Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22
COAST NEWS CLIPPINGS

express office.
But little fruit has been shipped out o
Utah this season
The Yellowstone National Park is to
have large hotel. 1t is now being built
The tax of Custer county, Montana, will
amount to nearly $500, 600 the present
! year.
In West Jordan, Utah, dogs recently
killed over $3.50 worth of sheep in one
night.
S. S. Watson, aged 50, and 0rlef War
rem, aged rs, We're married at Weston, Or,
last week.
The grain of Berryessa Valley is being
taken to market this year via Winters,
instead of Napa, as heretofore
Los Angeles received nine hundred dozen
eggs from Downey last week. Most or
them were reshipped for Arizona.
The Napa Register says that the vine
yardists along the foothills are threatened
this year by the large number of quails
On Thursday next the Methodist Epis-
copal Annual Conference for Nevada will
meet in Virginia City, Bishop Wiley pre-.
siding.
c. n. Reed has withdrawn from the Oro-
vile Mercury on account of i'll health, and
is succeeded by Warren Sexton, native of
that town.
At Westminster, B. c., sturgeon is re-
ported to have been caught measuring II
feet in length, 6 feet in girth, and weighing
LOCO pounds.
Bridgeport people are indulging in excur-
sions on Lake Mono on the steamer Rocket
The favorite trip is to Bird Island, peak
500 feet high.
There have been 70 harvesters, 81 now
ers, 10 thrashers and 2 headers sold in
Albany, Or, this season, aggregating q
value Of S42 600.
The mill at Port Blakely, W. t., is being
enlarged by an addition OF 100 feet to its
length. The company has been engaged
in building new store.
Cabbages weighing 25 pounds per head
and cauhflowers weighing 10 pounds each
are among the notable vegetable wonders
of Pierce county, w. I.
John Alexander, E. L. Bridges and II. P.
Chaplin have discovered and located salt
marsh in Hot Spring valley, Nevada. The
lOCdIlOA CONSIS COV aCtSS.
Work at the various railroad camps in
the vicinity of Vancouver, w. T., is being
crowded, all the available men and teams
being engaged on the work.
Umatilla county, Oregon, is 100 miles
long and 40 miles wide. Though por-
ton of it is well settled, there is still
room for an immense population.
The machinery in the Reno New
Gazette office is now run by water power,
which the proprietors say is more satisfac-
tory and far cheaper than steam.
There are now so white men and 200
Chinese employed upon the Carbon Hill,
W. T., Railroad Teams are in demand at
IS per day fer two horses and wagon.
The Seattle CIV. IT, Post says: We
learn that the Canadian Pacific road will
have to tunnel through twenty eight spurs
of mountain in distance Of thirty miles.
At Secret Canyon, near Eureka, New,
four-year- girl was lost. A party of
men began the search, and the child was
found before night in a ravine mile or
two distant.
Near Fort Mojave, the medicine man of
an Indian tribe was recently killed and
his body burned because he was thought
responsible for severe storm which des-
troyed the crops of the tribe.
Some Democrats in Virginia City who
heard the first news from Maine, covered
a Republican bet of 81 900 day before yes
terday. Now they begin to reflect that
they might have better waited.
Owing to decrease in values of property,
falling off in population and other causes,
the total assessed value of property in
Ormsby county, Nevada, this year will
show falling off of at least $500, 600.
The Washoe valley New ranchers find
that high prices make up for the short crop.
They range as follows in Reno Loose hay,
in stack, $40 to Si2; baled clover and
mixed, Sl3 to SIC; baled best timothy, $40.
Recently, at Yale, B. c., at the first tun-
mel, large stone rolled down the mountain,
passed through the roof a blacksmith's
shop, knocked the anvil off the block, in
jured one man severely and slightly hurt
another.
Santa Rosa has Library Association.
Their debts are sos, and their assets in
books, furniture and magazines, 81, $50.
They offer to make the town gift of the
whole concern, so that it can be made a
free public library.
The hay yield of the ranches of Carson
Valley, New, will be unusually small this
year, owing chiefly to the devastating work
of grasshoppers during early summer. Not
more than two.thirds of the usual crop will
be harvested. The article sells for S25 per
ton.
The iron industry near Port Townsend,
w. T., is fast assuming shape, and gives
promise of success. Over one hundred men
are employed in building wharves, houses,
ETC., for the purposes necessary. There is
enough in sight to keep the works busy for
at least ten years.
A resident of Stockton missed guam
tity of almonds from his orchard lately,
and on investigation found that they had
been carried off by woodpeckers. In their
nests in his windmill he discovered four
quarts of the nuts, stored away by the
birds for future use.
Two Grayson, Stanislaus county, politi-
clans have made the following wager: In
the event of Garfeld's election, Judge
Nolan agrees to carry fifty pound sack of
-four to Bantas, twenty miles; and if Han
COCK SnOula viii, tHen LII hoou, WIN IL
so years of age, is to carry the said sack to
San joaquin City, ten miles.
Work at the Yuba river dam, says the
Marysville Appeal, is now under full head
way. About $50 laborers are at work, and
the contractors say they will employ that
many more, or all they can obtain. They
will also hire all the teams they can. The
wages paid for laborers is $50 per month,
and 81 day for team. and all " found"
The location for the next winter termi-
nus of the Utah and Northern Railroad has
at last been definitely settled upon. A
ranch near the confluence of the Blacktail
and Beaverhead rivers has been selected
for the TOWNSHIP and purchased for the sum
of $40, 500 by company of Montana men.
The name of the new town is Washington |
City. 1t is ~ miles from Butte.
Statistics of Yuba county: Land in
closed in 1880, 100, l2S acres land Guilt
waited, IS, 200 acres. There are 81 miles of |
irrigating bitches, irrgating 475 acres, and
valued at 81, 100. There are 40 miles of
,,,c,no d,foba1 ya1uod Of % 900 Tha,-a