The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 26, 1899, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1899 MONDAY e @all JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor Communi SECSUUISICUSU o PN cations to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Address All ¥ UBLICATION OFFICE.. Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1868, ! DITORIAL ROOMS.. .. 21T to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, B cents. Terms by Mu Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. .00 DAILY CALL (includin nday Call), 6§ months 3.00 DAILY CALL (inc 1), 3 months. 1.50 DAILY CALL—By St G50 BUNDAY CALL One Y. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL Cne Ye: 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to recelve subscriptions. Bample copies will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE... 908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Forcign Advertising, Marquetto Building, Chicago. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Sherman House; P. Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditos NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUK ......29 Tribune Building NEWS STANDS. Brentano, 31 Union Bquare; Murray Hi! WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE .....Wellington Hotel C. €. CARLTON. Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, cpen until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until ©:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. IS41 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'¢lock. I06 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Lady Ursula.” f Killarney.” ater—Vaudeville every afternoon is streets—Specialties. Market street, near Elghth—Bat- ) Baths mi * Pavilion—Cake Walkers Saturday, July 15. 26, at 11 o'clock, at 11 o'clock, street. STILL AT HIGH-WATER MARK. IN Europe needs our gold, and again we have got it for her. Last week $4,000,000 was n for export at New York, and it is loaning purposes. Exchange and trade ces i ate this, the United States is not 1 to export gold at the. moment to satisiy com- e cblige » the financiers natur- mercial obligatic road flow is in the shape of borrowed er that t cially political conditions in Europe just now are such that ready money is needed. Wall- street operators, however, seem to take the opposite to consider it merely the forerunner of larger Their ground is that with as compared 1ce of trade is gradually shaping inst this country, which, of course, means ship- gold to There to be no basis for the supposition that large re- i American securities by Europe are causing export, for the quantity of returned securi- ur months has been growing smaller. Again, the New York ket is quiet and easy. while the London 1 markets are strong, with a demand for theorists seem to have the view rts from now on. g exports of merchandise, mports, the bz of urope sooner or later. the commercial best of the argument The trade balance shows 19 per cent less exports last year and 26 per cent larger imports, but an sing excess of exports is promised for June. The Government revenues are less than $100,000,000 behind the expenditures for the fiscal year, notwith- standing the large for the Philippines, Cuban soldiers and the greatly increased army and navy expenses. This showing is considered satisfac- he commerce of the country continues to lead payments tory. 1898, the bank clearings for the past week being 40.2 per cent larger than during the same week last year, and out of twenty large cities only one—Omaha— shows a loss, and that only 4.7 per cent. for the week amounted to 178, against 285 for the same week in 1808. As long as the clearings and fail- ures keep up this fine exhibit the country is all right. The leading than they have been. —that without staples are in better position as a rule Iron, of course, is active and 31 ig. In fact, the usual summer shut-down in the iron and allied trades will be ignored this year. Prices for éverything in the way of iron have advanced this year, and apparently the end is not yet. The iron trade never saw such times before. The woolen industry is also reported active, the manufactured product being in brisk request at all leading centers, while the call for wool has been so sharp that supplies are being materially reduced and prices are rising all along the line. San Francisco dealers calculate that at the present rate of ‘demand the local market will be cleaned up of wool by the 1st of August. Cotton has declined somewhat, owing to improved crop prospects, though the general market ic reported in a strong position. Wheat has continued unsettled, the bad outlook in Southeastern Europe and a fine foreign demand being offset by ample American supplies and improved prospects for spring wheat. Raw sugar is weaker under reports of im- proving prospects, but refined is in heavy domestic demand and firm. Here in California there have been no important changes in trade conditions during the past week. The export trade of the coast is fine and freight rates by sea have ruled firm of late in consequence. Farm products have been in quick demand as a rule, owing to Government orders and the call for the northern coast of Alaska, which