The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1899, Page 46

46 THE SAN KFRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1899 I xpansic Sectional Ring. And Are Standard for All Manufacturers. Best Beet Plow Made. THE AMERICAN STEEL ™ WIR .....Manufacturers of..... WIRE ROPE AND CABLE COFFPER AND INSULATED WIRE. ~===NAILS == = = BARBED WIRE FIELD FENCING. San Franci Office .. ... KT U N ION ” ;};SOLINF MARINE ENGINES, STATIONARY ENGINES ¢ avo MEINING HOISTS....... & DUOOOOOOH 3 SeDOWST 133 Horsepower In Actual Use. Bullt In San 3 Francisco Since nd fer Catalogue and State Requirements g UNION GAS ENGINE CO, ¢ 339 Howard Street, San Francisco. 2 SOOI DOCOGGTRIO & 000 CRENDALL PACKING CO. e IMPROVED ‘“*’?SPATENTED PACKINGS =N n Ring Manufactured by CoLD oL pro:ess. Satisfaction guaran- teed or no pay. Send for price-list to 31 MAIN STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. d Ring Form. The Pelton Water Wheel Compan Gives Exclusive Attention to the Develop- ment and Utilization of Water Powers. TEN THOUSAND WHEELS NOW RUNNING Aggregating Some %00,00 Horss-Power. ELECTRIC POW:iR TRANSYVISSION. regula- extreme 127 MAIN STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., U. 8. A., or 143 L!BERTY STREET, NEW YOR MoLing, L., PLOW THE WORLD BUCKEYE SEEDERS AND DRILLS. All Sizes Shoe, Hoe and Disc. SECRETARY DISC PLOW. DEERE BEET SEEDER. Headquarters for Beet Tools. Deere All Right Vehicles—Carts, Buggie: Surries. Write for Buggy Catalogue “E." Write for Catalogue No. 6. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Deere Implement Co.,....= 0#090$0# 0 ry. { | from time to time which, | elsco’s = | for In the ext ,. | ar | and centrifugal pump: s Special | Packing | y 1 | irrigating @®0402084060€040 40840904049 @ INDUSTRIES OF SAN FRANGISCO ©504000206 04 09 0404040400@ It will be seen from a historical view of San Francisco how it has grown from 0#04$08040% | a small semi-barbarous settlement and with the process of time has developed by | fuccessive stages into one of the wealthi- est, proudest and most promising of the ten largest citles of America. tematic orgzanization among the a nece of self pr public welfare. In April, 1850, the Chamber of Commerce was organiz on June 1, 18 chants’ Exch: of $260,000, ca: were followed b fon and the promotign of e into existence; these change, etc. This article, however, is to deal Jess with these than with the manu facturing Industries of San which are second to no eity of equal population. truth the mother of inv, facturing here. in the world tin every gr principal, although nearly iption of metal is found in er or less abundance, and it is prob- ssity of having suitable chinery to develop th d the inadequate tra tles existing in the early days of Cali- able that the n m: fornia sharpened the wits and prompted | extra exertion of n ing experts of this Stat James W. Marshall discovered gold at Coloma, California, forty-five miles north anuary 19, 1§ The flized world was at- lifornia. At the time of the min- tracted toward of this discovery San Francisco had but 450 population, but the vear of 1M8 saw 39,000 fmmigrants flock here from all over the world, and during 1849 $1,500,00 & month was taken from the newly discov- ered placer diggings in this State. It is not to be wondered at, then, that we ex- el In t ture of mining ma- TV, machines invented when intro- duced, prove most valuable to the Indus- try or the purpose for which they were keep pace with the great competition found in every branch and pursuit of mer- cantile interests at present, if it were not for the time and labor ing devices used in their construction. It is a difficult matter for the busy man to keep in touch with the latest inventions, especially en they come with such manifold reg- nd it is not the purpose of this e to speak in a blased way of any lar manufacturer or machine, but » particularly some of the ma- as been glve the alled in such a way pose a national signifi- ce. has been asserted by various well Wwn persons on the lecture platform from the editorial desk that San neisco 1s nothing more than a on,” through which passes the great commere! t to West, lea ing t s value in f San Fran- erroneous, nt and variety of her man- factures this city can hold her own with approximate size and with many much greater in population and age. Much ands of Cape Nome The Krogh Manufacturing ¢ are keeping pace i the times, as they come to the front with the Drake amalgamator. They are the sole manufac turers of this m: ine, which is a very simple and