The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 31, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, ! | \ 1899' | _JULY 31, JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. W. S. LEAKE, Manager. e Address All Communications to PUBLICATION OFF Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1568. EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Mnin 1574 l | | | DATLY | DAILY DAILY DAILY rized to recatve subscrip ded when requested. ....908 Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE... C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Meamager Forsign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON........ . Herald Squars | NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR.. ..29 Tribuns Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. | Ehermsn Houss; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; | Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. Weldort-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 81 Unlom 8quere; Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (. C.! OFFICE Wellington Hotel | d. L. ENGLISH. Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Moptgomery street, corner Ciay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 6I5 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Misslon street, open until 0 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. €518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- | cond and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'slock. PSSR AMUSEMENTS. | California—"'One of Our Girls.” ‘Romeo and Juliet.” ra House—*'Boccaccl Zoo and Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon Chutes &nd_evening. Olympla, corner Mason and Ellls streets—Specialties. | Panorama Co., Market street, near Eighth—Bat- Swimming Races. ete. AUCTION SALES. 3 —Monday, July 81, at 11 o'clock, ure, et y Frank W, 1ge & Co.—Tuesday, 12 te, at 633 Market street. denhall—Thursday, August 8, at 11 o'clock, August 1, at August 10, at 12 o'clock, HALCYON TIMES IN TRADE. ~ ENERAL trade continues without especial fea- (’j ture. Conditions established long ago still prevail, and from one shore of the country to the other there is but one report of continuous pros- perity. The bank clearings for the past week showed a gain of 43.2 per cent over the same week in 1898, 1 Milwaukee and Buffalo were the only two cities falling off. The failures importance to exhibit a for the corresponding week in were 131, against 1802 This story is repeated with such unvarying mo- : week af We are getting so we accept it as a matter of course. aples have not abated a whit of their firm- er is firm and the demand is so active 1in con- ter week that it no longer excites re- stomed to prosperity Lu ing operations are reported hinderec that buil ience. Dry goods continue in active fall demand, d woolens are also moving off well. The manu- urers are pur ing wool more freely in conse- ed s a rule, in roved call for the manufactu nce of the duct. Cotton goods are stronger p cotton, and the market is in fair shape. market is characterized b ath k. and at Chic her 10 a combination of packers ha ners are he price of hides so that many t, that market. Boc with the firmness in leather ments in July wi iron industry continues to make a brill ron during the first half of nown it was insufficient | 1pathize and hides, and the ship- The | it showing. e the heaviest ever known. Though the output of p 1809 was the heaviest eve r the i , and the stock on hand to- day is less than it was on the first of the year, or even In addition, the product for the r is said to be all booked. The glass trade is also in fine condition, said to be the best for many yvears. And thus it goes, all along the line Conditions in California, like those in the East remain unchanged. With the exception of hay all farm products are in good demand at remunerative prices. While grain is not high, the quotations, tak- ing the cereal ma s as a whole, are above the nor- mal, while the demand is generally good. Fruit is bringing fancy prices, and the usual midsummer glut in fresh fruit is not as prono: gt this time last yea last half of the y ed as usual, owing to the enormous shipments to the Eastern markets, The can- ning demand is also sharp, and much of the ontput it was sold to the East and As for the dried are brilliant, quotations for which have removed much of the surplus. cf California canned fr: Furope before the fruit was ripe. product, the fall prospects most descriptions being high, with promise of a fur- th It may be years before we have Hops are in active re- quest at fine prices, but the growers are generally re- fusing to sell. Wool keeps up and is very firm, while the livestock market is all that could be desired by the most e The activity in pro- visions continues and every few days there is an ad- r advance nother ar. g stock raiser. e in something or other. Wholesalers in general merchandise report a steady and active business, and there are no complaints ahm;l profit margins. The export trade of the port is lively and exporters are still complaining of the dearth of vessels to carry away the goods. A further advance in lumber sufiiciently indicates the state of this indus- try. In short, business is now what it ought to be: active, without undue speculation, with prices whi admit of a fair and sure profit. These are halcyon | times in trade, and we should make the best of (h;m, for commerce, like man, has its periods of elevation and depression, and the wise man makes hay while the sun shines. 