The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 14, 1899, Page 4

ANCISCO CALL THE SA ONDAY, A +UST 14, 1899 @iw A MONDAY... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., 8. F Telephone Matn 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson Street iACG_UST 14, 1899 | —Extract from an addressof the managing editor ,0/ the Examiner in reference lo the refurning Telephicne Main 1874 DELIVERED BY CARRIERE, 15 CENTS PER WEBK. | Single Copies, & cents. | Terms by Mail, Including Postage: | PAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. .$6.0( DAILY CALL (including Sunday Cail), § months. 8.00 ¢ DAILY CALL ( ng Sunday Caiy, 3 months . . 1.50 DAILY GALL gle Month 6Sc | BUNDAY CALL One Year. 1.60 WEEKLY CALL One Year.. 1.00 All postmasters ere authorized to recelve subscriptions. Bample copies will be forwarded when requested. g .908 Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE.. C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Maseager Forcign Advertising, Marquette Bullding, Chicago. | NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: | €. C. 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NW. corner Twenty- second and Kert i/-cts. open untll 9 o'clock. | e e | of the Lady Ursula.” | Benefit, Thursday afternoon, ( Our Heroes' Fund ler Two Flags. | **Doroth; cater—Vaudeville every afternoon | llis streets—Specialtiss. | . ete Bui 1z, Oakland—Cakewalk Concert, for | ‘uesday even- Arion Society our soldfers, P ——— ey | AUCTION SALES. | day, at 2:80 o'clock, Turkish , at 11 o'clock, Horses, still no pause in trade worthy of note, light hesitation, as indicated of the country, which i 24.3 per cent last week, the smallest There is, however, but little ies, the gain at Chicago be- 1 of the most important clearing for some time earances than last year. A\'c\\-} ost marked falling off, her gain last | 18.8 per cent over last year. De-| in Wall street caused this decline, for rket has to depend on the regu- | , most of whom are off at the different | kage in clearings is a shrinkage | r the week being 136, Jast Not for y hose {i gainst 1 s have week year ires been so sm ths. past few m other very favorable indication is the volume of rops, wheat and corn. The Government | ggests a yield of 500,000,000 bushels of win- | at, and a bumper crop of 2,001,- | report ter and g whe bushels of corn, the latter being a record- | brezker. This cereal outlook of course affects the | great railroads, whose earnings during the coming | bid marked increase. In fact, | are becoming scarce in the East and| West, and the transportation companies will be put | to their trumps to move the vast output of the furm.\' the West and Northwest. | staples keep' up their flattering ex- | Western ad- | 2,000 all fair to show a c ¥ of The prc hLibit, iron and steel of course leading. ner demand, scarce supplies of mate- 1d increasing volume of business | I for next year. The production of pigirpn was largest ever known, but in spite of this stocks | ywed a decrease and current production is easily at | 14,000,000 tons- a year.. Wool continues | ong, though as it is the season between clips the narket is not as active as it was some weeks ago. | Hides, leather, boots and shoes rule very firm, and | the manufacturers have practically decided to advance | prices for the latter. The demand for lumber shows ate of no abatement, and extensive canning operations have greatly stimulated sugar. 15 As for the canning trade it never was on a more brilliant footing. Most the California canners were sold up to their capacity months ago, before the contracted fruit was | ripe, but of late a scarcity of cans has vexatiously =etarded operations. i The Jocal situation was enlivened toward the latter | part of the week by a rise in wheat, which though | fractional and on the very heels of a decline, was wel- come and made the street very cheerful. There is nothing so stimulating to general trade as an advance in “wheat, and in an inverse ratio a decline in this | great staple always has a tendency to make merchants cautious. No marked advance is expected, owing to the favorable outlook for crops as a rule throughout | the world, but for some time the opinion has pre- vailed that wheat was rather Jower than conditions | justified. | There is no slackening in the output of California produce, which promises to be enormous this year. The canners and driers are putting out immense quan- tities of fruit, which is meeting with an excellent de- | mand at fine prices, ewing to the shortage in the | Fast and Europe. There is a stiff demand for new | Tiops, but the growers will not sell, even at the good | prices bid by buyers. Cattle, sheep and hogs con- tinue high and wanted, provisions are in active de- n.and, lumber is lively at the recent advances, a keen | inquiry for fall wool is expected by the trade, the | export trade of the toast was never livelier, and so it | goes all