Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-27
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
ranges will ripen about Christmas.

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300 barrels day.
Seven divorce cases are pending in the
Dillon, M. T., Court.
The Wellington. B. c., colliers are turning
out 400 tons of coal daily.
The new railroad depot at Missouls, M. T.,
cost little less than Sl5, ,O00
Red Bluff is anticipating busy days in the
erection of round-house, machine shops, etc.
T~en.y-one shipwrights have been laid of
at Mare Island on account of a lack OF fund.-
Eggs bring 81 % per dozen in Maiden, M.
T., and the supply is not equal to the de-
msnd.
The School Trustees at Dixon have closed
the schools for q week on account OF dlphthe-
ria.
Merced farmers are preparing TO plant the
largest area in wheat ever seeded IN that
county.
BUYERS of oranges are now in the Los An
geles market for purchase of the new crop for
shipment
Business in the mining town of Total
Wreck, Pima county, A. T., is appropriately
described by its name.
A carload of beer is on the steamship Ore
gon, on its way to San Francisco, shipped
from the East via Portland.
The Independent says Santa Barbara has
hundreds of thousands of cattle, and one
can get no butter for love or money.
Five and half miles of the Arizona Mar
row-gauge Railroad are now graded. The
road will run to Globe from Prescott.
The tails of fourteen horses belonging to
the Los Angeles City Railroad were shaved
the other night by some unknown party.
The Victoria (B. c. CoIonist estimates the
present population of Victoria at 5000, an
increase Of $500 in eighteen months.
Wood is measured in Arizona by the burro
load instead of by the cord. Mesquite
stove wood sells at four bits burro load"
Santa Rosa calls the attention of Petaluma
to pumpkin weighing "A pounds, and chal-
lenges the rival city to produce larger one.
G. Groezinger, of Yountville, has picked
this year sixty-nine tons of grapes from
small trisngular-shaped tract, containing
1853 vines.
Last year the oil wells of the State yielded
over 3, 900, 900 gallons OF oil. The prospect
is that this year the yield will double that
amount.
There are only about 300 Chinese in San
Diego and vicinity at present. Last year
there were over 1000, many of them railroad
employees.
Last week Mexican killed sixteen deer
and six Rocky Mountain sheep on the south
ern slopes of the Santa Catalinas, right in
sight of Tucson.
It is reported ct Victoria, B. c., that an
abandonment of the mail service via San
Francisco is contemplated, and daily mail
via Puget Sound substituted.
Portions of the skeleton of an infant were
found in the Central Consolidated shaft at
Tuscarors, New, last week. The shaft had
not been used for several years.
News has reached Astoria of the death of
Ca-Ts.Ta once Chief of the Clatsop Indians.
He had the reputation of always being friend
ly to the early immigrants and helping them
in many ways.
The remains of Captain II. H. Pierce, of
the Twenty first United States Infantry, who
died at the mouth of Foster creek, w. T.,
some months since, have been removed and
buried st Fort Spokane.
An insane man named William Cissna was
captured in the hills about seven miles north
of Vacaville. on Monday last, by A. Case
and officer Wells. Cissna had been terror
in the neighborhood for some time.
A party of hunters from the Austin and
Butte mountains went up to the sink of the
Humboldt last week and killed over q thou
sand ducks, geese and pelicsns. They re.
ported Pyramid lake as alive with water
fowl.
On Wednesday last Humboldt Bay was
visited by an unusually high tide, the highest |
known for many months. Driftwood and |
logs opposite the Courthouse were set sfoat, |
and sticks, blocks and refuse stuff we're swept |
over towards Arcats.
While Captains Niles and Jenks were out |
eide the heads at San Diego with the Rest |
less, last Monday, watching for the arrival of |
d. i, - l.
school of immense-sizsd whales near La Jolla, |
and found some difficulty in keeping out of
their way.
The Ukiah Dispatch Democrat thinks the
only proper route for a railroad outlet to
Humboldt county is by way of Ukiah, Santa
Rosa and Petaluma to Tiburcn, which would
place the people and the products of Mendo- |
cino county at the very door of San Fran |
cisco.
It is understood at Butte that the Utah & |
Northern Railroad Company has definitely |
settled upon building their transfer and de- |
pot building at the mouth of the Little !
Blackfoot-the junction of the two roads
and not at Garrison. The buildings are to be |
erected at once.
A living specimen of Rocky Mountain
goat, or ibex, was recently purchased by
Dillon parties from an Indian, who caught it
in the mountains near Big Hole. The ami
NAL is about the size and shape of domestic
goat, and is covered with fine, long fleece,
reaching to its knees.
A girl, writing from Mormon settlement
in Nevada, says: Brother Wsdsworth is
preparing for cold weather. He brought up
from lower Utah another one of his wives,
and now has both women within the village. |
A woman to hug up before and another to |
hug up behind is very comfortable thing |
in winter. 1 wish 1 was man."
Governor Stanford's vineyard at Vins is |
the largest on the coast, it embracing 0,000 |
acres. The vineyard is irrigated by waters |
from Deer creek. The grapes raised are all |
of the wine-making species. The leading |
varieties are Berger, Zinfandel Chartoneen, |
Blanvela and Trosseau. There is winery |
on the place. but the grapes are all to be |
shipped to San Francisco the present season. |
During this season 26, 900. 900 bricks have
been used in buildings in Salt Lake City. |
The total production Of the yards aggregates |
about "a. 000 00e, leaving 5000, 900 to carry |
over to next spring, which is four times
larger than the amount carried over last |
winter. The price of brick has ranged from |
81 to S25 per 1000, the latter for extra 6ne |
pressed.
When a Carson valley (Nev.) dairymsn
was confronted by the Assessor last summer |
for statement of his property it was no.
ticed that the list contained but two COWS. |
The officer thought this strange, and asked |
the dairyman how much milk he WAS selling. |
About hundred gallons day." was the
answer "You see l have two cows, one |
calf and one pump, and that is the way do
it." The explanation was satisfactory.
The Butte (M. IT, Miner says: A band of |
seventy Ogallals braves, armed to the teeth,
lately crossed the Powder river at Richard |
Frowan's ranch, on the way north. They |
said they were on their way to visit the |
Crows As the relations existing between |
this tribe and the Crows are anything but |
amicsble, news of horss-stesling and probs- |
bly, bloodshed may be anticipated as result |
of the meeting.
Recently tenderfoot from California was |
in one of the arid districts of Arizona, and, |
being thrown in contact with an honest |
miner, endeavored to draw the native out |
Little cloudy to-day, amt it," asked the |