The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 8, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1899. MONDAY MAY 8, JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ons to W, S. LEAKE, Manager. Address All Communi FUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1858. EDITORIAL ROOMS 2I7 to 221 Stevenson Streed fatn 1874, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. cents Including Pos: nday Uall). one _$6.00 v Call), 6 . 3.00 nday Call), 8 mo 150 ingle M Ghe One Year 1.50 LY, One Year ers are authorized to receive subscriptions. copies will be forwarded when requestsd. CAKLAND OFFICE.. .908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ..Weltington Hotel €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ... b ...Marquette Bnilding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, epen until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street. open until 9:30 o'ciock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock 41 Mission street, cpen untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Marked street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. £514 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. I505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ang Kentucky strects. epen untll 9 o'clock. Sample AMUSEMENTS. Amusements eve! to be overloaded with idle vestment his is shown by the e stock new copper under the faws of New Jerse is now as popular a State Dakota used to be for di- b ition 0 flooded ferings and Eurog 1e total cash gigantic sum of $412.000,000, were lately opened in 000,000, and the of tely reached 10,000,000 1o $400,000,000 was rejected for n ided to what the insiders nselves, would have made r $1.000,000,000. ‘ngland offered v and France $20,000.000 each and y came to the front with over $200,000,000. It will be remembered that a few years azo an offering of popular United States bonds was ved much the same proportion e world seems groaning with money. business ought to be s bank clearings last s of fund 1 exce The count is. a gain of 83.5 peér cent over the same 1808, and several cities exhibited a ph in nom- New York 12358 per cent, Pittsburg and Failures ran 184, both records being very v the month of April were the Meanwhile the money market in: per cent, and so on nst and there no disturbing signs i ples, as a rule, are in good shape. on and steel works are catching up with their hed, but in general rushed to fill their engagements. The es in foreign markets, where American 1petition is no longer felt, is a good sign for the Boots and shoes contir | have lately dimini 1 co! sture. ue in good demand and the factories are busy. Wool is still active, with free purchases on speculative account and for re- export. A new feature is the activity in building and real estate reported from a number of widely sepa- 1 Germain to this is the continued h in lumber, which shows an upward tendency. The distributive trade of the country at large is nor- and collections are reported fair to good almost everywhere. Wheat still unsettled, the feeling among operators being so bearish that persistent bull ws | le or no cffect on prices. On this coast there are few new conditions worthy i note, except perhaps the unfavorable news from ferent in Oregon and Washington, where continued co! her and frost have done consid- erable ¢ age to fruit and the growing g The G in crops are looking well, and if we are spared the possible visitation of north winds the yield ve. The fruit crops remain about 1n for 2 month past; the out- except peiaches will be more light, but high prices are practically assured, owing to the almost complete destruction of the East- February blizzard. Indec the market for our fru e sections. streng is cro; ifornia this year will be la @8 indicated in this colu put of t all kind or le alme ern fruit the 35 tern buyers are already i ct g the coming season than ever before. trade pre greater representation 11 tend to counteract any depreciation in prices tion of the different canneries, hence the fruit grower will be apt to regard the consolic the proposed combine with a complacent eye—for this season ai least. Combine or no combine, whoever buys California fruit this year will pay a fair price for it General merchandize is active in the local market. Prov are in dermand and tending upward, a fine sign: for it has been observed that a lively era in trade is generally preceded by a revival in provisions, and vice versa. Cattle, sheep and hogs are bringing profit- able quotations, the canned and dried fruit markets are well cleaned up and firm. wool is selling well, most cereals are quoted above the normal and there are no really stagnant markets in the whole list of commercial