The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 1, 1898, Page 4

FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1898. MONDAY.... +.....AUGUST 1, 188, JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. A A A A A A A A A e A Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, RS Surbeus MBS BSEbs SeseS PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.. -.2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Maln 1674 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) 18 served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per monty | 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. .....One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. 908 Broadwaey NEW YORK OFFICE.. Room 188, World Buiiding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Represcntative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ......Riggs Houss C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE .Marquette Bullding €.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. DEWEY AS A DIPLOMATIST. HILE information concerning the situation at | Wthc Philippines is not sufficiently full to ai- ford a basis for a final judgment of the extent of the difficulties Admiral Dewey has surmounted in maintaining order there, enough is known to justify the conclusion that he deserves as much credit for his diplomacy as for his naval strategy and courage in battle. s This much of the situation is known: The destruc- tion of the Spanish flect placed Dewey in command of the bay at Manila and in a position from which he could bombard and reduce the city at his pleasure, | but without a sufficient force to take possession of it and overawe the surrounding country. In the city was a Spanish garrison half mad with rage and hatred. Beyond the city were numerous bands of insurgent natives eager for plunder and massacre. A consider- able European colony with homes in the city or its suburbs constituted an element more or less hostile to our invasion, several European merchant vessels lay in the bay, and there also were warships of various powers, some of them ready to intervene at the slight- BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | $:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 oclock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street. open untli 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana tucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS Columbia—*The Maskea Ball" Aleazar—“Richelleu Morosco's—Bonnie Scotland.” Tivoli: ida." | Orpheum— Vaudeville. The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. apia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Speclaities. ©0's Baths—Swimming. dancing,boating, fishing, every Sunday. mento, September 5. AUCTION SALES. By N. E. Clark—This day, Augustl. Hand-painted China, at 103)-Market street, at2and 7 D, m. rw:ek. While the different mercantile concerns | reported an increase in business, the bank clear- ings showed a decrease of 3 per cent, the first loss for a‘long time. As these bank clearings are simply cold figures, without sentience, they are generally accepted as the best indications of the state of trade, hence the inference is that they are right and that the mercantile concerns are wrong, and that the volume of business was less last week than for the same week in 1897. But the report of R. G. Dun & Co. says that con- sidering the decline in prices during the past six years, the volume of business is about 20 per cent larger than the volume of clearings indicates. How- ever this may be, trade certainly shows signs of pick- ing up. The iron production during the first half of 1898 was 500,000 tons larger than in the same period in any previous year, and, what is still better, the con- sumption exceeded the output. The new orders re- ceived are surprisingly large for the season, and in- | clude 10,000 tons of steel rails for Russia and 5000 for Japan. In addition, the demand for plates at Pitts- burg is the heavi Sales of wool continue to increase, but there is no improvement in pri The situation in cereals continues unfavor- able, and wheat has kept up its slow and steady de- cline, owing to the promise of liberal crops in the | United States and foreign countries. The other | staples show no changes worthy of note, nor are they expected to until after the midsummer vacation is | over, which will be in another thirty days. | The feeling in Wall street last week was one of in- creased buoyancy. The ease with which the new war loan was made and its failure to disturb the money market, coupled with the peace prospects and the abundance of money, led to a good demand for bonds and transactions were active in consequence. The professionals still had the field to themselves, however, as the public, which left Wall street at the beginning of the war, have not yet returned. The demand is for bonds rather than stocks, which are quiet. The money market of New York continues easy and plentifully supplied, and present prospects are that we will be glad to loan Europe a few more millions during the | coming fall, as it is the general expectation that con- | siderable gold will be received from there before | winter, and we have got about all we can take care of