Sacramento daily record-union., 1880-12-07
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

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Several cases of scarlet fever are reported
in Stockton.
Numbers of freight teams are blockaded
at Downieville.
Hay sells tor $50 per ton at Gunnison,
wholesale price.
A new Catholic church is about to be
erected at Napa.
Numerous thefts of cattle are reported
in Alameda county.
Tygh valley, Oregon, is increasing in
population and wealth.
The oldest person in Montana is an In.
dian woman, aged lis.
Red Bluff is to have a new paper, an
evening Republican daily.
The Peoples Cause of Red Bluff has
changed hands once more.
Forest fires have destroyed much timber
in southern Plumas county.
Silverton (Or.) hunters lately got in
sight of band of forty elk.
There are no less than 5000 Indians in
the eastern portion of Montana.
Woodland wants some kind of literary
society organized for the winter.
Portions of Briggs orchard at Marys-
vile are being cut down for frewood.
There is to be military post established
near the head of Big Chino valley, Arizona.
Ninety-on per cent. Of the $500 school
children at Oakland are regular attend
ants.
1t is rumored that the Carson (Nev.
Times is to be removed to Reno in the near
future.
During the past eleven months Santa
Cruz county has sent ten persons to the In
sane Asylum.
The new railroad town of Dillon, Mon
tana, is growing rapidly. 1t is in the heart
of Beaverhead valley.
1t cost the sum of So, 999 SO to lay in
winter fuel, do repairs and run the schools
of Virginia City during November.
There is flour mill at Bedford, Mon
tana, run by water from hot spring, and
SO able to operate all the year round.
The Yellowstone Journal. Montana, says
that over 100000 buffalo hides, worth 50
apiece, will be cured in that region this
winter.
There have been four cases of smallpox
at Tehachipa. One has completely recov.
cred and the remaining three are conva.
lescent.
The town of Susanville, with less than
400 inhabitants, burns each year over 8, ,00C
cords of wood, at the average price OF
81 Is per cord.
Mass meetings are being held in many
British Columbia towns IN relation to the
delay in the construction OF the Esquimalt-
Nanaimo Railway.
Settlers are fast occupying the creek
bottoms and valleys of eastern Oregon, de-
creasing the stock ranges and founding
future cities and villages.
The sea-wall is rising gradually at Oak
| land. The contractors have discarded
/ schooners, and use barges to transport the
| rock from Point San Pedro.
1t is estimated that the average crop Of
grapes in Napa valley is eight tons per
acre. In Sonoma valley and on the noun
taips the crop is about five tons TO the acre.
The first acre of sugar beets just har.
vested in Puyallup, w. T., yielded eighteen
| tons. The dry season cut the crop short.
| Samples will lie sent to Alvarado, in this
State. to be tested.
The Virginia (Nev. Skating Club finds
it difficult to make their pond hold water.
An old miner says there is a tunnel under
the pond, and proposes to make the pond
hold water by bulkheading this.
Russell Heath, of Carpsrteria, has SOC
bushels of Grenobie walnuts, shelled an6
thoroughly dried. He has about60 acres
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Will put out about $50 new trees this year
1t IS announced, says the Vallejo Chrou
icle, that tine wages OF shipwrights at tht
Navy Yard during the next quarter vii
be Increased from 81 to IS per day, that
being the ruling rate Of wages paid in Sar
| Francisco.
Meagher county, Montana, stockmen are
opposed to further nnportatio-s OF stock
into their neighborhoo6, and therefore are
in favor cf raising the taxes few mills on
the dollar in the hope that such step will
tend to prevent the driving in OF other
herds
4 correspondent Of the Eureka (Nev.
Sentinel, advocating nrtesian wells, says
1t has be en- proven that the interior deserts
are as productive as any lands, hardly ex-
cett ng the Mississippi bottoms, provided
water ior irrigation can be obtained. 1t is
my opinion that an abundance can be had
at less than 500 feet in depth.
The 0roville Mercury says Joshua
Hendy, of San Francisco, has purchased
the Butte Mining Company's boat, and it is
now being dismantied. He intends stor'
ing the two boilers near the railroad sta
tion, and will ship the small machinery to
San Francisco. This winter, when tho
water in the river is high enough, he will
| float the scow down to Sacramento.
The editor of the Siicer State Gays ,
Some fourteen years age, the writer, ac-
companied by A. P. Stafford and others,
saw the hot springs, near what is now
called the Hot Springs Station, on the
Central Pacific Railroad, throw a volume
of water sufficient to run asawmill, at least
ten feet high. The water continued to
flow for two and one half minutes and
then subsidized for a like period. This oc
Cured at regular intervals.
| Judge Hastings, at the last meeting of
the st. Helena Vinicultural Club, broached
the idea of improving the lands adjacent
to Napa river, by general system of
Strengthening and cleaning throughout its
entire length, which should enable the
waters to be more rapidly and thoroughly
drawn off and free the adjacent lands of
! any standing water. This. it is thought.
| might materially affect the liability to frost
of these lands, and thus enhance their
value for grape growing
Columbia county's quota of arms, 100
stand, are at Walla Walla, w. 7. The
| County Commissioners some time ago left
the distribution Of these arms to General
Smith, and he suggests that a company,
consisting of forty or fifty men, be formed
at Dayton, and that similar one be organ.
lied in the Pataha section. Upon the or.
ganization of company il win be supplied
with these arms, which are the needle guns
of the latest pattern, such as are furnished
to the regular army.
The Victoria tB. C) Chronicle rejoices
over the completion Of the steamer Peer.
less, built for the Thompsen-river trade,
and says that, with few improvements in
the Black canyon, this piece Of water will
be rendered navigable, and fifty miles will
be added to the present beautiful stretch
from Savona Ferry to Spellamacheen,
through the best agricultural and grazing
lands of the province, besides giving :
water stretch Of l25 miles up the North
Thompson river. It will also be demon
/ strated that a canal should be cut from ths