The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 24, 1899, Page 7

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BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untii 930 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until K. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 c'ciock Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock, 194! Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Marke¥ street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 25! Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1506 Polk street, open until Kentu 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and <y streets. open until 9 o'clock, AMUSEMENTS. ma Co., Market street, near Eighth—Bat- Rosenthal, Tuesday afternoon, "April 25. ball | Pictures. ursday Evening, April 2T. te Concert, Saturday Night, Amusements every So = Iridge & C %, at Real Estate, at 638 Mark THE @NTI-CARTOON LAW. £ o O-DAY the anti-cartoon law, whirled off from r } st session of the Legislature, Nit. d the effect is: California news- to-morrow and be none—Nit. no longer present ustrations of the fools of the ty—Nit. bhic pencil of the artist strip 1l appearance from the faces upon their features the i cartoons d to-d f the State will sheepishly w goes into but the press goes on its is not: Nit. d the way of the pre: MONEY AND MERCHANDISE. esented few features of especial im-.| last week. Industrial and mercantile 1, as shown by the in- | 1gs over the continued unabat per cent in the bank clea The incr w York was on 44 per cent, Chicago 25 at Baltimore 74 adelphia 51 per cent a > 38 per cent, and so on. s and Omaha were the onl oughc the f res were 187, against 224 for the cor- ¢ week in 1898. As far as these statistics ion in trade exhibits no diminution. on, however, seems at the moment to 1er than foreign. Our exports March fell off 7 per cent below month last year. The falling off in provisions, mineral oils and live- o $18,000,000, but this was offset by $10,000,000 in other products. The arch were $104,463,000, against rch, 1808, while the imports were t $61,507,000. This decrease of and increase of $11,286,000 in | | | y cities of im- | country to show a la nounted t bort pe firms the statements previously made that our imports are steadily crawling up on our ex- ports. W ing more domestic business than ver, t considerably more goods abroad. vith the above showing it is inter- 1t the money circulation is falling ents of our immensely Clews, the New York here has been an increase y in actual circulation, the amount hav- from $1,756,000,000 on April 1, 1808, to 1st of this month—a gain of is increase $112,700,000 has con- old, w irely unavailable for ade; so that we may say the increase in the forms of money available for retail transactions is only about £60,000,000 within the last twelve months. Tk icrease in the active circulation, out- side of gold, is at the rate of 3.4 per cent, while the increase in the transactions of the clearing-houses of the co 468 per cent within the same period; which shows an amazing dispartiy between the ex pansion of the active circulation and that of the gen- cral trade of the c This does not mean that there is a lac but only that convenient forms of it for conducting retail trade are wanting. As long as we have an actual increase in gold it will be easy to supply its equivalent in lighter forms. The great staples stand about the same as on the preceding week. Damage to the w! Western States has not improved prices much, as the weather is now favorable to the development of spring wheat. Wool is hardly as active, but the market re- mains steady with a fair movement. The iron mills are working up to their full capacity, but chiefly on old orders. Cotton rules firm, but the current de- mand is light. The situation in California is one of great promise. With several exceptions, the crops are looking excep- | tionally well, and higher prices for the exceptions noted will offset the decrease in the yield. Everybody expects a fine year for the farmer and merchant, and if present indications are fulfilled we will break more than one record in 1899. growing require d H er, points out that business. iy 1,800,000; but of tk sisted of § h is almost er active use in t k of Mose Gunst “has went” again. The overland which | the whole it has to| THE: SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1899 AN EXPANSIVE SUMMERSAULT. HE moral burden of the expansionists, if they Tpossess ordinary sensibility, must be almost be- yond endurance. = To subsidize intelligence in order to make the worse appear the better reason |is bad enough, but deliberately to pervert the senti- ‘mcn(s and even the expressions of great statesmen | and go represent them as holding opinions they uni- | formly repudiated will not admit even of