The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 3, 1899, Page 4

3 builders would like the public to believe, ANOTHER MONOPOLY DEFEAT. N Monday last, with the general concurrence of the public, the Market-street Railway Com- pany was virtually accorded all the rights and privileges necessary for the extension of street rail- | way facilities to the northeastern part of San Fran- | cisco. In accordance with views The Call had re- | | peatedly expressed, complete provision for the cork-| ..Market and Third Sts., S. F | screw line, through the Post-street system with its | connections and extensions, was legally made by the | | Board of Supervisors. An effort to include the new | franchise on Grant avenue and Bush street was de- feated. B e Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. = eSS S SUTIOSP U UL S PUBLICATION OFFICE ... Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874, DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 16 CENTS PER WEEK Single Coples, B cents. Al e e s soo0 | It was noticed, however, that Mayor Phelan ex- DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 months. 3.00 ed his entire willingness that this new iranc!nse‘ ST GATL ((inshding Sdoday//Cai. J maencs 150 | intended to perfect the control of the north end of the DAILY CALL—Ry Stngle Month. BUNDAY CALL One Year. SEKLY CALL Cne Year. 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Eample copies will be forwarded when requested. should be award- “T see many advantages in it,” was his reported | Upon this change of front, in the face of | 908 Broadway | his ostentatious resistance to the original Markcp; street scheme, The Call has already commented. Buti li not yet exposed the full extent and the treach-| erous nature of the fraud which it was fully intended | to consummate to-day. It has now become apparent | in order to lull the community into security, the | nt avenue and the Bush street robbery was kept in the background, with the deliberate intention of | 1 it through the Board of Supervisors aiter the | 1.50 | city by the Market-street monopoly. ed CAKLAND OFFICE.. C. GEORGE KROGNESS, ¢ Manager Forcign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; | that Auditorium Hotel. e Sherman Fremont House; NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: g PERRY. LUKENS JR 29 Tribune Building forc legitimate corkscrew line had been secured. practically a holiday on which good citizens of the great| event that for the first time gave man a controlling | | influence his own government. But action upon the four franchises, not yet reported, of which the | Grant avenue and the Bush street loop is the prin-| cip will not be deferred through the action of the | Market-street Railway Company, but by causes be-| vond its control. » man ever knew the Humingtnn‘ monopoly in any of its numerous disguises to delay | the completion of a fraud from patriotic motives or from any manly impulse. | There was nothing surprising in the treachery of | WS STANDS. Brentano, 31 Unlon NEW YORK N tor Hotel; A tel. Square; This i are preparing for the due celebration Waldor: Muyrray F g WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE .Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON. Correspondent. Hor in BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open 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. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth. open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon - street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street. open untll 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. the railway in reserving these four franchises for what Columbia—"The Adventure of Lady Ursi Califo; A Midnight Bell.” it expected to be a separate and independent exhibi- | Orpheum—Vaudeville. c ! e | Tivoli— ' Brien."” tion of municipal corruption. But its confidence that | A e S femcar de Bazan” and “Only the Master | it could actually secure the indorsement of a majority Shall Blam 5 of the Board of Supervisors was simply astounding | 3 Opera House—'‘The Beggar Student 3 and was fortunately misplaced. The Call has care- | Speciaittes? r_u.‘.\ investigated the situation, and has m\cn‘ every | r Eighth—Bat- | Supervisor who can be reached an opportunity for and Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon explanation. It is happy to announce that at least six of them, namely. Supervisors Perrault, Byington, | = sy. Lackmann, Kalben and Collins, have distinct- | De announced that they will not vote for the four new But for the position taken | rvisor Collins vesterd; v Phelan could be relied upon, the defeat or chises or any of them 1s no hostile action by Mayc year just closed makes a fine exhibit. | the' victory of the Market-street Railway monopoly A BRILLIANT HALF YEAR. HE ha The strength, and confidence in the future is as san in no ave rested exc 1 might 1 sively with Supervisor Heyer. Althot are safe situation shows commercial 8 guine as the first known for the reasons stated the public interests it is even doubtful whether the four fran- I be reported by the committee, the attitude | The tes of the Market-street robbery have repeat- The amount of business done during ever before 1809 larger than ch was S w general level of prices during the | of Supervisor Heyer deserves serious treatment voc ¢ highest since the spring of 1f companies report larger earn sporta edly bragged that they had a Supervisor in reserve ion ywering rates