The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 24, 1899, Page 4

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AUCTION A QUEER COMMERCIAL MIDSUMMER. | Isummer season nings the exchanges are 1808, and 62.3 . two best previous ves for the exceed t for the same time Manufacturers of ee buyers of wool in the East in the Wes r a good de- over 3,000,000 pai by goods woolen n | ion in level ever known of deficiency in 1 by receipts of against 3 1itry gives spler tates, probably previous recor = ggrega- tion of the distributive tra try is of un- precedented volume and t i for fall and win- ter goods is increasing with such ¢ inuity as to e tend the st flattering hopes for the next six or eight months. Such is the commercial condition of the country ., when people a-e off at count hen the days east of the 1 the nights do not give relief. [f ted under such adverse condi- run ma the ide or Rockies are hot a business is unprecede what will it be when the midsummer season is tior over and cooler weather further stimulates trade? We thought last y as a record-br er, but 1899 bids fair to be )8, with distance to spare. True, there have been clouds on the horizon of late, but of they are passing. The stringency ney market has thus far produced no appreciable W effect on this country; foreign compl ons, menace to international trade, for some weeks were are being harmoniously adjusted; labor strikes, which have been no less a m e being settled, and ¥ re large combinations of industrial capi- tal. which started a brief panic in Wall street last spring, have ceased to be a bugbear to the banks, for it is found t laws that regulate smaller concerns and individual In brief, the commerce of the United States seems on such firm foundations that ordinary adversities fail to shake it. Like the general markets, the local situation is'in fine shape rule are as large as ex- pected and, with a single exception or two, are bring- ing fine prices. Fruit keeps up to the high plane of values established at the beginning of the season, quotations for grain allow the farmer a satisfactory , the mining interests are recovering from the bad effects of the dry winter of 189; trade of the coast is stil bothered t they are governed by the same trade The crops as pre avy that shippers are find vessels enough to carry away the countries. This to rchandise ordered by : merchandise ordered by is a millennial condition w h certainly ought not to be grumbled at. The State shows the effects of it in e credits, abundance of money at declining rates of interest, and pronounced scarcity of labor in almost all sections. Everybody who wants to be is at work at something or other, and in the country the cry is still for men to work the harvest machincs.-Likc ships, railroad cars are scarce, which delays shipments of produce to the city. The merchants are so busy that they cannot find time to complain, for which blessed state of affairs thanks are due to the Goddess of Prosperity. How long this commercial millennium will continue is a conundrum; but there are no signs at present that it will not continue indefinitely. The Examiner pictured itself yesterday as the boss of the Democratic game, holding up very conspicu- ously Phelan and Dodge as something like trump cards. Rainey was not displayed. He is the card evidently that is kept up the sleeve. The international university contest in London on Saturday was really a match of Cambridge and Ox- ford combined against Harvard alone. Yale wasn’t in it. the London | -98, and the export | THE DUTY OF BUSINESS MEN. | San Francisco to devote no inconsiderable por- tion of their thoughts and their energies to politics. | Their own interests require it. The welfare of the city | demands it The sit jon is critical. The officials to be elected | | this fall will organize and inaugurate the municipal | overnment under the new charter. That government | all American colleges to contest with the British in | R & | periment, for inJthe next match. [ will be largely in the way of an ex | many respects it will differ widely from that whi | now exists. New and untried powers will be placed | in the hands of the officials and those of the Mayor will be exceptionally great. stances it is imperative that the making of the experi- ative. honest men, who, have the sagacity to | to resist | ment be intrusped to cons in addition to their honesty | avoid blunders and the courage and firmne | every pressure that may be put upon them to swerve ‘thcm from the path of duty. | By what means shall the municipality be as | such officials? To that question intelligen: | but one answer. To accomplish the election of good ! men, good men must go to work. The business inter- ests of the municipality will never be safeguarded un- | can give | ured of | | | til the business men themselves stand guard. here is no chance for an independent movement, | even if one were desirable. The government of the city will be intrusted either to the Democratic part Wt shall it be? The | or to the Republican party. | business men, the property owners, the