Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 26, 1894, Page 5

~dievertheless, NEW EXICO'S NEW EL DORADO Oochiti Mining Distriot Promises to Become a Becond Cripple Oreek. DOTTED WITH RICH LEDGES AND SPURS Tino Placer Diggings Discovered In the Wenatchee Valley In Washington— Groat Rush on the Way— Other Western News, The latest sensation in mining circles In New Mexico is the discovery of a won- derfully rich gold fleld, situated about thirty-five miles a little south of west from Santa Fe, In what 1s known as the Cochiti mining district. Years ago considerable prospecting was done in this vieintly and many indications were found in early days. The Spaniards, when they first came to New Mexieo, took out a world of wealth from near the Cochiti Pueblo, It is only within the last two months, however, that the hardy American miner and prospector has struck it rich. The known mineral-bearing ledges of the district ocoupy a space two miles wide and fiv miles long, and within this space are, as so far discovered, four well defined lodges, besides numerous spurs. These Jedges are from three to thirty feet In width and the ore assays from 0 to $400 per ton in gold. One ledge, nine fecet across, assays $15 per ton the whole width, There 18 scarcely any doubt, says Time: that within the next Cochitl district will have a equaling Cripple Creek, rado, Montana and New going Into the camp at fifty a day. The camp s located about fifty-five miles north of Albuquerque, twenty-two miles from Wallace, the nearest railroad point, thirty miles from Cerillos and with a little work to be done in opening a new road, crossing the Rio Grande some three miles above, Pena Blanca can be reached from Santa Fe with a good hard down hill road In thirty miles. The merchants and citizens of Santa Fe are wide awake to the fact that there is a big mining boom on and within the past two or three days parties have gone out to look for the most feasible route to reach the camp and will at once erect the necessary build- ings for stores, lodging houses, etc. Superin- tendent T. J. Helm of the Santa Fe Southern Railroad company is taking an active in- terest in the matter and has had an elabor- ate map of the new district made which will show how easy it Is to reach the camp from this point. Several prominent officials of the Santa Fe were hero during the past week and will at once “take the bull by the horns' the Denver fow weeks mining town and already Colo- Mexico miners are the rate of over and duly advertise the camp from their standpoints. Col. . B. Mills, late executive commis- sloner from New Mexico at the World's fair, has returned to Santa Fe after a two-weeks trip through the new Cochiti gold district, thirty miles west of Santa Fe, “If the present indications hold out it will prove a greater bonanza than the Com- stock,” s the way Colonel Mills expressed his opinion of the camp. He said: “There are four canons between the Peralta and Cochitl canon, distant about eight miles, There are two Intervening canons called Pinon and Callio. I have been in the three north canons, and also the head of the Per- alta. There are four mineral bearing quartz ledges which have been traced from Peralta to Cochitl. The four ledges run parallel, but are two miles apart. The canons run east and west and the ledges north and south. There has been no development on any ledges to exceed a depth of twenty feet. ~ The hills between the canons in some places are as high as 1,000 feet. The ledges can be traced down across the canon, which would Indicate that they are ntinuous through the hills, and this continuity 1s indicative of great depth. In some places they have found gold- bearing ore on the surface, and in others secured assays that ran as high as $3,000 of gold and silyer. If the ore will average $20 it will be the richest camp ever discovered in the United States. The ore is refractory. The gold is not free. Hven where assays run as high as $1,000 in gold they have not been able to find any by panning. It seems to be all in sulphides or tellurium. The most economical way of reducing it is by milling and concentrating. The ledges run all the way from three to thirty feet wide. ‘There are two claims, the Albuquerque, owned by James May and Henry Lockhart, and one owned by Eagle & Dorsey, on the same ledge, that are now packing prepara- tory to shipping. There are only about 1,000 men in camp now. There is a great deal of snow, there being four feet on the main range and about thirteen inches In camp. The snow will disappear quickly. ‘The camp is badly in need of a hotel and stage line. At present the men all live in tents, with the exception of about half a dozen who have cabins. Denver and Chi- cago capitalists have men on the ground in- vestigating, and if present prospects hold out there will be plenty of capital to develop the camp and a thriving city will spring up there in the spring.” GOLD IN WASHINGTON. Leavenworth, a town on the Great North- ern railroad, promises to be the center of a great mining excitement in the near future. Of the extent and hidden wealth of these placer diggings reliable information has now Dbeen received of a Seattle man who visited the district last week to ascertain the truth of the reports for himself. He is not a spec- ulator nor has he any pecunlary interest in the Wenatchee district, says a reporter of