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4 MONDAY AUGUST 28, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Ail Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1368. EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Copies, 5 cents. Terms by Mall. Including Postage: ; 'MI.T CALL (Including Sunday Call), one year fO.OO DAILY CALL (Including Sunday Call), 6 months 3.00 DAILY CALL (Including Sunday Call), 3 months .... 1.80 PAILY CALL— By Single Month OOc HUNDAY CALL One Year 1.50 WEEKLY CALL One Year 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to receiv.- subscriptions. Sample oopies will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE 908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNE6S. Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT! C. C. CARLTON Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE j PERRY LUKENS dR 99 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House: Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. Waldorf-Astoria -Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Wellington Hotel J. L. ENGLISH. Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES — Mootgomery street, corner Clay Open until 9:30 o'clocK- 300 Hayes street, ooen until 930 o'clock. 639 McAllister street, open uotll 9:30 o'clock- 615 Larkin street, open uotll 9:30 o'clock* 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock- 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock- 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock- '06 Eleventh) street, open uotll 9 o'clock- NW- corner Twenty second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. i ' —— AMUSEMENTS. Columbia— "The New Dominion." Orpheum— Vaudeville. , Tivoli— "Groconda." Alca sar "lngomar." Grand Opera-house "Paul Jones." Chutes, Zoo and Free Theater— Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Olympia, corner Mason and Ellis streets — Specialties. Battle of Manila— street, near Eighth. Sutro Baths— Swimming Race?, etc. Golden Gate Agricultural District No. I— Races to-day. Alhambra Theater — Benertt to John W. Slade, Saturday evening, September 2. California State Fair, Sacramento— September i to 16. AUCTION SALES. By A. W. Louderback — Wednesday, . August 30, at 2:30 o'clock, Persian and Turkish Rugs, at 117 Sutter street. NOTHING EVER SEEN LIKE IT. IT is a queer kind of prosperity that throws men out of work, but such is the condition of things in one or two lines of trade to-day. The demand for finished iron products is so immense that the fur naces have not been able to turn out the goods fast enough to fill their orders, so in seveial branches of the industry men have had to be laid off until suffi cient supplies can be secured. In fact, nothing like the present trade activity has ever been seen in this coun try. It began a year or so ago, and was thought to be the natural reaction after a long period of depression, which would subside after a few months; but it still continues, and is even more pronounced than last year. Current figures show this tremendous activity plain- Current figures show this tremendous activity plain ly. The tonnage movement from Chicago during the past three weeks has been 80 per cent heavier than last year, and 74.6 per cent heavier than in 1892, the year preceding the panic. The bank clearings of the coun try have exhibited a marked gain every week this year, sometimes running up to 80 per cent over [898. Every week, too, the failures have been smaller than for the same week last year. The gratifying feature 'of all this prosperity is that it is accompanied by very little speculation, being, in fact, "the result of an enor mous demand for goods all over the United States. This demand is strikingly illustrated in the clothing trade, leading clothiers reporting that the people are not only buying more clothes than for a long time, but are buying a more expensive class of fabrics. There can be no better proof of widespread prosperity than this. The weekly commercial reports last week abounded in illustrations of the unprecedented demand for mer chandise of all descriptions. Iron and steel, notwith standing the recent advances, continue 10 point up ward under an inquiry fully as eager as at any time during the past year, while lumber, wool, leather, boots and shoes, cotton and most of the other staples rule firm at full figures. Practically all the industries are some months behind the requirements for actual use. and in not a few the output for a year ahead has been sold. The fall demand is showing remarkable expansion, particularly in the Northwest, while the great corn belt of the West is in high feather over an enormous crop at fair prices. The only drawback at present is a drought in the Southwestern cotton States, notably Texas. The cattle raisers are in clover, for present prices for beef have been equaled in Chicago only five times in twenty-two years, and there are 10,000,000 less beef cattle in the United States than there were seven years ago. In fact, it is said that there are fewer cattle in the country now than since 1882. Certainly, it is long since prices for beef and mutton have been as high as they are now, while hogs keep up to 6c in the San Francisco mar ket with a pertinacity which surprises the packers. All these conditions tell the tale of the current pros perity. We seem to be in one of these epochs familiar to readers of history, when the land seems flowing with milk" and honey. On this coast the principal expression of the prevailing good times is the lack of farm hands to harvest the grain and fruit crops. This complaint has been heard ever since the harvest began, and is something unique in agriculture. Wages have advanced' in proportion, but the prices of most farm products are now so good that the farmer is making more money at the high labor rate than he did when he was getting men for very low pay. '.