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8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1895. 10 INSPECT THE WATER, The Board of Health Interested in San Francisco’s Supply. AGAINST A COMMUNION CUP. An Oakland Preacher Thinks That It Is a Great Source of Danger to Christians. The complaints that have been received by the Board of Health regarding bad ke a thorough in- of San Francisco's suppiy of id, and at yesterday’s meeting of the board the matter was brought up and discu No special time was set for the investigation, but it was understoc as soon as the neces- The board commu To the Hon ati ¢ Board of He Ate meeting of Municipal Ownershi; held at 310 Clipper street Thursday November 14, the question of the wate of San Francisco being under discu was brought out from the testimon: bers present from different parts of Noe Valley furnished this portion ot the , from some unknown cause, become very disagreeable both in taste and smell, and was causing much dissa tisfaction. The under- were thereupon appointed & committee sire into the sourc e of supply and ascer- inif possible the cause of the deterioration, and 10 take Any steps poss t of the wat City had und upon , Jo- on that the Col near source Bernal of such Height supply & condil cated be the ley, is 10 nd the bed of the reservoir rved from the edge: filth. We th and pipes prop- ir and to see that ent quantities to exercise s ion over the wat er sup- e best possible results with prevent s ona plyes will insure the means & Plumbing Inspector Sullivan sent in a | report stating that he had examined the | sanitary condition of the City and_County Hospital, the Twenty: Receiving Hospital, City and C house, County Jail, Branch Ja! known as the House of Correction, and Branch Jail 3, formerly known as the Industrial School. The report further stated that in a gen- eral way, with one or two minor exceptions, the heme of sanitation in the various buildings is inadequate, dangerous tc health, offensive and in violation of the | laws which the Board of Health have es- tablished. Numerous recommendations looking to the improvement of the sanitary conditions of the various institutions were made. The report was placed on file. Dr. Frederick A. Stahle, the recently appointed Superintendent of tne City and County Hospital, presented his first monthly report, in which he spoke in severe terms of the condition in which he | found the hospital, particularly in relation to the sanitary arrangement; He asked the board to take particular notice of the plumbing, and to make such alterations aud repairs as will place the institution in at least a safe condition for inmates and attaches. Heq also asked the board to create the office of expert plumber for the hospital, make an appointment to fill it and provide funds for the payment of the salary. The protest of property-owners against the *‘chemical tannery” at Fourteenth and Dolores streets, wh was ordered moved by the last b ferred to Dr. Williamson and Health Offi- cer Lovelace, with instructions to investi- gate and abate the alleged nuisance if | necessary. Property-owners on Grove street near | Ivy avenue, sent In a communication ask- ing that a nuisance at 706 Ivy avenue be abated. They stated that Charles Alpers, ‘who was recently granted the cuntract for yemoving dead animals within the City limits, had begun to carry carcasses to the address mentioned, to the great annoyance of residents in the district. The board agreed to investigate the matter. ‘A communication was received from V. Marshall Law, rector of the Church of the Advent, Oakland, calling attention to what he termed the danger from contagion through the communion cup in churches. He claimed that because the cup was not cleansed after each communicant used it and because the wine was not changed after each time it was used, danger of the spread of disease existed. The board decided that the matter did not come under its jurisdiction and therefore declined to take action. Sewer Inspector A. B. Kinne called tention to the danger to the public health arising from the sewers discharging into the inlet at Channel street. He classed the flow of the Channel-street sewer under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh street bridges as a menace and recommended that the matter be remedied at once. An investigation will be made. Dr. Williamson stated that he under- stood that a large number of cases of ty- phoid fever had been found in the City within the past few months and moved that in future physicians be required to report the presence of the disease as soon | as it came under their observation. The boarda thought favoral ter and also decided to have its inspectors