The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 4, 1899, Page 4

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1899 ....SEPTEMBER 4 1809 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEA FUBLICATION OFFICE ....Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1868. I DITORIAL ROOMS...... 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. KE, Manager. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 16 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, & cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 month: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 3 months DAILT CALL—By Single Month .. FUNDAY CALL One Year WEEKLY CALL Yea All postmasters are authorized to receiv: subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when rsquested. OAKLAND OFFICE ....908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mannager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. NT: Herald Square NEW YOR €. C. CARLTON NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR 29 Tribune Building K CORRESPONDE CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. House; P. use; Auditoriu Eher; Fremont Hotel NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. A Waldort-Astoria Hotel; Brentano, 31 Unton Equare; Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. Wellington Hotel d. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 200 Hayes street. open until 930 o'clock. 639 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 22C' Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 1096 Valencla street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Jr.” El Capitan." ree Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon Alcazar Chutes, Zoo and and evening. , corner Mason and Ellis streets—Speclalties. ing Races, etc. ~Baseball to-day. —Mechanics’ Fair and Philippine Ex- Thursday evening, Sept. ncert, Tuesday evening, Sep- THE FACTORY AND THE FARM. ,,l,‘ ST ides n and the factory are not exactly hand The-former is lagging some- rdvancing with grea s not prospering, but The industries, which were by the New York bank- HE in hand t present. I vhat, while the latter e factc regarded with ¢ ly in the current year, have more than re- yromises-made then, and are enjoying a prosperity never before seen. Manufac- are continually rising in price, while of some of the more important farm vnward than otherwise, owing exclusively to the abundance of the crops. Some lines, such as fruit and wool, are active at good prices, but cereals have lately been weak. Raw late the tendency products has been rather de cotton, too, has weakened off, owing to rain in the | Sou e condition of the Texas crop These are about the only far tisfactory. ost general record of the lively still exceptions to the a Iron : . of course, lead all other products in acti rength, and the demand for them con- tinues Foreign countries are ordering Amer: comotives and bridges, while the domestic demand is sir imr ense, a good part of the pro- the country for the first half of already engaged. It was thought, several months , that there would be a halt in this de- mand, but it is as excited as ever. Add to this the continued firmness in hardwood lumber, and it will readily be seen that everything made out of iron and wood is likely to he high from now on. Cotton and woolen fabrics scored another advance in August under a brisk call for goods. Hides and leather and boots and shoes are reported selling juickly at firm prices, though keen competition in the two latter descriptions keeps the margin of , profit Reports of an expected ces- sation of om the Philippines has advanced the prices of rope and other hempen prod- Lumber retains its former activity and firm- In fact, the industrial situation is in excep- tionally fine fettle, employment being general and strikes few and unimportant. ductive 1900 bei capac g S down to a 1 ow limit. emp shipments f ucts. ness. The country’s bank clearings continue to show a! gain over 1898, though the increase has been less pro- rnounced of late. 13.9 per cént, Omaha being the only city of importance to exhibit a decrease. Failures were the smallest for a long time, being only 131, against 164 for the same week last year. Locally there is no halt. The export business of San Francisco is still so active that everybody is grumbling over the lack of vessels. The hay mer- chants have large orders for the Hawaiian Islands which cannot be filled through want of freight room on the vessels engaged in the island trade, and this is but one of many instances. The local cattle market is still distinguished by high prices for all meats, and the importation of nineteen cars of hogs from Ari- zona the other day produced no effect whatever on the market. The fruit glut is over, and prices for can- ring fruit have bounded back to their previous high level, while dried Last week it was fruits and raisins are feeling the effect of a steady demand for the East and abroad. As for canned fruit. most of this season’s output was sold months ago. Wool and hops are selling at good prices, and only the cheapness of hay and grain de- tracts from the general prosperity of the farmer. As for merchandise, the local merchants are doing a larger wholesale business than for years, and every few days an advance in something or other is an- nounced. It is the best year in general trade that we have had since 1892. English newspapers have repeatedly asked why the | farmers in the colonies prefer implements of American | to those of British manufacture. The answer from the antipodes is because the United States makes the best. Now, will the insular press be quiet! Dr. Pardee of Oakland has a firm conviction that the sole purpose of the existence of the State Board of Equalization is to raise hades. And the board was unkind enough to show an inclination to raise Oak- land propérty values. England’s avowed purpose of vinterference in the Transvaal is the protection of her subjects abroad. She is probably thinking of a future generation if re- ports of Boer marksmanship be correct. