The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 27, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN DAY FRANCISCO CALL, hddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, ICATION OFFICE .._..Market and Third Sts. S. F. Telephone Main 1868, i EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson Strect | Teler ain 1874, | DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. | Single Coples, 5 cents. fail, Including Postage: day Call), one year. unday Call), 6 morth Manager. $6.00 3.00 | 1.50 | 650 | 1.50 | 1.00 to rece beoriptions. | when requested. 1 OAKLAND OFFIKCE.... 208 Broadway | NEW YORK OFFICE. Rcom 188, World Building | DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.........Welllngton Hotel | C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. ‘ CHICAGO OFFICE g Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. ERANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street. corner Clay, | open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street. open until 230 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 All postmasters are authorl Eample coples will be fo INTELLECTUAL DEMOCRACY. HE anniversary address before the faculty and i l the students at the State University, delivered at Berkeley on Thursday last by President Har- per of the Chicago University, was a thoughtful, scholarly and earnest exposition of the historical re- | ! lation of university training to the development of man. He traced that relation back to its origin and | through its successive phases down to the present century, and enforced with great power the central thought of his address, that the university had bcen: the source of that democracy rapidly pervading the ! world, which he justly pronounced “the highest ideal | | of human achievement; the only possibility of a true national life.” It was not within President Harper’s purpose to | discuss the fundamental cause of the controlling parti taken by the universities in human progress. He proved and illustrated the fact with a definiteness and | with a completeness that could not be surpassed. But underlying the fact is one ot the imperishable truths that demonstrates the falsity of pessimism and ex- plains the growth of civilization. The freest thing on the earth is intellect. It may be restrained, warped or hampered in its expression, but it cannot be per- manently suppressed. From the beginning of history under all forms of government intellectual power has constantly wrought for liberty, or, more precisely, for the democracy meant by President Harper, which is in the history of the State. The other is the sudden activity in the higher levels of commerce. Whether | our conquests in the Orient have had anything to do | with it is a question, but certainly San Francisco is on the eve of broad and profitable expansion as a commercial center. New trans-Pacific steamer lines operations of a foreign character in the near future. The destiny so long promised San Francisco as one of the half dozen conspicuous ports of the world seems on the point of realization. It now begins to look as if we are really one of the great gateways of the world. It is significant in this connection that finance and not commierce, money and not goods, is the mainspring of this new expansion. Capital from all over the world has during the past few months marked San Francisco as a seat of interoceanic operations, and the profound observer sees in the developments of to-day the: beginning of that em- pire which will make San Francisco the great entrepot of the Orient. The start has at last been made, and from now on our progress will be rapid. The signs are in the sky. DEFECT IN REFORM LOGIC. i l “HE remarks of a morning contemporary con cerning the Rickard bill, which provides for the arrangement of party tickets separately upon the are being established, new overland rail connections | | being made, and there are rumors of vast financial | MARCH 27, 1899 The biggest quartz mining development | in California during the current year will | undoubtedly be that at the Melones mine | in Calaveras County, in which a great ore reserve is to be rapidly develoned further by a 4000-foot tunnel, etc., and at which is to be erected ‘the largest and best equipped stamp mill in the State. This is the result of the energetic exploitation of the property by W. C. Ralston, who has pushed development work for three years and who has just secured abundant East- ern capital for the large operations men- tioned. The Melones will for many future years be one of the notable mines of the mother lode. It will be notabie not only on account of the scale on which it is operated, the initial plant to consist of 120 stamps, but as an example of the work- ing of great bodies of low grade ore. The property consists of seven claims on Car- son Hill, near Robinson’s Ferry on the | Stanislaus River. They include the Me- lones, Reserve | There are 1407 feet on the east vein of the mother lode, and 5166 feet on the middle vein. These properties are characterized by great bodies of low grade ore. The vein on Carson Hill is in places 100 feet wide. In past years considerable devel- opment work had been done and more or less ore milled from the Melones, Reserve and Enterprise mines, but the profitable working of such a property required the initial_expenditure of a large amount of capital and mining was easily abandoned, total production has been NEWS OF THE MINES. and Enterprise mines. | | the Yellow Aster mill, working twenty- two men in the mine. | "Recent rains have interfered with tne | ary washers on the desert. The- ralns have not wholly pleased everybody, after all. i A systematic effort to develow a QHICKE silver deposit about five miles eu:t‘o | Santa Ana in Orange County is being made by E. J. Kimball and J. I\I.