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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. Mackerel are abundant in San Diego harbor. Senator Boucher, of Chico, is recovering re-covering from a severe illness. The dry murrain has appeared among the cattle of San Felipe. The Chine.sc of San Francisco celebrated cele-brated tho Feast of Linterns on Tuesday. Tues-day. Passenger traius now run regularly over the Yallejo route to Sacramento. The San Francisco mint coined $00,-000 $00,-000 in ten dollar pieces and $35,000 in fives, last week. A large grain elevator at South Val-Itjo Val-Itjo was completely crushed. Monday. Potato speculators are buying of Monterey farmers by the acre, the buyers buy-ers to dig and sack the yield. The San Francisco Probate court denies Matilda Heron's application for 1 an allowance cut of Harry Byrne's estate. es-tate. Orrin Dubois of San Joso has invented inven-ted a mower attachment, by aid of which a mower is enabled to pass through mustard stalks and weeds with ease. it is estimated that the expenses of the municipal government of San Francisco Fran-cisco this year will be $3, 1ST, 000. Thero are fivo thousand tons of wheat piled on the Stockton wharves awaiting shipment to San Francisco. The shipments amount to several thousand thou-sand tons a week. The Nevada "Gazette" says Grass Valley and Marysville have subscribed the entire amount asked to aid tho projected narrow gauge, and that it will require little effort to raise the remainder. re-mainder. In tho suit of Mesick vs. Mayo and others, to test the title land in Sacramento, Sacra-mento, judge Field decided that the statute of limitations, set up as a plea by the defense, was invalid. - The fast horses "Occident," "Goldsmith "Gold-smith Maid" and "Lucy" were on Saturday all shod afresh by a Sacramento Sacra-mento blacksmith. While the shoeing was going on, the shop was besieged by an eager crowd, desirous of seeing tbo travelers. ; The Los Angeles city counoilhas unanimously un-animously adopted tho ordinance to donate to the Southern Pacific railroad the stock of that city in the Los Angeles Ange-les and San Pedro railroad. The German bakers who handle the plastio dough at San Francisco have had a meeting to devise means for securing se-curing a respite from labor on Sundays. A benefit at one of the theatres was decided on as an initiatory step in the matter. NEVADA. The stage time from Salt Lake to Pioche is to be reduced to forty-eight hours. The Grey Eagle mine is to be consolidated con-solidated with the Setting Sun The Raymond and Ely company has paid $2,115,000 to its stockholders since January, 1S71. The Pioche Phoenix mining company has been organized with $4,000,000 capital. Clover Valley, near Piocho, has had a cloud burst. St. Thomas is alarmed at Indians on the Muddy river, Nevada is just now afflicted with a fatal and infectious cattlo disease. It is oausing a panic among cattle dealers. Ranchers from Beoua Vista and Pleasant V alleys are delivering barley in HnioDville, at Irom $2 to $3 pei cental. S. Barclay, superintendent of th Neveda transportation company, was shot by John Mcintosh at Eureka, Monday morning. The wound is not daneerous. Mcintosh is under arret,! awaiting examination. The skeleton of a young girl was found last week among the rocks on the hill above the Virginia City hospital. hos-pital. Two of the front teeth are missing mis-sing and a number of the others are loose, and from appearance it is inferred that violence had been used. OREGOS AC. The Salem 'Statesmin " proclaims the advent of street bootblacks. Walla Walla .Valley was visited by an unusually heavy rainfall last week, lasting three days. The "Sentinel" says the monte bank in La Grande is broke, and the people are compelled to seek amusement in other ways, 'ihe treasury department has ordered order-ed that the revenue schooner "Reliance," "Reli-ance," while stationed at Alaska, shall winter on Puget Sound. The track-layers on the West Side railroad arc laying a mile of track every day. The road will be completed com-pleted to St. Joe, about fifty miles iioni Portland, this month. The hoodlums about La Grande ride cayuse ponies and go cavorting through the country, stopping in front of farm houses and using obscene and insulting language to the inmates. The Willamette university and the Monmouth college havo both opened with flattering prospects of success during the fall and winter terms. John A. Sims, recently appointed agent at the new Indian reservation at Colville, built the first flouring mill at Walla Walla, and also introduced the first wheat sown in that valley in 1859. The Oregon senate has a little 'leven in it, but it doesn't leaven the whole lump. In short, there are two 'levens in it, and that's what's the matter; they stand each other off. mines. Under the U. S. mining law, tho owner of a claim may follow the dip of his lode, laterally, outside of the superficial area of his patent, but a vertical plane cuts off his lode longitudinally. longitu-dinally. In some instances of massive deposits, it is difficult to determine in what course lies their length or width, r to distinguish tbeso relative dimensions, dimen-sions, and this difficulty opens the door to litigation, and furnishes experts ex-perts an opportunity to contend for the championship of hard swearing. I do not mean to imply that there are not honest men among experts as in other professions, but as geology is principally princi-pally a specul itive science, its professors profes-sors have a wide field in which to ! ventilate their individual theories, and it is characteristic of the most celebrated cele-brated men of their olan, to seek fame or notoriety by announcing some startling startl-ing opinion or discovery. MILLING ORES. I still m-;.r.:ain that the most economical econ-omical netb'xl of reducing a majority of the Cottonwood ores is by the milling mill-ing process. This method of reduction is cheaper than smelting, and the ore cau bo worked up to a higher per ceotage than by the latter process. Of course, ore carrying sufEoiest percentage percent-age of lead to smelt should be smelted, but when they only carry from six to twenty per cent,, tho loss of the lead which would result from reduction by milling and roasting the ore, would be ruoro than compensated by tho superior super-ior economy of the process, t understand under-stand that the Matilda ores only carry six per cent, of lead ; tho Emma, I think, only about sixteen, and Mr, Ely, of the Davenport, assures me that ho is so well satisfied with tho feasibility and economy of milling the ore of that mino, that he intends to build a miil to reduce them. Wasatch. |