The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 6, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1899 VOTE FOR THE WHOLE TICKET. REPUBLICAI\'S and independent voters should | bear in mind to-morrow that for the purpose of assuring the welfare of the municipality it = | will not be sufficient to elect one or two of the Re- | publican candidates. A Republican Mayor should ~ | have the support of a Republican Board of Super- ~—— | visors and have as his colleagues in the administra- -..Market and Third Sts. S. F | ;o Republicans at the head of the other departments 217 to 991 Stevenson Street | Of the city and county government. ; Maly 2826 | From the nature of our political methods the is- INRS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. | sues of each contest are associated with the heads of piEaiD cents. the opposing tickets and other candidates are com- MONDAY. .2 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKI PUBLICATION OFFICE phene Main 1868, £ DITORIAL ROOMS Tele; DELIVERED BY CAR Singl « Terms by Matl, Including Postage: 3 s Hed 1 AILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year £6.00 | vely overlooked. This has been seemingly a DALY AU (Fnchiing SRnd s AN o tke - 800 . ntest between Horace Davis and Mayor Phelan, but DAILY CALL (irciuding Sunday Call), 8 months . 1.50 3 B DAILY CALL—By there are many more issues at stake than those in- NDAY CALI 1.50 1.00 i volved in the struggle for the Mayoralty. The other to be filled are important, and Republicans 1 their allies among the independent voters of the should go to the polis intent upon electing the whole Republican ticket from top to bottom. In the contrast between the record of the Republi- | can majority of the present Board of Supervisors and that of the Democratic jority on the board that preceded a striking object lesson is presented for the instruction of voters. The former board was con- ination was virtually All postmasters are author!za/ Sample coples will be forwarded when r.quested. | CAKLAND OFFICE..... 908 Broadway | city is C. GEORGE KROGNESS, | Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, | Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON.... ..Herald Square NEW YORK REPRES PERRY LUKENS JR ... CAGO NEWS STANDS. : P. O > TATIVE : 29 Tribune Building | trolled by Democrats whose no CHIY sreat Northern Hotel: selection, and yet it was so corrupt and so offen- the majority from office and Phelan joined in the AMUSEMENTS. eville. | the oo e "Y:U' ts pledges to the people, has accomplished much for the public w re and would have achieved more ‘had there been at the head of affairs a Republican th well for the s not one m who is not fitted 1ot one who cannot be relied upon to be faith- to the pledges of the pa: at 2 o'clock, Turkish Per- | quey which the public service will require of him. ould feel a high degree of portunity to elect such al affairs. Reasons equally valid urge Republicans to vote »r the candidates for the various city and county offices. The whole independent and Republi- can vote should be given for Asa R. Wells for Aud- itor, Albert Heyer for Assessor, Charles H. Jack- son for Ci Attorney, John Lackmann for Sheriff, Joseph H. Scott for Tax Collector, Louis Feusier for 7] Tiffany for Recorder, Wil- lired P. Black for Lean for Coroner, John trator, and for Police vember 16, at 12 o'clock, | The voters of the city gratification in having the c men to take charge of munic at 11 o'clock, Horses, | unitedly WTiRADE AT HIGH WATER MARK. le noted last week nger all ¢ volume le, but There is no dimin of s0 g the count 1 continue ion's the bank clearings, except in New Y i by i G penter, Joachimsen, 18 per cent over those A. Low and Ja t over October, 1808, 47.6 re has been a clear Let there be a er unl u\':'r clean sweep at the polls. issue Republicans utside and independent citizens should ake up their minds. The vote to-morrow should be for Horace Davis and the whole ticket ¥ 7 per York is Mayor Phelan has been elected in the past by Re- up to the | publican votes, but this time Republican votes will nonths. But | retire him to private life with a vigor that will keep does nc m there for vears to come. Let us inaugurate the new era for San Francisco under a Republican ad mate trade by the vo nistration and thus make sure of begi an era of prosperity. To-morrow is the day to elect Horace Davis and the whole ticket. era in S E of 2 Mayo | proud—a seli-made distinguished both in public | and whose re | sagacity and honor. What Republican can vote against the man who in | this contest stands for Republicanism and all that it asked by manufac- | inories of national, State and municipal progress and prosperity? What reason can any Republican give for voting for a Democratic victory in this city in this emergency? Measured by any and every stand- i, Horace Davis is opponent. He stands for better