Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1906-12-06
California Letter.

The weather here in Northern Cali
fornia still continues very dry and cool |
with an unusual number Of wind storms,
thatis, the wind blows quite hard for
several days in succession, and quite
cold offN the snow-capped mountains.
The first snow | noticed on the noun
tain peaks was November \. On the
nights Of November "A and % the mer- |
curry dropped to 80 to ~ degrees, ana
heavy frosts resulted with q aquarter inch |
of Ice where water was exposed to the
air ii shallow vessels. These were tne
| first frosts Of the season that did any
damage to vegetation. 81.
noticed the s'ranchmen" bringing
| their dressed turkeys in yesterday ana
shipping them to San Francisco Tor the
Thanksgiving market. They were load
ing two cars, and ! counted dozen
4 wagons in astring, waiting TO unload. .
| Each ranchman consigns his 1turks" to
| any commission house he chooses, ana
| there are usually several commission
.drummers' here soliciting orders. 4
only noticed one or two here yesterday.
Turkey men expect returns Of 70 Or 70
cents per pound, freight and commits
4 sions off.
The people OF Corning some 81 them
. AZ least-are wonderfully excited over
the mines at Goldfeld and other places
, in Nevada. Some Of the leading busi-
ness, men here have made large sums %
money out Of the Nevada mining stock
Even people with small means are IN
$ yesting in "stoek." Several Of Corning
speculators are up in Nevada and tele'
grams are received from Goldfield daily
!. giving stock quotations. A few month
AGO liyeryman here bought iOOO share
of aMohawks stock for $3.50; two 9
T. three weeks ago he sold the thousan
shares for $4,000, and difhe had "held on
- until the present time he could have g
s2O. 600. There is one man here in Col
J. ming who, am told, has made Slo0,N
81 on mining stock, and people say tns
4. sneculating in ''stock" has Just com
lis menced.
On November 20 the voters OF q
town Of Corning voted on the questie
~ whether or not this town should ha'
saloons. There we're 1856 votes-77 fo
and 100 against the grog shops. ASH
licenses Of all the saloons in town q
out, and have been for some weeks,
effort will be made soon TO enforce pr
". hibition.
: The Presbyterian church building
~ our town has lately been enlarged 2
nd very much improved, and the Method
folks have concluded their church bun
dis inc il too small and inadequate for pr
ent purposes, and they have bought +
. or five lots in new location and at pr
Tue emit have new building 55 x 50 fe
we'll under way. The ceremony OF ~
ties ing the corner stone" took place 50
ear ten days ago.
On November is we attended the
neral service, here in Corning, OF v
Vef' liam Hannah, who is said to have D
her about iO6 years old-the Oldest mar
last the county and, possibly, the oldes
the state. mentioned this old gen
r,s,, man in a former letter. There are
two other men in California said tt
as old as Mr.. Hannah was at the tim
his death.
Even this old patriarch could
- said. ais Jacob did when he appeared
4 fore Pharaoh, slew and evil have
days OF the years of my life been"
- / presume that the men and boy
IL California wear more "blue der
pauts or overalls, than any other l'
- men and boys in the world. They
a. worn twelve months in the year and
s. some. seven days in the weekly i
- ers. farmers boys, clerks IN 81
sss school boys, ETC., etc, Many OF
IN. school boys wear them regularly
.ai attending "Grammar" school, but
Id they enter the High school they US
:. Law them aside.
A chicken breeder on tiiss ''''''''-s
III. ned ten White WyandOtses ffonl 20
: .s's a few days ego and received slOO +
N lot. OF $40 each, so I am reliably I'M
SrE ed. saw the chickens at the ei
once, but did not know they we're
z-sz- breds when looking at them
4 California papers say thai seven
sand coionists took advantage OF Z
day On which the rates accorded 2
svsF's Southern Pacific railroad we're en-