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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until ® p. m. e T Chicage. ) HEN the annexation of tropic islands was THE EXPECTED PROTEST. under consideration as a new departure in; N ' American policy The Call warned fhe people | that if they annexed such islands they would annex also a very perplexing labor problem. When after | annexation the eager searchers aiter the wealth of the islands began to clamor for Chinese labor The Call again warned them that they were making a bootlcss‘. plea. There is therefore nothing unexpected to us | in the appearance of a circular letter signed by Sam- | uel Gompers, Ernest H. Crosby, Daniel Harris, A. J. | Boulton, Charles B. Spahr and Henry White protest- ing against the recommendations regarding Chinese | labor in the Philippines contained in a recent report | of Professor J. W. Jenks to the Secretary of War. In that report it is recommended that the Philippine | Commission be empowered to legislate regarding | Chinese labor; that a careful registration be made | of every Chinaman in the islands and that any new | Chinaman introduced into the islands be made sub- | ject to a penaity if he be found away from his reg- | 4 material benefits of mcdern ci '.I'HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1902. ECONOMIC TENDENCIES. T the recent session of the American Economic A Association in Philadelphia a notabie address was made by President Seligman on the i‘kcunomic forces of our time and their :eudenci‘esA { The subject is a hackneyed one, but President Selig- | man did r:ot treat it in the usual superficial manner, and consequently managed to render it at once in- structive and interesting. Without attempting the impossible task of review- ing the whole complex economic world Mr. Seligman contented himself with pointing out that there are six features which differentiate modern industrial life from that of our predecessors. These are: First, the practical exhaustion of free land; second, the predom- inance of industrial capital; third, the application of scientific methods; iourth, the existence of a com- petitive regime based on the newer. conception of of a distinct public opinion; sixth, a true democratic spirit and the growth of a new idealism. The virtual disappearance of free land from the habitable parts of the earth would at first"appear to be an evil, but Mr. Scligman looks upon it as a dis- tinct benefit, inasmuch as it makes slavery forever impossible. Recent investigations, he says, have dis- closed the fact that slavery is economically profitable only where there are vast tracts of untilled land avail- able for agriculture, upon which the slave owner can settle and the slave be made to work. The other characteristic features of our industry are self- evidently good in the main, though of course in. the process of their development some injury is done to interests based upon old conditions that are being crowded out. Of the rising standards by which workingmen are measuring their demands for wages and for culture the speaker said: “We point indeed with complacency to the advances made by the working classes, but to all those who realize the essential conditions of suc- cessful democracy where the mass of citizens are necessarily the laborers, the ideal to be attained ad- vances still more quickly than the actual progress. The brutish, lethargic peasant of the Old World is content with his crust and his misery. The free, citi- zen of our industriali democracy wants, and wants justly, to participate in the spiritual as well as the ilization. With every advance in his economic position, due to the inter- play of modern industrial forces, new vistas of pos- sibilities disclose themselves, new sources of legiti- mate satisfaction make their appearance.” Holding such views concerning the dominant char- acteristics of our industrial life Mr. Seligman is of course an optimist. He does not deny that certain forces of the time tend to harmiul results and that we riust not be indifferent to existing evils, but he maintains that the forces which make for the good of the world are much mcre potent than thoese that tend to evil. In that respect, therefore, the scientific study of the economic specialist confirms those of the statesman and the patriot, and gives no sanction to the fears or even the doubts of pessimists. Concerning the future the speaker said: “The pro- ductive powers of society are augmenting at such a prodigious rate that we need no longer apprehend a decay of general prosperity or of natural power. There is to be no further irruption of the barbarians, because there will soon be no more barbarians. There is to be no'domination of each nation in turn istered city or district gf residence; that it be per-| mitted employers of not less than twenty-five labor- | ers to bring in Chinese under contract for