policies of action, ociated and , affiliated more closely with business and industrial showing | cjements of the community, has had wider experience on the contrary, | iy affairs, has evinced more executive ability in the d boom in th Let us begin the new cisco under the admini LECT Ho ¥ s irregula livery are still e in finished akness appears hose services have been private business one of fidelity, man w cord in every line not orders he boot and as jobbers and retailers of 12 per cent in n as firm and ave to be some adjust- re malous c superior to e same c« is are enormous and at higher good otton goods, are qu ‘tal. r\.:ng. Lumber nt of business, and has given fuller proof er d there, sor - spirit an evoticn to the welfare of every rere an here, so: T d devot to th f Ty others are s active disappointing not produc: of the community. y should any workingman of San Francisco vote against one of the larg of 1 the ¢ de- v there is plen statisticians figure last year ed by the news from ish reverses there led to | ece immigration? American securities by London. The| For the sake of the white workers of California nced, but subsequently eased | 1nd for the welfare of the whole Pacific Coast Mr. ! the fact that | Dayis when in Congress fought the fight of white our securities which need | jabor against the Chinese = gn complications. street need fear no flood of returned | ‘hf‘ other side, the feeling in the street | Orient. Such a' man merits the vote of the working- one of Ease -'f"d cnnfidence. men of the city, and should receive it. fornia remain unchanged. Fre- | Why should any man who desires the continuance nated with warm, sunny weather, | of prosperity vote against the candidate who in this nt prospects for the coming season, and | contest represents the party of sound money and of cro: s expect a good year. | prosperity? Next year the Bryanites will rel;ew thet; attacks upon the financial system of the nation. It industries of the State and furnish work and wages for the people? Why should any man in the ranks of white labor vote against the champion of whits labor in the long battle to prevent unrestricted Chi- even the ¢ It may be all right for Miss Helen Gould to con tribute $5000 to a fund designed to defray the expense of a lobby to oppose the admission of Roberts of Utah to Congress, but there are two objections to it. In the first place Miss Gould ought not to be a pat roness of the lobby and in the second place she would do better to get married herself than to quarrel with | other folks for ma control of the city ¢ government of San Francisco with a Democratic Mayor in control of the vast patronags which is placed in the hands of that officer by the new charter. Can the taxpayers, the property-owners, the thrifty workingmen of the city see any benefit to be gained by giving the Bryanites that advantage for the campaign that is to come? Questions of that kind carry their answers with ng too much. It is reported that a big soap manufacturer in En d proposes to be the next challenger for the Amer- cup, but he will have to build his yacht beiore he tof sound finance and national prosperity, for e to Phelan himself; it was essentially a board of | sive in its corruption that an effort was made to oust | effort. The Republican board now in office has kept | onarch.” Mayor in sympathy with its efforts. Faris very atternoon ana | A Republican Board of Supervisors to uphold and support the Mayor in the work of administration and ‘ in unde g plans for municipal progress and im- provement is one of the objects for which all Repub- | = | licans should diligently strive. Fortunately the méh | | se the ticket are personally strong. There platform and to every | employers of labo-, | one who has been among the foremost to build up th. | : r ever faltered in it, not- | As this | \ithstanding the fact that it cost him the entire trade he had for seventeen years been building up in the | will be a vast help to them if at that time they have . them. There is everything to be gained for the cause the ! orously supports a bond issue, the proceeds of which, it is thought, will so relieve the school fund as to obviate the necessity of reducing salaries. But reasons of this kind—even the pressing emer- gency of perpetuating Mr. Phelan’s bossism in this city—should not govern in a matter of such grave importance. The paramount consideration of issu- ing valid bonds—bonds which will command a ready sale and bring a substantial premium—should out- weigh all other considerations, for it must be patent to everybody that an issue of invalid bonds is a municipal absurdity. The election proposed for the latter part of De- cember, at which, under a resolution of the Board of Supervisors, the people will be asked to pass upon the question of issuing $1,300,000 in school bonds, is | authorized by a general law called the “municipal im- | provement