Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-24
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


The assessment roll of Humboldt county
is Sc, 600, l56
The apricot trees in Santa Cruz valley
are dying from the gum disease.
A large cave recently occurred in the
Martin White mine, Ward, New.
Fossil sharks teeth have been found by
the dozen in Kern county, near Kern
river.
Occidental is a thriving town, four years
of age. situated among the redwoods of
! Sopoma.
A State Beekeepers' Convention will be
held in Los Angeles on the Goth and 2lst
of October.
The Fresno trail to Mammoth City is
nearly completed The scenery along its
course is said to be magnificent.
There are fifteen steam saw-mills in
Nevada county and one water-power
Last year they made 10000, 900 feet of
lumber.
The Homestake Mining Company have
declared a dividend of 80 cents per share,
which has been payable in New York
since the 20th instant.
A wildcat entered one of the cottages at
the st. Helena Springs one morning recent
ly and took refuge in a bed. 1t was shot
and killed by boy working at the hotel.
Near Summit City. Alpine county, a
gold and silver bearing ledge of base-metal
ore has been developed, twenty feet wide.
At depth of 200 feet the ore assayed 5000.
The placer mines at German Gu,ch,
Montana, are being worked by about 20
whites and $50 Chinese. The season has
been very late, but the yield promises to
be very large.
The Dalles, Or, mas 2, 400 inhabitants !;
has FIVE churches and good schools does
more business and sells more whisky than
any town of its size on the coast and has
three weekly papers.
Kit Carson is said to have remarked
that he and Henry NJ. Stanley, of African
renown, once clipped sheep at two cents a
head in New Mexico, and worked with a
team near Ogden, Utah, for SIS per month.
Reports are rife in Oakland of the dis
covery of gold-bearing quartz in Redwood
canyon, near Moraga valley Contra Costa
county, fifteen miles from that city. Two
parties living near the canyon claim two
assays of S44 and $40 50 respectively.
Many claims have been taken up, and the
excitement is increasing Farmers have
welded their plowshares into picks, and
have tempered their pastoral shovels to
stand the wear of quartz mining
A fatal runaway accident occurred in
Spring valley last week Tuesday, and is
reported by the Ward New Refer. Mrs
A. P. Shively left Silver Canyon Tuesday
for Spring valley, in wagon with her
three children. While going down the
steep bank of creek she attempted to put
on the brake, but missing it, fell out and
jumped out, but Mabel, who is about three
years old, was thrown out. Search was
Immediately made for the children, and all
found except Mabel. On Wednesday her
dead body was found about fifteen miles
from where the horses started.
At Grave Creek, near Leland, Southern
Oregon, four persons own 5000 acres of
decided land, until now used for farming.
Recent prospects show that the entire tract
will pay well for mining. They propose to
open the mine by constructing bitches to
run hydraulics Grave creek furnishes
sufficient water to run numerous hydraulics
for many months in the year, and plenty to
run one the entire year, bitches viii be
from six to fifteen miles in length, and are
easily constructed Much of the work can
be done with plows and scrapers. giving
from eighty to four hundred feet of press
ure, with ample dump for successful mining.
The entire cost of fitting up these mines in
good working order will probably not ex-
coed sos, GOO These gravel mines are in
the midst of gold-bearing country, and
quartz of exceeding fineness has been found
in the adjoining hills