The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 2, 1895, Page 9

. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1895 GFORGE OHLEYER'S VIEWS, | Review qf Hydraulic Mining Since the Days of King Solomon. THE NORTH BLOOMFIELD CASE. Present Status of Placer Mining, Valley Farming and River Navigation. Gold taken from allavial deposits, although valuable in itself, has neyer en- riched the locality where found. There being but one crop, the industry is not only ephemeral, but in its very nature revolutionary and destructive to the peace- ful and permanent occupation of the locality where found. Such is the history of all placer mining since gold has been taken from t il. Inevery instance the country was wrecked or afterward lost and forgotten. We know that the Jand of Ophir furnished the gold that embellished r Solomo T'emple, but it seems that wisest of all men had no further use for' the locality, and its whereabouts is a mys- tery tc this d The Romans found the retal in their territory, but its so destructive to soil and ns that it was suppressed by the laws The gold mines of South ica and Central America and of Mexico became exhausted, leaving those regions in poverty and barbarism except where relieved by agriculture. Itisa r fact that no historian and no description of a gravel mining country points with pride to the effect on the locality of such mining, and it can readily be assumed that California will offer no_exception to this world’s history. Fake the natural exhaustion of our own gold fields in more than half of the orig- inal mining counties. Without the agri- cultural and pastoral resources they were sure to lapse into their hitherto wilder- ness. In them the single crop was har- vested, and the Jaborers took their de- parture, as did g Solomon’s men, or they turned their attention toother indus- tris As seekers of gold, the ancients and their nethods were as pigmies to giants com- pared to our day and generation. They planted the seed and we grew trees of gi- gantic proportions. over the Spain dropped water lls and we blew them up and m away. They destroyed riva- d we filled rivers and bays and dis- the ocean for more than twenty m shore. Our hydraulic methods were more than a match o all the earth- quakes, voleanoes and earthly convulsions ever recorded, and they were such whether the crop was 4 pa, orth Bloomfield Gravel the court, composed of Jud, .orenzo Sawyer, Circuit Judge of the Ninth Circuit, and Judee Mathew P. Deady, of the District Court of Oregon, sitting in bank, after listening to evi- dence jor weeks, and then going npon the grounds jor a personal inspection, described the hydraulic process as follows: Hra ic mining, as used in this opinfon, 15 the process by which & bank of gold-bearing earth and rock is excavated by a jet of water, discharged through the converging nozzles of & , under greal pressure, the earth and de- being carried away by the same water, and discharged on lower levels treams and watercourses be- e gravel or other material of cemented or whether the bank d_of messes of pipeciay, it is blesting with powder, sometimes 10 twenty tons of powder being ast to break up a bank. 3 periods of hydraulic mining, as he ‘water was discharged throngh & r canvas hose, with nozzlesof not n en inch in diameter; but later, invention of the “Little Giant” and ines, the size. of the nozzles reased, till now the nozzle is to nine inches in diameter, dis- from 500 to 1000 inches of water essure of from three to four or five For example, an S-inch noz- North Bloomfield mine, discharges ubic feet of water in an hour, with & of 150 feet per second. The exca- wer of such a& body of water, dis- with such velocity, is enormous; ang, gravel is very heavy or firmly it is much in excess of its transport- e of these mines, as at North Bloom- , several of these monitors are worked, he time night and day, the several pon which they are at work being bril- illuminated by electric lights, the elec- being generated by water-power. A ecene of the kind at the Nort nine is in the highest degree weird and ng, and it cannot fail to sirike strangers wonder and admiration. The amount of ischarged into the rivers by these oper- n only be duly appreciated by actual rvation. hus the learned Judge, whose decision not appealed from, very correctly de- s the hydraulic process as he saw it e mine, but it fits all to a greater or extent. »w, considering the awful conse- of such a system on riparian in- s, their solicitude must be excused when a revival of the method is proposed. As further evidence of the power of this modern - mining machine the following irom the San Francisco Chronicle is to the A Good Idea. “Always Give the Other Fellow a Good Bargain” | And have the knack of doing the right thing at the right time in the right way. We are giving the good bargains all right and doing the right thing at the right time by getting our Fall Goods in early. We are doing it in the right way by putting them on exhibition now and marking everything in plain figures. DON'T BUY Pictures, Frames, Easels, Piano and Banquet Lamps, Writing Tab- lets, Papeteries, Visiting Cards, Playing Cards, Silver Desk Orna- ments or LEATHER GOODS Until you