of t who at the right time would range himself against the Tested by his declarations, ervisor Heyer above all others should have been the reliance of Superintendent Lynch would be In L the granting of the proposed franchises | of $48,811,000, with liabilities com 1ity. voluntary 246,000, duri g the e that ilities of §7 Here in San ness for the first hali of the year is shown half of 1808 Francisco t in- 1 inconceiv he Call of May 31 he said: b arings of $443,200,000, against 397,122,000 | will opp: to the Market-street Railway Company as long as I | * * * On Monday I oi 1899 will make any poorer showing than the first| voted against the attempt to grant the proposed fran- | half. True, during the past few weeks the gap be- | chises, and I shall continue so to vote until the end tween the national exports and imports has been steadily closing, and the former no longer exceed the inning of the year. last year are at present no indications that the last half | have a vote in the board. of the chapter.” When interviewed on Saturday last he professed m to the four fran- ignorance of the facts in relat latter <o enormously as at the be: and as | chises, with which he w as s perfectly familiar when his positive intentions were expressed as we have quoted ared his entire on the was from the newspapers and de- | clined to intimate on which side his vote would be They are still in large excess, however we sell more than we buy we are all right. The staples continue firm, and are more ac tive th 1al at this time of the year, when the mid- summer heat throughout the East cuts down busir that information subject derived materially. Mgny of the iron and steel works are so| cast. On its face this attitude is hard to explain. It crowded with orders that they have passed the usual | spreads a deep scarlet color over the insinuations <hutdown at this season and will work right along.| that have been so frequent against the ultimate in- | are maintained Prices for iron and steel easily at | tegrity of Supervisor Heyer. Fortunately, through their present high level, though orders for distant| the announcement of Supervisor Collins, his impor- future delivery have fallen off of late. The market | tance in the controversy has ceased. But if possible Augean task for the furnaces, for they no| he should assuredly make some explanation to the one line of Enropean contracts out of the | people. Such treason to common honesty, such re- ould be in- presents sooner way than fresh orders come pouring in. Some fur-| volting indifference to appearances as ve started in with orders for their| volved in his defection from his incorruptible asso- The activity in hardly credible. Even Judas Iscariot did not abated, and the cotton mills are doing well, | precede his immortal infamy by a proclamation of his y good that it keeps them busy in pen in the United site of the recent fall in the raw product. The b.mt; States sufficiently vitriolic to do justice to the kind y has broken all records, shipments| and the degree of apos that was attributed to being enorme | Supervisor Heyer, although it has really become in- in all directions, while the factories have orders for | consequential. naces, indeed, wool con-| ciates, i whole year's product. own integrity. There is not a nd shoe indusi and the distributive demand heavy several months ahead. | The local situation compares favorably with that in | the East.. No better crops could be wished, and with | the single exception of hay are likely to bring good | There is a scarcity in oats and barley at the | RESIDENT VALENTINE of the \\'el!sr‘ Fargo Company, not with shirking VALENTINE AND HIS RECORD. | prices moment, which has advanced prices for both descrip- | p taxes, discriminating in favor of large shippers tions, something unusual in the month of July, when | against smaller ones and levying upon the pub- the new crops are coming in. Wheat remains steady | lic all the tribute it will consent to pay, has of late at- prices which, though not high, are still profitable | felt a new yearning for victims and has found them | to the farmer. The demand for fruit on canning ac iin the agents of the company. A circular has gr)nei count -is-as active as ever, and the unusually high‘ forth announcing that their commissions are to be re- | g the fruit-growers on velvet. The |duced as much as 50 per cent. | rket being cleaned up. good prices will| Valentine sometimes accompanies his circulars to probably rule for the incoming crop, and, indeed, | his subordinates with quotations from the Bible ex- opening figures already established are considerably horting them to a pious life, and inferentially present- | above those predicted several months ago by local|ing himself to them as a holy exemplar and teacher. | dealers. There is a fine domestic and foreign demand | Whether in the order reducing commissions he for the general run of merchandise, and the lumber | changed the text of Scripture to suit his notion and market is more active than for some years at strong | made it read, “The workman is not worthy of his prices. Hops and wool are quoted at a much higher | hire,” we know not. Certain it is, however, that if | range than expected last spring, and there is an active | put to it he could find a text of some kind, could inquiry for both. As has already been remarked this | preach a sermon on it, and then extort from the pub- the farmer’s year, and the city is reaping | lic money enough to have it printed in letters