The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 15, 1902, Page 6

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OTH political parties in Oregon made platiorm B proclamation zgainst any change in the land laws that would preserve the rapidly disap- pearing forage on the arid ranges and put the range under the reign of law instead of that of the rifle. Politicians in Montana, Idaho and Colorado took a similag position, and as a result legislation by Cen- gress on that subject was held in abeyance. The war on the range has raged for years, increasing in sever- ity as the feed decreased and the desert replaced the meadow. Since last spring there has prevailed a con- dition of violence and disorder, exceeding the record of any cther year. Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana have been the scene of many homicides, and the destruction of an immense amount of property. But Oregon has secured the evil eminence of leading in lawliessness. The forces of rival occupants of the range have been organized. Under existing laws one man’s right to the public range is as good as any other man’s right, and the strongest force and the best shots determine possession. The. Montana ranges are so far gone that cattle are too poor to ship, and have a bad prospect for winter feed to carry them on to a spring that prom- ises to be as barren of forage as the autumn. The same is tiue of much of the Colorado range. It is estimated that five millions of acres of the public range have been made useless during the season and rendered enfit for grazing for many years, if not per- manently. Those who complain of the price of beef may find part of the cause, indeed the larger part, in this disuse of the open range by its occupancy in common. This, combined with the damage to the crop in the corn States, where soft corn is the rule and winter feed and shelter of farm-raised cattle a necessity, will probably make beef higher than it is nmow. Mr. Michael Mulhall, the publicist and statis- tician, in his “History of Prices,” published ten years 2go, considered the range conditions that were then in sight and predicted that our beef export would finally disappear because of the increase in the cost of preduction. The world’s source of supply is already” shifting to Canada, Mexico and South America. reports show that Venezuela has grazing cuterprise by very liberal laws. In the Ven- ezuelan state of Lulia are very extensive ranges, well watered and under a wholesome climate, which are being occupied for cattle production by American stock-raisers, driven from the extensive stock ranges of their own country by illiberal laws and conse- quent destruction of the feed. While the people here complain of high-priced meat and the grazers slaughter each other and de- stroy property on the American range, rivals are rising north and south of us to take away the com- merce which we are treating with indifference and sacrificing by inattention to the plain duty of protect- a Our consular ing the wealth of the arid region by putting”its use ! and preservation under the control of law. While we are doing this we are dlso nullifying the expected effects of the new Federal policy of irrigation. Nine- tenths of the land that will be brought into action by irrigation will find its most profitable use in produc- ing winter feed for stock. But unless the summer range is restored and preserved there will be no stock to consume the winter feed. For this reason irriga- ion in many places will prove a failure. It is re- Quired that when the water stored by the new law is ready for use the buyers of the land to be served must pay to the Government a price that will return the cost of the irrigation works to the treasury, where it constitutes a revolving fund. This price will be from $15 to $25 per acre, which farmers cannot afford to pay for raw land, on which only alfalfa or other forage crops can be raised. with no stock in _sight to consume it. President- Roosevelt has announced that he will pay us a visit in May. And he.may be assured of a welcothe as generous, as sincere and as loyal as ever people gave 10 2 man whom they honor and whose exalted position they respect. Tire Board of Supervisors is again talking of the necessity of providing an adequate sewer system for this city. What a revolution it would be in super- , Vvisorial methods if the talk were supplémented by action, — The foremost alienist in Europe is said to have been sent for in haste to attend the Czar, so it scems the strain caused by a succession of girl babies is serious, 30 Tribune Building | recently 'invited | NO BUBONIC PLAGUE. HE Washington Post, from sources of informa- T tion no doubt near at hand, in the office of the Surgeon General and the Marine Hospital ser- vice, describes the plague situation in San Francisco as “alarming.” Yes, it should be to those who are mindful of the fate of Ananias and Sapphira. The Post says that the Puget Sound cities are trembling lest they get infected fromi San Francisco, and that unless we are purged of the plague before the convocation of the Grand Army here next year it will -be’ spread all over the country. The Eastern | press-is-repeating the report—found, we suppose, in i ¥ the records of 'the Surgeon General—that since 1900 there have been ove: 2000 deaths of Chinese by the plague in this city. The fact is that there have not been 2000 deaths of Chinese here in that time from any cause. - Our own local Board of Health is known to be afflicted with the plague-bubonic mania, and is responsible for the crigin of the tales about the plague that are used to the detriment of California, and now threaten to inflict serious harm upon the whole State, unless the plague of falsehood about our sanitary condition can be stamped out. Every vital statistician knows that the presence of « plague, a contagion, an infection, in a community, or among a special class thereof, causes an increase in the death rate. A new form of peril to life is at once reflected in an increase in mortality. The local Board of Health canrot be charged with a lack of | zeal to prove that the plague is here, for it has ac- | tively co-operated with the Federal authorities to | establish the existence of the disease, and has ruth- lessly sacrificed rats, cats and monkeys on the altar of its preconception. But there is one respect in which that peculiar form of zeal cannot be shown. The board gathers and publishes the vital statistics of the city. These are represented in figures that require no microscopic examination and cannot be_rat-cat- and-monkeyed with. By these vital statistics the board shows the following Chinese deaths for four fiscal years: X 1897-1898. 1898-1899 Total 4 years The average per year was 476. The Chinese deaths for the “plague year,” 1900-01, fell 58 below the aver- age of the period, and were less than the remote vear 1897-08 by 36. The published statistics of the | board are not enlightening where they might convey | information. They give the monthly deaths by sex, | but not by race, so that we cannot compare the | monthly rates of the present fiscal year with the past in respect to Chinese deaths. But resorting to the gencral average again, and taking last month (Oc- | tober) as @ basis. In October there were thirty-seven | Chinese deaths. This would give 444 Chinese deaths | for the year, a rate still lower than that in the first | three vears of the quadrennium we are using for the T purposes of this comparison. The report of the Board of Health for the fiscal | to see whether its vital statistics show the access in | the Chinese death rate which will be necessary to sus- | tain the statement that over 2000 of those people have died of the plague since its existence was discovered by a monkey, materially assisted by rats and cats. We resort to the statistics of the Board of Health as necessarily authoritative and from a source inter- ested in proving that the plague is here, and because the Washington Post quotes Dr. Williamson, presi- | dent of the board, to the effect that “the plague has been here and it is here now.” The American Government has built a new railroad in Cuba and hopes thereby to prevent the possibility of revolutions. It seems cruel to scheme thus against what is admittedly one of the privileges and diversions of the Latin races. ANOTHEx MACHINE TEST. OR several years past reports of the results of Felections have been followed by reports of the working of balloting machines in various lo- calities, and this year is no exception to the rule. It | is notable, however, that while in past years the re- {ports have come almost wholly from New York or | New England, we get reports this month of the use of machines in the Mississippi Valley and the Lake States. The fact shows that the use of the machine is spreading over the country and moving steadily westward. During the recent elections hundreds of machines y were used in New York, but reports of experiments in that State are now an old story. The people there have in many cities and towns become familiar with | the use of the new method of voting, and accordingly comparatively little interest is occasioned by addi- tional demonstrations of the value of the machines and the ease with which they can be used. It is differ- | ent in the Central States. The machines there are | something of a novelty, and accordingly a good deal of attention has been given to the results obtained | from their use. A good test was made in Milwaukee. The city is sufficiently large to afford a fair field for an experi- ment in machine balloting. Voters of about every | class and kind and grade of intelligence are to be | { found there, and it cannot be said that the use of the machines there did not fairly test the ability of the { people to understand them and vote properly. The city put into use seven machines, and according to the Milwaukee Sentinel the success was such it is now well assured “that their use will be extended to all 100 will be in use in the next election.” The story of this experiment is much the same as that from every other city where the machines have been tried. The rapidity with which the vote was cast was especially marked. The report says: “In some of the booths votes were registered in from nine seconds to half a minute, and in but few instances were voters within the curtain of the machine longer than a full minute. In the Sixth Precinct of the Sixth Ward the election officials reported that one old voter, who during the last six years was never known to take less than half an hour to mark his ballot, accomplished the task of making a split ticket inside of two minutes, his achievement being greeted with a rally of good-natured applause from all the officials. In this precinct forty-five votes were cast in forty minutes.” An incident illustrating the reliability of the ma- chine is thus reported: “One voter got into trouble with the machine by pulling down one of the small levers first, inste.ad of ringing his straight party ticket before attempting to split. The exactness with which the machine worked was illustrited by the fact that the small lever was moved out of position so slightly that it was not noticed, and yet the machine would not work. This occasioned some confusion, and at first it was thought that the/machine had become rear 1901-02 is not yet accessible, and we are curious | parts of the city as soon as possible, and probably disarranged. As the voter allocved the inspector to look at the machine the trouble was noted almost in- stantly, and in less than ten seconds afterward he reg- istered his vote, a split ticket. The incident increased the confidence of the election officials and voters in the machine.” Finally, the reports note the convenience, reliabil- ity and celerity of the count by the machines. The election officials observed with satisfaction that the vote was already cast up and totaled for them the moment the last vote was cast and the hour for clos- ing the polls arrived. In most instances it took less than two minutes to open the back of the machine and count up the total votes for all the candidates, and instead of being kept until 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning to count up split tickets the officials were able to close the booths and get downtown before the first returns had been received from any other pre- cinct in the city or State.” That record when combined with the results of other experiments made in large cities and in small towns confirms the belief that the voting machine is now fairly well perfected; that it is already safer and more reliable than any other method of balloting. Its ultimate adoption throughout the Union may be looked upon as certain, The strenuous life which the members of the salt trust have been leading of late has probably con- vinced the interested gentlemen that the fellow who is worth his salt is not so much after all. SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY. HILE the East and the North and the West W were busily engaged in the struggles of the recent i:amggigg the South was watching the | contest with more than ordinary interest. There were no contests in those States, but none the less the-Southerners were not without political agitations. As a result of them there was called to meet at At- jlanta a grand gathering of Southern Democratic leaders to take counsel together and devise a course of policy to be pursued in the future. From the ac- count given of the conference in the Atlanta Constitu- tion it appears that no Northern man was present. It was strictly a Southern convention called to con- sider the relation of the South to national problems. Although no direct statement was made of the rea- son for the conference, nor of the object to be at- tained by it, a reading of the principal speeches re- veals both the motive and the aim of the gathering. The addresses show that the South is clearly dissatis- fied with the course of Northern Democracy and pur- poses to ptit’a stop to it by asserting its own right to ldadership in the Democratic camp. ¢ Senator Morgan of Alabama, who was not able to attend the conference, sent a letter in which he for- | cibly expressed the discontent of his section with Northern leadership. After referring to the elimina- tion of the negro from the voting population of the South and pointing out that “the time is now most opportune for directing the attention of the young men of the South to the relation they hold to the political