- .y When business is so active, both in city and coun try, it is difficult to point out' where the principal activity lies. Suffice it to say that not for many years has trade been in such satisfactory condition as now; .md the best feature of it is that it is likely to continue so indefinitely. . -:- The hide of Holocaust, .the French horse that Tod Sloan rode to its death in the English Derby, has been tanned and will be made into boots for fashionable London. It goes without saying that purchasers will be found in the fast set. A sound like unto that made by a cow drawing her hoof out of the mud was heard plainly the other day in Washington. Thomas Brackett Reed was pulling cut of Congress. BUSINESS SENSE IN THE SOUTH. PERMANENT organization was recently effected in Atlanta by an association of business men known as the Southern Industrial League, the | objects of which are to encourage the payment and j collection of debts, to repeal statutes devised to hinder j the collection of debts, to protect all forms of invested ; capital and to prevent the discounting of debts. The organization of a league for such purposes I throws a strong side light upon business conditions j of the Southern States and reveal some of the causes j why the South has been so backward in commercial j and industrial development. In the wreck of the old , slavcholding society in the South there fell upon that section so much of disaster that discontent became the dominant sentiment of the people, and the quack legislators, who flourish everywhere in periods' of popular discontent, obtained such power they were enabled to fill the statute books with laws ostensibly | designed to protect debtors, but which might be fairly I termed acts to destroy credit. By making it difficult j to collect debts these States have made it difficult for : their people to borrow money, and as a consequence, ! while the rest of the Union has ample financial re- sources to promote industry and trade, the South has - been in a condition of chronic financial stringency. The intelligent business men of the South now per- ceive the evil that has been brought upon them by this. "fool legislation"' and have organized to repeal it. At the meeting at which the permanent organiza ; tion was effected the principal speaker was S. G. Mc- Lendon of Thomasville, Georgia, and in the course of his address he gave the South much good advice in matters of national as well as of State legislation. Commenting upon the support given to Bryan and free silver he said: "Congress never did. never will, and never can | regulate the value of a single piece of money made j out of metal or paper, except in payment of taxes and executions. The unwritten laws of commerce regulate these, and all other values. To reduce it down to a unit, the buyer and the seller are the only people on earth who are possessed of final and absolute power I to regulate values, and Parliaments and Kings and Congresses are utterly helpless in the presence jof the power of these . two persons. ****•*• When we of the South take our stand against our own and the experience of other nations, and join in 1 an effort to uphold this ancient and exploded theory, we assume a burden that reduces our credit, paralyzes our resources and retards our development." Equally pertinent was his condemnation of the pro- posed indiscriminate legislation against trusts. On I that question he said: "I do not defend trusts, but I do insist that the peo ■ ple have a right to ask that the, criminal or evil trusts be named and their crimes specified before they are invited to an indiscriminate slaughter of all corpora- tions created under State laws. The laws against re- grating, forestalling and engrossing sleep calmly in the statute books of many of our States, but how one sovereign in forty-five is going to dictate the conduct of another sovereign, or how the Federal Govern | ment is going to acquire jurisdiction over franchises . granted by the State, or over the States which grant them, are questions upon which the anti-trust orators and press have so far given out no information. Until an intelligent indictment against offending trusts is i framed and presented to the great assize of the people no progress will be made toward the suppression of an alleged evil." Finally Mr. McLendon closed with a general coun sel that will be profitably studied not only in the : South but throughout the Union: "In our haste for remedial legislation we often see the wrong man hit. We are groaning to-day under 1 the heavy burden of statesmanship which introduces ' laws which can in no way be administered. Let the people awake and scourge such men from public office. Let them awake and suppress that school which would teach that government can usurp the < functions of the Almighty and create something out of nothing. Let them awake and quit levying public j taxes for private profit. Let them awake and require j that only just and reasonable laws shall be enacted, ; and that these shall be promptly and impartially ad ! ministered by the courts. Let the people do these things, and our burdens will be lifted, the idle hand t and the idle dollar will meet under the banner of equal : laws, and while giving employment to each other will give prosperity to our