The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 11, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN F RANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, | BRYAN ON HOGS AND MEN. N his rural speech at the State Fair in Sacramento Mr. Bryan said: “You turn a hog loose, and if it is worth only a dollar or two somebody will see lin it value enough to justify caring for the hog, and | yet all over this State you will find people drifting }fxom place to place and many seeming unconscious | of thair sufferings and indifferent to their welfare. the KELS, Proprietor. JOHN D. SPREC S. LEAKE, Manager. £ DITCRIAL ROOM want to suggest if you want to develop re- people as well as to cattle and hogs 7 few days ago, tar- Mr. Bryan entered the State | ried and spoke at Sacramento, went to Stockton and | spoke, went on to the Yosemite and came back t | Wawona and spoke, came down to San Francisco | and spoke and then went back to Sacramento to de- liver an address at the State Fair. The whole ad- dress illustrated his lack of versatility, for it was an intensely partisan harangue, to a mixed crowd on a non-partisan occasion. Any other public man in the zed to recelv be forwarded when raquested. OAKLAND OFFICE..... 908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Monager Forcign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. | a presence, and spoken from the inspiration of what the labor and genius of man have wrought. seems NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT : €. C. CARLTON. ...Herald Square to hav sources of your State you had better give attention to | Union would have dropped partisan politics in such | |in bottles and sealed. In ro other way can it be | shipped to the tropics without great loss, as the hu- | midity of the climate or insects will soon render it un- | salable. No fruits, biscuits, crackers or any other ;food product can be safely shipped to Central or | Southern China or the Philippine Islands without ‘ being sealed in glass bottles or tinned. The English |and Continental merchants and manufacturers under- stand this and put up their fruits accordingly. If tinned, the tins are either painted or varnished to pre- | vent rust and consequent loss to the merchant.” The time has gone by when our fruit men could hore foreign markets. year in many kinds of fruit, and in | recent years have shipped considerable quantities | even to the fruit-growing countries of Europe. We | must now meet the requirements of the foreign de- | mand, and particularly that of China. Europe gets the trade because her dealers pack the fruit in the way the | Oriental market demands it. In all probability a good | deal of American fruit after being shipped to England | afford to ig | surplus crop ever: | sold there at a profit. | profit ourselves? Why should we not earn that '@ MATTER FOR INVESTIGATION. We have now a | is manufactured and packed for the Chinese trade and | NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR ...29 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; m Hotel NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. aldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. BErentano, 31 Uniom Square; y Hill H WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ....Welllngton Hotel d. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes street. open until ©:30 o'clock. 630 McAllister street, open untll 9:3% c'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission strect, open until 10 o'clock. 22C' Market 1096 street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clack. e i e ! Valencia street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | In his view the State seems in need of develop- street, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- | ... ..4 i cuffering from paying too much atten- second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. audeville every afternoon and n and Ellis streets—Specialties. Races, Mechanics' te. Fair and Philippine Ex- an-Clay Hall—Ballad Concert, Tuesday cvening, Sep- AUCTION SALES. at 2:30 o'clock, Persian September 12, at 12 THE COMMERCIAL SITUATION of the great prosperity now enjoyed by States continue to multip! One bulletin of the New York .abor which the document ever issued by that depart- the percentage of labor unem makes atistics, It shows t is reported. When the vas York is considered this is cer- popul por tainly a wond is a wide difference in prosperity based on nd th 1 1 genuine demand for There t base: 1d the latter condition is the As previously mentioned, the one prevailing to: g de: as this demand for goods confined to | summer homes lining the banks of those lakes, and th The export trade of the country | the thought that came to me was: How small a pro- o heavy, and our manufacturers | portion of the people of this great land are able to | ago. At that time