Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-26
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

The Castroville school buildings are val
ued at 1000.
Grain on the Alameda County Hospital
grounds is two feet high.
Over 20, 600 apricot trees were planted
in Ventura county this year.
Tulare county has $50 Good Templars.
A District Lodge was held recently.
The census of Nevada shows that there
are 5000 Piute Indians in the State.
Fourteen Indians paid taxes at the Sher-
ifs office in Goldendale, w. T., last week.
From 1913 to January l, 1881, California
turned out in gold and silver 81, 139 $780,
600.
About 100 beef cattle, rs hogs and 100
sheep are the daily consumption of meat
in Oakland.
The Yreka Tribune says that neuralgia
of the heart prevails in Siskiyou county to
an alarming extent.
That enterprisipg Southern California
journal, the San Diego Union, has begun
It's twenty first volume.
J. II. Pryor has purchased and will here.
after edit the Shasta Courier, one of the
three oldest papers in the State.
The State University grounds at Elko,
Nevada, are too strongly impregnated with
alkali to allow of trees Furnishing
There is total of eight and three-quar-
ter miles of sidewalk in Eugene City, Or,
which have been laid at cost of $40, Sl9.
Locating and settling on lands on the
Little Colorado, Arizona, near the 35th
parallel railroad, is being INDUCED in quite
extensively.
The amount of land within Montana
Territory held as reservations for Indians
is "a, l56, 500 acres, and of this 10, 900, 600
acres is good land.
A large number of laborers and mechan.
les have left the northern part of Oakland,
and more houses are empty than have ever
been known before.
The antimony works, back of Shell
Mound Park, Oakland, are in running or
der. They have about 100 tons of ore
under their sheds ready to be worked.
There are SIG children of school age in
Eugene (Or.) School District. The taxable
property In the district is returned at
S67S, 800 number of legal voters, 305.
There has been about l,5O0 cords of
wood cut at Fort Corville, w. T., this
winter for the garrison, the work giving
employment to number of white men and
Indians.
The Carson New I,de1 makes mention
of the fact that there are now eleven loco
motives of the Virginia and Truckee Rail-
road standing idle in the engine house of
the road at Carson.
Some garter snakes were seen crawling
out Of an old well at Glendale, Nevada,
lately, and two men killed l04 The
snakes were about three feet long, with
reddish stripes on the sides.
just above the old Montezuma Wells,
Arizona, near Beaver creek, there has been
discovered spring which sends forth
sixty inches of water, which is pronounced
wonderful for its sanitary properties.
Farmers in several counties are smoking
their orchards daily, in hopes of protecting
them from the frost. The idea is peculiar
one, but if effective, good one, as straw
is cheap and the results greatly desired.
The Coos Bay (Or.) Mail says The in
dications are that the coming summer will
be the most active in the line of ship-build-
ing that we have seen within several years
past. There are now three vessels under
way.
There are quite number of stations on
the Carson and Aurora road, in Nevada,
that have for years lived off the travelling
public and teamsters, whose owners will
find their occupation gone when the rail-
road is built.
1t is generally believed that all large
mills which may hereafter be built in
Homer District, Mono county, will be To-
Gated below Lundy, where water can be
employed all the year round, and other
conveniences are to be found.
The Cajon Pass, over the Coast Range,
leads directly into the Los Angeles plains,
by way of San Bernardino.. The greatest
elevation on this pass is 4. 636 feet, and it
has descent of over 1900 feet in fourteen
miles, averaging over 200 feet to the mile.
Crusade Against Typhus Fever.
New YORK, March 25th.-Thirteen picked
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