The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-01-26
ALONG The COAST.
Interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED
A Number OF Miscellaneous JottinEs
Briefly aud Curtly Told In This
Column.

40, 900.
Californias 9S wheat crop is esti-
mated 500, 900 tons
II is estimated that 25, 900 freight
cars are now in California.
Over 5000 men are employed on rail-
road construction between Robson and
Greenwood, b. G..
Good coal" is reported discovered
in American territory, Alaska, 100
miles below 40-Mile river.
Atlin lake, Alaska, is announced as
gold producing district. There have
been 1900 claims recorded.
On the 10Th ult. the Oregon Legisla-
ture reduced the legal rate OF interest
in that State from s to o per cent.
The Two Republics says that Chihua-
hua capitalists will build a system OF
electric railways for their city.
The total seal catch this season in
Arctic waters and the North Pacific
was %, s65 skins, the lightest for years.
Hop sales in Washington county,
Oregon, involving 1900 pounds were
made last week The price paid was 10
cents.
The Summerland, CAL, Advance
states that the Robinson Oil Co. has
leaeed twenty-one acres OF land at
Serena and will sink for oil
The Acme Wrecking Co. San Fran.
cisco has made request upon the Navy
Department for authority to raise the
battleship Maine.
The Canadian government will build
a railway from North Vancouver to the
Lake Atlin gold fields via Bridge river
and Lillooet, b. G.
The expectation of henequen from
the port Of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico,
amounted during September to 4, 404,
lei kilos valued ia 81 ,026, 045. go.
San Francisco, CAL, supervisors will
ask Congress TO establish there plant
for the manufacture of steel armor
plate. A gun plant is also in order
The Administration will urge the
construction of the Nicaraguan canal
by government aid in connection with
the concession of the Maritime Canal
Co.
The water OF the Bear River, south.
ern IDAHO is TO be made to irrigate
10000 fertile acres. A dam and
canal will be built G. G. Parkinson
Preston, Idaho, is at the head.
Redlands, Cal, contemplates chang
ing from the horse-car to the electric
street railway system. The line is
three miles long and the estimated cost
OF the change is $780, 900.
The Puget Sound Reduction Co..
Everett, Wash. shipped sixty tons of
lead last week to the American Trad
ing Co., in Shanghai, China. 1t was
shipped in bond to Vancouver.
The Clearwater Valley Railroad Co.
has incorporated at Salem, Or, capital
$4,000, 900, to buid and operate rail-
road from Lewiston, Idaho, up the
Snake river to Wauau, Wash.
1t is estimated that 80, 600, 900
pounds OF freight We're handled at the
Keswick, Ca, railway station in Octo-
Der, due almost exclusively TO the
Mountain Copper Co.'S operations at
that place.
Hawaiian postage stamps are now
recognized Mt their face value for the
prepayment OF postage on all articles
mailed in Hawaii, whether addressed
for delivery in the United States or
elsewhere
A survey is being made for an cleo.
trio railway between Index and Galena,
Wash. The road would reach the Sun.
set, Silver Greek and Keystone mines,
all of which would become shippers.
The Santa Fe stockholders act on the
:. +. & S. j. Valley road transfer at a
special meeting TO be held December
Sth. The company issues a circular
giving full details, which shows that
they are in earnest in intent to enter
San Francisco.
The receipts of quicksilver in San
Francisco the first eight months of the
year were 10, 935 TASKS, against 10, 76O
the same time in 1897. The exports
by sea during this period were 4275
TASKS valued at 1854, $50, against 1868
TASKS valued at $l20, 8l9 in 1897.
The Robson Penticton branch of the
Columbia q Western Railway employs
5000 men. 1t is l05 miles long and ex.
tends from Robson, small town
located at the junction of the Columbia
and Kootenay rivers, through the Gold
range of mountains to Midway, b. Z.
At San Diego, Cal, President Ripley
Of the Santa Fe said that the traffic ar
rangement with the Southern Pacific
to use its Tehachapi line as connec-
tion had not yet been made and he
thought it likely the Santa Fe would
build its own lire over the TETON pass.
The new steamship company to ply
between France and San Francisco.
touching at South American, Central
American and Mexican ports, among
which are Manzanillo, Mazatlan, Santa
Rosalia and Guaymas, has notified the
government at Sonora, Mexico, that
the first steamer OF the line has started
from France.
Two Republics says the Campania In
dustrial at chihuahua, Mexico, has
received forty carloads of machinery
for the steel works to be erected there. |
New buildings, all OF iron, will be
erected. for which the material has
been ordered in the United States.
These will be gthe first steel works in
the republic of Mexico and will have
q capacity of twenty tons daily.
@. +. Gardner General Manager
Westside Flume Lumber Co., Sonora.
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