The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 1, 1900, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, J eensissnnsre-JANUARY 1, f900 HN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Communications to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telepho Matn 156S. EDITORIAL ROOMS. . ....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Main 1874. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Sinzie Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Su DAILY CALL (including Su DAILY CALL (including DALY C© SUNDAY CALL One ¥ WEEKLY CALL One Ye: All postmasters are aut subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested ...008 Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE. . Mznager For: GEORGE KROGNESS, n Advertising, Marquette Build- ing, Chicago. AEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. CARLTON. ...... .+..Herald Square c. NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR 29 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House: P. 0. News Co.: Great North- erm Motel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel: A. Brentano, 31 Union Sguare; Murray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OF! J. F. ENGLISH, Corre Wellington Hotel pondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montzomery street, cor- ner Clay, open until ) o'clock. 300 Haves 9:30 y 639 MeAll orner Sixteenth, open u Valeneia street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. AW. cormer Twenty-second and Kentucky sirects. open until § o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Concert Thursday afternoon, Vaudeville every afterncon and Turf Ass a B n races t streets—Specialties. day. AUCTION SALES. January 2, et 11 o'clock, TO BE DONE FORTHWITH. YOR PHELAN’S reason for vetoing the r Supervisors imposing a license kel-in-the-slot telephone machines to justify him in his action, pro- se made in the veto to submit thwith” a new resolution to reason, however, will not be people if it turn out to be no r of the X upon n or means of delaying the issue and he hands of this board. e Mayor's words are worth noting. He says: ly reason for my objection is that City and Lane advised the board before the er th If this is true it would be of no expense to the city to enact the order, it could only be determined after he City and County Attorney himself ¥ t it was illegal and would not validity of the order he would be to defend it. In conference with him i to submit an order which will answer It will be forthwith submitted ard for enactment.” ¥ the Mayor’s promise to sub- ed order forthwith will have no value to t the telephone corporations, unless it itted to the board at its If it be not so submitted the iss the former order over the 11 be sul vet ard of Supervisors has »odied in the order and 1d the honor of carryinig eIl known that the telephone fighting for delay. They have sought one excuse or another ever since ced. They are.urging it now into their hands if he make ight pass the order if sub- but their action is uncertain, whi t board is certain. It is not expe- ces with a monopoly so wily and so hich controls our telephone system. be submitted and enacted forthwith. ng 2s that e ord ghtning rod market. Mayor Phe- large quantity of official electric fluid to dis- t judging from the number of rods taken rday and stored for future use, he had not to go around e people of two hemispheres are still wa in the ce over the end of this and the begin- *xt century problem, “Me und Gott” has 1d in his own lordly fashion. He twentieth. That ought to settle it— t Jeast a Seven-Year Courtship” was g recently on a Chicago dispatch. At first ders were inclined to believe it heralded 1e poor feliow’s plunge into the sea of matrimony. ng farther on they found he had only shot him- self to d ide Conclud ce re me of “draw” as played in the West won new laurels. In a game at Auburn and er at Redding two players failed to draw quickly enough, and the Coroner finished the proceedings. The famous anot The people of the Camarines district, Philippine Islands, complain that they are unable to market their hemp. Can it be possible they have San Francisco juries down that way? If the members of the local Democratic “organi- zation” arrayed in war with one another continue to tell all they know they will save others the trouble later on. : Texas Populists have adopted as. their war cry for 1900 “Down With Fusion!” They probably think it's a new blend of whisky. eiend the action, and having given an | e new charter has already caused | THE NEW COMMISSIONS. F the Mayor's selections of Commissioners to administer the various branches of the munici- pal government under the new charter, it may be said as was said of the ten virgins in the parable, | some are wise and some are foolish. It is to be re- gretted that the Mayor has shown the worst judgment. in the very