The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 15, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY MONDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Co mmunications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE.....Market and Third Sts., S. Fi Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS.......... 217 to 221 Stevenson Streed Tel one Main 18T4. RS, 16 CENTS PER WEEK. DELIVERED BY CA Single by Ma g Postage: (including Sunday Call), one year. CALL—By Single Mo CALL One Year CALL, One Year. sters are authorized to receive subscriptions. coples wiil be forwarded when requested. @AKLAND OFFICE.. i .908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE -Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. C. CHICAGO OFFICE . Marquette Buildlag C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Adver ng Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes streot, open untl | Gicance of the Circuit Court of the United States, as | ©30 o'clock. 621 McAlllster street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open unttl 9:30 o'clock 941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Murk:! | tendered issues of the most comprehensive character, | 8 :going to the foundation of the powers of the Railroad | street, corner teenth, open until 9 o'clock. Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Elevent street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets. open untll 9 o'clocks ] AMUSEMENTS. Pinafore” and ‘‘Cavalleria Rusti- Vaudeville every afternoon is streets—Specialties. Co., Market street, near Eighth—Bat- eater—‘A Box of Monkey Tuesday even- Berkeley—Commencement Exer- noforte Recital, Thursday Evening, v Hall—Kneisel Quartet Concerts, Friday even Swimming Races, etc. ;&UCTION SALES. May 18, Real Es- lay, May 19, at 11 a. m., at 220 Valen- CURRENT COMMERCIAL CONDITIONS. 1 feature to general trade last n bank clearings fell off to 43.7 HERE week The gain er cent over the same it was much more pro- can show a ess of 43 per cent it cannot complain of The commercial failures were 169, o for the corresponding week a or more the failures have stead- cither greater conservatism yre prosperous condition of receding ong as the country wee tions d with 2 over the country are general The chief features are advanced quota of iron steel, in- s shown by heavy sales and ay earnings, a rger raul n advance of 10 per er t t in hides at Chic 100,000 h and over 200,000 less than in 1893-4, ceipts of cattle in four less year, the able sig spite of 2in in population. favc ever, we have a quieting down whol distributing demand. notably for dry and a further w lothi face of less promi crop conditions. t of wheat shows some falling off, the fig- z 3,284,000 bushels, against por this crop year are 203,058,000 bushels, 202,523,000 last year. In opposition to this arked increase in the production of iron and 1, which has averaged during the past four months 7 tons 1 inst 32,209 last year ‘here was a’decline in manufacturing stocks in 1 any supposed, to any decline in industries, but to the rbought condition of the market. Stocks accumu- ted on the hands of speculators who figured on a rise, and as iled to materialize they naturally sold. We are to owever, that the public taste for specu- lation in industrials is not yet sated, as shown by the recent subscription of $412,000,000 to the $75,000,000 stock in the new copper combine, while the rejected stibscriptions raised the figure to about $1,000,000,000. Meanwhile the money market continues easy, the sup- ly of funds showing a notable increase, while interest are easier In the local market the leading features are con- tinued activity in all kinds of provisions at very firm prices, a similar condition in the live stock market, a good demand for wool, an advance in lumber and unuvsually high prices for fresh fruit, which is in sharp demand in the Eastern markets. As high as $8 25 per ten-pound box has been paid for California cher- ries in the New York market, and sales at $5 and $6 are of daily occurrence. The fruit reports fail to state what class of people in New York eat cherries at 60 cents to 8 cents per pound. They evidently have money to burn. We are glad they have—they may have our cherries. Another Eastern buyer came out here a few days ago and bought 150 carloads of la&t year's prunes. Shut your eyes and imagine the length of a train of 1350 cars of prunes and you will get a fair idea of the size of this little transaction. This will be a great year for California fruit. We are doing a pretty good business all around out here in California. The wholesalers in all lines aré busy and the dealers in farming tools report a great rush for extra parts' of harvesting machines, Never have trade condi- tions extended more promise. The export trade of San Francisco and the northern coast ports is too active for the number of steamers employed, and more which points to large crops. are needed, especially on the Panama and Oriental | routes. Indeed, sailing