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San Francisco, Saturday, January 2, 1869.

VOLUME UCVIII.

Table of Contents.

-THUS

\\ 1

M. i.- Water wii

Krell ii Mluesl

H 11 male Bund Separa-
■its linolliup.
fine Silver Ore De-

U'nliiK In I'Ii.'.t Onontv.

'1., Bliwr Coat Cotton rittrou-.

Malarial

Cud Llvur Oil.
Iron i.v Electricity.
Dumcsiill's IV I DC ProceM
Bi-a Weeds lor .Medical Pur-

J..JM*.

S...i(i liri-wlnif oil Trees.

Enterprises a n d Develop-
ments.

Cli liases in Hvdraullc .Minim;

[miiruved Method or Work-
ing Koasted i.old and Silver
Ores

Ueologlcal Survey Map.

At ti .1 Oli.il. M ISCN I.I. ANT —

Ilcaton's Process; Tiic'aei'
ol Twisted Wheels; Theory
ul Puddling j BultH ami
Nuts ; Ji ridge Across the
Channel.

Mem

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Turiion lite
M.-brt-kn;

UlMM.Sl M.I

I. IN' illlullll
Various coi

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Alcohol a-i Fond.

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Ktiilroml U111 nliij; Uxmrsion.
The Overland Uonllily.
Bxcln-lveiiess Anions Sci-
ential*.
Sulphur Treatment ol Wine,
^uarrving witli Hie aid ol

Frost

French Leather.
Mechanical Taste
San Frniicisto .Mining Rharc-
Uoldcra' Directory. ^

Now Vurk Metal Market.
San Francisco .Mci.il Market,
san Francisco Market Rates.
Notices to Correspondent*.
Stock Prices— Bid and Asked.
New Incorporations.

The Turbine Water Wheel in the
Foot-Hills.

THB BODINE JONVAL TUBBINE.

Economical power, in a land -whose capa-
bilities are so vast and suggestive as those
of California, in connection with our stead-
ily developing manufactures and increasing
commerce — not to mention its particular
relation to the present leading interests of
the foot-hills, which are serving to plant
others that will be more permanent —
becomes a question of an attractive char-
acter in a general way. Like the rich val-
leys which were but recently passed by as
worthless, now blooming like the rose, so
2)ower, and the conditions attending its fa-
vorable application to supplying the
world's demands, is undervalued, or over-
looked; it is passed by without the bestow-
al of a thought upon the matter, because
we do not realize sufficiently that condi-
tions, such as the cost and facility of trans-
portation, the price of labor, and the extent
of the governing commercial demands, are
changing materially, and not by any means
slowly, under our eyes.

MiniDg in the foot-hills will never fall off
suddenly; it is evident that even deep pla-
cer mining must last profitably for centu-
ries. In view of the situation of California,
of the Pacific world, and of our incompar-
able ad vantages of climate and water-power
and the delightful natural surroundings
presented- by the foot-hills for nestling-
thriving manufacturing villages and com-
fortable populations, where every laborer
shall literally rejoice under his own thrifty
vine and fig tree, and where the skies are
as pure and bright as those of Italy, it
seems strange and unaccountable, though
fact it is, that rich lands, and picturesque
oak-glades, reminding of English parks, in
the vicinity of green valley nooks having
abundant streams, should remain lying
worthless, or be held to-day at only a few
dollars an acre, within twelve hours travel
of San Francisco.

Steam and cheap coal near tide water,
may offer greater inducements at present
for the location of a limited number of
manufacturing enterprises while transporta-
tion is an item against the foot-hills; but
the future, whether far or near, is definitely
foreshadowed.

With the turbine water wheel the pre-
liminaries to obtain power cost little or

nothing; several hundred dollars is all the
capital that is required to furnish that
which will set any kind of machinery in
motion. A wheel 3 J^ inches in diameter, —
that may bo carried in the pocket, — with
100 feet head, will give one-horse power;
one of five or six inches diameter will give
eight to ten-horse power; a 9 inch tur-
bine, with sixty inches of water and 100
feet head, will give 10-hoi-se power at 38
revolutions a minute. The cost of a
turbine that will run a 20-statnp mill,

able proportion of the laboring population
of the State, though hitherto confined for
obvious reasons, mainly to the vicinity of
San Francisco

To give an idea of the simplicity of the
turbine, and its adaptation to small quan-
tities with a great fall of water, the twro ac-
companying illustrations, being perspec-
tive and sectional views of Bodine's Jonval
turbine, will serve our purpose. The tur-
bine is fitted into a tube, box or "pen-
stock," where thejwater, in passing forcibly

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Fif. Z.— 3EC1DNAL VIEW.

(about 23-horse power,) with G2 feet of
water is &250, and of the pipe for the same,
from $1.50 to ©3. To inaugurate wooden
ware, turning, or furniture factories, asmall
outlay, with favorable transportation to mar-
ket, would be the only necessary conditions.
Respectable houses and generous home
comforts are still too rarely found in Cali-
fornia, yet there are great improvements
being made. Hundreds of little articles of
use and ornament, — carpets, and other tex-
tile wooden and iron fabrics, such as ma"
chinery and local production can present
cheaply, are already employing a consider-

down must pass through it, in a manner
precisely the reverse of the steamer pro-
peller— the water moving the propeller,
instead of the latter moving against tho
water. Fig. 1 exhibits the appearance of
the complete instrument, as looked at from
the outside; fig. 2 shows the relations of
the upper and stationary port to the lower
and moving- half; the white lines represen-
ting the buckets, or shovels, to which the
flow of water has to accommodate itself, i
and the arrows showing the direction tak-
en by the water, which forces the lower
half and its connected axle, to turn.

Regarding the different kinds of water
wheels and water engines in use — the
over-shot, the under shot, tho breast half-
way-between these, and the turbine, are the
common ones; all of which are modified
by a great variety of shapes as to tho
shovels or buckets used; in which the prim-
itive principle, however, remains the same.
Amongst the turbines that of Fourneyron,
the inventor, was the earliest, but it has
been superceded by numerous others.

The Bodine Jonval wheel, here repre-
sented, is manufactured in Westfield, Mas-
sachusetts, by the Bodine Company, a new
association. With some of the gentlemen
composing the company, we are personally
acquainted. They are represented on this
coast by Messrs. Fuller & Co., No. 109
Montgomery street, who are just introduc-
ing the wheels into this field.
The proprietors make the following claims
for their wheel :

That for all positions and under any
head of water, it is better adapted to drive
machinery than any other kind of wheel in
use.

As the wateT enters in a direct line of the
wheel's rotation, we avoid the lateral press-
ure and friction against the curb, to which
other wheels are subject, hence it will give
out a greater amount of power with the
same quantity of water, than any other
wheel ever invented.

It has the advantage of using every inch
of the head or fall of the water, and is not
effected by frost in any way.

The water can be shut off at any time,
and the wheel left dry for repairs or for the
removal of accidental obstructions.

Our wheel is so constructed that the head
and fall of the water produces no weight
upon the step; the tendency of the water
is to raise the wheel which prevents the
step from wearing, and overcomes much
friction to which other turbines are sub-
jected. Our steps and followers are made
of lignnmvita5. We had wheels running
under high heads, for nearly two years, in
which the step has not run down a parti-
cle. If after long usage the step should
wear down, it is but the work of a momen'
to raise it to its original position.

The wheel is cast in one piece, by a new
process peculiarly designed for the pur-
pose, making it a strong, smooth and per-
fectly balanced wheel.

They are made in the most substantial
manner, of iron or brass; greater weight of
metal is used than is customary with other
builders, consequently greater strength
and durability is obtained.

The wheel is held to its proper place at
all times, by a bridge tree above and below,
secured firmly to the case of the wheel.

We have a new adjustable step upon
which the wheel rests, by which the bight
of the wheel is regulated to the case, so
there will be no loss of water by leakage.
In our next number we shall continue
the subject of turbine and water wheels,
speaking more particularly of other wheels

White Pise. — Edward B.Dorsey, M.E.,
who has just returned from White Pine,
reports that a careful examination of the
ore deposits there, convinces him fully of
their close similarity in character to the
mines with Avhich he was formerly con-
nected at Chanarcillo. Chili; except that
the several veins which he has been able to
reooguize as such, are contact veins, and
that they contain a good deal of quartz in
the gangue.

Tl\e Mining and Sciei^tilic Press.

Communications.

I« this Dbpaktment we invite the frke nisccssioN nf all
nroper subjects— correspondents alone being responsible for
t'le ideas and theories they advance.

[Written for the Mining and Scientific Press.l

The Freligh Milbank Mines, Dutcliess
County, N. T.

Editoks Press: — I visited, Deo. 1st, in
company withaparty of scientific and prac-
tical quartz operators, the Freligh Milbank
mines.

These mines are situated on the Murtch
Farm, in the township of Rhinebeck, Dutch-
ess County, N. Y., between three and four
miles easterly from the village of Rhine-
beck, and about six miles from Rhinecliff
railroad station, on the Hudson Eiver. The
region is hilly, or mountainous, and in line
with the Appalachian range, to which it
evidently belongs.

These mines, thus far developed, consist-
ing of four nearly or quite parallel lodes,
I traced by their outcrops something over
a mile, and I am informed by Dr. Edwin
G. Freligh, their discoverer, Dr. J. G.
Pohle, geologist and chemist, and Col. J.
C. Lane, mining engineer and geologist,
that they have traced them a distance of
over forty miles, and that thus far they
maintain their parallelism and distinctive
features respectively.

On one of these veins, the Hudson, an
opening sixteen feet long, wide as the vein,
and twenty feet deep, has been made. The
strike is N. 25° E., dip about 60° E., thick-
ness, at right angles to the dip, fourteen
feet ten inches. The veinstone consists of
cellular quartz alternating with thin layers
of slate rich in iron pyrites.

The quartz, unlike the " boulder forma-
tion!' (so-called on the Pacific Coast), is
fine and delicate in its crystalline structure,
much resembling that of the better portion
the Oneida, Eureka, Keystone, and Spring
Hill quartz veins of California. The cavi-
ties in the quartz of the Hudson lode are,
for the most part, filled with the oxide of
iron, the result of the decomposition of the
sulphides of iron. The salvage or "gouge"
between the lode and "foot-wall," is dis-
tinct and regular, and about an inch thick.
The wall rock on both sides of the vein is
a talco-argillaceons slate. The surface of
the earth for at least a mile and a half along
the descent from the mine toward the river,
is of a reddish-brown color, and is strewn
with float or fragmentary quartz, varying
in size from the grain to that of a foot in
diameter.

The survey shows a point at the opening
to be seven hundred feet above the river.
Dr. O. P. Southwell, of California, and
myself broke off about thirty pounds of the
rock near the bottom of the opening and
three feet from the foot-walL We gathered
about a pound of the decomposed material
underlying this rock, which was hastily
washed in a prospecting horn by Mr. J. A.
Sperry, a thorough, practical miner. The
result was highly satisfactory, showing
many particles of gold visible to the naked
eye. A small piece of rock taken from an-
other place in the opening, was pulverized
and washed, and several minute particles of
gold obtained. I was shown the certificates
of Messrs. Secor, Swan & Co., and other
competent and responsible metallurgists,
who had worked several tons of the rock
from this lode. The lowest yield by amal-
gamation was §11.38 per ton — the average
upwards of $20 per ton. Assays by the
same parties, also by Dr. Torrey, of the TJ.
S. Mint, present a still better showing.
From the data obtaiued I canbut conclude
as follows, viz:

First— That the Hudson lode is a true
fissure vein.

Second — That the rock is in large quan-
tities, and can be mined at a low cost.

Third — That it is a gold-bearing vein
sufficiently rich in gold to be worked with
profit.

Fourth — That the rock can be worked
to advantage by amalgamation.

Fifth — That the water on the premises is
convenient and abundant for steam, milling
and amalgamation, on a large scale.

Sixth— That the grounds near the open-
ing mentioned are favorable as to elevation
and declivity for quartz mill purposes.

Such, I understand and believe, are the
convictions of each one of the party who
visited the mines with me.

Dr. Southwell, a man of sound judgment,
scholarly attainments and great practical
experience in all the departments of min-
ing and treatment of ores, authorizes me to
say that he fully indorses the conclusions
to which I have come.

As to the other veins mentioned parallel
with the Hudson lode, I will simply remark
that their heavy outcrops indicate large
lodes, and that wherever they have been
broken the rock looks well, and, as I am
advised by Dr. Pohle, contains gold.

As to the discovery of these mines, the
facts are, substantially, that in 1859 Dr. E.
G. Freligh the younger, then a medical
studt nt and a lover of geological science,
much questioned the theory of the day, in
reference to the non-existence of gold in
this vicinity. He seized upon these facts:
1st. That the geological formation was sim-
ilar to that of the Appalacian range north
and south of the region in question. 2d.
That the color- of the soil indicated mineral
deposits. 3d. That the. "float rock" or frag-
mentary quartz strewn over the ground was
significant of a "Mother Vein" in the
vicinity.

Possessed of these data, he vigorously
pushed his explorations until rewarded by
the discovery of the vein, or rather system
of gold-bearing veins, above described.

Saying nothing of the honor due Dr. Fre-
ligh, the discovery at least is a proud tri-
umph of science, and one promising great
wealth to the owners of the mines, and in-
calculable benefits to the country.

P. M. Randall.

New York, Dec. 3, 1868.

The Magnetic Sand-Separating Machine.

Messes. Editoes. — I have read in your
paper of Dec. 12th, a description of the Met-
allurgical works of J. Mosheimer, of this
city: Of his furnace for reducing magnetic
iron sand ; also an invention of a machine said
to have been invented by Mr. Mosheimer,
for separating the fine magnetic ore from
the common sand. With due respect to
your statement and proper deference to your
informant, I will state that Mr. Mosheimer
is not the inventor of this magnetic separa-
tor as described. I claim to be the inventor
of that principle, and have in my possess-
ion a small model machine, made about five
years ago. Many of my friends have wit-
nessed the operation of my machine, and
now insist upon my requesting this correc-
tion. I would state that about three years
ago I had some connection with Mr. Mos-
heimer, and other gentlemen in constructing
a furnace to reduce magnetic oxides. I
furnished the plans and Mr. Mosheimer
executed the work, and during this time
and in presence of one of the gentlmen in-
terested in the furnace, I explained to Mr.
Mosheimer my principle and plan for sepa-
rating the ores, the same as you have des-
cribed in your paper. Since Mr Mosheim-
er's return from Europe, as the representa-
tive of the State of California to the World's
Fair, his mind has been so occupied and
time taken up in giving instructions upon
the various modes of treating metals that
probably he has forgotten the source of his
information in relation to the Magnetic
Separator. J. H. White.

San Francisco, Dec. 16'1968.

Veniilation in the Depths. — The min-
ers are obliged to put up with extreme heat
and inefficient ventilation in some of the
deep workings at Virginia City, notwith-
standing the use of blowers to a limited ex-
tent. The Safeguard says: We understand
that the employes in the Bullion incline
have about concluded that they are ex-
tremely liable to bring out at any moment
in a Chinese tea field. Heretofore, and all
along until within the last day or two, the
rock in the bottom of the incline has been
dry and hot almost beyond endurance, but
now water is exuding through small crev-
ices at the bottom, and most wonderful of
all, a current of air escapes at the same
point, with sufficient force to blow out the
workmen's candles if allowed to come in
contact with it. The miners never think of
going down the shaft now without being
provided with all the latest maps of China;
so that if they should strike through and
bring up in the interior of the Celestial
Kingdom they will be able to find their way
back to the sea coast.

[Written for the Mining and Scientific Press.]

Nevada Silver Ore Deposits- White Pine.

Having recently visited the new district
of White Pine, in southeastern Nevada,
I am enabled to give you my opin-
ion concerning that interesting country.
The principal mines now attracting so
much attention at home and abroad, are
those located on what is known as Treasure
Hill, and although I have made a critical
examination of the country about this hill,
for a distance of forty miles, I shall have
no time at^present to refer to anything but
Treasure Hill.

The town of Treasure City, and the prin-
cipal mines located on Treasure Hill, are
elevated close to 9,000 feet above the sea-
level, and the summit of the mountain rises
gradually to the hight of nearly 2,000 feet
above the level of the valley, which sur-
rounds, and makes this almost an isolated
peak, differing in some respects in forma-
tion and character from the adjacent mount-
ain ranges; the surrounding country, and
even the top of the mountain, bearing un-
mistakable evidence of having at no remote
period been covered by water.

As far as I have been able to study it,
the chief mountain formation belongs to
group 2, it being a conglomeration of lime
and calcspar filled with crystals of carbon-
ate of lime and chalky argillaceous earth,
carrying very large and irregularly defined,
veins, with extensive ore beds, evidently
lying horizontally from the hanging to the
foot-walls, resembling in many respects
some of the principal mines of Chili and
Peru.

The most noted mines at present opened,
are the Eberhardt and Keystone Consoli-
dated, the Hidden Treasure, Aurora, and
Virginia, all opened to some extent, but
especially the former, which is principally
explored by two vertical shafts, one being
down seventy-five feet near the foot-wall,
and the other near the hanging wall, being
down sixty-five feet. A 30-foot level has
developed the vein from one main wall to
the other, proving beyond a doubt, an al-
most continuous mass of extremely rich
chloro-bromide of silver ore. The Eber-
hardt vein has a width between the main
walls varying from 150 to 200 feet, where
explored, and I entertain not the least
doubt but that the ore will be found to a
considerable depth, equally as rich and ex-
tensive as in the 30-foot level, and near the
surface.

My experience in other mining countries
enables me to make the following brief de-
ductions, concerning the Treasure Hill
mines :

Mist — The chief productive veins will be
found to run nearly S. W. and N. E., with
underlay invariably coincident with the
formation of the country or mountain
rock.

Second — The veins may be classed as seg-
regated veins of large extent, with ore de-
posits likely to lie at varying distances hor-
izontally from hanging to foot walls, and
in the manner of the stochcerk, or layer
deposits of the chief silver and copper
mines of South America.

Third — It is most likely that if the forma-
tion at a greater depth changes from the
present into porphyritic greenstone or slate,
that these strata will be found barren, and
that the limestone or dolomitic formation
only will carry rich ores.

Fourth — No water is likely to be found to
a considerable depth, and the veins are
likely to carry richer ores down to the depth
of 500 feet, than may be expected below
that point; and no doubt the chloro-bro-
mide of silver ores will change somewhat
as depth is attained, into the compound
sulphurets, arseniurets and native silver.
Mining Engineer.

[Written for the Mining and Scientific Press.

r Mining in Piacer County.

Editoes Press: — Since my last letter to
you, I have been to the district where is
located the

champion ledge,
spoken of in the letter referred to. There
are now being made preparations for build-
ing a mill upon it. This is decidedly a
good district for gold-bearing quartz.. There
are several ledges in close proximity that
will pay well, from the prospects that were
obtained while I was there; but the Cham-
pion is apparently the "Mother Vein," as
it carries the characteristic peculiarities of
all of them, and I judge that it will prove
in future a material source of wealth, con-
sidering its situation and locality.

GEAVEIi MINES.

Regarding the mines close about here,
the Jehosephat claims have just finished the
first run for the season, and are cleaning up
profitably. The Uncle Sam, on Canon
Creek, has been running with good results
all summer. The cement mill is progress-
ing to completion. There are a number of
gravel claims running and doing well. The
miners generally are busy fixing np for the
coming water, and we expect lively times
here as soon as there is plenty of water.

AZI ANCIENT CHANNEL.

I wish to call attention to an old chan-
nel that runs east and west (aprjareutly)
along the main ridge above this place.
There are several break-outs from it, in
many places where there are quantities of
quartz gravel that prospects well, but ow-
ing to a heavy, broken mass of scoria being
deposited upon the top, it does not pay well
to wash the whole of it. In the main ridge,
in my opinion, there is as rich a lead as
has ever been struck in California. There
are many evidences of this; one is that the
gravel shoved out upon the vein rock is
rich, and it is under the broken fragments
of scoria, a solid stratum of which covers
the entire ridge for miles. When this is
opened it will be very extensive. It will
take some tunneling, but the work will be
done, and I think that a joint stock com-
pany might employ capital in this locality
to as good purpose as at any known place
in the world. That this has been one of
the main channels of ancient times, is shown
by the deposit of scoria having filled the
depression of the surface for several miles
in width. If it is ever fairly opened, there
is ground enough for thousands of men to
work above Dutch Flat for the distance of
twelve miles. This country is not pros-
pected for the reasons named, no tunnels
having been run into the main channel;
however, in the streams at the foot of these
breaks large amounts of gold have been
taken out_that I know of.

I will send you some samples of our
quartz from this section, and you may com-
ment upon it if you like. When I inform
you that this old channel has worn deep
through these ledges, you will, I think,
agree with me that there must bean abund-
ance of gold deposited in the bottom of the
main channel. A. E. R.

Dutch Flat, Dec. 17th, 1868.

New Defenses op the Scheldt. — A com-
bination of forces, applied to purposes of
war has lately been made the experiment at
Antwerp with a view to the defense of the
passes of the Scheldt. Torpedoes are placed
in the river, and cameras similar to those
used by photographers are adjusted, so that
an object directly over one of them will
present its image in the instrument situ-
ated upon the shore at any convenient dis-
tance. As soon as the image of an ap-
proaching hostile vessel appears in the
camera, an electric current is sent through
a wire to the torpedo wrhich underlies it,
and the explosion takes place.

To SlLVER-OOAT COTTON AND OTHER

Fibrous Mateeial. — We find the following
among the " Answers to Correspondents"
in the American Journal of Mining: All an-
imal and vegetable substances may be sil-
vered by means of the two following solu-
tions: No. 1 is composed of quicklime 2
parts; grape sugar or honey, 5 parts; gallic
acid, 2 parts; water, 650 parts; filter, and
keep in well stopped bottles. No. 2 is
composed of nitrate of silver, 20 parts;
liquid ammonia, 20 parts; pure water, 650
parts. In order, now, to silver silk, wool,
hair, flax, cotton, and other fibrous mate-
rial by means of these solutions, they are
first plunged for a short time into a satu-
rated solution of gallic acid, and then into
a solution of one part of nitrate of silver in
50 parts of water. This alternate plunging
is repeated till the first black appearance of
the substances gives waytoaslight metallic
luster; then the substance is ready to take
the silver coatinsr. To produce this, plunge
the substance into a freshly-prepared mix-
ture, in equal parts, of solution No. 1 and
No. 2, and leave it until it is thoroughly
silvered, after which it is boiled in a weak
solution of salts of tartar, and dried.

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

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. Mechanical.

Ueatux's Process Again. — We havo
more than once spoken of the Heaton pro-
cess for making steel from low class iron
by means of nitrates; and have once re-
ferred to Prof. Miller's favorable report
upon it. In Engineering for Oct. 30th, we
find a page containing four articles, the
writers of which, ouo after the other, in-
dulge in a quiet "dig" at the "process,"
and which articles lend to put a different
color upon the wholeaffair. The first laughs
at the "Solon," — as the writer calls him, —
who insists that the Heaton is to supersede
the Bessemer process, and that the result of
the operation is malleable iron of the purest
quality, containing 1.830 per cent, of carbon I
The second article says -that the Heaton pro-
cess does essentially the same thing that
the puddling process does, but not as well.
The third shows that it would cost consid-
erably more to make steel by this process
than by any other; — and that the article
made is not so good after all. The fourth
of these articles is by a writer who himself
took out a patent in 1800, which involves,
as he claims, Mr. Heaton's of 1866; and
adds that the lawyers will have to decide
the matter. Worse than all, an editorial
in the same number of the journal afore-
said, says that the use of nitrate of soda has
been open to all since the lapse of the pa-
tent of Sir Francis Knowles, taken out in
1857 I In the same journal again is re-
printed a paper read by Mr. John Gjers,
before the Cleveland Institution of En-
gineers, in April last, in which, after al-
luding to the experiment of Mr. Hargreaves
in the same direction, the author says:
' ' We can come to no other conclusion than
that ttie nitrate process, as at present car-
ried out, is a fallacy and a deception." It
would appear, therefore, that the Heaton
process is by no means likely to carry every-
thing before it.

Theory, op Puddling. — It has been gen-
erally assumed, that in puddling, the oxy-
gen of the air from the draught combined
with, and thus removed, the impurities
contained in the iron, — such as silicon, car-
bon, etc. But in the paper recently read
by Mr. Siemens, before the British Associ-
ation, to which we have before referred, he
asserts that he found the same effects pro-
duced with a perfectly neutral flame — that
is, one with no excess of oxygen. He
therefore concludes that the oxygen re-
quired is furnished by the fettling itself, —
which is oxide of iron introduced to form
a slag. This he considers to be proved by
the fact that some of the fettling is reduced
in the operation. The weight of wrought
iron produced was fully equal, he says, to
that of the pig employed.

Bolts and Nuts. — We gave a short time
since the uniform system proposed for
screw-threads. Here is the uniform stand-
ard for bolt-heads and nuts, which was re-
eommended in December, 1864, by a com-
mittee of the Franklin Institute : " The
distance between the parallel sides of
a bolt-head and nut, for a rough bolt,
shall be equal to one and a half di-
ameters of the bolt, plus one-eighth
of an inch. The thickness of the heads,
for a rough bolt, shall be equal to one-half
the distance between its parallel sides. The
thickness of the nut shall be equal to the
diameter of the bolt. The thickness of the
bead, for a finished bolt, shall be equal to
the thickness of the nut. The distance be-
tween the parallel sides of a bolt-head and
nut, and the thickness of the nut, shall be
\fone-sixteenth of an inch ' less for finished
work than for rough."

Mechanical Exhibition in Leipsic. —
In May of the present year, 1869, will be
held an exhibition of machines "pertain-
ing to mills, bakeries, and husbandry con-
nected with such, " under the direction of
the Association of German Millers. AU
interested in mills in the United States are
invited to take part.

Tiif. Bridge across the Channel. — En-
gineering heads an article upon the pro-
jected bridge from Dover to Calais, " Pons

Asinorum;" aud in allnsiou to the pro-
jector, M. Boutet, says:

Some six or seven years ago, we remem-
ber reading a leader in Ulndepewk nee

!>■ '.< . in which the dawn of a now era was
announced. Locomotives and steamboats
were to be disposed of as old iron, coal was
to bo employed for domestic purposes alone,
the steam horsey as to be sent finally to
grass, since we had but to retrace our steps
to find that in the passage of the two primi-
tive elements, air and water, from one iudia
rubber bag to another, sufficient force was
developed to make the world, or anything
else, revolve as fast as the most go-ahead
Yankee could desire. The benefactor of
our species, then as now, was M. Charles
Boutet.

We add a portion of the conclusion of
the article: "We have given much space
to investigate the project and criticise the
projector with the vain hope of finding on
grain of sense to leaven the whole mass.
But the very magnitude of M. Boutet's
projected bridge, as shown upon his fairly
executed drawings, will take with many,
and we ourselves have seen an audience of
more or less influential men impressed by
the projector's well conned, oft-repeated
lecture, run off the reel as glibly as the rat-
tle of a panorama expositor, and we have
heard members of such an audience argue
that the constructive details of this fallacy
are correct, and that a great new principle
of construction has been inaugurated by
which powers of resistance are created — an-
other phase of perpetual motion.

The "set" of Twisted Wires. — M.
Coulomb suspended a ball by a wire twenty
inches long, connected with an index which
would point out the amouDt of torsion. He
found that when it was twisted ten times,
the index returned to its primitive position,
if repeated a thousand times, and the oscil-
lations were made in equal times, whether
wide or narrow. Butif it was twisted eleven
times, the index did not return to its place,
but wanted nearly a whole turn of it. Here,
then, the parts of the wire had taken new
relative positions, in which they were again
at rest. But what was most remarkable in
Coulomb's experiments was this : Hefound
that after the wire had taken this set (as it
is termed by the artisans,) it exhibited the
same elasticity as before. It allowed a tor-
sion of ten turns, and when let go, it re-
turned, and after its oscillations were fin-
ished, it rested in the position from which
it had been taken. — Prof. Mayer, in Jour.
Frank. Institute.

Scientific Miscellany.

Pkihitive Idea op a Locomotive. — Sir
Isaac Newton, in 1680, figured a spherical
generator supported on wheels and pro-
vided with a seat for a passenger in front,
and a long jet-pipe behind, stating that the
" whole is to be mounted on little wheels so
as to move easily on a horizontal plane, and
if the hole or jet-pipe be opened the vapor
will rush out violently one way, and the
wheels and the sphere will at the same time
be carried the contrary way."

The longest artillery range on record,
viz., 10,301 yards, was attained at Shoe-
buryness, by Mr. Whitworth's 9-inch muz-
zle-loader gun of fourteen tons, firing a
shot of 250 lbs. with a charge of fifty lbs.
This range is 225 yards over that of the
6-inch Lynall Thomas gun, which iu 1861
ranged 10,075 yards.

For Cars off the Track. — Mr. C. H.
James, of Canada, has taken out a patent
for a machine which he calls the " Domin-
ion Reverse Repeating Bail. " It is used
for assisting engines and railroad carriages
back to the rail. The rail can be carried
on every train, and two men can move it to
any point required. — Railroad Register.

Iron and Steel Institute. — The iron-
masters of Great Britain are moving to-
wards the establishment of an Institute
" for the discussion of practical and scien-
tific questions connected with the manufac-
ture of iron and steel. "

Sharpening Saws. — "After filing your
saw, lay it on a level board and pass over
the side of the teeth with a whetstone un-
til all the wire edge is off the teeth. This
will make your saw cut true and smooth,
and remain sharp longer. Your saw must
be set true with a sawset. " — Cor. Sci. Am.

Iron Props for Mines, — An English
patent has been taken out for wrought iron
tubes, plugged at their enp]s with wrought
iron, to be used as props in mines instead
of the timbers generally employed.

Occlusion of Hydrogen, by ffietals.

We gave some time siuce an account of
Mr. Graham's interesting experiments upon
this subject. In those the metal plate was
heated, and then cooled in an atmosphere
of the gas. Tho Chemical News gives, iu a
recent number, a paper by Mr. Graham,
describing a new method of charging the
metals with the hydrogen at low tem2>era-
tures. We give a part of that portion
which refers to palladium : "If a plate of
zinc bo placed in dilute sulphuric acid, hy-
drogen is evolved from the surface, but
none is occluded. But a thin plate of pal-
ladium immersed in the same acid, and
brought into metallic contact with the zinc,
soon becomes largely charged with the hy-
drogen, which is then transferred to its
surface. The charge taken up in an hour
by a palladium plate, rather thick, at 12°
amounted to 173 times its volume.

The absorption of hydrogen was still
more obvious when the palladium plate was
constituted the negative electrode in acidu-
lated water to a Bunsen battery of six cells.
The evolution of oxygen gas at the positive
electrode continuing copious, the efferves-
cence at the negative electrode was entirely
suspended -for the first twenty seconds, in
consequence of the hydrogen being oc-
cluded by the palladium. The final absorp-
tion amounted to 200-4 volumes, and was
greater in amount than the volume of hy-
drogen occluded by the same plate heated
and cooled in an atmosphere of the gas,
which did not exceed 90 volumes.

It is worthy of remark that the gas ex-
hibits no disposition to leave the metal at
the temperature of its absorption. Thus a
thin plate of palladium, charged with hy-
drogen, was washed, dried and sealed up
in an exhausted glass tube. On breaking
the tube under mercury after two months,
the vacuum was found perfect; but on the
application afterwards of a heat of 100°,
333 volumes of gas were evolved.

The occluded hydrogen is readily ex-
tracted by reversing the position in the bat-
tery, so as to cause oxygen to be evolved
on the surface of the metal. The hydro-
gen is then drawn out as rapidly as it had
previously entered.

Sepsin. — The poison generated in putre-
factive fermentation has recently been iso-
lated by Drs. Bergmann and Sehmiedeberg,
in the form of a crystalline salt which they
have named " sulphate of sepsin." The Lon-
don Lancet, says : It is obtained by diffusion
through parchment paper, precipitation
with corrosive sublimate from an alkaline
solution, removal of the mercury by silver,
of the silver by sulphureted hydrogen,
evaporation, and purification of the residue.
Large, well-defined, acicular crystals are
thus obtained, which are deliquescent in
the air, and, exposed to heat, melt and car-
bonize. They possess a powerfully poison-
ous action. A. solution containing scarcely
more than one-hundredth of a gramme was
injected into the veins of two dogs. Vom-
iting was immediately induced, and after a
short time diarrhoea, which in the course of
an hour became bloody. After nine hours
the animals were killed, and, on examina-
tion, their Btomachs and large intestines
were found ecchymosed, and the small in-
testine congested.

"Ivigtite" — A New Mineral. — Theo.
D. Band describes a new mineral for which
he proposes the above name, on account of
the locality where it is found. It occurs in
films and seams through massive cryolite.
The color is pale yellowish-green, some-
times yellow. Hardness 2-2.5, sp. gr.2.05:
Fuses rather easily before the blowpipe;
with carb. soda fuses readily and with ef-
fervescence to a greenish bead. In borax
dissolves readily with an iron reaction. In
microcosmio salt dissolves readily except
silica skeleton! bead yellow while hot,
bluish opalescent when cold. In closed
tube yields acid water. |

Decomposition of Oil of Turpentine.
Prof. Wurtz, in the Gas Light. Journal,
translates from the proceedings of the Vi-
enna Academy, an account of the experi-
ments of Hlasiwetz and Hinterberger upon
the repeated distillation of the products re-
sulting from the subjecting of oil of tur-
pentine to a red heat. Vapors of turpen-
tine were passed through a red-hot iron
tube filled with fragments of porcelain.
The products were a gas, some carbon (as
a mirror-like black crust on the porcelain)
and considerable dark brown oily liquid of
benzole-like odor, lighter than water. The
gas burnt like illuminating gas. One hun-
dred measures of turpentine gave on an
average 60 of liquid, and about 16,800 of
gas; and the carbon amounted to about 2.3
per cent, of the material employed. The
brown liquid distilled with water, gave 81
volumes per 100 of a gold-yellow oil of a
much purer and pleasanter smell than be-
fore, and a tarry residuum. This rectified
product was nearly one-half (in volume),
of the turpentine employed. It was dried
by fuBed chloride of calcium, and subjected
to fractional distillation.

Prof. Wurtz, says : "It may be doubted
whether any field more richly pregnant
of results of economical value presents it-
self to-day to competent chemists, than in-
vestigations of the products of various
chemical treatments of oil of turpentine
and common rosin. * * Chemists will
agree in the importance of finding some
liquid, cheap and obtainable in abundance,
which will vie in solvent power and vola-
tility with the expensive benzole (that is,
true coal-tar benzole, not the common cheap
petroleum naphtha or "benzine," which is
almost universally confounded in commerce
with benzole), and that still more expen-
sive, but noble solvent, chloroform. "

Fossil Horse in Nebraska. — In the No-
vember number of the American Journal of
Science and Arts, Prof. O. C. Marsh gives a
notice of the remains discovered in Ne-
braska during the past summer, of a new
species of fossil horse, very much Bmaller
than any heretofore known. The news-
papers, in their first published accounts,
described them as human remains. They
were found at Antelope Station, on the
Union Pacific Railroad, 450 miles west of
Omaha, and were thrown out from a depth
of sixty-eight feet, during the digging of a
well. Some of these remains were de-
scribed by Prof. Marsh, at the meeting of
the National Academy of Sciences at North-
ampton in August last. "They indicate,"
says the Professor, — "an animal scarcely
more than two feet, or possibly two and a
half feet in hight, although full grown, as
the ossification of the various bones clearly
proves. The species may be named Equus
parvulus. This makes seventeen species of
fossil horses now known to have lived in
North America, although until quite re-
cently it was very generally believed that
there was, none indigenous to this conti-
nent. "

The bones were found in a stratum of
gray arenaceous day lying nearly horizon-
tally, and apparently of later Tertiary age.

Alcohol as Food. — The following is a
paragraph from a lecture on food recently
delivered by Dr. Letheby before the Soci-
ety of Arts (England) : Liebig is of opinion
that alcohol is burnt or oxidized in the sys-
tem, and is therefore a calorific agent; but
the researches of Lallemand, Perrin and
Duray, as well as those of Dr. Edward
Smith, have demonstrated that a large por-
tion of it passes through the system un-
changed) and appears in the breath and
perspiration, as well as in the urine. They,
therefore, concl.ide that alcohol is not a
food, but is a mere excitor of the nervous
centers. On the other hand, Dr. Thudi-
cum in a rather large experiment on the
students of his class (33 in number) , found
that of the 4,000 grammes of alcohol in the
44 bottles of wine which they drank at one
sitting, only 10 grammes appeared in the
urine; and assuming that about 10 grammes
more were exhaled by the breath and skin,
he concluded that only 0.5 per cent, of the
alcohol escaped unchanged. He therefore
believes that alcohol is oxidized iu the body,
and is a true food,

T\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Geological Suevey Map. — A new edi-
tion of this excellent map of the Bay Coun-
ties has just been received at Payot's, from
the Eastern publishers. Numerous valua-
ble additions have been made, Bueh as the
coloring of county boundaries, the marking
of roads, etc. ; the price being $6.50, instead
of $5, as formerly; but the geological forma-
tions are not yet represented. As the data
are all, years since, in hand, there is snrely
no good reason -why the value of this map
should not have been enhanced by their
representation in colors. Local geologists
would have found the map much more
interesting, and the Geological Survey
would not have been wantingthereafter for
a body of local friends. The only attempt
towards a representation of the geological
features of California which is at the ser-
vice of persons taking an interest in the
matter, — embracing every citizen in the
State, and especially every miner, — is in
the little volume of Tyson, dated 1849,
which gives an intelligent account of a two-
months' reeonnoisance up the valley, with
maps noting the lithology as observed, and
sections representing the relations, dips,
extent and profiles of the different forma-
tions— across the Coast Eange, the valley
of Sacramento, and the foot hills, as far up
as the granite region of the Sierra Nevada.
California and Nevada must be mapped, and
represented geologically; but the proba-
bilities now are that the principal contri-
butions to that end will have to be made
by private enterprise, if not also from
private data and resources. The number
of observers in California who would be
able to contribute to the general knowledge
as to local geology and the special charac-
teristics of our mineral deposits, is not
small; but neither the Geological Survey
nor the Academy of Sciences seem to have
quite succeeded in bringing that element
to a satisfactory union, or to have associ-
ated together the kindred spirits into such
active cooperation as might be done, for
mutual profit.

Venezuelan Mining. — The mining region
between Quito and the mouth of the Orin-
oco has been one of infatuation for bue-
canneers and mining engineers, ever since
the days of "Walter Ealeigh. Ancient
mythical rumors of a wealthy city hidden
in the forests and mountains, where silver
and gold are common drugs, still circulate
amongst the superstitious. Bobert Ste-
phenson, the father of railroad engineering,
spent years there in trying to do something
for an English Company — and there are
still English Companies operating in the
country, with what degree of success we
are unable to state, except that there is a
constant repetition of demands for compe-
tent engineers and metallurgists from the
older mining districts of Europe, who re-
turn, and go to California or Australia. Dr.
B. B. Stevens, a New York chemical geolo-
gist who recently visited that country,
says the veins are not of the richest. His
opinion is that the metamorphic rocks in-
variably yield more gold than any other— a
proposition which has been otherwise fre-
quently stated in the common expression
that it is in the vicinity of eruptive action
where the precious metals are most plenti-
f illy found.

• ■*- — i m

Mining Atlas. — Mr. Spargo, of Gres-
ham House, London, is about to publish
an atlas of all the chief districts prolific in
metals in the world, excepting those which
yield iron exclusively, or nearly so. The
atlas first depicts Devonshire, Cornwall,
portions of Wales, and the Isle of Man.
The geological formations of those districts
are by a simple plan made obvious at a
glance. The leading tin, copper, and lead
mines are described as to their operations,
quality of ore, prospects, etc., and longi-
tudinal and transverse sections show the
character and working of each. The mines
of Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico,
■Wisconsin, etc., are mapped out with mi-
jiute care and accuracy. The railways
^vhicji connect the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans are'^lsp represented.

John Mitchell, the Assaxee. —Concern-
ing John Mitchell's death, the London Mning
Journal says : Our readers will regret to hear
of the death of John Mitchell, the eminent
assayerand metallurgist, which occurred in
Yalparaiso, on May 11th, under very dis-
tressing circumstances. Mr. Mitchell was
for sometime a regular correspondent of
this journal, and contributed a series of
well-written articles on many interesting
and important topics, amongst others, as
will be in the recollection of our readers
especially connected with the iron trade,
were several excellent letters, in which he
maintained a spirited controversy with Mr.
David Mushet a few years ago. During
the last year or two he had been engaged in
preparing for the press a third edition of
his admirable "Manual of Practical Assay-
ing," and we understand had almost en-
tirely re-written the book, introducing all
the most recent and improved methods. As
the last edition is out of print, we trust his
manuscript may be placed in the hands of
some one who will bring out the work in a
manner in which the reputation of its tal-
ented and lamented author will be fully
sustained.

The Polytechnic Society which has been
organizing at the Mechanics' Institute, is
meeting the encouragement and support of
the class on who3e interest and intelligence
its usefulness will in a great measure de-
pend— the practical and scientific artisans,
mechanics, miners etc., of this city and
State. Another meeting, to perfect the
organization, will take place at the Mechan-
ics' Institute on Monday evening, January
14th. The dues have been limited to $1
per quarter. All who intend to sustain the
idea of a Polytechnic Society, or to benefit
by association with the kind of persons
whomitwillbringtogether, can send in their
names to the committee — Messrs. A. S.
Hallidie, Wm. P. Herrick, John J. Hucks,
E. T. Steen, Amos Bowman, and J. H.
Culver.

Jacoey's Califobnia Staats-Kalendeb.
This is quite a respectably sized volume, of
nearly 200 pages, containing, besides its
magazine of advertisements, a large amount
of interesting reading matter of special
value to Californians, or intending emi-
grants, amongst which the following are
original: "A general review of the events
of 1868 in California; the agriculture of
the State; its gold mining; its railroads; its
chief city; the wonders of its scenery;
German associations in San Francisco and
in Los Angles; the Mechanics' Fair of 1868;
and an account of the publishers' trip to
Europe and back. "

Mining in Placer County. — From "W.
H. M.," (dated Auburn, Dec. 14th,) we
learn that the Pioneer Mill of six stamps,
in that vicinity, driven by water-rjower,
is now running, and doing well. The ledge
is located six miles from Auburn; it is
eight feet wide, and the shaft is 40 feet
down; Mr. J. M. Gallard, being both pro-
prietor and superintendent. The Bald
Hill Mill is also going. It has twenty
stamps, and is located 3% miles from Au-
burn. The ledge is opened eighty feet
down, and they are running a tunnel from
the surface to the main shaft. Mr. C. Fay
is one of the owners. Placer diggings seem
to be "played out," and all the talk is
about quartz. Welthey's old steam mill is
going and doing well, being engaged on
custom work at present. They have just
made a clean up for some of the boys that
are out prospecting, and it paid from $3 to
$35 per ton. " So you see," says our cor-
respondent, " that there is gold in the
quartz in Placer County, as well as in Ne-
vada County. I think it will be a big
thing."

Pebambulating Disinfectant. — A per-
ambulating disinfectant wagon has been
making the rounds on Kearny and other
streets during the week, — a cask with a small
hose attached. The smell of chlorine
gas was unmistakable.

The Katleoad to the Presidio via Sutter
street has been completed.

New Patents Issued to Pacific Coast
Inventors.

Especially reported by the U. S. Patent Office, Washing-
ton, D. C, to Dewey & Co., American and Foreign
Patent Solicitors, and Publishers of the

MlNTNG AND SCIENTIFIC PSESS,

Foh the Week Ending December 8th.
84,737, — Improvement in Dooe Locks. —

Chas. Fleischel and "Wm. C. Bussey, of

San Francisco, Cal.:

The plate K, fastened upon the bolt of
the lock, and provided with the wards c, c,
and c, in combination with the cylinder B,
disk C, and revolving tumblers F, F, sub-
stantially as described, and for the purpose
set forth.

This invention consists in the construc-
tion of an improved revolving tumbler
lock, which is especially adapted for use on
the outer doors of stores and large buildings
in which a secure, and at the same time
cheap lock is required. This is accom-
lished by constructing a case through
which is made an opening connecting with
the outside and inside, and in which turns a
short shaft, which is spread so as to form
a disk inside the case. Two plates rise
from the inner surface of this disk, and be-
tween these plates are placed a number of
tumblers, consisting of elongated metaj
plates, having slots in one end at various
depths from the bottom of the case, through
which the wards pass when they are in a
line, caused by the introduction and turn-
ing of the proper key.

The bolt passes through the side of the
case which supports and guides it. "With-
in the bolt forms a flat bar which extends
along the bottom across the case, and has a
slot in it. A screen passes loosely through
this slot and into the side of the case, and
thus guides that end of the bai-, so that the
bolt moves freely without any tendency to
bind.

A steel plate is fastened to the bolt in-
side the case, and has its edge formed into
wands corresponding to the number of the
tumblers. The disk on the inner end of
the tumbler shaft, has an arm projecting
from one side, which enters a slot in the
extension of the bolt, and thus moves the
bolt.

On the other side of the case is a bent
arm pivoted at one end and having a point
at the other which enters a hole in the
bolt to prevent its being moved when
drawn back, and by an equivalent device
prevents its being withdrawn after being
shut out. The bent arm is operated when
the key is introduced and turned, by an
arm or lug which projects from that side of
the disk, and raises the arm sufficiently to
allow the bolt to pass, after which it drops
into place again.
84,742. — Impeovement in Ship's Davits.

Seth Gill, of San Pablo, and David C.

"Woods, of San Francisco, Cal. :

1. The jointed davit-arms E, E, with
their tackle, or an equivalent device, the
whole constructed and operated substan-
tially as and for the purpose herein de-
scribed.

2. In combination with the jointed arms
E, the traveler L, with its in-haul and out-
haul tackles M and N, substantially as de-
scribed.

3. In combination with the davit-arms
E, the uprights D, with the lifts H, and
stanchion I, the whole connected by rods
with the davits on the opposite side, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose herein de-
scribed.

The object of this invention is to provide
an improved device for handling the small
boats connected with a vessel so that they
can be launched at the shortest notice in
an emergency, while they are securely
placed when not in use. This is accom-
plished by a peculiar construction of the
davits so that the suspended boat moves by
means of travelers operated by the necessary
tackle from its position when not needed,
to a sufficient distance from the ship's side
to ensure its safety in lowering. The dav-
its are also so constructed that when com-
ing into port or whenever desired, they can
be instantly turned so as to leave the ship's
side perfectly clear and smooth with no
projections. They are also attached to
davit uprights or standards which pass
through the decks and into the plank shear.
The standards on opposite sides of the
vessel are connected at the top by stay rods
with a turn-buckle between so that the
strain is rendered much less than in ordi-
nary constructions. An illustration of
this device may be expected in a future
number of the Press.

84,748. — Improvement in Gang Plows. — ■
Francis McTarnahan, of Santa Clara,
Cal.:

1. The frame or groundwork of the gang
plow.

2. The combination and arrangement of
the beam R, to which the plows are fast-
ened, the beam to which said plow-beam is
fastened by hinges, the semi-circular
hinges, as constructed, and the manner of
fastening the plows in the beam, all as
shown.

3. The screw-slides A, in combination
with the frame.

4. The combination and arrangement of
the beam L, to which the lever is fastened,
the post on which it works, the chain, the
pulley on which it works, the evener and
the guard, all as described.

5. The square block D, under the axh-
tree, for regulating the amount of land, in
combination with the evener.

6. The construction, combination and ar-
rangement of the several parts, as shown
and described.

84,778. — Automatic Stop for Mining
Cars. — James Tamblin, of Virginia City,
- Nev. :

The projections or stops E, E, arranged
with the levers C, F, and spring H, con-
nected with the chain G, and all applied to
operate in the manner, substantially as and
for the purpose herein set forth.

New Incoepoeations.— Articles of in-
corporation have been recently filed in the
County Clerk's office in this city as follows:

Chloeide Flat and Aurora Tunnel
Co.— White Pine, Nev. Dec. 24th. Capi-
tal stock, $1,000,000; 10,000 shares, $100
each. Trustees: A. E. Head, Mark Living-
ston, W. B. Thomburgh, I. N. Taylor and
R. F. Morrow.

Continental Silver M. Co. — Dec. 24th.
Capital stock $5,000,000; 10,000 shares,
$500 each. Trustees: H. H. Blake, A. F.
White, B. F. Bivens, "W. B. Swain and Ca-
leb T. Fay.

Kimball Manufacturing Co. — San Fran-
cisco. Dee. 24th. Capital stock, $500,000:
5,000 shares, $100 each. Incorporators:
Geo. C. Kimball, E. D. Ogden, W. C. Eal-
ston, A. Hayward, H. B. Tichenor, Mc-
Pherson & Wetherbee, A. P. Hotaling,
Eosenfield & Birmingham, A. B. Forbes,
E. Cahill, Koopmanchap«fe Co., Louis Mc-
Lane, Chas. McLean, Oliver Eldridge,
Thos. H. Selby, Meeker, James & Co. , John
Parrot, DeWitt, Kittle & Co., "Wm. Bur-
ling, C. J. Brenham, James D. "Walker and
"W. F. Babcock.

Flowery Kingdom M. Co. — Story Co.,
Nev. Dee. 28th: Capital stock, $1,200,000;
12,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: A. H.
Barker, Chas. Hosmer and O. S. Carville.

Montgomery Street Eeal Estate Co.
San Francisco. Dec. 29th. Capital stock,
$7,500,000; 75,000 shares, $100 each. Trus-
tees: Jno. D. Fry, Leonard S. Treadwell
and Ashbury Harpending.

Election of Officers. — Gould & Curry
S. M. Co.— President, AlpheusBull; Trus-
tees, Alpheus Bull, Thos. Bell, J. D. Fry,
A. K. P. Harmon, M. Morganthan, A. Hay-
ward and Thos. Sunderland. -

The North StarG. & S. M. Co. have filed
the necessary papers for an order to allow
them to disincorporate the company.

Patent Turbine foe Sale. — The patent
right for Leffel's American double turbine
wheel for the Pacific coast, is offered for
sale in our advertising columns. This
wheel is largely in use in the Eastern
States, and has been highly recommended
in this State.

The Annual Meeting of the California
Academy of Sciences will take place on
Monday evening, January 14th, when the
officers for the ensuing year will be elected.

Religion is a good thing; Benevolence is a
good thing; Politics are a good thing; War is a
good thing: Money is a good thing; Pestilence
and Famine are good things, and it is so with a
hundred other matters with which we at times
imagine we are cursed or blessed. Hard as
these afflictions may seem, they all result in
good, one way or another. It is particularly so
with Plantation Bitteks; but they must be
used with moderation, and according to the
directions. You must not abuse or indulge in
them too freely. If you do, like other bless-
ings, they will do harm by an over-indulgence
or abuse.

To Scientists. — The museum of natural curi-
osities at Woodward's is well worth an examina-
tion by every lover of nature, saying nothing of
the living animals, the botanical garden, and
other attractions. *

Mulleb's Brazilian Pebble Spectacles, 205
Montgomery street, cannot be surpassed by any-
thing in this fine. *

Tlcye Mining and Scientific Press.

5

Weekly Stock Circular.

By Asioonted Brokers of the 8 T. Block md Eichange Board.
LVCtSCO, Jaiiu.il

< -it >- Stockn.
DnrinK the past week the sales of mi
oils stocks. <h spite the holiday season, havt bei a
v* rv confiiderable, Spring Valley Water stock
was in the market to a larger extent than oBoal,
selling uI r'j-j' (15 5U 'f' liiirf.* ( 'ulifnrnia St) am
■ :[ .n declined from 52J \ i>> 50) '.. percent.,
then sold at 52. A rigorous opposition is being
inaugurated by this oompany^against the mil-
road company, tho faro to Sacramento having
been reduced to $2. Sun Francisco Gaa stuck
is in request at an advance, selling at $70, then
50, buyer 30. The usual monthly clivi-
veml is aow payable. The California Insurance
Oo. will add Fire to their Marine business on
and after tho 1st of January. The Pacific Hank
disburses its usual monthly dividend to-day.
At the close 0. S. 5-2us of 18G7 sold at 83.

milliliter 9lMW?0 MurKct.

Taking into consideration that we are in the
midst of the holiday season, the mining share
market has been qui to active, largo sales having
taken place, though, aa a general thing, at n
slight recession from opening rates. The trans-
actions also embraced a larger list of stocks than
is usually offered.

Under the caption of ""White Pine, the won-
der of the world," the Alta comments as fol-
lows: Although only about three months have
elapsed sinse the first noteworthy shipment of
bullion from White Pine reached this city, that
district has already become one of tho most pop-
ulous in the great inland basin of the continent.
The number of men now in the vicinity is 3,000
or more, and of these 1,000 are engaged in tak-
ing out ore, the quantity extracted daily being
about 300 tons, and average value is estimated
by one excellent authority at $500 per ton, and
by another at $200. A man who worked in a
custom mill informed us that he had worked ore
from thirty-five different mines, and only two
lots out of the thirty-five yielded less than $150
per ton. At $200, the yield of a year counting
300 working days, would be $15,000,000— that
as if the supply of ore should not be exhausted.
A much greater quantity could be taken out
now, but there are not mills enough to reduce
what is being extracted, and many of the claim
holders make great sacrifices to raise the cash
for necessary expenses, and it would be a seri-
ous loss to them to pay miners for work from
which no income could be derived before next
summer. If tho deposits are as extensive as
they now appear to be, the yield of the district
in 1809 will astonish the world. The Eberhardt
Company, who own the typical mine of the dis-
trict, have worked 700 tons which assayed
$1,000 per ton, and yielded $850 in the mill— a
total production of $595,000 from that one mine
alone. They have on the dump and at the mill
600 tons of oro, and they have 500 tons more
"in sight "—as rich as that heretofore reduced.
Counting the ore reduced, that extracted and
that in sight, the Eberhardt is certain to pro-
duce at least $1,500,000. They have, however,
not gone down more than forty feet, and they
have not reached either the bottom, or the east-
ern or western limit of the deposit. A drift of
184 feet, cut with the meridian, has struck the
walls on each side. The Keystone mine, which
ranks next to the Eberhardt, has worked 350
tons averaging $700, and has extracted 1,000
more which average $400, making the gross
value of the ore produced so far, $G45,000. The
Kobert Emmet has taken out 100 tons and
worked 61, of which 20, first-class, assayed
$1,215 per ton; and 41 tons of second-class as-
sayed $485 and yielded $341 net. The Stone-
wall has taken out 200 tons, and reduced 60,
which yielded $500 per ton. The South Aurora
has out 500 tons that will average at least $150
per ton; the North Aurora is taking out 20 tons
per day, worth $150. The Eclipse, a claim that
has attracted little attention, comparatively, has
been sold to J. D. Winters, the Superintendent
of the Yellow Jacket mine, for $35, 000. These
are only a few out of many. An area two miles
wide and six miles long appears to be underlaid
by an argentiferous deposit similar to that in
the Eberhardt. More than a hundred shafts
have been sunk, and nearly all have found the
ore within fifty feet, most of them within thirty
feet of the surface. Mineral deposits in lime-
stone, which is the bed-rock at White Pine, are
ordinarily of small extent and soon exhausted;
but the newly-discovered deposit is certainly an
exception in regard tu its extent. The silver

mines of C hanaroi Ho, in Chili, arc in limestone,
and they have been worked steadily for thirty-
is yt us. mil have produced $60,000,000. There,
as at White Pine, the lodes near the surface
oontained large rjuantities of chloride of silver,

v, hii-h could be mined and reduced at very little
• .[ ii ase. Nearly a hundred years ago, a de-
poait similar in many respects to that at White
Pine, was found at Oatorce, Mexico, iu the Za-
vala mine, which yielded ST.Oun.uno. Ward
says the oiv w.-.s "a loi.se metalliferous sub-
Mi i ■ , so completely impregnated with parti-
cles of silver that it was bought up at once by
the rtseatadores [amalgamators] at the price of
one dollar for the pound." The amalgamators,
who were and still are distinct from tho mine-
owners, in most of the mining districts of
Mexico, seldom paid half as much as the ore
would yield, so it is fair to presume that the
Zavala oro would assay $3,000 or $4,000 per
ton, and that is quite up to the average of White
Pine. We do not find in any of our books of
reference a description of the geological forma-
tion at Catorce, but it is said that the richest
ores were found in vaults (bovedaa) or caves,
which are common in limestone and rare in
other formations. At Guarisamey, in Dnrango,
there was another vault filled with rich dirt-like
ore, which yielded a rich profit to Zambrano,
one of the most famous miners of Mexico. In
twenty-five years he took out $55,000,000. The
records show that he paid $11,000,000 tax to the
King. The chloride ores at White Pine may not
last so long as did those at Chanarcillo and Ca-
torce, but if the testimony of a number of wit-
nesses of good repute is to be accepted, they
will certainly prove the wonder of the world for
a year or two, and give a great stimulus to busi-
ness of all lands on tho Pacific slope. Many,
however, who abandon their present occupa^
tions to go to the new diggings will lose far more
than gain.

Gould & Cukry— was in the market at $103
©95, and closed at $00. The annual meeting
of this company was held on the 28th of De-
cember. From tho Secretary's report we take
the following :

ItECEIPTS.

Cash on hand, December 1, 1867 $1-17,9*4 15

Ores sold 43,959 29

Bullion account— Company mill '251,127 07

Ball ion account— Custom mill 2*i,198 56

Materials sold 16,226 76

Tolls on Virginia and Carson river road 4,130 4.1

Ore scales at mine,. 147 72

Interest 24!) 17

Bills payable 3,875 9(1

Cash indebtedness 33.S22 01)

- $301,630 24

DISBURSEMENT?.

Mine account $180,103 52

Mill account Otf.'i^ :$•■<

Dividend account 3.165 00

General expense account 17.7:17 37

Reduction of ores at Custom mills 1.1, SI II *2

Mill repairs 9,072 S7

Taxes 5,851 W

Legal expenses 3,;jliS M

Bills receivable 8,.V>9 46

Virginia and Carson River road 4,371 19

Sundries 3,010 04

The assets and liabilities of the company at
the close of the fiscal year are as follows:

Ores, tailings, etc., on hand. .

Real and personal property — mine. . , .

Real and personal property—mill

Boarding house at mine.

Reservoir tailings' mill

Assay office, etc ,

Virginia and Carson River toll road..
Oihcc in San Francisco

Sl/rilO 00
156,823 92
218,896 27
3,750 00
22,884 (.1
7,711 68
6,750 00
1.000 00

LIABILITIES.

Cash indebtedness, etc $29,532 31

Bills payable 3,875 00

Dividends uncalled for 535 00

833,942 31

Imperial — declined from $115 to $111, and
closed at $109. For the month of December,
up to the 28th, $23,705 85 in bullion was re-
ceived. On the 29th ult., the station at the
1,100 level was in seven feet from the shaft,
running in the same body of clay as found in
the shaft. The winze on the 900 level is down
twenty-six feet; in hard quartz with but little
water. No change in the Alta mine. They
raise about 140 tons of ore per day.

Empire — rose to $130, and at the close sold
at $125. In his annual report the President
says: "From the recent developments of ore in
the Alpha and Imperial mines, on the 900 level,
I am hopeful of getting a body of pay ore be-
tween our 900 and 1,100 levels.". . . . Kentuck.
ruled at $240@267, and closed at $257. The
receipts of bullion for December account foot
up, so far, $53,952 47.

Crown Point — was pretty active, selling at
$53@55, and closing at $53. On the 27th of
December the shaft had attained a depth of 1,-
083 feet. It will be carried ten feet below the
1,100 level, which, at the progress they are at
present making; will take about a month. The
south drift is in 314 feet from the Kentuck south
line, the east clay wall continuing to turn to the
west. On tlio 2(ith of December they had
reached a clay wall, which is said to have every

appearance of the west clay, in the face of the
drift. If it should prove to be the west clay
wall, Bays the Superintendent, it will demon-
strate that the walla inclosing the vein are con-
Vt urging going south, and that anything found
in the unexplored region between the face of
the south dmt and the north of the Belcher,
will be a new body.

CnoLLAit-PoTosi— sold at $1500153, then at
$150, and closed at $153. During the week
ending December 25th, 1,261 tons of ore were
extracted from the mine. The supply is not

quite so abundant as heretofore Overman

was in ordinary request, selling at $89 500
83 50, closing at $88. Tho receipts for De-
cember will foot up about $60,000. The Bruns-
wick mill shows a better yield for December than
it did the previous month.

Hale & Norcross— has been less active than
the previous week, declining from $50 to $44,
and closing at $45 50. The workings of this
company at (he mine have been kept very quiot
for the past fortnight or so. We have been un-
able to obtain anything definite, but should
judge from the transactions in the Board that
the developments are not any too favorable. . . .
Savage — fluctuated between $84 and $78, clos-
ing on the 31st December at $78 75 Yellow

Jacket advanced to $1,412 50, dropped to
$1,366, and closed at $1,450. Information con-
cerning both the Savage and Yellow Jacket
claims is very difficult to obtain.

MINING SHAEEH0LDEKS' DIRE0T0KY.

[Compiled for every issue, from advertisements in the

Miking and Scientific Press and other Sao

Francisco Journals. J

Comprising tho Names of Companies, District or County
of Location; Amount and date of Assessment; Date ot
Meeting; Day of Delinquent Sale; and Amount and Time
of Payment of Dividends.

NAHE, LOCATION, AMOUNT, AND DAT DAT

DATS OT ASSESSMENT. DELINQUENT. OP SALE.

Amador Co., dividend, $6 per share. ...Paynble Dec. 10, 1868

Adriatic, Storey co Anuual Meeting, Jan. 4

Alpha, Storey co., Nev., Dec. 3, $10 Jan. 5— Jan. 25

Alamo, Lyon co., IScv., Nov. 25, 35c Dee. 31— Jau. 30*

Bacon, Storey co., Nev., div Payable June 13, 1863

Bullion, Storey co., Nov., $10 Dec. 7— Jan. 6

Crown Point, Storey co., Dec. 18. $7.60 Dec.l8-Jan. 17

Clierok.ec Flat, Butte co.. Dee. 0, $5 Jan. H— Jan. 20

Challc Mt. B. O, Nevada co Special Meeting, Jan, 7

Chollar-Potosl, div., $i5 Payable Oct. 15, 1867

Crown Point, dividend, $7.50 Payable Sept. 12 186S

Cosala, Sinaloa, Dec. 12, SI Jan. 15— Feb. 1

Diamond cop., Del Norte CO., Oct. 28, $2. ..Nov. 10— Jan. 21*

Eureka, div. $5 Payable Nov. 20, 1868

Empire M. & M., Nev., dividend $6... ..Payable May 15, 1867

Gold Hill Quartz Anuual Meeting Jan. 11

Gould A Curry, Storey co., Nov., Dec. 5, $15.. Jan. 9— Jan. za

Gould & Cur iv. div.. S7.su Payable May 16, 1867

Gold Hill QMAM-dividend. $7 60... .Payable July 13, 1868
Golden Rule, Tuolumne co, div. 5l)c "# sh... Payable Dec. 2(1*
Great Central, Arizona, Oct. y. $2.50 Nov. 11— Jan. 28*

Hale & Norcross, Storey co., Dec. 12, $5 Jan. 16— Feb. 6

Hale & Norcross, Oiv. $125 Sept. 16, 1867

Hope Gravel, Nevada co , Nov 18, $1 Dec. 22— Jan. 11*

Imperial, Storey co.. Dec. 15, $25 Jan, 18— Feb. 4

Imperial, Storey co , Nov., div Payable June 20, 1868

JelTcrson, Yuba co Adjourned Meeting Jan. 2

Kentuck, div., $30 per share Payable Dec. 10, 1868

Mohawk ,t Montreal, Nevada co., Dec. 7, $3*Jan 10— Jan. 26

Morning Star, Alpine co., Dec. 9. $2 50 -Jan. II— Feb. 1

Maxwell, Amador co., Nov. 13, $2.50 Dec. U — Jan. 5

North Star, dividend, $5 Payable Aug. 15, 1868

Oriental, Sierra co., Nov. 9, $2 Dec. 14— Jan. 2

Overman Storey co., Nov. 13. $20 Dec. 16 — Jan. 4

Opblr, Storey co., Nev., Nov 9, $3 Dec. 12— Jan. 2

Peninsula Anuual Meeting Jan. 6

Pacltic Unassessable, div Payable J uue 18, 1868

Jan. 21— Feb. 8"

..Sale Jan. 23*

.January 4— Jan. 30

Rattlesnake. Yuba co , Dec. 19, $7.50..

Rippon. Alpine co., Oct. 15, $ I

Rising Stur, Idaho, Nov. 16, $10

Sierra Nevada, Storey co., Nev Annual Meeting Jan 11

Santiago, Silver City, dividend, S3 fl'i. .. Payable Dee 19, 18G8
S. F. & Castle Dome, Arizona, Nov. 25, 3c... Dec. 28— Jan. 12*
Savage, Virginia. Nov. dividend, $| ...Payable Dec. 12, 1868

Sand Spring Salt, dividend $1 Payable June 5, 1868

Sierra Nevada. Nov., Nov, 16. .$12.64 Dec. 29— Jan. 15

Tallulah, Humboldt co-, Dee. 14, $17.50 Jan. 29— Feb. 27

U. S. Grant, Nevada co„ Nov. 9, 50c Dec. 16— Jan. 2»

Virginia & G. H. Water Co.. Dividend, payablo Nov. 20, 1808
Yellow Jacket, div., $3U0 Payable Nov. 10, 186S

Those murked nilhan asterisk (*)aro advertised In this
journal.

Latest Stock Prices Bid and Asked.

6. F. STOCK AND EXCHANGE BOARD.

Friday Evening, January 1, 1869.

MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS. Hill. Anl-etl.

Qnlted States Bniids, 5 2..M, 1S>;.\ '67, '68 $83 83J£

United Stales Bonds, 5 20s, 18ii4 81 82

United States Bond?. 5-2US, 1862 82 82^

Legal Tender Notes 74

California State Bonds, 7s, 1857 "

San Francisco Bonds, 10s, 1851

San Francisco City Bonds, Cs, 1855

San Francisco City ami Cmitilv Bonds, 6s, 1858,

San Francisco School Bonds, 10s, 1*011

San Franehco School Bonds, IDs, 1861

San Francisco City and Co. Seh'l B'ds, 7s, 1866

San Francisco Cltv and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1862

San Francisco City and Co. Bonds, 78, 1864

San Francisco City find Co. Bonds, 7s, 1865

San Francisco City and Co. Jmlg. Bds. 7s, 1863,
San Francisco City and Co. Judg. Bds, 7s, 1864.

Sacramento City Bonds

Sacramento County Bonds, Oh

74 S

liar A Int.
85 87>£

par & int.

87 «
87 ',
87 J i

rysvilic Bonds, 1(
ickicm City Bonds

03..

GO

Yuba County Bonds, Ks 77

Santa Clara County Bonds, 7s 75

Butte County Bonds, IDs, i860 70

San Mateo County Bonds, 7s 75

California Steam Navigation Co (0

Spri ng Valley VTa tor Co 65

Statu Telegraph Co 25

GAS COMTANIES.

RAILROADS.

Sacramento Valley Railroad

San Fiat. ci^co and San Jose Railroad

Omnibus Railroad

Central Railroad

Nurih Beaeh ;,nd Mission Railroad

[front Street, Mission and Ocean Railroad..

BANKINO INSTITUTIONS.

Pacific Bank ot« inn

rho Bunk of California 157 153

Calllornlu, Loan und Savings Society — —

INSUKANCK COMPANIES.

Fireman.*' Fund Insurance Co 9"»U 91

Pacific Insurant-.- i'u y^i 125

San Francisco Insurance Co — 1115

aerchant*1 Mimul Marine Insurance Co WO 625

1. a morula Insiiruncc Co . 131JO 140a

Union hisunuici' i'n 92 '13

Homo Mutual Insurance Co 101- 20

Occidental Insurance Co ' 72 _

National Insurance Co " 72

Builders' Insurauco Co "..".".".!!"" —

MINING STOCKS— WASnOK DISTRICT.

Alpha jjir t<t

Baltimore American "' _ _

Belcher \m \rs

Bullion. G. H ii K

Crown Point *•;« m

coiotva.) ;:;; s ,,

Confidence 36 m

CoiiHolldated Virginia 9 \\

Chollar-Potosl 1&0 155

g«"«y s sx

Exchequer 26 20

Empire Mill and Mining Co 125 J26

Gould & Curry m mi

Gold Hill Quartz 66 7s

Hale A Norcross «u> 45

Imperial I119 HI

Kentuck 255 270

Julia 3 8W

Justice and Independent 8 n'*2

Lady Bryan \%]z 20

North American 2 6

pP'Hr 37 40

Overman 85 $)

Segregated Belcher 8 8*tf

Savage .... 78 TO"»

Sierra Nevada ■„.. 19 _

Yellow Jacket ' 1445 jiui

Union , _ _

United States „ _ _

MISCELLANEOUS MINING STOCKS.

Amador (California) 235 210

North Star (California) : — _

Eureka tCalifornlB) 210 —

Do Soto (Humboldt) _ 2

Golden Rule. California 5 _

+-~*-*m—+-+

San Francisoo Market Bates.

Wholcaule Price*.

m „ „ Friday, January 1, 1869.

Flour, Extra, $ bbl $5 25 <g$5 76

Do. Superfine 4 ?5 @ 1 75

Corn Meal, ^ 100 lbs 3 25 © 3 50

Wheat, #100 lbs 1 fin @ 1 85

Oats, if* iOO lbs 2 00 @ 2 25

Barley, # 100 lbs 2 05 © 2 60

Beans, %i 100 lbs 3 00 @ 3 50

Potatoes, ^ 100 lbs 75 @ 1 10

Hay, Si ton 14 00 (3)20 00

Live Oak Wood, # cord 9 00 ©10 00

Beef, extra, dressed, $ lb 8 @ 10

Sheep, on foot 3 00 @ 3 25

Hogs, on foot, 5a lb ,. 4% @ 5

Uogs.drcsscd/iftlb 7 @ $

GROCERIES, ETC.

Sugar, crushed, $ lb 17 @ 171'

Do. China 10 © 12j2

Cotree. Costa Rica, # lb 17 © 17jl

Do. Rio — @ 17

Tea, Japan, $ lb 75 @ 90

Do. Green 60 © 1 25

Hawaiian Rice, # lb 9 © 10

China Rice, $ lb 6 © 7

CoalOIl.jH gallon 45 © fiu

Candles, ■$ lb 16 © J8

Ranch Butter, # a tH) @ 75

Isthmus Butter, # ft 40 © 47 X

Cheese. California, # lb 15 @ 21

Eggs, 33 dozen 60 © 62«

Lard, $ lb 13 © U

Ham and Bacon, $ lb 14 <«) 18

Shoulders, # lb 6 © 6J

Retail Prices.

Butter, California, fresh, # lb 80 © 85

do. pickled, ja lb at © 41)

do. Oregon, 'Si lb 20 © 25

do. New York, ^3 ft 35 © 45

Cheese, jaa 20 @ 25

Honey, $ ft 25 © so

Eggs, f, dozen 65 © 75

Lard, $ ft 15 © 17

Hams and Bacon, 53 ft 20 © 25

Cranberrlcp, <ja gallon 1 25 © 1 00

Potatoes, 53 ft 1% ® 2

Potatoes, Sweet, 53 lb 3 © _

Tomatoes, Wft 3 © —

Onions, 53 a 3 © —

Apples, No, 1, 53 ft 4 @ 5

Pears, Table, $ ft 5 © 7

Plums, dried, 53 ft U © 13

Peaches, dried, 5$ ft — @ _

Oranges, 53 dozen 75 © 1 00

Lemony, <jjj dozen 75 @ 1 co

Ch ickens, apiece .- 50 © 75

Turkeys, 53 ft 25 © SB

Soap, Pale and C. 0 7 @ 12

Soap, Castile, 13 lb — @ 20

Pacific Mail Steamship Co's

STEAMSHIPS FOR

NEW Y0EK, JAPAN AND CHINA.

^fftjSjtet LEAVE WHARF, CORNER OF FIRST AND
■SflLiKKBfcBrannan streets, at 11 o'clock A. M. of the
fol lowing dates, for PANAMA, connecting via Panama Rail-
road, with one of the Company's splendid steamers from
ASPINWALL for NEW YORK.

On the «th, 14th, 22d and BOfch of every month.

Steamer leaving San Francisco on the 6th touches ot
Manzanillo. All touch at Acapulco.

Departure of the 14th is expected to connect with the
French Trans- Atlantic Co. '». steamer for St. Nazafro, and
English steamer for South America. Through tickets can
be obtained.

Departure of 14th la expected to connect with English
sttamcr for Southampton and South America, and Austra-
lia, and P. R. R. Co's steamer for Central America.
Through tickets can be obtained.

STEAMEBS FOR dTANtTARY, I860.

The following Steamships will be dispatched on dates as
given below :

January 6th-SACRAMENTO Oapt. W.H.Parker,

Connecting with ALASKA, CapL Gray.

January 14th— MONTANA Captain A. Wo

Connecting with KiolNC STAK, Capt. King.

January 22d-CONSTITUTION Cant. Wm. II. Hudson,

Connecting with HENRY CHAUNCEY, Capt. Connor.

January SOth-GOLDEN CITY Capt. W. V. Lapidge,

Connecting with ARIZONA, Capt. Maury.
Cabin passengers berthed through. Baggage checked
through— 10U pounds allowed each adult.

An experienced Surgeon on board. Medicine and attend-
ance free.

These steamers will positively sail at II o'clock. Passen-
ger* arc rcniualfd to have their baggage on board before 10
o'clock.

Through Tickets for Liycrpool by the Ctinard.Inmanand
National Steamship Lines, can be obtained at tho office of
the P. M. S. S. Co., San Francisco, where mav also be ob-
tained orders for passage from Liverpool or Southampton
to San Francisco, cither via New York or St. Thomas— if
desired an amount of £10 to £20 will be advanced with the
above orders, Holders of orders will be required to iden-
tify themselves to the Agents in England.

The Steamship GREAT REPUBLIC, Capt. S. Donne, will
be dispatched on MONDAY, January 4th, 1869, at 12 o'clock
M„ from wharf corner ot Pirn and Brannan streetn, for
HONGKONG, connecting at Yokohama with the steamer
costa RICA for Shanghai.

For Merchandise and Freight for New York and way
ports, apply to Messrs. WELLS, FARGO & CO.

For nnssnge and all Other Information, apply at the Pa-
cific Mail Steaii sh i> 'Jo's ollice, corner of Sacramento and
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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Mining Summary.

Thk following information is gleaned mostly lYnm jour-
nals published In the interior, in close proximity to the
mines mentioned.

CALIFORNIA.

AlPIVE COUNTY.

Markleeville Miner, Dec. 19th : Supt.
Gamble commenced a downward movement
on the main shaft of the Morning Star mine
on Monday.

Besides the Morning Star Co., and the
Monitor Consolidated Co., there are four
mining companies in the vicinity of Mon-
itor, Imperial, Mt. Bullion, Globe, and
Michiaan, — each working five men, and all
purposing to continue full gangs through
the "winter.

The Tarshish Co. have at last succeeded
in raising $75,000 working capital.

Chronicle, Dec. 19th : A few days since a
14-inch strata of very rich quartz was cut
in the Gould & Curry tunnel, on Wiseman's
claim. Mr. Wiseman is going up on the
ledge, and this strata has widened to about
20 inches. The quartz is said to be easily
worked.

The prospects of soon striking the Penn-
sylvania ledge, and that it will be a rich
one, are so good, a large number of claims
have lately been taken up on it for a dis-
tance of ten miles, it being plainly tracea-
ble the entire distance, with the exception
of about 200 feet.

The Markleeville correspondent writes
that the Pioneer quartz mill has shutdown
to make some improvements.

AlUillH! COUNTY.

DispatcJi, Dec. 26th : Mr. Siebenthaler has
recently refitted the old Tynan quartz mill,
a short distance above Volcano, and com-
menced crushing the quartz taken from his
lead, which is paying handsomely. We
are informed that several other leads have
been recently discovered in that vicinity,
which promise an abundant yield as soon
as they can be opened and placed in work-
ing order.

The proprietors of the Coney mine, near
town,have putup a couple of Paine, Stephens
& Harry's new concentrators, for the pur-
pose of saving sulphnrets.

We learn that a rich lead has been dis-
covered, and is now being opened, near
Sutter Creek, by a couple of Austrians.
Although the lead, so far as it has been de-
veloped, is but a few inches in thickness,
the rock prospects sufficiently rich to in-
sure a handsome return for working it —
$300 having been taken from 15 pounds of
the quartz, by means of a hand mortar.

ISTO COUNTY.

Los Angeles News, Dec. 22d : Mr. West-
erville, with two wagon loads of silver and
lead bars, weighing 5,000 pounds, arrived
iu this city ou Saturday evening last, from
the Owen's River silver mines. He reports
the furnaces in active operation day and
night, turning out large quantities of bars
daily. They have discovered a fine quality
of fire-clay in the vicinity, and the diffi-
culty heretofore experienced of making the
furnaces stand the heat, has been obviated.
Wr. Westerville says that there will be
35,000 pounds of bars shipped to this place
in- a few days.

MARIPOSA COUNTY.

Gazette, Dec. 25th : The Oaks & Reese
Mining Co. still continue to extract very
rich ore from their claim. This compauy
are adding to their works a new battery of
four stamps; also, a concentrator and dis-
charging grinder. When these improve-
ments are completed — making it then a 16-
stamp mill — the company will be able to
operate still more successfully than hereto-
fore. This company intend in the spring
to reopen the Floyd mine, and also make
other improvements.

The mine lately opened by Woolcock &
Johnson, and noticed by us some weeks
since, has proved to be a pocket vein, and
does not turn out as rich as reported. They
realized a snug little sum, however, from
this pocket, and are going ahead in con-
stant hopes of striking another still richer.

NEVABA COUNTY.

Transcript, Dec. 22d : John Hughes and
others have, located 1, 100 feet on a ledge on
the south side of Wolf Creek, one mile
southwest of Grass Valley, and called it
the White Pine ledge.

The people of San Francisco look at the
specimen rock from White Pino, and read
the account of assays, and straightway go
crazy about the richness of the new dis-
trict; but the miners of Nevada County
certainly ought to know that a rich speci-
men or a large assay is not conclusive evi-
dence of the richness of a mine. There
are 60 mines in Nevada County from which
rock can be obtained thatwill beat anything
that has yet been discovered in White Pine°
The quartz mines of this county are notyet
developed; their development is slow work.

In Eureka, Meadow Lake, Grass Valley
and Nevada townships, there are hundreds
of mines that have not been thoroughly
prospected, which give good evidence of
richness. They show good rock and excel-
lent assays. \People do not go crazy about
the quartz mines of this coun#v, because
they are not far enough away. The quartz
mines of Nevada County if located in Mex-
ico, would carry off one-third the popula-
tion of the State. Our people remember
that within a few years, Fellows took $50,-
000 from a ledge in a few weeks, with a
hand mortar. N This story, told of White
Pine, would start a score of men; but as
it was done in Nevada County, it did not
create so much excitement. Huudreds of
rich strikes in this county might be cited,
giving more evidence of great mineral
wealth than has been given in regard to
White Pine, and if men would go to work,
there are better chances of making mouey
than any offered in the new district.

The North Bloomfield Gravel Co. ex-
pected to complete their ditch to Columbia
Hill yesterday. This line of ditch has been
built from Little Canon Creek to Columbia
Hill via North Bloomfield, within a few
months. The company own gravel claims
at both places, and expect to do a great deal
of work in another season. The entire
ditch is built in the most substaniial man-
ner,

--'Gazette, Dec. 21st : Of late, Mr. Maltman
has been almost constantly employed on
sulphurets from the Banner mine, which
yield on an average $120 per ton . After
the Banner mill shall have ten more stamps
added to its erushiug power, it will be able
to furnish Maltman's works sulphurets
enough to keep them running up to their
full capacity. M. M. has worked nearly all
the sulphurets from Soggs, Cornish, Pitts-
burgh, or Wigham, and various other
mines in Nevada township, and has been
able to save a larger per cent, of the pre-
cious metal than any other similar estab-
lishment in the county..-'

Dee. 23d : Black & Young's mill, at Eu-
reka, started up on Monday last, having
contracted for a winter's job at $100 per
day, crushing rock from the Banberry &
Co's ledge. The Banberry rock does not
pay as largely as rock from some other
ledges, but it yields enough for good divi-
dends.

Dec. 24th : The proprietors of the Birch-
field diggings have warned the authorities
to widen the flume in the lower portion of
Kelsey's Ravine, so as to allow the tailings
from their mine to pass through freely. The
company intend to run off a large amount
of gravel this winter.

The old Manzauita claims, owned by
Marselus & Maltman, are now being put
in complete order for hydraulicing, and
work will be commenced on thorn iu a few
days.

Grass Valley Union, Dec. 25th: Yester-
day, some splendid specimens were brought
to Findley & Co's bank, from the Bowery
ledge. This ledge is a new location, and is
an extension of the famous Seven-thirty.
The specimen we saw is a large one, and is
specked with gold on every side.

si Kit « A COUNTY.

Downieville Messenger, Dec. 26th : The
rain of the last few days is a good thing for
the mines. It will enable those whose
dumps are full to wash their dirt, and to
keep their drifters at work. There was 18
inches of snow on the ridges before the
rain commenced, and as this storm has
been all rain, there should be a fair supply
of water for washing drift dirt.

SISKIYOU COUNTY.

Yreka Union, Dec. 19th : E. H Hall still
continues work on the Scoles quartz ledge,
and finds an improvemeut in the quality of
the rock as he goes down. The ledge 50 ft.
from the surface, is two feet in thickness.

YUBA COUNTY.

Marysville Appeal, Dec. 24th : The steam
boiler at the Pennsylvania mill, Brown's
Valley, gave out on Tuesday afternoon or
evening, and the mill came to a standstill.
Materials for repairs were sent for, and by
mistake they were put on the Nevada in-
stead of the Brown's Valley stage. The
mill, it is expected, will be running again
by to-morrow. We also hear that the rock
is paying well, with strong indications of
staying with the company for a year or so.

COLORADO.

Central City Herald, Dec. 9th: Mr. Schel-
linger started up the Montana mill last
evening.

The Smith & Parmelee mine is now yield-
ing five cords of ore per day .

Warren Hussy & Co. have bought and
shipped during the past eight days 1,800
ozs. of bullion worth $40,000.

A shaft has been sunk on the Wall Street
lode in a depth of 25 ft., showing an ore
vein 2% ft. wide, which is composed of

gray sulphurets and quartz containing sil-
ver, as shown by fire assay, all the way
from $196 to $3,000. A quantity of the
ore has been treated by Huependeu & Wol-
ter3 which yielded 160 ozs. per ton.

Central City Register, Dec. 10th: The
Brastow mill in Lake Gulch is workingcon-
stantly on ores from the Bobtail. .. .Col.
Tannat's mill at Mountain City started up
on Wednesday. It has 30 stamps.... We
saw in Clark's bank, last evening, two beau-
tiful silver bricks weighing 800 ozs., the
product of the California Reduction Works.

A correspondent write.! from Ward dis-
trict, that the Edge Hill is running on sur-
face rock with good results. That the Ni
Wot Co's shaft is being driven down as
rapidly as possible, and that it is the inten-
tion to sink it to a depth of 600 It.; $25,000
has been taken from surface rock in that
district the past season, by the labor of 20
men.

Prospecting is being vigorously pushed
in the vicinity of Georgetown and Mill
City, and some very promising lodes have
very recently been discovered. Some col-
ored men got on to Mr. Snyder's " Snow
lode last week, aud " struck it rich" within
about 200 ft. of the discovery.

Yesterday a single retort of gold bullion
weighing 800 ozs., and worth $17,000, was
on exhibition at Warren Hussey & Co's
banking house. It was crushed from ores
of the Pleasant View mine by 25 stamps of
the Briggs mill in three week's time.

Denver Nev/s, Dec. 9th: Mr. Wells, of
Lake County, has shown lis a very rich
sample of gold quartz from a lode lately dis-
covered in California Gulch. One mill at
Granite took out $8,000 from 50 cords of
quartz.

Bernard & Studt, at California Gulch,
while working on the Pilot last week, struck
a very rich pocket, out of which one pan of
dirt yielded 99 pwts. of gold. Several re-
markably rich specimens were also found,
one of them weighing about a pound, esti-
mated to contain eight ozs. of gold. It is
said they have panned out in all $600 from
the pocket.

At Granite district there are five lodes be-
ing worked. W. B. Felton is still rushing
the Magneta down; it is now 80 ft. deep
with six ft. of ore, It is the best developed
lode in this district. Morrison is sinking
on the Jessie Johnson, which also looks
fine. D. C. Travisis opening a hole through
the Yankee Blade Mountain. Thore is but
one mill running at present. Mr. J. J.
Walley is crushing from the South Amer-
ica.

DACOTAH.

Sweetwater Mines, Dec. 9th : The ore
from the Dyer ledge exhibits free gold in
abundance, and it is a well-defiued ledge,
with good wall rocks, and a vein of ore be-
tween three and four feet in width. The
Eureka and Mineral Star lodes are well-
defined.

The progress made in developing the re-
sources of that section of country for the
length of time since its discovery, is greater
than that in any other section of country
that we have heard of, if we except the re-
recently discovered White Pine district iu
Nevada.

Several sales of great importance have
been made recently, viz., 600 feet of the
Miners' Delight for '$18, 000; 800 feet of the
Austin City for $40,000; and 600 feet of
the Young America for $50,000, besides
some of the Atlantic and Lone Star State
ledges, but at what figures we are unable
to state.

Virginia Enterprise, Dec. 27th: H. G.
Comstock, after whom the Comstoclc lead
was named, writes as follows from South
Pass City, under date of Nov. 14th: I am
operating somewhat in quartz. I have a
fine arastra in operation, and am crushing
quartz from the Miners' Delight. I think
this will be a good quartz camp in another
year, as there is a 20-stamp mill going up
now and is nearly done. Several mills and
arastras are now in operation. I struck the
principal surface diggings that have been
found here. But little prospecting has
been done in this part of the country for
fear of the Indians, who have killed several
persons and committed many depredations
during the summer, but this fall a consid-
erable amount of prospecting will be done.

IDAHO.

Owyhee Avalanclie, Dec. 19th : At the
depth of 140 feet in the Golden Chariot
mine, a level has been run south 180 feet,
and another level 105 feet north. Along
this whole distance of 285 feet, there is not
a single pound of refuse rock — it is all pay
ore, and that, too, of a high grade. In all
the work done on the mine, no vein matter
has been rejected; but the whole has been
hauled to the mill and reduced. And, as
to average results, the mine may safely
stand in comparison with any other on the
continent. This average — $125 per ton of I

all the vein matter between the walls of the
ledge — is something that no mine in Cali-
fornia, or outside of Owyhee, can boast of.
While this is the average, much of the ore
now being taken out is of unprecedented
richness. Many tons together have been
worked, and more are in sight along these
levels, worth $2,000 and upwards per ton.
Four hundred tons of ore are now out, and
will bo crushed at the New York mill in a
few days.

Walsh & Waanke, who have got the John
Jacob Astor lode bonded to them until the
1st of June, 1869, have commenced opera-
tions. They expect to have 100 tons of ore
out by next spring.

Silver City Tidal Wave, Dec. 15th : The
Earthquake Co., recently formed for min-
ing on the Galena ledge, in South Mount-
ain district, are about to commence work
on their mine.

Black's mill is running on Rising Star
ore, belonging to the Iowa Co. The mill
has been changed to a dry crusher, and is
reported to do good work.

The Sinker mill has stopped for the pres-
ent.

Dec. 18th : A lot of ore, between 50 to 60
tons, came down from the Golden Chariot
mine, on Wednesday, which is said to be
the richest large lot ever brought down the
mountain in one day. The Golden Chariot
Co. will have their ore crushed at the Owy-
hee mill, during the winter.

Dec. 22d: The Pickens & Edward's mine,
at a depth of 20 feet, has revealed a solid
seam of quartz, in a gouge on the hanging
wall, that is nearly metallic silver. This
stratum or seam is four inches in width,
and increases the mineral vein to a thick-
ness of full two feet.

Black's mill is doing good work on Ris-
ing Star ore. The result of the first ton
crushed was 37% pounds of dry amalgam
without cleaning the pan.

The shaft on the Baxter ledge, south of
the Poorman, is now down 100 feet, show-
ing a vein of ore 14 inches wide of great
richness, and is easily mined. Mr, Her-
man has shown us a specimen of the ore,
showing not only black sulphurets in
abundance, but ruby silver in considerable
quantities. The principal yield from rock
that has been worked, has been iu gold.
They will continue to sink all winter, so as
to be able to drift and stope in the spring.

The Woodstock mine has been bonded to
Dave Meek, who has now out .about 125
tons of ore, estimated to be worth $6,000
or $7,000. The ore is to be worked at the
Owyhee mill. The prospects for the Wood-
stock are improving faster than at any pre-
vious time in its history.

MONTANA.

Helena Post, Dec. 11th: We learn from a
gentleman just in from Diamond, that not-
withstanding the surface work was stopped
by reason of the cold, the miners are
preparing to drift and the probability is
that there will be few if any idle men iu
that camp this winter.

A. J. Smith, just in from Bannack, says
that camp bears the reputation of being the
most bustling camp in the Territory. The
surface works having ceased by reason of
the cold weather, the owners and miners
are turning their attention to drifting, or
to the development of their quartz lodes, of
which there are some in the vicinity of Ban-
nack that cannot be surpassed in Montana.
• The Deer Lodge Independent says: Boom-
erang Gulch is prospecting very richly,
paying about $18 per day to each man by
the rocking process. The miners of this
locality have labored under great disad-
vantage from want of water, but now hav-
ing facilities for a,n adequate supply, the
next summer splendid results are looked

for from this mining locality Carriboo

Gulch is deserted for the winter. The Car-
riboo Co. have erected a large reservoir
above their claim and will commence ground
sluicing iu the spring on an extensive scale.
Splendid results are also looked for from
this company's operations.

NEVADA.

HUMBOLDT.

Hnionville Register, Dec. 19th: Ore has
been struck in the lower level of the Ari-
zona mine surpassing anything yet found
in quality, and abundant in quantity.

It KK«iK aiVElt.

Virginia Enterprise, Dec. 22d: The White
Pine fever continues unabated, though it is
somewhat less virulent at present than a
month since. Nearly everybody has it in a
mild form, and the majority expect to lin-
ger in this vicinity until toward spring.
Almost daily somebody leaves for the
"poor man's paradise," but there is no
grand rush. The news from the mines con-
tinues unchanged— very favorable all the
time.

Silver Bend. — Austin Reveille, Dec.

Th>e Mining and Scientific Press.

19th: A White Finer has been looking at
the niiucs of this district, and concluded
that there was valuable property in that dis-
trict He saw considerable piles of ore _ at
all the mines that were worked, the major
partof which would pay handsomely; and
ra vein» are of the
productive and lasting kind. Our corres-
it visited the Highbridge, Transyl-
vania and El Dorado north and south, and
he says the more closely he examined them
ire fully ho was impressed with the
conviction that they were mines of the
highest character. Col. Iluol was pushing
work with judgment and energy on tho
Highbridge and Transylvania, and the re-
sults obtained were of the most gratifying
kind. The E! Dorado South appeared to
the visitor to ho one of the grand mines of
tho State, and it was evidently well man-
aged. There were two piles of oro nt the
surface which contained in the aggregate
4 «i tons, the value of which might be safely
•vitimated at 8100,000. The width of this
in has not been ascertained, but it
will undoubtedly prove of great magnitude.
■Several mines of less note, but still very
promising, were being worked to advant-
age and wen? producing good ore, which
the ow ners may have reduced at Col Unci's
mill, and thus obtain tho means for steady
development.

Wines & Go's express line from Hamil-
ton brought into this city this morning
eight bars of bullion from one of tho mills
at White Pine.

Mountain CliampUm, Dee. 19th: Troy and
Granite districts are receiving much atten-
tion. They are both in the range of the
White Pine Mountains, from 00 to 80 miles
smith of Treasure City, in the White Pine
district. We are informed that there are
from 75 to 100 men engaged in prospecting
and locating the many ledges of tho Troy
district. New discoveries are made every
day and are quickly taken up. The district
possesses every facility for the cheap work-
ing of its ores — wood and water is plenty,
and close at hand. In the Grant district,
about 20 miles south of the Troy, many lo-
cations have already been made, and there
are quite a number of men prospecting in
tho district. A recent test of ore from the
district gave an assay of #351.54 per ton.
The veins are said to be large and well de-
fined, and the ore yields a fair proportion of
gold. Arrangements are completed for
constructing a mill in the district at an
early day.

SrLVEB Bend. — Leon & Co. , on the El
Dorado South are taking out more thau at
any previous time since the opening of the
mine. Tho hoisting works, and other im-
provements for the working of the mine,
are now completed and they have resumed
work on the prospecting shaft, now down
185 ft. The intention is to sink this shaft
to the depth of 500 ft. In the old incline
the ledge is looking finely and workmen
are engaged in brcastingout. In the south
incline the ledge is increasing in width, and
from it they are hoisting large quantities of
very rich ore. The Belmont mill is run-
ning night and day on ore from this mine,
which is yielding from $150 to §350 per
ton.

WASHOE.

[In the Stock Circular, in another portion
of this paper, will be found late mining
news from this district.]

Virginia Enterprise, Dec. 27th: Tho total
shipments of bullion from this city and
Gold Hill during the past week, has been
0,920 ths., valued at $167,314.82.
NEW MEXtCO.

Santa Fe Gazelle, Nov. 28th: A corres-
pondent gives a long and interesting ac-
count of the discovery and development of
the Maxwell quartz mine located near the
Cimaron river. He says: When the mill
was first started for several days it was fed
on different kiDds of wall and intermediate
rock in order to test their value and see if
they would prove worth crushing, but the
rock thus experimented upon was found of
little value. The mill was then put to work
for six days on the rotten aud solid quartz
and loose earth. I witnessed the result of
the clean up of this six days' run aud it
amounted to 120 ozs. of gold, worth $22 per
oz. , making for six days' run a total of
$2,040, which, after deducting the expjenses
of $450 for the six days' run, leaves a daily
net profit of $365 per day, and a uet profit
of $109,500 per annum, allowing 65 days'
stoppage for cleaning up and other unfore-
seen causes of delay. The mill is situated
in the Ute Mountains, atan altitude of over
7,600 ft. above the sea, and of necessity
during some portions of the winter the
freezing of the water in the ditch which
supplies the mill may cause a sudden aud
peremptory stoppage of the mill. The situ-
ation of the vein is such, that by running
ill a tunnel several hundred below the pres-

ent opening tho vein will be again struck,
ami bj opening the veiu at other points on
tie- lode, an abundant supply of ore for
i four 30-stamp mills, may he easily
procured. The deepest opening iu any one
of the veins now beiiii< worked is about 50
ft. and the ore is brought out at an angle
of abonl 30 .

When I first visited Ute Creek and tho
Moreno mines in September last, Mr. Max-
well was successfully running two hy-
draulic washers on Ute Crook, and the
week's cleau up of the si nice boxes amounted
to $706, fivo men being omployed, These
men are at work on the opposite side of
the mountain putting in sluice boxes on the
head of Willow Creek so that when spring
and abundance of water come some half a
dozen hydraulic washers will be ready for
profitable washing on Willow and Ute
Creek.

Exolusiyeness among Scientists. — The
following is a portion of tho remarks of
Prof. Tillman, at tho opening of the Poly-
technic Branch of tho American Institute,
on Octob t 10th, touching the subject
of "exclusivcness," "aristocracy," and
"haughtiness, sometimes engendered by
learning," — in a vein which appears to us to
be peculiarly perverted, and narrowly
founded, on a very limited observation of
tho true feelings and habits of scientific
men, other than that superficial and vain
class of persons who merit, and pretty
surely sooner or later encounter, the con-
tempt of both the educated and uneducated
of meritorious acquirements: "If there is
any hindrance at present to the progress of
truth, both here aud abroad, it arises chiefly
from the spirit of exclusiveuess sometimes
evinced by those who have devoted their
lives to the study of physical laws. This
should not excite surprise, because the
tendency of abstract science is essentially
aristocratic. The man who knows, stands
on a higher plane than the one who does
not know. Hence, the position of the sci-
entist is impregnable. He has riches and
power, of which he cannot be robbed.
Should he find his chief enjoyment, how-
ever, in the reputation he has acquired, he
may well fear rivalry. On the other hand,
if he pursues truth for the love of it, he
will welcome all who labor in the same
spirit, aud extend to those below him a
helping baud.

The study of natural laws, in the ab-
stract, undoubtedly affords pure enjoyment;
yet this feeling is vastly intensified by wit-
nessing their successful application for the
accomplishment of new and important re-
sults in the useful arts. Such results are
often brought about by the artisan who, al-
though he may know but few of these laws,
understands most thoroughly all the condi-
tions peculiar to his art, under which they
can be effectually applied. Our great in-
ventors have not, generally, had the ad-
vantage of a liberal education. By inge-
nuity alone they take the lead, and, of
course, counteract to a certain extent, the
haughtiness sometimes engendered by
learning."

White Sage.— The Silver City, (I. T.)
Tidal Wave says one of the most valuable
products of that country is the white sage,
that abounds along the foot-hills skirting
nearly all the valleys. This shrub, or
plant, is a small, straight stem, growing in
bunches, with white, fuzzy flowers, a white,
thick leaf and thick bark, that resembles in
taste and consistency the slippery elm of
the Atlantic States. It is second only to corn
as winter feed for cattle, horses and mules.
No section of country iu the United States,
says our exchange, can boast of as fat
beef, during the season, as the region
that abounds with white sage along Snake
River, and especially in the vicinity of the
Bruneau, Catharine and Sinker creeks.
These plains, that were, by the early trap-
pers, hunters and emigrants, regarded as
an arid and desert waste, have proven the
richest winter pasture fields in the world.
Prejudice against the artemesia' or black
sa::e, that covers so great a portion of the
country between the Sierra and Bocky
Mountains, prevented investigation and re-
tarded discovery of the virtues of this plant,
until the cattle in Nevada brought it into
notice and popularity, by persistently re-
fusing the grass fields for sage pasture.

Photogkaphs of the Catacombs. — By
means of the electric light, photographs of
the Paris Catacombs are now being taken.
The apparatus of M. Serrin for the auto-
matic regulation of the carbon electrodes is
used. Workmen can now continue their
labor as well by night as by day.

Cod Liver Oil— A Substitute.

"Endosmose and Exosmose," are two
words used by tho doctors to express the
capability of transmission or transuda-
tion of fluids through tissues. A bladder
separating salt water from pure water will
not prevent the salty fluid from interchang-
ing with the fresh. There is said to bo
little doubt that the oil of the liver of fish
is more readily absorbed than that from
othersources, vegetable or animal. Exper-
iments made somo years ago between vari-
ous oils, including that of Norwegian cod,
respecting the degree of transudation,
proved the latter to pass moist or dry ani-
mal membranes at least fivo times as rap-
idly as any other oil. It was also shown as
highly probable that this is duo to tho
presence of bile in tho liver-oil, since, after
removing the bile-constituents by means of
subacctato of lead, its coefficient of transu-
dation was much reduced, and because pop-
py-seed oil, after the addition of some bile,
showed a far higher degree of osmosis.

Dr. Robert Brown recently made a com-
munication to the Loudon Pliarnuweutkal
Journal, stating that a fish found iu great
quantities on the Pacific Coast, and known
as the oulachan, or eulachon, furnishes an
oil said to be equal to cod liver oil for me-
dicinal effect, while it is devoid of its of-
fensive qualities. From the article in the
Pacific Medical aud Surgical Journal, men-
tioned above, we extract the following de-
scription of the fish :

The oulachan or eulachon, is a small del-
icate-looking fish, about tho size of a smelt,
and not unlike it, semipellncid, aud with
fine scales. On or about the 24th of March
— at nearly the same time each year — it en-
ters the northern rivers, and the southern
ones a little later. It was once abundant
in the Columbia, but thai stream being
now disturbed by the traffic of steamers, it
is only now in exceptional years that they
are caught there in any quantity. In Fraser
River, and in most of the rivers on the
coast of British Columbia, they are still
found at that season (March) in greater or
smaller quantities; but it is in the Naas
River, falling into the Pacific in latitude
54° 40' N., that the eulachon is found iu
the greatest quantities, and it is to its cap-
ture in that stream that these notes chiefly
relate. The fish comes up from the sea
into the fresh water for the purpose of
spawning, but, unlike most of its allies —
the salmon proper — on that coast, returns
to the sea again, and is not seen until the
following year. During that season they
swarm in inconceivable shoals.

The fishing of the oulachan is made an
annual festival by the Indians, and they set
a very high value on the fish. The oil is
obtained by putting the fish into boxes,
generally hollowed out of a solid block of
cedar, or so closely made as to be water-
tight, and then throwing in hot stones. The
oil is then skimmed off the surface and set
aside to cool.

Iron by Electricity. — The production
of iron by electricity has been occupying
the attention of several experimentalists of
France and in Germany for the last few
months. The galvanic process may some
day give rise to a revolution in our present
modes of manufacturing iron. Quite re-
cently, M. Bouillet read a report to the
Societe d'Encouragement upon certain elec-
tric processes imagined by M. Feuquiers ; but
the latter gentleman has not thought proper
to allow their publication at present. Herr
Klein aud Dr. Franz Varrentrapp have re-
cently devoted much attention to the pro-
duction of iron by means of galvanism.
In the process of MM. Salmon and Garnier,
of Paris, a thin layer of steel is deposited
by means of galvanism, upon the copper
plate. When it was sought to increase the
thickness of the plate thus produced, it was
found that the deposited metal was no
longer coherent, but easily fell to powder.
This circumstance was taken advantage of
by Mr. Collas, who applied it to obtain
chemically pure iron, which could be easily
pulverized in a mortar, aud is eagerly
sought after for medicinal use, for the
manufacture of fireworks, aud a variety of
other purposes. — Scientific Review.

Coppeh Mining in Michigan, it is stated,
employs a capital of $50,000,000, and from
36,600 to 40,000 persons are engaged iu
working the mineral deposits.

M. Dc.mesnil's Wine Process. — Iu this
the cask of wine is placed open, uuder an
irou bell and the air exhausted. The gases
contained in the wine are thus allowed to
expand and release themselves by rupturing
tho cells enclosing them. The Chemical
News, in giving an account of the process,
says: The theory of the decomposition of
grape juice and other organio substances
rests on a very elementary fact, viz.: on
the power of double decomposition. Gase-
ous products of the fermentation do not re-
main -inert, but inorgetically induce the
fermentation or decomposition of free
bodies. These products are the most active
iu inducing decomposition; they alter wine
indefinitely when enclosed in the fibriuo
cells, which M. Pasteur calls mycodermes.
White wines owe their great superiority
over red wine to their different condition
as rogards this point. M. Dumesuil gives
an example of the practical value of his
process. He allowed the wines of 1805 to
ferment till March, 1860, so as to allow of
the conversion of all the sugar and extract-
ive matter into alcohol. At this pe.'iod h
substituted for the usual operations tho
treatment by the vacuum; fermentation
ceased entirely. The wines thus treated
arrived at their destination in good condi-
tion; with other samples treated in the
usual way the result was very different.
Notwithstanding four rackings, and possi-
bly four classifications, the wines continued
to ferment during the whole of the year
1866 and also the commencement of 1807,
and they probably still contain gases which
will affect them more slowly. M. Dutnes-
nil mentions that his wines of 1867, treated
in last March by the vacuum, yielded twice
as much as those of 1865.

Sea Weeds fob Medical Pdbposes. —
The Journal des Connaissances Medicates,
published a paper by M. Ed. Moride, on a
method for applying sea-weeds to medical
purposes. The genus Laminaria (found on
this coast,) chiefly consists of large plants
growing abundantly in deep waters or on
rocks that only appear at very low ebb.
They are very rich in iodine, chlorine, sul-
phur, silicia, lime, potash and soda. They
are burnt in large quantities on the French
shores of the British Channel and the At-
lantic, and produce the best raw soda, from
which iodine is afterwards extracted. M.
Moride conceived the idea of turning these
plants to account in their natural state,
without subjecting them to a combustion
which might modify them considerably, and
drive off their most useful volatile ingredi-
ents. M. Boussingault and M. Humbo'dt
had stated that in America the inhabitants
of the Cordilleras of the Andes were in tbo
habit of using the decoctions of sea-weeds,
or else their alcoholic tinctures in cases of
scrofula, wens, and lympathic tendencies.
These liquids are, however, unpalatable,
and have, moreover, a strong smell of the
original sea- weed; to avoid which, M. Mo-
ride proceeds as follows: The plants, gath-
ered on the rocks on which they grow, are
slightly rinsed in fresh water, in order to
rid them of the salt water adhering to
them; then dried and exposed to the sun,
whereby they lose their smell and taste of
wrack; after which they are pounded in a
mortar and macerated in strongly alcho-
lized water at a somewhat high temperature.
The iodized tincture thus obtained may be
used to prepare a medicinal wine, or else a
syrup with, which will be found useful in
all affections for which iodine is prescribed.

Soap Growing on Trees. — Soap berries
are to be found in immense quantities
throughout Alaska. They grow on a bush
about the same in appearance as whortleber-
ries. When ripe they are red, of a juicy
and quinine taste, aud generally biennial.
One quart taken and placed in a tub the
size of a bushel will, when stirred, com-
pletely fill the tub with a froth, and the
more it is stirred with the naked hand and
arm; the stiffer it becomes, until you can
cut it with a knife. It is eaten with horn
or wooden spoons, all the family sitting
round the tub. It is undoubtedly an ac-
quired taste, but the commodity is much
sought for. The froth is of a beautiful pink
color. Green berries will make nearly the
same amount of froth, but it is of the white
color and is not so highly flavored. For-
eigners stir it with port or sherry wines,
and add sugar, in which case it is a deli-
cious luxury. Large quantities are dried,
by boing placed in a tub with their leaves,
forming a cake, which is placed on wicker
tables, with light fires under and the sun
overhead. When dried they will keep in a
dry place for some years. The dried ber-
ries are black and look dirty. A piece two
inches square, beaten in a water pool, will
fill it full of froth of a dark pink color.

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Notices to Correspondents.

Yoyagetjr. — However laudable it may be
for a seaman to devote some of his leis-
ure time to assisting any branch of sci-
ence, in the present state of geology,
that science would not be much promoted
by a mere collection of rock specimens
derived from distant places to which his
duties may call him, unless accompanied
by detailed observations of the surround-
ing district. It is now generally con-
ceded that the sedimentary rocks and
those usually denominated igneous, are
much the same all the world over, so far
as lithological structure and appearances
are concerned, and a mere fragment un-
accompanied by additional information,
would only record that single fact. If,
however, to such specimens, fossils from
the same rock can be procured, highly
interesting deductions may be formed.

Unemployed. — "White Pine, from the most
accurate accounts which we have re-
ceived, consists chiefly of chloride of
silver combined with some arsenurets of
lead, antimony and iron, with some chlo-
ride of lead, and possibly subchloride
of antimony. As the explorations pro-
ceed in depth, it is probable that the
proportion of chlorides will diminish,
and the arsenurets and sulphurets in-
crease. Should, however, the leads lie
horizontally, or at a low angle, the
amount of chlorides will probably con-
tinue in the same proportion in which
they are now found to exist.

Medictjs. — There are good grounds for pre-
suming that the natives of many parts of
central and the coast of Africa, to-
gether with some of those inhabiting Isl-
ands of the Indian Archipelago, possess
a knowledge of narcotic poisons with
which we are unacquainted. We have
been informed that so complete is this
knowledge by some tribes on the African
coast, that of two fowls cooked at the
same time, they can distinguish when
brought to table the one containing
poison from the one that is innocuous.

Naturalist. — The line of demarkation be-
tween the vegetable and animal kingdoms
is so obscurely marked in the lower or-
ganized marine species, and the modes of
collecting and preserving these are so
similar, that the methods practiced for
either purpose, whether relatiug to algas,
sponges, corallines, and corals, apply to
all.

Articles rn the chemical ingredients
aud practical methods of utiliziug Califor-
nia petroleum; on several new ideas for
creating power; in a new modification of
the German percussion table; describing
an ingenious cartridge-making machine; an
interesting communication from a mining-
engineer in the mountains back of Maznt-
lau; and notices of several lots of minerals
received for determination, are, from want
of space, necsssarily deferred till our next
issue.

Improved Method of Working Roasted
Gold and Silver Ores in Pans and
Barrels by Amalgamation.

The leaching process for which a patent
has been issued to G. Kustel, through the
agency of the Mining and Scientific Press,
is applicable to ores from which only a low
grade amalgam can be obtained, in conse-
quence of the presence of the base metals —
iron, copper, lead, antimony and arsenic.
Simple as this process is, it elevates pan
and barrel amalgamation to ahigher degree
of importance.

Millmen are aware of the fact that a cer-
tain class of ores, and principally tailings,
when amalgamated in pans after roasting,
furnish a metal which cannot be melted in
a crucible. It consists of metallic -iron con-
taining silver, partly alloyed, and partly
separated in buttons. Instances of this
kind have occurred in the Illinois mill
(Nev.) where the proprietors some years
ago bought up refractory but rich silver
ores, to be worked in pans after roasting.
The resulting iron amalgam ruined the
purchasers. The old Sutro mill got out
hundreds of pounds of iron amalgam from
roasted tailings, which, after retorting, had
to be dissolved in sulphuric acid, in order
to obtaiu the silver. The same kind of
amalgam was obtained also in the Dayton
mills, at Call's mill, etc.

On the other hand, thereare a great many
mills turning out bullion of from . 500 to
.700 fineness. The base metals, entering
the amalgam, do not only put down the
fineness of the bullion, but they actually
prevent, to some extent, the complete amal-
gamation of the silver. These base metals,
after roasting, being chlorides, must ordi-
narily be decomposed before amalgamation,
at the expense of quicksilver and of the pan.
There are instances where from ten to
twelve pounds of mercury was lost to every
ton of ore, and where the pans were de-
stroyed in less than a year. The main ob-
ject of the present process is to remove the
base metal chlorides before the ore is sub-
jected to amalgamation.

For this purpose, Mr. Kustel applies a
very simple, old process— that of leaching,
Most of the chlorides are soluble in hot
water, and can be easily removed by lixivi-
ation. An addition of some sulphuric acid
is in many instances very useful, but can
not be administered if some lead should be
present in the ore, in which case muriatic
acid is employed; generally, hot water is
sufficient. The leaching is carried on as
long as a reaction of dissolved metal is
perceived in the leach. The ore so treated
is then ready for amalgamation. To illus-
trate the effect of leaching, it may be stated
that a charge of 300 pounds of refractory
ore from Idaho was equally divided after
roasting, one of which was directly amalga-
mated, the other after leaching. The
former amalgamation gave a retoried metal
which melted into an untractable lump of
iron, while the lixiviated portion yielded a
silver bar .897 fine. In both cases the
amalgamation was done in the usual man-
ner, under application of heat.

The advantage of leaching the roasted ore
before amalgamation, consists, 1st. In ob-
taining a higher percentage of silver. 2d.
In saving from 50 to over 100 per cent, of
quicksilver. 3d. In making the pan last
several years longer. 4th. In saving the
greater part of the copper; and 5th. In a
shorter roasting, as there is no necessity
of decomposing the chlorides before amal-
gamation by an increased heat.

The expense, compared with the advant-
ages, is a mere trifle, — the heating of water
f jr leaching. Even cold water will answer,
although with a little less effect. Some ores,
however, require to be treated first with cold
water.

It must be mentioned, that although the
chloride of silver is not, like the base metal
chlorides, soluble in water, some of it will
neveitheltsi b3 carried out; but this oc-

curs only at the first attack of the water,
when the solution of the undecomposed
salt and of the chlorides becomes so con-
centrated that a little silver chloride is dis-
solved on the Augustin principle. There
is no difficulty practically, however, in pre-
venfcing the escape of dissolved silver.

Not all the copper contained in the ore is
converted by the roasting into chloride of
copper, there being also formed a subchlo-
ride which is not soluble in water; but this
is easily decomposed in the pans, so that in
this case a considerable amount of copper
would be found in the amalgam. There
are several ways of reducing the subchlo-
ride of copper, to a greater or less extent,
according to circumstances.

It may be mentioned here, that a patent
has been granted to Mr. Thomas Rowan, of
Glasgow, for a similar application of leach-
ing, which has for its purpose the removing
of phosphorus from iron ores before smelt-
ing. The ore is subjected to a chloridizing
roasting, whereby chloride of phosphorus
is formed, which is extracted by lixiviation.

Persons who may interest themselves
specially in this process, are referred to Mr.
Kustel, box No. 1.5S8, P. O. San Francisco,
for further particulars.

1869.

The New Year begins our XVIHth Vol.
We find these figures suggestive, since they
remind us that our era is now old a score
of years. Whether our steps in civilization
will bemeasuredby scores hereafter, or not;
certain it is, from our past, that great re-
sults are apt to be brought to pass in the
Occident in an astonishingly short space of
time; and that 1869, especially, will be a
year when living, thinking, and energetic
men, will not be dreaming. Things are to
happen very probably in the course of the
year which will be remembered. Our read-
ers need not be reminded of the situation
and its varied bearings. It is enough that
we here impress upon them the fact that
action, and enterprise, are yhe watchwords
of the year; that intelligence is the light
whereby development proceeds; and we
may congratulate ourselves, as we utter our
"Happy New Year," on possesing afield
which it will be of some use creditably to
fill, as well as a circle of readers in which
maybe enumerated, not only the hard-fisted
men of the crane and hose-pipe, the cabi-
ners and hermits of the foot-hills and of
the great interior, but all the wide-awake
millmen, mining managers, foundrymen,
manufacturers, and scientific men on the
Pacific Coast, from the Sierra Madre to
Cariboo, — embracing -a class more intelli-
gent, select, and of more real importance in
contributing to the substantial advancement
and development of the coast, than any
other journal which is published can boast.
Our aim for 18G9, shall be to make the
Mining and Scientific Press indispensa-
ble to them, and to those who should, no
less than to all who do, patronize us.

The Geeat Blast at Smartsville, took
place on Wednesday, Dec. 23d, as expected,
and proved a complete success. Fifteen
tons of powder blew up a body of earth
superficially equal to 11,100 square feet
and to a depth of 80 feet; making a total of
about 8S8,000 cubic feet of ground raised.
There was very little noise, but houses
trembled as in an earthquake, from the sub-
terranean concussion, it is presumed. Noth-
ing but a little dust from the gaping crev-
ices was thrown into the air, but the earth
rose bodily about fifteen feet, and at once
sunk back so nicely into its original posi-
tion as to retain uuderground even the
smoke from the combustion of the powder.
Further details are expected from our cor-
respondent.

The Annual Eepokt of the Empire Mill
and Mining Co. has been received, show-
ing clearly and concisely the extent of the
operations during the past year.

Continental Life Insurance Company,
302 Montgomery street, corner of Pine.1

Railroad Opening Excursion.

The rapid extension of railroads in Cali-
fornia is one of the most signal evidences of
the great and permanent growth of tho
State. Their success and popularity al-
ready illustrate how much we have been in
want of cheap and comfortable transporta-
tion on the Pacific Coast.

On Wednesday last, the opening of the
Napa Valley and California Pacific Eailroad
was celebrated by an excursion trip from
Sacramento and San Francisco to Calistoga.
About ,500 citizens from the former place
met 700 from this city, at the junction of
the two roads, seven miles north of Vallejo.
It was a beautiful day, and the excursion
was greatly enjoyed — notwithstanding, Cal-
ifornia-like, "the thing was overdone" by
the managers having too many friends who
failed to report their acceptance of the
invitation, as kindly requested. The cars,
and also the dining room at Calistoga, were
not only crowded, but literally packed full.
The boat left San Francisco at 8 a.m., ar-
rived at Vallejo before ten, and after con-
siderable delay in getting started, as well
as at several points on the route, the train
reached Calistoga, the terminus, at 2 p.m.
A hasty lunch, — furnished by the proprie-
tor of this beautiful resort, Samuel Bran-
nan, Esq., — was partaken of , when the train
returned to San Francisco, the passengers
arriving home at about 9 o'clock.

The Napa Valley Eailroad, of which Mr.
Smith Brown, of Napa, is president, ex-
tends thirty-five miles from the junction of
the California Pacific, to Calistoga, through
one of the most delightful sections of Cal-
ifornia, as to climate and scenery. The
California Pacific Eailroad is completed
from Vallejo to Sacramento, a distance of
sixty miles. It will ere long be continued
to Marysville, the company designing to
comjdete a direct line to Oregon, in con-
nection with the California and Oregon
Eailroad.

Following are the principal stations on
the routes passed over by the excursionists
on Wednesday : From Sacramento, on the
California Pacific Eailroad, to Davis, 14
miles; Dixon, 22; Vaca, 30; Fairfield, 40;
Bridgeport, 45; Summit, 49; Napa Junc-
tion, 53; and Vallejo, 60 miles. From Val-
lejo to Napa Junction, 7 miles; Suscol, 11;
Napa, 16; Oak Knoll, 21; Sebastopol, 26;
Oakville, 29; St. Helena, 35; and to Calis-
toga, 42 miles.

We noticed great improvements going
forward along the line of. the Napa route,
mainly due to the railroad, which presents
a fair example of what railroads are yet to
accomplish along each important thor-
oughfare in the State.

The management of the excursion party
from San Francisco, by our popular friend
Alex. Badlam, was all that could be desired
under the circumstances. If space would
permit, we should like to speak our mind
in praise of D. C. Haskin, the indomitable
Superintendent of the C. P. E. E., Mr. Har-
ris, its Chief Engineer; and the laudable
efforts and opportune assistance rendered
by others, in favor of the completion of
these projects, the ultimate results of which
cannot yet be estimated.

E. d'Heureuse, the inventor of the air
fermentation and germination process for
wines, etc., and of the gold extraction pro-
cess by zinc, is about to make an extended
visit to Europe for the study practically of
somo of the new inventions which have
beeu made in iron metallurgy — his specialty
prior to 1849.

Velocipedes of every variety, including
several of new design, are being built at
the carriage makers. One at Kimball's lias
three wheels, two of which measure eight
feet in diameter. Eubber tires, and a pe-
culiar treadle-connection by which the full
weight of the rider is constantly utilized
in propelling the machine, are ideas that
find favor. Novelties in this line are also
nuclei- way at the Golden State Foundry.

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The Overland Monthly.— We have re-
ceived from A. llomau «fc Co., the publish-
ers, the "Holiday Number" of this maga-
zine, which therewith commences its second
volume. It is an excellent number. We
have had time to read only a portion of its
contents. In "Journalism as a Profession,"
wo recognize an unquestionably first-class
article. In the '* Outcasts of £oker Flat,"
we think wo see tho pen which so graphic-
ally de.srrilif.'<l forty-nine life in " Tho Luck
of Roaring Camp." In "Our Brother
from California" we can almost fancy wo
know the "Charlie " whoso presence sug-
gested to the (undoubtedly) fair author tho
subject for the article. Tho "Etc.'* con-
tains an excellent letter from Rome, under
tho head "Gossips from Abroad;" and
among tho reviews of new books may be
especially noticed one of Mr. Parton's
" Smoking and Drinking." Tho whole
"Table of Contents" looks tempting, and
wo promiso ourselves a long evening of
comfort with it yet

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The Musing and Scientific Press, of this city, has
done us the honor to notice us in their columns, and we
feel in duty bound to acknowledge the compliment.

It were fruitless for us to say anything in praise of the
Mining. and Scientific Press. * * * It speaks for
itself wherever it goes. Its editors are men of intelli-
gence, ability and honor.

We have had frequent occasion to have business rela-
tions with the patent agency connected with this estab-
lishment, and have had nothing left to desire in regard
to it. Fidelity, promptness and courtesy, soon arranged
everything for us to our complete satisfaction. Having
had frequent delays at Washington whilo in that city, we
have been surprised at the promptitude with which some
of our friends obtained their patents through the agency
of Messrs. Dewey & Co. — S. F. Spiritual Light.

Subscription Terms, in advance, $5; six
months, $3. Specimen Nos. of the paper and
Circulars of Information for Inventors, sent
free on application.

DEWEY & CO.,
Publishers, Patent Agents and Job Printers, No.

'ill Clay st., below Sansome, San Francisco.

A. T. DEWEY. W. B. EWER.

A Hint to Subscribers.

We would remind those of our subscribers
whose subscriptions have expired, that we shall
be happy to have them forward the amount of
their annual subscription. It will save us much
time and expense to have patrons send in
their subscriptions just before, or promptly at,
the time Iff expiration. We have been unre-
mitting in our efforts during the past volume,
to render our paper valuable and acceptable
t) our readers, and we are sufficiently encour-
aged with the result to anticipate still greater
outlay in the future, in extending the value and
usefulness of the Pbess. We hope to receive the
subscriptions of many old and new patrons
for 1869.

Dec. 24, 1868.

A LABGE NUMBER OF THESE
IMPROVED CONCEISTTKATOBS

ARE I.V PRACTICAL USE OX THE PACIFIC COAST.

Mr. Hendy, by diligent and practical application, has improved bis Concentrators
until they now stand unrivalled, far in advance of any yet brought to public notice.

By recent alterations in the patterns for these machines, they are now made
Stroiiser and more JZ>ixx-ttlt>le tlmix Ever.

THESE CONCENTRATORS can be seen in operation at the "ONION IRON
"WORKS, corner of Front and Mission streets, San Francisco.

J. UEIVI>TLVI*atejatee.

Three Calendars in One.

We have justissued a card circular, of
convenient size for the office and counting
house use, containing large calendar for
18G9 and small calendars for 1868 and 1870;
also alphabetical table of distances from
San Francisco, XT. S. Revenue Stamp Tax,
U. S. rates of postage, rates of foreign post-
age, relative value of currency, information
about patents, etc. It is for general circu-
lation, and free for all who may send for- it.

Our Office.

The office of the Mining and Scientific
Press U located in the second story at No. 414
Clay street, north side, just below Sansome. Hero
we have spacious accommodations, with our patent
rooms, editorial room, counting room, newspaper
and job printing offices, — all conveniently ar-
ranged and connected, and our facilities for dis-
patching business correctly and economically,
better than ever before. Don't forget the number
— 414 Clay street, below Sansome.

DEWEY & CO.

No Branch Office.

Our friends and patrons will hear in mind that
we have no branch office in San Francisco, our
U. S. and Foreign Patent Agency rooms being
suitably arranged with our Mining and Scien-
tific Press printing office, at No. 414 Clay
street. We have no partnors in business except
the undersigned. DEWEY & CO. '

A. T. DEWEY. W. B. EWER.

Returned.— Dr. J. II. Falne, Dentist, Wadsworth House,
No, 225 Bush street, between Uic Occidental and Cosmopoli-
tan Hotels, Sail Francisco. 21vl7 4m

Save Your Tektii.— Dis. Jcssup &. Beers, over Tucker's
•OWelry store, arc now making a specially of tilling the
fangs of dead Tec lh, and building up broken crowns with
purer/old— thus restoring tliein to Choir original usefulness
and beauty. They arc aHo using Nitrous Oxide for the
painless extraction ol' Teeth, when so desired— the only ab-
solutely safe anaJdthelic ever discovered In breathing it,
it acts as a gentle stimulant:, without undue excitement,—
the sensation produced being truly delightful, the effect
upon the lungs healthful, and in lis roults positively tree
from all danger. Prepared ami administered daily iitlhc
Di-JlinJ Rooms ol Messrs. .IKriSlH' A REEKS, comer Mont-
gomery and Suiter streets, San Francisco. lGvlftlf

WiiEitE to ATJTEimsE. — The attention of traders and
mill machinists is called to the fact that the Mountain
Messenger, of Downievillo, Sierra County, possesses many
special advantages as an advertising medium over a lna-
ority of the interior press, it being the only public jour-
nal published within a radius of sixty miles, iu the rich-
eht and most populous mining sections of the State. Its
-weekly edition is double the average of country papers,
being without the range of large dailies, and having no
competition at home. Its local eoluins atlbrd many items
for our city coteniporarics, while itb rates of advertising
are reasonably low ll'vl7ti'

Mr. Mowry, lately a clerk in a hotel at Colfax, is re-
quested to call at the ottlec of the Mining and Scientific
Pkess, No. 414 Clay street, below Sansome, San Francisco.

I'X I i\ KILLF.K.
No article ever attained to such unbounded popularity. —
Satem Olmcrvtr. —

An article of great merit ai>d virtue.— Cinn. Nonpareil.

We can bear testimony to the efficacy or the Pain Killer.
We havo seen lis magic effects in soothing the severest
pain, and know it to be a good article.— Cinncinnati Dispatch.

A speedy cure for pain— no family should be without it.—
Montreal Transcript. —

Nothing has yet surpassed the Fain Ki'ler. which is the
most valuable family medicine now in use.— Tain. Organ.

It has real merit; as a means of removing pain, no medi-
cine has acquired ft reputation equal to Perry Davis' Pain
Killer.— Newport (Kg.) Daily A'eics.

Crucibles.

The Patent Plumbago Crucible Co.,

Manufacturers of all kinds of

Melting Pots, Portable Furnaces,

CRUCIBLES, and oilier Arc-standing Goods,
ItiitHTM:;i "Worka, I-olidmi.

THE MORGAN PATENT CRUCIBLES have uniform
quality, never crack, withstand the greatest heat without
danger; heats more rapidly than any oilier; change of tem-
perature has no effect on them; stand on the average forty
to fifty pourings.

On hand and for sale by tho Agents,

lvl8-3m

A. S. HAL MOTE .fc CO.,

iitit Frontstreet, San Francisco.

MAGAZINES.

Per An.

W, E. LOOMS,
News Dealer

AND STATIONER,

Harpers

Vtlantie

3odcy

Sew York Ledger

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3 UP

6 00

fi 1)0
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Hours at Home

Jood Words

Peterson's

Arthur

Lady's Friend
larper's Weekly..
Jhiinney Corner...
Mterary Album...

jOildojl Society

All the Year Round
London 111. News..

Southeast corner Snusomo and
Washington streets,

S01TUKS AM.

EASTERJf
PEUIODrCAI.8

By the Year, Month or Number

PATKNT BIGHT

— KOK —

KEAWUFACTURING PHO0F SPIRITS
iron sale.

Jttcnllon Is called to MABTIX'S NEW PATENT for a
process for Distilling Alcoliol <85 per cent, or higher), with-
out rectlfving, which Is offered for sale on I'tivorablc terms.
Samples may bo seen, and further information obtained, at
No. *'i3 Washington street.

2CV17 E. JI. ltF.WKV,

W. T. OARRATT,
City

BRASS AND BELL FOUNDER

Cor. Miaaion und Fremont ttt»..

SAM IWMisiV.

Manufacturer of Brass, Zinc, and Anil-Frlctlon or
Bal>l>et >Xctal Castings*

CUUliCH AND STEAMBOAT

TAVXai* AMD HAND BELLS AND CONOR,

FIRE ENGINES, FORCE AND LIFT PUMPS,

Steam, Llouor, Soda Oil, Water and Flange Cocks, and

Valves of all descriptions, made and repaired. Hi.se and

all other Joints, Spelter, Snider, and Hopper R.vpIn, Ac.

Gauge- Cocks, Cylinder Cocks, Oil Olobes, Steam Whittles,

IIVIIKAII.K lMTKHAM) ZVOZZEJLS
For Mining purposes, Iron Steam Pipe furnished with Fit-
tings, Ac. Coupling Joints or all *i'«j. Particular uttenllon
paid to Distillery Work. Manufacturer of "Oarratl's Pat-
tent Improved Journal Metal."

N". W. SPATJLDLNG,

Saw Smithing and Repairing

ESTABLISHMENT.

Nun. 17 and 19 Fremont St., nenr Market,

MANUFACTURER OF

SPAULDING'S

Patent Tooth Circular Saws.

They hnve proved tlientftelven to ne the moot
durable und economioul Snw» In the "World.

EACH SAW IS WARRANTED IN EVERY RESPECT.

Particular attention paid to conslraction of

Portable & Stationary Saw Mills.

MILLS FURNISHED AT SHORT NOTIOE,
At the lowest Market Prices.

PACIFIC

Eolling Mill Company,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Established for tho Manufacture of

RAILROAD AND OTHER IRON
Every "Variety ox* Sihtiltinu;,

Embracing ALL SIZES of
Steamboat Sniiftti, Crunk.*, Platon ami Con-
necting Rods, Car and Locomotive Axlea
und Frames

— ALSO —

i-ia.m:m:33iitsi> iron

Of every description and size.

03- Orders addressed to PACIFIC ROLLINO MILL
COMPANY Post Office, San Francisco, Cal., ivlll receive
prompt attention.

JR3" The highest price paid for Scrap Iron. flvR'Jmflp

Sheffield Scientific School

Of Yale College, New Haven, Conn.

This department of Yale College, instituted in lftlD. and
endowed with the National Land Grant in 13CG, furnishes
advanced instruction in the various branches of Mathe-
matical. Physical, and Natural Science.

The Fcliool Is under the direction of the President of the
College, a Board of thirteen Professors in different special
ties, and six assistant instructors.

Regular courses of sludy.leadinp to the degree of Bach-
elor of Philosophy, conferred hy Yale College, are ar-
ranged as follows: 1—CnBMiSTHYAWD Mineralogy. 2— Civil
Engineering 3— Mechanical Engineering. 4— Mining
Enginekhing and Metallurgy. 0— Agriculture, fi— Nat-
ural History and Geology, and 7— Select Coursk.

Advanced students are also admitted to optional courses,
and if already College graduates, are received as candi-
dates for the degree of -Doctor of Philosophy.

Tuition, SlZ5ner year of forty weeks.

The Libraries, Museums, Laboratories and Apparatus,
accessible to students, are various and expensive.

For copies of tho Annual Circular and Report, letters
may be addressed to the "Secretary of ihe Sheftield Scien-
tific School," New Haven, Conn. 13vfi-lylGp

MECHANICAL AND AECHITECTUEAL

Drawing School

— FOR —

APPRENTICES.

MR. .FREDERICK HELLJEICT,'

An experienced Draughtsman and Teacher, ha« opened nn
Evening School at No. 414 CLAY STREET ("same entrance
as Uic Mining and Scientific Press Office), whore lie is liv-
ing thorough instructions in DRAWING to apprentices who
are inclined to self-improvement. His terms arc inoilpiaie
and within reach of the huifihlcsr apprentice: end wo am
pleased tosaythatthe enterprise is meeting v.itn success.

lvia.u'

10

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinists and Foundries.

PALMER, KNOX & CO.,

Golden State Iron Works,

Hot. 10, 31, 23 and 25 First Street.

SAN FRANCISCO.

HjtNOFACTURB ALL KINDS OF

STE1M ENGINES AJfB QTJAKTZ MILLS

DUNBAR'S IMPROVED

(Self-A.<aj listing Piston Paclting,

Requires no springs or screws; is always steam tight;

without excessive friction, and never

gels slack or leaky.

WHEELER & RANDALL'S

KEW OBINBEB AND AMAL6AMATOB

HEPBURN & PETERSON'S

AUALGASIATOB A3S1> SEPARATOR,

It nox's -A- in m 1 £i" a mi ators,

WITH PALMER'S PATENT STEAM CHEST,

Superior lor working either GOLD OR SILVER ORES, and
s the only Amalgamator that has stuod the test of seven
years' continual working.
Genuine White Iron Stump Shoes and Dies

Having been engaged for the past ten years in quart*
mining, aud being conversant with all the improvements,
either in Mining or .Milling, we are prepared to furnish, at
ihe shortest notice, the most perfect machinery for rcduc
ng ores, or saving cither gold or silver. 13vl0qy-tf

IRA P. KAKKJN.

A. P. BRAYTOS.

A. C. AOSTIN.

Pacific Iron Works.

IHrst and. Fremont Streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Having been established since 1851, we have accumulated
a very large variety of Cear and other Patterns, which,
with our superior tools ai.d appliances, give tia lucilitieslor
doing lirst class work uucquaied on thu Pacific Coast.

Among other things, we manufacture the following:

STEAM ENGXNlfiS*,

Horizontal and Vertical, for either Stationary or Marine

use.

BOIL. Kit.*— lligli and Low Pressure,

Pump, Pipe and Sheet Iron Work of every kind.

Quartz Mill Work,

Including High and Low Mortars, for wet or dry crushing'

Furnace Irons lor Roasting Ores; Freiberg Barrels;

Varnoy's and Wheeler's Amalgamating Pans

aud Settlers; Stamp Shoes and Dies of

best w iniu Iron; Russia Iron

Screens, etc., etc.

Flour Mill, Saw Mill and Sugar Mill Work in every variety;

Pumping and Hoisting Machinery; Hansbrow'3

Patent Challenge Pump, for Domestic,

Ship and Mining use— the most

approved and successful

Pump manufactured.

Castings ©i" every description, Iron nnd Brass.

We would call especial attention to " Wright's Patent Va-
riable Cut-off Engines," of which we are tbe sole manufac-
turers ou the Pacific Coast, under license from the \\ ood-
rutt'A Beach Co., Hartlord, Ct, As a simple, ellective, fvhu
saving, rtist-cUss Engine, this is, without doubt, the best
Engine made in the United States.

Orders promptly attended to. Prices rs low as possible
for tlrst class work, and we intend to do no other.

UUUD.VKD «fc CO.

San Francisco, May 1, 1868. Ijjvlthf

WILLAMETTE IKON WORKS,

PORTLAND, OREGON.

©team Engines, Hollers,
SAW AND CRUST MILLS,

MINING MACHINERY, WROUCHT IRON SHUTTER
WORK, AND BLACKSMIThllNG IN GENERAL.
Corner JVorth-Frout and K streets,
18vl3-ly One block north of Couch's Wharf.

Globe Iron Works,

STUCKT05, GAL.

KEEP & BARG-ION,

MANUFACTURKRS OF

4tuavtz, Saw and Grist Mill Irons, Steam
J&ngincs, Horse Powers,

High and Low Pressure Steam Engines, Steamboats and

Propellers, made at short notice.

13vi3if

J. NEWSUAH.

J. B1UIV0QD.

SOUTH BEACH IRON WORKS,

Near corner ol King and Third streets, San Francisco.
MAKIAIE ENGINES,

AMU ALL KJ.\D3 OF

MACHINERY FORGING.

All kinds of Ship-smithing and Mill work manufactured to
order. Jobbing ot every description promptly attended to.
All work dune guaranteed. l3vH-iy

CALIFORNIA BRASS FOUNDRY.

No. ISA First street, opposite Mluna,

SAN FRANCISCO.

All kinds of Brass, Composition, Zinc, and Babbitt Metal
Castings, Brass Ship Work of all kinds, Spikes, Sheathing
Nails, Rudder Braces, Hinges, .Ship and Steamboat Bells and
Uongsol superior tone. All kinds of Cocks aud Valves, Hy-
draulic Pipes and Nozzles, and Hose Couplings and Connec-
tions of ail sizes and patterns, furnished with dispatch.
,93- PRACES MODERATE. «©)»

Miners' Foundry

— AND—

MACHINE WOKKS

Nos. 245 to 255 Fzest Street,

San Francisco.

HOWLAND, ANGELL & CO.,

1»K Ol'KI ETOKS,

Manufacturers of Machinery for

1HAKT2 3IU.LS.
SAW HILLS,
FOWDEIi 5SI1.I.S,

FX.OXTK MILLS,

Sl'UiR MILLS,
1'Al'liK MILLS

J. P. GALLAGHER.

V. KINGWELL.

Every miner in the community should subscribe for
the Mining and Scientific Press. — Grass YalU'j Union.

Steam Engines of all Kinds.
Amalgamators of all Kinds.

MISTING PUMPS, HOISTING TVOKKS

Oil. WHIJ, TOOLS, BOCK BItlilkEKS,

— AND —

Machinery and Castings of all kinds, either
of Iron or Brass.

Boilers and Sheet Iron Work in all its
Branches.

Shoes Jind Dies of "White Iron, mmiuiactnred
for and Imported by 1IM expressly tor this E nr-
POSC, und Wilt l;.*l --> per tvul. longer timu . n y
utile- made ou this count.

Russia Iron Screens, of any degree of fineness,
We lire the only manufacturers on this coast ot
the

HICKS ENGINE,
The most compact, simple in construction, and

durable, of any Engine in use.
TV. H. UOUl.AJK, II. IE. ASOELL,

ljvu-c,r CYRUS PALMES.

FULTON

Foundry and Iron Works.

HMCKLEY & CO.,

hand facto re-rs of

STEAM ENGINES,

Quartz, Flour and Saw Mill©,

Hayes' Improved Steam I'ninp, Bi-odle's Im-
proved Crusher, Mlniut; JPuuiptt,

Au!«l!.:lia:l|.ir'i., :iliil ;ill UluUs

of Mueliinery.

N. E. corner of Tehama and Fremont streets, above How
ard street, San Francisco. 3-qy

MCAFEE, SPIERS & CO.,
liOILEB MAKERS

AND GENERAL MACHINISTS,

Howard it, between Fremont and Beale, San Francisco.

Fine or Tubular Boilers, Vilh jilain circular or spiral
courses. Upright Flue or Tubular Boilers, Locomotive and
and Marine Boilers, and Wrought Iron Tanks of every de-
scription.

Hydraulic Pipe supplied at reasonable rates. In or
derlng. Rive the quantity of water to be supp'ied, high t of
the fall, and total length of pipe, so as to enable the tirm to
determine the diameter of the pipe and thickness of iron to
be used.

Kepalrm.— Boilers, Smoke Stacks, Pipes, etc., put in re-
pair m iih promptness.

To Boiler Makers and Machinists In the In-
terior.—The firm is prepared to furnish estimates of
Boilcrs.su ply new Heads, drilled and punched, and attend
to the selection and forwarding of Iron fur Boilers, Pipes
and other purposes.

1*1 :» in-, l>rawings aud Specifications,— The firm
!s prepared to make out Plans and Specifications, leceive
estimates, andsuperintend the Erection of any Machinery
that may be entrusted to their care

To Inventors.— The flroi is prepared to assist in de-
veloping the plans of those who have the ideas but not the
practical experience necessary to put the same in form, by
milking Drawings oi their Inventions, giving them the ben-
efit of their pTaciijfll knowledge in the construction of Ma-
chinery, and attending to the manufacture und introduc-
tion of their inventions. lvieif

UMIQM IRON WOBKS,
Sacramento.

WILLIAMS, ROOT & NEILSON,

MANUFACTURERS OF

CROSS' PATENT BOILER FEEDER,

STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS,

Ami all kinds of Mining Machinery.

Also, Hay and Wine Presses made and repaired
with neatness, durability and dispatch.

Dunbar's Patent Self- Adjusting Steam Piston

Front Street, between X and O streets,

llvll Sacramento City

THOMPSON BROTHERS,
EUREKA FOUNDRY,

LIGHT AND MEAW CASTINGS,

of every description, manufactured 2-tvl6nr

JAMES MACKEN,

COFFERSIHITH.,

SJfiO Fremont *(., bet. Howard *fc Folsoiu

All kinds of COPPER WORK done to order in the best
manner. Particular attention paid to Steamboat, Sugar
House and Distillery work.

G. T. PRACY.
MACHINE WORKS,

JSTOS. 109 and. Ill MISSION STREET,
Between Main and Spear.

New and secondhand

Engines and Eoilers,

FOR SALE.

Also one first-class Hoisting

Engine ; one Uoright

Lngine. oi entirely

new pattern.

MANUFACTURER 0E

Eatlxes, !"> rills,

And MILL MACHINERY of
every description.

PRACY'8

New and Improved
STEAM i:x«i\E

REGULATORS,

The best mid cheapest yet In-
vtnfed— man ufa cm red and
for sale. Parties are in-
vited tn examine it
in practical op-
eration.

F. A. HUNTINGTON'S

^^_ Shingle Machines

:) Particular attention paid to
Repairing.

B®~ All work guaranteed to bo done in a flrst-cla^s man-
ner, and at the lowest rates. lZvlTtf

THE BISDON

Iron and Locomotive Works.

Incorporated, April 30, 1868. Capital, $t/00,000.

Location of Works, Corner Beale and Howard streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Successors to Pacific Mail P. S. Co. Works at Benicin. CofTey

&. Risdon, and Devoc, Dinsmore & Co., ban Francisco.

Steam Engine Builders, Boiler Makers,

MACHINISTS AND FOUNDRYHEN.
All work in their line attended to with promptness and
dispatch.

Directors:
S. F. Buttei worth, Onus. E. McLane,

Lloyd IV vis, John N. Risdon,

Jas. Pollock, JoM-ph Moore.

Ben. Hollad;iy,

JOHN N. KTRDON, President.
Joseph Moore, Vice President and Superintendent; Cha«.
E. McLnne, Treasurer; Lewis R. Mend, Secretary; Lewis
Cofl'cy, Superintendent Boiler Works. 2lvl7ny

JONATHAN KITTEEDGE, Proprietor,

Nos. 18 and £0 Fremont street, near Market,

MANUFACTURER OF

Fire-Proof Doors, Shutters,

Wrought Iron Girders, and all kinds of Housesmlth work,
Bridge and Prison Work;

BAKE VAULTS AED MOHITOE SAFES,

FORGING AN IP MA.C1IINE WORK.

Agency for the ISH AM KEY REGISTER BANK AND SAFE
LOCK, the only first class Lock in the
Ivl7tf United States

CITY IROM WORKS COMPANY.

CLERC & CO.,
IRON FOUN r>EK,S,

Steam Engine Vulldera and MaUers of all
kinds of Machinery,

6vllCor No. 28 Fremont street, San Francisco.

DR. NESTELL'S
LUNG INSTITUTE,

(Brunch of the X. V. i.uuir Institute)
No. 5IO SCTTEK STHEKT,

Between Mason and Powell Streets, San Kraucisco,
For Hie special Treatment of all Diseases nf the HEAD,
rHlliiAT, LUNGS, A.ND CHEST, by the Inhalation of
Medicated Vaii.irs at the natural temperature of the air,
etc.

Earnest attention is solicited to litis national Method of
Treatment, widen transmits the remedies, in the form of
vapor, directly to the scat of <1i ease, instead of by the
rouiid-ah<>ut way— through the medium of Hie stomach—
aud which is conceded to bethc only reliable means where-
by an alleviation and enre may be expected. My system
of Iuhalitlon, 'now well known throughout tile United
Stales anl Camillas, aud lunch of Europe, where thousands
— uianv of litem lar advanced— have recovered, claims Hie
profoundest approval of the medical prote.sion. and the
timely and candid consideration ot those attiieted with
these tttc most devastating of all earthly maladies.

Patients attended at the Institute, daily, from <JA. M. till
4 P. M.

Invalids at a distance, on writing their case, can receive
the remedies by Express.

Special attendance out of the city will he charged com-
llieiisuralely Willi the tune ;>iin distance occupied.

All communications must lie addressed to

D. D. T. NESTELL, A. M., M. D.,
Lung Institute,
No. 51C Sutler street, sun Francisco,
2lvl7 3mos. California-

Small Pox.

We have been shown by Win. Zclner, the best and most
convenient and porlabie appara'us containing Chlorine,
for rooms, which we consider the be~t disinfectant out,
and should advise sit housekeepers not to be without one
Price SI. complete; to be had, Willi ru'l directions, at v?M.
ZELNEH'S German Drug Store, 18 Hcaryslrcct, 25vl7-3m

Enterprises and Developments.

Ship-building is active at Stockton.

Seteeal lrandretl men are roakiDg salt on
the tide lands of Alameda County.

Theee will be more than 2,000 olive slips
set out in San Diego County this year.

Fury thousand dollars will be invested
iu a new distillery at Antioch, Contra Costa
County. •

A I/aege quantity of salmon has been
caught and cured in Humboldt, and for-
warded to New York.

The California Powder Works at Santa
Cruz, which have been lying idle for some
six weeks, have resumed operatioDS, an I
ltit?ly added considerably to their faciit es
for manufacture. They have recently put
in position a hydraulic cylinder weighing
about 7,300 pounds.

The Bkandy Eis rrLLEETES. — Samuel
Brannan has erected an immense distillery
at Calistoga, and purchases all the grapes
offered at $1.12% the cwt. He proposes to
make the best brandy of the county, spar-
ing neither cost orpains to do so.

Fungus on ' ' Eabs" fok Soup in China.
About 30,000 pounds of fungus or " ears"
(from its resemblance to the human ear)
gathered on trees in the southern part of
the Society Islands and packed in bags
woven from slips of booroa bark, have been
discharged from the brig Timandra, for
China, where the article commands a good
price for soup. The price paid to the gath-
erers at Tahiti, and at the Sandwich Islands,
is 12% cents a pound.

At the Summit Soda Springs, a few miles
from the Pacific Eailroad, a large hotel is
to be built in the spring, and the place is
to be connected with Lake Taho by a good
carriage road. The railroad company have
already built a fine wagon road from the
station down to the springs. Soda aud
iron are the ingredients of the waters, which
are said to be craved by herds of deer, aud
to be very salutary for diseased kidneys.

The Australian Extract of Meat and Cat-
Op Company, with a capital of 100,000/., in
shares of 21. 10s. each, has been incorpor-
ated in London for the purpose of carrying
on in Australia a business similar to that
which has been so successfully and profit-
ably established in South America under
the auspices of Prof. Liebig. Upon the
assumption that 15,000 head of cattle will
be slaughtered annually, it is shown that
whilst the outlay would not exceed 82,075/. ,
the revenue obtained from tallow, hides,
tongues, horns, bones, oil, and extract of
meat (the latter taken at nearly 20 per cent,
below present prices, to allow for possible,
though not probable, fall in price) would
amount to 187,500/., leaving a nett profit of
105,425/. , or sufficient to return from 100 to
150 per cent, per annum. Two establish-
ments have already been started — one in
Queensland, and the other in New South
Wales. That Northern Australia is at pres-
ent unoccupied is attributed to the want of
profitable means of disposing of stock.

Fish and Coal on the Alaskan Shores.
The scientific expedition sent out to Alaska
by the Government has made its reports on
the fisheries, fur trade and mineral wealth
of the new Territory. Much inconvenience
was entailed on American fishermen hereto-
fore by their necessary trips to San Fran-
cisco, not the smallest part of which was a
heavy outlay of capital on ocean-going
craft. Now that the country is ours, they
can fish in fifty-fathom water in ordinary
open boats. Formerly the importation of
codfish from New England ports to Cali-
fornia was a heavy item. It has been
stopped completely by the acquisition of
Alaska. In 1867, twenty-seven American
vessels were employed among the Shuma-
gin Islands on the shores of Southern
Alaska. The average catch was nearly 100
tons, which was valued at 9% cents coin,
per pound; the average cost of outfit and
labor, $3,000 in gold. It is stated that the
eastern portion of the Behring's Sea is ex-
tremely rich in cod, aDdthat the area with-
in the limits of fifty fathoms depth is 18,-
000 miles in extent. The banks along the
shores of Alaska, south of the Aleutian
Islands, are about 4,500 miles. The whale
fisheries, especially in Archipelago Alex-
ander, are well known. The Coast Survey
has discovered indications of large beds of
anthracite coal. The warm current from
Japan exercises a beneficial influence on the
climate of Alaska.

Postmasters arc requested to punctually inform us of the
removal of subscribers of the Press from their locality,
or of neglect to lake the paper out of the office from any
cause— when the subscriber omits that duly himself. It is
nut our intention to send this journal to any party longer
than it is desired. If we inadvertently do so, subscribers
and others will please inform us.

Tt\e Mining and Scientific Press.

11

SraPHOB Ti:i:\tmi:nt or Wore. — Dr. Freil-
eriob Mohr, of Coblentz, does not approve
of the use of burnt sulphur or liquid sul-
phites for improving wine. The sulphu-
rous acid gradually changes to sulphuric,
and combines with the potash of the tartar,
causing a corresponding quantity of tartar-
ic acid to bo set free, and thus to increase
the amount of acidity. The effect of sul-
phur is not permanent, and after the appli-
cation requires manifold repetition, because
the oxidation of the sulphurous acid affects
nil other oxidizable ingredients far more
strongly than before. All tho recipes pro-
; arise from ignorauce and the crudest
empiricism. — Druggists1 Gircu Seb\

Qdabbying with tru Aid op Fbost. —
Tho Russians practice a peculiar way of
detaching enormous pieces of marble. If
powder were used it would destroy the ap-
pearance of tho marble. The mode adopted
is to make crevices in the marble during
the summer and fill the crevices with
water. As winter approaches tho water
congeals and causes the crevices to become
wider and wider, until finally a huge piece
of marble is detached. Tho quarries pre-
sent the appearance of an enormous stair-
case.

Business Cards.

GEO. E. R03-ERS,

(Succewor to a. «'. Boll.)

A. S S JL Y E R ,

SIS California ■t.tSan PruncUco.

.1. a. maks, Assnyer.

Ores carefully Assayed. Gold and Silver Ores worked.

CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, DRAPERIES,

sii v des, Etc., Etc.

LOUIS F. KNIG-HT,

54"£ California si., eastNldcofKearny,
3AN FRANCISCO.

I can oiler from the largest and best assorted stock in the

city anything in onr line.

AT PRICES TO SLIT ALL.

FURNITURE AND MATTRESSES

Made to order.
All kinds of upholstering executed Willi neatness and
dispatch. 9vl7

Mi

oe^EY&c0

'$

SAN FRANCISCO.

ess.

Patent Brokerage.

PATENT RIGHTS

Uoii^ht and Sold op Commission.

A variety of new and valuable Patents for sale, novel and

u.-e'ul articles, suitable for TRAVELING AGENIS,

always on hand, among which are the following:

Patent Cigarette Roller, and patent gummed Wrap-
pers for the same. Every one can make their own
Cigarettes. Price $i.50 (Including 40U wrappers.)

■\VUm«n*» Patent Solder, for mending tin ware with-
out soldering iron, prepared for family use. Retail
price 5U cents.

Elliptic Steel Scraper*, for cleaning boiler tubes (all
st/.cs)— best thing ever invented for (he purpose. Retail
prices from $8 to $10.

AGENTS WAXTEB.

HAYVFARD & COLEMAN,

IMPORTERS AND REFINERS

111111111111111115, Lubricating,

PAINT OILS,

CONSISTING OP

i KEROSENE. {"LAUD, SPERM, ELEPHANT, POLAR,

TANNERS. SEATS-POUT, ROILED AND RA ,V

LINSEED, CASTOR AND, CHINA NUT.

Spirits of Turpsntine and Alcohol.

Lamps and Lamp Stock !

An elegant and complete assortment.
SOLE IMPORTERS OF

Devoe's IlliiiTiinatiizg" Oil.

PATENT CANS.

5vl7.tf. 414 Front street, San F-ancisco.

RODG-ERS, MEYER & CO.,

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

ADVANCES MADE

On nil kind, fit* Ore., und particular uttentlon

PAID TO

CO.VSIG XM l-'.XTS OF GOODS.3

4V10-31U

N. GRAY & CO.,

U3Vr>3DHTA.K:33rtS,

641 Sacramento St., cor. Webb, San Francisco.

Professional Cards.

J. S. PHILLIPS,

3IITVIXG ENGINEER, Etc.,

tfodsworth House San Francisco.

Bavins had 33 poor experience in tbe various depart-
ments of Mining Engineering and Metallurgy, In Cornwall
iiiu America, solicits orders lor the examination of Min-
eral Properties throughout the North and Kouth Americas;
minerals a-s-iyei) or analyzed; advice for bencflclntlnc

refractory ores: totals sold; capital procured for dovel-
oping valuahle ledges, ivlftf

JOHN B.0A0H, Optician,

Has removed from 522 Montgomery street to

.".to Wunlilitfcton street,

East of Montgomery.

Surveying Instruments ma'lo, repaired and adjusted

22vl7-:im

J. S¥YNEY,

64 TJotiiiMiutvs-y Block, San Francisco,

Is prepared to furnish General Plans, Specifications, and
lull dotal) Drawing** for propeller or side-wheel steamers,
iron vessels of all classes, engines, boilers, elc. Also for
locomotive or stationary engines, and machinery in gen-
crnl. An experience of over twenty years in this pro.
feaslOll enables ua to furnish correel drawings and guar-
untee results. 6vl7-lf

Farmers and Mechanics
B^JXIi OF S^T"i:rXGr8S,

No. 'ii". Samome Street.

Interest paid on Deposits. Money Loaned on Real Estate.
II. BUTTON, President.

GEO. St. CONDEE Cashier. 19vl6-3m

FRE»EUICK MAXSKLI,.

Mechanical & Architectural Draughtsman,

No. 422 California street, corner of Lcidsdorff.

Drawings of Modkls made for parties apply for pa-
ents at Washington or London. ar23-tf.

X> . C • HALL & COt,

WHOLESALE and retail

Ale, Porter, "Wine and Liquor Merchant,

912 Market street, San Francisco.
B3r*City and ccuntrv orders promptly attended to. Mer-
chants, shippers, and families supplied in large or small
quantities. 14vl7 3m

W. T. ATWOOD,

PURCHASER OP

COPPER ORES, BAES, MATT, Etc., Etc,,

£05 Montgomery street.

Room No. 6, over Parrott & Go's Bank, San Francisco.
23vl7qr

Pump Leather.

The attention of MINING COMPANIES, and others re-
quiring a superior article for Hydraulic purposes, is invited
to the heavy Oaked Tanned Pump Leather, manufactured
and prepared expressly by the undersigned.

Constantly on hand and for sale by

OK.A_Y, JONES «fc CO,

Dcuot of the Santa Cruz Tannery,

•418 Buttery St., Sun. Fnuiclsco.

25vl7-ly

DAVID R. SMITH,

Olvllarwl Meohanical Engineer,

Is prepared to furnish Plans, Models, Speclflcaiions and
full detail Drawings for Steamers and Sailing Vessels and
Machinery in general.

Montgomery Block.

13vl7-3m

J. M. HAVEN,

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
Room SS Merchants' K:.tlwu:;c,

I7vl6 SAN FRANCISCO.

RADICAL CURE

kxtpttthe: i

Treatment of all Deformities of the Body, by DR. A.
FOLLEAU'S process. GS4 Washington street, up stairs,
Washington Baths Building, between Montgomery and
K.carny streets.

DR. A. FOLKEATJ

Has his studies and manufactories in the same building.

Every kind of Apparatus, Trusses, orthopedic Instru-
ments, Artilicial Limbs, etc. ,are manufactured and applied
by himself.

" Jiuanocmtnecdan wWi any Agency- 24yU-llptf

JAMES M- TAYLOR,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,

Court Block, 63G Clay Street

SAN FRANCISCO.
2vl5-lo.y

PATENT
Boiler Scraper and Tube-Cleaner.

Mining Secretary.

THE SUBSCRIBER, HAVING SERVED FOR THE LAST
five years as Secretary of various mining companies,
feels full'v competent lo serve In that, capacity. Any par'
ties wishing to secure the services of n Secretary cai, be
accommodated on reasonable terms. Inlormation given,
and all necessary papers correctly made out.

Having had along experience In the purchasing of goods
and machinery for miners, parties in die mines will rind It
to their advantage, where purchasing agents are employed,
to .end tll.tr order, to tlio "'"'^M .VmNuTOl*.

Room 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California street,
San Francisco I7rl5-tf

1%

IT IS THE CHEAPEST, MOST
durable, easiest lo adjust, and
cleanest apparatus to use lor the
purpose, designed, yet offered to
the public. Being constructed on
simple and mechanical principles,
it 1* not liable to gel nut of order,
unci will continue to perform it*
ofllce until the materials are worn
out. It can readily be adjusted,
even bv any inexperienced per-
son—will scrape off t he scales and
cleanse the tubes just as smooth
and clean a« they were when
new, without in the least aflccting
their inner surface, as the Elliptic
Spring Scraper has a smooth
square edge, and springs in or out
i<i lit the tubes. It is particularly
applicable for steamboat boilers
wiien muddy water is used.

A continuous iron rod runs
through the center of tbe top and
bottom hubs. The soft steel scrap-
ers are fastened with screws to
thchubi, under the caps, which
cover and protect the screws that
fasten the scrapers on the hub.
The scrapers nre expanded or con-
tracted bv screwing or unscrew-
ing tbe lower hub,— firstlooicning
the cap. There is a collar on the
rod to prevent the scrapers being jammed. An elastic or
fl-xihle brush or scraper, insult; of leal her, rubber, or some
pliable material, is attached to the nut for the purpose of
removing from the tube the scale and dust loosened by the
action of the .scrapers. ... , .,,

These scrapers sin; made from one to six inches in diam-
eter—the prices of those from one to three inches rauglne
from £5 lo $12. They arc now extensively used in the
E istern Stales. Quite a number have already been sold in
this State. , „ _ .

For sale by McAfee, Spiers &. Co , boiler makers, Howard
street, between Fremont und Bcale, San Francisco, and at
the Union Foundry, Sac-amenio. E. M. D., P. O. box 17,
San Francisco, Manufacturers' Agents. 24vl7tf

The Mining and Scientific Press comes to tis this
week in a new dress throughout, much improving its
appearance. The Pinsss is one of our most valuable
exchangee, and fills a place in mining and scientific mat-
ters nevtr attained by any other journal.— Colorado
Miner

American Saw Company.

- TOOTHED V^»V

ERIOR TO AU OTHERS l
*R;„ipfiV;E .ttJkj-f

MANUFACTURERS OF

EMERSON'S PATENT
ftlo vaili le-Tooth and Perforated Circular Saw*,

Perforated Mulay, Mill and Cross-Cut Saws, with
Adjustable Sockets.

SAW-GUMMEKS, SWAGES, OANT DOGS,

Etc., have established an ofllce for the sale of the above

articles, at

No. flOC Front street, Sim Francisco.

jj®- Descriptive Pamphlets will be forwarded to any one

Bvl7tf

SULPHFKETS ;

What they are;

How Assayed ;

How Concentrated;

And How Worked;

With a Chanter on tho

BLOW-PIPE ASSAY OF MINERALS,

My WM. IllBSTOW, M. D.

Published by A. Roman & Co,, San Francisco.
For sale at this Office.— Price, One Dollar.

With the aid of this Book, the miner can assay his own
ores, requiring but few materials, etc., except such as are
generally to be found In tbe interior towns. 21vl5tf

WE ARE NOW OFFERING
OXJK, IMMENSE STOCK

OF

Fine Custom Made Clothing

AND

Gents* Furnishing G-oods

AT PRICES THAT DEFY COMPETITION.

Cur Stock, of ClothlnK ConnlNta of
AJL.3L, THE LATEST STYLES

BOTU OF .M ATI Kl. M. AM' KIMfU.

A Large Assortment ot
Trunk*, Valines, Carpet BaL'«, Dlanket*, Etc.,

AT KXTIIKMKLT LOW J-RIOliS.

J. It. MEAD & CO.,

8vl0 Cor. of Washington and Sansomo streets.

Elfxtrotype Engravings, Cuts, Etc.— Our Job Printing
Ofhce is abundantly supplied with elegant engravings, or
naments, and other embellishments t» suit the various
branches of industry in this State

THE GIANT

POWDER. COMPANY

Is now prepared to (111 all orders for

GIANT POWDER,

Put up In Boxen, either In Balk or In C«r-
trluccs.

General Agents,

BMTDMANN, NIELSON & CO.,

25vl6-3m 210 Front street, San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO

Pioneer Screen Works,

JOHN W. QUICK, Manufacturer,

Removed to Vulcan Iron Works, Fremont street, between
Mission nnd Howard, San Francisco.

Screen Punching In all its branches, at rates reduced
from 25 to 40 percent, less th:in the established rates. I can
furnish Improved Quartz Screens several sizes finer than
an v Screen ever punched, Riving universal satisfaction,
anil for strength, cheapness and durability are not excelled.
Also, Punched .Screens of all sizes and fineness made from
all qualities ot material, for Quartz. Cement, Flour i\nd
Rico Mills, etc. Screen Punching made a specialty; there-
fore millmen forwarding their orders to me will receive
none but the best. Orders solicited.

N. E —J. W. QUICK is the only competent and successful
manufacturer of Screens in the State, having made Screens
for the prlncinal mills hi this State and adjoining Terri-
tories for many years. Quartz mill owners using punched
Screens which have universally failed togive satisfaction,
when visiting the city will please call and sec me. 5vl7-ly

California Steam Navigation

lEg^ COMPANY.

Steamer CAPITAL CAPT. E. A. POOLE

' CHRTSOPOLIS CAPT. A. FOSTER.

" YOREMITE

" CORNELIA CAPT. W. BROMLET

" JULIA CAPT. E. CONCKLIN.

Two of the above steamers leave BROADWAY WHARF
at 4 o'clock P. M. EVERY DAY (Snndays excepted), one
for Sacramento and one tor Stockton, those for Sacra-
mento connecting with light-draft steamers for Marysvillo
Colusa, Chico, and Red Bluff.

Office of the Company, northeast corner of Front and
Jackson streets.

B. M. HAKT8HOR\E,
13vl2 President.

International Hotel,

a jl c us: s o w s t it E e rr

BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AND KEARNY STS.,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE IS IN PERFECT
order for the accommodation or guests. Personsscek-
ing comfort and economy will find this the best Hotel In
the city to stop at. The Beds are new and In good order,
and the Rooms well ventilated. The Table will alwavs be
supplied with the best in tbe market.
Prices varying from SI GO to $3 per day for

Bnard nnd Boom.

FINE BATH HOUSE AND BARBER SHOP ATTACHED

TO THE HOUSE.

OS?* Teams belonging to the House will he in ntfpndance
at all the boats and ears to convey passengers to the Houso
fhkk of chargk, and to any part of the city for SO cents

'-ilvl2 F. E. WEYGANT. Proprietor.

Pacific Powder Mills.

SUPERIOR BLASTING AND SPORTING G-UN DE«£

Black Diamond, in 1 lb canisters.

do do in H lt> canisters.

do do in Ji kegs.

Hunter's Pride, In lib eanistera

do do in i^lb cantoers.

do do In '4 kegs.

do do 1n }£ kegs.

Pacific Mills River Shooting, in lib canisters.

do do do in Mb canisl* T

do do do in % kegs.

do do do in W kegs.

do do do in 2oib kegs.

Pacific Mills Ride, in lib canisters.

do do In ^lb canisters.

do do in % kegs.

do do in H kegs.

do do in 251b kegs.

Blasting and Mining Powder S2 26 per keg.
Safety Fuse and Shot for sale by

niYWARD & COLXHAN AgenlK.
24vl5-.3m 414 Front street, Sa Francisco.

Removal and Partnership.

Notice is hereby given, that I have removed from my old
stand on Beale street, and have formed a co-partncr.-hlp
with Mr. A. CAMERON,.for the purpose of carrying on the
business of Stair-Building, Wood-Turning and Scroll Saw-
ing. The business will be conducted as formerly at Cam-
eron's, corner of Market and He ale streets, and also atNos
485 and 4OT Brannan street, where ample steam power and
all necessary facilities have been provided for every
branch of the business.

Different sizes of Redwood Balusters constantly on hand
for sale. Also Spanish Cedar, Walnut and California

^ lSvl74m • N- p- LANGLAND.

12

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

INDEX

TO

VOLUME xvn

OF THE

Mining & Scientific
Press.

From July 1863 to Jan. 1869

Page.
Academy of Sciences, Cal-
ifornia..-.'*, st, 205, 212, 22£
-.57 , 304, K24, 372
Academy of Sciences, Na-
tional 251, 2fiS

Acid.Sulphuric.on Suear 29:
Acid, Sulphuric and Fla-

tjimiu 3.'

Acid , Carbolic "i

Acid, Carbonic St

Actiimmetcr 323

Aerolite, Remarkable — 3.19

Africa 370

Africa, Gold In 345

African Geography 66

Agricultural Experiment 33
Air. To Free Mines and

Sewers from foul 355

Alaska Miuing Summary, 38
131, 193. ,M

Alaska. Resources of 183

Alcohol, Oxtdution of 51

Alcohol, Effects on the

Blood ,-£

Alcohol fruin \\ uoQ 1M

Aleate in California Hot

Springs ■■-..- 115

Alpine Co. Mining Sum:
mary..6, 2-2, 38. 54. 70. 86 102
US, 134, 150, 166, 182, 198, 214
230, 246, 262. 291, 310, 326, 312
355, 374, 39J 406.
Alcohol, Effects on Blood

Alkaloid 259

Allows, Useful .. 3U(

Amador Co. Mining Sum-
mary...A 38, 51. 70, 86 102
IIS, 131, 15), 166, 193, 214 2*1
US. 262, 326. 312, 35S. 406.
Amador County, Coal In. 19.

Amorphism owl

Anchor, Wittram's

Andrews, Judvic, Death uf 253
Annexation, Sinalua.

Ants

Authro-Photo*cope. .

Anti-Glacial Theory 3ti7

Arctic Region, News from 229
Arizona Mining Summa-
ry...22, 54, 102, 134, 167 1S2
193, 211, 246, 2G2, 291, 310
326, 358, 374. 390, 406-

Arizona. Mining in 404

Armor, Felt 367

Arsenic, Forms ol 387

Art Photography 17'*

Arts, Science in 19

Art and Science 69

Artesiiu Wells 152

Asphnltum 414

Astronomical Observat'n,

Color 8

Atmosphere. Smoky 2al

Atom- Mechanics 245

Attractions *•'

Auger, New 2S7

August, Derivation ot

Aurine Cake

Australian Mining 212 289

Awards, Mechanics' Insti-
tute 194 206

Axles, Car

15

Balances, Spring 395

Balloon, Immense 363

Battery, New 35 3S7

Battery, The Moncncft. . .
Bitterics, Ex Liquid lor.

Bayonet, New

Beetles of Utah

Belting, To Oil

Benevolence, Aati-Mur

tcm -

Bessemer Process, Spec

troscopc and

Bismuth, Expansibility

•Blast, The Great

Blast, Lime Point

Blast, bv Electricity ...

Blasting Accidents

Basting. Submarine...
Blowpipe Heads ......

Boot-Marker, Rogers...
Boilers. Large Steel....

Boiler, Test of a Steel..

Boilers, Testing

Boilers. Steel 195

Boiler Explosions, To Pre-
vent 290

Bolls and Nuts, Standard. 291

•Rook Rollers 354

Book Manufacturing— Ap-

pleton & Co's 2 63

Boring Mach. at Alt. Cenis 3,1

Boxes, Paper 314

Branch Mint, Worknf — 357
Brass— Platinum Coating. 291

Brass Fomidiies, Our 149

Brazil. Canoe Nav. of..... 330
Breech- Loader?, Ameri-
can in Europe 21S

Brick-making Invention. 361

Bridge at S .Louis 59

Bridee, Aoglo-Frcnch — 387
British Columbia -Mining

Summary 38, 54, 134 181

Browne, J. Ross, Kep...l8 4u
Bubbles in Water...
Buildings Lifting

Moving 33S

Burglars, Invention for

Blinding IS

Butte Co. Mining Summa-
ry..54. 15'L 310. 326, 331 4%
Butter Firkins, Substitute 362

. 3:!'.'

. 211

. 275

Champagne from Petro-
leum 83

Chemical and Metallurgi-
cal Works 296. 312 328

Chemical Geology, Lec-
ture on 178, JS1, 222. 226

242, 25S, 274. 290, 344
Chemical Action, Rapidi-
ty Of 151

Chemistry, Early 56

Chemistry, Physiological. 312
Chill, Horn Silver Depo=it 356
Chimney, Moving a Tall.. 2US

Chimneys, Smoky 1(9

China, forward March in 193

Chilian en as Primers 181

China. Steam Nav. in 40

China, Miniug 1U...32, 193 205

26 1.

lugiu..
f Mill* t(

. 071

. 357
..291 317
3-3

China, New Minister to

China, New Treaty

Chinee Seeking Knowl-
edge *.

Chinese Empire, State of

Chinese Mission

Chinese Embassy, Object.

Chlorinatiou Process

Chlorophyl

Chollar-Potosi, Report

•Cigarette Rollers

Circle, Squaring the...

Climatic Changes

Clock, The Kennedy..
Olock^ Electric,
oring for

i'.mI. Humboldt oi*

Coal Mining by Machin'y 293
Coal, To Improve Poor... 206
Coal, Japanese Method of

Mining 170

Coal, Lumps of 84

Coal on the Pacific R. R. . 97

Cocoons, Toiisot 4,1

Cocoons, Multiplication of 72
Cold on Minerals, Effects. 4

College, St Ignatius 9

College of California 52

Colonization, Co-opera've 215
Colorado Reduction W»ks 336

Colorado Metallurgy 305

Colorado Mining Summa-
ry....6, 22, 38, 54, 70, 86 102
US, 131. 15 I, 152, 293, 214 2:10
216, 262, 278, 291, 310, 326 342
35S. 390, 4t'5.
Colorado, Discoveries in.. 29
Colorado, Exploration of it
Colorado, Mining in.42, 165 366

Colorado Ores 72

Colors, Theory of 104 29ri

Combustion. 19, 46, 179, 211 243
Columbium, Origin of.... 392

Corae;s 35

Comstock Ledge 9

Concentrator, Krom's 212

Concentrator, Oliver's. ... 109
Concentration, New Prin 202
Concentrator, Evans'... .2-19
Conchoiogy, Australian.. 253

Concrete stone 152

•Condenser, Formhal's... 193
Cooking Range. Walter's. 153
Cooper Ores, Prices of. .5 21
37, 53, 69, 85, 101.

Copper, Extracting 211

Copper aud Iron, Smelt-.

ingof 83

Copper Reduction Works. 163
Copper Mining on the

Rhine 75

Copper, Soluble, Saving. . 218
Copper Reduction Works,

San Fnuicisco 3S1

Corporation Assessment

Laws 21

Cotton Culture 311

Couplings, Elastic 211

Crank and Piston 115

Crucibles, Gas Lamps for

Heating 1G7

Crucibles. Magnesian 387

cucuyo, The 403

furiosi tv. Geographical.. 255

Cuttlefish, Blush of 66

1>
Dacotah Mining Summa-
ry. ..7, 23. 39, 70, S6, 102 US
150, 182, 216. 278, 310, 391 400
Dana Nat. Hist. Society.. 25:1
Del Norte Co., Mining in. . 34

Dentistry 158 165

Dental Improvement 136

Dentrides, Formation of. 8*
Desks, Improvements in. 120
Development. Progress of 104
Development Theory, The 227
Diamond, Production of. 371

Directory, S. F 297

Directory, Mining Share-
holders'. (Sec 5th page,
weeklv )
Disinfectant. .195, 216. 3*1 3=5
Door, Safety, for Shafts.. 242
Door Spring. Barker's... Ilj9
Drilling vs. Punching S;cel

Plates. 35

Dry Dock. Hunter's Pt.. 273
Drying Up, Cat, aud Nov. 195

Duromoter 401

Dynamite, Nobel on 338

Dynamometer. Xew 195

Earths. Coloring 410

Earthquakes, Cause of... 210

264, 296, 328, 380, 383.
Earthquakes, Effects.. 136 281
Earthquake Alarm — 170 195
346, 377

Earthquake in Si. Am 20S

Earthquake Commission.. 344

361, 392.
Eclipse. Solar.. 120, 259, 323 355

Editor Com oilmen ted 145

Educational In*tituti iiik

on Pacific Coast 38$ 418

EnVvcsceut 232

Eiectric'ty and Photo-
graphic Plates 291

Electricity. Treatment of

Cabinet, Contributions for
our.. 36, 81, 224, 233, 24j 2$S
320, 310, 392, 401.

Cabinet Work

Cable to Brest, New

Cable, Atlantic 21;

rabies, Immense

Calaveras Co Miu. Sum
mary.6, 22. 86,102. 118, 15) 166
182, 246, 278, 294, 310, 326 34
374, 406.

Cat Horn la, Nortli'n, Min-
ing Prospects in 5

Ca'itornla TnwtCo 12

Calistoga. Steam to 2

Canada. Iron in 335

Ctnal, The D-.rien.21, 3t)5 34f

Candles 10

Cancer, Cure for 4

i lane. Telescope 36

('unn. in, A. Monster

Capitalists. Lug , Beyond
the Sierras 396

Capital. Disper.-ion oi 3-^0

Capital and Labor 63

Capital, To Acquire 171

Carbon Points, Ariiiieiai. 259

Carriage Factory. Kim-
ball's 137

Cur-Brake, New 29J

Car. Improved, Craig's... 4U4

Car, Street 404

Car Coupling, Squires'... 4J4

Casting, Explosion in 341

Casting Metals in Piaster
l-a-ht Molds 3i hl>; State

Cast Steel, American .... 07, Fairs, Comparison

Catalogue ot Mechanics' .Fair Clotnv of

.....161, 162 163; Pair, Fifteenth Am

Ore

. 265

Electricity, Powder Ex

plode,l by

Electricity in Vacuo ....
Electro-Maznuifein, Uses
El Dorado Countv, Mm

iugiii 17S 199

Engine, New l(ju 387

•Engine, Hick's 3i

Engine, Steam, Super-
seded 67

Engine, Cheap Steam 195

Engine Cocks. Alloy for.. 275

Engines, American 28-

Eiigiue, Hydraulic ....292 3il
Engineering. N Y. Socie-
ty of.... 279, 28u, 295, $>7 355
336.

Eng-n^s, Marine 403

English Teachers at Paris 177

Entomology 297 307

Esmeralda Mining Sum-
mary...7. 23, H9, 55. 103 119
15J, 167, 2-17, 343, 407.

Eye. Motion ot 79

Exhibition, The Coming. 8

Expeditions, Arctic 387

Exploring Ex , Colorado. 350

Explosives, Safely 3!4

Explosions, Boiler 371

Explosions, Mine, Pre-
vention 3S7

Exposition, The Chilian.. 377

F
Fair, Mechanics'— Rules

and Regulations 8 S3

Fair. Mechanics'. 24, 41, til 98
100, 110, 113, lit. Jlt>. 120 121
123, 128, 13), 132, 14>, 163 161

Fish, Diseases of 152

Fish, Luminous 328

Flooring, Fire Proof 249

"Florence Sewing Mi-
dline Works

Fluorspar, Derivation or.
Flowers and Planiso. the

Rockv Mountains 295

Flux of Blow-pipe

Forests, Government...

Fossils, Australian

Fossil Imprints 371

Fossils from the Cretace-
ous Formation

Fossils in England

Foot-hills, Philosophy in.

Foundries, Work at 225 244

260. 2SI.

Freight of Ores .,

Fruit Syrups 83

Fuel, No Want of

Furnaces, Imp't In Blast. . 323

Furnace, Hagan's 203 354

Furnace Improvements,
&

Galvanizing Iron

Galvanic Currents 227

Gas Burners, Stop-cock.. 36"
•Gas Regulator, B eggs'... 6

Gas Manufacture 66 31

Gases from Volcanoes 67

Gas in Railroad Cars. ... 248
Gate tor Mining Galleries

Generating Steam

Geology. Chemical

Geology and Mining, Cal-
ifornia and Nevada 217

Geographical Society, The

Royal

Geography, Petermaun's

Arctic

Glaciers in the White Mts 131

Glue. Water proof ,

Gltti, Liquid

Gold, Artificial Crystal.
Gold and Silver, Volat'y. 18
Gold Nuggets, formation 8

274, 306.
Gold Mine In N. Carolina. Ill

Go'tl Mining

Gold Saving Machine.

Gold, Tendency of

Gold Yield

Gold, Origin of

Gould >t Curry Mine, Rep 309
•Governor, Pracy'sSteam 177

Grain Farming 362

Grain bevond the Sierra. 271

Granite, Artificial 87

Grate, Furnace 20

Gravel, Amiens 403

Great Britain Manufac. 315
Gun, Breech-Load'g.Gru-

ber's 404

•Gun-Lock, Rudolph's — 161
Gunpowder, Ingredients. Iu4
Gunpowder, Home Munf. 2sS

Gun, The Chassepot ";

Gutia Percha. New Use

H
Hair Cutting by Mach. .

Hair Jewelry

Hair Stra lull teners

Hammer, Steam

Hardness, Property of..
Harvester. New Corn..,. .

Heat Regulator 227

Heat, Utilization of Waste 25-.'

Hematoidin 25!

Highway, The World's... 29.
Holes, Drilled vs. Punch. 11

Horse Hoes 4-i

Horse, How to Shoe a 34

Horse-Power Fastener,

Buchanan's 113

Hose, Home Manufacture

Hot Air, Cutting Glass.... 75

House, Earthquake Pr'f. . 335

Humboldt (Nev.) Mining

Summary. .23, 39, 71, 87 103

119, 134, 150, 167, 182, i99 214

231, 247, 263, 27S, 294, 310 320

343, 359, 391

Hydraulic Cylinders. Po-

rositv of 179

Hydraulic Mining Inven-
tion

Hydrogen through Irou,

Passage of

Hvdrogen, Experiment. . 07
Hydrogen, Roasting, Ha-

gan Furnace

Hvdrocarbous from ■ Or-
ganic Matter 339

Hydrant, Ackerson's.

33

Caulking, Lead
Cement, Chemists.
d-ineiit Machine— 1
Cement for S e
Century, Last 11
Cereals m Engl;
Cereals, Growth
Chain, au End!

m-i-i

■ 3^ I Fair, Mercantile..

■ 3-si Faraday, Anecdotes u

■ 72 1 Farm Lauds and Fan
- 301 Farms. Ma-mnoth....

■ '•■• F.n.v P.,sis, To Pre--

7- Fish, Marsupial . ...
2i\ Fish, Catching and lit

Ice. Artificial POO

Idaho. Mining in

Idaho Mining Summary. 7
39, 55, 70, 103, 118, 134 150
166, 182, 198, 214, 2:10, 262 278
294, 310, 326, 342, 37 ', 391 4O6

Idaho, Roads to 265 341

Imperial Mine, Yield 5

Impressions by Heat and

Electricity 25

IndlaRubber 71

Industry and Destiny. ... 103
Industry, New Branches. 26S

Information. Useful Si"

Infusoria, Muscles of -30'.

In-mrancc-Etuaand Fhce-

nlx 15

Inventions, California.... 81
Invention, An Ingenious. 121
Invention, New and Inv

portant

Inventions, Iiunortam...
Inventions and Inventors 216

329
Inventors, Five Great...

Invention". Dearth of. 370

Inyo Co. Min'ng Summa-
ry 6, US, 19s, 214 326

Ibvo Coun'y, Smelting in 181

Iridescent Objecis 89

Iron 51

Iron, Magnet Test 3

Iron, Moisie 403

Iron Pines, Durability of

Buried 51

Iron, Cjirbon in 51

Iron, Melting and Casting St

Iron Works, Oswego 169

Iron, Hardness of 174

Iron. Corrosion of

Iron Smelting Works, Or

egon 2 JO

Iron, To Break Large

Masses 227

Iron Bar, Strength of.227 3 7

Iron Ores, Assay of

Iron Co in Wyomlhe

Iron, Economical Manu-
facture _. .

Iron, To Coat with Copper 275
Iron. Bronzing Copper-
Coated 291

Iron Coppering

Irou Works. Erection
Iron. Case Hardening
Ir>>n, Artificial Mtgn

Oxide

Iron, Blind--- Island...

Iron, Fuddling 339

Iron, Cast and Wrought,

r r Riuuling .«5i

Iron Sulphides :*7

Iron Rust, To Prevent.... 36
Iron. Deposition ofuy Gal-
vanism 13.

Island, Deloe's 270

J
Jackson County, Oregon,

Mining in 34

•Japan, Mining in 223 260

Japanese Travelers, Fate

Of 235

J on nulls. Hut 227

Iv

ICaolin in Nevada 92

Kern Co. Mining Summa-
ry..^, ag. 54, 102, ijj, 166 182
231,291,374.391.
Kiln Diving Midline ... 6S
Klamatu Co., Muiingin.. 3l

•Knife, Hall's Patent Si

for. 353

Labor in California 17

Labor Exchange 24

La ior. Capital and 68

Labor, Causes Alluding.. 88
Labor and Wa-cs, Eng-
land 255

Lafavette Mine, Hunter's

Vallev 135

Lake Superior, The North

Shore of IS3

Lamp, Safety 357

Lamp, The Davy Super-
seded 191

Lamp, Buck's Patent 153

Lamp, Submarine 247 355

Lam p, New Gas. 273

Lands, Agricultural and

Mineral 50 244

Land, Facts About 231

Land, Elevation and De-
pression 323

Land Office Report 492

Lava, Composition 394

Lava of Vesuvius 83

Lead, Antimonial 312

Lepers, Sandwich Island. 270
Liebig aud His Opponents 167

Light, New Oxygen 366

Light, Phenomena of 35

Light, Source in Flame 67 355

Light Reflected 151

Lightning 307

Lime, <»u.r 311

Lock, Bussey's 212

Locomotive, Mi niaturet.. 25
Locomotives, Heavy.. .. 323
Lo^ Angeles Co. Mining
Summary. 22, 54, lu2, lti6 214
294, ;-5S, 390
Lower California, The Re-
sources of 101

Lyell and Darwin 151

M

Machine Tools 67

Machinery, Saving by.... 231
Machinery, Manufactur-
ing 164

Magnets, Tungsten Steel. 179
Magnetism, Discovery in. 335
Migncsium, Method of

Preparing 67

Miil Communication 25

Man, Antiquity of in N.

America 227, 243 303

Mip, Doollttle's 193

Mamif. in the West 30

Mipping by Photography 338

Map, Zincographic S53

Marble, Artificial 51

Marine Boilers, Corrosion 131
Marine,OiirOcean Steam 49
Mariposa Co. Min'g Sum-
Summary. ...6, 38,54, 70 102
118, 150,166, 182, 214, 230 262
27S, 294, 326,342,353,390

Mariposa Estate 56

Market Rates, S. F. (See

5th page, weekly. j
Martins in San Francisco 66
Materials, Durability of. 3 19
Materialism, Tyndall on.. 259
Matter, Divisibility of — 8

Measure, Standard 312

•Mechanical Movements 252

305. 386.
Mechanics' Institute. .121 188
Mclodeon, Inventor of... 247

Metals, Fmubilitv of 8

Metal Market, S F. (See

5th page, weekly).
Metals and Alloys, Tenac-
ity of. 83

Metals, Ext'n with Zinc. 253

Metals, Adhesion of 307

.Metallurgy, Works on.... 403
Metallurgical Experim'ts

hi Inyo 267

Meiallurglcal Establish-
ments 376

Meteor 289

Meteors, Spectra of 3

Meteors and Comets 27

Meteoric Stones 67

Meteorite from Georgia.. 243
Meteoric, Display, Recent 337

Meteors, Striking 359

Mexico, Mining in.. 50, 370 375
Mexico, Telegraphic Com-
munication 167

Mexico, Soda and Salt

Districts 191

Mexico, Iron Smelting... 195
Mexican Silver inPhila.. 2t7

Miiitaire 157

Mills, Saw and Planing.. 25
Minerals, Metalliferous.. 373
Mineral Veins. Discussion 210

Mineral Formations 16

Mineral Resources, Pacif-
ic Slope 52

Mineral Land Lnw....239 210

Mineralogy, Artificial 195

Mineralogy, Work on 4

rs. Convention of 255

Mines, Our 2

Mines, Freiberg 82

Mines, Tabular statement 20
Mines, Heat and Moisture

in Deep 174

Mines and Mining Mach.. 1*7

Mining. Condition of 56

Mining Saleslii Placer Co 73

Mln'-ng in Russia

Miningand Geol'y, China 104

Mining Under Water 161

Mining, Brigham Younu. 207

Alining Titles 2'fi

Mininein Stock Boards.. 297

MintStitistics 213

Miss >uri. Minerals in 27

Missouri, Miners Wanted 253
Mono Co. Mining Sum-
mary 131, 214

Montana Collection, 1'iof.

Ward's 17S

M111 tana Mining Sum-
mary.. ..7.23. 39, 55, 71 87
103,119, 134, 150. IBS, iS2 198
214, 2 1, 247, 262. 278, 294 326
312, 359, 391, 406
Moon, Heating Power ... 33
Mion and the Weather... 179

Mortar, Makinr 06

Mortar, The Arttis 387

Motion, Perpetual 346 366

•MotiMi. Trausmit'u', Ent-

wietle's 1

Motion and Heat, Trans-
formation 47

Motor, Electro-Magnetic. 99

Motor, Bourne's Ii5

Mo'or, Sun's H. at 253 355

Mounds, Western 26 3»7

M Hint B tker. Ascent oL. 231

Mountains, Longest 41

Mountains, Laboring 213

Musical Notes, Applicat'n 87
Mustard Seed. Value of.. 73

Occidental Mine

Ocean, Bottom of Atlantic

Coast

Oil Works, Pacific

Oil on rt ater

Orchids, The

Oregon Mining Summary
23, 39, 55, 71, 87, 103, 118 167
182, 199, 214, 231, 247, 263 2J8
343,391.

Ores, Colorado

Ores, Treatment of, lor

Chlorinatiou 297

Organ, An Electrical,...- 1"

Oriental M. Co 56

Overland Monthly

Overman Mine, Report-.. 2u
Owens Valley, Sinelt'g.210 359

Oxidation ot Alcohol 51

Oxygen from Air , — 355

Oxygen, Assimilation of.. 275

Ozone 280

P
Pahranagat Mining Sum-
mary 55 71

Paint, To Remove 211

Paint for Stoves, etc 95

Panama, Telegraph to 53

Paper. To Electro-Plate.. 19
Paper Manufacturing in

California 120

Paper and Stationery 14S

Parafflne 227

Parasol, Wooden 211

Passenger Kates on the

Postage Principle 382

Parasites, Microscopic SI

Past a:.d Present a

Patent Ollice, Busiuess of 3Cu

V

Naphrhalin. Test for 115

Na'ural Sciences, Practi-
cal Jnst ruction 350

Ncui*nc. Synthesis of..... 179
Nevada Co. Min'ng Sum-
mary.... 6, 2-2, 38, -M, 70 86
102, I IS, 131, 150, 166, IK2 198
214,23-1,216. 262. 27S, 294 310
320. 312. 33S. 374, 390, 4U0

Nevada Minerals 292

Nevada, Southern 407

Sew Hampshire Mines .. lSl
New Mexico Mining Sum-
mary.,.2f, 53. 71, 87, lu3 167
182,214,211, 247, 2tif, 313 359
391.
New A'inadeu Quicksil-
ver Mines, History ot... 94
N Zealand. Rich Quartz. 210

263, 302. 373.
Nickel and C-jbalt.To Sep-
arate sg

Nitrates of Poia-h & Soda 231

Nitrates in Nevad 1 4 17

Nitre, Mineral.

sin

. Work5,Pru

!51

370.

Patentees. Notice to 248

Patterns, Perforating 164

Pavements, Wooden 337

Pavement Lawsuit 192

•Pavilion, Mechanics' In-
stitute 49 72

Perfumer, Guide for the. 169
Petroleum Yield ot U. S.. 84

Petroleum 227

Petroleum, Origin 275

Petroleum, Prevention of

Danger 375

Philosophy Geo ogical .. 369
■Pnonetic Short Hand — 241
Phosphorescent Photogr's 67
Phosphorus, Manufac'e of 232
Photography, Geological

Application 323

Photography, Printing... 331

Pigment, New 51

PlcneerDay 176

Placer Co., Miniug in. .352 399
Placer Co, Mining Sum-
mary..6, 22,51.70, 86, 118 134
150. 246. 278. 310, 342, 374 390

Planer, Small's 169

Planer Fixtures, Want of. 99

Planet, New "'

Planing Machine Beds.

Plants, Fossil

Plow, Gang, Tustin's...

Plow, Reversible

Plow, New

Flow, Steam 53 73

Plow, Trial of Standlsh's. 136
Plow, Ingham's Gang — 145
Plumas Co. Mining Sum-
mary....6, 22, 38, 54, 118 134
159, 166. 182, 214, 230, 262 29t
312, 353, 374
Plumas Co., Mining in. 338 351

Plumbago, Prico of.... IBS 216
Plutonic Influences..
Polarizer, Improved. .
Polytechnic Society..
Pompeii. A Mexican. .

Postage Stamps, New

Potash from Wool

Powder, Giant

Powder, Effect of Enve

lope on

Powder, Ilafencgger

Powder in Placer Mining.

. -271

Saturomcter, A 19

Santa Barbara Co., M ining

in 3S0

San Bernardino Co. Min-
ing Summary. ..IIS, 166 230
San Diego Co., Mining

Summary 294

S'lti Francisco, Prosperity

of 7:2237

San Frun'co Water Front. 327
Savings and Loan, French

Provident 140

Savage Co.. An. Report... 36
Savings and Loan Society,

Seiui-Aniiunl Hcnort 53

Saw Teeth, Spauiding's.. 113

Saw, Pacilic Co 89

Saw, American Co 65

•Saw Gummer, Adusta-

ble.Markland's 17

Scythes 57

Screens, QunrtzMill "6

Sea, Oiling to keep down

Waves 42

Sea in Past Epochs, The.. 1 M
Screen Works, Quirk's. .. 152

Seats for Vehicles 145

Scraperand Tube Clcan'r 148
. 152

. 279
. 219
. 91
. 334
. 312
. 401
. 35
-. 273

Science.

Science, Society for Ad

vanccment of

Science and Religion..

Schools, Scientific

Sculls vs. Oars

Sea Serpent, The

Sea Weed Products

sea Wall, The

Senses, Speed of the. . .
♦Separator, Hunter's..
Sewing Machine Imp'nts. 122

Sewage in India 18?

Sewerage Utilized 290 360

Shafts, Bearings of 51 200

Shaft Ropes, Material 307

Shasta Co., Mining in... *0 5-1
Sheep Washing Machine. 254
Shears, Fat. Hair-Cutting 151

Sheet Iron, Thin 167

Shingles, To Lay 51

Ships, Propulsion of 2i3

Ship of War, Circular.... 35

Snip Building 175, 33S 345

Shtibrickville 12S

Shooting, Accuracy 398

Shoddy. Mantifactureof.. 213
•Sidewalks, Asphalltun.. 337
Sierra Co., Mining in. .242 286

306. 3 0. 322.
Sierra Co. Mining Sum-
mary ...6. 22,38,54, 70, 86 102
118, J50, 198, 211, 24fi, 262 278
326, 312. 358, 374, 390, 405.

Signals, Railway , *»Rt

Signals, Telegraph

Silica, To Obtain Pure

Silk

Silkworm Trade

liver Chlori ation

Silver Mining in West Va. 90

silver Ore Deposits 4u2

Siskiyou Co. Mining Sum-
mary..6, 22, 54,70, 86, US 150
182, 19S, 214. 230, 262, 342 358
Siskiyou Co.' Mining in.34 38

skull from Arizona 4

Skull, The Calavcrai..... 291

Slate Quarry 379

Slide Valves. Operating.. 67

Smoke, Causes of 265

Smoke, Consumption of. . 387
Snail Embedded in Quartz 267

Soap, Transparent 46

Soap, Quality of 58

Social Law anil Rank 172

•Soles, Patent Elasti" 186

Solano Co. Mining Sum-
mary 54

Solar Engine. Ericsson's.. 259
Solder for Aluminum.... 387

Solder, Prenared 212

Solutions, Super-Saturt'd 371
Somberg Phosphate Co... 47

. Sound, Feeling of 82

;is Sound, Transmission of.

. .5 215

. 18

Powder Works, California 152 Sound, Hydrogen a Con-

Prcmiums, Fair Decisions 171
184.

Premiums, State 344

Press, The Interior and

Exhibition 8

Press, The Daily Fair 168

Pressure Between Rub-
bing Surfaces 227

Process, Spectroscope and

Bessemer 211

Process, The Jameson 275

Products, Raw 104

Project lie, New 179

Proof Lead, To Obtain ... 56

Propeller, Lowe's 339

Propellers, Double 367

Propulsion, New System. 85
Pump, Munson's Submr'd SI
Pump, Gerrish's Submr'd 97
Pump, Golden Gate Force 165
Punic Hooker's Steam. .. 165
Pumps, Large 307

Quartz. Fusion of* 296

Quartz Mining. Uncertain-
ty of 14

Quartz Vf ins. Formation.. 135
Quicksilver, Napa County 2
Quicksilver, Science and

the Loss of 99

It

Rags, Unweayng 323

Rails, Steel 35 227

Railroad Bnilding.164. 171 33S
Railroad, Vallejo and Sac

ramento

Railroad, Continental

Railroad Invention 137

•Railroad. C P 29, 21S 321

Railroad in Colorado GO

Railroads over Rivr-rs... 61
Railwav, N. Y. Undergr'd 59
Railroad, The Lnmn Post 174
Railroads nnd Real Estate 295
Railroads, City. Receipts 341
Railroad, Stockton and

Tulare 338

Railway, London Under-
ground 359

Railway, Another Under-
ground 375

Railways, Pneumatic...
Railway, Fin-t Public...

Rattlesnake's Fangs 376

Real Estaie, Snlcs 229

Rnys, Absorption of CoI'd 360
Reese River Mining Suni-
marv. .7. 23,39.71.87,116 119
131.151. 1G7, 182, 199, 214 231
247, 263. 27S, 295. 310, 327 343
359,374.391, 405.

Refraction

Refrigerating Process,The

Lowe

Refrigerating Cars 25(1

Regulator. Hear

Reportorial Accuracy v

Geology

Rontile. Kansas Fossil..
Resin. Fragrance From.
Retrospective, Pair. ...

Rhoca line

Ritle. Bordan's .

Rifles, American and Eng-
lish :

River Channels, Aneh nt.
Rock Channeling Macn..
Boek-Diilling Machine... 32:
Rock Breaker, Collins'... 12
Rooks. Gold-Bearing.... 67 8:

105, 383.
Rone, Tarred and Untar'd 276

Rubles, Artificial 307

Russian- America, Scion

t i lie Investigation

"Russian- America, Interi

or of

Bnsjkm Mming

RussiuMiiH.nl Water.

Nitro-Givcerine

foi

Mili-

tarr Use

Ni-ro-Clveerei

1 Hi

Sorih P.de Ksi

«-di

\''.vn Scotia G,.

1 It

Nut, Lively ...

351

167

S

. 370

ductorof 276

Southern Pacific Railroad 152
South Africa, Gold Fields 179

Special Mention, Fair 189

Soectroscope, Motion of

S ars 291

Springs, Nevada 215

Stars, Falling 179

Stars, Size of. 83

Stars, Spectroscope and

Motion 339

Stale Fair Premiums 404

Stanislaus Co. Min'g Sum-
mary 51

Steam. Utilizing Waste... 387
Steamboats, American in

South America 287

Steamboat Coinmunicat'n 3:>2

Steel, Amoved 19

Steel-Making, Gier's 103

Steel Manufactured Di-

rcct from Ore 97

Steel Anils 131

S'rel. C ticible and Fur-
nace 167

S eel, Tuogspen 243

Steel. Sieine n's, Martin

Process 243

Steel, Pliable 307

Stecl.Tcmper'g Hardened 323
Steel. Vibration of Mag-
netic 339

Stee1 from Poor Ores 355

Steel, Bessemer. 371

S'ecl and Iron Making,

Sinderson's 371

Sleel Engravings, Helio-

graphie . 371

teenng Apparatus, Sem-
aphore 355

Stock-, Quarterly Rep 245

Stock Circular, S. F.-(See

51 h Page, weekly.)
Slock Prices— Rid and
Asked. (See 5lh Page,
weekly.)
Stone Cutting and Planing 291

Stone, Artificial 116 174

Stoves, Cast Iron 355

SirectWatering 91 163

Street Railways, Steam

Cars for 171

Street Cars, Compressed

Air for Propelling 179

S roug, Wm. Kellogg..... 264
Submarine Navigation ... 179
Sugar Refining by Electri-
city 161

Sulphur in Organic Com-

iHiinds 371

Sulphuric Acid, Produc-
tion of.... 8 195

Sun, Conslitutlon of 403

Sun Spots, Color of 83

Surveying Instruments... 136
Survey, Cat Geological.. 273
Survey. Cal. and firegon 311
Sutro Tunnel, Governin't

Aid for 97

Sweetmeats, (Poison 25S

1

Tannins, Leaves for 307

Tunning, Separation of

Bark 331

Telegram, Origin ot Term 7«

Telegraphy, Cook's 375

Telographinc Inst rum1 ts. 157
Telegraphing wi'h the

Earth's Electricity 176

Telegraphy, Gov't Charge 177

Telegrnphinu. Chrao 271

Telegraphy. Curious Fact 363
Telescope. Measuring uls-

fance with the 167

Tennessee. Silver in 43

Terminus, Yallnjo 251

Textile, A New 26 264

Timber Rot 233

rime Pieces, American... 153
Timber, Peciu Tree 2

Tires, Rubber 339

Tiilesto Mines 84

Tool-Making 173

Tools, Uae and Care of
Traction on Comu

Roads, Steam 247

Tramways, Street in Eng 250

Treasure Receipts 229

Treasure shipments 32.i

Trees, Destruction of..... 362

Trinity County, Mining. 50 54

326.

Trap. New Animal

Trunks, Prevent Injury

Tubes, Carbon 307

Tulare Co. Mining Sum-
mary....22. 102, 118. 198 ?
Tunneling, Giant Powder 386
Tunnels, Locomotives in.. '"

Tunnel, Hoosnc

Tunnel, Submarine

Tuolumne Co. Min. Sum
mury....6, 22. 38, 54, 70 86
118, 150,166,214, 246, 2J8 34 J
353, 41)6.
Type Machine. Foreman's 136

Universities ot Business.. 159
University, State. ...24, SI 157
273, 336.

University College 218

Utah, Ancient Mounds in 2(1
Utih Mining Suinmary.55 151
1S2, 263.

T
Vancouver's Island, Ge-

o ogy of 370

Varnish for iron 339

Vegetable Cutter, Welling-
ton's 14S

Venezuela, Resources of.. 394

Velocipedes 179 163

Velocipede. Auuatic 135

Vessel of War, Circular.. 99

Vesuvius, Lava of 83

Vine, Antiquttv of 51

W

Wngon Brake. New 334

Washing Mach , Oregon..
Washington Ter. Mining

Summary 119

Washoe Mining Sumuia-
rv.,.7, 23, 39, 55. 71, 103 119
134, 151, 167,199. 214, 231 217
261. 278, 295, 310, 327, 343 359

Washoe Ores 308

Watch Manufactory, The

American

Water Wheel. Adams' ._

Water Blasiing 362

Water, Bulk in Steam..

Water, Fire and

Water, Action on Lead.
Water, Electrolysis of..

Water Dye

Waters, Subterrancnn..
Water Wheels, Glazed..

Water Supply ol S. F :JS6

Weights aud Mcas., Eng.
Well in the Bay, Artcs'n, 279

Wha'e'sFood 259

What is Wanting 106

Wheat Crop, The

Wheat, Immense Yield,

Wheal, Rust in

Wheels, W't 011 Driving

Wheels, Emery

White Pino...2si|, 289, 292 304

305, 345, 354, 376, E9S.
Willamette Unlvcrsiiy.... 25
Window supnort, Sublett. 121

Wine Interests of Cal 119

Wire Cables 151

Wire, Gilt 19

Wire Works, Hallidle's... 1811

Wire, Telegraph 211

Wood Cutting, Gov't 2 6

Wood, Carbonization of.. 195
Wood Preset V g, Samuels' 25

Vt ood , Com pressed 35

Workshops, Our Great
Workmen, Skilled...,.

World Moves, The 104

Wrecking Co 276

Wrist, Position in Playing 148
Writing, Chemistry of.... 3
Wyoming Miu. Sum 55 215

"Yoiikon Tor., Geology... 232
Yuba Co. Minlnc Summa-
ry..6. 22, 38, 150, 198, 246 32;
358, 374, 390.
Z
Zinc nnd Lead, New Uses 233

Zinc from Missouri

Zinc. Oil Palming on....'
Zjrconn for Oxy-h\dro-
gen Light J67

Incorporations.

Lint nf JVVw Inror-porati'
Offirrrs of Mining and otha
Comjnini'8.

Patent Claims

Comprint'})}} Lint <>f ' Ptitmts ignited
to Inreiiio' ,i in the Pucijie Slat- s
unit Territories.

Amalgamator, A. Tlorn.. 116

Anchor, F. WittruHi 228

Anchor, W. Hoeden ... .. 372

Anchor, McCarthy's 4 t

son..
le

. Rogers...

Ball Alley. J D Patrick ISO
Bearings for Ver'l Shafts,
P Barne.lt, C. P. Purin-

t on aim N.Seibert 404

Red Boltom, P. II inkle... 85
loit Buckle, W. Cuni-

mings 132

Belt Buckle, F. Clausen.. 228

Boots, P. H. Baker 372

Boots, Screwed. J. Galli.. 160
Bushing for Wheels, T.

Blake 276

Buttons, Fastening for, A.

Rix 228

Buttons, F, Wittram 276

Cans, Marking, F. W Mar-
vin 62

Car Coupling, S. .Madden. 276
Car Brakc,S. W. Y. Sctai-

■nouskv 164

Car and" Track for In-
clined, J. VV. Pearce — 180
arriage Spring, W. B.

lliggins 68

Carriage Spring, J. It.

Locke 276

Carriage Springs, A. C.

Stowe 372

Cement Grinding Pan, J. *

B Cox 116

Chimney Cowls, J. W.

Foard 68

ChUi-1 Mor Ising, Adams

& Hatch 212

hums, A. Stump 20

■mcintiator, A. Uunier. 116
rusher, Ore, J. A. Col-
lins 68

Cultivator Teeth, W. B.

Ready 116

Cultivator Teeth, Matte-
son &, Williamson l&l

Cup for Effervescing

Drinks. A. Rottanzy... . 62
Door Bells, Oakley &

Kosckrans ISO

Drill Stock, M. Hatnque.. 20
"ye Stuff, C. E. & M. E.

Fox 1S6

EngineSj Direct- Acting,

161

52

Alexander M. Co...

•Alpha M.Co

Belcher M. Co

Aurora M. Co

Anzanza Water Co..
•Bank of California

•Belcher M. Co

Boot nnd Shoemaker's

Vnlon

C-ilifornia While Pin-

Co

Chloride Flat M.Co...

Concord a M. Co

Coos Buy Coal Co

•Km pire M. Co

•German Savings Sue
Glenwood M. Co

Globe M. Co

•Cold Hill M.Co ....
Golden Chariot M. Co.

Golden Gatu M. Co

•iioldeti Rule M. Co...

Hearst M.Co

Home Mutual Ins. Co.

•Iinperiil M. Co

Jerome M.Co

KansnsM.Co

•Kenniek M Co

Keystone Homestead

T,»nd Investment Co . ..
mechanics1 Real Estate

nnd Building Co

•Mechanics' Ins. Co

Mexican M. Co

Mutual Aid Association... 25'
•A'orth Beach and M. R.

R.Co }K

•Onhir M.Co 38'

Order of Drtrds If

Orr M.Co 3,*!

•tivcrmau M. Co..

Pacific Lin,uor Refinery.. 388 S pad i

" " nt Sewc and Drain | Loch

Hooker .

Escapement, Wntch, W.

C. Kellum 180,196 212

Explosive Compound, J.

Ilafencgger 197

Fire Arms, C. Sh.iterbek. 372
Fire Kindling, Gaudin &

Granler 68

Forging Apparatus, Pe-
terson * Jones 20

Friction Pawl, J. Moore,

Ke-lssuo 372

Furnaces, Ore, Collier,

Ciishmnn ,t Farrell 1

Furnace, T. W. Dresser.

Furnace, F. Ernst

Qnard for Mining Shafts,

E. o. Leer mo m

Harvesters, M. Vander-

pool 27C

Harvester, O. Bouncy... 85
lien's Nests, B. F. Hay-
ward 28

Horse Power, A. Smith.. 85
Horseshoes, Johnson &

Froggett.... 244

Hydrocarbon Burner, J.

Gray

Ice, Manufacture, It.

Egbert

Incrustation m Boilers,!!.

S. McQuald..'

Kiln Drying, A. B. Wii

egar 36 G8

Ladder, Fireman's. K. H.

Jones 52

Lamp Burners, W. R.

Criinna 241

Lai he Chuck, J. S. Det-

rlck

Lemon Squeezer, J. Klep-

zlg j

Linimmt, A. M.Deiincn,. 2
Malt, Fermenting *nd

Oxidlzing.R.d'Hcureuse
Mai king Design'* Upon

Fabrics, Composition,!!

I,. Jones 'i

Medicine, Enitl Froe.se
Mlll^loue Balance. W. C.

Benn .. ..

Ncz»lo for Hose Pipe, O.

J. Backus

Oil Cup. E. Hunt

Ores, Working of, Kustil.
Packing, Piston Rod, O.

Collier

Pnil for Photographic

. 180

272

. 276

. 132

116

. 276

Printing, J. Buehtel.... 372
Pavement, Street, P. Ca-

duc 232

Pavement, Siree;, D. W.

limn 238

Piers, Iron, W. B. Porter.. ISO
Plow, Steam, J. Mnrnuis. 214
Flow, Gang, W. B. Ready 4
Flow, Gang, G. A. David

son 52

Plow, Gung.J T. Waikins 68
Flow, Gang. Smiib A Wat-
son 132

lt»li Plows. Gang, P. II. Stan

4| dish ]R(]

37 1 Plow, Gang, A. Sinlih 401

'■' Plows, Gang. J. H, An-

drew.* ISO

Plows, Gang, D. C. Mat-

Teson 1JH>

. Plows, Gang. F. P, Smith 212
2 8, Process, Ore, G. P. B. Hill jtfS
29 Propelling Apparatus, E.

404| S.Baines 276

'-12 pumps, W 11. Keep isi>

'Ml pumps. T, linn-brow 372

6! Puinn-Valve Chambers, M

52 c. Taylor 401

Quart/. Mill, A. Lewi* 52

388 Oii ksilver Feeder, John
373 ^»
212 -

. 117

Patiison.
Eeniner for Wells, A. J.

Salisbury

Register, Counting, W. R.

Eckart

Scparaiors, Shoe for, M.

ksg; Laufini'urge..

29] Sewers, J, rirown :.,

Apparatu;

36

C.

Tin Mines in Colorado..

Sacramento Co. Mining

Summary 23. 150, 278 390

Ra,i r.imentoSav. rt'k. Rep

S lie. The State Trea ury. 289 Tin aod Garnet

Si es, Mil' 1 Linlns for.... 291 Tin F«di. Crv-l.nlli/pd

Silt, Consumption of 252 Tiro Up otter, Hughes,

Saudh lis, Removing 338| Kimball & Co's

1K1

Pipe C . .

Pacific Stone Co

Pncitic Protection Associ-
ation

•Facitic ins. Co

Pacific nredg ng Co

Peoples' In-iniLiiee Co

•Pacific Mail S. S. Co

Pocntilta »l C

Point Li bos Homestead..
Railroad Avenue Home-
stead

•Roinnaise M. Co

Sun Joaquin Homestead.

•SanJ'sc B. R. Co 101

•Savage M. Co 37

Shasta M. Co 2i8

Silver Sprout M. Co 37

star Creek M. Co 212

Teachers University H'd 3S-
Tuolunine Steamboat Co. 372

"Venus M. Co 388

Virginia M.Co 257

AVIiecler \l. Co 257

Wi-cnnslu M Co 52

»Yelluw Jacket M.Cu.,.. 09

372 Spark Arresters, \V. C.

Benn..

*Eledio

oft

Manufacturing, P.

in 116

S. Wehrlv 20 52

Engines, D. JStod-

• tii. An

H11

all'lalc,D.

Threshing Machines. Con-
ducting Grain, A. W.
Loekhart , 212

Ticket Punches, K. J. Kel-
lett 20

Track-Lavh'g Machine,
W. D. Robertson 22S

ValvpsforRtcnm Engines
W. D. Hooker 115

Vanors, Collecting nnd
Condensing. Form hn Is.. 85

Ves.«elf, Prop u I ion of, A.
P. \nrdell 404

"Water Glnsofs, Valve for,
W. Sn

Win.

I'll

II. DeVal n..

W.

ISO

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THE CHEAPEST

Tiic extensive use of these Watches by Railway Con-
ductors, Engineers and Expressmen, the most exacting
class of watch wearers, has thoroughly demonstrated the
strength, steadiness, durability and accuracy of the Wal-
tliam Watch. To satisfy that class in all these respects is
to decide tho question as to the real value of these lime-
keepers.

More than 310,000 arc thus speaking for themselves In the
pockets ot the people.

Imported watches are made on an expensive system, in
small numbers, but by numerous makers, and arc placed
In the market here by an importer, who first secures a
MONOPOLY OF SALE OF SOME ONE MANUFACTURE.

To the manufacturer's profit must be added the cost of
importation.

A custom-house duty of twenty-five per cent, payable in
gold.

A profit of at lea.4t twenty-five per cent, to the importer
another to the jobber, thus doubling the cost oftheim
ported Watch.

At Waltham, Watches are manufactured on alarge scale
under one roof and system of supervision and manage-
ment, thereby saving many of the expenses necessarily in-
curred in small establishments,— Iience their great cheap-
ness.

All respectable dealers now sell Watlham Watches, and
competition, as the world knows, is favorable to small
profits. The trade is satisfied, because, though the profit ou
each watch is small, the demand is large and all are sale-
able.

Unscrupulous importers occasionally place a worthless
Swiss imitation in the market. To avoid imposition, the
purchaser should invariably demand a certificate of gen-
uineness, signed by R. E. Robbins.

There are different grades of finish in the dift'erent varie-
ties of Watches made by the Waltham Company, as there
are different sizes and shapes to suit all tastes and means;
but every Watch that bears the genuine trademark of
"Waltham," is guaranteed to be a good one, and nobody
need be afraid lo buy it.

Every "Watch Fully Warranted.

For sale by all first clas* dealers In the United States and
British Provinces.

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AGENTS,

183 Broadway, New Yorlc.

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OIC Merchant street, San Francisco.
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New Mining Advertisements.

Alamo Gold and Silver Mining: Company.— lo-
cation ot the Mine, Lyon County, Nevada.
Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of asscssrat?nt(No.l2) levied on the
twenty-fifth day of November. 186S, the several amounts set
opposite the names of the respective shareholders as fol-
lows:

Names. No Certificate.

R Perry 96, 97, 98, 99, 100

WP Nudd '..32, 33

C & F Elmer 33, 44, 45

G Otto 47

G Wetzler 1-iS

H K Rice 78, 79, 81, 81

R W Thompson 88, 104

J Pierce 92

0 S Pierce 93

A H Phelps 101, 105

J F Smith v c

W Pickett .■ 121, 122

G Reed 129

A P Everett 130, 221

AB Forbes 132

R Meacham 133,205

Jas Merrill 206

F Marlins 135, 144

PRing 136, 119

1 W Raymond 137

H Van Lokron Ml

Ii Schmeldell 143

G MBiafce 145, 146

W K Flint 156, 157, 200

J A Wright 153

G D White J61, 192

Robt Irwin lt}3

H J Underbill 164, 1.65, 166

167, IC8

A P Stanford 173, 209

J T Haley 180

W E Wood 1st

ET Pease is*

C II Sherman 1M, 191

JPDyer 19;>

LH Brook* 195

F LIppiu 1(57, 204

S Hubbard 198

L Th inn pscm 1 99

Tabor <t Hill 28, 29

W R Mo wry 208

J Fuller 210

W A Came ion 211

J G Fallen 212

H Rose k vans 214

G H Kicker 213

F A Fresiers 225, 2.6

C H Haley 220

DN Hawiey 2.'2

A N Huinphns 223

E 1* Flint ...1 103, 135

E slinel 224

J Hill 2:8

J Tabor 229

J Coving'on

Cochran" & Covington

And in accordance with law, and r
of Trustees, made on

No. shares.

410

£102 51

20

5 Ut

60

12 51

8

2 01

30

7 6C

100

25 0t

35

8 76

50

12 5)

50

12 5C

35

17 5C

5

1 25

50

12 5(1

6

1 25

40

10 OU

25

6 25

25

6 25

25

6 25

20

6 00

22

5 50

20

5 00

40

10 uo

10

2 50

25

6 25

65

16 25

1T»

6 25

55

13 75

10

2 60

10

2 50

150

37 50

IS

3 75

25

6 25

10

2 60

65

16 25

5

1 25

2

60

25

C 25

5

1 25

10

2 50

20

5 00

30

7 50

5

1 25

6 5-6

1 70

10

2 50

10

2 60

5

1 25

25

6 25

60

12 50

60

12 50

9 5-6

2 46

35

8 75

10

2 50

10

2 50

10

•1 50

7

1 75

17 1-6

* 4 46

n order of the Board
enty-tlfth day of November,
1863, so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may
be necessary, will be sold at public auction, by Messrs.
Olney & Co., auctioneers, No. 426 Montgomery street, San
Francisco, ou Saturday, the Ihiricenih day of January,
1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock, M., of said day, to pay said
delinquent assessment thereon, together with costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale.

JOHN F, POPE, Secretary-
Ofllce, No. 419 California street, (Room No. 5) San Fran-
cisco. jan2

Names No. Certificates. No. Shnres. Amount.

roster, I I, yo-i 2 4 00

,; "ota, Chaa 237 s 10 00

J°"l:k-J 292 17 S4 00

■ I»ak,C 9X2 2 4 00

;l '' ' S 211 10 20 00

[i , win mi \ 2 10

Klelnsorge, Wm 3A8 2}4 6 00

Kleinaorge, Chaa 102 1 2 00

FCli [nsorge, ChM 259 2^ •, mi

Klemsorge, Clin* 260 SjJ 6 67

MnPnrd. G II 169 3 6 00

Wall ird G u 302 3 6 00

Mnllard, Q H :*i5 3 6 00

Mohr, LB M Hi) l 2 dq

Miller. John ips .-;, 16 67

Randall, R..ht it 271 10 20 00

Randall. Rnht B 272 10 20 00

Randall, Rnht B •>7^ ]n on 00

Randall, Until It V74 10 £0 00

Ranlall. Robt B 275 10 20 Ul

g umI.II. Robt B -276 10 20 00

IIiimkiH, lu.l.l H 277 * 1'-'. S SH

Randall, Robl 11 j;i| pi S2 ilO

HATtilnll, Robj B 31.7 ]«»- 33 ss

Randall. Robt B RftS ,^2 n 33

Randall, Root B 309 25 60 01

Rlre. A w 53 2 4 00

Rntli, S 109 3 6 00

Reeve, G B A Co ...■ us $% c §7

Reeve, G H A Co 149 3^ fi 67

Reov«,G HftCo 150 »f? 6 67

Reeve, «: B ACo 151 s« 6 67

Reeve, O BACc 152 »i' 0 67

Reeve, G B & Co 278 9'« 1M 00

Reeve. (J B & Co 269 15 30 00

Steele, » 19 60 ion 00

Steele, H 204 4 8 00

^tecle, Anna 159 2 4 00

.Siierkrap. John too 2 4 00

Suerkrap, John 220 6 12 00

Suerkrnp, John 221 fi ]2 00

StOSe, C ..1113 1 2 00

Schiicht, II W 113 2 4 00

Schcuek. ET 310 3 6 00

And In accordance with law, and an order of the Board of
Trustees, made on the twenly-eighth day of October, 1868,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be
necessary will be sold at public auction, by R R. Rollins,
auctioneer, at salesroom, 522 Markotstrect, San Francisco,
on Thursday, the twcnly-first day of January, 1860, at the
hour of 11 o'clock A. M. of said day, to pay said delin-
quent assessment thereon, together with costs of advertis-
ing and expenses of sale.

J. A. COOLIDGE, Secretary.

Office, Room No. 40 Merchants' Exchange Building, Cali-
fornia street, San Francisco. jan2

Kun FrnnclHCo and Castle Dome Mlnlnjc Com-
pany. Location of Works: Castle Dome Comity, Arizona
Territory.

Noticb.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
twenty-fifth day of November, 1868, the several amounts
set opposite the names of the respective shareholders as
follows :
Names. No, Certificate. No. Shares. Amount

Win Buttcrfleld 1 to 6 inc 600 $18 10

Wm Buttertlcld 13 26 78

Wm Rutterfield 10 loo fcO

Win Butterdeld 11, 12 20-ea 40 120

Wm Buttcrfleld 8, 9 100-ca 200 6 00

Win Buttcrfleld 148 3* 1 02

Jas Devoe, Sr 34 lo 37 Inc 400 12 00

Jas Dovoe, Sr 169 34 1 u2

Mrs. Annie Devoe 26 50 1 50

Mrs. Annie Devoe 198 6 j8

Ji.sDevoe.Jr 27 10 °0

Jas Devoe, Jr 28 to 32 in e 600 15 00

G W Bryant.. 40, 41, 42 5-ea 15 45

G W Bryant 43 10 80

GW Bryant 45 to 4S Inc 100 3 00

G-W Bryant 49 50 1 50

GW Bryant 51 10 30

G W Bryant 164 40 1 20

GW Bryant 165 6U0 18 00

Addison E Head US 500 15 00

Addison E Head 167 601 15 00

JTButteifleld 16Sto 171 inc hO 3 1=0

JT Butterfleld. unissued 9W) 27 00

R W Washburn 55 to 58 Inc 400 12 00

R W Washburn 59 COO 18 00

R W Washburn 195 250 7 50

N S Knowlton 183 400 12 00

NSKnowlton 191 50 1 50

Alfred Stebbins 188 600 15 HO

Robert Apple Kit 250 7 60

Robert Apple M2 250 7 60

FH Wells 197 250 7 50

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
ot Trustees,made on the twenty fifth day of November, 1868,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be
necessary, will bo sold at public auction, at the office of
Dam A Gladding, auctioneers, No. 320 Montgomeiy street,
on the twelfth day of January, 1869, at the hour of \%
o'clock P. M. of said day, to pay said delinquent assess-
ment thereon, together with costs of advertising and ex-
penses of sale.

A. R. SMITH, Secretary.
Office, No. 428 California street, 3d floor, San Francisco

jan2

Pntroclna und Doloi-ei Silver Mtnlnc Compa-
ny, Guazaparts District, State of Chihuahua. Mexico.
Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the ninth day of De-
cember, 1868, an assessment of two dollars ($2) per
share was levied upon the capital stock of said Company.
payable immediately. In Unit..,! smtet. cold and silver "coin!
to the Secretary, O. B^ Gilford, N. E. corner of Second and
Howard streets, San Franciceo

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid im the eichthisih. day of January, 18C9. shall lin
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale at
pu.lcauction, und unless payment shall be made before,
will bo sold on Monday, the twenty- fifth dav of January,
1869 .to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs
Of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board
ofTrustecs.

nmM m t- * o C" B- GIFFORD, Secretary.

Ofllce. N. E. corner of Second and Howard streets. San

Francisco. aecl2

Kattleumke Gold nnd Silver Mining Co num.

ny, Brown's Valley, Yuba County, California.

Notice Is hereby givon, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the nineteenth day of
December, 1868, an assessment of seven dollars and fifty
cents pcrshare was levied upon the capital stock of said
Company, payable immediately, in United States void and
silver coin, to the Secretary, No. 318 California street, San
Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the twenty-first day of January. 1869, shnll bo
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised tor sale at
public anclion, and unless pavment shall he made before,
will be sold on Monday, the eighth day of February,
1809. to pay the delinquent assessment, together with
costs of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the
Board of Trustees.

JOHN P. LOHSE. Secretary.

Office, 318California street, up stairs, San Francisco. d2G

Mining Notices—Continued-

Diamond Copper Alining: Company. T^ocatlon:

Rockland District, Del Norte County, California.
Notice.— There are delinquent upon the following described
stock, on account of assessment levied on the twenty-eighth
day of October, 1863, the several amounts set opposite the
names of the respective shareholders, as follows:

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

Easier, M 105 2 S4 00

Bromer, G F 108 1 2 0.J

Blllmer, J..bn 261 3>< fi 67

Br0wn, Thomas 315 16% 33 33

Brown, Thomas 217 16% 33 33

DorriS, B F 293 17 34 00

Great Central Alining; Company.— Location 01

Works: Yuma County, Arizona territory.

Notice.— There are delinquent upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
ninth day of October, 1868, the several amounts set op
posile the names of the respective shareholders, as fol-
lows:

Names. No. Certificate.

P Calnon 186

Wm H Cleveland 313

Mrs Ann G Cummings 2T)5

Jas FI Foster 94

Jas H Foster 141

Jas K Foster 142

Jesse Geib 73

Jesse Geib 74

Jesse Geib 75

Jesse Geib 76

Jesse Geib 78

Jesse Geib 79

Jesse Geib 80

SB Harris 293

SR Harris :99

5 R Harris 318

Jas Kellogg 175

AJ Jegliers 3

A J Jcghers 4

AJ Jeghers 5

AJ Jeghers 6

A J Jeghers 7

August Lmlord 244

Dan'I MeLeod 290

JnoR Mason 128

Camilla Manin 267

Ford H Rogers 329

Louis Vesaria 319

Louis Vesaria.... 320

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the ninth day of October, A. D.. 1868,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be
necessary, will bo sold at public auction, by Messrs. Olney

6 Co., at their salesrooms, No, 426, Montgomery street, San
Francisco, on the thirtieth day of December, A. D. 1868,
at the hour of 4 o'clock P. M. of said day, to pay said delin-
quent assessment thereon, together with costs of advertis-
ing and expenses of sale.

O. D. SQUIRE, Secretary.
Office, No. 414 Montgomery street, San Francisco. dec5

Postponement.— The -above sale Is hereby postponed until
Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of January, 1869, at the
same hour and place. By order of the Board of Trustees.

jan2 O. D. SQUIRES, Secretary,

. Shares.

Amount.

10

$25 0C

25

U2 50

25

lou

250 0(1

1\)

25 00

50 00

25

62 50

25

62 50

20

50 00

10

25 00

10

25 00

5

12 50

5

12 5<l

60

125 CO

50

125 00

fiO

125 00

50.

125 01

5

12 50

12 50

5

12 50

6

12 50

12 50

10

25 00

90

225 00

10

25 00

20

50 00

65

162 50

25

62- 50

25

62 50

Rlppon Gold anil Silver Mining Company.—

Location of Works: Silver Mountain District, Alpine
County, California.

Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, 011 account of assessment levied on the

fifteenth day of October, *186S, the several amounts set

opposite the names of the respective shareholders as fol-
lows:
Names. No. Certificate.

Curtis Palmer 148

William Brown II

William Brown 232

William Brown 233

William Brown 234

William Brown 35

William Brown 240

William Brown 2"0

William Brown 277

Brown A Kent 15

Abigail Brown 20

Abigail Brown 2ir/

M Nolnn ...266

Daniel Davidson, endorsed to
JainesWilson 46

George Patterson 53

James S S Robinson 56

F M Ellis 66

HD Scott 7!

John Sanquet 138

R Curran not issued 272

B Curran not Issued 273

John Bagnell 77

Matthew Davidson 79

Patrick Carroll 224

P N Wellin 221

Edward Campbell 181

Chas B Montague 120

A J Davis 127

Lott Mulcahy 157

Thomas Fay 158

David M Short 134

Chas Mayer 135

Benjamin C Levy 137

Lazard Godchaux 139

Lnzard Godehaux 160

Lnzard Godchaux 162

Lazard Godchaux 229

Lazard Godchaux 230

P Cunningham 156

F Cunningham 174

Michael English 152

Frank Mnhon 155

Thos McCullough 159

Stephen McGillan...., 164

Stephen McGillan 165

P J McMahon 170

P J McMahon 183

Jan Barrett. ..not issued. ..bal 189

Elizabeth Curran 194

Elizabeth Curran 195

N C Brlggs 2t>9

FH Moore 210

C B Gregory 2! 1

Henry Eno 212

Henry Eno 278

David Lovell 214

Jacob, Martenstcin 225

MGShovc 264

And In accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the fifteenth day of October, 1868,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be
necessary, will be sold at public auction, at the salesroom
of Maurice Dore k Co., auctioneers, No. 327 Montgomery
street, San Francisco, on Saturday, the twenty- third day
of January, 1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock M. of said day, lo
pay said delinquent assessment thereon, together with
costs of advertising and expenses of sale.

CURTIS PALMER, Secretary.
Office. No. 87 Stevenson street, between First and Second
streets, Sau Francisco. dcc24

No. Shares.

Amount.

10

$10 00

5 00

10

10 00

10

10 10

10

10 00

10

10 10

3

3 00

25

25 00

45

45 00

10

10 00

5

5 00

5

5 (Ml

10

10 U0

10

10 00

5

6 00

10

10 00

1 00

55

65 Ml

16

15 00

10

10 (10

10

10 00

7

7 00

12

12 00

10

10 00

fi

5 00

10

10 00

25

26 00

10

10 00

5

5 00

5

5 00

1)1

10 00

10

10 I'll

5

5 I'D

10

10 00

5

5 00

5

6 00

5 00

5

3 00

5

5 00

5

5 OH

25

25 00

25

25 (HI

10

10 00

5

5 110

5

5 00

25

25 00

25

25 00

25

125 00

10

10 00

10

10 00

10

10 00

20

20 00

20

20 10

20

20 00

26

25 00

10

10 00

1

1 00

20

20 00

of

U. S. Grant Mining: Company.— Location

Works: Carlisle, Nevada.

Notice.— There are delinquent upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
ninth day of November, 1868, the several amounts set op-
posite the names of the respective shareholders, as fol-
lows:

Names. No. Certificate.

