Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-19
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Utah.
A steam flour mill is talked of in Fall
Brook, San Diego county.
Squirrel poison killed number of horses
for Stanislaus farmer the other day.
Some Vallejo gentlemen are about to
send man to Alaska to locate mines.
Grant county, New Mexico, offers 500
per head for scalps of hostile Apaches.
The Calistogioa figures the wine product
of Napa county to be 2, $40, $50 gallons.
There are at present twenty-five build
ings in Astoria, Or, in course of erection.
A large number of beaver and other fur
bearing animals have recently been trapped
in jackson county, Oregon.
The staff OF surveyors from San Bernar-
dino on the Southern California Railroad
are in the canyon, heading toward Temec-
ula.
Forty-seven men and women, new arrl-
walls from Switzerland, came to Sonoma
valley last Wednesday to permanently To-
cate there.
Stone coal is now the main excitement in
the region of Ten-Nile and Looking Glass,
Douglas county, Oregon. The impression
is that the coal exists under most of the
hills of that region.
Near CanyonvilIe, Douglas county, Or,
l2-year- old boy was hunting and met two
PARTNERS. He wounded one, and was at
tackled by the animal. Help arrived and
both panthers were killed.
After the late flood, farmers along Bear
creek, jackson county, Oregon, were busy
gathering up rails that had lodged in the
willows. The rule is that all rails that are
washed on mans land are considered to
be his property.
The annual report of P. Evarts, the
Superintendent of the Eureka and Palisade
Railroad, shows that during the year 1850
the net profit was S24S. 232 "a. The same
official reports of the Ruby Hill Railroad
that its net profit was $80,74l is.
The work of preparing the old broom
factory at South Vallejo for fish cannery
is progressing. About $50, 900 will be rep
resented in the enterprise. About seventy
hands will be employed, and the canning
capacity will be 200 cases daily. Canning
will begin in about a month.
Hancock is the name bestowed on the
new town in the copper district in Mason
Valley, Esmeralda county, New The
name was given last fall during the cam
paign, when it was said it could produce
more fights to the quart OF whisky than
any town of its size in the State.
In the Art Loan Exhibition at Santa
! Barbara there is bone needle, memento
of the Indian woman of San Nicholas
Island, who was rescued by Captain Nj
dever When the tribe was removed to
| the mainland, by accident this woman was
left behind, and for long term of years
she lived alone on the island
At Santa Fe, New Mexico, the other
day, new railroad company known as the
Jemez Valley Hot Springs Railroad Com
pany, was organized. This is the first
company of the kind ever organized by
citizens of the Territory. The road Will
run from Bernalillo to the famous Jemez
Hot Springs, a distance of about thirty
miles.
A number of citizens Of Leadville, Col,
have asked that the saloons, gaming
houses, theaters and bagnios be closed on
Sunday. The City Attorney was in
structed to draw up an ordinance to that
effect including also the business houses
The Merchants Protective Association
have called meeting to protest
At Clark Ranch, near Leadville. Col, a
miner named Gavin was recently, while in
his cabin, buried under snow-slide. The
fire was out, and soon he was in darkness.
He must escape, SO he began to dig tun-
nell He worked till his hands were be-
nunbed and frozen. He worked thus for
six days and escaped, but is not expected
to live.
The principal losses of cattle in Wy
oming, Colorado and Nebraska have been
on the Laramie plains and along the line of
the railroad toward the east and on the
south, and the severest have been on the
ranges between the North and South
Platte rivers, east of Julesburg. In the
sections mentioned 10 to Ii per cent. of
the cattle have died, and in some Colorado
herds the loss has gone as high as 80 per
cent.