The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 25, 1897, Page 30

30 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. SUNDAY, APRIL 25 1897 THE MOTHER LODE IDEA (@T/TH the revival of gold-mining (abloin every way, have just as rogular w~ we constantly bear of inquisies | and permanent ore bodies as those farther AMAIN 21most all over the worid about south, but the geological conditions are the great mother lode of California. The | somewhat different, and unless we apply foreign investor wishes to know more the term mother lode to the whole min- abont this mineral belt, the fame of which | eral belt the length of the State we should has spread everywhere—what is its ex- |limit it in some way, and, in sodoing, tent, tte character of its ores and the | that given is the origina! and only natural ibilit favorable returns for money | one. ‘:;‘:ded): DITum be has a very indefi-| The miner in Siskiyou need not worry nite idenof the character of the mother | about the mother lode. We know there lode is not to be wondered at, and it is not i are good mines there, and if his happens surprising also that this term to his mind | t0 be one of them, or if, on the contrary, means everything of any real value in | it bappens to be a poor one, it is not going California. Butat home, however, where | we have such a good opportunity of ac- | quiring some definite conception of what | is meant by this term it is surprising that | there shouid cxist such an indistinct idea of its signiticance. Such is the magic influencc of tie term that not only does every miner in the | main gold belt of California feel assured | that his property is more valuable if he can trace the mother lode through it, but even in far Siskiyou or San Diego or in the hot stretches of the desert the pros- pector, when he has found something ap- parently valuable asks himself if it cannot be possible that his property is on a con- tinuation of the great lode of the central partof the State. He sometimes goes so far as to lay down a rule on the map for | the purpose of seeing if the course of the lode in the central counties will not carry it near his discovery. Dascriptions of mines sent abroad for the purpose of making sales are sure to aitract much more attention if it is as- serted that they are on the mother lode. Every new camp of any importance is sure to have its mother lcde. We frequently hear of it lately at Randsburg. Those who are familiar with the origi- nal mother lode know its really unique | character as a continuous mineral belt of | remarkable richuess, but they also know | that because a mine ison this belt it is not necessarily a_bonanza, is not neces- sarily even a paying mine; that here as elsewhere are met the same difficulties in lode. To be sure,in making a sale abroad where the real character of the mineral belt of California is not known and only tne mother lode has been heard of it may make some difference where the mine is uated, bat this will not always be the case. When the foreign investor finds that he can be cheated in buying mines situated on the mother lode, as he can elsewhere, the mere name will cease to have any direct money vaiue. It is coming to be realized that Califor- nia’s wealth in gold is even greater than | has besn supposed. The mineral belt stretches the whole length of the State, alihough apparently cut off by some of the larger valleys. It is probablel that with the exception of the goid-bearing quartz veins at Bodie and a few other mincr localities the deposits belong to about the same period of mineralization. They are, hence, all genetically related, having many characteristics in common. The recent important discoveries of gold n the Mojave desert, taken together with our wider knowledge of its occurrence and distribution, impress upon us the fact that there is no immediate danger of California reaching its maximum production and then declining. As the richer and more easily worked deposits kaown at present become exhausted there is still a certainty that others will be found to take their places, while the ever growing improve- mentin the methods of mining and in the extraction of gold from low-grade ores mining, the same low grade or barren | Makes 1t possible to work the immense veins; in fact, the same chances of success | bodies of low-grade quartz which are or failure which characterize mining | known to exist. everywhere. A man who has a compre. | Sometimes think it is. Careful examina- hensive knowiedge of the character of the | tion has shown that it is present in very gold deposits of California as a whole | small auantities in most all rocks and in knows that there are just as good mines | s¢a water. In these conditions it is prob- off the so-called mother lode as on it, and | ably forever inaccessible. that the undue exaltation of tnisiode not | It is very probable that as the globe only injures its permanent reputation, but | cooled down from its original liquid con- works against