nobody thought and and Germany would enter our markets s 1 bridges, but they have, and are 1 with their initial purchases that they our exports y were never livelier than to-day. It is not a question of selling the goods to foreign coun- i finding vessels in which to send them Every day large lands are declined by the different compa- or sent other orders, pments to the Orient and rcantile and financial authorities of ares owing to the larger earnings of the f them have learned not r trade in directions little dreamed | | | lect men and give to hogs and cattle what belongs to best | | of his fellow men who hope in his success to get the t State is less than 1 per cent, and in | irom | to me, Is it a just Governmen ; 3 | seems to have denied him about the longest vacation | the way of personal ill feeling. for want of room to ac- | | = d The only inspiration Mr. Bryan teken from it was an impulse to slander the State in It was the best he ACTS published in The Call yesterday concern- I:ncr on with the school supply contracts render official investigation imperative. The late Grand Jury in its final report declared that while the members were morally certain of corrupt practices on the part | of some of the members of the former Board of Edu- tion, the Grand Jury was unable to frame indict- ments against them because of a lack of legal evi- dence. Better luck may attend an effort to bring to the remarks we have quoted. had to say for California, and worse has never been ; Standing upon the for the Presidency said of any State and its people. eminence to which his candid and his desire to run again put him, he informs the world, in ungrammatical language, that in this State stray hogs are fed and stray men leit to starve! He says that all over California men are drifting from place to place and there is indifierence to their suf- i supply contracts comes to The Call through the talk of one of the principal parties to the fraud. Dr. H. E. Gedge, chairman of the committee on supplies, has admitted to at least one reputable cit of a firm intending to bid for the contracts offered $2000 for permission to inspect and make alterations in the specifications of the supplies called for; that the offer was accepted; that the specifications were ferings, while hogs are cared for and fed. Looking around tion to hogs and too little to m him in the grounds of the State Fair and to the pa- ard, orchard on filled with the fruits of the vine; and field, and with the results of our manufacturing skill, he seems to have seen in it all no evidence of the It did not occur t0 | money was paid and divided, $800 going to Conlon, another member of the committee who was a full | party to the fraud. It appears that Director W. A. Kemp, the third member of the committee, was not aware of the trick that was played out under his eyes, having been in- duced to let the scheme go through by his friend Phil Crimmins, and thus he received no share of the spoils. That part of the story may or may not be true, for when interviewed on the subject Mr. Kemp could not remember why he stayed away from the development of our resources. him that all this was an expression of our civilization and illustrated the remarkable progress of a State that is only in its fiftieth year. His inverted vision | saw only a State filled with tramps and these starving while our people give food and care to stray hogs! Now the people want to know where he found this ex of human suffering “all over this State,” and where he observed the callous indifference thereto. g" and “suffer- How many people did he see “drifti were eating what be- | meeting when the contracts were let, nor why he diil nd neglected while hogs What evidence has he that we neg- ing not persist in his'original demand that the contracts be let to the lowest bidder. While the part played by Kemp may be involved in doubt, there is on the face of the evidence a clear case | against Gedge and Conlon, for, as we have sa longs to men? humanity? His speech is a falsehood and a slander. It is not true that men are drifting and starving all over this State, or in any part of it. Mr. Bryan has He promotes no industry, hires at least one reputable citizen. Conlon seems to have agreed to the scheme when first proposed, but left it | to Gedge to arrange the details. That is the testimony The Call has made public, and if a fearless and thor- | oughgoing Grand Jury enters upon an investigation | of the subject there is every reason to believe that not only moral evidence but legal evidence will be forth- | coming sufficient to justify the indictment of the | guilty parties. Official corruption is bad in any department of gov- | ernment, but it is most offensive to the public when it occurs among men intrusted with the management of the public schools. There was a great disappoint- ment when the corrupt members