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotelj | A HAPPY LABOR DAY. ABOR day should this year be celebrated with more than usuzl merriment and gratification. It has been a prosperous year for America. The workingmen of all trades and of nearly all sections of the Union have been rewarded with more abundant earnings than for many a year past, and, moreover, | prospects of the future are bright and promising. The establishment of an annual holiday for the pur- ipose of providing a special festival for workingmen and for consideration by the thoughtful of the dignity | of labor and the rightful honor due to those who en- gage in it, is in itseli an evidence of the growing | power and influence of ‘workingmen in the social | structure of civilization. The . celebrations . of L l Jal | of military virtues anc victories only, but are here- after to be accorded to mark also the public esteem | for the strong sons of toil who build up a nation and establish its independence and its prosperity upon a | firmer foundation than can be laid by any war how- | | ever triumphant and glorious. | The workingmen of the United States are now winning victories which have become the marvels of the industrial and commercial world. The products | of their skill and labor are finding markets in every part of the globe and are bringing to the republic an annual increase in wealth far vaster than was ever extorted by the greatest conqueror in history from unwilling subjects. So long as our workingmen are furnishing not only the products of mechanical skill | but machinery itself to the world at large, supplying locomotives for Russia, electrical apparatus for Great Britain, mill machinery to Germany, the Soudan and for India, agricultural implements for South America and Australia and mining ma- chinery for South Africa, we need not tax ourselves to provide for commercial expansion at the cost of war. Our best and most profitable victories in the past | have been along lines of industrial development, and we have only to go forward on that same ascending pathway to attain all the grandeur a true patriot can desire. The American workingman has served his country well in every emergency. He has been ever | ready to lay aside the tools of his trade for the | weapons of war when it became necessary, and many and renowned are the victories attained as much by | his indomitable valor as by the skill of the generals who commanded, but after all his most useful as well [ as his noblest service has been in what he has ac- complished by labor to improve the conditions of so- Ciety and make the ways of life better for those who are to come after him. Assessor Dalton of considers it necessary to try to rob the Government | He might at least have had the courtesy to admit that some people do not live in his county. Commander Taussig of the gunboat Bennington thought he knew more about running the fleet at Ma- nila than Admiral Watson, and said so. He has been ordered home to think it over. THE PARCELS POST SYSTEM. master General Smith and ] ) upon between Post- )tr oy, Dr. Mumm von Schwarzenstein, therce special German will be put into operation between the United States and Germany on October 1 a postal service by means of which articles of merchandise may be exchanged by mail between the two countries, provided they are put up in packages which do excéed eleven pounds in weight. The postage rate for parcels going from the United States to Germany is fixed at 12 cents for each pound or fraction of a pound. The rate in Germany on parcels for the United States is fixed at 2 marks 40 piennigs a weight, but a reduced rate of 1 mark 60 pfennigs may be adopted for a parcel not exceeding in weight one kilogram, equivalent to two pounds three ounces. There has been in operation for some time a par- cels post system between the United States and se eral countries in Central and South America and with the West India islands, but the new convention extends the system for the first time to a European country. It is not improbable similar arrangenients with other nations in Europe will rapidly follow, for the need of a general parcels post system with the great commercial countries of the globe has long been felt and repeated efforts have been made to accom- plish it. The opposition to such an international system for the transmission of small parcels has come almost Y a convention agreed a not wholly from our own country. The Germans proposed | such an arrangement as far back as 1883, and France, Great Britain and other nations have made similar proposals, but until the convention now agreed upon with Germany was effected nothing came of them ex- | cept diplomatic negotiations. The