Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-05-26

The telephone wire is now completed
from BidwelPs Bridge to Prattville, Plu.
mas county.
A number of new and valuable strikes
have been made in the neighborhood of
Prescott, and the Democrat is encouraged
to believe that a big mining boom for that
section is one of the possibilities of the
near future. A rapid development of the
mines seems to be expected all over the
Territory, and corresponding advent of
capital and enterprise is looked for. In
deed, the mining prospects of Arizona
were never on safer basis, or one that
promised better results in spite Of all the
drawbacks we have had to encounter
fArizona Star.
A Pajaro man, in Santa Cruz county,
went home the other day and found his
cow pulled up like an angry hop.toad.
Several remedies had been tried on the cow
before the arrival of the owner, but to no
good purpose. Her speedy death was
prophesied, and would no doubt have taken
place had not her owner cast his eye upon
a piece of three. quarter. rubber hose.
He grasped that hose, smoothed and creased
the end of it, pushed it down the cows
throat as far SIS her first stomach, and that
bloated COW Immediately COLLAPSED to her
natural size. The bloat gas escaped through
the hose and the COW escaped death. =.
The Winnemucca Silver State says that
Naches, the Piute chief, is in town. He
SAYS the Indians have received news OF
troubles among the Bannacks and Sho-
shones. He says two parties of Bannacks
were out hunting and had fight in the
night, mistaking each other for enemies.
Two men were killed, and their scalps
were brought to Duck valley, where the
Indians held q war-dance. Some white
men who saw the performance, and not
understanding its meaning, reported that
the reservation Indians were going on the
war-path. General Kelton wants Matches
to 90 to Duck valley and ascertain the
cause of the rumored troubles, but as no
provision was made for paying his expenses
he cannot well go.
Nevada Herald. There was found in the
China diggings at Moore's Flat, on Sum-
day, quartz bowlder weighing eighty
five pounds, which, our informant says, is
quite curiosity. The rock is egg-shaped,
and extending nearly around the center of
it is band of gold leaf. The band is not
regular in size, in some places being nearly
an inch wide and in others reduced almost
to thread. The bowlder looks as though
it had been rolled over q large streak of gold
and some of the precious metal had ad-
hered to it. Whether the gold extends
through the rock is not known, as it has
not yet been broken open. Several who
have viewed the specimen estimate that
there are ten pounds of gold in it, but this
is mere guess-work.
Saline valley is one of the most remark
able places among the most remarkable on
the coast. If the lofty intervening Inyo
range were out of the way it would not
exceed fifteen miles distance from this,
Owens valley. Yet it undoubtedly lies at
one or two thousand feet lower altitude
1t is simply an immense basin, say twelve
by twenty five miles in size, in the earth,
surrounded on all sides with great mount.
aims. At it's lowest point of depression,
Immediately at the foot of the Inyo range,
is found some l 200 acres of pure salt
millions of tons of it, glistening like crusted
snow. Bordering on this on all sides, ex.
cept the west, comes miles square of sandy,
dusty lands, caustic with slkali, borax, or
some similar deposits, aud presumed to be
valuable on account of the same. On the
opposite or western side is found strip of
rich, alluvial lands, one by three miles,
perhaps, in extent, affording fair grazing
throughout, a good portion of it being
nutritious swamp grasses.-[Inyo hide
pendent.