Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-26
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Mammoth City will not be rebuilt this
winter.
Railroad taxes in Lander county, Ne
vada, s33, 4lO.
The last wood drive of the season has
reached Dayton, New.
Snowballing was INDUCED in freely at La
Grande, Or, last week.
The first snow of the season fell at the
Dalles, Or, last Wednesday.
Boats are still running to Salem, Or,
but have to load light freight.
Houses never rented for so little in Tus-
carora, New, as at the present time.
A bridge has just been built at Wiscon.
sin Bar, on the north fork of the Cosum.
mes.
Red Bluff, having lost 500. 900 in one
year from fire, has bought steam fire en-.
CINE.
There is good skating on almost all the
ponds and slum reservoirs in Lyon county,
Nevada.
The estimated cost for complete State
Asylum in Nevada to hold $50 patients is
$3.50, 900.
a Chinese firm has nearly completed q
fine stone building with brick front at
Baker City, Or.
The work of ascertaining the depth to
bedrock is now being carried on in the
Santa Ana river.
There is more water in the Santa Ana
river at the present time than there has
been for five years past.
A number of new settlers from Cali
fornia and the East are locating in the
vicinity of Phoenix, A. I.
The severe frosts of last week have cut
off the strawberries at Santa Clara, and
shipping has therefore ceased.
According to the Epitaph, after sale of
1000 lots in Tombstone, A. T.. only $40
can be found in the town treasury.
The total vote of White Pine county,
Nevada, at the last election was 939, a
falling off of about 200 from the vote OF
1878.
1t is estimated that the wheat crop of
Benton, Marion, Polk, Linn, Yamhill and
Washington counties, Oregon, this year Is
over 7, 600, 900 bushels.
Roads in some portions of eastern Oregon
are already in terrible condition. That
between La Grande and Union is worse, If
possible, than ever before.
Building and improvements aggregating
a cost of S208, 900 are recorded In Walla
Walla, w. T., this year. Among these is
a Court house that cost S44. 900.
The Reno Journal, one of the best papers
in the land of sagebrush and purchaseable
Legislatures, has entered upon its tenth
volume, and has every appearance of finan-
cial success.
Farmers in Yamhill county, Or, are i'm
proving the fine weather by exceeding dill.
igence in blowing and sowing From
present indications large acreage of grain
viii be sOwn.
Santa Barbara county has thirtY-one
bee.keepers, and has produced for export
this season 257. 800 pounds of honey. The
number of stands of bees, as estimated
October lst, is 1865.
A cigar store in Tucson decorates its
front window with some fine specimens of
arizona fruit"-a ella monster twenty
inches long, a eentipede twelve inches In
length, and number of huge tarantulas.
The Baker county tOr.) ReUeiUe says that
though SO late in the season, emigrant
wagons from California are passing through
there bound for the Palouse country.
Teams are faded and the owners rather de-
jected.
Wasco county is taking the lead in
wealth of Eastern Oregon counties, having
a population of Il, 900 people, 295, 900 head
of sheep, $4,000 cattle and $4,000 head of
hogs, while the property valuation Is over
81, 600, 600.
The Deadwood (Dakota) Pioneer says
that south of line drawn through Fort
Meade there were 35, 900 head of cattle,
and north of that line there were at least
g. GOO head more. Stock r2iseTs have
come TO the conclusion that cattle can live
and thrive wherever the buffalo roams.
Ssys the Reno New Gazette !. D. Nc
F,rlsnd shows curious old tirearm that
was recently found leaning against tree
on the old emicrant trail between Virginia
and Washoe. The piece must have been
there for many years. The bark OF the
tree had grown over its muzzle, and the
stock Of black walnut is much decayed.
Fresno, says the Republican, is again
filing up with tramps, dead-beats and des-
perate characters OF every description.
Scarcely night passes without some at
tempt at theft or robbery. A few nights
since the sleeping apartment OF the rail.
road section house was broken into and
clothing and other articles of value taken.
Says the Oregon Astor;an We are going
to have an unusually hard winter this
wear. Already bear and deer are being
driven out of the mountains into the lower
valleys. and sea gulls are hocking into UP
rivers. Reports from the Sound country
say that the Arctic geese have gone further
south this year than has been known for a
long time
The Butte Mountain Messenger predicts
That the Nevada Southern road will be
o,feu for travel on the. LIST of June, 1881,
and adds: The building of this road Is
only starter of what will be a continu-
GUS line of rails from Battle Mountain to
the Colorado river, and will be the means
of opening up an immense field OF good
mineral country.
The water is disappearing from Ruby
valley. New. In former years Ruby lake
was a sheet of no small Importance, and
the valley abounded with large and con-
staut springs, but for three or four years
past the drying process has been going
steadily on, until now it seems only mat
ter of a few years more until the valley will
be as dry as desert.
Engineer S. L. Dolsen returned yester
day,.says the Marysville Appeal of No
yember oath, from trip along Bear river.
He reports that the dam on Bear river viii
be completed to-day, and that it is a splen,
did piece Of work. It also is being faced
with sand bags. He states that the levees
being built on Bear river are far advanced,
and that they are good, substantial ones.
Residents of this section, says the
.Truckee Republican, on awakening Tues.
day morning found the ground covered
with snow to the depth Of about an inch
and a half. It continued to snow at inter
walls during the forenoon. Last season the
storm commesced much earlier. There is
time enough foE good winter yet But
the weather-wise predict light one. 1t
is probable that we will have months
good weather yet.
captain Downes of Huntsville, Utah,
while nearly 500 miles northeast of Helena,
Montana. came across little mound or
monument built up with pieces of slate
stone to the hight of about three feet. He
knocked a portion down, and found a
noctet- book and buckskin purse. The
Contents consisted of a copper cent, a letter
written in pencil, but which now was not