Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-17
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

lhUlllU UUAnI lIhmn.
Building is brisk at Jamison, Plumas
county.
Land is increasing in value rapidly in
MERGED county.
The jute factory of San Quentin Prison
will soon be in operation.
Yamhill county, Or, produced l, 6l7, 800
bushels of wheat this year.
A Plumas county girl weighing 2S5
pounds got married the other day.
The Oakland Gas Works will manu-
facture gas from crude oil next week.
a new church is to be built for the Indi-
ans at Klamath agency, in Oregon, this
winter.
The Good Templars' Lodge at Creswell,
Or, noted for its long existence, has sur
rendered its charter.
The son of Frank Provis, in Amador
county, died last week from the effects of
impure vaccine matter.
The people of Yountville arequite largely
signing petition, to be presented to the
Legislature, praying for a law to prevent
the wholesale slaughter OF deer.
J. j. Weissenburger has assumed control
of the Truckee Republican, and is evil
IDENTIFY determined to keep that journal up
to its former standard of excellence.
There are two old cannon at Gold Hill,
New, and the citizens have decided to sell
them for old metal and devote the proceeds
to help the sick and poor of the town.
They will bring about $240.
It costs Virginia, New, 500 month to
keep Street Inspector to look after three
men who occasionally put in an hour or so
on street. Last month $50 was paid out
for work and Sl20 for inspecting it.
R. Fl. Scott of Clackamas county, Or
egon, is buying apples for 25 cents per
bushel. The inferior ones are used for CT
der and the best ones are dried for export.
He bought $500 worth from one man.
Says the Lyon county, New, Times :,
The taxes paid in this county this year
by the Central Pacific Railroad Company
amounted to g, S04 04. Nearly the
whole amount was paid in s. gold pieces.
1t is said that Esmeralda will be the
best county in Nevada. Her mineral
wealth is barely suspected as yet, and
when the railroad now building is COM
plcbtu W La ~ blOiAS Aoi POPoi"blOh
will find employment.
Articles have been signed incorporating
the Puyallup CIV. IT, Library Association,
with capital stock of 1000 shares of So
each. A reading room will be established
Immediately, and additions to the library
made according to the number of shares
taken.
If the Mormon leaders were strictly
honest they would confess that the Presi-
dents blow at polygamy caused thrill OF
exquisite delight in thousand Mormon
| homes in Utah. a thousand men said,
"Praise Cod" and ten thousand women
Grid 'tGlory Hallelujah."
Says the Olympia CIV. IT, Courier, The
Washington, Kansas, colony left Kansas
May 4th and arrived at the fair grounds,
near Olympia, on the 25th of November at
noon. Lost one young man on the journey.
The colony consists of between 700and 500
people, and will all settle in labout this
vicinity.
In Fresno county, in the vicinity of
Kingsburg, it is said the land is gradually
| filing up with water, the effect of the
manyirrigating bitches through the country.
This. is perceived by the water rising in
wells, and the sand holes and depressions
which were formerly dry are now becoming
miniature lakes and ponds.
The Truckee Republican puts on its
Dragging cap and says: There is more bust
ness done in Truckee than in any town OF
four times its population in the southern
part of the State There one can find the
quiet of Eastern country villages and a
1 l. ,A,,, hut of tho VIC
snap and bristle of our mountain towns.
Friday morning the conductor of the
passenger train saw three deer near Steam
boat, New, and told John Rapp, who
started down the track on handcar, and
shot one. The deer at this season are
emigraIing from the Sierra Nevada mount.
aims and surrounding foothills to the pine.
nut region, which begins twelve miles
south of Carson.
The committee appointed to obtain tests
of the sugar beets grown in Washington
| Territory during the year 1880, and dis
tribute the premiums, amounting to several
hundred dollars subscribed by citizens, held
a meeting at New Tacoma on the 30th ult.
| The conclusions reached are to ship all
samples to be tested to the Alvarado fac
tory, California.
Says the Lyon county New Times
Since the completion of the railroad, the
ideas of the Daytonites have enlarged.
They talk of picnics to Mason Valley,
school festivals at the Big Bend of the
Carson, and of decorating graves at Fort
Churchill next May. Mason Valley is
forty, the Big Bend thirty, and the Fort
twenty five miles away.
The late heavy snow.storm took the
Susanviile people by surprise. Nothing
| like such a blockade on the Reno road
was ever seen before. Several deer and
antelope were killed in sight of the town
last week, driven down from the mount.
aims by the snow. The telegraph line was
down at last accounts and was expected
| to remain down all winter.
The road from Sierra valley to Truckee
has been opened so that there is good
sleighiDg out that way, says the Truckee
Republican. Captain Burton, with ten men
and sixteen horses, put it through. a single
path had already been broken before the
party started out By hitching their horses
tandem to the sleigh, so that they could fol
low the path already broken. and fastening
a large log to the opposite runners in the
rear, allowing it to drag in the snow, they
managed to break a splendid road without
the least difficulty. The log business is {
novel idea in the way of breaking roads IL
the snow, and is certainly very effective
one.