Mesa free press., 1899-10-27
COAST NEWS
Around the Coast.
important Information Gathered
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
A Summary Of Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

Good rains fell throughout the state
last week, and heavy snow fall is re-
ported upon the mountains. Eight feet
is said to have fallen In Bear valley.
Lucky" Baldwin was arrested at
San Francisco last week for violating
the fire ordinance in erecting a brick
wall on the site of the old hotel with
out obtaining a permit. He was re-
leased on $1O0 bond.
AT Stockton the papers have been
signed whereby the Crocker Beet Sugar
Company leases $500 acres of island
land for the purpose of planting beets.
The lease is to run four years, and the
price is to be 81 per annum per acre.
Fruit packers around Salinas are
much worried over their Inability to
get sufficient number of pickers. The
apple crop of Salinas valley is enor-
nous this year. The hop crop Of Pa
jaro valley, when dried, will amount
to about 275 tons.
The Bulletin says that it learns from
a reliable source that the Sutro Street
Railroad in San Francisco has been
sold to the Sutter Street Railroad
Company for $165,O00. Mr.. Morrow of
the Sutter street company denies that
the sale has been made to his COM
pany.
The half-million dollar law suit re-
Gently begun by the Hawaiian Com
mercial and Sugar Company against
the Maui Island Railroad Company,
Rudolph Spreckels and G. S. Cpreck-
els, has been dismissed by stipulation,
a settlement of the dispute having been
reached.
The request of the Santa Fe Terminal
Company of California for the use of
tie Main street wharf, San Francisco,
for ferry facilities, with slips and land
ing facilities, was referred to the chief
engineer, with instructions to have
slips and sheds constructed for the use
of the company, and to report to the
commission when they were ready for
use.
shocks ever felt in San Jose occurred
last week. 1t created much excite
ment Chimneys were thrown down,
and plaster in many parts of the city
was shaken from the walls. A few min
utes after it two more shocks OF a
similar nature, but less severe, fol-
lowed. The earthquake was not felt
in Petaluma, sixteen miles south of
here.
The steamer Tees, which has just
brought $4,000 in gold from Alaska,
reports that a stampede is now on in
earnest from Dawson to Cape Nome.
When the miners who arrived by the
Tees left the Klondike capital, river
steamers were being left without crews,
the seamen deserting to join the great
crowd hurrying down the river to the
new Eldorado Navigation will close
next week on the upper river, and the
steamers will go into winter quarters
near White Horse.
Walnuts are being handled in large
quantities at Goleta and all through
the south of this county. At a single
Goleta rancho $4,000 pounds Of nuts
were handled on Saturday afternoon
by the graders and dippers. The new
dipping process of blanching is being
used by nearly all growers here, and
they vote it success. The first cost is
greater than is the case with the old
sulphur process, but it is found that
dipping does away with great pro-
portion of the culls, and none of the
nuts become rancid. In the long run
the cost is said to be about the same
for the two methods.
For the first time in it's history, the
office of the Collector of the Port reg
istered a deed of trust last week. 1t was
a first mortgage from the Oceanic
Steamship Company to the Union Trust
Company of San Francisco of the date
of July 81, 1898, for the total sum of
$2,500,000, and it took this unusual
course because the property involved
is mostly in vessels plying the ocean
between this port and Honolulu and
Sydney, N. S. w. The issue is for the
purpose Of paying for new steamers
under construction, and for extensive
repairs that are to be made to other
vessels on the company's lines.