Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-03-17
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Eight million pounds is the estimated
Spring clip Of wool in Oregon.
A branch railroad is to be built from
Bernalillo, N. M, to the Juarez hot springs,
q distance Of rs miles.
The California Legislature adjourned
last Wednesday. No particular system Of
irrigating was agreed upon.
The Sacramento river fishermen report
no salmon running yet. Last year at this
time q few salmon were caught.
A new building for the University of the
Pacific is being erected on University
tract, San Jose, Cal. 1t is to cost abou,
SAC, 900.
The absence Of rain during the past
month has caused Q general solicitude as
to the prospects for California's crops the
coming season.
The season in Napa Valley, CAL, is six
weeks ahead of time. Zinfandel vines are
in bloom, and grape-growers are trembling
for fear OF destructive late frosts.
On the 18th dlt. twenty-five farmers
near Pomo, Mendocino county, CAL, met
thirty-ive acre tract Of an invalid neighbor.
Twenty wagon-loads Of Mormons re-
Gently left st. Johns, A. T., for Sonora,
Mexico, to settle in the Yaqui belt. The
Yaqui Indians are averse to receiving
them.
Shipments Of oranges to the East from
Los Angeles county have been very large
recently, averaging three or four carloads
daily, but Cd the 10th instant there were
seven carloads.
News from Wood River is to the effect
that the Deputy 6heriffs are to be with.
drawn from protecting the mines-Broad-
ford being quiet and the mines having q
complement Of men.
The Colorado river 10 now Ut its lowest
ebb-so much SO that navigation is often
impeded. Last Monday 9 steamer stuck
on the bar at the mouth Of the Gila and
was delayed several hours.
The managers of the Derbec mine near
North Bloomfield, CAL, have lately at
tempted to reduce the wages Of their en-
ployes from So to 50 so q day. They find
IL difficult to secure men at this rate.
Many parties have left Los Angeles to
make mining locations within fifteen to
twenty miles of Lancaster. The prospects
so far are good, some assays showing $127
per ton. Lancaster will be the base Of op-
erations.
The officers arrested ten Migrants at
MERGED. Cal, last Thursday night. Three
OF them were taken from Q box car on the
arrival of the freight train from the South.
They were each sentenced to four days in
the chain gang.
Oregon City has q parsnip that measures
5 feet and Z inches in length, not to speak of
the long root that considerably broke off
and remained in the ground, just to save
the reputation Of the Oregon City people
abroad for truthfulness.
Reports from the Indian Territory are
to the effect that the mortality among
live stock during the past Winter has been
very great. The Turner range in the
Greek Nation places its loss from $500 to
1000. On the Messengal range, in the
Cherokee Nation, the loss is estimated at
so per cent.
The body found by Indians, near South
Prairie, Washington Territory, about a
week ago, has been identified as that OF
Fred Fiend, who started out for q hunt
during the last great snowstorm. and
doubtless persisted from cold and exposure.
The body Of one Of his dogs was found at
his side. Fiend's companion has not yet
been found.
While boring a well on his place in Sac
rsmento, . few days ago. John Hayden
struck at the depth Of az feet . log of
wood, also some bones seemingly Of some
prehistoric animal, fragments of which were
brought up by the trimmers that were
being used in consequence Of the boring
apparatus having been telescoped upon
meeting the obstruction.