country." TRUST CONFERENCES. SOME time ago Governor Sayers of Texas issued a. call for a convention of Governors and At- torneys General of the States and Territories ! to meet in St. Louis September 20, to devise a uni ; form system of laws for the regulation of trusts. A j little later the Civic Federation of Chicago arranged j for a conference on trusts to assemble in that city 1 September 13, and the Governors of the States have i been requested to appoint delegates to attend it. The two conferences will differ widely from one another in the attitude they assume toward the subject under consideration. That which meets in St. Louis j has been called "to consider the effect which the for -1 mation of trusts is having upon the country, and, if ! possible, to agree upon a character of legislation that will not only force those now existing into dissolu tion, but will also prevent their further creation." The attitude of such a convention it will be seen is one of hostility to trusts and its main object is to devise a means for preventing their operation.. The Chicago conference, according to the call of i the Civic Federation, is "to discuss combinations and : trusts, their uses and abuses, embracing the subjects of transportation, labor, industrial and commercial j combinations.''' The object of this conference, there- I fore, is purely educational; it will aim to present all I sides of the issue impartially and will consider upon its merits every problem involved. After the Chicago conference. had been called the committee of arrangements discovered that while there has been much -discussion on the subject there has been very little reliable data brought forward upon which to base conclusions. To remedy that de ! feet the committee has issued blanks to upward of 1 20,000 persons, firms and corporations, more or less 1 affected by trusts, asking for replies to questions per j tinent to the controversy. By means of these replies j the committee expects to be able to compile a larger ; fund of information on the subject of trusts and their i effects than has yet been furnished. Of the two conferences, that at Chicago promises jto be the more interesting. A considerable number i of Governors and Attorneys General have accepted ' the invitation to the St. Louis meeting and it will doubtless be well attended, but the results are not ! likely to be profitable. At the utmost it can only ; agree upon some declamatory resolutions denouncing trusts, more useful for stump speakers in the cam j paigns of the fall than for intelligent legislators seek- ing to devise laws for the good of their common- wealths. From the Chicago conference, on the other hand. there may be expected a discussion' of the subject that will increase the public understanding of its prob lems and thus prepare the way for such legislation as THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1899. may be needed to regulate them and guard against abuses. In fact if the anti-trust Governors and At torneys General who are going: to the convention st St. Louis are wise, they will attend the Chicago con: ference first and learn something of both sides of the issue they purpose to deal with. THE EAST AND THE WEST. ACCORDING to a report from Washington, ; one of the most serious obstacles in the way of procuring governmental aid for the irriga tion of arid districts of the West is the opposition of Eastern interests. It is said many people in that sec tion of the Union regard the development of the West as in some measure prejudicial to Eastern farmers inasmuch as it will tend to diminish the value of farm lands and the prices of farm products. A prominent leader of one of the Eastern granges is quoted as saying he could see nothing in the way of results from irrigation under the supervision and by the aid of the national Government but a local benefit to the West, and that he did not think it right for the people of the whole country to be taxed for the purpose of helping a few sparsely settled arid States. It is of course inevitable that some sectional oppo- I sition to the vast work of irrigation should develop. 1 It is true that the Eastern States do not need irriga- I tion and that if the national Government undertake the work of constructing great storage reservoirs, the Eastern as well as the Western taxpayer will have j tt. assist in defraying the cost. The issue is therefore a sectional one, but it is not more so than any other I wcrk of internal improvement. When the interior of the country is taxed to provide revenues for the im provement of harbors on the coast, the residents of. the coast cities can easily perceive the improvement I is for the general good, but when it is proposed to I improve the interior of the country some Atlantic Coast people see nothing in it but a movement for a \ purely Western benefit. Fortunately it is not likely. that merely sectional considerations will have much weight in determining the action of the Government on an issue of this kind. It is true that almost every river and harbor bill and every bill providing for the construction of post offices is made up largely by an interchange of favors between the members of Congress from the different districts that are to be benefited, but in measures dealing with large matters there is very little sectional ] ism displayed. When a comprehensive irrigation { policy has been given definite form and comes up for action, the leaders of Congress, the directing states men of the nation, will not give much heed to ob j jections interposed on sectional grounds. The fact that some