a period of mot over three years; that the employers give | bonds to secure the proper lodging, food and treat- ment of their Chinese laborers; that they {urther‘i be under bonds to return each imported Chinese | coolie to China at the expiration of the period of | contract; that an inspector be appointed by the Gov- ernor of the Philippines to see that the laws are strictly enforced; and finally, that' while the present law excluding Chinese from the Philippines be modi- fied as indicated, proper care be taken that the Chi- nese do not come from the Philippines into the United States. : The circular letter of protest says = very justly: | “This means the establishment of the contract system of coolie labor in its most objectionable form, in many respects resembling slavery.” The argument on which the recommendation rests is that it will be impossible to fully exploit and develop the rich re- | sources of the islands without better labor than that | of the Filipinos. That argument is just what The Call predicted at the start, saying that all attempts to | teach a Filipino to work voluntarily would be just | about as cffective as zn attempt to teach an eagle to swium. The circular letter quotes from the report the fol- over all the others, because of the internationality of science and the impartial territorial diffusion of in- dustrial agencies. And within each nation while the rich are getting richer the poor are not getting poorer. The creation of a more equable, because more perfect, competition through the development of the system of collective bargaining, and the more adequate supervision of monopoly; the recognition on the part of the legislator that lasting prosperity depends not only on the conservatism and free display of capital but on the gradual elevation of the laborer from a cheap man to a dear man; the coming social control of competition itself in the interests of a more enlightened and hence reajly freer rivalry—all these will inevitably lead to secure to each class in the community its proper ‘share in the national divi- dends.” The presentation of such an outlook at this time is an interesting illustration of the confidence which scientific men have in the conclusions of their rea- soning. Certainly the course of events just at this time does not fully sustain so optimistic a view. The rivalry among nations threatens war in almost every part of the globe. The increasing strength of giant industrial combinations menaces a strife for supre- macy that may be almost as costly as war itself. We may, however, set aside any gloomy forebodings on that score, and if we cannot be as cocksure as the lowing statement concerning the labor problem of the islands: “It is, then, possibly fair to say that! of the ordinary Filipino laborers a certain percentage | may be secured who will work faithfully and well pro- vided good wages are paid and provided they gare | handled by an employer with firmness and sRill. There are, however, not enough Filipinos who can be secured in the city or from the provinces to do any- thing like the amount of work required to develop the fesources of the islands as rapidly as is desirable. | Doubtless some of the American and European em- ployers of labor in Manila who are raising the great- est outcry regarding the scarcity and worthlessness Chinese be admitted, are wishing mainly to cut down wages and secure cheap labor. To assume that this desire, however, is the only one which leads to the | demand for Chinese labor is to misjudge the facts.” | The protest concludes in this way: “This appears to be an aitogether insufficient reason for such a proposition with its great wrong to the Filipino—who | {ulfillment of a movement to which The Call directed | Proad I should think you could not miss it.” is not in any way consulted—and its peril to the bring us out all right in the end, we may at least trust in the common sense of men to avoid those dangers which appear most evident and most threat- ening. Recent fears that San Jose was permitting herself to settle into the dryrot of inactivity and toward that lethargy which leads to municipal death appear to have been ill-founded. Several of her prominent pub- lic officials have involved themselves in serious trou- ble and the town is 2gain safe. FOR GENERAL EDUCATION. OTH houses of Congress have promptly passed a bill to incorporate a ‘“general educational ‘ B board,” which, having its seat at Washing- ton, will give aid to education in every part of the country where such aid may be needed. This is the attention at its incepli_on some time ago. It is the American workingman. With Chinese coolie labor OUtg8rowth of a realization that something must be in the Philippines it will be almost impossible to pre- | vent its coming into competition with American | labor at home apd lowering its standard of life. The wiser way would seem to be the