The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 16, 1899, Page 23

1899, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, S DAY, APRIL 16 g I P trying to organize another attempt te work the beach. It is likely that only & great plant capable of working 500 or 100w * cubic yards a day will ever make the ope- ration profitabl Eory The working of gold mines In the sand hills is not a new thing. Mines were op- erated out there from thirty to forty-five ye ago. In those days a mi $50 to $100 a ton in or vestm One man ¥ make a living with best yielding of said to be $20, the Directly on the cou ion mine, after the where it was an old Indian b in digging were mate at all to the lik- ing of the labore It proved to be not worth while in those days, but the own- ers kept at it, until the output milled $20. It was then dfscarded as usele H. N. Tilden, the comm tells he now own between Sut: Seventeenth Colleges is part of a tilited sedimentary stratum amounts, but none that ever amounted to quests for the burled treasures left by old now and never w: na according to the land. According to hi 51d Lcharts, Jetc. Arst rock which w 3 * shaft was washed in pans that had pre- ne must yield from fer to be a good in- known to just eld of $30. The peninsuia was line was Visti- y of the same iied. The site : ground, and grewsome 1 it merchant, lint tract which ted half way iberty on the the Affiliated there is not found on the pleturesque and full of contrasts out that p way. They were just getting their tent harder than the strata on elther side, anything. At one time'a gold mill was sca i n into shape. The dynamite packages were Which have thus worn away, leaving a lit- put at one discovery in the Santa Cruz advice of k!nn(\xvl. st ) arranged for pillows on the ground at the tle of the stratum of schist protruding. mountains, but was abandoned but they have nothing to do with mining. %5 haq gold in them from a Mexlean head of the red blankets at either side, HOW far bedrock on either side lles below Almarin B. Paul, one of the oldest min- Cinnabar or the ore of quicksilver has at mije. The result was b ul e atne the candle on a stick was ready for even. the sand has not been found. ing englneers of California, is another various times opened wWide the eves of second test not a trace of g ing and the shotgun was at rost. Tt was Some small samples of the rock were as- mineralogical expert who has given some 0TS fM lot owners who did not found. o6 about for ona or two Saved at the laboratory of Abbott A. attention to this field in the past L there 18 any amount of cinna- jackrabbits for breakfast. They have Hanks on Montgomery street, for The ‘“Twenty-five years ago I went o ushjthesCons: ange, hutiasldom nt story. They say ¢ of the vellow metal Tilden has hls rea- Ay T Dy Lo Call. Pleces containing quartz showed no near where Baden 15 now to s 1;.“-;.«‘ vn-;n;.:)h w0 wrv;k. i sons_for g too much of it at . X zold at all. A pie schist ftself mine,” he said, “‘an have be 3ut the story of the beach sands is a present. B That's the mine down there s foy yurds, ¥014 82 all. 4 plece of he schiat iteclf There has heen a slightly different one. The beach sands _At least the late Adolph Sutro, who had showed “a trace of gold,” Mr. Hanks there in later time: ) found—possibly at the rate of 50 cents a good deal of talk about gold discoveries from Alaska to Patagonia show gemerally ton. The new gold mine thus seems at a at various times. I made an assay for tr: of gold, but only here and there cursory view to be in a sedimentary strat- One man many years ago, but don't re- are they concentrated so that they can um Into which a little gold has been de- member the result. That rock was from be worked profitably. Below the Cliff A posited in solution as it s deposited here Sutro's land. W. T. Coleman once House is such a place. The gold s asso- IS now an open shaft on \XI“ _vmded_nhllg and there in granite, ‘sandstone and the thought he had struck gold on his place. clated with black sand. or magnetic fron. Which he l':;:j“‘“ ot country rock of gold-bearing velns gen- I found he had a quartz vein, but there The gold has been washed down to the 5o J0W7 Into (he Shaft Dy means of fads erally. was only a trace of gold in it. Il‘rm;_vs n; ; A by []m- s ;.ry "rgsh’md of the very jeather bags on their M thing enry G. vi . gold in very low grade rock may be found low grade veins inland and beaten out {s hard labor and they make a comfort- ky:"-“:'nm:;]«r?lfig(t' ;hr:o ‘:lg«a:&t:!