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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS j CALIFORNIA.' Occident is, to appear at the Santa Clara County fair. James A. Goodman & Co., of Napa, have paid out the prc-iunt- month $120,700 lor wheat and kirlcy, ;. " The recent foggy weather "ha greatly improved tho corn. and' potato po-tato Crop In Sonoma County. , " There arc now eight' .grange's ' In Colusa County, and tJvvc ju-c five other neighborhoods in' which they aro wanted. Tho Clear Lake water" company will make Oakland a prominent point." They -will spend $100,000 the next three months on their works. A piece of gold-bearing quartz ha.s been found in an "artesian well in the city of Los Angeles, at the 'depth of 200 feet, ' The Kcm . Coonry sheep men arc busy shearing. The fall clip is turning turn-ing oft' very well, the wool for the most part being clean and of fair length. ' ' There is more bustle and bushiest-exhibited bushiest-exhibited on the Navy Yard at the present time than has been witnessed for many montlia. Twelve hundred men are at work. ." Extensive improvements are goiiif on at the powder mills, near Sauie Cruz, winch will, when complctvd greatly facilitate the machinery ant double the product. The establishment of the Order u ratrous of Husbandry is rapidly pro greying throughout the State. Al ready tiity-six granges have been in sliuik-d. The depot of Soledad , the torminu of the Southern Pacific railroad, i finished. Soledad now has a depot round-house, water tank, hotel, liver stablo. and a few houses. Stock herders in (frizzly Valley ar troubled with depredation' of bears Quito a number of cattle, old an-younu. an-younu. and sheep herders have beei troubletl severely. NEVADA. L. 3. Wild, manager of l Atlaa tic and Pacific telegraph office a Virginia City, has been arrested fo: embezzling .1,080, 73. Five tons of Cornucopia ore havt l been reduced at Winnemucca with i Only an average yield. t Nevada is endeavoring to stock sev- ; eral of her streams with trout. Three Chinamen are at work grad- f ing the Elko &. Hamilton narrow-gauge, narrow-gauge, according to the Eureka Scn- find. That nuul is lound to be built. oki;.ov Several fires have been raging in the woods for the past week near Cornelius. Cor-nelius. The first frost of the season at Cornelius Cor-nelius oh Wednesday morning the 10th instant. Four immigrant wagons which left the State of Minnesota last May passed pass-ed through Albany this week. Twenty-live teams were unloading wheat at the Farmers warehouse at one time last Monday. A gentleman from. Brownsville says the ware-houses at that place are full wheat, and still the grain in the neighborhood is coming in in large lots. The wiills at the Capitol buildings at Salem are slowly progressing upward., up-ward., and will in a few days be completed com-pleted above the window frame of the first story. A correspondent says there will be a meeting of the farmers of Washington Wash-ington county at Hillsboro on Saturday Satur-day , the 20th, for the purpose of organizing or-ganizing a farmers' grange. |