Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-18
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

The Sequel paper mill has been shipping
paper to Salt Lake City.
Extensive prairie fires are reported in
the Mafias country, NJ. L.
The Oregon City woolen mills consume
i,s00 cords Of wood per year.
Fifty thousand cords of wood will be cut
this year in the vicinity OF Tfuckee.
Russian Jews will, it is said, COLOMBO or
Salt river, or the CHA river, in Arlz ma
The Coquille (0r loggers receive from
50 to SO per thousand for their white
cedar.
A movement ia fairly on foot to add
Smartsville, Yubs county, to Nevada
county.
Butte, Montana, claims to have ex.
pended 5000, 600 in building in the last six
months.
Columbia county tax is three mills less
than the tax of any other county in Wash.
ington Territory.
Four immigrant wagons reached Salem
last week. having been four months on the
road from Kansas.
The total tax proceeds of mines in Elko
county for the quarter ending June 80,
1857, was only S2S.
A great many wells are being dug in
Cheney, w. T., finding the best water at a
depth of IL to 80 feet.
Sixteen hundred tons of freight was
handled at the Cheney CIV. IT, freight
house during the month of July.
The total receipts of precious metals by
the banks of Salt Lake for the week end.
ing August 18th aggregate sll3. 375 81.
There is half acre of millet one mile
south of Goldendale, w. T., ON which the
product stands from three to four feet high.
There are 81 school districts in Walla
Walla county, W. T. The August appor.
tionment of the school fund amounted to
| 81, 2S2 65.
Timber culture is doing finely in the Big
Bend country, Washington Territory
locust and box. elder fiourishing in most in
stances the best.
There are 80 boys and Ill girls of school
age in Colfax w. I. school district. There
are % boys and 50 girls under years old
! in the came district.
A large fire is raging in the woods across
the river, about five miles south of
| Truckee. Several thousand cords of wood
belonging to Sisson, Croker & Co. are in
danger of being destroyed.
Over 1000, 600 grain sacks have been
cold by Stockton dealers the present sea.
son. On an estimate of fifteen sacks to a
ton, these sacks will hold 1873, 1881 tons of
wheat, and close observers think that every
sack will be filed.
General Tannatt and H. D. Chairman
! have examined site for new town three
miles west of Colfax, w. T., which will
be christened Plainfeld. The site is now
covered with waving grain, but as soon as
this is cut the grading and building will be
commenced.
The wheat yield of Umatilla county,
Oregon, far exceeds the expectations of the
most sanguine, both in the quality of the
grain and the yield. One fisld of wheat
near Centerville averaged SO bushels per
acre, and nearly all the fall.sown crops will
go from 30 to so bushels per acre.
The postal agent on the o. and G. r. R.
took into Portland, Or, last Monday the
largest mail ever carried over the road,
weighing over 1900 pounds, of which
6,63S pounds were taken from Roseburg.
The mails that pass over this road do not
vary much from three tons daily.
Hon. o. B. Iverson, of Snohomish conn.
ty, w. T., who was the advance agent of
the colony of Scandinayians who have SET
tied in that county, states that these new
settlers are getting along exceedingly yell
In that precinct, when he went there,
there were only p voters, and now it som.
prises two precincts with $50 voters. These
people came from Dakota, as they had
come previously from their native land, on
the representations of Mr.. Iverson. Many
of them have quite large farms in good
cultivation, and all have done we'll He
estimates that the property of soIae of
them is worth from 5000 to $40, 600 all
made out of the forests in the last six
i years