The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 15, 1897, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY - 15, 1897. [ PIES DR MONEY I Vast Hoards Now Being Weighed by the Ton. UNCLE SAM COUNTS KIS CASH. | Fifty Million and More Dollars Filling Three Large Rooms. RIVILING MONTEZUMA'S ~ RANSOM. Quadrennial Counting of the Oash in | the Vaults at the United States Mint. Money by the ton; money by the cubic yard; money by the roomful; so much money that the finite mind cannot grasp the quantity. That is the way Uncle Sam bas it piled up; and while ordinary mortals are hapy if they can count tneir little hoards by the doliar, that mythical personage Bu, bless you, don’t imagine that they even count the thousand dollars that were | in the bag. They jnst count twenty of them and then up the restin even piles;and there you are. X Did you ever see a long string of ants ‘ walking aiong carrying, each one, a little | white body? That is what the string of | men, each hauling a little cart piled with ] | white bags, reminds one of. But these white bags in piles represent $25,000 each, and as the mer: hurry out of a vauitand | along the corridor to the scales they are watcned and checked by two men stand- ing mnear the door with utde books in their hands. Then as the baes are piaced on the scales two more men are there to see to it that the keen-eved | man who cries out “Right” every time a | pag is placed on does not go to sleep. At least that is what it seems they are there for, as they do nothing but look athim and the scale all the time. Then there are two more men on the other side of the scales, and they, too, have littie books and | lead pencils, and they check off the bags as tiey go back from the scales to the ing vault, where they are met at the door by two other men with little books and pencils, and again the bags are checked off before they are tossed to the three per- spiring men inside who are piling the bags away to ba led up for another four years. And so it goes on, and has been going | on since the first of the month, and will £o on until the iast of tbe month, for six hours every day, and these men almost have a cont-mpt for money just as the cmld turned loose in a cand from the best of it for something sour. These men handle their millions every | day until it has become so monotonous that they are almost readv to become members of the Labor Exchange aund do v with a circulatin y have become surfeited with r people’s money. Probably d not feel as bad if it were about stealing some of it that look, half disgust and half " “‘Steal it! Why, it would be utterly inipossible for any one to steal a single ‘dollar of it and it would be difficult to | steal any of it, even if everybody down here was in collusion.” ‘ “Say!” It was one of the sweat-be- grimed men hauling the trucks who spoke | now. “There was a fresh reporter on one | of the papers here who wrote an article | about some fellows tunneling under these vaults and getting in. That reporter was ' the worst I ever saw. Why, to tunnel in | here a2 man would have to go through [ three yards of concrete and then through four plates of steel, and by the time he got =l LU LU trucks and are hurried along to the receiv- | | earnings to the Mint direct. GOLD FROM THE YOKON RIVER Half a Million Dollars’ Worth of Dust Comes by the Excelsior. One of the Miners Has Over $40,000 to Show for a Year's Work, Among All the Steamer's Passengers Not One Has Less Than $3000 to His Credit. Over half a million in gold dust from the Yukon River came down on the steamer Excelsior yesterday. Gold and concentrates to the value of $250,000, owned by the Alaska Commercial Com- was at once sent to Selby’s smelting , while the miners chartered the Paiace Hotel bus and took their hard In one sack alone, owned by D. S. Lippy, there were over 200 pounds of the precious metal, and at the Mint, who is supposed to represent the great | that job dome body politic is glad to get rid of the job with the aid of a big pair of scales. That is the way the United States counts the money in the Mint every four years, and that is the way something more than $50.000 000 for the saperintendency of the Mint is changing hands, and John Daggett as anxious that the count should square with the bonks as iy F. A. Leach, the in- coming guardian of the vast pile of dol- lars, to know that every dollar is present when