The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-10-12
THE SLOPE.

There is a movement on foot to place a
large steam yacht on Great Salt Lake which
will carry with safety from fifty to sixty pas
sengers.
The woods near Downieville are full Of
plun-gatherers. Camping parties come up to
the wild plum orchard, and make a business
of gathering the free fruit. The crop, is said
to be enormous.
"Belle Cook,'' Mrs. J. W. Paul, of Mountain
View, Santa Clara county, won a $4,000 purse
for fast riding at Minneapolis recently. Mrs.
Pau won the two races in Minnesota that
she went there to G ngage in.
The new boat recently constructed at Ceur
d'Alene, W.T., is not a success. The Palouse
Gazette says her boiler will not raise over go
pounds of steam while not running, and
when in motion loses four pounds per hour.
Santa Cruz is becoming as popular a place
Of resort for young brides and grooms as Nj
agara Falls is at the east. On Sunday last,
says the Courier-Item, no less than five newly
married couples were promenading along the
shore. .. ..r.
Chinese woodchoppers near Portland have
struck for higher wages, and white men are
%supplanting them in the business. Formerly
they cut wood for 90 cents per cord ; then they
raised to Is cents, and now they are demand
ng ST.
Says the Gold Hill Neus: People who have
had cattle running in the mountains this
summer are bringing them in with all posi-
BILE speed. The reason is that they eat some
thing which kills them. No one seems to
know what it is.
Just $500 have been paid out in Helds-
burg thisy year to the white hop-picke-s, and
$1,000 to Indians for picking SO acres. The
average weight Of the yield of hops is nearly
LOO pounds to the acre, over so per cent.
more than last year.
II. D. Hopkins, a stock dealer, informs the
Petaluma Courier that dairy cows are in de-
Fresh milk COWS are worth from $27 to $40
two years old heifers from SIS to $25, and
spring calves from Sc to $40.
Since the news of the successful floating of
the Canadian Pacific railway scheme reached
Victoria there has been considerable inquiry
for real estate. Holders are stiff, and there
are not wanting indications that the late
depression in real estate is approaching an
end.
Lyon county, New, has 636 head of horses,
I76 mules, 307 cows, 900 beef cattle, ~ bulls,
1,4OO sheep and lambs, 3O3 hogs, 300 chick
ems, Is ducks and 80 hives of bees. The
amount of land inclosed in the county is
10000 acres, of which 1910 acres are Guilt
waited.
Horses brought from the great valleys Of
California to the high regions Of Sierra are so
much affected by the rarity of the air that
they can do little work for several months,
Men and women from the coast are frequent
ly distressed IN breathing the hin air about
the mountain lakes.
Some Pyramid Lake fishermen recently
camped in a small valley and built a fire.
which spread, and greatly to their surprise
lit jets of gas from natural wells. They found
no less than nine of the jets in a circle Of
five rods. The gas was found to proceed
from little blow holes from an inch to ar
inch and a half in diameter, and the fame!
were ten or twelve feet high. They left the
jets burning when they broke camp the mex
morning. A few days later they found the
wells still burning as they had left them. Or
this last trip a Piute Indian went with them
Lighting a stick he went some rods further vi
the valley and touched of a dozen or NOR
Jets that were fed from holes upon and
around a little hillock.