Amador ledger., 1901-07-12
Company's gravel mine on the Port
Wine ridge, Plumas county, to outside
capitalists for $500 is reported.
SAN FRANCJSCO

Wine ridge, Plumas county, to outside
capitalists for $50, 900 is reported.
SAN FRANCISCO.
William Beveridge, the second assist
ant engineer of the steamer China, ar
rested some days ago for smuggling silk
and indicted by Federal grand jury,
entered plea of guilty to the charge
before Judge De Haven in the United
States District Court. His attorney
pleaded for his clients sick wife and
said Beveridge would pay fine.
An enormous oil tank to hold !, 26O, 900
gallons of California liquid fuel has
been completed for the Market-street
Railway Company. 1t stands near the
electric pOwer-hOuse at Fourteenth and
Bryant streets. 1t is 80 feet in diane
ter and 81 feet high. 1t is in the shape
of mammoth cylinder, hooded over
on top and is made of steel. This tank
will hold just $4,000 barrels of OIL 1t is
to be repeatedly supplied for three years
by the Monte Cristo Oil Company.
That concern has contract with the
street railway company. The contract
is said to be in the neighborhoOd of 80
cents barrel at the wells, with trans
portation charges of AZ or more cents
added. The fuel saving to the corpora
ton will mount into the thousands of
dollars month. Every power-house
of the street railway system will burn
oil supplied from this monster store
tank. Oil burning apparatus is now on
the way from the Eastern factories.
SANTA CRUZ.
Fire broke out in the large grocery
store of George M. Martin, corner OF
Main and Fourth streets, Watsonvllle.
The fire occurred in the oilroom in the
rear OF the store and is supposed to have
originated by the burning out of an
electric wire which dropped on an oil
tank, causing an explosion. The store
and the blacksmith shop of w. S. Boil
ton were enveloped in flames, the lat
ter place being only partly destroyed.
The building was owned by p. Brassel.
The total loss is $1,000, no insurance.
Martins stock was insured for $1,000.
Brassel contemplated the erection of a
two-story brick building in the place of
the one destroyed.
SAN JOAQUIN.
The most disastrous grain fire in the
eastern part OF San Joaquin county
since 1884 burned about 1000 acres, and
the loss will be all of $4,000. The crop
on several large ranches was completely
destroyed, and the residence and barns
on the Threllfall ranch were destroyed.
The farmers first saved their stock and
harvesters. A high wind was blowing
and the fire swept the country from
Coneta to the Stanislaus river. Most
of the grain was insured.
SANTA CLARA.
The Catholic church at Milpitas has
been destroyed by fire. The fact that
it was on fire was not discovered until
almost the entire structure was in
flames, and with no facilities for fight
ing fire nothing could be done to save
it. Only small amount of insurance
was carried on the building, so that its
cost, fully $4,000, will be almost an en-
tire loss to the parish. The origin of
the fire is unknown.
SACRAMENTO.
The snags are to be removed from the
Sacramento river, and Captain F. A.
Jewell has been awarded the contract
at $25 snag.
The Sacramento Fire Department is
to have new engine house on Twenty
sixth street, between l. and M, to cost
$685.. The building will be two stories
in height, with a tower. The lower
story will be of brick and the upper
story of wood.
SAN BERNARDINO.
The third big gusher of artesian wa
ter within week has been struck on
desert land in the vicinity of Victor,
sixty miles north of San Bernardino.
For several weeks drillers have been at
work there in the hope of striking oil.
AT the depth of 1S5 feet the drillers en-
countered well which surpasses the
Others. 1t flows steady stream of 21O
inches. The force was so strong that
the well could not be capped, and had
to be temporarily abandoned.
sIsKIYoU.
The old Sheba mine on Patterson
creek is out of service this year, the
property having been badly damaged
last winter by an avalanche sweeping
everything in the way of improve
ments down into the creek, with the
exception of the mill. The owners may
not resume before next winter or spring.
SAN DIEGO.
The schooner Helen, Captain Lock
hart, which left San Francisco in bal
last for Alaska, reached the harbor at
San Diego and will remain there for
several days undergoing repairs. Cap
tain Lockhart, with crew of two men
started for st. Michael, but when two
days out from San Francisco the Helen
ran into heavy weather, which not only
beat her back, but caused her to leak
considerably. The captain decided to
make the run to San Francisco, but adj
verse wind prevented and he headed
for San Diego.
SAN MATEO.
The Protestant Episcopal Divinity
School at San MateO Is to be enlarged
by the construction of chapel, dining
rooms and sleeping apartments for the
students.
SHASTA.
While driving from his home in Mill
vile to Anderson, Herman Frederick
Ross, one of the earliest pioneers OF
Shasta county, was thrown to the
ground and killed through his team
running away.
SONOMA.
Frank Porter, charged with stealing
a cow, was found guilty, and, waving
time, was sentenced by Judge Burnett
to eight years in Folsom.
PACIFIC COAST.