of gold the benefit of it. The mines, too, are in much better | on plates of silver. condition than last year at this time, when lack of | The tax-shirking Pharisee is at his best, however, | water forced many to suspend operations. In brief, | when posing as an exemplar rather than as a preacher | on whatever side we look, we find the State in a con- | Some years ago, when business was dull with the | dition of agricultural and commercial activity that fills | company. Valentine issued an order reducing all sal- everybody with confidence. * A significant sign in this | aries from 10 to 15 per cent, and for the comfort of: direction is the scarcity of labor, which has resulted | his victims set himself to be an example unto them of | in a general advance in harvest wages, the beneficial | how to bear a reduction of salary with Christian resig<} effect of which throughout the State at large can | nation. He announced that he would have his own hardly be overestimated. salary reduced by $2000 a year. Moreover, he did not tell a lie. His salary as president of the Wells-Fargo Company was actually reduced by the amount named, | and still Valentine wore his unctuous smile and was | content dried fruit m is essential It is said that Dreyfus has lost the power of speech | and with it the ability to defend himself before his| Judges. The testimony of his terrible sufferings that | ¢ conspicuously pious as ever his tortured face will bear witness will be more elo-| The secret of his posing so beautifully as a self- quent in pleading than any words he could use or| denying martyr to the cause of economy was a little command. trick he had prepared for the occasion. At that time | An Oakland pastor who has had a disagreement | \Yfl_ls']:"‘,rg” Company had control of :.hc Commercial | i o e will e National Bgnk at Portland, and Valentine had himself Fresno or some other warm place. His friends might elected prcs‘den.' of the institution at a salary of $5000 a year. Thus, instead of a decrease of $2000 a year have induced him to be more explicit in reference to | T ) % L e e o o fmm his official income, the astute poser obtained an. *the opportunity. increase of $3000 a year. In 1897 the affairs of the bank in Portland were wound up, and Valentine then lost his salary as presi- dent. By that time, however, he had set his example A to the subordinates whose salaries he had cut down el About this time look out for fires and accidents; they are liable to happen with the best regulated use of firecrackers and bombs W and there was no longer any need for posing. cordingly he obtained from the directors of Ac- Wells- Fargo Company an increase of $5000 in his salary as president of the company, so that he remains $3000 a year ahead of the game. With many of the offenses committed by the tax- shirking corporation and its canting president They may reduce sala- public has no direct concern. the ries and commissions to starvation wages if they so choose, for there is no law to prevent. The nefarious practice of tax-shirking is, however, one which the | law can prevent, and it is the duty of the officers of | Neither Valentine nor his com- the State to do so. pany should. be permitted to evade the taxes they owe to California. It is the duty of the Assessor to see to it that no cunning or insolence avails the shirk- ers in an effort to escape their obligations to the | State. To that extent at least their rapacity and their | frauds should be baffled and defeated. THE FINANCES OF THE UNIVERSITY. M ORE than ordinary gratification will be felt throughout the State over the action of the re- | gents in rescinding a resolution imposing a registration fee upon students of the State University. It is the desire of the people of the State of California | that education for the youth of the commonwealth shall be free from its beginning to its highest forms, | | and they have shown themselves to be ever willing m: bear whatever burden of taxation may be required to | accomplish it. The Call was earnest in its opposition to the policy | of the regents in imposing the tax, and will now be equally earnest in supporting any well-devised | measure they may adopt to meet the temporary de- ! ficiency in the funds of the institution and carry on its work "without curtailing the efficiency or limiting the usefulness of any department. In a commonwealth | das z 5 SRS cau so rich as this an institution so strongly supported | forc. by public sentiment and by private munificence can hardly suffer seriously from the present embarrass- | outside work at the ment. It would have suffered, however, had the! registration tax been imposed and the advantages of the institution been to some extent put beyond the | Thursday. reach of the poor. No reason exists for believing that the finances of | county. the university have been in any way wasted or mis-| great minin; managed; the tirade of Governor Gage to the con- | trary notwithstanding. The university is, in fact, one | of the few institutions of the State whose manage- | ment has been kept free from politics and has the | Gage would doubtless like | to conduct it as he conducted his sheep business and | confidence of the public. take possession of its offices as part of the spoils for himself and Burns. Lacking ability to accomplish that, he berates the regents as if their management of | the university were as bad as his own sheep record. a matter of fact it would now be the easiest | thing in the world for the regents