Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-17
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Carpenters have all the work they can
do in Monterey.
Lyon county, Nevada, is to issue bonds
amounting to $50, 600.
The HOLSTER Touring mills are turning
| out IS barrels of flour day.
The southern counties in this State are
crowded with health.seekers.
There are l,S0S more males than females
in Walla Walla county, W. I.
1t is exactly 1877 miles between Salt Lake
City and Phoenix, a. T., of which 225 is
covered by railroad.
The sixty-two bales of cotton raised on
Belleview ranch, in Kern county, brought
81, l59 over the cost of production.
MERGED county has l,27l children attend
ing school, and received from the State
IS, SIS 81 for the support of the same.
r. Crawford, who has been prospecting
for coal between Coos Bay, Oregon, and
Nehalem, says the country is full of it.
A farmer ON Lyle creek, Santa Barbara
county, has an apple tree which has
bloomed and fruited this winter, the apples
being now ripe.
There is a scarcity of laboring men all
over Puget Sound forty l0ggers could
now get employment in the vicinity OF
Olympia, w. I.
There are nineteen persons in Santa
Barbara county in receipt of pensions from
the Government, the sum allowed amount
ing to S6l0 per quarter.
The incarcerated Mussel Slough settlers
have written letter of thanks to the citi-
zens of San Jose, who gave an entertain
ment for their benefit which Melted $500
Mr.. Welsh of San Mateo county has
challenged Crittenden Robinson to shoot
match for the championship of the State
and a sum of money not yet determined
upon.
B. F. Dowell, of jackson county, Ore
gon, has picked sound almonds and apples
from trees on the point of poisoning.
The winter there must have been one of
"ethereal nlildness."
In Carson Valley and Truckee Meadows
the ranchmen are doing their work in fear
and trembling. The plow is turning up
myriads of grasshopper eggs. Some of
them are seriously considering the pro-
priety of putting in no crops this season.
- GSHbk6IUau WIN HAS OCCn
through the mining camps of this State
says that Sierra county will be one of the
liveliest sections of the State next sum-
mer. They are now just beginning in
earnest to go after the huge gravel mount
aims that have never before been pros
pected.
Trout are now so plentiful and SO eager
in the Carson river that when a man makes
his appearance on the banks with rod
and line they follow him up and down the
stream in schools, smacking their lips,
wiggling their tails in friendly manner,
and doing all in their power to attract at
tention. Il Virginia Enterprise.
There recently passed through Tomb.
stone, Arizona, a railroad construction
party en- route to Guaymas, Mexico,
whittier they go to commence the work of
| LAYING track toward the Territories of
Arizona and New Mexico. There are
thirty-one wagons, most of them six mule
teams and the outfit was only eleven days
from Kansas City, direct. They were I'M
der escort of a company of soldiers from
Fort Cunningham.
The Carson New appeal says a faro
dealer of that place picked up newspaper,
and noticing that in the new version of the
English Bible there had been change IN
the Lords Prayer, broke forth in torrent
Of abuse on the compilers, and remarked !:
Such things don't go. The old Lords
Prayer suits me, and I'll say it in the old
way. No Johnny Bull interference in my
prayers. Next thing we'll hear of old
Gladstone ringin' in amendments on the
Constitution of Nevada"