Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-21
COAST AND STATE.

The MERGED Star says single hunter
killed 2S4 ducks in one days shooting last
week on the San Joaquin river. near Fire.
baugh's ferry.
The first of this years raisin crop was
brought into the city on Thursday by G.,
B. Adams, of the Alhambra tract. San
Gabriel. They are of good color and large
and plump. -[Los Angeles Express.
The Semi 7ropic says Cotton is to be the
chief railroad center of southern California
by the junction of the California Southern
and Carson, Nevada and Bodie Railroad
and the Topeka and Santa Fe, so as to make
Cotton the base for all action and transfer.
Professor George Davidson has just fir
iated the geodetic and astronomical work
on Mount Tamalpais. The party in his
charge will now prepare for work in New
Mexico. at the Transit of Venus station
Gerry Roblers-situated near Fort Seldeu.
about fifty miles from Ell Paso.
About all the grain in stack that got wet
during the late rains has now been thrasbed.
Mr.. Roberts, of Suffer county, had 5000
sacks of unthrashed grain exposed to the
wet. He lost 700 sacks. The damage to
thrashed grain in sacks, piled on the river
banks and elsewhere for shipment, has not
been great. Marysville Appeal.
We are told that on Tuesday last mug.
get weighing seventeen ounces was taken
from the Western claims in Newtown fiat
owned by the California Prospecting Com
pany, and that the result of one mans
work on that day was $500. The nugget
was broken in getting it out, one part
weighing thirteen ounces and the other
four. The company seem to have got on
the coarse gold lead, and they are likely to
find any quantity of the ore in a short
time.-[ Plumas National, October l4.h.
During the week we have talked with
several gentlemen from. Indian valley, and
from their reports conclude that the late
heavy rains have proved o very serious
damage to the farming interests over that
way. The late spring put the grain crop a
long ways behind, and the early frosts in.
jured it severely, and the storms, in many
cases, completed the destruction. H. Nc
Cutoheon and Jerry Evans are spoken of as
the heaviest losers, their grain baiDg in the
fields when the rain commenced. Nearly
all the ranchers suffered more or less, and
the outlook with them is not hattering. -
LPlumas National, October l4th.
We believe. that Nevada county can
boast of the largest people in the State.
Our reporter. while on his trip to the
mountains week or so ago, had the pleas
ure of meeting few of these people. We
are not exaggerating when we state that
there is girl in Columbia Hill, aged -
years, and who weighs 1881 pounds, She
is not tall, but is gracefully built, and has
very pleasant face. We saw this young
lady, and were informed by her parents as
to her age and weight. Near Moore's Flat
there is 6.year.o child who weighs LOG
pounds, and at Eureka there is Yong
man under 30 years of age who stands 6
feet inches in hight, and another man, at
the same place, whose foot measures is
inches. He is known as the big footed
Ditch-tender," and he seems to be proud OF
his cognomen. We were proud of him, for
we sat in front of Allison's Hotel, and the
sun was pouring down upon us, when the
big footed man took chair and sat beside
US, hoisted one OF his feet above our heads
and shielded US from the burning sun. As
that foot threw its protecting shadow all
around US, we realized what blessing j.
was to have big feet. -[Grass Valley lid.
ings,