The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 22, 1899, Page 4

THE N FRANC 1SCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1899 @:fl’k ‘:55%;&&*‘ y MONDAY, JOHN “D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ons to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. hird Sts., S: F ‘Maorket and Tl Main 1565, $IT to 221 Stevenson Street Main 1 ROOMS. LDITORIAL Telephon DELIVERED BY CARR TS PER WEEK. Single Cop! cents. tuding Postage: nday Lall), one year .96.00 y Call), 6§ mon 3.00 y Call), 3 months. 1.50 Ath . GBe 1.50 1.00 horlzed to recefve subscriptions. » forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE .. . NEW YORK OFFICE. . Room 188, Worid Beilding C. GEO KROGNESS Ad\"rt}: ing Representative. WASHINGTON (D, CJ) V(I' I Wellington iotel IN, Correspondent. E ] Marquette Building ‘ORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay open untll 9:30 o'clock. 930 o'clock. €21 McAlllster street, open until 9:30 c'clock. 615 Larkin 1941 Misslon street, open untll 10 e'clock. 229! Market street, corner Sixteanth, cpen until 9 o'clock. 25i8 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk streast, open until 9:30 o'clock. MW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open u 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Moth and the Flame.” ““The Gypsy Baron.” er—Vaudeville every « s streets—Specialties. iet street, near Eigl —Bat- alryland,” T Ramm, {n St. Mary's Cathedral, , at 12 o'clock, Rea) BUSINESS, HERE AND ELSEWHERE. | /™ ONSIDERING the country as a whole there re no striking features in trade at the moment. There is increased activity in two or three- sta- wheat trade is getting more interesting, and The bank clearings gained 438 per corresponding week last y yout eck over s were 160, against 211, thys showing condition of business. The flurry over ‘the 'all strect has passed into the local the street is once more ever gets. e wheat market is beginning to at- ore attention. Crop prospects are by no means hey were a month ago, not only in the sht here at home. unfavorable to the the Russian. Roumanian States and Europe, but ther everywhere beer The crops i districts n n have suffered severely from ¢ persistent reports, the k rapidly ‘during the past ten days, and the yield of American winter wheat f we can believe crop has In to ht. 000,000 bushels. immense exceed will not, it is thou il West have the areas of land sown p in consequence of the wheat been plowed u orth’ winds have diminished the vield. though an average crop is expected. reports from Oregon draw an un- of the crops there, both grain and g to continued cold operators, however, decline to be yrts and prices show lit- cient owi s de Whi thési ntinual rep = especially as the export movement from ic ports shows a marked decrease from last e local market the other cereals are firm »r barley, oats and corn have advanced 3 ring the pa The other leading staples of the country are not as and showing considerable 1d firm and the ym the East are 22 same time in 1898. Wool ly business-and have 1d 1,000,000 few days sluggish as wheat are leatl trength {ides a are very or the 7,000,000 D i domestic wool, the latter for export. Mean- wool ds are dedly larger wool trade seems to be at last on a sat- The iron trade continues to boom. e in quotations is reported. but this. rting up pl om sending in orders for as far ahead as demand for iron and steel is The lun the with the of new s, ver business continues ilding activit tained.bt men e, 2 widespread t being re- a further 1probable. Cotton lags from home and abroad and less promisi p reports. In our local ess streets no complaints are eard. T be good in ali lines. Pro- e still firm, and the tendency We t-steady prices, and the stagr s disappeared. Cattle, sheep and tter figures i for some years, he stockmen have certainly nothing to compiain upward than otherwise. vea 1 current quotations. The high and rising prices nd oats extend generous encouragement and if the persistent bull news regard- eal is 1 t ue this ' before long. As for fruit, it is simply boom- ing nd what is There will not be a great deal of it this year, g fine prices. Mlready the cting for apricots at $30 per ton, s reported for Bartlett pears, though the fully confirmed. 