Alpheus Bull 2

E B. Mott, Jr 6

GeoMohrel 10

Geo Mohrcl (I

GeoMohrel 12

GeoMohrel 13

Geo Mohrel 14

Silas Gnrber ' 19

Jas i* Wheeler 30

JasP Wheeler 31

Jas P Wheeler 32

JasP Wticeler .W

Jno Vail 34

LJ Flint 37

IL Henna 38

I L R.-qua 39

T LRc-qua..^....... 40

ILRequa 41

JLVan Bokkelen 48

L A Booth „ 49

L A Booth 50

L A Booth 51

J Biggs

McFnrland

Sarnh Snvder

N M Baxter........

And in accordance with law, and an ortjerof the Board
of Trustees, made on the ninth day of November, 1868, so-
many shares of each parcel of saldsfcoek as may lie neces^
sary, will be sold at public auction, ^ty J. C. Merrill & Co.,
auctioneers, No. 204 California street, San Francisco.
California, on Saturday, the second day of January,
1869, at the hour off' 2 o'clock P, M. of said day, to pay
said delinquent assessment thereon, together with cosis of
advertising an,d expenses of sale.

ENaS TAYLOR, Secretary-
Office, No. 22C CLay street,. San Fniacbeo. dccl9

No. Shares.

Amount.

218

$109 00

150

75 10

10

5 00

10

5 00

10

5 00

5

2 50

5

2 50

10

5 00

50

25 00

50

25 Oil

50

25 CO

60

25 00

20

Hi 00

20

10 W

50

25 (Ml

60

25 00

50

25 00

50

?5l'l>

4

2 0(>

50

23 00

54

2-7 01 )■

100

50(10

4.

2H0

16

8 00

-2

?eoo

2ft

10 00

As an jinv-ER-BKUNG MKBJtu*' throughout the whole Pacific
States and Territories* the Phkss Is unsurpassed. Rates
moderate.

14

Tr\e Mining and. Scientific Press.

Machinery.

VABIVEY'S

PATENT AMAL&AMATOR

These .Machines Stand Unriraleci.

For rapidly pnlverizing and amalgamating ores, they
have no equal. No effort has been, or will be, spared tG
have them constructed in the most perfect manner, and of
the great number now in operation, not one has everre-
quircd repairs. The constant and increasing demand for
tbeni is sufficient evidence of their merits.

They arc constructed so as to apply steam directly into
the pulp, or with steam bottoms, as desired.

This i m -.lgamator Operates as Follows:

The pan being filled, the motion of themuller forces the
pulp to the center, where it is drawn down through the ap-
erture and between the grinding surfaces. Thence it is
thrown to the periphery into the quicksilver. The curved
plates again draw it to the center, where it passes down,
and to the circumference as before. Thus it is constantly
passing in a regular flow between the grinding surfaces and
Into the quicksilver, until the ore is reduced to au impalpa-
ble powder, and the metal amalgamated.

Setlers made on the same principle excel all others.—
They brine the pulp so constantly and perfectly in contact
with quicksilver, that the*particles are rapidly and com
pletelv absorbed.

Milfmen are invited to examine these pans and setlers for
themselves, at the JPACIFIC FOCNWKY,

lvl San Francisco.

Brodie's Patented Improvements

FOR THE TREATMENT OF

Gold and Silver Ores.

BRODIE'S PATENTED IMPROVED QUARTZ CRUSHER.
The attention of all interested in Mining is respect-
fully called to this Improved Machine for Breaking or
Spalling Quartz, or other Rock, possessing, as it does, sim-
plicity of action and lightness of construction, so far as is
compatible with strength and durability. In consequence
of thuse advantages, the advertisers are enabled to offer
these machines to the public at the following low terms:
No. 1— Or ill-inch Crusher, capable of reducing from
three to four tons of quartz per hour, no piece be-
ing larger than a walnut— price $GOO

No. 2— Or 15 inch Crusher, capable of similarly putting

through live to six tons per hour SSO

No. 3— Or 18-inch Crusher, will in a similar manner

crush from seven to eight tons per hour 1,800

These Crushers have been erected at several mines in the
State of Nevada, and otners in Calayera3, Tuolumne and
Mariposa counties, to whom applicants can be referred as
being the most efficient, cheapest, and least weight com-
patible with strength and durability, of any Crusher yet
erected.

BRODIE'S PATENT IMPROVED GERMAN AMALGA-
MATING BARREL.— This Barrel obtained a premium at
the Fair of the Mechanics' Institute in San braucisco, in
186i. Further particulars will be afforded on application
to the subscribers.

A diagram, with explanations of this machine, will be
found in the " Mining and Scientific Press," of September
29th, 18(36.

BRODIE'S PATENT WIND-BLAST SEPARATOR FOR
DRV CRUSHING.— Diagrams and explanations afforded
on applicatiou to the subscribers.

A drawing and full description of this machine will be
found in the Mining and Scientific Press of Sept. 22d,18G6.
JAMES BRODIE. Fulton Foundry, or
CHARLES RADCL1FF,
Express Building, 402 Montgomery street,
12vl3tf San Francisco.

BLAKE'S QUARTZ BREAKER !

PRICES REDUCEn!

MACHINES OF ALL SIZES FOE SALE
— BY —

VTNL. P. BLAKE,

Corner Flrwt aud Mission streets, or Box 3,0*3"?

sviar SAN FRANCISCO.

GLASGOW
Iron and Metal Importing Company

Nun. 35 and 27 fremout street,

SAN FRANCISCO,

Keep constantly on hand a la-ge stock of best Bar and
Bundle Iron, boiler Tubes, Plate mid Sheet Iron, Gas and
Water Pipe, Anvils, Cast Steel, Gas ami Water FittiUf'
which they offer to the trade on liberal terms,

21viO-.Jiu *■"' UcCKINDLE, Manage.

Bemoval.

NELSON & DOBLE,

-AGENTS FOR

Thomas Firth & Sons' Cast Steel, FileSj

.11 ill Picks, Sledges, Hammers, Picks,

Stone Cutters', Blacksmiths' and Horse-Shoers' Tools,
Have removed to 13 and 1H Fremout street, near

Market, Sa.ii Kraueisco.
IfJvUgr

Notice to Miner's,

Well-Borers and Water Companies,

MPRAQ IS NOW PREPARED TO MANUFACTURE
. Hydraulic and Artesian Well Pipes ia the beatwork-
muulitce manner, and at the lowest market rates. Having
uialu large additions to my stock of machinery for that
branch of business, I am prcparod to till alL orders with dis-
pateti, and guarantee entire satisfaction. I also manufac-
ture Mississippi ritqyes, of the latest improved patterns, for
ves3elsofa.il classes. Also, Shjp Plumbing done.

M. PK16,
8v!3-ly Stove Store. No. 1 Olav street, below Davis.

Patent for Sale.

Fire, Ease and Blachine Belting.

rpHB . SUBS,CKIB.E3 CONTINUES TO .MAN UFA CT PRE
4- UaK Tanned. Leather Fire Hqso, warranted superior to
lvi-m>ri\ Hose, manufactured at the Sixth Street Taunery,
SaaPrauoUQo,
aivlBtf JOHN J. FULTON.

The undersigned, having successfully introduced the

Leffel Ameiican Sonhle Turbine Water

Wheel

On this Coast, and owning the Patent for the whole Pacific
Coast, viz: The states of California, Nevada and Oregon,
and the Territories of Arizona, Washington, Idaho, and
Western Montana, wishes now to dispose of the Patent,
with stock of Wheels on hand. Patterns, etc., etc.

A Company organized and prepared properly for the
construction of these Wheels, to supply this Coast and all
tributary countries, could make Hie business immensely
profitable.

My object in selling is tn enable me to devote myself ex-
clusively to my profession. A. MYERS.

P. S.— If not sold previous to February 15th, then I would
enter into au arrangement to manufacture by paying roy-
alty. Address Rev. A. MYERS, Portland Oregon.
26vl7-lm

Standard Milling Machine.

UNION VISE COMPANY,

OF BOSTON, MASS.
Extra jaw, and heavy Vises, Warranted for heavv work.
New style Wood and Covered Screw Vises, forty styles and
kinds; Standard Milling Machines, simple, great capacity,
power and strength— two sizes, large, 2,300 lbs; small, 950
nV. For sale by the trade.
23vH>-ly G. H. NOTT, Prcs.

PACIFIC FILE WORKS,

No. 53 Beale Street, bet. Market and Mission,

SAN .FRANCISCO.

Files Re-cut and warranted as good as new, with a saving
Of fifty per cent. REAPER AND MOWER SECTIONS
MADE TO ORDER. The only establishment on the Coast.
Orders from the country promptly attended to. j®" First
Premium awarded ul llu' Slate Fair, KS67.

2vl7-3m T. G. Dl'ltXlXO <fe CO

CALIFORNIA TOOL WORKS,

Blacksmith and Machine Shop,

HAS REMOVED

To 143 Beale St., bet. Mission and Howard,

SAN FRANCISCO.

All kinds of Edge or olher Tools made to order. Im-
portco 'fouls, if tun hard or soft, re tempered to give satis-
faction. REAPER AND MOWING KNIVES ; complete
sections always on band, or will be made at the shortest
notice. Particular attention paid to putting in order AG-
RICt-LlL'RAL MACHINERY. Job Grinding and Polish-
ingby steam. Orders from the Count rj" promptly attended
io aSr"Allwork warranted. Prices reasonable.

21vl7 qy J. WEICnHABT. Proprietor.

IMPORTANT TO WOOD WOEKEES.
GEAR'S COMBINATION

PATENT,

Variety Molding and Planing

MACHINE.

THIS STANDARD MACHINE IS INDISPENSABLE IN
any establishment working Wood bv machinery. Re-
cent great improvements render it complete for

All kinds of Irregular and]Stralght Work
in hard orsoft wo -d. Straight, Waved. Circular and EIIid-
lical Moldings, Spiral Work, and all Irregular Forms, thus
saving to the mechanic the cost of several machines to
effect the purposes accomplished by this alone. It does
not stop at cutting the edges and sides of timber, but oper-
ates equally well upon the end-, cutting them into nny re-
quired form with the same facility that it does the sides.
Any simp without it lacks onu of the most USEFUL AND
PROFITABLETi>;»LSnow used It is worthy of the atten
tion of all HOUSE, CARRIAGE, SHIP. BOAT and CAR
BUILDERS, FURNITURE and CABINET MAKERS, MILL
PROPRIETOR-, PATTERN MAKERS, etc., and otallothcrs
who desire to make a profitable business from a small in-
vestment. Every machine is tlmroimhlv tested at the manu-
factory and warranted. Further Information furnished on
application. FULLER & CO.,

Manufacturers' Agents for the Pacific Coast, 109 Mont-
gomery street, San Francisco. 17vl7-3m

ELLERY'S PATENT

India Rubber Cement and Paint

— FOB. —

TIN, IRON AND WIETALLBC PROOFS,

Iron, Brick, and "Wooden Buildings,
SHIPS, STEAMBOATS, STAGES, CABS,

AND FOR ALL EXPOSED SURFACES.

Is water-proof and indestructible; will neither rot, peel,
nor crack; will withstand any climate; can be put on in

any color, and is less expensive than other Paint

New Cloth K-oofit put on. Old Roofs cemented
and painted. Leaky Boot's made tight.

8gp- No Coal Tar or Asphalt uni used. All work guaran-
teed. Orders punctually attended to.

GEO. T. UKOSILET, Agent,

Battery street, corner Jackson,
24vl7-3m San Francisco.

Register your Letters containing money addressed to
us, or we will not be responsible.- Remittances by Exprest
must be in packages, prepaid. When practicable, it is hess
to remit by draft, or order, on some Sau Francisco bank or

flrwi

HYDROSTATIC

WOKKS.

SAN FRANCISCO

Pump Manufactory

And Patent Water Closets.
M. D. LASSWELL,

Xo. T47 MisMon Street, bet. Third and Fourth.

House Plumbing and Gas Fitting in all of its modes.
Lead. Iron and Copper Piping lilted fur water, steam and
gas. Ship 1'lumbmg, and Ship Pumps made and repaired
Hose of all sizes, Couplings and Nuzzles, Ruses and Rose
Stand*, and all kinds of Brass Cocks. Force, Lilt and .Suc-
tion Pumps of all sizes made and set to order.

lam now prepared to make all kincs ot t'uaips for miners
and for irrigating in a large way. I am making tour sizes
of single acting Brass Pumps, similar to the Haden &. San-
ders Brass Pumps. Iain also inakinga very superior Pump
to any in this market for windmills, single-acting. I am
making four different kinds of double acting Force Pumps,
and different sizes of each kind. I am also making Artesian
Well Pumps ot a superior kind. This Pump may be low-
ered in any well to any depth desired. It is a force
pump, or it is a suction pump, or it is a lift pump, and may
be worked by hand or windmill, or tuiv kind oi power.
Can be used for oil weils better than any other, and the
Pump is the most durable aud easiest repaired of any Pump
in the couutry.

I have invented and am making a superior double-acting
Force Pump, called the GOLDEN STATE, which has great
advantages over any Pump in this State. It is the easiest
Pump repaired, and is the most durable of any Pump In
the pump kingdom.

BSs-This Pump received the Silver Medal and highest
premium at the Mechanics' Fair; also the highest premium
at the intestate Fair. At the San Jose Fair my Hydraulic
Force Pump received the First Premium, and lour other
Pumps each a diploma.

Any one in want of a Pump or anything in my line, will
do well by calling at my place beforv purchasing elsewhere.

8&-I also keep all kinds of DOUGLASS and other mak-
ers' Pumps on hand. Ilvl7-tf

IMPORTANT TO LUMBERMEN.
AN DERSON'S

Patent Muley Saw Hangings.

These Mulavs will cut FIFTY PER CENT. MORE LUM-
BER PER DAY thananvotner Mulay in use, with-flfty per
cent, less power. Thev are very durable, and easily kept in
order, ana warranted to give satisfaction. No Mulay Mill
should be without them, as they will pay for themselves In
a very short time. No other mode of manufacturing Lum-
ber can compete with the Mulay Saw with this improve-
ment. Send for circular. FULLER & CO.,
Manufacturers* Agents for the Pacific Coast, 109 Mont

gomery street, San Francis.- o. 17vl7-3m

Portable Engines.

The Swam=cotCoTs (warranted equal to any manufac-
tured, may be seen In use in this city), PORTABLE and
STATIONARY STB AM FIRE ENGINES, STEAM PUMPS
and ROTARY PUMPS, and WnOD WORKING MACHIN-
ERY of evcrv description, at Eastern juices. Address W.
O. M. BERRif & CO., 511 California street, San Francisco.
2ovl7-3m

HO TEAMSTERS!

CONTINUE TO

USE HOCKS I UHOTS

CELEBRATED

H & L Axle Grease,

To which you have given so decided a
preference for the last

FOURTEEN YEARS,

It is the only reliable article

IN THE MARKET

Every care will continue ts be used to sus-
tain the high reputation the H &, L Axle
Grease, has so long and justly attained.

JS^"Be sure and ask for the H & L brand,
and see that the

TRADE ®&M H & L

IS ON THE COVER OF THE PACKAGE

NONE OTHER IS GENUINE.
FOE SALE IX EVERY STATE IN THE UNION.

The Oakland Daily Transcript,

A. J3IT PAPER.

The Largest Circulation in the County.

Advertisements lii the Transcript will reach
every part of Alunn±«l:i Connty.

RATES FOR ADVERTISING

Tlie Chili Exposition.

THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD CALL THE ATTENTION
ot" the manufacturers of California to the National
Exposition to be Held during the coming spring in Vatpa
raiso. Chili, next to California, is the most important
country on the Western Coast of America. And this Expo
sition cannot fail to create a demand for our staple manu-
factures, if they are well represented. The writer has
resided for some 3 ears in chili, and is familiar with its
people, business and language; is a praeticul mechanic,
and proposing to visit the Exposition, oilers to lake charge
of machinery or other material that parties may wish to
send th titer, and pledges himself faithfully to bri'ug belore
the public of Chpi their respective merits. He can be
seen daily, at his office. No. 4y iluntgomety Block. Prompt
action is necessary.

DAVID R. SMITH,
Civil and Mechanical Engineer.

Rkff.hekcf.s— Hatiscotn A Co. (.Etna Iron Works); A. S.
Hallidie (President .Mechanics' Institute): Lynch & An-
drade.

San Francisco, November 21st, 1SGS. Stvl7-tf

Changes in Htdkatjlic Mining. — Hy-
draulic mining, so far as small companies,
or a limited amount of capital is concerns 1,
is undergoing a change. Seven or eight
years ago the number of companies em-
ployed in this branch of mining in Nevada
County, was twice, and perhaps three times
as large as it is now. Then a hundred or
two of dollars was sufficient, in many, if
not most cases, to get claims in working
order, and to make a beginning. Now the
case is more than reversed, and heavy in-
vestments of labor and capital are required.

To work shallow diggings a smaller
amount of water was necessary, also a less
amount of hose and iron pipe. As miners
have approached toward the center of gravel
hills or ridges, the banks have become
higher, while no more gold can be obtained
from a given area of surface. It makes a
wonderful difference to the hydraulic miner
whether he has to pipe off a hundred square
feet of surface with a perpendicular depth
of twenty-five feet, or whether to get the
same amount of surface he has to wash
down from 100 to 200 feet of bank. It ne-
cessitates the use of from four to eight
times the power to produce as much gold
within the same time in the latter case as it
did in the former. As nearly all the gold
is found on, or within a few feet of the
bedrock, the bottom has to be reached be-
fore anything like good pay can be found.
At Blue Tent, miners have been unable t >
reach the bedrock yet, and as a consequent •
the claims there have never paid large divi-
dends. Men with limited means, haviDg
deep diggings, must either sell to capital-
ists or allow their claims to remain im-
worked. In some instances small claims
are being consolidated, or several compa-
nies are being merged into one, and by a
concentration of capital and labor they are
able to extend their mining into deeper
gravel. Where fifty inches, and as many
feet of pressure were sufficient, five or six
t.mes as much water and three times the
pressure is now needed. This difference
must certainly continue to increase for
years to come. Greater hydraulic power,
and other agencies more powerful than
common powder, will have to be used in
order to work successfully. Companies
Ttrith a capital of from ten, twenty or a
hundred thousand dollars will be the rule,
and claims worked with less sums will be
exceptions. — Nevada Gazette, Sec. UtJi.

Fbench Leather. — There is no doubt th at
French leather is the best in the world. It
is all tanned, — says the correspondent of
the Chicago Republican, — in the good old
way. The same writer goes on to dqscribo
the process, and the points in which it dif-
fers from the one employed by American
tanners. He says: "The hides are first
thrown into a vat of lime water, where they
remain until the hair is loosened, then they
are taken out, the hair removed, and the
hides put to soak in the river to remove the
lime. After this they are scraped and car-
ried to vats, where they are covered with
' juice of tan ' — that is, water in which tan
bark has been soaked, until the solution is
as strong as possible. After three or four
days, the hides are again removed and
scraped, and put into the vats, where the
process is achieved. Here we find the first
essential difference between the system of
America and the French. In America, the
hides are put into the vats with a good deal
of water - here they are put in and packed
firmly in the vats dry. Then, when the vat
has been filled up over them with three or
four feet of tan, a few pails of ' juice of tan '
is poured over, hardly enough to moisten
the whole mass.

The hides remain in these vats for at least
six months — sometimes two or three years,
the longer the better. For first class leath-
er a year is required. Seven to ten per cent
a year is added to the value of the leather
by resting in the vats up to four years, after
which time there is no further motive for
letting it remain, as it has absorbed all it
can contain of the properties of the tan.
After coming out of the vats the leather is
scraped, rolled, dried and curried ; but all
these are operations that have no influence
on the durability of the leather, being sim-
ply matters of ornamentation and finish.
The secret of the excellence of French leath-
er is in these three observances : — 1st.
Using strong tan, i. e., the bark of young
trees. 2d. Packing the leather in the vats
dry, and wetting the least possible. 3d.
Letting the leather stay a long time in the
vats.

Cement Quajreies. — On several farms
near Benicia, the cement rock furnishing the
material for the Benicia Company, is quar-
ried. This is better than many quartz
mines, as it always pays &4.50 per ton, dug
out and delivered at the cement mill. The
Benicia cement business is now an estab-
lished success.

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

15

MKCHAKlOAliTASTB— ESGMSHAITO Ambbi-
oas. — The following is part of an artiole in

I U'lien a prominent

l meobanica] periodical choosi's to
interpolate in a mention of a valuable Amer-
ican invention, favorably noticed, the state-
ment " tliat wli.it will please an American
engineer will not Batsafy our more refined
mechanical tastes," we believe the writer is

influ.cn 1 by bis national prejudices rather

than by the facts. We are not prepan .1 to
acknowledge that the English have more
refined mechanical tastes than the Arnor-
ieans, or that English mechanics Bhow more
aont either of taste or workmanship
than our own. Indeed, onr observation in-
clines us to ;i \fi-y different opinion. If re-
finement of mechanical taste has anything
to do with grace of form, proper distribu-
tion of material, strength without clumsi-
ness, and grace without meretricious orna-
mentation, wo believe American mechanics
ore not surpassed. In fact, English ma-
ehinen' of every description appears clumsy
whoro it should bo only strong, and the
material is wasted to makeashowof strength
where this graial element would exist with-
out this waste. So in the form or shape of
the machine or its parts, the show of
strength with cumbronsness seems to be
considered by English mechanics as better
than the reality with grace of form. If this
is a refined mechanical taste onr English
cousins ure welcome to it; but where real
strength, power, availability, and utility
can be united to gracefulness of form and
proper proportions, we prefer the sort of
mechanical taste that is competent to pro-
duce it, and that wo believe the works of
onr American mechanics fully prove they
do possess.

Snrrsos Dental Rubber. — The trial of
tho case involving tho question whether the
manufacture of the articlo above named is
an infringement of tho Goodyear patent,
has resulted in favor of the plaintiffs, and
an injunction has been issued.

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AmericaD, Waltliam, Watches— The Best,
The Cheapest,

Recommended by Railway Engineers, Con-
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class of watch-wearers, as superior to all others
for strength, steadiness, accuracy and durability.

Unscrupulous importers occasionally place a
worthless Swiss imitation in the market. To
avoid imposition, the purchaser should invariably
demand a certificate of genuineness.
For sale by all respectable dealers.

ROBBINS & APPLETOST,

General Agents,
182 Broadway, New York.
R. B. GRAY & CO.,
Agents for California,

San Francisco, Cal.

HENRY CAREY BAIRD,

Industrial Pub li slier,

No. 4-OG Walnut Street, Philadelphia.

HAS RECENTLY PUBLISHED

A Practical Guide for the Perfumer ;

Jieing u New Trenli.su uii Perfumery the most fa-
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Edited trom Notes itnd Documents of Messrs. De-
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Dussauce, Chemist. 12mo S3 00

Cabinet Maker's Album of Furniture :

Comprising a Collection of Designs tor the Newest
and MostKlegant Styles of Furniture. Illustrated
by J.s large ;m i hll.iuti fully engraved plates. In

one volume, olihmg 5 00

The plates of this beautiful volume comprise designs for
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Comprising a Collection of Designs for Gothic Fur-
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engraved plates. Oblong $3 00

Tbe platcsin this volume comprise designs for sofas, arm

and other chairs, stools, taborets, pries-die u, table-, chests.

of drawers, wardrobes, chimney-pieces, side-boards, pier

tables, ctagcres, desks, book-cases, etc.

A Practical Guide for Puddling Iron

and Steel.— By Ed. Urbin, En<. of Arts and Manuf.
A Prize Essay read before the Asociation of
Eugs. Graduates of the School of Mines, of Liege,
Belgium, l$o3-(i. To which is added a Comparison
of the Resisting Propsrcies of Iron ami Steel, by
A. Brull. From the French, by A. A. Feso.uet,

(hiemist and Engineer. 8vo., oloth SI 00

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BOOT'S PATENT FORCE BLAST ROTARY BLOWER.

tented Nov. 1*t, lsti* ; July 34, 18G0 ; iind Oot. B, 1SOO.

Premiam sit tlio Paris Exposition.

Metallurgy.

KEUUIRE8

Fifty Per Cent.

LESS POWER

Than any Blower

StemiisHips.

One of these Blowers may ho seen on exhibition at W. T. Gamut's Brass Fonnrliy, corner of
Mission and Fremont streets. They are -also in use at the Almudim Quicksilver Mine; GridLey's
Foundry, Gold Hill, Nevada ; ./Etna Iron Works, San Francisco, and mauy other places.

Caution. — Purchasers will find it to their advantage to. apply direct to the Stockton Agency, as
certain parties, not authorized to manufacture the Blower, have put in tho market machines of inferior
construction, which do not answer all the requirements of tho genuine article.

For circulars and further information, address

KEEP & BARGION,

Globe Iron Works, Stockton, Cal.

Scientific Clmri).

Warranted to make Butter, from sweet or sour milk or
cream, in troni

TWO TO FIVE MINUTES.

Having sold the Patent Right of David W. Soeley,s"Sci
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Slonterey.Santu Cruz. Snnta Clara, San Mateo,

Alameda, Miirlu, Sonoma, Soluiio, Yolo,

Sacramento and San «Iua<iiiiu,

To McCONATHY & KINCAID,

OF PACHECO,

PARTIES WISHING TO PURCHASE;

State or County Rig-lit s,

Will please apply to them.

J. N. SEELEV.

State or County Right*, or Churne, Tor hale by

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The«e Cartrldften are made in

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These Cartridges have been adopted,
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M UBSrVS WAR DEPARTMENT, as
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BRITISH ARMY, and are not only
used exclusively for the Snider Ritle,
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They are the cheapest Cartridges
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Who Istlic Inventor and Patentee of the new and wonder
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prove the shooting of guns; and every
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Novelty and Usefulness Oombined.
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Dl«i>eii8e» with the Soldering; Iron.

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Ca*h Capital, ...... 8300,000

GOLD COIN.

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venient and compact. Use any kind of lump that has a
blaze no larger I nun a single wick; a spirit lamp will make
no smoke. You may me nil a dlsii or can over the best table
without fear of spoiling it. Try it, and you will never want
a soldering iron in the house agafn. What a saving
to farmers. No more stopping up of holes in milk pans
with a rug. Milkmen can mend their own cans. It
does the pieitiest job on any article you have Hi the house,
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when resin and solder will not. It will stand: heat as well
as any solder ever used over fire

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Currency Table.

The following Table shows the relative value of a Cur-
rency Dollar to Coin at rates of premium from 110 to 149:

'"' 130 77

131 WA

132 75^

.„ 133 75^

..87?i 134 l^i

,.S77,, 135 7-i

..8Efo 136 73J£

..85J5 137 73

,.S4& [38 Tl%

- n

71J£

71

703(.

Wi

117

118

119

120

121

122

123

-.24..
125..

. SI'.
..H0\
..80
..7'J\,

..7a\

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..77«

..69

Distances from San Francisco.

Miles.
New Orleans, via Pana-

Mlles.

Acapulco, Mex 1,840

Auburn 152

Bcnicia 30

Calloo, Peru 3.90H

Cape Horn- 6,380

Calcutta, via Hawaiian

Islands 10,400

Cisco 2>9

Collax 171

Colusa 192

Copperopolls 155

Couitervllle 188

Crescent City (sir.) 280

Diablo Coal Mines 44

Djwnieviilo 230

Duich Flat 184

FarallVme Islands 20

Polioin 139

Kort Yuma 732

Genoa 1*1

Geyser Springs 105

Great Salt Lake City.... 854

Guaymos, Mex 1,710

llaalah 450

Half Moon Bay (-tr.) .. 4!t

llealdsburg 80

Hongkong via Hawaiian

Islands 6,980

Honolulu, H. l 2,100

H u iniiol d i La Ice 345

Humboldt Bay, Cal ~

Humboldt Mines

Jacksonville. Or. (str.)..

LulteTahoe

La Paz. Mex 1,305

L.js Angeles (str.) 431]

Liverpool, Eng 13, lot:

Mare island 2S

Ma^a-lan. Mex 1,480

Maiuamllo, Mex 1,570

Mendocino City (str.)... 138

Wotitcrcv (str.) 9;

Melbourne, via II. 1 7,200

Marysvillo 171

Mokelumue Hill 178

Mariposa 211

Napa 50

Nevada City 182

New Almauen 67

Now York, vlaC. Horn. 14,000
New Y >rk, via Panama. 5,1(9
NOW York (overland)... 3,417

5,110

7

196

Oakland

Oroviile

Olyrapla, W. T. (str.)...

Paeheco

Placcrville

Point Concep'ion (sir).

Portland, Or. (str.)

Panama, C. A

Red Bl till' (sir.) 24/

Redwood 31

Bio Janeiro, via C. Horn 8,323

Rio Vista

San Andreas

san Juan South

San Jose

San Leandro

San Mateo

San Quentln

dan Rafael

Sa-ita Clara

Seal Rock

Silver Mountain

Sonora

Sonoma

S;ockton

Santa Cruz (str.)

San Luis Obispo (str.).
Santa Barbara (str.). ..

San Pedro (str.)

San Diego (str.)

San Bias, Mex

Suisun 50

Sacramento (str.) 121

Salem, Or 710

San Bernardino 504

Southampton, via Pan-

. 167
. 250
. 642

. 3,280

170

. 1,470

7,-Si 0
2, 'J 7'.'
1,-Hi

t. Louis, Mo

Sitka, Alaska

Tomales

Fiiesim, Arizona.

Tahiti. S. I

Valk'jo

Visalia

Victoria. V. I....,
Valparaiso, Chill
Warm Springs...

Weavcrville

Yreka 400

Yosemito Valley 247

. 1,013

4,41)0

. 28

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VOLUME xvm.
HuiDl>er a.

Table of Contents.

Ciller's Mclalllo Pressure

Piston Packing— Illus
II..,. Brick Humes may be

Itulll Kurllii|UakcPruol'.
Willi-' H'n.' Mining liisinel.
Ainalaamatiun with the Aid

01 Electricity.
Sua Water as Kuel.
Mining in Idaho.
I'slnclpi-dcs.
N. Y. Society of Practical

Engineering.
Gold Mining and Progress ill

<iii.ii.
Callf'<rnta Petroleum am! lis

1 UUa illon.
Silk 111 Los Angeles.
1 hi SmarUTille lllast.
Work at tli« Foundries.
.iiaeimie 1 " ■ r Making Cianl

l-oo-dur Cartridges.
UatiUARlOAt. MlsOKLLAWr —

rile Cornish Engine Pump;

Tin- Muss Rubber Inking

Bolter ; Damascus Steel;

Ootnpresaed Leather; Sew

Uiectrlo Lamp.

The rmporlal Silver Quarries

Company.

SclKHTiriC H ISCKLI.ANY —

lie- Plot-Ida Bhcll Heaps;
lYondcrsof the Microscope;
Meteors and Stone Show,
era; Bait and itmllenl; Pla-

1I1111111 ill Vinegar Making:

Kurthqunkea.
BautaaaHtNa lilisoRLLiar.—

11. .ad .Mjiklng; Trial ot n
Cheap Kail; llussiaii Engi-
neers sent to America.

Mi m.m, .-.enmity— CoiO|iri8llIg
lale iinelligenec Iroui the
various counties and dis-
Irlots in California, Arizo-
na, Uoloradtr, Idaho, Neva-
da. New Mexico, Oregon,
and Wyoming.

San Francis, o .Mining Share-
holders' Directory.

Sail Pranclaco Metal Market.

San Francisco Market Uutes.

Notices to Correspondents.

" ;k Prices— Bid and Asked.
9 Ilieorporatloiis.

Machine fob Making the Giant Powder
Cartridges. — At Thomas Yarney's office,
No. 127 First street, may be "seen a very
serviceable and ingenious machine, where-
by much labor and time can be saved in
the making of cartridges — of from six to
eight inches in length, and from half an
inch to an inch in thickness, such as are
used in blasting with the Giant Powder. It
is an upright tamping or ramrod, which is
alternately raised and dropped very rapidly
by means of a little revolving wheel, and
is so placed that its lower end reaches into
a paper cartridge case. The rod is hol-
low, the powder falling into it from a hop-
per above, and feeding through it into the
cartridge, through an aperture at the bot-
tom which is semi-circular; the other half
of the semi-circle being closed and serving
as a tamping surface. A motion like that
of a revolving stamp, packs the contents
evenly. In less than a quarter of a minute,
a nicely executed solid cartridge is com-
pleted in this manner. It would be very
inconvenient indeed, to make cartridges
with Giant Powder in the ordinary way, as
the material is somewhat sticky. The de-
gree of firmness required in the packing
is regulated by tension screws, connected
with the support on which the cartridge
rests. Hand or steam power may be used

The Giant Powder Company are extend-
ing their operations, finding an increased
sale for their powder. At the New Alma-
den quicksilver mines twenty men are work-
ing with it. At Redington's mine, near
Clear Lake, it is to be introduced; and nu-
merous mines across the Siena have been
using it to some extent, with a view to test-
ing its comparative economy.

American Affairs and the Pacific
Rahboad m China. — The new American
Minister, Mr. Browne, accompanied by
Commissioner Poston and J. Wells Wil-
liams, Secretary of Legation and Interpre-
ter, has just presented his credentials at
the Chinese Foreign Office, says a Peking
correspondent of the last steamer. He was
received by Prince Kung, uncle of the Em-
peror and recognized head of the Govern-
ment during his minority, assisted by five
Councillors of the Empire ; and the indi-
cations are that cordial relations will be
maintained with the Ta-Tsing Empire.
Prince Kung inquired with much interest
how the Pacific Railroad was progressing.

Collier's Metallic Pressure Piston
Packing.

This invention relates to the packing used
to render piston-rods or propeller shafts
steam and water tight, and has for its ob-
ject the construction of a metallic packing,
which shall be operated upon by the gas,
vapor or liquid exerting the pressure, in
such a manner as to form a perfectly tight
joint. It also consists in so forming the
gland of the stuffing box, that it shall serve
as a support and guide for the rod and
and shaft, and at the same time afford great
facility for lubrication.

The query has occurred, probably, to
every one, how it is that the engineers can
manage to pack piston-rods connecting with
the interior of a steam cylinder, so tight,
without the extreme friction which would
retard the motion of the piston very mate-

and to the left. It is by their means that
the packing is effected so successfully, and
without undue friction. The segments are
faced to fit the inner end of the gland per-
fectly tight, and are kept in close contact
when the steam or pressure is not on, by a
spiral spring D, within the cage.

Two small openings, now, connect the in
terior of the cage with the source of pres-
sure— as the cylinder in an engine or pump,
or the water outside of the ship if it is for
a propeller shaft — so that the greater the
pressure, the closer are the rings forced
against the rod and inner face of the gland.

In any case the packing is to be applied
to a water or air pump, so that the pressure
will come from the liquid, or the gaseous
substance, as the case may be.

One of the most important uses of this
packing is in the stuffing boxes of propel-
ler shafts, in which case the openings con-

COLLIER'S METALLIC PRESSURE PISTON PACKING.

rially, as to prevent that volatile substance,
under its great pressure, from forcing it-
self out alongside of the sliding rod. Our
illustration, with a few words of explana-
tion, will give an idea of how this is done.
The large disc (on whieh the letter A rests)
represents merely the left hand end of a
steam cylinder, which, if it were repre-
sented entire in the drawing, would con-
tinue on, of the same dimensions, towards
the right. E, E, is the piston-rod, (cut off
smoothly at the ends in the model,) which
slides through the cylinder's ends; that
part to the left of the disc or cylinder's
end, between F and D, is the stuffing box,
and cage, the former fitting into the latter;
and H represents the oiling cup, on the top
of the oiling box. F is the end of the cage.

The stuffing box is formed in the ordi-
nary manner, with the exception that in-
stead of entering the cage, the body of the
gland projects outward, and forms a sup-
port for the rod, and at the same time serves
as an attachment for the oil cup, H, which
can be easily kept full.

B B are the metallic packing rings,
within the cage; each made of three parts
or segments and lying over similar rings
underneath tkeja, in suoh a manner as to
break joints— as is more olaarly represented
by B and C in the transverse section below

nect with the outside water, the pressure
on the rings depending upon the depth
to which the shaft is submerged.

This device is simple, and not easily got
out of repair; is perfectly efficacious and
self -regulating, and in the case of shafts, es-
pecially, will do away with the great ex-
pense of repairing the derangements of the
stuffing box which now so frequently oc-
cur.

Collier's Patent Metallic Pressure Pack-
ing was patented through the Mining and
Scientific Press Agency Oct. 13tb, 1868.
The principal foundries will furnish the
same. Collier's address, for full particu-
lars, is Sacramento City, The inventor is
an enterprising young California mechanic,
and his invention is one of those matters of
operating detail, which are especially worthy
of consideration as contributing to the per-
fection of machinery, and at the same time
rendering its use more economical and
more permanently lasting.

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St. Domingo.— Prof. W. M. Gabb, form-
erly connected with the California State
Geographical Survey, has been appointed
State Geologist for St. DomiDgo, by the
Government of that Island. St. Domingo
is said to abound in gold placers. Miner-
als of value are said to be found there in
considerable quantities.

Gold Mining and Progress in China.

The working of the Chefoo gold mines
has been summarily closed by orders from
the different foreign Ministers at Peking,
issued to the Consuls, forbiding the issu-
ance of passports, and declaringthat "min-
ing" is not a right guaranteed by treaty.

As the Chiuamen have the freedom of
our own couutry subterraneously, it would
seem that our relations with China are left
on an unequal footing in that respect. Ross
Browne will, no doubt, talk the matter
over with Prince Kung in due time.

An English official, who lately visited
the Pengtu fields in the Shantung Province,
says he saw a nugget weighing an ounce
avoirdupois, and examined several veins,
some two inches thick, the general average
of which would be about §100 in gold from
the working of one ton of earth.

There are said to be three great questions
in China just now — the missionary ques-
tion, the gold question, and the tonnage
duty question. Two attaches of the Lon-
don Mission, have lately returned to
Hankow from a tour of 3,000 miles in the
extreme Western part of China. They say
that they were treated with the utmost
courtesy and kindness wherever they jour-
neyed. They found the Roman Catholic
converts by the thousaud iu every village
in Sz Chuan, and the crosses literally plant-
ed on every hill-side ; they also found
everywhere traces of coal, iron and other
minerals, and proved that, so far as the
mass of the people were concerned, the
white race would be received with open
arms. The ramifications of the ill-feeling
existing towards Christianity in some parts
may be traced throughout the whole Em-
pire as springing from the same class, the
literati, who should lead the people towards
the true development of China, but who
seem to fear that with the advent of foreign
ideas the power they now hold will slip
from their grasp. A difficulty recently oc-
curred at Yang-Chow near Chinkeang on
the Xangtze-Kiang, between a Chinesemob
and an English missionary. The mob,
headed by the literati, destroyed a mission-
ary building and maltreated the inmates,
posting placards in the vicinity warniug
foreigners to leave the Celestial soil under
the penalty of death. Three English guu-
boats went to the rescue, and brought the
lax officials to terms.

Baron Richthofen was at last accounts en-
"aged at his geological labors in the prov-
ince of Shantung. One of the objects of
Richthofen 's particular attention in China,
we understand, is to be the examination of
coal mines located suitably somewhere not
far from tide water, for shipment of that
indispensable material to different parts
round the Pacific, especially on our western
coast, the work being in the interest of
some San Francisco capitalists. The
Chinese coal is understood to be of better
quality than that of Mt. Diablo and the
Gulf of Georgia.

The stage line between Visalia and White
Pine will be opened in February.

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The White Pine Mining District— Its
Geographical Position, Elevation and
Winter Climate.

BY DR. DE GBOOT.

Presuming that the readers of the Press
are tolerably well posted as to the supposed
geographical position and altitude of this
district, I will merely remark in regard to
the same, that, while neither have been in-
strumentally determined, it is believed to
lie in latitude 39° 20' N., and in longitude
115° 20' W. from Washington; its altitude
varying from 7,000 to 11,000 feet above the
level of the sea. Its distance and bearing,
taking this place as its center, is from Aus-
tin, E. S. E. 120 miles; from Belmont, N.
E. 140 miles; from Hico, in the Pahrana-
gat country, and county seat of Lincoln
County, N. N. W. 150 miles, and from
Elco, the nearest station on the Central Pa-
cific Eailroad, S. 115 miles, — as the toll-
road now being built to that point will
probably run.

With such an altitude the winter climate
must necessarily be cold and snowy, though
the present season has proved as yet an ex-
ception to this rule, at least so far as the
depth of snow is concerned; the successive
falls that have occurred, some live or six in
number, having amounted in the aggregate
to less than two feet. But it is well known,
that in four or five winters out of six, the
snow often accumulates here to a depth of
six or seven feet on a level, drifting so badly
that it lies in spots until late the next sum-
mer. Still, the isothermal lines crossing
this region assign to it a milder winter cli-
mate than is possessed by places in the
same latitude further east; as well also as a
milder one than is common to certain sec-
tions of country to the west. It is a nota-
ble fact that the snow fall is never by any
means so great, nor is the cold believed to
be so intense at the same altitude on these
interior ranges, as on the Sierra Nevada or
on the chains lying east of the Rocky
Mountains. Still, every intelligent person
here counts on much deeper snow and
colder weather than any we have yet seen,
before the winter is over; while every con-
siderate one will strive to make provision
accordingly.

TREASURE HILL — THE SITE OF THE PRINCI-
PAL MINES — DESCRIPTION OF ORES, ETC.

This district, which consists of an area
of twelve square miles, lies near the north
end of the White Pine Mountains, a com-
pact and symmetrical chain further south,
but which, at this point, is somewhat broken
up, being scattered into isolated hills and
ridges, some of them running transversely
to its longitudinal axis. Upon one of these
eminences, named Treasure Hill, the prin-
cipal mines in the district are situated; the
ledges appearing on every side of it, and
extending up its slopes, composed for the
most part of huge benches of limestone,
from base to summit. This hill, which
runs north and south, is about five miles
long and 3% miles broad, measured over
its summit; its altitude being about 1,600
feet above the encircling valley at its base,
and 9,000 feet above the level of the sea.
Almost the entire formation is limestone,
consisting of stratified dolomiteiandealcare-
ous schists. The metalliferous lodes are ex-
ceedingly variable in inclination, size and
strike, standing at all angles, and running
towards all points of the compass, while in
dimension, they vary from mere stringers of
spar and quartz to oreehannels having sev-
eral hundred feet of lateral expansion. In
fact, it is but just to say, that the enclos-
ing walls of many of the deposits are ex-
tremely eccentric, lacking often the leading
features of regular fissure veins. Others
again, are well walled, have areadily recog-

nizable dip and strike, conforming in tbeir
main features to symmetrical and well-de-
fined lodes; conditions that it is believed
will be found to obtain much more gener-
ally at greater depths.

The prevailing ores in the better class of
mines are composed of green and gray
chlorides mixed with horn silver; many
powerful veins located mostly about the
base of the hill, carry ing a large percentage
of lead and copper. The locality, however,
most abounding in these and similar met-
als, is a much higher mountain, and its
outlying ridges situate contiguous to Treas-
ure Hill on the west, and known as the Po-
gonip, or Base Metal Range. Here we find
a multitude of lodes, of all sizes, the most
of them, however, being large and gener-
ally marked by more regular features than
the majority of those on Treasure Hill.
These veins are heavily impregnated with
silver, copper and lead, the latter often be-
ing present in such quantity as to consti-
tute the ore an argentiferous galena. This
mountain and vicinity, abounding in wood,
must soon become the seat of extensive
smelting operations, as it is by this process
that the greater, portion of these ores must
be reduced. The value of tbe silver usu-
ally found in the ores of the Base Metal
Range varies from $30 to §90 to tbe ton,
tbe value of the lead being from $50 to $70,
and that of the copper very considerable.
Besides the above metals, the ores of the
Pogonip group contain iron, antimony,
bismuth, and arsenic, often one or more of
them in notable quantity.

LEADING PECULIARITIES OF THE WHITE PINE
MINES.

Without going into details, the salient
features of the mines here, and those in
which their special advantages over all
others yet found in this State reside, may
be briefly set forth as follows : The obvious
abundance, high grade, easy extraction, and
tractable character of the ores. Erom the
explorations already made, though compar-
atively limited, it is now evident that the
quantity of ore to be obtained here at small
expense, will prove to be large; the crush-
ings heretofore made equally establishing
its highly productive and facile character.
The cost of raising ores from the "principal
mines, after the prices of labor and supplies
have been made to conform to the standard
obtaining elsewhere throughout the State,
will not exceed $4 per ton; extensive con-
tracts having already been entered into for
their reduction within the nextsix months
at the rate of $25 per ton ; a price that it is
believed will next summer more than suffice
to cover the then prevailing cost of both
transportation and milling. That the ex-
pense attending the latter can not long ex-
ceed those now prevailing at Virginia, may
be inferred from the fact, that there is
within a distance of five miles from Treas-
ure Hill, a sufficiency of water to supply a
milling capacity of 300 or 400 stamps,
driven by steam, with wood enough for
their use for at least ten or twelve years,
while there are additional and much more
ample supplies of both a little further off,
but still within comparatively easy dis-
tance.

Under these circumstances, it will be seen
that while the future wants of this district
are tolerably well provided for, the better
class of mines can be worked with large,
certain, and almost immediately accruing
profits; such having been the results of all
the attempts heretofore made at working
these ores.

While we have not the data for ascertain-
ing the exact amount of bullion thus far
extracted from the White Pine mines, it may
be roughly set down as approximating
$1,700,000. The yield of the ore taken out
has varied from $120 to $10,000 to the ton;
the whole averaging perhaps $600. The
cost of extraction has been small, that of
hauling and milling having averaged about
$70 to the ton, a portion of the ores milled
having been sent to Austin, and a good
deal to Newark, thirty miles distant, for
reduction. In fineness, the bullion has
run from .975 to .992, while it is believed
that the average standard may by more
careful working, be somewhat elevated
hereafter. Heading the list of the more
largely and actively

PRODUCTIVE MINES,

wehavetheEberhardtand Keystone claims,
followed by the Standford, the Aurora-
North, the Hidden Treasure, — the three last
named a continuation of the same grand
deposit, and occupying the crest of Treas-
ure Hill, — with tbe Indiana, Genessee,
Stonewall, Emigrant, Robert Emmet, and
several other claims of less note, situate
on Chloride Plat, all of which yield nearly
the same character of high grade chloride
ores, and every one of which could easily
be made to turn out from two to ten times
as much ore as is now being raised from

them. Some considerable lots of ore are
also being extracted from a number of val-
uable lodes as yet but partially opened;
such asthePocotillo, Copper Silver Glance,
Charter Oak, Emersley, and the several
Hidden Treasure extensions; lesser quanti-
ties being gotten out from still others, sit-
uate more remote from the leading mines,
and generally at much lower levels; the
principal among which, are the Cliff, the
Featherstone, the Argyle, the Herman, a
grouj) known as the ComBtock No. 1 and 2,
with the Neptune lode lying between them,
and, finally, the Mazeppa, a ledge lying
three-fourths of a mile south from the
Eberhardt mine, and 600 feet below it In
this ledge, the thickness of which has not
yet been ascertained, a streak of extremely
fine ore has been laid open; causing, mostly
on account of its position, a good deal of
excitement, and drawing a multitude of
miners into the vicinity, where they are
now engaged prospecting, not altogether
without encouraging results.

There are, of course, a vast number of
small veins here that show what are termed
good indications, meaning surface streaks
of quartz and spar, often mixed with a lit-
tle ore — almost always conditions precedent
to the striking of valuable deposits below;
of claims that do not exhibit even these
faint tokens of wealth, there are perhaps a
still greater number, many persons making
locations without surface signs of ore de-
posits at all, intending to sink shafts and
take the chances of striking the latter or
running after them with drifts.

CONCLUSIONS.

From the foregoing it will be seen that
the likelihood of developing ore channels,
of greater or less magnitude, at every point
around and upon every level on Treasure
Hill , may be considered good. Omitting
the older locations of acknowledged wealth,
occupying its southerly slope and summit,
if, from its top we descend' the easterly side
of this eminence, we encounter, lying on
the same bench with the Eberhardt, but at
a point a mile further north, a band of ex-
tremely promising claims; chief among
which are the Charter Oak, Emersley and
the Pocotillo ; the latter, now generally re-
garded here as one of the very best things
next to the Eberhardt in the district. Go-
ing still a mile further north, and making
an additional descent of three or four hun-
dred feet, we arrive at the Virginia mine, in
which the genuine chloride ores exist in a
massive form; while at a point three miles
south, and on a level 500 feet still lower,
we have the Mazeppa, the site of a recent
rich and significant strike.

Men who have spent many years, some of
them holding responsible positions in the
mines of South America and Mexico, oc-
cupying formations similar to these, speak
encouragingly and even confidently of the
prospects of White Pine as a prolific and
permanent silver-producing district

Mr. E. B. Dorsey, an authority that few
intelligent mining engineers or experts on
this coast will question, and who spent
many years aotively employed in the famed
mines of Chanarcillo, Northern Peru, pro-
nounces White Pine similar in all its lead-
ing features to that district; the lodes in
which, after being worked with the greatest
success for nearly forty years, are still pro-
ducing at depths of more than 1,600 feet,
as largely and steadily as when they were
first opened. With assurances from such
a competent source, and with so manyfacts
before us tending to their substantiation,
there would seem to be a good deal of af-
firmative evidence as to the probable dura-
tion and productiveness of the lodes in this
district.

Treasure Hill, Lander County, Nevada,
December 31st, 1868.

The Cigar Steamship idea of Mr. Wi-
nans is not abandoned, as it appears, though
the success of the cigar built in London in
1865 was very equivocal, judging from the
facility with which it was dismissed from
public attention. Mr. Winans expresses his
determination, however, to persevere, as
ho has good practical and scientific reasons
to feel assured that his model is the most
perfect one for water navigation, as well as
to assure entire safety from storms.

The suggestions found on another page
relating to the construction of brick build-
ings so as to bo seeureagainst earthquakes,
come from an old architect and builder,
and will be found eminently practical and
worthy of attention from those who intend
actually to build.

The Merced Falis Wood Manufacturing
Company have superceded the Chinese
help in that establishment by white opera-
tives, male and fema'.e.

HJngineerinff .

A railroad mania has fairly commenced
in Oregon.

The grand canal of China is being sur-
veyed by Capt. Dunlop, of the British
steamer Dove.

The levee from Woodbridge to the cross-
ing on the Mokelumne River has been com-
pleted.

A Hydrographical department has been
organized for the Chinese Coast, the object
being mainly to erect lighthouses.

Evert department of the Sacramento
Valley Railroad Company's works is in act-
ive operation.

The engineers of the Saucelito and Hum-
boldt Railroad Company, were in Santa
Rosa recently, engaged in looking out for
the best place to cross Santa Rosa Creek.

The astronomical and triangulation work
of the Pacific Coast Survey will be done by
Prof. Davidson, while the hydrographical
work will be under A. P. Rogers.

Russian Engineers Sent to America.
The Emperor of Russia has sent to this
country two civil engineers, with instruc-
tions to make a complete examination of
the operations of the Pacific and other
great railways in the United States. The
Emperor contemplates building a railroad
from China across Asia to the capital of
Russia.

The Surveying Party, marking out the
California and Oregon boundary line, have
just been paid off, and several have quit,
not wishing to make the trip to tbe coast
this winter, which renders it doubtful if it
will be attempted before next season. The
coast mountains and passes will be exceed-
ingly difficult to pass, unless the winter
proves a very mild one. — Yreka Union, Dec.
ith.

Trial of a Cheap Rail. — The iron used
in constructing the Presidio Railroad is of
a new pattern, being simply a plain flat
rail, something like the old "strap rail,"
or " ribbon rail, " bent so as to hollow it
like a section of tin-eave trough, or the
half of the bark of a small tree. This is
laid on or over a parallel wooden rail, with
the concave side down, and answers the
purpose, where only light loads are to be
carried, admirably.

Our report of the proceedings of the
N. Y. Society of Practical Engineering, be-
ing on the subject of " Modern Improve-
ments in Mining," is placed this week un-
der the head of miscellaneous, though it
contains several interesting facts about an-
cient turbines, which are used in the
Orient, and about our river flutter-wheel,
used for raising water out of river claims,
being identical with Persian wheels of re-
mote antiquity on the Nile, and on the
Ganges.

Road Making. — The Railway Times says
the common practice in this country,
in road making, is wasteful and ex-
pensive. The upper soil is removed,
and coarse gravel or broken stone supplied
to bring up the grade, and the road is then
left to be worn down smooth by passing
teams and carriages. A waste of power is
thus involved, an immense and useless wear
of vehicles, loss of time and a great amount
of general discomfort. Drainage is seldom
thought of, and during the wet seasons, and
especially when the frost is coming out of
the ground, the roads are nearly impassable.
The common remedy for all this is to pile
on more gravel or broken stone, and then
again commences the destruction of wheels.
This useless tax to the owners of horses and
vehicles could nearly all be prevented if the
roads were properly made, drained and
cared for. Proper drainage is the first es-
sential; then the road dressed with gravel
or stone should be formed and rolled into
proper form to shed water — a very slight
incline to either side is all that is neces-
sary— and then you have a road that is easy
to horses, and the load is carried with half
the power that is expended in hauling over
very many of the roads in our suburban
towns. Less gravel or broken stone, but
more care that it is kept in place and smooth,
is what is required. In England and France
they are using powerful steam rollers with
good results.

T\\e Mining and Scientific Press.

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Mechanical.

The Cornish Pimping Engine.— \Y. H.
G. West) i ; I i ineer, U. S.

Navy, Bends an article to the Journal of the

, from which we extract the
following :

• ' The real causes of the success of the
i pnmping engine are so eimpl i, that
only men of very practical minds discover
and appreciate them; and this simple ma-
chioe remains a mystery even to tho
)i ive made its manufacture their principal
occupation.

The simplest and cheapest way to pump
water, is to forco some perfeotly smooth
substance, without appreciable pores, into
the body Of water, su that tho water may
rise a corresponding amount and tlow away.
Hero wo have no friction, no leaks, anil,
therefore, no I08S of efficiency. All the
power is utilized. When we add a casing
or working barrel with packing, we add
friction; When we add valves, we add the
work of forcing thorn open; when we add
reciving and delivery pipes, we add fric-
tion; when we mid turns, wo add obstruc-
tions; when we contract the pipes or valves,
wa add thousands of smaller obstructions,
and increase the friction, as the square of
the speed of tho water through the pipes
must increase; and when the valves are
lifted, they take time to get down again, and
water must leak back.

Cornish pumps, well designed, have
large pipos. Cornish pumps are packed
with soft, elastic hemp packing, or the best
substitute at hand, and the cup of thegland
is kept full of some Huid lubricating matter.
The valves or clacks of the Cornish
pumps are made of large diameter and
small lift; they shut quickly, and the leak
back through them is correspondingly
Bmall. The stroke of the plunger is always
long, and the times of leaking back are
thereby lessened. There is but one turn in
the Cornish pumps — that from the plunger-
ease to the column."

The " Moss-rubber " Inking-roller. —
A roller which, according to the Mechanics'
Magazine is destined to supersede that in
ordinary use with printers, is the invention
of Stephen Moulton, of Bradford, and is
thus prepared : "The inventor takes the
ordinary vulcanized india-rubber, and re-
duces it to powder. He then places it in a
mold, and subjects it to a second vulcaniz-
ing heat, which converts it into a homo-
geneous mossy substance. It is then cov-
ered with a skin of rubber and sulphur,
and again subjected to a vulcanizing heat
in order to cure the rubber skin, after
which the roller is ready for use. The re-
sult of this process is an article composed
of a homogeneous material of the consistency
of moss, which is hermetically sealed in a
smooth skin of india-rubber. The advant-
ages possessed by these rollers are import-
ant to the printing trade; they are very
durable, on account of the unchangeable
character of the material; they are unaf-
fected by temperature; are not damaged by
use on brass rule; are permanently soft
aud elastic; seldom require washing, and
when washed for change of color are ready
for use immediately."

A Ninety-Ton Casting in Three Hours.
One of the large blocks of iron to be em-
ployed by the Russian Government for for-
tification purposes, was recently cast at
Krupp's iron works, at Essen, — says a Ber-
lin letter, — in three hours and forty-five
seconds. The fraction is for the actual time
occupied in the casting, — the melting hav-
ing been done in threehours. In England,
the casting of a steam hammer, weighing
one hundred tons, requires forty-eight
hours.

These large blocks or plates are moved
by a hydraulic crane, and with.perfectease.
They will not be fastened together, with
bolts and screws, but will be made to dove-
tail into each other. They are to be used
in connection with earth embankments.

A Yankee Machine in England. — P.
Watkins went to England in 1856 to sellhis
patent machine for making bolts and nuts.
He gave it up after several attempts, and
commenced the manufacture of those arti-
cles on a small scale. In two years he had
all he could do. His works have extended
until they now cover twenty-four acres of
ground in Birmingham, and employ twen-
ty-five hundred hands. He makes one hun-
diel tons of bolts and nuts per day.

Damascus Steel. — The Indian damask
at Lucknow. All the workmeu are
Persians, one of the manufacturers beiug
known from antiquity. Bis came is Mirza
Hussein Chirazi. Ihe damask consists of
three parts silicate of iron, one part cast
iron, and two parte very pure iron. These
substances arc pnt in crucibles which con-
tain five to forty misk (25 to 200 grams
tho latter arc then set in a furnace and
kept therein for six days at a strong heat.
furnaces arc made to contain from
10,000 to 12,000 crucibles. When the metal
is solidified tbej are broken to pieces, the
iron being brought in an annealing oven
and kept therein for forty-eight hours,
where it is left to cool slowly. If this pre-
caution is neglected tho damask becomes
brittle as glass and useless. The damask
of Kaswine is made in the same way. but
instead of common iron tho heads of old
horseshoe nails are taken. The damask of
Khorassan is superior to those already men-
tioned. Since the supremacy of Nader-
Chah, who destroyed all its ovens, it is no
longer manufactured. The damask of
Arsindgun, Neres, and Scbiras, is sold for
an equal weight of gold, there being very
little in existence, as all the furnaces of
thoso places have been destroyed long ago
and never rebuilt. The damask of Khoras-
san possesses dark designs and is very bril-
liant. That of Kaswine possesses a gold-
like reflex. The designs are intertwisted,
presenting in general a series of circles.
The armorers buy tho damask, the quality
of which they know from long experience.
For the purpose of testing it they heat, for
instance, a piece to red heat and forge it
then to a length of one foot and a half. If
scintillation takes place it is considered of
a bad quality, and also when the surface
does not present a perfect evenness.

Compressed Leather. — The Iron Age
says that a substance under this name is
now made by reducing to a fibrous mass
the cuttings of hides and shoemaker's
waste, and mixing them with water contain-
ing one per cent, of sulphuric acid, until
the whole becomes a plastic mass, which is
then pressed into molds of tho desired size
and shape. After drying by steam, it is
pressed through rolls glazed on one side
and roughened on the other, to produce the
grain and flesh sides of the leather. About
one pound of glycerine to the hundred
weight is added, to render the leather flex-
ible. .For many purposes, as for soles and
heels of shoes, etc., it is equal to natural
leather, and can be sold at one half the
cost.

New Electric Lamp. — The London
3iechanics' Magazine describes a new lamp,
exhibited by Mr. John Browning, E.B.A.S.,
at a recent meeting of the British Associa-
tion,— which is to be worked by a Grove's
battery of only six cells, and is intended
for the use of photographers in printing
transparencies. In it, the carbon points
instead of being pulled a short distance
apart, are allowed to touch each other, and
are fastened in that position, so that the
current has to burn a space between them
for itself. A mechanical arrangement
causes the contact to be renewed as soon as
the wasting away of the points breaks the
communication. The electric light is des-
tined to supersede both gas light and the
lime light for photographic purposes.

Scientific Miscellany.

Precaution in Arrangement op Ma-
chinery.— The American Artisan, in an ar-
ticle deprecating the fool-hardy neglect of
the most ordinary safeguards against acci-
dents from machinery in motion, which one
so often sees, mentions the following in-
stance which came under the notice of the
writer : A naked belt running in a horizon-
tal position was arranged at the inner side
of a stairway so narrow that two persons
could not ascend it abreast, yet men passed
up and down these steps many times aday,
with the certainty that if an arm touched
the edges of the rapidly-moving belt, vein
and tendon would be severed as by the con-
tact of a band-saw. This, however, was
not all; for the outer side of the stairway
had no hand-rail, and should a person lose
his balance, in a startled effort to escape if
touched by the belt just mentioned, he
would be almost certain to fall upon the
upper edges of another belt working in
vertical planes, and arranged near the outer
or open side of the stairway.

The Florida Shell-heaps. — Dr. Jeffries
Wyman, who has visited the shell-mounds
of East Florida, describes them in the
Ameri an Nat tralist as varying in size from
circular heaps fifteen or twenty feet in di-
ameter, and a few inches high, to long
ridges several hundred feet in length, and
having a hight from a few inches to four or
five feet; iu some cases being as high as
fifteen feet They are composed almost ex-
clusively of some three species of shells, the
Ampullarh depressa, Paludina multinlineafa,
and Uicio BucJcleyi. They aro distributed
over a distance of inoro than ^150 miles.
They aro generally overgrown with oaks,
maples, palmettos, bays, magnolias, etc.;
aud in several cases with groves of the wild
orange, a tree which was probably intro-
duced by the Spaniards. .They are un-
questionably of human origin. Fragments
of pottery, of the bones of various edible
animals, and in some cases charcoal with
half-formed shells, were found at different
depths. Ornaments of bone were found
in some of the mounds, and in one a
piece of "chipped" flint.

The conclusion arrived at, after careful
inspection of dead oak trees lying upon the
tops of some of these mounds, and which
must have sprouted, grown, died and fallen,
since the completion of the mounds upon
which they lie, is that this completion must
be referred, as regards its epoch, to a point
at least a century before the discovery of
the continent, and perhaps much earlier.

WoNDEES OP THE MICROSCOPE. — The

following is an extract from a lecture upon
" The Microscope and its Revelations," de-
livered on Nov. 25th, before the American
Institute, by President Barnard, of Colum-
bia College, New York : " Suppose a lit-
tle drop of water, such as might be lifted
upon the point of a pencil ; within this in-
significant space may be easily contained,
of some of the smaller organisms, a num-
ber not less than two thousand millions —
that is to say, more than double the num-
ber of the human inhabitants of the entire
earth. Even this will fail to convey an
adequate idea of the extreme minuteness of
the objects we are considering ; for such
numbers as millions and thousands of mil-
lions are totally inconceivable by the mind.
The names are mere sounds, which serve
us for symbols in making computations,
but to which it is impossible to attach any
clear notions. Let us try another illustra-
tion. Draughtsmen, and persons who have
occasion to make use of divided rules, are
aware that a division finer than about 150
to the inch is with difficulty discerned.
Few eyes will distinguish lines closer than
200 to the inch. Divisions so fine as 1,000
to the inch defy the keenest vision to sepa-
rate them at all. A cube, therefore, having
its sides only equal to the one-thousandth
part of inch, is an object invisible to the
unaided human eye. But such a cube is
large enough to hold not less than 2,000 of
the minuter monads."

Meteors and Stone Showers. — The re-
markable meteor of Oct. 7th, which was
seen both in England and France, is de-
scribed by the journals of both as illumin-
ating the earth for some seconds with a
bluish electrical light so powerful as to
completely overpower the moon, which was
shining brightly at the time. Le Petit
Journal, of Paris, says that in a conversa-
tion between one of its contributors and
M. Chapelas-Coulvier-Gravier, a celebrated
French observer, the latter gave it as his
opinion that meteors and the showers of
stones which have so frequently been said
to accompany or to follow them, are, con-
trary to the generally received belief, en-
tirely distinct phonomena.

Platinum in Vinegar Making. — Artus,
in his Yierteljahresschrifl, recommends to
dissolve one-half ounce of dry bichloride of
platinum in five pounds alcohol, saturate
therewith three pounds of wood charcoal,
broken to the size of a hazel-nut, and
ignite in a covered crucible; and to use the
product in the well-known way in the oxi-
dation of alcohol to acetic acid. He states
its action to be surprisingly rapid and com-
plete, aud that the vinegar obtained has a
pleasant flavor and odor. This seems an
improvement of sufficient practical promise
to be worthy of record. — Prof. Wartz.

Salt and PiAdical.— Thos. Wood, F. U.
S., writes the Chemical News, suggesting
new definitions for these words. At pres-
ent the term salt is very vaguely used, and
not oasily understood by learners. Chem-
ists, even, are unable to state clearly, briefly
and concisely what they mean by the word:

Mr. Wood defines a radical to bo any
body that, without itself suffering decom-
position is capable of entering into chemi-
cal combination with another.

Further, radicals are either simple or
compound, real or imaginary. Simple
radicals are the elements; compound radi-
cals are such bodies as Cy, etc.; and
imaginary radicals, as SO1 , NO' , etc., aro
those which have never been isolated, and,
like atoms, only exist iu the mind and im-
agination of the chemist, created for his
own use and convenience, but rendering
tho acquirement of the science by the young
much more difficult than it would be with-
out them.

If these views of a radical be correct, a
salt will be any compouud formed by the
uuion of two or more radicals, and will take
its characteristic place and name from the
radicals composing it. From this defini-
tion it would result that a compound radi-
cal is already a salt. If, however, a com-
pound be capable of uniting with another,
or taking part in a chemical equation with-
outitself suffering decomposition, it should
receive the name radical, compound radical,
or salt radical, to distinguish it from a true
salt.

Thus HC1, HNO1 , and H2 , SO4 , are true
salts composed each of more than one radi-
cal. If these bodies are salts with a sour
taste, let us teach that they are such, and
not that they are a special class of chemical
compounds capable of generating salts; for
radicals, not acids and bases, are the bodies
of which salts are composed.

Earthquakes. — At a recent meeting of
the Polytechnic Branch of the American
Institute, in New York, Dr. J. J. Edwards
read a paper upon this subject, which is
thus reported: He argued that the earth is
kept in its parts by the reciprocation of at-
traction and repulsion; that the earth is not
a molten mass in its interior, although it
may once have been ; that the heat of the
earth is not sufficient to account for earth-
quakes, nor for the phenomena which are
necessary for the vegetable and animal life
on its surface; that the laws which govern
the sun and the planets are universal laws,
and that to know the laws of one i3 to know
approximately the laws of the whole, and
that the differences are only of degree and
variety, and not fundamental; that a me-
teor or aerolite is a planet, and, conse-
quently, its component parts indicate the
structure of the earth; that the sun is the
fountain of our motion and life; that heat,
light and electricity are solar emanations,
directly or indirectly; that the new scien-
tific laws of the corelations of forces and
the conservation of forces are the key to
the cause of earthquakes; that the earth
stores up any superabundance of heat or
light in their corelation to electricity, and
that earthquakes are caused by the dis-
charge of this superabundant electricity in
its endeavors to equalize itself over the
earth or to discharge itself into the sur-
rounding atmosphere under the same laws
as the Leyden jar. The lecturer concluded
by stating that inasmuch as the greater
part of the paper was composed of quota-
tions from others he was not responsible
for them, thougli he heartily concurred in
them, believing electricity to be the cause
of earthquakes.

Galvanic Action op Coppbe-Bottomed
Ships in Dock. — Some month since, the
"Elk," a new English screw gunboat, was
placed in the old shipping-basin at Ports-
mouth dockyard, where she lay ten weeks
waiting for her screws. When these were
ready, it was found that galvanic action had
actually reduced the key pieces on the
shaftings to plumbago, and had honey-
combed other parts of the metal. The
Chemical News says that "the fact appears
to be that the small area of water in the old
ship-basin is but seldom opened to the ad-
mission of the tide, has always three or four
copper-bottomed vessels floating upon it,
and is therefore a chemical bath."

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Tl\e Mining and Sciei\tiIiC Press.

Work at the Foundries.

Beginning •with the foundries at the
farther end of Beale street, on Thursday,
■we found that Hawkins & Cantrell are at
present engaged on a number of 'wood man-
ufacturing machines for Elam & Howes,
whose establishment was burned down in
December. Several steam engines are also
in hand. A Voris shingle-cutting machine,
capable of cutting 40,000 shingles a day-
one of the best machines of the kind in-
vented—has just been shipped for Soquel
in Santa Cruz county, and another one like
it is being made for the same place. Con-
siderable work has been done by this firm
lately for the California Fuse Company.
This foundry has been in operation since
April last, and is now occupied at all kinds
of work. Mr. Hawkins has been manager
of different works, having been formerly
connected with Booth, Dinsmore & Co.

There are two tool manufacturing estab-
lishments on this street — Weichart's, and
Hinz's — which turn out superior work, but
only to order, as it would be impossible to
compete with hardware dealers in miscel-
laneous wares, while blacksmith's wages
are from $3 to $4 a day. The works of
Weichart will be remembered from the fine
glove-cutting tool exhibited by him at the
late Fair, and those of Hinz, by samples of
his superior molding tools, with which
he supplies the wood manufacturing estab-
lishments of San Francisco.

Llewellyn & Co., of the Columbia Foun-
dry, are engaged, not extensively just at
present, at house castings.

Thompson Brothers, of the Eureka Foun-
dry, have several important jobs on hand.
One of these is the making of castings for
a gas holder for the city of Mazatlan, which
will weigh 13,200 pounds — not to mention
other attachments of a gas making estab-
lishment. Mr. Howell, a resident of Mexico
for 20 years, has been here to see to this
work, at the same time he is getting the
necessary iron work for a water company
which is to supply Mazatlan with water,
and looking into the matter of street rail-
roads. The improved grate bars manu-
factured by the Thompson Brothers, where-
by Mt. Diablo coal and screenings may be
burned, have met with a steady demand.
Castings of every description are made a
specialty of at these works. They have
been in operation since April last; the
brothers having been formerly connected
with Brodie's, and with the Pacific Iron
Works.

Stoddart's are making a "tumbling beam
engine" for a small propeller. Several of
these have already been turned out here.
They are said to possess great advantages.

At Lochhead's there is being made, for a
tow-boat, for Mr. Mastick, the largest pro-
peller engine ever undertaken in Califor-
nia, having a 36-inch cylinder. A novel
arrangement of double engines, for double
propellers, is being made for Goodal & Nel-
son of Santa Cruz, to run across the bar
there, and up Salinas river. The advantage
of and necessity for this double propeller,
is that they are enabled by it to navigate
at sea, across a troublsome bar, and up an
intricate stream, with a draught of only
seven feet of water.

At the Lincoln Iron Works, engines prin-
cipally are being made. A fine one for a
steamboat propeller is just completed.

The Bisdon Boiler Works seem not inac-
tive, but report nothing of interest on
hand at present.

Coal in Northern California. — It is
reported that some deposits of excellent
coal have been found near the big bend of
the Pitt Kiver, 50 miles from Fort Crook.

The Galaxy. — This representative of the
present living and rising literary lights of
New York, has commenced on its seventh
volume, with a great array of familiar names
as jts list of contributors.

The Fojspm Foundry is doing a large
business.

[Written for the Mining and Scientific Press.]

Particulars of the Smartsville Blast.

Editors Mining and Scientific Press:
On Tuesday evening last the drifting in
the Smartsville Consolidated Hydraulic
Mining Company's claims, where 1,201 kegs
of powder were to be exploded, was com-
pleted; when the drifting or total tunnel-
ing was measured, showing 570 feet in
length, by 2% in width and 3% in bight.
The powder was then placed in the differ-
ent cross-drifts, the head taken out of each
keg, the kegs being stowed so as to break
joints, and distributed in quantity, in pro-
portion to the hight of the hill to be oper-
ated upon. Mr. T. D. Field, of San Fran-
cisco, whose services were secured for the
occasion, entered the drifts, arranged the
wires, placing cartridges in each of the
cross-drifts, in such a manner as to ignite
the whole mass at twelve different points at
the same instant. Seventy feet of the main
drift was then tamped; which was com-
pleted by 11 o'clock a. si. on Thursday.
The wires were then laid to a point 600 feet
distant, selected for the battery.

The quantity of powder to be exploded
in this blast, and the effects to be antici-
pated, had been a theme of conversation
and speculation by the people of the sur-
rounding country for some time, many con-
tending that life and property would be en-
dangered; and it was publicly announced
some time before, that on Thursday at 12
o'clock, the blast would be fired. The
whole neighborhood was on the move.

Families in the immediate vicinity could
be seen with their little ones climbing over
the mountain for safety. On the top of the
most prominent hills could be seen groups
of people anxiously waiting, whilst others,
to show their bravery, remained within
two and three hundred feet. The hour of
12 having arrived, all having been ready
for an hour past, Mr. Field charged the
battery and gave the word, when Miss An-
gie Crary drew the cut-off, and as quick as
lightning could travel 600 feet, the hillfwas
seen to raise some fifteen feet, open in a
thousand places, and then settled back a
pulverized mass, without making any re-
port, there being only a slight trembling
of the earth, and all was over. The space
blown up was 270 feet in length, 180 feet in
width, with an average depth of over 100
feet, supposed to amount to 200,000 tons of
gravel and cement, which was thus pre-
pared for washing.

The cost of this blast is near $6,000, and
it will require 150 days full running time
to wash it off. The water for the same at
600 inches per day, and fifteen cents per
inch, will cost $12,000. The cost of cuts
and flumes, etc., preparatory to washing,
is about $20,000. You may judge from
these items what it costs to commence, or
what it requires to place a hydraulic mine
in order to commence work.

There are several mines here that are in
successful operation, and four very ex-
pensive bedrock tunnels are being run
within a distance of a mile, to strike the
old river channel, now being worked by the
Blue Gravel Mining Company, some ac-
count of which I will send you for next
week. A.

Smartsville, Jan. 4th, 1869.

The Imperial Silver Quarries Com-
pany.— A- correspondent from Boise City,
I. T., inquiring about the Imperial Silver
Quarries Company, says : " This Com-
pany, I learn by an English paper (John
Bull) of 8th August last, was, during the
previous week, wound up under the ' 'Com-
pany's winding up act," before Vice Chan-
cellor Malins, who animadverted very
severely on the conduct of the Directors,
and notified them that they would be held
for the liabilities of the concern in their
individual capacity."

It seems, nevertheless, that the Company
is doing something in Alpine county;
though on what basis, or to what extent
they are tunneling, we are unable to state.

Low Grade Ores. — On rock averaging
only $6 to $7 to the ton, the Golden Rule
Mining Company is declaring bi-monthly
dividends of 2% per cent, on the capital
stock. The company will carry over from
this disbursement a surplus of $12,000,
which is at interest in bank. 1

New Patents Issued to
Inventors.

Pacific Coast

Especially reported by the U. S. Patent Office, Washing-
ton, D. C, to Dewey & Co., American and Foreign
Patent Solicitors, and Publishers of the
Mining amd .Scientific Press.

Foe the Week Ending December 15th.
84,858. — Improvement in Churns. — James
Carlton, of Walla Walla, Washington
Territory:

I claim in combination with the partially
cogged-gear wheels F, F, and hollow pin-
ion H, the agitator composed of the hollow
spindle J, hollow arms b, b, and floats a, a,
substantially as and for the purpose herein
described.

The object of this invention is to provide
an improved device for converting cream
into butter, and is what the inventor terms
a reaction churn. It consists in so arrang-
ing the driving gear that the agitators will
be moved once around and back alternately,
producing a reaction that will quickly con-
vert the cream into butter. It also pre-
sents a new feature in the construction of
the agitators, as the shafts and arms which
unite them are hollow, and communicate
with the air outside through the shaft and
pinion by which they are driven, thus dis-
tributing the air through the body of the
milk or cream.

84,877. — Improved Tile for Floors, Side-
walks, etc. — John Gray, of San Fran-
cisco, Cal. :

I claim the above described composition
tile as a new article of manufacture.

This is acomposition which when molded
and pressed into blocks or slabs will be
suitable for sidewalks, floors and all kinds
of paving, where a smooth surface or floor
is desired. When properly prepared it
will be dry and hard like stone, and can be
furnished at a small cost as oompared with
stone or marble.

84,914. — Improvement in Automatic Stop-
cock for Gas Burners. — Geo. E. Smith,
of San Francisco, Cal. :

1. I claim the compensating curb or rod,
composed of two or more metals b and c,
together with the lever K, detent M, arm
D, and spring E, substantially as and for
the purpose described.

2. The lever K, connected with the curb,
the two detents G and M, and the catch a,
on the arm D, constructed and operated
substantially as herein described.

The frequency of accidents resulting from
carelessness and ignorance of the use of gas,
has induced the inventor to provide a small
attachment to gas burners, which is oper-
ated automatically, and will, in case the
light is blown out or becomes extinguished
by any means, shut off the flow and thus
prevent the fatalities frequently consequent
on the room becoming filled with gas, and
also prevents the waste of gas which is often
considerable on this account. This device
is especially applicable in houseswhere the
gas is left burning all night without any
attendant to watch it. It consists rf a hoop
supported at such a hight as to encircle the
blaze at a little distance from it. The hoop
is composed of an outer rim of brass and
an inner rim of steel riveted together and
fixed at one end. The other end moves
from one side to the other, operating by
the unequal expansion of the metals, and
thus moves the arm of a lever which con-
nects with a delicate holding catch or de-
tent. By this the stop-cock is kept open as
long as the gas burns and the heat is kept
up, but whenever the flame is extinguished,
the contracting hoop operates the lever and
through it on the detent, freeing the arm of
the stop-cock, and allowing it to close,
which it does by a spring.
84,963, — Improved Railway Car Brake.

D. J. Parmele, of San Francisco; Cal.,

assignor to himself and J. H. Carrier, of

Springfield, 111.:

I claim the combination with the lever e,
of the hooked rod g, hooked trigger i, and
cord k, provided with rings, substantially
as and for the purpose described.
85,005. — Improvement in the Preparation

of Sulphates and the Manufacture of

Fine Silver Therefrom. — Frederic Gutz-

kom, of San Francisco, Cal.:

I claim the preparation of crystals, con-
sistins principally of sulphate of silver, by
separating them from their solution in a
sulphuric acid in the manner as described
above the volume, the specific gravity and
the temperature of such acid to be within
the limits as stated in my specification for

the purpose of converting such crystals into
what is called commerce fine silver.
85,008. — Improved Carriage Spring. —

Frank A. Huntington, of San Francisco,

Cal.:

I claim the rigid levers C, C, and springs
G, G, in combination with the adjustable
bars F, F, the whole arranged substan-
tially in the manner and for the purposes
described.

The object of this invention is to provide
an improved carriage spring so constructed
that a weight placed on any part of the ca: -
riage will depress the springs on each side
equally creating no undue strain to any por-
tion, and so arranged and applied as to give
the carriage the greatest elasticity without
impairing its strength, and it consists in
using separate springs or levers for each
end of the buggy, one end of which is piv-
oted to a clip which is attached to the cen-
ter of the body on each side, the oppo-
site ends being secured by a shackle to a
curved piece of metal attached to the bol-
ster and axle bed. A bar passes from the
springs on one side, to the springs on the
other, a short distance from and on each
side of the clip connection, and springs or
bumpers made of india rubber or other elas-
tic materials is placed on each end of these
cross pieces.

"The White Pine News" is a new-
comer, just born to the journalistic world.
It is a neatly gotten-up paper, especially
remarkable for the large amount of valua-
ble and ably prepared information it con-
tains about White Pine district, local and
general — making it equal, indeed, to a little
volume on the subject. To give an idea of
the matter, there are headings about White
Pine prices; winter immigration and work;
the altitude of Treasure Hill; water sup-
ply; road repairs needed; description of
various mines; reports of discoveries,
shootings, etc Amongst the longer arti-
cles we find descriptions of the geography,
climate, of Chloride Flat, notices of outside
districts, mention of building materials,
and an article canvassing the prospects in
general, besides a " list of letters remain-
ing," etc. Pitchford & Simpson, are the
publishers, at Treasure City. The able as-
sistance of Dr. De Groot is evidenced in
the editorial preparations.

*-- «— -^»-->*--«i

Wharf Construction. — John A. Fultor,
the builder of some of the most extensive
wharves in this city, has just completed a
fine piece of work at the foot of East street,
between Jackson, for Thomas & Twiug,
wood and coal dealers — the Commissioner
having permitted them to so use the prop-
erty as a wharf, on condition that they
would pile and cap it, which has been done.
Capt. Roberts has also been constructing
wharves along the outside of the new bulk-
head, where considerable activity may be
witnessed in pile-driving, etc.

Nelson Chesman, No. 40 Park Row,
New York, will publish this month a book
of 300 pages, containing a list of all news-
papers and periodicals published in the
United States, Camillas and British and
North American Provinces. We believe it
will be the first publication of the kind
published in this country. More particu-
lars concerning this work will be found in

our advertising columns.

*-•. -^»- .♦- -»

Packard's "Guide to the Study of
Insects." — We have received from the
author Part IV of this valuable work. Ag-
riculturists and horticulturists, who are
constantly brought in contact with insects,
some of which are friends and others ene-
mies, ought to learn to distinguish between
them ; and for such the work is especially
intended. The work is issued from the
press of the Essex Institute at Salem,
Massachusetts.

California Invention Sold. — The pa-
rent right for Bussey's Combination Safe
Lock for the Pacific Coast, was sold on
Saturday last for $5,000, to Kittredge &
Leavitt, of this city. The purchasers are
well versed in bank locks, and are sure of
having made a fortunate purchase, having
observed the steady advance of the Bussey
Lock in popular favor.

Tr\e Mining and Scientific Press.

21

Weekly Stock Circular.

By AiiociaUd Broken of the 8 T. Stock »nd Exchange Bc»rd.
8am ftuxoitoo, Januarj l, 1MB

FIlllin<*Ubl.

We ore experiencing a season of financial
abundance, with fair prospects of oontinaod
r some time to come. Expenditures tor
the holidaye were mmsunlly large, throwing a
great doal of loose money into the market, and
Btimulating e lively trade in various articles,
many of which were of homo manufacture.

Our laboring classes evince a strong desire to

acoamalate, m is sufficiently proved bj th n-

stantly increasing deposits in the Savings and
Loan Bonks. At this season, these institutions,
and our local corporations, are making their
accustomed dividends, thereby placing consid-
erable amounts in activo circulation. Rates in
bank remain steady at 1('J1'4 per cent, per
month. In several instances largo sums have
been obtained at 10 per cent, per annum on
first class real estate mortgages. We quote
gold bars at 860@870, and silver bars from
pur to % per cent, premium; currency bills on
Atlantic cities command 33 J.^ per cent, pre-
mium ou gold; sight drafts, payable in coin, 1
per cent, premium; telegraphic transfers, \%
per cent premium; sterling exchange, 48;!;@
49d. ; commercial exchange, 49J-4@49%d.
Mexican dollaH, 5@6 per cent premium. Bul-
lion is iu fair supply with good requirement.

The steamer Great Republic sailed for Yoko-
hama on the 4th iust. with $753,294 in treasure,
divided as follows: For China, $58,525 in gold
bars; $282,302 in Mexican dollars; $198,539 in
silver bars; $25,413 in gold coin, and $6,800 in
gold dust. For Japan, $63,150 in gold bars,
and $118,437 in silver bars.

Transactions in real estate have not been
very active since the middle of October, but are
regaining tone and strength. The number of
sales in December was 484, being an increase
of 78 over November. The amount of money
involved in the December sales was $1,000,759.
There wore 221 mortgages effected in the same
month, representing $739,915, and 143 releases,
amounting to $312,222. Those who own eligi-
ble lands in the city manitest a disposition to
keep them, and decline putting them in the
market. Carter's Heal Estate Circular says that
the Montgomery street extension will be pushed
through without delay, but not on the line
formerly contemplated. The extension will run
parallel with Second street, and be wider than
the present Montgomery street. A large por-
tion of the property involved has already been
purchased for $700,220 extending on a line of
1,100 feet, being at the rate of $G42 per front
foot. The Cosmopolitan Hotel, together with
the fifty- vara lot on which, it stands, was re-
cently sold for $375,000. Two years ago it was
offered to a wealthy capitalist in this city, to-
gether with the furniture, which was then new
and valued at $140,000, for the sum of $320,000.
After some hesitation the offer was declined.

Lands are in request in nearly all portions of
the State, and improvements are upon a corres-
ponding scale.

The amount of coinage at the Branch Mint,
for December, was $2,422,000, of which only
$82,000 was in silver. The total coinage for
1808 was $17,400,000, being $2,098,535 less
than in 1807.

The Twelfth District Court dissolved the in
corporation known as the Builders' Insurance
Co., on account of its insolvent condition, the
assets standing at $91,084 27 against $136,681
65 liabilities. We understand, however, that
their marine risks have been taken by the
Home Mutual Insurance Co.. and their approved
fire risks, to the amount of about $0,000,000,
by the Liverpool and London and Globe Insur-
ance Company.

City SStOClES.

Since our last similar reference, transactions
embraced under this head have not been large.
We note sales of Spring Valley Water stock at
$66, and San Francisco Gas at $80 25 per share.

The dividends of our Savings Institutions for
the six months closing with December, have
been nearly all announced. We annex the rates
of each : Savings and Loan, 10 per cent, per an-
num, free of Federal tax, payable on and after
the 11th inst. Odd Fellows, 12 per cent, per
annum, free of Federal tax, payable on and after
the 12th. San Francisco Savings "Union, 9%
per cent, on ordinary, and 11 2-5 per cent, on
term deposits, free of Federal tax, payable on
the 12th inst. Farmers' and Mechanics', 10 per
cent, per annum. German, 9% per cent, per

annum on ordinary, and 11 2-5 per cent, on
term deposits, payable on and after the 15th
instant.

The Spring Valley Water Co. pays its usual
monthly dividend to-day. The Pacific Insur-
ance Co. declared a quail, rly dividend of $3 per
share, the Occidental the same amount, and the
Merchants' Mutual Marine its usual monthly
dividend of 1 per cent., all payable on the 11th
instant.

M iiiiii:^ GsUuuro 31 u fleet.

Within the past few days the mining share
market exhibited a very fair degree of vitality.
Savnge, Yellow Jacket, Overman, and Hale &
NororOSS, being leading stocks in tho market,
the sales of the same havo been quite heavy,
partaking largely of a speculative character,
and at the close showing a slight recession
under this movement.

Altha— sold at $52 50@59 50, then at $56,
and closed at $54. On tho 5th inst. the incline
was 114 feet in depth below the 940 level.

CnoLLAJt-PoTOsi— opened at $169, declined to
$158, and at the close realized $1G8. Tho bul-
lion receipts for the month of December foot up
$108,336; in November they amounted to $102,-
722, and in October to $112,898. . During the
week ending January 1st, they extracted only
520 tons of ore against 1,261 the previous week.
Nothing of importance from the mine.

Crown Point — ruled at $52 50@$56, then
sold at $53 50, and closed at $53. It is believed
lhat the stopes on the 850 level will not hold
out much longer than six weeks. The shaft,
on the 3d inst., had been carried to a depth
of 1,091 feet, sinking continuing in hard rock.
The south drift was in 330 feet from the south
boundary' line of the Kentuck company. The
divergance of the clay walls found in this mine,
it is thought, would give some confidence in
finding a new ore deposit between the face of
the drift and the north line of the Belcher
company.

Confidence- sold at $36@37, and closed at
$37. The bullion returns for December show
a yield of $14,728; in November they were

$13,983, and in October $22,832 Gould &

Curry ruled at $98@,119, and at the close sold
at $113 50. During the months of October and
November the bullion returns amounted to
$14,603.

Hale & Norcross— has been quite active at
fluctuating rates, advancing from $44 50 to $50,
then selling at $46 50, rising to $64, and clos-
ing at $55 50. The bullion receipts in December
aggregate $10,875, in November $16,013, and
in October $26,641.

Imperial— improved from $110 to $116, then
sold at $112, and closed at $109 50. On the 5th
inst. they commenced to drift from the bottom
of the winze— 35 feet below the 900 level — the
water having increased so much that they could
not sink any deeper. In December the bullion
returns aggregated $44,288, in November $35,-
944, and in October $58,229.

Kentuck— declined from $263 to $245, ad-
vanced to $254, closing at $251 50. A dividend
of $20 per share is payable to-day. The bul-
lion returns for December foot up $9^,582; in
November they amounted to $86,097, and in
October to $69,145 Overman exhibited in-
creased activity, selling at $8S@92, then at
$80 50@85, and closing at $82. The bullion
jdeld in December amounted to $60,258, against
$34,000 in November, and $35,000 in October.

Savage— has been in marked request, improv-
ing from $81 to $87 50, declining to $83, and
closing at $83 50. A dividend of $4 per share
— aggregating $64,000 — will be paid on and after
the 11th inst. The bullion returns in Decem-
ber reached $152,000; in November, $119,760;

and in October, $128,000 Yellow Jacket

jumped from $1,460 to $1,030, fell to $1,450,
and closed at $1,480. A dividend of $100 per
share will be disbursed on the 15th inst. Owing
to the reticence of officials at Virginia, we are
unable to give any monthly bullion statistics.

Sierra Nevada shows a bullion yield of

$7,568 during the month of December. The
assessment levied in November has been re-
scinded.

Amador (Cal.) — was in the market at $240©
250. The receipts of bullion in December
amounted to $40,000.. .'. .Eureka (Cal.) shows
a bullion yield of $70,910 during the month of

December Julia levied an assessment of

$2 50 per share on the Gth inst.

A Useful Pubucation.— The Mining And Scientific
Press, published at San Francisco by Dewey & Co., is a
publication valuable to all classes and indispensable to
miners and inventors — the patents for nearly all Cali-
fornia inventions having been secured through the Pa-
tent Agency of the proprietors of that paper, and the in-
ventions themselves brought into notice through its col-
umns. We are glad to learn, from Mr. Wm. H. Murray,
the traveling agent of the paper, who dropped in upon
us Monday evening, that its merits are so well appre-
ciated; and we unhesitatingly commend both the paper
and its gentlemanly agent to the confidence and patron-
age of scientific and practical men of all classes and every
occupation. — Solano Herald.

White Pine Water Supply. — A. W.
Von Schmidt, th© engineer who planned
and superintended the construction of the
Spring Valley "Water Works, has made ar-
rangements to supply Hamilton from
springs three miles distant, which discharge
regularly 300 inches of excellent water.

MINING SHAKEH0LDEES' DIBE0T0RY.

[Compiled for every Uauc, from advertisement In th©

Mining •iND SciKMTiric i*hks3 and other Sun

Francisco Journals.;

Oomprtstmr the Namei of Companies, District or County
m boQiuoa; Amount and date of Aaaoannont; Date ol
Mooting; Day of Dollaquant Bale; and Amount and Time
of Payment of Dividends.

DAT TAT

dklinuuknt. or SALS

Amador Co., dividend, $ti per share Payable Doc. 13, ISfiR

Alpha. Stony co., Nov., Di-c. S, Jit) Jan. 3— Jan 26

Alamo. Lyon CO., Nov., Nov. 25, 35c D.-c. 31— Jan. 3U»

Adriatic, Storey c«» Special Meeting. Jan. 28

Bncon, Storey co., Nov., dlv Payable Juno 19, 1R68

Holcher, Storey co. Nov., Dec.3t, $25 Jan. 30— March 2

Crown Point, Storey co., Pec. 18 $7 50 Dec.18-Jim. 17

Cherokee Klat, Hutte co.. Dec. 9, $."> Inn. II— Jan. 26

Chollar PolOBl, dlv., $ia PiivahlcOct. 15, 1867

Crown Point, dividend, £7.60 1'avablti Sept. 12 186S

Cosnla, ttlnatoa, Dec. 12, $1 ' fan 16— Feb. 4

City K. R., San Francisco, Jan. 6, $5 Feb. 10— March 6

Diamond cop., Del Norte co., Oct. 28, $2. . .Nov. 10— Jan. 21*

Eureka, dlv. $5 Payable Nov. 2», 1«6S

Empire M. A M., Ncv., dividend $6 Payable May 15, 1887

Gold Hill Quartz Annual Meet hit: Jan. II

Cl'iuld A Currv, Storey en.. Nov., Dec. 6. $16. .Jan. 9— Jan. 29

Gould A Curry, dlv,. ?7.Ml Pavnble Mav 15, 1867

Gold Hilly M ft M— dividend. $7 50. ... Payable Jul'v l.t, 1868
Holdcn Rule, Tuolumne en, dlv. 50c ft sh... Payable Dee. 26'

Great Central, Arizona, Oct. 9. $2.50 Nov. II— .Ian. 28"

Hale A Norcross, Storey co.. Dee. 12, $5 Jnn. 16— Feb. 6

Ihile & Norcross, dlv, SI26 Sent. 16, 18»i7

Hope Gravel, Nevada eo , Nov IS, $1 Dec. 22— Jan. 11"

Imperial. Storey co . Dec. IS, $25 Jan, 18— Feb. 4

Imperial, Storey co , Nov., dlv Payable June 20, 186S

Juan Pautlsta, Santa Clara co., Nov. 27 Sale -Ian. 30

Julia, Storey co , Ncv., $2.50 Feb. 10— Feb. 27

Keystone, Con-otldatcd Special Mectlne, Feb 13

Kentuck, dlv., $2) per nhare Payable Jan. 10,1869

Mohawk A Montrenl, Nevada co., Dec. 7, $3Jan 10— Jan. 25

Morning Star, Alplneco., Dec. 9, $2 50 Jan. It— Feb. 1

North Star, dividend, $5 Payable Aug. 15, 18G8

Oriental, Sierra co,, Jan. 4, $'.50 Feb. 5— March 6

Pacific Unassessable, dlv Payable June 18, 1868

Rattlesnake. Yuba en , Dec. 19, $7.50 Jan. 21— Feb. 8"

Rippon. Alpine co , Oct. 15, $1 Sale Jnn. 23»

Rising Star, Idaho, Nov. 16, $10 January 4— Jan. 30

Sierra Nevnda, Storev eo., Nev Annual Meeting Jan 11

Santiago, Silver City, dividend. $2 50... Payable Dec 19, 1868
S. F. A Cantle Dom*>, Arizona, Nov. 25 3c... Dec. 28— Jan. 12"
Snvoge, Virginia. Nev. dividend. $4 ...Payable Dec. 12, 1868

Sierra Nevada. Nev.. Nov. 16. .$12.5 1 Dec, 29— Jan. 16

Sand Spring Salt, dividend $1 Payable Jan. 5, 1869

Tallulah, Humboldt co., Dec. 14, $17.50 Jan. 29— Feb. 27

U. S. Grant. Nevada CO., Nov. 9, 50c Dec. 15— Jnn. 30*

Virginia AG. H Water Co. .Dividend, payable Nov. 20, 1868
Yellow Jacket, dlv., $100. Payable Jan. 15, 1869

Those marked n 1th an aaterlsk (*) are advertlned In thle
journal.

Latest Stock Prices Eid and Asked,

S. T. STOCK AND KXCUAKGE BOARD.

Friday Evening, January 8, 1869.

MISCKLLANKOUa STOCKS.

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San Francisco City Bonds, 6s. 1855. . . .
San Francisco City and Cminty Bonds
San Francisco School Bonds, 10s, I860
San Francbco School Bonds, 10s, 1861
San Francisco City and Co. Sch'l B'ds
San Francisco Cttv and Co. Bonds, 7s,
San Francisco City and Co. Bonds, 7s,
San Francisco City and Co Bonds, 7s,
San Francisco City and Co. Judg. Bds
San Francisco Cltv and Co. Judg. Bds

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OAS COMPANIES.

San Francisco Gas Co

Sacramento Uas Co

RAILROADS.

San Fraiiciaco and San Jose Railroad
Omnibus Railroad

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52

Front Street, Mission and Ocean Railroad

BANKING INSTITUTIONS.

12

The BankofCaliloruia

158

INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Merchants' Mutual Marine Insurance Co

525

MINING STOCKS— WASHOE DISTRICT.

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MISCELLANEOUS MINING STOCKS.

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San Francisco Market Eates.

"Wholesale Trice*.

Fridat, Januarys, 1869.

Flour, Extra, ft bbl $5 25 ®S5 75

Do. Superllne tM a 4 75

Curn Altai, ft 100 tt>a 3 25 @ 3 60

Wheat. ft 100 Iba 1 60 @ 1 90

Outs, ft 100 lbs 2 00 @ 2 26

Barley, ^ loo ttts a 05 a 2 50

Bean*. ^ lOu lbs 4 00 ® 5 60

Potatoi m, r! 100 lbs 75 @ 1 10

Hay.* ton 14 ix) ffisuoo

Live onk Wood, f) cord 9 00 @io 00

Boer, extra, dressed. ^ tb 8 @ 10

Sheep, on foot 3 »0 @ 3 26

nogs, <.n root. {Jttt 4'ifa 5

Hoys, dressed, $ tb 7 ® 8

GROCKRIKS, ETC.

Sucar, crushed, ^ lb 17 g j-i-

Do. China m & ,ai;

Ooflfce. Coata Bloa, Bib 17 ® 178

Do. Kin _ « 1;

Tea. Japan. B lb 75 @ 90

Do. Green go « 1 25

Hawaiian Rice, B It. 9 g, ut

China ltice,"^th 6 ft 7

Coal Oil, ft Eallon 46 a &

CandlM, «*..,.„ 16 1 ,8

Ranch Butter. $ lb 60 a ftf

Isthmus Butter, ~A lb 40 a ik

Cheese, California, pi-ib 15 @ 2"

Effgfl, r* dozen $| ffl «■ \e

Lard. 4i ft :::::::::;. 13 ® $*

Ham and Bacon, ^ ft u <a 18

Shoulders, ffi ft 6 ® 6J

Retail Price*.

Butter, California, fresh, ft ft 80 a 85

do. pickled , to ft so @

do. Oregon, W tb 20 a 25

do. New York, ft ft 35 q, 4s

Cheese, ft ft 20 @ 2s

Honey, ft ft m & M

Ep«s, p dozen 65 « 75

Lard, V ft 15 § 1?

Hams and Bacon, ft ft 20 @ 25

Cranberries, ft gallon 1 26 ra 1 50

I'otatocs, f, ft.. iL'a 9

Potatoes, Sweet, ft ft ."""".". a « _

Tomati'Cs. ft lb 3 ffl —

Onions.ftft ; 3 a —

Apples, So.l.ft tb 4 @ 5

Pears, Table, ft ft 5 a 7

Plums, dried, ft ft.... 11 a 13

P-aehes, drledVft ft........................ _ f _

Cvanscs ft dozen 75 @ 1 00

Lemons, $ dozen 75 @ 1 ro

Chickens, nplcce 50 a 7ft

Turkeys, ft ft 25 I £

Soap, Pale and O. 0 7 a 12

Soap, Castile, ft ft — ® 20

Sau Francisco Metal Market.

PRICES FOR INVOICES.

Jolbinfj price* rule from t«n to fifteen per cent, higher than th*
following quotation*,

Fridat, January 8. 1869
Iron.— Duty: Pig, $9 per ton; Railroad, 60c ft 100 fts; Bar
l@USc ft ft; Sheet, polished, 3c ft ft; common, Hi@l&c
ft ft; Plate, l>4c ft ft; Pipe, l>£c ft ft; Galvanized, 2>ic
ft ft.

Scotch and English Pig Iron ft ton $35 00 ©$36 00

White Pigftton 3400 ©36 00

Refined Bar, bad assortment ft ft — 03 @

Refined Bar, good assortment, ft ft — 04 a

Boiler, No. 1 to 4 — W^a

Plate, No. 5 to 9 ® — Qili

Sheet, No. 10 to 13 — 04JS® — 5

Sheet, No. U to 20 _ 05 a — 6U

Sheet, No. 21 to 27 -05 @ _ fiS

Coppkr— Duty : Sheathing, iy3c ft ft ; Pig and Bar, 2^c ft ft

Sheathing, ft ft @_26

Sheathing, Yellow _ 20 a — 21

Sheathing, Old Yellow — 10 a — 11

Bolts _ 21 @ — 22

Composition Nails — 21 a 22

Tin Plates.— Duty: 25ft cent, ad valorem.

Plates, Clnircoal, IX, ft box 12 00 a

Plates, IC Charcoal a 11 00

Roofing Plates. ly 00 a 10 60

BaneaTln. Slabs, ft ft __ § _ 30

Ptekl.— English Cast Steel, ft ft a — 15

Quicksilver.-^ ft _M @_60

Leah.— Pig,$ft - ?i'@ _ 8

Sheet _ 10 @

£lpc - II ft

Bar _ 9 @_ g«

Zinc —Sheets, ft ft ■ a — 9>i

Borax.— California, ft ft — 23 @ — 25

Elko, ten or fifteen miles from Maggie
Creek, and near Humboldt Canon, is the
starting point of another -wagon road to
White Pine.

Data of value and importance to those
interested in White Pine, prospectively,
will be found in an able article by Dr. De
Groot, on another page.

New Sugar Befinery. — Tho corner
stone of a new sugar refinery, at the corner
of Eighth and Brannan streets, has been
laid.

Lumber at White Pine sells at $175 and
$200 per thousand.

Continental Life Insurance Company,
302 Montgomery street, corner of Pine.

HajjF way up Lookout Mountain, the place
where memory is stirred by a thousand recol-
lections and associations, and where the brave
boys of both armies met and fought hand to
hand, where the blood of both friend and foe
was mingled together and ran down the mount-
ain-side in rivulets, is a smooth-faced rock, upon
which a poor, wounded] soldier inscribed the
following :

" S. T.— 1860— X.— Early in the battle I was
wounded, and carried to this spot by two clever
" Yanks." They bade me farewell, and, as they
supposed, to die, for I was so weak from loss of
blood that I could but faintly thank them for
their kindness. They left in my canteen part of a
bottle of Plantation Bitters, to which I owe
my life, for it strengthened me, and kept life
within me until help came and my wound was
dressed. God bless them for their kindness and
for the Plantation Bitters.

Henry Davagel,
Company B, 10th Ga.

Australian Kangaroo. — Five of these beau-
tiful animals, embracing three different species,
one of which is exceedingly rare, have made
their appearance at "Woodward's Gardens dur-
ing the past week. They are as fresh and lively
as when taken from their native haunts. *

C. Mulleb, oculist, 205 Montgomery street,
deals in all kinds of spectacles. If you cannot
apply in person, you can be fitted by sendirjg
description, age, etc.

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Mining StMiimaiy .

The following in format inn is gleaned mostly from Jour-
nals published in tho interior, in close proximity to tut
mines inentimied.

CALIFORNJA.

AtPISD cottwty.

Markleeville Miner, Dec. 26th: A strike
has lately been made in the old Billy Bod-
gers claim in Hope Valley -which promises
to be of importance to Alpine. The crop-
pings exhibit copper, and the early shallow
workings were only successful in getting
pretty good copper ore.

Ou Monday last Supfc. Gamble started
up the new hoisting works of the Morning-
Star Co., and is pushing ahead with the
work in the shaft, and expects to be about
50 days in going down 80 ft. further, at
which depth he will commence a drift to
strike the body of ore in the lower level.

Chronicle, Dec. 26th: Good ore has been
struck iu Barnes' claim, known as the old
Billy Bodgers claim, in Hope Valley. The
shaft is now down about 110 ft. The con-
tractors will drift north and south on the
ledge and get out all the ore they can be-
tween this time and next spring, when Mr.
Barnes will erect a mill.

A1UBOS COU5TTT.

Jackson Ledger, Dec. 26th: W.H. Thosst
has sold his Sulphurets mill and property
connected therewith situated on Else's
Creek, near Volcano, and the right to work
the rebellious ores for the precious metals
by the " Thoss process, " to Ed. Schultz,
of San Francisco, for $11,000 cash. The
" Thoss process" is warranted to extract
and save at least 90 per cent, of the pre-
cious metal from the ores worked, at a cost
not to exceed $7 per ton, and has been used
very successfully by Mr. Thoss, the in-
ventor, for several years.

Mr. Schultz has purchased valuable min-
ing property at Pine Grove, and will work
the rock by this process. He has erected
splendid hoisting works at his mine, and is
now adding a battery of five stamps to the
sulphurets mill.

Jan. 2d: During the past seven months,
there has been worked at the sulphuret
furnace of Coney & Bigelow, at this place,
804 tons of sulphurets, taken from the fol-
lowing mines: Coney & Bigelow, 180 tons;
Dunnings, 3%; Atchison's, %; Keystone,
24; Oneida, 93; El Dorado County, 3.
These sulphurets average $120 per 'ton,
yielding in the aggregate, §36,480. The
richest are those taken from the Coney &
Bigelow mine. The cost of working the
sulphurets does not exceed $16 per ton.

CAL1VIKAS COTTWI'IT.

Mokelumne Hill Chronicle, Jan. 2d: It is
the intention of David McCarty, of Bail-
road Elat, to erect a custom quartz mill in
that locality. New discoveries in quartz are
being made in that vicinity almost daily,
and additional facilities for crushing the
rock have become necessary. Labor will
be immediately commenced upon the new
mill.

AVe were shown, this week, by John |As-
bury, some very rich specimens of gold-
bearing quartz. The rock was taken from
a lead recently discovered by that gentle-
man near Bailroad Elat. The lode has not
been sufficiently developed to determine its
extent, but its richness shows for itself.

No mining locality in the county is at-
tracting so much attention or improving so
rapidly as Bailroad Elat. Business of every
description is lively; new buildings are
being erected; strangers attracted by the
intelligence of rich strikes, are flocking in;
shafts are going down, quartz mills being-
erected, and, best of all, gold coming out.

The Whisky Slide correspondent writes:
The Sheep Banch is getting to be quite a
mining town. There are at present three
water-power arastra mills, with more quartz
ahead than they can crush in the next six
months. The following are some of the
successful mines in the district; the Me-
Nare mine has a shaft 70 ft. deep, from
which they have taken a large quantity of
rock out,- that estimated at $80 per tor.
Smith & Ferguson have a well-defined
mine; they think it will pay $50 per ton,
from present appearances. Smith & Co.,
proprietors of the Lodi mine, crushed 25
tons of rock that paid $1,700. Hicks & Co.
have out about 25 tons of rock that will pay
$60 per ton, and a well-denned lead. Smi-
ier & Co. are running a tunnel on their
lead, with a prospect of having one of the
best mines in the district. . . .Dennis Burns
has bought the Collins claim at Chee Chee
Flat, for $460.

MAKIPOSA COUSTT.

Mail, Dec. 25th: The Washington mill,
near Qtfartzsbui'g, has been in successful
operation for several months past, crushing
rock from the old Washington mine.

Same, Jan. 1st: The Buckingham Mount-
ain Co. alter a 10 days' run of their new

mill, made a cleaning up of their batteries,
on Monday last. Considering the difficul-
ties which usually attend the working of a
new mill, the yield of amalgam was quite
satisfactory to the company. They intend
grinding 100 tons of ore on the next run,
which will pay upwards of $20 per ton.

Work on the Bite & Co. mine has been
temporarily suspended, owing to the large
quantity of ore already out and uncrushed
at the mill.

The old Benton mill will be started in
operation to-day. The new mill will start
in a few days. A large amount of rich ore
has already accumulated at the mills and
mines, sufficient to run the mills for two
months or more. The constant and in-
creasing yield from the Pine Tree and Jo-
sephine mines, will require additional ma-
chinery, which will be furnished in a short
time. An early resumption of work on the
Mariposa mine is also anticipated, aud fur-
ther developments forwarded as fast as j>os-
sible.

SETADA COXTXTTT.

Transcript, Dec. 20th: The storms of this
winter have as yet done the mines little or
no good. Nearly all the water that has
fallen has been absorbed by the ground,
and it will require another seven days' rain
to satisfy the miners.

The Schofield Gold Quartz Mining Co.
have obtained a United States patent to the
mine. This claim contains 985 feet, and is
located in Grass Valley district.

Beasoner Bros. & Co. have located S00
feet on a quartz ledge, on Pertuguese Ra-
vine, below the South Eork ditch, near
Graniteville. They have named it the Sav-
age mine.

Dec. 27th : The Eastern Co. have located
3,000 feet on Secret Hill, in Beniington
Hill district, Little York township, for
mining purposes. The claims commence
at Steep Hollow Creek, adjoining Swift &
Sure's ground, and fronting 1,500 feet on
Steep Hollow.

Dec. 31st : The Knx Klux Mining Co.
have located 1,000 feet on a quartz ledge in
the bed of Wolf Creek. The ledge is one
mile south of Grass Valley, and % of a mile
from Larrimer's mill.

Gazette, Dec. 28th : The Badger Hill and
Cherokee companies have began hydraulic-
ing for the winter. The Chalk Mountain
Blue Gravel Co., at Burrington Hill, near
the Cascades, will commence hydraulicing
on Thursday next. From their ditch, lead-
ing to their claims, they have recently con-
structed 1,000 feet of flume, Jour feet wide,
two feet deep, with an 8-inch grade. They
have five drops to their flume, the first be-
ing 150 feet; second, 60; third, 65; fourth,
50; fifth, 20; total, 285 feet. They employ
80 men. The same company, in their Chalk
Mountain tunnel, at the Cascades, are tak-
ing out gravel that yields $4 to the pan.
The Bed Diamond Co. , below the Chalk
Mountain Blue Gravel Co., are still drift-
ing in their tunnel aud taking out good
pay. They are in about 400 feet.

Dec. 29th : The Buckeye Gravel Co., on
Bock Creek, have struck very rich gravel
in their claims on the extension of the old
Nebraska lead. The pay gravel is from 40
to 60 feet wide, and averages about four
feet in depth. The gravel is taken out aud
washed iu sluices, and will pay from $60 to
$100 for each set of timbers, the latter be-
ing four feet apart. The Kansas Mining-
Co., ya mile below the Buckeye Co., are
vigorously at work ou their gravel claims,
sinking a double incline shaft. They are
now down nearly 200 feet, aud expect to
strike the lead at a depth of between 500
and 600 feet,

Dec: 31st : Several interests in mining
ground near French Corral, have been sold
during the past month, and a number of
agents for San Francisco and eastern cap-
italists are negotiating for the purchase of
mines in that vicinity. Stidger, Evans &
Co., of the Buckeye claims, have given
bonds to sell their ground to an English
Co. for the sum of $2'J5,000. Several other
claims have been bargained for within a
few days past, involving a large amount of
money. A number of these mines, a few
years ago, were considered as valueless, or
worked out, and now their owners hold
them at from $10,000 to $50,000 each.

Jan. 1st : Water has now fallen iu suffi-
cient quantities to enable miners to fairly
commence operations with the prospect of
continuing them through the winter. We
believe that the usual amount of prepara-
tion has been made, and the rains, coming
thus late, have given miners a chance to
have everything in readiness. The storms,
while giving water enough to supply the
ditches, have not done them any damage,
as is frequently the case at this season of
the year. From present appearances, hy-
draulic mining will be carried on as gener-
ally and successfully throughout the county
this season as last season.

Grass Valley Union, Dec. 31st : We have
chronicled several new strikes within the
last month, and all of these have proved
good ledges. The owners are working on
all of these for the gold which comes out
of them. We notice great activity among
prospectors. Ben. McCauley's miii, at Bos-
ton Ravine, is kept constantly running on
custom work, furnished, for the most part,
by prospecting companies. Of all the dif-
ferent crushiugs made recently at that mill,
not one has failed to pay over expenses of
mining, and in many instances very heavy
pay has been had. There is a hope that
Massachusetts Hill and the Scadden Flat
claims will be worked during the coming
year, and an almost certainty that Allison
Bauch will start up early iu the spring.

Jan. 1st : The Seven-Thirty mine, on the
head of Squirrel Creek, has been noted for
sometime as a good paying ledge. The rock
has averaged not less than $60 to the ton,
by mill process, and excluding the sulphu-
rets, which are supposed to be very rich.
The Bowery is on the extension of the
Seven-Thirty, aud has produced some fine
rock. A crushing of 16 loads from the
Bowery, yielded, $2,541, or $158.81% per
load of about one ton weight.

Grass Valley National, Dec. 30th : We
saw yesterday evening atFindley's bank, a
little button of gold worth $105, which
came from 1,400 pounds of sulphurets
taken from the lop rock of the Higgins
ledge, which is now being so successfully
worked by Frank Morse. These sulphurets
pay at the rate of $150 per ton, and were
worked by Hobart & Burr.

Dec. 31st : We saw to-day at Delano's
bank, a lump of gold worth $2,541, the
product of 16 loads of rock from the Bow-
ery ledge, an extension of the famous Sev-
en-Thirty. The shafts of the two mines are
only 550 feet apart. The Bowery is now
running an incline, and has advanced 72
feet. None of the rock which gave this
handsome yield of more than $158 to the
ton, came from a point more than this dis-
tance from -the surface.

The last crushing of ore from the Os-
borne Hill mine, consisting of 60 loads
from the north side, yielded $1,900, and
rock is now being crushed from the south
side that pays $65 to the load.

PLTOAS COXJWTY.

Quincy National, Dec. 19th: Richards,
Jeukin & Co. on the Wah-pon-see Hill,
have their ditch finished, hydraulic planted,
and all in condition to drive the gravel
down the slope, and pick up the gold nug-
gets as they have them from prospecting
evidences. John Colman, on the head of
Que'm Sabe Bavine, has likewise opened a
splendid prospect, in a relic of the Blue
lead. McVey & Taylor, at the Mountain
House, No. 2, are all ready, and anxiously
awaitiug a change in the elements. Good
diggings they have to a certainty. All the
boys around the Mountain House district
would very much like a week or two's rain
for thei* especial benefit, ss well as the
boys around Brandy Flat, who have made
extensive improvements the last three
mouths, so as to work their diggings more
extensively, and longer in the water sea-
son, having plenty of good paying ground.
There are a good many more mining camps
around Silver Creek district, that are pay-
ing diggings when they can get the gravel
to run through their boxes. The Badger
Hill, Gopher Hill, and Curtis Point invin-
cibles, are all waiting to run a little more
gravel down the hill.

SACKAME\TO COUJTTT.-.

Folsom Telegraph, Dec. 26th: The late
storm has closed river mining for the sea-
son. John Wild &■ Co., in their claim be-
low the bridge at Mormon Island, ou the
Sonth Fork, have done well in their claim
this season. This claim is near the cele-
brated old Watson claim of " 49" memory.

W. H. Knox is now working in his claim
at Coon Hill, near the Western House, in
this county, 15 hands and expects to roll
out a large amount of gold dust at his next
wash up.

Clifford & Co. are opening a large and ex-
tensive claim in the next hill adjoining the
renowned Willow Spring Hill, on the south-
west, with excellent prospects, and there is
every reason to believe they have a valu-
able claim.

SAW BEBNAKDIKO COUSTT.

Guardian, Dec. 26th: We were just shown
a specimen of pure gold, weighing 7% ozs.
taken recently from the Ames' claim on Ly-
tle Creek.

SHASTA COTJWTY.

A Millville correspondent writes the Red
Bluff Independent as follows: A great, effort
is being made to establish hydraulic mining
on a large scale in this county. D. E. Gib-
bons, of Alameda, and Bodman Gibbons, of
San Francisco, are the prime movers in the
affair. Their diggings at Piety Hill are of
the most extensive character.

TTJOLTIMSE COUNTY,

Sonora Democrat, Jan. 2d: Hamilton, Lu-
cas & Lauder have relocated the old Rip-
perdam claim, near Pap William's Ranch,
and are about to commence operations.
They intend running a race up through tho
flat with the hope of striking a rich shuto
in a quartz vein at the head of the flat, in
which a rich shute had been found some
years ago. The gravel in the flat prospects
well and will doubtless pay good wages.

Thos. Burns has purchased the Gundry
& Jackson mill, on Big Creek, and is about
to add new machinery to it. He intends
using it to crush rock from a new mine re-
cently discovered, in the vicinity of Big
Creek, by James Burns. The mine is well
prospected aud no doubts are entertained
of its paying. Teh tons of rock from it,
crushed at the Garrote mill, paid $19 per
ton.

Some Chilenos had made a rich strike at
Coyne's Ranch, on French Gulch, near
Murphy's, a few days before our visit. On
the 22d ult., they picked up between $400
and $5',0, one piece weighing over seven
ounces.

The hydraulic claim of A. M. Mitchell, at
Vallecito, looks remarkably well, and the
Doctor informed us that a small pit which -
had. just been cleaned up, yielded over
$4,000. There are many other good claims
on Vallecito Flat.

TKIXITT COTSTT.

Weaverville Journal, Dec. 26th: The
Trinity-Center correspondent "writes: New
mining operations are being commenced
here, with good prospects. Crocker & Co.
and McLean have new claims which will
pay well. Several new claims have been
located on a line with Boyston & Whit-
more's and Tom Coyle's, which will be
opened early in the spring. James Murray
has sold his claim to a Chinese company,
and gone to San Francisco.

ARIZONA.

Prescott Miner, Dec. 12th: From J. A.
Anderson, who has been tunneling in the
Chase mine, wo learn that thetunnelisnow
in about 215 ft., the ledge about three ft.
wide, the sulphurets plenty and rich. Water
is plenty and causes a great deal of trouble.

Chas. Borger is working quietly at the
Sterling mine. Mill and furnace are .now
going. The last run paid -well. We saw,
the other day, some beautiful gold bars
from the Sterling, which, we are told, were
worth about $500. Our ores are now be-
ing tested by the chlorination process and
should they turn out as well as intelligent
miners expect them to, the pine mountains
of Arizona will be the liveliest mining camp
on the Pacific coast.

The owners of the Plantanca lode are go-
ing down on it slowly. The ore is improv-
ing and the water increasing. The vein is
about three feet wide, running north and
south. They have struck the vein at five
different points in a space of about 400 feet
and at each point they have found good ore
as soon as they reached the water level.

Graves & Co. , and French & Curtis are
working away at the head of Lynx Creek,
in the Walker district. Mr. Griffin has
just completed a furnace for Fleury , Graves
& Co., aud milling and desulphurizing will
soon commence.

Mr. Cory, who came from Wickenburg
last week brought with him, from the Vul-
ture mill, the richest piece of rock we have
seen in a long time. The Vulture and
Smith and Wickenburg mills are grinding
away night and day, and there is not an
idle man in town.

Jackson Bros., Capt. Shoupe and others
are preparin g to work theirjiydraulic e) aims,
on Lower Lynx Creek, eight miles east of
Prescott.

The various compauies that own claims
in Big Bug, are preparing to work them,
and a week hence, some 15 men will be at
work in the district.

In Mohave and Yuma counties, quartz
and placer mining is beiug followed with
great success. Near Hardyville, Mohave
County, some Mexicans have struck sur-
face diggings that pay well. We under-
stand that work upon the Williams' Fork
copper mines will soon be resumed.
COLORADO.

Georgetown Miner, Dec. 10th: Work on
the Emmet lode is progressing favorably,
aud the crevice is carrying a fine body of
mineral. .. .Mr. Linn is taking out some
very nice ore from the Denning lode, on
Republican Mountain. Work on the adit
is progressing rapidly .... Stewart is en-
gaged in smelting ore from the Bobert Em-
met lode, situated on Sherman Mountain.

The crevice in the Elephant lode on
Brown's Mountain, is six feet four inches
wide, between solid granite walls, carrying
strings of very fine mineral through the
gangue. The shaft is only 10 ft. deep, as
yet, and the ore from the grass roots as-
sayed $247 per ton. The ore carries con-

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Hulorablo brittle silver. .. .We were shown
a day or two since a lino button of silver

i, weighing 28 023., whioh wo
from 50 lbs. of on: from the El Dorado lodi
situated on Saxon Mountain. This is at
the rate of 81,472 coin, to the ton of ore.
The owners of the property are running an
adil on the vein, which is now in 50 feet,
and carriea from t'.vu to ton inches of sul-
phuret ore.

The abaft on the Terrible lode is now 112

p, carrying from eight to ten inches

of hist class ore. The ore vein on this lode

has h ion continuous from the Burf ace down.

Promising silver discoveries have been
made in the northwest portion of Cascado
district. As far as developed tho veins
carry decomposed quartz, black and gray
HUlphnrets of silver, some littlo galena and
a trace of zinc blende and copper. .. .Ten
lodes, considered by competent judges as
true fissure veins, have been discovered.
Among this number is the Charter Oak,
which has been worked the most and has a
crevice from 20 to 21 inches in width.

It is an uudisputable fact that our min-
ing interests were never in as healthy con-
dition as at. the present time. During the
m: son it bas been conclusively proven that
silver mining can be prosecuted with profit,
and that we have a large number of veius
that will pay for developing. This has been
proven by slow aud tedious baud labor.
Jiut a new era is dawuing upon us iu min-
ing. The introduction and successful op-
eration of tho Burleigh machiuo drills, the
rapidity with which tunnels and levels can
be driven aud shafts suuk by their use,
gives a new phase to the problem of quickly
reaching great depths, as well as to the in-
crease iu the production of ore.
IDAHO.
Walla Walla Statesman, Dec. lltli: A
miner just down from Ferry Creek brings
late news from tho new diggings: Infollow-
ing up the creek the gold is found to be
much coarser than at the place where the
original discovery was made. All the
claims had beeu laid over for the winter. A
large party of Chinamen, under the pro-
tection of the Gold Commissioner, had at-
tempted to gain a lodgment in the new dig-
gings, but were driven off by the miners.
The ground as far as prospected showed a
yield of an ounce a day to the hand, but
many of the claims will pay much better
than this. Some 200 men will winter in
the mines. The discovery was made too
late in the season to ascertain with any cer-
tainty the extent of the mines, but the be-
lief is that the camp will be a large one —
numbering probably 2,000 miners. A large
uumberof Montanaiansare wintering in the
Kilter Koot Valley, preparatory to making
au early start for the mines in the spring.

NEVADA.

jh'.iiuoi.dt.

Uniouville Register, Dec. 2Gth: Fall &
Co. shipped this week, per Wells, Fargo &
Co's express, 2,000 ounces of fine bullion.

The Silver Mining Co. shipped this week,
per W. F. & Co's express, 1,876 ounces of
bullion.

Buck & Kimball are steadily at work on
the Pride of the Mountain ledge. They
have run short tunnels to the ledge at four
different points, and struck rich ore in each.
The most substantial work yet done is an
incline tunnel, now iu 100 feet, at the bot-
tom of which the ledge is fonr feet thick,
beautifully eased in granite, and separated
from the walls by a thin sheet of clay. Suf-
ficient work has already been done on the
ledge to prove it a true fissure vein of en-
during richness. The proprietors are hav-
ing the ore sacked and shipping it to Swan-
sea for the purpose of reduction. They
have already made one shipment of 20 tons
of assorted ore, that will work §500 per
ton, and have 30 tons now sacked on the
dnmp and ready for shipment, that is
equally as rich. Parties in San Francisco
offer to pay all charges, ship the ore, and
advauce CiU per cent, of the pulp assay and
the balance when they get returns, which
takes on an average about seven months ;
but I understand that the company thus far
have asked no advances, preferring to ship
on their own responsibility.

K EESE KIVF.lt.

Virginia Enterprise, Dee. 31st: The
White Pine excitement continues unabated,
owing in some degree to the favorable
weather which has thus far prevailed, but
principally to the exciting reports of par-
ties daily arriving from that region. Men
of all classes have but one story to tell in
regard to the richness of the mines. As-
sayers, old mining superintendents, miners
and all who have visited White Pine, agree
in saying that it is the richest silver region
ever discovered on the face of the globe.
As to its extent, not much is known. Some
eight or ten rich veins or deposits have been
opened, and the owners of the famous

Eberhardt have sunk a shaft on their
ground to the depth of B5 feet, finding the
rich ore to continue as far down as they
gone.

Austin Rot ' ' I. 34th: The mill of

the Silver Peak and Bed Mountain Oo.
which has been almost rebuilt during the
past four months, is now working perfectly
in every department. The mines — the
gold-bearing ledges of Red Mountain are
the only ones that are being developed at
present— arc producing large quantities of
oro which is carefully assorted and classi-
fied us first, second, and third grades, the
yield of which will rango from §15 to §200
per ton. The quartz occurs in such vast
quantities that the process of extracting it
resembles quarrying rather than mining.

Dec. 28th : Yesterday, 10 bars of bullion,
of the average fineness of .950, and valued
at §12,717.33, were brought into this city
consigned to W. S. Gage & Co. They were
produoed by the Centenary mill iu the dis-
trict of Newark.

A White Pine correspondent writes :
While the mills hero are engaged in crush-
ing lots of ore from various mines, with
about the average results, the mines are be-
ing opened with a fair, and, in many cases,
with encouraging prospects. The high
prices of labor, however, (§0 per day) now
prevailing, tend to discourage any very ex-
tensive working of claims at present; there
being but little object in getting out ore
whore there are no mills for crushing it.
About ten days ago a streak of very high
grade ore was struck in the Mazeppaclaim,
lying % of a mile south from and about
500 feet below the Eberhardt mine. The
discovery, which is really of importance,
considering the excellence of the ore, its
considerable quantity aud the locality in
which the ledge is situated, caused a great
rush to the neighborhood, where there are
now about 300 men, busily engaged pros-
pecting for and locating claims, more than
100 of which have already been taken up
in the vicinity.

Dee. 31st : Ten bars of bullion were
brought into this city this morning by
Wines & Co's stage from White Pine.

We learned this morning the result of
the working of 90 tons of ore produced by
the Aurora mine — not the Consolidated —
of White Pine. The lot yielded' six bars
of bullion, valued at §10,607. The Aurora
was bought by the brothers Stanford, of
California, on the 12th inst, and we were
assured that there were on its dump a few
days ago, 300 tons of ore, the estimated
value of which was §223 per ton. The 90
tons of ore which produced the six bars of
bullion are represented to have been taken
from the mass of the mine without any as-
sorting.

[For late news from White Pine, see an-
other page of this paper.]

WASHOE.

[In the Stock Circular, in another portion
of this paper, will be found late mining
news from this district. ]

Virginia Enterprise, Dec. 29th : The Yel-
low Jacket Co. yesterday morning shipped
by Wells, Fargo & Co., eight bars of bull-
ion, weighing 614 pounds, valued at §17,-
686.99.

A drift for the opening of a new level
at the depth of 1,080 feet from the surface
has just beeu started in the Imperial-Em-
pire shaft.

Dec. 30th : The new shaft of the Ophir
is now down nearly 600 feet.

Jan. 1st : The Savage Co. yesterday
shipped, per Wells, Fargo & Co., 13 bars
of bullion, valued at §21,796.34, and weigh-
ing 815 pounds.

Jan. 3d : The total shipment of bullion
from this city and Gold Hill during the
past week, was 5,416 pounds, worth §149,-
406.68.

Gold Hill News, Dec. 28th: A good
body of pay ore is developed and being
worked in the Alpha mine, at the 900-foot
level, being the same good streak found in
the Imperial at the same level. It is about
five thick, and lies next the east wall of the
ledge.

The Pioneer mill at Silver City was re-
cently started u '.

NEW MEXICO.

Santa Fe Gazette, Dec. 5th: Bich silver
mines have been discovered by a prospect-
ing pjarty in San Andreas Canon from La
Mesilla. The prospectors report most ex-
travagant stories in regard to their rich-
ness.

The Albuquerque Review gives the fol-
lowing: Wm. Brentlinger, of Beal de- Do-
lores, reports further development of min-
eral at the Placeres, that Geo. G. Brown,
after examining the prospect, has deter-
mined to remove his quartz mill from the
Moreno mines thither, and it is now en
route, that a new silver lead, south of Beal
de Dolores, assayed 240 ozs. to the ton on

one trial, and over 600 ozs. to the ton on
another.

A letter dated Sorocco, 22d inst., says:
Subbell and Chavez came into town last
night from the mines. They brought in
the ptvei .us metal, and have now 300 tbs.
of it that, is at least 60 per cent, of clear
silver. Tho minis referred to are west of
the Magdalene Mountain.
ORECON.
Portland OregoaUm, Dec. 19th: L. W.
Feltou, who has just returned from a trip
through Southern Oregon, showed us yes-
terday a specimen of almost pure copper,
obtained from a creek in the Bohemia dis-
trict. He represents that a company has a
large lode near where this specimen was
found, which is believed to be almost pure
copper.

The mines on tho Grand Boudo river
continue to yield good wages to the few
who are at work.

The Dalles Mountaineer gives the follow-
ing from Canon City: Several new claims
have lately been opened on Pine Creek,
near Carion City, which promise from the
prospects to pay well. The quartz mill of
Williams & Co. has arrived and will soon
be set up and put in motion. The location
is about three miles east of town, near the
Prairio Diggings.

WYOMINC.
Sweetwater Mines, Dee. 12th : There are
many gulches in the Sweetwater country that
have not been worked at all, which will, in
all probability, be worked next year.

There have been but two or three compa-
nies at work urron Bock Creek, this year,
and they have worked upon the claims
which were abandoned last spring, but their
labor has been so amply rewarded that oth-
ers have been excited, and now the whole
gulch is relocated for three or four miles
below Atlantic City, and two or three miles
above the town. Undoubtedly the whole
gulch will he worked next year, and a large
amount of dust taken from it.

J. M. Neall, who arrived recently from
the mines, brought with him two of the
most beautiful nuggets that were ever seen
in any country. The larger weighs nearly
five otinces, and the smaller one about four
ounces. They are of bright, pure gold,
and were taken out while working with a
long torn in spring guleh.

We were shown 61 ounces of beautiful
gold dust, at the bank of Tiernan At Wil-
liamson, recently. The dust came from
the placer mines on Sweetwater, and was
of very fine quality.

We were shown some fine specimens of
quartz this morning from the Nugget and
Hartford lodes, in Sweetwater. The ore
will prospect from 20 to 30 cents to the
pound. The lodes are located in Shoshone
district.

[Written for the Mining and Scientific Pross.]

N. Y. Society of Practical Engineering.

MODEEN IHTEOVEMENTS IN MINING.

A regular meeting of the above named
organization was held at the usual place,
Cooper Institute Building, New York city,
on Tuesday evening, Dec. 8th, the Presi-
dent, James A. Whitney, in the chair.

Mr. Wm. B. Harrison read the regular
paper of the evening, the subject being
" Modern Improvements in Mining."

The writer sketched the progress of this
class of mechanism in the various phases,
from the primitive wash-bowl to the im-
proved machinery of modern times. The
employment of new explosive materials in
the operations of miniug, tunneling, etc. ,
was considered at some length, after which
the writer explained the structure, opera-
tion and resultant advantages of the pump-
ing machinery commonly employed in
England and the United states in deep
mining.

The verbal consideration of the subject,
which followed the reading of the paper,
related mostly to the mining of the precious
metals. A. W. Hall, of New York city,
stated that during his mining experience in
the Bocky Mountain gold-bearing district,
the greatest difficulty encountered had been
in the separation of the gold particles from
the black sand, in which they occur. This
separation was the most effectually secured
by the common method of amalgamation, a
process which has of late years been greatly
improved by the application of the mercury
as a coating on copper, this mode effecting
a great reduction in the quantity of mer-
cury required. The speaker also described

an amalgamating device of his own inven-
tion, with which he had secured very good
results. In this apparatus the pulverized
ore, suspended in water, is carried by the
current through a syphon furnished at the
lower extremity of its long arm, with an
elbow or bend. This elbow forms a kind
of receptacle or chamber, which, being
filled with mercury, the ore is carried
through the latter, and thus the amalgama-
tion of the gold is brought about

A gentleman present, who statod that he
had passed some years in California, gave
an interesting description of the system of
hydraulic mining in use in tho above named
State, and doubtless familiar to all or most
of the readers of the Mining and Scientific
Press.

A member explained the calcination and
treatment of sulphurets containing precious
metals, as ordinarily carried on. He also
mentioned the necessity of pulverizing cer-
tain silver ores in a dry condition, and rec-
ommended for this operation the apparatus
consisting of stamps working in an air-tight
chamber, from which, by a strong blast of
air, tho fine particles are carried to another
chamber, where, being allowed to settle,
they are collected for subsequent treatment
to separate the silver.

Dr. J. V. C. Smith, ex-Mayor of Boston,
gave a brief but interesting account of a
personal interview with* the celebrated
Humboldt, in which the latter stated that
the immense expenses of ike Bussian gov-
ernment were sustained in no small degree
by the products of the gold mines in the
Ural Mountains.

Dr. Smith also described an antique tur-
bine wheel which he had seen in operation
during his travels in the Orient, in one of
the valleys of Anti-Lebanon. The Arab at-
tendant asserted that wheels of this kind
had been used by his forefathers from time
immemorial.

This discussion was kept up with much
spirit and interest until the hour for ad-
journment, but related mainly to minor
points concerning the subject in hand. At-
tention was called to the fact that the flut-
ter-wheels employed in the Sacramento
Valley are identical with the Persian wheels
used in remote antiquity for raising water
upon the banks of the Nile and the Ganges.
It was also remarked that among barbarous
people the mining of precious metals is
confined to obtaining them from where de-
posited in a simple metallic form, while the
operations in the same line among enlight-
ened races the greatest and most profitable
results are secured by costly and complex
processes and elaborate machinery for
separating the minute particles from their
combinations with other materials.

The society adjourned for two weeks,
after the announcement from the chair that
the stated subject for the following meeting
would be "The Prevention of Disasters at
Sea."

Co-opeeation. — John Stuart Mill has re-
cently written a letter upon this subject to
the Illustrated News, in which he makes use
of the following language : "I am quite of
the opinion that the various forms of coop-
eration (among which, the one most widely
applicable at present to production, as dis-
tinguished from distribution, is what you
term the system of small percentage part-
nerships) are the real and only thorough
means of healing the feud between capi-
talists and laborers, and while tending to
supersede trade unions, are meanwhile a
natural and gradually increasing corrective
of their operation."

"Bouebooze." — The new French gas
light under this name is thus prepared :
Coal-gas, intimately mixed with atmos-
pheric air, is urged by gentle pressure
through a tube, and passes through a metal
plate full of little holes. Many jets are
thus formed, which, after being driven
through a fine tissue of platinum wire, are
lighted. The platinum soon becomes
white hot, and so brilliant that the eye can
hardly bear it. One cubic metre of gas is
consumed per hour.

The Union Foundry of San Francisco
will furnish the machinery for the grain
elevator at South Vallejo.

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gall Francisco:

Saturday Morning, Jan. 9, 1869.

Notices to Correspondents.

Baeometek. — No reason seems to have ex-
isted for predicting that the present win-
ter would be a very dry one, and conse-
quently adverse to the growth of the
forthcoming wheat crop. On the con-
trary, as far as ordinary appparances have
occurred, reasoning from the analogy of
former years, at least an average rain-fall
for the seasons 1868-69 might fairly be
anticipated. Our rain-fall, and the gen-
eral hygrometric state of the atmosphere,
is usually found to depend so much upon
the direction of the wind, rather than its
specific gravity, that the useful instru-
ment whose name you have assumed as a
nom deplume has, with many in (his State,
almost fallen into disuetride. Occasions,
however, occur sometimes iu which the
indications of that valuable instrument
may be studied by the working farmer to
great practical advantage. A very in-
structive lesson of the kind has taken
place during the current week, the first
part of which, to all external appear-
ances, threatened a very heavy and con-
tinuous rain-fall. Owing, however, to
the denser condition of the atmosphere
as indicated by the barometer, we were
only annoyed with dense fogs, which
cleared off as the sun became more pow-
erful and approached its meridian. * *
As these remarks were written during the
fine days of the commencement of the
week, superficial observers may imag-
ine that the observations made have been
negatived by the rain-fall which took
place on Thursday evening, which, how-
ever, did not occur until a fall in the
barometer had taken place, and even with
that fact the pluviose element ceased on
the appearance of day.

H. W. O. M., Boise City, I. T.— The name
of the gem is not chisoprase, but chryso-
prase; the magazinist referred to being at
fault. Your Greek scholars will have no
difficulty in finding the roots of the lat-
ter word. The mineral is a leek-green,
translucent quartz, more properly chal-
cedony, colored by nickel. From chrys,
gold, and prase, leek,

Communications have been received from
"C. H. A." Owen's Biver; from "H. M."
Boise City. "P. S. " Batopilas, Mexico,
is in type and will appear next week.

L. O, Monitor, Alpine County. — Your
suite of rocks and minerals met with in
your tunnel, is interesting, and will be
attended to.

The New Mints. — During the past year
the Branch Mint building at Carson City,
Nevada, has been completed, and the nec-
essary machinery and fixtures have been
forwarded. The new Mint at San Fran-
cisco will not be long in getting into oper-
ation. Its cost is estimated at upwards of
a million of dollars. The entire deposits
at the Branch Mint in San Francisco, were
formerly in imparted bullion; now nearly
two-thirds of the amount is deposited in
bars refined by private establishments.

Amalgamation with the Aid of Elec-
tricity-The Nolf Process.

"We are enabled, this week, to furnish our
readers with something more definite re-
garding the Nolf electro-metallurgical pro-
cess, whereby an electric current is brought
to bear to facilitate the desired chemical op-
erations in pan amalgamation, under con-
ditions in many respects nearly identical
with the Patio Process. Such is Mr. Nolf 's
invention, — reference to which, in our col-
umns, will be remembered in connection
with a notice of experiments that have been
making at the Union Foundry under the
auspices of Mr. Pioche, the especial patron,
and substantial abettor, of the process.

A number of metallurgists and mining
engineers were present, at the somewhat
extensive works whi«h have been called in-
to existence for especial development of this
process, on an extensive working scale, at
the corner of Valencia and Seventeenth
streets (Mission), on Tuesday last, to
witness the first public test of the principles
whose practical application to meet our
great recognized metallurgical want — a pro-
cess of gold and silver amalgamation with-
out roasting in presence of base ingredi-
ents— has occupied the close attention of a
number of very competent men that we
know of, for months, and even years, so far
as Mr. Nolf is concerned; and the results of
which are now given to the public in a
manner so definite, and so plainly indica-
tive of entire confidence on the part of the
experimeuters, who have thoroughly tried it
all, and of financiers, too, that we feel justi-
fied in calling attention to the process as one
certainly promising a great deal on that
ground alone; and as worthy, in virtue of
its importance, of the examination of all who
may be in a position to derive benefit from
the attainment of so important a desider-
atum.

But the process is really well founded
theoretically, on incontrovertible principles
of science, and in a most interesting de-
partment thereof. It is such as one may take
pleasure in tracing, from useless observed
phenomena into theory, and from generali-
zations into practice, where it may possibly
be worth its millions to the industries of
a people — a practice which links our every
day, money-making pursuits, with the oper-
ating force which lies, as we shall see, at
the very foundation of the philosophy of
all things terrestrial, — to the profonndest
central principle to whose operations
mortal reason has been able to trace the
foundations of chemistry, geology and
physics — the very ultima thtile of sci-
ence, where we become alchemists again,
like our metallurgical predecessors the
fathers of civilization in the middle ages,
but on a basis of enlightened and estab-
lished truth; a field where, in apprehend-
ing the electrical nature and characteristics
of the affinities between simple ele-
ments, we find ourselves at the boundary,
still groping in darkness, where we dis-
cover analogical principles governing the
birth and procedure of vegetable, animal and
spiritual life. We arrive at the great and
mysterious first principles of the Positive
and Negative, the giving and the receiving,
the masculine and feminine principles, which
exist as the fundamental moving cause
throughout all nature; from electricity, the
attendant and equivalent of all chemical
action, to like material manifestations
of a more subtle character, concerning
the higher laws of which we are not yet
able to generalize.

It was Becquerel, the renowned author of
"Traile experimentale de V ectricite el du
magnetisme" (1834), who, in the midst of
his enthusiastic labors in this field, first
sought to take advantage of the facts that ar-
tificial electricity will facilitate not only
chemical decomposition of compound sub-
stances, but also re-combiuatioos, under
certain conditions ; that the metallic ele-
ments are all relatively to each other posi-

tive and negative, in the order (according
to Berzelius and others) , from positive to
negative, of the earths, zinc, iron, lead,
tin, bismuth, copper, nickel, silver, anti-
mony, mercury, platina, gold; being con-
ductors of electricity, and of heat, in nearly
the same order; that when they are put
together in a tub, and a current of elec-
tricity is led through the same, they are
attracted and caused to move, relatively
and respectively towards the positive and
negative poles, in the same order and rela-
tion to each other.

Non-metallic elements observe the same
law ; the simplest illustration of which is
the decomposition of water in putting the
positive and negative wires into it, the oxy-
gen gas gathering around the positive pole,
and the hydrogen around the negative, so
that they may be caught in inverted glass
bells, and tested, by burning separately,
showing a difference of color in the flame,
etc.

The salient laws, touching this electro-
metallurgical process, were developed,
however, by numerous others besides Bec-
querel. It was only in 1S00 that Galvani
and Volta discovered galvanism - chemical
electricity — ; then Brignatelli made a long
list of experiments showing how the fluid
would decompose different salts, transfer-
ring the elements to different poles ; and
Cruikshank, the discover of the galvanic
battery, observed how the metals in acetate
of lead, sulphate of copper, nitrate of sil-
ver, etc., were separated out, or "revived,"
as the expression was.

Becquerel established metallurgical works
at Grenelle, near Paris, and labored enthu-
siastically in the attempt to make some
practical use of these remarkable princi-
ples, but without success by the dollar
criteriou (which governs metallurgy as in-
evitably as does natural law)— and others,
both wise and unwise, have tried it since,
with various results, the history of which
would occupy too much space to be gone
over in this connection. Dingler's Poly-
technic Journal, and the Berg mid JERtten-
mannisclie Zeitung have had accounts of re-
cent attempts . iu Europe. The Mining
and Scientific Peess, page 306, Vol. XI,
contains an account of various trials in
connection with amalgamation, at Gold
Hill, and other places in Washoe, at differ-
ent times, and within a few years. Amongst
the experimenters were John A. Scott, S.
Kean, B. B. Norton, Col. Brevoort, and
others, both in this city and in the State of
Nevada.

Mr. Nnlf is not a new experimenter in
this matter. He has been coguizant of all the
difficulties that were encountered, and has
labored with very creditable perseverance
in his endeavors to overcome them. He
was himself a pupil of Becquerel's, from
■whom he proudly acknowledges that he ob-
tained his ideas, while his own success and
the credit- to which he is entitled, are to
depend on the degree of making the
same practically and economically availa-
ble. How far California will be indebted
to Mr. Nolf, we hope to be able to show
hereafter, by further details of practical
tests at his works, than we are able to find
room for at present.

The establishment at the Mission consists
of a large working room; a pan, or rather a
tub, being of wood, of large size, to con-
tain and manipulate the ore; a very power-
ful voltaic battery, of about forty vessels,
arranged on a table along one of the walls;
a laboratory in an adjoining room; a num-
ber of tanks outside, to wash the amalgam;
and numerous tubs, tanks, crushers, with
assaying tools, etc.

Asan illustration of the basis of the process,
our attention was first called to an interest-
ing experiment, made with some quicksil-
ver in a large porcelain dish containing also
salt water. The two poles, represented by
the two wires of the battery, were brought
into the salt water on opposite sides of
the quicksilver; the result was, that the me-
tallic substance eagerly ran to the negative
pole, and followed it wherever it went.
Then the negative pole was taken out, and
the positive pole put into the middle of the
quicksilver bath; immediately its surface
began to tarnish, to coat over, whitening
and becoming variegated with chloride of
mercury (calomel, Hg2 CI) which increased
so rapidly that it must fiually have de-
stroyed the quicksilver. But the wires

were now placed again as at the beginning,
and in half a minute, with a little stirring
from the negative pole, the calomel was en-
tirely decomposed, and the quicksilver was
as bright as ever. During all this there
was a very distinct smell of chlorine gas,
arising from the decomposition of Na Cl of
the salt water. It was remarked, as a point
that might have some influence in the Nolf
process, that the separation of chlorine
might leave the sodium in a condition to
form sodium amalgam ; but it is doubtful
as to whether the sodium would not be in
an oxidized, rather than iu a metallic con-
dition.

Next a quantity of sulphate of copper
was poured into the dish. While the electric
current was applied, no result was observ-
able, but from the time it was removed it
was not long till the quicksilver was almost
entirely destroyed by the chemicals: the
coating being darker and thicker in this in-
stance than in the previous one, and the
destruction more rapid. Here bi-chloride
of copper (Cu Cl) was formed, with the cal-
omel on the surface of the quicksilver, and
sulphate of soda in the solution. The wires
were now applied once more, and in a few
minutes the quicksilver bath was as clear as
before; the effect of the electric current
having been to reduce the bi-cbloride of
copper to the sub-chloride (Cu2 Cl), which
is harmless to the quicksilver. Electricity,
therefore, prevents the formation of
the destructive bi-chloride of copper in
amalgamation, or if the same be formed, re-
duces it.

As the chemicals used are the same, in
operation and in fact, as the salt and the
magistral used in the patio process, these
experiments will be admitted to have a defi-
nite value. It is true that the chemistry
of the patio process is explained in half a
dozen different ways; but the ordinary one
is that the bi-chloride of copper acts on the
sulphide of silver, and the elements inter-
change, forming sulphide of copper, and
chloride of silver : (Cu Cl+Ag S=Cu S+
AgCl).

Concerning the operations in the pan or
tub, there were put in 700 pounds of Ala-
cran (Copala, Mexico) ore, consisting of
mixed sulphurets of iron, copper and sil-
ver; a very complex, refractory, roasting
ore, which cannot be treated at all by the
patio process. After 20 to 24 hours of
working with this ore, they have obtained
80 per cent, of the fire assay. On a smaller
scale they have obtained 92 per ceDt.

The tub is, of course, insulated as well
as the battery, standing on glass plates. A
simple stirring apparatus revolves in the
tub (by hand power- at present) and the
negative wire connects with this, being so
arranged that the current runs down on
the copper covering of the stirring arms,
and thence passes through the pulp to the
inner surface of the tub, which is copper
lined, for the purpose of affording a con-
ductor. The bottom is of wood.

In working, the quicksilver being at the
bottom, and there being no grinding, little
particles gradually become detached by
mechanical mixture with the pulp, and fol-
low the stirring arms in virtue of their
electrical attraction till the entire pulp has
been searched, and the amalgam finally is
collected as much as the friction will ad-
mit, on the stirrers.

There was an evident tendency of the
amalgam formed in the tub towards the
stirring arms, or negative pole. It could
be sliced off, after a few hours, with a
knife. On accumulating to a certain thick-
ness, some of it would fall off, but the
electric action is in no wise hindered, — on
the contrary strengthened, by the thick-
ness of this coating, precisely as is the case
in the electrotyping process, — which might
have been referred to in many other re-
spects in illustration of the principles here
described.

Of the actual chemical decompositions
that took place in the pan, we may say
something hereafter, though that question
can scarcely be met by anything more than
conjecture at present. We know that chlo-
rides are first formed, and these are then
amalgamated.

In washing the pulp, after amalgamation,
it is run over copper plates charged from
an electric battery. The little particles
which are ordinarily so apt to be washed
away, are thus powerfully attracted to the
copper plates and easily induced to sepa-
rate themselves from baser substances.

We intend to report the progress of this
important process from time to time.

Office Removal. — The office of the Mo-
hawk and Montreal Mining Company, Ne-
vada County, has been removed to this city,
No. 414 California street, by vote of the
stockholders.

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25

California Petroleum and its Utilization.

Reference was made a few weeks ago to
the non-utilization of onr Cftlifornii
lonm, while thousands ofborrela <>f it might
be had in the market at a wry short notice,
from the southern coast. Whatever the
roal difficulty was, the significant fact ro-
mained nndispnted. "\\'c stated that tho
California petroleum was heavier than tho
Eastern, anil that objections hail been made
to it on the ground of its showing a greater
liability to smoke. It is claimed by those
whoso opinion is entitled to respect, that
California petroleum is in reality as good
as the Eastern for lighting purposes; that,
having more body, it will barn longer, and
at the same timo fully as brightly as tho
Eastern.

A little chemical information about the
separation of the oils into their constituent
elements, will best illustrate the position of
things. Oils aro called hydro-carbons, bo-
ing combinations in varying proportion of
the carbon, or coal-ingredient, of vegeta-
ble growths, with hydrogens; and some-
times there is a small amount of oxygen
added, which does not necessarily belong
to the natnro of oils. Whether fixed, fluid,
or gaseous, their nature is still the same —
tbey are hydro-earbons, or carbureted hy-
drogen, in slightly varying combinations of
the two elements.

The explosive gas in coal mines, — which
may be heard issuing from solid coal with
a faint crackling noise, — is CH2; the bad
smelling gas of swamps and ditches, where
there is decomposing vegetable matter, is
quite the same, but harmless because vm-
eonfiued. Coal lying long exposed in open
heaps becomes less valuable on account of
this spontaneous distillation. When the
carbon doubles, making C2H2, as is the
case in the olefiant (oil-making) gas of
the laboratories, the burning produces a
brighter light, as there is more carbon to
become incandescent in the act of burning
with hydrogen, while hydrogen alone would
make only a faint blue flame.

The distillation of these carbureted hy-
drogens from vegetable bodies, is a con-
stant process of nature. Thesame thing
is done artificially in making coal gas, for
lighting, wrhich contains, besides carbureted
hydrogen, also carbonic oxide (CO) hy-
drogen, and nitrogenous " azote," in vary-
ing proportions.

It has been maintained by Silliman and
others, that the California petroleum is not
a product of the dry distillation or carbon-
ization of coal deposits. Autiseli and other
authorities hold that the Pennsylvania oils
are, however, derived from the adjacent
coal beds by a perfect process of natural
distillation.

Asphaltum is nothing but oil, thickened
after the disappearance in the air of the
more volatile ingredients, called petroline
and naphthaline. The ordinary asphaltum
is usually mixed, to a large percentage,
with vegetable and miueral substances.

When fine distinctions are attempted, the
chemistry of oils becomes an extensive and
complex subject. A little difference in the
proportions makes a substance frequently
having marked variations as to its charac-
teristics. Parajfiuc is tile name given to
the product crystallizing like fish scales,
which results from distillation of organic
substances at temperatures below a red heat;
its composition being C-"H21. When the
temperature rises to 3i0° and -1-00°, the oils
obtained contain creosote, called carbolic
acid when it crystallize-;.

The heavier oils obtained by distillation
contain a singular organic product, first
discovered by Fritsche and Runge, which
was called by them "Aniline," possessing
the property of giving, with certain re-
agents, the magnificent colors which are
now universally used to dye textile fabrics
for ladies3 wear.

Asplialtine, C-0Hl,',O, is another of these
special products, which particularly char-

acterizes California petroleum, while Par-
afflne is the sp oi ! cl aracteristic of the At-
lantic petroleum. It has simply less hy-
drogen than paraffine, and is partially

oxidized. It is identical with Petroline
iC-"H!,'i except that it is oxidized, and is
therefore solid and fixed, while thd former
is fluid ami volatile.

The cause of this chemical dillVrcnce
between California and Atlantic petroleum
may be found in a diilerent modification of
tho natural manner of distillation by which
they were produced, and by tho degreo of
oxposure to tho air, as well as, perhaps, by
tho nature of the vegetable substances from
which they were derived; which in Cali-
fornia were of tho Tertiary Age, while in
Pennsylvania they were of the Carbonifer-
ous, embracing plants of widely different
orders.

The discontinuation of the several petro-
leum refining establishments, which were
in operation in San Francisco some time
ago in connection with Hayward <fc Cole-
man's, Stanford's, and the other oil firms,
was owiug to the fact that Eastern petro-
leum could be put in tho market at a
cheaper price than the figure at which Cal-
ifornia petroleum could be refined. More
definitely speaking, the price of sulphuric
acid and caustic soda in this country has
been too high to admit of carrying on re-
fining with profit. Therefore it has been
abandoned for the present.

Concerning the status of petroleum en-
terprise, the bulk of it is concentrated in
the San Buenaventura Commercial, Manu-
facturing and Mining Company, incorpor-
ated with a capital of two and a half mil-
lions, and owning all the springs and wells
at Santa Barbara, embracing large tracts of
land selected with regard to its petroleum
indications, — excepting the Ohai well, sit-
uated further inland. This company is at
present quietly awaiting the issuance of a
patent for some of the lands which have
been decreed to them by a late decision of
the United States Supreme Court at Wash-
ington. Leases have been held by Stan-
ford, and by Hayward & Coleman, etc., for
a limited period.

The burning of petroleum is still a ques-
tion which attracts much interest and atten-
tion from engineers in the East and in Eu-
rope. Eoot's and White's burners are the
only ones that have been tried in Califor-
nia, to any extent. The former made use
of steam and common air, which were
pumped into the burner by means of an
air pump, the steam being decomposed by
combination of its elements with vaporized
oil. A long report has been made, giving
the results of experiments and workings at j
the iEtna Iron Works.

White's burner was in operation for three
months at Hanscom & Co's foundry. The
necessity for pumping is avoided by its use,
but the chemical operation is the same as
in the Foot buruer. Steam is first con-
ducted through a cylinder containing glow-
ing iron filings, which separates it into hy-
drogen and oxygen; the resulting gas then
enters the burning cylinders where it meets
the vaporized oil. The addition of so much
hydrogen to the carbureted hydrogen gas
filling the cylinder, furnishes a burning
material capable of giving the most intense
heat, in burning with the oxygen of the air
through nipples regulated by suitable stops
in the upper part of the cylinders, whence
the flame strikes against the boiler. Two
gallons of water are thus burned, to one of
oil, and about 20 per cent, of the heat ob-
tained is considered to be derived from the
burning of the hydrogen of the water. The
engine at Hanseom's was 25-horse power;
the oil used 6J^ to 8 gallons an hour, at
7% cents per gallon, making §7.20 in 12
hours. No fireman, or attendant of any
kind, is required with this burner, more
than in the use of a lamp. Comparing the
cost of coal required in order to perform
the same service, it was found that one ton
of slack coal or screenings (the cheapest
and poorest quality of coal), costing $6.75
a ton, furnished about the equivalent as to
power ; but a firemau being required, tho
inventor claims an advantage of 45 cents a
day in favor of the petroleum burner.
Wood being used in Nevada, costing 810 a
cord; at about ten cords a day, making
8160, it is estimated and claimed by Mr.
White, that $7 to $8 a day could be saved
in each mill by the use of petroleum
shipped from Santa Barbara.

Mr. Mnnry, lately n ilerk In a hotel ill Culiax. I- re-
located in <-;tll in tin- niili-i- i,i' ihe Mining ami SoiiuRirto
114 clay street, belovr Bansome, Ban Francisco.

'i.— l»r J. u. I'alnn. Dontlst, Wndawortb Qooao,
x.i. u:\-i Buall Blrei i. Uelwecn Ills Uocldontaland Cosmopoll.
s in Francisco. tflvlMm

' is T..> nt — Drs. Jesaup a Beers, ovor Tucker's
noro, mi- now making a soeclaltyol Mllngtiio
fans dead Teeth, and bnUdtug up broken orowns with
pwrefloM— thus restoring them tt> their original usefulness
mill beauty, Thej are alwi using Nitrous Oxide for Ihe
painless extraction of Teeth, when bo desired— the i a\s ab-
solute!) miii- annsthetlc ever discovered in breathing it,
ItaotsAsagentlestlmulant, without undue excitement,—
tho sensation produced being truly delightful, the effect
upon Hi, lungs healthful, ami In Its results positively free
from all danger. Prepared and administered dally nt the
Dental a naol Messrs. JHS&ur A BBE8B, corner Mont-
gomery mid Hatter Directs. San Francisco. liivtcif

P.VIS1 ivll.l.l.lt.

Icle ever attainod in sued nnboundod popularity.—

Satan 'I'l-
Aii article ofgroat merit ami virtue.

. NtinpfiTfil.

We enn lienr toatlmnnv to tho efilencv ot the Pnln Killer.
V'e hit vi« seen Us inaRlc rff'Cls in Bontnlng tho nevnrest
pnln. anil know It to bo a gooil article.— e'irinefmiaff Digpaleh.

A mieeilv enre for pain— in ■ fninilv should be without It.—
Montrril Tmutrript. —

Nothing has yet surpassed Ihe Pnln Riler. which In tho

iiln.it valuable family medicine now in use— TViin. Or</uH.

It has real merit; asnmoana of removing iniin. no meifi-
clne hnsm'nnlreil a reputation enunl to Perry Davis' Pain
Killer. — JVeuppori (/i.y.) oaUy Neim.

Where to Advertise. — Tito attention of traders and
mill machinists in called to the fact that tho Mountain
Messenger, of DownieviUo, Sierra County, possesses many
speeiai advantages as an advertising medium over a ma-
ority of the interiorpress, it being the oitfypnblie jour-
nal published within a radius of sixty miles, in the rich-
est and most populous mining sections of tho State. Its
weekly edition is doublo the average of country papers,
being without the range of large dailies, and having no
competition at home. Its local colums afford many items
for our city cotemporaries, whilo its rates of advertising
are reasonably low lOvittf

GEO. P. EOWELL & CO.,
AMERICAN NEWSPAPER DIRECTORY

Containing accurate lists <>f all the Newspapers and Peri-
odicals published in the United States and Terri-
iorilies, and the dominion of Canada,
and British Colonies of Norlh
America;
Together with a description of the Towns and Cities in
which they are published.

NEW YORK:
GEO. F. KOWELL «fc CO.,

Publishers and Newspaper Advertising Agents,
lO Park Row.

1SC9.

A handsome octavo vo'uinc of 300 pages hound in cloth.
Price, ..... rin- Dollar*,.

A work of great va'ue to Advertisers, Pub'ishersand oth-
ers, who desire information in relation to the Newspapers
and Periodicals of Nurih America.

The edition will bo limited, und persons desiring copies
will do well to send their orders immediately to

GEO. P. JfOWEL.iL <fc CO.,

Publishers and Advertising Agents, iO Paris Row, New
Y.irk, 2vl8-2w

JOHN G-. HODGE &c CO.,

Importers and Wholesale Deal In

STATIONERY,

I.. lit nk Hindis, Tliool Hooks,

PLAYING CARDS,

Wrapping Paper, P iper Rags, etc , clc.
Nos. li'Zit and -f.lt Sunsomc street, corner Sacramento
«5r"Si»ecial attention given to orders irurn Country Met
chants 2vl6enw lop

MAGAZINES.

Per An.

W, E. LOOM IS,

$ i 00

3 00

6 00

6 00

15 00

News Dealer

Uew Vork Ledger.

AND STATIONER,

Hours at Home.-..
3ood Words

Southeast corner s.insomc and

Harper's Weekly..
Ihimney Corner...
L/iierary Album...

London Societv

Allthu Vear Hound
Loudon 111. News..

EASTERN

PEHIODtCALS

By the Year, Month or Number

City

BRASS AND BELL FOUNDER

Cor. Mission and Fremont sts.,

BAH rKANCisCO.

Manufacturer of Brims, Zinc, and Anti-Frlctlonor

Babbet Metal Castings*

CUUHCH AK2> STEAjIHOAT

BELLS,

TAYKRH AND HAND HELLS ARD CONOR,

TIKE ENGINES, FORCE AND LIFT FDMPB,

Steam, Liquor, Soda Oil, Water and Flnnge Cocks, and

Valves of all descriptions, mnde and repaired. Heine and

all other Joints, Spelter, Solder, and Copper Rivets Ae.

Gaugo Cocks, Cylinder Cocks. Oil Globes, steam Whistles,

IIYIIKAULIC PIPES AKD KOZZKLN
For Mining purprwes. Iron Steam Pipe furnished with Fit-
tings. Ac. Coupling Joint* of alUtV*. Particular attention
paid to Distillery Work. .Manufacturer of "Garratt'B Pat-
tent Improved Junrnal Metal."

jgr Highest Market price paid for OLD BELLS, COPPEB
AND BRASS. -£» fi|f

N. W. SPAULDING,

Saw Smithing ami Repairing

ESTABLISHMENT.

17 and 19 Fremont St., near Marhet,

MANUFACTURER OF

SPATJLDING'S

Patent Tooth Circular Saws.

They hnve proved thentnelve*. to he the mo*t
durable and economical Saws In the World.

EACH SAW IS WARRANTED IN EVERY RESPECT.

Particular attention paid to construction of

Portable & Stationary Saw Mills.

MILLS FURNISHED AT SHORT NOTICE,
At the lowest Market Prices.

PACIFIC

Rolling Mill Company,

SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
Established for the Manufacture of

RAILROAD AND OTHER IRON

— AND —

Every "Variety- of" Shafitioef,

Embracing ALL SIZES of
Steamboat Shafts, Crank*. Plnton and Con-
necting KodH, Car and Locomotive Axle*
and Frames

— ALSO —

HAMMERED IRON

Of every description and size.

03- Orders addressed to PACIFIC ROLLING MILL
COMPANY Po.nt Office, San Fran Cisco, OaL, will receive
prompt attention.

B3F- The liicliost price paid for Scrap Iron. SvHSmO''

Crucibles.

The Patent Plumbago Crucible Co,,

Manufacturers of all hinds of

Melting Pots, Portable Furnaces,

CRUCIBLES, and oilier flre-standing Goods,
JSntterMen 'Works, London,
THE MORGAN PATENT CRUCIBLES hove HnIrorm
quality, never crack, withstand the greatest heat withruit
danger; heats more rapidly Ihim any other; change of tem-
perature ha>j no effect on them; stand on the average forty
to fifty pourings.
On hnnd and for sale by the Agents,

A. S. I(AI,[JI»IR «* CO.,
Ivl8-3m9p J»1U Front street, San Frnncisco.

Sheffield Scientific School

Ol" "ITalc CoHeffO, New Ilavcn, Conn.

This department of Yale College, Instituted in 18J0, and
endowed with the National Land Grant iu 1566, furnishes
advanced innlruction in the various branches of Mathe-
matical. Physical, and Natural Science.

The Sclioul is under the direction of the President of the
College, a Hoard of thirteen Professors in different speeiai
tics, and six assistant instructors.

Regular courses of study, leading to the degree of Bach-
elor of Philosophy, conferred by Yale College, arc ar-
ranged as follows: 1— CHEMISTUVAND MltiKKAL'iGY. 2— OlVIL

Engineering 3— Mkchanical Enciwkkk^g. 4— Minino
Engineering and Metallurgy. 6— Aguicultckk. 6 — Nat
oral History and Geology, and 7— Select Oookse,

Advanced students are also admitted to optional courscn,
and if already College graduates, are received as candi-
dates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Tuition, Simper year of forty weeks.

The Libraries, Museums, Laboratories and Apparatus,
accessible to students, arc various and expensive

For copies of the Annual Circular and Report, letirra
may be addressee* to the "Secretary ofttic Sheffield i-cion-
lliic School," New Haven, Conn. 13v!i-b 't>P

26

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinists and Foundries.

PALMER, KNOX & CO.,

Golden State Iron Works,

Nob. 1#, SI, 33 and 35 First Street,

SAN FRANCISCO.

MANUFACTDKK ALL KINDS Of

MACHINERY,

STKA.a E.VGINES AND QVAKTZ 3UU8

DUNBAR'S IMPROVED

tSelt-Axlj'u.stiru? Piston I*ac!teiny;,

Requires no springs or screws; is always steam tight;
without excessive friction, and never

gets slack or leaky. ,

WHEELER & RANDALL'S

BTEW OKL\D£K MD AMALGAMATOR

HEPBURN <fc PETERSON'S

AMALGAMATOR AXI) SEPARATOR,

Knox's Amaltfaiuators,

WITH PALMER'S PATENT STEAM CHEST,

Superior tor working cither GOLD OR SILVER ORES, and
bthe only Amalgamator that has stood the test ol" seven
years' continual working.
bkeuulue White Xrou Stamp Shoes and Dies

Having been cugaged for the past ten years in quartz
mining, and being conversant with all the improvements,
either in Alining or .Milling, we are prepared to furnish, ai
ilie shortest notice, the most perfect machinery for reduc
' -" gold orsi-

rig ores, or saving cither gold or silver.

13vlUqy-tf

IRA P. KANKIK.

A. P. BRAVTON.

Pacific Iron Works.

FLrst and. Fremont Streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Having been established since 1851, we have accumulated
a verv large variety of Gear aud other i'atlerns, whiuu,
without- superior toolsai.it appliances, give u» facilities lor
doing rirst class wurK uncqualed uu tho Pacilic Coast.

Among other things, we manufacture the following;

STEAM en oust es>,

r Marine

Bt?U.Ei;<- Uigli unci LowPiessurc,

Pump, Pipe and Sheet Iron Work of every kind.

Q\iax*tz Mill Work,

Including High and Low Mortars, for wet or dry crushing-

Furnace Irons lor Roasting Ores: Freiberg .Barrels;

Varney's and Wheeler's Amalgamating Palis

aud Settlers; Stamp Shoes and Dies of

best Whito iron; Russia Iron

Screens, etc., etc.

Flour Mill, Saw Mill aud Sugar Mill Work in every variety;

Pumping and Hoisting Machinery; Hansbrow's

Patent Challenge Pump, for Domestic,

Ship and Mining use— the most

approved aud successful

Pump manufactured. s

Castings of every description, Iron and Brass.

We would call especial attention lo "Wright's Patent V;
riahle Cut-oil' Engines, " of which we are the sule utauul
Hirers oil the i'aculc Ooast, under license from the *\ o
ruff & Beach Co., Harttord, Ot. As a simple, effective, fi
saving, Hrst-cUss Euu'ine, this is, without doubt, the best
Engine made in the United States.

Orders promptly attended to. Prices as low as possible
for tirst class wurk, and we mteud lo do no oilier.

UUDDAKJ) tfc CO.

San Francisco, May 1, 1S68. isvltitf

WILLAMETTE IRON WORKS,

PORTLAND, OREGON.

&teain Engines, Boilers,
SAW AND GRIST MILLS,

MINING MACHINERY, WROUGHT IRON SHUTTER
WORK, AND BLACKSMITHING IN GENERAL.
Corner A'orth-Front and E streets,
LSvlMy Ouo block north of Couch's Wharf.

Globe Iron Works,

STOCKTOS, CAL.

KEEP & BAR3-I0N,

MANUFACTURERS OF

(luartx, Saw and Grist, Mill Irons, Steaiu
.Engines, Horse Powers,

High aud Low Pressure Steam Engines, Steamboats and

Propellers, made at short notice.

13vl3tf

J. KKWSUAM.

J. BIGWOOD.

SOUTH BEACH IRON WORKS,

Near corner of King and Third streets, San Francisco.

NAM1X£ EXGIXUS,

AMI ALU KLVna OF

MACHINERY FORGING.
AH kinds of Ship-smithing and Mill work manufactured to
order. Jobbing ut every description promptly attended to.
All work done guaranteed. ISvM-ly

CALIFORNIA BRASS FOUNDRY.

No. 1S5 First street, opposite Minna,

SAN FRANCISCO.

All kinds of Brass, Composition, Zinc, and Babbitt Metal
Castings, Brass ship Work of all kinds. Spikes, Sheathing
Nails, Kuddor Braces, Hinges, Ship and Steamboat Bells and
Oongs of superior tone. All kinds of Cocks and Valves Hv-
draulic Pi|ies aud Nozzles, and Hose Couplings and Connec-
tions of all sues and patterns, furnished with dispatch.

BST PRXCES MODERATE, „ffiff

J. P. GALLAGHER. J. H. WEED V. KING WELL

9vl3-ly

Miners' Foundry

-AND —

MACHINE WORKS
Nos. 245 to 255 Eiust Street,

San Francisco.

ROWLAND, ANG-ELL & CO.,

PEOPBIETOKS,

Manufacturers of Machinery for

(il'AKTZ MILLS,
SAW SIIL.L.S,
POWEEa MII.L.S,

JFIOUB Bill. I. S,
SII6AK BILLS,

PAPEK MILLS

Steam Engines of all Kincs,
Amalgamators of all Kinds.

KISITO PUMPS, HOISTING WOKKS

OIL W JBLL TOOLS, SOCK BSEAKEKS,

— ASU

Machinery and Castings of all kinds, either
of Iron or Brass.

Boilers and Sheet Iron Work in all its
Branches.

shoes and Ikies of While Iron, mnnnf&eficrcd
for and imported toy us expressly for tills pur-
pose, and will last M5 per cent, longer than amy
other uin.de on this coast.

Kussla troll Screens, of nnydefrree of fineness.
We arc the only manufacturers on this coast ol
the

HTOKS ENGINE,
The most compact, simple In construction, and

durable, of any .Engine in use.
W. II. HOWLAKH, M. IS. AA'ttELL,

l$vl4-qr CIUUs PALJIEE,

FULTON

Foundry and Iron Works.

HINCKLEY Ik CO.,

MAHUFACTURE-ltS 0*

© rr !E .A. M JEZJXGTTfJZS,
Quartz, ITlovir and Saw Mills,

Hayes' Improved Stvn.ni rump, Brndte'x Im-
proved (VtiKher, Min I it ir I* u nips,
Amalgamators, and all kinds
of Machinery.

K. E. comer of Tehama and Fremont streets, above How
ard street, San Francisco. 3-qy

IKcAFEE, SPIERS & CO.,

IfiOILEK M A. li 3H 12, (@

AND GEKEKAL MACHINISTS,

Howard dt, between Fretnotit aud Beale. San Francisco.

Flue or Tubular Boilers, wiih plain circular or spiral
courses. Upright Flue or Tubular Boilers, Locomotive and
aud . Marine Boilers, and Wrought Iron Tanks of every de-
scription,

llydranlic Pipe supplied at reasonable rates. In or
Serine, give the quantity of water to be supplied, night of
the fall, and total length of pipe, so as to enable the tirm to
determine the diameter of the pipe and thickness of iron to
be used.

Repairs.— Boilers, Smoke Stacks, Pipes, etc., put in re-
pair Willi promptness.

To Koiler Makers and Machinist,-* in the In-
terior.-The Arm is prepared to furnish estimates of
Boilers, su ply new Heads, drilled and punched, and attend
to the selection and forwarding ol Iron fur Boilers, Pipes
and other purposes.

.Finn*, l>ratvlngs and Specifications.— The firm
is prepared to make out Flans and Specifications, icceive
estimates, mid superintend the Erection of any Machinery
that may he entrusted to their care

To Inventors.— Tho firm is prepared to assist in de-
veloping the plans of those who have the ideas hut not the
practical experience necessary To put the same in form, by
{miking Drawings ot tlu-ir Inventions, giving them the ben-
efit of their practi *;<! knowledge m the const ruction of Ma-
chinery, and unending to the manufacture and introduc-
tion of their inventions. lvUiif

UNION IRON WORKS,
Saci'ameuto.

WILLIAMS, ROOT & NEILSON,

MAN 0 FACTO RKRS OT

■ CROSS' PATENT BOILER FEEDER,

^TEAK ENGINES, BOILERS,

And all kinds of Mining Machinery.

Also, Hay and Wine Presses made and repaired
with neatness, durability and dispatch.

Dunbar's Patent Self- Adjusting: Steam Piston

PACKING, for new aud old Cylinders, manufactured

to order.

Front Street, between X and O streets,

Hvll Sacramento City

THOMPSON BROTHERS

129 and 161 Beale street, between Mission and Howard,

San Francisco.

LIGHT ASD HEAVY CASTINGS,

of every description, manufactured 24vl6qr

JAMES MACKEIST,
COFFERS SI ITU,

SS6 Fremont St., bet. Howard «fe Fal*otb

All kinds of COPPER WORK done to order in the best
manner. Particular attention paid to Steamboat, Sugar
House and Distillery work.

Repairing; promptly and neatly attended to.

13vll

G-. T. PRACY.
MACHINE WORKS,

NOS. 109 and 111 MISSION STREET,
Between Main and Spear.

New and second-hand

Engines and Boilers,

FOB SALE.

Also one first-class Foisting

Engine ; one Unriyht

.Engine, oi entirely

new pattern.

MASOFACTURKR OF

H-atHes, I>rills,

And MILL MACHINERY of
every description.

T» H A. C Y » S

New and Improved
STEAM EKCJIXE

REGULATORS,

The best and cheapest vet in-
vented—manufactured and
for sale. Parties'are in-
vited to examine it
in practical op-
eration.

F. A. HUXTINGTOIU'S

Shingle Machines

Particular attention paid to
Repairing.

THE BISDON

Iron and Locomotive Works.

Incorporated, April 30, 1S6S. Capital, $1,nxi,ono.

Location of Works, Corner Beale and Howard streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Successors toPnciflc Mail R. S. Co. Works at Bcnicia. Coffey

A Kisdon, and Devoe, Uinstnore .t Co., ban Francisco.

Steam Engine Builders, Boiler Makers,

MACHINISTS AND FOUNDKYMEN.
All work in their line attended to with promptness and
dispatch.

S. F. ButhMworth,
Lloyd T. vis,
Jas. Pollock.
Oen. Holladay,

Directors:

Cha-. E. McLnne
John N. Risdun,
Joseph Jlooio.

JOHN N. KTSnON, President.
Joseph Moore, Vice President and SuperimPildent; Chns
E.McLflne, Treasurer; Levis It. Mead, Secretary; Lewi;
Coffey, Superintendent Boiler Works. 2tvi7qy

Phoenix Iron Works.

^mSMNIAJagc^

JONATHAN EITTEEDGE, Proprietor,

Xok. 18 and SO Fremont street, near Market,

UAKUFAGTURKR OF

Fire-Proof Doors, Shutters,

Wrought Iron Girders, and all kinds of Housesniith work,
Bridge and Prison Work;

BANK VAULTS AND MONITOR SAEES,

fOKCtlKG- ASB MACHINE WORK,

Agency for the ISHAH KEY REGISTER BANK AND SAFE
LOCK, the only first class Lock in the
lvl7tf United States

CITY IRON WORKS COMPANY.

CLERC & CO.,
IEON FOUNDERS,

Steam Engine Builders aud Makers or all
kinds of Machinery,

6vllf*ir No. 2S Fremont street, San Francisco.

DR. NESTELL'S
L,XJjN"G- INSTITUTE,

I Branch of the N. X. T^uugr Institute)
So. SIC SUTTEK STREET,

Betivecn Mason and Powell Streets, San Francisco,
For the special Treatment of all Diseases of the HEAD,
THROAT, LUNGS, AND CHEST, by the Inhalation ol"
Medicated Vapwrs at the natural temperature of the air,
etc.

Earnest attention is solicited to this Rational Method of
Treatment, which transmits the remedies, in the form of
Yiipor, directly to the seat of di-ease, instead of by the
round-about way — through the medium of ilie stomach—
and which is conceded to be the only reliable means wrliere-
by an alleviation and cure may be expeeled. My system
ot Inhalation, now well known throughout the United
States and Oanadas, and much of Europe, where thousands
— many of Ihcni lar advanced— have recoveied, claims the
profoundest approval of the medical prule-siuti, and the
timely and candid consideration of those afflicted with
these the most devastating of all earthly maladies.

1'atients attended at the Institute, daily, from y A. M. till
i P. M,

Invalids at a distance, on writing their case, can receive
ihc remedies by Express.

Special attendance out of the city will he charged com-
mcnsuruiely with the time and distance occupied.

All connmioieations must be addressed to

D. D. T. NESTELL, A M., M. D.,
Lang Institute,
No, 516 Sutter Street, ^an Francisco,
21vl7 3mos. California.

Small Pox.

w"c have been shown by Will. Zelner, the best and most
convenient and portable apparatus eontaininsr Chlorine,
lor rooms, which we consider ihe best disinfectant out,
end should advise all housekeepers not lo be without one
Price SI. complete; to be had. with fuM directions, at WJI
ZELNER'S German Drug Store, 18 Gcarvstrecl, 25vl7Jui

uWritten for the Mining aud Seicnlitlc Press.

How Brick Houses may be Built Earth-
quake-Proof.

Editoks Phess : — Permit me to give you
my views in relation to the construction of
brick buildings in the shaky portion of
California. Take the plan of a house 40 x
80 feet, three stories, of 12, 11 and 10 feet.
Make a foundation of 2-inch plank, put to-
gether, every course saturated with hot as-
phaltum and coal tar; break joints, and
fasten -with wooden pins, put in at a little
angle; make the depth 18 inches, or nine
planks, and the thickness 20 inches. By
making this foundation oFplank, you dis-
cover auy rot that might exist in solid tim-
ber, and the asphaltum cement being dif-
fused through the entire timber, will pro-
tect it from decay.

Build upon this foundation your brick
■wall, of sound, strong brick; make the
thickness of your wall equal to the length
of two bricks, or one and a half bricks, with
a hollow of one and a half inches between
the out and inside courses. Every nine
coui'SBS in hight put on a course of head-
ers, running through the full thickness of
the wall, leaving out every alternate one;
then fill in the hollow space with hot as-
phaltum and coal tar cement, aud so con-
tinue to the completion of the walls. The
walls should be capped with timber six
inches thick, and as wide as the thickness
of the wall. This plate will permit the
wooden cornice to be fastened thereto.

Vertical iron rods should pass through
the wooden sill, extend up through the
space between the two walls and pass
through the top plate, secured by a large
iron head at the bottom of the sill, a large
iron washer and nut at top, and placed six-
teen feet apart. I would recommend the
usual vertical angular quoiu plates at each
external angle of the building of cast iron;
horizontal wrought iron rods at the termi-
nation of each story in hight, passing from
flank to flank, and from front to rear, and
passing through the quoiu plates, and to be
fastened thereto. The upright iron rods
should be one inch and a quarter, the hor-
izontal rods one inch in diameter.

The center girder of the first floor run-
ning parallel with the flank walls may be
supported by a wooden arch, made of inch
boards put together with nails, about ten
inches thick and deep, each course of
boards to be saturated with hot asphaltum
cement, and to be a segment of a circle the
entire length of the inside of the building
with strut braces, from the crown to the
underside of the girder for its support.
The feet of this arch should be well fitted at
each end into a heavy wrought iron shoe,
well saturated and imbedded in asphaltum
cement. The two iron shoes should be
joined together by two iron rods, one aud
one-fourth inch in diameter, forming the
chord of the arch. They should also be
imbedded in asphaltum cement, and kej..t
even with the cellar floar.

At right angle to the first girder, and
upon the top of the same, there should be
cross timbers placed about fifteen feet apart,
and in one piece from wall to wall. They
should be so placed in each story, and in
the roof; they should be six inches thick,
and of even depth with the joist. The ends
of the cross timbers and joists should rest
upon bond timbers 4x5 inches; the cross
timbers should be bolted to the girder and
bond timbers with three-quarter inch
wrought iron bolts, aud iron rods three-
fourth inch in diameter, with an eye at one
end to bolt to the end of cross tie, and a
screw at the other end to pass through a
cast iron flange on the outside of the wall .
The inside finish of the house is a matter
of taste and convenience. The side walls
may be plastered as is usually done, but
the ceilings should be finished with board
lining, plain or ornamental. The floors
should be laid in the usual way. There is
no strength gained by laying the boards
angularly. Through nailing of floors is
stronger than secret nailing, but not so con-
venient for the carpenters, nor does the
floor look as well when done with two nail
holes in the floor over each joist to harbor
vermin and dirt, as where the nails are hid-
den.

All timbers should rest upon the walls
where it can be made so, for their weight

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

27

gives 'itrpiif.'lli to the walls; :m<l where thoy
ura properlv iron-fastened to the walls, thoy
establish ■■< a ibrio.

One thing is eertoin — that while <
continue to nso such an excess oi common
lime in thoir mortar, as one tliinl, instead
of about one-eighth, they never can bavea

relied npon.
generally Buit tlnir own convenience, not
the public good, in the preparation of thoir
mortar. Legal statutes only oan uuiku a
change for the better in this respect.

Externa] cornices and ornamental work
should I"' madeof sound and dnrablewood,
and 1 can sec no impropriety in encourus-
ing a proper diffusion of architectural or-
namenta upon the exterior of buildings,
where they are in harmony, begetting pleas-
tiro to tint eye from their natural fitness.

In recapitulate: First — Tho plank founda-
tion put together and saturated (is above,
with hot asphaltum and coal tar cement,
defies decay and promises long endurance.
idly — Tho hollow walls, which ore to
he filled with hot asphaltum cement, so as
to permeate the briCK and mortar, and fill
up all interstices, establishing a unity in
the substance of tho brick walls, such as no
other material known can do at tho same
cost, will resist all damp without, and in-
suro a dry house within.

'J'liirilly — The segment arch for the sup-
port of the center girders instead of piers,
throws tho bearing weight to two places in
the front and rear wall bearings.

Fourthly — Tho vertical and horizontal
iron rods, the binding plate at top of walls,
the cross tie», iron fastened, the angular
quoins and the fiat asphaltum cement roof
combined, will make as firm a structure of
brick as our necessities require.

J. H. White.

Business Cards.

Railway Employees Must Not be
Color-blind. — The necessity for a ready
distinguishing between red and green is es-
pecially evident in the case of railway em-
ployes, who are guided by colored signals
which must be instantly obeyed. Grave er-
rors have been committed by men who were
afterwards found to be totally deficient in
the capacity for making the distinctions,
and who were themselves ignorant of the
fact. In France, the surgeons of the rail-
way companies now subject all candidates
for emrdoyrnent to a careful examination
upon this point.

GEO. E. ROGERS,

(Successor tot;, vv. Bell.)

A. g> Sji A. Y E It ,

51S California lit., San Francisco.

.1. A. MAUH. Acsayer.
Ores carefully Assayed, Gold and silver Ores worked.

'itvlti-iirluour

CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, DRAPERIES,

.sll.lliw, etc. Etc.

LOUIS F. KNIGHT,

■~t ;*- California St., cunt *Ide of Kearny,

SAN FRANCISCO.

I can oiler from the largest and best assorted stock in Hie

city anything In our line,

AT PRICES TO .SUIT ALL.

FURNITURE AND MATTRESSES

Slailc to order.
All kinds or nnuulstcrlng executed with neatness and
dispatch. 9vl7

Patent Brokerage.

PATENT RIGHTS

IS o u»li t -nid Sold on Commission.

A variety of new and valuable Patents for sale, novel and

useful articles, suitable for TRAVELING AGENiS,

always on hand, among which are the following:

Patent Cigarette Koller, and [latent gummed Wrap-
pers for the same. Every one can make their own
Cigarettes, Price $2.50 (Including 400 wrappers.)

WiUnu'ti Patent Solder, for mending tin ware with-
out soldering iron, prepared for family use. Retail
price 50 cents.

Elliptic Steel Scrapers, for cleaning boiler tubes (all
sizes)-bost tiling ever invented for the purpose. Retail
prices from S3 tn Sit).

AOESTS WANT II D.

Address "E. M. D." Post Office box 17, San Francisco.
2ivl7tf

STOCK CERTIFICATES,

STOCK TRANSFER JOURNALS,
STOCK LEDGERS,

ASSESSMENT RECEBPTS,

And all other HI an Its, Blank Books, etc., required by Min-
ing and other Corporations, kept on hand or printed to
order mi short notice, at moderate prices, at ihcoltlccof
the J/mm.7 and Scientific Press.

oeV*EY&CQ

- pj2 *\,EaS AND POB^tyfr-

SAN FRANCISCO.

RODG-ERS, MEYER & CO.,
comm::ls©ichv mekciia.pjts,

Ai)v.v\(i:s m Yin:
On all kimix of Ore*! and unrtlCulifcr attention

PAID TO

CONSIOMUEXTS OF UOOllS.;
trlMm

i ■■ 1 1 i. i b i r.

11. M. GHAY.

N. GRAY & CO..

utvoehtaivers,

6*1 Sacramento St., cor. Wobh, Ban Francisco.

Farmers and Mechanics

No. 32.» Saniorae Street.

Interest paid on Deposit. Money Loaned on Heal Estate.
M. BUTTON, President.
GEO. M. CONDEE Cashier. 19vl6-3m

FKEDEKICK MAN8ELT..

Mechanical & Architectural Draughtsman,

No. 122 California street, corner of Leldsdorff.

Drawings of Models made for parties apply for pa-
ents at Washington or London. ar23-tf.

I> - C - II A. IL, X, «fc C O,. ,

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL

Ale, Porter, "Wine and Liquor Merchant,

912 Market street, San Francisco.
OSJ-City and country orders promptly attended to. Mer-
chants, shippers, and families BUpplfedin large or small
quantities. Uvl7 3m

W. T. ATWOOD,

rUROHASER OF

C0PPEE ORES, BAB3, MATT, Etc., Eto„

SOS Montgomery street,

Koom No. 5, over Parrott & Oo's Bunk, San Francisco.
23vl7qr

Pump Leather.

The attention of MINING COMPANIES, and others re-
quiring a superior article Tor Hydraulic purposes, is invited
to the heavy Oaked Tanned Pump Leather, manufactured
and prepared expressly by the undersigned.

rANH E^

N E.JONES&C? x

Constantly on InmiJ and tor sale by

GBA.Y, JOIVES «Jfc CO.,

Denot of the. Santa Cruz Tannery,
41S Buttery St., Son Francisco.

25vl"-ly

Boiler Scraper and Tube-Cleaner.

*S0TFEI«*

TT IS THE CHEAPEST, MOST
durable, easiest io adjust, and
cleanest apparatus to use lor the
purpose designed, yet offered to
the public. Being constructed on
simple anil imxlianical principles,
it is not liable lo get nut of order.
and will continue to perform iis
ofhee until the materials arc worn
out. It can readily tic adjusted,
even by any Inexperienced per-
son—will scrape oil' (he scales and
cleanse the tubes just as smooth
and clean a« tbey were when
new, witliotit in the least affecting
their Inner surface, as the Elliptic
Spring Scraper has a smooth
square edit-, ami springs In or out
to lit the tubes. It is particularly
applicable for .«leainboal boilers
when muddy water is used.

A continuous Iron rod runs
through the center of the top and
bottom bubs. The soft steel scrap-
ers arc fastened with screws to
the hubs, under the caps, which
cover and protect (ho screws that
fasten the scrapers on the hub.
'flic scrapers are expanded or con-
tracted by screwing or unscrew-
ing the lower hub,— first loosening
tlic cap. There is a collar on the
rod to prevent the scrapers being jammed. An elastic or
fl.-xible brush or semper, madeof lent her, rubber, or some
pliable materia!, is attached to the nut fur the purpose of
removing from the tube the scale and dust loosened by the
action of the scrapers.

These scrapers are made from one to six Inches in diam-
eter—the prices, of tlmsc lYum one to three inches rangllic
from §5 io S12. They are now extensively used in the
E stern States. Quite a number have already been sold in
this State.

For sale by McAfee, Spiers &■ Co , boiler makers, Howard
street, between Fremont and Scale, San Francisco, and at
the Union Foundry, Sacramento. E. M. D., 1*. O. box 17,
San Francisco. Manufacturers' Agents. 24vl7tf

Potita-Ke.— The postage on the Mining and Scientific
Press to any portion of the United States Is twenty cents per
annum, or live cents per quarter, payable in advance at the
Post Otllee delivering the paper. Postage free in the city
and county. Foreign postage (with lew exceptions) two
cents per copy, prepaid. To Bremen and the German
Slates (mark oil via R re men and Hamburg line), three cents
■■"l-cnpy, prepaid. Single copies to any address in the United
Slates, twoconts.

Professional Cards.

J. S. PHILLIPS,

MINING ElVGIirjEEXt, Etc.,

v, Kdswort&BouH Ban Francisco.

Having ii.ni S3 v can experience id ilia partem donart-
mollis nf Mn.ru i ii . .,. iind Uur H. Cornwall

.i1"' loicrlca M'llclta orders for the examination of llln>
oral Propi rti I rouj tn ui ihc North and south Ann rieas;
mini raid o - 1; cd or analyzed; ndi Ice I ir in ni Relating
Metals sola; capital procured lor devel-
oping valuable |< avlTlf

JOHN E0ACH, Optician,

lias romoved from na Btontgomorj street to

5-to Wnablnfton *iret-t,

East of Montgomery.

Surveying pOStiuinenU male, repaired and adjusted

J. SWYNEY,
MA.TMIVE KNGINEER,

SII Moni u-tMin'ry Illoc-h., Stin Frnnclxco.

Is prepared to furnish General Plana, Specifications, and
lull detail Drawing- for propeller or side-wheel steamers,
Iron veasela of ail classes, engines, botlctv, etc. Also for

i nnotlve or stationary engines, and macnlncry In gen-

cral. ah experience of over twouty yearn tn ibis pro.

fesalon enables us to furnish correct drawings and guar-
antee results. 8v17.11

DAYID B. SMITH,

Civil a-TLcl MCecliaiileaL En^iiieexs

Is prepared to furnish Plans, Models, Specifications and
full detail Orawingsfor Steamers and Sailing Vessels and
.Machinery in general.

AfutittMimcry Block.

13vl7-3in

J. M. HAVEIsT,

\TTOK\EY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
Room 35 Merchants' Exchange,

27vlG SAN FRANCISCO.

RADICAL CURE

— OF—

KUPTUKE !

Treatment of all Deformities of the Body, by DR. A.
FOLLEAU'.S process. M24 Washington street, up stairs.
Washington Baths Building, between Montgomery and
Kearny streets.

DR. A. FOLLEAU

Has his studies and manufactories in the same building.

Every kind of Apparatus, Trusses, Orthopedic Instru-
ments. Artificial Limbs, etc., are manufactured and applied
by himself.

ffSfJle has no connection with any Agency. 2lvU-llptf

JAMES M. TAYLOR,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,

Court Block, 036 Clay Street

SAN FRANCISCO.
2vl5-lqy

American Saw Company.

■ IvlO^TOOTHE'

CIRCUWR SA„

-, . cUPERlORTOAUOTHER
■■-'-. , For -pTiVE (t

' -^Addres5^ -'

MAKIJFAOrURlCHS OF

EMERSON'S PATENT
Movable-Tooth mid Perforated Clrcnlar Sawn,

Perforated Mulay, Mill and Cross-Cut Saws, -with
Adjustable Sockets.

SAW-GUMMEBS, SWA&ES, OANT DOGS,

Etc., have established an office for the sale of the above

articles, at

No. fltta front wtreet, San Fi-inicUco.

agy-Descriptivc Pamphlets will be forwarded to any one

5vl7tf

SULPHUEETS ;

What they are;

How Assayed ;

How Concentrated;

And How "Worked;

With a Chapter on the

BLOW-PIPE ASSAY OF MINERALS,

By WM. BAKSTOW, M. O.

Published by A. Roman A Co,, San Francisco.
for sale at thin Office.— Price, One Dollar.

With the aid of Ibis Book, the miner can assay his own
ores, requiring hut few materials, etc., except such as are
generally to be found in the interior towna. 21vl5tf

Eleotrotypk Eng havings. Cms, Etc.— Our Job Printing
Office is abundantly supplied with elegant engravings, or
namenls, and other embellishments t<s suit the various
branches of industry in this State ^

WE ARE NOW OFFERING
otjr, iaxaxEiyssiE stock

OF

Fine Custom Made Clothing

AND

G-ents' Furnishing Goods

AT I'KItfS THAT DEFY COMPETITION.

Our Stock of Clothing Conflict* of
A.X/L THE LATEST STYLES

BOTH Of MATKR1AL AND 1 I M Ml.

A Large Assortment of
Trunks, Valtsea, Carpet Buk«, Elbi.ifc.-i~, lite,

AT KXTKEMKLT LOW I'ltlCKS.

J. It. MT3AD A CO.,

8vl0 Cor. of Washingtun and Sansome strceto.

THE GIANT

POWDEIt COMPANY

Is now prepared to fill all orders for

GIANT POWDER,

Put up In Boxen, cither In Bulk or In Car-
tridges

General Agents,

BAWDMAWW, WIELSOW & CO,,

25vl6-1m 210 Front ctrcct, San Francisco.

SAN FAANCI8CO

IPioiaeep Screen Works,

JOHN ff. QUICK, Manufacturer,

Removed to Vulcan Tron Works, Frcmnnt street, between
Mission and Howard, Sun Francisco.

Screen Punching in all its branches, nt rates reduced
from 25 tn 4H per cent, less than the established rates. I can
furnish Improved Quartz Screens Beveral sizes finer than
any Screen ever punched, giving universal satisfaction,
and for strength, cheapness and durability are not excelled.
Also, Punched Screens of all sizes and fineness made from
nllnualiiics ot maloria), for Quartz. Cement, Flour and
Rice Mills, etc. Screen Punching made a specialty; there-
fore millmen forwarding Iheir orders to me will receive
none but the best. Orders solicited.

N. B —J. W. QirrCK is the onlv competent and successful
manufacturer of Screens in the State, having mmle Screens
for the princinal mills in this State and adjoining Terri-
tories for many years. Quartz mill owners using punched
Screens which have universally failed to give satisfaction,
when visiting the city will please call and see me. 6vl7-ly

California Steam Navigation

KH^ COMPANY.

Steamer CAPITAL CAPT. E. A. POOLE

CrlRYSOPOLiS CAPT. A. FOSTER.

YOSEMITE

" CORNELIA CAPT. W. BROMLET

JULIA CAPT. E. CONCKLIN.

Two of the above steamers leave BROADWAY WHARK
at 4 o'clock P. M. EVERY DAY (Sundays excepted), one
for Sacramento and one tor Stockton, those for Sacra-
mento connecting with light draft steamers for Marysville
Colusa, Obico, and Red Bluff.

Office of the Company, northeast corner of Front and
.lackson streets.

„ „ B. M. HAKTSHORXE,

13vl2 Prenldent.

International Hotel,

JACKSON STREET

BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AND KEARNY STS.,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE IS IN PERFECT
order for the accommodation of guests. Persons seek-
ing comfort and economy will find this tho hest Hotel in
the city to stop at. The Beds are new and in good order,
and the Rooms well ventilated. The Table will always be
supplied with the best in the market.
Priced vnrylnpr from SI SO to $2 per day for

Board and Boom.

FINE BATH HOUSE AND BARBER SHOP ATTACHED

TO THE HOUSE.

USi- Teams belonging to the House will bo in attendance
at all the boats and cars to convev passengers to the House
frbe of ouakg'e, and to any part of the city for SO cents

Hlvl2 F. E. WEYGANT, Proprielor.

Pacific Powder Mills.

SUPERIOR BLASTING AND SPORTING GUN DEH

Black Diamond, in lib canisters.

do do in Wlb canisters.

do do in ,y kegs.

Hunter's Pride, in lib canisters

do do in ^;lb cannier?.

do do In M kegs.

do do in £ kegs.

Pacific Mills River Snooting, in 1th canisters.

do do do in i£lbcan)s(* *

do do do in '.4 kegs.

do do do in W kegs.

do do do In 251b kegs.

Pacific Mills Rifle, In lib canisters.

do do in mib ennfatcrs.

do - do in ii kegs.

do do in % kegs.

do do in 251b kegs.

Blasting and Mining Powder $2 25 per keg.
Safety Fuse and Shot for sale by

HAYWAK1) <fc COLEMAX Ap;<>nl«.
24vl5 3m 414 Front street, Sn Francisco.

Removal and Partnership.

Notice is hereby given, th.it I have removed from my old
stand on Beale street, and have formed a co-partnership
with Mr. A. CAMERON, ror the purpose of carrjing on tho
business of Stair-Building, Wood-Turning and Scroll Saw-
ing. The business will be conducted as formerly at Cam-
eron's, corner of Market and Beale streets, and also atN< s
185 and i'ij Erannan street, where ample steam power and
all uccessary facilities have been provided for every
branch of the business.

Different sizes of Redwood Balusters constantly on hand
for sale. Also Spanish Cedar, Walnut and California
Laurel.

15V17-3U1 N. P. LANGLAND.

28

Tr\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Silk in Los Angeles.

Our old friend Louis Prevost, Esq., of
San Jose, — the silk pioneer, — still lives.
Nothing pleases him better than to recount
the facts which accumulate from season to
season in proof that the picture, drawn by
him three or four years ago, of the future
of the California silk culture, was not too
highly colored. He sends us a letter re-
ceived by him in November, from Thomas
A. Garey, of Los Angeles, describing his
season's work. We give a portion of this
letter, from which it will be seen that nearly
two hundred thousand worms were fed from
ten thousand mulberry cuttings, planted
last spring. In Mr. Prevost s " California
Silk-Grower's Manual," he bases his esti-
mate of profits per acre upon the yield of
trees four years old; but it would seem
that under the peculiarly favorable condi-
tions of soil and climate to be secured in
Los Angeles, the same result may be ob-
tainable in a single year from the planting:

" The first crop of the season was hatched
and fed by D. P. Hall, of San Gabriel.
He states that the eggs commenced hatch-
ing the 15th of April, and commenced spin-
ning the 1st of June, making forty-seven
days from eggs to cocoons. The number
fed at this feeding was 40,000, ' fed from
10,000 cuttings four months from planting. '
The variety, Chinese Annuals.

The second crop of the season I hatched
the 25th of May. Commenced making co-
coons on the 3d of July, being forty days
from eggs to cocoons. Number fed, 20,000.
Vaiiities, Chinese, Turkish and Portuguese
Annuals

The third crop I commenced hatching
the eggs the 5th of July. Commenced
making cocoons August 7th, thirty-two days
from eggs to cocoons. Variety, Japanese
Trivoltines. Number fed, 3,000, from cut-
tings of spring growth.

Fourth crop commenced hatching Au-
gust 31st. Commenced spinning Septem-
ber 26th — twenty-seven days from eggs to
cocoons. Variety, Japanese Trivoltines.
Number fed, 98,000. Fed entirely from
10,000 cuttings between eight and nine
months from planting.

Fifth crop now hatching Nov. 7th. I can
see no reason why they will not do well.
This crop is more experimental than other-
wise. The eggs, as well as the different
crops spoken of above, hatched spontane-
ously, without any artificial heat whatever."

♦ -». ^m- •*- ♦

Inventok's Exchange. — The Scientific
American urges the establishment of a
' ' National Invention Bureau " in New
York. It says: — " What we need is at least
one national collection of new inventions,
where the machines or devices are not la-
belled and filed away in glass cabinets, but
are exhibited in operation, so that ' he who
runs may read.' This can hardly be done
by private enterprise, but should be the re-
sult of association; such an association as
would demand and secure the confidence
of manufacturers, mechanics, inventors,
and others interested. The American Insti-
tute is the proper body to establish such a
bureau in this, the commercial metropolis
of the country. That it can be done with-
out governmental aid, National or State, is
evident to one who has the means of form-
ing an opinion. That it would be self-sus-
taining, and even profitable, there can be
little doubt. Every exhibitor to this per-
petual fair would willingly pay an entrauce
fee for his invention, and a rent for space
allotted to him, and for power employed.
He could well afford it, as the action of his
machinery, governed by his agent, who
should be competent to explain its opera-
tion and advantages, would be a perpetual
advertisement, more powerful than columns
in a daily or weekly journal. Besides this,
the products, or a certain percentage of
them, might be claimed by the Association,
and thus another source of revenue to the
enterprise be opened. Of course, such an
establishment would become one of the
' lions ' of the city. Everybody who visit-
ed New York would think their visit to
have failed of its intent if they did not see
the contents of the Mechanics and Invent-
or's Museum."

Would not something of this kind be
worth carrying out in San Francisco?

Mineral Spuing.— Mr. Firebaugh, of
Sycamore Creek, Fresno County, has dis-
covered near his residence a fine spring,
whose waters are impregnated with alum
and iron.

New Inventions.

FlKE AND EAKTHQHAKE-PKOOF CHIMNEY.

Peter Portois of this city, has applied for a
patent on an invention called " Portois' fire
and earthquake-proof chimney," which is
constructed on novel principles. The flues,
which may be of any number from one to
half a dozen, are round and made of galvan-
ized iron. Outside the flues and separated
from them by a space sufficiently great to
ensure entire safety is a double wooden
box, well painted and fastened together,
and the space between the boxing and. flues
and between the several flues is filled with
a concrete compound of clay, brick, gravel,
etc., which cannot be burned away, and will
not allow the fire or heat from the flues, if
ever so great, to do any damage to the wood
work. The cost of such a chimney would
be 25 per cent, less than that of a common
brick one, and any mechanic can put one to-
gether in a few hours.

The Steam Plow at Okoville. — Speak-
ing of the steam plow in process of manu-
facture at Oroville, the Record says:

The steam plow, now about ready for trial
at the machine shop of Locher in this place,
has all the advantages claimed for the
Scotch invention, viz., lightness, durability,
efficiency of work, and can be afforded
cheaper than the Edinburgh plow. In fact,
we claim for it all that the foregoing article
calls for, and believe that it meets the great
wants of the age — an agricultural locomo-
tive. It can be made to perform all heavy
agricultural work, such as hauling, plow-
ing, harvesting, planting, sub-soiling, and
can be run into the mountains, and em-
ployed for sawing and hauling fencing. It
will be in operation next week, and its suc-
cess demonstrated.

^Patent Globe. — Dennis Townsend, of
Springfield, Vt. , — at one time Superintend-
ent of public schools in Amador County —
has invented a new globe for the use of
schools, which is said to be superior to the
globe now in use, from the fact that it can
be changed from its globular^ orm and used
as a wall map, or folded up and put into an
ordinary atlas. The invention is highly
recommended by the Massachusetts Teacher.

Bailkoad Mail Bag Catcher. ^-The new
mail bag catcher has been adopted on the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Bailroad.
It consists of a rod of iron, with a rod
branching off so as to form a V, in which
the bag is caught. It is ranged across the
side door of a ear; has a handle to be worked
by hand, and a string at one end, so as to
break the force.

Method of Burning Brick.— D. C. Lu-
cien, of this city, has applied for a patent
on a new method of burning brick. Instead
of burning the kilns with wood in the arches,
he lays the bricks up with broken coal be-
tween them, and when the kiln is complete,
sets fire to it at the ba3e. He burned 150,-
000 brick by this process, at a cost of only
S67.50; by the old method the cost is about
$5 per 1,000.

Champagne Tap. — John Foster, of Marys-
ville, has patented an invention whereby
a champagne bottle may be set up like a
keg of lager, and tapped with a miniature
faucet through the cork. When a little
champagne for a cocktail is wanted the fau-
cet is turned.

J. D. Stagg, of Santa Cruz, has invented
a shingle machine that will save the work
of three men.

A gentleman in Beno has invented a new
wood cutting machine, which is said to be
an excellent thing.

Beds of jet black marble exist in Tuol-
umne County.

Governor Blasdel, of Nevada, who
visited this city recently on behalf of the
Aurora Consolidated Mining Company of
White Pine District, entered into a con-
tract with Frank Livingston to furnish for
one year all the ore which a 30 stamp mill,
to be erected by the latter, can work — from
8,000 to 12,000 tons— at ij?25 per ton, being
half of the present White Pine rates ; and
the ores are to be worked by Livingston to
80 per cent, of the fire assay. Gov. Bias-
del estimates the average yield at §100 to
the ton ; so that 10,000 tons would produce
$1, 000, 000.

Polytechnic Society. — The adjourned
meeting of friends of the Polytechnic So-
ciety, to perfect its organization, takes
place at the Mechanics' Institute on Mon-
day evening next.

Agency at White Pine. — Alexander
Bruckman, at Hamilton, White Pine Dis-
trict, Nevada, will act as agent for the
Mining and Scientific Press, in that
locality.

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On the 6tli, 14th, SSc! and 3©th of every month.
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Departure of the 14th is expected to connect with the
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Enplish steamer for South America. Through tickets can
he obtained.

Departure of 14th is expected to connect with English
steamer for Southampton and South America, and Austra-
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Through tickets can be obtained.

STEASIEICS FOR JAEl'AKi:, I860.
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Connecting with ALASKA, Capt. Gray.

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Connecting with ARIZONA, Capt. Maury.
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through— lot) pounds allowed each adult.

These steamers will positively sal] at 11 o'clock. Passen-
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o'clock.

Through Tickets for Liverpool by the Cunard, Intnan and
Natlonalsteainship Lines, can be obtained at the otlice of
the P. M. S. si. Co., San Francisco, where may also be ob-
tained orders for passage froiu Liverpool or Southampton
to San Francisco, either via New York or St. Thomas— If
desired an amount of £10 to £20 will be advanced wilh the
above-orders. Holders of orders will be required to Iden-
tify themselves to the Agents in England.

The Steamship GREAT REPUBLIC, Capt. S. Doane, will
be dispatched on MONDAY, January 4th, 1S6;), at 12 o'clock
M.,from wharf corner of First and Hrannan streets, for
HONGKONG, connecting at Yokohama with the steamer
COSTA RICV for Shanghai.

Ft r Merchandise and Freight for New York and way
pons, apply to Messrs. WELLS. FARGO & CO.

For passage and all other information, applv at the Pa-
cific Mail Steamship Co's office, corner of Sacramento and
Leldesdorff streets

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MECHANICAL AND AECHITEOTUEAL

Drawing- School

— FOR —

APP RE NTICES.

MR. FREDERICK IIELLKKT,
An experienced Draughtsman and Teacher, has opened an
Evening School at No. 414 CLAY STREET (same entrance
as the Mining and Scientific Press Office), where he is giv-
ing thorough instructions in DRAWING to apprentices who
arc inclined to self-improvement. His terms are moderato
and within reach of the humblest apprentice; nnd we are
pleased to say that the enterprise is meeting with success.
lvlS.tf

HAYWARD & COLEMAN,

IMPORTERS AND REFINERS
—OF—

Illuminating, Lubricating,

PAINT OILS,

COXSISTIXG OF

KEROSENE.fLAKD. SPERM, ELEPHANT, POLAR,

TANNERS. NEATSFOOT, BOILED AND RAW

LINSEED, CASTOR AND., CHINA NUT.

— ALS') —

Spirits of Turpentine and Alcohol.

Lamps and Lamp Stock !

An elegant and complete assortment.
SOLE IMPORTERS OF

Deroe's 1 11 u ruinating Oil.

PATENT CANS.
5vI7-tf. 414 Front street, San F"ancisco.

CIG-AR AND CIGARETTE
Roller ii ii tl Wrapper,

This useful Utile article is the GREATEST INVENTION
ofthe age for the benefit of smokers, leducing the cost of
Cigars and Cigarettes toihe mere cost of the T..bacco. Very
convenient to carry in theP"CKKT, pruduciiigno smell, and
adapted to the use of any tobacco. In two sizes and three
styles— Japanned. Brass, and Silver-plated. Sample ma-
chines, wiih 101) wrappers, sent tree ot postage on receipt
of $2. The highest prize awarded at the Fair of the Amer-
ican Institute, September and Occuber. 18(17 For particu-
lars, address II. 0. Witt, 57 Ctdar street, New York.

Beware of infringements. All genuine have my name
printed on the bands.

E. M. DEWEY, Agent for Pacific States, 433 Washington
street, San Francisco. 24vl7-6m

Mining Secretary.

THE SUBSCRIBER, HAYING SERVED FOR THE LAST
five years as Secretary of various mining companies,
feels fully competent to serve in that capacity. Any par-
ties wishing to secure the services of a Secretary can be
accommodated on reasonable terms. Information given,
and all necessary papers correctly made out.

Having had a long experience in the purchasing of goods
and machinery for miners, parties in the mines will find li
to their advantage, w lie re purchasing ;igents are employed,
to send their orders to the undersigned.

.1 M. RUFFINUTO**.
"Room .S7 New Merchants' Exchange, Gallfornin rtrect
Sau fraiicioco 17vl5-*.f

THE CELEBRATED
IMITATION GOLD

$15. Hunting Watches. $20

CASES OP THE

yggyjGOLLBNS METAL ^&//£' i

(IMPROVED OROIDE)

Special BTotlce.— Our superior Oroide Watches hav-
ing recently been imitated, and worthless watches sold in
New York, Boston, Chicago, and other cities, represented
as our watches, we hereby caution the public against tlicm,
and give notice that we are in no "way responsible for tbesc
b^gus concerns, and only those purchasing directly Jrom
ns can secure a genuine Watch of our manufacture. We
hive recently greatly improved our Oroide in appearance
and durability, and, to protect the public from imposition
hereafter, have named it the "COLLINS METAL," and
we give notice that any one mnkin,' use of this name will
be prosecuted to the extent of the law.

This metal hft.1 all the bril'iancy and durability of golds;
cannot be distinguished from it by the best judges; retains
its color till worn out, and is equal to gold excepting in in-
trinsic value. All our Gentlemen's Warchcs are FuUJm-
eled Patent Leverti; those for Ladles an Improved Escape-
ment, better than a lever tor a small Watch; all in Hunt-
ing Cases, and fully guaranteed by special certificate. Th»
SlfiWatchcs are cqualin neatness, style of fln'sh, general
appearance, ana for time, to n gold one costing $150. Those
for $20 are of extra fine finish, and are fully equal to a Gold
Watch costing $200. Chains of every style, from $2 to $6.
A so, Jewelry of the Collins Metal iu every style.

To Clubs, where six Watches arc ordered at ono time, wo
send onk kxtra free of charge. All our prices are in Cur-
rency,

Goods .wnt to any part o the United States by express, to
be paid for on delivery. Money need not be nent with the
order, as bills can be paid when goods are taken, from Hie
express oulce. Customers must pny all express charges.
We employ no agents; orders must therefore be sent direct-
ly to us. Customers in iho city will remember llmt our
only Ogkc is

TV on. 3? nucl 30 A'usmhi street, Xew Yak,

Opposite the Post Office, (up stairs.)

O- JS. COLLINS Ac CO.

Citizens of Toronto nnd the Dominion generally, take no-
tice. We have hundreds of testimonials. But you need no
further evidence than the following from one whois well
known among you. Here is his proof positive.

Harry Hazleton, the well known author, says:

" I have always looked upon clican watches as humbugs,
and dealers In them as little better than swindlers. At tho
requestor a friend, I have worn lor three months, tho
watch ho purchased of C. E. Collins, and for which he paid
$15. It nccurate time, retains its perfect golden ap-

pearance, and I can really see no difference between it and
my own, which cost five limes tbe amount of the Collins
Watch."

Mr. Hazelton adds:

"I have since purchased FIVE of these watches, at the
request ol friends, and those for whom they were intend, d
are periectly satisfied. Others are seeking for them, and I
fancy that Mr. C. will find some diiliculty in supplying tho
constantly increasing demand."

8Sr-The regular price of the watch is $15, and others
costing $20. These are superbly finished, and reallv supe-
rior to any article placed upon the market, costing five
times thai sum.

Office State Capital Reporter, 42 and 44 J street, Sacra-
mento, Cal., July 15, 1868:

C. E. Collins & Co.— Gtntlemen:— Wells, Forgo A Co. de-
livered Watch and Chain, as per order, paid bnl on present-
ation. The Watch and Chain give entire satisfaction, and
several of my friends wish the same quality of watch and
chain. One is chief editor of this paper, and two others
are the publishers of this paper, and the others arc f. r
friends of mine, and by w<arlag your goods will make you
a large sale in this city. I therefore wish you to send mo
seven watches and seven chains, of same quality as those
you sent me, price paid you $15 for witch, and $6 currency
for chain. I return you the guarantee, it may assist you
inascenainingthe exact kind of goods sent me, the number
ofthe watch sent is 66,982. If this order sent turns out ns
satisfactory as the first, we will give you a good editorial
notice, and help you along as far as practicable. I send
this order not for my benefit, but for youra and to accom-
modate my friends. Send to E. K. Phipps, office of "State
Capitnl Reporter, Sacramento, California."
Yours, respectfully,

E. K. Pmrps.
Address,

C. E. COLLINS & CO.,

37 ;nnl 3D Xanftjiu K(,ret>t,\cw Tni-k.

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J. M. STOCKMAN,

Manufacturer of
PATTK11NH A1VX> MODELS,

(Over \V. T. Gamut's Brass Foundry,
S. E, Corner or Migxlon and Fremont its.,

6vl4lf SAN FRANCISCO

J. F. PAGES,

8EA-X- ENGRAVER,

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Bras« ami Bieel Bimnpi and Dies, 5S2 Montgomery street,

DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITURE.
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Manufacturers of all kinds of

T>eslcs and Oflloe Fiiriillruire,

117 Market atreet, near Third.

Warcronm* up "dalrs. A large variety of D*'«ks always on

hand; till kinds of Office Furniture and Cabinet

Work made to order.

IBvtfur

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Fiicilie Concrete Company,

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Factory on Kings reel, between Third and Fourlh street.
New roofs covered and leaky roofs repaired, In thorough
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rates. Proprietor)* oi Lagan's Patent. 18vl7if

Every Man his own Printer.

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WITH THS

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It is the best, cheapest, and simplest Press ever invented.
Gives perfect suthfacilon to all who purchase, and is pro-
nounced by all a "perfect success. We have sold many of
them to Postmasters, Printers, Druggists, Clergymen, and
nil classes of business men, and they are making and sav-
ing money by uying litem at their homes and places of bus-
iness.

I'rice of Presses. S3, $12, $1(5, $2.1, $30. Price of Offices,
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Publishers and Proprietor* of th* MINING AND SCIEN-
TIFIC PRESS, the only well established successful Patent
Agents on the Pacific Coast, will alvo Inventors and Pa-
tentees honest anl reliable Hdvlce. free. The Patent Bu-i-
neasin all Us letiitlmate branches Is transacted hy us Intel-
ligently and skillfully, In an able and straightforward
manner. Patcnls secured In EVERY COUNTRY IN THE
WORLD where Patent Laws exist. Being long established,
and transacting a large business, our appointment are now
thorough throughout, sale, prompt and responsible. Con-
ultatioiis bv leiter or otherwise, are kept inviolately se-
cret. Circulars containing information for inventors sent
tree. Valuable Inventions, patented through our agency,
will be illustrated or explained through the columns of the
Mining and Scientific Pre**, a journal most widely circulated
throughout the Pacific Coast, among mechanics, miners,
manufacturers, and commercial men.

Inventors on the Pacific Coast, located at great distance
from the Patent Office, of all others, should be careful to
avoid inexperienced, dishonest, or otherwise unreliable
and Li responsible agents.

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Patent Agents, Publishers and Printers, 414 Clay street
below Sansoine, Man Francisco.

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FOR ©AILE.

Attention Is called to MARTIN'S NEW PATENT for a
process for Distilling Alcohol (85 per cent, or higher), with-
out rectifying, which Is offered for sale on fnvorable terms.
Samples may bo seen, and further information obtained, at
No. 4S3 Washington street.

Mvir E. M. DEWEY".

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jrsT publish i:i»,

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A libera) discount to the Trade. For sale bv the Booksellers
Sent to an> pari of Hie United Stated, postage paid,

on receipt Of the price. AtldrCU,

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Office of the Mining nnd Scientific Press, 414 Clay Street,
Iflvltf SAN FRANCISCO,

Pacific Chemical Works.

sri.l'IMItll' ETHER.

M'lltlTS OP M Tlti:,

Alii A AM1IO.VI.1,
ACETIC ACID,

CTAXIUE OP POTASSIUM
— ,Nn —
ACIDS V \ I) CHEMICALS OF A 1.1. KIMH.

FALKENATJ & HANKS.

Office, CIO Montgomery street.

LOUIS FALKENAU, State Assay er.

New Mining Advertisements.

Pntroclna mid Dolorca Silver Mining Fompa-

ny, Guuzupares District, State of Chihuahua, Mexico.

Notich.— -There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
ninth day of December. 1808, the several amounts set oppo-
site the names of the respective shareholders, as fullows:

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

James Lane; .....125 5 Sin 00

L ii Perry 11 10 20 on

LU Perry 15 5 10 IK)

L H Perry 202 55 110 00

It Mussing 213 5 10 00

RHusslng 52 5 10 On

S S Emery 186 5 10 00

John Donald 212 10 20 0.1

VV II Ryan 9J 15 30 00

FSEIImaker 180 35 70 00

P J O'Connor. 146 60 120 00

James Doyle 192 5 10 00

Catherine Martin 215 5 10 00

And In accordance with law. and an order of the Board of
Trustees, made on the ninth day of December, 1868, so many
shares of each parcel of said stock as may be necessary,
will be sold at public auction, by Olney A Co., auctioneers,
No. 426 Montgomery street, San Francisco, Cal , on Monday,
the twenty-fifth, day of January, 1869, at the hour of 12
o'clock M. of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment
thereon, together with costs of advertising and expenses of
sale.

C. B. GIFFORD, Secretary.

Office, N. E. corner of Second and Howard streets, San
Francisco. jnn9

Mining Notices—Continued.

Alamo Gold and Silver Mining Company.- Lo-
cation ol the Mine, Lyon County, Nevada.
Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment (No. 12) levied on the
twenty-fifth day of November. 1808, the several amounts set
opposite the names of the respective shareholders as fol-
lows:

Names. No Certificate. No. shares. Amount.

R Perry 9 J, 97, 9S, 99, 10J 410 $10J 50

W 1* Nudd 32, 33 20 5 00

C & F Elmer 43, 41, 45 60 12 50

G Otto -17 8 2 00

G Wctzler 1*8 30 7 50

H F Kice ....78, 79, 81, 81 l"0 25 00

KW Thompson 88. l"t 35 8 75

J Pierce 92 50 12 5>>

OSPIcrce 91 50 12 50

AH Phelps 101, 105 35 i; 50

J f Smith 1' 6 5 1 25

W Pickett 121, 122 50 12 5n

G Reed 129 5 1 25

AP Everett 130, S21 40 10 00

AB Forbes 132 25 6 25

R Meacham 133, 205 25 6 25

Jas Mcrrllt 2r0 25 6 25

FManins 135, 144 20 ft 00

PRing 136, 149 22 5 50

IW Raymond 137 20 fi 00

H Van Lokron Ml 40 10 HO

H Schmeidell 143 10 2 50

G M Blake 145, 146 25 6 25

W K Flint 156, 157, 200 65 16 25

JA Wright 158 25 0 25

GD White 161. 19! 55 13 75

Robt Irwin h»3 10 2 50

H J Underbill 164, 'C5, 160

167, 168 10 2 50

A PStanford 173, 209 150 37 50

J T Haley 180 IS 3 75

WE Wood 184 25 C 25

ET Pease. 183 10 2 50

CH Sherman 1"<:, !94 05 16 25

JPDver 193 5 1 25

L H Brook- 195 2 60

PLinpin 107, 204 25 6 25

8 Hubbard 198 5 1 25

L Thompson 199 10 2 50

Tabor* Hill 28,29 '20 6 00

WRMowry 208 3fi 7 5o

J Puller 210 5 125

W A Cameron.. 211 6 5-6 1 in

JGPallen 212 10 2 50

H Rosekrans 214 10 2 50

GH Kicker 213 5 1 25

FA Fresiers 225, 2i6 25 6 26

0 11 Baiev 220 50 12 50

DNHawlev 2*2 50 12 50

AN Humphryfl 223 9 5-43 2 46

E P Flint J.103, 185 35 8 75

ERlinel- 224 10 2 50

JHill 2.'8 10 250

JTabor 229 10 2 50

.7 Covington 7 I 75

Cochran & Covington 17 1-6 4 16

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the twenty-fifth day of November,
1863, so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may
be necessary) will be sold at public auction, by Mesisrs.
Olney & Co., auctioneers. No. 426 Montgomery street, San
Francisco, on Saturday, the sixteenth day of January,
1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock, M., of said day, to pay said

delinquent dhsewment thereon, together with costs of ad-
vertlrdug and ftXpeiUMOf sale.

J- »HN P. POPE.Seeretary.
Office, No. 119 California street, (Room No. 5) San Fran-
CtaCO. |„n2

IHiimond Copper Mining Company, Locution :

I Dlatrtot, Di 1 Norte County, California.

N.'tii'i — There urc delinquent upon the rollowlngdescrlbed
mock, on account of assessment levied on the tweuiy-eighth
day 'ii Ootobor, 1868, the several amounts set opposite the
namoi of the rospeotlve shareholders, as followa:

Name*. No. Certificate No. Shares. Amount.

Racier. M 105 2 M 00

Br ir, (i F .103 1 2 hi

Rlllmer.Ji hn HI rk q 0'7

B'Own. Thoiiwi- 315 l«='i 31 33

Brown, Thoiitos 217 Hj«? 33 xi

Dorrls, H F MM 17' .4 lt)

Foatcr, C 1 koj 2 4 00

R «M, Rhaa as? 5 in 00

lliiliek. J 292 17 34 00

1 1 -ink. 0 -."2 2 4 (HI

Haley, C s 243 in 2000

Klelnsi.rfc'i'. Win pq l 2 141

Kleln-toree, Wm 2M 214 5 0.1

Klclnstirge, Onu ilK 1 2 nq

Klelnaorge, Cha* 259 2"-; 5 00

Kli-insorge. Chns -.'611 ::', c 07

Mallard, G 11 i69 3 6 00

Mallard, li II 30* 3 6 00

Mallard, 0 II »I9 3 6 HI

Mnlir, I.H M 140 1 2 00

Miller. John If8 8'i 16 67

Itiinlall, Rol.l B 271 10 20 00

Knniliill. Robt K S7U 10 20 00

Kandiill. Robt B 271 10 20 01)

Randa'l, Itoht B -.74 10 10 'W

Randall, R-bt B 275 10 20 iw

Randall. Itobt B 276 10 20 00

Randall, Robt B 277 \% S 33

Itamliill. Robt It ^91 ]fi 82 00

Kand ill. Itobt B 3<>7 Jfisf 33 33

Iti'tulall. Robt B ."OS ifli 11 3:1

Randall. Robt B 309 . 2'. 50 0'

Riee, A W M 2 4 00

Both. S 109 3 600

Reeve, OBftCo...' 118 3X 6 67

Reeve, G HA Co 149 5K 6 67

Reeve, G B A Co 150 s>? 6 67

Reeve, G B A To 151 VW 6 67

Reeve, ii B A Co 152 n™ 6 67

Reeve, (i B ,t Ho 278 9S 19 00

Reeve. U B A Co 269 15 30 00

Steele, II iy &0 ion 00

S;ecle, H 204 4 8 no

su-ele, Anna 159 2 4 00

Suerkrnp. John ...100 2 4 00

suerkrap, J0I111 220 6 12 HO

Sncrkrap, John 221 6 12 CH)

Stoae, 0 |l)3 1 2 HO

Schaeht, H W 113 2 4*M

Schcnck. E T 310 3 6T0U

And In accordance with law, and an order of the Board of
Truslees, made on the twenty-eighth day of October, 1868,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be
necessary will be sold at public auction, by R R. Rollins,
auctioneer, at salesroom, 522 Marketstreet, San Francisco,
on Thursday, the twenty-first day of January, 1866, at the
hour of 11 o'clock A, M. of said day, to pay said delin-
quent assessment thereon, together with costs of advertis-
ing and expenses of sale.

J. A. COOLIDGE, Secretary.

Office, Room No. 40 Merchants' Exchange Building, Cali-
fornia street, San Francisco. jan2

Great Central Mining Company.— Locution o.

Works: Yuma County, Arizona Territory.

Notice.— There are dcllmfucut upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
nintli day of October, 1863, the several amounts set op
poHite the names of the respective shareholders, as fol-
lows:

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

P Oalnon 180 10 $25 00

Wm H Cleveland 313 25 62 50

Mrs Ann G Cummitigs 255 25 G2 50

Jas H Foster 94 100 250 00

Jas H Foster 141 in 25 00

Jas H Foster 142 20 50 00

Jesse Geib... 73 25 62 50

Jesse Geib 74 25 62 50

Jesse Geib 75 20 50 00

Jesse Geib 76 III 25 00

Jesse Geib 78 10 25 00

Jesse Geib 79 5 12 50

Jesse Geib 80 5 12 5ll

S R Harris 291 60 125 00

SR Harris 299 50 125 (Hi

SR Harris 318 50 125 00

Jas Kellogg 176 50 125 0->

AJ Jcghcrs 3 5 12 50

A .1 Jeghers 4 5 12 50

A J Jeghers.... 5 5 12 50

A J Jeghers 6 5 12 50

A J Jeghers 7 5 12 50

August LudorO 244 10 25 00

Dan'l McLeod 290 90 225 00

Jno R Mason 128 10 25 00

Camillo Manin 207 20 fin 00

Ford H Regers 329 65 162 50

Louis Vesarla 319 25 62 50

Louis Vesaria 320 25 62 50

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the ninth day of October, A. D. 1868,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be
necessary, will be sold at public auction, by Messrs. Olney
A Co., at their salesrooms. No, 426 Montgomery street, San
Francisco, on the thirtieth day of December, A D. 1863,
at the hour of 4 o'clock P, M. of said day, to nay said delin-
quent assessment thereon, together with costs of advertis-
ing nnd expenses of sale.

O. D. SQUIRE, Secretary.

Office, No. 414 Montgomery street, San Francisco. dec5

Posttonemknt.— The above sale is hereby postponed until
Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of January, 1869, at the
same hour and place. By order of the Board of Trustees.

jan2 O. D. SQUIRES. Secretary.

R:Utlc*ii»tc.e Gold and Silver MIoIhk Compa-
ny, Brown's Valley, Yuba County, California.
Notice is hereby given, that at a mcctine of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the nineteenth day of
December, 1863. an assessment of seven dollars and fifty
cents pershare was levied upon the capital stock of said
Compnnv. pavablt- Immediately, in United S'atescold and
sliver coin, to" the Secretary, No. 318 California street. San
Francisco.

Anv stock upon which said assessment shall remain tin-
paid 'on the twenty-first oay of January, IR'iO. shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale at
public auc'lon. ami unless payment «hall be made before,
will be sold on Mondav, the eighth day of February.
1869, to pav the delinquent assessment, together with
costs of advertising and expenses of sale. By order ot the
Board of Trustees. „ „„„_ „

JOHN F. LOHSE. Secretary
Office, 318CalifornIn street. up stairs. San Krnnciseo. d26

San Francisco and Cawtlo Home Mining Com-
pany. Location of Works: Castle Dome County, Arizona
Territory.

Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
twenty-fifth day of November, 1863, the several amounts
set opposite the names of the respective shareholders as
follows:
Names No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

WmButl'crflcld 1 to 6 Inc 600 $18 ' 0

Wm Butlcrncld 13 2« 78

Win RutterOeld 10 M0 00

Wm Kuiterlleld H. 12 2"-ea 40 20

WmBuifernela::::: 8, 9 100-ea 200 6 00

Wm Butierlleld 143 34 102

.IasDevne,rSr!?.V.V.V 34 to 37 111 C 400 13 00

JusDovoc, Sr 159 34 1 0-

Names. No. Certificates. No. Shares. Amount.