along the line, one unbroken exhibit of prosperity. itse of e e Leon Dennery went to San Quentin on Saturday— as a visitor. terday that somebody in California should do some- | aminer, ready ever to betray a public interest and de- | contributed their money and paid the tribute of their re doing very little speculation there at| .jo turning volunteers as worthy heroes. %61 against General Shafter was to be satisfied, When a 1l and unimportant as | of dishonest dollars and the sting of public shame were This in itself is a signifi- | to be revenged, worthy hero i of the remarkabl = ; of th e i the remarkable prosperity of the coun | gerous men | attempted criminally, but in blind stupidity, to make | the victims of its shameful scheme. In the face of ! kept waiting. | best to begin operations on the smooth asphait pave- | ments of the capital or to try the country roads in a DASTARDLY ATTACK ON THE CITY. | It has verified the predictions of The Call. When the _ automobile started The Call said the experiment 'rflE railroad company does not | would test the mechanism and show where it is de- nnin Wk iio, desperatc bR L 2 | been revealed every defect in the machine from the around this city, and the Citizens i i i the nut washers. of San Francisco do not want them. \ould test the country roads, and it has shown that some roads are rough, some are muday. and some | have ditches, and that the machine can break on' the volunteers as reported vesterday in the Exam'ner. A writer for the Examiner pleaded hysterically yes- the ditches with the greatest facility. It was pointed out that the appearance of the vehicle on rural roads whether cattie were scared of it, and so it did, It was an object of more popular interest than a circus; it was as startling to animals as a yellow journal freak to huma and would have caught her if a valve hadn’t broken. The automobile is coming. It shall be in Californi; even as in Porto Rico. ' If the one now waiting for the election processions ‘in Ohio to pass do not reach here in time for exhibition as a specimen of successful thing “big” in connection with the home-coming oi the volunteers. The pleader asked for what he be- lieved to be the impossible, something wh ch would never be forgotten within the borders of the State and which would, in the memory of the nation, mark California as the premier of States. The ask of seem- ing impossibility has, in a single sentence, been ac- complished by the managing editor of the Examiner. uted the patriotism of Americans mechanis still serve an exposition purpose. This man has pro to gain a point in a petty quarrel for his employer. He has outraged the sense of common decency which San Franciscans have always displayed. He has dishonored the State and has raised it to an evil dignity of ill-fame because it harbors him and tolerates He has insulted the peo- Art Gallery of that city as the bust of the century. O BOSTON IS PUZZLED. the methods he represents. ple of other States, and with a purpose baser than that of him who barters his honor, has attempted to brand the returning heroes of the Philippines as idle vagabonds, desperate characters, who come unwel- come to the city and remain as feared and despised to well expressed in the headline Grown Celestials Pass as Boys—Find Fathers in Can- malefactors. With no other authority than his impudence, and with no other criterion of decency than his own, he ington, Vermont, During the Trials There.” page of closely printed matter, it is learned the bland they do not want among them the brave men who | and child-like coolie has matched his unsophisticated left their families and homes, their occupations and Oriental ingenuity against the shrewdness of the T Sihern aca ito hioh: | d ke mumicRa et nail S s and sl no e 3 Sr . | better of him. for the nation’s flag. It seems past belief that such shameless effrontry could be shown even by the Ex- speaks for the people of San Francisco and says that : 5 into this country by the back door of New England. base a private principle to serve its own selfish end, but the proof is in the newspaper of which the man- aging editor is the authoritative head, and the motive enter have not taken the trouble to smuggle them- selves in, but have walked up to the officers of the Government and cleverly passed themselves off American-born or as persons privileged under the treaty. It is noted that the cases most difficult to deal with by the New England authorities are those of Chinese claiming to have been born in the United States, but educated in China. The thing that puzzles Boston is the fact that these natives have no difficulty 1d- ing fathers in New England to vouch for them as his children, and sometimes the father does not look much older than the boy. Moreover, the number of the natives is larger than seems quite right to New is in the public’s possession. miner was deprived of its Not long ago the E bribe money of $1000 