The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-24

considerable extent, and no less than
twenty wells have been put down since
the lst Of the present month. Twelve
more are in process Of going down. A
larger quantity Of oil il stored there
now, however. than ever before.
Football Manager Everett J. Brown
has presented TO the executive COM
mittee Of the University Of California
Athletic Association an itemized state
ment of receipts and expenditures dur
ing the last football season. showing a
surplus Of t1s25.0s. which il larger
than ever before. The total expendi-
tures were t6191.85; the total receipts
from the Thanksgiving intercollegiate
game were a656l.7h. Stanford re-
ceived like amount from that game.
The mortgage or the issue Of the
frst-Inortgage bonds Of the Corvallis
and Eastern Railway Company has
been fled for record in Benton county,
Or, in favor of the Central Trust Com
pany OF New York. Il covers the 14l
miles Of road between Yaquina bay
and Detroit, and also all railroad lines
to be constructed or acquired until
such railway shall amount in the ag-
gregate to $50 miles. The aggregate
amount 10 be- issued. il is stipulated,
shall not exceed all. 1850, 900 in first
mortgage bonds.
The canal of the StaDislaus and San
Joaquin Irrigation Company, in the
southeastern part of the country is dry.
This is the first time since the canal
was built that there was any demand
for the irrigation Of grain. Now that
irrigation must be resorted to in the
wheat fields no water is obtainable.
The Stanislaus river, from the head.
waters Of which the supply for the
canal is obtained is running very low
and there is hardly enough water to
supply the Knights Ferry region,
which has the first call on the ditch
Edward Anderson, colored, sued to
recover $3.50 damages for an ejectment
from Fishers Opera.house at San
Diego on account Of his color, and the
Superior Court decided against him.
The plaintiffs case rested upon the
validity Of the law passed by the last
Legislature giving colored people equal
privileges with white persons in public
places. This section the Court held
was unconstitutional on two grounds,
first. that it was violation Of the
State Constitution by reason of its title,
which includes in its scope the entire
field of civil and criminal law; and,
second, that il is in conflict with the
fourteenth amendment to the Constitu-
ton by reason of its operation being
confined to citizens alone.
The Eastern railroad rate war has
affected Southern California to the ex.
tent OF prompting movement looking
to cheaper transportation Of perishable
freight, with the expectation that the
situation will eventually
better itself. At joint meeting of
delegates from various Chambers Of
Commerce Of Southern California and
from fruit COVERS, packers and ship.
pes associations in the Chamber Of |
r. II. Young of San Diego
made the statement shat the citrus
fruit industry was on the decline in
California. A few years
ago navel oranges brought SO a box;
now the price is but little over 81,
while the railroad rate has only been
reduced from 81, 45 TO $l.25. Today |
grower delivering his fruit at the
packing house gets but rs cents or 81
for nsvels and l2 cents for seed lings.