is reported remarkably lively this year. This latter demand for fruit and other farm produce has been a godsend to the California farmer this summer. The canners continue to scour the country for fruit, and quotations are still higher, while the East is taking all the fruit we can send there. This is the finest fruit year California has seen for a long time. General merchandise is active and the merchants in all lines report a brisk movement. The general ten- dency in prices is upward, which explains the in- creased cost of living noticed by all housekeepers. Harvest wages have advanced from 50 to 100 per cent over last year, and there is a demand for men all over the State. This improvement in labor conditions is having its beneficial effect on trade, which was rarely better than it is to-day. goes s: The failures | THE CORKSCREW LINE. % | HE CALL from the beginning of the contro- T versy with the. Market-street Railway Com- ‘ pany has endeavored to find -and to support a | method of supplying increased railway facilities to the property owners and the business men in the northeastern quarter of San Francisco. Much of the Market-street monopoly scheme has been necessarily abandoned because the votes essential to its original i adoption could not be obtained. But one part of the scheme is now being pressed under cover of the rea- | sonable and just corkscrew.extension, which¥is an | unnecessary abandonment of public rights and inter- ests, and open to every objection that has been gen- erally approved. It was insisted by The Call, which merely expressed sound public opinion in an intelligible way, that un- less indispensable no new franchise whatever should be granted to the Market-street consolidation until the new charter became operative. The plan was to spread a network of new franchises and privileges over the north end of San Francisco that would destroy all possible competition and enable the Market-street Railway Company to hold the streets in a vise. This ifestly unnecessary for the sole purpose to was ma which the present application has been restricted. With the trolley reluctantly tolerated upon the Post- street system and its connections, with the new fran- chise for a single block on Taylor street, and, as was ultimately concluded, the projecting of the Sansome- street track northwar®l to the bay, complete and rapid communication between the northeast and the south- west quarters of the city, with all necessary accom- panying and connecting would be estab- lished. When, however, under cover of disused fran- chises on Geary street, it was intended to employ the trolley on that street from Taylor street to Grant avenue, ¢ franchise was proposed on Grant ave- nue from Geary to Bush street, and thence down Bush street to 1some street, that was certainly un- necessary for legitimate accommodation and would have had the effect of riveting the Market-street mo- ! nopoly on a most important and growing business portion of San Francisco. It is now designed, and we regret to say with the apparent approbation of Mayor Phelan, who, on this facilities, a ne as on the gas question, has abandoned his originally upright position, simply to drop one block of this extensive and valuable franchise and place the point cf commencement at Post street instead of Geary street. Thus, on the street-railway question as on the gas question, compromise, as understood by Mr. s Phelan, is a practical surrender of public rights and in- terests in important particulars. A new franchise from Post to Bush street, on Grant avenue and thence down Bush street to Sa street, is a very important nsome withdrawal of the little franchise capital there is: left | to the municipality and a positive and unnecessary | donation to the Market-street Railway Company, the effect and intention of which are to make that monop- oly virtually invulnerable. Whatever inducements may have been insidiously offered, however weakly Mr. Phelan may recede from positions that in the first instance were probably un- necessarily vigorous, The Call does not propose to abandon the protection of the public interests, nor, under the specious pretext of meeting a righteous demand, to consent to a steal that is as bad in prin- ciple, though less in extent, than the robbery first projected. The Call hopes that the Supervis rs may stand by THE BOURBON DEMOCRACY. their colors. HE. platform adopted by the heterogeneous T Democracy of Kentucky reads like a catalogue of relics unearthed from the age of stone. Its inspissated Bourbonism is its only-characteristic fea- It reaffirms the Chitago platform of 1806 “without the slightest qualification.” This alone would be an evidence of retrogressive stability that no phys- ical, intellectual could shake. But its subsequent resurrections and its unconsciously Iudicrous cfforts to infuse the breath of life into the decayed skeletons of dead issues exceed all possible anticipation. Its language reads like oracular petri- ture. moral or convulsion fication and is colder and inore incapable of mastica- | tion than of the embalmed speeches of W. J. Bryan. “Our faith in bimetallism is vindicated by events.” The vindication consists of the fact that every leading nation in the world has