palliation. A cogent example of this method of libeling the dead and the great of our country is an article in a re- cent issue of the Chronicle, directly inconsistent with its former utterances on the same topic, in which the false identification of Thomas Jefferson with the pres- ent doctrine of expansion is repeated, and he is also falsely commended for having written sentences in re- spect to Louisiana in which, simply because he did rot mention and was not called upon to refer to them, he is treated as having ignored and practically over- ridden the constitution and the Declaration of Inde- pendence. In the implications of this article, as any instructed citizen well knows, there is not a single word of truth. Thomas Jefferson was the chief author of the Declara- tion of Independence. To'the moment of his death, in all his published writings, private or official, there was not one line in which he suggested in any form the government of men without their consent. He was so close a constructionist of the constitution, so deeply convinced that it was, as Mr. Webster after- ward said, “the palladium of our liberties,” that even as to the contiguous, necessary and almost uninhab- ited territory of Louisiana, in the very first of the quotations published in the Chronicle, he states that “an amendment to the constitution seems necessary for this purchase.” To attempt to play upon the imaginary ignorance of the people by placing Jefferson in the attitude of sanctioning the acquisition by force of arms of densely populated Asiatic territory, not on this conti- nent nor in a condition to be converted into States, is a post-mortem insult to the memory of one of the greatest patriots and statesmen immortalized in our national history by the common acquiescence of man- kind upon concocted and spurious versions of his language and of his acts. The disparagement of Jefferson is akin to the libel upon William H. Seward, in the article to which we have alluded. -In speaking of the protection ex- tended to African slavery by the constitution, as it existed before the Civil War, Mr. Seward asserted the existence of a higher law—meaning simply that slavery and freedom were so hostile to each other that they could not permanently coex Mr. Lincoln on the same point quoted the text that “a house divided against itself will not stand,” and declared that either freedom or slavery must prevail. Horace Greeley once indignantly protested against the constitutional foundation of the “fugitive slave law” and pronounced ii “a covenant with hell.” But he never denied that there was a covenant nor proposed to break it by force or otherwise than through the pressure of pub- lic opinion, expresséd in an amendment. ' None of these men, none of the founders of the Republican party, none even of the great men of the present gen- eration, have ever pretended that the constitution did not bind every citizen nor that it did not extend-over every foot of territory acquired by the Government. Until now even the Chronicle itself has opposed im- perial colonization and insisted that the Philippines were to be territorially organized and that their in- habitants were to become our Asiatic fellow citizens. Truth, reason, precedent, sound policy, every ele- ment of real and enduring prosperity, are assailed by the expansionists. But the people are not fools, and they can read between the lines. They full hend the existing and urgent necessity of maintaining their own institutions as they were originally framed and have been successfully applied. | THE FIGHTING IN THE PHILIPPINES XTRACTS taken from private letters written E by volunteers serving in the Philippines to friends at home and published in various ex- changes show that the war against the Filipinos is rapidly becoming one of the most savage in modern history. The course of the struggle has been marked again and again by deeds of purest heroism, but on afforded another illustration of Sherman’s grim saying, “War is hell.” Sergeant Major T. W. Lemon of the First Washington Infantry is quoted as having stated in a recent letter that every American who falls into the hands of the Tagals is first tortured with fiendish ingenuity, and, when past suffering, is hideously mutilated. Hospitals are favorite objects of native attack, and the Red Cross flag draws a vol- ley of bullets whenever in range oi the enemy. These things moved the sergeant to prophesy. “I venture the prediction,” he wrote under date of March 1, “that if we ever make an advance through the country that advance will go down in history as one of the most pitilessly cruel of modern times. Can you blame us if we should thus war on a people who come up to you with a white flag in one hand and a knife in the other, and where the men disguise them- selves as women in order the