have seen our new dis- playof new things. Ladies' Purses in giraffe, seal, grained cali etc., in all the fashionable colors, either plain or silver mounted. Cardcases, Billbooks, Visiting Lists, Picture Frames, Lap Tabletsand Traveling Sets. Whole showeases full of quadrupie plated and sterling sil- ver noveities for desk and table ornaments. All welcome. None urged to buy. SANBORN, VAIL & CO. 741, 743, 745 Market St. point. After introducing the subject, the Chronicle says: If & man were to receive the full force of such a stream at adistance of a couple hundred feet, even thoufh the impact Le momentary, he would be killed as guickly as though struc] by a cannon-ball. He might escape being mangled, but the breath would be most effectu- ally and suddenly expelled from his body. At400 feet from the nozzle a six-inch stream with 875 feet fall, swung momentarily against the trunk of a tree, will denude it in a second of the heaviest bark as cleanly as though an ax had been used. Wherever such a stream is turned against a gravel-bank it cuts and bur- rows into it in every direction, gouging out great caves, causing thousands of tons of earth to fall, which is in turn quic! disintegrated and washed into thesluices. Bowlders so heavy that & man can scarcely lift them are tossed about like chafl: stumps and trunks of trees are thrown to one side like straws, and the work of destruction goes on at a pace that is appalling. The Chronicle continuing gives a graphic account of the death of a miner by coming in reach of one of these jets, when every bone in his body seemed to be broken. In closing a long article it says: Some igea of the immense amount of earth and gravel moyed by the hydraulic mines of this State can be gathered from some recently Eubllshed statistics on this point. During the eight of the hydraulic industry there were in use from the Feather, Yuba, Bear and Ameri- can rivers, Butte Creek and the two Dry creeks & total of 10,650,095 miner’s inches of water each twenty-fouf hours. Atan average of 3ig cubic yards of gravel to each inch there was thus washed away daily 38.600,000 yards of material. This is & low estimate. As an actual fact much more was carried awa?'. But the amount stated represents a mass of earth 500 vards long, 386 yards wide and 200 yards high, With such a tremendous quantity washed away every twenty-four hours it can be readily un- derstood that no great length of time need elapse to literally remove mountains and cast them into the sea. And again: The power of the monitor to tear away the hills and cast them into the rivers was the sub- ject of conversation at a dinner given by General Schofield at his residence in Washing- ton, D. C. nmon; the guests were President Harrison, Chief Justice Fuller, the late Secre- tary Windom, Speaker Reed, [Sénator Sherman and Senator Stanford and Justice Stephen J. Field, says the New York Sun. During the dinner the conversation turned upon mining operations in_California, and Judge Field, whose knowledge of all matters relating to the Pacitic Coast is as extensive as his powers of narrative are entertainine, astonished the dis- tinguished company by some of hisassertionsin regard to the force of the jets of wateremployed in hydraulic mining. He described the wonder- ful manner in which the streams from the hose cut to pieces and tear down the hills that hold the precious metal. Judge Field cited the Hon. James G. Fairas his authoriiy for the statement that, under a vertical pressure of one or two hundred feet, the force of the stream is sometimes so great as to hurl away or hold bowlders weighing 1000 pounds; and that it would be no more possible to cut through such a stream with & crowbar or an ax, where {t issued from the nozzle, than to sever eight inches of solid iron with a pen- knife. The assertions of Judge Field having occasioned a smile of incredulity on the countenances of his audience, he referred his case to experts for replies, and who corroborated the Judge's assertion. These were ex-Senator Fair, Louis Glas: . Bowie, mining engineer of San Francisco, and Professor Samuel B. Christy of the State University. Under the heading, ‘“What Hydraulic Mining Means,” the San Francisco CALL of January 25, 1892, cuntained the follow- ing: The Sacramento Bee opposes hydraulic min. ing and fearlessly expresses the opinion that such mining cannot be prosecuted without greatly injuring the interlor of the State. 1t says of San Francisco Bay “thatitisin jeopnm?'