destiny of the Southern States and to the national Democratic party,” the Scnator goes on to say that while the South has supplied Northern Democracy with the strength to obtain the Federal offices on two occasions and remains the only hope of future success for the party, yet the Northern lead- ers refuse to give the South anything like its rightful prestige in the party councils. Continuing his argument the Senator says that at the present time national Democracy has no valid platform, because “while discarding the South from its councils, except in a perfunctory way,” the North- ern leaders have “so cbscured the great creed of the Democratic party with irrelevant and unnecessary declarations of new and false principles to attract the support of political adventurers that its original foundations are almost lost to view.” He closed by urging Southern Democrats to unite, saying: “Let us name the issues on which we demand a vote by the people, and let us name such' leaders as shall meet the necessities of the situation.” That in itself comes very near a declaration of war in the camp, but the dGominant sentiment of the con- ference was made clearer still by the principal speaker of the meeting, Mr. Patrick Calhoun, a gentleman not widely known, because he has confined his energies mainly to businéss and has engaged but little in poli- tics, but none the less a man of great influence in the South. The most significant part of his speech was that re- lating to labor unions. Aiter declaring the undoubted right of workingmen to organize and to strike he added: “But when a union goes a step farther, and seeks to introduce the socialistic principle that no man shall labor in a given occupation unless he be- longs to the union, and that he must conform his hours of labor, and his term of labor, to its dictation, it breaks a sacred law, human and divine. Every man has an inherent right to labor. Every man has an inherent right to labor for such wage and for such time as he individually may determine. When a man is deprived of it he is deprived of his liberty. Every civilized Government guarantees this right. For any combination of men to deny it is a crime. Such a combination ought to be condemned at the bar of public opinion and punished by law.” It will be easy for thie people of the North to per- ceive the meaning of those statements. Virtually it isa declaration of war against labor unionism. Southérn bourbonism has become alarmed at the probability of | the organization of Southern labor and is making ready for a vigorous fight against it. Now what will Northern Democracy do about it? i ———— Kansas City has placed itself on record by indicting an alleged dishonest manipulator of mines. If re- cent reports to the California State Mining Bureau be true the tip of Kansas City should be a splendid one for the Grand Jury of San Francisco. When Mascagni returns to Rome he can write a book on the United States that will show the inside of everything from a clubroom to a courthouse and demonstrate the fact that we are strenuous every- where. 3 b T o The latest reformer wishes to abolish all fairy tales and Mother Goose from the nurseries of the land. He says they encourage a belief in witches and the prac- tice of cruelty to animals. Kaiser Wilhelm is said to have given up his mono- cle and taken to eye glasses; and now there will be an immediate demand for a new set of photographs. They are still circulating-in the East the story that bubonic plague exists in this city, and yet the silly season should have ended fully a month ago. Bl shindie Grover Cleveland has reduced his weight by forty pounds and it looks as if he were getting into form for { another race 5 : THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1902.. MINERS BUILD LARGE PLANTS IN CALAVERAS Al bl Tf current reports are to be credited there are good things in store for Cecla- veras County in the line of mining de- velopment. At Hodson a forty-stamp mill is running steadily, and graders are at work preparing the ground as the site of a 120-stamp mill. This, so say the local papers, will be followed by 120 stamps adaitional after a while. A rockbreaker of sufficlent capacity to supply 240 stamps is to be constructed. A reduction plant is to be erected so that all sulphurets may be treated at the works instead of being shipped away for treatment. One company will expend $250,000 in providing for itself facilities. Such are the stories that come down from. Calaveras. ~The | Royal Company is doing a great deal of the work of plant-buflding just now. In addition to their agency in building up the mining interest, the Wilbur-Womble Company, owning the adjoining mine, is putting up large works. The San An- dreas Prospcet says that other companies are about to enter the mining fleld in the vicinity of San Andreas. Butters