Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-08
NEWS TAILINGs.

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The Carson Times will be issued on the
10th.
Cottonwood worth SIS cord in Tus-
carora.
Tuscarora is threatened with milk
famine.
There is proposition in Chico to disin-
corporate the town government.
Snow in Honeycomb Fork, Big Cotton
wood, Utah. is reported forty feet deep.
Collectors say that money was never so
scarce in Iuscarora as at the present time.
The Woodland Daily Democrat has been
enlarged and otherwise improved. 1t is a
good local paper.
Old Hat, Blood Sucker, Grand Turk,
Scud, Pokeberry and Squedunk, are names
of mines in Arizona.
Eureka boasts of a female morphine eater
who takes drachm at dose, and con-
sumes four times that quantity daily.
The Austin RepeiLe maintains that there
is nothing in the report that two new rail-
roads are to be built in Eastern Nevada.
For want of funds the Chico schools
have been closed for $780, It is claimed
to result from the new Constitution short
ening the school year.
The Biggs Recorder has made its appear
ance at Biggs, Butte county. 1t is pub
lished and edited by Frank F. Cornduf
and was recently the Wheatland Recorder.
John B. Harmon, Grand Sire of the
Order of Odd Fellows, has accepted an in
vitation to assist in laying the corner stone
of the new hail to be built at Chico inShe
latter part of April.
The coal from the Skagit mines has
proved something of failure. Although
1t produces a fair quality of gas, it will
not coke, and so can never compete with
the bituminous Goals of British Columbia.
The Reno Gazette says; There never
has been time when there was more land
being cleared up in this neighborhood than
now. There will be nearly dozen new
ranches put in this spring, and many old
ones enlarged.
DR.. Burdell, of Marin county, has just
received by express two pair of wild tur-
keys They were caught on the Missis-
sippi river two weeks since, and shipped
birds. The Doctor will turn them loose on
his home ranch.
The Bodie Standard says that the New
York parties who own and built the Battle
Mountain and Austin road own valuable
mining property at Silver Peak, and sur
veyed route for the road to Columbus
during the winter. These parties are
Samuel j. Tilden & Co., but Tilden's name
is kept in the background.
The Chico Record says: From citizens
of Colusa we learn that the crop prospects
in that county are better than any previ-
Gus season. More grain has been seeded
than ever before, DR.. Glenn alone having
$1,000 acres more than Last year. There Is
no doubt that Colusa will be the banner
grain county in the State by large per-
centage.
The Salt Lake Herald has an ac-
count of the boss snow-storm. 1t says
One of the oldest inhabitants states
that it is twenty-seven years since he
saw such winter as we are now having,
either as to severity or fall of snow. The
amount of snow in the mountains is simply
enormous, and miners state that they
have never, at any season of the year,
seen as much snow as there is now
The nights are still frosty, and check the
rapid growth of vegetation, but that de-
tracts nothing from the favorable prospects
of the season for good crops of grain, grass
and fruits, which have never, perhaps, been
better, considering the extent to which the
original fertility of our soils have been ex-
hausted. and foul growths established in
them. Up to within the past two weeks
the light measure of rain in the eastern
section of the county has given the farmers
there reason to fear failure of their crops,
but the liberal rains they have since had
almost insure them tolerable, if not
good harvest, while in the balance Of the
county nothing more than ordinary spring
weather is wanted to make the crop har-
vest large one. -[Contra Costa Gazette.
Says the townsville (Oregon) Sentinel
Among the many natural curiosities of this
county it is not generally known that there
is floating island" Up in the ''Siski-
yous, lying like pearl in the great noun
tain chain, is Squaw Lake, a beautiful sheet
of water, now utilized by a mining COM
pany as reservoir. For many years the
lake has been a favorite and delightful re-
sort for fishing parties, and contained,
nearly in its center, an island
comprising about one acre of
ground, covered with luxuriant grass
and growth of willow and alder 1t was
never dreamed that the pretty little island
was not terra firma, but whep the bulk
head across the outlet of the lake
damned up its waters the island rose
slowly until it had been elevated fully l6
feet above its original level. 1t would
be question for the naturalist rather
than the geologist to determine the age of
this floating island, as it is evidently made
up entirely of decayed vegetation. Perhaps
at some remote period the roots of tree,
uptorn by the mountain storm, drifting
out into the lake, formed the nucleus from
which the island has grown; but it seems
singular that it should have remained an
chored and Interchangeable in its position.