investigate all cases reported and ascertain 1f possible how the disease had been con- | tracted. A special meeting of the board will be held within a few days to consider the milk question and othzr matters. More Time for the Fairs . A1l the attorneys in the Fair case have sgreed to allow Mrs, Herman Oelrichs, Vir- water in various parts of the City have de- | le toward the im- | xth Street Hospital, rd without result, was re- | great | of the mat- | ginia Fair and Charles L. Fair until December 5,1895, to prepare and serve their bill of ex- ceptions to the order denying the motion that the probate of the will of September 21, 1894, De declared off the calendar. MINING AT AWFUL HEIGHTS. Superintendent Sheehy’s Experiences Three Miles Up in the Air. H. M. Sheehy, formerly a well-known miner of Virginia City, but for five years past engaged in mining in the Cordelleras, eighty miles from Lima, in Peru, is at the Grand, e ore is rich in that part of Peru,” said yesterday, ‘‘but the worst thing about mining generally is the revolutions. The last one lasted for eight months. It ended in March, but there is no telling when another one will break out. “I was superintending the large silver mines of Backus & Johnson. One of the firm was related to the late Harry Meigs. ‘Well, those mines are located 16,500 feet | upin the high mountain crags. This is over three miles straight up in the air. To | get there we had to zigzag about in the | wildest way possible to imagine. *“We emploved about 400 Indians and | between thirty and forty white men. | Indians_we d a sol each, or about 50 | cents a day. ey were pretty good min- | ers and we got along very well with them. | “As to the pretty women of Lima, of wh | est in the world, I have no doubt it is true, | but when you have said that y | said all. They are exquisitely beautitul, | with clear, pretty complexions, showing the pure Spanish blcod. Pretty as they | were I know women I like better. I used The | *h you have heard as being the pretti- | you have | POPULAR FESTIVAL NIGHT, Reduced Rates Bring a Good Attendance to the Mechan- ics’ Pavilion. SECOND AND LAST CONCERT. Local Societies Again Sing to Bene- fit the Children’s Hos- pital. The Children’s Hospital concert in the Mechanics’ Pailion last night had a more | popular character than the opening con- | cert on Tuesday. Most of the boxes were empty, but the body of the auditorium | was well filled and the cborus no longer | seemed to constitute the bulk of the people | present. - The general character of the programme was about the same as on Tuesday. The | overture to “Tannhauser” opened it, and | the work was well played, the strings hold- ing their own much better than one would i have expected in a building which is not many ladies—were compelled to stand for hours in the long lines that stretched nearly to the Larkin-street win&.}0 J It is expected that nearly $3,000,000 will be paid into tbe Collector's office before next Monday, when taxes become delin- uent. % For the balance of the week the ofhce will be kept open from 7 to 9 o’clock each evening to accommodate those who are not able to be on hand during the day. The Treasurer's office has registered over 6000 warrants and has money to pay over now. A settlement is made with the Tax Collector every evening, and it is ex- pected that by December 1 enough money will be on hand to pay all demands. ————————— MARITIME HISTORY. Review of the Industry in the Pacific Northwest. A book has recently been issued that cannot but be of great interest and value to all those connected with the Pacific Coast north of San Francisco. It is called the “Marine History of the Pacific North- west,”’ and was compiled by E. W. Wright, after several years of exhaustive labor, The volume is a review of the growth of the maritime industry from the advent of the earliest navigators to the present time. It is beautifully illustrated and contains pictures of almost every craft that has sailed the Northwest waters, There are also portraits and sketches of the men who have done most toward the develop- | ment of the marine service. Much space is given the work of the pio- neers in the Oregon and Alaskan waters. Troubles with the Indians and the growth of the coasting trade are also treated at SOCIETY BEING USHE! | RED BY THE MILITARY ESCORT TO THEIR BOXES. to have a myriad of acquaintances up and down the Pacific Coust,in Nevz California and elsewhere, but five years | make many changes. I shall go to Vir- ginia City again in a dav or two and meet some of my old friends. I think I hdve left Peru for good.” CHICIED THREE DAYS OF | Arrival of the First Flier Train Over the Midland Line. An Arrangement to Cut Into the Busi. ness of the Southern and Santa Fe Systems. The first “Union Pacific flier,” shorten- g the time between Chicago and San Francisco, reached Oakland st 8 o'clock t evening, making the 2360 miles in sev- enty hours. The train left Chicago No- vember 17, at 6:30 P.