reports, with the possible exceptions of hay and beans. Never had the State a better outlook than to-day. The way American girls are getting to the top across the herring pond is gratifying. Lady Curzon of Kedleston, nee Leiter of Chicago, is vice reine of India, and now comes the news that the young Duchess of Marlborough, once Consuelo Vanderbilt, | is in a fair way to become the Lady Lieutenant of Ire- land. P SR Because one keeper of a poker saloon has been ac- quitted is no reason why others should not be prose- cuted. The motto of the campaign should be: “Try, try again, until all of them have been tried.” There is one thing to be said in Welburn’s favor. In offering himself as a soldier to Uncle Sam he was THE STREET RAILWAY GRAB. HE leading article in yesterday" to the Board of Supery relation to the existing consolic | lines owned and handled by t | constitute a scheme for monopolizing the streets and ors. tion of street railway at corporation, they \Le:\'ciu«ling opposition that is hardly less than stu- | pendous. s it has been a favorite theory of C. P. all the railroads in the United management it would be of great advantage to the people. He has carried the doctri ialism to their e results, merely substituting himself for the Government as paternal- ism incarnate. The arguments which from time to time he has put forward in support of his views are They may be summed up in is the fundamental basis of I | Huntington that 1 | States were under one For yea superficially plausible. the proposition, whic | obnoxious trusts, so f | of railroads on this gigantic scale would be rendered more economical and more effective than under the competitive system, and, therefore, that freights and fares would be reduced to the minimum. The most | obvious flaw in the argument is the corollary or in- ference derived from the assumed premises. The dif- ficulty is that Mr. Huntington himself or his equiva- lent as a factor is left out. duced, possibly efficiency might be promoted, but the receipts would not be diminished. On the contrary, they would be increased. The concentration of trans portation facilities under a single head and imperial- | ism have practically the same foundation. i What the grasping intellect of Mr. Huntington has suggested for the nation he has practiced on a com- ale in this municipality. The Mar- v Company already holds the greater of San Francisco in the grip of a devil-ish. A few segregated facts will substantiate this asser- ed, that the operation Vo paratively small let Street Railw part very tion. street, the main artery of the city, need not be here detailed. Bat it holds Market street itself, together with parts of Jackson street, Sac- ramento street,” Post street, Geary street, Ellis street, Eddy street, McAllister street, Hayes street, Haight street, Castro street and Valencia street, over all or fares, and possibly over itted streets running from east to west, the present system extends. Transversely to the north of M f street, Montgomery street, Kearny street, Powell street and v 1d Washingon streets, Clay nearly all of which thoroug other omn Sansome street it occupies part of other streets far west as and including Devisadero Tested by the rules of military strategy, this distribution of power would seem almost if not quite street. to amount to a dominant occupancy of the most thick- and ess por- tions of the peninsula Now add to these holdings the connecting link on Taylor street, between Geary and Post streets, for which a franchise has been asked, the virtual posses- sion of Geary street between Grant avenue and Tay- lor street aiter the present franchise of the Geary street road expires, the new projected line on Grant 3 Bush street and down Bush street to street, and the whole of Montgomery and Sansome streets, from J; street to Market street, and the full measure of the demands which, during the brief period that will valuable residence and bus Iy settled avenue from Ge street to some son elapse before the new charter takes effect, the Board | of Supervisors is expected to ratify, will be at least partly appreciated. s The Call said yesterday, the imperative wants of the neglected and valnable section of this city inclosed fornia street on the south and by the bay on the north and east can- not be disputed. Nor should mere prejudice and monopolies prevent due consideration of the proposals of the Market Street Railway Company. But it is insisted that the Board of Supervisors cannot accede to the wholesale scheme of appropriation that has now been exposed without recreancy to its trust and utter disregard of the public welfare. The laws passed by the Legislature in 1893 and 1897, the latter of which have been necessarily invoked in the orders