The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-24
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Some Important Happenings in
the South
THAT MAY PLEASE OUR READERS.
An Assortment of NewSy Events That
Occurred In our siidst That Cannot
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son will probably be appointed post
master at that place.
The First Baptist church at Broad
way and Sixth streets, Los Angeles.
has been sold for business purposes fol-
&45, 900.
Miss Pearl Condit caught a sixty.
five pound sea bass at Catalina with q
hand line after forty-five minutes
struggle.
A member Of the viticultural staff Of
the University of California is in Santa
Barbara county studying the Anaheim
vine disease.
The next meeting of the Southern
California Editorial Association is tC
be held at Alpine Tavern, on Mount
Lowe, August 8.
Clearwater will have another cream
cry which will be one of the most
modern equipped plants Of its kind in
Southern California.
Acting Governor Miller has sent so,
900 immigration pamphlets advertising
the resources of New Mexico to the
Tennessee Centennial.
The Pasadena City Trustees are be.
ing petitioned to take a census of that
city with a view of Reconsideration
under higher class.
It is now estimated that 1900 stamps
are represented in the mills located in
Riverside, Kern, San Diego, San Ber-
nardino and Los Angeles counties.
The question of water has been solved
by the ranchers south of Benson. Water
has been bored for, resulting in score
of artesian wells, whose flow is steady
and strong.
A recent cleanup Of one ton Of ore
taken from the Gleason mine at S. H.
Mountain, neal Yuma, yielded $1,000.
This mine is one of the late rich dis
coveries in that section.
The dome of the new observatory at
Flagstaff is the second largest wooden
dome in the world, and the telescope
is the next in size to that of the Lick
observatory in California.
George Savettl about 30 years old,
whose father is foreman of the rail.
road section gang at Oceanside, is
suffering from mental arrangement as
result of smoking cigarettes.
The exemption law passed by the
late Legislature, which was considered
by many to be invalid, stood upon
every point in two garnishment suits
brought at Las Vegas before Judge
Wooster.
Treasurer Reeves, of San Bernardino
county, in closing his accounts for the
fiscal year, shows balance paid to the
State of only $267.77 This is all it
cost that county to assist in running
the State government.
The junk Hon Kon has been fitted
up at San Diego, and has sailed for the
Lower California Islands, where il will
protect the Guano beds of the Ameri-
can Guano Co., from the poachers who
go out from San Diego.
One Of the latest reports of rich gold
strikes is at the head of Pacolma Creek,
near Soledad Canon, where a ledge of
free.milling gold ore is said to have
been uncovered that is eight feet wide
and ranges 1891 to the ton.
The Southern California company is
hauling in at the rate of 100 tons of
rock day for the Notifications at
Ballast Point. 1t is loaded on to light.
ers from the cars at the Spreckels
wharf and towed to the point.
The Utica mine, about fourteen miles
east of Winchester, and near Elsi.
more, is now the talk of that portion of
the country. The ore is low grade but
ledge 100 feet in width and over 900
Feet long is now exposed to depth of
500 feet.
The establishment of a fruit dryer
at San Jacinto seems doubtful this sea-
son. The Pasadena parties who have
been negotiating the deal want San
Jacinto to furnish sufficient capital TO
pay for all fruit bought and the operat.
ing expenses.
COL A. f. Walker of the Santa Fe
railway, says that to visit a local sta.
ton like Kingman, recently only
water tank and siding. today with rail
way receipts Of $40, 900 per month.
opens ones eyes as to what is going ON
in Arizona.
The two locomotives that went over
into the river near Selden and sunk ont
OF sight III the quicksand of the river.
snort time ago, can now be seen. and
an effort will Soon be made by the
railroad company to remove them from
the river.
A we'll lately put down at Johannes.
burg to the depth of 275 feet has water
in it to within l0S feet of the surface
and pumping reduces it to 11s feet and
no lower. The three wells now fn.
ished are sufficient to warrant,tbe erec.
tion of the stamp mills proposed.
VIM. 7. Smith & Co. report the re.
ceipt of $4,000 worth of bullion for re-.
fniDg from the ex tension of the old
Escondido mine in San Diego county.
They are also constantly receiving
considerable bullion and ore for ASSAY.
ing from the Ysma country and parts
Of Arizona.
The Santa Ana papers claim that
Dr. ID. s. Jones of that place is the
original propagation of the Seeding
orange known as the California. The
thief merit that is..claimed for it is
hat it is late in maturing and is at its
est at period when the navels as !
yell as many seedlings are entirely out ,
I market. {
Trouble Is brewing among the en- i
loyes In the Southern California rail. ii
ay shops at San Bernardino over the D
cent action of the officials in refus. u
~ fha man tho .,nunl n.,o1.;al - | =