The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-07-13
THE SLOPE.

A Republican campaign paper is to be
started in Los Angeles.
Cranberry culture is extending on Puget
Sound.
Vice-President Huntington of the Contra,
Pacific Railroad Company has sent from the
east to Los Angeles a lot of coffee and date
palm trees, which have been distributed to
proper Parties for culture in Southern
California.
Considerable chloridins is being done at
Phoebe.
1t is admitted now that about twenty thou
sand will count che population of Los Angeles.
1t has been from seventeen thousand to
twenty thousand for the last five years, accord
ing to the papers.
A party has been organized at San Diego
to go into Sonora, a little south of Tucson, to
prospect for an old niue, said to be exceed
ingly rich.
Al Marysville, says the Appeal, men who
were offered 81, per day refused it, demanding
ESQ.
Rev. DR.. Kirkland is teaching a school of
Indians at Mendocino. They range in age
from 10 to so years.
In the town Of Monterey the census taker
found an old woman named Eumesia, who
said she came there from the Sierra NevadAs
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only two feet high, and that she was married
at that time. She is now over 122 years of
age.
The San Diego Un,on tells of a grape vine
seven years old, on the Finn ranch, which
covers two large oak trees, and extends for
, two hundred feet. 1t will bear an immense
crop this year.
The Eureka Sentinel, in relating Thomas
keogh's experience in purchasing cattle in the
eastern counties of Nevada for delivery at
Cheyenne, thinks it a fair estimate to state
that fully one-halt the stock cattle on the
ranges which have come under his immediate
notice have died during the last winter.
Bar fishing at Astoria is now considered by
experienced fishermen as being very danger
GUS. The current in the north channel is
nearly always ebbing and IT ming very
swiftly.
laid six miles east of Benson, A.. T. The
graders are near Dragon pass. Large guam
titles of railroad material are being pushed to
the front. The foundations for large rail-
road machine shops in Tucson are being
laid.
A daily mail has been put on between Tue
son and Globe city, Arizona. A stage line
will be put on in a few days. This will
make Tucson the nearest railroad point to
the CLIQUE country.
The Leader. Eureka, New, says there are
no less than 1.000idle menin that place many
of them half starved.
Two Red Bluff citizens, just returned from
the Skagit, tell the Sentinel, that those mines
are a failure.
The census, as near as can now be deter
mined, will show the population of Fresno
county to be considerably above 10000.
The iron work for sixty cars went up the
Columbia the other day, bound for Aims
worth, Washington Territory.
At Skagit, Washington Territory, on the
18th instant, a young mar named John Pierce
from Montana, fell from a precipice on the
mountain side in to Canon creek, a distance
of 20 feet, and was drowned.
Miners in the Sutro tunnel complain of the
rats in The headers and of the numerous bat:
at the functions of the two branches. The
former persist in getting into lunch-basket:
when opportunity affords the latter trouble
the mules by flying about their heads.
Many remains of mastodon have beef
found on the Nome Lacke reservation in TIE
hama county. 1t is said that the whole rcgiol
is worth the attention of scientists.
California is in dread of a general invasion
of the whole State, by glasshoppers at al
early date. In several localities, especially il
Ilumas county, are to be oun ''spots' o
grasshoppers, such as are to be seen il
adv of their arrival in force.