the roll is called. Nor is it an easy job to count this enor- mous quantity of coin, even when fifty- five men are working and the big scal click off a thousand dollars every ten sec- onds. Thdy get rid of but two or three millions a day counting it by the bagful. “Don’t you count any of it?, In reply Chief Clerk Ben Day looked at the questioner half in scorn and half in pity. “Count it! How long do you suppose it would take a man to count the lot of it?” That was a little too hard, but it set the questioner to figuring, and the result that it wouid 1ake a man, working steadily six bours every day except Sundays and Lolidays, and, providing that he did not go crazy before he goi througn. some- thing more than five years to count the piles upon piles of coin sacked up and piled away in the vaults of the Mint. The first question that naturally comes to the mind of the visitor when he sees the bulk all together is, Where did it come from? And then he wants to know. why it has never been sent out so thattne world can be using it. It all came right from the coining-| rooms upstairs, and some of it has been there over since the Bland act wentinto force, away back in 1878, nearly twenty years ago. It has been accumulating and piling up year after year, until now the big yaults are nearly ail full of that dollar for which Bryan shrieks so loudly—the dollar of our daddies. It 1s not out in the cold world being handled by everybody, but is as bright and clean as it was on the day it was born. But it has its representatives out doing business. The treasury notes are out and also the silver certificates, and while the flimsy material is floating around, getting torn, and worn and dirtv, the clean, bright, white silver dollars are sleeping in the dark vauits up on Fifth and Mission sireets. Not a ray of gaslight. much less a ray of sunlight, has rested upon the bags in two vaults containing a total of $33,400,000 since four years ago, when the official seals of the Government were placed mpon | the doors. The yearly counts have nogh- ing to do with' this sequestered cash. I: is only when an administration changes and the incoming authorities want to hav the books overhauled that the seals are taken off and the heavy steel doors are swung open. Nor is the big pile of silver , dollars all that is being counted. There is a little pile of gold, and there is a little ile of silver bullion. True, these two ittle items do not amount to much. Only a little side issue, asit were, of something more than seven and a half million doliars worth, but they have to be counted just the same, in order that the books may balance. The first impressiou one gains upon an- tering the long corridor between the vaulis is that he has entered a grain ele- vator and dozens of men are carting bags of grain to the hopper for storage. Away up near the door a little pile of silver dol- lars is seen—a thousand dollars or so— but thase have come from a bag that was faulty and let the contents slip out or else a bag showed a discrepancy in weightand it has become necessary to make a count of the pieces to verify it with the .tally. is being counted now, | is | he wouldn’t need any money, for he would be dead. See?”’ Stealit] Why, of course not. 1t isn’t |in s ghtand a man can’t very well walk | off with big sacks weighing seventy pounds.. And as for the gold bars. Well, | just try to hift one off the plattorm and then say whether you think you would be successful in trying to zet away with the $20,000 lump. No, the Mint will never be robbed, even if the Carson mint did lose something like $125,000 through the connivance of several employes. They got away with the money, but they are now in jail. And they had to give up the money, too, and pay the Government $5000 each for the fun. | " Itisnot only the retiring superintend | ent and the incoming man who are inter- | ested in this count. The Treasury De- | partment at Washington likes to know all about what is going on, so Secretary Gage has three men standing around just look- ing on, but looking with both eyes wide open. There is Benjamin F. Butier, who represents the mint department at Wash- ington, and William A. Lamson and Jo- seph Firebaugh, of Chicago, who are just sawing wood down there in the vaults. They keep their eves on the scales, for even if the three men from the coiner’s department upstairs have but three hours at a stretcn