Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-10
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


Nicasio valley, Marin county, produced
l67 tons of butter in 1880.
There are now 73 pupils in attendance at
Philomath College, Oregon.
The new Mono county Courthouse will
be completed by February lst.
j. f. Baker has sold his Homer Iat}eG.
and is about to seek new fields.
Five large ships are discharging their
cargoes at Long wharf, Oakland.
Fresno wants bank with capital of
$500, 900, and promises business for it.
Lundy, or Mil Creek, was connected
with Bcdie on January lat by a telegraph
line.
Virginia City, New, has musical prod
ICY IN the person of young Marco Fred
ericks.
Bolinas dairymen talk of organizing a
protective association to fight against oleo-
margarine.
The lands of the Steptoe and Duck Creek
valleys, near Cherry Creek, New, are fast
being settled.
The average deposits in the Salt Lake
banks in 1880, were more than double
those of 1879.
The city of Santa Barbara is entirely
out of debt, and the delinquent taxes do
not amount to 500.
Only seventeen marriages last year in
Winnemucca, New, as against more than
twice that number in 1879.
Early sown wheat is beginning to shade
the ground with emerald in some parts of
the Umpqua valley. Oregon.
During 1880 the Wasatch and Jordan
Valley Railroad carried nearly 5000 tons
OF ore from the Little Cottonwood mines.
Six mills alone have shipped from Hum
boldt bay, for San Francisco and other
point, more than $1,000, 600 feet of lumber
There are about forty regular Caucasian
frequenters of the opium dens of China
town in Santa Cruz, of whom four or FIVE
are women.
Ainsworth and Wheeler, two noted Col
orado hunters, killed 500 antelope and $50
elk in 1880. One shipment of hides was
over 3, 500 pounds.
Salt Lake supplied S95 new harvesters,
$50 plows, 457 rakes and other farming
machinery and implements in proportion,
during the year 1880.
The water works of Quincy have fall
of l25 feet in half mile, They come from
Mt. Claremont, which rises to a distance
of 5000 feet right beside the town.
The Central Pacific Railroad have COM
menced the work of filling in between
Ninth and Sixteenth streets, West Oak
land, the object being to construct store
yard.
In Mono county the snow extends from
Bodie to Mormon ranch, thence there is
bare ground fourteen miles, and thence
snow to within eight miles OF Antelope
valley.
1t is said that fourteen conductors and
twenty brakemen on the line from Los
Angeles to the front, were discharged re.
Gently by the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company.
According to the census OF Oakland,
made by Health Officer Woolsey, there are
| sos children under one year of age, and
three persons between the ages of 80 and
100 years.
The Reese Ricer RereHle of Austin, New,
has entered upon its thirty sixth volume.
| The paper is the second in age, and its pro-
prietor the oldest continuous publisher in
in that State.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'S bullion shipments
from Silver Reef, Utah, for the month of
December aggregate $50, coo, and for the
year 1880 Sl,093, S37. making q grand total
OF So, S57, ,5l4.
Another large lot of counterfeit dollars,
undoubtedly made from the casts made by
Bowles and plated by NiclIIe, have been
found in the water at the foot of Carolina
street, Vallejo.
Mr.. Nef, OF Wagner creek, Jackson
county, Oregon, has raised the past season
some 400 or 500 pounds of tobacco on his
farm. 1t is of excellent quality and the
yield was large.
Near GraniteviIle, Nevada county, four
horses were recently snow bound tor many
days, and when rescued they had eaten
off each others names and tails, as the
Transcript reports.
A sugar pine in Butterfly Valley, Plumas
county, which stood 255 feet high and II
feet through at the base, was cut down
by some bee. hunters lately. The rings
show it to have been 500 years cid.
Work on the mammoth depot to be
erected on the =" fill at West Oakland by
the Central Pacific Railroad Company will
/ be commenced about February lst. The
! building will be constructed mainly of iron
and glass
1t is said that the Virginia City streets
are now in such condition that when a
man goes out in buggy he wishes he had
taken a sleigh, and when he goes in
sleigh he curses himself for not having
taken buggy
! The twelve jurors in the Covert case, re.
Gently tried in Jacksonville, Or, averaged
l63 pounds in weight feet % inches IN
hight, and As years of age. This is said to
be the most substantial jury that ever sat
in Southern Oregon.
The pleasant weather will set the plows
moving in Yuba, Sutter, Butte and Colusa
counties, where the farmers have been ly-
ing idle for the rains to cease. There is
yet plenty of time for plowing and seed.
ing, if the weather remains pleasant.
Says writer in the Reno Gazette :.
| Quincy is the prettiest town in California.
1t is pleasantly located on fiat, and is laid
out to the best advantage The Court.
house and jail occupy the center of large
green square, surrounded by wide street,
and the town is built around it.
Southern Oregon cattle men, who supply
California markets, drive smaller bands
than formerly, with much better success.
| w Ith bands OF ABOUT l0U head, there lS
less liability to loss, and the animals are in
better condition by having more favorable
opportunity to feed on the way.
Two construction trains run each way
every day over the Carson and Colorado
railroad from the Mound House to the end
of the track, distance of twenty two
miles. Two sections have been established
one at Dayton, which extends about six
miles each way, and another near Dutch
Nick's, about twelve miles from Dayton.
1t is said that the recent fall of snow in
Central Montana is unequaled since 1861.
The depth of " the beautiful varies from
eighteen inches in the Prickly Pear valley,
) to two feet plump in Helena and on the
; surrounding table-lands. This unusual
wintry deluge seems to have attained a
breadth of sixty or more miles, sweeping
eastward through Jefferson county and to
: the limits Of Gailatin.
The present year many miles of irrigating
i bitches will be constructed, adding largely
E to the acreage of arabic land il Colorado.
The Importance to Denver of the High
: Line" ditch, which the English company
t is constructing from the Platte canyon, can
n scarcely be estimated. 1t is thought that
j; this canal will convert 200 600 acres OF