the miues in other parts | dition to form the solid rocks this metal of the State. was nowhere concentrated in the form in As was to bs expected when gold was | Which it is found to-day, but dissemi- first discovered here attention was given |nated, as I have before =aid. Ages of exclusively to the placers, but these, how- | convulsion followed the primary cooling, ever, could not last. Asfaras we know | changesucceedeachange, periods of quiet, the term mother lode was first used in Ei | now of volcanic outburst with the sinking Dorado County when the miners bezan to leave the shallow placers and seek for the source of the gold. It had frequently been found in quartz bowlders, and conse- | quently its original occurrence must be looked for in the great veins of quariz | which ran through the country. While these veins were found to con. tain gold over a great area of the Sierra Nevada foothills it was soon recognized that there was one remarkable mineral | zone stretching from northward. For over 100 miles the pros- | ent-day knowledge of the earth that the pector traced this remarkable lode, some- | great gold deposits had been founa, and times able to walk on its croppings for | that the totai production might lessen in miles at & stratch. For long distances | 8 few years. We must learn, however, the fissure occupied by the most import- | from the recent discoveries in Alaska that ant vein had the appearance of being con- | many possibilities yet exist where per- tinuous, and while contracting here and | haps we least expect them. there was characterized at certain spotsby | Much has been said about the depth to great “blowouts’’ of quariz affecting even | which the gold ores of California extend. the topography of the country. The | The question arises in every new camp as greatest body of quartz exposed above |it hus in Randsburg, Do the veins go ground is found on the Mariposs grant |down? What reason have we to doubt in Mariposa County. Itrises eighty feet, | that they go down? There is but one im- with a length of 100 and a thickness at | portant district in the State where they the base of twenty feet. It is known as| bhaye seemed to give out, and theres the the May Rock and presents a miost strik- | conditions are very peculiar. The veins ing appearance, Carson Hill, Quartz | certainly go down, and if rich on the sur- Mountain and other eminences are due to | face there is no reason to suppose that on aggregates of quartz veins. The lode does | the average they will be poorer in dep:h not alweys occur as one great vein, for | as far as they can be opened. through much of its length it consists of | pector who has toiled miles over the hot numerous veins scattered in abeit of black | desert and at last uncovered a little vein slate through which course dikes of green- | of good ore should not deceive himself stone paralicl to the straufication. Thus | with the thought that it will certainly it has happened that while the whole | grow better with depth. It may do so, western slope of the Sierra Nevada is | and again it may not. Experience only more or less mineralized, the geologic | will show. structure s such that it has favored great- | er development of fissures and subse- | hard one, he 13 alsoa fres man aad can quent quariz veins along a comparatively | come and go as he pleases, and, although narrow line. | money is needed for the successful work- Everything in nature seems to have conspired to make this belt one of the greatest centers of mining in the world. In the nrst place it is situated in a health- | ful, pleasant region, well watered and | with pleaty of timber, and comparatively easy of access. The geolozical formation known as the Mariposa slates, which the lode follows almost continuously from | Mariposa through the intervening coun- ties to the south fork of the American | River, has a comparatively regular dip and strike in general parallel to tne line tains. The history of our State is in no way peculiar. Its mountains form buta part of ihe great Cordilleran system run- ning the whoie length of the western coasts of North and South America. Minerals are found the whole lengtn of hese mountains, one in excess here, an- other there. The country embraced by Caltfornia is but a small part of th's great stretch of mineral-bearing mountains. not generally go hungry. Good prospects generally is that with the thought of the possible wealti buried below he is apt to demand several times what the would-be investor is warranted in payinz. Great as is the mother lode with its un- told millions still hidden, yet opportuni- ties for new discoveries at the present time are greater in other and less known parts of the State. These other regions are coming to the front, arnd in time the ques- of the Sierras, thus contrasting strongly | tion wiil not be asked with such earnest- with much of the metaphoric rock in | | ness about any pariicular mine, is it on other partsof the State. The disturbing | the mother lode, but what is it on its own forces which folded the slates and the merits? We can give the aue proportion dikes which bave been intruded paralle! | of attention to the mother lode which 1t with them Lave given opportunity for the | deserves, a gold belt which for magnitude formation of regular and extensive fissures | and favorable situation cannot be equaled whick were subsequently penetrated by | in the world, but at the same time realize the mineral-bearing solutions as they per- | that it is composed of innumerable veins, colated upward and filled with the guid- | each having a character ol its own—some bearing quartz. It hardly seems possible | being good and some poor, as in other that the vottom of the slates will ever be | districts. The success of mining there reached in mining, and it is more thant with the frequently occurring low-grade likely that gold will still remain when the | ores it is most closely connected with the greatest depths which can be worked wiLh | skill and care shown by those in charge. profit shall have been reached. Nature could hardly have done better for usalong THE OATS OF SIENA the great gold belt of California. It is possible that if she had becn more prodi- | A Paradise of Felines Is This Old Italian City. gal the gold would have been obtained so easily that it would not have the value for | Strangers in Siena often speak of the us which it now has. | great quantity of pet cats to be seen there. ‘What do we understand then by the | At each doorway opering directly on the mother lode? As I have used it, and as I | street sits a pet cat, staid and respectable, believe it wus originally used, it is applied | with a ribbon or some piece of color tied o this continuous narrow belt of veins | about her neck to show that she belongs to lying in black slate or on the contact of | s human family. Workmen in their litile slate with greenstone or other eruptives, | shops have a cat to keep them company, and extending through Mariposa, Tuol- | sometimes sitting on s low counter at the umne, Calaverss, Amador and El Dorado | window. All are within reach of any teasing hana; but I never saw a cat counties. I know, however, that this | definition will not suit all. But then | chased or teased in any way, and it is what is the need of any term at all, if we | plain that they feel pe: ectly safe and did mske 1t cover everyihing in the State? | DOl expect “any injury. Personally, I Nature has certainly produced, in tlie 5?:2: :;e?heur:‘-s?giab.el, n:d that whené C ies mentioned, & mineral ic! ony ey took no notice an e geologically dlssinet, bu the individual | Tide B0 THY, even whon'T Isarned”an g , but 1al | [taiian word or two to say to them. mines there are no richer, or more easily | were happy at home, worked, or more permanent, than else- | make new iriends. where in the State. Those who are famil. | _In Naples there are men whose business iar with the ground can cite as rich mines | it, 18 to feed cais every day at noon. Peo- £ | ple_with economical tables subscrib. off this belt as on it.. The man whose | small sim tohave their chte: mrovioon for mine is not situated on this comparatively by the cats’ food man. The cats begin to narrow zone may not be satistied with this | feel quite hungry about noon, and stroll definition, nor those who are interested in | out from the snops in all those crowded mines in Nevada, Placer, Butte cr Plumasg | Streets to watch for their dinner. I could sy not imegine what was the excitement The smple fact of it is that mines in | 3MON them the first day I wasout at that these counties are just as rich and valo- | Joot;y, breseutly I saw a part of the daily disiribution on_ bustinz Chiaja. There — were cats there who ~eemed to watch what 5 was dealt ont to them very criticaily, as if Pozzoni’s Compiexion PowDER produces a soft and beautiful skin; they intended to make a complaint if | their dibner was not as good as it ought it combines eve: lement it com 1y element of beauty snd and did not need to | to be. | In Florence the cats e: they love, and never did y the freedom see one chased A R N 2 S AR to help him any to have it on the mother | Gold is not so rare as we | A though the life of the prospectorisa | by the same firm, for the Mimkish In- Ing of many great discoveries, vet he need |, djarubber, to obviate the inconvenience | are always in demand. The great trouble | They | and uplifting of great ranges of moun- | | vince that ‘““music hath charms. | or Jooking timia and anxious as i uncer- tain where to run to. I remember acat I used to pass near the old Medici Church of San Spirito. Bhe seemed to live on one of the upper floors of a large house, and she could only 100k up to her window by sitting in the middie of the street. She would never answer my greeting, but con- tinued to look up as if watching her friends, or perbaps signaling to them that she was ready to go home. There is a special cat church in Florence, San Lorenzo, the