>., and averaged a speed of thirty-two miles an hour, includ- | ing all stops. or about fifty-five miles an | hour actual running speed. Through Nebraska the ‘flier” made forty-five miles an hour and climbing the great elevation of 7800 feet between Omaha and Sherman the run averaged about thir- ty-three miles. Down the incline from Laramie the train attained an average speed of sixty miles an hour. | At Sacramento one sleeper. with TLos Angeles passengers, was immediately dis- patched upon fast time for their destina- tion, which they will reach at 1v’clock this morning. This shortens the time between the Golden and Garden cities just twelve | hours and lessens the time by this line | from Chicago to Los Angeles by twenty hours. | _The speeding of daily fliers over the | Northwestern and Union Pacific is an effort to cut into the passenger business from Chicago by the way of Santa Fe and from New Orleans along the southern route. The firsc train has a record of sev- enty-four hours from Chicago and ninety- seven hours from New York. 5 The flier was met at Benicia last night by General Agent D. W. Hitchcock and William R. Vice, Pacific Coast agent of the Union Pacific system, and several representatives of the press. It wasa full | vestibule train composed of three baggage- cars, one dining-car, three Pullman | modern sleepers, two day coaches, two reclining-chair cars and a smoker. Attached to the train was a car con- taining nine racers en route tq the new track at Ingleside. One was the speedy Yankee Doodle, belonging to “Pitsburg Phil Smith,” the celebrated plunger. eI i e A War of Estates. T. L. O'Brien, as administrator of the estate of Margaret Healy, has brought suit for an ee- counting against the estates of Thomas Win- ters and Michael Healy. Winters and Healy were formerly administrators of the estate of Margaret Healy, who died July 18, 1885. They rendered an _account in 1886, the com: | plaint states, but since then they have not ren- dered another, although rents and profits have been collected right up to their deaths, a few months ago. i [ Bazaar and Concert. On this and to-morrow evenings the ladies of Hemilton-square Baptist Church will give an entertainment and bazaar in Franklin Hall, on Imore street, near Sutter. The price of ad- mission will be small and there will be no lot- teries. An excellent concert will be given each evening, | really adapted to anything but a band of | | brass and reeds. | “The Heavens Are Telling,” from the | “Creation,” went excellently. In the trio for soprano, tenor and bass, each part was tripled, the following nine ladies and gentlemen being the vocalists: Sopranos — Miss Josephine Sistermans, { Mrs. A. A. Dewing, Mrs. F. H. McCor- | mack; teno unk Coftin, C. H. Phil- pott, J. J. Morris; basses—Walter C Campbell, J. Robinson, 8. Homer | Henley. The ngers were quite strong enough to make themselves heard above the chorus in “The He#vens Are Telling,” and they sang with remarkable unanimity, aswell as with a fine volume of sound. { In the chorus from *“Ernani,” “Crowned | With the Tempest,” sung by the San | | Francisco and Oakland Oratorio societies, | | 8. Homer Henley, who possesses & basso- | cantante voice, was the soloist. | The Harmony Choral Union in the glee | “Now Tramp” had the courage to attempt | some shading, a thing which the com- | bined choruses have studiously avoided | through the two concerts, "The result made one wish that the choral union could e sung “Now Tramp” in a smailer Its work was artistic and de- served a better fate than to have the piano Lm.vsul:es lost in the trackless wastes of the Mechanics’ Pavilion. Miss Madge Thorn- ton was the soloist in the glee, and her | voice carried well. | he soprano assoluto of the festival, | Miss Elizabeth Bell. sang the ‘‘Jewel” | song from Gounod’s “Faust” as her solo | Jast night. ~ This young lady might easily | | prove to be a very charming vocalist un- | der more favorable conditions. Her voice | does not seem,to be very extended in com- pass, but it is pleasant in_quality and her | rendition is _easy. She in no sense ipnssesses a phenomenal voice, however, | and she was too_heavily hampered by the | size of the building to appear to advan- | tage. If Miss Bell had come to San Fran- | cisco less heraldet she wonld have been | better able to live up to her reputation, but the public had been led to expect niore | from her than the young lady was able to | give them. Ugo Talbo’s