sectional opposition exists ! ought, however, to arouse the people of the West to the importance of making a united effort to bring the issue fairly before the nation and to educate the East upon the advantage which the whole people will derive from the upbuilding of the semi-arid section of the Union. The problems of irrigation on the vast scale required to redeem the arid and semi-arid re gions cannot be adequately dealt with by any power less than that of the national Government, and he is but a narrow-minded American who can see in such i redemption nothing but a local benefit for the dis tricts where the irrigation will be supplied. A DEMOCRATIC ELI WANTED. WHILE Bryan has been sweeping one Demo- cratic State convention after another into the old stampede for free silver, the conservative Democrats are still puffing and panting in the race after the wild crowd trying to get them back into the old road. They are making the race with a persis tency worthy of their cause, and loud are their shouts to one another, "Get there, Eli, and head them steers." William F. Harrity. who has been for some time at Saratoga talking politics with aristocratic Democrats from all parts of the country, declares the prevailing feeling among them is a desire to get rid of Bryan and bring about a reunion of the party. He says: "The uppermost thought in the minds of those whom I casually met was the hope that the Democratic National Convention of iooo would pursue such a conservative course that all Democrats and citizens generally of independent tendencies might cordially and enthusiastically support the platform and the can didate." Similar expressions come from other sources. The Nashville American recently said: "Mr. Bryan has unquestionably lost strength with many thinking men in the South, not only because free coinage has lost prestige, but because of his indefinite position regard ing expansion and his weak handling of the trust question." ' The Philadelphia Times, an independent Democratic paper, says: "Many of the Democratic leaders be paper, says: "Many of the Democratic leaders be lieve, or pretend to believe, that Mr. Bryan will be lieve, or pretend to believe, that Mr. Bryan will be renominated as the Democratic candidate for Presi dent next year, but. fearful and suicidal as have been the Democratic follies of the past, there is little like the Democratic follies of the past, there is little like lihood that the next Democratic National Convention will select a candidate for President who would be known from start to finish as the leader of an utterly known from start to finish as the leader of an utterly forlorn hope." From East and West and North and South come reports of that kind. There is a prevalent desire for reports of that kind. There is a prevalent desire for harmony among such Democrats as , can afford to harmony among such Democrats as can afford to spend the summer at Saratoga and talk politics over spend the summer at Saratoga and talk politics over $10 dinners, there is a belief among sane Democrats that the rank and file will not be foolish enough to re that the rank and file will not be foolish enough to re peat in iooo the crazy stampede of 1896, ahd there "is peat in 1900 the crazy stampede of 1806, and there is a conviction among earnest Democrats that Bryan is not equal to the demands of the new issues before the country; but what do all these desires, beliefs and country; but what do all these desires, beliefs and convictions amount to? They serve but to engender illusions in the minds of those who cherish them. The illusions in the minds of those who cherish them. The wild steers arc following the wilder ass of the Platte wild steers are following the wilder ass of the Platte with as much of rampage and recklessness as ever, and the Eli who is expected to head them off is not visible on the prairie. California boys needed just such an opportunity as was afforded them Thursday to prove '-'that they brought along with them from the Philippines the appetites with which they were provided when they left San Francisco. They didn't do a thing to that breakfast! At Vienna the other day a rich banker, having failed, hanged himself by the neck until he was dead. An unfeeling telegraph editor labeled the story "An other Banker Suspends." Oom Paul apparently has taken for granted the truth of the saying that the English are a nation of shop keepers. At least, he has ,made them a number of counter propositions. A Japanese, morally and physically diseased, is to be allowed to land at this port because he is a mer chant. There is some merchandise that San Francisco does not want. \ . "'.. y "Px-xX'/X- . '>' Lynching may now be placed in the category of luxuries in the South. It costs now, according to the dispatches, $5000 apiece to hang men without author ity of law. A WEEK'S TALES FROM THE MINING FIELD The attendance and enthusiasm at the annual convention of the El Dorado County Miners' Association at Placer ville on Saturday evening shows that the life and the enterprising spirit of the mining regions are increasing with the growing mining prosperity. Other county conventions will early follow, and there is every promise of Secretary Benjamin of the California Miners' Association meeting with great success in his efforts to stimulate the increase of membership in the county associations and so further strengthen the State: association, which is composed of these federated county organizations. A lucky tenderfoot has struck it rich in the woods about six miles west of old Fruitvale, Shasta County, in section 3, township, 33 north, range 2 west, and ere- ated a rush to the new diggings. A week or two before James Wilson and wife of Oakland struck out north for a health vacation and wisely decided to go far from the Southern Pacific and close to nature. They traveled the Fall River road tor twenty-five miles from Redding to the old Ben Jenkins place and then they followed the Ridge road for miles until they found a deserted old cabin and settled in it with joy and canned goods. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were not after gold, they knew nothing about mining and no- body knew anything- about gold being in those parts. No experienced prospector was ever fool enough to dig on section 3, and the old miner who left the cabin long ago used to strike out over a trail north by northeast to hills worth exploring. Wilson decided, however, to be a miner for a few minutes as well as a fisherman and child of nature, and took a pick and shovel and told Mrs. Wilson that he was going to be a prospector until supper was ready. He went about 100 yards from the cabin, keeping, in reach of the supper voice, and went to digging in an easy place. As the Redding Searchlight says: "A£ter working for a quarter of an hour he struck a small boulder, and throwing it out of the way, a bed of sparkling gold I quartz was revealed. Then the novice I miner, who had struck gold before he had i started the perspiration, called his wife j and an Impromptu celebration was held ! upon the spot. The gold stood out in little clusters. Wilson proceeded to develop his 1 property and found the pocket, if such' it is, to be extensive. On the day follow- ing the discovery over $200 was taken out. Mrs. Wilson brought specimens of the quartz to Redding, and its unusual richness is apparent at a glance. How ■ much gold she and her husband have j taken out the lady did not state, but it j has already reached a handsome sum. "People living in the vicinity have learned of the rich find, and all the country thereabout is being plastered with location notices. More than thirty claims have been located in the vicinity of the place where the Wilsons made their strike. Indications of gold, silver and copper are said to abound." Many cemeteries here and there, in the gold mining regions have seen the peace of the dead disturbed by gold diggers. Every mountain hamlet has Its little city of the dead near by, and here and there these consecrated acres contain gold enough to pay for working. In some cases hydraulic miners have come along with their big flumes and giants and gone to working the surrounding ground. Sometimes the bones have been moved to a patch of ground that could be better spared to the departed miners by the live ones, and in some cases the sur j rounding ground has been sluiced away ! to the line of the cemetery fence, leaving high and deep banks from which, with the wear of weather and time, coffins ! would later stick out, overhanging the i bedrock reached below. One of these au riferous cemeteries so treated is at Trinity Center on the upper Trinity River, where the rest of the deep river beach has been worked on all sides, leav- ing a square block of ground thirty or forty feet high that looms up with raw, red sides from miles away. There are others elsewhere that have been so let alone. * '.-'"• Other rich cemeteries have had other troubles, and there Is one up at Colum bia. Tuolumne County, that has just been saved by Father Cuerin. who wants to let the gold rest there under the dead where the Almighty put it. It seems that the bedrock in that Catholic cemetery some distance below the marble crosses is quite rich, the pay dirt in which the dead are entombed going sometimes several dollars to the pan. Joseph Morris and James Hambleton, although they had not yet acquired claims in the burying ground, proceeded some time ago to "run a tunnel drift out into the pay dirt and were Stopped. Then they went -to stealthily doing their tunneling at night and kept it up for several nights until their ghastly trespassing was dis- covered and put a stop to last week by the good priest in control of the ground. In the past the adjoining ground was worked so close to the cemetery that the fence was undermined. The County Sur veyor last week staked out the boundaries of* the consecrated ground and gold dig- gers will be kept out of it until they have no more use for nuggets. There is a little gold excitement in the mountains in the # interior of Santa Bar bara County, where there was one three or four years ago. Last week the County Recorder received four location notices by mail from Guadalupe and recorded them. As location notices are now an important subject of discussion, the form of one of these may be of interest. It is as follows: -'-*- - -r "Xi PUCK June 16 I*oo this is to certlf that I Mrs Allice Mo- Phial and Mrs A Hobson hay Locked all vakend ground between the Cumbland and Shonedoah mines running from the S E End of cumbland to the N. W. End of the Shanedoah mine about one Mile North of the schol house in Santa Bar bara county." There are a great number of mining j men in Eos Angeles at the present ; time., says the Los Angeles Times. Many i of them are here on business connected i with Southern California properties, ; some buying supplies for their own prop- erties, others on their way north or south; others, again, are here with their ; families, taking advantage of the less in tense heat as compared with that which usually prevails in other sections at this period of the year. The majority of them express the desire to learn more of the