Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-23
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Oranges are ripening in the Santa Clara
hills.
Los Angeles county boasts of 275,000
sheep.
Glass-works are soon to be erected in
Berkeley.
Fresno has commenced the planting of a
new pleasure park.
Eggs command from 90 to 60 cents per
dozen in Nevada City.
A ten-pound salmon was caught in Napa
creek, near Calistoga, last week.
The Washington Territory Insane Asy-
lum contains at present 139 inmates-1l0
men and 20 women.
An inter county skating contest between
Solano and Napa contestants is to take place
in Napa in few days.
The Nevada State Prison shoe shop has
returned net profit to the State of $22, $50
since its establishment.
Three new county schemes are being put
through the Arizona Legislature. Quijotoa
county is the name given to one of these
subdivisions.
Chico papers accuse the Oroville people
of aoitating the removal of the Butte
county seat The Oroville Mercury denies
the allegation.
The people of Fresno county are sub
scribing literally to defray the expenses of
the irrigation committee in attendance on
the Legislature.
There are l ,379 patients confined in the
Napa Insane Asylum. This comes within
one of being the largest number that has
ever been in the asylum.
The recently-elected Republican Board
r I 90, 1.
voted to double the salary of the County
Superintendent of Schools
A colored man of Napa named Lancas-
ter, who is employed to run the press of the
Napa Reporter, is about to challenge
Whistler to wrestle for 500.
The Vallejo Chronicle says: Lively times
are expected at Port Costa during this
month, caused by the recent rise in wheat
and the chartering of ships.
The Bodie Free Press gives the output of
bullion by the mines of that place for 1884
at 81, 162, 297 IA, and the production for the
past eight years at $16,6S2, 1876 Sc.
Elk Governor Stanford has 2,175,000 vines
growing of the following varieties Black
Don, Berger, Black Burgundy, Charboneaul
Blau Eileen, Trosseau and others.
A large number of young men on Dry
creek, Tuolumne county, have pledged
money as 4 forfeit if they smoke tobacco or
use intoxicating liquor during 1885.
Reports from Carbon, in Wyoming, say
that scarlet fever is unusually prevalent
there and is carrying off children in large
numbers, two or three funerals occurring
daily.
The San Gabriel Wine Company has 500
acres in vineyard, and will plant 900 acres
additional as fast as possible. The season
for active work in the winery ceased some
time since.
A young lady in Truckee is reported to
have made four unsuccessful attempts to
kill herself by taking rat poison. This
would seem to clearly demonstrate that
she is not a rat.
The Red Bluff Democrat says: Every
warehouse in town is full of wheat or wool
If the price of these staples would only
reach respectable figures, money would be
plenty and trade good.
A fiume twentv-four miles long is being
built from the San Bernardino mountains
to the Southern Pacific Railroad line. The
tiume is for the purpose of floating timber
and ties from the mountains
At the farm of Matson, on Smith river,
about eight miles from Gardiner, Douglas
county, Oregon, a land slide occurred
which carried his residence together with
a fine orchard, into the river.
Messrs. Hill and Porter, who have been
at work for two months past perforating
the mountain north of Pasadena, Los An
geles county, have been rewarded with an
inch stream at a distance Of 100 feet.
Santa Ana is the second town in Los
Angeles county, both as to population and
wealth. At the late November election
45S votes were polled there indicating a
population of $500 in round numbers.
Ex-Sheriff Geo Brown. of Storey county,
Nevada, is in luck His father presented
him with a farm of 700 acres a few years
ago, and the death of an uncle some time
ago added nearly $4,000 to his possessions.
The railroad blockade caused the town
of Heppner, in eastern Oregon, to practi-
cally run out of a supply of coal oil and
sugar. The last coal oil on hand sold at 81
a gallon, and could scarcely be bought at
any price.
\ sensation was caused in Fresno a few
nights ago by the chase of a prominent
married man of that city from the room of
an actress in the Adelphi Thcater He
jumped from u second-stOry window at
the point of a shotgun.
Inc tOluSa sun claims that by husband
ing the waters of Stony creek that stream
can be made to water 125 square miles of
land, at a cost not to exceed s. an acre. 1t
is quite positive that "a canal to water
some 430 square miles of land in Colusa
county will be constructed
4 Fresno farmer drove his horse head
first, into new well the other night
after vainly endeavoring to dig the ami
nal out knot was tied in its tail, by
which a span of horses pulled up the i'm
prisoned animal. 1t was rescued appar-
emily unhurt. Its tail was a strong one
Eight years ago William Ebeler of CO.
lumbia, Or, swallowed carpet tack Last
week, in a coughing fit, he elected the tack
1t was coated, increasing its size to two or
three times that of the original 1t was
thoroughly oxidized and very light, having
lost most of its weight. Ebeler feels happy
to get rid of it after carrying it in him so
many years.
The Assessor of Ell Dorado county has
this year gathered six tons Of grapes to the
acre upon poor granite land. The Democrat
says that at S25 per ton. which is rea-
sonable figure, Mr.. Mortensen's land pro-
duces an income of $50 per annum to the
acre. With such facts staring him in the
face, what rancher can afford to raise grain
for market? ~