'Prunes and grapes are The former will be a short raised will br: re contra lagter not mentioned thus far. crop, both here and in Or ot while the grapes are v a definite estimate. ay is opening at low prices, and this is. the only drawback to a situation which could hardly be im- proved upon for the farme o1, ed yet sufficiently advar General merchandise is meeting with a good and ly demand, without excitement. Money con- tinues in ample supply at the usual rates, collections are average and failurcs are few and generally nnim- portant. The season bids fair to be one of the best in tite history of the State. B ——— The fruit-growers of California have pooled their issues and demand of C. P. Huntington that he show bis hand in the hig game he is playing with the pro- ducers of the State:for traffic profits The fruit- growers certainly are not ignorant of she fact that when C. P. Huntington is forced to show- his hand be usually holds the highest in the deck. .908 Broadway | 87 Hoyes street, open until | treet, open untll 9:30 o'clock. | even- | rtet Concerts, Friday even does not deter | THE MONUMENT COMMITTEE. AYOR PHELAN has chosen well and wisely:| in selecting the gentlemen who are to take charge of the movement for the erection of a monument to Admiral Dewey. The work is an im- pottant one, and despite the strong public ‘sentiment | m s favor it will not be brought to success without cercise of energy, tact and business sagacity of a | order. b | The committee is'a strong one in every respect. Itsj niembers not only hold high positions in business and | in social circles, but are men of such ability, influence | { and leadership they can count upon a large following f earnest supporters in the task they have ‘under- | en. Their very names carry weight with them. | What citizen can doubt the iaccomplishment of an | enterprise entered upon under the direction of Mayor | Phelz W.+Van Sicklen, C. L. | Patton, C. H. Murphy, Charles Bundschu, W. G. | Stafford, J. D. Grant, Leon Sloss, E. B. Pond, [ D. Clark, Joseph S. Tobin, Frank J. Symmes, tein, Claus Spre R. H. Fletcher, . W. Hopkins and Horace G. Platt. 1, Irving M. Scott, F rge els, R. Re Schwerin, The committee has organized by the election of | | Mayor Phelan president, Claus Spreckels and Irving I M. Scott vice presidents, and Captain R. H. Fletcher 1 Each and every member of the committee | has not only consented to serve but has exhibited no little ardor and enthusiasm in the movement. There will be no laggards or recalcitrants among them. | Each and all will work with an eye single toward the success of the enterprise and with perfect harmony of sntiment on all essential points of the undertaking. While of course no details have yet been fixed con- cerning the monument, it is well understood it is to be | one of the notable monumental structures of the count It has been suggested that ateleast $100,000 will be required to defray its cost, and it is possible | that sum may be largely excceded. The members of the committee are reported to be sanguine they can | raise the money needed in a comparatively short time. | The movement appeals, of course, not to San Fran- | cisco only, but to all C and, as a matter of fact, to the whole Pacific Coast. It is to be a mahi- | | festation by the people of this portion of the Union of their appreciation of Dewey’s great victory and an evidence of their recognition of its far-reaching im- | portance to the Pacific Coast States. | | " The success which has attended the efforts in the st to raise money to purchase a home for the hero W will of stimulate Western ardor in the movement for the monument, as Pacific are not likely to let those of the East cutdo them in the generous task of doing honor to the victor of Manila Bay. The prospect of the move- | n-ent is therefore bright from every point of view, and | cref liforniz hington course ist peop! with a committee of such force to direct it there can be little doubt it will go forward with rapidity. THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI CONGRESS.. W HEN the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Con- gress assembles for its tenth session, which is to be held at Wichita beginning May 31, it will 1 before it a wide rang issues along which it can hope to do useful and important work. Under the call for the congress it is said, indeed, the discussions are to be confined to questions of common interest to the territory repre- ated, but that leaves a wide field for both oratory nd action. The issues which will be taken up by the congress are: Irrigation and the arid regions, improvement of | Western rivers, water transportation, transportation facilities of the West, our trade and how to increase it, mining in the West, agriculture, national quaran- statehoad for the Territories, the Monroe doc- trine, homestead laws, tru and combines, our for- eign possessions, the election of United S Sen- ators and representation of the West at the Paris ex- tbjects to consider and ma e, ates | position. | Such a programme of discussion is calculated to catch public interest in every direction. Many, of the | suh s are not of a nature to be properly treated by com There is no reason why time 1 be taken up with discu f es Senators hercial congress, ons of the Monroe election of and several others of a simi e, our the United St lar sort which in their nature are more political than | commercial. | Ii the congress by organized co-operation, or by influencing public sentiment and shaping popular will