Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-02
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

The Nez Perce county, /. T., tax is forty
cents on every 500.
Bellevue, Idaho, has a population OF
nearly 600 inha bitants.
Frosts have killed nearly all the fruit in
the Carson Valley, Nevada.
Stafford is the county seat of the new
county of Graham, Arizona.
Salt Lake is called the best market for
California oranges of any city in the Rocky
Mountains.
The Customs collections for April at
Victoria, B. c., We're $50, ,070, leading
April, 1880, s24, 900.
1t is said that the moisture is returning
to the springs and streams of Arizona, and
the climate is changing.
A Chinook salmon weighing forty-seven
pounds was lately caught at the mouth of
the Clackamas in Oregon.
Flowing springs are breaking out of the
hillside near Phoebe, New, where formerly
there was no sign of water.
Moody and Sankey spent three days in
Denver, COL, held eight meetings, and
talked to about Is, 900 people.
Walla Walla people, with remem-
brance OF wood at SIS per cord, are now
laying in years supply at Sc.
Only eleven men of all the company that
went thither last summer remained in the
Skagit, w. T., mines through the winter.
Defective drainage is said to be the cause
of so much sickness in Carson, New. Ty-
phus fever is threatening to ravage that
city.
Those best informed estimate that lO0,.
900 sheep will be driven from Tehama
county this spring to the Territories and
Colorado.
At the hatchery on Rogue river in Ore
gon the fish are marked and set free, and
every year some of the marked ones have
been re-caught.
Forty business houses have been con.
tracted for, and many of them are in
course of construction, at the new town Of
Marshall, Idaho.
A Chinaman on WILDLY Island, w. T.,
raised loo bushels of potatoes last season
and took them to Seattle, where they sold
for Is cents bushel.
The law consolidating the Virginia and
Gold Hill New municipal governments
with that of Storey county is to be strongly
contested. Heavy interests are at stake.
a Reno New Gazette reporter has been
shown antimony ore which is said to con-
tain so per cent. antimony. The ore was
taken from within twenty miles of Reno.
To protect lumber and timbers of all de-
scriptions used in the Sutro tunnel from
vermin and prevent them rotting, it is all
first soaked in solution of sulphuric acid
and iron.
The logging business on the Skagit
river, W. T., is in fiourishing condition.
There are a number of men employed, and
the number of feet put in during the
present season will be large.
Afarmer at Bakersfield, Kern county,
intends to plant 25 acres of sugar cane this
season. Last year he planted three acres
and the result was very satisfactory. The
cane is mostly used for feeding stock.
Cattle-owners on the north fork of the
John Day in Oregon have lately sold out
their surplus stock to Eastern buyers.
The average is as follows: Yearlings,
IS COWS, $40; two-year-old steers, Sl3
three-year olds, Sl7 four year-olds, $40.
There has not for years been time
upon URcI CUuutl NnCu uicu NtIO 81 gem
orally engaged as at present. All the
mills are short of help, and it seems almost
impossible to obtain laborers. The log
ging camps and even the steamboats, are
short.
Walter Schmidt writes to the Winnie
mucca New Sitcer State from White
Plains that the belt in which nitrate Of
soda is found is twenty miles long and two
miles wide. In several places in the belt
there are very large deposits of salts of the
very best quality.
Tucker and Carney of Eugene, Or, have
just returned from trapping expedition of
one month in Douglas county. The fol-
lowing is list of the fur caught: Forty
eight beaver, five otter, twelve mink, two
coon skins and one deer hide. They sold
their catch for 1913.
The body of Frank Childs, who was
drowned in the Truckee river OH the 231 of
last March, was recovered below the dam
at Camp 20 on Tuesday last. Nothing has
been seen of the body of Mr.. Ferguson,
who was drowned at the same time. al
though strict watch has been kept.
Says the Phoenix, A. T., Gazette: The
Webb colony at ella Bend is failure, as
the parties with him had not any money.
Webb has his irrigating ditch finished.
Mr. Balls of Gridley, Cal, will be here in
few days and join Webb, and they pro.
pose to bring implements, hire men and
farm the land.
The people of Pinal City, A. T., are de-
termined to have railroad to connect with
the Southern Pacific. Two routes are un-
der consideration, one of about so miles
and the other of about 40, the first one to
connect with the Southern Pacific at Casa
Grande and the other at Red Rock and
two different companies are projecting mar
row-gauge lines over these routes.
1t is said that on the coast of San Luis
Obispo county the Captain of the whalers
last January shot whale that was travel
ing south and struck him with harpoon.
but the rope had to be cut and the whale
escaped. A week OF so since the same
Captain shot and captured whale going
north, which proved to be the same one,
with the lost harpoon in his body.
There is trouble at Lundy, Mono county.
Claim. jumping and other lawless acts have
led to the forming of "law-and- order
society,"" something after the style of the
old Vigilantes, or the more modern COL.
The '.law. .and-order party do not appear
to have it all their own way, however, as
an opposing combination has been organ
lied under the name of the Lundy Shot
gun Club.
A narrow. gauge railroad 80 miles long,
from Bodie to the extensive timber re-
gions south of Mono Lake. is to be i'm
nediately constructed. The survey, as
adopted, is g.. miles long. The completion
of the road will open up an almost unlim-
tied source of wood and timber supply,
tapping directly one tract of 1900 acres
of choice woodland, now owned by the
Mono Lake Railroad Company.
It having been said that the Winnie
mucca Indians lately killed a witch.
woman, an Indian called at the office of
the Battle Mountain tNev. Messenger to
explain. He says that there were fourteen
Indians present at the funeral, and
that they killed seven horses and laid
them around the grave. This is a GUS
tom of his tribe. He stated further
that the squaw killed was the wife Of the
| dead Indian, and that she was too old to
work. The Indians looked upon her as an
| evil witch, and said she had caused the
! 1natb nf civ nr cioht pood Indians,