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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS (MUI'OKXIA. Many wenltliy families in S.m Fmndsco .mil Scniniento htivo wriU ten lo engng-3 dimmer quai Lera in , fc)nt!L (Jru,. Sciiiiiur O'Connor of Xey.ul.a Co. i t;oiiiK t) Europe for u six months' tour. Woodwj.nl, of N;ip.i, recently sold one of his Eugene Ctisscrly col U for So.OOO. Speckled trout .ire plentiful in Independence In-dependence Lako. They Jiro c-uilit by iishermen and brought down by Uie pud' full, and sold in the Truck cc market. To reach the hike snow-hhoea snow-hhoea are indispensable-. Al Point Arena there are about 1,000 acres of land under cultivation. (XX) of which are in oats, 100 in bar-Icy, bar-Icy, and J00 in potatoes. Tho Xoilhcrn KiiUrpri saya that the Legislatorial Kichards havo become be-come themselves again. Perkins m n y be seen at his store in Ins shirtsleeves. shirt-sleeves. Hendricks is busy at his mining claim, while Assemblyman Gray is at his old post as Attornoy-at-law. Senator Irwin, beioro he tinkered with the fare and freight question, sajB the Yreka Journal, was credited with some ability and sense, but now his most ardent political friends con-si con-si Jcr him a dead duck. The Amador Lcdfcr suggest that one reason why the late Legislature was eo rough on whisky was because the Sacramento saloons could not furnish fur-nish a first-class article. Fred. Cox, of Sacramento, recently sheared a Spanish merino lamb, fourteen months old, tho llecco of which weighed twenty-four pounds. The tobacco-growing experiment at the Los Angeles race-track is pro-1 pro-1 grossing satisfactorily. ! The fancy poultry fever is raging I quite seriously at San Jose. NEVADA. A young German, went to Virginia City, recently, ami, being unable to get work, and repulsed by a "friend" when seeking a small loan, went without with-out fuod for twoor three days, and at last fell in a fainting tit from hunger. Ho was picked up aud cared for. The j (Jokl Hill jVctc thinks he will have to 1 acquire a little more "cheek" before he is succeeslul in the sagebrush country. coun-try. the Reese li'wer ll:ccfc says: C. C. 1 Batterman, of Storey County, is an Indcpctidunt candidate for Governor, Several inches ol snow fell at Virginia Vir-ginia City on the 10th inst. The Reese River h'w.titfc says: There are green peas in market. They sell at two bits a piece, the pods to be returned to the storekeeper. A deposit as security for their return is required, as the seller wants to "liil 'em up again." The Reno Journal expresses the most undoubted confidence that the ' State Prison of Nevada will bo trans- ' ferred to that place. Governor Brad- '. ley was expected there last Saturday to select its site, and had informed the editor ol the Juumal that its construe- lion should be begun immediately, OREGON. ! Tos. Hendricks, of L;ike County, who had a bond of fifty horses) bet'ore the Winter set in, lost every one and 1 nf.rrowly escaped perishing himself. Farmers are busily engaged plowing plow-ing throughout the Ponder River Valley and there will be more grain sown this season than any heretofore. hereto-fore. Tho warm weather now prevail- . ing has started the snow to melting, , which causes Rogue river to be very : high. The various creeks aro almost unfordable. The recent cold weather drove deer and other game down into lue valleys in Jackson County from the mountains in considerable quantities, and any amount could be slaughtered without any trouble. The stock oh Butt creek, Jackson County, is getting along finely, and there is but little danger of any further fur-ther loss. The loss during the Winter was not heavy. Grass is springing up nicely and with a few days more of fine weather will be good grazing. The Baker city Ucratd learns that quartz which is now being taken out of tho Summit mine.at Augusta.in that County, is of a richer quality than has ever necn produced in that mine. There are no mines in Baker county which have been fully developed. de-veloped. But inuqh wiH be dune tho present season tending that way, A correspondent writing to the Orcijonian Bays: "Experienced farmers farm-ers say that this is the best average Spring season for plowing aud sowiug for some years ; that there will he a lrge increase of soil under crop, and the prospects of an abundant harvest, so Jar, arc very encouraging. The improvement in cultivation is greater than the increase in the acreage that will be under crop. The number num-ber of new and improved farm housed will exceed any year in the State for the last ten years. The farmers, as a rule, are in excellent spirits." |