The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 10, 1903, Page 6

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, clock. %200 Fillmore, open until § o'clock. resry THE RALL.Y TO-NIG eeting at the will be than of party San Francisco s who are trying the sions am ‘| merely transferred from the users of the road to the 1HE GEARY-STREET BONDS HE result of the bond election which was in- T tended to burden the taxpayers with the street railroad business shows that the proposition (has lost rather than gained votes since it was first [s submitted. Yet this last campaign for it was more 'acme and better organized than the first. There ’can be no doubt that the friends of public ownership polled their full strength and it is seen now to be a :lpa]l minority of the total vote of the city. We are aware that to this it may be answered that Ithe opponents also cast the vote of a stifl smaller minority. Yet we are persuaded that that vote rep- jresented the views of more people than the othe- | Much" of .the indifference was due to the fact that it | was felt that the proposifion would be /beatent any- | how and it was not worth while to tgke the tithe to | hit it with a ballot. Some thousands were also influ- | enced by the belief that the bonds, if voted as pro- posed and made a lien on the whole city, would not I~t:md the judicial test and would be invalidated by nhe courts, This view was powerfully influenced by lhe letter of Mr. Crittenden Thornton, in which he | declared the proposition to be unconstitutional. Con- | fidence in him as a lawyer gave such a sense of secur- ity as to influence many opponents to snub the polls. In our view the city has escaped a great danger. ' It | hds refused to submit to theorists andsenthusiasts the | trial of an experiment that would cost the taxpayers | by direct lien about a million and a half of dollars. | We have characterized it ‘as a proposition to em- | bark in socialism because in Great Britain the sacial- | |ists everywhere promote such experiments as the use | of the thin edge of the wedge, which is to cleave ex- | .mmg institutions and split the way to universal col- | |lectivism. We desire, however, to do the socialists | of this city the justice to say that they oppose such | | piecemeal plan and propose that things shall not be | | done one at a time. They dream of securing (hc‘ }\\ hole Government first and then at one coup ending | the whole system which they call capitalism by put- ting all human activities in the hands of the Govern- | ment This is why, as a body, the San Frnncisco‘ ! socialists did not favor the Geary-street bonds. They | reasoned that such bonds would be sold to capitalists, | who would draw interest to the increase of their | wealth, and thht the burden of interest would be | whole body of taxpayers. Had the same proposition | | been submitted to British socialists they would have | favored it upon the theory that when all things are | held collectively the bonds themselves would be re- pudiated and destroyed and money would cease to be, for there would be no further use for capital. The Call, as the original and for some time only | newspaper opponent of the proposition, is gratified | by the indorsement it has received. Our position that bonds issued for public utilities of any kind shall rest | only on the plant to be created by them is utterly un- good citizens | assailable as a business proposition. ' In no other way ; .| can the people have any assurance of an honest and 1 auditorium of the s t Theater would not be in | tse I timent is on the side of > vt he g was held. A very s of San Francisco could wing at a meeting held to The 1 have to be sought in estion of public interest. in the numbers of the audi- be expected to be thor- nay nonstration of the virtual unity in i Mr. Crocker of all citizens who are op- 1 s organized on class lines ».between the forces represented by | olleagues and those represented | itz R\:r‘ hine. That machine has.| for one term and the result has been an ficient that the very men who unable to agree and of late have anotber with more offenses than public ever suspected either faction Whi rival leaders have been denouncing one another as traitors to t the affairs of the municipality have been neglected, the revenues have been exhausted in the m: beer one ve e the paymer and t serv e has been largely misapplied. The con- They wish prog- prosperity and improvement and they are aware the first step in the direction of attaining a T d a more beautiful San Francisco must be x.d\('n by providing for an efficient city government based upon business principles and conducted by business men lead them to support Mr. Crocker in perceive the importance of electing | means Mr. Crocker should have a Republican f Supervisors to support him in the work of ninistration, and it is hardly less important that the various executive and administrative offices be in 1ds of men who will cordially