Mrs. Annie Devoe 26 50 160

Mr». Annie Dovoe IP^i 6 ]R

J a Dovoe, Jr 27 10 30

i**„D«vo». Jr ffltoJBIne 5>0 15 no

'■ V\ Biyai. I 40. 41, 42 5-eil 16 45

QW Bryant t\ ]« 30

GW Bryant 45to4^inc loo 3 00

' }}, Bryant 19 50 1 50

'• 2 ,l!r*»m Kl 10 3d

Q JJ Bryant 1. < 41) 1 20

V,, ""'il'V, •. lM f'1" 1fitw

Addition L Head |f« 51m 15 00

A'bllioit E Head 1«7 Wl 15 00

J T Buherflold 168to 171 Inc 1H1 3 no

.1 T BniiertleM. unissued 900 27 00

N8 Knowlton 183 4on 12 (,0

N S Knowlton 191 60 1 5i»

Alfred Stcbblns !88 6T.0 15 10

Robert Apple 161 250 7 60

Robert Apple 162 250 7 60

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
01 Trustees. made on Ihe twenty fifth day or November, 1868,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as maybe
necessary, will bo aold at public auction, at the office of
Dam A Gladding, auctioneers, No. 320 Montgomeiy street,
on the twelfth day of January, 1869, at the hour of l}-£
o'clock P. M. of said day, to pay said delinquent assess.
in. in thereon, together with costs of advertising and ex-
penses of sale.

A. R. SMITH, Secretary.

Office, No. 428 California street, 3d Moor, San Francisco

jan2

Klppon Gold and Silver Mining Company.—

Location of Works: Silver Mountain District, Alplno

County, California.

Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
fifteenth day of October, 1868, the several amounts set
opposite the names of the respective shareholders as fol-
lows:

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

Curtis Palmer 148 10 $10 00

William Brown 11 5 5 00

William Brown 23-* 10 10 00

William Brown 233 10 10 CO

William Brown 234 10 10 00

William Brown 35 10 10 10

William Brown 240 3 3 00

William Brown 276 25 25 00

Wlliliun Brown 277 45 45 Ml

Brown A Kent 15 10 10 00

Abigail Brown 20 0 5 00

Abigail Brown 207 5 6 00

M Nolan 206 10 10 00

Daniel Davidson, endorsed to

James Wilson 46 10 10 00

GeOrge Patterson 53 5 fi 00

James SS Robinson i6 10 U) 00

F M EIHh 66 1 1 00

H D Scott 71 65 55 00

John Sanquet l:*8 15 J5 00

B Curran not Issued 272 10 10 1 0

B Curran not Issued 273 10 10 00

John Bagnell 77 7 7 00

Matthew Davidson 79 12 12 00

Patrick Carroll 224 10 10 tW

P M Wellin 221 6 5 00

Edward Camobcll 181 10 10 00

Chas B Montague 120 25 25 00

A J Davis 127 10 10 00

LottMuleahy 157 5 5 00

Thomas Fay '58 5 5 00

David M Short 134 In 10 00

Chas Mayer 135 10 10 HI

Benjamin C Lew 137 5 5 00

Lnznrd tiodchaux: 139 10 10 00

Laznrd Godchaux ..1M) 5 5 00

I, ;■/;!]■ 1 1 Godchaux 162 5 5 00

Lazard Godchaux 229 5 5 00

Lazard Godchaux 230 5 3 00

PCunningham 156 5 5 00

P Cunningham..... 174 5 5 on

Michael English 152 25 25 00

Frank Malum 155 25 25 00

ThosMcCullough 159 10 10 00

Stephen McOillan 164 5 5 on

Stephen McGillaa 165 5 5 00

P J McMahon 170 M 2'> 00

PJ McMahon >83 25 25 00

Jas Barrett. ..not Issued. ..bal 189 25 125 00

Elizabeth Curran 194 It) 10 1X1

Elizabeth Curran 195 10 10 00

N C BrlggS 269 10 10 00

FH Moore 210 20 20 00

C B Gregory 211 20 20 10

Henry Eno 212 20 20 00

Henry Eno 278 25 25 00

DavidLovell 214 10 10 00

Jacob Martenstcin 225 1 1 CO

MG Shove 264 20 20 00

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the fifteenth day of October, 1868,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be
necessary, will be sold at public auction, at the salesroom
of Maurice Dore A Co.t auctioneers, No. 327 Montgomery
street, San Francisco, on Saturday, the twenty- third day
of January, 1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock M. of said day, to
pay said delinquent assessment thereon, together with
costs of advertising and expenses of sale.

CURTIS PALMER, Secretary.

Office. No. 87 Stevenson street, between First and Second
streets, San Francisco. dec24

IT. S. Grant Mlnlnv Company. -location or

Works: Carlisle, Nevada.

Notice.— There nre dellnquont upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
ninth day of November, 1808, the several amounts set op-
posite the names of the respective shareholders, as fol-
lows:

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

AlpheusRull 3 218 $109 00

E B. Mott, Jr 6

Geo Mohrel 10

Geo Mohrel H

Geo Mohrel 12

Geo Mohrel 13

Geo Mohrel 14

Silas Garber 19

Jas P W heeler 30

JasP Wheeler 31

Jus P Wheeler 3a

Jas P Wheeler 33

J-oVall 34

L.I Flint T7

IL Rcqua 38

I L rtequa ^9

T L Rcqua 40

I L Rcqua 41

JL Van Bokkclen 48

LA Booth ...49

LA Booth 50

L A Booth 31

J Bigps

McFsrland

Sarah Snvder

N M Baxter

And In accordance with law, and nn order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the. ninth day of November, 1863, so
many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be neces-
sarj', will be sold at public auction, by J. C. Merrill A Co.,
auctioneers, No. 204 California street, San Franoisoo,
California, on Saturday, the seoond day of January,
1869, at the hour of 2 o'clock P. M. of said day, to pay
saiddellnquent assessment thereon, together with costsof
advertising and expenses of sale.

ENOS TAYLOR, Secretary-
Office, No. 226 Clay street, San Francisco. dccl9

Postponf.mf.nt,— The above sale Is hereby postponed until
Saturday, the thirtieth day of January, 1869, at the same
hour and place. By order ofthe Board of Trustees.

jan9 ENOS TAYLOR, Secretary,

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50 25 OH

50 25 00

50 25 00

50 26 10

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50 25 00

54 27 00

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Bv Mail.— The Mining and Scientific Pr&* will be sent hy
moil to any part ofthe civilized world. Incase of removal
subscribers have only to inform lis of »hc post ofttoe address
of ihe old and new location, und the paPO- will be sent
accordiuglv;

30

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinery.

PATENT AMALGAMATOR

These Machines Stand Unrivaled.

For rapidly pulverizing and amalgamating ores, they
have no equal. No effort has been, or will be, spared to
have them constructed in the most perfect manner, and of
the great number now in operation, not one has everre-
quired repairs. The constant and increasing demand for
them is sufficient evidence of their merits.

They are constructed so as to apply steam directly into
the pulp, or with steam bottoms, as desired.

This Amalgamator Operates as Follows:

The pan being filled, the motion of themuller forces the
pulp to the center, where it is drawn down through the ap-
erture and between the grinding surfaces. Thence it is
thrown to the periphery into the quicksilver. The curved
plates again draw it to the center, where it passes down,
and to the circumference as before. Thus it is constantly
passing in a regular-flow between the grinding surfaces and
Into the quicksilver, until the ore is reduced to an impalpa-
ble powder, and the metal amalgamated.

Setters made on the same principle excel all others.—
They bring the pulp so constantly and perfectly in contact
with quicksilver, that the particles are rapidly and com
Dletely absorbed, , ,, _

Ulll'men are invited to examine these pans andsetlers for
themselves, at the PACIFIC FOUNDRY,

lvl San Francisco.

IMPOETANT TO "WOOD WOEKEBS.
GEAR'S COMBINATION

Variety Molding and Planing

MACHINE.

THIS STANDARD MACHINE IS INDISPENSABLE IN
any establishment working Wood by machinery. Re-
cent great improvements render it complete for

All kind* or Irregular andJStraifirht "Work
in haid orsoft wood, Straight, Waved, Circular and Ellip-
tical Moldings, Spiral Work, and all Irregular Forms, thus
saving to the mechanic the cost of several machines to
effect the purposes accomplished by this alone. It does
not stop at cutting the edges and sides of timber, but oper-
atescqually well upon the ends, cutting them into any re-
quired form with the same facility that it does the sides.
j\ny shop without it lacks one of the most USEFUL AND
PROFITABLE TOOLS now used. It is worthy of the atten
tion of all HOUSE, CARRIAGE, SHIP, BOAT and OAR
BUILDERS, FURNITURE and CABINETMAKERS, MILL
PROPRIETORS, PATTERN MAKERS, etc., and ot all others
who desire to make a profitable business from a small in-
vestment Everymachine is thoroughly tested at the manu-
factory and warranted. Furtherimorinati'Ui furnished on
application. FULLER &. CO.,

Manufacturers' Agents for the Pacific Coast, 109 Mont-
gomery street, San Francisco. 17vI7-3m

ELLERY'S PATENT

India Rubber Cement and Faint

— FOB —

TIN, IRON AND METALLIC IROOFS,

Iron, Brlclt and "Wooden. Kulldlugs,
£111 PS, STEAMBOATS, STAGES, CABS,

AND FOR ALL EXPOSED SURFACES.

Is water-proof and indestructible; will neither rot, peel,

nor crack; will withstand any climate; can be put on in

any color, and is less expensive than other Faint

IVew Cloth Roofs put on. Old Roofs cemented
and painted. I«eak.y Roofs made tight.

egy No Coal Tar or Asphaltum used. All work guaran-
teed. Orders punctually attended to.

GEO. T. BROMLEY, Agent,

BLAKE'S QUARTZ BREAKER !
PRICES REDUCED!

MACHINES OF ALL SIZES FOR SALE
— by —

WM. P. BLAKE,

Corner First and Mission streets, or Box 3,0??

3vl3f SAN FRANCISCO.

GLASGOW
Iron and Metal Importing Company

Xos. 35 and 37 Fremont street,

SAN FRANCISCO,

Keep constantly on hand a large stock ofbestBarand
Bundle Irmi, Uoiter Tubes, 1'latc mid Sheet Iron, Gas and
Water r'loe, Anvils, Cast Sreel, Gas and Water Fating
which tlicy oiler to the trade on liberal terms.

21vlti-3in v >IcCllINDLE, Manage.

Kemoval.

NELSON & DOBLE,

AUEXTS FOR

Thomas Firth & Sons' Cast Steel, Files,

Mill Fie Its, Sletlgvs, Hammers, Picks,

Stone Cutters', Blacksmiths' and Horse-Slioers' Tools,

Ilavo removed to 13 and 15 Fremimt street, near

iMarnut, .San b'raneisuo.

luvHqr

Patent for Sale.

^Notice to Miners*,

Well-Borers and Water Companies,

MPRAG IS NOW PREPARED TO MANUFACTURE
. Hydraulic and Artesian Well Pipes in the best work-
manlike manner, and at the lowest, market rutes. Having
made Large additions to my stoclc of machinery for that
branch of business, I am prepared to fill all orders with dis-
patch, and guarantee entire siilUi'aeiion. I also manufac-
ture Mississippi Stoves, ui the latest improved patterns, for
Vessels of .ill classes. Also, yfiiji Plumbing done.

M.. l'K16,
8vl3-iy Stove Store. No. 1 Clay street, below Davis.

PACIFIC! FILE WORKS,

Jio, 5,1$ Kealii Street, bet. Mfirltet mid Mission,

SAN (FKANCISCO.

Files Ke-cut and warranted as good as new, with a saving
Of tifty uer cent. KJAPER AND MOIVEB SECTIONS
MAUsiTu QKU&ft, The only establishment on the Coast.
enters from tho cmnnry promptly attended to. jOS* First
Premium awarded al n»« Kline \<n\r, 18Ii7.

ttvl7-3m T. <*. BCIit.VIXU »fc CO

The undersigned, having successfully introduced tho

XiC0el American Double Tnrblne Water

Wlieel

On this Coast, and owning the Patent for the whole Taciflc
Coast, viz: The states of California, Nevada and Oregon,
and the Territories of Arizona, Washington, Idaho, and
Western Montana, wishes now to dispose of the Patent,
with stock of Wheels on hand. Patterns, etc., etc.

A Company organized and prepared Properly for the
construction of these Wheels, to supply this Coast and all
tributary countries, could make the business immensely
profitable.

Mv object in selling is to enable me to devote myself ex-
clusively to my profession. A. MVERS.

P. S.— If not sold previous to February 15th, then I would
enter into an arrangement to manufacture by paying roy-
alty. Address Jlev. A. SlYERW, Portland Oregon.
26vl7-lm

Standard Milling Machine.

UNION VISE COMPANY,

OF BOSTON, MASS.
Extra jaw, and heavy Vises. Warranted for heavy work.
New htyle Wood anil Covered Screw Vises, forty styles and
kinds; Standard Milling .Machines, simple, great capacity,
power and strength— two sizes, large, 2,300 lbs; small, 95U
lbs. For sale by the trade.
23vl(j-ly G. H. NOTT, Pres.

CALIFORNIA TOOL WORKS,

Blacksmith and Machine Shop,

HAS REMOVED
To 143 Beale St., bet. Mission and Howard,

SAN FRANCISCO.

All kinds of Edge or oilier Tools miitie to order. Im-
ported Tools, if too hard or soft, re tempered to give satis-
faction. KEAPElt AND MOWING KNIVES; complete
sections always on band, or will be made at the shortest
notice. Particular attention paid to putting in order AG-
RICULTURAL .MACHINERY. Job Grinding and Polish-
ing by steam. Orders from the Country promptly attended
to &Sf All work warranted. Prices reasonable.

2Ivl7-qy J. WflOHUAKT, Proprietor,

IMPORTANT TO LUMBERMEN.
A.3N DERSON'S

Patent Bhiley Saw Hangings.

These Mulavs will cut FIFTY PER CENT. MORE LTJM-
BEK PEK DAY than any other Mulay in use, with fifty per
cent, less power. They are very durable, ind easily kept in
order, and warranted to give satisfaction. No Mulay Mill
should be witnout them, as they will pay for themselves in
a very short time. No other mode of manufacturing Lum-
ber can compete with the Mulay Saw with this improve-
ment. Send for circular. FULLER & CO.,
Manufacturers' Agents for the Pacific Coast, loy Mont

gomery street, San Francis:o. 17vl7-3m

Portable Engines.

The Swamscot Co's (warranted equal to ary manufac-
tured, may be seen in use in this ciiy), PORTABLE and
STATIONARY STEAM FIRE ENGINES, STEAM PUMPS
and ROTARY PUMPS, and W> OD-WORKING MACHIN-
KKYof every description, at Eastern prices. Address W.
0. M. BERRY & CO., 511 California street, San Francisco.
2ovl7-3m

The Oakland Daily Transcript,

A. BIT I^-PER..

The Largest Circulation in the County.

AdvcrtEgeurents la the Transcript will reach
every part of A.laiueda Couuty.

RATES FOR ADVERTISING

VEEY LOW.

The Cliili Exposition.

THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD CALL THE ATTENTION
of the manufacturers of California to the National
Exposition to be held during the coming spring in Valpa-
raiso, Chili, next to California, is the most Important
country on the Western Coast of America. And this Expo
sition cannot tail lo create a demand for our staple manu-
factures, if they are well represented. The writer has
resided for some years in Chili, and is familiar with its
people, business and language; is a practical mechanic,
and proposing to visit the Exposition, oilers to take charge
of machinery or other material that parties may wish to
send tb.lth.cr, and pledges himself faithfully to bring before
the public of Chili their respective merits. He can be
seen daily, at hisoflicc, Wo. 41) Montgomery Block. Prompt
action is necessary.

DAVID R. SMITH,
Civil ami Mechanical Engineer.

References— Hanscom & Co. (.Etna Iron Works); A. S.
Hall.dic (President Mechanics' Institute); Lynch & An-
dr ide.

San Frnncijco, November 31st, 1S6P. 34vl7-tf

Scientific Clmra.

Warranted to make Butter, from sweet or sour milk or
cream, in trom

TWO TO FIVE MJTXITTES.

Having sold the Patent Right of David W. Seeley's " Sci-
entific Churn" for all of the territory west of the Rocky
Mouutains, except one half of Oregon, and the counties of

Monterey, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo,

Alameda, Marin, Sonomn, Solano, "STolo,

Sacramento and San Joaqnin,

To McCONATHY & KUNTCAID,

Or FAl'HECO,

PARTIES WISHING TO PURCHASE}

State or County Tiiglit s,

Will please apply to them.

J. N. SEELEV.

State or County Bights, or Churns, for sale by
McCOXATBIX <fc EINCAID,

PACHECO, CAL.
San Francisco, Dec. 3, 1860. 24vl7-lm

M. M. COOK & SON.

I-Xose and. Belting.

Fire, Hydraulic Hose and Leather Belting, made of the
heaviest and best quality of Oak-tanned Slaughter Leather.
Also, Fire Buckets, Suction Hose, etc. Our Belling is well
stretched, cemented and warranted to run true, and our
Hose guaranteed to give satisfaction. A large assortment
alwavsonli tud and orders promptly filled. No. 801 Bat-
tery street, San Francisco. 13vlG 3meow

Novelty and Usefulness Oombined.
"Wilson's Prepared J^olclei"

Dispenses 'with the Soldering Iron.

It will save you both time and labor. One buttle of this
Solder »vill mend all the tins you have laid one side lor
months, and make them good as new. Get them out and
mend them. It is cheap— only 50 ccnls a hotile; it Is con-
venient and compact. Use any kind of lump that has a
blaze no larger than a single wick; a spirit lamp will make
no smoke. You may mend a dish or can over the best table
without fear of-spoi'ling it. Try it, and vou will never want
a soldering iron in the house again- What a saving
to farmers. No more stopping up of holes in milk pans
with a rug. Milkmen can mci:d their own cans. It
does the prettiest job on .inv article you have in the house,
from a pint dish to awash boiler. It is a sure thing to stick
when resin and solder will not. It will stand heat as well
as any solder ever used over lire

Agency for the Pacific Coast, Room No. 10, No. 423 Wash-
ington street. San Francisco. AGENTS WANTED.

Address P. O. box 17. 2Svl7tf

OF CONCORD, N. II ,

Long employed at the celebrntcd firm of Downing &. Son,
have opened a manuiactory of

Concord Wii y;oiis,
Of all descriptions, at No. SSO and 8S2 Folsom street, be
tween Fourth and Fifth streets, San Francisco.

Orders received for Buggies, Expresses, and Light and

Heavy Thorough-brace. Carriage Springs made to Older.

lSvla-lani-Gir.

Fire, Hose and Machine Belting.

THE SUBSC'tlBER CONTINUES TO MANUFACTURE
Dak Tanned Leather Fire Hose, warranted superior to
Eastern Hose, manufactured at the Sixth Street Tannery,
San Francisco.
21vlfitf JOHN .T. FULTON.

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have the same Illustrated and explained in the Minikq and
Scientific Press, free ol charge, if In our judgment the
discovery is one of real merit, and of sufficient 'uterost to
the public to warrant publication.

Mining in Idaho.

Editors Pkess: — I send you a few items
of mining news.

ditching; and placer mining.

Dr. Bishop, M. D. (of London,) Dr.
Wagner, U. S. A., and Messrs. Thomas
Banney and J. Wilson, have commenced
operations for placer mining about ten miles
above this city, on a bar called " Granite
Bar." They are bringing in a ditch 2%
miles long, and as the ground prospects on
the under bank at 1% cents back to the hill,
gradually increasing to 12 cents to the pan,
they think they have found good placers.

There is not any doubt but that eventu-
ally the bed of Boise Biver will be worked ;
but not until miners will be content with
smaller pay than they now work for, and
will work for 85 a day or less. The gold
assays over $16 per ounce, being nearly
.800 fine.

VARIETIES LODE.

The parties at work on the Varieties lode
at Yuba, have lately come down here,
and brought some splendid specimens of
ore from that lode; the vein is reported to
be rapidly widening, and the owners speak
highly of their prospects. The lode is
largely owned by Win. L. Johnson, and
the widow of the late L. Whittingham,
Esq., and the specimen before alluded to
came from their tunnel, I believe.

The Defrees mill is stamping away on
Leonora ore, and is reported to be doing
well, both mechanically and rnetallurgically.
The Lucy Phillips Company have decided
to put their mill up and mine ahead early
in spring, and some ore lately taken from
the "Atlanta Lode" is so rich in ruby sil-
ver that assays shows the rich streak to be
75 per cent, silver.

TDBA DISTEICT.

A scientific mineralogist, who spent
several months of last summer in Yuba,
says he will venture it as his opioion, that
that district will in three years, discount
Owyhee; as the lodes are fully as rich as
any at the latter place, and are two or three
times as wide; and further, wood and water
are abundant. I would not disparage Owy-
hee, and indeed it would be useless to at-
tempt it; but Yuba and Owyhee together
will make Southern Idaho the true " Gem
of the Mountains." Our mountains are
now snow-clad, but here we have only a lit-
tle rain, with moderate frosts. Alturas.

Boise City, I. T., Dec. 22, 18G8.

Velocipedes. — The speed attained by
the swifter kind of .Erench velocipedes av-
erages from twelve to thirteen miles an
hour; adepts find no difficulty whatever in
accomplishing fully fifty miles within five
hours without once alighting from their
vehicles. A couple of amateurB making a
tour through a part of Erance challenged
each other as to which could perform the
greatest distance within four-and-twenty
hours. One gave in after having accom-
plished eighty -seven miles: the other went
on an additional six-and-thirty miles, mak-
ing 123 miles in all. On the 21st of last
September a party of nine quitted Bouen
early in the morning mounted upon velo-
cipedes, and arrived in Paris in time for
dinner the same evening, having performed
the distance of eighty-five miles, exclusive
of stoppages, at a rate of speed averaging
between ten and eleven miles an hour. The
ascent of any incline greater than one foot
in twenty-five is said to be impracticable.
When the rider, therefore, encounters a
hill of more than average steepness, he has
to dismount and lead his velocipede with
his hand. — American Artisan, iVop. 25th.

The Telegraph and the Gold Boom.
Heretofore stock houses have employed
boys to run to and fro to the Gold Boom
for the quotations. Now, however, the
quotations are simultaneously made known
iu a hundred different offices. You gointo
a broker's office, and upon hearing a little
noise on the wall, look up, and figures ap-
pear telling the price of gold to a fraction
at that moment in the Gold Boom. In five
minutes more, perhaps another fractional
figure will appear, indicating another vari-
ation in the price, and so on. An operator
sits in the Gold Boom and touches keys on
a board ; attached to these keys are wires
connecting with the brokers' offices. The
vice-president of the Gold Boom invented
this contrivance. It is said he is to receive
$25,000 annually from the hundred offices
which have introduced his invention. Its
use will do away.with the employment of
a whole regiment of boys. — Exchange.

T1c\e Mining and Scientific Press.

31

Sr.\ Watbb as Fuel pob Marine En-
gines.— 'L'ln' following is from onartiolc on
Marine Engine Iiiijirovenieat in Engineer-
ing : "If the science of the future can
ever accomplish anything for mari
gineers, let its ftret triumphs be these:
First, some mode, other than evaporation,
of rapidly precipitating tho saline conetit-
nents of sea water; second, some moJe of
greatly increasing the heat-conducting ac-
tivity of the metal or mefcila of which
steam boiler fnmaoes and tubec are formed.
But except by n blind faith, opposed I" all
that is now known, we cannot hope for
either consummation. Although the silt
and water which together form sea water
are in mechanical mixture only, it is almost
as difficult to separate them as to separate
the oxygen and nitrogen of the air, which
also is but a mechanical, and not a chem-
ical, compound of these gases. We might
almost as well hope to decompose water,
by an expenditure of power, say one half
as great as that which would be derived
from the combustion of the resulting hy-
drogen. Then should we liavo liquid find
indeed a hydrogen field covering one
hundred and fifty millions of square miles,
or three-fourths of the entire surface of
the globe, upon which steam ships could
steam everywhere, without coal or stokers.
Liquefied hydrogen, from a mile to seveu
miles dee]j; Inexhaustible? were it only
released from its aqueous bond it would ex-
pand into a volume immeasurably greater
than that of the entire atmosphere sur-
rounding our planet. And, if that were
not enough, it is, like everything else when
chemically considered, indestructible, even
by combustion with oxygen, whereby it is
simply recombined in water, to be again
decomposed, the hydrogen again burnt,
and so on, ad infinitum. A tou of coal,
once burnt, is for ever destroyed as cool,
although every atom of its chemical con-
stituents survives in other but unavailable
combinations. So let those hope who can.
We see no way of attaining to this imperial
possession of nature, but neither do we see
the limits of human discovery."

Steam Fahming. — When all the advant-
ages of steam are fully understood by
farmers we may expect to see it applied on
thousands of farms where, thus far, it has
never been seen. It will be employed to
mix clay aud sandy soils, assimilating the
texture of hill top lands to that of those in
the valleys. It will be employed to pump
farm aud other sewage to where it ought to
be pumped for irrigation, for sheep wash-
ing, for stone breaking, and in many other
ways. The worthy steam farmer will be a
sort of factory owner, and engineer-in-
chief, and many of his men will be me-
chanics, engine drivers, and stokers. The
great farms will be almost in a single field,
levelled, where practicable, almost like a
drawing table or the back of a Shropshire
ram. They will, too, like railways, have
their own repair shops, and the traveler
will never once be out of sight of the farm-
ing engine. — Engineering.

CALIFOKNIA

BUSINESS UNIVERSITY

'■to I Montgomery Ntreei.

Full particulars regarding o ir Practical Hon rue of Studies
may oc liml by culling at tin- University, ur bv addressing
llvll gylip E. 1*. UEALD, San Francisco.

HENRY CAREY BAIRD,

Industrial Publisher,

No. -l-OO Walnut Street, Philadelphia.

HAS KECENTLY PUBLISHED

A Practical Guide for the Perfumer;

Hcln'iC u New Treatise on Perfumery the most fa-
vorable to the B an y wilhoi.it be 111-4 iniurious to
tlic Health, comprising a Uescripii. n of thesHb-
Brancea used in Perfumery, the Formula of more
tliau ijne tliuusan.il Propn ration 1, such as Corfriict-
ies Perfumed Oils, To.»tii Powders, Waters, Ex-
iraeK Tinctures, Imusions, Spirits, Vinulgre-s
Essential Oils, Paste id, Dreams, .Soaps, an J inanv
nmv Hygienic Products iiol liitliertu described.
Kditcd 1 mm Notes an. I lincuiueitts of Messrs. De-
bay, LiiqcI, etc., wttn additions by Professor H.
UUdsaUCe, Chemist. 12m.) S3 00

Cabinet Maker's Album of Furniture :

Uomitritring a Collection of Ucsigns tor the Newest
and Mositilcganc Siyies of Furniture. Il.ustrated
i>>- 48 urge an 1 bcnutit'ull.v engraved plates. In

one volume, oblong 5 00

The nlate-iof this beautiful volume cum prise designs for
bed-ite ids in great variety: chests of drawers: wardrobes;
dressing bureaus; tables for the chamber ; work-cables;
exit-res Oil (lining lahles; card and clmss tables; parlor
(aides, Louis XV. aud other sivk-s; office tables: chiffon-
iers; ladies1 and other secretaries of different forms an I
styles ; toilet tables and glasses; desks ; book-cases ; side-

boards, etc

etc.

Gothic Album for Cabinet Makers:

Comprising a Collection of Designs for Gothic Fur-
niture, lllu-iir.ited bv Si large and beautifully

engraved plates, oblong S3 00

The platosin this volume comprise designs for sofas, arm
and other chairs, stools, taborets, priesdleu, table*, chests
01 drawers, wardrobes, chimney-pieces, side-boards, pier
tables, etageres. di-sks, book-cases, etc.

A Practical Guide for Paddling Iron

and Steel. -Bv Ed. Uibin. Eu<. of vrtsand M muf.
A Prize Essay read before the As ociatiun of
Emr-i. Graduates of the School of Mine--, of Liege,
Belgium, lt(i>..-ti. To which is a Ided a Comparison
of the Resisting Properties ot Iron and Steel, by
A. Bnill. From the French, by A. A. Fcsquet,

Chemist and Engineer. 8vO., oloth SI 00

83-Thc above, or any of my publications, sent free of
postage, at the publication prices. Mv new and enlarged
CATALOGUE OF PltAC I'ICA 1. AND SC[ hlNTI l-'l<! BOOKS,
6C pages, Svo, is |u t ready,* and will be sent free of postage
to any one who >vil favor me with his a lurcss. SOviutf

ROOT'S PATENT FOltCE BLAST ROTARY 11 LOWER.

Patented Xov. l*t, 1664; .July 'il , L806 ; und Oct. U, 3SOC.

Awurtled the ITii\st P-rem.iu.nl at ilie Pajris Exposition.

Metallurgy.

SStettmsliips.

JlEQVtRES

ypii'ty Per Cent.

LESS I'OWER

Than any Blower

Now in use.

One of these Blowers may he seen on exhibition at W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry, corner of
Mission and Fremont streets. They are also in use at the ALmaden Quicksilver Miue ; Gridley's
Foundry, Gold Hill, Nevada ; iEtna Iron Works, San Francisco, and many other places.

Caotion. — Purchasers will find it to their advantage to apply direct to the Stockton Agency, as
certain parties, not authorized to manufacture the Blower, have put in the market machines of inferior
construction, which do not answer all the requirements of the genuine article.

For circulars and further information, address

KEEP & BARG-ION,

4vi6 3m Globe Iron Works, Stockton, Cnl.

PAINE & STEPHENS'
IMPBOVBD CONCBNTEATOE:

For Saving: Gold and Silver Snluhuret*.

LEOPOLD KUH,
Assayer and Metallurgical Chemist,

[Formerly or the u. s. B. Mint, s. p.)

Office, Ko. Oil Commercial Street, opposite

the Mlul, San Frimclneo.

BULLION MELTED AND ASSAYED,

Th<- corrootesa <•( which is guaranteed in every respect.
All kinds or Ore ami Mineral listed, assayed and analyzed
iir the most satisfactory maimer.

Refers by permission tu w. c. Ralston, Cashier Bank of
nuuibrnia; Ble&srfl Ploebe A Bayer que, Wm. 11. Lent, John

I>. Fry, E. Calilll iUo,, A. K. Grim, Preshlent Pacific OnlOU
Express Co.; John H. Eckfeldt, M. and R. 0. S B. Mint;

Hale A KTorcrtu R. m. Co., and the principal mining coui<
pantcston the CotnstoQlc Lode. Z6vl7-tf

JOHN TAYLOR & CO.

IMPORTERS,

AND DKA1.KKS IN

ASSAYERS' MATERIALS,

Druggists' & Chemists' Glassware,

Photographic ©tool*:. Etc.
G13 and SI 4 Wxtthlnffton Street,

SAN FRANCISCO.

X\TE nre receiving dircctfrom MESSRS. L-ADD St OEKT.

| Vi lino (Londuin mid beekera sons (Antwerp, Bel.
glum) their superior

ASSAY AND BVLLIOK BALANCES,

And from France and Germany, as well as the Eastern
SluU-s, Kl-RNACKS, cill'CIRLKS, MCFFLES. BLOW-PIPE
CASKS. COLD SCALES, CHEMICAL GLASSWARE, and
every article required for ASSAY OFFICES, LAHORATO
RIES, etc. We have (riven this branch of our business par
ticular attention, to select such articles as arc necessary
In the development of the mineral wealth of this coast.

A Full Assi.rlnifnt .■!' DRl'dUSTS' ULASSWAHE and
DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES, ACIDS and CHEMICALS, con
stantlv on hnnd.

San Francisco March 6. 1865. llvIO-tf

PROF. HENRY WURTZ,

Formerly Chemical Examiner In the TT. S. Patent Office,
may he employed professionally us a Scientific Expert.
Geological Examinations and Reports, Analysis and Assays,
etc , eic. Practical advice and invest] pal ions in the f'he'm
ieal Arts and Manufactures. Invention and examination
of new chemical methods ttnd products. Address, 26 Pino
street, Rooms 35 and 3li, New York. Always in from 12 to
8.31). as- Written communications preferred.

Important to Gold and Silver Min-
ers and Companies.

PROFESSOR WTJRTZ,

Who is the Inventor and Patentee of the new and wonder
fill lisesof SnlHUM IN WORKING GOLD AND SILVER
ORES AND JEWELERS' SWEEPtNGS, will fumi.-h at Hie
a hove address nfornialion in relation thereto, together
with experimental packages of

SODIUM AMALGAM.

AH Instructions and experiments elsewhere obtained are
spurious ami unreliable. WORKING EXPERIMENTS ON
AMALGAMATION OF ORES, Etc. Prof. W. has in opera
tion in New York a large and .-mall Hepburn Pan, tor work
inir 1,(100 or 20-lb. charges ol material lor experiments,
purposes. 3vl7

Cr. W. STRONG,

ASSAYER AND WORKER OF ORES,

No. 10 Stevenson street, near First.San Francisco.

Highest price paid for choice lots of Ores, Snlphineis, as
say Ashes, Sivcenint-'s, etc., etc. Students instructed in all
branches of Metallurgy, on liberal terms.
Uvloqr.

This invention, a perspective view of which is given above, consists in applying1 machinery to
this ordinary butldle, and rendering the same automatic in action, It is calculated to do a large
amount of work.

One Muchine, costing n.l»out SU*00, is sufficient to -vvorlc tHo S anils from 83 to 30
Stamps. But very little power is required.

It can be easily run by one man turning a crank. The principle on which it works is entirely
dissimilar frum any other machine now used on the Pacific Coast ; although it is in almost universal
use in Europe ; but not so arranged there as to bo automatic in action.

The illustration given herewith, was fully described in the Mining and Scientific Press of
March 21, 1868.

One of these machines may be seen in constant operation at the Eureka (Watt's) miue in Grass
Valley, where it is giving the fullest satisfaction, and is working all the tailings from thirty stamps,
Another machine may be seen at the Banner mill, in Nevada, and a third below the Gotdd & Curry
Company's mill, near Virginia City.

For further information, apply to Thomas N. Paine, Grass Valley, California.

PAINE, STEPHENS & HARRY.

yj, MEUSSDORFFER, y^
HAT MANUFACTURER,

And dealer in

Hats and Caps

AT "WHOLESALE AS'H BETAIL.

635 and G37 Commercial street San Francisco.

125 J street Sacramento.

Corner of D mid Second streets Marysvllle.

It H'ront street Portland, orejjnn.

Our wholesale House, 628 Commercial street, extending
through to 637 Clay street, Sun Francisco, contains always
a most choice, and the largest, assortment in this State.
Every Steamer brings the latest Issued novcliies from Eu-
rope and New Tork, which can bo found at all the above
stores, at moderate prices. 23vI6-3m

OCCIDENTAL

Insurance Company,

OP SAN FKANCISCO.
Cash Cnpllftl, - JS300,000

GOLD COIN.

Office S. "W. corner of lUonttroiuery aud
Cull fo rn I a Hli'uuti.

Pi re ana Marine Insurance.
All Losses paid In U. S. Gold Coin.

CUB. CHRTSriANSEN, President.
B. BiiinseniLU, Secretary 20vl7-3m

j;*\ A WARNING- V^s

TO AX.I. WHO AIIE APFLICTi!D,

Before the rainvsoasnn crimes get cured of Rheumatism
and Ncnra'gia, hy herbs only. The receipt was given some
years ago hy an old Indian In New Orleans, and it has never
failed to cure all it says. Many have been cured In this
city and in Eoston, and all say it is the best they have
tried. Manufactured by MRS. MARY HIGGINS, Orogou
street, two doors west of Ornmm. Orders son I by mail or
express attended to on receipt of ^3 per uottle. 22vl7-3m

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

EXCELSIOR iPTTMiP.

FARMING AND DOMESTIC PURPOSES.

Hooker's Patent, August IS, 1866; Jan. IS, 1867.

DOUBLE-ACTING SUCTION AND

Tin 2

§{?. "SiiEE J

FORCE PUMP.

Fie- *.

These Pumps are meeting with universal fa-
vor wherever tried, and are now being intro-
duced, in many instances superseding Pumps
which had hitherto been considered the best in
the world.

Fig. 1 is a sectional view of a 6-inch Mining Pump, showing the plunger and hemp packing on the
left, with the chamber on the right containing the puppet valves. Fig. 2 represents the chamber, with
the water-passages and valve-seats. Fig. 3 is the valve, operating in the chamber. Fig. 4 is the
improved Hand Pump. Fig. 5, a 6-inch Mining Pump, shows the adjustable bonnet opening to the
valves.

For Circulars, or further particulars, inquire of or address J. "W". BRITTAN & CO. Agents,
120 Front street, San Francisco; H. J. BOOTH &C, CO., Union Iron Works, First street, Sun
Francisco, or

CUSHIlVft & CO., Proprietors,

San Fraueiseo.

Fig. 5.

JOHN WEIGHT & CO.,

— IXRAIiEBS IN —

picks ^j>ti> pick: tlajsthjeis.

HUNGERFORD'S IMPROVED CONCENTRATOR,

For Saving Gold, Snlpliurcts, Quicksilver, etc.

Sole Agents for Washoe Tool Company,

Wo. 331 Fremont St., t>et. Howard and ITolsoin, San Francisco.

No. 1 Round Eye surface, 4 lbs
2 " " i% "

3
4 "

C " '■

7 " "

8 Plat Eye Burface

5!4

6

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7

4

iy,

10 " ■• 5

11 " '• GJi

12 " " G

13 " " an

14 " " 7

15 Drifting 314

10 " 4

KICES

OP

PICKS

S10 N

0. 17

Drifting

10

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"

18

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"

IS

' 20

"

20

' 21

Poll

20 '

' 22

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24 •

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16 '

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16

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18 '

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20

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Coal ,

20

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24

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16

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6 " 18

Sii " 20

6 V 20

4 " 18

18

20

20

22

24

6«

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. 2* "
, 3
3« "

Also PICK EYE3 ready for the steel, for the Blacksmiths, which will

he sold cheap.

I wish to call special attention to my

ITSTE'W -A-DZE E"^TE PICK,

Which was made under my own supervision while in New York. For BEAUTY, STRENGTH
and DURABILITY, they are uneojtaled,

JOHjST WRIGHT.

We have a large stock of EXTRA NO. 1

WHITE HICfi^UlT DRIFTING PICK HANDLES,

WHICH WE OFFER CHEAP,

CALL ATVI> EXAMINE UTOJR YOURSELVES.

2vis-3miniii|

There is no description of machinery of so mnch importance to the mining interests of Califor-
nia, at the present time, as that for the separation of sulphureis. Many machines have heen tried,
and abandoned ; and none seems to meet the requirement of the mining1 interest so well as that now
patented by Mr. Hungerford, which is an improvement on the well known Hungerford & Prater Con-
centrator, with which his name is already so familiar.

KECOMMEXD.VTIOSS :

San Francisco, October 19th, 1868.
Mr. M. Hungerford — De&rSir: — We have bad twelve of your Concentrators at work at the
Oneida Mine, Amador County, for about six months. They give entire satisfaction. They are
strong and substantial, requiring, thus far, no repairs, and do their work thoroughly and effectively.
At a recent clean-up of four ot them, I found that in four weeks' time we saved about £5U0 in free
gold, besides the sulphurets, or not far from one dollar per ton on the entire crushing of the ten
stamps connected with them. In my opinion, it is for the interest of every quartz mill to have your
machines. Yours, respectfully, * GEORGE PRINGLE, Supt. Oneida Mine.

Office of the Oneida Mining Company, Jackson, May 13th 1868
Mr. Morgan Hungerfoiid — Dear Sir: — In regard to the four Hungerford Concentra-
tors that I bought of Messrs. Goss & Lambard last month, I will say that I put them up in the
Oneida Mill soon after I arrived here, and find that they save sulphurets well and clean, and work to
my entire satisfaction. I have tried many other concentrators, but these stand up and work better
than any others I have used. I have ordered Messrs. Goss & Lambard to make eight more for me as
soon as possible. Very truly yours, JAMES MORGAN.

Big Oak Flat, May 25th, 1868.— Mr. T. W. Mulford— DearSir :— I have used two of M. Hun-
gcrford's Concentrators in the Rattlesnake Quartz Mill, at this place, and find that they work full as
well as they are represented to do. E. M. SMITH, Supt.

A full description of the principle and mode of action of this pan, is described in circulars, which
will be forwarded to any party who may desire them.

The Hungerford Concentrator has only to be seen to be appreciated. No millman will use any
other kind after he has tried that. They are in active operation in mills throughout the State, and
give perfect satisfaction.

It should be borne in mind that Mr. Hungerford is the original builder and maker of the cele-
brated Prater Concentrator, and his name should be sufficient guarantee to warrant the public in ex-
amining his new machine before purchasing elsewhere.

In future these Pans will be manufactured by Goddard & Co., at the Pacific Iron Works, San
Francisco, which is a guarantee that they will be built in the most substantial manner.

These Pans may be seen at the Pacific Iron Works, First street, near Howard, San Francisco.

GODDARD &* CO., San Francisco,

Or M. HUNGERFORD, at the Pacific Iron Works

A Journal of Useful Arts, Science, and Mining and Mechanical Progress.

itv iii:\vi;v .* CO.,

I>llt«-lll Solicitors.

San Francisco, Saturday, January 16, i86g.

VOLUME XVIII.

Table of Contents.

Br | in . Pat. Self Dlscharg-
lnic Blanket Concentrator.

Illu.lrnted.
Pi UI Mine In Moxlco.

Facts Alnilll lllc lilalll I'iiW

ler.
Coloring Eariin.

Turbine Water Wheel*,

Swansea Furnace in Colo-

radc.
1'nti'iit Otllce Kule.
Tin Hilling.

Tin- chemistry of Furniture,

our Mining interests.

White Pine.

W.irk nc Mil' Foundries.

Veloclpedef.

Cnutrlliuiiyiis for our Cabinet

Modification or iiic uonuuu

rrrcusslon Table.

Ol'lt IIiimi: 1 N u L' ST R I K S .—

Woolen Manufactures; Oot-

li.n Maniilaelures ; Klux

and ileum Bagging; Frulla,
Nun, etc; Uops; Dulrv
Product*
Polytechnic Evening School.

M iiimi .i MlSCKI.LANT —

Hells; Beatemor's Last;

Mow un Ami Is .Made; New

Railway Brake; New Hold-
ing Machine; lihl'lcd Cost
iron Wheels; The Missis-
>l|i|il Bridge.
s e 1 aitTirio HiscBLutirr.—

accent Astronomical DIs.
ooverles; The Mississippi
Delta; Solid and Llmild

Pats: l'uscal vs. Newlou;
Explosive Agent.

Mimm; summaky— Comprising
late Intelligence Irom 1 lie
various enmities nnd dis-
tricts In Calilomln, (Colo-
rado, Idutio. Nevada. New
.Mexico, Oregon, and Wy-
oming.

San Francisco Mining Share-
holders1 Directory.

san Francisco Metal Market.

San FranciSCO Market Rates.

Notices to Correspondents.

Stock Prices— Hid and Asked.
New Incorporations.

Contributions for cur Cabinet.

tinder this heading we shall continue to mention nnd de-
scribe, according to merit, such specimens ol' ores, min-
erals, fossils, curio-Hies, en., as may be presented, or
forwarded to us bv mall or express, prepaid. Each article
will be numbered and placed 111 ourcnhinct.und recorded
with the name of the donor, and the cialm or locatlou
from whence it came.

No. 320. — Platinum — as near as can be
judged without inakingan assay — in heavy,
■whitish steel-gray, ductile, scaly particles,
intermixed with a garnet-like sand; from
placer mines in Southern Oregon, — pre-
sented by Dr. Prey, of Sacramento, — who,
it may be remarked in this connection, has
one of the most complete mineralogical
cabinets in the State, having lately added
thereto by the purchase of many litkolog-
ical and paleontologieal specimens. Pla-
tinum occurs usually in grains, but occa-
sionally in irregular lumps, andis as heavy
as gold. It is quite valuable, — next to
gold, — on account of its uses in chemistry,
being infusible and not attacked by any of
the pure acids. Where it can be obtained
plentifully, it is well worth Baving. It has
been found in veins along with gold. Irid-
ium and Osmium, similar metals, are usu-
ally found with platinum; in California
they are found in many places along the
foothills, with the gold, but mo3t plenti-
fully on the lower Elamath.

No. 321. — Psilomelan, or the black sili-
cate of manganese; with Rhodonite, the red
silicate, sometimes called manganese spar,
but that name is also applied to Diallogite,
the carbonate of manganese, distinguisha-
ble by effervescence with warm acids. From
a newly-discovered locality in Santa Clara
County. Presented by W. Frank Stewart,
San Jose.

No. 322.— Eed oxide of tin, from Temes-
cal, San Diego County. It is in large solid
masses, nearly pure, being accompanied by
a little manganese, iron, and quartzose
gangue. Average assay of vein matter, 20
per cent. In England, many of the paying
mines yield only 2% per cent. The Te-
mescal mines are believed to be very valu-
able. Presented by Capt. fm. Williams,
the Superintendent.

No. 323. — Tin ore, from Mexico, consist-
ing of red oxide, intermixed with copper
pyrites. Presented by Dr. Jones, of Mur-
phy's, Calaveras County.

No. 324. — Specular iron ore, partly mi-
caceous. Obtained by A. B. Butler, iu
Calaveras County.

No. 325. — Olmstead's paint, of the color
designated as Sienna, from Olmstead's
Mills, Sonoma County. Probably oxide of
iron mixed with pulverized rock, or earthy
matter.

Bryan's Self-Discharging Blanket Con-
centrator.

The utility of blankets for concentration
being well established, numerous sugges-
tions have been made to overcome the
great objection which is justly urged
against their common use, — that of the
cost. A quarter of a mile of blankets will
undoubtedly retain the pure snlphurets
and amalgam very satisfactorily; but the
blankets are soon decayed, and will have to
be renewed. They are used, accordingly,
only to a limited degree, whero the ores are
such as to warrant the expeuse incurred.

The waves of the ocean have a peculiar
effect upon substances of a different spe-
cific gravity, which, attracting the attention

down the spout J, upon the upper eud of
the blanket surface, which is extended like
a belt between the rollers (G and K), and in-
dented by the smaller roller H, running
on the top of the blanket close to G, so
as to make a kind of trough beyond H,
with a shelving bottom (K). The slope
of the rollers and blankets is towards the
left, being adjustable to suit the ore by
the screws and rods I, I, by which the en-
tire blanket and roller arrangement swings
in the wooden frame A.

Now an oscillatory motion is given to the
swinging blanket frame B, B, by means of
the pulley P, aud rod L. This causes the
pulp and accompanying water at E to rip-
ple down along the shelving channel in lit-
tle wavelets, towards the point of discharge

BRYAN'S SELF-DISCHARMNO BLARKET CONCENTRATOR.

of Mr. John M. Bryan, one of the old ad-
venturers of Gold Bluffs on the Elamath
coast, led him, probably in an interval
of discouragement at the perversity and
scarcity of the magnetic sand of the sea
which had in its black grasp so many a
golden fortune, to betake himself philo-
sophically to a study of the principles of
the statics.-and dynamics involved. Sub-
sequent experiments in the foot-hills —
Grass Valley — led him to devote special
attention the concentration of auriferous
sulphurets, with a view to improving, as
far as possible, upon the ordinary appli-
ances in use. He adopted the blanket
method as the best, but modified it to
save costly material, by using one blanket
only, in the form of an endless belt, which
revolves on rollers in a frame as seen in
the accompanying engraving. The idea of
the shelving sea-beach, and of the succes-
sion of rolling breakers, which abides in
the memory and imagination of all who
have visited Gold Bluffs, never left him
until it was developed into this practical
application. But the operation and substan-
tial merits of Mr. Bryan's concentrator will
be best understood by reference to the en-
graving.

Instead of woolen blankets in this ma-
chine, two thicknesses of canvas (quilted
together to prevent sagging and irregu-
larity of surface) are used to form the end-
less revolving belt.

The pulp, from tho stamp mill, flows

of the tailings E, For every oscillation of
the blanket frame, the pawl F catches in a
new tooth on the ratchet wheel D, revolv-
ing the rollers, and so causing the blanket
channel, and upper surface, to move from
us, and to carry the heavy particles up the
shelving slope E, and over the farther
roller, into a tank underneath, N, which is
filled with water to wash off the sulphu-
rets, which are deposited in the tank. The
heaviest and best quality of sulphurets
will be found at the upper end of the tank
under E.

We have, here, a blanket washing, com-
bined with an operation resembling that of
the Buttinger percussion table, though the
principle is not the same, this being more
of shaking than of a percussion table; the
motion of the heavy particles in the Bit-
tinger table being the reverse, or towards
the force of percussion, as is the case in
working with a hand spoon. Mr. Bryan
tested this machine in the ravine below the
Banner Miiie, Grass Valley, and says it will
give the best results of any concentrator
yet tried on the coast.

Other revolving blanket concentrators
have been in use, which were invented by
Mr. A. Woodside, W. A. Hedger, Smith,
Hinkle, and Mosheimer, and others, which
feed and empty differently, most of which
do not make use of the principle of oscil-
lation. An application has been made for
a patent for this device through the
Mining and Scientific Pkess Patent
Agency. Further particulars may be ob-
tained from Mr. Bryan, Lincoln, Placer
County.

White Pine is still a center of attrac-
tion to speculative miners, and to the ad-
venturous in general. Numerous capital-
ists have sent, and are still sending agents
thither, with purposes varying according to
the style of operation and character of the
parties. Lawyers and go-betweens are
busy, aud a few valuable mines have
changed hands. The bullion product is
not increasing at present; the prices are
high, the snow is a foot deep, the weather
cold at White Pine, — but the excitement
and interest continue unabated, eastward as
well as westward. A town is expected to
grow up there equal to Virginia City ; but
the permanency of the deposits or of veins
iu depth, is canvassed intelligently only be-
tween lawyers and experts, while actual
developments underground, which should
have determined the question pretty posi-
tively before this, are kept quiet, for spec-
ulative reasons. We have furnished our
readers with the essential data, and repeat
confidently that this is by no means the
gambling question that some would make
of it. The district has a set of mining reg-
ulations— a series of resolutions adopted at
a miners' meeting — which allow a claim
of 200 feet on the lode to each locator, and
200 feet additional for the discoverer. The
claim follows the lode.

A map of White Pine District and of
eastern Nevada, is shortly to appear, ac-
companied with published facts of interest
and value to the expected stream of east-
ward travelers in spring.

The new stage road from Elko, 460 miles
from Sacramento, on the Central Pacific
Bailroad, to Hamilton, was opened on the
8th inst. The distance is 125 miles, and
the road a good one, lying partly through
Newark and Huntington valleys, which af-
ford abundance of water and forage. Hunt-
ington and Smith creeks flow through these
valleys, and form the North Fork of the
Humboldt River. We quote the list of sta-
tions on the route, at each of which fresh
teams are taken :

Hamilton to Pancake Mountain 17 miles.

Newark, (site of a quartz mill) 11 '

Thomas' Station i2 "t

Cold Springs H

Jacob's Well, (on overland route) 9 ^

Winnie Ranch 13 |]

Robinsou's 17

Smith'sCreek ™ ,

Shcppurdstown 10

Elko I5

The miner, the carpenter, the blacksmith,
the capitalist, the boarding-house keeper,
and the gambler will do well for some
months at White Pine; but persons of other
professions will run the risk of finding no
employment until the community becomes
a settled one.

We have noticed on exhibition at Saw-
yer & Williams', No. 439 California street,
some rare specimens of copper, gold and
silver ores, from the Sauce and Giantess
mines, located on the Gulf side of the pe-
ninsula of Lower California, about fourteen
miles from the Bay of San Bruno,— also a
map of the country and drawings of tho
mines, both of the surface and underground
workings; also the Territorial Surveyor's
survey of the mines and land, comprising
over sixty square miles. These mines and
lands are for sale. See advertisement in
another column.

34

TY\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Communications.

In this Obpartment mi invite IhCFRRE DISCUSSION ot all
proner snbiects— correspondents alone being responsible lor
the irieas aiid theories tliey advance.

[Written for tlie Mining and Scientific Press.]

Account of Famous Mines in Mexico.

BiTOPiLAS, Chihuahua, Mes., Oct. 24th, 186S.

Editors Press : — I left the very inter-
esting mining place of Guadalupe' y Calvo,
about September 8th, and passing through
a highly promising, yet almost entirely un-
known country, teeming everywhere with
silver lodes and prospects of gold, and
finally arrived here on the 26th of the
same month. Since then I have made this
my headquarters, and dedicated my time
exclusively to a very careful inspection of
the district and its dependencies, the re-
sult of which I will now lay before you.

All along during my travels through these
northwest States of the republic, I had fre-
quently heard accounts about this ancient
mining region, yet I confess I had almost
invariably set them down as exaggerated
and highflown illusions, such as the native
population are but too apt to entertain
credulous foreigners with, or partly believe
in themselves.

FABULOUS EEPOKTS.

The reports of the fabulous masses of
pure native silver which the Batopilas
mines are said to have produced, seemed
like fairy tales, or to float like vast silvery
clouds before their imaginative visions; yet
I have now become convinced that a great
deal more of sober truth was covered by
them, than I had been willing to give them
credit for. In fact, after having seen the
most of the famed mining districts of Eu-
rope, and the southern and central part of
our own continent, as well as Mexico, I am
convinced that I am now in a region more
wonderful than any of them.

The data I have been able to gather about its
former history, so far as I hold them to be
reliable, are the following,partly drawn from
a very valuable statistical book on the State
of Chihuahua, written by Don Juan de Escu-
dero, partly from accounts received by a
gentlemen well known and respected every-
where in these States, Mr. GeorgeLe Brun,
at present director of the mint in Alamos,
and from other written documents and
verbal communications.

BATorrnAs
is situated in the mountains near the south-
eastern corner of Sonora. The mines of
Batopilas were discovered about 200 years
ago, when it is said an Indian swimming
the river during a tremendous freshet, was
carried down the stream by the current and
accidentally landed at a place on its left
bank, where the water had carried away a
large piece of rock forming one of the
walls of a vein, leaving open to the sun's
rays a vast mass of pure metallic silver,
white almost as snow. This circumstance
created the name given to it of "La Ne-
vada," meaning the "snow white." The
report of this discovery spread, and soon
the hitherto quiet and unknown valley be-
came the seat of a lively mining industry.
The town is in the heart of the ' ' Sierra
Madre," which crosses the State from N.
to S., sending out rugged spurs in every
direction, yet strictly speaking, forming an
immense, high table land, whose altitude
here attains to 8,000 or 9,000 feet above
the ocean. The climate is salubrious; in
greater hights, the finest any where to be
met with. The average heat down in the
valley, in the summer or rainy season, is
not over 85', while in winter, the ther-
mometer hardly ever falls below 45°; snow
only occasionally being seen for a few days
on the most elevated mountains, while the
vegetation in the valley and up to 3, 000 feet
above, remains green all the year round.

THE VAIjIiET

winds itself as a narrow rent along between
tolerably steep mountains, whose greatest
altitude may reach to 3,300 feet above it.
Its main extension may 03 set down to

seven miles from S. E. to N. W., with va-
rious side valleys emanating therefrom.

The vegetation consists of a variety of
thorny shrubs and immense cactus of a
grotesque form, the tops and north sides of
the hills overgrown with oaks and forests
of gigantic pines, while extended grassy
slopes provide a magnificent pasture for an-
imals.

A creek, or as itis here styled, " El Rio,"
runs in its rocky bed with never-failing
water of the most beautiful crystal clear-
ness, and of more than sufficient power to
drive several ore mills — "haziendas."

Along its right, or western bank, under
the very shadow of the overtopping mount-
ains, stetches itself, the

TOWN OF BATOPILAS,

built up in the old Spanish style of adobe,
or sun-dried bricks; houses of one, seldom
two stories in hight, with flat roofs, occu-
pying every available place, barely leaving
room for a narrow road. The population,
which for a number of years after the end
of the last great "bonanza " had dwindled
down to a mere handful, and only slowly
begun of late years to increase again \>j
the newly started enterprises, may at this
day be safely set down at between 3, 000 and
4,000, drawn hither by the return of the era
of a bonanza, whose wouders or extent it
is utterly impossible to foretell, but which
bids fair to outshine by far all the former
historical ones.

THE NECESSAKIES OF TJFE

are all brought in by pack mules from the
towns situated on the rich plains, extend-
ing from the foot of the Sierra to the far-
off seashore, and vary their prices accord-
ing to the result of the seasons. The chief
staples of consumption are corn, sugar,
beans, salt, tallow, lard, and the various
classes of dry goods. A portion of the
former, as also the beeves, are raised and
sold by the semi-civilized Indians of the
" Taruhmari " tribe, inhabiting the Sierra.

THE DISTANCE

from Batopilas to the two principal towns
from which it has naturally to draw its
supplies, are, to Faerie, about five days'
travel in the saddle, and Alamos, about the
same, the half of which is over mountains.
Thence clear down to the seacoast, a most
beautiful natural wagon road leads over a
slightly undulating, very fertile country.
Mazatlan, from the former, and Guaymas,
from the latter place, form the respective
seaports, whence easy and regular steam
communication with San Francisco twice
a month can be had.

The distance to the city of Chihuahua,
the capital of the State, isabout seven days'
travel in the saddle, in a northeasterly di-
rection.

RICHES.

The riches which the various mines of
the district have given in former times, can
not now be accurately stated, since, by a
conflagration, which destroyed the entire
official documents in the year 1827, relating
to the matter, were lost.

It is however known, that as a duty of
20 per cent, on the silver taken out from
1785 to 1789, and actually paid into the
royal treasury at Chihuahua, the sum of
922,000 marks, or $7,376,000 were regis-
tered, showing thereby a result of produc-
tion of 836,880,000; to which a reasonable
amount must be added that was never en-
tered.

A very few scattered documents only
exist relating to the former condition and
produce of two or three of the principal
mines.

VEINS.

The number of veins which furrow this
district it is impossible to calculate. I can
only say that in no part of the world have I
ever seen anything approaching to it. While
those most known may reach the number of
100, those best known or not outcropping,
will surely go far over 500, (heir general
course being from north to south with more
or less deviation.

ORES.

The ores consist principally, and in some
mines entirely, of the very richest native
silver, bright as it comes from the assayer's
cupel, and in the most wonderful and
beautiful shapes and combiuations; their
value ranging from the poorest, of §80 to
the ton, to §20,000 and $30,000. The mat-
rix of the lodes consist of calcspar, but
very few showing quartz, as such, and these
latter ones have not yet been sufficiently
prospected to satisfy me as to their worth.

GEOLOGY.

The mineral country through which they'
run, is composed mostly of "diorite,'
while granite shows only in a few higher
localities, and stratified rock, merely in two
or three points to a limited extent. A ma-
jority of the lodes seem to concentrate in a

famous hill, known as the Cerrode Animas,
which alone may hold more than 300 or
400; also in the Cerra de San Antonio, and
Cerro de la Descubridora,

BONANZAS.

Among these mines that in former times
are known to have given great " bonanzas,"
are principally mentioned the Nevada, the
Dolores, the Pastrana, San Antonio, Car-
men, Martinez, Roncesvalles, Arbitries,
Cata, Vallinas, Descubridora, San Pedro,
Baltazar, and others too numerous to men-
tion.

THE PEICES OF LABOE

in the mines average six bits for a day's
wTork, of two blast holes of sixteen inches
each, and four bits per day to the boys car-
rying out the rubbish from the mines,
while a foreman receives from $8 to $12
per week.

THE BENEFICIATING

of the ores has hitherto exclusively been
done by the Patio Process, the grinding be-
ing by the old fashioned Mexican arastras,
driven by water power. Of late, however,
the greatly increasing produce of the mines
demands different facilities for working up
their ores, and consequently several of the
American companies at work here have
sent off for improved machinery.
[To be continued.]

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[Written for the Mining and Scientific Press.

Facts About the Giant Powder.

Eds. Peess : — As a matter of some in-
terest to the owners of mines, I beg to lay
before your readers the following facts con-
nected with the use of Giant Powder in the
Oakes & Keese mine, in Hunter's Valley,
Mariposa County, belonging to Messrs.
Robinson and McAllister.

We have used the powder entirely since
last April. In its use, the steel consumed
is of uniform size, % inch octagon. Ham-
mers (short handles) weighing 3% pounde.
The country rock is hard and tenacious.
The veins of quartz are narrow, varying
from ten inches to three feet, generally
running from one foot to twenty inches in
width, with little or no gouge.
The system which Mr.Cassel, superintend-
ent of the mine has introduced, and which
can only be used to advantage with Giant
Powder, is to pay the miners by the foot
in depth of hole drilled; the miner doing
no blasting, nor does he handle any rock,
his simple duty being to drill holes where
instructed.

The underground superintendent or head
blaster, — one for each shift, — instructs the
miner where to drill a hole. "When the hole
is drilled to the depth required, the su-
perintendent measures it and takes a mem-
orandum of same, and sets the miner at
work elsewhere. As soon as the hole is
measured, the blaster loads it with from
two to two and one-half ounces of loose
powder, fills the hole with water, covers it,
and leaves it until the men leave the mine
at time of shift. As soon as the men have
left the mine, the blaster with his fuses,
with cap or exploder attached, makes his
round, and removing the cover from the
hole, drops the fuse into the hole, works
the exploder into the powder, which is
quite soft, fires the fuse, and in a few min-
utes will explode all the holes drilled dur-
ing the working shift. As soon as the ex-
plosions are made, the rock men and skip
men clean away the debris which may be in
the way of drilling new holes, and when
the men again come into the mine, there is
work for them ahead, in drilling. A blast
is only fired when the men are at work in
the mine, when it becomes necessary to re-
move material. Thus if" will be seen, no
time is lost in blasting.

My experience since April last, leads me
to kuow the following facts in use of Giant
Powder, as againt gunpowder :

First — The amount of work which can be
performed in a given space, in a mine, is
nearly double.

Second — The consumption of steel is
about one-half.

Third — The consumption of hammers is
about one-half.

Fourth — The consumption of candles is
about one-half.

Fifth— The width of the drifts or stopes
is only about one-half, requiring so much
less material to be removed or hoisted from
the mine.

Sixth — The mining timbers are of shorter
lengths.

Seventh — The ore raised from the mine is
broken by the force of the powder so as to
require less spalling for the mill.

Eighth — The progress of the work in tho
mine is expedited at least 40 per cent, and
in wet mines, the progress is increased
fully 50 per cent., if not more.

The miners pay roll for the mine during
October, was only $2,429.03; and during
this time this force not only kept the 12-
stamp mill busy- day and night, but the
yield of ore from the mine has so increased
that another battery is now being erected of
four stamps more, — sixteen stamps in all.
These sixteen stamps could not be kept em-
ployed from the mine with common pow-
der, short of a pay roll of $8,500 to $9,000
per month. Thus much for the use of Gi-
ant Powder for the owners of mines. Now
comes the advantage to the miner.

The miner never incurs any danger from
use of the powder, as we have never met
with an accident in its use, and is never in-
jured in the hands from a careless striker;
and when the miner is used to this powder,
and understands its peculiarities and great
sarety, he returns to the use of gnnpowder
with much reluctance. It may be as well
to state here, that I never hear of any
trouble caused by sickness or disease in the
use of this powder in the mine.

So far as the miner is concerned, he can
earn more money in using the .?i-iueh steel
and small hammer, than in any other way.
It is true he must earn his money, and is
not paid by the day. The price paid in the
O. & R. mine is 37% cents per foot of hole
drilled. In October, there was drilled
6,4763i feet of hole, costing $2,429.03.
The following list will exhibit the amount
earned by the miners most expert in use of
single hammer drills, in October, twenty-
seven working days :

P. Eeicai S130.20

L. Boivin 124.83

J. A. Wilson 131.77

B. Kendall 103.77

S. Cox 122.25

S. Uran 130.

B. Picard 104.58

H. La't/ S97.C6

F. Gill 94 tiz

J. Sastrade 90.70

.T. Fortuna 94.56

H.Boyle 91.77

J. Martin 90.49

L.Battiola 84.93

and many others, ranging below the above
amounts, falling short, either because of
not working full time, or from not being
expert in use of single hammer. Still, any
system of mining, where a miner willing
to work can earn as high $131.77 per month,
of twenty-seven working days, must inure
to benefit of the miner, and particularly so
when the mine owner is willing to pay such
wages. One thing is certain, that with Giant
powder and the use of small steel and ham-
mers, the miner must earn his money, and
cannot shirk his work, as is too often the
case under the old system of mining.

The following are some of the localities
where this powder is being used :

1 — At the Oaks & Reese mine, Hunter's
Valley, Mariposa County. (Property of
L. L. Robinson and Hall McAllister) .

2 — At the Josephine and Pine Tree mines,
Mariposa estate.

3 — At the San Jacinto tin mines, San
Bernardino County.

4 — At the Zapata silver mine, Los Ange-
les County.

5 — At the Ophir shaft, Virginia City.

6 — At the San Marcial silver mine, So-
nora, Mexico.

7 — At the Rattlesnake quartz mine, Tuba
County.

8 — At the New Alinaden quicksilver mine,
(recently mentioned in the Press), and in
many other localities.

It has also been used to advantage by
Captain Lambert and others, for whaling
purposes on the southern coast. K.

Thteeey's Water Velocipede, on Lake
Enguien, Paris, is constructed on the prin-
ciple of the twin ship tried some years ago
on the Thames, the motive power being
placed in the middle instead of on each
side, as in ordinary paddle steamers. A
pair of hollow water-tight pontoons, about
twelve feet long, ten inches wide in the
thickest part, tapered to a point at each end,
are fastened together about twenty inches
apart by transverse bars near the extremi-
ties. In the center is placed the seat, ris-
ing about two feet above the water, and
paddle wheel, three feet in diameter and
eight inches broad, provided with sixteen
floats, the axle turning on stout iron up-
rights, and rotary motion being obtained
from cranks worked by the feet.

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35

Mechanical.

Belts. — Broad tit i ii belts are better than
narrower thick oues. "When bant round
the circumference of a wheel the outer parte
of the belt ure distended, tho inner parts

I; aud supposing the section of the
bell to bo rectangular, the amount of force
expended in making these cbongi
portional directly to the breadth, to the
square of the thickness, and inversely to
the diameter of the wheel."

A rubber belt Bhonld become glossy npon
its face by use. "As soon as ii begii I i
glaze, you may be Buro yon Trill have no
trouble with it."

"The slack side on top with large pul-
leys at high sp< id. is undoubtedly the true
philosophy of transmitting power by belts."

"Belt pulleys should be made slightly
convex, in a ratio of half au inch per foot
of breadth."

The hair side,— not the flesh side, — of the
belt, should be next the pulley. It will
transmit one-third more power than if re-
versed. Moreover, it will run more stead-
ily, and will not wear out.

" A leather belt ought to have a velocity
of at least 1,500 feet, and not more than
2,000 feet, per minute."

Pulleys for round belts should have a
groove of V, — not U, — form.

The above notes are a part of a collection
of such made from various mechanical
journals, at various times, by the Journal
of the Franklin Institute.

Bessemer's Last.— The recent improve-
ments in the manufacture of refined iron,
and of malleable iron and steel, which have
been made by Mr. Bessemer, consist in in-
jecting into molten crude iron, or re-melted
pig iron, or other carburet of iron, jets of
fused nitrate of soda or nitrate of potash,
or other fluid substances which are capa-
ble of evolving oxygen when brought in
contact with fluid iron; such substances be-
ing used alone or in conjunction with ox-
ides, peroxides, or silicates of iron or man-
ganese. The jets are projected downward
at any angle from tuyeres, the orifices of
which are above the level of the fluid iron.
The iron to be operated upon may be con-
tained in those vessels known as " convert-
ers," generally employed in the Bessemer
process, or in a cylindrical chamber lined
wilh fire-brick, or other refractory material,
or in the hearth of a " finery furnace," sim-
ilar to those employed in refining pig iron
for puddling.

How an Axe is Made. — A correspondent
of the Scientific American gives a description
of the Collinsville (Ct. ) Iron Works, from
which we clip tho following on axe-mak-
ing: A bar of heated wrought-iron is cut
up into chunks, and an eye is punched into
it by the same movement; then it goes into
the bitt shop, where a piece of steel is
clasped and welded to the iron and drawn
to the edge, then to the temperers to re-
ceive their delicate manipulation ; then
into the grinding shop; then to the polish-
ing shop; then to the blacking room, where
the asphaltum is put on to protect the head
of the axe; then to the packing-room. And
while passing through each one of these
processes, the instrument is handled by a
different professional inspector, and if there
is a flaw, or if the temper is faulty, back it
goes to the beginning.

A New Bail way Brake. — At a recent
meeting of the London Polytechnic So-
ciety, a newly invented brake was exhibited,
which consists of a pawl taking into a rachet
on the axle of one of the pairs of wheels,
and which can be readily applied by the
brakeman, or taken off when not wanted.
It was suggested at the meeting that tho
action for regulating the pawl might be
connected with the coupling chain, and
thus be made to fall into gear when break-
age happened. The brake would then be
self-acting.

Wheel Mouhnq Maohxnk — George L.
Scott, "f Manchester, Bsq., at a recent

meeting of tho Institution of Meohanical

Engineers, in Birmingham, exhibited u ma-
chine for molding toothed wheels, not only
with greater accuracy than is attainable by

patterns, but in unlimited variety as re-
gards size, pitch and form of teeth. The
machine is portable, cheap, and self con-
tained; being ca)iablo of ready application
in any part of the foundry. "Tho whole
machine," — says the London Artisan, — "is
carried upou a center pillar, which fits into
a socket in a cast irou pedestal, sunk in
the floor of the foundry below the depth
required for molding, and fixed truly ver-
tical; several of these pedestals aro placed
in convenient situations in tho foundry
floor, so that tho molding machine can be
employed successively upon tho molding of
different wheels. The center pillar of the
machine carries a horizontal arm, capable
of adjustment radially to suit the diameter
of the wheel to be molded; and the extrem-
ity of the arm carries a vertical slide, on
the bottom of which is fixed the pattern for
molding the teeth of the wheel. This pat-
tern consists of two teeth only, for mold-
ing one space only at a time, whereby ab-
solute equality is insured in the size and
shape of all the teeth in the wheel. After
molding each tooth, the pattern is drawn
from the sand with perfect steadiness by
the vertical slide of the machine; and by
means of a set of change wheels and a
worm wheel keyed upon the center pillar,
the radial arm is turned round through a
space equal to the pitch of the teeth, and
the pattern is then lowered again for mold-
ing the next tooth of the wheel. On the
completion of all the teeth, the mold-
ing machine is lifted off the pedestal by the
foundry crane, the cores for the ai ma are
put in their places, and the top box put on,
ready for casting; the flat surfaces of the
top and bottom boxes having been already
prepared, before the molding of the teeth
was begun, by means of strickle boards of
the required shape, workingrounda center
pin fixed in the same pedestal which after-
wards carries the center pillar of the mold-
ing machine, so as to insure strict accuracy
for the whole of the work. "

Scientific Miscellany

Chilled Cast-Iron Wheels. — Engineer-
ing copies several letters from railway men,
all of which give the decided preference to
cast-iron wheels over those of wrought
iron. One of these letters, by George E.
Gray, — late Chief Engineer N. Y. Central
Bailroad, — says that experience has demon-
strated the superiority of cast iron wheels
in all particulars. They will save more
than their cost in the increased length of
time for which they will wear, and they do
not break. Mr. G. writes: "Trains are
often run at the rate of sixty miles an hour
for many miles together, and this over far
worse tracks than we ever found in Eng-
land or Prance. This company have tried
the best wrought-iron wheels made in Eng-
land, and have found the cast-iron the
cheapest, the most durable, and equally
safe. "

The Mississippi Bridge. — Engineering
describes in full, and illustrates in its usual
splendid style, the noble steel-arched
bridge across the Mississippi at St. Lonis,
designed and already commenced by Mr.
James B. Eads, Chief Engineer of the Illi-
nois and St. Louis Bridge Co. " No work
at present in progress exceeds it in inter-
est." The span of the center arch is 515
feet.

Alloys op Steel with Platinum. —
These alloys, when both metals are in a
state of fusion, aro perfect in every propor-
tion that has been tried. Equal parts by
weight form a beautiful alloy, which takes
a fine polish and does not tarnish; the color
is the finest imaginable for a mirror. The
specific gravity is 9-862.

The Phosphate Kocks lying near Charles-
ton, South Carolina, are supposed to be
of immense value, inasmuch as they con-
tain the element of a valuable fertilizer. It
is stated that half a million dollars have
been received in Charleston since last
spring from the sale of the rock, and from
subscriptions to the stock of companies.
Apatite and other minerals containing phos-
phor, are not uncommon, and are found all
over the globe.

Recent Astronomical Discoveries.

Mr. J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.A.S., who
communicated a paper to the Royal So-
ciety some two years ago,' upon the ap-
plication of the spectrum analysis to tho
determination of the solar spots, made on
Nov. 5th, certain observations, which he
laid before the Royal Astronomical Society
at a recent meeting, — aud which are thus
report id by the Engineer: "Upon turning
the instrument to the limb of the sun, he
was surprised to see, directly he looked
through the oye-pieco, a phenomenon which
somewhat puzzled him. He saw not a long
line, but a short one, which appeared to
indicate a small prominence, or a loop of a
large one. Yet though he swept the limb
of the sun for some time, for a distance of
perhaps 200,000 miles, he could find no
largo rn-onrinence, but still saw tho short
lines. He concluded, therefore, that they
came from a gaseous envelope of the sun
altogether new to science. He obtained the
same results in every part of the limb of
the sun, except where there were promi-
nences. Thus is indicated a new envelope
five or seven or eight thousand miles in
hight, extending all round the sun. There
is no great difference in its thickness at the
poles or at the equator. The reports from
India give three lines as those most gener-
nllyseen. It was the same with himself.
But when the action is excessive, he some-
times saw a fourth line, near the c of the
scale. The spectrum of the sun itself is
always visible in the instrumental the same
time as the spectrum of the prominences."

The same journal gives a letter from Dr.
Jansen, who was sent out to India to make
observations on the eclipse of the sun, in
August last, and whose attention was at-
tracted to the same peculiar ' 'prominences"
referred to by Mr. Lockyer, while making
these observations at Guntour. His letter
is to the Minister of Public Instruction, at
Paris. We quote a portion of it :

"Immediately after the totality, two
magnificent protuberances made their ap-
pearance; one of them, of more than three
minutes in hight, shone with a splendor
which it is difficult to imagine. An analy-
sis of its light showed me directly that it
was formed by an immense column of in-
candescent gas, principally composed of
hydrogen. The analysis of the regions sur-
rounding the sun, where M. Kirehhoff
places the solar atmosphere, has not given
me results conformable to the theory pre-
scribed by this illustrious physicist. These
results, it appears to me, should lead to a
knowledge of the real constitution of the
solar spectrum. But the most important
result of these observations, is the discov-
ery of a method of which the principle was
conceived during the eclipse itself, and
which will allow of the study of protuber-
ances and of the regions surrounding the
sun at all times, without its being neces-
sary to have recourse to the interposition of
an opaque body before the sun's disc. This
method is founded upon the spectral prop-
erties of the light of the protuberances —
light which resolves itself into a small num-
ber of very luminous pencils correspond-
ing to the obscure rays of the solar spec-
trum."

The Mississippi Delta. — Sir Charles
Lyell, at a recent meeting of the Geolog-
ical Society of London, said that with re-
gard to the delta of the Mississippi, the
data on which he argued had considerably
altered since first he wrote on the subject,
inasmuch as recent calculations had
doubled the estimated volume of water
flowing into the sea, and thus it was capa-
pable of producing the same effect in half
the previously calculated time. The pro-
gress of the delta at any spot was of neces-
sity variable, as the j)osition of the mouth
changed. The American engineers had al-
lowed only forty feet as the depth of the
fluviatile deposits, whereas from boring Sir
Charles had concluded it to be at least 500
or 600 feet. There was now reason to sup-
pose that it was much more, possibly as
much as 1,500 feet. This being the case,
notwithstanding the amount of work done
by the river being doubled^ his calculation
as to the time required' for the formation of
the dc^ta, might p'ot after all be so excessive.

Solid and Liquid Fats. — Dr. Dobell,
of the Royal Hospital, after remarking, in
the London Chemical Neves, that there is a
singular absence of precise knowledge as
to tho relative properties of solid and
liquid fats, says: "The fatty bodies ob-
tained from warm-blooded animals are gen-
erally solid at ordinary temperatures, whilst
those from fish and from coldblooded ani-
mals are liquid. And when we consider
the high melting points of the solid fats
as compared with the temperature of the
body in warm-blooded animals, it is evi-
dent that the fat in them would be solid at
the temperature of their blood, but for tho
mixture of olein, by which the melting
point is reduced. Therefore the solidity or
fluidity of the fat in living animals is de-
termined by the proportion of olein which
is able to be mixed with the stearin, palmi-
tin, and margarin in each individual; aud
we are forced to conclude, either that it is
of no importance whether the fats of the
body during life are in a solid or liquid
state, or that it is important in what pro-
portion the olein, stearin, etc., shall be
combined."

Dr. Dobell closes his article by submit-
ting to chemists, for experiment, the fol-
lowing questions as important in reference
to the determination of the quantity and
quality of food necessary for animals un-
der different conditions :

1. What is the relative facility for oxida-
tion of the solid and liquid fats at similar
and at different temperatures?

2. Is the facility for oxidation inversely
as the melting points ?

3. Is it the same for all fats at their melt-
ing points ?

4. After the melting point of a 'fat has
been attained, is the facility for oxidation
affected by further increments of tempera-
ture?

5. Is there a temperature at which fats
cease to be oxidizable, and, if so, what re-
lation does this bear to the melting point
in each instance ?

Pascal versus Newton. — About a year
and a half ago, the scientific world was
considerably excited by the claims of M.
Chasles, in favor of Pascal as the discoverer
of the law of Universal Gravitation. M.
Chasles insisted, before the French Acad-
emy of Sciences, that Newton owed all his
knowledge to Pascal; and produced in
proof, a number of newly-discovered let-
ters from Pascal to Newton, from the
mother of Newton to Pascal, and from va-
rious other persons, — among which were
some from Galileo. M. Chasles positively
refused to give any information in regard
to the source whence he drew these letters.
They were one after the other pronounced
forgeries, by a committee of investigation
appointed by the Academy; and the general
belief was thatM. Chasles himself had been
deceived.

The excitement, — says Scientific Opinion, —
upon the subject, has already died away;
but we recal the facts in 'order to give a
statement from a recent number of the
Milan Gazette, which is to this effect : " In
examining some papers of Galileo at Flor-
ence, a letter was found addressed to a
French savant, in which Galileo excuses
himself for not having replied earlier, on
the ground ' that he could not find readily
at Florence any one who could translate a
French letter into Italian. ' From this it
is clear that Galileo did not know French,
and therefore could not have written the
letters attributed to him."

Explosive Agents. — Prof. Wurtz says
that there is something more than outside
pressure which determines the manner in
which different compounds explode. Ni-
tro-glyeerine, he says, belongs to a class, —
of which common gunpowder is a member,
but fulminates are not members, — which
seem to require an internal molecular dis-
turbance to excite explosion, and are not
affected with certainty by external mechan-
ical force. Their mode of explosion may
be compared to an immensely rapid and in-
tense fermentation. Prof. W. promises a
paper in extenso upon the subject, giving
some very curious experiments and obser-
vations of his own, made some years since.

36

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Work at the Foundries.

The machinery for a number of sawmills
has been occupying the Miners' Foundry
to some extent. A large one for Hanson &
Co., at Puget Sound, is to have a capacity
of 60,000 feet a day; having a double circu-
lar saw, and a light gang or " pony" for re-
sawing. Another sawmill for the north
coast redwoods, is in hand, to the order of
the Garcia Lumbering and Pluming Co.,
Garcia Creek (this side of Cape Mendocino),
of which the capacity is to be 30,000 feet a
day. Still another is for Smith & Doherty,
Trinidad, Humboldt County, which is also
to have a capacity of 30,000 feet a clay.

AlO-stamp quartz mill for White Pine is
being put together for A. Staples.

The new four-cylinder engine invented
by Mr. Howland, (referred to in another
column) is a very interesting and curiously
working piece of mechanism.

To obtain water at the Miners' Poundry
an artesian well is being bored, which has
attained a depth of 190 feet. It is expected
that water will be met with at almost any
time now, since at Hinckley's, and at Selby's
shot works, it was reached at a depth of
only 175 feet. The strata cut through were,
1st, sand; 2d, clay; 3d, another layer of
sand; 4th, a stratum of clayey gravel, the
stones being very small and angular, show-
ing little or no evidences of water wearing.

At the JEtna Works there is being made
a Hanscom jaw crusher, for the Stow Pave-
ment Company. The object of this is to
break up rocks to such a consistency as to
answer in the place of gravel, for filling the
cells, thatbeing foundboth cheaper and bet-
ter than gravel. Three of Varney's pans and
two settlers, with the necessary shafting
and gearing, have been made for the San
Marcial Silver Mining Co., Mexico, of which
Bandmann, Neilson & Co. are the agents. A
velocipede of a peculiar pattern is under
way. A 30-inch Tyler turbine has been
made for the Mariposa Estate, to the order
of J. G. Bice, Superintendent, intended to
drive one of their mills; a Scotch reac-
tion turbine, which was found to require
the whole river as motive power, being re-
placed by it. Quite a number of Carval-
ho's steam superheaters, and of Bemis grate
bars for the burning of Mt. Diablo coal,
are being made here constantly, to order.

At the Pulton Foundry, Messrs. Hinck-
ley & Co. are building for H. B. Tichenor
& Co., the machinery for a steamboat which
is to run from San Pedro, the port of Los
Angeles, to Wilmington, the terminus of
the Wilmington and Los Angeles Bail-
road. The railroad is twenty-one mileslong,
and isnownearly all graded, so that the road
may be expected to be open soon and in
operation. The engine has an 18-inch cyl-
inder and five feet stroke. Another engine
is being made here for Hanson & Co's new
sawmill at Puget Sound. A large double
circular sawmill complete, is being made
for C, P. Ellsworth, of Chico; and another
for Mr. St. Ores, Gualala, Mendocino
County, which is to have a capacity of 18, -
000 feet a day. Fifty new hydrants for the
city are being made, slightly different from
the old ones, having two or .more joints.
Amongst the smaller jobs are steam pumps
for Mr. Tichenor's steamboat, a velocipede
embodying original points, etc.

Mr. Brodie, the foreman at this foundry,
has invented a very useful " revolving
steady -rest, " which will prove of great value
to iron turners. JAny kind of irregular
piece of iron, whether corrugated, ribbed
square, or three-cornered, can be fastened
into this rest, and as the rest itself revolves,
the ends, or a journal, crank pin orthe like,
can be turned off at once, and anywhere.

A Tin Concenteator has been made in
this cityforthe San Jacinto (Temascal) Mine,
and fifteen tons of ore are on the way to be
- used in a trial. It is a moving blanket, on
rollers, and a current of clear water is made
to m'eej; the ore, — which is finely pulver-
zed,' either in a stamp mill, or revolving
crusher.

New Incorporations. — Articles of in-
corporation have been recently filed in the
County Clerk's office in this city as follows:

Oneida Mining Co. — Amador County.
Jan. 6th. Capital stock, §640,000; 3,200
shares, §500 each. Trustees: James Mor-
gan, C. F. Fargo, Geo. W. Beaver. J. D.
Fry and Benjamin P. Sherwood.

Vallejo BuTLDrNG Association. — Solano
County. Jan. 6th. Capital stock, §100,-
000; i00 shares, §1,000 each. Trustees:
Jno. B. Prisbie, Chas. Wheeler, Francis
Avery, Henry W. Spencer and W. F. Bu-
lofson.

Coney Mining Co. — Amador County.
Jan. 6th. Capital stock, §300,000; 30,000
shares, §100 each. Trustees: H. H. Bige-
low, Leonard Coney, J. W. Garhwiler,
George H. Bigelow and S. Heydenfeldt.

Irish American Mutual Association.
San Francisco. Dec. 30th. Directors:
Edward Moran, Win. O'Connell, John A.
Ahern, A E. Mylott, Charles O'Neil and
Daniel Shehan.

Hebernia Provident Association. — San
Francsico. Dec. 31st. Trustees: J. B.
Kelly, Thos. Golden. Daniel Murphy, John
Kelly, James G. Malley, Thos. Finn, B. J.
Shay, F. S. Wensinger, Peter Denipsey,
James McNamara, James M. Sharkey, Frank
Cassin, P. H. McGovern, Michael Guerin,
and Jahies B. Deane.

Douglas S. M. Co. — Lander County,
Nev. Jan. 11th. Capital stock, §320,000;
Trustees: J. L. Blaikie, E. H. Shaw, C. E.
Convis. S. W. Backus and A. Meyer.

Hidden Treasure Co. — W hite Pine, Nev.
Jan. 4th. Capital stock, §800,000; 8,000
shares, §100 each. Trustees: P. G. Smith,
C. W. Fox, E. M. Hall, Hill Beachy and
John A. McQuaid.

Election oe Officers. — Montgomery
Street Beal Estate Co — Dee. 30th. Presi-
dent, John D. Fry; Vice-President, L. L.
Treadwell ; Actuary, A Harpending; Legal
Adviser, S. Heydenfeldt; Secretary, H. G,
Walton; Treasurer, Bank of California.

DeSoto G. & S. M. Co.— Jan. 5th. Trus-
tees: S. Heydenfeldt, Wm. Willis, D. T.
Bagley, John M. Burnett, I. Livingston,
Adam Shane and T. H. Holt.

Hidden Treasure M. Co. — White Pine.
Jan. 6th. President, Hill Beaehey; Vice-
President, F. G. Smith; Treasurer, John
Sime; Secretary, Joseph L. King.

Adriatic G. & S. M. Co.— Jan. 6th.
Trustees: Chas. Hirschfeld, J. L. Schroe-
der, James Bole, Simon Mayer and Camile
Martin. President, Simon Mayer; Secre-
tary, Paul Neumann.

San Francisco Stock and Exchange
Board.— Jan. 11th. President, J. E. B.
Cavallier; Vice-President, Geo. W. Smiley;
Secretary, Franklin Lawton; Treasurer,
Henry Schmieden.

California Trust Co. — San Francisco,
Jan. 11th. Trustees, Henry H. Haight,
John Curry, Wm. H. Sharp, Jacob C.
Johnson, Samuel Crim, Donald McLennon,
Chas. W. Hathaway, John H. Baird, Henry
Barroilhet, Moses Bosenbaum, John O. El-
dridge, ('has. F. MacDermott, Henry J.
Booth, Chas. J. Deering, Walter B. Cum-
mings, Chas. M. Plum, Henry L. Davis,
Solomon Heydenfeldt, F. S. Wensinger,
Wm. Blackwood and Henry C. Lee.

California Dry Dock Co. — San Fran-
cisco. Jan. 11th. Trustees: Lloyd Tevis,
Oliver Eldridge, Charles E. MeLane, S. F.
Butterworth, I. Friedlander. President,
Lloyd Tevis; Vice-President, S. F. Butter-
worth; Treasurer, W. C. Balston; Super-
intendent, James Pollock; Secretary, B. B.
Miner. It was voted to increase the cap-
ital stock to §1,500,000. The Company
are to build a powerful new tug for their
business at the Dock.

Howard and Folsom St. Homestead.
San Francisco, Jan. 11th. Trustees: A. J.
Moulder, Dr. W. F. Hale, E. B. Clement,
J. W. Shaw, and J. C. Duncan.

Mechanics' Beal Estate Association.
San Francisco, Jan. 11th. President, Wm.
Irving; Vice President, B. A. Bosco; Sec-
retary, A. J. MeClellan; Treasurer, A. J.
Dunlevy.

Sterra JNevada M. Co. — Jan. 11th. —
Trustees: L. F. Loveland, Wm. H. Sharp,
A Hemme, M. J. McDonald, and G. W.
Beaver; President, J. M. McDonald; Sec-
retary, John Perrie.

Gold Hill Q. M. Co. Jan. 11th.— Trus-
tees, O. Gori, P. G. Venard, H. W. For-
tune, M. J. McDonald, and A. Hemme;
President, O. Gori; Secretary, B. Wege-
ner; Superintendent, H. Huget.

"Woodward's Gardens. — Everybody, when
they want a few hours' recreation, should visit
this popular place of resort. New additions are
being constantly made to the alreody large list
of novelties.

New Patents Issued to Pacific Coast
Inventors.

Especially reported by tlie U.S. Patent Office, Washing-
ton, D. C, to Dewey & Co., American and Foreign
Patent Solicitors, and Publishers of the
Mining aj-tj Scientific Pbess.

Foe tee Week Ending December 22d.
85,116. — Improvement in Feed Water-
Heaters for Steam Generators.— D.
F. McKim, of Austin, Nev:
I claim the heads /, constructed with
detachable covers, arranged upon the out-
side of the boiler, and with relation to the
side and bottom pipes e, as herein shown
and described.

85,144.— Improvement in Carriage Springs
Anson C Stowe, of San Jose, Cal. :
I claim the combination with the sup-
porting device consisting of bars H, links
I, arms G, shafts E, and springs F, of the
equalizing device consisting of arms K,
rods L, and lever M, the whole being con-
structed and arranged substantially as hei e
in described.

The object of this invention is to provide
an improved carriage spring which, while
being perfectly easy, shall overcome the
great difficulty experienced when the load
is placed mostly on one side; of the spring
on that side having to sustain the whole
weight and consequently sagging.

From near the ends of the axle bed and
front cross-bar, four standards arise, and
each pair supports a shaft which extends
across the width of the carriage. At the
ends of these shafts are four coiled springs,
which are attached to the reachers and are
coiled like a clock spring, theinner end be-
ing fastened to the ends of the shafts.

An arm or crank is firmly attached to
each end of the shafts near the springs and
support the four corners of the wagon bed
or frame by means of links depending from
these cranks. A cross-bar connects the
central portion of the two reaches, and an
arm is pivoted to its center. Two cranks
or arms, one in the middle of each of the
first described shafts are connected with
the opposite ends of the central arm by con-
necting rods, so that the springs all act to-
gether, whether the load be placed on one
portion of the carriage or another.
85,153. — Improved Machine foe Crushing
Bock. — Eskridge J. Wilson, of Fair Play,
Cal. (Antedated Dec. 12th, 1868) :

1. I claim one or more rows of stamps
arranged in inclined positions, and in up-
per and lower guides, and acted upon by
springs in combination with an annular
battery or batteries, formed with inclined
step surfaces, and furnished with a screw
or screws, substantially as described.

2. In combination with circularly mov-
ing stampers working upon annular stepped
surfaces. I also claim providing for feed-
ing the rock from the center of the ma-
chine outwardly, substantially as described.

3. The arrangement of the driving mech-
anism, circularly-moving frame cylinder,
stationary annular grooved bed with in-
clined steps at the base of the groove or
grooves, aud the stationary table E, of sta-
tionary frame A, A, substantially as and
for the purpose described.

Foe the Week Ending Decembeb 29th.
[We shall publish, next week, the claims

with notices annexed, of the following

list:]

85,268. — Improvement in Breech-loading
Firearms. — Salmon Belden and John F.
Crabtree, of Visalia, Cal.

85, 269.— Improvement in Expansion Wagon
Wheels. — Salmon Belden, of Visalia, and
Johnson P. Ford, of Santa Clara, Cal.
(Antedated Dec. 24th, 1868.)

85,279. — Improvement in Derricks. — An-
gus Campbell, of Downievilie, Cal.

85,371. — Improved Quicksilver Furnace
and Condenses. — Thos. W. Dresser, of
San Francisco, Cal.

85,398. — Cover for Pots, Kettles, etc. —
Geo. Beuben, of San Francisco, Cal.

85,402. — Improved Shackle and Support-
er.— Wm. Biley, of Salem, Oregon, as-
signor to H. Carpenter, of same place

85,409. — Improvement in Bailroad Tick-
ets and Punch for Cutting Coupons
Therefrom. — Henry M. Stow, oi San
Francisco, Cal.

85,474. — Improvement in Farm Gates. —
Albert J. Potter, of Omaha, Nebraska.

re-issues.

3,244. — Improvement in Gang Plows. —
Bobert Baxter, of French Camp, Cal.
Patented Aug. 6th, 1867.

New Inventions.

Preserving Feesh Meat fob Exporta-
tion'.— The Argentine Bepublic has offered
a premium of eight thousand dollars in gold
to the inventor or introducer of the best
system of preserving fresh meats in a man-
ner adapted to their export on a large scale.
This offer will remain open until May 2d,
of this year. The proposals will be re-
ceived by the Minister of Foreign Affaire
at Buenos Ayres.

Machine foe Scoueing, Blacking and
Flnishtng Leathee. — The Oregonian, of
December 26th, says :

We have been shown a patent issued re-
cently to F. W. Bust, A. E. Bogers and A.
C. Gibbs, for scouring, blacking and finish-
ing leather, after it has been tanned. The
machinery is constructed upon the top or
over an ordinary table used by tanners, and
may be set up in 'any shape, according to
the size and construction of the building.
A movable table is placed upon an ordinary
tanner's table, sufficiently large to receive a
hide after it has been tanned. This table
moves upon castors or movable balls set in
the table less. Thus the hide is moved
about under the machinery, scoured, set,
blocked and finished off in one-fifth of the
time it takes to do the work by hand, and
it is claimed that much better leather is
thus made than in the ordinary way. The
machinery is very ingeniously constructed,
but not very complicated or expensive. If
it works half as well as it is claimed it will,
the price of leather will be greatly reduced ;
in fact, no tanner can afford to carry on
business without it. We understand that
the machines are to be made in this city,
under the supervision of Mr. Bust, the in-
ventor, and will be kept for sale.

Anti-Friction Beaeeng for Perpendic-
ular Shafts. — This bearing, patented
through the agency of this office, is — says
the Nevada Transcript — a new invention, and
Messrs. Barnett, Purinton and Seibert are
the patentees. It consists of a chamber or
step, a hollow hemisphere, a die and a
steel plate. Upon the face of this plate is
a guide having three steel balls, each 1%
inches in diameter, and upon these balls a
smooth plate is placed. Through the cen-
ter of these plates the step of the shaft
passes, aud its weight rests upon the three
balls. These and the plates upon which
they move are made of highly tempered
steel ; and the only bearings is upon the
balls, the socket and die being intended to
always make the bearing equal. The shaft
makes two revolutions to one of the balls,
and there appears to be no friction. The
bearing is supplied with a screw at the bot-
tom so that the shaft may be raised with
ease. The machinery is very simple, and
is pronounced a good thing by all who have
examined it. The bearing we examined
will be placed under the shaft of the Ne-
vada Flouring Mill on the 1st prox. , and
thoroughly tested.

Academy of Sciences. — At the Annual
Meeting of the California Academy of Sci-
ences, held on Monday, January 7th, the
President, Dr. James Blake, who, with
others, was re-elected for the ensuing year,
gave a brief review of the doings of the
Academy for 1868, in which he referred to
the loss of Professor Whitney, the condi-
tion of the collections and finances of the
Academy, the late earthquake, etc. During
the past year, five sheets of transactions
have been published, completing Vol. Ill
and the first sheets of Vol. IV ; there was
also published, separately, Bitchofen's
work on Igneous Bocks, and Lesquereux's
Lichens of the Pacific Coast. Pifty-nine
new resident members were elected, and
the debt has been much reduced .

The Hale& Norceoss Miners who were
imprisoned underground during Christmas
time, for reasons probably best known to
the stock dealers, have been liberated, and
the Virginia papers pronounce the business
a farce. A small seam of clay had been
struck, and it was expected, from previous
experiences, that a rich deposit of ore would
be revealed behind it. Uneasy holidays
for the parties concerned, a barren vein be-
yond the clay, and a loss of confidence by
the public in the management of stock mat-
ters, are the results developed so far as
heard from.

Tr\e Mining and Scientific Press.

37

Weekly Stock Circular.

By Anoeiittd Brokers oftbeS. F. 8Uck MuIEicaingeBoird.

.. . .. January IB, i- 8,
STOCK REVISW 1'OU l^*;*-..

iryof the nvera] mines on tlie Ci-mstock lode
for t ^ ; unfavorable exh'ult as

i . '■■ pro i 'it. dividends ami

autouicnt*; the falling off In the nri>** eantfugs (br the lust
yrai li&vlni! been vastly grater iban waa generally snp-
i. That thu untoward result should give rum to uracil
Inquiry ri to the cuiim UutraoC aa wL-n us
anxiety on the part of stockholders. Is natural enough,
though not by any mean an event wholly unexpected on

thfl Ctrl of experienced miners; nor should It he considered

1 m be .- *i rriiiK in the deeper exploit illoiis ol" a

win ol such magnitude. Having in our Annual alining
Uevien i I the "pinion that those results do not

■Toatiy militate) against the probable permanence of these
limn.?*, inui-h lesaflx upon them the certainty of a largely
fflmlnlshedrature production, we ahal! not here repeat the
facU upon which that opiulon la based; suffice it to iaj
Uiej' appear tti rest on authentJo data, being open to crltl-
elsgn aii'l refutation If fallacious or Ill-founded. It miiy
further he observed lu this Connection, that the prices of the
stocks representing ihese tnimnc properties continue to be

pretty well sustained. Indicating a confidence in their con-
Uuued capacity lor production on the part of some, who,
however much Ihoy may he mistaken, must he presumed to
have examined this niatter carefully and according to the
best Information ex taut upon the subject. What may cer-
tainly be supposed to contribute strongly towards keeping
up this reeling of confidence 1- the fact that measures are
about being IiiiiURUruteU looking to a very great cheap. iilng
In the reduction of the ores from those mines; a» object
which, If curly effected, would enhance their value at least
twenty percent. We allude to the project for constructing a
railroad, the present winter, from Virginia City to Carson,
with a branch extending to the Carson river at Empire City.
The advantages to Inure from the building ol this road urc
no obvious Ihtt the prospect of Us certain completion at an
ojirly day must necessarily tend to work a decided apprecia-
tion u( these stocks.

Alpha, during the year 1868, reached its highest point In
tho month of April, when the stock sold at $120 per share,
and Hie lowest in November, selling at $;>5. The assess-
ments levied during the year amounted to £00,000 -Sk'O.OOO
In June and 860,000 in December. In 1867 the assessments
amounted to 312,000, and In 1800 to $90 000. Work Is now
bcin- vigorously prosecuted below the !)I0 level.

Belcher was not very active during the year under review.
The stock advanced to 9*30 in April, being the highest lor
the i car, and In March sold at SI 00, being the lowest. Four
assessments were levied— In March. July, October and De-
cember—amounting to 3101,000. Assessments to the sum ol
$71,880 were levied in 1867, and In 1866, 8143,520.

Hullton was also one Of the Inactive stocKs on the market
in 1868. The. lowest price obtained was In September— 88—
and the highest In April— SitiO. Four assessments were
levied— hi March, May, August and December— aggregating
$100,000- The stockholders of tills company were taxed to
the amount of 8137,500 In 18J7 in the shape of assessments,
and In 1«W>, $175,000.

Crown Po nt was largely dealt in during the past twelve
months, rising to $2,450 per foot, or $122 50 per share, being
the highest price for that period, and falling to $JJ8 per share
in September- tho lowest Tho bullion receipts were lar-
gest in the month of April, aggregating $160,074, and small-
est In December, amounting to $35,700. The bullion yield
of this claim In 1868 amounted to $1,086,230, In 1867 $5120,718,
and In 1860, $1,312,471. Five dividends were disbursed— in
May, June, July, August and September— looting up $369,-
008, and one assessment, amounting to $90,000, levied in the
month of December. In 1867 tho dividends aggregated
$201,000, equal to $110 per share, and in 1866 $231,000, equal
to $97 So per share. An assessment of $60,000 was levied
III 1807, and none in I860. The known ore deposits In this
intuc were nearly exhausted at the close of tho yeQr. At
latest dates the shaft had been carried to a depth of 1,100
feet. The drifts in the lowest levels have been greatly ex-
tended without discovering any new bodies of ore.

Confidence did not sell to a great extent during the period
under review, obtaining the highest price in April, ($120) and
the lowest In November, ($26). the bullion receipts are
Irom June to December inclusive, showing a yield of $110,-
068. In 1867 the bullion amounted to $142,050, and In 1866,
$-101,934. One assesmicnt was levied in March, amounting
to $15,600; In 1867, $70,200 was asked ol the stockholders,
and In 1866,$39;0QQ.

Chollar-Potosi was quite prominent in the stock arena
during the year 1868, reaching $350, the highest price, In
April, and selling at $1211, the lowest, in Xovember. The
aggregate bullion yield in 186S was $88-7,076, the largest pro
duct being in December and the smallest In February, Bnl-
llon in 18117, $2,6li6 885, and In 1866, $848,751. 2*0 dividends
were disbursed in 1868; but in 1867 $150 per share, aggre-
gating $120,000. was paid. One assessment of $ll0,U00 was
levied In the month of February.

Daney was generally, through the year, quiet, selling as
high as $37 In March and as low as $3 in September and De-
cember. Three assessments were asked of the stockholders
during the year 1868 -in February, April and July-aggre-
gating $56,000. In 1867, $11,000 was obtained in the same
manner, and In 1866, $26,000. The developments have not
been favorable during the period under review.

Exchequer dii not occupy a very prominent place In the
Stock Board, rising to $95 hi April and falling to $10 fy share
In September. One assessment was levied in January, 1868,
amounting to $21,000. In 1867, $16,000 was obtained from
the stockholders, and in 1866 $32,000.

Empire did not participate largely in any movement dur-
ing the year 1868, reaching the highest price in April— $325,
and the lowest in November— $90 $* shore. The bnlllon re-
turns for the year under review foot up $213,771; in 1867,
$278,697; In I860, $422,201. No dividends in 1868, but in 1867,
$40,200— equal to $41 3jt share— was paid out to stockhold-
ers, and in 1866, $32,400, or $27 ty share. No assessments
were levied during the past three years.

Gould &, Curry was moderately active throughout 1868,
commanding the highest price in February ($212 50) and the
lowest in November ($66). The bullion taken from this
mine during the past year has been very small, extending
from July to November, inclusive, and aggregating $29,557.
In 1861 the receipts amounted to $614,621, and in 1866, $1,624,-
781. No dividends have been disbursed since 1866, aid in
that year the sum so paid out amounted to $252,000, equal to
$52 50 %1 share. One assessment, aggregating $72,000, was
aiked of tlie stockholders in December last, and one in
September, 1867, amounting to $129,000. Work lias been
steadily prosecutedin sinking the Bonnershaft, but latterly,
on account of the dangerous condition of the ground, work
has been suspended in the lowest depth. It Is hoped that

some good results will follow the persevering efforts of this
company dur ng the present year.

'I'.d.l Mill ijunnz ruled at $150 a 48- highest hi April and
lowest in December. Bullion yield in ISti?, 9103.686, and In
I >.ioo. One assessment, in March taut, amounting

to $10,000, was asked of the stockholders; dividends were

piilJ In June ami July, aggregating $7, 500, ami hi 1867,

t a,7ao weredli in this manner.

Hale .v Norcrosi was one of the must active stocks In the

mark'.t, and In February, owing to the groat strife foracOu-

Illtercst hi the Hoard of Directors, sold at $7,100 \i

loot, and even higher sums are reported to have been paid
It ruled lowest in November, realizing $w "%t share. The
bullion product f«.r I86S aggregates $393,400; In I8U7 It
amount, d lo $1,097,297, and in 1886, $1.1*0,543. KOdlVldOUdS
were disbursed In 1868; but In Ihot, $410,000 was paid out to
the stockholders in this manner, and in 1866, $;i50,000. As-
Bessments, amounting to $200,000, were exacted from the
stockholders in 1668, against one such demand In 1867, aggrc
eating $410,000. Satisfactory results, as yet, huvo not boon
obtained In their lowest levels; however, work continues
to bo vigorously prosecuted.

Imperial exhibited considerable activity in 18S8, selling
within a range of$298&66-hlgbestln April and lowest In
November. In 1368 the billion product amounted tu $684,-
040; lo 1867, $1,106,406; In 1866, $010,367. One dividend,
amounting to $24,900, was paid in Juno, 1663. In 1867, $380,-
(iiio was disbursed In this manner, and in 1666, $176,ooo. One
assessment— $100,900— was levied In December, 1868. The
dovel pmcntsln their deep workings through the Imperial-
Empire Shalt have not proved satisfactory, hut as with the
rest, tlie hope remains, and work Is consequently unremit-
tingly continued.

Kentiiek has been one of the most successful claims, and
has stood high during the entire year. Tho highest price
obtained lor this stock was in April, $500 ty share, and tho
lowest in November, $175. The bullion yield (or tho year
foots up $1,259,707, against $1,140,742 in 1867, and $571,507 In
1866. This was the only company that paid a dividend every
month during tho year 1868, giving to Its shareholders the
aggregate sum of $480,000, against $505,900 In 1867. This
narrow claim seems to he located In the very heart of the
metalliferous body upon which this, the Crown Point and
Yellow Jacket companies arc working.

Ophir, upon the whole, has not been a very active stock
during the twelve months under review, selling within a
range of $23@14. Assessments to the amount of $167,000
were levied In 1808, against ©184,800 in 1867, and $184,890 In
1866. From $417,472, the bullion yield in 1866, the receipts
fell off to $4 108 In 1867, and a little over $3,000 in 1868.

Overman sold quite largely at $241(5)38, and as has gener-
ally been the case with the list of stocks In the market, ob-
tained the highest rate In April, and the lowest in Novem-
ber. This company shows a bullion yield of $352,590 in 1868,
against $192,318 in 1867, and $27,953 in 1866. The assessments
lor the past three years were as follows : three In 1868, $176,-
000; one in 1867, $32,000; six In I860, $208,000.

Savage has been one of the leading stocks, and the sales
have been unprcccdentedly large, selling as high as $290 in
February, and as low as $56 "%] share In November. The
bullion yield for 1863 aggregates $2,534,868, against $3,737,100
in 1867, ami $1,814,879 In 1866. Tins company disbursed divi-
dends in every month of 1868 except November, aggregating
$1,184,090, against $1,600,000 In 1867, and $320,000 In 1866. The
facts concerning the developments in the lower levels of this
claim are kept very quiet; hut they have undoubtedly not
been any too satisfactory. The ore obtained from the local-
ity known as the Potosl chimney, lias been very large, ex-
ceeding all expectations.

Sierra Nevada ruled at $40 3 10 during the year 1868. From
September to the close of tho year the bullion receipts ag-
gregate $22,805. Assessments amounting to the sum of $90,-
000 were levied in 1868, against $96,900 in 1867, and $55,5(J0 in
1666.

Yellow Jacket became quite active toward the close of the
year, and bus withal been one of the most Huctuatingon tho
list, obtaining $666 33 foot in Januarv, and $1.70,7 in
November. \Vc have estimated the bullion yield for
the year 1868 at $800,000, having been unable from
time to time to obtain any data whatever. Tho yield in 1S67
amounted to $1,729,277, and In 1866, $2,297,133. A dividend
of $360,000 was disbursed in November, 1868: in 1867, (our
were paid, aggregating $300,000, and in 1666 six were dls
bttrscd amounting to $39t),d00. An assessment of $150,090
was required in January, 1868; in 1867 $24(1,000 was needed
for the same purpose, and in 1866, $180,000. It is reported
that this company has been successful in reaching a body of
good paying ore; at all events, the payment of dividends in-
dicates a greatly increased yield of the precious metal.

Amador (Cal.) has been one of the firmest stocks on the
market, and has been mostly sought by those who desire to
obtain a good interest on their money, and not for specula-
tive purposes. Il sold in 1868 within a range of$325ul95-
highest in March and lowest in October. Bullion product of
1866, $548,783. Dividends have been paid In every mouth of
tiic year, aggregating $296,900.

Annexed will be found a condensed tabular statement of
the foregoing extended statistics regarding the claims on the
Comstock Lode, together with the aggregate figures con-
cerning the same lor the years 1867 and 1868;

MINING SHABEHOLDEKS' DIREOTOEY.

[Compiled for every Issue, trom advertisoments In tho

HIKING jjen Sounmno Punas and other San

Francisco Journals.;

'omprising the Names of Companies, District or County
ol Location; Amount and date ol Av*es*uieui; Date oi
3J«et.ng; I'.iyoi lic;nti;m.ut i Sale; and Ainour.t and Time

ol Payment ol Dividends.

SAKK, LOCATION, UIOONT, ASH DJY PIT

PATK Or AS3KS9HK.NT. PKL1NQCENT. OrSALK

fcntllrtor Annual Meeting Jan. 18

Amador Co.. dividend, $6nei share. ...Payable Doc. 19, 1868

Alpha, Storey co.. Nev., Dee. :i, sio Jan. 5- Jan 2.%

alamo, Lyon CO., -Nov.. Nov. 25, 65c Dec. 31— Jan. 30'

Adriatic, Storey oo Special Meeting, Jan. 89

Bacon, Storey Co., Nev.. div ...Payable June 19. 1868

Belcher, Btorey co. Nev., Dec. 31, $25 Jan. 30— March 2

frown Point, Storey CO., Dec. IS. $7*0 Jan. 2)— Feb 15

i'Ii. ilk Mountain, Nevada co.. J;m. i;j,S2..Pcb 15 -March H*

Cherokee Plat, Hut to co., Dec. 9, $5 inn. 11- Jan 26

Chollar Potosl. div., S-'5 Payable Oct. is. 1867

Crown Point, dividend. J7.50 Payable Sept. 12 1668

CoaaJa, Mnaloa, Dec. 12, $1 inn 1&— Feb -I

Oity K. R , San FraucUco, Jan. 6, §5 Feb. 10— March 6

Daney. Lyon co. Nov , Jan 9, $2 Feb 12— March 1

Diamond cop., Del Norte co., om. 26, $2.. .Nov, 10— Jan. 21"

Eureka, div. $5 Payable Nov. 20, 1%3

Empire M. & M„ Nov., dividend S6 Payable May 15, 1867

(Job! UlU Cons., Storey co., Jan. 8.SI Feb. 13 -March I

(ionlil ,V Curry, Storey co., Nev , live. 5. $15..Jun.9-Jan. 29

tioiild >t Curry, ill v.. st.wj Payable Mav 15, 1807

Wold IlillQ Us M-dlvideml. $7 »)... .Payable J ul'v is inw
Qolden Rule, Tuolumne co. div 60c$ ah... Payable Dec 26*

Ureal Central, Arizona, Oct. y, $2.50 Nov. II— Jan. 26"

Humboldt Canal co Special Meeting Jan. 27

Hope Cravcl, Nevada co , Jan. 11,$ I Feb. 15— March 8

Hale A Noi cross, Storey co., Dec. 12, $5 Jan. 16— Feb 6

Hale & Norcross, div. $125 Sept. 16, 1867

Imperial. Storey CO.. Dec. 15, $25 Jan. 18— Feb I

Imperial, storey co , Nov., div Payable June 20, 1868

Juan Hautlsta, Santa Clara co.,Nov. 27 Sale Jan 30

Julia. Storey co , Nov., S2.5U Feb. 10-Fcb. 27

Keystone, Consolidated Special Meeting, Feb IS

Keutuck, div.,S2J per share Payable Jan. 10, 1869

Mohawk A Montreal, Nevada co., Dec. 7, S3. .Jan 25— Feb 0

Morning Star, Alpine CO., Dec. 9, $2 50 Jan. II— Feb. 1

North Amor. Wood P. Co,, Jan. 15, $1 Feb 18— March 8"

North Star, dividend, S5 Payable Aug. 15,1868

Oriental, Sierra co., Jan. i, 32.50 Feb. 5— March fi

Peninsula, Storey co., Dec. 15, SI0 Feb. U— March 6

Pacific Unassessable, div Payable June 18, 1S68

Rattlesnake, Yuba co , Dec. 19, $7.50 Jan. 21— Feb 8»

Rippon. Alpine co., Oct. 15. Si Sale Jan.'23»

Rising Star, Idaho, Nov. 16, S10 January 4-Jan £0

San Juan Itautcsto, S\nti\ Clara co Sale Jan. 30

Santiago, Silver City, dividend, $J 5 1... Payable Dec 19, 1868
S. F. A Castle Dome, Arizona, Nov. 25. 3c... Dec. 28— Jan. 2il*
Savage, Virginia, Nov, dividend, Si ...Payable Dec. 12, 1868

Sand Spring .salt, dividend $1 Payable Jan fi, 1869

Tallulah, Humboldt co., Dec. 14, $17.50 Jan. 29— Feb. 27

U. S. Grant, Nevada co., Nov. 9, 59c Dec. 15— Jan. 3il»

Virginia 4G.U Water Co. .Dividend, payable Nov. 20, 1868
Yellow Jacket, div., SUM Payable Jau 15, 1869

Those marked w ilh an asterisk (*) are advertised In this
journal.

Beans, fe loo As 4 60 ® 5 50

Potatoes, ^ lwjfts 75 @ 1 00

/■V',f. l",V " W> «20 00

Luc oafc Wood, ,-< cord 9 uo <$io mi

Boer.exira, drost.ed.9 "> 8 @ 10

sheep, on fool 300 ® 3 25

"°B6.onroot,*ib aU4K |° fi

Hogs, dressed, % ft 7 ' @ g

OKOCKR1K3, ETC.

Sugar, crushed,* lb 17 & Viv

i'o. (Jinia in ,0. v>kL

c<.ffco.po«aniM,?sib ::::::::::: '« I is.;

UU. KIO fj. 1- j^

r<g;Js; 9B :::::::::::::::: 75 s ii-

uo. iircon ui ra 1 iii

M«.vui.,m nice-, nib :;:: „ s s

i:on.lli!S.f!« iS £ ,i

Ranch llmter, V It io a L.

[alliums llutUT.W It . . « 1 S

Cheese, CaHlomfi, « lb it a I,

EBS1&:::::::: : 1 ?

Company.

Bullion.

As.icR.vmeiif..

Dividend.

©00,000
104,000
100,000
90,000
15.600
110,000
56,1100
24,000

72,000

10,000
200,000
100,000

52,500

150.000

167,000
176,000
38,400

90*666

150,000

Bullion

(Jrown Point

Confidence '

Uhollar-Potosi

' $i,h86/Ja6

110,668
885,676

£360;00(

" "7,563

Kmpire

Gould it Curry

GoldHiM Quartz

213,771
29,557

Io:t,6M6
3(12,400
634.040

i;259,707

20,060

■"'352>if)0
4,371

2,534,863

22,865

*800,000

24,000
'"480,000

Ophii-,....

Overman

Sesregated Belcher

Savage ,

Sierra, Nevada

"i',i84,666

itau'O 6

In 1868

In 1867

S8.49D.769

ia,626,ll«J
11,732,1110

©1,825,500
1,296,250

S2.415.500

ii.'i'-iI.iW

•Estimated.

Latest Stock Prices Bid and Asked,

3, F. STOCK AND EXCHANGE BOARD.

Fridav Etkhino, January 10, I860.

MIKCKLLANEIIUS STOCKS- Hill. AxM.

[Tnllcd States Bonds, 5 2ds, 1815, '67, '68 S S3 83k

United Stales Kcrnls, 5 2(ls, 1864 81 82

United States Bonds. 5 2Us, 1862 82 82^

Leciil Tender Notes 73^ 74

California State Bonds, 7s. 1857 U5 95

San Francisco Bonds, 10s, 1S51 par Sl Int.

San Francisco i'Uv Bonds, 6s. 1855 — _

San Francisco City ami County Bonds. 6s, 1858. 85 87ii

San Francisco School Bonds, 10s, i860 106 — -

Sun Francisco School Bon. is, Ills, 1861 par A hit.

San Francisco City and Co. Sch'l B'ds, ?s, 1866. 9i) —

San Francisco Cliv and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1862

San Francisco City and Co. Bonds, 73, 1864

San Francisco City and Co Bonds, 7s, 1865

San Francisco City and Co. JuJg. lids. 7s, 1863.
San Francisco City and Co. Judg. Bds, 7s, 1864.

Sacramento City Bonds

Sacramento County Bonds, 6s

Mavysvillc Bonds, 10s

Stockton city Bonds

Vnba Coiintv Bonds, Ks

Sanfa Clara County Bonds. Js

Butte County Bonds, IDs, I860

San Mateo County Bonds, 7s

Calilornia Steam Navigation Co

Spring Valley Water Co

State Telegraph Co 25

QAS COMPANIES.

San Francisco Gas Co 80 SI

Sacramento G as Co — 73;};

railroads.

Sacramento Valiey Railroad — . —

San Francisco ami San Jose Railroad 40 45

Omnibus Railroad 7'iVj _

Central Railroad 49 52

North Beach and Mission Railroad '. . 67>£

Front Street, Mission and Ocean Railroad 11

BANKING INSTITUTIONS.

Pad fie Bank 97&

The Bank of Calilornia 157

California, Loan and Savings Society —

INSURANCE COMl'ANIKS.

Fireman,*' Fund Insurance Co U2tf

Pacific Insurance Co I2C

San Francisco Insurance Co —

Merchants' Mutual Marine Insurance Co 500

California Insurance Co Vim I

Union Insurance Co 92

Home Mutual Insurance Co I9J£

Occidental Insurance Co 72

Natmnal Insurance Co 72

Builders' Iiisuranco Co —

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New York Metal Market,

[CORRECTED WKKKLY FHOM THE AWKRIOAN AHT1SA.V.]

New York Citt, Dec. 26, 186.8.
IROr^

Pig, Scotch. No. 1 (cnsh)-p ton S»2 50 @S45 00

do. American, No. 1 (cash) 41 0) ©43 00

Swedish, ordinary sizes 155 00 <s>IG5 00

S2Sl"2n 9600 ©05 10

'iol1tllet, UK) 00 ©120 (jO

«»"=»■-.- 105 00 ©1C5 00

Horseshoe 12;i W ® — —

gMRi »»5 OH ©100 00

n,7 r(/,U'~,v;i; 13500 ®ii*»w

Tire -10X8--

STEEL.

Bars, best cast, warranted, W lb — 25 ffl

Sheet, do 93 @

do. second quality .."..'".'..' — 20 ©

do. thud quality _ 17 <»

Saw-plaies, circular -3,1 @

Double-shear, warranted _ ^3 ©

Single do __ 20 ©

Montague A Co. (cast bais) —19 ©

.Machinery, round ... , _ 10 ra

Ucrnian, best — ]g @

°/>. goat — n^@

do. cattle — IS @

Bhsicr, warranted • —17 @

do. common 19 ®

Jcsson & Sons', common — 17 (»

Double refined _ 2G^d

Stone-axe shapes _ 26>a© — —

TIN.

Tin plate, prime charcoal, per box 9 00 © 15 76

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Mining Stimmary.

The following information is gleaned mostly from jour-
nals published in the interior, in close proximity to the
mines mentioned.

CALIFORNIA.

ALPOE CGU.\TT.

Markleeville Miner, Jan. 2d: The roads
between Diamond Hill and Woodford's are
in such a condition as to prevent the trans-
portation of Morning Star ore down and
lumber back. The consequence is, the
Pioneer mill lies idle for "want of ore, and
the progress of the flume for theM. C. mill
is delayed.

AlIAIOB COUNTY.

Jackson Ledger, Jan. 9th: The mining
property heretofore known as the Coney &
Bigelow mill and mine, has passed into the
hands of a stock company, and incorpor-
ated, -with a capital of $300,000, divided
into shares of $100 each. We learn tbat
the company will immediately commence
• sinking a new shaft south of the present
one, which will afford them greater facilities
for working the mine.

FKESNO COUNTY.

Mariposa Mail, Jan. 8th: Hughes &
Keyes, of Stockton, received, one day last
week, at their warehouse, 10,000 lbs. of
copper matt from the Buchanan mine,
Fresno County.

JIAJltPOSA COUNTY.

Gaze/ie, Jan. 8th: The work at the cele-
brated Hite's Cove mine have been sus-
pended temporarily, but, we are informed,
will be resumed again in a short period.

NEVADA COUNTY.

Transcript, Jan. 5th: The miners through-
out the county now have an abundance of
water for mining purposes, and the hy-
draulic claims are all being worked. The
present supply of water will be sufficient
for two or three weeks.

A correspondent writing from Belief
Hill, gites the following items: Our mines
are paying. The claims formerly owned
by the North Star Co. are now being worked
by the Water Co. Their ground looks
well. The What Cheer Co. cleaned up
lately, and I was told that their claims pay
well. The Waukesha, or Welsh Co., have
extended their main tunnel north across the
channel 100 feet, and west 150 feet, to the
Eagle Co's lines. The channel proves to
be both extensive and rich.

The Eagle Co. are extending their tun-
nel, and will get to washing sometime dur-
ing the summer.

The Union Co's last clean up was $4,000,
of which the company cleared half. They
are running a drifting tunnel on a portion
of their ground. It prospects well.

Jan. 7th : The Boston Co. at Woolsey's
Flat, are negotiating for the sale of their
claims to a Chinese Co. at $16,000.

There is a prospect that some of the
mines in the vicinity of Orleans Flat will
pay well again. Wm. Oberman is making
arrangements to open an extensive set of
diggings at this place.

In the last two or three years a consider-
able amount of capital has been invested by
Chinese companies in the mines of this
county. The St. Lawrence claim at Moore's
Flat was recently sold to the Wo Sing Co.
for $7,000, and the Piute claim at the same
place was sold to the Wah Yea Co. for
$2,000. Both companies are at work and
will doubtless do well.

Jan. 8th: J. B. Brown & Co. have located
1,500 feet on Sailor Ravine, below Bowen's
reservoir, for mining and fluminj
poses.

The new hoisting works of the Pittsburg
Mining Co. , started up for permanent work
yesterday.

Jan. 9th : Atwater & Knotwell are run-
ning a prospect tunnel into the Blue Coat
diggings at Woolsey's Flat. This ground
is on the same range with the I. X. L. Co.,
and extends to Bloody Bun. Robert H.
Barton & Co. have located 300 feet on a
lead near the junction of Wood's Bavine
and Deer Creek, adjoining the claims of
Leathe & Co.

Atwater & Knotwell have a claim at
Moore's Flat 800 feet in width, and more
than a mile long. Last fall they made a
run which cost them not less than $3,000,
and they took out $11,000. A part of the
dirt had to be raised by hand derricks.

The Gazette says: The American Co., at
Manzanita Hill, cleaned up only a portion
• of their sluice last week, of eight days'
run, and realized $14,000. Miners up and
down the ridge are busy as bees, and doing
well. The Buckeye Mining Co. purchased
of Stephen Spencer, recently, a portion of
Sweetland Creek, paying for the same
$20,000.

Grass Valley National, Jan. 4th : The
proprietors of the Grass Valley ledge situ-
ated on Wolf Creek, near Hill's ranch, pro-
pose to erect hoisting works and put in a

pur-

6-inch pump immediately. The company
own 1,700 feet, and are down about 50 ft.
on the ledge. The rock looks well and
shows gold in abundance.

Grass Valley Union, Jan. Sth: The Shang-
hai mine, on Massachusetts Hill, continues
to give out rock which pays from $70 to
$90 per ton. The Grant mine, situated
near Forest Springs, continues to pay well,
the rock crushing, independently of sul-
phurets, in the neighborhood of $50 per
ton. The Howard Hill mine is paying at
the rate of $25 per ton, with ground easily
and cheaply worked. The Higgins & Lar-
imer ledge is showing good rock, and the
mill to crush it is rapidly approaching com-
pletion. The Seven-Thirty mine and the
Bowery, on the headwaters of Squirrel
Creek, are both proving themselves very
rich. We anticipate a lively and successful
season in mining at Grass Valley during
next summer.

Transci-ipt, Jan. 10th : Frank Bixler &
Co. located 1,500 feet on the southern ex-
tension of the Grass Valley Co's quartz
ledge, and have called themselves the
Young Pine Co.

Grass Valley Union, Jan. 10th : In the
Roannaise mine, west of the Eureka Co's
ground, some splendid rock has been taken
out of late. The company owning the
Boannaise, we hear are making arrange-
ments for its early working with every
prospect of great success.

Grass Valley National, Jan. 11th : The
Garden City ledge, on Mill street, thus far
shows favorable prospects. The ledge is
well defined, is from afoot to 18 inches in
width, and the rock is rich in free gold and
sulphurets. Steam-power machinery for
hoisting and pumping is to be erected this
week.

Frank Morse, on the Higgins & Larrimer
ledge has a splendid show in the bottom of
the shaft he is sinking. The ledge there is
about three feet wide, and the rock will pay
as high as $75 to the ton. The stormy
weather will delay the starting up of the
mill for several days.

The Howard Hill Co. have splendid rock
at their 200-foot level. Some specimens
brought into Peter Johnson's, yesterday,
shows exceedingly rich in free gold, and
heavy sulphurets. They have about 150
tons of splendid looking quartz on top of
the ground, but the mill is out of wood,
and not able just now to crush.

A miners' meeting was held on last Sat-
urday night in this place, to take some
action in relation to parties claiming min-
eral land as agricultural. Resolutions were
passed to raise immediately a subscription
with which to assist the miners of Green
Valley, to emyloy counsel to argue the ease
now pending in the Supreme Court of Cal-
ifornia; and also to aid and assist miners
throughout the State to maintain their
rights against all persons seeking to hold
mineral lands as agricultural.

Excelsior. — Transcript, Jan. 7th: A cor-
respondent writing from Meadow Lake,
says the snow on the 28th of December was
from 18 inches to two feet deep, and it com-
menced storming at that time, continuing
without intermission until the morning of
the 3d inst. The snow was then six feet
deep on a level, and in some places was
piled up over 12 feet.

Jan. 8th : The Mohawk & Montreal Min-
ing Co., Meadow Lake, are engaged inrun-
niug a tunnel from the level of the mill,
which will tap the ledge 460 feet below the
surface. The company also intend to put
up concentrators in the mill, and build fur-
naces for working the ore by the chlorina-
tion process.

PIACEK COUNTY,

Auburn Herald, Jan. 9th, From the For-
est Hill Divide, we learn that the snow has
gone off with a rain, and that the ditches
are all full, the miners are abundantly sup-
plied with water, and good times generally
about to commence in that section of the
county.

We were shown some remarkable rich
rock and specimens which was taken from
the Green Emigrant claim a few days ago,

PMMAS COUNTY.

Quincy National, Jon. 2d: The Taylor-
ville correspondent writes: Work is being
pushed vigorously on at the Enterprise.
I understand that Mr. Chapman has started
his blast furnace in Coppertown, Genesee,
again, and is hard at work smelting cop-
per.

SIEKK A COUNTY.

Downieville Messenger, Jan. 2d: The Gib-
sonville correspondent writes: Mr. Bed-
ding, of Forest City, has lately purchased
an interest in the Chalcedony claims. The
Young America and Miller & Co. have
fitted up their claims for hydraulicing as
soon as water comes. Mr. Squire, of the
Second Ravine claims, has added a water-
power derrick to them. The Union is run-

ning a dry weather complement of hands,
but need water to clear their yard. They
wash enough each week to pay expenses.
The New Glasgow, after many discourage-
ments, report progress, aud hopes of bet-
ter success. The Nip and Tuck are finely
fitted up, and have out a large pile of dirt.
They are working about 25 hands, and need
water for cleaning their yard. These are
new claims, and have yet to make their first
washing of any extent. They are reported
as prospecting finely; and I saw a prospect
yesterday, of not over a dollar, in several
pieces, picked out of a lump of dirt not
larger than one's fist. The Nevada have
their yard full, and have had to discharge
their hands until the water comes.

The Swift Sure claims, that have been in
a sickly state for sometime past, are re-
ported as convalescent; moie gravel and a
fine prospect having been struek in them.
The Redding, Phcenix, and North Ameri-
can, at Hepsidam, are in an active state,
with fine gravel. The Talipat claims, here-
abouts, show no sign of yielding ore.
Work has been siispendetl, and doubts are
entertained about reaching a channel within
a reasonable time, if at all.

The new quartz mill at the Independence
mine was started on Monday of this week.
La Porte Union, Jan. 2d: The Port Wine
correspondent writes: The mining com-
panies managed to wash a little of the dirt
in their dump sheds duringtherain storms.
Unfortunately, when the storm abated,
there was a severe freeze which dried up
the streams very suddenly; we are in hopes,
however, of having another storm which
will give all the companies water enough
to finish washing their dirt. The Union
Co. is again idle, owing to a break in the
water wheel.

TUBA COUNTY.

Marysville Appeal, Jan. 10th : The Penn-
sylvania miue and machinery have been
undergoing repairs the past week. The
boilers have been reconstructed, the track
of the incline relaid, and the incline retim-
bered. The superintendent is now ready
to commence taking out rock and go to
crushing. The prospects of the miue are
said to be flattering.

COLORADO.

Georgetown Miner, Dec. 17th: John R.
Beverly started his new 12-stamp mill in
Nevada yesterday. . . .Huependen, Wolters
& Co. have taken out and shipped, since
Nov. 23d, $4, 454.65 in silver, coin value. . . .
Schrimer & Bruckner took off on Saturday
last, 164 lbs. troy of silver bullion, coin
value, $2,646.80. The amount of ore re-
duced was seven tons from different lodes,

the result being $379.54 coin per ton

Prof. Stewart has taken out during the
month of November, 2,315 ozs. of silver
bullion, coin value, $2,611.58.

Central City Herald, Dec. 16th: The
Douglass 2U-stamp mill which has been
running on the Union Co's claims, on the
Bates lode, has been shut down.... Ed.
Moores has leased Mr. Tierney's claims on
the Hope lode, aud is runniug the discovery
shaft on the same, night and day. At a
depth of 55 ft. the walls are very solid, and
the ore vein is widening out with every in-
dication of very soon forming into a good
sized vein of pay material. The ore will
be crushed in Nesmith's new stamp mill.
. . . .Mr. Ball, of New York City, is erecting
at Black Hawk, the necessary apparatus for
a new process — an invention of his own —
in the Hartley mill building, just above the
Manhattan Co's mill. It consists of a
crusher, desulphurizer, and amalgamator.

The new mill of the Smith & Pannelee
G. M. Co. is being rapidly completed. . . .
Robert Teats is making 600 ozs. of silver
per day from unselected ore. His mine is
looking better than ever before. . . .Marshall
&. Terry are fitting up the Chicago Co's 20-
stamp mill, on North Clear Ceeek. It will
be run on custom ore. . . .Miley & Abbe are
preparing to erect a 30-stamp water mill on
North Clear Creek, below the mouth of
Missouri Gulch. .. .Woodbury &. Co. are
running their 23-stamp mill on ore from the
Burroughs lode, Nevada district, and on
ore from the Illinois lode, Quartz Hill ....
Prospecting in Slaughter House Gulch is
being vigorously prosecuted. While at
Black Hawk last evening we were shown a
very nice appearing quality of sulphurets,
from a recent discovery in that vicinity. . . .
We saw four silver bricks at the First Na-
tional Bank to-day, weighing, together,
1,316% ozs., from Bobert Teats, of the
California Reduction Works.

The Georgetown correspondent writes:
The drift on the Mendota lode is now about
70 ft. in length, and has exposed a fine
body of ore, yielding not far from $120.

The Snow Drift is producing some very
rich ore. Prof. Bowman struck a big
thing some 500 ft. east of this lode from
which specimens were obtained, assaying

as high as $5,000 per ton. It has since
been proved to be on the Snow Drift.

Central City Register, Dec. 12th: Samuel
Lathrop is developing a splendid silver
vein in Silver Gulch.

The old Pat Casy mill in Chase Gulch,
is as busy crushing ore, as it used to be six
years ago.

J. L. Schellinger is raising some fine
and very rich ore from the De Cordova
lode, and there appears to be plenty of it.
The shaft is 75 ft. deep, and in the bottom
the pay vein is fully two ft. in width. The
ore is mixed iron and copper pyrites, much
of the latter being the Peacock ore, and ex-
ceedingly rich.

Mr. Teats informs ns that his mine on
the Gilpin County lode has been opening
out better than ever during the past few
days. In one place he has fully three ft. of
rich pay ore. He has also been taking
some exceedingly rich ore from the Coaley
lode — sulphurets, thickly studded with na-
tive silver. His mill is turning out its
regular 500 ozs. per day.
IDAHO.
Silver City Tidal Wave, Dec. 29th: Dur-
ing a recent visit to the Owyhee mill we
examined the pile of Golden Chariot rock
on the dump. We found from 45 to 50
tons of ore, in every piece of which, so far
as we broke or examined it, both gold and
silver were plainly visible. We brought
away a specimen which is perhaps a little
better than an average sample that would
create a panic should it be shown as a White
Pine production. Washoe never saw such
a pile of rock, and their $500 or $600 ore at
White Pine sinks into insignificance in com-
parison. They have crushed about 100 tons
in the Owyhee, which is still running on
the same rich ore, and have partially cleaned
up once or twice, but have not retorted as
yet.

We saw several loads of Poorman rock
recently that reminded us of former times.
The mine is yielding a superior quality of
ore just now and the miners represent it as
being abundant.

The Woodstock still turns out rich rock
and plenty cf it.
. The Pickens & Edwards has commenced
sending ore to Black's mill in Flint.

The Ida Elmore mill ismaking a splendid
run on superior ore.

Jau. 5th: The first bricks were run in the
Rising Star mill on New Year's day. They
were three in number and weighed in the
aggregate 160 lbs. avoirdupois.

The prospects at Willow Creek are very
good for moderate surface diggings.

Owyhee Avalanche, Jan. 2d: Forty tons a
day of the almost fabulously rich ore of the
Ida Elmore mine is now being crushed at
the company's mill. The mine presents a
better appearance now than it has at any
time since its discovery.

We were recently shown specimens from
the Pick & Porter ledge, which cannot be
excelled anywhere. It is exceedingly rich in
sulphurets and literally speckled with pure,
unalloyed gold. The streak which bears
this character of ore is about six in. wide.
The ledge averages over 18 in. in width and
growing wider as the tunnel progresses,
which is now driven in on the lode a dis-
tance of 75 ft.

Tierney & Co. are sinking a shaft on the
third south extension of the Oro Fino; it
is down 40 ft. ; the ledge is well defined, and
at that depth exhibits a width of 15 inches
of exceedingly rich ore — native gold being
plainly visible in a great portion of it.

The Poorman ledge is now yielding from
25 to 40 tons of ore per day, of a very rich
quality. The ledge is getting wider as the
work progresses upon it; and by the aid of
their new and improved machinery the
mine will soon be able to constautly supply
the mill with ore.

Peck, Cope & Co. have sold the Potosi
mine to a San Francisco company for $30, -
000.

The Boise Statesman says: We learn from
Dick Griffin, Supt. of Hailey's line, that a
75-ib. nugget, containing about one-tbird
gold, was found last week near El Dorado
City, on the slope towards Shasta Creek.
MONTANA.
Helena Post, Dec. 18th: New diggings
have been struck near the lower flume of
Dr. Hunter. They were first discovered in
widening a flume, and before night the
ground was all taken and recorded. The
prospects are from 10 to 15 cents to the
pan, and great excitement prevails in re-
gard to the discovery. The claims of the
Brumley boys and Mr. Thomas are still
being worked with good results.

With but little interruption the Bicker
mill has been crushing rock from the I. X.L.
works of the Union Whitlatch mine during
the past year, and has cleared for its own-
ers $200,000 above expenses.

In Rochester distriot, Hendrie and Mc-
Andrew & Wann's mills are in full opera-

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ti 11. and ore crashing day unci night Tin;
Hendrie mill is constantly employed upon
tin- Watseka rock. The AcAndrew 4 Wann
mill on that and custom rock. Although
an nps are not made known, enough
is known to give assurance of highly satis-
factory re nlte when (hey are given to the
pnblic. A new mill is to In; erected there
In the spring undercharge of .Mr. Vance,
representing an Illinois company. The
district i- in 11 most flourishing condition,
and bide fair to be tin- most attractive to
iiiilliin ii of any in the country. In Silver
Star ii large amount of work is being done
ou almost all the lodes. The Trivia mill
bos been stopped for a short timo to reno-
vate some of the machinery. The Everett
mill is pounding away upon the Green
Campbell rock, with every promise of sue

STesterdny the IX. L mill cleaned up
■1011 oca. of gold from an eight days' ruu,
amounting to about $9,000.

NEVADA.

III'MUOI.DT.

Unionville Register, Jan. 2d : The Win-
nemucca correspondent writes : Buck &
Kunkel have .struck another very rich de-
posit in the Pride of the Mountain. A
large specimen of the ore, weighing70 tbs.,
literally spangled with native silver, is now
on exhibition at the office of the Pacific
Uuiou Express Co.

RF.F.SK KIVF.K.

Austin Reveille, Deo. 20th: There are re-
ports of the discovery of rich deposits at
White Tine timing the past week.

Jan. 1st : During the year 1808, there
was shipped from this city 2,357 bars of
bullion, valued at $2,745,948.03.

Jan. 2d : The principal mines in Silver
Bend are developing immense masses of
oholoride ore, which iu Leon & Co's El
Dorado South is 50 to 100 feet deep.

White Pine New, Jan. 2d : The last lot
of ore worked from the North Aurora mine
went $384 per ton. There is a large quan-
tity on the dumps, of second class ore, that
will yield $150 per ton.

A company operating in this district has
purchased the mill of the Big Smoky Co.,
and wiH move it to this place.

The Irvine ledge shows plenty of horn
silver, and very little base metal.

The Governor ledie shows 12 feet of
quartz and a fair quantity of milling ore.

The Mazeppa mine improves rapidly in
the quality and quanta of its ore. Some
of the ore is fully equal to any found in the
Eberhardt.

In the California ledge some very fine
chloride ore is in sight.

The ore houso of the Oasis mill co itains
at present from 425 to 450 tons of Eber-
hardt ore, that will yield from $000 to $1,000
per tou.

NEW MEXICO.

Santa Fo Gazelle, Dec. 12th: Col. Ander-
son who was in the city early in the week,
reports the quartz mill of the New Mexico
Mining Co. as constantly at work, and
turniug out the usual quantity of the pre-
cious metal.

The new coal mine is one of the best in
the country and will prove a source of
great economy in working the company's
machinery.

Central City (Col.) Register, Dec. 2d:
The mining interests in Mexico now bear
■a brighter aspect than ever before. The
government has recently passed a law al-
lowing bullion aud coin to be shipped out
of the country at 2% per cent. S.iven
American companies are at present taking
out 700 to 800 ozs. per day. In the San
Miguel tunnel a vein has been cut nine feet
wide, which yields $0,000 to the ton, and
this is their second class ore. The.r first
class ore yields $17,000 to the ton.

OREGON.

Portland Oregonian, Dee. 20th: Wm.
Hitchcock and others, of Umatilla, will set
up a new quartz mill iu Eagle Creek next
spring.

WYOMING.

Sweetwater Mines, Dec. 23d: The vein of
the Walrussa ledge is 21/, to 3 ft. in width
with good widl rock. The ore exhibits free
gold in abundance.

Wo extract the following from an article
in the Central City (Col.) Herald: South
Pass City is very pleasantly located and
the climate is fine, its altitude being about
the same as Denver. Mr. Anthony visited
and inspected 12 of the best developed lodes.
Some of them, have more than one shaft
sunk, and are opened to a depth of from 35
to 80 ft. and show crevices varying from 18
in. to 2}i ft. The ore shows free gold
from the top down, and runs in common
stamp mill from $7 to $100 per tou, and
some has shown $800 per ton by assay.
There are three stamp mills in operation,
two ruu by water, and one run by steam.

There aro live gold-producing gulches,
which pay $15 per day to the man. The
principal gulch is Bock Creek Gulch whioh
has oceans of water, and is known to havo
paying mines for miles. Some of the claims
on this creek have paid $75 pur day to the
man.

[Owing to a press of matter this week,
wo have been compelled to condense our
summary to a considerable extent, and
leave out some important news, which we
will present to our readers iu our next is-
sue.— Eos. Press, I

McLennan, Wuelan & Gkisak's Wool
CntCDiiAB. — This annual publication pre-
sents a synopsis of the wool trade of Cali-
fornia for 1868, embracing the exports and
value of the leading products for the past
ten years. California furnished to this
firm in 1807, 081,022 pounds, and Oregon,
577,325 pounds; in 1808, 885,900 pounds,
and Oregon, 421,400 pounds. The total
export in 1S07 was 10,758,531 pounds, aud
in 1808, 15,539,417 pounds.

The spring clip of 1808 was thebestever
shipped from here, and has brought our
wool iu favor with the Eastern manufactu-
rers; but it appears that the quality of the
wool sent to market varies very much with
different seasons, for some reason or other
not accounted for.

California wools, at present, class as Me-
dium Wools, and even the choicest clips do
not come up to the standard of Eine Wools
as compared with some other wools.

It is thought that most of the flocks at
present in this country would be much im-
proved by the infusion of a little blood of
long-wooled sheep. Local factories worked
up, in 1807, 2,975,000 pounds, in 1808,
2.004,230 pounds.

Swansea (? ) Fuknace in Coloeado. —
A furnace now brought into use in Colo-
rado, is thus described iu the Artisan's re-
port of the proceedings at a recent meeting
of the Polytechnic Association of the Amer-
ican Institute : This furnace is designed for
burning the sulphur from copper aud iron
pyrites, and is described as consisting of a
hollow vertical shaft about twenty feet
high, with an internal horizontal area of
four feet by two. This shaft has arranged
within it a number of triangular bars made
of fire-clay, about four inches wide. These
bars are placed about four inches apart,
and constitute a series of shelves "arranged
alternately in the same vertical line, " the
series extending nearly to the bottom of
the shaft. The fuel by which these shelves
and also the entire interior of the furnace
is heated, is placed in a detachable fire-
grate arranged in the bottom of the shaft.
When by this means the furnace and the
shelves have beeu heated to the required
degree, the grate is removed, and the py-
rites, which must contain at least 16 per
cent, of sulphur, is poured in at the top
of the shaft, a sufficient quantity of air be-
ing simultaneously admitted at the bottom
of the latter to furnish oxygen for the com-
bustion of the sulphur, this combustion
evolving sufficient heat to make the process
continuous. The gaseous products of com-
bustion, which of course consist, for the
most part, of sulphurous acid gas, arecon-
veyed away by suitable means, and em-
ployed in the manufacture of oil of vitriol.

Patent Office Bole. — Commissioner
Foote issued the following circular, Oct.
1st, 180S : "To Applicants and Attorneys —
The practice of returning to applicants and
attorneys the specifications and other pa-
pers filed by them, to enable them to amend
the same or for other purposes, has been
discontinued.

Specifications filed previous to the 1st
day of October, 1808, will be returned once
if called for, in order that the applicant or
his attorney may make a copy, if he desires
to do so.

Iu the case of applications for patents
Sled subsequent to the aforesaid 1st day of
October, the applicants will be expected to
retain copies of papers so filed, or to rely
on the office for copies thereof, at the usual
rates. Elisha Foote, Coni'r.

Judgment of Men's Capacity. — Ealph
Waldo Emerson says : A man passes for
what he is worth. Very idle is all curios-
ity concerning other people's estimate of
us, and all fear for remaining unknown is
not less so. If a man knows that he can
do anything — knows that he can do it bet-
ter than any one else— he has a pledge of
acknowdedgemenc of that fact by all per-
sons.

Our Mining; Interests.

[From tin' Oommi n la] H- mid.]
\< \\ Jlexlco.

■ I deal "i" attention has been paid the
past year to gold prospecting and mining in this
Territory, leading t<> tin- discovery of very ex-
tensive districts abounding iu auriferous veins
and a considerable extent of surface deposits.
Chi disbiote in which the most encouraging
discoveries have been made, and iu which the
greatest activity prevails, lie iu the Moreno
Mountains and in the Gimoron and Pino Alto
country, where several thousand miners have
been engaged, the most of them realizing fair,
and many of them large wages. Water having
been supplied more abundantly, through ditches
lately constructed, mining was being carried on
both by sluice and hydraulic washing, the busi-
ness having before been performed mostly
through the aid of the batea aud rocker. A
number of quartz mills aud smelting works
have been put up in the several districts; some
of the ores requiring smelting, though the most
of them are capable of reduction by mill pro-
cess. A considerable amount of bullion has
already been shipped from that region, which
is likely soon to become the theatre of perma-
nent and profitable mining.

Ala«ku.

Although this uewty acquired possession is
known to be lich in coal, copper aud iron, we
have yet to demonstrate that it contains any
great wealth of the precious metals, the explora-
tions thus far undertaken having failed to estab-
lish the fact, or even give strong confirmation
of the rumors bearing affirmatively on that
point. That there is a considerable extent of
low grade placers along the Stickeen, and
perhaps several other rivers, has been known
for a number of years past, but as they have
capacity to pay not above $3 or $4 per day to
the haud, they are, under the circumstances,
for the present valueless. Several prospecting
parties, duriug the past Summer, made more or
less extended trips along the inland rivers and
streams in search of paying placer mines, but,
so far as has transpired to the public, without
having secured the object of their search. The
rumor prevalent in this city about one year ago
of very rich gold bearing ores having been
found on a stream not far from the coast does
appear to have been well founded, no confirma-
tion of it having since come to hand.

001»I" EE.

In this branch of mining there has been an
almost total suspension of labor the past year
throughout all parts of this coast, the depressed
state of the market, both at home and abroad,
forbidding active operations. How long this
discouraging state of things is likely to last, it
is impossible to say, though a slightly increased
demand for these ores, with a better margin for
sales, is already discernable ; and there is a
prospect that, from this time forth, there will
be a gradual revival of this important interest.
The shipments from San Francisco for the year
amounted to 5,042 tons; of which, 1,450 were
sent to Great Britain, aud 3,592 to New York.

COAL.

The various companies engaged in mining for
coal at Mt. Diablo and other points on this
coast, have been more than usually active the
past year, taking out more than their ordinary
complement of this fuel, for which they have
found a ready and remunerative market. They
are all in a moderatel}' prosperous condition,
with no prospect of being forced to curtail their
operations at present either through a lessened
demand or a failure iu the capacity of their
mines.

BORAX.

After an annual production of about 500 tons
of this salt, the company engaged in its extrac-
tion iu Lake County have, from some cause un-
known to the public, suspended operations,
none having been shqiped to this city by them
for some months past — none, in fact, having
been produced at their works, but whether
from failure in the supply of the raw material
or from considerations of a business nature on
the part of the company, we are not advised.
It has always beeu understood that the crude
article existed-at Borax Lake in inexhaustible
quantity, and that it could be prepared and de-
livered in this city at prices leaving a good mar-
gin of profits — all of which is doubtless true.
But so it has happened, that after importations
had ceased, in consequence of expected sup-
plies from this source, the market is now found
to be quite bare of this commodity, causing

prices to advance materially, while it is said
this company do not contemplate a resumption
of operations within some months at least.
This is ct rtainly mi imouudons and, to the pub-
lic, an unfortunate state of affairs, and one
which they will look forward to the solution ol
with some degree of curiosity.

«>t I< KSII.VIlIC.

As is generally well known the several Quick-
silver mining companies of California have en-
tered into an arrangement looking to a restric-
tion of their joint production to a quantity not
likely to be largely in excess of the prospective
consumption of that metal. Without inquiring
into the legitimacy or policy of such an arrange-
ment, it may be observed that the stock of the
principal company entering into it would seem
to have since suffered a material depreciation,
having been quoted four years ago in the New
York market at $100, at which time tho compa-
ny declared and paid a handsome dividend,
showing a prosperous condition of affairs
whereas the stock to-day is only quoted in New
York at $25, the market having for some timo
past been depressed and fluctuating. It is true,
this may have been one of the objects aimed at
from the first— a view of the matter requiring
for its entire justification the not very violent
presumption that this extensive combination
was effected more for stock jobbing purposes
than for prosecuting a legitimate mining busi-
ness. In regard to this, however, we are not
posted, though it is a little singular that a com-
pany which a few years ago valued its posses-
sions at many minions of dollars, and was do-
ing a large and profitable business, should now
find itself deeply in debt, if their own state-
ments are to he accepted as true. This is cer-
tainly an anomalous state of affairs, arguing a
little sharp practice or a bad financial status on
the part of the company, or else a very unpros-
perous condition of the Quicksilver mining in-
terest.

Operations in Tin Mining. — Pioche and
others who are interested in tin mines in
the southern coast, have engaged practical
tin miners — the Williams brothers and
others — and have commenced actual opera-
tions, not only in mining for tin; but in
making preparations for dressing. Whether
all the delicate tin dressing paraphernalia
of Cornwall and the Erz Mountains are tobe
put iu operation, is a question of economy
which does not appear to have been fully
determined. It is presumed the ores are
rich enough, as at the Banca mines, to pay
without going into such detail. Smelting
operations are not to be undertaken until
Spriug.

Since writing the above, Mr. William
Williams, M. E., has brought us samples
of tin ore from the mines in question, which
are located in the Temescal Mountains,
sixty miles nearly due east from Los An-
geles, and easterly from San Bernardino
town. They have sunk a shaft in a foot-
hill, of forty feet depth, and another situ-
ated 208 feet towards the north of the
preceding, on a rise of the hill, which is
eighty-six feet in depth. The ledge has
been cross-cut between the shafts four times,
showing an average of about nine feet in
width; trend of the ledge, N. 34°; it dips
to the west at an angle of 17° from a ver-
tical line. Mr. Williams had 2,200 pounds
of ore brought up with him, and eight tons
more are on the way. The estimated yield
from four cross-cuts is 20 per cent., the
predominant ore being brown oxide of tin
(black tin). The ores thus far produced
will be worked into white tin, in this city.
Regarding the specimens, see "Contribu-
tions to Our Cabinet. "

Acaeus Sacohaei. — Never use raw (un-
refined) sugar. It is almost sure to con-
tain the insect named above, which is akin
to the Acarus scabiei, or itch insect. Dr.
Harsall of London found it iu 09 out of 72
samples of raw sugar. He did not detect
it in a single specimen of refined sugar.

"Island No. 10," in the Mississippi,
was turned by the Union forces in the late
war, by the construction of a canal in one
of the chasms left by the earthquake of
1811.

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Notices to Correspondents.

Moetae. — Adhesion takes place solely be-
tween the surfaces of bodies. Anything,
therefore, which increases the extent of
surface materially extends the exertion
of the force. Minute subdivision by in-
creasing the extent of surface, greatly
increases the effect of adhesion, hence the
advantage arising from carefully slaking
lime so that no lumps may remain. A
cube of one inch on the side will expose
n surface of six square inches: i. e., there
is a square inch of surface on each of its
six faces. Suppose this cube to be sub-
divided into a number of smaller cubes,
each of which is only 1-1, 000th of an inch
on the side; 1,000,000,000 such cubes
would thus be contained in the spaces
formed from one cubic inch. Further,
as each little cube has six sides, the sur-
face which it will expose is 6-1, 000,000th
of a square inch, or 1,000, 000 of them
will expose six square inches; that is, as
much surface as a solid cube of an inch
on the side; the 1,000,000,000 cubes will
consequently expose 1,000 times as large a
surface, or upwards of 41.6 square feet.
The force of adhesion, therefore, by such
a subdivision, should be increased some-
what in this proportion.

Tubeine, Sonoma County. — See the con-
tinuation, this week, of our article ontur-
bines, for the information you seek. In-
stead of thirty-eight revolutions a min-
ute, our article should have read 1,33S, —
for a 16-horse-power, and sixty miners'
inches of water, at 100 feet head. Such
a turbine measures nine inches in diam-
eter, and costs §100.

J. C, Sonoea. — Chemical affinity can only
be displayed between bodies of dissimilar
constitution. No manifestation of this
force will take place between two pieces
of iron, or two pieces of copper, sup-
posing each substance to be perfectly
pure of its kind ; but between sulphur
and copper, or sulphur and iron, chem-
ical action of the most intense energy
can be produced.

Cisco. — Molybdinum is chiefly esteemed as
a mineral rarity, being found generally
in the state you describe, viz., possessing
the appearance of plumbago, for which it
is often mistaken. In that form this
metal is combined with sulphur, forming
the sulphide of molybdinum. The use
of molybdiuum is chiefly confined in
the arts to the detection of phosphoric
acid. It is used for this purpose in the
form of molybdate of ammonia.

Mineb, Cherokee, Butte County, will be
informed in due time, of the methods in
use for purifying quicksilver.

Clabence King and his geological party,
have reached Salt Lake and partly dis-
banded. Several of the members are to re-
main there for the winter. Mr. King goes
on to Washington to prepare his report for
publication. Next spring the survey will
be continued from Salt Lake eastward.

Velocipedes.

The substitution of mechanical spokes
and felloes for what Oliver Wendell Holmes
has designated as the human wheel — the
legs, being a wheel of two spokes, which
constantly replace each other — affords such
obvious advantages for speed, and even for
economy of exertion on a level road, that
it has not taken long for the velocipedes to
establish themselves in Sau Francisco, in
the favor of everybody who can appreciate
the beauties of a mechanical idea applied to
some practical purpose. American inventive
talent has taken hold eagerly of the idea of
the velocipede, and if something of a practi-
cally useful and successful character be not
developed out of the velocipede idea, it
will be owing to the fact that the mechan-
ical principles involved are adverse thereto.
Yet it is all so simple, and the conclusion
reached at first glance is so self-evident,
that we are assured the attention given to,
and the hopes entertained of velocipedes,
are not futile. At the least favorable esti-
mate of the value of velocipedes, they may
be said to have the advantages of skating
and rowing; whilst their operations are on
land, and in the channels of locomotion
where pleasure and business most have oc-
casion to profit by using them.

The simple French velocipede does not
seem to meet the entire satisfaction of
Yankee inventive minds ; yet while two fore-
and-aft wheels are used, they are proba-
bly not capable of being much improved
upon. The tendency of the mechanical
horse to lie down upon hissidesthe moment
he encounters anythingtodiminish his spir-
its, and the utter and complete weakening
of which he becomes shamelessly guilty
upon slight cause, render him a little un-
popularwith thetimid; whilethe inexorable
sprawling cranks prove offending to the
dignified, who would move only to their
own unmechanical rhythm and tact.

Invention is active in suggesting
and making all kinds of improvements.
The principal establishments at which ve-
locipedes are now being manufactured in
this city, are the Golden State, and the
JEtna, foundries, ami Kimball's and Case-
bolt's carriage factories. French and East-
ern velocipedes of the fore-and-aft style,
have been imported to some extent, costing
§60 currency in New York. They are also
made at the Golden State Foundry, and at
Kimball's carriage factory, at about §65,
which is said to leave little margin for
profit. The ordinary weightis fifty pounds.

Pickering's and Hanlon's are two Eastern
patented improvements, relating to tbe
manner of breaking, adjusting the seat, de-
creasing the weight, etc. Menon, is the
name of one of the leading French manu-
facturers. In the Parisian races, the Amer-
icans have usually won.

At the Golden State Foundry there is to
be seen a three-wheeled French treadle ve-
locipede, with arm railings, between which
two persons stand, operating with their
feet. It travels along very imposingly
where it can travel at all, but( is pro-
nounced not so practical as the two-wheeled
mentioned. In the latter, slight modifica-
tions are being made; such as haviDg the
stirrup cranks of wood, the seat on differ-
ently shaped springs, etc.

Of the new inventions, at least half a
dozen are in an incompleted state; some of
them showing great ingenuity and the ap-
plication of original principles in their con-
struction.

At the Fulton and iEtna foundries there
are several three-wheeled ones, in which a
compound treadle, and the lever principle,
are brought into practice ; both in an orig-
inal manner, concerning the details of
which we are not at liberty to speak.

At Kimball's carriage factory, corner of
Fourth and Perry streets, they are making
the simplest velocipede of all that have
thus far appeared. Itis at the same time one
of thecheapest, the most rapid, andbarringa

question or two of practical operation,
promises to be one of the best. It has two
wheels, five feet iu diameter, running side
by side, like a sulky. It will be suited for
running in the horse railroad track.

A three-wheeled velocipede is being
made at Kimball's, which does not appear
to differ much from that at the Golden
State Foundry.

At Casebolt's carriage factory, corner of
Market and Fifth streets, there is a four-
wheeled velocipede nearly completed, of
which the driving ^wheels are ten feet in
diameter. The inventor is Mr. N. Landry.
It differs from the large one at Kimball's,
simply in haviDg the seat frame supported
and prevented from oscillating, by an extra
axle with wheels, and in being moved only
by haDd-power. This will cost §350.

On a fine evening a promenader will
sometimes pass half a dozen velocipedes in
half an hour on Bush street, and the Cliff
House road.

Modification oe the Geeman Percus-
sion Table. — A. Schulenberg, of this city,
formerly an employe in the pyrites concen-
tration works at Mainz, on the Bhine, sug-
gests an improvement on the cumbrous old
German percussion table. He makes his
slanting table shorter, and wider; instead
of having one surface, he has three or four
over one another, arranged in such a man-
ner that the ore, after it has been washed on
one, will precipitate itself over its upper
edge, and the process is thus continued on
the next below; so that the work of three
or four concentrating tables is doneon one.
Mr. Schulenburg is undoubtedly practical
in his ideas, and understands the matter he
has in hand. In the percussion tables to
which he has been accustomed, and which
he has imitated in principle, the gangue is
washed off to the lower end by the water,
and the heavy mineral is caused by the per-
cussion, to travel to the upper end, aud to
fall down over it without the necessity of
shoveling. In separating pyrites from
zincblende — minerals of very little differ-
ence in specific gravity, though the result
is accomplished economically and very
thoroughly — three or four shoveliugs from
one table to another, are practiced by the
Saxons. A great advantage of Mr. Sehu-
lenberg's table is, that he can apply a fresh
stream of clear water to his washing inter-
mediately in the process, on the several su-
perimposed surfaces, which can be regu-
lated independently, and from which the
earthy particles are thus searched out much
more delicately by the clean water applied.
Letters will reach Mr. Schulenberg through
the Sau Francisco Post Office.

Howland's New Engine. — Mr. W. H.
Howlaud, one of the proprietors of the
Miners' Foundry, in this city, has a four-
cylinder engine operating with a new style
of rotary valves, of his own invention,
which is giving ample satisfaction. For
simplicity, cheapness, and durability, so
far as apparent it has no superior, and we
shall observe its further testing with much
interest. Mr. Howland has, on the same
engine, a very compact and simple gover-
nor, possessing several points of improve-
ment. Steps have been taken by the in-
ventor to secure patents, and we shall have
occasion to mention these inventions more
fully at a future time, and probably with
illustrations. "

Mining Titles. — A bill is before Con-
gress proposing to extend the granting of
fee simple titles, to placer claims, and it will
undoubtedly be passed. The Sehofield
Gold and Silver Mining Company, located
at Grass Valley, has obtained a fee simple
title to 980 feet on the lode, with 150 feet
on each side, — which is the first issued by
the Government under the Act of July 26th,
1866.

Continental Life Insurance Company,
023 Montgomery street, corner of Pine.

The Begents of the State University —
who meet again to-day — find themselves,
after all, not so flush, financially, as it was
arranged in the last Legislature that they
should be, by turning on in order to put
in motion the educational mill, a number
of streams and streamlets from different
sources, which flow through the State Con-
troller's office. According to the report of tho
Finance Committee at the last meeting, the
§200,000 which were to proceed from the
sale of overflowed lands, are not forthcom-
ing, because all those lands are claimed by
private parties, with whom it would be nec-
essary first to litigate. As §50,000 to §60,-
000 will be required during the first year,
according to the published estimate, for
furniture and apparatus, preparing and em-
bellishing the grounds, forming the nucleus
of a cabinet andfor instruction, not to men-
tion the expenses of the Board of Begents — ■
leaving nothing wherewith to commence
building the academic towu, — it has been
virtually decided that Berkley shall be
postponed to a temporary futurity, and
that the State University, after all, shall be
and continue at Oakland, in name, though
not in fact and outwardly, a different institu-
tion from the College of California. Me-
Clellan having refused to accept the Presi-
dency, the names of Judge Hager, (one of
the Board) Prof. John Le Conte, (one of the
professors) Prof. Hart, of the N. Y. State
Normal School, Prof. Timothy Dwight,
Prof. George Davidson, of the Coast Sur-
vey, Prof. Cook, of Butger's College, and
Judge Deady, of Oregon, were proposed;
but no action was taken thereupon.

Ogden City, at the mouth of Weber
Canon, near the flat eastern shore of Salt
Lake, is the gaol towards which the two Pa-
cific Bailroad companies are striving, with
their mightiest efforts, first to complete
their respective roads. The race is so nearly
equal now, and the junction there is so nat-
ural and in accordance with the original
design of the organization of the two com-
panies, that Ogden City, we may take it,
will be the meeting ground of the two
armies. Being also the nearest point to
Salt Lake, — a few hours' drive, — it is prob-
able that Mormondom will be deluged with
a class of more refractory subjects than tho
astute Brigham, with all his power, may
know how to rule, or to manage. The
Mormon leaders are very wise, but if they
have not kept to themselves the ownership
of lots at Ogden City, there is danger
that Salt Lake City itself may, at do dis-
tant day, be overshadowed by rival in-
fluences. Strange sounds, and a strange
activity for Salt Lake, are witnessed this
winter in those weird canons; aud though
it is the Mormons who are gradiug and
building, the eastern and western gentile
streams will flow into O^den City as the
brooks do into Salt Lake. Lead, from the
smelting works at Cottonwood Caiion, and
from Conner'smine,is awaiting shipment, via
Ogden City. It is highly probable too that
the valuable iron mines where Brigham has
been proposing to erect furnaces, will be
developed during the coming season.

The Coal beyond Argenta, (the discovery
of which was referred to in our Pacific
Baih-oad article on November 21st,) is be-
ginning to attract attention. The Nevada
papers speak of excitement at Argenta and
in Battle Mountain District, in regard to
new discoveries recently made. A vein five
feet thick is situated on the side of a mount-
ain near Argenta. Several men are at work
taking out the coal, which is of an excel-
lent quality. Some of it has been tested
as fuel for locomotives, and with good re-
sults. Dr. Harrison, of Crystal Peak, who
has loDg been mining for coal in that vi-
cinity, has been running a tunnel in the
side of the mountain about a mile east of
Verdi Station, and at a distance of 170 feet
he has found a vein of coal three feet in
thickness. A car load of the coal is to be
sent to Sacramento. It is reported that an-
other vein of good coal has been discovered
on the line of the railroad, near Maggie's
Creek.

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Our Home Industries.

lei Herald— Annual Bevj
woolks mi- is.

I .. ten tods b
increaa d during the post year. The old estab-
lished mills !: t of the time to the
utmost extent of their capnoity, whili several
ii. v mills havi J u aocessful opera-
tion. TIi*. di maud for domestic-made woolens
is Bteodily interfering with importations in their
respective grades, while the local manufacture
of clothing is also largely increased. All indi-
cations portend still greater activity in this
branch of manufactures tor the future, for
which the Bpeedy completion of the Pacific Rail-
r,K,,i promi ■ - to open new ami extensive mar-
. tho interior of the continent, wh< in-
habitonts will drawthe bulk of their supplies
from the Pacific coast. '1 In pei !i - itlh ■ np
of eastern Nevada with a vi ry large population
is assured by the discovery of immensely valu-
able mineral deposits at White Pine and that
vicinity, and it ia extri mi '\ probable that but a
shorl time will elapse before Bimilar valuable
,\. covt ries of mineral will be made in Utah, by
which avast emigration will be stimulated to
that Territory from the Atlantic States.

In conjunction with these favorable prospects
for manufactures on this coast, is an unusual
disposition shown on the part of our people to
engage in new manufacturing enterprises. The
old prejudice against capital stock manufactur-
ing companies seems to be slowly passing away,
and the people of many of our interior towns
are disposed to invest their local capital in
woolen and other mills. It is to be hoped that
this disposition to aggregate small capitals by
our people in manufactories will continue to in-
crease, as it will prove of immense value to the
general prosperity of the State. California has
all the adjuncts for success as well as the most
favored States on the Atlantic side. She pro-
duces the raw material in abundance, has ac-
cess to profitable markets and competent labor,
and only needs the concentration of a portion
of the capital of individuals to insure successful
pecuniary returns. Nature has rarely gifted
her iu productive soil and healthful climate, and
Providence has placed her in such position as
to command a tribute for her industries from
the lesser civilized nations bordering on the
Pacific. It only needs a concentration of ener-
gies and purpose on the part of her people to
develop a future of prosperity such as is not
yet known in the history of any country. That
this will be done, we cannot doubt; the energy
and activity shown in the past by our people,
though often misdirected, being ample proof.

The woolen mills located in San Francisco
are the oldest in the State, and consume more
wool and produce a greater variety and value of
manufactures than all the other mills on the
Pacific coast. The first to commence operations
was the Pioneer Mills, located at Black Point,
which, in 1850, manufactured the first blankets
and flannels made in California. From that
date, although once destroyed by fire, these
mills have steadily increased their manufactur-
ing capacity and quality and variety of goods.
At the present time they have the most im-
proved machinery in use, the produce consist-
ing of all grades of blankets, flannels, plain and
fancy, a great variety of cassimeres, tweeds,
cloakings and the medium grades of broad-
cloths, finding a ready and profitable sale.
The mill, during 18G8, employed three hundred
and fifty hands constantly, manufacturing
1,500,000 pounds fine wool, and turning out
about $800,000 manufactures. The exhibition
of goods made by these mills at the Sixth Indus-
trial Fair of the Mechanics' Institute, in this
city, in August and September last, was remark-
able for variety and quality. The display, in
connection with the other two local mills, oc-
cupied wall and floor room on the entire south
side of the Pavillion, which was three hundred
aud twenty feet long, besides several large ta-
bles, which were in the vicinity. The woolen
goods exhibition was a constant source of won-
der and delight to visitors, and gave them a
most comprehensive idea of the extent and
value of their local industry.

The Mission "Woolen Mills, located at the
corner of Sixteenth and Folsorn streets, com-
menced operations in 1861, and has, without
interruption, continued manufacturing since
that date. From making blankets and plain
flannels, the range of manufactures has extend-
ed to producing all grades of those goods, as
well as cassimeres, tweeds, cloakings, traveling

and tartan shai ' army and navy

broadcloths, etc., be ionoJ varieties,

such as super and ingrain carpets, which last
were the only ones evei □ ■ ! on the Pacific

coast. One «>f the most valuable features con-
nected with tl: been the individual
enterprise oj their fount] r, Di onld MuLellan,
who has been the first to manufacture new va-
rii tii s of goods, risking a successful market in
the lace of strong competition with importa-
tions. In this particular it is gratifying to state
that the results have always been favorable, and
that his business sagacity has been pecuniarily
rewarded. At both the Industrial Exhibitions
of the Mechanics' Institute, held in this city
during 1864 and 1868, the display of manufac-
tures of the Mission Woolen Mills were unsur-
passed in their department, and at the "World's
Fair at Paris in 1807, tho blankets and flannels
exhibited by them obtained the highest prize
over all other competitors from the Atlantic
States. The Mission Woolen Mills has about
twenty per cent, less machinery than the Pio-
neer Mills, but running most of tho time day
and night, consumes as much raw material and
labor. In 1808 they employed four hundred
and fifty hands, used 1,500,000 pounds wool,
which made $800,000 value in manufactured

The Pacific Woolen Mills is tho only one
making knit goods for underwear on the Pacific
coast. The works aro on Folsom, between
Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, and give
employment, in the building and outside, to over
five hundred operatives. The machinery is of
the latest improved kinds, and it is claimed that
they not only produce a greater range of varie-
ties and qualities of goods than any other mill,
but some styles, which for fineness and value,
are not made elsewhere in the United States.
Although operations were only commenced iu
June, 1S67, the mills have found a steady and
profitable market for their goods, which are gain-
ing ground wherever known, as against impor-
tations. During 18GS the Pacific Woolen Mills
used 300,000 pounds of the finest class of wool
raised in this State and Oregon, besides import-
ing some of a still finer quality from Australia.
The total value of manufactures during the
same period was about $300,000, which amount,
in consequence of additional machinery received
lately, will probably be much increased during
the present year. The Pacific Woolen Mills
were awarded a gold medal at the Mechanics'
Fair in 1868, for the excellence of their manu-
factures.

The other woolen mills in the State are the
Woolen Mills at Marys ville, the Capitol Woolen
Mills at Sacramento, and the Merced Woolen
Mills on the Stanislaus river. The Marys ville
Woolen Mills have been in operation for a little
more than a year. They are known as a three-set
mill, and making mostly flannels and blankets,
produced about $175,000 manufactures in 1868.
The goods arc of excellent quality, and rind a
ready sale.

The Capitol Woolen Mills commenced opera-
tions in September, running only a portion of
their machinery. They are known as a four-set
mill, and will 'manufacture about ©200,000 per
annum. Their manufactures, so far, have been
confined to blankets and flannels, but when in
complete operation they will make cloths, cassi-
meres and tweeds, as well.

The Merced Woolen Mills have only been in
operation for a few months. They are known
as a foiu-set mill, with about the same manu-
facturing capacity as the Capitol Mills.

The oldest woolen manufactory on the Pacific
coast is the Willamet Woolen Mills in Oregon,
which commenced operations in 1857. The
Oregon City, Ellendale and Eagle Mills, in the
same State, have been in operation for several
years, and another mill is reported as being
about to commence operations. The entire
mills in Oregon in 1868, consumed about 1,000,-
000 pounds wool, their manufactures being val-
ued at about $600,000. They make a great
variety of goods, the larger part of which sup-
plies a profitable local demand, comparatively
small amounts being sent to San Francisco.

Several small woolen mills aro projected in
California, which will probably commence ope-
rations during the present year. The amount
of capital in each varies from $20,000 to $50,000,
and their manufactures will, at first, be con-
fined to blankets aud flannels. One of the mills
will be at Santa Rosa, Sonoma county; another
at Colusa, and a third at Stockton.

COTTON MANUTACTUKES.

The only cotton mills on the Pacific coast are

the Oakland Cotton Mills, located in that city,
in Alameda county. The inability of obtaining
a supply of California-grown cotton and the
difficulties attending importing from Mexican
and utlnr ports on the Pacific or from New
York, have comparatively crippled the opera-
tions: of these mills since their erection. Be-
sides producing sheetings, shirtings and drill-
ing, these mills have made considerable quanti-
ties dt' cotton and wool tweeds, for which there
has boen an extensive demand. Owing, how-
ever, to the difficulty in obtaining supplies of
raw cotton, the mills are to be used in manufac-
turing fiax ami hemp bagging, for which there is
an immense demand for groin and wool pur-
poses.

FLAX AND HEMP nAOGrNG.

As above stated, the Oakland Cotton Mills are
to be altered so as to manufacture flax and hemp
bagging. Suitable machinery has been im-
ported from Dundee, Scotland, a portion of
which arrived, with a number of skillful opera-
tives in the ship Santa Lucia, iu December,
1868. Measures have been taken to secure a
supply of jute hemp from Calcutta and flax in
California, so that manufacturing can be en-
gaged in during the year. The consumption of
bagging for grain and wool sacks in California
has already attained immense proportions, and
promises to largely increase. It will be of great
advantage to stop a drain of treasure, estimated
at $2,000,000 annually, and at the same time a
new branch of employment given to our people.
Large as the demand has been for both grain
and wool sacks, the vast increase in both, and
more especially in the production of the former
in California, insure a profitable investment for
capital in manufacturing, which will require a
number of large mills to supply. The facilities
for procuring a supply of flax fibre suited for
the purpose are ample, many of the farmers of
the coast counties having already engaged in
flax culture for seed only, with profitable re-
sults. Heretofore, the straw which contains the
fibre, has been burned, there being no sale for
it. It has been found, through repeated trials,
that the fibre can be separated very easily and
cheaply from the straw, and it is believed that
an abuudauce of the latter can be had at low
price, if desired.

T-RUTTS, NUTS, ETC.

The crop of dried and nut fruits during 1868
have either not been as large as in preceding
years, or they have, to a greater extent than
usual, been absorbed by a local demand. No
State of the Union possesses a more generous
soil or favorable climate for the production of
fruit, those of a semi-tropical as well as temper-
ate zone being grown to a high degree of excel-
lence. Almonds of all kinds are a sure and
plentiful crop in all the valley lands of the State,
with the exception of a few localities that are
subject to very late frosts, by which the more
tender varieties are sometimes destroyed. Iu
the Southern counties, such as San Luis Obis-
po, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Bernar-
dino, and San Diego, the climate and soil are
peculiarly suited to growing almonds, and it is
very probable they will in time be produced as
largely as now in the south of France. "With
the large emigration continued that has set in
within the last twelve months, those counties
are sure to make great progress in growing the
finer and more valuable varieties of fruit, among
which almonds will take high rank. The speedy
completion of the Pacific Railroad promises to
soon increase the population of the States and
Territories in the interior of the continent, of
which the westernmost portion, or fully one-
half the population, must draw their imported
supplies from the Pacific coast. There is vir-
tually no limit to the demand that will soon
arise for semi-ti'opical fruit in the interior, and
aside from its superior freshness and flavor,
California, by her position, possesses many ad-
vantages over New York or other Atlantic ports
in supplying them.

The Maderia, or so-called English walnut is
a very prolific bearer, and is largely cultivated
throughout the State. The amount of the crop
for 1868 is not known, but must be considera-
ble, as very large numbers of trees have lately
come into bearing. The tree requires very lit-
tle attention, is of fine appearance, and the
fruit, on account of its superior freshness, sells
for nearly double the price of the best imported.
Large numbers of the trees are in consequence
being planted by farmers and others. There is
very good reason to believe that at the rate the
cultivation of this nut is progressing, California
will be able to supply the entire demand of the

United States before the close of the present

century.

Another species of nut culture that is about
being engaged in, is that of the Japanese or
Italian chestnut. This fruit has been grown
from seed, in very limited quantities, for two
years past. During December, 1808, a consid-
erable number of trees have been imported from
Japan, and arrived in comparatively good
order. The trees were mostly dwarfs, having
been budded on other stock, and will therefore
soon come to maturity, a portion of them hav-
ing already borne fruit before shipment. At
present the importation of the fruit from Japan
is so precarious that it has been abandoned,
scarcely one invoice out of ten arriving in fair
order. The Italian nuts have to be kept until
several months after harvest, or be kiln dried,
to admit of shipment with safety across the At-
lantic. California will virtually have a monop-
oly of the domestic raised fruit which can be
transported by rail from October until May
without damage. Attempts have been made
to glow the various nut fruits of the Atlantic
States, but with exception of the common chest-
nut, very little success has been had. The fault
is said to arise from the vitality of the seed be-
ing destroyed by heating while on the voyage
via Panama.

Oranges are now grown with good success in
almost all the valley counties of the State, the
fruit even in 39 degrees of latitude ripening in
the open air in January and February. A largo
number of trees, mostly in the southern coun-
ties, are in full bearing, the crop of 1868 being
sufficient in quantity to supply the markets from
January 1st to May following. The tree is be-
ing extensively planted, and the fruit has so far
been very remunerative to growers. Besides
the native lemon, which was introduced by the
piiests soon after the establishment of the va-
rious Missions in the southern portion of the
State, quite a large number of trees have, within
the past ten years, been raised from Sicilian
and Malaga see3. The laat two varieties have
attained in California a perfection of size, color,
aroma, and flavor that far exceeds the original
fruit as imported, and in time the crop will in-
crease so as to fully take its place. Limes
grown from imported seed also improve upon
their original stock in both size and flavor. Th
production is as yet limited, but the culture is
largely increasing in several of the southern
counties, where the tree seems to thrive espec-
ially well. Citron, the prepared peel of which
is the fruit known by that name to commerce,
grows in great abundance iu the southern part
of the State. The fruit is generally of unusual
large size, single specimens having been brought
to San Francisco weighing 46 ounces. With
exception of a small quantity that is sent to San
Francisco for exhibition, the whole production
of citron is annually allowed to rot. No at-
tempts, so far as known, have been made to
preserve the fruit for either domestic use or ex-
port, although the process is said to be simple
and not very costly. The annual consumption
of the citron of commerce in the entire United
States could, within ten years, be supplied by
California produce, if men of intelligence and
energy would engage in its manufacture.

Prunes of both the German and French va-
rieties have been grown to some extent in Cali-
fornia, comparatively large quantities of each
kind having been dried for home consumption.
The fruit grows to a large size, and the proba-
bilities favor its increased production until
importations cease. Olives have been planted,
and thriven well at some of the Missions almost
from the date of their being founded. The tree
is not unfavorably affected by our winter cold,
is easy propogated, and bears an abundant crop.
There is a large field for the successful cultiva-
tion of this fruit to supply the local demand, as
well as that of the rest of the Union.

In domestic dried fruits, such as apples, pears,
peaches, plums, etc., quite a large amount is
annually made. The fruit is of excellent qual-
ity, and finds a ready and remunerative market.
All kinds of figs have been grown in the State
with great success, but with exception of the
native blue, or California fig, no quantities of
any importance have been dried for market
Dried black or Zante currants have been pro-
duced in limited quantities during the past two
years. The fruit raised is reported of excellent
flavor and size, while its freedom from dirt or
gravel gives it still greater advantages over the
foreign article. The grape from which the
Zante currants are made is known as the seed-
less Black Corinth, and is a remarkably vigor-

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ous and prolific bearer. The prorogation of
the vine is being largely engaged in, and not
many years will pass before the native cured
fruit will be common in our market.

The crop of California raisins for 18G8 is said
to be the smallest known since the business was
first engaged in. This has been owing to two
causes, one of which has been the excessive im-
portations of Malaga fruit during the last two
years, which have glutted the market, and also
to difficulty experienced in curing the domestic
fruit without an extensive and costly system of
kilns or drying houses. These last are rendered
necessary to protect the fruit in drying from
dews or slight rains which then often prevail.
During the time of drying, a fall of rain scarcely
wetting the surface of the ground sufficient to
lay the dust, proves entirely ruinous to raisins,
which then are only fit for distilling. During
the drying seasons of 1866 and 1867, B. N. Bug-
bey, of Folsoni, who was the largest grower in
the State, lost over 2,000 boxes of raisins
through the prevalence of slight showers. As
the business was so precarious, without large
outlay for building, this gentleman only made
a few boxes in 1868, turning his grapes into
wine and brandy as being more profitable.
There is but little doubt that the curing of
raisins will ultimately become a large business,
but capital will have to become more abundant
and at lesser rates of interest to encourage
growers in incurring large expenses for neces-
sary fixtures.

The returns of county Assessors for 1867 give
the following items regarding fruit trees in the
State, viz.: Apple, 2,249,473 trees, the largest
counties being Santa Clara 722,000, Sonoma
255,280, Shasta 232,340; peach trees, 984,621,
the largest counties, Sacramento 74,300, El Do-
rado 56,200, Sonoma 52,912 trees; lemon trees,
3,700 (Malaga and Sicily varieties,) of which
Los Angeles has 2,300; orange trees, 17,397,
largest county, Los Angeles, 15,000; and olive
trees, 14,812, largest county, Santa Barbara,
12,000.

HOPS.

The culture of hops in this State is attended
by so many favorable circumstances of soil and
climate that it has proved quite successful to all
who have engaged in the business. Hop grow-
ers find in all valley land (except in some local-
ities along the coast) a perfect freedom from
fog or dampness during the summer season,
which protects the plant from mildew, blight,
or insects, all of which are common and injuri-
ous in the Atlantic and so-called Western States,
as well as in England and other hop growing
countries in Europe. Hops grow well in all
soils, both on river bottoms and uplands, the
crops in the former being heavier and less deli-
cate in flavor, while the yield in the latter is
about one-third less, but of milder and better
quality for several purposes. Another advan-
tage in California hop growing is the almost en-
tire absence of heavy storms of wind, which in
the other States often do great damage by pros-
trating the vines to the ground, and frequently
injuring them seriously. The plants in river
bottoms often yield 1,000 pounds cured hops to
the acre during the first year after planting, and
frequently double that amount the next season.
Some individual acres have been known to yield
over 4,000 pounds after the second year, but
such product is very uncommon. On the
lighter soil of the uplands the general yield,
under favorable circumstances, ranges from
1,300 to 1,500 pounds to the acre for the second
year.

The crop of hops in the State during 1S67 is
reported by the County Assessors as having
been 560,407 pounds, the yield of 987 acres
planted. Sacramento produced the largest
amount of any one county, the yield being 412,-
500 pounds, from 430 acres. With the favora-
ble circumstances noted above for hop culture,
the opportunities for brewing, and markets for
beer of all lands, have no superiors elsewhere.
The climate of San Francisco is equable to a
remarkable extent, and brewing can be success-
fully engaged in on any month of the year. All
the necessaries of water and good malt can be
had to perfection, and the markets of foreign
countries bordering on the Pacific are easy of
access, and should be supplied from California
instead of England and Germany, as at present.
That this great field of enterprise will long con-
tinue to be unprofitably neglected by California
brewers is not likely, nor will our hop growers
be confined to supplying the requirements of
the local market. The continued and great in-
crease of diseases among hops in the othsr

States of the Union is being seconded by similar
disasters in Great Britain and other countries
in Europe. The growing of hops is becoming
a quite precarious business in most countries,
and the superior climate and productive soil of
this State will in time be drawn on to make
good the deficiencies in the crops produced
elsewhere.

One of the most valuable adjuncts to hop
raising is the patent hop-kiln, invented in 1867,
by Capt. Wm. M. Haynie, of Sacramento. The
peculiar advantages claimed and proven for this
kiln are, that when the green hops are once
placed to dry, there is no shoveling or handling
them afterwards, even in bailing. The time of
drying is also shortened fully one-third, so that
three kilns can be dried in place of two, by the
old method. Brewers will appreciate the value
of the Haynie kiln, when we state that the hops
are as perfect in form in the bale as they were
before drying, each blossom being unbroken
and containing all its lupuline and seeds. The
perfection of the process has astonished all
parties who have seen the hops in bale in this
city. The advantages of the new kiln will, in
time, cause its general use in all the hop dis-
tricts of the United States, and largely increase
the value of American hops by their perfect
condition for export. We have no correct date
as to the hop crop of 186S; it was, however,
largely in excess of previous years, and prices,
thus far, low and unremunerative.

DAIItY PRODUCTS.

California, from the commencement of the
gold excitement, caused by the discovery of the
precious metal, has as a great agricultural coun-
try, stood in an anomalous condition regarding
her dairy products. Bich in indiginous grasses
of unusually nutricious qualities, and with an
abundance of good stock, she has annually paid
millions of dollars for imported butter and
cheese. Instances were not common, a few
years ago, where farmers owning large numbers
of stock were too indolent to procure milk for
their tea or coffee, while the butter and cheese
purchased for their family's use were imported
from New York or other Atlantic ports. Those
who were the first to turn their attention to
making butter and cheese have, as a rule, been
well repaid for their energy and good judgment.
Many others have since followed their example,
but still over twenty-five per cent, of both but-
ter and cheese are imported from Atlantic ports
to supply our people. Great progress has,
however, been made towards a general disposi-
tion on the part of our small farmers to make
more or less butter and cheese for sale as well
as home use, and the time is not far distant
when importations will become so unprofitable
as to cease. Along through the coast counties
the advantages for making both butter and
cheese are very great, the grass, from prevalence
of moist fogs, remaining green and succulent
almost all through the year. Another feature
connected with the present dairying in Califor-
nia, as compared with previous years, is found
in the general improvement of quality of both
butter and cheese made.

Our Ship Building Interest.

In the Treasury report, recently published,
considerable stress is laid upon the extensive
consumption of ship building woods on the At-
lantic coast, but, strange to say, no allusion is
made to the vast forests still standing in prime-
val integrity upon the Pacific coast, and fur-
nishing the very best timber for naval architec-
ture. Nor are our almost illimitable resources
for marine uses taken into consideration. —
Sheltered coves and small, safe harbors abound
along the coast of Washington Territory, where
the forests grow close to the shores . Pitch,
tar, turpentine aud rosin are supplied in profu-
sion by those forests; the great size of the trees
furnish timber suitable for ships of any required
tonnage; iron and copper are abundant; hemp
and flax thrive in our soil; the climate permits
out-door work all the year round; spars of the
finest quality are cheap ard plentiful; wages
are somewhat higher, but the depreciated cost
of materials more than counterbalance this
item. Several first class vessels have been turn-
ed out here the past year at two- thirds what it
would have cost to construct them of poorer
materials in the Eastern States. These facts
are known and being availed of by our merchants
and ship builders, aud the purchase of Eastern
built vessels has about ceased iu this section of
the Union. Our ship building interests made
good progress throughout the past year. Our
yards were well employed, aud a number of ex-

cellent vessels constructed at various points in
Puget Sound. This industry is destined to be-
come of leading importance, and will enable
our Pacific possessions to do the carrying trade
of this ocean.

During the past year seven thousand six hun-
dred and four tons of new shipping, built on
this coast, were registered at the Custom House,
represented in the following manner, viz: elev-
en steamers, registering 3,132 tons; three bark-
entines, aggregating 793 tons; one brig, of 173
tons ; four barges, of 798 tons ; thirty-four
schooners, comprising 2,628 tons, and four
sloops of 80 tons, being a total of fifty-seven
vessels.

Our RailroacU.

Central Pacific. — This road is now com-
pleted to a distance of about five hundred miles
from Sacramento, three hundred and sixty miles
of which have been constructed during the year
1SGS — three hundred and twenty miles having
been laid since the first day of July, 1868. The
track is now being laid at the rate of from two
to three miles per day; and Salt Lake, it is ex-
pected, will be reached sometime in March, and
the entire line completed within three or four
months thereafter.

Calitoknia Centeal.— During the past year
this road has been sold under the foreclosure of
a mortgage, and it is now operated by the Cen-
tral Pacific Railroad Company.

Western Pacific. — The grading of this road
is nearly completed, and track-laying having
been entered upon with vigor, will probably be
completed inside of three months.

California and Oregon. — The work of con-
structing this road north of Marysville will be
commenced as soon as the bridge across the
Yuba river at Marysville, is completed, which
will probably be in a few weeks. It will proba-
bly be completed as far as Chico in 1869.

California Pacific.— Now completed from
Yallejo to Sacramento, 60 miles, with branch to
Marysville,' to be constructed the coming sum-
mer. Running time, 2% hours. The average
number of passengers daily, is 220. The Napa
Valley Kailroad Company have just completed
their line to a junction with the California Pa-
cific, about seven miles north of Yallejo, and
will run their cars from Calistoga, Napa, etc.,
over this road to Vallejo.

The Oakland and San Francisco. — Extends
from the end of the wharf west of Oakland to
Brooklyn, a distance of 4 miles.

San Ekancisco and Alameda. — Length now
being operated, sixteen and a half miles, viz:
From Alameda Point, on the Bay of San Fran-
cisco, to Hayward's. A steamboat line is run
in connection with the road, the distance of
water travel being five and thirty one-hun-
dredths miles. It is intended to throw out two
branches of this line from Hayward's to inter-
cept the Western Pacific Kailroad — one con-
necting in that part of Alameda County known
as Amador Valley, and the other in the South-
ern part of the Alameda Valley, about fifteen
miles from San Jose*.

San Francisco and San Jose. — Extends be-
tween these two cities, a distance of fifty miles.

Napa Valley. — Eoad runs from a junction
with the California Pacific Kailroad, seven
miles north of Vallejo, to Calistoga, a distance
of thirty-five miles, via Suscol, Napa, St
Helena, etc.

San Jose and Gllroy. — Thirty miles long;
the whole line graded and track laid down for
fifteen miles. The whole will be completed,
and the cars running by the last of February.

Steam Trade -with China and Japan.

Our steam trade with China and Japan has
been actively prosecuted by the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company during the past year. It
is considered so important that the Post Master
General, in his annual report, presses upon the
Government the necessity for establishing a
semi-monthly line between this city, Japan and
China. The steamers employed in this trade
are the largest and finest in the world, reflecting
honor upon the company which has undergone
unusual expenditures to render them acceptable
to the traveling and business public. It is cer-
tainly good cause for indulging in a little boast
to say with truth, that the steamers connecting
San Francisco with Oriental ports are unequaled.
Another such ship as the China, Japan and
Great Republic, the America, built expressly for
the fine under consideration, and equaling her
predecessors in all respects, will sail from New

York in April next, and upon arrival, will
commence regular trips to Japan and back, tho
connection between Yokohama and Hongkong
being performed by the first class steamers New
York and Costa Rica. In 18GS the Japan and
China line of steamships made ten voyages out-
ward, the average time being 28 days and 21
hours to Hongkong, the trip to Yokohama occu-
pying 22 days and nine hours, and the connec-
tion with Hongkong, 6 days and 12 hours. Re-
turn voyages averaged 29 days and 22 hours,
requiring one day more, in consequence of pre-
vailing contrary winds and currents. Tho
amount of treasure shipped by this line in 1868
was $6,743,672, the total number of passengers
carried hence in the same time was 4,033, in-
cluding 239 in the cabin; the number of tons of
freight transported from this city reached 6,356
tons, at an average cost of $12 per ton. The
return voyages were nine in number, occupying
an average of 29 days and 22 hours, for tho
reasons above given, which operate chiefly in
the Yellow sea, between Hongkong and Yoko-
hama. The number of passengers arriving in
these steamers was 6,061, including 459 hi the
cabin, and the tons of freight brought amounted
to 11,939, at an average of $12 per ton. These
figures show 18,295 tons of freight; 10,095 pas-
sengers, including 696 in the cabin, and $6,700,-
000, in round numbers, passing between San
Francisco and the Oriental ports named, on the
steamship line in 1868. The freight gains, ac-
cording to the foregoing statements, amounted
to $219,540; the returns for passenger service
were as follows, viz: for 69G cabin passengers,
$208,800; for 9,398 steerage passengers, mostly
Chinese, at $40 per head, $375,920, making a
total of $804,260. This does not include the
percentage paid on nearly seven millions of
treasure. The importance of this steamship
line can scarcely be overestimated. Our rela-
tions with Eastern Asia have received an im-
pulse, through its means, altogether unlaiown
before. Chinese and Japanese seclusiveness
have given way before its assaults, and a spirit
of amity and confidence engendered between the
American people and Asiatics, which promises to
result in the greatest good to all. The very first
trip made by the pioneer ship, the Colorado,
enlarged our traffic with Japan to such an ex-
tent that our imports on that one occasion were
more than three times as large as during the
whole first quarter of 1866. The trade in pre-
cious metals, wdiich are so largely absorbed by
Oriental countries, must eventually fall into our
hands instead of going by way of London, and
a great change has already been realized in this
respect. To gain possession of this traffic is to
obtain commercial supremacy, which involves
financial and all material prosperity. In view
of this fact, it is not strange that the Post Mas-
ter General should be so vrrgent in his recom-
mendation to establish a semi-monthly steam
line between San Francisco and Oriental ports.

Bough Times ahead. — The Ne vad a papers
anticipate that the wilderness will be scoured
in every direction, next summer, for hun-
dreds of miles by keen-eyed prospectors,
and say it will be strange if some remarka-
ble discoveries are not made before the fall.
Large parties will organize and range
through the wild, unknown regions lying
southward, where the Indians have hereto-
fore successfully resisted the entrance of
small parties.

Stage Line from Maggie Greek to
"White Pine. —Hill Eeachy is about to place
a line of stages on between Carlin or Mag-
gie's Creek and the "White Pine District.
He will use the stock and stages that were
on the Idaho route between Hunter's and
"Winnemucca, the latter place being now
the starting point for Idaho. Other liues
to "White Pine, from different stations on
the railroad, are spoken of.

Sumac could be grown with profit in Ihe
foothills of the Sierra Nevada and on the
plains. It requires neither richness or
much moisture in the soil. The leaves
contain a large proportion of tannic acid,
aud are worth from #80 to $100 per ton.
Its strength is said to be proportioned to
the amount of sunshine. Suckers are
planted in hills 2% feet apart each way. *
Fredericksburg is one of the chief centers of
the sumac cultivation in Virginia. It
should yield at least a ton to the acre.

Madder yields about $150 to the acre in
Italy, but it requires a rich, light soil and
very laborious cultivation. The adultera-
tions and high cost of the imported article
might euable the wooleu mills and dyers to
pay enough to justify cultivation here.

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

43

Tin: Chemtstiiv of Fobnihtbb. — House-
keepers do not always understand the the-
ory of the chemical and mechanical action
of different Bubstanoee on articles of furni-
ture. The substances froni which furni-
ture are chiefly exposed to injury ari
oils, alcohols, and acids. Acids net on
marble, which is composed of carbonate of
lime, destroying the texture of the Btone—
liberating the carbonic acid, and leaving
nitrate of lime, or muriate of lime, or sul-
phate, or acetate of lime, as the case may
I).-, in the form of a white powder. All
varnished or polished surfaces of wood, on
the other hand, while not injured usually
by acids, are attacked by alcohol. Yur-
are composed of different gums and
resins, which are generally soluble in alco-
hol. Many of them nro mado by dissolv-
ing the materials in alcohol so as to liquefy
them, and then, when they aro applied,
the alcohol evaporates, leaving the gam or
resin in a thin, even coating over the sur-
face. If any alcoholic, substance comes
upon such a surface, whether it be alcohol
itself, as used for lamps, or 'Spirits of any
kind, or oven wine, which contains but a
small percentage of alcohol, a portion of it
is dissolved, and the brilliancy of the sur-
face is destroyed. Oils will not attack
either marble or varnished surfaces, and
will do no injury except to naked wood or
other porous substances which admit them
into the pores, from which they cannot
afterward be.easily expelled. Water affects
no substances except such as have open
pores exposed, in which case it enters and
causes tho substance to swell ; or such as are
soluble in water, as glue in joints, and mu-
cilage or gum arabio, used sometimes for
attaching superficial ornaments to fancy
work.

The Lake Superior Copper interest
feel sure of reciving protection from Con-
gross. Five or six mines have yielded
largely in quantity, but at non-paying rates,
a number of smallermines have been aban-
doned, and it is contended that if the pro-
posed duties on ores of three cents a pound
pure copper, and of five cents a pound on
ingot is not carried, the whole mining in-
dustry is jeopardized. The Atlantic smelt-
ers have produced very little, and with a
higher duty they would find it difficult to
work to advantage. — Wintsrkoff's Melal Cir-
cular.

I per day

MrxERS are paid from §4 to
in Montana Territory.

Mount Bakee is smoking.

GEO. E. ROGERS,

(Successor to (J. W. Bell.)

A. S S A, Y K B,

SIS California St., San Francisco,

J. a. mars, Assayer.

Ores carefully Assayed. Gold and Silver Ores worked.

23vl6-qrll)pttr

CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, DRAPERIES,

SHADES, Etc., Etc.

LOUIS F. KNIGHT,

15-f-S California St., cast side of Kearny,

SAN FRANCESCO.

I can offer from (he largest and best assorted stock hi the

city anything in our line,

AT PRICES TO SUIT ALL.

FURNITURE AND MATTRESSES

Made to order.
All kinds of upholstering executed with neatness and
dispatch. - 9\17

ijEfSngwoil

gEfMpHKBS

INDUSTRIAL .PUBUSHEP,

Patent Brokerage.

PATENT RIGHTS

Bought and. Sold on Commission.

A variety of new and valuable Patents for sale, novel and

usc'ul articles, suitable for TRAVELING AGE N IS,

always on hand, among which are the following:

Patent Cigarette Roller, and patent gammed Wrap-
pers for the same. Every one can make their own
Cigarettes. Price $2.50 f including 100 wrappers.)

Wilson's Patent Solder, for mending tin ware with-
out soldering iron, prepared for family use. Retail
price 50 cents.

Elliptic Steel Scrapers, for cleaning holler tubes (all
sizes)— best thiug ever invented for the purpose. Retail
prices frum $S to $10.

AGENTS WANTED.

Address "E. M. D." P st Office box 17, S^n Francisco.
2jvl7tf

Business Cards,

0e^EY&c0

BODGERS, MEYER & CO.,

COMMISSION MEHCIIANTS,

ADVANCES MADE

On nil kludft off On;., unil ptirllcula.r uttcntli.ii

PAID TO

CONSIGNMENTS OP HOODS.]

•■visum

NATiiAtm:L OR iy.

N. GRAY & CO.,

UrVOETlTjVItEKS,

fill KncramuiUo St., cor Webb, San Francisco.

Farmers and Mechanics
BANK OF SAYINGS,

No. 23» Sitn*ome Street.

Interest paid on Deposits. Money Loaned on Real Estate.
II. BUTTON, President.

GEO. M. CONDEE Cashier. 10vl6-8m

FREDERICK MANSELL.

Mechanical & Architectural Draughtsman,

No. 122 California street, corner of Lcidsdorff.

DrawliiRs of Modkls made for parties apply for pa
juts at Washington or London. arZl-tf.

W. T. ATWOOD,

ruaCHASER ov

C0PPEK ORES, BAE3, MATT, Etc., Etc,,

505 Montgomery street.

Room No. 5, over Parrott & Go's Bank, Ban Francisco.
23vl7qr

Pump Leather.

The attention of MINING COMPANIES, and others re-
quiring a superior article for Hydraulic purposes, is invited
to the heavy Oaked Tanned Pump Leather, manufactured
and prepared expressly by the undersigned.

S^Tn°^

rANH E^

t E.JOIMES&C? ^

Constantly on hand and for sale by

GK.A.Y, JONES <fc CO..

Depot of the Santa Cruz Tannery,
418 Mattery St., Snn FranclMCo.

25vl?-ly

HAYWARD & COLEMAN,

IMPORTERS AND REFINERS

—OF—

Illuminating, Lubricating1,

— AND—

J? A. I 1ST T OILS,

CONSISTING OP

KEROSENE. *LAKD, SPERM, ELEPHANT, POLAR,

TANNERS: NEATSFOUT, BOILED AND BAiV

LINSEED, CASTOR AND, CHINA NUT.

—ALSO— ^

Spirits of Turpentine and Alcohol.
Lamps and Lamp Stock !

An elegant and complete assortment.
SOLE IMPORTERS OF

Dcvoc's Illuminating' Oil.

PATE.VT CANS.
5vI7-tf. 414 Front street, San Francisco.

MECHANICAL AND AKOHITECTUEAL

Drawing School

— FOW —

MU. FREDERICK HELLEKT,

An experienced Draughtsman and Teacher, lias opened an
Evening School at No- 414 CLAY STREET (same entrance
as the Mining and Scientific Press Office), where he is giv-
ing thorough i nit ructions in DRAWING to apprentices who
are inclined to self-improvement-. His terms are moderate
and within reach of the humblest apprentice; and we are
pleased to say that the enterprise is meeting with Success.
IvlAtf

Professional Cards.

J. S. PHILLIPS,
3II1VHVG ENGINEER, Etc.,

1 "' ■< ill II i use Sun Francisco

n.'.\ in:- h ■ i peril nee in Ihe various depart-
ments of Mining E»c irlnjj uiid Metallurgy, In Cornwall

»ml Imcrlca, sollclu ordern lor the exaintnfitl f Min-
eral Proportion throughout the North nnd souin Americas;
mineral* assayed or analyzed; advice for bouoflclatlng
refractory orea: Hotels sold; capital procured lor devot-
oping valuable led ■ ■-. ivlJU

JOHN E0A0H, Optician,

lias removed from 622 Montgomery street to
54© Wn*.)ii«s:ton street,

Bnsl "t* UontEomory.

Survey In1,' riutrilinenU male, repaired nnd adjusted
iivl7-3in

J. S¥YNEY,
MARINE ENGINEER,

511 Montgomery IEI.uk, Sim Fi-undnco,

Is prepared to furnish General Plana, Specifications, and
lull detail Drawings for propeller or aldo-wlieel steamers,
iron vessels of ail classes, engines, boilers, etc. Also for
locomotive or stationary engines, and machinery in gon.

era). An experience of over twcuiy years in llns pro.
fesslon enables us to Itirnioh correct drawings ami guar
nil tee results. fivlV-tf

DAVID R. SMITH,

Civil and Mecliauleal Engineer!

Is prepared to furnish Plnns, Models, Specifications and
full detail Drawings for Steamers and Sailing Vessels and
Machinery in general.

Montgomery ISIoclt. I3vl7-3m

J. M. HAVEN,

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
Room S3 Merchant.' Exchange,

27vl6 SAN FRANCISCO.

RADICAL CURE

RUPTURE !

Treatment of all Deformities of the Body, br DR. A,
FOLLEAU'S process, *I24 Washington slreot. tip stairs,
Washington Baths Building, between Montgomery and
Kearny streets.

DR. A. FOLLEAU

Has his studies and manufactories in the same building.

Every kind of Apparatus, Trusses, t'rtliopedic Instru-
ments. Artillcial Limbs, etc. , are manufactured and applied
by himself.

BSfSe hat no connection icith any Af/cncy. 2ivl4-llptf

oovmes m:. t^ylor,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,

Court Block, 636 Clay Street

SAN FRANCISCO.
2vl5-lqy

American Saw Company.

CIRCULARSAWS r

v cUPERIORTO AUOTHjERs

MASOFACTUREKS OF

EMERSON'S PATENT
Movable-Tooth, and Perforated Circular Saw*,

Perforated Mulay, Mill and Cross-Cut Saws, with
Adjustable Sockets.

SAW-GUMMEKS, SWAGES, 0ANT DOGS,

Etc., have established an office for the sale of the above

articles, at

No. BOO Front Afreet* Sun Francisco.

UfcjrDescrintive Pamphlets will be forwarded to any one

5vl7tf

SULPHURET8 ;

What they are;

How Assayed ;

How Concentrated;

And How "Worked;

With a Chanter on the

BLOW-PIPE ASSAY OF MINERALS.

By WM. BARSTOW, M. O.

Published by A. Roman &. Co., San Francisco.
For «nle at this Office.—Prlcc, One I>olIar.

With the aid of this Book, the miner can assay his own
ores, requiring but few materials, ete., except such as are
generally to be found In the interior towns. 21vI5tf

Electrotype ENaRATir.cs, Cots, Etc.— Our Job Printing
Oftice is abundantly supplied with elegant engravings, or
naments, and other embellishments to suit the various
branches of industry in this State

WE ARE NOW OFFERING-
OTTR IMMENSE STOCK

or

Fine Custom Made Clothing

AND

Gents1 Furnishing G-oods

AT PRICES TSTAT DEFY COMPKTlTIO\.

Our Stock of Clothing ConnUt« of
A.H.3L- THE LATEST STYLES

BOTH or MATERIAL AND VIM:- II.

A Largo Assortment ot
TrunkH, Valine*, Carpet li:.^". lilunlLeta, Etc.*

AT KXTRKNKLY LOW PRIOKS.

J. 11. MEAD & CO.,

SvlO Oor. of Washlncton and Sansome streets.

THE GIANT

POWDER COMPANY

is now prepared to fill all orders for

GIANT POWDER,

Put up In Boxen, either InBulk or in Cnr>

trldgea*

General Agents,

BANDMANN, WIELS0W & CO,,

25vl(i..tm 210 Front street, San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO

I?ioiiee»* Screen W oirlcs,

JonN W. QUIOK, Manufacturer.

Removed to Vulcan Tron Works, Fremont street, between
Mission and Howard, San Francisco.

Screen PunchinR in all lis branches, at rates reduced
from 25 to V> per cent less than the established rates. 1 can
furnish Improved Quartz Screens several sizes finer Minn
any Screen ever punched, plying universal satisfaction,
anil for strength, cheapness ami (lurr.hility arc not excelled.
Also, Punched Screens "fall sizes and fineness made from
nil qualities ot material, for Quartz. Cement, Flour and
Rice Mills, etc. Screen Punching made a specialty; there-
fore nullmen forwardine their orders to me will receive
nunc lull the best. Orders solicited.

N. B — J. W. QHTCK is the nnlv competent and successful
manufacturer of Screens in I be State, having made Screens
for the princinal mills in this State and adjoininc Terri-
tories for many years. Quartz mill owners usinp punched
Screens which have universally failed to Rive satisfaction,
when visiting the city will please call and see me. 5vl7-ly

California Steam Navigation

K3&J COMPANY. sf$lBS$.

Steamer CAPITAL CAPT. E. A. POOLE

CHRYSOPOLIS CAPT. A. FOSTER.

" TOSEMITE

" CORNELIA CAPT. W. BROMLEY

" JULIA CAPT. E. CONCKLIN.

Two of the above steamers leave BROADWAY WflARF
at 4 o'elock P. M. EVERY DAY (Sundays excepted), one
for Sacramento and one (or Stockton, those for Sacra-
mento connecting with liplit-drafl steamers for Marysville
Colusa, Cliico, and Red Bluff.

Office of the Company, northeast corner of Front and
Jackson streets.
.„ „ B. SI. HAltTSHOKNF,

I3v12 President.

International Hotel,

J A O Kl S O IV STREET

BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AND KEARNY STS„

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE IS IN PERFECT
order for the accommodation of suesta. Persons seek-
ing comfort and economy will find this the beat Hotel in
the city to stop at. The Reds are. new and In coo d order,
and the Rooms well ventilated. The Table will always be
supplied with the best In the market.
Prices varying from «1 SO t« S» per day for

Hoard and ICooni.

FINE BATH HOUSE AND BARBER SHOP ATTACHED

TO THE HOUSE,

B&T- Teams beloncin^ to the House will be in attendance
n> all the honts and cars to convey passengers to the House
fkek or charge, and to any partof the city for SO cents

aiv!2 F. E. WEYGANT, Proprietor.

Pacific Powder Mills.

^UPERIOR BLASTING AND SPORTING GUN DER

Black Diamond, in lib canisters.
do do In Hlb canisters,
do do in \£ kec-s.

Hunter's Pride, in lth canisters.
do do in Hn> caniUiers.

do do in >;£ kegs,

do do in % kejrs.
Pacific Mills River Shooting, in lib canisters.
do do do in J-slh canfat' *

do do do in hi keps.

do do do in fc: kegs,

do do do in 25tt> kegs.

Pacific Mills Rifle, In llh canisters,
do do in Xlk ennisters.

do do in k kegs.

do do In ii kecs.

do do in 251b kegs.

Blasting and Mining Powder $2 25 per keg.
Safety Fuse and Shot for sale by

HA.YWAKB «fc COLEJIAW Agent*.
21vl5 3m 411 Front street, Sa Francisco.

Removal and Partnership.

Notice is hereby given, thtt I have, removed from my old
stand on Beale street, and have formed a co-partnership
with Mr. A. CAY.HRON, for the purpose of carrying on tho
business of Stair- Building, Wood-Turning and Scroll Saw-
The business will be conducted as formerly at Cam-
eron's, corner of M.irket and Beale streets, and also atNos
485 and 4S7 Brann in street, where ample steam power and
all necessary facilities have been provided for every
branch of the business.

Different sizes of Redwood Balusters constantly on hand
for sale. Also Spanish Cedar, Walnut and California
Laurel,

iavl7-3m N. P. LANGLAND.

44

Tlc\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Enterprises and Developments.

A spkingbed factory has been established
in Sacramento.

One million feet of fencing is sold in
San Diego per week.

New gas works have been erected at Hel-
ena, Montana.

Eight hundred gang plows have been
sold at Stockton during the past season.

The Suisun and Fairfield "Water Com-
pany recently declared a dividend of $4.50
per share.

Gold Fish. — A lucrative, if not very im-
portant business, is done in a small way in
the importation of gold fish from the Sand-
wich Islands. They are easily raised near
Honolulu by a French enthusiast in the
business, and brought over in barrels and
tin cans, with the loss of a very small per-
centage.

Granulation of California Sorghum.
A notable experiment with sorghum has
been made this year near Alviso, on 120
acres planted on contract with J. H. Purdy
in June— too late to get all the moisture
needed. Thus the crop was a partial fail-
ure, but the quality of the syrup obtained
is excellent; it granulates readily, and has
a fine flavor. The experiment will be re-
peated this year under more favorable cir-
cumstances.

Chestnuts, Walnuts and Pecans.— Childs
&. Co., of Los Angeles, have succeeded in
growing the Italian chestnut, having trees
now twelve years old, producing nuts of
immense size and flue flavor. Small trees
can be had of them for transplanting.

The pecan, a southern forest tree, even
more valuable than the chestnut for its
nuts, is also grown by Childs & Co. , and the
American chestnut and Western walnut —
unlike the California black walnut, and su-
perior to it— are also growing thriftily in
their garden.

Manufactures in the Interior — Woolen
Mills. — The Marysville Appealxegar&s the
future of that city as depending upon its
manufactures. It urges the establishment
of another woolen mill there, saying that
the present one has more orders than it can
fill. There are, it says over 500 woolen
mills in six States of Ohio, Michigan, In-
diana, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota.
There are but five or six woolen mills in op-
erations on this coast, yet Eastern and for-
eign manufacturers do not feel the least
check to their shipments. California, Ne-
vada, Oregon, etc. , it asserts, will soon af-
ford a market for fifty woolen mills.

Oroville, Sacramento, and Merced Falls
now have their woolen mills, and another is
proposed in Tulare County. The Visalia
Delta says: "Such an enterprise will pay
better in Tulare County than in any other
section of California. It will not only pay
large profits, but it will create a home mar-
ket for our wool, which is greatly needed.
A capital of $20,000 or $30,000, raised by
subscription in shares, would start a fair
woolen mill, and would prove one of the
best paying investments in the State." The
Butte County Record prophecies that Oro-
ville will be, at no distant day, the Lowell
of the Pacific Coast.

Machinists and Foundries.

Pacific Mail Steamship Co's

STEAMSHIPS FOR.

NEW T0EK, JAPAN AND CHINA.

rff-ftSg-,, LEAVE WHAEIt, corner of first and
,Sfiis!aH»Brannan streets, at 11 o'clock A. M. of the
following dates, for MANAMA, connecting via Panama Rail-
road, with one ot the Company's splendid steamers from
ASl'INWALL for NEW YORK.

on the Cth, 14th, 33d and SOth of every month.

Steamer leaviny San Francisco on the 6th touches at
Maiizanillo. All touch at Acapulco.

Departure of the 11th is expected to connect with the
French Trans-Atlantic Co. 's steamer for St. Nazaire, and
English steamer for South America. Through tickets can
be ohtained.

Departure of Utlt is expected to connect with English
steamer iur Southampton and South America, and Austra-
lia, and P. K. R. Co's steamer for Ceutral America.
Through tickets can be ohtained.

STEAM lilts FOIS JASIIAKT, 1889.

The following Steamships will be dispatched on dates as
given below :

January 6th-SACRAMENT0 Capt. W. II. Parker,

Connecting with ALAaKA, Capt. Gray.

January Kill— MONTANA Captain A. We

Connecting with KISING Sl'AR, Capt. King.

January z2d-t\ii\S I'll LUTON Capt. YVm. 11. Hudson

Connecting with IIEMtV CHAUNCEV, Capt. Connor

January atltli— UOLDEN CITY' Capt. W. F. Lapidge,

Connecting ivith ARIZONA, Capt. .Maury.
Cabin passengers berthed through. Baggage checked
through— luTl pounds allowed each adult.

An experienced Surgeon ou board. Medicine and attend-
ance free.

These steamers will positively sail at 11 o'clock. Passen-
gers are requested to havo their baggage on board before 10
o'clock.

Through Tickets for Liverpool by the Cunard, Inman and
National steamship Lines, can he obtained at the office of
. the F. M. S. s. Co., San Francisco, where may also be ob-
tained orders for passage from Liverpool or Southampton
tuSan Fraiiciscn, cither via New York or St. Thomas— it
desired an amount of £IU to £20 will be advanced with the
above orders. Holders of orders will be required to iden-
tify themselves to the Agents in England.

The steamship c REAT REPUBLIC, Capt. S. Doane, will
be dispatched on MONDAY, Januarv 1th, 1S611, at 12 o'clock
M.,trom wbart corner ol First and Brannan streets, fur
HONGKONG, connecting at Yokohama witli the steamer
COSTA RICA for Shanghai.

For .Merchandise and Frelctht for Now York and way
ports, apply to .Messrs. WELLS, FARGO & CO.

For passage and all other information, apply at the Pa-
cirtc Mail Steamship Co's office, corner of .Sacramento and
Lcidesdorllstrects

OLIVEtt JGX.DKIUQE, AiceM.

PALMER, KNOX & CO.,

G-oldeii State Iron Works,

K oh. 11>, 31, 3:* and 35 First Street,

SAN FRANCISCO.

MAHOFACTUKK ALL KINDS OF

MACHI1NEKY,

< I'EAM ENGINES AN» QUARTZ MILLS

DUNBAR'S IMPROVED

^elt"-A-<Sju.sting JPiston X*aclting,

Requires no springs or screws; is always steam tight;

without excessive friction, and never

gets slack or leaky.

WHEELER A RANDALL'S

YEW GRINDER A.\l» AJ»lAJ,£iA]UAT4)li

HEPBURN & PETERSON'S

AMALGAMATOR AN1> SEPARATOR,

Knox's Amaltfaniators,

WITH PALMER'S PATENT STEAM CHEST,

superior tor working either GOLD OR SILVER ORES, and
s the only Amalgamator that has stood the lest of seven
vers' continual working.
Genuine White Iron Stamp Shoes and 1*1 ei.

Having been engaged for the pastten years in quam
riiniug, and being conversant with all the improvements,
dtherin Mining or Milling, we are prepared to furnish, ai
Iheshortest notice, the most perfect machinery lor reduc
ug ores, or saving either gold or silver. 13vluqy-tl

!RA P. KASKIN.

A. P, BRAYTON,

Pacific Iron Works.

First arid. Fremont Streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Having been established since 1S5I, we have accumulated
a very large variety of Hear and oilier ratierns, which,

■with our superior-tools and appliances, give us tacililiesfor
doing first class work uncqiuiied on the Pacilic Coast.

Among oilier things, we manufacture the following:

STEAM EIVG-IIVISSS,

■ iorizontal and Vertical, for cilher Stationary or Marino

BOJLEUS-High and Low Pressure,

Pump, Pipe and Sheet Iron Work of every kind.

Quartz Mill" Work,

Including High and Low Mortars, for wet or dry crushing-

l-'uniacv irons lor Roasimg Ores; Freiberg Barrels;

Varney'sand Wheeler's Amalgamating Pans

and sealers; Stamp Sbues and Dies of

best White Iron; Russia Iron

Screens, etc., etc.

Flour Mill, Raw Mill and Sugar Mill Work in every variety;

Pumping ami HoisUiiL' Machinery; Haiisbrow'3

Patent Challenge Pump, for Domestic,

Ship and Mining use— ihe most

approved and succcsaiul

Puinu manufactured.

Castings of every description, Iron and IS runs.

vTe would call especial attention lo " Wright's Patent Va-
riable Cut-off En-dnes," of Which we arc the sole manufac-
turers on the I'aciric Coast, under license from ihe U ood-
rulf it Beach Co., llarilord, Ct. As a simple, citeciive, fukl
saving, rirst-cUss Engine, this is, without doubt, the best
Engine made m the United Stales.

Orders promptly attended to. Prices as low as possible
for tlrsl class work, and we intend 10 dn no o;her.

GOiJl>ARI> <fc CO.

San Francisco, May 1, IS&3. ltSviiiLf

WILLAMETTE IRON WORKS,

PORTLAIVD, OREGOK.

-team Engines, Hollers,
SAW AND CRIST MILLS,

•UNING MACHINERY, WROUGHT IRON SHUTTER
WORK, AND BLACK.SMITHING IN UENEItAL.
Corner North-Front and £ streets,

ltJvl3-lv

One block north of Couch's Wharf.

Globe Iron Works,

STOCKTOS, CAL.

KEEP & BARG-ION,

MANUFACTURERS OF

luartz, Saw and Grist Mill Irons, Steam
Eugincs, Horse Powers,

iigli and Low Pressure Steam Engines, Steamboats and

Propellers, made at short notice.

13vl3tf

J. WKWSUAM. j. BIGWOOD.

SOUTH BEACH IRON WORKS,

Near corner of King and Third streets, San Francisco.
MARINE E N GI N £8 ,

AND ALL KL\D3 OF

MACHINERY FORGING.

All kinds of Ship-smithing and Mill work manufactured to

order. Jobbing ot every description promptly attended to
All work done guaranteed. l3vH-ly

CALIFORNIA BRASS FOUNDRY.

Wo. 125 first street, opposite Mlnnn,

SAN FRANCISCO.

All Kisns of Brass, Composition, Zinc, and Babbitt Metal
Castings, Brass Ship Work of all kinds. Spikes, Shcathim-
Nails, Rudder Braces, Hinges, ship and Steamboat Bcllsand
Gongs of superior tone. Ail kinds of Cooks and Valves, Uy.
draulic Pipes and Nozzles, and Hose Couplings and Connec-
tions of all sizes and patterns, furnished with dispatch.

8S- PRICES MODERATE. JEft

J. P. GALLAGHER. J. H. WEED V. K1NGWELL

9via-ly

Miners' Foundry

— ASD—

Nos. 245 to 255 First Street,

Sun Fraucisco.

ROWLAND, ANGELL & CO.,

J>SOPKII!X01tS,

Manufacturers of Machinery for

FI.OTTK MILLS,

SUGAR MILLS,
PAPJEB MILLS

Steam Engines of all Kinds.
Amalgamators of all Kinds.

MIMING PUMPS,
OIL, WELL TOOLS,

QL'AKTZ MILLS.
.'.AW MILLS,
roWBEIi MILLS,

HOISTING TFOKKS
SOCK BELAKLKS,

Machinery and Castings of all kinds, either
of Iron or Brass,

Boilers and Sheet Iron Work in all its
Branches.

shoe* aud Dies of "While Iron, miinnfactLrcd
for mid imported by «» evpt-e.Kly for this [.ur-
poMC, i*ud will last 2fi per eeut. longer than ].ny
other made on this coast.

Russia Drou Screens, of any decree of fineness,
We are the only manufacturers on this coast ot
the

HICKS ENGINE,
The most compact, simple in construction, and

durable, of any -Engine In use.
W. M. HUBXMll, II. M. ANGELL,

HvM-qr CTTKUS FA1.MIX,

FULTON

Foundry and Iron Works.

HIWCKLEY & CO,,

MANOFACTURK'KS OP

©U'E^M ENGINES,
Quartz, Flonr and Saw Mills,

Rnyes' Improved Steam Pump, BrmlicV Im-
proved OriiNher, Mining Pumps,
Amalgninnloi'M, and nil kinds
of Machinery.

N. E. corner of Tchoma and Fremont streets, above How
ard street, San Francisco. 3-qy

McAfee, spieus & co.,

U O I L E I5t MAKERS

AND GENERAL MACHINISTS,

Iloward Jt, between Fremont and Bealc, San Francisco.

Flue or Tubular Boilers, with plain circular or spiral
courses. Upright Flue or Tubular cullers, Locomotive and
and .Marine Boilers, and Wrought Iron Tanks of every dc>
script ion,

laydraullc Pipe supplied at rensonable rates. In or
dertng, give the quantity of water to be BUtpp'ied, hig-ht of
the fall, and total length of pipe, so as to enable the firm to
determine the diameter of the pi|ie and thickness of iron to
be used.

Repairs.- Boilers, Smoke Stacks, Pipes, etc., put in re-
pair with promptness.

To Boiler M.aker*i aud MachluintH in the In-
terior.—TUc llrm is prepared to furnish estimates of
Boilers, sui ply new Heads, drilled and punched, and attend
to the selection and forwarding of Iron fur Boilers, Pipes
and other purposes.

Plana, ^Drawings and Specifications.— The firm
■s prepared to make out Plans and Specifications, leceive
estimates, and superintend the Erection of any Machinery
[hat may be entrusted to their care

To Inventors.— The firm is prepared to assist in de-
veloping the plans of those who have the ideas, hut not the
practical experience necessary to put the same in form, by
mulling Drawings ut their Inventions, giving Lliem the ben-
efit of their practiej'l knowledge in the construction of Ma-
chinery, and attending to the manufacture aud introduc-
tion of their inventions. lvltiif

UNION IRON WORKS,

Sacramento.
WILLIAMS, ROOT & NEILSON,

maSgfactuekr8 or

CROSS' PATENT BOILER FEF.DER,

^TEAM ENGINES, BOILERS,

And all kinds of Mining: Machinery.

Also. Hay and Wine Presses made and repaired
with neatness, durability and dispatch.

Uunbar'a Patent Self- Adjusting: Steam Piston

PACKING, for new and old Cylinders, manufactured
to order.
Front Street* between .V and O streets
Uvll Sacramrnto CiTr

THOMPSON BROTHERS,

129 and 131 Bcale street, between Mission and Howard,
San Francisco.

LIGHT AS1) 1IEATT CASTINGS,

of every description, manufactured 24vl6qr

JAMES MACKEN,

COPPERSMITH.

S2G Fremont St., bet. Howard <fc FoImoiju

All kinds of COPPER WORK done to order in the best
■nanncr. Particular attention paid to Steamboat, Sugar
House and Distillery work.

Repairing promptly and neatly attended to.

G. T. PRACY.
MACHINE WORKS,

JSTOS. 103 and 111 MISSION STREET,
Between Main and Spenr.

New and second hand

Engines and Boilers,

FOE SALE.

Also one first-claps Hoisting

Engine ; one Unright

Engine, ol entirely

new pattern.

.M.i.". i-!'.u'TVi;i'.i: OP

Latlies, Ilrllls,

And MILL MAfHISERV of
every description.

r K. A. C Y ' s

New and Improved

STEAM E3V«IWE

REGULATORS,

The best and cheapest yet in-
vcn'ed— man u I'n c Hired and
lor sale. Parties nre in-
vited to examine it
in practical op-
eration.

F. A.HTTNTIN&TOA"S

^. Shingle Machines

Parlicnlar attention paid to
Repairing.

83?* All work guaranteed to be done in a first-class man-
ner, and at the lowest rates. 12vl7if

THE OaiSsTDOIV

Iron and Locomotive Works.

Incorporated, April 30, 1SC8. Capital. $1,<100,OI)0.

Location of Works, Corner Bealc and Howard streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Suecp=pnrs to Pacific Mail P. S.Co. TVnrksat Brnicia, CotTey

& Risdoii, and Dcvoe, Dinsmorc A Co., ban Francisco.

Stcuiu Engine Bnilflcrs, Boiltr Maltc-rs,

MACHINISTS AND FOONDRVMEN.

All work in their line attended to with promptness and

dispatch.

S. F. Butterworlh,
Lltiyrt TVviK,
.la?. Pollock,
ticn. Holladay,

IHrcotorBt

Chas. E. MeLnnc,
John N. Risdon,
Joseph Moore.

JOHN N. KTSDON, president.
■ Josenh Moore, Vice President and Superintendent; Chjis.
E. McLane, Treasurer; Levis R. Meat!, Seeretarv; Lewis
Coffey, Superintendent Boiler Works. 2'4vl7-nv

Plicenix Iron Works.

JONATHAN KITTEEDGE, Proprietor,

Jfoa. 18 and ft** Fremont street, near Market,

MAKUFACTOHKB OF

Fire-Proof Doors, Shutters,

Wrought Iron Girders, and all kinds of llousesmitti work,
Bridge and Prison Work;

BANK VAULTS AND MONITOR. SAPES,

FOKGIJVG AND .ti .U'HiA'E WORK.
Agency for the ISHAM KEY REGISTER BASIC AND SAKE
LOCK, the only flrsi class Lock in Ihe
lvl7tf United States

CITY IRON WORKS COMPANY.

CLERC & CO.,
IKON FOTJJVDEBS,

Steani ICiifflne Viillrters and Makers ot* nil
kinds of Machinery,

6vllfio,r No. 28 Fremont street, San Francisco.

DR. NESTELL'S
T^TJJS G- INSTITUTE,

(Branch of the UT. T. T^nnc Institute)
A'o. GIG SUTTER STREET,

Between Mason and Powell Streets, San Francisco,
For the special Treatment of all Diseases of the HEAD,
THROAT, LUNGS, AND CHEST, by the Inhalation of
Medicated Vapors at the natural temperature of the air,
etc.

Earnest attention is solicited to this Kaiinnal Method of
Treatment, which transmits the remedies, in the form of
vapor, directly lo the scat of di-ease, instead of by the
round-about way— throuph the medium of ihe stomach—
and which is conceded to be the only reliable means where-
by an Alleviation and cure may be expected. My system
of Inhalition, now well known throughout the Unit* d
Staie.= and Canadas, and much of Europe, where thousands
— many of them sar advanced— have fL-covm-d, claims the
profoundest approval of the medical profession, and the
litnelv and candid consideration of those atliicten with
thesc'the mosi devastating of all earthly maladies.

Patients attended at the Institute, dailv, from ilA. M. till
i P. M,

Invalids at a distance, on writing their ease, can receive
ihe remedies liy Express

Special attencliinee onto*" the city will be charged com-
inciisnraielv with the tune and distance occupied.

All communications must lie addressed to

D. D. T. NESTELL, A M., M. D.,
Lung Institute,
No. 516 Sutter Street, ^an Francbeo,
21vl7^mos. Oalifornia.

Small Pox.

ffo hnve been shown by Win. Zelner, the best and most
convenient and portable apparaius containing Chlorine,
for rooms, which we consider the best disinfectant otn,
jind.-hould advise all housekeepers not to be without nn^.
Price SI. complete; to he bad, with Hi'l directions, at WM,
V ZELNLK'S German Drug Store, 18 tieary street, 2rnT17-3in

TY\e Mining and Scientific Press.

45

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BRITISH PATENT RIGHT

FOR. SAX.X3.

On account of Ihe decease of a patentee, one lialf of n

Valuable Patent for Great Britain

will be itold at a bargain "" applied for Boon For pnrtleo-
l.r., rail ,.ii «,r addrooa " OAOKANCE." Mining and Scion,
ttflc Preaa office. Sv-18-lm

Eley's Aminiinitioii.

description of Spr
Wholeitulu

The«c Cartridge* are made In
three slices, viz , ,877 (or Snider KuilH.b

bore; .Nil l iur lull hirh • lime; ami .J5I
(or small) bore.

