Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-23
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Irri cation canals are attracting consider
able attention in Merced county.
Phoenix, A. T., is to have a swimming
bath with rock sides, 100 feet square.
The diamond fields around Cherokee, in
Butte county, are attracting renewed at.
tention.
Virginia City has begun to weed out its
hocdlums and has sent number of them
to Jail.
A shark lies stranded on Stinson's beach
in Bolinas, which measures 2S feet 4 inches
in length.
All the Pinal county, A. T., indebted
ness, with the exception of about 5000,
will be paid off by the first of January.
Flour. is being shipped by teams from
Humboldt and Winnemucca to Silver City,
Idaho, where 1t "a sold at Sl3 so per bar.
rel.
Ripe, rich raspberries are growing ont in
the open air in Eureka, and an apple tree
which bore good crop of apples this fall
is now in full bloom.
Attachments agzregating about $40, GOO
were levied few days ago upon the prop
erty OF Jesse n. Summers, hitherto con.
sidered the wealthiest man in Mono county.
On last Sunday ], 100 head Of cattle
passed Reno for San Francisco. For the
past SIX weeks cattle have been shipped
out of Nevada at the rate of 5000 per
week. There are still 20, 600 head to be
shipped.
The Piutes cut about Austin, New, are
turning their attention to the manufacture
of buckskin kid gloves. the gloves are
Alu nl- II. r
their own tanning, and the gloves are
trimmed with the fur OF beaver trapped On
the Humboldt.
The Petaluma Argus says: "Thomas
ShsrTy, whose farm is near the old race
track, two miles west Of this city, has left
at the Argus Office sheaves of grain
wheat, barley and oats--fully heai ed out.
This ia the result Of second growth, and
the stocks ara from two to two and half
feet long, just think of grain headed cut
before Christmas
The venerable Father Walker and wife
celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their
marriage at Guernevills on Saturday, De-
cember 9th, by reunion of the entire fam.
lily. Over twenty were present. Four
generations were present, and a merry
time was enjoyed by all. Mr. Walker is
S. years of age and his wife is 70. They
have been living in Sonoma county since
1858.
While Thomas Belts of Flatwoods, w.
T., was fcrding Salmon Creek on Sunday
with two-horse wagon, in which were his
wife and two other persons, the wagon
was upset In the middle of the stream.
Mrs. Belts, after floating some distance,
caught willow branch. Her husband
struggled to within an arms length of her,
when the limb broke and she was carried
beyond help and drowned.
New, was a defaulter to tbe amount of
s.. 00o. The county brought suit soma
two or three years ago to recover the
amount from bis bondsmen. The suit was
not pressed to trial, aad last week the
bondsmen rendered the Board of Com.
missioners 81, 600 as full payment of the
amount for which they are responsible.
The Commissioners accepted the tender
aud released the bondsmen frcm their obli
cations.
A little over thirty years ago, California
was the principal mining field in the United
States. About ten years later Nevada be-
gan to be developed, and for a time was
the most important section for this indus.
try in the country. At the lapse of an.
other decade Colorado began to show up,
and since then has became more import
ant field than either California or Nevada
are to-day. Since then Arizona, Dakota
and Utah have developed bullion produc.
ing qualities Of no mean order. Idaho ard
Montana are also showing up more metal.
bearing properties year after year. Both
these Territories will do better still when
more thoroughly opened with railroads.
Lower Californis, New Mexico and Mexico
are promising metal fields, and the returns
from each this year will show an increased
product of bullion. The possibilities of
that section can hardly be estimated.
American railroads and American capital
will soon demonstrate some of these prob.
lens. Even Alaska has attracted consid.
erable attention this year. A prospecting
party is now supposed to be going through
that Territory. and many claims have al.
ready been located.