can do anything to improve the transportation faci! ties of the West, advance the cause of irrigation and forestry, promote the enactment of legisiation which vill build an American merchant marine for the trans- to foreign markets, and similar nature, it will serve a reign possessions, | port other m much more of American goods wsures of useful purpose than it can do by using its academic debates on every issue that hap- pens to engage any part of public attention. | In the official call for the congress it is announced that the men to whom has been assigned the subjects sessions for for discussion have made national reputation by prac- work and laborious study of the several subjects yned them. It is expected there will be present | the President of the United States, the Governors of the several States and: Territories and many of the National both Senators ives, as well as some of the 1 members of the ongress, and representa ading men from Hawai | Such a gatherinig of leading men for the purpose | great measures is nearly always bene- ficial, and is especially so in a country so vast as ours, iscussing " where the tendency to developing local patriotisms and ideas is so 1 arked. Anything which helps to lead the people to regard the problems of the time from a standpoint which commends a broader outlook than hat of district inte rests is of course conducive to the | better understanding of such problems and to a w sciution of them. | the Trans-Missi dence of its ser What has been accomplished by ppi Congress in the past is an evi- ine usefuiness to the West, and it is thereiore fair to assume the coming se: sult in considera sion will re- ‘ FORESTRY WORK ble good. IN ST e TEAST 3 ROM New York comes the announcement that the State College of Forestry at Cornell Uni- versity has just replanted fiity acres of the burned over lands of the Adirondacks with white pine ! and other coniiers, and has started a nursery with enough seed to cover 2500 acres with seedlings two | years hence. It is furtlier stated that hereafter the college expects to replant at least 500 acres of the bare ¢ lands every year, until all have been reforested. { The interesting feature of the report is the evidence it gives of the increasing force of the movement of re- foresting the burned over and denuded tracts of land in the more progressive States of the East. It is but a short time since no effort whatever was made to re- plant the burned forests of New York. The State | { College of Forestry is something in the way of a new experiment. This year it has replanted fifty acres, | but within two years it will have young trees enough ! to replant at least 500 every.vear. That is surely a | rapid advance and is a $triking evidence that the ex- periment is doing well. é 1 Itis notin New York only, however, that extensive i | forms of vegetable and animal life that enrich us, they A | now projected, and concessions for them have been granted. | fairs in the penitentiary he not exaggerated, some of replanting of destroyed forests has been undertaken in the East. Pennsylvania as well as New York has become an owner of forest lands and is experimenting in forestry on a large scale. In Minnesota and Wis- consin, where rich pine regions have been made bare cither by the ax or by fire, extensive replanting has been done. In fact, Minnesota has had her forestry problems examined and reported upon by experts in the science and the practice of tree planting and will probably undertake the work of renewing her forests upon so comprehensive a system as to serve as a guide and model for all other States where anything like similar forest conditions prevail. While most of the States have not taken any -not- able steps in the direction of scientific forestry, or of ny adequate care of the forests that remain to them, yet in nearly all of them the subject is now engaging | the attention of earnest and thoughtiul men. The campaign of education in favor of forest preservation has begun to achieve successes in all parts of the Union: The people are beginning to understand { more and more clearly the importance of the issue and | the urgent necessity of applying a remedy to the evil | of the less w; As the New York Sun says, in commenting upon the work | done by the State College at Cornell : “Timber is like wheat or any other crop. Ii we wish to harvest it again and again on the same land we must grow it there. The timber limits are prac- tically fixed by the immutable laws of climate, and particularly of rainfall, and our forest resources therefore are not inexhaustible. With our enormous populali‘on and vast demand for lumber it is easy enough to denude thousands of square miles and to destroy the supply of the most desirable woods faster than unaided nature can replace them. But if we treat our forests half as well as we treat the other ing of our noble woods. are just as