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PIOCHE WEEKLY RECORD.
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PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information from All
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
Budget of Miscellaneous Jottings
Briefly and CurUy Told In thlf
Column.
Ranchers in the Fraser River Valley
are talking of leaving their farm.
The Epworth League of Sonoma
oounty had a good rally at Occidental.
A large number of student havo
applied for admission to Stanford Uni
versity. Judge Dorn has decided that the
Salinas Common Council is entitled to
bold office.
Sacramento's Grand Jury is to in
vestigate the recent bridge deal made
by the supervisors of that city.
An unusually Urge proportion of the
new class at the State university aro
taking the mining college course.
Taooma'a financial affairs are such
that there is a strong possibility of
their goinf into the hands of a receiver.
Salinas will probably secure the
laregst beet sugar refinery in the
world, as the necessary 2200 acres have
been pledged.
Labor Commissioner Fitgerald of
San Franoisoo recommends that the
Board of Health order a general clean
up of the grading camps.
Two men held an egg-eating con
test in 8an Franoisoo. Brownley nte
60 and quit. Miller took in 00 and
won the $5 in 00 minutes.
Mrs. Knox Hill, of Fresno, distin
guished herself at Santa Cruz by sav
' ing H. W. Pastelwhatie of Los Uatos,
who was drowning in the surf.
The San Franoisoo Floating C. E.
society has formed a brunch on the
war ship Oregon, and will have an
other on the gunboat Bennington.
In many vineyards in Fresno the
Chinese laborers have been supple
mented by Japanese. The latter are
qnioker workers and demand less pay.
Char I'M Lake, a rider in the Examiner-Journal
relay race, fell from his
wheel between Verdi and Reno and
was nnoonsoious about eight minutes.
The First Infantry, U. S. A., had
seven squads out at Santa Cruz on
various oounty roads in order to as
certain approaches to Santa Cruz and
make camps of same.
The representatives of the Santa
Ynez Valley Union High School have
elected Professor W. S. Edwards of
Lompoo prinaipal. The school will be
located at Santa Ynez.
The State Bohool census of Oregon
which has lust been completed by
Superintendent Irwin at Salem, shows
that there are in Oregon at present
129,623 children of school age.
San Jose dairymen in replaoing the
slaughtered tuberculosis by oows, use
the utmost caution, causing the ani
mals to be tested for tuberoulosis by
their own agents before buying and
again tested by the inspector after ar
rival upon their ranches.
There is a typhoid fever epidemic at
the County Jail in Los Angeles, five
persona being stricken down by the
dread disease. Jailer Kennedy's
daughter, the matron and three prison
ers are the viotims. Defective plumb
ing is said to have induced the illness.
The Rev. Father Altmioks died last
week at the age of 67 years, at the Los
Angeles house of the Franciscan fath
ers. After the tragioal murder of
Father Ferdinand by Borgmeyer of the
Santa Barbara Mission last February,
Father Servatiuus received the tem
porary appointment of Father Bernar
din.
Fulton Shephard, a 17-year-old lad
of Oakland, who goes on crutches, is
the first one to receive a medal for
valor from the Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Children. He not
only jumped in and rescued a 12-year-old
boy from drowning but worked an
hour in resuscitating him.
Hepburn & Terry of the Hotel Capi
tola, at Capitola, have filed a petition
of insolvency with the largest list of
liabilities ever filed in the county,
fheir liabilities are $20,675, with no
assets. Creditors are located in Santa
Cruz, Capitola, Sau Franoisoo, San
Jose, Los Angeles and other places.
The prospect for a big strike of petro
leum near Livormore, has stirred up
extraordinary exoitement, and many
enthusiastic townspeople are heading
for the oil fields. The district now
engaging the attention of the towns
people is in a direct line between the
ooal fields of Mt. Diablo and Corral
Hollow.
The farmers of Fraser Valley, B. C,
In convention have deoided to urge on
both the Provincial and Dominion Gov
ernmenta the necessity of permanent
dykes and navigation improvement
A delegation will interview the offi
cials. If nothing is done by the Gov
ernments all the farmers on low-lying
ranohes will abandon them for taxes.
The State Board of Health chemist
has analyzed the ch jap pineapple and
lemon jellies in the San Franoisoo
market. He finds not a traoe of pine
apple of lemon in them. Jellies made
from decayed fruits are also in market.
and he thinks marmalades and jams
are adulterated. The city ia urged to
establish a laboratory where all goods
may be analyzed.
Mayor William H. Carlson of San
Diego, and Chief of Polioe J. W.
