Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-29
UP AND DOWN THE COAST.
Frost at Grass Valley Friday night.
Red Bluff ia to have n match factorv

fiost at otdss alIey rIluay nlgnt.
Red Bluff is to have a match factory.
The salmon-fshing season is just begin
ming on the Coquille, and good season is
expected.
The Government is about making ar
rangements to build telegraph line from
Ashland to Fort Klamath.
Swan, the pioneer OF Monterey, says that
the first gold known to be in California was
found at the Mission of San Antonio.
The Redding Independent and Shasta
county Democrat believe the recent great
fire at Redding was caused by incerdiaries.
Large numbers of cattle are dying about
the Devine and Todhunter ranges, OF black
leg. It is feared that the disease may now
become general. Reno Journal.
A new bridge has been erected on the
Stockton and Copperopolis wagon road,
over a slough near c. D. Benjamins ranch.
1t is a substantial structure, with high
and strong side rails.
Near Red Bluff wild grapes are begin.
ming to ripen, and the Jelly preparing sea.
son will again be renewed. The vines on
the banks of the numerous creeks are re-
ported loaded with fruit.
The Government works on the Coauille
bar have been suspended for want Of funds.
Good work has been done, and great i'm.
provement is noticeable in the channel but
further appropriations will be needed to
complete the work.
Ducks are appearing earlier than usual
this season. The lakes in Pajaro valley are
at times well covered with ducks, and
weather sharps are predicting early rains,
claiming that the early appearance OF ducks
portend early rains.
The party in search of the Brother Jona-
than is now making daily trips, when the
weather viii! permit, to the locality where
the wreck is supposed to be. They are
obliged to come to Crescent City every
night in order to get fresh water.
The grape growers of the st. Helena dis.
trict, Napa county, have almost unani.
mously signed a pledge, not to sell grapes
to such wine or brandy makers as refuse
to agree not to use glucose, molasses, or
other deleterious or obnoxious substances.
The bids for bridge over the Sacra-
mento river at Chico Landing were opened
by the Board of Supervisors of Colusa on
Tuesday last. There were four bids put
in. The bid of the California Bridge Com
pany, of Oakland. was the lowest. 1t is
SID, $40, and will be accepted, provided
the citizens of Colusa will subscribe the
sum required to do the work, with the sum
of $1,000 which the county will give
This will require about 81 500 to be raised
by subscription. The draw is to be what
is called tower framework. 1t is now be.
lieved that the amount can be raised by
subscription.
Sonoma county with population OF
25. 600, has 600 people sixty years of age
and upwards; 425 seventy years and over ;
80, eighty and over. Talk about our
climate and soil being adapted to agri-
culture, viticulture, horticulture and
horsi-sheepi-co culture, homo-culture is
the thing that will pay best in old So
noma. Both ends of life are full-l2, 600
minors at one end, 1900 cripples at the
other, and not enough in the middle to
nurse and spank the babies -coddle and
bury the old. The burying is small
matter. Well we never, or " hardly ever
die [Sonoma Democrat.
For two weeks past there has been a
fire in the Sierras west OF Reno. The fire
had just about died out, but the winds of
Thursday night and yesterday famed it
into fierce flame again and drove the FIRE
down the hill into the timbers southwest of
US. All day yesterday very dense column
of smoke rose from the burning timber and
this valley was filled with it. The dense
smoke was caused by the fire getting into
the sawdust heaps just below where the
lower mill, which was burned last year,
stood. As there are many tons of sawdust
there, the fire will burn for an indefinite
period. Much timber and underground is
being DESTROYED, i Reno Journal, 9th.