Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-20
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Snow fell last week at Alexander's, three
miles above Poker Flat, near Saddle Rock,
Sierra county, an elevation of about $500
feet above the sea.
Catfish are now caught in considerable
quantities at Maine Prairie. Some were
brought up recently which weighed about
two pounds apiece.
Trout never were so plentiful in the
! Beckworth country as they are this year.
Everybody catches them, and "brain-
food is at discount
The Supreme Court of Nevada has de.
cided the Asylum bill to be constitutional.
Reno is happy. The building of the
asylum will proceed at once.
The Eel river Agricultural Society has
resolved to establish a factory for the man
ufacture of cheese. 1t is to be located
within one mile of Ferndale.
George T.. McStay has been appointed
Deputy Revenue Collector for San Joaquin
and Alameda counties, vice d. A, Meader,
whose term of office had expired.
The railrt q | company have found an ob-
struction to their line to Baker City, Or.
in the shape of line of basaltic rock, v hich
it will take them two months to overcome.
The growth of tules 'ong the margin of
Clear lake is more extensive and vigorous
this year than before in many years. Some
huge fires may be anticipated when the dry
season is further advanced.
The Tahoe Tdttler is the name of new
and very diminstive specimen of mountain
journalism which has just come to hand.
1t is four-page sheet, 5lx4b inches, and
| is issued daily at Tahoe City.
The village at the Iron Mine, Placer
county, has been christened. and will here
| after be known as Hotalipg. 1t was named
after one of the principal owners of the
mine, A. 2. Hotaling of San francisco.
The Shasta Base Ball Club of Shasta.
defeated the Riverside Base Ball Club Of
Redding, on July 4th, by score of 9 to.
2. They also offer to play any nine north
of Chico for $50 side, not even excepting
the Fort Jones Club.
From Haley, Idaho Territory, we have
a copy of new weekly paper entitled the
Wood River Times. 1t is four-page six
column paper, neatly printed, and is newsy,
lively and as wide awake as the new and
active mining section in which, it has taken
its stand.
The Grass Valley Free Lance says: Deer
are quite plenty in the foothills. Indeed,
they are very numerous Not mile from
town friend of ours saw a herd of six a
day or two ago, and on Wednesday last
James Foster killed very fine buck near
the Goodfrey mine.
Cayotes are making preparatory incur-
sions upon the farmers and stock. raisers in
the vicinity of San Andreas. Last Mon.
day solid phalanx of ten of these pests
advanced upon the residence of Charles
Koh!er, near the South Fork, and praye6 (
for prey in an unearthly howl.
J. T. Skinner, who visited Shovel creek
and Linkville the first of last week, re-
turned on Thursday to Yreka and had the
honor of sailing on the trial trip of the new
steamboat at Klamath lake. He spoke in
the highest terms of the beautiful little
craft aud the ease with which she glidts
over the water.
Surveyors are again at work on the pro-
posed narrow-f a1ge railroad line through
Modesto. They are operating at Corral
Hollow, moving eastward. The ques-
ton of road running parallel with
the Southern Pacific road southwark on the
west side is being agitated strongly by
the Kern and Tulare county papers.
In Gila valley, l20 miles from Tucson,
Arizona, are the famous Pintados. A heap
of rocks, about fifty feet high, is covered
with rude figures, geometric, comic and
anatomical. Here are squares, circles,
crosses, triar giles, snakes, toads and ver-
min, men without heads and dogs without
tails. The sketches are like those of the
Aztec calendar stone in Mexico.
James Duhig. who is cultivating l,5C0
acres of the Rawson rapch in Tehama
county. informs the Red Bluff Peoples
Cause that his crop of wheat will average
about twenty six bushels per acre. 1t is as
good as he has ever raised, and the sacks
average l3S pounds each. Wheat raised
on some of the same and similar land last
year weighed only l30 pounds to the sacFs
1t is only about three years since can
containing about 400 small catfish was sent
to Stockton by the State Fish Commits
sioner to ]. D. Schuyler, then an attache
of the independent Mr.. Schuyler placed
those fish in the Stockton, Mormon and
French Camp channels, and now all these
branches of the San Joaquin abound with
this variety of fish, and they are caught
with hook and line In great numbers.
A new cave has been discovered by
Messrs. Nichols and Mititch. This cave
is situated about half a mile from the
famous Mammoth Cave, Calaveras county.
The cave contains five large rooms, large
lake of water, twenty-five or thirty human
skeletons, etc. Several bones that had
been taken from the cave were exhibited,
and were pronounced by the doctors human
bones, although of very inferior order of
humanity.
Colusa Sun : As our harvest progresses
we are confirmed in the estimate we made
OF the crop in the county at one-half what
it was last year. The strip of country
along next to the foothills is turning out
remarkably well, and a first-class article of
wheat, too, but there was not so much land
sown. Grand Island will not have half as
much as last year. We spoke of the river
lands in our last. The quality of our
wheat this year will be superb. The cool
summer has greatly facilitated harvesting
operations, and the headers and thrashers
will be housed much earlier than usual this
season.
Wildfower fresno county, dates say
that the new grain is of excellent quality
and the yield larger than was expected.
Three steam thrashers are now running in
this neighborhood. Selma will be the ship
ping point for most of the crop. The
country is rapidly settling up, and sub
stantial improvements are everywhere
noticeable. The rapid growth of shade
trees is greatly improving the appearance
of this section. Property is increasing IN
value, and the residents are generally
prosperous. Complaints are frequently
and Justly made of the bad condition OF
the county roads. Some S400 have been
raised at Selma to be used in putting straw
on the roads.
Skill in the Workshop.
To do good work the mechanic must have
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