HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.P. Herald 08/31/1911GOAL TRAQE Of TtIE ~ P`AVING CONTRACT
C. P. Herald
g.3 i•19-~ ,~I
PACIFIC COAST
Figures Compiled fly -United -States
fieological Survey.
TO CLARK=IfiENEftY
Weil Klio>m Firm SVNf Lay Modern
Paving in Central Paint.
The rise] requirements of the Pacific At an ndjourned meeting of the city
coast and the methods of mee8ng them council ?lfonday event ;~ t.^.e ester cast
-are-af--epecia9 _irttePaat of"i~reser. ~• a Gnmm~g <:-••~tieo he?d [F:-el day
' tirita heeflue0 of the agitation in regard ~ w.cre cvnvassed zr,d tip •• mr: or's prise-
igthe development or nondevelopment'Inmation za+ardicg ssm! ear J:ay~
of .the peal seaopreea~of Alaska. The ~ made anJ cn;c red ImLl:;h"},-
reporE on the production of coal in 1970, ' Fdlaning t;is the pw::r-a kid n~h-
by E. N. Parker, coal stetiatiran of,mittr.d Irv the (':.vk-l:v:ter}` Co., wsl
the United §tatea eological Sm~cc}-•'eomidered. aces; tc;i nrd ~-.. c^.rSract
now in preparation, `wfil contain some ~ award':). 7Lr• pri_c p-•r ~. ;:ors yard
inteteetiflg statements on Ehis subject.. of pacing is 81 Sri acs fur arr.,ur:.f curb,
The pzeaent consumption of veal an : a: d gutters £t.':; Lcr rcr.:.~ :;; tact.
Ehe pacific coact, says Nr.. Parker, Is' The total cost per front foot, exclesive I -
not large end the successful operaCan ~ of sidewalks or sidewalk e~trnsion-,
'of 0ny coal mines in Alaska will de-:will he EG.67 or about $18S.uD pet lot.
pond on naming prices attractive to I It is under=rood that the Clark-Hen-
the ~develbpment of manufacturing in- ~ery company will have work under wdyl
dustriea. For raihoad vnd manafuc- wabin Cea daps or two weeks or a
Luring purposes the consumption of ail -soon as the work of placing the sewer'
partiealarly In California, largely c~-. laterals to the curb hiss been cmm~leted. ~
eeeda that of coal-in fact, For railroad; Citiz.:as genm~ahy n:•e [o Lc corgrat-;_
use oil fe praetienlly the only fuel. The :Mated cis the rsrly realization of this;
'principal domestic tuela are wood and ~ needed improvement n'hich still add :uo- i
gee made from oil. Recently oil itsei(~ other inducemc•r.t to the ycaplc of the'
hoe eeeumed Smportance as a dcmcrlicsorrcunding counlq' to cmrsc here W
fuel, About 36,0.00,000 barrels of Culi- I trade. i
fornia oil were consumed Ly locoma- -- ~ - --- ~.
Lives in 1909, sa against a little over i Farr;er~ Fight Puel. ;
18,OOD,900 barrels far 1930. The totnl l Hornbraal:, Cxl., Aug. 28.-As the'
eonaumptton of fuel oil was probably::"csu[t of a duel fought in the countyi
between 35,000,1160 and 90, 000, p(p Lar- ~ maJ near here ycstenlay,, George 8f 111-1
rata in 1909 and between 40, 000, OfN) and ! er is sutfcring from gunshot wounds
SD,000,000 barters in 1910, The prat ;that x'ill probnLly prove fatal. ar,d L
ebinty is that the consamption of fuel '~ 1V illiam A. Wright is a prisoner, h.v- -'
1
oil displaced about 1Q, 000,0(10 tons `of'~ tog surrendered himscl f. Both men are
coal on the Pacific coast in 1900 and be-}frcminerl citizens of Siskiyou C'ountc.
tween 13,000,000 and 12,000,000 tons list They have-been antagonists [or same;
1910, The pet-capita ~onsumpt;;,n of ~ tams, the true Lle gron'~ng out of !aw i
coal in California, Oregon and Wash-;suits. ~\'ti~ht sold that he w'as riding
ington averages not much over I ton, ~ and that he met Miller in a wag.;n.
while the avorago consumption in the ~ "1.` w- ,ease of sh,.m Erzq"sai3
United States us a whole ie about 5 1-4 ~ R~right, wand I teat him [o iG ° i
tone for each in}iahitant. ~ After the shooting Wright went home'
Tho pxincipvi source of mat sv pph' i evd rna word to the brother of the I
for the Pacific cosst is the state of i a-our.dcd man, telling him achcrc he ~
-Washington, the datput of both Cxli- I cwid Ond DliOcr. The wcu: :7aa( than 1
fornia and Oregon being at pre=ant; hvJ one eye rota away s::d a bullet in
small. In 1909 the total production of i the shoulder. Both men here been ~'
wal in Washington was 3,802,21;) i token to Yreka. i
aborE tone. California produced 95,000 ~ --"----
tans and Oregon 97,278 tons. In 1930 IS~hool Opening Postponed [o Sept
- t't~ t#g4t~ pf, poal,pp.the P, ci0c -. On aCCOnat -. of the illness of Mrs.
"" Uiae`C wa~8,9083"short tons in Waah- Cooper, who is in I.os Angeles ascom-,
1~gton, G$,707~"'tuna in Oregon, and 11,-:pyaieJ by her husband, Prof. F. F.!
134 tons in~Calilornia. The imports of; Cooper, the opening of the Central.
baaminous coal amounted to 752, 016 ~ ppint public schools will be pustponnd
robe, and of anthracite to 9,119 tons. 'from Monday, September -lth to Won-
The exports of coal from Seattle ware day, September 11th. White i1rs. Coop-~
28,889 tone in 1909 and 23,171 tons in'er is 'reported to be improving, Prof.
1910. Tke total consumption of roaltG~oper has advised the srhool hosrd
•oh-the Paeidc coast from vatioue'aduti ~ that her condition wilt make it impossi-1:
Coe in 1909 was 4,576,052 thort ions b:e fur him to reach here to nppusehpol;
anddn 19109,81$398 tons. The imports' be Fote the date ramctl,
of cake to Paciflc coast ports (exclusive ! '
of Haweti), as- reported by the $ureau ; R. Manning, who has a beu[iful m- ~'
of Statletica of the pepartment ofCom- ~ ohard home on the foothills tsm miles
metes and Labor, were 111,67G short I west of tt,is city, arse in town TuesJa_r '_
tone in1909 and 114,061 tons in 1910, on business. :
Including 7G1 short tons of cool swat I - ~- _"- - '-'---- j-
' fmm Puget Sonnd to Bering Sea, this i Columbia, aeJ I},F;; tuns from Wash-,
total uantit of coal shi tngton. Tt:e production within the+
9 Y ppedlnto Alas- I Territory wns ecported at 1,Op0 tons, 1
kh in 1910 was 98,4LO sfiort tons, a[' oi• about 1 per cent of the total con---
which~8,176 tons went from British'sumptian.