the Tacoma Ledger, to whom he said: “Gold was first discovered near Leavenworth last October by an old miner from Montana. He found himself stranded in Leavenworth after a summer spent in the moun- talns prospecting for quartz. One day he took his ‘pan’ and went down to the river bottom and began to pros- pect for the yellow metal. The first panful surprised him, for he found a number of colors. He continued his work, and by night had about $5 worth of gold as the result of lis labors. Then he induced a Leavenworth man to furnish him enough lumber to build « flumo from the river 2,000 feet long. About the time he had it completed he was forced to lower it on account of the river falling rapldly. This was repeated three times, and work was prosecuted under difficulties. by the middle of November ho had taken from his claim upwards of $300 worth of gold. “The news of the discovery and the suc- cess of the Montana miner began to be noised about, and in a short time 7,000 acres of placer ground had been filed on. The yanchers in the valley who had homesteaded Eheir farms also filed mineral claims on them, determined that even If the soil of the val- loys was good for farming purposes, if it contained gold In paying quantities it would yield a quicker and surer return for the labor than any farm product. The gold is found In a black sand de- posit and It s found from the grass roots down. 1 took a ‘pan’ myself and examined three different claims, one at the depth of about four feet, another at six and the third Tight at the grass roots, and each panful showed a surprising quantity of flake gold. Thero is, in my judgment, no doubt of the richness of this entire district. This black sand extends for miles up and down the Wenatchee valley and through the valloys of the numerous streams emptying into the MWenatchoe river. “In the little town of Leavenworth, where 1 spent two days, nothing else s talked of but placer mining and the rush and excite- ment which will come with the springtime. Every man you meet is a prospective million- aire. The doctor abandoned his patients, the barber his razor and shears, the merchant his store, and the editor took a week off, all to locate placer claims. Now they are awaiting with all the patience they can muster the advent of spring, when the snows will melt and they can take out of the bosom of Mother Earth the golden atoros buried therein. “It the district is haif as rich as is claimed, and from my examination of a number of claims I am conyinced that it is, it will prove one of the greatest gold flelds that has been discovered on this coast. Its extent Is not known, as the numerous val- leys leading down from the mountains on both sides of the Wenatchee probably con- tain gold of a much ser quality than that found In the Wenatches valley. At any rate its development will be watched with Interest and Is worth noting.” SOME RICH QUART: A very rich strike ia reported from the desert country about sixty miles from this ity and about twenty miles northwest of Indio, on the Southern Pacific, and seven miles west of Tingman's little two-stamp mill, says a San Bernardino dispatch to the San Francisco Chronicle, The ledge is sald to be three feet wide, and crops out for 4,500 feet. Samples taken from cuts across the ledge go $500 to the ton. The gold is very coarse In single pleces bing worth $1. Ten tons of croppings were taken over to Tingman's mills and ylelded $7,000. Lang & Son, cat- tlemen in that reglon, were the fortunate finders and have gone to Los Angeles to get tools to bore for water. Old miners here think this is where the Indians found the gold they used to show travelers at Caliente, and in search of which Tom Coner lost his life a few years ago. A report from Needles wsays: The greatest excite- ment prevalls In this vicinity over the new gold flelds at Goldstone, about twenty miles west of Fenner. Miners are flocking there from all parts of the country. Assays from five claims show from § to $1,100 in gold per ton. The mountains are well suppiied with wood and water A DESERTED CITY. Malvern W. Cresworth, an English min- ing man, well known throughout southwest Mexico, arrived here today from a_lon overland Journey through the Sierra Madre mountains, his starting point being Cullean, near the Pacific coast, in the state of Sin- aloa, saya a dispatch from Malpimi, Mex, to the Anaconda Standard. He claims to have discovered a large and beautiful d serted city. Ho sald it is situated about elghty miles west of Lake Colorado, in the very recesses of the Slerra Madres, and o cupies a basin ten miles long by eight miles wide, Perpendicular cliffs surround the basin on all sides, rising to the height of hundreds of feot. The only entrance to the city is through a deep canon thirty feet wide, Mr. the quartz, Cresworth says he stumbled on to the secret b ident. " The buildings, he says, are constructed of blocks of red stone resembling granite. The business blocks are two and three stories in height and are different in_architectural design from the structures built by th ecs and Spaniards. The streets are narrow, but are laid out in regular order. In the city isa sn own with vegeta- I park which Is overg) tion. ~ He found many strange ornaments, but little of value. While no one in that section ard of the ecity, Mr. Cres- worth's story is generally believed Seward's city