Brenning, are at outs. The Mayor
filed charges against the Chief, alleg
ing in an affidavit that the Chief has
teen guilty of insubordination, neglect
of duty, incompetency and general in
efficiency. Brenning asserts that it is
a personal fight of the Mayor to oust
him from office.
To refute the statements of Eastern
. papers that lands in the Southern
Hates were cheaper and more produc
tive than those in California, the State
Board of Trade at Ban Frauoisco will
prepare a reply and circulate it through
out the East. To do this every
oounty in the State is requested to fur
nish the Boaid with Ktatistica of the
prioe of their lands and the amount and
character of their productions.
The Stoneman Bouse, in Yosemite
Valley, together with ita entire con
tent, has been burned to the ground.
Fortunately no one was injured,
although there were a number of guests
ia the house at the time. The hotel
was erected during the administration
of Governor Stoneman, and was the
result of public disapproval of extor
tionate practices of the private indi
viduals who controlled the hotel privi
leges through the "fanning" out
methods then followed.
As a band of 125 cattle was being
driven across the county bridge over
the Merced river, about twelve miles
south of Turlock, the bridgo gave way
and the greater number of the animals
were dropped into the stream, falling
a distance of aobut 100 feet. About a
score of cattle had their legs brokeu
and others were otherwise injured.
A large number of them will have to
be killed. A number are also thought
to have been drowned. A section of
the bridge was It ft standing in the
middle and a dozen or so of the ani
mals were left there.
The aluminum air ship to be built at
San Francisco on Dr. C. A. Smith's
model will be cigar-shaped, 00 feet
long, SO feet in diameter, with a bow
45 feet long, and a 15-foot projoctiou
fiom the stern. Hydrogen gas is to
give it buoyancy, and an 8 horse
power electric engine will dive it.
The aluminum wings can be operated
like those of a bird. It will be able to
lift over 6000 pounds, all told. In
coming to land it is to drop an anchor,
to be hauled safely down.
Professor Wilkson disoussnd pruning
of deciduous trees at the Farmers In
stitute meeting in Sau Diego county.
He Bald the short days and wet weather
of winter made it too expensive to
prune in winter, as formerly. Now
the work should be done early and be
over by November 15th. Pruners had
better go slow if the trees are summer
irrigated and vigorously growing, but
if the leaves have turned it is safe.
One prune-grower gets better fruit by
allowing only a few limbs and letting
them grow long, but local conditions
may affect this practice.
A large piece of aluminum has been
found at Burke's Sanitarium at Al
truria, Sonoma county. It was found
in the cinders of the furnace of the
sanitarium, and had evidently been
put into the furnace when the coal
was shoveled into the heater. The
pieoe found is about two inches in
diameter, and no doubt came from tho
ooal mine which is being worked there.
Considerable importance is attached
to the find, many think.
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country.
SPOKEN OF IN THIS COLUMN.
Selections That Will Greatl Interest our
Beadora Beth 014
and yours.
It ia announced that arrangements
have been perfected for William J.
Bryan to address the labor, assemblies
of Chicago on Labor day, September
7 th.
The Canadian'yachf Canada defeated
the challenge Venedor and won the In
ternational race at Toledo recently.
The defender won by 23 seconds, time
allowance.
The body of Bill Doolin, outlaw and
highwayman, on whose head were Gov
ernment rewards aggregating ffi,000,
lies in a rough casket at Rhodes' estab
lishment in Guthrie, O. T.
The Liiitliicum Carriage Company,
of Defiance, O. , incorporated with a
capital stock of $J 00,000, and one of
the largest carriage manufactories in
Northwestern Ohio, has failed.
The President has appointed Levi T.
Griffin of Detroit pension agent at
Detroit, vice Harrison H. Wheeler,
deceased. Mr. Griffin was a member
of the Fifty-third Congress and was at
one time a partner of Don M. Dickinson.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Leopold Herz of New York, father
of Dr. Cornell us Herz of Panama-canal
fame, died at Bomeiuouth, where he
was visiting his sou.
Frederick Harrison, Grand Manager,
and Robert Turnbull, General Superin
tendent of the Loudon & Northwestern
railway, are in America inspecting our
railroad systems.
EASTERN SHIPMENTS.!
The
Carbolic Acid Preservation
Scheme Did Not Work.
THE PROGRESS OF PHYLLOXERA.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
The dryhouse at the Miama Powder
Works, five miles north of Xenia, O. .
blew up reoeutly, shaking the country
for miles around, killing Frank Eich,
the powder boss, and Silas Figging,
the engineer.