voice made itself heard in the pavilion, though toward the end of his | aria from Mendelssohn’s “Hymn -of | Praise” he sang a little out of tunein a | laudable effort to give the publica gzood ear-ringing sound, which would sound less far-away than singing generally does in that structure. Mr. Talbo secured an en- core, but he declined to grant it. His| decision wasa wise one, for the programme | was long and the waits were interminable. The members of the Lorin ub and the Orpheus Club of Oakland distinguished | themselves by some good singing, us they had done on the previous night. The combined choruses produced a fine sound in “By Babylon’s Wave” and Costa’s “Damascus March.” One of the best numbers from the previous night was re- | peated, to wit: Miss Daisy Cobn and E. F. Stark’s duet from **Rigoletto.” The lady managers of the Children’s Hospital bave decided to give a grand closing concert on Saturday afternoon next in Metropolitan Temple. The best features of the choruses will be repeated and amony the soloists will be Miss Jose- phine Sistermans and Ugo Talbo. PAYING THEIR TAXES. Property-Owners by Hundreds Besieg- fug the Collector’s Oftice. The effect of the decision of the Supreme Court on the tax levy was to bring hun- dreds of taxpayers to Collector Block yes- terday to pay their dues. Early morning found many provident ones in line and their forethought was rewarded by an early settlement of their indebtedness. Those who came late were not so fortunate and some—among them length. The ship-building industry aud the influences that have assisted it are among the other interesting themes, while no known adventure of the many vessels of the Northwest has been overlooked. INAD OF THE GRIPSACK Arrival of Charles B. Flagg to Or- ganize the Traveling Knights of Commerce. San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles and the North to Be Represented. Various Objects. Charles B. Flagg of Columbus, Ohio, 1| supreme secretary of the Order of United Commercial Travelers of America, arrived here yesterday and is at the Palace. He was met near Port Costa by a special committee of the traveling men, consisting of Messrs. Erlenbach, Wolfe and Udell, and on reaching here was made the re- cipient of a dinner. Mr. Flagg has come to organize sub- councils of the order in San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles. He or- ganized a sub-council at Salt Lake on his way here with fifty-three members as a | start. A meeting of traveling men interested at the Palace yesterday afternoon resulted in twenty-tive persons promptlv submitting their names as members. Mr. Flagg says that large sub-councils will undoubtedly be organized throughout California, as the traveling men here are taking great in- terest in his plans. Three sub-councils will entitle a State to a supreme council. The object of the order is to unite fra- ternally all commercial travelers of good moral character, to give material aid to members and those dependent upon them, and assist widows and orphans of deceased members. It also has an indemnity fund to indemnify members when totally dis- abled, or families of members when ~deatn by accident has resulted to the latter. ‘‘We haye now 3600 members in different States and composing eighty-one councils, and the order is being extended rapidly,” said Mr. Fiagg. *We pay $25a month to disabled members, and $6500 to the widow or orphans of any member who is killed. Already we have paid over $55,000 in claims. *‘On Saturday night a large meeting of the traveling men will be held in the "Al- cazar building, when the organization of the sub-council here will be completed. After I have visited Sacramento and Los Apgeles I will go to Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane, where other sub- councils will be formed. Those in Oregon and Washington will be united in another supreme council.” Martin Erlenbach, the Sacramento-street commission merchant, is one of many who istaking great interestin Mr. Flagg’s work. He says it will result in much benefit to the traveling men. ————————— A Hearty Welcome To returning peace Ly day anditranquillity at night is extended by the rheumatic patient who owes these blessings to Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. Don’t delay the use of this fine anodyne for pain and purifier of the blood an insiant beyond the point when the disease manifests itself. Kidney trouble, dyspepsia, liver complaint, 1a grippe and irregularity of the bowels are relieved and cured by the Bitters. The Omega mine, near Washington, Nevada County, has been given a Govern- ment permit to mine by the hydraulic Pprocess. JThree mining exchanges at Colorado Springs, Colo., managed to