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

Nicholas Singley, living in Ventura
county, is l04 years old.
= Town lots in Pendleton, Or, are selling
for from $50 to $50 apiece.
/ Indian relics and pottery have lately
: been unearthed at Hanford.
Chills aud fever have appeared in the
Elkhorn region, Tehama county.
/ The cooling moth has ruined several or.
ehards on Battle creek, near Chico
, During April over 200 passengers left
Dillon. Montana, for various points in that
Territory.
John Wilson. of Sumass, B. c., lately
shot California hon measuring eight feet
from tip to tip.
Walla Walla, W. T., expects to have
gas IN the houses and streets by the lst Of
September next.
The crops on the tule lands southwest of
. Yuba City are said to be much better than
for several years past.
Santa Paula, Ventura is having TEN.
perance revival, and the l. O. G.. 7. Lodge
there has 10 members.
Forty-ive acres Of market gardens will
be planted within mile of Payallup, W.
T., the present season.
AT depth of l45 feet flowing artesian
well has been struck on the Crum ranch,
Battle Mountain, New.
The Los Angeles Commercial is informed
that 200 families in Colorado are planning
to come to that county.
| A silver dollar of the Bolivian Republic,
dated 1899, was lately found in the tules
fifteen miles from Yuba City.
The people OF Red Bluff are advocating
the project of q railroad from that place to
the coast at Eureka, Humboldt Bay.
Some hop vines in Puyallup valley, ".
T., are ten feet high, and many yards are
yet unfiowered ia consequence of continued
wet weather.
The late fool unearthed the remains
of a number of Indian skulls and skele-
tons at the old Vanaoy ferry, on Rogue
river, in Oregon.
A band of nineteen horses were showed
in last winter on the head of Birch creek,
Eastern Oregon. This spring eighteen Of
them were found dead.
The chemical and powder wo ks at Yale,
B. G., turn out 1000 pounds of explosive
daily. The Emory sawmill and Emory
Hotel are doing large business.
There has been sold in Douglas county,
Oregon, within the last few weeks, about
! q GOO head of cattle, for which there has
been large amount Of cash paid.
The Phoenix Miner says that 600 or
1000 men can find employment on the
35th parallel line of railway, in Arizona,
at wages ranging from 81 % to 81 per day.
c. A. Richardson, OF Tuscarora, New,
has fossil jawbone of horse, which was
recently found twenty-five feet below the
surface in shaft in Lone Mountain dis.
trict.
At the Indian Well station, San Diego
county, the well lately caved in, and it is
feared it may fill up with sand and debris.
| II so, it will make the desert road nearly
impossible.
DR.. D. A. Covert of Jacksonville, Or,
has fallen heir to a fortune of $4,000 by
the death of a relative in Mexico, and will
soon visit that country to take possession
of the property.
The Miners Unions of Nevada intend to
hold State Convention this month. The
| place OF meeting has not yet been selected,
but it will probably be held in some town |
IN the eastern part of the State.
Upwards of 300 settlers have made their
| homes on the White Salmon Eastern Ore.
gon. a large amount OF market gardening
will be done in that region, and the place
is celebrated for dairy products.
The town of Grass Valley has contracted
With the Flume Company to furnish it
with fifty inches of water, to run continu
ally. The price is S400 per month, and
the contract is for twenty years.
The South Yuba and north fork of the
American river, which originally con-
tanned no fish above the falls, on the last
named stream are now well stocked with
both Eastern and California trout.
The contemplated Improvements at Ma
naimo, 3. c., about the works and wharves
will give constant Employment to the new
sawmill, which will have a capacity of
| from 10000 to -, 600 feet per diem.
Says the HOLSTER Pacific CoaR A let
ter mailed at Bitterwa.er for San Benito
has now to travel round the country dis
lance Of some 200 miles. The distance be-
tween the two points is only Is miles.
Diphtheria is prevailing to an alarming
extent among the children OF St. George,
being of all the schools Ia that city. Six
victims of this dreadful scourge were buried
last week.
While surveying in the mountains on
south Myrtle creek, in Oregon, Mr.. Byars'
surveying party discovered large deposit
OF mineral substance, about the consist
ency of soft soap, and having the looks of
oil and sulphur mixed.
Heppner is the trade center of the South
west Umatilla and large portion of Wsgco
county, Oregon. 1t began about eight
years ago It's rise is due wholly to the
grazing interests, while grain-raising is
now acquiring some Importance.
The Nanaimo (B. c. Free Press reports
that the Vancouver Coal Company will
have workshops built close to the site OF
those destroyed by fire year ago. They
will include a foundry, a steam trip-ham-
mer and other modern appliances.
John Miller, who was sentenced to the
Idaho Penitentiary for term OF five years
on the charge of committing an assault
upon an Idaho girl, has been pardoned by
the Governor, it having been proven that
he was innocent of the charge for which lie
was convicted.
The Yale %. c. Guardian says There
is a rush from Walla Walla and Colyiile,
! ". T., to some diggings on kootenay Lake,
which, although not excessively rich, will
pay about s. per day to the hand, There
appears to he no doubt as to the correct
ness OF this statement.
The steamer Columbia arrived at Port
land, Or, from San Francisco, Tuesday
afternoon at $3.50, having made the pas
sage from dock to dock in 90 hours.
This is the quickest trip on record, and
beats the State of California's best time
by an hour and a quarter.
Rains of prehistoric RACES abound in
Arizona. A writer m the Tucson Citizen
says that six miles north of Camp lowell
near the junction OF the forks of Rillito
creek, at the base of the Santa Catalina
mountains. there are the remains of an
ancient town which covers an area of some
sixty acres.
On the;lower Siuslaw, in Oregon, there
are about $50 whites, and plenty Of room
for 1000 permanent settlers. The land is
covered with an underground, but is easily
! cleared The river is az iaas+ openuartar