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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. ; ..
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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. It soothes the child, softens
the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regu
lates the Bowels and is the best remedy for
Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or
other causes.','- For sale 'by. druggists In every
part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup, 26c a bottle.
HOTEL DEL CO RON A DO— Take advantage
of the round trop tickets. Now only $60 by
steamship. including . fifteen days' board at
hotel; longer stay. $2 50 per day. Apply at 4
New Montgomery street. San Francisoo.
Very Low Bates East.
.On August 29 and 30. the papular Santa Vt
route will sell tickets to Philadelphia and re
turn at the very low rate of $88 85. Occa
sion, National Encampment, G. A. R. Call at
628 Market st. for full particular!.