practical device. Manufacturing Company s suctlon dredge have a reputation second to none in the State. This locality demonstates very well the particular aptness of our machinery men lily grasping situations. The Stan- Dredging Company give us the hue patent calsson dredge, which they have used largely in recovering gold from the river bottoms of California. The California and Alaska Gold Dredging Company propose to take this dredge to Alaska. The Risdon Iron Works ‘are known throughout the eivilized world for the manufacture of dredging and mining ma- chinery, and they ship their dredges to many forelgn countries as well as to all parts of the United States. Possibly there has been no machinery in this section that has re V' tention given the various classes used in wulic work. his is la ¥ due to the necessity of to the fact that great force is derived from the mountain streams, which can be stored and used in the dry season for producing power, the water being largely placed In reservoirs during the ralny season and utilized in the sum- mer for the purpose of operating ma- chinery. In this connection might be mentioned the Pelton water wheel, which is distinctively a California product and is justly regarded as a most useful Inven- tion. By It water is converted into power in a simple and economical way. These wheels are sent away from this city In large numbers to all parts of the world, and their popularity shows that they have met the most sanguine expectations of the purchaser. San Francisco can feel hon- ored that this wheel recently received an award of the Elllot Cresson gold medal of the Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania. The Abner Doble Company of this city have evolved a water wheel pronounced by experts in tangential water wheels to be one of the most perfect in construc- tion manufactured to-day and the results obtained fiom the working of this wheel bave given the Abner Doble Company high rank in the field of hvdraullc en- gineering. They have recently installed a plant for the Mount Whitney FPower Company at Visalia, Cal., developing 000 horsepowar under a head of 200 feet. Centrifugal pumps are almost an exclu- sive manufacture of this city. They are used largely in dredging and are made either single or compound for city water works, irrigating, reclamation of land, mining, dredging, pumping rock, gravel, pulp, etc., and many of them are spe- clally designed sand and gravel pumps, adapted for Cape Nome and Klondike mining. The Byron Jackson Machine Works of this city are very large man- ufacturers of centrifugal pumps. The business of this firm is not confined to California. Their pumps are in use at the Peoria Water Works, Peoria, Ill., and also at the city of Rockford, Ill., where three 10-inch vertical centrifugal pumps were installed. Another leading industry is the manu- facture of gas engines. Throughout the entire East it 18 an acknowledged fact that the gas engine has acquired greater perfection on the Pacific Coast than in any other locality. They are manufac- tured hers from 21 horsepower to 200 horsepower. Among the more prominent producers of these engines are the Her- cules Gas Engine Works and the Union Gas Engine Works. The engines of these men of large cities is to a certain | sity alike for the purpose | S, the Mer- | 'ge, with a capital stock | the Board of Trade, the | Stock Exchange Board, the Produce Ex-| Francisco, | Necessity was in | ition and manu- | California is espectally | rich in the metals, gold, silver, copper and | e ore depasits | sportation facili- | icted. There is hardly a single line | OF thing manufactured which could | Thelr shops cover 40,000 square feet of which originated in this city and | | wiil eventually command the bulk of the The Krogh | Hercules “true PATENTEES AND SOLE MANUFACTURERS, balance” Gas and Oil Engines. Multiple Cylinder, vertical type of improved design, in sizes viz 45 h.p., 85 h.p., 10 h.p., 130 h.p., 150 h.p,, (70 h.p., 260 h.p., 240 h.p., 270 h.p., 320 h.p. First cost, maintenance cost, operating cost—ALL LESS THAN STEAM. PERFECT SPEED REGULATION. IDEAL POWER FOR... Central Light Blast Furnaces Compressors Main or Auxiliary Power for Stamp Mills and General Service. and Power Stations PRICES QUOTED UPON RECEIPT OF FULL PARTICULARS. - HERCULES GAS ENGINE WORKS, wcorprsies 3805 Market Street, S8AN FRANCISCO. two concerns can be found in every civil- ized querter of the globe. The Imperial concentrating and amral- gamating table is the latest invention of Mr. George E. Woodbury, who is