looking at the scales, these keen-eyed men from the East know that men’s eyes get very tired in three hours, When ¥rank Hill, George Kentand F. C. Berdan leave the seat before the scale after they have watched the little metal tongne for three hours their eyes look as | if they had lost two or three nights’ sleep. But they come on fresh next day and have not gone quite insane over the strain. | Just bow long they can stand ‘it they are not prepared to say, but think they could count twice as much as in these vaults, Ben Day looks after the interests of the retiring superintendent, and while he un- doubtedly is not ubiquitous he seems te be for he is apparently all over the cor- ridor at the same time and keeps a most watchiul eye upon the work going on all around him. Keeping nace with him " in their efforts tosee to it that Mr. Leach gets every doliar coming to him are F. A. Pedlar, J. H. Powelland A. A. Jones. Now for a few figures to wi are vaults and vaults, but on looking after the millions | Here is the bic vault. ot doilars, It had $21,000,000 {in it a few days ago, but it is beingz emp- tied into another vault. Then there is a smaller vault holding $11,400.060, and then a smaller still, holding $11,000,000. Then | the casbier's vault with its $2,000,000. Then there are great piles of silver bars amounting in value to $4,000,000, and a little pile of eold spoken of containing $3,500,000, making a grand to- tal of cash and bullion to ve counted of $51,100,000, and just $16,000,000 has been tallied up, so it can be seen that the | counters are not quite through with a third of it all. ——— Shot in the Thigh. William Holmes, a boy about 10 years of age, living at 13414 Seventh street, found a loaded revolver at Eightn and Natoma streets yester- day morning. "Not beiug accustomed to fire- arms’ihe revolyer was aceidentally discharged and the bullet lodged in Willie's left thigh. He was taken to the Recefving Hospital. Three More Blasted Hearthstones. Divorces were granted in the Superior Court yesterday as follows: James A. Wheeler from Carrie T. Wheeler, for_desertion; Floresce M. Letts from Mortimer E. Letts, on the ground of willful neglec:; Virginia M. Sheehau from Thomus J. Sheebaz, for desertion and neglect. before, | as it is valued at $17 50 an ounce the owner can be considered a well-to-do man. The Excelsior brought down forty pas- sencers, and not one of them had less than $3000 worth of gold dust with him. AIl expressed their determination of return- ing to Alaska in the spring, and gave as their only excuse the desire to see Califor- nia and civilization again. Amoug the passengers were T. 8. Lippy and wife. Mr. Lippy is the owner of the 200-pound sack, and his wife has the honor of being one of the first women who ever crossed the divide into Forty- mile Camp. “It was bard work and rough traveling, but with the assistance of mv husband I got along fairly well,” she said yesterday. “The climate is very severe, and Forty- mile—well, Fortv-mile is not a place you would choose fora summer residence. We left Seattle on April 15, 1896, So we have been gone a little over a year. My hus- band was very lucky, as you can see,”” and she pointed to that 200-pound sack with a smile. At this point Mr. Lippy took hold of his $40,000 worth of gold dust and, dragging it across the deck and down the gangway as though it were so much Jead, and then getting a man to assist him, placed it in the waiting bus. Resuming her story, Mrs. Lippy said: “The stories told about destitution on the Yukon and elsewhere during the gold fever are not founded on fact. During the winter months steamers could not reach Forty-mile, and some of us ran short of food, but those who were out of flour generaily had plenty of bacon and potatoes. while tbose who had plenty of flour were short on the other articles, and we traded provisions. We did not have iuxuries, but we had enough to keep ns alive until the supply steamer arrived. When my husband goes back to Forty- mile Camp in the spring I shall return with him; so you see that life in an Ala?,kn mining camp nhas no terrors for me. Mrs. Lippy is aslight woman of medinm size, and no one would think she would ba able to stand the hardships of a trip from St. Michael’s over the divide into the val- ley of the Yukon. She has a winning face, is bright and vivacious, and her laugh would put heart into any downcast