church in which so many Medici are buried. I don’t know whether that family was particularly fond of cats or Eow it happened, but the cloiaters of San Loranzo are reserved for homeless cats, whether they come there by themselves or are brought by people who want to dis- pose of them. I had read in my guide- book that these animals are fed every day at noon from scraps brought in by people from the neighborhood, so I was particular to time my first visit at noon, and was disappointed to hear that for some reason the break ast hour had been changed 10 9A M There is a iarge raised green center in the cloisters, on which grow some shrubs and trees; ‘and asleep under the bushes ! or loitering around the stone ledge that inclosed the green were & dozen or two of thecharily cats. L:gend saysthey are witches, who have cons:nted to take this harmless shape and to keep out of mis- chief. They were a rather dilapidated- looking lot, but stiil interesting, because all cat< have a great deal of individuality, and, when possible, of independence also. I cannot envy the horses and dogs of Italy and certainly not the birds; butif I bad to be chianged into an animal I micht choose to be an Italian cat.—Our Animal Friends. ———— EXPENSIVE BRASS BANDS. Over Ten Thousand Dollars for a Jew= eled Cornet. The writer was recently accorded the privilege of a peep into the museum at- tacbed to the factory of one of the largest firis of brass instrument makers 1n Lon- don. Here are to be seen types, fac-similes and models of every kind of musical in- strument that the mind of man has ever devised, invented or produced. In one corner isa duplicate ot what is believed to be the most costly presenta- tion cornet ever produced. It was made 10 the order of the late Czar of Russia, and is of sterling silver, richly graven with va- | rious! devices among which the arms of the mper:al house of Romancff fizure conspicuously. The whole of the ornamentation is of beaten gold filigree work, and the *bell” of the instrument is thickly inc usted wiith rubies and emeralds. Its net value is a trifle over 2000 guineas, A meiancholy interest attaches to a baf tered and biood-stained bugle which was picked up on the field of Isandiwana. In | addition to the dark patches—which were once splashes of wet biood—sundry frag- ments of woolly hair were adhering to the bell of the instrument when first found, a pretty conclus.ve indication that the gal- lant owner bac used it in a last desperate effort to beat off hisrelentless foes. It may be that some ebony-skinned Zulu still wanders about with an_indentation in his kuil whom 1t would be difficu’t to con- Near to this interesting relic is a fac- simile of a set of drums whico were made for the new Rhodesia Horse. The peculi- aluminum, a precaution rendered neces- sary by the number of white ants that in- | fest that ccuntry. The other instruments | are of brass, silver plated, and the whole | band costs scme £350. It | Mariposa County | Woula sometimes appear from the pres- | The pros- | | | silver—whicn, oy The above is, of course, a comparatively modes: turnout. Forreal corgeousness in brass bands it is necessary to inspect some of the costly and magnificent sets of in- struments turned out for Eastern poten- tates. The bands of even the smartest of our crack cavalry corps are absolutely not in it, so far as elegance of appearance is concerned, with the private bands of some of the Indian tributary Princes, although probably the latter would nave to give Lue iormer several poinis if it came tq a wusical contest between them. The private band of the Rao of Cutch, for instance, cost originaily £900 and renews most of the instruments every four or five years. The tizer skin used by the Rao's big drummer, which was sent over here to be prepared and mounted, was taken from un animal killed by his Highness, and measured over seven feet in length. It is lined through- out with neavy corded crimson silk, and the brute’s eyes are simulated by a pair of big yellow diamonds, Another very fine band was made three years ago to the order of the late Shah of Persia. All the instruments were of pure the way, does not give forth so good & sound as brass, besides | being heavier to handle—inlaid with gold. Tne toial cost of this band de luxe was a trifla_under 3000 guineas. A very diffe; ent kind of bana was that made last year, dians, a tribe of savages living near Alert Bay, in British Columbia. The -band is | nearly all drum, and the mouthpieces of the few brass instruments are tipped with of applying metal to the lips in.a tem- perature of some thirty or forty degrees beiow zero. A curious offer was received a short time ago froou the Emperor of Morocco. 1t was for eighty ciarionets for one band. As the instrumen1s in question were all in one key, it is probuble that they were o be played in unison. The effect upon an average man of eighty band clarionets blown simultaneously would probably be to create in him a wild desire to take to the woods and become an aborigine. Even to imagine such an ear-piercing comb nation sets one’s tympanum quivering.