. and the resumption of hydraulie mining would v soon destroy its uiility.” Itisshdéwn by official soundings and measurements that in a eriod of ten years the bay has received 240, 300,000 cubic yards of debris, or enough to cover an area of twenty-four gquare miles toa depth of ten feet. There is no way to more than roughi; estimate the capacity of the hydraulic monitors to wash the mountains intothe rivers, but 1t may be stated to be practic- ally unlimited. Then TaE CALL proceeds: 1t will be well for our citizens to pay heed to what the Bee says. Those persons who are not famiiiar with the process of hydraulic mining have little conception of the earth which is moved for a very small quantity of gold. In- deed there is scarcely a limit to the havoc which may be made. Nearly. every vestige of earth.is carried off and little remains except the bedrock and bowlders. Tunneling L'uuivl Dbe permitted, but in a few yenrs our rivers and bays would be completely filled up if hydraulic mining were to be permitted. California for the future requires the use of her rivers and bays for transportation purposes. Just &8 the interior towns are beginning to prosper and see their way clear for the future an effort is made to devastate the mountain regions. And remember that most of this hy- draulic mining is to be carried on in the foothills, for bigh in the mountains there is not much gold. As Tre CALL suggested a few days since, the land belongs to the General Government, and it is worth far more as it stands for its timber and graz- ing purposes than all the gold which can be got out of it. Again, it is the managers of a few companies who wish to be allowed to strip the mountains of what timber and other verdure they now possess, and these companies are controtled to a considerable extent by non-residents, some of whom even reside in Europe. Flourishing towns are now springing up all through the State; besides, the bays and their future prospects should not be marred by a new effort at vandalism, I tuke it, of course, that the foregoing is known and conceded and that the process must be placed on harmless lines; and yet it is well to know what is involved in the question. To repeat, all history is silent as regards such ap invention and the power it exerts. No people were ever called on to make such a siege for life and home as have the people of the Sacramento Val- ley. Tbe question is the most momentous ever discussed by any people, and =o long as the monitor seeks to regain his position riparian interests are in danger. GEORGE OHLEYER. Yusa Crry, September 25, 189 5. AFFIDAVITS OF LABORERS. Commissioner Fitzgerald Still Investi- gating the Guadalupe Com- plaints. Complaints continue to pour in at the State Labor Bureau about the conditions of the railroad campsrun in Santa Barbara | County by Contractor Erickson and the way the men sent there by Hansen & Co. are treated. Several affidavits were taken by Commissioner Fitzgerald yesterday. John Mehring of 1370 Telegraph avenue, Oakland, who had worked for Contractor ¥red Erickson during most of July, swore to the following: I found a rough camp. The food was poor and dirty, the camp en unhealthy place, andas to the drinking water—I was told by the cook thet two men died from drinkingit.” The elerk employed by Ericuson was taken sick with typhoid fever at the camp. He was taken to his home at San Lais Obispo, where he died from the effects of the fever. This occurred while T wasat the eamp. There is a‘saloon at the camp run by Erickson & Co. 1paid Hansen & Co. $1 for the position. There were 125 men engaged when I was there, Both the Erickson camps were described by F. W. Ehleben, a cook, whose home is now at Sonoma, and who was sent to Fred Erickson by Hansen & Co. on payment of $3. He said he worked for Fred Erickson for three months. He charged that the water at the Santa Barbara camp, con- gqctle‘d by Fred Erickson, was unfit to rink. Mr Fitzgerald intends to tonsult with Chief Engineer William Hood of the South- ern Pacific in an endeavor to stop Hansen & Co. from shipping large numbesr of men oyer the road when onliin few arerequired, Said Mr. Fitzgerald: “Mr. Hood: told me he issued 6000 passes for Hansen & Co. when only 1000 men were needed. - Hansen & Co. are getting the best of the railroad company in this matter.” —_———————— Lost His Left Arm. ‘William Regnier, an employe of the Pacific Coast Syrup Company, 713 Sansome street, lost his left arm yesterday afterncom He was working on the third floor and his arm got caught in the shafting. Another employe heard his cries and shouted to the engineer to shut off steam, which was promptly done. When Regnier was extricated it was found that his arm was hanging by shreds of flesh. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital in an ambulance and the arm was amputated above the elbow by Drs. Weil and Fitzgibbon. Reg- nier is an unma, man and lives at 100 Bernard street. AMONG THE IRON WILLS, Increased Activity Mechanics Work. and More at MINING IN CITY LIMITS. Growing Trade With Mexico and South America—Good Results of the Fair. It is gratifying to be able to record the fact that. the Mechanics’ Fair which closed in the early part of ‘this month was of most substantial benefit to the exhibitors and the City's trade in general. Ashas before been stated the exhibits were al- most wholly made up from the products of our home factories. This resulted in a critical examination being made of the various productions of local man- ufacturing concerns and a close inspec- tion of their merits as compared with Eastern and foreign articles of like nature.. Through a visit made by a representative of THE CALL to various fac- tories embraced in the iron-working trade it was learned that a large number of sales of different kindsof machinery have al- ready been made, directly influenced: by the Mechanics’ Fair exhibits, and a num- ber of important contracts are about as good as