objection on the part of our Government was largely due to the hos- | tility of American express companies and to the fear that the interchange of merchandise by post would be more to the advantage of Europe than of our own people. We have now, however, built up so large an export trade to Europe in articles of all kinds it wil | be of advantage to our merchants and manufac- turers to be able to send samples of goods to Euro- pean dealers at a small expense, and hence the estab- lishment of an international post has been urged of late with considerable force in all of our large cities. It is a foregone conclusion the extension of the parcels post to Europe will be followed by a demand for the introduction of the system within the limits | of our own country. If a package weighing eleven !pounds can be sent through the mails from San Francisco to Berlin why not from San Francisco to | Stockton? The requirements for such a system in | foreign trade are as nothing in comparison with the | needs of domestic trade. Tt is trde such a system of transmitting small parcels would to some extent cut into the business of express companies, but when the Government estab- lished the postal money order office it to an equat ex- tent interfered with the business of bankers. The re- sults of the money order system, however,have proved | wholly satisfactory. They have been beneficial to | the public and have not injured the bankers enough to close up a single banking institution. It can hardly be doubted the results of a cheap parcels post would be of a similar nature. There is no reason why we should deprive ourselves of a great public conven- | ience simply out of deference to express companies. The issue is one that cannot be avoided, and it is safe to say the convention for a parcels post between this | country and Germany will eventually lead to the es- tablishment of the system throughout the Union. S — | MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE FAIR OT to be outdone by any other body of men in | N this year of big things, the directors of the Me- chanics’ Institute have provided at the Institute | Fair an industrial exhibit of far more than ordinary ia(tractiveness and value, and, like the State Fair at | Sacramento, it will prove a record-breaker in the way of such expositions. A striking feature of the exhibit is that made of the Philippines, and it will be noted as not only a novelty the | | people are not to be confined to the commemoration | ron bridges for | parcel, whatever its | for sight-seers but as a timely illustration of a form of Oriental civilization which is of political and com- mercial interest to us at this time. Notwithstanding the attractiveness of the foreign I‘d splay, however, the main value and interest in the | fair is in the showing it makes of California industries {and the evidence it affords of an increasing variety and excellence of the work. The one point of indus- trial development in which we lag is that of manu- facturing. Our rural industries are carried on with a higher degree of skill and with better results than | those of any other State in the Union, but we are still large exporters of raw material and imposters of manufactured goods, many of which are made of the | very material sent out of the State to be manufac- tured. Every exhibition, therefore, which tends to stimulate interest in California® factories and to in- | crease the popular demand for home goods is of A marked degree of interest, is belng shown in the mining countfes and by ac- tive mining men in San Francisco in the coming annual meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers which be- gins in this city on the %th inst. and lasts three days. The preparations for it and for the llberal entertainment of the guests are engaging much of the time of E. H. Benjamin, secretary of the Califor | more than ordinary benefit. | | Throughout the whole Union the year has beeni than usual in enterprises of any kind is not sur- | prising. Improvements are to be seen on all sides | and are no longer matters of much comment. Never- | | theless, the Mechanics’ Institute has accomplished | what will be regarded as a marked success even in this prosperous year, and the exhibits will well repay not only sight-séeing, but careful study. T pare a code and government for Porto Rico has made its report. The system proposed permits | no elections, and prohibits to the people the right of | voting or selection of any of the officers set over | them, and gives them no voice whatever in the gov- ernment set up to°rule them. They are denied the | right of trial by jury except in felonies and civil cases involving more than $500. The President of the | United States is to appoint a Governor General. In | the county, township and city government provided | l the higher officers are to be appointed by the Presi- | | dent. and the others by the Governor General, and | | these in their turn appoint the lesser officers. Eng- | lish only is to be taught in the schools, for which it | | is provided that only American teachers shall be em- | ployed, and is to be the official language. The commission recommends that the system be | | installed at once by “Presidential decree” in order to | forestall Congressional action. The reason given for | | | i | ces! THE PORTO RICO CODE. HE Presidential commission appointed to pre- this extraordinary