now. A country is in a curious condition when it | finds itself overburdened with gold coin, but this is the condition of the United States to-day. | In the local market there are no new features to re- port, but the old features are more pronounced. The | decline in cereals continues with scarcely any inter- ruption; but prices are still up to a point where it pays the farmer to raise grain and hay. Unless quotations | fall considerably lower than they are now there will | probably be an immense acreage seeded to hay and _grain during the coming fall and winter. Indeed, the demand for land in some sections even now exceeds | the supply, which is the most flattering agricultural sign we have had for years. It was only three years | “ago that land could hardly be rented to tenants at any ptice, hence the present demand for acreage is sig- | nificant. " As the season advances the fruit prospects steadily | improve, and at the present writing are brilliant. The canners and driers of fruit are scouring the orchard | districts for peaches, apricots and Bartlett pears, and | prices for all three are steadily advancing. Fresh | apricots are now selling readily up to $70 per ton, the pears have got up to $40, and freestone peaches are quoted as high as $45, with clingstones away up out of sight—as high as $r00 having been paid in some cases. The foreign demand for our canned fruits is | BUSINESS. ; RADE returns were somewhat inconsistent last | t ever known. “keen, and supplies in England are reported practically | exhausted. It is rather early for new prunes yet, but | they are already selling at an advance of 1 cent per peund, or $20 per dried ton over the opening prices | of-18a7, with a stiff and advancing market. The grape crop cannot yet be definitely determined, but present | indications point to an average yield, though prices [ for grapes and wine cannot of course be forecast at this early day. This is a great year for the orchardist —that is, for the orchardist who has a good crop. The effects of the dry winter are becoming more pronounced as the' summer advances. The Weather ~Bureau weekly reports are calling attention to the exhaustion of pasturage in many districts two months shead of the usual time, and to the dropping of fruit 11l over the State owing to the extreme dryness of the ground. Even the ornamental trees around our dwellings are showing the effects of this dryness, and 'are prematurely shedding their leaves, giving the ap- pearance of the approach of winter. But the season is now so far advanced that this dropping of fruit is not alarming, though it will cut down the already light yield more or ess, and at the same time tend to horden quotations for the rest of the year. The mismanagers of Agnews are unable to dis- cover that they are anything of the sort. Also, they are ungrateful, for the efforts to enlighten their un- derstandings, quicken their consciences and impel their. resignations have not elicited from them so much as a vote of thanks est provocation. Running through all of these diverse elements was | a many sided antagonism exciting all and incessantly menacing an outbreak. There was danger that the insurgents might ravage the homes and property of the European residents outside the city and thus af- ford an excuse for the interference of the foreign fleets. Some of the captains of merchant vessels claimed the right to come and go in the harbor, land- ing or receiving cargoes at their pleasure. Some of the commanders of the warships were inclined to sup- port the merchantmen in their claims. All of these conflicting elements Dewey had to manage and con- trol with the comparatively small force at his com- mand. The incident of the German gunboat Irene at Subic Bay shows the critical nature of the situation. As is now well known, a number of German and other foreign residents of the district around the bay had taken refuge on Isla Grande, and there the insurgents prepared to attack them and the Spanish force that protected them. The Irene interfered to prevent the assault, as her commander said, “in the interests of humanity.” It was an incident that might have hap- pened almost anywhere in the neighborhood of Manila at almost any time since Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet. It was an inevitable outcome of the situation, and a consideration of it shows how critical that situation was. A brave commander without tact, or a commander of tact but without moral as well as physical courage, would have failed to keep order under such adverse conditions. The admiral had to hold the Span- iards in check, compel the wild and half savage in- surgents to obey the rules of ‘civilized war, force European merchants and sea captains to respect the blockade, protect the property of foreigners, and at the same time firmly refuse to permit any foreign warship to interfere in any way whatever. All of these things Dewey managed to do with dis- tinguished success. Now that the army has arrived the danger is about over. Our force there will soon be strong enough to take possession of the islands and establish the order of military law. There will | then be little or no probability of foreign interference. The military commander will have a difficult