‘Tl‘}rn(.r. A Grub Guich, Madera County, cOTEes spondent of the Mining -and Scientific Press glves this pointer about one af th" many practically undeveloped _&O! 5 glons of the State: “One of the largest gold-bearing veins in the b(Blehexur;h‘ from the vicinity of Grub Guic ‘!(“[Jl 4 ward across Fresno River and beyend, 4 distance of nearly 15,000 feet. llhs = cated throughout its entire lensth, lnx:)‘ has at various points a large amount of development, _particularly [n the Mam- | moth, Starlight-Riverside and _Si‘u:lnn:d | mines. The formation is mica slate, ahl | the veln occurs as a silification of t‘ s | slate. A vein of granite of varyving texc ture accompanies the vein through0u| et length, waving back and forth in a s{x = ous lihe, cutting the vein at a Dumber | of points, always appearing as of late origin.” gh'e large hydraulic mining Mmpanle: in Trinity County have united in n? 3‘ tempt to set aside the action o t e County Board of Equalization In rais r‘\ 2 the Assessor's figures on their property valuations. 3 ERA- MILLIONS FOR BIG COPPER OF TIONS IN THIS STATE. e 5 cent boom in copper | ! h!;’;he h‘:lll“a:“lffiibele x:‘ulls in California, | o cting very much at- though without attracting very muth S5 ent pay in the United States navy tc me- chanics on board ship in the above-nsmed branches is from $70 to $40 a month for machinists, $60 for boilermakers, $50 for coppersmiths.and §45 for fitters. By the provisions of the new personnel Dbill a number of machinists will be raised to warrant rank and Treceive a salary of $1200 a year. i Interesting and valuable competitite tests of water-tube boilers are to be mads on the British torpedo gunboat ShPld:uku The vessel has four Babcock and W xl(_:nx boilers of 1000 horsepower each, and nine runs at sea of 1000 miles at speeds varying from 12 to 17 knots are to be made with a view of ascertaining the efficiency and economy as compared with the Belleville boiler. The latter boiler was tested in 1895 on board the Sharpshooter, a sister boat to the Sheldrake, and an exhaustive report was made at the time of the Belle- ville boiler. The Sheldrake left for her first run on February 2§, and at the end of the trials she will be turned over to the team reserves at Devonport, Por(smuq(h and Chatham to give engine-room artifl- cers and stokers practical experience in handling these boilers. THE DOOM OF A NATION Editor The Call—Inclosed please find clipping from a Scandinavian newspa- per, which, if you see fit to publish, will be greatly appreciated by your Finnish readers. Also find a transla- o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open uptil 9:30 o'clock. | 5 2 3 % 3+ . | though th 8 foal Mission straet, opem until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market | simply liberty voluntarily restrained for the common | official ballot, would perhaps apply if the Stratton pri- about $500,00. ication, " Many propertics’ have beet 0. | e ieiven By the Eires: Corner Siiteenth lopen) until giclock 3518 | good at the point where otherwise it would degener- | mary law had not been passed. The latter statute pro- | ,About three years ago . C. Raiston of Telopment Work IS Eoing on, bue it will | ;‘;?s:m‘cezar f all the Russias at the sslon street, open un o - S el it 2 . fids SN Fe and B 3 1| take a good deal of time to brin| e : o5 street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1506 Polk street, open ate into license. poses to purify the very fountainhead of the electoral [ :éffngtkh?'sth}(‘fimdfig ul;%hfkrl; ,‘\‘,f,ap’;i‘{’;- ropertics into the ranks of the pro uc;;l;h deathbed of his own father to the aeo f) | The Mountain Copper Company, ¥ ple of Finland, dated Livadia, Novem- system. I the people attend primary elections and | was bonded from the Melones Consotidat- until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | In both ancient and modern times this democracy | produces nearly the entire output of the| Kantucky strasts omsn GntilDioidock: of intellect has been the undying foe of despotism and | vote, every nominating convention hereafter assem- gg,,;‘;;g";fijg,{};ggflu I was desired 10| Bave. is, "crowding _operations atIron ber 6, 1884: e % that is, it | possible during the term of the bond. | Mountain and at its big smelters a Since we have through the AMUSEMENTS. Columbia—*"Rob Roy. THE FIGHTING IN THE PHILIPPINES. | forces at Manila have determined upon taking | a vigorous course against the insurgents, so as an end to the disturbances in the island of [2 ROM late reports it appears the American | te put Luzon and breaking the power of Aguinaldo. Such | E y rate seems to have been the intent of the ad- vance on Saturday and sovement which began on the heaviest fighting which has thus far | i during the campaign. s oi the situation from this distance, it ap- t such a course is the wisest that can be d. The longer the insurgents can harass :md‘ insult our lines and escape with comparative