3 e e The dispatches declare that Governor Gage has “rebelled” against his master Burns. It is more than probable that the wrong word has been used and that ‘ a kick judiciously placed will land his Excellency back ‘ in the traces. ] Count Castellane’s ability as a yachtsman seems to‘ be on an equality of failure as his craft as a conspira: tor. cup. istic tendenci He very easily lost the first race for the French l THE REIGN OF LAWLESSNESS. N Thursday last, at Wallace, Shoshone County, O Idaho, Paul Corcoran was convicted of mur- der in the second degree for having associated himself with a thousand miners, some of whom on April 29, 1899, destroyed property at Wardner and, in connection with that crime, killed a man named tration of the law was amply sufficient to deal with the Situation produced at Wardner by the mob which perpetrated the outrage, thus partly redressed, z}nrl fully justifies the comments of The Call upon the reign of terror established through the co-operation of the civil and of the military authorities. In the first in- stance, in order to overawe and control so large a | body of men, only a portion of whom seem to have been actual participants in violence, there probably was sufficient excuse for temporary military interfer- cnce. But it is now quite apparent that the declaration and the maintenance of martial law, the censorship over the press and the telegraph, the arrest of hun- dreds of citizens without the formality of accusation | or warrant, the exertion of undue pressure for the | production of testimony, and all the other arbitrary proceedings that have been so widely criticized | throughout the country, were absolutely without pos- | sible justification or palliation. The deeper and more alarming condition, how- ever, that the proceedings in Idaho illustrate, is the | growing -prevalence of lawlessness throughout the United States. Believing, as it does, that the Republi- | can party, especially in these days of socialistic fusion, represents Americanism fu its highest sense, The Call | has persistently maintained the inherent rights of citi- ! zens and insisted upon the administration of our polit- ical system in strict conformity with fundamental law, as interpreted and applied for nearly a century and a quarter. For years the breach between capital and labor has gradually widened and there have been pre- ymptoms of disturbance that could only before the law which, in the monitory sy be met by that equality centers of political corruption, has come to be treated as cant. But after all there is a balance in our insti- tutions and a seli-adjusting element in. our people fully commensurate with any exigencies that existed before our war with Spain, and, which, it may be added, will most likely be adequate to control existing and new complications. The situation, however, is dangerous and perplex- Coincidently with the development of imperial- s, contempt for the law has enormously increased. Thomas Babington Macaulay more than fity years ago predicted that, before the end of the century, there would be bread riots in New York. This prediction has not been literally, but it has been fied. A brief allusion to a few of the A e transpired within the last few induce serious reflection and may result ing substantially in strengthening the public opinion that rules this continent more effectively than any other part of the | civilized world The lynchings that have been so prevalent in the | in Mississippi, in Geor- | South—in both the Carolin gia, in Texa nd in other States where the equilib- rium between the whites and the blacks is barely maintained—rest on their own peculiar ground. The outrages that provoke them and the lynchings them- selves are evidences of lawlessness sugygestive of a race antagonism and of a race problem that ought to | produce some hesitation among the advocates of Ha- waiian cheap labor and of the conquest of the Filipi- The worst feature of these departures from law the insecurity they establish in the lo- they occur and the injury they inflict ups government. The United States has already paid an indemnity to China. It is now about 1owledge the legality of the claim for the liv of three Italiz Taliulah, Lou ana. These experiences are valuable, because they show that, by universal recognition, law is the essence n and order are calities where popular to a si- s summarily taken at of civilization. But the most significant breaches of that discipline, without which great populations cannot live together in harmony and in prosperity, are those which involve our white citizens and result from the intense antag- 1st capital. It has been recently Age of New York that the onism of labor ag the Iron observed by slightest prete es and that labor is both scarce and uneasy. and capitalistic unions, held within the just stri dust limitations of the law, are equally unobjectionable. Their policy is one thing—their legality is quite | another. Associated capital, in seme of its forms, has sought to control legislation, to influence the courts and to rule the national policy. Imperialism, to the cxtent to which it really exists, is a product of this tendency. The of money, by honest means, is not merely proper but laudable. This truth is almost universally admitted among American ¢ zens of all classes, including the preponderating num- bers in labor organizations. But capital, employed corruptly, works