taxpayers, | | the intelligent workingmen of the community must decide. | Two factions contend for control of the Democratic | party. One is led by Rainey, the other by Buckley. | The Examiner, which but a short time ago boasted of having driven Rainey not only out of politics but ada, which has the most er out of the country as a fugitive to Ca i its al, caricatured his ieatures to the most bru beastly forms artists could de tered into an alliance with him and for supremacy in the party. The facts are notorious | and are known of all men. A Democratic victory at | the polls will ent pal administration either 1der the domination ley or under that of | Rainey and the Examiner. | | Can any business man face such a menace and re- { main indifferent? Can he ignore the fact that his private interests as a property owner, as well as his | duty as a citizen, require him to give heed to the now its on his sic 1 a munic E of o take steps to avert it? nger 2 The ence ty has already given abundant | \fully the publ pt of a few bosses to gain c inte f serving An atter ts in | this camp: advantag providing for a blanket | ticke he pri ions ed by the protests of the Republican press and of the rank and file of the pa A new arrange- been made by which the primaries ducted in a manner that is fair ance, however, W be required to | prevent illegal voting. Evidence has already bee disclosed of attempts to colonize illegal voters in the inth Assembly districts. Twenty-eighth and Twenty tion, it will be seen, have been The forces of cor: b ved until the polls close. fled but not beaten. The fight must be contin- he issue is with the business men of the city the good will now for contest they organize assure the election of county convention. That about the nomination of a strong ticket and | inty committee. The result will be d a bu ess administra men turn will | in ring | a strong cc vie 3 | on under 18in 1 it the polls a o will vided off ymising, p indi Corruption and dema- their and X shake 1d to their political dut not triumph te to combat the: ence vers honesty and intelligence m gogy will are res REGULATIONS FOR AUTOMOBILES. N article in The C mobiles, wagon throug by the petitioner, vocate posed to their introduc 11 on the regulation of auto- h by a petition king a permit to run a motor milk called from i a| h the strects, has been misunderstood He some regulations ssumes that because we ad- for automobiles ion for general use, and he declare that our “position i3 we are op- writes to protest and to untenable. Ii we had ever taken any position in opposition to the coming vehicle, it would indeed be untenable. In fact The Call has been | doing more to direct public attention to the merits We have never done so. of the new vehicle and to promote its use than all | other papers on the Pacific Coast combined. At this very time The Call in conjunction with its ally, the | New York Herald, k way under difficulties across the Continent for the purpose of testing the value of the vehicle for use on v road. That experiment as an automobile making its the average American coun will be of vast importance in promoting the develop- ment of the use of the mac advertise it, but by the completeness and the severity of the test will show just what alterations and im- ine, for it will not only | | provements are needed to make it generally available. | Every sort of vehicle used upon the streets of cities 1‘ | is subject to regulation. There are certain rules for street cars, for bicycles, for wagons and for carriages, | and some regulation must be provided for the auto- | mobile. The Call has advocated no particular rules. | It merely directed attention to the discussion of the ! subject now going on in Eastern cities, where automo- | biles have become common. So far from seeking to | prevent the use of motor carriages on the streets, | The Call would be the first to combat any attempt to ; enact ordinances that would handicap them. \t BETTER LUCK 'NEXT TIME. i CCORDING to all reports! the athletic con- /\ tests between British universities represented | by Cambridge and Oxford on one side and | American universities represented by Harvard and | Yale on the other, were in every respect fairly con- | tested and neither side has any complaint to make of the other. Out of the nine events the British carried | off the honors in five and have therefore the glory of ! | the triumph. It is, however, a defeat in which the | Americans have nothing to mourn over except that | | luck was against them. One of their crack men, Burke of Harvard, who was counted on to win the half-mile race, broke down from sickness, so that | | race, and with it the victory of the whole, went to the English. | As a rule international sporting events lead to so | much wrangling, no little gratification will be felt on | both sides of the ocean over the genuine good will | and good fellowship that has been shown in this con- | test from first to last. Our men speak in high terms of the way in which they have been treated, and when | a return match is held in the United States the cham- | | pions