The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 21, 1897, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1897, 21 Q\ portant and interesting work of col- lecting samples of all the building stones of the State and subjecting them 10 all the scien- tific tests needed (o determine their analysis, | nature, strength, ete., and _consequently their value as building materisl. Samples dressed in various ways will be assembled into a dis- | Pplay of the building stones of Califorma, and other samples will be used in the scientific in- | vestigations. This new undertaking is due to two thin For one thing there will be & great deal of building going on at the university duriug the next few years, made possibie by the in- te support of the institution and by the generosity of several people who have Ppromised several millions of dollars’ worth of gifts to the institution. For the magnificent new structures that are to rise, grouped ac- cording to & plan for which a world-wide com- petition is being opened, the handsomest, most enduring and altogether the best ma- terials will be wanted, and 1t is proper that the-sclentific departments serve the institu- tion in this wey. For another thing this isa proper field for the geological department to enter in the course of its scientific work. It isone of the meny exhibitions of new life, of progress and broadening out which the university will ve able to give in the future. The scale on which this work will be car- Tied out has not been determined. It will gely on the extent to which the resources of the department are increased. Professor Lawson has begun the work al- ady, and he asks quarrymen ail over the contribute samples of their stone to collection. Four-inch cubes aressed differently on the different iaces are wanted for museum sheives, elve-lnch cubes similariy dressed are wanted for working specimens. In some cases ill be preferable, and with limestones for interior decoration, several variously polished would be desired les are wanted not only from work- es, but from places where valuable n ms to exist. The economic display which would result from assembling such a representative collec- on is not of course the feature of most im- portance. The valuable work will be the ex- huustive tests applied to these building stones. I be chemically analyzed by experts. tions will be ground to exceeding thinness 1 studied with the microscope. Various mechanical tests to determine the crushing d other strengths will be made,and the e precise nature of the stoues being known be stated what the effects of air, water, tc., will be in producing disintegra- , discoloration, e All these tests will be mede by competent and will be impartisl and reliable. Such tematic study would be of great value. Whatis known and asserted about our building es 50 fer amounts to s good eal, but it is nly the result of the verdicts of architects ma: and ihe staies and claims of quarrymen and | their paid experts. be many case: wh localities fo 1o develop the re 1 t will determine and ar best building ma us tfmes in the past few years thero oversies between rival d contracts were in sight, lities of their products. A notable | case was that of the new ferry building, when Arizona and Portland Were in competition b California quarries. The contemplated work st the university wiil afford_exact infor- will undoubtedly its will be made to tn this te als. mation of inestimable value. The eolor of many of San Francisco’s most motable buildings would have been different if ore had been kuown ebout the stonme was decided to use, and architects have noted with interest the disint cracking of the stone used in tures, and the streaking and stal she presence of ingredients which ere and brought to the surface wi me. California has a greater va stones than any State in tange from superb granites eftine in Mono Cou hich is now go- | even to London for expeusive interiors. The_disposition to use timber, leck of transe poriation 1acilities and other causes have re- tarded the development of these resources, ard many quarries that will be famous as well 85 valusble some day wil 4 for years. But this systematic work will be of | much value to the Stat MINING MISCELLANY. The 8an Francisco Gold Mining Exchange | hes closed its large offices in the Mills build- ing and gone out of business. It was organ- ized two yesrs or 80 ago by some of the wealth- iest and best-known mining men of California for the purpose of buying and selling mines, and especially for taking hold of claims or partly developed mines of promise and pu ting them on the market and assisting in the development of such mines. Butthe enter- prise did not “take” A few mines were listed. but rich and shrewd buyers fonght shy, building | on. They | beautiful possibly for the reason