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Show PACIFIC COAST ITEM3. CALIFORNIA. The San Bernardino Advertiser says that Iruit-miaing in that valley, on a commercial scale, has- not been attempted, at-tempted, cave in three or four instances, but iL predicts that the semi-tropical fruit business iB destined to be one of great importance in thai country. It appears that Senator Jones if hiking the Los Angeles and Inde pendence mud by a route not originally origin-ally contemplated. It is Baid that he will make ihe dolour by way of Chine and Riverside to San Bernardino, and thence to the Uajou. Tass, providing San Bernardino courty will assist n little in the way of bonds. The reason for ttiis divergence through a longai route is said lo be owing to a natural preference lor rich-farming and fruii lands to a shorter route through unproductive un-productive deserts. In boring for water at the Meets ranch, ueur San Bernardino, last week, according to tho Advertiser, the : workmen were surprised at discovering discover-ing that numerous eels had beon ejected, ranging in length from six to eight inched. The supposition is ihai a subterranean lake exists at an inconsiderable in-considerable depth. Pirates aro operating on the Sacra men to river. A boatman was recently rubbed of $30 in coin. The Chinamen ol duller county pay J 170 in poll taxes, San Francisco has a population of rising a quarter of a million, and it owes less than lour millions. To be more precise in the comparison; one-fotn one-fotn th ll e (i,e ol New York, it owcm thirty-eight limes lens money; one-tlurd one-tlurd the size oi Philadelphia, it owes lilieen times less money. IJiillf.tin. |