better to accomplish their design?” Guy Williams of the Iowa Regiment is quoted as having written in an account of the capture of a na- tive village by that command: “The soldiers made short work of the whole thing. They looted every house and found almost- everything from a pair of wooden shoes up to'a piano, and they carried every- thing off or destroyed it. Talk of the natives plunder- ing the towns; I don’t think they are in it with the Fiftieth Towa.” In a letter from Leonard F. Adams of the Wash- ington Regiment are’ the statements: “In the path of the Washington Regiment and Battery D of the Sixth Artillery there were 1008 dead niggers and a great many wounded. One company of the Tennes- see boys was sent into headquarters with thirty prisoners and got there with about a hundred chickens and no prisoners.” : Fred B. Hinchman, who is described as formerly a student of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute but now serving with the United States engineers, is re- ported to have written of the fight of February 22: “At the Puente Colgante (suspension bridge) I met one of our company, who told me that the Four- teenth and Washingtons were driving all before them and taking no prisoners. This is now our rule of procedure for cause.” These are dreary stories. It is pleasant to know there is a nobler side to the struggle, that abundant instances have occurred to prove the essential hu- manity and heroism of our boys at the front.” Never- theless, it is not strange to learn they are weary of such strife. Sergeant Elliott of Kansas, who has recentlyl returned homs, is reported to have said: “There’s no use trying to conceal the fact that many of the men over there now, especially the volunteers, are homesick and tired of fighting way off there with nothing in particular to gain. There is not one man in the whole army now in the Philippines who would | | leit here last night is speeding him to the East and Europe, where the newspapers will - have another chance to announce: “Mose Gunst has came.” not willingly give up his life necessary, but it isn’t pleasant to think about dying at the hands of a foe little better than a savage, and compre-{ for the flag if it was | _so far away from home. And the thought of its not ending for several years is not an especially pleasant one, either.” Sueh is the record made up by the soldiers at the front in their letters to friends at home. Is the white man bound by any duty to accept the burden of such a.war? Is there anything in imperialism which can repay him if he takes up that burden not as a duty, but in the hope of profit? BELMONTS AND ROOSEVELTS. RYAN has in New York City two notable op- B ponents—one is a Republican, Roosevelt, and the other a gold Democrat, Belmont. He has in the same city just acquired two notable sup- porters—one is a Metropolitan banquet Roosevelt and the otHer is a dollar dinner Belmont. So the Bel- monts and the Roosevelts have become political mixed pickles and the public will have to be careful to avoid confusion. | The Republican Roosevelt, the illustrious Teddy the Rough Rider, is not likely to be mistaken for Robert Roosevelt, who at the Metropolitan banquet declared himself willing to accept the Chicago plat- form and a Western leader for the purpose of mak- ing a strong fight against plutocracy. There is danger, however, that the Belmonts may be mixed— that Perry the gold Belmont may be mistaken for O. H. P. the silver Belmont, and the result upon the popular mind be disastrous. Perry Belmont, like all other gold Democrats, is virtually out of politics. He stands’ around, makes speeches, attends swell banquets and poses as a con- servative. He is out of touch with his party and was nearly lost to memory when it fell to his lot to send Bryan an invitation to the ten-dollar banquet and thus become engaged in a little correspondence with the man from Nebraska that brought him back to public attention. O. H. P. Belmont is a new comer in politics, but is one of the most distinguished society men in New York, Newport and London. He married the di- vorced wife of W. K. Vanderbilt and is therefore stepfather-in-law to the Duke of Marlborough and our own Mrs. Virginia Fair-Vanderbilt. He made gifts of gorgeous gold plate at the recent high wed- ding, and he has a stable at Newport that is a miracle. At the dollar dinner he made his first notable political speech. In the course of it he said: “We have reached a point when Democracy must rule or the heirs of this greatest republic that we know of must bow their necks to the most powerful plutocracy the world has ever known—mind you, not even a national plutocracy, but an international plu- tocracy, without faith or kin, which will drag us to the most abject slavery. To-day the people are waking up to the fact that the freedom