Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-03-07
mARcH :. 1881
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

The new Methodist church at Colusa
cost $1,000.
Manzanitas are IN bloom in the noun
tain counties.
The Mono county Courthouse will be
finished March 18th.
A herd of 800 mountain bison recently
came into North Park, Col.
The cars are on the way for the Albu-
querque, n. NJ, street railway.
A Santa Cruz gardener exhibited cucum.
bers fis to eat on February 25th.
A cave filed with rubies or garnets has
been discovered in the Greenhorn Range,
Col.
DIR. Gildea of San Diego has Royal
Mino bird, said to be the only one in the
State.
Ticbenor. the Calistoga wizard, con-
tinues his labors with his pactolian
springs.
The apportionment of school money for
the county of Sonoma amounts to over
$50, 600.
new town has been started at the
lower end of Santa Maria Valley, called st.
Petersburg.
The Georgetown (Col) Courier predicts
that the yield of Clear Creek county for
the present year will reach S4, ,000. 900.
A corps of A. T. and s. F. engineers are
to begin at once the surveys for ditch to
prevent the overflow of the Rio Grande at
Albuquerque.
The Bell Telephone Company of New
Mexico has organized at Las Vegas, N. NJ,
with $50, 900 capital, and will soon have
line in operation to the Springs.
There are two Carmel Indians in the
County Poor-house of Monterey named
Gabriel and Lorraine. The latter is lO7
wears old, the former is said to be l30.
One of the many novel freaks of the
recent high water in the Yuba was to form
a large island Just below Downieville,
opposite the lower end of Durgan Flat.
The oil well at Canyon, COL, has been
turning out $50 barrels per day. Produc-
tion has ceased for the present to allow the
introduction of new machinery, but will
soon again commence.
The Wheatland -four mill has not been
running since the l9sh ultimo, and will not
start up Immediately, On account OF the
great scarcity of wood and the utter I'M
possibility of obtaining a sufficient supply
BEFORE the railroad came to Healdsburg,
saws the Enterprise, rat was an unknown
rodent, excepting the wood.rat, which gives
settled communities a wide berth. Now
rats are unusually numerous, and are
great nuisance.
The wreck of the Downienile bridge is
strewn along the shores of the Iuba Tor
miles. One stringer eighteen, and another
twenty feet in length, was seen stranded
amongst the rocks, with the iron twisted
into all imaginable shapes.
A stage-driver named Hunter committed
suicide Thursday in the Snake River,
about mile below Lewiston, !. L. He
tried to outrage little girl, who was
passenger, but she got away. In fit OF
remorse he then drowned himself
The largest wagon ever built in Hum
boldt county is now being made at Winnie
mucoa, New. The weight Of this monster
wagon Is 6, 600 pounds. The hind wheels
are 6 feet 81 inches high, and the tires of
the same are inches wide by Il inches
thick, and the two wheels weigh l, 45O
pounds.
Saws the jacksonville Transcript Chas.
SllVarer, while out III the neld last week,
was badly gored by bull. After he was
first knocked down the bull remained near
him and whenever he attempted to get up
would knock him down again. Silvarer
was thus kept there nearly all day until
help arrived.
Says the 0ceident:. There has been
Presbyterian church organized in Moscow,
Idaho, with eleven members. The minister
is lately from the Theological Seminary of
San Francisco-Daniel Gamble. Three OF
the church officers are from California
Mr. Hayes of Oakland and George |. Mar
tin of Elk Grove, both Elders, aud Frank
Martin Of Sacramento, a Trustee.
A bonanza of $1,000 in $40 gold pieces
has been struck about two miles from the
China store, San Bernardino. The money
had been taken from man murdered there
by party some twenty years ago. Rodi-
guey, a sheep-herder, saw the parties dig
i up, aud John Taylor and Others saw the
hole where it was taken from. The treas
ure was found wrapped up in blanket.
There has been, near the headwaters of
Little sulphur creek, Sonoma county, a
rock formation known as the Natural Fish
trap. It was place salmon could reach
by darting up the rapids, but once in, they
were prisoners. As many as fifteen salmon
have been taken out at one time. After
this, he who captures salmon in that creek
must work for it, for the fish-trap was
ruined by the regent floods.