These Cartridges have been adopted,
after cnrorul comparative trials
iiL-ainst nil other description fl, by HEB
M iJESi'Y'S WAR DEPARTMENT, as
the Standard Rifle Ammunition for the

BRITISH ARMY, nii'l are not only

used exclusively for the Bnlder Kifle,

hut are adapted tu ;ill oilier svs cms Of
mil Ii ;u -y B (IE EC 11 LOADING RIFLES,
They are the cheapest Cartridges
known, carrying their own Ignition,
bolnti made wholly of melal. are wa-

tcr-proof and Imperishable In anyclf-

Boxer Cnrtrldgc Oases femptv), of all
3 sizes, packed with or wlihmit bullets,

and in. i. i .■ for fi&ieulng same in

Cartridges.

Makers of BOXER CARTRIDGES,
.450 bore for Revolving Pistols, In use
hi Her Mnjesiv'sNavy-

PIN CARTRIDGES for Lefaucheux
Revolvers of 12 m, 9 x. and 7 it, bore.

CENTRAL FIRE and PIN FIRE
CARTRIDGES, lo: all sizes of Guns,
Rub • .mil Revolvers.

Double Water-Proof and E. B. Caps.
Wire Cartridges tor killing game at
lor-g distances. Fell Waddings to Im-
prove the shooting of guns; and every
* i i* jr and .Military Ammunition.

ly.

EldEY BROTHERS,

Gray's Inn Road, London, W. C,

Pacilic Chemical Works.

SUI.FnURIC ETHER.

HPIItlTH OP MTRE,

iOlt AMMONIA,
ACETIC ACID,

CYAMPE OP roTASSII'M
— .NO —
ACIDS A \ II CHEMICALS OF A 1.1, KINDS.

FALKENAU & HANKS,

OJJicc, Oil) Montgomery Street.

LOUIS FALKENAU, State Asaayer.

QE^ Particular attention paid to the Analysis of ORES,
MINERALS, METALS, etc. 8v!7

New Mining Advertisements.

Chalk M oimdi in Klue Gravel Cuntpauy. - Lo.

cation of Works; Nevada County, California.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting ot the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the thirteenth day ot"
January, 1809, an assessment of two dollars ($2j per share
was levied upon the capital siock of said Company, paya-
ble Immediately, in United states gold coin, to the Sec
retary.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the tlltccnth day of February, I8G9, shall be
deemed delinquent, ami wilt be duly advertised lor sale at
public auction, anil unless payment shall be made boiore,
will bo sold on Monday, the eighth day of .March, 18itu,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of
advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of
Trustees.

J. M. BTJFFINGTON. Secretary.

Office, 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California street,
San Francisco. janlti

lVortli -American Wood Preserving; Company.

Location of Works: San Francisco, California.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Directors of said Company, held on the flfteonth day of
Junuary, 18(19, an assessment of one i$U dollar per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able Immediately, In United States gold and silver coin, to
th« Secretary, at the Compauy's office, 4:10 Montgomery
street, San Francisco.

Any stock, upon" which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the eighteenth day of February, 1809, shall bo
deemed delnuiueni, and will be duly advertised forsalcut
public auction, ami unless payment shall be made before,
will be sold on Monday, the eighth day of March, 18C9,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together wilb costs
of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board
ol Directors.

WM. B.LAKE, Secretary.

Office, 430 Montgomery street. San Francisco. jnnl6

Mining Notices—Continued.

Ai;im» Oold and Silver Aliuliig Co ■iinumy.— Lo-
cation ot ihe Mine, Lyon County, Nevada.
Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment (No.12j levied on the
twenty fifth day of November. lSflS, the several amounts set
opposite the names of the respective shareholders as fol-
lows:

Names. No. Certificate. No. shares.

It Pcrrv 9o, 97, 93, 99, 100

W P Nudd 32, b3

Amount.

£102 50

20 500

410

Names.

No. Certificate

r A F Ebner

J3, H, 4S

17

G Weulor

Ii8

II K Riee

...78. 79. HI, Si

j Plorce

o S Pierce

."..""'..".. ii't

A ii Phelps

101, HH

W Piekett

121, 122

G Reed

129

A 1* Everett

ISO, 221

A R Forbes

1S2

it Meachnm

i;n,2u-)

JOS Merrill

206

F Marlins

ISR, Hi

1 W Raymond...

1H7

11 Van Lokron...

Ill

ii SchmctdeU. . . .

14.1

i; M Biakc

14S, ln>

W K Flint

....1511, 157, 200

J A Wrhrbt

158

<; D White

101, 19i

Robt Irwin

lti'1

HJ Underbill...,

....101, 'C5, 100

107, If*

A P Stanford....

173, 209

J T Haley

ISO

W E Wood

1st

ET Pease

1S3

C H Sherman....

1M, !94

J P Over

19ii

. Shares. Amouui'
12 50
2 00

50
8
3D

r 511
Jfi INI

8 7.1
12 5ii
12 90
17 50

1 25

6 5i)

5 mi
10 no

2 50
37 50

3 75

0 25
2 51)

1G 25

1 25

L H Brooks 195 2

FLippin 1S7, 2ilt 25

S Hubb;ird I'M ft

L Thompson '99 10

Tubor ft Hilt 28, 29 20

W R Muwry 208 V,ii

J Fuller 210 5

WACameron 211 0 5-6

J « Fallen 212 10

H Rosekrans 214 10

G II Ricker 2lt 5

FA Fresicrs 225, 2.6 25

C II Halev 220 511

D N llawlev 222 50 12 50

A N Huniphns 223 9 5-C 2 4B

E 1* Flint 1(13, 1S.» 35 8 75

ESIinel 224 10 2 50

J Hill 228 10 2 50

J Tabor 229 10 2 50

J Covington 7 1 75

Cochran A Covington 17 1-G 4 46

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the twenty-fifth day of November,
1863, so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may
be necessary, will be sold at public auction, by Messrs.
Oluey & Co., auctioneers, No. 426 Montgomery street, San
Francisco, on Snturday, the sixteenth day of January.
1869, at -the hour of 12 o'clock, M., of said day, to pay said
delinquent assessment thereon, together with costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale. _

JOHN F. POPE, Secretary.

Office, No. 419 California street, (Room No. 5) San Fran-
cisco. jan2

6 25

1 25

2 50

5 00

7 5n
1 25

1 70

2 50
2 50
1 25

6 25

Diamond Copper Miming Company. ^Location:

Rockland District, Del Norte County, California.

Notick.— There arc delinquent upon the folio wing described
stock, on account of assessment levied on the twenty-eighth
day of October, 1868, the several amounts set opposite the
names of the respecttvo share holders, as follows:

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

Easier, M 105 2 $4 00

Broiner, G F 108 1 2 no

Billmer, John 261

Brown, Thomas 315

Brown, Thomas 217

Dorris, B F z9:J

Foster, C L '04

Oiold. Chas 287

Houck. J 292

Haak.C -M2

Haley, C S 243

Klelnsorge, Win U>I

Klcinsorgc, Win 258

Kleinsorge, Chas 102

Klelnsorge, Chas 259

Kleinsorge, Chas 26<>

Mal'ard, G II »69

Mallard, G H 302

Mallard, G H 305

Mohr.LB M 140

Miller, John IsS

Randall, R„bt h 271

Randall. Robt B 272

Randall, Robt U 271

Randall, Robt B 274

Randall, R-bt B 275

Randall, Root B 276

Randall, Robt H 277

Randall, Robt B 294

Rand ill, Robt B 307

Randall, Robt B 308

Randall, Robt B 309

Rice, AW 6*

Roth. S 109

Rocve, G B A Co....' ll«

Reeve, (J B A Co 149

Reeve, G B ft Co 150

Reeve, G B ft Co 151

Reeve, G B ft Co 152

Reeve, GB A Co 278

Reeve. G B ft Co 269

Steele, H 19

Steele, II.. 204

Steele, Anna 159

Suerkrap, John. 100

Sucrkrap, John 220

Suerkrap, John 221

Stose, C 103

Schacht.H W 113

Schenck, ET 310

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board, of
Trustees, made on the twenty-eighth day of October, 1SC8,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be
necessary will be sold at public auction, by R. R. Rollins,
auctioneer, at salesroom, 522 Marketstreet, San Francisco,
on Thursday, the twenty-flrst day of January, 18C6. at the
hour of 11 o'clock A. M. of said day, to pay said delin-
quent assessment thereon, together with costs of advertis-
ing and expenses of sale.

J. A. COOLIDGE, Secrciary.

Office, Room No. 40 Merchants' Exchange Building, Cali-
fornia street, San Francisco. jan2

UK

6 67

\m

33 33

16,-3

33 33

17

.A 01

2

4 00

ft

10 00

17

34 00

2

4 00

111

20 00

1

2 U0

2K

5 0)

1

2 00

2%

5 00

SX

6C7

3

6 00

3

6 00

3

6 HO

1

200

8K

16 67

10

20 00

10

20 00

111

20 00

10

20 00

10

2il 00

10

20 00

l?3

3 3H

16

32 00

16?i"

33 33

5%

11 33

25

50 0

2

4 00

3

6 (Kl

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6 67

1

fi 67

6 67

6 67

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6 67

19 00

15

30 00

50

100 00

4

8 00

2

4 00

2

4 00

6

12 i'0

6

12 00

1

2 00

4 00

3

6 00

Great Centra] Mlnlmr Com puny.— Locution o.

Works: Yuma County, Arizona Territory.

NoricK.— There are delinquent upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
ninth day of October, 1863, the several amounts set op
posHc the names of the respective shareholders, as fol-
lows :

Name''. No. Certificate,
P Oalnon 186

Wm ii Cleveland 313

Mrs Ann C Cuuimings 255

his n Foster 91

.las n Poster Ul

.In- K Foster 142

Jesse Gelb 73

. I esse Hi* ih 74

Jesse Gelb 75

Jesse Gelb 76

Jesse Gelb 78

..can Gelb 79

Jesse (ieib 80

S R HaiTi* 293

S it Harris ,i99

S R Harris 318

Jas Kellogg 175

A J Jeghers 3

A J Jeghers 4

A J Jeghers fi

A.T Jeghers ". 6

A J Jeghers 7

August Ludortt 241

Dan'l M cLend 290

Jno R Mason 128

Camilln Muriln 267

Ford II Rngcrs 329

Louis Vesarin 319

Louis Vesarin 320

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the ninth day of October, A. D. 186S,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be
necessary, will be sold at public auction, by Messrs. Olncy
ft Co., at their salesrooms. No. 426 Montgomery street, San
Francisco, on the thirtieth day of December, A- D. 1868,
at the hour of 4 o'clock P. M. of said day, to pay said delin-
quent assessment thereon, together with costs of advertis-
ing and expenses of sale.

O. D. SQUIRE, Secretary.

Office, No. 414 Montgomery street, San Francisco. dec5

Postponement.— The above sate is hereby postponed until
Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of January, 1869, at the
samo hour and place. By order of the Board of Trustees.

jan2 O. D. SQUIRES, Secretary.

. Shares.

Amount.

10

$25 (Ml

25

02 5C

25

62 5<]

100

250 (XJ

ID

25 00

20

511 00

25

62 »i

25

62 50

20

50 0U

1(1

25 Oil

10

25 00

ft

12 50

5

12 50

50

125 00

50

125 00

50

125 Oil

50

125 OH

5

12 50

12 50

5

12 50

ft

12 50

12 50

10

25 00

90

225 00

HI

25 00

20

50 (111

65

162 60

25

62 50

25

62 50

RIppon Gold ii n<l Silver Allnliiff Company,-

Location of Works: Silver Mountain District, Alpine

County, California.

Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
firtc-erith day of October, 1863, the several amounts set
opposite the names of the respective shareholders as fol-
lows:

Names. No. Certificate.

Curtis Palmer. 148

William Brown II

William Brown 23i

Wi II i am B rown 233

William Brown 234

William Brown 35

William Brown 240

William Brown 276

Willium Brown 277

Brown ft Kent 15

Abigail Brown 20

Abigail Brown 207

M Nolan 266

Daniel Davidson, endorsed to

James Wilson 4G

George Patterson 53

James S S Robinson 56

FM Ellis 66

H DSeott 71

John Sanquct i;j8

II Currdii not issued 272

B Curran not is tied 273

John Bagnell 77

Matthew Davidson 79

Patrick Carroll 224

P M Wellin 221

Edward Cnmnhcll 181

Chas B Montague 120

A J Davis 127

LottMulcahy 157

Thomas Fa y ;58

David M Snort 134

Chas Mayer 133

Benjamin C Levy 137

I-azard (.odchaux 139

Lazard Godrhaiix, 160

Lazanl Godcliuu

Lazard Godctif

...229
...2311
I5G

...174

PCiimiiin-'hain

Michael iOii'.lisb 152

Frank Malum 155

Tbos McCuMouch 159

Stephen McUlllun 161

Stephen McGillaa 165

P.l McMahoii 170

P J McMahon iS3

Jas Barrett.. .not issued.. .bal 189

Elizabeth Cumin 194

Elizabeth Curran 195

N C Bi'U'gs 209

F II Moore 210

C R Gregory 211

Henry Elm 212

Henry En » 278

David Lovell 214

Jacob Marieiisieiu.. 225

MG Shine 264

And in accordance with law, nnd an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the fifteenth day of October, 1S6P,
so many shares ol each parcel of said stock as may be
necessary, will be sold at public auction, at the salesroom
of Maurice Dore ft Co., auctioneers, No. 327 Montgomery
street, San Francisco, on Saturday, the twenty-third day
of January, 1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock M. of said day, to
pay said delinquent assessment thereon, together with
costs of advertising and expenses ofsnle.

CURTIS PALMER, Secretary.

Office. No. 87 Stevenson street, between First aud'Secnnd
streets, San Francisco. dec24

No. Shares.

Amount.

10

$10 Of

6

5 Of

10

10 Of

10

10 til

10

10 00

10

10 10

3

3 00

25

25 0U

45

45 (1U

10

10 00

5

5 00

5

6 00

10

10 00

10

10 CO

5 00

10

10 00

1 00

5ft

55 00

15

ift 00

10

10 00

10

10 00

7

700

12

12 00

111

10 00

5

ft 00

10

10 00

2ft

25 00

Jl)

10 00

5

SOQ

ft 00

10

10 00

10

10 00

ft

5 00

10

10 00

5

5 00

ft

5 00

a

5 00

3 00

5

5 00

5

5 0(1

2ft

25 00

25

25 00

10

10 00

ft

5 00

ft

5 00

rs

2i 00

2ft

25 00

25

125 00

10

10 00

10

10 00

10

10 00

20

20 00

20

20 10

20

20.00

25

25 00

10

10 00

1

1 00

20

20 00

Pntroclna nnd Dolorc* Silver Mining; Compa-
ny, Gaaxapam District, State of Chihuahua, Mexico,

NOTICE.— Then are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
ninth day of December. 1868, the several amounts set oppo-
site the names of the respective shareholders, as follows:

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

James Lung |U 5 $10 011

r-J £5"J II 10 200.1

\-\\ Perry 15 6 10 ui

\- • •ny .'"_■ as no 00

"*•'"- 2i:t ft iopo

g 'J1,'"1'1'-: 52 5 10 00

8 8 Emery 186 5 ju no

John Donald 212 w 2000

3 ' V;UI, '•" w 3d 00

' ■' ° Connor in; 60 12000

James Ib.ylo,. 109 ft in 00

Catherine Martin 215 5 1000

And In accordance with law, nnd an order of the Board of
Trustees, made on the ninth day of December, 1863, so many
shares of each parcel of said stock as may bo necessary,
will be sold at public auction, by Olncy ft Co., auctioneers,
No 426 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, Cul., on Monday,
the twenty-fifth day of January, 1869, at tho hour of 12
o'clock M. of sold day, to pay said delinquent assessment
thereon, together with COStfiOf advertising and expenses of
sale.

C. B. GIFFORD. Secretary.

Office, N. E. corner of Second and Howard streets, San
Francisco. jang

Kattlemiuke Gold and Nllver Mining- Compu.

ny, Brown's Valley, Yuba County, California.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on tho nineteenth day of
December, 1868, an assessment of seven dollars and flfly
ccnts per share was levied upon ihe capital stock of said
Company, payable immediately, In Ihilti-d Slates gold and
silver coin, to the Secretary, No, 318 California street. Bah
Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain tin-
paid on the twenty-flrst day of Junuary, 1869, shall bo
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall be made before,
will be sold on Monday, the eighth day ot February,
1869, to pay the delinquent assessment, together wlih
costs of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of tho
Board of Trustees.

JOHN F. LOHSE, Secretary

Ofllce, SlSCallfornia street. up stairs, San Francisco. d26

Sun l'l-iiiit hen and Caittlc Dome Mining Com-
pany. Location of Works: Castle Dome County, Arizona
Territory.

Notice.— There are delinquent, upon tho following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on tho
twenty-fifth day of November, 1863, tho several amounts
set opposite tho names of the respective shareholders as
follows:
Names. No, Certificate. No. Shares, Amount,

Wm Butlerneld 1 lo 6 inc 600 $18 (0

Wm Buttcrflcld 13 26 78

Win Buuerfield 10 100 (16

Wm Rutiertleld II, 12 20-ca 40 20

Wm Buttcrflcld 8, 9 100-en 200 6 00

Wm Butlcrllcld 148 34 1 (12

JasDevoe.Jr 27 10 HO

Jas Devrfe, Jr 28 to 32 inc 600 15 CO

G W Brvaut 40, 41, 42 5-ea 15 45

G W Bryant 43 10 30

G W Bryant 45 to 4S inc 100 3 00

G W Bryant 49 50 1 50

GW Bryant 51 10 30

G W Bryant 164 40 1 20

G W Brvant 165 600 IS 00

J TButicrtleld 163lo I7l inc 1.-0 3 t'O

J V Buitertleld, unissued 900 27 00

N S Knowlton 183 400 12 CO

NSKnowlton 191 50 150

Alfred Stebbins 188 500 lfl 10

Robert Apple 161 260 7 60

Robert Apple 162 250 7 to

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
ot Trustees,madc on the twenty fifth day of November, 1868,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as miry be
necessary, will be sold at public auction, at the ofiicc of
Dam ft Gladding, auctioneers, No. 320 Montgomeiy street,
on the twelfth day of January, 1869, at the hour of 1>£
o'clock P. M. of said day, to pay said delinquent assess-
ment thereon, together with costs of advertising and ex-
penses of sale.

A. B. SMITH Secretary.
Ofllce, No. 428 California street, 3d floor, San Francisco.

jan2

Postponement.— The above sale Is hereby postponed until
Wednesday, the twentieth day of January, 1869, at Hie
same hour and place. By order of the Board of Trustees.

jan!6 A. R. SMITH, Secretary.

IT. S. Grant Mining Company.— Xiocnt Ion of

Works: Carlisle, Nevada.

Notice.— There are delinquent upon tho following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
ninth day of November, 1868, tho several amounts set op-
posite the names of the respective shareholders, as fol-
lows :

Names.

No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

AlpheusBull 2 218

E B. Mott, Jr 6

Geo Mohrel 10

Goo Mohrel II

Geo Mohrel 12

Geo Mohrel 13

fieo Mohrel 14

Silas Gnrber 19

Jas P Wheeler 30

Jas P Wheeler 31

Jas P Wheeler 32

Jas P W heeler 33

Jno Vail 34

LJ Flint 37

IL Requa .- 38

I L Requa 39

I L Requa 40

I L Requa 41

J L Van Rokkclen 48

L A Booth 19

L A Booth ftO

LA Booth 51

J Bigps

MoFflrlrind

Sarah Snvder

N M Baxter

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the ninth day of November, 1868, so
many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be neces-
sary, will be sold at public auction, by J. C. Merrill ft Co.,
auctioneers, No. 204 California street, San Francisco,
California, on Saturday, the second day of January,
1869, at the hour of 2 o'clock P. M. of said day, to pay
said delinquent assessment thereon, together with costs of
advertising and expenses of sale.

ENOS TAYLOR, Secretary-

Offlco, No. 226 Clay street, San Francisco. decI9

Postponemknt.— The above sale is hereby postponed until
Saturday, the thirtieth day of January, 1369, at the samo
hour and place. By order oft he Board of Trustees.

jan9 ENOS TAYLOR, Secretary.

$109 00

5 00
2 50
2 50
5 00
25 00
25 00
25 (>0
25 00
111 00
10 00
25 00
25 00
25 00
2ft I'O
2 00
25 00
27 00
50 00
2 (10
8 00
16 00
10 00

leavorable to Inventors.— Persons holding new In-
ventions of machinery and important improvements, can
have the same illustrated and explained In the Miking and
Scientific Press, free ot charge, If in our judgment the
discovery is one of real merit, and of sutllclout Interest ta
tho public to warrant publication,

46

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinery.

TAJBNEY'iS

PATENT AMALGAMATOB

These Machines Stand. Unrivaled.

For rapidly pulverizing and amalgamating ores, they
have no equal. No efl'ort has been, or will be, spared to
have them constructed in the most perfect manner, and of
the great number now in operation, not one has everre-
quired repairs. The constant and increasing demand for
them is sufficient evidence of their merits.

They are constructed so as to apply steam directly into
the pulp, or with steam bottoms, as desired.

This Amalgamator Operates as Follows:

The pan being filled, the motion of the muller forces the
pulp to the center, where it is drawn down through the ap-
erture and between the grinding surfaces. Thence it js
thrown to the periphery into the quicksilver. The curved
plates again draw it to the center, where it passes down,
and to the circumference as before. Thus it is constantly
passing in a regular now between the grinding surfaces and
into the quicksilver, until the ore is reduced to an impalpa-
ble powder, and the metal amalgamated.

Setlers made on the same principle excel all others.—
They bring the pulp so constantly and perfectly in contact
with quicksilver, that the particles are rapidly and com
pletely absorbed. . ,

Mill men are invited, to examine these pans and setlers for
themselves, at the .PACIFIC FO CMJBKT,

Ivl San Francisco.

IMPORTANT TO "WOOD "WOKKEBS,
G-EAR'S COMBINATION

Variety Molding and Planing

MACHINE.

THIS STANDARD MACHINE IS INDISPENSABLE IN
any establishment working Wood by machinery. He-
cent great improvements render it complete for

All kinds of Irregular andiStral&rht Work

in hard orsoftwoid. Straight, Waved, Circular and Ellip-
tical Moldings, Spiral Work, and all Irregular Forms, thus
saving to the mechanic the cost of several machines to
effect the purposes accomplished by this alone. It does
not stop at cutting the edges and sides of timber, but oper-
ates equally well upon the ends, cutting them into any re-
quired form with the same facility that it does the sides.
Any shop without it lacks one of the most USEFUL AND
PROFITABLE TOOLS now used. It is worthy of the atten
linn of all HOU*E, CARRIAGE, SHIP, BOAT and CAR
BUILDERS, FURNITURE and CABINET MAKERS, MILL
PROPRIETORS, PATTERN MAKERS, etc., and ot ail others
who desire to make a profitable business from a small in-
vestment. Evervmachinc is thoroughly tested at the manu-
factory and warranted. Further information furnished on
application. FULLER & CO.,

Manufacturers' Agents for the Pacific Coast, 109 Mont-
gomery street. San Francisco. 17vl7-3m

ELLERY'S PATENT

India Rubber Cement and Paint

— FOE —

TIN, IRON AND METALLIC [ROOFS,

Iron, Brick, and Wooden XCulIdlngs,
SHIPS, STEAMBOATS, STAGES, CABS,

AND FOR ALL EXPOSED SURFACES.

Is water-proof and indestructible; will neither rot, peel,

nor crack; will withstand any climate; cau be put on in

any color, aud is less expensive than other Paint

Sew Cloth Boots put on. Old Kooft cemented
and painted. Leaky Roofs made tight.

05r* No Goal Tar or Asphaltum used. All work guaran-
teed. Orders punctually attended to. ,

GEO. T. BROMLET, Agent,

BLAKE'S QUARTZ BREAKER!
PRICES REDUCED!

MACHINES OF ALL SIZES FOB SALE
— BY —

"WTMC. P. BLAKE,

Corner First and Mission streets, or Box 0,077

3vl3f SAN FRANCISCO.

GLASGOW
Iron and Metal Importing Company

A'oh. 25 and S7 Fremont street,

SAN FRANCISCO,

Keep constantly on hand a large stock ofbestBarand
Bundle Iron, Boiler Tubes, Plate and Sheet Iron, Gas and
Water I'lpe, Anvils, Oast Steel, Gas and Water Fnthv*.
wliieii they olfer to the trade on liberal terms.

2lvlb-3in W. UcURINDLE, Manage.

Removal.

NELSON & DOBLE,

AGENTS FOR

Thomas Firth & Sons' Cast Steel, Files,

Mill Picks, Sledges, Hammers, Picks,

Stone Cutters', Blacksmiths' and Horse-Shoers1 Tools,

Have removed to 13 and 15 Fremont street, near

Market, San Francisco.

luvliur

IVotice to Miners,

Weil-Borers and Water Companies,

MPRAG IS NOW PREPAKED TO MANUFACTURE
. Hydraulic and Artesian Well Pipes in the best work-
manlike maimer, and at the lowest market rates. Having
made large additions to my stuck of machinery for that
branch of business, I am prepared to lill all orders with dis-
patch, and guarantee entire s-iiti-ifaetlou. I also manufac-
ture Mississippi Stoves, oi the latest improved patterns, for
vessels of all classes. Also, Ship flumljuig done.

M. JL'JKAG,
8vl3-ly Stove Store, No. 1 Clay street, below Davis.

PACIFIC FILE WORKS,

No. 5S Beale Street, bet. Market and Mission,

SAN .FRANCISCO.

Files Re-cut and warranted as good as new, with a saving
Of fifty per cent. KEAPER AND MOWER SECTIONS
MADKTu ORDER. The only establishment on ihe Coast.
Orders from the country promptly attended to. flSJy- First
Premium awarded at thr> Slate Fair, 1S1>7.

'vi,*;i,u 'I.'. «■. hUK.VI.VG «!• CO

Patent for Sale.

The undersigned, having successfully introduced the

Xeffel American ISouble Turbine "Water

'Wheel

On this Coast, nnd owning the Patent for the whole Taciflc
Coast, viz: The states of California, Nevada and Oregon,
and the Territories of Arizona, Washington, Idaho, and
Western Montana, wishes now to dispose of the Patent,
with stock of Wheels on hand, Patterns, etc., etc.

A Company organized and prepared properly for the
construction of these Wheels, to supply this Coast and all
tributary countries, could make the business immensely
profitable.

My object in selling is to enable me to devote myself ex-
clusively to my profession. A. MYERS.

P. S.— If not sold previous to February 15th, then I would
enter into an arrangement to manufacture by paying roy-
alty. Address Rev. A. MYERS, Portland Oregon.
26vt7-lm

Standard Milling Machine.

UNION VISE COMPANY,

OF BOSTON, MASS.

Extra jaw, and heavy Vises, Warranted for heavy work.
New style Wood and Covered Screw Vises, forty styles and
kinds; Standard Milliug Machines, simple, great capacity,
power and strength— two sizes, large, 2,3U0 lbs; small, 950
lbs. For sale by the trade.
23vl6-ly G. H. NOTT, Pres.

CALIFORNIA TOOL WORKS,

Blacksmith and Machine Shop,

HAS REMOVED
To 1-13 Scnle St., bet. Mission nnd Howard,

SAN FBANCISCO.

All kinds of Edge or other Tools made to order. Im-
ported Tools, if too hard or soft, re tempered to give satis-
faction. REAPER AND MOWING- KNIVES ; complete
sections always on hand, or will he made at the shortest
notice. Particular attention paid to putting in order AG-
RICULTURAL MACHINERY. Job Grinding and Polish-
ing by steam. Orders from the Countrypromptly attended
to OS- All work warranted. Prices reasonable.

21vl7qy J. WJSICBJBtA:K.T, Proprietor.

Portable Engines.

The SwamscotCo's (warranted equal to any manufac-
tured, may be seen in use in this eitv), PORTABLE and
STATIONARY' STEAM FIRE ENGINES, STEAM PUMPS
and ROTARY PUMPS, and WOODWORKING MACHIN-
ERY of every description, at Eastern prices. Address W.
O. M. UERRYi CO., 511 California street, San Francisco.
2ovl7-3m

EO TEAMSTERS!

CONTINUE TO

HOC USSPUO 9 IIHDEDT'C

CELEBRATED

H & L Axle Grease5

To which you have given so decided a
preference for the last

FOURTEEN YEARS,

It is the only reliable article

IN THE MARKET

Every care will continue ts be used to sus-
tain the high reputation the H & L Axle
Grease, has so long and justly attained.

JB&^Be sure and ask for the H & L brand,
and see that the

TRADE MkM H & L

IS ON THE COYER OF THE PACKAGE

NONE OTHER IS GENUINE.
FOR SALE IIV EVERY STATE IN THE MON.

The Chili Exposition.

THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD CALL THE ATTENTION
of the manufacturers of California to the National
Exposition to be field during the coining spring in Valpa
raiso. Chili, next to California, is the most important
country on the Western Coast of America. And this Expo
sition cannot fail to create a demand for our staple manu-
factures, if they are well represented. The writer has
resided for some years in Chili, and is familiar with its
people, business and unisruase; is a practical mechanic,
and proposing to visit the Exposition, oilers to take charge
of machinery or other material that parties may wish to
send thither, and pledges himself faithfully to bring before
the public of Chiii their respective merits. He can be
seen daily, at hisollice, No. 49 Montgomery Block. Prompt
action is necessary.

DAVID R. SMITH,
Civil and Mechanical Engineer.

References— Hanscom A Co. (-Etna Iron Works); A. S
nallidie (President Mechanics' Institute); Lynch & An-
drnde.

Sau Francisco, November 2tst, 1S03. 34v 17 tf

Trades and Manufactures.

HENRY KIMBALL.

BARTLING- & KIMBALL,
BOOKBINDEKS,

Paper Rulers and Blank Book Manufacturers.

505 day street, (southwest cor. Sansome),
I5vl2-3in SAN FRANCISCO,

(SUCCESSOR TO O. GORl)

MARBLE "WORKS,

No. 421 Pine st. bet Montgomery and Kearny, SanFrancisco

Unntels, Monuments, Tombs, Fliitnben*' Slabs
Etc., On hand and Manufactured to order.

AST- Goods shipped to all parts of the State. Orders re
spectfulh solicited. 5v8-3m

Palmer's Patent

ARTIFICIAL LEG-,

Manufactured in Phi la rielpliio , Penn.
J AXE VIS JEWETT, AGENT.

213 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. 10v8-lm

J. M. STOCKMAN,

Manufacturer of
PATTERNS AJST> MOIXEX^S,

(Over W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry,
S. E. Corner of Mission and Fremont sts.,
6vI4tf SAN FRANCISCO.

J. F. PAG-ES,

SEAL ENGRAVER,

AA"1> L£TT£IE CTJTTEK,

Brass and Steel Stamps and Dies, 5SSS Montgomery street,

San Francisco. Orders by express promptly attended to.

Cvl6

DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITURE.
JOHNSON~& BEST,

Manufacturers of all kinds of

Desks and Office Furniture,

lit Market street* near Third.

Warerooms up stairs. A large variety of Desks always on

hand; all klutls of Office Furniture and Cabinet

Work made to order.

lSvliqr

LOOK TO YOUR ROOFS !
IPsiclfio Concrete Company,

No. C33 Clny street,

Factory on Kingstreet, between Third and Fourth street.
New roofs covered and leaky roofs repaired, in thorough
and substantial manner, promptly and at very reasonable
raies. Proprietors of Eagan's latent. lKvI7tf

ITiire and. Marine.

Union Insurance Company,

OF SAN FRANCISCO.

Son. 410 and 418 California Street.

Cash Capital (U. S. Coin) S7oO,OOo

THE CALIFORNIA LLOYDS

Having consolidated with the Union Insurance Company,
January 1, 1866, are now prepared to effect

Marine as well as Fire Insurance,

upon the most favorable terms.

US-Losses promptly and equitably adjusted and paid in
Gold Coin.
GUSTAVE TOUCH ARD, President.
Charles D. Haven, Secretary.
Geo. T. Bohen, Surveyor. 21vl61amtf

Boiler Scraper and Tube- Cleaner.

4S&S

IT IS THE CHEAPEST, MOST
durable, easiest to adjust, nnd
cleanest apparatus to use tor the
purpose designed, yet offered to
the public. Being constructed on
simple and mechanical principles,
it is not liable to get out of order,
and will continue to perforin its
office until the materials are worn
out It can readily be adjusted,
even by any inexperienced per-
son—will scrape oft the scales and
cleanse the tubes just as smooth
and clean as they were when
new, without in the least affecting
their inner surface, as the Elliptic
Spring Scraper has a smooth
square edge, and springs hi or out
in tit the tubes. It is particularly
applicable tor .'teaniboat boilers
when muddy wateris used.

A continuous iron rod runs
Hi rough the center of the top and
bottom hubs. The soft steel scrap-
ers are fastened with screws to
the hubs, under the caps, which
cover and protect the screws that
fasten the scrapers on the hub.
The scrapes are expanded or con-
tracted by screwing or unscrew
nig tlie lower hub,— first loosening
the cap. There is a collar on the
rod to prevent the scrapers being jammed- An elastic or
flexible brush or scraper, made of leather, rubber, or some
pliable material, is attached to the nut for the purpose of
removing from the tube the scale and dust loosened by the
action of the scrapers.

Those scrapers are made from one to six inches in diam-
eter—the prices of those from one to three inches ranginsr
from S5 io S12. They are now extensively used in trie
Eastern States. Quite a number have already been sold in
this State.

For sale by McAfee, Spiers & Co , boiler makers, Howard
street, between Fremont and iieale. San Franeisco, and at
the Union Foundry, Sacramento. E. M. D., P. u. box 17,
San Francisco, Manufacturers' Agents. 24vl7tf

Fire, Hose and Machine Belting,

THE SUBSCRIBER CONTINUES TO MANUFACTURE
Oak Tanned Leailicr Fire IJo*e, warranted superior to
Eastern Hose, manufactured at tlie Sixth street Tannery.
SanFrmcisco.
aivlCtf JOHN J. FULTON.

Turbine Water Wheels.

[Continued from page I.]

Tbe Jonval, Lind and Tyler turbines,
(French, California and New England in-
ventions respectively,) furnish the highest
percentage of absolute power in the order
named, and are cheap in proportion to the
power furnished in the reverse order.
Both the Lind and Tyler are central dis-
charge wheels, the water feeding from the
periphery and discharging in the center.
The Leffel wheel is used considerably in
the East; it resembles the Jonval. The
Belden is a central discharge wheel similar
to the Tyler, but not as good. The Scotch
turbine receives its water in the center and
discharges in the periphery, like the reac-
tion wheels mentioned below.

The hurdy-gurdy, resembling the:Swiss
turbine, is a very simple tangental turbine,
much used in the gravel mines for crush-
ing cement, pumping and prospecting,
as it can be fixed on the end of a cam shaft,
and driven at once with the hydraulic hose-
pipe.

Water wheels have been worked by the
Englishman Eairbairn to 93 per cent of the
absolute power in the falling water, but it
is safe, ordinarily, in reckoning out the
horse power, to estimate the practical effi-
ciency at 55 to 60 per cent.

The principal objection to turbines 13
that gritty, muddy water wears them out.
Over-shot water wheels suffer injury from
standing still, and they cannot be used to
advantage over 40 feet in diameter.

Eeaction wheels are those working on
the principle of Mattieson's hydraulic
crane, or the "Barker mill," invented in
the 17th century. Whitlow's Scotch tur-
bine is on the same principle. They are
adapted to a still smaller stream with greater
fall, than the ordinary turbines, and will
afford 50 per cent of the absolute power in
the water used.

The water engine proper, is a valve ma-
chine which works precisely like a steam
engine, with a column of water as the op-
erating agent, in the place of the steam. A
toy engine of this kind is in operation in
one of the churches of this city, where it
is used to drive the bellows of an organ.
The water engine is much used in the
Saxon and Bohemian mines, where they are
of colossal sise, being generally employed
to do the pumping, whereby the falling of
a streamlet from one level to another, un-
derground, is made use of to pump the
waters from below up to the adit level. At
Joachimsthal the water engine is used also*
for hoisting. The principal advantage
claimed for it is that it never wears out;
though the leather of the valves is apt to be
attacked by acid waters. Tomlinson de-
scribes it in his Encyclopedia of the Use-
ful Arts.

Of the available water power in the foot-
hills of the Sierra, — within a distance north
and south of 500 miles which has more
than twenty large rivers falling at least
6,000 feet in 70 or 80 miles,— Cronise, in
his Natural Wealth of California, says:

" To state it as being equal to the force
exerted by 500,000 horses would be to keep
well within bounds. Already nearly 200
quartz mills, over 50 flour, and 150 saw
mills, are driven by such inconsiderable
portions thereof as have been diverted for
this purpose. If all the water power exist-
ing in the New England States were added
to that of New York, New Jersey, ancl
Delaware, it would scarcely exceed that still
running to waste clown the side of the Si-
erra."

On the Truckee, at its lowest1 stage, ac-
cording to a rough estimate by Mr. Scott,
of the Union Foundry, there is available
about 1,000-horse power per mile. Theie
being 70 miles, having an average fall of
45 feet per mile, the Pacific Railroad and '
Nevada have at their service not less than
70, 000-horse power in that stream alone.

This year for the first time, so far as
known, the basket willow grown in Califor-
nia has been put to use.

TY\e Mining and Scientific Press.

47

i innra Eabtbs. —A correspondeut
from the Olmatead paint mines ill Sonoma
County, taking exception to our article
quoted from Boss Brown's '•.Mineral Ee-
BOnrces," etc., on ncconnt of its omission
of that important development, says :

Wo hftvo li".?n working onr paint mine,
more or less, for two years, and have dis-
tributed onr colors over Sonoma County,
era) tons in Ban Pranoisco, nearly a
ton in Sacramento, also in San Luis Obispo;
and we have had onr paints on exhibition
nttlirco fairs-at tb I I ty Fair,

[nstitnte Fair, Sun Francisco,
and the St it" Fair, at Sacramento— and
been awarded a promium ateaoh place; and
all those, whether painters or paint dealers,
thatbave examined our paints, tell us that
theyvre the first genuine fine paints the;
sen, of California production. Mr.
J. D. Ooliver, of San Francisco, on exam-
ining'our paints, said that all the California
paints he bad seen before were too coarse,
lint ours is fine enough; and that is the
question raised by all good judges that
have used or seeu our uativo paints and
colors,

Olmstead's paints were spoken of in the
1 'niss, in connection with the Mechanics'
Institute Fair.

Tiif. Fii;st Notice at the EriEiin.\r.i>T
Mini:. — The following curious dooumentis
said to have been posted at the Eberhard t
mine:

White Pine District, Aug. 5A, 18fi7: Know
all men (or one women, for then all will
know), that the'undersigned, who is an in-
dividual of limited moans, but of unlimited
expectations, locates, claims, and intends
to hold and work two claims of 200 feet each
on this ledge, containing, as ho believes
and hopes it does, gold, silver, calespar,
feldspar and spar the barkeep, besides other
precious metals too numerous to mention,
together with all the dips, spurs and angles
and triangles ranging from vertical to hori-
zontal, and will work the same according
to " Hoyle" and the very liberal laws of
White Pine District. The undersigned is
induced to make this company of one, as
he is anxious that the poor devil who comes
along may have a fair show at the exten-
sions, if he can find them. To be known
as the Elephant Ledge and Company.
William Pitcher, 200 feet; discovery, 200
feet.

Pitcher did not develop the mine, and it
slipped away from him.

A Greasy Mechanic. — The late Colonel
Colt was himself a practical mechanic. By
his will he left to his nephew an immense
fortune. At the time of Col. Colt's death
that nephew was learning his trade as a
machinist in his uncle's shop, working dil-
igently, in his dirty overalls, day by day,
subject to the same rules as other appren-
tices. On his uncle's death he became a
millionaire; but, choosing a guardian to
manage his property, he continued at his
labor, and faithfully served his apprentice-
ship. Now, as he walks the rooms of his
house, or drives his handsome team, he has
the consciousness that if his riches "take to
themselves wings and fly away," he is fur-
nished with the means of getting an hon-
est livelihood, and may make a fortune
for himself. — Sci. American.

ROOT'S PATENT FORCE BLAST ROTARY BLOWER.

Patented Nov. 1st, 1804 ; July 24, lSliG ; and Oct. 0, 1SGG.

The Mocnt Cenis Tunnel. — About
three-fourths of this work is completed. It
is estimated that the whole will be finished
as early as the commencement of 1871.

CALIFORNIA

BUSINESS UNIVERSITY

SO 4 Montgomery Street.

Full particulars regarding o ir Practical Course of Studies
mjiv l»o h.id by calling at tin' University, or by addressing
I7vl7-qyL2p E. P. UISAL.D, Sun Fraud sco.

GEO. P. ROWELL & CO.,
AMERICAN NEWSPAPER DIRECTORY

Containing accurate, lists of all the Newspapers and Peri-
odicals published iu tlie United States and Tcrrl-
torities, and the dominion ot" Canada,
and British Coloniesof Norili
America;
Together with a description of the Towm and Cities in
which they are published.

NEW VORK:
GEO. P. ROWEIX «fc CO.,

Publishers and Newspaper Advertising Agents,

4=o Park Row.

im.

A handsome octavo volume of 300 pages bound in cloth.
Price, ----- Five Jtollars.

A work of great value to Advertisers, l'lib'.ishersancl oth-
ers, who desire information in relation to the Newspapers
and Periodicals of North America.

The edition will be limited, and persons desiring copies
will do well to send their orders immediately to

GEO. P. ROWELL «fc CO.,

Publishers and Advertising Agents, 40 Park Kow, New-
York. 2vl8-2w

A. warded tlio ITii-.-st Premium i\t tlio Paris Exposition.

Metallurgy.

REQUIRES

Fifty Per Cent.

LESS POWER

Than any Hlower

Miuiiisr

and

SSteEtmsHipS.

One of these Blowers may he seen on exhibition at W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry, corner of
Mission and Fremont streets. They are also in use at the Almadcn Quicksilver Mine; Gridley's
Foundry, Gold Hill, Nevada; 7E na Iron Works, San Francisco, and many other places.

Caution. — Purchasers will find it to their advantage to apply direct to the Stocktow Agency, ns
certain parlies, not authorized to manufacture the Blower, have put in the market machines of inferior
construction, which do not answer till the requirements of the genuine article.

For circulars and further information, address

KEEP & BARG-ION,

4vlG3tn Globe Iron Works, Stoekton, Ca.1.

STODB ART'S IRON WORKS.

LEOPOLD KUH,
Assayer and Metallurgical Chemist,

(Formerly of the U. S. B. Mint, S. F.)

Office, No. lilt Commercial Street* oouoiil lr

the Mint, Sun Fruui'Uco.

BULLION MELTED AND ASSAYED.

The correetcss of which is guaranteed in every respect.
All klnde ol Ore mid Mineral tested, assayed and analyzed
in iho moil satisfactory manner.

Refers by iierinUsli.il to W. O, Ralston, fa-shier Bank ol
California; Messrs Pineiie .t Bayerque, \\'m. M. Lent. John
D. Fry. e Call HI & Co., a. k Grim, President Pacific Onion

Express Co.; John M. Eekteldt. M. anil It. V. S H. Mint;
ii. de .\ Nbrcross S. tf. Co., and the principal mining com-
panies "li llie ComstOCk Lode, 25vl7-tf

JOHN TAYLOR & CO.

IMPORTERS,

.NO DKALKKS IN

ASSAYERS' MATERIALS,

Druggists' & Chemists' G-lassware,

3E*liolograplUo Stoolc, Tito.

SIS anil ."►! 1 Wi.M.iiitrt.iii Street.
SAN FRANCISCO.

WE arc receiving dircctfrnm MESSES. LAPD A OKKT-
LINO (London) and BEEKER k SONS (Antwerp, Bel-
gium) their superior

ASSAY AND Kl'I.MOV BALANCES,

And from France and Clermany, as well as the Eastern
stnt.-s, Kn;,VAi:KX, CRUCIBLES, MUFFLES, BLOW-PIPE
CASES, GOLD SCALES. CHEMICAL GLASSWARE, and
every article required for ASSAY OFFICES, LABORATO
RIES, etc. Wc nave given this branch of our business par
tleular nttention, to select such articles as are necessary
In the development of the mineral wealth of this coast.

A Full Assortment of DRUOGISTS' CLASS WARE and
DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES, ACIDS and CHEMICALS, con
itontly on hand.

San Francisco March 6. 1865. llvlO-tf

PROF. HENRY WURTZ,

Formerly Chemical Examiner in the U. S. Patent Office,
may be employed professionally ns n Scientific Expkht.
ecological Examinations and Reports. Analysis and Assays,
etc , elc. Practical advice and investigations in the Chem
ical Arts and Manufactures. Invention and examination
of new chemical methods ;ind nroducls. Address, 2fi Pino
slreet, Rooms 3ft and 36, New York. Alwavs in from 12 to
3.3U. AS" Written communications preferred.

Important to Gold and Silver Min-
ers and Companies.

PROFESSOR "WURTZ,

Who is the Inventor and Patentee of the new and wonder
ful uses of SODIUM IN WORKING GOLD AND SILVER
ORES AND JEWELERS' SWEKPINGS, will furnish at the
above address n formation in relation thereto, together
with experimental packages of

SODIUM AMALGAM.

All Instructionsand experiments clscwbcrc obtained nre
spurious ami unreliable. IVOKKiNi: EXPERIMENTS O.V
AMALGAMATION OF ORES, Elc. Prof. W. has in opera
lion in NcivYork alarjrc anil small Hepburn Pan, lor work
Imr 1.IIP0 or 2U-1U. charges ol malerial lor cxperlmentu.
purposes. 3vl7

CAMERON 'ft*

Special Steam Pump.

PICKERIN Gt'S

Engine Regulator.

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Giffard's Injectors. Pickering's Engine Regulators, Wilson's Steam Traps, TJtica
Steam Gauges, Steamboat Machinery, Morrison & Seller's Patent Steam Hammers,
Seller's Patent Bolt Screwing Machines, Lathes, Planers, Shafting and Hangers, Cooper
& Phillips' Turning Tools, Machinists' Tools, Engines and Boilers, Wheeler's Patent
Tumbling Beam-Engine for Screw Propellers.

DAVID STODDART, Hi Boalo street, San Francisco.

G-. "W. STRONG-,

ASSAYER AND WORKER OF ORES,

No. 10 Stevenson street, near First.San Francisco.

Hiehest price paid for choice lots of Ores, Sulphmets, As
say Ashes, Sweepings, etc., etc. Students instructed in all
branches of Metallurgy, onlibcral terms.
l-tvlGqr.

y^ MEUSSDORFFER, y^
HAT BIA.lVtJFACTTJR.EI5,

And dealer In

Hats and Caps

AT WHOLESALE AND KETAIL.

C35 anil 637 Commercial street San Francisco.

125 J street Sacramento.

Corner of D and Second streets Marvsville.

72 Front street Portland, Oregon.

Onr wholesale House, C28 Commercial street, extending
through to 637 Clay street, Sun Francisco, contains always
a most choice, and the largest, assortment In this State.
Every Steamer bring* the latest issued novelties from Eu-
rope and New Tork, which can be found at all the abovo
stores, at moderate prices. 23vl6-3m

OCCIDENTAL

Insurance Company,

OF SAX FKA3VCISCO.
Carti Ciipltnl, .----- 8300,000

OOLD COIN.

Office S. "VV. corner of Montgomery ami
California Hlreetfi.

Fire and Miarliie Insurance.

All Losses paid in U. S. Gold Coin.

CHR. CHRISTIANSEN, President.
B. R..THSCOILD, Secretai-y 20vl7-3m

mm% A "WARNING- %Mbt

TO ALL -WHO ARE AFFLICTJ3B.

Befocethcrainv season comes get cured of Rheumatism
and Neura'gia. by herbs only. The receipt was given some
years ago by an old Indian in New Orleans, and It has never
failed to cute ail it says. Many have been cured in this
city and in Boston, and all siiy it is the best they havo
tried. Manufactured by MRS. MARY BIGGINS, Oregon
street, two doors west of Drumm. Orders sent by mail or
express attended to on receipt of $5 per bottle, 2Jvl?-3m

48

Tl|e Mining and Scientific Press.

Peksonaxi. — Mr. William H. Murray,
our traveling solicitor, is on a tour through
the counties of Santa Clara, Santa Cruz,
and we trust lie will send us some facts
in regard to the tanning, lime-burning,
manganese and quicksilver mining, pow-
der-manufacturing, railroading, and other

special interests of that section.

——— » i i

The Batopilas Mines. — A photographic
copy of a nicely executed map of the Bato-
pilas mining region, made by K. H. Stretch,
has been left with us, showing the locali-
ties of all the mines and tunnels referred
to in our communication from that district,
published in another column.

a Heaety Eecommendation of Hendy's
Concentrator can be seen in our advertis-
ing columns to-day. It is written cby the
intelligent superintendent of one of our
best mines.

MAGAZINES.

Per An.

$ 4 IX

New York. Ledger.

3 01

Arthur

Lady's Friend

Harper's Weekly..

6 0i

Chimney Corner...

Literary Album...

London Society

6 0

All the Year Round

Loudon III. News..

15 0

W. E. LOOMS,
News Dealer

AND STATIONEE,

Southeast corner Sansome and

Washington streets,

SUPfLlKS ALL

DASTEKN

PBBIO DICALS

(y the Year, Month or Number

Mining Property for Sale.

The Sauce and Giantess Mines,

Located fourteen miles from tlie safe and commodioushar-
bor of San Bruno, on the Gulf side of the Peninsula of
Lower California, are offered for sale. Specimens of the
ores, together with a map of the country and drawings of
the mines, showing both the surface and underground
workings, also the Territorial Surveyor's survey of the
mines and laud— comprising over sixty square miles— may-
be seen at SAWYER & WILLIAMS, 430 California street

THE TITJLES ARE PERFECT.

The Mines and either the whole or part of the land, will
bo disposed of.
For further particulars address

CAPT. WM. WILLIAMS, Sole Agent,
Care Messrs. Sawyer & Williams,
SvlS-lm 43» California St., San Francisco.

IMPORTANT TO LUMBERMEN.

Patent lttuley Saw Hangings.

These Mnlavs will cut FIFTY PER CENT. MORE LUM-
bEKPERDAYihanaiiyothcrMulavinu.sc, with llfty per
cent less power. They arc very durable, and easily kept in
order, and warranted to give satisfaction. No Mulay Mill
should be wknout them, as they will pay for themselves in
n very siiort time. No other mode of manufacturing Lum-
ber can compete with the Mulay Saw with this improve-
ment. Semi for circular. FULLER & CO.,
Manufacturers' Agents for tho Pacific Coast, 109 Mont

gomery street, San Francisco. 17vl7-3m

Patent XSlg-hts fbv Sale.

For Preserving Timber from Decay

The cheapest method for curing Wood.
A. II A . M V It »S PATEJVT.

"WOOD PAVEMENT,

iMIU,EU'.s PATEXT.

S. 1^. PEREIRA,

3vl8-lm lli'l Montgomery street* Room 4.

LEA & PERKINS'

CKLEHRATKD

WORCBSTERSHtRE SAUCE

j^ .a,. Declared by connolseura

1 "■' to be the only

GOOD SAUCE. tj

3

The success of this most g
delicious and unrivalled £
condiment having caused "
certain dealers to apply the name of "Wdr- ■£
cestershlre Sauce lo their own inferior g
compounds, the public is hereby informed "d ir^jTnr.oJ-B
that the only way to secure the genuine, Si Br^'S'^H
Is to ask for

Lea A Perrln*' Snnce,

and see that their names are upon the £ fl
wrapper, labels, stopper, and bottle. £ l

So.ne of the foreign markets having been c3
supplied with a spurious Worcestershire Q
Since, upon the wrapper and labels of
which the names of Lea and Pen-ins have been forged, L
and P. give notice that they hive furnished their corres-
pondents witn power of attorney to take instant proceed-
ings against Mamitacturcrs and Vendors of such, or any
outer imitations u<- which their right raav be infriived

Ask for LHA & PER1UNS' S.iuee, and see name on the
Wrapper, Label, Bottle, and Stoc-per,

Wholesale mid for Export by the Proprietors, Worcester;
Orosse & lllackwell, London, etc.. etc.; and bv Grocers and
Oilmen universally. Agents, CRUSS & CO., San Fran-
cisco. 3vl8-ly

HELIOG-RAPHIC

STEEL ENGRAVING AND PRINTING COMPANY.
Steel Engravings produced by an Improved Process at
one third the usual rated. Portraits. Country Sijats, Illus-
trated Circulars, Reproductions of Engravings, Designs,
etc E. VON EGLoKL-'STKlN, Supt.,

3yj8-GmU)p 133 and 135 West Twenty-tltih at.. New York.

PREMIUM FOI£ XS:H3>ST CONCENTRATOR

AWABDED BY THE

MECHANICS5 INSTITUTE, 1868,

ALSO AT THE STATE FAIR FOR 1368,

To J. hewioy.

A LARGE NUMBER OF THESE
IMPROVED OOlSTCElsrTRATORS

AllE IK PRACTICAL "USE ©Iff THE PACIFIC COAST.

Mb. Hendt, by diligent and practical application, has improved his Concentrators
until they now stand unrivalled, far in advance of any yet brought to public notice. '
By recent alterations in the patterns for these machines, they are now made
Stron s; er a 1ml more Dizx-alble "tliaxi Ever.

Office of North Star Mine, Grass Valley, Nov. 12, 18G8.
Joshua Hendt, Esq. — Dear Sir : — I take pleasure in certifying: to the efficiency of the two last
Concentrators ordered Irom you. We have run them steadily since July last, with but a very trifling
expense for repairs. The additional length of step is a decided improvement. The first six sent to
us have run steadily for nearly nine months, and are still doing good work. # * * The concen-
trations from the eight pans alone much more than pay our entire surface expenses. Without them
we should lose a large proportion by any system of concentration now in use. The eight Concentra-
tors receive the pulp from our 24 stamps, which are crushing 1,040 tons per month. Our sales of
Sulphurets last month amounted to 70 tons, or nearly 7 per cent, of the mass crushed. The sul-
phurets from the reconcentration, contained about 10 per cent. sand. In addition to their properties
as concentrators, they have done us good service as amalgamators, they having saved us tho past
mouth 50 ounces of hard amalgam, worth $350, which otherwise would have been lost.

Respectfully yours, J. H. CROSSMAN, Supt. N. S. Mine.

J. I-IE2VI>Y, Patentee.

Office at Union Iron Works.

COLLIER <fc SILLIM^NT'S
METALLIC PRESSURE PISTON ROD PACKING,

This invention relates to the packing used to render piston rods or propeller shafts
steam and water tight, and has for its object the construction of a metallic packing, which
shall be operated upon by gas, the vapor or liquid exerting the pressure, in such a man-
ner as to forma perfectly tight joint. It also consists in so forming the gland of the
stuffing box, that it shall serve as a support and guide for the rod and shaft, and at the
same time afford great facility for lubrication.

Two small openings now connect the interior of the cage with the source of press-
ure— as the cylinder in an engine or pump, or the water outside of the ship if it is for
a propeller shaft — so that the greater the pressure the closer are the rings forced
against the rod and inner face of the gland. In any case the Packing is to be applied
to a water or air pump, so that the pressure will come from the liquid or the gaseous
substance, as the case may be. One of the most important uses of this Packing is in
the stuffing boxes df propeller shafts, in which case the openings connect with the out-
side water, the pressure on the rings depending upon the depth to which the shaft is
submerged. This device is simple, and not easily got out of repair; is perfectly effica-
cious and self-regulating, and in the case of shafts, especially, will do away with the
great expense of repairing the derangements of the stuffing box which now so frequently
occur. This new invention has already been adopted on the Central Pacific Railroad
and by some of the principal Flouring Mills in San Francisco and Sacramento, and
ia growing at once into popular favor. A description of the engraving accompanying
this will be found in the Mining and Scientific Press Jan. 9, lg(39, and in the patentees'
circular, which can be had free on application.

Certificates of JRecoinineii elation:

Office C. P. R. R. Co. OF Cal., Sacramento, Nov. 24, 18G8 — To Whom it may Concent.— This Company has
made a thorough practical test of Collier & SUliman's Patent Metallic Rod Packing, and find it a superior
mode of pacluny to any other in use, and accordingly recommend it to all others interested.

E. E. CROCKER, Gen. Agent C. P. R. R. Co.
This is to Cehtift, that we have been using the Collier & Silliman's Patent Metallic Rod Packing, and find
it a superior mode of packing to any other in use, and would recommend it to all others interested.

SETH H. GARFIELD, Prop. Pioneer Mills. Sac. City ; Wm. Etchelols, Engineer.

For sale at the principal Machine shops and Foundries in San Francisco. Full
particulars can be obtained by addressing OKRIN COLLIER, Sacramento, Cal., or
E.tB. Siltjman, Bridgeport, Ct.

3vl8-3inlam

W. T. GABBATT,
City

BRASS AND BELL FOUNDER

Cor. Mission and Prt-inont sts.,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Manufacturer of Brass, Zinc, and Anti-Fiiction or
Babbet Metal Casting's;

GHURCri AND STEAMBOAT

BELI.S,

TAVERN AND HAND BULLS AND GONGS,

FIRE ENGINES, FORCE AND LIFT FUMPB,

Steam, Liquor, Soda Oil, Water and flange Cocks, and

Valves of nil descriptions, made and repaired. Hose and

all other Joints, Spelter, Solder, and Copper Rivets, &c.

Gauge Cocks, Cylinder Cocks, Oil Globes, Steam Whistles,

HTDBAULIC PIPES AND XOZZEJLS
For Mining purposes, Iron Steam Pipe furnished with Fit-
tings, &c. Coupling Joints of all *i«w. Particular attention
paid to Distillery Work. Manufacturer of "Garratt's Pat-
tent Improved Journal Metal."

8®- Highest Market price paid for OLD BELLS, COPPEB
AND BRASS. -£» 6tf

N. W. SPAULDING,

Saw Smithing and Repairing

ESTABLISHMENT.

4 W^

JEVos. It and JO FreinoiitSt.,nenr Market.

NAHUFACTURKIl OF

SPATJLDING'S

Patent Tooth Circular Saws.

Tliey have proved themwlvc« to be the niont
durable and economies 1 Siiwm in the World.

EACH SAW IS WARRANTED IN EVERY RESPECT.

Particular attention paid to construction of

Portable & Stationary Saw Mills.

MILLS FURNISHED AT SHORT NOTI.'E,
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by pk»i:v .t CO.,
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San Francisco, Saturday, January 23, 1869.

VOLUME XVIII.

Table of Contents.

Mechnrikal Hovemi

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of Sllv

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fli-rtrlrlty
■ ..[ Boutu

#lll> (lie Aid of Kl
TIlO Silurian ll<

urn "*<jvndn.

• .It MoonUln District, Nc
I'n.-.i Sound lladroad
[ntcrutlng Smelling Details

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... Jcal Stailsilc".

M, , ii mi. v Iniltute Medal*.

N. Y Society uf Practical Eti-
Rlaurtng

C renting a Vacuum by Fall-
uik Water.

Bnlcrpxuef and Develop-
ment*

Wort ;it the Foundries.

New Mup*.

Vvloclprdes,

Omit hou-mis fur our Cabinet.

NfltOA 'I'. .111 MiiiiliHiit.

Chlorine m Gold Reiiiiine.
it, 1 lorlal Silver Quarries Co.

RflQUII KRIHG HlaOKLLANT.—
Construction of n Break-
water at Trinidad Harbor;

rn P. K. It.; Fmich
iMioni Engineer* ;
11 WIllrtlDoito Plat*.

CM. MlUCKlXAWT —

tlfctn-Miit-'iKtiNtn 11 h a
Motive Power ; Polishing
Wheel*; l*rC08OlQ M Fiifl;
Tlie B learn Indicator: The
Steam Engine Perfect at
the Start.

SctKNTiriC STlKmtLLAHT.—

Charcoal imn DltiMrclant;
Mound* in Michigan; Mr-
icorauud Aerolites; Amer-
ican I'.i^il Bouiny ; Pre-
Serving Insect".

MiitiKOSUMMAitr— Comprising
late :ii(i-!li...'. nee Irom the
various counties and dis-
tricts In Oalll'ornla, Arlzo
na. Colorado, China. Idaho,
Montana. NevaCo, Grewon.

S;mi FrancUi o Mining Share-
holders' Directory.

San Francisco Metal Market.

San Francisco Market Hates.

Notices tu Corrcftpondenta.

Stock Prices— Kid and Asked.

New Incorporations.

Contributions for cur Cabinet.

Under this heading we shall continue to mention and tie-
scribe, according to mcrll.such specimen*, of ores, min-
erals, fossils, curlosilles, etc., uu may be presented, or
forwarded tons bv mall or express, prepaid. Eae Ii artlc c
will be numbered and placed in oureubinet.and recorded
wltli the name of the donor, mid the claim or location
from whence it came.

No. 326.— Gold quartz, from Frank
Morse, Larrinier's Mill, Grass Valley.

No. 327. — Gold quartz from Yankee Jim
lelge, Placer county.

No. 328. — Gold, pyrites and galena in
quartz, from the Swezey Pioneer ledge,
Newcastle, Placer county. It pays at the
mill $15 to $20.

No. 329. — Gold pyrites, Capt. Lee, Grass
Valley.

No. 330. — Concentrated sulphurets, from
North Star mine, Grass Valley, Mr. Cross-
man, Superintendent. This mine was sold
lately for a million dollars.

No. 331. — Auriferous copper pyrites,
from Bald Hill near Auburn, Placer Co.

No. 332— Auriferous copper pyrites, from
Green Emigrant mine, Meadow Lake, Ne-
vada county.

No. 333— Graphite, from Alisky & Wood-
bury's mine, forty miles above Sonora,
Tuolumne county. It has the peculiar red
glance which always characterizes molyb-
denum, but which is also occasionally
found in graphite. A graphite mine was
formerly worked below the Macomber
mine, but the quality was not equal
to this one, and it was soon abandoned.
This is worth $250 to $300 to the ton, ac-
cording to information derived from dealers
in Philadelphia. The method of dressing
graphite is, first, stamping fine, and then
washing it in a revolving barrel; the water
flowing out at one end, carrying with it the
gangue. Snow lies for six months in the
vicinity of this mine, so that it can be
worked for only about four months in the
year.

Earthquake Proof Building. — Wm. H,
Foye, the inventor, recently showed us the
model of an earthquake-proof building, of
a new design, which is sufficient to con-
vince a practical mind that our people can
construct houses, without much extra cost,
that will withstand harder shakes than any
that have yet been recorded on this coast.

Mechanical Movements.

We continue this week (from page 385,
volume XVII) our study of the simple
mechanical movements:

29. Numerical registering device. The
teeth of the worm shaft gear with a pair of
worm-wheels of equal diameter, one having
one tooth more than the other. If the first
wheel has 100 teeth and the second 101, the
points will indicate respectively 101 and
10.100 revolutions.

30. An irregular vibratory motion is given
to the arm carrying the wheel A, by the ro-
tation of the pinion B.

31. Intermittent rotary motion of the
pinion-shaft, by the continuous rotary mo-
tion of the large wheel. The part of the
pinion shown next the wheel is cut on the
same curve as the 2)lain portion of the cir-

Speoimens sent to this city from some of
the new coal mines near Argenta, are noth-
ing but bituminous shale.

The bevel-wheel or pinion to the left has
teeth cut through the whole width of its
face. Its teeth work with a spirally ar-
ranged series of studs on a conical wheel.

34. Clutch-box. The pinion at the top
gives a continuous rotary motion to the
gear below, to which is attached half the
clutch, and both turn loosely on the shaft.
When it is desired to give motion to the
shaft, the other part of the clutch, which
slides upon a key or feather fixed in the
shaft, is thrust into gear by the lever.

35. The vertical shaft is made to drive
the horizontal one in either direction, as
may be desired, by means of the double
clutch and bevel-gears. The gears on the
horizontal shaft are loose, and are driven
in opposite directions by the third gear;
the double-clutch slides upon a key or
feather fixed on the horizontal shaft, which
is made to rotate either to the right or left,

cumference, and, therefore, serves as a lock
whilst the wheel makes a part of the revo-
lution, and until the piu upon the wheel
strikes the guide-piece upon the pinion,
whea the pinion-shaft commences another
revolution.

32. Entwistle's patent gearing. Bevel-
gear A, is fixed. B, gearing with A, is
fitted to rotate on stud, E, secured to shaft
D, and it also gears with bevel-gear, C,
loose, on the shaft D. On rotary motion
being given to shaft, D, the gear, E, re-
volves around A, and also rotates upon its
own axis, and so acts upon C io two ways,
namely, by its rotation on its own axis and
by its revolution around A. With three
gears of equal size, the gear C makes two
revolutions to every one of the shaft D.
This velocity of revolution may, however,
be varied by changing tlie relative sizes of
the gears. (J is represented with an at-
tached drum, G'. This gearing may be
used for steering apparatus, driving screw-
propeller, etc. By applying power to C,
action may be reversed, and a slow motion
of D obtained.

33. Uniform into variable rotary motion.

according to the side on which it .is en-

36. Claw coupling.

37, 38. Lever couplings. On the driving
shfft, a disk with spurs is mounted, and to
the shaft to be driven a lever is hinged.
By causing this lever to catch in the spurs
of the disk, the coupling is effected.

39. Prong and spur lever coupling.

40. Friction clutch. By tightening or re-
leasing a steel band, encircling a pulley on
the shaft, the machinery is thrown in or
out of gear.

41. Face view of Fig. 40.

42. Universal joint.

43. 44. Disk couplings, with lugs and
cavities.

45. Disk coupling with screw bolts.

46. Self-releasing coupling. Disks with
oblique teeth. If the resistance to the
driven shaft increases beyond a certain
point, the disks separate.

47. Union coupling. A is a pipe with a
small flange abutting against the pipe C,
with a screwed end; B a nut which holds
them together.

48. Crank motion, with the crank-wrist

working in a slotted yoke, thereby dispens-
ing with the oscillating connecting-rod or
pitman ,

49. Quick return crank motion, applica-
ble to shaping machines.

50. The two cran k-shaf ts are parallel in
direction, but not in line with each other.
The revolution of either will communicate
motion to the other with a varying velocity,
for the wrist of one crank working in the
slot of the other is continually changing its
di stance from the shaft of the latter.

51. Elbow crank, for changing motion.

52. Crank motion.

53. Oue stroke of the piston gives a com-
plete revolution to the crank.

54. Kectilinear motion of horizontal bar,
by means of vibrating slotted bar hung
from the top.

55. Uniform reciprocating rectilinear mo-
tion, produced by rotary motion of grooved
cams.

56. Pair of edge runners or chasers for
crushing or grinding. The axles are con-
nected with vertical shaft, and the wheels
or chasers run in an annular pan or trough.

Nevada Silurian Fossils, Etc. — Spec-
imens of the fossils referred to in Mr. Clay-
ton's communication, are nowon exhibition
at this office. They have been referred to
by Whitney, and described and named by
Meek, in the American Journal of Sciences;
consisting chiefly of new species of coral-
lines, trilobites, braehiopods (mollusks),
and algae or seaweeds. Those who have
Dana's Geology, will find an allied species
of coralline on p. 263, fig. 435; of a trilo-
bite on p. 189, fig. 245; and of braehiopods
on p. 183, fig. 235, and p. 187, fig. 244.
Some of the gray and roagnesian limestones
are almost entirely made up of corallines.
In the greenish calcareous slates, trilobites
and braehiopods take the lead, constituting
the greater portion of the rock.

Mineralogieal specimens of interest in
the same collection are oolites, (concretion-
ary limestone) of large size, coarsely crys-
talline in the center, from Silver Peak; tu-
faceous deposits id. ; fluorspar from Last
Chance Hill, Aurora, with pseudomorphs
of quartz; garnets, from near Carson City;
and slags, from the smelting of Partzite
with soda ("alkali") for flux at Adobe
Meadows, showing the presence of much
oxide of copper, and some globules of
silver.

New Publications. — We have received,
from A. Koman & Co., the following holi-
day books:

Silver Threads, by Harriet B. McKeever.

Comic Kecitations and Humorous Dia-
logues, by Jerome Barton.

Amateur Theatricals and Fairy Tale
Dramas, by Miss S. A. Frost.

No Baby in the House, and other stories
for children, by Clara G. Doliiver. Pub-
lished by A. Boman & Co. , New York.

Also from other sources, the reports of
Prof. J. G. Pohle and Prof. John Torrey,
on the Geology of the Dutchess County
N. Y. Gold Mining Territory.

The Starling Progressive Papers, by
W. D. Keichner, Philadelphia.

The Pacific Coast Almanac and Year Boi.k
of Facts, compiled by Henry G, Langley,
editor of the State Begister, etc,

50

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Communications.

Is-thisOki'aktment we invite Uie kkkk discussion oi all
proper subjects— correspondents alone betng. responsible tor
the ideas and Theories they advance.

[Written for tile Mining and Scientific Press.]

Account of Famous Mines in Mexico.

Batopilas, Chihuahua, Hex., Oct. 24th, 1868.
[Continued from page 3-1. J
HISTOBICAL-.

As I stated in the beginning, tbe district
had since about 1812, when the San Anto-
nio mine ceased to pour forth its immense
riches, gradually fallen into decay; the
mining population removed to other places,
leaving finally only a few hundred in the
village, disposed to eke out a precarious life
by picking and washing over old rubbish
piles, or entering the old abandoned mines
to pick the remaining metal from the pil-
lars in them. It was only at long intervals
that a few enterprising persons then under-
took new works, some of which resulted in
large profiis to them.

Under such circumstances, it happened
that in the year 1859, an American gentle-
man by the name of H. A. Stearns, a man
of large experience in mining matters and
far-seeing business habits, was induced to
visit this deserted district. To him and
his untiring energy in its behalf, Batopilas
may thank the revival of its ancient glory,
now at this date secured beyond a doubt;
and his name ought therefore to stand re-
corded in the annals of this newborn epoch,
whose fame I am convinced, will, in a few
years hence, shed a World-wide luster over
this wonderful place. He at once under-
stood the magnitude of the prospects the
district offered, and the necessities it re-
quired— capital and labor — and with more
than usual energy set to work to make it
known.

He succeeded in drawing the attention of
certain parties in New York to a splendid
claim called the San Miguel. They pur-
chased the same from its Mexican owner,
and sent an agent out to open it, Mr. J.
Robinson, a gentlemen also of rare busi-
ness tact, and considerable practical expe-
rience, highly respected by everybody, who,
after several years' constant working, has
succeeded in bringing the claim into such
a state that very few anywhere may be
compared with it.

THE SAN MIGUEL PBOPEETY,

owned by himself, Mr. D. N. Barney, Louis
McLane, W. G. Fargo, B. P. Cheney, and
others of New York, comprises a number
of the most celebrated mines in the district,
many of which have given immense bonan-
zas, foremost among them rank the San
Antonio, discovered and worked about the
beginning of the present century, by a
comon workman, Cristoval Perez, who sunk
down from the surface to the depth of 120
yards in one vast mass of the very richest
silver, without once breaking off for four-
teen years, and took therefrom more than
§16,000,000. A short distance from it the
great mine of

Eli CABMEN

is seen, which was worked about the same
time by the Marquez de Bustamante, who
is said to have extracted many millions
from it. Among this metal was one lump
of solid silver, over 400 pounds in weight.
Besides these, the Caucio and the Pierros
veins have produced astonishing amounts,
none of them being worked deeper than
150 yards. This claim is worked by a
tunnel, running into the mountain about
forty feet above the river, and destined to
cut all the veins and former mines consid-
erably below their bottoms. The tunnel
was commenced by the former Mexican
owner, Mendazona, and is diligently con-
tinued by Mr. Robinson. It has attained,
at this date, a length of 1,400 feet, and cut,
besides several principal lodes, a great num-
ber of lesser, hitherto unknown ones, everv
one of which was struck in the very richest
metal, up to perfectly solid and beautifully
white silver. Mr. B. is driving an air-
shaft, which, when completed, will allow
the better development of the various lodes
below. Many millions will then assuredly
come out of them within a few years. Only

two weeks ago a vein was cut three yards
wide in metal, that will give §8,000 to the
ton. -The company also own a large haci-
enda with splendid water-power, and a fine
house and lot in town.

Next in importance to this claim ranks
the great

PASTEANA MINE,

situate on the famed Animas Hill. The
lode on which it has been worked to the re-
puted depth of 150 yards, is looked upon
as the most important of all, showing in
parts a width of seven yards between its
wralls, and said to have given in various suc-
cessive bonanzas, more than §40,000,000.
The richness of its metal is known to have
been such, that frequently it gave §40,000
in one single week; and a pillar thrown
down in later years produced also over-
§40,000.

Common report says that the principal
works in it were abandoned about 150 years
ago, in consequence of atremenduousrush
of water filling them after a severe rain
storm, and that a portion of them, as also
the bottom, were left in good ore.

Several attempts have at various times
been made to drain the mine, the last and
most energetic one by Don Neponiuceno
Sanchez, overseer for the Marquez of Bus-
tamante, which was interrupted by the rev-
olution breaking out in 1821, obliging all
native Spaniards to fly the country.

It remained deserted until 1854, when an
English gentleman, Mr. George Le Brun,
induced by certain manuscript documents
in his possession, and having full faith in
the mine, undertook anew the working on
it. He started a tunnel from the east side,
which he has ever since continued with the
most untiring energy, and never for a day
wavering in his confidence of success. In
sundry occasional workings in the upper
parts, considerable amounts of silver have
rewarded his enterprise. He struck a small
thread which, beginning not thicker than
a knifeblade, within a few yards, gave
over §46,000 in massive silver.

Under the most discouraging circum-
stances this tunuel was driven through ex-
ceedingly hard rock, a distance of about
300 yards from the vein, until — I am happy
to say — success has at last rewarded his
work. A short time ago he tapped the old
workings, the water running therefrom for
several days in a tremendous stream. When
an entrance through the opening was finally
effected, what seems to be a pillar, was dis-
covered, whose extent is yet unknown, the
metal of which gives about §64 to the carga
of 300 pounds, or §450 to the ton, while the
rubbish tilling the work, averaged §32 to
the carga, or §224 to the ton. This fact
goes to show that the old reports were at
least not entirely unfounded, and verifies
the probability of immense riches lying be-
neath, at the same time being evidence that
new developments in these so-called, or
formerly abandoned mines, will almost in-
variably uncover fresh deposits of ore.

The fact of this tunnel having succeeded,
will not only serve Mr. Le Brun himself as
a well-merited reward, but aid the district
immeasurably in its fame.

I will here add, that Mr. Le Brun has al-
ways shown the most unselfish kindness to
Americans traveling through the country,
and deserves their fullest respect for his
uniform gentlemanly behavior to them, and
for the strictest integrity in all his dealings.

The third claim in importance seems to
me to be the one called the

ST. THEEESA,

on the Animas Hill. It comprises an un-
known number of lodes, — a perfect network
of them, — perhaps over one hundred.
Those that have been worked, have, wher-
ever touched, all given very rich silver, al-
though the workings on them hardly merit
the name of mines, as but very few go over
forty yards in depth. The present owner
of this claim, a Mexican by the name of
Don Jesus Yalenzuela, confines his enter-
prise mainly to one, the Santa Theresa
proper, which stands in very rich silver,
large masses of pure massive metal coming
out of it. The same gentleman owns and
works, besides this claim, four other ones
on different hills, called respectively, the
San Nestor, Animas, St. Domingo, and Au-
rora, all of which give him very flattering
results. 'Mineeo.

[To he continued.]

We have ever found that blacksmiths are
more or less given to vice. Carpenters, for
the most part, speak plainly, but they will
chisel when they can get a chance. Not
unfrequently they are bores, and often an-
noy one with their old saws.

It is reported that the well known stage-
man, Hill Beachey, has sold his interest in
the Golden Chariot mine, at Silver City,
Idaho, for §300,000.

[Written for the Mining and Scientific Press.]

Decomposition of Silver Ores with the
Aid of Electricity.

Editoes Peess:— Adverting to the article
in your issue of the 9th inst., upon the use
of electricity in the reduction of silver ores,
I may perhaps be permitted to make a few
remarks. Without arrogating to myself
any greater information than that resulting
fromlong and patient studyand experiment,
I have certainly a right to claim tbe barren
honor of being the first person upon the
Pacific slope to apply the electric current
to the decomposition of crude silver ores,
and the consequent production of first a
chloride of, aud then metallic silver. The
experiments I refer to, commenced as long
ago as the year 1859, pending which I filed
a caveat in the Patent Office. These ex-
periments were highly satisfactory and suc-
cessful, but the heavy expense always in-
cidental to new and untried enterprises,
compelled me when my means were ex-
hausted, to suspend operations; however,
it is without regret that I now find a process
of such incalculable value to our mining
interests, is at length likely to be intro-
duced. Such information as I possess, it
affords me pleasure to supply. The advant-
ages from the electric process over the Pa-
tio process are many. By the latter there
is a continuous loss of the quicksilver, and
this is a very heavy item. The length of
time requisite, the much greater labor en-
volved in manipul vtion of the ingredients,
are also very serious drawbacks. Moreover
many refractory ores are successfully work-
able by the electric process, which would
not be operated upon by the Patio process.
In making this assertion, I am supported
by the result of many tests, which I have
made in quantities varyingfrom ten pounds
to a ton at a 1 ime. In the operation of the
electrical process the products of the de-
composition vary with the nature of the
ore, the intensity of the current, and the
temperature at which the opertions are per-
formed. At a certain stage metallic silver
is invariably found in a state of minute di-
vision, and susceptible of immediate amal-
gamation with quicksilver. It is to be ob-
served that the primary production, how-
ever, is the chloride of that metal, which is
then, by the same current that produced it,
reduced to the simple metallic form. The
base metals are mostly unacted upon with
the exception of lead and perhaps anti-
mony and some few others. By an inex-
pensive addition, simple in its application,
though somewhat complex in its operation,
the difficulty is easily obviated. The minor
products are hydrogen, sulphureted hydro-
gen, arsenide of hydrogen, di-chloride of
copper, oxychloride of copper, sulj^hate of
soda, sulphuric acid, sulphur, and some
metallic chlorides of such base metals as
are present, aud are acted upon, and the
treatment of which I have referred to. Cer-
tain points in the process, and in the appli-
cation of the current, can only be acquired
by experience, and like all other chemical
manipulations require experimental de-
monstration in addition to written or oral
explanations to render them appreciable by
the enquiring mind. The following are
the results of some experiments performed
by me on sulphide of silver artificially pre-
pared; they may be of some value to those
interested on the subject — an excess of chlo-
ride of sodium and water being present in
each case: 1st. 3 equivalents of sulphide
of silver, 4 of chloride of copper, aud 3 of
water were resolved into — 3 equivalents of
metallic silver, 3 of chlorine, 3 of sulphy-
dric acid and 1 of oxychloride of copper: —
3 Ag S + 4 Cn CI + 3 H 0=3 Ag + 3 CI +
3HS + CuCl, 3CuO. 2d. 2 equivalents
of sulphide of silver, 4 of dichloride of cop-
per, and 6 of waterw'ere resolved into — 2
equivalents of metallic silver, 2 of chlorine,
6 of hydrogen, 2 of oxychloride of copper,
aud 2 of sulphur: 2AgS+4Cu-'Cl+6HO=2
Ag + 201 + 6H+2(CuCl,3CnO)+2S. These
experiments were performed at a temper-
ature of 603 Pah., and there was formed an
excess of oxychloride of copper in them
both, produced by the action of the salt
water on the positive pole (which was of
copper) assisted by the current. 3d. On
artificially prepared sulphide of silver at
the temperature of 140 Pah., I mixed 4
equivalents of the silver sulphide, 1 of di-
chloride of copper, with excess of chlo-
ride of sodium and water — result 4
equivalents of metallic silver, sulphureted

hydrogen was given off, and sulphate of
soda, free chlorine, sulphuric acid and
sodio-di-ehloride of copper found in solu-
tion. In this case there was no oxychlo-
ride of copper formed, a positive pole of
graphite being used. The increase of the
temperature greatly facilitates the opera-
tion. I may mention that the yield of sil-
ver from the ores treated was, in round
numbers, from 79 to 98 per cent, of the
actual quantity contained in the ore, the
greatest being from simple snlphurets and
chlorides, and the least from antimonial and
bismuthic ores. In conclusion, I woultl
mention that the process is applicable to
the reduction of tellnrides, selenides, oxides,
and all compounds of silver, and upon the
authority of the late Mr. D'Aumaile who
was associated with me in many of my ex-
periments, that it can be successfully ap-
plied to the ore containing the double oxide
of manganese and silver, this ore having
hitherto been considered too rebellious to
be satisfactorily worked by other means.
John Scott,
Metallurgical Chemist.

[Written ror Hie Mining and Seientiuc Prcss.l

The Silurian Rocks of Southern Nevada.

Editoes Peess : — The Silurian rocks of
Southern Nevada were first recognized by
me in the spring of 1865, — Mr. Stanson, of
Austin, and myself made a short visit to Sil-
ver Peak district, for the purpose of exam-
ining the silver mines of that place. The
next morning after our arrival, Idiscovered
" Carolines" in the gray limestone along
the eastern foothills of the Bed Mountain
range, (near the place where the Silver
Peak and Bed Mountain mill has since been
erected) . I then made a search for shaly
beds that usually accompany the limestones,
and was fortunate enough to find a small
point of yellowish slate exposed near the
edge of the salt marsh. In this I found
numerous fragments of trilobitcs, but no
specimens entire.

Some months afterward I was more for-
tunate, and got several fair specimens of
trilobites and numerous samplesof thecor-
alinesin a good state of preservation. This
collection I gave to Prof. Whitney, to be
forwarded to Prof. Meek, of the Smithso-
nian Institute, for determination. These
gentlemen both recognized the fossils as
Silurian, but I have not yet received a
statement of their classification. In the
last two years I have found the same rocks
and imbedded fossils twenty-five miles S.E.
of Silver Peak, near Alida Yalley, in the
Gold Mountain district; and I have no
doubt they are to be found in numerous
localities in the southern and eastern por-
tions of the State.

I herewith send you an ideal section of
the country rocks, as they appear in the
N. E. slope of the Bed Mountain range, on
a line from the summit above the gold
mines — to the extinct crater— in the valley
to the N. E. of that point. The great un-
derlying mass is granite. The gold-bear-
ing quartz veins are in the lower slates near
the granite, and usually associated with
dikes or beds of dark greenish trap — some-
times above, but generally below the veins
forming the foot-wall.

The central portion of the slates carry
no rich veins of gold or silver, but in the
upper portions near the dolomite, silver is
the predominating metal. The dolomite
also contains silver-bearing veins in the un-
der portions near the slates. The only met-
als found in the coraline limestone are traces
of copper and silver.

The tertiary sandstones and argillaceous
beds are found in contact with the Silurian,
from which fact I conclude that the Silver
Peak region was above the ocean level from
the Silurian age to the Teitiary period.
But in the " Yolcano District," about sev-
enty-five miles N. W. of the Peak, the Ju-
rassic, Triasic, and probably the carbonifer-
ous rocks are represented. The geology
of the great interior Plateau of the conti-
nent is a stony patchwork, without extended
continuity in any one direction.

Yours truly, J. E. Clayton.

The point to which the sea wall has ad-
vanced, between Clay and Commercial
streets, has from sixty to sixty-five feet
depth of mud through which the embank-
ment must settle to find a solid foundation ;
rendering the preparatory dredging and
general progress very slow.

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51

. Wec7ianical.

AS A

In 1837, Thomas Davenport, of
Brandon, Vt., obtained a patent and came

magnetic engine, the working of which as-
i the scientific men of that ci '

.. bad wri

use of electi

nelism power. Hia i le] was

very simple, having two electro-ma

within attractive distances of a re-
volving steel magn t. A pal ml wa
in England. The interest of wealthy men
was engaged. A Ing m tchine

was built, with fonrof the largest i

h weighing abont
:juu pounds. These magnets wore charged
from a battery of copper and zinc contain-
ing a solution of sulphate of copper which,
when dissolved, was of the capacity of a
barrel. With a cast iron wheel six feet in
diameter, weighing GOO pounds, a velocity
was attained of seventy-five revolutions per
minute.

Professor Wheatstone was loud in his
praise of the working of the model. Pro-
Daniel prophesied that the days of
steam were numbered. Professor Faraday
saw the wheel revolve for several minutes,
and watched with an appearance of aston-
ishment the large electric spark which was
given oil'every time the current was broken ,
a spark so large that it emitted a light in
theeveniug sufficient to illuminate the room.
He spoke not; but taking up a broom, ho
gently placed the handle of it on the per-
iphery of the wheel, and with a slightpress-
ivre the wheel gradually revolved slower.
He did not quite stop the motion, yet he
saw how easily it could be done. He kindly
informed those most interested that his
opinion expressed to the public would
greatly injure the sale of the patent; so he
preferred not to advance one then. The
many subsequent failures have proved his
sagacity. Power is wanting.

\Ye condense the above from an article in
the Scientific American.

Polishing Wheels for Small Instru-
ments.— A correspondent sends the follow-
ing to the Denial Cosmos:

"Take a piece of sole leather of a suita-
ble size, make a hole through the center
and attach it to the lathe in the same man-
ner as a corundum wheel ; then with a sharp
chisel turn it down to the size desired ; coat
the face of it with glue, and apply as much
coarse emery as the glue can be made to
take; put it aside to dry, and you have pol-
ishing wheel No. 1. Make another in the
same way, only using flour of emery in-
stead of the coarse, for No. 2. Form a
third wheel in the same manner, but in-
stead of the glue and emery, apply crocus
with water, for No. 3.

The labor of polishing is diminished by
turning little grooves into the lace of the
wheel before applying the emery.

An excellent wheel for carrying the
pumice, in polishing vulcanite, can be
iormed by fastening together two of these
leather wheels with brass screws (common
wood screws) between which are three or
four thicknesses of woolen cloth cut some-
what larger than the leathers. The leather
keeps the wheel still' and firm, and, as the
cloth becomes worn down, will not scratch
the plate, even though it should touch it."

Creosote as Fuel. — The London Min-
ing Journal of Nov. 28th, has the following:
"An ordinary re-heating furnace of large
size is now in constant use at the works of
Messrs. Camroux & Co., engineers and
boiler manufacturers, at Deptford Creek,
in wdiich creosote is the only fuel eni-
ployed, and its working has given com-
plete satisfaction. Under ordinary circum-
stances the iron is ready for fashioning in
little more than half the time required
when coal is used; and, as the heat is equal
in every part of the furnace, it is never re-
quisite, as sometimes happens with coal,
to replace the metal in the furnace to com-
plete the shaping of it. The creosote is
converted into vapor in an auxiliary boiler,
and the vapor supplied through a coil of
pipe which takes tire place of the usual
lire; the supply of vapor requisite to pro-
duce the desired heat being regulated by a
stop-cock, in the same way and as easily as
the supply of illuminating gas to an ordi-
nary burner."

i 1\ hi. a run. — Tho following
is from a paper recently read before the Poly-
technic branch ol tho A ican Ii

aery : "Tho indicator is
I . acted and attaohed that steam from
upon one side of
I piston in the instrument, th • at-
mospheric pressure being npon the
side. To the indicator piston is atb
spring and a pencil* the lath I
mark on papi r. The predominating press-
ure on the ii di lator piston, whether ol I te
steam or of the atmosphere, extends fir
compresses the spring in proportion to (he
intensity of the pressure, and moves the
pencil op and down on the paper. The
paper is arranged on a drum, which is so
connected that it has a side motion corres-
ponding to that of the engine piston. Con-
sequently, as the engine piston moves, the
paper is moved sidewise, and, as the press-
ure changes, the pencil is correspondingly
moved up and down; so that the figure or
diagram traced on the paper is a combina-
tion of tho two movements, aud should
show the pressure at each and all points of
tho stroke. The mean of a number of or-
dinates on the diagram represents the mean
pressure per square inch of piston, whicli,
multiplied by the area of the piston, gives
the total force whicli produces the piston
movement, from whicli the power may be
calculated. Tho indicator is a beautiful in-
strument, of great value to the steam engi-
neer; still, in many cases, its indications
are unreliable. It shows perfectly whether
the valves are adjusted properly; often,
when an engine is working improperly, a
glance at the diagram will reveal the diffi-
culty, aud suggest the remedy. Large leaks
in the valves or piston may also be detected
in this way. The indicated pressure at the
end of the stroke has been employed to de-
termine tho quantity of steam used by the
engine. "Calculations founded on such a
basis are entirely worthless. It has been
attempted, also, to calculate tho friction,
from indicator friction diagrams; but the
system is practically erroneous. The indi-
cator is chiefly employed, however, to de-
termine tho power of an engine, it being
supposed that the diagram shows correctly
the pressure atall parts of the stroke. Even
this it fails to do under certain circum-
stances. The moving parts of the instru-
ment must have weight and friction, and
some force is necessarily required to over-
come the latter, and put the mass in mo-
tion. If, therefore, the pressure be ascend-
ing, the indicator will show less than it
should; and when the pressure is descend-
ing, the instrument will show more than it
ought."

The author goes ou"to say in the course
of the paper, that although the indicator is
defective, he is unable to point out another
instrument which is fit, in every respect, to
take its place.

The Steam Engine Perfect fkom the
Staet. — In the course of a lecture recently
delivered at Steinway Hall, New York, by
Prof. Silliuian, he said : " There has never
been in the history of inventions since the
world began, any machine or apparatus
which was so perfect as it left the the hands
of the inventor as the steam engine was
when it left the hands of Watt. You may
stand to-day beside the most stupendous
piece of steam engineering in the' world,
and you will see connected with it no es-
sential change in his invention. It is true
that he had no machinery or tools compe-
tent to reach the exact results that we can
now produce. He had no turning lathes,
boring machines, planing machines, but
all was done by the cold chisel, the ham-
mer, the file, etc., and the marvel is that
he produced such results as he did. I have
often thought with what delight that great
man would stand upon one of our first-
class steam frigates, or by one of our first-
class pumping engines, such as is used at
the reservoirs in Brooklyn and New York,
and see the perfection, the finish, and the
smoothness of the work, a result possibly
solely due to the genius of Watt, because
without that power we could not have had
the apparatus with wdiich to apply it."

Liquid Fuel for Locomotives. — The
French journal Moniteur says that the fol-
lowing plan has been tried at Chalons, for
burning petroleum in locomotives: "A
stream of the oil flowing i'rorna tap, — which
controls and regulates it easily and per-
fectly,— falls upon a brick slab behind a
vertical grating, and is there burned." The
Moniteur says the experiment was cq,ui«
plete'y successful.

Scientific . KtsceZla?i r.

Charcoal as a Disinfectant.

The offensive odors arising from the pn-
trefaotion of animal remain-, are neutral-
ized by powdered charcoal This is owing

to the power wdiich the charcoal
es, of absorption and of cone
ing within its pons the noxious effluvia.
One volume of it will absorb ninety vol-
umes of ammoniacal gas; of hydrogen
it absorbs one and seven-tenths; of oxygen,
nine and two-tenths volumes. Sometime
ago Dr. Slei. house demonstrated that the
absorptive action of charcoal is not a mere
passive reception of gases into its pores,
but that it exerts a peculiar power in in-
ducing actual combustion of carbonaceous
substances, by furnishing the quantity
of oxygen necessary to this combustion,
which oxygen it had previously absorbed.
In other words, charcoal actually possesses
the power of burning up organic substances
at ordinary temperatures, and of resolving
them into their ultimate products. This
combustion proceeds moderately, and con-
sumes more time than if the substance
had been burned by fire; but the effect is
the same, and the same ultimate products
are generated in both instances. The fact
of the combustion of the noxious gases
may be proved by exposing the usual test
for ammonia (hydrochloric acid) near the
charcoal, when white fumes will arise.
The gases which are evolved by putrefac-
tion are mainly composed of carbon, hy-
drogen aud nitrogen, although phosphorus
and sulphur are also present, to a limited
degree. These gases, passing through the
charcoal, in the pores of which oxygen is
absorbed, are oxidized and consumed, and
the chief products arising from this action
are carbonic acid, water and ammonia — the
ultimate products of the combustion of an-
imal remains.

Respirators filled with charcoal powder
are now worn in hospitals, so contrived as
to protect the wearer from noxious exhala-
tions. ' Filters for atmospheric air, in un-
wholesome and crowded districts, might
be constructed, in which the injurious gases
andvapors mightbe retained aud consumed,
and only pure air, with a slight admixture
of the ultimate products of the combustion
of impurities, be allowed to pass. Dwell-
ings may thus be protected from malaria by
causing the apertures through which air is
admitted to be supplied with charcoal
filters. We condense the above from the
Gas Light Journal.

Mounds in Michigan. — At a meeting of
Kent Scientific Institute, Grand Rapids,
Michigan, on Sept. 11th, Mr. George W.
Smith gave an account of some examina-
tions made of mounds four miles below the
city. The group consists of thirteen
mounds, which vary in hight from five feet
to twenty-five, and in diameter from twelve
to sixty feet. Trees of three and four feet
in diameter are growing, — and others
equally large lie decaying, — upon them.
Two vases of pottery, copper and stone im-
plements, bone needles, and a piece of
wicker-work, were found. In one mound
pieces of flint were seen strewed. The
group of mounds occupies an area of 700
by 400 feet. The builders probably were
of the same race with those of the mounds
further south.

Interesting to the Feiends op Science.
F. W. Putnam, of the Peabody Academy of
Science, calls upon those disposed to aid
the Academy in sending out a collector of
specimens to Central and the northern part
of South America, for donations. There
are no funds of the Institution that can be
devoted to that purpose. Mr. J. A. McNiel,
an ardent and enthusiastic naturalist, is al-
ready in the field, and has just sent home
the first istallnient of specimens, the fruit
of his labors since May last. He intends
to spend two years upon the matter. On
the receipt of specimens at the Academy,
they will be arranged at once, aud a series
selected for the " McNiel collection "■ of the
Academy; the rest will be offered for sale.
Any persons who aid the expedition "will
receive an equivalent in specimens if de-
sired, as'well ' as the thanks of the Acad-
emy.'* '

Meteors and AeuoIiITES.— In the course
of some remarks in relation to the meteoric
storm of November last, Prof. Wurtz says
that whatever might have bet n the material
of which the trains left behind by (he me-
teoi were compo ed,— a point to be deter-
mined by the , ■ cl t it was solid,
notga ■ ■■..,■ and that their light was not
thai of incandescence, as such could last
but a few seconds,— but was that of

"'■ . or i l:-i r Vrted light— proba-
bly the former. "What became of this
material? We must of course conclude that
it settled, or will settle, to become a por-
tion of our solid earth; and further, that
the earth is receiving constant accretions
in this manner from outer space, since it is
rarely that a clear nocturnal sky can be
contemplated even for a minute, without
witnessing the fiery passage of ono of these
cosmical 'motes that people the sunbeam,'
into our atmosphere. The velocity with
wdiich they strike our atmosphere, — twenty-
five miles per second, nearly one hundred
times tho velocity of the swiftest cannon
ball, — is sufficient to dissipate tUem almost
instantly into vapor. No chemist will
doubt that if a cannon ball can be made to
start in motion at anything like this rate, it
would instantly kindle and be dissipated as
it progressed, in a few seconds, as an elon-
gated cloud of iron-oxide smoke. Occa-
sionally one of these fragments may last
long enough to reach the lower and denser
atmosphere, and have its motion so retarded
that its temperature will fall below the
point of combustion or volatilization (it
will be blown out, so to speak), and reach us
as an aerolite. Aerolites often show that
they have never been melted, or even jn'oba-
bly red hot, except superficially ; a fact
which is wholly in accordance with these
views, since the whole time of their passage
through the atmosphere can be but a few
seconds, aud there is not time for the heat
to penetrate into the interior."

American Fossil Botany. — M. Lcsque-
reux says the American continent is "the
only part of the world where questions of
general significance concerning paheonto-
logical distribution can be studied with
some chances of satisfactory conclusions."
We quote the following from his report:

"The few vegetable remains obtained
from the Tertiary of Tennessee and of Mis-
sissippi, and from the Gretacean foimation
of Nebraska and California, have demon-
strated facts which science was scarcely
prepared to admit:

"First. That the floras of our ancient
formations already had peculiar types, which
separated them from each other in the dif-
ferent continents. This is even evident in
the vegetation of tho coal measures. There-
fore, the supposition of a continental union
of Europe with America by Atlantides or
other intermediate lands, is proved to be
untenable.

" Second. That the essential types of the
old floras, of the cretaceous aud tertiary
formations have passed into our present
vegetation, or are preserved to our time.
The Cretacean of America, for example, has
already the Magnolias, whicli we find still
more abundant in our Tertiary. This last
formation has furnished a number of spe-
cies of the genus Magnolia, nearly identical
with that now existing ill the United States,
while the genus is totally absent in the cor-
responding floras of Europe. More than
this; we find in our Tertiary the same pre-
dominating types marked on both sides of
the Rocky Mountains. On the Atlantic
slope, leaves of magnolias, of oaks, of elms,
of maples and poplars, and not a trace of
coniferous trees; while in California and
Vancouver Island, the redwoods or Se-
quoia abound in the Cretacean and Ter-
tiary,'as now they still form the predomi-
nant vegetation of the country."

Preserving Insects. —Dr. S, P. Knox,
of Brownsville, Pa., writes, to the American
Naturalist, that after killing his insect with
chloroform, he paints it with a solution of
carbolic acid in alcohol,— four grains to
the ounce,— and then dries it iu the sua.
It keeps fresh and beautiful. In stuffing
animals, he uses cotton soaked in the same
solution. He does not even think it neces-
sary to skin them as formerly; but si.iipiy
removes the contents of the tho. .ax aud
abdomen,

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New Patents Issued to Pacific Coast
Inventors.

Especially reported by Hie U. S. Patent Office, Washing-
ton, D. C, to Dewey & Co., American and Foreign
Patent Solicitors, and Publishers of the
Minesg and Sctexttfio Pbess.

For the Week Ending December 29th.
85,268. — Improvement in Breech-loading

Fieeabms.— Salmon Belden and John F.

Crabtree, of Visalia, Cal.

l.We claim the double sliding breech
block C, with the chamber J, and the open-
ing spring b, the -whole constructed and op-
erating substantially as and for the purpose
herein described.

2. The lever B', and the operating pins
I and K, on the tumbler D, or an equiva-
lent device for elevating and depressing the
breech-block at one motion, substantially
as described.

8. The bent spring g, for holding the
shell to one side, substantially as herein
described.

4. In combination with the barrel A,
and magazine B, I claim the double slid-
ing breech block C, the lever B', with its
two operating pins I and K, and the shell
extracting spring g, the whole operating as
a repeating arm, substantially as described.

In this gun the necessary mechanism
for loading and discharging is very much
simplified, and the number of motions re-
quired are reduced from three or four to
one.

In the construction, abarrel is employed
having a receiving chamber or magazine
extending along the top cf it. The breech
block consists of two pieces hinged to-
gether, so as to open laterally, and so ar-
ranged as to slide up and down by the sim-
ple motion of cocking the gun. As the
breech block rises by half-cocking the gun ,
the two sides gradually separate, and by a
simple device the discharged shell is kept
at one side of the chamber, so that the en-
trance of a new cartridge will force it out.
The entering cartridge is retained by a
stop on the other side until the breech block
has been returned to its place and the two
sides closed, which is done by fully cocking
the gun. This brings the cartridge in a
line with the barrel, in which position it is
fired.

The same mechanism is peculiarly adapted
to repeating pistols, and forms at the same
time the simplest and strongest arrange-
ment yet discovered, its strength depend-
ing on the amount of metal on each side of
the breech block.
85, 269.— Impbovement in Expansion Wagon

Wheels. — Salmon Belden, of Visalia, and

Johnson P. Ford, of Santa Clara, Cal.

(Antedated Dee. 24th, 1868.)

We claim the double clamp E, E, and
wedges F, F, for forcing the joints of the
felloes together, substantially as described.

The nature of this invention is to provide
a wagon wheel so constructed that the fel-
loes can be made to expand against the
tire, and avoid the necessity of cutting and
upsetting of the tire.

To do this the outer end of ordinary
spokes of the wheel is shortened or turned
off, and when shortened a bolt or pin is in-
troduced into the end of the spoke, passing
up a considerable distance and extending
through the felloe in the ordinary way.
Nuts are permanently attached to the inner
fice of the felloes having openings through
which the exterior spokes pass. A hollow
screw with a band is placed on the exten-
sion rods, and when turned up the nuts and
felloes are pressed out agaiDst the tire, and
when turned in au opposite direction the
felloes are released from their pressure, ad-
mitting of an easy adjustment of the wheel
against the tire.

By this construction it is intended that
the head of the hollow screw shall rest
against the shoulder formed by cutting away
the end of the spoke.

85,279. — Improvement in Derricks. — An-
gus Campbell, of Downieville, Cal.

1. I claim the tuck D, consisting of the
bow a, swinging frames b, e, and concave
rollers d, substantially as herein shown
and described.

2. The rope G, when arranged as de-
scribed to brace the boom by being fast-
ened to the truck sliding thereon for the
purpose of relieving the topping-lift C, as
specified.

3. The hook H, having the nut X, ring
w, and link v, arranged substantially as and
for the purpose herein shown and de-
scribed.

4. The chain O, bar P, lever R, and arm
c', in combination with the hook H, nut x,
ring to, and link i, arranged as described for
the purpose specified.
85,371.— Improved Quicksilver Fornace

and Condenser.— Thos. W. Dresser, of

San Jose, Cal.

1. I claim the separating walls L, L, in
the vapor chamber, with the upper con-
necting passages M, M, and lower passages
N, N, together with the condensing troughs
o, o, the whole constructed and operated
substantially as and for the purpose de-
scribed.

2. The siphon water pipe X, and the
pipe b, from the vapor chamber, or equiva-
lent device for withdrawing the vapor by
means of a vacuum, and condensing it in
its passage, substantially as herein de-
scribed.

3. The cylinder e, with the buckets g,
operating as shown for producing a vacuum
and forcing the vapor beneath the water in
chamber d, and the vapor pipe i, con-
structed and operated substantially as and
for the purpose described.

4. I claim the two fines m and n, with the
dampers t, t, t, for regulating the draft, or
by closing them entirely to cause a diaft
through the siphon tube, and the condens-
ing chamber j, substantially as described.

5. I claim constructing the foundation
with the inclined impervious plates A, A,
and the channels D, between the courses,
together with the collecting channels B,
substantially as and for the purpose de-
scribed.

6. I claim a draft as created by the
siphon tube X, the endless chain and its
buckets g, g, or equivalent device for con-
densing the vapors and gases which escape
from chemical works, for retorting gold
and silver amalgams, and for withdrawing
and condensing cold that would be lost in
melting and refining, substantially as here-
in described.

The object of this invention is to provide
an improved furnace and condenser for the
reduction of quicksilver, and other ores of a
similar nature, so that the whole operation
is conducted with a very small loss of the
vapor, which, together with the gases, gen-
erated by the heat of the furnace, are drawn
and forced through tanks of water, thus ef-
fectually condensing all that is capable of
it, before the residue is allowed to escape
by the flues.

It also relates to an improved method of
constructing the foundation, so that the
waste which usually occurs by the quick-
silver passing through the foundation, is
effectually avoided and the whole operation
is rendered more economical.

This is effected by constructing a founda-
tion upon which is placed a double inclined
plane of iron or other impervious metal, the
two planes meeting and forming a trough
in the center, by which any escaping quick-
silver is carried to a receiver. The planes
may be plastered and polished, and used
either with or without the iron.

Above this the furnace is finished with a
grate for fire, a chamber for the ore, over
and through which the heat passes, and a
vapor chamber with diaphragms or walls
extending across it at intervals. These
walls have openings alternately on oppo-
site sides, and a series of troughs be-
tween them, through which water is con-
stantly passing.

Above the furnace is placed a tank of
water with a siphon tube leading from it to
another tank below. A tube leading from
the top of the vapor chamber enters this
siphon tube, and the water passing down
the former, draws and forces the quicksil-
ver vapor into the lower tank in which, and
during its passage, it is completely con-
densed. Still another chamber is so ar-
ranged and connected with the lower siphon
tank, as to take the water aud lead it into
an upright tube about one-third of the dis-
tance from the top, so that the weight of
the water acts on a series of buckets on an
endless chain, and forces tbem down, each
carrying with it a portion of vapor drawn
from the principal chamber, and condens-
ing it, thus doing about double the work
that the siphon would do alone. The es-
cape flues have a series of valves or damp-
ers for stopping or changing the direction
of the escaping gases, while a final conden-
ser is constructed at the base of the chim-
ney.
85,398. — Cover for Pots, Kettles, etc. —

Geo. Beuben, of San Francisco, Cal.

I claim a cover for cooking and other
vessels having the opening C, covered with
wire gaugeor perforated tin surmounted by
the flange D, the whole surmounted by the
cover E, locking into the angular slots c, c,
arranged substantially as herein described.

This cover is so constructed that the
steam may be permitt d to escape without

danger of any foreign substance falling in-
to the vessel. It is also a great conven-
i jnce in pouring off water from the vege-
tables being cooked, as by merely taking
up the vessel with the hands and turning
it upside down, the water may be turned
off without breaking or injuring the vege-
tables, and it consists in making a hole in
the top of the cover which is covered with
wire gauze or perforated tin. A flange is
made around this opening, over which a
small cover is placed and secured by means
of pins on the inside of the rim which lock
into angular slots in the flange. The up-
per cover can be removed and the steam al-
lowed to escape from the cooking vege-
tables, or it can be allowed to remain and
thus present the same appearance as an or-
dinary cover. The inventor is an ex -printer,
and a well-known genius.
85,402. — Improved Shackle and Support-
er.— Wm. Riley, of Salem, Oregon, as-
signor to H. Carpenter, of same place

1. I claim the improved shackle A, B,
with the tongue G, and mode of fastening
upon the ankle, substantially as herein de-
scribed.

2. The supporter E, and the mode of
fastening the same to the shoe by means of
the strap I, and heel plate J, constructed
and arranged substantially as herein set
forth.

3. The mode of preventing the shackle
from turning on the ankle by means of the
stops L, L, as specified.

85,409. — Improvement in Railroad Tick-
ets and Punch for Cutting Coupons
Therefrom. — Henry M. Stow, of San
Francisco, Cal.

1. I claim a pouch ticket adapted to con-
tain change with a coupon printed thereon
or attached thereto, substantially as and for
the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with an instrument
for securing coupons and automatically de-
positing them in a box or other receptacle,
substantially as described, I claim a nee-
dle so located in the box or other receptacle
that it will perforate and retain upon it
each coupon as it is deposited, and which,
on being withdrawn, will draw a thread
through all the said coupons, as set forth.

3. In combination with an instrument
for severing coupons and automatically de-
positing them in a box or other receptacle,
substantially as described. I claim a slid-
ing cover to such box or other receptacle,
which will automatically slide over the box
or other receptacle, and close it when the
jaws of the instrument open and receive
from said box when the jaws close, the
same being operated substantially as here-
in described.

4. In combination with an instrument
for severing coupons from tickets, substan-
tially as described, I claim a needle so lo-
cated in relation to the cutting head or
other equivalent cutting device, that it will
pierce and retain upon it each coupon as it
is cut off, and so constructed and arranged
that by withdrawing it from said coupons
it will draw a thread through all of them,
substantially as and for the purpose speci-
fied.

5. In combination with the cutting head
and retaining box herein described, I claim
the case or shield D, substantially as and
for the purpose set forth.

85,474. — Improvement in Farm Gates. —

Albert J. Potter, of Omaha, Nebraska.

I claim the gate A, bolt h, lever F, bevel
wheel D, cogged segment D ' , shaft d, cyl-
indrical bar C, lever E, cords e, /, g, and
posts B, B, B, B, all combined, constructed,
arranged and operated, substantially as and
for the purpose set forth.

re-issues.
3,244. — Improvement in Gang Plows. —

Robert Baxter, of French Camp, Cal.

Patented Aug. 6th, 1867.

I claim a standard for the support of the
mold-board, or other like parts of a plow
formed in one piece with a projecting head
for the attachment of the beam, substan-
tially as described.

For the Week Ending Januart 5th.
85,578. — Improvement in Horse-Power

Charles F. Gay, Albany, Oregon. :

1. I claim the combination of the pivoted
circular platform D, wheels F, and spirally-
flanged cylinders or drums C, with each
other, and with the platform A, substan-
tially as herein shown and described, and
for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the band I, and
baud pulleys H, with the cylinders C, sub-
stantially as herein shown and described
and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination of the band wheel
E, with one of the flanged cylinders C,
tub itantially as herein shown and described
end for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination of the gear wheel
L, gear or pinion wheel M, shaft N, and
band wheel O, with one of the flanged cyl-
inders C, substantially as herein shown
and described and forthepurposesetforth.

5. The combination of the guide pulleys
R, and pulley box Q, with the driving band
P, substantially as herein shown and de-
scribed and for the purpose set forth.
85,588. — Improved Bottle Stopper. —

John T. Haviland, San Francisco, Cal. :

I claim a top for bottle-stoppers, consist-
ing of the tapering holding-ring B, and the
screw-cap C, the whole connected and ar-
ranged substantially as and for the purpose
described.
85,606. — Improvement in Packing fob

Steam Engine Piston Rods. — David

Neahr, Fort Xuma, Cal. :

I claim the construction audarrangemeLt
of the series of rings D, E, box G, spring

C, and follower F, substantially as shown
and described.

85,621. — Improvement in Gang Plows. —
Z. T. Sweet, Eugene City, Oregon. :

1. I claim the combination of the cam
spring H, rock shaft I, foot piece j, and
staple ?/, with the side bars a, a, blor/k h,
catch i, and beams G, all arranged and op-
erating as described for the purpose speci-
fied.

2. The arrangement of the rack d, and
the angular lever D, with the slotted guide
plate d, upon the axle and the slide c, upon
the arm b, of the wheel B, whereby the
weight of the cultivator holds the lever
locked in any desired position, as herein
shown and described.

85,623. — Improved Composition to be
Used in the Manufacture of Soap. —
Richard P. Thomas, San Francisco, Cal. :
I claim utilizing resinous substances and
rendering them soluble in water by com-
bining them with the substance, and in the
proportions herein described.
85,676. — Improvement in Shingle Ma-
chines.— Isaac I. Lancaster, Vancouver,
Washington Territory. :

1. I claim the guide plates M, M, con-
structed with straight and oblique grooves
m, m, and employed in combination with
the riving-knives J, J, substantially, as and
for the purpose set forth.

2. The pair. of reciprocating knives J, J,
and the feeding mechanism R, S, U, V,
operated by the return stroke of one of the
said knives, all substantially as and for the
purposes herein set forth.

The following was issued Dec. 15th,
1868, but was inadvertently omitted in the
Commissioner's report to us:
84,860. — Hatr Cutting Shears. — Lee D.

Craig, Nevada City, Cal. :

In combination with the blades A and B,
the comb F, adjusting plate E, set-screw

D, and lug C, the whole forming a haircut-
ting shears, substantially as described.

This invention is to provide an improved
attachment for shears to be used for hair
cutting. The improvement consists of a
sliding slotted plate, which may be moved
np and down in a plane at right angles with
that in which the blades of the shears move,
and held at any point by a set screw. Be-
low the blades this plate is bent at right
angles and has a short comb fastened to it,
so that the comb is parallel with the blades,
and hold it till it can be cut. It also regu-
lates the length, which is determined by
the point at which it is set

The attention of mechanics and others
is called to the card of Messrs. Noble &
Fleming, who have opened machine
works at No. 10 Stevenson street. They
pay particular attention to repairing en-
gines as well as all kinds of wood work-
ing machinery. They are agents of the
Davis wood planer and dove-tailing ma-
chines, together with a variety of other
tools, indispensable to the mechauic.

The Ohio Excavator and Ditcher, of
which a number are being made for Capt.
Burns at Casebolt's carriage factory, and
which was worked at the late State Fair, is
now in use on the Western Pacific Rail-
road, and said to be giving satisfaction. It
is a large scoop mounted on two wheels,
and adjustable as to the depth of the ditch
to be made; behind it is a belt arrangement,
by which the earth is carried back as soon
as brought up by the scoop, and deposited
in a cart having a bottom which drops out
when the dirt is to ba dumped. The ad-
vantage is that a full load of dirt is carried
away on wheels at once, and may be de-
posited at anyplace desired, — obviating the
frequent trips, great friction, and small
loads in the use of the scraper. The price
of the excavator is $450.

Tl)e Mining and Scientific Press.

53

Weekly Stock Circular.

By AuocltUdBr?k«nofthe8 T. Steele andExeaangeBoird'.

weiBOOi Janu.ir
<'1t y siorlis.

"U". note tin FollowlDg transaction* to other than min-
ing aharoa; A large amount at Spring YoUVy Water
rtock, at $fiG@0fl 7"> par ihan ; San Francisco da*, at $80

@€ '; ": kUnd UullrufUl. at (69.

In addition to onr previously announced dirldi ode ol
nga and Loan Societies of thiacity, we add that
of thr French, vbich dJabnrsee n percent, per annum,
net, to its dopi

From the Annual Statement "f the Pacific Insurance
Company, of tiii--- city, made on the 1st Inst., we take the
following;

Capital atock (aotd) $1,000,000 00

Anniiiiit in exoen of rn[nt*l, available to pay

loaaai and dU ideods 529,7-10 18

UUUMXU,

Lo#«*mi In proeeea ol adjustment. 43.S32 84

Amount required to re-tnaon out**ian«iniK

Ixiiircni, (wins An per cent, of unexpired

Win Prandonu and all Marine Premiums., . 879,631 77

ToUl $32M«1 «1

PISHljnSEMEjrrS.

Amount paid for Firo lowea $203,248 23

Amount paid for Marine- loaaea H*.a02 48

Dlvioaoda paid stockholders. BO.ooO 00

I'.iif for I'tituiniaitioD to agents 50,iU7 ■'••>

BalBTlai Of oitieers, attorneys and employees. 49,1*4 18

Ktatcand r>d>Tul taxOB paid 40,230 05

Amount of all other payments aim cxpondi-

tore*. 101.453 32

Total $ti53.KJl 83

Net amount uf Fire risks written during the

year $40,452,740 00

Km amount of Marino ri«ks written during

the year 20.788.181 00

Amount of Fire risk* in force Doc. 31, 1*6*.... 33,37*2,804 0(1

Amount uf Marine risks in force Dec. 31, 1868 2,8t».»titi 00

Deducting the losses in process of mljuBtment. together
with the uttonnt required to reinsure the whole out-
stanclinj,* buatoe&a of this company, the some being
calculated nt the rate of 50 per cent, on nil unexpired
premiums, widen, the above statement shows as liabili-
ti<-P, WOttld leave a net balance of $201,278 57.

The statement of the California Insurance Company
for the year ending December 31, 18G8, shows assets
amounting to $309,296, including $200,000 capital; liabil-
ities, including amount required to re-in&urance out-
standing risks, $70,126. The receipts of the company for
1808 wow $166,259. of which $115,271 was for premiums.
The expenditures were $150,703, including $70,895 for
losses and $48,000 for dividends to stockholders. The

id t of losses for the year, including those reported

and disputed was $68,024. The net amount of marine
risks written was $4,186,437, while the amount outstand-
ing on the 31st December was $1,178,583, on which the
premiums were 575,873.

From the annual statement of the Merchants' Mutual
Marine Insurance Company, we learn that their paid up
capital is $500,000; surplus above capital, $182,180, mak-
ing total assets of $682,186. The amount of liabilities on
the 31st of December, 18G8, not including amount re-
quired for reinsurance of outstanding risks, was $44,558;
amount of outstanding risks at the close of 1868, $3,134,-
683.

Minlne Sl*»r*c Marltet.
In regard to mining share transactions, we may state
that the market has been quite variable, but the present
condition of tho Comstock Lode, if any tiling, looks more
hopeful, most developments tending to a better state of
things in the course of a few months. "We might reit-
erate here what we stated in our last issue regarding the
roust ruction of a railroad from Vinginia City to the
Truckee River, which has already received the pledged
aid of a number of the most prominent companies, for
the purpose of enabling the reduction of tho low class ores,
which arc now uuavailable. This project has already
improved the several stocks, and its completion will un-
doubtedly advance them to a marked extent.

The report of the Amador Mining Company for fifteen
months, ending January 1, 1869, is before us, and from
it we make the following extracts: From 30,794 tons of
ore reduced during the period under review, $658,378 70
in bullion was obtained, showing an average yield of
$21 50 per ton.

hecehts.
The total receipts from October, 1867, to Jan-
uary 1, 1809, aggregate $67P,r>-'>l 45

DISBURSEMENTS.

Dividends, No. 1 to No. 16 $340,400 00

Mine 168,512 16

Eureka Mill 52,111 22

Bddjier Mill 15,479 51

Rose Mill 7.185 45

Construction account 26,942 05

Real estate 26.000 00

General expenses and salaries 8,736 14

O Sfice expense 4.058 98

Sundries 12.744 35

Hills receivable 5.800 00

Cash on hand January 1, 1869 11,681 59

$679,651 45

The assets are stated at $98,129 93. The total mining
expenses have been $4 67 per ton, and for milling,
$2 30 1-10, making an aggregate of $6 97 1-10 per ton.
The President, iu his report, says that, " Somewhat less
tha n a year since, this mine was examined and reported
upon by eminent engineers, who estimated the reserves
then in sight at 108,000 tons, possessing, in place, a net
value of $85l),OU0. Since that report, there have been
extracted and reduced 21,700 tons, yielding $404,250
gross." A dividend of $6 per share will be paid on and
after the 20th instant. The receipts of bullion to date on
January account foot up $23,000. The Badger drift is in
sume twelve feet, showing a vein from twenty inches to
two feet thick, and is looking flue. It is believed the
rock will go $100 to the foot.

Hale & Norcross was in good request early in the
week at an advance, but at the close shows a very mate-
rial recession. On the 18th inst. the south breast was
about five feet wide at the top and six feet at the bot-
tom. Assays of this ore went from $40 to $52. Later
news shows these developments to be less promising.
In the north cross-cut they have made thirty feet with-
out reaching ore, and have not yet reached any east clay.
On the third station a tunnel is being constructed to the
main tunnel, in order to reach the point where the ore is
found. The drift is nearly completed, and they will
soon be ready to sink a winze.

Kentuck has received duIUod t<> the amount of $34,112

an January acoonnt; and Crown Point $9.491 Banks

(Oel.) paid ■ dividend ol S0 par boom on the 20th, and
Amador i Qal, | 68 per share on the sum

Ghollar-Fotoal, f'-r the week ending Jan, 16th. shown
an ore yield uf mm tons. At the 1,100 level drift water
came in at ttu Eaceol tin- drift on tho Uth Instant, hnt
ied( and is said t<> Bow from porphyry
alone. At the 928 level thirty real had been mad.-,
a mixture of cloy and porphyry, the a ihuk of
which are horizontal, or nearly bo.

Golden Chariot (Idaho] le one of the recant stocks
brought into the market. Hie location consists of 7so
fret. The stock is divided into 10,000 shares, a dividend
of $2 50 per nharc was paid on the 20th inst. From 293
tons of ore thoy obtained $55,000, giving nearly $200 to
Uu ton. Tiny had a surplus of $31,099, after paying
expenses in December, and deducting the dividend, have
$6,000 on hand.

Overman received $3,441 87 in bullion on the 17th, and

$2,481 72 on the 19th The 1,000 level of tho Empire

has been opened and a drift run some four feet . . . .Dauey

levied an assessment of $2 per share on the 9th Ophir

is destined to be an active stock so soon as drifting will
be commenced from the lower levels. The 700 level will
bo reached, it is thought, within a month, and then drifts
will be simultaneously started from the 600 and 700 lev-
els. . . .Belcher shows a rapid rise. The office is now lo-
cated in this city, with the Secretary of the Keutuck
Company. The stock, on its now basis — ten shares for
one formerly issued — is quotable at the close at $18@20
per share.

We call the attention of the reader to tho annexed table,
the tame being it monthly statement relative to most of the
stocks dealt In at the Hoard, showing the highest and lowest
price* monthly of the last quarter of 1868, of twenty-three
companies, together with tho bullion yield, assessments lev-
ied and dividends disbursed during the same time, giving also
totals of 1867 and 18ttfi. With the exception of the Yellow
Jacket Company, It Is very complete. Tlint company, dur-
ing the fiscal year ending Juno 30th, produced £630.000 in
bullion, of which no account Is given In our table, for the
reason that we have been unable to obtain the monthly
yield from time to time. Taking the above amount as
a basic, wc find a bullion product or said company of about
S60.000 per month.

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STOCK TRANSFER JOURNALS,
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ASSESSMENT RECEIPTS,

And all other Blanks, Blank Books, etc. , required by Min-
ing and other Corporations, kept on hand or printed to
order on short notice, at moderate prices, at the office of
he Jlining awl Scientific Press.

Mining Secretary.

THE SUBSCRIBER. HAVING SERVED FOR THE LAST
flvByearaaa Secretary of various mining companies,
feels I'ullv competent to serve In that capacity. Anv par
ties wishing to secure the services of a Secretary cai: bt
accommodated on reasonable terni3. Iniormation given,
and all necessary papers correctly made out.

Having had a long experience in the purchasing of goods
and miicinnerv for miners, parties In the mines will (Tin! II
to their advantage, where purchasing agents are employed,
to send their orders to the undersigned.

,1, ,M. BUFFINGTON,

Room 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California, street
Sau Frauciaco I7v\5-tf

MINING SHAREHOLDERS' DIRECTORY.

[Compiled for every Issue, from advert Urmcnt it In the

Miming and BciajmriC PlKafl and other San

Francisco Journals.;

OumprlalruE the Names of Companies, District or county

of Location; Amount and date of Assessment; Date ot
Meeting; Day of Delinquent Sniv, and Amount and Time
01 Payment ol Dividends.

RJJIB, LOCATIOS, iHiU'ST, ji:id DAT DAT

DAT* of *aaBMM*KT. DKLINuoknt. ofsalr

Amador Co., dividend ft per Hharc.... Payable Dec. 10. I8f<s

Alplin, Storey Co., Nev., Lee. il, *IU Ian. a— Jan 25

Alamo, Lynnco., hOY., Nov. 25, S6c Dec. 31 — J«ii- 3d*

adrlatle, storey co .Epeclal HceilDg, Jan. :8

Bacon. Stony co., Nev., div Payable June 19, 1868

Belcher, Storey co, Nov., Dec. 31. $25 Jan, 30— March 2

Crown Point. Storey co,, Dec. 18. S" 60. Jan. 2:t-Fcb. 15

Chalk Mountain, Nevada to.. Jan. l\S2..F.b l.l -March 8*

Chorokce Flat, Butte co., Dec, y, $5 lan. II— Jan. M

fhollar l'oto-.l, dlv., $J5 Pavnb'c Oct. 15. IS67

Crown Point, ilivict. mi. *7.5U PavM|,le Sept. 12 186S

f'otnla, slnaloa. Dec 12, Jl Inn 15— Feb. 4

City K. K , San Francisco, Jan. 0', $5 Feb. 10— March 0

Dauey. Lyon co.. Nov., Jan. 0, *2 Feb. 12-March 1

Eureka, dlv. $5. Payable Nov. 20, 1«6S

Empire H. A M.. Nev.. dividend $t'» Payable May 15, 15t>7

Gold Hill Cons., Storey co., Jan. 8. $1 Feb. 15— March 1

Gould * Curry, Storey co., Nev^D.c 6. $l&..Jaii.9~ Jan. 29

Gould A Curry, tliv.. $7.Ml • Payable Ma v 15, lSt»7

Unl.'cn flmrlot. Mnlui, dlv., S2 50 I'avnbh- Jan. IU W'.'.i

Gold HillQ M A M-dtvldeild. 57 50. . ..Pavabk- July l:i, 1S0S

Golden Rule, Tuolumne co, dlv ouc« Bh...PayahleDec,26*

Great Central. Arizona, Oct. 9, $2.50 Nov. U-Jan.2&«

Humboldt Canal Co Special Meeting Jan. 27

Hope Gravel. Nevada CO , Jan. II, $1 Feb. 15— March 8

Hale A Norcross, Storey co., Dec. 12, $5 Jan. 16— Feb 6

Hale & Norcroas, dlv. $125 Sept. 1G. 1867

Imperial. Storey co . Dec. 15. §25 Jan. 18- Feb. i

Imperial. Storey co . Nov., dlv Payable June 20, ISfiS

Juan Bautlsta, Santa Clara co., Nov. 27 Sale .lun. :W

Julia. Storey co , Nc^., $2.50 Feb. 10-Feb. 27

Keystone, Consolidated Special Meeting, Feb 13

Kentuck,div.,$2) per share Payable Jan. 10, 1SG9

Mohawk A Montreal, Nevada co., Dec. 7, $3.. Jan 25— Feb 9

Morning Star, Alpine co., Dec. 9, $2 50 Jan. II— Feb. 1

North Amer. Wood p. Co.. Jan. 15, $ I Fib 18— March 8*

North Star, dividend, §5 Payable Aug. 15, 1868

Oriental, Sierra co , Jan. i, $2.50 Feb. 5-Feb. 20

Peninsula, Storey co., Dec. 15, $10..! Feb. II— March fi

Pacltlc Unassessable, dlv Payable June 18, 1868

Rattlesnake, Yuba co , Dec. 19,87.59 Jan. 21-Feb. 8«

Rippon. Alpine co , Oct. 15. $ I Sale Jan. 23"

Rising Star, Idaho, Nov. 16, Slu,. January 4— Jan ?$

San Juan Bautcsta, S inta Clara co Sale Jan. 30

Santiago. Silver City, dividend, $i 5u... fa vable Dec 19, 1P68
Savage, Virginia. Nev. dividend, $1 ...Payable Dec. 12, 1868

Sand Spring -alt. dividend $1 ...Payable Jan 5, 1869

Tallulah, Humboldt co., Dec. It, $17.50 Jan. 29— Feb. 27

U. S. Grant, Nevada co., Nov. 9, 5Ue Dec. 15— .Ian »)•

Virginia A G. H Water Co. .Dividend, payable Nov. 20, 1868
Yellow Jacket, dlv., S100 Payable Jan. 15, 1869

Those marked wllhan asterisk (*) are advertised In this
journal. .

Latest Stock Prices Bid and Asked.

3. r. STOCK ANO BZOBAHQB BOARD.

Fridat Evkning, January T2, I8fl9.

MtRCKLLANKOUa STOCKS. Jiid. Anked.

United States Bonds, ft 2i is, 18i5, '6?, '68 $ 88 83>S

United Suites Bon Is. fi 20s, 18*4 81 82

United Stales Bonds. 5 2Us, 1862 82 82 JJ

Legal Tender Notes 74 74,'4

Calilornia State Bonds, 7s, 1857 W> 95

San Francisco Bonds, ills, 1851 par A Int.

San Franci-co City Bonds. 6s. 1865 — —

San Francisco City and County Bonds. 6s, 1868. 85 87^

San Francisco School Bonds, IDs, I860 100 —

San Fra neh co School Hon. is, I Us, ltfil — par A int.

San Francisco City and Go Sch'l B'ds, 7s, 18G6. 90 —

San Francisco Oitv and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1862 ... 87« 89

San FranciscoCitv and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1804 S7>£ 89

San Francisco <:ity and Co Bonds, 7*. 1865 87^ g9

San FrancKco Cttv and Co. Judg- Bds, 7s. 1863. 87^ 89

San Francisco City and Co. Judg Bds, 7s, 186*. P7,1; 89

Sacramento City Bonds 24 —

Sacramento County Bonds. 6s U5 —

Marysvtlle Bonds, 10s 75 SO

Stockton City Bonds W> 70

Yuba County Bonds. 8s 77 79

Santa Clara County Bonds. 7" 75 77

Butte County Bonds, 10s, I860 70 75

San Mateo County Bonds, 7s 75 80

Calilornia steam Navigation Co G'' 7»

Spring Vallcj Water Co fc6h b7%

Btate Telegraph Go 26 —

GAS COMPANIES.

San Francisco GnsCo 81 84_

Sacramento Gas Co — 7^

RAILROADS.

Sacramento Valley Railroad — —

San Francisco and San Jose Railroad 40 45

Omnibus Railroad 70 —

Cenlral Railroad |9 62

North Beach and Mission Railroad 67 Ji 70

Front Street. Mission and Ocean Railroad 11 12

BANKING INSTITUTIONS.

Pacific Bank °7>« 1W>

The Bank of Calilornia 157 158

California, Loan and Savings Society — —

tNSUKANCK COMFANIKS.

Firemans' Fnuil Insurance Go T-hi 9*

Pacific Insurance Co 126 127

San Francisco Insurance Co — ln5

Merchants' Mutual Marine IiisuranccCo fiOr) 525

California Insurance Co 13iii 1400

Union Insurance Co 92 93

Home Mutual Insurance Co 19J5 20

Occidental Insurance Co 72 —

National Insurance Co 72 —

Builders' Iusuranco Co — —

'ii.MM, STOCKS— WASHOE DISTRICT.

Alpha 57!£ 58

Baltimore American — —

Belcher '8 20

Bullion, G. 0 30 33

Crown Point 65 65J£

CulefVa.) — —

Confidence ^6 —

Consolidated Virginia 8 12

Chollar-Potosl. '60 170

Dancy ?% 3

Exchequer W 27«

Empire Mill and Mining Go 125 128

Gould A Curry 109 1 0

Gold Hill Guartz 60 61

Hale A Norcross 58 59

Imperial 138^ 139

Julia — 4

Jlistieu and Ii'deni-iidcnt 1 5

Kentuck 2m 235

LadyBrvaii 15 1SJ£

North American 10 12

Ophir M —

Overman 7"1 78 H

Segregated Belcher 8J» 9

Savage "S>i 79

Sierra Nevada .... 28 30

VeHow Jacket -• U3fi 1410

United States — —

MISCKLLANEOOS MINING STOCKS.

Amador (Calirornlai -Y> 210

North Slav (California) : — —

Eureka (Calitonii..) 210 —

DeSoto (Humboldt) - 2

Golden Rule. Calltornia 12 13

San Prancisoo Market Eates.

"Whole-title Prices.

Friday, January 23. 1869.

Flour, Extra, fi bbl $5 25 <a>$5 75

Do. Superfine * '''5 (^4 75

Corn Meal. If* 100 lbs » 25 © 3 50

Wheat, 98UW lbs ' so @ l 75

Oats, lit 100 lbs 2 10 @ 2 6)

Barley, ^ U)ll lbs 2 10 @ 2 .«

Beans, ~p 100 lbs 6 00 @ 8 50

Potatoes, $4 WU lbs 60 @ 8)

Hay. fH nm 14 no

Live Oak Wood. (* mrd 9 00

Beef, extra, dresned, fi lb 8

Sheep, on fool 3 00

Hogs, ■■ 01, 11* tt, ■ij'

Uogn.drvsited.fii lb 7

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New Incoepobations.— Articles of in-
corporation have been recently filed in the
County Clerk's office in this city as follows:

Metkopmtan M. &M. Co.— White Pine,
Nev. Jan. 15th. Trustees: AlpheusBull,
E. Hindman, J. C. Collins, Peter Johnson
and Geo. W. Clark.

Diamond Silver Mining Co. — Lander
County, Nev. Jan. 15th. Capital stock,
81,400,000; 14,000 shares, SlOOeaeh. Trus-
tees: John Bamber, Isham Case, D. D.
Cook, J. B. White and F. H. Wells.

Bismarck Mining Co. — White Pine, Nev.
Jan. 18th. Capital stock, 8200,000; 2,000
shares, 8100 each. Trustees: John F. Tay-
lor, W. H. Sears, John Nightingale, E. P.
Franklin and James T. Godfrey.

Virginia No. 2 Mining Co. — White Pine,
Nev. Jan. 18th. Capital stock, 8800,000;
8,000 shares, 8100 each. Trustees: P.
Clough, Eugene B. Drake, John F. Mitch-
ell, John W. Coleman and J. C. Stein-
bergan.

White Pine Smelting Co. — White Pine,
Nev. Jan. 19th. Capital stock, 850,000;
1,000 shares, 850 each. Trustees: George
Cofran, D. D. Shattuck and W. P. C. Steb-
bins.

White Pine Mutual M. & M. Co. — White
Pine.Nev. Jan. 19th. Capital stock, 81, 000,-
000. 10,000 shares, 8100 each. Trustees:
A. W. Blair, Dr. John Grant, O. P. Sutton,
John Nightingale, J. E. De la Montagnie,
John A. Stanley and F. G. Smith.

White Pine Water Co. — White Pine,
Nev. Jan. 21st. Capital stock, 81,000,-
000; 1,000 shares, 81,000 each. Trustees:
A. W. Von Schmidt, Thos. Bell, W. C.
Balston and Alvinza Hayward.

Dolomite Consolidated Mining Co. —
White Pine, Nev. Jan. 21st. Capital
stock, 8500,000; 500 shares, 8100 each.
Trustees: Joseph Osborne, C. E. Barry,
E. W. Leonard, J. L. Howard and J. C.
Spencer.

Election of Officers. — San Francisco
Gas Co. — Jan. 18th. Directors, J. A.
Donohoe, John Parrott, G E. McLane,
J. D. Walker and J. G. Eastland; Presi-
dent, J. A. Donahoe; Secretary, Joseph
G. Eastland.

A Grecian Bender on the Eampage. — A few
days since one of our fashionable belles saun-
tered into one of our city drug stores, and in-
quired of the young man in attendance if they
had Magnolia Water. Upon being answered in
the affirmative, she said she would take a bot-
tle. Whereupon the young man proceeded to
do up the package, but was interrupted by the
young lady remarking that if what he was do-
ing up was for her, he had made a mistake; that
it was not Plantation Bitters, but Magnolia
Water, which she inquired for. He excused the
mistake by telling her that she appeared to have
the "Grecian Bend," or colic stoop, very bad,
and knowing that Plantation Bitters were
highly recommended, supposed that was what
she wanted. Whereupon she grew wrathy, and
retorted that he was a sickly, bilious Pill, and
by all means to take it himself, it would do him
a power of good. She procured the Magnolia
Water, and left the store highly indignant. *

The velocipede, we understand, has made its
appearance, as might have been expected, at
Woodward's Gardens. There is nothing new or
old, strange or wonderful, in the animal, vege-
table or mineral kingdoms, that cannot be found
either in the cabinet or on the grounds. *

If the type of your evening paper begins to
look small, dim and indistinct, you "will find a
remedy by applying to C. Muller, 205 Mont-
gomery street. You will obtain a pair of spec-
tacles adapted to your eyes.

54

T!\e Miming and Scientific Press.

Mining Summary.

Tjik rollnwinsr inrorinjitir.il is (.'leaned mostly ft-oni jour-
nals published in i lie interior, in close proximity 10 the
mines mentioned.

CALIFORftSA.

Ai.rsxr. cocstt.

Chronicle, Jan. 9th: At a distanffe of 100
ft.' from the month of the tuimel and Go ft.
from the surface, the Michigan Tunnel Go.
have this -week strtiek some good looking
ore which resemble the Tarsbish ore.

The report of the several officers of the
Mountain Tunnel Co. shows that the tun-
nel is in close proximity to the ledge, which
is liable to be struck any moment. A large
number of companies having' claims on the
ledge will start work as soon as the Mount-
ain Co. get into paying ore.

AHAB9E COBXTT.

Jackson Ledger, Jan. 16th: There is now
at the mill of the Amador Co. 2,000 tons of
quartz, and there is also 500 tons on the
Iwo dumps. The company are running
72 stamps day and night, but with this ca-
pacity for crushing they are not able tokeep
up with the yield of rock from the mine.

A fine quartz mill is being fitted up at
Tibbit's foundry, to be used in crushing
rock taken from the Anaconda mine at Pine
Grove.

CA1ATIRAS COUNTY.

Mokelnmne Hill Chronicle, Jan. 16th: A
fifth interest in Chapman, Hopper & Co's
quartz lead, located near Kailroad Flat, has
recently .been sold for $3,000.

The Lower Rich Gulch correspondent
writes: Mining has again been started and
work resumed on most of the claims here,
with a renewed vigor. At the Palomo mine
they are not taking out ore at present, but
are "engaged in connecting their north and
south levels, in order to drain the water to
their south shaft. The next mine adjoin-
ing the Palomo, is Alexander & Co's. They
have a 10-stamp mill running night and
day, pounding out the precious metal.
They are now working from their lower
level, 100 ft. below their former one. and
are getting better ore than they ever have
had since they opened the mine.... The
Norton claim has been recently purchased
by Mr. Smith, of Grass Valley, and work
has been again commenced with good pros-
pects of striking the vein. Should they be
successful in getting a vein there, a first
class mill will immediately go up. Frcm
present appearances, Rich Gulch has as
good a prospect in the future as aDy min-
ing locality in Calaveras County.

IIAKIPO^A COBSTY.

Mail, Jan. 15th: Hambleton's quartz mill,
situated near Bridgeport, has been crush-
ing rock for several weeks past. No clean
up has yet been made.

SEVAM COUNTY".

Transcript, Jan. 14th : The American
mining claim at Sebastopol, has for several
years been one of the leading gravel claims
of the county. The yield has been regu-
lar and the amount about the same at each
clean up. The last two runs made have
yielded as well as the preceding ones;
the first being $12,000 and the last $14,000.
The mining prospects at Columbia Hill
are exceedingly encouraging. The mining
companies are preparing for work, and the
mines have, maDy of them, passed into the
hands of capitalists, who are able to open
the ground at a lower grade than has yet
been worked. The Union Gravel Co. are
employing a large number of men, and will
open their claims to a great depth. The
Columbia Hill basin has yielded a large
amount of money, and the bedrock has
never yet been reached. Of late years men
of capital have become interested, and the
mines will be opened to a greater depth,
and made to yield larger thau heretofore.
The French Co. has extended its ditch to
the Hill, and the prospect is that the water
rates will very soon be reduced.

One-half interest in the Hawes & Co's
claims at Rough and Heady, has been pur-
chased by a Mr. Gibbon.

Mining in the immediate vicinity of San
Juan has not been very lively for a year or
two past, but there is now a prospect for
the resumption of work on San Juan Hill.
County Surveyor Bradley is engaged in
making a survey for a tunnel for the Em-
pire Mining Co., on the Hill, and it is
thought work will soon be commenced.

Jan. 17th : Nevada district has several
mines which bid "fair to make for it a repu-
tation among quartz mining localities. The
Banner Co. will soon start up their new 40-
stamp mill, and during the nextseason they
will have abundance of rock to keep them
constantly employed. The New York Co.
has resumed operations on the old Sneath
u: Clay mine. The Pittsburg has recently
started Lip new hoisting works, and is uow
better prepared for work than ever before.
Besides these old established minus there

are a number which are being prospected,
several of which promise to yield largely.

Gazette. Jan. 12th : The JXL Co. at
Moore's Flat, cleaned up last Saturday over
$4,000. The company have been obliged
to suspend operations for the winter, on ac-
count of the heavy storm.

A blast of 100 kegs of j>owder will be
set off in the Manzanita claims of Maltman
& Marselus, some time this week. A tun-
nel has been run 65 feet into the bank,
which at that place is 70 feet in hight, and
from the head of the tunnel there is a cross
drift GO feet in length. The powder will
be placed in the cross drift, the tunnel
filled with gravel, when the blast will be set
off.

The Willow Yalley mine is promising
well. Twenty tons of rock crushed last
week at the Oriental mill, yielded $55 per
ton. »

Haroun & Co. have struck rich gravel on
the Rocky Bar claims, half a mile above
Washington. The claims of Battis & Co.,
which were flooded two weeks ago, have
been pumped out, and work is again re-
sumed with a full complement of hands.

Grass Yalley National, Jan. 13th: The
mill of the Empire Co. at French Corral is
now doing a good business; while the Ne-
braska claims, owned by Poulinier & Cole-
man, have been paying largely. The latter
company have recentlyput in a submerged
pump to free their claims of water, which
is found to work admirably. The cement
is composed of a gray sand, in which one
would hardly expect to find gold, but it
yields large returns..

Jan. 16th : We are informed by O.
Sweeny, that he has sold 500 feet of the
Grass Yalley ledge for $3,000 cash.

Grass Yalley Union, Jan. 14th : The Sev-
en-Thirty Mining Co. have been in a law-
suit for some time past, and now that they
have gained it, will go ahead to take out
rock w'hich will pay them as well as did
their first crushing. Then they made some-
thing over $1,000 per day for all the com-
pany.

Jan. 15th : There has been no falling off
in this district during the past week, either
in the number of mines beiug worked, or
in tire average yield of pay. The Empire,
of Ophir Hill, has backs enough to go on
for three or four years. The Empire will
surely pay large dividends from this time
forward. The Idaho and the Eureka are
keeping up their average pay, or perhaps
going a little ahead of their average. In
the northern part of the country, hydraulic
mining is active, and the pay promises to
be large. In this immediate vicinity the
placer mines have not been worked as yet
this winter, to any extent.

Gazette, Jan. 10th : Fogarty and Fitzsiin-
mous lately purchased a body of cement
claims, situated near the South Yuba, be-
low Jones' Bar, for which they paid $4,000.
They took out several tons of the cement,
and worked it by mill process, and the
yield largely exc. eded their expectation.
The claims are extensive, containing 3,000
feet along the deposit, and in view of the
rich yield of the cement, are now consid-
ered very valuable. The owners purpose
erecting a mill at once to work the claims.

Grass Yalley Union, Jan. 19th : Yester-
day we happened to be in Fiddley's bank,
when J. C. Coleman, of the Idaho eame-
iu, bearing an iron bucket of yellow metal.
The little dab only weighed 345 ouuees. It
was the result of a week's run.

1'IACEE COBXTT,

Truokee Tribune, Jan. 16th : The Dutch
Flat correspondent writes : The Baker
Bros' new cement mill has been running
for eight or ten days with indication-; of a
good yield. They will have a clean up to-
morrow.

The miners of this vicinity now have
plenty of water once more, and are as busy
as bees in their claims, many of which will
continue to yield good dividends to their
owners for many years yet to come.

PLTMAS COUNTY.

La Porte Union, Jan. 9th : Turner, Bice
& Co., the owners of the Black Hawk
claims near Quincy, have pocketed the sum
of $15,000, for the last summer's work.

The quartz mill at Argentine, owned by
Duesler, Knisoly & Co. , has suspended for
the present, but will resume work again in
a short time. An interest in this property
was purchased by Mr. Duesler a short time
since for $750.

The North Fork correspondent writes :
In consequence of high water there has
been less river mining done on the North
Fork this year than any year previous;
however, there are a mrmber of bank and
bar claims that are 2>aying well.

At Carriboo, Nissen, Shceffer & Jones are
making $4 per day to the man in their bank
claims, and have any amount of ground
that prospects the same per day.

The rich claim of Joseph Hickman still

continues to pay immensely. His has been
and is the best claim ever struck in this vi-
cinity. Thos. Orton, in the adjoiniug
claim below, and Mr. Drake, in the adjoin-
ing claim above, are doing well.

At Bamboo Bar, Balliett & Co. are mak-
ing about $10 a day to the man.

Boston & Bryan are engaged in cutting a
race through the bar which will drain about
700 feet of the bed of the river.

At Dutch Hill, Piddle, Catlania & Bap-
tist, in the old Dutch Hill claim, are mak-
ing $4 per day to the man.

Inconsequence of the caving of some of
the old works in the Zearing claim, the
prospectors, Waggoner & Ferguson, are
now running anew tunnel.

At Barker Hill, things are looking up.
Last spring most of the miners left this
place, thinking the mines "no good," or
worked out. A few remained, aud these
few are now receiving pay for their perse-
verance. J. J. Mechlin is making as high
as $20 per day to the man. Bly & Stanley
have good prospects.

SISKIYOU COUSTY.

Yreka <7;;ioK,Jan. Sth: A Scott's Yalley cor-
respondent writes : John Carroll & Co. are
taking out lots of money from their claims
on McAdam's Creek.

Until the storms of last week there had
been no rise in the streams to interrupt
river mining. Claims in the Scott Fiver
and the Klamath continued to be worked on
up till the storm of last Saturday. Scott
Biver raised so as to drive miners out of
the river claims; and on the Klamath, min-
ers became alarmed and took out their
wheels, though the river has not risen suf-
ficiently to interfere with their workings
had they left them in. The fall and winter
have been remarkably favorable for river
mining. The rain which fell last Saturday,
while it has put a stop pretty much to min-
ing in the beds of the rivers this winter,
has furnished water in the gulches so that
the vigor with which gulch mining will be
prosecuted for some time will more than
make up for the loss sustained by the stop-
page of the other.

TK1SITT COUNTY.

Weaverville Journal, Jan. 15th : Orson
Fox is putting up a hydraulic for the pur-
pose of opening a new claim on Five Cent
Gulch. Considerable fine gold is found in
the surface, and a tunnel, run about ten
years ago, established the existence of a
channel in the hill having a regular deposit
of good-looking washed gravel. Should
he find good pay it will be the means of
opening a number of claims in that vicin-
ity hitherto untouched.

A correspondent writes from Lcwiston
that John Am has purchased the old Crow
ditch, and allows the ground npou which
it is located to be mined out, furnishing
water from his Rush Creek ditch. There
is good pay extending from the front to the
Crow ditch, and probably some distance
back of it, that will afford employment to
several companies for a long time.
ARIZONA.

Prescott Miner, Dec. 19th: From parties
who visited the Sterling this week, we learn
that matters were progressing favorably
there. The mill was crushing the ore, aud
the chlorination works were in full blast.
Six tons of sulphurets or pyrites, were
roasted this week, and on Thursday last,
they were being operated upon in the vats.
It is thought $1,000 will be realized from
the batch.

Capt. Shonpe sold, recently, to Jackson,
Lovejoy <fc Co., a one-sixth interest in the
Excelsior diggings, on Lynx Creek, lor
$2,000.

A party of placer miners left for Big Bug
early in the week.

Geo. Monroe, who arrived here re-w
cently from Wickenburg, gives a glowing
description of the Vulture mine at that
place. He says it is now producing richer
rock than he ever saw in California, and
plenty of it.

Dec. 26th: The Sterling mill is idle, and
will remain so until after the holidays.

Good rock continues to be taken out of
the Plantanca mine.

Thn Chase ledge is widening, and rock
getting richer.

Denver Herald, Dec. 25th: A correspond-
ent of this paper, writing from Santa Fe,
gives the following: Eighty miles south-
west of Tucson is the Cababi mining district,
said to be very rich in silver. But the
great El Dorado of Arizona, at present, is
at Apache Pass, or around Camp Bowie,
110 miles this side of Tucson. Col. Stone
showed us some specimens of white quartz
completely gemmed, studded and streaked
with free gold, in the ratio of about an
ounce of gold to five ozs. of rock. Those
new mines are now being developed by
about 100 persons, principally from Pinos
Altos and Tucson. The lodes are ehieLly

decomposed quartz, even down to a depth
of 40 ft. The principal paying lodes that
have been opened to a depth of 40 or 50 ft.
are the Montana and Harris.
COLORADO.

Central City Herald, Dec. 26th: We saw
a silver brick at Stewart's smelting works,
Georgetown, weighing 342 ozs., valued at

$1.22 per oz— $417.24 A large stream of

water has been struck in the Quartz Hill
tunnel.

The ore in the Briggsminn is rapidly im-
proving, and Mr. Beach thinks in a few
days he will strike a large body of peacock
ore.

Mining is taking a start on Bates Hill,
Mountain City. The Gaston Mining Co.
are working the original lead of that name.
Taylor, Hammrard & Stevens are sinking a
shaft on the same lead. Ed. Moore has re-
cently taken a lease from Turney, and is
working at the junction of the Hope and
Gaston.

We saw a splendid specimen of ore from
the Franklin lode, this morning. It was of
a bright blue color, and literally covered
with native silver.

The Conqueror lode, on Leavenworth
Mountain, Clear Creek County, is proving'
to be a first class piece of property. The
walls are good and about four feet apart.
The ore is composed of sulphurets aud ga-
lena mixed, aud is about six inches wide.
Select specimens assayed, shows it to be
very rich, and 1% tons is now at the mill
of Huependen, Wolters & Co. for treat-
ment.

Central City Register, Dec. 31st: Wells,
Fargo & Co's express took down yesterday-
morning $14,000 iu gold, and 200 lbs. of
silver bullion.

A. S. Wright came up from Boulder last
night, with another installment of 288 ozs.
of bullion from the Hoosier mine.

Robert Teats brought up a beautiful bar
of silver bullion last night, weighing 4S7
ozs. This is about the average daily pro-
duct of his mill, running on ores from his
own mines on the Coaley and Gilpin County
lodes, wdiich are producing more ore than
ever before. These lodes were discovered
in June last, since which time they have
produced upwards of 20,000 ozs. of silver.
The largest assay that has been obtained
from crushed ore in bulk, from this mine,
is 735 ozs. per ton, and the highest from
selected specimens is a little above 20,000
ounces.

Bar mining about Idaho is rather dull at
present, owing to the cold weather, yet a
few parties keep pegging away, and are gen-
erally making good wages. Maj. Cannon
and brother are working the old Spanish
claim, on Spanish Bar with good results.
Schwartz and Mixer are doing a good busi-
ness on Illinois Bar. Eeeder & Co. are
still working on Bull Bar, which is paying
very well. Wright, Clenfield & Co's claim
is being worked, and is paying well. John
M. Dumont has got work started on both
the Garden and City tunnels, iu the former
of which he has some fine looking ore.

Georgetown Miner, Dee. 31st: Huepeden,
Wolters & Co. have taken out and shipped,
since Dec. 23d, 2,239.65 ozs. of silver bull-
ion, coin value, $1,913.19.

From the end of the tunnel in the Snow
Drift mine, which is 100 ft. in length, a
shaft six by twelve ft. is being sunk on the
vein, which is 33 ft. in depth. The crevice,
between walls, is about six feet in width,
carrying on the hanging wall two feet of
decomposed gangue. The remainder of the
crevice is barren. The lode is evidently a
true fissure vein, with solid granite walls,
euslickened, the enslickened surface being
striated horizontally. Ten feet above the
present workings there is a body of solid
gangue aud mineral combined, ab-.ut 30 iu.
in width.

CHINA.

The Cheffo mines continue to yield lib-
erally. The Recorder says:

A party of men, chiefly Americans, who
have been sometime engaged in working a
shaft, have expressed their intention of con-
tinuing, and do not feel any fear of being
attacked by any Of the Mandarin soldiers.
We have seen a specimen of the ore which
has been found, aud which we are told by
a gentleman of authority, looks very rich
in metal. A man who has been some five
3'ears iu the silver mines of Mexico, de-
clares that it contains G per cent, of silver.
The men have struck aveiu of metallic ore
fourteen inches thick, which seems by
analysis to consist chiefly of zinc and sil-
ver. The Chinese are buying the stuff at
$2 per picul. If there is 0 per cent, of sil-
ver in it, it will pay splendidly.

IDAHO.

Silver City Tidal Wave, Jan. 8th: Black's
mill has cleaned up, after a suecessfnl run
on Rising Star ore, with very flattering re-
sults, and is now stopped for a few days,

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in older to construct a kiln to dry the ores is also some tulle about a place called Mc-
before crashing. Oann'e Creek, and within the past throe

TlicCli.nl1 !- days several persons have left Gold Hill for

oping into a wider and richer mine as the that region. The mines are Bilver-bearing
shaft is put duwn. Ah Cage came over the quartz veins and are situated about 150
mountain yesterday and reports the nines miles north of White Pine.
ad Flint all looking Washoe.

I In the Stuck Circular, in another portion
of this paper, will he found late mining
from this district.]

Virginia Enterpris , Jan. 7th: The Savage
Co. day bi foi , shipped through

Wells, Fargo & Co. nine bars of bullion,
valued at §17,261.47, and weighing (1(17
lbs.... The Overman Co. shipped last
night 340 His. of bullion, valued at $11.-
76 65.

The new shaft of the Ophir Co. is now
down 622 ft, tU2 ft. of which is timbered.
The rock is favorable for speedy sinking,
and the work is progressing finely. . . .The
total yield of the Occidental mine for De-
cember, was $38, 329.62. The mine is look-
ing exceedingly well and everything is pro-
gressing satisfactorily, both above and
below.

The first run of the new lfi-etamp mill of
the Silver Teak & Hew York Co. on ore
from the Silver Champion mine, yielded
between $300 and $400 per ton.

In the lower hills of the Palmetto range,
near Fish Lake Valley, are some very prom-
ising veins of gold-bearing quartz. One of
these, the Double Eagle, a vein about two
ft. in width, is exceedingly rich in gold;
one ton of the rock hauled to xiustin and
crushed there, yielded $1,615.

Jan. 9th: During the past week the ex-
press companies have shipped from this
city 5,734 lhs. of assayed bullion, valued at
$160,661.54.

About a dozeu men are engaged in min-
ing with rockers in the bed of Nigger Ra-
vine, half a mile east of Silver City, with
good success. One man isreported to have
taken out .$110 in live days.

The Gould & Curry Co. are putting in
at the Bonner shaft a large and powerful
engine for working the pump.

About 150 tons of excellent ore is being
raised at the Alta mine daily, and both
mills are kept steadily running up to their
full capacity.

Jan. 10th: Seventy tons of ore per day is
being raised from the Twin rniue at Silver
City.

The 1,100-ft. station of the Imperial-Em-
pire has penetrated 20 ft. from the shaft,
through cement, quartz, etc. ; and at that
point the true east wall of the ledge is
doubtless encountered, as clay and water
are found.

Jan. 14th: The Imperial Co, night before
last, shipped, per Pacific Union Express,
five bars of bullion, weighing 400 lbs., and
valued at $8,65S. 25.

The Hale & Noreross Co. are said to have
out into a body of very fine ore, of late.
The men are allowed to pass in and out of
the mine at will.

Jan. 16th: The Justice-Independent
works, just above the Devil's Gate, started
up last Saturday, after a rest of several
months.

Jan. 16th: At the assay office of Bonsfield
& Co., we were yesterday shown a gold bar
f-frorn the Sierra Nevada mine, weighing
492 40-100 ozs-, and worth ©5,971.96.

The total shipment of bulliou from this
citv for the weekhas been4,8S5 lbs., valued
at $122,096.48.

On the 840-ft. level at the Alpha mine,
aprornising character of quartz is met with,
and the general indications of the mine are
satisfactory. The I a'e & Noreross Co.
have a deposit of fine milling ore six ft. in
width in their south drift on the 930-foot
level.

The Occidental Co. are taking out from
$40,000 to $60,000 per month from the por-
tion of the mine they are working.
. OREGON.

The Walla Walla Statesman says the news
from Perry Creek, Kootenai, is very flatter-
ing, and anticipations for next season's op-
erations in that vicinity, are that large
quantities of the precious metal will be
taken out of these mines. The district is
supposed to be quite extensive.

! 12tli: Tlic i asking a

ick ore. Bob ?■'.
hold of the engine. There is talk of run-
ning tin' mill all winter.

Star Co. shipp d by Wells,
of bullion, and
ilden Chari.it. $2i

MONTANA.
Helena Post, Jan. 1st: .Mr. Nolan arrived
.iit from Cable with a bunch of gold
ag 720 ozs. the result of the last run
Nolan mill.
S. 1". M.ilit'.r. yesterday ran into proper
shape fur transportation, a mass of gold
which was worth in gold coin, $12,500. It
• result of one run of the Nolan mill
at Cable city.

From Silver Star district, we learn that
tin' Bates A" Trevil mill is pounding away
upon the Iron Bod, and is doing splen-
didly. There was a large clean up made.
Everett mill on the Green Campbell
lode is unceasingly at work, and we may cx-
peot t.i hear of good returns iu a few days.
We have tin- following from Norwegian
Gulch: The Sterling Mining Co. com-
menced d lilting the 22d, and are succoed-
ing very well. They propose to continue
work all winter. . . .A. A. Master ct Co. are
sluicing and making wages.... A. hi. Kiser
made a discovery on a bar near Gold Bun
and are engaged in running a tunuell50 ft.
I bey got from five to teu cents per pun, but
are piling the dirt to sluice iu the spring.
On this bar there has already been over 30
claims recorded ... .In Sterling, Capt. Malt-
by is running his mill upon rock taken
from the Bising Run, a lode situated iu the
district. This gulch will perhaps bo one
of the most busy mining localities in the
Territory, and will furnish employment to
several hundred men.

NEVADA.

■r i:i:-r. hives.

Austin Reveille, Jan. 7th: There are at
the Manhattan mill in this city five tons of
ore which were brought from the Eureka
district for reduction. The lot embraces
ore from several mines, and is estimated to
yield largely of silver. From what we have
been able to learn the ore occurs in depos-
its, as in the district of White Pine.

As much of the ore iu the district of Eu-
reka can be most economically reduced by
smelting, parties are engaged in the erec-
tion of a furnace for that purpose. The
works are far advanced, and will be com-
pleted within a few weeks. As soon as this
happens, a variety of the ores in the dis-
tinct will be brought to the furnace and re-
duced successfully.

During the period of 90 days the 5-stamp
mill of the Monte Cristo Co. at White Pine,
reduced 125 tons of ore, the yield of which
was $97,700. In the lot 53 tons averaged
$1,455.50 per ton; 53 tons averaged $251
per ton; 13% tons averaged $326 per ton;
and five tons averaged $383 per ton.

The vertical shaft which is being sunk
for the development of the Chase mine,
situated in New York Canon, has already
attained considerable depth through hard,
tough rock. As soon as therequisite depth
is reached, levels will be run for the vein
and ore extracted.

Jan. 11th: There were received at the
First National Bank in this city on Satur-
day evening, nine bars of bullion from
Leon & Go's El Dorado South in the dis-
trict of Silver Bend.

Ten bars of fine bullion were brought in-
to this city yesterday morning from White
Pine. Seven of the bars were from the
White Pine mill at Hamilton, aud are valued
at $12,370.26.

Jan. 12th: The following amounts of
bullion were shipped by the banking houses
at. White Pine since their establishment:
By the John A. Paxton in November and
December, 1868, $96,711.28; by the agency
of the First National Bank of Nevada, $33,-
210.45; total shipment, $129,951.73.

Five bars of bullion, from what mill was
not specified, were brought into this city
this morning from White Pine.

Jan. 14th: The Belmont stage last night
brought into this city seven bars of bull-
ion—the product of ore from W. F. Leon
& Co's El Dorado South— from the Belmont
mill.

Virginia Enterprise, Jan, 15th: There is
considerable excitement along the railroad
about some new mines that has lately been
struck in the Goose Creek Mountains. A
letter to a gentleman in this city, from a
friend in Truckee, states that many are go-
ing from that place to the new' mines. There

Double-barreled Guns. — It is in most
eases, the left-hand barrel which bursts.
The reason is simply that the right is most
frequently used and reloaded — perhaps ten
times to the left one being discharged once.
Every time the right barrel is discharged
the gunpowder in the left is pulverized
more or less by the shock, and the settling
of the grains leave a space between the
charge and the wadding. Henee whence
the left barrel is discharged it frequently
explodes. These accidents, it is asserted,
can be avoided by sending the ramrod
home with one or two smart blows into the
noo-discnarged barrel every time the other
is reloaded. — Artisan.

Ubiffin eei •///// .

NlGHT and day the railroad shops inFol-
Som are ill full bio

A telegraph line will connect Elko with
Treasure City.

Surveyobs are locating stakes for trestle
work on tin' Oregon Central Railroad, be-
tween Oregon City and the Clackamas.

The San Diego Union urges an appro-
priation of 8100,000 for throwing San Di-
ego Biver into Falso Bay, which was its
aucicnt embouchure.

The two thousand piles upon which the
Vallejo grain elevator is destined to rest,
have already been driven, capped and
floored, aud the earth filling is progressing
rapidly.

It is asserted on "reliable authority,"
that within a few weeks a thousand labor-
ers will be put to work grading the Oregon
and California Bailroad, and that the sec-
tion between Marysville and Chico will be
in running order within six months.

Rolling Stock. — The Central Pacific
Railroad Company has now in use 180 loco-
motives, 2,000 platform and box cars for
carrying freight, and about seventy-five ex-
press and passenger cars, — which figures
will have to be about trebled.

The party of engineers in charge of the
survey of the Vancouver and Puget Sound
Railroad, arrived at Olympia, on Puget
Sound, on Thursday, January 7th, aud
camped on the plaza. The report will be
very favorable for the cheap and speedy
construction of the railroad.

Feom Boise City to Puget Sound ey
Railroad.— Col. J. C. Hudnutt, the engi-
neer in charge of the preliminary survey
of the northern branch of the Union Pa-
cific Railroad, addressed the Idaho Legis-
lature, in joint convention, on railroad
topics, December 26th, andextended an in-
vitation to his hearers to join in an excur-
sion by rail, from Boise City to Puget
Sound, on New Year's Day, 1871. (See
Idaho correspondence) .

Construction of a Breakwater at
Trinidad Harbor. — The Chamber of Com-
merce, urged by north coast shippers and
lumbermen, has set on foot the construction
of a breakwater extending from Trinidad
head to a rock in the little bay behind it,
which will shelter shipping from southwest
storms, the only one to which the break-
water would be exposed; estimated cost,
according to W. F.Weston, C. E., $653,-
685. The lumber shipping interested in
having such refuge, floats 300,000,000 feet
annually, represented by $15,000,000 cap-
ital.

The Southern Pacific R. R. Co. has
changed both its management and its pro-
posed route, which is now laid through the
coast range beyond Gilroy, into Tulare
Valley, along its eastern shore, and along
the 35th parallel to Colorado River; ignor-
ing the coast counties altogether. T. J.
Arnold and a corps of assistants, are about
to leave this city for a surveying trip
through the coast range passes, —Panoche
and Pacheco's. The Southern Pacific Rail-
road Company have a contract for the pur-
chase of the San Francisco and San Jose
Railroad, which will give the Consolidated
Company the control of the continuous line
from this city. The new directors are
Tevis, Barron, Mills, Robinson, Cunning-
ham and Bell.

Already the Eastern Division of the
Union Pacific Railroad is completed aud
running to Fort Wallace, on the Western
boundary of Kansas, 700 miles west of St.
Louis. From that point to the Needles,
on the Colorado River, is a distance of 900
miles, and the connection between San
Francisco and the Needles would be 500
miles, making 1,400 miles in all necessary
to complete the junction with the Eastern
line.

French Government Engineers.

Fleming Jenkin, F. R. S., iu the course
of au inaugural address delivered in the
University of Edinburgh, spoke of the eu-
..f France, as follows:

"These government officials correspond
to our civil engineers; they are allowed, and
even encouraged, to cuter the service of
private companies andlarge establishments,
but remain all their lives members of their
corps; and supported as they are by Gov-
ernment patronage, by tradition, by their
esprit de corps ami uintnal assistance, and
lastly, by their acknowledged distinction
and honorable conduct, they enjoy sogreat
an advantage over any independent man
who may try to compete with them, that
the engineer proper only exists as an excep-
tion in France. Once a member of the
corps, a man is honorably provided for iu
life: he enjoys rank, certain promotion, a
fair income, aud, if he have original talent,
a certainty of opportunities of largely in-
creasing that income.

Being public servants, French engineers
are educated by Government, and in great
part at Government expense; the career,
being so advantageous, is desired by the
elite of the French youth, and hence in the
competition which determines the admis-
sion of students to the Polytechnic School,
as the school of engineers is termed, we see
900 picked pupils of eighteen and nineteen,
each straining every nerve to win one of
150 appointments annually made. I be-
lieve that there exists no competition in
Europe comparable with this. The great
severity of the examination is so well
known, the fact that five out of six must
fail, is so obvious, that none but young
men who have already gained distinetiou
in the great public schools dream of com-
peting. In this trial they are examined iu
plane and solid geometry, in analytical ge-
ometry of two and three dimensions, de-
scriptive geometry up to curved surfaces,
algebra, including the general theory of
equations, series, functions simple and de-
rived, etc., physics, chemistry, an odd lan-
guage or two, and shaded mechanical draw-
ing. But the select 150 are for two years
longer employed in purely theoretical
studies, that is to say, the higher mathe-
matics, theoretical mechanics, mathemat-
ical physics, curious problems in descript-
ive geometry, with a little drawing and
language as recreations. During these two
years each is engaged in a daily struggle
for about five and twenty highly-coveted
posts. The three who are at the head of
the classdist at the end of the two years
gain the proud title of Engineers of Mines,
the rest are humbler members of the Ponts
et Chaussees, while the 125 who fail have
to content themselves with looking after
the State factories for powder, tobacco, or
saltpeter, or, worse still in their estimation,
they sink into mere royal engineers or ar-
tillerymen."

Canal to Overcome Willamette Falls.
The Oregon legislature has subsidized, and
some capitalists have undertaken, the con-
struction of a canal around Willamette
Falls, which is to have four locks, in a dis-
tance of 3,000 feet, to overcome forty-five
feet, and the cost of which is estimated at
$300,000. Oregon City, located there, is
highly favored as to water-power, and is
expected to become a great manufacturing
place. Willamette Valley, will be much
benefited.

The Coarse Arts. — "The fine arts do
not interest me," said Theodore Parker,
" so much as the coarse arts, which feed,
clothe, house, and comfort a people. I
should rather be a great man as Franklin,
than a Michael Angelo — nay, if I had a
son, I should rather see him a mechanic,
who organiz.'d use like the late George Ste-
phenson, in England, than a great painter
like Reubens, who only copied beauty. In
short, I take more interest in a cattle show,
aud feel more sympathy with the Pope's
bull, than his btU-lum. Men talk to me
about the absence of art iu America. You

remember the stuff that M used to

twaddle forth upon that theme, and what
transcendental nonsense got delivered from
gawky girls and long-haired young men.
I tell them we have cattle shows and me:
chanics' fairs, and plows, and harrows, and
sawmills, sewing machines aud reaping ma-
chines, threshing machines and planing
machines. There is not a sawmill in Rome.
I doubt if there is one iu the Pontifical
States."

About the first of next month stages will
run from Carlin, Central Pacifiic It. R., to
White Pine -a distance of 97 miles.

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Resident Aercnts.

White Pinf. District.— Alexander Bruckman, Hamilton,
Nevada.

Helena. Montana.— R. F. May.

Black Hawk, C. T.— Harper M. Orabood.

Central Citv, ft. T.- -Messrs. Richards & Crane, of the
Citv Book store. Main street, will act as our agents.

GroRGETOWN. C. T.— John A. Lafferty, Postmaster, Is our
agent In this place.

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agents for this place.

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agents for this place.

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Agent, and all subscriptions, or other favors extended to
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San Francisco:

Saturday Morning, Jan. 23, 1869.

Notices to Correspondents.

Eolus. — The winds of California obey the
same natural laws "which rule in other
localities, and poss»ss no peculiar fea-
tures other than what would obtain in
any country similarly placed, as respects
geographical and physical circumstances.
Our prevailing westerly winds are chiefly
attributable to the heating action of the
sun's rays on the valley lands, foothills,
and the western slope of the Sierra Ne-
vada; thus rendering the atmosphere
lighter than that which rests on the ad-
joining Pacific, from which the cooler
and heavier air rushes in, to replace the
heated andlighter air lying over the land.
This action is further facilitated by the
sloping form of the Sierra Nevada, np
whose sides a constant upward current
of lighter air flows, equivalent to the in-
flow of the cooler and heavier air of the
Pacific.

L. P. — Heat in its radiant state does not
raise the temperature of the media which it
p o luces; a tube full of ether may be he!d
ju the focus of aburning mirror without
becoming sensibly hotter, but the moment
the absorption of the rays is eaused in any
way, as by introducing a piece of charcoal
into the liquid, the ether enters into
ebullition and becomes dissipated as
vapor.

Guano, Gilroy. — The fertilizing properties
of guano almost solely reside in the phos-
phate of lime aDd urates which it con-
tains. The former acts in the same man-
ner as finely pulverized bones; the latter
iB valuable because they eventually be-
come converted into ammonia.

Soapstone, Shaw's Plat, .Tuolumne Co. —
The answer to your question is crowded
out. We shall take ocoasion to add
thereto next week.

The New Standish Steam Plow. — Our
notes in regard to the new 100-horse power
Standish steam jilow — a great improvement
on the first one constructed, and really
promising to be a triumph in view of its
capacity to do economically the work in-
tended— now nearly completed at the Union
Poundry, and to be in running order in a
few days, are reluctantly laid over till next
week. The work done by Mr. Standish in
Contra Costa County lately with the plow
heretofore described in the Press, made
such favorable impressions upon the minds
of all who took the pains to examine
into the operations of the plow, that the
general verdict on rotary knives with loco-
motive power, without traction, has, we are
glad to see, gone forth, pronouncing it a
success.

Experiment in Blasting. — An attempt
is to be made at Port Point to-day (Satur-
day) to blow up with the Hafenegger pow-
der a submerged rock forty feat long and
fifteen feet wide.

New Steps in Metallurgy.

During the lull in mining enterprise
which has characterized the past few years,
a conviction has gained ground among
millmen and others who are most thorough-
ly identified with mining pursuits, that our
future road to advancement in that branch
of industry lies in the direction of econom-
ical metallurgy. Many able men, on this
coast, of scientific acquirements, and exten-
sive experience in working of ores — men
capable of originating something new
where there are necessities in the case de-
manding it — have been devoting their best
talents and unstinted energies to prob-
lems of the kind. While we should be
slow to herald any new process in ompy-
rical metallurgy as a success, beyond its
merits, it devolves equally upon us that
we should not preclude, in our minds, the
possibility of any new or really valuable
improvement, in practical manipulation or
in principle, being hit upon by persons not
masters in theory or in science. All new
processes must bide the test of time; and
everything is worth, trying, if we are to
make any substantial advancement in the
arts of metallurgy.

Besides the Rivot and Hagan hydrogen-
burning furnaces, and the Nolf electric de-
composition process, there is another new
amalgamation process now in an advanced
stage of development in this city, which is
worthy of our attention, involving new
combinations of principles, and the results
of which, it is claimed and promised, will
effect the reduction of the base metal ores
at the extraordinary low figure of three
dollars a ton. It is a dry process, with the
application of dry chemical reagents and
of electricity. As careful assays and com-
parisons with the ordinary methods of
working are being made and certified to,
we hope to be able to present the details
soon in a properly tangible shape.

Title to Layer Deposits.

White Pine is much befogged, and
clouded, possessorily and prospectively,
under inky questions of law. The great
Eberhardt trial is in progress atAustin, and
acute lawyers, duly stimulated by the occa-
sion, are practicing the art of bandying
each other's witnesses as lawyers know ex-
0 sedingly well how to do, where a few mill-
ions of dollars are involved. As in the
great Comstock trials, at Virginia City, the
result depends to a considerable extent on
the opinions of geologists and experts. Of
these there is no lack, persons ready to ex-
press their opinions; and the competent
and honest, no less than the partially re-
liable and the dishonest, are treated in turn
to the delicacy of " eating their own
words " — as they had it at Virginia, — and
more too, with legal sauce. The ores in
question being those actually exploited, are
generally conceded to be of the nature of
layer deposits, from infiltration, and belong-
ing to the bog-iron and manganese class,
which are, or ought to be, held by their su-
perficial extent, independently of the ques-
tion of the origin of the metal so deposited.
If neither the district miner's law, nor the
general law, provides for a superficial loca-
tion,— no law existing to fit to the lacts of
nature in the case, — the determining issue
seems to recur to the question of how far a
defective law is to be followed to the letter.
in order to meet out justice, or, in its stead,
the intention of general United States and
foreign laws and precedents, governing as
in the case of bog-iron and placer gold
mines; which certainly are, and ought to
be, applicable to claims of title by super-
ficial extent.

Family Velocipedes. — We saw recently
at the Pioneer velocipede establishment
(Golden State Foundry) , a three-wheeled
velocipede, which might be designated as a
family vehicle, it being of sufficient capac-
ity to carry several individuals at once.
With experienced operators it has run at
the rate of a mile in 3% minutes.

.New Maps.

Photographic copies, in sections, of Mr.
Montague's beautiful Central Pacific R. R.
maps, showing numerous and accurate de-
tails of the interior not heretofore repre-
sented, may be seen at the office of Calvin
Brown, C. E. , No. 615 Sacramento street.
These maps were made principally from the
notes of Butler Ives, C.E.,theexploring and
locating engineer of the road, to whose ex-
cellent qualifications for that duty, great en-
ergy and peculiar talent as an explorer, are
due the credit of marking out, the favorable
and favored places where the iron line was
shortly to be traced, for civilization to dis-
play its magic influences in the deserts.
Data here jotted down, are the results of
years of the most arduous labor, in the re-
connoissance of available passes, and of the
most favorable routes, — involving the
climbing of the principal commanding
mountains, and the execution of a complete
system of triangulation connecting and lo-
cating every visible point between the Cal-
ifornia boundary and Salt Lake, and in-
cluding the observation everywhere of
bights, barometrically.

A new map of the State of Sinaloa is be-
ing completed by Col. Charles E. Norton,
C. E., which will be very minute in its de-
tails. The agricultural districts and prod-
ucts; the mines of gold and silver; with
roads, rivers, ports, etc., are noted with
much exactness, as also the population of
all the principal towns.

Amongst the new maps exposed for sale,
C. D. Gibbs, C. E. has compiled from "au-
thentic sources " a little map of the White
Pine district, including portions of the
counties of Nye. Esmeralda, Churchill and
Humboldt, and the western border of Utah.
It is about eighteen inches square, and not
very nicely executed, but shows the geog-
raphy and topography of the country suffi-
ciently well to make it quite useful.

Another map of White Pine has been
published by William McMurray, C. E.,
which is much larger. — about three feet
square, — and better executed, but embraces
a smaller section of country; containing,
however, a great deal of valuable informa-
tion about the geography, mines, etc. , in
the vicinity of Treasure Hill. On the mar-
gin is a section through Treasure Hill,
showing the location of the principal mines.
The geological points of the district are not
taken notice of, or represented, in any man-
ner, in either of the above maps.

Frey's Topographical, Railroad and
County map of California and Nevada, is a
well-gotten-up New York publication on
about the usual scale, just issued; showing
some improvements and corrections, and
leaving room for a great many more, which
are not, however, wholly to be laid to the
charge of the author, in the present imper-
fectstate of the surveys.

Academy of Natural Sciences. — A
regular meeting of the California Academy
of Natural Sciences was held on Monday
evening, Jan. 18th, the President, Dr.
Blake in the chair. W. Frank Stewart of
San Jose, and Professor George Davidson
of the United States Coast Survey, were
elected resident members. President Blake
presented specimens of the carboniferous
formation in an imperfect state of formation,
found on Treasure Hill, White Pine Dis-
trict A specimen of fungus, incorporat-
ing acorns in its growth, found near Mar-
tinez, was presented by Mr. Mathewson.
Remarks were made by members upon the
lower forms of organized matter, and Pres-
ident Blake was requested to give his views
at length upon the subject at the next meet-
ing of the Academy. Dr. Cooper announced
that the printed proceedings of the Acad-
emy for 1868 were ready for distribution.
He also moved that the members of the
Academy be divided into classes on Bot-
any, Mineralogy, Conchology, etc., in or-
der to a more thorough investigation of the
respective branches. The proposition was
discussed and finally withdrawn, after
which the meeting adjourned.

Creating; a Vacuum by Means of Falling
Water.

Mr. Gordon, of Bush street, near Kearny,
makes use of the Torricellian method of
creating a vacuum, and recommends its ap-
plication for the exhaustion of air in manu-
facturing processes; as in the kyanizing of
wood, the making artificial stone by the
Ransome process, etc. The principle is,
that in an inverted tube which has been
filled with any fluid, the escape of the fluid
below, creates a vacuum above it. This
fact having been first discovered by Torri-
celli, the vacuum has been called the Tor-
ricellian vacuum. It is on the same prin-
ciple that the mercurial barometer works;
a 30-inoh column of mercury draws a short
vacuum above it, which is counterbalanced
at the other end by the pressure of the at-
mosphere— which varies about three inches.
In other words, the weight of the atmos -
phere forms a counterpoise to just 28 inches
of mercury; but when there are 30 inches
of mercury, its weight will create a vac-
uum. Water being one fourteenth the
weight of mercury, it will counterpoise the
atmosphere at a height just fourteen times
as great — or 32 feet, as we find in pumps,
by the height that the water rises therein.

Mr. Gordon has a tank, and an exhaust-
ing vessel, fitted up in his working room,
to demonstrate the practical availability of
this principle for the exhaustion of air on
a large scale. Bslow the tank is a pipe
something over 32 feet in length, and near
its upper end is a joint connecting with an
exhausting vessel. When the water is let
out below, this vessel is exhausted; then
the valves are closed, the empty space
above, in the pipe, is refilled from the tank,
and the operation is repeated; exhausting
still further the air in the exhausting ves-
sel. This operation is repeated six or eight
times, until there is a more perfect vacuum
shown by an attached column of mercury
than can be obtained with the air pump.
Mr. Gordon's apparatus is very simple, and
durable; the only requisite is plenty of
water, with a sufficient foil. In the kyan-
izing and stone manufacturing processes in
this city — where the air is exhausted in
ordor that chemical solutions shall be
forced in to supply the vacuum, — it is
found more convenient at present, how-
ever, to accomplish the result with the air
pump and steam power.

A Good Word for us. — We clip the
following appreciative notice from the
American Gas Light Journal, of Dec. 2d.
The initials at the bottom show that it is by
Prof. Henry Wurtz, whose Chemical Reper-
tory and Chemical Excerpta constitute of
late, so important and valuable a feature of
that journal. Such a notice, from such a
pen, is most gratifying'. We shall cordially
welcome such contributions as he propose s
to make to our columns:

The Mining and Scientific Press, of
San Francisco. — Of this important journal,
thanks are due to the editors, for the recent
receipt of complete files for some two years
back. The assiduity and discrimination of
this journal in the collection of scientific
intelligence, are wholly without parallel in
a community so young; and its columns
convey a striking view of the surprising
activity of inquiry, invention, and even of
discovery, in our Pacific States, whose gi-
gantic future needs no prophetic power to
foresee. The " embarrassment of riches"
is the predominant emotion produced by
inspection of its overflowing columns. Ef-
fort will soon be made, however, to mete
out, within our crowded space, such small
justice as may be to Californian progress,
and to this, its most worthy exponent.

Under this head, I can now but add that,
perceiving recent communications in the
Press from some of its able and intelligent
local scientific contributors on the mode of
formation of gold nuggets, to which I have
myself given some study, I feel it not alto-
gether out of place to say that I propose
soon to contribute my own mite to this dis-
cussion through its columns. H. W.

Continental Life Insurance Company,
203 Montgomery street, corner of Pine.

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

57

Work at the Foundries.

The Union Foundry, Booth ft Co., is
employed apparently at ite rolleal capacity;
presenting to tlie eyes and ears of the visitor
a complete picture, with all the acoustic
accompaniments, of an industrial pandemo-
nium. Amidst this bustle of hundreds oi
grimy mechanics, and nil this havoc of
dreadful noises, it is a pleasant characteris-
tic of the Union Foundry th-.it every oper-
ation soems to bo going on without dis-
tnrbsnce from any other; that everything
fits, without milking any ado — that the
work, in short, goes forward methodically.
Another feature characteristic of the place,
which requires only the use of one's eyes
to discover, is that the mannging ones are
well up with the times in everything new
relating to their business, and even to the
business of the patrons of a foundry.

The metallurgical rooms up stairs (for-

morh upii-d by l'rof. Blake) and the

little amalgamating and mill room with the
drafting room adjoining, are still, as of
old, a kind of metallurgical college where
the men from tho mountains teach each
other in all kinds of good, bad and indif-
ferent processes ; though the real advance-
ments in chemical, as well as in mechanioal
points, made in gold and silver metallurgy
in places like this on the Pacific Coast, are
not by any means to be scouted; and are,
in a number of cases that might be enu-
merated, meeting with the recognition of
wiser people who look at such matters only
from a scientific stand-point.

Dry crushing being found advantageous
in tho treatment of rich ores, where water
would carry away too much of the precious
metals, Mr. J. E. Clayton has been giving
his attention to the construction of a bat-
tery, whereby shoveling and repeated sift-
ing may be avoided -a self-feeding, con-
stant sifting, and self-discharging arrange
ment being effected by means of properly
curved screens, and suitably shaped stamp
boxes, so placed that the finely-pulverized
ore will pass off dry, in precisely the same
manner that, water and ore are splashed
through the screens in wet crushing.

A dozen tons of tin ore from Temascal,
are being worked up at this place for L. L.
llobinson, Pioche & Co., by a method of
crushing and concentration which is at
present only experimental, though on a
working scale; the mechanical contrivances
being ingenious modifications of old and
well-known machines, adapted to either wet
or dry crushing.

Last week there was shipped from the
Union Foundry a mammoth cylinder for
the new Rivot hydrogen roasting furnace
at Nevada; for Mr. Bausac, of tho "Freuch
Mill," at that place, representing Professor
Rivot of the Eeole des Mines, Paris. This
was one of the ,largest and most difficult
castings ever made on the coast; the cylin-
der measuring fourteen feet six inches in
length, six feet in diameter, and weighing
21,300 pounds. It was cast on eud, on
New Year's day, Mr. Scott having availed
himself of the freedom from visitors pre-
sented by the day, for the execution of his
very delicate task. His success was com-
plete, the cylinder, as cast, proving quite
perfect. Iron was melted for it at the rate
of 1,000 pounds for every eight minutes,
and allowed to flow, until there was enough,
into a large tauk, whence it was drawn
through a gate. The arranging of the mold
took three weeks' time.

This Rivot process appears to be new.
It is a revolviug roasting furnace, for py-
rites. The cylinder containing the ore is
heated from ;the outside, and the steam
conducted into it at one end and through
the center by means of a perforated cop-
per pipe, in such a manner as to become
mixed with the glowing ore, and decom-
posed and burned during the 2'rocess.
Messrs. Matthie & Gilliardon are among
the interested parties at Nevada.

A fine locomotive is being made for the

Napa Valley Railroad, 14x22, with five feet
drivers. The only other place in tho city
where locomotives have been put together
is the Vulcan Foundry.

Some superior Horn amalgamating pans
havo beeu made — ono large one, five feef
in diameter and threo feet deep — for the
French mill, in .Nevada County, and ono
for Joseph Trench, Silver City, Nevada.

The Vallejo elevator is being made here.
It is a large job, being the first elevator
built on the coast. Grain arriving loose in
ships can bo scooped up and drawn out by-
means of an adjustable proboscis, called n
"boot," olovated four or five stories, and
stored for re-shipment. The engine is a
150-horse power— a patent Scott & Eckart
cnt-off. The Vallejo Elevator Company —
Messrs. Friedlander, Frisbie, Rico, etc.,
are the parties.

A large 10x36 engine, of about 90-horse
power, for El am *fc Howes' wood manu-
facturing establishment (recently burned
down) is nearly finished.

Some improvements have boon attempted
at the Union Foundry lately in the way of
boilers. Alot of car wheels and axles have
also been made for the Black Diamond
Coal Mining Co. of Mt. Diablo.

At the Phcenix Iron Works, large and
improved fire-proof safes are stiil the prin-
cipal product.

At the Atlas Works, iron fronts afford
constant work, presenting a good deal of
activity. A job in hand at present is for a
large building at the corner of First and
Market streets. A bank front for A. H.
Houston, on Califoania street, has been or-
dered; also a store front for Moses Ellis,
on Clay street; and a job for a commercial
house to replace the Eureka Hotel on
Pine street, for Mr. Land, of White Pine,
is nearly finished.

Clerc & Co., of the City Foundry, report
being busy.

The Hagan Furnace.

The new water-decomposing roasting fur-
nace put up at Angels, Calaveras County,
for the Angels Quartz Mining Company,
has been for several weeks awaiting the
completion of the amalgamating pans, and
will be in operation in about ten days. A
degree of efficacy in desnlphurization equal
to kiln roasting, is certainly to be counted
upon; but the operators claim a great deal
more, and refer to their working results,
as owing to modifications in the arrange-
ment and dimensions of the furnace, made
since the unsuccessful trials in 1866; in re-
gard to which, the following letter, point-
ing out the difficulties then encountered,
will be found interesting. We are in-
formed that the proper tests will not fail to
be made, in such a manner as to be satis-
factory to all inquirers, and sufficient to
answer all objections that can be made:

'T see attempts are being made once more
to bring tl)is furnace into favorable notice.
As it is about time its merits were estab-
lished, I will state that in October, 1866, I
pronounced it a failure, as the result of my
examination of two operations on lots of
about ten tons of ore, one of which con-
sisted of arsenical sulphurets of iron, in a
gangue of tough, compact, granular
quartz, aud the gangue of the other was
more open in seams. The result in both
cases was a complete failure to desulphurize
the interior of the masses, whilst on the
outside the iron was found in the state of
peroxide, as also where seams or cracks
penetrated the lumps; but a fresh fracture
always showed the sulphurets, which had
suffered the change due to heat alone.

I assisted in the analyzation. of a part of
this ore which yielded but poorly. It was
claimed that the portion amalgamated after
I left yielded about double as much, but
the fine sulphurets from the tailings
showed no gold till treated with an acid,
and then it became visible in abundance.

It may be that hydrogen can desulphu-
rize masses of ore as stated, but I am satis-
fied from observation that the reactions
claimed do not take place to any extent;
but be this as it may, the facts in the cases
cited were as I state.

It would seem that the question as to
whether this furnace does or does not re-
move the sulphur, etc., and free the gold,
is one that need not take years to prove.
The owners are rich; why.do they not em-
ploy a competent person (such an one can
certainly be found in San Francisco, ) to ex-
amine and report ? Chas. H. Aabon.

Lone Pine, Dec. 27th, 1868.

What is New in the Nolf Process ? —
Editoiss Press : — Your article entitled
"Amalgamation by the Aid of Electricity,"
ought to command attention on the part of
those interested in the reduction of ores,
and a few comments may not be unaccepta-
ble. When tho ore is a aulphuret, tho oper-
ation of the current is highly successful.
The quantity and intensity best adapted for
the purpose was pretty tolerably ascertained
by Mr. John Scott, after lengthened exper-
iments, ten i/car.s ago. The remark that Mr.
Nolf is no nsto experimenter in this field
of investigation, is, therefore, correct
Without wishing to detract from the un-
questioned abilities of that gentlemen, it
would appear that tho combination of
amalgamation with electrical decomposition
is the new feature of his process, while the
application of the electric current to de-
compose the ore and re-decompose the re-
sulting product, was the invention of a pre-
vious experimenter in the same field.

San Francisco, January 20. J. G.

Mount Diablo Coal. — A combination
has been effected between the several coal
mining companies at Mt. Diablo, whereby
one agent in this city is henceforth to re-
ceive all the coal produced by all of them
and shipped for sale or delivery in this
city. A coincidence worthy of remark is
that, whereas the price was formerly $6 a
ton, delivered on the wharves at San Fran-
cisco, it is now 88.20. The arrangement
is to last for five years.

Valuable contributions will be found
on the inside pages, from J. E. Clayton,
on the Sulurian Rocks, and Mining in
Southern Nevada; from C. H. A., giving
interesting details with regard to smelting
in the Owen's River country; from "Mi
nero," in the mountains of Mexico; and
from John Scott, on the decomposition of
silver ores with the aid of electricity.

IIkturxkd.— Dr J. H. Paine, Dentist, Wadsworth House,
No. 225 Bush street, between the Occidental and Cosmopoli-
tan Hotels, San Francisco. IMvlT-lm

O. M Taylor, who acted as agent a brief time for this
paper in Washoe, is requested to call at or address thisofhec,
without fail.

A Short Ec-gagkmknt. The person who Tlslt^d Yuba,
Sierra, and Pluinascounties, last fall, as agent and corres-
pondent of Iho Pukss, only continued a short time in that
capacity.

Mr. Mowrj-i lately a clerk in a hotel at Colfax, is
quested to call at the otlice of the Mining and SciKtmric
Prrss, No. 4U Clay street, lielow Sansume, San Francisco.

Savk Tour Tkkth.— Ors, Jessup & Beers, over Tucker's
'ewclry store, arc now making a specialty of filling the
fangs of dead Teeth, ami building up broken crowns with
purcgnttl-iuii* restoring them to their original uscfuln
and beauty. They are ai-to using Nitrous Oxide for the
painless extraction of Teeth, when so desired— the only ab-
solutely safe anaesthetic ever discovered Iu breathing it,
It acts as a gentle stimulant, without umljo excitement,—
the sensation produced being truly delightful, the effect
upon tlie lungs lie.illliliil. and in Its results positively free
from all danger. I'repared and ndmini.tered daily at the

Dental Ho s ol Messrs. JESSUP ,fc REEKS, corner Mont-

gotn, ry and Sutter streets. San Frifuutsco. Itivl6if

I'.HS KII.I.EK.

No arllclo over attained lo such Ulilj-illu led ponu'arlty.—
Salem ohyr, rer. -

an article of great inerii and virtue.— dim Nonpareil.

We can bear testimony to the efficacy o" the Pain Killer.
We have seen lis magic elf -els In soollilng the severest
pain, and know it to be a go,,d article.— Cinncinnatl Dixpatch.

A speedv cure for pain— no family should be without it.—
Montreal Transcript. —

Nothing has yet surpassed the Pain Killer, which is the
most valuable family medicine now in use. — Tarn. Otyan.

It lias real merit: as a means of removing pain, no medi-
cine lias acquired a reputation equal to Perry Davis' Pain
Killer.— Ncaport (A';/.) Dail// A'eirr.

11. TAYLOR. TVH. H. TAYLOR.

ROBERT TAYLOR & CO.,
M E TALLURGISTS.

SMELTING WORKS,

Eleventh -I ci't-i, between Folsom and Howard.

GALVAN1Z CIVG.

Also, Antl-Frlctlon, Alloy* for *TonrnalM, Type

mid Stumping; Metal*. Tinners and

Plumbers* Solder* Etc.

03r"Thc nest price given for the m< st rebellious or re-
fractory ores. Ores ami mir."i-,il.s assayed aud analyzed.
i v 18-3 in

S. FOLK. C. TUOUOLSKY,

S. FOLK & CO.,

MA">UPACTDaKn3 OF

WAHOINfl, BATTISG, iin.ICOJIFOBTF.KS
til and 413 Brannan St., Between Third and Fourth,

KAN THAN CISCO. iVlfiOT

Quartz Mill Amalgamating

Plates. Electro-Hated with Fine Silver; also instruc-
ts.iih hi <! ->M Jin*. Silv.-r i'hitiiv;, mi luinl mul noII met-
als, EUREKA. >'L\Tr\'G- WuRKS. Terms n>odCratO,
12ii Kearny street, between Post and Sutter sts. 4vl8 3m

PACIFIC

Rolling Mill Company,

8AN FRANCISCO, CAL.

Established for the Manufacture of

RAILROAD AND OTHER IRON

-AMD —

Every Variety of Shafting-,

Embracing ALL SIZES of
Steamboat Shafts, Cranks, Piston and Con-
necting Rods, Car and Locomotive Axles
and Frames

— ALSO —

HAM»IEUED IIION

Of every description and size.

«S?» Orders addressed to PACIFIC ROLLING! MILL
COMPANY Post Office, San Francisco, On!., will receive
prompt attention.

■Sr* The highest price paid for Scrap Iron. 9vN3mflp

Crucibles.

Tlie Patent Plumbago Crucible Co.,

Manufacturers or all >.inds of

Melting Pots, Portable Furnaces,

CRUCIBLES, and other flre-standlng Goods,
Battersca Wnrh«, London.
THE MORC.AN PATENT CRUCIBLES hove uniform
quality, never crock, withstand the greatest heat without
danger; heats more rapidly than any other; change of tem-
perature hat no effect on thcin; stand on the average forty
to fifty pourings.
On hand and for sale by the Agents,

A. S. IIII.LIJHI, A CO.,
Ivl8-3m0p AlO Front street, San Francisco.

PACIFIC

INSURANCE COMPANY

OF SAN FRANCISCO, CAJL.,

Office, No. 422 California street.

Cash Assets, Jan. 1, 1800, - - $1,5S0,7<10 18

ITV^XJXtAIVCE,

DIRECTORS:

San Fuaccisco: Oliver Eldrldge,

W. C. Raliton, J. B. Roberts.

A L. Tubbs. J. C. Wilmerding,

Win. Alvord, P. L. Weaver.

Jonathan Hunt, Wm.H oper,

A. B. Forbes, J. W. Clark,

A. O. Stiles, A. Havward,

A. seligmau, T. L. Barker,

L. B. Benclilcy, Alexander Weill,

Wm. Sherman, Chas. Mover,

L. Sachs, Chas. E.McLane,

James Dc Frcmcry. M. Rosenhaum,

J. G. Bray, A. J. Ralston.

David S'ern, T. Lemmen Meyer,

D. 0. Mills, J. T. Dean.
I. Friedlander, NkwYork:
Moses Heller, Louis McLane,
H.M Newhall, Frederick Billings,
G. T. Lawtott, JumcsLees,
Miles D. Sweeny, J. O. Kellogg,
Chas. Mayne, Wm. T. Coleman,

E. L. Goldstein, Muses Ellis.
J. O, Earl, SAcnAHKNTO:
Lloyd Tevls, Edgar Mills,
Thos. II. Sclby, J. H. Carroll,
Adam Grant, C. T. Wheeler.
Alphcus Bull, Makt.-iVILLk:

H. M. Wilson, J. H. Jewett.

D.J. Oliver, Portland, Oregon:

W Scholle, W- S Ladd,

Thos. Brown, Jacob Kamm.

Chas. Main, Virginia. Nevada:

Chas. R. Puters, Wm. Sharon.
OFFIOKRS:
JONA. HUNT, President.

W. ALVORD, Vice President.
A.J. RALSTON. Secretary.
ANDREW BAIRD, Marine Secrc'arv.

tvlfitf 11.11 BIGELOW, Gen1! Agent.

S. F. &. S4. or. K-. 3R.

E. R. WATERMAt*.

•W. II. TOllKY.

WM. H. TOBEY & CO.,
RAILROAD ADVERTISING AGENCY,

641 Market itreet,

Between Second and Third streets (up stairs).

FRAMES, CARDS, CIRCULARS, roSTEKS,

E'c, put up In all the Cars and Depots of tha San Fran

Cisco and San Joec Railroad.
AdvertLe j'our Hiialite.. for the Couutcy Trndo

avi8tr

NOBLE & FLEMING,
MACHINE WORKS,

No. lO Stevenson street, near First,
SAN FRANClhCJO.

Particular attenlion given to repairs on Portable and Sta-
tionary Engine*; also nil kinds of Wood Working
Machinery, Shatters, Hangers, Pulleys, etc.
ui.-i !•■ to order; Screw Cutting, Iror.
Planing, and all kinds of JoU
WORK promptly at. ended to,
Affeutu for F. S. Perkins' I3it(riue X.!ithcn.
Pinners, Upright Drills,
And all kinds ot MACHINISTS' TOOLS; nlso tho Dnvfa
Wood Planer nnrt Mure Dove-Tailing Machines.
35-Alnn. on hand for sale a complete set ofT'iolsf-r
king Blacking Boxes, consisting of Press, Dies. Shears,
anil Crimping Midline, etc. 4vl8-qr

W. C. CAMPBELL.

PATTERN' AND MODEL MAKER,

No SO Fremont street, over Phcenix Iron Works, S*u

Francisco.

Particular attention given 'o MODELS Tor the Patent Office
Brands and Pattern Letters Cut. 4vl8tmf

58

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinists and Foundries.

PALMER, KNOX & CO.,

Golden State Iron Works,

Xoa. li», 21, 33 and 25 First Street,
S£S FRANCISCO.

MAMUFACTUKS ALL KINDS OF

MACHINEKY,

STEASi JSAteSAES AND QUAIfiTZ MJULS

DUNBAR'S IMPROVED

(s>elt--A-<l justing Pistoa Faulting;,

Requires no springs or screws; is always steam tight;

without excessive friction, and never

gets slack or leaky.

WHEELER & RANDALL'S

K£W CEl?i"3>JE4t AAD AMALCAMATO«

HEPBURN & PETERSON'S
AKALOAS11TOS AND SEPABATOK,

TC n. o x * s -A- Mi a, 1 er a su ators,

WITH PALMER'S PATENT STEAM CHEST,

Superior tor working either COLD OR SILVER ORES, and
sthe only Amalgamator that has stood the test of seven
years' continual working.
fcteunine White Iron Stamp Shoes and l>le*>

Having been engaged for the past ten years in quartz
mining, and being conversant with ail the improvements,
either in Milling ur Milling, wo are prepared to lurnish, ai
ihe shortest notice, the most perfect machinery for reduc
in,' ores, or saving cither gold or silver- I3vl0qy-tl

Miners' Foundry

— AND—

3MC .A. O K I IX DE "WORKS

Kos. 245 to 255 First Street,

San F rancisco.

HOLLAND, AN&ELL & CO.,

IMtOJPKIETOKS,

ISanufacturers of Machinery for

FLOUK MILLS,

SUGAJt MILLS,

iJI'AKTZ MILLS.
SAW MILLS,
l-OWBLU MILLS

PAl'EK MILLS

Steam Engines of all Kinds,
Amalgamators of all Kinds.

AIIKIXe PVEPS, HOISTING WOKKS

OIL 4VLLL TOOLS, BOCIi BfiEAKUCS.

— AND —

Machinery and Castings of all kinds, either
of Iron or Brass,

Boilers and Sheet Iron Work in all its
Branches.

Mioes hd<] Dies of WMif Iron, ni:«»ufucti:i-ccl
For uml imuoi'leu by us exjpres.ly for tills I.tir-
p.tse, and will lust £5 Jicr ceut. louati- than i.uy
other uuiue on thin oouut.

Rusgiu firon Screens, of any degree of fineness.
We are the only manufacturers on this coast oi
the

HICKS ENGINE,
The most cmiaact, simple in construction, and

■lui-'inle, of any Engine ia use.
XV. H. UOWLASD, II. it. AX«JKLL,

ISvU-or CTSUS IMLMiiK.

IRA F. RASKIN.

A. P. BIlAYTo.N.

A. C. AUSTIN.

Pacific Iron Works.

First and Fremont Streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Having been estublished since 1851, we have accumulated
a very large variety of Uenr and other Patterns, which,
Willi our superior tools and appliances, give us laciltlicxlui'
dutng nisi class work uneuumed uu the Pacific Coast.

Among other things, we manufacture the following:

JSTiS-A-M. ElXGrllXAiift*,

Horizontal and Vertical, for either Stationary or Marine

use.

ISOIL.EKS— High and Low Pressure,

Pump, Pipe and Sheet Iron Work of every kind.

Quartz IVIill Work,

Including High and Low Mortars, for wet or dry crushing-

Furnace Irons lor Roasiiug Ores; Freiberg Hands;

Vanicy'saud Wheeler's Amalgamating Pans

and Settlers; Stamp Shoe- and Dies ot

best White Iron; Russia Don

Screens, etc., etc.

Flour Mill, Saw Mill and Sugar Mill Work in every variety;

Pumping and Hoisting Machinery ; Hausbrow's

Patent Challenge Pump, for Domestic,

Ship and Mining use— the most

approved aud successful

Pump manufactured.

Castings of every description, Iron and ISrass.

We would call especial attention to "Wright's Patent Va-
riable Cut-off Engines," of which we are the sole manuiae-
turerson the Pacini: Coast, under license from the Wood-
ruff* Beach Co., Uaritord, Ct. As a simple, etlecuve, fukl
saving, lirst-eUss Engine, this is, without doubt, the best
Engine made in the United States.

Orders promptly attended to. Prices as low as possible
for rirst class work, and we mtend to do no other.

<xt>l>lf AJ£1> «fc CO.

San Francisco, May 1, 1S68. lovltitf

WILLAMETTE IRON WORKS,

JfOK.TX.AXD, 0££60X.

S t e a ni En.gin.es, Uoilers,
SAW AND CRIST (WILLS,

MINING MACHINERY, WROUGHT IRON SHUTTER
WORK, AND BLAUKSMITdlNG IN GENERAL.
Corner .North-Front and JE streets,
18vl3-ly One block north of Couch's Wharf.

Globe Iron Works,

STOCKTOX, CA.L.

KEEP & BARG-IOINT,

MANUFACTURERS OF

Quartz, Saw and Grist Mill Irons, Steam
Imagines, Horse Powers,

High and Low Pressure Steam Engines, Steamboats aud

Propellers, made atsliort notice.

lSvhJif

J NEWSHAU.

J. BIGWOOD.

SOUTH B2ACH IRON WORKS,

Kear corner of King and Third streets, Sau Francisco.
M. A Jffi I iv JE ;:.M:ixi:.vi,

AND ALL Kisaa OF
»IACHINERY FORGING.

All kinds of Ship-smithing and Mill work manufactured to
order. Jobbing ut every description promptly attended to.
Ail work done guaranteed. -ISvU-iy

itxjlxoiv
Foundry and lion Works.

HINCKLEY & CO.,

»AKDFACTURtJRS OF

STDSAM 12 IV GINES,
Quartz, jFIoitj." and Saw Mills,

Hayes' Improved Steam Pnnn», ISrodie's Im-
proved Crusher, Mining Furnas,
Amalgamators, and all Uimh
oT Machinery.

N. E. corner of Tehama and Fremont streets, above How
ardstrcet, San Francisco. 3-qy

McAFEE, SFIERS & CO.,
U O i II. E 12, MAKEBS

AND GENERAL MACHINISTS,

Howard st, between Fremont and Beale, San Francisco.

Flue or Tubular Boilers, with plain circular or spiral
courses- Upright Flue or Tubular Boilers, Locomotive and
and Marine Boilers, and Wrought Iron Tanks of every de-
scription.

Hydraulic Pipe supplied at reasonable rates. In or
derlng, give the quantity of water to be supp'ied, hightoi
the fall, and total length of pipe, so as to enable the ririn to
determine the diameter of the pipe and thickness of iron to
be used.

Repairs. — Boilers, Smoke Stacks. Pipes, etc., put in re-
pair with promptness.

To Boiler Makers aad Maehinixt* in the In-
terior.—The firm is prepared to furnish estimates of
Boilers, su ply new Heads, drilled and punched, and attend
to the selection and forwarding of Iron for Boilers, Pipes
ami other purposes.

Plan*., .Drawings and Specifications,— The firm
is prepared to make out Plans and Specifications, teceive
estimates, and superintend the Erection of any Machinery
that may be entrusted to their care

To inventors.— The firm is prepared to assist in de-
veloping the plans of those who have ihe idea.* but not the
practical experience necessary to put the same in form, by
making Drawings oi their Inventions, givii g ihein the ben-
efit of their practical knowledge in the construction of 'Ma-
chinery, and attending lu the manufacture and introduc-
tion of their invention a. ivitiif

CALIFORNIA BRASS FOUNDRY.

No. 135 First street, opposite IHluna,

SAN FRANCISCO.

all kinds of Brass, Composition, Zinc, and Babbitt Metal
Castings, Brass Ship Work of all kinds, Spikes, Sheathing
B nils, Ltuudcr Braces, Hinges, Ship and steam boat Bells and
Gongs oi superior tone. All kinds of Cocks and Valves, Hy-
draulic Pipes and Nozzles, ana Hose Couplings and Connec-
tions of all sizes and patterns, furnished with dispatch.

fl®- PRICES MODERATE. -£ff

J. P. GALLAGHER. J. H. WEED V. KINGWELL,

9 via- 1 j'

urraxv ison works,

^acrameiito.

WILLIAMS, BOOT & NEILSON,

lIANOfACr URERS OF

CROSS' PATENT BOILER FEEDER,

^nSAJKE ENGINES, XSOIUJEXXS,

And all kinds of Mining Machinery.

Also, Hay and Wine Presses made and repaired
with neatness, durability and dispatch.

Ouii bar's Patent Self- Atl.Jus tins Steam Piston

PACKING, for new and old Cylinders, manufactured
to order.
Front Street, between X and O streets,
Hvll Sacramento City

THOMPSON BROTHERS,
EUREKA FOTJlVrHiY,

LIGHT ASI> HEAVY CASTINGS,

of every description, manufactured 24vl6qr

JAMES MACKEN,

COI»I?32ItSl\XITia,

226 Fremont st., bet. Howard <fc Folison.

All kinds of COPPER WORK done to order m the best
manner. Particular attention paid to Steamboat, Sugai
House and Distillery work.

G-. T. PRACY.

MACHINE WORKS,

NOS. 109 and 111 MISSION STREET,

lin and Spear.

New and second hand

Fiiigines and Boilers,

FOR SALE.

Also one first-class Hoisting

Engine ; one Upright

Engine, oi entirely

new pattern.

MANUFACTURER OP

H.atlies, I>rills,

And MILL MAfHIXERY of
every description.

DE» K, A. C 3T ' S

New and Improved
STEAM EAGIXE

REGULATORS,

The best and cheapest yet in-
vtn'ed— mnmifjicrured and
for sale. Parties are in-
vited to examine it
in practical op-
eration.

F. A. niJSTIlVGTOS'S

__. Shingle Machines

^ Particular attention paid to
Repairing.

DS5- All work guaranteed to be done in a flrst-cla^s man-
tcr, and at the lowest rates. l^vlTtf

Iron

THE K.ISUOIV

and LocomotiYC Works.

Incorporated. April SO, 1SBS- Capital, Sl/OO.OCO.

Location of Works, Corner Beale and Howard streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Successors to Pacific Mail ". S. Co. Works at Beniein. Cotfey

& Ilk-don, and Dcvue, Dinsmore & Co., San Francisco.

Stcain Engine Builders, Boiler Makers,

MACHINISTS AND FOUNDRYMEN.
All work in their line attended to with promptness and
dispatch.

Directors:
S. F. Ruttrrworlh, Clias E. McLnne,

Lloyd IVvis, Jnlin N. RIsdon,

Jas. Pollock, Joseph Moore.

ben. liolladay,

JOHN N. RTSDON, President.

Coffey, Superintendent Boiler Works.

Phoenix Iron Works.

JONATHAN EITTKEDGE, Proprietor,

XoH, 18 and 20 Fremont street, near Market,

MANUFACTURER OF

Fire-Proof Doors, Shutters,

Wrought Iron Girders, and all kinds of QonsesmiUi work,
Bridge and Prison Work;

BANK VAULTS AND MONITOR SABES,

FOBGIXG AND MACMIXE WOKK.

Agency for the ISHAM KEY REGISTER BANK AND SAFE
LOCK, the only first class Lock in the
lvl7tf United States

CITY IROM WORKS COMPANY.

CLERC & CO.,
IKON FOUNDEES,

Steam Engine Builders and AC alters of all
kinds of Slachinery,

6vll6qr No. 2S Fremont street, San Francisco.

DR. NESTELL'S
LXJTfGi- INSTITUTE,

( Urancli of the 3V. 1". Lntig Institute)
No. 516 SITTER STMEET,

Between Mason and Powell Streets, San Francisco,
For the special Treatment of all Diseases of the HEAD,
THROAT, LUNGS, AND CHEST, by the Inhalation of
Medicated Vapwrs at the natural temperature of the air,
etc.

Earnest attention is solicited to this Rational Method of
Treatment, which transmits the remedies, in the form of
vapor, directly to the seat of disease, instead of bv the
round-about way — through the medium of the stomach—
and which is conceded to be the only reliable means where-
by an alleviation and cure may be expected. -My system
of Inhalation, now well known throughout the United
Stales and Canadas, and much of Europe, where, thousands
— many of them tar advanced— have rccoveied, claims the
profound est approval of the medical prole skin, and the
timely and candid consideration of those atliicted with
these the most devastating of all earthly maladies.

Patients attended at the Institute, dally, from 'J A. M. till
4 P. M.

Invalids at a distance, on writing their case, can receive
the remedies bv Express

Special attendance out nr the city will be charged com-
mcnsuraielv with ihe tune and distance occupied,

All communications must be addressed to

D. D. T. NESTELL, A. M., M. D ,
Lung Institute,
No. 51C Sutter Street, -"an Francisco,
21vl7 'Amos. California.

Small Pox.

Wc hive been shown by Wm. Zelner, the best and most
convenient and poriabie apparatus containing Chlorine,
for rooms, which wc consider ihe be.-t flisiiitect.ini oui,
nnd should advise all housekeepers not to be without on".
Price SI. complete; to be had, with fu'l directions, at WM.
ZELNER' S German Drii£ Store, IS Ceary street, 25vl7-dlU

Interesting Smelting Details from Cerro
Gordo.

Editors Peess: — My friend, M. P. Des-
ornieaux, of Cerro Gordo, (lay o County, )
again reports progress as follows:

"I have now the pleasure of announcing
to you the great success which I have ob-
tained in a new furnace, which I invented
myself. * * * By the result of my
trials I was convinced tuat by means of
scarification I should succeed completely in
treating the galenas, which are furnished in
large quantity by several of our mines,
and which have been used heretofore only
as fluxes for richer ores; but which my in-
vention will render the most valuable in
Cerro Gordo, as the quantity of ore from
other mines is extremely limited at present
for want of capital to develop them.

" After much thought I adopted the plan of
a reverberatory furuace, — a double fusion,
that is to say of which the basin or recep-
tacle is in the middle of the furnace, re-
ceiving the melted ore from each side. My
furnace is twenty-two feet long inside, by
six feet wide with lining (chemise) of fire-
brick. After thorough drying, the furnace
was charged with 1% tons of galena from
the Union mine, well spread on the hearth,
after four hours' seorification, the heat was
raised to produce agglomeration, which con-
tinued two hours, when complete fusion
being obtained, I proceeded to draw the
contents, having succeeded completely in
my purpose, which was to disengage a
large portion of the sulphur, antimony, ar-
senic, etc., contained in the galena, and which
is thereby more easily and advantageously
reduced in the upright furnace.

The campaign lasted fifteen days and
nights, and the furnace was not in the least
injured. I scorified forty-four tons of ga-
lena aud nine tons of other ore, in all fifty-
three tons, which yielded thirty-five bars of
lead in spite of me, for I did not try to get
it out. The remainder is scorified ore con-
taining still some sulphur, but which can
be readily reduced in the blast furnace
without flux.

The following figures will convince you
of my sxrecess:

18 cords wood at S5 s 90 00

15 days work, 4 men, at $4 240 00

Supervision 150 00

Candles for night 10 00

Repairing tools 10 00

Total ?500 00

The thirty-five bars of lead weigh 1%
tons, and contain an average of §5U0 per
ton in silver.

The ore will probably yield in the final
treatment in the blast furuace, about 20
tons of lead; which will contain about $250
per ton, — $5,000; from which is to be sub-
tracted as cost of the ore and expenses of
the second operation."

For my part I must say I don't see much
novelty in Mr. D's method, which seems to
be only a slight modification of common
practice.

Such is his report, however, and you may
do as you please with it. If he can make
the galenas of C. G. pay alone, it will be a
good thing, for really I cannot see a great
deal else in the district, except the San
Ygnacio mine, which I believe to be valu-
able, thoughit is hardly an exception, either,
as it contans a great deal of galena.

Owen's Lake continues to rise, being
now at least ten feet higher than at this sea-
son last year. I have made a partial exam-
ination of its waters, and find them to
contain about five per cent, by weight of
solid matter, consisting of chloride, carbon-
ate and sulphate of sodium. I failed to de-
tect salts of potassium, which do not exist in
any great quantity. When agitated by the
wind, the lake emits a smell of sulphureted
hydrogen. C. H. A.

DEWEY & CO.,

American and Foreign Patent Agents,

Publishers and Proprietors of the MIXING AND SCIEN-
TIFIC PRESS, ihe only well established successful Patent
Agents on the Pacific Coast, will eiVC Iuveilloro and 1'a-
lemees honest and reliable advice, free The Patent Busi-
ness in all us ieginmate brandies is tran>actcd by us intel-
ligently and skillfully, in an aide and straightforward
manner. Patents secured in EVEKV COUNTRY IN THE
WORLD where Patent Laws exist. Being; long established,
and transacting a large business, our appuintincn sare now
thorough throughout, sate, prompt and responsible. Con-
sultations by leiter or otherwise, are kept iuviolateJy se-
cret. Circulars containing information Fort INFENTOHa sent
free. Valuable inventions, patented through our agency,
will be illustrated or explained through the columns of the
Mining and Scientific Press, a journal mos'- widely circulated
throughout the Pacific Coast, among mechanics, miners,
roanutaciurers.nnd commercial men.

Inventors on the Pacific Coast, located at great distance
from the Patent Otttce, of all others, should be careful to
avoid inexperienced, dishonest, or otherwise unreliable
and ii responsible agents.

DEWEY &. CO.,

Patent Agents, Publishers and Printers, 41-A Clay street
below Sansome, San Francisco.

A. T. DEWEY. W. B EWER.

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

59

The Union Pacific Puget Sound R. R.—
Velocipedes in Idaho.

Edito - -The survey party of

P. It. R. are in town. Afl nearly as
I can learn, on reaohing Kins Hill, they

;i true course for jn it I

Boise City, with good grade. They were

afraid • , therfap the country from

[. fearing that if they got np as

high as " Big Camas Prairie," they would

with snow, whore it falls
two feet to two feet six inches on the level,
although of course it is deeper where it
drifts. Tho surveying party, however,
seem afraid of that route, bnt OB we think,
without good canse^and further than that,
along that route there is timber sufficient
for all their needs, and land worth some-
thing, whilst on the SnaUe River,— that is,
co uid King Hill, down to Snake
the whole country is one vast des-
ert covered with lava and sagebrush; and
as King Hill forms nearly a bluff at

River, it I ni.'s necessary to de-

scend to the river bottom, and thus grade is
!,, i, which it is almost impossible to re-
gain so as to touch this town.

The difference between the two mutes
will be spoken of at greater detail here-
after.

VELOCIPEDES IN DEMAND.

There has been a great deal of talk about
relocipedes here, and not only our citizens
of Ada County, but the adjoining counties

n, js the wish that they were introduced
into Idaho. This county is almost level,
so far as traveled roads are concerned, and
we opine that a good many (for a popula-
tion as small as ours, say 1,500 voters)
could be disposed of, if not too dear.

Will not somo enterprising California
merchant bring an invoice of some here, or
send an invoice to some one hero to sell for
him? Being totally unacquainted with
their make, weight, size, or cost, I cannot
give any information, but wonld be willing
to set and give information, or even intro-
duce them here.

Some of our people have taken the
"AVhitoPine Fever," and require a dose
of "Snow Shoes " and freezing on the top
of the Sierra to cure it.

Altueas.

Boise City, Jan. 8th, 1809.

Business Cards.

oeV*EY&c0

SAN FRANCISCO.

BODG-ERS, MEYER & CO.,

C03X>XI(»i^I03V BXERCIOCAJVTS,

AMVAMES MADE

On nil !.imi« of tit .-•», tind iiurtleulur atteutlnn
PAID TO

CONSIGNMENTS OP GOODS.3

•IvlOSni

fiATHAMKL GRAY.

II. U. GitAV.

N. &RAY & CO.,

U TV 1> 35 Tt T A. It 35 jx @

(■II Sacramento St, cor. Webb, San Francisco.

Farmers and Mechanics
BANK Olf SAVINGS,

No. 325 Si>n«oni« Street.

Interest paid on Deposits, Money Donned on Real Estate.
If. DUTTOX, President.
GEO. M, CONDEE Cashier. 19vl6-3m

G-EO. E. ROGERS,

(Successor to G. W. Bell.)

A. S » -A- Y 32 IS ,

513 California st.» San FranclKCo.

j. A. MARS, Assayer.

Ore* carefully Assayed. Gold iinrl Silver Orca worked.

23vlfl-nr]l)pnr

CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, DRAPERIES,

SHADES, Etc., Etc.

LOUIS F. KNIG-HT,

512 California St., esist *lde of Kearny,

SAN FRANCISCO.

I can offer from the. largest and best "assorted stock In the

city anything In our line.

AT 1'HICES TO SUIT ALL.

FURNITURE AND MATTRESSES

Made to order.
All kinds of upholstering executed with neatness and
dispatch. 9vl7

#^SKvBS*row

WAINl. lADELRHiA.Pi

19vl7tf

LEA & PERRINS'

CKLliDE\TBD

■NVOKCESTEKSIirRB SAUCE
Declared by connoisseurs
to be the only
GOOD SAUCE.

The success of this most ?J
delicious and unrivullcd C
condiment havh""' ■
certain dealers to apply the mime
cestershire Sauce in their own
compounds, tho public is hereby
that the only way to secure the
is tu ask for

Lcii <fc Perrlns' Sauce,

and see that their names are upon the ^
wrapper, labels, stopper, mid bottle. tf ' "— : nri'li1

S.Mieofthe lorolgn markets haying been -1 ■ :
supplied with a spurious Worcestershire O ^i|jg|£|gJS
S nice, upim the wrapper and labu.

AskforDEA & PSRftISS' Sauco, an
Wrapper, Lubrl, Bottle, and Stopper,

Wlmlcsale in I f-.r Btp-irt by the Prop
Oi-Mvs- & lllaukwell, Loud in, etc.. etc.: i
Oilmju" universally. AgjuUi, UituSS .
ciaco.

, oi- any

ged.

i 00 the

fKEllEKICK MAXSELL.

Mechanical & Architectural Draughtsman,

No. 422 California street, corner of Lcidsdorff.

Drawings of Modkls made for parties apply for pa

ents at Washington or London. ar23-tf.

"W. T. ATWOOD,

PUKCUASKH Of

COPPER ORES, BAR3, MATT, Etc., Etc,,

54>5 Montgomery street.

Room No. 5, over Parrott .t Go's Bank, San Francisco.
23 v 17o.r

Pump Leather.

The attention of MINING COMPANIES, and others re-
quiring a superior article for Hydraulic purposes, is invited
to the heavy Oaked Tanned Pump Leather, manufactured
and prepared expressly bv the undersigned.

Constantly on hand and for sale by

OR,A.Y, JOIV3E© «&; CO,

Dejjot of the Santa Cruz Tannery,

418 Battery St., San JFranelBCO.

25vl7-ly

HAYWARD & COLEMAN,

IMPORTERS AND REFINERS
—or—

Illuminating, Lubricating,

—AND —

PAINT OILS*,

CONSISTING OP

KEROSENE. 'LARD, SPERM, ELEPHANT, POLAR,

TANNERS. NEATSKOOT, BOILED AND KA'.V

LINSEED, CASTOR AND, CHINA NUT.

— ALSO —

Spirits of Turpentine and Alcohol.
Lamps and Lamp Stock !

An elegant and complete assortment.
SOLE IMPORTERS OF

Devoe's Illixmiiiiitisig' Oil.

PATJR.VT CAWS.
' 5vl7-tf. *11 Front street, San Francisco.

MEOHArHCAL AM AEOHITEOTUKAL

Drawing

^ 3? S» K. 3S IV T I O E S .

MR, FKKDRKHItt HELLEKT,
An experienced Draughtsman and Teacher, bai opened an
Evening School at No. 41-4 CLAY STREET (same entrance
as the Mining and Scientific Press ottlce), where he is Liv-
ing thorough instructions in DRAWING to apprentices who
are inclined to self-improvement. His terms are moderate
and within reach of the humblest apprentice; and we are
pleased Losay that the enterprise is lueetinp with success.
|lvl8.tf

Professional Cards.

J. S. PHILLIPS,

MINIIVG ENGINl-EK, Ktc,

rtb Bouse. — Sun Pi&nclsco.

b • i i pi rlence m th" various fli part

■i in of 3d tn in i in it and Metallurgy, In Cornwall

an i \ui, rli ■■. ■ ill li oiden for tlic exntnTnntlon of Min-
eral Propertied throughout the (forth und south A nmrloaa;
nuiiernuj osfluyed or anal ...■■.,-■■ ror beni-flclntlnc

refractory ares; Metals sold; capital procured t<>r devel-
oping valuable ledges. .. -tv!7tf

JOHN" ROACH, Optician,

lias removed From t>22 Montgomery street to
Jilt* IV a« hi union nireet,

East of Montgomery.

Surveying InMnnnente ma le, repaired and adjusted

22vl7-Sm

J. SWYNEY,
M-AJRIINIS MlVGtllVIGiaXft,

*"»:{ Montgomery Ifilock, San Frunc.Neo,

la prepared to furnish General Plans, Specifications, and
mil detail Drawings for propeller or side-wheel steamers,
Inui vessels of all Classen, engines, boilers, etc. Also for
locomotive or stall iry engines, and machinery In gen-
eral. An experience of over twenty years in this pro.
to furnish correct drawings and guar-

DAVID R. SMITH,

Civil and Mccliaiiieal Engineer,

is prepared to furnish Plans, Models, Specifications and
full detail PrawlnRsfor Steamers and Sailing Vessola and
Machinery in general.

Montgomery ISioei;. lSv!7-3m

J. M. HAVEN,

ATTORNBV AND COUNSELOR AT L.AW
Kooui 25 Ate^cllallt*l, ExcUiinBe,

27vl6 SAN FRANCISCO.

RADICAL CURE

— OF—

Treatment of all Defonnitics of the Body, by DR. A,
FOLLEAU'S process. «S4 Washington street, up stairs,
Washington Baths Building, between Montgomery and
Kearny streets.

DR. A. FOLLEAU

Has his studies and manufactories in the same building.

Every kind of Apparatus, Trusses, Orthopedic Instru-
ments, Artificial Limbs, etc. , are manufactured and applied
by himself.

dSr-i/e Iietsno connection with any Agency. 2£yl4-llptf

JA.ME8 IMC. TAYLOR,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,

Court Block, G36 Clay Street

SAN FRANCISCO.

2vl5-lqy

American Saw Company,

R10R |0 AU- 0THtRS

MANUFACTURKRS OF

SIovuble-Tonth and Perforated Circular Saws,

Perforated Mulay, Sfill and Cross-Cut Saws, with
Adjustable Sockets.

SAW-GUMMERS, SWAGES, CANT DOGS,

Etc., have established an office for the sale of the above

articles, at

So. fiOfi Front street, Sun Franclnco.

Our*I>cscrii)tivc Pamphlets will be forwarded to any one

6vl7tf

STJLPHUEETS ;

What they are;

How Assayed ;

How Concentrated;

And How "Worked;

BLOW-PIPE ASSA¥C10F ' MINERALS.

TSf WM. BAKSTOW, M. I>.

Published by A. Roman & Co,, San Francisco.
For sale at this Office. —Price, One ISollar.

With tlic aid of this Book, the miner can assay his own
ores, requiring but few materials, etc., except such as are
generally to be found In the interior towns. 21vI5tf

Electhottfie Ekgravi?iGS, Cots, Etc.— Our Job Printing
Ofhce is abundantly supplied with elegant engravings, or
naments, and other embellishments to suit the various
branches of industry in this State

WE ARE NOW OFFERING
OUR, IMMENSE STOCK

or

Fine Custom Made Clothing

AHD

Gents' Furnishing Goods

AT PRICES THAT DEFY COMPETITION.

Onr Stuck of Clothlne Consists o<
AT/L THE EATEST STYLES

BOTH OF UATKRIAL AND FINISH.

A Ls^se Assort men lot
Trunk*! Vniiten, Carpet ltairH, I&lnnltetH, i;n-.,

AT KXTIiKMFLY LOW PRIORS.

a. n. »ri3A_o ^ co.,

8vl0 Cor. of WashinRton and Sansomc streets.

THE GIANT

POWDER COMPANY

Is now prepared to till nil orders Tor

GIANT POWDER,

Put up lu ISoxcm, either In JSullt or In Cur
trldRC*.

General A.gf©n fcs,

B&WDMANW, WIELSOW & CO.,

25vl6-3m 21(1 Pront street, San Francisco.
WAN FKANCISCO

Pioneer Screen "Wok-Ics,

JOHN \V. QUICK, Manufacturer,

Removed toTnlcanTron Wortot, Fremont street, between
Mission nnd Howard. San Francisco.

Screen Punching in all its branebe.s. at rates reduced
from 25 to 4'i per cent less than the established rales. I can
furnish Improved Quartz Screens several sizes finer thnn
any Screen ever nunc hed, Riving universal satisfaction,
nnd fur strength, ehea micas and durability are not excelled.
Also, Punched screens of nil sizns and linen ess made from
all qualities ot material, for Quartz. Cement, Flour and
Rice Mills, etc. Screen I'unchlnp made a specialty; there-
fore millmcn forwardim; 1hcir orders to me will receive
none but the best. Orders solicited.

N. B —J. W. QUTOK is the onlv competent and snecfissful
manufacturer of Screens; In the State, having made Screens
for the princinal mills In this State and ndjoinlmr Terri-
tories for many years. Quartz mill owners using punched
Screens which have universally failed logive satisfaction,
when visiting, the city will please call and see me. 5vl7-Iy

California Steam Navigation

Kyyi COMPANY. s4S§il-l

Steamer CAPITAL CAPT. E. A. POOLE

CHRYSOPOLIS CAPT. A. FOSTER.

YOSEMITE

" CORNELIA CAPT. W. BROMLEY

JULIA CAPT. E. CONCKLIN.

Two of the above steamers leave BROADWAY WHARF
at 4 o'clock P. M. EVERY DAY (Sundays cxccnterll, one
for Sacramento and one tor Stockton, those for Sacra-
mento connecting with light-drafl steamers for Marysvillo
Colusa, Chico, and Red Bluff.