gradual training and clevation of the Filipino laborer,” We call the report itself to your careful attention and urge that only done to advance the cause of education in the South. Last January a number of papers made compila- | tions of the various amounts of money which had | been given in sums exceeding $5000 each by rich men and women to our educational institutions. The total amount was enormous and gave rise to an out- burst of exultation over the munificence of Americar’ constant vigilance can protect from attack the ground already gained at home.” There again we have the dream of training and ele- vating the Filipino laborer. and will doubtless last a long time. At any rate its realization is not dikely to come within the lifetime of 4 any one now living. The Filipino desires very little und he can obtain that little without working very hard. His climate lulis him to an easy indolence, and it wili take something more than reading, writing and arithmetic to dispel the effects of too much sun- shine and cheap ric ; The druggists of Washington have reccived peremptery: ordery {hat they must sell no mere millionaires as contrasted with the indifference of the rich of Europe to such uses of wealth. After the first It is a bright dream | moment of gratification, however, it was noted that | nearly the whole amount of such gifts was bestowed upon institutions of the Northern States or those of | the Pacific Coast. Those of the South had obtained little or nothing. Immediately a number of men of Southern birth residing in New York organized a movement to raise money for the schools and col- leges of that section. Arrangements were made for co-operation with the trustees of the Peabody and the Slater fund so that a uniform system of work might be agreed upon and carried out. The incorporation of the “general educational board” is the result of liguor. - Can it be possible that our ivorthy ctatesmen | the movement. of the National Legislature have been resorting to | *ke proverbial and deceptive stick in theirs? While designed primarily to aid the South, the iplan of wo.rk is by no means confined to that section. | national legisiators. ! report appears to have been founded on -conjecture | liberty; fifth, the spread of education and the birth | 1 tin its wretched existence of | in them that hurt, and he did not spare any one. jand yet during the first Presidency of Cleveland he ! plied, “A trust is a body of very rich men entirely | 5 3 | most serious duty of a Congressman at this time? economist that the free play of economic forces will | 5 e ;The board will assist education in all parts of the | Union, taking up the needs of each locality in the or- der of urgency. In fact, the board will probably be- come one of the most important of our educational' (organizations and will complement the institute, founded by Mr. Carnegie; for while that will work | for the advancement of science and art on the high- ! est planes, the general educational board will seek to dvance the common education of the people by giv-, ing assistance to thé public schools and to industrial institutions. It has been reported’that Mr. Rockefeller would | endow the board with a sum of $10,000,000, but theI | merely. Mr. Rockefeiler has refused to be inter- | viewed on the subject, and his recent Christmas gift | of $1,000,600 to the University of Chicago seems to ! show that his first care will be always for that insti- tution. One of the incorporators of the board in speaking of it said: “We have decided upon incor- | poration to attract greater attention to the work, to give the board a greater permanecncy, and one in i which people with money to give can have greater | confidence. It is our hope that money will be leit to the board, and it will be our aim also to raise and expend $1,000,000 a vear at Jeast, and more if we can get it. \We hope to get one hundred men of wealth i who will agree to subscribe $10,000 a year.” That the board will receive a liberal support from the wealth of the country may be taken as a fore- gone conclusion. The work will not make any great showing for a number of years, but in the end it will | begin to manifest itself vigorously. In short, the movement is one of the best of the new century, and we may confidently look to it for great results of good | to all parts of the Union. And now Hayti is trying to dismember herself and show the world that South America is not exclusive | internal antagonisms. It is to be hoped that the little republic will inflict upon itself injuries from which it may not recover. TOM REED'S EPIGRAMS. HEN a famous man dies all who knew him W set about publishing every fact, story or say- | ing of his that can find a publisher. No| exception has been made in the case of Tom Reed. | Ever since his déath the Eastern papers have been | notably profuse in stories of his wit and sarcasm. | Comparatively