vessels have been found necessary to supplement the steamers. Coastwise lum- ber freights have advanced in sympathy with grain rates, and, in brief, the shipping and export business of the port are on a very satisfactory basis. ot e e A witness who appeared the other day before the Washington Industrial Commission, which is making an inquiry into the operation of trusts, said he knew of men who are paid a bonus for being idle. That wit- ness can win an eternal place in the esteem of man- kind if he will give the secret away. And some people will not believe yet that the Cu- ba e Americanized. © According to latest advices 150,000 of them are applicants for office under Uncle Sar ns 4 week last year, whereas | n during the same | Offsetting these | akening in cereal | same week in 1808, though the ex- | treet during the week, but it was not due, as THE SECRET RAILROAD DOSSIER. HE exposure in The Call of yesterday of the Trcvision of the report originally prepared by Railroad Commissioner Blackstock in reference to the “grain case,” so called, pending before the Circuit Court of the United States, is prosaically as- tounding and reveals such shameless corruption upon the part of the principal gounsel for the railroad and Commissioners Blackstock and Laumeister as noth- ing but the experience of the last thirty years would accredit. The fact that, through its false assertion of its complete withdrawal from politics last year, the railroad was enabled to handle both sides of a pending litigation would be in itself an insufferable degrada- tion. But the proof now furnished that William F. Herrin actually dictated not merely the treacherous action of the two Commissioners controlling’ the pro- ceedings of the board, but the very terms in which their corruption was ultimately expressed, transcends all the revelations of which there is any accessible record. Commissioner Blackstock, in his report as first pre- pared, evidently supposed that he was accomplishing the purpose for which he was elected. ' But in framing an argument to sustain his contemplated misconduct his astuteness was not equal to the exigencies of the situation. The railroad, in invoking the equitable as- | it was constituted when the suit was commenced, had | Commission and which, if sustained, would have | bound the State hand and foot. In its bill of com* | plaint not only was the horizontal reduction of 25 per (cent assumed to have been perfected so far as the | commission had the right to act, but the entire rail- | road schedule was treated as so completely fair and lrcasmmb!c. and even so generous to the public and so parsimonious toward itself, that it was beyond any | possible interference, even though the plenary author- ity of the commission had been conceded. The Com- missioners, moreover, under the guidance of their |able and faithful special counsel, backed by the Attor- ney General of the State, raised (uestions affecting the validity of the attempted concentration of railroad linterests in the Southern Pacific Company of Ken- | tucky and asserted the existence of fictitious and fraudulent elements in the basis adopted by the rail- road, upon which fair and reasonable returns upon | the investment were to be computed. When the or- | iginal injunction was restricted to the grain rates, | which covered a reduction of 8 per cent, Judge Mc Kenna acted upon the affidavit of the Railroad Com- missioners then in office to the effect that the resolu- | tion altering the rates horizontally had not been fol- lowed by a schedule, which was necessary for its com- | pletion, and that there was no existing intention of ;fnrther proceedings in that direction. Notwithstanding the modification of the provisional injunction, however, the issues offered by the railroad remained in the case for trial and for decision. When in the litigation except that of the grain rate had been completely settled. That question had become com- paratively unimportant, as the competition of the San ington's policy, had led to which, as we understand the fact, amounted on the average to about 3 per cent. missioner Blackstock prominently alluded to an oral application for a compromise made to the commission by the railroad some years ago, the substance of which was that if the per cent resolution was re- scinded the railroad would dismiss its suit. Finally he suggested that the entire action of the commission, as previjously constituted, embracing the 8 per cent | grain rate, should be repealed and the present com- mission be left footloose to deal with the question of | rates de novo. The expurgated and revised edition of Commission- er Blackstock’s report, molded by William F. Herrin to suit the wishes of the railroad, duplicates much of the original, but is designed: First, to show that, un- der Judge McKenna's decision on the provisional in- junction, the commission was effectually and perma- .iently estopped from raising the most vital proposi tions that naturally arose under the bill of complaint | as filed; second, to