refused to co-operate with the United States in overturning the Baconian system of logic by the establishment of a double monetary standard. Therefore, we are instructed by the inspired Bourbonists of a State where all whisky is good but some better than others, that “relief can only come by the independent action of the United States,” which means the instantaneous adoption of a silver stand- | ard and the scaling of all wages and of all debts by the exact difference between the bullion value of silver | and the Chicago platform ratio of 16 to 1. | After a long imaginary interval in the celebrated impersonation by the actor, Jefferson, everybody is | astonished to find that Rip Van Winkle has come to life, while the bones of his ancient dog have been actually pelted into fragments by the torrents of years. The Kentucky Democracy has accomplished a greater | feat of resuscitation in its free silver plank, which jevcn their immutable leader has only casually re- | ferred to of late.in tones of blended reverence and | stoicism. | But Kntucky voices many other political entangle- | ments. ~ It measurably justifies the war with Spain | but damns the expense and charges it to the admin- istration. It has also discovered some mysterious | connection between trusts, against the worst forms of }which the Republican party has not only declared but legislated, and the demonetization of silver, which was supposed to have been abandoned as a party | slogan long hefore the unprocreative fusions of 1896 | and 1808. It has poured trusts, protection and cheap | silver into a witch’s caldron and concocted a mixture for which no descriptive name will ever be invented and which would turn the stomach-of the last sur- vivor of the dreg-swallowers of Bascom'’s grocery. The indorsement of William J. Bryan for the Presi- dency necessarily follows. The premises and the con- | clusion are as closely related as the apostolic exposure of the two domesticated quadrupeds that so promptly | returned—the one to its vomit and the other to its | wallowing in the mire. | The Call accepts the blast from Kentucky with com- | plete equanimity and only regrets that the indorse- | ment of the repudiated fusionists of 1806 was not in | some manner fastened upon our State and muncipal ; fusionists of 1808. That, however, will come in due time. Republicans can possess their souls in patience and they will soon hear the fusion disharmonies, ac- companied by the railroad whistle. | e —————— | SCANDALOUS APPOINTMENTS. HETHER the charges against the newly W elected principal of the San Jose Normal School be true or false, another scandal has gathered around the appointments of Governor Gage, | for of course the Governor is responsible for the action taken by the Trustees appointed by him to manage the affairs of the school, cvjdemly-'not in the interests of the institution, but, for political purposes. From the day when he entered upon his office and threw aside the mask he had worn during the cam- paign before the people, Gage has been not only an open but a shameless supporter of the worst prac- tices of politics. Almost every appointment he has made has been either a scandal in itself or the cause of one. When he has not appointed embezzlers to posi- | tions of public trust he has appointed persons hardly more worthy. His one object appears to be to advance the Burns push and the railroad gang. The appointments by which the welfare of so im- portant an institution as the State Normal School at San Jose has been subordinated to machine politics constitute one of the grossest outrages upon our edu- cational system that could be possibly perpetrated. That it has resulted in-an immediate scandal is per- | haps not altogether to be deplored, since the charges | made against the new principal serve to direct public | attention to the manner in which the Gage Trustees have entered upon their work of using the school for THE MINING FIELD AND THE EXPOSITION The general prospects of the mining fea- ture of California’s exhibit at the Parls Exposition next year were described on Saturday by E. W..Runyon, president of the California commission, who recently returned from a visit of inquiry to the East. It s now certain that the ideas concerning a large and striking display of California’s mineral resources and indus- try which have from the start filled the minds of the enterprising mining men concerned with the general welfare of the | industry, must be greatly circumscribed. Owing to the comparatively small amount of space obtairfable the display must be | the small and the efforts of those interested | O In its success must be directed to making it varied, rich and attractive and to the effective advertising of the California | mining field in connection with the dis- play. Mr. Runyon learned that the whole Cal- | political purposes. | From what the Governor has done with regard to | | the Normal School, it is evident that no institution | | of the State is considered by him to be an unfit place | i for the display of his political favdritism and his devo- \ | tion to the Burns machine. It is fortunate, therefore, | | that comparatively few vacancies have occurred in | the Board of Regents of the State University for him