closed which had their genesis in the same. This and the extraordinary activity in gold mining in the State, calling for a vastly increased amount of mining machinery,has given the machine-shops and foundries of the City a new lease of life, and many es- tablishments have added considerably to their force of mechanics, and two factories in direct connection with the mining busi- ness have recently been running both night and day to keep pace with the orders. As there seems to be no abatement in the in- terest taken by capitalists in gold mining propositions in the State, and as proof is ad almost every day of numierous and larger investments in them, it seems rea- sonable to predict still greater and con- tinued prosperity in this one most impor- tant industrial line. The San Francisco Bridge Company, which has the contract for building the 1ron pier atthe Presidio for the Govern- ment, has received ail the material for its construction and the work of finishing the peer will now progress more rapidly. This company has just received the contract for the building of a $7000 combination bridge in Mariposa County. 1. Banta & Co.. of this City, marufac- turers and discoverers of the I. Banta chemical grucess for saving fine gold from black sand or gravel, have erected one of their plants on the beach near the. bluff about four miles below the €liff House. The plant has just been completed, and a public demonstration will be given to- morrow to show its working. he sands of the beach here do not contain much gold, runninfi but from: 25 to 30 cents per ton, but by the Banta process it is claimed that 90 per cent of it can be saved. Minin men here who are interested in black san and fine gravel propositions are taking much interest in this new process, and itis expected that a large number will .be present at the starting up of the works at the beach to-day. The Pacific Works of the Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company at North Beach is rushed with orders. - Their nail works plant now runs both night and day, and their wire—rage plant which is operated now on fourteen hours time per day would be immediately put on double time if sufficient men skilled -in operating ‘such works conld be procured here. Recently the company delivered several more cables to-local street railway companies, and have orders in hand to operate the works up to full capacity for some time. Yesterday the Perkins Pump and Engine Company shipped a large engine ‘and pumping plant to Santa Barbara. The Golden Gate Woolen Manufacturing Company is engaged in filing an order from the East for a large number of blankets. Shipments of these California made blankets are constantly going for- ward, and the trade with the East in this line of goods is steadily increasing. This company reports local trade as much im- roved, and the outlook bright for a good all trade, ‘The Oriental Gas Engine Company is placing an engine in the I. Banta gold- saving plant, recently erected on the beach, some four miles” south of the Cliff House. This company is also ylucing an engine in a launch for Otto Weisman of this Cit; The H. Evans Machine Company is shipping an engine and machinery for a large tugboat in Guatemala. The Krogh Manufacturing Company has just sold the big pump Which they had on exhibition at the late Mechanics’~ Fair, to Messrs. Lock & Lavenson of Sacramento. The maximum capacity of this pump is 10,000 galions per minute. This company also recently shipped three pumping plants to Denver, Colo., two to Stock- ton, one to Santa Barbara, one to a mill in Plumas County and another large plant to a mining company near Copperopolis. The Midus Gold-saving Xlg('hinery Com pany has during the past week shipped a Gold King amalgamator to the Vanderbilt mine in Mariposa County, also one to New Zealand, another to the Globe mine in Trinity County, one to the English Moun- tain mine near Emigrant Gap, two to the Standard mine at Oroville and are ship- ing one to the Brush Hill mine in .assen County. “They report many. in- quiries for mining machinery from every mining camp on the coast and a gratifying increase :n trade with the mining compa- nies of Mexico, Central and South Amer- ica. Bince January 1 they have sold sixty amalgamators. Francis, Smith & Co. have recently made some heavy shipments of pipe for mining purposes to Oregon and Idaho, They are also making a large shipment of the same to a mining company in Mexico. The Cahill & Hall Elevator Company of this City has in contemplation the en- largement of its works, which is a healthy sign for these times. The company has during the last six yearsdone much to advance the art of “hoisting and lowering’” in our commercial buildings. = The Vulcan Iron Works of this City have recently been much extending their saw- mill branch, a specialty at these works that has cost a good deal of money to es- tablish. By judicious advertising the com- pany has extended its business to Mexico and Central America. Orders in hand are being executed for Guatemala. The Trenton Iron Company has a con- tract for a wire-rope tramway to be used for hauling logwood in Ha%ti. The order amounts to about $100,000. The struc-. tural ironwork in connection