Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-16
STATE AND COAST NEWS.

county.
Grouse shooting is reported to be fine in
the grain fields of Quartz valley and down
Scott river.
The big bridge between Waitsburg, W.
T., and Oregon City, will require about
S00,0 feet of lumber.
Mrs. NJ. P. Chamberlain and Miss Katie
Day were badly injured by runaway horse
in Susanville last week.
Several bears have been seen in Marin
county lately, probably wanderers driven
out by the Tamalpais fire.
The building boom still continues in
Benicia Houses are going up as if by
magic, in all parts of the city.
Some very fine fields of broom corn have
been raised and are now being cut on both
sides of the river between Colusa and
Butte City.
The Truckee Republican, recently burned
out, was this week issued in diminutive
form, but with a plucky spirit, from the
Gazette office, Reno, New.
At Adamsville, Beaver county, Utah,
last week, l0-year.old son of Mr.. Rees
Grifiths was dragged to death by horse
which he was taking to the field.
An experiment made on Roberts Island
in raising oats resulted very satisfactorily.
The yield was over one hundred bushels to
the acre. The seed sown was the variety
known as the Surprise Dat, and came
from Oregon.
The St. Helena Star thus writes
proverbs The glory of woman is her
hair the glory Of Napa is her wine, and
of that wine its purity. That gone, the
scepter has departed from Judah and the
lawgiver from between his feet.
There is quite feeling springing up in
Petaluma and vicinity in favor of con-
structing first class mile-tr near that
city. The old "Payran place." in East
Petaluma, is generally regarded as present
ing the best facilities of any location yet
mentioned.
There seems to be no abating of small
pox in the vincinity of Jackson Gate,
Amador county. The dreadful disease is
strict quarantine measures are adopted
other communities than the Gate are likely
to be afflicted with the scourge.
Since the rainy season set in the Warm
Springs Valley. on the line of the Southern
Pacific Railroad, short distance below
Benson, presents the appearance of an in
land lake. The entire valley, some twenty
miles east and west and ten or twelve
miles north and south. is one sheet of
water.
At Eureka Friday AL Skinner, Next
can, beat his wife fearfully and nearly to
death. She is delicate woman, weighing
less than hundred pounds. Skinner
DULLES the town, and all stand in fear Of
him. The Magistrates Court allowed
Skinner to go on payment of $50. The
community feels outraged bysuch brutality.
We took ride about 10 miles into the
country south and east of this as far as the
reservation line and carefully noticed the
grain fields. We could observe no serious
injury done by grasshoppers. Some of the
grain was cut, and other fields look we'll
and seem to be well filed. Il Lewiston
Teller.
Mr.. Miller, who owns the grist mill at
Eugene City, Oregon, has gone to the burr
milestone mountain, beyond Bald Peter,
to obtain and bring out some of the stone,
so that he may give it a fair and impartial
test. He has seen specimens Of the stone
at Waterloo, and believes it the real burr.
Ii this should prove correct it will bring
many thousands of dollars into Linn coun.
ty in the near future.
S. j. Gee, of Eagleville, Alodoc county,
has an apple tree that is quite curiosity,
and if it was not for the severe climate of
this country would in all probability be a
tree. This tree bloomed in the
spring, and the apples from those blossoms
are large and nearly ripe. The tree has
since blossomed each month, and the
apples are of different sizes, ranging from
the size of halel nut to as large as
mans fist The tree is seven years old,
but this is the first season it has blossomed
in this way.
The Sierra Lumber and Flume Company
has railroad 1000 feet long from the
shore of Lake Tahoe to the mouth of the
tunnel through the eastern summit. The
ears are hauled up by wire cable, but it
is found that the clutch is not certain, and
seven cars have run away and been
wrecked To prevent this the company is
putting cogs aud ratchets in the middle of
the track the entire distance. The cogs
are four inches apart, and the dog or
ratchet will trail behind the car, dropping
against the cogs all the time. So if car
gets loose it can only drop four inches.-
Reno Gazette.
Stockton Herald. c. Fl. Huffman, of
MERGED, has reduced wheat growing and
harvesting to science. He is now en-
gagged harvesting crop of $500 acres. of
which 1000 acres were summer fallow and
the remainder volunteer. The volunteer
crop, he estimates, will cost him in actual
outlay OF money about 80 cents an acre,
the thrashed grain delivered in his ware
house. This wheat is yielding about thirty
bushels to the acre. He does his harvest
ing with two combined headers and thrash.
ers built by himself. The width OF cut of
these machines is eighteen feet, and
together they harvest and thrash ninety
acres a day. 1t will take Mr.. Huffman till
about the middle of next month to finish
harvesting. Mr.. Huffman cultivates his
land very thoroughly, and to that fact is
due his uniformly good crops, even in un-
favorable seasons.
The Amador Dispatch says that j. a. Gar.
III UuS CulLufC VI BIN d lew ulIlCS
above jackson, has demonstrated beyond
doubt that the climate and facilities of that
county are as we'll adapted to this branch
OF industry as any other part of the world.
He says that the samples OF silk which he
has already reeled with one of his own
home constructed machines are of as high
quality as any he ever saw in Italy or
France. The soil and climate are Just
suited to the culture of the best quality of
mulberry trees, and the worms are as thrifty
as though they were a native insect. Thus
far the matter has been merely expert
mental, but thorough test of five years
has convinced Mr.. Garbarini that there is
no place on earth better adapted to this
industry than that part of Amador county.
and in consequence thereof he has planted
a large number of imported mulberry cut
tings. Garbarini will have his reels and
cocoons on exhibition at the State Fair.
On Friday Of last week the heaviest fire
this county has had, in grain field, for
several years broke out on the farm of
William Ash, near Berlin. Some forty
and odd stacks of wheat were burned be-
fore 1t could be checked OF course all
the men for several miles around congre-
gated there to fight the fire. Some OF
those who were present and saw the
ground burned put the loss as high as Sl2,.
600, but Mr.. Ash places it at about 81 900.
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