Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-11
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
oroville has s2s school children.

Oroville has 329 school children.
There is not ar unoccupied residence in
Fresno.
FL Dorado county has $40 29l in the
treasury.
Hollister claims to have the largest
thresher on the coast
Bodie Piutes have already adopted calico
dresses and wash-tubs.
The Arapahoe County (Col.) Hospital,
during May, treated l4O patients.
Grass Valley will have Cornish wrest-
ling matches, beginning ON the Fourth.
Over $4,000 sheep are between Bak
City and The Dalles, Or, en- route to Mon
tana.
Over 1000 children have attended
school in East Denver, COL, during the
year.
The Mono Lake Railroad Company are
now employing lbs white men and numbers
of Chinese.
Millions Of crickets are destroying the
iced for stock In the northern portion of
Lassen county.
Over 5000 has been secured for a high
school building in Dixon. This is half the
required amount.
There are now in successful operation in
Tonic Basin, A. T., eight arastras, and
they are making money.
On Staten Island potatoes are now being
planted and barley sown for hay. The
farmers are not discouraged.
There will be FIVE graduates from the
Washington Territory University this
year, four of whom are young ladies.
The work of harvesting commenced on
the Glenn ranch this week with machinery
that cuts, threshes and sacks the grain.
Recently 5000 buffalo robes were sold
at Carol, Montana, at prices ranging from
Sc to 81, including calf and split robes.
General Bidwell has shipped this season
from his ranch A, GOO pounds of cherries.
One tree, producing 900 pounds, yielded
500.
The entering class of the Denver Coll
High School next term will number about
rs. The graduating class consists of 10
pupils.
Bellevue, Idaho, is 5000 feet above sea
level, Ketchum $500, and Galena 6, 800.
The mines are from 1000 to 1000 feet
higher.
The San Diego Society of Natural His
tory met last Friday. A mass of petrified
barnacles, obtained so feet under ground,
was exhibited.
Baldy creek, in the Santa Ritas. A, T.,
has failed completely, which it has never
been known to do before. The Sonoita is
almost dry. Cattle are suffering much.
If hydraulic mining is stopped, the
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steps to remove the county seat to Chico,
that they may drift out the pay dirt that
underlies that town.
A movement is progressing in San Benito
county to raise fund for the purpose of
roofing and making other needed repairs
on the old Mission Church in San Juan. 1t
will cost about $1,000.
Seventy picked warriors of the Bloods
have started from near Macleod, Montana,
toward the British line, with the intention
of going to the Yellowstone to steal horses.
The settlers are aroused.
Good drinking water is plentiful in most
parts of North Arizona, and in and near
Prescott it is pure, hard and cool. In the
southern part of the Territory the surface
water is tinctured with alkalies.
lucsudy uiS otuisSoh was SauSns Ia
the Yuba river about five miles above
Marysvllle, or six above the junction of
the Yuba and the Feather. This is the
first sturgeon seen in the Yuba river for
fifteen years.
An army of crickets, seven miles wide,
in Lake county, Or, near Goose lake, is
reported to be travelling southwark, direct
for Modoc county. They travel two miles
day. and eat every species of vegetation.
There are myriads of grasshoppers in
Sprague valley, Lake county.
There is natural bridge over Pine
creek, in Yavapai county, Arizona, be-
lieved to be the largest in the world. The
Prescott Miner says the canyon is 200 feet
wide where the creek is spanned by this
wonderful arch, and the roof, or ceiling, of
the bridge is fully 20 feet above the surface
Of the water
Mora valley, New Mexico, is said to be
one of the best wheat valleys in the Terri
tory. It is watered by the Aqua Negra,
Canencito and Rio de la Casa rivers, all
forming, about two miles west of the town,
what is called the Mora river proper. In
the valley can be raised all kinds of grain,
fruit and vegetables.