recommendation is that if Congress | enact laws for Porto Rico the status of the island would be changed and it would become “a part of the | constitutional territory of the United States.” It is recommended that Congress empower the President to make tariffs between this country and | Porto Rico and vote to him a fund to be used in con- | verting the island currency into its equivalent in our money, which is to be substituted for it. The report will be a surprise to Americans, Here- | tofore it has been argued that Congress can govern territory of the United States without regard to the | requirements of the constitution. This commission goes a long leap beyond that and proposes to fix the status of Porto Rico as no part of United States ter- | ritory at all, in order to bar Congress from legisla- tion concerning it. Its government is to be by “de- cree” of the President, who is the source of all| patronage and controls the appointment originally, or i through his appointees, of every officer and school- | teacher in an amorphous and anonymous political community, whose people have not even a whisper in the direction of their own affairs. This authority of the President is not to be under | the control of Congress at all, nor is it found in the " constitution under which he is elected to his office. ‘ His “decree” is the equivalent of the ukase of the Czar and the firman of the Sultan. For the exer- | cise of this power he is not responsible to any body. | For its abuse he cannot be impeached. Congress can- not call upon him to account for any act in Porto | Rico. There he is an absolute monarch, an autocrat, } less accountable than the Czar. | The proposed plan is more than a surprise. The | country has been educated in the belief that Con- | gress would govern our newly acquired territory. The | accompanying qualification that it would not look to | the constitution for its power to do so was at first | | disquieting, but this feeling passed away in the rc-‘ flection that Congress would be accountable to the | | so novel as to be monstrous. The commission was | appointed by the President, and no doubt has re- | | port means that the same system will be applied to | the Philippines, and that the constitutional President | | | | of fifteen millions of people, voiceless and voteless in | their own affairs, with their government carried on | are not familiar, and with no appeal to any power on | earth beyond their irresponsible ruler. that our authorities at Washington were studying the British colonial system and were being tutored therein better to study our own system of constitutional and responsible government. HILADELPHIA by the establishment of a comprehensive commercial museum accom- history. Hardly any enterprise undertaken by an American city of late years has been more extensively present time merchants and manufacturers of even such great cities as New York and Chicago go to tion they need in extending their trade with foreign countries. this coast a repetition of the success attained by Philadelphia on the Atlantic side of the continent. penditure of time and of money required for the up- building of the museum in the Eastern city, for San directly by what has been done in the original enter- prise. delphia museum will gladly co-operate with our own people in establishing here a branch of the enter- that city would furnish enough to start a museum here. The proposition, it is pleasing to note, has special committee appointed to consider ways and means for carrying it out. The movement is, there- | we shall probably have before long as one of the at- tractive and instructive features of the city a com- The value of such a2 museum can hardly be over- rated. That much has been proved by the use made American metropolis of the Pacific Ocean, ought to have a commercial museum of the trade of that ocean. | people. To snub Congress utterly is a proposition | flected his will and obeyed his instructions. The re- | of the republic will be the irresponsible ruler of twelve and justice administered in a language with which they It has been often announced during the last year | at the British legation. Perhaps it would have been A COMMERCIAL MUSEUM. p plished one of the most notable successes of her commented upon or has proved more useful. At the Philadelphia to acquire at the museum the informa- San Francisco has an opportunity of achieving on It can be accomplished without anything like the ex- Francisco will be able to profit both directly and in- It is announced that the directors of the Phila- prise, and from out of the large stores of exhibits in been taken up by the Merchants’ Association and a fore, in good hands, and if a general support be given mercial museum second only to that of Philadelphia. of the exhibits in Philadelphia. San Francisco, as the and it is to be hoped it will be provided promptly. one of such prosperity that a larger degree Qf suc- | | tute includes 2344 active, 172 assoclate, 37 | and anxious to extend true miner: nia Miners' Association, and other mem- bers of the exccutive and reception com- mittees, the latter of which has Vice President W. C. Ralston for its chairman. The prospects of the meeting and the present status of the preparations for let- ting these distinguished mining men know more of California’s mineral greatness are reviewed as follows by Secretary Benjamin, who