silently, insidiously, remorselessly accumulation i and without force except when it needs military as- sistance, and, even in those emergencies, it usually keeps within the technicalities of the law. It thus pro- vokes coarser violations of peace and of order. Lat- terly almost every strike, even against the protesta- tions of its leaders, has been accompanied by violence. The public is becoming familiar with the use of dyna- mite, with attacks upon property that harm the inno- cent more than the guilty, with a state of menacing exasperation that necessitates relief. The examples of these propositions are too numer- ous and too recent for recapitulation. Ohio, Illinois and Kansas are among the most impor- tant. In Illinois and in Kansas the attempt to substi- tute negroes for white laborers added fuel to the fire. In Cleveland the strike for a brief period almost as- sumed the proportions of an insurrection. It is true that these insubordinate exhibitions have been thus | far suppressed. But they have been most destructive in the actual injuries and losses they have entailed and most serious in the evidences they supply of deep- seated rancor and of disregard of the protection to life. ! to liberty and to property that is the core of the Amer- ican system of government. Philosophers, political economists, statesmen and journalists may speculate as they please upon this im- peded but spreading reign of lawlessness. The remedy, however, is intelligible, simple and just. It is mcrciy the equal enforcement of constitutional obligations. Imperialism and all other revolutionary projects that represent greed and rapacity must be abandoned. Capital must be restrained from fraud and labor from | the forcible exercise even of its legal right The Government, in all its phases, must be administered | upon an American and not upon a European founda- tion. These are the prescriptions that, it applied, will | reach and extirpate the disease that has become almost epidemic in the country and place American citizens, without distinction of class or position, upon the basis of legal equality. aminer, devoted a long article yesterday to a e e ————— A GLANCE AT @4 CRITIC. fl criticism of the views of The Call upon the life and character of the late Robert G. Ingersoll. It LITERARY agnostic, monopolized by the Ex- cts are seized upon as a justification for New York, | would be useless to point out his failures or refusals to comprehend the meaning of his pared and carefully | selected quotations from the article he attempted to dissect and of the mature and of the functions of the syllogism. One example, however, may be men- tioned. The Call assumed that belief in fraternity | was inconsistent. with the denial of the existence of God. The deepest reasoners of this age and of former ages, representing all shades of religion and of irre- ligion, have unanimously conceded that universal brotherhood mecessarily involved the existence of | universal fatherhood, and, therefore, of God. The Call | takes no sides on this question, but, under both the | inductive and deductive systems of reasoning, is | forced to acknowledge the inference or the illation | from the assumed premises. The manner of the criticism is peculiar to its writer. For many years, in his numerous controversies, when | expres: ing his opinion of the other side, the ass has | been his favorite simile. In fact, his compositions have largely increased the interest in that useful do- mestic animal. Whether in the instance before us he had in his mind the renowned ass of Balaam, which spoke words of wisdom and tried to prevent that tem- porarily deluded prophet from making a fool of him- self, we are unable to determine. But there are some facts about the ass that it would be apposite for him to | recall. An ass rarely loses his temper and never acts ! under dyspeptic influences. An ass is distingunishable circumstance that it seldom kicks, but when it does it always hits. Another peculiarity of the ass is that it is the most successful diplomatist among animals and, | in tact and in acumen, easily surpasses many human | critics. The bray of an ass sometimes appears out of place, but it frequently destroys the gravity of a | situation and it is quite as coherent and louder and more effective than the subdued roar that occasionally projects itself from within the skin of a counterfeit lion. OUR UNRIVALED NEWS SERVICE. | NCE more The Call has demonstrated the | O superiority of its news service over that of all j its contemporaries and competitors by being | first to give information of great importance and of | The demonstration was accom- world-wide interes | plished yesterday by the exclusive publication of the report of the Samoan Commissioners on the condi- tion of affairs in the islands and the steps that have | been taken to establish a stable government. This news affects the interests of three great nations —the United_ States, Germany and Great Britain— and is a matter of concern to all who have dealings with the commerce of the South Pacific Ocean. The | attention of the world has been for a long time di- | rected to the Samoan Islands, and, as is well know | the crisis there at one time threatened to interrupt the friendly relations of the three powers. Such being the case all intelligent men have been eager to learn what the commission would do, and all great journals that make any pretense to legitimate news-gathering have been on the alert to get the