a month by the Southern Pacific Company. The newspaper had become useless to de- fend the corporation and harmless to injure it. The proprietor and his employe chafed under a sense of in fi double injury. They felt as scoundrels whose scou drelism had been tnade public. They have since lost not a single opportunity to make reprisals. In this quarrel The Call is not concerned except where a pub- lic interest is involved and where the people of this city and State are to ‘be made the victims of a England calculators. The Herald say it noticed that the most of the boys coming in claim to have been born in San Francisco between 1875 and 1880. They do this because at that time thers was no adequate registry of births of Chinese in that city. There could not have been more than 200 Chinese wives in that city during the years specified. A birth rate of 50 boys a year would have been zbnormally large; yet in Vermont alone, for the five years preceding this one, from 700 to 1000 alleged native-born Chinese have been admitted, and the number in the country is enormous.” The merchant dodge also is worked a way that fatigues the Boston intellect. It is said: “In Boston there are about 200 Chinese merchants, and yet during 1897 and 1808 there were filed 3500 names of Chinamen alleged to be in business in Bos- ton. The method is this: A firm files a list of thirty five partners, and in the course of two years twenty five will be admitted as returning partners. Log there should now be sixty partners, but as a matter of fact there are still thirty-five, but the names are all new ones. When asked where the old partners have gone, the reply is that they have sold oat and their whereabouts is unknown. These new names remain until they have served the purpose of unlawfully in- ducting some more Chinamen into the country, and so the endless chain goes on.” Altogether the ingenuity of the little yellow man is too much for the philanthropists. Even when they know his tricks they cannot head him off. They may know him to be lying when he claims to be a native son of California or a merchant of Boston, but they cannot catch him at it. his certificates, and everything else the officers de- mand, and it appears that ere long the New England schoolteacher will not have to come to San Francisco to see a Chinatown. & /\/\ respondent that the programme of the theatri- ISPATCHES from Washington announce that cal entertainment to be given for the benefit the Government has been experimenting with of the volunteers’ reception fund, be repeated at the automobiles in the postoffice service and will | Grand Opera House. The plan has a double attrac- probably make extensive use of them in that city and | tion inasmuch as it will not only increase the revenue in Porto Rico. That is a curious combination. The | to be derived from the entertainment, but will enable national capital and an outlying colony with a back | persons who are not rich enough to compete in the number civilization are to be made the scenes of | bidding for seats at the Orpheum to have a share in postal progress while the country at large is to be | the dramatic festival. | The details of the plan are given in our cor- It would be impertinent, perhaps, to inquire why | respondent’s letter published elsewhere, and need not the Government has decided to make its experiments | be repeated here. Suffice it to say the project is thor- in Washington and a far-off island rather than in | oughly feasible. Mr. Morosco has offered the use of San Francisco and Santa Clara Valley. There are |the Grand Opera House, so there will be no difficulty good reasons for the decision. Some time in the past i in that direction. For the actors and actresses to pass an automobile, under the highest patronage and with the best auspices, started from New York for San Francisco. The President and the Postmaster Gen-i eral, as well as the rest of the country, have doubtless been watching that experiment with close attention and have learned from it so much that in undertak- ing experiments of their own they have thought it ’ dastardly misrepresentation which will do immeasur- i able harm. When the managing editor of the Examiner says in cowardly insinuation that the people of San Francisco did not welcome the returning soldiers gladly he lies. He speaks for himself and for his employer and in a lost bribe. the When the managing editor of the by blackguard implication that the citizeus of this city anishing glitter of aminer declar ir eyes is the praise to the volunteers in deceit he speaks the prin- ciple which has dominated his employer and the community and he speaks for no one | aminer in th On Friday last the Examiner characterized the re- 1t suited the because a grudge aminer then to call them so atisfied, when the double loss bitterer spite was to be became desperate, dan- But the Examiner has carried its despicable game too far. It has made itself a public