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New-York tribune., 1884-02-04
THE TELEGRAPH ON THE FRONTIER.

G,ueral Hancock-When / was stationed In the FAR
West before the war; recommended that ali the military
posts along the frontier and especially those IN the In
dian country should be connected by tho telegraph so
that in cases Of danger troops could be rapidly massed
al any point The introduction OF railroads since then
has in removed the necessity OF snch pfoVF
sion in some quarters, but in others 1t stil remains
shoula Congress conclude TO connect these remaining
nosts with the electric wire certain that the money
necessary 10 complete the work would be wisely ex-
pended and that time might come when tho existence
of telegraphic communication would be the means OF
saving the lives OF hundreds
THE NEW COTTON EXCHANGE.
Walter \. Miller, Treasurer rhe Cotton ErehaHoe.-No'
aout think the opening Of our new Exchange building
New-York tribune., 1884-02-04

The arrest of John and Annie COwhey on the
charge of poisoning their sister and her husband
at Laurel Hill L. l., seems to have been made
Oh slender grounds. The sole motive for the
crime is found in the fact that, by the death of
Mr. and Mrs Collyer and their child, these young
people would inherit 81 800 and the principal
evidence against them is the finding OF an
empty rat poison box in one Of theirrOOms. 1t will
need something more than this to hang them.
Indeed, Judging from the facts in the case, so far
as they have been made known, it seems as
likely that Mrs. Colyerp poisoned herself and her
husband as that this brother and sister COM
mitted the terrible crime charged against them.
The most probable theory, however, is that the
poisoning was an accident.
New-York tribune., 1884-02-04
Netpa1prk Daily Gribn'sG
NEW-YORK, MONDAY, FEB. 4.