and resolutions the gist of which we have published, were specially designed to insure actual competition. This purpose is still more vigorously expressed in the new charter, which has received both popular and legislative ratification. To anticipate the new charter and. under the pretense of conformity with the present statutes, to vield to the dictation of his arrogant monopoly. which is one of Mr. Hunting- ton's favorite instrumentalities, would be a fraud on the people and a disgrace to the board, which might bring the Supervisors who permitted themselves to be used for the attempted legalization of the plot within the pemlties of the law. The present Board of Supervisors has been a con- sideiable improvement on the last. Tt contains gen- tlemen, such as Supervisor Perrault, who have intelli- gertly and manfully lived up to their pledges and re- fused obedience to any improper influence. The com- munity looks to them to check the wholesale clean-up by Kearny street on the west, by Cal any against corporations desigred by the Market Street Railway Company, | which, as it has been actually framed, is not indorsed by the Merchants’ Association or by any other or- gamization of solid, tax-paying citizens. It may be advisable to postpone final action until after January 1. 1000. Under any conditions the application for the new franchise on Grant avenue and Bush street should be seiected, and no permission to use electricity on Geary street, or in any way to obstruct that thorough- fare, should be granted. And no opportunity, under ary disguise, to erect telegraph poles or to change the motive power specified in any of the original franchises should he furnished without at least having the by w department of thelocal government. P FIGHTING FOR THE PUBLIC l CTION taken by a number of large consumers / \nf gas to form an association_for the purpose of opposing the extortions of the gas company gives promise that at last something is to be done to maintain the rights of the public. The people oi San Francisco have too long submitted with a tame pa- tience to the grasping greed of that corporation, and the result is that while many other cities are supplied | with gas at rates not exceeding $1 per thousand feet, { consumers in this city are still called upon to pay ’$1 75 a thousand. i It is reported that at the meeting to-day there will ! be a proposal submitted to the Board of Supervisors to compromise with thé gas company by repealing the ordinance fixing the rate at $1 10 and substituting a raie of §1 60. In spite of rumors to the contrary, it |is to be hoped no considerable number of the Super- | visors will prove so false to the public as to consent | to such a measure. A reduction in the rate from the ‘n]d figure to the one proposed would of course be i something gained for consumers, but under the cir- cumstances it would be virtually a surrender to the | corporation and a wrong to the community. | No adequate reason can be given for fixing gas certainly doing something to make up for iormer offi- |’ rates at $1 60 in San Francisco when it is furnished so cial shortcomings. ~.. |much more cheaply clsewhere. As a matter of fact issue of The all succinctly presented the principal facts in relation to the four separate but connected appli- cations made by the Market Street Railway Company Taken together. in their | Expenses would be re- | Its control of thoroughfares south of Market | ch from the northeast to the southwest is | Jlidity of that method of precedure sanctioned | pas ftinue such charges. i The history of almost every industry for the last | twenty years has been one of decreasing cost of pro- Labor saving machinery and more scientific methods of treatment have enabled the producers of almost all articles to furnish them to consumers at much lower prices than in times past. Gas compa- nies in the East, whether near coal fields or distant, have long since reduced their charges in cities where large amounts are consumed to an average of about $1 a thousand fcet, in consequence of the decreased cost of production, but in this city the corporation holds on its way and insists upon maintaining the old price. The extent to which the gas company carries its dis- regard of the public is shown by the fact that in the | face of an ordinance fixing the rate at $1 10 it has sent !out its collectors to demand from consumers payment at the old rate of $r1 73. duction. | | | | The corporation treats the {law as contemptuously as it treats the people. It | undertakes to dictate to the Supervisors, and has | presumed to instruct them to repeal the present or- | dinance and fix rates at the excessive rate of $1 6o. { It is under such circumstances the movement has | been begun to form