Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-29
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS,

PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
Los Angeles is making loud cry for
mint.
The Oneida, Amador county, has struck
rich rock.
Sea.lions are destroying the fish in Mon
terey bay.
Petaluma creek is being excavated by a
steam dredger.
Considerable sickness about Mount Eden,
Amador county.
Wheat sells at 80 cents per bushel at
Walla Walla, w. T.
Napa City has adopted stringent ordi.
nance on the opium question.
Rogue River valley lays claim to the IL
tie OF great pork producing region.
Red Bluff has not delinquent taxpayer.
The Collector has received every cent of
the assessment.
The first mature orange ever grown in
Bakersfield has just reached perfection, and
is on exhibition there
At Bodie recently Mexican played his
wife off at game of poker, and she cheer
fully went with the winner.
Counterfeit silver dollars, dated 1879,
are in circulation in Salinas. They are
lighter than the genuine coin.
California butchers are shipping dressed
beef into Arizona, and Arizona ranchers
are shipping beef cattle into California
A young man picked up gold quartz
specimen on Bennett street, Grass Valley,
Sunday morning, which yielded SIS on
being pounded up.
Renos Tar-bucket Brigade is again
operating in the field. The "60l organ
ization seems determined to nd the town,
of certain unwecome guests.
In San Diego county gang plows work
from four to sixteen horses, are turning up
the land with great rapidity, and every
one is working from sunrise to sunset.
The railroad bridge over the Salinas, on
the Monterey route, is said to be impossible
by trains, and passengers are taken across
in fiat boat and transferred to another
train.
At midnight New Years Eve the miners
of Horner District propose to jump all
mining claims or locations upon which the
proper amount Of assessment work has
not been performed.
The mineral belt which runs through
Tombstone, A. T., is said to be 100 miles
long and from one to two miles wide, and
perfectly straight from the Huachua
mountains to STEMS Peak
The winters of Southern California are
not severe enough to make snakes DOR
mant. The other day Gospel swamp
farmer plowed up rattlesnake, and the
reptile instantly struck at him twice.
a Democratic Legislature in Idaho was
to have certain young lady for Enrolling
Clerk, but it was discovered that her sec.
ond cousin voted the Republican ticket,
and her appointment was not confirmed.
Speaking of the proposed reduction
works, the Carson Times says that the rail-
road managers have offered to donate so
acres of land in the vicinity of the depot
as site for the works, with water free of
charge.
Tramps in considerable numbers are be-.
ginning to arrive in Los Angeles from Ari-
zona. They say that the Territory is over
run by people who get there by way of
New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado, as well
as California.
1t is reported that the stage from Wood
river to Blackfoot, Idaho, got lost in the
nuOW, auu uOtuiuS Hdu DttA OF
the six passengers for six days. The storms
were very severe, and it is thought that
driver, passengers and horses have been
frozen to death.
Sarah Gibson, aged Is, and Edward
Bishop, 6 years of age, were drowned last
Monday in a creek about eight miles south
of Clayton. Contra Costa comfy 1t is
thought that the boy fell In, and that the
1.,,1 ko L.
swept away by the current.
The Acme Mill and Mining Company,
Volcano, Amador county, have their new
hoisting works completed, and they will be
shipped to the mines next week. The shaft
is now l50 feet deep. Ledge width is from
three to four feet. The prospects of the
mine are considered in every way encour-
aging.
Two men started from Bodie in wagon
with six horses about two weeks ago for
Sonora. They were caught in snow
storm, and were forced to leave their wagon,
horses and dog on the Patterson grade,
unable to proceed further with them. They
arrived at Strawberry with feet frozen, and
otherwise badly used up.
Says the Red River IN. M Ckronicle.'
The discovery of valuable mines in our
territory has created quite demand for
donkeys, and few can be procured for less
than SIS a head. Even parties from Lead
vile, the San Juan region and other mining
districts in Colorado, come now to New
Mexico to buy burros. Two good packers
can manage from fifteen to twenty donkeys
to bring GRE down the side of the mountains,
where it would take thousands of dollars
to construct wagon road.
The Nevada Southern Railroad Company
have increased their capital stock, and it
is all subscribed and paid in. The line of
the road on the fret division will be from
Ledlie, on the Nevada Central, to Clover
dale, "a miles. A branch from this divi-
sion will be run to Grantsville, a distance
of from six to eight miles. The second di-
vision is from Cloverdale south to Silver
Peak and Gold Mountain, 100 miles. A
branch will leave this division for Candida
ria, starting from the main line 40 miles
south of Cloverdale. The third or eastern
division will be run from Silver Peak to
Bulionville to meet the Utah Southern.
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