Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-03
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Walla Walla Nv. IT, capitalists contem-
plate erecting S15o, 900 wooden mill.
The subject of converting the Carson
Mint into clubhouse is being discussed.
There is said to be a shortage of $500 in
the accounts of Postmaster Ferry at NO
desto.
Walla Walia valley, ". r, has produced
second crops OF apples and Strawberries
this fall.
Nearly all the idle men around Rio Vista
are finding employment on the levees and
flood-gates.
1t IS said that g large band Of horse
thieves have headquarters in the Teton
Basin, NJ. t.
Over $500, 900 viii be spent on the water
system OF Riverside and adjoining territory
within the next year.
San Bernardino is to erect 9 pavilion for
the purpose of holding horticultural, agri-
cultural and mechanical fairs.
A 14-year-old boy has been sent to State
Prison for three years from Virginia, NeT.,
for arson in the second degree.
AT Silver City, Idaho, the other day.
school was dismissed, in order that the
children could attend the races.
a sweet potato weighing 274 pounds and
a squash of 1861 pounds are among San
Diego county's latest productions.
Hay is worth IS per ton in Battle Mount
ain. In 1873, during the dry season, the
farmers received $40 ton for their hay.
Many Cinnamon are being discharged
from the California Southern Railroad as
the work OF grading is being completed.
1t is said Tacoma, W T., has 500 vacant
houses, and twenty business failures have
occurred in that town within the last year
George Jeffreys, Jr, of Smartsville, is
dying of CHAMBERS, contracted while shoeing
horse which had the disease, q few weeks
ago.
Notices have been posted about the
streets of Seattle warning the firemen not
to interfere should fires break out in China
town.
The Grass Valley Union says that John
Jenkins, Of that city, has raised in his gar
den tobacco plant nearly seven feet in
hight.
a Berryessa hunter and two companions
have killed 125 deer on Eel river within a
short period, and put up 1000 pounds of
lerked venison.
The ST, Helena Star says agents for East
ern fruit firms are in that locality buying
table grapes, and are giving for Tokay,
Muscat and Malyoise about $40 per ton.
San Diego's honey crop for this year is
estimated at 9, III 500 pounds of solid sweet
ness. Thisis about one-thirtieth of all the
honey produced in the United States.
Four sulphur springs have been found on
the farm of Antoine Mas, in San Benito
county. The temperature of the different
springs ranges from seventy TO eighty de-
grees.
In one of the collins dug up at the old
Catholic cemetery, Santa Cruz, Monday af-
ternoon, nothing was found but some silver
ornaments, the bones having raysteriously
disappeared.
An artesian well on the farm of w. S.
Laid, near Portland, Or, is down 300
feet, without striking water, but pieces of
wood are brought up from even this ire
mendous depth.
A deposit of natural gas has been struck
near Fargo, D. T. When it was tapped it
blew rocks and water fifty fee; in the air 1t
was lighted, and a steady flame two feet
wide and ten feet high is burning.
1t is very probable that an effort will be
made to utilize the inexhaustible pottery
earth pit north of Newhall in very short
time. Some samples have been sent East,
and have been reported upon very favor
ably.
During a recent thunderstorm miner
in Red canyon, Nevada, had the handle of
his pick struck by lightning and split from
socket to top. The miner was not killed,
but he has not yet recovered from the cleo
trio shock.
A peculiar and fatal fever, says the DEM
ing IN. NJ Headlight, is raging at San
Francisco in thefar western part of Socorro
county. 1t seems to battle all efforts to
treat it, and is creating considerable alarm
in that section.
The greater portion of the Chinese in
Riverside have been notified that after Oc-
tober 1st the premises occupied by them
will have to be vacated, and they will
probably be obliged to take up their resi-
dence outside the town limits
The Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company makes difference of nearly So a
ton between barley and wheat shipped
East, and the newspapers of that section
are puzzled to know why it should cost
more to carry one than the other.