of the former board | managed to escape indictment, and the indignation of the people made itself manifest at the next election by turning them out of office. That form of pnnishmcnt’. however, is not sufficient. The desire of the commua- ity ds for a Grand Jury that will act upon the uncondi- tional motto of Grant, “Let no guilty man escape.” S —— no vocation himself no men, pays no wages. He gets a living out of politics, by exploiting the ambitions and the greeds gain of office and the pleasures of power. What lient has he had and what fee has he received as a lawyer since 18967 What has he earned with his pen | as a journalist in the last three years? -What paid the After slan- cost of his trip to this State and back? dering California in his Sacramento speech, he said: “A few weeks ago I spent several days upon the lakes in Michigan and Wisconsin, and I saw there the | enjoy summer vacations. And the thought that pained me the most was that the producers of the wealth of the nation have less time and money for summer va- | cations than any other class, and the thought came { THE COMING YACHT RACE. t?” Out of this jumble | of “thoughts” that “pained” the only conclusion is INCE Sir Thomas Lipton has been in this | S country he has won the favor of the people and strengthened the already well assured belief that | the coming yacht race will be free from anything in It is to be contested that a just Government would give everybody a sum- But what was Mr. Bryan doing on If so nobody mer vacation! the lakes? Is he a producer of wealth? | from labor that has been enjoyed by any man we | in the spirit of true sportsmanship and there will be East see nothing in sight to cause distrust, but % 4 sy )y seem o fake a rosy view. of the situation Some | Yosemite. “Thefcost 6f itiis not lessithans$seor ifihe are looking for increased dividends on their | paid his way. He attacks our people and charges on the lakes a few weeks | here the nothing like the ugly Dunraven incident to mar the | enjoyment of the match, whatever the result may be. An evidence of the friendly disposition of the chal- lenger is afforded by the frank way in which he com- mented upon the complaints made by some dissatis- ‘fied Englishmen upon the alleged interference of know of. After a vacation ago” he has taken another and visited them with feeding hogs and letting men starve all ing allegations of bribery and corruption in con- | punishment the men involved in the present scandal. | The evidence of bribery in connection with the | it s | presented upon statements made by Gedye himself to | | | VIGOROUS PROTEST AGAINST EXAMINER'S DISGRACEFUL SLANDER OF LARKSPUR CAMPERS Editor of The Call-Dear Sir: The article upon the campers of Larkspur appearing in Sunday’s Examiner is one of the vilest and basest fabricatlons that ever emanated from a human mind and the author one of the vilest curs God ever, by accident or mistake, placed In the form of a man. There is not one scintilla of truth in it from beginning to end, and if the Examiner had n the trouble to investigate the truth of such an article before publishing it instead of taking the word of the “resident on the hillside,” @ stranger to truth, it never would have published it. ander upon some of the most respectable families in the State. ance where a man or woman has been in- irly or late, unless he be the culprit. bathing together in the creek author was a party to le I defy the author to point to one ins a sulted on the highv The utterance ti without bathing su the act. I have camped in Baltimore Canyon for the last seven years, and have seen no such actions as the “resident on the hillside” described, and that was before he knew there was such a place; and while each year has found a few undesirable people, there were no more, and, in fact, fewer than you usually find in a town of the like number of people, for nearly all the campers are composed of fam- ilies and their children. There has been noise at times, and lots of it; but the people who made it were respectable. As for “Camp Occidental” each and every one of them are young men of high standing in this community, and whose character is of the best; and while I never visited their camp I met them all and found them all gentlemen. The Examiner has attacked the name of good women before, but when it 8toops to falsehood and reviles hundreds of respectable men and women without Investigating the truth of the assertions it becomes a stench in the nostrils of decency; and in this instance it becomes the mouthpiece of a miserable wretch and a coward who stoops to falsehood and insults womanhood to satisfy a per- sonal grudge. Yours truly, ROBERT D. DUKE, San Francisco, Sept. 10. 