to fill. He would have used the university as he has | used the San Jose Normal School. The new presi- | dent of the institution would have been the choice of | | Burns politicians and his selection a new scandal !oi blacken the reputation of the State and seriously | injure the university itself. | Gage has taken care of his friends. All the members | good salaries at the expense of the taxpayers. He has | taken care of the Burns push and of the railroad. To | their demands he has sacrificed everything. Not only | the offices which have been long regarded as the | spoils of politics havé been placed at the disposal of | the machine, bu®, as is now seen, the great educa- | tional institutions of the State have also been sub- j mitted to it as a part of the plunder. > It has been the desire of the people of California fth:n the public educational system from the primary | schools to the university should be kept free from | the manipulation of machine politicians. Gage has | wantonly and defiantly affronted that sentiment. The | scandalous jobbery that well nigh wrecked the San | Jose High School has hardly passed from the public ‘ mind, and now Gage turns over to the same gang that | made that high school a part of the spoils of politics [the control of the State Normal School. There is no | telling to what extent Gage may yet go in his sub- servience to Burns, the railroad and the political ma- chine which they manage: and it is therefore by no means to be regretted that an open scandal has oc- curred to call public attention to his unscrupulous and shameless course. 3 NCE more the public has been given a striking | PHELAN'S GAS RESOLUTION. and costly proof of the frail support on which | | : Mayor Phelan has built up his pretensions to | | be a careful and faithful guardian of public interests. | The resolution fixing gas rates at $1 10 per thousand | feet has been weighed in the courts and found to be | | so carelessly drawn up as to be utterly worthless and | | invalid. | In the suit of the San Francisco Gas and Electric | | Company vs. William B. Hooper, in which the valid- | ity of the ordinance was involved, Judge Seawell dis- | | missed the issue with something like contempt. Under | the act of March 4. 1878, the municipal authorities are | authorized and required to fix the standard quality | and illuminating power of the gas to be furnished, ‘und the rate and price for each 1000 cubic feet to be ! | charged therefor, “‘by any person, company or cor- | | poration.” The Phelan resolution, introduced and | submitted to the Board of Supervisors by his counsel and direction, regulated the quality and fixed the price of gas to be furnished the city “by any company or corporation.” The word “person” included in the statute was omitted from the ordinance, and there- | and is consequently invalid. | Upon this showing of a clear and plain breach of | | the law, the Judge did not deem it worth his while | to consider any other of the issues raised in the case. | | After pointing out the defect of the ordinance he | said: “I make no further comment upon this de- parture from the plain requirements of the statute than to suggest to the board the propriegy in its future : resolutions of following the letter as well as the spirit | of the statute.” | A blunder of such a nature cannot be defended upon | any ground and can be explained only upon the sup- | position that the Mayor “hefted” the statute instead of reading it; and drew his conclusions of what it re- | quired from the way it felt, rather than from what it | said. This is the second notable instance where the | city has had to suffer because of the careless manner | in which the Mayor attends to his official duties. From first to last the proceedings of Mayor Phelan with respect to the issue between the city and the gas company have been a series of contradictions and absurdities. Early in March the Gas and Electric Company declared its willingness to accept a rate of $1 50 as a fair price for gas, but the Mayor was then posing as a reformer of the most radical school, so he set himself against such an agreement and brought about the introduction of the resolution fixing the rate at $1 10. He then declared that ordinance to be valid and was loud in urging the people to refuse to pay higher rates. Later on he saw a new light from some source, and a short time ago gave his sanction to another resolution fixing the rate at $1 50, thus mak- ing a complete surrender to the company and expos- ing the weakness of his pretensions as a “defender of the public welfare.” . The issue now gces over for another year. The gentlemen who made the fight in the courts to uphold the $1 10 ordinance have lost their money, but possi- bly they are wiser as well as sadder men, and have profited something from the experience. e Ay The British aristocracy is fairly drinking in Ameri- canism these days. At the fashionable Albert Doll Bazaar in London an American bar was the star at- traction. The Duke of Manchester, Lord Henry Somerset and other titled swells acted as bartenders and mixed a thousand American cocktails for their fair patrons. Judge Redwine is said to be responsible for the wild confusion and parliamentary demoralization