Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-27
COAST CLIPPINGS.

Several orange trees in Redding are be-
ginning to bear fruit.
The next Teachers Institute for Sonoma
county will convene in Petaluma Septem.
Der 18th.
We admire cheek, hence we adore the
Plumas National jab-jabber. He Gays sew
eral boring" machines are needed in his
neighborhood.-[Gridley Herald.
Three hundred and eight taxpayers of
Suffer county have petitioned the Super
visors to institute suits against hydraulic
miners or the Bear river and its tributa-
ries.
Waterfowl of all kinds are now very
abundant at Pyramid Lake. Besides geese
and ducks there are pelicans by the million.
A few swan are occasionally seen, but they
generally keep far out on the lake and are
very wild and watchful
The Gold Hill fire boys are practicing
for the firemen's tournament at the Miners
Union picnic. They challenge any fire
company in that State to contest at Car
son on the 4th of September, on the occa-
sion OF the Miners Union picnic.
a farmer was yesterday bargaining off
his wheat, which was filled with all sorts
of stuff. He was offered 81 40. He was
thunder. struck, expecting 81 60 at least.
"Well," said the buyer, "clean your
wheat and will give you 81 go. would
rather give you 81 GO for it clean than
| 81 40 as it is. / do not want to market
all this hog and chicken feed. - Stockton
Independent.
James Wilson, who lives among the live
! al, g
with samples Of his wheat. Last year he
bought of Stewart & Smith some shrunken
Australian seed and sowed sixty pounds of
it per acre. This year he harvested "a
| bushels per acre and a single grain was as
large and heavy as three of those sown.
He has about 500 sacks of this wheat
which is as fine as any yet shown in the
market.-[Stockton Independent.
1t has not been forgotten, probably, that
it was quite generally believed for two or
three weeks in the spring that the peach
crop of this county had been almost totally
wiped out by frosts. We did not believe
it, and the sequel proves that we were cor
rect in our estimate. So large a peach
crop was never produced in the county be-
| fore, and some orchardists who would have
taken $50 for their entire crop in April
have realized $500 and upwards. We have
seen very few trees that were not over
loaded Placerville Republican.
T. A. Nudge, of Alameda, returned
home on Monday from three weeks pros.
pecting tour through Fresno, Mono and
| Mariposa with several other gentlemen.
He represents the country through which
they passed as replete with precious
metals, but which it will require consider
able capital to extract. They assembled
Mounts Whitney, Hoffman and Dana, and
gazed upon scenery grand beyond descrip-
ton. Mr.. Nudge Gays the proposed Cali
fornia Central Railroad will run within six
miles OF Yosemite valley Alameda
Argus.
The Petaluma Argus mentions piece of
peculiar railway construction In the upper
part of Sonoma county, near the coast-an
actual roadbed in the tree-tops Between
the Clipper Mills and Stuart's Point, where
the road crosses a deep ravine, the trees
are sawed off on a level and the timber and
ties laid on the stumps. In the center of
the ravine mentioned, two huge redwood
trees standing side by side form substan-
tial support. These are cut off seventy-five
feet above the ground. and cars loaded with
heavy logs pass over them with as much
security as if it were framed in the most
scientific manner.
! Last Thursday w. c. Smith and G. w.
! Strickland were hunting and trapping in
the vicinity of Oristimba creek, in S.anis-
laus county, when they caught specimen
of game which they had not hoped to find
in that region. They had along a No. 2
fox trap, which they set near the creek.
Before this they had killed deer and
dragged the entrails for half mile or so
to start the foxes out. When they re-
| turned to the trap in the msrning they
found large California lion caught in if.
The animal measured 81 feet from its nose
to the end of its tail, and had claws one
inch and half long. 1t had three of its
toes between the jaws of the trap.
French Bob" suspected of being the
| individual who has been standing up ;"
the stage. coaches this summer between
| Truckee and Sierra Valley, is described by
gentleman who saw him at Independence
Lake few months since as being only
about five feet and seven or eight inches
| tall. As the parties who robbed the San
Juan stage the other day are taller than
that, it naturally destroys the belief that
he was one of them. The same gentleman
/ saws that the wire with which the stock OF
Bob's gun is bound is not brass, but copper.
| Not long ago Bob, while in Sierra Valley
one day, had his hair cut and his
| face partially shaved luxury that he