few of the stories are new to the pul:u-‘l lic, for in his lifetime Reed was so noted for the' cleverness of his epigrams that newspaper men were always on the alert to get the latest and give it cir- | culation. In fact, it is rarrated that a young lady vis- | been introduced, “Mr. Reed, my greatest desire in | Washington is to hear you make an epigram.” The Speaker is reported to have turned the request aside | by saying, “I am sorry I cannot oblige you, but this is my day for epics.” As a rule the epigrams of Mr. Reed had a sting He once spoke of Blaine as “the great white elephant of the Republican party.” He said of Nelson Dingley, | “Nelson is a good man, a very good man; but I think if he had lived in the days of the martyrs he | would have recanted.” He liked Grover Cleveland, | once proposed the toast, “Here’s to the Democratic party, its ballot-box and its prophet—both stuffed.” When Springer said, “I wouid rather ‘be right thant be President,” Reed retorted, “Don’t worry; you will never be either.” Of McMillin of Tennessee he said, “McMillin never makes a speech without subtract- ing from the sum of human knowledge.” It is narrated that one day when the House was in committee of the whole and the Speaker out of the chair Congressman Welker of Massachusetts, finding the weather exceedingly hot, took off his double- breasted coat and made his speech in his shirt- sleeves. The next day Reed did not leave the House as usual for lunch, but remained in the chair. A friend asked why he omitted his lunch, and the Speaker said: “I am afraid that if I leave the chair some graceless scamp may get up and take off his trousers. It is a thundering sight hotter than it was | yesterday.” Once when an important measure was about to be | voted on 2nd the Republicans needed every vote they had Reed telegraphed, to a New York Republican. “Come at once.” The reply came back, “Impossible —washout on line.” Reed at once sent back the com- mand: “Never mind a little thing like that. Buy another shirt and come on.” In reply to a question in the House as to the nature of a trust Reed re- To the question, What is the | surrounded by water.” he answered, “Dodging bicycles.” When a fervid | orator in the House after vainly trying to get an opponent to answer questions broke out with “There | he sits, dumb, silent, mute,” Reed added, “And he ain’t sayinrg a word, either.” Sometimes his epigrams covered fiigger subjects | than personal peculiarities or points of debate. “When one is elected to the Presidency,” he said, | ““he goes to prison for four years, with the possibility of being assassinated before the term is out.” On the proposal to annex the Philippines he said, “We are buying 10,000,000 Malays at $2 a head, unpicked, and nobody knows what it will cost to pick them.” | Just before his death he said of the efforts of Con- gress to deal with the trust problem: “You have a | golden opportunity. An indefinable something is to be done in a way nobody knows how and at a time | | nobody knows when. That, as I understand it, is the | | programme against trusts. The opportunity is 50 | The effect of his words was highly increased by his | manner of speaking. One writer in describing his | mannerisms in the days of his power said: “I have never seen a visitor enter the galleries who did not | fasten his eyes upon the face of Thomas B. Reed, in apparent wonderment. This wonderment increases when Mr. Reed arises to put a question to the House. The voice is resonant and powerful. Every word is distinctly heard. Door is ‘dough-ar’ and bill is| ‘be-ill” The drawl is pronounced, and so effective | that it would produce a tintinnabulation in a group of very thin tumblers. It is said that this remarkable | clearness of enunciaticn and pronunciation is the re- | sult of a powerful will, exerted to prevent stammer- iing. If the owner of the voice should at any moment ! lose his seli-possession and become angry or excited the old boyish habit of stuttering might force itself to the front and regain control. ' Certain it is that the most remarkable thing about the personality of | Thomas B. Reed is his voice, his accent and his en- | tire self-control.” ———————— The local Chamber of Commerce has declared | that we need more protection for the harbor of San ' Francisco. A few more scares like the Venezuelan affair ought to impress the need very forcibly upon AL | r I | From Los Angeles—D. Gliddon, | Murray Hill. | tureship of the church in Boston. CABLE SHIP SILVERTOWN MAKING FAST PROGRESS TOWARD ISLANDS ON BOARD. THE SILVERTOWN—Latitude 31 39 north, longitude 136 46 west, noon, Dec. 19.