Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-02
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

The Marin county poor farm has seven
residents.
The burned district of Ukiah, Mendo-
cinco county, is being rebuilt.
The Santa Ana ge-growers have
contracted for 5000 fruit boxes.
a band of 700 sheep was sold near
Pataha City, w. T., recently for 81 so
per head
Elko asbestos is now used almost exclu-
sively on the Comstock for covering steam
drums and pipes.
At Crab Greek, Washington Territory,
all the cattle are perishing, and the stock
men are about ruined.
Butter colored with yellow ochre is in
the Virginia City market. 1t is said to
come from Nevada ranches.
Ygnacio valley, Contra Costa county,
has gum tree 81 inches in girth near the
ground. 1t was planted in 1865.
R. c. LivesaY has entered into bonds to
take charge Of the paupers of Clackamas
county, Oregon, he paying all expenses,
for the sum of 81 per week.
Coyotes are very busy in eastern Wash
ington Territory feeding on dead stock,
and the parties who are hunting dead
stock for their hides do rushing business.
One man averaged SO day.
There is $4,000 worth of flax awaiting
shipment in Lewiston, Idaho, says the Nez
Perez Ne,cs, and $4,000 bushels of last
seasons crop has been contracted for, to
be delivered at various points on Snake
river.
On last Tuesday the S. F. and N. P. R.
R. ran the first regular through train to
Guernevllle since the storm. Two steam
pumps have been at work washing away
the debris which covered the track, and
the work has just been completed.
Hunters killed seven cougars lately on
Rock creek, Southern Oregon. There has
also been great destruction of deer in the
same neighborhood, one hunter having
killed 80 and another I25. Deer are re.
ported very numerous throughout the
country.
A herder was lately found in deserted
cabin in the Judith valley, Montana, badly
frozen. On being asked how long he had
been there he said three days, but the
dates 60 to prove that he had been there
eleven days instead of three, and had been
without food or fire for that length of
time.
Says the Healdsburg Flag.. One thing
that strikes the traveller over roads in this
section of country is the large amount of
new lands being prepared for grapes.
Trees are being cut up into wood, and
stumps and brush grubbed up. The whole
country presents an air of thrift and IN
dustrv.
Mrs. Jack Tanksley, near Walla Walla,
w. T., was gone many hours from home
during severe storm. and when found she
was in such condition that faint hopes
were entertained of her recovery. She
was cut all of one night, during which she
sheltered herself from the storm by build.
ing a hut of snow.
The shearing corrals of Adrian Mandis at
Delano, Kern county, present scene of
activity. No less than 100 shearers are
engaged in clipping the fleece from 200, 900
sheep. 1t is estimated that there will be
quite this number, or more, shorn at the
Delano corrals this season, including the
Haggin focks and other large focks which
have been engaged.
The great weight on the hard snow of
December caused many slides along the
fankee Fork, Idaho, from the mouth of
the Jordan up to Eight-mile Creek. At one
time it was feared that many of the houses
in Custer would be swept away, but
the damage was confined to localities i'm
mediately beneath steep points of the tim
berless hills. Several families had narrow
escapes from death, and one white man
named Lang was killed, besides number
of Chinese.
The Virginia New Enterprise says that
the Frenchman who owns the herd of cam
els ranging to the eastward in the valleys
bordering the Carson river will utilize his
ships OF the desert" this summer in car
rying goods from the terminus of the Car.
son and Colorado Railroad into camps out
into the wilderness. The camels now num- |
Der about forty, all but two or three of
whom are natives of Nevada. In our
deserts these animals find grasses and Bit |
ter and prickly shrubs and plants suited |
to their taste.