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Show The change in the leading industries of California is strikingly illustrated in the Mechanics' Fair at San Francisco. A few j'eare ago the machinery hall re-sounde'd re-sounde'd with the din of quartz mills and other machinery devoted to mining purposes. pur-poses. There were amalgamators, pumps, and infinite variety of contrivances contriv-ances for the extraction of the precious metals. Now there is scarcely anything any-thing to remind one that California is a mining country, except a few models of mining machinery and a handsome dis-plav dis-plav of mineral " specimens. There is machinerv enough in the building, however, how-ever, but it is almost wholly of an agricultural agri-cultural character. This industry has displaced mining as the chief business of the State. |