of man is the question. The issue will be in 1900. Are we to be controlled by the cosmopolitan money power or are we to be free men of this great republic>? Nothing more, nothing less.” As the Belmonts made their money by acting as agents in New York for Rothschilds, their knowledge of international plutocracy must be considerable. It is interesting to find one of them who is opposed to the scheme by which the paternal fortune was ac- quired. The ten-dollar banquet Roosevelt, it may be noted, made a speech of about the same kind as the one-dollar Belmont, so it is evident that such little things as the price of a dinner do not affect the ideas or the oratory of thé new brand of Bryanism that has become a fad in the Four Hundred. All the same, the public shouldn’t get the dignitaries mixed up. fl was announced on Saturday last, had occupied no other official station than that of one of the Supreme Court: Commissioners, for forty-five years or more he had been professionally connected with much of the heaviest litigation in the State and had been a distinguished and respected citizen. He was a man of a high order of ability, finely educated, not merely as a lawyer but in ancient and modern lan- guages and in the best literature, and possessed of a perfectly untarnished character. As a member of the firm of Whitcomb, Pringle & Felton, and in other law firms with which he was connected, his practice brought him into contact with the bench, the bar and the business community to a degree that made his name familiar to the public. His reputation extended to the Supreme Court of the United States. His industry was indomitable, his courage superb and his modesty sensitive. Without melodramatic display he achieved many notable vic- tories in courts both of original and of appellate jurisdiction. He was an earnest Episcopalian and in this diocese will be greatly missed. He retained his faculties and his working powers to the end, and dur- ing his brief service as a Commissioner had displayed rare judicial qualifications. He died as he had lived, a Christian gentleman, and is worthily represented by bis surviving family. e e EDWARD J. PRINGLE. LTHOUGH Edward J. Pringle, whose death When the Lexow committee was investigating the administration of New York City some years ago the proceedings constituteq the sensation of the time, and little imitation Lexow investigations were started all over the Union. This year the Mazet investigation is doing the same kind of work in the same city and hardly gets a notice. It is evident the American people cannot be fooled twice in one generation by that sort of a show. s From the way the British and the Germans are gibing at one another over the Samoan question it ap- pears the American commissioner will be virtually a referee of the controversy, and if he doesn’t rule both the contending parties out on some kind of techni- cality and hold the stakes for future arbitration he is unworthy the title of diplomatist. The Supervisors will meet to-day to consider finally the resolution introduced by Supervisor Attridge to extend to competing lighting companies the same privileges now enjoyed by the monopoly in this city. The spirit of the resolution has been indorsed during the past week by more than a score of the improve- ment clubs of the city. In the absence of any definite information as to the cause of the indisposition of Vice-President Hobart the public will conclude that he is sick of his job. Very few incumbents of that officc have ever desired it a second time. ——— A Quaker, detected by his wife when kissing the servant girl, said, “Quit thy peeping or thee will make trouble in the family.” This is the answer of the contractors to the people in the embalmed beef investigation. It begins to look now as if Dewey day would be the biggest day of the year in all parts of the United States and such a May festival as America never saw before. Senator Penrose may be quite right in saying Quay will get a seat by the Governor’s appointment, but the prospects are jt will be a back seat. HOW McCLATCHY OBEYED THE LAW The following signed editorials ap- peared in the Sacramento Bee on the day the Southern Pacific's signature bill became law: Ah, there! Henry Theophilus Gage! CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY. Greetin, likewise to you, Hotspur Valiant Morehouse! CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY. To you, Grove Lachrymose Johnson, the Veepin' Villiam of the Valley, a royal salaam! A CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY. To you, General Julius Hannibal Dickinson, hero of the Fourth of July capture of the Sacramento depot, salud! CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY. Cajus Marius Simpson, valiant sam- ?ler from the Pasadena