Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-23
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


Napa wine. growers say they are taxed
more heavily than vine growers in other
counties.
Quartz mills along the Carson river are
hanging up stamps, as the water is getting
very low.
The howl of the coyote can be heard
every night in the suburbs of the town OF
Bakersfield.
A monument over the grave CT the late
Judge Steele is suggested by the cisizens
of Siskiyou.
It is reported that a genuine platinum
mine has been discovered within thirty
miles Of Bozsmon, M. T.
Nevada City'a school afairs arein another
ferment, and criminations and recrinnin-
ations are the order Of the day.
The miners of the Providence mine.
reduction OF wages from 81 TO 50 so per
DAY.
Toothache and Womsnshoes are the
names of two Piegan Indian chiefs who,
with their following, are encamped at Ben
ton, M. I.
The banks OF McCloud's lake are being
utilized as wood yards, hundreds of cords
being already piled up there, and the end
is not yet.
The MERGED Star thinks the wheat crop
of that county will exceed 5000, 000 bash-
els, which IL much larger than approved
previous estimates.
The Gridley Herald is wrestling with
the question, If piece of land is assessed
st 81, 200, and carries a mortgage of 81, 200,
on what amount must the mortgage pay
taxes?
klamath river is getting very low, much
lower than during previous seasons, which
makes trouble for the river miners, as
their wheels are not low enough to reach
the water.
Sugar-cane is said to thrive well in the
low ground about the sink of the Carson
river, New. A kind of wild cane, from
which the Piutes make molasses, is in
digenous to that region.
The Candelaria True FiSSure says that
the manufacture of borax has received re-
newsd activity. Some three or four COM
panies have been formed, and have begun
operations in real earnest.
A Ere Thursday morning, communicated
by threshing machine, destroyed der.
rick and derrick wagon on the Quito
ranch, six miles from San Jose, snd about
fifteen tons Of grain in sack.
There are at present 100 hands employed
at the Cotton cannery, and the number is to
be doubled Tae establishments is now
putting up Is, eco cans of seven pounds
esch of apricot pulp, to send to London.
England.
The Modesto Herald says: We do not
believe there is county in the State, or in
the United States, that will exceed Staais-
l&us in either quantity or quality OF wheat
this season, Ii there is one we want to
hear from it.
The Tusearora Mining Ne,cs says mp.
ward of 10. 600 sheep passed through Inde=
pendence valley last Saturday, on their
way from California to Idaho, Montana
and Wyoming. Il is estimated that over
l00,000 have been driven through the val
ley the present season.
Chris. Thrashing, OF Paradise Gardens,
informs us that the tomato vines are al
dying, and, so far, 10 cause can be given
for it. He has examined tho roots and
stalks thoroughly, but can find no pests st
work, The ground ia in good order, with
plenty of moisture, yet the vines continue
30 wither and die, Modesto Herald.
The Oregon Short Line has opened a
terminal station ct Glenn's Ferry, sixty
miles west of Shoshone, l. T., but the road
is completed twenty. five miles beyond that
point, where traeklayers has stopped until
the graders get out of the way. That
place is called Bennett Creek OF Middle
burgh. The next terminal point will be
near Boise, l, 7.
The Record says Information has
been received in Chico of the death Of
James Vaudeville, a young man who was
raised and educated here by highly re.
spectacle parents. His death was caused
by the constant habit of opium smoking,
and he breathed his last with his boots on
| IL den at Sacramento Bridge, Shasta
county, last Saturday night.
There were thirty.one prisoners in the
Solano County Jail, July 18th, among
whom are three females from Vallejo,
thrae men awaiting trial on charges OF fel
ony, aud the balance serving ont terms Of
from ten TO ninety days on charges of petty
larceny and drunkenness. The chain gang
is kept engaged repairing the county roads.
sweeping the streets and making improve
ments in and around the jail.
There grows in the sagebrush and desert
lands of Nevada and Utah shrub, called
by the Indians tempah," which, wher
made into an infusion, cannot be distin,
guished in taste from the Chinese tea. II
is blood purifier, and Indians and white
use it for medicine. Many of the miners
of eastern Nevada have acquired a tast fol
it, and prefer it to the tea of the stores,
It's effect is mild stimulation, about the
came as is produced by tea or coffee, and
no harmful or injurious effects follow it.
use.
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