404 Claus Spreckels building. , day or night, t men and women went is a rank falsehood, unless the zen that an agent | por {on the 25th inst. and la altered so as to give advantage to the firm; that the | | mining cente | | i | | | compan though most of | over the State. They want to know how he gets the s aodlete et e ey e f 2 2 i : 5 | stea E aft with the yachts. makes to count their chickens before they are hatched, es- | money for a summer vacation that extends from the » FRE N ot pecially in Wall street. Meanwhile the great staples = : { me mad,” he said, “when I hear so much stress laid LR icoufiry conBnte ooy a dtveaa e Great Lakes to the Pacific Coast. When he comss | o5 this excursion steamer trouble, just as if such 5 " Geeleoa o o ‘]' | around and thinks thoughts that pain him, and sees ' things were unknown outside of America. We have ¢ Ays prices go up, one o e : 2 ;aper. As formetals, the advance sights that lx}akc him sad, and tells the world that | precisely the same trouble in our races at home. I ances being , copper an since the current wave of struck the country a year or more ago m 50 to 100 per cent. Thus far the ad- not checked the demand in any , in fact, prices often appear to be a second- n, delivery alone being the impor- t in purchases. Conservative men, however, that sooner or later this tremendous buying of merchandise all over the country must satisfy the de- mand, and when that happens there will be a reaction It is not in sight yet, however. The local markets exhibit few striking ' features. now of some kind. The great farm staples remain about as they were a | ample of charity and humanity did he set to our “in- | s w ago, grains being quiet and fruit active and | different” people? What tramp did he feed or | ‘steam’ers “;lfl:.‘he ra(tlce 'h:”l‘ ‘w.ould any amount o fi Wool and hops are quiet, but strong as to | > Di ; ; ; [(OEia DIoLEsNg SNC comp alning. | clothe? Did he even find any hog besides h\mself{ b b o s quotations, while hides and leather are firm with 2 d. The tendency in oils is upward, and coal oil has advanced during the past week. Pro- Lumber and coal are in moderate supply and quick demand at firm otations. Some localities report a better inquiry for real es- tate, though there is no : ity The money market is in its normal condition, and sol- vent borrowers find no diZiculty in securing funds at moderate rates of interest. There are no large fail- es reported, and collections are fair in all quarters. The net supply of gold in the United States Treasury lhas risen to the highest point ever known, touching good d N visions are slow, but steady in price. anywhere. $251,618,000 on 'Hn_xrsday of last week, the previous | cffect upon importation by reason of the comparative Inghest record having been $zx7..ooooooo in August, ' worthlessness of the fruit, the Consul says: “There 1808 In view of the resurrection of the old gold | is a steadily increasing demand among the natives for i silver question by the political parties this is an interesting and instructive fact. Major General Lawton says that the Filipinos are much better than Indians. And the general is not ignorant of the fact that the American definition of a good Ifflian is a dead one. It appears now that the North Star is in reality three stars. It speaks volumes for the sobriety of astronomers that this fact had not been suspected long ago. | | | | and ra; | money to travel around and criticize his fellow men | R s | |IMPORTED FRUIT IN THE ORIENT. | which it may be worth while for our fruit-packers and | dealers are getting the bulk of a trade that ought to be know, of course, that this habit of excursion steamer captains is a bad business, but I say unhesitatingly | that it never prevented any English boat from win- | ning the America’s cup.” Californians are indifferent to human suffering and let men drift and starve while the hogs are fed and shel- tered, they want to know how Mr. Bryan gets the iRy 7 ; | Declarations of that kind have done much to make who have summer homes in Wisconsin and raise hogs G Lipton popular. and cattle in California? The man who sets himself big-hearted man, who has come here to win the fa- up as a censor of the humanity and charity of others | mous trophy if he can, and not to quibble over little must show something more than demagogue pretense | things and lay the foundations for accusing us of un- and thoughts that pain him. What is he doing for | fairness if he lose. Such a man is apt to hold as well humanity? How many that he saw drifting all over ‘ as to win the favor of Americans, and it is safe to this State did he relieve from his purse? What ex- | say his words will make our yachting authorities | more eager to prevent the interference of excursion while he was in the State? | going out to the race, and when once out on the open ocean it will not be easy to make them obey regula- tions. The passengers on the steamers will of course ONSUL A. B. JOHNSON in a report from : desire to !)e as near th.c vachts as