an association of consumers of | gas to make a fight for the rights of the public. The | issue is one which concerns every gas consumer in | the city, and it is to be hoped the association will be | strongly supported. Certain it is that so long as the consumers will tamely submit to extortion the cor- poration will continue its exactions, and the Super- 1\'is0rs, if they think the people are indifferent, will | not hesitate to make any kind of so-called compro- mise which may be pleasing to the company. LIFE WITHOUT A STOMACH. INCE Juan Patritti of San Mateo has proven by the indisputable evidence of things done that a i man may live without a stomach and yet have | full enjoyment of all the viands served at the banquet of life, from soup to cheese, it may be accepted as a | fact that the stomach is an unnecessary adjunct of the | human system and may be dispensed with without | harm to life, labor or love. It is true Patritti complains he cannot work as well as before he lost his stomach; that he now grows weary after seven hours of plowing. Such a result, | however., is not to be regarded as an ev The univer- il wail about over-production is a convincing proof that people work too much and produce too much. Anything, therefore, which will limit production with- cut limiting consumption is an economic blessing. In fact, the Patritti experiment is about as important in | its bearings on the problems of sociology as on thos of physiology. | The stomach, however, has been always regarded as |'a strictly personal matter, having only very indirect | relations to the public, and the issue involved in the case will be studied by most people with an eye to its effects upon their private fortunes and welfare ither than to any change it might bring about in great public concerns with which the economists deal. It may be noted, then, that the elimination of the | stomach will be as beneficial to the individual as to the labor market, and will take much of the strain off the one as well as off the other. Were there no stomach there could be no stomach- | ache, no indigestion, no dyspepsia. There would be I no need for stomach bitters nor for several thousand | other kinds of medicine. ' A man would have to buy no physic except what might be required for liver, | | lungs, brain fag and the blood. There would thus be | | an immediate relief from the strain upon the system | of Arcady, while the stomach-bearer was bowed down with the weight of woe and utterly consumed with sharp distress. [ Many and various have been the benefits bestowed | upon man by the discoveries of science. We shall ‘crc long have the option in our | traversing the upper air in a flying ship or moving ‘nlnng the under depths of the mysterious sea in a | submarine boat. We have accomplished the produc- tion of artificial silk, and may eventually weave our- selves garments out of the petals of rose leaves and | lilies. such a degree of perfection the time cannot be distant | when man will live mainly on canned “what-is-it” and | embalmed air. Let us, therefore, rejoice that science lhas provided a way by which those of us who have | no stomachs for flying submarine trips and canned goods may get rid of that drawback in our make-up and go forth unaffected by a stomach of any kind. ship: York Sun to say the large emigration from Finland at this time is due not so much to the suppression of Finnish liberty as to the fact that the Russian Govern- ment has been enforcing the leprosy law in Finland with unheard of severity. The matter is worth in- scheme of inviting the Finns to California. So long as the gas company ignores the existing ordinance fixing rates at $1 10 and persists in its ‘lcnurse of extorting $1 75 a thousand feet from con- | sumers the Supervisors should make no compromise. A corporation no more than a citizen should be per- mitted to violate the law with impunity. When Buckley was in retirement the yellow leaders of the Democratic factions were bold and loud in de- nouncing him as a boodler and a fugitive from justice, but now the boss has come back and all their elo- quence on the subject is expressed in a series of daily flashes of Examinertorial silence. | Huntington's promise to begin closing the gap in the coast road at once appears to have a string to it. Not a very large string perhaps, but one which he manages to keep so taut that he can play any kind of tune on it whenever he desires to make the people along the line dance to his liking. In an interview Saturday General Merriam ventured the assertion that, inasmuch as troubles similar to the strike at Wardner “originated with labor unions, there should be a law passed making the formation of such societies a crime.” General Merriam has another