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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS (ALUOItMl, Contra CoaU county suffore from a tlcarLli uf Hpirituul adviscin. Eighty-live hands ur employed at the S:m Jose woolen mills, of whom fifty-three are Chinese. Tho wnw milU t f Gilroy turn out, anmniMy, 3,250,000 feet of redwood lumber. S;mt;i Barbara has vitjiona of ft $150,000 hotel. lUdelightl'ul climate attracts a constant etream of Eastern and European tourLstd. A milt lepoait lias been discovered in the vicinity of the Washoe Houne, sue miles from Petnluma. Tlie farincn in tbcvicinity of Old San Bernardino are busily employed in putting in their grain crova. The l'olsom Quarry, employing about forty white men and the same number ol Chinamen, is netting out 200,000 pavement blocks fbriSan Francisco Fran-cisco every month. A gt'iiMcmnn iu Kingston, at tha time of tlie Vasqiioz gang, on hom iny the lirsl shot immctliatrly inserted hiu lieiul in a brass -kettle just to examine exam-ine into the internal economy of the thing. It has been demonstrated that oranges and other semi-tropical fruity can be raised in Sonoma county. From 300 to 400 men are employed in the mines ol the Pine Flat District. Ttio Grangers held a grand harvest feat at San Bernardino lately. From all sections of San Bernardino n. t a good season. A much greater extent ex-tent .of land will bo sown in wheat and barley, than in any previout? year. NEVADA. Senator Jones is said to have ao much money that he is troubled to know iiOw to get rid of it. The 'assessor of Eureka county, having at heart the welfare of the toiling masses; is circulating a petition peti-tion for the abolition, of the road tax. Twelve inches of snow fell at Gold Jlill on Saturday.. The Methodist revival meetings at Gold Hill are well attended and several sever-al conversions have been made. The Manhattan mill, Austin, has started up again, after lying idle for several weeks. Austin is revelling in masquerades. A new Democratic paper is to be Btarted in Virginia City, with C. L. Perkins, editor. John Kelly died at Eureka, on Sunday night, from injuries received last week in the Richmond. The recent fire on the Central Pacific Pa-cific destroyed about $20,000 worth of cord wood. Miss Mary Bntler has been arrested at Virginia City, on suspicion of being the mother of the child found murdered last week. Lander county owes $12,000. One -hundred and fourteen convicts in the Nevada State prison. At many points in Carson Valley, a i species of wild tobacco grows iu great , abundance. The leaf is small, something some-thing like that of the genuine Cuba tobacco, and, it is said, the Indiana use it in their pipes, OREGON. A medical journal will soon be started at Salem. Corvallis has one of tho best and most convenient wharves on the Willamct River. JL. hi, I'ratt has talked Albany somewhat into the notion of having a woolen factory, to be run by Santiam ,Ditch water. The tax-payers of Wasco County pay 3G cents on an avcruge for each beef animal as taxes, and 41 cents a head on sheep. : A first-class flouring mill is very much needed in Corvallis. Chop feed is now shipped there from Salem and flour from Albany, Tho Btagea have been taken off the road between Coos City and Roseburg I on account of the batl condition of the road and scarcity of travel. Tiie mails will be carried on horse-back. A party is digging, for cinnibar in the Coast llan.ee mountains, in the western part of Yamhill County. The larmers of Linn County are 'holding their potatoes fur a rise, and Albany is without ''spuds" lor home consumption. |