces Of gold and ZOO, 900 ounces of
silver.
The Bank of Santa Monica has just
declared another handsome semi-annual
dividend.
Flood waters have made an inland
sea of the region between Peoria and
Glendale, A. I.
The Womans Parliament of South
ern California will convene at River
side early in February.
The San Francisco Senators have
decided to report favorably the ga
cent street rilroad fare bill.
A horticultural club has been organ
lied at Elsinore as a result of the farm
ers' institute recently held there.
The Orange County Poultry Assoeia-
ton has passed a resolution that poul-
try Of all kinds should be sold by
weight
The Christian Endeavorers of South
ern California are trying to get car
load of navel oranges to be sold for the
Armenian relief fund.
The ordinance prohibiting expectora-
ton ON sidewalks, IN pubic buildings
and vehicles has become law in San
Diego, Mayor Carlson having affixed
his signature TO the ordinance.
The Miners Association will present
TO the Legislature an amendment to
the mechanics lien law that it is be.
lieved will be of greater protection 10
miners and mine laborers.
A report has been received at Red
wood that four persons have been
drowned in the creek about eight miles
from that city, near one of the oyster
houses belonging to the Morgan Oyster
Company.
N. Berwick, a rich English manu-
facturer, who owned the largest amount
OF stock in the Golden Feather mine
and the Banner quartz mine, died re-
Gently in Oroville. The body will be |
shipped to England for burial.
Deep development mining is meeting
gratifying results in Amador county.
At the Oneida mine the shaft has
reached depth of $50 feet, and the
longest steam hoisting works in the !
State have been erected.
The Finance Committee of the Los
Angeles City Council has about for. .
mulated plan whereby unemployed :
residents, particularly property. I"
owners, who are in need of work shall !"
be given labor ON public works and :
street improvement. /.
2. A. Lofgreen, of st. David, in CO.. =
chise county. A. t., has struck oil ON Q
his place while drilling for artesian b
water. The drill encountered the oil /,
at depth of 900 feet. 1t is of a dark. |;
yellowish color, about the consistency n
OF sorghum molasses, and burns readily n
when lgnlted, and while burning has al
the unmistakable odor of coal oil. 81
The Alameda Sugar Company's mill q
at Alvarado has finished the seasons y
run after being in operation for exactly u
nve months to day. The season has ~
been very prosperous. about 800 tons "
being sliced every twenty-fonr hours. y
work VIII soon commence enlarging "
tne mill and increasing its capacity TO "a
a thousand tons every twenty -four
hours.
te
Inc jacksonville sugar factory closed VIC
It's seasons run, it being the most sue. as
cessful in its history. The factory ran vo
l66 days, crushed 63,791I6 tons of 70
oeets, for which $3.50, 1865 was paid To ha
'he growers. The average cost for tn
nelp was $500 a day, making total sh
II SSS, 900, or S7SS, 166 for beets and ka
apor. This is exclusive of wood, oil ca,
md other incidentals used in large ne
Quantities, tw
nil
The Santa Cruz County Insurance 60,
Association has practically gone to At
'leoes and merry rate war is ON
lmong the agents. A short time ago on,
ne local board decided that its mem. Of
'ers should maintain tariff rates. re-. for
ardiess OF the action of the German. sea
American and Fireman's Fund com. slo
anies, which had announced heavy sbi
eduction. But the declaration was ash
on" - !,
me indications are that beet sugar -
'coory with capacity equal to the 10
ne at Chino will soon be constructed ire'
a the Cerritos. in the ne;gbhorhoad e 80 gen
'ixby Station, and not far from the
OWN OF Long Beach, in Los Angeles =
ounty. The locality selected is said
pe we'll adapted to the production Of ues'
splendid beet rich in saccharine mat cain
sr. Reports from the agents in Nav que
ork regarding the placing of bonds sro'
u the enterprise are reassurinc and aie
Is expected that work ON the factorv iron
ill soon begin. sam
bod
a zeal mas been closed in San Diego ye-y
hich, though surrounded with t6o dim
reatest secrecy, has become kno,v,, slow
to reveal that it is of tba dole
reatest Importance TO that CITY fore. F.
ladowng the construction of ra;lrosa hone
ON Salt Lake, presumably bv tba shor
anderDilt interests to afford an outlet spra
r the Union Pacific. As several up a
eamship men are connected with nett
Q deal, the belief is expressed that mad
anspacific steamship connection is soon
ntemplated by the railroad promot. this
!, but this is nothing more than sun. hum
sition. The deal was planned by gene
A. Guscom, Jr.. of New York. NAL
The subject of dividing Monterey
'nty, which was preached some time Nj
In ao;tstaa 4a.sseu uo"n' Is being prov
is. lt Is believed that the combined md