Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-04-04
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The Central Pacific Railroad Company is
setting out locust trees on the depot grounds
at Pleasanton and Livermore. The trees
are large, being ten feet in height, and will,
therefore. soon make dense shade. Five
hundred trees will soon be planted at each
town.
Salmon are now reaching Napa, although
the catch is not as great IS it will be few
weeks later. Salmon are caught quite
freely in Napa bay, one fisherman, Friday
morning, taking about twenty large fish out
of the water in the course OF the mornings
fishing.
The Marin County Water Company is
giving notice to it's San Rafael consumers
that they must economic in the consump-
ton of water. The indications are that the
reservoir on Tamalpais will be run very
low before the season is over, and the COM
pany has not the funds to bring in a larger
supply.
Thee business in Northern California
and Oregon is in fourishing condition at
present, prices being higher than for
number of years past, and ranging at an
average CT SIT 80 and SIS per head for
stock cattle, and 6 cents per pound for
beef on foot, which would bring S35 to $40
for good steer.
butchers at Fresno, the other day, one of
them killed and dressed sheep in five min
utes and twenty seconds, and beef in ten
minutes and twenty seconds. Another
butcher who was present. but not one of
the competitors, killed and dressed sheep
in three minutes and twelve seconds.
The old Pacific Mail steamship Alaska is
being prepared for new commission. She
is to be taken to Acapulco to replace the
hulk of the old Moses Taylor, which has
been moved in the harbor at that port, and
used as store hulk until she has rotted in
the service. The Alaska has had all I'M
necessary machinery taken out and is being
recoppered.
The sawmill at Ainsworth has 5000, 600
feet of logs on hand to cut, from the va.
kima region. When they are worked mp,
which will not be for several months, the
mill will be moved to Missoula, $50 miles
northeast of Ainsworth, on the line Of the
Northern Pacific. The Ainsworth mill is
the largest of its kind in eastern Washing.
ton Territory.
The Virginia City Enterprise says quite
a number of miners will this spring leave
to prospect in the region of country into
which the Carson and Colorado Railroad is
being advanced. There are vast areas
that have never been explored since the
early days, and then most of the prospect
ing was done by men who rode through
the country on horseback, breaking off
piece of rock here aud there, and picking
up bit of float quartz occasionally in
fat, canyon, or other place where it was
good travelling.
We learn that on the 20th ult.. on Orcas
island, one Jeffries, of Walden island, was
shot and killed by Mr.. Brown, the black
smith on Orcas. The cause of the shooting
seemed to have arisen over a dispute about
bill. Mr.. Fry, Justice of the Peace on
Orcas, proceeded to try the case in full
detail, with powers and jurisdiction of a
District Court, by summoning jury, who
after hearing all the evidence, acquitted
Brown, although a Coroner's jury had pre-
viously found that Jeffries came to his
death at Browns hands, Port Townsend
Argus
There will be a far greater acreage Of
ground cultivated in Wasco county, Or,
this year than formerly. Ranchers find
that there is not enough grain raised TO
supply the home demand, and that when
oats are worth 70 cents per bushel it pays
to grub out sage. brush land at cost of SO
per acre. There are hundreds of acres
along Ochoco and Crooked rivers, as well
as the foothills, that will yield from % to
40 bushels per acre the first season after
grubbing, and farmers do not consult their
best interests in allowing such lands 70 re-
main in a virgin state.
From Sonoma the news comes that
novel experiment is being tried on the
Yulupa farm in Bennett valley by the pre-.
prietor, Mr.. De Turk. He is now setting
out = 600 olive cuttings. The cuttings are
about fourteen inches in length and one
inch in diameter. They are set on end in
trenches about foot apart and are COW
cred with soil, the top Of the cuttings being
an inch below the surface. They are left
in this position two or three years. Within
this time roots will strike and they will be
ready for transplanting. If these cuttings
succeed it is the intention of Mr.. De Turk
to set them around about the outer lines of
his large vineyard.