which have overcome the delegates to the Kentucky Demo- cratic Sate Convention. Perhaps if the gentlemen had been true to their friend John Barleycorn they would have retained their senses. A peculiar and particularly pathetic form of insan- ity has manifested itself in a war veteran and pen- sioner of Wooster, Ohio. He has asked the Govern- ment to reduce his pension. Friends of Rear Admiral Kautz are relieved by the news from Wa.shipgton that he will not be relieved. | sioner | should be sent. | earnestly ifornia exhibit cannot be bunched in one | place. According to the will of the ex- position authorities in Paris the States’ exhibits must be shown, according to prescribed classification, in speclal buildings or departments devoted to this and that industry or Interest. California’s display must be and occupy the space in each United States collection awarded by Commis Peck and his department chiefs. Mr. Peck appears to have appreciated the | importance of the mining industry in this country, which produces nearly $500,000,000 worth of mineral products yearly, and he has made special efforts to secure as large an amount of space for it as possible. The‘\ to continue sinking until a depth of 500 to- | feet has been reached. United States exhibit will be placed gether in_the big Mining building. Pre- liminary diagrams secured by Mr. Runyon show that the United States has been Modern Gold-Dredger Recently Started on Feather River. This shows the outward appear- ance of one c¢f the big $35,000 gold dredgers of the modern New Zea- land type, now multiplying in California. It is the one lately In- stalled by the Kia Ora Gold-Dredg- ing Company in a tract of orchard and pasture, nearly three-quarters of a mile from the Feather River below Oroville. The surface is about eleven feet above the water level. It was set up in an excava- nearly square, in one of the large central aisles of the Mining building. Japan at one end and Portugal at the other have each about one-tenth as much space. Cal- ifornia will get whatever share space is awarded to it by F. J. N. Skiff of Chicago, who is in charge of the mining feature of the American exhibit. How many square feet of floor area it will have not yet known. A portion of the whole ace will be divided among States pro viding special exhibits, and as California has made the largest State appropriation and has the greatest mining record and greatest variety of mineral resources it will doubtless get more room than other State. Then it may contribute a good deal to the general make-up of the American display. “I saw Mr. Skiff at Chicago and got| ments th some general ideas on the mining exhib- it,’ said Mr. Runyon. ‘“He said that among onyx, rich gold ores and gems. There would be no room for showing actual min- | ing machinery in operation, but small working models might be shown. He at once agreed to accept a working model of a California quartz mill, which will be supplied with a ton or two of ore and show the actual operation in progress. | The California exhibits will be delivered at Chicago, where the responsibility will be assumed by them. The running exhibit must be small, but we want to make a striking showing. Pictures, topographical and other maps and descriptive literature Some could be displayed and the rest constitute a supply for distri- bution. Mr. Skiff agreed that California could send a special representative to at- tend its mining display, answering que: tions, etc., and that he would appoint him an_honorary mineralogist on his own staff. Each mineral specimen may bear the name of the individual contributor, the mine, cte. A special representative of Mr. Skiff's department will be out here soon and then more will be known.” On Saturday Mr. Runyon wrote Mr. SKiff in part as follows: “Since my return to California we have taken up the work of making up the different exhibits, in which we would like mining to be one of the prin- cipal features. I have the memorandum you gave me regarding the different spec- imens we would like exhibited from Cali- fornia, and within a day of two will see one of our manufacturers in reference to making a complete quartz mill, which we would like to exhibit in action. I am not positive that we will be able to make this exhibit, but will advise you in a few days. We can, however, give you a very choice exhibit of ores from our chief mines. “Can you give me any definite informa- tion as to how much :}mce ‘we will have in your department? When the amount is allotted to us we can work much more intelligently, as you know.” The exposition apFroprlstlon bill as agreed to in legislative committee pro- vided $120,000, and of this the committee estimated $15,000 for the mining industry. A strong committee of the California Miners! Association went to Sacramento and succeeded in raising the appropria- tion to $130,000, with the tacit understan ing with the legislators and the Gover- noi that the raise was for the miners, and that $25,000 should be devoted to adver- tising this great and booming California industry. he disposition of the fund is largely left with the Commissioners alone. Mr. Runyon says that the amount to be spent for the mlnlng display and its at- tendant advertising features has