to obtain a tem-| porary loan to tide over the deficit in the funds had | not Gage himself, by defrauding a creditor of the | State, shown that so long as he is in office no one can trust 1it. Whatever may be the outcome, the regents have acted rightly and wisely in rescinding the resolution imposing the tax on students. The university is a part of the public education of the State, and like all other departments of that education it must be free. THE DEWEY MONUMENT. movement for the erection of a monument to Admiral | Dewey. The sum already raised is sufficient to attest | of the people in promoting the enter- | prise and virtvally assures its success, so that it is | the earnestne ITH the patriotic impulses aroused by the cele- bration of Independence day, there will come a | new ardor of public sentiment in favor of the | with confidence in the outcome each citizen may in proportion to his means make his contribution to lhc‘ monument fund. Since the establishment of the American Union cach successive generation has accomplished some great work of national development and produced a hero of immortal memory. After Washington and | the Revolution came the War of 1812 and Andrew Jackson. The controversy over the slave question | precipitated the Civil War and brought to the front the heroic military figure of General Grant. Our generation has fought the war that has broken down the last vestige of Spanish domination in this hemi- sphere, raised the republic to the prestige of a world | power and furnished another hero to our annals in the person of Admiral Dew people to the hero of Manila Bay. Almost every large city in the United States now | y. The fame and the deeds of Washington, Jackson and Grant have been fitly | commemorated in monumental art, and it is now for | vs to give an equal expression to the gratitude of the | boasts some conspicuous accomplishment in the way of monumental construction. We are rapidly proaching the time when our cities will be as rich in | ap- artistic achievements and historic memorials as those of the Old World. California should keep pace with | ‘the progress of her sister States in this respect. right and fitting that the chief monument to Dewey should stand in this ci should be erected while the glory of his victory is still fresh in the minds of men and it is appropriate that it One of the best ways to give your patriotism ex- pression in permanent form is to make a liberal con- | | tribution to the Dewey monument fund. but the glory of it will.last longer. T R A subscrip- tion may not make as much noise as a firecracker, No ditplay of fireworks arranged by the Fourth of July committee will blaze more conspicuously in the public eye than the display it has made of the impera- | tive need of men of genuine patriotism and true hon- esty to compose such a committee. —_— Tt will not matter much if the Peace Conference re- | ject the proposal for the establishment of an inter- | national tribunal of arbitration, as it appears there is not a single nation on the face of the globe that has a dispute it is willing to arbitrate. Roosevelt is doubtless cere in asserting that he is not working up a boom for the Presidential nomination, but it is certain that he is working his Rough Rider reputation for all it is worth and a large amount of fun to boot. e Frank Somers, the murderer of Christopher Gail- braith at Nevada City, appears at any rate to have had some regard for decency. | to go out into the woods to kill himsel —_ The Market-street augurated a new industry in the city. reputations as well as live: the streets of San Francisco. Even the elements seem to know f. Railway Company has He took the trouble in- It is taking that its efforts to monopolize Captain Dreyfus is a disturbing individual to the French peo- ple. land in the midst of a terrific storm. The exiled officer was returned to his native SoiaTio In its wideawake search for news the Associated Press can find in the reports of our special corre- spondent from Samoa a good deal that.will be inter- esting to itself, Tt is | NEWS OF TH The prospects of the California mining | exhibit at the Paris Exposition have not brightened during the week or become | less hazy and uncertain. It seems fairly | likely that the exhibit will be pretty well abandoned to the wishes and discretion of the three State Commissioners, as there are strong symptoms that the California Miners' Association will regard the size of the mining allowance and the amount of room for the display as too small to warrant special efforts to get up a fine display. Colorado is exerting itself to do something handsome in the interest of its mining industry, and a life-sized statue of solid gold is to be one of its adver- tising features. Montana has five mineral commissioners, who propose to make a | fine exhibit. California should top them | all, but it would require vigorous and liberal effort on somebody’s part. The mining reglons are crying for help | as well as the fruit and grain regions of the valleys. No miner need seek employ- ment long these days, and skilled and un- skilled labor of all kinds is In steady de- mand in a great number of booming | mining districts all over the State. The | situation in Shasta County, which re- flects its mining prosperity, is thus described by the Redding Free Press: ‘Experienced miners out of employ- ment are a decided scarcity in Shasta County. In fact, there are none idle. Laborers are also scarce. Capital is now seeking