Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-13
NEWS TAILINGs.

The project of bridging the Willamette
river at Albany is talked of.
Raisin grapes are being planted at San
Pasqual, San Diego county.
Good coal has been found in three places
within few miles of Rapid City, Dakota.
The Alvarado Sugarie works up sixty
tons of beets daily. They employ 100
men.
Freshets are interrupting traffic and
travel over the Utah and Northern Rail
road.
In San Diego swarms of gnats have
forced the temporary suspension of work
on the Cajon road.
Gravel hauling will commence on the
Vaca Valley Railroad in few days. None
but white men will be employed in the
work.
The rural mountain mining town of Love-
lock looks once more IL prosperous circum-
stances from its confagration, which &C.
Cured about two months ago.
On South Eel river, Humboldt county,
Cal, Mr.. Adams recently poisoned a bird
of the vulture species, which measured nine
feet across the wings, four feet from beak
TO tail and eighteen inches from crown to
tip of beak.
A meeting of citizens of Monmouth Tor. J
and vicinity, held last week, appointed acom-
mittee tocanvass forsubscriptions to aS2, 900
subsidy to induce the Oregon Railway Com
pany to run its proposed road through that
place. The company will allow the sum to be
made up in labor, grain or in coin.
Local passenger traffic for the last three
months has been excessively dull on the
Oregon division of the Central Pacific Rail
road, being considerably less than for the
same months of former years, Travel to
and from Oroville is much better than in
former years. Marysville Appeal.
Blalock Landing is the name of new
point on the Columbia river about midway
between the Umatilla and John Day rivers.
1t is the outlet for the Blalock Wheat
Growing Company. A force of laborers
are now busy building wagon road up the
canyon from the river to the lands of the
company.
The new wharf being built at Port Costa
is to be over 1000 feet long and will re-
quire LOCO piles, averaging so feet in
length. The width of the wharf will be
about so feet. The amount of planking to
cover it will be about 700, 600 feet. Forty
feet of water at low tide is found at the end
of the wharf
We reiterate what we have said all
along, that the season has been god one
for sheep. Wool promises to be all right
in quality and prices highly remunerative
to growers, which will prove not only of
advantage to those directly interested but
also to the community in general Il Men.
docino Democrat.
During the past two weeks we have
conversed with perhaps one hundred of the
farmers of Linn county, hailing from every
precinct in it, and nine-tenths of them
say that our grain prospect was never
so good before. They are from three
| to six weeks ahead of the usual time for
putting in grain, and the frosts have
hurt the wheat but very little. From this
we judge that Linn county will have a
business boom next fall -Oregonian.
We hear that Col. Donahue intends to
run his track down below Domaine, to a
point opposite the lower end OF Black
Point, and there build large wharf. The
Sonoma narrow gauge will be extended to
the same place. The additional railroad
will be six miles, but the distance saved in
boating will be about twice that This
probably will amount to an abandonment
of the line between San Rafael and Peta-
luna. We hear that trains will be started
on the latter about May LIST Marin
Journal.
William Bybee, of Tule Lake, Lake
county, Oregon, reports that large num-
bers of cattle that were well fed died from
excessive cold during the past winter. The
cold was SO intense that it produced bleed.
ing at the noses of the stock, and Mr..
Bybee was forced to slaughter quite num-
Der of well-conditioned stock that had their
legs frozen by lying on the ice. In many
instances the hoofs OF the animals came of
readily from the effect of freezing. Mr..
Bybee thinks the loss Of cattle and horses
in that section will exceed one.third, while
that Of sheep and hogs is much greater.