with' it calls for about $50,000 more. The Fulton Engineering. and - Ship- building Works has secured a contract, to ut in ten additional stampsin the Santa a mine, near Perris. It algo has a con- tract with E: W. Chapman for a forty- stamp mill, air-compressor, etc., for the Zintgraf mine, Amador County. The Sunkel Bicycle Factory, recently established at 523 Mission street, is meet- ing with. success, and has added to the number of its skilled mechanics to keep pace with its orders. It has built a new style of tandem, which promises to be a favorite. = H. K. Porter & Co., have recently shipped -two pneumatic locomotives, one to Alaska .and the other to British Guiana in South America, both to be used in gold mwines. These locomotives consist, - cipally, of two huge steel cylinders, sey- enteen feet long, mounted side by side, in which the compressed air used for motive {:wer is stored.. Those shipped are stated havea ce?ncity' of 130 cubic feet, and are provided with producing valyes which deliver the air to the cylinders by pressure of 100 to 140 pounds. The engine is five feet high, and weighs 18,000 pounds. Early ‘last week the vessel Tropic Bird discharged 175,000 cocoanuts at North Beach for L. G. Sresovich & Co.’s pioneer factory and the San Blas, now in port, brought the firm 460,000 limes. The firm has removed to their new quarters on San- some and Washington streets. During the past week the Union Gas Engine Company shipped a sixty-horse- power engine to Nye County, Nev., and a twelve-horsepower gasoline engine to Salt Lake. Recent shipments by this company alsoincludeasix-horsepowerenginatoSyd- uey, Australia, a five-horsepower marine engine to_Tiburon, a large hoisting plant to Grass Flat, Sierra County, a pumpin, plant to Santa Barbara, an engine ani winepump to' Mountain View and a five- horsepower electric plant and engine to Dunn Brothers’ resort at the Cliff House. The Union Lithograph Company has issued a very handsome souvenir pro- gramme for the bankers’ convention, which meets at Fresno on the 5th of October. z The Pelton water wheel is distinctively a Californian product and is justly regarded as one of the most. useful and Tillustrious inventions of this or any other country. A very high honor has been paid the Pelton Water-wheel Company recently in the award by the Franklin Institufe of Pennsylvania” of the Elliot Cresson gold medal—made as a Just recognition of what is regarded by them as one of the most valuable products of American genius that bas ever been produced. A recent shipment made by the Pelton ‘Water-wheel Company is that of a three- joot wheel for the Juneau Electric-light Company at Juneau, Alaska. This wheel is to replace a turbine previously installed. This-company also reports a steacy in- crease of business during the past month, which has taxed their works to the ut- most. Among recent orders they note two wheels for a mining work in Colorado ana an electric-light plant ‘complete for Mex- ico, and also three wheels for the mining districts of this State. The Wave Motor Company is going to put in a wave-motor plant at Capitola, to cost §92: The Union Oil Camuan¥hns an exten- sive oil refinery at Santa Paula, Ventura County, which they intend to remove to the vicinity of Martinez, Contra Costa County. A tank 90 feet in diameter by 25 feet in height is being built and furnaces constructed. The o1l will be brought by sea from Ventura County, pumped into the tanks and refined. It is the intention to pipe the oil to the California Powder ‘Works and the Selby Smelting Works. The Golden State and Miners' Iron Works bas on hand a large amount of foundry work. The immense dredger, the largest ever built on the coast, and de- signed for work on the San Joaquin, on wfiich the company has been enfingefi for some time, is now completed, and to-mor- row a test will be made of its working capacity. The Union Iron Works has the semtract to furnish the new forty-stafap mill for the Champion Mining Company at Nevada City. This, with the thirty stamps now in operation, will make seventy stamps running on the ore from the Champion, Merrifield and Wyoming, the quantity of which is estimated to be sufficient to keep them going for an indefinite period. T'uegl)uw Steam Pump Works have been very busy the past week filling orders for umps. They report having shipped to E\'nt:on\‘i]le one of their duplex piston pumps of a capacity of - 1000 gallons per minute for use in the beet sugar factory; a-fire pump of the compound duplex inside plunger pattern, for the Selby Smelting and Lead Works at Selby, Cal.; also & Dow improved sinking pump for Siskiyou County, Cal., this pump making the second shipped to this section in the last ten days, the first having a capacity of 600 gallons per minute from a depth of 400 feet and the second 300 per minute from same depth. These sinking pumps are be- coming recognized in Mexico. JAPANESE ON THE COAST. Consul Sabura Koys Sends a Long Re- port to His Government—Cor- ruption Charged. The agitation of the Japanese labor question upon this coast has caused the officials in the Mikado's realm to make in- quiry of the Consul in this City as to the exact state of affairs. His Impenal Japanese