appointments where he should have exer- cised his best. Taking the list in the order given out and published vesterday, and reviewing it as a whole, the first com- | mission, that of the Board of Public Works, will mest | with general approval. It is excellent in every re- spect. Following it is the Civil Service Commission, | which has been very inadequately filled. The ap- pointees are not strong men and as a body the com- mission is likely to fall below the level of the respon- | sibilities imposed upon it. - The "appointees to the Board of Education are also unsatisfactory. The Po- lice Commission is fairly well made up. On the Fire Commission two good men have been named and they may perhaps control the board and make it an efficient body. The Election Commission will pass as good. The Park Commission is excellent and the same commendation can be given to the Board of Health. It will be seen that the two commissions to which the weakest appointments have been made are the Civil Service and the Board of Education. Now it is upon these two commissions that the most important | reforms and administrative work under the new char- ter are to be carried out. The foundation of the whole new charter system of government rests upon the regulation of the civil service. That commission will | have to resist and to overcome all the push and the | pull of the job ers and the bosses; it will have ro mptation toward partiality or favor- they urged. Bad men or weak; men who are intense par- tisans or who are inclined to use official power for their own advantage can readily find means to evade the civil e regulations and’advance unworthy favorites to office. The Call does not charge that the Commissioners appointed by the Mayor will misuse their anthority and turn their office into a patronage | bureau, but it does say the importance of the civil ser- vice to the municipality under the new charter is so | great that the men chosen to administer it should | have been among the strongest and most eminent in | the city. The public Will not have full confidence in | the Commissioners until they win it by the merit of | their service and it is to be hoped that merit will be wn. | The Board of Education has charge of | wh importance it would be difficult to overesti- | mate. It will have to undertake somiething like a rad- | ical reform of the schools, for it is well known that 0 [ put aside every t itisnt, no matter upon what consideration ser a work | for years past every successive School Board has fur- nished the city with scandalous jobs or frauds of some kind. The vériety, the extent and the degree of evi | caused to public education by corrupt or in school boards have long been the subject of comment and formed the theme of the m sion at the recent convention of the Teachers’ Asso- It is therefore with deep concern the public | will note the w ess of the Mayor's appointments | to that board. | Protest | availing. n discus- inst the appointments is of course un- The people, however, will note the weak stration that is to direct municipal of the new charter, and will efficiency or evidence places in the admi irs in the be prompt to | of bad intent. urs ote any sign of i The sanguine spirit that now animates | nearly all classes of citizens will incline them to ex- | pect the best results, but it will not blind them to | faults or frauds; and while hor hogor is due, there will be swift and sharp condem- | nation of any official or any commission that betray the popular confidence that with the new charter and the new era, there are to be, along with prosperity improvement, a marked degree of efficiency, hon- | esty and civic patriotism in every department of the inistration. municipal adm iTHE OLD YEAR @ND ITS RECORD. N OW and then expectations are realized in this uncertain world, and the :commercial year of 1809 was one of these pleasant exceptions. In volume of business and magnitude of profits it broke | all previous records. Indeed, it exceeded the most sanguine anticipations in the upward movement of values. Taking the bank clearings of the country an index the volume of business was 74 per cent | larger than in 1897 and 51 per cent larger than in 1892, the year preceding the panic. The failures, too, were the smallest in seventeen years, but the collapse of speculation in copper and the consequent failures in Boston a week or two ago added over $18,000,000 to the year’s liabilities. "Including this serious amount the liabilities in 1809 were $120,000,000, of which $8g, 260,000 were commercial and the balance banking, most of the latter being charged up to Boston, and within a fortnight. The average of liabilities to fail- ures was $93500, the smallest average in twenty-five | years. The best showing of the year was made by the { Southern and Pacific States, where the decrease in failures from 1898 was 33 per cent. The railroads added