from Cambridge and Oxford will be made most | | cordially welcome wherever they may go. | While the closely contested matches may be taken as a fair enough exhibition of the comparative ath- | welfare agz | Assessor. disti | and the Examiner. !"lght sense of the term a test of the university ath- | Cambridge and Oxford ROM this time on until the polls close on elec- | may be said to represent the flower of university ath- tion day, it is the duty of the business men of | letics in Great Britain, but Harvard and Yale hold Pennsylvania, | s letes of the two countries. | no such supremacy in this country. | Princeton, Cornell and Columbia have frequently | beaten them in all sorts of contests and there are | Western universities which could doubtless do equally | well against them, if opportunity were offered. There has been some talk of making up a team from It is not likely, however, that any < Yale are not likely to invite Western colleges to help Under such circum- | them out, any more than Oxford and Cambridge are likely to call upon the other universities of the United Kingdom to furnish men for their teams. The matches in fact are not international univer- | sity contests. They are largely social functions car- ried on by the men of four great and wealthy univer- sities, where there is almost as much high life as in- tellectual life, and they are likely to remain so. If a team were drawn from all American universities to 1epresent the best of our young athletes, it is not at all improbable the interest in the event would be less than what it is now. Harvard and Yale are no longer idmninnnt among our universities, but they have far more prestige than any other and in our international | university contests we must stand or fall with them. THE POLITICAL STAMPEDE. HE extraordinary collection of associated false- T hoods, which the Examiner is now daily pub- lishing, is the strongest possible evidence that the labors of The Call and its alies for the restoration of political decency have been fruitful, and that the approaching municipal canvass a stampede of lLonest citizens toward the Republican organization is inevitable. The last freak of the Examiner is to represent itself as a bare-legged girl with a soliciting expres holding in her right hand a picture of Mayor Phelan, and in her left a photograph of the fusion Assessor, | who capitalized an increase of valuations of corpo- rate property but forgot that a discrimination of from | fifteen to thirty per cent against ordinary citizens was a very poor argument in favor of a fusion assessment. In connection with its pictorial illustration of its its “recent suc- ‘defeat of the ent a stock account of what it term cesses,” among which it enumerates Market Street Railway franchise grab” and also portant reduction in rates for gas in San Francisco.” It then proceeds to add to these remarkable victories | “the defeat of the Geary street franchise grab and of the double-track job for the Mission, accomplished by the Mayor, with the assistance of the sturdy mi- of the Board of Supervisors,” and crowns its nority succession of important falsehoods by observing that “on top of all this comes the very important conces- sion of 25 cents per thousand feet reduction in gas | rates, forced from the corporations.” The Call has already done full justice to the Board of Supervisors, which assuredly deserves credit for the manner in which it has protected the municipal st the Examiner, the Mayor and the But the catalogue of the Examiner deser slight rocog- nition. When the wholesale of rob- by the Market Street Railway Company had through the integrity of the mendacious least a at scheme bery been defeated, Board oi Supervisors, sustained by The Call amlj to some extent by other local newspapers, it was generally conceded that proper street railway facilities should be afforded to the northeastern part of the Then a final effort to stcal from the peninsula. y and to bar out possible competition was municipal | made by the proposed new franchise on Grant ave | nue and Bush street, and this defeated project was tly advocated by the Examiner’s candidate for ognomy re-election to the office of Mayor, whose ph fill organ has specialized as its representative. The reduction of the rates for gas from $1 $1 50 per thousand feet was another serious injury inflicted upon the community through Mayor Phelan It had been proved, over and over again, that the rate of $1 10 per thousand feet, incorporated into the resolutions that originated in May of Supervisors, covered an ample profit upon the actual capitalization of the gas monopoly, and even a very ordinary exhibition of backbone would have | secured to our taxpayers a rate of $1 35. But, in the first place, the Mayor's resolutions were not worth the paper upon which they were written, and in the second place, when the negotiations for settlement transpired, the shrewd lawyers and manipulators for the lighting corporations handled him with an ease that must have been surprising to themselves. Here are two facts alone, with which the people of San