co-operate with executive. The non-partisan and inde- pendent support given to Mr. Crocker may therefore be reasonably expected to extend to the whole Re- publican ticket The ratification meeting to be held to-night affords an opportunity for independents and for conservative Democrats to come out and show themselves on the right side. he reference to each successive election as a crisis has become so hackneyed that the word has well nigh lost its original significance, and yet every thoughtful citizen must perceive that at this time we are confronted by a real crisis in our local affairs. We caunotl go on in the old way. All the conditions of the time impel to new things and the vote on the bond issues for public improvements shows that the masses of the people are eager to go forward. Under such circumstances another term of factional govern- ment would be a serious evil to the community, while an era of good government would materially promote every interest of the city and advafhce every move- ment made for municipal betterment. These truths are well understood by every man of political intelligence. Another term of the Schmitz- Ruef machine is not to be tolerated. Public interest demands a business administration animated by a gen- uine civic. patriotism. That will be the significance of the grand demonstration with which Repubhc;nx. independents and conservative Democrats. will ,to- night join in indorsing the candidacy of Henry J. Crocker and of every one of his colleagues on the Re- publican ticket. the chief S —— Opals of marked commercial value have been discovered in the Funeral Mountains, which tower gloomily above Death Valley. What better place in which to seek for the hoodoo jewels could have been chosen? perstitious rattle in horror in their flesh. . tative of the conservative sense of the | of salaries, leaving but little for public work, | ative elements of the people are resolved to put-| an cnd to this condition of. affairs. ress h him a complete Republiean administration. ! It is enough td make the spines of the su-' businesslike administration of lines that have here- tofore been considered best left to private skill and enterprise. The friends of public ownership contin- ually point to the profits and success of suchi enter- prises in private management as a reason why they | should be taken over to public ownership. = Surely it is a reprehensible blindness to the facts that leads them at the same time to reject the system under | | which such success has been attained. How can a | city hope for the same success by inextricably mixing politics and business? It was not lost upon wise observers that nearly every old predatory politician in the city was in favor of such a mix by making the bonds a lien upon the taxpayer. Every politician that has tarred his hand |and thrust it into the treasury and drawn it out with | coin sticking to it was loud in advocacy of mixing [ the politics of city administration with the business | cf building and running a street railroad. If other | public utility propositions are submitted the same men will be loudly in favor of the same plan. In the | future as in the past our advice to the taxpayers will be to make all public utility bonds a lien only on the | plant they create, leaving the general fund free for | use in promoting the essential purposes of govern- | ment and putting no more burdens on the taxpayer. |~ T a public utility now pays in private ownership it [ will pay also in public ownership, if that be the ob- ject of such ownership,/only when compelled to bear |its own cost and-the expense of its management. If | | it will not pay it should be left in private hands and not have its deficits put upon the taxpayer and con- cealed in the general levy. The anthropologists of Berkeley are concerning themselves deeply with the history of the aboriginal peoples and languages of California. They are giv- ing an impetus to an important movement which has long languished and have evidently reached the sen- sible conclusion that one has not to go to the Nile ;to seek records of races that were once in the march of the civilizing arts and are now deeply interesting to those of us who love to study the story of our species! LOS ANGELES FORGES AHEAD. HE thriving city of Los Angeles is advancing T at a pace that must be pleasing to its enter- prising citizens. The Los Angeles Herald has 4 review of its progress as indicated by the erection of buildings in the city in the first nine months of the present year.. Summarizing carefully prepared offi- cial figures, it gives the total amount of money rep- resented by building improvements in the months in- dicated at $9,697,800. Large as is this total its sig- nificance is made to appear more clearly by compac- ing it with the total figures for the first three-quarters of each of several preceding years. The total yelue of buildings erected in 1902 to the vorresponding date was $6,378643. The record of 