Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-11-14

lie Dutte county, Cdl., Electric
Power & Light company begins opera
tions next week. Power is to be used
by manufacturers, dredgers, farms and
mines. The plant adds 5000 II. p. to
the 5000 II. p. brought from Folsom,
Cal
The entire force of shipwrights en-
ployed at the navy yard, Mare island,
quit last week because the government
would not advance their pay from 81. 2i
to S5.04, as promised.
Horris Hicks, student at Berkeley
university, broke his neck while play
ing foot ball last week and died
Advices from Dawson state that nn-
merons vessels are being,wrecked on the
Yukon by the ice, which has come
unusually early.
The trial of S. NJ. Finley, the default
ing tax collector of Monterey county,
has commenced at San Luis Obispo.
f. Y. Methever of Los Angeles was
recently found guilty of charge of
murder for killing Miss Dorothy Mckee
of Long Beach. Metheyer is an old
man and his victim was young girl,
with whom he was enamored. jealousy
was the motive for the crime.
The revenue cutter Bear arrived at
Seattle one day recently from cruise in
the Arctic ocean. Stops We're made at
various ports and some 80 destitute
miners picked up and brought south.
The officials at Dawson are receiving
many inquiries from relatives for mis-.
sing Klondilsers, and the police are busy
trying to find some trace of them.
\ represei. ative of fiber company
has visited Butte county and offered
TO supply half the capital for yarn
plant. provided local people would sup
ply the remainder.
All the walnut packing houses are
now busily engaged i'll bleaching, grad
ing and packing the nuts. The crop is
moderate in size and of excellent quail
ity. II has been practically all sold at
remunerative prices.
Several hop sales have been made in
Dalles, Or, during the past week, al
though the market has not fairly opened
yet The price paid so far range from
about cents to 10 cents, according to
quality.
Colonel Moulton of Colusa county,
has this year raised a large quantity
of sorghum molasses. This is quite
an industry in some of the eastern
states but has received little attention
in California.
A few years since orchardists were
tnmbling over themselves to plant Trag-
edy prunes, which were then selling at
enormous prices in eastern markets.
Now the same men, except i'll the very
earliest sections are digging them up.
They will not sell at all after better
prunes come into the market.
The crop of Thompson's seedless
grapes is large this year and of good
quality. Ii was mostly harvested before
the rains For some reason customers
insist upon having this grape "bleached" !"
and the price seems to be fixed more by
success in bleaching than by any other
quality. Extra bleached" are now
selling for 10 cents per pound, but grow.
ers want more and are 'holding of"
The California Raisin-Growers assoc
iation, with its yigilant inspectors in
each packing house, is maintaining with
rigid rules the STANDARD of excel
lenee" in every grade of raisins per-
mitted to be boxed and stamped with
the name of the association, SO that
iobber and retailer can feel assured
when purchasing California raisins so
stamped that he is getting just what he
pays for.
The Crockett sugar factory has had
rather poor success with the beets plant.
cd for it last year, many of which, for
one reason or another, did not turn out
we'll. The company seems to have poor
success in inducing farmers about the
bay to replant, for it proposes to itself
lease and operate about 10000 acres,
some of which, and probably the ma
iorlty of it, will be reclaimed lands ON
the river islands or about bay. One
thousand acres of reclaimed Petaluma
marsh lands are to be planted to beets.
1t is estimated that fully 10000 sacks
of barley were caught out in the rain
on Union and Roberts islands, and par
tally wet. The weather there has
been such ever since that most of the
farmers assert that they will not lose
much, rs the brewing grades which
were wet will make good feed, and only
few cents ON each GENITAL will be lost.
The harvesters will not complete their
work on the islands till the last of next
week
CAPTAIN William Green. Sonoma' S
old st pioneer, Is dead.
The Florston, Cal. paper mill wants
4 daily carload of lime.
The Geographic rate from Atlin to
Dawson is 81 for ten words or less.
A new railroad is projected between
Ensenada, Lower California, and San
Diego, Cal.
The Snoqualmie Falls, Wash, Electric
company has begun to supply Seattle
with light and power.
Nearly s25o,000 has been invested III
jew pumping plants in the vicinity of
Pomona, Cal, this year.
Over 100 men are closing the gap on
he California coast line railroad between
turf and Elwood, Cal.