not been decided on. Since the n‘)polntmenl of tho commission the exposition committee of the Miners' Association has not yet taken any steps in the matter. There is a wide fleft’i for effective effort in getting all the advertising. possible out of the small but fine and comparatively prominent exhibit and the Paris Exposition provides the greatest opportunity in sight for letting the mining investors of the world know what a rich and virgin field for mining capital California affords. A number of the mining machinery and supplies men of Los Anfeles and some others have issued a call for a meeting In Los Angeles on July 13, when it is pro- ggsed to form a miners’ assogiation for uthern California. = This will be inde- endent of and opposed to the promising gouthern California branch of .the Cali- fornia Miners’ Association, organized a few weeks ago. The circular of invita- tion says In part: “The object and duties of the associa- tion, when formed, will,in part, be to make better known the advantages that our mining districts offer as a fleld for profit- able investments; also to co-operate to- ward the enactment of such laws as will protect our mineral lands, and protect the miner in the ursuit of his occupation, ta’r,ni ;uc{niotther {mrptns;‘a asls?nll x;)mute, e best interests of the minin of Southern California.” 8 dnduetry The success of such an investment wil be regretted by many friends of thflndu;‘! any | . . . I SR 5 | other things he wanted California | | fore the ordinance is not uniform in its operation, | to send petroleum, borax, asphaltum, | United | divided up accordingly | | eral” Alvarado is at the head of an En | | the Darling Mine. | of his Los Angeles law office, from his partner to the | glven an area of unstated dimensions, | returned from an Eastern trip in conrec- ‘jflnitor. have been provided with “soft snaps” and | @-e-g—s+-0—4-0-+-0-4-0 404000404004 0—->-+-0--0+0 | than combine and strengthen the influence | new prospecting work is being started in of this| | the *“Whiskey Diggins’ try, as it would divide and weaken rather of the miners of the State in securing lleglslauon and otherwise fostering the in- ustry. Crude oil has gone up in price and at Los Angeles sold last week at from %0 cents to $1 05, The rise in the cost of cas- ing has checked drilling and checked thg supply. The stron%‘ gushers recently struck at Fullerton have subsided. The Loftus-Graham well has fallen from 600 to 200 barrels a day and the big gusher e;llruck by the Sagta Fe Company will ave to be pumped. Coalinga, in Fresno County, is hecqmlnq the banner field. The San Joaquin Valley craze increases. Many new com- panies are constantly forming and much Kern, Tulare, Kings and Fresno counties especially. San Francisco capitalists are taking hold of the new fields. The Krey- | enhagen field, twenty-five miles south of Coalinga, has developed oil at 60 feet in the 800 acres of the Kreyenhagen Oil Com- pany. One stratum of ofl sand is reported | to be 300 feet thick. A fine quality of kerosene has been distilled from this oil experimentally, The Panoche oil district | in Fresno and the McKittrick and Elwood | districts, in Kern County, are attracting | much attention, | A Placerville dispatch to The Call says: General Juan C. Alvarado of London is | visiting the Darling mine near George- town to Inspect the property. Gen- | recently purchas rhe mine was a rich producer in the early history of quartz mining in this State and was worked to a depth of 200 feet. The mine has been unwatered, and the new owners propose lish syndicate that W. C. lazlston, vice president of the California Miners’ Association, who has tion and 000 gallons of water is | pumped daily from the river to | keep up the artificial lake and | operate the machine. The mass- ive machinery and the big movable girder carrying the endless chain of | steel buckets directed against the | bank and bottom are not shown. Hundreds of acres of this groand will be worked thirty feet to bed- rock at a cost of abcut 3 cents per | cubic yard. | | | @0 +0004040400040 000409040009 0+0+0+Q | tion with the Melones mine, was told in | New York by President Douglass and Stcretary Rossiter Raymond of the | Amerfcan Institute of Mining Engineers that over 200 members of the institute | would doubtless attend the annual meet- | ing in San Francisco in September. vi The tors will_probably reach a thousand, and among them will | be several prominent foreign mining | engineers. 