Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-05
ALONG THE COAST.

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logs across Lake Tahoe.
Thus far S47, 900 has been expended on
the Truckee and Steamboat Irrigating
Canal Company's ditch.
A pint of milk on retiring at night will
cover the scrawniest of bones. Il Peoples
Cause. This item will make boom among
dairymen who have lean customers.
Farmers who have planted small fruits
begin to see what wonderful fruit country
Montana is, and to appreciate having such
luxury. The small fruit orchards this
year are bending down with berries.
[Husbandman.
At Glenbrook, Lake Tahoe, sawmill Nc.
l, of the Carson and Tahoe Lumber and
Flume Company, is running nearly to its
maximum capacity, and makes daily cut
of rs, 600 feet of lumber, which is fumed
down to Carson, fourteen miles distant, and
from there shipped by rail to the mines and
mills OF the Comstock.
The old wrangle over the great lake of
Nevada and California is again being re-
vived by the press of the State. Editors
OF Democratic papers insist on calling it
Lake Bigler, while the name it has been
known by for years is Tahee. And Tahoe
is good enough. Bigler is the name of
played-out and forgotten political hack
True Fissure.
Work on the Feather river levee, from
Yuba City southwark, is to be commenced
about the 18th inst, says the Marysvile
Appeoi. The camps are already benz pro.
vided. The levee is to be raised three feet
and broadened proportionately. The leyee
will be raised from Yuba City down TO
Shanghai Bend. The work on the levee
for about two miles above Yuba City has
been completed for some time.
Tehama county has not been cursed this
year with phylloxera or the Hessian fly,
nor has our wheat crop been damaged this
season, except from the want of March
rains, which cut it short about one. half !;
still the grain is No. l. the best perhaps
that has ever been produced. Some of the
farms have yielded as high as thirty bush
els per acre, while many Others have not
produced more than ten Peoples Cause.
The deer season just commenced has SO
far been marked with an unusual slaughter.
Deer are plenty, and it is no trick to shoot
one. The singular thing is that the law
prohibiting the killing of does has not
been violated, that we have heard OF. One
party came through town with two fawns,
captured in a hunt that involved the
slaughter of 20 bucks. Male deer will be
scarce next year. Lower Lake Bulletin.
L. Noss, the great lumberman of Little
York township, keeps fifteen four and
| six-horse teams running regularly between
his mill and You Bet station-a distance
of fourteen miles, each team conveying
enough lumber to build smsll-sized houte e.
From the station the lumber is conveyed
by rail to Grass Valley and San Francisco.
Mr.. Voss is shipping immense quantities of
sugar pine to San Francisco, the demand
being unusually large.
Captain Roberts, owner of the steam
wagon, who was in town on Wednesday,
informs us that his steam wagon is now
perfect in every particular. He was then
hauling 400 sacks per day of I. Kirk pat
rick s wheat from Caves Cottonwood ranch
to McIntosh's Landing, aud as soon as the
road ia well packed, viii haul from 600 to
900 sacks per day easily. Nessrs. Graves,
Scarce, Hall and Murdoch between them
will have about 80, 900 sacks. His charge
is 81 per ton. He viii take no further
contracts until those named above are com.
pleted. -[0rland Times.
A. Z. Lott, Of the Cerro Gordo Freight.
ing Company, just from Mojave, says that
graders have begun operations at that point
and also at Wadsworth that he has it di.
rect from Mr.. Croker that the road will
be completed within sixteen months Thus
we have tiff the railroad bubble doesn't
explode, and about half of what is proposed
is carried out-that the Central Pacific
crowd will gain the great through north
and south route east OF the Sierras, while
the Gould dynasty will control the east
and west roads crossing this county at
either end. -[Inyo Independent.
Mr.. Summers, reliable farmer near
Waterford, ia this county. states that
snake, or rather reptile of immense pro.
portions, has domiciled itself on his prem
Uses. 1t has been frequently seen, but
definite and distinct view of the monster
was not had until a short time since, when
he was seen by come of the harvest hands.
His snakeship was discovered by the driver
of the header wagon, who stopped and
called the attention of the others to it.
The men all agreed that it was larger in
size than any they had ever seen on exhi-
bition. Near where the snake was seen
was large hole, such as is frequented by
badgers on our plains. Here the snake Sc
GREETED himself. A fair sight, however,
was had OF the monster, and it is thought
that he is at least is to 20 feet in length.
From indications he has taken up his per-
manent abode in the old deserted badger
camp mentioned. II Yreka Journal.