The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-05-26
STATE AND COAST ITEMS.

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worth $125,0OO.
There will be an enormous prune
and peach crop this year ia California
Sheep are swarming into Inyo
county by the thousands.
In week trains will run though
the new tunnel in the Cascade noun
tains.
Butte, Montana, is to have $4,000
hotel.
Reports from the copper mines To-
Gated at Lunning, Esmeralda county,
are highly favorable.
A ditch from Snake river will irrig-
ate an immense tract of land in Wash
ington Territory.
Four placers have been discovered
in the channel of the South Yuba that
will pay big for mining.
Farm hands and men to work with
horses on canals are wanted in Owens
Valley. Current wages $50 per month
and board.
The hotels at Independence, Inyo
county, are constantly filled to over
flowing. It is frequent occurrence
that beds for guests have to be sought
for in private dwellings.
The subscriptions to the new hotel
in Portland, Oregon, now reach $470,-
600. The amount required is $780,
600.
The State Capitol has been insured
for $125 .000-$100,0O0 on the build
ing and $4,000 on the library and
furniture.
An attempt is being made to drive
all the loafers and low women out of
San Francisco. If successful it will
result in a great reduction of the pop
ulation.
Strawberries are now produced in
California that are nine inches in cir
conference. They will soon have
them as large and of as fine flavor as
pumpkins.
Miss Mamie Haskins,a Santa Clara
girl of II, has become insane from
overstudy and has been sent to Stock
tOus OuO AaNCo VI ui6tuctuuttCS duu
ancient history.
The people of Helena, Montana, do
not credit the deathbed confession of
Mrs. Eckert to theeffect that she MUIR
dered John Dem. They say she could
not be believed under oath.
A booming big artesian we'll has
been obtained at Laramie at the small
depth of 100 feet. 1t is big thing
for that whole region, as hundreds of
wells will now be put down.
The owner Of the Theater building
at HALEY, Idaho, having become dis
gusted with the small returns upon the
investment, proposes to tear it down
and utilize the lumber, if not sold by
the middle Of June.
The Orpheus mine at the Mountain
House, Douglass county, is making
regular shipments of gold bullion.
The ore averages $40 ton.
Charles B. Gregory, pioneer Com
stock sporting man, died in San Fran
cisco Wednesday morning, after long
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native of Connecticut, and aged 81
years. He leaves an estate valued at
about 100000.
The sporting fraternity of Denver
are generally excited over big faro
game played there last Friday night,
at which Charley Pearson, one of the
owners of prominent gambling rooms,
is reported having lost nearly one
hundred thousand dollars.
The Bakerfield Californian says: If
the State would undertake the con-
struction of system of reservoirs on
all the streams flowing out of the ST.
erras, there would be 90 much water
that the riparian question would be
buried forever.
"Hell's Half Acre" at Yellowstone
Park is on the rampage. Excelsior
Geyser, the largest in the world, is
discharging column of water IS feet
in diameter and 800 feet high. Erup-
tlons occur every As minutes and are
from three to five minutes duration.
Immense quantities of limestone, lava,
stones and silica are thrown up with
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