inexhaustible as the cattle on our plains or the fishes in our lakes and rivers.” RAILROADS IN CHINA. RECENT publication of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics, entitled “Commercial China in | 1809, shows ing way the rapidity with which that long closed empire is being opened up to the trade and traffic of the outer world. At the pres- ent time upward of 6000 miles of waterways have been declared open to steam navigation by the vessels of all nations, and there are about 3000 miles of tele- graph wires in daily use. It is in the statistics relating to railroads, however, that the revolution of the commercial conditions of in a stri the empire are most impressively shown. At the present time only about 300 miles of railway are in operation in all China, and yet over 3000 miles are They will be pushed forward of course with much rapidity, for the builders and managers are all | eager to get ahead of one another and reap as much profit as possible from being first in the field. Nearly every important nation in the world is in- terested in these railway projects, cither directly or | through its i representatives. Starting | from Manchuria, the extreme depen- | dency of China, is a projected Russian line to con- nect with the great Russian trans-Siberian railway, now nearing completion, which will bring its great | traffic to the ice-free ports of Port Arthur and Talien- Wan, on the Gulf of Pechili. To this proposed Rus- sian line the Chinese Government has already given assent, and work upon it is in progress. | As this Russian line passes so near to points where American and British commerce is established, Brit- ish capital has arranged for the construction of a road | from Shan-Hai-Kwan, already touched by a com- pleted line from Peking to Tientsin, to Newchwang, y communication with the | capital, the great port of Tientsin, and thence toward the Yangtse Valley, where the British have arranged | with China that there shall at least be no concessions | in favor of any other Government, and which valley commerc northeasterly thus giving a ready railw: | In spite of the drought that has been e of | | quite imposing array EWS OF THE MINES. The statistics of the mineral production of the State for 1898 as compiled by the Mining Bureau and published recently in | The Call became more striking and sig- nificant by a comparative showing. The record for five years shows a steady in- crease of approximately $2,000,000 a year during the past five years. It cannot be doubted that the ratio of increase will be vastly greater in the fu- ture, beginning with this year. The total of over $27,000,000 of “raw material” added to the wealth produced by the State makes the greatness of. the industry nd out in a prominent way. The total s, of course, small compared with the totals of the fifties, when placer gold ran the record up to sixty or seventy mil- lions, but that was gold practically alone. Gold now {s but little more than haif the mineral product, and there are thifty-five other mineral substances produced com- mercially in quantities worthy of record. The fact that the gold product of 1898 | was practically the same as that of 1897 timated to have caused a shortage from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 in the yield lustrates the greatly increased activity of last vear. This, and the much greater activity of this year, including the great increase in the number of producing mines and the doubling and trebling of the scale of operations in many others, gives a sure promise of an increase of several millions in the output for 1899. The copper boom with the opening of so many small copper mines throughout the State and the greatly enlarged scale of I ture of the laws adopted: was the follow- | ing regarding mining locations: Section 3. Mining claims hereafter located in'| sald district upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock or veins of metal or its ores, shall be located in the following manner, to Wit.: By posting thereon two notices written or printed upon paper or some metallic or other substance, each to be posted in such manner as to expose to view the full contents of the no- tice, one of which shall be posted in a con- spicuous place at each end of the claim. Sald notice shall contain the name or names of the locators, the date of the location and such a deseription of the claim or claims located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim. Sald no. tices may be in the following form, to wit.: | “Notice is hereby given that the undersigned | has this day located as a quartz mining claim linear feet of vein or lod upon which this notice §s posted, together with — feet on each side of the center of said vein, which said claim shall be known as and called the — quartz mine: that said claim is situate in the Tuolumne Mining District, County of Tuol- umne, State of Californis