possible, and tl?e Amoy to the State Departiment gives some in- | officers wlfl.try to oblige them. The steamers will formation concernink the fuit trade in China ‘ have to avoid one another and all th'; other pleasure c craft, and there is always danger of interference. It is to be hoped, however, that extra precautions will | be taken to prevent any such occurrence. We can | beat the British in yacht racing fairly, and have no de- |sire to take unfair advantage. Our new challenger | has come to us frankly and with a spirit of cordial | good will, and it is for us to meet him on that plane. D — g shippers to study with some care. It appears from his statement it is our own fault that European fruit almost monopolized by the United States. After pointing out that there is a large demand for fruit in China and that the native crop has little or no Dispatches declare that American troops in Ne- | gros recently marched a thousand feet up an almost | perpendicular slope under heavy fire. Uncle Sam ought to provide wings for his soldiers or suffer L 2 3 | the consequences of overstocking the variety theaters fruits almost exclusively to supply_ their tables. | Lo poman fiies. Iinned pears, peaches and apricots come principally | : from America, while preserved fruits, jams and dried A number of Quakers from Pasadena have estab- fruits still come largely from Europe. The reason is | lished a colony in Alaska. Every time the ther- foreign fruits, whether canned, dried or preserved. The European population look to these imported | | apparent. The American manufacturer will not, or does | mometer takes a downward shoot their membership not, meet the conditions required. Since there are no | shows increase. peaches or pears in Europe which can compete with | those from California, the Orienfal merchant has no | The age of miracles is not yet over. Peru has choice; in other lines he is not <o restricted. Prunes | elected a new President and there isn’t even the sug- ins are largely used. The dried fruit is put up | gestion of a revolution. It is clear we have to deal with a | | John Ross Jr. | adopted resolutions of The mining interests, of the whole State ave thoroughly wakened to the im of Enginee the American in San Institute of Mining to be followed by two weeks of sight- seeing in the mining regions. The special train leaving Chicago on the 16th inst. will bring over 200 members and quite a party of friends and many other Western members will swell the at- tendance. The party will stop at a few s along the northern route be met near the State line on and will the 22d inst. by the r of the Californfa Min special car. The Institute has held many important ons attended by interest- ing excursions, but none of its annual trips will hav approached in extent, va of experience and royal he pitality the one of thi r: The California Miners’ Geiation in sco and in the n y_with recepti 5 R heretofore | committ Wat 700 in twi recently no trouble ting the remaining thousands needed. Throughout the State active members of the association ecutive committee, special local committees, local news papers and boards of supervis, ting a hustle on. At Redding, where the QM OO0+ 0 R e SRR SR SOR 2 B R N . E. H. BENJAMIN. R o e e e R o S party stops for a day, M. E. Dittmar of the Redding Sea Frank M. Swasey of the Daily Pr, and | others of the local committee are arrang- ing a handsome reception, a special min- ing_exhibit, etc., in which the Boards of Supervisors and citizens of Shasta, Trinity and Sis] about O ou counties will_join. OSPITALITY. DEL NORTE TO DESERT. MINING THE RIVERS. WIY ) | ance of the coming annual meeting | lively hunt for gold. Francisco, beginning | are as yet an unknown quantity,” says sting three days, | the Del Norte Record, *From its earliest | in the present year. l | | The da. roville and the Feather River dredges is being arranged by an ac- tive nmittee of the 3utte County Association. and the Oroville (ereurs ‘wants a mining exhibit. The Placer County Miners’ Assoclation | held pectal meeting on Thursday on “r the | of the special county committee appointed and Mayor J. W. Morgan of the Auburn committee. An alternative drive over the Forest Hill Divide has been added to the matter. J. Nichols is chalrman programme nere, which includes a uncheon at Auburn and a visit to_the Polar Star hydraulic mine at Dutch Flat. In Placer, as in several other counties, a special w‘lthlel on the county’s mining resources will be ready. Nevada City has a committee of emi- | nent citizens, of which Fred Zeitler is | | chairman, and here, as at Grass Valley, | every provision for an enjoyable and profitable visit will be made. The Amador County committee is com- sed of W. F. Detert, P. A. Buell, E. C. oorhies, J. F. Parks, F. F. Thomas and The Supervisors last week nvitation and wel- come and npgroprialed $300 to the