Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-09
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Travel to the Calaveras Big Trees is quite
brisk
The banks of Los Angeles are in flour
ishing condition.
The burnt district at Angels, Calaveras
county, is being rebuilt.
The grape and fruit crop at Vina will
largely exceed that of last year.
Los Angeles is to have new county jail
The plans werCdrawn up in St. Louis.
They expect to make 100000 gallons Of
wine on Stanford's ranch, Nina, this year.
The survey of the boundary line between
Lake and MeudocinO counties will be be-
gun on the 18th.
The Board of Education of SAN Benito
county refuses to grant teachers certificates
on Normal school diplomas.
At Alpine station q factory for the max
ingoi paper pulp out of cactus, for shipment
10 England will soon be built.
Things are looking mighty blue at the
Carson Mint, and there seems to be no pros
pect for its starting up for some time.
According to the Progress the following
new buildings are being erected AZ Pomona.
A $4,000 hotel an Episcopal and Catholic
church. a two-story block aud several
dwelling houses.
! An old-timer OF Candelaria said few
days ago: There is Il different class of men
here now from what there used TO be-
When the camp was booming some years
ago the boys made things lively day or
two after pay day. Now payday makes
but little difference. \ few squander some
money. but most of the men are taking
care of their earnings, the merchants doing
better business than ever, the saloons not
near so much, the gamblers very little
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An Extraordi nary Balloon Trip.
A Santa Rosa correspondent of the San
Francisco Bulletin writes an account of
remarkable balloon trip in Sonoma county
on the Fourth L. T. Owings, aeronaut.
ascended at > P. NJ, rose to Il considerable
elevation, and was swept by southeast
current in the direction of the range be-
tween Napa and SonOma counties. The
balloon then crossed the Guiiiicos valley,
passed over the ranges just south of Hood
mountain, and dropped Out OF sight of the
Santa Rosa spectators, ON the Napa side of
the range, twenty miles distant.
The aeronaut had first thought of land
ing in the Guillicos valley, but a current of
air lifted the balloon over the high ridge
on the east. As he passed over, he threw
out his anchor, which failed to catch, and
the balloon was taken by current Of wind
down the other side quite close to the earth
There the anchor caught ih a tree, tilted
the basket, and Owings fell to the ground,
bruised, but not seriously hurt Relieved
of his weight, the balloon slipped its an
chor, shot up into the air, and striking an
opposite current of air, started homeward.
Ii passed over the town of Santa Rosa at a
great elevation, and sailed west toward the
sea. After going some distance west, it be-
gan to descend rapidly, took reverse cur
rent, and passed third time over the city
of Santa Rosa. 1t seemed at one time as
though the balloon would get back to the
very spot it sailed from, but when q few
hundred feet from the earth it was borne
by current just outside the city limits,
and lodged about a mile from where it
started. 1t had made a flight of sixty miles
in two hours and fifty minutes, and
turned within one mile Of its starting point%
in as good condition as when it was first
launched.