that they believed that | the said rich and able mining men would not let zood things at bargain rates siip through to the open market. Denver capitalists have bonded the Helvetia gold mine in the Julian district, San Diego County, for $40,000. At the Standard Consolidated mine at Bodie tailings are to be conveyed from the mill to the cyanide plant through & flume 1500 féet long and then raised to the tanks by an ele- vator. A pipe line twenty-five miles long will con- vey petroleum to Gaviota landing, Santa Bar- bata County. English capital is said to be in- terested in the enterprise. More men are emp.oyed at the Magalia mine, Butte County, than ever before in its history. The shaft at the Amador Queen is now down about 500 feet. The small hoist now in use on the property is proving inadequate for the work at that depth, and they will take down the Amador Goid mine hofst and erect it on the Amador Queen property. .The Winnie and Yucca Tree mines, in the Stringer district, Kern County, have been s0ld by Coben & O’Brien to O. H. Bavage of San Jose for $7500. It is reported that the Oakland owners of the Frazier mine, Plumas County, will erecta 10-stamp mill early next summer and prose- ciite work vigorously. The hydraulic mines all over Siskiyou are starting up snd will be kept in operation from now until next summer. In the Salmon River country and slong the Klamath some large plants have been put in during the past few years, which will largely increase the output of gold 1n this county. Atthe Templar mine near Indiana ranch, Butte County, for several months a five-stamp mill has been operated satisfactorily. The bond, price was $20,000, and it is said the company will enlerge the capacity of the mill t0 ten stamps. The mine on the Gabbert ranch, Calaveras County, has been sold and the parties are get- ting reedy to sink a shaft 1000 feet. This Property is located about two and a half miles west of the mother lode, in the serpentine formation, which can be traced for a distance of fifteen milet running north and south. Atthe Gwin mine, Calaveras County. work is being prosecuted on the 1200, 1300 and - 1400 levels running north, which keeps the forty stamps going steadily. When the mine - 1s0penea up as the owners intend it to be, it -will be easy to keep twice the amount of stamps running. .The reopening of the long-abandoned Colum- bus mine, El Dorado County, & rich producer ~yHE geological department of the State University has begun the most im- t of the air on the stones will be noted. | do much | ablish the ‘ in its time, and from shallow workings, located at Cold Springs, five miles west of town, is receiving the consideration of several capi- talists. Development work in quartz properties un- der bond is assuming encouraging proportions | in all directions from Placerville throughout Placer Cou The new ten-stamp mll erected on the lower | end of the abandoned Springfield, in Placer | County, is working the tailings of the oid- | sime property. It is opersted by Willinms & Harpending and is known as the Union mine. It is reported that rich placer diggings have been discovered on the McCloud River, about t miles above Baird. The working of many mines in Siskiy Trinity counties is being interfered floods resulting from the recent storms. C. M. Root writes as follows from Kernville of a mining revival in tbat part of Kern County “K lle, the center of the Kern River placer excitement in the '50's, isagain coming | to the front, but this time through its quartz | m A Los Angeles company—the Los An- Gold Mining Compsny—has purchased | the Mammotn group of mines and has o | good bodies of ore. They have just comp.eted | nia and are now crushing ore. They are working twenty-five men. “The Colorado Goid Mining and Develop- ment Company has bought the noted Keyes mine and several adjoining mines, and is making preparations to put in a twenty-stamp mill and cyanide process. The above company has caused atownsite to be laid out, and al- ready tmildings are going up; water-pipe bas n ordered and mains will at once be laid | on its arrival. There are about seventy-five | men working 1n the district already, and | more being put &t work daily. Thisisone of the few mining camps in Celifornia in which miners are actually wanted. | “The mineral belt is traceable for twenty-five | miles and the surface showing vary from #: { to $100 per ton. The Kern River running through the dis! coniains sbout 35.000 miners’ inches of water and furnishes ample power for all purposes. “Taking it 1l in all this is one of the best lo- es for investment that Ihave seenin | Southern Californis, notaccepting Randsburg, which 1 carefully examined before coming here. Messrs, Littlefield & Day of Portland are be- | ginning the development of their large placer mines twenty