Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-04
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
The business men of Auburn are putting

The business men of Auburn are putting
up street lamps.
The amount received for the support of
the Childrens Home at Salem Or, during
the past year was 81, 992 70.
The channel of Jackson creek has
changed in Jacksonville, Or, so that the
bridges are now left high and dry.
The Clarence King party, now at work
ON the Comstock, expect to complete their
labors in about two months more.
The North Santiam's banks in Oregon
are said to be lined in places with dead
fish, dashed to death by the swift waters.
10. Swift, of Utah, will build large
sawmill at Wood River, Idaho, with a
capacity OF $4,000 feet per day, early next
spring.
Captain Jack Crawford the "poet
scout, is prospecting with a company of
fifty men in the Black Range mountains,
New Mexico.
Castor oil is used in the Sutro tunnel as
a lubricator. It cost the Tunnel Company
| 5000 per month for this item alone when
the north header was running.
The Anaheim Gasette reports a rumor
that Don Juan Foster has sold the Santa
Margarita Rancho, with the exception OF
5000 acres, to the Southern Pacific Rail.
road
The Bodie Free Press says that one
breeze, during the last month, picked up a
plank sixteen feet long, twelve inches
wide and two inches thick, and tossed ii
seventy feet.
Eighty miles south of Winnemucca,
New, in what is known as Bolivia District,
copper and iron ores abound, but they are
worthless now, and will remain so until a
railroad is built through that section.
1t cost Sandy Bowers S240, 600 to erect
the building now klo1sn as the Bower;
Mansion" in Washoe valley, New, and
the furniture, books, pictures, etc., S45, 00(
additional. The walls of the building are
of blocks of the hardest granite.
The house owned by A. Eudy, on the
bluff at Oregon City, Or, has been burned.
| Eudy is blind, but he indicated to Others
how to find the place under the sidewalk
where he had secreted 81, 900. The house
was built in 1851 by Governor Ogden.
There are about $50 Chinese in San Diego
county. There are 80 school districts,
taught by 43 teachers. The highest school
is located on Smiths Mountain, A, 7G0 feet
above the level of the sea- School prop
erty is approximately valued at $40, 600
Something like 1000 school children are
recorded.
Los Angeles papers state that the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company decline to
carry the fruits of Southern California in
the Travelling Citrus Fair over its line tc
and from the junction with the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad free Of
charge and intimate that no concession re-
garding freights for the enterprise can be
made.
In the hill northeast of the Lower Sink
of the Carson river, Nevada, are some large
veins of yellow ochre. 1t is pure and
bright, and when burned makes red al
most as fine as vermillion. For ages The
Piutes have burned this ochre and use it
for adjoining their faces. La the same hill
are strata of earth closely resembling
umber.
The two Hall Brothers, New Mexico
cattle kings, have disposed of their ranch
and stock in Colfax county for the i'm
mense sum of 800, 600. About year age
one OF the brothers, of whom there were
then three in partnership, sold out to the
other two his interest, receiving 500, O0C
and 5000 head of cattle.