Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-13
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COAST AED STATE.

The Arizona barley crop this season will
be the largest for many years.
There is said to be company of 500 i'm.
migrants en- route from Ohio to Wasco
county, Oregon.
Messrs. Tisdall and Harvey recently
planted 1850 trout in the small stream
emptying into Los Gatos.
A real live devil-fish, with tentaclea
nearly two feet in length, was caught last
Tuesday off Harbor View.
A grandexcursion to chihuahua will be
INDUCED in as soon as the Mexican Central
road is completed to that place.
Subscriptions to the fund for the bene.
fit of the niece of the Alta hero, Callahan,
promise to be liberal. She is at the Or
phans' Home, Virginia City.
They are again talking of building a rail.
road to connect Pl1mas with the outside
world. 1t is said that q new route has
been found from the Sacramento into the
mountains to Greenville and Plumas.
A lady living near San Andreas, the
other day, filled a syrup can with water,
screwed the lid on tight, and SCI it on the
stove. Of course the steam soon burst
the can, and the lady was badly scaled
by the hot water, which few all over her.
The Sulphur Spring valley, which rises
in Arizona, drains its waterfiow into the
Yaquie river In Sonora, while the San
Simon rises In Sonora and carries its waters
INTO the ella river near Solomonville. A
range Of mountains separates these two
valleys, and at some points they are more
than fifteen miles apart.
The Veterans Home Association has been
offered by ten citizens of Stockton the do.
nation of 236 acres of rich alluvial land, in
a state of high cultivation, provided the
home is located there. The tract is located
within two miles of Stockton, and is repre-
sented worth 500 per acre. The PROPOSE.
ton will be laid before the Executive Com.
mittee at meeting to be held shortly.
Farmers about Petaluma are in the midst
of haying. The crop, though below the
average, is OF excellent quality, and will
be more than abundant for home use. The
cool, foggy weather that has prevailed for
several weeks has brought forward the
grain crop finely, and more than average
yield can now be counted upon with safety.
Fruit of almost all kinds will be abundant.
For want of cannery, large quantities of
fruit are being shipped to other points.
At Klamath river four companies are
under full Roadway in taking out pay
gravel, and all the others are crowding
along preparations to commence soon. The
Kanaka, Lime Gulch and Mcconnell com.
panies have their derricks in operation, and
the Fort Jones is almost ready, only re-
quiring the sluices to be made, which are
probably finished by this time. The Cen.
tennial, Empire Bar, Mott & Co. and other
companies are engaged on their wing. dams,
and by the time the water recedes to low.
water mark they will be prepared to put in
head dams and start their derricks.-
Yreka Journal.
According to the Tacoma Ledger, civil
engineer Triton Sheets is organizing. party
of Northern Pacific surveyors, which will
leave the Kalama-Tacoma railroad at South
Prairie and strike out for the Green river
passes, one of which is favored by the Chief
Engineer above all the Cascade passes ex.
plored. His party will be complete in
every respect and fully equipped for in.
strumental work. The object Of the expe
dition under Mr.. Sheets is to make def
mite location of the line of the Cascade
division in the direction of the Garfield
pass, which is one of the Green river passes.
and his line will extend to the mountains.
On the eastern side Engineer Ward will be
engaged In similar work, definitely locating
from the mountains eastward to Ainsworth.
thus leaving the location of the mountain
portion OF the line through Garfield pass
for other parties.