Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-10
COAST CLIPPINGS.


The Bee Democrat says the peach crop
throughout Lake county will be an unusu-
ally large one this year.
Los Angeles has made every preparation
for its centennial celebration. General
Stoneman is Grand Marshal. The orator
has not yet been selected. All civic socie-
ties of the county are to turn out by dele
cations, and also all pioneers.
It is noticed that an unusual number of
farmers over-estimated their crops this
year and had to return part of the
sacks they had bought. In these cases, as
in Falstaff's. lis "a monstrous quantity
of sack to very little bread. ~ Dixon
Tribune.
We were shown bunch of "club"
wheat grown on Sam Alexander's ranch,
this week, which was a decided novelty.
Coming from single grain it possessed
seventy -one well-filled heads, containing
an average of thirty grains to the head
[Lassen Advocate.
Work on the Moore dam on Cache creek
has commenced in earnest. There are at
present about twenty men engaged on the
work, aid Jason Watkins, Superintendent
of the work, says that more will be added
soon. Four months will be required to
complete the work, which is intended to
be very substantial structure.
The Reno Gazette is responsible for this
An old and excellent engineer on the Gen.
trail Pacific got new fireman the other
day, who, after throwing the big pine
blocks for an hour or SO, got very tired of
it and thought it no more than fair to take
change. He looked up to the engineer
sitting on his comfortable seat and said
"Here, you throw chunks for a while, and
I will look out for cows.
We learn that several gentlemen from
Kansas will shortly arrive here and 60 into
the profitable business Of raising stock.
These gentlemen are now engaged in this
business in Kansas. Last winter they lost
heavily on account of the terrible weather,
and they are now determined to seek
more hospitable climate. Other parties
from that section will probably come to
this valley and settle. -[Santa Ana Herald.
Harvey Clark, merchant at Woodville,
on the Marysville and Laporte road, has
been missing nearly ten days. 1t seems
that being in poor health he concluded to
60 to Deadwood for treatment by the Chi
nese doctor He started off from the
WoodvilIe House with his team for that
purpose. Instead of coming by the way of
Oroville to reach Deadwood, as he should
have done, he continued on the road to-
wards Marysville until he reached the
Forbes place on the Honcut. There he
put up his team. and from that time, nearly
ten days since, to the present nothing has
been heard from him. When starting off
he left his store in charge of his stepfather.
No motive can be assigned by his friends
for a voluntary disappearance.
A correspondent of the Willows Journal
says: There is scheme now on foot that
will give Berlin (Colusa county, a business
boom this fall, that will bring her up to
favorable comparison with other railroad
towns in Colusa county. | refer to the
recent organization of the McAsh and
Schultzfessel Improvement Company, of
Berlin. The object of this company is the
laying out of new town on the site now
occupied by Berlin, the building of large
and commodious brick hotel, and public
school house, erecting fifteen or twenty first
class dwelling houses to rent, likewise to
put up depot building of same style and
dimensions as the one at Maxwell station.
Said building to be presented or sold to
the Central Pacific Railroad Company in
the following manner Ii the railroad COM
pany will name the station Schultzville,
then it goes as present to Governor
Stanford, Individually or if the railroad
company will name the station McFessel,
then it is donated to the railroad company
and lastly, if the railroad company should
name the station Ashton, then it is to be
presented to Mr.. Co., of Messrs.
Miller & Co., of Williams, Colusa county.