mineral resources of this part of Cali fornia, and manifest surprise when told of the number of mines that are being worked and the value of the metals and minerals taken out. -\i , 1 „ W. H. Crocker has bonded for Eastern parties, says the Yreka (Cal.) Journal, the Reeder and Brown group of quartz ledges In Fool's Paradise district on Shasta River, about half way between Hawkins- vllle and Klamath River, and that they are to he thoroughly prospected with a new six-stamp mill. The ledges in that district have all shown rich prospects, and good placer mines also exist, which have not been worked to much extent on account of the lack of water and want of means on the part of owners of claims to build mills, ditches and other Im provements needed for successful op erations. - * Denis Clark, the millionaire mine owner of Spokane, Wash., who has been inspecting some mining properties in San Diego County, has decided not to INTERIOR PRESS PRAISES THE CALL'S SOUVENIR EDITION The Call distanced all of its competitors in getting out a special edition in honor of the returning volunteers. Its illustrations were the best we have seen in any newspaper for some time, and the reporters all did themselves proud in their descriptive work. .»:; . ' Winnemucca Silver State. The volunteer souvenir edition of The San Francisco Call, which was issued Thursday, is one of the prettiest pieces of newspaper work that has come to our tables for a long time. The taste, ability and good sense displayed in getting lt up does credit not only to The Call, but to Pacific Coast journalism. The horrible mixture of dirty yellow and glaring red which is becoming a part of the special editions of many of our metropolitan contemporaries was lacking, and although a negative features it was one of the most praiseworthy connected with the effort. - Benicia New Era. ' - The Call easily distanced all its rivals in its Thursday morning's edition, in which was announced the arrival of the First California heroes. The issue was really a magnificent one and head and shoulders above anything from any of the other metropolitan presses on that day. The Call "put it all over", the other San Francisco dallies yesterday, just like a coat of paint. The Illustrations In that paper were the best ever printed by a newspaper on the coast. The wash drawings by :Methfessel, representing the boys of the gallant. First California in action,' were magnificent. Nothing more appropriate to the occasion could have been conceived or executed with greater skill. ; * -Z^pPyPyXi > ' '< * . - ■ Wi [ purchase the Dewey mine In the grape ' vine district of that county at the price asked for it— s2oo,ooo. The Lightner, says the Stockton Inde- pendent, is the latest mine to attract at- tention in the mountains near by, the sec- ond twenty stamps having been started a few days ago, making forty stamps to pound up the big vein that is known to hold out to a depth of nearly 500 feet. Commencing September lst work will be rushed on a contract to sink 200 feet deep- er in the Lightner, and there is no fear that the vein will not hold out as the shaft is sunk. So far the mine has de- veloped better as depth was reached, and there Is reason to believe the property will prove one of the best paying deep mines of the mother lode section in Cal- averas, barring only the Gwin. A company is being formed for the pur- pose of dredging the Tuolumne river be- tween Roberts Ferry and La Grange for gold. It is believed that the river channel has fine gold in paying quantities, and rights are being obtained for the purpose of dredging the river. By the process proposed the debris and gravel in the river will be dredged and run through flumes and re-emptied into the river. The dredging will be done with buckets that will raise a ton of slickens, which will be run through a flume on the boat, which is to be about 60 feet long, and then returned to the river. Several of the rights have already been secured and enough ground will be reserved before the company start in to justify the large outlay of money re- quired to give the mining a thorough test. —Grass Valley Union. '■"■■'• Z'-P,, Good reports come from the Harris or Bonanza mine, south of Angels, which is , largely owned by Stockton men. A rich | ledge of rock was recently struck, and i the vein matter is 40 feet wide at a depth of 200 feet, with every indication of widen- j I ing as the shaft goes down. • Old miners of that section predict that the Harris j will be one of the richest producers of the Angels district. The mine adjoins the I Brunei-, which is one of the good ones, and is in a locality where there are no fail- | ures.— Stockton Independent. In the Coalinga oil district they are cry- I ing for water to get oil with, as It takes about fifty barrels a day to drill a well j and in that arid region water Js scarce. | Two companies are tunneling for water * in hills some distance away. The Lucky Boy quartz mine, located about four miles from San Andreas, on the Copperopolis road, has been sold, or bonded, by its owner, James Waters, to a Boston syndicate for $10,000, according to | the Calaveras Citizen. On Wednesday $1000 was paid down by the bonders and agreements were signed calling for the payment of $1000 every six months until ! the total sum of $10,000 shall have been paid. . It is the intention of the new owners of the Lucky Boy to put a steam hoist on the mine and to sink at least 500 feet on the ledge. Work is to begin within thirty days, after which a systematic develop- : : me'nt of the property is to be made. Four gold bricks, with