Office of the Company, northeast corner of Front and
Jackson streets.

B. M. HAKTSHOrcVF.,
13vl2 . President.

International Hotel,

JACKSON STREET

BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AND KEARNY STS.,

SAN FRANCSSCO, CAL.

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE IS IN PERFECT
order for the accommodation of guests. Persons seek-
ing comfort and economy will find this the best Hotel in
the city to stop at. The Beds are new and in good order,
and the Rooms well ventilated. The Table will always be
supplied with Hie best in tho market.
Pricea varying from tgl SO to S3 per day for

Hoard and Room.

FINE BATH HOUSE AND BARBER SHOP ATTACUED

TO THE HOUSE.

AS?- Teams belonging to the House will be in attendance
at all the boats and ears to convey passengers to the House
frkk of charge, and to any part of the city for flO cents

*lvl2 F. E. WEYGANT, Proprietor.

Pacific Powder Mills.

QUPERI0R BLASTING AND SPORTING GUN DEB '

Black Diamond, in 1 lb canisters.

do do in Wlh canisters.

do do in hi kegs.

Hunter's Pride, In lib canister?

do do in V£lh canisters.

do do in % kegs.

do do in y. kegs.

pHcitic Mills River Shouting, in 1ft canisters.

do do do in mhcanist' '

do do do in M kegs.

do do do in V- kegs.

do do do in 2ftlb kegs.

Pnciflc Mills Rifle, in lit. canisters.

do do in ^lb canisters.

do do In 'ii'kegs.

do do in % kegs.

do do in 251b kegs.

Blasting and Mining Powder $2 25 per keg.
Safely Fuse and Shot for sale by

HAYWARD «fc COLEMAN Atfcnj..
24vl6Hm 414 Front street, Ss Francisco.

Removal and Partnership.

Notice is hereby given, that I have, removed from my old
stand on Beale strcut, and have formed a co-parlnor-fiip
with Mr, A, CAMERON, for the purpose of carrying on die
businessof Stair-Building, Wood-Turning and Scroll Saw-
ing. The business will bo conducted as formerly at Cam-
eron's, corner of Market and He ale streets, and also atNos
485 and 1S7 Erannan street, where ample steam power an t
all necessary facilities have been provided for every
branch of the business.

Different sizes of Redwood Balusters constantly on hand
for sale. Also Spanish Cedar, Walnut and California
Laurel.

15vl7-3m N- P. LAMGLAND.

60

Tlcye Mining and Scientific Press.

Notes from Montana.

[FROM ODIt BEGtJLAB CORRESPONDENT.]

A HACKNEYED INTRODUCTION,

is one which treats of the weather; yet we
should feel that we no longer deserved to
enjoy the sunny and cloudless skies which
now smile upon us, if we did not at the
outset contradict the assertion which cer-
tain chilly and churlish croakers have given
to the world in a somewhat profane state-
ment that " Montana has nine months win-
ter and three months d— <1 cold weather. "
It is now Christmas week, and placer min-
ing operations are but just suspended.
There is not snow enough to cover the
ground, no sensational items with a "Found
Frozen" heading have come to the relief of
local editors, and the overcoat trade is light.
While far to the south of us, on the line of
the TJ. P. B. B., the roads are blocked with
drifts of snow, our roads are in fine condi-
tion, and all our territorial coaches make
their runs on schedule time. The truth is,
Montana has 5been fearfully slandered, on
the weather question, and these slanders
have, in many cases, been the scapegoats
upon which have been saddled those misfor-
tunes which might much more consistently
have been attributed to the shiftless and
unenergetic disposition of the complain-
ants. The climate is, in fact, much more
mild here than in Chicago or New York,
and more favorable to mining operations
than in the districts south of us, where the
greater elevation more than counteracts the
advantages which would otherwise be de-
rived from a lower latitude. During the
winter of '64 and '65 placer mining was
prosecuted almost without interruption in
this territory, and a similarly favorable
state of affairs existed last winter. This
season has not, thus far, been an exception
to the rule, and even if it should be, Mon-
tana has now so far advanced in her career
as a mining country that no injurious con-
sequences would be felt.

HER QUAKTZ MINES

are so far developed that they can furnish
employment to thousands of men during
the entire year, and can offer ' ' situations "
83 far below the surface that changes of
temperature which take place above ground
are not noticed. More especially during
the winter months are our quartz mines
worked to their full capacity; this being
the case from the fact that ledge-owners
can then employ men at such low wages —
from §45 to §50 per month, and board.
Some prominent mine-owners are in fact
pursuing the policy of crushing custom
rock during the winter months in their
mills, and putting as many men as they
can possibly employ at work taking out
ore from their own mines, — the ore thus
taken out to be crushed during the summer,
and the mines allowed to lay comparatively
idle during that season of high wages.
"While this plan of taking out one's ore dur-
ing the winter and crushing it in the sum-
mer greatly reduces the expense of work-
ing, it at the same time aids in the devel-
opment of the country by allowing several
months' time for testing rock from such
new ledges as may not have been sufficient-
ly opened to warrant the erection of mills
upon them. With this latter class of
ledges Montana is plentifully supplied; in
fact the books of the several County Be-
corders present a curious entablature
of quaint appellations which have been
manufactured to order for thousands of
supposed discoveries, not one hundredth
part of which will ever pay for the time
expended in the invention of their names.
Aud yet we regard these " wild-cat" prop-
erties as an endorsement of the quartz
mines of Montana, for it is rarely that we
find a counterfeit unless it is based upon a
genuine possessed of real merit. Of these
genuine ledges, the

WHITI.ATCH UNION MINE

is one of the oldest, the best developed, and
the one which is more widely known than
any other. Discovered in February, 1805,

by the well known Jim Whitlatch, an old
and fortunate Nevada miner, it has been
worked with such energy that it now con-
tains over two miles of shafts, tunnels and
adits, and has been traced and proven good
for a distance, measured along the ledge,
of 2,600 feet. The longest shaft upon this
ledge has now attained a depth of over 400
feet, at which point the influx of water is
so great that the work cannot be prosecuted
further towards antipodes until steam
pumps are erected in the spring. The first
money was realized from this ledge in the
summer of 1866, when the first thousand
tons of ore yielded an average of $63 to the
ton in gold. Since that time over 32,000
tons of quartz have been taken from the
mine by seven different companies, which
have yielded over $1,000,000, or at the av-
erage rate of a little over $30 to the ton.
The highest yield ever made by this quartz
was $87 in gold to the ton, on 90 tons of
rock. At present the mines are being more
energetically worked than ever before, and
are employing about 700 men. The ledge
which at first was not over a foot in width,
and which, during the first 200 feet dipped
at an angle of only about 31 degrees, now
has a dip of about 45 degrees, with well de-
fined walls, " slickensides, " of an unmis-
takable description, an average width of
3% feet, and all the characteristics of a per-
manent vein. More than all, it possesses
that attribute without which all other qual-
ities are useless — it pays. From 75 to 100
stamps are constantly running upon it, aud
find it profitable to do so. The ore now in
sight in the mine, and which can be reached
without going to any greater depth than
that now attained, and which can be more
easily mined than that already taken out,
surpasses in quality the rock which has
been crushed, and is sure to yield one mill-
ion more.

The situation of this mine is four miles
back from this city, in the spurs of the
main range of the Bocky Mountains, and it
has already given birth to the brisk town
of TJnionville, with its boai-ding-houses,
stores, saloons, and the usual appurtenances
of a quartz minim camp.

Many items of interest are deferred until
our next. Evertwheke.

Helena, Dec. 22, 1868.

Velocipede Pisogkess. — Alexander Bad-
lam and others have been practicing self-
instruction at the Mechanics' Institute Pa-
vilion, in the art of keeping upright and
traveling on the velocipedes, having rented
that place foruse as a "velocipede school."
Occasionally one of the machines is seen
on the streets, but it is seldom that they
travel well enough to admit of the trip
upon them being called a success; notwith-
standing which, the number of velocipedes
is increasing, especially amongst the seden-
tary and amongst people of leisure, in-
cluding some ladies; and practicing is car-
ried on, mainly in private, somewhat in the
same manner and with the same objects as
skating — for amusement and for exercise.
For some reason or other the new inven-
tions in the way of velocipedes, are slow in
making their appearjnce, but we shall cer-
tainly have several new things in that line
to describe next week. Inquiries are made
on the subject from many points in the in-
terior; in reply to which it may be stated
that the velocipede will run only on tol-
erably smooth roads, and on an up grade
where a horse might be able to keep up an
easy permanent trot, while for traveling
down hill they are admirable under all cir-
cumstances.

" Letters Patent " is the title of a small
illustrated advertising sheet issued by
Messrs. Fuller & Co., No. 109 Montgomery
street, agents for the sale of patent rights,
patented articles, etc. They have quite a
number of valuable rights for sale, and
evince commendable enterprise in their
business.

Pbof. Bivot, of the French Ecole des
Mines, Paris, will visit this country next
fall, for the purpose of superintending per
sonally the operations connected with his
new water-decomposing roasting furnace
at Nevada. This is a revolving cylinder
(described in the column on foundries),
the old reverberatory shaped furnace having
the same chemicxl results in view, being
discarded for the present.

Auout the Imperial Silver Quarries
Company.

Editoes Press : — Permit me to correct a
statement which appeared in your valuable
paper of 9th inst., under the head of the
Imperial Silver Quarries Company.

The Imperial Company, so far from be-
ing wound up, as there stated, is now, and
has been ever since I took possession of
their valuable property in this county,
nearly twelve months ago, prosecuting the
work of development uninterruptedly, and
as fast as men and means can do so. Al-
ready 660 feet of tunnel 6x7 have been
driven through hard rock, day and night,
to cut a parallel belt of ten ledges, pre-
senting on surface first-rate indications.
On each of these ledges the company own
1,000 feet, as well as 1,000 feet on all blind
ledges to be discovered by the tunnel , and
they are now within 130 to 150 feet of the
first of these.

An attempt, however, was made about
the time referred to, by a party who had ac-
quired a certain debenture bond, issued to
the vendors by the old directors in part
payment of the purchase price, — to com-
pel the present directors to pay him inter-
est thereon, — the company being yet with-
out any return from their claims.

The present directors, — men of the high-
est standing and social positionin London, —
very properly refused to pay interest out of
principal subscribed by them and their
friends for the express purpose of develop-
ing the property. They were not responsi-
ble for the acts of their predecessors, as
the accompanying extract from the London
Mining Journal of the proceedings of a
shareholder's meeting, held on the 17th of
August last, will sufficiently explain.

A perusal of the minutes will put you in
possession of the facts, and enable you to
remove from the mind of your correspond-
ent the erroneous impression which has
been somehow created.

The £2,000 referred to, was, in addition
to his former contributions, advanced by
Lord Poulelt, the Chairman of the present
Board.

Vice Chancellor Malin's special idiosyn-
craey seems to be, that noblemen aud gen-
tlemen should not be directors of public
companies. Happily, the direction of the
Imperial Company is, notwithstanding his
Lordship's views, composed of just such
men as are required to give stability and
confidence to such an undertaking as the
Imperial Silver Quarries Company in Eng-
land, where capitalists are somewhat preju-
diced against American mining.
Your obedient servant.

Lewis Chalmers,
Manager at the mines.

Monitor, Alpine Co., Jan. 15th, 1869.

[The proceedings referred to were given
in full at the time, in the London Mining
Journal; and though some ill-feeling had
evidently been created, it appears that our
correspondent's representations above, ate
substantially correct. — Eds. Peess.]

The " Califoknia Society of Archi-
tects" has just been organized at the Me-
chanics' Institute, by the election as Presi-
dent of Caleb Hyatt; Vice-President, David
Farquharson; Corresponding Secretary,
Wm. Putnam; Becording Secretary, W.
H. Williams; Treasurer, S. H. Williams.
At a meeting held on Jan. 10th, twenty-
three members were present. It is pro-
posad that essays and papers on architectu-
ral and building subjects shall be read, and
lectures delivered for the benefit of the so-
ciety, from time to time. By creating
amongst architects themselves an intelli-
gent " public opinion," and cultivating
good tastethrongh a free comparison and dis-
cussion of their best conceptions before
venturing to inflict unsightly realities upon
the future of San Francisco, — such a soci-
ety promises to be a thing of real benefit, at
the same time that its vigorous existence
will stand as an evidence of the intelli-
gence of the profession.

Philosophical and Chemical Appara-
tus.— Prof. B. A. Fisher, of the State Uni-
versity, has been authorized to expend
$10,000 for the purchase of chemical and
philosophical apparatus for that institution.

Presentation of Mechanics' Institute
Medals. — The gold and silver medals
awarded by the committees at the late Fair,
were presented on Saturday evening last,
and the managers themselves were the re-
cipients, for their " powers of endurance"
and "tenacity," of a sole leather medal
which measured two feet in diameter. We
append additional list of awards of medals,
to those already published (to be found on
page 184, Vol. XVII) :

John Boaeh — Solar transit and compass,
inventors' gold medal.

Gold Medals. — Elam & Howes — Califor-
nia made wooden ware. California Powder
Works — best California made powder.

Silver Medals. — Dietrick & Eckart — Oscil-
lating steam engine. iEtna Iron Works —
Bemis's patent grate bars. I. H. Small —
Improved planing machine. T. F. Mitch-
ell— California made blocks. Capt. George
Cnmmings — Model of clipper ship 'Young
America." Dr. A. Folleau — Orthopaedic
instruments. California Wine Cooperage
Co. — Wine casks. Bryant & Strahan — A
carved sideboard. Pacific Powder Mills —
Superior California made powder. P. J.
Devine — Marble bust. P. Mezzara — Cali-
fornia cameos. O. A. Olmstead — Mineral
paints. San Francisco Candle Co. — Ada-
mantine candles. C. E. Watkins — Best
collection of photographic views. Silas
Selleck — Best plain photographs. H. W.
Vaughan — Best collection of colored pho-
tographs. Mrs. T. J. Winship — Best dis-
play of millinery. Wm. Cantelow — Best
foreign varieties of grapes.

HENRY CAREY BAIRD,

Industrial Publisher,

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Tr\e Mining and Scientific Press.

61

Enterprises and Developments.

The fields in (he vicinity of Sai-ramcnto
are white with mushrooms.

A boot and suoe factory is to be started
at San Jos<5.

The five urist mills of Napa Connty
ground 81,000 barrels of floor lust year.

There are now near Boise City, (I. T.)
two distilleries and three flouring mills in
constant operation.

The paper mills at Watsonville are
manufacturing niuety reams of paper per
day.

Fobty tons of California mustard seod
were shipped for New York by the Qolden
Aye on her last trip.
The woolen mill at Ashland.Trinity county,
is now in successful operation, running
240 spindles.

The manufacturing dam and canal of the
Natoma AVater and Mining Co., Folsom,
will be fully completed during the coming
spring

Petkoleum in Kern County. — The pe-
troleum works of the Buena Vista Petro-
leum Co. in Kern County, are now manu-
facturing excellent oil, both for burning
and lubricating.

Fbed. Holzixgei!, of Folsom, has proved
this season that hops can be raised in the
foothills successfully, and with profit. He
has raised a large crop, the hops being
larger than those known to the valley.

Petroleum in Mexico. — A company has
been formed to explore the abundant coal
oil wells of Buerta de Los Angeles, in the
State of Oajaca, Mexico. The consumption
of coal oil has increased considerably
throughout Mexico.

Lime Rock. — Edward Allen, of Hope
Valley, Alpine County, has discovered a
body of marble which will make as fine
lime as that from Marble Valley. This is
an important discovery for that section,
when "the county comes out," says the
Chronicle,

Abtesian wells on the Dominquez grant,
between Los Angeles and Wilmington, flow
thousands of gallons of good, soft water
daily upon the wild mustard plains, and it
is expected that the land heretofore barren
comparatively, will be speedily covered
with vineyards and orange groves, and be
worth 8100 an acre.

Mineral Soap.— The Secretary of the
California Pioneers has on exhibition a
quantity of "mineral soap," which is said
to resemble the gray sulphuret of silver. A
piece of it, used with water to wash the
hands, produces a lather like good toilet
soap, aud it is said to exist in great abund-
ance in Sonoma County, where a well de-
fined vein has been found. The locality is
kept secret by Mr. H. B. Osgood, its dis-
coverer.

C. F. Reed will hatch about 100 ounces
cf silkworm eggs this year, and I. N. Hoag
and W. M. Haynie each from 200 to 300
ounces. As there are at least 30,000 eggs
to an ounce, this would give 18,000,000
cocoons. Some of the silkmen of Los An-
geles say that county will produce 20,000.-
000. Santa Barbara and Santa Clara to-
gether must have nearly or quite 1,000,000;
making 39,000,000 cocoons for the year;
and for these the State would have to pay
$117,000 premiums. If these cocoons are
all hatched, they will produce 190,000
ounces of eggs, which, at $5 per ounce
(they are now worth $12) will sell at $900,-
0J0.

Mining and Scientific Press. — We look upon this
panei as one of our must valuable exchanges, in fact
it deservedly stands at the head of all publications em-
bracing mining, scientific and mechanical subjectH,
and contains much miscellaneous matter of interest,
and is a gem of neatness. The Press is published by
Uewe-y &, Co., San Francisco, and at its present low price
of live dollars per annum, should be patronized by every
one, but more- especially by miners, mechanics and in-
ventors who wish to pursue their avocations with intel-
ligence and economy. — Tidal Wave, Idafio.

Patent Brokerage.

PATENT RIGHTS

ltouL'ht and Sold on ConimlMMlon.

A variety of new and valuable Patents for sale, novel and

use' ill articles, suitable fi>r TRAVELING AGEN.S,

always on hand, among which are the following:

Patent Cigarette Boiler, and patent gummed Wrap-
pers for the same. Every one can make their own
Cigarettes. Price $2.50 (including 400 wrappers.)

Wilson' h Pali' tit Solder, for mending tin ware with-
out soldering iron, prepared tor family use. Retail
price 50 cents.

Elliptic Steel Scraper*, for cleaning boiler tubes (all
sizes)— best thing ever invented for the purpose. Kett.il
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THE cia.L.iaiiitA/i'JBD

IMITATION GOLD

$15. Hunting Watches. $20

(ASKS OP TIIF

\COLL1NS METAL
(IHPBOVED OROIDBJ

Special Notice.— Our superior Oroide Walches linv.
Ins' recently been Imitated, And worthless WfllCllOB sold In
New York, Boston, Culoago, and other cltle*, represented

ii- our watches, wc hereby camion the public strain*! Ihein,
and give notice that we are In no way reaiioitxiulc for these
bigusconcorn-sand only those purchasing directly irom
us can secure a genuine Watch of our manufacture. We
have recently greatly Improved our Oroide In appearance
end durability ( and, to protect the public from imposition
hereafter, have named it the "COLLINS metal." and

we give notice that any one making use of this name will
be prosecuted to the extent of the law.

This ni<"tal ha* all the bnl'lancy and durnhllily of gold;
cannot be distinguished from it by the best jndac; retains
Its color till worn out, and is equal to gold excepting In In-
trinsic value. All our Gentlemen's Wa'ehes lire Full Jeir-
eted Patent 7,-rrr*,- those for Ladles an Improved Escape-
ment, better than a lever tor a small Watch; all in Hunt-
ing Cases, nnd fully guaranteed by special certificate. The
815 Watches are equal In neatness, style of finish, pcneral
appearance, anu for time, to a gold one Costing $150. Those
for $20 are ott&etra fine finish, and are fully equal to a Gold
Watch costing 5200. Chains of every style, from $2 to $6.
A so, Jewelry of the Collins Metal lu every style.

To Clubs, where six Watches are ordered at one time, we
send onb extra free of charge. All our prices are lu Cur-
rency.

Goods sent to any part o the United States by express, to
be paid for on delivery. Money need not he sent with the
order, as bills can be paid when goods are taken from the
express office. Customers must pay all express charges.
Wc employ no agents; orders must therefore he sent direct-
ly to us. Customers in the city will remember that our
only OJjicr is

No«. :n und 31> Xasvau ktreet, Slew York,

Opposite the Post Office, (up stairs.)

O. E. COLLINS <&, CO.

Citizens of Toronto and the Dominion generally, take no-
tice. We have hundreds of testimonials. But you need no
further evidence than the following front one who is well
known among you. Here Is his proof positive.

Harry llnzteton, the well known author, says:

" I have always looked upon chean watches as humbugs,
and dealers In them as littla better than swindlers. AUhe
requestor a friend, I have worn for three months, the
watch he purchased of C. E. Collins, and for which he paid
515. It accurate time, retains its perfect golden ap-

pearance, nnd I can really see no difference between it and
my own, which cost rive times the amount of the Collins
Watch."

Mr. Hazelton odds:

"I have since purchased FIVE of these watches, at the
request ol friends, and those for whom they were intended
are periectly satisfied. Others are seeking for them, and I
fancy that Mr. C. will find some difficulty in supplying the
constantly Increasing demand."

USf-The regular price of Ihe watch is $15, and others
costing $20. These are superbly finished, and reallv supe-
rior to any article placed up«.n the market, costing Ave
times that sum.

Office State Capital Reporter, 42 and 41 J Btreet. Sacra-
mento, Cal., July 15, 1SG8:

C. E. Collins .t Co.— G<ntlcincn:— WelL«, Fargo A Co. de-
livered Watch and Chain, as per order, paid bid on present-
ation. The Watch and Chain give entire satisfaction, and
several of my friends wish the same quality of watch aud
chain. One is chief editor of this paper, and two others
are the publishers of this paper, and the others are fur
friends of mine, and by wearing your goods will make ji u
a large sale In this city. I therefore wish you to send me
seven watches and seven chains, of same quality as those
yon sent me, price paid you $15 for watch, and $6 currency
for chain. I return you the guarantee, It may assist you
in ascertaining ihe exact kind of goods sent me, the number
of the watch sent Is 66,982. If this order sent turnsoutas
tatisfaclory as the first, we will give you a good editorh 1
notice, and help you along as far as practicable. I send
this order not for my benefit, but for yours and to accom-
modate my friends. Send to E. K. Phipps, office of "State
Capital Reporter, Sacramento, California."
Yours, rcspecliully,

E. K. FniFPH.

Address, •

C. E. COLLINS &. CO.,

1&1 und 3» Sfaasan street, New York.

20vl7eow3m

Where to ADVKnTTBE.— The attention of traders and
mill machinists Is wiled to the fact that the Mountain
Masaiger, of DownJevfflOi Btexxi Oounty.posBesaea many
STH.-*'ia] advantages a* an advt-rtisiug medium over a ma-

-jrity of the Uiterlarprees, it being the onlypublic Jour-
nal imblihhrd within a radius uf sixty miles, in tin- ri«h-
BBt and moat populous mining sections of the State. ItH

weakly edition is double the average of country papers,
being without the range of large duiiies, und having no
compi Htlon at home. Its local column afford many Items
f.ir imr city cotomporuries, while iterates of adv.Tlih-iug
are p asonably low lovntf

New Mining Advertisements.

Riitil -Hitstke Ml'lntr Cmnpiiny, Itrowa'i Val-
ley, Yuba County. California.

Notick.— There are delinquent upon the following de-
scribed stock, on acconnl of assessment levied on the
nlneecnth day of December, 1868, the several amounts set
opposite the names of the respective shareholders, as fol-
lows:

Names. No Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

Agatd W B 18 44 $no i>0

Agard, M F 19 litf 75;) 0i

Aiislvlionl, H a <i is oo

Bradlev, M not Issued 30 225 00

Bradlcv, A nut Issued 5 37 50

l'.ii i,. L 11 not issued 25 IS" 50

Brown, J 6 20 150 oo

Beiiusncq. A C G de 27 20 IflO (0

t'olm ,V Mio not Issued 10 75 00

Cavalller, .J it E 3 io 75 co

Cavsllicr, J B K. 25 91 6>2 50

CoUfCQlle. A 7 46 345 00

Eiv, .1 not issued 10 75 00

Find icy, Thos 2fi 40 367 5ii

Fischer, w 9 45 337 50

Cry CM. not issued 60 450 '0

llawley, W not Issued 39 2112 fill

Hnwley, Mnj S not issued 0 45 00

Hnard.AN 1 210 1675 00

Hoard. L 11 2 20 15 HO

Kelly, M J 13 20 150 00

Lawson, J F not Issued 49 367 5*1

L iinorv. E 11 100 750 00

M.-AI IsA Cordon 14 5 87 60

MeAllls ,t Gordon 15 10 75 0U

McAllls A Cordon Id 10 75 fO

McAllis A Gordon 17 20 150 00

Mai tat. M 4 20 150 00

Noel, A 12 20 1.10 00

Ruggles, D W n->t issued 10 75 10

Smith, J B not issued 10 75 i0

Vine, J not ivsued 5 37 60

Weasels, S C not issued 10 75 00

And In accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the nineteenth day of December, 1868,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be nec-
essary, will be sold at public auction, by J. Middleton <£
Son, 310 .Montgomery street, San Francisco, on Monday, the
eighth day of February. 1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock M.
of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment thereon,
together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale.
JOHN F. LUHSE, Secrelury.

Office. 318Callfornia street. up stairs, San Francisco. J23

IViii ... iini und Dolores Silver Mlnluft Compa-
ny. Guuaptni District, State of Chihuahua, Mexico.
Notick.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed slock, on account of assessment levied on the
ninth day of December. 1SGS, the several amounts set oppo-
site the names of the respective shareholders, as follows:

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

James Lang 125 5 $10 00

L 11 Perry n m 20 00

lh Perry 15 5 10 00

L « Parry 202 65 nu no

R Huaslng 213 6 '0 00

R Ilns-lni: 52 6 in in*

S S Evnery 180 5 in nn

John Donald 212 10 20 l«i

W 11 Ryan 9) is SO to

!■' s El [maker iso .".5 71 > ki

P j O'Connor I4fi ai 120 00

James Doyle 192 5 HI 00

Catherine Martin 215 5 10 00

And in accordance with law. and an order or the Board of
Trustees, made on the ninth day of December, 1808, so many
shnresof each parcel of said stock as may bo necessary,
will be sold at public auction, by Oiney A Co., auctioneers.
No. 426 Montgomery street, San Francisco, Cal , on Monday,
the twenty-fifth day of January, 1869, at the hour of 12
o'clock M. of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment
thereon, together with costs of advertising and expenses of
sale.

C. B. GIFFOKD, Secretary.

Office. N. E. corner of Second and Howard streets, San
Francisco. janS

Mining Notices—Continued.

Chalk Mountain Slue Gravel Company.— J, a.

cation of Works: Nevada County, California.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting ni the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the thirteenth day of
January, 1869, an assessment of two dollars ($2; per share
was levied upon the capital siock of said Company, paya-
ble immediately, in Uuitcd States gold coin, 10 the Sue
rotary

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the fifteenth day of February, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent, und will be duly advertised tor sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall be made beiore,
will be sold on Monday, the eighth day of March, I869.
10 pay the delinquent assessment, together with conts of
advertising and -expenses of sale. By order of the' Board of
Trustees.

J. M BUFFINGTON, Secretary.

Office, 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California street,
San Francisco. janl6

Great Central .ill nine Company.— Location o*

Works: Yuma County, Arizona territory.

Notice.— There are delinquent upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
ninth day of October, 1668, the several amounts set op
posite the names of the respective shareholders, as fol-
lows:

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares, Amount.

P Calnon 186 In $25 00

Wm H Cleveland 313 25 62 50

Mrs Ann GCuinnilngs 255 25 62 50

Jas H Foster 94 ItH) 250 00

Jas H Foster 141 10 25 00

Jas H Foster 142 20 511 no

JesseGeib 73 25 62 5' >

Jesse Geib 74 25 62 50

JesseGeih 75 20 50 00

Jesse Geib 7fi lu 25 0(1

Jesse Gelh 78 10 25 00

JesseGeib 79 5 12 50

JewseGclb 80 5 12 50

SR Hams 291 50 125 I'O

SK Harris :9H 50 125 00

S R Harris 318 50 125 110

JasKellogK 175 50 125 Ol

AJJegliers 3 5 12 50

A.I .lechers i 5 12 50

AJJeghers 5 5 12 50

A J Jrglicrs 6 5 12 50

AJJcghcrs 7 5 12 50

Aucust I.udorrt Ul 10 25 00

Dau'l M c Leod 290 90 225 on

Jno It Mason 128 hi i'5 HO

Camillo Mariiu .'67 20 50 00

Ford H Rrgors 129 65 162 50

Louis Vesarla 319 25 62 50

Louis Vcsaria 320 25 62 50

And In accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the ninth day of October, A. D. 1868,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be
necessary, will be sold at public auction, by Messrs. Olney
A Co., at their salesrooms. No. 420 Montgomery street, San
Francisco, on the thirtieth day of December, A D. 1863,
at the hour of 4 o'clock 1*. M. of said day, fopay said delin-
quent assessment thereon, together with costs of advertis-
ing and expenses of sale.

O. D. SQUIRE. Secretary.

Office. No. 4'4 Montgomery street, San Francisco dec5

Postponement.— The above sale is hereby postponed until
Thursday, the twenty-eighth day or January, i860, at the
same hour aud place. By order of the Board of Trustees.

jan2 O. D. SQUIRES, Secretary.

North AiMi"i'!c:iii Waou PreMervlna; Company.

Location of Works: San Francisco, California.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Directors of said Company, held on the fifteenth day of
Jonuary, 1869, an assessment of one ($1) dollar per chare
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able immediately, in United states gold and silver coin, 10
the Secretary, at the Company's office, 430 Montgomery
street, San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the eighteenth dav of February, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent, anti will he duly advertised lorsaleat
public auction, and unless payment shall be made heiore,
will be sold on Monday, the eighth day of March, 1869,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together v«iih costs
of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board

oi Directors. . _ _

WM. B.LAKE, Secretary.

Office, 420 Montgomery street, San Francisco. jt^niC

Itl|»pon Gold and silver Mining Company.—

Location of Works: Silver Mountain District, Alpine

Couniy, California,

Notick.— There arc delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
flftteath day of October, 1868, the several amounts set
opposite the names, of the respective shareholders as fol-
lows :

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

Curtis Palmer 148 10 gto 00

William Brown U 6 5 00

William Brown 231 10 10 00

William Brown 233 10 10 1 0

William Brown 234 10 10 00

William Brown 35 10 10 «0

William Brown 240 3 3 00

William Brown 276 25 21 00

William Brown 277 45 45 10

BrownAKent 15 10 10 00

Abigail Brown 20 5 5 00

Abigail Brown 207 5 6 00

M Nolan 266 10 10 00

Daniel Davidson, endorsed to

JamesWilson 46 10 10 00

George Patterson 53 A 5 6 00

James SS Robinson 56 ■ 10 10 00

F M Ellis 66 1 1 00

H D Scott 71 55 65 00

John Sanquet l:-8 16 i5 00

B Curran not Issued 272 10 10 10

B Curran not Is ued 273 10 10 00

John Bagnell 77 7 7 0o

Matthew Davidson 79 12 12 00

Patrick Carroll 224 10 10 00

P M Wellin 221 5 5 00

Edward Campbell 181 10 10 00

ChasB Montague 120 25 25 HO

A J Davis 127 10 10 00

Lott Muleahy 157 6 5 00

ThomosFav ;53 6 5 00

David M Short .134 lu 10 00

Chas Mayer 135 10 10 t.o

Benjamin C Levy 137 5 5 00

t.asKird liodchaux 139 10 10 00

Lazard flndchaux 160 5 5 00

Lazard Godchaux 162 5 5 00

Lazard Godchaux 229 5 5 oo

Lazard Godchaux 230 5 3 00

P Cunningham 156 5 5 00

f Cunningham 174 5 5 00

Michael English.... 152 25 25 00

Frank Mahon 155 25 25 Oft

Thos McCullough 159 10 10 10

Stephen McGillan 164 5 5 i»

Stephen McGiilan 165 ft 5 00

P. I Mc Mahon 170 H 2> 00

P J McMahon 'SI 25 25 00

Ja« Barrett. ..not issued. ..bal 189 25 12S 00

Elizabeth Curran 194 10 10 00

Elizabeth Curran 195 10 10 00

NC Briggs 209 10 10 00

F H Moore 210 20 20 00

C B Gregory 2!1 20 20 Ml

Henry Eno 212 20 20 00

H en ry Eno 278 26 25 00

David Lovell..' 214 10 10 00

Jacob Martensteln ..225 1 1 00

MG Shove 264 20 20 00

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the flfleenth day of October, 1868,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be
necessary, will be sold at public auction, at the salesroom
of Maurice Dore k Co., auctioneers. No. 327 Montgomery
street, San Francisco, on Saturday, the twenty-third day
of January, 1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock M. of said day, to
pay said delinquent assessment thereon, together with
costs of advertising and expenses of sale.

CURTIS PALMER, Secretary.

Office. No. 67 Stevenson street, between First and Second
streets, San Francisco. dcc24

XT. 8. Grunt Mining: Company. -T.,ocallon of

Works: Carlisle, Nevada.

Notice.— There are delinquent upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
ninth day of November, 18GS, the several amounts set op-
posite the names of the respective shareholders, as fol-
lows:

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

Alpheus Bull 2 218 $109 00

E B. Mott, Jr 6 150 75 10

GeoMohrel 10 10 5 60_

GeoMohrel 11 10 5 00

Geo Mohrel 12 10 5 00

GeoMohrel 13 5 2 50

GeoMohrel 14 5 2 50

SilasGarber 19 1" 5 DO

Jas P Wheeler. 30 50 25 IX)

Jas P Wheeler 31 50 2ft On

Jas P Wheeler 32 50 25 00

JaePWhceler ..33 50 25 00

JnoVail 34 20 l»l»

L J Flint "17 20 10 00

IL Requa 38 SO ?5 00

ILRequa 39 50 25 00

I L Requa 40 50 25 00

I L Requa 41 50 25 rp

.1 L Van Bokkclen 48 4 2 00

LA Booth '9 50 2500

LA Booth 50 54 27 W

L A. Hoolh 51 lUO 50 00

J Bigps * 2 OO

McFarland hi 8 00

Sarah Snvder 32 16 00

N M Baxter 20 10 00

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the ninth day of November, 1868, so
many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be neces-
sary, will he sold at public auction, by J. C. Merrill & Co.,
auctioneers, No. 204 California street, San Francisco,
California, on Saturday, the second day of January,
1869, at the hour of 2 o'clock P. M. of said day, to pay
said delinquent assessment thereon, together with costs of
advertising aud expenses of sale.

ENOS TAYLOR, Secretary.

Office, No. 226 Clay street, San Francisco. decl9

Postponement.— The above sale Is hereby postponed until
Saturday, the thirtieth day of January, 1869, at the same
hour and plaee. By order ol'the Board of Trustees.

jan9 ENOS TAYLOR, Secretary.

62

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinery.

V-AJESdVErSf'S
PATENT AMALGAMATOR

Tliese Machines Stand. Unrivaled.

For rapidly pulverizing and amalgamating ores, they
have no equal. No effort has been, or will be, spared to
have them constructed in the most perfect manner, and of
the great number now in operation, not one liaseverre-
quired repairs. The constant and increasing demand for
tl)*jm is sufficient evidence of their merits.

They m-e constructed so as to apply steam directly into
the pulp, or with steam bottoms, as desired.

This Amalgamator Operates as Follows:

The pan being Ailed, the motion of themuller forces the
pulp to the center, where it is drawn down through the ap-
erture and between the grinding surfaces. Thence it is
thrown to the periphery into the quicksilver. The curved
plates again draw it to the center, where it passes down,
and to the circumference as before. Thus it is constantly
passing in a regular flow between the grinding surl aces and
Into the quicksilver, until the ore is reduced to an impalpa-
ble powder, and the metal amalgamated.

Setters made on the same principle excel all others.—
Thev bring the pulp so constantly and perfectly m contact
with quicksilver, that the particles are rapidly and com

P ffiUmsn are invited to examine these pans and setters for
*m*2wM. at the JPAUIFIC JTO UHDJIT ,

San Francisco.

themselves, at the
lvl

Patent Rights tor- Sale.

For Preserving Timber from Decay

The cheapest method for curing Wood.
A. HAMAK'S PATEST.

WOOD PAVEMENT,

miXEB'S PATENT.

S. X.. PBBEIKA,
SvlS-lm SIM Montgomery street, Room £.

ELLERY'S PATENT

India Iiufiher Cement and Paint

— FOB —

TIN, IRON AND METALLIC ROOFS,

I1-011, JSrscl£ and Wooden iiuUdings,
SHIPS, STEAMBOATS, STAGES, CAKS,

AND FOR ALL EXPOSED SURFACES.

Is water-proof and indestructible; will neither rot, peel,

nor crack; will withstand any climate; can be put on in

any color, and is less expensive than other Paint.

New Cloth Roofs put on. Old Roofs cemented
uud p.ilnted. Leaky Roofs made ti^ht.

C§p» No Coal Tar or Asphalt um used. All work guaran-
teed. Orders punctually attended to.

GEO. T. UROMLET, Agent,

BLAKE'S QUARTZ BREAKER!
JPKICKS REDUCED!

MACHINES OF ALL SIZES FOR SALE
— BY —

¥1. P. BLAKE,

Corner First and Mission streets, or Box 3,07?

3V131' SAN FRANCISCO.

GLASGOW
Iron and Metal Importing Company

NuH. 35 and 37 Ereniont street,

SAN FKANC1SC0,

Keep constantly on hand a large stock of best Bar and
Bundle Iron, liuiler Tubes, Flate niitl Sheet Iron, lias and
Water -fipe, Anvils, Cast Steel, Gas and Water Fining"1
wniiiii they oiler to the trade on liberal terms.

2tvui-.ua W. UuCltlNDLE, Manage.

Xi.eip-O'vaJL.

NELSON~&T DOBLE,

AUENITS FOK

Thomas Firth & Sons5 Cast Steel. Files.

Mill Piclts, Pledges, Hummers, Picks,

Stone Cutters', Blacksmiths' and Horsc-Siioers' Tools,

Have removed to 13 and 15 Fremont street, near

Martini, oun Krtumiauu.

Luvliqr

3Noti.ee to Miaiers,

Well-Borers and Water Companies.

MfltAU IS NOW FRiSf AKEU TO MANUFACTURE
. Hydraulic and Artesian Weil Pipes in the best work-
nimuiKe manner, and at the lowest market rates. Having
made targe additions io luy stocK of machinery lor that
brancii oi uusiHwsss. j. am prepared to nil all orders with dis-
p.umi, and guarantee mm re .>ati->iaction. I also lnanutac-
turu nlosisstjjpi stoves, o. the laiest unproved patterns, tor
vessels di nil classes- Also, snip I'lumbiiiy done.

Ai. JL'jtEAG,
SViS-ly Stove Store. No. J tUav street, below Davis.

PACIFIC FILE WORKS,

and county, fur
cents per copy,
states (marked vii
ret" copy, prepaid,
a .m, two emus.

iv exceptions) two

and the Herman

i and Hanibnrp line), three emits

s to nuv address in Hie United

Patent for Sale.

The undersigned, having successfully introduced the

Xieflel Aimciican BonMc Turbine Water

Wheel

On this Coast, find owning the Patent for the -whole Tacific
Coast, viz: The Males of California, Nevada and Oregon,
and the Territories of Arizona, Washington, Idaho, and
Western Montana, wishes now to dispose of the latent,
with stock of Wheels on hnnil, Patterns, etc., etc.

A Company organized and prepared properly for the
construction of these Wheels, to supply this Coast and all
tributary countries, could make the business immensely
profitable.

My object in selling is to enable me to devote myself ex-
clusively to my profession. A. MYERS.

P. S. — If not sold previous to February 15th, then I would
enter into an arrangement In manufacture by paying roy-
alty. Address Rev. A. MYERS, Portland Oregon.
26vl7-lm

Pipe Vise, with or without
Extra Jaw.

Standard Milling Machine.

UNION VISE COMPANY,

OF BOSTON, MASS.

Extra jaw, and heavy Vises. Warranted for heavv work.
New htyle Wood and Covered Screw Vises, forty styles and
kinds; Standard Milling Machines, simple, great capacity,
power and strengih— two sizes, large, 2,300 lbs; small, 9'oU
lbs. For sale by thetrade.
23vl(i-ly G. h. NOTT, Pres.

CALIFORNIA TOOL WORKS,

Blacksmith and Machine Shop,

HAS REMOVED
To 143 Scale St., bet. Mission and Howard,

SAN PEANCISCO.

All kinds of Edge or other Tools made to order. Ira
ported Tools, if too hard or soft, re tempered to give satis
faction. REAPER AND MOWING KNIVES; complete
sections always on hand, or will be made at the shortest
notice. Particular attention Paid to puiting in order AC-
RICI.LIURAL MACHINERY. Job Grinding and Polish-
ing by Steam. Orders from the Counirv promptly attended
to. 85F*AUwork warranted. Prices reasonable.

21vl7qy J. W .EI CM IS AffiT, Proprietor.

PATENT *
Boiler Scraper and Tube-Cleaner.

4vtt

IT IS THE CHEAPEST, MOST
durable, easiest to adjust, and
cleanest apparatus to use for the
purpose designed, yet offered to
the public. Being constructed on
simple and mechanical principles,
it !•; not liable to get out of order,
and wilt continue to perforin it:-
filtice until the materials are worn
out. It can readily be adjusted,
even by any inexperienced per-
son—will scrape off the scales and
cleanse the tubes just as smooth
and clean as they were when
new, without in the least affecting
their inner surface, as the Elliptic
Spring Scraper has a smooth
square edge, and springs in or out
io fit the tubes. It is particularly
applicable for steamboat boilers
when muddy water is used.

A continuous iron rod runs
through the center of the top and
bottom hubs. The soft steel scrap-
ers are fastened with screws to
the hubs, under the caps, which
cover and protect the screws ihat
fasten the scrapers on the hub.
The scrapers are expanded or con-
tracted by screwing or unscrew
ins the lower hub,— first loosening
the cap. There is a collar on the
rod to prevent The scrapers being jammed. An clastic or
flexible brush or scraper, made of leather, rubber, or some
pliable material, is attached toihenntfnr the frarposeot
removing from .'he tube the scale and dust loosened by the
aeiton of the t-crapera.

These scrapers are made from one to six inches in diam-
eter—the prices of those from one to three inches rangine
from S5 '0 S12- They are now extensively used in the
E istern Stales. Quite a number have already been sold in
this State.

For sale by McAfee, Spiers & Co , boiler makers, Howard
street, between Fremont and Keale, San Francisco, and at
the Union Foundry, Sacramento. E. M. D., P. o. box 17,
San Francisco, Manufacturers' Agents. 24vl7tf

Portable Engines.

The Swam«cot Co's (warranted equal to any manufac-
tured, may be seen in use in this eiiv), PORTABLE and
STATIONARY' STEAM FIRE ENGINES, STEAM PUMPS
and ROTARY PUMPS, and WuO.D-WORKING MACHIiN-
ERY of oven' description, at Easnjrn pi ices. Address W.
O. M. UERIty & Co., 511 California street, San Francisco.
2Svl7-3m

The Chili Exposition.

THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD CALL THE ATTENTION
of lite manufacturers of California to ihe National
nning spring in Valpa

Exposition to be neld du

raieo. Chili, next to Cam'
country on the Western Cube

i:\ctures, if they are w
resided for some vears
people, business and nil
and proposing to visit th

ate

nte>

has

1 is famil
; is a practical mechanic,
isitiou, offers to take ch true
I that parties may wish to
send th (her. and pledges himself faithfully to bring belore
the public of Glim their respective merits. He can he
seen daily, at hiaofficc, No. 49 Montgomery. Block. Prompt
action is necessary.

DAVID R. SMITH,
Civil and Mechanical Engineer.
Rrr-KKKNo:*— Hanscom & Co. (.Etna Iron Works); A. S.
Hallidie (President .Mechanics' Institute); Lynch & An-
dradc.
San Francisco, Novemb l" 3lst, 1S&0. S4v17-lf

Trades and Manufactures.

WM. BAKTLING. HENRY KIMBALL.

BARTLING & KIMBALL,
BOOICBINJO^EiaSS,

Paper Snlers and Blank Book Manufacturers.

SOS Cli,.y street, (southwest cor. Sansome),
I5vl2-3m SAN FRANCISCO.

JOHN DANIEL,

(SUCCESSOR TO 0. GOKl)

MARBLE WORKS,

No. 421 Pine st. bet Montgomery aad Kearny, San Francisco

VXjtniels, Monument*, Tomfta, PlumoeaV Slabs

Etc., On hand and Manufactured to order.
8Sr Goods shipped to all parts of the State. Orders re
ipeetfulli solicited. 5v8-3m

JPalmey's Patent

ARTIFICIAL LEG-,

Ma»nsifa«t.Hi-ed in PnfiladelpSiia, Penn.

.JAKVIS JEWETT, AGENT,
218 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. 10v8-lm

J. M. STOCKMAN,

Manufacturer of
PATTERNS AND MODELS,

(Over W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry,
S> E. Corner of Mission and Fremont sts.,
6vHtf SAN FRANCISCO.

J. F. PAG-ES,

S 13 A. IL, ENGRAVER,
AND LETTER CUTTER,

Brass and Steel Stamps and Dies, 583 Montgomery street,

San Francisco. Orders by express promptly attended to.

Gvlfi

DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITURE.
JOHNSON~& BEST, '

Manufacturers of all kinds of

Bc:-;ks and. Office Furniture,

717 Market street, near Third.

Warerooms up slalrs, A large variety of Desks always on

hand; all kinds of Office Furniture and Cabinet.

Work made to order.

lSvirqr

LOOK TO YOUR ROOFS !
Pacific Concrete Company,

Wo. «23 Clay street,

Factory on Kings.reet, befween Third and Fourth street.
New roofs covered and leaky roofs repaired, in thorough
and substantial manner, promptly ana at very reasonable
rates. Propiictors of tagan's Patent. 18vl7tf

M. M. COOK & SON.

Hose and X5elting.

Fire, Hydraulic Hose and Leather Reltinp, made of the
heaviest unit b.'-st riunliiy olTiuLr-timned sl;tiii--liter Leatler.
Also, Fire Buelvc-ls, Sui-linn Hose, etc. Our Bclllny is well
stretched, cemented and warranted to run true, and our
Hose guaranteed to u'ive satisfaction. A large assortment
always on n ind and orders promptly filled. No SOI Bat-
tery street, San Francisco. 13vlG Smeow

Novelty and Usefulness Combined.
Wilson's Prepared SSoltloi-

SiKl.eusci* with the Soldering Iron.

i polli lime and labor. _
1 all the lins yon have laid o
e them good as new. Get the
s cheap— only 5t) cents i

with

lines t!

from ;
when

that has a
i n-ill make
e In-st tnule

oilier wihnnt. It ivill stand iieat asweil
r used over tire

I'neiii'. ta.asi, Room No. 111. No. 12:1 Wash-
u Krnneisco. AGENTd WANU'li).
ox 17. 23vl7tf

On

■ F) t -itt -A-aeuey.

The Patent Agency of the Mining anii Scientific Preps
has been signalized with remarkable success during t tie
past Tew years. The importance to the inventive genius ol
this coast oi a thorough and reliable agency for the sollcita
noli of Lkttkrs Patent from the United States and foreign
CJovernnieiitsoaiinotbe-iver-ratoii.and Ihe Proprietors of tile
Pkkss, feeling llie responsibility which rests upon thcin,aud
the reward which must follow the faithful performance ol
their trusts, will fakc care to afford inventors every advan-
tage to be secured to them through a competent and re-
soousible agency upun tilts coast.

[Written for the Mining and Scientific Press.

Gold Mountain District, Nevada,

This district is situated about thirty-five
miles south, twenty-six east, from Silver
Peak, and within twelve to fifteen miles of
the southwestern line oi> the State. It is
175 miles due south of Austin, and hence
must be within the southwest corner of
Nye County.

The mines of the district can be easily
approached by good natural roads from Sil-
ver Peak, Belmont, or Palmetto, and thence
through good valley roads to any point on
the Pacific Railroad from "Wadsworth to
Gravelly Ford, on the Upper Humboldt.

The district is bounded onjihe west by a
high ridge or mountain called "Mount
McGruder," on the south by an east and
west range of barren and broken mountains
composed mainly of granite, porphyry and
lava, on the'east by irregular, detached and
broken ranges of granite, slate, volcanic
hills and desert plains, and on the north by
granite hills and a large valley having a
slope to the northeast, then east to the Ar-
magossa flats or meadows. The district as
at present organized is twenty miles square,
the lines being conformable to the cardinal
points of the compass.

The principal lode or vein is situated
near the center of the district in the south-
ern side of a low range of mountains that
extend from the east base of Mt. McGruder,
eastward across the district, where it unites
with the desert mountains that extend
southeasterly towards Death's Valley. On
the southern slope of this cross range of
hills (forming the central feature of the
district) is a belt of slate from one-fourth
to one-half of a mile wide. This slate belt
or zone gradually narrows towards the
west, and blends into or terminates in the
granite formation, a few hundred yards
west of the principal lode or vein, called
by the discoverers the " State Line Lode."
Hornblendic, micaceous andsilicious slates,
with occasional beds of calcareous sand-
stone and impure granular limestone, com-
pose this belt of slaty rocks. Some of the
surrounding granite hills show lines of
bedding or stratification like gneiss; but
the general character of the granite is fissile
and friable, without any well marked evi-
dences of stratification.

THE STATE LINE LODE.

This vein is situated in the west end of
the belt of slate above described, near its
junction with the granite. The strike or
course is south 65° east (magnetic) and the
"underlie" is 29° northeast of the vertical
line (or as it is commonly expressed, its
dip is to the northeast, at an angle of 61°,)

The walls of the vein are well marked and
clearly defined by intervening clay seams,
that show distinct lines of movement, indi-
cating the " pitch" of the rich quartz to be
about 25" east of the perpendicular line.
(As a general fact these lines of motion in-
dicated by grooves and scratches upon the
walls, are parallel with the line of richest
deposits.) The thickness of the vein is va-
riable from eight to twelve feet measured
perpendicular to its walls, and the outcrop
extends in length about 1,500 feet without
any intermission or break, but is traceable
as a smaller sized vein at least 1,000 feet
further west of the principal body of the
outcrop. Easterly the vein disappears un-
der the debris and " wash" from the
mountain above, and has not been ex-
plored, therefore its extent longitudinally
in that direction is not known.

The lode is composed mainly of a friable,
granular quartz, more or less stained with
the oxides of iron and manganese, and in
the richest portions with phosphate and ox-
ide of lead slightly. Simple sulphide and
oxide of iron largely predominates over all
other minerals or metals apart from the free
gold it contains. Several hundred feet of
the southeast end of the large outcrop is so
completely friable that the entire mass can
be removed without blasting. The gold is
disseminated in fine, roundish particles,
pretty well through the mass of the vein,
but there appears to be two bands or zt nes
of quartz that are richer in gold than lue
general mass. One is near the foot wall,
and found to be from one to two feet thick.
The other commencesnear the center of the
vein, and includes most of the upper ha f,

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63

to the hanging wall. The remainder of the
quartz, carrying bom SS
; 15 per ton. Many assays and working
le on ii small scale that
give very promising results. Ona thou-
sand ponnds of the quartz taken from the
richest belts of the worked

iii a mill nt Belmont. The yield was at the
rate of $17(i per ton. This lot of quartz
was not i ted I on I riches!

, I , was intended to re
fairly aboul of the lode at the

point where it was taken ont. So fa
explorations extend (800feet in length) the
to bear out the statement that at
U df the vein will
upwards per ton. Many tons of quartz now
in si»ht on the cro

■ ton in free gold, by t!un ordinary
milling processes now in use Oalif

THE OLM

in the southern portions of the State
of Nevada is very favorable for min-
ing operations. The Bnow rarely falls on
the valleys at all, and not exceeding one
to two feet deop on the high ranges of
mountains. In tl o summer time heavy
thunder showers are common in July and
August, confined mostly to the highor
peaks ami liiK'os of the, mountains.

As a stock country, "Gold Mountain
District" is rarely surpassed anywhere on
the Pacific Ooast. Cattle, horses, and sheep
will keep fat the entire year on the nutri-
eioiis hunch grasses, and the " white sage,"
of which they are very fond.

The State Line lode is a true gold mine,
ami not at all likely to change into a silver
bearing lode like those at Gold Hill, and
others of similar character.

The slate inclosing the vein belongs to
tho lower Silurian — possibly the Taconic
period preceding the Silurian. No trace of
fossils — or any kind of organic life has yet
been found in the gold-bearing slates of
Southern Nevada. The best pronounced
gold mines in this part of tho State, is
found in the granite and the slates immedi-
ately overlying it. Slates here of a more
recont date are apt to carry gold and silver,
together with more or less copper and lead.
and the crystalline limestone above the
slates rarely carry any gold, but rich de-
posits of silver, copper and lead are found.
This appears to be the order in which the
metals are associated with the rock forma-
tions of Silver Peak, Palmetto and Gold
Mountain districts.

The value per ounce of the gold from the
State Line lode is 818.50. The cold from
K d Mountain near Silver Peak is worth
SU-5U per ounce. J. E. Clayton.

Gold Mountain, Nev., Sept. 25th, 18(38.

Cultivating the Sage Brush Country.
It is by no means improbable that in a
short time large stretches of sage lands in
Nevada, than which nothing more dreary
c in lie imagined, so far as appearance goes,
and which have so long served only to point
jests against the Silver State, will also be
utilized. The Humboldt Register, speaking
on this subject, says: P. A. Shaw, of Grass
Valley, in that State, sowed twenty-five
acres of barley last spring, on white sage
land, with the following results: Finished
s ju-ing May 15th; total yield of barley when
harvested, 01,0110 pounds. Also sowed
four acres of wheat which yielded forty
bushels to the acre. The ground was par-
tially irrigated, but Mr. Shaw says he is
c irtain a good crop can be raised without
it. In continuation of this belief he says
he has seen barley mature in all kinds of
places where it had fallen and come up,
without irrigation. There are millions of
sage brush or artemesia lands in the great
basin which have been regarded as value-
less, yet which may prove to be largely pro-
ductive. Gov. Stanford proposes to make
a trial of the lands of the great Humboldt
desert, adjoining the line of the Central
Pacific Bailroad. He is of the opinion that
the alkali with which tho soil of that region
i impregnated will enrich rather than irn-
pjv r <h cereals.

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MIMiKALS. -METALS, etc. 8vl7

ROOT'S PATENT FORCE BLAST ROTARY BLOWER.

Patented Vorr. i-t. 1804; .July ;i, LNBO ; and Oct* 9* 1800.

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Oho of those Blowers may bo seen on exhibition at TV. T. Garratt'fl Brass Foundry, corner of
Mission and Fremont streets. They are also in use at the Almaden Quicksilver Mine; Gridley's
Foundry, (.{old Hill, Nevada; TEtni Icon Works, San Francisco, and many other places.

Caution. — Purchasers will find it to their advantage to apply direct to the Stockton Agency, as
certain patties, not authorized to in mufacture tho Blower, have put in the market machines of inferior
construction, which do not answer all the requirements of the genuine article.

Fur circulars and further information, address

KEEP & BAKGIOlSr,

*vl6 3m CUobe Iron Works, Stockton, Cal.

PAINE & STEPHENS'
IMPROVED CONCENTRATOE,

For Saving? Gold and Silver Sulnliuret*.

w

One Machine, costing abont ®l,30O, is sufficient to work the Sands from 35 to 30 Stamps.

Less power being required than for any other Machine. The attention of qua tz millmcn throughout
the State is directed to the subjoined certificates, and if they desire they can visit the Amador Miring
Co's mill, near Sutter Creek, the Eureka Co's mill at Grass Valley, or the Banner Go's mill near
Nevada, aad see for themselves.

CEICTSFCATE8 :

Grass Valley, -Tan. 4th, 1869. — This is to certify, that we have used the Paine, Stephens &
Harry Concentrators for over twelve mouths. They have, given in entire satisfaction, and are llie
best we ever used. WILLIAM WATT, Supt. Eureka Mine.

This is to certify, that we have had in use for the past 18 months one of Paine, Stephens & Cu's
Sulpburet Saving Machines, constructed by John T. Harry, (called a huddle,) and which operates
satisfactorily, particularly so in saving line sulphurets, and we recommend it as well worthy of use,
even where other Concentrators are used above it, as it will pay if there are any sulphurets.

WM. L. TIS.DALB, Supt. Star Spangled Banner Mine.

Nevada City, Oct. 26, 18C8.

Metallurgy.

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(Formerly ol the v. s, it. Mini, 8. P )

Office, \o. en Commercial street, opposite

tbc Mini, sun Francisco.

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California; Messrs Piocho A Baycrque, Wan. M, Lent, John
i). Fry, e oahlll & q0„ a. k. urlm, President en. iia- Union
Express Co.; John M. Eokfeldt, .m. and B i.s B. Hint;
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ttcnlar intention, to select BUch articles as are necessary
in the development of the mineral wealth of this coast.

A Full Assortment of DRUGGISTS' CLASSWAUE and
DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES, ACIDS and CHEMICALS, con
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Formerly Chemical Examiner In the TL S. Patent Office
may be employed professionally as a Scikstiwo Expert.
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All Instructions nnd experiments elsewhere obtained arc
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imr 1,0110 or 20-1 b, charges ol material lor experlmenta.

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Highest price paid for choice lots of Ores, Sulphuiets, As
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Our wholesale House, 628 Commercial street, extending
through to 637 Clay street, San Francisco, contains always
a most choice, and tho largest, assortment in this State.
Every Steamer brings the latest issued novelties from Eu-
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stores, at mou crate prices. 23vl6-3tn

Any one wislii
N. PAINE, a
Amador County,

% to purchase one of these useful machines, ran do so by applying to TjEiOS.
Grass Valley, Nevada County, or JOHN" T. HARRY, Sutter Creek,

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All Losses paid In U. S. fiold Coin.

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lleforetbcrntnv season, comes sret cured of Rheumatism
and Neimi'gia. by herbs only. Tho receipt was given some
years ago by an old Indian in New Orleans, and it has never
failed to cuie all it says, Many have been cured in this
city and in Boston, and; all say it is the best they have
tried). Manufactured r*y MRS. MARY BIGGINS, Oregon
street, two doors west of Drumtn. Orders sent by mail or
express attended to on receipt of £3 ner bottle. 22vl7--3ffl

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[Written for the Mining and Scientific Press.]

N. T. Society of Practical Engineering.

The New Tort Society of Practical En-
gineering held a regular meeting at their
room, No. 24 Cooper Institute, New York
city, on Tuesday gvening, Dec. 22d, James
A. Whitney, presiding.

The subject regularly before the meeting
was " The Prevention of Marine Disasters,"
and a paper thereon was read by Mr. C.
Williams, C. E., of New York city.

The writer treated at length of the differ-
ent causes of disasters at sea and uponinland
waters. Por the prevention of burning, he
recommended such treatment of the tim-
bers employed in ship-building as would
render them incombustible, and among
other methods of securing this result, men-
tioned that invented some years ago in
England and known as the kyanizing pro-
cess. This, consisting simply in impreg-
nating the wood with sulphate of iron, not
only renders it measurably fire-proof, but
makes it impenetrable to marine insects,
and also insures its greatly increased dura-
bility. The author also recommended the
more extensive employment of steam pumps,
especially upon sailing vessels, both as a
means of preventing foundering from leaks,
but also as enabling fires to be readily sub-
dued. With reference to vessels wrecked
either upon reefs or coasts, or in mid
ocean, he sketched the general outlines of
construction of a storm-proof raft, designed
to facilitate and insure the escape of pas-
sengers and crew.

During an active and interesting discus-
sion following the paper, Dr. Parmelee ex-
plained the practical difficulties that would
be found to exist in rendering wood per-
fectly fire-proof, and stated that in his
opinion the so-called fire-proof paints were
of little worth, inasmuch as the shrinking
and splitting of the wood when heated,
would expose its interior, and' this last
would of course ignite.

Lawrence Holt agreed with Dr. Parmelee
as to the non-availability of fire-proof
paints, but thought that wood might be
rendered fire-proof by impregnation with
mineral matter injected into the pores by
means of an apparatus involving the use
of a vacuum, in such manner that the min-
eral might be injected into the wood by
the pressure of the atmosphere.

J. V. C. Hall, explained the construc-
tion of a bulkhead designed for steamers
navigating the western waters where "snag-
ging" is of common occurrence. This
bulkhead is so arranged that even if the
low or forward portion of the boat is stove
by running against a "snag," the hull
would still remain buoyant, and no danger
to life or cargo would be incurred.

The Society adjourned for two weeks,
after the announcement that at the next
meeting the subject of " Concrete, its uses
and Application in Building," would be
taken up for consideration.

Salt Lake on Cabmen Island. — Gardi-
ner P. Williams, M. E., has just returned
from a trip to Carmen Island, where he has
been examining a small salt lake, with a
view to determining the feasibility of drain-
ing the same, for the production of that
article of permanent commercial demand.
The work proposed is in the interest of
Holladay & Brenham.

Cae Building. — The car stock for a new
horse railroad in this city, starting from
the Masonic Temple, and leading through
Post, Market, Mission streets, etc., out to
the Harvey Brown tract, is being turned
out as fast as possible at Casebolt's carriage
factory; the cars being sixteen feet long —
the largest in the city. The road is to be
in operation in May.

The surface of the warm springs near
Carson, Nev., has suddenly sunk two feet.

Mining A2JD Scientific Pbess. — This excellent scien-
tific journal has entered upon its eighteenth volume. —
Video Courant, Jan. 15£/t.

HIMGERFOED'S IMPROYED CONCENTRATOR,

For Saving Gold, Snlpliurets, Quicksilver, etc.

W. T. GA.RR.A.TT,

City

BRASS AND BELL FOUNDER

There is no description of machinery of bo much importance to the mining interests of Califor-
nia, at the present time, as that for the separation of sulphurets. Many machines have heen tried,
and abandoned ; and none seems to meet the requirement of the mining interest so well as that now
patented by Mr. Hungerford, which is au improvement on the well known Hungerford & Prater Con-
centrator, with which his name is already so familiar.

ISECOMMEXBATIOXS :

San Francisco, October 19th, 1868.
Mr. M, Hungerford — Dear Sir: — We have had twelve of your Concentrators at work at the
Oneida Mine, Amador County, for about six months. They give entire satisfaction. They are
strong and substantial, requiring, thus lar, no repairs, and do their work thoroughly and effectively.
At a recent clean-up of four ot them, I found that in four weeks' time we saved about S500 in free
gold, besides the sulphurets, or not far from one dollar per ton on the entire crushing of the ten
stamps connected with them. In my opinion, it is for the interest of every quartz mill to have your
machines. Yours, respectfully, GEORGE PfttNGLE, Supt. Oneida Mine.

Office of the Oneida Mining Company, Jackson, May 13th 1868.
Mr. Morgan Hungerford — Dear Sir: — In regard to the four Hungerford Concentra-
tors that I bought of Messrs. Goss & Lambard last month, I will say that I put them up in the
Oneida Mill soon after I arrived here, and find that they save sulphurets well and clean, and work to
my entire satisfaction. I have tried many other concentrators, but these stand up ami work better
than any others I have used. I have ordered Messrs. Goss & Lambard to make eight more for me as
soon as possible. Very truly yours, JAMES MORGAN.

Big Oak Flat, May 25th, 1868.— Mr. T. W. Mulford— DearSir:— I have used two of M. Hun-
gerford's Concentrators in the Rattlesnake Quartz Mill, at this place, and find that they work full as
well as they are represented to do. E. M. SMITH, Supt.

A full description of the principle and mode of action of this pan, is described in circulnrs, which
will be forwarded to any party who may desire them.

The Hungerford Concentrator has only to be seen to be appreciated. No millman will use any
other kind after he has tried that. They are in active operation in mills throughout the State, and
give perfect satisfaction;

It should be borne in mind that Mr. Hungerford is the original builder and maker of the cele-
brated Prater Concentrator, and his name should be sufficient guarantee to warrant the public in ex-
amining his new machine before purchasing elsewhere.

In future these Pans will be manufactured by Goddard & Co., at the Pacific Iron Works, San
Francisco, which is a guarantee that they will be built in the most substantial manner.

These Pans may be seen at the Pacific Iron Works, First street, near Howard, San Francisco.
Address,

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Or M. HUNGERFORD, at the Pacific Iron Works.

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volume xvm.

Table of Contents.

Coupon Ticket Nipper— III
Famous. Mines in Mexico.
tii.- li.nm Powder.
Ilvdraullc Mlnli.g 111 Placer

I'ounty.
falter Inun Idnho.
Practical mill BclentlOc.
chlorine In Gold Kertiilng.
Ice Uaohlne ol U. Carre
HwouenborB us u scientist

Enterprises una Develop-
ment*.

Explosive Agents for Mining
Purposes.

Me-ollurglcal Statistics.

■ -.ii.ui II. nun/ etc

troiilrlbtiiloiis for our Cabinet

Uunll Hill.

Poh ticliiilc Evening Scllool.

Mining mi. I Chinese Labor.

din- Mining Stock Experi-
ences.

BSOIMURIKQ MlSCrt-LANlf.—

Concrete and Concrete
Bu Idiu ;-. Hie Completion
ottlie Pitelllc It I; : Light
Houses In .Mil Ocean; The
Stockton und Tulare K. it. I

Ml. IMMiML MISC1TI.I..1NT —

Sir.ngth nf Steel Ralls In
Winter: The Engine of the
Future; Kollnlug Iron w-llh-
otit I'uitilllug; The Broad
OSUge; II. atoll ami Besse-
mer; Hnutet's Bridge.

BOIIHIiriO MlSCKLI.SNT —

OH Slruclurc of Metals;
Discovery of Metallic Hy-
drogen; Man In the Palieo-
Kiic Age; Blerle Aeld Hun-
powder; Alosku a Thousand
Years Ago.
Mini so Summary— Comprising
late Intelligence Iroin the
various counties and dis-
tricts In Calllornla, Color-
ado, Idaho. Montana, New
Mexico, Nevada,
New Velocipedes.
San Frnneisi o Mining Share

holders' Directory.
San Francisco Melol Market-
sun Francisco Market Kates.
Notices to Correspondents,
stock Prices— Bid and Asked.
Incorporations.

Using the Tides to make Compressed
Air. — It is;said that there is power enough
in the rise and fall of the titles, to drive all
tie machinery that man would ever have
occasion to use. Yet so far as we are aware,
no advantage has been taken of this fact,
except in the old-fashioned tide mills, where
the wheel is stationary, either on shore or
on an anchored boat, such as one may see
in great flotillas, whitened with flour, or
green with moss, on the Bhine. Mr. N. B.
Adams, the representative of several very
ingenious inventions at the late Mechanics
Institute Fair, suggests that compressed
air power might be obtained by the use of
a great iron, gasometer-shaped vessel, to
confine the air between high and low tide,
by fastening the vessel to the bottom ; so
that when the tide rises, for example, the
air in the vessel above would be compressed
precisely as is found in shoving an inverted
tumbler containing air, some distance under
•water. The amount of compression would
correspond with the hight of the column
of water outside. A pipe leading from the
top of the air reservoir would conduct the
elastic element to any point where the power
might be required for use. "When the tide
falls, the same force would be exerted in
the reverse direction, to prevent the forma-
tion of a vacuum in the reservoir, the press-
ure in this case being limited by the weight
of the atmosphere.

In this manner there is no doubt a kind
of compressed air engine on the principle
of the •windmill, could be driven by suc-
tion, and counter suction, through the con-
ducting pipe; but as the force would not
increase in proportion to the area of the
water inclosed by the reservoir or gasom-
eter, the working effect would depend upon
the volume of partially compressed air, in
proportion to the size of the pipe. That is
a problem in natural philosophy which we
would recommend the reader to calculate
out for his own satisfaction.

Miners' Meeting at Colfax — G. C. Bro
gau, J. B. Taylor and S. I). Moore, Miners'
Committee, request that a meeting of the
several mining precincts of Nevada and
Placer counties be held at Colfax, Feb. 4th,
to take action in the case now pending be-
fore the courts of this State, wherein Wil-
liams is plaintiff, holding title from the
Central Pacific Bailroad, and Parber and
other defendants.

City Horse Railroads and the Coupon
Ticket Nipper.

The adoption of the Convenient snuffer-
like " coupon ticket nipper," shown in the
engraving, now as familiar to San Francis-
cans as the sight of a street railroad ear it-
self, being a California invention, the pro-
duct of the ingenuity of Mr. Robert J. Kel-
lett, of this city, has worked so advanta-
geously, even upon city railroad stocks, and
has been the means of bringing about such
noteworthy conveniences to railroad pas-
sengers in the system of exchanging tick-
ets which has obtained through its agency
between different lines, that a particular
mention is deserved of some of the points
in railroad economy touching its use, while
at the same time we embrace the opportu-
nity of referring to street railroad opera-
tions in general.

We are informed by the inventor of the
coupon ticket nipper that Ihe street rail-
road stocks in San Francisco have increased

companies. These coupons are strung on
strings in the railroad offices, counted, and
settled for monthly; the money going, in
the end, not to the company that sells the
most tickets, but to the one that nips the
largest number of coupons; an even ex-
change being made between all the com-
panies.

Scores of inventions for the prevention
of peculation under similar circumstances,
have been tried and found more or less in-
effective. The present system is coming
into general use, not only on Eastern horse
railroads, but wherever exchanges between
steamboats and railroads are found to be a
convenience to the public.

Perhaps the chief value of street rail-
roads is the enhancement effected by them
of the value of suburban property. The
several Mission railroads, and the Turk
street railroad to Lone Mountain, afford the
most striking evidences of the importance
of this fact. At the same time it is evi-
dent that increased speed and facility in

entire route, is a difficulty with street cars
which has called forth seventy-five different
inventions, — motive powers, car starters,
etc., — some of which, properly modified,
will probably, in time, supersede present
sj'stems. For long, unbroken distances,
the dummy engine cars at New York, car-
rying three-horse loads, have proved a suc-
cess; and the elevated railway on Green-
wich street, in that city, will shortly be
heardfrom under the test of practical oper-
ation, the two doubtful points in regard to
it being the frightening of horses at street
crossings, and the unpleasant noises made
overhead by the iron running gear. Tanks
for compressed air or steam are proposed
for motive power, in lien of horses, but do
not appear to have been satisfactorily tried.
Another important problem is the establish-
ment of successful city railroads on steep
grades. Where the rewards of ingenuity
are great, and the solving of a mechanical
problem is at the Bame time a marked pub-
lic benefit, the issue can be only one of ap-
plication, and of time.

KELLETT'S CODPON TICKET NIPPEB.

in value a third since its adoption, the
city railroads being, without a single ex-
ception, now in a very healthy condition.
That even a fraction of this advance can be
due to the adoption of a ticket system
whereby peculation on the part of conduc-
tors and agents is rendered impossible,
comments strangely upon human nature
and upon street railroad management. The
receipts of the companies certainly show an
increase, and it is said that conductors —
poorly paid no doubt — have been heard to
complain that under this system they are
not able to make anything more than their
salary of $2.50 a day. The conductor is now
responsible to the company for the number
of tickets he takes; and while he gives a
kind of receipt to the passenger for every
fare he collects in returning the body of
the ticket, he retains in the coupon-nipper
a check evidencing the amounts, the same
being of no further use to him, as he is not
able to sell the coupons, like tickets, over
again, and mainly of use in showing, by
the color of coupon, the number of fares
that have been had on tickets sold by olher

transportation would operate still more fa-
vorably than the present very defective
means have done. Statistics of the several
street railroads in San Francisco, given in
a very full article in the Bulletin of Jan.
26th, show the value of street railroads from
the dividends that are returned; as an ex-
ample of which it may ba stated that the
Omnibus B. R. Co. carries 275,000 passen-
gers per month, and receives for fares
$223,659 per year.

Many problems are suggested to the in-
ventor, by the operations and the demands
of street railroads. To prevent crowding;
rattling; using up and brutally treating
horses, whose fortuitously clattering slip-
ping hoofs on the cobbles, and whose wo-
ful-looking eyes and anatomy, are painful
to the unwilling observer; while the harsh
metallic clatter of the rails, and the filtby
or damp interior of the cars, afford cause
for a just aversion to the city railroads as
an institution. Slowness of travel, from
frequent and irregular stopping, involving
a dead loss of power far greater thau that
which would make the car travel over its

Howland's Circular Stamp Mill. — A
new circular eight-stamp mill, of the kind
which has been at work since 1861
at Gold Hill, — but embracing many
improvements, — has just been com-
pleted at the Miners' Foundry, for
Mr. A. Staples' mill at White Pine,
and will be set in operation for the
first time to-day. Though criticised
somewhat at the time of its original
production, the circular stamp mill
seems to have been giving satisfac-
tion, and to be making its own way
into use. Its merits are its com-
pactness; completeness without ex-
tra fixtures; durability, aud in re-
quiring, as is claimed, only 5-horse
power where au ordinary 8-stamp
mill would require 12-horse power.
While it does not do more work
than any other 8-stamp mill, it is
claimed that the work done is bet-
ter, the principal reason for which
is the greatly enlarged screen sur-
face forming the outer circumfer-
ence of the mill. It weighs five tons,
while an ordinary mill weighs eight tons;
costs $1,600, and does not require any wood
work, or millwrighting, to put it into oper-
ation. Once on the ground, a few men
can put it in running order in a day or
two. This saving, including the three tons
less freight, will, it is claimed, reduce its
actual price to half the cost of an ordinary
mill. The quartz feeds in at the center;
and the stamps are raised, and dropped
two at a time, by a single shaft, connected
by bevel gear with a large pulley. The
diameter of the octagonal part is four feet
three inches; of the round part, forty
inches; hight, eight feet. The weight of
the stamps is variable; in the present
machine they are 600 pounds.

Mr. Harford, the Curator of Conchol-
ogy, is engaged in arranging systematically
the shells belonging to the Academy of
Sciences. There are prospects of the same
being done in the Geological and Mineral-
ogical departments in due time, which will
add greatly to the value of the Academy of
Sciences as an institution,

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Communications .

In this Depaktmknt wc Invite the frkk discussion of all
proper subjects— correspondents alone being responsible for
the ideas and theories they advance.

[Written for the Mining and Scientific Press.]

Account of Famous Mines in Mexico.

Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mex., Oct. 24th, 1S68.
(Continued from page 50.]
THE ST. DOMINGO MINE

is known to give among its very rich ores
a fair percentage of ruby silver, sometimes
in large masses, and the most beautiful
crystals.

THE DESCUBRIDORA

claim lies to the south of the town, almost
at the top of a very high mountain, and
contains some sixteen or eighteen lodes.
Some five years ago it was sold by its then
owner, Don Francisco Viniegra,to an Amer-
ican company from San Francisco, which
worked it for a little while, but failed to
prosecute it, and finally lost it again by let-
ting the lawful term of holding it as prop-
erty run out. It then reverted back to its
original proprieter, who now draws very
rich returns from it. The claim has in
former times given several great bonanzas,
and can be very conveniently worked by a
tunnel. In none of the lodes are the works
said to go deeper than sixty yards.

THE MARTINEZ CLAIM,

on the Animas Hill, comprises some of the
very best mines, prominently among which
are the Martinez, Vallinas, Vaooa, and San
Pedro. The first one has given many mill-
ions to its former owner, the Marquez of
Bustamante, and is said to be left in metal
in some of its workings. The San Pedro in
little more than fifty yards deep, gave sev-
eral hundreds of thousands to Don Juan
Mendazona, and shows most flattering pros-
pects. The claim is now being worked by
an American Company, who are actually
engaged in driving a tunnel to go under
the old workings of the Martinez, and an-
other one under those of the Vallinas
mine.

THE CATA MINE

belongs to Mr. G. Le Brun, who, however,
eonfined his workings exclusively to the
Pastrana. It is one of the most important
and promising mines of the district, which
has given millions of dollars, part of it in
silver so massive that it had to be chiseled
out.

I might continue giving the outlines of
many not less productive mines, dozens of
which have given hundreds of thousands
of dollars in comparatively very insignifi-
cant workings, the most of them averaging
only thirty yards in depth; but the forego-
ing ones have, I think, sufficiently proved
the uncomparable value of the district, if
we do not lose sight of the fact, that all
these mines and lodes are, so to say, as yet
almost virgin, not a single one having been
explored over 150 yards down from the sur-
face, and when we bear in mind that the
tunnels of the Pastrana and of San Miguel
give evidence that the mineral deposits go
down to the unknown depths, allowing for
barren intervals.

I will only mention yet another enter-
prise; which in these very days, has been
started by a gentleman of whom I have al-
ready hadoceasion to speak, Mr. H. Stearns;
an enterprise which bids fair in its glorious
prospects and final results to leave behind
any others of which I have heard, or
which to my knowledge exists on our con-
tinent. The plan of it was conceived by
Mr. Stearns years ago, and he has ever
since untiringly worked to accomplish it.
This great undertaking consists in nothing
less than to drive a

TUNNEL THKOTJGH THE ANIMAS HILL

for a distance of about 1% English miles.
This hill may, without exaggeration, be
termed a colossal bed of silver.

The number of lodes which have for-
merly, or are at present worked in it, may go
pver 100, many of which having given
great bonanzas, or are now turning out the
richest kind of silver, many hundreds of

feet above where this tunnel is to cut them.
Besides these, several hundred veins lay
between them, which have never been
touched yet, or to a very limited extent only
at their surfaces, but may turn out equally
rich. Hardly anywhere more than fifteen
yards will intervene between any two of
them, in many points not over ten. The
mineral country throughout this hill is of
the very first order, and increasing in rich-
ness below, promising incalculable wealth.

Among the famed lodes which in its
course this tunnel is destined to cut, are
the Nevada, San Antonio Ohiquito, St.
Theresa, Aurora, Vallinas, Martinez, San
Pedro, Pastrana, and Arbitrios. This latter
one having once formed one of the most
prominent ones in the district, lies as the
very last and highest, where the Animas
Hill joins auother hill. After having lain
abandoned for many years, a San Francisco
Company started in to work it anew a few
years ago, but striking a horse in a new
work above, of some sixty yards in depth,
broke off here to drive in the old works be-
low to get under them. The country did
not prove good as expected, but was im-
proving, and a considerable gallery with
upper works driven to within a few yards
from a main cross lode, where the former
great bonanza was known tohave lain, when
the company stopped work.

The lawful term having expired, Mr.
Stearns claimed the mine as the end-point
of his tunnel, with the object of draining
it thereby. The time necessary to drive it
through, Mr. Stearns calculates at about
eight to ten years. He has already set en-
ergetically to work, after procuring full
and undisputed documents of possession
for his valuable property, and opened his
work directly opposite the mouth of the
tunnel of the San Miguel, on the other side
of the river. About seventeen yards have
been driven, and a small vein has been cut,
which shows good prospects; the first one
in importance, however, will be the Ne-
vada, in about twenty yards distance;
thence vein after vein will follow.

The people here are perfectly wild about
this enterprise, and all those acquainted
with the geological and mineralogical fea-
tures of the district, predict for it a suc-
cess of the most astonishing dimensions.
Everybody is congratulating Mr. Stearns
on his br.lliant prospects and acquisition.
For, even allowing the most improbable
case, that out of these several hundreds of
lodes only one or two dozen should be out
in silver, which, as the experience of this
hill shows, consists principally in pure me-
tallic silver, or the very richest sulphurets,
the result must go up to many millions.

I am very sorry that I have not person-
ally met Mr. Stearns, as he had left B. a
few days before my arrival here, going on
to New York, I understand, but leaving an
agent here to prosecute the work vigor-
ously during his absence.

My time of stay here in Batopilas is
nearly up now. I shall likely leave next
week for the neighboring mineral district
of Urique, whence I shall write to you
again, and describe what I see.

Yours respectfully, Minero.

The Giant Powder Comparative
Figures.

San Francisco, Jan. 25th, 1869.

Editors Press :— Noticing in your paper
of 16th inst., a communication haviog refer-
ence to the use of Giant powder in the Oakes
& Beese mine, belonging to Mr. McAllister
and myself, I beg to state that during the
past week our superintendent, Mr. Cassel,
has let the following contracts, for work in
the mine :

. 1 — Sinking main shaft 50 feet from the
278-foot level, at 860 per foot— contract-
ing parties furnishing everything.

2 — Drift west, on Oakes & Beese vein,
50 feet, at $13 per foot — contractors fur-
nishing everything.

3 -Drift South, on Blue Lead, 50 feet, at
$10.75 per foot — contractors furnishing
everything.

The same work has heretofore cost us,
with use of black powder, as follows :

1 — Sinking main shaft, $90 per foot.

2 — Drift west, Oakes & Beese vein, $35
per foot.

3 — Drift south, Blue Lead, $25 per foot.

Thus it will be seen that in these three
contracts, the mine owners save as follows:

1. Sinking 50-foot shaft, at $30 $1,500.00

2. Westdrift, 50 feet, at $17 850.00

3. South drift, 50 feet, at $14.25 712.50

Total saving $3,062.60

In addition to the saving, in dollars and
cents, is also the important item of saving

in time, as the time occupied in finishing
the contracts with Giant powder is only
about one-half of the time required with
use of o rdinary powder.

The contractors, even at these low rates,
are better satisfied with the prices, than un-
der the old prices with the common powder.
Very respectfully,

L. L. Bobinson.

Hydraulic Mining in Pla,cer County.
Velocipedes.

Dutch Flat, Jan. 20th, 1869.

Editors Press : — Since my last letter to
you, the Baker Boys' mill ha«i made a run
on their claims in the Blue Lead, and had
a clean up, which demonstrates beyond
further doubt the richness of the under or
Blue Lead at this place. All we want now
is energy and capital to make these dig-
gings yield at '49 rates.

The hydraulic claims, too numerous to
name individually, are nearly all running
with good profits to the owners. The Buck-
eye Company have gone back and started
on the bedrock, some hundred and seventy
feet lower than any other company upon
the north side of the hill, and have found
some immensely rich streaks of dirt. When
they have completed their fitting up, and
made their first run, I will inform you of
the exact amounts; and I am sure you will
say that with the same investment in the
mines in this State, as good results may be
had as in any mining section known. This
is not an isolated case, or mine of rich de-
posit in this section, but I speak of it more
particularly, because they have gone to the
lowest depth or bedrock to work with hy-
draulic rigging, as many others will do
when they see the results of these opera-
tions. Mr. Cheshire, a man who has
worked at mining all his life nearly, is en-
gineering the work. He knows how to work
mines for what they are worth, and has re-
cently bought out several of the partners.

QUARTZ.

The Champion, Bhode Island, and Wat-
eree quartz lodes are showing fine rock,
considerable free srold and heavily sulphu-
reted. These lodes are about ten miles
above this place.

velocipedes.

Now if you will permit, I will change
the subject to mechanics, and say some-
thing about velocipedes, as I hear through
the papers that they are coming into use in
San Francisco. I would suggest that some
person have one built with the Bedstone
mechanical device, patented April 29, 1862,
(converting rotary into a reciprocating mo-
tion) and if it is not the best arrangement
that can be put into one, I am mistaken.
The device may be constructed with a
handle upon the top of each, — the slide
placed at quarter stroke; and as it works in
a straight line over the axle, the handles
may be brought between the knees of the
person operating the machine, and straight
in front, so that much more force may be
applied with the same exertion that is now
used in propelling the present machine.
This device I think will perfect the veloc-
ipede. A. E. B.
♦-•- -^*- -- *

Activity in Mining. — Not the White
Pine developments alone are causes of the
increased interest in mining, which is ob-
servable at the present time. From the
immense amounts of machinery, stamps,
crushers, amalgamating pans, etc., that
have passed through Stockton and Sacra-
mento to the interior mining counties,
every evidence is given that the develop-
ment of quartz leads has received a new
impetus; and a large amount of iron pipe
has been manufactured in this city and in
Nevada County especially for the hydraulic
mines, to take advantage of the present
rainy season; showing that gravel mining is,
if anything, more than holding its own.
Concerning Eastern sentiment on the sub-
ject, the Philadelphia Ledger says :

" The mining interests of the United
States have been attracting more attention
during several months past. As an evi-
dence of the truth of this, we see it stated
that one firm heavily engaged in the manu-
facture of mining machinery, reports that it
is in receipt of large orders in their line,
and that they still continue to come. The
going out of favor of mining operations in
the last few years was not so much the un-
productiveness at the mines as it was the
breaking up of companies created by spec-
ulators, who hoped to profit by the sale of
shares. "

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Letter from Idaho.

Boise Crrv, Jan. 8th, 1869.
The snows of the past three weeks have
been very heavy, but not so much so as to
stop mining at Tuba and Bocky Bar.

MINING OPERATIONS.

The Atlanta ore is richer than ever, and
the silver is being rolled out in sheets.
The present streak is several inches wide,
and right along the lode and apparently
increasing as descended upon, assaying 75
per cent, silver. When an owner who has
been absent a few weeks was told of it, he
said, " that's nothing, we have been taking
rich ore out so long that we are not sur-
prised if we strike a vein of pure metal."

The Leonora holds out as good as ever.

Chesley Woodward is preparing the Va-
rieties lode for energetic spring operations.

At Booky Bar all mills are suspended for
the winter, but the company under the su-
perintendence of John McNally, Esq., are
running a new tunnel on the lower level,
to strike the Wide West lode about 350 to
400 feet underground. This lode has hith-
erto proved rich, and the company want to
know what they have got.

Jackson & Co. are running a tunnel for
the Silver Star lode, in order to get the
lode in shape for working or sale, as cir-
cumstances dictate.

Dr. Bishop, resident director of the Lucy
Phillips Company, (English) has lately
sent a large lot of specimens of ore from
various lodes at Yuba, and a brick of bull-
ion from each of those represented by spec-
imens, to London, to be publicly shown
there as samples of the " Gem of the
Mountains, " and if we mistake not it will
make "phlegmatic John Bull" open his eyes
to see how much Idaho will soon be able
to do towards helping to give us a return
to specie payments, in lieu of "old rags."

LOCATION OP THE RAILROAD PROM SALT
LAKE TO PUGET SOUND. '

The difference between the two routes
from Salt Lake down Snake Biver, and in
the vicinity of Boise City, now being sur-
veyed for the Union Pacific and Puget
Sound Bailroad, (spoken of in the last num-
ber of the Press) is this : By Camas Prai-
rie or Malade Biver there is timber twenty
miles up the Malade, with a good farming
valley, and from thence there are at short
distances small valleys where "garden
stuff," etc., can be raised; and the whole
route is a splendid grazing country, coming
on to Willow and Indian Creeks, Sixteen-
Mile Creek, and Boise Valley, in all of
which the land is good, and farmers
are living. On the other route, it is "des-
olation," and there is not a mile of good
land in the whole distance; and were the
land ever so good, the nearest timber on the
north of the Snake is twenty miles distant
and on the south side about forty miles,
while up the river it is a hundred or two,
and down the river fully as far.

Query then— Which appears to be the
route the railroad should go?

Big Camas Prairie is not more than thir-
ty-five miles from Yuba by directest route,
and the same from Bocky Bar; and it takes
in all the settlements now occupied, and in
fact all that can reasonably be made of any
consequence.

On the Snake Biver in the winters of
1864-5-6-7, the snow remained longer, and
was much deeper than along the majority
of the distance on the upper route. These
things I know personally. There is not at
present any snow to speak of, except in the
mountains; the plains and prairies are bare,
and the weather is warm as spring, grass
growing on the hills. Perhaps for forty or
fifty miles through the Camas Prairies
there may be some snow, but not enough
to stop a railway engine.

If two feet, or two feet six inches of snow
is causing alarm here to Col. Hndinutt and
party, how will the Black Hills trouble
them, and what of the Northern Pacific
Bailroad, which the Colonel concludes
must be built to meet the requirements of
the age? Again; the Owyhee people on the
southern side of the Snake, do not want
this railroad near them; what they need is
a branch from Silver City to conuect with
the C. P. B. B.; and thus they wish, as we
do, to see the cars runuing through or near
our town. Alturas.

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Mecha/ticd/.

Strength of Steel Rails in Winter.

One of the objections which have been
mado to steel rails for roads in cold cli-
mates, is their supposed liability to break
or snap in very cold or frosty weather.
Very elaborate experiments mad.' by Prot
Styffe of Stockholm, have shown that this
opinion is erroneous. Mr. Sandberg, in
a paper road before tho Institute of Civil
Engineers, says :

" The trial of iron and steel for tensile
strength under the influence of extreme
temperatures, such as boiling water and at
the freezing point of mercury, has led to
the discovery, contrary to tho gonoral be-
lief, that the tensile and absolute strength
is greater during cold than during ordinary
temperature; that is, iron orstoel is stronger
in winter than in summer. The reason why
more breakages occur in winter, than in
summer is asserted to be the extreme cold
affectiug the elasticity of the supports,
(sleepers) ; and it is said that elasticity in
any way given to the rolling stock also
favorably affects the resistance of the rails.

" However, if the supports have the same
elasticity in summer as in winter, as, for
instance, would be the case with granite
rock, then Prof. Styffe asserts that the same
rails, either of iron or of steel, can resist a
heavier blow from a falling ball at the tem-
perature of extreme cold than on a hot
summer's day. Although the experiments
have been conducted with the utmost care
and skill that science and money can afford,
it seems desirable that this theory should
be proved on a larger scale than Professor
Styffe has had an opportunity of doing,
before it can be relied upon." — Hewitt's Re-
port on the Iron and Steel at the Paris Expo-
sition, p. 140.

The Engine op the Future. — The
double-bogie engines of Fairlie are de-
scribed under the above head by the Lon-
don Railway News, as having a tractive
power equivalent to the drawing a gross
load of 390 tons up a gradient of 1 in 25,
at a speed of ten miles an hour. The weight
is so distributed over the twelve wheels,
that the pressure upon the rails is actually
less than that put upon it by the old style
of engine. The fuel and water are carried
on the engine itself, the necessity for a
tender is dispensed with, and the whole
weight carried is made available for ad-
hesion or grip on the rails. The bogies are
free to swivel on their pins, and each en-
gine radiates independently of the other;
so while passing round even an S curve,
each bogie can accommodate itself to the
direction of the curvature without in any
way interfering with the action of the other.
One of these engines has been at work for
some time past on the Neath and Brecon
Railway, and Captain Tyler described its
motion over new and sharply-curved por-
tions of the line as being so free from vio-
lent motion and oscillation, as to suggest
to him the idea of " sailing."

Kefjning Ieon without PUDDLIXG. —
A new process, now in practical operation
in Pittsburg, is thus described by the
Cleveland Herald: " The melted metal is
taken direct from the blast furnace and run
into a large kettle of a capacity of five tons.
From thence it is poured, in a stream about
a foot wide, into a circular trough, twelve
inches wide and ten inches deep, revolving
on a radius of seven feet, or fourteen feet
diameter. Pulverized iron ore, Lake Su-
perior, Champlain or Iron Mountain, is
used as the converting agent. The ore de-
scends from a hopper into the revolving
trough, and covers the melted metal as
fast as it is poured in. The continuous
revolutions of the trough produce alternate
thin layers of hot metal and raw ore, and
effect the combination in a very satisfactory
manner. The machinery which accom-
plishes this is moved by steam and hy-
draulic power, and is so well planned that
one man, standing with his hands on valve-
levers, can manage the whole operation.
When the trough is full, and before the iron
cools, it is broken up into slabs of suitable
size for the heating furnace. "

The Broad Gauge. — ' ' We understand
that after this day there will be only one
broad gauge train run daily between Lon-
don and Birmingham. On every other
portion of the line the third rail is being
removed, and laid down for the narrow
gauge in other parts." — London Railway
J¥ews, October 31.

Hbaton and Bessemer. — The London
I'm s contains a letter from Mr. Bessemer
in regard to the absurd claims for the
" Heaton Process." A portion of this let-
ter, giving a concise and lucid statement of
the difference in the products derived from
th>j two processes above named, is here
quoted : " Iu the Bessemer process, by
simply forcing atmospheric air iu numerous
jits upward through live tons of molten
pig-iron for a period of fifteen or twenty
minutes, the iron is converted into fluid
cast-steel; the oxygen contained in the air,
unitiug with the superfluous quantity of
carbon present in the pig-iron, produces an
intense combustion, and raises the temper-
ature of the metal to the extremely high
point nocessary to retain the steel in a state
of complete fusion, without the employ-
ment of any additional fuel; the fluid thus
obtained, when poured into molds, forms a
solid homogeneous mass of cast-steel, en-
tirely free from scoria or other mechanic-
ally mixed impurities.

But in the Heaton process nitrate of soda
mixed with sand is employed to generate
the necessary amount of oxygen gas for
deoarburizing the pig-iron, instead of em-
ploying the cheap gaseous oxygen of the
atmosphere. Now, whenever solid sub-
stances are converted into gas, a vast
amount of heat is absorbed and rendered
latent; hence in the Heaton process so
much heat is abstracted from the metal
in generating oxygen gas by the decompo-
sition of nitrate of soda that the metal so-
lidifies while in a state of mechanical ad-
mixture with the sand and soda, and thus,
instead of obtaining fluid cast-steel by his
process, Mr. Heaton obtains only a lump of
spongy, porous metal, intermixed through-
out with slags and scoria, and having the
general characteristics and properties of
ordinary puddled-iron or puddled steel, but
which is only obtained at a cost (for nitrate
of soda) of more than double that of the
ordinary puddling process. "

Boutet's Bkidge. — We have already
given the laugh of Engineering at this
"Rons asinorum." That journal finds it
necessary to allude again to the scheme, for
the benefit of those incompetent persons
who have been induced to regard it favor-
ably in consequence of the notice taken of
it by Beveral influential papers, and to warn
such persons before they allow themselves
to be imposed upon. The whole project is
a wild one, and may easily be shown to in-
volve a hundred impossibilities. In the
first place, a buoyed rope is to be stretched
across the channel from France to England,
as a ranging line, to define the positions for
the placing of the nine iron piers which are
to be built on shore and floated to place.
This rope will, it is plain, never be in the
same position for two successive hours; —
swayed and curved as it will be by the tides
and currents, which will be constantly act-
ing upon it. Again; — the iron cables to be
stretched between the great towers, 360
feet high and two miles apart, will break by
their own weight before they are tautened to
within five hundred feet of their position !
Many details of the scheme further show,
— says the journal in question, — that M.
Boutet, though doubtless in earnest, "is
grossly ignorant of the most elementary
laws of nature."

Scientific Miscellany

Cell-Strvctihe of Metals. — A paper
by W. Vivian, recently read before the
Liverpool Polytechnic Society, presented
some interesting points in regard to the mi-
croscopic structure of metals. Mr. Vivian
classes metals under two heads, viz,, those
the structure of which is angular or crys-
talline, and those in which it is cellular or
porous. Tho cellular structure is most
highly developed in those metals which we
have found to be the best conductors of
heat aud electricity ; and its perfection is in
proportion to the capacity for such con-
duction. "The 'fiber,' or 'silky luster,'
exhibited iu the fracture of good iron," —
says Mr. V., — "is only theeffectof the light
reflected from inner surfaces of myriads of
minute cells exposed by the fracture. The
form of these, in their normal state, is
spherical, ornearly so^but becomes changed
in the process of rolling. The mechanical
properties of tenacity, ductility, etc., must
greatly depend on the perfection of the
cell system ; a crystalline malleable iron
does not show prisms in its fradure, but
simply a number of faces or planes cross-
ing the cells at right angles, cutting them
off short. The process of rolling iron into
plates or sheets does not obliterate these
cells, but merely modifies them, as they
widen out under the pressure; the thin par-
titions become laminated, and on the regu-
larity of this lamination the quality of the
plate very much depends. The cell system
of copper is more perfect than that of iron,
a result of the pouring of the copper into
molds, but the cells are afterwards altered
by the pressure in rolling, etc. , but never
destroyed. If it were possible to make a
section one-millionth part of an inch in
thickness these cells would be seen."

Electro-plating with Nickel. — It is
reported that this has been successfully ac-
complished by a Boston chemist. The great
difficulty to be overcome is to obtain a pos-
itive electrode, ortiie plate from which the
metal is taken to be deposited by the bat-
tery on the articles at the negativeelectrode.
Nickel is obtained only in small particles,
associated with other metals, such as iron,
copper, and cobalt, and is infusible by or-
dinary processes. Hence pure nickel is
not easily obtained.

Large and Small Boilers. — Each have
their advantages. In favor of large capac-
ity are, steadiness in the pressure of steam,
ready deposition of impurities, space for
the collection of sediment, and freedom
from foaming. In favor of small capacity
are, rapid raising of steam to any required
pressure, small surface for waste of heat,
economy of space and weight (which are
of speoial importance on board ship)
greater strength with a given quantity of
material and smaller damage in the event
of an explosion.

Discovery op Metallic Hydrogen. —
Our readers will recollect the several al-
lusions which we have made to Prof. Gra-
ham's experiments upon the occlusion of
hydrogen by various metals. The last
named of these metals waspalladium. Far-
ther experimentation has resulted in con-
vincing the Professor that the union, in this
manner, of palladium and hydrogen, is in
fact "an alloy of hydrogenium, — a white
magnetic metal, of specific gravity about
2, — which appears to bear considerable anal-
ogy to magnesium. " If Prof. Graham has
really solved the question as to the metallic
nature of hydrogen, he has made one of
the most important discoveries of the cen-
tury. The announcement has just been
made by letter to Prof. Horsford, a commu-
nication from whom was read at a recent
meeting of the New York Lyceum of Nat-
ural History, by Prof. Joy.

Man in the Palaeozoic Age. — The fol-
lowing is from the Buffalo Courier of a re-
cent date : " There are now on exhibition at
the rooms of the Society of Natural Sci-
ences, in Ihis city, two of the most remark-
able discoveries recorded in the annals of
science. One is the fossil imprint of the
foot of a man, or rather the cast of such an
imprint. It was discovered by a workman,
in a colliery in western Pennsylvania, in
the shale overlying a run of coal and un-
derlying two other veins which were being
worked by the company. The spot where
it was found was nearly a mile from the
pit's mouth, and some 300 feet from the
surface. The rock in which it was imbed-
ded belongs to the palasozoic age, and the
imprint, if such it be, was made millions
of years before the present geological era
commenced. It is the cast of the left foot
of a man of ordinary size, and is perfeotly
defined. The foot was evidently protected
by a sandal or moccasin; the heel, the
arch, and the ball of the foot, and the slight
depression made by the toes, are perfect."

"By a curious coincidence, the sce'ety, a
few days before this donation, received the
second specimen from the Bev. Samuel
Cowles, of Gowanda. It is a large slab of
sandstone, on which, stamped in the solid
rock, can be seen the imprint of horses'
hoofs, as perfectly preserved as though
they were formed yesterday upon the
muddy bank of a sluggish stream. There
are at least a dozen of these impressions,
varying in size from the track o* the full
grown horse to that of a young colt. "

Arctic Exploration. — The French ex-
pedition to the North Pole will, if possible,
start so as to reach Behring's Strait by the
end of July, * " '-> ' I

Piorio Acid Gunpowder. — Barlinetti,
of the University of Padua, has mixed pic-
ric acid with KO, CIO1 , and finds the prod-
uct to detonate under a slight pressure.
He discovered also that a mixture of 10
saltpetre, 10 picric acid, and 8.5 bichro-
mate of potash, behaves like the best sport-
ing powder, without exploding by percus-
sion. Finally he succeeded iu leaving out
the saltpetre, and producing a stronger
powder, from equal parts of the other two.
It is not hygrometrie, leaves little residue,
and may possess some advantages for cer-
tain uses.

M. Cleroitad has studied tho applicabil-
ity of picrate of potash as a gunpowder; and
claims that it possesses advantages. It
detonates at 590° Fah. In the open air its
products of combustion contain cyano-hy-
dric acid and NO- , but in a closed space
they are but nitrogen and oxygen gas, and
KO, CO2 mixed with carbon. The advant-
ages claimed are its absolutely definite char-
acter, composition, and strength; absence
of sulphur, which rapidly destroys artil-
lery; ease and safety of manufacture, and
insolubility in water. On the other hand,
when dry, it has the same objection as gun-
cotton, of exploding by simple percussion.

Alaska a Thousand Years Ago. — Prof.
Carl Neumann, of Munich, a diligent stu-
dent of Chinese antiquities and bibliogra-
phy, has discovered from the Chinese year
books that a company of Buddhist priests
entered this country, via Alaska, a thou-
sand years before Columbus. They explored
thoroughly and intelligently the Pacific
borders, penetrating into the " land of Fu-
sung " — for so they called the Aztec terri-
tory, after^the Chinese name of the Mexi-
can aloe. The collection of antiquities
recently made by Capt. Fast from graves,
etc. , in Alaska, consisted chiefly of carved
ornaments and weapons, resembling those
now made by the Chinese, and apparently
belonging to a race totally distinct from
the present Alaskans.

Microscopic Germs in the Air. — The
following is from the Boston Journal of
Chemistn/: "At the Manchester (Eng.)
Boyal Infirmary, an ounce of distilled
water in a pint bottle was aerated with the
atmosphere of one of the wards until it
had become slightly opalescent. In the
deposit thrown down, after forty-eight
hours, distinct evidences of the presence of
organic life were peroeptible under the
microscope; and on the fifth day there
were numerous actively moving vorticelli,
with abundance of monads in ceaseless
motion. From this it may be inferred, if
the same experiments were repeated under
varying circumstances, it might be shown
that the presence in the air of microscopic
organic germs is a constant condition easily
detectable.

Plumage Pigment Soluble in Water.
At a recent meeting of the Birmingham
Natural History Society, says the Colliery
Guardian of December 19th, Mr. T, Fid-
dian exhibited the spectrum of the feathers
of the touracon (turacus albocristatusj, as
compared with that of blood, with which
it is almost identical. This rare bird is
found on the gold coast of Africa, and the
specimen first brought to this country sug-
gested the suspicion that they had been
skillfully dyed, from the fact that upon
being washed the scarlet color of the feath-
ers disappeared. The remarkable discov-
ery was, however, made that the natural
red pigment of the plumage is perfectly
soluble iu water, and the stiU more remark-
able one followed that it contained so large
a proportion of copper that the feathers
of one bird yield abjut three grains of
that metal.

Flexibility op Itacolumite. — This
mineral, — the laminated quartz rock which
is the matrix of thediamond, — h is been an-
alyzed by Wetherill. He finds it to con-
sist of 96 per cent, of silica, the remainder
being iron and lime. Its specific gravity
is 2. 69. Its peculiar flexibility, which has
been ascribed to the scales of miea which
are scattered through it, is found by Weth-
erill,— who examined its structure care-
fully with the aid of the microscope, — to
be one innumerable ball-and-socket joint
which exist throughout its mass. This
flexibility is such that a rod of it, sup-
ported at the ends, assumes tlie form of a
curve; — very nearly the catenary,

Tlcye Mining and Scientific Press.

Contributions for cur Cabinet.

Under this hendinR we snail continue to mention and de"
scribe, according to merit, such specimens or ores, min-
erals, fossils, curiosuics, etc., as may be presented, or
forwarded tons by mail or express, prepaid. Each article
will be numbered and placed in our cabinet, and recorded
with the name of the donor, and the ciairn or location
from whence it came.

No. 334. — Mountain cather, or mountain
cork, a variety of asbestus, in -which the
fibers are no longer visible. It has the
same composition, and in fact is the same
mineral as hornblende, amphibol, tremoljte,
calamite, actraolite, amianthus, asbestus,
etc. — silicate of magnesia, lime, alumina and
iron, or manganese, which assumes appear-
ances so different as scarcely to be suspected
of being the same thing, except by those
who have traced the mineral through all its
varieties. Mountain cather is a decompo-
sition product, filling out crevices in veins.
It looks like white-tanned buckskin, or
coarse pasteboard, and in thin laminae it
floats on water. Prom the dump of the Eu-
reka mine, Grass Valley, probably obtained
at about 400 feet depth. Presented by O.
Hyde.

No. 335. — Iron garnets, or almandine, in
remarkably perfect tropezohedrons of one-
eighth of an inch in diameter. Prom the
island of Espirita Santo, Lat. 24° 28' N.,
Lon. 110° 21' W. ; where they occur plenti-
fully in the decomposed rocks. Presented
by Augustus D. Jenny, TJ. S. S. Lacka-
wanna.

No. 336 to 347 inclusive. Suite of litho-
logical specimens from the tunnel of the
Imperial Silver Quarries Company, Moni-
tor, Alpine County — valuable because from
them a geological section of the mountain
might easily be constructed.

No. 336 (marked I).— The bedrock
through which the tunnel has been run
560 feet, is, locally known as porphyry.
Unluckily our specimen got mislaid before
it was properly examined; it was a compact
eruptive rock of plutonic appearance, and
of the greenish tinge and general charac-
teristics of diorite; though probably one of
the porphyritio varieties of the lavas of
which Silver Mountain is composed. The
country rock proper in that district is
granite.

No. 337 ( II. ) — calcspar, beautifully
crystallized in geodes in I.

No. 338 (II A.) — Granular calcspar, very
friable, found in streaks in I.

No. 339 (IH). — Gypsum, found in crev-
ices in L It is in delicate transparent nee-
dles, which are sometimes of a pink color.

No. 340 (IV) . — Dark colored quartz from
a stratum (or vein ?) two feet wide between
I and V.

No. 341'(V) — Traehytic tufa, containing
mica crystals, called elvans in Cornwall; a
fine-granular, rose colored rock, occurring
in dykes and veins traversing the country,
somewhat laminated in structure, from lat-
eral compressions probably.

No. 342 (VI.)— Mineral resembling a
petrification (adjoining IV) , but hardness
only 3. Some hydrous silicate.

No. 343 (VII.) — A reddish metamorphic
porphyry, found in strata and nodules
through V. Decomposition products sim-
ilar to it are common in volcanic districts.

No. 344 (VIIL) — Quartz croppings, with
geode containing minute crystals covered
with iron.

No. 345 (IX.) — Sulphuret of antimony.

No. 346 (X, XII and XIII.)— Silicious
concretions occurringj injV, more or less
laminated.

No. 347 (XI.)— Same as No. 338, but
having a red streak of ferruginous quartz
between the calcspar and porphyry.

Williamson's Combined Terrestrial
and Celestial Globe has been attracting
attention in the window of Roman & Co.
It is a common globe inside of a glass
globe, the latter having all the contellations
marked upon it. With the aid of an ac-
companying book the geography and move-
ments of the stars may be intelligently
pursued, without a master.

White Pine Items. — All our exchanges
are full of news about White Pine.

The Eberhardt vs. Eichmond suit, which
was on trial for two weeks at Austin, (Nev.)
was given to the jury at half -past 12 o'clock,
Jan. 23d, and after an hour's deliberation
they rendered a verdict for the plaintiffs,
standing nine to three.

Five passengers from White Pine arrived
in this city night before last, — says the
Times of Jan. 26th, — each the fortunate
possessor of about $100,000, the proceeds
of their season's operations in the newly-
discovered Silverado. Three of the num-
ber had grown rich by selling the proprie-
torship, or shares, in well-known mines,
and the two others, by selling, and by the
proceeds of mines in which they still hold
considerable interests.

It is estimated that by the 1st of next
June pay ore will be mined in profitable
quantities from not less than five hundred
mines. The locations have averaged one
hundred per day for the last three months.

Near Shermantown .there are said to be
true fissure veins, the Irvine, for example,
containing ruby silver, which mineral is
characteristic of all appearing to be true
veins around Treasure Hill.

Labor is $5 a day; lumber §225 to §400
per thousand feet.

Twenty-five or thirty freight teams pass
through Austin daily for White Pine, and
both stage routes via Elko and Austin, are
still crowded and booked ahead for several
trips.

The principal mines on Chloride Flat be-
ing unable to get ore crushed, have gone to
work sinking their shafts deeper, in search
of new deposits of ore beneath the first. It
was expected that rich ore would be struck
at seventy feet from the surface.

Base Metal Lextviation befobe Amal-
gamation.— Twenty pounds of White Pine
base metal ore — malachite and azurite, or
the green and blue carbonates of copper —
assaying $4,500 in silver to the ton, have
just been treated by Adolph Hoffman, M.
E., with the aid of the Kustel lixiviation
process; the result being 3P64 ounces of
silver, of .900 fineness, and of the value of
$36.82. Had the ores been sulphurets,
the treatment would have been quite the
the same; first roasting, to get rid of the
sulphur, until within an hour of the usual
desulphurization, then adding six to ten
per cent, of salt, and chloridizing the base
metals by a low red heat — the silver not
being ehloridized, or scarcely so, by any-
thing less than a white heat, such as
would again decompose the base metal
chlorides. As the latter — the chlorides of
copper, lead and iron — are soluble in warm
water, nothing is to hinder leaching them
out, and getting rid of them before amal-
gamating. All the copper in the solution
is then saved by precipitating it with iron.
Where the base metals cannot be benefi-
ciated without previous roasting, and where
salt is not too dear, this process is an eco-
nomical one.

PKOscKiPTrvE Duty on Foreign Cop-
pek. — Mr. Cole has laid before Congress a
petition from the owners of the Napoleon,
Keystone, Buchanan, and Nevada No. 56,
copper mines, asking the passage of a law
excluding by a prohibitory duty all descrip-
tions of copper, but allowing the free im-
portation, by drawback, of the amount of
carbonate ores of copper necessary to the
consumption and use of the sulphurate ores
of the United States. The petitioners sub-
mit a draft of a bill to accomplish the latter
object, which makes the refunding of the
duties contingent on the production of evi-
dence by the importers that they have used
the foreign carbon ate or oxide copper ores
for smelting purposes, in the proportion of
one ton of imported copper ore to two tons
of copper ore mieed in the United States.

Schulenbeeg's Concentkatob. — We
omitted to state in our notice of Mr. Schul-
enberg's modifications of the German per"
cussion table, (in the Pbess of Jan. 16th)
that a caveat has been filed for him
through this office, and that Mr. Sehulen-
berg's claim is that it will work very cleanly
for 10 to 15 stamps, and will save, besides
sulphurets, also float gold and quicksilver.

The South African gold fields are not as
rich as at first believed.

ExplosiveAgents foe Mining Pceposes,
Mr. Abel has prepared pellets of compressed
gun cotton, containing about three-fourths
their weight of nitro-glycerine, and coated
with some hard material. These pellets or
grains are safely handled and transported,
and are more powerful as an explosive, — it
is said, — than dynamite. Lighted in the
open air, theyburn, but do not explode.
But the great diseoveiy of the day, in this
direction, is that of Mr. Brown, of the Eng-
lish War Office Chemical Establishment.
He has found that gun cotton alone, if ex-
ploded by means of a detonating fuse, is
equal in effect to nitro-glycerine. Large
blocks of granite, and heavy iron plates,
have been shattered by exploding in this
way small charges of gun cotton simply
laid upon the surface, and not in any man-
ner confined. One who has seen gun cot-
ton go off with merely a slight puff, when
touched with a lighted match, will be sur-
prised to hear this; but it is even so.

It would seem that a new era for the
miner was about to commence. Tamping,
the most dangerous of all mining opera-
tions, will be done away with. The discov-
ery will interest the military engineer
hardly less than the miner. A stockade
may be demolished by a simple train of gun
cotton discharged by a detonating fuse at
one end. It is said that the subject is oc-
cupying much attention at Woolwich and
Chatham.

New Patents Issued to
Inventors.

Pacific Coast

The Chinese call California the Golden
Mountain.

New Impetus and Methods in Pros-
pecting.— Chloride and pocket deposits be-
ing in quest, since the discovery of Chlo-
ride Flat, new ideas have been formed about
prospecting, and fresh enterprises are set
on foot for the exploration of the great in-
terior,— which is no longer to remain as an
unknown wilderness. For intelligent pros,
pectors a little reading up on the ^nature of
the decompositions of vein minerals where
the veins are weathered, or exposed to al-
kaline waters, would prove of the greatest
value. Dana's Mineralogy contains per-
haps the most information on the subject.
Intelligence, and ample information about
the nature of the minerals searched for, are
the best equipments.

Concerning systematic prospecting par-
ties which are organizing for operations in
Eastern Nevada, one under Mr. Joseph
Angell left Silver City lately, which took
with them, among other things, a boring
machine similar to those in use for sinking
artesian wells, and sufficient pipe for bor-
ing to the depth of eighty feet, with the
necessary tools for keeping the bits of their
three-inch augur in proper condition. The
first experiment with it was to be in the
" cap rock" of Chloride Flat, if there was
sufficient space found untenanted in that
argentiferous locality for a hole of that
size.

Steam Engine fob a Flying Machine —
ok A Velocipede. — A five-horse power
petroleum-burning steam engine, weighing
only forty-five pounds, has just been made
by Mr. Kallenberg, the model manufac-
turer and machinist, at No. 10 Stevenson
street. It is intended for a flying machine
which has been constructed in this city, the
details of which are understood not to be
in a position to be given to the public at
present. Meantime it is suggested that so
light an engine, furnishing five-horse pow-
er, would do very well for a velocipede;
being certainly capable of doing more work,
against adverse grades, than one-manpower.
With rubber tires, and with such an engine,
it is suggested that a three or four-wheeled
velocipede, having large eight-foot wheels,
might do some " tall traveling " up-hill or
down hill. The boiler is constructed some-
what like the Harrison boiler, with a num-
ber of tubes, which contain the steam ; so
that it would be on impossibility for steam

to explode it.

♦— •• ^» —*- -*

A vein of quicksilver has been discov-
ered in Solano County, seven miles from
Vallejo.

Especially reported by the U. S. Patent Office, Washing-
ton, D. O., to Dewey & Co., American and Foreign
Patent Solicitors, and Publishers of the
Mining and Scientific Press.

For the Week Ending Januaby 12th.

85,746. — Improvement in Plows. —David
A. Manuel, Napa City, Cal.:

1. The landside D, when provided with
the vertical projection D', the pivot c, the
slots s s, and the wedge-shaped extremity,
all arranged and constructed in a simple
piece of cast metal, substantially as de-
scribed and for the purposes set forth.

2. The mold-board A, when constructed
in the shape described and shown, pivoted
at its middle to the rear edge of the land-
side by an arm C, operating as described ,
and provided with flanges i i, arranged un-
der the landside edge at the ends; all con-
structed and operating in combination with
the landside above described, substantially
as and for the purposes specified.

3. The combination of the landside and
mold-board above described, with the lever
F, pivoted at e, and connected with a slid-
ing lock-bolt e, arranged inside of the land-
side in a slot or chamber prepared for the
purpose, substantially as described, andfor
the purposes set forth.

85,763. — Impeovement in Governors foe
Steam Engines. — George T. Pracy, £ an
Francisco, Cal.:

The cups J, springs C, arms F, and lugs
I, combined and ' arranged substantially as
described for the purposes specified.

A perspective view of this governor can
be seen in our advertising columns. The
same was fully described in our issue of
September 10th, 1868. The inventor is
manufacturing and introducing them with
success, which is a good indication of their
merits.

85,817. — Improvement in" Steam Engine
Cut-Offs. — Thomas Hansbrow, deceased,
Sacramento, Cal. (Lucy A. Hansbrow,
and B. B. Bedding, executors) :

1. The cylinder I and plunger h, in com-
bination with the cut-off valve and seat,
substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The arrangement of the cam M, arm
K, governor spindle L, valve seat C, valve
E, piston h, small cylinder I, and cylinder
A, as herein shown and described.
85,833. — Improvement in Potato Digger.

Seth Kinman, Eureka, Cal. :

1. The combination of the shovel K with
fingers K* , the two vine-cutters O O, and
the two oppositely revolving wheels L, and
M, constructed and arranged in relation to
one another substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the supplement-
ary frame D, to which is attached the
shovel and other mechanism for taking the
potatoes out of the earth, and the main
frame B, when the double tree D ' is attached
to the former, and the tongue B' to the
latter, substantially as and for the purpose
set forth.

3. The combination of the mainland sup-
plementary frames with the system of
levers, shafts and arms for regulating the
depth of the plow attached to the latter
frame, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination of thej main frame
and supplementary frame, and the perfo-
rated rods E for adjusting the relative po-
sition of the two frames, substantially as
set forth.

85,838. — Improvement in Gang Plows. —
William Mason, Independence, Oregon.:

1. In a gang plow the bent axle herein
described, consisting of the parts D D',
the part D ' being bent at right angles, and
having one of its arms fitted in a socket on
the end of the part D, the former being
made adjustable relatively with the latter
by means of nut n, and set screw 1, as and
for the purpose specified.

2. In combination with the frames E F,
Crank axle D D', crank shafts J J', and
plows C C, the levers I K, connecting-rod
M, and treadle N, as and for [the purpose
specified.

3. The arrangement and combination of
the levers K L N, rod M, stops a a a, and
crank shafts D D ' J ; when said parts are
constructed to operate in the manner speci-
fied.

4. The lever N, when provided with the
flange i and adjusting screws, substantially
as specified.

Rolling Mill. — Bailroad iron and fix-
ings, screw bolts, anchors, steamer shafts,
and a variety of forgings, are being made
at the Boiling Mill. The Pacific Forge
steam and trip hammer, formerly at the
Mission, are now employed here.

Tlie Mining and Scientific Press.

69

Weekly Stock Circular.

By /eiomted Brokers of the 8. F. Stock md Etching* Eotra.

Bam Fukchoo, Jaonars :i0, 18 8
Ban F'iiiiicUcii Savings bulltatlona.
Annexed will be found our usual jut« resting
statement concerning the simi^-s and loan

- in this city, eLUiipik'l uj. >u the came

basis as that oftht interior Bavings banks, pub-
lish) .1 by us in onjr lust issne. This statement
embraces the report of the eight institutions for
tli« a uii-aiinutil term closing with 1868, as well
us the aggregates' sinoe January, 18GG, the date
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The foregoing interesting table furnishes the
very best stand-point from which to judge the
financial condition of our working classes. It
shows an increased aggregate deposit of $5,439,-
613 since January 1868, and of $2,694,144 since
July of last year. The increase in the number
of depositors since July 1868, was 3,828.

The dividends for the term of six months
under review are as follows : Hibernia, 10 per
cent, per annum ; Savings and Loan, 10 per
cent. ; French, 11 per cent. ; Savings Union,
11 2-5 per cent, on term, and 9% per cent, on
ordinary deposits ; California Building, 10 per
cent, to depositors and 12 per cent, to stock-
holders ; pdd Fellows', 12 per cent. ; Farmers'
and Mechanics', 10 per cent. ; German, 11 2-5
per cent, on term, and 9% percent, on ordinary
deposits.

We herewith give the increase and decrease
of the several societies under the various head-
ings in our tabular statement for the six months
just closed, as compared with the semi-annual
reports made in July, 1868 :

HIBEKNXA.

Increase.

Open Deposit Accounts 1,900

Deposits $1,216,418 05

Loans

Gross Eumiuys

Reserve Fuml

Expenses and Federal tax. .
Cash uii liand

SAVINGS AND LOAN.

Open Deposit Accounts

Deposits $380,130 91i

1,111,326 48

53,270 89

35,796 32

2,125 06

155,902 08

Increase.
137

Loans. .

Gross Earnings

Reserve Fund

Expenses siiid Federal tax..
Cash on hand

FRENCH.

Increase.

Open Deposit Accounts 300

Deposits $210,867 51

Loans 313,563 26

■Gross Earnings 34,334 13

Reserve Fund 17,812 45

Expenses and Federal tax 5,587 11

Cash on kaud

384,803 71
41,914 83
35,240 12
2,167 06
31,808 44

Decrease,

HAVINGS UNION.

Increase.

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293,121 18

84,007 04

115,346 W

Decrease.

(3,160 12

Open D' posll Aoeounta

I'M t

Reserve Fund and Stocl

tad Federal lux

i till "H band

Included in the Rest eve Fund is the sum of
$90,000, b) rag the amount of stuck paid in.

< UiiuKMA aUILDINO, LOAN AMD HAVINGS.

Increase. Decrease.

Open Deposit accounts 134

DepOBit* $24,817 is

Limns 4,902 07

Reservi Pundand Btookpatdtn $49,592 97

Cub "ii band 27,103 72

The Reserve Fund includes the stock paid in,

and the "cash on hand" city bonds in their

possession, the amounts of which we have been

unable to oscertain. Neither have we been able

at any time to obtain n full report, as from the

other societies.

ODD FELLOWS*.

Open Deposit Ai'onmts

D< pi ISltS

Loane

( LroBfl Earnings

BeBerve Fund ,

Bxpona a and Federal tax.

GOBD "iihand

Increase.

198

$109,812 80

202,572 14
9,792 60
1,008 12
1,138 05
5,811 67

FAItMEKS* AND MECHANICS*.

Increase. Decrease.

Open Deposit Accountfi 81

Deposits $25,233 73

Loons 37,524 55

Gross Earnings 870 60

licservu Fund 2,307 90

Expenses and Federal tux $34 02

Cash on hand 24,610 96

No lieservo Fund reported in July, 1868.

GERMAN.

Increase.

Open Deposit Accounts 553

Deposits $290,123 88

Loans 320,420 89

Gross Earnings. 14,180 79

Reserve Fund and Stock paid in 21,741 80

Expenses and Federal tax 2,947 48

Cash on hand 16,133 83

Included under the head of " Reserve Fund "
is the sum of $40,000 capital stock paid in.

Mining; Sliare >Iarltet.

We report a rather brisk market since our
last similar reference, and a more general par-
ticipation in the stock arena of claims of less
intrinsic value than the usual line of sales. "We
may remark an appreciation of several claims,
but, so far as reported, the merits of this im-
provement are not made manifest; however,
several drifts in the lower levels on the Corn-
stock ledge are hopefully prosecuted.

I]vtpebiai>— improved from $139 to $149, and
closed at $144 50. Further receipts of bullion,
amounting to $9,861, have been credited to Jan-
uary account, making $28,822 to date. On the
26th inst., the drift on the 1000 level had been
earned in 3% feet during the previous twenty-
four hours. Both mills are running to full ca-
pacity, and from the Alta mine they are hoist-
ing 140 tons of ore per day.

Hale & Noitcnoss — advanced from $59 to
$68, and closed at $68 50. This company is still
running a single drift south, showing no mate-
rial change. In the north drift they have not
got the tunnel far enough in to commence work
on the ore. In the third station they are cut-
ting out for a windlass, and will commence sink-
ing a winze in a few days. The shaft is below
the fiftii station timbers about four feet.

Gold Hill Quaetz — is quoted at $55@70.
The receipts of bullion for January account to

date are $5,389 47 Confidence ruled at

$34(n}35. Bullion account for January, $5,696
36..-. . .Crown Point advanced to $70, declined
to $64, and closed at $66 25. The develop-
ments, as yet, are not encouraging.

Belcheh— proved quite active during the past
week, improving from $18 50 to $21, and clos-
ing at $19 50. A telegram of the 21st inst., re-
ceived at the office in this city, states "that
they cut a body of ore six feet wide, showing
an average assay of $91. The vein going south
from the shaft, on the 335 level, promises a
large body of ore."

Kentdck— has been less active than usual,
selling at $235@r241, and at the close realizing
$232. The bullion receipts to the 22d inst.,

for January, show a yield of $57,827

Chollak-Potosi sold at $168@172, and closed
at $171 50.. For the week ending Jan. 22d, ex-
tracted 900 tons of ore. The 1100 station drifts,
north and west, are in porphyry, and the south
drift from the 920 runs in clay mixed with lime
and porphyry, and is now 90 feetfrom the shaft.

Ophir has advanced in price. On the 27th

inst., the shaft had been timbered 692 feet, and
the sinking had been carried 14 feet further,
making the entire depth 706 feet. So soon as
the sump is completed, requiring about twelve
feet more, drifting will be commenced on the
700 level.

New Variable Cut-off. — "We have re-
ceived from M. C. Taylor, of Grass Valley,
a model of a variable cut-off, for steam en-
gines, which ia simple in construction, and
which appears, in view of the importance
of the matter of cut-offs for economizing
the expansive force of steam, to have met a
desideratum. Mr. Taylor has applied for a
U. S. patent through this office.

MINING SHAREHOLDERS' DIRECTORY,

[Compiled for every Inane, from advertisi-menis In Iho

Murine AMD Bommna Pmkss a:td other San

Franolsoo Journala.J

'emprlstnc tho Names of Companies. District or County
qi Location; Amount and dutr <>i a.--, .-mix. m Dim- iU
Day of Delinquent Sale; aud Amount and Time
of Payment ol Dividends.

Dtuxtivr.HT. or sai ■

Amador Co., dlvldond. $6 r«rrbare.... Payable Dec 19, 1868

Alamo. Lyon co., nev., Nov. 25, ate Dec 81— Jnn.SU>

Bat-. hi, Storey co., Nov., div Payable June 19, 1868

Belcbl i, 6tori > CO. Nev., Dec. 31, $'X» Jim. SO— Mure It 2

Cr.>wn Point. Storey eo., Pre- ia $7 50 Jan. 2S— Feb. 15

Chalk Minimal n. Nevada co., Jan. 13, $2. .Feb. lo-Marcll B«

Chollar Poio&i, dlv , $.'ft Pavnldc Oct. IS, IP67

Crown Point, dividrnd. S7.5U Fuvable Sept 12 I86S

Cosala. Sinaliia, Dec. 12, $1 rmi. 15— Feb -1

City K. R , San Francisco, Jan. 6, $5 Kcb. 10— March 6

Daiiey. Lyon to. Nev, Jan 9, $2 FVb 12— March 1

Eureka, dlv. $5 Payable Nov. 2», 1868

Empire M. A M., Nev.. dividend $G. ... Payable May 15, 18i>7

Cold II 111 Cons., Storey eo., Jan. 8.$ I Feb. 18— March 1

Gould A Curry, dlv.. 97.50. Pavabtr May 16, 1887

Gui-u-n Qiiitri«»t. Idaho, diV , $2.60 Payable Jan. in IHB9

Gold Hill Q M X H-dlvldeiid. $7 W. ... Payable July IS, 18GS
Golden Kule. Tuolumne eo, dlv 50c ^ sh... Payable Dec. 2ti#
Mt. Teiinbo, Lander co , Jan. 23, 75c... March 6— March 80"

Hone Gravel, Nevada co , Jan. 1), SI Feb, 15— March 8

Hale & Norcross, Storey Co., Dec. 12, S5 Jan, 10— Fen 6

Hale Vfc Norcro»s, dlv. $125.. Sept. 16, 18&7

I X L, Alpine co . Jan 13, SI 50 Fib. 27— March 17"

Imperial, storey co . Dee. 1ft, $25 Jan. 18— Feb 4

Imperial, storey co , Nov., dlv Payable June 20, 1888

Juan Jinuilsta, Santa Clnra co.,Nov. 27 Sale .Ian. .10

Julia, Sioroy co , Nev., $2.60 Feb. 10-Feb. 27

Keystone, Con-nlldated Special Meeting, Feb 18

Kentuck, div.,$20i>cr share Payable ikan. 10, 18U9

Mohawk .t Montreal, Nevada co.. Dee. 7, S3. -Jan. 25— Feb. 9

Morning Siar, Alpine CO., Dec. 9, $2 50 Jan. II— Feb. 1

North Amer. Wood P. Co., Jan. 15, $ I Feb 18— March 8"

North Star, dividend, $5 Payable Aug. 16,1808

Oriental, Sierra co., Jan. i, $3.50 Feb. 6— Feb. 20

" Feb. 11-March fi

.Payable June 18, 1868

Jan. 21— Fob. 8"

Sale Feb 5»

.. January 4— Jan. 30
.Sale Jan. 80

Hoes, mi foot, f) n> 4J' @ 5

Hogs, drcaacd , ft lb 7 @ Q8

OROCRHIKJ, KTC

Sucar. crushed, "p lb 17 (3) 1"

„pa China iti @ 12

1 nffce, Costa llica, ^ lb 18 <a 18

Do. Rio _ @ J7

rea, Japan, ft n 75 & 90

D" Green 60 @ 1 25

Hawaiian Rice, fi a _ a 10

China Kke, p* ft. 6 @ 7

Coal nil, 7t callon ' . 45 @ 6ti

Candle*, i n. ]g « is

Ranon Butter, nib in ra 511

Isthmus miner, f, lb \\'.'.'.'.'.\'.\ 35 @ 40

Cheese. Caiirornfii, 9 it. ifl @ 2o

-" : gioz«n 60 ® (M

Lard, plb ]2 «, 13

Ham and Hue. .11,^ lb i3 ^ lft

Shoulders, -^ lb... ....V.... 6 ® S

Aetnll Prices.

Butler. Cnllfornla, fresh, ^ lb 65 A 75

do. pickled, ?t lh 30 © 35

do. Oregon, Sib 20 a 25

do. New York, stlb 35 « 45

Cheese. ?tlh.... j»o @ 25

Honey, ¥1 lb 25 a so

Ebct, « dozen 65 @ 75

Lard.f^Ih 16 ® —

Hamw and Hacnn, t* lb. 20 @ 25

Craiiherrlff. "ft gallon 1 26 @ 1 60

Potatoes, "H lb Ik a 2

Potatoes, Sweet, f) tt. 3 @ —

TomalocH, J* lb 3 @

Onions,'*! ft 3 (7fl _

Apples. No. 1, a lb 4 @ 6

Pears, Table, jrtlh a taj "

Plums, dried. ** lb 10 @ 12

Peaches, dried, %* ft in ® 12

Oranges, 33 dozen 75 @ _

Lemons, "gi dozen 75 GJ —

ChicHcns, anlece 60 ® 76

TurkovH, IHft 23 @ 25

Soap, rale and C. 0 7 @ 12

Soap, Castile, «3 ft — @ 20

Rattlesnake, Yuba co , Dec. 19, $7.50.

Rippon. Alpine co., Oct. 15, $ I

Rising Star, Idaho, Nov. 16, $10

Juan Rfiiuesla, Santa Clara co,

Santiago, Silver city, dividend, $-' 6u...Pavahle Dec 10, 1»C8
Savage. Virginia, Nov, dividend, Si ...Paynblc Dec. 12, 1808

SandSprlnL-t Salt, dividend $1 Payable Jan 5, 1863

Tallulah, Humboldt co., Dec. 14, $17.50 Jan. 29— Feb. 27

U. S. Grant. Nevada co., Nov, 9, 50c Dec. 15— Jan. 30"

Virginia iO.Il Water Co. .Dividend, payable Nov. 20, 1868
Yellow Jacket, dtv., $100 Payable Jan. 15, 1869

Tho^e marked with an asterisk (•) are advertised In thin
journal.

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Latest Stock Prices Bid and Asked.

S. P. STOCK AND EXCHANGK BOARD.

Friday Evening, January 2P,

» MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS.

Cniled States Bonds, 5 2US, 1815, '0?, '08 ,

United Stales Honds, 5 20s, 18-i4

United States Bonds. 5 20s, 1862

Legal Tender Notes

Caliloriiia State Bonds, 7s, 1857

San Francisco Bonds, 10s, 1851

San Francisco City Bonds, 0s. 1855

San Francisco City and County Bonds. 6s, 1858.

San Franciseo School Bonds, 10s, 1800

San Fraud co School Bonds, IDs, 1861

San Francisco City and Co. Sclii B'ds, 7k, I860.

San Francisco City and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1862

San Francisco City and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1861

San Francisco City and Co Bonds, 7«, 1865

San Francisco City and Co. Judg. Bda. 7s, 1863.
San Francisco City and Co. Judy- Bds, 7s, 1864.

Sacramento City Bonds

Sacramento County Bonds, Cs

Marv^ville Bonds, 10s

Stockton City Bonds

Yuba County Bonds, Hs

Santa Clara County Bonds, 7s

Butte County Bonds, I Us, 1 SCO

San Mateo County Bonds, 7s

Calilornia Steam Navigation Co

Spring Valley Water Co

State Telegraph Co 25

GAS COMI-ANIKS.

San Francisco Gas Co 33

Sacramen to Gas Co —

railroads.

Sacramento Valley Railroad —

San Francisco and San Jose Railroad 40

Omnibus Railroad 70

Central Railroad 49

Nortb Beach and Mission Kail road 67>5

Front Street, Mission and Ocean Railroad il

BANKING INSTITUTIONS.

Pacific Bank 97*£

The Bank, of California 157

California, Loan and Savings Society —

INSURANCE COMPAN1KS.

Firemans' Fund Insurance Co 92J<

Pacific Insurance Co 126

San Francisco Insurance Co —

Merchants' Mutual Marine Insurance Co 600

California Insurance Co 1300 I

Union Insurance Co 92

Home Mutual Insurance Co I9*£

Occidental Insurance Co 72

National Insurance Co 72

Builders' Iusuranco Co —

MINING STOCKS— WASHOE DISTRICT.

Alpha 58

Baltimore American —

Belcher 19

Bullion. G. H 28«

Crown Point 66

Cnle(Va.) —

Confidence 84

Consolidated Virginia 7

Chollar-Fotosi 17l_ _

Daney .

San Francisco Metal Market.

PRICES FOR INVOICES.

Jobbing price* rule from ten in fifteen per eent. higher than tht
following quotations.

Friday, January 29, 1869.
Iron.— Duty: Pig, $9per ton; Railroad, 60c ^100 lbs; Bar
l@I*>ic %l ft; Sheet, polished, 3c ft ft; common, \^i®\%a
ft lb; Plato, ljfic ft lb; Pipe, l^cftft; Galvanized, 2Jic
ft ft.

Scotch and English Pig iron ft ton $39 00 @$40 00

White Pig ft ton 39 00 @ 40 00

Refined Bar, bad assortment ft ft — 03 @

Refined Bar, good assortment, ft lb — 04 @

Boiler, No. I to 4 — 045i(a

Plate, No.5 Io9 @— 04*>£

Sheet, No. 10 to 13 — 04W@ — 6

Sheet, No. 14 to 20 —05 ® — 6U

Sheet, No. 24 to 27 —05 @ — 6k

Cori'KR— Dutv: Sheathing, 3J^c ft ft; Plgand Bar,2>£c ft ft

Sheathing, ft ft @ — 26

Sheathing, Yellow — 20 ® — 21

Sheathing, Old Yellow — 10 ® — 11

Bolts —21 ®— 22

Composition Nails — 21 ® — 22

Tin Plates.— Duty; 25ft cent, ad valorem.

Plates, Charcoal, IX, ft box 12 00 @

Plates, IC Charcoal ® 11 00

Roofing Plates 10 00 @ 10 50

BancaTin. Slabs, ft lb @ — 30

Ptekl.— English Cast Steel, ft ft .*.... ® — 16

Quicksilver.— ip lb — 55 ® — 60

Lkad— Pig.ftft - 7J£@— 8

Sheet — 10 ®

Pipe — 11 ®

Bar — 9 @— 9W

Zinc— Sheets, ft ft ■ @_ ^y

Borax.— Californla.ft lb — 30 @ — 35

Exchequer. "8

Empire Mill and Mining Co 126

Gould A Curry 108

Gold Hili Quartz 55

Hale & Norcross 68

Imperial 144

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Julia

Justice and Independent..

Kentuck

Lady Bryan

North American

Ophir

Overman 80

Segregated Belcher *J£

Savage 77&

Sierra Nevada • . . . . 28

Yellow Jackat 1450

Union..

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37

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78
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United States —

MI-CEI.LANKOCS MINING STOCKS.

Amador (California) 25')

North Star (Calilornia) : -

Eureka (California) 220

De Soto ( H unibold t) —

Golden Rule. Calilornia 12

San Francisoo Market Eates.

"Wholemile Price*.

Friday, January 29, 186!

Flour, Extra, ft bbl $5 25 ^$5 7

Do. Superfine 4 *6 ® 4 1

Corn Meal, ft 10(1 lbs 3 25 ® 3 5

Wheat, ft lot) lbs I 50 ® 1 7

Oats, ft lUdlbs 2 10 @ 2 3

Barley, ft 1011 lbs 2 10 @ 2 3

Beans, ft 10U fts 6 00 @ 8 C

Potatoes, ft 10U lbs 50 @ 8

Hay. ft ton 12 U0 018 0

Live Oak Wood, ft cord 9 00 @10 I)

Beef, exlra, dressed, ft lb 8 ® 1

Sheep, on foot 3 00 @ 3 2

"New Incorporations. — Articles of in-
corporation have been recently filed in the
County Clerk's office in this city as follows:
South Virginia S. M. Co. — LaDder
County, (Nev. Jan. 22d. Capital stock,
$1,600,000; 16,000 shares, $100 each. Trus-
tees: E. F. Morrow, G. W. Beaver, E. B.
Stonehill, S. C. Estes and M. Ehriich.

Peck S. M. Co.— "White Pine district,
Nev. Jan. 25th. Capital stock, $100,000;
Trustees: E. T. Peck, W. A. Batemen,
Louis Teese, Jr., H. J. Paine and T. A.

Nichols.

Golconda Mining Co. — "White Pine dis-
trict, Nev. Jan. 25th. Capital stock,
$800,000; 800 shares, ©100 each. Trustees:
John D. Fry, Alvinzia Hayward, A. P.
Crittenden, E. T. Tease and J. F. Boyd.

Teese S. M. Co. — White Pine district,
Nev. Jan. 25th. Capital stock, $100,000;
1,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: Lewis
Teese, Jr., W. A. Bateman, E. T. Peck, H.
J. Paine and F. A. Nichols.

Holcomb Mining Co. — White Pine dis-
trict, Nev. Jan. 25th. Capital stock, $800,-
000; 8,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees:
J. D. Fry, A. Hayward, A. P. Crittenden,
E. T. Pearce and James T. Boyd.

Featherstone M. Co. — White Pine dis-
trict, Nev- Capital stock, $400,000; 400
shares, $100 each. Trustees: M. J. Mc-
Donald, J. W. Gashwiler, S. Heydenfeldt,
G. D. Roberts and E. B. Dorsey.

Treasure Trove M. Co.— White Pine
district, Nev. Capital stock, $525,000;
5,250 shares, $100 each. Trustees: John
C. Bower, John Achweitzer, Calhoun Ben-
ham, John Wielaud.Wm. S.Byrne, Joseph
Frontin and J. G. Sourdry.

Cayuga Chief M. Co.— White Pine dis-
trict, Nev. Jan. 27th. Capital stock, $1,-
200,000; 12,000 shares, $100 each. Trus-
tees: G. W. Beaver, J. Nightingale, E. G.
Brown and J. A. Eaton.

The Ladies, too, are said to have very gen-
erally accepted Plantation Bitters as a means
of relieving the nervous debility and derange-
ment of the circulation, to which so many of
the sex are liable. It is certainly an agreeable
restorative — so palatable, indeed, that it may
properly be ranked among the Cordials. Its
medicinal ingredients, about which no mystery
is made, comprise some of the finest tonics and
alteratives of the vegetable kingdom, and the
vehicle in which these are administered, pure
St. Croix Bum, is undoubtedly the most harm-
less and nutrimental of alcoholic stimulants. *

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Mining Summary.

Tux following information is {.'leaned mostly fromjour-
ils published in the interior, in close proximity to the

CALIFORNIA.

ALPIXE COUNTY.

Markleeville Miner, Jan. 16th: The Globe
tunnel, -which is now nearly 100 ft. on its
■way towards the great Hercules lode, which
it will strike at good worldng depth in from
300 to 400 feet more, has encountered of
late very hard rock, but quite recently is
entering that of more favorable working
character.

Chronicle, Jan. 16th : The Rippon Co. is
getting out better rock than heretofore.

.DUDOB COUNTY.

Jackson Ledger, Jan. 23d: The owners of
the Caseo mine have determined to go down
200 ft deeper. At present they are in a
black greasy gouge, which is looked upon
as a sign that a good vein is close at hand.
The 20-statup mill, erected by the owners,
Haley & Hardenburg, is about one-fourth
of a mile from the mine, on the bank of the
Mokelumne river, and is without exception
the best specimen of a mill we ever exam-
ined. It is run by water, of which there
is an abundant supply the year round.
The batteries are of the most substantial
kind, and work like a charm. Tour of
Hungerford's concentrators are attached
to the batteries, by which all the sulpku-
rets are saved.

The Coney Co. have determined to sink
another shaft 200 ft. south of the present
one 8x4 ft in the clear. Steam hoisting
works will be placed on it, and by this
means the facilities for taking out rock will
be doubled, and as their vein is a very wide
one, they will be able to keep 40 or 50
stamps running night and day.

The proprietors of the Kearson mine,
near town, have obtained such nattering
prospects lately that they have determined
to erect a mill on the lead during the com-
ing summer.

Jan. 23d: Last winter, Green, Goodwin
& Co. purchased what is known as Hart-
man's garden in Volcano, for the purpose
of mining it out. They commenced work
the 1st of April last^ with a force of five
men, and up to the 1st of December they
had taken out over $15,000. and the claim
is good for many thousands more.

CALAVEKAS COUNTY.

Mokelumne Hill Chronicle, Jan. 23d; A
new custom mill is being erected at Rail-
road, by James Smart. The battery will
consist of eight stamps. The motivepower
is to be furnished by a hurdy-gurdy water
wheel.

The excitement in relation to the mines
in the Railroad Flat district, continues un-
abated, and the probabilities are that it will
prove such a powerful counter-irritant as
to neutralize the White Pine fever in this
section of the country.

On the Petticoat work goes steadily for-
ward. The mill leased for crushing the
rock — a 10-stamp battery — is never idle.
The ore averages better than that taken
from any other mine in the State, and the
lead has been prospected sufficiently to es-
tablish its permanency beyond a shadow
of a doubt.

Chapman & Co. have resumed labor upon
their claim. They have a shaft 60 ft. in
depth, the rock from which yielded largely.
Owing to the lack of machinery for pump-
ing purposes, water has risen in the shaft
30 ft. At that point the company are run-
ning levels upon the lead. The rock being
taken out will pay handsomely.

Sanderson & Co. have abandoned their
old shaft and engaged in sinking a new one
in a more favorable locality for working the
mine. They have some 60 or 70 tons of
rock out, which will be crushed as soon as
facilities offer. The lead is narrow but the
ore is rich. The proprietors are sanguine
that their mine will prove equal to the
best.

Labor is being vigorously pushed for-
ward on tho Chemisette, owned by the
Misses Lancaster, with highly satisfactory
results. The ^hat't has not reached any
great depth, but the ore, from the top
djwn, prospects tiuely.

The Balmoral, another claim located and
owned by ladies, shows well on top, no
work having yet been done upon it.

Work is being prosecuted upon a large
number of veius in the vicinity, and new
location are made almost daily.

Tbe Angels correspondent writes: The
mines of tliis place are beginning to attract
much attention, even from mining men in
San Francisco.

About four months ago the Angels Min-
ing Co. decided to sink 200 ft. on the vein;
as they went down the lead improved rap-
id^', and at a depth of 300 ft. from the sur-
face they have developed a well denned and

paying vein, and are now, and have been
for the past few months, making handsome
dividends. The ore is of much higher
grade than nearer the surface.

W. H. Bovee, who for the last two years
has been working his mine successfully,
has leased his mine to Cronise & Crossman,
of San Francisco, for a period of two years,
with privilege of buying. Mr. Bovee
erected, last fall, a fine 50-stamp mill. Cro-
nise & Crossman are opening up the mine
and preparing to work on a much more ex-
tensive scale than has been doneheretofore.
Some very rich quartz is obtained in this
mine, and the ore of high grade on the av-
erage. In sinking, the Bovee mine, like
many others, may be found in places to be
partially mixed with slate, but there can
scarcely be a doubt that it will prove
one of the richest mines in the State.

The Sickles or Union quartz mine, is be-
ing worked by the owners with good suc-
cess for the amount of work done. They
have a 10-stamp mill on the claim, pro-
pelled by water power. The lode com-
mencing at the Bovee mine and passing
along through the Dr. Hill, the Angels
quartz mine, the Lightner, the TJtica, to the
Stickles mine, seems to attain its greatest
power and width at this point. Their ore
is all paying ore and not mixed in the least
with slate, as far as they have sunk, a depth
of about 200 ft The width of the vein
ranges from 15 to 24 ft. of paying quartz.
The company are sinking and opening up
their mine slowly.

The Mokelumne Hill correspondent
writes: As to tbe relative merits of the Sut-
ter and Railroad Flat ranges of quartz, the
preference must remain with the Sutter, as
the veins are large, true, and consequently
permanent, while those of Railroad are, as
yet, not sufficiently developed to make any
calculations upon. The Sutter range of
mines require a heavy outlay of capital to
make them profitable, but when made so
can be depended upon for many years, thus
offering superior inducements for the in-
vestment of capital. On the other hand,
the Railroad range is composed of thou-
sands of small, segregated veins, rich, with-
out doubt, as they prospect from $20 to §150
to the ton , and have the merit of being easy
to find and not expensive to work when
found.

And then we have the gravel range south-
west from this town, which covers a greater
extent of territory than I was aware of un-
til my recent visit to Central Hill district.
I can do no more than mention the different
claims, as my limited time will not admit
of anything like a description. Traveling
from the lower end of Central Hill we pass
the Monitor, Merrimac, Jackson & Co.,
Squiers & Co., Hatfield & Kane, Green &
Guy, What. Cheer, Rough Diamond, Brad-
ley & Co., Peterson ii Co.. Shaw & Co.

KERN COUNTY.

Havilah Courier, San. 19th: We under-
stand that Messrs. Dalton, of Nevada
County, are negotiating for the Adelphiaad
Countess Tyrone mines, and the mill con-
nected therewith.

»AKIFOSA COUNTY.

Mail, Dec. 22d: The old Washington
mine near Quartzburg, still continues to
pay handsomely. We are informed that
for two runs made last night, of 10 and 12
days each, there was realized $2,500 and
$2,700, makingan aggregate of J$5, 200; and
this was obtained at an expense of $1,500 —
leaving a clear profit to the proprietors for
22 days crushing of $3,700.

We were shown, last Monday, a fine
specimen, composed of gold and quartz —
the gold prevailing. It belonged to G. W.
Payne, who selected it from among other
rich rock which he is now taking out of a
vein by him discovered and located. The
lode is on the old trail from Mariposa to
Colorado, We are informed that the vein,
so far as prospected, gives every evidence
of being rich. There are, doubtless, thou-
sands of lodes equally rich lying hidden
within a few feet of the surface in this
county.

We learn that Mr. Charbonel has leased
and intends to immediately commence work-
ing the Morning Star ledge. The Morning
Star is near the Mariposa Creek, about one
mile below the Frances quartz mill. It has
been laying idle for some time, but is now
in the hands of a scientific and practical
miner, under whose management the vein
will be thoroughly tested.

SEVADACOIIS T Y.

Transcript, Jan. 20th: The Brown claim,
located on tbe blue cement channel near
You Bet, continues to return handsome
profits to the owners. After the last run
of five days, less four hours, they took out
IS lbs., avoirdupois, of dry amalgam. The
expense of doing this was only about $400.

Jan. 23d: A correspondent, writing from
Bridgeport township, sends the following:
Last week Pat. Fogarty bought the whole

of the tail flume in the South Yuba river,
leading from Jones Bar. Consideration
$4,000.

G. Tanner & Co. have located 1,200 feet
on Green Horn Creek, commencing at
Knickerbocker Canon, and extending to
Nebraska Canon, for mining purposes.

For 10 days past mining operations have
been entirely suspended at You Bet and
Quaker Hill on account of the freezing
weather. The miners are all ready, their
claims being fitted up for a long run, and
the present storm will, probably, enable
them to commence operations.

The old Larimer mill on the Higgens
ledge on Wolf Creek, is being thoroughly
renovated and much improved. The mill
will be in running order by February. One
hundred loads of excellent rock are now
out awaiting this time. The rock looks
well, is of a blue color, shows free gold,
and plenty of fine rich sulphurets. It is
good for $50 per ton. They are now down
about 125 ft. from the surface; at this dis-
tance the ledge is full 18 inches wide, is
easily worked and promises well.

Jan. 24th: Tbe storm at this writing is
exceedingly favorable for mining interests.
For a week or two past the ditches have
been frozen and the supply of water scant
for mining purposes in consequence. The
present rain will soon break up ice and
give abundance of water.

Gazette, Jan. 23d: We are informed by a
gentleman from Forest Springs that quartz
mining in that locality is quite brisk. The
Slate Creek ledge, owned by Pen-in & Co.,
is now being worked with great energy.
Tbe company have spent $3,000 in opening
new drifts. They have attained a depth of
370 ft. on the incline. The ledge at this
depth averages two feet in width. Two
tons are mined daily to each man, and eight
men are now employed in the drifts, mak-
ing an average of 16 tons per day. The
rock from this mine, for the last year, paid
from $18 to $60 per ton — averaging about
$30. Perrin had crushed at his mill 1,001
loads, which produced in the _ aggregate
$23,0QfL__The articles of incorporation of
this mine were filed in the County Clerk's
office in this county a few days since. We
learn that Mr. Perrin has purchased the
extension of this mine, and has run a tun-
nel on the ledge from Wolf Creek into the
hill 160 ft which gives -them about 600 ft.
backs, the hill being very steep. The ex-
tension bids fair to become one of the best
mines in that vicinity. Mr. P. has a water
power quartz mill on Wolf Creek. He
crushes the rock from two Slate Creek
ledges, also from the Grant, and other claims
in that locality.

Jan. 28th: Thos. Johnson and others have
recorded a quartz location, on a ledge situ-
ated in Grass Valley township, bounded on
the north by that of Morton & Co. , on the
west by Mary's Ravine, and on the east by
the claims of McClnnes & Co. The ledge
is called the Grecian Bend.

Grass Valley Union, Jan. 21st: The Kux
Co. who own a good looking ledge in the
bed of Wolf Creek, talk of incorporating
preparatory to working their claims.

The Young Pines Co. will also incorpor-
ate at an early day, so that work upon their
ledge may be carried on without the uncer-
tainties of partnership arrangements. The
Young Pines Co. own the south extension
of the Grass Valley ledge, and their prop-
erty is supposed to be valuable.

We hear that arrangements for the early
resumption cf work at the Allison Ranch
mine are in progress, and that everything
looks bright for the company.

Jan. 22d: The Eureka mine of this place
has made its regular monthly dividend of
$20,000.

The Garden City mine is now being
pumped out after a long time of idleness,
and some good rock has already been ob-
tained from it.

Grass Valley National, Jan. 21st: Frank
Smith & Co. have located 400 ft. of ground
on Fall Creek for mining purposes.

Jan. 22d: We recently visited the Em-
pire mine and found everything progress-
ing finely. The 30 stamps crush 40 tons of
rock every day which pays from $25 to $30
per ton, without counting the specimens
which are frequently found. We saw some
of extraordinary richness which were
brought up two days ago. The gold is
saved at the Enrpire in a somewhat different
manner than that employed at the Eureka.
No blankets are used, but the gold is amal-
gamated in batteries and on copper plates
alone. The sulphurets are separated by
Hendy's concentrators, and then pass into
the Baux & Guiod's separating amalgama-
tirs, of which there are 16. Quicksilv r,
cyanide of potassium, and bluestone are
also put in these pans for six or seven hours,
the pulp is drawn into another set of grind-
ing pans, Howlaud's, where it is again
ground to au impalpable fineness, and every

particle of gold brought into contact with
the quicksilver. The sand and other for-
eign matter is then flowed out, and the
pure amalgam to be retorted as usual. The
Empire men claim that this method of work-
ing sulphurets is better than the chlorina-
tion process, because it not only is much
less expensive but secures more gold. They
have tried both ways. The Empire sul-
phurets contain about one-seventh of all
the gold that is obtained from the rock, and
in value vary from $30 to $300 per ton, the
average value being about. $80.

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY.

Los Angeles News, Jan. 16th: A rich gold
and silver mine is reported to have been
discovered recently near the town of San
Bernardino.

SIERRA. COUNTY.

Downieville Messenger, Jan. 23d: Every-
thing seems to be quiet in various parts of
the county. There is no water yet to wash
stock dirt. The miners commenced to wash
at Port Wine, but had to stop, the water
giving out, owing to the cold weather.

Rock recently mined by Ned Leonard
from his ledge above the graveyard, is the
richest yet taken out there, gold being visi-
ble in all portions of it.

The miners in the river are still working
their claims, the river being as low as at
any time during the summer. The boys
who are working under the town, also set
their pump at work a few days since.

A rich quartz ledge was recently discov-
ered between Howland Flat and the Slate
Creek House. The ledge is just below the
Monitor sawmill, and is called the Lincoln
ledne. The Lincoln, the Grant and the
Colfax, have recorded their claims. The
rock is said to look well.

The Gold Bluff Co. commenced crushing
rock from their mine on Monday last. They
have a large quantity of rock out, and men
enough at work to keep the mill running
most of the winter. The rock is rich, but
how much it will pay to the ton we do not
know. The mill is a 12-stamp water mill,
and is capable of crushing about 18 tons in
24 hours.

SISKIYOU COUVTY.

Yreka Union, Jan. 17th: Anngget of gold
weighing three pounds was taken from the
claim of Poncho & Co., near Hawkinsville,
on Thursday last. Its value is estimated at
$500, there being some quartz mixed with
it It was found in the dirt about three ft
from the bedrock.

Lauer & Co. at Humbug, are now taking
out quartz of a very superior quality from
the Knapp ledge. The rock from this ledge
has averaged a little over $50 per ton. Lash
& Co. are engaged in running a tunnel iuto
the Accidental which will strike the ledge
about 105 ft. below the surface. The tun-
nel will be about 170 ft. in length.

Miners at Scott's Bar have returned to
work again on the river claims.

The Scott's Valley correspondent writes:
Joe Magill and others have struck No. 1
diggings near Capt. Haislip's store on the
East Fork of Scott River. Hall & Co. have
just struck it rich at Yellow Pine. They
showed me three bits to the pan taken out
this week, from these new diggings in the
gulch near Hall's store. Hall informs me
that the diggings are extensive, and are
easily worked as the gold is mixed in the
dirt from the surface to the bedrock, which
is but from three to five feet deep. The
prospects are that we will have lively times
this spring on theEast Fork and at Yellow
Pine.

TRINITY COUNTY.

Weaverville Journal, Jan. 23d : The min-
ers at Park's Bar are all busy and in the
best of spirits.

The mining claims recently opened at
Taylor's Flat arepaying well, and the Wash-
ington Fluming and Mining Co. fire selling
all the water in their ditch.

The miners in and around Columbia are
busy at work, but as the water has been in
camp only a short while, none have washed
up.

The Star mine, at American camp, has
shut down for the present; but work will
be resumed within a month, and will be
prosecuted then more vigorously than ever
before.

Hiskey & Stage are busy at work on the
Grant mine, near tbe Star, erecting a large
10-stamp mill, with all the necessary hoist-
ing apparatus for taking rock out of the
mine.

YUBA COUNTY.

Marysville Appeal, Jan. 26th : We learn
that the Pennsylvania ledge now being
worked by superintendent Cum mins, is 24
feet in width, and the entire rock pays
well.

COLORADO.

Georgetown Miner, Jan. 7th: Huependen,
Welters & Co. , have shipped, since our last
report, $700. 60 in silver bullion, coin value.
Owing to the scarcity of water, they are
unable to run to their full capacity.

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Bebizmer A Bruckner took off, on Tues-
day last, 1,348.5 ozs. of silver bullion, coin
value, $1,820.47. The amount would have
been trable what it is, had nut their onpel
given out.

Prof. Stewart has token out and shipped,
during the mouth of December, 2,061.75
ozs. of silver bullion, coin value, $2,853.91.

Central City Herald, Jan. 6th: Oue mine
on the Bates or Huuter, which is run by
actual miners, produced lust month with
20 stamps, 196 ounces of the retort worth
about 84,100.

Wo saw another 519-oz. brick of silver at
the Rooky Mountain National Bank yester-
day.

There are some parties in this city who
claim to have information of the discovery
of new gold mines of unusual richness, in
some gulches tributary to Snake liver,
about 3IJU miles north of Salt Lake. These
parties are making preparations to emigrato
to the new gold iields at once.

We saw a specimen of silver ore from the
new district, on the head of Chicago Creek,
yesterday, which was very rich. It had
been burned in the lire, and the silver had
oozed out in small globules. The pros-
pectors of that district are going to organ-
ize some time this work.

A valuable discovery has recently been
made on the side of the Mammoth Mount-
ain, further up the gulch towards Central.
It was mado by Mr. Bolthoff, who has others
interested with him. The lode shows a
strong vein of rich quartz, in which parti-
cles of free gold can be seen without the
aid of a glass.

The New York 35-stamp mill is one of
the best paying institutions of Gilpin
County. We happened in there the other
day and founj the mill full of ore, and the
mou all busy at work. The U. P. R. and
Burroughs are at present supplying this
mill with ore, but Mr. Hays says he could
keep three times as many stamps.constantly
employed if he had them.

The Smith & Parmelee Gold Co. pro-
duced 933 ozs. of gold in December. They
started up their 75-horse power engine
yesterday, and to-day their new 25-stamp
mill. They have 12 Bartola pans, and one
large stone arastra, which will be run on
blanket tailings. They expect to produce
from 50 to 60 ozs. of gold a month from the
pans. The mill is geared to drop the
stamps 40 times a minute — running the
stamps rapidly with coarse screens and
changing the blankets every 15 minutes.
They expect to treat 100 cords of ore per
month with a 25-stamp mill.
IDAHO.

Owyhee Avalanche, Jan. 16th: Prospects
in Flint district are in the highest degree
encouraging. The Rising Star mill is turn-
ing out bullion at the rate of between
§2,000 and $3,000 per day. The mill, in
every department, is a complete success.
We have been shown some specimens of
ore taken from the lower level of the mine,
■which surpass in richness any heretofore
found. 0-

Boise Worli, Jan. 14th: There are 19
men wintering in Deadwood. The pros-
pects are very bright for a most prosperous
ensuing season of mining, and diggings
which could not be worked last year for
want of water can next season be thor-
oughly mined.

MONTANA.

Helena Post, Dec. 25th: We were at-
tracted to the assay office of Stephen F.
Molitor, Saturday, by the sight of a brick,
which containedgold to the amount of $12,-
000, in currency.

Mining upon the Park ledge is now be-
ing more actively prosecuted than ever be-
fore. On the west end of the lead the
Whitlatch Park Mining Co., is pushing for-
ward its work with great vigor and is sink-
ing four shafts at a rapid rate, all of which
give evidence of the permanency and rich-
ness of the mine. One of the shafts in par-
ticular, that located between claims Nos. 4
and 5 west, has attained a depth of 60 feet
and exhibits the most flatteriug results that
have ever been secured in any section of
the couutry. Excellent pay rock four feat
in width there greets the miner.

The Union mine of J. C. Bicker is turn-
ing out some tine ore. There are already
1,U00 tons of excellent ore ready to be
crushed, and not less than 10,000 tons of
equally good quartz in sight, in his im-
mense shafts, tunnels and inclines. And
this large body of lock, sufficient in itself
for a year's supply to his mill, is being con-
stantly increased.

For a week past the I.X.L. mill has been
engaged in crushing rock for Mr. Whit-
latch, taken from the discovery claim on
the Park. Although this rock was unse-
lected, 130 tons of it yielded $37.30 per ton.

The Sterling correspondent writes: Capt.
Maltby, who has been running upon the
li3d Bluff rock during the past summer

with most rlatterin ^results, has stopped
his mill to clean up and renovate some of
the machinery, but after a delay of a fen-
days he will begin to crush quartz from
other lodes. The Hobart mill, of small ra-
pacity, is working away in Lower Hot
Spring district with a most favorable show
of success.

The incline on the Gonu Extension of the
Union lode is now over 20 ft. down, and
the vein is still widening. The discovery
shaft is 125 ft. east, by linear measurement,
of the eastern limit of the Union, and di-
rectly on line with the improvements of the
Bicker I.X.L. , Whitlatch Union, and Na-
tional Mining and Exploring Co. Solid
granite walls enclose the vein, from the top
down. Many of the specimens exhibit free
gold, and tho rock generally prospects
splendidly.

From Highland we learn that Prof. Swal-
low's mill is now engaged in crushing rock
from the Forest Queen lode. The mill has
not ceased running since it first started.

NEW MEXICO.

A correspondent writes from Elizabeth-
town to the Colorado Chieftain of Dec. 25th,
concerning the Moreno mines as follows:
All work upon claims, except the develop-
ment of quartz leads has ceased. Since the
cessation of gulch mining, many rich quartz
leads have been discovered, promising in
their appearance, and abundantly supplied
with wide crevices of the richest quartz.
Prominent among these may be mentioned
the Pacific, Great Eastern, Great Western,
Grey Eagle, Empire and Eureka. There
seems to prevail but one opinion in regard
to the future of this mineral region. That
the gold is to be found in quantities that
will pay, has long since ceased to be a ques-
tion of doubt, for the yield during the past
season, even with the limited facilities for
successfully working the mines, will com-
pare favorably with any hitherto discovered
gold country. Companies have been or-
ganized to commence spring operations on
an extensive scale. Several new stamp
mill have been ordered. Two mills are al-
ready in successful operation, one belong-
ing to Maxwell's company, on Ute Creek,
the other to Bartholomew & Lowthan, near
the mouth of Humbug Gulch. The latter
mill has not yet made a sufficient run to
fairly test the quartz it has been crush-
ing. The mill on Ute Creek is still in
full blast and is daily turning out
a large amount of bullion. In a little
less than two days' running, 26 ozs. were
cleaned up. This is about the average yield
and the mine from which the quartz is
taken is apparently inexhanstible.

The Moreno ditch will be completed early
in the spring, in readiness to supply all the
water necessary for gulch mining.
NEVADA.

IHJMBOI.DT.

Unionville Register, Jan. 9th: The Silver
Mining Co. shipped this week 1,421 ozs. of
bullion, and Fall & Co. shipped 6,612 ozs.
of fine bullion.

Jan. 16 th : Smart & Morrison are work-
ing the Syracuse mine, in Panther Canon,
on the west side of the Humboldt range.
Their prospects are of the most flattering
character.

At a late meeting of the De Soto Co., it
was resolved to take measures to resume
operations on the mine in the spring. Prep-
arations will be made for either the erec-
tion of a new mill or the purchase and re-
pairing of the old Sheba mill.

The Winnemucea correspondent writes :
John O. Twiss and Frank Shaw have bought
the Weymouth Go's location on the Pride
of the Mountain, and will commence work
immediately.

Buck & Kunkel, on Monday last, sent be-
low 15 tons of assorted ore from the Pride
of the Mountain, labelled "Swansea."

re F.KSE RIVKK.

Austin Reveille, Jan. 19th : It is reported
in this city that a fine body of rich ore has
been uncovered in the vein of the Great
Eastern mine, in the TVin river district.

The stage which arrived last evening
from Belmont brought to this city six bars
of bullion from the mill of the Belmont
Co. — the product of ore from W. F. Leon
& Co's El Dorado South.

We learn that a fine quality of ore has
beeu found in the 300-foot level of the
South American mine, about 30 feet to the
westward. The vein is large at the point,
but the stratum of richest ore is from ten
to twelve inches thick.

Jan. 21st : We learned yesterday from
Col. Wheeler, who returned from the Grant
district a few days ago, that nearly all the
ore there exhibits a fair proportion of gold;
and in the case of the Poorman vein the
assays of the ore gave nearly one-fourth
gold.

White Pine News, Jan. 16th : The prin-
cipal mines being unable to get their ore
crushed, have gone to work sinking their

shafts deeper in search of new deposits of
ore beneath the first. It is the genera) im-
pression that a succession of ore deposits or
veins separated by intervening strata of
limestone will bo found in sinking shafts.
So far as the developments have yet been
carried in that direction they tend to con-
firm this theory. Many new shafts have
been started lately for the purpose of strik-
ing this second vein, upper one being pre-
viously claimed and worked by others, and
new locations are made daily for that pur-
pose. The shafts are multiplying so rap-
idly in some parts of the flat as to leave
scarcely room to dump the dirt taken from
them.

The Belmont shaft, near the Applegarth
cabin, and Emmet mine on Chloride Flat,
struck a good quality of ore on Tuesday
last, at a depth of about 25 feet. Another
strike was made the day following on the
flat next north of Chloride Flat.

W »SIIOE.

[In the Stock Circular, in another portion
of this paper, will be found late mining
news from this district.]

Virginia Enterprise, Jan. 20th : Wells,
Fargo & Co. shipped from their office in
this city during the year 1868, 3,912 bars
of bullion, valued at $6,560,492.28.

The Twin Mining Co. at Silver City, are
still working their claim with good results.
They have lately sunk an incline in their
lower level to a depth of 200 feet lower than
they have ever gone before, and have found
the most flattering indications of perma-
nency. They will now be able to take out
large quantities of excellent milling ore.

The South Yellow Jacket works, which
were stopped last week to make certain re-
quisite repairs to the brakes and other ma-
chinery, have started up again, and every-
thins is running at full rate. One hundred
and forty tons of ore were raised day be-
fore yesterday from the 900-foot level.

Jan. 21st: The total receipts of the
Crown Point Mining Co. for the month of
December were $38,573, and the disburse-
ments $33,775. About 1,200 tons of ore
were crushed, yielding $30.15 per ton.

The receipts from the Kentuck Mining
Co., thus far on January account, aggre-
gate $26,304.

During the week ending last Friday, 600
tons of ore were raised from the Ohollar
Potosi mine, averaging $41.53 per ton.

Jan. 22d : The new Ophir shaft is now
down to a depth of 680 feet.

Jan. 23d : The Savage Co. shipped day
before yesterday, by Wells, Fargo & Co. ,
22 bars of bullion weighing 1,414 pounds,

and valued at $36,881.48 On the 16th

inst., the Crown Point Co. shipped $9,429.
15. This mine shipped on the 17th inst.,

$5,497 The total shipment of bullion

from this eity during the past week was
4,832 pounds, worth $134,890.28.

Jan. 24th : The Hale & Noreross Co. now
have a body of fine ore, some six feet in
width, in their north drift. It assays from
$40 to $50 per ton.

BRITISH COLUMBIA.

Opening op New Coal Mines on Van-
couver Island.— A dispatch dated Vic-
toria, Jan. 21st, says the Wallace coal
mines, at Soaquish, near the northern ex-
tremity of the island, are being rapidly
opened. A tunnel has been driven into
the side, and the coal is said to be equal to
any yet discovered on the island.

Acoustic Oddity in a Water Fall. —
A curious, though not uncommon phenom-
enon occurred at the Benton dam on the
18th inst. The water in the river, which
had been raised a little by the rain of the
day before, was running over the dam in
an almost unbroken sheet of three to six
inches in depth. One portion of this sheet
— perhaps twenty feet broad — acquired in
falling a tremulous or wavy motion, prob-
ably from the action of the air between it
and the face of the dam. This vibratory
motion produced a heavy, thunderous
and oppressive sound like the low, deep
notes of a large organ, or the roaring of
the fan of a reverberatory furnace, which
was almost deafening at a certain distance
and position from the fall, although the
quantity of water was comparatively insig-
nificant. Close observation showed that
the falling sheet of water was wrinkled or
corrugated" horizontally, like an old-fash-
ioned washboard, at intervals of six to
eight inches between each wave or wrinkle.
On a rough estimate, about thirty-five of
these little waves fell per second. The
noise could be interrupted for a moment by
throwing a stone into the water at the crest
of the dam, thus breaking up the wavy mo-
tion— but would immediately recommence.
Mariposa Gazette.

De. John A. Veatch, the well known
chemist and geologist, of this Sta'e, has
been elected Professor of Chemistry in the
Willamette University.

Enterprises and Developments.

The Vallejo Building Association will
build forty teuement-houses at South Val-
lejo.

Elko already boasts a population of 250.
Freight to White Pine is eight cents per
pound.

Fifty-seven new vessels have been built
in California during the past year, chiefly
in San Francisco Bay.

It is said that 50,000 acres will be pnt in
wheat this season between the San Joaquin
River and the Coast range.

There are over 800 laborers employed at
Mare island. The amount of money dis-
bursed on account of last months' service,
was about $92,000.

A deed has been signed transferring over
to Mr. Henry Meiggs the contract entered
into with Mr. Arman, for the working of
the Mejillones guano beds, on the western
coast of South America.

A company has been formed to throw a
dam across the outlet of a considerable val-
ley eastward from Los Angeles, to make a
reservoir which will supply a large body of
water for irrigation.

A company is being formed at Vallejo to
build a street railroad, from the north side
of Georgia street, through Santa Clara,
Virginia, Sonoma, Pennsylvania, Mary-
land, Sixth and Lemon streets, down to the
railroad wharves, connecting the old and
new towns.

Placerville now looks forward to anew
era, in which horticulture shall be the chief
basis of itsprosperity. With cheap freights,
cheap water, and a favorable climate, a rich
soil, and a large population in the adjacent
valleys, it may become thecenterof a better
business than it ever had.

Coover and Franklin are about to set
out 10,000 mulberry trees, in Los Angeles
County. Mr. Prevost, the pioneer in the
silk business, intends to make a plantation
at San Gabriel. D. F. Hall, of San Gabriel,
proposes laying out a silk town on the San
Jose ranch, the land lying on both sides ct
the San Bernardino and Los Angeles road,
about thirty-two miles east of Los Angeles.

The Mexican cedar and mahogany rate
nearly as high for shipbuilding as the sal
and teak wood of the East Indies. The live
oak of Florida has long been famous, but
it is surpassed in the quality and durability
by the mahogany of Mexico. Some Span-
ish ships which were constructed of this
material, were found to be as sound at the
end of eighty years as when they were
launched.

The Prospects eor Additional Woolen
Mills. — To show how little, compartively,
is yet beinir done in woolen manufacture on
the coast, it is only necessay to state that
the five mills in Oregon and the six in Cal-
ifoania are now running, all told, fifty-five
sets of machinery (or about 22,000 spin-
dles), while the Washington mills alone
(one of the large corporations at Lawrence,
Mass.) have in operation ninety-six sets ot
woolen machinery, and half as many more
of cotton. Were the number of mills (or
sets of machinery) doubled in California
and Oregon within the next year, they
would not consume the annual clip of wool.
Folsom, with its water-power is suggested
as an admirable place for the location of
woolen mills and other manufacturing es-
tablishments.

Agricultural Manufactures arealready
quite extensive at Pacheeo, Contra Costa
County. The gang plows manufactured by
Dalton, Whitmore & Gavin, and Betts, all
of different construction and methods of
coupling, and raising, are sold for $95 and
$100, and about fifty of them have been
made this season at the three shops. The
three, four, and six-horse cultivators, chisel
and scoop points, have, within the past
year or two, become one of the great farm-
ing reliances, and are made at prices rang-
ing from $37 to $80, and more than 100 of
them having been made and sold this sea-
son, most of them by Dalton. The single
cast steel plows made here are sold at an
average price of $20, and about 60 have
been made and sold. The large harrows,
of which about 50 have been made and sold,
range in price from $35 to $50. Shops at
Walnut Creek, Danville, Antioch, Martinez,
and other points in the county, have been
full of like orders.

An Eyelet manufactory in Providence, R.
I., is now turning out eyelets at the rate of
500,000 a day, and the export for a year has
amounted to $3,000,000 worth. In 1867 we
imported very nearly as many. This is an
industry that has germinated and fruited
since the war. Its success is doubtless at-
tributable to some peculiar excellence of
machinery.

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Resident -U'i'nis..

Oakland.— W. b. Hardy

A. S Hopkins, No. 70.1 street, Sacramento.

White Pine District.— Alexander Bruckinan, Hamilton,
Nevada.

Helena, Montana.— R. F. May.

Black Hawk, C. T.— Harper M. Orabood.

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Citv Book Store, Main street, will act as our agents.

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San Francisco:

Saturday Morning, Jan. 30, 1869.

Notices to Correspondents.

Soapstone, Shaw's Flat, Tuolumne County.
The value of soaptone depends upon its
quality and adaptation for the particular
purposes, which would create for it a de-
mand, and fix the price corresponding
thereto. Soapstone is not by any means
a rare mineral; it occurs in many differ-
ent varieties, and is a hydrated silicate of
magnesia and alumina. It is the softest
of minerals, being hardness 1 of the min-
eralogical scale. Its uses are to carve
out utensils of all kinds, especially such
as are to resist heat, as gas burners, cook-
ery utensils, furnace material, etc; it is
also used for polishing, as a foundation
for mixing colors, as tailors' chalk for
drawing lines on cloth, etc. The Chi-
nese Figure stone, agalmatolith, isminer-
allogically allied to soapstone, but is
hardness 3, — equal to limestone. At
present, soapstone has no market value
in San Francisco. It has been offered to
stove dealers for stove and furnace lin-
ings, but does not appear to be sought
after for that purpose. It is one of those
articles for which a demand may be cre-
ated by manufacturing it into useful
utensils or marketable products, or by
finding out some special purpose to which
it may be adapted.

Miner, Cherokee, Butte County. — To free
quicksilver from lead, zinc, or tin, acids
may be used; or the quicksilver may be
retorted with a layer of charcoal powder
strewn over its surface in the retort, to
keep back the less volatile substances.
Salt is mixed by some with the charcoal
powder. By pouring a quantity of acetic
acid over quicksilver, the lead in the lat-
ter being attacked, will rise to the sur-
face in the form of a carbonate or white
lead, which can be skimmed off. Nitric
acid, diluted with double its quantity of
water, may be used very effectively, agi-
tation and a temperature of about 120°
Fab., hastening the process. The crust
in this case, contains mercury in the form
of nitrate of mercury, which is recovered
by digestion or boiling gently with nitric
acid; diluting the solution, filtering, and
then precipitating the mercury with me-
tallic copper.

Communications have been received from
W. H. M., embracing notes of the Santa
Cruz Tannery and Fuse Factory, Por-
ter's Tannery (atSoquel), the Santa Cruz
lime kilns, paper mill and powder works;
the Gilroy Tobacco Factory, etc., which
will appear in our next issue.

A. 1YL, Mendocino City — It is not easy to
recognize or to name the mineral from
your description. Send a specimen.

ConchoijOgy. — A collection of about a
million shells, embracing nearly all the
known species on this coast, and in the
Pacific Ocean, the collecting of which occu-
pied a period of thirty years, is for sale by
A. Frick, at No. 562 Bryant street. This
collection is valued at not far from $3,000.

Oar Mining Stock Experiences.

The principle of developing mines of es-
tablished wealth, or indeed of accomplish-
ing any other great work promising certain
rewards by combination, — in other words,
by means of joint stock companies, — is un-
doubtedly correct. All of the great tri-
umphs of man over matter, owe their exe-
cution to organization, effected either by a
personal or arbitrary power, or by a com-
bination of working powers having a com-
mon interest, and therefore selecting a
common head. It was the personal and ar-
bitrary kind that built the pyramids, but it
is the republican kind of organization and
combination that developed commerce, pop-
ulated the oceans with ships, and accom-
plished the great works and triumphs cf
modern times; and even monarchy is an
impossibility, and an absurdity unless it is
based on a virtual republic in the shape cf
an aristocracy.

Most of the profits that individuals are
to derive from mining as a permanent busi-
ness, will have to come through combina-
tion. Biver gold, and chloride silver de-
posits, are soon exhausted, needing no
especial combination of powers to unlock
great stores of wealth; though it is not to
be denied that even in their case colossal
combinations may operate to effect. But
the advantages are in favor of the lucky
and shrewd, rather than of tho powerful
and systematic.

The first Washoe silver excitements flow-
ered into an infinite multitude of theoret-
ical joint stock companies. But the theoret-
ical can be distinguished from the practical
even in stock matters. Tuthill's History
sums up the results, as they stood after the
summer of 1864, as follows :

" The brokers vacated their offices; a few
men went into insolvency. The masses
pocketed their losses, and said little about
them. They filed away their certificates of
stock, lately so carefully treasured, as curi-
ous, useless pictures, tokens of experience
gained, and pushed on with their legiti-
mate business. It is astonishing, con-
sidering the amount of money that changed
hands during the popular possession by
this mania, how few were seriously injured
by it. Wages were good, salaries high,
business brisk. They paid high for their
experience, and could afford it. The map
of the country was written over with the
localities of mineral deposits rich and abid-
ing, though it might not pay to work them
for some time to come. The prospectors
had made a geological reconnoisance in
force. As of "all such preliminary surveys,
the advantages were not immediately de-
veloped."

It is reported that stops are being taken
to organize a stock board at Treasure City,
which is to go into operation immediately
on the completion of the telegraph line to
that place, or about the middle of next
month. Stock boards are like the market
place or the plaza, centers of intelligence,
convenient for making trades, and nothing
more. But as fish will go after bait, it is
not improbable that a number of brokers'
offices will be doing an extensive business
in bnyiug and selling stock certificates
(great numbers of which are being printed
in this city) of unexplored mines at White
Pine.

As to the opened and partially de-
veloped chloride deposits, brokers and
others are afforded the finest opportunities
in the world for legitimate gambling. In
bona fide transactions it is a noteworthy fea-
tm*e of the White Pine mining develop-
ments that the greatest skill is exercised,
and the best judgment commanded, in cal-
culating the percentages of silver in the
chlorides, and of the admixture therewith
of earthy impurities; the parties concerned
bringing to bear all the available lights as
to the size and extent of the deposits in
question.

The Ninth Annual Beport of the Gould
& Curry mine has been received em-
bracing statements by the President, Al-
pheus Bull, aud by the Superintendent,
David Bowie, together with a diagram
of tho Bonner shaft, by J. E. James, C. E.

What the Standislf Steam Plow Has
Done.

This question is now asked with a good
deal of interest by farmers, and especially
by land-holders owning considerable tracts
of arable soil in the level valleys. That
the favorable reports with regard to the
work done by the plow, and the building
of a new plow of enlarged capacity, which
is just completed at the Union Foundry,
are justified by the successful manner,
economically, in which the machine has
encountered the test of practice, under in-
tentionally unfavorable circumstances, will
duly appear from the following particulars.
The Kiliehor ranch, of 800 acres, be-
tween Clayton and Pacheco, Contra Costa
County, is of a moderately rolling, grav-
elly character, and the ground is of that
hard, dry and tough character which is
peculiar to California; the exact consistency
of which will be best understood by farm-
ers from the fact that it required a team of
three horses to draw a single 12-inch plow
running four inches deep. The land was
plowed last two years ago. In this the
steam plow accomplished from two to three
acres an hour, — three acres when every-
thing was going all right, — plowing to a
depth of five inches, aud consuming from
eighty to one hundred pounds of Mount
Diablo coal to the acre; the plow pulveriz-
ing the ground thoroughly at the same
time, and therefore requiring no additional
harrowing. In good ground they accom-
plish easily from thirty to thirty-five acres
a day.

Two men — an engineer, and a steersman
who also raises and lowers the cutters — are
required, together with a water-hauler; the
total expense for which is less than $10 a
day. Coal landed at Martinez costs $7 a
ton.

The wear and tear consists in sharpening
the twenty-four cutters; once for every
twenty to thirty acres, at a cost of a bit
apiece, and in replacing them with a new
set of knives on an average once for every
1,003 to 1,500 acres plowed, at a cost of
seventy-five cents apiece, being of cast
s'eel, and containing about $18 worth of
B*eal. In the other parts of the machinery
there is no more wear and tear than there
would be in ordinary machinery; the mo-
tion over uneven ground being so steady as
not to do the least damage, and the engine
never getting out of order necessarily dur-
ing an entire season. The wear of the gear-
ing is prevented by meaus of a flexible
joint, which gives way when any hard sub-
stance is struck.

The cost per acre, from actual experi-
ence, was less than a dollar; the expense
for fuel, and for attendance (including
water hauling), being about the same, or
half a dollar per acre.

As an experiment, alternate widths of
fifty feet were plowed with the steam and
the ordinary plow, in order to observe the
different effect the two kinds of plowing
would have upon the crops; and it was ob-
served that owing to the very complete pul-
verization effected with the former, the
soil looked moister, in a spell of drying
weather which succeeded the plowing;
the consequence being that the steam plow's
crops grow faster. The owner of the land,
Mr. Kiliehor, paid $3 an acre (the ordinary
gang-plow price being $2.50), and was so
pleased with the work that propositions
were made for the purpose of retaining the
plow permanently on the place.

In traveling from Martinez to Pacheco —
a very hilly and rough road — the plow had
to ascend grades of one to six feet; and it
has gone through holes presenting one to
three feet. Good plowing has been done
on one to twelve feet, — though the plow is
intended for a level country.

For the gravelly soil at Kiliehor's, soft
iron knife arms were used, set like a coulter,
in such a manner as to twist on striking a
boulder, before breaking. Only a few of

these were twisted in the course of a day.

The new plow referred to at the Union
Foundry is for Mr. Miller, of this city,
and is much larger than the present plow,
having a working capacity of 100-horse
power. It is destined for heavy and con-
tinuous service on a large tract of level
valley land that will occupy it for the full
season.

When harvest time comes, these plows
are to be transformed into reapers and
threshers, using straw for fuel.

Working np our Cotton into Batting,
Wadding, etc.

The Mexican, Tahitian and Sandwich Isl-
and cotton, which comes here consigned to
Murphy, Grant & Co., Badger & Linden-
berger, and others, finds in California an
eager and ready market, through the agency
of new manufacturing enterprises/which
are as profitable to the competent mechan-
ics who are establishing them, as their
products are useful and beneficial to the
growing populations tributary to our man-
ufacturing centers. Folk & Co., on Bran-
nan street, take this cotton, and put it
through the usual cleaning and carding
processes, flatten it out into a light and
fleecy fabric, which is then usually rolled up
into bundles, like any other textile fabric,
and sold for batting and wadding, such as
tailorsanddresf-iiakersknow how to use to
great advantage in the interior parts of
clothing; but here only a part of the bat-
ting is so disposed of, the rest being at once
worked up, by a number of young ladies
with sewing machines, into an article which
will illustrate the advantage to all con-
cerned, of establishing local manufactures,
viz : quilts, or comforters for beds. Cali-
c»es are bought by the cas?, thojbatting iu
laid between them, and the several parts
are welded, in a few minutes, by (passing
them through the sewing machines, into a
fabric as warm as a blanket, and a great deal
cheaper, being sold for $20 a dozen. Folk
& Co. have ten wadding and batting ma-
chines, made at Paterson, New Jersey, six
of which are already running, and all the
other machinery necessary for carrying on
the business in all its branches; employing
at present seventeen persons, of whom five
are women, four men, and eight Chinamen.
Another department of tho establishment
is devoted to reducing old and worn-out
fabrics into their original fibrous state, by
the use of burlap machines. This is the
road that shoddy takes; but the product
here is sold to upholsterers and mattress
makers.

Mdrphy's Map op the White Pine
Mines. — This is the latest and best exe-
cuted of the maps of White Pine that has
yet appeared, the artist being Vitus Waok-
enreuder, whose name is a sufficient guar-
anty of the character of the work. Mr.
Murphy himself has the advantage of
being familiar with every inch of
ground represented; and the map, which
is 2%x3 feet in dimensions, contains more '
circumstantial looking topography, and more
mining locations than any of its predeces-
sors; including the locality of the new dis-
coveries to the south of Treasure Hill ;
Shermantown, and as far as the summit of
White Pine Mountain towards the west ;
Hamilton to the north; and the easterly side
of White Pine Valley to the east. From
the mining locations as represented, two
general directions may be deduced of tho
deposits of Treasure Hill : one of them iu
the line of Treasure Hill, or the Nevada
Mountains in general, varying from 15° to
20°, en masse, according to the locality;
the other northwesterly, about in the line
of the ridge running to the north and west
of Keystone City. Some of the locations
on Chloride and Pogonip flats, belonging
most nearly to the first named class, vary
so much toward the southwest a3 to look
like a spur, and to be entitled, perhaps, to
be designated as a third class.

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Mining and Chinese Labor.

a card from the Miners' Union of
Virginia City, published in the Territorial
(Saturday last, wo see tbntself-
protection in labor is tin plea urged bj the
miners against the admission of Chinese
labor into vein mines, where oapitul is
commanding the services of considerable
numbers ol white men. "We are deter-
mined," saj-s the card, "that side by side
with the Chinamen we will not work." Leg-
islative representatives at Carson are asked
to defeat the bill introduced for " An Act
for the protection of labor," which pro-
poses to punish assaults on Chinese fellow
laborers, the same having been called into
life by a recent lawless removal of thirty or
forty Chinese laborers from TJnionville,
Humboldt County, by an armed mob.
This, we are informed, is to bo the "begin-
ning of a conflict that will shako the State
to its center."

The truth is that the employment of Chi-
nese labor is one of tho marked features,
historically, of the development of this
coast By its aid we are passing, at one
stride, from au undeveloped state into a
permanent producing and manufacturing
community blessed with all the advantages
and comforts of centuries of civilization.
If it is by any design of the author of man-
kind that gold and silver have attracted
hither, by a sudden impulse following.their
discovery in our ripe age, the Caucassian
races that came wandering westward by the
Black Sea, then it seems no less strikingly
a work of design, rather than of chance,
that this Chinese labor has been given into
our hands, to command and to direct, for
the accomplishment of all the great works
that we lind we have on our hands to do.
If our new commonwealth on the Pacific
is destined to play the picturesque part in
history that our first twenty years would
forecast, not a little of it will be due to the
use and the results of Chinese labor; as in
the construction of the Pacific Railroad, of
the Darion Canal, and of the great network
of railroads in China, with its consequences;
which are all immediately before us, and so
near to us that we can say they belong to
the present, rather than t> the futuie.

Let the miners of Virginia City remem-
ber that there are Californians claiming the
right, and suffered to exercise the privi-
lege, of mining in China, as well as there
are Chinese mining in California and her
tributary States; that the rule would have
to work both ways; and that it has been
customary amongst civilized nations to con-
demn the Chinese policy of exclusiveness,
until China herself has recently thrown
open her promising fields to foreign enter-
prise, which is now trying to adapt itself to
her conditions. The miners are certainly
not afraid of the Chinamen on account of
either the physical, or the mental superior-
ity of the latter; so that there is no reason
in the world why a Chinamen should not
be allowed to have a "fair skoiv," in the
doing of work for which he is best fitted,
especially when it is only an equally fair
and liberal dealing towards Americans, on
the part of the Chinese government, that
will open to us at the same time an oppor-
tunity of doing work for which we are es-
pecially adapted, and give us the perma-
nent moral ascendency over 388,000,000 of
people.

Yjcisginia City and Tbuckee Bailhoad.
Two railroad bills are pending before the
Nevada Legislature, forfinal action, the one
authorizing Ornisby County to give the
Virginia and Truckee Railroad Company
8200,000 fifteen-year gold bonds, bearing
s;ven per cent, interest, payable by the
County Treasurer semi-annually, and the
other empowering Storey County to give
$300,000 of like bonds to the same com-
pany; both of which it is expected will be
pissed, and that the railroad will speedily
b3come a fact. An order has been sent
East for the iron rails.

Quail Hill.

More- favorable results are reported, at
length, from tho pyritiferous taleoso slates
at ijuail Hill, Calaveras County, in which
Professor Silliman has been interested. The
existence of gold ores disseminated some-
what in the nature of hhlbands, through
our Jurassic slates where the auriferous
quartz veins occur, was not only a fact of
great scientific interest, bearing directly
upon the origin and nature of our gold de-
posits, but of some consequence to those
who simply know, or cared to know, that
streaks in the talcose slates in question as-
sayed from 810 to S30. "But the metallur-
gical difficulties which were encountered,
have kept tho Quail Hill mines under a
cloud. Though the ores were limitless as to
quantity — a deposit reported to bo fifty
yards wide at the surface — and so soft that
ono stamp could crush four tons of it per
day, the actual yield from the milling
proved only $3 a ton on au average] during
ten months trial, and the expenditure, on
the other hand, was §200,000. The nature
of this metallurgical difficulty, which is
now said to have been overcome, can only
be inferred from the facts. Amalgamation
during these ten months was done in the
battery and in copper plates, probably in
about tho usual manner. The minerals
were graysulphuret of copper, or "fahlerz,''
an antimonial sulphuret of silver, iron py-
rites, copper pyrites, galena, and sulphu-
ret of antimony. As these, especially the
fahlerz, have been quite]successfully treated
from time immemorial in Chili, it would
seem that the difficulty was not a necessary
one, unless it were caused by the nature of
the gangue. Under the new regime the
crushed ore was ground for two hours and
a half in a Wheeler pan, with some chem-
icals described as " alkalies;" the mullers
were then raised, quicksilver was put in,
and the mullers made to revolve for two
hours more, the pulp being thick, and kept
at boiling heat by steam. The quicksilver
is Baid to be rendered remarkably " clean
and lively" by the chemicals, and the
chemical action, whatever its nature, is
such that but little of the base metal is
taken up, the bars ranging from .900 to
.973 fine in gold and silver — from .500 to
.800 silver, and .030 to .250 gold; the bulk
being silver, as is further illustrated by the
following table of working results, from
different streaks of from six to ten feet in
width, as given in tho Alia of Jan. 22J :

Silver. Gold. J'otmds

Fineness. Fineness. Worked.

Purple Streak 3S7 Cfil 1,242

Kick Streak GS8

Silver Streak 2S1

Lead, No. 1 285

Lcnu,Nu.2 782

Tailings 731

The yield of 400 tons worked during the
last four months averaged §35 from the
mine, and from §10 to §23 per ton for tail-
ings. The large proportion of silver en-
titles it to rank as a silver mine.

308

2,151

188

1,855

312

■158

417

725

The Earthquake Committee and Earth-
quake-proof Buildings. — The Sub-Com-
mittee on Structural Designs, from the
Joint Committee on Earthquake Topics,
have reported on the plans submitted to
them. All the information that builders
may desire, which is in the hands of the
Secretaries, embracing plans and specifica-
tions of about all the different methods
that have been proposed, are at the service
of the public, though not yet in published
form. Notwithstanding the fact that pre-
ference may be given by the committee to
some one plan, it is Btill the privilege of
builders to prefer any other amongst the
multitude that have been offered. We
trust that a liberal compilation will be
made of all the facts and phenomena that
can be of interest to Californians touching
the nature and causes of earthquakes, and
that the committee will not stint the publi-
cation of the same, with all the necessary
diagrams.

Continental Life Insurance Company,
203 Montgomery street, corner of Pine.

Polytechnic Evening School.

Mr. Frederic nellert, a graduato of ono
of the Prussian Polytechnic institutions, as
well as of the moro practical grade of (few-
erha, or mechanics schools, has fitted up a
very large and well suited room in tho Min-
ing and Scientific Press building, for the
purpose of giving personal and verbal in-
struction, by lecture and by practical illus-
tration, in all of the branches connected
with tho mechanic arts and trades in tho
learning of which more than shop experi-
ence, and shop instruction, are requisite.
This is certainly a most useful institution
for San Francisco, and is deserving of the
best encouragement that can be given to it
especially from master mechanics, and from
public spirited citizens who sufficiently un-
derstand the subject to appreciate the pur-
pose and value of such practical instruc-
tion. The field of instruction embraces
nearly everything that mechanics who wish
to advance, will find it to their advantage to
acquire; but especially mechanical drawing,
architecture, construction, the indispensa-
ble principles of geometry, strength of ma-
terials, machine buildiug, applied mechan-
ics, physics, technological chemistry, etc.
Mr. Hellert appears to be very competent;
and the oral and personal method of in-
struction adopted is the sure method by
which a large area of neglected ground can
be got over in a very short time, while the
routine course at the colleges usually re-
quires years. The subject being named in
which the student desires to become more
thorough, Mr. Hellert defines the nature
and relations of the ground to be gone over,
furnishes him the names of the best text
books, and puts him practically in the short-
est road; accompanying him to his goal,
and never failing to direct him also to the
working world for practical examples.
When such opportunities are offered in our
midst, no working or thinking mechanic in
San Francisco has the right to bemoan his
accidental want of a thorough education,
for here we have the elements of the best
that is to be had in the world. Those -who
wish to rise in their particular trade by le-
gitimate means, have the road opened to
them by which they may attain to a proper
degree of competency. The principles of
all the sciences, which have been brought
into existence by the necessary arts, are
very few, and very simple, when given in
substance, orally and by illustration, by a
clear-minded and competent instructor.

Mr. Hellert's school is open evenings
only, and we understand he has quite a
number of apprentices now making com-
mendable progress in drawing. Classes in
algebra and geometry are to be commenced
on the 15th of February, to meet twice a
week.

Mr. Nye has introduced a bill in Con-
gress to encourage and aid the construction
of a telegraphic cable between California
and China, via Alaska.

Our Office.

Tho offieo of the Mining and Scientific
Prkss is located in tho second story at No. 414
Clay street, north side, just below Sansomc. Here
wo have spacious accommodations, wi:h our potent
rooms, editorial room, counting room, newspaper
and job printing offices,— all conveniently ar-
ranged and connected, and our facilities for dis-
patching business correctly and economically,
better than over before. Don't forget the number
— 114 Clay street, below Sansomo.

DEWEY & CO.

No Branch Office.

Our friends and patrons will bear in mind that
we have no branch office in San Francisco, our
U. S. and Foreign Patent Agency rooms being
suitably arranged with our Mining and Scien-
tific Press printing office, at No. 414 Clay
street. We have no partners in business except
the undersigned. DEWEY & CO.

A. T. DEWEY.

W. B. EWER.

Keturnkb.— Dr J. H, Paine. Dentist, Wftdsworth House,
No. 225 Bush street, between the Occidental and Cosmopoli-
tan Hotels, San Francisco. 21vl7-4m

O. M. Taylor, who acted as agent a brief time for tills
paper in Washoe, is requested to cull at or address thisoillcc,
without foil.

A Short Engagkmkst.— Tho person who vlsit»d Yuba.
Sierra, and Plumaseounlies, lust fall, as agent and corres-
pondent of the Prkss, only continued a short lime In that
capacity.

Savk Yotm Tkkth.— Drs. Jessup & Beers, over Tucker'a
;ewelry store, are now makinc a specialty of twins,' tho
fangs of dead Teeth, and building up broken crowns with
purtoold— thus restoring them to their original usefulness
and beauty. They are also using Nitrous Oxide for the
painless extraction of Teeth, when so desired— the only ab-
solutely safe anajsthcllc ever discovered. In breathing it,
it acts as a gentle stimulant, without undue excitement,—
the sensation produced being truly delightful, the effect
upon the lungs healthful, and in its results positively free
from all danger. Prepared and administered dally at the
Dental Rooms ot Messrs. JESSUP & BEERS, corner Mont-
gomery and Sutter streets. San Francisco. lGvllhf

Montana Resources and Develop-
ments.— Our correspondent from Helena,
whose facilo communication, signed "Ev-
erywhere," was observed iu our last issue,
will be heard from regularly, so that the
readers of the Press may keep well in-
formed of the resources and developments
of that border land, which proposes to play
its part with the entire family of the
Pacific mining States, in the grander times
which are ahead. The writer is a mineral-
ogist himself, in editorial harness, and
within fair view of his entire field. He
will at the same time act as our agent and
business representative in Montana.

FAisr lui.i.r.a.

An article of great merit and virtue.— Cinn. Nonpareil.

We can hear testimony to the efQcacy or the Pain Killer.
We have scon Its magic eff'cts in soothing tile severest
pain, and know It to be a good article— Cinncinnati Piepaleh.

A speedv cure for pain— no family should be without it.—
Montreal Transcript. —

Nothing has yet surpassed the Pain Killer, which Is Hie
most valuable family medicine now in use.— Tain. Or/fan.

It has real merit; as a means of removing pain, no medi-
cine has acquired a reputation equal to Perry Davis' Pain
Killer.— Newport (A'y.) Daily Jfeica.

It Is really a valuable medicine — it is used by manv phv-
siclans — Beaton Traveller. 26vl7-lm

Rolling Mill Company,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAX.
Established for the Manufacture of

RAILROAD AND OTHER IRON

— AND —

Every "Variety of* Sliaftiiic,

Embracing ALL SIZES of

Sti'.'ini'»oa( ShitftH, Crank*, Pl«toa iiml Con -

nectlnir Jtods, Car and K.ncoraotlve Ax1<;*

and Framei

— also —

HAJVTlVrErtlHD IRON

Of every description and size.

051- Orders addressed to PACIFIC: ROLLING MILL
COMPANY Post Office, San Francisco, Cat., will receive
prompt attention.

B3F- Tbc highest price paid for Scrap Tron. flvl ISmi"

Important Pbojects before Congress.
Among the large jobs before Congress are
the numerous Pacific Bailroads, the Sutro
Tunnel, the Osage Land Treaty, the Sand-
wich Island Commercial Treaty, Indian
claims, land grants, State Department pur-
chases, the Niagara ship canal, the Darien
Canal, river and harbor improvements, the
Yosemite Yalley claim, the New Idria
quicksilver claim, Tehuantepec and Alfca
Vela, admission of Colorado as a State, etc.

Crucibles.

The Patent Plumbagi Crucible Co.,

Manufacturers of all kinds of

Melting Pots, Portable Furnaces,

CRUCIBLES, and other fire-standing Goods,
Butt erst en Works, I.oihIimi.
THE MORGAN PATENT CRITCIRLES have uniform
quality, never crack, withstand the greatest heat without
danger; heats more rapidly than any other; change of tem-
perature lias no effect on ihcm; stand on the average forty
to fifty pourings.
On hand and for sale by the Agents,

A, S. *I AI^T-IIHE A CO.,
Ivl8-3mnp 51S> Front street, San Francisco.

PATENT ISIGtUT

— FOIt —

MANUFACTURING PROOF SPIRITS

FOR- ©AJLVE.

Attention Is called to MARTIN'S NEW PATENT for a
process for Distilling Alcohol (85 per cent, or higher), with-
out reclifyine, which Is offered for sal? on favorable terms.
Samples may be seen, and further information obtained, at
No. 433 Washington street.

26vl7 E. TiT. DEWEY.

Quartz Mill Amalgamating

Plates, Electro-Plated with Fine Silver: also instruc-
tions tn C..I.1 and .Silver Plating, on hard and soft met-
als, EUREKA PLVTIVC WORKS. Tcrm-i trodentr.
126 Kearny street, between Pjst and Sutter ats. 4vlS3lh

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Machinists and Foundries.

PALMER, KNOX & CO.,

Golden State Iron Works,

Norn. 1», SI, 3» and SS First Street.

SAN FRANCISCO.

MANUFACTURE ALL KINDS OF

MACHINERY,

STFaAM EXttlXES AM) QUARTZ MIV.XJS

DUNBAR'S IMPROVED

Requires no springs or screws; is always steam tight ;

without excessive friction, and never

gets slack or leaky.

WHEELER & RANDALL'S

KEW OBIXDKR AM> AMALG.UIATOlt

HEPBURN & PETERSON'S

AMALGAMATOR AM) SEPAKATOR,

Iil uox'* A ni alffa m ; i ( o 1* s ,

WITH PALMER'S PATENT STEAM CHEST,

Superior lor working either GOLD OR SILVER ORES, and
b the only Amalgamator that has stood tho test of seven
years' continual working.
Ueuuiuu White Iron Stump Shoes and Dies

Having been engaged for the past ten years in quartz
mining, and being conversant with all the improvements,
either m Mining or Milling, we are prepared to furnish, at
ihe shortest notice, the most perfect machinery for rcduc
ng ores, or saving either gold or silver. lSvlUqy-tf

IRA F. RANKIN.

A. F. BRAYTOS.

A. C. AUSTIN.

Pacific Iron Works.

First and Fremont Streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Having been established since ISM, we have accumulated
a very large variety of Gear and other Patterns, which,
with our superior tools and appliances, give Ua facilities lor
doiug nrst class work uneiiuuied ou the Pacitic Coast.

Among other things, we manufacture the following :

STEA3I aSiNGHiVidaS,

Horizontal and Vertical, for either Stationary or Marino

use.

BOILERS— High and Low Pressure,

Pump, Pipe and Sheet Iron Work of every kind.
Quarlz 3X111 "Work,

Including High and Low Mortars, for wet or dry crushing-

Furnace Irons lor Roasting Ores; Freiberg barrels;

Vurney's and Wheeler's Amalgamating Paus

and settlers; Stamp Shoes and Dies of

best White Iron; Russia Iron

Screens, etc., etc.

Flour Mill, Saw Mill and Sugar Mill Work in every variety;

Pumping and Hoisting Machinery; Hansbrow'fl

Patent Challenge Pump, for Domestic,

Ship and Mining use— the most

approved and successful

Pump manufactured.

Costings «f evei'y description, Iron aud Brass.

ffc would cail especial attention to "Wright's Patent Va-
riable Gut-ulT Engines," of which we are the sole manufac-
turers on the L'uciuc Coast, under license from the Wood-
ruff ■£ Beach Co., Hartlord, Ct. As a simple, eitective, fuhl
saving, rtrst-class Engine, this Is, without doubt, the best
Engine made in the United States.

Orders promptly attended to. Prices as low as possible
for nrst class work, and we intend 10 do no other.

«4I Jl DA Rl> A CO.

San Francisco, May 1, 1S6S. IBvltJif

WILLAMETTE IROM WORKS,

l'OKTLAM), OKIiGOX.

Steam Engines, Hollers,
SAW AND GRIST MILLS,

MINING MACHINERY, WROUGHT IRON SHUTTER
WORK, AND BLACKSMITHING IN GENERAL.
Corner North-Front and £ streets,

lSvl3-ly One block-north of Couch's Wharf.

Globe Iron Works,

8TOCKTOX, CAL.

KEEP & BARG-ION,

MANCF.ICTUKERS OF

((uartz, Saw and Grist Mill Irons, Stettin.

£ugincs, Horse Powers,

High and Low Pressure Steam Engines, Steamboats and

Propellers, made at short notice.

Uvl3tf

J. HEWSHAM.

J. B1GW00D.

SOUTH BEACH IRON WORKS,

Near corner ol King and Third streets, San Francisco.
MARIA' £ EXGiaiES,

AND ALL KINDS OF

MACHINERY FORGING.

All kinds of Ship-smithing and Mill work manufactured to
order. Jobbing ol every description promptly attended to.
All work done Kuarauteed. I3vl4-iy

CALIFORNIA BRASS FOUNDRY.

No. I'i'i First street, opposite Minna,

SAN FRANCISCO.

All kinds of Brass, Composition, Zinc, and Babbitt Metal
Castings, Brass jsliii> Work of all kinds, Spikes, Sheathing
Kails. Rudder Braces, Hinges, ship and steamboat Bellsauit
Gongs oi superior tone. All kinds of Cocks and Valves, Hy-
draulic Pipes and No/.zles, and Hose Couplings and Connec-
tions of all sizes and patterns, furnished with dispatch.

$3- PIECES MODERATE. «©»

J. P. GALLAGHER. J. H. WEED V. KING WELL.

9vI3-ly

Miners' Foundry

—AND —

MACHINE WORKS
3STos. 245 to 255 Fzrst Stkeet,

San Fruncisoo.

HOWLAND, ANG-ELL & CO.,

riiltl'KlETOKS,

Manufacturers of lHachinery for

QTTAKTZ M11.I.S.
SAW HILLS,
POWDER MILLS,

Steam Engines of all Kinds,
Amalgamators of all Kinds.

FLOUR MILLS,
SltAE MILLS,
PAPEB MILLS

MIXIXG PITMPS,
OIL WELL TOOLS,

HOISTISG WORKS
ROCK BREAKERS,

— AXD —

Machinery and Castings of all kinds, either
of Iron or Brass.

Boilers and Sheet Iron Work in all its
Branches.

Shoes und Die. of While Iron, manufactured
for and imported by u. exprcslv tor this pur-
pose, und will Inst ~~> per cent, longer thuu any
other made on this coust.

Russia Iron Screens, of any degree oi'flncncss,
We are the only inunufnclureis on this coust ol
the

HICKS ENGINE,
The most compact, simple In construction, und

durable, ol* uny Engine In use.
W. H. UOULAMI, M. R. AX-SELL,

HvUqr CXRIIS PALMER.

FUJL.TOJS

Foundry aud Iron Works.

HINCKLEY fe CO.,

MANUFACTORE-KS Of

STSAH ENGINES,
Quartz, Flour and Saw Mills,

Mayes* Improved Steam Pump, Brodle's Im-
proved Crusher, Mlnlntr Pumps,
Amalgumalnr*, nnd all kinds
»i Machinery.

N. E. corner of Tehama and Fremont streets, above How
ard street, San Francisco. 3-qy

McAFEE, SPIERS & CO.,
UOILER. MAKERS

AND GENERAL MACHINISTS,

Howard Jt, between Fremont and Beale, San Francisco.

Flue or Tubular Boilers, with plain circular or spiral
courses. Upright Flue or Tubular Boilers. Locomotive and
and Marine Boilers, and Wrought Iron Tanks of every de-
scription.

Hydraulic Pipe supplied at reitsonnble rates. Inor
derlnc, give the quantity of water to be supp'ied, night of
the fall, and total length of pipe, so as to enable the tlrin to
determine the diameter of the pipe and thickness of iron to
be used.

Repair*.— Boilers, Smoke Stacks, Pipes, etc., put in re-
pair with promptness.

To Boiler Milkers and Machinists In the In.
terlor.— The firm is prepared to furnish estimates of
Boilers.su ply new Heads, drilled and punched, and attend
to the selection and furwardiug ol Iron fur Boilers, Pipes
and other purposes.

Plans, Drawings nnd Specifications.— The firm
:s prepared 10 make oui Plans and Specifications, icceive
estimates, and .superintend the Erection of an}* Machinery
that inuy be entrusted to their care

To Inventors.— The firm is prepared to assist in de-
veloping the plans of those who have the ideas but not the
practical experience neees.*arv to put the same in form, by
mukliig Drawings of their Inventions, giving them the ben-
efit of their practical knowledge in the construction of .Ma-
chinery, and attending to the manufacture and introduc-
tion of their inventions. lvlBtf

UNION IRON WORKS,
Sacramento.

WILLIAMS, ROOT & NEILSON,

• MANUFACXURKRS OF

CROSS' PATENT BOILER FEEDER,

^TI3A.I\£ ENGINES, BOII^ETtS,

And all kinds ol* Mining Machinery.

Also, Hay and Wine Presses made and repaired
with neatness, durability and dispatch.

Dunbar's Patent Self-Ad.lns.tlns Steam Piston

Front Street, between X nnd O streets,

14vll Sacramento City

THOMPSON BROTHERS,
EUREKA FOUNDRY,

129 and 131 Beale street, between Mission and Howard,

San Francisco.

LIGHT AM) HEATT CASTINGS,

of every description, manufactured 24vl6qr

JAMES MACKEN,

COFl^IErtSMIITIi*

SS*6 Fremont St., bet. Howard .V- Folson.

All kinds of COPPER WORK done to order in the best
manner. Particular attention paid to Steamboat, Sugat
House and Distillery work.

G-. T. PRACY.
MACHINE WORKS,

NOS. 109 and 111 MISSION STREET,
Between Main and Spear.

New and secondhand

Engines and Boilers,

FOR SALE,

Also one first-class Hoisting

Engine ; one Unright

Engine, ol entirely

new pattern.

MANUFACTUKKR OF

Xiatlies, X>rills,

And MILL MACHINERY of
every description.

I» IR A. C Y » S

New and Improved
STEAM EVttI\E

REGULATORS,

The best and cheapest yet in-
vented—manufactured and
for sale. Parlies are in-
vited to examine it
In practical op-
eration.

F. A. HTTXTINGTOX'S

Shingle Machines

on hand.

Particular attention paid to
Repairing.

BSP-A11 work guaranteed to be done in a first-class man-
ner, and at the lowest rates. 12vl7u

THE BISDON

Iron .nnd .Locomotive Works.

Incorporated, April 30, 1S68. Capital. SI ,f 00,000.

Location of Works, Corner Beale and Howard streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Successors to Pacific Mail p. S. Co. Works at Brnlcia. Coffey

& Risdon, and Devoe, Dinsmore A Co., San Francisco.

Steam Engine Builders, Boiler Makers,

MACHINISTS AND FOUNDRYMEN.
All work in their line attended to with promptness and
dispatch.

Director*:

S. F. Bnttorworth, Chas.E. McLane,

Lloyd Trvls, John N. Risdon,

J as. Pollock, Joseph Moore,

ocn. Holladay,

JOHN N. RTSDON, president.
Josenh Moore, Vice President and Superintendent; Chns.
E. McLnne, Treasurer; Lewis R. Mead, Secretary; Lewis
Coffey, Superintendent Boiler Works. 24vl~-qy

NOBLE & FLEMING,
MACHINE WORKS,

So. lO Stevenson street, near First,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Particular attention given to repnirs on Portable and Sta-
tionary Engines; also all kinds of Wood Working
Machinery; Shafters, Hangers, Pulleys, etc.
mali' to order; Screw Culling, Iron
Planing, and ail kinds of JOB
WORK promptly at; ended to.
Agents for F. S. Perkins' Tim hie loathes,
Pinners, Tprli-ht Drills,
And all kinds ol MACHINISTS' JOOLS; also the Davis
Wood Plauer nnd Mitre Dove-Tailing Machines.
AST Also, on hand for sale a complete set of Tools for
making Blacking Boses, consisting of Press, Dies, Shears,
and Crimpinc Machine, etc. 4vl8-qr

Phoenix Iron Works.

JONATHAN KITTEEDGE, Proprietor,

Xos. 18 and SO Fremont street, near Market,

MANUFACTURER Or

Fire-Proof Doors, Shutters,

Wrought Iron Girders, and all kinds of Houscsmith work.
Bridge and Prison Work;

BANK VAULTS AND M0NIT0E SAEES,

FOSGIie ASD MACHIKE WORK.
Agency for the ISHAM KEY REGISTER BANK ANB SAFE
LOCK, ihe only first class Lock in the
lvl7tf United States

CITY IRON WORKS COMPANY.

CLERC & CO.,
IRON FOUNDERS,

Steam Engrlne Builders nnd Makers of all

kinds of Machinery,
6vH6Vjr No. 2S Fremont street, San Francisco.

Blanks, Blank Mining Books

Constitution and By-Laws

— FOR —

BXixiiiigr and Prospecting

Companios

Elegantly printed, with care and dispatch, at the office of tho
Mining and Scientific Press*

Orders from the interior faithfuiv attended to.

Swedenborg as a Scientist.

Dr. Percy, than 'whom there is porhaps
no better authority vtpon the subject of
metallurgy, says, that although " the metal-
lurgical works of this remarkable man seem
to be very imperfectly known," none are in
his judgment " more worthy of the atten-
tion of those interested in the history of
metallurgy." These works constitute the
second and third volumes of a series of three
published in 1734, entitled Opera Philoso-
pliica el Mmeralia. The first of the three,
however, is of less practical or at least de-
monstrable, character. Its title is as fol-
lows: Principia, err tile first principles of natu-
ral tilings, being new attempts towards a
philosophical explanation of ihe Elementary
World. The following summing-up of the
contents of the work is from a notice, in the
Chemical News, of "White's life of Sweden-
borg:

The Principia is an endeavor to explain
the origin and method of creation. Nature
is asserted to start from ' ' points of pure
and total motion produced immediately
from the Infinite, " which motion is said to
be vortical.

From the congress and compression of
points ai-e formed what he calls first finites,
revolving on their axis under the impulsiou
of their constituents; in this respect per-
fectly resembling the earth, although in
comparison with the least things visible
they are quite inappreciable.

Out of the first finites by still further
compression are formed second finites,
which are said to constitute the first ele-
ment, filling the whole space of the stellar
heavens and composing the solar vortex.

From second finites by yet further com-
pression are produced third finites, which
constitute the magnetic element.

Again third finites are compressed into
fourth finites, or the third element called
ether.

Ether under further compression be-
comes air, and air compressed becomes
water, and water under similar treatment
yields salt and all minerals.

Such, according to Swedenborg, is the
derivation and possession of the elements.
Derived from the original point is a cease-
less motion, whereby all subsidiary matter
is maintained in vortical whirl.

For the confirmation of the theory he
turned to the phenomena of magnetism.
Prof.Musschenbroek,ofDortrecht, had pub-
lished in 1729 Physica Experimentales el Geo-
metricwDissertationesaboonding in magnetic
observations. These Swedenborg freely
transferred to his pages, and applied them
in proof of vortical motion. Musschen-
broek held that magnetic attractions and
repulsions observed no certain laws; Swe-
denborg on the contrary maintained that no-
where was order more demonstrable.

A cardinal principle with Swedenborg
was the uniformity of creation — that size
makes no difference; "that the method of
nature is every where the same; that the en-
ergy that shapes a dew-drop shapes a world;
that the mechanism of an elephant's trunk
and a fly is the same. This truth he con-
siders of inestimable value, because by
analogies drawn from the seen we may
predicate the unseen, and deal with it as
though it lay under our eyes.

Consistently, then, he applies his doc-
trine of atomic to cosmic creation. Suns
are sires of systems; suns therefore consist
of points of motion produced from the In-
finite. The condensation of these points
result in ether, which thrown off from the
sun, breaks by attenuation, and collapses
in plants; which spheres of ether by slow
degrees condense to air, to water, to salt, to
terra firma.

Atmospheric Roasting and Decompo-
sition or Refractory Oees. — The Colo-
rado City Herald says :

It has been proved by actual experience,
that ore which has been exposed to the
weather for a long time, is more easily
treated. Ore from the Fisk and Gregory,
which would hardly pay for milling, has
been known to pay handsomely, after hav-
ing been exposed to the weather for five or
six months. In other mining countries,
Russia for instance, ores similarto ours are
exposed to the frost, rain and sunshine for
years, and it has proved to be one of the
most economical modes of getting ridj^of
the refractory characteristic of the ore.

Weathering ores is a very common met-
allurgical process in all of the European
mining countries.

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

75

The Ice Machine or M. Carre. — This
machine operates upon the principlo that
when a liquid substance, by removal of
preaenre, is forced to assume a gaseous con-
dition, it will absorb heat. It consists of
two vertical cylindrical vessels, of different
Bize, at their upper ends connected by a
tube; they are made of strong sheet iron;
the largest of them has double sides, the
spaco between them being hermetically
Closed, and at its upper part connected by
means of a strong tube, with the upper
part of the second smaller vessel, which
is a simple upright cylinder and also
hermetically oloeed; the vessel is filled with
a strong solution of ammonia in water, or
the so called aqua ammonite fortior. By the
heating of this vessel the nmmoniacal gas is
driven out of the water, and if the double-
sided vessel, at the same time, is placed in
cold water, the pressure of tho doveloped
gas, will be sufficient to liquefy the gas it-
self between tho double walls of the large
vessel. As soon as this is accomplished,
the apparatus is ready to commence the
freezing operation, the water to be frozen is
placed in a proper vessel of a thin well con-
ducting metal closely fitting in the open
Bpace inside the double-walled larger cylin-
der, between the walls of which the ammo-
niaeal gas has now been liquefied by the
pressure produced by heating the smaller
vessel. This smaller vessel being hot, is
now suddenly plunged in cold water, the
water confined inside which first had its am-
monia expelled by heat, regains at once by
means of tho cold applied to it, its most in-
tense affinity for this gas, it will absorb it
with great rapidity, the liquefied gas in the
larger vessel will be relieved from the
pressure which brought and kept it in the
liquid state, and it will consequently readopt
the gaseous form, distil over as it were, to
be condensed in the water of the smaller
ressol, and this forced evaporation in the
larger vessel, will be productive of such
an absorption of heat from this vessel and
the water contained in its center, that this
water will rapidly be frozen to a very hard
solid cylinder of ice. The above is from
an article in the Scientific American.

A Remarkable Mountain of Salt. — In
the Pahranagat District, which lies in the
southeastern part of the State of Nevada,
about 180 southeast of Austin, is a remark-
able mountain of pure salt. In small pieces
it is quite transparent, and so remarkably
hard as to require blasting. It is five miles
in length, 600 feet in bight, and of un-
known depth. — Ross Browne's Report.

Wood Choppers. — The Pacific Railroad
Company has about 1,000 men employed
chopping wood on the mountains in the
vicinity of the Humboldt Wells. It is
worth §8 per cord along the line of the
road out that way.

GEO. E. ROGERS,

(Successor to G. W. Bell.)

51* California. *t., San Francisco.

J. A. MARS, AFsayer.

Ores carefully Assayed. Gold and Silver Ores worked,

23vli>-n.rlupnr

CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, DRAPERIES,

HHA.DES, Etc., Etc.

LOUIS F. KNIGHT,

54* California St., east Hide of Kearny,

SAN FRANCISCO.

I can offer from the largest and best assorted stock In the

city anything in our line.

AT PttlCES TO SUIT ALL.

FURNITURE AND MATTRESSES

Made to order.
All kinds of upholstering executed with neatness and
dispatch. 9vl7

LEA & PERRINS'

CKLKMHTkO

WORCESTEB8HCRE S.A_TJCE

GOOD SAUCE.

X!

The success of tills most ?*
delicious and unrivalled £
condiment having caused "
certain dealers to apply ihc name of "Wor- £
costershire Sauce 10 their own inferior 2
compounds, the public Is hereby Informed ^
that the only way to aecure the genuine, ba
is to ask for nJ

Lea dfc Ferrlns' Sance, fl

o
and see that their names are upon the £
wrapper, labels, stopper, and bottle. pi

So.ne of the foreign markets having been rt
supplied with a spurious Worcestershire U
Sauce, upon the wrapper and labels of
which the names of Lea and Periins have been forced, L
and P. give notice that they hive furnished fhoir corres-.
potidcnts with power of attorney to take trntaiit proceed-
ings against Manu'acturcrs and VendVirs of sticli.orany
other imitations bv which their right mav be infringed.

,Vsk for L.EA. & PERlilNS' Sauce, and see name on the
Wrapper, Label, Bottle, and Stopper,

Wholesale and for Export by the Proprietors. Worcester;
Oo-iso <fc Blacltwell, London, etc.. etc.; and by Grocers and
oilmen universally. Agents, CROSS & CJ. San Fran-
cisco. ovIS-ly

Business Cards.

< ^<i scientist "*<

iIA1 SAN FRANCISCO. *"•

RODGERS, MEYER & CO.,

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

ADTASCES HADE
On all kind, of Ore., unU particular uttentlon

PAID TO
< OVNM; N -\1 1:\ in OF GOODS.

4vl6-3ui

11. M. CRAY.

KATII.MKL OltAV.

N. GRAY & CO.,

U T*T T> E Tt T .A. It E R, S

641 Sneramcnto St., cor. Webb, San Francisco.

Farmers and Mechanics
BANK OF SAVINGS,

No. 33* Sana om 41 Street.

Interest paid on Deposits. Money Loaned on Real Estate.
H. BUTTON, Proldent.

GEO. M. OONDEE Cashier. I9vl6-3m

FREDERICK \IA\SEI.L.

Mechanical & Architectural Draughtsman,

No. 422 California street, corner of Lcidsdorff.

Drawings of Models made for parties apply for pa-
ents at Washington or London. ar23-tf.

"W. T. ATWOOD,

PURCHASER OP

00PPEE ORES, BAE3, MATT, Etc., Eto„

505 SIontBomery street.

Boom No. 5, over Parrot! & Co's Bank, San Francisco.
23vl7i|r

S. FOLK.

G. TUCH0LSKV.

S. FOLK & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS OF

W A Dl)I\«, IE ATI I\<J, and COMFORTERS

441 and 443 Brannan st., Between Third and Fourth,

SAN FRANCISCO. 4vlgqr

W. C. CAMPBELL.

PATTERN AND MODEL MAKER,

No. SO Fremont street, over Phoenix Iron Works, San

Francisco.
Particular attention Riven to MODELS for the Patent Office
Brands and Pattern Loiters Cut. 4vl8mtf

Pump Leather.

The attention of MINING COMPANIES, and others re-
quiring a superior article for Hydraulic purposes, is invited
to the heavy Oakcd Tanned Pump Lealher, manufactured
and prepared rxpros^ly by tho undersigned.

P^YTA CRu

'*

E.JONES&C? ,

Constanily un hand and lor sale by

C^rtAY, JONES <fc CO.,

Dciiot of the Santa Cruz Tannery,
41 8 Battery St., San Fi-nncl«co.

2ovl7-ly

HAYWARD & COLEMAN

IMPORTERS AND REFINERS

Illuminating, Lubricating,

P-A-IINTT OIL.S,

CONSISTING OF

KEROSENE. LAKD, SPERM, ELEPHANT, POLAR,

TANNERS. NEATSFOOT, BOILED AND RAlV

LINSEED, CASTOR AND; CHINA NUT.

Spirits of Turpentine and Alcohol.

Lamps and Lamp Stock !

An clegunt and complete assortment.

SOLE IMPORTERS OF
Devoe's IIlu.nxiii.atiii«£ Oil.

rATEXT CAWS.
5vl7-tf. 414 Front street, San Francisco.

Bv Express.— Two cents per copy will be added to our
usual rates of subscription (to pay Wells, Fargo & Co's tariff
on pipers sent by express. If connecting expresses In the
nieriormake additional charges, subscribers must them.
selves Kettle the.aa.me.

Professional Cards.

J. S. PHILLIPS,
MXCSTXNG ENGINEER, Etc.,

Wadsworlh House San Francisco.

Having had 33 vcare experience in tho various depart'
mentaoi Mining BiifHnearinB and Metallurgy. In Cornwall
and America, »)iclu orders ror the examination of Min-
eral Propertied throughout the North mid south America*;

mineral* assayed or analyzed; advice tor benoflclatlOB
refractory ores; Metals &ulu; capital procured lur devel-
oping valuable ledges, 4vl7tf

JOHN E0A0H, Optician,

Has removed from 522 Montgomery street to
510 1\ ruablnifton atreut.

East of Montgomery.

DAYID R. SMITH,

ClvIIand .U<Th;iniciil Dttpnr.'r,

Is prepared to furnish Plans, Models', Specifications and
full detail Drawings for Steamers and Sailing Vessels and
Machinery In general.

M on t corner y Block. 13vl7-3m

J. M. HAVEN,

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT L.AW

Boom 25 Merchants' Exchange,

27vI6 SAN FRANCISCO.

RADICAL CURE

RUPTURE

-£

Treatment of all Deformities of the Body, by DB. A
FOLLEAU'S process, «5H Washington street, up stairs,
Washington Baths Building, between Montgomery and
Kearny streets.

DR. A. FOLLEATJ

Has his studies and manufactories in the same building.

Every kind of Apparatus, Trusses, orthopedic Instru-
ments, Artificial Limbs, etc. , are manufactured and applied
by himself.

Sf^flh has no connection with any Agency. 2*yH-llptf

JAMES M. TAYLOR,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,

Court Block, G36 Clay Street

SAN FRANCISCO.
2vl5-lqy

PACIFIC

INSURANCE COMPANY

OF SAX FRISCIM'D, CAL.,

Office, No. 422 California street.

Cash Aesctm, Jau, 1, 180l>,
FIKE,

M.iatxr,,

«1,.VJ»,1-HM8

ITST!5»tJK.A]VCE.

DIRECTORS:

San Francisco: Oliver Eldrldge,

W. C. RaNton, J B. Robens.

A L Tubbs, . J. 0. Wiluu-rdlng,

Win. Alrord, f. L. Weaver,

Jonathan Hunt, \\ in. II oner,

A. E. Forbes, J. W. Clark,

A. G. Stiles, A. Hay ward,

A. Keligmnn. T. L Barker,

L. B. Kenchley, Alexander Weill,

Wm. Sherman, ("has. Mevrr,

L. Sachs, Ohas. E. MeLane,

James De Frcinery, M. Rnsenbuuui,

J. G. Bray, a, J. Ralston.

David S em, T. Lcmmcn Meyer,

D. O. Mills, J T. Dean.
I Friedlander, HmvYohk:
Mo-es Ueller. Louis McLanc,
ti.M vewhaH, Frederick Billings,
G. 'I'. Lawton, Juincs Lees,
Miles D. Sweeny, J G. Kellogg,
CIihs. Mayne. Win. T. Coleman,

E. L. Goldstein, Moses Elli-f.
J. O. Earl, Saciiajuknto:
Lloyd Tevm, Edsiir Mills,
Thou. II. Selby, J. H.Carroll,
Adam Grant, C, T. Wheeler.
Alpheus Bull, Makv-vii,i,> :

S. M. Wilson, ,1. H. Jewett.

D.J. Oliver, Portland, Oregon:

W. Scholle, W S Ladd.

Thos. Bi-own, Jacob Kainm.

Ohas. Main, Viiiginia Nevada:

Chas. It, Peters, Win. Sharon.

OFFtOKIts:

JONA. HCNT, President.

\V. ALVURD, Vice President.
A. J. RALSTON, Secretary.
ANDREW BAI11D, Marine Secretary.

ivlgtf H. H BIOELOW, Gon'l Agent.

STOCK CERTIFICATES,

STOCK TRANSFER JOURNALS,
STOCK LEDGERS,

ASSESSMENT RECEIPTS,

And all other Blanks, Blank Books, etc., required by Min-
ing and other Corporations, kept on hand or printed to
order on short notice, at moderate prices, at the office of
he Mining and Scientific Prexs.

Mining Secretary.

THE SUBSCRIBER. HAVING SERVED FOR THE LAST
Ave years as Secretary of various mining companies,
feels fully competent to serve In that capacity. Any par-
ties wishing to secure the services of a Secretary car: be
accommodated on reasonable terms. Information given,
Knd all necessary papers correctly made out.

Having had a long experience In the purchasing of goods
and macliinery for miners, parties in the mines will tlnd it
to their ad van taee, where purchasing amenta arc employed,
to send their orders to the undersigned.

J M. BUFFINGTOI',
Room 37 New Merchants1 Exchange, California ttrcet
SaD Franciooo 17vl5-tf

WE ARE NOW OFFERING
OUR IMMENSE STOCK

OF

Fine Custom Made Clothing

Gents1 Furnishing Goods

AT PRICKS THAT DEFY COMPETITION.

Onr Stock of Clothing Consist* of
AJLJL. THE 2LiA.TE©T STYLES

BOTH Or 1UTERIAL JkKD FINISH.