task, doubtless, but it will not be so critical and so delicate as that which confronted Dewey. To the admiral, therefore, is due as much credit for the fighting and conflicts he has managed to avoid as for the one he fought out in the accomplishment of his glorious vic- tory. —— SPEEDIER BATTLE-SHIPS. EPORTS from Washington to the effect that Secretary Long proposes to take measures to insure for the three battle-ships recently author- ized by Congress a greater speed than that possessed by those now in service will be gratifying to all persons of progressive tendencies. Our battle-ships have been constructed in the past mainly for the protection of our coasts. The fact that the Oregon was able to make a voyage around the Horn and reach the seat of war in the West Indies in a condition fit for battle was due rather to the excellence of her construction than to original design, for she was not intended for such service. It is now clear, however, that we may have to fight naval battles in the most remote parts of the world, and, therefore, our big battle-ships must be designed for speed as well as for strength and power. Improvements in machinery are going on all the time, and in no department of mechanism have those improvements been more notable of late than in the engines of steam vessels. It is in the highest degree probable that with improved engines and other ma- chinery it will be possible for us to construct our new battle-ships with as heavy defensive armor and as powerful offensive weapons as those now in ser- vice, and at the same time make them almost as speedy as one of our present cruisers. The extraordinary feat recently performed by the Turbina in what appears to have been a thorough test off the coast of England is an evidence of what may be ‘reasonably expected of improved machinery. It gives encouragement to those who believe it will be possible to make our new battle-ships far more formidable war machines than any now to be found among the navies of the world. European nations have been devoting a good deal of attention to the construction of swift battle-ships. The British have even sacrificed something of fight- ing force to gain it. This was on their part some- thing of a necessity, since their widely scattered em- pire Tequires a swift fleet for its adequate protection; | but the policy seems to be approved by all nations. Cervera’s fleet, for example, was swifter than our own, and had it been well supplied with coal and | ammunition, well manned and well officered, it would probably have steamed away from Sampson and | Schley, and menaced our Atlantic coast with com- paNative impunity. Secretary Long, it is announced, will insert in his advertisement for bids for the construction of the proposed vessels a clause notifying bidders that pro- posals will be given preference which promise the | highest rate of speed, and bidders will be allowed | to submit their own designs for machinery. This plan offers a fair prospect for success. It will rouse the emulation of all the great ship-building firms of | the country, and set them to work obtaining the best | machinery in the world for naval construction. San Francisco ought to get the contract for at least one of the three battle-ships, and she should be made a record breaker, eclipsing the Oregon itself, and worthily bearing the name “California.” T T Captain Philip claims a share of glory for the Texas, and the former hoodoo of the navy is wel- come to it. The Texas acted nobly. It not only fought like a whole fleet, but it refrained from what must have been a strong impulse to chase the enemy ashore and tree them. Gradualey the Eighth Regiment is becoming in- .d to the hardships of war. While it was being vac- , ‘nated only one man in twenty fainted. OHN E. QUINN contributes to the current number of the Merchants’ Association Review | a short but striking article, setting forth the well-known weakness of California at Washington and pointing out the remedy for it. - The subject is particularly pertinent now in view of the approach- ing election of Congressmen, but it will be always one of importance to Californians until we have so aroused ourselves and exerted our energies as to at- tain our rightful prestige in the Union. There is, as Mr. Quinn says, no State that con- tributes so much to the national treasury and receives so little for public and needed improvements. It is unnecessary to cite proofs of the statement. While other States obtain large sums for comparatively small streams and insignificant harbors, our great rivers and San Francisco Bay are almost neglected. While public buildings for Eastern cities are pushed for- ward with vigor, the postoffice proposed for San Francisco so long ago that the memory of man hardly runneth to the contrary still remains a hole in the ground supplemented by a blue print on file in the architect’s office. The responsibility for this bad condition of affairs rests not altogether upon the officials at Washington and our delegation in Congress. The people of the State as a whole are to blame in the matter. We have never pushed our claims on the National Govern- ment with as much force as other States, and as a consequence there has happened to us that which happens