act,” passed in 1889 and amended in 1893. When the new charter goes into effect on January I next this statute will no longer apply to San Fran- cisco, because issuing bonds is a “‘municipal affair” within the meaning of the constitutional amendment of 1806. In the charter cases the other day the Su- preme Court decided that where provision is made in law upon the same subject no longer applies. After January 1 beyond question the Supervisors will not possess authority to issue bonds under this statute. The question is, therefore, What effect had | the constitutional amendment of 1806 upon the “mu- nicipal improvement act?” Did it repeal the statute? | Or, what is quite as interesting, Will the going into effect of the charter on January 1 invalidate bonds | issued under the act? The new charter provides a method of issuing | bonds for school purposes entirely different from that found in the “municipal improvement act.” Tt limits the yearly amount to be expended for all school purposes to $32 50 fer pupil in attendance during the | preceding fiscal year. Does this forbid the issu- ance of bonds for the construction, reconstruction and repair of schoolhouses? It tends in that direction, for in another part of the charter provision is made for an extra levy for school purposes in case of | calamity or for a bond issue when it becomes neces- sary to construct a public building. But whatever judgment the lay mind may form by | attempting to reconcile these contradictions, one thing is quite apparent. The proposed school bonds should not be left to promote the political aspirations Mayor Phelan nor become the sport of his politi- cal necessities. Before an election is called the sub- ject in all its phases should be referred to competent legal counsel and a course mapped out which wil! not result in incurring the expense of an invalid bond issue. The Mayor's demagogy may with great pro- priety be confined to less important matters. THE ELECTION TO-MORROW. : ITH the mass-meetings and other political | \N gatherings of Saturday night, the arguments and appeals of the municipal contest closed. | To-day will be given to the work of preparation for { the election, and to-morrow the votes will be cast and the issues decided according to the will of the ma- jority. On the Republican side there has been conducted a campaign clean and clear. The efforts made by S g | Phelan and his organs to divert attention from the | 2 real issues at stake by setting spies to watch Repub- lican candidates by day and by night, by resorting to vile caricatures and by charging with treason every man who opposes Phelan’s re-election, have failed of their purpose. The interests at stake in the contest remain distinct and unmistakable, and it will be upon their conceptions of what will best serve these inter- ests that the intelligent voters of the city will cast their ballots. Men who believe in free silver and the other dec- larations of the Chicago platiorm, who sincerely | think that the upholding of the cause represented by | Bryan is essential to the good of the communit will of course vote for the ticket headed by C. D. Cleveland, for that is the only ticket that represents and stands for the principles adepted by the Demo- cratic and Populist fusion in 18g6. Voters who care more for the Democratic name than for Democratic principles, who would sooner follow the McNab committee of one hundred than the Chicago platform, will vote for Phelan, who in this fight wears the livery of Democracy and whose success will be accounted throughout the Union as a Democratic victory. Strong Democratic partisans will desire their party to haye the prestige of a tri- umph of the Pacific Coast, and will, therefore, be in- clined to count municipal interests as of secondary importance to the election of the Democratic ticker. The great mass of intelligent voters will on the other hand consider the interests of the municipality and of the country rather than those of parties. They are aware that the prevailing prosperity of the people is due to the policies advocated, adopted and main- tained by the Republican party. Having to choose between the party of prosperity and the party of calamity, they will vote for prosperity. On general principles, therefore, the vote of business men, tax- payers, workingmen, will be given for the Republican rominees in order that it may be understood through- | out the Union that San Francisco is on the side of protection, sound money, Lonest finance, profitable industry and good wages. There are, moreover, many special reasons why the independent voters as well as Republicans should vote for the Republican ticket. It is in every respect the strongest ticket ever presented to the people of San Francisco in a municipal contest. The detectives sent out by the Phelan organs to track and trace the | Republican candidates to find out where they dine {and