represents the secretary of the institute, Rossiter W. Raymond of New York, in arranging the programme at this end: ‘“The last advices I received from Secre- tary Raymond as to the number of the members of the institute who would make the trip, were a month ago and at that time 178 had written that they would at- tend,” says Mr. Benjamin. “The.number will undoubtedly be larger and the mem- bers in California and the rest of the im- mediate coast region will increase the membership attending the meeting and the trips about the State. There will be la]so quite a number of ladies and otner friends of the members who will come along, The total membership of the insti- 7 foreign and 11 uonorary members. It in- cludes the most distinguishted scientific workers in the mining field and represents the best ability and character in the pro- fession of mining engineering, which is enabling the industry to make such rapid strides in these days. At the meetng It- self there will be the usual number of im- portant technical papers and discussions and then seweral days will be given to secing as muth as possible of the Cali- fornia mining field from north to south. ““The pedpie of the mining counties to be visited are appreciating the importance of these visits and are showing a keen interest in them. I am constantly receiv- ing inquiries as to the exact time when the party will arrive in their localities, | how much time will be given them, how many there will be and so on. The county miners’ associations, Boards of Super- visors and other leading citizens are ready hospi- tality to the visitors, to show them what mining is and may be in their reglons and to help make the California meeting the most interesting one the institute has held. At many places the party will be feasted and driven about to leading mines and other places of intere: veral counties are getting up spe al min- hibits and preparing ecial pam- phiets on their mining resources for the benefit of the visitors. Sh Trinity and Siskiyou counties will probably have | a joint display ready at Redding. One is being got together at Oroville, and others are planned in some of the mother lode | counties to be visited. “I would like to see one impression cor- rected—and that is that these people are coming here to buy mines and that there will be a chance for promoters to float mining schemes, bir and little. A few peopie have that idea, .ut they are com- ing on a pleasure trip and for the pro- fessional benefits of the annual meeting. We want to show them as much 3 sible of our mines and mining poss ties, but we don’t want them bored by promoters, members will come by ‘The Eastern v: rthern route of Chicago and the special train of from en to ten cars, which will be met at Montague, near the State line, by the reception com mittee on Saturday, the 23d, at noon. Sunday will be spent at redding until 11 p. m., a visit in the meantime being made to the smelters of the Mountain Copper Company at Keswick. “Ban Fran co will be reached at 8:15 a. m. of Monday, the 2th. They will go to the Palace Hotel, which will be the headquarters of the reception committee of the California Miners’ Association, which will provide handsome decocations and which may be trusted to look well after the comforts and pleasures of the guests here. The sessions of the meeting will be held on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in the Marble room of the Palace, ending at noon of Wednesday. There will be no excursions to interfere with the sessions, but any who wish to may see the points of interest in and about the city during this time. “In the afternoon of the 27th the sight- seelng trips will be?ln Wwith a visit to the College of Mines of the State University and then a run by special train to the Selby Smelting Works up the bay shore. In the evening there will be a banquet, at the Palace. “On the 28th the special train will leave Third and Townsend streets at 8§:30 a. m. Stanford University and the Palo Alto stock farm will he seen and the Vendome at San Jose reached for luncheon about noon. At 2 p. m. the party will start in carriages for the Lick Observatory, a spe- cial night there being reserved. San Jose will be reached again that night. “For Friday. the 29th, two alternate ex- cursions_are arranged. to the New Almaden quicksilver mines and one to Del Monte, returning that evening. At I p. m. the whole party will leave for Colfax, Placer County, by way of Niles. “On the 30th Colfax will be reached at 7:30 a. m. and from there a special train on the narrow-gauge will take the party to Grass Valley and Nevada City, where Saturday and Sunday will be spent as guests of the citizens and where the im- portant mines will be visited. “On October 2 Dutc . Flat will be reached via Colfax and the Polar Star hydraulic mine visited. Auburn wili be reached at noon and a luncheon provided by the peo- ple enjoyed. Sacramento will be visited that afternoon and then the train will start for Oroville, which will be reached during the night. “‘October 3 will be spent in and about Oroville and the gold dredges will be in- spected. “Ione will be reached next forenoon and from there conveyances will be taken for Sutter Creek, Amador County. That and the next day, October 6, will be spent in seeing the deep mines of the mother lode about Sutter Creek and Jackson, such as the Kennedy, Argonaut, Oneida and