to every community and to every individual l!h:zt forgets the wisdom or neglects the practice of | self-help. As Mr. Quinn says, “we petition, we hold mass-meetings, we resolve we want such and such a thing, and that is the end of it. Our politicians know our weakness and act accordingly.” The remedy of a greater public spirit and a more incessant activity among all classes of citizens to sup- port every movement for obtaining adequate appro- priations for California is suggested by the article. ‘There is,- however, another point that should not be overlooked in this connection. We must, as The Call has repeatedly pointed out, maintain at Washington a delegation sufficiently strong and experienced to exert a potent influence among Congressmen. We have in the past changed our representatives too often. We have now too many free-traders repre- senting districts that require protection for their in- dustries, too many silver cranks representing con- stituencies whose welfare is inseparably bound up with sound money, too many raw men unfamiliar with Congress who can accomplish nothing. At the coming election we should send to Con- gress a strong delegation thoroughly representative of the interests and the people of the State, and thereafter maintain it there. With such a delegation earnestly supported at home, California would soon gain her rightful rank at Washington, and we should have no longer any cause to complain of the neglect of our interests by the National Government. STATUS OF THE WHISKER. OBODY who has made use of the opportunities for observation can deny that there are men who joy in their whiskers, who watch them grow as the painter watches a canvas de- velop under his touch, as the lovelorn youth eyes the budding life of spring, writing a poem concerning the same. Some people hear music in the soughing of the zephyr among the trees, but it is as nothing to the melody produced when the winds of heaven toy with the full-blown Populist whisker. Deprive a bearded beauty of his Van Dykes and he becomes a lantern-jawed chromo with an exposure of chin. In other words, the cultivation of the various whisker is tut a form of the pursuit of happiness guaranteed by the constitution. An attempt has been made to abridge this right. A club made up of men who wear any sort of whis- | ker they like or go bald-faced if it suits them better, has decreed that all employes shall be smooth shaved. That with one accord the employes sought the barber shows that they were born to be slaves. Had they reflected a moment they would have realized that an imposition, inspired by jealousy, was being prac- ticed upon them. They meekly submitted and they deserve no sympathy. As a matter of right and con- stitutional law one man has no business to say whether or not another man shall shave. Let him mow his own crop, but keep out of his neighbor’s field. If the Pacific Union Club can make its servants either shave or go jobless into the cold world it has an equal privilege of decreeing that they shall have their ears cropped and wear a fishbone in the nose. An order of this sort would be as seemly and sen- sible. If a man cannot follow his notion as to the utility of beard or no beard, where is this boasted American liberty which wants to spread itself to the isles of the sea? SONG OF THE SIREN. WILL neither yield to the song of the siren, nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile, nor the howling of the wolf.” Thus Chapman wrote many years ago, showing that the head on his shoulders was level and had something in it. Much as Chapman knew it is hardly possible that he looked forward to the time when San Francisco’s yellow journal would have a siren of its own, a steam siren, a diabolical siren, and blow it with tHe interest and perspicuity of a boy gladdened by possession of a tin trumpet. The siren has de- veloped into a nuisance. Not content with being an- noying in a quict fashion, the Examiner must get a mechanical device to impress upon the community a new sense of its unworth. The song of this modern siren is not alluring. Chapman would have found no strain in resisting yielding to it, although he might have yielded to an impulse toward profanity and called for the police. But if the idea is to draw a crowd it is ahout as cor- rect as the average Examiner idea. With fingers in its ears, the crowd would flee away. Had the old- fashioned siren whose forte was the fooling of mariners been run by steam, the mariners would have been safe enough; they would have taken to the open sea. Still, although Chapman could not have had yellow journalism in his mind, he hit it off remarkably well and sized up human nature to a nicety. The voice o. the hyena, the tears of the crocodile and the howling of the wolf all belong to it. Chapman boldly declared he would not yield to any of them, and greatly to the pain and surprise of thé Hearstlings the same spirit prevails yet. Vainly they weep and howl, and vainly they purchase a siren hurtling discords. Nobody is inclined to yield. Spaird, with all her foolishness, is foxy. Vague overtures for peace seem to have been made with a view td:checking the advance of the United States toward’ Porto Rico. But this country, although dis- posed to