a value in the neighborhood of $10,000, were placed in the Tuolumne County Bank this week, says i the Tuolumne Independent. They are ; from a clean-up at the Longfellow mine, at Big Oak Flat. Many such consign- ments from various mines throughout the county are quietly stored away dur- ing a month's time. . J,„„*„„(> The Thorpe Gold Mining Syndicate.of which Prince Poniatowski is at the head, has surrendered Its bond on the Thorpe mine. It is said that the syndicate has spent over $100,000 on the property. The Gwin Mine Development Company has declared dividend No. 9 of 5 cents per share, amounting to $5000, payable imme diately, and carries a surplus for the new 40-stamp mill and other works now in ; process of construction. - Calaveras Chronicle. „ . , ,„_.,_ A mining deal of considerable impor tance was consummated In San Andreas on Wednesday last, when J. J. McSorle> and Prescott Ely secured a bond on the Hudson the Mester, the Jackson and the Macchiavelll. a group of four mines situ ■ ated near North Branch, says the Cala- veras Citizen. These claims are all ad i joining, running noth and south or nearly so With the mother lode, the last being only about two miles from town. These mines are on the footwall belt of the i mother lode, and they have been promi nently mentioned by mining men for years because of their location in respect of the trend of the mother lode. Numerous ef- forts have been made by promoters and j 1 capitalists to bond or buy these properties, | but without avail. They were owned by i rich men or persons well able to hold them, and thus remained idle. | The Empire copper mine, the property of Charles Braid, has been sold to the -\mes estate of Boston. The Empire is one of the principal mines of the famous group at Copperopolis. It carries with it nearly twenty acres of land. The price paid was $60,000, and of this amount Braid received $27,500 and the promoters of the deal the balance. The fact thai the Ames people -desire to obtain possession , of all the valuable copper properties in that town fortells another boom for Copper- opolis. The mines, which have not been worked for many years, formerly paid well It is said that $2,000,000 worth of ore is now lying ready for the smelter.— Tuol- umne Independent. There is quite a revival in the copper business in the Campo Seco and Ca- manche regions, too. A furnace is now in \ operation at the latter place and heavy j machinery is going into that section, once so lively and prosperous, but which has been dead for ever so many years. Some slight changes have been made in the rates of milling ore at the Barstow mill It was found that to mill low grade i ore at $125 per ton there was a small ac- j tual loss, as the cost was a few cents more than that. The rates on all ore run- ning to $20 or less will hereafter be $1 50 ! per ton and $1 25 for freight, making a i total of $2 75. The company will also buy the concentrates or permit the parties \ having ore milled to take them away, as ! they prefer. If they buy they will pay 95 per cent of the assay value, less freight j and smelting charges, which are abqut j $16 per Randsburg Miner. i The sale has been closed in San Fran- j cisco of the Gopher-Boulder and Delma- i tia mines, with mills and water power, | near Kelsey. El Dorado County. The | price paid was between $100,000 and $150.- i 000, cash down. The sale was made through D. H. Jackson, formerly super- I intendent of the Holmes mine, Candelaria. Nev. The seller is W. C. Bell, and the ; r.ew owners are J. C. Alvarado and others j of London, England. The property is a I group of gold quartz mines operating 120 ; tons a day. The plant is run by electri- city. Mr. Jackson is to be the superin- ! tendent for the new owners, and seventy men will find constant employment.— Record-Union. *** *,-,: J. Burton, who has been operating the ! Crystal mine and also the Green Moun- tain hydraulic, both of which properties are located in Chill Gulch about two miles ; from this place, has started up another ' mining operation, says the Calaveras i Chronicle. It seems to be the general ! opinion of all the old miners in this sec- i tion that there is a "basin" in French j Hill that has never been "bottomed." Mr. Burton intends to find out whether this theory is correct or not. He has started I a tunnel in Steep Gulch for the purpose I of "tapping" the basin, work on which was commenced Monday last. French I Hill In the early days was the richest spot ! in the State, and there were thousands | upon thousands of dollars taken out of I what the miners in those days called "pot I holes." The claims were sixteen feet ! : square, and old settlers have told us that I they averaged two ounces per day to the i man. J. O. DENNY. . Visalia Times. Merced Sun. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The fleet of foreign ships at war U» Asiatic waters numbers 10b a Asiatic waters ™mbersflol- « United Great Britain Is represented by 35 un States 22. Russia 19, France 10, Germany 8, Italy 5 and Austria and Portugal on each. _ . An investigation is being made at the Devonport dockyard to discover *„ whereabouts of 11.000 gallons of °"v«°"* which has mysteriously disappeared norn the storehouse. The value of the missing oil is about $530?. but the London Times reports the shortage at 11.000 ton* As this weight would represent about *£?