vineyards, salu- amus! CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY. Noble and thrice worthy Sigismund Meshillemoth Bettman, the Gods of Gall be ever with thee! CHARLES NNY McCLATCHY. Lucius Regulus Works, may heaven stlllvcontlnue to lie about thy spacious ars! CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY. Thou, Cassius Babylon Jilson, who wert seemingly condemned to have an itching palm like unto thy prototype of old, we who are about to sign our names salute you! CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY. And_ thou likewise, Heloreus Elephan- tine Wright, do we turn our eyes also unto you and give you the Morituri Salutamus act! v Rightly art thou named Heloreus, be- cause you played nell or some other game on your watch. And well art thou entitled Elephan- tine, for, sooth to say, none but one osseeslnF the face of an elephant would ave daily occupied your position in the forum in Sacramento when the health- giving air of San Quentin invited. CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY. And unto thee, Hyperholus Catiline Dib- ble, also do we give our greeting! There was a Brutus once that would have brook’d The eternal devil to keep his state in ome As easily as a king. But Brutus never knew Dibble, or he would not have been so hoastful—for Dib- ble can get away with anything, 3 CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY. To one and to all of the Morehouse League, may your shadows never grow less and your brains sometimes sprout! CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY. All the rascals rejoice at it. All the Legislators whose hands are unclean; all public servants who nave ventured on mid- | night fishing expeditions into the pockets | of the taxpayers; the tribe of swindlers | and scoundrels; the macqueraux and the wife beaters; those who do bloody deeds i the dark; the hypocrite and the sneak; the Michael Feeney and lago; all the rank and nasty vegetation of humanity— all these are temporarily overjoyed at the passage of a law which they think to be in their interest, and which needs Yonsiderable explanation before the ger eral public can be made to believe that it | was not so intended. CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY. Grove Lachrymose Johnson and Julius | Hannibal Dickinson were its ‘Demosthenes | and its Cicero—Dickinson and Johnsom— Johnson and Dickinson—two men of whom | Diogenes would not make a way station | if he were alive to-day and on his usual tramp with his lantern. CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY. g@o@o@o@o@o@-o@o@ 0®0®0®0P040 ®0P0POL0H0H0H 0P 0H0H0P0&0E A 600D WORD FOR THE GOVERNOR. other thing: will speak for itself.” want.” vote at school elections. Argus. 0®0P0P0P0 S0P 0 POLOPOPOP0OL0PO &0 ®O& @ 0506060¢000$0$090$0$0904040$0$060404080H0S0H0P0S0G0d! MINING BOOMS . NORTH AND EAST The northern mining region, comprising Shasta, Trinity and Siskiyou counties, is fairly booming from end to end. A very zenéral activity was not noticeable until last year, when prospectors and capital- ists brought this rich and promising min- eral region well to the front. ‘While there are a number of old and good mines in it, so extensive is it and so full of hidden mineral-bearing veins that it is practieally virgin ground. For many vears “mining” suggested rather the old history of its famous placers than a great field of present activity. The facts that most of its ores are base, that there had been many failures to work them in the past and that transportation facilities were meager helped retard the develop- ment of the mineral wealth. There must be many mining locations made and claims developed for every one that hap- pens to turn out a big mine, and then it | is not the few great mines but the many small but profitable ones that most stimu- late life and prosperity. Throughout last year there was a swarming of prospectors in every promis- ing part of this huge region. Hundreds of claims were located and on scores more or less development showed riches enough to warrant investments by capital. Money began to stream in by small or large amounts, and this spring there are prob- ably hundreds of new quartz claims in these three counties on which steady de- velopment is going on. One hears of com- paratively few. This year will surely see a great in- crease in the number of prospectors, in the number of claims on which shafts or tunnels will proceed and in the number of mines and prospects sold or bonded. The snow still lies on much of the ground which prospectors will seek in this area of thousands of square miles, but pros- pectors are abroad by thousands. A miner returning to Redding from Trinity Center | last week met on the way thirty-seven | prospecting outfits going in over that road to scatter over Northern Trinity. A correspondent of the Redding