im- punity the more cunning will they become in the work, and the more dangerous. Moreover, the sum- mer is coming on, bringing about the season when under the heats of an equatorial sun and amid the ugt jungles of the tropics an aggressive campaign on the | part of unacclimated troops will be almost impossible. ! Very little glory is to be won from the contest, i yet it will be one that will try both the courage and the stamina of our soldiers to the utmost. The | course of the fighting thus far has shown what the | tactics of the enemy are to be, and what difficulties | are to be overcome. - The Filipinos, it is said, never | except at Malabon permitted the Americans to get | or in sight of them. They would fire a few volleys from ambush, and then scuttle back to an-| ocher cover, repeating the tactics for miles. When | our troops had taken possession of the first position | of the insurgents it was found that many .of the trenches had gullies and connecting paths through the cane and brush enabling the insurgents to ad- vince or retreat unseen. ‘ In the victory accomplished on Saturday against | these obstacles there displayed every quality | that makes the American soldier honored at home and feared abroad. To drive the insurgents from; their entrenchments the Americans had to make a | Jong advance across open ground, in the face of a r the was heavy fire, penetrate jungles, cross swamps, swim rivers, attack fortified posts and pursue an unseen enemy that fought and fled with an incessant activity. The aim of the Americans is of course to drive the | Filipinos from their coverts around Manila back to | the wildest recesses of the islands where they may refuge, and then and there strike a blow which, ! the insurrection in Luzon, will dis- iers in other islands and thus pre- for a speedy establishment throughout | seck by crushing courage the | pare the wa the archipelago of a degree of order such as they have never known before in all their history. What has been accomplished by the valor of our | troops will be regarded with a true patriotic appre- ¢iation by the country at large, and yet as the dreary roll increases that gives the names of those brave and loyal young Americans who have perished in battle or in the hospitals, from wounds or from the | pestilential vapors of the swamps and jungles, ‘the common-sense of the nation will consider more, seri- | ously than ever whether it is worth while to sacrifice ! so many valuable lives for the sake of the sentimental glory of an imperial policy. A New York writer sneers at those other writers who allude to burned hotels as “fire traps,” and says they should have done this in advance of the con- ! flagration. Unfortunately the newspaper reporter is not blessed with the giit of prophecy, nor does he have power to look through a brick wall and discern | that it is merely a veneer for a framework of lath. | However, the Baldwin, late of this city and now of not blessed memory, had been declared so often to be a firetrap that knowledge of its condition ceased to irterest anybody until the match was applied to the stiucture. Guests at a recent dinner in New York are said to have represented two billions and a half of dollars, and there were fewer of them than might constitute a grangers' picnic. There was also more dyspepsia | about that board than would be found at the other | gathering. S s Many raw soldiers are in the city now, and some | good Samaritan ought to send emissaries to the Bar- | bary Coast to warn the strangers against the knock- | out drops and the Chinese gin. These agencies | brought many of last summer’s volunteers to grief. Governor Roosevelt probably made his few brief re- marks under oath with full knowledge that the War Department would have been pleased to have him something else. At times, when truth seems to require it, Roosevelt is actually inconsiderate. Bt SBE iy Cosper explains that he went into the Burns camp so as to break the deadlock. Evidently, however, he had failed to provide himself with the combination. Water-front politics operate Awihl& enough to sur- prise any new Governor. | embalmed lcarning T | soon overtake the exports, | all sorts of explanations without definite results. of corruption. It is for this reason that despotism | | and corruption within themselves or within the range of their operation and influence contain the seeds of their own destruction. Mind is too restless and too aspiring to work in chains. It may imitate servility | and apparently submit to the humiliation of purchase, | but it will not stay bought. This is why even in our cwn country low politics submerges intelligence and | the debauchees of party, while they control, reduce the standard of officialism to their own level. This incontrovertible truth was strikingly illustrated during | the recent Senatorial deadlock in this State. Universities originate in the aspirations of intellect, and are points for its concentration, its discipline, its training and its effective struggles for emancipation. | The Egyptian priests lived above the ignorance of the people and modified the tyranny of the Pharoahs. The schools of Athens set loose on the globe the forces cf independent thought that blended with the Deistic ferver of the Hebrews, leavened the hard rationalism i Rome and dug channels for the fraternity of the Christian era. This combined inheritance