The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-07-27
THE SLOPE.
The ravages of the army worm in Sacra~
mentO county have been checked.
kNON.

mentO county have been checked.
At Seattle, W. T., on Monday, the ther-
mOmcter stood ~ 93 in the shade---the hottest
weather ever known there.
The Carson Times says the Cinnamon
working on the Candelara railroad are paid
$40 per month, and out of this have a month
iy charge Of SIS for provisions. Each China
man, therefore, makes Sll.
There are 800 patients now in the Napa In.
sane asyl lum. 1t is said that only about one
third Of them are natives Of the United States.
Tie other two-thirds are mostly Europeans.
The census cnumerator finds that the popu.
latinn of Marysville is 4,340, and Of that num-
ter 1000 are Chinese.
Census returns show the population of
Storey county, Nevada, to tc 1872 40, much
less than expected.
Gold shipmen Of the Tuscarora placers
foot up $4,000 for this year, all by Chinese
miners.
The Eureka Sentinel says that in that Vi
cinity the Indians lately burned ono of their
squaws alive--it is supposed for intidclity to
her iege lord
Near Downey City. Los Angeles, vast mum
bers of caterpllars have appeared, destroying
much vegetation.
In Chinese store III Sacramento he health
officer of that city recently found the bones
of between 80 and 60 Cinnamon. stored for
shipment to China.
Says the Merced Express A good crop of
wheat in this county is always succeeded by
a large fall crop of weddings
A large deposit of onyx has been toUnG N
Putah Creek Canon, Cal. The silver ledge
on Putah, located by ID. +. See, of Winters,
is said to yield 500 per ton.
The lead pile at the Richmond, Eureka, is
increasing rapidly in size, and has now reached
4,4S5 tons. At the present rate OF lead THIS
lot would amoun! 10 nearly hall million OF
dollars.
The Chollar mine, on the Comstock lode,
is to have hydraulic pumps which will handle
600 gallons per minute the present. pumps
900 total, $500 gallons. Prescut influx OF
water, 1850 gallons per minute.
large number OF sheep have died near
Healds5urg recently, and upon dissection OF
the dead bodies, lecches were found IL the
liver and gall. The lrcc!les were taken from
the waters of Il spring where the sheep had
drank.
Tulare lake has risen fourteen inches mus
far this season. Assuming the lake TO nave
an area of 500 square miles, Whch IS a close
approximatloil, the total amount OF water
represented in the fourteen incE2S rise would
be eut,al to AS, 100000 tons.
The Marysville -1lpeM Of the ION INST.
saws: Ping Chong left yesterday morning ior
Mexico, Mo-, where he goes to make prepara-
tious for a number of his countrymen to iol-
low. The Intentions of Mr.. Ping Chons Gate
Of Canton) appears to be the leasing OF several
ranches, to be worked by the Chinese ON the
cooperative plan.
Three Windsor boys were recently camPeu
M Russian river, Cal. About midnight one
nomrI Ernest Hewett was attacked ami blt-
tan on the cheek and finger by toN. 80 VI
o,ors was the animal that lie was shot TO
death with a revolver without letting loose
f~om the finger, and the jaws were hhaily
nrjed apart with knife
| Recently at Sheep ka nch, Alnado county,
~ r To0rart, a miner, had Il terrible cNper-
! ;,rct. and i mos, remarkable escape from
| da,tn. He had gone down to the 2oo'looC
Iny,i and was standing with one foot on the
''iatf,rn, and the other on the tub, when the
ia.ter was suddenly started. IaS%arI 'ooI
,,'aS c,rGhr in the bail of the bucket ana he
"aS carried up some distance with ms heaa
hanginn down. His foot was iooSe"ru anu
IT," ,,'." G.,i 7turuing completely over, ana rs nc
,,'ont II. lawn his arm caught in crack III thH
,;hor muuu work Of the shaft, IN which p"sitioh
he hung until eXtricateu'