The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 28, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 2 1 Call +eeeee...AUGUST 28, 1899 MONDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. X Lot o Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE ...... Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1368. L DITORIAL ROOMS. Telep) e Main 1874. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Copies, & cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: {'AILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. PAILY CALL (Including Sunday Call), 6 months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 3 months DAILY CALL—By Single Month . J CALL One Year. LY CALL One Year. All postmasters are authorized to recefv. subscriptions. Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.. C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Maneger Forelgn Advertising, Marquotte Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT : C. C. CARLTON....... ..Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR. .29 Tribune Bullding ..908 Broadway CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Bherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. ‘Waldorf-Astoria ‘Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. Wellington Hotel d. L. ENGLISH, Corrcspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay | open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eieventh street, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Columbla—'“The New Dominion.” Orpheum—Vaudeville, Tivoll—*'Groconda.” Alcazar—*Ingomar.” Grand Opera-house— ‘‘Paul Jones.” Chutes, Zo and Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Olympla, corner Mason and Ellis streets—Specialties. Battle of Manila—Market street, near Eighth. Sutro Baths—Swimming Races, etc. Golden Gate Agricultural District No. 1—Races to-day. Alhambra Theater — Benefit to John W. Slade, Saturday evening, September 2 California State Falr, Sacramento—September 4 to 16. AUCTION SALES. By A. W. Louderback — Wednesday, August 30, at 2:30 o'clock, Persian and Turkish Rugs, at 117 Sutter street. NOTHING EVER SEEN LIKE IT. T is a queer kind of prosperity that throws men l The demand for finished iron products is so immense that the fur- fast in one or two lines of trade to-day. naces have not been able to turn out the goods enough to fill their orders, so in several branches of the industry men have had to be laid off until suffi- cient supplies can be secured. In fact, nothing like the present trade activity has ever been seen in this coun- try. It began a year or so ago, and was thought to be | the natural reaction after a long period of depression, which would subside after a few month continues, and is even more pronoanced than last year. Current figures show this tremendous activity plain- ly. The tonnage movement from Chicago during the past three weeks has been 80 per cent heavier than last vear, and 74.6 per cent heavier than in 1892, the year preceding the panic try have exhibited a marked gain every week this The bank clearings of the coun- year, sometimes running up to 80 per cent over 1898 Every week, too, the failures have been smaller than The gratifying feature of all this prosperity is that it is accompanied by very for the same week last year. little speculation, being, in fact, the result of an enor- mous demand for goods all over the United This demand is strikingly illustrated in the clothing trade, leading clothiers reporting that the people are not only buying more clothes than for a long time, but are buying a more expensive class of fabri There can be no better proof of widespread prosperity than this. The weekly commercial reports last week abounded in illustrations of the unprecedented demand for mer- chandise of all descriptions. Iron and steel, notwith- ates. standing the recent advances, continue to point up- | ward under an inquiry fully as eager as at any time | during the past year, while lumber, wool, leather, boots and shoes, cotton and most of the other staples rule firm at full figures. Practically all the industries are some months behind the requirements for actual use. and in not a few the output for a year ahead has been sold. The fall demand is showing remarkable expansion, particularly in the Northwest, while the | great corn belt of the West is in high feather over an | enormous crop at fair prices. The only drawback at present is a drought in the Southwestern cotton States, notably Texas. The cattle raisers are clover, for present prices for beef have been equaled in Chicago only five times in twenty-two years, and there are 10,000,000 less beei cattle in the United States than there were seven years ago. In fact, it is said that there are fewer cattle in the country now than since 1882. Certainly, it is long since prices for beef and mutton have been as high as they are now, while hogs keep up to 6¢ in the San Francisco mar- ket with a pertinacity which surprises the packers. All these conditions tell the tale of the current pros- perity. We seem to be in one of these epochs familiar to readers of history, when the land seems flowing with milk and honey. On this coast the principal expression of the prevailing good times is the lack of farm hands to harvest the grain and fruit crops. This complaint has been heard ever since the harvest began, and is something unique In agriculture. Wages have advanced in proportion, but the prices of most farm products are now so good that the farmer is making