Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-04
COAST NEWS.

The demand for farm hands in Paradise
valley exceeds the supply.
Large quantities of fruit are at present
being shipped TO the East.
The Bank of Stockton has notified the
Bank Commissioner that it will disincor-
porate and reorganize as a National Bank.
The gay and festive grasshopper has
reached Truckee and is making sad havoc
in the few gardens and isolated green spots
in the vicinity.
George Bayless, late editor OF the Ruby
Hill Nelcs, who has been on a visit TO the
East for few months past, has returned
to the Base Range.
William Blankenship. young farmer
who resides in French Camp, has lust
fallen heir to $50, 600, through the iecease
of an uncle in Arizona.
The electric light is now being used in
several OF the business houses OF Ogden
but the fiickering nuisance, in Ogden, as
elsewhere, has yet to be overcome.
The Oroville Mercury says: There is at
present considerable mining going on in the
vicinity of Bucks ranch. A number of men
are prospecting there with varied success.
Austin, New, was visited on Tuesday
with the liveliest whirlwind in her history,
which played hovoe with wagons, awnings,
and things not securely fastened generally.
There is an item going the rounds of the
papers to the effect that Colonel Lyman
Bridges made S55 600 out of the sale of the
Nevada Central Railway to Gould and his
associates.
Not only are the grasshoppers playing
havoc with the crops and in fact every
thing that is green-in Beaver, Utah, but
the pests are reported to be very numerous
about Oxford, Idaho.
The trial Of p J. Klesler for the murder
of Theodore Treier proves to be the most
important case that has occurred for some
time in Tehama county. and attracts a
large crowd to the Courthouse.
The surveyors are at work in Sierra val
ley stalking off the Plumas branch of the
railroad which ia to run through the val
ley. 1t is branch of the Nevada and Or
egon Railroad which runs from Reno
north.
The Scott Valley Ners asserts that re-
ports from the upper end of the valley are
to the effect that the farmers entertain
fears that the grasshoppers will take pos
session of their ranches. As yet they have
done no damage, but the increase Of these
pests daily are enormous.
The wool product OF this section of the
country this season will reach upward of
100, 600 pounds, of an aggregate value of
about S24, 600. The clip is very heavy and
of excellent quality, commanding a good
price below, twenty.four cents per pound
having been paid. Sheep everywhere are
doing well and owners are highly elated in
consequence. IL Lake County t0regonl Ex-
amiuer.
John White, rancher living near Live
Oak, is a notable example of the difference
between practical and slip shod farmers.
He has only been engaged in farming in
this State for about ten years, yet owns a
good ranch, has a fine orchard of six-year-
old trees, and sells several hundred dollars
worth of fruit every year to parties who
have been ranching in the neighborhood
for upwards of twenty yearS Fl [tiridley
Herald.
In proportion to her population, Nevada
consumes more liquid refreshment than
any other State in the Union. She has two
rectifiers, over 600 retail and 10 wholesale
liquor dealers !; one manufacturer of cigars,
over ], 200 dealers in manufactured tobac-
CO, 81 brewers and 10 dealers in malt
liquors. Thirteen thousand nine hundred
and sixty.five and ne-half barrels of beer
were made in the State last year.
R. B. Blowers informs us that the grass
hopper pest still continues, but by unre-
mitting efforts he has succeeded in keep
ing them out of his vineyard He keeps
one or two men on horseback with a sort
of grasshoppsr mill, by means of which the
voracious insect is trapped. They seem
to originate in the alfalfa fields adjoining
the vineyard. Mr. Blowers expects to be
able to destroy several bushels of these in
sects per day by the use of two Of these
fans. Il Woodland Democrat.