labor here. Oscar G. Rogers, iperintendent of the Mount Shasta mine, spent Wednesday night and Tues- day morning in Redding in an endeavor to secure five good miners to be added to the Mount Shasta crew, but was com- | pelled to_return to the mine without a | man.. Ten miners were secured a few ago for the Mount Shasta. The se of the increase in the Mount Shasta e is the development of the 30-foot level which has just been opened. “S. L. Stone, who has charge of the Harrison Gulch property of the Midas Gold Mining Com- pany, arrived in town Wednesday evening |in séarch of thirty laborers. He was having hard work to secure that number Applications are heard on | all for men. man need not be | out of employment for a minute in this County fully shares in the activity of that whole slight- ly developed .mineral region of Northern California, and has a great mining future before it. The condition of the industry is concisely and conservatively stated by the Yreka Journal follows: “Siskiyou County has now in active op- eration a good many fine paying quartz mines, and it will not be long before new and important discoveries will be made, as there are quite a number of prc | pectors in the hills looking after quartz. There are hundreds of fine prospects in this county at the present time awaiting development, and all that is needed is a little capital to turn them into fine pay- { ing mines. The mines of this county have | | never been hoomed, but the county is gradually and surely coming to the front as one of the best quartz mining sec- tions in the State. “There are, all told, 225 stamps and two Huntington mills in Siskiyou County. Of this number 13 stamps are in continuous operation, or at least as much as water supply of the respective properties will permit.” About forty stamps are dle s cause: The remaining worked occasional: sids Siskiyou stamps er coun- Of the total 1y 100 are in the Salmon R s_are also the two n Not one of the stamps in that d trict can be classed as idle, and s arrastres are kept busy in the locality Of the forty stamps now preparations are in progress to about one-third or more. The are divided among thirty-two mines, or an average of nearly s stamps. The Black Bear and Gold Ball head the list with the largest number. A number of rew mills are also in con- vho have recently start 225 stamps | templation by parties purchased mines her Still another *gold-dredging” plant for working the tempting submerged gravels of the auriferous streams is to be tried. The Stanislans Dredging Company has | three miles of such placer ground on the Stanislaus River, near Robinson F and W, Stover, the 3 adopted th 7 mode of operation after inspecting the operation of a small | experimental one put on the San Joaquin River, near Pollasky, Fresno County, by who hax president, the inventor, patented In this booming dredger time the practical experiment with a plan opposed to ail past experience will he watched with interest. This new sub- | | marine gold-saving machine is thus de- | scribed in the Sonora Democrat: “The one for the new company will be mounted on a dredger to be built and Jaunched near Robinson Ferry. Tt will be 80 feet long, 40 feet wide and draw but 14 inches of water, thus permitting its during Mr. Donahoo, it. the the } Huntington | E NG FIELD was a result of the operation of the big smelter of the Mountain Copper Company at Keswick, the peculiar theory being that the smelter slag which is ‘dumped into Spring Creek and partly borne down the river is responsible, fine, sharp par- into the gills of the fish. The Redding Free Press defends the smelter by a s neither the copper mine: ea lions that does the mi; f, but that the fish get caught in the big l0g and wood jams in the Pitt River and below. One of the largest sales of mining prop- erty ever made in Siskiyou County has just been effected In the sale of Schroeder quartz mine_of the Deadwood District, seven miles from Yreka, to a Canadian_company for $100.000. It is a paying property, with a ledge tapped by a tunnel at the depth of 120 feet. property will be vigorously developed un- der the superintendency of Mr. Schroeder, the former owner, who has been retained, The Virginia Dale Mining District of San_Bernardino County has developed a condition of permanent prosperity since £00d _mines have become pro- The O. K. mine has been opened to a depth of 230 feet, where the forty- one-inch vein yields ore of Increasing The last run at the mill produces $2310 in ‘gold and eleven ounces of silver Zrom 101 tons of ore. The tailings at this mine are now successfully cyanided, ef- fecting a saving of % per cent of the val- ues. The summer temperature out there on the desert, 120 degrees, has forced o six weeks' closing of the mill. Work is pur- sued, however, in the shafts and tunnels, in which there is a_strong and constant natural draught. The Ivanhoe, Brook- Iyn and White Star are among the other operating mines in the region. ~The hot weather has forced all the dry washers in the placers to quit. formation of an asphalt tru: the East the other day closely con the big asphalt industry of California. The capital_is $20,000,000, and the Asphalt Company of America proposes to control all the important asphalt mines of the world and the of the products in pav- ing, roofing, ete. The Trinidad mines are in its grasp. The Alcatraz Asphalt Pav- ing Company of Los Angelesywill join the trust. It controls the_output of the big Alcatraz mines of Santa Barbara