Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-22
STATS NIws.

helds will reach $50, 600.
On Sunday, in Red Bluff, Henry c. Will
son was thrown from wagon and received
severe injuries in tho arm. The accident
was caused by runaway.
Two large bars have formed at the mouth
OF the Iuba since last year. They are
composed of slickens from the hydraulic
mines, acres in extent and twenty or thirty
feet in depth.
Hay hands seem TO be~scarce throughout
Lassen county, as farmers in Surprise val
ley fail to get their complement at 81 per
day. Sufficient help cannot be procured
here Bieber Tribune.
The Lander Free Press says the Nevad&
Central Railway from Battle Mountain to
Austin is % miles long and cost 81 ,020,-
COO. There are nineteen stations, four of
which are regular billing stations.
The st. Helena Wine Growers Associs-
ton has appointed a committee "to ascer-
tain and report how the use of glucose for
wine and brandy.making can be effectually
stopped in our district and State"
The Grand Lodge of the Knights of
Pythias of Nevada will meet in Virginia
City on the Sth of August. The Gold Hill
NewS says it is expected that an excursion
train will be run from Palisadc, on the
Central Pacific, to allow of the attendance
of the Grand Lodge OF a large delegation
of Knights from the eastern part of the
State.
We hear it limited that movement will
be put on foot, says the 0rovilie Register,
to construct an irrigating canal through
the eastern portion OF 0phir township, by
tapping Feather river at or just below the
junction of the North and Middle forks,
and running south towards Marysville,
thereby covering the whole foot.hill coun-
try of this and a portion of Wyandotse
township.
The Chico Record of Monday has tie
following Parties who went down to Oro-
vile on Saturday night state that they OBJ.
served q large fire burning in grainfield
on the north side of Feather river, be-
tween 0roville and Gridley. The fire was
found to have been on the Fernandez
grant, and on the lands of Parks Bros. and
Schaeifer. No reliable information has
yet been received as to the origin of the
fire or the extent of the loss, but rumors
are rife that the loss will amount to $780,
to noon yesterday.
item Reliable information informs us
that work has surely begun on the rail.
road from Medera via Fresno Flats. Engin-
GERS and laborers are on the ground.
Teams and workmen have gone from this
vicinity to assist in building the track for
the iron horse to gallop over towards the
mountains, and not far in the future we
expect to see him steam down brakes on
the verge of the worlds wonder, the great
Yosemite. The road will diverge from
the Central Pacific at or near Minturn
station, on the Chowchilla, and will be eN-
tended across the Sierras, tapping the
Inyo and Mono mining regions and South
ern Nevada.
Complaints are made by farmers resid.
ing in different parts of the valley that IL a
wheat yield is much less than it was esti-
mated previous to the commencement of
harvest. Many who expected to get
from twenty to thirty bushels to the acre,
have only from twelve to fifteen bushels.
This shrinkage from the estimate is unu-
sual, as the farmers of this valley have
generally underestimated their crops and
last year in particular most of them had
to purchase additional sacks after COM
mencing to thrash. This year thousands
VI SdChs S.e pSIn5 fStuiLSo uhuSou-
While the quality of the grain raised this
probably be only about half what it was
last year throughout the State. -EStockton
Herald.
Visalia. Delta. Enough of the wheat crop
of Tulare county has now been thrashed
to enable us to form, with some accuracy.
an idea of the yield this season as compared
with lesb, As a general result, it may ba
stated that the number of sacks or bushels
is, as a general rule, in the chief wheat dis
tricts of the county, less than last year.
while it is also true that the general weight
per lack is heavier, by four to nine pounds,
than it was last season. Yet this increase
in weight per sack will not prove sufficient
to prevent the general yield in wheat of
Tulare county from being considerably less
than it was in the harvest year Of 1850.
In quality it can safely be asserted that
the wheat of Tulare county has never sur
passed this years crop, if, indeed, it has
ever equaled it. The wheat this year ia
very plump and no wheat in the State can
be Justly called superior to it. Sacks range
this year in weight from l3S to l49 pounds.
The Santa Ara Herald says. The bar
ley crop is now moro than half harvested,
while the harvest OF the wheat crop is only
fairly under good way. The weather he's
been all that could be desired. No dry
ing, scorching winds have arrested or
shriveled the crop, but cool weather and
plenty of dew have enabled the grain to
ill out to beautiful plumpneas through
long, slow season of ripening. Tie quality
of the grain, as far as thrashing has pro-
ceeded, is very tine-much more uniform
than last year, and of grade to command
better rates than have been current for the
past three years. Through tho county az
large the yield will be one.half of full
crop, of superior quality. and worth more
money than any previous crop ever gath
cred since grain raising became promi-
nent industry in Los Angeles. The wheat
crop of IS, 600 acres will probably yield
l,I25, 900 bushels, while so 600 acresI
barley will give at least l. 500, 900 bushels
OF the barley and wheat about 30, coo acres
have been cut for hay.
About 10 o'clock last Saturday night
news reached Mariposa to the effect that
Egide Bauer had been killed in Hornitos
by D. X. Pitzer, says the Mariposa Gazette.
From what We can find out the shooting
took place about 6 80 p. NJ. The farms of
the two men adjoin, and the trouble grew
out of dividing fence, and from hogs be-
longing to Bauer breaking into the fields of
Pitzer About three weeks ago they met,
and after some hot words between the men,
it is said Pitzer attempted to shoot Bauer
with shotgun, but the gun was knocked
aside, and the trouble there ended for the
time being. Saturday last the two men
again met near the edge of town, when
Pitzer, who is said to have been under the
influence of liquor, drew pistol and fired
twice, the first ball taking effect in the arm
and the other passing through the heart,
killing him instantly. After the killing
Pitzer gave himselfup to Constable Turner.
and was placed in the calabooee at that
place. The people were very much in
censed over the affair, and we hear threats
of lynching were freely made, but the good
people of Hornitos and vicinity were finally
persuaded to let the law takes its course.