1091 stands at ‘z.iqs,&q. The totals for these two yeass thereiore fall $615,000 short of the record for the present vear. Taking a period of six years,to- gether, beginning with 1899, and the augmenting progress of the City of the Angels makes.a strong <howing. The total for the first nine months of 1899 was but $1,4609,601; for the same months in 1900 the, total was $1.688,542; the figures for 1901 are $2,703,- |804; those for 1002 are $6,378643. The first nine ‘momhs of 1903 prove that Los Angeles is growing jn yalue more than six times as fast as it was in 1809 and four times as npufly as in 1901." These figures are upheld by the general growth of Los Angeles and are not due to the erection of a few exceptionally costly buildings in the. first three-quarters of 1903, This is made clear by comparing the number of per- mits for the six years mduded in the review instituted by the Herald. The number of permits issued in the first three- qnm:l of 1899 was 1268; during the corresponding u-nod in 1003 the number is 4577. Therefore about hfldnn have -been mctun FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1903. ICALIFORNIA’S in 1003 as were constructed in the same length of time in 1809. The Herald calls attention to the strides of the city as, indicated by the retarns for the month of September just closed: It says in part: “September has shown what strides Los Angeles is making in the matter of construction. ‘During the month 633 pernmits were issued, c;}lmg for an expendi- ture of $1,147,965. With the exception of January, 1903, this is the next hrgest month in local building statistics. This total'is divided into 526 permits, valued at $1,091,110, for new huddmg;, stables, etc., and 107 permits, valued at $56,855, for additions and alterations. This is a record-thaf has started the fall campaign and more buildings are contemplated.” By looking backward over the array of the Her- ald’s figures the significant fact will be made clear that the total for September, 1903, comes within $300.000, in round figures, of the total for nine months in 1899 and is close to hali the total for the entire nine months two years later, namely in-1901. There is room in California for many large cities. The growth of San Francisco in the past two years has been phenomenal. . Steel and brick and stone con- structions representing large expenditures: in many individual instances collectively illustrate the more ambitious ideas that have been adopted in.the matter of business buildings and other ‘structures that hnve become common in many nenghborhoods Through- out the length and breadth of the State the blood of the sluggish has been stirred in contemplation of the works and structures of various kinds that have been instituted by the more entérprising, The building boom in Los Angeles had been" at- tended with conditions similar tp those in this city. The price of eligible business properties has ad- | vanced and the owners, seeing that the growth of the city must be large, have held out for.their own fig- | ures. This has retarded somewhat and has tended to make the market for real estate less brisk. The Los Angeles people believe in their city with a sturdiness |that is at once a ta\lse and an augury for municipal expansion. Two American’ officers; small in the service' of Uncle Sam in Mindanao, robbed the Government re- cently, stole a steamer and escaped, seized another | vessel for coal and made off for Borneo as a haven | of security. What a thrilling episode with which to the the regale the imagination of the small boy until sequel of capture and punishment is told in matter-of-fact records of stupid crimes. ———— SCHMITZ'S NEW ISSUE. HEN President Roosevelt wrote his famous Wmc: suicide letter it is not likely he had any thought of making it a political issue. Cer- tainly he cculd have had no thought that it would be brought up as an issue in a municipal campaign in Sgn Francisco. Once more, however, the unex- pected has happened. Mayor Schmitz, taking um- brage at a certain statement of Mr, Lane, has issued a defiance on that point and boldly claimed superior- ity over his Democtatic competitor for the discon- tented vote of the city so'far as the perpetuation of the race is concerned. In his speech of Thursday evening Mayor Schmitz reviewed Mr. Lane's various claims upon the support of the people and is reported as saying: “He also said he deserves election because he has a child born here, although he is not a native himself. I can go him one better than that because 1 have three bom in San Francisco:" That style of cam"bxlgh‘ing :s"fifilc‘fi bptfér than mud slinging and Schmitz is to be congratulated upon his tact in shifting the argument between himself and Lane from the question of which has done most to save San Francisco to that of which has-the larger ntumber of babies born in San Francisco.