library contains 1,400 vol- umes. Seward's city treasurer, Silas Figard, has resigned. Fire at Valparaiso badly damaged the resi- dence of Mrs. 8. S. Throop. An effort is being made to extend the city limits of Norfolk so as to take'in Madison, There s talk of organizing an Odd Fellows lodge at Rising City. Forty or fifty peo- ple would join. Charles Yeaton, a former resident of Te- kamah, recently lost all his household effects by fire at Santa Monica, Cal M. L. Felber has severed his relations with the Hartington Leader and will soon take charge of the Bloomfield Sun. A Hartington man brags that he never took a paper in his life. It is needless to say that the city is not proud of him. George Forman of Benkelman lately made the trip from that place to the Pacific coast and return without spending a cent ot money. The unsafe condition of the Otoe county jall has started an agitation in Nebraska City for the building of a more substantial structure. L The report of the finance committee, made to the county board of Custer county, shows that ex-County Treasurer Weimer is short in his cash $4,449.22. A charity entertainment at Grand Island called out the criticism from the Independ- ent that the poor overseer ought to have turnished some clothes for the performers “Tom” Dunaway, recently made general manager of the Denver & Gulf railroad, was the first station agent for the Missouri Pacific at Auburn, He sold his first ticket from a box car. Eddie Draub, the 13-year-old Stanton boy who ran away from home last January, was found at Norfolk and taken back to his parents’ arms. He had been working for a farmer in Madison county. The political pot is already beginning to boll turiously in every town of the state, and aspirants for municipal honors are as numer- ous as the grass on the prairie. The spring elections are close at hand and shaky fences are being repaired. A peculiar diseaso appears to be prevalent among the cattle of some parts of the county, says the David City Banner. It attacks the fat cattle exclusively. ~Some of the feeders of Olive township have lost sev- eral head by it. No symptoms of the di- sease aro noticeable upon the cattle affected until they fall to the ground in a sort of a fit. Of the 164 converts at the Weeping Water Methodist Episcopal church this winter, ten are grandfathers and grandmothers, fifty-two fathers and mothers, forty-four young men, twenty young ladies, twenty business men and thirty-three children. The old malds “and bachelors scem to be the hardest class to reach, not one of our large flock falling into line for a life of Christian enjoyment. County Attorney MecAllister was on an- other of his usual periodical drunks on Tuesday, says the Dakota City Eagle, and besides filling the air with foul language went home and shamefully and disgrace- fully abused his wife and children, besides kicking over the supper table and breaking up the furniture. A call for help and the Interference of a passerby is what saved the members of the family from being unmerci- fully punished. There is now in Nebraska an old soldler who is really a veteran in every sense of the word, says the Plattsmouth News. His name Is Samuel Dorsey and he lives in Her- man, Washington county. He has been there about one year. He was in the first skirmish at Phillipi; the real first battle or skirmish wherein blood was shed. The row at Baltimore with the Sixth Massachusetts, is, of course, excepted, but that was raw troops against a rabble and could in no wise bo called a battle. At Phillipi General Kelly was wounded, the first man In actual battle where the unlon troops met confederate troops, and Mr. Dorsey helped carry him off the fleld. The man that shot Kelly was taken prisoner and sent north. Says the Wayne Democrat: There is a discrimination in freight rates on the On route that ought not to exist, and the people along the line of this road ougit to make a most’ vigorous and decided kick. For in- stance, the rate on corn from Wayne, Wake- fleld, Pender, ete., to Chicago is 24 cents per hundredweight, while from similar Elkhorn stations, 1t s but 19 ceuts. This means that the towns of the Elkhorn can pay 3 cents more per bushel for corn than can our dealers, and they are now paying for corn fully 1 cent more per bushel than our dealers can obtain for it on the track. This accounts for the fact that while the buyers on the Elkhorn are getting plenty of corn the elevators here are handling but little. The Democrat has endeavored {o Investigate the mattor, and it 1s satisfied that it Is due entirely to a dis- crimination in freight rates and belleves that the matter ought to be brought before the Interstate commission for equalization, THE DAKOTAS State Engineer of Irrigation C. §. Fassett spent the past week in Charles Mix county, and during this time located seven artesian wells, which will be dug at once. The board of commissioners of Douglas county, South Dakota, awarded the contract for sinking four six-inch artesian wells to 8. Swanson of Minneapolis. Swanson's bid was to furnish e ything and complote the wells for $3.25 per foot. The prospective opening of the Yankton Indian reservation to homestead settlement this spriug is creating great inquiry from prospective new settlers as to the quality of the lands. A firm of real estate agents have recelved over 100 such inquiries. The 168,000 acres