Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-18
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

There are ia Good Templars in Salinas.
Salmon are running up the creeks OF
Santa Cruz county.
Mr.. Crumm of San Bernardino will have
this year from 100 trees nearly 100000
oranges.
There is scarcity of woodsW.en at
Westport. Wages run from S45 to $50 a
month and board.
Work on the new fruit warehouse of the
South Pacific Coast Rsilroad at Santa
Clara began Thursday, fifteen men being
put on the JOB.
OF the 81, 40l, 90G mining assessments OF
the Nevada mines thus far this year,
81, l36, 900 goes to Storey county, from
which not dollar is returned in dividends.
The Blackfoot, Idaho, Register says that
the rush and stampede to the new mining
sections of Wood river have already COM
menced, and the prospect is that it will ex-
coed anything heretofore known in that
section.
W. NJ. Tucker recently purchased IL, 500
sheep on Santa Cruz Island for Merry,
Faul & Co. The Santa Barbara Press says
there still remains On the island 45, 900
head of sheep. Feed on the island is now
in excellent condition.
The oranges grown in Marysville have
much higher market value than the Los
Angeles fruit shipped to this portion of
the State. The Marysville orange has
thicker skin, but it is much larger and
more palatable than the fruit from the
lower country.
The Wool-growers' Association of Lake
county met recently. Sixteen signed the
roll, when. on motion, an assessment of so
cents was levied on each 100 sheep owned,
as fund from which to pay S25 for each
wolf killed in the district represented by
the parties signing.
Some thirty young ladies of Gilroy are
about to organize calisthenic class for
exercises at the Olympic Club-room. They
propose to use the room and its apparatus
one or two evenings week, and adopt
the system of elegant and graceful exer-
cises recommended by the Chatauqua
Society.
An interesting meeting occurred re-
Gently between Mr. Prothero an old resi-
dent of San Bernardino county, and Mr..
Jones, of Inyo county. They are
bluff old Welsh gentlemen, and have
not seen each other since they separ-
ated in little village IN Wales, forty years
ago. Notwithstanding the ravages of time
on the features of each, mutual recogni-
ton occurred.
Rails of the Northern Pacific are laid to
within forty miles of Glendive on the yell
lowstone. seventy. eight miles below Miles
City. After crossing the Yellowstone it is
yet undecided whether the line will follow
west through Deer Lodge Pass or go north
to Helena. If a pass can be found by sur
veyors. now investigating west of Helena,
suitable to take the line out into the val.
ley of the Missouri river, it is probable that
the capital of Montana will be one of the
points made by the Northern Pacific main
line.
Thirty families of Mormons encamped
on the Grand Canal, four miles above town,
Tuesday night, says the Phoenix "a. IT,
Gazette. They were ali from Nauvoo, U.
T., and had considerable live stock. For
the past year the immigration of this PEG.
pie to the valleys of the Salt and ella
rivers has been rapidly increasing, and sew.
eral large settlements have been made, the
principal of which are Jonesville and Mesa
City, all in the neighborhood of Phoenix.
1t is reported that Mormon representatives
have succeeded in obtaining control of the
rich lands at ella Bend, and that several
hundred families will soon arrive to occupy
them.
On the East Fork, about five miles above
Downieville, says the Messenger, is an i'm
mense snow-slide which completely covers
the river for distance of several hundred
feet. This slide formed year ago this
winter, and was then perhaps seventy-fve
feet deep. The summer sun of last
year failed to melt it, and lit is now,
with some of last winters snow, at
least forty feet in depth, the old snow be-
ing almost as hard as ice. The river has
worn its way through, and the arch is as
regular as though formed by human hands.
There will doubtless be plenty of snow
there all the coming summer, as it lies in a
gorge where the sun strikes it only few
hours in the day.