enemy. It has the people of the country and their returning heroes such an enemy the people oi San Francisco have a common cause. They are bound in duty to defend themselves against an attack which would dishonor their city in the view of all others and rob them of the simple tribute of having done what theiwr patriotism dictated at a time when patriotism is the most sacred virtue of a people who have given thetr dearest ones A GOOD SUGGESTION. % : | as sacrifices to their nation’s honor. ‘ “ OST excellent THE COMING AUTOMOEILE. of them in the course of their careers have doubtless made such double plays more than once, and it will ance for the patriotic object in view. It must be borne in mind the reception of the volun- teers is a movement in which all classes of citizens are interested. Those who cannot afford to pay $50 or even $5 for a scat at the benefit are just as patriotic as those who can. State pride, national patriotism, | | | | | remote island “far off amid the melancholy main.” | lloyalty to the heroes of war and joy in their return The action of the Government will of course be | widely commended. It is well known the transconti- nental automobile is The Call's automobile, and the people are always well pleased to see the Government follow the leadership of The Call and profit by it. Our automobile entered Ohio just before the | &zens. It is right therefore that all should have a E chance to share in every undertaking set on foot for | the purpose of raising money for the reception. Our correspondent is to be thanked for his sugges- glorious primary elections of this city in which all th:i tion. It is timely, pertinent, patriotic and popular. bosses and the yellow journal were swept front the It should be at once adopted and acted upon. political horizon. In the uproar of that great event | | the machine was lost sight of, but Ohio remains on| Mayor Phelan’s position on the new tax levy seems | the map, and through the dawn’s early light it can | to be pretty well defined. He will stand sponsor for | all in it that is good and pass the buck to the Super- be seen the machine is still there. visors for the rest of it. As there are women in Ohio with faces that have | been known to stop a freight train, some people may | The authorities at Washington are now begging for suppose the automobile was stopped in that way. | bread for the people for whom only a short time ago Such a supposition would be erroneous. The self- ‘ there was a demand for bullets. propelling vehicle stopped in its own way. It is not[ the first thing that has stuck on Ohio, and people | The Dominican insurgents are trying to hire Cuban shouldn’t be too curious in such matters. | soldiers. There are some commodities not worth ac- In one respect the undertaking has been successful. | cepting without cost much less buying. rough’ places, stick in the muddy places and run into | | from the one place to the other will be easy. Many | not be too much to ask them to repeat the perform- [ | with victory, are feelings shared by all classes of citi- | would prove whether people took an-interest in it and | ity, and it once chased a cow for half 2 mile | act as published in the statutes is a true copy of the original bill. The legal opin- ions of Mr. Ricketts and others ~to the effect that as Section 1 expresses a precise | and clear meaning in saying *‘an act to| eal, hereby repealed,” a court | not an intent different from | quiry. | cannot be maintained, and the claim is | | and with claims located less than sixty | | by filing a second notice, an affidavit of | $50 worth of work, etc. He has his witnesses, | | claims by | eral regions of Northern California and : | s the suggestion of a cor- | swarmed along the Sierra Nevadas and over the southern districts. The copper boom has resulted in tb ation of a large number of copper claims from Fres no County north through all the nor ern counties. A large number of oil claims help swell the list. Practically STATE MINING LAW. NERAL DISCOVERIES. fective, and the results have been even so. There has | It was said the trip ! n at the Mechanics’ Institute Fair, it will | 1t will be hauled to | Chicago and placed .on a monument in front of the | | UR esteemed contemporary the Boston Her- | ald devoted recently about a page of its spacel what is seemingly a tremendous sensation | in New England. The nature of the sensation was ‘ Sr G Chinese Puzzle—Full | ada—Coolics Become -Merchants by a New Process— | pealed.” The Exclusion Act Is Evaded—Revelations at Burl- | From the vast array of facts spread forth over| | ¢ From the evidence given, it is clear there can be | no telling how many Chinese have managed to get | It is known now that hundreds who had no right to | as | law requires a preliminary notice, as fol- The news that because of a blunder in| the construction of the repealing act of March 20, 159, the State mining law of | 1897 stands unrepealed