enter- tainment fund. The Tuolumne County Supervisors have made an appropriation and the County Miners’ sociation has made W. Clintock chairman of the committe entertainment. Other committees in the | Mother Lode counties have been appoint- ed and will actively assist in making the extended visit to that great mining re glon appreciated. The Sacramento and other boards of trade and other civic, official and commercial bodies = through the State will join In the welcome. It should not be forgotten that all this waking up at home and this getting and Keeping the revived mining Interests be- fore Californians generally are mnot the least of the benefits that will reward this display of enterprise and hospitality. The industry is booming literally “from Siskiyou to San Diego’—from Del Norte to the desert, This is easiest realized by the mining life reflected in the local papers of every mining county. To one familiar with the country press the con- trast between the present and, not only four or five years ago, but with a year ago, is very noticeable. The country paper is, of course, always loyal to its own and an exponent of present richness of resources and of future greatness in its county. Not long ago there was be- ing declared in all, in various forms, “We have the mineral resources and when capital comes, as it will some day, we'll be great,” but “mining news’ seemed Scatce and the papers gossiped mainly about the small doings of sleepy commu- nities. Now in all the mining regions news of mines bought and bonded, shafts sinking, mills erected, promoters’ skir- mishes, ore and bullion shipments and of general prosperity take up several times the space such topics did two or three years ago. Del Norte County just woke up last spring. It is up there on a rugged coast With no rafl- It and never saw the cars. Lroad its mining revival was delayed. | l | Through | reach | water.” [NE-JUMPERS LOST. came with the copper boom, and hunting and digging for copper is starting & more “The mineral resources of the county settlement mining has been carried on In a small way for %Olfl, with good profit In many instances. That it could be made | more profitable by systematic mining | cannot be disputed. Copper mining was | also followed in the early history of the county, and thousands of dollars were spent and hundreds of men employed in the Low Divide country, about ten miles from the seacoast, back of Smith River Valley. The high freight rates prevail- into the ocean 500 feet at Summerlw‘d and oll struck in the first well at 260 feet. Sar The Heald coal mine at Garloch, ?t s Randsburg, is being developed, and 74 said the Oviners hn\s& contracted to de- ver several t ons. e liver €l housand tt S 0. DENNY. NAVIES. NEWS OF FOREIGN The Niclausse water-tube boiler, which, like the Belleville boiler, is a French in- vention, is installed in twenty-seven war vessels of which sixteen are in the French navy. Their collective horse- power is 302100 and range in sets from 20,200 to 9000 horsepower. The London Engineer of a recent date has an editorial on battleships contend- ing in substance that a battleship may have too great a speed. The opinion is expressed that guns and armor are of more value than speed. That in a swift battleship the coal supply will run short | at a critical moment perhaps, and that thus her superior speed may lead to the ship’s destruction in that way. As battle- ships go in squadrons, 15 knots of a homogeneous company 1is better than when composed of ships of varying speeds, and 12 knots is really the highest at which fleet evolutions have yet been done. The British battleship Ocean has passed through a thirty-hour trial at sea under three-fifth power. The bollers carried a steam pressure of 259 pounds, glving 102 revolutions and developing 10,314 horsepower, which gave a speed of 16.2 knots. The coal consumption was only 1.63 pounds against 2 to 21 pounds in the Majestic class bullt six years ago. Two formidable battleships are in course of construction at Italian dock- vards, one named Regina Margherita at Ipezia, and another called Amivagila Benedetto Brin at Castellmara. They are sister ships, 413 feet In length at water line, 78 feet beam and displace 14,000 tons on a draught of 27 feet. The horsepower under natural draught is to be 14,000 and 18,000 under forced draught, calculated to give a speed of 18 and 21 knots under above respective conditions. The hull armor consists of a 6-inch belt extending from three feet below water to the main deck and reaching to within 50 feet of the stern. The bulkheads are 10 to 12 inches, the gun positions 6 inches and the pro- tection deck 3.2 to 15 inches. The arma- ment consists of two 12-inch guns, one forward and another aft, placed in bar- bettes, ten S-inch quick-firers placed In pairs in five turrets, sixteen 12-pounders and elght 3-pounders. The normal