and is described as follows, to wit.: ‘Here Insert description.) Dated this — day of — A. D., 1— = —, Locator. | Many other districts all over the State | are organizing and adopting mining laws a sequence of the repeal of the | law. The Mining and Scientific Press makes the sensible suggestion that the California Miners' Association should recommend a form of location notice and thus secure something like uniformity throughout the State. Attorney Reuben H. Lloyd is arranging to begin the systematic rleve_lnpment of his Golden West quartz mine in the Blue | i Canyon mining district of Placer County. This great property comprises 320 acres of | teen protected cruisers, and thirty-one un: protected ships, including sloops, gun boats and torpedo boat destroyers. These fifty vessels have an aggregate tnnnag;: of 145,59, carry 235 guns of six inches an upward and 600 smaller guns. Their cor plement of officers and crew numbe 11,330, equal to the entire United States navy personnel of ten.years ago. The Jurien de Ia Graviere, a first-class cruiser of 5413 tons, 17400 horsepower and an intended speed of twenty-three knots, is to be launched some time next July at I'Orient dockyard. She was begun in October, 18%, and s not expected to be completed before 1901. It will require three to four months to put the British cruiser Terrible in sea- going condition after her recent experience in with burst boiler tubes. Every tube her forty-eight boilers will be subjected to a criti examination, and all the welded ones will be removed. It is author- itatively stated that the tubes clogged from the use of salt water, and the ad- miralty has ordered that only fresh water is henceforth to be used in water tube boilers. The Naval Cadet College at St. Peters- burg will celebrate its two hundredth an- iversary on August 19 next. It es- hed by Peter the Great, who induced or Farquharson of Aberdeen Uni- versity to start ew institution. Far- quharson was a distinguished mathema- tician and knew also a good deal of navi- gation, and he induced two other Scotch- men of learning, Stephen Gwyer and Richard Gries, to join their fortunes with his in the land of the Muscovites. Axel Orling, a Swede, has invented a B r s LR L St e e e e i A B ) | /895 - £22.84%66% (/0 Bica b 7. 2 N0 Ok Gt R B AR e | Puvse L AN R Ve e s ] FIVE YEARS OF THE STEADY GROWTH OF CALIFORNIA MINERAL PROQUCTION R Y-y R (7777 725 T O B RELATIVE PROZIRTIONS OF FIVE PRINCIPAL PROOUCTS IN /898 FIVE YEARS OF PETROLEUNT PRoOUCTION operations by the Montana Copper Com- | pany will forge the copper product ahead. prospecting There never was so much discoveries for petroleum and so man in new oil fields as now. The asphalt production will soon show large in- cre; The conditions are favorable for enlarged output of such now compara- tively unimportant products as antimony, marble, ate, coal, sulphur, ete. Some' of the striking features of the record are shown by accompanying d grams. There are now five “products Which amount to over $1,000.00 annually —gold, copper, petroleum, quicksilver and borax. Asphalt has increased .ln five cears from $233.800 to $452,175. Silver be- ing almost entirely a by-product of gold mining, remains at about the same fig- ure through the recent years $414,055 for 9 The quicksilver product remains arly stationary. from year to year. vas $1,185,626 in 1808, Borax has increased 00 in 1894 nd $1.153,000 in 1898, There is a boom at hand in nearly every phase of the industry. The museum of the State Mining Bu- reau has more than doubled its aver- age daily attendance since moving to the rry building in February. Ever since then Curator ‘Durden and his experienced assistants have been busy with the ar- rangement of the specimens in the wal and show cases and the work is now practically completed. The collection | crowds all the available space in the long and light hall it occupies on the third floor and makes a very attractive and Two years ago there were 15,000 specimens in the collec- tion but now only about 10,000 are dis- layed. The collection has been improved by “the reduction. In past years th here were a great num- is thus by some, though with doubtful propriety, termed a “British sphere of influence.” While the Russians are building lines through the north, the French are constructing them in South China. In Central China nearly all nations have a | share, but the British have the larger number and the | more important concessions. Belgium, however, is | not far behind, as her representatives have a conces- | ion for a line from Peking to Hankow, the most important interior city in the empire. The road will be 650 miles long and it is said will traverse a country rich in mineral as well as agricultural resources and inhabited by upward of 100,000,000 people. American concessions for railways are said to be confined up to the time the report was prepared to a line