- The-sphfls- ing of the new question shows that the: Mayor.is.a man of versatility as well as of musical. .ongh:nlrgy | Unquestionably the growing good of ‘San, Francisco |is dependent upon an increase of the ‘population; so the new issue is not to be dismissed on- dem-urrer asg irrelevant, lmpcrtmem or immaterial. We can hardly expect Mr. Lane to accept the chal- lenge of the Mayor, but it is not improbable that the Mayor, to make his point more cfiéctive, may at some rally of his party introduce his “bunch of na- tives” as exhibit A, accompanieduby an engmssed copy of the Roosevelt letter. Meantime i ‘in this issue of personal superiority as in all others of the kind it is to be noted that Mr. Crocker keeps silent and- makes no boast. George W. Beavers, formerly of the postal. de- partment and prospectively of a job less pleasant, has been indicted again on three distinct charges. If this process kzeps up much longer the Govern- ment might make money by lenging Beavers to some circus manager as a museum freak—the most accused man in America, e THE LATEST FOREST FIRE. OREST fires in the mountains of California are F increasing every year. They are laying bare the mountain slopes and destroying the storage of moisture. Already the-effect is apparent in the springs in the {oothxlls which ‘were formerly very numerous and ran an_abundance of water, but are now affluent only - a part. of the year and many are entirely dry at the scason ‘when «they-xe “most needed. Slowly but surely the cons:quenc:s of carelessness and profligacy are appearing and the moisture, the mother of the'Statels fruitfulness and fertility, is de- clining. The people look on, but little impressed because the whole consequences are not immediately manifested.” In the lapse of time, however, the hour will come when they\are all upon the State and it will be too late to repair the damage for the benefit of the generation that will Sufféf from it. ¢ These fires ongmatc in a variety of ways}most of them being dueto'the thoughtlessness of men. The last great one of the season has just swept the east- ern slopes of Mount Shasta, d;snoymg thousands of acres of fine timber and impairing the efiectwenesn of; a large watershed. This' fire |s charged to cattle men, who are accused of sefting it in order to make the region impossible to goats and sheep next year. This is hardly credible, since none know better than the cattle men that forest fires do not drive out sheep ‘and goats, but are quite sure to render the fimd area, less desirable for cattle pasture. But whatever its cuse the harm iS done there as it has been done the whole length of the Sierra Nevada | range in Northern California and on the Sierra Madre | nmm&mhm&lflmu.udxflhmw est yet unburned is to be saved there should be im- mediate co-operation of the State and Federal author-" xm.mprouuu mgrwforestsofdwmfium \ COUNTIES HOLD MANY MINERALS The statistics relating to the California minéral output for the year 12, as re- ported by State Mineralogist - Aubury, which have been published in'this paper, are supplemented by a showing of pos- sibly - greater interest, Herein is made clear the geographical distribution of mineral substances among the counties of Californla. As many branches of the | mireral industry of the State are com- paratively new there is a chance for them to expand and they may figure largely in the near future. Attention in this regard is called to the rapld expansion of the oil producing industry; also to the growth in the production of building materials, which has amounted to a round $1,000,000 and upward in twevle months. In fact, but for this increase the statistics for the State during the 1"‘ 1902 would: have shown & falling off instead of & gain. Asphalt was produced in 1%2 in the counties_of Kern, Las Angeles, ~Santa Barbars, Sdn Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz and Ventura, most of it now being de- rived from the refining of petroleum. Bi- tuminous rock was quarried in San Luis Obispo _and Santa Cruz countles. Most of the borax eame from San Bernardino County, though some was produced in Inyo. ck clays were utilized in. the counties of Alameda, Butte, Contra Cos- ta, Fresno, Humboldt, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Madéra, Marin, Méndocino, Riv- erside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Shasta; So- | noma, Tehama and Tulare. Clay for pot- tery, sewer pipe, etc., came from the pits in Amador, Los Angeies, Placer, River- side and San Mateo counties. Cement was manufacturéd at the guarries in San Bernardino and Solano countles, the lat- ter produeing this for the first time in many years, and in considerable quantity. All the chrome mined was from Shasta County, and all the chrysoprase was de- | rived from Tulare County. COAL AND COPPER. Coal was mined in Alameda, Amador, Contra Costa and Riverside counties, most of it being from Alameda. Copper was produced in the counties of Amador, Calaveras, Contra ' Costa, El _Dorado, Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Nevada, Placer, San