information as early as possible. The success of The Call in this, as in other cases, is due to the fact that while it expends neither money nor energy for fakes, it spares neither to obtain reli- able news from all quarters of the globe. A gaudy fictitious interview with the Pope, the Emperor of China or the Ahkoond of Swat, is easily concocted, and requires little expenditure of either brains or coin. but to be first in obtaining information concerning great events is a different matter. The Call has re- peatedly accomplished successes in that way whica | fully attest its supericrity as a legitimate news-gath- | erer over all rivals FLOURISHING, BUT MENACED. SCRETARY WILSON in the course of an in- S terview published in The Call yesterday gave some very gratifying information of the rapid advance of the sugar beet States. In the course of his statement he said: industry in the United “Last fall we had nineteen factories in the entire | fall we will have fully fity. They are being built in | the States of New York and New Jersey for the most | part, though there are some going up in other States as well. One is in progress of construction in Minne- sota, one in each of the Pacific Coast States, one has been completed at Ogden, Utah, and another is now going up at Grand Junetion, Colo.” As an illustration of the extent to which the industry can be expanded in this country without exceeding the present demand for sugar, the Secretary went on to say: ‘““We bought 18,000,000 tons last year. That is about the total amount produced in Germany. The purchases we made were contracted for in Germany, France, Belgium and Holland. To offset the neces- sity for purchasing abroad and to produce all that would be needed for consumption in this country | would require the operation of about two hundred fac- tories, which could be built at an average cost of about $500,000 apiece. It would require from one mil- | lion to one million and a half acres on which to grow the beets.” That is certainly a splendid outlook for American | agriculture and American capital. To cultivate 1,500, | 000 acres of land and to construct and to operate 202 factories at an average cost of $300,000 each means a great deal of work for a great many men. Unfor- tunately over that flourishing prospect there is the menacing cloud of imperialism. Secretary Wilson did not call it a cloud, he did not call it imperialism, he did not call it a menace. Those words are ours, and | must not be attributed to him, even by indirection, but the Sccretary said: ““As near as can be ascertained by sending an agent to the Caribbean Sea Islands it costs tne people of those places 2 cents per pound to produce their sugar. | Where the pulp from the factory is wasted or fed to cheap steers, it costs the people of the United States about 3% cents per pound to get their sugar from the beet, the returns depending in a great measure on the disposition that is made of the pulp.” In that statement we have a revelation of a menace, though the Secretary does not call it so. If by a fool- ish imperial policy we anrex Porto Rico and Cuba in the Caribbean Sea and add to them the Phil- ippines, where labor is cheaper still, and admit the product of their labor to our markets, how can this flourishing agricultural industry continue to thrive? With raw sugar costing about 2 cents a pound brought from the Philippines and from the islands of the Caribbean Sea, where it has been produced by what is virtually slave labor, the sugar trust, the great sugar refineries can continue their operations, but what will become of the American beet grower and the factories established to refine the product of American fields? There may be a profit in imperialism to somebody, but there is none in it for the American farmer or the American workingman. Welcome to the returning volunteers, o oy from a mule, so far as judgment is concerned, by the | In- | United States for the manufacture of beet sugar. This | JULY 31, 1899. Big mining enterprises are appearing pretty rapidly these days in California amid the host of smaller operations in the way of buying, bonding, prospecting and developing new and old mines, the constant formation of new companies, the rustling about of agents and promoters, the awakening to new life of old mining camps and the planting of fresh ones amid ore-ribbed hills. % The sale last week of the great and famous Mariposa grant, in Mariposa County, to London capitalists is the big- gest and best thing announced in the Cal- ifornia mining world in a good while, and it will make Mariposa County leap for joy. The expenditure of alarge amount of money in prospecting and developing the mining properties of the estate will fol- low. The sale means new life to Mari- | posa County and the development of sev- eral producing mines. This magnificent estate, a principality in extent and richness, comprises about i seventy square miles, or over 44,000 acres ! of territory, irregular in shape and with the town site of Mariposa, the county seat, inside of it. It was orlginally ac- quired from Mexican grantees by Jolm C. Fremont, the pathtinder. Fremont lacked capital and the estate hiad a hard financial career for many vears. It finally passed | to the joint ownérship of Senator J. P. | Jones of ada and his brother, 5 Jones, J. W. Mackay, Alvinza Hayward | and his partner Hobart, whose share be- came part of the Hobart estate. These owners composed the Mariposa Mining and Commercial Company. Valuable mines were developed on it in early days, and $3,000,00 was taken out of | the “Joscphine, which was never opened | below 600 feet. Other valuable or promis- ing mines on the estate have been the Pine Tree, Princeton, Mariposa, Mount Ophir, Texas, Lev Ludwig and Georgi- ana, besides a large number of other pros- pects partly or slightly developed. Dut there has been no production or develop- ment work worth speaking of on any of the mining properties of the estate for over thirty years. The millionaires who last owned it let it lie idie from year to rear. It is sald that Mackay and Jones wished to exploit the property, but the other owners would not join in putting up the money. 