transact a business of over six million shares of mining stock in one week this month. This ought to make our San Francisco biokers feel rather envious. The Muggensville and Argentine mines, both near Downieville, Sierra County, have received from the California Debris Com- mission permits to mine by the hydraulic process, impounding works of the proper character having been constructed. Possibly one reason why the Yukon River diggings in Alaska did not pan out any better than they dia this season in proportion to the number of men at work is that large numbers who went up there this season were entirely inexperienced in mining. They will shortly clean up after a two weeks’ run of the twenty-stamp mill at the South Eureka, Sutter Creek, Amador County, and on the result a good estimate of the possibilities of the property may be made. The shaft of the Alma mine, Jackson, Amador County, is being sunk 600 feet more, or 1000 feet in all. The Sutter Creek Record says that the Oneida mine has not been sold, but that negotiations to that end are pending. A deal has been made with John Gra- ham of Forest Home, Placer County, by which capitalists have taken hold of exten- sive placer claims in that section and have commenced active operations. 1t is reported that the Peek ranch mines, Mokelumne Hill, Calayeras County, have been sold through N. 8. Wight to English capitalists for $10,000. There is an area of about 250 acres on the locations. The Utica Company is preparing to put on twelve new concentratorsat the Stickles mill, Calaveras County. Mark B. Kerr is pushing work on the South Paloma, Mokelumne fiill. Calaveras County. The old tunnel has been cleared out and retimbered and a shaft will be driven down on the lead from the bottom of the tunnel and an upraise made to the outfall. There is some little revival of mining around Havilah, Kern County. ‘Work _has been started on the Owens mines, Julian, San Diego County, after an idleness of five years. At the Good Hope mine in Southern California forty-five men have leased eground and are working on their own account, paying 20 per cent myaltlyA There were 271 miners employed at Bodie, Mono County, last month, but when the snow gets bad many of these will be discharged. It cost about $4000 to do the annual assessment work in the camp at Bodie, Mono County, this year. All the Bodie cyanide works are running full blast at present, but when the snow begins to fly they will shut down. Some eighty acres of Government land have been located near Atlas Peak, Napa County, where there are indications of paying quartz. Ophirdistrict, Placer County, expects a needed mining revival. Many of the old mines are being reopened and new pros- pects are being developed on all sides. The Gold of Ophir Mining and Develop- ment Company is a new organization which has secured in Placer County the Green, St. Patrick or the Doig of Ophir, the old black ledge and the Nevada Hill on Bald Prairie, and the Ackerman, three miles east of Auburn. These are all to be reopened and actively worked. C. D. Lane of the Utica mine at Angels Camp has been examining some gold claims in the eastern part of San Ber- nardino and Riverside counties. The claims are owned or controlled by Joseph Brown and John Simmons. A number of new ledges have recently been located in Indian Valley, twelve miles from Hay Fork, Trinity County. The Tacoma smelter has run continu- ously for five years, except a close down of thirty days during the strike on the North- ern Pacific last year. A new ledge is being opened np near the head of Olive Creek, in Greenhorn, about ten miles from -Austin station, Oregon. The mines on Callahan Creek, near Troy, Mont., are just now in a flourishing condition, development having been re- sumed on a number of silver properties. The Bonanza and Young America mines in Stevens County, Wash., have been started up again. Most of the owners are residents of Spokane. Considerable active development work is going on in Juban district, San Diego Couaty. The Ranchito mine and ranch in San Diego County have been purchased for $6500 by Cave J. Corits of San Diego from Mrs. Lopez. At the Niagara mine, near French Gulch, Shasta County, the outlook is more en- couraging than foryears past, a rich body of ore having recently been struck. They have a force of forty men. The Schroeder quartz mill on Deadwood Mountain, about nine miles south of Yreka. Siskiyou County, has been de- stroyed by fire. The mill was one of the best equipé)ed in Northern California and was valued at $30,000. It will be rebuilt in the spring, as negotiations are pending for the sale of the mine. The Yreka Jonurnal hears that a San Francisco company has made an offer of $50,000 