Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-25
COAST NEWS IN BRIEF.


Texas sheep men are in Anaheim, buy
ing largely.
Fire is raging in the Pittsburgcoal mines,
Someryille.
The assessment of ella county, A. T., is
81, ll9,946.
Wild geese are abundant on the Yellow.
stone river.
Los Angeles county has lab schools and
7,sO5 pupils,
A fire in the redwoods near Occidental,
Sonoma county, destroyed 81 900 or g, 900
in timber.
A grandson of the celebrated DR.. Guth.
RE, of Scotland, has recently purchased 500
acres of the William Hood ranch near
Healdsburg, Sonoma county.
The oat crop in the vicinity of STAN
wood, King county, w. T., this season will
measure up 49, bushels. This grain ia
grown on the diked lands.
The publishers Of Dakota, southeastern
Montana and northern Minnesota have or
ganized the Northern Press Association.
The object is to increase their news. getting
facilities
The water of the Carson river is so low
that wood drive, consisting of 900 cords,
will have to be left, it is thought, until the
river rises, which it is thought will not &C.
cur until late in the fall.
Prof ,ssor Walcott has shipped over two
tons of fossils from Eureka to Washington,
which he and his party have collected in
White Pine county. He says they CON-
prise over 400 different species.
IT, &ok,1
the city OF Oakland, exclusive OF personal
property not lien on real estate, is Sl9,-
1874. 500. The railroads in the city are as.
sessed at 1924, 500. The mortgages on city
real estate amount to S., 299, 932.
W. 7. Welcker, formerly Professor of
Mathematics in the State University, at
present the Democratic candidate for State
Superintendent of Instruction, has issued q
circular to the Alumni requesting their
votes at the coming election.
Vineyard planting was very lively last
winter IN northern Sonoma, about Heads.
burg and Clovsrdale. The new vineyards
mostly look well, but show great differ
ence as regards soil and care. Some were
set in unsuitable locations, and some are
overrun with weeds. But on the whole the
prospects are that three years from now
the wine yield of the region named will
astonish the statistieians.
The Los Angeles Erening Telegram. pub.
fishes an extended article on the wine in.
terests of Southern California, embracing
statistics from prominent vineyards within
radius of fifty miles of that city. The
article showed that this section will in.
crease its vintage this year,fully twenty
per cent. over last year, and that the price
for grapes and wine will enjoy CORE
spending increase at least from Is to 20 per
cent.
! Navigation in Stockton and Mormon
channels is getting to be difficult, says the
Stockton Mail. Last week a schooner of
forty.five tons and drawing four feet of
water tried to go up Mormon channel, and
succeeded in wallowing through the mud
by dint of five days perseverance and tax
ing advantage of the swell of the tide.
River men declare that if the dredger had
not been run there one could lay a plank
on the mud and walk across. This mud is
SO soft that pole can be run eight or ten
feet into it. The bottom of Stockton chan
mel is in places getting OH top of the water.
The greatest difficulty is that at the con.
! junction of the channel and of the river.
A bar has formed on the right side going
out which reaches half way across the
channel, making it very difficult to get out
or in.