miles west of Roseburg, Or. A long communication to the Portland Or- | egonian dwells on the but slightly developed pla ining possibilities of Jackson and Josephine counties, in Southe on, show- | ing the great abundance of water from the Rogue River and smaller streams and the op- portunity for successful operations on the Cal- ifornia scale. It is asserted that there are thousands of acres of mining ground yielding from 10 cents 10 40 cents & cubic yard Awsiting the opers- | tion of capital on & iarge scale, and that one great hydraulic plant cou'd take out‘yearly more than the whole present yield of the State. There are & few fairly well equipped placer mines, but most of the mining is done by simple sluicing or with rockers, and large | by “ranch miners,” who pro:perously culti- vate part of their land and wash the rest. The rench miners plow and harvestin summer and dig gold in winter, and are biessed above their neighbors. A new hydraulic plant at & mine on the Tilinois River, Oregon, yielded $300 for the first day’s run. The Colville reservation, in Washington, 1s open 10 the white man for mining only, and the coming of spring is seeing quite a rush of mining enterprise to it. A good many good mines heve been opened within the year, and much development and prospecting is go- ing on. On Texada Island, B. C., there isgreat rc tivity and discoveries are being made all over the island. The Ands Copper and Gold | Mining Company has sunk a 128-foot shafi, erected a steam hoist and pump and is ship- ping ore assaying §19 in gold, 11 ounces of eliver and 1814 per cent copper. The receut report of a marvelous gold dis- covery on Kiondike Creek, about seventy miles from Forty-mile Camp, on the Yukon, is helping to stimulate the Alaskan rush which is forming at the sound. Boats leaving for the north are carrying heavy lists of passen- gers who want to be early on the ground. The December report of the Alasks Tread- weil Gold Mining Company shows the milling 113,736 tons of ore, averaging $3414 per ton. The bullion shipment was 96. The bul- lion from sulphurets was $17.338 One of the latest strikes reported from Colo- rado is in_the Emancipation mine, Boulder County, where at the 160-foot level the six- inch vein yielded ore runuing £30,000 to the ton. The property was recenly purchased by &0 English syndicate. The Colorado State Bureau of Mines has in- | creased its activity and usefuiness, and Com- | missioner of Metalliferous Mines Lee has pre- pared & report which will be of much interest | to miniug men. It contains the first reliable | statistics regarding Colorado mines. Mine cesualties are within his province, and the | report enumerates a total ot 316 accidents to | persons, of which 154 were fatal. Falling ma- | terial was the chief cause, killing 39 and | injuring 58. The estimate of the number employed in the | mines includes laborers only, and excludes engine.rs, owners, employes in goneral offices, etc. The men engaged in mining in the State are , classified as follows: Under- ground miners, timbermen, trammers, ek 15,924; topmen, engineers, ore-sorters, Car- penters, etc., 3466; millmen, smelters, sam- pling works, 5060; teamsters and packers, Cripple Creek mines are yielding about $1,000,000 per month, with an increase com- ing. James Ferry is credited with striking a vocket of ore running 17,000 ounces of silver to the ton in his leased mine, the Della S, at Aspen, Colo. The 1daho Legislature will likely pass the bill prohiblting mine-owners from running stores in connection with their mines. Gold-bearing lodes 1n limestone have been discovered near Deadwood, in the Black Hills. The prejudice against limestone as a gcld- bearing rock has prevented this discovery in a region that has been prospected for twenty years. Lyman J. Gage, Who is to be Secretary of the Treasury, has about $500,000 invested in mining in Boulder Couaty, Colo., where he was married. The new lessees of the Chino copper mine of the Banta Rita district, New Mexico, have pumped out the mine and found much rich copper ore in the old workings. Other old neighboring mines are to be reopened, and the experience with reopening some smaller ones indjcates that these mines wil again be large and profitable producers. Iuis provosed in the Colorado Legislature to prohibit the duplication of mines of the same name. Shipments of mica from the Czarina mine, Lincoln County, Nev., Luve been praised in Manchester, Eug. Baker City, Or., is the latest piace o talk about s miping exchange. Charles Love and associates have bought the Chainman group of mines near Ely, Nev., for $125,000. Rossland, B. C., shipped 1209 toas of ore to smelters during the second week of this | month. The Mining and Scientifit Press calls atten. tion to the drain suffered by the gold resources of the State