The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-10
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

ing at a passenger Ntalu Win -
calibre revolver.
The Phoenix Chamber of Commerce
is distributing beet seed. BY fall IL Is
hoped that tie results will warrant the
erection Of a sugar factory.
The Union Trust Company of New
York sues the Santa Fe Company in
the United States Court, Los Angeles.
for $40, 4s6 due on judgment.
The Southern California Power
Electric Company at Redlands will
develope 2o0o horse power by fall OF
water from flume distance Of 200
feet
South Riverside. later incorporated
under the name of Corona, is threat
ened with disincorporation. A liber-
ally signed petition is in evidence to
that effect.
The fruit exchanges Of Pomonoa
and Claremont will pay out SIT 900 III
dividends soon about $4,000 by the
Claremont and $1,000 by the Pomona
exchange.
According to the school census San
Bernardino city shows an increase of
over 500 population over last year.
The gain in the entire county is a
little under 1000.
Perris, Riverside county, reports
work ON her new business block as
progressing rapidly. There is every
evidence at hand that Ferris is coming
to the front once again.
One of the latest mineral discoveries
in Southern California is reported
from Elsinore, near which place a
large body of low.grade collaborating
ore has been found.
Four car loads of machinery for a
ten stamp mill for the Chicago Gold
Mining company now lies at the depot
in Prescott The company owns a
group of ~ quartz claims.
Swanfeldt's tent camp at Catalina
has been prepared this season for over
600 tents and sixty are already up,
many of which are occupied. The
coast season is opening up early.
The strike of very rich ere at Sagi-
nav near Tucson continues to grow
larger and richer as work goes on.
When under full operation more than
one hundred men will be employed
Two Santa Ana babes are in trouble
II. Berson drank bottle of hive syrup.
r. Mckinney swallowed 100 homm-
psthio aconite pills. The pills did no
narm. A stomach pump removed
the hive syrup.
Preliminary arrangements have been
made for the consolidation of the Press
and Horticulturist with the Riverside
County Reflex and the. incorporation of
the Press Printing Company, with a
capital stock of $20,00
Henry West, the Orange county
blooded stock raiser, has shipped to
P. Y. Shields, Gov. Budd's private
secretary, three full-blooded heifeIs
and full-blooded bull. The stock
goes to Sacramento.
County Supervisor Kellogg las COM
pleted survey of the picnic grounds
in Santiago canyon recently donated to
the county by James Irvine. The
grounds comprise 100 acres and in.
clude the most picturesque picnic
grounds in Southern California.
DIR. Thomas of Pasadena has offered
the city council of that place to pay all
the expenses of a city election in case
two-thirds of the votes cast were not
in favor of allowing the Terminal an
electric franchise. The council has
not dared to accept the offer to date
and now Pasadena citizens are mad.
OF 1850. 100 acres of land in Riv-
erside, San Diego and San Bernardino
counties, only 2,4S5.4S4 acres, or
about one-ninth, are listed on the
books of the assessors of the three
counties. Over 10000, 900 acres are
desert and mountains which is not
regarded as worth assessing at all.
Postoffice Inspector Flint of Los
Angeles believes he has unearthed a
big land swindle. He refuses to give
the names of the people concerned
yet. he says a company owning few
acres of land near Acton, on which
trees have died from neglect, have dis.
posed of large amount of bonds in
the East, using the United States mail
to defraud the people. He says some
OF the people connected with it are
prominent.
The United States Metal Works of
Los Angeles has led articles of incor.
poration, in which Ernest Martin.
Richard Bargman, Gustave Kellar.
Herman Fischer and George E..
Specht were named as directors, The
company is formed to manufacture all
kinds of sheet metal and to take con.
tracts for the performance of all kinds
of skylight and cornice work. The
capital stock of the corporation is
$4,000, divided into 1000 shares val.
ued at $25 each. The amount of cam.
tai stock actually subscribed is 1926.
The Fiesta Committee of Los An.
geles has submitted full report of the
work done this year to the Chamber n,
Commerce. the Merchants and Man.
ufacturers' Association and the BOARD
OF Trade. The reports shows a casl
surplus of $48.90 ON hand, and an in,
ventory of the miscellaneous article,
belonging to the Fiesta shows then
to be worth $6,511.S5, making tn,
total assets of the organization $500.
cash subscriptions was $17,965.
George A. Doyle, secretary of tn
Perris Irrigation District, has re
ceived a letter from,a banker in Basel
Switzerland, who owns 800, 900 il
Perris irrigation bonds. The gentle
man states that he is informed tha
the directors were organizing to ques
tion its debts, and inasmuch as no in.
terest bad been maid for over two vears