coal supply is 1000 tons and the capacity is 2000 tons, calculated to give a steaming radfus of 5000 and 10,000 knots at the rate of speed of 10 knots an hour. ing, coupled with the long distance which the ores had to be taken for treatment, | | caused this industry to close up to with- Now there are many prospectors in” the mountains developing eads, and one or two mines are shipping ore to San Francisco for smelting pur- poses. Present indications are that the copper interests of the county will be one of the most remunerative within a hort time."” from a ledge several feet wide an st shipment to Selby’s by steamer yielded 19 per cent copper. Other copper’ mines are developed about ng five tons a d th to the shipping point and important cop- | per enterprises are likely to attend a sustained copper demand. A number of gold properties are being developed and prospecting is 1ively. Along and across the Klamath and the ity to the eastward in Siskiyou and and then in Shasta is the liveli- est, biggest, least developed and probably the most promising mining region of the State. Prospectors swarm over the thou- sands of square miles of that great, broken, wooded and mineralized territory. this big region there are hun- dreds of mines recently discovered and developed to a promise of value and even richness by men without capital, pegging away with a drill and often paying ex- penses with a pr|n7-pu|1 mortar or an arraster, or by small shipments of ore to smelters. Notes of these small strikes | and developments fill local papers con- stantly. But capital is_ rapid! inviting field where pros are not, as a rule, held so hi as in well-devel- oped districts. investments on the scale of a few thousands have been de this ar in quartz, copper, hydraulic and dredging . propositions and some into the hundreds of thousands. The next two years promises to see the development of some very big operations in the Shasta County copper belt, where Captain de Lamar, the milllonaire oper- ator, recently bought and began to fur- ther develop the Bully Hill group of cap: per claims and where the Afterthought and other copper properties are undergo- ing active exploration by Eastern capi- talists. So great and rich bodies of rg}')— per have been developed by the Mountain Copper Company in Iron Mountain, and so promising are the indications that as great or greater ore bodles exist along that twenty-five mile copper belt, that the outlook is promising for the erection of more great smelters and the growth of a minin; camp that will be a second Butte City. California seems about to leap to high rank among the copper pro- ducing States. All sorts of river dredging propositions are floating about “between wind and When the '49ers and 'Ssers and the rest of them got through with the going into this | lower courses of the golden rivers and went away, recent and ancient beds of the streams which could not be reached or profitably worked by fluming, wing damming, etc., still kept their gold and then through long years the hydravlic and other miners in the mountains sent down millions of cubic ards of tallings carrying gold that en- riched further these ri beds. Now when long experiment has developed big Machines that will reach down forty feet | and, in favorable ground, work 2500 cubic | yards a day for 3 cents a cubic yard, and the | When the financtal success of modern gold dredges has been recently demonstrated in California, men are turning to those long abandoned present river bottoms and to the river benches that plank them. The Klamath, Trinity, Feather, Yuba, American, Stanislaus and Tuolumne riv- ers are now either worked or about to be and dredges are apt to rapidly multiply. | The Feather, near Oroville, and the/| Yuba, near Marysville, are the chief cen- ters of dredging now and several dredges are in operation with more building and planned. The Continental Dredging Com- pany is building at Oroville one larger than any yet in use there. Orders for two new ones have just been given a San Francisco firm. George Evans will build one this winter, Next month all the dredges about Oroville will substitute electric for steam power. The operation of these dredges which simply stack their tailings behind them | as they proceed has inspired the Marys- ville Democrat to sound a warning that recalls the old anti-debris opposition to the hydraulic miners. The Democrat thinks the dredges will work damage by shoaling further the streams. This dredging industry seems to be bringing an_interesting legal question to the front. - Long stretches of the bed of the Feather are being located as placer claims right in this populous region, where all land along the bank is privately owned. It is asserted on one hand that an owner's rights on the bank‘'of a stream go to the middle of the stream. On the other hand ownership 1s | asserted to stop