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Show PACEFIC COAST XEWS. CALIPOttXIA. Sacramento Bhipped to San Francisco, Fran-cisco, on Saturday, 7,200 cantelcpea. The Alvarado sale works turn oat from five to fifteen tons of salt daily, Tbe grape crop throughout Amador county has never been more promising in quality and quantity than now. There are said to be 300,000 sheep now feeding in Las?cd county. Kemp & Detour's lumber mill, and 400,000 feetol'lumber, were burned at Nimshew's, Butte county, last Monday evening. ; Tbe ladies of the Catholic church at Benicia are preparing for a grand fair, for a benefit for St, Vincent school. The estate of the late judge Norton, of San Franoisco, as shown by the bequests be-quests in his will, amounts to $S0,-000. $S0,-000. John H. Riley, formerly of the Sao Franoisco Aha, is lying very ill of cancer can-cer on the face in Virginia. A terrible and disastrous fire occurred oc-curred at Vacavillc, August 6ih, which resulted in the destruction of nearly $10,000 worth of properly. Republican congratulatory meetings over the result of the election in North' Carolina were held in all the principal towns of tho Facifio coast during last week. The water in the upper Sm Joaquin Joa-quin river is falling rapidly. It is not expected the boats will bo able to gel up the river more than two weeks longer. The manufacture of reoin and turpentine tur-pentine has been commenced at San Diego. Specimens of these articles have been pronounced of superior quality. qual-ity. The pitch is produced from La-guna, La-guna, about seventy-five miles distant. NEVADA. Kureka exhibits a quart of Arizona Bethards and McFarland j had a shooting scrape a few days ago I on Ruby Hill, Shell dutd. Eight shots j were fired and a by-stander hit in tbe leg. Numbers of dead cattle havo lately been found floating in the Humboldt river. It is supposed they died from eating poisonous weeds. Gov. Fall, of Unionvillc, has 5,000 head of cattle on the way from Texas. A drive of 30,000 cords of wood is ! coming down the Carson river. i Mining excitement runs high in the i Silver Zone district George Fox, of Humboldt, is organizing or-ganizing a third Arizona diamond company. com-pany. OREGOA'j ETC. Ben Holladay has purchased the favorite Bummer resort at Clatsop lteaoh, Oregon. Portland journals claim this year's wheat crop will yeld a surplus of 3.000.-000 3.000.-000 bushels. Eastern iron manufacturers have purchased ore beds in the depoeits near Oswego, Oregon, and arc building build-ing smelting furnaces. The Northern Pacifio railroad has purchased the largest portion of tho town of Wallula. Peter G. Koch will erect at Olympia a new fire-proof brick building, three stories high, with a Btone foundation and slate roof, to be used as a bank. The North Pacific railroad company has several parties at work examining the various passes of the Cascades east of Puget Sound. Tho railway surveying party on White river, about twenty miles from Seattle, is expected to fioi.-,h up the present line in ten days. Some of the party who wore influenced in-fluenced to leave Boston for the rich mines in Eastern Oregon, have returned re-turned to Portland from their 6carch without even finding the location of the mines. Counterfeit half-dollars arc circulating circu-lating plentifully in Southern Oregon, Five bridges in Prickly Pear canyon, Montana, wore recently washed away by high water. Times in Pioneer eity, Montana, aro reported as lively. Fighting the tiger is indulged in to a considerable extent. |