will glve 1,060 settlers each 150 acres of the richest corn land in South Dakota. Bottom has been found in the new wonder near Hot Springs at the cave-in of the earth The crater is about fifty feet in diameter and the sides are walled with crystallized gypsum and marble. The cavity has evi dently existed for ages, and has gradually been sinking from the top until the surface has fallen in. It has been locatod by parties, who are enthusiastio over it, and THE OMAHA they belleve by a little blasting they will open up a great subterranean cavern like Wind Cave, The big_Irrigation ditch part of Fall River county, an enterprise started by Omaha capitalists, will now be pushed to completion as rapidly as possi- ble, the company having just held a meet- ing and resolved to that effect. Colonel Foster, former agent at the Yank- ton Indian reservation, referring to the prob- ablo opening of the reserve to settlement, says: “There {s little doubt that it will be opened the coming summer or fall; there are about 160,000 acres for entry under the homestead laws, and about 200,000 acres of Indian allotments that will be for rent at reasonable prices. There is likely to be a great rush for these lands when opened.” COLORADO. At Meeker coal sells at $2 a ton delivered In Florence more than fifty residences are heated and lighted by natural gas, An assay from the Valley View, near Tel luride, gave 3,308 ounces gold and 1,693 sil- ver. Creston Butte last week shipped out 2,838 tons of anthracite and bituminous coal and A 22-inch vein of tellurium ore has been struck in the Free American at Duncan. It assays $2,000 a ton. A four-foot vein of free milling ore of high value been struck in the Gold Crown mine, Duncan camp. Two miners took 83 ounces from the Bar- rett placer lease on Farncomb hill, Breck- enridge, in one week. Trinidad needs a good brick manufactory. have to import brick from Pueblo to construct the new wool scouring works Lithographic stone has been discovered in the western portion of Fremont county. It in the western 18 sald to be as fine as the forelgn Importa- tion. Como is excited over a gold discovery made last week by Messrs, Olliver, Martin and Patton near Como. The ore discovered ylelds $68 a ton in gold. ome_excellent gold discoveries ported from near Aspen Junction. milling ore has been struck at / of $1,000 are claimed. Bl Moro coke ovens, having completed an order from Fairbanks, Ariz., for 1,000 tons of coke, have been started on another order for 2,000 tons from the same place. Garfleld county has gone into the beet sugar business with a vim. The Grand val- ley farmers recently met at Glenwood and decided to organize the movement. A lynx got into the chicken house of A bert Remley, near Left Hand, a few nights ago and killed sevemty-three chickens and six turkeys. It was killed with a revolver. Between Canon and Pueblo last week a meteoric shower deposited a large number of molten meteors about the size of hazel nuts. The children are using them for marbles. The tunnel of the Cripple Creek road in Eight Mile canon, 165 feet long, has been are re- Rich froe ten feet cut through. When trimmed up the road can be operated for twenty miles from Florence. The leasers of the K. & T., on Squaw mountain, Cripple Creek, have opened a body of quartz two and one-half feet thick, which averages §35 per ton, with streaks of high grade. A twelve-inch streak of ore carrying twenty-four ounces gold has been struck in the May, at Yankee hill. It is owned by Lake & Dawdell. A shaft house will bo erected at once and three shifts put to work. Near Spar a band of twelve or fifteen elk has been roaming about the settle- ments. They spent one night last week near the shelter of a sawmill. There is a pros- pect of wholesale violation of game laws in that neighborhood. At. Monte Vista a millk monopoly ¥s sought to be created by a petition asking the council to place an annual license of $24 on the sale of milk. This s intended to prevent owners of cows selling milk to their neighbors. Monte Vista people are protesting. WYOMING. Casper people will receive their drinking water through wooden pipes. Another rich strike is reported in the South Pass country, on Calico Ridge. The Brundage coal mine north of Sheridan 15 on fire and it s doubtful if the flames can be overcome. Rock Springs lump coal sells at $4 per ton at Rawlins and the Dillon coal from $2.50 to $3.50. A 12-months-old child, born on a ranch at Harrls Fork, Uintah county, is claimed to welgh elghty pounds. The material for two stamp been taken, it Is reported, to the foot of Little Bald mountain and will be hauled into the Big Bald mountain gold camp as early in the spring as practicable. Judge McCalmont, who is Just returned from a week's visit'to the ofl wells of the Pennsylvania Oil company at Salt Creek, reports that on drilling out the plug on well No. 4 the well was found to be free of water and filled with oil, clear of dirt and sand. OREGON, Another $5,000 clean-up is in from the White Swan. Malheur City's porphyry formation is to be developed by an Ogden man. Potatoes In large quantities around Buena Vista have not been dug yet. A 3-year-old elocutionist is thrilling the souls of the good people at Drain. There are twelve men in the party survey- ing the wonderful Josephine county caves. A Cottage Grove hotel man has a piece of gold bearing quartz