more money at the high labor rate than he did when he was getting men for very low pay. When business is so active, both in city and coun- try, it is difficult to point out where the principal activity lies. Suffice it to say that not for many years has trade been in such satisfactory condition as now znd the best feature of it is that it is likely to continue | so indefinitely. The hide of Holocaust, the French horse that Tod Sloan rode to its death in the English Derby, has been tanned and will be made into boots for fashionable London. It goes without saying that purchasers will be found in the fast set. A sound like unto that made by a cow drawing her hoof out of the mud was heard plainly the other day | in Washington. cut of Congress. Thomas Brackett Reed was pulling 217 to 221 Stevenson Street | out of work, but such is the condition of things | but it still | in | IN THE SOUTH. | BUSINESS SENSE | = ERMANENT organization was recently effected in Atlanta by an association of business men ! I known as the Southern Industrial League, the objects of which are to encourage the payment and [ collection of debts, to repeal statutes devised to hinder | | the collection of debts, to protect all forms of invested | capital and to prevent the discounting of debts. ] The organization of a league for such purposes | throws a strong side light upon business conditions | of the Southern States and reveal some of the causes | why the South has been so backward in commercial ‘ and industrial development. In the wreck of the old | slaveholding society in the South there fell upon that section so much of disaster that discontent became the dominant sentiment of the people, and the quack legislators, who flourish everywhere in periods of popular discontent, obtained such power they were enabled to fill the statute books with laws ostensibly | designed to protect debtors, but which might be fairly | termed acts to destroy credit. By making it difficult | to collect debts these States have made it difficult for | their people to borrow money, and as a consequence, while the rest of the Union has ample financial re- sources to promote industry and trade, the South has been in a condition of chronic financial stringency. The intelligent business men of the South now per- ceive the evil that has been brought upon them by | this “fool legislation” and have organized to repeal it. | At the meeting at which the permanent organiza- ! tion was effected the principal speaker was S. G. Mc- Lendon of Thomasville, Georgia, and in the course of his address he gave the South much good advice in matters of national as well as of State legislation. | Commenting upon the support given to Bryan and free silver he said: “Congress never did, never will, and never can regulate the value of a single piece of money made out of metal or paper, except in payment of taxes and executions. The unwritten laws of commerce regulate these, and all other values. To reduce it down to a unit, the buyer and the seller are the only people on earthwho are possessed of final and absolute power to regulate values, and Parliaments and Kings and Congresses utte helpless in the presence of the power of these pErsons Lus A When we of the South take our stand against our own and the experience of other nations, and join in an effort to uphold this ancient and exploded theory, we assume a burden that reduces our credit, paralyzes our resources and retards our development.” Equally pertinent was his condemnation of the pro- posed indiscriminate legislation against trusts. that question he said: | “I do not defend trusts, but I do insist that the peo- le have a right to ask that the criminal or evil trusts be named and their crimes specified before they are invited to an indiscriminate slaughter of all corpora tions created under State laws. The laws against re- grating, forestalling and engrossing sleep calmly in the statute books of many of our States, but how one sovereign in forty-five is going to dictate the conduct of another sovereign, or how the Federal Govern- are two ment is going to acquire jurisdiction over franchises granted by the State, or over the States which grant them, are questions upon which the anti-trust orators and press have so far given out no information. Until an intelligent indictment against offending trusts is framed and presented to the great assize of the people no progress will be made toward the suppression of an alleged evil.” Finally Mr. McLendon closed with a general coun- sel that will be profitably studied not only in the South but throughout the Union: “In our haste for remedial legislation we often see the wrong man hit. We are groaning to-day under the heavy burden of statesmanship which introduces laws which can in no ¢ be administered. Let the people fice that school which would teach t usurp the functions of the Almighty and create something out of nothing. Let them awake and quit levying public taxes for private profit. Let them awake and requi that only just and reasonable laws shall be enacted, and that these shall be promptly and impartially ad- Let the people do these things, and our burdens will be lifted, the idle hand and the idle dollar will meet under the banner of equal | laws, and while giving employment to each other will give prosperity to our country.” S Let them a and suppress nent ¢ ministered by the courts. TRUST CONFERENCES. OME time ago Governor Sayers of Texas issuer torneys General of the States and Territories to meet in St. Louis