descended to the universities of Europe, which indeed it largely created, and filled them through the darkest ages with and with struggling thought. Thus was the world prepared for the intense move- ments of the Middle Ages, which it modern times, and especially in this century, have carried man forward toward the perception and the enforcement of his own sovereignty. It was on this continent and through the painful | gestation, birth and growth of this Republic that the | | democracy of intellect at last burst into the full splen- dor of constitutional liberty and threw off every | | shackle of bigotry and of tyranny. It is in this country therefore that the university should reach its highest and its most democratic influence and power. From | the Atlantic to the Pacific in magnificent institutions, | exemplified at Chicago, at Palo Alto, at Berkeley, the | grandest standards of citizenship and of manhood | have been raised, and such men as Jordan, Harper and Kellogg, wish their associates, some of them equally conspicuous, are training young men who are to grasp the opportunities and the problems of the Twertieth Century, into the practical comprehension of that Americanism which includes all that is best for humanity in the past, the present and the future, and which, unless enervated by internal disease or stifled within the armor of revived imperialism, will fulfill the loftiest anticipations of manifest destiny. A FEW SIGNS IN THE SKY. RADE conditions are conflicting and per- plexing at the moment. For several weeks the leading commercial and financial authorities of the Government and Wall street have been calling at- tention to the gradual change which is taking place in the relative positions of the export and import' movements of the country. They have pointed out that whereas for a year or two our exports have greatly overbalanced our imports, thereby establish- ing an immense trade balance in favor of the United States, this condition is now being reversed and the imports and exports are coming closer together. Our exports are not materially smaller, but our im- ports are rapidly increasing, and it is feared they will thus destroying that boasted balance of trade in our favor. This new phase of business is not considered alarming, but is thought to be due to the fact that our unprecedented prosperity has made us extravagant in the direction of buying a lot of luxuries from Europe, which has | any criminal. swelled the national imports. The leading financiers have been looking askance at this turning of the tables and wondering how it will turn out. But in the very face of all this comes the record of an enormous increase in general trade throughout | the country. The bank clearings last week showed | a clear gain of 73.4 per cent over the same week last year, the increase at New York being 100.6 per cent, at Baltimore 120.2 per cent, and so on. These figures are simply amazing, and as far as the clearings are an indication of the state of trade there is a remark- able gain in business throughout the whole country. This condition completely ‘nullifies the unfavorable aspect of the increase in imports and tends to be- fuddle those clearsighted financiers from whom we take our cue in our business' ventures. Wall street spent the major portion of the week pondering over the contradictory conditions con- tained in the above two paragraphs and guessed at A hardening and subsequent softening of the money market added to the general obfuscation, but the latter factor proved dominant, the bulls regained courage and the weck closed buoyant at stronger prices. - From our distant point of view the situation seems clear enough. Our great prosperity has made us flush and we are purchasing heavily abroad. Whether we will overdo it remains to be seen. Certainly our commerce, domestic and foreign, is immense and shows no signs of diminution. The leading staples show no particular change from previous conditions, except a weakening in the minor metals, due to a re- action in London speculation. The iron and steel trades continue to - report mills overcrowded with orders. Raw cotton and wool are weaker, wheat has been firmer during the past few days and lumber con- tinues to advance. Otherwise the general situation is without feature. " In the local tharket, however, there are two new features of great interest. One is the remarkable rain, which has effectually laid the dry season specter | | and practically assured one of the heaviest harvests bled will be thoroughly representative; themselves. Such being the case, what sense is there in allowing “side shows,” non-partisan committees and “piece” clubs the privilege of foisting upon ballots a large number of names designed-merely to take | votes away from the people’s candidates? The newspaper to whose criticisms we are now di- | ton primary law with warmth and vigor. To the best of our recollection it claimed that in the event of its becoming a law the bosses would be speedily over- thrown and the people placed in control of the nomi- nating machinery of all political parties. We doubt whether these anticipations will be | realized, but if there is any foundation for the Strat- ton primary law at all there is no foundation for the | adveérse criticism which is now being heaped upon the Rickard bill. Nearly every citizen is either a Repub- | lican or a Democrat. The few