which is to connect Canton with Hankow. In reviewing the subject the New York Tribune recently | said: “This line, which is about 600 miles in length, | pa through a rich and important agricultural section, having a population equal to that ot the United States, and at its center taps an important | iron'and coal area. The direction of the proposed line is almost due north and south, and while it practically touches the seaboard at its southern terminus, where it reaches the Yangtze at the north is several hundred | miles interior, thus bringing to the great port of Can- ton the products of the upper Yangtze Valley, which section.is quite similar to that of the Upper Mississ- ippi in our own country.” It will' be seen that China is about to make an im- mense stride in the way of internal development. We shall have the paradox that the most stagnant of na- tions is the one which makes the swiftest march to innovation. A change from a railway mileage of less than 300 miles ta one of over 3000 in ahout five or six years will eclipse anything ever done even in this country. ses Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens, president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, considers it a matter worthy of comment that Governor Gage has defeated the will of the people in depriving cities of the fiith and sixth class of the privilege of voting for license or not. When Mrs. Stevens has been a lit- tle longer in California she will look upon Governor Gage's violations of public rights not as matters worthy of ¢omment but as matters of course, to be accepted with resignation until the people of Califor- nia get another chance at his E s A veteran of the Mexican War who, by mishap, was robbed of his faculties over fifty years ago, was hit on the head with a block of wood a few days ago and alm miraculously regained his senses. The same treatment might give some sense to certain officials high in the State government. Many of the convicts at San Quentin, in a search for the satisfaction of a new desire, have acquired the belladonna habit. If reports of the candition of af- the incarcerated beasts might well be initiated into the habit of hanging. 3 : —_— The fact that Tom Reed on leaving Congress will g0 into business in New York City by way of re- tirement is the strongest proof we have vet had of what a very uproarious menagerie the House of Rep- resentatives must be. | 7Z. Davi | is also an increased attendance at | elsco company |ana_ deposited her of things which were simply curious, suitable to a popular museum like that of Golden (3ate Park, but having no rela- tion to the mineral world. Many of these “were given to the park some time ago. | others belonged to the late Jacob fs, who was o long a trustee and who took a great interest in the institu- tion. Besides his valuable minerai con- tributions there were several hundred cu- Many | rios, such as ancient arms and South Sea hings which were simply loaned. The Helrs have removed these. There used to be a collection of stuffed birds and these, to0, have gone to the park. There are a nuraber of these curios left to interest the casual visitor, but the collection has been made almost entirely a mineral one. As such it has been improved by eulling out Quplicates and specimens of small inter- st or value. It now delights between four and five hundred visitors a day. Many are merely curious visitors and many are peoplc intelligent in mining. A« the display of the State Board of Trade is on the same floor in the other haif of the building the two institutions mutually increase their attendance. There . “The collection is steadily grow- librar; | ing and is also being improved constant- Iv by the substitution of better speci- mens. During 1898 the Selby Smelting Company deposited over $21,000,060 in refined gold at the San Francisco Mint, an increase of nearly $2.000,000 over the deposits of 1897 The largest proportion of this gold came from California mines, as Selbys receive probably three-fourths of the California produci at the same price paid at the Mint and then refine it. Its books en- able a sesregation of the amount of California gold and so help the Mint statistician in arriving at the figures of | the total California production yearly. The rest of Selby's gold deposits come from the Klondike, Alaska, British Co- lumbia, Mexico and farther south. Many copper claims and partly devel- oped copper mines are being bonded or sold along the copper belts from Plumas south to Medera and Fresno counties, and prospecting for (‘fln‘\:r is very active as 2 consequence of the copper boom and the. ready market for such properties. One of the latest to be sold is the Cross mine in Madera county, which has been bought by New York men for $125,000. This mine has heen worked in a small way for years. The Campo Seco mines in Calaveras county are among those in which active work