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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. One man last year shipped from h'rn strawberry ranch in Santa Clara nearly 5,000 pounds in a single day realizing almost $250 for a single shipment. Ttie average per day lor the season last year from this larm was abaut 2,000 pounds. The Rev. Mr. Noble of the Plymouth Ply-mouth Congregational church San Francisco last Sunday in a sermon on stock gambling said: Two years ago a prominent Californian visited that British soothsayer, Cariyle, and descanted in glowing terms upon the mineral wealth of this coast. Cariyle, alterquiotly listening to tbia woudsr-ful woudsr-ful tale, replied: "Sir, the best thing you Californiana can do for your future welfare ia to close ynur mines and plant your land. His advice may not have been entirely correct, but it had undoubtedly a souod basis of thoughtful foresight. If the people on California street had bsen content to develop the real worth ot our mines, great benefit would have accrued to the public at large; but their ideas have never risen above the tact of a dollar made no matter how. I have no accord with those fanatics who denounce tho accumu lation ol money as unholy. NEVADA. It is a common report, generally credited, that a rich striice has been made in the Leopard mill. I am informed in-formed that it was acciden'1, as they had been running parallel with the new ore body for some time, and by diverging a iiltle from the ma n course ot the drift, the ore wasstruck Thirty-nine Nevada assessments become delinquent tins month,' making a total ol some $1,350,000. The Enterprise says that during the, past three months no les than th rty five mines on the Comstock have 1 shut down altogether. Of those still working, some are not employing more than tour or five men. The Lyon County Times is in favor of not ouly free soup houses during these hard limes, but also of free passes over railroads for everybody who wants to go where they can do better. |