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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. ; The fruit growers of tho state have formed a cooperative association, or ! joint stock company, in order to control con-trol the fruit markets of the United States. . It is reported that the Central Pacific railroad will decline to enter' into any combination with eastern' railroad companies whereby pasaeu- i !ger rates maybe materially reduced to persons desiring to visit the Ceo-1 tennial exhibition, and tho Call points out that this resolution will have the; ellect to save a good deal of money to the people of California, many of whom had determined to visit Phi la-1 delphiaon the supposition that fares would be reduced to $100 or $125 for the round trip. A gentleman frcm the Pennsylvania oil regions has purchased 200 acres of oil land at San Fernando, and ordered extensive machinery from the east. A grand railroad mass meeting will be held at San Luis Obispo, to consider con-sider the project of building a coast narrow gauge railway in conjunction with the people of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. The seats for tho first performance at Wade's opera house were sold at auction, and brought from $145 to to $.50 each. The levee in th- Suttor county re-j claiming lands near Marysvile was cut by some malicious persons, one day last weok, flooding a large tract of country and destroying many valuable valu-able crops. Senator Jones' Kern vi lie mine ii likely to prove a second Comstock. . An immense ledge of ore easily assaying assay-ing $300 to the ton has been disclosed. L. S. Taylor ol Sacramento has just picked from a'pear tree in his garden tiie third crop of fruit since spring, though only the first was of pears large enough to be marketable. NEVADA. The United States grand jury at Carson have indicted E. D. Kelly, editor of the Silver State, for misdemeanor misde-meanor in publishing a quack advertisement. adver-tisement. A rich strike is reported in tho Lady Bryan mine, Six Mile canon. During the past year 160,307 464-2,000 464-2,000 tons of ore have been abstracted from all the levels of the Consolidated Virginia niiue, and 100,094 1,800-2,-000 tons have baen reduced, wliich yielded $10,731,654.43 in bullion. The large bullion scales in the Carson Car-son mint are so delicately adjusted that the difference in weight between a gray and a brown hair from the same person's head can be readily determined, de-termined, a recent test showing the difference to be two-millionths of a irrain. Colonel J. Williams, journalist, whoj recently committed suicide at Pioche, left on his table a note which con-j taioed the following; "My curse will , always follow the Pioche Record and : Territorial Enterprise. I am tired of life. I have done too much for others. None seem to appreciate me poor but proud." |