avoid the necessity of any explana- | tion of the surreptitious attempt to compromise, { which the railroad declined to formulate in writing, | although requested to do so by Commissioner La | Rue and the special counsel of the Commission; third, that there was nothing left in the case but the grain rate of 8 per cent, which had become immaterial and 15uperfluous; and, fourth, that the enormous expense | of a trial justified the commission in sacrificing the | 843,000 already spent. In this way the ground was | cleared so that the foundation might be laid for a new | litigation of equal duration and of similar complexity, | in which the whole work would have to be repeated. The central point was that the suit before Judge Mor- | row was to be ended by the commission itself, with- | out any apparent participation upon the part of the complainant, and the railroad hands untied so that it might proceed with fresh aggressions upon the rights and the interests of the public. A reflected light is thrown upon this treacherous and infamous conduct by the repeated declarations of Mr. Huntington that the railroad traffic would have to pay the entire indebtedness of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, as finally adjusted with the Fed- eral Government. But far more disgusting than any matter of dollars and cents is the proof that in this State and in this country it is possible for the sanctity of the courts to be invaded without their own conniv- ance, and both sides of a great legal controversy, in- volving the deepest principles, to be controlled by a railroad attorney, using the virtue of hospitality as a cover for the crime of official infidelity to sworn duty, to individual pledges and to the vital necessities of the commonwealth. ORATORICAL '7MR.-_HUNTINGTON. HE speech of Mr. C. P. Huntington on last TSaturday night to his own employes and to his trusted friends was not quite up to the standard | of Mr. W. H. Mills. This does not imply that it was | actually composed or written by Mr. Mills, although the “masters, lords and rulers in all lands” frequently employ their prime ministers to do such work for them. But Mr. Huntington’s life having been prin- cipally occupied with business activities, he has had no leisure for the cultivation of literature, as was fully exemplified in what are known as the “Colton letters,” and, therefore, it has been noticed for years that, when he uses social occasions to convey his ideas to the public, as closely as possible he follows the style of Mr. Mills. This accounts for his occasional references to ancient and to modern history and to other sources of information that to a hard-headed railroad manager are necessarily recondite. But Mr. Huntington this year has talked too much. His tenth speech was certainly his worst. In his first paragraph he made a mistake of fact which any of his subordinates could have corrected and which was a bad example for young men. In a touching adapta- tion of the conference of the witches in “Macbeth,” Commissioner Blackstock framed his report he was | not sufficiently comprehensive to satisfy the railroad | on the proposition that all the questions embraced | Joaquin Railroad and other causes, influencing Hunt- | voluntary reductions, | In this report also Com- | “when shall we three meet again,” he observed, “With thg year passes the century.” Mr. Huntington should have known better. Any one of the callow youths seated around his table, to whom he so frequently and tenderly referred, could have told him that the twen- | tieth century does not begin until January 1, 190I. He was a long way ahead of time, a serious fault in railroading, for which there is no precedent in any | of the lines with which he is connected. But, in many other and important respects, Mr. | Huntington for once was unfortunate. - He was speak- ing in a fine house, not equal to his New York man- | sion, but still fine and surrounded by other fine i houses, all of which taken fogether have dedicated the | crest of Nob Hill to railroad anc mining opulence. He reached out in every direction for more fields for the indulgence of his ruling passion for saving and gaining. Cheap labor as usual was his hobby. but he | proposes to secure it now by investing the Filipinos | with American citizenship. The order of his sen- | tences is not precisely the order of his ideas and there- | fore we may be pardoned for bringing detached parts | of his oracular utterance together. After speaking of | the American republic as having set “her foot upon | the threshold” of Eastern Asiatic trade and haling | reccommended a close alliance between the oldest and the youngest nation, he added: “I do not see why we should be any more afraid of the Chinaman than the people of other countries are, and they will wel- come him as a factor in their development.” For a great many years the people of this coast and for ten or twelve years the people of the United States have not agreed with Mr. Huntington, and with decided | unanimity they have rejected the Chinese factor in | their industrial progress and have also secured legis- lation that has long been more or less effectiv When, however, the United States becomes the new- est empire 2nd introduces its fresh leaven into Chinese imperialism, while it joins hands with the other des- potic powers of the globe, doubtless it will matter | very little what citizenship thinks or what its interests demand, for the repeal of the exclusion laws may not require Congressional sanction. It has often been remarked that Mr. Huntington has the courage of his interests, always identical with his convictions. His views on Asiatic expansion, therefore, are even more pronounced than the si- lenced advocates of a “national policy” ever promul- gated. He believes that the only way to destroy Americanism is to adulterate it. Consequently he is entirely clear in favor of taking the Philippines into the Union and throwing the Filipinos into the body of our free popuiation. Having some connection with Africa and having studied the uses of “spheres of | influence,” he proposes that his own country shall im- mediately become a convert to that method for the partition of the world. “Strange peoples,” he says, ‘‘are to come more into our life and these peoples, | by and by, are going to render a verdict on our | trial.” That is to say, the ten millions of ‘our Filipino | fellow citizens will ultimately determine whether our | cultivation of an Asiatic “sphere of influence” has | been successful. And of the fact that they are well- qualified for absorption into our composite race, Mr. | Huntington has no doubt: “The. Filipinos have shown us that they do not lack independence of spirit, courage, determination and pereverance. These are | the qualities that make good citizenship in a repub- | | lie.” | It is not strange that Mr. Huntington delivered a mock rhapsody on equality before the law, which rail- road litigation has so pointedly illustrated and which, | | in his estimation, as shown by his acts rather than by : bis words, means the destruction of American nation- | ality between the upper millstone of speculative mo-{ nopoly and the nether millstone of Mongolian Ameri | canism. Looking at all these questions from a purely | money-getting point of view, it was also quite natural | for him to complain of “higher education for the | masses.” The time spent by young men between 16; | and 21 in studying the institutions and the history of | | their country and in learning to revere the great founders of organized liberty on this continent is time :10;( from the acquisition of that practiced smartness that would enable them to save pennies and to expand | them into eagles, ready to be deposited in the capa- cious pockets wide open to receive them. Seated around the lucky horseshoe table that minis. { tered to American simplicity were gifted and learned | | men whose mental digestion must have been superb | if they absorbed and assimilated the whole of the im- | | perial feast presented to them by Mr. Huntington. The tyrannical domination of the American con- querors is beginning to torture in Cuba. The Mayor | | of Havana, under direction of the American Military | Governor, has issued a decree to certain classes of the | population commanding them, under pain of severe | punishment, to wear costumes at least somewhat more | | elaborate than undershirts. It appears that the Cu- | bans have been slightly negligent in matters of attire. | During the fight at Santiago, the dispatches an- | nounce, hundreds of people visited the Michigan homestead where General Shafter was born and car- | ried away parts of the old log house, almost demol- | ishing the structure, for souvenirs. Since the battle of Santiago thousands have been trying.-to tear the old soldier himself to pieces. There is sometimes a difference before and after. e It is a safe wager that not one man out of ten even in the most intelligent circles can tell offhand how many capitals have been taken from the Filipinos since the advance began. In fact a good many pro- fessional critics of the war have lost their scorecards and cannot tell whether the last. capital we captured was third base or a new deal in another round. The dispatches announce that the lobster industry on the shores of Newfoundland is on the decline. It would not be difficult for some of the Democratic politicians of San Francisco to suggest to the fisher- men of Newfoundland how the “lobster” industry might be revived. The crop of the recent campaign in this city was extremely large. e il The sources of the oily suavity and wonderful busi- ness sense of Chicago millionaires have at last been discovered. These princes of finance, it appears from the testimony at an official investigation, are in the habit of surreptitiously buying oleomargarine and pawning it off at their sumptuous dinsers to friends’| as butter. PR O A A Syrian revolutionary society in New York has declared Syria a free and independent state and has issued a