guess. It is full time for the President to start West. He is reported to be threatened with prostration from overwork, and California is the place fc * him to find a summertime rest in a climate which is at once sooth- ing, bracing, quieting and stimulating. So the people who are in office propose to fight the charter in order to continue in office, and thus we see it is not always a spirit of self-sacrifice that leads a man to serve the city. Occasionally one gets into office and refuses to get out until he is kicked out. The mangling of another victim by the street rail- way juggernaut will once more raise the fender ques- tion, and perhaps this time it may be possible to keep jit standing until the Supervisors compel an answer. the only reason why such high rates are to be con- sidered at all is to be found in the precedents of the . We have for so long a time borne with the ex- tortion of the gas company that the corporation now deems itself possessed of an established right to con- nd upon the purse, and the stomachless man could | many times dance lightly as the lithe-limbed nymphs | journeyings of | We have carried the sophistication of food to | Dr. Albert S. Ashmead has written to the New | vestigating before we enter upon Mr. Huntington's | THE ANTI-CARTOON BILL. The anti-cartoon and signature | seem like ple crust—made only broken.—Sacramento Bee. HUNTINGTON'S EDEN, laws to be Mr. Huntington favors expansion on the principle that the proper thing to do is to take everything in sight.—Woodland Democrat. OOM PAUL'S CAPACITY. Oom Paul Krueger is three gallons of bee account for his courage.—Oakland COMMUNITY WITH A SACK | aid a day. int to drink That maj of Dutch At Redlands last Sunday morning $15.- 000 was subscribed in a few minutes for building a church. Redlands, by the way, is the home of the only Cip Craig, and is a community with a sack.—Hanford Sentinel. | CALIFORNIA IS BETTER. We Californians are occasionally | startled by the emotions of Mother Earth, | | but we have vet to experience the sensa- | tion of being wiped off her face, as were our neighbors in Missouri last week.— Dixon Tribune. NICARAGUA WILL WIN. | The contest that is going on over the | proposed maritime canal—the Nicaragua and Panama projects—is strongly sugges- tive of the San Pedro-Santa Monica har- bor fight in the number of reports that | have been made. Nicaragua will win in | the end, just as San Pedro has won.—Los | Angeles Express. A CHANCE FOR FUNSTON. It is explained that Colonel Fred Funs- | ton was once a newspaper reporter. If | 4 see the' county road plaisance, and the Supervisors are doing | afterward. WHAT THE PAPERS IN THE INTERIOR SAY. saloons and road houses of a shady char- acter has apparently gone about as far as will be riot at the TI sell liquors more closely in the future. It is not the desire of orderly made well.—Alameda Argus. PEANUT POLITICS. what we had formed an opinion of him to be. At the San Pedro harbor jubilee, if correctly reported by the press, he snubbed Senator Perkins in that cold, self-pos: ed, matter-of-fact way that has no feeling or sympathy in it for any one. He held up ex-Senator White o the pinnacle of fame, and made Senator Perkins very small. But such is peanut politics in this fair State.—Reedley Ex- ponent. GOVERNOR WAS SPITEFUL. Governor Gage purposely made sneering | allusions to Senator Perkins at the San Pedro harbor jubilee, and boasted of it Senator Perk vas present 1d made a speech following, but was not hoorish enough to reply to the insin- uations or allude to the matter. It is al- eronr felt revengeful be- cause Perking was friend! ing the Senatorial contest. It is a little out of place for the Chief Executive of California to indulge in petty slings, but he evidently does not care what he does, and realizes he cannot be Governor again. —San Jose Argus. HOW NOT TO DO IT. C. P. Huntington made a speech at a which he said that what Caifornia most mended that we encourage the Finns to come this way. Telling men the advan- tages to be derived from being in the State quite interesting: to make them believe all we say | The natural advanta, es are not much if he should resume business in California | during these days of the full force and | effect of the signature law, the chances | are that his mere initials would be suffi- clent to satisfy even Morchouse. no mat- | ter how ‘“'sassy” his article might be.—| San Diegan Sun. | FESTOONING A ROAD. I The festooning of the county road whhI the artificial surroundings take the heart out of them. If the railroad company would allow producers to make a profit upon the results of their labor for what is raised and made in this State, immi- ration would follow too fast for the uthern Pacific to accommodate it. But iz climate and prospects and eat- ing up products and profit is not the kind of work that will il California with a de- sirable class of people.