The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-07-05
PACIFIC SLOPE ITEMS.
ALIFORNI

Arrangements have been completed for the
Ell Dorado county fair in September.
Last week the body of a chinaman was
found hanging to a tree near Logtown, Ell
Dorado county.
The new 40 stamp mill at Providence
mine, Nevada county, will be started up soon.
The. miners on the beach at the mouth of
the klamath are kept busy collecting black
sand, and the season promises to be a good
one.
A blast of 725 kegs of powder was explod-
ed in the Baker claim at Dutch Flat OH Tues
day, and did splendid execution.
Twelve cents a hundred, farmers to furnish
hay and threshers to board their crews, is the
price in Butte county this season.
Sea lions at Halfmoon Bay are being
slaughtered for their oil. One was killed the
other day hat weighed 5000 pounds.
The Pinacarte mill, San Bernardino county,
last week ran through five tons of ore from
the Ivanpah and Red Cross mines which
yielded $l51.50.
Although the Belchtel mine at Bodie is
S,794 feet above sea level, a petrifed clam
was recently found in the works. ii feet be-
low the surface.
Says the los Angeles Commercial: The
Southern Pacific Railroad has completed the
driving of piles for the extension OF the
track to deep. water at Fayal, where a large
wharf is being built. The track will soon be
laid.
The Lassen Aduocdte speaks most encour-
agi ngly of the condition and prospects of
that county, and winds up its congratulatory
editorial by declaring that "there is not q bet
ter satisfied community in California than
will he found in Honey Lake Valley"
The Alturas Independent, mentioning the
abundance of crickets at Davis Creek, Modoc
county, says the crickets are making a steady
and straight march toward the east. They
extend a mile in width and are cleaning ev-
erything green before them.
The following are the exports from Los
Angeles county by rail for the year 1880.
Barley, 1926, $40; brandy, $40, 400 cattle,
2,645, 500 corn, 4,555, 800; -four and mill
stuffs, 1856, 74O farm produce, comprising
poultry, butter, eggs, etc., $50, $50; dried
fruit, $4,000 green fruit, 1895, 100; hogs,
1888 $50 hides, 293,22O; honey, 2s2, 1870;
horses, 10000 rye, 11s,39o; sheep, 1854
800 wheat, s,e5s,55O; wine, 1875, 1870;
wool, 4,s90,O4O; miscellaneous. 81, 154. $40.
Total, 9o,977,5 90 pounds.
Grasshoppers have lone $4,000 damage
to crops in Washoe valley.
There is a deal of prospecting going on in
the mountains round Mason valley.
Fifty tons of borax came in to Dayton
from the south on the C.. & G. last week.
There is a forty-stamp mill on the road
for the Big Indian Mining Company, Day
ton.
The Candelaria extension of the Carson l.
Colorado railroad is finished - miles from
Hawthorne.
j.. @. A. Moore has found a fine anthracite
coal vein in his mine p miles from Carlin.
1t is eight feet wide.
Nevada papers complain that the immense
bands of sheep passing through that state do
great damage to the roads.
yer 1876 persons from Eureka will join in
the excursion to San Francisco July 4th, and
the Sentinel thinks they will spend $4,000
The citizens Of Reno who put in 100000
bids for the Insane Asylum, are Messrs. Flint
Manning, Berry, Powning, Frazer, Condor
& Mcintosh, Sunderland, Hymans, Everett,
Jamison and Fish.
The residence of c.. S. Varian at Reno was
been set on fire by children playing around
in the stable. The loss is about $500; in
surance on house and furniture, S $500. TIT
contents of the hOuse were saved.
The Grantsville and New Boston VALLEY
toll road has been completed to a point 81
miles from Grantsville, intersecting the line
Of the Carson and Colorado River railroad
25 miles. southeast of Hawthorne. 1t cosI
$4,000.
The Reno police authorities announce theil
determination to rieidly enforce the Law pro
hibiting boys under 81 years of age to be GU,
after night, and also the law forbidding sa
loon keepers to sci liquors to minors.
At Virginia City, Daniel kelleher, deput,
County Clerk, was stabbed last night ant
!, died in a few minutes. TIL deed was don,
l by Dennis Hennessy, better known as doc,
a curbstone broker. Hennessy was arrestet
: and is now in Jail.
G
!, Canyon City is to have a Fourth OF Jul,
. celebration under the auspices of the We
mans Suffrage Association.
There are fourteen saw mills IN Uniol
. county, and still the demand for lumber can
not be supplied.
The jury in the case of the State VS.. Henri
Rosenbrook, indicted for the murder of
man named Black, on Rogue River, som
time ago, have returned a verdict of acqui,