September 20, to devise a uni- | form system of laws for the regulation of trusts. A ‘ little later the Civic Federation of Chicago arranged | | for a conference on trusts to assemble in that city September 13, and the Governors of the States have | been requested to appoint delegates to attend it. The two conferences will differ widely from one another in the attitude they assume toward the subject under consideration. That which meets in St. Louis has been called “to consider the effect which the for- mation of trusts is having upon the country, and, if possible, to agree upon a character of legislation that will not only force those now existing into dissolu- tion, but will also prevent their further creation.” The attitude of such a convention it will be seen is one of hostility ‘to trusts and its main object is to devise a means for preventing their operation. The Chicago conference, according to the call of | the Civic Federation, is “to discuss combinations and | trusts, their uses and abuses, embracing the subjects of transportation, labor, industrial and commercial combinations.” The object of this conference, there- fore, is purely educational; it will aim to present all | sides of the issue impartially and will consider upon | its merits every problem involved. | After the Chicago conference had been called the committee of arrangements discovered that while there has been much .discussion on the subject there has been very little reliable data brought forward upon which to base conclusions. To remedy that de- fect the committee has issued blanks to upward of 20,000 persons, firms and corporations, more or less affected by trusts, asking for replies to questions per- tinent to the controversy. By means of these replies the committee expects to be able to compile a larger fund of information on the subject of trusts and their | effects than has yet been furnished. | Of the two conferences, that at Chicago promises | to be the more interesting. A considerable number of Governors and Attorneys General have accepted the invitation to the St. Louis meeting and it will doubtless be well attended, but the results are not likely to be profitable. At the utmost it can only } agree upon some declamatory resolutions denouncing | trusts, more useful for stump speakers in the cam- | paigns of the fall than for intelligent legislators seek- ing to devise laws for the good of their common- wealths. From the Chicago conference, on the other hand, there may be expected a discussion of the subject that will increase the public understanding of its prob- L lems and thus prepare the way for such legislation as awake and scourge such men from public | a call for a convention of Governors and At- | | | | | | On | may be needed to regulate them and guard against abuses. In fact if the anti-trust Governors and At- torneys General who are going to the convention 2t St. Louis are wise, they will attend the Chicago con- ference first and learn something of both sides of the issue they purpose to deal with. — THE EAST AND THE WEST. CCORDING to a report from Washington, fl one of the most serious obstacles in the way of procuring governmental aid for the irriga- tion of arid districts of the West is the opposition of Eastern interests. It is said many people in that sec- tion of the Union regard the development of the West as in some measure prejudicial to Eastern farmers inasmuch as it will tend to diminish the value of farm lands and the prices of farm products. A prominent leader of one of the Eastern granges is quoted as saying he could see nothing in the way of results from irrigation under the supervision and by the aid of the national Government but a local benefit to the West, and that he did not think it right for the people of the whole country to be taxed for the purpose of helping a few sparsely settled arid States. It is of course inevitable that some sectional oppo- sition to the vast work of irrigation should develop. It is true that the Eastern States do not need irriga- tion and that if the national Government undertake the work of constructing great storage reservoirs, the Eastern as well as the Western taxpayer will have te assist in defraying the cost. The issue is therefore a sectional one, but it is not more so than any other werk of internal improvement. When the interior of the country is taxed to provide revenues for the im- provement of harbors on the coast, the residents of the coast cities can easily perceive the improvement is for the general good, but when it is proposed w0 | improve the interior of the country some Atlantic | Coast people see nothing in it but a movement for a purely Western _bcnefit, Fortunately it is not likely that merely sectional considerations will have much weight in Jetermining the action of the Government on an issue of this kind. It is true that almost every river and harbor bill and every bill providing for the construction of post- offices is made up largely by an interchange of favors between the members of Congress from the different | districts that are to be benefited, but in measures dealing with large matters there is very little sectional- ism displayed. When a comprehensive irrigation policy has been given definite form and comes up for action, the leaders of Congress, the directing states- | men of the nation, will not give much heed to ob- jections interposed on sectional grounds. The fact that some sectional opposition ought, however, to arouse the people of the West to exists | the