\dx&‘. in many places, but as to profits I of the bluffs by the eternal hydraulic ope- able living by this mes £ X ist, s S b 2 e o all of it. If ratidns of the waves. In the year sdward Ewald, an old- eralogist for six years, on seeing the rock Wouldn't pay car fare for a Mr. Zammitt cheerfully sits on his store cinnabar were found there might be soms One skillful with a pan can find “colors” Limc Politiclan, got a few men ftogether of gold and tells, He has prospected up “ao p: d “colors” and organized ‘a com As he A mass of rock ten feet th! reach its top just to rounding ground. They have been dig- ging beside it, and an excavation is ten feet deep with a foot of water in it. The irregular mass shows no vein formation, but the miners say it is a quartz veln sticking up at bedrock. No free gold shows in the rock. but Mr. Zammitt that one assay shows $6 50 and another $11 50 per ton. X happens to he level of the sur- a national reputation as a mining expert, vinced of the presence of gold in his wooded hill to the constantly digging shafts ling into the mountain. There her gold mine in San gold must become an explorer and learn sowners are work- a good deal of local geography. You get h faith and d off at silent Little Lake station, half way n the south side of the park, and wonder where to go. Up the track a little way you find a place to climb to the top the big sand bluff an meth: ige y = \s Sense in it, for the formatian is favorable in nearly every pan washed along that they thought it the biggest thing north and arcund in past vears, and In , \THCT® & “;“-‘:"i’;‘mé"‘m;‘;:";’v:"fi]d“m':lf"‘ to that. The only possibility of making beach, but it Is only strata of concen- on earth™ They d Shatt ninety-five the great days of old Mooneyville by the ,nc yninoriance to at all, though there ANy money out of gold mining In San trated black sand and gold buried a few feet deep on some land of Mr. Ewald's Sea he worked t sand there. He be- poy B0 00 1 such rock. Nothing hag Francisco is in theibeach sands.” fect deep whish ever pays to work . SUO D8Ce & men named figgis fhe s lieved, as did others, that the gold came o v peen discovered on the peninsula to The memory and the voluminous records sluic For more than a generation Hmistically inclinéd tht they called the from back there some place, and for fif- orant any great expectations. There ©of Henry G. Hanks provide recollections these sands have been worked at times. tuins Hiisgins Hope.' put Hape produced teen years he has taker mun 2nd are many small quartz velns which show Of & number of past.gold “excitements” in The great day of the beach was in the no more than $S of $9 to the ton. Mr. spade at tim wandered the penin- races of gold and such discoveries have San Francisco. winter of 1883-84, when Mooneyville was Ewald was seen a few days ago coming sula over, § m other hopeful been made at three or four places between A Eencration ago some yellow metal was booming. A craze set in and over 200 men U0WN the hill from the old spot with two people have ¢ the park and Baden, but none have been found near the Presidio and there was took possession of ground, camped thers Ml sacks fllled with rock—presumably A few weeks ago a scared jackrabblt of value. Near the Baden packing house quite a fuss about it, but it turned out to in picturesque array and made a redhot ° §til] farther on theré were two shafts led him to some loose rocks in the bushes, there are good copper indications and a be brass filings on the site of an old ma- mining camp. ‘“‘Con” Mooney ran a little sunk by a Mr. Burns and a Mr. Robinson assays of which showed gold, and then he shaft seventy-five feet deep was sunk chine shop. Several times red jasper has Tesort near there and gave the camp its Tespectively. Then comes the mine found where the rock came from. John there once. Copper has also been found been found in the hills showing minute name. Crowds went there daily, fakers OF e e witacd the commission merchant. ahout South San Francisco. About Twin Vellow specks, and as many times it Swarmed, the police were busy and all Siy Lo ol B e ootk e af v well, happened out that Ppeaks there are a dozen prospect holes, turned out to be brass scraped off softer Sorts of “processes” for saving the gold cjose, This mine is situated on the edge an g hot*was that Mr. En- where people have found mineral indica. brass nails in shoes. A good many years came to the front. A few made money of what old-timers will remember as 1 quietly slipped around and bo tlons, and about the Corbett road near In- ag0 two men thought they had found a and many did not. The gold was fine.and Strawberry Island. At the present sea- lots to the extent of 240 by 500 