Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-14
PACIFIC SLOPE ECHOES.

The amateur-theatrical fever RACES il
Carson.
There is an incipient Cariboo gold feve
at Victoria.
Much sickness prevails at Austin, New.
and is on the increase.
The Walla Walla Union has entered upo1
its twelfth year and volume.
Salt Lake is staggering under The weigh
| of Chrestomathean Society.
Speckled trout are among the luxurie.
now enjoyed on the Comstock.
| Reno is asked to subscribe 500 to ope1
new road to Lakeview, Oregon.
According to private reports smallpox
is raging at Silver City, New Mexico.
Eastern parties are negotiating for quits
number OF Humboldt county mines.
Many prospects at Tuscarora will be de
veloped as soon as the weather permits.
An exciting contest for the position Of
City Marshal of Gold Hill is in progress.
April lst the open season for trout-fsh
| ing began and will continue until the Isl
of November-seven months.
| The Healdsburg hoodlum- bell now ring.
at o'clock every night. Then the hood
lums must seek their little hunks. -"
No visitors allowed on the lower levels
of the producing mines at Candelaria, and
ill-natlred persons say they are barren.
There is proposition that the knights
| Templar who are to go East shall have
their ten-days' drill on the fiat at the head
of Lake Bonner.
There is more mining being done in
Fresno county at present, and more money
is being taken out, than at any time before
during the past fifteen years.
In 1878 nugget was found within six
miles of Helena, Montana Territory, valued
at 81, l46 so. They have been found in
Montana of as high a value as So, 200.
The impression in Montana is that the
Territory has now upwards of 10000 in
habitants, and that its population will not
fall short of 10000 by the close of 1850. 5
The sale of the Washington pool of
mines in Patagonia District, Arizona, which
have been bonded to Eastern capitalists
for some time, has finally been closed at
the sum agreed upon-s205, 900.
The Santa Rosa Republican says Cheap
lands, exactly adapted for grapes and
fruits, without irrigation, and better for
the use than valley lands, may be pur-
chased in sight of Santa Rosa at low
figures.
The Paradise Reporter says: No less
than 600 head of cattle belonging to the
Harvey Brothers have succumbed to the
severity of the continued cold weather.
They have several men employed skinning
the dead carcasses for their hides.
Unfavorable news comes from Candle
laria. Several parties lately from there
give the place bad name. They say the
mines are not what they are represented
to be, and that great many people who
have gone there are trying to get away.
The Salt Lake Tribune says: 1t will be
observed during Conference that the Saints
are better dressed than when carrots and
cabbage were currency in Zion. Gentle
mines and GENTLE money have done Won
ders in Transforming this people from gunny
sacks to silks.
We learn that the Central Pacific Rail
road Company will not only replace the
snow-sheds in the long breaks, but will re-
pair the old ones in many places where
they are rotted, thus creating an unusual
demand for lumber the coming summer
Virginia Enterprise.
The Georgetown Gazette is the title of a
new weekly paper just issued at George
town, Ell Dorado county, by Horace w.
Hubert. 1t is four-page, column
paper, neat in appearance and devoted to
local affairs and home development. 1t
makes promising appearance.
Men around town don't seem to think of
it, but farmers, as they gaze over the dry
fields and notice the myriads of young hop
pers literally covering the ground in some
localities, will ask with some apprehen-
sions, ''What will the coming harvest
be ?''-[Walla Walla Waterman.
Says the Reno Journal: In his speech at
the temperance mass meeting last Sunday
Rev. Mr.. McKelvey urged the young ladies
to combine together and resolve not to as
sociate with the young men who drink or
frequent saloons The boys are considera-
bly, worried over the possibility of such an
occurrence happening.
The salt now used in Arizona is brought
from the Salt Lake, situated just beyond
the lire of Apache county, in New Mexico.
Inc SALINE WdIcES uuDulc up lTOlu oplluSS
in the bottom of the lake. The lake is
about half a mile long and 400 or 500 yards
wide. 1t is in the center of a heavily-tim-
bered region, and the supply is practically
inexhaustible.
Hell's Hollow is two miles from Paradise,
and the Reporter describes the people there
as being prosperous, contented and happy,
the cause of their felicity being that the
free fights average seven per day, the price
of whisky has been reduced to a bit a
drink, lively poker games run day and
night of week days, and they have horse
races on Sunday. 49,.
Captain F. F. Fields, Superintendent of
the Suey Rancho. informs that he sheared
the other day three feeces weigh
ing II, III and Is pounds. The first two
were from four-year-old wethers and the
latter from a eve. The wool was of one
years growth. The Captain informs us
that he is shearing this year TO-, 900 head of
sheep, 1000 of which were sheared last
fall He estimates the average yield per
head at nine pounds. The wool is of ex-
cellent quality. Luis Obispo Advo-
cate.
The Mendocino Beacon says For steady
and continuous rains, and occasional fierce
gusts of wind, the storm which commenced
last Tuesday evening has been the most
remarkable of the season. The rainfall for
the storm, up to yesterday morning, meas
ured 6 inches, and the total, 5l4 inches.
The rivers and creeks are swollen torrents,
bringing down logs enough to gladden. the
hearts Of mill owners; though the storm
has done more or less damage to bridges
and roads, yet its good results will be In
calculable.
The Placer Herald says: So far as we
can learn the fruit prospects in the foot
hills are remarkably fine. The apricot and
almond crops, which were thought few
weeks ago to have been seriously injured
by the frost, will from present indications
be full average. Peaches, apples, pears,
plums, etc., are more than full. Of all the
tree fruits we are promised an abundant
Weld. Strawberries are backward, owing
to the late cold weather, and the first
crop it is evident will be light. The cereal
crops in the foothills are reviving wonder
fully under the influence of the late warm