Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1885-10-31
STATE AND COAST NEWS.

Chico is to have an agricultural ma.
chine shop.
Salem, Or, is to have a Prohibition
newspaper.
Markleeville. Alpine county, is rap.
dly rebuilding.
Chinese laundries at St. Helena are
taxed $I5o per quarter.
Large wheat growers near Calf are
parceling out their ranches.
Good tobacco is said to be raised on
Browns creek, Trinity county.
San Luis Obispo has on exhibition a
cabbage weighing ninety pounds.
A Fresno farmer Offers to dispose O.
$4,000 watermelons at 81 50 per wagon
Victoria, b. C., complains Of lh,
prevalence Of burglars and safe.
crackers.
A mill is to be started in Sacramen'
for the manufacture Of pulp from cot
ton wood.
San Francisco bankers have loaned
,ver s., 900, 900 on real estate in San
.uis Obispo,
Zolo and Trinity counties have mad
.uccessful experiments in tobacco. grow
ing this season.
Los Alamos, Santa Barbara county,
Is endeavoring TO get rid Of its objec-
lionabe population.
E. F. Marx of Elk ranch, Napa
county, has a number of wild pigs
which he brought from Switzerland,
Hawks have congregatcd by the hun.
| lreds TO destroy the mice which have
been invading the fields near Tulare.
A Los Angeles raisin grower placed
his fruir on tr;ys, Mt thcm to the Mo
ave desert by rail and dried them there.
Eastern Phlanihropis,s have furnish
ed Sarah Ninnemucca money to build
school house for the Putes nea. Love
locks.
The girls employed in the Riverside
cannery, being unable to make 81 a
day, struck, and Cinnamon were EN-.
ployed in their stead.
Henry Graw, boss Of the Temple
builders in Salt Lake City, was taken
in by officers this week on warrant for
unlawful cohabitation.
A proposition is being agitated in
Oregon to secure the consent and con
lrol Of Congress to make Crater Lake
and its surrounding country National
Park.
The las, spike on the Canadian Pa
cliic will be driven on the 9Th Of Nov.
ember. Only eleven miles remain Of
the gap between the eastern and west
ern ends.
Nearly all the fruit offered for sale
iu the San Luis Obispo market is raised
in that county. Two years ago it wa,
almost impossible to purchase home.
grown fruit.
In nearly all the agricultural ceniers
in the inferior counties a scarcity OF
building Accommodations is reported,
and carpenters and masons find ready
employment.
The scarcity Of bee food this season
has caused the vineyardists OF Tulare
much complaint, for grape juice has
been turned into food and honey by the
little workers.
The Sacramento Board of City Trus-
tees addressed letter this week to the
Attorney General Of the United States
asking for aid in the reclamation of our
rivers and bays, and the estoppel OF
hydraulic mining.
A large lion in Ventura county, has
been committing deprecations among
VIII Riley's hogs on the Conejo for
months. 1t is estimated that il has
killed at least fifty pigs and choats for
Mr.. Riley. 1t is very cunning and
eludes pursuit.
A report is circulated tha the Yuma
bridge was fired in three places, After
the conflagration was discovered the
draw on the Yuma side was thrown
open, saving that end of the bridge.
The fire is attributed to an employee
who had been discharged.
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