Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-03
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

The population of Port Townsend, w.
T., is about 500.
The railroad bridge over the Yuba river
is now undergoing repairs.
The Dutch Flat Forum has suspended
publication for the present.
Santa Rosa citizens are signing Pc
tition to disincorporate the town.
Five hundred head of cattle were killed
by the cold in Pendleton, Oregon.
The place where Petaluma now stands
was called "Chocuah by the Indians.
A number of three-year.old Japan per-
simmon trees are bearing near San Diego.
Napa people are getting excited over the
recent coal oil discovery in Dry creek,
about eight miles from town.
Large bands of cattle can be seen coming
down cut of the hills into Grand Ronde
valley, Oregon, every day since the snow
has fallen.
W. D. Haley has retired from the edi
torial management of the Anador Sentinel,
published at Jackson, his. interest having
been purchased by Turner & Sanborn.
Salmon fishing on the Columbia river,
Oregon, is very dangerous, owing to GER
tain tidal pecnliarities. Two hundred men,
az least. are reported as lost during the
past season.
Mrs. Bidleman of Reno has filed survey
OF ditch to start from the south bank Of
the Truckee river, about Is miles east Of
Reno. 1t is designed to carry 4. 900 inches
of water for irrigation.
More brick buildings have been built in
Yreka this year than during the previous
eight or nine years. A number of hand
some new dwellings have also been erected
during the present year.
Fish Commissioner Redding has agreed
to furnish carp for the streams of Sierra
valley. The number of eggs a carpis sup
posed to deposit in a season is 5000. A
two year-old carp will weigh pounds.
C. C. Lewis, of White river, w. T.,
raised l, 100 bushels of fine marketable
potatoes this season from three and one
half acres ofland, which is about an average
of the yield per acre this year in the whole
of White river valley.
General Vallejo says Bodega bay was
discovered in October, l775. Bodega and
Ross, now within the limits of Sonoma
county, were occupied by the Russians in
May, 1872. The Russians may be termed
the pioneer "squatters" of California.
1t is now definitely settled that the town
of Orland has been chosen as railroad
terminus. The coming week surveyors
will locate a site for depot and make
other necessary arrangements to complete
the railroad line from Willows to Orland.
An oyster company was formed at New
Tacoma, w. T., two years ago for the pur-
pose of propagating oysters in Gig harbor,
and planted $500 oysters. The result has
proved grand success, owing, it is be-
lieved, to the oysters being planted in
shallow water.
The streets of the New Jerusalem, below
Dayton, New, are not paved with silver
and gold. Neither are they paved with
aspbaltum nor oak blocks. nor cobble stone.
They are paved with something better than
any Of these things, being paved with pc
tatoes for, as yet, the principal streets
run through the potato patches.
Says the Bodie Free Press. The upper
end OF Main street presents a deplorable
sight. From Lowe street to West & Bry.
ants warehouse travel Is almost suspended
on account of water Men doing business
in that part of town have had to close up,
and unless something is soon done to
remedy this evil private families will have
to find some other quarters to live in.
Extensive preparations for the manufact-
ure of iron in Placer county are being
made by the Placer Iron Company. Fur
naces have been erected on the ground
from which the ore is taken, and charcoal
is being burned and delivered as speedily
as possible. 1t is expected that every
thing will be in readiness and the works
will start up in the early part of the new
year.
A miners funeral in Virginia City was
managed by friend of the deceased, Off.
ciating as master OF ceremonies. The
manager attended to all the details of the
funeral After the coffin had been carried
from the house to the hearse, he led the
minister to q carriage, and, when every
thing was in readiness for start for the
cemetery, he put his hands to bis mouth
and yelled to the driver of the hearse, All
set !"
The Seattle wv. IT, Intell;gencea says /:
People who have made observation state
that within the past few days one of the
highest spurs of Mount Bainier, known as
the pack saddle, has broken off, and, it is
supposed, fell into the crater. It is also
stated on good authority that the mountain
shows every indication OF being In a state
of eruption, as large volumes of smoke can
be seen on clear day rising from the old
landmark.
George Fl. Mullery, of San Francisco,
and James Ryan. OF Helena, are making
preparations each to drive $4,000 sheep
from Fresno and Los Angeles to Montana
early in the spring. Last season they took
somewhat smaller drives through, but
found them very profitable. Their route
lays by way of Walkers basin, Owens
lake and river, passing through Nevada
near Eureka, and crossing the Rocky
Mountains at Pleasant Valley divide,
along the line of the Utah and Northern
Railway. The trip will probably occupy
l5O days.