—Total cable paid out, 865 knots. Weather fine. remainder of her journey. N the twenty-four hours preceding yesterday noon the St Messages are sent during the noor hour daily, the rest of She is making much eater progress daily than was expected, and, barring un- S Facc will arrive safely at her destination late | Tel vertown made 207 nautical miles. foreseen accidents, Christmas eve or early the following belt has been passed and the vessel, according to Bureau officials, is likely to have pleasan e INES ARE S M ECU | the time being occ morning. The storm | vesterday, the Weather | said to be going al t weather for the RE BENEST. upled in testing the msulation. The Postal egraph Company received three or four private cablegrams telling of the progress of the work. Everything is long in the best possible manner—much bet- ter than was expected, in fact. UNDER THE LAW RELATING TO FOREST RESERVATION r among the |otherwise, relating to the consideration e of one of the most discussed guatters in The miners in certain northern counties in this State is the provisional withdrawal of large areas of land for forest reserves. Some apprehension is entertained that the establishment of forest reserves would shut out the miners from lands that are distinctly mineral in character. While the discussion progresses all the light tnat can be shed upon the issues will un- dcubtedly be welcomed by miners. The legal aspect of the case is supposed to be covered by the following provisions: No forest reservation shall be established ex- | cept to improve and protect the forests within the reservation or for the purpcse of securing favorable conditions of water flows and to fur- nish a continuous supply of timber for the . use and necessities of citizens of the United States; but It is not the purpose or intent of these provisions, or by the act providing for such reservations, to authorize the inclusion therein of lands more valuable for the mineral therein or for agricultural purposes. Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interfor, with the approval of the President, after sixty days' notice thereof, published’ in two papers of general circulation in the State or Territory wherein any forest reservation is situated and near the said reser- vation, any public lands embraced within the limits of any forest reservation which, after due examination by personal inspection of a competent person appointed for that purpose by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be found better adapted for mining or agricultural pur- | poses than for forest usage, may be restored to the public domain. And any mineral lands in any forest reservation which have been | or may be shown to be such, and to be subject 10 entry under the existing mining laws of the | United " States and the rules and regulations | applying thereto, shall continue to be subject to such location and entry, notwithstanding any provisions herein contained. Some inquiry is made concerning the terms of the memorial addressed jointly by the Sacramento Valley Development Association and the State Mineralogist to Piesident Roosevelt, which preceded the withdrawal of the timber lands. The 2s- | tablishment of forest reservations was not acked for in the memorial, contrary to public impression. The part of the 3% 5 5 5 . |memorial embodying the wishes of the | iting Washington said to him shortly aiter having | Sacramento Valley Development Associu- tion and the State Mineralogist is as fol- | lows: ; Your memorialists therefore most earnestly invoke the thoughtful consideration of the President of the United States of the dangers which threaten the agricultural, manufactur- | ing, mining and commercial interests of the | people of the great Sacramento Valley in the State of California, and implore at your hands | the immediate withdrawal of all public tim- | bered lands in the State of California from | sale, and such other executive action as may | avert the impending dangers herein set forth as may find warrant in the laws of the Unit2d States; and further, such executive recommen- dation in this behalf to the Congress about to assemble as in your wisdom the exigencies of the case demand. This briefly recounts the facts, legal and @ it e e ik @ PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. Nat Green of Watsonville is at the Grand. State Senator Charles M. Shortridge is at the Lick. Governor-elect John Sparks of Nevada is at the Palace. B. F. Dunphy, a merchant of Eureka, is among the arrivals at the Lick. Samuel N. Rucker, former Mayor of San Jose, is a guest at the Palace. B. U. Steinman, the well-known capital- ist of Sacramento, is at the Palace. George S. Nixon, the well-known bank- er of Winnemucca, Nev,, is at the Palace. W. R. Gilmore, a rancher and extensive landowner of Willlams, is at the Russ. W. 1. Powers, a liquor merchant of Portland, is registered at the California. E. J. Roy, a mining man with head- quarters at Yuba City, is among the ar- rivals at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Poett of Santa Bar- bara, who are visiting this city on their honeymoon, are at the California. Thomas M. Schumacher, acting traffic manager of the Oregon Short Line, with headquarters at Salt Lake, is registered at the Palace. Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—D. Bigelow, Miss Peirce, Mrs. ‘W. Z. Peirce, at the Imperial; Miss Gunn, Miss H. Montgomery and Miss A. Rog- ers, at the Holland; C. B. Swift, at the Park Avenue; W. Ellis, at the Grand | Union; Dr. J. Livres, at the Empire, and | W. E. Shaw and wife, at the Bartholdi. at the From San Jose—H. J. Hil- ton, at the St. Denis. e s M Civil Service Examination. The United States Civil Service Com- mission will hold examinations in this city and elsewhere as follows: January 20—Expert freight rate clerk in | guartermaster's department at larse, salary $1260 ver onnum: also magazine attendant at $2 ver diem. January 2—Steward and store- keeper, United States penitentiary service, 000 ver annum: field matron, Indian service, 50 per month; medical clerk under 30 years of age in vension office, twenty-five wanted, $900 to $1000 per annum.’ For detalls apply at office to ‘secretary local board of examiners, 801 Jackson street. ————— Colonel Morrison Dies. Lieutenant Colonel J. N. Morrison, judge advocate of the Department of Cal. ifornia, died at the Presidio General Hos- pital Thursday night as the result of an attack of peritonitis. The deceased officer was appointed to the judge advocate’s department from civil life in 1896. His military service was of a distinguished character and he ranked high in tne con- fidence of his superiors. He leaves a wife. —————— Christian Scientist to Lecture. | The First Church of Christ, Scientist, | has arranged for a lecture to be delivered at the Alhambra Theater to-morrow afterncon, at 3 g'clock, by Carol Nor- ton of New York City. Norton is a mem- ber of the Christian Science Board of Lec- The subject will be “‘Christian Science is Uni- versal Christianity.” The lecture will be free to the public. — e NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Parasites Cause All Hair Troubles. Nine-tenths of the diseases of the scalp and hair are caused by parasite germs. The importance of this discovery by Pro- fessor Unna of the Charity Hospital, Hamburg, Germany, cannot be overesti- mated. It explains why ordinary hair Preparations, even of the most expensive character, fail to cure dandruff; because they do not and they cannot kill the dan- druff germ. The only hair preparation in the world that positively destroys the dandruff parasites that burrow up the acafi; into scales, called scurf or dandruft, is Newbro’s Herpicide. In addition to its destroying the dandruff germ Herpicide is also a delightful hair dressing, mak- ing the hair glossy and soft as silk. Sold at leading drug stores, Send 10 cents in —_— the history of mining in«California. agents of the Seeretary of the Interio huive not submitted a final report con memorial to President Rooseveit concern lands as placer claims. the General Land Office at Washington whick bore the date of December 13, 1902. MAXING DEVELOPMENTS. Reperts from different parts ecuted with energy. of each of the Pacific Coast States. Cal ifornia is doing more in the way of ex- tending its facilities than for a long pe riod and the returns are good. Outsider: are putting money into California mines oped; additional stamps are being added to many mines; confidence is shown by deeper sinking of shafts in old and pay- ing properties. The future of the indus- try is good. The Mead mine in Calaveras County is cutting a tunnel nearly half a mile long, which was begun on the Gold Quartz Leaf mine property. During the last two years the Mead mine has been operated, by shaft process and an endeavor has been mad= to open a river channel that extends through the ranch property. A double compartment shaft was put down 230 feet when a flow of water was en- countered that could not be handled by ihe pumps successfully. Owing to the ex pense required for development, steam power alone being employed, work was suspended on the shaft and a tunnel site was selected on the Mokelumne River slope of the mine. The length of the tun. ne! as planned is 2200 feet. The Jumper Gold Syndicate has applied to the Superior Court in Tuolumne Coun- ty for dissolution. The petition sets forth that at a meeting held on September 1, 1902, the stockholders unanimously re- solved upon dissolution and the directors were instructed to institute proceedings having dissolution in view. The hearing on the petition is set for January 16, 1903. The Amador Record reports that the | Lincoln Mining Company of Amador has expended $17.000 in development work. A shaft has been sunk 2000 feet and drifts have been run 233, 260 and 660 feet. The Amador Record says: The present company Portland capitalists, who, with John Ross Jr., have the Wildman-Mahoney property under bond, are understood to be well pleased with the present condition of the mines and it