FOUNDED BY HORACE eREELE,
New-York tribune., 1884-02-04

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age yearly output of this staple being in the
neighborhood of 2G00,0 900 pounds. Three
years ago it was estimated that there were
in the county about 100000 sheep 10000
head of cattle, 9,000 hagS, 5000 horses, 600
mules, and some GOO Angora and Cashmere
goats. We have not before us the figures
derived this year from the Assessors re-
turns, but it is not unlikely that stock
raising has declined somewhat, owing 10
the entertainments that are made upon the
stock ranges Icy agriculture.
TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
Red Bluff the county seat, is the chief
town in the county. 1t is situated on the
west bank of the Sacramento river. and has
communication with the lower country
both by water and rail 1t is now we'll
built town. having been several times of
late years nearly DESTROYED by fires. By
rail it is 155 miles from the State Capital
Red Bluff Is great wool as well rs grain
center ut the present time, being the recog-
nlzed market for a vast section of country
round about there. The population is
about 1000. 1t has several manufactures
good schools and public buildings, and is
the fortunate pOssessor Of two well-con-
Quoted daily newspapers.
The next town in Importance is Tehama
also on the west bank of the Sacramento
river, and picturesquely located. 1t is eS-
sentially railroad Town, being on the line
of the California and Oregon road, and also
the intersecting terminus of the California
Northern line, recently extended from Viii
lows, COlusa county. II is also Il thriving
community, and q town of rising impor-
tance.
The other towns and precincts are: Ante
lope, Butte Meadows. Coast Range Cas-
cade, Copeland, Cottonwood, Elder Creek
Elktown, Gilmore, ElkiuS, Farquhar. Floyd,
Jacksonville, Henleyville, Howell, Hunter,
Johnston, Junction, LOwery, Iiyeoak, Las
sen, Moore's Ranch, Montgomery, Murray
Oak Creek, Orion, Paskeuta, Payne's Creek,
Riccyille, Rawson, Reed : Creek, Red Bank,
Sierra, Storey Creek, Jesma, Tonnes, Nina
and Washington.
INDUCEMENTS TO IMMIGRANTS.
There are few sections of the State that
have as many inducements to offer to i'm
migrants as Tchama. Notwithstanding the
fact that great many settlers have gone to
that county within the past year or two, it
is as vet but sparsely settled. The Califor-
MIA and Oregon Railroad Company has still
great deal of excellent land there which
can be purchased at low figures and on
such terms of payment as TO bring il within
the reach of persons of the most moderate
means These lands will, in the near flu
| ture. be very valuable; SO that those who
are the first to avail themselves of the OPP
portunities offered will be the greatest
gamers. In addition To the railroad lands
not yet bought up by settlers there is con-
siderable Government land to be bad much
of which, although located i'll the higher
foothills and mountains, is capable of
profitable cultivation for fruits and vine
yards, also for grazing, etc. Surely u
county of such vast and varied resources as
are possessed by Tehama cannot fail to
some day become a thickly-populated one
and prosperous in the extreme.
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the agricultural counties of the State, but OF
late years its farming area has been greatly
restricted by the filling up of Bear River
with debris from the hydraulic mines,
which caused the river to overflow, and de-
post vast quantities OF mining debris ON the
HAT lands along its course. The damage re
Sulting from this cause has been estimated
at several million dollars: and TO guard
against further inroadS bv the destroying
agent, the citizens of the county have
raised vast levces Wherever the land has
not been injured by these deposits, how
ever. 1t is OF first-ciass quality and yields
heavily.
THE OLD MEXICAN GRANTS,
Under which 4 great portion of the land
was originally held, have been segregated
and settled up, until now the population
numbers in the neighborhood of 1000.
Formerly the California Pacific Railroad
penetrated the county from the Knight :
Landing direction and extended to Marys-
vile, but that route was abandoned some
years ago owing to frequent Interruptions
and destruction of the track by freShets.
In 1910 the county seat was established
at Orc, on the bank of Bear river. but the
following year and before much settlement
had been begun, it was removed TO the
village of Nicolaus, on Feather river. Six
years later that honor was conferred upon
Yuba City, which still retains it, 1t is the
largest town in the county, is in the center
of one of the most fertile sections of the
State and distant from the State Capital
about fifty miles Yuba City is connected
with Marysyille by 4 long and substantial
bridge across the Feather river.
The better qualities Of grain lands in
Suffer yield often from 80 To to bushels of
wheat per acre, and the yield i'll fruits from
river orchards is very great.
LANDS FOR PURCHASERS
There is no Government land in the
county, but in some localities land can be
purchased of private holders at reasonable
. figures. If there should be permanent
( cessation Of hydraulic mining. il is expected
that large areas of land that are now So
/ badly injured from flow of debris viii again
become valuable There are still many
/ large farms in this county which, with an
increase OF population, will be cut into
much smaller holdings and iEasmuch a.
Il few acres of this rich soil carefully titled,
can be made equal in value of production
to a large farm in many parts of the East,
the county will be dotted over with homes.
close in proximity to each other, and with
thrift the fortunate possessors will enjoy
independent hertages.
Suffer is Il county of pleasant homes. and
its people are among the most cnterprising
in the State. In the northern part of the
county-which is generally level-rise the
Buttes, series Of sharp and rocky peaks,
to hight of upwards of thousand feet.
They constitute an interesting feature OF
that section, rising as they do abruptly
from the level plain ON all sides
Great interest is taken by the citizens of
Butte in educational matters, and the
school facilities of the county are excellent
and fully adapted to the requirements of
the population.
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over good road, so that it would be quite
practicable for a farmer in that por1on OF
the county to load up with fruit and vege-
tables in the afternoon, and dispose of the
same in Sacramento the next morning,
where at all times is found cash market"
The county supports three excellent news
papers, namely, the Amador Ledger, the
Amador Dispatch and the AmadOr Times.
They are all ably edited and well support
ed. Thousands OF acres of Government
land in foothill and mountain, in this
county, lie open to settlers at the price of
81 25 per acre. Over 500 miles of bitches
leading from
EEvER-FAILING WATER SUPPLIES,
Which were constructed for mining pur-
poses in early days, at the cost of hundreds
of thousands of dollars, can easily be made
to traverse every hill side, run across every
plateau, and furnish the farmer and hus-
bandman with an abundance of water for
irrigating purposes at a minimum of cost.
The following statistics are gathered from
the last assessment roll Of the county :
Total value of property, s., 235, 955. Num-
Der of stock cattle, 1900 cows, dairy, 5000;
goats, 1000; hogs, 500; horses, 2,Se0 +;
sheep, $4,000 Acres in hay and grain,
$500; corn, 500; in vineyards, 1000.
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SUFFER- COUNTY.

