Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-03
COAST NEWS GATHERINGS.

Fishing parties on the bay are the rage al
Santa Cruz.
Grass Valley is to have new public
hall, which it has long needed.
Prohibitionists will hold County Con-
vention in Modoc September 4th. A ticket
will be placed in the field.
Dan Hunt is the big farmer of Oak Run.
We learn that he tina he'd IA, OK bushels OF
grain this year, says the Millyille Times
The Nevada Herald Nevada City,, so
long a tri-weekly, appeared August 3ist as
daily 1t makes a very good appearance,
and promises well.
Captain R. W. Huntington, U. s. N. c.,
now on leave, will probably be ordered to
)mmand the marine guard on board the
United States ship Hartford, flagship of the
Pacific squadron.
The Truckee Republican says: Grouse
and quail are very abundant in this vicin-
ity, and the young ones are big enough to
shoot. All the box factories along the river
are being crowded with orders which will
keep them busy until snow flies.
The Austin Rereale says: Word reaches
us that since the killing of Wash,n the
drunken Indian who so cruelty murdered
Mr. Lineberger out in Smoky valley re-
Gently, the Indians have been very morose
and ugly to the whites. and fears Of gen
eral massacre are entertained.
Winters last week was much amused at
the Intellectual efforts of young AdOnis to
kill himself for loves sake. He tried a
pistol, but could not hit himself, and was
laughed at for his pains. He then tried
poison, with no better result, and is now
the launching post of that place.
A newspaper is about to be one Of the at
fractions of Escondido Colony, and i'm
provements at the hotel, including system
of drainage, are about to be effected, and
operations in connection with the building
of the college, the public school and the
Methodist Church are about to be COM
menced.
The Grass Valley Things says: For the
last several days gold has been coming out
of the Crown Point mine in bucketfuls,"
as it is expressed. This gold is coming
from the first and second levels, and as
there is no particular rule about the dis
lance between the levels, the strike in the
lower level is considered one of the best in
dicators that has been found in the mine.
Since Friday evening there has been sew
eral thousand dollars worth of specimen
ore taken from the Crown Point besides
the regular milling rock, which is always
good.
Says the Lyon County, Nevada Times :
d. 0. Mills and Whitelaw Reid were pas
sengers on last Fridays train, bound south.
1t is rumored that their destination is the
Owens river valley, where a survey is being
made to founding wine and grape-grow-
ing colony. The above named, with H.
NJ. Yerington, are supposed to be proprie-
tors of the scheme. If SO the Owens River
valley will soon be thickly populated, and
that locality will be one of the great wine
producing regions of the far West. The
indications are that these gentlemen will
take up at least 10000 acres of land avail
able for the above purpose.
Advices from Independence, Inyo coun-
~, say the surveyors are at work on the
Owens river canal, one of the greatest en-
terprises ever undertaken in Inyo county,
and which when completed, with other
cross. section canals, viii, furnish abundant
water for the irrigation of the entire valley
Fruits and grapes are just coming into
market, all in splendid condition. The ex-
tension of the Carson and Colorado Rail
road from Keller to Moiave, forming a
junction with the Atlantic and Pacific and
Southern Pacific Railroads on the south,
will be proceeded with Immediately. The
completion of this road will give an outlet
from the north and south of the valley.
The Virginia Chronicle says it is proposed
to put up stamp mills in the Sutro tunnel
to be operated by water power. The ore
pulp resulting from crushing will be ffumed
to concentrators set up on the outside of
the tunnel. In many of the shafts there is
plenty of water flowing from the upper
levels to drive turbine wheel with the ire
mendous pressure of more than 900 feet
perpendicular fall. The ore extracted from
the upper levels will be run out through
the connecting drifts and dumped into the
battery self-feeders, located in the tunnel
This will save the cost of hosting ore to
the surface by expensive machinery, of fuel
for generating steam, and the expenses of
transportation and handling the ore over
several times, as is the case at present. 1t
is estimated that by adopting this method
Comstock ore can be extracted and be con-
verted into bullion at cost of less than 50