—Petaluma Cour- fer. pr WEALTH FROM CALIFORNINS - ROCKY HILLS T Twenty - Seven Mil- lions Came Forth. S The figures of the mineral production | of California for 188 have been finally compiled for the State Mining Bureau by its statistician, Charles G. Yale. The rec- ord is the official one that will stand, and | it is the only one. It represents three | months of painstaking effort. The record displays copper in place of | second importance among the State's mineral products for the first time. Un- til the Mountain Copper Company began operations about two years ago copper had been pretty well down the list. In 1897 it reached third place, with a Droducl} | of 13,638,626 pounds, worth $1,504,666. Petro- | leum that year supplanted quicksilver as second of rank, with a product of 1811,- 569 barrels, valued at $1,918,269. | In 1898, though the petroleum product | increased to 2,248,088 barrels, with a valua- | tion of $2,376,420, copper passed it, with a product of 21,543,220 pounds, valued at | $2475.168. Quicksilver increased from | | 26,648 flasks, valued at $962,45, to 31,082 | flasks, valued at $1,188,626. The record also shows a great increase | | in gold mining activity in that, although the drought closed many of the most im- | | portant producing hydraulic and quartz | mines for weeks or months, thereby less- | | ening the output by a few milions, the total product shows a slight gain. The ’%?hl product in 1897 was $15S7L041. For | | the second year in its history California takes second rank as a gold-producing | | State, Colorado now holding the I | The following was the production by | mineral substances: Asbestos . .10 tons Antimony’ 4 tons Asphalt Bituminous rock, Borax. Cement Clay, brick. potter: | Coal . | Copper | Gold Granite | Gypsum "] | Lead . 1860 barrels 27,65 tons | Macadam | Magnesite . Manganese | Marble . cuble feet | Mineral paint 53 tons | Mineral waters....1,429,804 gallons | Natural gas. 2 | Paving blocks 44 M | Platinum 00 ounces 500 | Petroleum 088 barrels 2,376,420 | Pyrites 5,000 tons 30,000 | | Quicksilver . flasks | tubble 4 tons | sait .421 tons Sandstone . 1 cubic feet Serpentine 50 cubic feet Silver Slate . unres 2,500 Soda . 00 tons 154,000 | Suiphur . 2 tons 0 Total .. 427,259,079 The relative rank of the counties of the State in point of mineral production is given in the following table. In each case the value given includes that of all min- | eral substances combined produced in the | respective counties for the year. Some counties have produced in addition to gold and silver, five, six or seven other substances, while other counties which yield little or no gold or silver, produce !in large quantitties quicksilver, mineral oils, copper, lead, asphalt, structural ma terfals, etc. The figure after the names of the counties indicates aggregate values of all mineral products for the vear, in- i cluding the precious metals, The term “undistributed’” includes total values of | such substances as are grouped to avoid | disclosing private business, as in the case of single operations in @ county. In the large and complete tables published by the State Mining Bureau, from whicn these figures are taken, the amount of value of each substance in said county is set forth. 1t is therefore necessary in some cases to place the figures in the ‘“‘undis- tributed” column. The corresponding | production in 1867 is also given. County— For 1898, For 1897. 1—Shasta $3.510,728 2—Nevada . 2,072,604 3—Amador . 4—Tuolumne 5—Los Angeles. 6 San Bernardino. Placer 3 §—Kern ! 9—Calave { 19—Trinity 11-Siskiyou an Diego. 13—Ventura 14—Napa 15—Tutte 16—Mono £l Dorado. 1845, %46 1. 1§—Santa_Barbara 472,784 10— Alameda 443,750 20-Inyo . 434,763 21—Sferra . 399,582 22-Plumas . 369,609 339,053 23—Humboldt 27,288 200,351 24—Mariposa 741 452,037 2-—Santa Clara. 330848 501,800 b5—Santa Cruz..... 270,636 B Riverside . 247,022 1 San Benito, 212,585 1 20—Fresno 201,057 1 30—Yuba 165,863 1 31—Madera . U7.907 1 32--Contra_Costa. 1140 1 B—-Sonoma ... 132,704 120,797 34—Bacramento 131,438 201,663 | County— 411 San Luls Oblspo San Mateo ~Marin Irange Lassen Stanislaus . Solano Tontere: 25,016 jare Téama 45181 Norte. 