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Show PACIFIC CO AST NEWS CALIFORNIA. Tlie Napa Grangers are taking steps to start cooperative stores, blacksmith shops, etc., nt Napa City. Over fifty buildings have been erected er-ected in Santa Barbara within six months. Some specimens from a ledge recently recen-tly discovered by V. W. Ketlog of Cherokee, Plumas county, show splendidly splen-didly in free gold. Tlie best quality of pine wood ii being delivered in Quincr, Plumas county, for $2 per cord, a decrease of fifty cents on the price oflast year. Ben. S. Eaton, of Los Angeles, has. within six years reclaimed from the brush li0 acres of land, and has a flourishing vineyard without any irrigation. irri-gation. The Great Wests m Cimbar mine located some twelve miles southwest from Gucnuc, in Lake county, has an immense quantity of ore in sights estimated as high as $60,000 worth. River mining on tho bars of tho Mokelummo river is being carried on to a very considerable extent, and in many instances, with profitable results tlie water in that river being lower than at any other period within tlie I hii-t twenty years. Tho hop growors around San Jose havo finished their hop picking. They employed about rive hundred Chinamen during the picking season. Two colored girls girls of Oakland, named Mary and Francis Williams, were stolen and curried to San Francisco Fran-cisco by JohnTomkins sometime ago. The girls have been recovered and Tom kins arrested. Rich silver discoveries are rppoLted . to have been made in the Mineral . King district, fifty miles east of Vis-alia.at Vis-alia.at the head of the Kaweah river. ' The newly discovered ledge is twenty feet wide, three miles long, and its ore assaying $S7 io the ton. Thomas Smith, 23 years cf age.diedi at Gold Hill recently. He had $50,- 000 in drafts and money which was sent, with his remains, to his relations in Canada. Dayton reports an attempted rape on an old latly 60 years of age, 'q names are given. Gold Hill thermometers stand at sixty-three degrees in the shade. Thomas Wallace, of Piochc, recently recent-ly injured by being thrown from his horse continues, in a sGmuscnselpss. itatc. There is little hope of his recpv- ( ery. Patches of snow begin to show themselves them-selves quite liberally on the Sierra and Washoe ranges of mountains. Elko, is now supplied with meat at 1 a low figure, beef retailing at from 14 to HH cents per pound, mutton 15 and pork 16$. By the side beef is worth ' 6 cents, mutton, 10, pork 12. At Galena an immense body of high grade ore has just been struck in the lower level of tho White mine, ont also a very large body of ore in the upper level. This ore is not so rich as that foand in the lower level, the average assays being about t20o per ton, while the other aesays as high ns $1,000 to the ton. At Litla valley, in the Reese River district, tlie Brown's Hope, Cinderella and Blue Dick and other mines are nelding a high grade of ore sime of ;t as high .is $1,000 per ton. . In the Independent a ledge six feet thick has been struck. In the Blue Gravel .1 well defined ledge of ore, which assays $ x8 per ton, has been struck. The ores of the other mines have assayed as follows: Blue Wing, silver, $ol o-; gold, 01; Oriental, silver. $liSS 30; gold, S12o'J; Orental, silver, 4J7 fr); gold, '25 48 ; Independent, silver, 03 50; gold, trace. fcA large number of.Sho;honja are appearing ap-pearing about Eureka, on their annual an-nual nut gathering tour. A romantic young lady of Virginia City recently eloped with a Piute brave. Her paternal parent chased the couple 180 miles, snatched the brave b.ild-l.oJed,"and brought homts his daughter. OREGO.V Willamette University is in a very prosperous condition. A young man of Albany, last Sunday Sun-day night, got tbo " mitten " at the Baptist church because ho caught a young lady by the bustfo and pulled her back to ask her company home. The larmerV warehouse at Albany is literally full and running over with wheat. It is estimated that it cou tains 125,000 bushels of wheat more than its registered capacity. Stephen Hill, of l'oilc county, re ccntly left his home and went lo California, Cal-ifornia, from where he writes that he will not return to Oregon. His wife and creditors are in grief, the latter most deeply, probably. The Albiany Pfmofi-a tclb this: "A ' rough ' last Saturday, nt the Fair, steppi-d up to ft young girl whom he had never seen, and, "raising his hat, a.sked her to take a swing with him. Her father happened to bo standing by, and in a jiliy the toe of his No. 10 boot was propelling the impudent puppy .across the road. He won't .swing with that man's daughter, you 1 better guess. |