County, which, however, are owned by another company controlled by the Crockers. Large hydraulic operations are to be started at Orleans Bar on the Klamath River, in Humboldt County. Madera expects to have a smelter. A committee is at work ralsing funds to aid the enterprise. The Bell mine of Tuolumne County, which has been opened to a depth of feet, is being unwatered. The American Quartz Mining Company of San Francisco has hought the Ameri can quartz mine at French Gulch, Shas: County, and will reopen and exte: develop the property. The mine has R mill and in the past has yleided 95.000. Tuolumne County is the great pocket mining region of the State as well as one of the best vein mining districts of the mother lode. Many good strikes are re- ported every week. During the week se eral bunche: | the Hudson and Birney mine near Colum- bia Hill, aggregating 31700, a pretty good week's product. Several other strikes at Yankee Hill and vicinity were reported. The_Zindars pocket mine has been leased to San Francisco men, who will go to work at once. The Alta copper mine in the Low Divide district of Del Norte County, owned by Oakland people, s reported soon to be sold. In the early sixtles this mine was quite extensively worked. A number of copper prospects are being developed in Del Norte County, and there, as els where, much prospecting for copper is | going ‘on. The steady increase in mining activity along the mother lode is constantly send- | ing all kinds of skilled mechanics into | that region. | _The district about Angels Camp, Cala- as County, is one of the most active along the mother lode now. | It is reported that the Atlas mine, an | extension of the Brown, In Tuolumne County, will resume operations at once. the Scotch stockholders having supplied $25,000 for important development opera- tions, including the extension of a 500-foot tunnel 4300 feet to reach the Atlas at depth. J. 0. DENNY. AROUND THE CORRIDORS F. W. Risley. a fruit grower of Fresno, is at the Grand. Senator H. V. Morehouse of San Jose is staying at the Lick. J. F. Kidder, a raflroad man of Grass Valley, is a guest at the Palace. G. Wilson, a wealthy lumber man of Sanger, is registered at the Grand. Dr. J. B. Bell, U. S. A, is one of yes- terday’s army arrivals at the Occldental. F. T. Simpson and E. V. Sturdy are two travelers from London who are registered at the Palace. successful operation even - . Seriod of extremely low water. The bed-| W. A. Feutsch. one of the leading busi- P Ge to be reached by @ caisson four- | ness men of Portland, Or., is at the Grand feen fect sauare in the clear, which will | on a short visit to the city. be allowed 1o sink of its own weight, 5 D i wile Wil e foveed Gnt By} le S INENOE JEis toidery duAani means of compressed air, and the space within the caisson cleaned up and so on. The dirt is to be hoisted to the boat by means of a twelve-inch centrifugal pump | and turned into a double line of sluices, ch making the circuit of one end and | hoth sides of the craft, or an aggregate length of 400 feet. An electric plant is to be installed. which, besides affording light, will permit he riffies, which by being | B even the fin The machinery ha ¥ a few new features are added. | Three shifts of six men each will he em- loyed. The plant complete is to cost 12,000, and as it is no experiment but a demonstrated fact that it will do all its manufacturers claim, there should be weeks when it will pay for itself along some of the rich bars.” John T. Davis, whose original hydraulic dredging scheme was recently described in these columns, is having a dredger | built at Stockton for operation at Wal- lace on the Mokelumne River. With these | two new contrivances going there will be dredgers built_on six different principles | operating in California, with some other | types in prospect. _ | Easy lessons in mining can be found in plenty among the stories of failure or partial failure of California mining ven- | tures conducted by men without enough | mining wisdom and experience. Here is {a very good one from the Amador Re- | publican: “The Bay State mine, near Plvmouth, | was actively promoted about five years | ago and a company of local business men was organized to develop the property. Work was carried on about two years under this company and a shaft sunk to a | depth of about 700 feet. This shaft was not on the ledge and no crosscut was made to the ledge from it. The work very expensive and the local capital- ists and business men found it a pretty burdensome affair and finally allowed the management to contract debts and then falled to provide funds to pay them. The consequence was of course insolvency and a forced sale of the prospect mine and improvements before anything could be ! known as to the value of the property, | more than was known before they com- menced. It was sold to Stockton capital- | ists who are now continuing the explora- tion work. They will crosscut to the vein and run drifts on it in order to deter- Mine its value at the depth already reached and also sink 300 feet more in the shaft. When this is done they can form some estimate of what the mine is worth. At present it may be said that the sur- face prospects warrant thorough explo- ration and the situation of the clalm in the mineral belt allows no unfavorable presumption.” Here {s another from the same issue of the same paper: “The Ivanhoe Company has until re- cently been attempting to carry on explo- ration and exploitations simultaneously from the