tells the Nevada people that he ! will make Virginia City the permanent | headquarters of the Butters Company. He has had the old dumps experted :u’d declares that he can work them at fa profit. The Navada State Journal says: UNCLE SAM CREATESANEW BOUNDARY LINE Special Dispatch to The Call VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 14—In the quietest possible manner and with every precaution for secrecy, the United States| Government, it is said, has established | possession upon territory claimed by Can- ada to the northeast of Cape Fox, em- bracing thousands of square miles of land lying within the boundaries of British Columbia to the westward of Portland Ca- nal, which is on the northwestern coast, 150 miles south of Juneau. Large stone huts, termed by the Americans “houses of refuge for mariners,” have been erect- ed on the western shores of Portland Ca- nal, and from the headwaters of the ca- nal a line has been surveyed along the mountain ridges and across divides In a northwesterly direction toward the Iskoot River, where it joins the Stikeen. This is the story brought to Vancouver to-day by twb mining men named Jeff- reys and Walsh. While attention has been generally taken up with disputesre- | garding territory in the neighborhood of | Lynn Canal and Skagway, United States surveyors have been quietly at work on ! { the boundary of British Columbia at the | | southern end of the disputed line. The United States Government has long claim- ted that the course of the boundary line GOVERNOR DOLE WILL WIELD THE AX IN HAWAII Special Correspondence of The Call. HONOLULTU, Nov. §.—Complete returns from all the islands in the Territory of Hawali show that the Republican victory was an overwhelming one. The majority for Prince Cupid for delegate to Con- gress was 1934 votes over Wilcox, the present Delegate. The Republicans have also elected every Senator in the Legisla- ture with one exception. For the House of Representatives they get twenty out of the thirty candidates. This gives tho Republicans complete political control in the Legislature and over the actions of | the Delegate at Washington. As a-result of the Republican victory a special session of the Senate will be called for November 20 to consider ap- pointmients and removals from office of Territorfal officials. The Republican Sen- | ate is ready and willing to assist Gov- ernor Dole in the troubles that have arisen through recent defalcations and alleged embezzlements. A new Auditor, Superintendent of Public Works and Treasurer are among the first necessitics. It is sald that Henry E. Cooper, Beécre- tary of! the Territory, would like to stay in the Public Works Department, where he has been acting as Superintendent. If he does so there will be a vacancy for President Roosevelt to flll, as the Secre- tary of the Territory is appointed by the The tailings pile near the plant in Six-mile Canyon will only be a drop in the bucket, as | he proposed to go into the open market and | ior sale, and in_this conmection Mr. Butters leaves this morning for Tonopah to try and make arrangements fo have the enormous amcunt of ore &t that camp worked at the ! plant in the canyon. If he s successful the | cre will be brought into Dayton over the C. and C. railroad, and the old Douglass line. | which runs to the mouth of the canyon, will be put in commission for transporting the ore | to that point, and it will then be hauled to the plant in wagons. That method will save | | considerable In transportation charges, as the | upon. from Cape Chacon on the southeastern extremity of Prince of Wales Island lay purchase ore and taillngs wherever they are | ::hence in a direct line northeasternly to ‘ape Fox, on the mainland. It is declared by the two miners that ! the huts have been erected during the Jast six months, or a year at most, and might not have been dozen years had they not been stumbled | The allegation is that the Ameri-| can authorities have placed them there to establish a right of possession, for the found for a half rational executive. Three of the most desperate prisomers in Oahu jail made a dish for liberty No- vember 6. They were working in the ball-and-chain gang at the stone quarry and succeeded in reaching the cover of lantana bushes. They were recaptured within two hours and lodged in solitary confinement. The men were negroes. Tanbara, the Japanese cabin boy, who was found guilty of the murder of Cap- tain Jacobsen of the schooner Fred J. ‘Wood, confessed his guilt to Mrs. Jacob- ore will be handled but once after it leaves | Sodaville. Mr. Butters also hopes to make ar- ragngements with some of the mining com- panies that will enable him to work what low- | grade ore there is in the properties. PROPERTIES BONDED. The Redding Free Press reports the bonding of the R. B. Read and Oliver La Plant mining