The morning call., 1890-11-30
COAST ITEMS.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
Fresno County has $4,000 acres Of vine
yards.
The delinquent tax-rOn Of MERGED is less
than $780,
All the gambling dens of Redding have
been closed.
The School Fund of Butte Mont, contains
$4,000 in hard coin.
Ventura farmers are forced to feed bean
straw to their stock, as hay is held at $50 a
ton.
The cornerstone of the Mendocino State
Insane Asylum Will be laid at u kiah on De-
Gem Der 9th.
The official vote of Pima County, Ariz,
showed the value of one vote, for Il elected
Brown Sheriff:
Frank Riluria went ont hunting near Co
mox, b. c., last Thursday and accidentally
shot himself to death.
Four desperate criminals escaped from the
jail at Whateom, Wash, on FRIDAY night by
boring through the floor.
The wool shipments from Shelter Cove,
Humboldt County, amounted to 25S, $50
pounds up to November 10th.
The City Council OF Los Angeles refused
to entertain suggestion from Mayor Ha-
card to reduce liquor licenses.
S. b. Patrick has sold the Tuare County
Times to Ben Nj. Maddox, who will take
charge on and after January l, 1891.
The shipments of wheat from Antelope
Valley, Los Angeles County, for 1880 WAS
81, S94 sacks, equal to AGO., go pounds.
The Humboldt River aud some of its
tributaries are said to be gorged in many
places with caIcasses of cattle that persisted
last winter.
Among the Improvements to be made to
the Soldiers Home at Santa Monica are
headquarters, library for officers, hospital,
laundry and barracks. IlpS0 will cnst
$4,000.
A drift in the Aver claim at Mooney Flat,
Nevada County, recently penetrated gravel
deposit fifty feet wide by fifteen feet deep.
The dirt pays 81 ton.
The Bakersfield Echo says it looks as ii
the party of railroad surveyors intend to
winter at TETON. A force Of carpenters and
a lot OF lumber were sent there last week to
put up buildings.
Between January LIST and November 18th
the shipments of orchard and vineyard
products of Fresno County amounted TO 3D.
400,o0 pounds. 1t required l110 cars to
move this immense load.
Goose Lake, Lake County, Oregon, has
dried up 10 such an extent that whole sec
tons of land were made vacant At the
Land Office recently ,twenty-eight filings
were made ON this reclaimed spot.
Mayor Gum of San Diego has notified the
delegates that there is deficit of S422S T6
no further appropriations be made this Year
so the above sum can be paid off.
An agent for San Francisco commission
house went to YlSaia recently and bought
300 turkeys in one day. He paid 81 so for
each bird and so placed S4S00 In circulation
among the women of that place.
Water in Mad River, Humboldt Coun ty,
is very low, says the Arcata Union, and the
mouth is entirely closed. Countless num-
bers of salmon are swarming in the surf
waiting for chance to run up stream.
William Garfield, who Was shot on the
back three weeks ago by Deputy Constable
Lewis, who was drunk, died at Sawyer on
Friday night. Lewis has been in jail wait
ing the outcome OF the reckless shooting
The Orovile Register says Reyman &
Evans lately lost 10 head of fine beef steers
from their Butte Creek range. The cattle
we're stolen and driven across the Sacra-
mento River. and that is the last that has
been heard Of them.
The Gridley Herald says that wild geese
are more troublesome in the grain fields
near town than for years past Ranchers
think it is because the Stockmen along Butte
Creek prevent hunters from raidins The
haunts of the pests.
The Lompoc Journal says: The sur
yeyors spent several days in town this
week. and they report that there will be
thirty tunnels between san Julian and
Lompoc, besides the big San Julian tunnel,
aggregating 81, 900 feet, at a cost of $50 per
foot. The route, they say, would be
series OF trestles and tunnels.
The Monache Tidings says: A lately
discovered mine in Tulare County, the ore
from which assays over $50 per ton in silver.
is located so near to the big tree reserya-
ton that the discoveries fear it is within the
limits Of the reservation. This would be
pretty hard on the pr0spectors who have
been to considerable expense and loss look
ing for it.
The Santa Rosa Democrat says that the
total hop crop Of S0n0ma County this wear
was 549l bales, and that the amount realized
from the hop crop of that county this season
will aggregate S250,000, and the bales are
several hundred short OF the yield of 1889,
OF the 549l bales only 700 remain unsold.
and the holders of these are expecting an
advance in prices.
The Hanford Sentinel says There seems
to be quite butter famine in town now.
which may be accounted for by the fact that
milk is bringing cent pound at the
cheese factory. Butter cannot be made for
25 cents per pound or 80 cents per roll when
milk is worth cent, for the reason that it
takes 30 cents worth of milk to make a
pound of butter.