Omaha daily bee., 1874-04-16
OCCIDENTAL JOTTINGS.
CALIFORNIA.

There are 10000 sheep on Los
Palos Verdes rancho, Anaheim.
The California strawberry crop is
several weeks later tins season than
usual, but the first are expected this
week.
The California State Treasury, on
Friday, contained 81, ISIS, 04O.49 as
follows: Gold coin, S1,O52, 500;
silver coin, S47, 3SS. 73; legal tenders,
50, 553.S0 cash warrants, S7s,674.96.
During the month of March, LAST
through passengers passed over the
Central Pacific railroad, bound east,
and 3,412 passengers came west,
making a total of 1850 through pas
sengers.
The coinage for March i'm the Uni
ted States Mint at San Francisco
was: Double eagles, $780, 900
trade dollars, $3.50, 900; half dollars,
S2S DOC. Total, SS,95s,OOO. Total
for nine mouts, including March3l,
1874, S2O,34l 900.
The Salinas Valley, according to
the Monterey Democrat, presents
an almost unbroken grainfield for
forty miles, which is expected to
yield this season about 81, 300, 600
centals of wheat, and 100000 GEN.
tails of barley.
A new manufacturing industry
has been started at Sacramento by
the California CocOa-nut P~ulveriZ-
ing Company" This company
proposes to manufacture from the
cocoa-nut "tarticles of diet, delicacy
and general use."
Napa valley is making an effort
to secure the contract for furnishing
the 5000 cords of wood advertised
for by the United States, to be de-
livered at the various Government
posts at San Francisco and Mare
Island during the year from next
May to the May following.
The increase of the Portuguese
population i'm Alameda county is
very great, now probably numbering
1900 to 5000. They buy up the very
best vegetable lands i'm small guam
titles, for which they pay very high
prices. The Danish population
around San Lorenzo and Mount
Eden is also considerably increas-
ing.
Travel to Yosemite Valley has
again commenced, and everything
indicates a large travel this summer.
Joseph n. Hodgson, of Liverpool,
England, has just returned from the
Valley, and gives a most favorable
report. He says he enjoyed himself
hugely; that there was no snow, and
that the roads were i'm excellent con-
dition.
The spring wool clip of Humboldt
county will be a splendid yield, and
of excellent quantity. Nearly all
the fieeces will be of twelve months
growth, and it a be safely asserted
that all the wool i'm this county will
go into market i'm fine condition, as
the ranges are perfectly clean and
free from any kind of burr or
foreign matter detrimental to the
manufacture of splendid cloth or
goods of any kind.
ARIZONA.
John A. Rush wants to be the
Democratic candidate for Delegate
i'm Congress from Arizona.
During the past week the excite
ment over the Indians suspicious
movements has materially abated.
s. r. De Long has bet 50, 900 that
he can ride his horse GERRY" from
Tucson, Arizona, to San Francisco
in twenty-five days. The distance
is not 80 great, but the road is ex-
tremely bad.
In regard to the recent threats of
an investigation of General Crooks
management Of affairs in Arizona,
the Generals friends throughout the
Territory express the fullest conf
dence that the result of such an ex-
animation would not only place the
Generals character and services i'm
a most favorable light before the
people, but would likewise expose
some ugly features in the admins
tration of certain peace Indian
Agents.
Much has been said i'm relation to
contractors who have been furnish
ing the Indian ring with beef and
other supplies in Arizona. A large
amount of money has been charged
up against the Governments for sup
plies furnished the Indians, but from
the stories that are afioat it would
seem that a great fraud is being per-
petrated in this regard. No doubt
many Of these stories are unfounded
or exaggerated, yet there are many
citizens who could testify respecting
fraud that was perpetrated in
the matter Of supplying beet.