properties, near Rédding, by the Redding Gold and Copper Com- pany. The Yreka Journal reports that the re- cent rains have started the miners up, and they are arranging to begin opera- tions in the hydraulic and placer claims, as the rain and the snow in the moun- tains have already furnished a supply of water in the ditches. The quartz mills { are also preparing to run by water power, while the steam mills are furnished with a good supply of water for the batteries and sluices. The Alpine mine at Plymouth, Amador County, has been bonded by W. T. Beai- ty, who will develop the property, begin- ning soon. The Alpine mine adjoins the Empire mine. It has two shafts. It Y:las i not been worked for some years. The 600- foot shaft will be first reopened. The Amador Ledger says: At the Kennedy mine the work of erscting the new mill is delayed by the non-arrival of material, especially the lumber, which was | ordered ‘months ago. It s not’expected.now | that the work of actual construction will com- mence before January. The new hoist is also delayed, the material not having arrived. The | mine is running along at its usual gait. The | cre is of low grade. It is not expected that it \ 1 British Government, while claiming the { land, has never made any attempt to ex- plore it. PERSONAL MENTION, H. E. Pickeit, a mining man of Placer- ville, is at the Grand. Ex-Judge W. D. Tupper of Fresno is a guest at the California. F. C. Drew, the well-known lumberman of EIk, is at the Palace. J. M. Francis, a newspaper proprietor of Napa, is at the Occidental. U. 8. Grant of San Diego is at the Pal- ace, accompanied by his wife. L. A. Blasingame, a breeder of blooded stock at Fresno, is at the Grand. P. E. Anxer, a landowner of San Juan, is among the arrivals at the Grand. Mme. Genevra Johstone-Bishop, the well-known concert singer, is registered at the Palace from New York. His Grace Archbishop Riordan and Gar- ret McEnerney, the well-known attorney, are expected back from Europe about the 8th of next month. —_———————— Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels: Arlington—Mrs. Leland Stanford, secre- tary and maid, Miss C. A. Chandler, San Francisco; W. W. Campbell. Hamilton— sen before she left for San Francisco on the Alameda. Tanbara says that Oto, the cook of the schooner, told him to commit the crime. Oto has been released from custody, as he cannot be reached by the law on the testimony of a condemned murderer. ANNUAL RECEPTION IS A BRILLIANT A¥FAIR Company D, League of Cross Cadets, Entertains in Native Sons’ Hall The annual reception of Company D, First Regiment, League of the Cross Cadets, held last night in Native Sons’ Hall, proved a brilliant affair. The hall was gayly decorated. Across the proscen— ium was stretched a handsome American flag and from the center of the ceiling was suspended a small canopy of bright colors and lights. The grand march, in which about 100 couples took part, was a spectacular affair. The boys of Company D have an en- viable reputation as entertainers and those who attended their reception last night had a most enjoyable time. Captain James E. McCormick acted as floor director and was assisted by Lieu- tenant Lawrence T. Boland and Lieuten- ant John J. Foley. The floor committee consisted of Drill Inspector Andrew J. ceeded in clearing the old tunnel leading | Midway Mining Company. The present i C: vil- G, rdinand Kiesel, v t a dividend-paying basis until the | J. Joaquin Miller, California. New Wil-| Gaughran, Sergeant Fer Tow il ls” th. active "aperation, which will | Jayd—William Thomas, San Francisco. | Corporal Charles E. Pinkham and Pri- | more than double its ore-crushing capacity. National_Mr. and Mre. S. P. Stanton, |vats Thomas F. Curran. The reception OPENING OLD WORKS. Pasadena. ccmmittee consisted of the members of The Grass Valley Union and Herald re- 2 5 s+t @| e company. wu‘r} First Sergeant Wil- ports that the Conlin people have suc- | @ “ieimieieieininimmimininimlmininiini=-ini-i liam Walsh as chairman. —_— to the once well-known Lafayette mine. The Union and Herald says: For several days past considerable explora- tion work has been in progress in the old workings, with a view to ascertaining the character of the ore in sight. Thus far it has every appeurance of yielding fair returns, and a test crushing will be made to fully determine its value. Shculd the rock come up to ex- pectations -and the ledge maintain a favorable size as development progresees, the company will sink a shaft and erect a hoisting plant. At tie Conlin mine, cwned by the same com- pany, where the entirc works were destroyed i 1 pleted of practically fire-proof material, and the work of installing new machinery is well under way. At present the company will not build a mill. A party of Eastern investors recently visited the Hidden Fortune mine in San- ta