Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-07
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Scarlet fever is prevailing among the
children at Bodie.
There is in the safe of the Nevada
county treasury S42, 226 81.
There are now 1000 patients in The
Napa State Asylum for the Insane.
Parties IN Alameda are talking of start
ing an iron foundry in that town.
The name of Encinal Station in Alameda
has been changed to Grand-street Station.
Nevada City people have lately been an.
noyed by small fish in the water.pipes.
There are IS prisoners in the Yuba
county Jail. This is more than the average.
which is is.
Last Thursday large party of Marys.
vile people assembled the North Butte,
1850 feet high.
At Carson it is believed that a full force
of employees will be reinstated in the diff
ferent departments of the Mint as early as
July lst.
The Northern Pacific Company has about
finished selling its lots i'll Cheny, w. T.,
having recently disposed of twenty blocks
to nonresident for $1,000.
Workmen are busy at the end of the
new filling at Long Wharf, Oakland, driv-
ing piles for the slips and preparing the
foundation for the new depot
The funeral of the late DR.. John Ruth
took place at Oakland Thursday afternoon
from the Masonic Temple, and was con.
Quoted by the Masons and Workmen.
At depth of 445 feet a flowing stream
OF water was struck in the artesian we'll
which is being sunk at Battle Mountain,
and 1t now rises about foot and hall
above the surface.
Chaplain W. F, vaux, aged 10, acting
pastor OF the Santa Cruz Episcopal Church,
died there Wednesday. S. j. Lynch,
prominent business man, died at the same
place Tuesday evening.
Washington Territory is divided into
twenty-five counties, no one of which IS
smaller than the State of Massachusetts,,
while there are several, each OF which is
larger than the State of New York.
Army worms have appeared in Suuol
valley, Mendocino county, and are destroy
ing everything eatable within their path.
They are travelling south and east. The
streets and houses in Hopland are said to
be literally alive with them.
The San Francisco Erchdnge SAYS "Mr.t
Sutro has purchased part interest in TIE
Cliff House property indeed, it is ru-
mored that he has purchased it all" The
San Francisco Bulletin says he has also
purchased good deal of land between the
city and the Cliff House.
At Siuslaw is the oldest white settler N
Oregon, named Garner. He is a Canadian
Frenchman, born in 1901, and crossed the
mountains in 1920 with party of "a men.
The company went up Red river to the
chain of lakes, thence west across the
Rocky Mountains, but AZ surviving the
trip.
While excava'ors were at work on the
new road leading from Paisley to the new
sawmill in Lake county, Oregon, lately,
they unearthed the bones of some mon
strous beast, some of which have been sent
to a paleontologist at Philadelphia. TIE
molars are three or four inches in length,
by one and half in width and one in
thickness.
The Truckee Republican complains of
the toll rates on mountain roads. For in
stance, it says that the Truckee and Tahoe
turnpike road, for a two-horse buggy the
rate is 50; for a two horse spring wagon,
81 % for a foer-horse stage, So for a
six-horse stage, 81 for four. horse freight
team, 81 40; for horseman, 81. No re-
auctions are made to those who are COM
PEELED to travel the road every day.
Marysville is believed to use more water,
in proportion to its population, than any
other place on the coast That city is
now consuming S00.000 gallons per day.
In the summer months the consumption is
frn,,, ! COA 000 - i
This is proportionately far in excess of the
quantity consumed in either San Francisco
or Sacramento. The two artesian wells
from which the water is taken have never
failed, and seem to be practically mex
haustible.
The city of Durango, in Mexico, has
hill in its vicinity that is almost pure iron.
1t is two miles long, one mile wide, and
700 feet high. On its surface, uncovered
and visible, are, according to estimate, two
hundred millions of tons of iron ready to
be placed in the smelling ovens that it is
proposed to put up at the foot of the hill.
A large part of the ore yields from 10 to 90
per cent. pure metal, and is easily worked
and converted into STEEL Wood for fuel
in unlimited abundance is to be had near
by, and good water is likewise accessible.
The tar smeared on the Yuba river bridge
efectually arrested the progress of the
army worms toward the city, says the
Marysville appeal. They have nearly all
disappeared IRON the bridge, only few
stragglers remaining of what was last week
countless multitude. Most of the worms
are now in chrysalis stage of develop
ment, and their cocoons can be seen hang
ing to the twigs of the trees and bushes on
the south of the river. The foliage about
the south end of the bridge has been nearly
all devoured by the creatures, and some of
the trees have been Invested of every leaf.
The ravages of the worms seem to have
been confined to very limited area as the
trees quarter of mile away from the
bridge, on either side of it, appear to be in
full leaf