Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-02
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ALONG THE COAST.
Santa Rosa has a population of 3,6l.
inhabitants.
Nevada City boasts of radish weigh.
ing 10 pounds.
VIM. Edwards new bridge across the
South Yuba is completed and open fol
| travel.
The Mussel Slough settlers have taker
steps to build one track railroad from
Mussel Slough to Antioch.
Mr.. Shade, of Gilroy, thrashed from
twenty acres l39 bags Of wheat, and from
forty acres 500 bags of barley.
The Santa Cruz Echo and Transcript are
urging the city authorities of Santa Cruz
to adopt the numbering system for houses.
The Free Lance and FoohM T1dings OF
Grass Valley have consolidated, and will
hereafter be known and issued as the Dahl
Things.
Sylvester Scott, of Sonoma county, is
said to have the finest blooded sheep in
that region, many of them shearing twenty
pounds each.
The Castroville public schools opened
last Monday morning, with Geo. Furlong
as Principal, Mrs. Furlong and Miss Stir
ling, assistants. Total number enrolled,
Jag.
The stage line between WeavervilIe and
Canyon City. in Trinity county, belonging
to Davis & ONeal, has been sold to r. G..
Dockary and E. W. Jose, who will run it
hereafter
J. II. Thomas has boring machine,
eight inches in diameter, en- route from San
Francisco, with which he will prospect the
rich gravel ridge between La Porte and
Gibsonville.
The Assessors report in Santa Clara
county shows an increase of small farms
during the past year. Eight hundred new
farms are reported, contsinnc fycm ten TO
sixty acres each.
The saw mills belonging TO Bradford {
Way, eighteen miles north OF Sonora, were
destroy ed by fire last Thursday. A million
and half feet of sugar pine lumber was
consumed. The origin of the fire was not
learned.
1t is said that the damage done to the
growing crops by the squirrels at Halfmoon
Bay, San Mateo county, can hardly be
estimated, but this year is unusually large
On the Brown ranch, last week, the Col.
burns thrashed fifty-acre piece of barley
which produced in all but 100 sacks-the
rest was eaten by the squirrels.
A prominent citizen OF Red Bluff has
offered the Directors of the Third District
Fair prize of s25, to be given for the best
l,.acJ o,I H. I'D Io.e
brown bread exhibited at the Coming fair.
The bread is to be made and baked by a
miss residing within the district, the age
of the competitors to be fixed by the Di.
rectors OF the Society.
The Plumas National says: From re-
liable source we learn that the arrange
ments for narrow-gauge road from Reno
to Quincy are progressing rapidly and salts
factorily, and there is every reason to think
that work will commence in short time.
Surveyor Keddie has received instructions
to commence preliminary survey, and he
is now organizing party for that purpose
and will commence work next week. The
road will be backed up in every way by
the Central Pacific, and will start with
money enough behind it to push it through
in short order.
According to the Times and Gazette the
vicinity of Pescadero is paradise for
sportsmen. 1t says : Rabbits and quail
are so numerous as to become pests to the
farmers. Many of our people wish that
those fancy sportsmen's clubs which OBJ
tanned from our intelligent ~ Legislature
the passage of the law forbiddipg the trap
ping OF quail had to bear the annoyance OF
the little pests. We trust it will do those
fine gentlemen but little good, and that our
farmers will warn them off their premises
every time they are found trespassing.
Those who SO literally offer rewards for
the prosecution of any one violating the
game laws cannot complain if the law of
trespass is strictly enforced upon them 1t
is poor rule that don't work both ways.
The following item. from the Redwood
City Times and Gazette, in relation to the
hindrance by fog of gathering the grain
crop in that vicinity, will be regarded by
the farmers of the interior as indicating a
condition for which they would not wish to
exchange their reliable dry climate DUR
ing the grain-cutting season. 1t says
During the past week the fogs have pre-
vailed to such an extent that the farmers
are put back little in their harvesting
The farmers will be busHy engaged in cut.
ting grain when the weather permits, and
then stacking follows. Binding is done
with nearly all the wheat, but white men
will not bind, and Cinnamon are scarce. In
about four weeks thrashing will begin in
earnest, and this years harvest will close
at least one month earlier than last year. ,,
The Red Bluff Sentinel says Our atten-
ton has several times been attracted by
S. f. Frank to the monster fruits that he
succeeds in growing on Jefferson street,
but this morning he excelled all his previous
showing in a bunch of monster grapes,
abou. two weeks short of their full growth.
They are of the Rose of Peru variety,
have beautiful coler, and are as large and
much resemble prunes. The grapes We're
compactiy grown on the bunch, which con-
tanned twenty. eight grapes that took up a
space about six inches long and four inches
in diameter. The remarkable size proves
how well adapted our county is to grape
growing, Mr.. Frank assuring us that but
little attention has been paid to the vine
from whence these grapes came, and the
fortune that awaits those who will go into
the business of grape. growing for wine-
making.
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