When the State was formed in 1S49, SUIT
counties comprising its political division.
Since that time however, part of its terri
tory has been acquired by Butte and Colusa
counties. Suffer county joins Sacramento
and Yolo counties on the south, Yuba and
Placer on the east, Yclo and Colusa on the
west, and Butte on the north. The county
was named in honor of the pioneer, Gen
eral Suffer, who was for some years one of
its residents. 1t has water ccnnecuon with
Sacramento by river, but the nearest rail
road communication is by the California and
Oregon Railroad at Marysvillr, Yuba City,
the county seat, being just across the
Featl er River at that point Suffer in pro
portion to its size is one of the richest of
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titles in all parts of the county, up to an
altitude of 1000 feet. While the climate of
Nevada county is well adapted to the rails
ing of fruit in general, it is particularly
suited to the culture of the apple, pear, wal
nut, chestnut and grape. The apple and
pear crops are very seldom injured
by the spring frosts, while the peach,
plum and cherry crops are ia-
bic to damage therefrom. Late
varieties of walnut, that is, those budding
out late, do remarkably well, even at an
altitude of $500 feet; the chestnut also
succeeds beyond expectation. But the
grape industry promises to outstrip all
others, even that of gold itself. The grape
can be grown with success on thousands of
acres. now unoccupied, and which can be
purchased for trifie. To such, of course
the immigrant culturist will find his way,
where his labor will most surely be blessed
with abundant and valuable fruit
VINEYARDS, WINES. ETC.
The wines from grapes raised on the hill
sides of Nevada county rival some of the
best table wines of foreign lands, and GER
tainiy equal any raised in other parts of the
State. The wine interest is destined TO be
the leading industry of this county, SO
large is the field and SO great are
the inducements. But the business is
as yet in its infancy, and this is mostly due
to the fact that the minds of the people are
still turned towards the tempting prospect
of working out fortune from the innu-
merable gold-bearing quartz lodges that
abound all over the county. There is no
question but that with irrigation the grape
can be made to yield as much in this coun-
ty as in the rich loan of the valleys, and
the quality of the products would surely be
superior to that of the valley grape.
All this county needs to develop its I'M
paralleled resources is population, and there
should be no lack of settlers, for land is
cheap, the climate one of the finest on the
coast, the soil generous and productive,
pure mountain water of easy access through
bitches that may be extended at will, while
the various industries which are open to
workman yield fair returns for labor ex-
pended. 1t is enough to point to what Ne
vada county has already achieved, to guar
antee that millions lie in its yet dormant
and undeveloped resources.
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The Rev, William Roulatt, well-known
Methodist Clergyman, residing at Naples draws
the following amusing, but apt comparison be-
tween Or. C. McLaaes TcImyllgc, prepared by
Fleming Bros, of Pittsburgh, Pa, and ferret ::
"A ferret when placed at the entrance of a rat
hole, enters the aperture, travels along the
passage, seizes upon the rat, exterminates his
existence and draws the animals defunCt car
cass to the light. And in like manner have l
found DR.. c. NcLdpe'S TCrmifaqc to operate upon
worms, those dreadful and dangerous tormentors
of children. This remedy, like the ferret. en-
tiers the aperture of the mouth, travels down the
gullet, hunts round the stomach. and lays hold
sweeps clean their den and carries their car.
cases clear out of the system. This, at least,
has been the effect of the Vermifugo upon my
children,
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are capable of supplying water sufficient TO
irrigate nearly the whole agricultural nor-
ton of the country. Constructed origin
ally and maintained for many years for
mining purposes, they constitute grand
water-power which should, and doubtless
will, be utilized in the future by tillers of
the soil in all the numerous branches. 1t
is too grand prize to be discarded. Hence,
under the new order of things. the foothill
portion of Yuba is destined to become the
home of new and numerous people,
upon these lands now awaiting energetic
and thrifty occupants. and to take prom
inert position in the procession Of Cali
fornia communities that arc marching on
to unboundcd prosperity.
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CHINESE BIRns' NEST SouP.-An English
naturalist at Yokohama, Mr.. Pryor, has
visited two caves of Gomauton, in North
Borneo, from which are obtained nearly
all of the material used for that famous
and remarkable deGcacy of the Chinese
birds nest soup. These caves-one of
which Is $50 feet high and rather more
than 100 feet wide-are situated in q lime
stone cliff eco feet in hight, and are inhab-
tied by swittS and bats in countless num-
bers. The nests are built in clusters on the
sides and roofs, where, in places seemingly
inaccessible TO man, they are reached by
daring nest-gathercrS with rattan stages,
ladders and ropes The material of the
nests is q soft fungoid growth-dark brown
on the outside and white ON the inside
that inCrustS the limestone in all damp sit
uationS, and has 4 thickness OF about an
inch. With their mouths the birds draw il
out in ilamcntS, weaving black nests from
the outside of the fungus and finer white
nests from the inside. Three crops of nests
arc gathered yearly, with total value Of
900 or $4,000. and. although this has
been going on for seven generations. the
supply appears undimmishcd- Guano de
posts of unknown thickness cover the
floors Of the caves.
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BUTTE COUNTY.