clemency, has some thirteen-inch diplomacy itself. Porto Rico is exhibiting unexpected symptoms of joy at being captured. The project of unwatering the levels of the great Comstock, resuming the working of the lower levels and going deeper than ever before in quest of new bonanzas is the biggest and most interest- ing one in the mining field of the Pacific Coast just now. There can be no doubt that the great project will be carried out some day, and the present effort, which is yet a vague one, may possibly succeed, but if so actual operations are a good way off. That the unexplored depths of the lode hold undiscovered bonanzas as rich as those which made the past glo- rious cannot fairly be doubted. The same bold and enterprising operations which marked the boom times of the Comstock would now soon uncover them. But the same bold enterprise cannot be wisplayed now. In the past, boards of directors were able to command all the money they wanted and take what chances they would in costly exploration and develop- ment work, because the money could be raised easily by assessments. The stock- holders assessed were interested only as stock gamblers, and all they cared for was a jump in stocks. It was this condi- tion that made the mining operations on the Comstock the boldest the world has seen. No private owners, however weal- thy, would have risked the same invest- ments. The stocks cannot now be as- sessed to pay for the costly operations planned. 1t becomes a legitimate mining enterprise, for which large capital 1s re- quired, and the principal owners must find the money. This finding of the money is the trouble, and ideas of Gov- ernment aid and of bonds guaranteed by the State of Nevada indicate the fact that a good deal of time and effort must be expenaed before anything is done. It is odd that it is just in the midst of this new agitation that the lowest ebb of the Comstock should be suddenly marked. This event has brought its condition home to the Comstock in a more forcible way than any event of recent years. It is compared to rats leaving a sinking ship. But yet there is no doubt that a new and great future is in store for the Comstock. i River dredgers, working bars and shore deposits, are multiplying quite rapldly in California, and this intercsing method of operation will soon be adding materially to the gold output of the State. ‘The Feather River is one of the most promis- ing fields for this industry, and the folr lowing correspondence of the Mining and Sclentific Press iliustrates the extent of operations near. Oroville itself The Feather River Ext}lurnuun Company, op- erating near Oroville, owns a large tract of land on the west bank of the Ieather. The dredger built last winter is working steadily, and the company talks of build- ing two more in the near future. The m ine was floated in the river, _lnd, after working out a bar, has now at- tacked the mainland, the intention bein, to cht into the land, leaving a cnannel for the water to follow. On fourteen acres adjoining this company’s land Cor- Wwin & Danielwitz are working by bud'\ct and cable. Mr. Cartwright, who owns thirty-five acres of land, also on the west bank of the river, is in communication with San Francisco, with a view to hav- ing a dredger built to work his land. l'\g- Jjacent to Oroville the Con. G. ‘.\_1. of Cd,d- fornia, limited, owns 120 acres of land, and intends to bulld a dredger. siderable prospecting has been done (‘)n this property. Ditzler & Faris are wash- ing considerable dirt, their aim being l“i erect a dredger In case they find it wil pa; Mhere is every prospect of the famous on a large scale shortly, says the Moun- tain Echo of Angels Camp, Calaveras county. The Cherokee has produced many fhousands of dojlars in gold in its time, and it has not been even prospected yet, when comparing it to other mines in mls locality, such as the Utica Company’s an OUers. tated on good authority that the Demarest mine, situated some three or four miles northwest of Angels, now being worked by a company of capitalists, 13 making 2 splendid showing. The vein is getting wider and richer as they g0 down With the shaft. Superintendent Campbell of the Penn- sylvania mine was in Marysville recently and told an Appeal reporter that the work of pumping the mine is progressing satis 11 "Although he has been at work {fixctwur v’veek he has the water out for a 200 feet in the shaft. At the distance of \ present rate of progress the mine will be dry inside of the next twenty days, w(l:len Stoping and milling will at once begin. Six teams are engaged in hauling tim- bers for the Hidden greasure Company and thousands of timbers and logging are being stacked up in the yard dai The tunnel is now in about 1% miles and 'the electric plant and trolley ling which were installed nearly & year ago Work to per- ion.—Placer Herald. :e;ck‘t‘ the Eagle mine near Grizzly Flat, after having blocked out a large section of first-class ore, the company is now busily engaged in erecting a 10-stamp mill. It infends to be independent of any pos- sible water famine and is putting in a fifty-horse power engine to run the mi\l. Steam wili only be used, however, when Water for power purposes cannot be ob- tained.