will give the miners and prospectors the biggest shaking up | they have received in a long time. i That the Legislature did not accom-| sh ithe repeal of the act of March 7, | was early suspected or believed by a number of mining lawyers and mining men, and several mining attorneys have advised people to proceed under the State | : law in making locations, but the discov- ery did not become generally discussed or | known, and miners proceeded accordIng to | old laws and forms all over the State, and the announcement of the remarkable sit- uation in The Call of Saturday was prac- tically the first notice of their trouble the miners received. After the adjournment of the Legisla- ture the miners were much at sea re- gurding the condition of the mining laws, and the leading authorities appealed to by hundreds of inquirers kept repeating that the situation was simply as it was before the State law was passed, mining Jocations being governed wholly by the Federal law and by district regulations, where such had been made. Late in May last Attorney General Ford wrote an opin- ion on the sitfiatign from this standpoint, which was published In The Call of May 28, and added the following: ‘Note—There appears to be a slight er- wording of the repealing act of 1899, the effect of which I have not con- sidered. I have assumed in the foregoing that the act of 1897 was effectually re- This was the first published intimation that anything was wrong with'the repeal- ing act, which few took the trouble to look up, but it went unheeded and the State law was disregarded. It was on the as- sumption that the repeal had been effect- ed that the executive mmittee of the lifornia _Miners’ sociation a_ few weeks ago decided to have prepared forms of location netices according to the Fed- eral law, for which there was much in- quiry by miners, and it was during.the preparation of these forms by Attorney last week that the diseov- -ame_effective was made. After thorough study Mr. Ricketts decided that there was no question about the State law being still in_force, and other cminent attorneys agreed with him. Three or four days ago E. H. Benjamin, tary of the California Miners’ A nt notice of this conclusion to va- | ple, and then The Call made it Known. A. H. Rickett ery which all on Saturday, the as follow: As stated in The C )pears in the statutes r CXIIL—An act to I “An act n o manner of locating mining . public domain of the L i ices of location th ations and providir records with County Re: escribing the effect to be given | of notices of location and affi- , and pr 1897 ¢ California, repre- do enact as ims upon record- n ing de- the deposit srders, and » recordation approved of dlstrict records with prescribing the effect to ices of location a 7, is repealed. shall take effect immediately. the act is all right, but a ideration of the construc- error. The understood by quotation mark: repeal (an act, . is hereby nothing. It 2—-This The title of moment’s c tion of trouble ymitting the 1 reading: pproyed This accomplishe an act to repeal,” and there was n 1 reveals the quickly in be matter repeals no such act to be repealed. If the act had read: ‘“An act entitled ‘An act, etc., * + * s hereby repealed,” the end sought omplished. Curry ntific Pre would have beén Secretary of State to the Mining and Sc 15 certified that the and cannot substitute d in the ltle for that ed in the act itself. The intent of Legislature is not for judicial in- When there is no ambiguity the | error cannot be cured by a court, and the | State mining law was never repealed. that so e < the intent expre: Attorney General Ford naturally de- clines to commit himself too definitely in advance of official action, but was Wi ing to say he repeal of the law of 18! is extremely doubtful, and I strongly ad- vise miners to strictly observe the State law.” If the State law has been continuously in effect since March 27, 1897, no mining location made since then otherwise than in accordance with it is a valid one. If it is not a valid location legal possession | Subject to relocation by any one. Very few claims have been located according to that law since the supposed repeal, days before the attempted repeal but few holders properly completed the location Hundreds of mir and_holders ot bond or purchase will be in sad | predicaments, and there will be a great Amount of trouble and uncertainty for 2 long time. There has been more pros- Pecting and more claims taken up this year than ever before. On one day re- tently fifty iwocation notices were fi with of Shasta Count Prospectors have this year penetrated in great numbers into every part of the 1o the recorder h all these claims located during the past six months will be without legal protec- tion until the State law is complied with. As under the State law worth of work is required within sixty days, it will be fmpossible for the average Holder of a number of claims to save them