through the operations of the Chinese, wio without taking up claims indus- one of the best built ten-stamp mills in Catifor- | | | | the gold ledges of have just been stated by the geological survey 10 exist, and which the Yukon placers prove | in being astonished at what they saw and | development planned is accomplished. ! more than if his labor is light. triously work the auriferous gravels of the northern counties on public land. No alien may locate a mining claim, but many Chinese have bought or ieased placer mines, little and big. Many hundreds of Chinese, however, are working away with pans and sluiceson public lands slong the streams, generally on gravel that no white man cares to work, satie fied to earn & few bits or a dollar a day. The aggregate amount of gold washed out by the Chinese annually in this State is variousty estimated at from $1,000,000 to §3,000,000, & very small part o1 which is expended here. While these Chinese are working over old gravel or other gravel so poor thatnobody else wants to work it the time will come with the improvementof processes and the increase of population when these poor deposits would be worked by citizens, and they contain many millions in gold. It is suggested that a State law should prevent the working of mines that are not located. Much interest is taken in the coming devel- opment of the vast gold resources of Siberia, which will follow the trans-Siberian railroad and the introduction of American scientific methods. Russian mine-owners and engineers are more frequently visiting this State to study our mining methods, and California mining experts and mining machinery will find in Siberia an important field in the fu- ture. The other day & party of distinguished Rus- sians completed a three weeks' visit here and proceeded home without attracting notice. The party consisted of Simon and Feder Shadrin, father and son and millionaire mine- owners, M. Shagaloff, an engineer in their em- ploy, and M. Krasilnikoff, s Government en- gineer. The last week of their stay they put learned in Trinity County, where the State's biggest placer operations are now conducted. Tuey were piloted by Professor R. Leo Van der Naillen of the Van der Naillen School of Englneering, and examined the operations of ihe' Chinese as well as of the biggestcom- panies. They spext hours watching the giants, and were astonished at the scale and effectiveness of the operations. They found the Hupp & McMurray mine working gravel paying 25 conts & cublc yard, with great giants and siuice-boxes & mile long, and they found the Le Grange Mining Company bringing water fifty-six miles and through s tunnel 8500 feet in length and using a pressure of 500 feet. At . Shadrin’s great placer mine no gravel 3 a yard is worked at & profit, and but 50 per cent is saved. Hundreds oi men do by crude and expensive methods what a dozen men will do in a vastly cheaper and more effective way here. The Siberian mining de- velopment has but fairly begun and it has much room to grow. Siberia,however, offers but very limited possibilities to Americans. None but & Russian citizen may locate a claim and the acquiring of mining property is difi- cult. All goid produced must be sold to the Government. The Alaska Mining Record, published at Juneau, has issued & very handsome souvenir edition for 1897, liberally illustrated with half- tone engravings showing views of the leading minesand towns in Alaska. It is almost ex- clusively devoted to the mining industry and gives much of historical and present interest. The first important mining development of Alaska Degan shortly after 1881, when the Paris lode on Douglas Island was revealed by placer washings, which exposed the bedrock. In 1882 John Treadwell bought the property for $400 ana prospecting soon revealed a ledge 400 fect wide. The 240-stamp mill now on the property is the largest in the world and the mine has paid $3,025,000in dividends. Other great properties near Juneauare paying hand- omely. Prospecting for quartz bas been mainly con- fined to a strip along the southeastern coast close to tidewater, the great difficulty of travel and prospecting, the absence of roads and the practical impossibility of develop- ment making the interior even near the coast uninviting to the prospector, who naturaily prefers the placer diggiugs. Great ledges of comparatively low grade gold-bearing quar:z appear to siretch along the panhandle of Alas- ka down the cosst. The Mining Record calls this the great mother lcde of Alaska. It has been but slightly explored and.may afford other Treadwells. Stiil less is known about the Yukon Valley which to exist. Development will be slow and diffi- cult, and thousands will meet hardships and failures, but there is no doubt that Alaska has s greatmining future. An estimate of the Alaske gold yield is naturally difficuitto make, vut the following by the Record for 1896 is probably the best at hand: Nowell Gold Mining Company, 35 tamps S ... $160,000 Berners Bay dfining and Miiiing Com- pany, 40 stamps..... = 125,000 Alnska-Treadwe:l Gold Mining Com- | pany, 240 stamps B ... 