Franci absurd recklessness of the E: The practical advance toward the overthrow of political bosses and of carporate dominancy, of which so many proofs have been recently furnished, has been due almost entirely to Republican integrity and has been achieved in the face of the fusion organ and of its candidates for Mayor and for Assessor. The Call repeats that in municipal politics at least, this is a Republican year, and that now as in 1805 and in 1898, Examiner leadership treads the easy road to degradation and to failura. e e T The statement of the Canadian Premier that the Alaskan boundary dispute must be settled by arbi- tration on the basis prop.sed by Canada or there will be a fight, may be taken as the most decided expres- sion of a willingness to see Canada annexed to the United States that has yet come from an official rep- resentative of the Dominion. There is not a great deal of probability that the aminer. Lease will work. Mary Ellen can never be the only | ghost dancer in the business while Peffer can cry out from behind his whiskers now and again that it is all a mistake to number him among the dead. The other day a member of Parliament attempted to enter the Parliament house yard in .n automobile. but was stopped by the police; and from the ruction that followed it is evident the incident will be the only one of the kind that will ever happen in British his- tory. e The finding of a silver brick in Lake Merritt has caused some stir in Oakland. How it got there is a mystery. Had it been a gold brick the suspicion would have arisen at once that Governor Gage had been on the banks. The silly season appears to be raging with unusual severity in the East this summer—some people over there are talking of Senator Morgan as a Presiden- tial probability. Oxford and Cambridge have a right to rejoice, but letic excellence of the members of the competing we would have done 'em up if Tommy Burke hadn't universities, they must not be regarded as in any | got the stomach ache. ] e and prestige in university life, and Harvard and | ion, | own degradation, the Examiner undertakes to pre- < the right hand of the maiden whom the fusion | ror Phelan’s office and were adopted by the Board | o are familiar, that demonstrate the | trust in spiritualism projected by Mrs. Mary Ellen | DEEP MINING STORIES. AN EXPOSITION TRIUMPH. A NEW MINERAL FOUND. ON FILIPINO MINING. PNEUMATIC PROSPECTING. The California mining industry has| | scored an unexpected triumph in rela- 1 | such thing will be done. There is a good deal of sociai | tion to the Paris Exposition as did the | viticultural industry. The California min- ing display is to get one-fourth of the | entire .space allotted to the United States. This should stimulate enterpris- | ing co-operation with the California com- mission in placing the finest and most | effective exhibit possible under the rules | of the exposition. | The arringements for State exhibits | were consigned to Victor C. Heikes by F. | V. SKkiff, director of the United States | mining exhibit. Mr. Heikes, as special | | commissioner, visited several Western | mining States, finding nowhere organized | preparations for representative State ex | hibits. He talked to men and organiza- | tions, explained the plans and conditions | | of the exhibit, told what was wanted and | | solicited,. with considerable success, lefforts to gather an exhibit in each State. | But when he got to San Francisco two | weeks ago he found an active and able | icumm on at work with $130,000 at its back and that it had already made liberal plans for the largest mining exhibit pos- | sible and put the matter in the hands of | Yale, perhaps e most com- | etent man in the State for the work. | | He soon learned more about the greatness of the industry in this State and about | its unapproached variety of mineral re-| | sources than he ever knew before. He | { talked with Mr. Yale and heartily ap-| | proved his selection as he did his pre- | liminary plans and ideas. He decided that | all he had to do here was to explain | the wants and conditions of the exhibit, | | give California room according to its| merits and_enterprise and leave the rest | with Mr. Yale: The resuit of his study and his confer- | | | { | ichums G. ences with the commissioners, S«-crvmr_v‘ was that he allot- the space | States to California. | of the expos on the mining exhibit requires com- ression and the whole United States ex- hibit will not cover much area, but then s better than other countries and 4 »urth - ot th | Unite | Like every other feature given the | California gets a quarter of its share—| |and that is not one-forty-fifth. The United States display of mineral speci- in sixteen big cabinets, and fill four all by itself. Then ‘amp on lar, share of the re- floor area. he figures cannot maining be given now. The plans for the California display | | | will be rapidly developed, and when an nounced will be found to include some | unique features, some of which must wait | | for approval. There will be a pyramid of | asphaltum, a t number of enlarged | photographs, inches, il | every phase of mining; probab ture stamp mill operating on ore, and oth- | | er things that will attract universal at-| | tention.” The mineralogi 1 display will | include every mineral occurring in the | State. The California exhibit cannot be smprehensive sled as such by big signs, as un 3 tion rules the whole will be the “United States exhibit,” but each specimen or other will be labeled nd mine or and most of with the names of the State locality from which it com | the State exhibit will be together. Califor- | nia_has thus before it its greatest oppor- to advertise its mineral resources ‘ tunity and mining Industry and opportunities. | The new strike in the Gwin mine, Cala- | veras County, turns out to be a bigger | | thing than was reported a week or two | ago. In its significance to the mining in- stry along the mother lode it is the | most important development in that great | mining region in a good while. The al- | most phenomenal success attending the | pening of this long abandoned old | rs of | the mother mine during the past two thing for | itself been a big {lode. The great hody of good milling ore reached at depth by a new shaft, showing | mines along | ‘l[ to he yet one of the rich | the lode and indicating that the old work ings left millions in the unworked ground, | was another demonstration that the moth er lode veins “go down” and that deep | | mining will pay there. The comparatively recent developments of large bodies of | t depths in such reopened | mines as the Gwin, Kenn; Argonaut, | Oneida and others increase faith in the | mother lode and encourage mining eapi- | | talists to do likewise. The result is and will be the investment of millions in deep mining propositions on the mother lode. But another significance of the new strike in the Gwin that it shows the possibllity of not only following the orig- inal vet to great depths profitably, but that new and rich veins may be discov- ered at depth. 'The main vein in the Gwin | dips easterly from T to S0 degrees. good ore at gre | The new vertical shaft was located so as to | cross the vein at over 1200 feet. It was continued vertically downward, with the usual plan of crosscutting to the vein at different levels, and_two weeks ago had reached a depth of 1570 feet. | At this point a vein of ore was unex- pectedly encountered. It dipped about 77| degrees parallel to_the main vein and 18 | feet west of it. Three dri]l holes were at once put in _and_ they showed thic ses of from 18 to 22 inches. First sam- from the hanging wall side assayed 9 and $127 13. Drillings from the holes | went $971, 32129 and $1751. It was from the developments at this stage that tha brief information in the press last week based. | Later reports received by Secretary J. | J. Crawford in San Francisco during the past week from Assistant Superintendent David McClure show that at ten feet | more of depth the vein was widening and | its average value being sustained. In his | | report of last week Mr. McClure says: | “The shaft was sunk ten feet the past | week, making the total depth 155 feet. At | a depth of 1378 fect ore was encountered | in the west or foot wall side of the shaft It extends the whole length of the sh: having the same dip and parallel to the east or main ledge, which is about 180 | | feet to the east. It has a_good gouge on | both foot and hanging wails. The foot wall is blackish gray slate and the hang- | ing wall is pudding stone rock, although at present there is a filling of about two | feet of black slate, with quartz stringers | betweeen the hanging wall side of the quartz and the pudding wall. The hang- | ing or pudding wall is very even and s | slickenside polished across the shaft. The ore is hard, compact sulphuretted ribbon uartz, with an average thickness of two eet, carrving coarse free gold, and may be classed as high grade rock, milling say | §15 per ton. We have been making a number of assavs of varlous samples taken and all our sample assays of the | ore have been high. We picked the ore | down an average thickness of two feet | the whole length of the shaft and took a 100-pound sample, using care in crush- ing, handling and assaying. The assa: obtalned from this sample was $27%. It is my opinion that we have found a west ledge parallel to our main east ledge.” Greatness has come to the Gwin since Senator Voorhies, F. F. Thomas and the | Belshaws bought the 1400-foot water hole | from the Gwin estate at a bargain about three years ago. The new shaft devel- oped a strong bodv of good milling ore, of which Superintendent Thomas esti mates there is 120,000 tons, averaging from | $6 to §7. already in sight. A small streak | of phenomenally rich ore was found nearly two vears ago, and a large body of $15 ore was recently struck in lfie main vein. Twenty stamps were recently or- dered added to the twenty now dropping, and the new mill will be ready in Octo- ber. Further enlargement of the plant is robable. The company recently reorga zed as the Gwin ne Development Com- any, with an increased capital stock of 1,000,000, C. S. Benedict