Populists, Non-Par- | tisans, soreheads and anarchists who exist cut little or no figure at national elections. The Republicans and Democrats run the country because they outnumber ! all other partisans ten or fifteen to. one. Ii, there- | fore, the new primary law is going to produce pure | conventions, thoroughly representative of these two party organizations, why should the names of candi- | dates appear upon the Australian ballot alphabetically | instead of in party columns? We think, moreover, that the alphabetical system is a delusion and snare. A number of first-class can- didates have been defeated in this city for School Di- rectors and Freeholders for no other reason than that their names commenced with T and W. The party column system is better than the alphabetical system, and with the new primary law in force we think all objection to the Rickard bill is obviated. If this is not true a screw is loose in somebody’s logic, or, what is worse, the Stratton law is a device of the bosses to appease the public desire for electoral re- form, under which they will conquer the people and dictate the character of their office-holders. W inmates of the Pesthouse will have relief from the discomfort of the storm. The pools of water that, dripping from the leaking roof formed in almost every apartment of the building, can now be mopped away and the home of the patients made once more comparatively dry and warm. Such relief as nature has thus given does not in any way, however, relieve the city and its people from the claim which the pest-stricken patients have upon them. The issue is one of justice as well as of charity. Indeed, it appeals in the name of every slaw to which humanity recognizes its responsibility. The victims of pestilential diseases are not crimi- nals, and yet for its own protection society must shut them away as carefully as it shuts away the most hardened felon. It is, therefore, incumbent upon society to make the exclusion of the afflicted sufferer as comfortable as possible. The Pesthouse should be an asylum and not a dungeon. It should be light and airy and warm, and not gloomy and dank and cold. It should manifest helpfulness and not punishment—the love and not the wrath of so- ciety. While neither our law nor our religion regards the pest-stricken victim as an offender against either man or God, yet in this city he is treated worse than Our jail is better in every way than \the home we provide for such a victim and to which our law sentences him as soon as his malady is dis- covered. A dilapidated structure, carelessly built for tem- porary use years ago and now fallen into decay, so weak that its walls cannot stand without the support of props and so badly roofed that the rains penetrate every room—such a building if used by the Russians to house sick convicts would rouse the indignation of every one who read of it. What, then, shall we say of it when used by the people of an American com- munity to shelter those whose only offending is pov- erty and affliction? The wrong has been possible in San Francisco only because it has not been known. It is one of the evils that proceed from want of thought rather than want of heart. Its isolation prevented the general public from noting its condition, and the exclusion of visitors from plague-stricken halls forbade even charity from secking it out. % s Only when the recent rains beat upon the city, bringing so much of cheer and gladness to the com- munity at large, the sad plight of the inmach of the house led one of them to appeal to The Call. The re- sult was the investigation which disclosed the facts we have laid before the public. Hereafter there remains for our officials not even the poor excuse of ignor- ance concerning the degree of the wrong. Whatever work of reform and improvement may have to be set aside to make way for it, the construc- tion of a new and better Pesthouse is now the im- mediate duty of the city. A CLAIM ON HUMANITY. ITH the return of sunshine after the rain the Agdvocates of universal peace want an immediate armistice declared in the Philippines. They better put a white rag on a pole and tell Aguinaldo how they feel. San Francisco ought to be proud. It has managed to pay its tcachers part of the sum swiped from them. \ 2 unemployed there is danger of a new Coxey. : S will be composed of delegates selected by the people | | i recting attention advocated the enactment of the Strat- | RIS B If the Burps touts are forced to join the army of | here was a shaft on tne Reserve mine about 200 feet deep, with drifts and cross- cuts. An udéoimng mine was the South Carolina, with a tunnel 1080 feet in length. It was désired (0 continue this tunnel over 1600 feet to reach tue ore -odies of the Melones company, and a bond on_the South Carolina was secured. W. C. Ral- Ston was manager of the property, and under his direction and that of Superin- tendent B. Deleray the tunnel was begun. The period of the bond made haste neces- sary and the result was that the world's record for driving mining tunnels was broken last fall and Mr. Ralston’s report of the exploit has been published all over | the World. _ Drilling began in January of ast year and on September 24, 2608 feet of tunnel 7 by 8 feet was driven. The aver- age progress was 10.22 feet a day, 7162 feet per week and 306.88 feet per month. Kor one week the progress was 92 feet. total cost