Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-03
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

There are So Piutes at Grantsville, New.
Montana cattle shipments doubled last
year.
Three whales were caught at San Simeon
last week.
The Marion county Or Poor House has
nine inmates, one "a years old.
Sam Simeon dairymen ship about $50
boxes of butter, worth 81, 900, per week.
The Butte county Sportsmen's Club have
declined to send full team to the Folsom
shooting tournament.
Many farms on the Coquille river in Ore
gon were much improved by the high
water, some of the low lands being filled
in with sediment.
S. B. Wright of Greeley, Col, states
that in one of the Leadville mines, this
winter, ice formed six inches thick at the
bottom of 250foot shaft.
Samuel Lance and John Mcbride, two
trappers from Alameda county, attracted
to Lake county by the S25 bounty on coy
otes, captured two last week.
A new camp called Miller Mining Dis
trict has been formed in the western por-
ton of Humboldt county, Nevada. I'M
portant mineral discoveries have been
made.
Most of the stock brought to Antioch
from the flooded islands will remain during
the spring and summer months, but that
coming from Yolo county has been mostly
returned.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company
have withdrawn their lands from the mar.
ket in the Walla Walla valley, W. T., in
tending to reorgauize their land depart
ment.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company has
800 men at work constructing roadway
through the Poudre Narrows, above Fort
Collins, Col. The Baltimore and Ohio will
soon send 400 out. A little fun is antici
pated.
A large drop hammer, weighing 500
pounds, was cast at the Sweepstake Fac
tory, San Leandro, two weeks ago. The
hammer is one of the largest in the State,
and will be used in the new shop at
Benicia.
A large crop will be raised the coming
season in the new settlement on the Little
Thompson, Col. The water is taken from
the Handy ditch, which is to be enlarged.
Several miles of laterals have already been
been made.
There was novel sight in Virginia,
New, Saturday. 1t was big Indian car
rying pappoose in his arms. The specta-
tors were beginning to express their sur
prise when his squaw came YEARLY around
the corner, bending under the weight of
two sacks of -four.
Orrin Armstrong, aged l6, was camping
out with an Indian Sunday night, in jack
son county, Oregon. They built FIRE at
the foot of a tree and went to sleep. The
Indian was awakened by crash, and
found that the roots of the tree had burned,
the tree had fallen, and Armstrong was
crushed to death.
1t is proposed to sink sixteen artesian
wells within radius of a few miles in the
vicinity of Saltwater, on the sink of the
Carson, in Nevada, and the first will be
sunk about a mile and half from that
place. Twelve hundred dollars have been
set aside for the purpose of sinking this
well, and if it proves successful venture
the others will be put down at once.
The Salt Lake Tribune says Salt Lake
is on the eve OF great boom. Several
new railroads are soon to center here the
Street Railway Company are extending
the line, the Electric Light, Power and
Heating Company's works are nearing COM
pletion, the Telephone Company is stretch
ing its wires and opening its exchange,
large business blocks are contemplated,
and dwelling houses innumerable.
All the breaks made in the Carson and
Colorado Railroad track during the recent
storms have been repaired in the most SUBJ
stantial manner. The break in Daney
Canyon required week to repair by put
ting in culyert and long embankments.
That at Ell Dorado Canyon was still more
serious. There a l,000-foot embankment
has been put in and aculvert 100 feet wide
erected over the main channel of the
stream.
HAMMERS Cascara Saglada Bitters cures