The Spanish Government having
dropped the railway bill, the Liberals
have agreed to stop all further opposi
tion to the budget. The Chamber of
Deputies, by a vote of 180 to 34,
adopted bills providing for the farming
out of the tobacco monopoly and for
leasing the Alameda quick silver
mines.
The water rates fixed by the city of
San Jacinto, under the new municipal
water system, are as follows: For sin
gle family and not more than two ani
mals per month, $1; each additional
animal, 15 cents; hotel or boarding
house, $2; livery barn or stable, $3;
store or offloe, 50 cents; lawns not ex
ceeding in dimensions 450 feet by 50
feet, 25 cents; lawns exoeeding in di-
menisons 60 feet by 50, 60 by 150 feet,
50 cents.
Two immense oil tanks, each with
a capacity of 199.000 gallons, have
been placed in the west end of the
Southern Pacific yards, at Los Angeles,
and the task of filling the great con
tainers has been begun. The oil is
forced into these tanks by an air pres
sure. Passenger switch engine No.
1,047 will be the first locomotive to
take oil from the tanks, and all the
other engines will shortly be turned
into oil burners.
FEDERATION OP RAILWAY MEN.
Favored by Kepreaeiitatlvee of the Varl
oui llrotherhooda.
Indianapolis (Iud.) A meeting of
the representatives of the different rail
road brotherhoods was held in this city
to consider the advisability of a federal
tion among the brotherhoods. There
were present at the meeting P. M.
Arthur," grand ohief of the Brother
hood of Looomotive Engineers; P. H.
Morrissey, grand master of the Broth
erhood of Railroad Trainmen; Frank
P. Sargent, grand master of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen;
E. E. Clark, chief conductor of the
Order of Railroad Conductors; J. R.
T. Austin, grand secretary and treas
urer of the Order of Railway Tele
graphers; C. W.L. Brown, deputy grand
ohief of the same order, and other
prominent men in railroad labor organ
izations. The result of the meeting
was the adoption of the resolution
favoring federation.
A Claah In Authority.
London. A dispatch to theTele
graph from Buluwayo says that it is
reported that a serious disagreement
hs occurred between Cooil Rhodes
and General Martin, tho latter de
manding the unconditional surrender
of all of the Marabele.
Memorial services over the late
Baron Von Zedwitz, German diplomat,
killed in a collision between his yacht
Isolde and Emperor William's yacht
Meteor, wag attended by representatives
of the Queen, Prince of Wales and all
the yacht clubs. Further details of the
accident show the Isolde's bowsprit
knocked a hole in the Britannia's
main cabin. The Prince of Wales
ordered his yacht retired for the re
mainder of the season. It is believed
the Meteor, Satinata and Ailas will
not raoe this year.
Acting Commissioner of Indian
Affairs Smith has awarded the con
tracts for erecting school buildings at
the Rosebud and Pine Ridge ageuoies
to Owen & Hill of Minneapolis, Minn ,
at 140.525 for Rosebud and 44,700
for Pine Ridge.
The Civil Service Commission has
issued an order to Federal office-holders
Warning all employes against seek
ing or making contributions for cam
paign purposes. The order embraces
all brandies of the government service,
The violators will be prosecuted.
The Western roads are falling out
over the Grand Army business to St.
Paul. There is not much cutting of
the rate proper, but many of the roads
are carrying department commanders
and their staffs for nothing and issuing
free transportation in other cases.
It is reported that the town of On
tonagon, Mich., has been totally de
stroyed by the advancing forest fires,
which have surrounded the village.
The loss amounts to $1,600,000 and it
is feared that several lives have been
sacrificed. The town had a population
of 2000.
Near Guthrie, Okl., stage robbers
shot a woman because she would not
give up her jewels when so ordered.
Four masked men held up the stage
and seemed $800. The woman who
was shot was known to her fellow pas
sengers as Mrs. Raymond Reomes of
Philadelphia.
The stage-conch between Grande and
Araphoe, in Day county, was held up
by four highwaymen recently and the
four occupants ordered to stand and
deliver. Mrs. Amy Childs of Phila
delphia refused to alight and was shot
dead. The robbers secured over $300
in booty from the three other passen
gers and escaped.
Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt, daughter
of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Harry
Payne Whitney, son of William C.
Whitney, were married August 25th at
Newport, R. I. The father of the
groom presentea tne couple witn sev
eral hundred acres of land, at one of
the principal summer resorts of Massa
chusetts, on wbioh ) he will erect a
handsome summer residence.