of the tunnel was $28708, or | $11 02 per running foot. i This famous tunnel, which passed 425 feet below the bottom of the Reserve shaft, and other development work plac- ed “in sight” 630,000 tons of ore, a little of it rich, but averaging between $4 and $5 a ton. There was a great prospective supply of low grade ore. On the show- ing made by the development work done Mr. Ralston recently went East and sold 100,000 shares of treasury stock, one-half the entire issue, at $ per share. The in- vestors were Boston ana New York peo- le. The property was bought from the Ritiones Consolidated Mining Company, ani now, under the management of M Ralston, the the 4000 feet long and 250 feet deeper than the one run last year will be started at once and it is estimeted that it will increase the ore in sighi by 300,000 tons. $180,000 has Leen spent in development work with no attempt at milling ore. The total investment in this property | will be_$680,000. The 120-stamp mill which it is expected to have In operations in December next will be approached by but one other mill In the State, that of the Golden Cross mine in San Diego County, which has 120 stamps, but g c advantages in the way of efficiency. concrete dam and nearly three miles of ditch to provide a_water supply will con- | Sume part of the $300,000 to be spent this | year. | YSihe successful operation of such a property will mean a good deal to the miping industry of the State, as it will be & demonstration of the possibilities of low grade propositions and stimulate faith and interest in them. The recent storms have put the miners on their feet as well as the farmers. The abundance of water which has come at last means a great year in the mining in- dustry in California. rations in the industry, for while D Aietion was unquestionably less- ened by $5,000,000 or more OWIng to the lack of water and long stoppages of operations in many large producers, it P %nown that the statistics of the gold product of the State in 1898, soon to be fssued by the State Mining Bureau, will show a slightly greater product than that of 1897. The losshes due to lack of water v set by the g?{‘;:s?r{)llle gm‘] big. This year will not see the same curtailment of the product and there will be another large increase in the number of mines ready for produc- tion. mountain streams are nNow every- wggree running full and placer miners are Nastening to make use of the water sup- ply. The large snowfall in high altitudes assures an ordinary supply in streams . “The number of prospectors scattered Bl ohihe Rills has Increased during the Week.. Many prospective buyers of mines ek ere wafting In fear of another dry Vear ‘are ready to invest. Many owners Yo ready to order that mill. Every Pranch of manufacture and trade de- pendent on the mining industry feel§ that Phis is to be a good vear after all. There is a_feeling of confidence and | taith everywhere that promiscs a year of more mining activity than California has known in a generation. One of the newly booming mining dis- tricts of the State is Genessee Valley in Plumas County, which has gold, copper and coal among its mineral resources. Coal was discovered about a year ago and the recent copper boom has brought the copper deposits to the front. The Genessee quartz mine, owned by a Mrs. Gruss, has been remarkably successful lately, adding still more to the fame of the valley. Now efforts are being made to construct a narrow-gauge railroad con- necting the coal and the copper deposits, a few miles apart. The ten new stamps added to the mill of the Black Oak mine, Tuolumne County, began dropping last week. James V. Coleman and some associates will reopen the Angels mine at Angels Camp, Calaveras County, which has been closed for eight years. The _legislative bills the State law of location are among those which at this writing are in the hands of Governor Gage, uns,nended'siy any an- nouncement as to what he will do with them. It is presumed the{ will be laws, and if so prospectors will have to take a brief course in location law again. The Santa Ysabel mine at Stent, Neva- da County, is one of the many California mines ready to double its milling capacity. The Santa Ysabel will add twenty stamps to_the twenty it now runs, The receni heavy storms started hun- dreds In thé mountain counties to hunt- ing along hillsides and water courses for nuggets and pieces of rich quartz *‘float” brought to view from amid gravel de- posits. One Nevada City boy found a specimen worth $170 the other day and ;r:élarly valuable finds are frequently e. At the Ploneer quartz mine near Towle, Placer Count{. there were 925 tons of o],-é crushed durl ngu February. The gross earnings were 500 and the net earnings gge dd 1t P! an o ttle judgment rendere ;‘galnut it by a Justice of the Il;iace o‘; evada County. A miner named Mc- Knight was told he could go to work, but he was not put to labor right away. He sued to be paid for the time he spent walting and secured $§72. - The directors of the Pioneer Mining Company, operating in Placer County, will probably increase the capital stock from 100,000 to 150,000 shares to provide wgrklngmcap{ml.h By ccording to the Redding Free Press a rich strike in the Mammoth mine near Kennett is reported. The strike was maae in the lowest tunnel. The tunnel was driven 900 feet before the ledge was final- l¥: cut and as far as they have gone