49— k’mgs Mendocino Undistributed Totals . $25,142,441 All the hestos produced in California 1 in 1888 was from Riverside County. The antimony all came from Kern. Asphalt was produced in Kern, Barbara and Ventura counties, Bituminous rock came from Mendocino, San Benito, San Luls Obispo and Santa Cruz count: Santa The borax yield was from San Ber- nardino and Inyo counties. Brick clay was utilized at Alameda, Butte, Contra Costa, Fresno, Humbold Kern, Kings, Los _Angeles, Madera Marin, Mendocino, Monter: Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardinc San Diego, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Sonoma, Tehama, Tulare, Tuolumne, Shasta and Ventura countie: Pottery cl. came frc® Riverside Amador, Los and Santa Bernardino County. Coal w Contra Costa, Orange, San Benito counties. The copper was mined in Amador, Cala- veras, Inyo, Nevada and Shasta counties. Pyrites was all from Nevada County. Granite was quarried in the counties of Madera, Nevada, Placer, Riverside, Sac- ramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, Solano, Sonoma and Tulare. Gypsum came from Fresno, Los Ange- les and San Benito. The lead came from Inyo counties. Lime and limestone were quarried in El Dorado, Kern. Mono, Riverside, San Ber- nardino, Santa Cruz, Solano and Shasta countles. The principal macadam quarries are in Alameda, Los Angeles, Marin, Sacra- mento, San Benito. San Francisco, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma counties. Magnesite was all from Napa County and manganese all from Alameda. Marble was quarried in Amado: and San Bernardino counties. Mineral paint was mired in Butte, Ne- vada and Stanislaus counties. Riverside and and Mono » Inyo | The mineral s‘)rlngs which are util- | ized commercially are in Butte, Colusa, Contra Costa, Fresno, Lake., Monterey, | | Napa, San Benito. San Diego, San Luis | Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa_ Clara, Shasta, Siskiyou, Sonoma ani: Tehama counties. Natuarl gas was utilized in Sacramento, San Joaquin and Santa Barbara counties, Paving blocks or basalt were quarried in San Bernardino, Solano and Sonoma counties. The platinum came mainly from Trinity and Siskivou counties. Petroleum was _produced Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Bar- bara, Santa Clara and Ventura counties, Quicksilver came from Like, Napa, San Renito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara, So- noma and Trinity counties. Rubble was quarried in the_counties of Alameda, Humboldt, Medera, Marin, Mon- terev. Sicramente. ‘San Dicgo. San Luls Obispo and San Mateo. The salt came from Alameda, Colusa, Riverside and San Diego. Sandstone_was from Alameda, Los An- geles and Yolo counties. The serpentine was from Los Angeles: slate from El Dorado, soda from Inyo, and Sulphur from Los Angeles counties. As far as the “banner’ countiesare con- cerned, in the different mineral products the following is the record for 1888, with | the values of the materials from the county named: Alameda leads in the production of salt ($155,812), manganese (§2102) and coal (3176,- 250); Butte leads in mineral paints ($3000); El Dorado_in slate (32500); Humboldt in rubble ($207.276); Inyo in_soda ($154,000), lead (321,170) and marble (312,000); Kern in antimony ($1200): Tos Angeles {n petrole- um ($1,462.571), brick clays ($188,3%), gvp- sum $18.,500), sepentine (§3000) and sulphur (§30); Madera leads n granite ($49.673); Napa in mineral waters ($63,000), quick- silver ($472.972) and magnesite (§19.075); Nevada leads in gold ($2,017.628) and p; rites (830000); Placer has most pottery clay (812,000); Riverside ieads in asbestos ($200); San Bernardino has the most borax ($1,120,000), cement (3150,000) and limestone " (38600). X San Francisco quarries the most mac- adam ($120.39), San Joaquin utilizes the most natural gas ($57.289), Santa Barbara has the most extensive ‘asphaltum out- put (3351400). Santa Cruz produces the most lime ($151.000) and bituminous rock §113,808). The bulk of the copper comes fhom Shasta. County (§2.465,830) and this county also leads in silver product (§171,- T68). The most paving blocks are from Sonoma County ($13,310). It is to be noted that only one county has the lead on five things—li.os Angeles. Four lead on three substances—Alameda, Inyo. Napa —and San Bernardino: and_ the counties of Ne- vada, Shasta and Santa Cruz in two produet The other counties named only have the lead in one substance each. In the vear 1807 the total value of the mineral products of the State was $25.- 142,441, and in 1808 the total value was 272800079, so that the increase for the Vear is §2.146,638. In_ 1896 the total was §24.291.808, and in 1895 822,844,664, The figures given show that in the past vear the total value of metallic sub- Stances. including precious metals. was $20.023.034; of non-metallic ~substances, 5.102,072; of hydro-cachons and gases, ;slmn,sm. and of structural materials, $2,093,379. Total, §27,289.079. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The German naval appropriations for 1899 foot up to $33,353,430, of which $11,146,- 500, or one-third, is for new construction. The Russian armored cruiser Admiral Nachimoff, of 8524 tong, built at St. Pe- tersburg in 1885, is at Kronstadt being al- people to midway Governor Gage has proven, to our mind, | to Grant dur- | banquet in San Francisco last week, in | needed was more people, and he recom- | quite another thing. | produced in Alameda, Amador, | in Fresno, | | most entirely reconstructed and modern- ized. The ship is to have new boilers and a new armament of six-inch quick firers. | The British cruiser Powerful made a good run from Hongkong to Manila on ermitted. The murderous il ty knots B o s cmomaq"hs | March 7 and 8, averaging twenty kn eves of the county Supervisors, who will scrutinize all applications for licenses to | have worked The machinery is said to satisfactorily without me\ | for the trip. slightest hitch. Russian dockyards differ from those of other naval powers in that they are eith- | er construction vards or fitting-out naval [ depots. A vessel built at one yard has | to be taken to another to receive her | armament, equipment, stores and other outfit—a plan that has nothing to com- mend its adoption in any other na Seven vessels built abroad for the Jap- anese navy are scheduled to arrive at Yokohama on the follo g dates: Chi- tose, built at San Francisco. to April 17; Kasagi, from Cramp’ | June 11; torpedo boat destroyer: nome, April 11; Murakurno, April 16; Tkazuchi, June 4; Yugiri, July 1. and | cruiser Asama, built at Elswick, on June 17. The torpedo boat destroyers were all built by Yarrow. Lord Charles Beresford told a good story in the House of Lords during the recent debate on the navy. He wanted to know how long the survey of Wei-Hai- Wei would take, and if, when the results of that survey were sent home to the Committee on Defense, the works would at once be put in hand. Continuing, he said: “When I was out there the Ger- man admiral made a_very curious remark | to me. He sa ‘You English are the | most extraordinary people. There are three ports taken from China. One is | Port Arthur. taken by the Russians: an- | other is Kiaochau, taken by the Ger- mans, and the third is Wei-Hai-Wei, tak- {en by the British. The Russians are working with great activity in fortify r;’r their port; the Germans are employ with great industry in making a parade | ground, and the English with great industry in m: | ground.” ” The House appre satire and laughed heartily. e employed a cricket ated the = by Admiral D; were sn The contention made that the Spanish fo r to the American fleet at the tle of Manila Bay increases the claim for bounty from $187,000 to 4,000 to be divided among 1733 officers and crew. If the court of claims decides that the American fleet is entitled to this increase then the admiral will re- ewey ceive $18,700, the seven commanding of cers will divide ) in sums ranging | from $300) to $1800 'and the cnlisted me { will get about $100 each. Rear Admiral | Sampson’s share of bounty money for tha destruction of the Spanish fleet off S tiago will, if allowed, give him about $30.- 000. Tt is the last time that bounty and prize money will be awarded to the na as Congress abolished this old-time | tem last March. As compared with the | prize money p: to victorious British sailors during the wars of 17%M-1%07 our | sailors have done well, for in ten bloody and hotly contested naval fights the Brit- ish bluejacket got as little as $3 in prize money for the battle of June 1795: the battle of Trafalgar netted and the battle before Copenhagen $17 to each en- listed man. s | The annual report of the Thames Iron Works, London, shows very gratifving progress and results from its adoption ‘1 | the eight hours’ work and the ‘‘good | fellowship” system, so-called, extended to the workmen in the establishment. Prior to 1894 the firm experienced great difficulties with its employ There had been a continued ies of strikes up to 1t i when the firm adopted eight | hou a day's work and allowed to every man employed a direct proportional interest in the work he had in hand in the shape of dividends. The following table shows the wages paid and the workmen's The firm is ¢ v engaged in building, but it also undertakes r: and other civil engineering work, and it has recently acquired the well-known marine engineering works of John Pernu & Sons. The Japanese battleship Fuji, built at this vard, proved an unqualifi success and it has now contracts building two 15,000-ton battleships for the British_navy. The report of the president of the firm states that a_comparison had been made of the cost of building under the old ana the new svétem and that the latter showed a decrease of nearly IR per cent for each ton of material put in ships of the same kind. 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