The Bank of Weyniore, Beatrice,
Neb. , has olosed its doors. No state
ment of assets or liabilities is obtain
able. It was one of the depositories for
Gage oounty. Six thousand dollars
are on deposit, amply protected by
$80,000 in bonds. No run was made
on the bank, the Directors deeming it
advisable to close on acconnt of the
slow collections and inability to renew
loans.
The old house at West Brownsville,
Pa., in which James G. Blaine was
born and spent his boyhood, has been
torn down. It was destroyed beoause
for many years it had been going to
ruin. While the old building was in
oonrse of destruction the villagers pos
sessed themselves of mementoes in the
shape of wood, nails and pieces of
stone. Many of the old nails were
converted into rings, which adorn the
fingers of the residents.
Captain Burnside aud twenty-two of
the crew of the British tramp steamer
Moldava were picked up at sea in three
open boats by the Anchor Line steamer
Cicrassia, which arrived at New York
from Glasgow recently. The Moldava
struck an iceberg in a fog, and sank,
giving the crew barely time to pro
vision the lifeboats and lower them.
All hands were saved. The Moldava,
which had a cargo of coal, was owned
by the Mercantile Shipping Company
of London.
A Cleveland dispatch says Judge
Stone has denied the petition of the
striking Brown Hoisting Company's
employes for an injunction to compel
the company to reinstate the old men
as agreed. The court decides the
strikers have an adequate remedy at
law in the aotion for damages for
breaoh of contract. The court also
refuses a mandatory order to compel
the Brown Company to take its men
back on the ground that the contract is
too indefinite.
News of the great success of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania expedition to
Babalon has been received. The most
notable result of the exoavations
is that tho history of Babylon
ia's people as recorded in oune
form writing on tables is carried back
at least 2,250 years further than yet
known. There is now abundant written
evidence that the Babylonia people ex
isted and were civilized enough to be
able to write at least 7000 years before
Christ.
It is reported that Dr. Nansen in
tend to conduct an expedition to the
Autractic ocean in search of the South
Pole before returning to the Arctic
regions.
A dispatch from Hamburg to the
Central News says that the German
traim-Altuntio steamship companies
will reduce their steerage rates to 150
marks beginning in September.
The British are preparing to deal
the Mahdists in Egypt a crushing
blow. A Belgian expedition passing
through Congo is prepared to co-operate.
If the British forces be successful
it will be necessary to station British
troops in the Soudan, and England's
occupation of Egypt will be prolonged
indefinitely.
The Hamburg Correspondent, a semi
official organ, demands that energetic
steps be at once taken to protect Ger
man interests in Samoa against the
encroachments of "American adven
turers." The paper asserts that Amer
icans are seizing the trade in Samoa,
ignoring international arrangements
entirely.
Major-General Cameron, command
ant of the Royal Military College at
Kingston, has resigned. Many com
plaints have been made of the manner
in which the affairs of the college
have been conducted, and General
Cameron, who is a son-in-law of Sir
Charles Tupper, lias frequently been
the subject of severe criticism in the
Dominion Parliament. It has always
been understood that a change of Gov
ernment in Canada would mean the
general's resignation.
The Rcichsanzieger says it is author
ized to announce that Emperor William
desires a bill to be drawn up and sub
mitted to the Bundersath during the
coming autumn based on the liens of
the statement which Prince von
Hoheulohe, the Imperial Chancellor,
made in the Reichstag on May 18th
last relative to reform in criminal pro
ceedure of the army. This concession
on the part of the Emperor may do
much to end the ministerial crisis.
Owing to the strike of Dunsniuir
and Jackson's engineers the master
shipbuilders threaten the men with a
general lockout, unless they return
within a week. The Belfast master
shipbuilders indorse the proposed
lockout, which affects all the engineers
employed on the Clyde at Belfast and
on tho northeast coast, including 19,
000 of the Armstrong Company's men.
After a stormy and troubled day in
Barcelona, during which many minor
conflicts between the police and the
populace occurred, tho troops designed
to re-enforce the Spanish arms in Cuba
embarked on board Hie boats in the
harbor. The police finally succeeded
in destroying the placards which had
been posted calling upon the people
and soldiers to revolt.
