Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07
COAST AND STATE.

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COAST AND STATE.
MODESTO, Oct Der 1st.-OaIy slight
shower fell today, causing no damage. It
looks Ike rain tonight.
Five hundred thousand pounds of Idaho
freight are living at kelton, and teams can
not be found to haul it.
The Northern Pacific track.layers have
reached Country mans ranch, on Saltwater,
ninety miles from Bozeman.
Salt water, or more properly brine. was
struck IN an arteslan well at Thayar, Utah,
lately, al depth of 900 feet.
Sorghum mills are grinding and a large
quantity of superior syrup will be made in
Jackson county, Oregon, this fall.
The number of hogs that are now being
put in shape for market in Jackson county,
Oregon, is larger than ever before.
Paradise boasts of having two stores but
no saloon. 1t must indeed be paradise
If no fortyrod whisky is sold there
The disease known as "black. leg" is
prevalent in the South Fork section of Las
sen county, and is doing much damage in
that region.
The Eureka Leader says real estate is
depreciating at Ruby Hill. A house and
furniture that cost $500 four months ago
was sold last week for S270.
Civil Engineer Scott and party of men
arrived at Nacaville last week, to survey a
route for the railroad through Pleasant val
ley and Patah canyon to Lakeport.
Pirkeye has reached Jackson county,
Oregon, and great many horses IN the
region Of Jacksonville are suffering with it.
No serious consequences have resulted rs
yet.
The Red Buff Cause says the large
planning mill recently DESTROYED by fire
there viii be rebuilt at once. It will Re a
very large structure, three stories in hight,
and 100 by 100 feet in size.
On Wednesday last mixed passenger
and freight train commenced running regu.
larry between Tehama and Willows. The
distance between San Francisco and Teha-
ma by this route is shortened thirty miles,
The shipment of Iron Mountain ore from
here to Copper City newly awakeps the
idea of establishing custom mill here.
There are springs within the town limits
that run each from twelve to twenty GAL
Ions OF water per minute, and fuel is abund-
ant.-[Shasta Courier.
J. W. Shields, of San Francisco. formerly
OF Plaeerville, has now in his possession a
diamond weighing two karats and one.six.
teenth, which he found in Cedar Ravine in
lS49. It is white and of the first water.
MIR. Shields found it in his rocker while
mining for gold. 1t is uncut, and has been
set in ring which he wears.
Napa valley is just now overrun with
tramps. They state that they are Just out
from the East, and have heard that there
was work to be had here during the grape.
picking season. One of them, however.
came nearer the truth doubtless when he
stated that it was on account of the fruit
that was so easy of access for them to live
upon that they are here.
Ducks are very scarce in the tules Just
now, and there will perhaps be no more
good hunting until after the rains. Imme
Giately upon the expiration Of the close
season sportsmen fiocked to the tules in F.,
such numbers tina. game could scarcely
find feeding place, and in consequence
the ducks have taken their fight to more
congenial quarters. I Dixon Tribune.
The Livermore Herald says that "rot
for years have our farmers realized such
good prices for their products as are being
paid this season. Hay, cattle, hogs, but.
ter and eggs are unusually high, while even
wheat though lower than some weeks ago.
brings good price. Produce of all kinds
is 10 demand, aud the farmer who is not
making money this year has only himself
to blame"
There is a greater amount of summer.
fallow land in this county, we think, |
than there has ever been before We no. |
ticad going up on the railroad that there |
seemed to be about half the land plowed, |
and most of il sowed. Ga inquiring we |
heard that it extended clear across the |
county that way. If we have a tolerably |
good season Colusa will have an immense |
amount OF wheat to sell next year Co- |
lusa Sun.
The vintage, which has been progressing |
Il this vicinity for the last three weeks, is |
satisfactory as to quantity, but to some ex- |
tent unsatisfactory as to the saccharine !
strength of the grapes. Owing to the gen.
eral cold weather which has prevailed for |
some time past, the grapes are ripening |
slowly, and in come of the valley vine. |
yards, where the crop is very heavy, the |
amount of sugar is hardly sufficient at the |
present time to produce good wine, |
eltner IN strength or color. indeed, the |
have been compelled to stop |
picking in many OF the vineyards for the
reasons above stated. 1t is yet early, and |
a change may, and is confidently expected,
to take place before long -LSt. Helena
Star.
All the small bands Of cattle are being |
concentrated and bought up by regular
dealers, who seem to be looking ahead for |
speculative prices in the near future. A |
man in Warner valley sold all his cattle,
"iast as they rum" for $50 head, count
ing cows, yearlings and all. This is an
extraordinary price. but wise ones say they
will be worth $40 per head before many |
months, and that beef will become luxury |
to poor folks, who will Rave to come down |
to chickens, trout and eggs, or 90 hungry. |
In the southern counties ordinary beeves !
have been selling for not less than $40 |
per head for some month";, in small lots. |
and they have been scarce at that, as own.
ers of stock have good feed, and having
foreseen this unprecedented advance in
prices, held back for high rates. Reno
Gazette.