A Large Assorlmcn lot

Trunk*. VhIIh.m, Curpet Batra, lllankete, Ftc,

AT KXTREMSLT LOW FRICKB.

J. R. MEAD & CO.,

8vl0 Cor. of Washington and Sansome strceta.

THE GIANT

POWDER COMPANY

Is now prepared to fill all orders for

GIANT POWDER,

Pat up In Boxes, either In Jtulk or In Cur
trldeca.

Gen eral A tren t s,

BANDMAN1V, NIELSON & CO.,

25vl6-3m 210 Front street, San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO

Pioneer Screen Works,

JOHN W. QUICK, Manufacturer,

Removed to A. Prltzel's Iron Works, an Fremont street,

near Howard. San Francisco.

Screen Punching In all its branches, at rates reduced
from 25 to 40 per cent leas Ihanthe established rates. I can
furnish Improved Quartz Screens several sizes finer than
any Screen ever nunehed. pivlng universal satisfaction,
and for strength, chcapnpssnnd durp.bllitvare not excelled.
Also, Punched Screens of all sizes and fineness made from
all qualities ot material, for Quartz. Cement. Flour and
Rice Mills, etc. Screen Punchlnp mnde a specialty; there-
fore millmen forwardine their orders to me will receive
none hut the best. Orders solicited.

N. B —J. W. QtJTCK la the onlv competent and successful
manufacturer of Screens in the State, havinp made Screens
for the prlncinal mills In this State and ad.ioininp Terri-
tories for many years. Quartz mill owners uslnp punched
Screens which have universally failed tosive satisfaction,
when visiting the city will please call and see me. 5vl7-ly

California Steam Navigation

IggfeJ COMPANY. ^ >

Steamer CAPITAL CAPT. E. A. POOLE

CHRYSOPOLIS CAPT. A. FOSTER.

" YOSEMITE

" CORNELIA CAPT. W. BROMLEY

" JULIA CAPT. E. CONCKLI*.

Two of the above stenmors leave BROADWAY WHARF
at 4 o'clock P. M. EVERY DAY {Sundays excepted), one
for Sacramento and one tor Stockton, those for Sacra-
mento connecting with light-draft steamers for Marysvllle
Colusa, Chlco, and Red Bluff.

Office of the Company, northeast corner of Front and
Jackson streets.

b. m. niKTsnonvr:,

13vl2 Prealdent.

International Hotel,

JACKSON STREET

BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AND KEARNY STS.,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE IS IN PERFECT
order for the accommodation of guests. Persons seek-
ing comfort and economy will find this the best Hotel In
the city to stop at. The Beds are new and in pood order,
and the Rooms well ventilated. The Table will always be
supplied with the best In the market.
Prices vmylnjz from SI SO to iftS per day for

Board nnd Boom,

FINE BATH HOUSE AND BARBER SHOP ATTACHED

TO THE HOUSE.

AST- TeamB belonging: to the House will be in attendance
at all the hoats and cars to convey passengers to the House
trek or chargk, and to any part of the city tor SO cents

21vl2 F. E. WEYGANT, Proprietor.

m$3"w

".r'llOtJUSTRIAL.PUBUSHE.
WAUNUrST:iPH;lLADEl:PHIA;.P*.

DR. NESTELL'S
LTJISTGr INSTITUTE,

(Branch of the IV. T. Lang Institute)
JVo. 51« SUTTEK STREET, •

Between Mason and Powell Streets, San Francisco,
For the special Treatment of all Diseases of the HEAD.
THROAT, LUNGS, AND CHEST, by tho Inhalation of"
Medicated Vapars at the natural temperature of the air,
etc.

Earnest attention is solicited to this Rational Method of
Treatment, which transmits the remedies, in the form of
vapor, directly to the seat of dl -ease, instead of by the
roundabout way— through the medium of the stomach—
and which is conceded to be the only reliable means where-
by an alleviation and cure mav be expected. My system
of Inhalation, now well known throughout the United
Stales and Oanadas, and much of Europe, where thousands
—many of them tar advanced— have recovered, claims Ihc
profoundest approval of the medical prof'e sinn, and the
timely and candid consideration of those atiiicica with
these the most devastating of all earthlv maladies.

Patients attended at the Institute, dailv, from DA. M. till
4 P. M.

Invalids at a distance, on writing their case, can receive
the remedies by Express.

Special attendance out of the city will be charged com-
mensurately with the time and distance occupied.

All communications must bo addressed to

D. D. T. NESTELL, A. M„ M. D.f
Lung Institute,
No. 51C Suiter Street, ^an FrancjFco,
21vl7 3mos. California.

76

Tlie Mining and Scientific Press.

-Engineeri?iff .

[Written for the Mining ant] Scientific Press.

Concrete and Concrete Buildings.

The New York Society o£ Practical En-
gineering held its regular fortnightly meet-
ing at the Cooper Institute Building, on
Tuesday evening, 'January 5th; the Presi-
dent, Mr. James 'Whitney! in the chair.
Wm. B. Harrison, Recording Secretary.

The subject for the evening was "Con-
crete and Concrete Buildings, "and a paper
on. that subject was read by Mr. Charles
Sogers, of New York city. The writer first
spoke of the use of mortars, cements, etc.,
among the ancients. The Egyptians he re-
garded as among the first who carried the
rise of mortars to any degree of success.
The mortar of the pyramids is a sample of
the material used by this ancient people.
The works of the Egyptians have proved
more durable than those of the Bomans,
built in the same country, showing their
superior skill. In Borne we find many of
the great ancients are writers on architect-
ure. As to hydraulic operations, the
works of the Romans were very differently
constructed from ours. The properties of
our hydraulic lime, however, must have
been wholly unknown, for we know that
in the construction of bridges, the coffer dam
in which the piers were built, were kept
empty of water for at least two months
after the masonry was laid, so as to give
the mortar time to set. The Roman mor-
tars were composed with few exceptions of
pure lime mixed with fragments of bricks
coarsely pounded. Such a mortar was
used also for hydraulic purposes. The
solid substances probably hastened the des-
sication of the mortar, concrete and baton,
great materials of modern times, are now
regarded as the same thing, at least for
practical purposes. Formerly the terms
were not considered synonymous. The
names are now applied to a mixture of mor-
tar (generally hydraulic mortar) with
coarse materials, such as gravel, pebbles,
shells, or fragments of stones. The pro-
portions of mortar in concrete should be
determined in accordance with the princi-
ple, that the volume of the voids in the
coarse materials should always be somewhat
less than that of the mortar. Pat lime
concrete has been shaped into large
blocks to be used in walls, like ashlar work.
English architects manufacture their con-
crete by reducing the thoroughly slaked
lime to a pulp, and making it into a mor-
tar with the sand, before the coarse mate-
rials are added. In the United -States the
base of concrete mortars is almost always a
natural hydraulic cement, to which a paste
of fat lime is sometimes added. Here it is
used as soon as made. Concrete has been
put to every important use, — as a founda-
tion in light and springy soils, for build-
ings. Por submarine masonry, it has re-
ceived extensive application, being regarded
as a reliable substitute for bricks, and some-
times for stone. It has been used for the
walls and floors of cisterns, and for the
backing of walls faced with brick, rubber
and ashlar work. Single ornamented, mono-
lithic masses have been made of concrete.
Concrete houses have been built in the
United States and Europe with hollow
walls, and the practice is daily receiving
more attention. Their advantages are, that
tliey afford safety, or rather, a partial safety
in case of fire, and give an opportunity for
managing the fire, smoke, and ventilating
flues. They also secure a partial equality
of temperature during extremes of weather.
Concrete as applied to sewerage and drain-
age purposes, was spoken of, and the man-
ner of making pipes of this material de-
scribed.

Prof. Wm. Bobinson. — The setting or
drying of mortar may be attributed to two
causes, evaporation and chemical combina-
tion. The principal cause is the former.
In one of the citadels of Europe which has
been standing for 156 years, mortar has
been found in the interior as soft as the day
when it was laid. Hydraulic limes are
principally composed of a mixture of lime
with clay. Caution must be exercised in

the calcination, as too high a temperature
injures the materials. No more heat is re-
quired than is sufficient to expel the car-
bonic acid. The power of resistance to
rupture in the case of pure hydraulic ce-
ment is equal to fifty-four poundsper square
inch. This power decreases exactly in pro-
portion as sand is added.

The President. — The manufacture of ar-
tificial stone (familiar to the readers of the
Press) is perhaps one of the greatest ad-
vances in this branch of modern industry.
There is also a German invention in which
carbonate of lime and sand are mixed with
caustic lime, forming a mortar.

Mr. Parmelee. — A concrete ship must
certainly be the last application of concrete.
I saw a few days since a ship in 'Which the
steel plates which formed the hull were
lined with concrete to the thickness of four
inches.

COMPLETION AND PKOPITS OF BuTI/DING

the Pacific Raheoad. — The report of
Mr. J. L. Williams, Government Director
of the Union Pacific Railroad, is printed
the New York papers. He estimates that
by the 4th of July next, the Central Pacific
and Union Pacific Railroads will have met
at Monument Point; but the Central Pa-
cific has been gaining distance recently,
and will probably force the junction, to a
point farther east, at or near Ogden City.
Mr. Williams is a practical engineer,
and estimates the profits to contractors
upon the Union Pacific Railroad at $14,-
000 to §16,000 per mile, or a total to the
stockholders — who are at the same time the
contractors — of not less than 816,000 000.

Light Houses and Befuge Stations in
Mid Ocean. — It is proposed that large iron
buoys be anchored below the surface in the
middle of the Atlantic Ocean, out of the
reach of currents or surface storms, and
used as foundations on which light-houses
could be built. Some plan similar to thi9
was suggested many years ago by a brother
of Prof. Morse; and it is revived by a
writer in the Isew York Herald in com-
menting on the fact that one of the boats
which left the sinking steamer Hibernia
has reached the coast of Ireland after a
voyage of nearly 700 miles, during which
the majority of the passengers died from
privation and exposure.

Tidai, Obsekvations and Tide Land
Survey. — G. P. Allardt, C. E., and a corps
of ten assistants, are engaged, in continua-
tion of work undertaken for the State Tide
Land Commissioners, between Black Point
and Port Point, following the line of twen-
ty-four feet water at low tide; pursning the
same thorough system of tidal observations
and soundings which was followed in the
survey recently completed of the southern
portion of the city and couuty.

Cleaning Out the San Joaquin for
Navigation. — Capt. Woodruff, of Sacra-
mento, is now engaged, with the steamer
Bainbow, in clearing the snags out of the
San Joaquin River, at the same time remov-
ing all the overhanging trees; the esti-
mated cost of which will reach §40,000.
The steamer's rigging for hoisting snags
will raise a weight of forty tons, and the
force employed is twenty men.

Stockton and Tdlare Railroad. — On
the 20th inst., Mr. Kidder, engineer of the
Stockton and Tulare Railroad, and a corps
of assistants, commenced the work of sur-
veying this road. The point of beginning
was a short distance south of Mormon
Slough. The company have purchased
from Captain Weber several blocks of land
on the south side of Mormon Slough as a
site for a depot, machine shops, etc.; in
addition to which Capt. Weber has donated
to the company an improved and valuable
tract— the company being required to pay
for the improvements only.

Cable Laying to the "Ends of the
Earth." — An English admiralty surveying
vessel is now employed in surveying a
route for a telegraphic cable between Java
and Australia— which means telegraphic
communication between Australia and Eu-
rope, an extension being likely to be made
from Java to Singapore, Ceylon, and Point
de Galle. The lines about to be laid down
between the China ports, are to be joined
to the American and European line.

The Willamette is to be bridged at Port-
land, Oregon, by the corporation of that
city. -

[Written for the Mining and Scientific PresB.]

What They are Doing at New Almaden.

the furnaces.

Editors Press: — Seven large furnaces,
employing fifty men in the manipulation of
the ores, and five hundred men under
ground, constitute the present operating
and working forces at the Hacienda — the
first place you come to after leaving San
Jose, and thirteen miles distant. The fur-
naces hold from forty to fifty cars fall, of
300 pounds each, of ore, and make from
four to five campaigns per month. The
condensing chambers and chimneys run
up on the side of a hill, to a hight of 175
or 200 feet, where the white smoke issues,
killing all the grass around.

I observed that some of the men work-
ing about the furnaces were trembling,
and was informed that one of the boys had
just been taken to San Francisco for the
hospital.

Root's patent blowers furnish the blast
to melt the ores; running day and night,
of course, until the campaign is ended.

SODA SPRING WITH PLENTY OF CARBONIC
ACID.

There is in the yard of the New Almaden
works a soda spring, belonging to the com-
pany, which shows an unusually large
quantity of carbonic acid, and furnishes a
very fine drink indeed. I understand it
has been leased for five years to Mr. F. L.
A. Pioche, the banker, on Montgomery
street. This water is claimed to lie the
best soda water in the State, in virtue
chiefly of its carbonic acid.

THE MINES

Being only 1,000 feet distant, all the ore
comes down in cars, and is dumped in at
the top of the furnaces — the metal flowing
out through a pipe at the bottom, into ket-
tles. They are very particular here about
entering the mine. I obtained a permit
through the favor of Dr. J. E. Mayo, the
Superintendent. The mine lias been pay-
ing constantly since 1S46. Inside I found
some Mexicans employed still in packing
up ore on their backs. Two blacksmiths
were working away there. In some places
the chambers are fifteen to twenty feet high,
and ten to twenty feet wide. All of the
ore is taken out at the main shaft; and there
are twenty-five Mexicans engaged at break-
ing and sorting.

The miners work by contract, from thirty
to fifty in a company. They are either
Spanish, or Englishmen.

Por hoisting, there are three engines in
the mine, of 24, IS and 16-horse power,
driven by steam generated in four boilers
outside, and conveyed into the mine through
pipes.

This being my first visit here, I will ven-
ture to state my impression that these
niiaes-are quite a curiosity, for anybody to
visit.

THE GUADALUPE QUICKSILVER MINE,

Eight miles from San Jose, is passed on the
way to San Jose. James P. Brown is the
Superintendent, and there are fifty men
employed throughout. The shaft is in a
valley near the creek, and is 400 feet deep.
Next week twenty more men are to be set
to work. Yours, etc., W. H. M.

San Jose, Jan. 20, 1869.

A Good Enterprise. — William H. Toby
& Co., advertising agents on the San Jose
and Gilroy railway route, and now acting
as commission and purchasing agents for
the people along the line. This is a decided
convenience. The many benefits of the
railroad system are beginning to be better
appreciated in California, and we hope
soon to have local roads running iu every
direction, as they are to be found through-
out the Eastern States.

Base Metal Ores in Idaho. — Guido
Knstel, the metallurgist, is engaged at the
Bising Star mine, Flint District, Idaho, in
introducing his base metal lixiviation pro-
cess, for the treatment of the gray copper
(fahlerz) and other cupriferous ores en-
countered in that mine, before subjecting
the pulp to pan amalgamation.

HENRY CAREY BAIRD,

Industrial Publisher,

No. 40G Walnut Street, Philadelphia.

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English steamer for South America. Through tickets can
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!>TU,HKK!j FOlt J1KVAVY, 18CO.

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cells between points of vulcanized rubber, cvtry-cell open-
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of the wearer, leaving an air space always, between the
fO'.t and all dampness. Every step compresses and re-
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pumps, working at every step of the foot.

The rubber points will not aborb the moisture from t bo
boot, so that the solt flannel which covers them is al.va\ s
dry. Their springing elas'iclty renders them of peculiar
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upon hard substance:;, also to all persons whose business
requires much walking or standing.

These soles arc atfordiuir great relict to persons afflicted
wiih rlni'iiatism and consumptive complaints, chilblains,
corns, cold and sweaty feet.

For warm and dry feet use the Patent Elastic Ventilat-
ing Inner Soles.

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tify that I have used the Patent Elasiic Ventilating Inner
Soles, through the spring and summer past, and have
found them to be the best contrivance for keeping the feet
dry and comfortable, that 1 have ever used, and for any-
one having corns or tender feet, the be>t article ever in-
vented. CHARLES K. DARLING, Stationer.

Patent Elastic Ventilating Sole* —If you wish a comfortable
article for \ our feet, a real luxury in co'd weather, obtain
a pair of the Patent Elastic Ventilating Inner Soles. Hia-
ing used these soles the past winter, we can saicly recom-
mend them as tending not only to promote the comfort of
the teet, and ease in walking, but also the equalization of
the temperature of the teet, which renders them almost in-
valuable.—[Boston Traveler, Oct. 1667.

Price, per pair, SI. Bv mail, postage paid, $1.35. For
sale by PATRICK KELLY, So. 3J7 Bush street. Sun Fran-
cisco, avl-tf

Important to Citllfornluns.— Many inventors hare
ately had their claims for Patents seriously (and in sonic
cases fatally)delaycd by the un<|iinlincation of agents v.ho
have not complied with the Govern men I license and revcrne
aws as well as other new and imperative regulations.
These discrepancies, although arising from the inexperience
of honest agents, are none the less dangerous to applicants
for patents, whose safest course Is to trust their business
with none but active and experienced solicitors. Trk Min
isg AKD Scientific Press Patent Agency has strictly com-
plied with the requisitions of the Department, and properly
died all necessary papers as Claim Agents.

Tl^e Mining and Scientific Press.

77

Metallurgical Statistics.

Wo are informed by the managers of the
Columbia College School of Mines, that it
is proposed to establish in connection with
their metallurgical department, a Boreon
of Statistics, relating to the working of dif-
ferent area in this country, similar to the
Bureau of Minora] Statistics connected
with the Government's School of Mines in
London, tho following circular, relating fo
the manufacture of cast iron, being thetitst
of a series :

New York, Dec. 8th, 1808.

Dear Sir: - The School of Mines is engaged
in collecting statistics of the blast furnaces of
this country, with a view of having, in the
city of Now York, some place where relia-
ble information can be had with regard to
the working of iron iu this country.

These statistics will bo used to establish
general principles, which will be announced
in tho Lectures on Metallurgy. The tie-
tails of your own furnaces will be. eonsid-
ered confidential, and will not be commu-
nicated if you desire it.

It is quite important to know tho general
form of the furnace, whether it is egg-
sbaped, tho curve being continuous or
whether it is made up of straight lines.
The practice in this respect is very differ-
ent, in different districts. You will greatly
oblige me if you will give a sketch of your
furnace and also till up the following table
and transmit it to the School of Mines.
Yours, respectfully,

Thos. Egleston, Jh.
Prof, of Mineralogy and Metallurgy.

Name of tho works; town; connty; State;
proprietors; number of furnaces: total
bight; bight of bosh; bight of tho hearth;
bight of the tuyeres; diameter of the throat;
diameter of tho bosh; diameter at the
tuyres; number of tuyeres; diameter of
tuyeres; hot or cold blast; temperature of
the blast; pressure of the blast; kind of ore;
yield of the ore; kind of iron — white, gray,
or mottled; kind of fuel; quantity of fuel
per ton of cast iron; production of each
furnace, in tons of 2,240 lbs. by 24 hours.

The idea is worthy of every encourage-
ment

New Sutro Tonnel Bill. — This enter-
prise has been brought before Congress
this session by Mr. Ashley, in the shape of
* 'A bill to aid in ascertaining the value of
public lands containing mineral lodes, and
for the endowment of a National School of
Mining." The bill is a modification of the
one which last session received the sanction
of the House Committee on Mines and
Mining, being changed so as to meej; the
supposed present temper of Congress in
relation to subsidies. It is now proposed
that the Government, instead of issuing its
own bonds iu favor of the enterprise, shall
guarantee the payment of the principal and
interest of bonds to be issued by a Tunnel
Company (to be hereafter constituted, the
assignee of Mr. Sutro and his associates,)
such guarantee to be extended to the
amount of §5,000,000 principal and 6 per
cent interest for the term of thirty years,
when the bonds are to be payable in United
States currency.

Abating. — The small pox is rapidly on
the decrease in San Francisco, and we now
hear less about it here in this city than our
friends do in the interior. Parlies in the
country properly vaccinated, need have no
reluctance about coming to this city. "With-
out that precaution they are unsafe in any
portion of the country.

Lower California. — Petermann's "Mit-
heilungen" in Gotha publishes a map of
Lower California, from the explorations
made by J. Ross Browne, Gabb and Loehr.
An account of the journey, with interest-
ing geological details, from the pen of
Herr Gabb, is added.

Work on the Western Pacific Railroad
is progressing at such a rate as to effect
its completion by the time that the junc-
tion between the Union and Central is
made at Salt Lake — about April 1st, ac-
cording to calculations.

The Velocipede fancy manifested itself
during the week in fresh orders for French
two-wheeled fore-and-aft machines, at
Palmer, Knox & Go's Foundry; and in nu-
merously attended practicings at the Me-
chanics' Pavilion,

Chinese Sclphtkbts. — A sample of ore
sent down from tho Pingta Digging, has
been analyzed by a gentleman at Qongkong,
and found to be a rich oxide of antimony
associated with sulpburets of iron, zinc,
and lead. The proportion of silver is too
small to be worth extracting. The ore is,
nevertheless, valuable.

Large Steam Roller. —A fifteen-ton
steam roller is ordered for tho New York
Central Park. It is to be made by Aveling
& Porter, of Rochester, who have already
filled a similar order from Philadelphia.

The California Medical Gazette contains a
paper by Dr. Shorb on tho Misamatic Dis-
eases of California; an article on the Small
pox Epidemic, by Dr. Morse; and editorials
on " Our Great Mortality," and " Hospital
Investigations."

Read and Subscribe.
With the advantages of post experience, the

increased patronage and friendly support of the
intelligent and progressive readers of the Pa-
cific States and Territories, we are confident in
asserting that the new volume of the Mining
and Scientific Press, commencing with 1869,
shall be in all respects superior to its predeces-
sors. Of the past, we will give the written
opinion of others:

Every miner in tho community should subscribe for
the Mining uiul Scientific Prune. — Grass Valley Union.

Mining and Scikntific Phesb. — This excellent scien-
tific journal has entered upon its ciyhtcouth volume. —
Ckico C'uurant, Jan. 15(A,

The Mining and Scientific Press should have an exten-
sivo circulation in every mining community on the
Coast. — Placer Herald, Dec. 19.

The Mining and Scdzntific Piiess has become al-
most inditmc nsablc to the miner and machinist, and is
well deserving of the patronage which we are. pleased to
learu it receives. — Mariposa Mail, Jan. lVth.

The Mining and Scientific Press is one of tho best pa-
pers of the kind ever published, and to California miners,
especially, it has become an almost indispensable requi-
site for the successful prosecution of their calling. — iVe-
oada Gazette,

The Mining and Scikntific Pkkss has entered upon its
XVlIth Volume. It has donned a new-styie liat; or, in
newspaper parlance, a new heading, which gives il the
solid, scientific look it merits. Other Improvements typo
■j. ■■■■a hlcal are also noticeable. No call lor improvement in
its matter.— vlwiador Ltdi/er, Jul;/ Wth.

The Mining and Scientific Pkess comes to us this
week in a new dress throughout, much improving its
appearance. The Pnsss is one of our most valuable
exchanges, and nils a place in mining and scientific mat.
tens never attained by any other journal. — Colorado
Miner

To Miners. — William H. Murray, traveling agent for
the Mining and Scientific Press, published by Dewey &
Co., of San Francisco, is in town soliciting subscriptions
for that paper. To the intelligent miner, a paper like
the Press is particularly valuable, keeping him posted on
the latest discoveries in reduction of ores, new machin-
ery, etc. — Grass Valley National.

TnK Mining and Scientific Press, which commenced
ts seventeenth volume on the 4th, comes lo us with a new-
ly engraved head, and presenting otherwise Its usual tastc-
iul appearance. We take this occasion to say that the
Pkess i*one of the best papers of the kind in the United
States, and every miner and mechanic In the Slate, as well
as the business man, who would keep posted on our indus-
trial resources, should have its name on Us subscription
books. Nevada Gazette.

We Consedeb the Mining and Scientific Press the
most valuable mining and mechanical newspaper issued
in the United States. Dewey & Co., publishers, are also
solicitors of foreign and American patents and conduct
patent cases of every kind. We guarantee that all busi-
ness confided to them will be carefully attended to, and
we further believe that every miner, mechanic, and sci-
entific man should have their valuable paper.— Aub urn
Stars and Stripes.

Mining and ScTENTTFin Press.— We look upon this
papei as oue of our most valuable exchanges, in tact
it deservedly stands at the head of all publications em-
bracing mining, scientific and mechanical subjects,
and contains much miscellaneous matter of interest,
and is a gem of neatness. The Press is published by
Dewey & Co., San Francisco, and at its present low price
of five dollars per annum, should be patronized by every
one, but more especially by miners, mechanics and in-
ventors who wish to pursue their avocations with intel-
ligence and economy. — Tidal Wave, Idalio.

A USEFUI, PUBLICATION. — The MINING AND SCIENTIFIC

Press, published at San Francisco by Dewey & Co., ia a
publication valuable to all classes and indispensable to
miners and inventors — the patents for nearly all Cali-
fornia inventions having been secured through the Pa-
tent Agency of the proprietors of that paper, and the in-
ventions themselves brought into notice through its col-
umns. We are glad to learn, from Mr. Wm. H. Murray,
the traveling agent of the paper, who dropped in upon
us Monday evening, that its merits are so well appre-
ciated; and we unhesitatingly commend both the paper
and its gentlemanly agent to the confidence and patron-
age of scientific and practical men of all classes and every
occupation. — Solano Herald.

The Mining and Scientific Press, of this city, has
done us the honor to notice us in their columns, and wo
feel in duty hound to acknowledge the compliment.

It were fruitless for us to say anything in praise of the
Mining and Scientific Press. * * * It speaks for
itself wherever it goes. Its editors are men of intelli-
gence, ability and honor.

We have had frequent occasion to have business rela-
tions with the patent agency connected with this estab-
lishment, and have had nothing left to desire in regard
to it. Fidelity, promptness and courtesy, soon arranged
everything for us to our complete satisfaction. Having
had frequent delays at Washington while in that city, we
have been surprised at the promptitude with which some
of our friends obtained their patents through tho agency
of Messrs. Dewey & Co.— S. F. Spiritual Light.

Subscription Teems, in advance, $5; six
months, $3. Specimen Nos. of the paper and
Circulars of Information for Inventors, sent
free on application.

DEWEY & CO.,
Publishers, Patent Agents and Job Printers, No.

414 Clay st., below Sansonie, San Francisco.

A. T. DEWEY. W. E. EWEE.

Woodward's Gardens.— Visit this favorite
placo of resort, and take a Stroll around the
groundB. There are innumerable novelties to
be found lure. ■

Spectacles . — Muller, 205 Montgomery street,

is selling large quantities of his celebrated spec-
tacles, which give universal satisfaction. *

No. Certificate

w?

No. Shares.
ft
10

10

New Mining Advertisements.

I. X. r.. Gold uud silver Mining Company.-

Location ol Mine: Silver Mountain District, Alpine

County, California.

Nolico i- hereby (riven, Hint ai a meeting of the Board of
Trustees if nald Company, ocld on the nineteenth day of Jan*-
uary, 1809, anuaeasment of one dollar and iti'ty cents ($1.60)
per share wan levied upon toe capital stock or aald Com-
pany, pnyablo i led lately, in I'ni i-d states gold and

silver ci. In, to tin.' Secretary, at his ..din*, pioneer Hull
Montgomery (trout, San Francisco, California.

Any atoCK upon which said assessment shall remain
uiiioiid on tho twenty scvemhday of February, ltf69,ah&l]be
deemed delinquent, utid will be duly advertised for sale
at public unction, and unless payment sliull be made b->.

fore, win i>.- snld on Wednesday, the seventeenth day of
March.. 1869, to pay tho delinquent aueasment, together

wulj o,t< ol advertisinu and expenses of sale. By order ol

the Bo.ird of Trustees.

J. CROWNINSHIELD. Secretary.
Office, Pioneer Hall, Montgomery street, up stairs, San
Francisco. janiJO

in

SI on ut Tenubo Ml Ivor lUInlnir Conipuny.— Lo*

cation of Works: Cortex District, Lauder County, State

of Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that 'at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty-third day of
January, I8C9, nn assessment ofsevcniy-'lvc cents per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able immediately. In Untied States gold and silver coin, to
the Secretary, at the office of the Company, 426 Montgom-
ery street. San Francisco.

Any stock, upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the fifth (5th) day of March, 1869, shall he
deemed delini|uent, and will be duly advertised for sale
ut public auction, and unless payment shall he made be-
fore, will he sold on Tuesday, Hie thirtieth (Wih) dav of
March, 1869, to pay the delinquent assessment, together
-vttr. costs ol advertising and expenses of sale. By order
o'' the Board ol Trustees

R. N VAN BRUNT, Secretary.

Office 426 Montgomery street. San Francisco. jan'30

Mining; Notices— Continued.

Names.

Abigail Brown

M Nolan

O.iim. l havi.iw.n, endorsed to

."uine*W||,,,n id

George Pal te twos q

Jamei S S Uobinvm " 56

F M Kills £

h dscou .....:; tv

John Banquet r s

R rnrriti n,. i |atQ< ,i.. 27a

b Curran not ls*nedu "73

John Bagnell 77

Matthew Davidson 79

Patrick Carroll 224

P M Wrlim ?21

Rdward Campbell lsi

Chos B Montague uo

\ J Davis. 127

Loll Mulrnhy 157

Thomas Fay ),*.-*

David M Short ISI

Chas Mayer 135

Benjamin 0 Lew 157

l.azitnl Uodchaux 139

LaxnrdGodchnnx, loo

Lnzurd Ondchaux 162

l.. 1.'. ml Godchanx 229

I.n/ard Godchanx 230

P Cunningham .156

P Cunningham 174

Michael Sngllsh 152

Frank Malum 155

Tbos McCullough 159

Stephen Mcoillan If4

Stephen McGllIan 1(15

1' .T MeMahon 170

p.i MeMahon iki

Ja« Barrett. ..not Issued. ..bal 189

F.li/iihrth Curran 194

Elizabeth Curran 193

N C Brlggs 209

FII Moore 210

C B Croenry 2*j

Henry Etio 212

Henry Eno 278

David Lovell 214

Jacob Martcnstein 225

M G Shove 264

And in accordance with law, and an order or the Board
of Trustees, made on the fifteenth day of October, 1868,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may bo
necessary, will be sold at public auction, at the salesroom
of Maurice Dore & Co., auctioneers, No. 327 Montgomery
street, San Francisco, on Saturday, the twenty- third day
of January, 1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock M. of said day, to
pay said delinquent assessment thereon, together with
costs of advertising and expenses of sale.

CURTIS PALMER, Secretary.

Office. No. 87 Stevenson street, between First and Second
streets, San Francisco. dec24

Postponement.— The above sale Is hereby postponed until
Saturday, the sixth day of February, 1869, at the same
hour and place. By order of the Board of Trustees.

jan30 CURTIS PALMER, Secretary.

Chalk Mountain Bine Gravel Compauy.-Lo-

cation of Works: Nevada County, California.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting 01 tho Board of
Trustees of snld Company, held on tho thirteenth day of
January, 1869, an assessment of two dollars <$2j per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, paya-
ble Immediately, in United States gold coin, to the Svc
retary

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un
paid 011 the fifteenth day of February, 1869, sliall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised lor sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall he made before,
will be sold on Monday, the eighth day of .March, 1869.
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of
advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of
Trustees.

J. M BUFFINGTON, Secretary.

Office, 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California street,
San I'Y.hi. ■)•■<■<,. jtiulG

North American 'Wood Prescrvlnc; Company,

Location of Works: San Francisco, California.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Directors of said Company, held on tho fifteenth day of
Jonuary, 1869, an assessment of one ($1) dollar per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able immediately, in United States gold and silver coin, to
the Secretary, at the Company's office, 430 Montgomery
street, San Francisco.

Any strict; upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the eighteenth day of February, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will he duly advertised for sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall be made before,
will be sold on Monday, the eighth day of March, 1869,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs
of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board
ol Directors,

WM. B.LAKE, Secretary.

Office, 430 Montgomery street, San Francisco. janlG

20

Amount,
fi 00

10 ' u

10 00
5 00
10 00
1 00
SAM)
15 00
10 to
10 00
7 Oil

12 on

10 IN)

0 iki
10 00
25 00

1(1 HI

5 on

5 IN)

1» 00
10 ri|
5 00
10 00
5 00
5 00
5 00
3 00
500
5 (ID
25 00
25 00
111 m
5 110
5 UU
2> 00
25 IK)
12r> 00
10 IK)
10 00
hi INI
SO 00
20 (0
20 01)
25 110
10 00

1 00
20 00

No. Shares.
44
loO

20
10
10

Patroclnn und SolnreM Silver ftllnlncr Compa-
ny, Guazapari'S District, State of Chihuahua, Mexico.
Notick.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
ninth day of December. 1868, the several amounts set oppo-
site the names of the respective shareholders, as follows:

No. Certificate.

No. Shares.
5
10

10

60

Names.

James Lang.

L H Pom. II

LH Perry 15

LH Ferry 202

R Massing 213

R Husslng 52

S S Emery 186

Joh n Donald 212

W H Rvan 9d

FSEIl'makcr 180

P J O'Connor 145

James Doyle 192

Catherine Martin 215

E Whiting 190

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board of
Trustees, made on the ninth day of December, 1808, so many
shares of each parcel of said stock as may be necessary,
will be sold at public auction, by Olney A Co., auctioneers.
No 426 Montgomery street, San Francisco, Cal , on Monday,
the twenty-fifth day of January, 18t59, at the hour of 12
o'clock M. of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment
thereon, together with costs of advertising and expenses of
sale.

C. B. GIFFORD, Secretary.

Office, N. E. corner of Second and Howard streets, San

Amount.

$10 00
20 00
10 00

110 00
10 00
10 00
10 00
20 00
30 00
70 00

120 00
10 00
10 00
20 00

Francisco.

jau9

PosTroNHMHNT —The above sale Is hereby postponed until
Thursday, the fourth dayjof February, 1869, at the same
hour and place. By order of the Board of Trustees.

jan40 C. R. GIFFORD. Secre'ary.

Uattleanake Mining Company, Brown's "Val-
ley, Yuba County, California.

Notice. — There are delinquent upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the

nineeenth day of December, 1868, the several amounts set

opposite the names of the respective shareholders, us fol-
lows:

Names. No. Certificate

Agard, W B Ifl

Agard, M F 19

Ansiullonl, H 5

Bradley, M not issued

Bradley, A ■not Issued

Biibb, LH not issued

Brown, J 6

Be» usacq, A C G de 27

Cohn A Bio not issued

Cavallier, J B E 3

Cavalller, J B E 25

Courcclle, A 7

Ely. J not issued

Findley, Thos 26

Fischer. W 9

Gray. C M not issued

Hawley, W not issued

Hawley, Mrs S not issued

Huard, A N 1

Huard, L H 2

Kelly, M J 13

La wson , J F not Issued

Lamory, E 11

Mc Alb's A Gordon 14

McAlMs A Gordon 15

McAllis A Gordon IS

McAllis A Gordon 17

Mattat, M 4

Noel, A 12

Buggies. D W not Issued

Smith, J B not Issued

Vitle, J not Ivsued

Weasels,' S C not issued

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board

of Trustees, made on the nineteenth day of December, 1868,

so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be nec-
essary, will be sold at public auction, by J. Middleton A

Son, 310 Montgomery street, San Francisco, on Monday, the

eighth day of February, 1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock M.

of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment thereon,

together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale.
JOHN F. LOHSE. Secretary.
Office. 318CalIfornla street, up stairs, San Francisco. j23

100
5
10
10
20

10

Amount.
S t'O 1 0
750 0)
45 00
225 00
37 50
187 50
150 00
150 00
75 00
75 00
6P2 50
345 10
75 00
367 60
337 M
450 t|)
292 50
45 00
1575 00
15 00
150 00
367 5(1
750 00
37 50
75 00
75 10
150 00
150 IK)
150 00
75 00
75 HO
37 50
75 U0

Rlppou Gold nr,<l Silver ftXlniuu* Company.—

Location of Worts: Silver Mountain District, Alpine

Coun y, California.

Notick.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, 011 account of assessment levied on the
fifhentb day of October, 1865, the several amounts set
opposite the names of the respective shareholders as fol-
lows :

Naine3. No Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

Curtis Palmer 148 10 $10 00

William Brown U fi 5 00

William Brown 232 10 ]l) [10

William ISrown 233 10 10 10

William Brown 234 10 10 00

William Brown 35 10 10 it)

William Brown '.Md 3 3 00

William Brown 276 25 ^ 00

William Brown 277 45 45 irtJ

Brov.n A Kent 15 10 10 Oil

Abigail Brown 20 6 5 00

IT. .**». Grant Mfiilnte Company.— Location of

Works: Carlisle, Nevada.

Not ice.— There are delinquent upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
ninth day of November, 1868, the several amounts set op-
posite the names of the respective shareholders, as fol-
lows:

Names. No. Certificate.

Alpheus Bull 2

E B.Mott.Jr 6

Geo Moh rol 10

Geo Mohrel 1!

Geo M ohrel 12

Geo Mohrel 13

Geo Mohrel H

Silas Garber 19

Jas F Wheeler 30

JasP Wheeler 31

Jus P Wheeler 32

JasPWhcelcr 33

Jpo Vail St

LJ Flint 37

IL Reqna 38

IL Requa 39

T L Requa .40

I L Requa 41

J L Van Bokkclen 48

LA Bootli O

LA Booth 50

L A Boolll 51

J Bigps

MeFarland

Sarah Snvder

N M Baxter

. Shares.

Amount.

218

£109 00

150

75 10

10

5 DO

10

5 00

10

5 00

5

2 50

5

2 .f.O

10

5 00

60

25 00

50

25 00

SO

25 (»0

50

25 00

20

ltl 00

20

10 00

50

'5 00

50

2f» 00

50

25 00

50

25 00

4

2 00

50

25 00

64

27 00

111)

50 00

4

a to

10

s 00

f2

16 00

20

10 00

And In accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the ninth day of November, 1868, so
many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be neces-
sary, will be sold at public auotlon, hy J. C. Merrill A Co.,
auctioneers, No. 204 California street, San Francisoo ,
California, on Saturday, the second day of January,
1869, at the hour of 2. o'olaok P, M. of said day, to pay
said delinquent assessment thereon, together with costs of
advertising and expeusos of sale.

ENOS TAYLOR, Scorctary.

Offloe, No. 226 Clay street, San Francisco. dccl9

Postponement.— The above sale Is hereby postponed until m
Saturday, the thirtieth day of January, 1869, at the same
hour and Plaoo. By order ol'the Board of Trustees.

Jan9 ENOS TAYLOR, Secretary,

78

Tt\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinery.

VAKNEY'S

PATENT AMALGAMATOR

These Machines Stand Unrivaled.

For rapidly pulverizing and amalgamating ores, they
have no equal. No effort has been, or will be, spared to
have them constructed in the most perfect manner, and of
the great number now in operation, not one has everre-
quired repairs. The constant and increasing demand tor
them is sufficient evidence of their merits.

They are constructed so as to apply steam directly into
the pulp, or with steam bottoms, as desired.

This Amalgamator Operates as Follows :

The pan being filled, the motion of fhemuller forces the
pulp to the center, where it is drawn down through the ap-
erture and between the grinding surfaces. Thence it is
thrown to the periphery into the quicksilver. The curved
plates again draw it to the center, where it passes down,
and to the circumference as before. Thus it is constantly

fiassing in a regular flow between the grinding surfaces and
nto the quicksilver, until the ore is reduced to an impalpa-
ble powder, and the metal amalgamated.

Setlers made on the same principle excel all others.—
They bring the pulp so constantly and perfectly in contact
with quicksilver, that the particles are rapidly and com
pletely absorbed. . -

Mill men are invited to examine these pans and setlers for
themselves, at the PACJLF4C FOITVDXT,

Xvi San Francisco.

Patent K-ig-hts for Sale.

For Preserving Timber from Decay

The cheapest method for curing Wood.
A.. HAMA.K»S PATENT.

WOOD PAVEMENT,

>IILI-EK*S PATENT.

S. Hi. FEBEIBA,
3v:8 lin S04 Montgomery street, Boom 4*

ELLERY'S PATENT

India Rubber Cement and Paint

— FOE —

TIN, IRON AND METALLIC [ROOFS,

Iron, Brick, and Wooden Buildings*
SHIPS, STEAMBOATS, STAGES, CABS,

AND FOR ALI* EXPOSED SURFACES.

Is water-proof and indestructible; will neither rot, peel,

nor crack.; will withstand any climate; can be put on in

any color, and is less expensive than other rami.

New Cloth Roofs put on. Old Roofs cemented
and painted. Leaky Boots made tight.

asr No Coal Tar or Asphaltum used. All work guaran-
teed, orders punctually attended to.

GEO. T. BBOMEEX, Affent,
24vl7-Sm

BLAKE'S QUARTZ BREAKER !
JPKICES 3REJX>TJOElX>!

MACHINES OF ALL SIZES FOR SALE

— BY —

TO. P. BLAKE,

Corner First and Mission streets, or Box 2,077

3yl3f SAN FRANCISCO.

GLASGOW
Iron and Metal Importing Company

A'oh. 35 and 37 Fremont street,

SAN FKANCISL'O,

Keep constantly on hand a large stock of best Bar and
Bundle Iron, Boiler Tubes, .Plate aud Sheet Iron, Gas and
Water Fiue, Anvils, Cast Steel, Gas and Water Fiitinf*
which they offer to the trade on liberal terms.

2Lvl6-6m W. UcCUINJJLE, Manage.

It eruo val.

NELSON & DOBLE,

AUBN23 FOB

Thomas Firth & Sons' Cast Steel, Files,

Etc., Shear, Spring, German, Plow, Blister and Toe Calk.

Steel; manufacturers of

Mill Picks, sledges,, Hammers, Picks,

Stone Cutters', Blacksmiths1 and Horse-Shoers' Tools,

Have removed to 13 And lo Fremont street* near

Mai'iv^i, aau trauciauu.

loviiqr

IXotice to ALiuei'ss,

Well-Borers and Water Companies.

MPBAG IS NOW PREPAKED TO MANUFACTURE
• Hydraulic and Artesian Well Pipes in the beat work-
manlike manner, uud at the lowest market rates. Having
made iar^e additions to iny stock oi machinery for that
branch of business, i am prepared to dli all orders with dis-
paicn, and guarantee entire suttsiaction. I also manufac-
ture Jliasissijjpi Stoves,' oi the latest improved patterns, for
vessels of ail classes. Also, snip rlumuing done.

-Vl. i'ltAB,
Svl3-ly Stove Store. No. I Clay street, below Davis.

PACIFIC FILE WORKS,

No. US Beale Street* bet. Uarket and Ali union,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Files Re-cut aud warranted as good as new, with a saving
Of fifty per Cent. ItliAPLR aAD JKMV.fc.lt SECTlUiNS
MAUr. fu uKUiitt. Tue only e.iiublisLLincut on ihe Coast,
voders from the country promptly aiteuiK-d to. O-Firsl
Premium awarded al «-iv« State r'alr, 16t>7.

zvi,'-jui '17. ti. in. AiSlXQ *fc CO

Poscusee.— Tlie postage on the .Mi.vimg ako Scikntifik
Frkss to any portion of til 0 United state? is twenty cents per
annum, or nve cunts per quarter, payable in advance at the
Post O dice delivering the paper. Postage free in the city
► auo county. Foreign postage ^witii lew exceptions} two
cents per copy, prepaid. To Bremen and the German
Sim us (marked via Bremen and Hamburg line), three cents
per dupy, prepaid, single copies to anV address in the United

Patent for Sale.

The undersigned, having successfully introduced the

JLeftel American Donule Turbine Water

"Wheel

On this Coast, and owning the Patent for the whole Facific
Coast, viz: The States of California, Nevada and Oregon,
and the Territories of Arizona, Washington, Idaho, and
Western Montana, wishes now to dispose of the Patent,
with stock of Wheels on hand. Patterns, etc., etc.

A Company organized and prepared properly for the
construction of these Wheels, to supply this Coast and all
tributary countries, could make the business immensely
profitable.

My object in selling is to enable me to devote myself ex-
clusively to my profession. A. MYERS.

P. S.— If not sold previous to February 15th, then I would
enter into an arrangement to manufacture by paying roy-
alty. Address Rev. A. MYERS, Portland Oregon.
26vl7-lm

Standard Milling Machine.

UNION VISE COMPANY,

OF BOSTON, MASS.

Extra jaw, and heavy Vises, Warranted for heavv work.
New style Wood and Covered Screw Vises, forty styles and
kinds; Standard Milling Macnines, simple, great capacity,

Rower and strength— two sizes, large, 2,300 lbs; small, 93U
ds. For sale by the trade.
23vl6-ly G. H. NOTT, Pres.

CALIFORNIA TOOL WORKS,

Blacksmith and Machine Shop,

HAS REMOVED

To 143 Bcale St., bet. Mission and Howard,

SAN FRANCISCO.

All kinds of Edge or other Tools made to order. Im-
ported Tools, if too hard or soft, re tempered to give satis-
faction. REAPER AND MOWING/ KNIVES ; complete
sections alwavs on hand, or will be made at the shortest
notice. Particular attention paid to putting in order AG-
RICULTURAL MACHINERY. Job Grinding and Polish-
ing by steam. Ordersfrom the Countrvpromptly attended
to ssf*A11 wort warranted. Prices reasonable.

21vl7-qy J. WJEICHHA11T, Proprietor.

PATENT

Boiler Scraper and Tube-Cleaner.

4@b

IT IS THE CHEAPEST, MOST
durable, easiest to adjust, and
cleanest apparatus to use for the
purpose designed, yet offered to
the public. Being constructed on
simple and mechanical principles,
it i* not liable to get out of order,
and will continue to perform Its
office until the materials are worn
out It can reudily be adjusted,
even by any inexperienced per-
son—will scrape off the scales and
cleanse the tubes just as smooth
and clean as they were when
new, without in the least affecting
their inner surface, as the Elliptic
Spring Scraper has a smooth
square edge, and springs in or out
lo fit the tubes. It is particularly
applicable for steamboat boilers
when muddy water is used.

A continuous iron rod runs
through the center of the top and
bottom bubs. The soft steel scrap-
ers are fastened with screws to
the hubs, under the caps, which
cover and protect the screws that
fasten the scrapers on the hub.
The scrapers are expanded or con-
tracted by screwing or unscrew
ing the lower hub,— first loosening
the cap. There is a collar on the
rod to prevent the scrapers being jammed. An elastic or
flexible brush or scraper, madeol leather, rubber, or some
pliable material, is attached to the nut for the purpose of
removing from the tube the scale and dust loosened by the
action of the scrapers.

These scrapers are made from one to six inches in diam-
eter—the prices of those from onetoihree inches rangimr
from $5 to S12- They are now extensively used in the
E < stern States. Quite a number have already been sold in
this Slate.

For sale by McAfee, Spiers & Co , boiler makers, Howard
street, between Fremont and Beale, San Francisco, and at
the Union Foundry, Sacramento. E. M. D., P. o. box 17,
San Francisco, Manufacturers' Agents. 24vI7tf

Portable Engines.

The Swam=cotCo's (warranted equal to any manufac-
tured, mav be seen in use in tliis ci.v), PORTABLE and
STATIONARY ST ISAM FIRE ENGINES, STEAM PUMPS
and ROTARY PUMPS, and WoOD-WOttEING MACHIN-
ERY of every description, at Ea-t'ern piices. Address W.
O. M. BERRY & CO., Sll California street, San Francisco.
26vl7-3m

The Chili Exposition.

THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD CALL THE ATTENTION
of the manufacturers of California to the National
Exposition to be neld during the coming spring in Valpa-
raiso. Chili, next to California, is the most important
country on the Western Cuast of America. And this Expo
sition cannot fail to create a demand lor our staple manu-
factures, if they are well represented. The writer has
resided for some years in Chili, and is familiar with its
people, business and language; is a practical mechanic,
and proposing to visit the Exposition, nffVjrs to take charge
of machinery or other material that parties may wish to
send th ther, and pledges himself faithfully to bring beiore
the public of Ohi'i their respective merits. He can be
seen daily, at his office, No. 49 Montgomery Block. Prompt
action is necessary.

DAVID R. SMITH,
Civil and Mechanical Engineer.

References— Hanscoui & Co. (-Etna Iron Works); A. S.
Iluliiilie (President Mechanics' Institute); Lynch i it An-
drade.

San Francisco, Novciub r 21st .1353 34vlT-tf

Trades and Manufactures.

WM. BAETLING.

BEHRT KIMBALL.

BARTLIN& & KIMBALL,
BOOKBINDERS.,

Paper Eiders and Blank Book Manufacturers.

505 Clay street, (southwest cor. Sansome),
I5vl2-3m SAN FRANCISCO.

JOHN 3>AJVIE3L<,

(SUCCESSOR TO O. QOBt)

MARBLE WORKS,

No. 421 Pine st. bet Montgomery and Kearny, San Francisco

Mantel*, Monument", Tombs, Plnmhera' Slabs
Etc., On hand and Manufactured to order.
*SF" Goods shipped to all parts of the State. Orders re
spectfullj solicited. 5v8-3m

Palmer's Patent

ARTIFICIAL LEG,

Manufactured in Philadelphia., Penili
JAKVI8 JEWETT. AGEKT.

218 Montgomery Street. San Francisco. 10v8-lm

J. M. STOCKMAN,

Manufacturer of
P-A-TTEmVS AJST> MODELS,

(Over W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry,
S. E. Corner of Mission and Fremont sts.,
6vMtf SAN FRANCISCO.

J. F. PAGES,

SSAl. ENGRAVER,
AKS LETTER CUTTER,

Brass and Steel Stamps and Dies, 523 Montgomery street,

San Francisco. Orders by express promptly attenaed to.

6vl6

DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITURE.
JOHNSON~~& BEST,

Manufacturers of all kinds of

Desks and Office IT limit tire,

tit market street, near Third.

Warerooms up stairs. A largo variety of Desks always on

hand; all kinds of Office Furniture and Cabiuet

Work made to order.

18vl7qr

LOOK TO YOUR ROOFS !
Pacific Concrete Company,

Xo. G32 Clay street,

Factory on Kingsireet, between Third and Fourth street.

New roofs covered and leaky roofs repaired, in thorough

and substantial manner, promptly and at very reasonable

rates. Proprietors ot Eagan's Patent. 18vl7tf

Novelty and Usefulness Combined.
Wilson's Prepared Solder

Dispense* -with the Soldering: Iron.

It will save yuti outii itnie ano laour. one uuttle of this
Solder will mend all the tins you have laid one side for
months, and make them good as new. Get them out and
mend them. It is cheap— only 50 cents a bolile; it is con-
venient and compact. Use any kind of limp that has a
blaze no larger than a single wick; a spirit lamp will make
no smoke. You may mend a dish or can over Hie best table
without fear of spoiling it. Try it, and you will never want
a soldering iron in the house again What a saving
to farmers. No more stopping up ol" holes in milk pans
with a nig. Milkmen can merd their own cans. It
does the prettiest job on any ariicle you have In the house,
from a plot di^h to a wash boiler Ii is a sure thine to siick
when resin and colder wiliuoL It will stand heat as well
as any solder ever used over fire

Agency lor the Paci ic Cuast. Room No. 10, No. 423 Wash-
ington sireet, San Krancisco. AGENTS WANTED.

Address P. O. box 17. 23vl7tf

S. !E\ «Sc SS. J. I£. R.

E. R. WATEHMAS.

W. H. TOBKY.

WM. H. TOBEY & CO.,
RADLROAD ADVERTISING AGENCY,

041 Mmket street,

Between Seccml and Third streets (up stairs).

FltlUlS, (AEBS, ClBCULAJtS, POSTEits.

Eic., put up ill all tlie Oars and Depots of the San Fran

Cisco and San Jose Railroad.

Advertise your ButilaeM Tor the Country Trade

4VJ8tf

Our Patent Agency.

The Patent Agency of the Mining ano Scientific Press
has been signalized ">tli remarkable success during the
past few years. The Importance lo the inventive genius ui
this coast of a thorough and reliable agency for the solicita
uon of Lktters Patent from the Umled States and foreign
Governments eanno l be over-rated, and the Proprietors of the
PRESS, feeling the responsibility which rests upon them, and
the reward which must lollow the faithful performance ot
their trusts, will rake care to afford inventors every advan-
tage to be secured to them through a competent and re-
sponsible agency upon this coast.

Chlokine in Gold Refining;. — The fol-
lowing is a new process by J?. B. Miller,
P. C. S., and Assayer in the Sydney branch
of the Eoyal Mint. It is considered a note-
worthy improvement, and will probably
soon be adopted by the English assayers :

A French clay crucible is saturated with
borax by immersing it in a hot saturated
solution, and drying. The gold is then
melted in this crucible with a little borax,
and a stream of chlorine gas is allowed to
pass through it by means of a clay tube
(a tobacco-pipe stem was found suitable) .
The chlorine generator is fitted with a
safety-tube seven feet long, and is con-
nected with the clay tube by a caoutchouc
tube. In a few hours the whole of the sil-
ver is converted into chloride, which floats
on the gold. The borax prevents the ab-
sorption of the chloride by the crucible,
and also its volatilization, except in very
minute quantities. As soonas the gold has
become solid, the still liquid chloride of
silver is poured off, and the gold is now
found to have a fineness of say 993 parts in
1,000. The apparent loss of gold is very
little greater than is found in ordinary gold
melting— being 2 '9 parts in 10,000 — whereas
in the ordinary process it is 2. A small
sample of the gold is removed, from time
to time during the operation, by means of
a piece of tobacco-pipe used as a pipette.
This is rapidly assayed approximately, and
thus the progress of the operation isiudged
of.

The fused chloride of silver obtained as
a slab after the operation, is reduced by
placing it between two plates of wrought
iron in a bath of dilute sulphuric acid.
The spongy silver so obtained contains
gold, which may be separated by nitric acid.
The nitrate of silver can of course be pre-
cipitated as chloride, and subsequently re-
duced. The gold appears to be present in
the chloride of silver in the form of a
double chloride, and the author has suc-
ceeded in separating it directly from this
combination by precipitation by metallic
silver.

Let no Man ask foe Leisuke. — The most
fallacious ideas prevail respecting leisure.
People are always saying to themselves:
" I would do this, and I would do that, if
I had leisure." Now there is no condition
in which the chance of doing good is less
than in the condition of leisure. The man
fully employed may be able to gratify his
good disposition by improving himself or
his neighbors, or serving the public in some
useful way; but the man who has all the
time to dispose of as he pleases, has but a
poor chance indeed of doing so. To do,
increases the capacity for doing; and it is
far less difficult for a man who is in a habit-
ual course of exertion, to exert himself a
little more for an extra purpose, than for
the man who does little or nothing to put
himself into motion for the same end.
There is a reluctance in all things to be set
agoing; but when that is got over, then
everything goes sweetly enough. Just so
with the idle man. In losing the habit, he
loses the power of doing. But a man who
is busy about some regular employment for
a proper length of time every day, can very
easily be something else during the remain-
ing hours; indeed the recreation of a weary
man is apt to be busier than the perpetual
leisure of the idle. As he walks through
the world, his hands hanging unmuffled and
ready by his side, and he can sometimes do
more by a single touch in passing, than a
vacant man is likely to do in twelve months.
Let no man cry for leisure in order to do
anything. Let him rather pray thathe may
never have leisure. If he really wishes to
do any good thing, he will always find time
for it, by properly arranging his other em-
ployment.— New York Ledger.

Oeegon Lime Cement. — Excellent speci-
mens of lime cement, iron ore and stone
coal are obtained from quarries on Butte
Creek, Clackamas County, about twelve
miles from Belpassi; within a radius of half
a mile, easy of access, with a good road
leading to within a few rods of the locality
Mr. Frank Cooper sold last summer 1,500
barrels of cement made at this quarry; and
a large brick building was erected in Silver-
ton, using this material. The lime rock
seems to be composed entirely of shell, and
is said to produce an excellent cement that
sets quickly, and will withstand long ex-
posure.

Quaktz Mills and Ditches in Oeegon.
There are in Oregon 21 quartz mills, sup-
plied with 140 stamps, and a large number
of arastras, the cost of the whole having
been about $160, 000. The extent of water-
ditching reaches 165 miles — cost $275, 000.
About one-half of the quartz mills in that
State are driven by water, being a larger
proportion than in California or on any
other portion of the Pacific coast.

Ttje Mining and Scientific Press.

79

I'huthwl asi> Bi ii.Niirir. — A science
is nothing more nor h IS8 than a general role
for obtaining desired information, and it ia

evident that the person who posseeses facte
in the greatest number and variety i* in the
sition to invent means of obtaining
bia information. In mechanical anil civil
engineering, men are often called upon to
decide upon the strength, or what is equiv-
alent thereto, the dimensions necessary to
give to a certain pieoe in a machine or
structure, in order that it may properly
perform its duty. If there has hcen no
machine of a similar character built pre-
viously, the dimensions must lie either
gneased at or calculated. The Boiantino
engineer is able to do the latter. Suppos-
ing tho parts whose dimensions are re-
qnired to he a rod or bolt, ho would first
calculate the strain which would como on
tho bolt; ho would then decide under what
amount of strain the material of which his
holt is to be made would be safe, and by
means of these two quantities it would be
easy to determine the proper size of his
bolt. This is a very simple ease, but tho
more dilficultones are nothing more than a
combination of simple cases.

It is hard to draw a lino between the
practical and tho scientific man. Each of
them uses tho knowledge and facts at his
command in attaining tho ends which he
desires. One great difference between the
practical and scientific man, lies in tho
ability of the latter to take new steps and
perform operations which are entirely new;
whereas the former is, as a rule, confined
in his practice to repeating the operations
of others, or in simply making a slight al-
teration. — American Artisan.

New Uses fob Mica. — M. Puseher lately
drew the attention of the Industrial Society
of Nuremberg to the Siberian mica, which
occurs in very tine plates, Knd indicated
some new purposes to which it could be
applied. When the thin plates of mica are
oleaned with concentrated sulphuric acid,
and silvered in the same way as glass, they
take a luster similar to that of silver, and,
being pliable, they can be employed in the
covering of various ornaments. By heating
the thin plates, and afterwards exposing
them for a very short time in a muflie
heated to bright redness, an aspect of
matted silver is given. It is necessary to
avoid heating the mica too long or too pow-
erfully, since in either case a yellow shade
is communicated, as well as great brittle-
ness. The silvery substance formed is dis-
tinguished from metals by the property of
resisting nearly all reagents; it is not in
the least altered by sulphurated combina-
tions, by the sun, water, air, concentrated
acids or alkalies.

ROOT'S PATENT FORCE BLAST ROTARY BLOWER.

I'n i. ■in.-. I Nov. l.i. 1*0-1; July 24, WOO; and Oct. 0, 1S06.

The Futtjke Citt op Puget Sound, at
which the railroad from Columbia river
will terminate, has not yet been located.
Ben. Holladay proposes to build this road,
and already there are a number of engineers
surveying a route. The whole distance
from the Columbia river to Port Discovery
is less than two degress of latitude, and the
country is eminently calculated for railroad
purposes. The greatest maximum hight is
but 200 feet, and the greatest maximum
grade not over forty feet to the mile — no
tunneling or deep cutting — and the timber
that will have to be cleared to make a road-
way will more thon suffice to bridge over
ravines or streams, or make tressle-work or
piling to cross morasses.

Six and a Quakter Miles. — The Whit-
worth nine-inch gun, by which the unpre-
cedented range of 10,300 yards was ob-
tained at Shoeburyness on the 20th ult.,
was fired again the following day, when it
beat even its previous performance, and
with 33 degrees 5 minutes elevation, and a
50-lti charge, threw a 350-lb shell to 11,127
yards, first graze, being about 1,000 yards
farther than ever iron mass was hurled by
any other gun. — London Arlizan, Dec. 1.

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Important to Gold and Silver Min-
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ORES AND JEWELERS' SWEEPINGS, will furnish at the
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with experimental packages of

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Introduction or Eastern and Etjko-
pean Intentions. — This is a constant busi-
ness, offering, — and in frequent cases sub-
stantially awarding, as most of us have
had occasion to witness, — great prizes to
the ingenious, who are at the same time
thoughtful and well informed enough re-
garding the wants and the inevitable de-
velopments of the coast to exercise a cor-
rect judgment in the premises. Such an
invention is the Douglas patent dry brick-
making machine, which has just been
brought here by Mr. S. L. Pereira, of 20i
Montgomery street, and which we hope to
see at work shortly, and to be able to de-
scribe more fully. A new railroad buffer
spring as a substitute for rubber, to be seen
at the same place, is an entirely novel
method of taking advantage of the elastic-
ity of iron, consisting in placing over each
other a number of cone-shaped rings, in
all admitting of a spring of about two
inches. The Miller pavement (resembling
the Perry) ; a patent oiler; and a variety of
Bessemer steel rails, and house props and
beams, products of the French iron smelt-
ing and manufacturing establishment of
Petin, Gaudet & Co. , of which Mr. P. is
the agent, may also be seen. The Hamar
patent timber curing process, for the pres-
ervation of wood from decay and from ma-
rine insects, is also being introduced, and
is a simple out-door process, whereby sul-
phate of copper or of iron is made to take
the place of the sap. An elevation of the
tub or barrel containing the solution, to
twenty-five or thirty feet, gives pressure
enough to inject the solution into the pores,
while the sap is being forced out at the op-
posite end of the stick.

New Velocipedes. — There has just been
completed, at the iEtna Iron Works, a velo-
cipede of novel construction. The wheels,
of which there are three, consist of light
hoops similar to the felloes an d tires of or-
dinary wheels, in the centers of which the
axles are suspended by light steel wires
(No. 16) instead of wooden' spokes. By
this means great strength, lightness and
elasticity are aimed at. The driving wheels
are eight feet four inches in diameter, and
upon the axle rest nearly the whole weight
of the framing, and of the operators. The
framing is of wood, braced with steel wires.
The power is communicated by a peculiar
treadle arrangement, upon which the op-
erator stands erect, and not only exerts a
force equal to his weight, but when he de-
sires to do so he can add to this force another
exactly equal to what he could lift under
the most advantageous circumstances. The
result of this arrangement in speed mus t
be a maximum. The machine is completely
under control, and can be instantly stopped,
started, or reversed, by setting the guide
wheel at the proper angle. The whole ma-
chine can be driven around in either direc-
tion in so small a circle that the radius of
the track of the inner wheel will be less
than twelve inches. The inventor and con-
structor is David B. Smith, Civil and Me-
chanical Engineer.

Those who visited the Pavilion at the Pa-
vilion at the last Mechanics' Pair (and who
did not?) will remember that the fleet of
miniature ships the t sailed so beautifully
around the fountain was also an invention
of Mr. Smith, suggested by observing that
a current of air was produced by the falling
water. The application of sails to the ro-
tary boat at "Woodward's Gardens, is on the
same principle.

» — *. -^^—*- »

Social Yoices, the organ of the literary
society of Dr. Stone's church, edited by
Chas. J. King, has just entered upon its
third volume. Like the pleasant literary
reunions of which it is a representative
refined sooial life, and a great deal more ox
literary talent than one would expect to
find under such modest pretensions, char-
acterize the substance in hand, as well as
the manner of treating it.

The Hafenegger powder trial last Satur-
day was postponed on account of the extra-
ordinarily bad weather.

PREMIUM FOB BEST CONCENTRATOR

AWARDED BY THE

MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, 1868,

ALSO AT THE STATE FAIR FOR 1868,
To J. HENDY.

- A LARGE NUMBEE OP THESE}
IMPROVED CONCEN"TEATOES

ARE 1ST PKACTICAL USE OX THE PACIFIC COAST.

Me. Hendy, by diligent and practical application, has improved his Concentrators
until they now stand unrivalled, far in advance of any yet brought to public notice.
By recent alterations in the patterns for these machines, they are now made
JStroiigjei- and more Durable tlian Ever.

Office of North Star Mine, Grass Vallet, Nov. 12, 1868.
Joshua Hendy, Esq. — Dear Sir : — I take pleasure in certifying to the efficiency of the two last
Concentrators ordered Irom you. We have run them steadily since July last, with hut a very trifling
expense for repairs. The additional length of step is a decided improvement. The first six sent to
us have run steadily for nearly nine months, and are still doing good work. * * * The concen-
trations from the eight pans alone much more than pay our entire surface expenses. Without them
we should lose a large proportion by any system of concentration now in use. The eight Concentra-
tors receive the pulp from our 24 stamps, which are crushing 1,040 tons per month. Our sales of
Sulphurets last month amounted to 70 tons, or nearly 7 per ceat. of the mass crushed. The sul-
phurets from the reconcentration, contained about 10 per cent. sand. In addition to their properties
as concentrators, they have done us good service as amalgamators, they having saved us the past
month 50 ounces of hard amalgam, worth S350, which otherwise would have been lost.

Respectfully yours, J. H. CJiOSSMAN, Supt. N. S. Mine.

J. HENDY, Patentee.

Office at Union Iron Works.

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VOLUME XVIII.

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Table of Contents.

I , In Ificdi IIIim.

1 Hi. Par Interior.
Mann Uev lopiueiiifl

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M in Boon

New irnii >lii|i.

II .n hi Make .;u, 1.1 Bread.
Tut; Ke* Cable

'I'ti.. wan lard Vard .

■ . ■ -in Laboratories

CiHIrlliu l-jn* for unr Cabinet.
Enterprises mill Develop.

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Altitude* Ill Call '..rniji.

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Uninrull »| iih- Season.

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While I'lin- tieiu -
California Academy of Sei

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Hkcharioal MlAIHCLI.AWT —
1 'eli phone; To Urn! the
LonKth hi Hi" Olrcumfer
rin ■ .1 Circle , ~ 1 1.- 11 .■ ( li
iii Heinle; Kronen Boring
M»i"irniiis: Hui-d Cement;
Ti. Color /.mc uml Biass;
Liquid Metallic Alloys.

SctewTirio Mnrcsxt hit —
Detoroilnotion of tfei bon in

Oraphlli . /. re a; iii-h

e»l Minimum in E rope;
liuproved Carbon Hmi,r-
Ii-s: Preparation of cum
Water; (fold in Pyrites; The
Primordial Cell.

mi MtsoebLiKV.—
tciilirii,..! Building. . T, lo-
ni-iuili llnilillii^ in Mexieu;
Water Supply in Vnllejn;
Water at White Pine; Bln-I-
lim thf Coral Rei is m Mld-
wiiy I.liiuil ; Biutllicerinc
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lull- IhlelllKence ir.nu the

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Irlctn 111 i:iillinnilii. British
1-11 uml. i.i. Colorado, [doho.
Montana, N'evnda, N. Mexi-
co, Orelion, Wy hie

San Francis " Mining siiiuc-

lik-rs' Din

fen PTAIielscO Metal Mnrket.
.tin Prancmeo Market Kates.
N'nilcrs in Correspondents,
took Prices— Bid mid Asked,
low Incorporations!

The Geography of Eastern Nevada,
tliougli still imperfectly laid down, is more
fully given in Mr. Gibbes' map, (pub-
lished by Warren Holt, No. 411 Kearny
street, to whom we are indebted for a copy)
than in any other publication, being on
twice as large a scale (12 miles to the inch)
as Bancroft's large map) of the Pacific States,
and representing the overland and other
road stations, and the mountains with a de-
gree of exactness that will enable a person
who has traveled over the latter easily to
identify the country. The mountains, with
their intervening valleys, as far east as the
boundary of Utah, and including all along
the Pacific Railroad from the meridian of
Winnemucca on, are pretty well repre-
sented in general aggregates that can be
depended upon as at least approximately
correct. So far as the U. S. Land Surveys
have extended, the results of which are on
record at the U. S. Surveyor General's of-
fice at Virginia City, — embracing a consid-
erable amount of work done by Epler and
others — aud along the Ives' Pacific Railroad
surveys, mapped and accessible at the of-
fice of Mr. Montague in Sacramento, the
present map, as it probably embodies the
same, may be taken as reliable; the rest of
the topography having been jotted in from
rude triangulations. or by eye measure-
ments, which are in most cases not far out
of the way.

Water Wheels. — We are told by one
who ought to know, that our recent
remarks, to the effect that the Jouval
turbine wheel furnishes the highest per-
centage of absolute power, but was not as
cheap in proportion, to the power furnished
as certain others, — are by implication some-
what unfair, in omitting to state that the
improvements on the old Jonval wheel,
such as the Bodine Jonval, represented on
this coast by Fuller & Co., of No. 109
Montgomery street, have entirely altered
those relations; a proposition that we are
certaiuly willing to accede to.

Petrifactions abound at Rock Creek, on
the Union Pacific Railroad, east of the
bight of land. The report is that they are
" snakes of all sizes, some straightened out,
others coiled up; and shells of every pos-
sible kind — oysters, clam, mussel, conch,
etc! "

The Velocipede.

A visitor to the Mechanics' Institute Pa-
vilion on Post street, will find its " magnifi-
cent distances, "and its superb dancing tloor,
enlivened by the gambols of a score or so
of velocipedists, on machines generally of
the character represented in the cut. These
appear to be the most popular, on account
of the airy appearance of ghostly nothing-
ness, which seems to be all that there is to
support the rider, as be passes along at a
speed which admits of little more than the
circumference of bis wheels, and the rider
himself, with his horizontal coat tails, from
being individualized. It is by means of
the curved springs supporting the saddle,
that this appearanceof lightness is obtained
in the "California velocipede," as it is
called by the manufacturers, Messrs.
Palmer, Knox & Co. , of the Golden State
Foundry, who have introduced several use-

to attain. It is difficult for him to see
how any vehicles having but two wheels,
one directly in advance of the other, can
be made to stand or run upright, unless
held so by some extraneous means. A lit-
tle reflection, however, will remind him
that any kindof adisk — as a wheel orring —
if propelled along the ground, will main-
tain its erect position so long at, it keeps in
motion; and that the same principle of cen-
trifugal force which bears up the disk and
keeps the spinning-top erect, maintains the
equilibrium of the velocipede while in mo-
tion. The handle of the machine is to be
grasped firmly in the hands of the rider,
and when skillfully manipulated it acts in a
certain sense as a balance pole; the handle
guides the fore wheel in any direction,
while a quick turn toward the side to which
the learnerfeels himself falling, will restore
the balance, until at length it can be main-
tained with but little effort.

A sedate editor of one of the morning
dailies reports his experiences at the Pavil-
ion as follows :

We were finally persuaded to visit the

THE CALITOKNIA -VELOCIPEDE.

ful improvements on the French machine.
A large number of velocipedes of superior
quality and lightness have already been
manufactured, and orders are being filled
from many points in the interior. At Case-
bolt's, aud at Kimball's carriage factories,
velocipedes have also been manufactured ;
and machines of peculiar pattern are being
rriade at the Fulton Foundry and at other
places, privately.

So simple is the machine, in all its parts,
that no description is required to help out
the accompanying illustration, except in
regard to the brake, which regulates the
speed in running down hill. This is seen
underneath the saddle; from its upper end
a cord connects with the steering handles,
the revolving of which draws the cord, and
presses the lower part of the brake upon
the hind wheel.

But the manner of operating the veloci-
pede is not so easily described, nor very
easily acquired. "Figaro" does justice to
it in the following :

The first feeling on bestriding the by-
cycle, and resting one's weight upon the sad-
dle, is that of utter inability to maintain
the necessary equilibrium. The tendency
to topple over appears to be insurmounta-
ble by any skill which the learner can hope

ante-room, or stable, where a dozen or
more velocipedes stood chained up; and,
while viewing them, the argument of the
necessity of our learning to ride was again
forced up* us. A safe ride of a few yards,
withtoes touching the ground, together
with the passing of a crowd of laughing
velocipedestrians, inspired us with confi-
dence that all that was required was to place
the' feet on the cranks on either side of the
hub of the front wheel, and join the
merry throng moving around the hall with
such ease and grace. No sooner contem-
plated than accomplished. The floor of the
hall in the direction we were going, was of
a down grade, aud soon we were gliding
along at a rapid rate. We. looked forward
to seeif there was any obstacle to be passed.
That look fixed us. The treacherous front
wheel of the machine turned a quarter
round, and, not being constructed to go in
that manner, the velocipede stopped and
laid down. We continued on for a short dis-
tance, until at last the friction of our nose
upon the floor brought us to a dead halt.
Our ne\v beaver continued on several yards
further, when, after turning several short
corners it too came to a halt. We arose
serenely, and, after rubbing our shins and
feeling the amount of damage caused by
using our nose as a brake, we calmly viewed
the situation. Things wore the aspect of a
smash up. A coarse laugh from a crowd
of spectators who had gathered around our
friends, grated harshly upon our ears.
The velocipede can ouly be used to ad- '

vantage under the favorable conditions of
smooth and level roads. The American
Arii *ui says :

The speed attained by the swifter kind of
French velocipedes averages from twelve
to thirteen miles an hour; adepts find no
difficulty whatever in accomplishing fully
fifty miles within five hours without once
alighting from their vehicles. A couple of
amateurs making a tour through a part of
France, challenged each other as to which
could perform the greatest distance within
four-and-twenty hours. One gave in after
having accomplished eighty-seven miles ;
the other went on an additional thirty-six
miles, making 12ii miles in all. On the 21st
of September last, a party of nine quitted
Rouen early in the morning, mounted on
velocipedes, aud arrived in Paris in time
for dinner the same evening, having per-
formed the distance of eighty-five miles,
exclusive of stoppages, at a rate of speed
averaging ten an eleven miles an hour. It
should be understood that, in impelling a
velocipede, the limbs are not constantly in
motion; as on level ground, when the im-
petus is at an average rate, or when the ma-
chine is descending an incline, the feet
may be removed from the pedals, and the
legs be placed on the bar fixed in front of
the velocipede for this purpose. A slight
impulsion given to the vehicle, from time
to time, suffices to keep up the speed. The
ascent of an incline greater than one foot
in twenty-five, is considered difficult, if not
impracticable. When the rider, therefore,
encounters a hill of more than the average
steepness, he has to dismount and lead his
velocipede with his hand, which, we are
told, he can do with almost the same ease
as he can carry an ordinary walking-stick.

We are informed that Messrs. Palmer,
Knox & Co. have found it necessary re-
peatedly to increase their working force in
the velocipede department, in order to meet
the demands made upon them for the ar-
ticle.

Coal Beds at San Diego. — Interest is
being revived in the old Mormon coal shaft
at Point Loma, in San Diego harbor, the
Union of Jan. 23d asserting that extensive
beds of good anthracite ooal are fouud un-
derneath the harbor. In 1856, the San
Diego Coal Company bored down through
strata as follows: Blue slate, nineteen feet;
freestone, two feet; slate, one foot; coal, six
inches; slate, three feet six inches; coal, six
inches; slate, sixteen feet; grey rock, eight-
een inches; slate, two feet; and so on to a
depth of less than one hundred feet, when
a stratum of coal was struck four feet six
inches in thickness. This is probably not
genuine anthracite, but tertiary brown
coal, such as is found everywhere along
the coast in small seams.

Taxation of Mines in Nevada. — A bill
has been introduced by Senator Mullen in
the Nevada Legislature, providing for tax-
ation of the net proceeds of the mines, in
lien of the present method by which the
value is assessed after making a deduction
of so many dollars per ton as cost of
extraction and reductiou. The present
statute has been regarded by the owners of
mines in Eastern Nevada as unjust, and as
imposing a disproportionate burden upon
them; while the Comstock lode people are
opposed to the change, as it is likely to in-
crease the assessment upon tiie ui«s tukeu
from that lode, ' ' "-

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Communications .

Is this Department we invtte the fkke discussion of al]
proper subjects— correspondents itlone being responsible for
the ideas and theories they advance.

[Written for the Mining and Scientific Press.]

Manufacturing at Santa Cruz.

THE PAPER MILL.

Eds. Press: — I find the Santa Cruz paper
mill going, and apparently doing a fine busi-
ness. It is located at San Lorenzo, three
miles from Santa Cruz. Through the kind-
ness of the foreman, Mr. P. Morsey, I got
an insight into the method of making brown
wrapping paper. I am told that there is
more money in that than there will be in
making finer qualities of paper for some
time to come. First, you see a large shed
oontaining straw, which is taken into the
works on a truck, and put into two large
vats eighteen feet in diameter and nine feet
deep. They put in lime also, and steam it
for twenty -four hours; then the straw is
taken out and put into other vats, where it
it undergoes further processes of being
worked into pulp for the rollers.

They have seven hands employed, and
turn out 100 reams of brown paper in 24
hours, working only in the day time at
present, but they intend to run night and
day shortly. The machinery is run by tur-
bine water power; but they have a large
boiler there for making steam. John Sime,
the banker in San Francisco, is the owner.

FUSE FACTORY.

I am indebted to Mr. Richard Uren, one
of the proprietors of the fuse factory at
Santa Cruz for the following facts: Mr.
Uren came to this State from Michigan,
having had some experience there in the
same business. The experiment proving
successful, he has gone to an expense of
S30.000 in putting up new works, to be run
also by water power, on Zayante creek, seven
miles from Santa Cruz; which are nearly
finished, and will be in operation in the
spring. These will employ seven men and
turn out fifty million feet of fuse per year.
Mr. Uren has worked at mining, pnd there-
fore understands perfectly what kind of an
article is required. All his machinery
comes from the States, the half of it having
already arrived. I understand that the
mines at Grass Valley and Virginia City
■were formerly chiefly supplied with fuse
by Mr. Uren, which brought him to the
conclusion it would pay well to manufac-
ture the article in this country; and his
success justifies the action he has taken.
This is a splendid place for mills and for
work of this kind. There is plenty of water
and wood, and I understand that the land
is very cheap.

THE CALIFORNIA POWDER WORKS

are located about four miles up the creek,
and are very large. The first place I got
into was the refining room for the nitre or
saltpeter, where they have four large vats,
two for dissolving, and two for crystallizing,
besides two tubs for washing. The second
room is for drying and grinding. The third
is the charcoal house, on each side of which
there is a long furnace; the same being con-
nected with ten retorts on the one side, and
eight on the other, which are all three feet
in diameter and four feet long. The fire
passes around the outside of these retorts,
which contain the wood that is to be charred,
and so brought into a suitable condition to
serve as one of the ingredients of powder.
They burn four cords of wood in them per
day ; when properly burned they fake it out
and put it into coolers, of which there are
thirty -six; allowing it to remain there for
twenty-four hours. The fourth room is for
pulverizing, and contains two large pulver-
izers. The fifth room is for mixing the
charcoal and sulphur.

There is another room, where five pairs
of big wheels are engaged in grinding up
the powder after it has been mixed with
saltpetre. It is here where the danger of
explosion exists, unless the work is very
carefully watched by the men. Six and a
half kegs are ground at a time, and for
about two and a half hours. There is, be-

sides all these, a pressing room, where fifty
large cakes, equal to forty kegs of powder,
are pressed at once. These are then taken
to another room and broken up into pieces
and dried at a temperature of 130 degrees.

All these rooms are from 30 to 175 feet
apart, so that if one should explode or burn
up, the others would not be damaged.

They are turning out sporting, rifle, can-
non, blasting, and fuse powder. Twenty-
five men are employed in making powder,
and twenty-five more in making kegs, and
filling them. With this force they turn
out with the aid of. machinery for the pur-
pose, 400 redwood kegs per day. Much
care must be taken in making the kegs, as
they have to be very tight and well made,
for safety from fire as well as for protection
from water. The number of kegs filled
with powder that are turned out daily,
is 390.

A tunnel 1,160 feet in length has been cut
through the mountain between the works
and the river, from which they have thus
secured a fall of thirty-five to fifty feet.

On entering the works, the visitor is re-
quired to take a brush and wet his boots in
order to get off all the sand and dirt that
may adhere to them. A place is planked
all around the yard. to walk on. It is only
recently that operations have been resumed
here, after a repairing spell of about six
weeks. w. h. m.

Santa Cruz, Jan. 26, 1869.

[Written for the Mining and Scientific Press.]

Idaho Developments.

MINING ITEMS.

Editoks Press : — The news from the
mining districts is good for this season of
the year. Owyhee is proving the wealth
of her renowned lodes. At Yuba, Mr.
Defrees cleaned up, after running 130 tons
of ore from his Leonora lode, and is re-
ported by men working in the mill, to have
cleaned up about S9,000. He has only a
battery, and neither pans, concentrators,
nor separators; and the mill is small and
inferior at that.

SNOW AND CLIMATE.

Yuba has not so snowy a climate, appa-
rently, as Rocky Bar, the county seat of
Alturas County, from which it is distant
about eighteen miles. At the "Bar "there
is four feet, on the South Boise Biver,
three feet, and on Camas Prairie, about
two feet of snow at present. After leaving
the hills there is not any snow worth no-
ticing; perhaps from one-half to one inch,
and spotted, — a few spots being frozen into
ice. The days have been thus far clear, and
almost cloudless, but at night the thermom-
eter goes down to + 16 or + 12 of Fahren-
heit.

THE WHITE PINE FEVER

is prevalent, but the epidemic is much held
in check by the cold weather, as the very
thought of several days' traveling by stage
in such weather has a wholsome effect ;
and most say, " wait awhile. "

But why so many thousands should rush
from here to "White Pine is not plain. This
is a fine, rich gold and silver territory,
several hundred or thousand fflet less in
altitude, with a correspondingly milder
climate, and hundreds of lodes in a greater
or less state of development, rich enough
for any reasonable man.

BOISE VALLEY "WATER COMPANY.

On the 22d of October last, the certificate
of incorporation of the Boise Valley Water
Company was filed; capital, 810,000. The
survey was soon after carried out, contracts
were let, and now the canal to this city is
about one-third finished; all the heaviest
work is completed, and the whole canal is
to be finished by the 1st of March. The
canal is five feet wide at the bottom, seven
at the top, and two feet deep, with grades
of one-eighth inch to the rod. The pres-
ent contract is only to this city, but the
company will, in all probability, carry it
along the foot of the hills for several miles
down the valley, though to do so will ne-
cessitate an increase of their capital stock.
This irrigation canal, if carried out, would
bring into cultivation many hundreds of
acres of now profitless land.

FARM STOCK.

A great want in this country is good
horses at fair rates; for our farmers, as a
general rule, seem to think scrub stock as
good as any. There is not a single fine-
blooded stallion in the country.

The same remarks will also apply to
horned stock. A cow that will make seven
pounds of butter a week, is thought a
good cow.

Sheep are scarce, and mutton retails at
twenty-five cents per pound in the markets.

It is trne our farmers, mostly men who
came here in 1S63-4, from the States, many
having ' ' lost their all " in the war, and
have struggled against high prices of "store
goods," crickets, grasshoppers, a' want of
knowledge of climate, and in some instances
we fear from the "canna'-be-fashed" style
of some of the North Britain folks. Some
sell the wood off their farms for fuel wood,
and thus in winter eke out a precarious
living, and now that prices are all down,
they are discouraged.

Yours, respectfully, Pegasus.

Boise City, Jan. 20th, 1869.

Mining Laws of White Pine Mining
District.

Tuesday, Oct. 10th, 1865.

A company of miners met on the above
day for the purpose of forming a district.
The meeting was called to order and Robert
Morrell was .nominated to act as President.

Motion made and carried, that this dis-
trict be known as White Pine District —
bounded on the north by the Bed Hills,
and running from thence south, to a point
where the mountains run into a foot-hill;
from thence east, twelve miles from thence;
from thence north, and from thence west
to the place of beginning; the district be-
ing twelve miles square.

Thomas J.' Murphy was nominated to act
as Recorder for the District, and was duly
elected Recorder of White Pine District for
a term of twenty-four months from date.

On motion, the following by-laws were
presented and approved :

Sec. 1. The Recorder shall go on the
ground and record all claims, for which he
will be allowed one dollar per name, after
which, no mine can be re-located; but be-
longs forever to the parties whose names
are recorded. — [Amended.']

Sec. 2. There shall be an election for a
new Recorder on the 10th of October of
every second year, who shall be in office as
Recorder for two years, unless by death, re-
moved, or by other reasons, when a notice
signed by fifty miners of the district, can
call a meeting, published by a notice posted
thirty days in the district, and advertised
for thirty consecutive days in £the_Reese
River papers. — [Amended.]

Seo. 3. It shall be the duty of the Re-
corder to keep in a suitable set of books, or
book, a full and truthful record of thepro-
ceedings of all public meetings; to place
on record all claims put on notice or
brought to him lor record, when such
claims shall not interfere or affect the
rights or interests of prior locators, record-
ing the same in order of their date. It shall
be the duty of the Recorder- to keep his
books open, at all times, to the inspection
of the public. He shall also have the
power to appoint a deputy to act in his
stead. It shall be the duty of the Recorder
to deliver to his successors in office all
books, records, papers, etc., belonging to
or pertaining to his office.

Seo. 4. All examinations of the records
must be made in the full presence of the
Recorder or his deputy.

Sec. 5. Notice of a claim or location of
mining ground by any individual, or by a
company, on file in the Recorder's Office,
shall be deemed equivalent to a record of
the same.

Sec. 6. Each claimant shall be entitled
to hold by location 200 feet on any lead in
the district, with all the dips, spurs, angles,,
offshoots, outcrops, depths, with variations,
and all the mineral and other valuables
therein contained. The discoverer of, or
locator of a new lead being entitled to one
claim extra for discovery.

Sec 7. The locator of any lead, lode or
ledge in the district, shall be entitled to
hold on each side of his lead, lode or ledge,
located by him, or them, one hundred feet.
But this shall not be construed to mean any
distinct or parallel ledge within the two
hundred feet, other than the one originally
located.

Sec. 8. All locations shall be made by a
written notice posted upon the ground.

Sec. 9. Every claim located by individu-
als or company, shall be recorded within
fourteen days after the date of location.
[Amended.']

Seo. 10. The Recorder shall be allowed
fifty cents per name for every name on an
abstract of record furnished by him.

Sec. 11. The Recorder or his deputy is
not required to reside constantly in the dis-
trict.— [Amended.]

Sec. 12. Those laws cannot be amended,
altered or repealed, for two years.

Seo. 13. Those laws shall take effect on
and after the 10th day of October, 1865.

Recorder's Office, Mohawk Canon, )

AVhite Pine Mining District, V

Jcly 20th, 1867. J

Pursuant to a call, issued by the Re-
corder, the miners of White Pine Mining
District met at the Recorder's Office, Mr-
hawk Canon, on Saturday, July 20th, 1867,
for the purpose of electing a Recorder and
amending the by-laws of said district.

On motion made and seconded, H. Wood-
son was chosen Chairman, and A. J. Leath-
ers, Deputy Recorder, acted as Secretary.

The following amendments to the by-laws
were submitted and adopted :

Seo. 1. The Recorder shall be allowed
fifty cents per name for recording, instead
of one dollar.

Sec. 2. When a claim is located and the
proper notice put on it, there shall be al-
lowed ten days to file a notice for record,
and thirty days additional time within which
the proper amount of work must be done
on the ledge.

Sec. 3. All locations already recorded,
shall have two days' work done on them for
every location on or before the 1st day of
February of each year, which work shall
hold good until the 20th of July of the
same year, and all locations made hereafter
shall have the same amount of work done
on them within forty days after locating
them, which work shall hold good for one
year from the date of the record of such
work.

Seo. 4. Any location having the neces-
sary amount of work done on it as in the
previous article, shall have the same sur-
veyed and the work recorded by the Re-
corder, within ten days after said work is
done, and the Recorder shall receive two
dollars for his services to survey and record
the same.

Seo. 5. Any claim upon which the neces-
sary work is not done by the 1st of Febru-
ary shall be subject by re-location.

Sec. 6. Any claim having the necessary
work done upon it within three months
previous of the adoption of these by-laws,
shall be considered as having done work
to hold for one year from this date,
the same being duly rejorded as per section
fourth.

Sec 7. The Recorder shall have the priv-
ilege of absenting himself from the district,
but shall have a deputy appointed to attend
to his business during such absence, and in
case of resignation, removal or death of the
Recorder, the deputy shall immediately give
ten days notice by placing written notices
at three conspicuous places in the district
that an election will be held for Recorder,
stating time and place, when a majority of
the miners present shall elect to fill the va-
cancy for the unexpired term, and until
such officer be qualified, the deputy shall
act as Recorder.

Sec 8. The Recorder shall, upon the
written application of five miners, call a
special meeting of the miners of the district,
when it shall require a majority of the min-
ers of the district to transact any business;
but at the annual meeting on July 20th
of each yea ', a majority of the miners pres-
ent shall have power to transact any busi-
ness coming before the meeting.

Sec 9. Work done upon any portion of a
location shall be deemed as having been
done for the benefit of the whole of said
location, except in case as stated herein-
after.

Sec 10. No person shall have the privi-
lege of participating in any meeting except
bona fide miners of the district; and no per-
son shall be considered a miner unless he
has a claim recorded and worked according
to the by-laws.

Sec. 11. In case where a portion of a
company refuse to do the necessary amount
of work to hold their claim, after being no-
tified by placing a written notice on the
Recorder's office for twenty days, and the
other portion of the company wish to work
enough to hold their part of said claim,
they shall give notice in writing of their
intention to the Recorder, and designate
what part of the claim they wish to hold,
and have the work recorded for that
part of the claim, and the balance of
said claim shall be subject to re-location if
the laws are not complied with.

Sec 12. The Recorder's term of office
shall be one year, or until his successor is
qualified.

Sec. 13. All previous by-laws, or parts
of by-laws, conflicting with these by-laws,
are hereby repealed.

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Gold Discovered in England. — A sen-
sation has been created throughout the
eastern district of Sutherland within the
last few weeks, by a report that gold had
been found in Kidonan Strath. Whether
it is in paying quantities is another ques-
tion.

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Mecltanicai.

The Telephone.— At a recent meeting of
the Polytechnic Branoh of the American In-
stitute, Dr. Vandorweyde exhibited a new-
apparatus call, il i me, — intended
to tian^mit a musical melody by b I
It cousins of two wo one to
send the the wire and another to
receive it The first has on its upper sui-
with a stretched mem-
brane; ao that when l>y a monthpiece a per-
son singing throws his voice into the box,
this membrane will follow the vibrations oi
tho air corresponding with the toneB. In
ater of this membrane, a small disk
of platinum is attached, which is placed in
connection with one pole of a galvanic bat-
tery. Over this disk is placed a point of
the same metal, which is connected with
one of the telegraph wires, and l>y means
of a set screw may he placed at a very small
distance from the disk; so that when the
membrane vibrates, a rapid succession of
contacts is produced. It is clear that when,
for instance, the tone is attended with 128
vibrations in a second, the electric current
sent over the wire is interrupted 128 times
every second. The box at tho other end of
the line, is a sounding-board, with an elec-
tro-magnet; the coil of this being attached
with one end to the main wire, and with
the other to the earth current, it will be-
come magnetized and unuiagnctized one
hundred and twenty-eight times in a second,
and put the electro-magnet in correspond-
ing vibration ; producing a sound, it is
true, very soft, and of a nasal character,
bnt very distinct at a short distance, — so
that the different tunes are easily recog-
nized at the other end of the line.

To Find the Length of the Circumfer-
ence of any Circle. — Cyrus P. Grosvenor
sends the following to the Scientific Ameri-
can .- Multiply the difference of the diameter
and diagonal of a square of any dimensions
by ten, and from the product substract the
diameter; the remainder is the length of
the circumference of the largest circle
which can be inscribed within the square.

How to construct a useful measure. — The
rule being very brief is easily remembered
and applied.

On a planed board draw a [square six
inches in diameter and through its center a
diagonal line from corner to corner. Ex-
tend one sido of the square in a straight
line indefinitely, or about twenty inches.
With dividers or compasses take the diam-
eter and set it on the diagonal at one end,
marking the- distance. Now take the re-
mainder of the diagonal line with the di-
viders, and walk them on the extended
straight line, including the diameter of the
square, ten steps. The distance outside the
square is the length of the circumference
of a circle of the diameter of six inches.

To apply this measure to circumferences
of greater diameter, multiply it by the num-
ber of times six inches are contained in
such diameter; if the given diameter is
less, divide the measure accordingly.

Strength of Metals. — A bar of cast lead,
one inch square, breaks under a strain of
800 pounds; a bar of east silver will not
break until the strain reaches 45,500 pounds;
a bar of cast iron will remain intact until
the strain exceeds 59,000 pounds; the best
wrought iron will bear a weight of 84,000
pounds to a bar an inch square; and a sim-
ilar bar of steel has been made of such te-
nacity as to lift a weight of 150,000 pounds
before breaking. An alloy of two metals
nearly always possesses greater tenacity
than either one does separately. A strip of
sound oak wood an inch square has been
found to lift and sustain 17,300 pounds be-
fore breaking; and a similar strip of locust,
20,000 pounds.

Steeling Rails, Points and Crossings.
Mr. Edward Gray, of Sheffield, has pa-
tented "a Peculiar and Economical Mode
or Method of Strengthening or Rendering
more Durable the Rails, Points and Cross-
ings of Railways," which consists in apply-
ing to or combining with the iron before it
is completely shaped an outer skin or cov-
ering of steel, either by welding it on to
the iron by the aid of a forge hammer or
rolls, or by casting it on the iron by plac-
ing the heated iron in a suitable mold and
pouring the melted steel over those parts
to which it is to be applied.

New French Bosnia Appabattjs.- / •
Til M. Villepigne'e invention
iws: 'I'Im- borer is held by a screwed
shaft, which moves in a collar, capable of
with it, or remaining fixed
By this means the progress of
Hie boring tool can be mad" dependent np-
ii the rock, the force ap-
plied by the f I to tin- handle being
at all times equad. The weight of the ap-
paratus is only forty pounds, and it can be
easily worked. It is supported by a
column, which is capable of being fixed in
any position, so as to bring the borer oppo-
site its work. All kinds of rock attachable
by steel can be operated upon by this ma-
chine, and as the boring tool has a spiral
form the pnlverized rock is thrown out of
the hole as fast as produced. The machine
will bore from five to six inches per minute
in ordinarily hard limestone.

Set on Fiiie nv Steam. — '"We have en
our table specimens of boiler lagging, of
pine wood, inclosing tho steam space and
defended by a sheet iron jacket, that are
reduced to the condition of porous char-
coal, lighting readily by a spark. Cases
have been recorded where dry wood was
ignited by escaping steam at a distance of
not less than thirty yards from the boiler;
and we know, personally, where as an ex-
periment, we lighted oil-saturated cotton
waste and dry pine wood by the steam from
a boiler at a distance of twelve feet, — the
boiler pressure being at the time only 95
pounds temperature, — by Regnault, 3353.
The materials burst into flame in a few
minutes. " — Scientific American.

Condensation in Cylinders. — The greater
part of the water which collects in unpro-
tected cylinders, and .which was once sup-
posed to be wholly carried over in the
liquid stato from the boiler, is produced by
liquefaction of part of the steam during its
expansion. This liquefaction does not,
when it first takes place, directly consti-
tute a waste of heat or energy; for it is ac-
companied by a corresponding performance
of work. It does, however, afterwards, by
an indirect process, diminish the efficiency
of the engine; for the water acts as a dis-
tributor of heat and equalizer of tempera-
ture, abstracting heat from the hot and
dense steam during its admission into the
cylinder, and thus lowering its pressure.
Artisan.

Hard Cement. — M. Schwartz is the ori-
ginator of this. recipe: "To four or five
parts of clay, thoroughly dried and pulver-
ized, add two parts of fine iron filings free
from oxide, one part of peroxide of manga-
nese, one-half of sea salt, and one-half of
borax. Mingle thoroughly and render as
fine as posssble, then reduce to a thick
paste with the necessary quantity of water,
mixing thoroughly well. It must be used
immediately. After application it should
be exposed to warmth, gradually increasing
almost to white heat. This cement is very
hard, and presents complete resistance alike
to red heat and boiling water."

To Color Zinc and Brass. — Zinc may
be given a fine black color, according to
Knaffl, by cleaning its surface with sand
and sulphuric acid, and immersing it for an
instant in a solution composed of four parts
of sulphate of nickel and ammonia in forty
of water, acidulated with one part of sul-
phuric acid, and washing and drying it.
The black coating adheres firmly, and takes
a bronze color under a burnisher. Brass
may be stained black with a liquid con-
taining two parts arsenious acid, four hy-
dro-chloric acid, and one of sulphuric acid,
in eighty parts of water.

Proper Position foe an Indicator. —
Messrs. Randolph, Elder & Co. have proved
that when a rapid current of steam blows
across the orifice of the nozzle of an indi-
cator, the indicated pressure is less than
the real pressure. Every indicator, there-
fore, should be fixed, if possible, in a po-
sition where it is not exposed to this cause
of error.

The Economy of Super-heating. — Ac-
cording to recent experiments on a large
scale, upon marine engines fitted with su-
per-heating apparatus, about 20 per cent,
of fuel was saved by super-heating steam at
a pressure of twenty pounds per square
inch above the atmosphere, to the extent
of 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Liquid Metallic Alloy. — The only al-
loy which is liquid at the ordinary temper-
ature, is one consisting of equal parts of
potassium and sodium. Both of these
metals are solid at the same temperature
until brought together. — Piesse.

Scientific . Jtiscellan > ■

Determination op Cabbon in Graphite.

Profi --or G. Uinrichs of Iowa City, sends
tin tw ifollowin) methods, — devised by Dr
Gintl, of the University of Prague, — to the

' Of Minim/ :
First Methoq]. The finely-pulverized graph-
ite is dried at about 150 to 180 (_'. and
weighed in a tube of glass (1 centimeter
wide, and about 10 centimeters long) . closed
at one end, where it forms a small bulb.
Of pure had oxide, well ignited, a weight
of about twenty times the weight of graph-
ite taken, is added, and well mixed witli
ihe graphite by means of a wire; then the
tul"- with this mixture is weighed.

In a good blow-pipe flame, or in the flame
of a blast-lamp, the tube is heated and con-
tinually turned, until its contents are com-
pletely fused, and no foaming takes place.
The tube is now cooled and weighed again ;
the toss in weight represents the amount of
escaping carbonic acid, formed from the
carbon in the graphite, and the oxygen in
the lead oxide. The amount of carbon ac-
cordingly is, — since CO =12 + 32=41, —
twelve forty-fourths, or three-elevenths of
this loss of weight.

Second Method. The finely-pulverized
graphite is intimately mixed with an excess
of nitre, and the mixture heated in a porce-
lain crucible, until no graphite remains
visible. Thereby the carbon is also oxi-
dized to carbonic acid, but remains in the
fused mass as carbonate of potassa. The
carbonic acid contained in this fused mass
is now determined in the usual way, by
exj^elling the carbonic acid with nitric acid
in any of the common apparatus.

Zirconia. — TVe give, from the Chemical
News, a part of the specification of Du
Motay and others, who have patented in
England an invention for improvements in
preparing Zirconia for use. The peculiar
properties of this substance, and ] the man-
ner of separating it from its ores, are there-
in given :

"Zirconia, or oxide of zirconium, in
whatever manner it may be extracted from
its ores, can be agglomerated by compres-
sion; for example, into sticks, disks, cylin-
ders, or other forms suitable for being ex-
posed to the flame of mixtures of oxygen
and hydrogen, — without undergoing fusion
or other alteration. Of all the known fer-
rous oxides, it is the only one which re-
mains entirely unaltered when submitted
to the action of a blow-pipe fed by oxygen
and hydrogen, or mixtures of oxygen with
gaseous or liquid carbonated hydrogen.
Zirconia is also, of all the ferrous oxides,
that which, when introduced into an oxy-
hydrogen flame, develops the most intense
and the most fixed light.

" To obtain zirconia in a commercial
state I extract it from its native ores by
transforming, by the action of chlorine in
the presence of coal or charcoal, the sili-
cate of zirconium into double chloride of
zirconium and of silicium. The chloride
of silicium, which is more volatile than the
chloride .of zirconium, is separated from
the latter by the action of heat; the chlo-
ride of zirconium remaining is afterwards
converted to the state of oxide by any of
the methods now used in chemistry. The
zirconia thus obtained is first calcined, then
moistened, and submitted in molds to the
action of a press with or without the inter-
vention of agglutinant substances, such as
borax, boracic acid, or clay."

The Highest Mountain in Europe. —
Elburz, the highest peak of the Caucasus,
was ascended during the last summer by a
party of Englishmen, and its hight found
to be 18,526 feet. As the boundary line
between Europe and Asia is now recog-
nized by geographers as the axis of the
Caucasus range, and Elburz is on the
European side of that line, it is . there-
fore the highest mountain in Europe.
Mont Blanc is some three thousand i'eetless
in hight.

Improved Carbon Batterers. — Gaiffe
states to the French Academy that he finds
the plan of Leclanche, of a voltaic battery,
in which pounded coke is placed around
the carbon, gives good results; and recom-
mends it in ail carbon batteries, as consid-
erably augmenting the surface of the car-
bon element and bringing it nearer to the
surface of the porous cell, thus diminishing
the internal resistance. In the case of sul-
phate of mercury and sulphate of lead bat-
teries, he found that constancy was almost
attained, the needle receding only one de-
gree in 24 hours, from 28= to 27'.

Preparation of Pcee Water. — J. S.
Btas givesa new method of preparing per-
fectly pure water, for delicate analytical
operations. It is founded on the use of
manganato and permanganate of potassa
for the destruction of tin- minute portions
of organic matter. Tho solution is pre-
pared in the cold by covering with just f uf-
fieiont water, the freshly powdered mixture
resulting from the fusion of chlorate and
caustic potassa with manganese; when
clear, 4 to 5 percent, of i lie volume of the
water intended for purification is added to
that quantity, and the mixture left standing
for twenty-four hours. Tho still is then
charged with another portion of perman-
ganate solution ami an equal bulk of liq.
. and lastly filled to four-fifths with
the water previously mixed, after which
distillation is made to proceed as usual.

As soon as the contents reach the boiling
point, the heat is moderated to prevent
boiling over, to which they are liable from
the violent intumescence which occurs.
When this ceases the liquid is kept at a
constant boil. The first 5 per cent, coming
over is rejected, and the remaining, if
proper care be had to arrest any drops ac-
cidentally carried over, is collected as pure;
though, if wanted absolutelypure from any
solid or condensable matter, the water after
this is once more rectified from a still, — a
platinum tube, soldered with gold, serving
as condenser. — Druggists'' Circular.

Gold in Pyrites. — "As regards the ar-
gument advanced by the adherents of the
sulphide theory, that the gold only becomes
visible after a preliminary roasting, it finds
its explanation in the disintegration which
the pyritic particles that surround the gold
suffer by the heat. Metallic gold is some-
times visible in undecomposed pyrites, with
and without the assistance of a magnifying
glass. In disintegrated pyrites it often ap-
pears in the forms of scales and grains,
which could not be the case if it was con-
tained there in a chemically combined state.
Fonrcroy's " General System of Chemical
Knowledge," published in 1804, has the fol-
lowing passage :

' ' Bergmann observes that the gold which
is extracted from auriferous pyrites by di-
gestion in nitric acid, is in small angular
grains, — which proves that this metal ex-
isted in the state of simple mixture and not
of composition in the pyrites. Thus the
ores of copper, silver, lead, iron, cobalt,
antimony, from which gold . is frequently
extracted, by docimastic and metallurgical
operation, appear to contain this metal sim-
ply disseminated amongst their particles;
and there is reason to believe that when
these ores are decomposed, the gold which
separates from them is carried away by the
waters and deposited in the sand as if it
were native gold." — Dr. Oil in, American
Journal of Mining.

The Primordial Cell. — "The micro-
scope has demonstrated that all forms of
organic life, however compilicated, originate
in the same simple form, — the primordial
cell, — and are built up only by the multi-
plication and aggregation of cells essen-
tially similar, however ap23arently differing.
It has demonstrated also that every com-
plex organism, however it may possess an
aggregate individuality, has nevertheless a
multiple and complex life, each cell in the
aggregate mass being gifted with an inde-
pendent and distinct life of its own. It has
revealed the existence of vast groups of or-
gauisms, vegetable and animal, which never
attain a higher level than that of the single
cell, yet which have in time past existed in
such prodigious numbers that their fossil
remains form the substance of great geo-
logical deposits, hundreds of feet in depth,
and thousands of square miles in horizon-
tal extent." — President Barnard.

Alcohol Rectefied by Gelatin. — The
following is from the Chemical News: The
greediness of gelatin for moisture suggests
a possible use for rectifying small quanti-
ties of alcohol, or removing water from
collodion in which the use of imperfectly
rectified solvents has caused a tendency to
give crapy -films. Put a little pure gelatin
in the spirit to be rectified. There is no
danger of any portion of it dissolving, but
it will absorb the waterand gradually swell;
it may then be removed, carryingthe water
with it. This will be found more conveni-
ent than the plan sometimes recommended
of agitating with carbonate of potash, and
after subsidence decanting.

Travels tn Brazil. —Captain Burton,
(the discoverer of Lake Tanganyika) has a
new book of travels in the press, under I he
title of " Explorations of the Highlands, of
Brazil."

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Tlcye Mining and Scientific Press.

California Academy of Sciences.

The Academy met on Monday evening,
February 1st, Col. Bansom in the chair.
Eighteen gentlemen were elected members,
and donations were received of petrified
wood from a mine near Grass Valley, pre-
sented by Mr. T. A. Mudge, (who at the
last annual meeting was unanimously
elected Secretary) and of a suit of armor
worn by the natives of Alaska before the
immigration of the Eussians.

SILVER MINES IN SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA.

Mr.H. G. Hanks read an interesting paper
on the mineral resources of Owen's Eiver
and adjacent districts, and exhibited some
marvelously rich specimens, forming a
collection of two or three hundred. Mr.
Hanks had explored the Montgomery,
Blind Springs, Keyes, Inyo, Buss, Kear-
sage, Coso, Alabama, Telescope, Slate
Bange, Argus, Salt Spring, Washington,
and other districts; also an extent of al-
most unknown country in Southern Ne-
vada and Northern Arizona, whence many
valuable specimens were obtained. Some
of these were labelled as assaying equal to
the White Pine ores.

The report referred more especially to
the Inyo district, Death Valley, and par-
ticularly to the Gun Sight lead, the first
silver lode found in California, of which
any record exists. He stated that an im-
migrant party in 1849 came in and reported
having seen fabulously rich silver mines
on their way, and brought in specimens of
pure silver. In 1850, Dr. French, at the
head of a party went out to hunt for it, but
unsuccessfully, and it has existed in story
ever since. The finest specimens exhibited
by Mr. Hanks were of argentiferous ga-
lena, tetra hedride, kerargyrite, stromeyer-
ite, and molybdate of lead. There was also
a large and rich specimen of Partzite.
Some from the Montgomery district, at the
northern end of Owen'sBiver, are fahlores,
and antimonial and chloride of silver, and
show an abundance of the free metal.

Dr. Gibbons made an interesting state-
ment in relation to the swelling and shrink-
ing of adobe land under the influence of
rain and drouth, its effect upon buildings,
and observed that cracks in walls thus
caused were often erroneously attributed to
earthquakes.

N«w Inventions.

To Prevent Incrustation op Steam
Boilees. — We learn that a Mr. Hugh Mc-
Quade, of Grant County, Oregon, has pa-
tented an invention for the prevention of
incrustation of steam boilers. His method
is to prepare the inside of the boiler plates
before or after construction, withagalvanic
coating cf copper or some other substance
with which silver will amalgamate. This
always presents a smooth surface to which
nothing will attach. His patent bears date
Oct. 6th, 1868, and it is his intention to
soon bring the invention to the notice of
practical engineers on this coast. He has
already had applications for the use of his
invention, from parties at the East. It is
stated that there have been over 300 inven-
tions patented, having a similar purpose,
none of which have been entirely success-
ful.— Portland Oregonian.

Webb's Addeb. — This is not a snake, but
a little machine intended at once, and with-
out error, to furnish the sum of any num-
ber of figures that may be required. It
consists of a flat piece of board to which
are fastened two wheels of brass or silver,
with an indicator; one of the wheels is
marked with numbers from zero to ninety-
nine; and on turning this wheel half around
from the numbers to be added together,
taking them one after the other, the indi-
cator instantly shows what is the sum.

A patent has been taken out for a new
process in cigar making. The leaf tobacco
is ground to a pulp and run off in sheets,
as paper is made, done up and sold by the
quire or ream — and then every one makes
his own cigar, if he pleases.

A Philadelphia professor has invented
a steam brick kiln, wherein 100,000 bricks
can be evenly burned in three days.

A new car wheel has recently been in-
vented, which is made in two parts, and
consists of a web which is bolted fast to
the hub, and a ring of rubber interposing
between the web and the hub, which is se-
cured by the belts and flanges to receive
tlie jar of the loaded car. It is claimed
that by this arrangement the ears ride more
easily, and the danger of breaking the axle
is diminished.

Prop. W. P. Blake has been appointed
U. S. Assay Commissioner for California.

New Patents Issued to Pacific Coast
Inventors.

Especially reported by the U. S. Patent Office, Washing-
ton, D. C... to Dewey & Co., American and Foreign
Patent Solicitors, and Publishers of the
Mining and Scientific Peess.

Foe the Week Ending January 19th..
85,892. — Improvement in Wate "Wheels.

Edwin Adams, Orolewa, Cal. :

I claim the above described water wheel,
having sliding buckets G G, working in a
trough or channel C, said buckets being
forced out at the proper point by the press-
ure of the water admitted through pipes
O O, to central chambers K K, and operat-
ing in hollow arms F F, and being forced
in, to pass the head of the trough, by cams
P P, acting against the rollers I I, attached
to the shoulders H H, the several parts be-
ing constructed and arranged, and operat-
ing together substantially as described.

The nature of this invention is to pro-
vide an improved water wheel with sliding
buckets, for the purpose of utilizing the
power of a small stream of water, having
a great force of pressure, and consists of a
wheel turning on a horizontal or vertical
axis. Around the axis are made water
chambers, in which water is admitted
through pipes to force out the buckets
through openings iu the rim of the wheel,
from which position they are withdrawn by
friction rollers passing over the inner edges
of involutes at the sides of the wheel. The
water as it enters the chambers, acts on a
series of pistons corresponding with, and
at the ends of the buckets, but having an
area, enough laraer than that of the buck-
ets, to insure their prompt action.

In our issue of Dec. 26th, 1868, we gave
some information of a practical test of this
wheel.
85,973. — Improvement in Sash-Locks. —

William A. Sublett, San Francisco, Cal. :

I claim in combination with the detached
ball C, and lever F, the slot E, narrowed
both at top and bottom, and the catch P,
for holding the ball against the upper in-
cline in the lower sash, to fasten it down,
substantially as described.

The object of this invention is to pro-
vide an improved device for supporting the
sash of windows at any desired elevation,
in such a manner as to preclude all possi-
bility of their falling, unless it is desired
to lower them by operating the device. It
also relates to a mode of securing the win-
dows when closed, so that they cannot be
opened from the outside. In the casing
opposite the sash, is an opening deepest at
the upper end and tapering to the bottom,
forming an incline slot, in which a round
metal ball is placed, which falling to the
lower part of the slot, binds the sash
tightly, and prevents its falling. A lever
with a projecting handle is so arranged,
that by pressing down upon it, the ball is
raised to a wider part of the slot and the
window allowed to fall. A small catch is
pivoted above the handle of the lever which
may be turned down, and thus lock the
sash so that it can not be raised until the
catch is freed. Mr. Sublett is now manu-
facturing his device for sale. His inven-
tion is an ingenious one, and attracted
much attention at the last Mechanics' Fair.
86,007. — Improved Brake Block Holder.

Arthur W. Dorr, Lake Valley, Cal.:

.1. claim the plate A, provided with the
lip or flange a, and fixed jaw b, in combi-
nation with the screw B, and tlie movable
jaw C, fitted in the oblong slot d, in A, and
provided with the screw nut e, all con-
structed and arranged in the manner sub-
stantially as and for the purpose set forth.
86,008. — Improvement in Tea Kettles. —
Joseph H. Downing, Healdsburg, Cal.:
I claim the combination with the bail-
kettle, formed after the fashion of a com-
mon tea-kettle, made of whatever material,
the pieces D D, substantially as and for
the purposes herein shown and described.
86,024. — Hydrocarbon Burner. — N. May,
and H. F. Stivers, San Francisco, Cal. :

1. We claim mixing the oil and water by
means of the branch pipes C C, at the
junction of the main pipe E, before it en-
ters the fire and water-box or furnace, and
tue stop-cocks D D', forregulatmg the rel-
ative quantity of water and oil substan-
tially as described.

2. The hydrocarbon burners described
consisting of the tanks A B, pipes CC,
uniting in main pipe E, chamber J, with
pipes a a, furnace F, with cocks G, and
plate H, the whole being constructed and
arranged as described for the purpose set
forth.

86,042. — Improvement in Omnibuses. —
Henry M. Stow, San Francisco, Cal. :

1. I claim in combination with a single
fore-wheel turning laterally upon an up-
right pivot shaft, which supports the front
end of the body, and throws the weight
thereof upon the axle of said wheel, a
slotted tongue embracing said wheel, turn-
ing laterally upon the same center there-
with, and extending back of the wheel, and
its rear end having a movable connection
with a segmental bar or way attached to the
body, and receiving the strain of the draught
substantially as described.

2. In combination with the subject matter
of the foregoing claim, the friction wheel
on the rear end of the tongue to lessen
friction in turning.

86,086. — Improvement in Propellers. —
Alfred C. Loud, San Francisco, Cal. :
I claim the propelling wheel herein de-
scribed, consisting of two or more disks se-
cured in an oppositely inclined position
upon a shaft, so that they meet at one
point in their periphery, and are there
united or joined together by bolts or other-
wise, substantially as shown and described
for the purposes specified.

RE-ISSUE.

3,274. — Improved Pavement. — Henry M.
Stow, San Francisco, Cal. Patented
December 10, 1867.

1. I claim a pavement, composed of al-
ternate tiers of square-ended and wedge-
shaped blocks, the wedge-shaped ends of
the latter being driven into a foundation-
bed of sand or earth, substantially as and
for the purpose described.

2. A pavement, composed of blocks, with
lower ends wedge-formed, and all driven
down into a foundation-bed of sand or
earth, substantially as shown and de-
scribed.

3. A pavement, composed of wood, or
in whole or in part of other suitable mate-
rial, laid on a foundation-bed of sand or
loose earth, as described, and a portion of
the blocks driven down into said founda-
tion-bed, to pack the same substantially as
and for the purpose specified.

Premature. — Several inventions having
been noticed (inadvertently, no doubt)
under the head of "patents," by the daily
press, we are led to remark that when an
application for a patent is merely allowed,
the invention is not patented, and will not
be until after the government receives an
additional fee. This the inventor frequent-
ly— intentionally or inadvertently — neglects
to send, and a patent does not issue. Until a
patent issues, or the application is perfected,
the invention is treated as confidential at
the Patent Office, and (except in special
cases) it is unusual to report publicly cases
at this stage, as it miglft often prejudice the
interests of inventors. . The earliest reports
of the fall list of patents issued to inventors
of this coast are received by this office, ad-
vanced direct by order of the Commissioner
of Patents, for which we pay a liberal sum,
and to give inventors and the public the
benefit of it at the earliest moment, it is
forwarded to the daily press before it ap-
pears in our own journal.

Besoueces op the Pacific Slope. —
Appleton & Co. , New York, publish a mass-
ive octavo volume of nearly 800 pages, un-
der the title of Besources of the Pacific
Slope, by J. Boss Browne, which embodies
besides the mineral resources of the States
and Territories west of the Bocky Mount-
ains, heretofore noticed, a sketch of the
settlement and explorations of Lower Cali-
fornia, etc., from notes by Gabb, Loehr,
and Browne, taken on their tour in the in-
terest of the Lower California Land and
Emigration Society.

The Advertising Annual for 1869, of
Hudson & Menet, of No. 41 Park Bow,
N. Y. , and 626 Montgomery street, San
Francisco, — a beautifully printed little
pamphlet, — has been sent to us, and is
found valuable in virtue of its list of the
newspapers of the Pacific coast; containing
besides, articles of interest to advertisers
and business men.

New Incorporations. — Articles of in-
corporation have been recently filed in the
County Clerk's office in this city as follows:
North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Co.
Nevada County. Jan. 23d. Capital stock,
$800,000; 8,000 shares, $100 each. Trus-
tees: L. L. Bobinson, S. F. Butterworth,
Thos. Bell, E. Bayerque and W- C. Eal-
ston.

Pacific Union Gas Co. — San Francisco.
Jan. 23d. Capital stock, $100,000; 1,000
shares, $100 each. Trustees: David Simp-
son, James Atkinson, Edward C. Lovell,
W. Fisher and Chas. Halsey.

Mutual Building Association. — San
Francisco. Jan. 23d. Capital stock, $250,-
000; 2,500 shares, $100 each. Trustees:
Howard Chapman, Matthew Bridge, J. W.
Ackerson, J. A. Boss, Chas. Harrison, Wm.
B. Lake, Joel S. Josselyn, D. A. McDonald
and Joseph McGill.

Union Laborers' Association. — San
Francisco. Jan. 25th. Trustees: Leopold
Dubereau , P. F. Clerc and Nicholas Guille.
IdaS. M. Co.— White Pine. Nev. Jan.
28th. Capital stock, $320,000; 3,200 shares,
$100 each. Trustees: W. H. Burnett, W.
A. Lampe, B. A. Boyle, H. Kaster and S.
E. Oakley.

Palmer S. M. Co.— White Pine, Nev.
Jan. 28th. Capital stock, $400,000; 4,000
shares, $100 each. Trustees: J. S. Silver,
W. A. Lampe, B. A Boyle, Henry Kaster
and S. E. Oakley.

Lexington M. & M. Co. — White Pine,
Nev. Jan. 29th. Capital stock, $1,600,-
000; 1,600 shares, $100 each. Trustees: B.
A. Hawkins, F. Lux, J. W. Tabor, P.
Chamberlain and W. B. Latham.

San Francisco and White Pine M. Co.
White Pine, Nev. Jan. 29th. Capital stock,
$600,000; Trustees: A. Meyer, J. E. Bidle-
man and T. D. McKeun.

Brodt S. M. Co.— White Pine, Nev.
Jan. 30th. Capital stock, $500,000; 10,000
shares. $50 each. Trustees: A. W. Whitney,
Otto Kloppenburg, Coll. Deane, Matthias
Van Winkle and Martin Scheper,

Land Purchasers' Association. — San
Francisco. Jan. 30th. Capital stock, $100,-
000; 200 shares, $500 each, with right to
increase to $400, 000. Trustees: J. F. Cros-
ett, C. J. King, George Spaulding, D. E.
Hayes, J. W. Cherry, J. A. Magagnos, J.
E. Boyce, Geo. H. Lovegrove, C. H. Daley,
W. E. Mayhew, S. Barker. President, J.
W. Cherry; Vice-President, C. J. King;
Secretary, J. F. Crosett; Treasurer, J. A.
Magagnos.

San Francisco and Treasure Citt Min-
ing Co.— White Pine Nev. Feb. 1st. Capital
stock, $1,000,000; 20,000 shares, $50 each.
Trustees: H. A. Lyons, T. J. Poulterer and
Vernon Seaman.

Sterling Mining Co. — Arizona. Feb. 2d.
Capital stock, $300,000; 3,000 shares, $100
each. Trustees: Jos. Frank, Moses Bosen-
baum and Chas. E Hitchcock.

Phil Sheridan Mining Co. — White Pine,
Nev. Feb. 4th. Capital stock, $1,000,000;
10,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: Chas.
E. McLane, Jno. Hewston, Jr. H. P. Wake-
lee, B. L. Ogden and B. M. Hartshorne.

City Front Febry Co. — San Francisco.
Feb. 4th. Capital stock, $500,000; 5,000
shares, $100 each. Trustees: Samuel Ty-
ler, Chas. M. Tyler and Henry F. Williams.

The Manufacturer and Builder. —
Western & Co., of No. 37 Park Bow, pub-
lishers of the New York Journal of Mining,
1 a -e issued the first number of a monthly
illustrated periodical of the above title. It
is a credit to the printer's and engraver's
arts, no less than to the judgment of the
. editor. The price is $1.50 per annum.

A Scare from Burning Giant Powder.
Quite a scampering took place among the
hands working in the Ida Elmore mine one
day last week, occasioned by one of the
men accidentally dropping a lighted candle
into a box containing several pounds of
Giant Powder. On learning of the acci-
dent, the men who were working near the
scene at the time, broke furiously for the
shaft, expecting every second to be blown
into the middle of next summer, and it is
well they did so, for the fumes arising from
the burning powder were intolerable. All
of the men were more or less affected by the
terrible stench before they could be drawn
up. and two of them ware so nearly suf-
focated that they were not able to resume
work for several days. — Owyhee Avalanclte,
Jan. 23d.

Giant Powder contains the same chemi-
cal ingredients as nitro-glycerine, with the
addition of some silver, whereby it is trans-
formed from a fluid into a solid substance,
and rendered less susceptible of voluntary
decomposition, or of accidental explosion
from any slight percussion. It is identical
with the dynamite.

One of the objections to nitro-glycerine
in the mines where it has been used, is the
injurious effect;on the health by the fumes
generated. •

Tl)e Mining and Scientific Press.

85

Weekly Stock Circular.

By Associated Brokers of the S f. Stock and Exchange BQ*rd.
S LM ftUMOUOO, February 6, I860.

Our local m »noy market works easily and
siauutlily, with u fair prospect for continuance.
It \a a great blessing to be free from the con-
vulsions and spasms which affect those money
marts where paper ourrenoy has usurped the
plaeefl of gold and silver. Bates, in bank, re-
main steady at 1@1% per cent, per month,
with quite an active demand, and abundant
supply. Although we have been favored with
steady and copious rains, communication with
the interior has not been obstructed to the ex-
tent it attained at this time last year, and bul-
lion has been furnished in fair quantities. We
quote gold bars at 8S0(«!.SU0 ; silver bars sell
from par to % per cent, premium ; currency
drafts on Atlantic cities command 33033 J^ per
cent, premium on gold; sight drafts, payable in
coin, 1% per cent, premium; telegraphic trans-
fers, \y% percent, premium; sterling exchange,
48%d; commercial, A9@49)£d; Mexican dol-
lars are selhng at 5@6 per cent, premium,

Our rain fall, so far this season, has been
12% inches, and quite sufficient to insure the
growing crops, which are on a scale far more
extensive than ever, besides possessing the ad-
vantage of being, in good part, on new and
strong soils, while the volunteer crops on lands
planted last year are much superior to those in
Eastern States grown on lands cultivated with
much labor and skill.

Next Monday, the 8th inst., our Branch Mint
will resume operations. It is as well to remark,
in this connection, that we regret to learn the
intention to erect a Branch Mint at the Dalles,
where it will remain a monument of reproach
to Congress, for permitting partisan legislation
to baffle the best interests of the people at
large, and waste the public moneys to feed a
small army of political leeches.

The real estate mania has again fastened its
grip upon our people. The value of sales made
in January was $2,716,823, and the number 492,
being eight more in number, and $1,110,064.
more in value than in December last. More
business was done in this line during January,
1869, than iu any one month of 1868, with the
exception of March and September. The Po-
trero lands were largely dealt in— no less than
121 sales, involving $250,667, have been effected.
Two hundred and sixteen mortgages, to the
value of $1,185,221, and 157 releases, represent-
ing $588,960, were recorded in January last.
The market has opened briskly, with every pros-
pect of increased transactions. If the sales in
January of the present year, when compared
with those for the same month in 1868, afford
any index of the real estate business to be trans-
acted in 1869, we may set it down at not less
than $50,000,000.

City- Stocks.

Our city stocks commanded improved rates
during the period under review, and at the close
the market is very firm. Seventy shares of
Spring Valley "Water stock sold at $67 and $68,
buyer 30. This company rmys its usual monthly
dividend on the 10th inst. Early in the week
a few shares of North Beach and Mission B. B.
sold at $69, and later fifteen shares were dis-
posed of at $70 !$> share. Gas stock exhibits a
very material rise, twenty shares selling on the
3d at $90, seller 3. The usual monthly divi-
dend was paid on the 1st inst. The Pacific
Bank paid its customary monthly dividend on
the 1st, and the Merchants' Mutual Marine Ins.
Co. will disburse its usual dividend on the 10th.
At the close, CaL Steam Navigation Co. stock
sold at 65% per cent.

Mining Share Marlce*.

The mining share market proved to be quite
active since our last similar reference. This
activity is mainly based on the prospective de-
velopments, of which limited success has so far
attended several companies on the Comstock
ledge, among which we may mention the Belch-
er, Yellow Jacket and Hale & Norcross, though
the latter does not look quite so well at latest
dates. Should Ophir prove to reach successful
results in drifting from the lower level of its
new shaft, we may expect to see a marked im-
provement in share values.

Belcher— has been remarkably active since
our previous issue, rising to $34, and closing
at $32. A telegram of the 4th inst.. reads: "As-
say from 200 level, $72; and 335 level, $69 to the
ton." The ore reachtd An the 335 level, it is
expected, will be fou the new exploring

drift on the 420 level, arguing from the fact
that they have tapped a heavy body of water at
the last named point. The ore tumid on the
2nn level lies east ot the shaft, toward the Seg-
regated Belcher ground, and arrangements have
been perfected with the latter company to raise
this ore through their shaft.

Halk & Noboboss — maintained its activity
throughout the week under an advance up to
the 2d inst., when it sold at $85, the next day
dropped to $70, and at the close realizing
$G6. The letter of the 2d states that the ground
floor north in the south breast shows more
waste than it did the day previous. The second
floor continues about the same as previously
reported. At the above date they had not yet
readied the faco of the south drift. In the
north drift they found a little ore west of where
they crossed the ore with the cross drift, and
had not yet gone far enough to get into the ore
body. On the 3d the ore in the winze was
wider — about four feet — but not of very high
grade. The south drift had been opened, and
they are now running on a stratum of ore about
two feet wide, and also running a cross-drift
westward.

Crown Point — sold at $G7@G8, and closed
at $67. On the 31st ult. the sump was four-
teen feet below the 1100 level, to which point
the pump column has been extended. The east
drift of the 1100 level is in 40 feet, running in
hard rock. The south drift of the 900 level is
in 425 feet from the north line, the face show-
ing clay and phophyry. The extension of the
main northeast drift is now over thirty-seven
feet east of the east clay, the face of it in gran-
ite. Oter $28,000 in bullion received on Jan-
uary account.

Kenttjck— declined from $232 to $200, and
closed at $205. The receipts of bullion for

January account foot up $69,359 Overman

rose to $84, and closed at $77. It is reported
that a good supply of ore is on hand, and that
both mills are kept running. The receipts so
far upon January account aggregate $21,000.

Amador (Cal.) advanced to $260, on

the 4th instant. The reports from this mine
are encouraging. A dividend of $6 per share is
payable on the 10th inst. The date for paying
dividends has been changed from the 20th to
the 10th of the month. Beceipts of bullion for
January amounted to $47,861, against $46,000
in December. Joel F. Lightner has been
elected Secretary of this company in place of
Col. Bicknell, resigned, who, we understand,
will become connected with Mr. Downey's bank
at Los Angeles.

Imperial— has been -in moderate request,
selhng at $144@149 50, and closing at $138.
The aggregate receipts of bullion in January
amounted to $46,728, against $44,288 in De-
cember Chollar-Potosi has been inactive,

realizing $167@171, then selling at $163, and
closing at $163. During the week ending Jan-
uary 29th, 919 tons of ore were extracted. The
drift at 920 level, of the new works, is in 120
feet, and the drift west from the 1100 level is
64 feet long — all made through porphyry. They
have about 64 feet further to run before the

west wall will be reached Yellow Jacket

rose from $1,452 to $1,575, and closed at $1,580.
It is believed that at the meeting of the stock-
holders on the 5th inst. it will be decided to re-
tain the office of the company at Virginia, and
that the capital stock will be changed from feet
into shares.

Ophir— advanced from $37 75 to $42 50, and
closed at $43 50. On the 3d inst. the shaft was
timbered to a depth of 712 feet, and the whole
depth extended nine feet further. Two more
sets of timbers will be required in order to com-
plete the sump, and this they expected to have
finished at this date. .. .Gold Hill Quartz
shows a bullion yield of $0,956 42 during the
month of January. The amount reduced was

339 tons, equal to $20 52 per ton Eureka,

(Cal.) sold on the 30th ult. at $230. The yield
for January amounted to $36,210 23.

Overland and White Pine Stage Con-
nections.— "W. H. Cottrill, agent of the
Austin division of the overland mail route,
states that on and after Tuesday, February
2d, the overland stages will connect with
the railroad at Elko, instead of Argenta, as
now. The new route will follow the road
recently built from Elko to the "White Pine
district, and will fall iuto the present route
of the overland mail at Jacob's Wells, some
distance east of Austin. Until all arrange-
ments are perfected, the White Pine travel
by Wells, Fargo & Co's stages will continue
to go by the way of Austin.

At Yallejo and Benicia the toredo navalis
(ship worm) cannot live, the water being too
fresh.

Save your eyesight, by procuring a pair of
C Midler's famous Brazilian Pebble Spectacles.
His place is at 205 Montgomery street.

MINING SHAREHOLDERS' DIRECTORY.

(Compiled for every Issue, from advertisements in the

Uimnu and BoUHTirtc PBSu and oilier San

Francisco Journals. J

iomprlBtlM trie Name* Of Companies, District or County
i cation; Amount ami data of Assessment; Date oi
Meeting; Day Of Delinquent Sale; and Amount and Time
ol Payment ut Dividends.

SAXK, LOCATION, AMOUNT, AND OAT DAT

DATK OF AWKSaMKltT. DHL! NO. UK NT. OT SAI.K

Amador Co., dividend, 16 pei abate.. ..Payable Dec. 19, lacs

Bncnn, Storey co., Nov., div Payable June 19, 1868

Belcher, Storey co. Nov., Dec. 31, $25 Jun. 30— March 2

Crown Point. Stores co., Dec. IS. $?. BO Jan. 23— Feb. 15

Chalk Mountain, Nevada CO., Jan. 13,82. .Feb. 15 -March 8*

Chollar PotOnl, div ., $# PuvuhleOct. 15, 1867

Crown Point, dividend. *7.50 Parable Sept. 12. 1868

City K. It , Sun K nine I -sen, Jan. 6, §5 Feb. IU — March 6

Cbcrokee Flat B. u„ Butte co Annual Meeting Feb. 6

Daney. Lyon co.. Nov , Jan. 9, $2 Feb. 12— March 1

Eureka, div. $5 Puyable Nov. 20, 1«68

Empire a. *H., New, dividend $6 Payable May 15, 1867

Gold Hill Cons., Storey co., Jun. 8.$* ..Feb. 13— March I

Gould .V Hurry, div . S7.50, Paviihle Mav 15, 1867

Golden Chariot. Idaho, drv.. $2.511 I'nvnhle Jail. Id 1869

Hold Hill (J M A M-dividetid. $7 50. ...Payable July 13, IKtW
Golden Rule. Tuolumne co, div. 50c ft sh. ..Payable Dec. 26»
Ml. Touabo, Lauder co .Jan. 23, 75c... March 6— March 301

Hone Gravel, Nevada eo , Jan. II, $1 Feb. 15— March 8

Hale A Norcross, Store? co., Dec. 12, £5 Jan. 16— Feb. 6

II ale Jc NorcrOSS, div. §125 Sept. 16, 1867

I X L, Alpine co . Jan 19, $1.50 Feb. 27— March 17'

Imperial, storey cu., Nov., div.. Payable June 20, 1868

Juan Bautlsta, Santa Clara co., Nov. 27 Sale Jan. 30

Julia. S.urey co , Ncv., $2.50 Feb. 10— Feb. 27

Keystone, Consolidated Special Meeting, Feb 13

Kentuck,div.,$20 per share Payable Jan. 10, 1869

Mohawk & Montreal, Nevada co., Dec. 7, $3.. Jan. 25— Feb. 9

North Amer. Wood P. Co., Jan. 15, $1 Feb 18— March 8"

North Star, dividend, $5.... Payable Aug. 16, 1868

Oriental, Sierra co., Jan. 4, $2.50 Feb, 5— Feb. 20

Peninsula. Storey co„ Dec. 15, $10..". Feb. 11-March C

Pacitic Unassessable, div Payable June 18, 186S

Rattlesnake, Yuba co , Dec. 19, $7.50 Jan. 21— Feb. 18«

Rippon, Alpine co., Oct. 15, $ I Sale Feb 6*

Santiago, SllvcrClty, dividend, $2 50... Payable Dec. 19, 1868
Savage, Virginia, Ne v. dividend, $4 ...Payable Dec. 12, 1868

Sand Spring -Salt, dividend $1 Payable Jan 6, 1869

Tailulah, Humboldt co., Dec. 14, $17.50 Jan. 29— Feb. 27

Virginia A U. U Water Co. .Dividend, payable Nov. 20,1863
Yellow Jacket, div., $100 Payable Jan. 15, 1869

Those marked -with an asterisk (*) are advertised In this
Journal. .

Latest Stock Prices Bid and Asked.

S. P. STOCK AND EXCHANGE BOARD.

Friday Evening, February 5, 1869.

MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS- JSid. Attked.

Onlted States Bonds, 5 20s, 1M5, '67, '68 $ 81 82

Untied Stales Bonds, 5 20s, 18(14 81>£ 82^

United States Bonds. 520s, 1862 82 82>£

Legal Tender Notes 74 74H

Calilornla State Bonds, 7s, 1857 95. 95

San Francisco Bonds, 10s, 1851 par A int.

San Francisco City Bonds, 6s. 1855 — —

San Francisco Clly and County Bonds. 6s, 1858. 85 87X

San Francisco School Bonds, 10s, I860 100 —

San Franco co School Bonds, IPs, 1861 par & int.

San Francisco City and Co. Sch'l B'ds, 7s, I860. 9l) —

San Francisco Citv nod Co. Bonds, 7s, 186a 85 89

San FmnciscoClty and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1864 87K 89

San Francisco Citv and Co Bonds, 7b, 1365 87 J£ 89

Sun Francisco City and Co. Judg. Bds. 7s, 1863. 87ij 89

San Francisco City and Co. Judg. Bds, 7s, 1364. 87i£ 39

Sacramento City Bonds 25 —

Sacramento County Bonds, 6s 65 —

Marysville Bonds, 10s 75 80

Stockton City Bonds — 75

Yuba County Bonds, 8s 77 7»

Santa Clara County Bonds, 7s ". 75 77

Butte County Bonds, Ids, I860 70 75

San Mateo County Bonds, 7s 75 80

California Steam Navigation Co r-6.^ 671£

Spring Valley Water Co 6a 69^

State Telegraph Co 25 —

GAS COMPANIES.

San Francisco Gas Co 37 —

Sacramento Gas Co 65 70

KAILKOADS.

Sacramento Valiey Railroad — —

San Frai.ci-oo and Sun. Jose Railroad. 40 45

Omnibus Railroad 71 h —

Central Railroad M) —

North Beach and Mission Kuilvnad Gi 70

Front Street. Mission and Ocean Railroad 11 12

BANKING INSTITUTIONS.

Pacific Bank ,- 97K 1™

The Bank of California 157 153

California, Loan and Savings Society — —

INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Firemans' Fund Insurance Co 92>£ 94

Pacific Insurance Co. . , 126 127

San Francisco Insurance Co — M5

Merchants' Mutual Marine Insurance Co 500 520

California Insurance Co I*K> lioo

Union Insurance Co 92 93

Home Mutual Insurance Co \\'% 20

Occidental Insurance Co 72 —

National Insurance Co 72 —

Builders' Insuranco Co — —

HIDING STOCKS— WASHOE DISTRICT.

Alpha mi 60

Baltimore American — —

Belcher 32 : 2 J

Bullion, o. h 27 -ny*

Crown Point 67 67>£

Colc(Va.) - —

Confidence AA 34

Consolidated Virginia 9 —

Chollar-Potosi.. 161 lGiM

Daney 2« 3

Exchequer 27 29

Empire Mill and Mining Co 120 127

Gould&Curry 108 lOStf

Hold Hill Quartz 50 —

Bale A Norcross 63 61

Imperial 137 138

Julia — 2

Justice a»d Independent 13 15

Kcntuck 2U4 205

Lady Bryan 12 —

North American 20& 21}£

Ophir 43>fi 44

Overman 7o 77

Segregated Belcher 10*4 —

Savage *»■> 66

Sierra Nevada ■-... 28 30

Yellow Jacket 1575 1580

Union — —

United States — — ^

MI-CKLI.ANEOU3 MINING STOCKS.

Amador (California) 253 26U

North Star (California)..:...: — —

Eureka (California 220 —

De Soto (Humboldt) — 2

Golden Kule. California 12 13

San Francisoo Market Kates.

'Wholesale Prices.

Friday, February 5, 186ft.

Flour, Extra, ft bbl $5 25 ©S5 75

Do. Superfine 4 'ft © 4 75

Corn Meal, $ 100 lbs 3 25 © 3 50

Wheat, ^a 10U lbs 1 50 @ 1 80

Oats, ft lUUlbs 2 10 @ 2 25

Barley, ft 100 lbs 2 10 @ 2 25

Beans, ft 100 lbs 6 00 © 7 50

Potatoes, ft 100 lbs 50 @ 2°

Hay ftton. »2 00 ©18 00

Live Oak Wood, ft cord 9 00 ©10 00

Beef, extra, dressed, ft lb 8 © 10

Sheep, on foot 3 00 @ 3 25

Hogs, on foot, ft lb \Vh © o

Hogs, dressed, ft lb 7 @ 8

GROCERIES, ETC.

Sugar, crushed, ft ft — © 17

Do. China m © 12

Coffee. Costa Itica, ft lb — © lh

Do. Kio — ® ]7

Tea. Japan, ft Bt 76 © 90

Do Oroon eo @ 1 25

Hawaiian Kii'c, ~h tt> _ 13. 1,1

«hlrta Ric-.ftif, 6 © 7

toai on, ft trallun 45 © 48

Uindies ft lb J6 @ is

Ranch Butler, ft ft 40 © 55

Isthmus Hiuter, ft ft 35 @ 40

Cheese. Caliiorniit. ft ft 15 © 20

Ebbo, » dozen J5 @ &

Lard, ft lb ]•> a ]3

Ham and Bacon, ft lb 13 m 15

shoulders, ft ft.'.6. ..:.:.:;;:; 6 @ l

„ ICftlLll Pl-ICVB.

Butter, (.nitombt. frcMi. ft ft 65 © 75

do. pickled, W lb 3,1 a st

do. oregon.ift ...;;:.:;;:;;:;;: £! « «

do. New York, ft ft 35 & 4r

Cheese, ft lb. ..f .!.. iS S *-,

Honey, f ft ..I..'.','.'".'. 25 © SJi

sate*? s I 2

Hams and Bacon, ft lb . ?:> a 25

Cranberries ft gaffon ..:; 1 25 © 1 So

Potatoes, ft ft iw « 2

Potatoes, Sweet, ft ft "" 1* S £

Tomatoes.ft ft.... ! 2 '

Onions,ftft ; 'I a —

Apples. No. 1, ft ft ;;;;: < I a

Pears, Table, ft ft 5 S -

Plums, dried, ft ft 10 « 12

Peaches, dried, ft ft )0 g p

Oranges, ft dozen 75 a —

Lemons, ft dozen 7S ra _

(hickens, apiece go @ 75

Turkeys ft ft 23 © 25

Soap, Pale and C. o 7 ra 12

Soap, Castile, ft lb "" — © 20

San Francisco Metal Market.

PRICKS FOR INVOICES.

Jobbing priced rule from ten to ftflrm per cent, hiqher than th €
f allotting quota Han*.

Friday, February 6, 1809.
Iron.— Duty: Pig, $9 per ton; Railroad, 60c ft 100 lbs; Bar
l®H4c ft lb; Sheet, polished, 3c ft ft; common, ljj@l?£c
ft tt; Plate, lfcc ft lb; Pipe, l>ic ft ft; Galvanized, 2>ic
ft ft.

Scotch and English Pig iron ftton $39 00 ©$40 00

White Pig ftton 3600 ©3700

Refined Bar, bad assortment ft ft _ n3 ra

Refined Bar, good assortment, fttt _04 @

Boiler, No. 1 to 4 _ 04V(a — _

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Sheet, No. 10 to 13 _ 04«a _ 5

Sheet,' No. 14 lo 20 - 06 © - bU

Sheet, No. 24 to 27 _ ns @_ 6U

CoprER -Duty: Sheathing, 3>jc ft lb; Pig and Bar, 2*£c ft ft

Sheathing, ft lb ©_26

Sheathing, Yellow _ 20 © — 21

Sheathing, Old Yellow _ 10 © - 11

Bolts 21 © — 22

Composition Nails ■" _ 21 a — 22

TihPlatks.— Duty: 25ftcent. ad valorem.

Plates, Chnrcoal, IX, ft box 12 00 ©

Plates, I C Charcoal... __ a n 00

Roofing Plates. 10 00 @ 10 5u

BancaTln. Slabs, ft lb a — '5

Pteel.— English Cast Steel, ft ft " © — 15

Quicksilver. -ft ib : _ 55 © - &}

Sheet _ id @

Pine -II @

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Zinc -Sheets, ft ft ■ _ 10W@- U*

Borax.— California, ft ft —35 @ _ 33

New York Metal Market.

[CORRKCTKD WEEKLV FROM THE AMERICAN AHTISA.T.]

New York City, Jan. 16, 1869.
IROrfc

Pig, Scotch. No. 1 (cash) ft ton $42 50 ©$45 00

do. American, No. 1 (cash).... 41 Oi) © 43 00

do. do. No 2 37 00 ©38 50

Swedish, ordinary sizes 155 00 ©165 00

Common yo 00 © 95 tiO

Refined Iitt) 00 ©120 00

Rods 1U5 00 ©165 00

Horse-shoe 125 00 @

Hoop 13500 ©190 00

Scroll........;. 135 00 @U5 00

Nail- rods, ft B) — gii© ~ lo

Spring —lo ©

Tire — I0?i@ .-■

STEEL. w

Bars, best cast, warranted, ft lb — 25 ©

Sheet, do —23 ©

do, second quality — 20 ©

do third quality . — 17 @

Saw-plates, circular — 30 ©

Double-shear, warranted — 23 ©

Single do —20 ©

Montague & Co- (cast bats) — jg ©

Mnehinerv, round —16 © ■

German, best — 16 @

do. goat — 1 IK©

do. eaule — 13 ©

Blister, warranted * ■ — 17 ©

do. common — 19 ©

Jessop A Sons' common — 17 ©

Double refined .'. — 26^,'©

Stone-axe shapes — 26>£@ — —

SUNDRIES.

Solder, ft lb —20 © — 22

Antimony — —17 © — 18

Shelter — 9 © — 10

Copper, old — 17 © — 19

Brass, old — 13 © — 14

Na lis, roofing, ft keg 960 @— —

do. do. lined .V 16 00 @

TIN.

Tin-plate, prime charcoal, per box 9 00 © 15 75

Banca, ft ft —40 @ — 41

Straits — 37 @ — 38

English —37 © — 38

COPPER.

Sheathing, ft lb — 31 © — 32

Sheet — 36 ©

Bottoms — 38 © — 40

Sieving Machine Feeder — The patent
held by A. B. "Wilson for the " four-motion
feed " used in all family sewing machines
for feeding along the cloth, expired on the
19th of December last, and Commissioner
Foote has refused to grant an extension.
It is ascertained that the actual cost of
manufacture of a good machine is only
from $10 to $14, -while the retail price is
$60.— Exchange.

Theee never yet was a case of Dyspepsia too
obstinate to yield to the -persistent use of this
pure vegetable tonic, Plantation Bitters. It
gives a new impulse to the whole digestive ap-
paratus. The stomach, reinvigorated by its
operation, rapidly turns to nourishment the
food that would otherwise have lain for many
hours a dead weight there, the work of assimila-
tion is duly performed, the sympathetic brain
and nervous system recover their vigor and ac-
tivity, the animal spirits improve, and the
whole being, corporeal and mental, is refreshed,
strengthened and regulated. Such are the ef-
fects of this wholesome vegetable remedy, at
once irresistible and harmless.

Exportation of Ores from Mexico. —
The last mail from the City of Mexico
brought news that on the 7th instant Con-
gress finally passed, by a vote of 97 to 20,
the bill which permits that all kinds of ores
can be exported free of duty.

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Mining Summary.

The following information is gleaned mostly from jour-
nals published iu the interior, in close proximity to the
mines mentioned.

CALIFORNIA.

ALFIXE COUNTY.

Markleeville Miner, Jan. 23d : The roads
are now good and the material for the M.
C. M. Co's flume is daily arriving on the
ground.

TheMt. Bullion tunnel, which has for a
long time been running in hard rock, is
now encountering that of very easy work-
ing texture. Good time is now being made
toward the belt of ledges it is intended to
open.

The shaft of the Morning Star is going
down now at the rate of two feet per day.

AUIOE COUNTY.

Jackson Ledger, Jan. 30th: The Pine
Grove correspondent "writes : The hoisting
works on the Anaconda mine are complete
in every sense, and the work of sinking is
being vigorously prosecuted. Mr. Shullz
has purchased the Thoss sulphuret works,
on Else Creek, and is adding a 5-stamp
mill thereto.

CALAVERAS COUNTY.

Mokelumne Hill Chronicle, Jan. 30th :
The Railroad correspondent writes : Last
week one of the richest discoveries ever
made in any country — a regular ' ' White
Pine mine " — a lode four feet wide and
fairly sparkling with gold, was unearthed.
The lead is located near the mouth of Wet
Gulch, on the steep side hill, some 600 ft.
above the bed of the gulch. The rock is
of unexampled richness.

Herzier & Everhardt are working a very
promising lead, a little north of Independ-
ence. They have a shaft of 25 feet in
depth; lead, 20 inches. Gamble & Co., in
the same locality, have also a flattering
prospect. Mr. Doe and a number of oth-
ers have recently struck it rich.

Mr. Smart will soon have his mill in
readiness to run. E. J. Reynolds & Co.,
while sluicing, have discovered a very rich
quartz lode within a stone's throw of Inde-
pendence.

The Chili Gulch correspondent writes :
Matthews, Foster & Co's lead, near Whisky
Slide, have a shaft sunk to the depth of 138
feet, with a solid vein of quartz, varying in
width from three feet near the surface to
eight feet at the bottom of the shaft, while
the rock taken out while sinking, will work
§9 per ton . The well-known Whisky Slide
lead has three shafts sunk on it in differ-
ent places, respectively, 40, 85 and 100 ft.
in depth, showing a vein of quartz from 3
feet near the surface to 18 feet in width at
100 feet in depth, while the last rock worked
from this mine paid, on an average, .§14.44
per ton.

The Junction correspondent writes :
Work on the Paloino mine is being pushed
ahead most vigorously, and judgiug from
appearances, success is sure to crown the
efforts of the company. Work at the
Quaker City mill is for the present in a
great measure suspended.

I.VYO COUNTY.

The Los Angeles Star says it notices two
ingots of fine silver bullion from the Wolf-
skill & Cervantes MiniDg Co., of Lone Pine,
Owens' River, Inyo County. One of the
ingots weighed S7.86 ounces, and assayed
.905 fine; the other was 85.50 ounces, .985
fine. We understand the mine is in fine
working order, and that the ore is easily
extracted and very free in working.

MAKIFOSA CUUNTY.

Mail, Jan. 29th : We learn that the pros-
pects of a rich result from a secoud run of
the S-stamp quartz mill of the Mt. Buck-
ingham Co. and prospective cleaning up,
which will take place in a few days, after
the crushing of 100 tons of ore taken from
the vein, ten feet wide, as it comes out, is
very flattering. This mine contains an al-
most inexhaustible amount of quartz rock,
easy of access and bringing to the surface,
more so than any mine that we have heard
of. The next cleaning up will be a fair
test of its payiug qualities.

Gazette, Jan. 29th : On Friday last we
paid a visit to the Bentou mills. Here we
found everything lively and ever, body
busy. We were shown through the new
quartz mill which is just completed. The
mill is worked by water-power, has sixteen
stamps, aud is intended for dry crushing.
The maehiuery for theThunderbolterusher
is now at the mill, and will be put in run-
ning order in a short time. It is claimed
that the Thunderbolt will crush from 30
to 40 tons of rock per day. The company
have another mill just below the new one.
It is in operation and running 10 stamps.
There is on the yard at the mill, some 1,200
tons of rock taken from the Josephine and
Pine Tree mines.

While at Coulterville recently, Robert
McKee exhibited to us some fine gold-
bearing quartz ore, recently taken from his
vein. After running a tunnel some 200 ft.
he struck the vein which is about four feet
thick, and shows gold freely throughout.
Ralph Jones is prospectiug a mine about
two miles below the town of Coulterville;
he has a shaft already sunk 90 feet on the
vein, which looks well and encouraging-
He has a small water-power mill of five
stamps, and is now engaged in crushing
some of the inferior or refuse rock.
Should the experiment justify him in so
doing, he will make additional improve-
ments, which will give employment to
quite a number of men .... Roberts & Co.
have taken the Melvina vein, and are work-
ing the same on shares. This mine has not
been worked for some time past. There
are parties prospecting the vein near
Coulterville.

NEVADA COUNTY.

Transcript, Jan. 27th: Townsend & Co.
have located 4,000 ft. on Green Horn Creek,
for mining and fluming purposes, extend-
ing from Townsend's house to Knicker-
bocker Ravine.

After a week's run the Idaho mine yielded
508 ozs. of amalgam worth §9,000.

A short time since two miners struck a
pocket in a ledge near the mouth of Wood's
ravine, and in a few days took out a little
over $300.

The Cornish Co. on Leer Creek, below
this city, is doing very well. The lead is
owned by Cornishmen who do their own
work. The mill is kept running with one
man and four boys, and the owners keep it
supplied with rock. The rock is exceed-
ingly rich in sulphurets, and the ledge is
large.

Jan. 28th: Five quartz mills are in op-
eration in Eureka district, and will be kept
running all the winter.

The recent storm has been exceedingly
favorable to the mining interests, and if it
is not followed by freezing weather the
water supply will be fully adequate for min-
ing purposes, for some time.

For some months past work has been
suspended in the Banner mill and the im-
provements are now nearly completed.
Ten stamps have "been added, making 40 in
all, and the old engine replaced by a new
one of 140-horse power. It is expected
that on Monday morning the mill will be
ready to commence crushing. The mine is
looking first rate, is thoroughly opened and
will yield abundance of rock to keep the
mill contiuually-at work.

Jan. 31st: Fogarty & Co. have located
2,800 ft. on the South Yuba river, com-
mencing at Holt's old crossing, and extend-
ing up the river, for miniDg purposes.

Gazelle, Jan. 28th: The winter thus far
has been unusually favorable for creek
mining. The rains have not been excess-
ive enough to fill up and obstruct opera-
tions in the bed of creeks and ravines, while
at the same time there has beeu a sufficiency
of water for the owners of claims to work
them steadily. Scarcely any damage has
been done by the storms in the way of
sweeping away flumes, filling up excava-
tions or disturbing temporary water wheels
for raising water from below the beds of
streams. Below Nevada, on Deer Creek,
a large number of miners are actively at
work cleaning the bed of the creek and
sluicing out the accumulated tailings.

Walter Dikeman, aged 10 years, and a
son of S. Dikeman, of Rough and Ready,
found a lump of gold worth §28 a few days
ago, near his father's residence; and a day
or two later his younger brother found a
smaller piece. The boys immediately lo-
cated claims, and have since been at work
digging a ditch to bring in water. They
refused to suspend work during the late
storm and are so excited and anxious to
commence sluicing, that they can hardly
be induced to take sufficient sleep.

Jan. 29th: The Enterprise Co. on the
north side of Deer Creek, near the Cas-
cades, struck pay gravel in the claims a few
days since. This company has been run-
ning a bedrock tunnel for the past two
years, with the expectation of striking a
gravel channel. They were in a distance
of about 340 ft. with their tuunel, and all
the members of the company being poor
men, they were much discouraged in not
fiuding the channel as they had antici-
pated.

Grass Valley National, Jan. 25th: We
saw this noon at Findley's bank a bucket-
full of gold, hot from the retort, which
weighed 508 ozs. , aud is worth about $9,000.
It was the product of one week's run from
the Idaho mine.

Jan. 29th: The Surprise Co. have located
the bed of Green Horn Creek for 500 ft. be-
low the falls. The Elevator Co. have lo-
cated 2,400 ft on a quartz ledge at Dead
Man's Flat, Rough and Ready township.

Several stringers have been found in the
tunnel of the Providence ledge, and the
rock in them shows well in gold and sul-
phurets.

Grass Valley Union, Jan. 27th: A few
days since the Roannaise Co's claims, situ-
ated in this district, was sold to the Eu-
reka Co. for a large amount in coin. The
Roannaise Co's claims are on the Eureka
ledge, and adjoin the claims of the Eureka
Co.

The miniug claims situated in Glenbrook
Park Race Course, half way between this
place and Nevada City, may be considered
as good ground. They are worked when
water can be had by hydraulic pressure,
and paid last winter §10 per hour for every
hour they were worked. So far this winter
the claims have not been steadily worked,
as water has been scarce. The last two or
three days' rain will enable the owners to
take out the metal.

Jan. 28th: Hydraulic mining to any great
extent has been suspended in Eureka town-
ship until spring.

The Idaho is working in rock, on the 300
feet level, the richest which has yet been
found in their mine. With 15 stamps the
Idaho is turning out from $S,000 to §12,-
000 per week. The sulphurets are not
worked, as yet, but are saved, which will
add considerable to the actual yield of the
mine.

The Empire mine, on Ophir Hill, is also
in better average rock than they have ever
had before.

The Allison Ranch mine will surely be
worked again, and started up early in the
spring.

Frank Morse will have the old Larimer
mill in running order by the end of this
week. The mill will run on the rock taken
from the Higgens and Larrimer ledge.

From the Union Hill mine yesterday,
was brought to Fiudley's bank. §5,610 worth
of gold, the proceeds of 50 tons of rock,
from the lower level.

Jan. 30th: The Coe has been stopped for
several weeks and the underground arrange-
ments have all filled with water. Two or
three days ago, the pump was started up
and run for the purpose of clearing the
shaft so that parties could go down to in-
spect the ledge, with a view to the purchase
of the mill and mine. The ledge shows
well and is thought to be rich.

rLACER COUNTY.

Auburn Herald, Jan. 30th: We were
shown on yesterday, some rock from the
Mammoth mine, upon which the Pioneer
mill has been erected, and is now crushing-
some eight or teutons per day, which shows
free, bright gold to the naked eye, in nu-
merous places. This gold seen is in the
solid white quartz, and not found in ssams
and cavities wrhere the sulphurets have been
destroyed, as is usually the o s . There is
much honeycombed quartz in the ledge,
which is rich in gold, and also contains
some base metals. The ledge is 16 ft. wide,
and the piece we saw came from a depth of
45 ft. The mill is about 400 ft. from the
shaft, the two being connected by a rail-
road track, and two men quarry and deliver
at the battery some eight or ten tons per
day.

SISJUTYOT7 COUNTY.

Yreka Union, Jan. 23d; The cold weather
during the past week has stopped pretty
much all mining in this immediate vicinity.
To avoid disaster to the Shasta River ditch
from the accumulation of ice in it, the water
has been turned out of it.

TTOLUJISE COUNTY.

Sonora Democrat, Jau. 30th: James T.
MacLean, has taken a contract from the
company to run 500 ft. of the Kincaid Flat
tunnel. This will take the tuunel through
the ridge and into Kincaid's Flat. The
rock is much harder thau was expected at
the commeneemeutof the enterprise.

YUBA COUNTY

The Marysville Appeal says: The Babb
Mining Co., of Timbuctoo, cleaned up a por-
tion of their flume last week, taking out
§6, 350, after a run of 20 days. They esti-
mate that by cleauing up the whole flume
they would take out §8,000 to .§10,000. This
claim is situated about one mile from the
Blue Gravel claim of Smartsville, and on
the same lead or river channel. There are
several companies working on different por-
tions of this channel between the Babb and
Blue Gravel claims. Our mines will not
be exhausted till this extensive body of
gravel and cement has been washed. The
companies at the present time working, and
in fact owning nearly all this ground, are
J. O'Brien, McAUis & Gordon, Excelsior
Canal Co. and the Pittsburgh Co. All the
above companies are realizing fair results
from their labor; still the great drawback is
that none of the above claims are sufficiently
low to work their richest aud best gravel.

a»MBO,.nT. NEVADA.

Unionville Register, Jan. 23d: We were
shown on Thursday some samples of ore
taken from Gov. Fall's claim, on the Ari-
zona mine, that were richer by far than any-
thing we have heretofore seen from the
same ledge. A very large body of this kind
of ore was struck by the workmen in the
mine.

Silver M. Co. shipped this week 1,044
ozs. of bullion, and Fall & Co. shipped
1,500 ozs.

Jan. 30th: A respectable little miniug
excitement has been developed over the
mountain in Panther Canon, growing out
of the discovery of a rich mineral bearing
vein not far from the Alpha mine, and sup-
posed to be on the same lode. Several as-
says were made of ore taken from the new
location, which ranged all the way from
§50 to §1,100 to the ton. The ledge is de-
scribed as being about thrpe ft. thick and
the ore considerably decomposed.

A short time since the workmen in the
Arizona mine were set to work drifting to
the westward from where the tunnel first
strikes the lode, and had gone but a few
feet when their labors were rewarded by
striking a body of ore surpassing in quan-
tity and quality anything yet found in that
mountain; and on Wednesday, the hanging
wall had not been reached, although the
miners had cut into a body of ore eight feet
thick. In the whole of this mass of ore
there is none that is thrown away, but all is
sacked and hauled to the mill for reduction.
Should this heavy body of ore contiuue to
the northwestward, as now indicated by its
general appearance, new mills will be
needed in the spring to crush the ore as
fast as taken out.

Silver M. Co. shipped this week 3,112
ozs. of bullion.

The Winnemucca correspondent writes:
Fox & McBeth, on Monday last, shipped
10,000 ozs. of bullion from the Little Giant
mine in Battle Mountain, which was the
result of 17 days' work with a 4-stamp mill.

T. G. Negus shipped three bars, valued
at §2,000, from the Golconda mine.

REESE ItlVER.

Austin Reveille, Jan. 23d: We saw to-day
at the office of Boalt & Stetefeldt two large
bars of crude bullion, or matte which were
brought from Hot Springs or South Col-
umbus district. The matte is a sample of
some five tons smelted and ready for ship-
ment. The bars are .87 fine in silver.

We were shown two pieces of the ore
taken from the tunnel of the Great Eastern
mine at Ophir Canon, Twin River district,
which appears to be identical with that
produced in the lower workiugs of the Mur-

P".y-

The Great Eastern has been relocated
under a different title by a party of Portu-
guese miners, who are working the mine
with spirit and industry. Iu the tunnel
which they pushed over 100 ft. into the
hillside it is said they cut a vein of ore
nearly 15 ft. thick.

Mountain Champion, Jan. 23d: Water was
reached in the main shaft of the El Dorado
South, in the Silver Bend district, a few
days previous, and a body of immensely
rich ore partially uncovered.

We learn that Col. Buel is daily taking
ore of a very high grade from the Transyl-
vania and Eighbridge mines of the Bel-
mont Co., and that there is on the dumps
of those mines and at the mill between 200
and 300 tons of first class ore.

WHITE PINE.

Treasure City News, Jan. 23d : The late
cold spell of weather has materially inter-
fered with prospecting in this district, yet
some there are which neither wind nor
weather can daunt.

We saw the deed of the Little Phil. Sher-
idan mine, located near the Pocotillo, con-
veying it to a San Francisco party, for a
very respectable sum. '

We learn that Coover & Co's new 5-stamp
mill in the ravine on the northeast side of
Treasure Hill has got under way. Moore
& Co's 8-stamp mill at Silver Springs will
start up during the first week in February.

The bank of John A. Paxton shipped
during the months of November and De-
cember 1868, §96,711.28. The agency of
the First National Bank of Nevada, shipped
§101,535.14 during the same period. Total
shipment, §108,246.42.

The White Pine mill located at Hamilton
has been for sometime undergoing repairs
to the boiler. Mr. Miller, the agent in
Charge, informs us that everything will be
completed and running again on Monday,
turning out bullion as usual.

The O'Neal & Quinlan mine near the base
of Treasure Hill, is a well-defined ledge,
three feet or more iu thickness, and com-
posed entirely of good ore, so far as opened,
of a high grade.

The shaft iu the Keystone mine is about

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80 feet in depth, starting 15 or '20 feet from
the north- wnll. At a depth of about 70 ft.
the ibaft Btrikea this wall and billows it
down a distance of ten feet, from which
poinl drifts have been ran east and west,
following this wall a distance altogether of
■boot 100 feet. The Keystone mine has
tarnished the ri.h. ^t specimen of silver
ore we have onein 1'axton's Bank

is wortl ud about as big as

a water bucket.

Virginia Enterprite, .bin. 26tb : For some
days we have beard but little said about
White Pine. The heat of thofever appears
to lie over for the present Some who have
lately come from that region say that the
country is already overdone, and predict
that one year from to-day the population
will bo one-third greater than at present

Treasure City Hints, .Tan. 30th : There is
nothing at present of which White Pine
district stands so much in need as that of
mills and other ore-reducing facilities. The
dumps on Chloride Flat aro nearly all so
piled up with ore as to interfere with tho
successful working of those mines, owing
to tho fact that no sufficient means of re-
ducing ores can beobtaiucd within areason-
able distance.

The Mary ledge has been opened four or
five feet, but is apparently much wider
than that. The ore contains copper, lead
and antimony, together with silver chlo-
rides. A great many assays have been
made, which leave no doubt that the entire
vein will yield over $100 per ton.

The Galena mine is the largest and most
valuable in the Base Metal Range. It has
been opened in several places, all of which
yielded excellent ore showing the vein to
be 100 feet or more in width. Assays as
high as §1,700 per ton have been obtained,
and a few tons worked by mill process
yielded $152 per ton, notwithstanding there
is considerable lead, copper, antimony, and
other base metals combined with the chlo-
rides, preventing the amalgamation of the
silver by the ordinary mill process. So
far as the vein has been o, • ed tl e ore will
yield an average considerably above $100
per ton.

The Oasis mill, since tho 10th inst , has
been running on third-class ore from tho
Eherhardt, which pays only about $400 per
ton. A few days ago, workmen completed
the laying of 3,000 feet of 3-inch galvan-
ized iron pipe, for the purpose of convey-
ing an additional supply of water to the
mill.

Ore from the Dell mine on Pogonip
Flat, works by mill process $256 per ton.

On "Wednesday last, at the assay office of
T. M. Luther, in Silver Springs, we saw
ten bars of bullion, .985 fine, worth about
320,000 — a portion of the proceeds of third-
class ore from the Eherhardt, worked at the
Oasis mill this month.

The Butcher Boy ledge, near this place,
is yielding pay ore in large quantities and
of good quality.

WASHOE.

[In the Stock Circular, in another portion
of this paper, will be found late mining
news from this district.]

Virginia Enterprise, Jan. 27th : The Gold
Hill Co. have completed a substantial car-
track from the mouth of their tunnel to
their mill on the opposite side of Main
street. The ore is now run from the mine
directly to the mill.

Jan. 28th : During the week ending last
Friday, 900 tons of ore was taken from the
Chollar Potosi mine, averaging $43.67,
from the stope, and $26.48 per ton from the
cut. On the 22d the company shipped
bullion to the value of $6,688.

The Birdsall mill, Dayton, which has
been idle for some two weeks, started up
on Tuesday, on ore from the Occidental
mine. They now have on hand an accu-
mulation of between 1,400 and 1,500 tons
of Occidental ore, and unless a very severe
storm should occur, the mill will be kept
constantly going to its utmost capacity for
the next six weeks, or until spring.

Jan. 30th : There was shipped by express
from this city during the past week 4,614
pounds of bullion, valued at $126,555.89.

Jan. 31st : The Chollar Potosi Co. yester-
day shipped $14,509.50 in bullion.

BRITISH COLUMBIA.

Portland Oregonian, Jan. 23d : A gentle-
man of this city who has business connec-
tions with the Kootenai mining region, has
just received letters containing information
of the most encouraging character, con-
cerning the mining prospects of the com-
ing season. The permanence and richness
of the mines are becoming so well estab-
lished as to attract many of the pack trains
which have hitherto been trading to the
Blaekfoot country. There will be in the
spring at least seven trains withdrawn from
the Blaekfoot route and placed on the road
from Walla Walla to Kootenai. It is con-

fidently expected that the yield of gold and
the general prosperity of the Kootenai
country for the coming season, will be fur
greater than of any previous year.
COLORADO.

Central City Register, Jan. 14th: The
first class ore of the Flack mine taken Out
during the last month was sold to Prof.
Hill for $172 per ton. The second class
ore averaged about six ozs. of gold per
cord.

B. C. Waterman has been putting up a
new mill at the head of Eureka Gulch.

Some 500 ozs. of silver were shipped to
Denver yesterday, from tho works of Hne-
peden, Wolters & Co., Georgetown.

From a friend recently from the Arkan-
sas, we learn that mining operations in
Granite district are quite active and prom-
ising. The winter, thus far, has been mild,
with very little snow. Mr. Felton is run-
ning his mine and mill regularly, and with
very good success. His mine is 115 feet
deep, and is yielding very good ore in rea-
sonable quantity.

Central City Herald, Jan. 13th: A quartz
mill is being put up on Fall River with a
view to crushing ore from Russell and Ne-
vada.

A report has been current on the street
for the last few days that the Bobtail Drain-
age Co. intend to shut down. This will
stop work on the Bobtail Hill. Also, in
the Gregory, Briggs, Smith & Parmelee
and Black Hawk mines. Over 300 men
will be thrown out of employment.

IDAHO.

Owyhee Avalanche. Jan. 23d: Richer ore
than ever is now being taken out of the Ida
Elmore mine. The main or south shaft is
down nearly 100 ft. A new level has been
formed at a depth of 80 ft. ; a depth of
about 60 ft. has been 'attained in the north
shaft, and we can safely assert that at no
time in the history of this celebrated mine
have the indications been as brilliant as at
present. The Ida Elmore mill is kept hum
miug night and day on this ore.

Work is progressing rapidly on the Golden
Chariot mine, and huge piles of glittering
ore are the results. The Owyhee mill will
be employed on it next week.

The Poorman ledge is increasing daily,
in quantity and quality; theyieldnow aver-
ages about 40 tons per day of excellent
rock. The casing of the lode is, and al-
ways has been, very soft and easily worked,
none but picking ground has been en-
countered, and the services Of powder is
hardly ever required. The Owyhee mill is
at work on the ore with good results.

Work has been done on the Minnesota
lode. Several hands are employed sinking
a shaft, and it looks exceedingly well.
Some as rich ore as was ever extracted from
any mine in the camp came from this lode.
A shaft is being sunk on the Baxter lode,
and occasionally extremely rich ore is dis-
closed.

Tierny & Co., on the south extension of
the Oro Fino, are busy sinking their shaft
and the lode looks well; the rock obtained
is of a similar character to that of the Ida
Elmore.

We have been informed of another rich
strike not many miles from town, but ow-
ing to some complications we are not at
liberty to give particulars at present.

Silver City Tidal Wave, Jan. 19th: The
Woodstock has had a fine clean-up at the
Cosmos mill. We saw a large brick at
Blake's, but as it was not yet assayed was
of no particular known value.

Uriah Perry, of the Iowa Co. in Flint,
came over on Saturday with 1,100 ounces
crude bullion, the product of four days'
run in Black's 5-stamp mill, $100 per ton
and upwards. Perry makes Black's mill
play on Rising Star ore.

The John Jacob Astor ledge at Flint, is
developing finely. Their tunnel is now in
115 ft., which gives them a depth of 35 ft.
The ledge is four ft. wide at this depth and
fully equal to the ore that gave $165 per
ton'last fall, mill process.

The finest body of ore yet struck in the
Rising Star mine showed itself on Thurs-
day about 190 ft. below the surface, the
whole body of the ledge being very rich
at that point rsi^ ruby silver of a very high
grade.

Jan. 23d: From a gentleman who has
just returned from South Mountain we
learn that-the new mines now being worked
there look very promising indeed. The
Galena and Original are very wide and rich
ledges; and the Young America, a later
discovery is said to exhibit some of the
finest prospects of any lode yet discovered
on this coast. The lode is 12 ft. wide and
the oro assays $208 per ton.

The Gulden Chariot is taking out rock in
large quantities. The Owyhee mill will
start on Chariot ore to-day.

MONTANA.
Helena Post, Jan. 8th: The strike has
subsided, the miners employed by Mr.
Hodge have resumed work at the old price
of $50 per month, and Mr. Totem's men
have expressed a willingness to do so as
soon as he hears from the East. All the
differences have been arranged satisfac-
torily.

A ditch is to bo brought into Pony Gulch
to convoy water from the right hand fork of
Willow Creek. This ditch is about VA
miles long and has capacity of some 500 in.
of water.

The future prospects at Diamond City are
brighter than ever before. The prosperity
of Diamond City has been tho result of her
very wealthy plaeer claims which have
yielded to the owners great wealth. These
placers are not worked out but will give
employment to a large number of men for
years to come. We have examined several
specimens from the Durant lode, shown us
by Mr. Cook, and they are indeed splendid.
We have examined specimens from other
lodes and we are prepared to believe that
there are no better quartz leads in the Ter-
ritory than can be seen to-day in the vicin-
ity of Diamond City. Mr. D. W. Corbin,
the owner of the Durant lode, is at present
East, engaged in procuring a splendid
quartz mill, which he intends having in full
operation by the first day of July next on
this lode.

The Phillipsburg correspondent writes:
Taking a tour through the mines, 1 found
the miners busily at work everywhere, and
in high spirits. The deeper they go the
better their leads are. Up the gulch I
came first to Mr. Freeman's shaft 110 ft.
deep. Then comes John O'Leary's shaft
shaft 30 ft. deep. They have excellent
ore. I visited the Belle Flower and the
Irish Republic where an immense amount
of labor has been performed. A fortune is
in sight in each of these lodes. These deep
shafts and good veins are assurance that
the ledges are permanent I also visited
Alexander's tunnel, where he and Mr. Ed-
gar were taking out rich and beautiful ore,
and the Hope lode, and was astonished at
the richness of the ore that comes out of
the deep shaft sunk by James Stuart On
the San Francisco, Estell & Freeman -were
at work. This lode is in the granite and
looks well. Proceeding to the shaft on the
line between Nos. 2 and 3 on the Rumley
& Bngher lode, I found this opening look-
ing fully as well as discovery. This im-
mense lode is now open to the extent of
1,200 ft. in length, and the narrowest place
in it is 27 ft. This lode and the Hope have
been tried in the mill and their owners defy
any other lodes in Montana to equal them
in richness and extent. Work is going
on universally throughout this camp, ex-
cept on those tunnels and shafts which were
run last winter to the great bamboo chief —
the Comanche. That work is now sus-
pended.

NEW MEXICO.
Santa Fe Gazette, Jan. 9th : The report of
Col. Darling's expedition during the survey
of the boundary line between New Mexico
and Colorado, says : Gold and silver mines
abound in the Sierra Navajo, San Juan,
Las Animas and La Plata ranges of mount-
ains. They have all been indifferently
prospected, but on account of the active
hostility of the Utes, very little is actually
known of their immensity or capacity.

Central City (Col. ) Register, Jan. 14th:
Maxwell's mill, Cimarron, cleaned up on
the 7th inst, $5,000 in gold, as the result
of one week's run. The lode is opening
better than ever.

The Colorado Chieftain gives the follow-
ing : The telegraphic dispatches give ac-
counts of a new mining excitement in the
Taos Valley. These mountains along the
Rito Seco and Arroyo Hondo, in that val-
ley, have long been supposed to be rich in
the precious metals. It has been said for
many years that that district was a hundred
or two hundred years ago occupied by
Spanish miners, who accumulated immense
sums of both silver and gold, and aban-
doned their mines during an Indian war,
concealing as carefully as possible all traces
of their operations. This new excitement
will give an impetus to the explorations of
prospectors, and from our knowledge of
that country, we predict that rich and ex-
tensive discoveries of the precious metals
will be made on the Rio Colorado, Arroyo
Hondo and Rito Seco. Since Colorado was
opened as a miring country, no systematic
search for gold has been made in that coun-
try, and the indications have always been
regarded by scientific men as being of rare
promise.

OREGON.

Portland Oregonian, Jan. 16th : Frank

Cooper, of Marion County, has in this city

some specimens of iron ore which is

thought to be of excellent quality, from a

recently discovered mine in the region of
Butte Creek. He proposes to send some of
it to San Francisco by the next steamer, for
examination and test by experts. He also
has here some specimens of stone-coal aud
lime found in the same neighborhood. The
latter is burned from a rock which seems
to be mostly a conglomerate of sea shells.
Tho ledge of rock is very deep and the
supply inexhaustible. The lime makes an
excellent cement, said to be quite as good
as that made with Roman cement. Speci-
mens of both the lime and the coal will be
sent to San Francisco along with the iron
ore.

From Canon City we learn that mining
operations are going on just as in summer
time. There has been but little snow in
the valleys, though the fall has been quite
deep in the mountains. It is anticipated
that the supply of water for spring and
early summer operations will be good, and
that the season will be a prosperous one.
There is no local news of importance.

Wallace k Williams will have a 24-stamp
quartz mill running in the John Day mines
by early spring.

Dalles Mountaineer, Jan. 22d : A corres-
pondent writing from Willows Creek, says:
Few persons have any idea as to our enter-
prise. When completed our ditch will be
over 100 miles long, and will command
more mining ground, and give employment
to more miners than there is at present in
any mining camp in Oregon. It will re-
quire two years to finish the ditch, making
seven years from the time the work was
begun.

A Southern Oregon paper reports that the
miners in Josephine County are all busy.
Water is plenty, much rain having fallen
there, and the streams are generally much
swollen.

The Canon City Journal says : Placer
mining on Upper Canon Creekis still in its
infancy. Mr. J. Campbell has claims open
and in fine working order, with an average
yield per day to the hand of $17.

A Jacksonville paper learns that rich dig-
gings have been struck on Picken's Creek,
about eight miles from the Junction House,
in Josephine County.

WYOMING.
Sweetwater Mines, Jan. 13th : Mr. An-
thony shipped his 10-stamp mill recently
for Sweetwater, by the lower route.

The South Pass correspondent writes :
There is considerable stir in mining. Sev-
eral rich discoveries have been made lately.
At Miners' Delight matters wear a cheerful
aspect. The company owning the western
portion of the Miners' Delight lode struck
very rich rock a few days ago. Some of the
specimens -which I saw were literally cov-
ered with the shining oro, and a piece of
rock which was broken showed the free
gold in abundance all through it A sight
of the specimens -would have banished the
doubts of the most skeptical in regard to
the richness of our mines.

Walsh & Co's mill would be running now
but for the delay of some necessary articles
which were lost for a while on the railroad.
They expect to be crushing in a week or
two.

Sweetwater Mines, Jan. 20th : Among
the newly-discovered lodes is one called the
Nellie Morgan, about half a mile east of
the town. There is now about 10 to 12
inches of good ore in sight. Some. of the
rock shows free gold, and all that has been
prospected in a hand mortar yields richly.
Another new lode is the Minerva. A
shaft has been sunk 12 feet, which shows a
well-defined lead 12 inches wide. In a
hand-mortar mill the rock prospects finely.
Iu one prospect which I saw, Hue particles
of gold were to be seen, literally covering
the bottom of the pan.

The Western Co., on the Miners' Delight
lode, still continue to raise rich ore from
their mine. Some of the specimens are
magnificent, being almost entirely covered
with the shining " oro." The company has
now about 700 tons of oro ready for mill-
ing.

The Eastern Co., on the same lode, is
now down between 40 and 50 feet, and has
a finely-developed ledge of three feet in
thickness.

Several new discoveries of lodes have
been made in the vicinity of Rock Creek,
some of which are said to be very rich.

' Compeessed Am Engine. — A Cleveland
mechanic claims to have invented an air
machine that will give as much power, by
increase of size, as can be had from a steam
engine. He estimates the saving in fuel
alone by his machine at $1,250,000 per
year for the 1,000 or more steam engines in
use in that city.

R. C.Page, (of H. F. Williams & Co.)
has gone East to introduce the Stow Pave-
ment there.

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Notices to Correspondents.

Gunpowdee. — Artificially produced nitre
is obtained by mingling together animal
matters, ashes, and lime rubbish, in
loosely aggregated heaps, and exposing
such heaps to the atmosphere, but care-
fully protected from rain. When obtaina-
ble, the heaps are from time to time moist-
ened with urine, and stable runnings; at
appropriate intervals these heaps are lix-
iviated, and the salt crystallized. Three
years usually elapse before such nitre
beds are worked; after which interval a
cubic foot of the mixture is expected to
yield between four and five ounces of
nitre. It is found by the proprietors of
the nitre plantations, that by the employ-
ment of the earth previously used for this
purpose, it yields a fresh crop of nitre
much more quickly than when fresh earth
is used for the purpose.

Sallfobous. — The Wielitzka salt mine,
which it has been recently stated islikely
to be unworkable at an early day in con-
sequence of an immense and apparently
increasing influx of water, is in a bed
which consists, as calculated, of a mass
of rock-salt 500 miles in length, twenty
miles broad, and 1,200 feet in thickness.
Its geological position is in the cretaceous
series, and it consequently belongs to the
same geological era as the great mass of
rock west of the Sierra, in California.
The last fact is noteworthy as rendering
it possible that similar saliferous deposits
may some day be discovered in this State,
though it is now well established that
salt deposits may occur in all of the geo-
logical ages, down to the Silurian, the
conditions being the existence of shallow
or isolated basins.

L. S. M. — The electricity developed by
friction in the ordinary electrical ma-
chine, as shown by Farraday, produces a
corresponding amount of magnetic ac-
tion on the needle of the galvanometer,
and an equivalent amount of chemical
decomposition, on electrolytes through
which it is transmitted; and in the fusion
of metallic wires we have evidence of its
capability of producing heat of an intense
character, while in the electric spark we
have evidence of its power to produce
light. The experiments of Farraday cor-
roborated by those made by other scien-
tists, have shown that the motion of
a magnet of given strength, under cer-
tain conditions, produces, in a closed me-
tallic conductor, a definite current of
electricity, and through t he electricity t b u s
set in motion, light, heat, and chemical
action may be developed.

A Scffeeee. —A lute for iron joints may
be composed of a mixture of 60 parts of
iron filings, sifted fine, and two of sal
ammoniac, in fine powder, intimately
blended, with one part of flowers of sul-
phur. _ The powder must afterwards be
made into paste by means of water, and
must be applied immediately; in a few
minutes the lute so composed will be-
come hot, will swell and evolve sulphu-
rated hydrogen, and it speedily sets as
hard as iron itself.

Freights to the Far Interior.

The importance of moderate freights for
the development of the great interior hav-
ing forded itself upon the attention of the
Chamber of Commerce of this city, Mr.
Chas. Crocker, the General Superintendent
of the Central Pacific Eailroad, has given
notice, in a card to the business men of this
State and of Nevada, that after July 1st a
"material reduction" is to be made from
the present rates on that road. These are
now about double the rates charged on the
eastern end, the Union Pacific Kailroad;
and the Denver and Central City people are
complaining, nevertheless, of exorbitance
even there.

Unless the managers of these grand rail-
road enterprises, in the interest of miners,
prospectors and settlers in the interior, as
well as of California and of the nation at
large, are very stupidly blind, they will
recognize the principle as an axiom in the
matter of freight tariffs, that encourage-
ment of the greatest amount of travel and
freighting to which the circumstances of
the country admit of being stimulated, in
local as wellasin through business, will have
the effect the more speedily to enhance the
value of their entire property, while noth-
ing whatever is in danger of being lost in
the matter of actual fare and freight even
at a moderate advance only on the cost of
transportation.

The foreseeing enterprise that could un-
dertake and carry through such a piece of
work as the building of the Pacific Bail-
road, will not fail to discover that the
interests of a great through line, so ad-
vantageously situated — having an empire
to develop, with untold wealth in the pre-
cious metals, the metallurgical conditions
of which are involved in cheap freights —
are all in favor of the lowest practicable
rates.

Thus the question of fares and freights
is likely to settle itself, and in a very nat-
ural and quiet manner. If the railroad
managers are wise, they will never permit
the representatives of the people to have
any occasion to bring up the matter in Con-
gress at all. An equally good reason for
pursuing the most liberal course is the
probability that eoinpetitory roads, which,
hereafter, are not to be favored with such
extensive land grants, would not be called
into existence by the demands for cheap
freighting until after the destinies and the
balance of trade and power in the land
have become fixed and subservient to the
interests of the first grand continental
route.

Overland Monthly. — The February
number of this magazine contains articles
of geographical and scientific value on
Whirlwind Valley in Eastern Nevada; on
the District of the Lakes, (referring to the
salt lakes of the Great Basin) ; and on the
Experiences of Eight Months in Sitka. The
article on the Darien Ship Canal is by Mr.
Bryan, an experienced canal engineer, who
has been connected with various public
works, more especially with the Baltimore
and Ohio canal, and is an able review of
the engineering questions involved in the
different routes that have been proposed.

Centeifugal Quicksilveb Sepaeatoe. —
At the Pioche electro-metallurgical w-orks
on Valencia street, corner of Seventeenth,
there is in operation a little invention of
Mr. A. Frick's, designed to separate the
finely-diffused grains of quicksilver from
the pulp which has been worked by the
Nolf electric decomposition and amalgama-
tion process. The pulp is fed through a
funnel, on a horizontal revolving disc, like
a plate or shallow bowl. By means of cen-
trifugal force, the heavier quicksilver parti-
cles are thrown violently against the walls
of the tub, and there caused naturally to
flow together, and to separate accordingly,
from the lighter substances, by forming a
stratum at the bottom of the tub.

History and Prospects of the Temescal
Tin Mines.

It seems that as early as 1642, the people
living at the Mission of San Gabriel be-
came aware of the existence of a lode of
singular reddish-brown metal at a place
near the banks of the Temescal Biver, the
Indian medicine men in the vicinity of
the Mission having used it to cure the sick
of their tribe; but the locality of the Po-
jalco, or Medicine Hill, was long concealed,
until one of the tribe, being about to die,
informed the white men at the Mission of
the spot, and the latter going in search,
found the hole from which the Indians had
obtained the ore — but it yielded no silver.
Not very long after the advent of Anglo
Saxon hordes upon this coast, a wide awake
one (whose name we regret we are not able
to give in this connection) happened upon,
and appreciated the true value of the de-
posit, and the result was that the lode, with
a large tract of land around it was taken up;
but the title was in dispute, and the claim-
ants were unwilling to spend any money on
the mine, until October, 1S67, when the
United States government finally issued a
patent for a considerable tract [of land, in-
cluding the mine; but the large quantities
of rain which fell last winter prevented any
active operations, and they were not com-
menced by the company till the 24th of
June, 1S68. Since that time some 572 feet
of drifts and 136 feet of shafts have been
made. The main vein has been opened to
the depth of 96 feet at the deepest point,
and drifts have been run 300 feet.

The country rock is said to. be granite
without mica — or granulite. The drifts are
all run in the foot wall, which is softer than
the gangue. From twenty to fifty tons
could be taken out daily from the mine in
its present condition.

The company will sink 100 feet further
and run a drift 100 feet long at that depth
before they make any definite arrangements
for reducing the ore; but the plan is not
yet determined, further than they will crush
and concentrate all the ore under 30 per
cent., until it is 70 per cent. fine. This
will cost, it is estimated, $3 per ton of crude
ore.

Whether smelting will be undertaken at
the spot, or the ore sent to England, seems
to be yet undetermined. It is not an easy
smelting ore, on account of its mixture with
a large percentage of peroxide of iron; oth-
erwise there would not be any question in
regard to the matter. Skill in concentra-
tion, or a knowledge of the available metal-
lurgical methods for getting rid of iron in
such cases, should, it would seem, enable
the compauyto avoid the necessity of ship-
ping their ores. Wood in abundance can
be procured at the distance of five miles
from the mine. The distance to San Ber-
nardino is fifty-five miles, and to Anaheim
thirty-two miles, over an easy grade. The
company employs about twenty-five men.

Chaeactee op the Featheesone and
Hidden Teeasuee Mines. — A valuable con-
tribution to the mining geology of White
Pine has just been made by E. B. Dorsey,
M. E., in his report on the Featherstone
mine, near Hamilton, White Pine, which
contains important facts determining the
nature of that and the Hidden Treasure
deposits, with a diagram illustrating the
former. The Hidden Treasureaud Feather-
stone mines are held to be true contact
veins, having a clay gouge between the
vein matter and country rock, — facts show-
ing conclusively that they are not mere in-
filtrations.

Mysteey or Motion. — The lecture be'-
fore the Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion, on Tuesday last, by Bev. E. Corwin
of Oakland, was a philosophical disserta-
tion in which the .speaker traced some com-
mon grounds between astronomy and the
crystallizing force of atoms, as developed
in the modern science of the correlation of
forces.

Continental Life Insurance Company,
203 Montgomery street, corner of Pine.

Annual Meeting op the Mechanics' In-
stitute.— The Mechanics' Institute held its
fourteenth annual meeting on Thursday
evening, at the hall of the association on
Post street; — President Hallidie in the chair.
The Treasurer submitted his annual report,
from which we gather the following:

Total receipts during the year $15,320 60

Total expenditures 16,001 23

Balance $ 226 46

REPORT OF THE BUILDrNII COMMITTEE.

For rents, etc $ 6,081 60

For repairs, etc 2,243 00

Eeceipts from members , 1,110 Ot)

Eeceipts from life inenitjers 700 00

Eeceipts from reading members 234 00

Books added to the library by purchase,
752 volumes; by presentation, 35. There
have joined the association during the year
252 stock members; 109 reading members,
and 14 life members.

The following committee was selected to
make nominations for officers of the Insti-
tute for the ensuing year — the election to
take place on the first Monday in March:
H. K. Cummings, H. T. Blithe, Charles F.
Bassett, Wm. McKibben, D. E. Hayes.

General Winn gave notice that he would
at the next meeting submit a resolution
authorizing the Board of Directors to issue
stock to corporations whereby other bodies
may be admitted as members of the Insti-
tute. It was also resolved to close the
chess room, reading room and library every
evening at ten o'clock, excepting on Satur-
day evening, when the hour of closing will
be at half-past ten.

Artificial Stone Company. — Messrs. E]
T. Steen & Co., who have formed them-
selves into a corporation under the title of
the "Pacific Stone Company," and located
their works at the corner of Turk and Lar-
kin streets, are, we are pleased to learn,
meeting with gratifying success, having al-
ready received orders for work as we are
informed amounting to over 5100,000. An
earthquake-proof building material can ba
made by casting the stones with holes
through them, for anchoring vertically or
horizontally along the wall. House-fronts
of this material are mainly in demand
Pillars, or any other kind of article for use
or ornament, can be cast hollow, thus
uniting the solidity, permanence and beauty
of stone, with the lightness and cheapness
almost of wood. Fence-posts, hollow and
consequently light, are to be made by a cen-
trifugal pipe-molding machine, if that can
be made to work, as there is reason to be-
lieve it can. They could be made very
cheaply in that manner, and provided with
openings for rails, or wires, and an orna-
mental cap. Drain-pipes may also be found
worth manufacturing. The materials used
are common sand, as found everywhere, in
quantities to satisfy ; caustic soda, im-
ported from England at a few cents a
pound; and chloride of lime, also imported,
at 2% ceuts a pound, being the remnants
of soda manufacture in Scotland, where a
thousand carboys a day are thrown away.
With caustic soda and quartz they make
silicate of soda on the ground, by boiling
under pressure. The works at the corner
of Turk and Larkin streets are quite ex-
tensive and interesting, especially to the
scientific visitor who can comprehend the
chemistry of the process. A fuller de-
scription of them will be given hereafter.

Volume IV of the Proceedings of the
California Academy of Sciences, contains
valuable papers on the following subjects: »
Additions to the Fauna of California, by
Dr. J. G. Cooper; Notes on Alaska, by T.
A Blake; on Botanical Gardens, by Prof.
Bolander; Explorations in Alaska, by W. 1
H. Dall; and on Earthquakes on Kern river 1
in the central portion of the Sierra Nevada, j
by J. E. Ciayton, M. E.

The State Agricultural Society held its
annual election on the 28th ult. Charles
F. Beed was unanimously reelected Presi-
dent; and in the evening the new Board of
Directors elected Bobert Beck Secretary, I.
N. Hoag, the old Secretary, having de-
clined reelection.

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

89

Metallurgical Works.

In our notices of the chemical and met
allnrgiool works in this rity, we hove left
those di I"111 amalga-

mation, to the last; being in only one case
independent establishments — we refer to
the place of (i. W. Strong, on Stevenson
street— generally located in a side room
connected with one or another of the found-
ries, where pans of a particular construction
are oast, and kept up mainly with a view to
satisfying minors of the advantages of the
same; .>r to afford faeilities for trial and ex-
perime'it to inventors who have new ma-
chinery, or new processes to devise and
carry out, which are dependent on the iron-
workers' art before being brought to the
attention of the public.

Mb. Stbono's works arc in the basement
at No. 10 Stevenson street, near First — in
the vicinity of the foundries. To a visitor
' the place at this timo presents a scene of
unusual activity. A two-stamp mill, and a
peculiar oscillating concentrator of Mr.
Strong's invention, make noise enough to
prevent idle conversation, and extra mortars
and nestles, bateas and the like, are atwork
in the hands of assistants; while the assay-
ing and roasting furnace stand in readiness
to be used daily, or as occasion may de-
mand. Ores of all kinds, for assay partly,
but mainly for test workings on a larger
scale, by such different processes as may be
deemed worthy of a trial, are sent here
from the gold as well as from the silver
regions; the present jobs being mainly from
White Pine, and containing some base or
refractory ingredients.

Everything new, but more especially
everything of established merit that has
been developed in amalgamation, is the fa-
miliar and eveiy-day subject matter of dis-
cussion and of trial at a place of this kind.
In all that is known and proven to work to
advantage in the amalgamation of gold and
silver ores, Mr. Strong's works afford
probably the best practical school on the
coast, especially as Mr. Strong devotes
himself to giving instruction in the differ-
ent methods, as well as to working ores ex-
perimentally. Assaying having been his
business for more than twenty years be-
fore coming to this country, the California
and Nevada modifications of the several
former amalgamation processes have fallen
naturally to his hand; and his wide ac-
quaintance with actual miners and mine
owners, as far interior as the Rocky Mount-
ains, furnishes the best evidence of his
thoroughness in that specialty.

Two pans are at work here, the one most
depended upon being the Union Pan, with
a self adjusting muller.

The concentrator is a combination of the
principle of the pointed box, best known
in the form of the Eittenger box, or spitz-
kasten, with that of oscillation (not jjerous-
sion), the operation being that of flooding
away the lighter particles at the same time
that a sharp oscillatory motion facilitates
the settling of the heavier particles to the
lowest point in the box. It possesses the
advantage of never banking up at or near
the point of discharge of the tailings. The
ore may be made self-discharging, or not.
A batch of 600 pounds of 8 per cent, tin
from Temescal have just been washed by
Mr. Strong, with satisfactory results.

Amalgamation rooms are connected with
the foundries of Goddard & Co., Howland,
Angell & Co., Palmer, Knox & Co., and at
the Vulcan Foundry.

Mr. Varney's office, in connection with
the Pacific Foundry, is, like the Works of
Mr. Strong, devoted more especially to
amalgamation processes, and also to the
manufacture and sale of the Varney Pan.

Mining Laws of White Pine. — We are
indebted to Mr. James Devlin, of Treasure
City, for a copy of the mining laws of
White Pine, which we publish on another
page.

Rainfall of the Season. — The fall of
rain during October, November, December
and January, was as follows : In October,
15-hundredths of an inch; in November,

1 inch and 18-hnndn idthej in December, 4
inches and 34-hundredtbs; in January, 0
inches and 35-hundredths — making a total
for the months ii.um-1 of V2 inches and

2 hundredths.

During the corresponding season in
180G-7, the amount of rain which fell was
21 inches and 5-hundredths, and in 1807-8
it/was 23 inches and 84-hundredths; showing
that we have had only a little more than
half as much as in 1S07-8, and that we
shall requiro double the quantity hence-
forth to the end of the rainy season, in or-
der to make up.

The Woodbridge Messenger says that a
person who has been for many years a
trapper and hunter in the extensive tule
field west of Woodbridge, intimates that
beaver have built higher houses than in any
previous autumn — even that preceding the
wet winter of 1801-2 — and that such is the
usage of these sagacious animals preced-
ing wet winters.

The Eocky Mountain Paeks. — The en-
terprising publishers of the Denver (Colo-
rado) Times have issued an extra sheet with
a well excuted wood-cut map, representing
the mountainous topography of one of the
famous parks of the Eocky Mountains —
the San Luis Park, containing Sawatch
lake and the headwaters of the Eio Grande
del Norte. A glance at the topography
alone is sufficient to create at once a strong
desire to visit those wonderful valleys that
remind one so forcibly of Easselas' happy
Valley, the monotony of his seclusion, his
intense desire to get out into the great
world for adventure, and of his futile at-
tempts to do so by the narrow defile which
afforded exit to the river of the valley.
The system of Colorado parks and their
geology and mineralogy, described in print
on the back of the map, we find both inter-
esting andvaluable as reading matter, and
worthy of laying aside for future reference.

Tcrqcoi?. — In the Columbus mining
district (Nev.) beautiful specimens of gen-
nine turquois have been lately discovered.
A large and finely-tinted specimen will be
presented to the King of Persia, by whom
tho mineral is highly esteemed. It is a
bluish green, opaque phosphate of alu-
mina and lime, with silica, iron, and cop-
per, of tho hardness of feldspar (6).

The Legal Points at White Pine. — In
the recent mining suit of the Eberhardt
vs. the Eichmond claims, at Austin, the
jury came to the conclusion that there is a
defined lode, and so ejected the Eichmond
parties as the latest locators. The signifi-
cant point related of the workings was,
that all within a belt of 200 feet, the limits
of which are plainly visible, yield ore of
more or loss richness, while nothing is ob-
tained from the holes dug on either side of
that belt.

At Chloride Flat, it is supposed that there
is a stratum of rich ore, say a hundred feet
deep; then abed of limestone or porphyry,
fifty or a hundred and fifty feet thick, as
the case may be; then another layer of ore,
another of limestone, and so on. Jumpers
contend that there is no difference in prin-
ciple whether the veins lie horizontal, or
stand vertical, or at an angle of forty-five
degrees. The intervention of foreign roek,
it is claimed, produces separate veins as
much in one case as in the other.

Mining Eepoets Eeceived. — We have
received, and will notice more fully here-
after, the reports of the Arroyo Hondo
Mining and Diteh Company of New Mexico
(near Santa Fe), and of the Globe Gold
and Silver Mining Company, of Alpine
County, Gal., with niaps, published in con-
nection with " Some Facts about Gold and
Silver Mines and Mining in California and
Nevada. "

The San Feancisco Daily Heeald. —
This newspaper has taken its place amongst
the journals of San Francisco, not as a new
enterprise, but as an institution having al-
ready made its history, and quite as a mat-
ter of course. It is filled with an immense
amount of ably prepared matter. The per-
sonelle of the office consists, evidently, of
none but experienced newspaper men.

Our Office.

The office of the Mining and Scientific
Press is located in the second story at No. 414
Clay street, north side, just bslow Sunsome. Here
we have spacious accommodations, wish our patent
rooms, editorial room, counting room, newspaper
and job printing offices, — nil conveniently ar-
ranged nnd connected, and our facilities for dis-
patching business correctly and economically,
better than ever before. Don't forget the number
— 414 Clay street, below Sansomo.

DEWEY & CO.

No Branch Office.

Our friends and patrons will bear in mind that
we have no branch office in San Francisco, our
U. S. and Foreign Patent Agency rooms being
suitably arranged with our Mining and Scien-
tif'c Press printing office, at No. 414 Clay
street. We have no partners in business except
tho undersigned. DEWEY & CO.

A. T. DEWEY. W. B. EWER.

Returned.— Dr J. IT. Paine. Dentist, Wartaworth House,
No. 225 Rusli street, between tile Occidental and Cosmopoli-
tan Uotcls, San Francisco. 21vl7-lm

O. M Taylou, who acted as agent a brief time for this
paper In Washoe, is n quested to call at or address this ofllce,
without fall.

A Shout Engagement.— The person who visited Yuba,
Sierra, and Pluinnscouuttes, last fall, as agent and corres-
pondent of the l'RESs, only continued a short time 111 that
capacity.

Co-operative Union Store.— This is becoming one of the
most useful Institutions in the city, and the Mechanic and
Laboring .Man ful'y appreciate It. They are now enabled
to buy their Groceries and Provisions 21) per cent, cheaper
than ever before, and the very best articles in the market.
The store is located at 115 Sutter street, Licit House Block,
San Francisco 6vl8-aim

Save Yooa Teeth.— Drs. Jessup A Beers, over Tucker's
■ewelry store, are now making a specialty of filling the
fangs of dead Teeth, and building up broken crowns with
pareffoW— thus restoring them to their original usefulness
and beauty. They arc aHo using Nitrous Oxide for the
painless extraction of Teeth, when so desired— the only ab-
solutely safe an.-esthelic ever discovered In breathing it,
it acts as a gentle stimulant, without undue excitement,—
the sensation produced being truly delightful, the effect
upon the lungs healthful, and in its results positively free
from all danger. Prepared and administered daily at the
Dental Rooms ot Messrs. JESSUP & BEERS, corner Mont-
gomery and Sutter streets, San Francisco. 16vl6lf

Where to Advertise. — The attention of traders and
mill machinists is called to the fact that the Mountain
Messenger, of Downieville, Sierra County, possesses many
special advantages as an advertising medium over a ma-
ority of the interior press, it being the only public jour-
nal published withiu a radius of sixty miles, in the rich-
est and most populous mining sections of the State. Its
weekly edition is double the average of country papers,
being without the range of large dailies, and having no
competition at home. Its local coliims afford many items
for our city eoteinporaries, while its rates of advertising
are reasonably low 10vl7tf

ACJIOSTIC.

J»ain Killer la worth what it weighs In gold,
A'l \ round the world are its praises told;
It will Cholera cure -scourge of southern climes.
Mo victim dies, who takes it betimes.

Keen I'nin Killer-a'rue friend by von r side,
It will curt? Congo or Cold, in- Colic beside;
B.oolt out to api Iv il for BriliJe or for Sprain,
I,e It once bo. tried r"'firi« be used again;
ICverv word I am telling ion, Reader, is true;
Remember that I'aiu Killer \*;rridfiir you.
The I'aiu Killer is sold by a'l Driu'gis s and dealers in

Family y.eilic lies.
KEUINGTON & CO , -and ItlSTETTER A SMITH. San

Francisco Oal , General Wholesale Ageuis. feblin

PAK KIt.LER.

No article ever attained lo such unbounded popularity.—
SatonO'iseroer. —

An article ofgreat merit and virtue.— font. Nonpareil.

We can bear testimony to the elllcncv o' the Pain Killer.
We have seen lis inigic eir-cis In soothing the severest
pain, and know it to bo a good artlcle.-Cinncinnati Dtspatcli

A speedv cure for pain— no family should be without it.—
Montreal Transcript. — ■

Nothing has vet surpassed the Pain Ki tor. which is the
most valuable family medicine now 111 use.— Term. Orson.

It lias real merit: as a means of removing pain, no medi-
eiue lias acquired -i repura'in ' equal to Perry Davis' Pain
Killer.— Ncioporl iKy.) Duih/ Ncas.

It is really a valuable ineiliciue— it is used by many phv-
sicians — Boston Traveller. 26vl7-im

MOSHEIMEU'S

PIONEER MINING- SCHOOL,

-ASD-
METALLURftiC WOttttS.

Having establi-hed the first Praclical Mining and Metal
lurglcal School in tlie Uniled States, I would call theat
leutionof gentlemen who may wish to obtain a practical
knowledge of

Chemistry, Assaying and Metallurgy,

That I am prepared to teach all the above branches in less
time thnn in anv En opean School.

I also underttikc to assay and work any kind of ore, or
mineral substances.

For terms, apply to JOS. MOSIIEIMEK,

Praclical Chemist and Metallurgist.

Office, 328 Montgomery street; Melalturcic Works, 2005
l*o well strict, San Francisco. 6vlS-6m

gTOCK QERTIFICATES

FOR

MINING COMPANIES

AND

MANUPA0TUEIN& CORPORATIONS

9

HANDSOMELY PRINTED

AT GEEATLY KEDUCED RATES

At the Offlce of the

ALSO,
BLANKS, KECEIPTS

And STOCK BOOKS

In the most upproved form.

Our experience Is large fn this line of printing, nnd wo
aie bound to give satisfaction in prices and work.

DEWEY «fc CO.,

414 Clay Sireet.

Tho Perfection of Prepared Cocoa.

marayilTa cocoa.

Sole Proprietors— TAYLOR BROTHERS, London.

The Cocoa (or Cacao) of Maravilla is the true Thenbroma
nf Linmeus. Cocoa is indigenous to Smith America, nl"
which Maravllla is a favored portion. TAYLOR BROTH-
ERS having secured the exHnsive supply of this unri-
valled Cocoa, h ive, hy the skillful applicalion of their sol-
uble principle and elaborate machinery, produced what is
so undeniably the perfection ol Prepared Cocoa, that il lias
not only secured the prcfccnce of homre >p»ths and cocoa-
drlnkers ccnerally, hut many who had hitherto not founrj
nnv preparation to suit them, have, afcr one trial, adopted
the .Maravllla Cocoa as their constant beverage for break-
last, luncheon, etc.

"A SUCCESS UNPRECEDENTED."
[See folio-wins: extract from Ilic Globe of May 1 J. 1<T>S 1
"Various importers and manufacturers have attempted
to attain a reputation for their prepared Cocoas, but wc
doubr whether any thorough stiecess had been achieved
until Messrs. T ylor Brothers discovered the extraordinary
qualities of "Maravillu" Cocoa. Adapting th.dr perlect
system of preparation to this finest of all species of tho
Theobroma, they have produced an article which super-
sedes every other Cocoa in the market. Entire solubility,
a delicate aroma, and a rare concentration of the pure-t
Clemen's of nutrition, distinguish the M'iravilla Cocoa
above all oihers; For homccopatlis and invalids we could
not recommend a more agreeable, or valuable beverage.

Sold in packets only hy all tJrreers, of whom aUoinny
be had Tavlor Brothers' Original Honue*.patbie Cocoa and
Soluble Chocolate, Steam Mills, Brick Luiic, London.
GvlfMy

414 CLAY,

S.F„CAL

-LAY, -grv ,& S-F-
U. S. AND FOREIGN -*

Advice Fb.ec

HINKLE'S

"IMPROVED SPRING-BED BOTTOM."

(Patented July 21st, 1868.

The undersigned, having purchased the Patentee's inter
est in the States and Territories of the Pacific Coast, is now
prepared to supply Private Houses, Hotels and Steamers
with this comtortablc, economical and durable "IM-
PROVED SPRING BED BOTTOM."

Persons going to White Pine will greatly promote their
comfort by taking one of these Patent Bottoms, which ia
secured to a folding bedstead, the cost of which is less than
that of the materials at White Pine.

"Wareroom, No. 1002 Market Street.

P. HUDSOK, Proprietor.

»3j=Ch1I and examine. Open until 8 o'clock P. M.

PACIFIC

Rolling Mill Company,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Established for the Manufacture of

RAILROAD AND OTHER IRON
Every Variety of J**liti±Ttiiier,

Embracing ALL SIZES of

Steamboat Shafts, Craiitt«, Piston ami Con.

necting Rodin, Car and Ijocoraotlvc Axles

and Frame*

— ALSO —

HA.MMEUED IXtOP*

Of every description and slzs.

a®- Orders addressed to PACIFIC ROLLING WILL
COMPANY Post Office, San Francisco, Cal, will receive

P'os-Thc highest price paid for Scrap Iron. Ovl-tfmSp

Crucibles.

The Patent Plumbagi Crucible Co.,

Manufacturers of all kinds of

Melting Pots, Portable Furnaces,

CRUCIBLES, and other fire-standing Goods,
JSatterxca Works, Loadon.
THE MORGAN PATENT CRUCIBLES have uniform
quality, never crack, withsiand the greatest heat without
danger; heats more rapidly than any other; chnn-,-c of tem-
perature has no effect on ihem; stand on the average forty
to fifty pourings.
On hand and for sale by the Agents,

A. S. BIAT^r-IIBfE * CO.,
lvIS-3m9p «11> From street, San Francisco

90

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinists and Foundries.

PALMER, KNOX & CO.,

Golden State Iron Works,

Nob. 19, SI, 33 and S5 Flint Street,
8AN FRANCISCO.

MANUFACTURE ALL KINDS OF

MACHINERY,

STJEAiU XA'OIA'ES AND QX7AKTZ MILLS

DUNBAR'S IMPROVED

©elf-^cIjTL&tijifi,* IPistori Packing,

Requires no springs or screws; is always steam tight;

without excessive friction, and never

gets slack or leaky.

WHEELER & RANDALL'S

NEW OBI\])£K A.BTB AMAL6AMATOB

HEPBURN & PETERSON'S

AMALGAMATOR AMD SEPARATOR,

Knox's Amalffamators,

WITH PALMER'S PATENT STEAM CHEST,

Superior lor working either GOLD OR SILVER 0 RES, and
stho only Amalgamator that has stood the test of seven
years' continual working.
Ueaalae White Iron Stamp Shoes and Dies

Having been engaged for the past ten years in quartz
mining, and being conversant with all the improvements,
either in Mining or Milling, we are prepared to furnish, al
ihe shortest notice, the most perfect machinery for reduc
ng ores, or saving either gold or silver. 13vll)qy-tf

1EA P. RANKIN.

A. P. BRAYTON.

A. C. AUSTIN.

Pacific Iron Works.

First and. Fremont Streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Having been established since 1851, we have accumulated
a very large variety of Uear and other Patterns, which,
with our superior tools and appliances, give us facilities lor
doing ttrst class work unequaled on the Pacific Coast.

Among other things, we manufacture the following;

STEAM ENGINES,

Horizontal and Vertical, for either Stationary or Marine

use.

BOILERS— High. and. Low Pressure,

Pump, Pipe and Sheet Iron Work of every kind.

Quartz Mill Work,

Including High and Low Mortars, for wet or dry crushing-

Furnace Irons tor Roasting Ores; Freiberg Barrels;

Varney's aim Wheeler's Amalgamating I'aus

and Settlers; Stamp Shoes and Dies of

best White Iron; Russia Iron

Screens, etc., etc.

Flour Mill, Saw Mill and Sugar Mill Work in every variety;

Pumping and Hoisting Machinery; Hansbrow's

Patent Challenge Pump, for Duiueatic,

Ship aud Mining use— the must

approved and successful

Pump manufactured.

Castings »f every description. Iron and Brass.

We would call especial attention to " Wright's Patent Va-
riable Cut-uif Engines," of which we are the sole manufac-
turers on the fiicitic Coast, under license from the Wood-
ruff* Beach Co., fclarttord, Ct. As a simple, effective, foul
saving, nrst-eUss Engine, this is, without, doubt, the best
Engine made in the United States.

Orders promptly attended to. Prices as low as possible
for tirst class work, and we intend to do no other.

ttODHAKJ) <fc CO.

San Francisco, May 1, 1S08. iBvliiif

WILLAMETTE IRON WORKS,

POKTLAXD, OREGON.

Bteani Engines, Boilers,
SAW AND CRIST MILLS,

MINING MACHINERY, WROUGHT IRON SHUTTER
WORK, AND BLACKSMITHING IN GENERAL.
Corner North-Front and 1". streets)

18y13-1t One block north of Couch's Wharf.

Globe Iron Works,

STOCltTOH, (it.

KEEP & BARG-ION,

MANFF.1CTURKRS OF

iliiartz, Saw and. Grist Mill Irons, Steam
Engines, Horse Powers,

High and Low Pressure Steam Engines, Steamboats and

Propellers, made at short notice.

13vl3lf

J. NKWSHAU.

J. B1GW00D.

SOUTH BEACH IRON WORKS,

Near corner of King and Third streets, San Francisco.

J1A1UXE EN&INES,

AND .ALL K1XDS OF

MACHINERY FORGING.

All kinds of Ship-smithing and Mill work manufactured to
order. Jubbing ot every description promptly attended to.
All work done guaranteed, lavli-ly

CALIFORNIA BRASS FOUNDRY.

No. 1 .35 First street, opposite Minna,

SAN FRANCISCO.

All kinos of Brass, Composition, Zinc, and Babbitt Metal
Castings, Brass Ship Work of all kinds, Spikes, Sheathing
Nails, Kudder Braces, Hinges, Ship and Steamboat Bells and
Gongs of superior tone. All kinds of Cocks and Valves, Hy-
draulic Pipes and Nozzles, and Hose Couplings and Connec-
tions of all sizes aud patterns, lurnlshcd with dispatch.
Kg- PR1CES MODERATE, -ffiff

J. P. GALLAGHER.

J. H. WEED V. KINGWELL.

9vl3-ly

Miners' Foundry

— AND —

MACHINE WORKS

Nos. 245 to 255 Fiest Steeet,

S:lu Francisco.

HOWLAND, ANGELL & CO.,

rjKOPKIETOKS,

Manufacturers of Machinery for

(1UAETZ JOI.JLS.

SAW MILLS,

I'O WBliK MILLS,

JLOVE JM1IJ.S,
SLIOAK MILLS,

PiFEB MILLS

Steam Engines of all Kinds.
Amalgamators of all Kinds.

aiMSS PT1IP8,
OIL W£LL TOOLS,

HOISTIXG IVOBKi

BOCK JUSKAKEllS,

Machinery and Castings of all kinds, either
of Iron or Brass.

Boilers and Sheet Iron Work in all its
Branches.

Shoe* and Dies of White Iron, mnnnfactured
for »nd Imported by u, expressly t*or this pur-
pose, uud will lust -., per cent, longer than uny
other iiuide on this const.

Kussinlron Screens, oi'nuy decree of flnene.s,
We are the only manufacturers on this coast ot
the

HICKS DENGITV33,
The most compact, simple In construction, and

durable, of any £uirine in use.
W. H. HOWLAND, H. 15. ASUELL,

lSvU-qr CTTKUS PAL1LEI,

FULTON

Foundry and Iron Works.

HINCKLEY & CO,,

HANUFACTURE-as Ot

STEAM DENG- 1 IN" DBS-,
Quartz, IFloxir ami Saw lVTillss

Mayes.' Improved Steam Pump, Brodie's Im-
proved Crusher, Aliiiinur JPuuips,
■Aninlffitm.vlors, aud all kimlt
of Machinery.

N. E. corner of Tehama and Fremont streets, above How
ard street, San Francisco. 3-qy

McAfee, spiers & co.,

X5 O I L E It MAKERS

AND GENERAL, MACHINISTS,

Howard dt, between Fremont and Beale, San Francisco.

Flue or Tubular Rollers, with j,lnin circular or spiral
courses. Upright Flue or Tubular Boilers, Locomotive and
and Marine Boilers, and Wrought Iron Tanks of every de-
scription,

Hydraulic Pipe supplied at reasonable rates. In or
derlny, give the quantity of water to be stipp'icd, night of
the fall, and total length of pipe, so as to enable the linn to
determine the diameter of the pipe and thickness of iron to
be used.

Repairs.— Boilers, Smoke Slacks, Pipes, etc., put in re-
pair wild promptness.

To lioiler Makers uud Machinist* in the In-
terior.—Tlie firm is prepared to furnish estimates of
Boilers, supply new Heads, drilled and punched, and attend
to the selection and forwarding of Iron for Boilers, Pipes
and other purposes.

Plans* Drawing;* and Specifications.— The firm
is prepared to make out Plans and Specifications, icceive
estimates, and superintend the Erection of any Machinery
that may be entrusted to their care

To Inventors.— The firm is prepared to assist in de-
veloping the plans of those who have the Ideas hut not the
practical experience necessary to put the same in form, by
making Drawings oi their Inventions, giving tliem the ben-
efit ot'thcir practical knowledge in tlie construction of Ma-
chinery, and attending to tlie manufacture aud introduc-
tion of their inventions. Ivliiif

UNION IRON WORKS,
Sacramento.

WILLIAMS, BOOT & NEILSON,

MANUFACTURERS OF

CROSS' PATENT BOILER FEEDER,

3TE.AJVX E1VOI1VJES, BOILERS,

And nil kinds of Alining: Machinery.

Also. Hay and Wine Presses made and repaired
with neatness, durability and dispatch.

Dunbar's Patent Self- Adjusting Steam Piston

Front Street, between IV and O streets,

Uvll Sacramento City

G-. T. PRACY.

MACHINE WORKS,

NOS. 109 and 111 MISSION STREET,
Between Main and Spear.

New and second-hand

Engines and Boilers,

FOR SALE.

Also one first-class Hoisting

Engine ; one TTpright

Engine, oi entirely

new pattern.

SI AH UFA CTII RER OF

ILatlies, Drills,

And MILL MACHINERY of
every description.

PRACY'8

New and Improved
STEAM ENGUXE

REGULATORS,

The best and cheapest yet in-
vented—manufactured and
for sale. Parties are in-
vited to examine It
In practical op-
eration.

P. A.. HTTNTINCITON'S

Shingle Machines

on hand.

Particular attention paid to
Repairing.

JSP* All work guaranteed to be done in a first-class man-
ner, and at the lowest rates. 12vl7tt

TH3E itisr>oTsr

Iron and Locomotive Works.

Incorporated, April 30, 1808. Capital, £1 ,100,000.

Location of Works, Corner Beale and Howard streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Successors to Pacific M all s. S. Co. Works at Benicia, Coffey

& Risdon, and Devoc, Dinsmorc A Co., San Francisco.

Steam Engine Builders, Boiler Makers,

MACHINISTS AND FOUNDRYMEN.
All -work in their line attended to with promptness and
dispatch.

Directors:

Ohas.E. McLane,
John N. Risdon,
Joseph Moore.

S. F. Butterworlli,
Lloyd Tevis,
Ja«. Pullock,
den. Holladay,

JOHN N. RTSDON, President.

Joseph Moore, Vice President and Superintendent; Clu
E. McLnne, treasurer; Lewis U. Mead, Secretary; Lewis
Uofl'ey, Superintendent Boiler Works. 24vl7-Qy

. NOBLE & FLEMING,
MACHINE WORKS,

a'o. lO Stevenson street, near First,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Particular attention given to repairs on Portable and Sta-
tionary Iviv-'iues; also all kinds ol Wood Working
Machinery; Shaftings, Hangers, Pulleys, etc.
made to order; Screw Culling, Iron
Planing, and nil kinds of JOB
WORK promptly amended to.
Agents for F. 8. Perkins* En urine loathes,
Planers, Upright Drills,
And all kind's ot MACHINISTS' TOOLS; also the Davis
Wood Planer and Mitre Dove-Tailing Machines. ■
BSJ-Also, on hand for sale a complete set of Tools for
making Blacking Boxes, consisting oi Press, Dies, Shears,
and Crimping Machine, etc. 4vlS-nr

Phoenix Iron Works.

JONATHAN EITTEEDGE, Proprietor,

IYob. IS and SO Fremont street, near Market,

MANUFACTURER OF

Fire-Proof Doors, Shutters,

Wrought Iron Girders, and all kinds of Housesmith work.
Bridge and Prison Work;

BANK VAULTS AND M0WIT0E SAFES,

rOVGIAG AND MACHINE WORK.

Agency for the ISHAM KEY REGISTER BANK AND SAFE
LOCK, tlie only first class Lock in the
lvl7tf United States

THOMPSON BROTHERS,
EUREKA. EOTJTVDRY,

1'29 and 131 Beale street, between Mission and Howard, I *****
San Francisco.

X.IGHT akd heavy castings,

of every description, manufactured 24vl6qr

CITY IR0M WORKS COMPANY.

CLERC & CO.,
[RON FOUNDERS

JAMES MACKEN,

COPPERSMITH,
»SO Fremont St., bet. Howard «& Folsom

All kinds of COPPER WORK done to order in the best
manner. Particular attention paid to Steamboat, Sugai
Bouse and Distillery work.

Repairing: promptly and neatly attended to.

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Engine .Builders and Makers of nil
Uinds of Machinery,

6' lltiqr No. 28 Fremont street, San Francisco.

Blanks, Blank Mining Books

Constitution and By-Laws

— FOB —

Mining and Prospecting

Companies

Elegantly printed, with care and dispatch, at the office of tho
Mining and Scientific Press.

Orders from the interior faithfuly attended to'.

The New Cable. — The core of the French
Atlantic cable "which is to he laid in June
next, consists of seven copper wires, the
center one of which is coated with a film of
adhesive matter known as " Chatterton's
compound." It is made in lengths of one
mile, and wound on iron reels, whence it
passes through a die to determine the size ; —
plastic gutta percha being at the same time
forced down upon it by screw pressure.
Four successive coatings are put on in this
manner; and between every two the con-
ductor receives a coat of the above named
adhesive compound. It then undergoes
immersion for twenty-four hours in water
of 75° Fah., at the expiration of which it is
subjected to the most delicate test that elec-
tricians can devise. The coils, after being
tested and passed, are joined two together,
and wound on drums, to be conveyed to
the sheathing works, all joints between the
coils having also been put under a rigid
electrical test. Jute yarn is then wound
round the core, after which ten wires of
homogeneous iron, each of which is covered
with Manila yarn, steeped in tar, are added,
and the cable is complete. The total weight
of the core is 800 pounds per nautical mile,
the copper being 400 and the gutta percha
400. The total length of cable for the sec-
tion from Brest to St. Pierre is 2,788 nauti-
cal miles. The second section, from St.
Pierre to New York, will be a smaller wire,
consisting of a conductor of 107 pounds per
nautical mile, and theinsulator 150 pouuds,
the length being 776 nautical miles.

The Standard Yard. — The standard of
linear measure adopted by the State of New
York, is determined from a pendulum
which vibrates seconds in a vacuum at Co-
lumbia College, which is in the latitude 40°
42' 43". The yard is declared to be
1,000,000-1,087,141 of this pendulum, hence,
the length of the pendulum is 39.101688
inches at the temperature of 32°. Should the
standard yard be lost, it could be recovered
by experimenting in accordance with these
conditions.

The Imperial standard yard of Great
Britain is determined from a pendulum
which vibrates seconds, in a vacuum at the
level of the sea, in Greenwich or London.
This pendulum is divided into 391,393
equal parts, and 360,000 of these parts are
declared by Act of Parliament to be the
standard yard, at the temperature of 62
degrees; consequently, since the yard is
divided into 36 inches it follows that the
length of a pendulum vibrating seconds
under these circumstances is 39.1393
inches.

Profits of European Patents. — Our
London correspondent remarks in a recen t
letter, that the American origin of an in-
vention is now a recommendation in Eu-
rope, where many of these inventions are
in successful operation and large fortunes
have been realized by their introduction.
Improvements relating to some manufac-
tures are of great value in this kingdom.
Mr. Bessemer derives an annual income of
about §2,000,000 from his British steel pa-
tents, and the patentee of a device for driv-
ing millstones by a revolving diamond, has
realized over $1,000,000 the first year of his
patent. The use of a diamond for this pur-
pose is an American invention, and the es-
timated value of the exclusive right in Eng-
land, for ten years, is ®5, 000,000. British
patents, as a rule, are the most valuable,
but many inventions are equally profitable
in other parts of Europe, and some are
peculiarly adapted to continental wants
and customs.

The Government Laboratories. — The
French Government is at present engaged
in the construction of a magnificent suite
of laboratories in Paris, for the pursuit ex-
perimentally of the higher physics and
chemistry, as well as their application.
This has no doubt been urged on by the
like move made three years ago, by the
Prussian Government, in the vast labora-
tories established at Berlin and at Bonn.
In both counti-ies, knowledge, pure sci-
ence, is promoted and reverenced. In
Great Britain such a thing as a "national
physical laboratory does not exist; nor in-
deed in a strict sense do we possess a na-
tional school, much less laboratory, of
chemistry. Yet ours is the country that
declares it intends to keep in the van of all
science." — Coll. Guardian.

More Gold in Canada. — The Wolfville
(Canada) Acadian says there is quite an ex-
citement in reference to gold diggings on
the Gasperaux Mountain, directly south
of Wolfville. Mr. Nathan Harris has been
offered §1,000 for his claims.

Tr\e Mining and Scientific Press.

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HOW TO MAKi: GOOD BlIEAD. — If ttllV

boily ought to know ull about the matter
named iu our heading, it is a minor. Yet
there are plenty of hard-fisted fellows in
tho interior whose " bread" eversinoe 19,
although eaten with impunity, — lms been
so eaten only because their hardy old gutta-
percha stomachs were dough-proof. For
tho benefit of such, wo give tho following
direction fir the makiug of this most im-
portant artiole of daily food, from a lecture
recently delivered by Prof. Horsford, of
Cambridge, Maaa. , who has made a spec-
ialty of chemistry as applied to domestic

"Solect good, plump, fully ripened,
hard-grained wheat Haveit freshly ground,
and uot too finely bolted. Prepare the
\.ii as follows: Boil thoroughly with tho
skins on, in ono quart of water, enough
potatoes to make B quart of mashed pota-
toes. Peel the boiled potatoes and mash
them to fineness; mix intimately with
them one pint of flour, and stir the whole
to an emulsion with tho water in which tho
potatoes were boiled. Cool the product to
so (lukewarnmess), and add half a pint of
the best baker's yeast, and a tablespoonful
of brown sugar. Set aside the mixture at
an even tomperaturo of about 80 till it
works well, or is in active fermentation.
Of this yeast take half a pint to a gallon
(sevon pounds) of flour, mixed with three
pints of water, or two of water and one of
milk, all at the temperature of about 80°,
add a little salt, knead thoroughly, and set
aside to rise at the temperature mentioned.
When it has risen to nearly the full vol-
ume for the dough, divide it into loaves,
knead again, set it aside at the temperature
already named till it attains tho full size of
the loaf, and place in an oven heated to not
less than 450J. Let the loaves of dough be
smaller than the tins. Keep them covered
with a flat tin plate or stiff paper till the
dough is fully raised and the heat carried
up to and sometimes maintained through-
out the loaf at 212', to convert all the
starch to the mucilaginous or emulsion
form and destroy the ferment. Then re-
move the cover, and permit the browning
to take place. If the loaves are large, a
higher temperature will be required. Seven
pounds of flue flour will make eight loaves
of 1% pounds each when baked, or four of
2% pounds each. Such yeast will keep a
"week in winter, and from two to four days
in summer. Bread made with it, in faith-
ful obedience to these instructions, will be
good."

GEO. E. BOGEYS,

(Successor to G. W. Bell.)
A. S* « A. Y E It ,

S12 California Nt, Sun FruncUco,

J. A. .MAKS, Assaycr.

Ores carefully Assayed. Hold ami Silver Ores worked.

2.1vl6-orlii(iiir

CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, DRAPERIES,

SU.lDiX Etc., Etc.

LOUIS F. KNIGHT,

."- r: California St., east side of Kearny,

SAN FRANCISCO.

I can offer from the largest and best assorted stock in the

city anything in our line.

AT PRICES TO SUIT ALL.

FURNITURE AND MATTRESSES

Made to order.
All kinds of uphold tiring executed with neatness and
dispatch. 9vl7

LEA & PERKINS'

CrU.HlR ITBH

WORCESTERSHIRE SA/UCE

yV 1-^iS-HfV Ot»OI> SAUCE. -rj

!* 'i \ . raa )h & — pi

he success of this most g|
delicious ami unrivalled £
condiment having caused
certain dealers to apply ihe name of ,lWnr- ^
cestersh Ire Sauce to their men inferior 2
compuunrta, the public is hereby Informed
that the only way to secure the genuine,
i.i to ask tor

Lest «V Pcrrlus' 'Sauce,

and see that their names are upon the -\
»t tuner, labels, stopper, and bottle- p

Su.ne ol' the foreign markets having been rf
supplied with a spurious Worcestershire U
S nice, upon the wrapper and labels of
which the. names nl* Lea and I'errins have been forced, L
ami P nive notice that they hive -furnished their correa-.
noiidenis with D«>vcr of attorney to take instant proceed-
ing! og-iliist Manufacturers and Vendors of such, or any
oilier imitations bv- which th<-ir right mav be infringed.

Ask fir LEA .t PERU INS' S nice, and sec name on the
Wrapper, Label, Bottle, and Stonper,

WiiDleiale and for Eitport by the Proprietors. Worcester;
Orosse & Blackwell, Loudon, etc.. etc.; and by Grocers and
Oilman universally. Agents, (JftQSS * CO.. San Fran-
cisco. :ivt81y

Fatknt Office Reports, from 1843 to 1847, Mechanical
are wanted for duplicate copies ai .Ms office. Parties bav
lUK them for sale will please state price, and a'Idress
DEWEY k CO., Mining and Scientific Press office, San
Francisco-

Business Cards.

O^EY&Cq

^. b^*" tv.VESS AND PoBuTrfv 2*-.

SAN FRANCISCO.

re$$.

RODGERS, MEYER & CO.,
COMMI6SHI01V MiaRCIIAJVTH,

ABTASCES MADE

On all kind, o,* Ore, und imrtlculnr attention

PAID TO

I
■ i>% Slli Ml I \ r s OF GOODS.

4V103U1

K.TIt.MIKI. QRAT.

N. GRAY & CO.,

UNDE It TAKERS,

Ml Sacramento St., cor. Webb, San Francisco.

Farmers and Mechanics
BANK OF SAVINGS,

No. S3 » S;ni«i.iii.- Street.

