The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1884-12-20
GENERAL NEws ITEMS.

The price of California castor oil
has been reduced TO ten cents per
gallon.
There are %, 900, ,00Oof people in Aus
tro Hungary who never read "A news
paper,
Wheat Is selling in Paradise Valley
for 81 cents per hundred, tlour for 81
per barrel.
The Dayton, Washington Territory,
woolen mills are manufacturing first
class >hawlS.
The largest pearl known was recent
ly di covered an the coast of Lower
California. Ii Is valued at Sl7 900.
The Pacific Coast people are now
waiting To see what position tie new
admini istration will lake on the silver
question.
A rich strike Of gol hearing quartz
II reported on Shafer Creek. Idaho.
The first assay showed 81! gold per
ton.
The police force Of Lonlon mum
bers IL, ,662, making IL more than hal
a. large as the regular army of the
United States.
The pauper population nj England
exceeds by some 100. 900 souls the en-
tire population of the great colony Of
New South Wales.
Archie Farringlon. 1T is said has
sold The Great Eastern mine at Gar
field for $3.50, 00O. aud gone 10 Europe
TO get The money.
There il talk AT Salt Lake OF boy
eotting the Union Pacific, on aerout
ofihe raise in freight on ore from
Wood River 10 $50 per ton.
The new strike in the Mono mine
at Bolie l. said To be improvlnU
daily. Gre asSaying as high as 81 900
per ton Is reported as having been
taken from the ledge lat week.
One OF the most attractive objects at
the Nice Exhibition IL sad IN he
Chinese clock. which IL stated to date
back 500 years before tho birth Of
Christ.
The California Sugar Refinery an
nounces another reduction In he price
of sugar. which makes certain grades
Of that article six rents per pound
lower than the selling price eight
months ago.
At Minnnota, Washington Territory,
calf WAS horn recently and lived
two hours in thu Enjoyment hf all the
senses that eight legs. two tails, four
ears and four ewes and two separate
heads could he endowed with.
The 10 .alion Of most of the New
River mines IL at an elevation of A.
100 feet; the Mary Blame, on the sum
NIT Of the divide, being about 300
feet higher. A grand rush OF pros
peclors to- the district early in the
Spring is predicted.
Young Stockton man named Por-
ter joined The Salvation Army, and as
his interest in IL deepened. grew more
and more excited until he fell in fiji
and died. Ills family hold the noisy
set of bloodwashed sinners RESPONSE.
BILE for his sudden death.
An immense amount of building
and other city improvements are un-
der way ut Victoria British Columbia.
It il estimated thai 81, ,000, 900 Will be
spent i'm private residences aud stores
next year. The town is full 10 over
flowing, and there are no houses or
rooms to rent.
The Sue mine at Calico is still show
ing up wonderfully. The amount of
horn silver taken from The mine Is
con, iderable. One sack OF selected
specimens was so heavy that none OF
the men cou Id lift IL into the wagon.
Ii WAS almost pure silver.
In Colorado mining companies are
complaining OF the wholesale system
Of stealing conducted by people in the
mountains. Whnle plants. worth
Thousands OF dollars have been car
Tied away, aud the only wonder is
that the thieves haven't stolen The
holes in the ground.