800,000 Aluska-Mexican Gold Mining Company, 120 stamps e 450,000 Aluska Commercial ~Company, 40 samips - ... 500000 Bald Eagle Miniog Company, 4 siamps. 200,000 iboer God Mining Comjany, 10 satnpe i et s Juneau Mining Company, 80 stamps.... Jualin Gold Mining Company,10 stamps Alaska Willoughby Go d Mining Com- pany, 10 st 2 Green mine, Norton Sound, 10 stamps. Total output of quartz mine: Litua Bay p acer mines. 15.000 Couk inlet placer mines....."." [ 11110 175,000 | Birch Creex aistrict, Yukon mines...... 1,:00,000 | Other Yukon districts 800,000 | From several small creeks in various parts of the Territory, worked by ar- rastras.... 2 Total outpat.... $4,670,000 This gives an increase of $1,670,000 over 1895. The most imporiant development in quartz mining this year will be thatof what was known as the Lane & Hayward proper- ties, comprising twenty claims in Silver Bow Basin, four miles from Juneau, and which have just been bought for about $500,000 by Thomas Mein, now of San Francisco, and Al- tred Beit of London. Great things are ex- pected of this property when the extensive The rush of prospectors to Alaska promises to be much increased this year, especially to the Yukon region, where new strikes are re- ported. The neeaed warning is constantly given that no man shoula go with less then £500 and that nobody can expect to do any- thing in less than twoor three seasons. Of course meny will not heed this advice, to their sorrow. THE WATER WE SHOULD DRINK There Seems to Be No Fixed Rule About the Quantity. According to Professor Allen we should drink from one-third to two-fiiths as many ounces as we weigh in pounds. * There- fore, for a man weighing 168 pounds there would be required fifty-six to sixty-four | ounces daily, or from one and a half to four pints. This the Journal of Hygiene regards as a very indefinite answer. Ihe | amount of water required depends on the season of the year, the amount of work done and the kind of food eaten. In hot weataer we require more than in cold, be- cause of the greater loss through tho skin, though this is in part made up by the lesser amount passed away through the kidneys. If a man labors very hara he requires A man working in a foundry, where the tempera- | ture is high and the perspiration profuse, not infrequently dricks three or four gal- lons daily. If the food is stimulating and salty, more water is required than if it blend. Vegetarians and those who use much fruit require less water than those who est salt fish and pork, and often get along on none except what isin their food. In most cases our instincts tells us how much water to drink far better than any hard or fixed rule. For ages they have been acquiring a knowledge of how much 1o drink and transmitting that knowledge to descendants, and if we follow them we st®il not go far out of the way. It isof more use to us to know how much of 1t is required da.ly. 1f one lives in a region where the water is bad, it should be boiled and put away in bottles well corked in icechest, and, in addition, one sbould eat all the fruit one can, if fruitagrees. Fruits contain not only pure water, but salts which are needed to carry on healtbfully the functions of life.—Medical Times. Fleet sireet, London, is the chief center of the British newspaper world. It is never lonely at any hour of the day or night. FROM GREATER NEW YORK Budget of Interesting News and Gossip About the Galifornia Golony in the Eastern Metropolis EW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 15.—Do you want to be popular? Do you want $90) to be in the giddy, whirling swim, where the people laugh and smile and giggle and chat, and never say much after all? Do you want to wander through mar- ble halls and gaze on paintings and tapes- tries and rore antiques until your soul ex- pands with joy and wonder and then shrivels up with its own insignfiicance? Well, here’s the recipe: Commit to memory a few dozen jokes— good, bad or indifferent, new or shop- worn—only have jokes! Learn three or four neat little verses and aim to cultivate astyle of your own when reciting them. Be au fait in everyti¥ng. Never try to be candid and sincere; few people succeed in that art and retain their friends and ad- mirers. Cultivate polite sarcasm, and above all be important in manner and look. Hemember that you must be ex- clusive and politic, a very difficult combi- nation. Be particular in choosing your tailor, bootmaker, haberdasher and barber, and never, never forget that soap is a very good thing