Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-31
COAST AND STATE.

A pacing greyhound is the pride of a
Gait sportsman.
Thirty tons of poultry were shipped
from lone last week.
The Sutro Tunnel Company has engaged
over l25, 900 feet of lumber for this winter.
An effort will be made to divide Valencia
county, N. NJ, during the next session of
the Legislature.
It is said that the value of real estate in
Virginia, New, has deprecated 50per cent.
in the last two years.
The surveyors of the Black Range branch
of the Santa Fe have reached the town of
Cuchillo Negro, N. NJ.
Commercial agents travelling through
New Mexico say that trade was never
better than at present.
The new free bridge at Colusa was
braticn, procession, etc.
Several boats are being built at Albu-
querque, N. NJ, for the use of duck
hunters ON the Rio Grande.
The Mojave county, A. T., Jail has now
two inmates. Previous to their reception
it has been vacant for year.
The Government telegraph line between
Ashland and Fort Klamath is now in work.
ing order and ready for business.
It is thought that fully 1000 acres of
vines will be in hearing in 1882 in Puyal-
lup county, w. T., and vicinity.
The Sentinel says that Eureka, New, "is
infested by as vicious throng of opium
fiends and Jail birds as ever hovered about
mining camp"
Work is progressing favorably on the
Reno New Asylum, and the building will
be turned over to the State at the time
called for-January 23d.
The Pacific Coal Company has a large
force of men at work on its mines near
Fort Wipgste, N. NJ, and about 100 tons
of ore are taken out daily.
Dr. Glenn has ordered 100, 600 fine grape
cuttings and has laid out 400 acres of his
famous ranch as vineyard. Five hundred
and ninety-two bundles Of cuttings arrived
at Willows last week.
Such an immigration of cats was never
heard OF at Lake Tahoe before. They come
In droves. and are more audacious than
tramps. Every place heard from so far has
from three to seven strangers.
1t is said that the Benicia Picking Com.
paDy have, at least for the present, abau.
doned the idea of building their proposed
cannery, because they have decided that
the season is liable to be poor one
Apache county, A. T., contains 80 600
head of cattle and 300, 600 sheep. The an
nual wool clip is about 500 600 pounds.
The population of the county is about 600,
aud the number of children OF school age
924.
Sleighing is better in and around Truckee
than at any time for years. There is only
about foot OF snow, and the cold weather
broken to all parts OF Sierra valley and
Lake Tahoe.
A new town has lately sprung up near
Scatterville, in Washington county, Or
egon. IL is called Garden Home City"
From fifty to sixty lots have been surveyed
and laid off into tracts of from three to
twenty acres. A reserve of three acres
has been made for public purposes.
Says the Mendocino Beacon. Shipping
is still brisk on the coast. Five vessels
were anchored in Salmon creek one day
last week, all waiting for cargoes. One or
two vessels are loading there all the time
with sawed and split ties of different di-
mensions. Last Wednesday we noticed in
our harbor the steamer Bonita taking a
load of ties for II. B. Tichenor & Co the
steamer Alex. Duncan. discharging freight,
and the schooner Sea Foam just sailing for
the city with cargo of lumber.
Isaac Whealdon, writing from Naselle,
Pacific county, w. T., states that there is
in that region some excellent agricultural
lands belonging to the Government. upon
which could readily be made good homes
by industrious settlers in few years. The
timber lands in the same locality are un-
surpassed. The Naselle is small stream
that empties into Shoalwater Bay about
nine miles from its head. 1t has channel
for sea going vessels for three miles, and a
tide navigation for river steamers for ten
or twelve miles further up.