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rates of the AVestern coast towns. There are exceptions to this rule, 

 however, especially where skilled local labor is called into requisi- 

 tion in a manufacture. Thus fourteen dollars for a pair of trou- 

 sers made to order strikes the imagination rather forcibly, when a 



first-grade quality of boot or shoe can be obtained for five dollars 

 and six dollars. Really good meals may be procured almost every- 

 where for from a dollar to a dollar and a half, and the best hotels 

 supplv twcntv-ono iricals for twenty-five dollars, and these do not 