he says came down in a meteor. The Astorla tannery is about to ship to Australia a number of rolls of saddle leather whose quality is very highly spoken of. Mrs. Penning of the Blackwell district, Johnson county, s reported to have panned out $600 in gold with her own hands this winter, The rotary snowplow now busy in the Siskiyous throws the snow hard enough to break windows close to the track, and even covers up the smaller buildings. Salem now numbers among its other col- ebrities one Jack the Hugger, who terrifies the chaste young damsels of Court street by embracing them without warning. A carload, 300 dozen, of chickens was shipped this week from Myrtle Creek to San Francisco. The freight cost the shipper $165, and he expects to get between $4 and $7 per dozen for the poultry at the Bay city. Heppner has a boy preacher who promises mills has to eclipse all records. He will not be 21 years old till May, and has led a revival there with elghty conversions. Fossil is trying to get him to shake up the dry bones in’that neighborhood. WASHINGTON. Eggs are 12 cents a dozen at Whatcom. Dayton gets its flour for 50 cents a sack. There s a prospect of an iron plant on Bellingham bay. A Chehalis smart Aleck was fined $40 for disturbing the Salvation army meetings. Five carloads of Waltsburg potatoes, crop of 1894, have been contracted for at 50 cents a sack. Sprague’s Chinamen sat for their pictures with their hats on, and will have to have them taken over again. Mosher & McDonald's logging camp near Snohomish will start up about the first of the month, employing 170 men. A Port Townsend company at work on North beach, Chehalls county, says the sand there runs 60 cents in gold to the ton. The Cyphers-Stinson camp, near Cath- cart station, will open next week. The owners have contracted for 4,000,000 feet of cedar, Dr. Bill, the Klickitat Indian who recently escaped being burned at the stake by his compatriots, has applied for the office of Klickitat county physician. The total amount of limber shipped from Gray's harbor during the month of January was 4,684,000 feet, divided as follows: From Hoquiam, 2.440,000; Aberdeen, 1,644,000; Cos- mopolis, 600,000, A carload of apples has been shipped in bulk from Walla Walla to St. Joseph, Mo. Quito an expense for boxes Is thus saved, and the outcome of the expeviment is awalted with considerable interest A new style of dry kiln for shingles s being erected for the White River Lumher and Shingle company at Buckley, in which the heat Is generated from pipes and a blower, and the shingles travel in swinging cranes along an endless cable and come out dried at nearly the same polnt as they DAILY . BE ontored. It is eight feet wide, thirty long and thirty high, and he8 a capacity of 150,000 in twenty-four hours. Tho West Coast Lumbdérman gives the following as the numbep.of, carloads of lum- ber and shingles shipped over the Northern Pacific road from Seat(lé’ in the year 1893 as compared with 1862: BRingles, 6,261; in- crease, 1,547; lumber, 669; decrease, 47 Everybody in Daytou—men, women and children—belongs to some, socfety or other, to the great consternation of the Chronicl which finds that home 1ifé'is all broken up. Instead of basking in the: family circle the entire population of the-town Is off each evening to its club. The Oregon Improverient company is pre- paring to develop the whole of the McKay basin, which is tapped by its Franklin mine, and fo that end is sinking a new slope to connect with the present workings. This slope fs at the northern oitcrop of the veln and will extend about 4,000 feet, at a dip ot about eighteen degroes, to reach the farthest point of the old workings. Last week the state land commissioner was hearing a contest at Olympia, Wa for the possession of some natural oyster beds. “Sandy,” one of the oldest of the Siwash tribe, and one of the dirtiest, was on the stand. Tn the course of his testimony he sald: “Long years ago the Indlan own all the fish, all the clam, all the oyster— God give 'um. Few year ago Boston man come along; he think lie own all the fish, all the clam, all the oyster; he (measuring about an inch on his finger) so much bigger as God.” MISCELLANEOUS, Albuquerque, N. M., 18 to have a tannery They pay 25 cents each for cottonwoods at y, N. M., and are planting thousands of trees this year Virginia City, Nev., I8 raising a purse of $30,000 to secure the Corbett and Jackson fight at Reno, Nev. A new creamery fs to be established on San Antonio creek, near Petaluma, Cal., that can use the milk of 1,000 cows, Rich placer ground has been discovered a few miles south of Espanola, N. M. Two pones are claimed to have yielded 50 cents. The Bold Butte Mining company has paid its twenty-second dividend of 5 cents a share, amounting to $12,600. It is a Mon- tana copper producer. The new masonry dam across the Pecos river near Eddy, N. M., to supply water for the great Hagerman canal, will be finished soon. It means. millions for the Pecos valley. Laborers at work on the Rose Canyon road, near San Diego, have uncovered a body of what is believed to be gypsum, also a vein resembling coal. These finds will be inves- tigated Cochitl, the new gold placer diggings thirty-five miles west of Santa Fe, are re- ceiving an average of fifteen miners each day as an increase to the Cochiti population. There's a boom a-coming at Cochiti. Sam