feet. Mr. gleside. Where the boulevard turns west bonanza at Maln and Market streets, hard to save. The winds would fill upan 0D In the midst of the wastes of sand, t ammitt has a Palf interest in the mine from the Almshouse through the gap con- Where colors of gold were found in the excavation over night and so would the LIS SPotis carpeted with toe white blos- Dluff and then you See snd Ostwald, who has prospected, too, siderable prospecting has been done. Cop. dirt. Then some ploneer came along and breakers sometimes. When the richest Sorbaloiay vine Mo @ Zammics recently 5. Away over by the top of & was hired to help begin operations. A per, chromic iron, cinnabar, oxide of man. remembered a quartz mill that was there Strata of black sand seemed worked out discovered on his ground quartz in which u see quite an area of green, gma) hand bilge pump is being rigged up ganese and a little gold have been found in the fifties and shoveled out its tailings. Operations ceased, but at times men have particles of gold were easily seen. It is where springs have made vegetation take znq the rock is to be explored in depth within the city limits, but no de In 189 by 3 165 2 returned and perhaps e further down in the same ledge that n s to be expl s, leposits of In 1896 the laborers employed by soms and perhaps made wages. irthy I - root and create a firm oasts. If you kKnow ynti s ¢ : - . Sorractors ; X lish are now at work. : X el e S W until gold or faith gives out. economic value. A valuable deposit of street contractors uncovered a ledge of So fine !s this gold that Henry G. Hanks he.\(r?d says it means millions, erts that he has another sur- nd, the nature of which he : you will see & There Is some gold In that rock, but it quicksilver would be more likely found ®old at Geary street and Central avenue. has > white tent over there. That's by the s not a defined quartz vein. The body of than one of gold. The formations are not The contractors ha mine that big “quartz vein” Is schist, a sedl- favor stimated that it takes stily boarded up the particles to m ble to gold, and nowhere in the place and spent a weeck getting ready for and al ke an ounce worth $18. Pprise on 1 gold is always In thin scales about Will not divulge. 1t was here that P. F. Zammitt and mentary nd some nodules and Ran ity C ¢ ha i k was fairly y 3 t a £ gold un- N 3 1odules and ange south of Trinity County has operations, for the rock was fairly yellow. 95 by ,00384 of an i size. Right here is the last trace of gold un 1in th Harry Ostwald were found the other day. streaks of quartz show through some of anvthing been found worthy of the name Then an assayer told them they had sul- pany of miners q?:,?tln iviz.“:11‘ e comy Ul the ocean beach is réached, N , ¢ p A plcturesque little bit of a mining {t, probably Intruded by percolation and of a gold mine. There haye been little phurets of fron. dillarafan Securedte o e anla i [ncxedlmian Immepde cenoRit AnEthe hiad nt visitin place of camp their place is, and everything is crystallized. Tt would seem likely that it ) h §ou alto- sann 11 s Iyins ddle, feiting for maG overles here and there rich in small = Of course there have been all sorts of gether. W. B. Farwell of Alameda Is now oo onachioery 1o separate it. MR GRS e e B e el e e o o o S SR SR SR SR SR S SR SICRY SRCEY SRORY SRCRR SROSS S N U DA SN DG W NS SO SO S NP -0 0006-0_4 5 40000004 006040+060460000066000606000 RERE'S THE “WAY FOR YOU TO MAKE LIFE MASKS OF YOUR FRIENDS taking of masks from the dead know how this is carried out. | quill is now inserted In elther nostril to | before mentioned threads are pulled up | and 1t naturally alarms the operator, who | Care must be used to get 1 skilied oper have some idea that plaster | allow the subject presently to breathe | through the mold, so as to cut the plaster, | mmediately shouts as loudly as he can to | without breaking. either ihe surii (ot | 108, s many unpleasant f not serious » work 1 1t over the dead man's face, ough, and cotton wool lightly pressed | otherwise it would be impossible to re- | know it anything s tho matter. The| the mold. The ears are only oney o |[esults may occur through any laxity or J jeult, a but there the idea ends, around the base to keep the liquid plaster | move it from the face. ‘ Biaiaahan sonyicarelesnens an Hiainart subject is just able to hear his voice, and | the fr ct whose mask is being taken S0 Taises his hand, a prearranged signal at the 1 s, co v i e wool being p A mask from life lg ack to prevent the pls aken almost pre- | from intruding. A 1| The finished mask shows the face in ir of scissors 1S al- | The sub ns in the same way as after death, ways kept handy, o as to be able to cut | s now having % pos G oS el k Ster going | repose, with the eves closed, but any ) E aving a lively time. The plaster | that “all's well. around. When removed the - b the ne ps of our mo ave at m h gre: e 3 as ta o p YS o € v v f sl thr ar V! sk uld have r rves of m } hat much gr .”