Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-12
COAST AND STATE.

An opera house is under construction at
Haley, Wood river. The building will be
80 by l20 feet, and two stories high. A
troupe of twenty-five performers is being
organized TO open the season.
Near Beckwith the young grasshoppers
have Matched out and are very thick the
people are much discouraged. and fear that
this years crop will be ruined. This is
the sixth successive year that the pests
have devastated this unfortunate valley.
A Saint, who has counted them, says
there are fifty-three old women in Salt
Lake who are haoitual drunkards, and not
day passes but a number of them can be
seen staggering through the streets Of
Zion. As they are ali old members of the
Mormon Church, comment is unnecess.
sary.
A Vallejo Yosemite party left that place
Tuesday morning about half.past 6, on their
camping trip through Yosemite valley
There were about twenty.s six persons in the
party, and two stage coaches from Calls
toga were used to convey them covered
wagon was taken along to be used as the
commissary department.
The following item is from the Riverside
Press. In May, 1880, A. p Johnson
planted 1000 Muscat grape cuttings in
vineyard form, and in the fall of 1881 he
put up from these 2. 1000 young vines fifty
boxes Of raisins, worth 81 per box, while
the lowest estimate for yield for the pres.
emit season is 800 boxes of raisins, worth
$780,
The coal oil refneries at Alameda Point
are turning out go barrels of refined oil,
or 200 cases, per day. Fifty barrels of
the crude oil are furnished by the wells in
| the Santa Cruz mountains, 10 barrels
come from the wells in the San Fernando
range, and the remaining thirty or forty
barrels required daily are from points near
Los Angeles.
The wool clip of Jackson county, Or,
will be somewhat less this spring than last,
as many sheep were sold and driven out
of the country last season. A large num-
Der have been sold this spring also but
most of them were sheared before being
driven away. The wool is rather cleaner,
and therefore of better grade than usual.
Sales have been 80 few as yet that prices
are not fixed.
A good ledge of ore has been struck in
the Jackson mile at Willow valley, owned
by D. and c. Ebaugh. They ran about
500 feet of tunnel and sunk two or three
shafts before finding the pay chute, but the
prospects now are they will soon take ont
enough gold to pay for all their labor and
| perseverance,. Backs of 260 feet can be
obtained, the tunnel draining the ground to
that depth. a within is about to be put up
by the owners Nevada Transcript.
The Vallejo Chronicle SAYS: The Score.
tary of the Navy, in reply to letter re-
Gently written to him by citizen of Val.
lejo, asking if some arrangements would
not be made shortly to dispose of the con.
demned machinery and iron at Mare Isl.
and, as he desired to purchase portion OF
it, stated that it would not be sold. as il
was the intention of the department to
establish rolling mill at Mare Island, and
then all the condemned material could be
worked up without loss to the Govern.
| ment.
The Silcer State tNevada) says: R. w.
Lewis, who has just returned from a tour
in the southern part of the county and
northern Churchill, informs US that there
are myriads of crickets down about Sho.
shone Pass on the old Austin road. They
devour everything in the shape of vegeta.
ton in .hei= path. They travel north
about a mile day, and leave no vestige OF
vegetation behini them. M. E. Bushee
has drove of hogs which he proposes
driving down the valley to fight the crick-
cts, and he hopes by this means to change
their line of march, so that they cannot
do SO much damage rs by coming up Pleas.
ant valley.
Frank Dickinson is in from his Winnie.
mucca valley ranch. He says the crop
prospechwas never better than now. Mr..
dickinson says the farmers in his section
will have better crops than for years past.
MIR. Lemons, from Peavine, is in high
spirits over the outlook. His crop OF hay
and grain promises better return than
ever before. He has twelve acres of rye
already in the head. 1t was sown last fall
and has not been touched since. He thinks
that all the sagebrush land in this ssction
would grow good crops of rye if seeded in
the fall, without water. The last rain
came in time to save the crop. Had it not
been for that not over half the usual crop
of hay or grain could have been raised.
Long valley farmers are also in high glee
over the looks of their grain fields. The
hay and grain crops ON the Truckee mead
ows are looking splendidly-never better.
Farmers generally do not apprehend any
serious trouble from the grasshopper pest.
So, take it all in all, our husbandmen are
prospecting, and are sure to realize good
results from this years labor.J{Reno Ga.
zette.