— Answers. THE LARGEST BRIDGE. Great Structure Rocently Erected Over the Danube River. The longest railroad bridge in Europe, and, in fact, the world, was recently opened to traflic with great ceremony. The new railroad bridge over the Danube River at Czernavoda is oneof the most imypartant technical achievements of re- cent date. For more than nine miles this bridge crosses the Danube proper and the so-called inundation which is annually under water for a c2riain period of time. The largest spans are over the main cur- renl of the river, there being one of 620 feet and four of 455 feet each. The total length of the bridge proper, without any approaches, is 13,525 feet, while the largest railroad bridges in the world meas- ure as follows: Tay bridge, Secotland, 10,725 feet; Mississippi bridge at Mem- phis, 10,600 feet; the Forth bridge, Scot- iand, 7800 feet; the Morody bridge, in Ga- licia, 4800 feet, and the bridge over the Volga, near ~ysran, 4700 feet. Tne ciear height o1 tue bridge over th. main channel is so calculated that even at high water the largest vessels sailing on the Danube may pass under is. Tue clear height of the distance from high-water murk, which is taken at 25 leet above low- ‘water mark, meusures 105 leet to the low- e:t ralters of the superstructure. Tue caissons upon which the foundations of the bridge piers rest reach to rock bottom ot 115 feet below nigh-water mark. The Roumanian Government nhas just cau: to be proud of this magnificent structare, which enables travelers from London to Constantinople or India to shorten their trip by fuily sixteen hours. The promise of diverting transcontinental mails from other lines was the most potent factor in bringing about the construciion of this bridge over the Danube on the part of Roumania,—Atlanta Constitution. The “Prisouer of Chillon” was Francois de Bonnivard, a Frenchman, who resided at Geneva, Switzerland, ana making him- sell obnoxious to Charles III ,Duke of Savoy, by his poltical opinions, was im- prisoned for six years in a dungeon of the Chateau ae Chillon, a castle ut the east end of the Lake of Geneva. He was after- war. released by the Bernes-, who were at war with Savoy, A | Stae Ascociation, which needs their support. arity lies in the fact that the cases ure of | WAler right. | run & tunnei 10 the channel.—In Calaveras | oo ore. | | 8. K. Thornton, vice-president ok the Cali- fornia Miners’ Association, is meeting with much success in his present zealous efforts to OTgADIZ: mew branch county associations, to stimulate those already organized aud to bring them all into co-operation with the He is making a tour of the mining counties as an officer and representative of the associa- ion, sent out by the executive committee, and spent the last week in El Dorado County. He believes that a total membership of 10,000 { can be securea in the State. There is nothing butgood wishes anywhere for the success of the association, which has so completeis won the confidence of the mining and the general public by its high and representative char- acter and tha remarkable success which 1t has achieved in securing legislation in behalf of the industry. With the comparanvely recent discovery that the veins of the mother lode are apt to be a3 rich at the greatest depths reached as above, deep mining has become & matier of much importauce to California. The increased gold production of the mother lode region in the future will come from operations at deeper levels as well as from the developmentof new mines. The Bendigo field in Australia has taken the lead In deep goid mining, and just now holas the record, The Diestelhorst dredger on the Klamath, which 1s one of the interesting attempts at dredge river mining, isnow near the mouth of Seott River in Siskiyou County. One of the liveliest sections of Siskiyou County now is on Thompson Creek, where there are many hy- draulic mizes in full operation, including the Nanetta B and the Seattie. The hydraulic mines at Oro Fino, Siskiyou County, are in fuil biast, with plenty of water for the giants and | promise of water until July. A Chinese com- pany has in operation the Garrett mine at Humbug Bar, which was purchased last fall. Trinity County is having & big but legiti- mate mining boom. There is greater activity thanever before in placer mining and the country is full of prospectors. Trinity County now leads in hydraulic mining and has room | for much greater development. On the East | Fork of the Iriaity many new placer mines ! have been opened this winter, old claims have been successiully worked and much atiention 1s being given 10 quariz minmg. Cannon & Hanley of French Guleh in a quartz location near Castella have a 20-foot ledge of freo | milling ore. Hedges & Pelletreau Sr. have | sold the Highland placer mine, opposite Tay- lors Fiat, to Red Biuff men. The property comprises about seventy acres of gravel, with | The claim is a high bench and had teen overlookea for years until the Ppresent owners took possession and began working the mine. The mill ot the Northern Belle mine, Sierra County, will soon be started up, sfter a long | season of enforced idleness.