The rebel stronghold in the moun
tainous distriot of Cuenca has fallen,
practically putting an end to the revo
lution in Ecuador against Alfaro,
headed by Vega and Penly, supported
with money, men and arms by the
clergy. This news has just been re
ceived from Guayaquil, where enthus
iasm over Alfaro's victory was un
bounded. Tho Sultan of Zanzibar, Hamod ben
Thwain Ben Said, is dead. He suc
ceeded to the Sultanate on the death of
Sultan Ali on March 5th, 1893. Said
Kalif has ocoupied the palace, taking
possession of that building immediate
ly after the death of Hamed Ben
Thwain Said became known. He pro
claimed himself Sultan and barricaded
himself in the palace with 700 armed
Askarig.
A dispatch from Athens says that the
most sorions fight which is recorded in
Crete up to the present time occurred
when the Christians in the mountains
organized a strong expedition against
the villages in the Heraklio district.
A thousand well-armed Turks left
Heraklion to protect their property.
In the pitohed battle which followed
the Turks were defeated, losing eighty
killed and forty-seven wonded. The
losses of the Christians were smaller.
The Cretans captured an enormous
booty, hundreds of rilles and thousands
of sheep falling into their possession.
The British ships at Zanzibar have
bombarded the palace, and have made
Said Khalid, the usurping Sultan, a
prisoner. Roar Admiral Harry H.
Rawson, commanding the British Cape
and West African squadron, upon arriv
ing at Zanzibar with his flag ship, the
first-class cruiser St. George, accom
panied by the torpedo cruiser Raccoon,
landed 250 marines in addition to the
force of sailors and marines landed by
the British war vessels Phylomel,
Thrush and Sparrow. Admiral Raw
son bad instructions to act under the
orders of the British Consul. In the
evening the Consul sent an ultimatum
to Said Khalid informing him that
unless he struck his flag and made a
complete surrender by 9 o'clock the
next morning the palace would be
bombarded. All the British residents
of the town were requested to go on
board the warships lying in the harbor
by 8 o'clock in the morning. The
foroe under the control of Said Khalid
numbered 2500, all well srmed. Said
Khalid disregarded the ultimatum.
He had not lowered his flag nor made
any signs of surrender at 9 o'clock,
and at that - hour the bombardment
began. A force of British sailors and
marines was lauded. The palace was
captured and Said Khalid made prison
er. The prisoner will, it is said, be
taken to India.
Pro. Hayne on Reslitante Bhtzobll In
San Bernardino Value of Thor
oughbred Stock Other Point!.
Many experiments in shipping fruit
long distances have been tried and
some have proved quite satisfactory to
the projectors, while others have been
an entire failure, says the Marsyville
Democrat. Recently there has been an
interesting, costly and novel under
taking in the shipment of California
fruit to Eastern markets, which came
to an abrupt ending when Porter ,
Brothers opened and unloaded at their j
auction rooms in Chicago a carload of
peaches, pears and plums consigned to
them fioin Santa Cruz, by A. H.
Block. The entire contents of the
car were spoiled. The peaches and
plums were cooked, and the pears were
in bad order and almost flavorless.
Tho experiment in transportation
which ended hopelessly was at least
unique. The interior of the car had
been lined with zino, and was practi
cally an air-tight box. After the fruit
bad been loaded on board, the car was
charged with carbolic acid gas and
started on its four days' journey east
ward. The theory was that the gas
would take the place of ice, but it did
not operate as expected. Fruit shipped
a long distance must have plenty of air
such as is furnished by refrigerator
cars which are considered the best.
such a condition that the poor ducks
almost starve amid plenty. In six
months they are sent to market. If
not big enough or fat enough they are
surely old enough. If the right breed
of ducks are raised and fed on the
proper food, the profits over broilers
nd chicks would compare like this:
A short time ago I 6old young Pekin
docks in this market at 15 cents per
pound, live weight. They were nine
weeks old, and weighed about nine
pounds to the pair, bringing 67, cents
each. The feed bills show a cost of
about 3 cents per pound of ducks to
bring them to this condition. I also
sold broilers at the same time weigh
ing nineteen pounds per dozen at 16
cents per pound, the chicks being just
the age of the ducks nins weeks.
One duck weighed as much as 3 chicks
and sold for 2 cents more per pound.
Of course the chicks consume less food,
but the mortality is greater, and the
labor in keeping ahead of lice, vermin
and disease among them is much
greater. If there is any other fowl or
animal raised on the farm that will
take on the same amount of flesh on
the same quantity of food in the same
time I have failed to find it.
Riparia In Napa.