Interest paid on Deposits. Money Loaned on Real Estate.
H. SUTTON, Prenldent.
OEO. M. CONDEE Cashier. 19vl6-3m

FREDERICK MA.KBELL.

Mechanical & Architectural Draughtsman,

No. 422 California street, corner of Lcldsdorff.

Drawings of Modkls made for parties apply for pa-
■■■ii!* iii Washington or London. ar23-tf.

"W". T. ATWOOD,

I'UaCHASER op

COPPEE ORES, BAE3, MATT, Etc., Etc,

SOU Montgomery street*

Room No. 5, over Parrott & Co's Bank, San Francisco.
23vl7qr

S. FOLK. G. TUCIIOLSKT.

S. FOLK & CO.,

NAWUFACTURKKS OP

WADDING, B1TTIVO, und COMFORTERS

441 and 413 Brannan St., Between Third and Fourth,

SAN FRANCISCO. IVlSqf

W. C. CAMPBELL.

PATTERN AND 3UCODE& MAKER,

Particular attention given to MODELS Cor the Patent Office

Brands and Pattern Letters Cut. 4vl8mtf

Pump Leather.

The attention of MINING COMPANIES, and others re-
quiring a superior article for Hydraulic purposes, is invited
to the heavy Oakcd Tunned Pump Leather, manufactured
and prepared exnrcssly hy the undersigned.

TANH E^

N E. JONES &C? ^

Constantly on hand and tor sale hy

<xltA.Y, JONES «fc CO..

Dcoot of the Santa Cruz Tannery,

418 Battery St., Sun Francisco.

25vl7-ly

HAYWARD & COLEMAN

IMPORTERS AND REFINERS

IUuminating, Lubricating-,

PAINT OILS,

CONSISTING OP

KEROSENE. LAKD, SPERM, ELEPHANT, POLAR,

TANNEtfS. NEA.TSFOOT, BOILED AND R.A.V

LlNSliED, CASTOR AND CHINA NUT.

Spirits of Turpentine and Alcohol,

Lamps and Lamp Stock !

An elegant and complete assortment.

SOLE IMPORTERS OF
Devoe's IlluLiMtaatijag" Oil.

PATENT CANS.

5vl7-tf. *14: Front Mtreet* San Francisco.

Bv Express.— Two cents per copy will be added to our
usual rates of subscription (to pay wells, Fargo ft Co'starift
on papers i sent by ox proas. If connecting expresses in the
merlormuke ad'ditiimal charges, subscribers must them.
selves settle the uauie.

Professional Cards.

J. S. PHILLIPS,
3IItVIIVG ENGINEER, Klo.,

WadffworUi Bouse ,San PfAnclsoa.

Having bad S3 T«an experience in the varloiu depart-
menta ol illutiig Enulueerlni and Metallurgy, In Cornwall
ruu America, solicits ui den) for the examination ol Min-
er* Propi riiea ihrouglioui ilie North and South America.]
niii'iT.Lis atiuyed <>r Hualyzvil; adrloc for beiiuflclathta
refractor] d; capital procured tor devel

uplnu valuable tedgea, 4vl7lf

JOHN R0A0H, Optician,

ii.i.s removed froia 633 Bfootgomery street to

.»!■» Waablncton «treet,

Baal "i HontgouiDry.

DAVID R. SMITH,
Olvll and Af colianloal Engineer,

[fl prepared to farntall Plans, UodQiP, Speclllcatlons nnrt
full detail DrawlnR^for Btcamora and Sailing Vewsela and
Slachlnery In general.

M»ntK"niei-y Rlock.

I3vl7-3m

J. M. HAVEN,

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW

Kooni 25 Merchunla* Exchunxc,

27vl6 SAN FRANCISCO.

RADICAL CORE

— OF—

RUPTURE:

Treatment of all Deformities of the Body, by DR. A.
FOLLEAU'S process. 034 Washington Street, up stairs,
Washington Baths Building, between Montgomery and
Kearny streets.

DR. A. FOLLEAU

Has his studies and manufactories In the same building.

Every kind of Apparatus, Trusses, Orthopedic Instru-
ments, Artificial Limbs, etc ,are manufactured and applied
by himself.

JSJ-Zfe Acm no connection withany Af/imcy. 24vl4-llptf

JAMES 3MC. TA.YEOR,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,

Court Block, G3G Clay Street

SAN FRANCISCO.
2vl5-lqy

PACIFIC

INSURANCE COMPANY

OP SAN FRANCISCO, (AI,.,

Office, No. 422 California street.

CasU A,»ets, Jau. 1, 1809, - - *1 ,r.-'H,'i K> IH

MAKINE.

AND

INLAND

INBUEANCE.

DIRECTORS:

S*N Fra-cisCo:

Oliver Eldrltlge,

W. c. Knitton,

J B. BohcrtB.

A L Tubus.

J. 0. Wilinerdillg,

Win. Alvord,

y. L. Weaver,

Jonathan Hunt,

v» in. ii opcr,

A. B. Korbes,

J. W. Clark,

A. G. Slilef1,

A. Haywarn.

A. heligmaii.

T. L Barker,

L. B. ittnchlev.

Alexander Weill,

U m. Sherman,

Chas. Meyer,

L. Sachs.

Ohas K. McLane,

JaniCfi De Fremcry,

M. RfUHilibdum,,

J. t;. Kruv,

A. ,1. RiiUtun.

David S ern,

T. Li'iiiinen Mejcr,

D. 0. Mills,

.1 T. Ueai.

1 Fried IniWer,

Nkw York:

Mo<P8 Heller,

Louln McLane,

H. M ""ewhnll,

Frederick Billings,

0. T. La'Mon,

JnmosLoea,

.Miles D. riwieny,

,J 0 Kellogg,

Clias. Mnvne.

Win. T. Ooleuion,

E. L. tJohlstein,

Mi>s<'s Lilli-i.

J. O. Earl,

SaCuamknto:

Lloyd TevH,

Edwir Mills,

Thus. It. Selby,

.1. ll. Carri Ii,

Adam Oram,

0, T. Wheeler.

Aiphens Hull,

M *iiy, vim.' ;

S. M. Wilson,

.] H.Juwnlt.

D..I, (Jhver,

Poiitland, Oregon:

w. Seholle,

W S l.ad 1.

Tlioe. Brown,

Jacob Kaiiun

Ohas. Main,

Vibqinia. Nevada:

CUae. K. I'uLers,

Win. Sharon.

officers:

JONA. HUNT, President.

W. ALVuRD, Vice I'residcnt.

A. J. RALSTON, Sccr

etary.

ANDREW BAIlvD, Marine Secretary.

ivIBlf

11. II BIOELOW, Oon'l Agent.

STOCK CERTIFICATES,

STOCK TRANSFER JOURNALS,
STOCK LEDGERS,

ASSESSMENT RECEIPTS,

And all other Blanks, Blank Books, etc., required by Min-
ing and other Corporations, kept on hand or printed to
order on short notice, at moderate prices, at the office or
he Mining and Scientific P«vw.

Mining Secretary.

THE SUBSCRIBER, HAVING SERVED FOR THE LAST
five years as Secretary of various mining companies,
feels inlly competent to serve In that capacity. Any par-
tics wishing to secure the services of a Secretary can be
accommodalcd on reasonable terms. Information given,
and all necessarv papers correctly made out.

Having had a fong experience In ihe purchasing of goods
and machinery tor miners, parties iu the mines will rind It
to their advantage, where purchasing agents are employed,
to send their orders to the undersigned.

J. M. BUFFINUTON.
Room 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California street
San Francioeo 17v\5-tt

WE ARE NOW OFFERING
OTJK- I3X>rE3V!5iIi: STOCK

Fine Custom Made Clothing

Gents' Furnishing Goods

AT IMMtT.N THAT DEFT COMPETITION.

Our Stock of Clothing * ■•n-l-i- of
AJCH, THE LATEST STYLES

BOTH Or HATKILIAL 1.1D FINISH.

A Large Aasortmen tof
Trunk*, Vnll-f*. Curpet Bate*, lllankets, .Kit-.,

AT KXTREWRLY LOW PRICKS.

j. r. m:eai> & co.f

8vl0 Cor. of Washington and Sansome streets.

THE GIANT

Isnnw propnred to (111 all orders for

GIANT POWDER,

Put up In Boxen, cither In Bulk or In Car
tritlfiCM.

General -Afrents,

BANDMANN, NIELSEN & CO.,

25vl6-3m 210 Front street, San Frnnclsco.

SAN FRANCISCO

Pioneer Screen Works,

JOHN W. QUICK, Manufacturer.

Removed to A. Prltzel's Iron Works. 2tH Fremont street,

near Howard, San Francisco.

Screen Punching in all its branches, nt rates reduced
from 2510 in per cent less than the established rates. I can
furnish Improved Quartz Screens several sizes finer than
nnvScrren ever punched, divine universal satisfaction,
and forstrensrtti, cheapness and durr.hllitv arc not excelled.
Also, Punched .Screens of all sizes and fineness made from
all qualities of material, for Quartz. Cement, Flour and
Rice Mills, etc. Screen Punching made a specialty; there-
fore millmen forward inp their orders to me will receive
none hut the best. Orders solicited.

N. B — .T. W. QHTCK ]s the onlv competent and snecessfu!
manufacturer of Screens In the Stale, having made Screens
for the princinal mills In this State and adjoining Terri-
tories for manv years. Quartz mill owners using punched
Screens which have universally failed to give satisfaction,
when visiting the city will please call and see me. 5vl7-ly

California Steam Navigation

gg^i COMPANY. rVTj ;

Steamer CAPITAL CAPT. E. A. POOLE

' CHRYSOPOLIS CAPT. A. FOSTER.

" YOSEMITE.... '

" CORNELIA CAPT. W. BROMLEY

JULIA CAPT. E. CONCKLIN.

Two of tho above steamers leave BROADWAY WHARF
at 4 o'clock P. M. EVERY DAY (Sundays excepted), one
for Sacramento and one tor Stockton, those for Sacra-
mento connecting with light-draft steamers for Marysvllle
Colusa, Cbico, and Red Bluff.

Office of tho Company, northeast corner of Front and
Jackson streets.

M. M. nAKTSHOR\K,
I3vl2 President.

International Hotel,

J A. O K © O N" © T Tt E E T

BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AND KEARNY STS„

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. .

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE IS IN PERFECT
order for the accommodation of guests. Persons seek-
ing comfort and economy- will find this the best Hotel In
the cltv to stop at. The Reds are new and in good order,
and the Rooms well ventilated. The Table will alwavn be
supplied with the best in the market.
Prices varying from l£l 50 to $2 per day for

Board and Rornn.

FINE BATU HOUSE AND BARBER SHOP ATTACHED

TO THE nOUSE.

CTff* Teams helonglng to the House will be in attendance
nt all the boats and cars to convey passengers to the House
FtiKH of ciuiicK, and to any part of the city for SO cents

iilvl2 F. E. WEYGANT, Proprietor.

I • 106 '°A'RD -INDUSTRIAL .PUBUS.HEB,

DR. OSTESTELL'S
LXTTSTGr INSTITUTE,

(Branch of the ~S.1l. Lnner Institute)
So. «1G SUTTER STREET,

Between Mason and Powell Streets, San Francisco,
For the special Treatment of all Diseases of the HEAD,
THROAT, LUNGS, AND CHEST, by the Inhalation of
Medicated Vapars at the natural temperature of the air.

Earnest attention is solicited to this Rational Method of
Treatment, which transmits the remedies, in the form of
vapor, directly to the scat of di-easc, instead of bv tho
round-about way— ihrough the medium of the stomach—
and which is conceded to be the only reliable means where-
bv an alleviation and cure mav be exported. My system
of Inhalation, now well known throughout the United
States and Canadas, and much of Europe, where thousands
— manv of them far advanced— have recovered, claims the
profoundest approval of the medical prole Plon, and tho
timely and candid consideration or those afflicted wlih
these the most devastating or all earthlv maladies.

Patients attended at the Institute, dailv, from 9 A, M. till
i P. M.

Invalids at a distance, on writing their case, can receive
the remedies by Express.

Special attendance out of the city will be charged com-
mensurately with the time ana distance occupied.

All communications must be addressed to

D. D. T. NESTELL. A. M„ M.D.,
Lung Institute,
No. 51fi Sutter Street, Pan Francisco,
21vl7Smos. California.

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Altitudes in California.

The following altitudes above^the sea, of
important points in California, are on the
authority of the State Geological Survey.
California is 700 miles long, 200 broad, con-
tains 158,687 square miles, and a popula-
tion estimated (1868) at 500,000:

Altitude of Feet.

Yreka, SisMyou CO 2.700

Surprise Valley, Siskiyou CO 4,680

Mt. Shasta, Siskiyou co 14,440

Mt. Bailey, Trinity co 6,35V

Mt. Yellow Valley, Trinity CO 8,000

Lassen Peak, Shasta co 10,571

Black Butte, Shasta CO 9,500

Nolles* Pass, Lassen co 6,074

Quincy, Plumas co 3,127

Pilot Peak, Plumas co 7,605

Beckworth Pass, Plumas CO 4,500

Downieville Buttes, Sierrra co 8,800

Clear Lake, Lake co. This beautiful sheet of water
is from 2 to 12 miles wide, and 30 miles long.

Geyser Peak, Sonoma CO ...*. 3,471

Mt. St. Helena, Sonoma co 4,343

Sacramento, Sacramento co 54

Auburn, Placer co 1,385

Colfax, Placer CO 2,448

Dutch Flat, Placer Co 3,425

Summit of Sierra 7,042

*Lake Tahoe, boundary of California and Nevada. . 6,250

Mt. Tamelpais, Marin co 2,600

Mt. Diablo, Contra Costa co 3,876

Mt. Oso, San Joaquin co 3,383

Big Tree Grove, Calaveras CO 4,750

Silver Mountain, Alpine co 10,934

Livermore Pass, Alameda co 6,800

Mt. Hamilton, Santa Clara co 4,449

Mt. Bache, Santa Clara co 3,780

Pacheco Peak, Merced co 2,845

Donie Mountain, Mariposa CO -. 8,797

Mt. Hoffman, Mariposa co 10,872

Cathedral Peak. Mariposa co 11 ,000

Mt. Dana, Mariposaco 13,227

Mono Pass, Mariposa co 10,765

San Carlos Peak, Fresno CO 4,977

Bald Mountain, Fresno co 7,936

Mt. Silliman, Fresno co 11,623

Castle Peak, Mono co 13,000

Mt. Braly, Mono CO 9,435

tMono Lake, Mono CO "..... 6,454

Mt.Lyell, Mono co 13,217

Dome Mountain, Tulare CO 9,825

Mt, Tyndall, Tulare co 14,306

Kaweah Peak, Tulare CO ..14,000

Mt. Whitney, Tulare CO 15,000

Mt. Brewer, Inyo CO 13,000

Walker Pass, Kern co 6,300

Tehatchaypah Pass, Hern CO 4,020

Tejon Pass, Los Angeles co 4,250

Mt. Pinos, Los Angeles co 7,500

San Francisquito Pass, Los Angeles co 3,437

Mt. Parkinson, Loe'Angeles CO 6,000

Soledad Pass, Los Angeles co 3,164

Cajon Pass, San Bernardino co 4,600

Mt. San Bernardino, San Bernardino CO 8,500

San Gorgonia Pass, Can Bernardino co 2,S0O

Warner's Pass, San Diego co 3,780

*This beautiful lake is about 12 miles wide and 21 miles
long. It is engulphed between two ridges of mountains,
which form on either side some of the highest peaks of
the Sierra. The central portion of this lake has been
sounded to 1,400 feet.

tThis very remarkable alkali lake is sometimes called
the Dead Sea of America. It lies 10 miles southwest of
the dividing line between California and Nevada, and
as about 14 miles long and 9 miles wide. It has never
been sounded, but a trial said to have been made with a
line of 300 feet failed to reach bottom. By chemical an-
alysis a gallon of the water weighing 8 pounds, was found
to contain 1,200 grains of solid matter, consisting prin-
cipally of chloride of sodium, carbonate of lead, sulphate
of soda, borax and silica. The bitter and fatal waters of
this lake render it literally a " dead sea," and all its sur-
roundings— wild, gloomy andforeboding — are suggestive
of sterility and death. Very large numbers of mineral
curiosities abound in the neighborhood of this lake.

Turbines. — Eds. Press: — We notice in
your issue of January 16th, an article on
' ' Turbine Water Wheels, " stating that the
" Jonval, Lind and Tyler turbines (French,
California, and New England inventions,
respectively) furnish the highest percent-
age of absolute power in the order named,
and are cheap, in proportion to the power
furnished, in the reverse order." This
statement is correct in the main and most
important particular as to the percentage
of power, on which point we would call
attention to an article in the Scientific Amer-
ican of December 23d, entitled, ' ' The Jon-
val vs. the Fourneyron Water Wheel. " In
reference to the cheapness of the respect-
ive wheels, we beg to correct your state-
ment, as the facts are just the opposite —
the Jonval wheel being from fifty to one
hundred per cent, cheaper than either of
the other wheels mentioned. Very respect-
fully, Fullek & Co.

San Francisco, Feb. 4, 1869.

Histobx of Gold in New Zealand. —
The islands have produced £11,000,000 of
gold a year during three years since the
mines were discovered. In 1864, and for
years previous, it will be recollected by
all who then read the New Zealand papers,
there were premiums offered by govern-
ment, and higher premiums advocated by
newspaper correspondents, for the discov-
ery and development of gold mines in
that country; a conviction prevailing that
gold could be found there in quantities to

pay-

JSnffineeriiiff.

Railroad Building. — The Central Pa-
cific Railroad Company are surveying a
branch line from Ogden City to the south-
ward; through Salt Lake Valley, touching
the city of the Saints, Kaysville, Farming-
ton, Centerville, Bountiful, etc. The
rumor is revived of the intention of
the Union Pacific Company to continue
their road into California by the Beck-
wourth Pass route, in connection with the
Oroville and Virginia City Company. The
contract has been let for the first section
of the California Pacific extension from
Davisville to Marysville, and the whole
road to the latter point is expected to be
finished by August.

The Bulletin says: The completion of the
the beginning during the present year of
Pacific Railroad will liberate considerable la-
bor and capital for the prosecution of local
roads in this State, and we may look to see
such an era of railroad building as popu-
lated and enriched Illinois in the decade
following 1850.

The FjEGineering Data of the Orovilee
and Virginia City R. R. are as follows:

Distances — Vallejo to Oroville, estimated,
107 miles; Oroville to State line, actual
measurement, 134; State line to Lander
City at the Big Bend of Humboldt, esti-
mated, 108. Total, 349 miles.

Gradients — Maximum per mile, 66 7-12
feet; average 34 feet.

Elevation — Greatest at Beckwourth's
Pass, 4, 682 feet.

Estimated Cost of Constructing- — The Oro-
ville and Virginia section of this road —
made by competent engineers and from ac-
tual surveys — from Oroville to Quincy, 11%
miles, $37,500 per mile. Total §2,915,625.

From Quincy to State line, 56% miles at
$20,000 per mile, $1,125,000. Total $i,-
040,625.

Superstructures — Track complete, in-
cluding 10 miles for turnouts, 144 miles,
$1,400,000.

Rolling Stock to Work it — As part of the
main Pacific Road. $1,000,000; buildings,
shops and fixtures, $400,000. Grand total,
$6,840,625.

Telegraph Building in Mexico. — The
telegraphic wires are now up for the whole
length from Manzanillo to Vera Cruz, via
Colima; Guadalajara and the capital. The
other lines to Morelia, Acapulco and the
Rio Grande, will be finished before the
rainy season sets in.

From Guaymas we hear that the State
Government is actively engaged in estab-
lishing a telegraph line from said port to
the Capital Ures, and that a company is
forming there to carry the work out and
avail itself of other franchises which the
State Legislature has granted.

Proposal to Dredge the Sacramento
River. — The Union says the Sacramento
river is fast filling up with the sand which
has been set loose by miners in the mount-
ains, and is brought down by the currents
in winter, rendering the river difficult of
navigation. It is known that the present
bed of the river is many feet higher now
than it was 10 or 12 years ago, and this de-
bris is gradually filling up Suisun and the
other bays. The evil can only be remedied
in one way — says the Union — and that is by
dredging the river from the debouchment
of its two chief affluents— the Feather and
American — to Suisun Bay.

Water at White Pine. — The want of a
supply of water will be a great drawback at
White Pine in the spring. Although the
range of mountains running down to and
below Hamilton is full of water, no compa-
nies are pushing the work of tunneling. It
is thought that water in such supply as
must flow when a tunnel reaches a point
under these springs would produce a large
revenue.

Blasting Out the Coral Reefs of Mdo-
way,Island.— The Senate has added $50,000
to the Naval Appropriation Bill to improve
the harbor of Midway Island, which has
been surveyed under the direction of Ad-
miral Thatcher, and is to be made a
safe refuge for our commerce in the North
Pacific. The island belongs to the United
States, and is half-way between China and
California.

Water Supply at Vallejo. — Three dif-
ferent companies have been organized to
furnish Vallejo with fresh water, yet neither
has made a move in the matter yet.

White Pine Items.

Mining Stock Operations. — A White
Pine correspondent of the Alia says: Large
sales of mining ground continue to be
made, and I think the figures here are rea-
sonable; but a word of caution to your good
people, who cannot come and see for them-
selves. Every new mining camp is filled
with irresponsible men, who get hold of
some mines — perhaps very good ones — and
put any price upon them that they can , but
at a very heavy advance from " firsthands. "
They bond mines and take them to your
city. No parties here will bond a mine at
anything like the cash price; but they are
talked into it, and you pay for such useless
service. I say useless, because most of the
purchasers have friends here, and should
certainly take some advice before action.
Quite a number of mines have been taken
to your city in this way during the past
week. Many of your capitalists contribute
a few thousand dollars to some agent or
representative for the purpose of buying
property, and the said representative is a
big toad in the puddle while the money
lasts. The character of our ores, and the
fact that few are at all acquainted with
them, have given inexperienced men agood
opportunity to compete with those Ion;; in
the business.

Depth of the White Pine Deposits. —
News has been received from Hamilton that
ore has been struck in a tunnel 100 feet
below the surface in the Virginia mine,
situated on the northern flank of Treasure
Hill. The importance of this fact consists
in its showing that the mines in that dis-
trict are probably not merely superficial
deposits liable soon to be exhausted.

Portable Steam Power. — A portable
steam engine on wheels has gone up on the
Sacramento boat, en route for White Pine,
to be used as the motive power fora crush-
ing mill on a small scale.

Population of White Pine District. —
A gentleman recently from White Pine es-
timates the population of that district at
6,000. The population of Treasure City
alone is believed to be not less than 3,500.

A company of sixteen citizens of Gibson-
ville, Sierra County, have incorporated,
and will send Bobert Walsh to the White
Pine country to prospect.

Telegraph to White Pine. — Mr. James
Gamble, Superintendent of the Western
Union Telegraph Co., informs the Bulletin
that a contract has been let for the tele-
graph poles for a line from Ruby Valley-to
White Pine; that the wire is now on the
way, and that the line will be in operation
in six weeks.

Resources and Developments.

Vallejo has a population of 5,000.

San Leandro has four gang-plow manu-
factories.

A tree on the ranch of G. N. Sweezy,
Yuba County, bore a crop of 100 oranges
last year.

The Stockton Independent thinks that Cali-
fornia teazle (a kind of burr) is good for
carding wool and cotton.

The citizens of Millville, Tehama Coun-
ty, are actively engaged in organizing and
establishing a woolen factory.

Silk Growing. — I. N. Hoag has shipped
four large wool sacks of silk cocoons,
weighing 113 pounds, to R. & J. Morton,
of San Francisco. The cocoons were those
perforated by the moths in their exit, and
are used for the manufacture of velvet and
mixed goods, and were sold at seventy-five
cents a pound.

Concentration and Smelting of Tin
Ores. — A bar of eighty-five pounds of tin,
of .97 fineness, from the Temescalore, has
been turned out from Mosheimer's Smelt-
ing Works, the work being done in small
crucibles. The intention is to crush the
ore to such a fineness as to pass through a
screen of from 18,000 to 20,000 meshes to
the square inch; as it is found that in order
to render the reduction of tin ores effectual,
they must be crushed to an extreme fine-
ness. After being concentrated at the
Union Foundry, the ores are to be smelted
at Mo sheimer's Smelting Works, for the
present.

Cherries Ripened Outdoors in Janu-
ary.— A city cotemporary mentions the
plucking of a fine cluster of ripe cherries,
a day or two ago, from a tree in the garden
of Otis V. Sawyer, on Hyde street. Vol-
umes in favor of the mildness of the cli-
mate of California could not speak more.

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Industrial Publisher,

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Every mine? tn the oomnnralty should Rabaertbe for
the Mining and Bolftntlfle Proaa.— Gran Valley Union,

KnmfOAND fk'iK.s-nric Pukss.— This excellent seien-

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Tan flHtfWf and Sdenlifie Preu should have an exten-
sive circulation in every mining community on the
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The MiMNii USD BCXENTOIC Puess has becomo al-
ma i Indispensable to the miner untl machinist, and ii*

veil deserving of the patronage which we are pleas* a to

learn it receives. — Mariposa Mail, Jan. IQUt.

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pers of the kin.i ever published, and to California miners,
especially, ii has become an almost Indispensable requi-
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XVlIlli Volume. It has donned a new-stylo hat; or, In
uawspaoer parlance, a new heading, which gives It the
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111 matter.— Annular ledger, July 1801

TnK Mixixo and Scientific Press conies to us this
Weeb In a new dress throughout, much improving its
appearance. The Pbkss is one of our most valuable
v [changes, and nib* a place In mining and scientific mat-
ters never attained by any other journal. — Colorado
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the Mining and Scientific Press, published by Dewey &
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fur that paper. To the Intelligent miner, a paper like
the Pren i<* particularly valuable, keeping him posted on
the latest discoveries in reduction of ores, new machin-
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Tin-; HlNUTQ ANf> Scikntific Press, which commenced
U seventeenth vi.linne en the 4lh, conies Iu us Wlth-u new-
ly engraved head, and presenting otherwise Its usual tasie-
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its the busllicsi man, who would keep posted on our indus-
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us Monday evening, that its merits are so well appre-
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SULPHURETS ;

What they are;

How Assayed ;

How Concentrated;

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send one extra free of charge. All our prices arc in Cur-
rency.

Goods sent to any part o the United States by express, to
be paid for on delivery. Money need not be sent with tho
order, as bills can be paid when goods arc taken from tho
express office. Customers must pay all express charges.
We employ no agents; orders must therefore basent direct-
ly to US. Customers in tho city will remember that our
only Office is

Nov. 37 and 39 Nassau wtreet. New York,

Opposito the Post Office, (up stairs.)

O. E. COLLINS Jte CO.

Citizens of Toronto and the Dominion generally, fake nr-
tlce. We have hundreds of testimonials. But you need no
further evidence than the following from one who is well
known among you. Here is his proof positive.

Harry Hazlcton, the well known author, says:

" I have always looked upon chean watches as humbugs,
and dealers in them as little better than swindlers. At the
requestor a friend, I have worn for three months, the
watch he purchased of C. E. Collins, and for which he paid
$15. It accurate time, retains its perfect golden ap-

pearance, and I can really see no difference between it and
my own, which cost live dines the amount of the Collins
Watch."

Mr. Hazelion adds:

"I have since purchased FIVE of these watches, at the
request ol friends and those for whom they were intended
are pertectly satisfied. Others arc seeking for them, and I
fancy that Mr, C. will find some difficulty In supplying the
constantly Increasing demand."

855-Th e regular price of the watch is $15, and others
costing $20. These are superbly finished, and reallv supe-
rior to any article placed upon the market, costing five
times that sum.

Office State Capital Reporter, 42 and 41 J street. Sacra-
mento, Cal., July 15, 18158:

C. E Collins & Co.— Gentlemen:— Wells, Fargo A Co. de-
livered Watch and Chain, as per order, paid bid on present-
ation. The Watch and Chain give entire satisfaction, and
several of my friends wish the same quality of watch and
chain. One Is chief editor of this paper, and two others
are the publishers of this paper, and the others are for
friends of mine, and by wearing your goods will make you
a large sale iu this city. I therefore wish you to send me
seven watches and seven chains, of same quality as those
you sent me, price paid you $15 for watch, and $6 currency
for chain. I return you the guarantee.it may assist you
in ascertaining the exact kind of goods sent me, the number
of the watch sent is 66,982. If this order sent turns out as
satisfactory as the first, we will give you a good editorial
notice, and help you along as far as practicable. I send
this order not for my benefit, but for yours and to accom-
modate mv friends. Send to E. K. Phipps, office of "State
Capital Reporter, Sacramento, California."
Yours, respectfully,

E. K. Piiipps.
Address,

C. E. COLLINS & CO.,

37 and 3D Nasitnn street, New Torlt.

IMPROVED INNER SOLES

— FOR —

BOOTS ^IVD SHOES.

Those who have worn Daggett's Patent Elastic Ventilat-
ing inner Boles, are unanimous In testimony that the cor-
rect principle has been hit upon and reduced to practical
and successful use. The foot rests upon a cushion of air
..■•-u- between points of vulcanized rubber, every cell open-
ing nreeiv Into each other and through the spaee occupied

bj the root There Is no contact of the foot with tho wet
bnitom of the boot The elastic points sustain the weight
of ihe wearer, leaving an air space always, between tue
font and all dampness. Every so-p ci>tiipr".-ses and re*
si i >re % the air chambers, thus constituting hundreds of air
pump-, working at ovary Btep ol (ho foot.

rbe rubber points will not aborb the moisture from the
boot, SO l hat ihe soil Manuel which covers them is always
dry. Their Kprlngtne elasticity renders them of peculiar
value to the aRedaiuXInnrm, who reel the ]ar or walking
ut»on hard substances. a!sc to all persons whose business
n qnlres much walklne or standing.

Thews sulesare alTordhiK meat relief to persons afflicted
wlin rhuoiuilsiu and consumptive complaints, chilblains,
corns, cold and sweaty feet.

For warm and dry feet use the Patent Elastic Ventilat-
ing Inner Soles,

A'o, lb Esclt,.tin/e Street, Ttui-titH, Oct. 15, h%7:-This may cer-
tify thai 1 have u-ed the Patent Elastic Ventilating Inner
Soles, through the spring and summer past, and have
round them io he Ihe oo«l contrivance for keeping the feet
dry and comfortHble. that I have ever used, ami for any
oin- having corns or tender feet, the bevt article ever in-
vented. CHARLES K, DARLING, Siatloner.

PtiUnl Elartlc Ventilating Sole* —If you wish a comfortable
article for * our feet, a real luxury In cod weather, ohialu
a pair of the Patent Klanie Ventilating Inner Soles, Hav-
ing uned these soles the past winter, we can salely rccom
mend them as tending not only to promote the comfort of
the teei, and ease In walking, but also the equalization of
the temperature of the feet, which renders them almost in-
valuable,-i Boston Traveler, (Jet. 1867.

Price, per nnir, SI. Re mail, postage paid, &1.25. For
sale by PATRICK KELLY, No. 3-7 Bush street, San Fran-
cisco. Svlttf

Postmastkks arc requested to punctually inform us of tho
removal of subscribers of the Pbkss from their locality,
or ofneglectto take the paper out of the office from any
cause— when the subscriber omits that duty himself. It Is
not our Intention to send this journal to any party longer
than it is desired. If we Inadvertently do so, subscribers
and others will please Inform us.

Mining Notices.

Cli.ilk Kf ounliiln JBlue Gravel Company.-Lo.

cation of Works: Nevada County, California.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting ol tho Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the thirteenth day of
January, 1869, an assessment of two dollars {$2i per share
wan levied upon the capital slock of said Company, paya-
ble immediately, iu United States gold coin, to the Sttc
retary

Any stock upon which said assessment shall' remain un
paid on the fifteenth day of February, 1369, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised tor sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall be made before,
will be sold on Monday, the eighth day of .March, 1869,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of
advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of
Trustees.

J. M BUFFINGTON, Secretary.

Office, 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California street,
San Franchco. janlfi

I. J£. jL. Gold and Sliver Mining Company.—

Location of Mine : Silver Mountain District, Alpine

County, California.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company,hcld on the nineteenth day of Jan-
uary, 1869, an assessment of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50)
per share was levied upon the capital stock of said Com-
pany, payable Immediately, In United States gold and
silver coin, to the Secretary, at his office. Pioneer Hall,
Montgomery street, San Francisco, California.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the twenty-seventh day of February, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent! and will be duly advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless payment shall be made b3-
fore, will be sold on Wednesday, the- seventeenth day of
March,, 1869, to pay the delinquent assessment, together
with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. By order ot
the Board of Trustees.

J. CROWNINSHIELD, Secretary.

Office, Pioneer Hall, Montgomery street, up stairs, San
Francisco. jan30

Afount Tenabo Silver Mining? Company,- lo-
cation of Works: Cortez District, Lander County, State
of Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty-third day of
January, 1869, an assessment of seventy-five cents per share
was levied upon the capital siock of said Company, pay-
able Immediately, in United States sold and silver coin, to
the Secretary, at the office of the Company, 426 Montgom-
ery street, San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the fifth (5th) day of March, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised tor sale
at public auction, and unless pavmenl shall be made be-
fore, will be sold on Tuesday, the thirtieth (With) day of
March, 1869, to pay the delinquent assessment, together
with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. By order
of the Board of Trustees

R. N VAN BRUNT, Secretary.
Office J26 Montgomery street, San Francisco. janlO

North American "Wood Preserving Company.

Location of Works: San Francisco, California.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Directors of said Company, held on the fifteenth day of
Jonuary, 18C9, an assessment of one (SI) dollar per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able immediately, in United States gold and silver coin, to
the Secretary, at the Company's office, ill) Montgomery
street, San Francisco.

Any stocit upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the eighteenth day of February, 1S69, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised forsaleat
public auction, and unless payment shall be made before,
will be sold on .Monday, the eighth day of March, 1S69,
to pay tho delinquent assessment, together with costs
of advertising a:id expenses of sale. By order of the Beard
ol Directors.

WM. B.LAKE, Secretary.

Office, 430 Montgomery street. San Francisco. junl6

XCIppon Gold and Silver Mining Company.—

Locution of Works: Sliver Mountain District, Alpine

County, California.

Notick.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
fifteenth day of October, 186S, the several amounts set
opposite the names of the respective shareholders as fol-
lows :

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

Curtis Palmer : 148 10 S10 00

William Brown U 5 5 (Ml

William Brown 233 1(1 10 00

William Brown 233 10 10(0

William Brown 234 111 10 00

William Brown 35 JO 10 10

William Brown 240 S 3 00

William Brown 276 25 25 00

Willhim Brown 277 45 4» 00

Brown A Kent 15 in 10 00

Abigail Brown 20 5 5 00

Abigail Brown 207 f> 5 Oil

M ufoltin 206 10 10 00

Daniel Davidson, endorsed to

James Wilson 46 10 10 fO

Oonrgc Patterson 53 fl 5 00

J ames S S Robinson 56 10 10 00

[fflmea No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

FM F.11U fi6 1 1 nit

H D BCOU 71 !» Bfi (10

John s inquet i:s 15 15 no

B Curran not issncd OT 10 io ifl

>! Curran not fs-ucd 273 10 10 no

.John Bagncll 77 7 7 on

Matthew Davidson 79 12 12 0d

Patrick Carroll :-:i in 10 00

I' H Wellln 221 5 6 00

Edward Campbell 1SI 10 10 00

Chas B Montugue ISO 25 25 00

A.I Davis 127 10 10 00

LottMuleahy 157 5 5 00

Thomas Fa V 158 5 5 00

David M Short i:U li, in 00

Chas Mayer l.T, pi pi hi

Benjamin <■ l.i'W 137 5 fl °0

Lazsrrl uodchaax 139 10 in mi

Lazard Godchaux lsfl 5 500

bazard Godchaux , 162 s 5 00

Lazard Codchaiix 229 r, ;, in

Lazard Oodctmux 230 s n 00

P Cunningham 156 f, 5 uo

P Cunningham 174 5 5 ill

Michael English 152 25 25 00

Frank Mnhon 155 25 2s ini

Thos HcCullongh 159 10 in in

Stephen McUJIlnn 164 5 B no

Stephen McGIUaa 165 h fl 00

P.1 McMahon 170 M 2'. UO

I'.T McMahon 183 25 25 00

Jas Barrett. ..not Issued.. .bal 189 25 125 00

Kllzaheth Curran 191 III m imi

Elizabeth Curran 195 10 in no

NC Brings 209 10 10 00

F IT Moore 210 20 20 00

C B firecory 2!i 20 20 10

Henry E no 212 20 20 00

Menry Eno 278 25 25 un

David Lovell 214 10 10 HO

Jacob Marteusteln 225 1 I 00

M G Shove 264 20 20 00

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the fifteenth day of October, IS6S,
so many shares of oach parcel of said stock as may be
necessary, will be sold at public auction, at the salesroom
of Maurice Dorc A Co., auctioneers, No. 327 Montgomery
street, San Francisco, on Saturday, the twenty-third day
of January, 1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock M, of said day, to
pay said delinquent assessment thereon, together with
costs of advertising and expenses of sale.

CURTIS PALMER, Seeretarv.

Office. No. 87 Stevenson street, between First and Recoil
streets. Sail Francisco. dcc24

Postponement.— The above sale is hereby postponed unt
Saturday, the sixth day of February, 18G9, at the sam
hour and place. By order of the Board of Trustees.

jnn30 CURTIS PALMER, Secretary.

Rattlesnake Mining; Company, Brown's Val-
ley, Yuba County, California.

Notice.— There are delinquent upon the following de
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
nineeenth day of December, 1868, the several amounts set
opposite the names of the respective shareholders, as fol-
lows:

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

Agard, W B 18 44 . $330 n0

Agard. M F 19 100 750 Oj

Anslclfonl, H 5 6 45 00

Bradley, M not issued 30 225 00

Bradley, A -not issued 5 37 50

Babb, LH not issued 25 187 50

Brown, J 6 20 150 00

BetitiSHcq, A C O de 27 20 150 00

Cohn A Bro not Issued 10 75 00

Cavallier, J B E 3 10 75 00

Oavallier, J BE 25 91 6S2 51)

Oourcclle.A 7 46 345 00

Ely, J not issued 10 75 00

Findley, Thos 26 49 367 5u

Fischer. W 9 45 337 60

Gray.CM not issued 60 450 i0

Hawley, W notissucd 39 292 50

Hawley, Mrs S notissucd 6 45 00

Huard, A N 1 210 1575 00

Huard.L H.... 2 20 15 00

Kelly, M J is 20 150 no

Lawson, J F not issued 49 367 50

Lamory, E 11 100 750 00

McAUisA Gordon 14 5 37 50

McAUis & Gordon 15 10 75 00

McAllis & Gordon 16 10 75 CO

McAllis & Gordon 17 20 150 00

Mattat, M 4 20 150 00

Noel, A 12 20 1511 00

Ruggles. D W not Issued ' 10 75 00

Smith, J B notlssued 10 75 4)0

Vitte, J not issued 5 37 50

Wessels, S C not issued 10 75 00

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the nineteenth day of December, 1868,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be nec-
essary, will be sold at public auction, by J. Middleton A
Son, 310 Montgomery street, San Francisco, on Monday, the
eighth day of February. 1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock M.
of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment thereon,
together With costs of advertising and expenses of sale.
JOHN F. LOHSE, Secretary.
Office, 31S California street, up stairs, San Francisco. j-3

Postponement.— The above sale is hereby postponed until
Thursday, the eighteenth day of February, 1869, at the same
hour and place. By order of the Board of Trustees.

feb6 JOHN F. LOHSE, Secretnry.

U. S. Grant Mining; Company.— Location of

Works: Carlisle, Nevada.

Notice.— There are delinquent upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on tho
ninth day of November, 1863, the several amounts set op-
posite the names of the respective shareholders, as fol-
lows:

Names. - No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

Alpheus Bull 2 218 $109 00

E B. Mott, Jr 6 150 75 HO

GeoMohrel 10 10 5 00

Geo Mobrel 11 10 5 00

GeoMohrel 12 10 5 00

GfioMohrcl 13 5 2 50

GeoMohrel 14 5 2 50

SIlasGtirbcr 19 10 5 00

JasP Wheeler 30 50 25 00

JasPWheelcr 31 60 25 no

JasPWheeler 32 50 25 00

JasP Wheeler 33 50 25 00

Jr-oVail 34 20 1(100

LJ Flint 37 20 10 TO

IL RcqiU 38 50 25 00

IL Requa 39

ILRequa 40

I L Requa 41

J L Van Bokkelcn 48

L A Booth 49

LA Booth 50

L A Boolh 51

J Bigps

McFarland

Sarah finvder

N M Baxter

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the ninth day of November, 1S6S, ho
many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be neces-
sary, will be sold at public auction, by J. C. Merrill A Co.,
auctioneers, No. 204 California street, San Francisco,
California, on Saturday, the second day of January,
1869, at tho hour of 2 o'clock P. M. of said day, to pay
said delinquent assessment thereon, together with costs of
advertising and expenses of sale.

ENOS TAYLOR, Secretary.

Office, No. 226 Clay street, San Francisco. dccl9

Postponement.— The above sale is hereby postponed until
Saturday, tho thirtieth day of January, I860, at the same
hour and place. By order ofthe Board of Trustees.

jan9

50

25 00

50

25 110

51)

25 00

4

2 00

50

25 00

54

27 00

100

50 00

4

2 P0

16

8 00

•2

16 00

20

10 00

ENOS TAYLOR, Secretary.

94

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinery.

V-AJRJNEY'S
PATENT AMALGAMATOR

These Machines Stand Uuri valecl.

For rapidly pulverizing and amalgamating ores, they
nave no equal. Ho elTort has been, or will be, spared lo
have them constructed in the most perfect manner, and of
the great number now in operation, not one has evcrre-
quired repairs. The constant and increasing demand for
them is sufficient evidence of their merits.

They are constructed so as to apply stcain directly into
the pulp, or with steam bottoms, as desired.

This Amalgamator Operates as Follows:

The pan being tilled, the motion of themuller forces the
pulp to the center, where it is drawn down through the ap-
erture and between the grinding surfaces. Thence it is
thrown to the periphery into the quicksilver. The curved
plates again draw it to the center, where it passes down,
and to the circumference as before. Thus it is constantly
passing in a regular iiow between the grinding surfaces and
into the quicksilver, until the ore is reduced to an impalpa-
ble powder, and the metal amalgamated.

Setters made on the same principle excel all others.—
They bring the pulp so constantly and perfectly in contact
with quicksilver, that the particles are rapidly and coin
pletely absorbed. .

Mill men are invited to examine these pans and sellers for
themselves, at the PACIFIC lODMMKl,

IvJ San Francisco.

3?ateiit I£lg»h.ts for Sale.

For Preserving Timber from Decay

The cheapest method for curing Wood.
A. HAUAS'8 PATEAT.

WOOD PAVEMENT,

UILXCR'S PATENT.

3v:Slm 804: Montgomery street. Boom 4.

ELLERY'S PATENT

India llubher Cement and Paint

— FOB —

TIN, IRON AND METALLIC ROOFS,

Iron, .Brick, and "Wooden. Muildings,
SHIPS, STEAMBOATS, STAGES, CABS,

AND FOR ALL EXPOSED SURFACES.

Is water-proof and indestructible; will neither rot, peel,

nur crack. ; will withstand any climate; can be put on in

any color, atiQ is less expensive than other Paint.

A'ew Cloth Roof* j»ut on. Old RoofW cemented
and painted. Leaky Bool* made tight.

fcjy- No Coal Tar or Asplialtum used. All work, guaran-
teed. Orders punctually aueiiued to.

GEO. T. BROAILET, Agent,

BLAKE' 3 QUARTZ BREAKER!

IPRICES REDUCED!

MACHINES OF ALL SIZES FOK SALE

¥M. P." BLAKE,

Vomer First and Mission streets, or Box 2,0??

3vl3f SAN FfiANOiSCO.

GLASGOW
Iron and Metal Importing Company

Son. 35 and 3? Fri-moiit street,

SAN FltA.NCISCO,

Keep constantly on hand a la>gc stock of best Bar and
Bundle liuu, duller Tubes, J-*late and Sheet Iron, Gas and
Water Pipe, Anvils, Cast Steel, Gas and Water FiLtiu^"
Which they oiler to ttie trade uii liberal terms.

21vi0-3in W. UcOKINDLE, Manage.

Ifceraoval.

NEL,SON~&T DOBLE,

AUK.\TS FOE

Thomas Firth h Sons3 Cast Steel. Files,

Mill Picks, Slutlgcs, Hammers, Picks,

Stone Cutlers', Blacksmiths' and Horse-aimers' Tools,
Have rcuiuved to 13 and 15 Fremont street, near

JNotice to Miners,

Well-Borers and Water Companies.

MFRAG IS NOW PREFAItED TO MANUFACTURE
• Uydrauhe and Artesian Well Pipes m the hesl work-
manlike luauuur, and at wie lowest marktu rates. Having
made lar^e addi Lions to my stuck ol machinery lor thai
branch ui~uusine&s, 1 am prepared to nil all orders wltlidis-
natch, and guarantee enure saiistactluu. I also manufac-
ture .Mississippi .-stoves, oi the latest improved patterns, tor
vessels ol ull classes. Also, Ship numbing done.

Al. 1-KAG,
Bvl3-ly Stove Store, No. ) Clay street, below Davla.

PACIFIC FILE WORKS,

No. ~>".i tteale Street, bet. Market and Mission,

SAN .FRANCISCO.

Files Re-eui.iiid warranted as good as new, with a saving
Ol fifty per Cunt. ItEAl'ER AND JlllWhK SECi'lU.MS
MADtf i'u UKUER. The only establishment on the Uoast.
nders from tlie country promptly intended to. «3"- First
* rll« State Fair, 16ti7.

'V. a. i>uuxi.vo &, co

awarded at t

PoNtase.- The postage on the Mining asd SolBHTiFifc
Paiiss ioan.v portion of the United .states is twenty cents per
annum, or five cents per quarter, payable in advance at the
Fust Urttcc delivering the paper. Postage free in the city
ano county. Foreign postage iwith lew exceptions) two
cents per copy, prepaid. To Bremen and the German
States (marked via Bremen and Hamburg line), three cents
per copy, prepaid. Singlecopiea to any address m the United
utj*, two o en ui

CALIFORNIA TOOL WORKS,

Blacksmith and Machine Shop,

HAS REMOVED
To 143 Scale St., bet. MUslou and Howard,

SAN FKANCISCO.

All kinds of Edge or oihcr Tools made to order. Im-
ported Tools, it' too bard or soft, re tempered to give satis-
faction. KEAPER AND MOWING KNIVES ; complete
sections always on band, or will be made at the shortest
notice. Particular attention paid to putting in order AG-
RICULTURAL .MACHINERY. Job Grinding and Polish-
ing by sleam. Orders from the- Country promptly attended
lo as- All work warranted. Prices reasonable.

21vl7qy J. WEICHHAKT, Proprietor.

Pipe Vise, with or without
Extra Jaw.

Standard Milling Machine.

UNION VISE COMPANY,

OF BOSTON, MASS.

Extra jaw, ami lieavy Viac9, Warranted for heavv work.
r<t!\v style Wood anil Covered Screw Vises, forty styles and
kinds; Stundard . Milling .Machines, simple, Croat capacity,
power and strength— two sizes, large, 2,300 10s; small, 950
lbs. Foi '

a»16-ly

or sale by the trade.

G. H. NOTT, Pies.

PATENT

Boiler Scraper and Tube-Cleaner.

IT IS THE CHEAPEST, MOST
durable, easiest 10 adjust, and
cleanest apparatus to use for the
purpose designed, yet ofl'ered to
the public. Heing constructed on
simple and mechanical principles,
it U not liable to get out of order,
and will continue to perform its
office until the materials are worn
out. It can readily be adjusted,
even by nny inexperienced per-
son—will scrape off the scales and
cleanse the tubes just as smooth
and clean as they were when
new, without in the least affecting
their inner surface, as the Elliptic
Spring Scraper has a smooth
square edge, and springs in or out
lo tit the tubes. It is particularly
applicable for steamboat boilers
wlieu muddy water is used.

A continuous Iron rod runs
through the center of the top and
bottom hubs. The soft steel scrap-
ers are fastened with screws to
the hubs, under the caps, which
cover and protect the screws that
fasten the scrapers on the hub.
The scrape rs are expanded ur con-
tracted by screwing or unscrew
ing the lower hub,— first loosening
the cap. There is a collar on the
rod to prevent the scrapers being jammed. An elastic or
flexible brush or scraper, uiadeoi leather, rubber, or some
pliable material, is attached to the nut for the purpose ol
removing from ihe tube the scale and dust loosened by the
action of the scrapers.

These scrapers arc made from one to six inches in diam-
eter—the prices of those from one to three inches rangimr
from $f> to S12. They are now extensively used in the
Eastern Stales. Quite a number have already been sold in
this State.

For sale by McAfee, Spiers & Co., boiler makers, Howard
street, between Fremont and Beale, Hun Francisco, and at
the Union Foundry, Sacramento. E. M. D., P. O. box 17,
San Francisco, Manufacturers' Agents. 24vl7tf

Portable Engines.

The Swamscot Co's (warranted equal to any manufac-
tured, may be seen in use in this el:y), PuliTABLE and
STATIONARY STEAM FIRE ENGINES, STEAM 1'UMPS
and ROTARY PUMPS, and WuOD- WORKING MACHINE
ERY of everv description, at Eastern prices. Address W.
O. M. BERRY &. CO., 511 California street, San Francisco.
26vl7-3m

S. F. & SS. J. R. K.

E. R. WATERMAN.

W. H. T0BEY.

WM. H. TOBEY & CO.,
RAILROAD ADVERTISING AGENCY,

Oil Market tttreet,

Between Second and Third streets (up stairs).

FRAMES, Cini>S, CIRCULARS, FOSTERS,

Etc., put up in all the Oars and Depots of the San Fran

Cisco and San Jose Railroad.
Advertise your Ku»1iicsm for the Country Trade

4vlStf

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Advertisements In the Transcript will reach
even part of Alameda County.

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has been signalized with remarkable success during the
past few years. Ttie importance to the inventive genius of
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the reward which must follow the faithful performance of
their trusts, will lake care to afford inventors every advan-
tage to bo secured to them through a competent and re-
sponsible agency upon this uuu.it.

Trades and Manufactures.

ff«. BARTLING.

HENRY KIMBALL.

BARTLING & KIMBALL,
BOOKBINDERS,

Paper Rulers and Blank Book Manufacturers.

505 Clay street, {southwest cor. Sansoine),
I5vl2-3m SAN FRANCISCO.

JOHN IXAJVIJEIL,

(SUCCESSOR TO 0. GORl) *

MARBLE WORKS,

No. 421 Pine st bet Montgomery and Kearny, San Francisco

Mantels, monuments. TomliH. Plumbers' Slabs

Etc., On hand and Manufactured to order.
Goods shipped to all parts of the State. Orders re

spectfulli solicited.

6v8-3m

Palnier's 3t*a/fce:n-t

ARTIFICIAL LEG-,

Manufactured in. Philadelphia, Penn.
JARVIS JEWETT, AGENT.

21S Montgomery Street, San Francisco. 10v8-lm

J. M. STOCKMAN,

Manufacturer of
FA-TTIEXMVS AJST> MODELS,

(Over W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry,
S. E. Corner of Mission and Fremont sts.,

6vHtf SAN FRANCISCO.

J. F. PAG-ES,

SEAL ElVGHA-VIER,,

AND LETTER CUTTER,

Brass and Steel Stamps and Dies, G08 Sacramento street,

San Francisco. Orders bv express promptly attended to.

6vl6

DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITURE.
JOHN"SON~& BEST,

Manufacturers of all kinds of
I>eslcs and. Office Fxirxiiture,

TIT Market street, neiir Third.

Warerooms up stairs. A largo variety of Desks always on

baud; all kinds ol niHce KuriiUuro and Cabinet

Work, made to order.

lSvl7ur

Novelty and Usefulness Combined.
"Wilson's Prepared fSolclex*

Dispenses with the Soldering Iron.

It -will save you both time and labur. One buttle of this
Solder will mend all the tins you have laid one side for
months, and make them good as new. Get them out and
mend them. It is cheap— only 5<i ecu Is a bottle; It is con-
venient and compact. Use any kind of lamp that has a
blaze no larger than a smjile wick; a spirit lamp will make
no smoke. You may mend a dish or can over the best table
without fear of spoiling it. Try it, and you will never want
a soldering iron in the house again What a saving
to farmers. No more stopping up of holes in milk pans
with a rag- Milkmen can mend their own cans. It
does the prettiest job on auv ariicle you have in the house,
from a pint dish to a wasli boiler Ii is a sure thing to siick
when resin and solder will not It will stand heat as well
as any solder ever used over lire

Agency tor ihe Paciih: Coast, Room No. 10, No. 423 Wash-
irurtiiii street. Ran Kninciscu. AGENTS WANTED.

Address P. O. box 17. 23vl7tf

M. M. COOK & SON.

Hose and JSeltins-

Fire, Hydraulic Hose and Lealhcr Belling, made of the
heaviest and best quality of Oak-tanned slaughter Leather.
Also, Fire Buckets, Suction Hose, etc. Our Belting is well
stretched, cemented and warranted lo run true, and our
Hose guaranteed to give satisfaction. A large assortment
always on hand and orders promptly tilled. No 801 Bat-
tery street, San Francisco. I3vl6 3meow

Pacilk, Chemical Works.

suiphtric jyrsrEK.

SFIRETS OP SITJCE,
AWA AHMOSl.l,
ACETIC ACIJ>,

Ci'JLSSMi; OP POTAS5II7M

— AND —

ACIDS AID P5IE5I3CAI.S OF ALL KI\»S.

FALKENAU & HANKS.

Office mid Xiiifroratory. Nlxteeulh Nti-eet, be-
tween FolHOm itntl Uuri i«in,
LOUIS FALKENAU, State Assaycr.

Particular attention paid to the Analysis of ORES,

What Blacksmiths Want.

Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, Cal. ,
Jan. 20th, 1869. Editors Press:— We want
a traveling bellows-maker to come around
once a year and repair our bellows. We
often have bellows that want fixing and
filled with new leather; and to freight the
bellows to and from the city, and have them
repaired, would not pay, and would cost as
much as a new one. We also want a good
man to put our stocks and dies in order, or
we want duplicates of those we buy. I
think if some good mechanic would come
along with a small hand planer to put in
a vise, and would travel around putting
our screw-plates in order, and sharpening
saws, etc., he would do well, find plenly
to do in each town, and at the same time
oblige the blacksmiths in this part of the
country. A Blacksmith.

MlftEKALS. .METALS, etc.

8vl7

New Ikon Ships. — A correspondent of
the London Evening Post says : "It seems
that about half the iron ships lost are lost
in their first voyage; chiefly owing to the
imperfect adjustment of compasses. The
iron of the vessel is counteracted, in its
influence on the needle, by strong masses
of magnetic iron placed about the compass
boxes. But the adjustment of these, in
amount, strength, distance from the needle,
and direction, is delicate and difficult. A
lake near Greenock, is used for adjusting
the compasses for the Clyde vessels. They
are slowly moved through the various in-
clinations to the meridian, the variation
at each point noted, and the magnets con-
trived, by a complicated calculation, to
counterbalance it. But the variation it-
self differs with each change of the ships'
position, relatively to the horizon, as well
as to the meridian. These differences are
measured by an ingenious contrivance
known as the 'inclinometer,' and corrected
by rules empirically deduced from a multi-
tude of observations under all varying cir-
cumstances. The record of observations is
still kept up on the ships, with a view to
perfecting these rules. An old East India
captain lately lost a fine new iron steamer
on her first voyage, only eight hours out of
Glasgow, by utter inability to tell which
way was north, his compass being entirely
capricious. "

Statistics op Flour, Saw, Shingle,
Quaetz and Woolen Mills. — There are
now in California, as shown by the reports
of the County Assessors, 62 steam grist
mills, with 205 run of stone, and 67 water,
with 116 run of stone, all of which turned
out 1,400,413 barrels of flour, and ground
166,780 bushels of corn during the year.

Sawmills : 207 steam-power, and 161
water-power, which produced 220,991,213
feet of lumber, 108,007,000 shingles were
made.

There are 360 quartz mills, which
crushed 391,480 tons of rock. Water
ditches, for mining purposes, with an ag-
gregate length of 11, 94934 miles, and using
711,936 inches of water per day. Water
ditches, for irrigating purposes, 720, irri-
gating 70,588 acres of land.

Woolen mills, six, which used up 3,125,-
000 pounds of wool — about half the prod-
uct of the State. Two or three more
woolen mills have been completed since
the assessors' reports were made.

Lecture on Puget Sound. — The Hon.
Elwood Evans, of Olympia, delivered a
lecture at Port Townsend, recently, on
"Puget Sound — its Past, its Present, and
its Future." To those who knew the great
reputation of Mr. Evans, as an historian,
— says a correspondent — the long and pa-
tient labor and unwearied research which
he has bestowed upon his forthcoming
work, "The History of Oregon and Wash-
ington," a rich intellectual feast was antic-
ipated, nor were they disappointed. The
lecture is to be published.

Petrifaction op a Human Body. — The
Troy Press gives an account of the recent
removal of the body of a man who died
some years since in the neighborhod of that
city. It was in a perfect state of petrifac-
tion; and was covered wTith a dry mold,
which, when removed, revealed a surface
almost as white and pure as marble. The
body showed not the least particle of de-
cay. Every feature and lineament was per-
fectly preserved, and when stood upright
it presented the appearance of a finely
chiseled statue.

Tl)e Mining and Scientific Press.

95

Mini.no Reports. — The annual report for
18G8 of the Haywood mine in Amndor
County, contains the following figures:

Number of tons of quartz worked, 'W,7'.M ;
average yield per ton for the year, §21.50;
bullion, 8(158,378.70; bullion sulplmrets
mid, 83,500; bullion Bnlphnrata on band,
at 'if working, $2,800— total, 8664,-
178.70. The company disbursed for ex-
penses in mining, milling, repairs working
improvements and putting their works in
complete order, etc'.. (839,251.45, leaving a
balance of 8840,400 whioh has been divided
among the stockholders. The employes are
: of as highly efficient and compe-
tent.

The Gould & Curry Co., of Virginia City,
Nov., reports its annual total reoeipte at
(119,914, derived from ores taken from the
upper croppings, from closv3 assorting of the
rdfnsa, or the abandoned waste filled into
the old chambers of the mine, from mate-
rials sold, and sundry other sources. All
the labor for extracting said refuse material
has been performed under contract, requir-
ing the contractor to keep the mine in good
Condition, at his own expense, and to pay
the company $1 for each and every ton of
ore thus extracted.

The disbursements were $301, G80. Over
one hundred and eighty thousand of which
was expended in working and exploring the
mine, and over $0'5,000 was spent upon the
large and reservoir mills, and for the re-
duction of ores at custom mills.

" It is obvious," says the President of
the company, Mr. Bull, "that the heaviest
portion of the expense of mining is included
in the cost of transporting wood, timber,
lumber and ores, and as I have stated be-
fore, it is beyond a question that at least
one-third of this expenditure would be saved
by railway transportation."

The Superintendeut, David Bowie, says
but little has been done in the way of ex-
plorations in any part of the company's
ground, aud that little — made at the sixth
station during December, 1867 — did not
result in the discovery of any new body of
ore.

The mill has been closed durine the whole
year, and many of the stores have been
sold; but the reservoir tailings mill has
been leased at $500 per month, and 5,000
tons of tailings have been sold at $10 per
ton.

Old Paper Made New. — A FreDch jour-
nalist is said to have discovered a method of
restoring printed papers of all kinds to the
uses of the press. He plunges the printed
sheet, no matter how badly^soiled, into an
alkaline solution of his own devising, and ,
in a few moments, the ink, the spots, and
the letters disappear and the paper comes
out as white as ever.

CALIFORNIA.

BUSINESS UNIVERSITY

'-'O 1 Aloulxomcry Street.
Full particulars regarding o ir Pructioal Course of Studies
may be htul Ijy culling tit the University, or by addressing
E. P. HEALU, Sun Francisco.

nay be had by
L7vl7-<)yl2p

A NEW PAPER

THE SPIRITUAL LIGHT.

Published (for the present) Monthly.
It Is especially designed to promote the catwc of SPIRIT-
UALISM, ami assist in the discussion and in es iga-
tion Of all suhjcciB pertinent thereto: which
will naturally include Religion, Phil-
osophy, Ethics, Morality anl
Universal Liberty.

Terms of SunscrtiFTinw.— One copy I year (invariably In
advance) SI ; Tliree copies In one address 1 vear, $2 5P. For
convenience of remission. Or enbueks will (for the present)
be received at 81 25 to the ddlar In gold— we hope soon to
be able to receive them at par.

Tkum* or Advbetibiso — tme square, cne insertion, SI
(equal to 10 lines of ordinary brevier type); One squares
on. Mil-, Si; One square 1 vear, $5; One column, i year,
$25; do. 6 iminibs, S 5; do 3 months, Sio.

A copy will be sen' gratuitously oil application to the
publisher, to all placet where one cnnnoi be seen at the
Bookstores. Address uEn, G. Jv\ MORGAN, Editor and
Proprietor. 172 Harrison street, between Third and Fourth
street; or, lfiTtJ Post Ollice, San Francisco. 18vl7t

Registrk yoor Lf.ttkhs containing money addressed to
n*. or we will not be responsible. Remittances by Express
must be lit packages, prepaid. When practicable, it is beat
to remit by dial t, or order, on some dan Francisco bank or
firm.

A WARNING- III*

TO Atli WHO AKE APPLICT£i>.

Beforetheralnv season comes get cured of Rheumatism
and Neura'gia. by herbsonly. The receipt was given some
years ago by an old Indian in New Orleans, and it lias never
failed to care all it says. Many have been cured in this
city and In Boston, and all say it is the best they have
tried. Manufactured by MRS. MARY HIGGINS, Oregon
street, two doors west of Drttmm. Orders sent by mall or
express attended to on receipt of £5 per bottle. 22vl7-3m

Small Pox.

We have been shown" by Win. Zclnsr, the best and most
convenient and portable apparatus containing Chlorine,
tor rooms, which we consider the best disiniectaiit out,
mid should advise all housekeepers not to be without one
Priee $1, eomplute; to be had. with ru'l directions, at WM,
ZELNER'ri German Drug Store, 18 Geary street, 25vl7-3ni

ROOT'S PATENT FORCE BLAST ROTARY BLOWER.

Pntcntetl Nov. 1st, 1864; July £4, 1800; ami Oct.9TlSGG.

A. warded the First Premium at the Paris Exposition.

BKUVIKES

Fifty Per Cent.

LESS POWER

Tliun any Blower

SsUteitiiisliips,

One of these Blowers may be seen on exhibition at W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry, corner of
Mission and Fremont streets. They are also in use at the Almaden Quicksilver Miue ; Gridley's
Foundry, Gold Hill, Nevada ; JEtmx Iron Works, San Francisco, and many other places.

Caution. — Purchasers will find it to their advantage to apply direct to the Stockton Agency, as
certain parlies, not authorized to manufacture the Blower, have put in the market machines of inferior
construction, which do not answer all the requirements of the genuine article.

For circulars and further information, address

KEEP & BARG-ION,

IvlG 3m Globe Iron Works, Stockton, Cnl.

PAINE & STEPHENS'

IMPROVED CONCENTEATOR.

For Saving Gold and Silver Sulphnrcts.

One machine, costing about $1,300, is sufficient io work tHe Sands from 25 to 30 Stamps,

Less power being required than for any other Machine. The attention of qua-tz millmen throughout
the State is directed to the subjoined certificates, and if they desire they can visit the Amador Mining"
Co's mill, near Sutter Creek, the Eureka Co's mill at Grass Valley, or the Banner Co's mill near
Nevada, and see for themselves.

CERT1PCATES :

Grass Valley, Jan. 4th, 1809. — This is to certify, that wc have used the Paine, Stephens &
Harry Concentrators for over twelve mouths. They have given us entire satisfaction; and are the
best we ever used. WILLIAM WATT. Supt. Eureka Mine.

This is to certify, that we have had in use for the pust 18 months one of Paine, Stephens & Co's
Sulphuret Saving Machines, constructed by John T. Harry, (called a huddle, ,) and which operates
satisfactorily, particularly so in saving fine sulplmrets, and wc recommend it as well worthy of use,
even where other Concentrators are used above it, as it will pay if there are any sulplmrets.

WM. L. TISDALE, Supt. Star Spangled Banner Mine.

Nevada City, Oct. 26, 1363.

Any one wishing to purchase one of these useful machines, can do so by applying to TBF.03.
N". PAINE, at Grass Valley, Nevada County, or JOHN" T. HARRY, Sutter Creek,
Amador County.

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Metallurgy.

LEOPOLD KUH,
Assayer and Metallurgical Chemist,

(Formerly of the U. 8. B. Mint, S. F.)

Ofllce, No. Oil Commercial Street, oppotlte

the Mini, San FranoUco.

BULLION MELTED AND ASSAYED.
The correctors of which is cuarantecd In every respect.
All kinds of Ore and Mineral tested, assayed and analyzed
In the moat satisfactory manner.

Borers by permission toW. C. Ralston. Cashier Bank o(
California; Messrs Ploche A Bayenpte. Win, H. Lent, John
D. Fry. E Oahlll A Co., A. K. Grim, Pre-idenl Pacific DnlOH
Express Co.; John M. Eckfcldt, M. and R. V. S B. Mint;
Hale A Norcross R. M. Co., and the principal niinlnu emu-
panics on the Comstock Lode. 25vl~.tr

JOHN TAYLOR & CO.

IMPOKTERg,

AND DKALKRS IK

ASSAYERS' MATERIALS,

Druggists' & Chemists' Glassware,

Fnotographlo ©toolc. Etc.

SIS mi. I 514 WaHhlnorton Street.

SAN FRANCISCO.

WE are receiving: dlrectrrom MESSRS. LADD A OERT-
LINC (London) and BEEKEE 4 SUNS (Antwerp, Bel-
gtum) their superior

ASSAY AND BUr.I.ION BALANCES,

And from France and Germany, as well as the Eastern
Statcs.FURNAOES, CRUCIBLES. MUPFIiEB, BLOW-PIPE
CASES, GOLD SCALES, CHEMICAL GLASSWARE, and
every article required for ASSAY OFFICES, LABORATO
RIES, etc. Wc have given this branch of our basiness par
ticular attention, to select such articles as are necessary
in the development of the mineral wealth of this const.

A Full Assortment of DRUGGISTS' GLASSWARE and
DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES, ACIDS and CHEMICALS, con
stantly on hand.

San Francisco March 6. 1865. HvIO-tf

PROF. HENRY "WURTZ,

Formerly Chemical Examiner in the U. S. Patent Office
maybe employed professionally as a Scikntific Expkrt.
Geological Examinations and Reports. Analysis and Assays,
etc, etc. Practical advice and investigations in the Chi'in
ical Arts and Manufactures. Invention and examination
of new chemical methods nnd products. Address, 2fi Pine
street, Rooms 35 and 36, New York. Alwnvs in from 12 to
3.30. flgrWritteu communications preferred.

Important to Gold and Silver Min-
ers and Companies.

PROFESSOR WURTZ,

Who is the Inventor and Patentee of the new and wonder
fill uses of SODIUM IN WORKING GOLD AND SILVER.
ORES AND JEWELERS' SWEEPINGS, will furnish at the
abnye address nformation in relation thereto, together
with experimental packages of

SODIUM AMALGAM.

AH instructions and experiments elsewhere obtained are
spurious and unreliable. WORKING EXPERIMENTS ON
AMALGAMATION OF ORES, Etc. Prof. W. has in opera
tion in New York a lartre and .small Hepburn pnn, for work
fnir 1,000 or 20-lb. charges of material for experimenta.
purposes. 3V17

B. TAYLOR. WM. H. TAYLOR.

ROBERT TAYLOR & CO.,
METALLURGISTS.

SMELTING WORKS,

Eleventh street, between Folsom nnd Howard.

GA TLTVAJXIZITSTG.

Also, Anti-Friction, Alloy* for Jonrnalo, Typo

and Stamping Metals, Tinner* nnd

Plumbers' Solder, Etc.

iSS-The best price given for the mest rebellious or re-
fractory ores. Ores and minerals assayed and analyzed.
4vl8-3m

G-. "W. STRONG-,

ASSAYER. AND WORKER OP ORES,

No. 10 Stevenson street, near First.San Francisco.

HiPhest price paid for choice lots ofOres, Sulphmets, as
say Ashes, S^'cciiings, etc., etc. Students instructed in all
branches of Metallurgy, on liberal terms.
14vl5nr.

yt MEUSSDORFFER, y^
HAT MA.NTJ3FA.CTTJKE:ift

And dealer In

Hats and Caps

AT WHOLESALE AS.D KETAIX. "

635 and 637 Commercial street San Francisco.

125 J street Sacramento.

Corner of D and Second streets Marvsvillo.

72'Kront street Portland, Oregon,

Ourwholesale House, 028 Commercial street, extending
through to 637 Clay street. Sun Francisco, contains always
a most choice, and the largest, assortment in this State.
Every Steamer brings the latest issued novelties from Eu-
rope and New Tork, which can be found at all the above
stores, at moderate prices, 23vl6-3m

OCCIDENTAL

lnsiiran.ee Company,

OF SAN FRANCISCO.
Cash Capital, -.--_. $300,000

GOLD COIN.

Ofllce S. "W. corner of Sfontsomcry and
California Ntreetti.

Fire ancl M!ax*ine Insurance.

All Losses paid in U. S. Gold Coin.

Cl-IR. CHRISTIANSEN, President.
B. Rothschild, Secretary' 20vI7-3in

96

Trie Mining and Scientific Press.

Contributions for cur Cabinet.

Under this heading we shRH continue to mention and de-
scribe, according to merit, such .-peciineus ot" ores, min-
erals, fossils, curiosities, etc., as may be presenti-d, or
lorwarded to us by mail or express, prepaid. Each article
will be numbered ami placed in ourcabinet, and recorded
ivith the name of the donor, and the claim or location
from whence it came.

No. 348. — Cinnabar, before roasting from,
New Almaden; mixed -with quartz and do-
lomite; the country rock being metamor-
rjhic magnesian limestone schists, more or
less argillaceous, sometimes passing into a
steatitic rock or serpentine, which may be
derived possibly from the cretaceous shales
or sandstones by metainorphic action. From
Dr. Mayo, the Superintendent.

No. 349. — The same after roasting, and
being divested of its quicksilver.

No. 350. — Quicksilver obtained.

No. 351. — Cinnabar beautifully crystal-
line, with diamond glance, disseminated
through a quartzose magnesian limestone.
Prom the quicksilver mine of Sundius Babi-
less in the San Antonio Mountain, 12 miles
from San Antonio, Santa Clara County.
The mine has been opened to a depth of 90
feet, where the zone of impregnation is
three ft. wide. It could be bought for about
$60,000.

No. 352. — Napa sulphur, such as is used
for the manufacture of powder at Santa
Cruz.

No. 353. — Cake of Santa Cruz blasting
powder.

No. 354. — Specimens of Santa Cruz lime-
stone, granular and veined.

No. 355. — Santa Clara Valley tobacco,
first years' growth being heavy, dark and
oily.

No. 356. — Do. third years' growth, being
light colored, fragrant, and improved in
quality.

No. 357. — Three brands of smoking to-
bacco, manufactured from the above.

No. 358. — Glass from the San Francisco
Glass Works. Presented by C. Newman,
being the first flint glass ever made on this
coast. It is as good a sample of flint-glass
as is made in any State. These works were
burnt down some time ago, but will be re-
built and going at an early day.

No. 359. — Water fuse, triple taped, for ig-
niting the charge in blasting in wet ground,
from Tay & Biekford's fuse factory at Ala-
meda.

No. 360. — Alum, in efflorescences, etc.,
and in considerable masses between crumb-
ling pieces of argillaceous schist found in
the Diablo range, easterly of San Jose. The
country rock producing the alum is very
brittle and full of fissures, which contain
a great deal of this natural alum. The
earthquake of Oct. 21st, shook down a large
quantity of the rock from a cliff into a
stream, and below pieces with which the
water came in contact the margin of the
stream was marked by a ridge of alum.

The natural production of alum from ar-
gillaceous schists has been observed in
many different countries, and has been
taken advantage of for the manufacture of
alum, especially in Prussia, near Eisleben,
where the alaimschiefer are manipulated
skillfully into a number of valuable chemi-
cal products at little cost. Other localities
of manufacture are Cape Sable in Mary-
land; Whitby in Yorkshire; Campsie near
Glasgow; and Tolfa near Borne, Italy.

Alum is sulphate of alumina and sulphate
of potash, or soda, or magnesia, or iron;
making potash, alum, soda alum, etc. The
natural chemistry is that the sulphur of
iron pyrites or some volcanic source,
changes, with oxygen, into sulphuric acid;
and it is that which does the work. Which
kind of alum this may be, we are unable to
state positively without making an analysis,
but it is probably potash alum. This is
quoted in the last numbers of the N. Y.
Mercantile Journal at four to six cents a
pound wholesale.

The method of obtaining the alum in
cases like this, is simply leaching, the min-
eral alum being soluble in 18 to 20 times its
weight of cold water, or in a little more
than its weight of boiling water. Judging
from the specimens sent, it seems not im-
probable that quantities could be put into
market from this locality at a profit to the
producer. The question would depend
upon the mount of labor that would have
to be done to get the rock into a position
to be leached. Presented by W. B.jJ., of
San Jose\

HUNGEKFORD'S IMPROVED CONCENTRATOR,

For Saving Golfl, Sulplinreta, Quicksilver, etc.

There is no description of machinery of so much importance to the mining interests of Califor-
nia, at the present time, as that for the separation of sulphurets. Many machines have heen tried,
and abandoned ; and none seems to meet the requirement of the mining interest so well as that now
patented by Mr. Hungerford, which is an improvement on the well known Hungerford & Prater Con-
centrator, witli which his name is already so familiar.

K ECO M M J2X IKV'I'IOX N :

San Francisco, October 19th, 1868.
Mr. M. Hungerford — Dear Sir: — We have had twelve of your Concentrators at work at the
Oneida Mine, Amador County, for about six months. They give entire satisfaction. They are
strong nnd substantial, requiring, thus far, no repairs, and do their work thoroughly and effectively.
At a recent clean-up of four oi them, I found that in four weeks* time we saved about $5110 in free
gold, besides the sulphurets, or not far from one dollar per ton on the entire crushing of the ten
stamps connected with them. In my opinion, it is for the interest of every quartz mill to have your
machines. Yours, respectfully, GEORGE PRINGLE, Supt. Oneida Mine.

Office of the Oneida Mining Company, Jackson, May 13th 1868.
Mr. Morgan Hungerford — Dear Sir: — In regard to the four Hungerford Concentra-
tors that I bought of Messrs. Goss & Lambard last month, I will say that I put them up in the
Oneida Mill soon after I arrived here, and find that they save sulphurets well and clean, and work to
my entire satisfaction. I have tried many other concentrators, but these stand up and work better
than any others I have used. I have ordered Messrs. Goss & Lambard to make eight more for me as
soon as possible. Very truly yours, JAMES MORGAN.

Big Oak Flat, May 25th, 1868.— Mr. T. W. Mulfbrd— DearSir :— I have used two of M. Hun-
gerford's Concentrators in the Rattlesnake Quartz Mill, at this place, and find that they work full as
well as they are represented to do. E. M. SMITH, Supt.

A full description of the principle and mode of action of this pan, is described in circulars, which
will be forwarded to any party who. may desire them.

The Hungerford Concentrator has only to be seen to be appreciated. No millman will use any
other kind after he has tried that. They are in active operation in mills throughout the State, and
give perfect satisfaction.

It should be borne in mind that Mr. Hungerford is the original builder and maker of the cele-
brated Prater Concentrator, and his name should be sufficient guarantee to warrant the public in ex-
amining his new machine before purchasing elsewhere.

In future these Pans will be manufactured by Goddard & Co., at the Pacific Iron Works, San
Francisco, which is a guarantee that they will be built in the most substantial manner.

These Pans may be seen at the Pacific Iron Works, First street, near Howard, San Francisco.
Addressi

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VOLUME 3CVIII.
Jiuinber 7.

Table of Contents.

■The 11iii"lnitdon 8hlr.aTe Ma

chin.' -Itlu*
I oilcl 1 rmii Santa Olira Co
N V s..c t'r.n , BnfEluocrlng
Alpine Cntllllj [li'ius

Neva la Mining Palenta.

How 1.. si,.), nil KlruN.

Mineral stutl 1..'.

Owen nn.l Darwin.

H sourceaand Developments

S..ulh African Hold Kleldi.

Teat ul Turhlnea.

0..1.I Cryetala

Venality ot Nerve Force,

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lire DeptMnUI,
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Kofi.. Bi.rl'.^ .t I'litii.--..- In-
vcnilnn; Lubrieallne Oils;
Hl.t.1 Pipe*; Morton's In.
lector Don I. user; Bronzing
Iron earnings.

A Noble Kiel. I.

n.w Dredging Machine.

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New P.iUnlsnnd Inventions.
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Sooth African Gold Fields. — An ex-
ploring party is preparing to visit this re-
gion. " It will be", — says the Philadelphia
Ledger, — "composed of well known trav-
elers in Africa, and of assistants skilled in
mining gold in California. A photographer
will be attached to the party. The expedi-
tion will be absent for over a year, and will
visit regions where no travelers have as yet
been. Mr. Baines, one of the company,
has already visited the Transvaal region.
He describes the operations of the native
goldsmiths as follows: They use a broken
earthen pot for a furnace, and a small goat
skin for bellows. The crucibles are made
from the nests of the mason wasps, and the
metal is cast into ingots five or six inches
long by half an inch square. The ingots
are made into bars by the use of a hammer
on a small anvil, weighing three or fonr
pounds. The natives use blowpipes made
out of the section of a gnn-barrel.

Test of Turbines. — A communication
from the Willimantic Linen Company, in
the Scientific American of December 23d,
certifies that pursuant to agreement be-
tween the agents of certain improved
Fourneyron or peripheral discharge, and
Jonval or bottom discharge turbines, a
test was made with a view to ascertaining
the relative amount of water required with
the same fall, to drive the same machin-
ery; and that the former drove 12% per
cent, more machinery, but in doing so re-
quired 39 per cent, more water; thus leav-
ing a result of 23 per cent, in favor of the
Jonval wheel. The former was what is
known as the Boydeu turbine, manufac-
tured by Kilburn &. Lincoln of Fall River,
Massachusetts; the latter was Collin's Im-
proved Jonval as built at the Troy Tur-
bine Works.

Fishes and Fins. — In a paper addressed
to the Academy of Sciences, M. Gouriet
states that a sharply-pointed fin aids a fish
to swim very rapidly, especially if it be bent
in a scythe-like shape. If the fin be deep-
ly scalloped, the result is the same; and
fins that are rounded off generally denote
slow swimmers.

Ice Boating on the Hudson Biver. —
They are having exciting times with their
yacht-rigged ice-boats on the Hudson. On
one occasion the fleet consisted of eight
Bail. Baces were run, — and a mile a min-
ute was made by several of the vessels.

Huntingdon's Shingle Machine and
Shingle Making.

Next to lumbering and sawing, in the
manufacture of a marketable raw product
out of timber, the making of shingles and
of the kind of material presented to the ar-
tisan by means of the shingle machine, are
of the highest importance, in the amount
of work of the kind that is done, and the
extent and variety of the field sup-
plied by machines of the kind represented
in the engraving.

In principle the shingle machine is noth-
ing else than a small, automatic, constant
working sawmill, adapted to a special pur-
pose; the difference between the products
of the sawmill and of the shingle machine
being that the latter are smaller and thin-
ner, and turned out at the rate of several
thousand cuts per hour.

Though it does not claim any great novelty
or degree of originality in its operation,
the all-sufficient advantage is presented of
working smoothly, and so rapidly as to turn
out 3,000 shingles per hour, or 30,000 to
40,000 a day, with a'6-horse power engine.
The principal difference between this and
other shingle machines, is that in this the
block is set upright, and the saw cuts into it
sidewise, instead of lengthwise, leaving the
saw marks to run with the grain of the
wood; which is more favorable to the flow
and drainage of water, and consequently to
the durability of the shingles; and by this
arrangement the carriage has to move for-
ward and backward only 17 inches, or the
width of the block, instead of 30, or the
length of the same, every time that it cuts
off a shingle, enabling it to work quicker
than any other machine, to 27 cuts in a min-
ute, each cut being equal to about two

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HUNTINGDON'S PATENT SH1N0LE MACHINE.

Wood-working is the first of all the in-
dustries' that minister to, and constitute
civilization, and we scarcely realize, any
longer, in these days of machinery when the
elements are working subserviently to the
needs and advancement of mankind, how
much we are indebted, in our daily com-
forts and conveniences, to the ingenious me-
chanical applications and variety of wood-
working machinery. It is iu this branch
of invention especially that the Americans
first won, and have since maintained, their
reputation of a superior inventive capacity
to that of other and sparsely forest-covered
lands.

Everything but carvings, and even those
latterly in a degree, can be had now at
' wholesale prices' from establishments whose
profits and success are the result purely of
the steam wood-woiking machinery em-
ployed. The sliingle machine is a good
example of the immense economy of doing
such work by machinery, as sawn shingles
are, at the same time, of the superior quality
of the product over shaved shingles, and
shakes.

Mr. Huntingdon's maohine is one of the
many inventions of the practical kind for
which California is. distinguishing itself.

shingles. It must be remembered that a
" shingle" is a unit four inches in width ;
and in reckoning up totals it is done by
bunches, four to a nominal thousand shin-
gles, as lumber is reckoned by the thou-
sand feet; the length of the shingle being
16 inches. Another feature of this machine
is that it is made nearly all of iron, and is
therefore very compact, easily shipped,
weighing 10,000 pounds, and easily set up.
An "edger,"to straighten the edges, goes
with the machine.. To cutoff the blocks
to a proper length for the shingle machine,
a separate steam-power- drag saw is made,
which does the work of twelve men with
the common cross-cut saw. Usually shin-
gle machines are run in connection with
sawmills, and in the vicinity of where the
wood grows.

The block is placed, by hand, in front of
the circular saw, and between the two small
cylinders seen in the cut with numerous
toothed wheels, which hold it firmly and
move it sidewise after every cut, by means
of the ratchet attachments seen at the ends.
All that is necessary inputting in or taking
out a block, is to lift the lever represented,
which elevates the upper cylinder.

By changing the setting of the ratchet

mentioned, any desirable width can be cut
from one-eighth of an inch to three inches.
This is done when barrel-heads, box-boards,
and the like are wanted.

The motion of the carriage in the direc-
tion of the saw, is imparted by the strap
which is seen running down from the driv-
ing pulley, connecting by means of gearing
with straight cogs under the carriage ; in
the opposite direction by means of weights
depending by a cord, represented in the
left hand corner as running down through
the floor. This automatic motion may be
as great or as small as is desired for the
purposes in view, and has been made as
much as 24 feet.

The wood used for making shingles is
chiefly redwood, but also pine, Sprnoe, and
fir. They are made in the lumbering dis-
tricts of Mendocino, Humboldt, San Mateo
and Santa Cruz counties, and at Port Orf ord
and Puget Sound; and amounted in 1866,
as recorded on the books of the Lumber
Dealers' Association, to 25,000,000. But the
Huntingdon shingle machine alone turned
out during the past year about 50,000,000
shingles, according to the manufacturer's
estimates; while the Farris and other ma-
chines may have made 10,000,000 more.
Two machines at Woodside, nearKedwood
City, made 13,000,000, and are cutting
on an average 200,000 a week.

To make good roofs, especially in snowy
countries, shingles are indispensable, as
neither shakes nor boards are entirely
adapted to the purpose. The price per
thousand is $3% to $4% ; the latter having
been the price in this market six years ago.

Amongst the parties who are using the
Huntingdon machine, are Mcrherson &
Wetherbee, and Pope & Talbot, San Fran-
cisco; Hanson & Co., Bedwood City; S.
P. Pharis, Woodside; Rice & Halliburton,
Woodside; Harrington & Co., Pescadero;
Bnrch & Co., Pescadero; R. Walton, C. P.
R. R, ; A. H. Davis and Sen. Carson. Ma-
chines have just beensentto Fort Ross, and
to White Pine.

Further particulars may be obtained of
the inventor and manufacturer, Mr. F. A.
Huntingdon, No. 17 Fremont street.

Myron Angel, the author of several valu-
able publications on silver mining in East-
ern Nevada, has gone to White Pine to take
charge editorially of the White Pine News.
Mr. Angel was editor of the Austin Re-
veille during the palmiest days of that burg,
and is a representative Californian in pos-
sessing that trait which tends to carry us
into the very midst of everything import-
ant that is transpiring within our reach.
More recently, Mr. Angel has been con-
nected with the State Capitol Reporter at
Sacramento.

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Writing made with this on plaiu white
paper, will, when dry, be invisible. But
on warming the paper before a fire the
lines will appear in brown tint?.

Played Out. — Hypophagy is not "a suc-
cess" in Paris. Quite the contrary.

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Manufactures at Santa Cruz and in
Santa Clara Valley.

THE SANTA CRUZ TANNERY.

Editors Press :— I have just been pay-
ing a visit to the largest tannery in the
State, — the Santa Cruz Tannery of Ed-
mund Jones & Co., — which is situated
about a quarter of a mile from the old
Mission, and has been in constant opera-
tion ever since the year 1854. There are
seventy-five double lay-aways, exclusive of
limes, pools, and handlers. Hides are laid
away from three to four months. The ca-
pacity of the yard is 2,000 sides per month.
The quantity manufactured last year was
over 20,000 sides, the greater part of whi ah
was sole leather. Harness leather is made
only in small quantities. The number of
men employed is twenty-one. The Cali-
fornia hides,, and the bark used, are the
best of the kind in the United States for
the manufacture of sole leather; and as
neither vitriol nor hot liquors are used in
this tannery, the sole leather is superior for
durable qualities to any manufactured in
the Atlantic States; but in consequence of
their color being a little red, the prejudices
of the trade there are hardly yet overcome.
A market is being gradually made, how-
ever, for California leather of good quality
in New York and Boston, particularly for
light weights.

A small market is found in China and
Japan, the latter more particularly, for
harness leather, the Japanese army being
accoutred according to the European
methods in infantry and artillery. Although
the profits of the trade have been small for
a year or so past, the fact that this State
exports quite largely of this valuable prod-
uct, tends to increase to a considerable ex-
tant the material prosperity of the country.
This tannery makes a specialty of pump
leather for mining pumps, and we call at-
tention, to those interested, to their adver-
tisement in another column.

I am indebted to Mr. Joseph Boston, for
kindly showing me through the establish-
ment.

THE SOQTJEL TANNERY

of G. K. & B. T. Porter, is distant from
Santa Cruz four miles, and has fifty lay-
away vats, and thirty men employed. The
kind of work done here is mainly in the
manufacture of upper leather. The San
Francisco office is at the corner of Sansome
and Bush streets. I am glad to add that
the Porters are doing an extensive busi-
ness.

LIME KILNS.

Three miles from town, on the coast road,
are the lime, kilns of Davis & Cowell, four
in number, and employing fifty men in the
summer time. One of the kilns is a pa-
tented arrangement, which burns eighteen
barrels a day easily; another is unusually
large, being ten feet wide, and thirty feet
long, and burning 1,200 barrels at a time.
The other two kiJns hold 1,000 barrels. All
the coopering of the firm is done in the
vicinity of the works, the barrels beiDg
made out of redwood. The superintendent
is Mr. Henry Jordan.

Adams & Co. , in the same vicinity, have
a very fine location, and thirty men em-
ployed. They turned out last year 30,000
barrels of lime.

THE LUMBER, LIME AND SHINGLE TRADE

has been very brisk the past year, and
knowing ones give it as their opinion that
it will be more so the coming year. Ship-
pers complain that there is need of more
wharves. Santa Cruz possesses the largest
liine kilns, powder mills, paper mills aud
tanneries in the State, while its lumber in-
terests are developed, and its grain and
flour shipments good. Seven church
buildings ornament the.placo with their
spires.

IN SANTA CLARA VALLEY,

the Santa Clara Flour mills of L. Robinson
& Co. have four run of stone, running
eighteen hours a day, and sixteen hands
employed; turning out flour at the rate of
125 barrels in twelve hours. The quantity

of wheat that came into this mill between
August 21st, 1868, and January 1st, 1809,
was S;i00,000 (?) pounds. !

THE TOBACCO FACTORY AT GILROY.

Messrs. J. D. Culp & Co. have developed
a new industry in California, which prom-
ises, from its present and increasing suc-
cess, to become important. The enterprise
was begun in 1860, by putting in a crop of
tobacco on some land three miles from Cil-
roy, and encouraging farmers around to do
the same; and by building a factory in
town of 50x150 feet in dimensions. Good
crops have been had every year since; and
the only bad luck encountered was the
burning down of the works in 1866, by
which the firm lost $12,000. Messrs. Culp
&Co. employ twenty-four men. The ma-
chinery consists of a 3C-horse-power en^
gine; two large cutting machines, capable
of cutting from 3,000 to 10,000 pounds of
tobacco per day; and six hydraulic presses.
The building and machinery together cost
$10,000.

The farmers around have raised 300,000
pounds of tobacco; last year Culp & Co.
raised 10,000 pounds. Kaw tobacco is worth
ten cents per pound; after it is worked up
it is worth from forty cents to $1.10 per
pound, according to quality.

The average yield per acre is about 900
pounds, although it has been known here to
produce as high as 1,500 pounds to an acre,
which, at the ordinary market value of ten
cents per pound, brings the producer
handsome pay for his labor.

In the Southern States it requires the la-
bor of one man to each five acres to kill
the tobacco worm, while in this country the
insect known as the "yellow jacket,*1 rids
the planter of this expense^hunts indus-
triously for the worm — and no sooner finds
the game than his fatal sting is introduced
and the worm falls lifeless, to satisfy the
appetite of the insect — a portion of which
only is devoured.

Messrs. Culp & Co. oxpeet this year to
put intomarket 200,000 pounds.

w. H. M.

[Written Tor the Mlnum and Scientific Press.

N. Y. Society of Practical Engineering.

The New York Society of Practical En-
gineering held its regular fortnightly meet-
ing at the Cooper Institute Building, on
Tuesday evening, January 19th ; the Presi-
dent, Mr. James Whitney, in the chair.

The paper for the evening on the " Cast-
ing and Forging of Metals," was read by
Mr. James Harrison, a founder and worker
of metals, of New York city. The paper
first gave an elaborate view of the many
applications of the founder's art to prac-
tical purposes in the needs and luxuries of
every day life. The railroad and the steam-
ship, the kitchen and the parlor, the anchor
and the watch, were each shown to be simi-
larly dependent on the skill of the founder
and metal worker. In the means of travel
we have the powerful locomotive, the iron
frame-work of the cars, the ponderous ma-
chine of the steamship, etc., as evidences
of his skill. In domestic life there is the
stove, the frame of the piano, the castors
of the sofa, the locks and bolts of doors,
etc. , again reminding us of the worker of
metals. In agriculture we have the plow,
the harrow, the thrashing and the winnow-
ing machine, and many other instruments
giving evidence again of the importance of
the founder. The writer then proceeding
to a description of the process, spoke of the
preparation of the mold to receive the
metal. This subject involved the consider-
ation of six distinct points :

First — The preparation of the sand or
loam to suit the different kiods of work.
A mold that would resist the pressure of
the molten metal in the casting of small
pieces, would not answer in the casting of
large pieces. A variation is also needed in
different cases, so as to allow of the escape
of the air in the mold, and of the gas gen-
erated by the contact of the metal with the
cold sand or loam.

iSecoHi/^Facing or blackening. The sub-
stance used for this purpose depends on
the kind of work to be done. Various ma-
terials, such as finely-powdered charcoal,
plaster of paris, aud dried aud powdered
fire-clay, are employed. The facing enables
the molder to give his work a smooth fin-
ish. Care must be exercised in this con-
nection, however, for if the facing be too
thin the metal will eat through the sand,
making the casting rough, while if it is too

thick, it stops the pores through which the
vent should escape, and the mold is broken.
The facing used for small work is not suit-
able for large work.

Third— The "vent." By this is meant
the escape of the air that is in the space
where the melted metal is to go; not only
the air, however, but the gas generatedby
the melted metal coming in contact with
the cold sand must also escape. Should
the mold be too open, the gas is allowed
to rush through too fast, and will tearaway
some of the material of the mold, and the
metal following, the casting will be lost.
If, however, the vent does not escape fast
enough, the metallic liquid will flutter iu
the mold until the easting is spoiled from
the gas escaping through the surface of the
metal. In order to obviate this difficulty,
the writer recommended the use of a de-
vice which he termed a " riser." This is a
round taper hole in the mold filled with a
piece of soft clay loaded with a weight pro-
portional to the weight of the casting. If
the gas escaped 'as fast as generated, i. e.,
if the mold was made properly, the clay
and weight would not move. If the mold
had been made too close, thus preventing
the gas from escaping, the clay and weight
would be lifted up and the gas escape.
Thia fixture constituted an easy method for
the regulation of the escape of the gas.

Fourth — The gates or runners. These ore
the inlets by which the metal is poured into
the mold. The common way of simply
pouring the metal from a ladle into a duct,
whicli conveys it to the point, is a mode in-
volving all the disadvantages possible un-
der the circumstances. The process of skim-
ming the dross and slag from the surface
of the melted metal as it is poured from the
ladle, is always very difficult, and the fol-
lowing device proposed by the writer, is
claimed to bo a self-skimming runner. The
metal is first poured from the ladle into a
basin, from which it flows by a gutter to the
opposite side of a smaller basin, and forms
a current around the second basin, and
then.runstoa third yet smaller than the
second. A current is also produced here,
and on flowing from this basin to a mold
it has become purified. The explanation of
the matter is thought to be that the circular
current produced in the basins causes the
dross to accumulate in their centers.

Fifth — The size of the runners. This is
also a very important consideration.

Sixth — The heat at which different metals
should be poured. This was considered by
the writer as the vital part of the art of
molding. To the want of proper means for
ascertaining the correct heat of the metal
at the time of pouring, may be attributed
nine-tenths of bad castings. A pyrome-
ter, which could be put into the ladle or
furnace in such a manner that the instru-
ment would not be injured, would be a
very remunerative invention.

The mixing of metals was then consid-
ered. The fact that some cast iron is very
brittle, although it will in this state resist
compression very strongly, was here no-
ticed. Iron that has been melted over and
over again, comes under this category. A
malleable iron for machinery castings may
be made by mixing in the furnace as many
differentkinds of iron as possible. In most
cases, iron melted in a cupola is not as
good as iron remelted in a furnace. The
quality of the iron is also affected by the
quality of the fuel, and even the state of
the weather. The blast had also a great in-
fluence upon the metal. The writer em-
phatically recommended that laf ge castings,
such as columns, shafting, etc. , should be
made hollow, and that the center should be
allowed to cool first.

The casting of bells was spoken of in
conclusion, and an instrument of music to
be rilayed in the same manner as a piano,
was described. The tones are to be pro-
duced by the vibrations of bells of all
sizes. This instrument, which was re-
garded as an important contribution of the
" founder artist " to the fine arts, is to
have, a range of seven and a half octaves.

The paper was listened to with evident
interest, and at its conclusion a discussion
took place concerning the subject, after
which the Society adjourned to meet again
in two weeks.

Winter Visit to the Yosemite. — A
party left Mariposa last week, with the in-
tention of paying a winter visit to the Yo-
semite Valley. They succeeded in reajhing
the South Fork of the Merced, when they
abandoned the attempt.

Alpine County Items. — Mr. Chalmers,
of the Imperial Silver Quarries Company
writes, under date of February 5th :

I expect to run fifty-nine feet more in the
trachytic tufa, and fifty feet in porphyry,
before 1 reach my first ledge. Thanks for
your insertion of my letter in reply to your
Boise correspondent.

My friend Mr. Coulter is driving his Mt.
Bullion tunnel, on the other side of the
river, as fast as he can, and so am I, night
and day, with as good a team as can be
found in Alpine.

The Morning Star have erected excellent
hoisting works, and are pushing down their
shaft rapidly.

The Monitor Consolidated are busy with
their mill, which they expect soon to have
in working order.

The Schenectady Company, betterknown
as the Tarshish, are, I am informed, to
commence work again vigorously next
month .

The Globe Company, in the same canon,
are driving their tunnel with all speed.

The Michigan Company, claiming to own
an extension of the Tarshish, but which
is denied, are also at work on good look-
ing ground.

The Forest Belt Company stopped work
on the 16th ultimo.

Mr. J. P. Bay is busy on his Mountain
claim.

We have about twelve inches of snow
here, and two feet at Silver Mountain, seven
miles higher up.

Nevada Mining Patents, — A letter from
Land Commissioner Wilson to Senator
Stewart of Nevada, states that the returns
of survey for sixty claims have been re-
ceived from the Surveyor General of Ne-
vada; but in forty-four of these cases the
imports, which the law makes, with the sur-
vey, a basis of patent, have not yet been
received from the District Land Officers.
Of the sixteen cases in which these have
been received from Registers and Receivers,
there are four in which adverse interests
are asserted, determinable only in the local
courts. Of the remaining twelve, patents
have been prepared for the North Star, the
Utah and the Knickerbocker gold and silver
mining claims; while the Hale & Norcross
claim, with several others, are now in hands
for patenting.

"To enable the Executive to administer
the law with as little disturbance as possi-
ble of the local mining regulations and cus-
toms, and secure the ends of justice, it
would be proper," says the Commissioner,
' ' for each claimant to file, with his appli-
cation, some appropriate evidence that he
is the bona fide holder of a certain number
of original claims, according to mining
customs. All necessary testimony may be
furnished in the form of affidavits and cer-
tificates, to obviate the inconvenience and
expenLe of taking witnesses to the land
offices, frequently at great distances from
the premises claimed. "

How to Stop Oil Fires. — A corres-
pondent of the Rochester Union writes from
Titusville, Pa. : "Allow me to suggest how
a crude oil fire may be managed, for with
the large amount daily passing through
your city on cars, some day you may have
one. Keep the water away from it. As the
burning fluid will, of course, run, the first
thing, and the great thing, is to dam it.
Anything will do ; a board stuck across the
gutter or wherever the oil may be running,
will answer until it can be secured with
mud. Then make a hole near the bottom
of the dam, and if a pipe is handy, pnt it
in and allow the oil to run off. This oil
will not be on fire, as the flame always lies
on the surface. When the oil is lowered so
that the hole or pipe would soon be ex-
posed, stop up the opening, else the flame
will follow. Then let the oil that may be
left burn at its pleasure. The advantage
of a pipe or tube consists in carrying the
saved oil so far from the burning mass that
the gas from the oil may not ignite from
the flame. If water should be thrown on
the burning oil, its only effect is to bear
the flaming fury onwards whithersoever
the water bears it, into cellars, stores, aud
— all over."

Metric Standards. — The Superintend-
ent of the Coast Survey, in a letter to Sec-
retary McCnlloch, says fifty sets of metric
standards of length are in process of con-
struction. The Superintendent recom-
mends the appropriation of $20,000 for the
construction of metric standards to be fur-
nished each State, according to the Act of
July 28th, 1866. The reason for construct-
ing fifty sets is to have enough to supply
future States.

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Mechanical.

Rope-Boring a Chinese Invention.—
Mr. Warrington Smyth, in a recent lecture
at the Royal School of Mines, said: "A
plan of boring now much employed, and
which we owe to the Chinese, is that with
ropes iustead of rigid rods. French mis-
sionaries in the 17th century hud observed
that the Chinese had methods of boring to
ouormous depths. Father Imbert, having
made a communication to the French Acad-
emy, to the effect that the Chinese borers
bad attained a deptli of 3,000 feet, the state-
ment was discredited. Eventually trav-
elers established the fact; and now it is a
matter of discussion whether it is not a
method which will comparo well with any
of the more modern ones. The ropes used
by the Chinese are made of strips of bam-
boo, and those of England are the ordinary
hempen or wire-ropes. In eonsequerTce of
the greater elasticity of ropes, it becomes
nocossary to give a longer stroke at the
top, so that for a stroke of ten feet at the
bottom it is necessary to give one of twen-
ty feet at the top. The tool used ranges
from . 3 cwts. to half a ton. The Chinese
employ either our common spring pole, or
a rope passed round an enormous cylinder
fifty feet in diameter. It was by means of
this cylinder that the missionaries ascer-
tained the depth of the borings. They took
the circumference of the drum, and found
that the rope went sixty-two times around
it. This method of boring seems to pos-
sess such advantages that at first sight it
seems wonderful that it is not universally
employed, but it has many drawbacks.
Among these are the occasional breaking
of the rope, and the consequent impossi-
bility of withdrawing the tool, — and the
difficulty of preserving the perpendicu-
larity of the hole, in case of a change in
the hardness of the beds which are passed
through. "

Ldbricatino Oils. — Pease's Oil Circular
says first-class oils are more in demand.
From 30 to 50 per cent, of power is lost for
lack of knowledge in reference to the laws
of friction and the effects of heat and press-
ure upon the oils used. Thousands of
of dollars are annually saved by those rail-
road managers who give the subject proper
attention. " There is no occasion for a hot
journal on any road under ordinary circum-
stances, if proper oils are used. There is
no occasion for cutting of journals and de-
struction of valve-seats, if a little thought
would only be given to the subject. The
wonderful chemical effect of some of the
poor cheap oils upon the iron surfaces and
journals of some of the roads is often over-
looked. Has it ever occurred to railroad
'men that the use of oils of strong acid re-
action has a tendency to weaken the strength
of the boiler itself, as they have the power
to cut and destroy the bolts of the steam
chest and cylinder?"

Blast Pipes. — The diameter and position
of the pipe, the diameter of the chimney,
and the size of the fire-box," tubes and
smoke-box, are all concerned in the effect
produced. According to investigations by
Mr. D. K. Clark and others, it has been
shown that the vacuum in the smoke-box is
■about seven-tenths of the blast pressure;
tbat the vacuum in the fire-box is from one-
third to one-half that in the smoke-box;
that the best proportions of the chimney
and other parts are those which enable a
-given draught to be produced with the
greatest diameter of blast-pipe, because the
greater the diameter the less is the back
pressure produced by the resistance of the
orifice; and that the same proportions are
best at all rates of expansion and at all
speeds. — American Artisan.

The Steam Hammer. — The French claim
the invention of the steam hammer for M.
Mourdon, who took out a patent in April,
1842, — wherea3 Mr. Nasmyth, they' say,
did not take out his patent in England
until June of the same year; — having,
moreover, visited the iron works of Le C?vw-
sot, Burgundy, between these two months.

Morton's Ejector Condenser.

The Loudon Artizan for January contains
a paper recently read before the Institute of
Scottish Engineers by Prof. Raukiue, giv-
ing an account of experiments made by him
with this condenser. We quote a portion:
" The principal parts of the apparatus
may be thus described: The cold water
passes from the tauk toaconoidal nozzle; the
area of the orifice of that nozzle is about
equal to that of the injection sluice of a
common condenser suited for the same en-
giue; that is to say, about l-250th part of
the collective area of pistons. Enveloping
the cold water nozzles are a second and a
third nozzle of nearly similar tiguro; these
bring the exhaust steam f rom the two cylin-
ders respectively. The middle nozzle has
au orifice a little larger than that of the in-
nermost, or cold water nozzle; the outer-
most nozzle ends in a throat or contracted
vein little larger still, beyond which is a
gradually widening, trumpet-shaped mouth-
piece, leading to a pipe which ends at the
hot-well. The condensation of the steam
takes place in the interval between the ori-
fice of the cold water nozzle and the throat
of the outermost nozzle.

" The principle of the invention may bo
described as follows: In every injection
condenser the cold water rushes into the
vacuum with a velocity of 43 or 44 feet per
second. The exhaust steam rushes from
the cylinders iuto the condenser with a
velocity which is many times greater than
that of the water. In the common con-
denser those rapid motions of the water and
of the steam are completely checked, and
their energy is wasted in agitating the fluids
in the condenser, and ultimately in pro-
ducing heat; and hence ifc becomes neces-
sary to use an air pump iu order to extract
the water, air and uncondensed steam from
the condenser. The power expended in
working a well-proportioned and well-con-
structed air pump is known by experiment
to be equal to that which would overcome
?. back pressure on the steam piston of from
yt to % lb. on each square inch of its area,
or on an average about 0 6 lb. on the square
inch; and that amount of power is lost
through the wasting of the energy with
which the jets of water and steam rush into
the condenser. In the ejector condenser
the motion of those jets meets with no in-
terruption; and its energy is found to be
sufficient, without any assistance from
pumps, to carry all the water, air and un-
condensed steam (if any) completely out
of the condenser and into the hot-well, and
thus to save the power which would be re-
quired to drive an air pump."

Bronzing Iron Castings. — The delicate
Berlin iron castings are bronzed for their
better preservation against rust, by means
of a peculiar paint, of which ferro-cyanide
of copper forms the basis. When an arti-
cle has been coated with this paint, and
before it is quite dry, if dusted over with
copper bronze powder and allowed to dry
thoroughly, the effect will be that of bright
copper after being polished. A green
bronze tint is produced by washing with a
solution of acetate of corjper. When per-
fectly dry, the higher parts of the casting
must be rubbed with a piece of clean rag
to bring out the brown copper color; it
will then appear like a bronze that has be-
come green by age. If the bright copper-
colored bronze above mentioned be brushed
over with black lead it will produce the
brown bronze. Yellow or pale bronze, is
obtained by using yellow bronze, or brass
powder, instead of copper powder.

Scientific Miscellany.

The Fiest Locomotive in America,^-
The " Old Ironsides," built in Philadelphia
in 1832, by M. Baldwin, from a draft by
Rufus Tyler, had wooden wheels with broad
rims and thick tires, — the flange being
bolted on the side. She ran a mile an
hour. The tender was placed in front, in
order to keep the two light wheels of the
engine on the track. The wheels finally
went to pieces, and were replaced by iron
ones. The engine is still in existenoe.

Wire Rope. — At the Havre Exhibition,
the wire rope of Scott & Co. was awarded
the prize medal. "A piece of 4-ineh steel
wire rope stood the enormous strain of
forty tons, and slipped through the splice
without breaking,"— says a London corres?
pondent.

Chemical Geology of California Gold
Fields..

SiUiman's Journal for January, has an
abstract of J. Arthur Phillip's " Notes" up-
on this subject. The general conclusions
of the author are here given:

a. Quartz veins have generally been pro-
duced by the slow deposition from aqueous
solutions of silica on the surfaces of the en-
closing fissures.

b. From the general parallelisms with its
walls of the planes of any fragments of the
enclosing rock which may have become im-
bedded in a vein, it is to be inferred that
they were mechanically removed by the
grow th of the several layers to which they
adhered, and that a subsequent deposition
of quartz took place between them and the
rock from which they had become detached.
Iu this way were introduced the masses of
rock known as " horses."

c. The formation of quartz veins is due
to hydrothermal agencies, of which evi-
dences are still to be found iu the hot
springs and recent metalliferous veins met
with in various parts of the Pacific coast.

d. From the variable temperatures at
which the vacuities in their fluid-cavities
become filled, it may be inferred that they
are the result of an intermittent action, and
that the fissures were sometimes traversed
by currents of hot water, whilst at others
they gave off aqueous vapor or gaseous ex-
halations. This is precisely what is now
taking place at Steamboat Springs, where
the formation of a vein is in progress, and
from which currents of boiling water are
often poured forth, whilst at other times the
fissures give off currents of steam and
heated gases only.

e. That gold may be . deposited from the
same solutions which gave rise to the for-
mation of the enclosing quartz, appears
evident from the presence of that metal in
pyrites enclosed in silicious incrustations,
as well as from the fact of large quantities
of gold having been found in the interior
of the stems of trees, which in deep dig-
gings are often converted into pyrites.

/. The constant presence of iron pyrites
in auriferous veins, and when so occurring
its invariably containing a certain amount
of gold, suggests the probability of this sul-
pbid being in some way necessarily con-
nected with the solvent by which the pre-
cious metal was held in solution. It has
been shown that finely divided gold is solu-
ble in the sesquichloride of iron and, more
sparingly, in the sesquisulphate of that
metal. It is also well known that iron py-
rites sometimes results from the action of
reducing agents on the sulphates of that
metal. If, therefore, sulphate of iron, in a
solution containing gold, should become
transformed by the action of a reducing
agent into pyrites, the gold at the same
time being reduced to the metallic state,
would probably be found enclosed iu the
resulting crystals of that mineral.

g. The silica and other substances form-
ing the cementing material of the ancient
auriferous river beds have probably been
slowly deposited at a low temperature.

To Detect Atmospheric Air in Coal
Gas. — Dr. Werner, of Breslau, gives the
following method: Ten parts by weight of
anhydrous sulphate of protoxide of manga-
nese are put into a two-necked Woulf bot-
tle, dissolved in twenty parts of warm
water. To this is added a solution of ten
parts by weight of tartrate of potassa and
soda (Rochelle salt), dissolved in sixty parts
of water; the thorough mixing of the fluids
is promoted by shaking of the bottle; after
this there is added a quantity of a solution
of caustic potash sufficient to render the
fluid quite clear; immediately after this
corks, perforated with tightly-fitting glass
tubes, are placed in the necks of the bottle,
which should be entirely filled with the
fluid. One of the tubes — the inlet-tube for
the gas to be tested — should just dip a little
under the upper level of the fluid; the out-
let tube should only reach half-way the per-
foration of the cork. A very slow cur-
rent of gas is now made to pass through the
fluid, and kept going for at least a quarter
aud at most one full hour. In ease the gas
is quite free from atmosrjheric air, the fluid
in the bottle will remain quite clear; if
traces of air are present, a faint coloration
of the liquid will soon become apparent;
with a larger proportion of air the fluid will
soon be rendered .first light-brown colored,
a.nd afterward intensely black.

Evolution of the North American Con-
tinent. — We condense a part of Prof.
Hall's recent lecture upon this subject be-
fore the American Institute:

" In the formation of the continent, the
material composing it have been derived
from the breaking down of preexisting ma-
terials transported and deposited along cer-
tain lir.es, or spread out in mid-ocean and
there accumulating uniformly. The in-
equalities upon the surface of' the country
are not due to any special action along these
lines of elevation. Those mountain ranges,
whether the Rocky Mountains of the West'
the Appalachian chain of the East, or any
other chain of mountains, so far as we know,
are not due to any action or any forces
along those lines, but only to the' greater
currents in the bed of the ocean near those
lines. Everywhere the same law has pre-
vailed. Tho transporting power of the
ocean has deposited in the line of its cur-
rents larger quantities of material. The
elevation has been a continental one, and
not the elevation of a mountain or chain of
mountains. The elevation of the eastern
portion of the North American Continent
has nothing to do with the moun-
tain change constituting a portion of
the continental elevation. Going back,
then, step by step, from the more re-
cent to the earliest times in relation to
which we have any evidence whatever, we
have no proof that the action of the interior
of our globe has produced any of the great
features of the globe. This idea of a great
primary nucleus is only theoretical. It has
not in it anything tangible. The earliest
rooks of which we have any knowledge
were deposited by the ocean under condi-
tions similar to those which now exist."

The Voltaic Arc— The bluish space be-
tween the brilliantly incandescent charcoal
points which give the electric light,— curved
in form when the points are in a horizontal
line, owing to atoending currents of heated
air, and hence called the voltaic arc, — is
the route taken by the electric current in
passing from one of the points to the other.
What is its nature ? It is carbon in some
form, but what form ? Fine dust, vapor or
gas? In an article by F. P. Le Roux, in
the Chemical News, the writer says that re-
cent experiments of his have led to the be-
lief tbat it is evolved from the positive pole;
and that it is due to a special source of heat
at that point, hitherto unexplained. We
quote a portion of the article: "The posi-
tive charcoal is considerably more lumin-
ous than the other, and its incandescence
of longer duration. I am even inclined to
believe that the negative charcoal is heated
almost entirely by the radiation of heat
from thejgfcsitive charcoal on one hand and
the arc on the other, and by the heat pro-
ceeding from the condensation of the mat-
ter conveyed by the latter. I have made
an experiment which will show that the
heating of the positive r o'e is owing to a
special cause, the seat of which is the exact
point where the voltaic arc joins the char-
coal. The experiment consists iu this:
The charcoal electrodes are first brought
into contact in the ordinary manner, and
then separated so as to produce a very
short arc of only a small fraction of a milli-
meter, which is interrupted at the end of
some seconds; the positive electrode will
then be found to remain incandescent for
some time, whilst the extremity of the
negative electrode will be scarcely red."

' Galena in the Laboratory.— M. F.
Muck states that crystallized cubes of ga-
lena are obtained by the action of HS on
hot solutions, strongly acid, of nitrate of
lead, the hotter and mere acid the better.
Even solutions nearly neutral, if partially
precipitated, so as to render them acid, af-
terwardsyield crystals. Precipitates from
the acetate and chloride of lead are wholly
amorphous. Becquerel, de Senarmont,
Bisehoff, Brush of Yale College, and others,
have already obtained galena in the wet
way. It is stated that Flach. by placing a
stick of brimstone in an alkaline solution
of 'oxide of lead, obtained, — after some
years, — deposits, both on the stick itself
and on the walls of the vessel, covered with
small cubical crystals of galena, recogniz-
able without a magnifier. — Prof. Wurtz —
Gas Light Journal.

Solar Heat Utilized. — Prof. Monchot,
of Tours, France, announces a work upon
this subject, soon to be in press. In
1804, Prof. M. constructed a small steam
engine operated by means of a "solar
boiler;" and he has since contrived various
pieces of apparatus, on the same principle,
| for cooking, distilling, etc.

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Character of the White Pine
Deposits.

Ore

The following from Mr. Albert S. Evans'
judiciously-sifted and very useful notes,
may assist those who have felt themselves
under the disadvantage of possessing lim-
ited data, in arriving at conclusions satis-
factory to themselves :

TRITE VEINS.

When the writer visited the district in
November it was still an open question
whether there]was such a thing as a true
fissure ledge to be found there; many — the
writer among the number — inclining to the
belief that all the mineral was in merely
horizontal deposits of sedimentary origin,
and their permanency a matter of great
doubt. Candorcompels a full and unqual-
ified admission of the falsity of such con-
clusion after a second and more minute ex-
amination made since the mines were
more thoroughly opened, and recent and
important developments have been made.

Thai there are well defined, genuine metal-
bearing, perpendicular fissure ledges in the
~\Yliiie Pine District, is no longer a matter of
question; and that fact once positively es-
tablished, as it now is, all doubt of these
mines lasting for years under any system
of working may be set at rest once and for-
ever. Probably nine-tenths of all the
claims located in the district are on hori-
zontal deposits; but real fissure ledges
have been fqund there nevertheless.

SOUTHERN SLOPE OF TREASURE HILL.

The most perfectly defined wall rock
which is to be seen in any mine visited by
the writer is found at the California, on the
southern slope of Treasure Hill, some 1,500
feet below its summit, and only about
half a mile east of the town of Silver
Springs. This mine has been but imper-
fectly opened, but enough has been done to
show that the ledge is of great thickness,
and that it runs down deep into the bowels
of the earth. The open cut across the
ledge shows ore in abundance in a concen-
trated vein, which is from eight to twelve
feet in thickness at least— the northern, or
. foot wall, not having been reached as yet.
The ore runs from $100 up into the thou-
sands per ton, rich chlorides being found
with the lower grade conglomerate rock.
The ledge runs nearly due east and west,
and pitches out of or away from the hill
southwards at an angle of say 15 or 20 de-
grees, the hanging wall of bastard slate be-
ing as well defined as any to be found in
any mine on the continent.

NORTHERN SLOPE OF TREASURE HILL.

Returning from the southern end of
Treasure Hill toward the northern, we
again come upon defined ledges— Treasure
Peak is the name given to the bold crest of
Treasure Hill directly north of Treasure-
City and east of the road to Hamilton. On
the southern edge of this peak or crest is
the Hidden Treasure mine, with its exten-
sions. This mine — or one title to it: there
are conflicting claims — was recently sold
for $200,000, apparently a very low fig-
ure. The first ore found here was in a
large undefined mass, and the existence of
a defined ledge was a matter of doubt, but
recently immensely rich rock held together
by horn silver has been struck in seams
pitching into the hill, and the deposit is
assuming more and more the form of a
ledge. .Following around the abrupt east-
ern face of the hill in the stratas of dolo-
mite, which here crop out sharp and bare,
is found a more or less broken line of depos-
its, apparently the outcropping of the same
ledge or deposit on which are located the
two Hidden Treasure extensions, Morning
Star, Hunt & Drynen, Rough & Ready,
Laynes & Murphy, Mammoth, Oriental,
Green Above the Red, Virginia, and other
claims, the latter being well down the hill
towards Hamilton. Descending the hill
towards Hamilton the ore becomes some-
what more refractory in character, the
purest metal as a rule being found on the
top of the hill, or towards the south in the
direction of the Eberhardt.

DEPTH.

We have thus defined ledges at the north-
ern and southern ends of Treasure Hill. A
thousaud shafts and cuts sunk or run in
the intervening ground, the majority of
winch have struck metal in some quantity,
demonstrate that Treasure Hill, for a space
of at least three miles north and south, and
two east and west, is everywhere metallifer-
ous at some depth; the "only question is
whether you strike the metai at ten feet or
a thousaud.

Is there now any chance for doubt of the
permanency of the Treasure Hill mines ?
In the opinion of the writer, who but re-
cently thought differently,— none wliateoei:

HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL DEPOSITS.

Old miners in the White- Pine District,
among them Dr. E. X. Willard, of the
Keystone, now incline to the theory that
there are two distinct classes of metallifer-
ous deposits or veins in White Pine Dis-
trict. The first in the form of horizontal
deposits, probably of sedimentary origin,
lying between the strata of bastard slate
and dolomite or limestone, and pitching
westward from the eastern edge of Treasure
Hill; and the second, and more permanent,
in the form of true fissure veins, ledges or
lodes, standing at or near the perpendicular
in the center of the hill, and pitching out-
wards at the north and south. These
ledges cut directly through the horizontal
deposits from east to west, and it is at the
point of intersection of the two in every
case that the richest and largest deposits of
chloride, horn silver and other immensely
valuable forms and combinations of the
precious metal are to be found. The recent
developments in the Eberhardt and Key-
stone, and other mines, in less degree, go
far to prove the entire correctness and re-
liability of this new theory.

THE EBERHARDT IN THE SOUTHERN SLOPE.

The Eberhardt and Keystone — first loca-
ted as separate claims, having been shown
to be identical, being enclosed between par-
allel walls running across Treasure Hill
east and west, have been, by mutual con-
sent of holders, consolidated, the agreement
taking effect February 1st, 1869 — will hence-
forth be worked by one company, which
will soon be incorporated, with an office in
San Francisco. The Richmond claim,
which runs into the Eberhardt from the
southeast, having been defeated, after a
warmly contested trial,, at Austin, and the
Blue Bell and Grey Eagle absorbed in the
Eberhardt title, there is now a clear field
before the company, and work, which has
been going on but very slowly for some
months, will again be pushed ahead with
vigor. Visiting the Eberhardt last week
with the foreman of the company, John
Bicknell, Esq. , the writer went through
the whole underground works, and was po-
litely shown all points of interest. There
are now fairly defined parallel north and
south walls running westward into the hill.
The south wall commences just below the
old Blue Bell shaft, and forms the southern
boundary of the Eberhardt, while the north
wall forms the northern boundary of the
Keystone ground, and both pitch slightly
to the northward as they descend. The
space between these walls is 183 feet from
north to south, and a careful examination
in the drifts, made step by step with the aid
of lighted candles, and with hammers and
picks, enables the writer to say with posi-
tiveness that the deposit of silver of won-
derful richness is unbroken from one to the
other. There is not a foot between the two
walls where pre worth §100 to §20,000 per
ton cannot be thrown down with a pick and
gad. Marks of the pick in solid silver
could be seen all along the sides of the
chamber, and in one place we noticed where
an iron gad had been driven into the soft
metal to a depth of four inches, and with-
drawn, without even cracking the surface
of the ledge. The Blue Bell shaft was then
down 120 feet from the surface, close along-
side the south wall, into and through which
it cuts at 100 feet depth. To the point of
100 feet there is ore nearly all the way
down, a " horse " occurring at 40 feet. Be-
yond the point where the vertical shaft cuts
through the south wall, no ore has been
discovered, but at about the same depth in
the Keystone ground, just south of the
north wall, exceedingly rich ore has just been
struck. How far the walls now being fol-
lowed run westward into the hill cannot of
course be told at present, but the amount
of treasure which it is already evident they
inclose is beyond anything like sober cal-
culation. The ore from the Keystone and
the Eberhardt ground — now in one mine —
already reduced to bullion, or extracted
ready for reduction, will approximate two
millions of dollars, and there is no indica-
tion of a failing in quality or quantity at
any point. The cash value of the mine as
it now stands we will not attempt to esti-
mate; it would take too many figures.

Engineering.

Austin Outflanked, but Not " Gone
In." — The Reveille says: In spite of the
facts which smart people chuck at us con-
stantly— facts resulting from stock-jobbing,
speculation, mismanagement, inexperience
and stupidity — we know that Lander Hill
contains veins of the noblest sulphuret ore,
sufficient to maintain a population of ten to
twenty thousand persons. This is not an
idle statement. Instead of croaking about
White Pine — which has done us no real
evil, but is destined to work us much posi-
tive good - let our citizens put their shoul-
ders to the wheel, iaste.a4 of crying to vain
gods for help.

Building of the Honduras Inter-Oce-
anic Railroad. — This work, it seems, is so
well under way, and so definitely progress-
ing, that we may count upon its early com-
pletion as a certainty. Being entirely in
the hands of European capitalists, the engi-
neering operations thus far reported have
been undervalued in their importance to
the Pacific coast. It is claimed that the
completion of the Honduras Railroad will
effectually terminate the carrying of freight
and passengers between New York and Cal-
ifornia via Panama, because that route saves
upward of twelve hundred miles of distance
and seven days' time, passes through a
healthy country, and possesses what Pana-
ma does not — deep, safe and capacious har-
bors at the termini of the road, where the
largest steamship can tie up securely at the
wharves. A letter received in this city
from M. Lefevre, Trustee for the Honduras
Government Railway Loan, dated in Lon-
don, states that the "plant" and materials
for the first section of the line from Puerto
Caballos, on the Atlantic, to Santiago, have
long since reached their destination, and
that the work is now being vigorously
prosecuted by Messrs. Waring Brothers
and McCaudlish, the contractors. Messrs.
Bischoffsheim and Goldschmidt, bankers of
London and Paris, who are the agents and
administrators of the Honduras loan, are at
the head of the enterprise, and London,
Paris and Amsterdam capital is subscribed
to build and complete the road. It will be
in operation, unless contracts and promises
are violated, in three years from June last,
or in 1871. The Pacific terminus is the
Gulf of Fonseea, and the total distance is
only about 170 miles — a mere trifle in these
days, especially when wo consider the im-
portance of the enterprise.

Blasting out Blossom Rock. — Lieut.
Huer's plan for blasting out Blossom Rock,
in the ship channel of San Francisco, will,
it appears, probably be adopted. Lieut.
Huer proposed that a raft be floated over
the spot, and a number of adjustable iron
rods or supports be let down so as to stand
on the rock, to support and steady the raft,
like the legs of a table, their length vary-
ing according to the irregularities of the
surface of the rock. In this manner a
steady support would be secured for any
number of men at once, while working at
drilling holes, and the same number of
blasts could then be let off simultaneously.
As soon as the holes are bored, a charge
of nitro-glycerine is to be poured down
through an iron tube; being heavier than
water, this would sink to the bottom of the
hole. Explosive cartridges being next in-
serted, and connected by means of wires
with an electric battery, the raft is to be
floated away to a little distauce, while the
entire number of blasts are discharged by
the electric spark. The same operation
would be repeated, after removing the loose
materials, until the required depth should
be attained. According to Lieut. Heur's
estimates, the work could be accomplished
in this manner for $60,000; while by any
other method it would cost five times
that amount, or $300,000. By reference to
the Congressional reports, it will be seen
that an appropriation has been included
for blasting out Blossom Rock.

The Highland Suspension BRiDGEacross
the Hudson, between Anthony's nose and
Fort Clinton, is being undertaken in earn-
est, and will be the most stupendous en-
gineering work of the kind in the world.
The total length is 2,449 feet; length be-
tween the towers, 1,665 feet; estimated cost
$3,500,000 to $4,000,000.

Two new pile-drivers have been sent out,
with the usual material, for the Western Pa-
cific Railroad, to be used in the construc-
tion of the bridge over the Cosumnes. The
tracklayers are now in the immediate vicin-
ity of that stream.

The C. P. R. R. Pioneer and Construc-
tion Train is described by a correspondent
of the Santa Clara Union, as follows:

The pioneer train is composed of 10 or 11
large cars. They look very much like houses
on wheels. In the forward car is Mr.
Strowbridge's residence and office. A bat-
tery is on the car, and an operator to work
it. The train moves on to the end of track
each and every noon and night, when a wire
is attached and the circuit made. In the
back cars of this train are eating or sleep-
ing accommodations for the 500 men who
compose the vanguard of this modern army.
Attached to the train are three or four plat-
form cars, on which carpenters, with shops
fitted up in the best style, are fitting up
telegraph poles, putting on insulators,
etc., for the line, which is kept three miles
ahead of the railroad. At every important
station on the railroad is a telegraph office,
and through these daily supplies are or-
dered up.

New Canal.— Parties in Stockton have
in contemplation the cutting of a canal
from a point just below the shipyard of the
Navigation Company to Mormon Slough.
It is intended to make it sufficiently deep
for any of the steamers or sailing ves-sels
that now come to Stockton.

Railrord Route-: through the Alameda
Hills. — The Pacific Railroad Company's
surveyors have been at work the past week
in Crow Canon, Alameda County, having
completed the survey on the Amador road.
It is reported that the surveyed route is the
cheapest and best yet found.

The tunnel at Livermore Pass which is
being constructed for the Western Pacific
Railroad, is already 1,160 feet in, and 170
feet underground. It is expected that it
will be completed at the same time the road
will be — in July.

The Suez Canal will be completed the
1st of October, 1869, and the total cost of
its construction will be 400,000,000 francs,
or $80,000,000.

A company is to be formed in Sonora for
the establishment of a line of telegraphs be-
tween Guaymas and Ures.

New Inventions.

Packing Fleeces. — James Walton, of
Douglas County, Oregon, has invented a
machine for pressing and tying fleeces of
wool. The operation is said to be per-
formed with ease and rapidity. A patent
has been applied for.

A New Mirror. — It is said that a French
chemist has invented a new way of prepar-
ing glass for mirrors. It is coated with an
exceedingly thin layer of platinum, and be-
comes, mysteriously, not only a perfect
mirror, but also remains so transparent
that it may still be used for windows.

Mexican Rifle. — A new rifle has been
invented by Don Juan Adorno, called the
Adorno rifle. It has four chambers or bar-
rels, and is said to be superior to the Prus-
sian needle gun or Chaascpot rifle. This
arm awaits the approval of the Mexican
Government, for defense oj Hie frontiers and
haciendas.

Woodbury's Photo-ReliTf Printing.
Among the marvels of science, says an
eastern exchange, a new invention may be
recorded which is likely to create a new and
powerful interest in photography. The
want of a process by which the advantages
of this beautiful art might be obtained me-
chanically, and without the aid of sunlight,
has long been felt; it is now by Mr. Wood-
bury's Photo-relief process an accomplished
fact. Pure blacks and whites can be given
easily enough, but the half tints, which
consist nine-tenths of a good photograph,
have puzzled many experimenters to mas-
ter. In Mr. Woodbury's photo-relief print-
ing the picture is produced with every
gradation of a continuous tint, and by me-
chanical printing sufficiently rapid to com-
plete with copper-plate or lithography.

Method of Seasoning Wood. — A new
method for seasoning greenwood in a very
short time, consists in boiling it for some
hours in water, by which the soluble sub-
stances are removed. It is then boiled in a
solution of borax, by which the insoluble
albumen of the wood is rendered soluble
and escapes also from the pores. The wood
is then placed in drying chambers heated
by steam, and allowed to remain three days.
Wood thus treated is said to be more com-
pact'than it would be by ten years of ordi-
nary exposure, it does not shrink or warp,
and is secure against decay.

American corn-cobs are sold in the streets
of London as " Patent Fire-lighters — eight
for a penny. "

Tr\e Mining and Scientific Press.

101

Weekly Stock Circular.

By A»»oi«tcd Br. ken of the3 F Block andExcaangeBoard.

8*x Ph-iklisco, February 13, 1869.
Fliiaiulul.

Our local money market presents a very
1 rind healthy contrast t.- the dt
unreliable and panicky condition of those of the
i inancial affairs in the Atlantic States
are evidently in a bad and precarious Btate,
Standing on the verge of a volcano, and by no
means satisfactory. On the other hand, al-
though there is a wry active demand for money,
witii ns, the supply i* fully equal to all emer-

., and at unchanged rates. The demand
comes mainly for targe real estate operations,
in tic entorpiises calculated to meet the
advancing wants of the State, such as the con-
Ktnieti-m of railroads: working many new and
rich mines; aiding mining interests; erecting
new factories; enlarging the urea of fanning
operations; building new steamboats, and the
like. This is ;v different sort of showing from
that which prevails at the East, where business

is stagnant, and sharp cornering operations, and
speculations on the fluctuating values of paper
money absorb the attention and capital of the
wealthy. Should a crash occur there it would
undoubtedly affect us to some extent; but we
are so trenched in financial solidity that any
serious damage would be averted. In couse-
quence of the excessive rains, which have fallen
steadily for nearly a week, communication with
the interior has bean sadly interrupted, and our
supplies of bullion materially lessened. Thus
far we have been favored, beyond former prece-
dent, with free and undisturbed interior inter-
course, and advantage was taken of it to fur-
ward large supplies, keeping np an active,
profitable jobbing trade. Kates in bank remain
steady at 1@1% per cent, per mouth, and 10
par cent, per annum for large sums on long
lime.

Receipts of gold bars have greatly diminished,
fmm the cause before mentioned, but the sup-
ply on baud is sufficient for immediate wants.
"We quote them at 880@8D0; silver bars remain
from par to % per cent, premium; currency
bills on Atlantic cities pa}' 32%@32% per cent,
premium on gold? coin drafts, payable at sight,
rule at \% percent, premium; telegraphic trans-
fers, \x/9 per cent, premium; sterling exchange
is quoted at 48%@48%d; commercial exchange,
49@49%d; Mexican dollars command 5%(u>.6
per cent, premium over gold.

The fluctuations attending Pacific Mail stock
in New York during the past week were very
marked, sinking from 11G on the 6th of Febru-
ary to 110J^ on the 8th, and rising to 115% on
the 10th. One of our prominent bankers pur-
chased to the value of §100,000 or more, when
the stock had reached its lowest point. Amer-
ican Government securities are finding unusual
favor in the European markets. Cable telegrams
inform us that they had run up to 77 in London,
the highest point yet reached, and Rothschild
is reported to have invested in them to the
tune of $2,000,000.

The wide-spread spirit of speculation engen-
dered by an inflated and unstable paper cur-
rency, and the mushroom success which has
attended transactions in Government contracts
during and since the war, seem to have cor-
rupted nearly the whole nation. The denizens
of this coast are shocked to learn, by eveiy
mail, of gross frauds, and grand peculations,
either perfected or in embryo, to rob and plun-
der the Government. It really seems as if the
spirit of patriotism, of honor, of common hon-
esty, were submerged beneath the waves of an
ocean of corruption and brazen villainy. In-
stead of limiting the operations of a vigilance
committee to New York City, the organization
should have a national extension.

The deeds for the transfer of property along
the line destined to become the extension of
Montgomery street, were recorded on the 9th of
February, and the aggregate amount paid for
the different pieces of property included is
$750,000. This movement is but the precursor
of others that will be necessitated by the rapid
expansion and business needs of San Francisco.
City Stoclcs.

The market for other than mining stocks
shows an improvement, both in transactions
and prices obtained. Considerable sales of
Spring Valley "Water were made during the
week at $6i)©68 ^ share. Gas stock realized
$90; and California Steam Navigation Co. '65
per cent.

The Bank of California disbursed its usual
monthly dividend on the loth instant.
Mining Stutre Uarket.

The mining been character-
ize •] In a very fair degree of activity dining the
period undei ri view, the aggregate trans ic

amounting to nearly as large a sum as the pre-
vious week, embracing large lalesof prominent
Btocks. The Board list is being gradually ex-
onder the influence which White Pins
brings to b< ar upon the market, and in fact the
int. n -i taken in this new argentiferous region
imparts more or less of the buoyancy the stock
arena can boast of at this date. As to the de-
velopments on the Com stock lode, we cannot
give very encouraging news; however, work is
bring prosecuted with the usual vigor— yes, we
may say, with greater energy than for a long
time past, and it is to be hoped success will
crown the efforts of all. Owing to the heavy
rains and consequent interruption of travel, we
are debarred from givirjg the very latest infor-
mation from the mines.

Alpha— declined from !?59 50 to $51, closing
at $56. The water has become quite trouble-
some in the shaft Amador (Cal.) sold at

$255. The Badger drift has developed finely
as they proceeded with it, and the north shaft,
which is now cairied a considerable distance

below the lowest level, shows a fine vein

Belcher has been less active than the previous
week, declining from $33 50 to $28 50, and
closing at $31. On the 10th inst. the ore at
the south line, on the 200 level, was widening,
and the quality improving. The ore found on
the 335 level continues good, and assays of sev-
enty-five tons raised through the Belcher shaft,
show assays as follows: 335 level, $90; 200 level,
$47. They are able'to extract thirty tons per
day from the drift. Water continues to trouble
them in the 420 level.

Chollar-Potosi — sold within a range of $160
©166, then at $160, closing at $162. During
the week endiug February 5th, 1,217 tone of ore
were extracted; previous week, 919. Receipts
of bullion in January, $50,700, against $108,-
336 in December. .... Crown Point ruled at
$67 50@69, and closed at $68 75. On the 7th
inst. the main east drift, on the 1100 level, was
in 58 feet; rock hard. The northeast drift, on
the 900 level, had attained a distance of 42 feet
east of the east clay, the face showing granite,
and the south drift was 435 feet from the north
boundary line, running in cement clay and por-
phyry. The stopes between the 800 and 900
levels a~e nearly exhausted. In January the
bullion receipts amounted to $38,458; and in
December, $35,720.

Gotjld & Curry — is quiet at a decline, clos-
ing at $105. Are engaged in repairing the shaft.
....Imperial declined from $142 50 to $125
50, and closed at $131. On the 10th inst. they
had not yet reached the ledge on the 1000 level,
being within about ten feet of it on either level.
. . . .Kentttck opened at $206, improved to
$230, and closed at $225. Iu January the re-
ceipts amounted to $83,335, against $98,582 in
the month of December. . . .Overman declined
from $78 50 to $70 50, and at the close sold at
$75. The January receipts of bullion foot up

$36,000; in December they were $60,258

Savage declined from $66 50 to $60 50, and
closed at $62 50. A dividend of $2 50 per
share was paid on the 11th inst. The bullion
receipts in January amounted to $176,700,
against $152,000 in December.

Sierra Nevada— sold at $28@/25. In January
the bullion extracted amounted to $9,998 66; in
December, $7,568. .. .Empire changed hands
at $100, seller 30. Beceipts in January, $13,-

665; in December, $15,574 Confidence

ruled at $34@33. Bullion in January, $10,960;
in December, $14,728 Yellow Jacket, un-
der the change of twenty shares to the foot,
sold at $79 50@73, closing at $76 ^ share,
equal to $1,520 % foot. A dividend of $5 per
share is payable on and after the 15th. F. F.
Obiston takes the place of W. "W. Wattson as

Secretary Hale & Norcross improved from

$65 to $79, and closed at $78. They crossed
the ore in the north drift, finding ore some five
feet wide, and showing rather good assays. At
a later date the news from the mine was less
encouraging. An assessment of $5 per share

was levied on the 12th inst Golden Bulk

(Cal.) will pay its usual bi-monthly dividend
on the 26th instant.

Cooperative Farming and Silk Manu-
facture.— Albert Brisbane, the well-known
Fourierite, has bought a large tract of land
in Kansas for a colony of Frenchmen, who
will cultivate the land on the cooperative
principle, and manufacture silk goods.

Physical Survey of Virginia. — A pam-
phlet of 90 pages, with three large maps,
has recently been published in Richmond,
Va., setting forth the geographical position,
commercial advantages, and national im-
portance of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
It is entitled Preliminary Report of the Phy-
sical Survey of Virginia.

A Horticultural School for Women,
similar to one said to exist in Germany, is
proposed to be established by prominent
Bostoniaus.

MIMING SHABEH0LDEES' DIRE0T0BY.

ICornpllcd for every l&sue, from advertisements In the

Mmii Ann Bouutino PutU mill oilier Sau

Kranclsco Journals. ;

Gomprlttntr the Names of Companion. District or County
OI !.<>• .iiliiti . Amount mid il tilr ■>! Assessment; Date -U

Meeting; Dayol Delinquent 8ilc: and Amount and Time
of Payment of Dividend*.

tmador On., dividend, fffpei share.. ..Payable Pi t> in, I8ff)

Bacon, Blowy eo., Nov., tin-.. PajaHe June 19. istif

Bolcbi r, Btort-v co. Nov., Dec.ftl,4Jtt Jan. 3o-.Mnr.jh 2

Crown Point. Storey co . Dec. I& $t &>i Ian. S3— Feb. 15

Chalk Ununtaln, Nevada co., Jan. 13,$2 ,Pvb 16-HarchH*

Chollar Pniotf. div,, f *s Payable Oct. 16, lt-67

Crown Point, iln-aimd. *7.5o I'avni.k- Bent. 12, I wis

i.'liy R. it . Sun Pranci-cn, Jan. 6, $5 '..Feb, Ii'— March t>

Cherokee Plai B.tt., Buttoco Mutual Meeting Feb. 6

Coney, pr<'«crr.<i siot-k, di v. 'j»„ percent Feb in, isoa

ChlorldoMt Tun., White Pine, tcb, 2,600. .Mar 18— Ap, iu»

Dancy. Lyon CO.. MflV ,J«n. it, *2 Feb 12— March I

Empire M. A M., My., dividend $G. ... Payable Mav IS, isii;

Eureka, div. »5

Gold him runs, storey co., Jan. 8, $4

Gould A Curry, div.. J7-W

Golden Chariot, iiiuii*. div., $2 B0...,

i.nM Hill m M .v M-dlvld.-nd, $7 .Ml..

Goldon Rule, Tuolumne co, div. 60c ft eh.. "Pay. Feb. 10, is 9

Hope Grovel, Nevada co , Jim. 11, $1 Feb. IS— Morcli8

Mule A- Nm cross, Slurry co., Dec. 12, $5 lull. 16— Felt. 6

Bale A Norcroas, div. $125 Kept 16. i«i*7

I X L. Alpine co , Jim. 19, $1 50 Feb. 27— March 17'

tmnunul, storey co., New, div Payable June 20, IS&S

Juan Rnilltsta, Bantu Clara co., Nov. 27 Sale Jan. 30

Julia. Storey eo . Nr»„ S260 Feb. 10-Feb. 27

Koytftonc, Consolidated special Meeting, Pcb \H

Kontuck, dlv.,S>20 per share Payable Jan. 10, lKfiy

Mi. Tenabo, Lander co . Jon. 23, 75c.... March 5— March 30*
Mohawk ,t Mmi t real. Nev. co., Kcu. 10, $3... Mar. 15— Mar. 31

Maxwell. Amador co., Feb. 9, $1 March 13— Apr!' 1

North Aincr. Wood P. Co., Jan. IS, $1 Fib 18— Marcl 8»

Payable Aug. 15, ltw

Feb. 5— Feb. 2U

.. ...Feb. 11-MnrchG
.Payable June 13, 1808

Jnn. 21— Feb. 18"

.Sale Feb 6*

.....March 31— April 3
.Payable Dec 19, IP68
..Payable Jnn 6, lufi?

.Payable Jan. 20,

Feb. i:t-Marcul

..Payable Mav IS, 186}
.. Payable Jan. 10 1889
. .Payable Julv IS, IHlW

North Star, dividend, 55..

Oriental, Sierra co., Jan. 4, $2.50

Peninsula, Storcr en.. Doc. 15, $10..

Pad tic Unassessable, div

Rattlesnake, Vubu co , Dec. 19, $7.50

Rippon. Alpine co., Oct. 15. $ I

Rising Star, Idaho, Feb. 8. $6

Santiago, Silver City, dividend, $2 B0.

Sand Spring -alt, dividend $1

Savage, Virginia, Nev, dividend, $2 50. Payable Feb. 11, 1809

Talluhih, Humboldt co., Dec. 14, $17.50 Jan. 29— Feb. 27

Virginia & G. II Water Co. .Dividend, payable Nov. 20, 1868
Yellow Jacket, div., $5 Payablo Feb. 15, 1869

Those, marked i
journal.

1th an asterisk Clare advertised In this

Latest Stock Prices Bid and Asked.

3. P. STOCK AND KXCUANGK BOARD.

Friday Evknikg, February 12, I8C9.

MlSCKLLANKdUS STOCKS. Hill. Asl.rrl.

Pnlted Slates 11. .nils, 5 2ns, IS if., 'U7, 'OS $ 81},; F>

United Slates Bonds, S 20s, I8t>4 8!>5 82^;

United state* Bonds. 5 20s, 1802 82 82^

Legal Tender Nutes 7ii& 74?£

California State Bunds, 7s, 1857 «fl ito

San Francisco Bonds, 10s, 1851 par A Int.

San Francisco t'ltv Bunds, lis. 1855 — —

San Francisco City and dainty Bunds. 6s, 185tt. 85 87^

San Francisco School Bonds. 10s. lSliil 100 —

San Franebco school Bonos, IDs, l^fil par & Int.

San Francisco City and Co. Schi B'ds, 7», 1806. 90 —

San Francisco Cltv and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1802 85 89

Sun Francisco City and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1804 87 J£ 89

San Francisco Cltv and Co Bonds, 7*. 1805 87ifi 89

San Francisco Citv and Co. JudR. Bds. 7s, 1863. 87^ 89

San Francisco Citv and Co. Judg. Bds, 7s, 18ti4. 87^ 89

Sacramento City Bonds 20 —

Sacramento Count v Bonds, 6s 65 —

Marysville- Bonds, 10s 75 811

Stockton City Bonds — 75

Yubu County Bonds, *s 77 79

Santa Clara County Bonds. 7s — 80

Butte County Bonds, IDs, 1800.... 70 75

San Mateo County Boinls,7s 75 80

California Steam Navigation Co 65 67!^

Sprint,' Valley Water Co tid tS>£

State Telegraph Co 25 —

GAS COMPANIES.

San Francisco Ohs Co 91 95

Sacramento Gas Co 05 70

RAILROADS.

Sacramento Va I iey Railroad — —

San Fnu.cUcn and San .lose Railroad 40 45

Omnibus Railroad "IH —

Centra I Ra il rond f-0 —

North Beach mid Mission Railroad 6s 70

Pront Street, Mission and Ocean Railroad 11 12

BANKING INSTITUTIONS.

Pacific Bank 97}^ H'O

The Bank of California 157 158

California, Loan and Savings Society — —

INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Flrcmana' Fund Insurance Co 92Jf 94

Pacific Insurance Co 120 127

San Francisco Insurance Co — 1ii5

Merchant.-,' Mutual Marine Insurance Co 500 520

California Insurance Co I3IK) 14UU

Union Insurance Co 92 93

Uoine Mutual Insurance Co 19% 20

Occidental Insurance Co 72 —

National Insurance Co 72 —

Builders' Insurnnco Co — —

MINING STOCKS— WASHOE DISTRICT.

Alpha 55 55%

Baltimore American — —

Belcher 30 31

Bullion, G. H 15 —

Crown Point 08 09

ColefVu.) — —

Confidence yo 34

Consolidated Virginia 9 10

Chollar-Potosi td2 io;j

Dancy 4 4^

Exchequer.- "27 28

Empire Mill and Mining Co 95 100

Gould & Carry I115 —

Gold Hill Quartz 60 60

Ha I e &. N ore ross 77 78

Imperial 131 132

Julia — 2

Justice and Independent 13 15

Kentttck 225 228

Lady Bryan 10 —

North American 16 18

Ophlr 41 42

Overman 74 75

Segregated Belcher 8% 9

Savage 62 63

Sierra Nevada ■.... 25 27

Yellow Jacket 75 70

Union — —

United States. — —

MISCELLANEOUS MINING STOCKS.

Amador (Cal i lorn la I 255 26tl

North Star (California) — —

Eureka (California) 230 —

Dv Soto (Humboldt) _ 2

Golden Rule. California 12 13

San Francisco Market Rates.

Wholottule Price*.

Friday, February 12, 1869.

Flour, Extra, ft bbl $5 25 @$5 75

Do. Superfine 4 •/& (ft 4 75

Corn Meal, ft HXl lbs 3 25 @ 3 50

Wheat, ft IU0 lbs 1 60 @ 1 80

Oats, ft 100 lbs 2 00 @ 2 25

Barley, ft lOII lbs - 2 10 ® 2 25

Beans, ft 100 lbs 5 00 ® 7 0i>

Potatoes, ft 100 lbs 75 @ 90

Hay. ft ton 12 00 ®I8 00

Live Oak Wood, ft cor. I y 00 @10 00

Beef, extra, droseed, ft lb 11 @ u

Sheep, on foot 3 00 fij 3 25

Hogs, on foot, ft In ft <ft 0

Hogs, dressed , ti lb 9 @ lu

GROCKHIKS, KTC

Suuar. crushed, f* fc — a 17

Do. China iu ^ 12

Coflfcc. Costa Rica, 31 lb — a 18

" ■■ wo ::::: _ i i?

rea, Japan, -f* n> 75 @ «>

"" Dreon fa fA 1 25

Hawaiian Rleo.^Ib "*.". _ @ u,

• filna RIci ,■ .1. 6 g 7

19 <| 48

1 -'"ill. v rMf |6 a 10

■ tt> 35 % 40

' "' 5" @ M

111 II' ,i> /r± It

?•■»«■■ «"«n. »»:::::::::::::::::::: § g S

Shoulders, fttt. b & 6

ICetnll Price*.

Butter, Cnlflnmin. fresh, ft lb 65 a 7ft

do. pickled, v m It S 2

do. ureg.-n.ft ll, 2,, | £

do. New York, ft lb , ss a 4?

Cheese, ft lb 20 @ 20

Honey.ftlb 25 @ Sn

PSS* RopM" 05 a 75

''Td.ftlt 16 @ -

Hams and Bacon, & lb ;,i @ 2fi

Cranborrltv, ft gullon 1 25 a 1 50

PotatoM, ft m u- (a, 2

Potatoes, Sweet, ft lb 3 @ 6

Tonui toes, ft lb 3 <» _

Onions, ftlb $ an —

Apples. No. I j ft 4 (a, 6

Pears, Table, ft tb Bra'

Plums, drb-d. Vft 10 I 12

Peaches, dried, ft lb m pj 12

Oranges, ft dozen 7ft a _

Lemons, ft 1ln7.cn 75 ra _

Chickens apiece M (3, 75

Turkeys ft lb 23 a 25

soap. Pale and C. 0 7 r> 12

Sou p, Cast lli>. ft ft _ @ 20

San Francisco Metal Market,

PRICKS Fon INVOICES.

Jobbing prices rule from ten to fifteen per cent, htffher than (ho
follmeinfl quotitfirmK.
* Fuidav, February 12, 1W9.

Iron.— Duty: Pig, $9 per (on; Railroad, 60c ft KJOlbs; Bar
l@l^cft tb; Sheet, polltthed, 3c ft lb; common, Hs@l%c
ft lb; Plate, I&C ft ft; Pipe. l>ic ft lb; Galvanized, 2kc
ft lb.

Pcmch and English Pig Iron ft ton $40 00 @$

White Pleftton 37 00 ra

Rcflnod Bar, bad assortment ft lb _ 113 ra

Refined Bar, good assortment, ft lb — 04 a

Boiler, No. 1 to 4 _ fu&'ra

Plate,No.5to9 _ _^ra - 04*

Sheet, No. 10 to 13 — 04 lira — a

Sheet. No. 14 to 20 - tifi a _ sw

Sheet, No. 24 to 27 _ ,15 @_ n£

CopPKR-nutv: Shcalhing, 3>ac ft ft; Pig and Bar.Sfcc ft ft

Sheathing, ft lb a — 20

Sheathing, Yellow __ 20 ra — 21

Sheathing, Old Yellow _ 10 a - 11

Bolts — 21 (Ti; — 22

Composition Nails .".'.— 21 ra — 22

Tid Platks.— Duly: 2ftftcent. ad valorem.

Plates, Chiircwal, IX, ft box 12 00 a

Plates. I C Charcoal ra II 00

Rooliug Plates luOO OI0 50

Banea Tin, Slab*, ft lb a — 35

Ptkkl.— English Cast Steel, ft lb a — lfl

QuiCKsii.VKii-ip lb -55 a - 00

LKAD.-Pig,fttb - 7J2'@- 8

Sheet _in ra

P'Pft - 11 a

Bar _ 9 ra ni/

Zinc -Sheets, ft lb ■ _ lOL'ra- II

Borax.— California, ft ft — 35 @ — 38

New York Metal Market.

[CORRECTED WEEKLY KROM 7IIK AMERICAN ART18AX.]

New York City, Jan. 23, 1809.
IROrJ.

Pig, Scotch. No. 1 (cash) ft ton $42 50 @$45 0O

do. American, No. 1 (cash) 41 00 @ 43 00

do do No. 2 37 00 ©38 50

Swedish, oullnary sizes , 155 00 ©165 00

£m»mo," 9000 © 95 HO

Refined lull 00 ©120 P0

Rods.... 105 00 ©165 00

Horse-shoe 125 00 ©

HOOP- 135 00 ©190 00

Scroll...... 135 00 ©175 00

Nnil rods, ft lb _ a;:ra — 10

Opting —10 ©

Tire _ lojjfol

STEEL. l

Bars, best cast, warranted, ft lb — 25 ©

Sheet, do : — 23 a,

do. second qualify — 20 ©

do thud quality — 17 @

Saw-plates, circular — 30 @

Double-shear, warranted —23 ©

Single do —20 ©

Montague & Co. (east bais) —19 ©

Maehlnerv, round — 16 ©

German, best — 16 ©

do. gnat — ll«@

do. eaitle — 13 ©

Blister, warranted ■ — 17 @

do. common — 19 @

Jcssop & Sons' common — 17 ©

Double refilled — 26.S© ■

Stouc-axe shape* — 2tika

SUNDRIES.

Solder, ft ft —20 © — 22

Antimony - —17 @ — 18

Sielter _ 9 © _ 10

Copper, old — 17 @ — 19

Brass, old —13 ©—14.

Nails, rooting, ft keg 9 50 ©

do. do. tlntd 10 00 ©-

TIN.

Tin plate, prime charcoal, per box 9 no © 15 75

Bancn.ftlb —40 © — 41

Straits _ 37 © _ 38

English -37 © — 38

COPPER.

Sheathing, ft ft —31 @ — 32

Sheet _- 3G ©

Bottoms — S8 © — 40

LEAD.

American, ft 100 lbs 9 50 © 9 75

German 10 00 ©

Bar 10 HO ©10 25

Pipe and Sheet 10 50 © 11 00

ZINC.

Mussclman and American, ft lb 13 00 © 13 60

BRASS.

High, various widths, ft lb —46 © — 62

Platers' —5'. © — 59

S'.cet .....: — 48 © — 65

do. circular — 63 © — 63

Low —50 @ — 5o

Wire —47 © 115

"Water as a Poison. — To drink nothing but
water in localities where it is notoriously dele-
terious, is madness. Such a course is not ra-
tional temperance, but suicidal fanaticism.
Even a change from one kind of water to an-
other has an injurious tendency, though both
may be tolerably wholesome. Qualify the
draught in all such cases with Plantation Bit-
ters, and no unpleasant consequences can pos-
sibly ensue. This agreeable vegetable tonic and
antiseptic at once invigorates the stomach and
neutralizes the effect of any poisonous or dis-
turbing element that may exist in the spring or
stream, or well, or pool, from which the fluid is
taken. *

Visitors in the city wishing spectacles or
optical instruments for themselves or their
friends, will do well to call at Muller's Spectacle
Emporium, No. 205 Montgomery street. *

102

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Mining Summary.

Thk following inforrantiori is gleaned mostly from jour-
nals published in the interior, in close proximity to the
minrs iiiniiUnnrrt

CALIFORNIA.

ALPI.VE COUSTT.

Markleeville Miner, Jan. 30th : Mr. Bay,
the owner. of that portion of the Mountain
claim in Monitor district which lies on the
slope of Eed Hill, has made a commence-
ment at showing what is beneath the sur-
face. From the croppings in several places,
Mr. Eay has recently taken rock which as-
says rich in silver and gold.

AM.tltOK COISTT.

Jackson Ledger, Feb. 6th : Work on the
Anaconda mine at Pine Grove is now being
prosecuted with great vigor. The shaft is
now down about 120 feet, and the deeper
they get the richer it becomes.

The Alturas mine, located four miles
above Volcano, is yielding very rich rock
at the present time. They have now on
the dump about 100 tons of quartz that
will, in the estimation of good judges, pay
810 per ton.

CALAVERAS COUNTY.

Mokelumne Hill Chronicle, Feb. 6th:
Calaveras has 491 miles of mining ditches.
It stands third in the list of counties.
There are 30 quartz mills in this county,
which crush 20,000 tons of rock annually.

Business of every description is increas-
ing in Railroad. Stores are being erected,
quartz mills going up, and all branches of
mechanical industry are flourishing. Dis-
coveries of new leads are of almost daily
occurrence.

A correspondent, evidently writing from
Eailroad Flat, says: The discovery of new
leads in the immediate vicinity of the Flat,
as well as iu a circuit of several miles
around, is of almost daily occurrence.
Eich croppings almost invariably point to
well defined leads, and those that have been
the most thoroughly prospected are the
most popular. It has been reported that
the Chapman lead has been sold to a com-
pany for $15,000, the conditions of the sale
being that the purchasers are to work the
lead for three months, Chapman & Co. to
receive the proceeds of their labor; after
which time the lead is to be transferred to
them, at the price above stated, if they de-
sire it.

The Sanderson lead is undoubtedly rich,
and only awaits the crushing process of its
quartz, to satisfy the most fastidious. The
Petticoat is a fixed fact; its good works
praise it. The • Chemisette and Balmoral
nave not been sufficiently prospected to ar-
rive at a definite conclusion with regard to
their richness, but the rock looks well and
the leads seem well defined. Sandborn &
Lewis are working a new lead, runnin"
from near the South Fork of the Mokel-
umne, in a southwesterly direction. They
have had very rich prospects. Opposite to
them, commencing at Wet Gulch and run-
ning in the same direction towards Inde-
pendence, and nearly parallel with the road,
is the Good Hope lead, discovered and lo-
cated by Alexander Piquette. The rock
looks well and prospects favorably.

The Lower Eich Gulch correspondent
writes : Work here is being pushed forward
in good style. At the Palomo, they are
sinking their main shaft. Tbey have a
fiue, large vein, the rock of which looks
well, showing considerable free gold. They
will commence running the mill in a few
days.

Alexander & Co. keep steadily at work,
aud seem to be doing a good business.

III. BOK.IUU CUU.VX1.

Placerville Democrat, Feb. 6th: E. W.
Scott, of Frencktown, Mud Springs town-
ship, found a few days since in the Joe
Goodwin claim, a specimen weighing 32
ozs., which is estimated to contain 20 ozs.
of pure gold. The specimen is in shape
precisely like a horned toad. The Joe
lioodwiu is an old claim, and one from
which a large amouut of money has been
taken.

Ij. lo COBSTI.

Los Angeles Star, Jan. 29th: We were
shown this week, by F. Sabiche, two ingots
of fine silver builion from the Wolfskili &
y. erventes Mining Co. , of Lone Pine, Owens
River, Inyo County. One of the ingots
weighed 87.86 ozs., and assayed .905 fine;
the other was 85.50 ozs., .958 fine. We
understand the mine is in fine working or-
der, and that the ore is easily extracted aud
very free in working. The company has
now at the beach 12 tons of freight, con-
signed to Touilinsou & Co., which consists
of the various requisites for the successful
working of the mine.

MAKU-USA CiiU.\TY.

Gaztte, Feb. 5th: The new quartz mill of
Harhour, Williams it Co., near Bucking-

ham Mountain, made an experimental run
a few days since. It was the intention of
the proprietors to crush 100 tons, but some
portion of the machinery getting out of
order they only completed the crushing of
about 50 tons. Upon a cleaning up they
found about seven pounds of amalgam.

NEVADA COtfSTT.

Transcript, Feb. 2d: Stoakes & Co. com-
menced washing the dirt which they have
taken out, and expected yesterday to put
on more men, but were prevented by the
snows which detained the water in the
ditches. They are running for the main
gravel channel, as are the parties working
the old Kansas ground, and the indications
are very favorable for striking it. The
gravel iucreases in richness as they run into
the hill, and there is every indication that
they have the true lead. H these com-
panies succeed, others will go to work, and
a large range of rich ground in that local-
ity will be worked.

Feb. 4th: Stidger, Evans & Co., at Buck-
eye Hill, have recently struck very rich
ground in their claims, which they lately
purchased from Henry Everett & Co.

The miners at French Corral are doing
first rate, and have abundance of water.
The Shady Creek claims are being worked.
In the incline which is being run for a
lower level, they have struck good pay.
Coleman & Co. , in the old Nebraska claims,
have a 10-stamp mill for crushiug their ce-
ment, and are doing well. The iucline on
the Kansas claim has reached very rich
ground. French's and Giltman's claims
have been sold to Chinese companies; the
former getting $7,000 and the latter $10,-
000. Chinese companies have, during the
past year, purchased a large extent of valu-
able mining ground on the ridge, which
they are now working,

The Golden Age Co. , on the south fork
of Poor Man's Creek, commenced running
their 10-stamp mill about 10 days ago, and
the rock is looking splendidly. They are
now running on the south end of the in-
cline, which is down |125 ft. The ledge is
3% ft. thick, shows some free gold, is very
rich iu sulphurets, and is regarded as one
of .the best ledges in county. Pat. Mulli-
gan & Co. sold this ledge a short time since
to S. D. Valentine & Co., of San Francisco,
for the sum of $10,000.

Feb. 6th: The West Idaho Mining Co.
have located 2,500 ft. on a ledge on the
north side of Slate Creek, Eough and Ready
township.

lh> Mount Bay Mining Co. have located
2,000 ft. on the Slate Creek ledge, adjoin-
ing Findley & Co's claim,

The Eureka Co. have located 17 claims of
60 ft. each on Relief Hill.

John Williams and ethers have located
for mining and fluming purposes, Sugar
Canon at Relief Hill.

-" Gazette, Feb. 3d: The mill of the Banner
Co. which has recently been enlarged and
improved was started in operation yester-
day. The engine and machinery of the mill
work beautifully, and it is calculated the
mill will crush from 60 to SO tons daily.
They have out now some 600 tons of rock-
on which to corn ineneecrushing, and enough
can easily be taken from the mine to keep
the 40 stamps steadily at work.

Feb. 4th: J. J. Dorsey and others have
located 1,000 ft. on the Eureka lode, com-
mencing at the northerly boundary of the
Eoannaise claims, and being the second ex-
tension from tbe Eureka Co's claims. They
also claim 150 ft. on each side of said lode,
for dumps, casements, and other mining
purposes.

Feb. 8th: The Sebastopol mill is now
undergoing thorough repairs.

The proprietors of the William J?enn
mine east of Grass Valley, have let a con-
tract to sink on the ledse to a depth of 100
ft. for the sum of $1,800. The claim has
only been worked to a depth of 30 ft. , and
the rock has yielded as high as $30 per
ton.

The owners of the Osborn Hill mine are
pushing work ahead in their mine with en-
ergy. They have just placed upon the
ground a new S-iuch pump. Several string-
ers on their claim give evidence of uniting
with the main ledge, and they now antici-
pate finding it much wider than "where they
now have it. Gregory Co. adjoining, are
sinking a shaft on the old Callahan claim,
aud taking out fine looking rock.

Grass A7 alley National, Feb. 1st: A. Shurt-
Jiff has located a claim near the Bowery
ledge, which promises to bea very valuable
one. He has found several fine specimens
and the dirt prospects from one to two bits
per pan.

Feb. 5th; Steam hoisting and pumping
works have been erected upon the Garden
City ledge. The ledge runs- v arallel with
the street, dipping into Church Hill. They
are now down about 50 ft. and are taking
out some good looking rock. It shows ga-

lena, snlphurets, and some free gold. They
will have a crushing shortly.

The John Bright ledge, near the lone
and Ben. Franklin is being well developed.
They are down 200 ft. and have drifted on
the ledge about 350 ft. The rock looks
well and is continually improving. It pays
from $35 to $50 per ton. Fifty loads
just crushed at the Gold Hill mill yielded
the sum of $1,954, an average of more -than
$39 per ton. The John Bright has never
had a poor crushing yet, and is certainly a
well paying ledge.

Truckee Tribune, Feb. 6th: We learn
from J. E. Carter the following concerning
the Mammoth ledge at Camp 22. The
claim is known as the Mammoth ledge, and
was first located by him in 1863. The loca-
tion consisted of 1,800 ft. on the ledge com-
mencing at the river shore. About $500
worth of work has been done on the claim
and the ledge is quite wide. A sample of
ore taken from a depth of about eight ft. ,
assayed by Waters & Co., Sacramento, last
month, gave $76 per ton in gold and $8.71
in silver. The rock is easily obtained, and
being right on the river shore can be
crushed by water power at a very trifling
expense. Mr. Carter informs us that quite
a number of quartz veins can be traced in
that vicinity.

Excelsior. — Transcript, Feb. 6th: From
a letter just received from Meadow Lake,
we learn that the snow is eight feet deep on
a level, and at the time the latter left, it
was still coming down, with no prospect of
ever letting up.

Several of the mines in Meadow Lake dis-
trict are being worked at present. The
Mohawk & Montreal, Enterprise, and the
White ledge are looking well. The former
company is running their lower tunnel into
their shafts, and will cut the ledge at the
depth of 400 ft. from the surface. At the
depth of 68 ft. they cut a blind ledge of ex-
cellent decomposed ore which looks first
rate.

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTV.

Guardian, Jan. 30th : The Lytle Creek
mines; if they were situated in the north-
ern part of the State, would create as much
excitement as any placer diggings that have
been discovered in late years, but being in
what is considered the grazing or agricul-
tural district of California, they have not
received that attention from miners and
capitalists their richness deserves. From
$5 to $20 per day to the hand is an average
yield, and some of the claims on the Creek
are paying much better.

SIERRA COlfXTY.

Downieville Messenger, Feb. 6th : The
Camptonville correspondent writes : For a
week or so there has been considerable ex-
citement about some rich quartz that has
been found right in the town.

Since the road has been removed from
the gravel diggings everybody has prophe-
sied that the town would " go in," but as
the Brush Creek mine has proved rich, and
the Alaska ditto, and if we are so lucky as
to have another right in the "city," we
shall live and flourish sometime yet.
sisitrsrou county.

Yreka Union, Jan. 30th : This paper la-
bors in a column and a half article to con-
vince the citizens of that section that they
ought to immediately combine and pros-
pect and thoroughly work the flats adjacent
to Yreka Creek, from Yreka City to its de-
bouch into Shasta Eiver. It says: Practical
miners, whose opportunities have been the
best for forming a correct opinion, have ex-
pressed the opinion, time and again, that it
would pay largely if opened properly aud
worked to advantage. We may regard it
as a well established fact — as well estab-
lished as any fact in mining can be prior to
actual experiment — that the opening and
working of Yreka Creek, if done in a
proper and economical manner, would be
a paying operation. That it will be done,
sometime, we have not the shadow of a
doubt. The question for the business men
and property-ho.ders of Yreka and vicinity
to determine, is whether it shall be done
now and they reap the advantage of it, or
be postponed to the future and permitted
to accrue to the advantage of those who
succeed us.

A Scott Valley correspondent writes as
follows : John Carroll & Co's claims on
McAdam's Creek continue to pay well— pay
nearly an ounce a day to the drifter. It
will require many years to work out these
claims. Why do our citizens go to White
Pine when they can find on McAdams
Creek plenty of diggings just as rich as
Carrol & Co s claims. The Steamboat claims
a-e as rich as any chiims on the Creek.
These claims will pay from half an ounce
to an ounce to the drifter.

Col. E. P. Jenner, manager of the .Etna
Mining Co., informs me that this conqiiany
is working night and day with every pros-

pect of soon rraping a rich reward for toil
and money invested.

TUI.ARE COUNTY.

Visalia Delta, Feb. 3d : From parties
from White Eiver we leurn that mining op-
erations are moving along as usual in that
locality. Mr. Maltby is taking out of tbe
Eclipse mine large quantities of exceed-
ingly rich ore. The Philadelphia Co. are
sinking upon and prospecting their mines.

TRINITY COUNTY.

Weaverville Journal, Jan. 30th : The
claim of Eitter & Dack, on Lytle Creek, is
paying them $100 per week. The claim is
worked by means of a hydraulic, ■with
water from Frey & Taylor's ditch.

The Weaver Creek flume is working
finely, and the company have several men
sluicing. Another year will be required
to put the flume in the bedrock.

Frey & Taylor's new ditch out of Grass
Valley Creek is in good condition, and is
furnishing water to the miners on Lytle
Creek.

Chamberlain & Worrell are prospecting
on Rush Creek. They report that they have
found good paying prospects. There is an
abundance of good mining ground on Rush
Creek that a little enterprise would de-
velop.

ARIZONA.

Prescott Miner, Jan. 9th : The news from
the various mining districts is good. Many
men are preparing to go to Black Canon
diggings, Bradshaw district. Jacl sod,
Lovejoy & Co. have commenced work in
their hydraulic claims on Lower Lynx
Creek, and Solomon Shoupe is opening an-
other claim above them. The German
companies at Big Bug, are sluicing away.
Two or three men are in town, endeavor-
ing to raise a party to go to the diggings
on the south side of the Bradshaw Mount-
ain. Mr. Borger is running his furnace
and chloriuation works at the Sterling.

Jan. 16th : The rush to the Black Canon
gold diggings, iu the Bradshaw mining
district, continues. Over thirty men left
Prescott this week, and as many more are
preparing to leave. By this time there
must be a hundred men in the diggings,
and there is room for ten times as many
more. Although within six miles of the
diggings there is an extensive pine forest,
most of the miners that have gone there
took lumber for sluices from Prescott. The
winters are very mild at the diggings, and
men can work there every day in the year.

There is lying in front of the store of
Wortnser & Co., a large, fine specimen of
ore from the Sterling mine, near Prescott,
and which Mr. Borger, the owner of the
boulder, intends to take to San Francisco.
It is nearly one solid mass of sulphurets,
but strange to say, shows free gold in many
places. It is, we think, the richest piece
of sulphuret ore in America, and San Fran-
ciscans will say so when they see it. It
was taken from the ledge at a depth of 60
feet.

Jackson, Lovejoy & Co. have commenced
piping their hydraulic diggings on Lynx
Creek, but unless it rains or snows soon,
they will be compelled to stop work. The
present is th6 dryest winter we have had
since '63.

We learn by letter from Wickenbnrg,
that Henry Wickenburg has sold his quartz
mill to Kraus, Reed & Smith.

F. H Wunderlich showed us this week a
mass of Sterling gold, weighing 30 ozs.,
which was takeu from the battery and off
the plates, recently. It appeared to be very-
pure.

BRITISH COLUMBIA.

Portland Oregonian, Jan. 30th: Thos.
Emery, now iu this city, has received a let-
ter from Geo. Weaver, who has a claim in
the new diggings at Kootenay. Weaver says
the diggings are neither rich nor extensive,
but that they will pay fail- wages to a few.
He would advise no person to come; but
should there be a rush, he hopes it will not
take place until after high water, about the
1st of July. He adds that there is a large
section of unprospected country lying be-
tweenKoo'enay and Columbia rivers, where
good diggings may be struck next season.
COLORADO.

Georgetown Miner, Jan. 27th : The Men-
dota lode is now carrying ten inches of
solid mineral, and four feet of mineral and
gaugue combined. The quality of the ore
is rapidly improving.

Huepeden, Wolters & Co., have taken
out aud shipped, since our last report,
3140.80 ounces of silver bullion, coin value
$2,792.61.

The Grass Valley Co., of Colorado, have
completed arrangements with Eastern par-
ties for the erection of reduction works on
the Grass Valley Bar, and propose to pur-
chase ores from any that have them for
sale.

The Marshall tunnel is now iu ISO feet,
and in close proximity to the Empire lode,

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one of tho best veins on Leavenworth
Mountain.

The Griffith lode, on Griffith Mountain,
is now carrying 30 inches of mineral, that
assays 800 ouuoea of silver to the ton, and
3D per cent of lead.

Denver News, Jan. 20th : Mining on the

"Orphan Boy " lode, in the .South Park, is

being carried on vigorously, and fino ore is

iken out. There is but littlo tuuiv

in tho Park.

MONTANA.

Helena Post, Jan. 15th: Hunter's Bar, in
Confederate union, is still being pros-
pected by Thompson & Feterman. A tnn-
nel has been run 200 ft. iuto the mountain,
mill at this depth exhibits seven ft. of tine
wash gravel, averaging 12 cents to the pan.

From oxgenta we learn that most of the
mining operations have ceased for the win-
ter. The Tootle, Leach & Co. furnace has
closed up for tho purpose of employing
the full force upon the excavatiou of rock.

The Highland correspondent says that
Prof. .Swallow has just finished a trial run
of 45 tons of oro from the J. B. Thomas
lode with splendid results.

The Virginia Democrat, says: We learn
that two runs have recently been inudo from
tho Iron Bod lode, which is down 250 ft.
and upon which is three drifts. Tho first
lot crushed averaged $122 to the ton; the
second lot averaged $128 to the ton. It
seems that they have struck tho water level,
ns they take out from five to eight barrels
0/ water per day from the shaft. . . .A clean
up at the Wanu mill, in Rochester, which
occupied two weeks, resulted in a yield of
$3,000. The ore crushed was from the
Watseka lode The reports from Rams-
horn Gulch are much more flattering than
ever before. Detwiler *fc Co. are laying a
diaiu and sinking a shaft to bedrock. Sny-
der & Co. are drifting and taking out most
excellent results. . . .Work has been recom-
menced on the John How tunnel.

Helena Post, Jan. 22d: It is reportedjthat
prospecting in the vicinity of Trinity re-
vealed some rich placer diggings. 'We learn
that the locality is being actively pros-
pected with every evidence of success.

A person who has just arrived from Mis-
soula Mills informs us that the people of
that region are turning a little attention to
quartz. There is a lode called the White
Cloud, situated about two miles south of
Missoula Mills, and ten miles from Fort
Owen, which has been prospected quite ex-
tensively. A shaft has been sunk upon it
to the depth of 80 feet, and the character
of the quartz improves as the depth in-
creases, J. T. Hervey, who erected a mill
at Cable last season, is taking the mill
down and proposes to erect it upon this
1 >de.

Yesterday Prof. A. Steitz melted down
l(i lumps of retort weighing 842 ounces.
This retort was tho product of a run of
Prof. Swallow's mill, on quartz from the
Thompson lode.

The Deer Lodge Independent gives the
following: Prof. Swallow's mill at High-
land, is at presenterushing quartz from the
Forest Queen lode, the riehuess of which
is settled beyond all doubt.... The St.
Louis and Montana Mining Co. atPliillips-
burg are taking out very rich ore from the
Hope lode . . . .The James Stuart mill will
commence crushing ore about March 1st.
John Ullery & Co. have found about half a
mile east of the mill, at the depth of about
80 feet below the surface, a large vein of
very rich ore, into which they are now en-
gaged in running tunnels On the

Boulder Fork of Fliut Creek there is a
number of miners engaged at work devel-
oping large lodes of argentiferous galena
ore. . . .In Germau Gulch theflumiug com-
pany is very busy sawing blocks, etc., and
getting ready for spring work. . . .Some 74
men are still at work on the Siberia ditch,
the tunnel for which was let on the 15th, at
§4.25 per linear foot.

NEVADA.
REESE RIVER.

Austin Reveille, Feb. 1st: We learn from
Palmetto district that Catherwood's 10-
stamp mill was closed after producing $S0,-
000 in two months. The cause of its shut-
ting up was the exposed condition of the
Works at the Champion and Kentucky
mines, from which the miners could not
extract ore to advantage during the cold
weather. When the mill was stopped there
were perhaps 400 tons of good ore upon
the dumps. The mill was worked success-
fully, and the mines which we have men-
tioned are said to develop large bodies of
ore of a high grade. Work will be re-
sumed in mill and mines with the return of
favorable weather.

During the week ending Saturday, the
30th ult., the Manhattan mill in this city
produced 15,617 ozs. of bullion. The ore
reduced was of an unusually low grade.

Feb. 5th: There is a fine specimen of ore

from the Buel North Star mine, in Lander
Hill, to be seen at the assay ofj se of B tall

v St tefeldt iu this city. It is a choice
sample of the pure snlphnret ore which oc-
curs in the noted mines of that hill, and
would bean addition to the best cabinet of

minerals. The face of the specimen exhib-
its white quartz, flesh-colored oiang
copper pyrites, and streaks and spots of
blood-red rub;.-, beautifully blended, The

ore is us valuable as it is beautiful, and
would assay largely of silver to the ton.

Mountain Champion, Jan. 30th: The Sil-
ver Peak district is at present one of the
liveliest mining camps iu Eastern Nevada.
The mill of the Great Salt Basin and Red
Mountain Co. is hammering away night and
day. The mine from which they obtain the
ore now being worked is some seven or
eight miles from the mill. The miuo can-
not bo termed a ledge, for, as yet, neither
foot nor banging wall has been encountered;
it is simply an immense quarry — a mount-
ain— of gold-bearing quartz, which yields
an average of from §30 to $40 per ton. The
workmen have not to go down into deep
shafts, with bad air, and work in a stooping
or sitting posture as is the case in many of
the mines in other districts, but work in
the open air, and with a single blast throw-
down hundreds of tons of ore. The cost of
mining the ore is said to be but $2 per ton;
it cost $1.25 per ton to convey it to the
mill, and the milling of it costs $5 per ton;
making a total cost for mining, shipping
and reducing tho ore of $8. 25 per ton, leav-
ing a profit to the company of not less than
$25 upon every ton of ore worked. The in-
exhaustible character of the mine and the
facility with which the ore can be reduced —
the mill putting through two tons to each
stamp every 2t hours, and working the ore
up to 1)5 per cent. — makes this one of the
most valuable properties iu the State.

WHITE PINE.

[The excitement concerning these mines
seems to have somewhat lulled in the inte-
rior from the "fever heat," which recently
characterized it; yet many persons from dif-
ferent portions of the State continue to wan-
der thitherwards, and risk the chances of
starving or freezing to death in order to be
on hand at the first dawning of spring before
the multitude which now stand ready to
start on the first appearance of a thaw, can
overrun and locate the entire region. The
Austin Reveille in a recent article on these
mines, characterizes theEberhardt mine as
the " fish-bait" which is leading many " suck-
ers" to bite at many a well-concealed hook.
It is true that numerous ledges have been
located, and articles of incorporation filed
ou a vast number of what are called " lead-
ing mines," but the question is, how many
of these locations have given any showing
of produciug a paying ore, and how many
incorporated companies have been formed
for the purpose of opening up and develop-
ing the ledges ? It is easy enough to form
a company and incorporate, and issue stock
when a sufficient number of gullible per-
sons can be found to invest in that kind of
speculation, and we believe that the climate
of California is very propitious for the pro-
duction of this class of "hap-hazard" specu-
lators. At least, judging from the past and
present mining excitements, it would be
hard to form any other opinion. It must be
recollected that all mines are not Eberhardt
or Keystone mines, even if they do lie with-
in a thousand miles of those ledges, and in-
side of the boundary of White Pine mining
district. That some of the companies are
worthy of success we have no doubt, and
we do not condemn White Pine for the
wild-cat which always accompany new and
valuable discoveries; but let the wise be
cautious, investigate for themselves, or
unite in employing reliable parties to ex-
amine for them before investing, unless
they have plenty of cash to stake upon a
venture.] — Eds. Press.

Stephen R. Hoyt writes from Treasure
City, Nev., to the Nevada Gazette, under
date of Feb. 1st, as follows: In my opinion,
nearly all the ore found upon Treasure Hill
lies in deposits, the mines having an ac-
cumulation of mineral matter of irregular
shape. But few regular ledges or veins
have as yet been discovered on the hill;
the ore is found iu stratas and lies horizon-
tal. Several companies are now sinking
shafts ou Chloride Flat, expecting to find
deposits of ore beneath the present stratas.
It was currently reported on the streets a
few days since that rich ore has been found
in one of these shafts at a depth of 60 feet
from the surface, but as yet the report has
not been traced to any reliable source, and
I think the rumor is not true.

A dispatch dated Elko, February 3d, has
the following : Prospecting at White Pine
district, which had gone on with the most
satisfactory results until last week, is now
stopped by the setting in of winter iu
earnest. The cold is intense, and the snow

is from two to three feet deep and still
storming. One foot fell on Saturday night.
The stages are over-orowded, and the roads
lined with people on fo >t. pressing forward
for the oew Silverado, It is utter nousense
for people' to rush there now.

K ic ml devi Lopments more than confirm
the first impressions of the riohness of the
i I The Oasis and Miller's mills are

now running at lull capacity. The Eber-
hardt and Keystone consolidated yesterday,
and will soon incorporate iu San Francisco.
Jumping lots and claims is lively. The
Noonday and Emigraut companies, on Chlo-
ride Flat, ran into each other's tunnel on
Saturday last, and a lawsuit or fight is im-
minent.

Austin Reveille, Feb. 1st: Ten bars of
bullion, weighing 1,060 lbs., were brought
into this city from White Pino by the stage
which arrived this morning.

Feb. 4th: The deed of the Snow Drop
claim at White Pino was sent to the Re-
corder's office yesterday for record. The
claim was sold by E. Applegarth to tho
Chloride Flat Co. for $25,000.
WASHOE.

[In the Stock Circular, in another portion
of this paper, will be found late mining
news from this district.]

Virginia Enterprise, Feb. 2d: The receipts
of the Kentuck Mining Co. thus far on
January account, aggregate $57,800.

The Sierra Nevada Mining Co. yesterday
morning shipped through Wells, Fargo &
Co. one sack of crude amalgam, valued at
$4,000.

The Imperial Co. is hoisting about 140
tons of ore daily from the Alta mine, and
both mills are kept running to their full
capacity.

Feb. 4th: The Union Pacifio Express Co.
yesterday shipped 8,935 pounds of bullion,
worth $24,823 25.

Feb. 5th: The Crown Point Co. are drift-
ing on their 1,100-feet level, and expect to
cut their lead in 150 feet. They are now
in hard blasting rock, but have made 40
feet of the above mentioned distance.

Wells, Fargo & Co. , yesterday, shipped
50 bars of bullion, weighing 3,851 pounds,
and worth $91,858 44.

NEW MEXICO.

Santa Fe Gazette, Jan. 16th; A dispatch
from Cimair in, dated Jan. 9th, says that
Maxwell's mill cleaned up last night, after
a week's run, $5,000 iu gold, and the opin-
ion is that the lode is better than ever.

The Elizabethtown (N. M.) correspond-
ent of the Marysville Appeal, writing under
date of Jan. 7th, after giving a history of
mining operations iu that locality says: The
miners who had natural streams of water in
their gulches — all of them too small to ac-
complish much — have been sluicing out
good pay, and are very sanguine of large
success when the ditch is completed next
season. The main dependence of the coun-
try, however, is in its rich gold bearing
lodes, many of which have been struck and
a few very perfectly developed. They are
very numerous, and run iu a northeast and
southeasterly direction, having for their
base the prominent peak of a very high
bare mountain, known as Old Baldy. The
veins are wide, the quartz easily crushed,
and containing what is termed fine gold.
Maxwell's & Co's 15-stamp quartz mill is
already in operation ou tho eastern side of
Bald Mountain, and is cleaning up daily
about $500, from the quartz of two lodes,
discovered early in the summer. Oh Hum-
bug Gulch, near Elizabethtown, an S-stamp
mill has been finished recently and is ready
for custom quartz; a great deal of which
has already been taken out of lodes by men
as yet too poor to have mills of their own.
OREGON.

Portland Oregonian. Jan. 30th: Specimens
of gold-bearing quartz from Burnt river,
said to be worth $2,000 per ton, have been
recently brought to this city.
WYOMING.

Sweetwater Mines, Jan. 23d: The South
Pass correspondent writes: The new ledges
discovered iu the fall and this winter are
uow undergoing development. The Duncan
ledge, discovered in the fall, hasacharacter
of rockresemblmgthe Jim Dyer andCariso;
the Golden Gate is similar to the Duncan ; the
Barnaby is another of the Cariso character;
the Empire and Nellie Morgan, on Palmetto
Gulch, are of the same stripe. All these
ledges exhibit free gold and assay well —
miners' process; hand-mortar and horn.
Now we come to another character of quantz,
but equally as rich as those just mentioned;
it is after the nature of the Lone Star
quartz, exhibiting little or no free, gold,
but prospecting well in flour gold; such as
the St. Lawrence ledge, of recent discovery.
I have examined this ledge attentively and
with curiosity'. I see iu it the solution of a
mistake that was made by the many wise-
acres that .rushed here last spring and as

speedily left. They claimed that in this
country the ledges must prospect on top,
or they were w. u thless. The discovery and
development of the St. Lawrence Ins ex-
ploded this idea. Not a color could be got
on the surface, and not until the depth of
six ft. was reached conld a prospect bo
raised; from that to tl e depth of 24 ft. it
proves rich, and is increasing iu valuo as
they go down.

Silver Product in Colorado. — The
year 1868 shows an increase iu the produc-
tion of silver in Colorado, over 1867, and
improvement in the methods of mining
and boneticiating oros. Tho following are
tho products of leading metallurgical es-
tablishments in the vicinity of Georgetown,
as given by the Colorado Miner:

Huepeden, Wolters & Co., (amalgama-
tion) in eight months' time, 38,046.28
ounces— $30,101.15.

Georgetown Smelting Works, managed
by Mr. Herrick, 19,800 ounces— $26,730.

Schirmer & Bruckner, (smelting) in five
weeks' time, with Ktistel furnace, 8,312
ounces— $11,214.20; being 96% per cent,
of the fire assay of ores treated.

Stewart's Smelting and Amalgamating
Works, in fifty working days,. 5,218.50
ounces— $5,939. •

Brown Company, at their own works and
at the Georgetown Smelting Works, during
the year, 6,480 ounces — $8,748.

Total for 1868, about $100,000; against
$18,000 for 1867.

Lochhead's New Twin Propeller for
Goodall & Nelson's tug-boat, is so planned
that instead of having a separate enaine for
each propeller, as is usual, one engine will
turn both propeller shafts, by direct action ,
without the intervention of slides and gibs.
The two propellers are revolved right and
left, together, at tho same speed always; and
the reverse, by a link motion, turns the
propellers the other way. One propeller
cannot be turned ahead and the other re-
versed, as in ordinary twin propellers.
Another novel feature iu this engine is tho
fact that the two propellers, working as
they do, right and left, are placed further
aft than usual with twin propellers, and
the blades, three in number, run into each
other like the teeth of a gear-wheel. To
keep the two shafts working at the same
speed, and so that there may be no strain
on the beam, they are geared together with
four gears abaft the engine.

Acclimatizing Grouse. — Messrs. Liddlo
& Co. have recently imported six pairs of
grouse from the northern part of Oregon,
with the intention of introducing them
iuto the counties bordering on San Tran-
cisco. The bird was introduced into the
northern part of Sonoma County some
years since, and has done well. Some few
of the birds were placed in Marin County,
but owing to the facility with which hunt-
ers have been enabled to scour that county,
they soon disappeared.

American Army Gun. — The United States
has adopted, as the national arm, the Allin
breech-loader, which is produced at the
Springfield United States Armory by trans-
forming the ordinary Springfield regulation
musket into a breech-loader. It 13 said to
do more execution than any other gun
known, and combines more essentials for
general efficiency. This gun is named af-
ter its inventor, Mr. Allin, the Master Ar-
morer at Springfield.

How the Bottom op the Ocean is In-
habited. — In a recent report before tho
Royal Society, Mr. Gwin Jeffreys stated
that deep sea bottoms teem with animal
life, and with creatures of a very remark-
able kind, some of which connect long past
geological periods with the geological action
going on in our own time. In an explora-
tion made recently, the dredge brought
from a depth of 517 fathoms a crab, au
ophiuriau and some other aonelides.

New Dredging Machine. — W. K. Reed
of Stockton has contrived a dredging ma-
chine, which is simple in construction and
is capable of performing a large amount of
work. On an ave"age, it requires about
two minutes to cast the scoop into tho
water, take it up full and empty the con-
tents iuto the barge. Three men only are
required to operate the apparatus. The
barge will carry a burden of eighty tous,
and can easily be loaded iu a day.

India Rubber Tire and Horse Shoe
Covers. — It is proposed in England and
France to render pavements indestructible
by the use of india rubber or gutta percha
tire and horseshoe coverings. "No more
racket in the streets," advertises the in-
ventor.

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Han Francisco:

Saturday Morning, Feb. 13, 1869.

Notices to Correspondents.

A. Z. — The interesting crystallization of
epsom salts dissolved in beer when spread
upon glass, is no new discovery, as as-
serted by some cotemporaries. It was
named to lis by a gentleman when we
first took possession of our present prem-
ises, as being one commonly adopted as
a cheap mode of frosting window panes,
and recommended us to make a trial of
the method with the lower portion of the
glazed partition of our inner office. As
some interest appears to have sprung up
on the subject, we intend to do so, and
after the end of the present week, those
who may be desirous of seeing the effect
produced, may witness it by calling.
We are informed it was employed at a
store in this city ten years ago ; and it has
been stated to us by an English sexage-
narian, that this mode of frosting win-
dows has been practiced in England be-
yond the period of his earliest recollec-
tion.

Adhesion between liquids, retaining the
form of liquids, is usually very perfect, as
from the mobility of the particles they
easily become incorporated. Some of the
greatest exceptions are to be witnessed, as
in the instance of oil and water. A drop
of vinegar, ink, or alcohol, may be perfectly
mixed with a quart or any other quantity
of water, — a drop of water, — with a quart
of vinegar, ink, or alcohol. To the in-
stances given of perfect adhesion and also
of non-adhesion, may be added a few
in which at a certain point, the adhesion
of the particles of the two liquids balance
their adhesion towards each other, and be-
come mutually saturated. Ether may, by
agitation, be mixed with water, and the
greater part will separate on allowing the
mixture to repose. The ether will have
dissolved one-eighth or one-tenth of its
bulk of water, and the water will have
taken off about an equal quantity of ether.
In a similar manner, the essential oils dis-
solve to only a very small amount in water;
oil of peppermint, for instance, if agitated
with water, and then left to rest, will, for
the most part, separate, although a suffi-
cient quantity will become dissolved to
communicate the flavor and odor of the es-
sence to the water.

The Report of List of Patents for the
Pacific Coast has not been received this
week, owing probably to detention of Over-
laud Mails.

The Pacific Theological Seminary, un-
der Prof. J. A. Beutou, isopen for students.
President, A. L. Stone; trustees, J. A. Ben-
ton, Noah Brooks, and J. M. Haven.

Our Resources— A Noble Field.

Who that reads our newspapers, or trav-
els on the Pacific slope, or thinks, can fail
to conclude, in his own mind, that this conn-
try is thenoblestfieldforenergeticmen, and
for the development of a powerful cosmo-
politan race, that the world has ever seen?
Yet we are so habituated to self glorification ,
and our favorable situation has so often
been asserted, that the repetition seems but
stale. It is nevertheless a living truth that
may well inspire us, and that cannot fail
to excite every free and clear-sighted ob-
server in our midst to euthusiasm. Our
resources are, to our present means of esti-
mating them, absolutely boundless. The
opportunities presenting themselves to in-
dividuals for advancement iu material pros-
perity and in the enjoyment of life, are
found to exist everywhere, so that the hon-
est man who fails to profit by them must
be adversely constituted, or short-sighted
and thriftless indeed. It is quite needless
to specify; every one can refer in his own
mind to half a dozen openings for enter-
prises such as would be in grandeur almost
beyond the grasp of the detailed schemers
and capitalists of over-populated older
countries.

The Pacific Coast has been occupied by
us for twenty years, and we are scarcely
beginning to realize its extent; none but
the shrewdest and studiously observant
have more than a very partial idea of its
resources. To this day there are territories
virtually unexplored, and unappreciated,
that would suffice to make States and em-
pires.

Thus White Pine suddenly looms up be-
fore us out of the wilderness. It is now
ascertained to be undoubtedly the deposit
of thousands of tons of accessible metal,
which will be circulating in the form of sil-
ver currency iu perhaps a little more than
two years of time. From what we know of
the extent and nature of the chloride and
rich vein deposits of Treasure Hill
and vicinity, it is pretty certain that they
cannot be exhausted in less than two years,
nor the ores worked up by all the stamp
mills that are likelytobebronghtintouseon
the spot within that time. Business men,
manufacturers, ranchers, andbome-staying
Californians, may calculate accordingly.
Beyond that, the probability is that not only
Treasure Hill, but Virginia City and Austin,
will remain permanently profitable mining
centers, without the romance of "early
times " however, but under the world's
stern law of realities, in the same manner
somewhat that California mining is perma-
nent to-day.

White Pine is but a singln item. The en-
tire Pacific Coast is as promising as it can
be. To realize the truth fully in detail, all
that is necessary is information; a desidera-
tum that, we are proud to state, is apprecia-
ted by a larger proportion of laboring men
— who are in most cases of respectable
family antecedents — than in any other
country, or amongst any other race that the
w-orld ever produced, in confirmation of
the above^statement, let the reader glance
over our column of "Resources and De-
velopments," consisting of items dipped
chiefly from our Sau Francisco daily ex-
changes in a single week.

This is not merely a noble land, but it is
filling up with a brave and generous people.
To be narrow-minded and small-souled is
as bad in California if not worse than it
is to be "no gentleman." It is true that
lately we are having garroters and thieves;
they circulate in our midst aud travel iu our
public conveyances, but they wear foreign-
looking clothing, aud are not of us; and
they Saon become highwaymen, gamblers,
pimp?, etc., ashamed iu a land like this
of being anything moro thoroughly con-
temptible.

We have grand mountains, and blue hills
which smile in peaceful sunlight under the
most joyous of skies, and love to outline

themselves clearly against rosy and golden
sunsets; we have rich valleys, prolific in
growing all the fruits of the tropics that we
can desire,— oranges, figs and vines. As so-
ciety, we are toned in manly, adventurous
antecedents; and are without exception
latently conscious of our destined greatness,
though disposed in a human way to over-
look the significance of the present. With-
out attempting to study general bearings
that do not concern the multitude, we may
rest complacently in the satisfaction whose
absence so distressed Alexander, that there
is presented, on the Pacific Coast, to each
individual a "world to conquer," of a
magnitude sufficient to satisfy every ambi-
tion.

A Million Buffaloes on the Railroad.
We had begun to thiuk that the buffaloes
would not be seen any longer where the
railroad has been built; but a gentleman
just arrived from the plains reports that at
a distance of 250 miles west of the Missouri,
on the Kansas Pacific road, he passed
through a herd covering a surface of 500
square miles, and containing probably over
a million. The number of dead buffaloes
lying on the line of the road, shot by pas-
sengers as the cars go along, is very great.
Legislation must surely put a stop soon to
such wanton slaughter. Though there
would seem to be no danger, from this, of
buffaloes becoming extinct at an early day,
yet it is a fact worth knowing in evidence
of such a possibility — in spite of their vast
numbers — that similar species of wild
hoofed animals which herded in great num-
bers in Central Europe in the ancient pagan
times, are now entirely extinct, not a rep-
resentative of their kind being left on the
face of the globe.

The Schoolmate. — This pleasing and in-
structive monthly continues to supply aqual-
ity of useful and interesting reading mat-
ter such as is adapted to and required by the
young students of the land. It is the old-
est boys and girls' magazine having a gen-
eral circulation, and is not inferior to any-
thing of the kind that has ever appeared.
Artistic illustrations much enhance its
value. It is published by Joseph H. AlleD,
No. 203 Washington street, Boston, at SI. 50
per annum.

Nothing New. — John Cox made a veloci-
pede sixty years ago, exactly like the two-
wheeled one which is now the rage. He
handled it as well, too, as the best of Paris-
ian experts; astonishing the natives of Nor-
wich, Connecticut, writh the rapidity and
grace of his evolutions. He was a black-
smith,— born to blush unseen iu the wil-
derness of a Yankee town. The same idea
occurred, half a century later, to somebody
in the gay French capital, and his fortune
was made.

Sale of the Hidden Treasure. — A
sale of this valuable mining property was
effected on Thursday last for §200, 000. The
stock, we are informed, is already com-
manding a high advance. The new Direct-
ors are : George W. Beaver, President ; E.
B. Dorsey, George D. Roberts, S. Hayden-
feldt, Frederick Castle, M. J. McDonald,
Robert E. Morrow, Directors.

A New Style Velocipede. — Messrs.
Perkins & Detrick have just completed a
three-wheel velocipede on a new princi-
ple. Each of the rear wheels work inde-
pendently by means of a clutch, by which
the operator can give a long or short stroke
to either treadle. It made its first appear-
ance last evening, and works with great
ease. A splendid thing to all appearances.
We shall mention it more fully hereafter.

An Example to be Followed. — A mi-
croscopic club has been organized in Chi-
cago. Two well-known citizens express a
willingness to give liberally toward pur-
chasing instruments and scientific works
upon the subject of microscopic instru-
ments.

Velocity of Nerve Force. — It takes
about a second for the prick of a harpoon
in a whale's tail to reach the seusorium;
and another second for the telegram, which
is sent back to the tail to capsize the boat,
to get there. This is generally time enough
for the boat's crew to " pull off " to a safe
distance. Helinholtz found, byexperiment
with Pouillet'a chronoscope, — a machine
in which a magnetic needle is made to de-
viate more or less by a galvanic current
of longer or shorter duration, thereby meas-
uring time in thousandths of a second, —
that the velocity of the nerve force was about
eighty-eight feet in a second. M. Hirsch,
of the Neufchatel Observatory, found that
in man it was about IU feet in a second.
Dr. Schelske found it about ninety-six feet.
The following is from the Journal of Men-
tal Science: " The time required for certain
cerebral operations has been measured by
Dr. De Jaager in the following manner: It
was preconcerted that the person on whom
the experiment was made should touch the
lever of the chronoscope with his right
hand when he received an electric shock on
the right side, and with the left hand when
he received a shock on that side. The in-
terval between the shock and the signal
was found to be 0.20 of a second when the
subject of a experiment had been told be-
forehand on which side the shock would be
given, and 0.27 of a second when he had
not been told; 0.27 had therefore been em-
ployed in reflection.

" M. Hirsch, again, has found that on an
average two-tenths of a second must elapse
before an observer can mark by a signal his
perception of a sudden noise or flash of
light, and MM. Donders and De Jaager
have varied their experiments thus — one of
them pronounced a syllable, the other re-
peated it as soon as heard; when the sylla-
ble had been agreed upon beforehand,
there was an average delay of two-tenths of
a second; when it had not been so agreed
upon, of three-tenths of a second. These
are, however, only average results, and sub-
ject to considerable individual variations."

Steam Street Cars without Fire. — A
Philadelphia plan which has lately been
reduced to experiment, is to supply a loco-
motive with water hent >d to a high temper-
ature in a stationary boiler, and forced into
a tank attached to the said locomotive. The
engine weighs about five tons when ready
for work. At the trial it ran forty-five min-
utes. No noise was heard except the rum-
bling of the wheels. It was under perfect
control. The temperature of the water in
the tank is kept up by a non-conducting

jacket three inches thick.

»-*»- ^ i — *

Pabttng of Gold and Silver in the
Mints. — A movement to procure the exclu-
sion of refining from the operation of the
Mint and its branches, has been renewed in
both branches of Congress. In the Senate
Mr. Stewart, and in the House Mr. Kelly,
have introduced bills authorizing the Su-
perintendent of the Mint to exchange un- '
parted for refined bullion with private re- \
fining establishments, in whose interest the
same proposition has been twice heretofore
put forward without success.

Velocipedists are using the pavilion of
the State Agricultural Society at Sacra-
mento, as a tournament ground, in the
presence of numerous spectators.

The Virginia City Enterprise, in mention-
ing practicings on the velocipede at Armory
Hall, iu that city, says: " Sanguine parties
here are already talking of getting up a
steam velocipede. The engine will be of
brass, and the whole vehicle is to weigh
less thau 300 pounds.

A Lyonese velocipedist offers to bet any
amount that he will beat the fastest trotter

Prismatic Gunpowder. — The Prussians
have decided on the aloption of prismatic
gunpowder for cannon, of a specific gravity
of about 1.00.

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105

Cini.i. CtCtatitA —At P. Ueirliling'B assay
oHi'-.-.Nj. :;:j! Bfontgomer; Btroet, may Ira
seen some vory perfect Californimi and

Australian gold crystals, tlio forms ofwhiofa
are quito dissimilar. Gold crystallizes al-
ways in the regular, or tesscral systi'm,
characterized l>y having all the axes of ili-
■meter oT a crystal equal. The usual and
most characteristic form of crystallized
gold, in California especially, is the
oetohedron; a frequent variation is the
rhombic dodecahedron, in which but one
of the rhombic sides is developed. A very
line breastpin at Rtohlinga, consisting of n
group of crystals, from Martinez Creek, in
El Dorado Comity, represents the Califor-
nia!! characteristics. Tie1 Australian speci-
men is a well developed solid dodecahedron
of larger size thau is common for anything
else than oetohedrons, and is partially en-
cased at one end in quartz. TheAustralian
crystal is for sale, for a little more than the
value of the gold it contains.

The Chisf.sk Method op Viccinatinq.
Dr. Olio, a Chinese physician residing in
Oakland, was asked by a scientific gentle-
man with whom he was conversing on the
Oakland boat: "Doyou vaccinate in China?"
The reply was, " Not like the Americans."
" How do you do it?" " Oh, we put it in
the nose (making a motion like that of
taking snuff) , and then comes the fever —
all over." " How long is it since they com-
menced practising that in China?" " Oh,
long, lontj ago," (gesticulating) . It is
stated in the daily papers that very few of
'the Chinesu have died of small-pox in this
city.

Fire-Hose Bbidge. — As street railroad
oars are frequently stopped in the vicinity
of fires, by the hose lying across the track
supplying the engine with water, Mr. A.
W. Taylor, of Brooklyn, N. X., (Box No.
13!)) has invented a convenient bridge
which may be carried along on the front
platform by the driver, and by which
means the car is enabled to continue on its
course without injury to the hose. The
machine is of iron, is of very simple con-
struction, and can be fastened to the track
so firmly that a oar is in no danger of be-
ing thrown off, or of misplacing the bridge.

Delicate Glass Fabbics. — De Brunfau*,
in Paris, recently exhibited articles made
of spim gla^s, such as head-dresses, watch
chains, curled and smooth ostrich feathers,
otc. The usual objection to glass fabrics of
hrittleness does not apply here, as the
thread is as fine as a spider's web. It is
not inferior in strength to the best wool,
while far exceeding it in beauty. The flex-
ibility of the thread is such that it may be
worked in the sewing machine.

The Grand Excdrsion Bound the
Wobld will cost, from New York to San
Francisco, by the Pacific Eailroad, $150, —
time, six days; by the China steamships,
from San Francisco to Honkong, and thence
to Point deGalle, (Ceylon,) $620— time, for-
ty-four days; thence to Paris via the Bed
Sea and Mediterranean, $050 — time, twenty-
five days; and across the Atlantic, $125;
total, $1,550, all in currency; total time of
traveling, eighty-five to ninety days.

Maxne Beld's Magazine, "Onwabd." —
The February number of this new period-
ical, dedicated to the youth of America, is
a very attractive publication. It is of itself
a small volume (180 pages), and is filled
with stories, of " magazine size," and illus-
trations, in which the life-like and telling
character, — in short all the good traits of
Mayne Beid's books, — are well maintained.

" Gltcoeim " is the name of a substance
newly invented by the doctors for protect-
ing wounds. It covers them with a kind of
varnish, which protects them from the air,
and is madebyaddingfive parts of glycerine
to four of yoik of eggs. The mixture has
the consistency of honey, has a salve-like
fseliug, aud is unaltered by exposure to
air.

To affect chemical combination, it is
generally requsite that one of the bodies
shall bo in the liquid or gaseous form, and
if such is not the ease at ordinary temper-
atures, they have to be produced by the ele-
vation of the latter. Honce the old rule,
"Corpora non agent nisi Jluida," under the
erroneous supposition that the fluid or men-
struum was the only active body, and the
solid or solvendum a resistance to bo over-
come. Solid bodies either do not combine
at all, or their combination is attended with
great difficulty, because from the immo-
bility of their particles, their points of im-
mediate contact are but few, and the ex-
ceedingly thin film of compound which
may be formed at such points, acts as a
partition to prevent further contact, aud
consequently hinders combination.

Exploration of Alaska Fiords and
Bivebs. — Tho "Youkon," a flat-bottomed
boat, suitable for towin?, 50x11 feet, and
drawing fifteen inches water when loaded,
has recently been built at North Beach, by
George Gates, for Capt. B. H. Waterman,
to be used in ascending the shallow streams
along the coast of Alaska. In general ap-
pearance she resembles the two stern-wheel
steamers built a few years since for the
Bussian-American Telegraph Co. She will
be taken apart and conveyed to her destina-
tion on board a sailing vessel, under the
charge of Mr. W. H. Enuis, who is familiar
with the streams to be navigated, and the
management of boats similarly constructed.

Evan's Corrugated Biffle, to save
amalgam from the battery, appears to be
meeting with approval, judging from the
favorable notices it is receiving from the
press and from miners. Some specimens of
sand tailings caught by the riffle that other-
wise would have passed away, very thickly
speckled with quicksilver and amalgam, are
shown at S. P. Taylor's store, underneath
the Mining and Scientific Press office.
Biffles extending 30 to 50 feet are claimed
to be more efficient than even a much greater
length of blankets.

Freight to White Pine via Colorado
Bivee. — Light draught steamers can go up
to Colville on the Colorado, whence there
is a good level wagon road of about two
hundred miles to White Pine; a distance
less than twice as far as from Elko to White
Pine. The stern-wheel steamer Chin-du-
Wan, built at Stockton, last summer, is in-
tended for the navigation of the Colorado
river, whither she -will procee'd in the
spring, via the Gulf of California, and it is
thought that considerable freight will be
conveyed by this route during the summer
season to the newly discovered silver region.

No means have yet been devised of com-
bining the nitrogen (which constitutes 80
percent, of the atmosphere) with hydrogen,
so as to form ammonia. By heat and eleo-
tricity this union has been attempted with-
out success; but if tin-foilingsare placed in
contact with water and binoxide of nitro-
gen, the tin will absorb the oxygen of the
two last named substances, while the hy-
drogen will at the moment of liberation
from the water, combine with the ni-
trogen set free from the nitric oxide, and
form ammonia.

The sun's heat is transmitted to the earth
by radiation; some idea of the amount of
which may be gleaned from a rough calcu-
lation made by Farraday, to the effect that
the average amount of heat radiated on a
summer's day upon an area of land in the
latitude of London (523) amounts to as
much as would be emitted by the combus-
tion of 240 bushels of coal.

Remarkably High Tides. — The waves
at the Ocean Side House swept up to a dis-
tance of at least fifty feet beyond the ordi-
nary high tide limit, damaging the road at
tho Ocean House, and at the Seal Bock
House.

Foot Hill Diamond Crystallized.— A
beautiful Specimen of a diamond crystal
about a quarter of an iueh in diameter, has
been on exhibition for some time past in
the shop window of Mr.Shreve, the jeweler,
on Montgomery street. It is from a local-
ity in Nevada County, where a number of
fine crystals of greater size and purity than
this have been found heretofore by the
same party, all of which have gone into tho
possession of connoiseurs.

Instantaneous Photography.— It is said
that Fox Talbot placed a hand-bill on a
wheel revolving two hundred times a sec-
ond, bofore a camera. By the light of a
single electric spark a perfect and legible
copy of the bill was made Bromide of sil-
ver was used in this case instead of the
iodide. A marching regiment of soldiers,
or a waterfall, may be takeh by means of
the same agent.

Shipping Bullion Overland.— We are
informed by reliable authority that several
parties interested in mining claims in the
White Pine District are making arrange-
ments to ship all their bullion direct to the
East from that locality; and that such ship-
ments will be made before the overland
railroad is completed. — Times.

" The El Dorado " is the name of a
new eight-page weekly, published by the
Ladies' Cooperative Union. All the work
is done by female compositors, at No. 517
Clay street.

Continental Life Insurance Company,
203 Montgomery street, corner of Pino.

Our Office.

The office of the Mining and Scientific
Press is located in the second story at No. 414
Clay street, north side, just below Sansome. Here
we have spacious accommodations, wish our patent
rooms, editorial room, counting room, newspaper
and job printing offices, — all conveniently ar-
ranged and connected, and our facilities for dis-
patching business correctly and economically,
better than ever before. Don't forget tho number
— 414 Clay street, below Sansomo.

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O. M Taylor, who acted as asent a brief time for this
paper in Washoe, is requested to call at or address this office,
without fail.

Cn-OpKRATiyic Union Stork.— This is becoming one of the
most useful Institutions in the city, and the Mechanic and
Laboring Man fui'y appreciate it. They are now enabled
to buy their Groceries ami Provisions 2d per cent, cheaper
than ever before, and the very best articles in the market.
The store is located at 115 Sutler street, Lick House Block,
San Francisco 6vl8-aim

Savi-: Yotta Tketil.— Drs. Jessup A Beers, over Tucker's
■ewelry slore, are now makine a specialty of tilling tho
fangsof dead Teeth, and building up broken crowns with
purer/nld— thus restoring them to their original usefulness
and beauty. They are aho using Nitrous Oxide for the
painless extraction of Teeth, when so desired— the only ab-
solutely safe anresthetic ever discovered In breathing it,
it acts as a gentle stimulant, without undue excitement,—
the sensation produced being truly delightful, tho effect
upon the lungs healthful, and in Its results posiilvely free
from nil danger. Prepared and administered daily at the
Dental Rooms of Messrs. JESSUP <fc SEEKS, corner Mont-
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Where to Advertise. — The attention of traders and
mill machinists is called to the fact that the Mountain
Messenger, of Downicville, Sierra County, possesses many
special advantages as an advertising medium over a ma-
ority of the interior press, it being the onlypublic jour-
nal published within a radins of sixty miles, in the rich-
est and most populous mining sections of the State, Its
weekly edition is double the average of country papers,
being without the range of large dailies, and having no
competition at home. Its local eolmus afford many items
for our city cotemporaries, while its rates of advertising
are reasonably low IDvlttf

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Crucibles.

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]Vo victim dies, who takes it betimes.

Keep Pain Killer— a true friend by your side,

It will cure Cough or Cold, or Colic beside;

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Kcinember that Pain Kilter iAtfoodfnr yon.
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Family Medicines.

KEDINGTON & CO., and HOSTETTER & SMITH. San
Francisco, Cal , General Wholesale Agenis. frblm

$20,000 to $25,000.

A PRACTICAL SMELTEK wishes to enlist capital to

build a Furnace on a Mine ol ricli Argentiferous Galena at

White Pino. From $800 to $1,000 a day can be cleared

with case. Security and best of references, etc., given.

Address, WM. F. HILTOI^

7vlH.Im!)p San FrancisrjB. O.

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OA.TtPElV'X'ETi and JSUITCTJlSTt,

No. :5S4 Juclcson street, between Sansome nnd

JTlntlery,

Stores and Offices fitted un wlih neatness and dispatch.

The Patent Plumbagi Crucible Co.,

Manufacturers of all kinds of

Melting Pots, Portable Furnaces,

CRUCIBLES, and other lire-standing Goods.

BntterNeu Work*, London.

TtlE MORGAN PATENT CRUCIBLES have uniform

quality, never crack, withstand the greatest heat without

danger; heats more rapidly than any other; change oftom-

perature has no effect on them; stand on the average forty

to fifty pourings.

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To Quartz Millmen.

Original Hidden Treasure Mining Comoany,

NOTICE —Proposals are invited for ten days from date,
for Hie Crushing of lft.uOO tons of Ore, to be taken from iho
Mine cf the Original Hidden Treasure Mining Company,
White Pino

Parties bidding will specify price per ton, terms ofpay-
ment, and date of commencing and completion of contract.
By order. DAVID T. BAGLEY,

Secretary Original Hidden Treasure Mining Co.

Office, No 401 California street.

February !), WC9. 7V8 It

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a the only Amalgamator that has stood the test of sovcu
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Having been engaged for the past ten years in quartz
mining, and being conversant with all the improvements,
either in Mining or Milling, we arc prepared to furnish, at
ibeshorlesi notice, the must perfect inaebinery for rcduc
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Having been establislied since .1S5I, we have accumulated
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with our superior toolsand appliances, give us luoilitius lor
doing tirst class work unequaled on the Pacific Coast

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tions of all sizes and patterns, furnished with dispatch.

OSr PRICES MODERATE, SB
J. P. GALLAGHER. J. H. WEED V. KINGWELL.

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Miners' Foundry

— AXV —

MA-OHINE WOKKS

Nos. 245 to 255 Ftkst Street,

Sun Francisco.

HOWLAND, ANG-ELL & CO.,

rjROPKIETOKS,

Manufacturers of Machinery for

WCABTZ MILLS.
SAW MILLS.
POWBEK .HILLS,

FLOUK MILLS,
SUGAR MILLS,
PAPER MILLS

Steam Engines of all Kinds.
Amalgamators of all Kinds.

M1SI.VB PV .11 PS, IIOISTIMI WORKS

OIL WILL TOOLS, ROCK BREAKERS,

— AND —

Machinery and Castings of all kinds, either
of Iron or Brass.

Boilers and Sheet Iron Work in all its
Branches.

shoes Jin. I Dies of While Iron, niannfactRrcd
for and Imported l.v US expi-ChSly ,'.»<■ I hi., ; n r-
pose, i.n.l svlll lust 25 per cent, lonuer Umn a; uy
other mude on this cuust.

Russia Iron Screens, of any decree of fineness.
We are the only manufacturers on this coast oi
the

HICK8 ENGINE,
The most cfimpact, slmule la construction, aud

durable, of nuy Enicine in use.
W. II. ROWLAND, II. IS.A.VUIXL,

lSyll-qr CITRUS PALMER.

FULTON

Foundry and Iron Works.

HINCKLEY & CO.,

MANUFACTORE-HS Of

S rX' 32 .A. BX ENGINES,
Q iKirtz, 3Tlour an d. &arw Mills,

Huye*' Improved Steam Pump, Rrodle's Im-
proved CrilslnT. Mining 1*11 111 pM(

.lnuili:;ini:ili)rH,)iiHl all kludtt

of Machinery.

N. E. corner of Tehama and Fremont streets, above Plow
ard street, Sau Frauciaco. 3-qy

McAFEE, SPIERS & CO.,
UOILEIt MAKERS

AND GBNERiVL MACHINISTS,

Howard dt, between Fremont and Bcalc, San Francisco.

Flue or Tubular 15 oilers, wiih idalrj circular or spiral
courses. Upright Flue ur Tubular Boilers, Locomotive and
and Marine Boilers, and Wrought Iron Tanks of every de-
scription.

la 3 ill Millie Pipe supplied at reasonable rates. In or
dcrlntf, give the qunntity of water to be supp'icd. hlglltof
the fall, and total length of pipe, so as to enable the firm to
determine the diameter of the pipe and thickness of iron to
be used.

Keunir*.— Boilers, Sinoke Stacks, Pipes, etc., put in re-
pair with promptness.

To Boiler Maker* and Macliliil«tn in the In-
terior.—Tnc firm is prepared to turntsh estimates of
Boilers, SU' ply new Heads, drilled and punched, and attend
to the selection and forwarding ot Iron fur Boilers, Pipes
and other purposes.

Plan*, Di-awlugM and Specification").— The firm
:s prepared to make out Flans and Specifications, icccive
estimates, mid superintend the Erection of any Macbiiicry
thnt may lie entrusted to their care

To Inventors.— The firm is prepared to assist in de-
veloping Hie plans of those who have the idea* hut not the
practical experience necessary to put the saint in form, by
nniklnc Drawings ol their Inventions, giving them the ben-
efit of their nructi til knowledge in the construction of .Ma-
chinery, and attending to the manufacture and introduc-
tion of their Inventions. lvlOtl

UNION IRON WORKS,

Sacramento.

WILLIAMS, ROOT & NEILSON,

JUArJUFACTURKRS OT

CROSS' PATENT BOILER FEEDER,

STEAM ENGINES. BOILERS,

And all kinds of Mining Machinery.

Also, li. iv and Wine Presses made and repaired
with neatness, durability and dispatch.

Dunbar's Patent Sell -Adjusting: Steam Piston

Front Street, between N aud O streets,
Uvll Sacramento City

THOMPSON BROTHERS,
EUREKA. FOUNDRY,

LIGHT AND HEATT CASTINGS,

of every description, manufactured 2l\l<iqr

JAMES MACKEN,

COFFERSIWCITIl,

SSG Fremont St., bet. Howard A Folsom

All kinds of COPPER WORK done to order in the best
nanner. Particular attention paid to Steamboat, Sugar
House and Distillery work.

Repairing promptly and neatly attended to.

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G-. T. PRACY.
MACHINE WORKS,

NOS. 109 and 111 MISSION STREET,

Between Main and Spear.

New and secondhand

Engines and Boilers,

FOR SALE.

Also one first-class Hoisting

Engine ; one Uiiri^hl

Engine, oi entirely

new pattern.

manufacturer of

Eat lies, I>rllls,

And MILL MACHINERY or
every description.

I* R A. C Y » 8

New and Improved
STEAM EX«I.\E

REGULATORS,

The hest and cheapest yet in-
vented— mnnnt'siciured and
lor sale. Parties are In-
vited to examine it
in practical op-
eration.

P. A. IIUXTINOTOK'S

Shingle Machines

on hand.

Particular attention- paid to
Repairing.

AST* All work guaranteed to be done In a first-class man-
cr. and at the lowest rates. 12vl7H

THE BISDON

Iron and Locomotive Works.

Incorporated. April 30, 1868. Capitnl. $1,'00,000.

Location of Works, Corner Bonle and Ilovtnrd streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Surrf^sors to Pc rifle Mail P. P. Co. Works at Renicia. Coney

& Risdon, and Devoe, Dinsmorc A Co., ban Krancisco.

Steam Engine Builders, Boiler Makers,

MACHINISTS AND FOUNDRYMEN.
All work in their line attended to with promptness and
dispatch.

Directors i
S. F. Buttorworth, Oha*. E. McLnne,

Lloyd T'vis John N. Risdon,

Jos. Pollock, Joseph Moore.

Ben. Uolladay,

JOHN N. RISDON, President.
Josenh Moore, Vice President and Superintendent; Ohns.
E. McLnne, 'treasurer; Lewis R. Mead, Secretary; Lewis
Coney, Superintendent Boiler Works. 2lvl7-qy

NOBLE & FLEMING,
MACHINE WOKHS,

So. lO Steven non fetreet, near First,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Particular attention given to repairs on Portable a"d Sta-
tionary Entities: nlso all kinds ol' Wood Working
Machinery; Slinflinps Hangers, Pulleys, etc.
made to order; Screw Cutting, Iron
Planinji. and nil kinds of JOB
WORK promptly attended to.
Agente* for F. S. Fcrkln** Engine LnthcN,
Planers, Upright Di-IUn.
And nil k'nfls ot MACHINISTS' TOOLS; nlso the Davis
Wood Planer end Mitre Dovc-Tniling Machines.
fl3J-Alsn, on hand Tor sale a complete sot otT'iolsfor
making Blaekinc Boxes, consisting of Press, Dies, Shears,
and Crunpinc Machine, etc. -tvlS-nr

Phoenix Iron Works.

JONATHAN KITTEEDaE, Proprietor,

JVod. 18 and SO Fremont ittrect, neur Market,

MANUFACTURKR OF

Fire-Proof Doors, Shutters,

Wrought Iron Girders, and all kinds of Housesmlth work,
Bridge and Prison Work;

BANE VAULTS AND M0NIT0K SAFES,

FOllC I.VG AND MACHINE WORK.
Agency for the ISHAM KEY REGISTER BANK AND SAFE
LOCK, ihc only first cluss Lock in llic
1V171F United Stutca

CITY IROK WORKS COMPANY.

CLERC & CO.,
IKON FOUNDERS,

■>leum JEniiliu- BullderM und ltlnkerB of nil
kinds of 3tf nchinery,

G ■ HCfjr No. 2S Fremont street. Sau Francisco.

Blanks, Blank Mining Books

Constitution and By-Laws

— FOR —

Minings and Prospecting
Companies

Elegantly printed, with care and dispatch, at the offl :e of tho
mining and Scientific Press.

Orders from tho interior fai Lhfuly attended to .

Resources and Developments.

Coi. Laekaeee lias imported a lot of
bamboo plants from China, which lie thinks
will grow at Los Angeles.

Silk in the Foot-hills. — Nevada
County has 50,000 mulberry trees, being
the only mining county that has made a
commencement in the silk business.

Silk Reeling. — Fifty Chinese families,
well versed in silk reeling, have been seut
for by the filature about to be established
at Los Angeles. Cocoon growers will find ;
ready sale for all they can raise.

TJmpqtja Valley Outlet. — The new
road now building from XJmpqua Valley to
Coos Bay, will bring that valley within
forty miles of tidewater and*the numerous
vessels in the San Francisco lumber and
coal trade of Douglas County, Oregon.

Woolen Mill at Chico. — The Chico
Co'irani urges the erection of a woolen mil',
or the transformation of Gen. Bidwell'slarge
brick building at that place, into an estab-
lishment of the kind, to be carried on by a
joint stock company of farmers and sheep
raisers, in shares of §50.

Woolen Factobies in Oeebon. — Par-
ties are endeavoring to obtain water-power
at Eugene City, — says the Journal, — to put
up a woolen factory, to cost §90,000. The
Ellendale Woolen Factory is in active op-
eration. The factory Eat Brownsville is still
closed.

A Fig Obchakd to contain a thousand
trees of the large purple Smyrna variety is
being planted at Morrnon Island, Sacra-
mento County. The figthrives exceedingly
well in the foothills, to an elevation of
1,000 feet. Domestic dried figs sell readily
at twenty-five cents per pound, retail. They
will soon be produced in large quantities for
exportation.

A Great "Vineyaed. — The Buena Vista
Vinieultural Association has 290,232 vines
set out in vineyard, covering 426% acres,
or an average of 680 vines ti the acre; from
which last year 96,000 gallons of wine
were made. This is, — says the Alia, — the
largest vineyard, or, at least, wine-growing
estate iii the world, though not the most
profitable.

Oystees feom Mexico. — The steamship
John L. Stephens brought up, consigned to
the Mexican Oyster Company, a supply of
toothsome bivalves in good order, the first
shipment this season. They resemble the
Harlem River oysters more than any other
on the Atlantic side. Three of them fill a
big plate. Next season this company will
be able to supply the whole coast from thoir
beds in Mexico, the location of which is
kept a secret. They are brought in tanks
of water from Mazatlan. — Times.

Woolen Mill at Santa Rosa. — A meet-
ing of the citizens of Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, was held on Wednesday, Febru-
ary 4th, to consider the proposition of
building a woolen mill there. Estimated
cost §30,000. The subject was discussed at
the meeting, and steps were taken to for-
ward the object in view. Energy aud lib-
erality among our business men and cap-
italists,— says the Democrat, — would add at
least a thousand persons to the population
of Santa Rosa within a year.

Local Raileoading. — The monthly re-
ceipts on the San Jose and Santa Clara
Railroad average §1,000, and are expected
next summer to double that amount. The
owners of the road are discussing tho
question of substituting cars driven by
steam-power similar to those of a company
in Brooklyn. The fuel used in these is pe-
troleum, a jet of which is thrown by every
revolution of the ear wheels, upon a small
quantity of burning coal, which serves as
a kind of wick. The time would be re-
duced to twenty minutes— about half of
that now occupied.

South San Feancisco. — At a mesting of the
representatives of the .South San Francisco
Dock, and of the Bay View Railroad com-
panies, etc., held on Monday evening, it
was stated that the cost of clearing out the
Potrero Cutsufficientlywidetolay a double
track, and of placing on the line a sufficient
number of cars aud horses, would be about
§150,000. If trips be made every fifteen
minutes, and only one fare charged from
the foot of Fourth street to Bay View, tho
Dock Company will pay §25,000, and other
associations and property-owners in that
vicinity contributing in the same propor-
tion, it is thought will swell the amount to
§75,000. A number of manufacturing es-
tablishments, and quite alittle village, have
grown up in that vicinity. Boiler works
will be established in South San Fran-
cisco by Messrs. Tevis & Risdon.

Wool Geowtng in the Foothills. — As
lands in California are becoming rapidly
settled, sheep ranges are becoming scarce.

TY\e Mining and Scientific Press.

107

Kowhere run better ranges be brand, Buys
the Foleom Telegraph, than in the foothills.
Tlic mi'd climate, ahelterand good feed is
nneqnale 1 all the year round. Parfei
chasing Hve or six quart* of land,

and starting with four or nvo bnndred
head "f sheep, can hare ;i Dice little fortune
in four or five years. The rapid increase in
the annual clip of wool, now 12-fold what
ii wae thirteen yean «;?<>, shows that sheep
farming is u profitable business t'i all con-
cerned. According to these figures, the
man who, in 1856, had 100 ewes, should
have now 4,2011 Boeep. Besides tins in-
cense of his prinoipnl, ho has enjoyed an
annual incunie from his wool.

afoBiPerBOiiETiu Discovered en Mexico.
Lately pet rolonm has been discovered on the
Pacific shore of Southern Mexico, near Port
Angel, in latitude 15J US' north, distant
southeast Is" miles from Acapiiloo. Oil is
obtained from four springs, and the forma-
tion is said to he sandstone, lying horizon-
tally over shale. In two of the wells exca-
vations have been made with crowbars; at
a depth of about Hi li-et tin- oil began to
r in out so fast that the men could not work
i i the holes, and not only did the oil run
faster as the diggers went down, but it came
lighter and thinner. Vessels can at all
times anchor safely in Port Angel, from
whence there is a good rood to Oaxaea, the
capital of the State, on to Pnebla aud Jlex-
ieo. Native labor is 50 cents per day, with-
out board, aud may be depended upon.

Nut GROWING. — The planting of nut-
bearing trees, looked at from a financial
point of view, is thought to bo worthy of
deliberate consideration, as the demand for
nuts is beyond home supply, and if a ready
and remunerative market cannot be ob-
tained at one's door, the nuts will bear
shipment and keeping. The streets in towns
and roads throughout the country could be
sot out with nut-bearing trees at slight ex-
pense, no loss of soil, and with profit to the
owners of land contiguous to the thorough-
fares. The chestnut, butternut, hickory,
almond, English walnut and black walnut,
where the climate will admit aud soil just-
ify, are all beautiful shade-ornamental
trees. They can be trans2jlauted while
young with a loss not to exceed ten per
cent. ; grow rapidly, and come into berring
usually from the seventh to the tenth year
from seed.

The Geeat Interior. — Of the inexhausti-
ble mineral resources of the vast basin
rimmed by the Sierra and Bocky mount-
ains,— says the Sacramento Union, — no
doubt remains. But this great interior, now
silent and treeless, has a greater capacity
for agriculture thaii many suspect. C. W.
Dilke notes the resemblance in many re-
spects to similar situations in Algeria and
Australia, and predicts that here, as there,
even the deserts may be made to bloom.
The sage brush is seen to be gradually en-
croaching upon the sands. AH that is
needed, he believes, is irrigation; and this
may be obtained by means of artesian wells,
flowing of themselves or operated by wind-
mills; or by means of dams and reservoirs,
economizing the melted snows of the mount-
ains, as in Algeria. Even the alkali plains
may, he believes, be thus redeemed; for in
Algeria it has been found by the French
farmers "that under irrigation, the more
alkali the better the corn crop." The pro-
cess of desert reclamation will therefore
be, first, irrigation; second, planting of
fruit trees, corn, vines, and other plants
which shade the soil; then, with increasing
moisture, other products may be intro-
duced.

Business Cards.

G-EO. E. ROGERS,

(Successor to G. W. Belt.)

A. S S A. Y is n ,

513 California »t., Sun Francltteo.

J. A. MARS, Assaycr.

Ores carefully Assayed. Gold and Silver Ores worked.

23vl6-firll)|>!ir

CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, DRAPERIES,

SHADES, Etc., Etc.

LOUIS F. KNIG-HT,

."> 1 - < alilurulll St., <•:!•.( aide (iriu';ini.v,
SAN FRANCISCO.

lean odor from tho largest aud best assorted stock in the

city anything in our hue,

AT PRICES TO SUIT ALJL.