all by promptly relocating them, the tax on his resources being too great. With the sup- posed disappearance of this requirement many prospectors proceeded to stake out claims as fast as they could find anything to locate, having, they assumed, un- till the end of the year 1900 to do the $100 worth of assessment work required by the Federal law. With the return of the $50 and sixty-day requirement a great many of these claims will be simply aban- doned. Some miners are far from claims they have located, and some will not learn soon that they must hustle if they have claims they want to save. It is to be re- gretted that the way seems legally open for claim-jumping and the troubles that would follow, for a claim cannot be held unless properly located, and the State law now discovered to be in force says: All locations of quartz or placer formations or deposits hereafter made which do not con- form to the requirements of this act, in so far as the same are respectively applicable there- to, shall be void. The only thing for claim holders to do is to promptly relocate according to the State law and do their assessment work within two months. The forms of notices required by it must be again resorted to. There will be a season of much doubt and inquiry and a variety of complications will arise all over the State. ¥ It will be remembered that' the State low: Sec. 2—The Aiscoverer of any vein or lode shall immediately upon making a discovery erect at the points of discovery a substantial monument or moend of rocks and post thereon a preliminary notice which shall contain: First—The name of the lode or claim. The name of the locator or locators. ‘The date of discovery. Fourth—The number of lineal feet claimed in length along the course of the vein each way from the point of discovery. Fifth—The width claimed on each side of the center of the vein. Sixth—The general course of the veln or lode as near as may be. Seventh—That such notice is a first or pre- Iltminary notice. This must be recorded with the County Recorder within _twenty days. Within sixty days the discoverer must -do §0 Worth of development work, distinctly Tark the boundaries of the claim and fle with the County Recorder a second notice of location, which shall contain the name of the locator, the date of dis- covery and of the posting of the prelimi- nary notice, and *‘a description of the 4 | that the $30 worth of work has bee | further hindered by fogs. R R R SR SROSE SROSR'S w:«-‘r@—o—e-v@ * o e e claim by boundaries and also by reference to some natural object or permanent mon- ument -as will identify the claim.” There ‘must be also filed an afidavit don acer locations require two similar n nd $10 worth of work in sixty days. law made a mi g district record fter March 27, 1897, of no legal nd required the depositing of old t records with the County Re- The effect was a general disor- zanization of mining districts. Since the sed repeal of the law many mining ricts have been reorganized and a ber of district records have been re- ed -to district: Now _they must go back to the County Recorder, though the recent records of locations in them have no legal effect. The miners of Tuolumne County in convention at Sonora have or- ganized the whole county into a mining | district, adopted rules and regulations, elacted ‘a recorder and preseribed a form of location notice, all of which, as in other districts, is of no effect. Another discovery ' of molybdenite in this State has been made, this time in | Ventura County. The following account, accompanicd by samples of quartz rock pronounc rich in mo! The Call: LEBEC, Kern County, Cal., Aug 7, 1599 Editor Call—Sir: Molybdenite has been dis- covered in the Gold Hill country, Ventura County. For two or three years past the min- ers and prospectors of this section have been troubled with a mineral supposed to be graph- ite, which does not occur in sufficiently large quantities to be of commerclal value, and ow- ing to its rebellious nature was considered a nuisance. Investigation, however, has dis- closed the fact that the supposed graphite is ybdenum. James McDonald, a miner who knows mineral when he sees it, recently dis- covered such large deposits of this metal in a prospect he was opening up for gold on the lamo Mountain that he determined to ascer- n its true character and sent samples to a Los Angeles metallurgist for analysis, with the resuit stated. The report also shows a per- centage high enough to warrant a systemati and thorough development of the ore bod: The mineral occurs in oxide, sulphide and bonate forms in a veln of iron-stained guartz six_feet wide, inclosed between gray granite walls, and has been traced about three miles along the line of strike. V. E. FORTSON. Molybdenite is the chief ore of molyb- denum which has been cla: the “‘rare metals,”” though its occurrences are numerous. It has been found in many places through the Eastern States and in the