The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-21
ALONG The COAST.
interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
A Number Of Miscellaneous Jottings
Briefly and CURLY Told In This
Column.

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Eureka has been washed away during
the past two weeks.
A bill for the support Of aged indi-
gents has been introduced in the AS
sembly at Sacramento.
The Tucson star claims that the
gold output Of Arizona for the present
year will reach 100000 900.
Over 200 stands of arms have been
taken from persons entering Yosemite
Park by the two main thoroughfares.
The steelhead salmon trout are said
to be coming into Santa Ynez river
since the late rains in good numbers.
The City Council of Sacramento has
passed an ordinance to the effect that
any employee of the city who does not
pay his bills shall lose his position.
The Petsluma Daily Argus, after
running two years, has suspended pub.
location. Its proprietors, McNabb a.
Cassidy, will continue the weekly edi-
ton.
Spokane county, Washington, has
ten good.sized lumber mills and several
smaller ones. the whole aggregating
an estimated capacity of 1855, 900 feet
per day.
The Siskiyou County Bank is to
have new building on the present
site at Yreka. 1t will be an elegant,
commodious and thoroughly modern
structure.
The great cattle and land interests
of Miller q Lux is to be merged into
corporation of $l2,000.000 capital
stock. Henry Miller, the surviving
partner, is TO have $4,000. 900 worth.
The cyclists want but one favor of
the present State Legislature-the
passage OF the baggage bill chasing the
bicycle as free baggage-and they will
concentrate all their efforts TO obtain
it.
A sample of sugar cane from Yuma
recently sent to San Francisco yielded
1877 per cent sugar, Louisiana cane
yields 1889 per cent; Hawaiian cane,
1871 per cent; Java cane, 1898 per
cent.
The San Diego Wednesday clubs,
efforts to raise funds for public
library building have brought offers of
free plans. A Boston firm offers to
donate 5000 worth of prints for its
walls.
The United States revenue cutter
Bear has been taken to Quartermaster
harbor to be put ON the dry dock for
repairs to her hull. A $4,000 contract
has been lot and extensive repairs are
TO be made.
The Saturday Night club, of Lake.
view, San Diego county, spends an
hour or two in social converse and then
the members exchange magazines A
monthly fee of 10 cents is exacted TO
buy the magazines.
The Orange Belt irrigation district
near Pomona will disincorporate. 1t
has no bonds outstanding and no debt
The district was formed several years
ago with view of taking water from
the Arrowhead system.
The State Board of Trade recently
received from Professor Hilgard of the
State University a sample of the tropi.
cal pawpaw, which experiments have
demonstrated possesses pepsin in such
quantities as to digest meat.
The old steamer Portland, formerly
the Haytian Republic. has been charter
ed by the North American Transporter
ton and Trading Company. She will
be refitted and put on the run between
San Francisco and the Yukon.
Eastern apples are being sold in San
Jose, and yet the conditions in the
nearby Santa Cruz mountains and
foothills are all favorable for apple
growing. California ought to grow
all the apples that she requires.
Several parties are out with petitions
OF recommendation to the appointment
OF the Lompoc Postoffice, vacancy in
which will not occur except for cause,
for the two years to come. The office
is worth about slice per annum.
The Puschbacker or Magalia mine,
ON Magalia ridge, Butte county, has
been bonded in the interest of an Eng
hsh syndicate. and a diamond drill
will be used to locate the deep channel
supposed to run through the ridge.
The Oroville Mercury expresses sur.
prise that the diamond drill is not
more extensively used in prospecting.
as it can be run to any depth and
withdrawn with the core showing the
exact formation of every inch of ground
through which it passes.
Nearly the entire portion of the
Santa Rosa rancho, comprising several
thousand acres, is being farmed. For
years this valuable property has been
exclusively deyoted to sheep and cattle.
We look for prodigious crops if the
season proves favorable.
The total Eastern overland shin. /
ments from San Jose during the year
1896 amounted to $685., Il5 pounds
a descre..~2 II nearly 90. 200, 900 pounds
when compared with 1895. Total
dried prune shipments for the same
time footed up S2,652, 300 pounds.
On photographing the sun recently at
Lick Observatory, San Jose, Mr.. Col |
ton found a large spot near the eastern
limb, which is easily visible without
telescope aid. 1t is mostly pneum-
bral. however, the nucleus being small. !
The extreme length of the spot is about
BS. 900 miles.
The building of the Moreno dam,
which il to form part of the San
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