Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-04-20
Gan Francisco Stock Sales.
SAN FRANCISCO. Apul ls. 1888:
AErERHooK srsstoN.
COAST AND STATE.

The annual meeting Of the State Sports.
mems Association will be held at San
Francisco on the 4.h of May. On the 5th
and 9th the Association will hold pigeon
shooting tournament.
The new Odd Fellows Hall at Wheat
land will be dedicated on the Goth instant.
d. NJ. Burns will be President of the day.
There will be a procession, poem, Grafton,
and grand ball in the evening.
The contractor for the canal on Governor
Stanford's Gerke ranch at Vina, fatty de-
nies the statement that he has discharged
his white laborers and employe Chinese.
He has seventy.fve white men, and but
one Chinaman, the cook.
The Hughes toll-road, extending from
North Columbia to the Backbone House,
in Bloomfield township, Nevada county,
was bought by the Supervisors for $500.
The original cost of constructing the road
was several thousand dollars,
From a Butte City man the Chico Record
has this story: NJ. Il. Albert, residing
near that place, fired into flock of geese
Thursday evening, while they were feeding
in one of his grain.felds. He had loaded
his gun heavily for just such an oppor-
tunity. 1t was an antique gun, with
bore like pint pot. Upon this occasion
it capped the climax of all it's murderous
achievements by slaughteTipg outright
about thirty five of the geese, wounding an
indefinite number, besides knocking its
owner senseless, and finally concluding its
own career of carnage by bursting into ten
thousand and odd pieces MIR. Albert did
not pick up his game, but it seems that one
of the ranch hands did pick him up, and
for some time little was thought OF the
geese until it was ascertained that Mr.. A.
himself was not really seriously hurt.
Never before in the history of quartz
mining in this section has the quartz inter-
ests assumed a more promising outlook
than at the present time. The number OF
quartz locations, as shown by the records,
are greater during the past year than at
any corresponding Que for more than de-
cade. Many of these locations have de-
veloped ledges paying from $40 to 500
per ton. As is to be expected in all min
ing enterprises, some OF the developments
have proved worthless, but the large pro-
portion of the ledges discovered have, by
mill tests, more than exceeded the expeo-
tations of the prospectors, and justified
them in erecting hoisting works and going
TO OlleF eAptlseS W piaSS siSlt HtiitoS upoh
dividend-paying basis.-[Nevada Trans
cript.
The Napa Register relates the following
Not long ago, when the grass was short in
the southern part of California, John Fin.
nell bought of Lankershim & Van Nuys, in
Los Angeles county, Ia 600 sheep at 81 per
head, giving his note therefor. Nine thou
sand of them he had driven to his broad
range in Tehama county. Some time after
he again visited Los Angeles to make ar
rangements for the transfer of the remain.
ing 5000. But in the meantime mutton
on foot had appreciated in value, and the
original owners of the sheep wanted to buy
back the remainder of the old flock.
"They are worth 50 so per head now,"
said the shrewd purchaser, '' but give me
credit on my note for 81, 900, and the 5000
sheep are yours" The terms were acceded
to, both parties to the trade were satisfied,
and now Mr.. Finnell is clipping from his
5000 sheep wool that will pay him 81 to
the fleece.