when used freely with warm water. Have a beaming smile for all who are higher up than you in the social scale, and don’'t accept every invitation to all sorts of affairs. Observe tnese rulesand you cannot fail in being popular and sought alter wherever your fortune takes you. M. Bauer and family of San Francisco arrived Thursday from an interesting trip in Europe. They will be guests at the Holland during their short stay in New York. Miss Eugenie Ferrar of San Francisco is a great favorite among the California con- tingent in Gotham. Her gifts as a musi- cian are as well known here as at home and during the past few months she has been very busy teaching pianoforte toa large number of pupils. She has au apartment at the Gerard on Forty-fifth street. H. van Bergen and Mrs. H. van Bergen | are registered at the Holland. Young and athletic is one of the guests at the Holland. Heis one of San Fran- cisco’s fine specimens of Western blood and spirit. He is Emile A. Bruguire and a student at Harvard. On Friday he ran down to New York just to pass the time and see a few friends. He will return to Boston next week. Miss Annie Apperson and Miss Kincaid are guests at the Netharlands. The spring days will soon be here and though things look very dreary in the ereat park it will be a few weeks only be- fore birds will be nesting and singing and beautiful dainty spring flowers will be peeping out uvon the mighty throngs which rus: and push and toil upon this { little brown planet. Ach, mein! but ’tis cold white winter now, and the icicles hang from the roofs and balconies and look like crusaders’ spears in the sunlight. Spring is near. ‘W. P. Scott of San Francisco is in town, baving arrived on Saturaay afternoon. Edgar Rickara arrived on Wednesday and registered at the Gilsey. The Metropolitan Hotel, once known as the ““Coleman House,"” looks like a white- faced beggar sunning, lately. Since Mr. Fife’s failure and the visitation of the Sheriffs, who helped the movers to trans- port the hotel's belongings to other and more safe quarters, everybady wondered what would happen to the old place. A few days ago a big white cloth was hung over the door, on the Broad way entrance, and in big fright letters is the announce- ment that in February some time the hotel will be reopened, refurnished and refitted, ell of which will be under entirely new management. It is to be hoped the new venture may prove successful. W. H. Pearson and nis three handsome sons—Charles, Harry and Fred—made | the Coleman House exceedin ly popular when they owned it sixyearsago. Cal- | fornians look¢d upon it as a sort of Mecca in the desert of New York. At the Grand Hotel are a number of Californians. Among them is Arthur L. Bell, a resident of San Francisco, who ar- rived on Thursday. E. 8. Irvine is also a sojourner in our midst. The great cycle show during the past week has excited great enthusiasm among the wheelmen all over the State. The L. A. W.’s grand reunion at Albany was at a splendid time, because nundreds of delegates from all over the United States came down to New York to view the won- derful display of wheels at Grand Central Palace. Among the Californians who took advan- tage of the opportunity were Judge Frank H. Kerrigan and R. M. Welch, members of the L. A. W., both delegates from Califor- They came down to New York im- mediately after the convention of wheel- men adjourned on Friday. Apropos, Judge Frank H. Kerrigan, though young in years seemed to be by common consent the guardian of our California delegates at Albany. Frank W. Fuller, one of the delegates of the California L. A. W., did some good work for the cause while in Atbany. Many will regret that the next conven- tion will take place at St. Louis. Ever since the fatal cyclone last summer the town has seemed hoodooed. Mike H. de Young, who recently re- tarned from Germany, was an honored guest at the grand banquet on Thursday night, which was given by the New York Press Association at Delmonico’s. Hon. Theodore Sutro, New York Tax Commis- sioner, was also an honored guest of the occasion. Mr. Sutro is the brilliant brother of Hon, Adolph Sutro, aman of whom San Francisco may rightfolly be proud. W. H. Fleet and Mrs. Fleet, prominent in Los Angeles, are stopping way down- town at the Astor. Edgar Rickard has been in town since last Wednesday. Mrs. Henry Gillig is living very quietly in her handsome apartments at the Gilsey House. Bhe declares that she has no de- sire to entertaiu to any greatextent during her husband’s absence in the Hawaiian Islands, Every fine day she may be seen driving through the park and up Riverside in a very stylish turnout, looking handsome and well gowned. I met her the other morning on Fifth avenue giving her prize brindle bulldog Pinko a joliy little walk. Pinko is a great pet, and