Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10
COAST AND STATE.

q trout Weighing LWenty-seVSN pouHus
is on exhibition at Virginia, New
Several of the farmers around Phoenix,
A. T., will plant cotton this year.
About G, 1000 acres of timber lands have
been located on the Lower Puget Sound
within very short time.
A party is still at work for the railroad,
surveying from Strawberry valley towards
Soda Springs, Shasta county.
Three inches of snow fell at Walla Walla,
". T., on the 2Sth ultimo. Sleighs and
cutters were out in full force.
The Alice Company, Butte, Mont, paid
So. 944 taxes this year, which is one-tenth
the total taxation of Silver Bow county.
Assotin City, the ambitious rival of
Lewiston, is located on both sides of Snake
river, SO that it is in both Idaho and Wash
ington Territory.
The Klamath Lake steamer General
Howard has been frozen at her dock for
some time, and will not be able to run
until next spring.
A marble quarry has been discovered in
Spokan county, W. T., and practical
judges pronounce some specimens shown to
be OF excellent quality. The quarry is CT
vast extent.
The Ivanpah mail carrier reports that
rain was pouring down on the Mojave river
and plains last Thursday, and that he rode
in rain storm from the Point Of Rocks on
the river until within seven miles of Col
ton.
On the Eorthern Pacific, at Pen 'Oreille
Lake, 5000 feet of trestle.work is being
put up, requiring ], 700 piles. varying from
so to ITO feet in length and 26 inches in
diameter at the butt; LOIS stringers, and
l, 500, coo feet of other timbers. Five pile
drivers are in operation.
General Cadwalader, of the G. P. R. r.,
has left at different places along the route
of the proposed extension of the railroad
above Redding, blanks for proposals for
the contracts for furnishing ties. The ties
are to be of red fir Sx6 inches, feet long.
Ties are to be delivered on the track
twelve months from this time.
Judge Underhill, attorney of the Gen.
trail Pacific Railroad, while stopping at
Hazel creek, Shasta county, recently, said
there was deposit of coal on the railroad
land in Shasta valley, and that q ledge of
iron ore near has prospected well. Ii it
proves of sufficient value, an iron mine and
smelling works may be seen IN Shasta val
ley within few years.
A petition is being circulated in and
about Lacenter, w. T., asking that $40, 600
may be appropriated TO clear Lewis river
OF snags and few obstructing bars to
points above Cedar creek. The river has
already been surveyed by Government en-
gineers, and SO. 900 was the estimate of
expenses necessary. This, properly ex
pended, would clear the river SO that light
draft boats can ascend to within three
miles Of Chelatihie Prairie.
Colonel Forsyth, who commands Fort
Cummings, N NJ, reports that cattle
thieves in considerable numbers are steal
ing and driving off cattle near Lake Valley
and Hillsboro, and that citizens call ON
him to intercept and capture them, and
that regular troops could rot be used law
fully. Governor Sheldon telegraphed the
Sheriff of Dona Ana county TO endeavor
to catch these thieves, and if necessary, to
call on Colonel Ryerson, commanding
battalion of Territorial militia at Las
Cruces, for assistance.
Says the author OF the History of Ne
vada State" Nevada, The Battle Born,
young as she is, has made more history than
is usual for States of many times her age
and for communities of many times her
number The period since the discovery
Of silver in the Territory has been filled
with the most stirring events, crowding
within the short space of time the occur
rences OF century in the older and qui-
eter countries of the East Revolutions in
finance, society and politics have followed
her development, and connect her init
mately with the great progress OF the age.
Speaking of the Yellowstone Park and
the geological marvels of the misnamed
{. Bad Lands" an Eastern journal says
These extend thirty miles or more along
the Northern Pacific Railroad, and hun
dreds of miles south of it. The scenery is
picturesque, and in many places sublime.
There is no more fruitful field for explora-
tion by the geologist and scientist. Pet
rihed remains of ancient and extinct
species Of saurian reptiles, of the mastodon,
megatherium, and other species OF animal
life of a prehistoric age, and OF woods,
ferns and shells, will give employment to
years of study,