call to arms. It will probably be one of those long-distance calls which will not be heard in Syria. A dispatch from Marysville contains the news that while driving a band of sheep up the main street of that town recently a citizen’s horse fell on him. Noth- ing like that ever happened to Henry T. Gage. e Four men in a Mississippi town killed one another the other day in a discussion over a bill. They at least had the satisfaction of closing the discussion on dead even terms. The Chinese are not a race to command sympathy, but what have they done that Huntington should in- vite them to come within the sphere of his influence? | to inspecting private , 1899, NEWS OF THE MINES. .That long-hoped-for and ever deferred report of the California Debris Commis- sion on how the $500,J00 voted for restrain- ing dams .should be spent will probably be forthcoming this summer. The Fed- eral engineers do not discuss the pros- pects of the réport or the progress of their investigation, but it may be stated that there is little or no doubt that an ex- tensive and detailed report on this par- ticular matter will accompany their annu- al report, which is supposed to be ready in July. This is very cheering as far as it goes. ‘Whether or not the report will be very cheering cannot be told. Mining interests wanting some larger practical results from Congressional and State legisla- tion, secured with great effort years ago, have naturally been impatient at the very long delay. The attitude of many has been, “Get in and spend the money some- how,” but Federal engineers are gener- erally very self-possessed, and the Cali- fornia Debris Commission has used its own time any way. The fact that the three engineers composing the commission deal made at Carrville. Since the E‘?E‘,ffi& changed hands over 10,000 tons of ore \‘;a\‘e been placed in sight by de- Velopment work that can scarcely be said | to have begun—and at least 20 per cent of the quantity is metal. Very little of it carries sulphur, most of the ore being red oxide or black carbonate, together | with malachite and metal so nearly pure as to be malleable. The owners unque: tlonably are preparing to erect a sm In briet, then, the situation is this: this year's work confirms the superficial indications of the camp's productiveness it will withih the next year become one | of the great mining centers of the has report shows an ex 35,288 in Cnfil(ormu and £Ls;11 in New Jersey during . The net profits amount '3 against £63,145 in 1897. A dly‘ldEDd of Tp per cent has been declared. The quantity of ore takén outsg the mh;ne v;;;egzl,xnsls_ tons, averaging 8.42 per cent ¢ % 740 tons per working day, dgainst 165,060 tons, averaging 8.56 per cent copper, or a day in 1897; an increase of 56,83 fons, or 190 tons a day. 'The quantity of ore smelted was 168541 tons, producing 10,721 tons copper in matte form, against 97,185 t to £16323%, | surface €528 square feet. The coal con- sumption was 12.31 pounds per square foot of grate surface, and 1.61 pounds pel; horsepower. The total amount of coal used on the run of 1000 miles was 7 tons, which is regarded as highly sal!--‘ factory, as the engine-room staff had no previous experience with this type of boiler. | As soon as the vessels built abroad for the, Japanese navy have been completed the Navy Department intends to have a series of competitive trials of the ships France and Germany. formed Japanese Institute of Naval Arc itects will thus have a good opportunity of laying before the naval experts of the | world an interesting and instructive re- | port of ships’ trials. The British torpedo-boat destroyer Al- batross, built by Thorneycroft, had a pre- liminary trial last month and gave every indication of coming up to the contract speed of 32 knots. The wind and sea were very unfavorable for a speed trial, but her speed was nevertheless 30.3 knots against wind and tide and 24.29 knots with the wind and tide. 'The Albatross is 227 feet in length, 21 feet 3 inches beam and displaces 360 tons on a draught of 8 feet D+ Ot Ot 0000000000000+ 000400 tOIItDID T EO+ D+ 040406040000+ @+ 606+64000+0-05e0e0 RIS SR SR S R R B B o o o A Typical Private Restraining Dam for Hydrdulic Mining in a Moun- tain Canyon as Approved by the Federal Engineers. have also had in hand all the other ex-| tensive Government work of the coast, including harbors, fortifications and war work, gives the main explanation:for the delay. However, the commission took hold of | the matter about eighteen months ago and since then investigations havé been vigorously pursued mainly by Hubert Vischer, who has been an aSsistant en- gineer in this employ for several years. Part of Mr. Vischer's time has been given restraining dams licensed by the commission, but he has been mainly employed in surveys which have reference to the restraining of de- bris in the tributarles of the Sacramento. His attention has been given principally to the Yuba, which has so great a deposit of taflings along its bed. Extensive sur- veys have been