Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-10-06
Pacific Coast items.

Brigham Young is convalescent.
There are but six prisoners in the
Yuba county Jail.
There are twenty-six patients in the
railroad hospital at Sacramento.
The Stockton Farmers Union
shipped 4l5 tons of wheat on thurs
day.
A seaside hydrophatic establish
ment will soon be established at San
Diego.
The road between Cloverdale and
Ukiah is in an almost impossible con-
fdition.
The opposition steamer Clinton was
drawn off last Monday from the Peta-
luna route.
The fifteenth wheat ship of the sea-
son is at South Vallejo, and another is
daily expected.
and mortally injured William Tulley,
near st. Helena.
A large mountain sheep, Weighing
one hundred and forty pounds, was
killed last week near San Bernardino
Charles E. White has sold to James
Fogarty 337 acres of the Pala Rancho,
near San Jose. for $23, 1873.
The California Mine, Napa county,
on Thursday, shipped twenty-five
TASKS fquicksilver to Sacramento.
The Visalia Delta says that there is
large area of good Government land
open to pre-emption in Tulare county.
Foss and Kennedy & Van Arnam
carry weekly mail from Calistoga
10 No nxynplo1a 10 vie Elat I,n
Geysers.
The West Coast Signal says: "Sal-
mon are already in the bay in small
numbers, but they have not began to
enter the river"
A new road is being cons tructed
from the quicksilver mines near the
Geysers to connect with the Clover
dale and Geyser toll-road.
The excitement over gold discov-
cries at Point Arena is on the increase.
If the ledge is as rich as reported the
discoveries have good thing.
Prospectors in the interest Of Ne
vada and San Francisco capitalists are
visiting the mines in the vicinity of
Silver Mountain. Alpine county.
The recent order of the Secretary OF
the Navy, doing away with Execu-
tive Officers at the Navy Yard, went
into effect at Mare Island on Thurs
day.
The mining experts who recently
visited Holcomb valley TO examine
the mines there were satisfied and
very highly pleased with what they
found.
1t is expected that The November
session of the State Normal School
will open with 800 students, an in
crease of sixty over the present num-
Der, which is almost double that OF
last year.
At San Jose during the month OF
September there were ninety-touf
sales of real estate, aggregating the
sum of $249, 453; and during the same
time there were forty-six mortgages
made, amounting to S12O, ,927.
Mr.. Martin, Secretary of the Immi-
grant Union, has been trying to ne
gotiate at Los Angeles for large
tract of land on which to settle far
mers' colony. The large land owners
however, do not favor the scheme
enough to accept less than the market
price for their land.
A party of five, belonging to Prof
Davidson's corps of United States
Coast Surveyors are in Alpine county
taking observations from the highest
peak Last week they visited Silver
Mountain Peak, and ascertained thai
the mountain, four miles south, !:
fifty feet higher than the Peak.
The two-year-old girl, Helen Belle
Yates, daughter of the late AL
fred Yates, says the Alpine Chronicle
is under charge of Mrs. William Clos
ton, of Diamond Valley, her mother
having been ordered to leave the
county. Her infant child died abou
two weeks ago, and Helen is not ex
pected to live, having been cruell,
whipped and neglected by the vaga
bond mother.
: Messrs. Aiken & Luce of Sacramen
to, the owners of the extensive marble
quarries of Indian Diggings, Ei Do
RADIO county, intend, in connection
with ]. F. Ulhorn, to form compan,
having $5OO,OOO capital, to develol
these quarries and put the beautifu
California marble incompetition will
Italian marble.
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