importance of making a united effort to bring the issue fairly before the nation and to educate the East upon the advantage which the whole people will derive from the upbuilding of the semi-arid section | of the Union. The problems of irrigation on the vast | scale required to redeem the arid and semi-arid re- | gions cannot be adequately dealt with by any power less than that of the national Government, and he is but a narrow-minded American who can see in such | redemption nothing but a local benefit for the dis- tricts where the irrigation will be supplied. WANTED. A DEMOCRATIC ELI HILE Pryan has been sweeping one Demo- cratic State convention after another into the W old stampede for free silver, the conservative Democrats are still puffing and panting in the race after the wild crowd trying to get them back into thc old road. They are making the race with a persis- tency worthy of their cause, and loud are their shouts another, “Get there, , and head them to one steers.” William F. Harri Saratoga talking politics with aristocratic Democrats from all parts of the country, declares the prevailing feeling among them is a desire to get rid of Bryan and bring about a reunion of the party. He says: v. who has been for some time at | “The uppermost thought in the minds of those whom I casually met was the hope that the Democratic National Convention of 1000 would pursue such conservative course that all Democrats and citizens generally of independent tendencies might cordially and enthusiastically support the platform and the can- didate.” Similar expressions come from other sources. The Nashville American recently said: “Mr. Bryan has unquestionably lost strength with many thinking men in the South, not only because free coinage has lost prestige, but because of his indefinite position regard- ing expansion and his weak handling of the trust question.” The Philadelphia Times, an independent Democratic paper, says: “Many of the Democratic leaders be- a lieve, or pretend to believe, that Mr. Bryan will be | renominated as the Democratic candidate for Presi- dent next year, but, fearful and suicidal as have been the Democratic follies of the past, there is little like- lihood that the next Democratic National Convention will select a candidate for President who would be known from start to finish as the leader of an utterly forlorn hope.” From East and West and North and South come reports of that kind. There is a prevalent desire for harmony among such Democrats as can afford to spend the summer at Saratoga and talk politics over $10 dinners, there is a belief among sane Democrats that the rank and file will not be foolish enough to re- peat in 1900 the crazy stampede of 1896, and there ‘is a conviction among earnest Democrats that Bryan is not equal to the demands of the new issues before the country; but what do all these desires, beliefs and convictions amount to? They serve but to engender | illusions in the minds of those who cherish them. The wild steers are following the wilder ass of the Platte with as much of rampage and recklessness as ever, and | the Eli who is expected to head them off is not visible on the prairie. California boys needed just such an opportunity as was afforded them Thursday to prove that they brought along with them from the Philippines the appetites with which they were provided when they left San Francisco. They didn't do a thing to that breakfast! At Vienna the other day a rich banker, having failed, hanged himself by the neck until he was dead. An unfeeling telegraph editor labeled the story “An- other Banker Suspends.” Oom Paul apparently has taken for granted the truth of the saying that the English are a nation of shop- keepers. At least, he has inade them a number of counter propositions. —_— A Japanese, morally and physically diseased, is to be allowed to land at this port because he is a mer- chant. There is some merchandise that San Francisco does not want. ¢ i — Lynching may now be placed in the category of luxuries in the South. Tt costs now, according to the dispatches, $5000 apiece to hang men without author- ity of law. THE The attendance and enthusiasm at (he‘ annual convention of the ElI Dorado | County Miners’ Association at Placer- | ville on Saturday evening shows that the | life and the enterprising spirit of the | mining regions are increasing with the growing mining prosperity. Other county conventions will early follow, and there is every promise of Secretary Benjamin | of the California Miners' Assoclation | meeting with great success in his efforts to stimulate the increase of membership | in" the county associations and so further strengthen the State association, which is composed of these federated county organizations. ! A lucky tenderfoot has struck it rich in the woods about six miles west of old | Fruitvale, Shasta County, in section 3, township, 33 north, range 2 west, and cre- | ated a rush to the new diggings. A week or two before James Wilson and wife of | Oakland struck out north for a health | vacation and wisely decided to go far from the Southern Pacific and close to nature. They traveled the Fall River road for twenty-five miles from Redding to the old Ben Jenkins place and then | | they followed the Ridge road for miles until they found a deserted old cabla and | settled in it with joy and canned goods. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were not after gold, | they knew nothing about mining and no- body knew anything about gold being in those parts. No experienced prospector | was ever fool enough to dig on section 3, | | and the old miner who left the cabin long ago used to strike out over a trail north | by northeast to hills worth exploring. Wilson decided, however, to be a miner | for a few minutes as well as a fisherman | and child of nature, and took a pick and | shovel and told Mrs. Wilson that he w: going to be a prospector until supper w | ready. c He went about 100 yards from the | ping = in reach of the supper | went_to digging In a As the Redding Searchlight say !)IlaCeA ‘After working for a quarter of an hour ! he Struck a small boulder, | it out of the way, a bed of sparkling gold quartz was revealed. Then the novice miner, who had struck gold before he had started the perspiration, called his wife and an impromptu celebration was held upon the spot. The gold stood out | clusters. Wilson proceeded to deve property and found the pocket, if is, to be extens On ti follow- |ing the discovery over §2 taken out. Mrs. Wilson brought specimens of | the quartz to Redding, and its unusual richness is apparent at a_glance, How | much gold she and her husband have taken out the lady did not state, but it has already reachéd a handsome sum. | d_throwing “‘People living In the vicinity have learned of the rich find, and all the country thereabout is _being plastered with location notic More than thirty claims have been located in the vicinity | of the place where the Wilsons made their strike. Indications of gold, silver and copper are said to abound.” | |~ Many cemeteries here and there in the | £0ld mining regions have seen the peace {of the dead disturbed by gold diggers. Every mountain hamlet has its little city | of the dead near by, and here and there these consecrated acres contain gold enough to pay for working. In some hydraulic miners have come along and giants and gone working surrounding ground. metimes the bones have been moved to a patch of ground that could be better spared to the departed miners by the live ones, and in some cases the sur- | roundingground has been sluiced away to the line of the cemetery fence, leaving | to Sol high and deep banks from which, with the wear of wi her and time, coffins | | would ick out, overhanging the One of these au- is Trini hed belo smeteries so treated Trinity Center on the upper River, where the rest of the de: )bw\ch has been worked on all sid | | bedrock ry riferous at ing a square block of ground forty feet high that looms up red sides from miles away. others elsewhere that have alone. | Other rich cemeteries have had other | and there is one up at Colum- Tuolumne County, that has just been | Father Guerin, who wants to let the zold rest there under the dead | | where the Almighty put it. It seems that | bedrock in that Catholic cemetery | i the marble cross: There are troubles, bi saved by the some quite T nce below *h, the pay dirt in which the | dead are entombed going sometimes | several dollars to the pan. Morris and James Hambleton, they had not yet acquired c burying ground, proceeded some time ago | to run a tunnel drift out into the pay | dirt and were stopped. Then they went thily doing their tunnc and kept it up for several until their ghastl 8 covered and put | the good priest in the past the | worked fence wi ais week by > ground. ground was adjoining o close to the cemetery that the undermined. The County Sur week staked out the boundaries onsecrated ground and gold dig. gers will be kept out of it until the no more use for nugge There is a little gold mountains in the interi bara County, where there was one three or four years ago. Last week the County | | | | | Recorder received four location mnotices | | by mail from Guadalupe and recorded them. As location notices are now an important subject of discussion, the form of one of these may be of inferest. 1t is as follows: “Ki PUCK June 16 1599 this is to certif that I Mrs Allice Me- | Phial and Mrs A Hobson hav Locked all vakend ground between the Cumbland and Shonedoah mines running from the /S E End of cumbland to the N. W. End of the Shanedoah mine about one Mile | North of the schol house in Santa Bar- | bara county. There are a great number of mining men in Los Angeles at the present time, says the Los Angeles Times. Many of them are here on business connected | with Southern California propertie | come buying supplies for their own prop- erties, others on their way north or | uth: others, again, are here with their | families, taking advantage of the less in- tense heat as compared with that which usually prevails in other sections at this period of the year. The majority of them express the desire to learn more of the mineral resources of this part of Cali- fornia, and manifest surprise when told of the number of mines that are bein worked and the value of the metals an minerals taken out. ‘W. H. Crocker has bonded for Eastern arties, says the Yreka (Cal) Journal, the seder and Brown group of quartz ledges in Fool's Paradise district on Shasta River, about half way between Hawkins- ville and Klamath Rliver, and that they are to be thoroughly _Ptl‘"us ected with a new six-stamp mill. e ledges in that district have all shown rich prospects, and good placer mines also exist, which have not been worked to much extent on account of the lack of water and want of means on the part of owners of claims to build mills, ditches and other im- provements needed for successful op- erations. Denis _Clark, the milllonaire mine- owner of Spokane, Wash., who has been inspecting