and D. W. Hy- land added to the capital available. The stflwck is held above par, and is not for sale. The greatest and most interesting deep mlnln% operation going on along the lode is that at the Kenned"j already the deep- est %l)ld mine in the United States (over 2400 feet). The present shaft is on the in- cline. A new triple-compartment vertical shaft has been started 1900 feet from the old shaft. It is calculated that if the vein preserves its present dip it will be cut at The great depth of 3500 feet. The shaft may have to g0 decper to reach the vein, and how much further it may go will del end on future developments down there. g‘he new shaft is being driven with en- ergy and skill, and its record will be of much interest to the mining world. It has reached about 400 feet, and it will be a good while before the contemplated depths are attained. n the 1800-foot level a crosccut will be run from the old shaft to the line of the new one, and from there the new shaft will be driven upward as well as down- ) ward. When the new shaft is completed | that proposition it ga: | um recel | near Meadow | teresting | able to suppress. to the 1900-foot level the mine will be worked through it while sinking contin- ues. Other lower crosscuts will be run, and the dip and nature of the vein will be kept track of by crosscuts as the shaft goes below the deepest present workings. At 2400 feet the Kennedy has a large and rich body of ore, and there is no circumstance or reason to warrant a belief that the mine—and the whole lode— will not display as good bodies of ore at | 4000 or 5000 feet as at 1000 or 2000 feet. The profitable working of the Kennedy at 3500 or 4000 feet would be the biggest advertisement throughout the world that he mother lode has ever had. At 3300 feet, where it Is planned to first reach th vein, the mine will exceed the world resent record for gold mining, that 00 feet in the Ballarat mines in Aus- ralia, by 500 feet, though depths have been reached In other mines. The Kennedy enterprise is the boldest op- eration known to California quartz min- ing, which needs boldness, faith and money, along with good judgment. The Kennedy company assumes that there is a large quantity of pay ore more than 1000 feet lower than the deepest gold-mine workings in America, and hundreds lower than the deepest in the world; and on mbles an investment that will reach into the hundreds of thousands. A new mineral has been added to Cali- fornia's big share of this natural king- dom. It is corundum. Years ago Baron Richtofen thought he observed corundum ystals in some Los Angeles County gravel, but no specimen was ever fdenti- fied and preserved, and that doubtful re- port was the only one ever scientifically given. But now it has really turned up. J. A. Edman has found a_ deposit in places in Plumas County and last week Curator Durden of the State Mining Bureau Muse- d from him and displayed some specimens, Mr. Edman is a miner and mineralogist who has operated a mine in Plumas County for some years. He recently discovered the crystals in white feldspar at the edge of a porphyry dike Valley, Plumas County. The largest measured about three-foprths by two and a half inches. The discovery is probably of more scien- tific than ecomonic importance. The pres- ent commercial production of corundum is confined to North Carolina. In 1897 the yield was 230 tons, but the industry is not profitable. Corundum is used as an abrasive for grinding, polishing, etc., as garnet and emery, but its use is now atly lessened by the superior though more expensive artificial product called carborundum. Corundum sells for from 5 to 10 cents per pound, according to form and quality, and carborundum at from | 8§ to 15 cents. A large deposit, easily worked, and cheap transportation would be required for profit. Corundum, like emery, sapphire and other minerals and gems, is crystallized alumina. R. H. Postlethwaite, the gold dredge inventor and operator, is experimenting | with a novel way of inspecting bedrock after the dredge buckets have scraped it. Dredge buckets cannot dig gold out of | crevices and little holes, and in dredging it is well to know about the gold left on the bedrock. The contrivance is a tube with an electric light on the inside near the lower end and shaded from above. The tube is sunk in the muddy water to bedrock, filled with air at sufficient pre: sure to keep out the water. The strongly lluminated bedrock can be seen bv look- | ing down the tube, and by moving it about the bedrock is explored. It s proposed o suspend the tube from the front of the dredge for frequent use. 1a stant J. H. Means of the ate Mining Bureau has received an in. letter from Manila relating largely to the mineral resources of the Philippines. It is from John A. Avirett an experienced ing gence, who has mined for vears in this State ‘and in Mexico, and who before the outbreak of the war was for two years superintendent of the Gold Coin mine at Randsburg. Patriotism led him to enlist | as a volunteer, and he is a non-commis- sioned officer with the California