Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-26
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


1he Jonn bFoWH fund now foots mp TO-
tai OF over 81, $50.
Seven marriages were recorded at Oak
land for the week ending April 22d.
The grain shipment from Gilroy during
the month OF March was ], ,642, 3l0 pounds.
a Chinaman has been astonishing the
rifiemen of Carson, New, with his excel.
lent Workmanship.
a German woman and little boy, living
on Skookum Chuck, w. T., have cut this
winter 75 cords of wood.
The cannery at South Vallejo has been
in full blast the last three or four days,
canning 700 or 500 fish day.
Five Reno New gentlemen whose
united weight was l, 1881 pounds were
recently seen sitting at a table.
Two men at Eaton's mill, in Thurston
county, w. T., have made l 800 ax-helves
during the past winter out of tough white
oak.
Carpenters constitute the principal pop
ulation of Hawthorne, New, Just now
Buildings are being put up with startling
rapidity.
San Diego is becoming quite focus for
seal hunting. 1t is estimated that this in
dpstry was worth 500, 900 to the place
during the past year.
The Pataha, w. T., Spirit says The
stencil from the dead cattle over the hills
is terrific. If something is not done to
get rid of it, it may breed an epidemic.
The Atlantis mine at Lion City, Mont,
has been worked to depth of between
1900 and l, 400 feet on an incline, or hori-
zontally over l, 100 feet deep. This is the
deepest mine in that Territory.
One of the largest fir trees in Washing.
ton Territory is near the mouth of Black
river, in Chehalis county. 1t is IA feet in
diameter at the base. 1t is only about $50
feet high, the top having been broken of.
Blythe City, on the Colorado river, has
in its immediate vicinity valuable placers,
and good success has been met with the
use of dry washers. Within thirty miles,
mines of silver, gold and coppers are
worked.
The work of leveling the rocky summit
of Nit. Hamilton for the Lick Observatory
is going forward finely. Some eight men
have been working there all winter The
ground will be ready for the foundation
walls in few weeks.
The reflection of the fire which was seen
at Carson, New, Thursday night, was pro-
duced by the burning of Theodore Winters
barn in Washoe valley. A number of
valuable horses and cattle, housed therein,
were burned to death.
The first number of the Sutter County
Farmer, published at Yuba City, is at hand
H., kba, ~, ,J,fa for, \
lie favor bears an excellent appearance, and
its columns are well filled with interesting
local and other matter.
While making repairs upon an old adobe
building in Santa Barbara, ElUo Cardona
found, in excavating, a Spanish l2ll cent
piece, dated 1921, and bearing the super
scription of Don Carlos ". A Chilean
scent piece was also found.
Angora goats seem to be drug in the
market. At forced sale of the goats of
the Gilmore Breeding Association, FL Do
RADIO, last week, graded wethers brought
p cents apiece; graded ewes, 81 cents
graded bucks, so cents; full blood bucks, 81.
Several Indians at Big Pine, Inyo county,
Sunday last, drank, caroused and gambled
all day. In the evening, one of them threw
a lasso over the neck of another, known as
Frank Hutch, dragging him some distance
He was then held while another Indian de-
Gberately cut his throat.
The Reno (Nev. Gazette, speaking of the
inter deposit on Browns Hill, near White
Plains station, on the Central Pacific Rail
read, says it is no new discovery. Several
years ago there was great excitement on
the subject but investigation showed that
the deposit is too small to be worth much.
Says the Prescott "a. IT, Miner Able
bodied men and women can find plenty of
work in Yavapai county, Arizona. Let
San Francisco, and other cities where a
surplus of these persons are stopping, dis
gorge. Good wages can be obtained and
no difficulty in finding immediate employ
ment,
The Tucson "a. t. Citizen says that the
antimony mines are the boom of Sonora
Ore of that kind in such quantities has not
been recorded in the known world About
300 tons taken from shaft 20 feet in
depth on the Sta. Margarita contains over
70 per cent. antimony and at least $500
per ton silver
Lorin Farr, a Mormon polygamist who
hlo DSSh DutbCs hlOnOduS; WAS
asked by a Inter Mountain reporter whether
he thought the Government would crush
out polygamy. The reply was " Certainly
not We believe in higher law than the
law of Congress, and we shall obey which
one we see fit"
a Santa Clara farmer says A calf at
three months of age is worth Sc, at twelve
months old Sl2, at two years $50 to s24,
at three years a young COW, with calf at
her side, is worth from S35 to $50; then l
sell them, as after this age they do Hotpa
so well. Cows bring in $50 per annum in
butter and cheese.
B. Pezzoni of Guadalupe is the largest
dairy owner of western Santa Barbara.
He owns l,49S acres of grazing land, and
rents l, 100 acres. He has 400 head of cat.
tie, and is milking 205 cows. The amount
of butter made during last year was As. 900
pounds. He has made up to date of the
present year $1,000 pounds.
The fire loss in the State of Nevada for
1880 amounted to 1894, 200, involving
loss to insurance companies of 1888, 900.
Loss in Nevada to twenty companies for
the eleven years ending with 1880, 81 ,246,-
672 10; income in Nevada to the same
companies for the same period, STE, ,07S 03
making total net loss to the same CON-
panies of 1914, 6S4 l6.
A surveying party is at this time laying
out highway from Willows west over the
Coast Range, via Grindstone Canyon, to
Covelo, in Round Valley, Mendocino coun.
ty. The people on both sides of the range
will unite and build the road at once, at
cost of about sl5, 900, and it will furnish
new and more convenient outlet to large
and fertile section of country.
Says the Virginia New Chronicle On
the sides of Mount Davidson there are
huge masses of rock, principally composed
of groupings, the bases of which have been
worn away, and which now stand ready to
topple over and roll down the declivity, and
carry destruction to the houses below.
This is real danger, and should be averted
by having these menacing masses broken
by giant powder.
The acreage of the Nisqually, W. T., In.
dian Reservation is 4,7l7. The location is
on Nisqually river, commencing four
miles above its mouth Three-fourths of
the reservation is thin, sandy upland,
mostly prairie. The lands have been sur
veyed, and in April, 1877, were allotted to
forty-six Indians. Except the few acres
cleared, the reservation is heavily timbered,
and part of it is composed of rich bottom