their share to the general prosperity, their.gross {and net receipts exceeding all records’ Railroad building was the heaviest since 1800, double the aver- age of the preceding four years and 50 per cent more | than in 1808. The export trade of the country made an equally fine showing. It footed up almost $1,280,000,000, or about 3 per cent over 1808, which was the largest pre- vious year. Manufactured goods are credited with | most of the gain in 1899, as breadstuffs and cotton | fell off 15 per cent each, the latter in consequence | of a decreased crop, and cattle and hogs 12 per cent. - | The imports from foreign countries during the year amounted to about $800,000,000, which gives us a total foreign trade of about $2,000,000,000, which, it is unnecessary to say, has never been equaled. It was | a manufacturers’ rather than a producers’ year, as | manufactured products advanced in price all around, | with a greatly increased out while cereals declined | about 6 per cent, with diminished shipments abroad. | Metals advanced about 50 per cent over 1808. The | other advances are in raw cotton and wool, coal, hides and leather, provisions of all kinds and live stock, | not to mention hundreds of lesser products. The ap- | preciation in wool was 35 per cent and in cotton 20.5 lpcr cent. The heavy increase in imports of raw ma- | terial during the year shows the intense activity of our manufacturing plants. The balance of trade in favor of the United States, while not as large as in 1808, owing to the increase in imports, still aggre- gated an enormous amount. | The prospects for the coming year are fully as flat- itcring as on January 1, 1809. Most manufacturing lines have entered the new year with order books filled from three to six months ahead. The iron out- put is contracted for far into the year, say from six to nine months. The tremendous activity in iron and steel was the great feature of the year. Columns would be required to enumerate the in- crease in business in the different lines, hence only the -important ones are mentioned. The only cloud dur- ing the whole year was the reckless format.ion-oq e or will be given where | | | gigantic trusts, many of them topheavy and overcapi- | talized, and the wild speculation in them by Wall street. Had it not been for the exceptionally strong position of legitimate business a serious panic would probably have resulted. But through all the tight- money scare in Wall street for several months back | the genuine trade of the country has moved along | with hardly a ripple. Wall street has had its lesson | and it is to'be hoped that it will profit by it. [ As for California, nothing is to be said except that | the prospects for-1900 could not be better. Copious rains have practically insured abundant crops, the merchants are doing the largest business for years, money is easy and collections good, and the croaker I‘ has disappeared from the land. THE NEW YEAR. HETHER we count it the last year of a fad- | ing century or the first of a new one, 1900 will still have a particular significance to the world. | It has been marked at its beginning by the most sol- | emn services of the church, is to be commemorated in the most splendid capital of the world by an expo- | sition of unsurpassed magnificence and beauty, and | promises to be for the world at large, despite the por- | tentous war in South Africa, a period of unexampled | prosperity. | Carlyle has told us:. “There are ten thousand times | ten thousand clocks in the world to sound with i clangor the alarm as the day passes on from hour to | hour, but there is no sound heard from the great horo- | | logue of eternity to warn the soul as the ages sweep | on from eon to eon.” Man of his own volition must | stop and count and make note, if he would mark the | procession of centuries and measure how far ‘he has | mounted upward to higher levels of life in the course | of any one of them. | That meditation will to-day, to some extent at least, foceupy every réflecting mind throughout the Chris- | tian world. Men will compare and contrast so far as they can the condition of mankind with what it was | in 1800. The tremendous advance which has besn | made in every form of material good.will occur to | |all. The vast increase in man’s power over the forces | of naturé will engage serious attention; mnor will any | one overlook the thousand evidences of a moral im- | provement in the general mass of men attending the ‘ improvement in their physical comforts and in all the | | complex materialities of their environment. | The proofs of ennoblement resulting from the work | and the thought of the century will be noted with | gratification. They are to be found everywhere, {even in the war in South Africa. Battles are no longer so bloody as they were, the contending forces | are gentler toward the prisoners who fall into their | power, and a thousand