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Show PACIFIC COAST JiEWS. CALirOKXIA. AnioiiK the metlioda resorted to by tlie Chinese to smuggle opium, are J thoso of hiding it in fulse bottoms of ' cofl'ee kettles, io tinner's pot3, which are brought ashore on the backs of passengers; in old pieces of limber, about six inches wido, ot the same depth and four feet long, in which pieces are cut out just large enough to hold five-tel cans of opium. In the legs of a carpenter's horse false slides were discovered filled with opium. 1 The duty on opium is SG a pound, mid the article itself is worth about $14.50 a pound. In color and appearance appear-ance it is like molasses, and quite a quantity can be carried on the person or in the various forms of concealment. conceal-ment. The S:m Francisco mint turned oul . $2,048,000 in coin last month. The San Fraucisco September divi dends amounted to S1.528.4W), ot which the Consolidated Virginia mining min-ing company paid 81,080,000. Wheat shipped from Sao Francisco last month S28, 055 centals, valued at, $1,722,114. The British cable rates from all parts of the Pacific coast are now $1.20 a word. The production of marble is becoming becom-ing ono of tho most important brunches of state industry. The marble of Tuolumne county is said to successfully rival that of Italy. The Bulletin says that less than a Bcore of the hundreds ot the mining claims worked on the Pacific coast are on a paying basis. Up to September of this year there bad been levied 308 mining assessments, assess-ments, involving au aggregate of $S.70S, 360, a large increase over the lust two years. Of course this includes only the etock mines on the San Francisco market. The Alaska carried oil' last Friday a return party of 508 heathens. NEVADA. One interesting question ha3 been settled. The White Pine Neios saya that the two-bit saloons take the new twenty-cent pieces just as readily as they do the regular quarter, which makes quite a reduction in the price to those who drink twenty or thirty times a day. Mr. Wild, one of the directors of the Eberhardt & Aurora mining company, com-pany, Ironi London, is at White Pine to make a general inspection of the mines and other property belonging belong-ing to the company. Some of the Virginia firemen say that numbers of people in that city are firm in the belief that the whole, or -at least the greater part of the place will shortly be destroyed by fire. They say that tho disaster has been predicted by certain spiritualists. So far the bills audited for the expenses ex-penses of the bito Indian scare in White Pine county aggregate $3,000. Lincoln county htw alo a big bill to audit. The bulliou tax assessed and collected col-lected in White Pino county tor the quarter ending June 30th, 1S75, was $3,S39.S0. Prank W. Stewart, who has been through the state collecting mineral specimens for tho centennial, states that outside of Piocbe, Eureka and Austin, there is probably not a min- ing shaft nor incline in eastern, northern or southern Nevada which has been carritd to a greater depth than five or six hundred feet. Nevada grown peaehes and nppl'ja are now an ausuii luxury. i Tho latest drink indulged in alj Austin is the 'resumption cocktail," 1 just invented at a saloon, where they also servo tho "syndicate- luiMy." Either drink is, the Rcvallc says, a "guarantee fund" of cheerfulness these dull times. The foundation, of a new Masonic hall is being laiu at Virginia city. The assessed value of the property of the Bank of California at Virginia city and Gold Hill is $86575. A party of Chicagoans have been making a business tour of the slate, buying mines wherever they think the prospect warrants purchase. They were lately at Winuemucca, and it is reported they have purchased the Maine ltdgo in Sierra district. |