Majesty’s Consul, Saburo Koya, assumed the duties of his office a year ago and since then has made considerable in- quiry along the coast. His jurisdiction extends over all the territory in the United States west of the Rocky Monntains. He is a graduats of Yale College. Soon after taking his office he began his investigation and since then he has sent a long communication to the Minister of Foreign Departments at Tokio, Count Mutsu. Inic he dwells upon the condition of his countrymen in this country, the number in his jurisdiction, wages ~paid, and history of the laborers in the United Btates, etc. In speaking of the latter point Consul Koya said that the first laborers in the United States were students who failed to succeed in their studies and were obliged to go to werk for a living. The next lot were regular laborers and farmers who came from the Hawaiian Islands. These gave good accounts of wages and their treatment by the Americans, and this brought to California‘many more. Koya said that he urged his Government to re- strict as far as possible the emigration of laborers from Japan to the United States. Consul Koya in his report upon tbe Jap- anese on this coast differs considerably from others regarding the number in this State. in the matter of wages, too, the Consul differs from the statements made by the State officials. He said that the lowest wages paid was at Vacaville, where Jap- anese laborers received $1 a day without board. In nearly all other places higher wages were paid. When speaking of the number of Japanese in the State the Con- sul said that he obtained most of his sta- tistics before the fruit season began and he is sure that in all the fruit-raising districts the number is now greater. Consul Koya asserts that he made some startling discoveries of corruption, which he reported in his letter. He said that when he went among his countrymen on this coast he was greatly surprised at the large number of dissolute women and their male consorts, knowing as he does the attitude of the Japanese Government toward their emigration and the attitude 8_( the United States toward their immigra- ion, e e A MORMON CONFERENCE. Missionaries Review a Year’'s Labor With Gentiles of California. A conference of the San Francisco and Sacramento branches of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was held in Friendship Hall, Pythian Castle, on Sunday. This is the regular Mormon church, which has begun extensive mis- sionary work .in this State, There was a good attendance,and the meetings were all marked by a fervent spirit of devotion. Besides the ‘elders who are engdged in missionary work in this Oity, Sacramento and Fresno, Bishop M. F. Brown and Hon. William Driver, both of Ogden, were in attendance. The Mormon mfssmnarieu sent here are all younz and prosperous business or professional men, who obey the command to go forth and labor for the church for a year or two at their own ex- pense. J. B. Shepherd ‘was elected president ana Henry Peterson secretary for the day.’ The report of the year's work in the Cali- fornia missions showed an addition of twenty-six persons to the church-member- ship. * President Tanner reported that there was a growing interest' in the doc- trines of the church, particularly since the force of workers had been increased to lifteen. : 5 Missions had recently been established at Los Anfielea, San Diego and in Fresno County. He felt satisfied with the prog- ress made, considering that a year ago gnla;e were but two l;\iuionnr({m in tge leld. NAPA - RIVER - EXAMINED,| The Congressional Party Inves- tigates Its Bends and Bars. THEIR DEMANDS REASONABLE. The Members Will Ask for All That the Citizens Want—The New Drydock. The members-of the California delega- tign in Congress who have been examin- ing the Petaluma and Napa rivers arrived in this City last evening.. They left Napa at 7:30 o’clock in the morning to inspect Nava River. The evening before, in the Palace Hotel at Napa, an informal meet- ing was held, at which the citizens of the city were asked to present their views. There were present of the delegation Sen- ators White and Perkins and Congress- men Hilborn and Barham. Lieutenant Potter, the United States engineer in charge of the work on Napa River in the absence of Colonel Benyaurd, was in at- tendance. Among the citizens present were: - Henry Brown, chairman of the Napa Improvement Club; Senator H. C. Gesford, ex-Senator Dennis Spencer, Ed- itor Francis, Mr. Goodman, Captain Wolf, George Strohl, Theodore Bell, Dr. Hahn and others. ‘The first matter brought up was the question of putting in locks at or near Sus- col in order to give continuous navigation to the river.. A petition which had been circulated by Dr. Hahn and had received numerous signatures was handed to Mr., Barham. 2 3 The question of straightening the river was also brought up. There are two bends which the people of Napa are in favor of having cut off. These are Jacks Point, not far from town, and Carrs Bend, some dis- tance below. The amount of cutting re- quired at the former place would ‘be about .;IOOkor 400 yards and to a point below the ocks. Members of the delegation expressed themselves as believing the plan hardly feasible at present. The cost would be over $300,000 even if the conditions were found to be favorable. Lieutenant Potter said that he could not understand how such an amount of heavy gravel could be brought down. “I guess you never saw one of our floods oryou wou{d not be surprised at all,”’ said Editor Francis. 