is being resumed. The Loyal Lead mine of Black Hills, Amador County, which has not been worked for several vears, is another of the many old alnd I‘Gngdh“e&mslm‘s IE‘“ be nd developed. A an Fran- e has sceured an interest Sl:m,ooo‘ f\'\rt do\'clonl;r‘ler'\[ vork, which will begin at once. s p‘x‘p“x‘w‘vmls!ng property, though the deepest shaft is but 100 feet. J Parker Carbus nas been made super- intendent of the Treadwell mines, Alaska, in place of Robert Duncan, Jr. B A visit_to the Gwin mine ‘will s what a busy camp_in the mountains is, Jays the Amador Record. The shaft is being sunk, the forty-stamp mill is ope- rating steadily, the foundation for the new mill is being put in, and the road down the canyon is being graded by hy- draulic proces Grading ha been do‘"ex and foundation is being put in for sixty stamps, but forty only are to be Tnstatled immediately, bringing the mill capacity up to eighty stamps, with an opportunity of adding twenty more at a slight expense. The new mill is on a. line with the old one ana north of it. The resumption of work at the Darling mine, situated on Bear creck, near Georgetown, is about the best piece of mining news it is our pleasure to an- nounce this week. says the Mountain Democrat of Placerville, Dorado County. An English company of mean: has taken hold of the property and work of unwatering the lower levels was com. menced the past week. John Wood is putting the twenty-stamp mill in shape to commence crushing within the nest two weeks. Tuolumne County was organized as a mining district on April 29, at a conven- tion held in Sonora. The principal fea- 0 in 1895 to | It | | land and a water right covering 1000 | inches of water, which will be flumed 1600 | feet from 2 dam and used at a pressure | of 32 feet. TkLe ledge is an immense one, nearly 200 feet wide, and many assays show values of from $5 to $100 a ton. It | is such large bodies of low grade ore | which, if they yield a small average profit, make the great mines. The Azalea of Placer County is one of the important drift mines now being de- veloped with bright future prospects. It remarkable contrivance for steering a torpedo from shore or ship without any material connection between it and the operator. He gave a private demonstra- tion of the workings of his invention in London last month. In one room Mr. Orling had fixed up a model torpedo fitted with a rudder like a fish's tall, while his controlling apparatus was in an adjoin- ing chamber; and though there werz a is owned by the Blue Canyon Mining and | couple of partition walls between the two Development Company. The 40,000 shares of stock are mainly held by 136 railroad | men of the Sacramento and Wadsworth | divisions of the Southern Pacific. An as- | sessment of 1 cent a month raises $400 for operations, and the thirty-eighth asses ment is now due. About $15000 has been | spent, mainly in running a tunnel, which iS now in 1560 feet. The channel'ls ex pected to be reached at about 2000 feet by January next. The company owns 690 acres of land and is a good example of | what is being done by v legitimately | organized mining companies possessed of | promising properties and operating in a strictly business way. 1 The Bellwether mine of Amador County has just been put on a financial basis that will result in the thorough prospecting | and_development of the property. Mrs. | J. W. Hepburn, the owner. has trans- | ferred a large interest to a San Francisco | company, incorporated, with 500,000 shares | at $1 each. The new company agrees to | pay in 10 cents per share at once and 5| cents a month thereafter. i The_interest of Colonel E. A. Head in | the Blue Gouge mine of Fl Dorado | County has been sold to Eastern men and | the new company will at once start a new tunnel and otherwise develop the prop- | erty. | The mill at the Utica mine is closed for two weeks as the result of a serfous ac- cident, for which the engineer was re- sponsible. An unusual number of mine accidents, serious or fatal, are being reported along | the mother lode lately. This is another | reminder that California has no system | of mine inspection such as has reduced | greatly the number of accidents in other | State i The Felloweraft mine of San Andreas Calaveras County, js another of the prom: ising properties recently transferred to new people with adequate capital. The | last company suspended operations last December for want of money after put- | ting up a ten-stamp mill and doing con- siderable development work. The new | company is the Veritas Gold Mining Com- pany, which will remodel the mill and’ begin a systematic exploration of the mine. The Oro Fino gravel mineat Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County, has been sold to | San Francisco men, who will begin exten- sive operations at once. The Bunker Hill and Mayflower mines, north of Amador City, which have been | idle