tender ministrations of skillful | hands and kind hearts await to relieve the pain of the wounded and as far as possible nurse them back to health. From the great advance which has been made since | the Beginning of the century, it is certainly reasonable :to draw auguries of a still greater advance in the cen- | tury to come. Science and mechanical ingenuity have “accomplished marvels in drawing men into closer icommunic:\tidn and relationship to one another, and fThf: industrial forces that make for peace increass | with the years, and the enlightened body of men and | women who oppose wars grows in numbers and in | prestige. It is still a military world. The nations | were never before so universally armed, nor did they ‘e\cr watch one another with more of jealousy. Never- theless it was never before so peaceful a world, nor did the nations ever before have so many alliances | that tend to the maintenance of peace. Considered from every point of view, therefore, the | century has given good reason for the highest hopes | of humanity. In all the tides of time never was there | such progress made in any other century, and never | did a New Year's day dawn that brought to the world | so bright a prospect and so strong a promise of com- | ing good. We sleep and wake and sleep, but all things move, The sun flies onward to his brother sun; The dark earth follows wheeled in her eclipse, And human things, returning on themselves, Move onward, leading up the golden year. ROBERTS AND KITCHENER. | OPULAR sentiment in Great Britain gives un- p qualified approval to the action of the Ministry in. sending General Roberts as commander in | chief to South Africa, with General Kitchener as chiei ;of staff. These two men are for this generation the i military heroes of the empire, and the conclusion in | the British mind is that when they take command | there will be an end to blundering and a straight march to certain victory. | Military experts, however, are not so sanguine as | the people. They recall that ncither Roberts nor | Kitchener has ever fought a foe led by skillful gen- | erals, trained in the tactics of modern war and armed with the weapons of civilization. The experience Rob- erts had in fighting the wild tribes of India and that of Kitchener in destroying the fanatics of the Soudan | has hardly furnished them with lessons of any great value in the war they are now about to undertake, }and for that reason the military critics claim their ability to grapple with the problems of the conflict before them cannot be taken for granted by reason of their successes in the past. It has also been noted by some of these critics that Roberts is a comparatively old man and has lived his life in the exhausting climate of India, so that he will hardly at the age of 67 have much vigor for active campaigning. On the other hand, Kitchener is not only a young man, but is one of the young men who have a contempt for old men in war. He took none but young men with him to the Soudan and he has been quoted as saying if he had his way he would retire from the army every officer over 50 years of age. From that difference between the two some critics predict there is likely to be friction between the commander in chief and the chief of staff and that the result will be the retirement of one or the other before the war is over. One thing is certain, Roberts and Kitchener will have a much better chance to win fame than Buller has had. In the first place they will have the benefit of his disastrous experience in making direct attacks upon entrenched Boers and they will not make blun- ders of that kind. Moreover, they are to have better artillery and a larger force of cavalry. They will thus have many advantages over the unsuccessful general who started so boldly to march to Pretoria before Christmas, but who up to this time has not succeeded even in relieving Ladysmith. Another great advantage will be derived from the increased confidence which will be given to the Brit- ish troops by the knowledge that Roberts is to com- ! mand them. According to all reports that come to us Roberts is one of those rare men who have the magnetic power of rousing their followers to the highest levels of courage and endurance. He is the idol of the army and it is a foregone conclusion that whatever British pluck can do to win laurels for him will be done. D King Charles of Portugal to his lady Queen: “Dear- est,ds my-crown on straight?” with that has come a diminution of racial enmities. | YELLOW GOLD 'AND NEWS OF ITS DIGGERS The Year's Yieid, the Mining Bu- reau, Golden Mud" and Location Problems. It is too early for more than approxim- ate estimates of the State's mineral prod- uct for 1899, and the best .of these may prove very. erroneous when reliable sta- | tistics have been compiled three months or so hence by the Mint-and Mining Bu- reau. The. gold product is not