Professor George Hussmau of Napa,
in writing to the California Fruit
Grower, recently said: "Professor
Hayne, instructor of the college of
agriculture at the State University,
has returned from a tour of inspection
in the upper part of Napa valley. His
object, he states, was to determine if
the so-called 'Riparia disease' was the
Anaheim disease, and second, to note
the progress of the selected resistant
vines, which the university imported
for distribution last spring, samples of
which were sent to a few typical local
ities for trial, before the general dis
tribution, whioh is to take place in the
spring of 1897. ' He says the phyllox
era has made steady progress, and many
eo-es will not bear this year, from
wh eh a good crop was expected. Even
replanted vines will prove disappoint
ing. Professor Hayne has established
the fact that the Riparia disease is not
the Anaheim disease, and has also
confirmed his opinion as to the value
of the resistant varieties he imported
Ilon't Shake Prune Treee
"The time is fast approaching, says
the Watsonville Pajarouian, when our
friends, the prune growers, so anxious
to test the law of gravitation, will rush
at their trees, and, with neither sense
nor reason, shake fifty cents from
them, while, had they one or two
weeks more patience, one dollar would
drop of its own accord. If not liter
ally so, the point is at least worth con
sidering. All almost all will agree
with me, and yet hardly one will prac
tice it. it Is an accepted axiom in
prune culture that the fruit must be
fully ripe before it is cured. Shake the
trees, however gently, and you cannot
prevent the unripe prunes from falling.
The sheet arrangements, or any other
device for encouraging this "shaking"
is a curse to the industry. It is sui
cidal, this scrambling haste to get the
MIXING INTERESTS.
Wide Field for the Cyanide
cess in California.
Pro-
SALE OF THE LAST CHANCE MINE.
Work Continues Active In Amador
Miners or Butt Will Meet Saon
Hica Strike In Kandsburg.
prunes dried in the cheapest way, and '
first to market. French treatises have
been translated and published from
time to time, urging upon this as the
most essential part in the business
to let the prune hang on the tree until
it is fplly ripe, when it will drop
naturally.
The Last Chance placer mine, located
near Callahans, Siskiyou county, was
recently sold for $30,000.
Mining in Amador county continues
as active as ever with nearly all mines
making extensive improvements.
The owners of the Richmond mine
of Amador county intend putting in a
forty-stamp mill. They will also put
up a large water power hoist.
Bright reports continue to come in
from Placer county's mines, showing
that energetic work there, as well as
elsewhere, continues as active as ever.
The Bunker Hill and Niagara gold
gravel mines, of Plumas county, have
been sold to an Eastern syndicate.
The purchase price is said to be $100,
000. The Providence mine, situated near
Nevada City, Nevada county, was re
cently burnt. The loss was in the
neighborhood of $7000. The contract
to rebuild the works has been let.
The salt industry of Utah is growing
rapidly. Five years ago not over
twenty carloads of refined, or as com
monly called, commercial, salt was sold
annually to outside points by Utah
men. Now the business is about 1500
cars of refined salt annually.
There are now fully 2000 miners at
work in Amador oounty. This is a
good many for a small county like
Amador. There is more inquiry, too,
for claims than for years. Any amount
The California Italaln Aesoolation.
"The objection of the oo-operative
raisin associations to becoming mem
bers of the California Raisin Associa
tion, says the Red Bluff Sentinel,
seems to lie in the belief that as the
comniission'packers will have a control
ling power in the association, its influ
ence is certain to be used to encourage
growers to plaoe their goods with pri.
vate packers and dissuade them from
becoming members of the co-opera
tive societies. The promoters of the
from abroad, and known as the Riparia 1 raisin association would doubtless deny
gloinde montpellier and Riparia j that this would be the case, and would
graurie glaure. These are now grow
ing in the vineyard of H. W. Crabb,
the veteran scientifio viticulturist of
Napa, and also at the vinery of John
Swett at Martinez. All doubters are
requsjed to pay a visit to one or the
other of these vineyards and satisfy
themselves as to their vigor, size, etc."
Ruapected of Filibustering.
Brunswiok (Ga.) The tug Dauntless
supposed to have been on a filibuster
ing expedition, has returned to port and
is detained at quarantine under orders
from the Treasury Department on sus
picion that Hhe baa been in Cuban
waters.
It is statea that Michael and JohnC.
Cudahy, the well-known millionaire
packers of Chicago have bought the
entire plant of the Northern Indiana
Oil Company in Adams and Wells
counties, Indiana, and intend building
a pipe line from the wells into that
city. It is said they have already
ordered 170 miles of six inch pipe and
that work will be started on the line
as soon aa possible. It is understood
that the investment outside of the pur
chase price of the wells involves about
$1,500,000.
Arliona Canaigre.