western mineral regions, including California. It has been reported several times from Fresno and Kern .counties, and has been found elsewhere and has several times excited the interest and i quiry of prospectors who thought the had ‘made valuable finds. quartz granite and other rocks, generally in thin, irregular layers, and composing but a very slight percentage of the rock. It is easily mistaken for graphite, being similarly soft and producing a Similar mark when rubbed on the fingers, but it may be distinguished by its bluish v cast, while graphite is black. Malybd num is chiefly used in hardening and toughening steel, for which purpose it is substituted for tungsten, and for making a blue coloring for porcelain. So small a quantity is demanded that the world is practically supplied by one mine in Swe- den at about 9 cents per pound. It is best obtained from the ore in an electric lybdenite, has been received by % furnace. The supply is abundant when- ever it is demanded. The Ventura County covery would thus appear more interestin than commercially im. portant. In auriferous quartz, malyb- denite interferes with amalgamation and would hence be troublesome in working the ore for gold. California’s first talec mine has been opened in Ventura County by S. S. Simon and talc is for the first time being duced commercially in this State. ale is found abundantly all through the State but rarely of suflicient whiteness and purity to be of any commercial value. It is largely demanded for the manufacture of paper and for other uses, and it 1S ex- tensively produced in the East. J. 0. DENNY. PACIFIC COAST SURVEY. Superintendent of the Service Tells of the Work Done. The main work of the survey consists in the preparation of coast charts. At present charts of California, Oregon and | ‘Washington coasts have been carried to | a good deal of accuracy, but in Alaska the survey {s meeting the most difficult problem it has yet to face in the 100 years of its histor: In Alaska are 20,000 miles of uncharted coast. Navigation is still Until the last five years but little need had been felt for accurate charts of this region, but | within that time an enormous commerce L R R . ] B S S R S R SO Y [ R e L e e R PROFESSOR H. S. PRITCHETT. has sprung up in Alaskan waters and every effort is belng made to survey the harbors and bays of the Alaskan coast line. During the present season the sur- vey has five vessels at work in Alaskan waters. Three of these are at work in the neighborhood of the Yukon delta, into which stream an entrance from the ocean is being sought. Surveys of Cape Nome and Golovim Bay are also being made. Another party is at work in Prince Willlam Sound, and during the past season the territory about the head of the Lynn Canal, and which is in- volved in the boundary dispute, has been surveyed and the information furnished to the Department of State. At present the most pressing need for surveys f{s felt in regard to Prince Willlam Souna and Cooks Inlet and the passes through the Aleutian Islands. During the toming winter the survey of the coast of Hawall will be begun. Congress has also authorized the begin- ning of surveys in the Pk’lfligplnes. but this work will doubtless wait the pacifica- lflon and gradual development of the is- ands. Besides these great general lines of work which the survey is pushing, the | following pieces of work are of special interest to San Francisco and Califorpia: 1. The erection of a tidal indicator on Alcatraz Island. An automatic tidal indicator is in pro- cess of construction which will be erected on Alcatraz Isiland within a few months. This apparatus, by means of a large disk ovér which an arm moves, will show to the shipping in the harbor the exact height of the tide and also whether it is rising or falling, information of the utmost value to the shipping. 2. The erection of an observatory at TUkinh for determination of the variation of latitude. This work is_carried on by the Coast Survey for the International Geodetic As- sociation. This association was formed a few years ago by about twenty of the leading nations of the earth for a co- operative study of the size and figure of the earth and of other geodetic prob- lems. Among these problems, and one very recently brought to the attention of geometers, {s the phenomenon known as the variation of latitude. It ix found that ed at the Mining-Bureau quite | sed as one of | It is found in | TO- | s varfation is due to the fact that the e Y Taxis Instead of being fixed as tho carth travels through space, has a glight Wobble, g0 to speak. This displacement may throw the earth’s axis as much as fifty feet away from the plane it would occupy if fixed, and consequently change the latitude by this amount. In order to completely determine the amount of thir Change and Its period the international association has established x observa torles In exactly the same parallel of Two of these are in