Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-18
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STATS NEWS.

STATS NEWS.
The bank of Oregon City commenced
business last week.
| There are over 600 people camped on the
beach at Yaquima bay.
| Over 100 tons of wool has been shipped
from Perawawa, w. T., this season.
| The assessment roll of Los Angeles
county amounts to 10000, 600 this year.
| The Marysville appeal, representative
and energetic paper, has entered ON a new
volume.
The Santa Cruz Echo is urging that the
houses Of the city of the holy cross be
numbered.
DIR. Glenn says that his loss by the fire
on the Montgomery tract, on the 4th inst,
will be nearly $4,000.
The army worm has appeared to some
extent at Little Shasta, but being late may
not cause much damage.
| A lumber vessel arrived at South Vallejo
the other day, and it was impossible to
find hands to unload her.
A number of convicts have been set to
| work in the Nevada State Prison quarry
to take out stone with which to complete
the Mint's new refinery.
| There are now over hundred inmates of
the hospital for the insane at Steilacoem,
| w. T., and an increase of the number of
wards will soon be required.
| Millions of saw logs are being RATED,
and thousands of railroad ties are being
loaded for shipment up the Columbia river
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The Marysville wooden mills will be put
in operation again next week, the altera-
tions, additions and the location of new
looms being about completed.
A. O.. Porter has purchased half inter-
est in the Ifuekee Republican, and that
paper will hereafter be conducted by the
firm of Weisenburger & Porter.
Frank P. Kelly, of the Tehama Tocsin,
has purchased the half.interest of his part
| ner, d. S. Cutter, and will henceforth be
sole owner, publisher and editor.
The total valuation of property, real and
personal, in Sonoma county, by the new
assessment roll, foots up SIT, S3S, IT'S. On
this there are 1859 mortgages, valued at
SO, l43 760.
Up Dry creek there are several new and
iuitc CAtcESifc piuIIt WHICH are
thriving well. Farmers will find plums "a
profitable as anything they can produce.
[Healdsburg Enterprise.
The Yolo Mail reliable weekly. newsy.
and prompt, has been enlarged, the col
umns being widened and heightened very
much, so rs to give in all seven columns
more of matter each week than under the
| old size.
Il is stated that the total crop of Sutter
county this year will be only about half an
| average crop. Late-sown wheat is looking
fine, especially on bottom lands, which in
some places will yield as high as forty
bushels to an acre.
| Lieutenant Backus, of Fort Klamath,
offers reward of $l00 for the arrest and
return of two deserters named j. w. F.
! Cooper and Fred. Clark. 1t is supposed
| that they are now in the Siskiyou mount.
aims prepared for horse.stealing and high
| way robbery.
| The Shoshone Falls of the Snake river
are 200 feet high. A few days since boat
| containing one white man and two China
men was caught in the rapids and carried
like an arrow over the cataract. Of the
| boat, splinters of wood were afterward
found but of the men, nothing.
The annual State meeting of the Christian
| Church will be held at Woodland, cem-
mencing September ID, and continue one
necessary committees have been appointed
| to make arrangements. A large number
OF visitors are expected to be in attendance.
San Jose has vagrant jail-bird, who
carves old pieces of wood into shapes of
perfect beauty, and of such richness as to
be worthy Of ornamenting a palace. His
only tools are broken knife blade, a pen
and nail. He declines to tell why he
roams the country lazily and aimlessly
instead of seeking distinction in his noble
| profession.
Il was currently reported in town last
! week that while party of fishermen were
making their way up Donner creek toward
| the lake they came across some unusually
| large bones at point nearly midway be-
tween tie lake and town. They COM
meneed investigation at once and soon
found that the bones belonged to nothing
| less. than the skeleton of mastodon. 1t
| is the intention of the parties to exhume
the skeleton in a few days Truckee Re-
publican.
| The worm pest is upon us, although in
some places, where the worms were numer-
Gus, there are now none noticeable. John
| N. Bailhsches new vineyard has been fear.
| fully raided, the worms being still there in
apparently as great numbers as ever, and
they have almost divested the vines of all
| foliage. The believe that these worms are
| Matched in alfalfa fields is becoming more
general If it should prove that such is
the case then we suppose alfalfa must so.
[Healdsburg Enterprise.
The discovery some years ago of grove
of black walnut trees in little valley on
the south side of Upper Kings river, leads
US to hope that in time many of the foot
hill valleys will be planted, at least in part,
with these walnut trees. If they will
| flourish in a Wild state, certainly they will
thrive by cultivation. No more valuable
| tree can be grown than the black walnut.
The nuts and the timber are both CONNER
cial articles that always command ready
sale Fresno Exposition
Felix Gillet, the well-kuown horticultur.
ist, says that the codling moth is playing
havoc with apples and pears in all parts of
the country, so far as he can learn. In his
| own large orchard on Arstocracy Hill, for
instance, says the Nevada City Transcript,
he anticipates that the apple crop will be a
total failure on account Of the pest He
is now studying out plan to lessen the
evil in the future by scraping the trees
with an ingenious instrument that will ex-
pose the pupe of the moth where it is hid
under the bark, and thus enable the de-
struction of it.
The farmers of Suffer county find the
Sunday law of great benefit to them dur
ing the harvest season. Formerly they
used to bring their harvest hands in to
Yuba City on Sunday morning, and the
men would nearly all be drunk when taken
back at night. The consequence was that
the harvest crews were unfit for work on
Monday. Now the men go to town on
Saturday night and get what they want.
returning to spend Sunday on the ranch
where they work. They get good rest
on Sunday and are in good trim for work
on Monday morning
S. T. Colwell informs us that two lads
named George Morris and Lincoln Odell,
working for him, reported having seen
most singular mirage. They were at work
on mountain road four miles beyond the