Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-02
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


The AmadOr City Good Templars are
preparing for picnic May lst.
! Bodie has two church organizations and
two settled pastors, but no church build
ing.
The Stockton Daily Independent APP
pears in new dress and considerably en-
larged.
The outlook is that the Lake Tahoe sea-
son will begin month earlier than usual
this year.
The railroad tax suits have been set for
trial in the United States Circuit Court on
the 18th of April.
The Nehalem river, Oregon, is nearly
200 miles long, and the head and mouth
are only is miles apart.
The citizens of Wheatland have sub.
scribed $500 to build a pontoon bridge
over Bear river at that point.
Silver City, n. NJ, is doing an immense
amount of business with tributary mining
camps, and is growing steadily.
The rolling stock in use on the Southern
Pacific is said to be superior to that of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.
The quantity of land granted the North
ern Pacific Railway is 80, 100000 acres,
and is mortgaged for $4,000, 600.
A fog alarm viii be erected at Race
Rocks. w T., this year. An appropria-
ton of $1,000 has been made for it.
1t is estimated that the completion of
the Carson and Colorado Railroad in Ne
vada will take one hundred teamsters off
the road.
The total population of Nevada is 60, 765,
of which 1908 are males, and 20, 252 are
females. The native population is So, 623,
and the foreign is %, 642.
Parties in Calistoga have entered into
contract with g. f. Hartwell to take goo
tons of ore from the Easily mine, at least 10
tons to be removed daily.
The new schedule of State salaries in
Nevada reduces the total cost annually
from ST, 600 to S53, 800, making total
saving of 500, 500 per annum.
1t is predicted, says the Nevada Tran
script, that there will be a hundred houses
and cabins erected in the ueighborhood OF
Wyoming street within year.
The Humboldt county jail now contains
four inmates, all under age. The young
est, the lad implicated in killing sheep for
their hides, is only II years old.
COMMITTEES of Safety" are being or
ganized in various Montana towns, and
have already commenced regulating the
morals of their respective localities.
The Owl Association of Santa Clara Col.
lege has offered gold medal for the best
poem on Constantinople, the prize to be
awarded at the close OF the present term.
Coal of good quality has been discovered
just above the Mexican line, in New Mex
leo. The bed is said to be from four to six
feet thick wherever shaft has been sunk
After reading the story of the young
woman who was Rugged to death, Reno,
New, girl laid down the paper with sigh
and said We'll, she died happy, any
way"
An Indian school and farm is to be estab-
lished in Albuquerque, n. NJ. The city
will donate sixty acres of ground, and the
department will erect buildings costing
$4,000.
The A., T. and S. F. aud the S. P. will
run into Ell Paso side by side, and the
former road is now widening out its road
bed through the canyon to accommodate
both roads.
The Vigilantes at Ainsworth, w. T.,
Monday ordered the roughs to leave, and |
twenty-four hours time was given. Many |
went down the river in canoes. There is |
much excitement.
The Utah and Northern Railroad con-
sumes in its locomotives go tons of coal per /
day. Twenty seven locomotives are now |
on duty, and new ones are coming and |
being put to work.
At Delano, Kern county, strengthening |
is in full progress, and the presence of /
some 200 shearers, speaking three or four |
different languages, reminds an old timer
of the days of 40.
Last week water-tank holding Is, 600 |
gallons burst on a milk ranch near Oak |
land, and in consequence the dealers Will |
be unable to serve all their customers until |
the break is repaired.
Rock salt of fine quality is found in
Southern Utah. There are mountains of |
it, and it is blasted out like rock. The
new railroads penetrating that section of
the Territory will make it accessible.
News comes from Arizona that Hon. j. |
K. Luttrell has been Frustrated with brain |
fever, and is yet in precarious condition. |
His physician expresses the opinion that,
should he recover, his mind will be per-
manently affected.
Walla Walla, in the Indian language of
its origin, signifies many streams, and is
the name given a river in Eastern Wash
ington, on account of its being fed by the
Touchet, the Coppel, Spring Branch, Dry,
MILL Russell and Garrison creeks.
The balance of the machinery for the
Il 49, RI, ha mead La he Wi
ley Gold Company's mine passed through |
There will be four of these lights used at
the mine, each of S,000-candle power.
A number of farmers in the eastern por-
ton of Klickitat county, W. T., have
banded together, and with their teams,
numbering 20, will start for the line of
railroad to work. There is not team in
the outfit weighing less than 1000 pounds.
The Mesilla valley is one of the most
famous in New Mexico for its agricultural
products 1t extends along the Rio Grande
for IS miles, and having an elevation of
nearly 1000 feet the air is permeated with
electricity and ozone, making it santa
rum which is visited by thousands.
The first iron bridge built in Idaho, says
the Boise Democrat, has just been COM
pleted across the Snake river at Blackfoot.
1t is composed of five spans each 100 feet in
length, while on the east side is about 60
feet of approach built of timber, and Cd
the west side about 25 feet, making the
entire bridge 5S5 feet in length.
Arpad Harazthy, President of the State
Board of Viticultural Commissioners, SAYS
that the present value of vineyards ia this
State is about S35, 000 900, the income
from which amounted last year to So, $780,
600. He thinks that within three years
our vineyards will be yielding to their
owners $1,000, 600 year-or 10 per cent.
on 0,000,0 900 valuation.
Carrisillo district is some thirty miles /
southeast OF Victoria, and five miles north
of the line of old Mexico. 1t was discoy