is planned to inaugurate more extensive opera- tions at an early period. Immense ore bodies are exposed in the underground workings, but the present shaft capacity is inadequate for handling ore in large quantities. It is the intention to resume work on the Emerson shaft and put it down from its present depth of 600 feet to 2500 or 3000 fest. When this work is accomplished thé mill capacity wiil be ia- creased to 200 stamos. . DEEPENING ONEIDA. According. to the Amador Ledger ar- rangements ‘are making for the sinking of the shaft of the Oneida mine 200 feet deeper. It is now down 2050 feet. Sinking will be inaugurated about the first of the coming year. Forty stamps are kept go- ing constantly. The Amador Record says: One hundred and sixty-six tons of machinery is arriving at the Kennedy mine for the hoist- ing plant under construction at the new shaft The new machinery will have a handling ca- pacity of 1000 tons per day and will be t biggest mining plant in California. shaft is down 2600 feet while the old one is in immense ore bodies at the 2300-foot level, With the new mill under construction com- pleted there will be 100 stamps dropping. The Connore group of mines in Shasta County will be worked. A company, head- ed by D. N. Honn as president, has six claims on Clear Creek. A mining exchange is proposed at Los Angeles. According to those who are con- Free With W read on. lished December 10. That makes aniece. Just figure that out and half the Sunday Call has given y: imitating. 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That is the mecst striking thing about the Sunday Call’s new icy—and one which no other paper in America can WILL GET EIGHTEEN COMPLETE NOVELS and all the current I0T,” the religious and literary sensation of cerned in the movement it will not con- flict with the existing Los Angeles Stock Exchange, which deals in oil, commer- | cial, industrial and mining seocks. A review of existing conditions affecting | the interests of the petroleum miners in | the Kern River distriet is supplied by the | Bakersfleid Californlan. which, being at the seat of the operations, has good op- | portunities for observhtion. According to this the producer has a better outlooik than for some time past. Consumption is . | approaching production and the wells are | not supplying the original average of out- | put. The Californian makes the following statement concerning the operation of wells: Startlingly large wells have dropped down intg producers once reckoned as second clase, those of the second class have gome down one degres in turn and the natural outcome enced. The invariable history being duplicated here, decrease ollowing the first years of pump- An extreme Instance is reported of four i e located near the edge of the field, but which were deemed to be good for 100 barrels a day each, have during the past few months yielded an amount much less. Thus the consumption is seen to be rapidly overtaking production and production is nat- urally falling off. The two circumstances | taken together form a basis for a prediction of higher prices than we have beem accus- | tomed to, ruling indefinitely. ! PROPERTIES BONDED. The Vulcan quartz mine in Tuolumne -| County has been sold by James Dunn to the Albatross Gold Mining Company. The New Discovery and Bright Star mines and some other properties in Tuolumne County have been bonded to R. W. Her- sey of San Jose. The Siskiyou Journal reports: In consequence of bad woather and bad roads work at the new coal mime is confined | to blocking out the veins for securing plenty { of coal during the coming spring and sum- mer. The Siskiyou Development Company also an extensive iron mine in close proximity t least one hundred feet in width, together with a_limestone quarry, Wwhich combination means the production of pi from. with the | establishment of roiling mills for the manu- facture of steel. This company, in additi has an extensi at ‘French Creek in Scott Valley, to bufld a_rai- road from the coal mine to Fremch Creek, having already secured a franchise from the county for that purpose, With a view of estab- lishing smelting works at the latter place, The Angels Record says: Within the past year sixty stamps have been put in at the Malones, and sixty are in contem- plation the coming year;. ten at the | Duchess; five at the Sugar Pine; at the Angels; ten at the Oriole; new stamps will soon be added 'to the | Lightner and ten more to the Sultana, making a total of four hundred and twen- ty-five stamps within a radius of e miles of Angels. W. T. Robinson and E. L. Burns, of Mokelumne Hill, who are | prospecting the opal-bearing formation on Stockton ridge, have found in the face of the tunnel two parallel strata, three feet apart, both of which contain opals. In + the upper stratum the opals were “dead,” or nearly chalky. 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