Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-16
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There are 1000 Cinnamon in Wall,
Walla, W. I.
The Masonic library in Salt Lake City
contains 8, 334 volumes.
New Tacoma, w. T., has new bank
with capital of $4,000.
There are thirteen patients in Providence
Hospital in Seattle, w. I.
The Sierra valley farmers think the
grasshopper plague is over with.
The increase of Mormons in the southern
part of Colorado is causing much alarm.
Grass Valley and Nevada City are over
run with tramps of the non-working order
Only 1000 cattle on the Truckee
Meadows This time last year there were
over 6, 600.
The unsurveyed portion of Montana s
lands is larger than the area of Great
Britain and Ireland.
S. P. Snow of Santa Barbara raised
l 400 pampas plumes on some eight or ten
rods of ground this year
Building and improvements aggregating
cost of s20S, 900 are recorded at Walla
Walla, w. T., for this year.
A case of varioloid has appeared at the
Orphan Asylum at Carson, New, and the
orphans have been quarantined.
There are now in California 39l Lodges
of Odd Fellows, Ga Encampments and 90
Lodges of the Degree Of Rebekah.
Hon. l. w. Case of Astoria, Or, had
fresh green corn, plucked from his garden,
on his tables on Thanksgiving Day.
Deadwood, D. T., has half-breed Chi
nese girl attending pubsc school. She is
spoken of as being as smart as whip
The White Pine Ne,ss has been removed
from Hamilton to Cherry Creek, New,
where it will be published in the future.
Says the Roseburg Independent, The
late rain will save thousands of sheep and
allow the farmers to plow and give abund.
ance of water to miners.
The Railroad Company's land agent has
leased nearly all their lands on the plains
between Delano and Bakersfield for sheep
ranges. Haggin & Carr took two town
ships. The price is 10 cents per acre per
year.
Typhoid fever still RACES with undated
fury in Walla Walla, w. T., and vicinity.
There are six cases in the hospital and
more or less in every part of the town. 1t
has assumed a somewhat milder type than
when it first appeared.
Corvallis, Or, is improving, says the Ga
zette, not only are new stores springlng up
and residences being built, with all the ad-
vantages modern civilization demands, but
the churches and public buildings are be-
-, ~ ra,,ovatad and imnrnyed
The Coos Bay wagon road, in Oregon, is
now open for stages and other wagons, ex-
cept for the distance of two miles, which
will soon be completed The company
have put in substantial bridges and other
wise greatly improved the road.
The census of 1870 gave Colusa county a
population of 6, 039 and during the proceed
ing year there had been but AZ deaths.
Colusa township has population, accord.
ing to the census of 1889, of 1850, and
there occurred IA deaths during the year..
Colonel Beale of Coos county Oregon,
by means of ditch half mile long and a
few side bitches, drained 800 acres of
swamp land into a lagoon four miles long
and sixty feet WIDE He has sown the re-
claimed land with grass.seed, and intends
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Says the Nevada City Transcript. The
Washington mail has been carried through
on snow-shoes The distance is IS miles,
and there is deep snow after striking the
ridge. The carriers come down one day
and return the next, carrying from fifteen
to twenty pounds of the most important
mail.
Excellent clay for making brick has been
found in an old field near Tacoma, w. I.
Soil is being stripped from the bed Of the
clay, and shed 100000 feet is being built
under which work will be carried on dur
ing the wet weather. Wood and water
are in abundance without cost, and it is
expected that kiln of 10000 brick will
be ready to burn in May.
Says the Salt Lake Tribune of December
10TH The stage from Wood river is now
five days behind time, and men have been
sent out in search OF it from Junction sta
ton on Lost river. The snow is three feet
deep along the lava beds from Snake river
to Salmon range, and is a sheet of snow.
Out on this wilderness in binding snow
storm is worse than being in midoeean.