as he took first prize in Paris last summer for being the finest specimen of his class he is doubly precious. Mrs. Gillig may go over to Paris in early spring; however, she is yet undecided. The picturesque home at Larchmont she will occupy in the summer when Mr. Gillig returns. F. D. Bigginbotham, well known in San Francisco and San Diego, is meeting with most encouraging success as manager of 8. N. Wood & Co.’s tailoring establish- ment on Broadway and Thirtieth streets. Mr. Higginbotham has been away from California for just a year, and says with- out hesitation that he enjoys the rough and wintry weather of the East, for he finds it agrees with him excellently well. Here’s a rough refiection on the Thes- pian tribe: A young man is looking sad and uncomfortable when sympathizing friends ask, *‘What's the matter, Bill?" Bill shakes his head disconsolately, sighs, viciously bites off a piece of his cigar and mutters: “Wel!, you ses, Tom, 1 | bate to tell mother the truth about my life; I hate to tell the poor old girl I'm an actor; she has always believea I was a burglar.” TreLza Forrz ToLax. 34 Park Row. A Georgia Legislator, The newly arrived stranger in Atlanta started up Whitehall street in search of information. street he encountered a tall yellow-faced individual in a droopy coat and soiled tie. ““My good sir,” said the straneer, I am in search of information concerning this great State of Georgia and feel sure that yon can assist me very materially. is your population ?” “Dunno.” “Whaat kind of a school system have you here?” “Dunno.” “‘How about your tax rate?” “Duanuoa.” “Is your government friendly or un- | friendly to manufacturing corporations?'’ “Dunno.” “‘Let’s see—how does Georgia rank among the other States of the South in its agri- cultural products?” *‘Dunno.”” “*Ah, you don’t live there, then ?”" “Yaas.” “What do you do?” “On, I'm jest a member of the Legisla- tuce.”’—Calhoun Times. ————— Professor Pasteur’s Tomb. Pasteur’s body has at lastreached its ‘, final resting place in the erypt of the Pas. teur Institute in Paris. The desizn of the crypt has been carried out by M. Girault, the architect of the palaces to be erected | in the Champs Elysees for the exposition | of 1900.” The plan and details were sug- | gested by the son of Pasteur, after the By- zantine mausoleum of Galla Placidia at Ravenna. An appropriate but curious feature of | the crypt is the mosaic ornamentation of the vaulted ceiling. The designs, in green and zold enamel, indicate the principal discoveries of Pasteur—sheep healed of the rot, fowls, cows, dogs with hydropho- bia, and the timid rabbits that have been | the useful victims of bis experiments. The hop pattern and the vine record his researches on fermentation and the phyl- loxera and the mulberry leaf tell of the remedy he brought to the silkworm’s malady. ——————————————— NEW TO-DAY: i AUSUAL OFPORRUNTTY We will continue our great clearance sale this week at a loss, as we desire to clean out our winter stock to make room for spring goods. — Infants’ Mocassins, sizes 0 to Chiid's Black Cloth Top Bution ‘hand- turned soles, spring heels, patent. leather tips, 8izes 5 10 71 Child's Fiue’ Pebble Grain Bitton, stout soles, pebble tip, spr: T R S i o e tzes 8 1o 113 90c Misses’ Fine Pebble Grain Button, spring heel. pebble tip, sizes 11 to 2 $1.15 Ladies’ Fine Giace Kid Button, nareas square toe and tip, also point aud tip, reduced irom.. " $3 69 5180 Carry » Full Line of Buckingham & Hecht's Fine Shoes. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. NEW TO-DA: TO THE POINT. ‘While some aim to and others claim to we really give best value for least money. Note the following prices : Men's Calf Cork Sole, Lace or Con- ress, reduced from........$8.50 to $2.45 Men’s Calf, Cork Sole, Lace or Con- gress (Buckingham & Hecht’s make), Teduced from. $4.00 t0 $3.25 Men’s Best French Calf, Lace or Con- ress, cork sole (Buckingham & echt's make), reduced from...... . $5.00 to $3.85 Men’s Buckingham & Heeht's NOVA SCOTIA SEAL, Lace or Congress, cork sole, absolutely waterproof. ... $5.00 Kast's 738-740 Market St. Not P Mail or Ex- press Charges on the Above Adver- tised Goods. MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. On the corner of Alabama | | 40 What | NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. GRAND PRICES WERE WIND-Up NEVER CUT SO SACRIFICE SALE! DEEPLY as they are this week throughout the balance of our surplus stock of Fall and Winter goods, for THIS 1S POSITIVELY THE LAST WEEK OF OUR GREAT SACRIFICE SALE and before THING MUST BE it closes EVERY- DISPOSED OF to make room for immense importations of Spring goods daily arriving, conse- quently the following ‘and all other broken lines and oddments of every description have been subjected to Reductions That Will Clear Them Out With a Rush! 109 vieces 37- INCH ALL- W 0 0L DRESS COLORE DRESS , GOODS, £oo0s; in stripes and figured effects, former price 50c & yard; Clearance Sale price : 72_pleces 39-INCH HEAVY ALL- WOOL NOVELTY CHEVIOT, former price 60c a yard; Clearance 9, Sale price . 