likely to vary more than $500,000 from that of 1898, and may be nearly the same. Selbys, who re- | ceive at first bond and refine two-thirds | or more of the gold product, expect little change. The Director of the Mint has just proclaimed a preliminary estimate | crediting California with $14,%2,292, as compared with $15,637,900 last year. His | figures are doubtless too low, as they gen- | erally are. Good authorities, in close | touch with the industry, expect &@n in- crease of nearly a half million. | Under normal conditions there would | have been an increase reaching into the | millions. The enlargements in the scale | of operations of many of the biggest pro- ducing mines, the bringing into produc- | | tion of many new and rehabilitated prop- | erties and the enormous increase of ac- | tivity in every department of the mining | field make this certain. | Of course, it was the drought that les- | sened the golden stream. In 1808 it was | estimated that the lack of water that| year cut short the gold product by $4,000,- 000. In 1399 the industry suffered an un- precedented second year of drought, and | as the stored waters were everywhere al- | ready abnormally low, the effect was | more severe than in the year before. Late | in the season production was nearly sus- | pended along the mother lode. Many of | the heaviest producers again ran on half | time or hung up all their stamps for | weeks. Late in September there was hardly a mill running in Tuolumne Coun- ty; in hydraulic mines, monitors were silent; drift miners could not wash thelr | gravel, The shortage thus occasioned | again reached millions. But the mining industry looks up now | with the remainder of the State as buoy- | ant and as certain of a great future as’ and other industry. The liberal rains have supplied already all lack of water and there will be an abundance during the coming year, which will send the product 1;) figures not reached before in a genera- | | tion. Cepper, %etroleum, quicksilver, bérax, silver, asphalt and other products will| show gains and a great increase of de- velopment and prospects for the near fu- | | ture. There will iikely be an increase of a | million barrels of petroleum and copper will show a great advance. The quick- silver boom has only fairly begun. The appointment of W. H. Storms as the third of the Governor's own field min- ing experts and the accompanying pros- pect that, after some years of almost to- tal neglect, the metal mining interests | of the State will recelve some measure of valuable service from the Mining Bureau will gratify the miners. It is one encour- aging feature of the Mining Bureau mess. Mr, Storms is a man of excellent sclen- | tific and technical attainments. After | some years of mining experience in Da- | kota and Colorado he came to California | and from 1862 to 1896 was connected with the Mining Bureau as field assistant dur- ing portions of the Nolan and Crawford administrations. His bulletin on Meth- ods of Mine Timbering has had wider de- mand and circulation than any other bul- letin issued b{ the bureaun. His field work | was mainly in the mother lode reglon | during those years and some of the most valuable chapters in three of the reports are by him. This work and a later ex- rerleuca of his own in mine operation have made him especially familiar with the mother lode and the scientific and practical features and problems of its mining industry. He is also well ac- quainted with the rest of the mining field in California. For some months he has had editorial charge of the Mining and Scientific Press. The leading mining men | will undoubtedly approve his appoint- ment, whatever they may think of the dis(‘ouraflng state of the administration of the Mining Bureau. Now Storms will range through the mother lode region and north of it, doing scientific, descriptive and statistical work not yet definitely planned. Bowers wiil work somehow according to counties, and Watts will stick to the oil fields and boss the work in the Governor's name. All will get up a lot of matter for publication. How much of it and when will depend | on the money available. Gage started in by setting aside $2000 of his $20,000 for the two years for this purpose, but it is not very far that will go with {llustrated re- ports and bulletins. He wanted some of the $7500 allowed extra for printing by the Legislature, but the State Mineralogist happened to have a grip on that and wouldn't yield a cent. During the hot disagreement between Gage and Siate Mineralogist Cooper the latter threatened | to close the laboratory for lack of funds, and the Governor conceded $§2500 of his $20,000 for its support. This leaves him $14,500 to divide as he pleases between ex- perts and publications before July 1, 1901 In fact, there are no strings in his meth- od of disbursing it in the mining field. The other mining bureau is already put- ting forth matter from the State Printing Office. Bulletins Nos. 13 and 14, giving in tabulated form the mineral production of the State by counties for 1897 and 1838 have been received from Sacramento and are ready for distribution. They are sin- | gle wall sheets, 24 by 33 inches in size and | uniform in style with others of recent rears. 