Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-13
STATE AND COAST NEWS.

amount of one or two train loads day.
The st. Helena Star, Jr., which is a
dimiuutive supplement of the Star, says
This issue of the Junior is small but it is
a blamed sight bigger than the news, and
don't You forget it.
On the LIST of July there were IL, 314
members of the A. 0. U. w. in good stand
ing in California. The entire disburse-
ments of the Order in this State aggregate
about half a million dollars.
Preparations are being made to resume
operations at the Carson Mint ON the LIST
of October. The new refinery connected
with the Mint is being hurried forward to
completion as fast as possible.
Oakland is in trouble about its water
1t is foul and tainted, makes people sick,
and an epidemic is prophesied if its use is
continued. It appears the reservoir has
grown foul and poisoned the water.
John Finnells new grain warehouse at
Tehama is described by the TocSin as the
largest and best north of Sacramento. 1t
is of brick, 202 feet long by 20 wide and
% high, and has capacity of 10000 sacks.
James Hussey, the Vallejo hoodlum who
with a brick knocked William Skinner
senseless in the Benicia Tivoli, has been
held to answer charge of assault with a
deadly weapon, bail being set in the sum
of 81, 500.
The hogs at the Insane Asylum, Stock
ton, continue to die in great numbers.
They act as though overcome with heat.
and 90 staggering about with mouths open
as if gasping for breath. Several have
died since last report.
The demand for carpenters to rebuild the
burnt district of Colfax. w. T., will be
enormous. Letters of inquiry are being
sent in all directions. Our citizens mean
business, and it is predicted that before
snow flies hardly vistige of the fire will
remain.
1t has been found, by careful expert
ment, that the red gum trees, Of which
many were being planted in Vallejo, are
fatal to bees. The blossoms of the blue
gums are not injurious, but the presence of
red gums near where bees are kept is fatal
to them.
Hay is unusually plentiful in this valley
this season-the result of wet winter and
the drowning out of wheat-the market
value prevailing being from IS to $40 per
ton. The corn crop in this county is re.
ported good, both in quality and quantity.
[Napa Register.
Several loads of pipe have arrived at
Hornitos for the purposes of conveying
water from Bear creek to the Yosemite
steam crushing quartz mill, located on the
No. 9 vein and mine. As soon as the pipe
is laid and the necessary repairs are made
the mill will resume operations.
San Diego streets are sprinkled with salt
or ocean water, and the papers say it is a
success, giving universal satisfaction, and
seems to keep the dust down quite as well,
if not better than fresh water. 1t is much
cheaper and more plentiful, and no appear
ance of saline incrustations are visible.
Messrs. Tobey and Fuge intend erecting
marine ways at Port Townsend soon, large
enough to accommodate any ordinary. sized
vessel. Hitherto many schooners and
other small craft have gone to Seattle for
repairs when they would have remained at
the former place if their repairs could have
been done there.
1t is said that the damage done to the
growing crops by the squirrels at Half
moon Bay, San Mateo county, can hardly
be estimated, but this year is unusually
large. On the Brown ranch, last week,
the Colburns thrashed fifty.acre piece of
barley which produced in all but $50 sacks
the rest was eaten by the squirrels.
Deer are reported plenty among the foot
hills. They are or ought to be still pro-
tected by game laws, but people are
slaughtering them by hundreds, and just
for their hides AT least this is the report
which comes via Milton, and is reliable.
Here is work for the State Sportsmen's As.
ISOLATION which was organized in June.
Navigation of the upper San Joaquin,
above San joaquin City, is now impracti-
cable on account of the low stage of water.
A large amount of wheat, estimated at
500, 600 sacks, mas been brought out by the
steamers, although it has been estimated
that fully one-half OF the present crop will
have to be stored until the water again
rises.
Stirring times among the loggers. Much
difficulty in getting sufficient and efficient
help. Drivers with lots of patience and
men willing to work during daylight. This
pleasant weather asks for big booms. Work
at the wood camps is lively; barge
loaded almost every day but, with all the
hard work, the boys are ever ready for a
frolic at night. 81 Tahoe Tattler.
The warehouse of Cacheville is already
filed, and the grain is coming so rapidly
that it is thought that additional storage
facilities will have to be supplied during
the present month. Unless wheat con-
tinues to rise and the farmers commence
unloading, it is understood that Mr.
Wherry, the owner of the warehouse, will
add another hundred feet of storage room
in short time. Il Woodland Mail.
The Oldest olive trees in the State of
California are at the Mission of San Diego.
They were planted from cuttings brought
from Lower California by the Franciscan
missionaries. The olive trees in Los An
geles and other counties up the coast were
propagated from cuttings from the San
Diego trees. About eighty of the original
trees are to be seen at the Mission, and
they yield good crops of fruit yearly, not
withstanding the fact that they have very
little care.
Surveys of public lands now being made,
under instructions of the Surveyor General
of Arizona, in the San Fernando and Cata-
lima mountains, have disclosed the fact
that there are large tracts of table lands in
these mountains, embracing several hun
dred thousand acres of the very best white
and yellow pine, from twenty inches to
three feet in diameter. There are groves
with an average hight of seventy to one
hundred feet. The Texas. Pacific and
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroads
will traverse this region, and make it valu-
able as source of supply for Southern Ar
iona, Sonora and Chihuahua.
We are indebted to V. E. Bangs for a
fine supply of grapes grown on his farm
from three year-old vines that have never
been irrigated. Mr.. B. has two small vine.
yards, one of which has been irrigated by
means of windmill, and the other without
water, save natures rain supply. He is of
the opinion that the vines grown without
irrigation will prove not only the best as
to quality, but also in the amount of the
yield. The experiment is one that our
people should take an interest in espe-
cially should land owners give it their con.
sideration. Mr.. Bangs farm and vineyard
is only some three miles from this place,
and is of the average of plain lands in this
county. Modesto News.
Sunday evening, July 3lst, man who
gave his name as Dick Mullen, and who
had been for some time at work ON Gill
bert's thrashing machine, near Modesto,