99 60 pieces 43-INCH FINE ALL- WOOL FRENCH FIGURED DRESS GOODS, stylish designs, former price $L ayard; Clearance 50¢ Sale prics.... 3 cases47-INCH All Pure Wool ENG- BLAC GOODS. &ie%, Sorn 75¢ a yard; Clearance Sale price.. 1case 44.INCH FIGURED EXG- LISH MOHAIR, in various de- signs, extra good value for 75¢ a ¥ S Cle s naleric e o 0C case 53-INCH ALL PURE WOOL IMPORTED CHEVIOTS, worth $1 50 a yard; Clearance Sale price 75¢ 50 pieces BLACK BROCADED SILK o0 A D DEP'T. GRINSILK me. dium designs, regular value 75¢ & yard; Clearance Sale price. pieces BLACK SATIN AND GROS-GRAIN BROCADES, large designs, regular value $1 a yard; Clearance Sale price...... 15_pieces 24.INCH BLACK DU- CHESSE SATIN, extra heavy quality, regular_'value $150 .$ 00 yard; Clearance Sale price » 65 dozen 5 and 7 HOOK GENU- LADIE GLOVES. {5 dioves, colors and black, odd sizes and slightly imperfect, regular value #1 26 and $1 50 pair; Clearance O Sale price — .- 75_dozen 8-BUTTON LENGTH MOUSQUETAIRE UNDRESSED KID GLOVES, in dark and me- dium tan shades, regular vaiue $1 25 a pair; Clearance Sale price 55¢ 75¢ 5¢ 75¢ BLANKETS. o b6 St BLANKET FINE WHITE * WOOLBLANK- ETS, the entire stock of the Stockton Woolen Mills. We cleared out another large lot from the Oregon City Woolen Miils. The season was over, and we got them at about half value. We make prices to sell them, as we realize the cold weather is nearly passed. These are ail fine goods, remember, and at prices of common makes. FINE WHITE CALIFORNIA WOOL BLANKETS, fully 6 eet wide (the extra size), cost ~ i i 93.95 to make $5 15, but we them at.... HEAVY 104 SOLID WEAVE WHITE BLANKETS, cost the mill $4 95, but our selling price A BETTER GRADE, EXTRA 4 75 S1ZE, FINE BLANKET, the o d e §6 50 article, but our price 1s.. per Pair A SUPERFINE WHITE BLANKET, made for very large beds, being 80 inches wide, cost $9 75 to the mill, but we will sell them at........... . per Pair $4.50 per Pair $6.50 per Pair 25¢ ‘ 50¢| LLACE CAMBRIC GUIPURE EM B R OIDERIES, 5c¢ DEP'T. tecisl vaines this 1o * week at 5¢, 734c, 10¢, 25 12}4c, 156, 20c and 25¢ per yard. BUTTER ORIENTAL LACE. 4 to 8 10¢ inches wide, special values at10c, to 1234, 15¢, 20c and 25¢ per yard. ~ 25c | e | BUTTER POINT VENISE LACE, Sc 4107 inches wide, special values. to at 5c, 614c, 814c, 10¢, 1234c and 15c 15¢ | Der yaru. BUTTER AND CHAMPAGNE POINT VENISE EDGES and IN- 10¢ SERTIONS, extra values, }4t0 1 to | inch wide, at 10c, 1234c, 15¢, 20c 25¢ | and 25¢ per yard. Two lots of about 180 dozen BOYS’ WAISTS AND FAUNTLEROY BLOUSES, the for- MEN'’S WESR newind | fronts and of Cheviots, Percales and fancy Ginghams, and the lat- ter of new aesigns of fast-color | oprints, with ruffle collars, cuffs and fronts, extra vaiue for 50c¢ each; Clearance Sale price.... ... |BOYS’ AND 25¢ 65_dozen MEN'S HEAVY FULL- FINISHED MERINO SOCKS, with double spliced heels and toes, in assorted colors, regular price 25c a pair; Clearance Sale 12i¢ 32dozen MEN'S EXTRA HEAVY UNDYED AUSTRALIAN WOOL UNDERSHIRTS and DRAW- ERS, warranted thoroughly shrunk, regular price $1 25 each; Ciearance gm price e 110 dozen * LADIES’ IM- HOSIER HOSIERY. £28dcor TON HOSE, double heels, soles and ]tous, warranted fast black, regular price 25c a pair; Clear- 4} ance Sale prics.... : - 156 115 dozen LADIES’ FINE BLACK MACO COTTON HOSE, Rem- braudt ribbed, high-spliced heels, soles and loes.wflerm!dor[ dye, regmar price 40c a pair; Clear- )& ance Sale price.. 5 4 200 125 dozen LADIES' BLACK MACO COTTON HOSE, extra high- spliced heels, double soles and toes, Hi:msdorl dye, ourlrezulnr 50c quality ; Clearance Sale price 1 3 pairs for $1. : 3336 CHILDREN'S { MACK l N' MACKINTOSHES, TOSHES. 225%omad’ 5 value $3, will be closed out at 2-00 LADIES’ MACKINTOSHES, in navy and black, two capes, > value $5, will be closed out at $3-00 LADIES’ MACKINTOSHES, in \one cape, value $750, will be @~ closed out at. 3 $0.00 LADIES' MACKINTOSHES, in two capes, in navy an lack, M value $9, will be closed out u:$6.€)0 UMBRELLAS. ks LAS, in handsome Dresden handies, English Gioria Silk, value $3, :260 and $4, will be closed out$1.75 “LADIES’ JACKETS AND CAPES. | LADIES' TAN KERSEY JACKETS, hal ets, regular price $12 50; Clearance Sale price t silk lined, high neck, lap pock- $7 50 LADIES' BLACK PLUSH CAPES, lined with silk serge, handsomely beaded, storm collar edged with black Thibet fur, Clearance Sale price. regular price 5103 $5'75 EZ" STORE CLOSED MONDAY, WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY. MURPHY BUILDING, Market Sireet, Cormer of Joneg San Franoisoe.