man. The sunburnt appearance adds to ber attracciveness more than it detracts from it, and anybody seeing her on the deck of the steamer would never think vhe camie from the wilds of Alaska. Another passenger was F. G. H. Bow- ker, who has been in Alaska for ten years, this being his first visit to the City in that time. The other passengers say that be israted in St. Michael’'s as worth a quarter of a million. There is a little ro- mance connected with his visit to your City. Oa his last visit to Unalaska he met a young lady from Oakland who was visiting her aunt. His return to the min- ing camp was considerably delayed, and when he made a start it was with the un- derstanding that on his return the young lady would become his bride. Mr. Bowker at once got his many mining interests into shape, married the young lady from Oakland and is now on liis honeymoon. Speak'ng of the mining prospects of Alaska, Mr. Bowker asserted that it would finally become the greatest gold-producing country the world ever saw. There is hardly a river or stream in the whole country in whose beds cold cannot be found for the looking. Of course in some spots it is very rich, but there is no place in which a man cannot make good wages, After a tour of California Mr. Bowker will retuzn to Forty-mile Camp. Mrs. J. M. Wilson, wife of the general is on every finpper of CASTORIA, agent of the Alaska Commercial Com- vany, and Max C. Sloss also came down on the Excelsior. Mr. Sloss said: “The steamers Alice, Belle and Margaret have bad more than they could attend toon the Yukon during the last month. They have been . running regularly, always crowded with passengers and freight. Labor is very scarce all over the country. Many of the rich holders are paying $15 a day wages, and in some instances the wages are $15 a day and board. At manv of the populsr saloons at the campy $2000 is considered only a fair day’s work. Alaska is a great country. The Excelsior made s smart trip from St. Michaels to San Francisco, the only stop being at Unalaska. Captain Higgins says that he does not think the revenue cutter Bear wili be able to reach Point Barrow this season. When he spoke her Dr. Sheldon Jackson was on board, and Captain Tuttle expects to leave with him for Port Clarence on the 1st inst. Therea number of reindeer were to be secured and the Bear was to proceed to the rein- deer station on the Alaskan coast. On July 4, while at Unaiaska, the steam whaler Navarch came in irom Dutch Har- bor, and the captain reported huving taken four whales, landed 8000 pounds of bone and then sailed for the Arctic. The Corwin was in pert at Unalaska when the Exceisior left, and the steamer Portland arrived at St. Micbaels on June 27. Captain Higgins reports that the ice was very light during the season, but on nis way down he pased through a strip forty miles wide. The steamer was not much damaged, but will at once go on the drydock for repai s Water Front Notes. The ferry steamer Oakland and the scow-schooner Francis E. M. 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Round-trip tickets, good until January 1, 1898, | $7. Particulars at 518 Batery street, or of W. L. MITCHELL, Lidell P. 0., Napa County, Calit. {SODA BAY RESORT. CHANGE OF MANAGEMENT, Soda Bay, situated on Clear Lake, Is most plo- turesque. - Spring fs famous for the vasi volume of delicious sodawater. Hunting, fishing, boating and swimming are unsurpassed anywhere. The table is suppiled with the very best the market aflords, and the comfort and weifare of the guests carefully icoked after. Daily stage from Pleta to Boda Bay direct. Fare from San Fraucisco $5 50; round irlp 810 4 B ., ATH, proprietor, Soda Bay, Kelsey- ville, Lake County, Cal. HOTEL ROWARDENAAY, TEE_FICTURESQUE SPOT OF BEN LO- MOND, hotel ), In the Santa Cruz Mountains. New a rusiic cottages, cont:ining 80 rooms, ALL HARD FINISHED, with large closets, | Two tennis courts and bowling alley. Buildings, | grounds snd river lighted by ricity. a mile | of river for boating. Lound trip tickets. $3. For iculars address THOS. L. BELL, Propristor, en Lomond, Cal. MADRONE MINERAL SPRINGS, QANTA CLARA COUNIY, MOUNT HAMIL: %) ton range. elevation 2200 feet: best mineral water on this coasi for cure of indigestion and urinary troub es: unexcelled hunting and fishing; special rates to parties of four or more: stage con- nects at Madrone with morning trains Mondaxs, Wednesdays