—At the Bald | Mountain extension mine, in this county, the north tunnel is being pushed ahesd at the rate of forty feecn week. I: is expected that the channel will be reached in another 200 feet. — The Sunnyside mine, in Plumas County, which is owned in the Esst,is expected 1o soon undergo development on an extensive scale.—The tunnel at the Dardanelles mine, Placer County, is being reopened.—Operations have begun at the Gray Eagle mine, Placer County, and a large force of men has been put 10 work, J. H. Challen and San Jose people have in- corporated the Topaz Centennial mine, near Spanish Ranch, Buite County, and it is now belng worked, & bedarock tunnel being devel- oped with good results--Mr. Warner of San Francisco has bonded the Buchanan gravel mine, Butte County, for six months. He wiil | tional to the hoists put in last year. Thisor- County there is activity everywhers. The | California Exploration Company has put a gaso.ine hoist in the Gold Hiil mine.—At the Gwin work is prosecuted on the 1300 and | 1400 levels, the drifts being driven north and south from the shaft at ooth levels. The | miner; toping and upra‘sing in 1l drifts and taking out rock suflicient to keep the forty stamps running night and day.—The | shaftin th= Esperanza is down to 460 feet in Work is being resumed in the Keystone, and the Great Western has been started up with a full force of men.—At the Burgess development work goes rapidly on with a force of fourteen men.—Preparations are being made at the Valr tunnel, near Mokelumre Hill, to utilize the water from the Mokelumne Hill aud Campo Seco Canal Com- pany's ditch for power to ruz the air- compressor and machine drills which will be putin. The 0ld Jeffries mine in E! Doredo County will f00n have & ten-stamp gravel mill in operation.—The Siarlight in this countr is taking out rich ore from the 270 level.—A twenty-stamp mill is being erected by French & Bell on their mine at the heaa of Crom- becker Creek, Nevada County.—The Milliken mine in this county will be in operation again in & month. The burned timbers nre belng removed.—Machinery is en route from Emi- | their movement against Colfax. { grant Gap to the Le Duand the Nancy Hanks | mines, Nevada County, which are owned by | Drs. McMahon and Dow of San Jose. The shaft in the Potazaba mine, Amador | County, 1s to be sunk 200 feet furiher, (0 & depth of 450 feet.—A great amount of develop- | ment work is going on throughout this county, | which has a great future b-fore it. The Souih | Eureka fs sinking a new staft, the Gold Hill 18 beiug exploited by a company under & two- year bond and negotiations for the sale of the Price mine at Piymouth are nnder way.—The Tripp and the Roanng Gimlct mines, on the Mokelumne River, will soon be opened up. The new hoist at the Amador Queen No. 1 is completed. The mechinery is ndapted to & depth of 2000 feet.—The Amador Record, pub- lished at Sutter Creek, has issued a special edition of forty pages, devoted to the mining interests of the county. It is very interesting | and will be valued by all who are interested in not alone Amador County but in California mining affairs. An executive committee of twenty to pro- mote the proposed National Gold Mining Con- | vention at Denver had been avpointed by the Chamber of Commerce, Miners' Bureau, Min- ing Exchange and Real Estate Exchange of | Deuver—A coppany has been formed (0 con- nect the town8 of the Cripple Creek district | by a raflroad. This would further stimulate tne development of Cripple Creek by increas- | ing ana cheapening the facilities for getting ore to the smelters. Besides the smaller orders in hand, the min- ing machinery department of the Union Iron Works 15 now engaged on & 100-stamp mill for Australis, a 20-stamp mill for Mexico, a 10- | stamp mill for this State and a large Loisting plant for the Anaconds copper mine, addi- | der includes two sets of hoistiug engines, with 30-inch siroke, operating = flat steel rope & hait-fach thick and eignt inches wide, which will hoist four tous of ore at tne rate of 40 feet per second. This isa dup'icate of the big hoist put in by this firm last year and is equal | to the biggest in tne world. A similar hoist was suppiied .0 the Homestake mine in the Biack Hils last year. Two otaer sets of hois! ingengines are being built for undergrou operation in the Anaconda. It is predicted tnat this spring will see twice as meauy men prospecting in the Black Hills | s were ever there before. The Old Dominton | copper mine at Globe, Ariz., employing 300 | | ized that it would be accepted by the | ehange to Coifax. men, has closed. It is reported that a nickel deposit bas been found in Nevads County, | this