Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-05
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Sonoma had light frost one night last
week.
The Santa Barbara Daily Press has ceased
to exist.
Placerville is prosperous lots of build
ing going on.
A fire.proof warehouse is being erected
at Red Bluff.
The census credits Los Angeles with
Ii O40 inhabitants.
MERGED farmers are busy thrashing.
Crops are yielding quite well.
The Modesto water works are finished.
The tanks hold l02, 900 gallons.
The census enumerator at Fort Klamath
spent one whole day in recording three
families.
There is great drought in Las Animas
county, New Mexico, and cattle and sheep
are dying.
Ex-Governor Amy of New Mexico is
making large collection of minerals to
exhibit in England.
Five thousand two hundred pounds of
mohair was shipped from MERGED direct to
New York last week.
OF the 4, go children, between the age
of five and seventeen, in Los Angeles,
l,2S9 attend no school.
The iron work for sixty cars went up the
Columbia the other day, bound for Aims
worth, Washington Territory.
A winery, with cooperage capacity Of
$50, 900 gallons, will be built at Heads
burg, and also brandy factory.
A wild woman has been seen near Pleas
ant View Ranch, Meagher county, Mon
tana, and also near Confederate creek.
Walt Coffin, of Oceola, Boise county,
Idaho, has killed los rattlesnakes this
year, some of which were five.feet long.
About one hundred Indians were in at
tendance at camp-meeting held last week
at the Ferndale crossing of the Nootsack
river, Washington Territory, nearly all of
whom are protesting Christians.
The new Hall of Records at Oakland is
now nearly completed. The building is
erected on a square worth $50 900, do
mated by the city, and cost 5000, while
the furniture and fittings cost $1,000
Five hundred acres of English mustard
were planted the past season at Forster
City, Los Angeles county, on the Santa
Margarita ranch, and produced fine crop,
which sold ON the ground at 81 80 per hum
| bred.
The Winnemucca New Silcer State re-
ports that the Rabbit Hole sulphur beds
caught fire a few days ago, and are still
burning. Work is suspended. The blaz-
ing birthstone forms a grand spectacle at
night.
Oakdale, Stanislaus county, has during
the past year made rapid growth. The ex-
| tension Of the cultivation of wheat, instead
of stocking ranges in the eastern portion of
county, has increased the population and
given a stimulus to trade.
Attached to a threshing outfit which
passed through Petaluma last week was a
commodious kitchen and dining. room on
wheels. This caravansary has sitting and
table room for eighteen men. The outfit
renders its proprietor independent in all
| his movements, and the farmer will only
have to furnish the grain to thrash and
sacks to put it in. This arrangement will
be hailed with delight by farmers wives.
DIR. NJ. A. Bartleson, of Albuquerque,
New Mexico, has an antiquated copper
kettle and copper ball, supposed to have
been intended Tor a cannon ball, which
were unearthed recently in a mine on the
west side of Socorro mountain. These
relics of bYgone days were found 80 feet
below the surface of the earth. There
were found about 30 balls and only the
one kettle, and all Of these articles are Of
pure copper.