Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-25
COAST AND STATE.

| Improvements are constantly being made
in town by our enterprising populace. AL
most every house on Main street has had
| its appearance improved by coat OF paint
within the last month.-[San Andreas
Prospect.
A citizen of Santa Rosa early in October
last packed several punches of grapes in
sawdust, and did not open them again till
the day after Christmas, when they were
found to be as plump and uniDjured as the
day of packing.
The genial driver of the San Andreas
stage drove into town the other night with
his lines in one hand and double. barrelled
shotgun in the other. Quails, of course ;
there are no stage robberies in Tuolumne.
-ESonora Democrat.
An Indian squaw, stopping at the ranch
eria on the Ord ranch, had four children at
one birth, on the 9th of last month. The
mother and her little ones went up tn
road last Saturday, where the members of
her tribe intended to give her grand re-
ception. -[Gridley Herald.
The cultivation of the cassava root is
attracting the attention of California farm
ers. 1t is said to be more profitable to grow
csssava than corn. Cassava hourishes in
moist bottom land. It is grown for the
purpose of furnishing glucose, substance
now extensively used in the manufacture
of beer and as substitute for honey and
sugar. The figures given are as follows
Corn yields thirty pounds of glucose to the
bushel; cassava yields about the same
amount per bushel. But corn crop ranges
from thirty to sixty bushels to the acre,
while cassava crop is often twenty tons.
So the yield of glucose from an acre of cas-
sava would be nearly ten times greater
than from an acre of corn. The quality is
superior. Marysville Appeal.
Some years ago number Of people living
in this part of the county planted part of
their land with grapevines. In no instance
that we have heard of did each fail to get a
good crop. But there was no market,
either for grapes, wine or brandy. In a
short time the ground was put to other
uses and the vines rooted up. But within
the past two years grapes have been the
most profitable crop that could be raised
in this part of the county. The ground
seems to be especially adapted to this pro.
duction, and now that ready market ex-
lists for every pound of grapes that can be
raised, grape land is becoming valuable and
is being sought after. Sill there are thou
sands OF acres of as good grape lands as the
sun shines upon within ten miles Of Oroville
that can be had for from S5 to SIS pei
acre, and some that costs little more thar
Government prices.-[Oroville Mercury.
One of the results of the high wind ol
last week was the destruction of the
famous "Gold of Ophir rose-tree growing
upon the farm OF Mr.. Maddox, of Greer
Valley. 1t had more than State reputa
ton, paragraphs concerning it having sew
eral years ago gone the rounds of the
Eastern press. The stem was twenty.sis
inches in circumference, and the shrut
itself had grown over and around an oak
| fifty feet high, only stopping in its upward
progress from lack of something to climf
upon. When in full bloom moth
ing could be seen but mass of golden
flowers, forming an object of almost indie
scribable beauty and splendor. It was. as
may well be supposed, the pride of itl
owner, who, when once before strong
wind partially uprooted the supporting
oak, went to considerable expense to restorl
it to its upright position. But the recen
injury was irremediable, and lovers of 4h,
beautiful in nature have to regret the los
of one of the loveliest specimens of he
handiwork.-[Sonoma Democrat.