Bernardino, Shasta, Siskiyou, Stanislaus and Tuol- umne. The total product was 27,860,162 pounds, as-compared with 34,931,785 the previous yesr. The valuation in 101 was $5,501,752, as compared with 3,289,475 for 1902, prices being much lower last year and output less. All the fullers’ earth produced in the State came from Kern County; and the | glass sand came from the *‘sand ranches” | near Monterey Bay. Granite for building purposes, curbing, etc., was quarried in the counties of Los Angeles, Madera, Ne- vada, Placer, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego, Santa Clara, Sonoma and Tular: Graphite came from Sonoma County onl; gypsum,_ from Los Angeles, Kern. and | Riverside. Gold is more widely distributed than | SUPREME COURT EXPLAINS LAWS TO AUDITOR The Supreme ‘Court declared yesterday that Auditor Baehr must make two cal- culations to account for the collection of taxes for the next fiscal year. One of these will b"‘or funds to be used by the city and courky, based on the assessment approved by the Board of Supervisors and the other for moneys to be given the State based on the lu;es!ment made by the Board of Equalization. H D. J. Buckley, represented by Tobin & Tobin, petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus compelling the Audi- tor to consider only the assessment of the State Board of Equalization in preparing his accounts. B. P. Oliver, represented by Van Ness & Redman, asked for a writ compelling the Auditor to make two cal- culations, one for city and county ex- penses based on the local assessment and the other-for State purposes based on the Board of Equalization’s assessment. There was no difference in the aims of the petitionérs, but the two writs were asked for in order that the Supreme Court might grant one and deny the other, and thus establish the legal status of the .two assessments. There was no precedent. in the matter. Furthermore, therp existed considerable doubt as to the construction ta be placed upon the stat- utory and constitutional provisfons which refer to the levying of assessments. If taxes had been collected on the as- sessment of the State Board of Equaliza- tion San Francisco would have had $1,250,- 000 .more than is necessary for the carry- ing on of the municipal government. The question was one of great Interest to heavy taxpayers and as a result it was deemed wise to get a clear. interpretation of the law fromsthe Supreme Court. Auditor Baehr had commenced to make one calculation based on the assessment of the Board of Equalization. The decision means that the two assess- ments are entirely independent of each | other and that the State board has power | to increase the tax rate only in respect to what shall be pald for State expenses. L e e material increase, being that year $1,075,637. | Stnce then a largé amount of American capital has gone into Mexico and the output has in- creased- steadily untll the present. In 1901-02 | it was reported by the Treasury Department of the republic to have heen $0,932,676, It is thought the output for the year 1902-03 Wil exceed $11.000,000. The silver production dur- ing the same perfod, 1877 to 1902, has steadily increased {rom $24,836,908 in 187 to $i2,- 830,983 in the years 1901-02. Statistics for 1903 are not yet avallahle, but in 1902 Mexico imported copper ore and matte to the value of $10,000,000. A decade earlier the importa- tion of copper was less than $100,000. Durin this period Mexico's shipments info the Unite States of bar and Ingot copper has risen from $84,000 to nearly $3,750,000. Exports of iron and steel from the United States Into Mexico have increased very largely, machinery alone increasing from $1,500,000 in 1892 to over $7,000,000 in 1902 By comparison it may be repeated that the mineral output of California ‘ast year ran to $35,069,106, of which gold amounted to $16.910,320; silver to 3618, 11" copper to | $3,239,975; petroleum to $4,602, The Wildman-Mahoney mlne at Sutter It | the Supreme Court. any other mineral substance thus far | Creek, Amador County, will resume. mined in California, thirty-five counties | has been closed down for some months. COURT RULES AGAINST COUNTY CLERK MAHONY County Clerk Albert B. Mahonv, who filed a suit for an injunction restraning the Eléction Commissioners and the Reg istrar from expending any money in pro- viding for the election of his successor in the hope that the court would du»p mine thet bis was a county office a that therefore he should remain in office for two years more, met with defeat in Judge Seawell's court vesterday. A de- murrer to the suit was filed by the Cit Attorney and after a lengthy argum against 1t by Mahony's attorney, Pe F. Dunne, it was sustained. The ¢ was represented by Assistant City torney Sims, who simply read the charter provision making (wo years the term of office of the County Clerk. The case will be taken immediately to Attorney Dunne re- fused to amend hts complaint, but gave