—Placerville Nugget. The new hoisting works at the Lecomp- ton mine are almost in place and it will be but a short time befors active develop- ment work will be commenced, says the Grass Valley Unifon. The Lecompton has been a big producer in days gone by and there is no reason why it should not be made to pay again. ‘Work a‘t’ the Sold Bluff mine is progress- ing fast. The alr compressor and receiver is set and the pipe nearly into the shaft. Mr, Copeland is the company’s manager and he informs us that lhe"pump will be Started before many days. The reopening of this mine will do much toward the future prosperity of Downleville.—Downie- ville M nger. Mrs. a A. Blakey, administratrix of the estate of George D. McLean, deceased, has petitioned the Superior Court to be granted an order to seil the Union Hill mine near Grass Valley, which was owned by the deceased.—Grass Valley Telegra, h. The Coffee Creek distdict in Trinity county is to have wagon road leading from the Trinity River eighteen miles up the creek to the Nash draulic mine at ihe headwaters of the creek and to the divide at the headwaters of the Salmon. There is now but a trail into this promis- ing mining district and the road will do much to quicken development. It will be of similar benefit to the upper Salmon country. The ls'lv!‘r miners on the Klamath have been troubled a little lately about getting heavy enough current under their current wheels, consequently they have been obliged to bank up the stream or confine it in narrower limits where possible, on account of the unusually low stage of the water. All are hoisting pay gravel, and taking out considerable gold dust, with prospect of having the best paying season yet known. The low stage of water Is gpecially advantageous where the stream 13 heavlest, 1. e. from Oak Bar down to Happy Camp. Above Oak Bar, when the river ig very low, the wheels have to be dropped down to the lowest gauge, and the current of the river forced under them by means of breakwaters and bulkheads to turn the stream where needed.—Yreka Journal. In California gold ore carrying 65 cents per ton has been profitably worked. At the Spanish mine, Washington Town- ship, Nevada County, in the month of November, in thirty wor ..g days, Super- intendent ¥. W. Bradley ‘ained and milled 4047 tons of ore. Ineluding every detail of expense, the mining cost 31.4 cents per ton; similarly the milling cost 20.8 cents er ton—net profit 13 cents per ton.—Min- ng and Scientific Press. The Salmon River Hydraullc Gold Min- ing and Ditch Company, at Sawyers Bar, has bullt some seven miles of flume at great expense, which takes in all of Sal- mon River at that point, or about 1600 inches, the river being unusually low, and only about half the capacity of the flume. Two glants are in operation, one six and the other five inches. The company ex- pects to_take out considerable gold this season, but would be able to do much better if more water was afforded. This is the old William Klein mine, that has been worked since the ’50 perfod.—Yreka Journal. 4 Hall City, the mining camp in the neigh- borhood of Harrison Gulch, is now on the boom, there bfilng fie\'ernl rnlllsl at work crushing high grade ore, employ- ing several hundred men. The Gold Hill mine alone is running with 200 men and the daily output from the mill is about $500 per ton of ore. Last month the clean up was over $19,000. So says the Red Bluff News. John Daggett will commence opera- tions in the lower tunnel of the Black Bear mine on an extensive scale. Two different shafts have been commenced in the old main tunnel, and reports are cir- culated that a two-foot ledge has been discovered in the new six-foot shaft that will run about $30 to the ton.—Scott Val- ley Advance. The Paramide Mining Company, which 18 composed of Riverside parties, is mak- ing arrangements to send a number of men down to the mines of the company wiY we FaiL AT wesinaton | NEWS OF THE MINES. lower | in Lower California to begin the work =3 % politiclan of this WITH WHAT g city is at present P SPIRITS g confined to his g home Dby an - | g ARE STUFFED. & mess which calls for large applica- RO tions of vinegar development.—Riverside Enterprise. o"{‘he mugl important find in the camlg so far has been the new strike of sul phuret ore in the Little Butte, at a dep of 000 feet. The ore body shows a flve- foot vein of dark, close-grained, bluish- looking quartz, and mills about $15 free gold, with the sulphurets worth about &?9 per ‘ton. More than anything else it shows the permanency of the ledges: as for the pitch of the ore chute the same vein passes under the Kinyon and Wedge, only at a greater depth. The Little Buft» people are feeling mighty good over their prospects and employes take re- newed courage.