Sing, a native Chinese, voted at a Marysville, Cal., election the other day. The vote was challenged, but was passed by the judges. Sam Sing was born at Bidwell's Bar, and was duly registered on a certificate of cancellation from Butte county. A centenarian died a few days ago out on the Mission road near San Diego. He was a ploneer miner named D. Burchard, and he had reached the great age of 103 years and & months. He was a native of New York and had been in California forty-three years. Three black bears were recently seen by miners in Arizona. The appearance of bears at this time of the year is something un- heard of for this part of the country, as the are supposed to be hibernating. Old timers and trappers claim that their appearance is owing to the fact that the winter Is nearly over. At Colton when the train from the east ar- rives boys throng the cars with oranges for sale. The finest kind of oranges are at first offered in baskets, three dozen to the basket, including the receptacle, for the very modest sum of 36 cents, but hefore the train leaves the price is reduced to-15 cents for « baske!, and three dozen oranggs. A pair of deer horng hung upon a tree in the Sierra Nevada mountains by Fremont forty-five years ago,, with proper record hanging upon them, has just been found in TLost canon, Nev. The tree had grown twelye feet higher In forty-five years and the horns had been covered In some portions by the growth of the barkof the tree. A new railroad is fo be constructed through the new River country, ninety miles west of Yuma, Ariz. For ninety miles the grade of the line will in no case exceed twenty feet to the mile. The ancient canal system of New river, over 3,000 miles in length, is one of the wonders of that magnifi- cent region in which there is not a settler. e A Dead Whale. A huge dead whale has been discovered near the shore in a bed of kelp just off La- guna beach, elghteen miles down the coast from Santa Ana, says the San Francisco Chronicle. It is estimated to be from 150 to 225 feet long and its carcass is rapidly de. composing under the rays of the southern sun. A party of fishermen left Santa Ana today for Laguna beach for the purpose of bringing the carcass ashore, If possible, in order to secure the oil. Thousands of carrion birds are already feeding on the decaying remains and the fishermen are hustling around try- ing to arrange some way to get the valuable carcass ashore. It is estimated that there is from $1,000 to $1,500 Korth of oil in the carcass. e In Olden Times, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1894 CEASED T0 BE A WONDER| Yet Its Development Approaches the Mar- velous, STEADY ~ ADVANCE OF ELECTRICITY Invading All Depar nts of Industrinl Activity and Utilizing New Elem s of Power—Progress a Opportunities. From time to time statistical wisencres have arrested the momentary attention of many persons by o mputations showing that at the present rate of consumption the world's supply of coal will be exhausted in a certaln number of years. Frightened humanity has been left to draw all manner of dismal inferences from this threatened calamity, but the prophets of evil greatly underestimate the Ingenuity of mankind overlook the restless energy wherewith the waste forces of nature are being harnessed and utilized to do man's work The possible sources of power, says the Philadelphia Record, are practically unlim ited, and the ready means of gathering and distributing it which the storage battery and the various methods of electrical trans- mission have placed In the hands of tho engineer have given a new impetus to the long meditated emes whereby nature's wasted energies may be made commercially available. — The utilization of the tremen- dous power of Niagara for mechanical pur- poses Is a conspicuous example of what may be done on a smaller scale wherever flowing water is to be found. The intermittent rising and falling of the tides and the un dulatory motion of the waves as sources of power have already engaged the attention of scientists and inventors. A wave motor is now in operation at San Francisco which pumps water into a reservoir at an elevation of 100 feet On a par with the American enterprise a Niagara is the bold scheme to thr isthmus across “North Channel,” 1 Scotland and Ireland; and to compel waters of the north Atlantic on their south rd rush to the lower level of the Irish sea to turn vast water wheels. The power gen- erated in this way would, of course, be con- vorted Into electricity, which might be stored and tapped for distribution whenever or twe the and wherever wanted. But an even more prolific source of power than this may be found in the atmospheric currents. The wind goeth wheresoever it listeth; and wheresoever it blows there can ubiquitous man present to its current the sai of a windmill. The practical availability of the wind as a subject fc snerator of power is no longer a argument. Three of the factors upon which success in this direction de- pends—the windmill, the dynamo, and the storage battery—have passed out of the ex- perimental stage. AN IMPORTANT FACTOR. As to the fourth factor—the wind itself— sufficient data are at hand to form a basis for calculation. While the velocity of tho wind varies considerably at different locali- ties, an average rate of seven and three- quarter miles an hour can be relied upon in the United