Artillery 1t Cavite. His interest in mining has led him to investigate the mining opportuni- ties of Philippines to the small e sible to him, and he writes as ave been able to learn practically nothing about mining except that in the provinces of Camarine a number of large, well developed quartz veins in gn that show high as ten | to twelve feet width of clean quartz im- pregnated with auriferous pyrites of both eccpp tetrahede some oxide and still more carbonate is found back of the coast in the more remote hills, all said to be auriferous and some argentiferous. I have been shown specimens of both coarse and steel galena found as float in large quan: tities, but it is said that no effort ha been made to trace up the veins. North. ern Luzon is rich in copper, many native m s of which have been shown here. he.military situation is such that it is impossible to_verify all these reports. and the Spaniard is so consistent and per- sistent a liar that you naturally conclude that he avoids the truth on all occasions. There is much H(i{nlle coal of a very good quality scattered all through the group, with some veins partly deveioped at Can- tanduanes by the Gil brothers, who sell it to trading steamers at about $13 (Mex- ican) per ton, the cost of extraction to them being about $4 (Mexican) per ton. lines here promise to be very wet as the rainfall is_great and the country a huge sponge. Some attempts at coal digging had to be abandoned by Spaniards, who use no pumps, on some coal prospects Efi?r Albay dipping 30 degrees into the “‘Miners would better stay out of this country for at least a year after the na- tives surrender, for bands of so-called Tulizanes will be the result of the break- ing up of the Filipino armies. bands of robbers that Spain was never They rob and kill im- partially, and their capture in the hills and jungles is rather uncertain. The peo- ple of these islands will never be ef- ficient workmen, for while extremely in- telligent they are lazy, proud and treach- erous, and could give Judas cards and spades. After all sald and done, the tak- ing of these islands, I sincerely think, will be a bitter day for the Unl(ex States.” The Los Angeles Times says that there is more prospecting being done on the desert now than during any year since the discovery of the Randsburg mines. From Mojave on the west to the Colorado River on the east, and all the way south of the Tehachapi range of mountains, all the camps are busy. The Ballarat region has never logked so promising as now: the Rademacher district is substantiating its first clalms to the émssesslon of rich ore bodies; In_the Rand district there is not a stamp idle, and other districts are liva- Iy with prospecting, developing and pro- ucing. The Golden Key Mining Compan: i erating in Tuolumne County. has elecesd the following officers: C. Nauman, presi- dent; W. Snyder, vice president; A. W. McQueen, secretary; A. Wallin, treasurer. s 2 uite a number of mining pr have been bonded In Tuolumre Gennte within the past week or two by peopie wLo will develop them under bond. ' Some are close to noted properties. This Sort of work going on so steadily all through the mining regions means the addition «f many new mines to the list of producers in the ru{)ure. s A _number of mines in the vicinity o Mojave a0t Biipiing ure o e et o for reduntinn. J. 0. DENNY. AROUND THE CORRIDORS E. A. Dean, U. S. A., is a guest at the Lick. 'W. Forsyth, a Fresno capitalist, is regis- tered at the Occidental. ‘W. C. Gardner, a fruit buyer of Chicago, is 2 guest at the Palace. E. E. Vincint, a well known merchant of Madera, is a guest at the Lick. F. H. Smith, a prominent attorney of Sacramento, is a guest at the Grand. Ernest L. Finley of the Santa Rosa Democrat is a guest at the California. Judge J. W. Mohan and L. A. Hall are :olt: registered at the Lick from Bakers- eld. - George E. Gard, ex-United States Mar- shal at Los Angeles, is staying at the Grand. J. D. Ludwig, a mining man of Mari- of | much greater | there exist quite | r and iron and that also much | te They are | posa, 1s among last night's arrivals at the Grand. Dr. W. H. Greenberg, one of the leading physicians cf Albuquerque, N. Mex., is a guest at the Grand. M. M. Crowley, a fruit and commission man of Sacramento, is one of the late ar- rivals at the Lick. F. Dilly, a wealthy mine owner of Flag- staff, Ariz.,, was among yesterday’s ar- rivals at the Palace. R. H. McGowan has come up {from Menlo Park and is registered at the Oc- cidental with his wife. W. A. Veith, a vineyardist of Fresno. is staving at the Grand while on a short business trip to the city. John A. Meyers of New York and L. C. Greenlee of Denver are two of the recent arrivals at the Occidental. James J. Peterson of Charlestown, A& Va., arrived at the Occidental yesterday from the southern part of the State. | P. D. Quick, a prominent resident of Woodland, is a guest at the Palace, as is also H. Munchmeyer of Hamburg. W. P. Camille Piper, a French gentle- man, who expects to remain a month or | 50 in the city, Is registered at the Palace. 