and ~arurdays; send for terms and descriptive pai A RS 535 CARTER. Manager. SEIGLER SPRINGS, LAKE COUN1Y. HIS DELIGHTFUL WATERING-PLACE 18 located in the midst of the Coast Ra Abundance of mineral springs, ho. and cold plunge batns, large swimming-tank of mineral water, fine ione dining-room: telephone con- ric lights, livery accommodation; hing and hunting. Kound-trip tick flices, $10. JOHN SPAULDING, Proprietor. HOTEL PORTOLA NOY, OPEN. DAILY STAGE CONNECTS | with $:30 train from San Francisco at sed- wood Cliy. Superior accommodacons: first-class table. For pariculars address J. k. DOYEN, Portola, Cal. | LAUREL GLEN FARM LNE SPRISG WATER; PLNTY OF i Lk, cream. fruit and liome comforts. For partien. iars address MRS, V. STUBENRAUCH. box 154 Naps, Cal. | KLAMATH HOT SPRINGS, | ESWICK, SISKIYOU COUNTY CaL, a noted fisiing aud health reso; {0t mud’ SIPhE ot i, Hot mud and EDSON BROS., Proprietors. HOTEL DE THORNTON, POTTER VALLEY. Firat-Cluss i v E. 7. HOLEROOR. FROPR Rates, $7 per week. venlences in connection with ot. K, PROPRI Ban s and all modern con- hiotel. POPE HOUSE. HI8 WELL-KNOWN TMINE | fishing, huntin, I PACIFIC CONGRESS SPRINGS SANTA CLARA COUNTY. SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS. Only 214 hours from San Francisco. Remodeled and under new management, For rates and printed matter address | __ JOHNS. MATHESON, Manager. § HOT SPRINGS, Sonoma Co, only 414 nours from San Francisco, and bat9 miles' staging. Waters noted for their medicinal virtues and generally conceded 10 be the finest natural bath water in tna ~tate. EXcellent climate aud grand mountain tcenery. Long distance telcphone: daily mail and express; well-stocked (rout_sireams. Round trip from San Francisco oniy $5 50. Take Tiburon ferry ac 7:30 4 M. or 3:30 F. . Terms, $2 & day or $12 a week, MULGREW, Propristor. RALMUDBATHS ¥or Rheumatism, Scistica, Lumbago, Gout, ete., at the MILL VALLEY xfl;fi(’!‘l\l‘mllflh MARI L., ) 7 WEQ IP \*G MARK WEST SPRINGS, Nine Miles from Sania Kosn. HE PLACE WHERE YOU FHL AT HOME: Table firs class. Croquet, Bliliards Shuffie- boards, Swiugs, Swimming Pool, Lancing Pavil ion, Fishing, Hunting, New Mincral Plunge Bath: $10 sand $12 per week: chidren wuder 10. 36 Special rates for clubs and large families. Baths | free. wound trip, $3.75. | ¥l | SE & JUERGENSEN. | PARK EXOTEI. | _Fen Lomond, Santa «ruz Mountains. | ROATING. BATHING, FISHING AND HUNT- “ ing in immediate vicinity of the hotel. Rooms and board are firs. Class: Lerms very reasonab.e. | Open all ihe year. A. HALDER, Proprietor. MILL VALLEY SANITARIUM Now open for the reception of guests and patients. Applications for accommodati.ns can be made to the manager, . Sieels, at the Mill Vailey - tavum, P. C. tland, Marin Couniy, Cal, reom 81 916 Market st., Sa, Francisco. Mud Baths on Europe’n Pl LAUREL DELL, LEASANTLY LOCATED ON LAUREL DELL Lake: new dining-ropm, new livery stable. it s now one of the most attractive outing places in Lake County. ~ jiates $8 10 $12 per week. Boatlng and batbing free. Biing your bathing suits. Ad- dress H. WAMBOLD, serths P. 0, Lake vo., Cai. MONTE VISTA.” HE PICTURE:QUE GEM OF " HESIERRAS (clevation 3500 1eet). This mos. popular re- sorc under new ownership is now open; delightful cliimase, Iawn tennis, pnotu dark-room, boating, ; four trains dailv: lg-mile from statiou; free carriage. For circular ad ress THOS. E. MOKG AN, Monte Vista, Dutch Flat, Cal. £ TRIANON HOIE.L, 4 head of the Blue Lal open; SITUATED AT THE s, week: b ing your bathing suits. re.s H. F. BISHOP, Le Trianon Hotel, Bertha P. 0., Lake County, Cal. OTEL REDONDO.—THIS MAGNIFI(CENT strocture, 4 stories high, with every moderm convenience, isthe crowning effort of all hotels 6@ the Pucific Coast; completely surrounded by beat- tiful lawns, flower beds, eié. Boating, fishing sod surf bathing are the chief amusement. Write for Tates and one of our beautiful souvemirs. K. DUN- HAM, proprietor. GUA CALIENT .. SPRI~GS HOTEL, Sonoma Valley—2 hours from S. k., via Tibu- ron Ferry, Warm mineral swimming and tub baths. Hotel compietely remodeled and refur- msued. Wa er, g5, electric bell. Ka es $1010812 per week, $2 perdny. Address AGUA CALIEN I SPKINGE, Agua Callente, Sonoma Connty, ¢ » D SUBURBS OF baths free. UMMKR BOARD ON FRUIT Fa Los Gatos: hunting and fishing. C W. ie Fauc station, Clara County. Add krohn’s P. 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