because of financial embarrassments, are, it is reported, about to pass into the hands of a new company that will do something with this fine property. AROUND THE CORRIDORS N. E. de Yoe, a merchant of Modesto, is at the Lick. A. H. McDonald, a mining man of So- nora, is at the Lick. Dr. and Mrs. S. B. Burnham of Chicago are at the Occidental. J. S. Jennings and A. M. Noble and wife of Stockton are at the Grand. ‘William H. Barton, proprietor of the Fresno Opera House, is at the California. Rev. J. L. Dearing. wife and children returned from Tokio and are at the Occi- dental. Ex-Governor H. H. Markham of Pasa- dena arrived yesterday morning and is at the Palace. F. A. Lyon, W. E. Price, G. M. Ilsley and James Thieben of Sacramento are at the Grand. E. C. Voorhies, one of the owners, and M. Thomas, superintendent of the Gwin | mine, are at the Palace. Fulton Berry of Fresno and Major Kim- ball of Red Bluff are at the Palace. Kim- ball is going to Southern California for health and rest. M. Kojima, a young Japanese nobleman, is stopping at the California en route to his home in Tokio. He has finished a course at the National Military Academy. —_————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May 21.—H. B. Quinan of San Francisco is at the Albemarle; H. H. Goldschmidt of Los An Marlborough. ol I.S i NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The Elswick vard, Armstrongs, has seven cruisers in hand for foreign navies, ranging from 9700 tons to 2500 tons, and also two topedo-hoat destroyers of 330 tons each for the British navy. The Japanese torpedo-boat-destroyer, Shinoneme, built by Thorneyeroft, left Falmouth, England, on February 17 for Japan, and arrived at Yokohama Apri making the trip in fifty-seven day is good time for a vessel of tons and machinery of delicate construction. The captain pronounced the Shinoneme as a good sea-boat. The remnants of the Spanish fleet in Cuban waters has reached Cadiz. Three gunboats, the Filipinas, Galicia and Die- 80 Velasques, were left at Martinique as unserviceable and only seven of the fifty- two gunboats and other small war vessels which constituted the Spanish fleet in the West Indies one year ago have been saved out of the general wreck and re- turned to Spain. The British navy will be largely in- creased during the present fiscal year end- ing March 31, 1900. There will be half a dozen launches of battleships and other large vessels, and in the same period about fifty war vessels of different types Wil pass through the completing stage and enter into the reserve, ready to go into commission. Among these additions to the active list are five battleships of 12,90 tons each of the Albion class; four- objects the spectators were surprised to see the rudder of the torpedo turning to starboard or port at the will of the opera- The principle of this invention con- s in the transmission of motor force means of waves of light, dimilar to the rays. The steering influence is opera- tive over a frontage of about 100 yards in a distance of two miles, and the greater the distance the longer becomes the line of controlling front. The inventor will shortly give a public demonstration of !thx‘ value of his invention for steering purposes at the mouth of the Thames. hod el An invention of dubious practical value was recently presented and explained be- fore the Society of Engineers’ - meeting at St. Petersburg. i s & con- trivance to automatically reveal a leak on board ship, and con: | located in the hold, the cage containing a lever with counterbalancing weight. he presence of water disturbs’ the balance and brings the lever In contact with an | electric system which then lights a lamp in that part of the ship where the leak and rings a bell. The Russian Admiralt has ordered two of th_.e “leak revealers to be placed on hoard the General Aprak- sin for experimental purposes. Some twenty-five years ago an invention in the line of automatic work was unloaded on our Navy Department. It was an auto- matic alarm pump and ventilator, one placed on each side or the shin and the rolling motion of the vessel was to fur- nish the power to the contrivance for ventilating or pumping purposes. It failed to work in practice, but several sets out of forty-seven purchased were.sent to Mare Island with an order to place them aboard ship. The order was obeyed to this extent that the boxes containing the pumping mechanism were put on board some of the ships. The Saranac carried her automatic alarm ventilating and pumping contrivance carefully packed away in boxes and stowed in the coal bunkers, and when the old ship struck a rock in Puget Sound the $4000 invention went down with the ship. It might be said that there was no fair test, but as a matter of fact the inventor succeeded only with the Government and w unable to get it aboard any merchant ship. 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