Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-16
ALONG THE PACIFIC COAST.
Business in Auburn continues good.

Business in Auburn continues good.
The almond trees are in blossom at Au-
burn.
Sheep are reported as doing better this
winter than last on Coast mountain ranches.
Tombstone has new social club which
boasts of fine rooms and 81 600 billiard
table.
The telephone line between Cotton and
San Bernardino is to be extended to Red.
lands.
A countryman at Tuaxpan, Mexico,
found SlI, 600 in gold coin at the foot of a
tree on his farm.
The Greenville Bulletin anticipates a
building boom in that burg as soon as the
snows of winter disappear.
The United States Circuit Court will
convene in Carson on Monday, the Goth,
Judge Lorenzo Sawyer presiding.
Cacheville farmers are still keeping a
firm grip on their wheat There are still
stored there from $500 to 5000 tons of
grain.
Jack Billings has found some very good
pay gravel in the diggings at Sebastopol.
He has taken out as high as $50 day, two
men working. -[Downieville Messenger.
Fish Commissioner Redding gives notice
that he will have no young carp for distri.
button until next fall. There is great de-
mand for carp from all parts of the State.
Several new hop fields will be set out
this spring in Dry Creek and Russian River
valleys, near Healdsburg, and old hop
raisers are preparing to enlarge their fields.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company
contemplates making considerable i'm
provements along the water front of Mis-
sion bay to the southwark OF Channel
creek.
The various waterfalls in the Yosemite
Valley look grand just now. Immense
icebergs have formed, and the views are
even more grand than during the summer
season.
1t is said that the apricot crop was
slightly damaged in Pleasant valley, FL
Dorado county, by the late frosts, but
lower down in the valley the prospect is
very fattering.
The road between Downieville and Good
year is mostly filed with mud and snow,
and, at points, the rocks and dirt have
tumbled down, much to the annoyance of
those who pass over it with wagons.
Mrs. Schooner, wife of the foreman of
tie furniture shop at San Quentin, who a
few days ago was struck several times on
the head with Ratchet by Chinaman.
trusty allowed to work In her house in
the capacity of a servant, is reported to be
convalescent.
An Austrian named Zellan shot himself
at the Blue Gravel mine, Sierra county,
the other day. He was left-handed, and
SO held the pistol to his breast at such an
angle that the bullet glanced and went
around the body instead of penetrating the
chest, and he will recover.
1t is stated in Elko, says the Independ.
ent, upon good authority, that work upon
the Grand Prize and Argenta mines, of
Tuscarora, is soon to be resumed. If this
is correct, new life will be infused into the
business of that camp, and prosperous
season for that section will be assured.
The wine interests on the outskirts of
Concord and Clayton will be quite produc-
tive the coming season. No better evil
dence Of this growing industry can be given
coo vines have been planted in the above
named vicinities. -[Concord Sun.
Another evidence of our "glorious eli
mate exists in Alameda in the shape of
ripe red apple now hanging to an astrakhan
apple tree in the garden of Mrs. Tucker,
on Central avenue. 1t has braved the eau.
tu1nn gales and wintry blasts" and bids
fair to hang on till the blossoms come.
The valley of the Muddy river, in Lin
coin county, New, is well adapted to grow
ing cotton. On the Virgin river, a tribu-
tary of the Muddy, it does well. All the
cotton fabrics worn by settlers on the Vir-
gin river are woven by the st. George
mill, from cotton raised by the farmers
themselves.
The Napa Reporter says Information
has been received by proper authorities
that several parties of Vacaville, others of
Sonoma valley, one of Napa, and tne or
two of Winters, have been running deer
with hounds lately. An investigation is
on foot, and subsequent proceedings" may
be of great deal of interest to those en-.
gagged in this outrage.
a Comstocker has posted notice on
Springs, claiming that outcrop
of steam and hot water as silver lead in
process of formation. He does not intend
doing anything with it at present. He cal
culates, however, that it will be ripe and
Fl: to work in 100000 years from the
present date. He says he shall not disturb
the present holders of the property until
his lode is thoroughly matured.
The county of Mendocino produces
large amount of lumber. The late rains
brought the much-needed freshet for carry
ing the logs down the various streams. On
the Big river they got down 5000 logs.
On the Albion they have 10000 in the
boom, 5000 at the head of tidewater. and
u, 900 scattered along the river above. At
Caspar they have got down nearly all their
logs by means OF sluicing, which the rise
of the creek made practicable. On Little
river all the logs were not brought down,
on account OF the breaking of one of the
dams. At Navarro they got down 5000
logs.