Free Pre; tes from Bragdon, on the Trin- ity “To see S0 many teams and pede: trians going north reminds us of the Cof- fee Creek boom of '97. Many of the hardy looking men who pass here are men that have locations in that neigh- borhood and are going up to develop them. Others are in search of undiscov- ered wealth, while a few are just going to the high mountains to look out for something. It seems a little early y but there are many going that wa: Correspondents of Northern California papers generally report a somewhat ac- tivity from Eastern Shasta and Siskiyou to Del Norte County, where much pros- pecting will also be done this year. Then news of sales-of mines, of strikes in mines under operation or development and new enterprises, new mills, etc., is abundant. From along the u‘)(per Trinity River lively reports are weekiy things. Two big dredger propositions have just come to the front. About (wentirsix bar and other placer claims reaching down the river from Braddons have been bonded for six months. The parties contemplate putting in a dredger and repeating the success of the big dredfmg enterprise at Poker Bar. Then a Trinity Center com- pany is figuring on puting a dredger to Wwork two miles from that.place. The Keswick Mountain Miner tells vaguely of a big scheme to buy the whole town of Shasta, the old county seat, clear the townsite and hydraulic it to bed- rock. This was a great camp and town in its day, as many graybeards will re- member. The gulches about were rich, and a promising quartz mining district adjoins' it now. The sleepy old place is in a mining region with a future. The unworked ground on which it stands might pay to work. Indeed, it prospects well, and there as elsewhere the people hunt the streets for nuggets after rains, but the old town is not very likely to be washed away very soon. H. C. Woodrow, a mining expert from 8t. Louis, has been experting various mines on Dog Creek, Shasta County, dur- ing the last two weeks. Among them are the * Bacchus, Trinity and the Butter mine. Mr. Woodrow shipped a car of ore from the Bacchus to the Keswick smelter. According t% London news the Moun- tain Copper Company, operating the eat Iron Mountain property and the eswick smelter, has set aside $375,000 to be expended in improvements and ex- tensions this year. The company pro- Poses to hustle all the copper possinle out of the ground while prices are high, and will greatly increase he scale of its op- erations on its rich property, that can- not be exhausted in many "years. The company now ships the matte from the smelters to its refinery in New Jersey. The success of this company is shown by the fact that its profits for 1855 were ,000. The stock selis abroad at $35 a share, which represents a valuation of » . ‘While Governor Gage was in Los Angeles there was any truth in the rumor that he the publication of a newspaper—referring to been made that he (Gage) and Dan Burns, others had formed a powerful combination to start a Republican morn- ing newspaper in San Francisco. to run out The Call and Chronicle— and he replied with an emphatic denial and added: “Do you think I would have signed those anti-cartoon and signature bills if I had any thoughts of descending to the newspaper level? My administration needs no organ to bolster it up. Sorry to hear that the newspaper project has fallen through. An or- gan of the prize fighters and gamblers would have “filled a long felt His administration may not need an organ to “bolster it up,” and yet we-have not seen a Republican organ capable of “‘descending to the newspaper level” of bolstering his action in signing a bill to legal- ize prize fighting, and at the same time vetoing a bill to enable women to Certainly this “speaks for itself.”—Petaluma recently he was asked if was about to enter upon the statement that had Major McLaughlin and $060604 06060506 ® 00 @ An- It o0®0 0404050 | | | ®o:0 000. The par value of the shares is $25. Over 1000 men are now employed. A large and promising copper property | on the Trinity. River, near Trinity Cen- | ter has been bought by Napa people from William Vollmers and others of Trinity Center. The mine is the Copper Queen, which shows a good ledge of cop- per ore standing out of the face of a wall 200 feet high. The ore is reputed rich. A d0-ton smelter is planned for | immediate erection. An adjoining gold | mine slightly developed has been bonded | by the same people for $10,000. Prospecting and developmewt work is | being pushed on a number of the groups | of copper claims in Shasta County bond- | ed to various Eastern people in the past | few months. | | The Uncle Sam gold mine of Shasta | County, near Kennett, which was bought and reopened some time ago, i to the front as quite a bonanz ore has been found, and the mill will be doubled in size, A