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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1897
Page
2
A roundup of notable events across Southern California feature local leaders, community groups, and emerging initiatives. The piece emphasizes regional culture, civic moments, and upcoming public programs shaping daily life in cities from Los Angeles to San Diego.
A roundup of varied notes from California and nearby regions. Tax levies in San Pedro and Santa Ana examined. Pasadena electric streetcar line completed. Chino sugar factory payrolls. New mining camps and post office changes. San Diego beer production and tax stamps. Orange County bean sprinkling plans. Ballarat mining camp details. Santa Clara river bridge specs. San Pedro oyster crop forecast. public school budget cuts in San Bernardino. Echo post office name chosen. oil wells shot by dynamite under city scrutiny. notable arrivals and departures in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and Chicago. multiple railroad and transit developments across Arizona and Mexico. local bequest to Southern California institutions.
Last week saw Chicago suffer fatal heat while other cities reported disasters and political shifts. Atlantic City lifeguards joined Cuban insurgents, a gulf coast tidal surge hit Port Arthur and Sabine Pass, and Emma Goldman was jailed in Providence for incendiary speeches.
Alameda county reports its largest hop crop while up north grape pickers gain a dollar daily plus ten dollars monthly board. The Oakland waterfront case goes against the city in supreme court. A Napa cannery rejects twenty five thousand dollars of orders. Land title dispute in Livermore faces Alameda probate scrutiny. California Manufacturers directory prep underway. Thousands plan Klondike migration. salmon yields flood markets. Vatican catalogue gift to Stanford Library proposed.
Reports from abroad describe Argentina's retaliatory tariff against the United States, Nicholas I's pacification efforts for Poland, locust ravenous harvests in Buenos Aires, Carnegie buying Shibo castle in Scotland, rising Japanese trade, Hawaii's annexation pathway, and Rio de Janeiro dispatches on a Rothschild lease rejection. Also noted: drought in Russia crippling wheat, Central American union formation, Diaz assassination attempt, a Guelph fund scandal, and royal family tensions in Europe.
The post office will change 2 cent stamps to green to match envelopes. McKinley returns to Washington with Cuba policy expected to favor restraint. The Vanalia flag is recovered at Apia and given to the U S consul. S N D North of Boston named census supervisor. a permanent census bureau is anticipated. U S documented merchant marine totals 22 633 vessels, 4 769 020 gross tons. Atlantic Gulf coast tonnage 2 647 796 tons. Great Lakes 1 410 103 tons. Pacific coast tonnage nearly steady.
Reports from Tuolumne County and Sonora detail booming mining activity with pockets in Algerine Quartz Gulch yielding up to 500 dollars daily. The Santa Ysabel and Green mines show rich ore bodies, while tech talks note a 20 to 40 dollar per ton value and a 80 to 2000 dollar assay range. Local prospector cautions stress capital needs and long prospects, not quick riches.
George and Scott Barton reveal mica specimens from a mine they discovered two months ago on Alamo mountain just over the Ventura county line. They claim the ledge is eight feet wide with unusually large books and sheets that split 3000 to the inch, indicating superior quality. Bakersfield Californian.
In Placerville a young woman named McConnell purchased a location notice after seeing a mining expert poised to locate a quartz ledge. She recorded a claim of 1500 feet along the ledge from Mill Street across Main to the Zimm erman box factory, securing the property before the man completed his measurement.
C L Hubbs showed a San Diego Tribune reporter a fine display of free milling quartz with visible gold. The ore, from Mountain View and Poor Man mining claims in the Julian district about sixty miles from the city, is described as very rich and high grade even where no visible gold is seen.
A massive quartz ledge, the largest in the basin or surrounding country, was found yesterday two miles east of town between Grouse and Meadow creeks by Webb and Martin son. Miners tested the rock in band mortars and report strong prospects, with two holes sunk showing the ledge over twenty feet wide and well colored rock. Webb, with over thirty years in mining, says he never saw such an extensive ledge.
C W Pauly reports the Cross and Crown mine yields with 70 stamps active from 140, and 240 tons crushed per day. About 100 to 200 workers are on site including Americans and Mexicans. Wood fuel is mined desert timber sold by ton. The camp hosts around 400 residents with 100 nearby dependent on mining.
From Nogales Oasis August 28. The Colorado Mining Company mill at Las Planchas restarted after overhaul. A thousand tons of high grade ore lie on the dump with many thousands more in sight. Expectation of 150 ounces per ton with none below 50 ounces. Superintendent Allen says at 20 cents per ounce they can profit, and such mines push silver price downward.
Nansen reports polar waters teem with seals, narwhals, birds, and bears near ice edges. Beneath the ice life thrives with crustaceans called sand fleas, starfish, mollusks, worms, sponges, and other crustaceans, as observed during diving and netting in frigid latitudes.
The speaker recalls a night vigil and a single kiss that awakens lasting love. The verse contrasts dawn and dreamlike memories with a pledge of devotion. Included are two author attributions from Scribner’s and Hawthorne.
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