3 It was developed that the Government has_appropriated for Napa River only 21,500. United States Senator John F. iller secured the first appropriation, which was for only $800, for a survey. In 1888 $7500 was appropriated, in 1890 $10,000, and in 1894 HWE “In proportion to the amount of com- merce on the river it has cost the Govern- ment less than most rivers,”” said Mr. Francis. The members of the dele?ation expressed themselves as strongly in favor of doing all they can to obtain all that was asked for the dredging and for making the cut at Carrs bend.” They asked that statistics of the amount of business done in the river be forwarded to them. Yesterday morning the party went down at low tide in skiffs to Suscol, makin, examination of the river. At Suscol they were met by the tug Nellie from the navy- yard and were taken to Mare Island, where they were met by the commandant Captain owison, who conducted them about and explained the need particularly of a new drydock on the Simpson plan. To-day the party will go to Alviso to look into the question of making an ap- propriation asked for there. MILL VALLEY PROGRESS. An Improvement Club Organized and Ready for Business— Its Objects. : Miil Valley is laying the foundation for the establishment of a municipality in the organization of an improvement club. The organization was practically completed on Saturday night by the election of officers and an executive committee. The name adopted is the Mill Vzlley Improvement Club, and the object for which organiza- tion was effected is the accomplishment of public improvements by united effort of property-owners. They will thus do as an organization what could not be done by individual ef- fort. The club will also be able to present in an eifective way any grievances its members may have against the county, the railroad company or any other cor- poration whose action may have an ill effect upon property rights or the general interests of the village. But the chief work of the Mill Valley Improvement Club will be the laying of sidewalks and the lighting of the streets with electricity. Mi'" Valley is a pretty place in summer, an .cis by no means an u%lv place in winter, but when the winter rains fall in the valley the strests become very muddy and pedestrianism becomes an unpleasant duty instead of a recrea- tion. Then it gets very dark in Mill Val- ley when the moon hides away. So the necessity for sidewalks and lights is ap- parent. Some twenty residences are now supplied with electric lights by the Cush- ing plant at San Rafael and it will be a mazter of small cost comparatively to put incandescent lights on the street corners. The facilities for fightinf fire and street- sprinkling will also be included in the con- templated improvements. In the past the Tamalpais Land and Water Company has sprinkled the streets and furnished water for fire purposes without cost to the property-owners. The Improvement Com- pany will now take charge of these matters and pay the expenses out of their fund to be raised by assessments. , There are nodues nor fees nor railroad dfficials Lace Curtain Lengths S, S Low Prices. SPEGIAL SALE THIS WEEK S000 Hamufacturers' Samples of LACE CURTAINS! Every On_e_Diffare nt. | | These Curtaln Samples are one- half of a Lace Curtain, from 1}4 to 13 yards in length, comprising some of the choicest and finest designs in Irish Point, Swiss and Tambour. ‘These goods will be sacrificed for 500 BHEach. '7 5 C mach. $l.oo Hach. PB125 macn. Special Note. As this sale is composed of but one of each pattern, an early call is advised to secure the choicest designs. Just Out. Our new Catalogue for fall season, 1895, Coples mailed free npon epplication, T0 OUR PATRONN IN THE INTERIOR | We take pleasure In announcing that our new catalogue No. 15 is now ready. Great pains and cars have been taken in making this Catalogue more complete than any previous. edition. By means of its assistance those living at a distance from San Francisco can do their shopping with the same ease and satisfaction asif they were shop- ping in person. They are mailed froe. Send forsa copy. 125, 127, 129, 131 Kearny Street. 