55 Besides the splendid mineral possibili- ties and promises, it is magnificently tim- bered and watered, with a considerable area of agricultural lands. It has for | many years been looked upon as a prop- erty with a splendi future. During all the long years that it has lain nearly as un- productive as when the Indians roamed its forests it has been the incubus of Mar- iposa County, which has hoped and wait- ed for the coming of moneyed redeemers. rs ago the Exploration don bought A’ xth interest, on the ba: t About two Company of ward’'s one-: $1,000,000 for the entire propert | ready to take all the rest at tion, but the others would not sell fiton Smith and H. C. Perkins, Californians who have been suc operating in London, South Afric elsewhere for vears, and Thomas Mein of San Francisco engineered the deal, and, with London investors, put up the money in unknown proportions. Messrs. mith and Perkins have at last succeed- ed in buying out all the other interests. | The price paid is not given out, but the total initial investment undoubtedly ex- 1,000,000, ¢ week the Mariposa Mining and Commercial Company was reorganized with the following directors: — Thomas Mein, president and manager; H. H. Tay- lor, -president; J. H. Mooser, secre- tary; C. Perkins and Mr. Gorham. who will direct operations the property will be vig- exploited and on a large scale. to be done will be to find | out what has been bought. It seems that | none too much is known just now about | mines that were operied In the pas for many years ago the surveys, reports. etc., coricerning them were burned, and the knowledge of the condition of the mines at the last working is largely le- gend. Before any definite plans are laid much time and money will be spent in clean- ceed orously The first thini ing _out old workings or sinking new shafts on several of the properties.” They | will be prospected at much greater depth than has vet been reached. This means large expenditures, the employment of a good many men and a general awaken- ing of the old® “grant.”” These opera- tions will begin this summer. Meantime the possibilities of power development, - well worked out, will be vass There is every promisc that the future will see flourishing mines and extensive operations, and the remotenes: of the prop from transportation fa- cllities brings a probable future railroad into view. The development of the grant | Will react on the rest of that great min- | eral region and greatly stimulate its d | velopment. The new company has at ts | back unlimited capital for judicious in- | vestment, and is composed of men who | do not do’ things half way. Tt | The operations of the Melones Mining | Company, near Robinsons Fer: | veras County, is one of the big new min- |ing ventures't witched with much | interest, not « on account of their [ scale, but on account of the methods and | experiments attending them. A new tun- | nel 5000 feet long and a new tamp | mill are among the features of the deve | opment and plant in which the compan | is_investing $325.000 before production, addition to properties, which comprise 5150 feet the middlé vein and 1300 feet on the e in similar amount_paid for the on st Reserve, Last Chance. mines, mill Enterpri Stani several placer claims and It Is one of the greatest low- grade propositions in the United States, and derives added {mportance from that act. An interesting experiment Is now on to determine the practicability o pensing with concentration and’ tre; the pulp as it_comes from the plat. the cyanide process. Following preli inary tests ‘a ten-ton experimental gyaiiide plant has been installed to wotk the ore by this method. So far the re- sults have been satisfactory, sion on the method has This practice has obtained in South Africa, but has never before been tried in California. W. C. Ralston, who has scored a_bril- liant success by taking hold of abandoned old properties which have been frequent- ly reported on adversely aund securing abundant Eastern capital to put them on an assuredly profitable wc king basis, is the manager of the operations. He gives lhe' following account of their present status: “The grading for the site of the stamp mill will be finished in ten day The milling machinery is ordered. The stamps wiill weigh 900 pounds and_drop seven inches 105 times a minute. There will be six No. 5 Gates rock crushers. The alr-compressing plant will be capable of operating twenty machine drills. There will be an electric haulage Rmm to carry the ofe 5000 fect through the tunnel and then 1000 feet to the mill. The new tunncl is now in 700 feet and making § feet per day through hard rock. “Water-power will be gained through a 12,500-foot flume, seven feet wide and four fel hi%‘h. inside measurement, which will carry 6000 inches of