valuable strike of cinnabar was made | the other day in the lower level of the | Altoona quicksilver mine, which is now | producing largely and shipping steadily. Many mining districts are already be- ing organized since the repeal of the State mining law, and several demands | for the return of district records have already been made by district recorders on County Recorders, who are waiting to | know the law. The first demand was | made some days ago by Waldo Eimore, | who has been recorder of the Fiat Creek, Shasta County mining district, for thirty 3 Recorder Lowden referred the | question to Judge Sweenecy, whose opin- | that such requests should be | made of Boards of Supervisors. Recorder | Dowling of Siskiyou County has request- 5-stamp | | s namea Kigyo, ast week, his is the mine the title to which is in litigation, and In:e all mines in that district is prov. ing rich with depth and development. One of the new and important enter- Diamond Springs, during the says the Mountain Democrat. rises of this region is that of the recent. !py incorporated EI Dorado Power Com- which- asks a county franchise in pany, e El Dorado County to string electric wires along the mineral belt of the county. Ths ower will be generated in the American I1‘2!\'er and will be supplied to mines and towns. Regarding the situation in Tuolumne (‘onngty, thogSnnnm Union-Democrat says: “Reports from all directions indicate that there is an activity in quartz mining never before exhibited, with indications that the tide of underground development is but in the primary stage: « Certain it is launching out into that companies are lai more extensive operations, while many owning magnificent reduction plants which a vear or two ago were considered more than adequate for any work they might- be called upon to do are now talk- ing of bigger hoists, mills, etc., while the addition of from one to four batteries of stamps is an everyday occurrence. The arrival of an assured supply of water has been the cause of opening many claims that had laid idle ten months out of every twelve for the past three years, and also brought in men with means a buy almost anything in the qua The famous Alaska mine, the southern part of Sierra County, 1s about to be reopened after having lain g P ber of yvears. idle for a number of vear: S 0. DENNY. NEWS OF JTOREIGN NAVIES. French gunners at the sea fortifications of France are admitted to be deficient by Mr. Lockroy, Minister of Marine, owing to the fact that the coast defenses are jointly under the control of the army and nav He recommends that the sea coast | forts be placed under naval supervision, as the present dual ¢ ~mand means ab- sence of responsibility. Loebjoernen and Havoernen, or Sea Bear and Sea Eagle, are the names of the first two torpedo-boats built at the dockyard at Copenhagen for the Danish nav They are of 143 tons displacemert, 146 feet 6 inches in length, and made | twenty-four knots on trial with 2317 horse- power. Smaller boats built by Thorney- croft in 1884 for the Danish nav cost $100,000 apiece, while the new boats, 50 per cent larger and on€¢ knot faster, cost only $77500 each. There are thirty-two cruisers of speeds from 22 to 25 knots belonging to the several naval- powers of the world, and of only two—the Powerful and Terri- are credited to the British navy. The ral navies are represented as follows: ance, 5; Japan, 4; Argentine, Chile, German; Brazil and United States, 3 each; China, Italy, Portugal and Great Britain, 2 each. This number embraces vessels exceeding 1000 tons displacement. A third torpedo-boat of the Boa and Cobra type has been completed at Yarrow for the Austrian navy. The latest boat and on March last averaged 24.3 knots during a three hours’ continuous trial, carrying a load of forty- four tons. These boats are receiving high praise from British and other naval offi- cers and are pronounced to be better than any of that size in the British navy. They are only 130-tons displacement and about 152 feet in length, but possess excellent seagoing quality and are capable of standing usage which would disable larger and swifter boa The Fleurus, a third-class cruiser, launched in 1..3, has only recently passed through a final successful trial. She was intended to make eighteen knots, but reached only about scventeen, owing to defective bollers, and a second set was put in. With these—Niclause—boilers 4000 horsepower was reached with a coal con- sumption of 1% pounds and a speed of eighteen knots wa attained. While this has been experimented with for the speed of cruisers of her length—which is nearly 230 feet—has reached considerably over twenty knots, and the F.eurus must be classed with the “back numbers” of other vessels bullt twenty years ago. An armored cruiser named Gromovoi is nearly ready for launching