Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-24
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

The Calaveras county debt is being re.
duced.
More rich copper found in Del Norte
county.
Salt Lake wants a white lead manu-
factory.
1t is seventeen miles from Santa Ana TO
the Silyerado mines.
New quartz mines are reported from
Josephine county, Oregon.
The beet-sugar works at Alameda have
been closed for the season.
An Oakland contractor has so, 900 in
yolved in the debris injunction suit.
There are eighteen Posts of the Grand
Army of the Republic in California and
one in Oregon.
Land is increasing in value in Tulare
county. In Visalia several large purchases
are reported.
The Fish Commissioners have been
stocking Lakes Tahoe and Bonner with
Eastern salmon during the last week.
Capitalists are now in Visalia with The
object of erecting works for cleaning, as
sorting and packing wool for the Eastern
market.
From October 8, 1878, to December 81,
| 1880, two years and three months, I53
deaths have occurred in Vallejo, of which
II were from consumption.
There are $4,000 tons of grain still in the
warehouses at Willows, Colusa county,
and what is to be done with the new crop
is what agitates the people there.
Parties on the Musselshell, Montana,
have been slaughtering game by the whole
sale. Only few days ago they came upon
a large band of poor antelope and killed
about l60, taking nothing but their hides.
The fishermen in Benicia are complaining
of hard times, as the salmon are becoming
scarce. The fishermen assign as a cause
for this scarcity the presence of SO much
fresh water in San Francisco bay and out
side.
The residence of the editor of the Truekee
Republican was burglarized Friday even
| ing, but the thief did not secure any booty.
He was either new at the business or did
not know whose house it was, or he would
never have thought OF making anything by
the invasion.
The town of Fresno is growing A
Touring mill to run by water power is
building, and the general outlook of the
place is good, for all the prairie part of
Fresno county is furnished with canals, and
great areas of new lands are being colonized
and cultivated.
The Mason Valley (Nevada) people are
preparing to build road from Wabuska
due south, through Gallagher's ranch, to
intersect the Pine Grove road at Mcleod s
Pass. The new road will be about ten
miles long, and will accommodate travel
from Smith Valley, Pine Grove and Coal
Valley.
The Apache Madas and ST. Nicholas
copper mines, situated in the Santa Gaia
rinas, near Tucson, Arizona, have been
purchased by E. J. Swift, 2. W. Christie
pher and John Sevenoaks for $50, 600, and
the new owners will proceed at once to
develop These mines show an abundance
of high grade copper.
Nevada railroad men are the best paid
in the world, excepting, perhaps, those on
| the Isthmus OF Panama. On the Central
Pacific conductors get Sis a month !;
| freight conductors, 500; brakemen, so I;
engineers, 81 60 day fremen, 81 so !;
Cinnamon, 81 white men, 81 On the V.
and T. r. r. engineers get So day.
Several of George W. Waidrons EN-.
ployes were out on the range hunting
horses. and while in the neighborhood Of
Haystacks, W. THE highest point on
the Columbia river hills-came upon snow
slide in which they found twenty.four
head of horses embedded in sight, and
were unable to make any estimate of the
number underneath the snow.