some mining _properties in San Diego County, has decided not to | the Lucky B been so let | s A WEEK’S TALES FROM MINING FIELD purchase the Dewey mine In the grape- vine district of that county at the price asked for 1t—8$200,000. The Lightner, says the Stockton Inde- pendent, is the latest mine to attract at- tention in the mountains near by, the sec- ond twenty stamps having been started a few days ago, making forty stamps to pound up the big vein that is known to hold out to a depth of nearly 300 feet. Commencing September 1st work will be rushed on a contract to sink 200 feet deep- er in the Lightner, and there is no fear that the vein will not hold out as the shaft is sunk. So far the mine has de- veloped better as depth was reached, and there is reason to believe the property will prove one of the best mines of the mother lode section in Cal- averas, barring only the Gwin. A company is being formed for the pur- pose of dredglnE the Tuolumne river be- t\\']vzlen Roberts Ferry and La Grange for old. as fine gold in rltgh(s are being ol of dredging the river. roposed the debris and gravel in river will be dredged and run through flumes and re-emptied into the river. The paving uantities, and tained for the purpose By the process dredging will be done with buckets that | will raise a ton of slickens, which will be run through a flume on the boat, which is to be about 6 feet long, and then returned to the river. Several of the rights have | already been secured and enough ground will be reserved before the company start in to justify the large outlay of money re- quired to glve the mining a thorough test. —Grass Valley Union. Good reports come from the Harris or Bonanza mine, south of Angels, which is largely owned by Stockton men. A rich ledge of rock was recently struck, and the vein matter is 40 feet wide at a depth of 200 feet, with every indication of widen- ing as the shaft goes down.* Old miners of that section predict that the Harris will be one of the richest producers of the Angels district. The mine adjoins the Bruner, which is one of the good ones, and is In a locality where there are no fail- ures.—Stockton Independent. In the Coalinga oil district they are cry: ing for water to get oil with, as it takes about fifty barrels a day to drill a well and in that arid region water is scarce. Two companies are tunneling for water in hills some distance away. The Lucky Boy quartz mine, located about four miles from San Andreas, on the Copperopolis road, has been sold, or )mnded.\ v its owner, James Waters, to Bosto ndicate for $10,000, according to the C veras Citizen. On Wednesday §1000 was paid down by the bonders and agreements were signed calling for the payment of §1000 every six months until the total sum of $10,000 shall have been paid. It is t he intention of the new owners of y to put a steam hoist on the to sink at least 500 feet on the ledge. Work is to begin within _thirty days, after which a systematic develop- ment of the property is to be made. Four gold bric neighborhood of S mine an 310,000, were placed in the Tuolumne County Bank this week, says the Tuolumne Independent. They are from a clean-up at the Longfellow mine, at Big Oak Flat. Many such consign- ments from various mines throughout the coumyhare quietly stored away dur- ing a month’s time. %hn Thorpe_Gold Mining Syndicate,of which Prince Poniatowski is at the head, has surrendered_its bond on the Thorpe mine. It is sald that the syndicate has spent over $100,000 on the property. The Gwin Mine Development Company has declared dividend No. 8 of 5 cents per share, amounting to $3000, payable imme- diately, and carries a surplus for the new 40°stamp mill and other works now in process of construction. — Calaveras Chronicle. _ g A 'mining deal of considerable impor- tance was consummated in San Andreas on Wednesday la when J. J. McSorley and Prescott E cured a bond on the running noth and south, or nearly %0, with the mother lode, the last being only about two miles from town. These mines are on the footwall belt of the joinin, | mother lode, and_they have been promi- tioned by mining men for years because of their location in respect of the trend of the mother lode. Numerous ef- forts have been made by promoters and capitatists to bond or buy these properties, but without avail. They were owned by rich men or persons well able to hold them, and thus remained idle. The Empire copper mine, the (Froperty of Charles Braid, has been sold to the Ames estate of Boston. The Empire is one of the principal mines of the famous group at Copperopolis. It carries with it nearly twenty acres of land. The price paid was $60,000, and of this amount Braid eceived $27,500 and the promoters of the deal the balance. -ople -desire to obtain possession of all the valuable copper properties in that town fortells another boom for Copper- The mines, which have not been nently men opolis. worked for many vears, formerly paid | well. It §s said that $2,000,000 worth of ore is now Iying ready for thé smelter.—Tuol- umne Independent. There is quite a_revival in the copper business in the Campo Seco and Ca- manche regions, too. A furnace is now i operation at the latter place and heavy machinery is going into that section, once o lively and prosperous, but which has been dead for ever so many yvears. ‘Some slight changes have been made in | the rates of milling ore at the Barstow mill. It was found that to mill low grade ore at $12 per ton there was a small ac- tual loss, as the cost was a few cents more than that. The rates on all ore run- ning to $20 or less will hereafter be $150 per ton and $12 for freight, making a fotal of $275. The company will also buy the concentrates or permit the parties having ore milled to fake them away, as they prefer. If they buy they will pay % per cent of the assay value, less freight ind smelting charges, which are abut $16 per ton.