Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-12
TIE OLIVE IN PLACER CorNrY-Tl


burn Republican of October 18th says:
Evidence accumulates every day that the
olive tree has found a congenial place in
Placer county soil and climate. Last March
F. Gloss set out $50 olive trees on one of
the highest pieces of ground that is cult
waited around Auburn. They were three
year-Old cuttings. Owing to the difficulty
of getting water on his ground they have
been irrigated only once during the season
and then with not half enough water
Then the grasshoppers came and stripped
some of them bare but of the whole num-
Der only six have died. All the rest of
them have withstood the dryness, and those
despoiled by the grasshoppers have put
forth new leaves and the whole lot have
made about four inches growth. Mr.. Gloss,
who was by profession forester in Ger
many, and understood his business, is
greatly encouraged by his short experience
with the olive, especially since many of his
young vines have been killed by rabbits
and drought. Next spring be will add
largely to his olive orchard.
"SYowsHoE THoMPsoNs GRAvE.-The
Carson New Inder says:
Mrs. John Scoss, the widow of "Snow-
shoe" Thompson, last Saturday had a
tombstone placed at his grave in the Genoa
cemetery. At the top of the stone pair
of snowshoes twelve inches in length,
standing one across the other are beauti-
fully carved. John a. (Snowshoe) Thomp-
son was a native of Norway, and departed
this life May 10, 1876, at the age of forty
nine years and sixteen days. His son and
only child, who died in June, 1873, at the
age of eleven years, now rests by his side
SnOwshoe was known far and near as the
mountaineer who used to fly across the
lofty Sierras on snowshoes the winter
through, carrying the mail between this
section and California. 1t is said he re-
ceived as high as s. per letter as compensa-
ton for bringing the mail over the noun
tains when the winter storms were raging.
WHERE Our FRUIT GoEs.-R. K. Berry,
of Shingle Springs, the railroad agent at
that place. gentleman well known in this
city, is referred to as follows in the Placer
vile Mountain Democrat of Saturday On
the 9TH day of August last the Coloma
Fruit Company packed a carload of peaches
and pears at Shingle Springs for Hixson,
JUST & Co., Chicago While handling the
boxes one of them broke open, and seeing
the fine, large pears, R. X. Berry, the agent
of the railroad company, felt a curiosity as
| TO Who would probably buy that particular
| box, and where it would be consumed. TIC
satisfy his curiosity, Berry took a pear from
| the box and marked on it, - +. X. Berry
Shingle Springs, Cal; write me- This
was on the 9Th day of August. Since then
he has received a postal from G. H Remon
dated Marshall, Mimi, August 81, which
read: Found a pear in box shipped me
with your name on, and write me- 1
! this reaches you, write me, and oblige.'
Mr.. Berry did write, telling Mr.. Remon al
about our climate, soil, etc, and also gave
the date on which his pear was shipped
from Shingle, reminding him that it haC
! been travelling 26 days and must have beer
! picked for more than month. There is
point in this for our fruit men if they car
find it.