where they spend the nights discovered nothing which the skill of the fakers could by misrepresenta- tion distort into an offense against either public or private morality. The Republican ticket is clean. It stands for the party of prosperity in the nation and in the city. It is made up of men who represent the best elements of our people. It stands for progress and for economy. It has made no demagogic promises. What it has pledged that will it do. It is the ticket for which all loyal Republicans will vote and for which all intelli- gent citizens ought to vote, for it is the ticket which | will best serve the interests of all in the administra- { tion of municipal affairs. e merer— The Women's Health Protective Association of Cleveland has just declared that women who ride a municipal charter for a “municipal affair” a general | gets any free advertising, so at this juncture we will not give his name. If the report be true that the Boers sleep in thei trousers the custom may be explained by a well grounded fear that the British might steal them were laid aside for a night, General White has failed as a campaigner in the d and it now remains to be seen if he can play the badger well enough to hold the fort until Buller comes. A government by the people must be a party gov- ernment, and a seli-styled non-partisan is either a trickster or a marplot. | welfare of the municipality, for the benefit of tax- | pavers and of workingmen, by the success of the Re- | publican ticket. Let us begin the new era right. | Department is a part of Mr. Phelan’s campaign. He l horseback should ride astride, but women who prefer i style to health will probably continue to do as they | please and stick to the side-saddle. QUESTIONS ABOUT BONDS. Reports from South Africa indicate that the Brit- ! jsh must soon stop trying to discover the secret of how they are being outgeneraled by an army of | farmers and press into service somebody who knows something of the game of war. HERE are several questions connected with Mayor Phelan’s proposed issue of bonds for the construction, reconstruction and repair of schoothouses which should be settied before the city | goes to the expense of holding an election. A bond | issue for the extraordinary necessities of the School It is reported that two lines of railways,.the Penn- sylvania and the New York Central, have recently . : placed orders for upward of 15000 coal and freight has involved himself in difficulties with the school- cars. That shows the way business is increasing and teachers, and in an effort to square matters now vig- | traffic. humming. | these stores of iron things to be reckoned DOINGS IN THE MINING FIELD. The California Miners’ about ready to square away for the large | Shasta, amount of important work cut out for the vear by the recent State convention of the assoclation. This work will be done, as usual, through committees. President W. C. Ralston has named the executive committee at large as follows: J. H, Neft (chairman), E. C. Voorheis, Thomes Mein, Professor S. B. Christy, Lewis T. Wright, C. W. Cross, Andrew Carrigan, Edward Coleman, Curtis H. Lindley, Charles G. Yale, Lew E. Aubrey, F. R. Wehe, B. N. Shoecraft, Louis Glass and David McClure Jr. The members of the executive commit- tee from the counties have been selected by the county associations as follows: (ohlameda—Frank A. Leach, R. H. Nor- on. Amador—J. F. Parks, R. C. Rust. mutte—A. 'D." Gassoway, W. P. Ham- on. Calaveras—A. I McSorley, Thomas Nuner. lal:Iel)crado—H. E. Ricket, Joseph Roy- ce. Northern California—C. C. Bush, John McMurray, John Daggett. Nevada—Fred Searls, J. S McBride. Placer—Harold T. Power, Felix Chap- peller. Plumas—C. E. McLaughlin, A. B. White. Santa Clara—Charles C. Derby, R. R. Buimore. CS‘nn Francisco—J. F. Halloran, Dan T. ole. Sierra—Stanley A. Smith, J. O. Jones. Southern Callfornia—Walter 8. Max- well, H. Z. Osborne, John B. Bushnell. Tui)lumn&Fred Sutton, Willlam Shar- wood. Yuba—W. B. Meek, Joseph Durfee. All chairmen of standing committees are ex-officio members of the executive committee. The committees on mineral lands and on conservation of water have not yet been appointed. A. H. Ricketts has de- clined to agaln serve as chairman of the committee on mineral lands. The follow- ing standing committees have been named by President Ralston: Dams—A. Caminetti, John Spaulding, Fred Searls, J. S. McBride, Mark B. Kerr A. C. Hinckson, James O'Brien and V B. Meek. Department of mines and mining—Tirey L. ord (chairman), Claus Spreckels building, San Francisco; Charles G. Yale, United States mint, San Franclsco; W. 8. Keyes, Pacific Union Club, San Fran- cisco; J. T. Halloran, 330 Market street, San Francisco. Legislation—John F. Davis (chairman), Jackson, Amador County; Curtis H. Lind- ley, 530 California street, San Francisco; W. F. Prisk, Grass Valley, Nevada Coun- ‘W. B. Lardner, Auburn, Placer