Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-24
Pacific Coast Items.

lDfeSnlnp mas commenced III the
grain-fields back of Vallejo.
The citizens of Petaluma are again
agitating the establishment of shoe
factory in that city.
Last week five Sacramento houses
shipped 2S3 tons of fruit and vegeta-
bles over the mountains.
A new town has been laid out at
Durham Station, in Butte county, by
Judge O. &. Pratt on lands of the Pratt
grant.
It. S. Chaplin and w. Finch are
erecting a building at Vacaville for
the purpose of drying fruit by the AL
den process.
A Local Option petition from Salt
Point, Sonoma county, has been re-
jected for want of the required number
of petitioners.
Persons who have been through
Shasta Valley and the hills around it,
say the grass is better than it has been
for years.
Eight feet, two inches, is the height
of some oats left at the office of the
Petaluma Argus by John Shearer, of
Vallejo township.
Chico has become an important
point for shipment of lumber. There
were shipped from there during the
month of June SO carloads.
The Kern county Courier says that
a sad state of lawlessness exists at
kernville, and, unless corrected, good
citizens will be compelled to leave.
The appeal of Havilah on the uues-
tion of the county seat of Kern county
has been dishonored, and Bakersfield
still remains the county seat.
Says the Petaluma argus of Satur-
day: "The fogs that have prevailed
for several mornings past will prove
of great benefit to the potato crop"
The town of Colusa has passed an
ordinance providing for the punish
ment of such persons as may be con-
victed of misdemeanor by labor in
chain-gang.
Thursday last was the hottest day of
the season in Shasta; also in Weaver
vile. In the former place the ther-
mometer went up to 1922; in the latter
to 10l0.
p. L. Stull, of Penn valley, Nevada
county, besides abundance of other
fruit and grapes, will have, it is esti-
mated, about 10000 pounds of black
berries this season.
Grasshoppers in great numbers have
made their appearance in the vicinity
of Valley Ford, in Sonoma county, and
fears are entertained that they will
do great damage to vegetation.
William Stonebraker, whose ranch
is in Big valley, Lake county, has
eighteen acres of alfalfa, in flourish
ing condition. In this field he has
about twenty head of cattle grazing
the year round.
The Supervisors of Mendocino county
have ordered the people of Big River
and Ten-Mile River Townships to vote
September 9th whether they will be
taxed for the purpose of having free
bridges or not.
The school of Mare Island was
opened Monday morning, after vaca-
ton of about couple of months. The
children celebrated the occasion by q
very fanciful decoration of the school
room with flowers and evergreens.
The Shasta Courier says: Theodore
Popejoy and others, who recently To-
Gated the original Williams and Kel-
linger claim at Copper City, have
taken out some very rich quartz rock,
and sent it to San Francisco to have
it tested.n - -4-.-----
The Yreka Union of Saturday says:
Considerable new hay has been
hauled into town during the last week
or ten days. Most of it is q mixture
of wheat or barley and wild oats, or
wild grass of some kind, or alfalfa.
But little timothy has as yet been
brought into market"