1 Mr. and Mrs, Thomas H. Robbins are | registered at the Palace. M s. Robbins until a few days ago was Miss Alice Ames | of this city. | Mr. and Mrs. P. G. de Back of Walnut Creek are at the Lick. Mr. De Back re- cently returned from Dawson, where he was one of the fortunate ones. R. A. Hemphill, business manager of the | Atlanta Constitution, is at the Occidental with his wife and two daughters. They are on the coast for recreation. Mrs. J. Sloat Fassett, Mrs. E. B. Crocker and Miss C. M. Fleld arrived in the city yesterday from New York and registered at the Palace. Mrs. Fassett's son and daughter accompany the party. United States Marshal H. Z. Osborne of Los Angeles is at the Palace. en route {0 the Coffee Creek region of Trinity Coun- ty, where he is developing some promis ing mining properties, and where he will remain three or four weeks. He believes | that Northern Califérnia. with its exten- sive mineral resources and small develop- ment, offers greater opportunities for in- vestment just now than any other part of the State. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. | Holland’s naval budget for 159 is $5,676.- { 000, of which $1,775,000 is for the personnel | ana $2860,000 for new comstruction, ord- nance, torpedoes, etc. The Believille boiler is used in 44 French | ships of war, 27 Russian, 52 British. 7 | Japanese, 2 Austrian and one each in the | Spanish, Argentine, Chilean and Italian navies. The Argentine vessel of war lost last month on the island of Blanca, in the Camerone Bay, was the Villarino, an ord- | nance transport of 1000 tons and alleged | to have a speed of twenty-five knots. A British gunboat named the Gwendo- | line has been launched and commissioned | on Lake Nyanza. She is 130 feet in length, | ten feet longer than the German gunboat | Wiseman, which was hitherto the only | war vessel on this African lake. During the approaching British naval maneuvers 118 war vessels and about 25,000 | men will participate. One of the principal | objects of the maneuvers is to exhaust- | tvely study the value of torpedo-boat de- | stroyers, of which fifty-four are to be | engaged. vk The Majestic, British battleship, took on board recently at Portsmouth dockyard 1530 tons of coal In fourteen hours. Her previous records were 161 and 172 tons per | hour, but considering that this latest coul. ing was done from one side oniy the per- formance is excellent. To guard against gas accumulating and exploding in coal bunkers on board ship. | the British Admiralty has issued orders to the channel fleet that bunkers are to be opened three hours daily for six days after coaling. Thereafter they are to be opened for periods twice a week. Retirement ages of officers in the French navy were changed during the last dayvs of M. Lockroy's administration, and are now as follows: Vice admirals at €5, rear | admirals changed from 62 to 8, captains from ) to 65; commanders 58 to 50 and lieutenants from 53 to 45. This law is to be gradually carried into effect, reaching the last two grades in 1907. A new rank, corresponding to that of lieutenant com- mander in our navy, has also been es- tablished, and 150 lieutenants taken from | the head of seniority have been selected to become ‘lieutenants de valsseauma- ors.”" The performance of the Japanese tor- pedo-boat Akebone was six runs over the measured mile, during which the highest speed was 31.226 knots and the lowest 31.08, making an average of 31159 | knots. The vessel was launched April |24 and made her trial ten days later. | One peculiarity about the construction =0( the Akebone is that in the riveting of | the upper strakes the heads of the rivets are not countersunk, but left projecting over the plate. This supports the plate and tends to stiffen it against any inclina- tion to buckle, which latter is quite ifkcly to happen in boats of that type where tha thickness of plates has been reduced to the utmost limit of safety. Several types of water-tube boilers have been tested In the German navy, notably | the Niclausse (French), the Schultz (Ger- man) and the Thornyeroft (English), and the latter has been adopted for the ships under construction. The experience with the new style of boilers has been costly and caused several accidents and much annoyance on board German naval ve sels. The cruiser Hertha, for example, which accompanied the yvacht Hohenzol- lern up the Mediterranean when the Em- peror visited Palestine, could not keep up with the yacht, notwithstanding the Hertha was rated at twenty-one knots speed, against the Hohenzollern's eighteen knots. One stoker dled from exhaustion and several sailors were incapacitated during the voyage owing to lack of air supply in the firerooms. The Hertha was finally taken to Genoa, where, at an ex- pense of $100,000, the most glaring defects were remedled. Another case is that of the Gazelle, fitted with Niclausse boilers. Her trials were unsatisfactory and the entire arrangement of her boilers has now to be reorganized, which will take at least six months and cost many thousand dol- lars. 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