Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-07-03
California Items.


was recently presented to
the editor Of the Pacific Sentinel 1t
was raised in Santa Cruz county.
James Beck, miner from Sacramen-
to county, arrived at San Francisco re-
Gently, en- route for the Atlantic States,
with $4,000, the proceeds of his labor
in the mines since 1852.
In the Smith Gardens, at Sacramento
there are now growing 10,O0o eherry
trees, and as many seedlings lO,OOo
pear trees and $4,000 seedlings 2o,ooo
peach trees and as many seedlings; be-
sides great numbers of apricot, plum,
and other fruits.
An auriferous locality in the mining
region is called " Piety HILL"
Out of the identical windows in San
Francisco where one year ago the Boz
dies of Casey and Cora hung lifeless,
now hang two signs in the shape of
brooms, intended, no doubt, as symbol
of tie effects of the Vigilance Commit
tee.
The Police Court and Court of Ses-
sions, in San Francisco, employ French,
German and Spanish interpreters, who
receive a salary of 500 per month.
Large quantities of borax, in cry
stalled state, have been discovered on
the shores of Clear Lake, and measures
are in progress for collectingit.
The Costumes and Michigan Bar Ca
nal is one hundred miles long, with sixty
miles of branches. The tunnel of the
Columbia and Stanislaus Company was
completed on the 9th of May, after two
years of labor, and cost 100000.
The State Agricultural Society offer
the present year, as premiums, the sum
of six thousand dollars, which is said to
be the largest offered by any similar So
ciety, except the United States society.
The sum of $1,000 was wagered on
the fastest horse at the Marysville races,
the winner to pay that amount to a
E church in that city.
The Columbia Gazette records and
vouches for remarkably rich strike
by couple of miners in that section
The two men were out of money, and
their credit having failed with their land
lord, they concluded to go on prospect
j., ing tour. They started with two days
!. provisions, and after proceeding one mile
= and three quarters, becoming tired, they
j., stopped to rest, when one of them wash
ed pan of earth from the surface in ;
hole of water, and got good prospect
whereupon they commenced sinking
hole and struck the ledge in about fou
= feet, and washed out pan of earth OIL
the ledge, and got five and three-quarte
: ounces of gold. This was done abou
! nightfall, and the two lucky hombres re
tuned to town and purchased provision
{ for week. They went off in the nigh
and remained eight days longer, wheI
they returned with eleven thousand do
lars!
r Close to Utah Territory, northwes
H. from Sacramento, is curious rock, cal
ed by its discoveries the Dead Man
Castle" 1t stands on the verge of
h deep, precipitous canon, is about tw
:. hundred feet long, rises perpendicular
- to the height Of seventy or eighty fee
and at a distance looks as though it mig
have been the work Of antique giant
=. who had set up turrets and dug O.
:. notches like windows. A stunted cedi
N stands sentinel on top, but it's old, storr
i. beaten, and dropping, and threatens
tumble down. At the bottom there is
small grotto, some twenty feet in di
meter, and extending up, probably, nea
:. ly to the top of the rock, whence
= scends small stream of water, viii
:. has dug out a little reservoir at the ba.
= The voice of the water is sweet and m
"a steal; it has been singing its monotone
q song there for thousand years. L
~ name was applied to it from the eircul
= stance of some bones, supposed to
human, being found in cavity of t
rock.
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