grass roots down. There are few situations where this can be done advan- tageously and the Ivanhoe seems not to be one of the exceptions. The mill has been stopped and some of the men dis- charged while those retained will be kept at the work of sinking the shaft deeper, arifting, etc., until a larger body of ore has been made accessible and there is room to handle it without inconvenience." | There is a vigorous discussion going on among Northern California papers as to the cause of so many dead fish constantly floating down the upper Sacramento now. t has been the general assumption that it turer of Washington, D. C., is among the ‘nrrl\'als of yesterday at the California. James Campbell, the Honolulu million- aire, who with his wife and a party of friends has been spending ten days at Lake Tahoe, has returned to the city. He is at the Occidental. —_—————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK. July 2—Seymour R. Church of San Franciseo is at the Nether- lands. George W. King of Los Angeles is at the Park Avenue. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Tt is the boast of the Russian navy that the turret ship Peresviet, of 12674 tons, built at St. Petersburg in i885-98, is con- structed of domestic material alone. The Chinese cruiser Hai-Chi left Sheer- ness on June 9 for China. The vessel was built at Elswick and made 24 knots on her trial trip. She will fly the British flag on her initlal voyage until delivered to and paid for by the Chinese Government. The French torpedo hoat Lansquerret, built at Nantes in 1893, has, after repeated trials, turned out & decided failure. Her contract speed of 2 knots was not reached and she was rejected. The build- ers put in a new set of boilers in order to increase the horsepower, but at a recent trial the boat did not even make 20 knots and she is apparently a dismal fail- ure. The Russian armored gunboat Khrabry was begun at St. Petersburg in 1805, but still lies in an unfinished condition at Kronstadt. The vessel is only 1800 tons and with 2642 horsepower made 14.5 knots. Tt has a belt 5 inches thick, tapering to 3 inches at the ends, and a protective deck 13 inches thick on the slope. The battery consists of two S-inch and one 6-inch guns, and the Khrabry is evidently an experi. ment subject to radical modifications be- fore she is duplicated. The new drydock at Uchidacho, near Yokohama. was opened on May 1. It is available for naval vessels, being 483 feet 8 inches long on the blocks, allowing ships of over 0 feet to dock. The width of en- trance is 93 feet § inches, and at bottom 75 feet 5 Inches, and the water over the sill at ordinary spring tide is a little over 27 feet. A smaller dock adjoining this new one and owhed by the Yokohama and will accommodate ships of 364 feet length. Every navy has its “black sheep” ves- sels, that is, ships which, notwithstanding constant tinkering do not come up to the requirements, or in other ways fail to in- spire confidence. In the British navy the Penelope, Ajax, Rupert, Neptune, and even the Nile and Trafalgar, are in that category. France has the Brennus, Hoche and Magenta as pronounced black, and several more of doubtful utility. In the Russian navy there is the Peter Veliky, Catherina IT and the Russia, and in the Austrian navy is the Kronprinzessin Ste- phanie. In the United States navy the ticles of slag, like ground glass getting | the | of gold were taken out of | Dock Company was built some years ago | | | for at the bpattle off Santiago the decks were ripped up by the concussion of the ship’s guns, and in this respect the Texas shares the defects of the Russia. The French armored cruiser and com- merce destroyer Jeanne d'Arc, launched at Toulon on June 8, is attracting consider- able attention in naval circles on account of its peculiarities and innovations on es- tablished practices, She has a complete water line belt, is 11,270 tons and with tri- ple screws of 28,500 norsepower is to make 23 knots and 19 knots under natural draught. « She is fitted with 48 Du Temple water tube boilers, arranged to burn pe- troleum, of which the ship can stow 200 tons. The London Engineer pronounces | the Jeanne d'Arc is more wonderful than useful. e The paymaster's chest on hoard the British cruiser Niobe was robbed last January of about $3500, and the police and naval authorities have been unable to fas- ten the crime upon any one. In conform- ity to naval usage an example had to be made of somebody, and Fleet Paymaster J. A. Wood was court-martialed June 15, charged with embezzling the missing mon- ey and also with having negligently per- formed his duty by want of care of the money entrusted to his charge. He plead- ed not guilty to the first charge, and de- clined to plead to the second. The court acquitted him on the charge of embezzle- ment, but found him guilty of negligence and adjudged the officer to forfeit all sen- jority as fleet paymaster and be dismissed his ship. The fire at the Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. ordnance works, Elswick, on the night of June 11 last d royed three large shops and a great quantity of machinery and guns, gun carriages, projectiles, en- gines, cranes, tools and stores to the val- ue of about $1,000,000, and Jaying idle 2000 men of the 20,000 employed by the firm. Two of the shops were 90 feet in length and 100 feet wide, and contained guns in various stages of completion and turn- tables for heavy ships. The third and smaller building contained projectiles. It will take some time to know to a certain- ty the extent of damage to the guns, and Sir Andrew Noble estimates that the erec- tion of new shops and introduction of new machine tools would take from three to four months. The delivery of armaments to ships would, however, take consider- | able more time, and in the case of the Al- bany, completing for the United States na likely cause a delay of over six months. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. NEXT OF KIN—A. §., City. Books cn next of kin may be procured through any first class dealer in books. AUTOMOBILES—A. R., Chiles, Cal. ! | Automobiles as built turn corners and make turns the same as other vehicles. ARTILLERY AT THE PHILIPPINES . W. K.. Guinda, Cal. All the artillery at the Philippines is under the command of General Otis. ON A PEACE FOOTING—C. B., City. The army of the United States while on a peace footing prior to the war with Spain { was numerically 28216. ‘\'ANDERTN(’: REFUGEE—Miss E., Petaluma, Cal. Any first-class music store will procure for you the piece of music you inquire about. WILMERDING SCHOOL~—The directing officer of the Wilmerding School is Ever- ett Schwartz, residence, San Francisco, but at present in the East. A DIRECTORY—A. 8., City. This de- partment cannot tell you “if a directory of 180" is of any value, as the letter of inquiry does not state what kind of a di- rectory it is. THE PLANETS—A. O. S.. City. The planets in the order of their distance from the sun are Mercury. Venus, the Earth, Mars, the Planetoids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. COIN QUESTIONS—W., Philo, Cal Unless there is a full description of a coin or a rubbing thereof it is impossible to answer questions as to what coins are or if they are of any valué. LARGEST CITIES—I. T., Brownville, Cal. The ten largest cities of the world, acocrding to_population, are: London, Greater New York, Paris, Berlin, Canton, Vienna, Tokio (Japan), St. Petersburg, Philadelphia and Chicago. ULSTER COUNTY PAPER—A. 8., City. An issue of the Ulster County Gazette, July 4, 1800, would have a value, but a copy of such an issue has no historical Valile. The copy you have is one of a large number of fac-similes issued in New York in the sixties. REGISTRATION—W., Philo, Cal. The present form of registration of voters in California will be superseded by Senate bill No. 49, passed at the last held session of the Legislature, and known as the Smith bill, which will go into effect on the 1st day of next January. ARMY PAY—C. B., City. The pay of a major in the United States army is $2500; of captain (mounted), §2000; captain (not mounted), $1500; first lieutenant (mount- ed), $1800; first lieutenant (not mounted), ; second lieutenant (mounted), $1500; second lieutenant (not mounted), $1400. ANTARCTIC—J. F. T., City. The near- est approach to the south pole by Cap- tain Larsen in December, 1893, was when he reached £5.10 south and 60 west, and discovered what is known as Palmerland. Since then there has been sent out the Belgica, with the members of the Bel- glan Anitarctic expedition. and this expe- ition has discovered that the territory known as Palmerland is a group of isl ands and not a continent. TO POLISH HORNS—OId Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. Horns are polished in the following manner: The horns are scraped perfectly smooth with a piece of glass or thin blade of steel, then rubbed with very fine sandpaper or Dutch rushes. The rubbing is then repeated “with a bit of felt dipped in very finely powdered char- coal with water, ‘then with rotten stone or putty powder, and is finished with a piece of soft wash leather dampened with a little sweet oil. Sub-nitrate of bismuth rubbed in with the palm of the hand is sometimes resorted to in place of the soft wash cloth. NOTICE TO QUIT—S.. Sunol, Cal. If a party rents a house by the month and the owner desires him to quit the prem- ises he is required to serve him with a notice that after the time for which the tenant has paid rent, the month’'s rent will be increased in any sum he desires to name. If the party does not pay the ad- vanced rent the landlord must have a three days’ notice to quit served on him, and if that notice is not obeyed, then the landlord must commence an action for unlawful detainer and ejectment. That usually takes from ten days to three weeks. e Fourth of July decorations, flags for sale cheap at Sanborn & Vail's. ety . —_———— Cal.glace fruit 50c per ib at Townsend's.* ——————— information supplied daily to the ont- Spectal usiness houses and public men b e pping Bureau (Allen’s). 510 M gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. A custom peculiar to Buddhists is that of wandering about the country with hammer and chisel and carving holy symbols upon rocks by the way- side. «Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething wita perfect cuccess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising 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, Zc a bottle. e s S i HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only 380 Ly steamship, ircluding fifteen days' board at hotal; longer stay $2 ¢ per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San‘ Francisco, —— e On July 13 and 14 the Santa Fe route will sell tickets to Indlanapolis and return at the very low rate of §6. Occasion—annual meeting of the Epworth League. Get full particulars at Texas is not so much of a success as the | the Santa Fe office, 628 Market street.