notice that he would fmmediately take an appeal from the court's judgment. Judge Seawell delivered his opinion from the bench. He simply gave notice that the demurrer to Mahony's action was sustained. —_———————— TELLS AN INTERESTING STORY OF FOREST JAUNTS Miss Alice Eastwood Informs the State Floral Society of Horti- cultural Discoveries. Members of the State Floral Society met vesterday at Eiks' Hall, Sutter street, Professor- Emory Smith présiding. One of the most important subjects before the soclety was an address by Miss Alice Eastwood of the Academy of Sciences, Who told of her trips and walks of be- tween eighteen and twenty miles a day through Del Norte County, the most northern county on the coast, into Ove- gon. Miss Eastwood described the scenery and the trees, the shrubs and rare flowers she encountered on her journey.and toid of floral discoveries that deeply interested | her hearers. Miss Eastwood gave a beau- tiful account of the redwood forest near Crescent City. She described it as a vir- gin forest where as yet nothing had been disturbed by the ruthless hand of com- mercialism. At the same time Miss East- wood announced with deep regret that the wondrous redwoods were in danger of bemng cut down, and wished that she and all others Interested in the saving of for- ests could impress upon those who live in the vicinity of the forest the value of guarding it against destruction. —————————— PHOTOGRAPHIC SALON IS APPRECIATED BY PUBLIC Prints of This and Foreign Lands Seen at Hopkins Institute of Art. That general interest is taken in the art | of photography was evidenced yesterday by the big attendance at the third San Francisco photographic salon at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. The { avarried-in Amador, San Bernardino and out of fifty-seven in the State showing a | gold yield in 1902, and it is known to ex. ist in several others. According to the re- | | turns received from producers at the San | Francisco Mint the gold yield for 1902 was | $16,910,320 and was derived from the fol- lowing counties, which are named in the | order of the respective gold product for | the year: Nevada, Caldveras, Tuolumne, Amador, Kern, Butte, Siskiyou, Shasta, | Placer, Trinity, Mariposa, Mono, Sacra- | mente, San Bernardino, Plumas, San| Diego, El Dorado, Sierra, Yuba, Inyo, Humboldt, Fresno, Riverside, Mader: Lassen, Tulare, Alpine, Los Angeles, Mo térey, Del Norte, ‘San Luis Obispo, Ven- tura, Colusa, Orange and Santa Barbara. | PRODUCTS IN VARIETY. Infusorial earth awas produced in the | counties of Los Angeles and Santa Bar- bara. Lead was produced in Inyo, Los Arngeles, Mono and San Bernardino, with small quantities from Alameda and Tuol- | ‘umne counties, ~ All the lithia-mica ; was Diego County. Lime was quar- burned ‘in the countles of Butte, Monterey, Riverside, San Bemuamo, Santa Cruz, Shasta and Mong,, and limestone. in the counties of | Napa, .San Bernardino, Santa Cruz and | Shasta. Macadam quarries were operated in Alameda, Los. Angeles, Marin, Mon- terey, Sacramento, San Benito, . San Mateo, San Francisco, Solang and Senora ‘counties. All the manganese was from Alameda, and the magnesite from Alameda, Napa, Sonoma and Tulare counties. Marble was Tuolumne counties, Mineral paint came from the counties of Calaveras, Los An- geles, Sonoma and Stanislaus. Mica was produced iu Ventura County. Mineral ‘waters were commercially utilized by be- ing battled and sold from the counties of Butte, Colusa, - Contra . Costa, Fresno, Humboldt, Lake, -Mendocino, Monterey, | Napa, San Benito, San Diego, San Luis Obispo; Shasta, Santa Barbara, Santa ! Ciara, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano and So-| noma. Natural gas was utilized in the counties of Sacramento, San Joaquin and Santa Barbara. Paving or basalt blocks were quarried in Placer, Riverside, San Bernardino, Solano and Sonoma counties. Petroleum was produced in the counties of Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Barbara and Ventura. Thus it will be noted that only six countles are pro- d“clnw"f this substance, notwithstanding the ide range of prospecting and drill- ing In numerous counties, both north and south, during the past two years. All the platinum which could be traced was from Trinity County, though its pres- ence is noted at other points. Pyrites ‘were mined (for sulphur contents) in Ala- meda and Shasta countles only, most coming from the former. QUICKSILVER LEDGES. Quicksilver came fram the counties of Colusa, Lake, Napa, San Benito, San Luls Obispo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma and Trinity. There were 2832 more flasks (of 76% pounds each) produced in 1902 than in the previous year, but the total valuation is less owing to prices. Rubble was guarried in the counties of Los Angeles, Madera, Marin, Monterey, Nlnl, Placer, Sacramento, San Bernar- , San Diego, San Franecisco, San Ma- teo uw Ventura. Over one:quarter of the 1,555,076 tons came from