the rest, and on to Valley Springs, the ter- minus of the narrow-gauge road, which will be reached late on the 5th, and from file}'a the party will go to Jamestown via “Two days will be spent seeing the Tuol- umne County mines and other attractions in the region about Jamestown and So- nora. When Valley Springs is reached those who wish to see more of the mother lode may take conveyances and go b road across Calaveras County, throug! San Andreas, Angels Camp and Robin- sons Ferry. People of Calaveras County are anxious to take a party that way and a number will probably go, joining the rest of the party at Jamestown. “Teaving Jamestown Saturday evening, October 7, the party will divide. Those who wish may enjoy a four days' trip to the Yosemite. The others will sce the raisin vineyards about Fresno on Sunday and they will see them right in the harvest season. ‘‘October 9 the Coalinga ofl fields will be briefly visited and then the train will start for Southern California. ° 2 “On October 10 the oil field at Santa Paula, Ventura County, will be seen and then the Oxnard sugar reflnery, the Summerland oil fleld and »anta Barbara. Leaving Santa Barbara at 4 p. m., Los Angeles will be reached at 8 p. m. “‘Santa Monica will be visited on Wed- nesday, the 1lth. “On the 12th Pasadena and Mount Lowe will be seen and in the.evening the Yosemite part{l will arrive at Los Ane geles and the home trip will be begun. “This tour of the State will give the visitors a delightful experience and a gen- eral understanding of the extent of its mineral resources. They will be able to learn a good deal of the mineral regions not visited in various ways. They will have one source of general information in a book of nearly pages descriptive of the California mining industry, which the association I8 preparing as a souvenr of the meeting. It will contan valuable arti- cles by able mining authorities, reviews of the mineral resources of the most im- portant mining counties and over a hun. dred {llustrations, and it will be hand- somely printed and bound. A copy will be sent to every member of the institute. “This visit will nut Califarnia in ecloser There will be one N MINING ENGINEERS, BOOMS IN OIL FIELDS. [NDS IN THE HILLS. | } - | | touch with these people, some of whom have been here before, but most of whom | have only read about the State's mining indust; They cannot fail to receive | 00d_impressions which will be of much enefit to the industry here. ¢ are not, as a rule, inyestors in mines them- selves, but they advise and direct capital and while there may be no immediate re- turns easily seen it will result in the at- tention of more capital being drawn to this fleld. They will learn that California is not even half prospected yet, especially in regard to minerals other than gold. We have vast quantities of economic min< erals undeveloped and unprospected and this is especfally true of cepper. “The possible benefits' are not to be judged by the numbers who come. It will not be a miscellaneous gathering of peo- ple of diverse inter but of men in- telligently and keenly interested in one industry. The few agricultural experts, | who recently studied the State, will indi- rectly bring greater benefits than a large fraternal convention. There are many ways In which this meeting will result in good to the State. There will be a good | deal written about California mining here and elsewhere. Here In California par- ticular attention will be directed to the mining field and our mining opportunitles and the importance of the industry to the State will be advertised at home as they need to be. Those mining communities | that stir themselves to welcome the visi tors and set forth their minfng resources are better off for their display prise and energy and the adverti accomplish will spread a long w: vond the circle it is directly intended for. “The coming of the institute was due | to the efforts of the executive committee | of the California Miners’ ociation and this may be noted as a small item of ev dence of the value of the association and of the fact which many do not appreciate that it does not confine its interest and | efforts to any spectal part of the mining | field, but broadly represents the Interests of the whole industry and does all it can | for it. With a membership of over 9000 | of the mining population of the State it | is of course the proper host of those who come at its invitation and it is finding | everywhere a very cordial co-operation in | its plans to extend true California hospl- tality to the distinguished guest X\ 8 / The ofl industry booms right ahead, and | this year will see a great increase in the| S petroleum product. In the Coal- | inga field no new wells are reported pro- ducing, but the few producers at Oil City | are yielding from 400 to 1000 barrels a da and about 50,000 barrels a month are be ing shipped. Five new derricks were in of Oil City 1z week. The C nia Oil Exchange i | ready for business In the Stock | building in Pine street, and its formation | has already sent up the stocks of several | companies. In the San Joaquin Valley the excitement is as keen as ever, and the incorporation of companies, some to pros- pect for oil and some to sell stock, is as active as ever. | The boom is large in Southern Califor- nia, stimulated by the big advance in|{ prices. Of Los Angeles prices the Times | says: “On