water, delivering it at a 54-foot head and furnishing 420 horse- *mw(‘r. Three thousand feet of the flume 5 completed. The water is taken from a cyclopean conerete dam in the Stanislaus, 3) feet high and 300 feet long on the tap. curved up stream and 2 feet wide at the base. The construction of the mill is not being rushed, as it cannot be used until the tunnel is driven. Development work reparing the mine for the stoping is be- ng carried on through shafts. Mining and milling will begin about next April. We now employ 220 men and will employ 250 when mining begins. We expect to mill 600 tons of ore a day. “The ore body as now developed shows ore rescrves of nearly 700,000 tons. It is low-grade, averaging from $350 to $4. The new tunnel will add 230,000 tons to the reserves.’” It has been estimated that with the large and perfect plant being installed mining and milling can be done for $1 73 or less per ton. here is much ore run- ning $2 a ton or less and much running a good deal higher. and the ore reserves in sight averaging $3 50 to $4, spoken of by Mr. Ralston, and conminln% Shout 53,000 000 worth of gold, are but a fraction of the great ore deposits in this property. In 1897 an ore body 27 feet wide am;) probably 1200 feet long was develoredA Muc] wider ore bodjes exist as well as richer Melones yielded nearly $1,000,000 in the '60's from an open cut along the wide ledge. The capital stock of the com- 4 pany is §2.000.00 in oing i but no_de- been reached. IG CALIFORNIA 'MINING AFFAIRS in the Boston Stock Exchange at $5, but none is on the market. California building stones are to have a | splendid and special opportunity at the Paris Exposition. The United States ex-| hibit is to be fronted by a big facade of | worthy_architectural design, to be made | up of United States building stones. The variety of color as well as material and | design will make it a notable feature of the mining department of the exposition. When Victor C. Hickes was here, Charles G. Yale, in charge of the Cali- fornia mining exhibit, proposed among | other things a plan in this connection | which should give California building | stones special prominence. One SUgges-| tion was to use for windows some of Cali- fornia’'s translucent onyx. Inquires by | mall have resulted in the following word to Secretary Gaskill from the office of | Commissioner Peck, granting exceptional | space: “Can grant exceptional space in facade | for California building stones, prepared | under our direction, to be used in con- struction and entered for award. Wil Send plans, etc., on the return of Mr. Skiff. special cases for gold, silver, S0 8D mercury, asphaltum and borax, But cop” may pos: y o~ per and’ petroleum may possibly be s | signed in respective groups. space for model quartz mill. Secretary J. J. Crawford of the Gwin Mine Development Company returned from the mine on Saturday -still feeling good over the big find of a rich new vein at 1570 feet. The new vertical shaft has | o " and will not leave the | He reports that last | ken out in sinking | mill without sorting week all the rock ta was run through the | the vein matter from that of the walls | It milled % a ton. As the shaft is 8 feet wide and the veln 2 feet, but a quarter 5t the rock milled was ore, making the ore on a milling test average 320 a ton. The ore was not picked out, because the arrangement of the plant made the opera- tion more expensive than milling every- thing. A crosscut will he run to the west | to the new veln at the 1200 level, and When the inclined vein is cut below 1600 e e eneh level to the main | fo the east will Intersect the new vein. Southern California is as wide awake in | the mining line as any other 'parl l)(‘ the State, and progress is rapid. The Los Ange {ning Review sums up the pres- | ation in its last number, saying in is computed that there are over 400 mines and prospects in Southern Cali- fornta. Two years ago it was computed that there were 143 stamp mills in South- ern California. Adding those which have heen erected since, nof including cyanide plants, brings the number up to 164. These mills have 1140 stamps, the majoi of whic e Kept bus There are eleven | cyanide plants in_operation, and the num- ber is being rapidly increased, There are so several Huntington mills, besides < CConcentrating plants, etc. There are thirty-eight regularly organized min- | ing districts in Southern California. There So seven others, commonly spoken of | as mining districts, but which have not been organized as such. In 1897 the value | of the mineral production of Southern California was estimated at $5,68.608. In 1808 the value of its mineral production was computed at $7,600,000. The suit brought by the Anti-Debris As- sociation in the name of Sutter County to | Testrain the Red Dog gravel mine of Ne- | vada County from operating under a per-| mit from the California Debris Commis- | Sion has, on motion of _the defendant b transferred to the United States Cir- cuit Court at San Francisco, where it be- | longs. The California Miners' Association will provide a vigorous defense in behalf of the hydraulic mining industry and tbe | Caminetti law. This court last year up- | held the law in the issue raised by the North Bloomfield Company. ‘ A company of San Francisco and Sac- | ramento men is engaged in turning from | ita bed the South Fork of the American | River at Missouri Bar to mine the par. | A dam ten feet high and a flume 400 feet long, 16 feet wide and § feet