Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-18
Pacific Coast Items.

The assessments in Kern county
foot up to S3,5S3, ,446.
The total valuation in Sierra county
reaches 50, 1858
The farmers at Vineland are cutting
and threshing their grain.
The hay crop around Mooney Flat,
Nevada county, is considered good.
There are eucalyptus trees at Will
mington, four feet high and four
months old.
III. l.. Hatch, of Indian Springs,
Nevada county, has 10000 vines in
full bearing.
The Manzanita Mine, in Nevada
county, has just cleaned up, with a
result of $4,000.
The Sisters of Notre Dame, Santa
Clara, are making extensive additions
to their college buildings.
The Governor appointed John w.
Geer on Monday as Commissioner of
Deeds, to reside at. Silver City, Ne
vada.
The Vallejo Savings and CONNER
cial Bank has declared stockholders
dividend of one per cent. for June,
payable Immediately.
DR.. Mussy, Of La Porte, the other
day, picked up hundred dollars
worth of nuggets in the rocks in his
diggings at Gibsonville.
The mountain valleys of Tehache-
pal, Cummins Valley and Bear Val
ley, with 600population, have no mail
facilities and want them.
The cost of celebrating the Fourth
of July in Gold Hill was $2,lOO. The
receipts were 81, l57, leaving balance
over expenditure of S57.
On Thursday a stroke of lightning
set fire to a stack of hay belonging to
n Mr.. Matthewson, near Rio Vista,
and destroyed about thirty tons.
BY last Saturday night track Laying
on the extension of the San Joaquin
Valley Railroad had been extended to
within two miles and half of Kern
river.
Robert Chalmers is just starting a
fruit-drying establishment at his place
in Colomo, Eel Dorado county. The
apparatus to be used is the American
fruit-dryer.
Fifteen sail-makers who We're at
work on board the Pensacola, at the
Mare Island Navy Yard, We're dis
charged Saturday evening. Orders
have been received to make the sailors
do this work. #~
Thirty-three men were taken upon
the Mare Island Navy Yard in the
Steam Engineering Department Sat-
urday, and forty more in the same de-
partment Monday-making seventy
three workmen.
TheSan Joaquin Valley Sportsmen's
Club offers reward of S25 to the in
former for each conviction for viola
tion of the game law in that valley.
The State also gives the informer one
half of the fine imposed.
The Trustees Of the Vallejo Ship
building Association held meeting
Monday evening and signed articles
of incorporation, which provide for the
establishment of a ship-yard, building
ships, etc., with q capital stock
fixed at $4,000 and divided into 1900
shares.
Charles Krug's wine-cellar and dis
tillery, about seven miles from Calls
toga, was consumed by fire Saturday
\ afternoon. The loss will be about
$40, ZOO, with only about $4,000 insur-
ance. The fire was caused by the ex-
plosiOn of a brandy cask that was be-
ing charred inside.
A meeting of the Yuba county Board
of Equalization was held at Marys-
Vile on Friday. In the matter of the
application ofthe Central Pacific Rail-
road for a reduction of assessment
from $l26,960 to $95, ,220, the same was
considered, and, after considerable dis
cussion, denied.
The Nevada Transcript says, Robert
Little, resident of North San Juan,
committed suicide on Thursday night,
in the County Jail, by cutting his
throat Mr.. Little is an old and high
ly-esteemed resident of San Juan, and
is regarded as being worth somewhere
between twenty and forty thousand
dollars.
when on the summit of Mount
Diablo, last Saturday, Governor STAN
ford declared that he had gained o
better and clearer idea of the geogra-
phy, topography, and natural traffic
movement routes of the interior of the
State, in the hour spent there than all
the study, travel, and observation for
+ years previous had given him.
The railroad property in San Joaquin
county has been assessed at ST ,4O7 $685.
divided as follows: California Pacific
Railroad Company, $500; Contract
and Finance Company, 32,675; Cen
trail Pacific Railroad Company, 81 OIL
29l; Stockton and Visalia Railroad
Company, S25l ,S43; Stockton and Cop
peropolis Railroad Company, $75,699.
New barley commenced to come in
to the Bakersfield, Kern county, mar
ket, says the Courier, week ago.
The yield is remarkably good, but,
owing to the vast increase that has
taken place in population and busi-
ness within the past three months,
there will not be sufficient to supply
the demand, and large importation
: will be necessary