Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-08
COAST AND STATE.

are employed at the Los Angeles cannery. |
Montana stock. growers have, it ia esti- |
mated, cold about $500, 600 worth of cattle |
this year.
A large amount Of fruit and wine has
been shipped by the railroad this week
from Soaoma.
Byron Batemsn. = boy of Is, was recent.
ly drowned while bathing at Scott Bar,
Siskiyou county.
Thus far in this season eight steamers
have arrived in Montana, at the head OF
navigation On tine Yellowstone.
Hawthorne, New, is said to be so hot at
present that lizards have TO wear mecca
sins when crawling over the rocks.
It is reported at Victoria that forty
Cinnamon, ct work on the railroad near
Yale, were recently killed by landslide.
During the year which ended June Doth,
| 81, 0G0, 900 worth of lumber and $500, 900
worth of coal arrived at Wilmington har.
| Dor.
There is an old Mexican going about the
streets of Santa Rosa who is believed to be
los years old. In 1887, As years ago, he
was too old for any labor.
Hop agents in San Joaquin county are
offering farmers 35 cents pound for their
hops, with an advance of 500 per ton to
secure them at that figure.
There will be big crops of hay this sea.
son at Paradise valley, Quin river ard all
along the Humboldt At Paradise alone
over II, 900 tons will be cut.
Los Angeles ia preparing for district
fair this fall. Thirty.fvs hundred dollars
has been raised by subscription in the
county to aid the enterprise.
The 200 sparrows that were turned loose
in Salt Lake several years ago have multi.
piled to such an extent that they have their
haoitation in every tree and housetop in
Zion.
| The Santa Maria Mining Company, near
| the Arizona line, has been fined 81, 600 at
the Custom house at San Pedro for nom
compliance with the revenue laws of
] Mexico.
Work on the wagon road to the coast, in
Jackson county, Oregon, has commenced
in earnest, and the success of that enter.
prise is now assured. Over 100 white men
and Chinese are employed.
A company has been formed in Yamhill
and Polk counties, Oregon, for mining pur-
poses. Quartz containing considerable
1 IL
the coast range, near the source of the YAM
hill.
Thirty-fou canneries have been running
during the year on the Columbia river,
Oregon, and it is estimated that half
million cases have been packed. Last
| years pack was $50, 900 cases. Five new
canneries will be built next year.
The fax on the coast, in the neighbor.
hood CT Pescadero, is in splendid condi-
ton, and gives promise of big yield.
There are about $500 acres of land in that
vicinity sowed to flax, and the acreage is
increasing annually, as its proftableness is
developed.
The Star says that wine. making will
commence at st. Helena soon. The pros.
Pect for crop is excellent and there will,
undoubtedly, be more wine than last year.
In some parts of the county, where the
frosts were heavy, some effect will be felt
from this cause.
The Monterey Argus says a Spanish
family were last week going down the
mountain near the little Sur, and drove off
the grade, falling to the bottom of the can
yon, 200 feet. Both horses were killed and
the wagon was demolished, but the occu-
pants escaped without injury.
Farmers around Napa, according to the
Reporter, are generally holding on to their
new crop Of wheat and storing the same
for better prices. Some 5000 sacks have
been received on store in Sheehys ware
house, and some 200 more of wheat and
barley are on storage at the Napa mills.
The mining and shipping of chrome ore
from Placer county is becoming an impor.
tant industry. Large shipments are made
from Auburn regularly, the ore coming
from points on the Forest Hill and George
town divides; also a great deal is being
shipped from Colfax, being brought over
from what is known as Birthstone plains, a
few miles above Iowa Hill. The Smiley
1 brothers, we understand, are the principal
hshippers from the latter point. Chrome
Hdeposits not yet opened are known to exist
i'm other places in the county, Placer
Herald.
John Carlson, whose place is on the road
! Between Auburn AMI Forest Hill, built
4 thsh pond sometime ago and stocked it with
Eabout dozen carp, and friend who Wis.
fitted it few days ago informs us that the
tlncrease already amounts to thousands.
MIR. Carlson's success thus far exceeds his
most sanguine expectations, and is fiat
tering encouragement to the many resi-.
dents OF Placer who have suitable locations
and conveniences for the construction of
fish ponds, to go into the business. There
is pleasure and profit in the pursuit of fish
culture, and as an auxiliary to Embarrassing
and other industries of the foothills, If
properly encouraged, is bound to become
an important business.-[Placer Herald.
II The time has come when it is absolutely
necessary for the people of Colusa to take
steps to have the town connected with the
railroad system OF the United States,
Since there is railroad sixty miles long
now running through the county, it is an
outrage to ask people to come to county
seat here without supplying the usual
mode of conveyance. The people of the
town can afford to take the stock and own
the road. Mr.. Potts says if they will
build one due west he will donate 40 acres
Of land, and we have heard several other
gentlemen in that neighborhood propose to
; donate. Ii we 60 to the town of Williams
the people there will help. The whole
] business can be done for $4,000. When
1t is done one-half the cost of stage line
viii RUIZ it, and everybody must know that
it would do more than double the business
that any stage has ever done yet. The
stock in company, with half the cost of
the road in debt, would be worth more
than par. If company was made up of
the people of Colusa and Williams. with
capital stock of 100000, and 25 or 80 per
cent. paid in, there would be no trouble in
borrowing the balance at, say, per cent,
The interest account would then be only
about 81, 600 year, and there would be no
danger in the world Of its not being paid.