, 1877-01-26
PACtFIC slsPE NEuN.


srrctsd IN oakland, California.
Pins apples are being successfully
eulti,stsd IN Los Angeles county.
A~few dozea drops Of rain felI
IN san Louis ObisPO, Cal, last week,
The Russian Admiral has decided
70 rendezvous his feet at Mare Is
land navy yard.
Monterey, Cal, is to have a milk.
weed factory for the manufacture OF
India rubber.
Nine hundred bushels Of potatoes
to the acre are reported from Yam.
hill county, Oregon.
Major Conover is now engaged in
taking the census of the Indians be.
longing to the reservation.
A horned owl was recently cap.
tured near Tacoma, which had killed
two turkeys and about 40 chickens
for one man.
Real estate agents of Oregon are
much encouraged with the prospects
for the coming year, and predict
great prosperity.
A steamer is being built at Port.
land, Oregon, for the Snake river
trade, and will be completed in time
for the spring business.
There is good deal of activity
in the Indian horse trade in Idaho
Parties buy the cayuses and take
them east, where they find a good
market at remunerative prices.
The Walla Walla valley and the
Snake river county are becoming
noted for raising fax seed. The
past year 10000 bushels were raised
in the latter and $4,000 in the for
mer.
The Auburn, CAL, Herald is griev.
ed to confess that stealing wood from
the public lands has been reduced
to science in that part of the coun-
try, and thus relates how it is done
"File on a piece of land, 60 on and
cut the wood, haul it off and sell it,
then abandon the land without pay
ing for it."
The new steamship City of Ches
ter, 50 named from the place where
she was built, and designed for the
route between Portland, Oregon, and
San Francisco, is 800 feet in length,
S34 feet breadth of beam, and regis.
ters HOG tons. She is brigantine rig
ged, and has accommodations for ia
frst-class and 200 steerage passen'
gers. She steams IL miles an hour
A curious anomaly in the domestic
trade Of San Francisco is the impor.
tatioh> from the Western States, such
as Ohlp and Illinois, of large quanti-
ties Of hog products-hams, bacon
and lard-notwithstanding the boast
that the State of California is abun-
dantly able to furnish all the hogs
required not only for its own con.
sumption, but also for the growing
trade with China and Japan.
The ship Commodore, recently
wrecked near Cape Flattery, was
about 1900 tons measurement, old,
and only fit for carrying lumber and
coal. She was the property of Capt.
Samuel Blair of San Francisco, and
Arthur Phinney, Esq. OF Port Lud,
low, who owned her respectively in
the proportions Of Eve and three,
eighths. Her value was estimated
at $4,000. -
The Walla Walla Statesman says;
From all parts of the valley we hear
favorable reports of business and
trade prospects. The towns of Day
ton and Waitsburg are prosperous
and business satisfactory. At Wal
Ia Walla our leading merchants re-
port trade better than any former
year, and the increase of sales for
1876 fully fifty per cent. over the
sales of the previous year. During
the last season a large amount Of
money came into the valley for pro-
duce, stock, &c. This money was
placed where it would do the most
good, and the effect has been to
stimulate all branches of industry.