Comparatively little has been heard
in Southern California recently about
canaigre, says the San Diego Union.
The subject, however, has not lost in
terest in Arizona, and a bulletin which
has just been issued by the agricul
tural experimental station of the terri
torial university, located at Tucson,
gives some new and interesting facts
in regard to this plant, whose culture
promises to develop so important an
industry. The bulletin declares that
the agricultural future of canaigre in
the southwest is favored by the fact
that it grows in winter, when water
is more abundant throughout the arid
region. This may render possible the
reclamation of large tracts of land for
which there is not sufficient irrigation
in summer. Another advantage is that
in case of extreme drought the crop is
not lost, but the plant simply stops
growth and waits for better conditions.
The bulletin also says that harvesting
may ocour at any time, the mature
crop remaining in the ground indefi
nitely without injury, and even with a
certain amount of improvement. And
it adds "As to the value of the pro
duct, it appears that under existing
conditions the objective point is a
crop which can be sold at from $5 to
$7 a ton." This is probably the most
concise and explicit statement that
has yet been given as to the advantages
of oanigre. Under the circumstances
it is not strange that the people of Ari
zona are devoting much attention to
this plant. It is remarkable, however,
that here in California where it even
grows wild, comparatively little has
been done toward turning it to profit
able account.
Mure Khlzobll.
Horticultural Commissioner Pease of
San Bernardino has received another
batch of rhizobii from Ventura, but
only 8000 instead of 5000 are now
being received bi-monthly.
At the opening of the deal for the
bugs the furnisher was to receive one
cent apiece for the beetles, but the
man thinking, perhaps, that his bugs
were thoroughbreds, and that he might
as well make a little more money,
raised the prioe to a cent and a half.
The fellow reckoned without his host,
however, for Mr. Pease immediately
reduced ins order from 10,000 per
mouth to (000 and the man is receiv
ing but $90 where formerly he .ob
tained $100. Mr. Pease thinks a few
less will answer all purposes and the
3000 received the other day have been
distributed among the ten orchards
formerly selected.
The commission ordered an examina
tion of the trees colonized, together
with those in the immediate vicinity,
before the arrival of this last batch and
the result was very satisfactory, show
ing that the little bugs were alive and
at work. The colonies are becoming
permanently established and not a few
larva were in evidence.
not intend that it should be so, but the
co-operative societies evidently do not
believe that it could be prevented.
They therefore refuse to sink their
identity in the new association but
promise to adhere to the price agreed
upon."
Keep Good Stock.
There is no safer investment for the
intelligent and observant farmer than
the judicious selection and purchase cf
thoroughbreds, to start or to improve
his stock. There is no manner of in
vesting a small sum that will give
such certain and satisfactory returns
as by the purchase of a young grade
sow with pig by a thoroughbred boar,
or starting of a herd of swine by secur
ing a pair of selected thoroughbred
pigs backed by a first-class pedigree.
For any one that understands hogs and
their proper manipulation into pork
products, there is sure money.
Thoroughbred stock of any kind kept
clean and healthy, and pushed from
the start not only pays for every dollar
in preparing for the market, but gives
genuine satisfaction to the owner.
Scrub stock, neglected if not despised,
hardly pays for the ground it cumbers.
No one takes any pride in it.
Take Care of Your Ducks.
Duck raising is something that
ninety-nine out of every ono hundred
farmers know little about, says a con
tributor in the Rural Press. Many of
them have a few common puddle ducks
that ekej out a scant living on what
they 'can pick up out of the feed thrown
to the chickens, which, while it may
be abundant, ia of such a kind and in
Value of Kealatanta.
The professors at the State Univer
sity and the wine growers disagree on
the question of resistants. The variety
used by the wine growers is considered
inferior by Professor Hayne, who says:
"The variety of resistants now most
popular ia this State," are vastly in
ferior to those used at the present time
in Europe. We have had great diffi
culty in convincing vineyardists of
this, although during the last year
$500,000 has been lost to them for this
reason.
"The resistant stock we object to is
identical with that used twenty-five
years ago in Europe, and California is
consequently twenty-five years behind
tho times. The main difference be
tween the two varieties, outside of
length in bearing, is strongth and
vigor. The good resistant we advo
cate is about twice the size of the re
sistants which have been so largely
imported into California; and, further
more, it can be used the first year,
while the other rqeuires three years of
growth."
As a convincing argument for the
change. Professor Hayne has had the
two varieties photographed and will
display them in various wine sections.
Tobacco Culture.