—Randsburg Miner. Randsburg now has its long mneeded water supply in operation, It is piped from wells four and a half miles distant and is delivered at fire pressure. The Randsburg Miner says that W. K. Miller's stage line between Johannesburg and Ballarat will soon be extended clear through to Keeler, and that the Santa Fe road will sell tickets to Keeler via Johannesburg. Very good news, if true. The gap of about forty-three miies be- tween Ballarat ard Darwin will thus be filled, the road running through Shep- herd Canyon and passing what was known as Panamint Junction in early days, when stages were flying al over that country. According to the Bodie Miner-Index that town has untold wealth in the shape of rich gravel, which would be a bonanza in some places, but which, under the con- ditions, does not allure capital yet. “A few days ago,” says that paper, “‘we saw ten pounds of dirt prospected. It was taken haphazard from the hillside back of the Catholic Church, and all pulverized finely in mortar, the result showing a value of something more than $4 per ton. We have seen several similar me- chanical tests of the hiliside soil made, :md none of it showed less than $2 50 per on.” Somewhere about 15,000 tons of tailings are being treated monthly at the local cyanide plant—the South End, Stand- ard, Syndicate, Victor and Sunshine. All are’ producing’ quantities of bullion, ac- cording to capacity. The Dunderberg is not counted, though in operation. When the new Copper Mountain and Lundy plants get to work there will be an enor-, mous lot of sand handled in Mono County. This stuff, which was considered a nui3- | ance a_few vears ago, is valuable now.— Bodie Miner-Index. The Coalinga oil fleld in Fresno County | is_again making some effort to push {t- self into prominence. It was partially opened some years ago, but was aban- doned. Now ‘therg are some companies engaged there who are pushing develop- ment work vigorously. Valuable amber deposits are sald to have been discovered on the Saykup Creek, flowing into Jervis Inlet, on the eastern shores of the Straits of Georgla, in British Columbia. The mining interests of Southern Ore- gon have suffered from drought as se- verely as any part of California, accor ing to the following statement in'the Ore- gon Mining Journal: The partial failure last winter of the | mining season in Southern Oregon has | been the most serious blow this section | has recel in vears. As is known, the | drought which extended all over Califor- | nia extended up to the Calipoola Moun- tains, so that in Josephine County, the | great mining county of the section, near- | ly all the hydraullc mines closed down after only a few weeks' run, while the hundreds of small placer miners operat- ing with the ground sluice failed to take | out any gold at all. The direct conse- quences of this state of affairs has been a reduction of the gold output of the sec- toin fully one-half, and an indirect con- sequence has been an exodus of men to other sectfons in search of. work during the summer and until the fall rains shall again make it possible to operate the ground sluices.” As the result of securing control of new mining territory through the war with Spain an era of mining stampedes may be expected. Within another year the min- eral resources of the Philippine Islands will begin to attract attention, in all probability, and the usual novelty of dis- tance will lend a charm to the claims which the transportation companles will be only too glad to magnify. There is no doubt as to the legitimate mining wealth of Cuba. 'Lhe great iron deposits near Santlago are capable of vast exploitation and the production of enormous wealth. The portions already worked cost about $3,000,000 and_have proved profitable. at that price. There is almost no hmit to | their_productive capacity. Other miner- als abound, and Cuba as a winter propo- sition will no doubt be much sought after | by practical miners.—Western Mining | World. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. H. B. Gillis of Yreka s at the Grand. Dr. A. Orr of Oak Park is at the Grand. Jesse D. Carr of Salinas is at the Occi- dental. ‘Wilder White of Honolulu is at the Oc- cidental. H. Eastwood; & merchant of Fresno, is at the Russ. Dr. F. X. Voisand of Woodland is at the Occidental. M. P. Snyder, Mayor of Los Angeles, is at the Occidental. ORUPVBRAAT A prominent and brown paper; aiso raw beefsteak. He explains that while the hired girl was entertaining her soldier friends the other night he found it necessary to split a plece of firewood. Naturally one of the sticks flew up and struck him, blacking both eyes. Such things, as everybody knows, often happen, and one feels bound to condole with the sufferer. Also, there is a notorious medium who ltmps pain- fully as he goes about his daily avocation of raking in the coin of the credulous. Skeptics scornfully assert that of late the materialized spirits which issue from the cabinet have shown a marked tend- ency toward lameness. The true believ- ers, on the other hand, are only con- firmed in their faith by this clrcum- stance. They point to the fact as a con- clusive proof of the exquisite sympathy of their favorite medium, whose refined nature is in such perfect harmony with the better world that even his bodily allments communicate themselves to the ethereal beings which appear at his call. The medium was holding a highly suc- cessful materializing seance, anc his star was shining brightly, when the politiclan appeared in opposition. The two planets, each luminous in its own sphere, collided, there was an astronomical convulsion, and hence all these tears. The politiclan, with a few faithful friends, had been traversing the cocktail route rather freely, and