States. From this starting point it is easily possible to estimate the cost of power derived from this source by dividing tho cost of the plant and the expense of malintaining it into the net resultant horse- power. These few suggestions do not by any means dispose of the list of possible sources of power. It might be venturesome to pre- dict that in course of time methods may be discovered for converting sunbeams directly into mechanical energy. It may be confi- dently stated, however, that long before our coal flelds shall have been completely ex- hausted the use of the black diamond as a generator of power will have been aban- doned. The Electrical World says there arc no less than 500,000 windmills in actual daily opera- tion in this country alone, and yet the economical value and thorough reliability of this prime mover is but little appreciated by the public at large. From a comparison between wind power, steam and gas for pumping purposes, which would equally ap- ply to electric lighting, it appears, taking all the factors info consideration, that the former Is more than seven times as econom- ical ag either of the latter, even when they are worked under the most favorable cir- cumstances. The records of the signal ser- vice, U. §. A, for the past fifteen vears show that the wind may be relied upon to blow with sufficient veloeity to drive a wind- mill to its average working capacity eight hours out of every twenty-four. But since there are hours of absolute calm, the em- ployment of a windmill is necessarily re- stricted to two classes of work: 1. To work admitting of frequent Interruption. 2. To work where power can be stored for future use. It is found by experience that it re- quires, on an average, a wind velocity ot six miles per hour to drive a windmill, i. e., to overcome the friction of the bearings and transmitting gears, but that the mill will actually run at least eight hours per day. From this it is safe to assume that one-third the total movement of the wind is lost, so far as windmill work is con. cerned. The remaining two-thirds should be distributed over the eight working hours of the mill. It is in work of the second class that being driven direct from the windmill a secondary battery befng employed to s nd distribute the electrical energy to mps. The combination here really forms an ideal method for, plant lighting, and it fs likely to favor as the advantages of the sys come more generally known NEW YORK TO Within a few weeks there have been v pments in the trolley situation betw New York City and Philadelphia of an ceedingly interesting nature. From towns and cities between New York Tarrytown have come reports of the worl of some hidden movement tending towa 150l row fm and storo the suggested ated W in be PHILADELPHIA, de- weon ex nany and King rd a groat systom of olectrle roads; and now from Philadelphia comes the news that franch have been awarded for lines connecting capitals of Pennsylvania and All that remalns to be done Is properl: lay out and franchise a comparatively si ction of the road in the western par ew Jersey. The men who are believe: be behind this gigantic undertaking are c talists of great w th and large 1 terests. They already control the strect way business of Philadelphia and most profitable railway system of York City, and they are also the proj and owners of those extensive trolley that, centering at the Pennsylvania rail w8 the w Jersey. y to mall t of d to apl in rail- and the largest New r ferry at the foot of Montgome street In Jersey City, spread out fanlike on a large section of eastern New Jersey, embracing Nowark, Blizabeth, Plainfield and numerous residence towns in the neighborhood of Orange mountain. Previous to the purchase of the Jersey City street car 1i by John D. Crimmins of New York City, represent ing the wealthy gentlemen known as the Philadeiphia syndicate, the traffic situation in Jersey City was exceadingly uneasy. With advantageous toerminals secured, it 18 ex pected that New York and Philadelphia will be connected with a trolley line before the close pf 1804 BLECTRICITY IN THE MODERN HOUSE Electricity 1s becoming an absorbing factor in the luxury of modern life. he deseri tion of the part it is to play In a new York residential building sounds like a ’{mx ited it for The elevators will be run and Iig They will resemble huge tale. hy electricity bird cages in appear The shaft them will be of plate glass, in b columns and protected by elaborate br grilles, The elevator doors will open shut automaticaily by means of an el device, and there will be no rope or a ance visible except the cables which the cars. The pressing of a button start or stop them, li or extinguish them. The artificial lights in the halls or salons. source of light will be invisible. The lumination will be dependent on artfully will be no d cealed electric lamps, whose light wil simply reflected, or blended with singl combined tints, according to the situ and the hangings of the apartments. T to a room furnished in white, a pred nant tone of any given color can be parted by the changing of the lamp sh and the tints of colored rooms can be m fied in the same way when desired. Atta to the building there will be a kitchen partment. The cooking and most of work of the department will be cctricity, and the same agency will done N onze and ctrlc poli pull will t the