one of the ploneer concentrator builders of this country. Machines of his manufactu-e are In general use in every quarter of the globe where the milling of ores is carried on. The Vulcan Iron Works were established in this city In 151 and are consequen‘ly one of the oldest Industries in the city. space. They are engaged principally in manufactunrcg refrigerating and fce-mak- ing machinery. Their machinery operates on the “Compression System,” the cooling effect being produced by evaporation of liquid anhydrous amm: However, the fact remains that in spite of the vast amount of money invested In these industrial pursuits on this coast a large amount of machinery is shipped here from Eastern States, both overland and around the Horn. The freight on this tonnage is enormous, and many thou- sands of dollars’ worth of machinery finds its way out here and Into our mines each It s hoped that the readers of this article will give the San Francisco manu- facturer an opportunity at least to com- pete for any commodity which they may re to purchase, because, everything being equal, there is no question but that local manufacturers can meet all the re- quirements, both as to service and price. The commerce of this elty is increasing from year to year, and the effect of add- ing the new and valuable territory includ- €d in the Phillppines and Hawall will be to greatly increase this commerce. No city in the world has greater commercial possibilities than San Francisco, which Orlental trade, and through her gateway | will paes the business between the East and West. ever was there a time more propitious to the successful promotion of local enterprise. e A new method of detecting the presence of a small quantity of gold has been re- cently discovered by Or. Ohler. By this method the presence of quantities as low as T7 centigrams per ton may be estab- lished. The operation is as follows: A quentity of finely powdered ore, say 120 grams, Is Introduced fnto a flask. To this an equal volume of tincture of fodine is added, and the mixture well agitated. It is then left an hour, agitating from ! time to time, and is finally allowed to stand. When the solution has separated, a band of filter paper is saturated with this, and the paper allowed to dry. This operation is repeated five or six times in succession, In order to completely saturate the paper. It Is afterward calcined, and it will be observed that the ash, when gold is present, offers a purple color. - This color should disappear quickly if the ash is moistened with bromine water. The | test may be modified in the following manner: A quantity of the powder, 120 grams, is covered with bromine water, and after agitating during the course of an hour, the solution is flltered. Upon adding protochloride of tin to the solution it takes a purple color, in tne presence of gold, giving the reaction known as *“Pur- ple of Cassius.” In the case of sulphides the ore should bs previously roasted, and | when the mineral contalns a coasiderable proportion of carbonate of lime, it should be calcined In the presence of ammonium carbonate.—Mining and Engineering Re- view. OEOBONONG HORONOBONR ORORONORA ORORONONLS KONORONON OROBORORG fH g THE ISLANDS OF LOWER CALIFORNIA. Along the coast line of Lower Califor- nia, both on the Pacific and Gulf sides, are numerous groups of islands. Some of these are large, others are small. Many of them are valuable for their min- | eral and other resources. On Cedros Island are mines of gold, sliver and copper. San Jose Island, forty miles northwest of La | Paz, 18 twenty-one miles long and ten miles wide. The inhabitants are engaged in cattle raising and salt manufacture. There are also large deposits of marble and gypsum on this island, but they are undeveloped. In 1881 a vein of gold and silver ore was discovered, which was pro- fitably worked for five years. On Catalina Island, eighty miles north- west of La Paz, there are undeveloped sil- ver veins. There are on this island, as on & number of others along the coast, valu- able pearl fisheries. Carmen Island is 125 miles northwest of La Paz. It is 130 miles long and elght miles wide. On this island are large de- posits ef salt, which are worked through- out the year, glving employment to o large number of men. Thére are sald to be rich deposits of gold and copper on thig island also, but they, like the others, are undeveloped. That there is great Interest being taken in the mineral resourses of the Philippines is evident, but those who have In consid- eration a trip to the South Seas