—Randsburg Miner. The sale has been closed in San Fran- cisco of the Gopher-Boulder and Delma- tia mines, with mills and water power, near Kelsey, El Dorado County. The price paid was between $100,000 and $150.- 00, cash down. The sale was mad through D. H. Jackson, formerly super- intendent of the Holmes mine, Candelaria, Nev. The seller is W, C. Bell, and_the rew owners are J. C. Alvarado and others | of London, England. The property is a group of gold quartz mines operating 120 tons a_d. The plant is run by electri- city. Mr. Jackson is to be the superin- tendent for the new owners, and séventy men will find constant employment.— Record-Union. J. Burton, who has been operating the Crystal mine and also_the Green Moun- tain hydraulic. both of which properties are located in Chill Gulch about two miles from this place, has started up another mining operation, says Chronicle. Tt seems to be the general opinion of all the old miners in this sec- on that there is a “basin” in French Hill that has never been ‘‘bottomed.” Mr. Burton intends to find out whether this theory is correct or not. He has started a_tunnel in Steep Gulch for the purpose of “tapping” the basin, work on_which was commenced Monday last. . French Hill in the early days was the richest spot in the State, and there were thousands upon thousands of dollars taken out of what the miners in those days called “pot holes.” The claims were sixteen foet square, and old settlers have told us that they averaged two ounces per day to the man. . 0. DENNY. honor of the returning volunteers. descriptive work. INTERIOR PRESS PRAISES THE CALL'S SOUVENIR EDITION Visalia Times. The Call distanced all of its competitors in getting out a special edition tn Its {llustrations were the best we have seen in any newspaper for some time, and the reporters all did themselves proud in thefr ‘Winnemucca Silver State. paying deep | 1t is believed that the river channel | the | ks, with a value in the | he Mester, the Jackson and the on : hiavelll, a group of four mines situ- near North Branch, the Cala- Citizen, These claims are all ad-| The fact that the Ames | the Calaveras | The volunteer souvenir edition of The San Francisco Call, which was issued Thursday, Is one of the prettiest pieces of newspaper work that has come to our tables for a long time. The taste, ability and good sense displayed in getting 1t up does credit not only to The Call, but to Pacific Coast journalism. The horrible mixture of dirty yellow and glaring red which is becoming a part of the special editions of many of our metropolitan contemporaries was lacking, and although a negative features it was one of the most praiseworthy connected with the effort. Benicia New Era. The Call easily distanced all its rivals in its Thursday morning’s edition, in which was announced the arrival of the First California heroes. The issue was really a magnificent one and head and shoulders above anything from any of the other metropolitan presses on that day. Merced Sun. The Call “put it all over” the other San Francisco dailies yesterday, just like a coat of paint. The illustrations in that paper were the best ever printed by a newspaper on the coast. The wash drawings by Methfessel, representing the boys of the gallant First California in action, were magnificent. Nothing more nkv]pl:‘opriate to the occasion could have been conceived or executed with greater sklll, ] IES. gn ships of war in NEWS OF FOREIGN NAV The fleet of forei Asfatic waters numbers E Great Britain is represented by 3?‘. }r::'elgl States 22, Russta 19, France 10, GeFRZ0 8, Italy 5 and Austria and Portugal 101 Of these each. 5 vestigati is being made at the e ek to discover the Devonport docKyard whereabouts of 11,000 which has mysteriously disap! the storehouse. The value of the m! oil is about $5300, but the London Times reports the shortage at 11,000 tons. As this weight would represent about 3.219.000 gallons, which would be worth $1,600,000. |it is evident that the Times has confused the terms of gallons and tons. gallons of olive oil, peared from {ssing The French torpedo gunboat Hallebarde, | of 300 tons, recently made the trip from Havre to Cherbourg at a speed of twenty- five knots an hour. The Hallebarde is what would be denominated a torpedo boat destroyer in any other navy, and her speed, while it falls short of thirty | knots, as British boats of that class are | claimed to make, has been intentionally | cut down to that lower figure, as the naval authorities prefer a reliable speed | to the excessive speed which may or may [ not be reached, owing to the extreme | lightness of hull and machinery of ‘the | British destrovers. The new British battleship Ocean expe- | rienced some difficulties before she was able to proceed with her -regular steam trials. During a preliminary trial her bearings hecame overheated and had to | be overhauled, and then her steering gear | was discovered to be out of order. On | August 2 the ship passed through the first serfes of trials, with the following results: Thirty hours under one-fifth power—steam, 210 pounds; revolutions, 66.8; horsepower, 2767; speed, 