7 In a few days a map of the Oil City oil field will be out. It is a geographical and topographical map, 18 by 20 inches, of twelve sections, of outline nature, giving no claim boundaries or geological fea- tures, showing about twenty unidentified wells, and is valuable and convenient as a map on which claims can be easily de- lineated. £ Mr. Cooper’s extensiye and valuable bul- letin on tge geriesis of petroleum and as- phaitum in California is being printed and will be issued before long. He proposes to follow this with the county mining maps and registers, which have been waiting for publication so long, probably starting with Siskiyou County. It looks as though the dual State Min- ing Bureau would run along this way for some time. Gage's illegal private bureau promises to swing and flourish because no one will legally question %t and because Gage is able to muster political, moral ax?g immoral support. Codoper is not dis- posed to contest it, contenting himself ‘with refusing to know anything about it and confining himself to the ferry build- ing quarters. The five trustees are keep- ing mum. A majority stand by the Gov- ernor and the minority attends to its own business. So Cooper stands by himself and doesn't kick a gtone wall. The tru: tees agreed to sign’ the bilis of the Gov- ernor's bureau as a matter of form, but decided that he must sign them first as he was running the outside department. So the salary and expense bills of Messrs. Watts, Storms and Bowers will go first to the Governor's office for his O K. Then in San Francisco Secretary Durden will chase around for the signatures of the busy trustees and then Guge will pass on them again as a member of the Boara of Examiners. The November and De- cember bills will probably go through the Board of Examiners like greased eels at the January meeting. Unecle Sam is doing a good deal for the mining industry which the State is not doing for itself. Comparatively few are familiar with the monographs, reports and maps issued by the Geographical Survey. George H. Eldridge, U. 8. G. S.; is making an exhaustive study of the bituminous_resources of California. He began in Santa Cruz County a month ago, is now in Santa Barbara County and wfill probably spend some months on his studies. His resulting report should be of great value. Last week two of the big gold dredges on the Feather River, a little below Ors- ville, resumed operations with electric power after a shut-down of about a month to change machinery and also be- cause of lack of tuel. Power is supplied by the Yuba Power Company from the Yuba River, at a distance of twenty-six miles. One or two more will soon use electric power, as will two new Postle- thwaite or Risdon dredges to be launched this month. The two new dredfu are v% handlin; large, having a capacity o cubic yards of gravel ‘per twenty-four hours. he largest yet installed in this State ADVERTISEMENTS. January Rem DRESS SILKS, VELVETS, RIBBONS, mnant Sale TN LACES, DRESS TRIMMING, DRAPERY GOODS, Marked at About One-Half Usual Prices. SPECIAL PRICE REDUCTIONS. LADIES’ PLAID DRESS SKIRTS. Made of good quality 2 plaid; lined and interlin that were sold at $5 and $6. d: the remainder of styles nd desirable styles of this season’s $3.75 Now on sale at... LADIES’ BLACK SATEEN PETTICOATS. Flounce ruffle, trimmed and dust ruffl+ Now on special sale at.. $1.50 grade. LADIES’ SILK PETTICOATS. Made of an excellent grade good colorings; regularva of taffsta; ruffl : trimmed; lue $6.50. Nowon sale at $4.60 ON SALE AT BOTH STORES. KOHLBERG, STRAUSS & FROHMAN, 107-109 Post Street. 1220-1222-1224 Market Street. ve a limit of 2500 yards. The new (l;':e: are of the continuous bucket type, 30 by 80 feet in slzel, and d@slg;\;‘:} :g reach thirty feet below water stack lajllngs thirty-five feet high. There will then be in the Feather River, near Oroville, five dredges of the Postle thwaite type, two of the scoop type and a continuous bucket dredge of FEastern design. The Feather presents exceptional op- | portunities ‘for successful dredging en-| terprises in the neighborhood of Oroville, | and they will multiply in the future. | Thousands of acres of that river Ko;lum will average 15 cents per cubic yard from grass to gl::edn‘ml(. and the bedrock is within reach and soft enough to be prac- | tically dug up by the scoops. The Yuba has not proved as good a dredging field as | was anticipated, ?anly on account of the deep deposits of comparatively barren | detritus and partly because the stream shifts its bed so frequently. The dredging people are