for the Espey, Hunter & Co. claim and pumping machinery at Hawkinsville, British Columbia has'amended her min- eral act so as to give the owner of a claim all minerais within his boundary lines continued vertically downward. This is hard on the lawyers, as it will put a stop to a great deal of litigation. Inone issue of a Cripple Creek (Colo.) newspaper there are published 121 notices of applications for mining papents. The Northwest country furnishes the latest story about assessment work. I know of one claim,” said an old-timer at Silver Bow Basin, “the surface ground of which takes in the graveyard on Chicken Ridge. That man has held his claim for a number of years on funerals. Every time a grave was dug he would give his atfidavit that his assessment work was done for that year.” A;l‘!w Wiitwatem;nnd gold mines, South rica, give employment to 50,000 native and 8000 white miners, Sy The Alliance at Park City, Utah, is haying its shaft properly equipped with guides, cage, etc., with a view to more rapid development. They have spent about $700,000 on the mine, gnt have taken out no ore, yet the stock is closely held. Mr. Dusseldorff says the Comstock at Park City, Utah, will soon become a pro- ducer, but the Park Record says he is mistaken, and that no ore of value will be shipped from the property for months to come, ifever. Professor R. A. F. Penrose, of the chair of economic geology in the Chicago Uni- versity, has been visiting the Deep Creek country, Utah, and considers it a wonder- ful region lorlvamty and quantity of the recious metals, 2 5 ‘Well-informed mining men predict that the output of the Slocan country, B.C., will be doubled next year, and its produc- tion will be 20,000 tons. The value is placed at $125 per ton, or $2,500,000, which seems pretty high grade when the quantity is considered. The discovery of some_ good quariz mines near Pierce City, Idaho, has in- duced the placer miners to abandon their claims and search for ledges. An eight- stamp mill is being put up. Captain de Lamar, who is largely in- terested in mines in Idaho, Nevada and Utah, is said to have obtained control of the Mercur mine, Utab, on the basis of $7 50 per share, or $1,500,000. The mine is & steady dividend-payer and the principal ne in the cam v 2 Quitea numb]:r of the rich claims in the Mercur country, Utah, are held by men too poor to develop them, but thisis the case also in many other mining camps. The Gold Coin gronf of mines, Mercur, Utah, owned by B.T. Lloyd, has been bonded for $35,000 by leadeipma men, who are to begin development work on the mine claims at once, & Quite a respectable-sized mining camp has sprung up in Fools Gulch, Ariz., since | the Planet-Saturn Company commenced | work on their claims there. As showing the effect of dry weather on placer mining one dust-buyer in Prescott, Ariz., says his monthly receipts of placer gold had dropped to between $300 and $500, but after the first storm they began to run up to $1500 and $2000 per month. = Colonel H. Treeweek, after an experi- ence of twenty-three years in Utah mines, | says they have seldom been in better | shape than they are now. He hears from all sides that the mining camps are doing better than they were a year ago. < President P. A. Franklin of the New Tintic Mining Company hzs made a pay- ment of $10,000 on the Yosemite mine, | Bingham, Utah. The gold camp of Mercur expects to become the Cripple Creex of Utah as further developments are made. Both the north and south ends_of the district are showing splendid bodies of good ore. St. Louis men have obtained a large interest in the Mount Pleasant mine in West Tintic, Utah, and will proceed at once with energetic development. Twenty men are required to do the as- sessment work on the unpatented mining claims of the Viking Gold Mining Com- pany, Camp Floyd, Utah. Ag;er thirty days’ experiment the Owy- bee Land and Development Company, which is working Snzke River placers (Idaho), has shut down until more ma- chinery is obtained. A steam shovel, whichis to have a capacity of 3000 yards per day, is to be procured. g There is talk of putting n_r a mill and cyanide plant for the April Fool mines Vev.), instead of shipping to Salt Lake. A rich strike is reported about 100 miles west of Hiko, Nev., by Jerry Manning and Charles Garrott. The Black Sand mine on the beach near the Port Orford lighthouse, Or., is being worked for the fourth time. When the claim was first discovered, over forty years i ago, it sometimes paid over $200 to lhei man. The Bullion-Beck mine, Eureka, Utah, | has stocrped mining second-class or milling ore and will draw on the old dump, which has been accumulating for twenty years, for the ores to be run through