through it is richer and larger than any- thing that has yet been found in that ais- trict. Twenty-five men are at work and the ore will be shipped to Keswick. There are 250 feet of backs. Some Eastern capitalists who hold a bond on the Bay Horse mine in San Diego County are considering the enterprise of ping water eighteen miles from the ‘olorado River. ‘The Wilby mine in the Randsburg dis- trict is furnishing 130 tons of ore a day to amending The | picperty will be worked on | irge scale indicated. A new tunnel | About | the new mill will have some | Last year's drought | demonstrated the energy and the increase | increase in producing | and ditches throughout the summer and | Pine Hill Mining Company has just | wick, where several hundred tons of ore are handled dally, and the scale of its op- erations is to be increased. Otherwise the only increase in the output is coming from a number of small mines. About ten | | such mines are now shipping to Selby’s an | aggregate of about tons per month. | ey are mines in the Spenceville copper c Placer counties and region in Nevada and ad in the neighborhood of Camp Seco Northern Calaveras County. Fresno County is shipping ore also. In these and other copper districts a snod deal of pros- | pecting is going on, and these small op- erations are causing development of prop- | erties that may assume much larger fu- | ture importance. | "The chief activity, however, is in the | great copper belt of Shasta County, in | Which the Iron Mountain mines are lo- | cated. Extensive undeveloped copper de- | posits in the nelghborhood of Copper City | and elsewhere along the belt are receiving | | the attention of copper-hungry capital, | | for which they have so long waited, and | | there is a prospect that extensive smelt- | | ing plants and mining operations will cre- | ate another Butte City there. Some New | York people have bonded the Herrin group of seven copper claims and cuts and tunnels are being run. Development work is being pushed by another Eastern | company, which recently bonded a group | of claims from Smithson & Graves. Per- | haps the most important operations are those being pushed by Lewishon Bros. and other Eastern capitalists, who a fe | weeks ago bonded for a year the Go- linsky group of claims and the Ferguson and Goss properties, about four miles | from Kennett. The -roperties are being | | explored by shafts and tunnels, and the | apparent extent and richness of the de- posits and the prospect of extensive smelters being put in have given Kennett a town boom. Another New York com- pany is similarly developing the Mam- | moth mine and ™ a group of adjacent | claims near Kennett, bonded from Salitzer | & Co. The Balakalela and Windy Camp graups of copper claims are being devels oped by San Francisco and New York capitalists. Other extensive properties in | that same mineral belt are the subjects | of negotiation or of active development work, and there is every prospect of in- vestments aggregating millions in that re- gion and the development of a rich and famous camp. Every smelter erected in | that region will serve the additional ben- | efit of creating a demand for siliceous ores | for flux and the consequent working of | many quartz claims which it is useless | to develop now. And over in Lassen and | Plumas counties there are untouched and unexplored copper deposits which are now :nwrag;lln‘fi.:nenmgr lCOl')Dlef will from oW Ssume a L3 ace in th | Industry of the Stats. " o TnEE |AROUND THE } CORRIDORS | Howard Stillman of Sacramento is a the Grand. { L. C. Waite of Riverside is a guest at the Palace. Attorney L. W. Fulkerth of Modesto is | | at the Lick. | E. McMichael, a merchant of Portland, | Or., is a guest at thc Lick. | John W. Donnellson of Salt Lake City | is staying at the Occidental. W. A. Kelly, a mining man of Reno, Nev,, is located at the Russ. G. R. Stewart, a large cattle dealer from Crows Landing, is at the Grand. W. R. Beall from Edinburgh, Scotland, | arrived at the Palace last night. E. B. Dana, a jeweler of Maiden Lane, New York, is registered at the Lick. Misses Mabel and Florence Lane of Brookline, Mass., are guests at the Oc- cldental. L. McDonald, a mine owner of French Gulch, and A. H. Felix, a New York jew- eler, are at the Lick. Mark R. Plaisted, editor of the River- side Enterprise and the Fresno Demo- crat, is staying at the California. Henry W. Harvey, a manufacturing jeweler of Providence, R. I, is here on a pleasure trip and has apartments at the Occidental. Edwin Hawley, assistant general traffic | manager of the Southern Pacific, with headquarters in New York, is at the Pal- ace. He is here on a pleasure trip. T PR A S AT T CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. | NEW YORK, March 26.—J. Flanagan of San Francisco is at the Cadillac. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. A torpedo crulser was launched at Fu- chau on January 29 last. The vessel was designed by Mr. Doyere, the director of the dockyard, and is 260 feet long, 27 feet beam and 11 feet draught and displaces 87 tons. The horsepower is to be 7000, calculated to glve a speed of 23 knots. Two torpedo-boat destroyers have been ordered for the British navy from Par- son, the builder of the Turbinia, at New- castle-on-Tyne. The contract speed has not been made public, but it is understood that they are to beat the two boats re- cently built by Schichau for the Chinese navy, which made a speed of 35 knots, The French naval estimates for the coming fiscal year amount to $60,413,200. In order to economize as much as pos- sible it is proposed to sell a number of vessels which have become obsolete and are only a source of great annual expense to maintain in some sort of efficiency. The new naval policy is also said to pro- | vide for a larger tonnage of cruisers and \:mlpe:s proportional tonnage of armored The longest continued naval engagement mentioned in history is related to have taken place in 1334 in the Mediterranean. Four Catalonian cogs, carrying 1980 fight- | Ing men, besides the seamen and also women and horses, safled with a cargo of cloths and other goods on board from Cadiz for Sardinia. When near their des- tination they were overhauled and at- tacked by ten Genoese gallies and cap- tured after a battle of ten days. The his- torian does not state the casualties among the crew, women and horses, but the combatants must at least have been very tired after a ten days' fight. The British Admiralty advertises for engine-rcom artificers, fitters, engine smiths and coppersmiths, age limit 21 to 28, and pay $9 62 to $13 12 per week. In- ducements are held out in prospective ad- vancement to warrant rank, good life pensions and other advantages. The pres- heaven become heir to the Grand Dukedom of Finland we herewith wish to further sanction and approve the religion, laws, rights and privi- leges of each rank within said qm‘nd Dukedom in particular and all its in- habitants in common, high as low, as hitherto enjoyed by them, promising to maintain the same unchanged in their full strength. NIKOLAIL The above is to show that’the Firinish people have some right to protest against the Russianization of their country, which, together with the pro- posed increased time of service in the army (which service is compulsory), from three to five years, would most certainly tend to depopulate the coun- try, as all the male population would rather emigrate than waste five years of the best part of their lives io.serve the Czar. AX. NEWMAN. Following is the article referred to by Mr. Newman: DESTRUCTION OF FINLAND. Finland has been robbed of her consti- tution. The Czar of all Russias, who but recently thrilled the world with his, mes- fage of peace, has shocked it with his decree GP death to Finnish liberty. Ad- dresses of thanks in many tongues were pouring in upon the autocrat and great throngs were about to gather round his throne to pay him homage. Then came the ukase about Finland and a great hush fell upon the multitude of admirers. Their hopes for a new era were rudely shattered at the sight of Finland shackled and weeping in despair at the foot of their brazen idol of peace. The brave people of “the land” of a thousand lakes” deserved a better fate. Few nations are more interesting, none have made nobler sacrifices for their lib- erty. Romance and heroism illumine every page of Finnish history; and no country was ever better loved by its chil- dren that Finland, poor in tréasure but rich in romantic traditions, in natural beauty and song. In some branches of literature Finland stands unexcelled. Her remarkable na- tional epic, the Kalevala, is regarded as one of the greatest literary treasures-of the world; and in no country have the sacred sentiments of patriotism found a higher or purer expression. Johan' Lud- vig Runeberg Is the greatest poet of patriotism_the world has produced. "His patriotic hymn to the fatherland, the most touching of all national songs, will live forever in every Finnsh heart; his pictures of *“‘a people who fought amid hunger and cold” will never be blotted out; his “Tales of Ensign Staal’” will live s an indestructible monument to the he- olsm of the Finnish people in 1809, The brutal destruction of Finland's con- stitution is a crime against liberty, as the denationalization of her people will be a loss to humanity. Finland has the sym- pathy of every free and liberty-loving people; but it will avail nothing; her fate is sealed. She must follow the path of Polan As Russia's destruction of Po- land s the great crime of the last cen- tur;t o the rape of Finland by the ogre of Russian despotism is the crying out- rage of the present. Autocrats ruled Europe a hundred years ago, when the spoliation of Poland was perpetrated. Now the people rule in Western Europe and America. The Polish people invited national destruction by their dissensions; the Finnish people have defended their rights and liberties not only with eourage, but also. with rare wisdom, unanimity, firmne: and_skill. The autocrats acquiesced insilu ia's ab- sorption of Poland from fear; the great powers of to-day could easily compel Rus- sia to restore the liberties of Finland, but they will not even whisper a timid pro- test. The present century will close. as did the last—with the hideous altar of Muscovite despotism reeking with the life blgfl%utha tx‘_re(- people, nd the free nations of to-day witnes: the abominable spectacle and then g; about their business, as did the tyrants a hundred years ago.—Skandinaven. ———— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.* ——— Special information supplied dail business houses. and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s),510 Mont- gomery street. 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