deep are be- | in, constructed. An attempt to work this bar in the fifties failed, and it re-| mains unworked, with €ood promises of | Hehness 1f the stage of water remains | favorable. | The mother lode: section of Tuolumn= County pays half the county’'s taxes. | Within four months $3000 has been taken | from F. B. Smith's pocket mine near | Camp Seco. One nugget weighed $1500. A branch of the Sierra Railroad is to | be built to Angels Camp, Calaveras County, from Jamestown, passing the Rawhide mine and Robinsons Ferry, fol- lowing the mother lode. 1t Is to be fin- ished by December 30. Every branch rafiroad into the mining regions means much to the mining industry. Alameda County has a quartz gold mine. It is in-H; Canyon, back of | Mountain View Cemetery, and a com- pany has gone to work on it. The Heskell copper mine, Fresno Coun- ty, has heen sold for $25,000 to_the English | Vndicate that bought the Copper King mine in that county. A New York com- pany is developing __the Youngs Valley copper ledge in Del Norte County. New pottery worl are to be estab- lished at Carbondale. Amador County where there is a bed of potter’s clay. | The Merced Mining Company will add twenty to its forty stamps at Coulter- ville, sink 500 feet further in the Mary Harfison and put fn an electric plant. S 0; DENNY. AROUND THE CORRIDORS A. T. C. Thornett of Bombay, is at the Palace. E. N. Cox, the Madera banker, Is stay- ing at the Palace. J. F. Devendorf of San Jose s regis- tered at the Grand. Rev. J. O. Lincoln has come up from San Mateo and is at the Occidental. Edward de la Costa, a big cattleman of Santa Barbara, is a guest at the Lick. 1. W. Moultree, one of the leading at- torneys of Fresno, Is a guest at the Lick. A. P. McGinnis, a prominent politician | of Los Angeles, is registered at the Pal- ace, Lieutenant J. E. Cann, U. 8. N, i{s one of yesterday's naval arrivals at the Occi- dental. J. C. Fraser, one of the best known cit- izens of Stockton, is staying at the Occi- dental. 1. Plerce, a merchant of Hongkons, was one of last night's arrivals at the Palace. J. M. Russell is registered at the Palace from India. He came in on the China steamer. T. Regan, a mining man of Boise City, | Idaho, is at the Lick accompanied by his | two sons. Professor H. W. Wiley of Washington, D. C., is one of the late arrivals at the Oceldental. W. E. Rodgers, a mining man of| Bakersfield, is at the Lick, accompanied by his wife. James Clark, who has extensive lumber interests at Sisson, is one of the late ar- rivals at the Russ. R. 1. Bently, a well-known lawyer of Sacramento, is at the Lick on a short business trip to the city. H. H. Hunter, one of the leading mer- cMants of Yreka, is a guest at the Grand, where he arrived vesterday. Dr. T. J. Cox, one of the foremost phy- sicians of Sacramento, is among the re- cent arrivals at the Grand. Colonel and Mrs. George W. McFarland arrived yvesterday from Honolulu. They are staying at the California. Henry Burns, a wealthy mining man of San Antonio, Texas, is at the Lick on a short business trip to this city. William M. Masson, a prominent poli- ticlan and resident of Washington, D, C. is registered at the Occidental, ; Charles Beresford, a member o3 the fa- mous Beresford family, arrived yesterday from India and went to the California. Clinton B. Hale, the Santa Barbara cap- italist, has returned from his recent trip to Honolulu, and is staying at the Occi- dental. Julius Behvend, a traveler from Mos- cow, Russia, is a guest at the Palace. where he arrived last evening from the India, China steamer. : Jules C. Charpentier, French Consul at | dad, Cal. 0 shares. It Is quoted | Mazatlan, is a guest at the Palace, where | New Montgomery street, he arrived yesterday from his Central American home. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Low of Brooklyn, N Y., are registered at the Palace. Mr Low is the brother of ex-Mayor Seth Low of New York. He comes out to the coa for the double purpose of visiting re tives and indulging in a little recreatic and sight-seeing. With Mr. Low c Rev. Alexander Vance, one of the leading clergymen of Brooklyn. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. There are 45 flag officers, 1760 line and staff officers and 41,53 men in the French navy. In the German navy the personnel now numbers 26,651, against 24,906 last year. The line .and staff officers number 852, en- glineers 128 and (’fl(lz‘tsjfl. The keel of the third battleship of the Kaiser Frederick der Grosse type has just been laid at Wilhelmshafen. The new ship will have sixteen inches more beam than her prototype. An order for 250,000 rounds of ur_\fll!fld shells for 12-inch and 13lg-inch guns is be- ing filled by contracts for the British navy. At the royal arsenal at Woolwich 1500 pounds of lydite-is being used daily in the charging of shells. Two Portuguese cruisers, San Gabriel and San Ramon, of 1800 tons, respectively, have been completed by contract at Havre. They "have engines of French make and water tube boilers of the Normand-Segan- dy type, developing 2600 horsepower un- der natural draught and 4000 under forced draught. The San Gabriel made 1 knots and 17.33 knots under the above con- ditions. g The terrible accident to the British tor- pedo-boat destroyer Bullfinch on July 2 which resulted in the loss of nine lives, was duly telegraphed, but a somewhat similar accident to another boat of that type on July 12 has been kept quiet. For- tunately no lives were lost, but eight