made at the Narrows and at De Guerre Point, above Marysville. At the former place a series of borin showed that bedrock was about eighty five feet below the river bed and that a dam there would 2ensume most of the $500,000. Incidental aitention has been | given to the attitude of property-owners | and the cost of land used or submerged. Besides the study of dam sites close topo- graphical and other studies of the Yuba bave been made from the Narrows to Marysville, a distance of forty miles. Years ago the condition of this stream, the amount of debris in It, the relation of | its debris to flow and overflow, etc., were | carefully studied. It is probable that the information of the past will be collated and supplemented by that recently gained, so that the report will be an interesting and important one concerning the condi- tion of the Yuba. The possibilities of partial diversion of the Yuba will be di cussed among other things. Mr. Vischer is now. s ding much of | his time in that fleld while working a voluminous report, which will be con: ered by Colonel Mansfield, Major Hue and Lieutenant Dekeayn, and which will form the basis of their report. There is H thus a prospect that the California De- bris Commisslon will soon submit to the | Chief of Engineers at Washington a definite and comprehensive report on the | expenditure of $300,000 and the further | needs of the contemplated work. | Mixed up with the problem are the pos-| sibilities of electric-power plants at any | dams which may be built. For instance, a | great dam on the Yuba at the Narrows a | hundred or more feet high would have | splendid economic possibilities in this | line. There lles a small but interesting | chance for government-ownership people | to talk. Smart men have been alert to this chance from the start, and among them are the members of two companies, largely composed of Marysville people, who are waiting with all eyes open for a | chance to make money out of any water Qower Uncle Sam may create on the uba. They have carefully looked after their water rights in such a case and such water rights may become of legal importance in the future. he California Debris Commission has, | since the passage of the Caminetti law, | licensed over 300 miners or ™ining com- gnnles to mine by the hydraulic process ehind restraining dams of their own construction built on approved plans, in- spected on completion by a member of the commission and inspected at intervals afterward. No court or departmental rul- ings have so far affected the absolute con- trol of the California Debris Commission over hydraulic mining within the water- sheds of the navigable streams of the State. On the Klamath and Trinity riv- ers hydraulic mining remains unrestricted and unregulated. The dams bullt on authorized plans and duly licensed do not represent large in- vestments as a rule, and not all of the licensed mines are operating; but in the aggregate they represent the employment n? many “men and a considerable in- crease in the gold output. They are nearly all built of logs and brush, gen- erally in a canyon not far below the scene of operations.” They are supposed to catch and to permanently hold practical- 1y all of the tailings, even if they are buiit of wood. The only dams that have failed so far have been two or three that have been blown up with dynamite at night by placer miners who objected to the lessened current and the dgxpé)su of e ac- tons producing 7238 tons matte in 1S07. This is an increase of 7L35 tons of o and 3453 tons of matte. The quantity of finished copper marketed was 8213 tons, dgaipst 602 tons in 1897, an increase of 228t 0. DENNY. AROUND THE ons. CORRIDORS | C. Berger of Campo Seco is at the Lick. Dr. P. N. Russell of Fresno fs at Lick. J. F. Clapp, mining man of San Andreas, is at the Grand. M. §. Arndt, a merchant of Stockton, is at the California. Charles H. Lux and wife of San Jose are at the Occidental. E. M. Armstrong, a merchant of Wood- land, is at the Grand. Frank H. Short, the attorney, of Fresno, is a guest at the Palace. Joseph Spinney, ex-Mayor af Fresno, and wife are at the Grand. W. J. Cheney, a prominent merchant of Philadelphia, is at the Palace. W. H. Hilton, who owns large vineyards near Glen Ellen, is at the Grand. L. T. Appold, a wealthy merchant of Baltimore, is stopping at the Palace. Ogden Hoffman came down from So- nora yesterday and Is stopping at the Oc- cidental. G. C. Taft, the well-known mining man | of Spokane, accompanied by his wife, is stopping at the Palace. Arthur Wilson, the Swedish-Norwe- gian Vice Consul, statloned at Portland, is in this city on officlal business. Former Superfor Judge R. McGarvey of Ukiah and A. P. Wright, a cattle man of Halleck, Nev., are guests at the Russ. Dr. W. S. Taylor of Livermore and Rev. W. B. T. Smith and wife of Charleston, N. H., are among the arrivals at the Pal- ace. D. R. Cameron, the attorney, and P. Mc- Rae, who has large oil interests in the south, arrived from Hanford yesterday and are guests at the Lick. C. 0. Johnson, Ferrocarril Occidental in Guatemala, is a guest at the Occidental. He states that his road will be bought by Huntington, who has an option on it. Viscount Willlam A. Labry, military at- tache of the French legation at Tokio, Japan, returned to the California with his wife yvesterday from a visit to the Yo- semite and Del Monte. Mr. Labry, who is on a leave of absence, will depart to- day for an Eastern trip. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The Minin, an armored cruiser in the Russian navy, of 6136 tons and built in 1878, has been in the hands of dockyard workmen for a couple of years past, and when the alterations shall finally be com- pleted, some time not vet definitely de- olded upon, the ship will be used for training purposes. The keel of the battleship Bulwark was laid at Devonport on March 20, and twen- ty-one days later the work had pro- gressed so far that several of the water- tight compartments in the double bottom were tested. At this rate of speed of shipbuilding, the British dockyards are able to complete a 15,000-ton battleship in about twelve months, barring unforeseen delays in material, and there is no pri- vate shipyards in the United Kingdom to approach this record. On January 1, 1899, there were 91 naval gravel n?ar u;e{;rgwr;mc‘lv:h!:‘!-dam e vessels of 410,985 tons in course of con- companyng Pie S | struction in private ship yards and the with taflings. More logs and brush i 2}-9 ‘supposed to raise the dam' for further | Ro¥al Dock Yards, in Great Britain, hydraulic operations. classified as follows: A convention of the miners of Tuol- FOR THE BRITISH NAVY. umne County’ will be held at Sonora on s = No. | T the 20th inst. to organize a county branch SU0 of Yemi o] Toe of the California Miners’ Association. Battleships 12 xg“mvg At a recent meeting of the stockhold- A ers of the Gwin mine the following offi- | G, e /500 cers were elected: F. F. Thomas, presi- | Sloops 8 5,880 dent; C. S. Benedict, vice president: J. Torpedo-boat destroyers. ‘i g,;g J. Crawford, =fi:retfixrly'h dlrecflarsidm_u (. | Royal yacht R oorheis, A . elshaw, avi c- i PSS ana Dion C. Hyland. - Dividend | __ Totals - 56 | 298,260 No. 5 gt i has been declared, making FOR FOREIGN NAVIES. o date. mhunn:iem ét th& vlfilnky of Voleano, Class of Vessels. No. | Tons. El rado Coun! ev., or a mining dl‘:,t!flct and elected J. V{‘Edmon- Cruisers 2 . ; fi;g;?, son recorder. - 4 1 A hew roasting furnace was given its | morbeaomonts 181 initial trial run at the Keeler soda works | Other vessels. 2,375 Saturday. A large force of white men TR P e and Indians are being put to work har- Totals .... 35 | 12,7% vesting the soda deposits. A veln of zinc ore has been discovered at Edgwood by Wilson brothers. It is of a high grade and runs 14 per cent zinc. Traces of lead were also discovered in the sample ugon assay. It is more than g:"b'h’f that by sin :H deeper a rich dy of zinc-lead ore will be uncovered. This compound-metal is in great demand at the t time.—Yreka News. 1&1‘1!&&%‘1’1«? e mecdin Cren e ee ee] sectlon says: Searchlight has not 'he exaggerated the Tmpomnca of the recent The Sheldrake, gunboat, has returned to Devonport from the first of a series of trials to test the working of the Bab- cock and Wilcox water-tube boilers, with which the vessel has been fitted. The first run, of 1000 miles, was made between Plymouth and the Isle of Man, under fa- vorable conditions, with three-fourths boiler power, and an average of 1500 horsepower was realized. The grate sur- face was 189 square feet, and the heating the | superintendent of the | 6 inches. The boilers carried a steam pressure of 245 pounds during her trial and the revolutions of the engines aver- aged 400. The British cruiser Ariadne, 11,000 tons, one of eight sister ships, has passed through her acceptance trials with suc- cess. The first thirty hours’ trial under | one-fifth power gave 3758 horsepower, 13.3 | knot speed and a coal consumption of A 2.05 pounds per horsepower. The eight hours’ natural draught trial under full power developed 19,156 horsepower, 213 | knot speed and a coal c | pourds. The steam pressure was { pounds and the revolutions 119. The Ari | adne was built by Thomson, Clydebank, the contract exacting 18,000 hor: and a speed of 2 quirements were power both of which re- xceeded. GAGE ON A JUNKET. | Visits the Marion and Battleship Towa With Members of His Staff. Governor Henry T. Gage, Adjutant | General Peeler, General Barrett, Colonels | Doolittle, Sanborn, Snedake and Young | paid an official visit to the naval reserve S rday. The party | 3 nt Commander | Nearney, = Fleet ~Engineer Kingsland, Fleet Surgeon Harris and Ensign Peter- son. After an examination of the re- serve ship the visitors went aboard the Marion’s launch and took a cruise around | the bay. 2 —_———— ——— | Cal glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend’s.* —_———— | Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. 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