This is one of the richest of the Sacra-
mento valley counties 1t is bounded on
the north by Tchama and Plumas. on the
south BY Suffer and Yuba, on the east by
Plumas, and west by Colusa and Tehama.
1t is one of the greatest wheat-producing
counties in the State The California and
Oregon Railroad enters the southwestern
portion of the county at Live Oak, and
traverses the western portion Of the
Tehama line. Another railroad con
meets the town of Oroville with
Marysville Few counties have made
more thorough development than Butte
within the last fifteen years. Up to that
time there were thousands of acres within
its borders-now found to be exceedingly
productive and valuable-that were not
considered worth the trouble of culrivating
Wheat-growing is the main industry, but
there are also many large orchards and
vineyards in the county, the soil of which
is well adapted for all the usual products of
central and northern California. That por-
ton lying Immediately east and west Of the
California and Oregon Railroad, and ex-
tending the entire length of the county, is
chiefly restricted to erain-growing, and en-
In the eastern and northern portion con-
siderable attention is being paid to fruit
culture: and about Oroville even oranges
and lemons are successfully grown. With
in THE last few years some $1,000 or 60.0UU
acres of land that was formerly classed as
mineral has been declared agriculture land
and these have provided homes for large
number Of settlers. In
THE FOOTUIII SECTION
And higher reaches of the slope there are
still many thousands of acres of Govern
ment and railroad lands that can be pur-
chased at quite low figures, of which fact
immigrants in search of homes should take
note. These foothill lands are capable of
being converted into orchards vineyards
and small farms, superior in location and
fertility to many so occupied in the old
countries. on which thousands of families
may find happy homes and become pros
porous. In this section there are excellent
facilities for irrigation, which is necessary
to success in some localities. In the north
ern part of the county are vast pine forests,
and numbering on n large scale has been
one of the prominent industries of that sec
ton and about 0roville. Among the prin-
cipal mills are those of Turner, Doom,
Hasty, Mckay, Carpenter, Lumpkin. and
the Rock Creek and Defiance Companies.
THE MINING BUSINESS.
Mining is still carried on to some extent
in the eastern portion OF the county, and
even about Oroyille the Chinese continue
to work over the ground which in early
days yielded richly to the placer miners.
One of the most extensive mining prop
critics in the county, however, is that Of the
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YUBA COUNTY.