for the purpose of Investigating in that direction should remember that knowledge of the resources of the Interior of those islands is of the most limited kind. The war has been carried on along and near the coast where there are no mines, and the interfor is a terra incognita as yet. The rugged mountainous country in which the mineral deposits would be found, if any of value The Doble Water Wheel . .. IS MADE ON TRUE HYDRAULIC CURVES. Though long recognized In turbine practice, this feature has, singularly, been lgnored heretofore by tangential water-wheel bullders. R ] It splits the stream in one plane and not in two —as do all other wheels Sk 8 It has no angular bends or corners to waste energy —as do all other wheels oot L Therefore— ITS EFFICIENCY IS HIGHEST. Send for Water Wheel Catalogue No. 3, in preparation. @UNCEIONG O OO ORI O ORI O O RO ORI O CALIFORNIA AND ALASKA | GOLD DREDGING Co0. CAPITALIZATION $1,500,000. IN 150,000 SHARES. Organized to Dredgs for Gold in the RICH RIVER BEDS OF CALIFORNIA AND ELSEWHERE Especially in the Vieinity of CAPES NOMEand YORK IN ALASKA Values in California are known and demonstrated. Cape Nome and vicinity are proven to be extraordina: miles of the best river grounds In California are owned by the company, and extensive holdings in the vicinity of Cape Nome. ..THE DONAHOO PATENT CAISSON DREDGE.. ‘Will be employed In this work. from {ts channel. both in California and Alaska. PAR VALUE $10. b4 P It makes a bedrock clean-up of ‘3; river bottoms as perfectly as could be done if the river was diverted :‘2 b & EXTRAORDINARY RETURNS ARE ASSURED & ROROROBC] VORI S| 028 P QOO o ues at Twenty OO, Many large dredges of this type will be operated g Full information at the company’s office, where the first block of & 50,000 shares of stock is now for sale. ING APPROACHING 2 THIS ENTERPRISE EVER OFFERED BEFORE. 6 Room 325 Parrott Building, San Francisco, Cal. b4 P. B. DONAHOO, President. < 8. GOODENOUGH, Secretary. 2| bnwmmmmmmmnmmo S ORONONGNOe exist, 1s the home of savage tribes, and it will be unsafe for small parties to venture into that wilderness for a long time to come. When the war now in progress in the Philippines is at an end investigations will probably be made by Americans now there, many of whom are from the mining regions of the United States. If reports at such time are of a favorable character it will then be time enough to go.—Mining and Sclentific Press. e Australia is now producing quicksilver, the Jamleson Q. Co. of Victoria making a sale of their production in August. THE NORTH AMERICAN GOLD MINING AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF DENVER. The most important kind of bonanza ore has been found in the Rigi mine on Battle Mountain, under lease to the North Amer- ican Gold Minin, pany, of which dent manager. dition there is a three-inch streak of s: vanite ore that 1s easily worked. 'fn. and Development Co rank J. Guiff is the res From a | ) | The strike was made in | n the second level. vein two feet wide assays of $40, 3360, respectively, have been made. S S N Adaptable to all heads with equal efficiency S o8 s It is specially fitted for direct connection in electric, pneu- matic, mining, mill, general power development and dis- tribution plants. SN o For detailed description see paper on “Tangential Water Wheels,” in transac- tions of the Thirtieth Anaual Coaveaticn of the American lastitute of Mining Ea- gineers, held in San Francisco in 1899, and reprinted in abstract on page 85 of the October isyue of the “Journal of Electris city, Power and Gas” a copy of which will be mailed upon application. S A . Fremont and Heward St San Francisco, Cal BABBITT METAL, alf grades B Brazier's Sheet Co Cold or Hard Roll Mirror Finish or Pol 4 Engraving Copper for Etchers and Engravers. Copper Bottoms. ound and Oval Pits and Boldering Coppers fer Tinmers, Canners and Roofers. Bolt Copper, Ete. BATTERY ZINCS SLAB ZINC LEAD Pig Lesd. Bar Lead. >~ u\‘ns‘ul;;f"allm LINOTYPE METAL STEREOTYPE METAL (Used by all the leading Pacific Coast Papers.) . 2 SOLDER for Tinners. Plumbers. Canners. PIG TIN, Ete. SPFPECIAL BRANDS OF ROOFING TIN. PACIFIC METAL WORKS_ Old Process. Made of best Slemen's Martin H Bteel, heavily coated by hand: r::mr.v:-: wasters. We guarantee this equal in ail respects to any plate that can be offe We deal in other brands of redipped plat a8 well as the best of conemon plates. 137-139 PACIFIC WORKS, « force of men working In the winze h been increased and recently six men were put to work breaking ore.~Mining Ia- Vestor.