Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-19
PACIFIC COAST IrExs.

Skating on Bonner Lake is said to be the
finest ever known.
The Herald put the yield of Santa Ana
valley at 80. COO oranges.
Sixteen miles of drain tile was sold at
the Napa Pottery Works last year.
Fresno is determined to have perma-
nens public library and reading room.
Farmers in Sonoma object to the law
which prohibits trapping in the sporting
season.
Sickness among the children at Santa
Ana has prevented the opening of the pub
lie schools.
Indians say that white men are killing
fish with giant powder near the mouth of
the Truckee.
The hop business is popular in Green
Valley, many extensive paintings having
been made there.
Parties from Chicago are buying 8, 900
fat wethers in Union county, Oregon, for
the market of that city.
Scarlet fever seems to be spreading
throughout southern and southeastern Ore.
gon. Fatal cases are not frequent.
The icemen have nearly finished gather
ing their seasons crop in the Sierras, and
the blocks are unusually thick and clear.
A large wildcat entered stable at Ukiah
last week and made an attack on one of
the horses The intruder was dispatched
with shotgun.
Arrangements have been made for the
construction of large Touring mill at
Salinas. Its capacity is to be 600 barrels
of -four per day.
A special election will be held in the
counties of Kern and Tulare for Assembly
man. in place of w. L. Morton, deceased,
On January oath.
1t cost Montana $40, sol to care for the
convicts in the Territorial prison last year,
while the total earnings of the prison
amounted to only S60l 20.
The contest for the office of Sheriff of
San Bernardino county, between j. c.
King 3D. and J. r. Burkhart (R.), has
been decided in favor of Burkhart.
A four-year' gas war in Los Angeles has
been ended by an order of the City Coun-
Gil to the gas company to shut off all street
lights, the electric light having been SUBJ
stituted.
A Government Coast Survey steamer is
in Monterey, and will remain there about
three months. 1t is intended to make
thorough survey of the harbor and bay of
Monterey.
The Virginia New Enterprise thus
points moral: Ii the experience of an old
man shall be thought of any value by
young men just starting out in life, there
may be lesson in the suicide of old man
McEiroy at Palisade q night or two ago.
The old man had been working in the
mines at Stafford for good while, and had
saved up painfully between $500 and $780,
At Palisade he fell into poker game and
pulled out his pistol and blew out his
brains before any present could interfere.
The North Pacific Railroad Company has
lately been engaged in cutting horse trail
from the railroad to the immense glaciers
on the side of Mount Rainier, a distance of
about twenty miles, and the work is re.
ported to be quite two-thirds done. This
trail will be open to tourists next summer,
with accommodations at proper points for
man and beast, and the ladies also. The
opportunity thus afforded of witnessing
one of the great wonders in nature is ex-
pected to attract to New Tacoma, w. T.,
great many visitors. The scenery at the
glaciers and on the mountain side is repre-
sented as magnificent beyond description.
The earth minerals OF Nevada, which,
since the settlement of the country, have
either been entirely neglected, or, with
the exception of salt, but eighty utilized,
are coming to be an important factor in the
resources of that STATE and the commerce
of this city. The soda lakes are almost
inexhaustible deposits of nearly pure soda,
which only requires simple manipulation
TO make it marketable. Works are now in
operation at Ragtown, or the once dreaded
Sixty Mile Desert. In Panamint valley
there are extensive marshes, from which
borax is taken, and refined at the works
located there at the rate of sixty tons
per month. The borax lies in crystals
in the marsh, and is taken out and re-
fined. Over portions of the marsh
where the crude borax has been removed
to depth of five feet four years ago, a
new deposit has filled in to the same thick.
ness, so that the supply is inexhaustible,
because always growing. In Death valley,
and also in Amargosa valley, similar borax
marshes are found.