209 Sutter Street. "SAVE MONEY wowex @n en GAIN HEALT} WITH 80 cups—25 cents ‘SO PURE—SO GOOD’’ Ghirardelli’s cocoa HAS NO FURNITURE attached to the club, but when a needed improvement is decided upon as of interest and beneiit to the community there will be an assessment voted for the payment of the bills. Forty property -owners attended the meeting on Saturday night and a number of others who could not be present com- municated with the meeting their readiness to co-operate with the movement and be- come members of the club. There are 240 property-owners in the valley and Secre- tary Fottreil said yesterday he was confi- dent that 150 of tirat number would join the club. The officers elected are: Charles Toohey, president; E. L. Heuster, vice-president; Thomas H. Reynolds, treasurer; ‘Chomas Fottrell, secrefary. These officers and the. following-named gentlemen compose the executive committee—J. T. McGanley, Carl Meyer, F. I, Kimball, J. E. Perry and P. J. Sullivan. ———— Solomon was called by the Hobrews of his time the White King, from the color of the robes he wore. The allusion made in the New Testamant to the lily of the field, a white flower, in connection with Solo: mon, is thus made clearer. * Jfl{ Hes No Equal 4 ROOIS | $85. Parlor—Silk Brocatelle, 5-plece sult, plush trimmed. Bedroom—7-piece ELEGANT SUIT, bed, bu- Teau, washstand. two chairs, rocker and table; pillows, woven-wire and top matiress. Dining-Room-—6oot Ditenslon Table, foar Solid Oak Chairs. Kitchen—No. 7 Range, Patent Kitchea Tabls and two chairs. EASY PAYMENTS. Houses furnished complete, city or country, any- where on the coast. Open evenings. M. FRIEDMAN & CO., 224 to 230 and 308 Stockton and 237 Post Street. Free packing and delivery acrogs tho bay. RIGES HOUSE, D C. The Hotel * Par Excellence ' Of the National Capital. First class in all appoint- ments. G. DEWITT, T'reas. American plan, $3 per day and upward. NOTARY PUBLIC. on, HARLES M. PHILLIPS, ATTORNEY-AT St aw and gnur_y Public, ssal!funn e e p mmflfll otel, Residence 1620 Fell st o ‘ NEWMAN & LEVINSON; Largest Faney Dry Goods House in America | NEW TO-DAY. CUT THIS OUT AND SAVE IT TO ORDER BY. NOTICE! WE WILL PUT OUR PORTLAND STOCK On sale Monday morning, September 30th, and will close it out at 25¢ and 50c on the dollar, the same as we did with our San Jose stoek. PRICES ARE NO OBJECT! We Want to Flood the Market With SHOES WE NUST CLOSE OUT ALL OUR BRANCH STORES. Our Store Has Been Crowded All the Week. Though the Entrance Is Fifteen Feet Wide It Could Not Accommodate the Rush. WE WILL SELL LADIES' FRENCH HEEL SHOES At $2.50 Per Pair. WE WILL SELL “OUR OWN MAKE” LADIES' FRENCH KID BUTTON, cloth or kid tops, pointed and square toes, patent leather tips, At $1.75 Per Pair. WE WILL SELL “OUR OWN MAKE” LADIE® FRENCH KID BUTTON, cloth or kid tops, pointed or square toe, patent lesther diamond tips, heel or spring heel, At $2 Per Pair, | WE WILL SELL “OUR OWN MAKE"” LADIES' EXTRA FINE FRENCE KID, cloth or kid top, satin finish, seamless foxed, pointed or square toes, diamond patent leather tips, At $2.50 Per Pair. WE WILL SELL “OUR OWN MAKE"” LADIES' FINE FRENCH KID BUTTON, cloth or kid tops, ‘hand-turn soles, latest style pointed, or narrow square toes, diamond patent leather tips, At 3, $3.50 Per Pair. Extra Quality, $4. WE WILL SELL “OUR OWN MAKE” LADIES' EXTRA QUAL- ITY TAMPICO PEBBLE-GOAT, BUTTON, square toe and up, heel or spring heel, At 82.00 Per Pair, WE WILL SELL “OUR OWN MAKE" MISSES' FINE FRENCH KID BUTTON, cloth or kid tops, latest style, diamond patent leather tips, spring heels, At $2.00 Per Pair. WE WILL SELL “OUR OWN MAKE" MISSES' FINE FRENCH PEBBLE GOAT BUTTON, satin finish, French kid fly, square toe and diamond-shaped tips, spring heels, At $1.75 Per Pair. WE WILL SELL “OUR _OWN MAKE” CHILDREN'S FINE FRENCH KID BUTTON, cloth or kid tops, square toe, diamond patent leather tips, spring heels, At 81.50 Per Pair. WE WILL SELL “OUR OWN MAKE" CHILDREN'S TAMPICO PEBBLE GOAT BUTTON, FRENCH KID FLY, square toe and tip, spring heels, the best school shoe made, At 8$1.50 Per Falr. The above are all “Our Own Make,” and come in all sizes and widths. Every pair warranted. NOW FOR CHEAPER SHOEN! WE WILEL SELL LADIES’ KID BUTTON, pointed or square toe, diamond patent-leather tips, At $1.25 Per Palr. WE WILL SELL LADIES' PARIS KID BUTTON, pointed or square toes, diamond patent-leather tips, At $1.50 Per Pair. WE WILL SELL LADIES' SPRING HEEL, fine Paris kid button, square toe, dismond-shaped patent-leather tips, At $1.50 Per Pair. WE WILL SELL MISSES’ AND CHILDREN'S SPRING HEEL KID BUTTON SHOES, square toe, dizmond patent-leather tips, Sizes 1114 to $1 20 Sizes 814 to 1. 100 Sizes 5 to 8. 20 WE WILL SELL MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S HEAVY PEBBLE GOAT “BAY STATE’ SCHOOL SHOES, spring heel, standard screwed soles, cannot rip, Sizes11to 2 3100 Sizes 810 101/’ Sizes 6to 7% WE WILL SELL BOYS' AND GIRLS' SCHOOL SHOES, spring heels, or heels, standards crewed soles, sole leather tips; t out. Sizes 11to 2 Sizes 8 to 10: Sizes 6 to T: WE WILL SELL INFANTS' FINE FRENCH KID BU&ON INFANTS O BOLE BUTTON .. .200 ber palr INFANTS KID BUTTON, patent-leather tips 2 . -.45c per pair 20 80 WE WILL SELL ngg)rl"lEO.\l;’s EPR[:VG“HEE‘L mENC‘H Ku!; UTTON, patent-leather tips, turn sole, si $10 15— - At 65¢ Per Pair. WE WILL SELL CHILDREN’S SPRING HEEL FINE FRENCH KID BUTTON, cloth or kid tops, turn soles, patent-leather tips, sizes 4 to 8— At 90¢ Per Pair. WE WILL SELL BOYS' HEAVY CALF BUTTON AND LACE SHOES, Sizes 1110 2. . .81 25 150 Sizes 233 10 5° WE WILL SELL BOYS' FINE CALF LACE OR BUTTON SHOES, standard screwed soles, can't rip. Sizes 11 10 2 21 50 Sizes 2%3 t0.534 $176 WE WILL SELL OUR OWN MAKE. BOYS' FINE CALF SHOES, button or lace, every pair warranted. Sizes 1110 2. . 8178 Sizes 23 to bl 32 00 Mail orders will receive prompt at- . tention. NOLAN BROS. SHOE CO. 812814 NARKET STREET, 9 and 11 O'Farrell §., PHELAN BUILDING. Telephone 5527.