Coun- ty; A. M. McDonald, Chinese Camp, Tuo- lumne County; E. C. Voorheis, Sutter Creek, Amador County; E. W. Chapman, Georgetown, El Dorado County; C. W. Cross, Mills building, S8an Francisco; A. S. Raw, Placerville, El Dorado County; F. J. Solinsky, San Andreas, County. -« Finance—Andrew Carrigan (chairman), 21 Beale street, San Francisco; Joseph Sloss, 18 Fremont street, San Francisco; Willls G. Dodd, Union Iron Works, San Francisco. Jetties and dredging—John M. Wright (chairman). Mills bullding, San Francisco; W. F. Englebright, Nevada City, Nevada homas J. Barbour, Ri San Francisco; P. Gec er building, San Francis: . Lacy, 21 Fremont street, San Francisco. The committees on legislation, finance and jetties and dredging remain as last vear, as does the committee on depart- ment of mines and mining, with the ex- ception of the substitution of W. S. Keyes for W. C. Ralston. A meeting of the ex- ecutive committee to consider various im- portant matters will be called Soon. Calaveras don Iron The proceedings of the last convention will soon be published in pamphlet form, and the preparation of the matter is one of the association matters that has helped to keep Secretary Benjamin busy since the convention. The association will now for two months or so miss the active services its secretary. Mr. Benjamin, in his capacity of an experienced minging en- gineer, will this evening leave San Fran- cisco for Unga Island and the northern | Alaskan coast, where he is being sent by the Alaska Commercial Company to ex- pert and report on varfous prospects and partially developed mining properties which it has acquired. The company ex- pects to do a good deal of development on its gold, copper and other Alaskan mining properties next vear, and will be guided by Mr. Benjamin’'s report. Secretary Benjamin has received a let- ter from Assistant Secretary Dwight of the American Institute of Mining En- gineers, in the course of which he says that the recent California meeting of tne institute was the star one of its history. It was not expected by the wise that the visit and entertainment of these East- ern mining engineers and their trips about the mining regions of the State would result directly in the early investment of Eastern capital, but already two of the visiting mining men have returned to California, backed by large Eastern capi- tal, and last week they offered $350,000 for an important mine in one of the mining regions visited. The owners asked $400,000 and a deal is still under negotiation. Those interested prefer to say nothing un- til the proposition is settled. There s no question that the recent visit of this dis- tinguished body will be an immense ad- vantage to the mining industry here and result in !:lrge investments of capital in the future, though not many of such in- vestments may be directly traced to the California meeting of the institute. The recent circular of the Anti-Debris Association, containing another blast against hydraulic mining, mainly by at- tacking the sufficlency and stability of the restraining dams built by hydraulic miners under license and approval of the United States engineers of the California Debris Commission, has falien quite flat. The circular recommends the “‘absolute and unconditional prohibition of hydraulic mining.” but it is too late now to gain a hearing before public opinton* for any such extreme pleas for a revival of the old valley war on the miners. The public opinion of the State heartily sanc- tioned the plan embodied in the Cam- inetti law to provide a partial rehabilita- tion of & vast but ruined industry under conditions that would protect the valley interests and be carried out under the supervision of able and impartial Federal engineers, and it sanctions the continued conservative but vigorous policy of the California Miners’ Assoclation in trying to secure the b’f restraining dams in the foothiils that will retain for all time the debris now in the upper courses of the streams and what may hereafter reach those streams. The only injury to the hydraulic miners which the Anti-Debris Association can hope to accomplish iles in the possibilities of the recent suit at- tacking the Caminettl law, and this im- portant legal contest, which will be first tried in the Superior Court of Sutter and Yuba coun';ler:. ms;’y poss‘mly be settled on appeal during the coming year. Thg California Debris Commission has at last settled on a plan and location for a restraining dam on the Yuba River, and what this plan is will be known before the end of the year, when it is reported to Washington. It is thus likely that the ex- enditure of that $500,000 will begin dur- K:g 1900 and that provision for other dams by Congress will follow. Such dams will make immnaterial the questions of the sufficiency anc endurance of the individual log dams erected in the canvons far above, though these dams must conticue to