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Show PACIFIC COAST XEWS. CAL1FOUMA. Gamier, Dion, Itudolphe mid Ubasy will be invitwl lo participate iu a Sail Francisco billiard tournament tourna-ment in the latter part of September. Five thousand dollars' worth of prizes will be offered. Boise City is about to give birth to a Democratic newspaper. A farmer near Sun 3oso woa recently re-cently paid $00 by a Chinaman for the privilege of cleaning liia wheat fields ol the wild mustard plitnt. Tho seed ia worth 2:J cents a pound. L Seligman, tho banker, of Xew York City, h:ia Liken an interest ill Leopold Ltchtcubcrg, the San Francisco Fran-cisco boy violinist, and has offered to pay his oxpenaca to Europe. A parly of Vtilleioites are about to organize a company, with a capital ol SoOO.000, for the purposo of manufacturing manu-facturing chroma tes. They have already secured an immense amount of chrome iron, from which to manufacture manu-facture tho various salta of chromium that aro demanded by the market. Contents of an "Eastern bound freight-train: Seven carloads of salmon, sal-mon, five of wool, two of wine, four of merchandise, two of syrup, two of malt, and one of barley. These came West: One ol carriages, two of iron, of miscellaneous things. The Xavy Yard employes at Marc Island want to be paid twice a month. Of the San Francisco Industrial Exposition, tho BulUtui says: Visitors Vis-itors from tho East have generally expressed astonishment at the magnitude, magni-tude, variety, and excellence of the present Fair, and' pronounce' the display superior to a great proportion of the exhibitions of the Atlantic cities. The roceipti of treasure at San Francisco from Oregon last month, through Iho Express . Company, amounted to $1V5,'.00. There was 5,200 tons ore taken from the Meadow Valley Mine during the last year. The income for the year was $709,313, and the ordinary expenditures were $") 13,323, showing a proilt of $160,389. Forty-five thousand dollars in cash will be distributed iu premium at tho State Fair. There are now three steamers in 1 the trade between California and Central America, 1-Tor. Davidson and parly ol me u. S. Coast Survey, left San Francisco on Saturday by the steamer Japan en route to Japan to observe the transit of Venus. . The State Grange Patrons ol Husbandry, Hus-bandry, will meet in Stockton Tuesday, Tues-day, October Gth. Another attempt to burn the Chinese Chi-nese quarter in Truckee was made last Tuesday evening. It is stated that Chinese passengers on the cars running to and from the cemeteries, are iu the habit of transporting trans-porting the bones of their dead to the city on these cars,' preparatory to sending them to China. The bones are enclosed in a sack which the Chinpmau takesou the cars with him. KEVAM. Caplain John Bristow, uncle of the Secretary of the Treasury died at Roseville August 251U,, At the Raymond and Ely Mino, reception and placing of the pumping machinery. The snow hue almost entirely disappeared disap-peared Ironi all the elevated points on the Washoe range visible from Truckee. J. T. Burr and M. Sullivan recently sold to J. L. Higbe, of Mount Vcraon. Oho, a third interest in their ''Eliza' mine, in Delano District, in the northern part of Elko County, the buyer binding himself to erect a smelting furnace immediately, to cost $0,000. Two thousand tons of steel rails are being laid on the mountain portion of the Central Pacific. There was great and universal rejoicing re-joicing in I'ioche on the 20th, on the , reception of tho news that the Su-I Su-I preme Court had dissolved the injunction granted by the District Court in tho case of the Magnet Mining Min-ing Company vs. Page and Panaca Silver Mining Company. The daily shipment of ore from the mines ou the Comstock over the j Virginia and' Truckee Railroad, is about SS0 tons; OUECOV iiohiios fc Meyers, of Polk County, have Eold their ilock of 050 sheep to Lewis Bros., for $2.50 per head. The Salem mills have received ao far about 30,000 bushels of wheat of the 1874 crop. The Bridge Creek mines, in Jackson Jack-son County, aro being worked with considerable success. Over 20,000 head of sheep have been driven into Wasco County, over Hie Cascade Mountains, during the present season. |