£? gallons, which would be worth $1,600,000 lt is evident that the Times has confused the terms of gallons and tons. The French torpedo gunboat Hallebarde. of 300 tons, recently made the trip from Havre to Cherbourg at a speed of twenty five knots an hour. The Hallebarde is what would be denominated a torpedo boat destroyer in any other navy, and her speed, while it falls short of thirty knots, as British boats of that class are claimed to make, has been intentionally cut down to that lower figure, as the naval authorities prefer a reliable speed to the excessive speed which may or may not be reached, owing to the extreme lightness of hull and machinery of ane British destroyers. British destroyers. The new British battleship Ocean expe rienced some difficulties before she was able to proceed with her regular steam trials. During a preliminary trial her bearings became overheated and had to be overhauled, and then her steering gear was discovered to be out of order. On August 2 the ship passed through the first series of trials, with the following results: Thirty hours under one-fifth power—steam, 210 pounds; revolutions, 66.8; horsepower, 2767; speed, 11.4 knots: coal consumption, at' the rate of 184 pounds, per - horsepower per hour. The ship is fitted with twenty Belleville boilers of the latest improvement, the tubes of which are of solid drawn steel ranging from 4% to 2% inches in diameter, and gal vanized externally. The heating surface is 35,715 square feet and the grate surface 1035 square feet. Under full power the machinery is to develop 13.500 horsepow er, giving a speed of 18% knots. The steam trials include: First, a preliminary trial at sea; second, thirty hours' continuous steaming under one-fifth pressure; third, thirty hours' steaming under three-fifths power; fourth, eight hours under full power. London Engineering compares the Brit ish armored cruiser Cressy, in course of construction, with the Asama, of a similar type, built at Elswick for the Japanese navy. It would apear from a comparison of the data as if the Elswick builders manage to design highly efficient ships upon displacements considerably less than are required by the British admiralty. The relative dimensions and other data of the two ships are as follows: ~ •Quick firing. The Cressy has a water line belt six inches thick, which, however, does not ex tend all around, while the Amasa's belt, of seven-inch maximum thickness, ex tends from stem to stern, tapering to three inches at the ends. The Cressy's citadel armor is six inches, the Amasa's five Inches. Thus 0n.9700 tons Elswick builds a faster and heavier aVmed ship than the British admiralty produce on 12,000 tons. The discrepancy is so great as to be accounted for only in the possible fact that the supply of ammunition is much greater to each gun in the British ship than that allotted to the Japanese. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. DE YOUNG— N. N., City. cnaries ac Young was shot and killed in San Fran cisco April 23, 1880. HUDSON— N. C. C. City. The popula tion of Hudson, Mich., is estimated at about 3000. HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME— N. N C City. The principal characters in "The 'Hunchback of Notre Dame" are Quassimodo and Esmeralda. BACK DATES-W. J. W., City. The year 1876 was a leap year. The Ilth of November that year fell on a Saturday md the same date in 1878 fell on a Mon day. : THE LEGISLATORS— E. B. M., City. THE LEGISLATORS— E. B. M., City. rhe Call of December 9, 1898, has a full ist of the members of the last held Legis lature, together vith the postofflce ad- Iress of each. ■ WOMEN ARCHITECTS— L. C, City. rhere are no women architects In San Prancisco. At the Mark Hopkins Insti ute of Art there is a school of architecture ;vhere women, if they feel so inclined, can >nter as students. POETS OF AMERICA— H. P.. Han lord, Cal. "The Poets of America" was Dublished by the American Publishing Association. Thomas W. Herrlngshaw, a publisher of Chicago, 111., was the com piler. He is still in that city. . GERMAN MEN-OF-WAR— A. S., City. rhe German cruiser Geier is not the first German man-of-war that has entered the larbor of San Francisco. The Leipzig, \lexandrine and Sophie were in this nar- Dor in 1881, they having arrived on the Ith of June of that year. ' FREEZE OUT POKER-E. B. M.vClty. [f A, B and C sit down to a gaftie of freeze out, A goes it blind. B and C call ifter the draw; B passes, as also does C. A. makes a bet, B calls and raises the act and A on calling finds that B has beat ilm, throws up his hand, C has no right to demand a snow of the hand. The Last Straw Coming. Sacramento Bee. It Is becoming to be a matter of gen eral belief that there is a degree of prob ibillty that an extra session of the Legis lature will be called for the purpose of sleeting D. M. Burns as the United States 3enator, although the ostensible object In view will be the patching up of the Vrooman cat. * •• ■:..- If the Legislature of the State of Cali fornia is called into session for the pur pose of electing D. M. Burns United states Senator and does elect him to that office, the next Legislature will be a Dem ocratic Legislature, and the next Gov ernor of the State of California will be a Democrat. :"*..*' ,v.y The people will stand a great many things, but they will not stand every thing. ■ "22-x.p- pxr. ; .. -. ■ ♦ * 1 glace fruit 50c per lb at Townsend's. • ..- - — ■ ♦ — -y-.y-- Special information supplied daily to justness houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * A marriage license was recently is sued In Kentucky to William Bird. aged 70, and Mary Chaff, aged 22. This would indicate that an old bird may be caught by chaff after all. "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. 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