be er2cted and maintained under the Caminetti law by all hydraulickers. The Federal engireers have declared these log dams safe and sufficient, and their judg- ment is generally accepted. Up to date, since 1883, the California Debris Commission.has received 428 appli- cations for permits to mine by the Ey. draulic process on the watersheds of the pavigable streams, mainly on the Sierra Nevada slope of the Sacramento drainage area, and 344 permits have been granted For varlous reasons only about 15) are now operating. A few mines have alreudy been worked out. Others lack water. Some are in legal or financial troubia. | Some are not vet ready to work. During 1899 there kave been filed so far twenty- seven applications distributed by counties as follows: Sierra 5, Plumas 9 Nevada 2, Amador 2, Calaveras 2. Butte 3, Yuba 1, Shasta 1, El Dorado 2. The variety of restrunin%works proposed by the .appli- cants _is ¥hown by the following partial iist: Rock and brush dams 2, brush dams G'l dxognu‘zd brush §, crib 1, old reservoir 1, old pit 4. Amid the great boom in the field of iron production, it doesn't cost anything to re- member 'hdal California has some of the richest and most immense iron de; which nature has gathered in small .fi‘l‘c‘é: about this world, and that economic con- ditions will probably arise which will in the not so very far distant future ke with in ihe great iron markets of the world. ‘While ‘mmense bodies of valuable iron Assoclation is | ore oceur_in a_number of localities from Nevada and other northern counties, to the south, the greatest de- posits are in San Bernardino and Nevada counties. If these deposits were as near | to the transportation, smelting, market | which own producing territory or promis- and other present conditions of the jron trade as the ores of the Mesaba range in Michigan the latter, for which lake freight rates have more than doubled, would be in_eclipse. Probably the largest deposit on the coast is in San Bernardino County, six- teen miles from Newberry, in the desert. | and this is one of the largest deposits of iron in the United States. It has been frequently described in official reports, but it has never yielded a_pound of iron Then at the minarcts in Madera County in the Sierra Nevadas is another wonder- ful store of iron. It is hematite and mag- netite ore running from 64 to 66 per cent of iron and one vein exposes a mass 300 feet wide, 1500 feet high and two miles long. What is in sight would supply the world for years. The other fron stores of California are varied and vast. The trouble with California iron ores is, of course, that with the cost of fuel and so on out here a ton of Alabama pig iron can be brought here for about the cost of the fuel to smelt a ton of Cal fornia ore. California’s stores of fron are away from both transportation and fuel. | But while the iron trade is booming and ruling the civilized industrial world and being its barometer we may also remem- ber that in California’s great future the time may come before long when the pro- duction of iron, which cuts absolutely no | figure now, will be one of the great fac- tors in its mining and industrial life. Cal- ifornia iron ores will be smelted when- ever conditions allow a profit on the ope- ration. How and when those conditions will become present will not be prophe- Sled here. . But every related prospect seems to lend to the ultimate production of California iron. The multiplication of cheap electric power in the Sierras is one thing. The oil hoom with its great possibilities of the production of cheaper fuel in the forms ity. minarets above the San Joaquin Valley men are swarming over the ground in which nature has stored fuel and the vast | tonnage of the Great Lakes cannot take Michigan iron ores fast enough at treble rates toward Pittsburg over several times the distznce from the minarets to the ofl fields or the coast. A few weeks ago David Williams, proprietor of the Iron Age, said in an iInterview in The Call that he regarded the prospects of the cheap production and cheap transportation of Chinese coal as the most likely solution of the iron problem of the Pacific Coast. In whatever form the solution mag come it is lnu—resuni to contemplate both | the possibility and the probability of iron production and iron working becoming | features of the great industrial and com- mercial future which seems dawning on the Pacific Coast and on the Golden State. This raging oil boom is going to be a fine thing for the State industrially, a lucky | thing for a few people, and a mighty bad thing for a good many others. In the past two weeks about forty new oil com- panies have been added to the several hundred existing incorporations. In San | Francisco still more capitalists, business and professional men, street-car employes, washerwomen, et al., are investing in oil | stocks. Many, if not most, existing com- panies have slender possibilities of suc- | cess in finding ofl in the territories they have grabbed for luck, but oil is not what they are after as much as selling stock, of course. The same may be said of the av- | erage stock buyer. He is simply a gam- | bler, and if he hopes his company will | strike oil it is because his stock will go up and not because he wants to draw divi- dends from the sales of oil. It is the same spirit that ruled the Comstock, where a | ears, stock that hadn’t paid dividends in if ever, was about as good as any other to gamble on. This, of course, does not ap- ply to many legitimate oil companies ing territory being exploited on business principles. 