the Los Angeles market prices during the past week have remained firm | at $1 % a barrel f. o. b. cars, and from $1 15 to $1 25 in the fleld. Holders still look forward to seeing prices go to $1 50 . o. b. | cars, but they add that at those figures | it will remain stationary, and that noth-| | ing higher need be expected.” | In the Los Angeles field attention cen-| ters in the prospecting of what is belived | to be a western extension of the field. Ol | producers are rapidly securing lands in| the supposed extension, near Hoover | street, between First and Sixth streets, | and the Los Angeles product may be| again increased. A number of wells are | being put down. | The strain and excitement at Santa Bar- | bara and neighboring suburbs, along the | beaches of which enterprising oil prospect- | ors are putting up big derricks, continues. Montecito is the latest fashionable suburb to call for vigilance committees to protect | its restful beauty from industrial avarice. | The latest situation is thus set forth by a | Santa Barbara correspondent of the Los Angeles Times: “A terrible furor was raised in Monte- | cito this afternoon by a transfer of 150 feet | of beach land belonging to a wealthy man | named Humphrey to Cody & Nelson, who | have made themselves prominent here b pushing the matter of oil drilling on the | beach. The consideration in the present transfer is said to have been §: As the land is located less than a quarter of a | mile from the Country Club, and close to | several pieces of land held as pleasure | grounds for picnics, bathing and boating, | the Montecito people are greatly con-| cerned. This is the most serious move yet made by the beach oil men. The pur- | Chasers assert that they will begin work | at once, and that nothing can stop them. | The probability is that the derricks they | put up will not remain standing for forty eight hours. The fact has been closely | guarded. but a vigilance committee has | een secretly organized, every member of | which has agreed to fight the oil derricks | with violence if need be. This committee | has as members many of the best men in | Santa Barbara and Montecito. They have | determined to.prevent the ruin of the| beach by force if they cannot act by law. Humphrey is a man of means, and his course is condemned, as it is said that he will not only ruin his own property, but | all that around him, including Miramar, the Country Club, several pleasure hold- ngs and the bathing at El Montecito.” et An important discovery of kaolin, a pot- tery clay, is reported by the San Diego | Union to have been made in El Cajon| Mountain, about twenty miles east of San | Diego, some time ago by Charles String, | a prospector and miner, who is nego- tiating a sale for some large sum. Sev- eral locations cover the deposit, which Eastern and Japanese experts are report- ed to have said is_of exceptionally fine quality. Mr. String has sunk a shaft nine- ty-five feet deep through the kaolin depos- its. The valuable clay extends from the surface to a depth of eighty feet, and from Indications on the surface has a great width. Two or three years ago the Ohio State Mining Company was formed to get riches out of the San Joaqin River above Millerton in I'resno County by diverting the stream. Twice a dam went away be- fore the gold came out and now it is reported_that success is at hand for this week. The point at which the waters wiil be diverted from the main channel of the river is about three miles above Millerton and just above the mouth of Fine Gold Creek. The river flows through the gorge formed of perpendicular walls of rock. Just below the gorge at the mouth of Fine Gold Creek is an eddy, This eddy is in one of those big ‘‘holes’ in a stream’s bedrock that are now and then supposed to have caught immense uantities of gold and which here and &are lure much money and labor. This an Joaquin River pocket has by some to hold ‘“‘millions” geople been suppose or the people who can get the water out for a_few_hours. C. W. Paulg. receiver for the Golden Cross mines, has applied to the Superior Court of San Diego County for permis- sion to erect a cyanide plant at the mines for the purpose of working over the tafl- ings, the value of which, it Is estimated, s $900,000. Hearing on the application has been set for September 4. The_ business and professional men of Nevada City are golnfi to organize a lo- cal mining exchange for the purpose of | placing the desirable mines of this dis-| trict before the world, says the Grass| Valley Tidings. They will engage an ex- pert to examine all mines proposed to them, thus doing away with the services of an outside expert, who usually does | more harm than goo J. ENNY. AROUND THE CORRIDORS B. H. Burton, the Willows banker, is a guest at the Lick. E. E. Biggs, cashier of the Bank of“ Gridley, is at the Grand. H. D. C. Barnhart, a wealthy ranch owner of Stockton, I8 at the Lick. | E. E. Martin, a mining man of Magalia, | is spending a few days at the Grand. A. T. Stewart and wife of Grass Valley | registered at the Occidental yesterday. H. T. Compton, a well-known civil en- gineer and railroad man of Stockton, is at the Lick. Ex-Congressman James A. Louthitt of Stockton was among vesterday's arrivals at the Lick. G. D. Plato. a well-known Modesto mer- gmalier crew | one of this | The highest pa chant, is spending a few days in this city. He is at the Lick. ST 2 Jesse D. Carr, the Salinas C:lmtflhs(, is spending a few days at the Occidental. V. G. Srignole, a well-known merc)mrI\S of Sutter Creek. was among yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. John M. Streining, a prominent canner and fruit grower of Santa Rosa, is stop- ping with his family at the Grand. T. Machida, a wealthy leather merchant of Tokio, Japan, arrived yesterday and is stopping at the Occidental. — eo————— CALTFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Theodore Faris and wite of San Francisco are at the St. Denis. Henry Neumeyer Jr. of Los An- geles is at the Marlborough. Mrs. C. w. Rawlings of Oakland is at the Morton. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Unfavorable reports of the D'Entrecas- teaux still continue, notwithstanding the efforts to make her somewhat nearly the calculated efficiency. Besides being ‘shnrt two knots of the intended speed it is re- ported that owing to very faulty ventila- tion the hold of the ship was so hot when under steam that it was deemed safest to sail with empty magazines. The ship is | now on the China station. The Russian battleship Kniaz Potemkin Taveltchesky will try a novelty in the ar- rangement of its sixteen 6-inch quic firers. They are to be placed on doul mountings, so that one crew can manage | a pair of guns, and each of the two guns practically bears on exactly the same spot. This would seem to double the hi but it also doubles the misses, and the | only advantage appears to be that a -d. On the other le both guns. is requi dis: hand, a shot mav The Vickers Shipbuilding and Arma- ment Company of aind has ordered four cantflever shipyard cranes from | makers in the United States, and the | Austrian Navy Department .as ordered et e . to | at the dockyard at he New- to intro- duce this labor-saving appliz by which frames, beams, plates and other weights are hoisted up from the ground and then deposited at either end or side of the ship on the stocks. The cantilever crane is also extensively used in shipyards on the northern lakes. A new schedule of pay of supervi officers (Inspectors) of work in Briti dockyards is shortly to go into effect. s will be that of inspectors of shipwrights, of electrical fitters, hy draulic work and of pattern-make who will recelve $630 to $§50 per annum. The other trade inspectors range from $500 to The inspectors are divided into three es, and their duties correspond with those of foremen in our yards. There is, however, this difference, that the British inspector receives about 50 per cent more pay than the best workman under his con- trol, while in our navy the difference be- tween workmen's and foremen's pay is not so great. A recent dispatch from London giving a bare outline account of a new type of bat- tleship to be built from the design of Sir Edwin White is being vigorously contra- dicted by the principal London papers. They assert that the ship described as a novelty of design is one out of four de- nominated as the Duncan class, one of which was begun some months ago at Devonport, and that these ships are mot different to any great extent from the ocean type all of which are afloat. The statement that the Government was about to build a 16%-inch wire-wound gun, weighing 62 tons, is also contradicted there being no intention to make large guns for naval use than those of 12 inches. An armored cruiser, to be named the Marsellaise, is to be begun shortly at Brest. She is to be a triple-screw, to de- velop a speed of 21 knots, and of the fol- lowing dimensions: Length, 453 feet; breadth, 66 feet; draught, about 27 feet, on which the displacement will be 10,014 tons. The armor consists of a continuous belt of six-inch maximum thickne above which the battery is protected by 5Y-inch armor. The protective deck is 2 inches thick, and the turrets 7% inches. The armament is composed of two T.6- inch, eight 6.4-inch, six 8.9-inch, eighteen 1.75-inch and six 15-inch rapid-firing guns. The normal coal carried is 870 tons, and the hunkers have a capacity of 159 tons. Her estimated cost, complete, is $4,200,000. General George Willis of the British army has remonstrated against the pub- lication of Brassey’s Naval Annual, and says he is unable to understand how t. British Government would permit the is- suance of this publication. He asserts that Brassey's contains information con- cerning the British navy which should not be known, and that the secrets and weak points of naval defense at Portsmouth were revealed. It is evident that General Willis' reading is very limited when he picks Brassey's Annual out as the sole means of information relating to navies and coast defenses. Mr. Brassey does not confine his criticism to British ships alone, and The Engineer, Engineering and Lon- don Times are his authorities for home af- fairs. As to foreign naval information there is no lack of it in France, Germany, Italy and Russia, and while but little of the United States navy can be gathered from American papers, the London Engin- eer and The Engineering contain early and authentic information in detail about Uncle Sam's projected vessels. General Willis’ criticism has fallen flat, for Rear Admiral Beresford has since expressed his approbation of Brassey’s Annual and commended its usefulness ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 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