1 One of the interesting old mines being | resuscitated is the Valley View copper mine in Placer County, better known as mine. In past | ars three quartz milis have been erect- | d at the mine and removed. A San Fran- cisco ccmpany is now . developing the | property for copper and gold, with good | prospects. According to reliable state- | property and adjoining ledges | contain a greater variety of minerals | than perhaps any _other one locality | known. _ Australia has one similar de- posit. ~Besides gold, silver, copper, zinc and other ores theré are many other in- | teresting minerals, including molybdenum | and tourmaline. { total number of Agents of the mines in trouble with | strikers at Wallace and Wardner, Idaho, have been trying with small success to get California miners to take the place of the strikers. Special efforts have heen made along the mother lode and at Ivon | Mountain to secure men, but California | provides plenty of work for any compe- tent miner now and the job offered nas no_attractions anyway. The American River, near Folsom, is to have another gold dredge. Boston men have secured 100 acres and are prospecting other properties. They will put in the biggest and best dredge obtainable and more are contemplated. A Boston syndicate represented by C. D. Galvin has bonded for development nine_copper and gold claims on Squaw Creek, six miles from Kennet, Shasta County. Much money will be spent in the development operations. Many other similar operations are in progress through that promising region. s A $3000 pocket gave local fame to the O'Hara claim at Browns Flat, Tuolumne County, last week. One chunk of gold weighed two pounds. The Pennsylvania mine of Grass Val- ley, as a result of a new 10-stamp mill and good ore, has declared its thirtieth month- ly dividend of $10300, or 20 cents per share, four times the amount that has been declared regularly. The stockhold- ers paid $85.000 in assessments before div- idends arrived, and the last dividend made the cash returns to date equal the assessments. Now they have a good mine ulnd a‘zond lnc%me. hThat 1s what Califor- nia mines can do when money is WlABel)'. : 3 Y invested number of copper properties ha been sold or bonded during the week. e _— AROUND THE CORRIDORS Among yesterday’s naval arrival Occldental was B. P. Jessop. o H. E. Kennedy is registered at th - ace from Washington, D. C, e Henry Bently, a wealthy busines: of Chicago, is at the California. B Frank W. Griffen, the Oroville mining man, is a guest at the California. M. E. Clowe, a wealthy grain Yolo County, is staying at the Llcll:a" % J. E. Harper, a wealthy merch: Reno, Nev., is registered at the Gra?-:!f or N. Tsimbalenco, a traveler from Od. is among the late arrivals at the Pajace. L. W. Fulkerth and C. A. Stoneci two Modesto lawyers, are staying n? htehré Lick. E. W. Deltz of India and B. Morgan of Singapore are ests § i il Bu at the Ocet- Baron Bismarck an have returned to the Palace. Admiral Kautz is registered at the Occl dental, as js also W. H. b CEhndo s H. Moreland, Bishop John M. Striling, a merchant of Sas B?sa. and D. Levy, a business man nt:; Williams, are both guests at the Grand. Waldo S. Johnson and Arthur R. Red- dington, two young business men of Marysville, are registered at the Grand. H. P. Judd and R. C. Lydecker, two Yale students, arrived on the overland last night on a vacation to the coast. Tr(n:ey went to the Occldental. ongressman Payne and party s night for Alaska via Pnnlznd Ylnsl"&la:\:t tle. They spent their last day in the clty Visiting the park and inspecting our forti- fications. The gentlemen expressed them- d Baron von Heyl clty and are at the | 12 knots and fired 70 round | used | and they are eleven years old. | few destroyers selves as charmed with San Francisco and all pertaining thereto, and deeply re- - gretted that the time they had set apart for vacation would not permit them to make a thorough tour of the entire State. Charles S. Hamlin, formerly assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Presi- dent Cleveland, is at the Palace. Mr. Hamlin, who is accompanied by his wife, is on the coast merely for purposes of rest and pleasure. Dr. R. Vasivinckel, Hans Lippigen and De Wieke, a party of wealthy Ger- mans, arrived at the Palace last evening. They came in on the Rio and are making a tour of the world. J. G. Anderson and wife, Mrs. H. A. Campbell, H. N. Schmidt and Mr. and Mrs. George H. Paris constitute a party of travelers who arrived on the “Rio” vesterday and are staying at the Occi- dental. — e ——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, June 25.—M. Cohen of Los Angeles is at the Broadway Central. A. H. Crocker and M. Morcus of San Fran- cisco are at the Vendome. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Japan has placed orders in Europe for cne third-class crulser, two torpedo-gun- boats, one reserve torpedo-boat, eleven torpedo-boats of the first class and six- teen smaller torpedo-boats. The British cruiser Scylla, while at gun practice in the Mediterranean, steamed at at a target 1600 yards distant, scoring 5 hits, or 80 per cent. The battleship C, building at Wil helmshafew, although of the same gen- eral type as the Kaiser Frederick IIT and the Koenig Wilhelm, is to have engines of 15,00 horsepower and a speed of 19 knots, against 13,000 horsepower and 18 knots of the other ships. The British battleship Hannibal, 14,900 tohs, which has only been in commission about six months, recently made a long distance run at sea, during which she av- eraged 16.5 knots. Her trial speed under forced draught was 17.5 knots, and her performance under service conditions ex- ceed the expectations by over one knot. Krupp, by a new system of hardening armor plates, gives a greater thickness of hardness and a harder surface to the plates. The improvement is effected by adding 25 per cent more nickel than for- merly. The cost per ton is thereby in- creased to about $400 per ton, but this in- creased cost, it is