Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-21
PACIFIC COAST IrsMs.
Santa Ana is to have a bank.
Benicia will have gas by June,

wheat.
Specializing in town lots is said to be
brisk at Cotton.
Ventura is to have re-proof vanlt for
county records.
San Bernardino honey promises to be
large yield this year.
Over $4,000 pounds of goods were
shipped from Santa Ana last week.
Loggers on the Skagit in Washington
Territory, get $40 to $50 a month.
The Riverside Public Library contains
700 books, the Los Angeles Library, 1900
The Chronicle Union, published at Bridge
port, Mono county, has entered upon
new volume.
Butte, Montana, woodchoppers have
driven out the Chinese choppers of that
neighborhood.
Over $500, 600 worth of hides and furs
have been purchased at Yellowstone, Mon
tana, this season.
In San Bernardino John G. King has fin
ished an artesian well. Water was struck
at LIB feet depth.
The Port Blakely mill, w. T., lately cut
log Ill feet long, which produced $4,000
feet of clear lumber.
To supply meat for the Marysville mar
ket six head of cattle and twenty sheep
are daily slaughtered.
El Franterizo says the city of Tucson
contains 1900 houses, of which Don Leo
polde Barrillo owns 20.
! Parties near Anaheim are building six
mile irrigation ditch. 1t will cost $500,
and is for use in winter
The Placer Herald tells of strawberry
raised at Newcastle 3 inches in diameter
and ! in circumference.
The San Diego Union reports that water
has been struck at the SSeetwater artesian
well at depth of 325 feet.
The Prescott "a t. Miner reports the
finding of cave with the bodies of four
petrifed Indian chiefs in it,
There.are sixteen prisoners in the Coun' y
Jail and three in the old City Jail, at Yir-
ginia, New. The jail in Gold Hill is
empty.
The four tanneries in Benicia are keep.
ing pace with other improvements. Dur
ing the past year the capacity of these
places has been almost doubled.
The census of Utah, recently completed,
reveals the TACT that the Gentle popula.
ton has increased 200 per cent, while the
Mormon increase has been only As per
cent.
A dog was rescued from az old prospect
hole SIXTY feet deep near the Forman shaft
last Friday afternoon, says the Virginia
ENTERPRISE. He had fallen in there five or
six days ago, but was rot hur5.
The Los Angeles real estate agent who
some time ago put forth the claim of lead
ing sinless life for the past thirty years,
was recently arrested and find $50 for
carrying on business without a license.
The New Me1icqa speaks OF the great
fertility of the lower Rio Grande valley,
and its wonderful adaptation to fruit and
vine culture, and predicts that in five years
it will become one vast orchard and vine
yard.
Within four days ten droyes of cattle,
amounting to between 5000 and 1900
head, passed through Ashland, Oregon, on
their way to the lake country, each drove
being il charge of from seven to eight
horsemen.
Rodeos are in progress in the Chiricahua
Mountains of Arizona Stockmen are sadly
in need of sufficient water, there being but
one good watering place in the Chiricahuas,
the others having, during the present dry
spell, entirely disappeared.
Mrs. Thacker was found dead Is miles
beyond Bacon Springs, near Albuquerque,
New Mexico, May lst. Her husband had
murdered her. Afterwards when Thacker
was locked up man named White OBJ
tanned admittance and shot him dead.
The country on both sides of the At
lantic and Pacific Railroad, in Arizona is
said to be from $500 TO 5000 feet above
sea level. It's mountain peaks rise much
| higher. Here is timber, salt, coal, gold,
silver, "copper" grass and farming lands.
A swarm of bees in the Sweetwater val
ley. San Diego county, settled on rattle
snake measuring six feet, twelve inches in
girth and having TWENTY-FIVE o rattles They
stnng him violently, so that he was
blinded, twisting and quivering and was
easily killed with a spade.
Speaking of wood drive, the Benton
on. IT, Record says: 1t comes along in a
solid mass, four miles from one end to the
other. he water rises up the banks while
! the wood is passing any point, about foot
and half. The drive moves down at the
rate of about three miles per day.
The San Jose Mercury reports that ST.
500 has been drawn from the widow
Brown relief fund, and 81, 372 applied in
her behalf. The balance will be used in a
few days. She has now clear title to her
mountain home. The entire John Brown
fund collected now amounts to nearly
So, 600.
During the past year the Ashland Tor.
wooden mills have turned out and shipped
5000 dozen of blankets, 800 dozen of
socks, 500 dozen of breakfast shawls In
view of the constantly increasing demand
for these WOODEN goods, the proprietors
propose soon to extend their manufacturing
facilities.
Mesaville, Arizona, is fourishing Nor
mon settlement of 800 souls The lands
are irrigated by canals from Salt river, and
fruits and crops grow luxuriantly. Lat
terly they have turned their attention to
the cultivation of grapes. Jonesville,
within few miles of Mesaville, has about
70 families.
The NeeC Mexican states that Durango is
IN the control OF the desperadoes, who live
upon what they can get by thieving and
robbery. They raid the country far and
hSGiJ d1Nt VIC S1ttle HitiCH bueJ run OH are
killed in Durango openly, and sold. Four
hundred cattle were captured at one time
from herders ON the Las Auimas.
The editor of the Benicia Ne,c Era has
been visiting the dam of the water COM
pany of that town, and says: Under the
front of the water weir, and in the walls,
there are eleven tons of concrete, and in
the construction of the weir and walls
n 1
of lumber and $50 barrels of cement.
The streams running into Lake Tahoe
are full of trout, and there are more trout |
90 be seen in shaal water than has been |
seen for the last ten years. The snow is
about five feet deep on the summit. Last
year, on the LIST of May, the snow was
from eight to ten feet deep ON the lake
shore and about twenty feet deep on the
summit.
A tapeworm over forty feet in length