Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-07-09
Pacific Coast Items.

Pacthc Coast Items.
Nevada is the only mining county in the State
in which the population has increased since
1860
The arrivals last month in Oregon and Cali
fornia OF Chinese, amounted to over three thou
sand.
Vallejo has soap mandatory possessing
capacity for turning out 5000 pounds of hard
soap per week.
The skeleton of an immense mastodon has
been found at Dry creek, near Knights Ferry
1t measures four feet between the eyes.
San Francisco house has bought all the
grain sacks in the market of the size of 22x3G
inches, and all to arrive in two months
The Antioch Ledger reports that an old de-
serted silver mine has been discovered in the
Coast range, about days ride from that place.
Another big grove of trees, nearly fourteen
hundred in number in Calveras county, Califor-
MIA, has this season been opened to the view of
tourists.
light shock of earthquake was felt in Eu-
reka, Hlmboldt county, June 22d. 1t was suf-
hcienty sharp to stop the time piece in the
Court House.
Mexican LADY, who has lived fourteen years
with the Apaches, says that during her captv-
ity, she saw great deal of gold in the country
east of Prescott.
livery stable in Casheville, Yoo county
burned to the ground on the night of the 10Th
ultimo, together with eigh: horses, and man
named Regan, who was sleeping in the stable.
The Stocktonars have made case and car
ried 1T to the Supreme court concerning the
railroad bonds voted by the people. 1t will be
heard about the middle of the present month,
thermometer, taken down in the 900 foot
level of the Yellow Jacket mine, Indicated in
the breasts, 300 feet from the shaft a tempera-
ture of 81 degrees at the shaft it stood at 81
degrees.
The San Francisco CdH says that during the
crop year just expiring, we have sent one hun
dred and seventy-four vessels to great Britain
carrying cargoes aggregatng ABA, 900 centals
of wheat.
The Vallejo Chronicle records the birth of a
child near that city weighing sixteen and one
quarter pounds. This is the heaviest newborn
babe on record, with two exceptions, says the
Chronicle.
The Butte Record says that f. II. Gould, Esq.
of Moores station, in that county, has started a
drove Off 1000 horses across the plains for Ar
kansas He took them over the mountains by
the way of Honey Lake valley,
An excentric old woman named Catharine
Green, was found dead in her house at Sacra-
mento on the twenty-thrd Of June. She had a
perfect horror of men, and would not allow one
to come in her house while living
Henry Bolton, an iron molder at Pacbeco,
met with a sad accident recently at the foundry.
While pouring hot iron into mould, through
the careessness of a felow-workman, his boot
was filled with red-hot iron. His foot is sadly
burnt, and all the flesh is burnt off below the
calf
Recently the attention of Mr.. Bronx, living
about nine miles below uba City, was attracted
by the squeal of a hare rabbit, and its cries
continued so long that he concluded to 20 into
the brush and ascertain the cause. lie dis
coverd large yellow snake, which had in its
coils large hare. few heavy blows killed
the snake, but, by the time the snake was dis
patched, the hare was dead. The snake meas
ured about eight feet.
The Reese River RepeMe of June 25h saws :
Some weeks ago, Joggles Wright while on his
way from Silver Peak here, stopped to camp at
point near the foothills, some fifteen miles this
side of the peak. lie built his fire in a pros
pecting cut where large depostes of sulphur
and alum exist. He left the fire burning on
leaving the camp and it spread to the surround
ing sulphur, which has been burning ever since
Mr. Shaw, who returned from there yesterday
says that immense volumes of smoke are issuing
from it, and that the air for miles around is per-
meated with suphurous fumes, makinging one
think that the Internal regions not far off.
The Shasta Courier of the I'd instant tells the
following About four weeks ago three men
named Fredrck Rocbon, Levi Songfeld and
"NhH iiigCltj udilluS HOm one OF LDe lower
counties, drove up here in light two-horse
wagon Which also contained partial outfit,
halted in the shade of the large cottonwood tree
opposite this office, and went into Coeman's
store for the purpose of purchasing an AK. In
the store at the time were two Portuguese en-
gagged in telling the proprietor of the favorable
chances for striking good diggings in the bars
along Spring creek considerable stream which
empties into the Sacramento about three miles
above this place. The immigrants became in
terested in the description of the Spring creek
locality, as detailed by the Portuguese, and deter
mined to procure few mining tools and
90 OUT there aud try their hand at prospecting
for gold. They accordingly visited Spring
creek, located claim one of its numerous
bars, and proceeded to work. The claim only
paic fair wages for few days, but one day last
week, while one of the pardners were engaged
IN shoveling gravel up from the bed rock into
the sluices, be took up on his shovel what ap-
peared to be a small rusty bowlder. AS be was
about to toss it aside, his attention was attracted
by the unusual heft of the supposed bowlder,
aud he proceeded to rub the rust off of it, when
to his great delight it CLEANED forth a solid mug
get of pnre gold which weighed fifteen pounds
and four and a-half ounces--worh So 200.