believed, will be offset Dby the less quantity that may be required on account of the improved quality of the armor. ‘With the completion of the Amphitrite the British navy counts seven cruisers of one type of 11,000 tons, 16300 horse- power and 20.5 knot speed. The Amphi- trite made her eight-hour full power trial last month with good results, developing 18,220 horsepower and averaging 20.78 knots, the coal consumption being only 1.57 pounds per horsepower per hour. Un- der one-fifth power the horse- power was 3600 and the speed 13.32 knots with a coal consump- tion of 54 pounds. In the m ured mile trial the horsepower was 13 speed 19.73 knots, with 112 revolutions, and the coal expended was only 143 pounds per horsepower. Other ships of . the same type gave the following re- sults: FEuropa, 1M: Andromeda, 174; Adriadne, 1 Diadem, 161; Ar gonaut, 1.60, and the Niobe, 135 pounds. All these ships are fitted with Belleville water-tube boilers, but various improvements have been experimented with in successive trials with most satis- factory results in the Amphitrite. Startling disclosures of the inefficient state of the Italian navy have recently been made in an official report by a board of examiners to the Minister of Marine. The navy list bears the names of twelvg battleships and nine armored cruisers, the oldest built in 1864 and four launched in 1897 but still uncompleted. Of the battle- ships the Affondatore, Duflio @nd Lepanto are only fit for coast guards, and the Ttalla may be utilized as a floating bat- tery. Five armored cruisers are also condemned for sea service and good for coast guard, and include the Ancona, Castelfigardo, Marco Polo, Maria Pia and San Martino. Of the fifty-two un- | armored vessels, classed as cruisers and torpedo-gunboats, five of the fourth class and all nine of the fifth are only fit for The of transports or as coasting cruisers. ships of the sixth class and the two the seventh class are absolutely usele: The five torpedo boats of the first c namely the Aguila. Sparviero, Nibio, Av- voltolo and Faleo. built in 1888, cannot be in active service except with ex- treme prudence, and of the 153 smaller tor- pedo boats only 80 are in good condition, These also could only be used in coast defense, and a would play havoc with this fleet. In case of war only three ‘of the large ships building could be made ready, and the rest of the armored and cruiser fleet not absolutely condemned for further sea service would be found to re- quire many defects to be made good be- fore they could cope with any hope of success against a foreign fleet. Cal.glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® ———e— supplied daily to the ont- . Special _information business houses and public men b: Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 510 gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, —_— ee—— “The way to sleep.”” says the scientist, “4s to think of nothing.” But this is a mistake. The way to sleep is to think it is time to get up. EXCURSION TO $81—Detroit, Mich., and Return—$81 Leave San Francisco § a. m., June 29, the Burlington Route will ran an excursion to Detroft in charge of a speclal manager. Up- holstered tourist sleeping cars used on this occasion. Route via Salt Lake and Denver, passing Colorado scenery by daylight. Arrive Detrott 6 p. m. July 3. Berths reserved, etc., at 32 Montgomery street, San Francisco, or 9712 Broadway, Oakland. —_————————— Official Route Christian Endeavor Excursion to Detroit. Leave San Francisco § p. m., June 2, via Central Pacific, Unlon Pacific, Chicago and Northwestern and Wabash Railways, one day s=pent at both Denver and Omaha Exposition. Round trip rate to Detroit, $1. For reserva- tions and further information address George P. Lowell, Transportation Manager California Christian Endeavor, 1626 Eighth ave., East Oakland, Cal. —_—————— Low Rates to Detroit, Michigan, for Christian Endeavor Convention. The SANTA FE ROUTE will make rate of 881 for the round trip. Tickets on sale Juns 20th. For full particulars call at ticket office, 628 Market street, this city, or 1118 Broadway, Oakland. —_—— Reduced Rate to Detroit and Return Over Northern Pacific Railway. The C. E. convention will be held fn Detroft this year, commencing July 5. The Northern Pacific will be offictal route, as it was in 1397, when the conventlon was held in San Fra--'sco, Over 10,000 people returned FEast ove: the Northern Pacific, and they were loud in thetr praises over the many beautles seen along he line. You will have a nice, cool, pleasant Journey, enjoying the most luxurious of accom- modations. Stopover allowed at the wondertul Yellowstone Park. Send 6c in stamps for II- lustrated book to T. K. Stateler, General Agent, Market st.. San Francisco. —————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething wita perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Collc, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether grising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, %c a bottle. —_—————— HOTEL DEL CORONADO--Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only 360 Ly. steamship, ircluding fifteen days’ board at hotel; longer stay $2 50 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco.