The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1880-04-10
CALIFORNIA ITEM !.

fruit in Rntte enrntr
Many new comers are settling i'll Lodi,
San Joaquin county,
The Salinas river can now be forded at
nearly any place.
Near Goose Lake fifty per cent. of the
sheep will probably perish.
Catfish raising is promising industry
in some parts of Ventura county.
Quite number of Napa people are
going to try their fortunes in Arizona.
Large numbers of salmon are being
caught in the Carmel river, Monterey
county.
Water has reached Placerville through
the main line of the ditch-the first for
about three months.
Mono and 1nyo counties want Congress
to donate the Old Camp Grant grounds
for high school purposes.
Says the Modoc Independent: By
private letter we are informed that Webb
of Siskiyou has lost 1000 sheep.
Austin & Milne found 500 nugget in
their claim ON Graveyard Hill, Scott Bar,
Siskiyou county, few days ago.
A nugget weighing seven ounces was
found in the North Fork Gravel Claim,
Forest City, Sierra county, few days
ago
Monterey contains a population of
probably 1900, and quite fraction of
the inhabitants are of Spanish origin.
Two Sonoma county Cinnamon, who
dragged Sonoma creek with fine mesh
nets, were sentenced to l32 days each.
Miners on the rivers of Siskiyou are
beginning to make preparations for the
seasons work. They are getting the
timbers for their wing dam.
The Standard says: Two scrawny COWS
are said to furnish the whole population
of Bodie with milk-and Bodie uses $50
gallons of milk per day.
The Petaluma Courier says: The first
wild goose of the season bound north
passed here Tuesday He was on BIZ
cycle and came from the direction of San
Rafael.
The Napa county Supervisors have
purchased mammoth road scraper,
costing $500, at the factory in San Jose
1t is drawn by IL mules and will scrape
a mile of road in day.
Another chrome-iron deposit has been
found in Fresno. The Republican says:
If the railroad company do not charge
more than $40 per car load for shipping
the ore to San Francisco, the mine can
be worked at profit
The sheep men of that portion of Butte
county bounded on the north by Feather
river, an the south and west by South
Honcut, and on the east by the line Of
range of Township east, have offered a
reward of $40 each for coyote scalps and
$3.50 for wild cat scalps.
The new paper mill at Sequel is run
ming day and night, and turning out
about two tons of paper day. They
are employing seventeen men, in shifts O
twelve hours each. At present they are
producing only brown wrapping paper
which is found to be of better quality
than other kinds in use,
The foothill farmers of Nevada county
are not at all sanguine as to good crop
Tor the coming season, as most of th
early sown grain was frozen out, and il
number of instances a second plantin!
mas been attended with the same resul
The only chance of salvation is in
heavy warm rain, which is not expected
Says the Vallejo News: A shark abou
Ten feet long was caught on Sunday b.
some Chinese fishermen with q hook an
nne. The monster had nine rows 9
teeth, and caused considerable trouble t
the fishermen in getting him aboard {
their sloop This is the first time shar
OF that size has been caught in thes
waters.
Says the Salinas Index: At a distanc
OF about four miles in southerly dire,
tion from Monterey are the ruins of tn
old San Carlos Mission Church. TIL
was built by Padre Junipero Serr,
Within the limits of the Mission there i
entombed the bodies of its founder wl
died in 1854, and fifteen Governors
California.