Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-14
COAST AND arArR


fruit dryer and oannery is about TO be
built at Walla Walla.
A ledge Of excellent coal has been dis.
covered near Santa Rosa.
The farmers warehouse at Albany, Or,
VIII afford storage for 10000 bushels Of
grain.
The wheat crop Of Nspa county for the
present year is estimated at 5000 cen
tails, on $4,000 acres.
The rainfall from the LIST of january tc
the LIST OF August at WaIla Walla thi,
year was 1000 inches.
The brick work on the new Baptist col
iege at McMinnville, Or, has been complet
ed. The structure when completed will bs
quite an imposing one.
A MIR. Farnsworth, while working in the
woods near Petrolio, came near being
Killed by sawlog. He was trying t.
roi. one out OF jam, when one farther III
started down toward him and he only
saved himself by falling between the two
other logs. The log in passing over him
hurt his shoulder, side, left leg and foot.
The entries in the Walla Walla Lane
Office, for the year ending June Both, was al
follows: Homestead. 80, 925 acres tim
Der culture, AZ, sol acres cash entries, As,
9l3 acres; presumption, 80, 300 acres
final homestead, S,6Ol acres; total, 2O9, 24(
acres. Whole number of entries of all
kinds, l,497. The largest in any one
month was in May, when the aggregate
was in round numbers. SO, 600 acres. The
land district contains l4l townships.
George A. Evans has an S0.acre field Of
corn that is hard to beat. The stalks are
tall, ears long and blades broad, denoting
thrift. The field is highly cultivated, not
q weed to be seen. 1t is vet perfectly
green and will give heavy yield. Farm.
ers are adopting this method of resting
their land instead of summer following,
claiming that they can get corn crop and
then wheat will follow It with as heavy a
yield as faliow ground will produce.
tWalla Walla Union.
The Mendocino Beacon says: son the
road between Comptche and Mendocino,
the other day, one of the horses attached
to the stage became balky, and would not
60. at last. at the suggestion of three of
the passengers, the borse's tail was tied to
the whifiietree behind it. A marvellous
change was wrought. and it became obedi.
INV oSiofo tuis tnS morse mad been tied
by the mouth to what was before it, but it
was insufficient. When tied from behind.
however, either fear Or imagination or some
other cause operated upon it so that it gave
no trouble. We should think that it was
Imagination, for the reason that the string
which fastened the tail to the whiffletree
broke; yet on it went. seemingly uncop.
scious of the situation"
|. Mira. ]. burlington, of Green Valley. has
sent the argus fair sample of her efforts
In silk-worm raising, consisting Of twelve
cocoons-six males and six females. 1t
is easy to distinguish the sex, as the fe.
male is larger, plumper, and nearer round.
She has about 10000 this year, and has
been offered 50 per pound for the lot. An
expert from the California Silk Manufsct.
uring Company has examined these cocoons
and pronounced them the most perfect in
every respect that he had ever seen in any
country. 1t is certain that this industry
can be made profitable and of considerable
magnitude in this county, and particularly
in Green Valley, where the Matching NAV
be done in the open air. and where the
natural food for the worms may be raised
with little trouble. Petaluma Argus.