‘nrh(f“”} has to b n]n’ the nlx nlr tl!\ un‘ms} should dhs ANy | presses and burns his cheeks. He thinks | The plaster, through being mixed with | are put together and plaster placed on ;;,Z,;’fi,,;‘“’.‘,,”\',‘l;',‘; ",';1’”““”",! o ,?" usec he subject's life hangs on a | chance the plaster splash up and cover | of all the horrible things tha t | warm water, quickly ha s i he exte 0 hold SR ol L R RODRILS Fup e il et Lo iodhanes on s K ohane gs that migh ater, quickly hardens, and {n the | the exterfor to hold and strengthen them. | eves 5o as to make them apmear as I happen should those two little qulills get | course of about five minutes the mold is| The mola | choked. Not a sound of the outer world | strong enough to be taken off. It has Y victim and the | can he hear save some indistinct rumbling | to be carefuly done, as the subject fs plaste arefully poured | ard the thud, thud of his beating heart | generally so very eager to get a mouth- | and & life is about to be | or sprinkled over the features. | almost deafens him. Hours seem to pass | ful of fresh air once again. A slight tap | {] nes on 1 The foliowing operations have then to | and he Is powerless to know what is going | with the uand is given to e ced around his | be performed with skill and celerity: |on. He lies helplessly there, and, perhaps, | piec now wei v soaped and tien fill e the pro- tWo sm face dv ok ks are ust of securing an ex- the fea quills. Tt requires a great deal| All being ready, a few cheering words of nerve and patience to undergo, the |are spoken to the unhappy sensation being most disagrecable, plaster is mixed. This fs When a ma cured the s table, and hed and | opened. When the subject has a beard ed with freshly mixed | or heavy mustache it has to be made into It is best to take it in the hands | a solid mass by the a of vaseline or slow rotary motion so that | soft soap. An easier way In the case of may lie evenly on every side. beard is to cover it with tissue paper. quite set the mold Is| This prevents the plaster from going into the p two side When which relieves the joints made by L Leios e : 2 ed P is SAsE A R Rt r who in nec and for nt the Directly the plaster lightly covers the | out of curiosity, tries to raise an eyelld. | the thread. The top or central piece is| Thraugh being & 00 chel, s e S nd e ometaway casiln with e g or stati golng where he face is | face a small but strong thread is laid | That settles 2 ¢ thi o n ed sligh S Pt = R o o e na e a is | face a sn g e laid | That settles him, as by this time the |then lifted up and pulled slightly down- away with the mask and leaves an exact| The whole process is most i enough to eresting, and the amateur, although hardly able to mold is taken from the | take a mask of the human face, may head to the neck and | most certainly cast a hand or foot or reaches outwardly ‘to. the ears. When |the head of a dog or any other ar rtion | taken from life a great deal depends on | after death and get some very curibus s00n be removed. | the quickness and' dexterity of the opera- | and practical results # ez on ecither cheek, running from the top of | plaster has hardened and holds the 11 in | ward, so as to withdraw the quills from the pores of the s Care has to be es- | the head down to the neck, and Is pressed an immovable grip. the nose as they come out With the mold. | ' As & rule’ ti obscrves when reading of the | peclally taken with the eyelash into the plaster until it almost touches | A sickly sensation comes over him—he | The sides are then taken off. Probably | top of ‘the for elebrity that a mask was otherw in the subscquent o the skin. Additional plaster is now placed | feels paralyzed and unconsclously gives some of the hafr may hold the mold, but : nd-so, the celebrated | these likely to be pulled off. which | on, until the whole is about an inch In |a long groan. This, by the way, can only | with a little coaxing or by the inser very | would not be exactly pleasant. A small | thickness. Ere this has quite sct the |come through the quills In his nostrils, | of the scissors it can soo: B e — replica of t e Inserting the Quilis, ¢ : Signal,, “All's Well" How the Mold Is Cut The Completed Mask, Front View- and Profile.