Barbara County, having two special cars to take them out to the Black Hills. A new mining company has' been in- corporated to develop the Levitt group of quartz mines near Kelsey, El Dorado County. The capital stock is $500,000, di- | vided into one-dollar shares. Considerable mining progress is being made in Kern County. Development work is going on at the Dean & Jones mine, between Ballarat and Johannesburg. There are fifteen men at work at the Golden Argus mine at Ballarat. At the Ratcliffe mine in the Panamint Range there are thirty men at work and a twen- ty-stamp mill is running night and day. Shafts are being sunk at Keyesville in the Lady Bell and Big Blue mines and the Mammoth and Capital mines are be- ing developed. Three hundred men are working on the canal which will be used to generate light and power. How Letson Balliet was advertising the Niagara mine in the East just before the sentence of imprisonment was pronounced upon him as the result of his trial in the ‘White Swan matter is told by the eWst- ern Mining World, as follows: “A Story Without Words.” Under this title a portfolio of unmounted large photo- | gruphs illustrating the present physical status, above and below ground, of the Nlagard mine, | near Grass Valley, Is being sent to Eastern | stockholders in the company oerating that | property. The “'Story” as a report is an in- novation at once startling and unique and shyws how the kodai and camera can be put to good use in giving to distant stockholders or owners an idea or ocular demonstration as to the condition of their investment. The Niagara_portfolio No. 1, issued as A Story Without Words,” con of a dozen or %o of ‘plctures taken on the property and among other things skows the mine buildings and auxiliaries on the side of the hill on Deer Creek, in Rough and Ready district, also scenes underground, a crew in the workings, also the hofst in the shaft house. Very little pording accompanies the picturss, the later being intended as a graphic report for the benefit of the stockholders. Fresh pictures will be taken from time to time to show the progressive stage in improvements and coples will be sent at intervals to the stockholders. This system of regular photographic reports is the expedient of General Manager Letson, Wwho s directing the development of _the Balliet, Niagara Mining Company's properties. GROWTH OF TONOPAH. The Mining and Scientific Press makes the following showing relating to the ac- tual development work now under way at Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada; Tonopah Old Company, new shaft, three compartments, 40 horsepower hoist, depth of shatt. 420 feet; Valley View, three-compart- ment shaft, 22 horsepower hoist, depth of shaft 300 feet: Wandering Boy, two-compartment wer .hoist, depth of shaft 490 feet; Stone in, two-compartment shaft, 12 horsepower holst, de’t? of !h‘lu 225 feet: Gold Hill, two- ment shatft, rsepower steam hoist, depth of shaft 200 feet; Fraction No. 1, two-compartment shaft, 12 horsepower hoist, depth of shaft, 240 feet; Fraction No. 2, two-compartment shaft, 30 horsepower hoi: depth of shaft 500 feet; North Star, two-com- partment shaft, 22 horsepower hoist, depth of shaft 880 feet; Montana Tonopah, two-com- partment shaft,’ 34 horsepower hoist, depth of shaft 200 feet; Mizpah Extension, two-com- partment shaft, 12 horsepower hoist, depth of shaft 500 feet; Ohio Tonopah, two-compartment shaft, 30 horsepower hoist, depth of shaft 270 feet; Tonopah Tunnel Company, two-compart- ment shaft, 44 horsepower hoist, depth of shaft 240 feet; ‘Belmont, two-compartment shaft, whim hoist, depth of shart 250 feet; Halifax, two-compartment shaft, whim hoist, depth of shaft feet; Little Tonopah, two-compart- ?b’?i&"‘i'em leh lw'nemwer holst, depfi'at shatt 3 \ twe-compartment el whim hoist, depth of shaft 70 feet;: West End, compartment shaft, whim hoist, depth of shaft 20 feet; McNamara m.:nm ). two- cumpartment shaft, whim hol pth of shaft 200 feet; New York Tonopah, "t‘wo—wmp-n- ment shaft, 22 horsepower holst, depth of shaft 200 feet; California Tono two-com] Shatt, Whim. hoist, “depih ot ehate Tag Tt ?two-com shatt, ‘Tonc rnmnt hoist, depth of shaft 170 feet. Several new companies are beginning work at Tonopah, among them being the North Tonopah Gold Mining Company, the Boston Tonopah Company and the by fire recently, new buildings have been com- | pcpulation of Tonopah is about 4000 and the place is filling up steadily. Little de- velopmrent work is being performed out- side of Tonopah at the Wepah district. i Large quantities of fair grade ore are re- ported to be in sight. The Old Dominion mine in Gila County, Arizona, is reported to be turning out {800,000 pounds of copper per month since work has been resumed. While the mine | was shut down freight rates have been reduced so a saving is effected