114 knots: | coal consumption, at the rate of 18¢ pounds per horsepower per hour. The | ehip is fitted with twenty Belleville boilers lof ‘the latest improvement, the tubes of | which are of solid dfawn steel ranging | from 414 to 2% Inches in diameter, and gal- | vanized externally. The heating surface [1s 35.715 square feet and the grate surface 1035 square feet. Under full power the machinery is to develop 13,500 horsepow- er, glving a speed of 18% knots. The steam | trials includ First, a preliminary trial at sea; second, thirty hours' continuous steaming under one-fifth pressure; third, thirty hours' steaming under three-fifths power; fourth, eight hours under full | power. London Engineering compares the Brit- jsh armored cruiser Cressy, in course of | construction, with the Asama, of a similar type, built at Elswick for the Japaness navy. It would apear from a comparison | of the data as if the Elswick builders | manage to design highly efficient ships | upon displacements considerably less than are required by the British admiralty. The relative dimensions and other data of the j two ships are as follows: | "DATA. | Cressy. | Asama. = =5 2 | Length on water line, feef : Breadth, feet.. = s Draught, maximum, feet. 2: Displacement, tons .00 Coal, normal, tons.. Horsepower 21,000 Speed, knot 21 Main batter: Main batter: *Quick firing. The Cres: has a water line belt six inches thick, which, however, does not ex- tend all around, while the Amasa’s belt, of seven-inch maximum thickness, ex- tends from stem to stern, tapering to three inches at the ends. The Cre: citadel armor is six inches, the Amasa’s five Inches. Thus on §700 tons Elswick builds a faster and heavier atmed ship than the DBritish admiralty produce on [ 12,000 tons. The discrepancy is so great as to be accounted for only in the possible fact that the supply of ammunition is | much greater to each gun in the British ship than that allotted to the Japanese. | | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | DE YOUNG—N. N., City. Charles de Young was shot and killed in San Fran- | cisco April 23, 1850 | HUDSON—N. C. C., City. The popula- tion of Hudson, Mich., is estimated at | about 3000. | HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME-N. | N. €., City. The principal characters in ““The 'Hunchback of Notre Dame” are Quassimodo and Esmeralda. BACK DATES—W. J. W., City. The | vear 1576 was a leap year. The 1lth of | November that year fell on a Saturday | and the same date in 1878 fell on a Mon- | day. 7 | THE LEGISLATORS—E. B. M., City. The Call of December 9, 1898, has a full list of the members of the last held Legis- | lature, together with the postoffice ad- | dress of each. | WOMEN ARCHITECTS-L. C., City. There are no womern architects in San Francisco. At the Mark Hopkins Insti- tute of Art there is a school of architecture | where women, if they feel so inclined, can | enter as students. | POETS OF AMERICA—L. H. P., Han- ford, Cal. “The Poets of America” was | published by _the American Publishing | Association. Thomas W. Herringshaw, a | publisher of Chicago, 1li., was the com- pller. He is still in that city. GERMAN MEN-OF-WAR—A. 8., City. The German cruiser Geier is not the first German man-of-war that has entered the harbor of San Francisco. The Lelpzig, Alexandrine and Sophie were in this har- { bor in 1891, they having arrived on the | 4th of June of -that vear. | FREEZE OUT POKER—E. B. M., City. {If A, B and C sit down to a gathe of freeze out, A goes it blind, B and C call after the draw; B passes, as also does C. A makes a bet, B calls and raises the bet and A on calling finds that B has beat | him, throws up his hand, C has no right | to demand a show of the hand. | The Last Straw Coming. Sacramento Bee. It is becoming to be a matter of gen- eral belief that there is a degree of prob- ability that an extra session of the Legis- lature will be called for the purpose of electing D. M. Burns as the United States Senator, although the ostensible object in view will be the patching up of the Vrooman cat. If the Legislature of the State of Cali- | fornia is called into session for the pur- ga!e of electing D. . Burns United tates Senator and does elect him to that office, the next Legislature will be a Dem- ocratic Legislature, and the next V- | ernor of the State of California will be a D%‘Tm‘mt' 1 ill stand e people will stand a great m: things, but they will not stand ev:gr{ thing. - e Cal.glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® —_——————— Special information supplied daily to | business houses and public me: | ress Clipping Bureau (Allon's) 510 Mots | gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, ———— A marriage license was recently is- sued in Kentucky to Willlam Bird aged 70, and Mary Chaff, aged 22. This would indicate that an old bird may be caught by chaff after all. “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 Collc, 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 Mre, ‘Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, %c a bottle. —_———— HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantage of the round trop tickets. Now only $60 by steamship, including fifteen days’ board at hotel; longer stay, 250 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco. —————— Very Low Rates East. On August 29 and 30, the popular Sants route will sell tickets to Philadelphia and turn at the very low rate of $38 85. sion, National Encampment, G. A. R. 628 Market st. for full particulars. HH