generally close mouthed about their affairs, and no relia- | ble statement of the gold product by | dredging can be given. H. Postle- | thwaite, who is in an exceptional position | for judging, estimates the total product | for 1839 at between $150,000 and $200.000. | Some of the present dredges have worked but a few months. New dredges now building and the continuous operation of all should greatly enlarge the output dur- ing 19%0. The one operating at Mississip- | i Bar, 150 feet above the American, has | Peen making money for eight months, | and the one at Lowden’s ranch, uf on the Trinity, has been running successfully for | cighteen months. et n the Feather dredges have handled | gravel during the year at an average total Cost of less than § cents per cubic yard. | There are several new dredging enter- prises in process of negotiation and a | number of dredges will undoubtedly be | bullt during the year. When there are considered the successes now established, | the hundreds of square miles of aurifer- | ous ground that can be worked in no other way and the increasing interest in this safe field, it can be confidently pre- dicted that gold dredging in California | will soon yleld upward of $1,000,000 annu- | ally and add more to the gold product than hydraulic mining does now. gt st AROUND THE CORRIDORS W. J. Moxham of Sydney, N. 8. W, is at the Palace. J. H. Barbour, the San Diego capitalist, is a guest at the Palace. - Dr. J. S. Minefee, a prominent physician of Arcata, is a guest at the Grand. W. K. Brown, a wealthy land owner of Hollister, is registered at the Lick. W. W. Gillett iz registered at the Oc- cidental from his home in Palmero. 1. C. Wolfskill, one of the principal busi- ness men of Suisun, is among the late ar- rivals at the Lick. Dr. and Mrs. B. W. Haines have come | over from Belvedere and have taken rooms at the Occidental. F. M. Whitney, one of the leading bn ness man of Santa Barbara, is at the O« cidental, accompanied by his wife. Dr. Joseph Jarvis, a leader of the River- side medical fraternity, is among the ar- rivals of yesterday at the Grand. Baron Korff, an aristocrat from Ger- many who 1Is traveling for pltasure through the United States, is staying at the Palace. —ee NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Grand Duke Alexander of Russia has published a work on “Foreign Navies and Book of Naval Information.” It is said to be very exhaustive and that the his- tory relating to the growth of the German navy is both interesting and accurate. Admiral von Diederichs, lately com- mander in chief of the German squadron in waters of the Far East, has been made chief of staff of the German navy. This is the highest position that can be at- tained by a naval officer and places him practically at its head. ‘Work is progressing at a phenomenally rapid rate on the French coast defense ship Henry IV, building at Cherbourg dockyard. Fifty-two armor plates were put on the vessel in one month and it took exactly three hours to place each plate in position ready for fastening. The constructor in charge has been compli- mented on the rapidity with which he is pushing the ship toward completion. The Russian admiralty will send ship models to the Paris Exposition. The models selected are those of the Borc- dino, battleshi Gromoboi, ani armored crulser; a 3)00-ton protected cruiser, ard a torpedo-boat. The United States navy is also likely to be represented by a num- ber of those magnificent miniature ves- sels that are on view in the corridors of the Navy Department building in Wash- ington and they will be sure to compare very favorably with the handicraft of foreign nations. Commander J. F. Stuart of the British miliar name is that of range-fin which none of those b come up to the requireme Service speaks in high terms o dation of this new instrument, it ‘weighs only ten ounce carried In a a microscopic reading; has no and the distance can be ascertained a few seconds. The new scale of pay of inspectors of work In the British dockyards and of navy work under contract in private yards allows a yearl ing from 3650 to 3850 to ship ters engine fitters, hydraulic and bollermakers. Joiners receive $55 750; painters, $500 to $630, and calkers, % > §700. The inspectors are selected from such men in the dockyards as have served a regular apprenticeship and passed a qualifying examipation. After a certa number of years they are entitled to pe sion, graded according to their length service. The French naval programme passed shows that Ih!nv-twgrvesials a in = course of construc launched, and thirty- ed to be built during giving a total of si -seven ssels all classes to be completed or begun b 1%3. The number of vessels designatel for eaca year is as follows. Armored crulsers .. First-class cruisers. Destroyers Gunboats Submarine boats Squadron torpedo boats. 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