Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-10
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NEWS FLASHES
OF Events, Condition, Progress and Matters
Of Pacific Coast Interest.

OF Events. Condition, Progress and Matters
Of Pacific Coast Interest.
Eighteen degrees below zero at Tybo last
week.
| Now that the rains have made water
abundant, we hear of mining being carried
on extensively all over the mineral portion
of the county. [Oroville Mercury.
| The county property of Washoe county,
Nevada, is valued at S7l,27I IS; besides
which she has sci, ,234 so cash IN the treas
ury. The total debt, bonded and other.
wise. is only 500, 430 IS.
Elizabeth Lake is in the semi-tropical
county of Los Angeles. But notwithstand-
ing this warm fact, the thermometer went
down to IL on the night Of December oath.
On the night of the 23d ultimo l6' were
registered.
The Yankee Fork Herald claims for that
section of Idaho production during the
last summer of 100000, and total yield
from the discovery of the country to date
of S400 900. There is not yet quartz
mill in that section.
A thousand tons of wheat have been
shipped from Dixon the past two weeks,
and only two thousand tons now remain in
the warehouses. There are also a thou
sand tons of barely, none of that grain
having yet been shipped.
At Modesto the lawyers last week called
County Judge Stone from bed to admit a
prisoner to bail. When the Court got its
clothes on and took the bench, the bar
produced the prisoner, in the shape of
handsome gold watch and chain. which
chain and watch were presented to the
Judge with much speaking and cham
pagne-ing.
The Riverside correspondent of the San
Bernardino Inder informs that paper that
the raisin product of that locality the
present season may be safely estiH ated at
IL, 600 boxes. He also says that there are
fears that the cold weather of the past few
days has done serious injury to the fruit
trees, but it is too early to form any relia-
BILE opinion as to the extent of the injury.
About five o'clock p. NJ. on New Years
day, two men named Archulita and Diego
Me got into quarrel in the bar-room of
the hotel at Ell Monte, and drew weapons
Jesus Berreras, who was present, attempt
ed to separate the combatants, and re-
ceived wound in the head from a pistol
in the hands of Nieto, which resulted in
his death in a few minutes. Nieto was
arrested and had preliminary examination
and was held to appear before the next
Grand Jury.
The year that has Just closed has been a
successful one for the people of this town.
Notwithstanding the fact that the farmers
have had a hard time, and many of them
have been compelled to take the benefit of
the Insolvent Act, yet general thing
our merchants have made closer collections
than ever before, and with the opening of
the new year they find themselves in far
better condition than they were last Janu-
ry.-[Oroville Mercury.
The Nevada Transcript says: The re-
cent cold weather has caused the suspen-
sion of washing in all the principal hy-
draulic mines of the county, including the
Blue Tent, Sailor Flat, North Bloomfield,
| Milton, etc. Water was turned out from
most of the bitches as soon as the mercury
commenced to go down, but where permit
| ted to remain in an occasional one it froze to
solid mass. Even the large Smartvile
ditch, which a gentleman who worked
| along it for twelve years says was never
before affected in similar mar ner, is only
open for few inches along the centsD, and
| the water that rushes down it is thick with
broken zee and snow.
| Our own county of Butte, the richest
county, in the northern belt of the State,
we speak of with degree Of pride in
spired by twenty years knowledge Of
our almost unlimtedresources. Her min
eraL belt of l,00o square miles with its
net work of quartz ledgss, developing
from day to day in response to the labor
of her miners a richness unsurpassed by
any equal extent of territory in the State,
Ia addition to her gravel ranges trayersing
the county from its southern to its north
ern limit, embracing handreds of locations
equal in richness to the celebrated Spring
Valley Company's mine at Cherokee, with
it's produsb in the year just closed OF
S2l4, 900, marks her as possessing wealth
to sustais kingdem. When Is added to
her mineral resousces the production of her
400, OO0 acres of agricultural lands, every
40 acres capable of sustaining family IN
comfort, without exageratioD worthlly
named the garden spot of California, $780,
600 acres Of which are in grain
principally wheaton the coming
wear, all within tho never-fsiling rain belt
Of the State, we may be pardoned If, with
such resources IN our surroundings, when
, wishing happy New Year to our patrons,
we say that in no county in this broad
land can the people indulge with more
reason in the hope of increased prosperity
> in the newborn year, than IN this our
county of Butte 0roville Register.