San Mateo Coun- ty and was used in railroad construction work on Mission Bay. This class of work on San, Francisco Bay and San Pedro harbor uses up the larger part of the rub- ble quarried. Salt came frém the countles of Ala- meda, Colysa, Los Angeles, Marin, River- side, San Diego and San Matéo. It is the product of solar evaporation of sea | water and more than th rters of ‘the total is,made in Alameda ty from The American Gold Eagle Company | - DLy | prints are in every case of the highest | the 200-foot level has been run 500 feet, | Consolidated has bonded claims in the Bull Creck district and also the Ontario, , Clawhammer, Minnepah, Two-Thirty, ! Gold Bank, Democrat, Compromise, | | Marble Springs and Eubanks claims. | It 1s reported that a ledge carrying | | quicksilver has been struck by the Black { Bear Quicksilver Mining Company, which is operating twenty miles distant from Cloverdale. The Empire mine at Union Hill, near Grass Valley, has been connected with the reservoir of the South Yuba Water Company by a twenty-four-inch pipe that is 8000 feet long. ~The Kinselbach quartz mine near Alle- ghane, Sierra County, is being developed. A company has been incorporated hav- ing for its purpose the opening of the Santa Ana lead at Randsburg. The California Jack mine in El Dorado County has been sold by the Oro Fino Mining Company to S. L. Mitchell of Los Angeles. There is a ten-stamp mill on | the property. A tunnel is being run on the lignite de- posit at Cottonwood, Mono County. The coal vein is reported to be eleven feet wide. The Boulder mine in Placer County has been freed from water. Work will be ac- tively resumed in the mine. The Phelps Hill mine, near Nevada City, has been bought by Chicago and Reno parties. THE MOTHER LODE. Tuolumne County papers report the fol- Jowing concerning mines on the mother lode: The mill on the Soulsby mine at Soulsby- ville is being run six hours per day on ore from No. 2 and No. 3 levels. The drift north from and that from 300-foot level 360 feet. Another 300 feet from the face of the drift on the 300 level will connect the new works with the old. Con- siderable water has been struck in the mine, and Superintendent W. Sharwood thinks it is drained from the Platt mine on the south. An §-inch Cornish pump with a 6-foot stroke is being put in to handle the water, and when finished a contract will be let to sink the shaft 100 feet deeper. Work at the Mount Jeterson mine at Groveland is going ahead, and ore being opened ||p in the crosscuts. Sinking vlll be res: soon as a station pump is put T at the 500-foot level. The pump will life 19 gallons per minute to 800 feet. Estey & Stan- ford, who hold the Doyle ranch mine, near Columbla, under bond have made the second payment and will increase development work. —_—————— The average annual wage of adult miners in Silesia, Germany, Is $2%. order, having been carefully judged and gelected for the exhibition by an impar tial and striet jury. There are photographs by experts not alone of the United States, but also of England and Belglum. The loan collec- tion of the Photo-Secession sent from New York holds an homored position at the salon and has been greatly admired: The committee has isued a catalogue that Is in keeping with the high artistic motive of the salon. Of the whole collection, numbzering =0 pictures, " there- are 175 of the prints for sale for prices ranging from $£23 to ¥ aplece The salon will be continued dally until Saturday, October 21 e e-—— - School Work at St. Louis Fair. Superintendent of Schools Langdon bas issued circulars to principals asking them to co-operate in securing a fine exhibit of school work at the St. Louis exposi- tion to be held next year. The eircular contains a list of instructions, the most important of which is that all work must be a faithful representation of the curri- culum of the schools. Langdon lays great stress on the results of manual training which he considers appropriate in an ex- hibit of pupils’ work. e ——— Gives Open Air Concert. The regular Friday afternoon open air concert took place yesterday on the pa- rade ground at the Presidio. The econ- cert was given by the Third Regiment Band, Artillery Corps, under the leader- ship of Bandmaster Armand Putz, who arranged an excellent programme for the afterncen. e ————— Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, 50c a pound, In artistic fire- etchied boxes. A mice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., above Call bldg. * ————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Clll- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 —_———————— To Light City Hall Dome. The Supervisors’ Light Committee yes- terday reported in favor of lighting the dome of the City Hall on two evenings during the convention of the Amerfcan Bankers' Association to be held in this city October 20 to 23, 1903. ADVERTISEMENTS. is a success—entertaining, adventur- hefim.fufld& e e e e e i, fllN Y. American. ¢