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Show A(-HUILTIKE vs. JllMXG A Xtw York Kstimate ot the Two luUustrieei. Ne York, 24. The Times says, despite the immeiue yield of gold m Canioruia, it it now euown thai her tillatjie soil pruiluces more actual weaith than ber ncha-it mines. Her grain and her fruit excetd in value tne best of her p!acers. Her grape crop this season will be ao very large that preparations are making to convert con-vert l.OOJ tons of grapes into raisins. Most persons think of California only as a j-old bearing state, and it is plewaut to know that ber agricultural agricul-tural resources are beyond those of her mines. Agriculture is apt to pay ! better than gold or silver seeking in :any fertile, well cultivated region, but there ia a sort ol fascination about precious metals which allures men tne world over and blinds them to more rational and legitimate branches of industry. It ia said by those in a position to Know that not one man in filty Wio has dug for gold on the Pacific Biope has procured any considerable con-siderable amount. The fortune-makers fortune-makers for the most part have been and are etill speculators in Sn Fran-, Cisco and Sacramento. The great majority of the men who have goue to California to get gold, from lM9 io the present time, have not, it is declared, secured as much as it cost them to reach there and return. The hardest possible way to obtain gold is to look lor it in the grouud, It is mucQ easier to get it generally by staying away from mines. |