Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-23
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

RAT, w. L.
Nebraska and Missouri emigrants are
moving in Montana
The macadamizing of 0skland's streets
has cost over Sl,O00,000.
/ There have been freshets recently on the
| Pen d'Oreille river, Montana.
Hotels at The Dalles, Or, continue to
do business with nine inches of water on
the floors.
There are 1900 names on this wears
assessment roll at Oakland-an increase of
900 over last year.
Expenses of the Virginia City schools
during the quarter ending June 30th
amounted to l,S0S II.
The Phoebe New fire company has been
reorganized, and an election of q Chief En-.
gineer and other officers viii be held
shortly.
The population of Park City, Utah, is
over l, 600. and the prediction is made that
it will be the third city in the Territory by
this time next year.
The Supervisors of Yolo county have APP
pointed veterinary surgeon to examine
the horses in the county, and report all
cases of CHAMBERS found.
The census of Utah is now complete and
shows population of l43, 600. one-fifth of
whom are white and free, while the other
four-fifths are the slaves of the Mormon
Church.
The telegraph line running from Chico
to Colusa, thence over into Lake and Men.
docino counties, which has not been in
operation for some time past between
Chico and Colusa, will be repaired and put
in operation shortly.
Numerous men are coming to this
city daily in search of employment, says
the Nevada City Transcript. As the mines
shops and all other like places are over.'
stocked with help, there is no opportunity
for newcomers getting anything to do
About 81, 500 is received at the Oakland
Postotiice every week for transmission by
postal orders to various parts of the world.
The amount paid out on money orders is
about So, 500 a week. This surplus of
S52, 900 a year is drawn from the San
francisco office.
Owing to the long and continued depres-
sion IN mining stocks, says the Sutro hide
pendent, business of all kinds is demon
alizingly stagnant throughout Western
Nevada. 1t is stated and ON good author
ity, that there are not half dozen business
men in Virginia City paying expenses.
A letter from Tombstone, A. T., says:
There are about thirty saloons in the town,
ten or twelve stores of one kind or another,
and the rest are restaurants and lodging
houses. No church or school house. Goods
are mostly brought from Tucson by rail to
Benson, and thence by teams to this place.
About sixteen miles south of Globe, in
the Pinal mountains, Arizona, high grade,
galena silver bearing ore body, has been
struck, measuring five feet from wall to
wall, assaying from 300 to 500 ounces in
silver, besides carrying about forty per
cent. lead.
A granite monument, 40 tons in weight,
80 feet high, and costing $1,000, has been
received at Oakland. 1t came from Halo
well, Maine, in the ship Triumphant, and
it cost more money to bring it from San
Francisco and set it up where it now is
than it did to transport it from Maine to
San Francisco
A company of Cinnamon are engaged in
mining on an extensive scale at Big Indian
Bar middle fork of Feather river. They
recently purchased very rich claim there,
and are now engaged in erecting fume
twenty-five feet wide and over 400 feet
long. The ground has always paid well
and is believed to be extremely rich.
The river miners on Scott and Klamath
rivers are busy making preparations to get
into these streams Although the streams
are receding slowly, the hot weather lately
has melted off nearly all the snow, so that
there will not be much left in few days
more to keep the streams up. When the
snow disappears from the high mountains
the streams suddenly drop to low water
mark, as if the bottom had fallen out.
Yesterday, while L. P Schmidt was on
his rounds with the butcher wagon, says
the Nevada City Herald of July Goth, out
near Coomper's sawmill, he killed three
rattlesnakes in the road with his whip, one
of which had eleven rattles on. He says
that rattlesnakes are more numerous this
year than he has ever seen them before. It
is not very safe to travel in the woods
while they are so thick, as person is la
Bile to be bitten at almost every turn, that
is, in such locality as the above men,
toned.
The population of forty counties in Cali
fornia, from which returns have been re-
ceived, foots up 757,35S, against 4S9, 675
in 1870, showing gain of 267, $50, or over
fifty per cent. According to these
returns, if the per cent. of increase holds
out in the remaining twelve counties yet to
be heard from, the population of Califor-
MIA will number SCI, $50, or a gain of 302,-
533 since 1870. The largest percentage of
gain is l,24o in Mono. Only two coun-
ties-Alpine and Tuolumne de-
. crease of population.
1t is rumored at Grantsville, says the
Austin (Nev) Reueiue, that company of
capitalists have arranged for sinking a shaft
one thousand feet in depth ON series of
locations recently made, adjoining the Al
ameda, in the mountain west of the town
of Grantsvi,le. The enterprise is in the
hands of men who have had large expert
ence ON the Comstoek, and if carried out,
as reported, means mining in systematic
manner. 1t is claimed that machinery has
been shipped from San Francisco for the
new shaft indicated above