Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-01
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PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Napa grapes are being shipped to Chi.
cago.
A sorghum crushing machine is at work
in Santa Barbara.
A banana plant in Red Bluff conserva-
tory is bearing fruit.
Dairymen are now entering upon their
milking season in Marin county.
Track-laying has begun on the Utah
Eastern Railroad at Coalville, Utah.
Spokane Falls and Cheney are making
lively contest for the honor of being county
seat for Spokane county, w. t.
The gross receipts of the late Horticult-
ural Fair at Los Angeles were several hun
dred dollars in excess of last years pro-
ceeds.
b. Hoen has wine cask at his winery at
| Windsor, made from Sonoma redwood in
1856. and it is still in good state of
| preservation.
Z. o. Cummings has withdrawn from the
| jacksonville Peldronidn, having sold his
interest to W. r. Radcliff, who will con-
tinue the business.
| Havilah, Kern county, has a telephone
line to Kern river and one to the mines.
| Another is being built to Caliente, and one
to Kernville is contemplated.
Johnny Schyf, who was long ago be.
lieved to have persisted on the desert
between Ivanpah and Resting Springs, has
been found by band of friendly Indians.
The two Indians shot on the Skagit
river, in Washington Territory, some two
weeks since by white man, and reported
dead, are still living and are likely to re-
| cover.
| Thrashing is about finished now in every
portion of Contra Costa county. but there
is still much grain out in the fields to be
hauled to the shipping points Or got under
cover for the winter
A Virginia City artist is painting two
large historical pictures-One Illustrating
the discovery of silver in Nevada, and the
other California picture representing the
arrival of the nlail-carrier in mining
camp in the early days.
The first number OF the Herald, pub.
lished at Gridley, Butte county, has made
| it's appearance Its columns are full
of interesting local news, and it's advertis-
ing patronage is excellent In fact, its APP.
pearance indicates that it has "come to
stay"
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad has had contract let for sinking
four artesian wells between San Marcisl
and the Jorhada, Col In order to secure
a sufficient supply of water while these
wells are being sunk, the company will
have four large tanks built at San Marcial.
The Contra Costa Gezette says From
such information as we have been able to
obtain, we are convinced that the aggre-
gate wheat product of the county this sea.
son exceeds $4,000 tons, or l,000, 900 CEN
tails. and much the larger portion of this
quantity is still held by the producers,
comparatively little having been yet sold.
The San Bernardino IaaeG gives the
following statistics of the honey produc.-
tion of that county for the past year Elk.
tracted honey, 1000 pounds; comb
honey, 100000 pounds. There are st
present about 5000 stand of bees in that
county, and it is estimated that the mum.
Der at the commencement of the season
was 1900, an increase of fifty per cent.
At special meeting of the Board of Di-
rectors of the State Insane Asylum at
Stockton Friday the acceptance of the bid
of Terrell & Slaven of San Francisco for
the construction of the new asylum was
rescinded, and the bond accompanying it
Cancelled. resolution authorizing the
Secretary of the Board to communicate
with the State officers to obtain their cou-
sent for the awarding of the contract to the
next lowest bidder was adopted.
Graders on the Northern Pacific Rail-
road are now engaged between Glendive,
the point OF intersection with the Yellow
stone, and the mouth of Powder river.
Before reaching the Little Missouri there
is cut of eleven feet through bed of
coal or Ignite, Flat cars can be run under
the walls of this cut, and easily loaded
with coal, which is utilized in making the
embankment further on, as are also the
petrifed stumpa of trees found along the
many odd-shaped geological formations of
the Bad Lands.