7 A large number of these companies will put down wells and a few will develop profitable Kmducerm Wells are down all through the coast counties as well as in the San Joaquin Valley. and if | 1 out of 500 develops a producing fleld the oil production will be increased, whatever | the luck to the others. Recently several | wells in the San Joaquin Valley have de-# veloped small yields of ofl which may be | greatly increased at greater depths. The | great amount of prospecting that will go on while the boom lasts and people put up their money will not fail to result in im- portant discoveries. | It seems probable that the oil produc- | tion of 1898 of 2,376,000 barrels will be at least doubled for 1899 with the already | greatly increased production, mainly in | the Coalinga, Fullerton and Summerland | flelds. The coming year promises a still | larger increase. As the market for this | ofl must be mainly found In California | fuel consumption, an important problem | arises. Consumption not long ago over- took the supply and prices jumped at Los Angeles from & cents to $1 25 and $1 40. If | production overtakes the increasing de- | mand a slump in prices wili follow, giving afurtherstimulant to consumption. As the | largest part of the product in the different | flfllfis is delivered under contracts cover- | ing a considerable time, oil prices are a | doubtful quantity. Some Fullerton oils now sell at the wells at $1 30. The Coal. inga yield practically all goes under con- tract to San Francisco. The bulk of it is taken b{‘ the sugar refineries, the gas works, the Southern Pacific Company, the Selby Smelting Works, the Giant Powder Works, and a few other large industries, which pay from $1 25 to $1 40 per barrel, delivered. The fuel value of crude ofl va- ries ‘with the ofl, the conditions of use, etc., but at an average three barrels of crude California petroleum are equal to one ton of good $6 or $8 steam coal in a furnace. The economy is thus large, and | there is room for an enormous consump- tion of oil in California, where cheap fuel is_the chief industrial need. The Los Angeles oil field is showing a largely decreased production, amounting to about 75,000 barrels a month, while dur- ing 1898 its production averaged over 120, 000 barrels a month. Present efforts to | develop an extension of the field may re- sult in another increase. But other fields are more than making up for this falling off in the Los Angeles | field. The Coalinga fleld is now produec- | ing more than the Los Angeles field ever | dlg. The Summerland fleld is shipping | more ofl than ever before. New wharves are going out into the sea, from which strings of new wells will be drilled to the oil sands below the ocean bed. AROUND THE CORRIDORS | Dr. 0. D. Norton, U. 8. N, is among the recent arrivals at the Palace. Hervey Lindley, a wealthy lumberman of Klamathon, is a guest at the Palace. C. Hampton, a prominent business man of Marysville, is a guest at the Occidental. G. J. Neis, a leading business man of Selma, is at the Lick on a short visit to the city. W. 8. Curlen, a wealthy mine-owner of | Bluxburg, is an arrival of yesterday at the Russ. George F. Milliken, a prominent mining expert of New York, is registered at the Palace. He is accompanied by his wife. Ex-Congressman T. J. Geary has come down from his home in Santa Rosa and is registered for a short stay at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Crane have run up to the city for a short visit from their home in Santa Cruz, and are staying at the Pal- ace. Major Claude Cane, a British army offi- cer traveliflg on leave, is at the Palace, rn;\'e he registered last evening from ire- land. Fred H. Dakin of the Uncle Sam mines in Shasta County is at the Occidental.. He has entirely recovered from the seri- ous accident he met with some time ago and which resulted in injury to his hip. Mr. and Mrs. Frank V. Lee are regis- tered ‘at the California. Mr. Lee is a g0ing | NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Eight torpedo-boats have recently been built by Schichau, Elbing, for the German navy. They are 157 feet in length, 16 feet 9 inches beam and displace 155 tons on a draught of § feet 10% inches. They are