The Cajon valley has a new enter
prise that is assuming proportions of
some magnitude, says the San Diego
Sun. Messrs. Johnson- & Halstead
have just completed a large curing
house on their tobacco ranch on the
east side of the valley. They have
about fifteen acres under cultivation
and are just finishing the setting out
of the plants. The first planting is
now ready to out. The curing house
is 30x120 feet and 15 feet high, and
is covered with raw material used in
the palmy raisin days of El Cajon "as
raisin trays. The growing and curing
is under the supervision of Mr. Hal
stead, who is an expert in his line.
A special from Constantinople says
the correspondent has strong reasons to
believe that the Sultan intends sending
a special commission to Sofia to nego
tiate with Prince Ferdinand for the
amount of tribute to be paid by Bul
garia, according to article B of the
Berlin treaty. Seventeen years' arrears
are due. The Porte has received news
that 12,000 riefls have been landed in
Crete, as well as a number of Greek
officers, among whom is the aide-de-camp
of the Duke of Sparta.
of prospecting is going on. Many
small properties are being worked, aud '
the mines are in a general way open
ing out well. The Exploration Com
pany of London is doing a good deal of
work.
One of the richest strikes in quartz
ever made in Trinity county has been
unearthed in the Vinioia mine, in
Eastman's district, near Lewiston.
The ledge is four feet in width and
gold is plainly visible all through the
ledge. lu fact, the rock is literally
sprinkled with the precious metal. It
is impossible to estimate how much the
rock will yield per ton, but guesses
are made that it will go into the hun
dreds of dollars.
The Quartz Hill mine, in Siskiyou
county, bids fair to become one of tho
greatest gold producers in the world.
The latest examinations of this proper
ty and the development work under
way has had the result of making the
owners feel satisfied that after the
erection of a large plant the output
can best be calculated by the capacity
of the mill. The quantity of gold
quartz containing sulphurets is so ex
tensive that experts rely on a steady
yield for a hundred years to come.
The Butte County Miners' Associa
tion will meet in the first week in Sep
tember for the purpose of reorganizing.
The purpose of this is to allow the
association to conform to the new con
stitution and by-laws of the California
Miners' Association. Julian Sonutag,
of the latter body, will assist the Butte
miners in reorganizing. From all ac
counts there is a general revival of in
terest in mining matters in Butte
oounty and the association desires to
send a large delegation to the Califor
nia Miners' Association Convention,
which will be held on November 10.
Another exceedingly rich strike is
reported from the Rand distriot and
has occasioned a rush of prospectors to
the Bcene of the find. The mine is
about six miles south of Randsburg
and in the county of Sau Bernardino.
An assay of surface ore showed $1110
a ton and this is an average. The
prospect is considered by old miners to
be far richer than the celebrated Bur
cham mine. This direction from Rand
burg has been but little propected, as
it was supposed the lead ran in the
opposite direction.
A wide field for the cyanide process
is opened up by its successful applica
tion to mill tailings. Everywhere
throughout the West, where gold mills
have been operated, there are old
dumps, containing millions of dollars,
but of such low grade that they have
been regarded as of little value to the
owners. In the early days of gold
milling there was not to close a sav
ing of values as modern machinery
and methods have made possible, and
a considerable percentage of the prec
ious metal escaped. Even with the
superior mechanical appliances of the
present day, theie is considerable loss,
varying from 15 to 40 per cent, accord
ing to the character of the ore and the
state in whioh the gold occurs. Any
method that will profitably extract
the values from these tailings will
therefore supply an unexpected source
of wealth, and the cyanide process is
coming into extensive use as an auxil
iary to copper plate amalgamation, as
well as in the treatment of old dumps.
Two new points in mining law in
this State have been laid down by
the Supreme Court. The first ques
tion, concerning which there has been
much doubt, was whether title to min
ing ground could b founded wholely
upon "working and holding," or, as it
is termed in this State, without a
formal location. The Court held that
title could be so acquired, thus answer
ing that question judicially for the first
time in this State. The second point
was as to what constituted labor upon
a mining claim in order to comply
with the law. This, according to the
Supreme Court.may consist of tho ordi
nary work of development, or, if the
mine be idle, it may consist of the ser
vices of a watchman in looking after
and taking care of the property. In the
latter case, however, there must be
something on the land in the nature of
buildings, ditches or such other im
provements as to necessitate the ser
vices of a watchman.
State Highway Commissioner Maude
after inspecting the auditor's books in
thirty-five counties, says that the best
kept are those of Auditor Clancy ot
Riverside.