State. An asphalt refinery is to be built | at Ventura. Colonel Hardy is working night ana dey on | abeach mine on the Del Norte County coast. The mine was recently bought from Edwin Gates and has been supplied with a larger plant. Albert Maltman of Grass Valley has | gone to China to take charge of some mining | operations. San Francisco manufacturers of | mining mechinery are now fi.ling a good | many orders from Southern Oregon, which is sharing the geueral activity in gold mining. More extensive hydrauiic operstions than ever before attempted in that region are | under way, and there is a great deal of pros- | pecting for ledges with many discoveries. HOW COLFAX WAS BEATEN. A Good Story Told of the Late Joseph B McCullagh, One of the best stories of the late Joseph B. McCullagn is his own account of how | he prevented the renomination of Schuy- ler Colfax for Vice-President in 1872, says the St. Louis Republic. As Mr. McCullagh described the event, | Colfax had treatel the newspaper repre- | sentatives who had legitimate business | with bhim in Washington very shabbily, | and thus prepired the way for a hostile demonstration on their part. Mr. Me- Caullagh took up the cause of the Wash- ington correspondents and at the Phila- delphia convention was chosen to lead | The first step was to secure a rival can- didate on whom to concentrate the:r favor- able work. At a counci! of war held joss | before the convention opened Henry Wil- ; son was chosen. McCullagh then went to | | lohn W. Forney, the editor of the Phil delphia Press, and sad: *We want you to help us beat Colfax.” | “But,”” protested Mr. Forney, I have | promised Mr. Colfax that I would bring | the Pressout in bis favor. Iam not par- ticularly & Collax man, butI must keep my word.” “Well,”" said McCullach, *will you let me run the volitical matter in yvour news | coiumns? You boom Colfax editorially and | I will quietly attend to our man through the rest of the paper.” Forney consented to t. and McCul- lagh applied himself to work on the local and telegraph pages of the Press. Every morning the paper appeared with an edi- | torial leader in favor of Colfax, while else- | as where were published special telegrams from all over tie country, describing en thusiastic feeling in favor of Henry Wil son for the Vice-Presidency. The local columns made the most of every Wilson Dpreference expressed by arriving dele- gates at the notels and elsewhere, aad there were reports of railway trains hav- ing been polled and indicating an over- whelming desire for Wilson’s nomination. All this had a vastly greater influence upon the public mind than Forney's edi- torial panegyrics. Just at the right juncture McCullagh raked up an old_letter ihat Coliax had written to the New York Tribune in 1869, announcing that at the completion of his pending ofiicial term he would not be a candidate for renomination, it bemng his determination to retire permanently from political life. Tuis letter was written at the time when the war upon Grant was at | it< beight, and McCuliagh shrewdlyreal- delegates to Philadelphia as Colfax’s pu lie repudiation of Grant and his adminis- tration. In less than two hours the | letter was in type and was circuiated by means of handbills all over Philadelphia. In this way the impression was created that in the very midst of General Grant’s sorest troubles his lieutenant had volun- tarily assisted 1 _the conspiracy to kill him. It had its effect; <0, when the con- | vention met, Col‘ax’s hold was thoroughly unsettled. Grant was nominated by ac- clamation. The first ballot for Vice- President result in a stand off between Coifax and Wilson, some Southern States having thrown idle complimentary votes. McCullagh stood on tbe platform near the presiding officer’s desk. He knew there was likely to be a stampede, and that if the Btates were recognized in al- phabetical order Wilson might yet be slaughiered; stampeders invariably go as they are led, and Alabama was liable to | | | | | Alabama was already on her feet clam- oring for recognition. “Recognize Virginia,” whispered Mc- Cullazh to Judge Settle, president of the convention, and Judge Settle did so. Virginia changed her vote from Colfax to Wilson, as had been arranged in ad- vance. That started a hurrab, and the stampede wus turned the way McCuilagh | wanted. Colfax’s private secretary stood just be- | hind McCuilagh at that moment.” When Virginia announced her change McCul- | lagh turned and said: | “You may go and tell Colfax he is beaten, and that the newspaper men did | i This performance McCullagh always re- | parded as one of the cleverest poiitical strokes he had ever made. A NEW SOUP SPOON. A Desired !mprovement Which Will Be | Appreciated by Moustuched Diners. Destiny is shaping the end of the man | who for years has been breaking hearts by | his efforts 10 feich the point of his soup | spoon “‘head on’ between the wings of his moustache. 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