the Unite Gafthersburg, Md., and ti The remaining fou latitude. States, one at other at Ukiah, Cal o distributed around the earth on the :v";m;”p‘urr(ullwl of latitude, two being in ein. one in Italy and one in Japan. It | proposed to keep up continuot b | s of the change of latitude at al} stations for five yvears, by which | aw of change will be so wel time_the law of change will be o wel | known that tne varfation | of any place can b it 200 years with gr 3. The establishment of 1 for the next magnetic ob~ t | = | servatory on the Pacif One of the most important pieces of work with which ‘hie (;’};fls( ““151'[ ~r-41eu‘1u i y is d fis the magnetic sur- | Nty famd. of the locéan vey of the country e 4 to complete this areas. It is hops v Vey within ten years and to establish Wwithin that time true meridian lines for { the use of the surveyor at all county | seats. To make possible this survey and rvers to take account | se tafenalls e lon fuctuations in the of the variations and carth's magnetism, three magnetic ob- servatories will ve maintained during this perfod, at which continuous rfm.r:vls will be obtained which will make Y \fi- | the reduction of all magnetic observations to a common epoch. One of these obscr vatories will be located near the cit; Washington, D. C. (it.cannot be 1 e in the city on account of the disturh | ance from electric wires), one will be | established in Hawali and & third at-some | point on the Pacific Coast not yet chose Rdagnenc observatories are already e tablished at Toronto, Havana, Mexico and Manila, which will co-operate with the three mentioned. This work is one of the most important as well as one of the most_ practical _applications of science both for the surveyor and the navigator. £ NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Coeling at sea receives much attention in foreign navies. The international | squadron at Crete bad a competitive te: |in which the British came out aw: ahead. The French took in thirty to forty | tons an hour, the Italians twenty tons, the Germans, Austrians and Russians aver- aged about ten tons, while the Britis took In their coal at a little over a hun- dred tons per hour. At the recent meeting of the Institution of Naval Architects in London, a paper was read from Chief Engineer Melville | relating to the triple-screw system and | strong! advocating its extension. In discussing the paper read Sir White, direc- tor of naval construction in the British navy, declined to enter into any eritical analysis of the unreliable proposition, saying that he was anxious to keep an open mind on all subjects, but that Mr. Melville's paper contained but a few facts, a great many opinions, not a few speculations and some arguments.” The French Ministry of Marine finds it- €lf in a predicament such as is unparal- leled in any other navy. The sea-going officers are averse to shore duty and its attendant sedentary occupations, and prefer to be either unemployed or to go to sea. As a consequence orders have been issued that hereafter officers must take their turn of shore duty for a certain un- interrupted period, and no excuse will be | accepted to escape office work In the se eral departments or at vards. There such objection in our navy against « duty, and such officers as have declined duty at Washington are phenomena. With the new scale of pay there is, on the contrary, likely to be a scramble for shore duty, as the pay in some grades is now actuaily less while at sea than on shore. No such inducement exists In r other navy to forego sea service and ac cept the monotony of three years' shore | duty. | The Japanese battleship Hatsuse, re- cently launched at the Elswick yard, is | of 15000 tons displacement, 400 feet in length, 76 feet 6 inches beam and 27 feet draught. The belt of Krupp armor Is inches maximum thickness, tapering to 1 inches at ends, and the lower deck guns | are in a casement 250 feet in length of | 6 inches thickness. The battery consists | of four 12-inch wire-wound guns in two li-inch barbettes, fourteen 6-inch qui firers of 45 caliber, twenty 12-pounde eight 3-poundcrs, four 2%-pounders and | four submerged torpedo tubes. The pro- | tective deck Is 2% to 4 inches thick, and | the 6-inch guns on the main deck are in | 6-inch casemates with 2-inch protection at the back. The horsepower will be 14500, glving a speed of elghteen knots, and the normal coal carried on twenty seven feet draught is 700 tons, with a bunker capacity of 169 tons. | | An Interesting table of the weights and relative efficiency of Scotch bollers and water-tube boilers in the British navy has just been issued by the Admiraltr. The first two groups of battleships of elght and ten were buiit in 18% and 8% and had eight cylindrical or Scotch bal- ers. The group of six battleships represent the Canopus class, recently completed, which have twenty Bellevilie boflers. 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