Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-05
COAST AND srATE.

The Red Bluff Sentinel says the woolen-
mill project still lives there.
After an existence of nearly four months
the Santa Cruz Daily Echo died on Satur-
day last.
Mr.. veerkamp, of Gold Hill, Ell Dorado
county, has produced the Japanese per-
simmon to perfection this season.
The stages on the Oregon route from
Redding to Roseburg changed to winter
time Wednesday, owing to the heavy roads
and loads. The weather is clear, with
cold nights and pleasant days.
On last Saturday week w. N. Glad
den delivered an address, under the
auspices of Healdsburg Grange, on the
past and present condition and future pros
pect of fruit culture in the Russian river
country.
Information is wanted of Eugene o.
Melvin, who left his home in Paradise,
Butte county, in the early part of August,
and started to the mountains to shear
sheep, expecting to return in q few weeks,
and also to write frequently. Since then
nothing has been heard of him. He is
about twenty years old very tall and
slender has gray eyes and dark brown
hair; wore no whiskers.
An Oregon paper mentions a remarkable
frolic at the house Of young widow. It
comprised wood-chopping, rag-cutting
and candy'pulling Young men who
hadn't split stick for their poor old
mothers for over a year actually chopped
cord apiece; the girls cut forty nine
pounds of rags; and as for candy, the
whole crowd were smeared with concrete
molasses from head to foot.
Latest reports state that men and mate
rial are daily being brought to Roseburg
from the north, says the Jacksonville Sen
tinel, and work on the extension of the
road from that place south has actually
commenced-some l50 men being now en-
pioyed. The route most likely to be taken
through the valley is the last survey, run
ming this side of NJ. Hanley's farm, about a
mile and a half from town
The late rain was general in the Pajaro
valley, and though beans suffered to some
extent we have heard of no complaints
among the farmers. Farmers are getting
ready for the plowing season as rapidly as
possible. The total rainfall for the last
storm was 81 of an inch. The strong
north wind which prevailed on Monday
rapidly dried the streets and roads, and
came very near removing every sign of the
RAIN Pajaronian.
The Red Bluff Peoples Cause says there
Is rumor afoat that the Central Pacific
Railroad Company intend to build round
houses IN Biggs, at no distant day, and
that the road is to be divided into two
sections. From San Francisco to Bfegs
will be the first division, and from Bigps to
the Oregon line the second division. If
there is any certainty in the rumor, there
will be round house in this vicinity, or
between here and the Oregon line.
By the railroad route supposed to be de.
cided upon, the track will cross Shasta
river, less than six miles south of town, at
c. S. Moore's ranch, this side of Kings
salt works, and also near the Little Shasta
bridge northeast of here, shorter distance
from town. The country being quite level
to both these points, a branch road could
be easily built at light COST With such
branch road Yreka would be the main sta
ton for the whole county except beyond
Butteville and Cottonwood, as the present
roads from other sections are about as near
as any new roads that can be built to strike
the railroad In any part of Shasta valley
Yreka Journal.
The Oroville Mercury INDUCES in this
bit of merriment Last week d. N. Fries
leben. of the Union Hotel, purchased from
a mountain granger half dozen chickens
There was nothing extraordinary about the
chickens; in fact, they looked like ordi-
nary barnyard fowls; but upon one of
them being killed there was found in its
craw round piece OF gold of the value of
30 cents. The steward of the hotel took
the little piece of metal to Mr.. Frieslebeu,
telling him at the same time where it
came FROM Friesleben didn't say ANYTHING.
but proceeded to the fire hydrant and at
tached and run line OF hose down the
alley to the chicken COOP The steward,
who was an observer of this strange pro-
ceeding, finally asked the hotel proprietor
what he proposed to do. Friesleben re-
piled, saying "Why, darn it, I'm going
to kill those chickens and hydraulic their
craws ; go get me eask of quicksilver and
send two carpenters around and lumber
enough for fume." An injunction was
served on him, however, before he could
get his mine in running order, and he is
now waiting for a decision in the slickens
cases before he proceeds with the work.
The most romantic town on the coast is
Meadow Lake. 1t is close up to the sum-
NIT of the Sierras, near a beautiful lake.
1t grew up in one summer to be great
town. Thousands OF people pnt thousands
of dollars there. There was plenty of
good, rich gold ore there, but the gold had
terrible liking for the rock, and nobody
could get it out. A few stayed the first
winter. The snow fell twenty or thirty feet
deep. The people made tunnels from one
house to the other and contrived to get
through the winter. The only way in and out
was on snow shoes. The next spring every
body ran away, and the town collapsed
and fell down. Adventurous parties have
every year tried to work the ore, with
very little success. The last news is that
new process has been tried which bids
fair to be success. Walter Hamilton, of
Oakland, mining expert, now comes to
the front and claims that he has discovered
a process by which the rebellious ores of
this district can be worked successfully
at cost of 81 so ton, and if he can do
so Meadow Lake will soon become one of
the most important mining districts on the
coast.-[T [Truckee Republican.