Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-09
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Leaseville, Lake county, has broom
factory.
Lung fever is killing horses in Yamhill
county, Oregon.
Point Arena farmers are going into dairy
ing extensively.
Teams are crossing the Missouri river on
the ice at Fort Benton.
Cinnamon are killing fish with giant
powder in Putah creek.
General Stoneman of Los Angeles sold
his grape crop for $40, $50.
Placer county is free of debt; the rail
road tax pays all expenses.
The ice on the Humboldt, in Nevada
was 10 inches thick last Monday.
Santa Barbara expects to double her
present population within the next two
years.
There are 5000 acres of agricultural land
in 0rmsby county, Nevada, and ], l64 irri-
gated.
Times are getting so hard out in Mono
county that the inhabitants steal telegraph
poles for wood.
Paradise Springs, Monterey county, are
sitlated 1000 feet above the Salinas val
ley, and is noted health resort.
Real estate Is improving rapidly in prices
in Los Angeles. A vast amount of land
was sold at good prices last week.
There are 500 more names on the Great
Register of San Benito county than there
were votes cast at the late election.
An Oregon paper states that the farmers
of the willamette valley are badly in debt,
owing about 81, 900, 600 in Portland alone
Levi Davis of Sonoma county has 1O0,-
600 carp from start of five years ago.
He says 1000 can be kept as cheap as 100
hens.
At Guerneville several enterprising Ger
mans raise tobacco, cure it, and make it
into cigars, and find ready sale for the
same.
Forty thousand one hundred and sixty
two and a half pounds of quicksilver was
shipped from Calistoga to San Francisco
last week.
Two large cougars were killed in Villa
mette precinct, Lane county, Oregon, last
Thursday. They had been very destruc-
tive of focks thereabouts for some time.
P. II. Bagley, of Knappa, Or, had ripe
Bartlett pears, the second crop from the
same tree this year, and there are blossoms
now upon the tree for the third crop OF
1880.
S. w. Huston, of Tenino, Washington
Territory, was out three and half days
on Lincoln creek last week, and brought
LOG pheasants, mallard ducks, | rabbit
and 100 brook trout.
A man who is engaged in boring an arte-
sian we'll nine miles southwest OF Bakers
field struck water at the depth of 800 feet,
but be continued until he reached depth
OF 500 feet. In this distance he met with
fourteen artesian channels.
A Petaluma farmer has potato digger
with which, man with a span of horses
can dig from 200 to $50 sacks day, &C.
cording to the yield and lay of the ground.
II requires about eight men to pick up,
sack and stow away the potatoes.
Two miners, French and Halves, are
working in the Jefferson canyon, South
Boulder, Montana. November 18th, as
French was going to his claim, he heard a
noise In the river which he supposed to be
beaver He got his gun, returned to the
bank, saw an object in the water about 100
yards distant, and fired, with fatal effect.
After dinner French and Halves attempted
to GO out on the ice to secure the supposed
beaver, which lay frozen in the ice. On
approaching they discovered the object to
be the body of man. They went to South
Boulder and got several men to go down
with ropes and boards to get the body out,
but they were compelled to leaveit till the
ice freezes thicker. The body is supposed
20 be that of VIM. Davis. who lived on the
opposite side of the river.