electric lamps irect The » l- con- I be wtion rhus, omi- im- les, c el d the by 4 k the house warm In winter and cool in sum- mer, SHALL WE TRAVEL SHIE Elihu_Thompson says t onably look forward IN ELECT while we being abl at T to 'RIC may e to telephone’ through an ocean cable under the Atlantic, it is h that travel over it In s ity. 1t would actually struct electric motors and propel our largest of current energy to them for five day tinuously would” require the carrying storage battery of enormous cost, rdly likely we ssible to turn sef be impc able to and shall ips propelled by electri con- Tews ships, but the supply con- of a 50 heavy that it could not he placed on board without sinking the ship. But here the e in- discretion of prophesying comes in, and if there is anything in the world that is un- safe to prophesy about it is the limitations of electrical possibilities. Prof. Thomp pson, while framing his opinion according to mod- ern lights, is not blind to this fact, fol adds: “It should, however, be borne stantly in mind, in dealing with the ject of electrical applications, that a r he con- sub- new discovery might at any time change the as- pect of every prophecy based knowledge and conditions.” WILL THE TROLLEY on GO? present For short street railroads on busy streets, where traffic is heavy and the route in straight lines, the cable has the elemen| efficiency and economy. long, ts of For railroads wind- ing in and out of a city, nothing has as yet been produced that in the the overhead trolley. The objections to o essentials equals this system have been greatly exaggerated, and it is fashionable to cry out for an undergr conduit or a storage battery. The fol looks practicable, but thus far the sys! experimented with entail too great a lo the electric fluid. As to the storage ound rmer tems 55 of bat- tery, some day it will be brought to the de- gree of cheapness that will make it prac- ticable. At present no street car com is going to to operate storage betteries cost: §156 for the carrlage of §$10 wortl passengers. Street car men all aver pany that h ot the country are now awaiting with interest the outcome of the liberal offer of the M politan Traction company of which will, on March 1, pay $50,000 in to the in etro- New York, cash ntor of a system of street car propulsion which shall be proved to be su- perior to or cqual to the overhead tr olley without possessing the objectionable features of the trolley for crowded thoroughf The system to win the award must nec ares. sarily approximate the trolley &s a stand- ard of economy in operation. People overlooked the Importance of perma- | windmills find their true fleld of usefulness, COSTLY CONTESTS. nent beneficial effects and were satisfied | and they are already largely used for pump- | It may have passed out of the public with transient action; but now that It is | ing and storing water, and for compressing | view, but it Is, nevertheless, a fact, that, generally known that Syrup of Figs will [ air. Another use, which was first sug- | notwithstanding the expiration of the Dell permanently cure habitual constipation, well [ gested by Sir William Thomson in 1881, | telephone patents, the United States govern- informed people will buy no other laxatives, | and which has several times since then | ment is still taking tostimony, as it has which act for time, but finally injure the | been tried with partial success, is In the | been for four yoars past, to annul the Bell system. production of electric light, the dynamo | patent, on the claim that Drawbaugh and \ . N fa A A — ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. cubic inches of leavenin der, which was greatly in excess of all others and more than 40 per cent. above the average. No Baking Powder Exhibited at the - Worlds Columbian Tested So High At the U, S. Gov't Examination As the Royal. The official report shows ROYAL BAKING ' v POWDER chemically pure and yiclding 160 l Fbr Strength, Purity and Uniformity Royal is the favorite in every Kitchen and has a larger sale than all others combined.. gas ])cr ounce Uf pow- Fair 5 not Alexander Graham Bell was the original inventor of the telephone. It 18 calenlated that two years more must be consumed in taking testimony by the United States officers presenting this claim agalnst the American Bell Telephone o pany. None of this evidence has yet been printed, and It Is estimated that it will cost $15,000 to print what has thus far been taken The only real litigation in telephone mate ters that can now be of public Interest is over the Berliner patent, and this case, it I8 understood, will be tried next summer. This I8 the patent that affects the lor distance fnstrument ' TELEPHONE, A Cincinnati elootriclan has applied for patents on a telophone on which he has been at work for ten years. Experts say It fs ahead of anything yet produced in that line. It s eclaimed that nething abso- s has been discovered, it steel magnet used lutely new in toleplion Instead of the permar in the old system, he Introduces a soft lron magnet, wound fn'an electric coil that glves a far greator volume In sound response than the ol fnstrument produced, becauso it wa limited by the size of the magnet, which, 1t made beyond a cortain size, produced a deafoning rattling on the diaphragm of the instrument. 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