the party were in a merry mood. Some one suggested the materializing seance as & means of recreation. Then a brilllant idea struck the politiclan. “T will buy me,” he said, “one of those lady's hatpins which are like unto daggers, and then we will see the kind of material with which spirits are stuffed.” He threaded the hatpin up and down the side of his trousers, so that it could be easily withdrawn. All might have gone well had not the medium been a large, powerful man, who once earned his living as a blacksmith. An enthusiastic lady bellever asked to see her father, and after the usual amount of coy hesitation that gentleman oblig- ingly emerged from the cabinet. Clad In shimmering white, he glided round the awe-stricken circle, stopping only to wave a ghostly blessing over the politician's head. That gentleman explained that he would feel much more satisfled if he could shake hands with the spirit, and the fa- vor was granted. urasping firmly the clammy hand of a being from another world, he drew forth his trusty hatpin and jabbed it with all his might into the mass of phosphores- cent drapery. There was an awful yell, and the alr seemed to turn blue with profanity. “Holy Moses!” shrieked the ethereal fist rushed violent, into contact with the politiclan’s right huge materialized eye. Instantly another performed thg game service for the left, and the politi. clan saw nothing but fireworks fof some minutes. When the free fight which followed wag over, a very much disheveled politiclan lay panting on the floor, and a breathless medium was vainly striving to communs with the spirits In the cabinet. True believers say it is dangerous to meddle with the spirits; it disturbs the magnetic current. The politician thinks 80 now. C. P. Volgell, a merchant of Victoria, is staylng at the Russ. A. F. B. Crofton of Alaska registered at the Palace yesterday. R. Roberts, a banker of fadera, and wife are guests at the Lick. Seymour Waterhouse, the mining man, is down from Placerville for a brief stay. Frank W. Smith, an attorney of Red- ding, is among the late arrivals at the Lick. i Frank Cummings has returned from Portland, and will make the Palace his residence in the future. Revenue Agent L. A. Thrasher left last night for Washington. He has been transferred from this coast to the East. NO PREMIUM—A. 8., City. There is no premium on a dime of 1842. You can buy such at prices varying from 30 to [ cents. R T A HALF-DOLLAR—Subscriber, Oak- land, Cal. A half-dollar of 1812 is not one of the kind sought by coln dealers at pre- mium prices. uch are for sale at prices varying from 85 cen $1 75. TWO STREETS IN OAKLAND—A Reader, Stockton, Cal. According to the s. Broadway in the city of Oak- compas: land runs northeast by north and south- southwest. Seventh street in the same city runs southeast by east and west- northwest. MILITARY SERVICE — Two Sub- scribers, Milbrae, Cal. The United States cannot draft a foreign subject against his wish into the armysduring war time. There is mo principle more distinctly or clearly sstlle&) in the law of nations than the rule that resident aliens, not natural- ized, are mot liable to perform military service. THE OLD NAVY—X. B., Berkeley, Cal. At the close of the Civil War the United States navy consisted of 671 vessels, with a combined tonnage of 510,3%, mounting 4610 guns. It was the strongest navy of its time, but there is no record to show that it was ‘‘equal in m"u'mmtmth ships, etc., to the strength of all the %t er na- vies of the world combined.” ‘o deter- mine that would require an examination | of the records of each nation for 1865. EXAMINATION—J. V., Hardwick, Cal. To take an examination under the civil service rules of the United States the in- dividual must decide in what branch of the service he would like to enter. There is not a general examination, but a spe- cial examination for every department. After the individual has decided what de- artment he will try for he must present Elmselt to the secretary of the commis- slon of that particular branch or depart- ment. He will then be furnished with proper blanks and given all information as to time and place of examination. PROVINCE—J. L., City. The word province means a country or region de- pendent on a distant authority; also means a portion of an empire or state remote from the capital. The term is sometimes used to apply to a county. Posen is a province of Prussia, one of the thirteen that make up the kingdom of Prussia. It is one of the subdivisions ot the kingdom, and according to the cus- toms of the country is called a province, the same as in the United States each subdivision of the Union is called a State or a Territory. BOUNDARY AND SUPERVISORS— Several Constant Readers, City. The boundaries of the Second Ward of San Francisco are: The waters of the bay on the north, the westerly line of Kearny street on the east, the northerly lina of Vallejo street on the South and the east- erly line of Larkin street on the west. The islands in the bay are made part of the Second Ward. By the act of 1886, April 2, the Super- visors of San Francisco were elected by the qualified voters of the wards from which the candidates were nominated. 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