Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-15
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Modesto IS to have bank soon.
Denver is to have paid Fire Depart
ment.
Stanislaus has now County Board of
Health.
The tide was very high recently in Mon
terey bay.
Elliot is the name of new town thirty
miles north of San Diego.
A few days ago Lynx Creek, Arizona,
miner picked up piece of quartz which,
when pulverized, yielded over $50 in gold.
Anaheim is out of debt, has several hun
dred dollars in the treasury, and the de-
linquent taxes amounted to less than $40.
A Grass Valley woman has Mysteries be-
cause her husband drinks; and her hus-
band drinks because his wife has Mysteries.
The Free Press complains that no father
in Bodie has ever had twins born to him,
and appeals to the citizens to redeem the
town.
The building of the projected railroad
between Point Arena and Elk creek will be
commenced early in the spring. The dis
tance is fifteen miles.
The Utah and Northern Railroad is the
longest narrow guage in the country. Its
rolling-stock for this year will be not less
than 720 cars and 3S locomotives.
February Sth Mrs. Laughlin, an old
pioneer lady of Wasco county, Oregon, was
fatally injured by the roof of building
which yielded under a weight of snow.
Colonel G. L. Gillespie, of the United
States Engineers, has received authority to
proceed with improvements ON Yaquima
bay and the mouth of the Coquille river.
An Italian, while following up the course
of the canyon above Franktown, New, to
view the ruins of the reservoir, picked up
a nugget of placer gold weighing over nine
ounces.
In hydraulic test of building stone at
Denver, Col, Cannon City stone pulver-
lied at pressure of As tons, Morrison
stone at 60 tons, and Lava and Manitou
stone at IS tons.
The Galeyville Water Works, Arizona,
will be in full operation within forty days
The first reservoir will contain 25, 900 gal.
Ions, and others will be added as the needs
of the community enlarge.
The Franktown New reservoir was
built by William Thompson, under con-
tract for IS, 500, who, it is said, gave bonds
guaranteeing it to stand for two years. 1t
was paid for but about 5000.
The other day at dinner Biggs woman
remarked to friend who had dropped in
on them that the potatoes had an oniony
smell, when her husband suggested that
they had been cooked in saucepan with a
leek in it.
In Churchill county, New, during the
winter season, rarchers and dairymen can
usually secure a good harvest of ice from
four to eight inches in thickness, but this
season there has heen none over one and q
half inches thick.
The quarterly report of the Superintend-
ent of the Monterey County Hospital
shows that for the year ending January
81, 1881, there were l9S patients admitted
and treated. Of these 100 have been dis.
charged and have died.
a young man who went up to the rich
" "diggings in Trinity county to try to
make "raise," wrote to his father re-
Gently that he would leave for home as
soon as he could borrow a pair Of pants, a
vest and necktie; he still has his hat
Two specimens just taken from the Sill
yer King mine, Pinal county a. T., are of
exceeding beauty and value One is as
large as mans head, the other about half
that size. They are full of pure, white
silver, and polybasite in crystal white
quartz.
Says the Salinas Inder. The soil of
San Benito county claims the honor of
having sustained the first American flag of
conquest ever unfurled to California
breeze, General Fremont having planted
the United States flag on Gabilan Peak in
March, 1916.