themill. It is estimated there are 75,000 tons of good second-ciass ore on thisdump. About 65 to 70 tons of first-class ore will continue to be shipped daily. Four carloads of iron ore daily are being shipped from Hanover, N. Mex. he Ivanhoe smelter, Grant County, N. Mex., is working forty-five tons of ore daily and employing about 125 men. | Regular shipments of zinc ore are being | made from the Mineral Point zinc mine, | Hanover, N to Wisconsin. Arrange- | ments are being made to open up and ship | ore from otherzincclaims in the district. The mill at the Octorio mine, near Deeth, Nev., is about to be started, plenty of water having been obtained. In place of the proposed amalgamation lant at the Builiou-Beck mine, Eure- ka, Utah, the company has con-; structed a large reservoir at the | foot of the dump in which all the | water from the concentrator is deposited and settled, and the surface water, which | carries chlorides, is again pumped up to the mill to be used the second time. By this method it is hoped to save practically all the values in the ore, as the sediment in the reservoir will carry nearly every- thing that escapes the vanners in the mill. The Ceeur d’Alene region, Idaho, is the greatest silver-lead district in the country. ‘The Bunker Hill and Sullivan, Emma and Last Chance, Gem, Standard, Tiger and Poorman, all give evidence of being big producers for years to come. The War Eagle mine, Trail, B. C., is shipping 1200 tons of ore monthly to the East Helena smelter. The Cariboo country, British Columbia, which in the past has produced over $50,- 000,000 in placer gold, has a great number of quartz ledges upon which little has yet been done. One of the large mining companies at Eureka, Utah, is trying to_buy the ground upon which stands the Roman Catholic Church, as it stands over one of the many rich veins in that section. Tunnel 10 of the De Lamar mines, Nev., is now in 1000 feet, and will be driven to the place where the company expects to encounter the mineral and save labor in hoisting. The owners of the Sunshine group at Mercur, Utah, have made a contract with the Gold and Silver Extraction Company of America, involving payments of $100, for the use of the cyanide process under the McArthur-Forrest patents. They are now roasting forty tons of E;'gxtes per day in the newly designed Neil furnaces put up at Brigham, Utah, to work the sulphurated ores of the Utah mines. Anold channel has lately been discov- ered near Rock Point, Or., under Dr. Colvig’s place, which has been worked as a tarm for forty yerrs. A number of prnPerties at Eureka. Nev., only need capital to be developed into i;md-pa ing mines. Among these are the ead Broke, Silver Connor, Williams, Avon, Industry, Matamoras, Prospect Mountain, Ruby Hill tunnel, the Magnet series, the Atlantic and Pacific series, l,tullomdo, El Dorado, Banner and many others. Demand for Experienced Gold Miners. . There is.rather a curious state of affairs in Colorado in the matter of experienced miners. The big gold camp of Cripole Creek is attracting the most skillful men from less favored camps, and even Lead- ville has been forced to raise the rate of wages to keep experienced men at home. While this has not happened with us in this State as yet, there has been a remark- able draft upon California in the past two years for experienced superintendents, millmen and managers to go to South Adfrica, British Columbia and other foreign parts, and still more men are going to fill Tesponsible positions abroad. The princi- pal managers of the largest diamond mines and the largest gold mines in South Africa are Californians who learned the mining business here. From parts of Central America, Aus- tralia, British Columbia, as well as Idaho and Colorado, there is a constant demand for good hydraulic and gravel miners from this State. Just now there seems to be a demand also for men familiar with the cvanide process and for amalgamators. There 1s plenty of work all over this State for experienced gold miners, and they are wanted elsewhere as well. We have all the known kinds of gold mining carried on in this State, and in each branch there are many engaged. Of course, if sufficient inducement is offered, these men will try to better themselves, but none of them need be idle with all the work going on here ntdpresant. But it is certain that the demand for good, experienced gold miners will continue to increase for some little time. In these days it is a business that is prosperous, and” those engaged in it are in demand. CHARLES G. YALE. Crito considered the oil of cinnamon to be a very efficient remedy in all diseases of the xm?. NEW TO-DAY. 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