Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-25
COAST NEWS CLIPPINGS.

Cranberries thrive at Belfast, Lassen
county.
Thrashing has begun near Antioch. The
yield is large.
Antioch's pottery shipments amount to
$1,000 per week.
Chinese monopolize the wild blackberry
business in Colusa.
Several artesian well projects occupy
Candelaria, Nevada.
Bakerville, on the Cariboo, in British
Columbia, has only had one mail in seven
months.
White Pine (Nev.l charcoal burners are
reported to be in a dilapidated financial
condition.
The army worm has appeared in the
grain fields Of Kern county, and is doing
much damage.
At Port Wine, Sierra county, June ID,
the snow was eight feet deep on level,
and IN the rayines and canyons it was much
deeper.
John Breen's famous steed Defiance, that
has pacing record OF l7a, has been sold
FOR 81 600 to Mr.. Levy, VINO will take him
TO Honolulu.
The new depot and hotel OF the Oregon
Railroad Company, Portland, viii cost be,
tween $50, 00O and sos, GOO. The founda-
tons will be laid this year.
Commissioner White has examined the
two banks at Mendocno, and Commits
sioner Watt has examined the Stockton
Bank, Colusa Bank and Bank of Wood
land All were found to be in 4 solvent
condition.
There is not single bridge across the
Mokelumne river between Lodi and West
moreland, distance OF nearly thirty miles.
Money is now being raised to build one
near Lockefoyd. Subscriptions amount to
over st, 600.
The Winnemucca New .Sayer .State
SAYS that several young Piute bucks in
dUlged in a game OF bail, in summer cos
tune, cast of the railroad track, on the
evening of the 22i. Their summer cos
tune is light inexpensive and durable.
The Eureka New Leadsr says The
county, instead Of paying out Sl55 per
month rent for county offices, is now re-
ceiving a rental of $50 per month, thus
making saving of $3.50 per month since
the completion OF the new courthouse.
At New Westminster, B. c., number
of scows are being constructed to be used
as ferryboats for the purpose of transport
ing portions OF railway plant across the
Fraser from the wagon road, on the east
side, to railroad construction on the west
side.
The United States Fish Commissioners,
Mess,s. Jordan and Gilbert, have returned
to Astoria, Or, from their trip to Fraser
river ard the Sound. They report that
the quinnat, steel head and blue-black are
found in the principal rivers northward to
the Fraser.
There has been scarcity of harvest
hands, and farmers seeking them do not
always find as many as they desire. y
farmer approached a group of men in
Marysville day or two since, who ought
to be al work, and offered each of them 81
per day to labor in the fields They refused
to go, however, demanding 81 80 per day.
According to the Territorial Enterprise,
some ten miles to the northward of Grants
vile, New, IS a mountain that is covered
are in the form OF goodies, and generally
neuuSpueTlCaI III shape. w utu tHeSe Be-
odes are broken, many of them show beau
tiful forms resembling photographs of pine
trees, ferns, ranges OF mountains and the
like.
At Fort Ross, Sonoma county, the relics
of the Russians, who at one time held pos
session, are still visible. The same old
fort remains, but in dilapidated condi-
ton The barracks are still standing in
good state of preservation. Upon the hill
just above the fort is their cemetery, where
a few head stones mark the resting place
of some of their dead, who sleep their last
sleep in foreign land.
Captain j. kleesow of the schooner Mo-
doc, which vessel is engaged in the river
trade, reports that on the night CT the
18th, about u o'clock, two young men en-
ployed on the schooner Gaslight, Captain
Borchers. were drowned in Whisky slough,
thirty miles above Antioch. The Gaslight
had run aground, and the young men put
off in small boat in the dark, with an
anchor and chain, to assist in extricating
the schooner, and were swamped Their
names were VIM. Panharst, aged 20 years,
and Rudolph Foskuhl, aged % years, the
former being a stepson of Captain Klee-
sow. The bodies have not been recovered.