Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-21
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

The Carson Mint turned out 30, 600 stand
ard silver dollars Monday last.
The first number of the Bear Rioer Nelcs
appeared Saturday at Wheatland, Yuba
county. 1t is published by the Bear River
News Company.
A San Francisco lady recently bought
100 acres of land near National City, San
Diego county, and Is having forty acres
planted in olives.
The first number of the Union, published
at Bridgeport, Mono county, by r. Nj. &
A. c. Folger, is at hand. 1t has a neat
typographical appearance, and is well filled
with interesting local and other matter.
At Wheatland, Yuba county, Monday,
the wind lifted the roof from one of the
Central Hotel buildings, about twenty five
feet square, and carried it entirely across
the Gem saloon lot, and landed it ON the
property of f. P. Duplex.
The Del Norte Record is responsible for
the following During the past winter,
owing to the severity of the weather, Mr..
Morrison, of Smith River Valley, was
obliged to house and feed many of his
sheep, and the seed of the hay falling from the
ricks in which they were fed has in many
instances taken root in the backs of the
sheep, and sprung up fresh and green. The
sheep now present novel appearance, and
whenever the pangs OF hunger seize them,
all they have to do is to turn round and
browse little off their own backs.
When Carson man got well enough to
be out after difficulty with mule, he
fixed the treadmill of his saving machine
so that it would roll, put a tempting meas
ure of oats in the manger at the upper end,
and left the mule alone with the contriv-
ance. and after the animal had worked for
half day in vain effort to climb up to
those oats, every time he had stepped for
ward on the mill it having rolled back with
him, that mule was the most fatigued and
ugliest, maddest and most disguised ami
NAL in Nevada, and the avenger felt as
tiekled as though he had won S4S at poker.
A correspondent, writing from Leadville,
says: In ali my experience in mining
camps, from Montana to Arizona, l have
never struck a place like Colorado, and
Leadville in particular, for restitution and
utter want. The labor market is overdone
to an alarming extent, and where one man
is at work twenty-five are idle. The wages
paid are shamefully low. Two-t thirds OF
them here are from the East without mon
ey, friends or courage. Thousands offer
their services daily for grub money, and
even then are unable to find work. One
section is as bad as another, and in the VI
cinity of Leadville it is frightful.
The Red Bluff Peoples Cause says there
is on exhibition in that town a very pecu-
liar fish, which was obtained from well
in the vicinity, to where it must have
found its way by some subterranean pas
sage. 1t is unlike any fresh water fish we
know of, and would pronounce it species
of the smelt. 1t would be well shaped but
for large pouch on its under side, and
possesses one dorsal, pair of ventral and
anal fins, and a pretty forked tail fin. The
eyes are small, white and sightless, but the
fish is very lively and spry, and dexter
ously avoids any impediments in its way.
In swimming it seems to do SO with jerks,
as though unable to float in the easy adni-
rable way common to the smelt