wers more or less scalded. The boat, named Lee, was on her trial trip when one of the cylinder heads blew out, throwing a quantity of steam on the men in the engine room. Four of these had to be sent ashore to an infirmary. A small cruiser named Baseir was re- cently built by Orlando Brothers, Leg- horn, for the Sultan of Morocco. She was ostensibly intended for the suppres- sion of piracy, and a clause in the con- tract stipulated that the vessel should be manned by not less than one-half Euro- pean. When the Baseir ready for sea the Moroeco authorities backed out from the agreement as to compx tion of the crew, and the Itallan Government, appre- hending that the mission of the cruiser was the encouragement of piracy rather than its suppression, canceled the contract and the vessel was sold to Venezuela. The three Chinese torpedo boats polic- ing the West River to protect merc shipping against piracy have proved worse than a failure. A British steamer was looted a short time ago by pirates. who took out the cargo and robbed ti pasgengers of $7000. One of the torpeds boats passed the steamer while the latter was being plundered and paid no atten- tion to the flag of distress. The European captains report that these torpedo boais do nothing but tow junks up and down from port to port, and as they get the coal from the Government for nothing they make a good personal income. In the evenings they anchor in the creeks and become for the time being flower boats, being crowded with singing girls. The highest efficiency in armor is claimed for that made by the Krupps, it being equal to 2.33 times that of wrought iron. Thus a battleship with Krupp armor twelve Inches thick has a protection equal to twenty-eight inches of wrought iron. Since the introduction of armored ships thirty-nine years ago, when the Warrior and Gloire were built, the rivalry between gunmakers and armor manufacturers has been carried on with varying success to either party, but it would now seem as if the armor has at last reached a point which only a few of the very best guns can attain. The penetration of the Brit- ish twelve-inch wire-wound gun is not quite thirty inches of wrought iron at 2000 vards, and this gun is the most powerful afloat at the present time. The Warrior's armor of iron was only four and a half inches thick, and could be easily pene- trated by the six-pounder Hotchkiss gun of the present time. The same weight—975 | tons— of Krupp armor would keep out the projectile of the American five-inch rifle at 2000 yards, or could be reduced to 418 tons and maintain its former efficiency. The heaviest armored ship in the British | navy is the Inflexible, with twenty-four- | inch plates, maximum thickness, the value | of which is only thirty inches of wrought iron, and equal protection would be af- forded by the new armor of only one-half the thickness of the old. The result of these progressive improvements in pro- tective material has been a vast reduction in weights, which has been applied to giv- ing armor to other parts hitherto unpro- tected. The battleships about to be buiflt for our navy will carry armor of twelve inches maximum thickness, agalnst eighteen inches of the Oregon and her class, but ‘the protection will be only slightly reduced by the reduction in thick- ness. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE MERRIMAC—W. T., City. The Merrimac was sunk in the entrance to the harbor of Santlago by Lieutenant Hobson June 8;<1888.7 - o - - NOT A KISSING BUG—P. E. W., Sole- The “bug” sent by you for ex- amination from the banks of the Salinas River is not a Kkissing bug but a very common beetle. PATTI IN SAN FRANCISCO — A Reader, City. The last time that Adelina Patti was in San Francisco was in 1880. | She came here with the Italian opera Ta- company that opened at the Grand Oj ayed house on the 10th of February and pl a two weeks' engagement. WARRANT OFFICERS—U. 8. T., City. Men are not enlisted in the United States pavy with the special purpose of instruct- ing them as warrant officers. They enlist in any branch in which they are capable | under the grade of warrant officer and by promotion may become such officers. LIME IN VINEYARDS—A. S., Bonny- doon, Cal. An authority on vine culture says: “The more magnesia, lime or chalk there is in the soil the better. Such soil never cracks and keeps the moisture dur- ing the summer admirably.” Slacked lime exposed to the atmosphere depreciates as to its force. THE DRYDOCK—J. H. G., City. The new drydock for the use of the United States Government and the construction of which has been authorized by Congress is to be located at Mare Island. For a copy of the act authorizing the dock com= municate witih the representative to Con- gress from the district in which you live Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend' ————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * e e The Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce is arranging for a memorial celebration in honor of Admiral Farragut, who was a native of East Tennessee. The President and Admiral Dewey have been invited, as has also Secretary Long. “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regu- lates 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, %c a bottle. ———— HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantage of ‘the round trip tickets. Now only $0 by steamship, Including fifteen days' board at hotel; longer stay, $250 per day. Apply at 4 San Franclsco.