Lying north and east of Suffer and a por-
ton of Placer, bounded on the east by
Placer and on the north by Butte, is Yuba
county, with an area of something more
than 600 square miles and q population
estimated at about 1900. It is travcrsed
from northeast to southwest by the Yuba
river, and on the west by the Feather
which forms junction with the Yuba at
Marysville, the county scat. Yuba is now
classed among the agricultural counties
Of the State, but formerly it was mining
county. Indeed, for several years follow
ing the discovery of gold in this State.
Yuba county had large and busy popula-
ton. In the foothills and along the rivers
and gulches thousands of men were in
those DAYS engaged in digging for gold hut
placer mining began 10 decline about 1856
and Tuba like nearly all the rest of min
ing counties, ut once experienced a falling
off in population, which continued gradu-
ally for some years, and until new and per
manent avenues of industry were eStab-
Eshed, and, to a large extent, the character
of the population had changed In the
mountain and foothill section of the coun-
ty, notably at Smartsville and i'll that vi
cinitV
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THE ONLY GENUINE
Hay Fever

Is a type of catarrh
having peculiar
symptoms. 1t is at
tended by an in
famed condition of
the lining mem
brane ofthc nostrils,
tear duets and
throat, affecting the
lungs. An 6crid mu-
Gus IS secreted, the
discharge is accom-
panied with q burn
ing sensation. There
are sewers spasms of
sneezing. frequent
attacks of head
ache, watery and
inhsmed eyes.
Cream Balm Is
ct diagnosis of this
d upon. so cents at
. Sample bottle by
RIOS, Druggists,
OfsIyTuThS&Kly
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There are some marriages which remind
us of the fellow who said, She couldn't
get any husband, and couldn't get any
wife, and SO We got married..
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THE GREAT FoorHILL SECTION.

So long neglected, except by the miner,
is coming to the front. There the farmer,
and fruit-grower, and vineyardist may find
the best of lands for these important
branches of industry, with unsurpassed
facilities for irrigation. There are probably
more than 800 miles of bitches. or canals in
the mining section, ON which nearly 81 ,000,-
600 have been expended. These bitches
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HYpRAULIC MINING.

Which superseded the placer system, was,
until a year ago, maintained on a large
scale But as this system had entaied I'M
mense injury to the river channels, de-
stroyed vast area of agricultural land in
the valley, and seriously threatened the
existence of Marysville, the chief city of
the county, suits were instituted few years
ago to enjoin the operating of these vast
hydraulic mines. After long, tedious and
expensive litigation in the State and Fed
eral Courts, the famous Sawyer decision
was rendered early in the present year in
favor of the plaintiffs, and as there seems
to be little if any probability that it will be
reversed by the United States Supreme
Court, the business of hydraulic mining
may be considered as practically at an end.
Outside of these mines, and some small
manufacturing enterprises, the main bust
ness of the population is that of farming
and horticulture. The valley and such of
the bottom lands as have escaped injury
from the flow of debris from the hydraulic
mines are very fertile and
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THE ONCE-FAMOUS BRIGGS ORCHARD,
From which came the chief fruit supply of
the State twenty five years ago, was located
in the southern part of the county, on the
bank of the Yuba. AS far back as 1850 this
orchard contained nearly 10000 peach,
5000 pear, 1000 cherry, $4,000 apple, and
$4,000 other fruit trees. To-day the site of
that orchard lies buried beneath from fiji
teen to eighteen feet of mining debris, on
which the chief vegetation is wilderness
of willows and cottonwoods. In order to
overcome the effects of this filling of the
rivers from mining flow, the levec system
of the county has been brought to a high
state of perfection. Vast sums of money
have been expended TO bring the levees to
their present serviceable condition, and it is
believed that little or no danger exists of
future overhows. The Yuba river is said
to have had a great quantity of its debris
washed out the past winter, thereby in
creasing the carrying capacity of its chan
mel, and this cleaning out and deepening
will continue each rainy season, thus bring
ing back the former condition, and with
the increased protection afforded by the
i~yees.
Severe as has been the experience of Yuba
in the past from the above cause, there is
bright future in store for her.