fitted with Thornycroft boilers and are to steam 2 knots. Their fuel sup- ply is 37 tons, including 7 tons petroleum residuum, and their means of offense are one six-pounder, one machine gun and two torpedo tubes. Four 36)-ton torpedo-boat-destroyers have been completed at the vard of Jar- row, Poplar, for Japan, and passed through their three hours’ trial with a 10ad of 35 tons, with the following results: Ikadsuchi, 31.32 knots; Inadsuma 31037 knots; Akebone 31.08 knots, and Sazan- ami 31.38 knots. A fifth boat of the same type named the Obero was launched from the Yarrow yard on October 5, with steam up and ready to start on her trlal in a few days. The French naval estimates for 190 show an increase of about $2,280,000 over | the present vear's appropriation and | amount to $63,000,000. Of this sum $24,000,- 000 {s for maval construction, including armament and torpedoes, and $18,537.000 is set aside for completing new ships, | hulls and machinery. The latter object is $21,650,000 for the present year, indicat- | ing that the navy department has under- taken more work than it has been able to complete and only $597.6% is estimated for beginning new construction. The British cruiser Talbot, attached to the North America and West India sta- tion, recently passed through a four-hour trial under natural draught and averaged 19.3 knots. Subsequently she made the voyage from Barbadoes to Port Royal, a distance of 1,040 miles, in 62 hours, averag- ing 16.8 knots. The Talbot is a sheathed cruiser of 5.600 tons, launched at Deven- of ofl and gas presents another possibil- | port in 185, and made 20 knots under Almost in sight of the towering | forced draught on her first commission trlal. From her recent performance it would appear as if the ship, after four years' service, has not deteriorated to any appreciable extent, for 16.8 knots sea speed maintained for two and one-half days compares favorably with her initial trial performance. The battleship Ocean returned to Ports- mouth dock-yard October 6, after an un- successful trial over the measured mile under four-fifths power. The engines developed 10,303 horsepower, which was up to requirements, but the speed was only 15% knots by the log, and two knots short of anticipation. The ship was there- fore taken in hand by the vard authori- tles to be docked and the causes of fail- ure to be ascertained and remedied. A sister ship, the Goliath, passed through a thirty-hour four-fifth power trial, and her engines developing 10,413 horsepower, gave a speed of 17.3 knots by the log. These battleships are intended to develop 13,50 horsepower and a speed of 1875 knots under full power. The Russian armored ecruiser Gromo- boy, building at the Baltic works, St. Petersburg, will carry no less than 64 guns of all descriptions, including four §- inch, sixteen f-inch, twenty 3-inch (12 pounders), twenty 3-pounders, and four machine guns, the entire lot being quick- | firers. The vessel is wood-sheathed, of 12,336 tons, fitted with 3§ Belleville boilers, | developing 18,000 horsepower, which will | give a sea speed of 20 knots. Her dimen- slons are 480% feet length over all, 68% | feet beam and 26 feet draught, and her coal capacity is 2,500 tons, sufficient for 19,000 knots steaming at 10 knots an hour. The water-line belt is 6-inch Harveyized steel, 354 feet in length by 6 feet depth, which, torether with the armor, offers protection for the engines against any guns up to 12-inch caliber. Rapid progress is made in the building of the two battleships Duncan and Corn- wallls at the Thames Iron Works, London. They are an improved type of the form- idable class of three now completing and being 1,000 tons less displacement and of five feet more length, with six inches more beam, will have considerably finer lines than the Formidable, Implac- able and Irresistible. The new ships are 405 feet in length, 75 feet 6 inches beam 26 feet 6 inches draught on an even keel, displacing 14,000 tons, with 900 tons of coal on board. The water-line belt is of 7- inch Harveyized steel for a distance of 290 feet in the body of the ship, whence it tapers to three inches at the ends, and the armament consists of four 12-inch guns, mounted in pairs in ll-inch bar- bettes, 12 6-inch in 6-inch casements, of which eight are on the main deck and four on the upper deck. The auxiliary bat- tery embraces twelve 12-pounders, six 3- pounders and four submerged torpedo- tubes. The engines are to work up to 15,000 horsepower, the steam generating in 24 Bellville boilers, with an initial pres- sure of 300 pounds. The trial speed is to be 19 knots, and expected to realize 18 knots sea speed. ——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_—— Special Information supplied dally to business houses and public men Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 gomery street. 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