at the meander lines as declared by Government surveys. If a stream {s ‘‘navigable,” is its bed, as asserted by Attorney A. H. Ricketts in The Call recently, the property of the State? If so Federal location laws do not apply. Southern Californa affords plenty of mining news these days chiefly concern- ing oil and gold. The Randsburg Miner says: “Randsburg has again assumed its old-time activeness and people are now rolling in by the bus loads. Mine deal- ers and mine owners are numerous and full of business. Money is plenty and easy and every one seems to be satisfied that they are in Randsburg.” San Diego County has another new dis- covery. In Bear Valley argentiferous ga- lena assaying 14 per cent lead, 19 ounces in silver and $3 In gold has been found. There is great interest in the discovery. Santa Barbara County is credited by report with a subterranean ‘lake of liquid asphaltum,’ near Carpenteria. It was struck in drilling an ofl well at 1250 feet, is “like soft mush” and has risen 160 feet in the pipe. At last accounts the operators couldn’t either get the stuff out or keep on boring. A new wharf for ofl wells has been run | The Union copper mine up there is tak- | | having been will | The Coroner’s jury in the case of the accident to the British torpedo-boat destroyer Bullfinch rendered a verdict on | August 17, after a session of nearly three | weeks. The disaster which resulted in the | scalding to death of nine men occurred on July 21, and was caused by the break- | ing of the piston rod of the port engine | high-pressure cylinder, the broken rod | smashing the cylinder head and thereby filing the engine-room with scalding steam. The jury came to the conclusion that the breakage was due to faulty | design and an absence of uniform good quality of material. The most conclusive | evidence covering the first finding was | the testimony of an expert mechanical | engineer who stated that he had dis- | covered a slight longitudinal flaw In one of the other piston rods very similar to and in the same place as in the broken rod. The rods are made hollow, chiefly to save weight, but the accident will have a tendency to make the margin of safety considerably greater, and the Admiralty officials have aiready given as- surance to that effect. | An armored cruiser named Varese was launched August 6 from the Orlando yard at Leghorn. that name recently built at that yard for the Italian navy, the first two, however, sold to Argentine. The latest ship is an improvement upon those previously built and is 365 feet in length, 59 feet 101 beam and displaces 7492 tons | on a draught of 24 feet. The belt and gun positions are of 6-inch Harveyized steel and her battery is composed of one 0. inch, two $-inch, fourteen 6-inch, ten pounders and six 6-pounders. Her speed under natural draught is to be 19 knots, and the coal capacity is over 1000 tons. The Spanish armored cruiser Cristobal Colon, which led our ships a race-of fifty | miles In the sea fight off Santiago on July | 3 one year ago, was of the Verese typ2, a class of ships which if properly handled have proved to be the best yet produced or: a mcderate displacement. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Colonel O. M. Smith, U. 8. A, is regis- tered at the Palace. Frank A. Cressy, a Modesto banker, is registered at the Lick. W. R. Spalding, a big Truckee, is at the Lick. F. Karpe, a merchant of Singapere, registered at tne Occidental. J. F. Morgan, a merchant o{ Homolulu, is registered at the Occidental. United States Senator F. M. Cockrell of Missouri is registered at the Palace. Captain "Terry of the battleship Towa is stopping at the Palace with his wife. Attorney R. J. Bentley and whe, Sacramento, are registered at the Lick. Rallroad Commissioner E. B. Edsen is registered at the Occidental from Ga- zelle. A. L, Spring Jr. and L. O. Larimoor are registered at the Grand from Cape Nome, Alaska. Lieutenant-Governor John T. Keen of South Dakota arrived in the city yester- day, and is registered at tfie Palace. A. Baldwin of Omaha and J. J. Crowley of New York arrived from the Klondike vesterday and are registered at the Lick. Colonel E. H. Plummer, Thirty-fifth United States Volunteers, Is registered at the California from Vancouver Barracks. A delegation of prominent South Da- kotans arrived in the city yesterday to assist in welcoming home the volunteers who enlisted from that State. They are: W. T. La Follette of Chamberlain; T. W, Taubuan of Plankinton and M. H. Kelly of Aberdeen. They are registered at the Grand. Cal.glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* ——— lumberman of of Special information suppiled daily to business houses and public me: Press Clipping Bureau (Auen{:e.w&u:hf gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 ¢ —_——— Swallowed Carbolic Acid. 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