of 1l cents per pound, as compared with the old transportation charges. The German-American Mining Company is under coatract for the sale of its prop- erty in Mohave County, Arizona, the price being $500,000. The property is in the San Francisco mining district, nine- teen miles north from The Needles. It comprises fourteen claims. A transfer of mining properties in Colo- rado involving $3,000,000 is reported. The mines are in Clear Creek County. The Consolidated Gem Mining Company buys two miles of vein within the Newhouse tunnel. More than 100 claims are involv- ed in the deal, which is virtually a con- solidation. Several mills also went in with the purchase. | 'The monthly pagroll of the Cripple Creek district, in Colorado, amounts to $28,000 in round figures. The employes in the mines who draw this money every month number 5217. Of these Battle Mountain employs 1635, while Bull Hill employs 1331. There are thirty-seven properties on Bull Hill and thirteen on Battle Mountain. Donnelly’s Injuries Prove Fatal. Frank Donnelly, who was burned at his residence, 234% Perry street, on last Thursday night by the upsetting of a ccal oil lamp, died at the Emergency Hos- pital yesterday morning from the inju- ries he received. Since the accident oc- curred Donnelly’s wife has not been seen. Captain Spillane has detailed Officers Re- gan and O'Connell to find her, that she may throw additional light on how the lamp was upset and who was fo blam. for the quarrel which ended in her hus- band’s death. ' ———————— Carpenter Falls Thirty Feet. A carpenter named W. B. Anderson, re. siding at Kearny and Bush streets, wh working on a new building at Vallejo a: Franklin streets yesterday forenoon, lost his f@ Ing and fell a distance of thirts teet tu the ground floor. He was treated at the Emergency Hospital by Dr. Bun- rell for a badly sprained back and con- tused injuries to both his hands and arms. It is feared he may have sustain- ed serious internal injuries. —_———— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —_—————— Townsend's California glace fruit and candles, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. 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Telephone Main 1042, 4 Juggernaut N explaining why the leading l novelist,” it has been pointed out Frank Norris’ great masterpiec —a All his characters rve of such of any other books that are being road juggernaut. —_ The Trail of the Railroad in “The Octopus” critics of the world have been almost unanimous in calling “The Octopus,” the long looked for, ‘“the great American novel,” and its author “the great American that “The Octopus” is not only truly remarkable work c2 fact and fiction woven into one tense, fascinating, all-vowerful romance—but .a grod half dozen great novels rolled-into one. strength and force that - whole book might be written round any one of them—while the dramatic situations—the book is crammed full of them—are each of them strong: enough to 1rnish the '-adirg climax for a good round dozen ground out to order n “The Octopus” is not only distinctively California, it is world wide in its scope and humanness, and over it all is the shadow cf the rail- Engineer Van Dyke’s haunting race for life and fight for lib- erty against the hirelings of the railroad from the cabs of two pounding moguls on parallel tracks—the dance and gun huge fight in Annixter’s Monster barn—W¥anameo’s weird, wild mystic search through all the years for his wronged sweetheart, ths ethereal Angele Varian in the Mission Church garden — Annixter’s love scenes with Helma Tree in the dairy-house of his Quien Sabe Rancho —the vivid contrasts of the social crush and the defeated and des- perat: wheat growers passing on the stairs at the fashionable Te- gang of deputies—and its terrible tragic end, which and popularity than ever before. ' 'Therefore, following out its curred therein, “THE OCTOPUS” IN THE SUNDAY CALL THAT—THE GREAT MASTERPIECE OF Lo ———— ception of the San Francisco Bohemian ('b—the stormy the conspirators and the denunciation of Muertos Rancho—the last fatal fight of the Mussel against Behrman, the smooth, readers the best fiction of the day, world, absolutely free in two or three editi £ tion, the Sunday Call at once sscured p by to this remarkable book, and notwithstanding the great expense BEING M never before equaled in journalism. Derrick at Los Slough wheat crafty railroad tool and his consequences, and Behrma ’s own i:flumongnwmond:tm-mofl.-nm most inevitable fate ever conceived, are only a few of the episodes—mere incidents in a human interest purpose—summed up in the “Trilogy of forever identified with the history of the untimely death has left his great trilogy “The Octopus” has risen to a more exalted position -hryvhmth-:i the Wheat”—will be Pacific. 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