at the Baltic works on the Neva, near St. Petersburg. The vessel is 473 feet in length, 68 feet 6 inches beam and displaces 12,336 tons on a draft of 2% feet, and will have engines of 18,000 horsepower, calculated to give a sea speed of 20 knots. The armor belt is of 6- inch Harveyized steel extending for a length 300 feet, and all the gun protections | are of the same material and thickness. The battery is unusually heavy and ef- fective in its distribution, consisting of four $-inch quick-firers in casemates, two forward and two aft; sixteen 6-inch quick- firers located as follow Ten in broad- side on main deck, two aft in recessed ports, two in recessed ports under fore- le, one in the eyes of the bow and one ht aft in the stern. The minor guns are twenty 12-pounders and twenty-four smaller size down to machine guns, mak- Ing a total of 64 guns. The hull will be wood sheathed and coppered. Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® —_———— Special information supplied daily to : business houses and public men by the S anyopoion g"xf\-e",’f_ Attorney. General, | 28 S G ipping Bureau (Allen’s), 610 Mont. At the Mount Shasta mine twenty tons | gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. < of rich ore are being taken out daily. Twelve four-horse teams are hauling it to the Keswick smelters. | ———————— | A French authority on the venoms of | insects and reptiles has established the | fact that the poison of the hornet in suf- | ficient. quantity renders one safe from Charles H. Southern, the financial man- | ager of the company intending to open up | and mine Yreka Creek, from the Shasta | River nearly up to the Yreka Townsite | boundary, has been closing the bargains | in bonding all the land engaged by paying | the first instaliment of $1000 on each. | There are some nine or ten claims bonded, | and when the dredger is built and at work the company will pay out another large | amount, with the balance of the install- | ments in one, two and three years. The same company will also work Cottonwood Creek at Hornbrook and Henley in the same manner, with probabilities of carry- ing on simflar operations in other crecks and gulches where options at reasonable figures can be procured from land- owners.—Yreka Journal. A big lime quarry and forty acres of lime land near Lime Point, Shasta County, has been bonded by B. Golinsky and C. G. Ferguson. Says a correspondent of the Mining a Scientific Press: There are in %%ulnd a County sixty-eight idle mills, monumen to lack of knowledge of the ores in ’m‘t_g gone by. ~Now these base ores are being successfully treated and mining has taker a new impetus in these parts. - As yer i cyanide process is still in the experi- mental stage in this section. There is great actlvity in mining in this county. ndividuals and corporations are camped in various sections of the county, making locations and developing properties. C. V. Herman has discovered some very fine looking chrome in his land on Yreka | Flats, west of town, by digging down few feet from the surface, says the Yreka Journal. It is as heavy as lead, and makes a fine quality “of paint when ground and prepared by process of ma- chinery in New York. The cost of ship- ment renders it of no Vvalue at nt, but with a paint factory on this coast it might prove ¥mfltable, as there is a great abundance of this chfome around Yreka and at other points in the county. Chrome is found in the foothills in Sacramento Valley, hauled twenty-two miles to rail- road at Tehama, and thence shipped in ballast by vessels going to New York, its weight making it good for that purpose. An assay of this kind of chrome by a Government assayer in San Francisco a few years ago, found it contained $ in 8old and $12 in silver to the ton. The great mother lode region is likewise booming. A great amount of develolpment work is going on and strikes are of daily occurrence in this and that prospect and in this or that old mine in which depth is being pursued. 3 The biggest news of the week has been the sale of the Rawhide mine for $1,500,- 000, as renorted, by Captain Nevills and two partners, with whom he could not agree. These men bought the mine for a slml:“ price six years ago and became rich. ‘W. C, Ralston is rushing preparations for the great 120)-stamp mill and the ex- tensive tunnels and flumes which are to be pushed to completion at the Melones mine, in Calaveras County. A prelinminary survey for a railroad from Ione to Jackson, Amador County, is reported under way. It is reported that some very rich ore ‘was struck in the Ribbon Rock mine, near g E that of the viper. THE CAL1FORNIA LIMIVkD, Sante Fe Route. Three times a week; 3% days to Chicago, 4% days to New York. Handsomest train and most complete service. 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