Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-03-19
Western Points.

| Parties are shipping wheat from
Denver to Texas for seed.
Yuha County, Cal, apricot and
almond trees are blossoming.
The people of San Rafael, Cal,
have cucumbers for the table.
A Walla. Walla man killed twelve
deer and four psnthers last week
Tie almond orchards of Ventura
County, Cal are now in full bloom.
San Francisco has fifteen Masonic
Lodges, with a membership Of 2,l25
The cavsiry at Forts Laramie and
Fetterman have started out on scout
ing expeditions.
A California farmer is killing of
his squirrels by scattering humps Of
phosphorus in his wheat fields.
AT several places in Montana the
epizooty has resppeared. Some stage
lines have been compelled to stop
Eastern Oregon claimes IL, 900 in.
habitsnts and S6,O00,00O worth of
property, and pays an annual State
tax of 2,000.
The Julian mail which was lost in
crossing the San Diego River at Ola
Town, on Sunday last. has been re-
covered
The Oregon Packing Company are
preparing to put mp 10000 cases OF
salmon at Clifton, seven miles below
Westport.
Baker City, Oregon. has subscribed
$50, 900 to the Blue Mountain Uni.
versity. LaGrande has subscribed
near $4,000 for scholarships.
Business men are penetrating the
interior of Arizona. Everything he.
tokens bright opening of the spring
and prosperous season.
A pure qnslity OF alum is found
in large quantities, in the form of in
crnstations. on the rocks near Lancha
Plsns, Amador County, Cal.
The Spring Valley Canal Mining
Company, Of Cherokee Flat, Cal,
have just cleaned up from one
months running three bars, valued
st $4,000.
There are five members only of
the Utah Legislature who are not
possessed ot more than oae wife
each, and of these live, three are
Mormons by profession.
Our California exchanges, from
Del Norte to San Diego, and from the
eastern tn the western boundaries,
all propounding the cOnundrum:
"Will II ever stop raining?
A aume is to he constructed from
the mountains leading into Nevada
City and Grass Valley, Cal, to float
down wood and timber The dis
tance is thirteen miles.
Five hundred old Nevadsns, at
present reading in San Francisco,
promise to visit Nevada City and
have a grand reunion upon the com
pletion of the railroad to C0lfax.
Donald Mckay and his Warm
Spring Indians are about tn visit the |
Eastern States on a grand exhibi
ton tour, permission having been
obtained from the Government.
Governor bradley and son, John
Bradley, of Mineral Hill, New, have
already lost by starvation and cold
during the present severe winter,
about 1000 head of beef cattle, be
sides innumerable sheep and many
horses.
The water works In California foot
up thus: 636 irrigatiDg bitches, from
which 1894 acres of land were ir-
and T80 mining bitches,
having an aggregate length of 1888
miles, supplying 22O,lS7 inches of
water per day.
Immense nets are being prepared
by the Washington Territory can
ming establishment for this springs
fishing. c Timmons, of Kalama,
finished a 400 fathom net,
which is to, contain 2l2.O0O eight
and-a half-lnch mesnes.
Fears are entertained that many OF
The cattle on the ranges in Eastern
Nevada will not survive the winter.
Snow has fallen to q greater depth
than has been known for years, and
although the majority manage to
keep body and soul together now,
they will be so weak when the ground
becomes miry that they will be un-
able to extricste themselves, and
many Of them must perish.
An exponent OF the manly art of {
threw out hint that be
could get away with the best man In
San jose, Cal. One of the "boys"
about town, who thought he was a
pretty good man, entered the ring
with the Professor at Coyote Creek
On Tuesdsy, and, upon being asked
how he proposed to fight, told his
antagonist that he intended to knock
and Kick - out of him." The ssPro-
lessor" called for his carriage at
once, and San Jose still holds the
belt, I