FURNITURE AND MATTRESSES

Made to order.
All kinds of upholstering executed with neatness and
dispatch. 9vl7

Delays are Dangerous.— Inventors on the Facltlc
Coast should bear in mind that by patronizing our Patent
Agency they can sign all necessary papers lor securing pa-
tents almost immediately, thereby avoiding tho three
m ■mill's delay requisite m transacting hiniueae through
Eaiterh, agencies. ,

RODGERS, MEYER & CO.,

COMMISSION' 31 1 :i tt I I .V> 1 '.- .

ADV.V.N'CKN HADE

On nil I. In. I- of Oi'fn, .mi! purl Iculn r iilt«,nll,tii
PAIO TO

(liVMI.MMM'v OF GOODS.

IrlMm

MFIII.II.I. i.l' .V.

II. M. UHAV.

N. GRAY & CO.,

U IV 1> E 11 T A. K. 13 K. W ,

641 Sacramento St., cor. Webb, San Kninclsco.

Farmers and Mechanics

BAN It. OF SAVINGS,

\ ... «-a » Suiuome street,

[Dtoreft I'lild on DoposlU, Money Lonnoil on ncal l--r.it.-

II. IIUTTUX, Praldent.

GBO M rusiiEl- Chief. l'.ivlr.:iin

FREDERICK M VNNI.I.I,.

Mechanical & Architectural Draughtsman,

No. 422 California street, corner of LcldsdorfT.

Drawings of Mopkls mado for parties apply for pa-
tints at WAHhlntrton or Lon Ion. ar23-tf.

"W. T. ATWOOD,

rUIICUASKR OP

OOPPEE ORES, BAR3, MATT, Etc, Etc,,

AOA Montgomery utrcct.

Room No. fi, over Farrott A Oo's Bank, San Francisco.
iSvlTqr

S. FOLK. G. TCCUOLSKY.

S. FOLK & CO.,

MA«UFACTURKKS Or"

\V.llMH\<i, B1TTIVG, und COMFORTERS

411 and 113 Brunnan St., Between Third und Fourth,

SAN FKANCI8CO. ivlSoT

W. C. CAMPBELL.

PATTERY AND MODEL MAKER,

No. 2© Fremont street, over Phojulx Iron Works, San

Fruncisco.
Particular attention given to MODELS for the Patent Office
Brands and Pattern Letters Hut. ivlflmif

Tump Leather.

The attention of MINING COMPANIES, and others re-
quiring a superior article for Hydraulic purposes, is Invited
to the heavy Oaked Tanned Pump Leather, manufactured
and prepared exnn?ssly by the undersiencd.

^

E. JONES&C?

Constantly on hand and I'm- sale by

OrtA/X", JONES «fc CO.,

Depot of the Santa Cruz Tannery,
418 Battery St., Sun Fruifisco.

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LEA & PERKINS '

CKLKBR1TKR

WORCBSTEUSHIRE SAUCE
GUOD SAUCE.

The success of this most g
delicious* and unrivalled rv
condiment having caused
certain dealers to applv the name of "Wor- ^
ccstershirc Sauce to their own Inferior b
compounds, tlie public is hereby informed 'd fr^-rVciL'B
that th« only way to secure the genuine, to J;- "t^B
Is to ask lor a)

JLeii tfc PerrlnH' Sauce, fi

o

and see that their names are. upon the £

wr*pper, labels, stopper, and bottle. p"

So. ne of Hie foreign markets having boon ri
supplied with a spurious Worcestershire O
SaUCC, upon the wrapper and labels of
which the names of Lea aud Perrins have been forced, L
and P give notice that they hive furnished their corres-
pondents with power of attorney to take Instant proceed
lugs against Maun acturcrs aud Vendors of such, or any
other i .'ii Rations bv which their right muv be infringed.

Ask for LISA A PERKINS' Sauce, and see name on the
Wrapper, Label, Bofcllo.'and Stopper,

Wliolesalc and for Export by tho Proprietors. Worcester:
Crosse & Black well, London, etc., ele.; aud by tfmccrs and
Oilmen universally. Agents, UllUSS .t CO. San Fran-
cisco. 3vl8-I.v

HI]\KLE\S

"IMPROVED SPRING-BED BOTTOM."

(Patented July 21st, 1868.

The undersigned, having purchased the Patentee's inter
est in the States and Territories of the Pacific Coast, is now
prepared to supply Private Homes, lintels and Steamers
wiih this comlortablo, economical and durable "IM-
PROVED SPUING BED BOTTOM."

Persons going to While Pine will greatly promote their
comfort by taking one of these Patent Bottoms, which is
secured to a folding Bedstead, the coat of which is less than
that of Hie materials at White Pine.

Wareroom, No. 1002 Market Street.

Is. UCOSOK, Proprietor.

flSrCall and examine. Open until 8 o'clock P. M.
6vl8qr

I'ATK.ST OFFICE Hr-eoKTS, ITodq 18 JS to 18J7, MBCKaMCAL

ure wanted fur duplicate copies ai .bis oitlcu. Parties hav
i:ig them for sale will please ttate price, and aldress
DEWEV & CO., Mining and ScielltitlC Press olhcc, Sian

Francisco.

Professional Cards.

J. S. PHILLIPS,

MINING ENGINKER, Etc.,

wnd-« niiii Boiub San l tftneboo.

HarlDi had SSyoara exuorlencc in the rarLoi
ii tin oi klintng BiiKlneerlng and Ueialiurdy, IhCui iwaS

■ lea, aollclia union i > >r tho exan U I Hln-

i ral r*ra| eriiw iltruuglioui (be Norih aud nuiiii i
minerals a«ayed ->r analysed; advloe for banullclailng
1 1 ii .ii'.ni v orca: Motalsaulu; capital procured lor deveP
upintf vafuaMo ledges, ivllH

JOHN EOAOH, Optician,

Un rwnovad from tus Uomgomery street to

.~,li* Washington nlruot.
Bust ol Houigomory,

DAVID R. SMITH,

Civil anci Meehnnical liii^iincor,

[a prepared to nornlBb Plana, Hodalu, Bpoclncailoni and
full dotal! Drnwlnjrsfor Btcamcra and Sailing Vessels and
.Machinery In general.

MuiitKoiucry Bluvk.

1.1vl7-3m

J. M. HAVEN,

ATTORNEY AND fOl.NSKMMl AT LAW
No. -fH> California atroct,

27vl6 SAN FRANCISCO.

aAMrES IH. TAYLOR,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,

Court Block, G3G Clay Street

SAN FRANCISCO.
2vl5-lqy

PACIFIC

INSURANCE COMPANY

OP SAX FRANCISCO, OAX...

Onice, No. 422 California street.

Cunh As-.-t-, Jan. 1, 1800, -

MARINE,

-l.>^0,7 IO IS

irv??iTjrtA.ivcE.

DIRECTORS:

Sas Fax- Cisco:
W. C. lla^lon,
A L Tubus.
Wm. Alvurd,
Jonathan Hunt,
A. U. Forbes,
A. G. Stiles,
A. Kcligman,
L. B. Kenchley,
Wm. Sherman,
L. riaebs,

Janie^ Dc Frcmery,
J. <i. Bray,
David S ern,

D. O. Mills,

I Priedlander,
Mo-es Heller,
H. M Ncwhall,
Q. T. Laivton.
Allies D. Sweeny, !
Chas. Mayne,

E. h. Goldstein,
J. O. Eiri,
Idovd Tcvid,
Thtis. II. Selby,
Adam Grunt,
Alplicus Hull,
S. M. Wilson,
D.J. Oliver,

W Schulle,
Thos. Brown,
Chas. Main,
Clias. R. Futcra,

A. J. R ALSTON, Socre
ANDREW BAIRD, M.
Ivl8tf

Oliver Eldrldge,
J. B. Roberta.

J. 0. Wilmerding,

P. L. Weaver,

Wm, H oner.

J. \V. Clark,

A. Hay ward,

T. L Barker,

Alexander Weill,

Chas. Mover.

Chas. E.McLane.

M Roscnbauin,

A.J. Ralston.

T. Lemmen Meyer,

J T. Dean.
Nkw York:

Louis MeLane,

Frederick Billings,

Jiiincs Lees,

J G. Kellogg,

Wm. T. C.»leman,

Moses Ellis.
SacHamunto;

EdKiir Mills,

J. II. Carroll,

C. T. Wheeler.
Maky-vilm- :

J. H.Jewett.
PnitTi,A.*n. Oregon:

W S Ladd,

Jacob K.iiniii
Virginia, Nevada:

Win. Sharon.
officers:
JONA. HUNT. President.

W. AL\rORD, Vice 1'rcslaont.
lary.

Secrclnrv.

.11 BICELOW, Gun'l Agent.

The Pertectloii of l*rci»urcd Cocoa.

maravilTa cocoa.

Sole Proprietors— TAYLOR BROTHERS, London.

The Cocoa (or Cacao) of Maravllla is tlic true Theobroma
of Linnreus. Cocoa is indigenous lo South America, of
which Maravllla is a fuvored l.ortlon. TAYLOR BROTH-
ERS having secured the exclusive supply of this unri-
valled Oocoa, li ive, bv the Skillful application of their sol-
uble principle and elaborate machinery, produced what is
so nndeniably the per ection of Prepared Coeoji„that it has
not only secured the prelc'euce of bonne n n.lhs and encon-
drlnkcrs generally, but many who had hiiheno noi found
any preparation to .-uit lliem, have, a I' er one trial, adopted
the Maravllla Cocoa as their constant beverage for break-
fast, luncheon, etc.

"A SUCCESS U.\PJtECKl»ESTED."

[See following extract from the Globe of May 14, 1868]
"Various Importers and manufacturers have attempted
to attain a reputation for their prepared Cocoas, but we
doubt whether any thorough success hud been achieved
until Messrs. T >ylor Urol hers discovered the extraordinary
qualities ol" "Maravllla" Cocoa. Adapting tlldir pcrlect
system of preparation to this linest of all species of the
Theobroma, they have produced an article which super-
sedes every other Cocoa in tlic market. Entire solubility,
adelicate aroma, and a rare concentration ot the purest
elements of nutrition, distinguish the Miravilla Cocoa
above all others. For hom-eopaths and invalids we could
not recommend a more agreeable or valuable beverage.

Sold in packets only by all Grceers, of whom also may
be had Taylor Brothers' Original Homeopathic Cocoa and
.Soluble chocolate, Meam Mills, Brick Lane, London.
GvlS-ly

Mining Secretary.

THE SUBSCRIBER, HAVING SERVED FOR THE LAST
live years as Secretary ol" various mining companies,
feels fully competent to serve In that capacity. Any par-
ties wishing to secure the services of a Secretary cat; be
accommodated on reasonable terms. Information given,
and all necessary papers correctly made out. _

Having bad a long experience in the purchasing of goods
and machinery tor miners, parlies in t he mines will lino ii
to their nd vantage, where pure basing "genu are employed.
.„ send meir order, to the ■»"«»jf KajnFPII,OT0Fi

Room 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California • tre*«t
San Fxaucioco 17vl5-tf

WE AEE NOW OFFERING
OUK, IMMENSE STOCK

or

Fine Custom Made Clothing

AND —

G-ents' Furnishing Goods

AT PRICES THAT DEFY COMPETITION.

Our Stock of Clothing COMtatl ol
AJL^L, THE LATEST STYLES

BOTH Or MATERIAL 1KB riKIHII.

A LnrRO Ansortmen lot
Trunk*, ValUea, C»rpet Unic«, lllitaket*. Fir.,

AT KXTKKHKLT LOW (-KICKS.

»T. R. MEAD & CO.,

SvlO Cor. of Washington and SanBomcstroctt.

THE GIANT

POWDER, COMPANY

It* now prepared to till all orders for

GIANT POWDER,

Put up In Bnxi'*, cllhcr In Bulk or In Cur
li'ldeca.

General Aifentu,

BANDMAKN, NIELSEN & CO.,

2f>vlfi-.'tm 210 Front street, San Francisco.

SAN 1 ■■*!«.% \< isco

I?ioiieef Screen Works,

JOHN W. QUICK, Manufnclurer,

Removed to A. Pritzel's Tr«n Wortca. 2iR Fremont street,

near Howard, San Francisco,

Screen Punching In alt its branches, at rates redueert
from 25 to l" per cent less than the CFtablfshed rates. I can
furnish Improved Quartz Screens several sizes llnrr thsin
any Screen ever punched, civlnc universal sallsfiirtinn,
and fnr strength, chenpnessand dnrttnlltty are notewjellpd.
Also, Punched screens of all sizes and fineness made from
all qualities ol material, for Quartz. Cement, Flour and
Rico Mills, etc. Screen Flinching made a specialty: there-
fore millnuii forwarding their orders to me will receive
none hut the best. Orders Solicited,

N. B —J. W. QUICK Is the only competent and sneeessful
manuTac Hirer of Screens in the Slate, having made Srreens
for the princinal mills In this State and adjoining Terri-
tories for many years. Quartz mill owners using punched
Rereons which have universally failed toglve sntisl'nctinn,
when visiting the city will please call and see me. fivl7-Iy

California Steam Navigation

COMPANY. y^M

Steamer CAPITAL CAPT. E. A. POOLE

CHRYSOPOLIS CAPT. A. FOSTER.

" YOSEMITE

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Twoof the above steamers leave BROADWAY WHARF
at 4 o'clock P. M. EVERY DAY (Sundays excepted), one
for Sacramento and one tor Stockton, those for Sacra-
mento connecting with light-draft steamers for Slaryeville
Colusa, Chico, and Red Bluff.

office of the Company, northeast corner of Front and
Jackson streets.

B. M. nAKTSHORXE,
13vl2 ProMldent.

International Hotel,

a a. c k: © o iv street

BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AND KEARNY STS.,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE IS IN PERFECT
ordor for the accommodation of tMicsts. Persons seek-
ing comfort and economy will find ibis the best Hotel in
the city to stop at. Tlic Reds arc new and in good order,
and the Rooms well ventilated. The Table will alwa.VB be
supplied with the best in the market.
Price* vurylnur from $1 SO to $2 per <luy for

llmtrd mill Room.

FINE BATH HOUSE AND BARBER SHOP ATTACHED

TO THE HOUSE.

OS" Teams belonging to the House will be in nttendnnce
at all the boats and cars to convey passengers lo the House
fkkk of charge, and to any part oflhe city for HO cents

'<Jlvl2 F. E. WEYQANT, Proprietor.

DR. lSTESTELL'S
LTJTSTGr INSTITUTE,

(Branch or the V. V. I,im- Institute)
No. 5t« SUTTJEU STREET,

Between Mason and Powell Streets, San Francisco,
For the special Treatment of all Diseases of the HEAD,
THROAT, LUNGS, AND CHEST, by the Inhalation of
Medicated Vapors at the natural temperature of the air,
etc.

Earnest attention is solicited to this Rational Method of
Treatment, which trnnsmlts the remedies, in tho form of
vapor, directly to the sent of di-ease. instead of by the
roundabout way— through the medium of the stomach-
and which is conceded lo he the only reliable means where-
by an alleviation and cure may be expected. My system
of InhalHion, now well known throughout the United
States and Canada*, and much of Europe, where thousands
— mnny of thein far advanced— have recovered, claims the
profoundest approval of the medical prole sioii, und the
timely und candid consideration of those alllieted with
these the most devastating ol'all earthly maladies.

Patients attended at tlic Institute, daily, from 0 A. M. till
4 P. H.

Invalids at a distance, on writing their case, can receive
I ho remedies by Express.

Special attendance out or the city will be charged com-
mensurately with the tunc and distance occupied

All communications must be addressed to

D. D. T. NESTEEL, A. M., M. D.,
Lung Institute,
No. S1W Sutter Street, *an Francisco,
2lv17 3ino9. California.

STOCK CERTIFICATES,

STOCK TRANSFER JOURNALS,
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ASSESSMENT RECEIPTS,

And all other Blanks, Blank Books, etc., required by Min -
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order on short notice, at moderate prices, at the office of
he Mining and Scientific Pr

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Minebai, Lands ts. Eaileoad Ghauts. —
It seems, according to the Sacramento Bee,
that the recent test suit in the Placer County
District Court, between the Central Pacific
Railroad Company and miners and ditchmen
along the road, has been decided against
the railroad company, viz. , to the effect that
the Government did not grant to the
railroad company mineral lands; but the
case, it is said, will be carried up, so that it
will lead to a final decision. H. H. Fel-
lows, counsel for the miners, states the le-
gal position attempted to be maintained by
the attorneys for the opposite side thus:
If "A" conveys to "B" twenty acres of
land, and, in a subsequent part of the deed,
excepts from the operation of the convey-
ance "one acre " there, the reservation is
not valid, being inconsistentwith the grant-
ing clause; and that the same principle
■would apply to the reservation of mineral
land. The attorney of the railroad com-
pany, and Gen. Bedding, their land agent,
assisted Messrs. Tweed &, Craig, the attor-
neys of record, on the trial of the case.

Submabine Earthquake Phenomena. —
The following interesting facts were ob-
served by Capt. Christi, of the bark Eu-
phrosyns in Lat. 16° 42', Lon. 4° W., and
are copied from the London News:

The sky suddenly became overcast with
dense black-looking clouds, and in all di-
rections was heard a noise resembling dis-
tant cannonading, while the sea became
tossed and confused. To these signs of
agitation another was added of peculiar sig-
nificance. The compass vibrated largely
and almost lost its polarity, a sure sign
that a terrestrial disturbance of great ex-
tent and violence was in progress. Sev-
ral large meteors shot out from the heav-
ens. Fish jumped out of the sea and struck
against the sides of the ship. The volcanic
action of the sea continued during the
night until sunrise, when the weather be-
came clear and settled.

Proposed Atlantic Balloon Voyage in
Mat. — Prof. Chevalier, a celebrated French
aeronaut, recently arrived in New York
city, announces his intention to make the
attempt of an aerial voyage across the At-
lantic. The Professor in his European ex-
ploits made a voyage from Paris to Bussia,
distance seven hundred miles, in five hours.
Mons. Chevalier says it is his intention to
demonstrate the continuous belts of cur-
rents which are presumed to exist at an
elevation of ten thousand feet. His ves-
sel, the L'Esperance, is 90 feet in hight, 150
in diameter, and requires 120,000 cubic feet
of gas. The car is inclosed, resembles a
bamboo hut, and will contain fifty-two per-
sons.

Summer of 1869. — Expectation, commer-
cial and social, was never so lively in this
nation as during this season. Especially
this may be said with regard to Califor-
uiaus. Folks are on tiptoe for spring de-
velopments. "Who will have this or that
" trade ?" What are the best plans for se-
curing this or that market ? And there are
very few of our people, who have their na-
tive homes in the Eastern States, who are
not either expecting a visit from relative or
olden and near acquaintance, via the Pacific
Bailroad, next summer, or intending to
make the overland trip to the places where
they resided in childhood days. There is
going to be a vast amount of cordial hand-
shaking across the continent this year. The
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows holds its Na-
tional Convention in this city next Septem-
ber— a gathering to be reminded of in this
connection. — 5. F. Times.

Gas and Water for Mazatlan. —
Messrs. Howell & Larriaga have obtained
the privilege of maintaining gas works in
Mazatlan, for the term of twenty-one years,
and the schooner " Montana " has landed
the necessary materials on the ground, all
of which are to be in use within three
months. Mr. Howell has engaged the
services of a Mr. Cole to test the possibil-
ity of supplying that city with good water
by artesian wells.

Cocos Island treasure hunting expedi-
tions agree with the adventurous tastes of
Californians, and seem destined to be re-
peated again and again, for the edification
of those who will court romance at the ex-
pense of failure. Another party just heard
from via Panama, has returned, worn out
and disgusted. They spent nineteen days
there in the vain pursuit, looking for the
hidden riches, and then gave up the hunt
as entirely Utopian.

Dr. Hates has been lecturing on Arctic
Eesearches before the New York Geograph-
ical Society. He is willing to try again to
explore the Northern Ocean, which he says
is never frozen.

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100

Kustel's Treatise on Concentration of all
kinds of Ores.

IocludiQK the Chlorisation Process for Gold-
bearing Sulphorets, Arauuurets, and Gold
and Silver Or< i generally, mustrated with
190 Diagrams on 7 Plates.

COXTK\T8l

I. ISTHOUCCTION.

1. The Dressing.— Dressing of Ores; Princi-
pl.-i of Dressing; Division of Dri

•2. The Separation. 'Separation of Gangue
I *■ in the ofine; Drawing of Ores outside
nmtiiHi l»y Hummers; The Rag-
ging; The Sji.illiu^; Thu Cubbing; Sunnration
»»>■ Band; The Picking*

:i. Qleansingand Siauag Contrivances. — Wash-
ing and Sizing ; Stationary Apparatus ; The
Sluice; The Kiln: The StVp Kluire; Movable
Machines; The Hand Riddle; The Rooter; The
Circular Hand Riddle; Swinging and Jarring
Riddles; The Jarring Riddle.

4. Rotary Biaers.—The ^Trommel or Drum;
OjUndrio Trommel; Prismatic Trommel; Goni-
eaJ Trommel; Combined Trommel; TUu Sifting
Wheel; Sizes of Grains for Jigging,
II . — Reduction .

1. Reduction of Ores. — Reduction of Ores to
n Proper Size; Breaking cinder Heavy Stamps;
R dilution by Rock Breakers; Hanscom's Crush-
er ; Intake's Quartz Breaker ; Reduction by
Stamps.

2. Description of Batteries. — The Foundation;
M<>rtur Blocks; Frames; Iron Frames; How-
land's Rotary Battery; The Straight Iron Bat-
tery; Bryant's Battery; Wright's Iron Battery.

3. Details of a Battery.— The Mortar; Stem
or Lifter; Shoe or Pestle; Socketor Head; Tap-
pet; California Tappet; Cams — Wooden Cams;
Iron Cams.

4. Speed, Curve and Order of Lifts. — Limit
<«f Speed in Crushing; Construction of the Cam
Curve; Order of Successive Stamp Lifts; Hang-
iug-np of Stamps.

5. The Discharge of Batteries. — The Dis-
charge in Dry Crushing — with Grates; without
Grates; with Sieves; Dast Chambers; The Dis-
charge in Wet Crushing — the Grates and
Screens.

6. Feeding of Batteries. — Hand-Feeding; Sta-
tionary Hoppers; Movable Hoppers ; Quantity
of Water for Crushing; Remarks on Speed and
Weight of Stamps.

7. Reduction by Rolling Mills. — Construction
of Rollers; The Frame; Feeding of Rollers; Re-
marks.

8. Grinding. — The Arastra or Tehama; The
Edge or Chili Mill; Ball Mills; Lundgren*s Pul-
verizer: Cylinder Mills ; Ferrand Mill; Hopkins*
Grinder; Horizontal Mills; Iron Pan Grinders.

9. Pans -with Plane Mullers. — The Common
Pan Grinders; Tub Grinder; Bartolo's Grinder;
Knox's Pan; Varney's Pan; "Wheeler's Pan;
Union Grinder; Moore's Quartz Grinder; Gas-
ton's Grinder.

10. Pans -with Conical Mullers — Hepburn &
Peterson's Pan; Belden'sPan; Baux & Guiod's
Grinder.

11. Pans with Tractory-Conical Mullers. — Ex-
celsior Pan; Wheeler & Randall's Pan; Excel-
sior Continuous Grinders.

12. Pans with Perpendicular Mullers. — The
Centrifugal Ore Grinder ; Yamey's Quartz
Grinder.

III. — CoNCENTBATION.

Concentration of Reduced Ore.- — Division.
A Concentration of Ore Grains (Jigging
Stuff).— The Principle; The Jigging.

2. Movable Jiggers. — The Movable Jigger.

3. Stationary Jiggers. — Hydraulic Jigger;
Petherick's Separator; Stationary Jigger.

4. Continual Jiggers. — Percussion Jigger,
Setz Herd); Continual Cylinder Jigger; Con-
tinual Jigger; Hydraulic Continual.

5. Rotary Midlines. — The Rotating Cylinder
{Strom-setz Mischine); Rotating Wheel (Setz-
Rad); The Dolly Tab; Aufermau's Dry Jigger.

"B. Concentration of Ore Sands and Slimes.

6. Assorting of Sands. — The Labyrinth; Bor-
lace's Slime Separator; Ph. Hofmaun's Separa-
tor; Rittinger's Faunel or Pointed Box; Rittin-
ger's Spitz-Lutte.

7. Feeding of Concentrator. — Feeding-Boxes;
Stationary Feed-Box; Rotating Feeder.

8. Stationary Concentrators. — Hand Buddie;
Sleeping Table; Rack; Sweeping Tables; Round
Buddie; Concave Buddie; Blanket Tables.

9. Percussion Tables.' — Percussion Tables;
German Percussion Table; Continual Percus-
sion Table; Hunter's Continual Percussion Ta-
ble; Varney's Percussion Buddie.

10. Oscillating and Shaking Tables. — Bor-
laee's Concentrator ; Hendy's Concentrator;
Hungerford's Concentrator; Barron's Concen-
trator.

11. Steady Moving Concentrators. — Concave
Rotary Buddie; Convex Rotary Buddie; Bur-
ton's Table; Self-Discharging Blankets; Hori-
zontal-Moving Blanket.

IV. — Special Concentration.

1. Concentration of Gold Ores. — Concentra-
tion of Gold Ores; Amalgam of Gold Quartz;
Amalgamation and Grinding; Combined Couceu-
tration and Amalgamation; Treatment of Con-
centrated Stuff.

2. Concentration of Silver Ores; Concentra-
tion Works; Cost of Concentration; Concentra-
tion of Tailings.

3. Concentration of Lead and other Ores. —
Concentration of L'jad, Copper and other Ores;
Value of Ores for Concentration.

V. — Chloeination.
Extraction of Gold from Sulphurets or Arsen-
cials by Chiorination; Assay of Gold Sulphurets

by Ohlorination; Cblorinatioii Process tor Sul-
phuretB; Loss of Gold in Roasting; Single
Roasting Pnrnaoes; Double Fnrnaoes; uechan-
ical Fnrnaoes; The Rousting Operation; Roast-
ing with Salt.

Chiorination. — Damping of the Roasted Ore ;
Sifting; Production of Chlorine Gas; Lixivia-
tion; The Precipitating Vat; The Precipitation;
Coal "f the Chiorination Process per ton of Ore;
Hi marks.

Other Methods of Dissolving and Precitating
the Gold from Sulphurets. Chiorination al
Reiohenstein; Chiorination at Sohemnita; Cal-
vert's Method for Auriferous Quartz; Extraction
of Gold, Silver and Copper.

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Mining Notices.

Chloride Muuntulu Tunnel and Mlulnir Coin-

pany — Location ol Works: Vhlta Pin* Mining District,
Lander Count] . Nevadi

Notice Is hereby given, that nt n meeting of the Board o *
Trustees of said Company, held on the second day of

February. 1809, an assessment of nflv cents per share was
levied upon the capital stock of Hold Company, payable

i immediately, in United States Bold and a Irercoln. to the
SecroUry, at his office, No ■;.& Kearny street. San Fruucls-
co. Cal.

Any wtock upon which said assessment shall remain tin-
pai.l on the thirteenth tlav ol March. Icttl). shall he
deemed delinquent, mni win be <iuiv advertised roTsale
at public HiiiTlnii. Rinl unless payment shall be made be-
fore, will in- Bold on Saturday, the tenia 'ins- of April
18fi9. to pay the delinquent assessment, together rritn
COStSnf advertising and expenses of sale. By order ol tlio
Board of Trustees.

.1 iMES MCE, Secretary.

Ofllco, No fi!5 Kearny street. Sin Francl-co. leb!3

lluilu M"tni[:iln It l nc Oruvel Compuny.- Lo-
cution of Works: Nevada County. California.
Notice I- hereby given, that at a meeting ol the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on tho thirteenth day of
January, 18C9, an assessment of two dollars (Sii per share
was levied Upon the capital stock of said Company, paya-
ble Immediately, in United States gold coin, to the Sec-
retary.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the flfteeilth day of February, IH69, shall bo
deemed delinquent, and will bo duly advertised tor sale at
public auction, and unless paymcni shall be mude before,
will be sold nri .Monday, the eighth day of March, i»;y,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of
advertising aud expenses of sale. By order of the Board of
Trustees.

J. M BUFFINGTON, Secretary.
Offlee, 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California street,
San Francisco. jntilli

I. X. 3,. Gold and Silver MIiiIiik Company. —

Location of Mine : Silver Mountain District, Alplno

County, California;

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the nineteenth day of Jan-
uary, 18C9, an assessment of one dollar and fifty cents ($l.ai)
per share was levied upon the capitnl stock of said Com-
pany, poyuble Immediately, In Unln-d States gold and
sliver coin, to tlie Secretary, at his ornce. Pioneer Hall,
Montgomery street. Ran Francisco, California.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the twenty seventh day of February, lStl'J, shall bo
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for salo
ut public auction, and unless payment shall be made be-
fore, will be sold on Wednesday, the seventeenth day of
March,, I860, to pay tho delinquent assessment, together
with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. By order ot
the Board of Trustees.

.J. CROWNINSHIELD. Secretary.

Oltice, Pioneer Hall, Montgomery street, up staire,,San
Francisco. jan.Hu

Mount Teuabo Silver Mlnlns Company,- Lo-
cation of Works: Cortcz District, Lander County, State
of Nevada.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty-third day of
January, 18C9, an assessment of seventy-five cents per share
was levied upon the capital stock'of said Company, pay-
able Immediately, in United States gold and nLvjr coin, to
the Secretary, at the olllec of tho Company, 426 Montgom-
ery street, San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the fifth (fttii) day of March, I860, shall he
doomed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless payment shall he made be-
fore, will bo sold on Tuesday, the thirtieth (.toth) day of
March, 1869, to paj- the delinquent assessment, together
with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. By order
or the Board of Trustees

R. N VAN BRUNT? Secretary.
Office 426 Montgomery street, San Francisco. jan'SO

North American Wood Preaervlnff Company.

Location of Works: San Francisco, California.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Directors of said Company, held on the fifteenth day of
Joiiuary, 1869, an assessment of one ($1) dollar per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able immediately, in United States gold and silver coin, to
the Secretary, at the Company's office, 4.10 Montgomery
street, San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the eighteenth day of February, 1869, shall bo
deemed delinquent, and will be dulv advertised forsalcut
public auction, aud unless payment shall be made bofore,
will bo sold on Mo.iday, the eighth day of March, 18ti9,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs
of advertising and expenses of sale. Byorder of the Board
ol Directors.

WM. B.LAKE, Secretary.

Office, 430 Montgomery street. San Francisco. janl6

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DEWEY & CO.,

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A. T. DEWEY. W. B. EWER.

SULPHURETS ;

What they are;

How Assayed ;

How Concentrated;

And How "Worked:

With a Oliaptor on tho

BLOW-PIPS ASSAY OF MINERALS.

By WM. BARSTOW, Ut, D.

Published by A. Roman & Co., San Francisco.
For mile at tlilo Office— Price, One Dollar.

With the aid of this Booh, the miner can assay hia own
ores, requiring but few malcrials, etc., except such as are
generally to be found in the interior town;. 2lvl5tf

Rattlesnake Mining Company, Brotvn'i "Val-
ley, Yuba County, California.
Notice.— There are delinquent upon the following de

scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the

ninecenth day of December, 1868, the several amounts set

opposite the names of tho respective shareholders, as fol-
lows:

Names. No. Certificate.

Afrard. V7 R 1R

Agurd, M F 19

Ansiiilloni. U 5

Bradlev, M not Issued

Bradley, A 'not issued

Rabb, L H not Issued

Brown, J G

BenusHCq, A C G de 27

i '(.li ii & Bio not issued

Cavallier, J B E 3

CavHllicr, J BE 35

Courcclle, A 7

Ely, J not issued

Findlcy, Thos 20

Fischer. W 9

Hniy, C M not issued

Hawlcy, W not issued

Hawlcy, Mrs S not issued

Huard, A N 1

Huard, L H 2

Kelly, M J ' IS

Luwuon, J F ..not Issued

Lamory, E 11

MrAI'IsA Gordon !•*

McAllis & Gordon 15

MiiAllis & Gordon IU

Mc Al I is A Gord on 17

Mattat. M 4

Nop]. A 12

Rugglcs. D W nit Issued

Smith, J B not issued

Vitic. ./ not ivsucd

Weasels, S C not issued

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board

of Trustees, made on the nineteenth day of December, 181.8,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be m c-
cssary, will be sold at public auction, by J. Middleton A
Son, 310 Montgomery street, San Francisco, on Monday, the
eighth day of February. 1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock M.
of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment thereon,
together with coats of adverfising and expenses of sale.
JOHN F. LOUSE, Secretary.
Office, 318 California street, up stairs. Sou Francisco. j23

Postponement.— The above sale is hereby postponed until
Thursday, the eighteenth day of Fobruary, 1S69, at thesams
hour and place. By order of the Board of Trustees,

feb6 . JOHN F. LOKSE, Soorelary.

No. Shares.

Amount.

44

$ Mu i ti

1U0

7511 00

tf

45 00

30

225 00

5

37 50

25

187 50

20

150 Oil

20'

150 10

10

75 00

10

75 U0

91

682 50

46

345 00

III

75 00

49

367 &l

45

337 50

60

450 el)

39

292 50

6

45 00

210

1575 00

20

15 00

20

150 00

49

3G7 CO

100

750 00

5

37 50

10

75 00

10

75 00

20

150 00

20

150 00

20

350 00

10

75 1)0

10

75 00

I17 50

10

75 U0

By Expkkss.— Two cents per copy will bo added to our
usual rates ol subscription (to pay Wells, Fi\rgo \ Co'startlt
on papers sent by express. ITcniim'Ctinu expresses in thOt
ntoriormake additional charges, siU'-W-ftty^ must them,

ives settle tho same.

110

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinery.

PATENT AMALGAMATOR

These Machines Stand Unrivaled.

For rapidly pulverizing and amalgamating ores, they
nave no equal. No effort has been, or will be, spared to
have taem constructed in the most perfect manner, and of
the great number now iu operation, not one has everre-
qulred repairs. The constant and increasing demand for
tli em is sufficient evidence of their merits.

They are constructed so as ro apply steam directly into
the pulp, or with steam bottoms, as desired.

This Amalgamator Operates as Follows:

The pan being filled, the motion of theinuller forces the
pulp to the center, where it is drawn down through the ap-
erture and between the grinding surfaces. Thence it is
thrown to the periphery into the quicksilver. The curved
plates again draw it to the center, where it passes down,
and to the circumference as before. Thus it is constantly
passing in a regular flow between the grinding surfaces and
Into the quicksilver, until the ore is reduced to an impalpa-
ble powder, and the metal amalgamated.

Sellers made on the same principle excel all others.—
They bring the pulp so constantly and perfectly in contact
with quicksilver, that the particles are rapidlj- and com
pletely absorbed.

Mill men are invited to examine these nans and sellers for
themselves, at the PACIFIC FOUNDRY,

ivi San Francisco.

CALIFORNIA TOOL WORKS,

Blacksmith and Machine Shop,

HAS REMOVED
To 143 Beale St., bet. Mission nnd Howard,

SAN FBANCISCO.

All kinds of Edge or other Tools made +o order. Im-
norteo Tools, if too hard or soft, re tempered to give satis-
faction. REAPER AND MOWING KNIVES; complete
sections always mi iiand,orwill be made at the shortest
notice. Particular intention paid to pit > ting in order AG
RICUI/IURAL MACHINERY. Job Grinding and Polish-
ing by sleam. Ordcrsfrom the Country promptly attended
to B=3-Ail work warranted, prices reas maMe.

21vl7qy J. WE1CHHART, Proprietor.

Trades and Manufactures,

WM. 8ARTL1NG.

HKNRY KIMBALL.

Patent Rights for Sale.

For Preserving Timber from Decay

The cheapest method for curing Wood.
A. IIAHAK'S PATE XT.

"WOOD PAVEMENT,

JIILLEK'S PATEST.

S. IL,. PEREIKA,
3v Sim ~i> 1 Montgomery Htrect, Boom 4.

ELLEFvY'S PATENT

India Slubber Cement and Paint

— FOB —

TIN, IRON AND METALLIC LROOFS,

Iron, Brick an. I Wooden Kuildlnffis,
SHIPS, STEAMBOATS, STAGES, CARS,

AND FOR ALL EXPOSED SURFACES.

Is water-proof and indestructible; will neither rot, peel,

lioreraeit; will withstand any climate; can be put on in

auy color, and is loss expensive thuu other taint.

Sew Cloth Roof* put on. Old Kooft cemented
und pitlnted. Leaky Bool's inade tltfkt.

OS- No Coal Tar or Asphaltum used. All work guaran-
teed. Orders punctually aileuued, to.

4 GEO. T. ItROSILET, Agent,

24vl7-3m

BLAKE'S QUARTZ BREAKER !
IPRICES REDUCED!

MACHINES OF ALL SIZES FOR SALE

— BY —

WM. P. BLAKE,

Corner Firm- and Mission street*, or Box 2,©TT

5vl3f SAN FRANCISCO.

GLASGOW
Iron and Metal Importing Company

Xo». 25 and £7 Fremont street,

SAN t'HASClSCO,

Keep constantly on baud a la'ge stock of best Bar and
Bundle Iron, Uniier Tubes, r"lLiie and Sheet Iron, Una and
Water Pipe, Anvils, Cast Steel, Gas and Water Fitting,
which they ortVr to tliu trado on liberal terms.

2Lvit>sSin W. McUKlNOLE, Manage*

Removal.

NELSON~& DOBLE,

AOKNTS for

Thomas Firth & Sons' Cast Steel, Files,

Etc., Shear, Spring, German, Plow, Blister and Toe Calk

Steel; manufacturers of

Mill Picks, Sledges, Hummers,. Picks,

Stone cutters', Blacksmiths' and Horse-Shoers' Tools,

Have removed to 13 aud 15 Fremont street, near

AlarKut, tian b'rauciauu.

lUvUqr

JNotiee to Miners,

Well-Borers and Water Companies,

MFRAG IS NOW PREPARED TO MANUFACTURE
. Hydraulic and Aruwiau Well Pipes in the best work-
manlike manner, and at the lowest market rates. Having
made large additions to my stock of machinery for that
branch of business, I am prepared to dllall orders with dis-
patch, and guarantee entire satisfaction. I also manufac-
ture Mississippi Stoves, ol the latest Improved patterns, tor
vessels of nil classes. Also, Ship Plumbing dune.

.11. I'll AG,
8vl3-ly Stove Store. No. 1 Clay street, below Davis.

PACIFIC FILE WORKS,

No. 53 Beule Street, bet. Market and Mission,

SAN' FRANCISCO.

~~s

Files Rc-cutand warranted asffood as new, with a savins?
Of ttt'ty per cent. REAPER AND MOWER SECTIuNS
MAL>p; t'u URUER. The' only establishment on ihc Coast,
orders from the country promptly attended to. stg- First
Preniiani awarded at H"-- Slate Pair, lSt»7.

2vir-3tn T. ». llUK.VlXG «Si CO

Postase.— The postage on tbe Mining and Scikmific
PtiKSS to any portion of the United State- is twenty cents per
annum, or Uve cents per qua iter, payable in advance at the
Post Otrlce delivering the paper. Postage free in the city
and County. Foreign postage (with few exceptions) two
cents per copy, prepaid, lo Bremen and the German
Hiatus (marked via Bremen and Hamburg line), three cents
per cop v, prepaid, Sitiglocoples to an v address in the United
Statoi, two ceuta

Pipe Vise, with or without
Extra Jaw.

Standard Milling Machine.

UNION VISE COMPANY,

OF BOSTON, MASS.

Extra jaw, and heavy Vises. Warranted for heavy wort.
New style Wood and Covered Screw Vises, fortv styles and
kinds; Standard Milling Machines, simple, great capacity,
power and strengih— two sizes, large, 2,300 lbs; small, 950
lbs. For salu by the trade.

G. H. NOTT, Prcs.

For salu by the trade.
23vlbMy

Boiler Scraper and Tube-Cleaner.

IT IS THE CHEAPEST, MOST
durable, easiest to adjust, and
cleanest apparatus to use for tin
purpose designed, yet offered to
the public Being constructed on
simple and mechanical principles,
it i- not liable to get out of order,
and will continue to perform lis
office until the materials are worn
out. It can readily be adjusted,
even by any inexperienced per-
x <n— will scrape off the scales and
cleanse the tubes just as smooth
and clean as they were when
new, without in the least affecting
their inner surface, as the Elliptic
Spring Scraper has a smooth
square edge, and springs in or out
iu fit the tubes. It is particularly
applicable for steamboat boilers
when muddy water Is used.

A continuous iron rod runs
through the center of the top and
bottom hubs. The soft steel scrap-
ers are fastened with screws to
the hubs, under the caps, which
cover and protect the screws that
fasten the scrapers on the hub.
The scrapers are expanded or con-
tracted by screwing or unscrew
lug the lower hub,— first loosening
the cap. There is a collar on the
rod to prevent the scrapers being jammed. An elastic or
flexible brush or scraper, made of leather, rubber, or some
pliable material, is attached to the nut for the purpose ot
removing from the tube the scale and dust loosened by the
action of the scrapers.

These scrapers are made from one to six inches in diam-
eter—the prices of those from one to three inches ranginc
from $5 to $12. They are now extensively used In the
Eastern States. Quite a number have already been sold in
this State.

For sale by McAfee, Spiers k Co , boiler makers, Howard
street, between Fremont and Beale. San Francisco, and at
the Union Foundry, Sacramento. E. M. D., P. O. box 17,
San Francisco, Manufacturers' Agents. 24vl7tf

Portable Engines.

The Swamscot Co's (warranted equal to any manufac-
tured, may be seen in use in this cliv), PORTABLE and
STATIONARY STEAM FIRE ENGINES, STEAM PUMPS
and ROTARY PUMPS, and WuOD-WORKING MACHIN-
ERY of cverv description, at Eastern piiees. Address W.
O. M. BERRY & CO., 511 California street, San Francisco.
2b'vl7-3m

!?*. -fc\ & !&• «JT . jRin AC.

E. E. WATERMAS. W. H. TOB^T.

WM. H. TOBEY & CO.,
RAILROAD ADVERTISING AGENCY,

641 Market street,
Between Second and Third streets (up stairs).

FRAMES, CARDS, CIRCULARS, POSTERS,

Etc., put up in all the Cars and Depots of the Sau Fran

eisco and San Jose Railroad.
Advertise your Business for the Country Trade

ivistr

The Oakland Daily Transcript

A. BIT PAPER.

The Largest Circulation in the County.

Advertisements In the Transcript will reach
every part ol* Alameda County.

RATES FOR ADVERTISING

VEKY H.O-W.

Onr Patent Agfency.

The Patent Acknct of the Mining and Scientific Preps
has been signalized with remarkable success during the
past few vcars. The importance to the inventive genius of
this coast of a thorough and reliable agency for the solicita
tiou of Lettkks Patbnt from the United States and foreign
Governments cannot be ovcr-rated.and the Proprietors of t tie
Press, feeling the responsibility which rests upon them, and
the reward which must follow the faithful performance of
their trusts, will take care to afford inventors every advan-
tage to be secured to them through a competent aud re-
sponsible agency upon this coast.

BARTLING- & KIMBALL,
BOOX£BirVI>EK,S,

Paper Eiders and Blank Book Manufacturers.

505 Clay street, (southwest cor. Sansome),
15vl2-3m SAN FRANCISCO.

JOHN I>A.]VIDBI>,

(SUCCESSOR TO O. GOR!)

MARBLE WORKS,

No. 421 Pine st. bet. Montgomery and Kearny, San Francisco

Mantels, Monument*. Tombs, Plumbers' Slabs

Etc., On h3nd and Manufactured to order.
JB5r* Goods shipped to all parts of the State. Orders re
qpectfulb solicited. 5v8-3m

Palmer's Patent
ARTIFICIAL LEG-,

Manufactured in Philadelphia, Finn,
JART1S JEWETT, AGENT.

218 Montgomery Street. San Francisco. 10v8-lm

J. M. STOCKMAN,

Manufacturer of
PATTERNS A1VX> MODELS,

(Over W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry,
S. E. Corner of Mission and Fremont sts.,
6vUtf SAN FRANCISCO

J. F. PAG-ES,

SEAL ZE.TV G H A V E It ,
AMI LETTER CUTTER,

Brass and Steel Stampa and Dies, 008 Sacramento street,

San Francisco. Orders l>v express promptly attended to.

6vlC

DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITURE.
JOHNSON~~& BEST,

Manufacturers of all kinds of

Desks and. Office Furniture*

717 market street, nenr Third.

Work made to order.
lSvlTqr

Novelty and Usefulness Combined.
Wilson's Prepared JSoldex-

Dispenses with the Solderlnc Iron.

It will save you both time and luuor. Uno ouitle of this
Solder will mend all the tins you have laid one side for
months, and make them good as new. Get them out and
mend them. It is cheap— only so cents a bottle ; it Is con-
venient and compact. Use any kind of tamp that has a
blaze no larsrer than a single wick; a spirit lamp will make
no smoke. You may mend a dish or can nvcrihe best table
without fear of spoiling it. Try It. and you will never want
a soldering iron in the house again tt hat a saving
to farmers. No more stopping up of holes in milk pans
with a rag. Milkmen can mend their own cans. It
does the prettiest job on snv article y<iu have In the house,
from a pint dish to a wash boiler Ii is a sure tliine to siick
when resin and Milder wil'.n.iL It will stand heat as well
as anv solder ever u*ed over tire

Agency tor the Pact ic Coast, Room No. 10, No. t23 Wash-
imjiiiii s'treet, San Kraiiciseo. AGENTti WANTED.

Address P. O. box 17. 23vl7tf

Pacific Chemical Works.

SULPHURIC ETHER-
SPIRITS OF AITRE,

AQl'A AM M OX] A,
ACETIC ACID,

CATANIUE OF POTASSIUM

— AND —

ACIDS AXD CHEMICALS OF ALL KINDS.

FALKENAU & HANKS,

Office and Laboratory. Sixteenth ntrect, be-
tween FolKOm and Hilrri.on.

LODIS FALKENAO", State Assayer.

ISP" Particular attention paid to the Analysis of ORES,
MI.NEKALS METALS. etc. 8vl7

BELXJTIISE &. CO.,

Of CONkJOBD, N. H.,

Lone employed at the celebrated firm of Downing &Son,
have opened a manulactoiy of

Concord Wagons,

Of all descriptions, at No. 83© and SS2 Folsom street, be
tween Fourth and Fifth streets, San Francisco.

Orders received for Buggies, Expresses, and Light and

Heavy Thorough-brace. Carriage Springs made to order.

lSvl5-lani-6EC

Rkcistek your lkttkrs containing money addressed to
us or we will not be responsible. Remittances by Express
must be in packages, prepaid. When praciicable, it is tiest
to remit by draft, or order, on some ban Francisco bank or
firm.

Owen and Darwin.

A chapter from the forthcoming edition of
Prof. Owen's "Anatomy of Vertebrates" is
given by the American Journal of Science
and Arts. The respective hypotheses of tie
two philosophers are therein constrasterl, —
Owen's "Derivations" and Darwin's "Nat-
ural Selections." We quote:

According to my derivative hypothesis, a
change takes place first in the structure of
the animal, and this when sufficiently ad-
vanced, may lead to modifications of habits.
As species rise in the scale, the concomitant
change of structure can and does lead to
change of habits. But species owe as little
to the accidental concurrence of environing
circumstances as Kosmos depends on a for-
tuitous concourse of atoms. A purposive
route of development and change, of corre-
lation and interdependence, manifesting in-
telligent Will, is as determinable in the
succession ot races as in the development
and organization of the individual. Gener-
ations do not vary accidentally, in any and
every direction ; but in preordained, defin-
ite, and correlated courses.

' ' Derivation" holds that every species
changes, in time, by virtue of inherent ten-
dencies thereto. ' ' Natural Selection" holds
that no such change can take place without
the influence of altered external circum-
stances educing or selecting such change.
" Derivation" sees among the effects of
the innate tendency to change, irrespective
of altered surrounding circumstances, a
manifestation of creative power in the vari-
ety and beauty of the results; and, in the
ultimate forthcoming of a being susceptible
of appreciating such beauty, evidence of
the preordaining of such relation of power
to the appreciation. "Natural Selection"
acknowledges that if ornament or beauty,
in itself, should be a purpose in creation , it
would be absolutely fatal to it as a hypoth-
esis.

"Natural Selection" sees grandeur in the
" view of life, with its several power's, hav-
ing been originally breathed by the Creator
into a few forms or into one." "Deriva-
tion" sees, therein, a narrow invocation of
a special miracle and an unworthy limita-
tion of creative power, the grandeur of
which is manifested daily, hourly, in call-
ing into life many forms, by conversion of
physical and chemical into vital modes of
force, under as many diversified conditions
of the requisite elements to be so com-
bined.

"Natnral Selection" leaves the subse-
quent origin and succession of species to
the fortuitous concurrence of outward con-
ditions: "Derivation" recognizes a purpose
in the defined and preordained course, due
to innate capacity or power of change, by
which noniogenously-created protozoa have
risen to the higher forms'of plants and ani-
mals.

The hypothesis of. " derivation" rests up-
on conclusions from four great series of in-
ductively established facts, together with a
probable result of facts of a fifth class; the
hypothesis of ' ' natural selection" totters on
the extension of a conjectural condition,
explanatory of extinction to the origination
of species, inapplicable in that extension to
the majority of organisms, and not known
or observed to apply to the origin of any
species.

Fotjrtjeeestic Colony. — A company hos
been formed in this city of men who pro-
pose toemigrate with their families to White
Pine in the spring, in which the principle
of cooperation has been carried to the Four-
ier limit. The company consists of twelve
men, their wives and little ones. They are
having their house framed on the Truckee;
ready to be freighted piece-meal to Treas-
ure City m March. A " corner grocery
store" will occupy one angle in the build-
ing; the company members will all reside
in the house, and have rooms to spare for
strangers; they will keep a hotel as well as
a grocery, and the wages and mining specu-
lation investments and profits will be in
community. A wing of the main building
is to be devoted to the brewery business,
and the erection of a small flouring and
feed-mill is among the list of enterprises
contemplated by this company. — £. F. Ex.

The Bituminous Shale at Elko is of a
light, yellowish-brown color, and upon
being ignited in the flame of a candle
burns readily, with a clear flame and much
heat. While burning it gives out no bitu-
minous smell. A quantity being put in a
stove at Elko and a full draft turned on, it
burned so fiercely that the whole stove —
and pipe for some feet above — was beat* d
red hot, and the stove platas cracked in tw o
or three places. The shale resembles tie
petroleum-soaked rock found in Bittir
Creek Valley, though no traces of oil are to
be seen in it while burning.

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Ill

MiNKiiAi. Statistics. — Ross Browne
gives fchfl following statistics of the produc-
tion of the precious metals intbis couutiv,
since 1848 :

Total product, $1,:IOO,000,00(>; of which

California furnished over $900,000, I, Ne-

¥Bdfl 590,000,000, nod Oregon $20,000,000;
waste on aoconnl of imperfect or improvi-
dent mining 8800,000,000,— which is attrib-
uted to rcckk--i imstc und impatience. The
present yearly prodnct be estimates at $75,-
inni.nii,',,f which s2.'..UOO,000 comes from

this St;it.'. siin.iinii. I from Nevada,

$2,000,000 from Oregon, §18,300,000 from
Idaho and Montana. Colorado has pro-

,ln i altogethei lv $25,000,000, and now

yields bnt$2,500, I yearly.

The prodnct of California is now derived
as follows: From surface diggings, $2,000,-
000; from cement or deep-lying placers,
818,000,000; from quartz mines, $9,000,000,

In many parts of Nevada, silver ores
bearing 9100a ton, and in Montana and
Idaho, gold ores of 800 a tou " wilt not
justify working."

Cor.OB-DT.INDNES.s. — Dugald Stewart could
not distinguish between red and green, and
John Pulton did not know blue from crim-
son. In the solar spectrum, instead ofred,
orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and
violet, Palton only saw three colors, yel-
low, blue aud violet. He could distinguish
no difference between the scarlet gown of a
cardinal aud the foliage of the trees ; and
when one day he dropped a piece of red
sealing wax in the grass, he had great dif-
ficulty in finding it again. Mr. Pulton's
case|has given rise to the term Daltonianism,
which is now generally applied to this kind
of color-blindness. — Gas Light Journal.

GtAcTEns. — "In a former age thowholo
United States was covered w.th ico several
thousand feet thick, and this ice, moving
from north to south by the attraction of
tropical warmth, or pressing weight of ice
and snow behind, ground the rocks into
the paste we call the soil. These masses of
ico can be tracked as surely as game is
tracked by the kuDter. The stones and
rocks ground and polished by the glaciers
can easily be distinguished from those
scratched by running water. The angular
boulders found in meadows and the terraces
on our rivers not now reached by water,
can be accounted for only in this way." —
Prof. Agassiz.

The Oldest Tree in Eukope is asserted
to be the cypress of Somma, in Lombardy,
Italy. This tree is believed to have been
in existence at the time of Julius Caesar,
forty-two years before Christ, and is, there-
fore, 1901 years old. Superior antiquity is
claimed for the immense tree in Calaveras
County, which is supposed, from the num-
ber of concentric circles in the trunk, to be
2,505 years old.

Rainfall Pata. — The Los Angeles Star,
of January 23d, says farmers are beginning
to stop plowing, in consequence of the con-
tinued drought.

CAIJPORNIA.

BUSINESS UNIVERSITY

204 Montgomery Street.

Full particulars regarding o >r Practical Course of Sludlcs
may tie had by calling at tin* University, w by addressing
l7vl7-qyL2p E. i*. IIEA^D, Snii Franclscp.

Insurance Company,

OF SAX FRAXCISCO.

Ca*h Capital,

GOLD COIN.

Office S. W. corner of" Montgomery and
California streets.

Fire and Marine Insurance.

AH Losses paid In U. S. Gold Coin.

CUB. CHRISTIANSEN, President.
B. RoTiiscnii.n. Secretary^ 20vl7-3m

A "WARNING- £yg£

TO ALL 'WHO ARE AFFLICTED.

Bcforcthe vain v season comes Ret cured of Rheumatism
nnd Neura gia, by herbs only. The receipt was given some
years ago by an old Indian in New Orleans, and it lias never
failed to cute all it says. Many have been cured in this
city and in Boston, and all say it is the best they havi
tried. Manufactured by MRS. MARY HIGGINS, Oregon
street, two doors west of Drumm. Orders sent by mail or
express attended to on receipt of S5 per bottle. 22vl7-3m

Small Pox.

We hnvc been shown by Win. Zelner, the best nnd most
convenient and portable apparaius containing Chlorine,
for rooms which we consider the best disinfectant oui,
pndMiould advi.-eail housekeepers nut to be without on"
Price SI. complete; to be had, with fu'l directions at WM.
ZELNER'S German Drugstore, IS Geary street , 25vl7-3ui

HOOTS PATENT FORCE BLAST ROTARY BLOWER.

Patented Nov. l.t, lsr, I ; July 2*. 1866 ; and Oct. 9, 1806.

Awarded tlic First Pi-omiiim at tlio Paris Exposition.

A

REQUIRES

Fifty Per Cent.

LESS POWER,

Thnn any Blower

Stesiiiusliips

Ono of these Blowers may ho seen on exhibition at W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry, corner of
Mission and Fremont streets. They are also in use at the Almaden Quicksilver Mine ; Gridley's
Foundry, Gold Hill, Nevada; Muv.i iron Works, San Francisco, and many other places.

Caution. — Purchasers will find it to their advantage to apply direct to the Stockton Agency, as
pertain parties, no„ authorized to in inufuctm-e the Blower, have put in the market machines of interior
construction, which do not answer all the requirements of the genuine article.

For circulars and further information, address

KEEP & BARG-ION,

4vlG 3m Globe Iron Works, Stockton, Cal.

JOHN WEIGHT & CO.,

^-DEALERS IN —

JPICKS ^^IVI> PICK HANDLES.

Sole Agents for Washoe Tool Company,

N"o. 331 Fremont St., bet. Howard ftxrcL Folsom, San Francisco.

LIST OP PKICES OP PICKS:

No. 1 Bound Eyo surfucc, 4

4

5 "

C

7

8 Flat Eye surfaco

9
II)
11

15 Drifting

5«

6

6JjS

7

4

iH

5

554

6

6M

No. .17 Drifting 4;« llis .

18 " 5

1!) " 5!$

21 Poll 4

22 " 4)si

23 . " 5

24 " 5«

25 " C

21! " 6J4

27 " 7

28 Coal 2

29 " 2Sji

3D

31

3'/i "

15

15

10

Also PICK EYES ready for the steel, for the Blacksmiths, which will

be sold, cheap.

I wish to call special attention to my

ZESTIE'W ADZE E^E IPICIK,

Which was made under my own supervision while in New York. For BEAUTY, STRENGTH
and DURABILITY, they.aro unecraaled.

JOHN WRIGHT.

Wo have a largo stock of EXTEA NO. 1

WHITE HICffiORY DRIFTING PICK HArWDtES,

WHICH WE OFFER CHEAP.

CALL AND EXAMINE FOK YOURSELVES.

[2vlb'-3uilara

Metallurgy.

MOSHEIMEB'S

PIONEER MINING- SCHOOL,

— AND —
METALLl'ROIC WORKS.

Having established the nrst Practical Mining and Metal

lurgical School lu die United States, i would call the at"
tontlon of gentlemen who way wish to obtain a praoilca
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Tlmt 1 am prepared to teaelj all tlie above branches In lesa
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1 also undertake -to assay and work any kind of ore, or
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Office, S28 Montgomery street; Mclallurgfc Works. 2U05
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In the development of the mineral wealth or this coast.

A Full Assortment ot" DRUGGISTS' GLASSWARE and
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Formerly Chemical Examiner in the V. S. Patent Office
maybe employed professionally as a Sciksjtific Expkrt.
Geological Examinations and Reports, Analysis nnd Assays,
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ical Arts and Manufactures. Invention and examination
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Important to G-old and Silver Min-
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Who is the Inventor and Patentee of the new and wonder
fill uses of SODIUM IN WORKING GOLD AND SILVER
ORES AND JEWELERS' SWEEPINGS, will furnish at the
above address nt'ormation in relation thereto, together
with experimental packages of

SODIUM AMALGAM.

All Instructions nnri experiments elsewhere ohtnlned are
spurious and unreliable. WORKING EXPERIMENTS ON
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Hon in New York a large nnd small Hepburn Pan, for work
Ins I.OiiO or 20-lb. charges ol material lor experimenta.
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THE BEST PUMP FOR MiMOT©,
FARMING AND DOMESTIC PURPOSES.

Fig-. S.

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These Pumps are meeting with universal fa-
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duced, in many instances superseding Pumps
which had hitherto been considered the best in
the world.

Fig. 1 is a sectional view of a 6-inch Mining Pump, showing the plunger and hemp packing on the
left, with the chamber on the right containing the puppet valves. Fig. 2 represents the chamber, with
the water-passages and valve-seats. Fig. 3 is the valvo, operating in the chamber. Fig. 4 is the
improved Hand Pump. Fig. 5, a 6-inch Mining Pump, shows the adjustable: bonnet opening to the
valves.

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By recent alterations in the patterns for these machines, they are now made
Stronger and mox-e Durable than Ever.

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Concentrators ordered Irom you. We have run them steadily since July lust, with but a very trifling
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as concentrators, they have done us good service as amalgamators, they having saved us the past
month 50 ounces of hard amalgam, worth t'350, which otherwise would have been lost.

Respectfully yours, J. H. CliOSSMAN, Supt. N. S. Mine.

J. HENDY, Patentee.

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San Francisco, Saturday, February 20, 1869.

VOI/UME XVIII.
JNombel* 6.

Table of Contents.

Mechsntcnl Movements- Ills.
> r a-n un.l its Beaourai -.
M ii, In Alp1 ■>•' C' BOH -

p .■! I Mining and Metal*

in iglc.il Oominlsaloa to Bu*

rupc

Tin' Kim) I- totlve

liuimii-c Gravel Hinlng BR-

I. r |j r is.-

ii! \i :i irmv nf sciences
Commencing Oin-ratious on a

Ambergris
Dangerous Coal nils.
Reals .111 tin' V. W. Coast.

Waiii-'.l, wimi and Hum M.i|.

HI tin- r,. .SI.

Tnc ,ter Ventilation Aliinn.
1* rtlng nfOold and Silver.
Hcnotil* for lndusirlal Science
itiiilr.i.»l Item*.

N.w I in "i-|i. U-, ii luti-..
BlKTINKBRIMa MlSOKIXANY.—

DeMruclu rituii Bottom

Lands ; Tunnel Under the
Mr. ill- ot" Dover; The Snow

piv. —

Sheds; A Peruvian Rail
ro d.

MM. UaMOAL llhi'i

Kails— Iron orsteel
lire hotter than lluninur
Ing I r Welding : L'Qllld
Fuel li.r SU-nin Vessels;
Ii.'i'isklns ; st.-um Bxpan-
sl

s. i.sTi-ir Miscnissr —
Tin' RtlkiVorm Disease; The
Transits ,,( Vi-niis; The two
Toluidlnea; Paraffino

tliMiNcsujiaAiiY— Cuiiiiirislnc

lale Inlcllluellce Ir the

various counties and dis-
tricts In Onlliornlit. Arizo-
na, lilulio, Nevada, orecon,
and I'luli

N'ew Patents and Inventions.

San Kranels o Mining sliaie
holders' Directory.

San Pranolsco Metal Market.

s.iu Knillcisco Market Kates.

Notices to Correspondents.

Stock Prices— Bid and Asked.

Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering
Magazine. — We have received the first
number of a new niouthl y magazine with
the above title, — larse octavo, having
ninety-six pages filled with the most valu-
able reading matter to engineers and me-
chanics, and published at $5 a year, or fifty
cents a number. The editor is Alexander
L. Holley, of the Troy Bessemer Works.
From the word "eclectic," as well as from
the introduction of the editor, it may be
inferred that most of the leading articles
are to be copied from English, French, and
German engineering periodicals; at the
same time that the American field is to be
properly canvassed for the kind of matter
that is-required by the profession in this
country. In view of the fact that the
American materialistic penchant has so
much to do with engineering, and has de-
veloped a great deal in that field which is
new to the old world, it seems strange, now
that we setfbefore us an American maga-
zine devoted specially to the subject, that
we have not had anything of the kind be-
fore. But we have only to bear in mind
how very undeveloped, comparatively, our
country, with all itspromisingspecialfields,
has been up to the time of the war, and to
the building of the Pacific Eailroad. This
engineering magazine is a desideratum,
which, if not very seriously mismanaged,
cannot fail to become speedily an institu-
tion and a power in the land. Amongst the
leading papers, are : Excavating in Quick-
silver, by W. J. McAlpine, from a report
read before the American Society of Civil
Engineers; Composition of Steel, trans-
lated from the Berg and Hiitten-Zeitung, by
John B. Peavse, M. E. ; Freight Locomo-
tives; Rubber Tires; Preserving Timber;
Liquid Fuel ^Railway Accommodations,
etc.

Underground Life, or Mines and Min-
ers.— Wo have received from H. H. Ban-
croft & Co., a large octavo volume of this
title, containing 520 pay.es, splendidly
printed, and illustrated by 160 artistic en-
gravings on wood, 20 maps geologically
colored, and 10 plates of metals and min-
erals, chromo-lithography; by Prof. L. Sini-
onin, of the Paris Ecole des Mines, who
visited Colorado eighteen mouths ago. The
work is translated and adapted to tlio pres-
ent state of British mining, and edited by
H. W. Bristow, F. E. S. ; published by D. ,
Appleton & Co., New York. Further no- 1
tice will be made of the book in our next
issue. .

Mechanical Movements.

We continue (from page 49) our illustra-
tions of mechanical movemeuts :

67. Rectilinear Into circular motion. Pawl on one arm
acts ou the wheel when the foil moves in ono direction,
ami the other when the rod returns.

58. Fiddle drill, used by watch-makers. String ot the
bow pusses round the pulley on spindle of the driU

69. Reciprocating into circular motion by up and down
motion of pin on the slide, in zig-zag groove on cylinder.

(10. Reciprocating into rotary motion.

61. Reciprocating motion to a framo by means of end-
less rack and pinion.

62. Imparting a reciprocating rectilinear motion to a
toothed rack by a toothed segment secured to a lever-
arm, which is subjected to the action of a weight, and
of an eccentric wrist-pin, projecting from the side of a
revolving disk.

other, and are dove-taUed inward from upper edge to re-
ceive two wedges for tramping the piece or pieces of
wood to be planed.

84. Obtaining mi tlon from a fall of water. The
bucket empties itself as it touches the ground by a valve
in the bottom.

Seals on the North-west Coast. — Dur-
ing the spring, after the 15th of April, seals
and sea lions settle in myriads in Beh-
ring's, Copper, Blijnec, Andreanoviki, Fox,
St. Paul's and St. George's Islands, and the
business of hunting them for their fur and
oil already engages many Californians and
Puget Sound people, not mentioning coast
Indians and Russian half-breeds; larger
profits being returned here than iu the

C3. Rod reciprocates by mcansof heart-shaped cam.

64. Converting continuous revolving into reciproca-
ting revolving motion by a cam-disk acting on an oscilla-
ting lever.

G6. Revolving into reciprocating rectilinear motion, by
means of roller-arms, extending from a revolving shaft,
and acting on lugs projecting from a reciprocating
framo.

66. Reciprocating motion by toothed wheel and spring
bar.

67. Cam groove in^drum to produce reciprocating mo-
tion.

68. Reciprocating rectilinear motion by means of a
cam. ,

69. Variable velocity of bar by Blotted urm on shaft.
71). Rotating scolloped wheel gives rectilinear motion

to rod.

71. When the upper and lower rods are brought to-
gether, the right and left are separated.

72. Toe and lifter for working engine valves.

73. Parallel motion for piston-rod of steam engine.

74. Stamp and lifting cam.

75. Same purpose, with rack and mutilated pinion.

76. Working-beam und fly-wheel.

77. Eccentric or cam, and elbow lever.

78. Cross-head and guides.

79. Oscillating motion of beam into rotary motion by
sun and planet wheels.

80. Double-acting beani.

81. Single-acting beam.

82. One fprni pf oscillating engine.

83. Bowery's joiner's e]amp; plan and transverse aec^
tion, Oblong bed Jute, at one end, two wedge-formed
cheeks, adjacent sides of which lie at an angle to each

Labrador seal fishery, or on the Norwegian
coasts. A returned seal hunter furnishes
the Mercantile Gazette with some informa-
tion on the subject, which we condense as
follows :

The male seal, or sekach, in the spring,
guards more than two hundred females.
The sekach is very large, and has great in-
fluence over the herd of females. It seeks
out the highest rock on the coast, where it
can rest or play. A skillful hunter will
never kill the sekach while it is on the
rocks, as that would drive away the seals.
Females give birth to young in the month
of September, and the rocks are then cov-
ered with pups. They never have more
than two in a litter. Their voices resemble
the bleating of young lambs. They are
suckled by the mother until they are able
to go into the water, when they are re-
quired to look out for themselves. Seal go
up on the beach in foggy weather, or in the
evening, They are so fat that in hot
weather they prefer the water. After sun-
set the Aleuts drive them back towards the
mountains; then they separate the females
and young ones from the males, kill all the

males for their oil, and drive the other
portion back into the sea. A seal hunting
firm last summer had 40,000 females one
year old killed in August aDd September
for their furs.

Seal oil is worth seventy-five cents per
gallon, and is very superior for machinery
and lamps. The Americans trading in
Alaska last summer did not pay any atten-
tion to the seal oil. They all went after
furs. The oil of 400,000 seals was thrown
nto the water. The seals at the end of
October and the early part of November,
emigrate to the southwest, or to the Japa-
nese Islands. They are not afraid of the
ice, but prefer a milder climate in the win-
ter season.

At a recent meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce it was stated that the objection-
able bill relating to the Alaska seal fish-
eries, which was introduced by Senator
Cole, and alleged to afford a monopoly of
the business to Hutchinson, Kohl & Co. ,
had been withdrawn, and another bill less
objectionable in its features introduced in
its stead. The new bill prohibits the kill-
ing of female seals, levies a duty of $2 upon
each seal skin, and limits the number of
seals to be killed to twenty-five thousand
per annum on four of the principal islands.
It authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury
to advertise for proposals for killing the
seals allowed to be taken, as seals are only
found on a few islands in Northern Pacific
waters, and one island in the Atlantic on
the American side, stringent measures are
deemed necessary for their protection.

Johnston's Process of Distilling-
Brandt. — This consists in the substitution
of a column rectifier between the still and
the usual worm. In this column, thespirit
as distilled is washed in water repeatedly
before condensation, and the fusil oil
thereby thoroughly extracted. Both the
still and column are graduated by the use
of water, each having thermometers indi-
cating the temperature inside and the
strength of the spirit at the same time, so
that the distiller has the whole operation
under complete control.

A sample of brandy manufactured by this
process at B. N. Bugbey's vineyard, near
Folsom, from Muscatel pummace, has been
sent to this office, which, though 35 per
cent, above proof, possesses an unusual
smoothness for its age, with the delicious
perlume and flavor of the grape from which
it was made. We have also received from
the above mentioned vineyard a box of na-
tive raisins, and a branch about two feet
long, upon which were nine oranges. The
tree from which it was taken was about
eighteen feet high, and was literally cov-
ered with the golden fruit. The raisins are
of fine quality, and in some respects supe-
rior to the imported article.

Mineral Wealth of California and
Adjoining Territories. — Under this title
Dr. Burkert of Bonn, is furnishing an
able resume of all that is known from pub-
lished sources, in the columns ot the Berg
and Hutten Zeitung.

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Communications.

In tqi8 Department v.-e invite the free discussion of all
proper subjects— correspondents alone being responsible for
the ideas and theories they advance.

[Written for the Mining and Scientific Press.]

Oregon and its Resources.

Sajoem, Oregon, Jan. 31, 1869.

Editors Pkess: — I have been spending
the winter in this land of rains and fogs, as
common fame has it, but I have so far not
been able to realize the appropriateness of
the designation from any extraordinary
rain or fog demonstrations encountered up
to the present date. The winter has been
much of the California type; no snow, and
but little ice in the streets of Salem.

This City of Peace is in the center of the
great Willamette Valley, — a valley exten.
, sive enough for a kingdom, and with a soil
capable in its fertility of sustaining a popu-
lation of three millions. Everybody knows,
however, about the capital of Oregon, with
its university, its medical college, its flour-
ing mills and woolen factories, its numer-
ous churches and flourishing schools. The
great Oregon Central E. E., commencing
at Portland, destined to reach San Fran-
cisco with a branch to tap the Pacific Cen-
tral at the Humboldt, passes through
Salem. The work is far advanced; the
grading complete from here to Portland,
and some of the bridges erected.

The Cascade Mountain range bounds the
valley on the east, and the Coast Eange on
the west. In these ranges the tributaries
of the great Willamette river have their
origin, each forming its own subordinate
valley, digitatious to the grand Willamette
plain.

The mineral treasures of these mount-
ains have never been explored. The most
superficial observation, however, proves that
great wealth lies slumbering among their
rocks. An interest is now springing up in
their behalf from the late discoveries made in
both ranges. I am in receipt of fine speci-
mens of gold, copper, iron| cinnabar, mar-
ble, lead, zinc and antimony, and letters
have reached me in regard to discoveries in
Coos County, of the utmost importance,
but it is desired not to give details for the
present.

The Santiam mines were much talked of
a year or two back. They fell into disre-
pute from the ill-directed efforts made at
working them. I have however come to the
conclusion from a personal examination
that a rich mining region surrounds the
abandoned mill and camp at Quartzville.
Erom numerous assays I made but recently
of samples from that vicinity, I can come
to no other conclusion than that there are
some valuable lodes there.

The district of Bohemia, south of the
Santiam mines in the same range, the Cas-
cade is claimed to be rich and extensive.
As to the richness of ore I can myself tes-
tify, and have no reason to doubt the re-
ported length and width of the leads.

Along the margin of the valley on either
side, and indeed in the center, mineral mat-
ter of great value is to be encountered.
Coal of tolerable quality, excellent iron ore,
fine potter clay, and in one locality at least,
a superior material for fire bricks, I have
seen myself. Mineral waters also abound.
A spring having all the properties of the
Congress water of Saratoga, is within
twenty-five miles of Salem. I have expe-
rienced and tested the m njral matters of
three different localities in the neighbor-
hood of Salem, and one near Portland, re-
markably rich in borax. Brine springs
affording an excellent article of culinary
salt, are found both near Salem and Port-
land. In short there is no end of the ele-
ments of wealth lying loose around and at
the very doors of the Oregonians, if they
only would take the trouble to examine. I
may be able to give details of some of these
valuable things, so soon as weather permits
comfortable field exercise. j. a. v.

Oceanic Earthquake. — The self-regis-
tering tide gauge at Fort Point, which
never fails to record the slightest variation
in the tide level, indicated, on the 10th
instant, an unusual disturbance, in all
probability caused by a submarine earth-
quake.

Alpine County as a Mining Field. •

In a two and a quarter column communi-
cation published in the New York Tribune
of January 12th, Mr. J. Winchester, (him-
self formerly one of the editors of the Tri-
bune,'] has furnished an able account of the
mining interests of Alpine County, -with
which he has become identified. He says :

"The mineral districts of Alpine County
are of far greater extent than that devel-
oped in and about Virginia. There are a
dozen or more of them, but the inostprom-
inentare Monitor, Silver Mountain, Great
Mogul, Alpine, Scandinavian, and Ray-
mond. The mineral lodes are more numer-
ous, some of them even of greater magni-
tude, than the Comstock, while in the aver-
age richness of the ores the latter bears no
comparison to those of Alpine. In the fa-
cilities for cheap working, the mines of Al
pine are unsurpassed by any other on this
continent. The Carson River and its trib-
utaries, which are principally fed by the
Alpine snows, furnish a water-power suffi-
cient to drive thousands of stamps, to
which the mineral ledges are all inclose
proximity.

By an improvement in the "Plattner
gold and silver chlorination process," put
into operation on the Star ores during the
past two months by Messrs. Hoffman &
Eustel, two experienced German metal-
lurgists, the most surprising results have
been obtained. It is found that all the val-
uable metals — gold, silver, and copper —
can be extracted to within 4 per cent of the
assay, at a cost of treatment not exceeding
iaelve dollars per ton. The first lot of this
ore, worked at the Pioneer mill, at Mark-
leeville, near the mine, gave a product of
about $400 per ton. This method of treat-
ment, adapted alike to all kinds of sulphu-
ret ores, no matter how refractory, ushers
in a new and prosperous era in mining,
for it brings the lowest grade of ores known
in the silver regions within the scope of
profit, while the yield on the higher grade
ores will make good mines productive be-
yond the dreams of the most sanguine.
Long neglected by capitalists, in San Fran-
cisco and the Atlantic States, under the
impetus of the recent improvements in the
reduction of ores by which the product is
maximum and the cost minimum — with a
wide margin for profit between, Alpine
County will take rank as a bullion-produc-
ing district ere many years, second to no
other within the bounds of the mineral re-
gion of the Union."

Mr. Winchester has fallen into a common
error in supposing the Kustel & Hoffman
process to be the same as the Plattner chlo-
rination process. In point of fact the two
processes have nothing in common but the
leaching tub. Plattner's chlorination is
applied to gold, and consists in the use of
quantities of free chlorine gas, made with
the aid of oxide of manganese, to change
the metal into soluble chloride of gold. In
Eustel's process, the success of which has
proved so satisfactory in the treatment of
the Star argentiferous copper and lead ores,
the only chlorine generated, is done pre-
cisely as in the usual process with salt; and
the "trick" consists in not chloridiziug the
silver at all, as is the case in the prepara-
tion for pan amalgamation, but in manag-
ing the temperature so as to chloridize the
base metals only, which are thereby ren-
dered soluble, and capable of being leached
out, and so got rid of for the succeeding
amalgamation.

Proposed Mining and Metallurgical
Commission to Europe. — A Washington
telegram says:

Senator Conness has presented a memo-
rial in Congress signed by about fifty dis-
tinguished citizens, composed of professors
of colleges and mining schools and leading
citizens and experts in metallurgy, who
pray for the appointment of a Commission
to visit the various mines in Europe and
report upon the modes of treating ores con-
taining the precious metals. The memorial
was ordered to be printed and referred to
the Committee on Mines and Mining. Pro-
fessor Sykes, the gentleman who is urging
this matter upon Congress, will have a
hearing before the House Committee on
Mines and Mining during the present week.

It is presumed that Professor Sykes will
furnish good and valid reasons why he
should not undertake the trip at his own
expense, as dozens of others have done
within half a score of years past, who have
devoted much more time and labor to the
subject than Professor Sykes is likely to do.
If a " Eeport " is wanted, it may be stated
that we already have one, from Prof. Blake,
on the subject, published by the State of
California. If information about European
processes, — the same is accessible in the
proper books and periodicals, which are
generally already in the possession of all
our intelligent mining managers. If advice
is to be given as to the best processes, for
all kinds of ores and metals in this country
in general or in particular, Professor Syke's
opinion will not be taken for anything more
than it is worth, and will certainly not be
in advance of the intelligence of many of
our working metallurgists.

There can be no harm, however, in send-
ing such a commission; only that it is well
to understand in whose interest, and as
definitely as possible to what purpose, the
proposition may be set on foot.

The Sutro Tunnel bill has now taken
the title of an Act to aid in ascertaining the
value of the public lands containing min-
eral lodes, and for the endowment of a
national school of mines; being the former
bill as it has been amended, but introduced
by Mr. Ashley, of Nevada, for legislative
reasons, as a new bill.

Dis-

Chinese Remedy for the Vine
ease. — The Chinese, — it is said, — use a
thick paste made of flowers of sulphur and
aluminous clay, as a remedy for the vine
disease. The paste is laid upon the ground
about the vine.

Perm, the great metropolis of the Rus-
sian iron mining and manufacturing dis-
tricts of the Ural foothills, has added to its
industries a great gun factory, within a few
versts distance, on the banks of the Kama.

Etln Drying Lumber. — We are informed
that steps are being taken by some gentle-
men connected with the lumber interests,
to establish a new lumber seasoning
process near the foot of Third street. One
of these seasoning processes common in
the Atlantic States, consists in the use of a
kiln called Buckley's Patent Dryer, a low
brick building, tightly covered or ceiled
overhead, with close folding doors, making
it as near air-tight as possible. It is fitted
with rail track and large car, on which the
lumber is piled by thousands, with slats or
laths intervening between each layer of
boards, when it is run into the house and
the doors closed. In an adjoining building
is a large boiler for generating steam, which
is superheated and introduced into the dry-
house through pipes, where a constant and
uninterrupted supply is kept up for from
twenty-four to forty-eight hours, when the
last drop of moisture will be found to have
left the lumber, and it becomes impossible to
shrinkitmore. Lumber seasoned inthisway
does not shrink after being manufactured,
and is used in cabinet-work and fine finish-
ing. Every large lumber dealer in Chicago
is said to have one of these dryers, without
which they would be unable to supply the
market with seasoned lumber. Where green
lumber has to be transported any distance
by land, the expense is more than saved in
cost of transportation.

The British Iron and Steel Insti-
tute.-— This new organization progresses.
A first meeting, to define its constitution
and agree to a code of rules, was held in
London on December l(3th; and during the
present month, February, it is to be form-
ally opened. The Duke of Devonshire was
invited to be President. The Engineer says
this was wise; not only because English-
men are very fond of havingfa nobleman at
their head, — and because it prevented any
possible jealousies among the members of
the trade who might conceive themselves
entitled to the honor, — but for the reason
that the Duke, " in addition to having great
possessions in mineral property, is at the
head of a concern which is amongst the
foremost and the most extensive of modern
iron and steel works in this country."

Aniline. — It requires as many as 2,000
tons of coal to produce a circular block of
rosaniline twenty-four inches high by nine
inches wide, but this is sufficient to dye
three hundred miles of silk fabric.

California Academy of Sciences.

A regular meeting of the California Acad-
emy of Sciences was held on Monday even-
ing January 15th, Dr. J. G. Cooper in the
chair. The following persons were elected
members : J. W. Hobson, John J. Ste-
phenson, M. D. , and Smythe Clark; and
proposed for membership, Dr. George
Hewston, Mr. Easton, Dr. Aronstein, and
James F. Breed.

THE BOUNDS BETWEEN VEGETABLE AND ANI-
MAL LIFE.

Dr. James Blake read an interesting pa-
per on Amoebae, and the lower forms of or-
ganized matter. He pointed out the more
striking peculiarities of the amoebae, as re-
gards their powers of organization, locr-
motiou, nutrition and reproduction. The
habits of this lowest order of what are by
courtesy called living beings, but are, in
reality, only small masses of glutinous mat-
ter, were fully described and illustrated by
diagrams, showing their various stages of
fdrmation, their several varieties, and that
they were found everywhere, even in the
sands of our seashore, nearly a hundred feet
beneath the surface. Sometimes five or
six of these amoeba? join, and they can be
divided indefinitely. They often fall into
a hundred pieces, each piece beinganimated
and becoming a distinct individual of his
species. When the being, whioli has neither
mouth nor stomach, required nourishment,
it shut itself around the food instead of re-
ceiving it. The lecturer showed by dia-
grams the curious method by which the
creature separates and reforms into other of
its species. They are neither animals nor
vegetables, yet partake of the nature of
both. They have a tendency to continual
motion, and these algee, infusoria, amcebsa,
etc., find oxygen necessary to their move-
ments, which cease upon the introduction
of electricity or hydrogen.

A number of scientific works were do-
nated to the Academy; specimens of calca-
reous sandstone by Mr. Yale; fossils from
a coal mine in Mount Diablo by Capta n
Johu Eckley; and a quantity of acohol for
preserving specimens, by James Dows &
Co.

TLB CANYON LIVE OAK — IGNORANCE OF ITS
VALTJ2.

Professor Eellogg presented specimens
of the fruit, foliage and timber of the
Golden Decked Live Oak, or Canon Live
Oak (Quercius Chrysolepis) of the coast of
California, procured by Geo. W. Dunn, a
member of the Academy. This oak, Pro-
fessor Kelloggsaid, was by some confounded
with Q. Wvshizeni, specimens of which were
presented for comparison. The timber is
remarkable for its solidity, strength, tough-
ness and durability, only equaled by our
southeastern live oak (Quercus VirensJ. He
remarked that his attention was many years
ago directed to its use in ship frames,
knees, etc., by Captain Morgan, of Bolinas
Bay. It was a " burning shame," in his
view of it, to have such valuable timber
shipped to San Francisco for firewood, out
of sheer ignorance of its value. This spe-
cies must not be confounded with the or-
dinary live oak, Quercus agrifoliat of Oak-
land, Alameda, add the suburbs of San
Francisco. Dr. Kellogg also read a descrip-
tion of Tun-Uis Americanus Kellogg; of a
new genus Grincea Kellogg, and two new
species, Crimea cymosa, and Grinaia Mon-
tana Kellogg; also a description of a new
species Aster of Biotia Section, D. C, and
Aster Consanguenea, Kellogg.

PRACTICAL METEOROLOGY.

Dr. Gibbons moved the appointment of a
Committee on Meteorology, to makei.n Icol-
late observations on the climate and atmos-
pheric phenomena of California. One ob-
ject of such acommittee should be to issue
a circular to the editors and proprietors of
newspapers throughout the State to induce
them to publish regular accounts of the
atmospheric changes in their respective re-
gions— the quantity of rain, the hour of
commencement and termination of storms,
and other meteorological facts calculated to
assist in the formation of generalizations
of value. The phenomena of storms on
this coast were quite different from those
on the Atlantic side. There the progress
of a storm was telegraphed in advance
from State to State. The law of storms
here was very vague and difficult to under-
stand. He (Dr. Gibbons) had been en-
deavoring many years to get at the philos-
ophy of our south and southeast rain
storms, but without some organized system
such as the above, it would be impossible
to arrive at results.

The motion to appoint a committee at the
next meeting was carried, and tho Acad-
emy adjourned.

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Meciiaiiical .

Rails — Iron ok Steel? — Thia question
is still discussed. Steel rails liuve not
fully answered the expectation. Thoso
people who rush to extremes, are therefore
loud in their wholosale denunciation of
them. But there -is probably good reason
for their failure to come up to the standard
claimed at first. Sample steel rails of
superior quality were contrasted with or-
dinary iron rails us a test. The same cause
which led to the use of poor iron, has led
to the uso of poor steel; henoe the failure.
Again; in the laying of the rails, too little
regard has been paid to the peculiar crys-
talline structure of steel. It will break
miller circumstancos whore an iron rail,
with its tough fibrous structure, will not.
Jarring and pounding will not answer with
steeL A slight notch or indentation may
servo as the commencement of a fracture,
gradually extending, uutil the rail snaps.
Thin wooden pads have been used in some
cases, to obviate these objections, — and
with good results. The American Artisan
says : " The claims and expectations of
those interested in the introduction of steel
rails have been suiliciently high to permit
a very considerable abatement without do-
ing away with ,the probability that, at no
distant period, steel will be almost univer-
sally substituted for iron as a material for
rails."

Why it Costs so much to Keep a
Railroad in Repair. — One reason is that
the cross-ties are not all of the same size
and length, and consequently there is an
unequal amount of bearing surface. As
each driving wheel passes over the cross-
tie the tie is driven down in the ballast
just in proportion as the bearing surface is
deficient to sustain the load. Now where
the cross-ties are irregular in size, the re-
sisting power to depression varies, the
smaller tie sinking deepest, the blow from
the driving wheel being aided by the fall
so that the effects are aggravated in propor-
tion. This result leaves the track a suc-
cession of short and irregular waves. The
American Railway Timess&ys: Vast amounts
of money are expended to secure a smooth
and even road bed,— for that is the theory
of all railway construction, — and then the
practice is to so arrange the superstructure
that the evenness and smoothness are at
once destroyed, and the trains instead of
Laving that easy gliding motion so favora-
ble to economy of operation and safety, go
thumping and pounding over the line,
causing a useless waste of power, destroy-
ing the road-bed, and every part of the su-
perstructure, and destroying every part of
the rolling stock as well."

Pressure better than Hammering for
Welding. — Recent experiments by French
machinists have shown that continued
steady hydraulic pressure in welding, causes
complete union of two masses of iron, while
the junction is only superficial if produced
by the hammer. Among other experi-
ments, two iron bars, 1% inches in diam-
eter, were heated to the welding point and
brought under the hydraulic press. The
welding was effected with extraordinary
quickness, the fibers of the iron being thor-
oughly intercalated with each other, and
the joined portion of the bars was quite as
strong as anywhere else, a microscopic sec-
tion of the joint showing a perfectly homo-
geneous texture.

Liquid Fuel for Steam Vessels. — Dr.
Paul concluded from his investigations,
that an evaporative efficiency of lb lbs. of
water per 1 lb. of oil burnt might be at-
tained, so that, taking the average duty of
coal at 7 lbs. of water evaporated per 1 lb.
of coal, the weight of oil required to fuel
a vessel would only be about one-half that
required of coal, or the weight of fuel to
be carried would be only half as much as
when coal is used. And taking the ton of
coal as stowed on board a vessel to occupy
43 cubic feet, and the ton of oil as occupy-
ing 34 cubic feet, the quantity of oil equiv-
alent to 1 ton of coal would occupy only
about 17 cubic feet, so that the saving in
stowage space would amount to 60 per cent.
of the space required for coal. —London
Mining Journal.

Deerskins.

From an article in the American Natural-
ist, by Charles Wright, on "Deer-hunting
in Texas," we extract the following descrip-
tion of the manner of preparing the skins
of tho deer for market :

"There are three principal operations:
graining, braining, and smoking. Tin skin
is dried and afterwards soaked till it is soft;
then the hair and grain, or cuticle, am
rubbed off with any instrument serving
the samo purpose as a currier's knife, the
skin being spread out on anything answer-
ing to the currier's beam. The skin is
partially "broken " in this process, and it
should bo stretched and broken still more,
while drying, that it may " take brains "
more readily. Tho brains of the deer, or
any similar quantity of another animal will
dress tho skin. The skin, immersed in it,
soon absorbs the brains and becomes thick
and spongy. But if the skin be now wetted
and suffered to dry without manipulation,
it becomes hard again like rawhide. Smok-
ing is a means of obviating this. The ob-
ject is to make tho smoke pass through the
pores of the skin. The effect of the brain-
ing seems to be to comminute the gluten,
but it does not affect its solubility. The
smoke seems to form a chemical combina-
tion with it, rendering it insoluble. Any
| dry rotten wood, — hickory, ash, oak, or
even cobs, — serves to make the smoke. A
hole is dug in the ground about two feet
deep and six inches in diameter. Some
coals are thrown in and a little of the wood
upon them. The skins (better two to-
gether) are loosely sewed along the edges,
except one, which is stretched around the
hole, and the skins are then suspended
above it, like an empty sack with the mouth
downwurd. The process is kept up till
the operator deems the skin sufficiently
smoked."

Steam Expansion. — The American Ar-
tisan gives the new table constructed by
the celebrated French engineers, Normand
and Mallet : In the construction of this ta-
ble of expansion, corrections have been
made for three important points, viz., the
fall of temperature to the degrees corres-
ponding to the successive pressures; the
portion of condensed steam which, added
to the fall of temperature, completes the
loss of heat corresponding to the success-
ive supplies of motive power (steam) ; and
for the resisting pressure in the condenser.
In the table the first colmmn represents
the final volume of steam in the cylinder
at the end of its expansion in proportion to
the volume just before expansion com-
mences. The second column gives the
corresponding " cut-off " point in decimal
parts of the stroke. The third column
gives the work done by the steam, suppos-
ing the work done without expansion and
without back pressure to be 1 :

1-00 1-000 0.960

1-50 0-666 1-326

2-00 0-500 1-566

2-50 0-400 1-741

3-00 0-333 1-376

400 0-250 2-071

500 0-200 2-206

6-00 0-166 2-304

8-00 0125 2-435

10-00 0-100 2-513

Messrs. Normand and Mallet think that the
degree of expansion should be in propor-
tion to the distance run, in order that econ-
omy may result from the combined lightness
of the machinery and fuel. For a run of
one day the rate of expansion should be 4
or 5 volumes; for 5 days, 5 or 6; for 10
days, 6 or 7; for 15 days, 7 or 8; for 20
days, 8 or 10. Expansion to 4 or 5 vol-
umes has been found in Normand's en-
gines to be consistent with the highest de-
gree of lightness even without fuel.

' ' Something New in Steel." — The En-
gineer of Dec. 25th, describes, under the
above head, a new tool metal prepared by
Mr. Mushet, which planed a certain area of
hard cast iron without losing its edge,
while a similar tool of the best ordinary
cast steel had to be ground three times to
perform the same work. The journal
named above, says it is to all intents and
purposes, a new metal, — neither steel nor
cast iron. Mr. Mushet has not jiatented its
mode of production, although it is re-
served as a secret.

Scientific . Vised /a /i ; •

The Ejector Condenser. — Morton's con-
denser, which we described last week, is
said to be "regarded by eminent profes-
sional men in Great Britain as probably the
most important improvement in the steam
engine since the time of James Watt. "

Reversion to Original Types— The Silk-
worm Disease.

It is well known that, among men, tho
strongly marked features of an ancestor,
although so modified by transmission
through repeated intermarriages with differ-
ent families, as to have been totally untrace-
able for several generations, will occasion-
ally''crop out " in all their distinctness;
and that an infant, who is by no means
" the very image of his father, " will look
exactly like the picture of his great-great-
great-grandfather. Something analogous
to this is true of lower organisms.
Part V. of Packard's "Guide to the
Study of Insects," — which has just
come out, and the receipt of which from
the publishers we hereby acknowledge, —
treats of, — among other families, — the
Bombycida\ To these belong the silk-
worms. A few remarks upon the Bomby.c
mori, or Chinese silkworm, will at this sea-
son be interesting to many of our readers.
This worm is of an ashy or cream color;
but in almost every batch of worms will be
seen, after the first moult has occurred,
some dark-colored ones. These have been
considered a distinct species, arising from
domestication. But the experiments of
Captain Hutton,of India, have shown that
they are actually types of the original spe-
cies; and that by separating them from
their debilitated and degenerate compan-
ions, whose sickly race is fast dying out, —
a permanent and healthy breed may be pro-
duced. He attributes the disease which
has been prevalent among them, — and
which has at last brought them, as a fam-
ily, to a moribund condition, — to improper
food, want of light and air, too high a tem-
perature, and constant interbreeding for
centuries. Having become convinced that
the occasional occurrence of a dark-grey
or blackish worm was an effort of nature
to revert to the original healthy starting-
point, "he picked out all the dark-colored
worms and reared them separately, allow-
ing the moths to couple only inter se, and
the same with the white worms. In the
following spring the one batch of eggs pro-
duced nearly all dark-brindled worms,
whilst the other batch produced white
worms, sparingly interspersed with an oc-
casional dark one; these latter were removed
into a dark batch, which was also weeded
of its pale worms. In the third year the
worms were still darker than before, and
were always larger and more vigorous than
the pale ones, giving larger and better
stuffed cocoons. He finally succeeded in
getting an entire brood of dark worms,
which he regarded as a sign of increased
health and strength in the larva?, thus prov-
ing that the dark worms were of the origi-
nal race."

The Transits of Venus. — Mr. Airy, the
Astronomer Royal of England, is already
preparing for the transit of Venus, which
will occur in 1874. He suggests to the
Astronomical Society, as one station from
which to make the observations, a point in
the Autarctic Continent where Sir James
Ross landed. This point, however, is un-
approachable at or about the time when the
event will take place ; those therefore who
join the party, must make up their minds to
stay there a year. Other points also re-
commended as stations are Mauritius and
Madagascar. Another transit will occur in
1882.

Bathybius. — This is the name given by
Professor Huxley to the singular gelatinous
substance from the bottom of the Atlantic
which he has been investigating by means
of the microscope. It is the lowest form
of living matter, aud apparently obtains its
food, like plants, from the inorganic world.
By some it is regarded as a gigantic Pro-
tozoan, extending over miles of surface,
and yet being one living mass.

Tire Two Toluidtnes. — Rosenstiehl has
fouud that besides the ordinary crystalliz-
ablo toluidine, there also occurs in associa-
tion with the aniliuo of commerce, another
liquid alkaloid, isomeric with toluidine,
which he onlls psendo toluidine. Since 1863
Hoffman has taught us that aniline alone
will not produce the brilliant tinted salts of
rosauiliue, but that toluidine must be pres-
ent also. R. finds that neither species of
toluidine alone will act in this way, but that
a mixture of both of them behaves with
arsenic acid like a mixture of the ordinary
crystallized toluidine with aniline, affording
thearseniato of rosaniline; but, what is most
remarkable, affording it in very much larger
proportion. In fact, whilst a mixture of
pure crystallizable toluidine with aniline
yeilded but 22.5 per cent, of crystallized red
color, the mixture of the two toluidines, as
obtained from coal tar, yielded 39 to 40 per
cent. In the former case, about 20 per
cent, of aniline remained unchanged, so
that the proportions of toluidine and aniline
entering into the reaction were two parts of
the former to one of the latter. Commer-
cial aniline, of course a mixture, yields
from 27 to 30 per cent, of the color. — Bul-
letin de la Societe" Chimique, Prof. Wuriz.

To Preserve the Metallic Luster of
Sodium. — It is usual to keep sodium under
naphtha. But its beautiful metallic luster
is in this case only seen upon a freshly cut
surface. Prof. G. Hinrichs proposes and
practices the following method, by which
that luster is permanently shown: "Take
two test tubes, one a little smaller than the
other, so as to slip into the latter without
leaving much space between the two glass
walls, put some carefully cleaned sodium in
the wider tube, insert the more narrow
tube, having previously given a thin coat-
ing of beeswax to the upper part of this
latter; then gently heat the whole on a sand
bath. The sodium will fuse, and by a gen-
tle pressure the inner tube is pressed down,
so as to force the fused metal 'over a large
surface between the two tubes, while tho
air is totally excluded by the beeswax. I
have kept sodium for more than six months
in this way, and it is now as bright and
brilliant as when first put up."

The Granite and Soil of Iowa and
New England. — C. A White has traced
up the reddish granite rocks of the Iowa
drift to their original home. He says : "At
the month of the Redwood River there are
large exposures of them, reaching a hun-
dred feet in thickness, yet in place and un-
disturbed, but so thoroughly decomposed,
that one can crush it in his hand to the con-
dition of ordinary soil, like that described
by Professor Agassiz, as composing the
Organ Mountains, near Rio Janeiro. Jt is
evidently from this source that much of the
soil and fine material of the drift of Iowa
and Minnesota are derived. New England
did not derive such asoil from her grauites,
although they contain all the elements of
good soil, because their texture did not al-
low of their ready disintegration, while the
glaciers were passing over them, as those
of Minnesota did. Thus the great superi-
ority of the soil of the Northwest over that
of New England, is due to the fact thatthe
rocks of the whole region — granites, sand-
stones, and limestones — were more easily
disintegrated and ground."

Paraffine. — The ordinary mode of ob-
taining refined paraffine from the crude dis-
tillates involves two redistillations of the
same, which always detracts from the yield
of paraffine, both in quantity and quality;
a portion being converted into permanently
liquid hydrocarbons, while another portion
becomes modified so that the solid products
are softer and more fusible. Hubner pro-
poses therefore to treat the crude tarry
products directly with sulphuric acid, then,
after decantation, to distill from a few hun-
dredths of quicklime (instead of the soda
ordiuarily employed) and then to crystal-
lize, press and purify in the usual way by
washing with liquid hydrocarbons. He
thus obtains a greater yield and a better
product. — Gas Light Journal.

Estimating Silver by the Wet
Method. — M. Stas says that chloride of so-
dium does not precipitate all the silver
from a solution. He employs bromides;-
and he is nosv engaged in experiments on
the preparation of bromide free from chlo-
ride, as the commercial samples are im-
pure.

Iodide of Aluminum in Photography.
M. Jeuffrein states that he has found this
substauce very useful in preve.iting the
collodionized surface from blistering.

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Resources and Developments.

Shake Oil. — An expedition 13 being or-
ganized, and a vessel fitted out at Honolulu
for the purpose of catching sharks, in the
■waters about Pearl river, Oahu. The oil
■will be extracted from their livers, and the
fins dried for the China trade.

Salt Deposit. — We are informed (says
the Virginia City Enterprise) that a salt
plain, some five miles in "width by eight in
length, has been discovered about eighty-
five miles southeast of Pine Grove. The
■whole surface of the valley is of pure,
coarse-grained salt. Near the center of
the valley is a pond, a quarter of a mile in
diameter, of exceedingly salt and bitter
■water.

Capabilities of Utah Territory. — Ac-
cording to George A. Smith, who is said to
be the best informed man in the Territory,
and is called the historian of the church,
out of the 43,000,000 acres of land in Utah,
not more than 500,000 can be cultivated
■with profit. Last year, the number of
acres was 133,000, or about one-third of the
land which can be cultivated, by irrigation
from mountain streams. Artesian wells may
be made successful on the sage plains and
the alkali wastes. Several attempts have
been made to sink them, but without great
success thus far. A company was formed
several years ago, called the Jordan Irriga-
ting Company, which undertook to irrigate
about 11,000 acres of land west of the city.
An expensive dam was erected, $20,000 ex-
pended, but the floods carried away the
dam, and not more than 500 acres have
been brought under cultivation. In the
statistical report made to the Territorial
Legislature, it is estimated that the tillable
land not yet under cultivation will support
a population of 400,000. This estimate
gives 640 inhabitants to the square mile, a
population more dense than any State in
the Union. The farmers of Utah have
small farms — not more than fifteen acres.
The average may be set at ten acres. Irri-
gation is practiced, but it is expensive, re-
quiring a net work of ditches and dykes.
The water is taken by a sluice from main
canals, and brought upon the growing crops
through shallow ditches, generally about
five feet apart.

Southern Utah has a flourishing settle-
ment of about 10,000 faithful Mormons, in
the rich valley of Virgin river, a tributary
of the Colorado, about 75 miles above its
mouth, which is near Colville. The prin-
cipal town is St. George, situated at an ele-
vation of about 2,000 feet above the sea, in
latitude 37° 10'. The climate is very warm
in summer, and the winters are mnch
milder than in Salt Lake City, which is 3%
degrees further north and 2,300 feet higher
in altitude. The cultivation of the cotton,
the grape, the fig, the olive and various
other semi-tropical fruits, having proved
successful, many of the Mormons of the
colder basin intend to move to the south.
"Washington county includes the new set-
tlements; it has a mill in which cotton and
wool are spun and wove, nine grist mills,
six saw mills, and twenty-two schools. St.
George is now building a meeting house of
cut stone, to cost $300,000. "Wages range
from $2 50 to $6 per day in currency, but
money is very scarce, and nearly all the
trading is done by barter. It is probable
that the opening of the White Pine mines
will furnish a splendid market for the pro-
duce of St. George, which is 175 miles dis-
tant, and only 120 from the Grand District
— a later discovery, said to be very rich
also. Among the institutions of St. George
is a cooperative commercial association, the
agent of which is now in this city purchas-
ing merchandise to be shipped to San Pe-
dro, and thence hauled overland, at an ex-
pense of 15 cents per pound. Transporta-
tion would be cheaper by way of the Colo-
rado, but trips to the head of navigation at
present are very costly, so that small ship-
ments of freight to Southern Utah can be
carried cheaper by way of San Bernardino.

Accessibility of the Upper Colorado
Basin. — Boss Browne speaks thus of the
Colorado, as he saw it: ' ' It could scarcely
fall any lower, without going entirely
through its own bottom. A more capricious
river does not exist. Formerly it ran
through the desert to the northwest, but
for some reason or other it changed its
course, and it now runs about three feet
, above the level of the desert. As a navi-
gable stream it possesses some advantages
during the dry season; boats can seldom
sink in it; and for the matter of channels it
has an unusual variety. The main channel
shifts so often that the most skillful pilot
always knows where it is not to be found
by pursuing the course of his last trip. The
steamer which plies between the fort and
the mouth of the river, distant 100 miles,
could not make the round trip in less than

two weeks, owing to shoals and shifting
bars. Up to La Paz and Fort Mojave the
navigation was still worse. Twenty or
thirty days up and down was considered a
fair trip. " Colville, the landing point for
White Pine and St. George, is 75 miles
above Fort Mojave. In time it is possible
that a canal, for freighting and irrigating
purposes, may be built from Colville to the
head of economical navigation.

Railroad Items.

The last rail has been laid on the San
Jose and Gilroy Railroad.

The citizens of San Rafael, Marin
County, are taking stock and moving act-
ively in a railroad building project to con-
nect that town with Point San Quentin
ferry landing, four miles distant.

The Watsonville Pajaronian, of Febru-
ary 11th, says : Seventy-five thousand dol-
lars has already been subscribed for the
purpose of building a railroad between
Santa Cruz and Salinas Valley.

The highest altitude attaiued on the
Central Pacific Railroad is 7,042 feet. The
highest point on the Union Pacific Railroad
is at Sherman, which is 8,434 feet above the
level of the sea.

Work on the Virginia and Truekee Rail-
road was commenced at Virginia City on
Thursday the 18th inst., and the telegraph
says it is to be prosecuted with the utmost
energy until its completion.

Salt Lake City is now within four days
of Chicago by rail and stage. Wells, Fargo
& Co's express stages connect with the
Union Pacific Railroad at Cranton, less
than one hundred miles from Salt Lake,
aud about twenty-four hours' journey.

The Engineer Corps of the California
Pacific Railroad, in charge of F. H. Peter-
sou, completed their survey to Woodland,
Yolo County, on Thursday, February 18th.
From Davisville they report the ground in
good condition for grading, and work is to
commence on the Davisville end of the line
immediately.

The Solano Democrat, of February 13th,
says : From present appearances it is fail-
to presume that Woodland will soon be in
direct communication by rail with Vallejo
and Sacramento. It is reported that the
contract has been let for the construction
of the road from the junction at Davisville
t) this place.

A correspondent from the national cap-
ital writes: The Washington Territory
people want a railroad, with all its dips,
spurs and angles, to accommodate the grow-
ing trade of that Territory. The Oregoni-
ans here are divided-in their efforts between
two rival roads. The Idaho folks favor a
railroad to Snake River, and all these,
united with the Montana, Minnesota and
Dacotah people, are urging upon Congress
the speedy construction of the Northern
Pacific Railroad.

The Yreka Journal thinks that if Con-
gress refuses to pass the Mallory bill, the
California and Oregon Railroad Company
will then be compelled to build its road on
the line of the old Elliot survey.

On this subject the Shasta Courier, of
February 15th, says : We cannot see why it
will be compelled to do so. The charter
granted to the company by Congress merely
stipulates that the road shall be built from
a given point in the Sacramento Valley to
the Oregon line. The company is not re-
stricted to the Elliot survey, but is at lib-
erty to run to the Oregon line by any route
it may see proper to adopt. The company
has already located its lands to a point
about six miles west of this place, render-
ing it certain that when the road is built it
will at least come in the neighborhood of
this place, if not directly to the town. It
is yet to be determined whether the Elliot
survey will be followed up the Sacramento
and through Shasta Valley, or the road turn
off and run up Pitt River Valley, and reach
the Oregon line through the Goose Lake
country.

The Union Pacific Town at Salt
Lake. — The new towu laid out by the
Union Pacific Railroad Company in Salt
Lake Valley, is located about six miles
north of Ogden, at the Prairie House. The
location is not so good, on accouDt of water
and the river navigation, as the point where
the road crosses Bear River. Steamers can
ply on the lake and up the river to the
latter point.

"After laying out the new town," says
the Salt Lake Reporter, "the railroad com-
pany received an offer from the*Mormon au-
thorities that if they would make that lo-
cation in the city of Ogden, building their
machine shops there, those authorities
would donate to the company three hun-
dred acres of land in the limits of that city

and a bonus of $100,000. This was the
proposition, and the agent did not feel at
liberty to go on with the sale of lots till it
was decided. Whether it will be accepted
remains to be seen."

On the Western Pacific Railroad the
track is laid on the Sacramento and Stock-
ton section to the Cosumnes River, a dis-
tance of twenty miles. The survey iseoni-
pleted, and the grade lines established from
the San Joaquin plains to Livermore Val-
ley, a distance of fourteen miles. Over
this section also, a majority of the culverts
are finished. Pile drivers are at work on
the foundation for the bridge across the Co-
sumnes River, and timber for a bridge over
the San Joaquin (old river) is ready at Ban-
ty's. About 700 men are engaged upon the
cuts and tunnel at Livermore Pass. The
tunnel is in 226 feet, and will be about
1,200 feet long, through a fine sandstone.
This rock is valuable for building purposes,
and will, it is thought, be extensively
quarried and freighted when the railroad is
completed. Gangs of laborers are running
the tunnel from each end, and will meet be-
fore July. It is to be timbered throughout.
From Ladd's store, in Livermore Valley,
to Oakland, a distance of twenty-eight or
thirty miles, three surveys have been made
— oue to Hayward's, one to Castro Valley,
and one coming out at Ward's milk ranch,
at San Leandro. Neither survey has been
adopted, though the last survey is said to
be most favorably considered, with a pos-
sibility that still another route, through
Hayward's Pass, may be adopted. Proba-
bly the company will find it advantageous
to run freight trains around the bay to
reach San Francisco without ferriage.

New Patents Issued to Pacific Coast
Inventors.

Especially reported by the U. S. Patent Office. Washing-
ton, D. C, to Dkwky k Co., American ami Foreign
Patent Solicitors, and Publishers of the
Mining and Scientific Piuiss.

Foe tee "Week Ending January 26th.
86,273. — Improvement in Pomp Devices
for Steam and other Enginery. — Chas.
Edward Blake, San Francisco, Cal. :

1. I claim the safety valve apparatus A,
B, C, D, E, F, G, constructed and arranged
to operate substantially as set forth.

2. I claim the arrangement of the devices
A, B, C, G, F, E and I, with reference to a
steam pump or other enginery, as set forth.

New Inventions.

Russian Weapon. — A Berlin journal an-
nounces that a Russian officer of St. Peters-
burg has invented a new firearm, which can
be fired off two hundred times per minute,
will fill a space of thirty paces square
with a shower of grape shot, and will pro-
duce its effects at a distance of 2,400 paces.

Steam Condenser for Use on Salt Lake.
The editor of a Salt Lake paper says: We
saw yesterday, in front of Wells, Fargo &
Co.'s express office, a most ingenious and
economical steam condenser, the invention,
we believe, of General P. E. Connor, of
Salk Lake, which is to be applied to a
steamer he has lately had constructed on
Great Salt Lake. The condenser consists
of two coils of copper pipe which receive
the escape steam from the cylinders, and
are so placed as to be exposed to the spray
from the paddle-wheels, and thus continu-
ously producing a shower on the pipe, cool-
ing it and condensing the steam, and thereby
returning the water for use in the boiler.
The water of Salt Lake is too strongly im-
pregnated with saline matter to be used
successfully for steam purposes, and there-
fore this contrivance, or invention, is found
necessary to obviate the portage of fresh
water and make the navigation of the lake
practicable.

Steam Pleasure Trains on Ice. — A com-
pany has been formed at St. Petersburg for
the introduction of steam traction for pleas-
ure trains on ice. It is proposed to employ
locomotives . like those on the railways, of
about twenty-five or thirty horse power,
with this single difference — that the wheel-
ties are to be channeled in order to make
them bite upon the ice without sensibly in-
juring it. The slippiog of the wheels be-
ing avoided, and a snow-plow attached in
front of the train, it is believed that it will
be found practicable to make long journeys
to Finland, Lapland, and some of the isl-
ands blocked up in winter by the ice. The
plan is well supported, and it is thought
that such means of communication may
give life to countries which are now shut
out from intercourse during the whole
winter.

The Mount Diablo Country. — Our
agent, William H. Murray, is making the
tour of the coal mines, via Livermore PaBS.

New Incorporations. — Articles of in-
corporation have been recently filed in the
County Clerk's office in this city as follows:

Miantonomah Mining Co. — White Pine,
Nev. Feb. 5th. Capital stock, $480,000;
4.800 shares, $100 each. Trustees: F. E.
Thomas, James Alger, M. Steppacher, A.
Pollak and J. P. Sherburne.

Magento Mining Co. — White Pine. Nev.
Feb. 8th. Capital stock, $1,400,000; 14,000
shares, $100 each. Trustees: W. K. Dei-
trich, Henry Cassanova. Peter Taylor, Ed-
win C. Palmer and W. J. Stringer.

Omega S. M. Co.— White Pine, Nev.
Feb. 12th. Capital stock, $800,000; 8,000
shares, $100 each. Trustees: R. E. Brews-
ter, Robert Apple, A. S. Gould, T. A,
Mudge and Chas. Buneman.

Tittcaca S. M. Co.— -White Pine, Nev.
Feb. 16th. Capital stock, $1,200,000;
12,000 shares, $100 each Trustees: James
Stratton, Cyrus N. Bradley, W. J. Tilley,
G. N. Russell and Thos. Rea.

Ion Mining Co. — White Pine, Nevada.
Feb. 13th. Capital stock, $1,400,000; 14,-
000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: Peter
Taylor, W. K. Dietrich, H. Cassanova, W.
W. Merrihew and E. Applegarth.

Pennsylvania Tunnel Co. — White Pine,
Nev. Feb. 13th. Capital stock, $1,000,-
000; 10.000 shares, $100 each. Trustees:
J. L. Howard, R. W. Heath, J. T. Boyd
R. F. Morrison and E. W. Leonard.

San Francisco Package Express Co. —
San Francisco. Feb. 13th, Capital stock,
$2,000; 40 shares, $50 each. Trustees: D.
V. B. Henarie, John G. Hodge, George
Schultze, W. W. I. Kip, Jr., Edward Bos-
qui, David R. Patten, E. L. Goldstein, S.
E. Oakley, A. D. Grimwood, T. A. Mudge,
T. W. Fenn and H. B. Murray.

Kawanee S. M. Co. — White Pine, Nev.
Capital stock, $4,000,000; 8,000 shares,
$500 each. Trustees: O. S. Dawson, H.
B. Murray, W. L Kipp, James Laidlcy and
Edward Barry.

City Gas Co. — San Francisco. Feb.
16th. Capital stock, $10,000,000, 100,000
shares, $100 each. Trustees: A. Hayward,
Thos. Bell, S. F. Butterworth, Nicholas
Liming, I. Friedlander, Lloyd Tevis and
Henry C. Robinson.

Etna Mining Co. — Nevada, Feb. 18th.
Capital stock, $1,000,000; 10,000 shares,
$100 each. Trustees: Peleg Bumpez, Jns.
A. Pritchard, James O'Neill, John Gillig
and John Nightingale.

Edith S. M. Co.— Nevada. Feb. 18th.
Capital stock, $1,000,000; 10,000 shares,
$100 each. Trustees: J. Gillig, J. D. Lit-
tlefield, J. Nightingale, B. F. Sherwood
and J. O'Neill.

Wells Mining Co. — White Pine, Nev.
Feb. 5th. Capital stock, $1, 000. 000 ; 10, 000
shares, $100 each. Trustees: Otis V. Saw-
yer, J. H. H. Williams, Wright Le Roy,
Geo. B. Merrill and S. P. Wells.

Raven S. M. Co. — White Pine, Nevada.
Capital stock, $800,000; 8,000 shares, $100
each. Trustees: C. W. Fox, E. O. F.
Hastings, Joseph Clark, M. J. McDonald
and C. F. Fargo.

Mammoth S. M. Co. — White Piue, Nev.
Capital stock, $3,600,000; 3,600 shares,
$1,000 each. Trustees: J. W. Winter, John
Sime, B. F. Hastings, B. F. Sherwood, C.
W. Jones, H. BeachyandW. J. McDonald.

William Penn G. & S. M. Co.— Grass
Valley, Nevada County. Capital stock,
$170,000; 1,700 shares, $100 each. Trus-
tees: B. McAuley, Oliver Sweeney, James
Ferguson, P. G. Bonivert and Isaac J.
Sherman.

Pesoadero and Half Moon Bay Tele-
graph Co.— Capital stock, $6,000; 120
shares, $50 each.

Election of Officers. — Odd Fellows
Savings Bank. — Feb. 9th; Directors: Dr.
John F. Morse, John Cammet, Henry B.
Brooks. Daniel McLaren, David Hunter,
Lewis Sober, John J. Hucks, Philo White,
Chas. N. Fox, Geo. T. Bohen, C. M. Boyd,
Alfred S. Iredale, Chas. Bernard, Abram
Block, Moses Selig, Joseph Brandenstein,
Benjamin Price, Benjamin Hagan, S. E.
C. Swezey, James Pollock, David Meeker,
Albert S. Baldwin and Chas. Metzler.

California Mutual Life Insurance Co.
San Francisco, Feb. 11th. President,
Frank McCoppin; Vice-President, S. F.
Butterworth; Secretary, John Crockett;
General Agent, Wm. R. Wheaton ; Medical
Examiners, R. T. Maxwell and J. C. Shorb.

Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co.—
San Francisco. Feb. 11th. Directors:
Leland Stanford, Robert Watt, Charles
Crocker, Samuel Lavenson, P. H. Russell,
H. F. Hastings, J. H. Carroll, James Caro-
lan, B. F. Hastings, Newton Booth, D. W.
Earl, D. B. Kenyon, Robert Hamilton,
Leonard Goss and Edgar Mills.

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117

Weekly Stock Circular.

By aiiwhUed Bnken of the 3. F. Stock »cdExcUngeB:ird.

San Ikajicisco, Febrnu
niiiiiK-isii.
Appended will be found a decision on the
subject of Custom B

ivn.l- red bj the Secretary of the Treasury, and
ju-t n ■<■■< Lved here. It completely »<-ts aside all
doubts on the subject, and affords a certain
guide to onr mercantile men on a point which
h:e, long been mooted without arriving nt u
il. finite conclusion !

Ba: Th. and nigm -\ w.mld bog respectfully to pn » at
,,, ....ii the following racta:

i Sector "f Customs at thi* port (assuming an-

uihIit circulaw ol I ustom House fees, (luted Dec.

r qulniH the following fees t-> be paid: First—

luopchiunliHo from appraisers' stores, uf-

t t aaiulnatlon b) appraisers to importers, 20 cents,

- mnd .Trumfir permit from appraisers' Btorca to

i r examination by appniis. rs, -JO

»■ nt-. Third— Oath attached to entries of merchandise

of all kinds, 20 cents, Fourth— Entries of merchajidiao

d, rv- warehoused , withdrawals from warehouse

l»tlon, transportation and exportation, indc-

! ;i|] charges for permits, dec, 25 cents.

fppn In nding the collector is ut fault in his interprc-

your circular, and respectfully calling your at-

t. ati. >ii to the fact thai goods are sent to the appraisers1

ptocefl for examination by Custom House officials, and

... requestor Importers. Same examination ap-

pMna tn merchandise bonded. Transfer permits being

wqnlred.

The charge of twenty-five cents on all on tries under

war. house laws, while >n>-ii entrieB are exempt from any

other than the regular ami customary fees for

permit delivery, Invoices and bonds. With respect

■our obedient servants.

LAKZELEDE nUCHET,

E. H. B.ulkv.
Custom House Brokers,
To Hon. Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of Treasury,
■ tnia Eton, D. 0.

Tmuflmrx Depabtmeht, Jan. 16, 1868.

Sin: your rnmiimni'-ntiniint" thi' 2Htb ultimo is received,
tr.>' unltting a letter dated the 22d ultimo from Htessrs.
| .v Buchey and others, complaining of your ac-

i :. andcr authority as alleged of Department Circular
..[ the 1-th ultimo, fn requiring the following specified
[. . t.i be paid at your port, viz: First— For permit for
(■livery of merchandise from appraisers' stores, after ex-
amination by appraisers to importer, 20 cents. Second —
Ft transfi-r permit from appraisers' stores to bonded
wnrhousi', alter examination by appraisers. L'O cents.
Third— For oaths attached to entries of merchandise of
all kinds, .Mi cents. Fourth — For entries of merchandise.
irarebouBcd re-warehoused, withdrawals from warehouse
for consumption, transportation and exportation, inde-
pendi ot i if all charges for permits, &c, 25 cents.

After duly considering the matter, I am of opinion that,
S'i for as the lees specified in the first and second charges
:ire concerned, your action therein is not warranted by
tl\'' provisions of the circular to which you refer. The
orders for the delivery of examined packages from the
mpraisers' stores cannot be considered as" permits." for
they issue as a matter of course and without any appli-
cation therefor being made by the importer, and are
merely Incidental to the examination of the merchandise,
HDich, is done entirely in the interests of the Govern-
ment. You will, therefore, discontinue the practice of
collecting the fee specified in the first and second charges.
The fee of twenty cents for the oath attached to entries of
merchandise of all kinds, as specified in the third charge,
Is correct and proper, and is in accordance with the re-
quirements of the said circular. See the first paragraph
on the third page thereof.

JEhregard to the fee of twenty-five cents for entries of
merchandise warehoused, ^warehoused, &c, specified in
the fourth charge, which you allege you require to be
paid under the provisions of the fourth line from the
bottom of the first page of said circular, you are informed
that said line was inserted therein through a clerical er-
ror, and that it will accordingly be considered by you as
canceled and of no effect. The practice of collecting
said fee will therefore be discontinued by you.
I am, very respectfully,

Hugh McCotxoch,
Secretary of the Treasury.

To J. W. Cake, Esq., Collector of Customs, Philadel-
phia, Pcnn.

The announcement of a sale of $1,000,000 of
gold by the Assistant U. S. Treasurer of this city
on the 23d instant, selling $250,000 on that
day, and a like amount on every third day there-
after, has produced great activity and. a sharp
advance iu Legal Tenders, the selling rate, on
the street, in such amounts as our rather limited
market afforded, being 7507G cents.
City Stocks.

The sides of miscellaneous stocks in the Board,
during the past week, have been confined to
Spring Valley Water and San Francisco Gas.
The former sold at $68@G8 50 per share, while
the latter shows a very heavy decline, selling at
$80, against §90 the previous week, and reported
private sales at §92. This fall is due to the in-
corporation of a new company, which filed its
certificate in the County Court on the 13th inst.,
under the name of City Gas Company, with, a
capital stock of $10,000,000, dividedinto 100,000
shares, naming as Trustees — Nicholas Luning,
(subsequently elected President of the company)
A. Hayward, Thomas Bell, S. F. Butterworth,
I. Friedlander, Lloyd Tevis and Henry C. Rob-
inson. This company gives assurances of im-
mediately commencing active operations, and
the public are already showing an appreciative
interest in this laudable undertaking by petition-
ing the Board of Supervisors to extend the con-
tract for lighting the city to a much, less number
of years than contemplated by the Committee
which has the matter in charge.

jVXixiins Siiai*© Market.

The mining share market exhibited increased
vitality since our last similar reference, and at
the close most leading stocks show an improve-
ment, and this advance seems to be based upon
an apparently healthier condition of the market,

which is predicated upon a more hopeful con-
dition of the various claims on the Comstocb
hide. As to the White Pine district, the filing
in our County Court of certificates of incorpo-
rated companies located in that region are aug-
menting very rapidly, no less than eight com-
panies having recorded their certificates on the
lHth instant. In this respect the Board of Bro-
kers have adopted an excellent rule as regards
in m Block companies. They require the exam-
ination of the merits of the company by a com
mittue, and a payment of $500 instead of $100
as heretofore will have to be made before any
company will be placed on the Board list.

Reports from White Pine give the most glow
ing descriptions of the mineral wealth of that
region, and its great extent. Despito s-torms,
deep snows and extreme cold, large numbers
are flocking to "White Pine on every available
oooasion. This wondrous belt forms part of
the State characterized by Senator Sanlsbury as
being inhabited by "howling animals!" It is
possible that the gentleman himself would not
hesitate to utter a howl over the richest silver
regions ever discovered.

Belcher— sold within a range of $34(^29 50,
and closed at $30. The ore found on the 200
level is reported to promise well, and from pres-
ent appearances of the mine it is believed they
can get along without another assessment. On
the 11th instant their liabilities amounted to
$10,000.

Chollar-Potosi— declined from $170 to $1G5,
and at the close realized $107. During the
week ending February 12th 716 tons of ore were
extracted. On the 11th inst. $11,279 in bullion
was sent forward to the office in this city. Noth-
ing important in relation to the mine.

Crown Point— receded from $68 50 to $65 50,

and closed at $66 75 Gould & Curry has

been in the market at $109@106 50. The con-
struction of the Truckee railroad will bring into
the market thousands of tons of low grade ore
found in this mine, which it is thought can
then be worked with profit. Otherwise nothing
special.

Hale & Norcross— has been in active demand
at a material advance, rising to $99 on the 18th.
and closing at $86. On the 17th instant they
reached some good ore on the lowest level,
which is reported to be at least seven feet wide,
but what it may lead to is yet to be ascertained.
Kentcck declined from $231 to $218, im-
proved to $224, and closed at $218. The first
shipment of bullion on February account
amounted to $10,350 72.

Ieperial — has been quite active, declining
from $125 to $104, and closing hv $110. A tel-
egram of February 19th states that the 1,000
level drift shows no change, and on the 1,100
level they are in barren quartz with an increase
of water. The bullion so far received on Feb-
ruary account aggregates $16,255, against $19,-
464 same time in January.

Ophcr— sold at $44 50@40, closing at $41.
The shaft has been sunk to a depth of 730 feet.
On the 17th instant the pump with all its con-
nections was in place, and they expected to start
the machinery on the 18th, by which they would
soon be enabled to prosecute drifting in a vig-
orous manner Sierra Nevada sold at $25@

21. For February account the bullion, so far,
foots up $1,800. John Ferrie is now Secretary
of this company, and the office is at 409% Cal-
ifornia street. . . .Segregated Belcher sold to
a very large extent, improving from $9 25 to
$12 25, and closing at $12. It is possible that
the ore found on the 200 level of the Belcher
company may extend into the ground of this
company at the 220 level.

Amador (Cal.) sold at $272 50. The first clean-
up of this company in February will yield about
$32,000, and for the whole month will probably
reach $60,000. As near as the rock from the
Badger shaft can be valued it produced $60 to

the ton Golden Chariot (Idaho) sold at $40

@50. Upwards of $28,000 has been received
in bullion on January account. A dividend of

$2 50 is payable to-day (20th.) Savage sold

to a very large extent, improvivg from $62 50

to $72 50, and closing at $67 75 Yellow

Jacket has been in good demand, selling within
a range of $77©67 per share, and closing at $69

Mineral Resources. — The report of
Rossitor W. Raymond on the mineral re-
sources of the States and Territories west
of the Rocky Mountains, has been sent in,
referred to the Committee on Mines and
Mining of the House of Representatives,
aui ordered to be printed.

MINING SHAEEH0LDESS' DIEE0T0RY.

(Compiled for every i — - 1 : >_• . from advertisements In the

Mi.Mnc akd BcUKTino Phkss and oilier San

Francisco Journals.;

■omprlsinsr the Names of Companies, District or County
Hon; Amount ami date ol Assessment; Pate nl
imv nt Dc ll iii | inn t Sale; mid Aniutir.t mid Time
oi Paymeut ol Dividends.

kmadorCo., dh Idend, S0 par share.. ..Payable Effib 10, I8fifl

Bacon, Btorfyeo., Nev., div Pavubii- .hme 19, 1868

Belcher, storey i". Nov., Dec, 81, ISA.,, ..Jan. 30— Marc u 2

Chalk Mountain. Nevada Co.. Jan. 13, $2. .Feb. 15 -March 8"
CbollorPotOkl, illv , $%6 Piivalik-Oct. 15, 1807

Crown Point, iii Md« mi. f ;.5<i I'livtii.u- Sept. 12 ituw

''li v H. ll , San Francisco, Jan. 6,$S Feb. II'— March 0

Cmioy, preferred stock, div. 2% percent Ken. in, \%m

Chloride Mt Tun., White Pine, rcb. 2.50c. Mar IS— Ap. 10"

Daney, Lyon co. Nev, Jim 9, $2 Feb- 12— Harch 1

Empire M. & M., Nov., dividend $6 Payable May 15, I81I7

Eureka, dlv. $5 Payable Jan. 3>, 1M#

Gold Hill Cons., Storey co„ Jan. 8. $*...., ..Feb. IS— March 1

Could A Curry, div., S7.Ni Pnvalilc Miiv 15. 1807

Golden Chariot, Idaho, div., $2.80 Payable Feb. 10 iwj

Golden Chariot. Idaho Annual Mcoiinir. March I

iiol.1 llilK'M ,t M-diviiK-nd. S7 fin,.. .l'nyable July -lit, 1868
Golden Rule Tuolumne cu, dlv. 50c ^ sh...Fay. Fob. 26, I860

Hope Gravel, Nevada co , Jan. 11, $1 Feb. 15— March 8

Bale ft Norcross, dlv. $125 Sept. 16, isu?

IX L. Alpine co.. Jan. 19, SI 50 Feb. 27— March 17"

Imperial, Storey co., Nev , dlv Payable June 20, 1808

J tian Itaullstfl, Santa Clara co., Nov. 27 Sale .Ian. 30

Julia, Sioroy co , Nc\., $2.50 Feb. 10— Feb. 27

Kcntuck,dlv.,$20per share Payable Jan. 10,1809

Mt. Tenabo. Lander co , Jan. 23, 75c... March 5- March 30"
Mohawk & Montreal, Nev. co.. Feb. 10, S3... Mar. 15— Mar. 81

Maxwell, Amador co., Feb. 9, SI March 13— Aprf 1

North Amer. Wood P. Co., Jan. 15, $ I Feb 18— March 8*

North Star, dividend, $5 Payable Aug. 15, lfcw*

Feb. 5— Feb. 20

Feb. It-March fi

.Payable June 18, 1868
.......Jan. 21-Fob. 18-

....March 31— Aprils

Oriental, Sierra co., Jan. 4, $2.50,....
Peninsula. Storey co., Dec. 15, S10...

Pacific Unassessable, dlv

Rattlesnake. Yuba co . Dec. 19,87.50

Rising Star, Idaho, Feb. 8, $6

SaiitiaKo. Silver Citv, dividend, S2 50.

Sand Rpriui: -nit. dividend SI .__

Savase, Virginia, Nev, dividend, $2 50. Payable Feb. 11, lflfct

Star Creek, Nev., Feb. 17, $1.50 March 23-April 12*

Tallulah, Humboldt CO., Dec. U. $17.50 Jan, 29— Feb. 27

Virginia & G. II Water Co. .Dividend, payable Nov. 20, 1868

Virginia, White Pine, Nev Annual Meeting Feb 27

Yellow Jacket, div., S5 Payable Feb. 15, 1809

Those marked ■
journal.

ilh an asterisk (») are advertised in this

Latest Stock Prices Bid and Asked.

S. T. STOCK AND EXCHANGE BOARD.

Friday Evening, February 19, 1869.

MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS. Jiid. Anl.nt.

United Slatca Bonds, ft 2*is, I So, '67, '68 $ 81^ 82

United Stales Bonds, 5 2(is, 1864 8IJ4 82^

United Slates Bunds. 5 20s, 1802 82 82 W

Legal Tender Notes 74,\i 74^

California State Bonds, 7s. 1857 95 95

San Francisco Bonds, 10s, 1851 jar A hit,

San Francisco citv Bonds, 6s. 1855 — —

San Francisco City and County Bonds. Cs, 1858. 85 87%

San Francisco School Bonds, 10s. istin 100 —

San Franci-co School Kniuis, It's, 1^61 par & int.

San Francisco Citv and Co. Sch'l B'ds, 7-., 1866. 90 —

San Francisco Citv and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1862 S-:- 89

San Francisco Citv and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1864

San Francisco citv and Co Bonds, 7s, 1865....
San Francisco Citv and Co. Judg. Bds. 7s, 1863
San Francisco City and Co. Judg. Bds, 7s, IS04

Sacramento City Bonds. . .

Sacramento County Bonds, 6s

Marysvillc Bonds, 10s

Stockton City Bonds

Yuba County Bonds, 8s..

Santa Clara County Bond*. 7-s

Butte CounlV Bonds, 10s, 1860 70 tit

San Mateo County Bonds, 7s.... 75 80

Californhi Steam Navigation Co 61 bt%

Spring Valley Water Co 66 6S^

87M
87 «

87 %

87 a

26

77

State Telegraph Co ^

GA3 COMPANIES.

San Francisco Gas Co 91

Sacramento Gas Co I»

, RAILROADS.

Sacramento Valley Railroad —

San Francisco and San Jose Railroad 40

Omnibus Railroad 7JJ4

Central Railroad ™

North Beach and Mission Railroad 63

Front Street, Mission and Ocean Railroad 11

BANKING INSTITUTIONS.

Pacific Bank ?7Ja

The Bank of California " *57

California, Loan and Savings Society —

INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Flreman3' Fund Insurance Co .... 92Jtf

Pacific Insurance Co 1*6

San Francisco Insurance Co —

Merchants' Mutual Marine Insurance Co 500

California Insurance Co 1^0 1

Union Insurance Co ?2

Home Mutual Insurance Co 19?i

Occidental Insurance Co 72

National Insurance Co 72

Builders' Insurance Co —

MINING STOCKS— WASHOE DISTRIC

52

Alpha ■•-■•

Baltimore American

Belcher $h»

Bullion. H. H ? H,,

Crown I'olnt **•*

CuletVa.) ™

Confidence. — «

Consolidated Virginia °

Chollar-Potosi lob

Daney $■>.

Exchequer. *«

Empire Mill and Mining Co 90

Gould A Curry 106

Gold Hill Quartz £0

Hale ft Norcross 86

Imperial lu2

Julia..

Justice a»d Independent..
Kentuck

218

40

Ophlr -.

Overman * '

Segregated Belcher «

Savage »[

Sierra Nevada ' — **

Yellow Jacket •• *«

Union —

United States —

MISCELLANEOUS MINING STOCKS.

Amador (California) -*70

North Star (California) : ™

Eurelca (California) 230

De Roto < H urn holdl) —

Uolden Rule. Caliiorniu 12

107
60
86&

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12'..-
07?.!

San Prancisoo Market Kates.

"Wholesale Prices.

Friday, February 19, 1809.
Flour, Extra, ft bbl $5 25

Do. Superfine * £5

Corn Meal, ft 100 lbs 3 25

Wheat, ft 100 lbs M

Oats, ft 100 lbs 2 00

Barley, ft IO11 lbs { BJ

Beans, ft 100 lbs 5 DO

Potatoes, ft luo lbs

Hay. ft ton

Live Oak Wood, ft cord

Beef, extra, dressed, ft lb

Sheep, on foot

Hogs, on foot, ft lb

Hogs, dressed , jjl ft

. 75

.12 00
. 9 00
. 11
. 3 00

50
@f 4 75

@ 3 50
@ 1 80
@ 2 25
@ 2 25
® 7 00
® 90
fill 8 00
fidO UO

GROCERIES, ETC.

Suear, crushed, ft lb — © 17

Ho. China 10 <a 12

Coffee, Costa Rica, ft m _ @ is

Do- Ri" 16V @ 17

fea, Japan, '-' »■ 75 @ 90

, Do Croon tM @ 1 25

Hawaiian Kiev, ft lb _ «, 10

China Rice, ft lb.., 6 0 7

Coal OH, > CU l loll 45 (A 48

■■■■■■-'■■ "■>•• It 0 18

Ranch Bim.-r. ft lb 4I, © B„

hHhmnsli r, ,-' th 35 ft 40

\ I" '-''■ Hoi 'nia. V ft 15 @ 20

Lara, ^ ih 12 @ 13

Ham and Bacon, ft lb is <* i5

Shoulders, ft lb $ @ g

Retuii Prittea,

Butter, California, fresh, ft It. CO @ —

do. pickled, ft It 311 @

do. Oregon, ft lb 20 © 2."

do. New YorV, ft lb S5 ft 41

Cheese, « lb 20 ft 25

Honey, ft th 25 ft SO

Egjffl, r dozen 59 @ 00

hard, ft it. 16 @ —

Hams and Bacon, ft lb Z3 ft 25

Cranberries, ft gallon 1 25 ft 1 50

Potatoes, ft lb Hi® 2

Potatoes, Sweet, ft lb s ft 5

Toma toes, ft lb 3 ft —

Onions, ft ft 3 ft _

Apples, No. 1, ft lb 4 ft 6

Pears, Table, ft ft 5 ft 7

Plums, dried, ft ft iu ft 12

Peaches, dried, ft lb 10 ft 12

Oranges, ft dozen 7.5 ft —

Lemons, ft dozen 75 ft —

Chickens, apiece BO ft 76

Turkeys, ft lb 23 ft 25

Soap, Pale nndO. 0 7 @ 12

Soap, Castile, ft ft is ft —

San Francisco Metal Market,

PRICES FOR INVOICES.

Jobbing prices Title from Un to fifteen per cent, higher than th
fallowing quotation*.

Fridat, February 19, 1869.

Iron.— Duty: Pig, S9 per ton; Railroad, 60c ft 100 lbs; Bar
lftlj^c ft lb; Sheet, polished, 3c ft lb; common, l*£@IMc
ft lb; Plate, 1,4c ft lb; Pipe, l>£c ft lb; Galvanized, 2>£c
ft ft.

Scotch and English Pig Iron ft ton S40 OO ft$41 00

White P1l' ft ton 36 00 ft 37 00

Refined Bar, bad assortment ft lb — 03 ft

Refined Bar, good assortment, ft lb — 04 ft

Boiler, No. 1 to 4 — 04J,{ft

Plate, No. 5 to 9 ft — 04«

Sheet, No. 10 to 13 — 04*£ft — 5

Sheet, No. 14 to 20 —05 ft — 5«

Sheet.No. 24 t027 —05 ft— fiS

OOPPSR,— Duty: Sheathing, 3,%c ft lb; Pig and Bar, 2&c ft ft

Sheath ing, ft lb @ — 26

Sheathing, Yellow — 20 © — 21

Sheathing, Old Yellow — 10 ft — 11

Bolts —21 ft — f"

Composition Nalla — 21 @ — 22

Tin Plates.— Duty: 25 ft cent, ad valorem.

Plates, Chnrcoal, IX, ft box 12 00 ft

Plates, I O Charcoal ft 11 00

Roofing Plates 10 00 ft 10 50

BaucaTln. Slabs, ft ft ft — 35

Ptbel.— English Cast Steel, ft ft ft — 15

guiCKsii.vEii.-T3 lb — 55 ft — Oil
bad.— Pig, ft lb - 7>ift — 8

Sheet — 10 @

Pipe — 11 ft

Bar — 9 @_ 9U

Zinc— Sheets, ft lb ■ — lOJift— ll

Borax.— California, ft lb — 35 ft — 38

Mining Cars for "White Pine. — A shop
on Fourth street is manufacturing a large
number of small mining cars for hoisting
ores, to fill an order from "White Pine. As
fast as they are completed they are piled up
near the street, and labelled "For "White
Pine."

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a mere baga'«'le. "Whenever an invalid sees the
emblem, let him take the hint it is intended to
give him, purchase the elixir, and conquer his
complaint.

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Mining Summary.

Tnts following Information is gleaned mostly from jour-
nals published in the interior, In close proximity to the
mines mentioned.

Our annual storm has come and passed,
leaving its traces wherever its effects were
felt. What damage was done to the min-
ing interest in the different counties iu the
State, to have as yet been unable to learn,
as but few of our weekly exchanges have
come to hand, owing to the bad state in
which the roads have been left by the storm,
which fact will account for the meagreness
of onr weekly Summary in this issue.
CALIFORNIA.

AMADOR ttllXTT.

Jackson Ledger, Feb. 13th: We are in-
formed that Mr. Hutchings — who is acting
as agent for a large company of San Fran-
cisco capitalists — contemplates erecting a
quartz mill near lone City, where it is said
a good lead of quartz has been recently dis-
covered.

In an article headed "Home Matters,"
the editor inveighs against the practice of
capitalists sending their money outside of
the State for investment in undeveloped and
uncertain mines. He says: Iu this county
there* are numerous lodes only partially
prospected that if fully developed would
prove permanent paying mines; yet for the
want of means the owners have been com-
pelled to suspend work upon them, and
they now lie idle, useless and undeveloped.
If only a small portion of the money sent
from the State to White Pine, was made to
prove the partially developed lodes, we
would doubtless have an addition to our
paying ledges that would place this county
in the foremost ranks of mining localities.
The ledges about Pine Grove are evidently,
many of them, of great value, judging from
the yield as far as proven. This range, or
system of ledges, has been greatly over-
looked; quartz men from abroad deeming
ledges outside of the Amador belt as un-
worthy of their attention. This is a great
mistake. No mines in the county as far
down as proven, have yielded richer aver-
age rock than the ledges in and around
Pine Grove; and wherever this belt has
been struck, it has given undoubted evi-
dence of its ultimate value. There is
no doubt but that this belt is but a
continuation of the Grass Valley lodes in
Nevada County; the characteristics of the
rich rock -in the two localities are the same,
and free gold is as abundant almost in the
Pine Grove ledges at the same depth, as in
those of Grass Valley. Railroad Flat, in
Calaveras County, is also a continuation of
the same ledges, and the recent discoveries
made in the last named locality, bear strong
resemblance to those at Pine Grove. With-
in this belt are situated the Union, Pauah
and Stevenson mines, all of which, as far as
prospected, have given flattering evidence
of their real value. Higher up in the same
belt is the Tellurium, Craft, Vaughn and
Pleasant Valley mines, all of which have
been only partially developed, and yet each
one for tbe amount of work done on them,
has yielded as rich average rock as the
most valuable mines in tbe county. All
these ledges are lying idle for the waut of
means on the part of the owners to prose-
cute further work upon them. The most
of these mines could be purchased at low
figures compared with the flattering indica-
tions given.

CALAVERAS COUNTY.

Mokelumne Hill Chronicle, Feb. 13th :
The late storm was by far the most severe
of the season. Mokelumne Hill looked
like a vast mortar bed. Tbe streams are
badly swollen, but we have heard of no
serious damage resulting from the storm,
with the exception of the caving of the
tunnel which conveys the water through
the ridge between here and Happy Valley.

There is no abatement of the excitement
concerning tbe recent discoveries in Rail-
road Flat. Work is progressing favorably,
despite the bad weather, and prospectors
are making new strikes and locating claims.

At West Point times have been rather
dull during tbe past season. Quartz min-
ing has not been so remunerative as for-
merly, and less work has been doue than
for years previous. Tbe absence of ma-
chinery for pumping out the water invaria-
bly found at a certain depth, has always
been seriously felt, and is tbe principal
cause of tbe lassitude being evinced. Mill-
ing facilities superior to those enjoyed by
other localities are at the service of the
West Pointers, but the great difficulty is
in obtaining the rock. We are informed
that efforts will be made, tbe coming sea-
son, to obviate tbe difficulty. From the
vicinity of Murphys, Angela, and other
portions of the county, the mining intelli-

gence is encouraging. Mills are springing
up, and labor is being prosecuted with en-
ergy-

A correspondent writing from Monitor
Camp, says : There will be much prospect-
ing done here the coming spring and sum-
mer. We have one of the finest looking
ledges in the county, running from Mr.
Beal's ranch on the north, through Lava
Mountain, and passing near Monitor Camp,
through" Central Hill and across the
Calaveras River to Bear Mountain. It is
supposed to be a continuation of the Lower
Rich Gulch lead, and has every indication
of being a paying ledge. About the only
place from which a pound of rock has been
taken, is upon the claim of Davis, Fullock
& Co., on Central Hill; at this point it is
said to prospect well. They have a shaft
40 feet in depth, and a large, tine looking
ledge. They will resume labor upon their
shaft as soon as tbe weather settles and the
rainy season is over.

The boys are all very busy at present,
washing their dirt with free water, — a
privilege they do not often enjoy in this
camp.

IKTO COUNTY.

Los Angeles News, Feb. 6th : The Cerro
Gordo mine isturaingoutaboutfour tonsof
bullion per day.

The Queen City mine in Lone Pone dis-
trict has been. found to have a lode of nine
feet in width, and is reported to be one of
the richest -mines in the world.

Fourteen thousand pounds of bullion
arrived in this city yesterday in charge of
Gray Bros. & Arcado, from the Cerro
Gordo mine. Three other trains are upon
the road with 15,000 pounds from the same
mine, and 20,000 pounds more is being
shipped by ox teams. There is said to be
now 60,000 vjounds at the mines for ship-
ment to this city. The bullion is said to
contain silver, lead and copper, yielding
about 25 cents of silver to the pound of
bullion.

Tbe attention of miners and the citizens
of Los Angeles geuerally, has been at-
tracted during the past year by the frequent
and in many instances, heavy shipments to
this city, from tbe Owens' River country,
of silver bars, and now they all have an
opportunity to judge of the mines from
which this large amount of silver bars has
come, by examining tbe great variety of
ores from the Cerro Gordo mines, in tbe
Lone Pine district, which are now on exhi-
bition in this city. Those on exhibition
have been pronounced here as the ri ;hest
specimens of that class of ores that have
been presented in a body as the result of
one mining district, ever shown on this or
any part of the Pacific Coast.

MARIPOSA COUNTV.

Mail, Feb. 12th: Geo. W. Payne, owner
of a quartz vein situated on Specimen
Gulch, npar the town of Colorado, some
two weeks since, struck a pocket which
yielded him 72 ounces of pure gold; since
which time a piece of eleven ounces, and
other scattering gold, has been found. Mr.
Payne has, at intervals for five years past,
been prospecting this vein, which now
promises to him a rich reward for his past
labor.

It is reported that the Mariposa Co. is
about to commence operation on the quartz
mine which is situated at the lower end of
the town of Mariposa. There is upon the
mine a portion of the 50-stamp mill, which
was built several years ago.

Gazelle, Feb. 12th: During the past week
two enterprising Indians have been scrap-
ing up the dirt for two or three inches in
front of old store sites, and taking it down
to the creek and panning it out. They have
averaged $4 or $5 a day for their labor.

The owners of the Maggie Kussell mine,
situated near the Merced river, are about to
enter into a contract to sink a shaft 100 feet,
and the contractors to take out 1,000 tons
of quartz ore. This mine prospects well,
and the owners anticipate heavy dividends
when it is fairly opened and thoroughly
developed.

Our imp, while on his way to dinner yes-
terday, in deep thought as to how the new
roller would work, suddenly spied some-
thing shiniug on the ground, and immedi-
ately "went after" it, and after washing
the mud off, it turned out to be a piece of
quartz "lousy with gold."

Mr. G. W. Payne made a very lucky
strike a few days since near Colorado. He
took out about $2,000 in a short time, and
among the lot of specimens found by him
are some as pretty as one would wish to see.

NEVADA CODS1TT.

Transcript, Feb. 9th: Keith & Co. have
located live claims of 100 feet each on
Greenhorn creek. The claims commence
at Osborne Bavine, and extend down the
creek to the falls below.

The 40-stamp mill at the Star Spangled
Banner mine, is to have another battery of

ten stamps added as soon as the lumber
can be gotten on the ground. The lead is
so large and the mine so thoroughly opened,
that rock can be obtained faster than 40
stamps can reduce it. The mammoth rock
breaker can break the ore fast enough to
keep the 50 stamps in operation constantly.
In order to put up the additional battery,
it will not be necessary to suspend work,
and the mill will continue in operation. In
the recent improvements the building was
sufficiently enlarged for 50 stamps, so that
all that remains to be done is to put them
in place. When the new battery is added,
the Banner mill will be 20 stamps larger
than any other mill in the county, and one
of the largest in the State.

Feb. 10th: A project is now on foot to
get an outlet for the extensive range of rich
ground extending from Badger Hill to Col-
umbia Hill, from the middle Yuba. The
parties undertaking this work are Mills,
McMurry, Cook and Hunter. They pro-
pose to commence 100 feet from the river,
and run a bed rock tunnel 1.900 feet to
Badger Hill. By this tunnel they will be
able to clean up to the bottom for three
miles, and to wash off one of the richest
ranges on the coast. It is estimated that
the enterprise will cost in the neighborhood
of $80,000.

The company engaged in mining at Be-
lief Hill have been running for the channel
for three or four years, and expended a
large amount of money in prospecting.
About three weeks ago the Welsh Co. suc-
ceeded in striking tbe channel, and since
that time this company has been taking out
an average of 812 per day to the man.
Quite a large number of companies are at
work, and they have been greatly encour-
aged by the success of this company. Be-
lief Hill is destined soon to become a pros-
perous mining camp.

Gazelle, Feb. 9th: English & Wells re-
port five and a half feet of snow on Bloody
Run Hill, between Moore's Flat and Lake
City, yesterday.

Daniel McCarty and 12 other men came
out from Eureka to Humbug, yesterday, on
snow' shoes. McCarty reports the snow 8
feet deep at Eureka, and 10 miles above
that point, near tbe head of Canon creek,
it is between 15 and 20 feet deep.

Grass Valley National, Feb. 8th: The
proprietors of the William I'enn mine, situ-
ated east of Grass Valley, have let a con-
tract to sink on the ledge to a depth of 100
feet for the sum of 81,850.

Grass Valley Union, Feb. 9th: Yesterday
Henry Scaddon struck good-looking rock
in the shaft he is sinking on Union Hill.

Feb. 10th: The constant storm3 of the
last four or five days have prevented the
outside prospectors from doing a great deal
of work, but at Ihe mills, and where there
are sheds to work uuder, mining is very
lively. The spring will be in all probabil-
ity a backward one, and consequently many
mining enterprises will be slow in starting.
The North Star Co. is taking out very
rich rock, the gold running through it in
the most beautiful sheets. Yesterday, the
richest ore which has ever come out of that
mine was brought to the surface.

The O'Connor mine is being worked, and
some excellent pay rock has been brought
to the surface.

Last evening, we went into Wells, Fargo
& Co.'s office, and took a look at a couple
of gold bricks which came from tbe Eureka
mine. The bricks were the result of two
weeks' run, and were shipped at a valua-
tion of §20,000.

Excelsior. — Gazette, Feb. 9th: A gentle-
man from Meadow Lake informs us that
the snow at that place on Sunday morning
was ten feet on the average, and more fall-
ing rapidly.

Transcript, Feb. 13th: The large reser-
voir of the South Yuba Canal Co., at Blue
Tent, broke on Wednesday morning. A
gap of fifteen or twenty feet was made in
the large embankment, and the water went
out with a terrible rush, sweeping every-
thing before it. The reservoirs of the Gol-
den Hill Co. were broken, and considerable
damage done to the flumes of Sailor Flat
companies.

Gazette, Feb. 15th: The North Bloomfield
Gravel Co. expect to employ 100 men and
15 pipes in their claims as soon as they can
get the latter in readiness.

Grass Valley Union, Fob. 14th: The Gran-
iteville correspondent writes: At Granite-
ville business is rather dull at this season,
but few of the quartz mills running. The
Birchville is running upon their own rock
and yielding finely. The small supply of
wood which they have on hand will be the
only reason that will compel them to dis-
continue crushing. Veatch & Powell of the
Erie (more familiarly known as the Jim
Crack mine), are running upon rock taken
from their mine, and is one of the best pay-
ing mines in the district. Black & Loring's

mill is running upon rock from the Ban-
berry & Stacey ledge. This rock averages
well, and regularly pays a good dividend
to the owners. Clark & Poquillion's mill,
just above town, is idle at present, but will
start in the spring upon custom rock. Busi-
ness will open lively in the spring, as the
North Bloomfield Co. will continue their
line of works, and will employ a large num-
ber of men , whose trade will naturally come
to Graniteville.

At Snow Point mining has entirely ceased,
owing to the severity of the winter. There
are some very valuable gravel claims here,
which will be opened in the spring. At
Orleans Flat, Wm. Oberman has been at
work getting a set of claims ready to start
up in good order as soon as the season will
allow. At Moore's Flat the Eagle Co. are
raising a shaft in their diggings, and will
commence early in the season to wash their
rich gravel. This claim is considered the
best one on the Flat. The Piute Co. have
sold their grounds to a Chinese Co. In for-
mer years this claim paifl very richly.
Hickey's, as well as the Illinois Co., have
suspended operations for the season. The .
St. Lawrence has been sold to a Chinese
Co., and will give them a good return for
their outlay. Knotwell & Atwater, of the
Paradise claim, made a fine run as the clos-
ing one for the winter, and will commence
in the spring with a fine prospect of making
a good summer's work. Business is quiet
at Moore's Flat this winter, in consequence •
of the claims mostly being idle. At Wol-
sey's Flat mining has closed for the winter.
At Bloomfield matters look more lively, as
there are many waiting for the North Bloom-
field Gravel Co. to commence working their
claims.

PLACER COUNTY.

Auburn Herald, Feb. 13th: The Colfax
correspondent writes: Quartz miningis still
being carried on with renewed activity. The
Bising Sun Co., the pioneer mill in this
district, has undergone great improvements
in the last three months. Increased and
expensive machinery has been added, and
they are sinking their shaft still deeper. At
the depth of 180 feet, the ledge offers in-
ducements to still sink, and tbe company
possess the energy and means to prosecute
the work systematically.

The Montana Co. has determined to pros-
pect on an extensive scale. From tests al-
ready had from their claim, they feel justi-
fied in expending some thousands of dol-
lars in sinking on their ledge. They have
held a meeting lately, and will have ma-
chinery on the ground in a short time.

PLUMAS COUNTY.

Quincy National, Feb. 6th: A gentleman
from the North Fork informs us that
Thompson & Mather have struck some
rich diggings in the mountain above Car-
riboo on tbe North Fork. They are aver-
aging 86 a day to the hand, with a rocker,
also that Buck Lamb has discovered dig-
gings higher up, that pay equally well.
Also that E. R. Drake has good prospects
in the same locality.

Bryan & Boston at the old Bamboo claims
on North Fork are engaged in cutting a
large race, intending to turn the river in
the spring.

From Cherokee we have the following
items: White & Steward, have recently dis-
covered a very rich quartz ledge, near
Cherokee, not far from the Caledonia
quartz mill, which bids fair to make them
a fortune.

The Caledonia mill is running and pay-
ing well. The last week's clean up yielded
far better than usual.

Judkius & Kellogg's mill is in full blast
and is doing well. Tbe steam hoisting
works lately erected at their mine works to
a charm. They have their rock hauled
from the mine to their mill on sleighs.

The Greenville correspondent writes that
Bidwell & Co. are fitting up the old Water-
worth mill, near Greenville, and intend
working tbe tailings from the several mills
in this vicinity, if, after trying the experi-
ment, they find pay to justify them.

TRINITY COUNTY.

Weaverville Journal, Feb. 6th: The flume
of Davidson's ditch, across Brown's Creek,
was struck by a falling tree on Thursday of
last week, and the long span across the bed
of the stream knocked out. Five compa-
nies who are mining on Union Hill are
thrown out of employment until the break
is repaired.

During the present winter Mr. McGilli-
vray has extended his ditch about three
miles further down the river.

The late storms have set all the Buckeye
boys at work, with good prospects ahead.

Mining is being briskly carried on in
Weaver basin. Hocking & Co. have al-
ready stripped a large piece of bedrock.
Their claim was perforated with tunnels,
so that by simply turning the water over
the bank it would cave without gouging.

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Bince water came they have been ruuoing
day and night. Mr. Orson Fox will have
his new reservoir repaired in four or five
days and will thou begin opening his claim
in the bill. He found considerable gold in
the surface while sluicing out his reser-
voir, and says there are a thousand B
snrfa.ee along the ridge that would pay if
cheap water could be had.

Hinds, Dixon .v Swift arc opcningaclaim
in the hanks of Weaver Creek, about 1'/,
miles above Douglas City, and, it is said,
obtain ri-h prospects. Doliffe & Willey
are prospecting a claim on the other side
of the creek, nearly opposite Hinds* Co.,
and are also supposed to have a good thing.
Eetes & Co. are extending their water race
and intend to put in their dam and take the
water out some 400 to 500 yards higher up
the creek.

We are informed that Hager & Haas have
discovered a back channel in the Dacy
claim of extraordiuary richness, and withal
extensive. Our informant says that Field
.V Culver's claim is paving them from $12
to $16 per day to the hand, with four men
at work. He also says Lorenz k Jacobs
have expended about S4.000 in getting
roadv their claim on Red Hill, and that
tbey* will take out $25,000 or $a0,000 this
winter.

ARIZONA.

Prescott Miner, Jan, 23d: Jos. Youn?,
who returned here from a visit to Black
Canon Creek last week, informs us that
when he left the diggings there were six
companies sluicing, aud many others get-
ting ready for sluicing. He says he does
not expect to hear of very many rich strikes
being made ill Black Canon, butis confident
that miners can make from $-1 to $10 a day
there.

The prospects of the country never ap-
peared better, the Sterling mine is a suc-
cess, the placer mines of Black Canon and
Lynx Creek are paying well.

We learn that a party of miners from
Wickenbnrg are prospecting the Placentas,
with a view to working them, and another
party are preparing to go to work on a
quartz ledge. Lamberson & Culluniber
are preparing to run arastras by water
power, and other farmers were talking of
building wheels and arastras.

A private letter from Wickenburg says
that business there was good. Kraus, Bees
& Co. were running their mill aud making
the rock pay well. The Vulture Mining
Co's 20-stamp mill was also running and
paying

A rumor was current in town this week,
to the effect that a Pima Indian had found
rich gold diggings in the Hacquehila
Mountains.

IDAHO.

Silver City Tidal Wave, Feb. 2d: The
coal mine on Reynolds Creek is still being
developed, and its owners are more san-
guine than ever that they have it on the
lap. The vein continues to concentrate as
the tunnel goes in.

Wells, Fargo & Co. shipped from their
office in this city, during the month of Janu-
ary, bullion valued at $114,000.

Same, Feb. 5th: Never since the discov-
ery of Owyhee have the mines shown any
better or yielded a better class of ore than
at present. Cal. Morton showed us a speci-
men of Golden Chariot, picked up by him
a day or two siuce, that is equal to anything
ever seen here since the days of the Poor-
man discovery in silver, aud superior in
gold to the best ever hitherto produced in
the camp. We do not pretend that the
specimen shown us is a sample of the pres-
ent products of the mines, but frequent
observations of the ore from the Ida El-
more, Golden Chariot and Poorman, enable
us to say that the quality of the ore is im-
proving on the average of the last years'
productions, aud that at no time have pros-
pects been brighter for lasting mines and
large rewards, always excepting the discov-
ery of the Poorman, where the ledge was
found lying flat, and was 90 per cent, sil-
ver.

Owyhee Avalanche, Jan. 30th: The Ris-
ing Star mill at Flint, has stopped tempo-
rarily to make some changes in the machin-
ery.

Owing to some misunderstanding be-
tween the mill aud mine owners, Black's
mill has stopped for the present.

NEVADA.

REESE KI V Kit.

Austin Reveille, Feb. 6th : We saw to-day
in the cabinet at Boalt & Stetefeldt's assay
office a very fine crystal of polybasite, ob-
tained from the Buel North Star mine. It
is pronounced to be the finest crystal of
that mineral yet produced in this district.
The crystal is nearly a steel-gray color, and
is large and beautiful.

"WHITE PINE.

Austin Reveille, Feb. 6th : About 10
o'clock this morning, two teams arrived in

this city with machinery for McCone's
quartz mill at White Pine; and shortly af-
terwords came eight other teams from Day-
ton, hauling machinery for the quartz mill
of the Union Co., t<> be ereoted iu the same
district. We learned from the teamsters
that there were lili teams behind hauling
machinery for the same mill.

OREGON.

Rouburg Ensign, Jan, 30th: Some time
since, a letter written by one Foley, from
Cow Creek, in this county, was published
in the MeMinnville Courier, in which said
Foley claimed that genuine tin ore had been
discovered in the vicinity of Cow Creek. It
now appears that Foley had a reasonable
foundation for the conclusion to which we
arrived from au examination of the ore.
Mr. William Briggs, of the Cow Creek
Mining District, this week gave us a sample
of the ore taken from the vein mentioned
by Foley, and it certainly answers the de-
scription of tin ore, in every particular, and
it is said that the test to which it has been
put convinced those who examined it that
it is tin. Mr. Briggs also permitted us to
read a letter from Thomas T. Boulin, of
San Francisco — who has had a sample of
the ore carefully assayed — in which Mr.
Bouldin asks for information in relation to
the lead, aud states that it exhibits enough
to warrant the expenditure of money. He
further assures Mr. Briggs that, if such ore
can be found in sufficient quantity, he is
willing to undertake the development of the
lead.

UTAH.

Salt Lake Reporter, Feb. 2d: We were
called upon yesterday by Mr. La Baume, of
Promontory City, who reports a lively ex-
citement there over the newly discovered
gold diggings, 40 miles west. Mr. La
Baume found the placer diggings on the
south side of Raft river range to be very
rich, yielding 30 cents to the pan on bed-
rock, with fine gold all the way through the
gravel down, of good prospects. It is about
five feet to the bed rock. These diggings
are about ten miles from the nearest point
on the railroad line, and lie along the
streams known as Indian creek, Dove creek
and Sagebrush creek. The placer diggings
lie nearly midway between the Peak and
Spring Bay, the most northern point of
Salt Lake. The creeks mentioned will fur-
nish enough water for only four or five
months in the year, and we are not in-
formed what facilities exist for abetter sup-
ply, but as the mines are very rich it will
probably be found. ClearCreek runs along
the northern side of the range, and there
are quartz mines in the mountains, though
little is yet known of them. Many parties
are preparing to "go in" as soon as the
snow will allow them to work.

Engineering.

Burying Silver in China and India. —
The well known fact of the tendency of
these countries, since centuries, to absorb
the silver of the world, is accounted for in
a degree by the statement of a recent trav-
eler in China that quantities of the metal
are habitually buried. He conjectures that
since the present rebellion began, the Chi-
nese have buried $500,000,000 worth of
coin, most of which is silver and much of
which will never be recovered. " It seems
just as natural," says Parton, in an article in
Harper's Magazine, " for the inhabitants if
Hindostan to bury a bag of silver in some
out of the way corner of a field, as it is for
a New York merchant, at half past two P. M.
to send round his money and checks to the
bank. It is buried in the deepest secrecy.
As in Frauce, during the revolution, so in
all countries, at times of civil commotion-i
timil people hasten to hide their treasures
beyond the reach of the marauder and tax-
gatherer. "

When railroads are built, and foreign en-
terprise begins to leaven iu the great inte-
rior of China, the shrewd conservatives of
the orient will probably discover that there
are better uses to put their hoarded capital
to than burying it. They will then cease
burying their " talents of silver," and will
set it afloat in the world, trusting in the all-
sufficient safeguards of commerce and civ-
ilization, and China will at once begin to
exert an influence, and feel that she is a
power, in the world.

Magazine of Travel, Geography and
Adventure. — A new English magazine, to
be edited by the Assistant Secretary of the
Royal Geographical Society, is entitled Il-
lustrated Travels. It is to treat of different
parts of the world in succession, and is to
be a magazine of "travel, geography and
adventure."

Destruction or Rich Bottom Lands
by RrvBB Debris.— -An ex-president of the

Northern District Agricultural Society
dwells upon the wholesale damaging effects
of the Yuba, as an example of all our
mountain rivers, on the rich adjacent bot-
toms between the foothills and the valley's
drain. He says :

"The river channels are filled up from
twenty to thirty feet, or within a few feet of
the banks along these bottoms, so that almost
every rise of water overflows the land.
Upon these lands were our orchards, the
most celebrated and extensive in the State,
worth from $25,000 to $250,000. These or-
chards are beginning to die out. A few
trees did not bud in the spring, being dead;
the remainder came out aud bloomed and
set the fruit, and then died, so that the
peach crop was a failure. Hundreds of
acres are entirely dead, and the remaining
trees must die the next or succeeding year."
The cost of leveeing, and the difficulty
of setting limits to the rivers, are engi-
neering problems which may be solved by
many a farmer properly studying his situa-
tion, and profiting by the issue of like at-
tempts especially along the American,
Bear, and Yuba rivers. The subject is one
worthy of attention by engineers, as large
tracts not far from the railroad, are held to
be nearly worthless, which might be pro-
tected by levee systems embracing more
than the few isolated farms constituting the
usual objects of protection.

Tunnel Under the Straits op Dover.
Of this project, the London Daily News
of December 25th, says : " It must be re-
membered that the difficulties to be en-
countered in tunneling beneath the Straits
of Dover are of different character from
those which the French engineers have had
to meet in tunneling through the Alps.
The soil to be traversed in the former in-
stance would probably be the "second
chalk formation," which may be assumed
to extend in an unbroken course from the
place of its uprising in England to the
place in which it makes its appearance in
France. It need hardly be said that the
difficulty in perforating this soil would be
very much less than of perforating the hard
and complicated material which has been
encountered by the French engineers. The
workers in the suggestsd tunnel would be
exposed to enormous risks from the effect
of the pressure of the sea upon the stratum
through which they would have to work.
Again and again the water burst into the
Thames tunnel and drove the workmen out.
And then the workmen iu the Thames tun-
nel had but a comparatively short distance
to run when tfiey were threatened with an
irruption of water. If such an event
threatened workmen engaged nine or ten
miles from either outlet of the suggested
tunnel, escape would be hopeless. In a
short time the whole length of the tnnnel
would be filled with the waters of the sea,
and the labor of years would be rendered
useless.

We urge these considerations, however,
not as deprecating the suggested attempt.
Three eminent engineers, Messrs. Hawk-
shaw, Brunlees, and Lowe, have pro-
nounced the plan to be feasible; and the
estimated cost — nine millions ^sterling —
though large, is still reasonable when the
value of the tunnel is considered."

The Snow-sheds. — Railroad men that
came down from the mountains recently,
speak highly of the efficiency of the snow-
sheds along the Central Pacific line, which
are said to stand firm while avalanches of
snow shoot over them from the hill sides.
The damage to the railroad in the Sierras,
aud the consequent detention of trains
which have of late occurred, appear to have
been mainly caused by the snow slides.
The destruction of the trestle work below
Cisco was caused by a snow slide, and it is
said auother occurred between Truckee and
the summit.

Government Surveys in Arizona. — The
Government surveys are to be continued iu
Arizona the present season. R. W. Nor-
ris, C. E., late tide land surveyor of this
city, has entered into a contract with the
Surveyor-General for continuing the sur-
veys on the Gila, and will depart for Ari-
zona in a few days.

The New York Pneumatic Despatch
Company have been engaged in tunneling
under Broadway for about three weeks.
Their progress is not over ten inches d lily.

Drowning Out, and Drying Out. —
Engineering must come to the aid of agri-
culturists iu preventing these calamities, to
which our peculiarities of climate and to-
pography subject so large a proportion of
otherwise rich agricultural area. Land is
valuable according to its usss. It is the
legitimate province of the engineer to know
all about the capabilities, and possibilities,
of drainage and irrigation, and of opening
up lands to a more convenient market. If
profits of any kind are more worthy or
better deserved than ordinary, it is those
which accrue so munificently from "specu-
lations " of this kind, in regard to which
capital is always ready to listen and learn.

Proposed Railroad prom Limon Bay to
to the Gulp of Nicoya. — The Secretary of
State of Costa Rica has entered into a con-
tract with Edward Reilly, Alexander Hay,
Mutt McCartney and David Vickers, citi-
zens of the United States, for the opening
of a railroad across Costa Rica from Limon
Bay to the Gulf of Nicoya. The capital is
to be $10,000,000; the headquarters of the
company to bo in New York, Philadelphia,
or Boston. The company is to commence
its surveys within three" months after the
ratification of the contract, and within the
four following months to spend at least
$50,000 in actual work on the road, and the
first thirty miles must be finished in com-
plete order from Limon Bay within eighteen
mouths after the signing of the contract.

Irrigation in Los Angeles County. —
Mr. Louis Wolfskill is sinking a second
artesian well on bis ranch, the Santa Anita.
He has a flowing well down a little over a
hundred feet; and, although his second
well ruus freely, he intends to sink still
deeper to procure a larger supply, and then
to make a reservoir to hold the water for
distribution at pleasure. This can be done
by throwing a line of single embankment
across a natural basin, furnishing a large
reservoir for irrigating purposes.

Irrigation and Drainage Projects in
Tulare "Valley. — A Washington corres-
pondent writes: The Committee on Public
Lands have not yet reported on the bills for
irrigating one portion of California that is
too dry, and for draining another part that
is too wet (all around about Tulare Lake),
but the advocates of these two measures are
at work, and believe that their bills will be
passed.

A Peruvian Railroad. — A letter from
Lima says that the government is encour-
aging a railway projected between Lima
and one of the cities at the Peruvian Lead-
waters of the Amazon. Admiral Tucker,
it says, has reached in steamers, a point
only fifty leagues distant from Lima,
through rivers which directly connect with
the Amazon, and this road will place Lima
iu immediate connection with that point.

Alameda Railroad. — The report gains
credence, — says the Alia, — that the Alameda
Railroad will be extended this year to Oak-
land one way aud San Jose the other, and
that work will be commenced upon it this
season.

Wrought Iron Water Pipes. — The
President of the Spring Valley Water Corn-
pauy is indignant at the imputations cast
upon the stability of his water pipes. They
didn't burst — only a landslide destroyed
the connection.

A steam tramway from Hamilton to
Treasure City is contemplated.

Borax for Washing. — Refined borax, it
is reported, is used by the women of Hol-
land and Belgium as washing powder in-
stead of soda. The proportion of a large
handful of borax powder to about ten gal-
lons of boiling water, it is asserted, makes
the linen beautifully white and saves half
the expense of soap.

Inoculation for Hydrophobia. — A phy-
sician at Bordeaux, France, thinks he has
discovered a plan for the prevention of hy-
drophobia by inoculating men and brutes
with the poison of a viper feared in the
south of France, but whose bite is not
fatal.

Mythology tells us that Io died because
of her intense love for Jupiter; but the
charm of the romantic story has lately been
destroyed by a chemist discovering Iodide
of potassium.

Tennessee Mineral Lands. — Captain
Moses W. Nelson's mineral lands in Carter
and John-on counties, Tenn., have been
purchased by English capitalists for $10,-
000,000.

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San. Francisco:

Saturday Morning, Feb. 20,

1869.

Notices to Correspondents.

One Interested. — The age of victims" of
small pox in this vicinity, is stated to
have been as follows: Under 1 year, 38;
from 1 to 2 years, 29; 2 to 5 years, 63; 5
to 10 years, 46; 10 to 15 years, 20; 15 to
20 years, 27, 20 to 30 years, 126; 30 to 40
years, [88; 40 to 50 years, 44; 50 to 60
years, 18; 60 to 70 years, 5; unknown 1 —
total, 505. This statement would have
been instructive had the ages been speci-
fiedaccording totheplacesof nativity; for
instance, the whole number of victims
whose country was England and Wales,
only amounts to seven, yet from the Brit-
ish American provinces they enumerate
13, and from Australia7: or the two nearly
three times the number of victims from
England and Wales; while the number of
our citizens who are natives of the last
named, far outnumber those from the
two first. The cause of the difference is
easily accounted for, viz: infantile vaccin-
ation has been general for many years in
England, and not so in the provinces
and colonies.

J. H. B., West Point, Calaveras County. —
You are in the Sacramento mineral dis-
trict, and the U. S. Surveyor for the
same is S. M. Wilson. We have pub-
lished a pamphlet containing the Na-
tional Mineral Land Law, and blank forms,
five in number, to be used in obtaining a
patent. Price of pamphlet 25 cents;
blanks 12% cents each, or $1 per dozen.
As to the length of crank on a windlass
with which a man 5 feet 10 inches tall can
work to the best advantage, the question,
though simple enough, is one calling for
a good deal of theoretical, as well as prac-
tical knowledge of the subject, and in're-
gard to which " experts" would be very
likely to disagree.

Pyrometer. — The capacity of bodies for
heat is materially effected by their den-
sity. Whenever density is diminished,
capacity for heat is increased, and vice
versa. For instance in solids, if we sud-
denly compress a piece of metal, it be-
comes hot, because its capacity for heat
is diminished; consequently, in its com-
pressed or denser condition, it contains
less heat than it did prior to compression.
A bar of red hot iron when subjected to
great pressure, as when passed through
a powerful rolling mill, becomes nearly
of a white heat.

Mechanic — The weight of No. 10 plate
iroD, Birmiugham wire guage, is given
on Wm. Johnson's wall chart of the
" Properties of Metals chiefly used in the
Arts" as 5.5 per square foot. Being a
reference chart for iron dealers, this is
probably more to be depended upon than
your several Mechanics' Companions.

"Whisky. — Alcohol is six times more expan-
sive by heat than mercury, and water
only about twice as much. Pure alcohol
will measure, in the hottest part of sum-
mer, about five per cent, more than in the
depth of winter.

Overcoming Difficulties in Amalgama-
tion.

The working of the Bising Star silver
ores, in Flint District, Idaho, by roasting
and amalgamating in pans, has encountered
very great difficulties, by reason of a con-
siderable quantity of iron which, in com-
pany with copper and silver, amalgamates
very readily, but on being melted after
retorting, separates in the form of infusi-
ble lumps, and must be removed from the
surface of the liquid metal before the bar
can be cast. This iron not only causes an
imperfect extraction of silver from the ore,
but it combines also, in different propor-
tions, with the precious metals in the cru-
cible, as stated, and is, on the whole, so
injurious that a continuation of operations
with such results is found quite inad-
missible.

The ore consists of rich argentiferous
gray copper ore (fahlerz), miargyrite, some
ruby silver, zinc blende, iron pyrites, some
galena, and sulphuret of antimony. The
fahlerz also contains lead. After long and
fruitless experiments to render this iron
" amalgamatable," Mr. Kustel, the metal-
lurgist, was engaged to introduce Ms
leaching process, the application of which,
as we are informed, has resulted in a most
flattering success.

The roasting was suitably modified, and
six leaching boxes (seven feet by six and
a half each, and eighteen inches deep) con-
structed, large enough to receive one ton
of roasted ore, as a charge, to each box.
The leaching with hot water requires three
hours, and about two hours more are re-
quired for draining, before the ore is re-
moved into the amalgamating pans. The
greater part of the base metal ores being
carried out during this leaching, the iron
is, of course, entirely prevented from en-
tering the amalgam. By the aid of this
process the silver is now extracted to 88
per cent, of the fire assay; with a saving
besides of four-fifths of the quicksilver
lost prior to leaching.

The formation of this iron amalgam is a
very strange, and inexplicable circum-
stance in pan amalgamation. It is not
formed, says Mr. Kustel, in consequence
of the action of the chloride of copper on
the metallic iron ground off from shoes and
dies; and does nut occur where a great
quantity of iron pyrites is in the ore pro~
vided that other base metals are not to a
considerable extent present at the same
time.

Where it occurs, it forms, after retort-
ing, a black, spongy metal, like magnetic
iron, and melts from this state easily into
solid lumps of iron; but after arriving at
that stage, it is impossible to fuse these
lumps over again, even at the intensest
white heat

The Bising Star mill is said to be a
magnificent building, provided with the
best machiuery and excellently arranged.
There are thirty stamps, crushing dry.
From these the ore is at once conveyed by
means of endless screws and elevators to
three of O'Hara & Thompson's self-dis-
charging roasting furnaces. These have
each an 80-foot long roasting-hearth, with
a 6-foot feeding, and 18-foot cooling-hearth.
The ore introduced into them is taken by
two shovels or plows fastened on an end-
less chain, and carried through the hearth,
which is heated by three fire-places, and
discharged in from five to six hours; the
discharge being continuous, at the same
rate as the stamping and feeding. Only
two men attend the roasting of the three
furnaces.

Of the silver contained in the Bising
Star ore, 94.8 per cent, is turned into chlo-
ride of silver. It is found somewhat diffi-
cult to manage properly the base metals,
without interfering with the proper per-
centage of chloride of silver; and there
are other difficulties connected writh thase
furnaces, which, however, are not deemed

at all insurmountable. At the end of the
furnaces are the leaching boxes, wheDce the
ore is transported to the pans. These ought
to be placed near the leaching tubs. The
settlers used at the Bising Star mill are
Belden's, discharging the pulp through
Hungerford's concentrators, by which
means a good deal of quicksilver and amal-
gam is saved.

Parting of Gold and Silver.

This is what is usually understood by
"refining " — a simple and inexpensive pro-
cess, consisting in a mere boiling of the
bullion in nitric or sulphuric acid, by which
means the silver is dissolved, drawn off sep-
arately, and precipitated, while the gold
remains behind in the shape of a brown
powder looking very much like mud. Lit-
tle space, and scarcely any outlay, are re-
quired for apparatus ; and the principal
skill necessary is in working carefully, so
as to prevent small leakages and wastage.
Where gold is handled in the shape of mud,
and silver in tubs of cement resembling
slaked lime — the condition it is in after be-
ing precipitated from its solution — another
not unimportant quality in the refiners, as
determining the cost of refining, is a scru-
pulous honestj'; as the most trifling waste,
where hundreds of millions' worth of bul-
lion are separated, would not require a Ion?
continuance to amount to a million or two
of unperceived loss at the expense of the
miner as a matter of course.

We learn from Washington that an old
scheme.aimingtoengineer into private hands
the parting now done, with perfect facility
and economy, in the mints, is before Congress
in the shape of a bill introduced by Senator
Stewart of Nevada, and vigorously pressed
by the representatives of the leading assay-
ing and at present the only active refining
establishment in this city — having, by a ju-
dicious and unstinted use of capital, and
by large capitalist connections, together
with some legislative manipulation at
Washington, now nearly succeeded in driv-
ing all competition in assaying and refining
out of the field.

The question is, therefore, whether the
Superintendent of the Mint shall be au-
thorized to exercise such discretion as he
may see fit, in receiving from the firm in
question, "deposits of refined bullion suit-
able for coinage, and paying the depositors
thereof in unparted bars. "

Were this bill to become a law, it seems
all but certain that, instead of having our
bullion parted at fair rates, the price for
doing such work would hereafter be at the
bidding of a monopoly. As all our gold
bullion contains silver, and nearly all our
silver bullion contains gold, the privilege
of fixing tolls upon the products of the
miner, which must of necessity pass through
the refiner's hands, is evidently no mean
prize to be coveted — a result certainly jus-
tifying the most patient, laborious and pow-
erful exertion, from year to year, of the
most skillful managers that can be put for-
ward with such a scheme, by the parties in-
terested, as a business enterprise alone.

The rate of exchange is left to the discre-
tion and honesty of the Superintendent of
the Mint. But that discretion is, under
the manipulation of this bill, of [such a
character that a little negligence or nomi-
nal stupidity on the part of that public of-
ficer, may compel every miner of the Pacific
coast to put aside his tribute to a private
assaying firm ; and when probity, and easy-
going good nature, not to mention stupid-
ity, are the worst offence necessary to be
committed under so happily conceived a
bill for the purposes in view, it is possible
for even a tolerably honest Superintendent
of the Mint to succumb to the tempta-
tion, for example, of permitting a friend to
become interested in the prosperous re-
fining company in question; while the dif-
ferences would be so small, that the bullion-
producing public would never find it out.

This project is admirably planned, and
very plausibly put forward. But what are
the evils that call for a discontinuance of
refining in the Mint? " It is not shown
with any clearness," says the Bulletin,
"that if the whole business of refining
were placed in the hands of private parties,
it would be done any better or any cheaper;
but it is rather made to appear that the
business is profitable enough to be coveted
by private parties, and that its exclusion
from the operations of the Mint would lay
heavier burdens upon the Government for
the support of that institution."

We are informed by a late Washington
correspondent that, " as the bill has been
somewhat modified in its principal features
from the shape in which it was presented
last session, it will probably be passed."

First let it be shown that the interests of
the public are the moving cause, and it will
be easy to determine whether any modifica-
tion of the measure is likely to be an im-
provement, such as will justify our repre-
sentatives in lending countenance to it, or
in permitting themselves to be led into any
"entangling alliances" thereby. We have
heard of no miners — bona fide bullion pro-
ducers — petitioning for the proposed
change.

SCHOOLS FOR InDUSTBIAIi SCIENCE. A

marked feature in the advance of modern
educational institutions is the facilities af-
forded for the acquisition of the practical
arts and trades; not by mere rote, as is usual
with mechanics, but with due attention to
the interesting principles applying in every
case, the understanding of which makes
the true mechanic, useful in his place be-
cause his soul is in his work. Except in
" running a quartz mill," or the like fancy
pursuits, the utility of a thorough knowl-
edge of the theory applying, as well as of
the practice, in money-making industrial
pursuits, is not often qnestioned, or at least
is not held to be an absolute disqualifica-
tion. One of the largest schools of applied
science in the world is the Ecole Central cles
Arts et Manufactures, in Paris. It has 500
pupils. Amongst 2,000 young men who
have left this school, the career of 1,394
has been recently traced, and the issue was
this: 247 had died, while of the others 480
were engineers or superior officers of rail-
roads; 54 were mechanical engineers; 124
were iron masters; 280 manufacturers of
considerable eminence; 55 architects; 35
contractors for public works; 42 professors
of the applied sciences. The rest filled
honorable posts in trade or in the service
of the French or foreign governments.

In addition to some very valuable insti-
tutions of the kind that have grown up in
this country, it is stated in the Memphis
Appeal that Gen. E. E. Lee has now in op-
eration at Washington College, Virginia, a
practical department for the benefit of
young men who wish to become master
workmen as carpenters, machinists, etc., in
which students are instructed in the prin-
ciples of mathematics required, and in the
use of the tools.

The Hafenegger Powder Experiments,
at Fort Point, Friday, were quite suc-
cessful. One massive, hard rock, 38 feet
in length, by 20 in hight and breadth,
irregular, (estimated to contain 16,000 tons)
was broken through and through, about
two-thirds being thrown off. This was
done with three pounds of the strongest
powder in a 1%-incri holesuukto the depth
of ten feet. The cartridge was only 1%
inch diameter, and no tampiDg was used
in the charge. We believe there is no rec-
ord of such an exhibition of power from
so small amount of any powder heretofore
in use. For want of time we shall give
particulars next week.

The Great Boiler from McAfee &
Spier's works, which has been seen engi-
neering its way, very slowly but surely,
through the streets towards the city front,
reached the SacrameDto steamer wharf a
number of days ago.

Tr\e Mining and Scientific Press.

121

Wanted, a Wind and Rain Map of the
Coast.

( Ibsemng old residents in particular sec-
tions are generally well enough informed
nl„.ut the winds and rains, during a portion
of the year at least, In the localities in ques-
tion, to answer fur o\ery practical question
touching tlieir own individual interests, or
others with which circumstances hove mads
them accidentally familiar. But new com-
ers, who are frequently the enterprising
persons that are most likely to conceive of
new ilevelopments.as well as to judge wisely
of tiirir chances of success, are in too many
OMSS brought to a standstill by a want of
easily accessible data indicative of the cli-
mate of particular localities, such as would
be presented in a wind and rain map — and
the possession of which would immedi-
ately transform a matter of unbusiness-liko
venture, arising from uncertainty as to the
climatic conditions, into one of certainty,
and consequent likelihood of being carried
out.

Not merely agriculture, and the pro-
ductions of the soil, are affected by these
conditions,— constituting a law of probabil-
ities, without a knowledge of which no
Bhrewd business man will take his first
step, — but all the manufacturing and com-
mercial interests which follow in the
wake of agriculture, are interested in know-
ing and comprehending the nature and the
probabilities of failure in the several funda-
mental producing pursuits. Especially is
this the case in a country so widely differ-
ing in its local climatic conditions as are the
varied situations, between mountains
and valleys, of the Pacific Coast.

All that is needed is the distribution of a
lot of rain gauges, — which cost a mere
trifle, — and some blank sheets of ruled, or
"engineer's paper," to record the observa-
tions in graphic form, or in such a man-
ner as to present correct .weekly and
monthly averages for all the more import-
ant points on the coast. A publication of
the results, shown comparatively, would be
of the greatest pratical value.

It is suggested that the next Legislature
would do well to appropriate a small sum
for the maintenance of rain gauges, in con-
nection with the State Agricultural Society,
or the Academy of Sciences. The reports
of a single year would undoubtedly do more
good than " horse racing upon the grandest
scale."

By reference to the proceedings of the
Academy of Sciences, in another column,
it will be seen that action is proposed to be
taken on the subject by that body.

Oun NextIndustkialExhibition, under
the auspices of the Mechanics' Institute of
this city, will open about Sept. 1st, 1869,
and will probably be even a greater success
tliau the last. Circulars have already been
sent to China, and will be sent without de-
lay to Australia, and down the western coast
countries, giving notice of definite arrange-
ments, and inviting exhibitors. In the cir-
cular to China, Mr. Hallidie, the President
of the Mechanics' Institute, says:
The railroad across the continent connecting
us witli the eastern shores of our country will
be completed in April next, and we will
then bebrought in communication with the
more thickly-populated and older portion
of our own and surrounding counties; by
this means facilitating the intercourse of
nearly 80,000,000 people. San Francisco,
by its position, will be the entrepot of the
Chinese trade, and a center for exchanges.
In- view of this, it is believed that the forth-
coming Industrial Exhibition will be of
material interest to the people of China;
and it is suggested that means be adopted
by them to be represented here at the In-
dustrial Exhibition at that time. Arrange-
ments will be made with the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company for the free transpor-
tation of goods intended for exhibition.

A Mastodon at Petaldma. — It is re-
ported that the skeleton of a mastodon was
being exhumed near Pctaluma last Thurs-
day.

Gas Prr.irifATioN — Lime on Iron-.— TVe
have received from the editors of the
American Gas Light Journal, the report of
Prof. Henry Wurtz to the Manhattan Gas
Company of New York, upon the compar-
ative merits of the Lime and Iron methods
of Gas Purification. The two large gas
companies of that city, tho New York aud
Manhattan, respectively employ, the first
the "Iron Process," and the last tho "Lime
Process." It is a very important sanitary
question, which of these two has the effect
to vitiate in the greatest degree the air of a
populous city. Prof. Wurtz found that
the odor of sulphurated hydrogen, and
othor persistent stenches familiar to tho
people of New York, wore oppressively
perceptible at some distance from the "puri-
fying house " of the company using the
iron process, — where the fouled iron oxide
was spread out for fermentation; — although,
in the immediate vicinity, thoy were masked
by the more powerful odors, — we may say
perfumes, — of ammonia and naphthaline.
In the Lime process, on the other hand, as
employed by the other company, where the
effete lime is ventilated or " revivified" in
a supplementary purifier charged with hy-
drate of lime, the only perceptible odor
under the same circumstances is that of
phenol, or carbolic acid; which is perhaps
rather an advantage than otherwise, it be-
ing a powerful and valuable disinfectant.

Prof. Wurtz names the various ingredi-
ents of the gas which call for removal, —
either on account of their effect upon the
health of the population, or uponthe il-
luminating value of the gas, — and remarks
upon the chemical relations of the most
important of them to each of the two
processes. He concludes that the tendency
of progress is in the direction of a return
to the use of lime for gas purification ; that
the only thing which led to the adoption of
the iron process, was the difficulty of get-
ting rid of the fouled lime, — while the iron
oxide could be used over and over again ;
but that the improved mode of deodorizing
the lime now places the advantage largely
upon the other side.

Quarterly and Monthly Editions.

At the end of each quarter a large number of
our weekly i.s&ues for the preceding three months
are bound up in book form, which, by special
arrangement, are placed upon the ferry boats aud
various steamers leaving San Francisco and other
ports on the Pacific Coast, for free reading by the
intelligent traveling public. The Quarterlies are
also to be found in the principal libraries, depots,
hotels, and free reading rooms of the Coast.

This, in addition to our Monthly Scries and large
weekly circulation, makes tlie Press the best and
ciieai'est general advertising medium throughout
the Pacific Coast. The value of advertising in
our columns, however, is best determined by those
who have tried it, and we respectfully refer to our
patrons iu that line. No paper in the United
States can boast a better class, and no weekly
paper on the Pacific Coast receives as large
a sum for regular advertising, or has more con-
stant or long-contmued customers.

414CLAY, „,„rv A S. F..CAL.

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Advice Feel-,

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ligently and skillfully, in an able and straightforward
manner. Patcnls secured in EVERY COUNTRY IN THE
WORLD where Patent Laws exist. Being long established,
and transacting' a large business, our unpuint men's arc now
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throughout the Pacific Coast, among mechanics, miners,
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and others will please Inform us.

Oo-Or*UTlVl OhIOM Stork.— This is becoming one of the
most useful Institution* In the city, and the Mechanic nnd
Laboring Han ftri'y appreciate It They arc now enabled
to bay their Grocei m and Provisions 2ti par rent, cheaper

tit in ever before, and the very be,-t articles In the market.

Hi.- store i- located at 116 Batter street, Lick Souse Block,

San Francisco. Cvl8-ti.m

Bath Yoor Tiith.- Dra JettUp A Beers, over Tucker's
•eWOlry store, are now making a specialty of tilling the

tangs of dead Tooth, and building up broken crowns with
pursfjofd—tliue restoring them to their original usefulness
and beauty. They are al-io using Nitrous Oxide for tho
painless extraetion of Teeth, when so desired— tile only ab-
solutely safe anaMlhetle ever discovered In breathing it,
It acts as a gentle stimulant, without undue excitement,—
the sensation produced being truly delightful, tho effect
upon the lungs healthful, and In Its results positively *rcc
from all danger. Prepared and administered daily at tho
Dental Rooms at Messrs. JESSUP ft BEERS, corner Mont-
gomery and Sutter streets. San Francisco. 16vl6tf

A.CKOSTIC.

J"nln Killer Is worth what it weigh-. In gold,

AH around the World are Us praises told;

It win cholera cure— scourge of sou t hern cl lines,

Ko victim dies, who takes It betimes.

Keep Pain Killer— a true friend bv vnnrqklo,

It will cure Cough nr Cold, or folic beside;

• K out to apt IV It for Bruise nr for Sprain,

I..CI it once he tried — " 'ttritt I* mid again;

Kvery word I mil telling von. Render, is true;

Komi' m her that Pain Killer is qoml for you.
The Pain Killer Is sold by nil Druggists and dealers In
Family -Medicines.

RE 01 NOT ON & CO., nnd HORTETTER & SMITH. San
Francisco Cal , General Wholesale Agents. fublm

CHANGE.

C. C. HASTINGS & CO.

Wholesale and Retail!
Sl'I'JCltlOlt GOODS! REDUCED IMTKS!

C. C. HASTINGS & CO.,

SUCCESSORS TO
Ilaestoii, IfaNtlners A Co.*

SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK,

Announce to the friends of the old firm, and the public at
large, that their present business arrangements are such
that they arc enabled lo offer the be*t and most stylish
goods on the Pacific Coast at a great reduction from former
prices.

AT IVBIOD.KSAl-E.
The allention of the merchants throughout the Pacific
Coast. Is called to the fact that wc arc now prepared to All
their orders for superior poods in

Strictly Custom-Made Clothing,
Suits, (Sloven, Iloflery, nnd

FurnlMhlncc Guodi, Trunks,

Traveling K;»g* and Valises,

In lots to suit at regular wholesale rates.

CLOTHING TO ORDER,

Made cither in New York or San Francisco, under the su-
pervision of the best cutters in America.

DIRECTIONS FOR MEASUREMENT

Sent to any address upon application, and goods forwarded
by Express on receipt of orders. Satisfaction tuaranteed.

C. C. niSTIKGS A-. CO.,

Successors to

II EU 3 TON, HASTINGS & CO.,

The Fashionable Clothiers.

>cw York and San Francisco.
8vlS-3in

BLA.KE'S PATENT

!S TT E A M PUMP!

This Fl mo is warranted superior to nny In the market,
for Breweries Sugar H< uses. Tanneries, Boiler-Feeders,
Steamboats, Mining and Fire purposes, etc. It throws a
full stream of the thickest beer mash without clogging,
and sugar svrup boiling hot without difficulty.

Warranted a positive Pump under all circumstane.es; It
never stops nor sets out of order, and by reason oi the pa-
tent device in tho valves, is kept clear and always ready
for action. It is RIMt'LE, COMPACT aud POWERFUL,
and needs no expert lo run it.

fl©-Ii'nnr. falls to do the work for which it fs sold, it may
he returned and the money will be refunded- May be seen
in operation at Radon's, or Union Iron Works, or at
W. O. M. B KRRY «fe CO'S,
Agents for Pacific States,

8vl8 3in IU California street, San Francisco.

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O. M Taylor, who acted as agent a brief time Tor this
paper In Washoe, Is requested to call at or address tblsolllco,
without fall.

"WHEnr. td Advertise. — The attention of traders and
mill m&OhililSts in called to the fact that the Mountain
Messenger, of Downieville, Sierra County, porbchh'n many
special advantages as an advertising medium ever a inn-
ority of tho interior presB, it being tho onlypublie jour-
nal published within a radius of sixty miles, in the rich-
est anil must populous mining sections of thu State. Its
weekly edition is double the average of country papers,
being without the range of large dailies, and having no
competition at homo. Its local column; afford many items
for our city eotemporaries, while its rates of advertising
are reasonably low lnvnti'

PACIFIC

Rolling Mill Company,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
En tarnished for the Manufacture of

railroad and other iron

— AND —

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Embracing ALL SIZES of

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— ALSO —

HAMMERED IRON

Of every description and size.

agr Orders addressed to PACIFIC ROLLINO MILL
COMPANY Post Office, San Francisco, Cal., will receive
prompt attention.

«3- The highest price paid for Scrap Iron. 9vl43m9p

Crucibles.

The Patent Plumbago Crucible Co.,

Manufacturers of all kinds of

Melting Pots, Portable Furnaces,

CRUCIBLES, and other fire-standing Goods,
Battersea Works, London.
THE MORGAN PATENT CRUCIBLES have uniform
quality, never crack, withstand the greatest heat without
danger; heats more rapidly than any other; change of tem-
perature has no effect on them; stand on the average forty
to fifty pou rings.
On hand and for sale by the Agents,

A . S. HALLIDIE .1 CO.,
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$20,000 to $25,000.

A PRACTICAL SMELTER wishes to enlist capital to
build a Furnace on a Mine oi rich Argentiferous Galena at
White Pine. From $800 to $1,0U0 a day can be cleared
with ease. Security and best of references, etc., given.
Address, WM. F. HILTON,

7vl8-lm9p San Francisco P. O.

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to the public.

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clothes, ami add a little in your washing.

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jpSr»For further information, address

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Care of Langley it Crowoll, Druggists,
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Machinists and Foundries.

PALMER, KNOX & CO.,

Golden State Iron Works,

K«*. lit, 21, «» and 35 First Street,

SAN FRANGISCQ.

MANDFACTUKK ALL KINDS OF

SrEAJU ii.\«I>ES AMI QCARTZ MILLS

DUNBAR'S IMPROVED

«3elt-.A.cLj ustlixgf Fiston Paelting,

Requires no springs or screws; is' always steam tight;

without excessive friction, and never

gets slack or leaky.

WHEELER & RANDALL'S

JSJTCW GKIMIJBXt AM) AMALGAMATOJl

HEPBURN & PETERSON'S

1MALOAMATOK A\U SEPABATOK,

Ivuox-s Amulffamators,

WITH PALMER'S PATENT STEAM CHEST,

Superior tor working either GOLD OR SILVER ORES, and
b the only Amalgamator tliat has stood the test of seven
years' continual working.
Ueuulue White Iron Stamp Shoes and Ale*

Having been engaged for the past ten years in quartz
aiming, and being conversant with all the improvements,
either in Mining or .Hilling, we are prepared to furnish, at
ihe shortest notice, the most perfect machinery for reduc
np ores, or saving cither gold or silver. 13vlUqy-tf

1KA P. KANKiN.

A. P. DKAVtOS.

Pacific Iron Works.

First and. Fremont Streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Having been-cstablished since 1831, we have accumulated
a very large variety of Gear and other Patterns, n hicli,
with our superior tools and appliances, give ua liiciliiics lor
doing ilrst class work uueiiuaied on the Pacitlc Coast.

Among other things, we manufacture the following:

STEAM EiNGi-IlN'fciSS,

Horizontal and Vertical, for either Stationary or Marino

use.

BOILERS-High a.nd Low Pressure,

Pump, Pipe and Sheet Iron Work of every kind.

Quartz 3X111 Work,

Including High and Low Mortars, for wet or dry crushing*

Furnace Irons lor Roasting Ores; Freiberg I'ariels;

Varney's and Wheeler's Amalgamating Pans

and Settlers; Stamp Shoes and Dies of

best White Iron; Russia Irou

Screens, etc., etc.

Flour Mill, Saw Mill and Sugar M1U Work in every variety -

Pumping and Hoisting Machinery; Hausbrow's

Patent Challenge Pump, for Domestic,

Ship and Mining use— the most

approved and successful

Pump manufactured

Canting* of every description, iron and Bras*.

We would call especial attention to "Wright's Patent Va-
riable Cut-off Engines," of w.hich we are the sole manufac-
turers on the I'Hulilu Coast, under license from the v\ ood-
ruff & Reach Co., Ilarttord, Ct. As a simple, ettcctive, Fuh.L
saving, Urst-cUss Engine, this is, without doubt, the best
Engine made in the United States.

Urders promptly attended to. Prices as low as possible
for first class work, and we intend to do no other.

(.ODDAIU) «fc CO.

San Francisco, May 1, 1868. iavltiif

WILLAMETTE IROJS WORKS,

POB.XLAA'11, OUEfiOX.

8 t c a m Engines, Boilers,
SAW AND GRIST MILLS,

MINING MACHINERY, WROUGHT IRON SHUTTER
WORK, AND ULACKSMITUINU IN GENERAL.
Corner A'orth-Front and E, Mtreetn,

13vl3-ly One block north of Couch's Wharf.

Globe Iron Works,

STOCKTOSf, CAL.

KEEP & BARGION,

MANUFACTURERS OF

(Quartz, Saw anil Grist Mill Irons, Steam
imagines, Horse Powers,

High and Low Pressure Steam Engines, Steamboats and

Propellers, made at short notice.

13vl3lf

J, NI-.W'MLVM.

J. I' Hi WOOD.

SOUTH BEACH IRON WORKS,

Near corner of King and Third streets, San Francisco.
1UAKINE ENGINES,

AND ALL KINDS OF

MACHINERY FOHGI1VG.

All kinds of Ship-smithing and Mill work manufactured to
order. Jobbing ot every description promptly attended to.
All work done nuuranteed, 13vJL4-iy

CALIFORNIA BRASS FOUNDRY.

No. 125 First street, opposite Minna,

SAN FRANCISCO.

All kinds of Brass, Composition, Zinc, and Babbitt Metal
Castings, Brass Ship Work of all kinds, Spikes, Sheathing
Nails, Rudder Braces, Hinges, ship and Steamboat Bells and
Oongs of superior tone. All kinds of Cocks and Valves, Hy-
draulic Pipes and Nozzles, and Hose Couplings and Connec-
tions of all sizes and patterns, furnished with dispatch.

fl®- PRICES MODERATE. «ffi(r

J. P. GALLAGHER. J. H. WEED V. KINQWELL,

flv!3-ly

Miners' Foundry

— AND—

MACHINE "WORKS

Nos. 245 to 255 First Stkeet,

Sau fraud gco.

HOWLAND, ANGELL & CO.,

PKOPI1IETOKS,

Manufacturers of Machinery for

OI'lET/ MILLS. FIJI! I! MILLS,

SAW MILLS, Sl'lilK MILLS,

roWBElt MILLS, PAPER MILLS

Steam Engines of all Kinds.
Amalgamators of all Kinds.

MlXI.VIi PtTMPS, HOISTIKG WOKK8

OIL IVK1.1, TOOLS, ROCK BREAKERS.

— AND —

Machinery and Castings of all kinds, either
of Iron or Brass.

Boilers and Sheet Iron Work in all its
Branches.

shoes and Ales of "While Iron, mnnnfactnreu
for and Imitorleri by iim exnressly tor this nir-
poae, unci will lust 555 per tcul. lougcr than uiiy
other mitde ou this coUMt.

KoH.i:. B roil Screens, of any degree of finene.8,
Wts are the only mauufaelurei ■*) ou this const ol
the

HICKS ENGINE,
The most compact, simple In eoustrnctlon, and

dliruhle, of any Entrine 111 use.
V, H. UOWUIID, II. a. A.\«ELL.

lSvU-qr CTfRUS PALMER.

F0LTON

Foundry and Iron Works.

HINCKLEY & CO.,

MANOFACTURMIS Of

@ rJL' 3B Jl BX ENGINES,
Quartz, Elovir and Saw IMills,

Hayed' Improved Steam Pump, Bro die's Im-
proved Crusher, Mining; Piirupti,
A .inn Igji mil I "i«. mid all kinds
of Machinery.

N. E. corner of Tehama and Fremont streets, above How
tird street, San Francisco. 3-ijy

McAFEE, SPIERS & CO.,
UOILEK, MAKERS

AND GENERAL MACHINISTS,

Howard .it, between Fremont ami Eeale, San Francisco.

Flue or Tubular ISollei-s, with plain circular or spiral
courses. Upri^li t Flue or Tubular Boilers, Locomotive and
and Marine Boilers, and Wrought Iron Tanks ol' every de-
scription,

Hydraulic Pipe supplied at reasonable rates. In or
dcrlnp. give ilie quantity of water to be supplied, bight of
tlie fall, and tutu' lenglli of pipe, so as to enable the linn to
determine the diameter of the pipe and thickness of iron to
be used.

Kepsilrw.— Boilers, Smoke Slacks, Pipes, etc., put in re-
pair with promptness.

'To Boiler Uukcra and Machinists In the In-
terior.—The linn is prepared to furnish estimates of
Boilers, su ply new Heads, drilled and punched, and attend
to the selection and forwarding of Irou for Boilers, Pipes
and other purposes.

Pluns, Brewings and Specifications.— The firm
Is prepared to make out Plans and Specifications, icceive
estimates, and superintend the Erection of any Machinery
thai may be entrusted to then* care

To J u veti tor*.— The firm is prepared to assist in de-
veloping the plans of those who have the ideas but not the
practical experience necessary to put tlie same In form, by
muking Drawings oi their Inventions, giving them the ben-
efit of their practi *i> 1 knowledge in the construction of Ma-
Chinery, and attending to the manufacture and introduc-
tion of tlieir inventions. lvliiif

UNION IRON WORKS,
Sacramento.

WILLIAMS, ROOT & NEILSON,

MANCFACTUKERS OF

CROSS' PATENT BOILER FEEDER,

•jTBAM ENGINES, BOILERS,

And all kinds of Mining Machinery.

Also, Hay and Wine Presses made and repaired
with neatness, durability mid dispatch.

Dunbar's Patent Self- Adjusting Steam Piston

Front Street, between N and O streets,

Uvll Sacramknto City

THOMPSON BROTHERS,
EUREKA FOUNDRY,

1U9 and 131 Beale street, between Mission and Howard,

San Krancisco.

LIGHT ANB HEAVY CASTINGS,

of every description, manufactured 24vl6qr

G. T. PRACY.
MACHINE WORKS,

NOS. 109 and 111 MISSION STREET,
Between Main and Spear.

New and second hand

Engines and Boilers,

FOR SALE.

Also one first-class I'oisting

Engine ; one Unriyht

Engine, o; entirely

new pattern.

MANUFACTURER OF

Eatli.es, IJrills,

And MILL MACHINERY of
every description.

PRACT'8

New and Improved
STEAM ENGINE

BEG-ULATORS,

The nest and cheapest yet in-
vented— manufactured and
lor sale. Parties are in-
vited to examine it
In practical op-
eration.

P. A. HUNTINGTON'S

Shingle Machines

on hand.

Particular atientinn paid to
Repairing,

83- All work guaranteed to be done in a first-class man-
ner, and at the lowest rates. 12vl7lf

THE KISTJOIV

Iron and Locomotive Works.

Incorporated, April 30, 1868. Capital, $l,f'00,0f0.

Location of Works, Corner Bcnle and Howard streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Successors to Pacific Mail p. S. Co. Works at Benicia. Coffey

<fc Risdon, and Devoc, Dinsmore & Co., ban Francisco.

Steam Engine Builders, Boiler Makers,

MACHINISTS AND FOUNDRVMEN.
All work in their line attended to with promptness and
dispatch.

Directors:
S. F. Butter worth,
Lloyd T.-vis,
Jas. Pollock,
Ben. Uolladay,

JOHN N. RTSDON, President.
Josenh Moore, Vice President and Superintendent ; I'has.
E. McLnno, 'treasurer; Lewis R. Mean, Secretary; Lewis
Coffey, Superintendent Boiler Works. 24vl7qy

Cha". E. McLane,
John N. Risdon,
Joseph Moore.

NOBLE & FLEMING-,
MACHINE WORKS,

No. lO Stevenson street, near First,

SAN HJANCISCO.

Particular attention (riven to repairs on Portahle and Sta-

tionnry Engines; also nil kinds of Wood Working

Machinery; Shaftlnp", Hungers, Pulleys, etc.

made to order; Screw Cutting, Iron

Planing, and all kinds of JOB

WURK promptly at. ended to.

Agents for F. S. Pcrkiua' Engine £.uthcR,

Plan era, Vpi-fBtlit Drills,

And all kinds ot MACHINISTS' TOOLS; also the Dnvis

Wood Planer and Mitre Dove-Tailing Machines.

BSfAlsn, on hand for sale a complete set. of Tools fur

makmc Blacking Boxes, consisting of Press, Dies, Shears,

and Crimping Midline, etc. 4vlS-o.r

Phoenix Iron Works.

JONATHAN KITTEEDGE, Proprietor,

Koi. 18 and SO Fremont street, near Market,

MANUFACTURER OF

Fire-Proof Doors, Shutters,

Wrought Iron Girders, and all kinds of Housesmith work,
Bridge and Prison Work;

BAKE VAULTS AND M0NIT0E SAFES,

FOIS6IK6 AND MACHINE WORK.
Agency for the ISHAM KEY REGISTER BANK AND SAFE
LOCK, the only first class Lock in the
lvl7tf United States

CITY IROK WORKS COMPANY.

CLERC & CO.,
IKON FOUNDEKS,

■ Steani Fntrlne Builders and Makers of all
kinds of Machinery,

6^ Hf>ir No. 28 Fremont street, San Francisco.

JAMES MACKEN,

OOFFZEIRSMIITIl.

220 Fremont St., bet. Howard <£; Folsoru

All kinds ofCOPPER WORK done to order in the best
manner. Particular attention paid to Steamboat, tiugai
House and Distillery work.

Repairing promptly and neatly attended to.

Blanks, Blank Mining Books

Constitution and By-Laws

— FOR —

Mining- and Prospecting

Companies

Elegantly printed, with care and dispatch, at the office of tho
Alining and Scientific Press.

Orders from the interior faithfulv attended to.

Ambekgeis. — This valuable substance is
found in the intestines of diseased sperm
whales. N. E. Atwood, of Provinoetown,
Mass., writes thus to the American Natural-
ist:

"In 1862, the schooner Estella, of this
port, killed a lean sperm whale, from which
they took sixty-six pounds of ambergris,
which, on the arrival of the vessel, sold for
$64 per pound. On another voyage, in the
following year, the same schooner captured
a whale, from which they took twenty-three
pounds nine ounces, which sold for $70 per
pound. Last spring a very lean whale was
killed by the schooner Watchman in the
West Indian seas, from which was taken
thirty-eight pounds fifteen ounces of am-
bergris, which sold for $90 per pound,
amounting to $3,504.37. These cases are
all that I have found where whalers have
been fortunate enough to find ambergris in
whales. There is no doubt that they some-
times let carcasses go that contain more
value in the intestines than the whole blub-
ber is worth. This substance, accumulating
in the intestines, causes a stoppage so that
nothing can pass from them; in this con-
dition they cannot live long."

New Operations at the Banneb Mine.
We are allowed to copy the following
from a private letter written by one of the
owners of this mine :

The Banner mine, I am told, never looked
better; large masses of ore in sight, and the
company now talk of putting in ten stamps
more, which will increase the number to
fifty, which you will perceive is no sardine,
although it does not assume that shape
now. The amount of rock coming out of
the mine at present is more than sufficient
to keep even sixty stamps running, much
less forty; hence the talk for ten addi-
tional. The engine purchased of Booth <fc
Co., of your city, is a splendid affair, and
goes far to their credit for engine building.
We have four rcckersat work on sulphurets,
and one buddle, and have contracted for
building another. The thing, taking all in
all, moves along finely, and in a short time
we will be right side up with care.

TrvrPAEOTJS Pekch — Fish Born Alive.
Harper's Magazine asserts that the report of
viviparous fish in the waters of California,
"which, for a time, so seriously disturbed
the learned savans of the French Academy,"
is without foundation. The writer of the
article succeeds in proving his ignorance,
and that is all. These viviparous fish are
abundant, and that they give birth to fish
and do not deposit eggs like most fishes, is
evident to most persons who have cleaned
many of the perches sold in our markets.
They have ceased here to be a curiosity.
The little perches, previous to birth, are
well formed, and when they commence
their independent existence they are several
inches long. — Alta.

Metallurgy in Calaveras. — The new
Hagan furnace at Angel's has been running
for ten days, and some of the roasted rock
has been sent to this city and examined.
The sulphur has all been driven off, and,
so far as an opinion can be formed from
the specimens received here, the success is
complete in roasting. The Benton mills
are at work with two Kyerson amalgamators
and twenty stamps are crushing for reduc-
tion in the ordinary way. The Ryerson
process extracts about $25 a ton from the
Josephine rock; the amount by the common
process we have not heard. — Alta.

The Ellershausen Iron Process. — It
is said that the Ellershausen process of
making wrought iron, recently invented
and tried on a large scale with success at
Pittsburg, will reduce the cost of the metal at
least $10, and perhaps $30 per ton. The pro-
cess is very simple; the molten iron as it
runs from the smelting furnace is mixed on
a revolving wheel with pulverized ore, and
after it cools it will not melt when heated
to white heat, but has the qualities of
wrought iron, and is ready for the forge.

Large Shipment or California Brandt.
A part of the cargo of the ship Escort, now
loading at Vallejo street wharf for New
York, is a shipment of three hundred bar-
relsofCalistoga brandy (amounting to twelve
thousand gallons), from the Calistoga dis-
tillery on Mr. S. Brannan's estate in Napa
Valley. On the 16th instant, another lot
of one hundred and fifty barrels will be
shipped — the product of the same distil-
lery, which is the largest in California.

According to Professor Poey, the tem-
perature of the sea always diminishes as we
approach land, or shallow water, thus serv-
ing as a guide to the navigator when other
means of information are not at hand.

Tr\e Mining and Scientific Press.

123

Prof. Peuiiey'h Earthquake Noras. — M.
IVrrev, Professor "t Dijon, in France, is
considered bj man; us the best authority
on the subject of earthquakes. He has col-
leoted a large nniouut of information on
this Babjeot The foreign consuls of the
Frenoh Government in every part of the
globe lmvc been instructed to furnish him
with observations and with the literature of
earthquakes, and circulars were sent, through
the agents of geographical societies, to
all travelers, asking for statistics and in-
formation; and thus in the course of a few
years M. Perrev baa aoonmnlated the record
"I more than 7,000 earthquakes, which he
has tabulated, and upon which he has at-
templed to fouud a theory of their origin,
which, however, has been stoutly opposed
by geologists. It appears from his obser-
vations that these convulsions occur more
frequently during the winter half of the
year than during the summer; that there is
a pieponderanceof shocks at the equinoxes
and the summer solstice. A variation in
the pressure of the atmosphere is found to
have some connection with the phenome-
non, as the earthquake action is greatest
when the barometer indicates that the
weight of the atmosphere is the least, and
the pressure variable. The nature of the
earthquake shock is thatof waves propelled
from a central point. These waves are as
variable as those of the sea. They are some-
times only an inch or two in hight, and at
other times several feet high. Sometimes
they cross each other and produce a rotary
motion, which is very destructive. The
geographical formation of the region dis-
turbed has much to do with the velocity of
the earthquake, as through certain strata
tho shock is propelled faster than in others.
On laud the velocity of the wave is found
to vary from 40 to 140 miles a minute. In
the ocean the earthquake wave is found to
move at tho rate of eight or ten miles a
minute.

Mai> Printing Encouraged. — In Prussia
there is a Government map printing estab-
lishment, in which the work of publishing
the most recent geographical charts is per-
formed at the lowest prices, for the benefit
of the public. Not only are the schools
supplied with the best maps, but a prize of
comparatively easy attainment consists of a
world-map, so that by this means the dwell-
ings of the majority of the people may be
supplied with these excellent instructors.

The Southern Heavens. — In the south-
ern heavens there is a region of the sky in
which stars of all magnitudes are strewn
more richly than in any other portion of
the celestial sphere. The general blaze
from this portion of the sky, — says Captain
Jacob, — is such as to render a person im-
mediately aware of its having risen above
the horizon, though he should not be at the
time looking at the heavens, by theincrease
of general illumination of the atmosphere,
resembling the effect of the young moon."

Sonora Pacific Railroad.— Informa-
tion has been received, — says a Washington
correspondent, —that the Texas Convention
has passed an ordinance giving the right of
way to the International Pacific Railroad,
from the eastern to the western border of
that State, and a reservation of twenty
miles on each side of the road, the road to
be completed within six years. This road
is one of the connecting links of the inter-
national line from Cairo to Altata, on the
Gulf of California.

The Sacramento High School will pur-
chase a mineralogical cabinet.

GEO. E. ROGERS,

(Successor to G. W. Bell.)

A. S S A. Y E K, ,

512 California at., Sun FrunclHCO.

J. A. MAKS, Assnycr.

Ores carefully Assayed. Gold and Silver Ores worked.

23vl(i-o.rlilpnr

CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, DRAPERIES,

SI! A !> [is, Etc., Etc.

LOUIS F. KNIGHT,

C43 California St., cant slue of Kearny,

BAN FRANCISCO.

I cau offer from the largest ftnd best assorted stock in the

city anything in our line,

AT PKICES TO SUIT ALL.

FURNITURE AND MATTRESSES

Made to order.
All klnd3 of upholstering executed with neatness and
dispatch. 9vl7

Uctuys are Dangerous.— Inventors on the FacLac
Co.ist should bear in mind that by patronizing our Patent
Agency ihcycin sign all necessary papers for securing pa-
tents almost immediately, thereby avoiding the three
month's delay requisito in transaction business through
Eastern agencies.

Business Cards.

RODG-ERS. MEYER & CO.,

COMTMlXSSIOIV MERCHANTS,

AUVAXtlls HADE
On .in kiu. i- of Oi'c*, mi. i particular intention

PAID TO

('(i\Mi:\Mi:\is oP GOODS.

ivl&Sm

KATIIANIKI, OH \Y.

II. K. GKAY.

N. GRAY & CO.,
uivr>Ert TAKERS,

6*1 Sacramento St, cor. Webb, San Francisco.

Mr-Sole Asenta for Barslow's Metallic Burial Cases and
25vUtr Caskets.

Farmers and Mechanics
BANK OF SAVINGS,

No, ail Sunburn- Street.
Interest paid on Deposits. Money Loaned on Real Estate.
II. DCTTOX, President.

OF.O M OONOEE Cashier. lOvlfi.lm

J. J. JONES,

CARPENTER and BUIT^OETt,

No. 334 Jackson street, between Sunsome and
^ Buttery,

Stores and Olllcos fitted un with neatness and dispatch.

7vl8if

FREDERICK MANHGLL.

Mechanical & Architectural Draughtsman,

No, 122 California street, corner of LcidsdorrX.

Drawings of Models mado for parties apply for pa-
ents at Washington or London. ar23-tf.

"W. T. ATWOOD,

riTHCH A3ER OF

COPPER 0EES, BAE3, MATT, Etc., Etc,,

/><>."► Montgomery street*

Room No. fi, over Parrott A Oo's Bant, San Franefsco.
23vl7qr

S. fOLK.

G. TUCHOLSSr.

S. FOLK & CO.,

MANPFACTURKBS OP

WADDING, BATT1XG, and COMFORTERS

Ml and 1-13 Brunnan St., Between Third and Fourth,
san francisco. ivlSqr

W. C. CAMPBELL.

PATTERN AND MODEL MAKER,

No. 20 Fremont street, over Phceulx. Iron Works, San

Francisco.
Particular attention given in MODELS for the Patent Office
Brands and Pattern Letters Cut. 4vlSmtf

Pump Leather.

The attention of MINING COMPANIES, and others re •
quiring a superior article for Hydraulic purposes, is invited
to the heavy Oakcd Tanned Pump Leather, manufactured
and prepared expressly by the undersigned.

s^0^

E.JONES&C? ,

Constantly on hand and lor sale by

GUVY, JONES <fc CO.,

Dcuot of the Santa Cruz Tannery,

4:18 Buttery St., Sun FrnnclNCO.

25vl7-ly

Pacific Chemical Works.

SUT>PII1TK3C KTIIER.

SPIRITS OF NITRE,
A<ilTA AMMONIA,
ACETIC ACID,

CYANIDE OF POTASSIUM

— AND —

ACIDS AND CHEMICALS OF ALL KINDS.

FALKENAU & HANKS,

Office and laboratory. Sixteenth street, be-
tween Folsoin and Harriaou.

LOUTS FALKENAU, State Assaycr.

CSr-Particular attention paid to the Analysis of ORES,
MINERALS. METALS, etc. 8vl7

"IMPROVED SPRING-BED BOTTOM"

(Patented July 21st, 1868.

The undersigned, having purchased the Patentee's inter
est in the States and Territories of the Pacific Coast, is now
prepared to supply Private Flours, tfotcls and Steamers
wilh this cnmtortablc, econ nnlcal and durable "IM-
PROVED SPRING BED BOTTOM;"

Persons going to White Pine will greatly promote their
comfort by taking one of those Patent Bottoms, which is
secured to a folding Bedstead, the cost of which Li less than
that of the materials at White Pine.

Wareroom, No. 1002 Market Street.

P. HUDSON, Proprietor.

BOT-Call and examine. Open until S o'clock P. M.
6vl8qr

Pati:nt Ofi-ice RrcronTS, from 18J3 to 1847, Mechanical
are wanted for duplicate copies at .his office. Parties hav
Ing them for sale will please state price, and address
DEWEV A CO., Mlniug and Scientific Press office, San
Francisco.

Professional Cards.

J. S. PHILLIPS,
i*ix>tiiv<s EWGlJNr.i£Eit, Etc..

Wadm irth n<'ti>e Baa Francisco.

■ in iii. various di part-

menus or Mining Eiiulticcrinij and Metallurgy, in Cornwall
aim America, sullclut orders for the examination ol Min-
eral Proportion throughout the North and south An., rlcaa;
minerals assayed or analysed; itdvlce for boueflclntlne
refractory ores; Motuls sold; capital procured tor devel-
oping valuable ledges, -tvi7if

J0H.M K0A0H, Optioian,

Has removed from 6'-*'-' Montgomery street to

."• in \\ 'aohlnurloii ntreet.

Bast of Montgomery.

Survey ing Instruments male, repaired and adjusted
22vl7-*m

DAVID R. SMITH,
Olvil and BXerfuunloal Kug-ineor,

Is prepared to furnish Plans, Models, Specilleaiions and
full detail Drawings for steamers and Sailing Vessels and

Machinery in general.

AfontKomery Block. 13vl7-3m

J. M. HAVEN,

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
No. 420 Cnllfornla Ntreet,

2TV16 SAN FEANCISCO.

JAMES M. TAYLOR,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,

Court Block. 636 Clay Street

SAN FRANCISCO.
2vl5-lqy

PACIFIC

INSURANCE C03IPANY

OF SAN FRANCISCO, (Al.„

Office, No. 422 California street.

Cnsh AflBCtfl, .J:«n. 1, 1SOO, - - Sl.530.740 18

FIRE,

MARINE,

AND

INLAND

INSURANCE.

San Fra*cisco:
W. C. Ralston,
A L. Tubbs.
Win. Alvord,
Jonathan Hunt,
A. B. Forbes,
A. G. Stilea,
A. seligmau,
L. B. Kenchlcy,
Wm. Sherman,
L. Sachs,

James De Frcmcry,
J. G. Bray,
David Siern,

D. O. Mills,

I. Friedlauder, i
Moses Heller,
R.M Newhall,
G. T. Law ton.
Wiles D. Swctny, 1
Chas. Mavnc.

E. L. Goldstein,
J. ". Earl,
Lloyd Tevls,
Thus. H. Sclby,
Adam Grant,
Alpheus Hull,
S. M. Wilson,
D.J. Oliver,

W Schollo,
Thos. Brown,
Chas. Main,
Chas. K. 1'utcrs,

A.J RALSTON, Secrr
ANDREW BAIRD, M
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DIRECTORS:

Oliver Eldrldge,

J. B. Roberts.

J. C. Wilmerding,

P. L. Weaver,

Win. H oper,

J. W. Clark,

A. Havwaru,

T. L. Barker,

Alexander Weill,

Chaa. Meyer.

Chas E.McLnne,

M. Rosciibauni,

a. J. Ralston,

T. Lemmen Meyer,

J. T. Dean.
Nkw Yoiik:

Louis McLane,

Frederick Billiugs,

Jwmes Lees,

J. G. Kellncg,

Wm. T. Coleman,

Moses Ellis.
Sacuamknto:

Edgar MiilP,

J. 11. Cam. II,

C. T. Wheeler.
Maky-svillc :

J. H.Jewett.
1'oitTLANn, Oregon:

W S Ladd,

Jacob Kaium.
Viucinia, Nevada:

Wm. Sliarou.
offiokrs:
JONA. HLTNT, President.

W. ALVUKD, Vice fiealacut.
inry.
ii'iim Si'i're'arv.

H. II BIUKLOW, GnnM Agent.

Tho PertVctlon of Prepared Cocoa,.

MAEAYILLA COCOA.

Sole Proprietors— TAYLuR BROTHERS, London.

The Cocoa (or Cacao) of Maravilla is the true Theobroma
of Liniueos. ('ocoa is indigenous to South America, of
which Maravilla is a favored norlion. TAYLOR BROTH-
ERS having si-cured the exclusive supply of this unri-
valled Cocoa, ti tVo, bv ilic sulllful application of their sol-
uble principle and elaborate machinery, nmduccd what Is
so undeniably the per'ectinn ot Pronared Cocoa, that It has
not only secured the preference of nomas i paths and cocoa-
drinkers senerallv, but many who had liitherto not found
smv prcpnnition tn .-nit lh«in. liave. afcr one trial, adopted
the Maravilla Cocoa as their constant beverage for break-
last, luuchcon, etc.

"ASTTCCESS IJXPRECEDEXTED."

[See following extract from the Globe of May M, 1«68.]
"Various impnrlers and manufacturers have attempted
to attain a reputation for their prepared Cocoas, but vre
doubt whether any thorough success bud been achieved
until Messrs. T i vl«ir Brothers discovered the extraordinary
qualities of "Maravilla" Cocoa. Adapting Ihoir perlect
.■system of preparation to this finest of all species of the
Theobroma, they have produced an article which super-
sedes every other Cocoa in the market. Entire solubility,
adclicate aroma, and a run' concentration of the purest
elements of nutrition, distinguish the M.iravilla Cocoa
above all others. For homoeopaths and invalids we could
not recommend a more agreeable or valuable beverage.

Sold In packets only by all Grocers, of whom ah o may
be hadTavlor Brothers' Original Mumojopathio Cocoa and
Soluble Chocolate, Steam Mills. Brick Lane, London.
6vl8-ly

VFE ARE NOW OFFERING-
OXJK, IMMEIVJSE »*TOCI£

or

Fine Custom Made Clothing

AND— —

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AT PRICKS THAT IMF \ COMPETITION.

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J. Tt. MEAD * CO.,

BvlO Oor. of WashinRton and Sansome street*.

Mining Secretary.

THE SUBSCRIBER, HAVING SERVED FOR THE LAST
live years as Secretary of various mining companies,
feels full'v competent to serve in that capacity. Any par-
ties wishing to secure the services of a Secretary can be
accommodated on reasonable terms. Information given,
and all necessary papers correctly made out.

Having had a long experience in the purchasing of goods
and machinery for miners, parties in the mines will imd it
to their advantage, where purchasing agents are employed,
to send their orderS to the u^"^"^^^^^

Room 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California street
San Fraueiaco 17vl5-tf

THE GIANT

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GIANT POWDER,

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Pioneer Screen Works,

JOHN W. QUICK, Manufacturer.

Removed to A. Prltzel's Iron Works. 311 Fremont street,

near Howard. San Francisco.

Screen Punching in ail Its branches, at rates reduced
from 25 to 411 percent less than the established rates. I ran
furnish Improved Quartz Screens several sizes finer than
any Screen ever punched, giving universal satisfaction,
and for strength, cheapness and durability are not excelled.
Also, Punched Screens of all sizes and fineness made from
all qualities ot materia), for Quartz. Cement, Flour and
Rice Mills, etc. Screen Punching made a specialty; there-
fore millmen forwarding their orders to me will reccivo
none but the best. Orders solicited.

N. B —J. W. QUICK is tho onlv competent and successful
manufacturer of Screens in the State, having made Screens
for the principal mills in this State and adjoining Terri-
tories for many years. Quartz mill owners using punched
Screens which nave universally failed to give satisfaction,
when visiting the city will please call and sec mo. 5vl7-ly

California Steam Navigation

SHU COMPANY, Am.

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CHRYSOPOLIS CAPT. A. FOSTER.

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at 4 o'clock P. M. EVERY DAY (.Sundays excepted), one
for faacramento and one tor Stockton, those for Sacra-
mento connecting with light-draft steamers lor Marysville
Colusa, Chico, and Red Bluff.

Office of the Company, northeast corner of Front and
Jackson streets.

B. M. II A UTS HO TcN F.

President.

International Hotel,

J JL C IKL © O N © T R E E T

BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AND KEARNY STS.,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE IS IN PERFECT
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and the Rooms well ventilated. The Table will always be
supplied with the best In the market.
Prices varying from SI 5«> to #3 per di»y for

Board and Boom.

FINE BATH HOUSE AND BARBER SHOP ATTACHED

TO THE HOUSE.

flr»» Teams belonging to the House will be in attendance
at all the boats and cars to convey passengers to the Honso
fhke op chakgk, and to any part of the city for GO cents

ulvl2 F. E. WEYGANT, Proprietor.

DR. NESTELL'S
LTJTSTGr INSTITUTE,

(Branch or the X. V. lama: Institute)
A'o/ulG SUTTJEK, STICEET,

Between Mason and Powell Streets, San Francisco,
For the special Treatment of all Diseases of the HEAD,
THROAT, LUNGS, AND CHEST, by the Inhalation of
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etc.

Earnest attention is solicited to this Rational Method of
Treatment, which transmits the remedies, in the form of
vapor, directly to the seat of di-ease. instead of by the
round-about way— through the medium of Ihe stomach—
and which is conceded to be the only reliable means whei e-
by an alleviation and cure may be expected. My system
of Inhalation, now well known throughout tho United
States and Canadas, and much of Europe, where thousands
— manv of them far advanced— have recovered, claims the
prolbundest approval of the medical prole-sion, and tho
timely and candid consideration of those nttiictcd with
these the most devastating of all earthly maladies.

Patients a [.tended at the Inst it life, daily, from 9 A. M. till
i P. M.

Invalids at a distance, on writing their case, can receive
the remedies by Express.

Special attendance out of the city will be charged com-
mensurniely with the time and distance occupied,

All communications must be addressed to

D. D. T. NESTELL, A. M., M. D.,
Lung Institute,
No. 510 Sutler Street, ^an Francisco,
21vl7 3mos. California.

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Ti\e Mining and Scientific Press.

[advertisement.]

Reduction of Ores.

Messes. Editors: As "White Pine and adjoin-
ing mining districts are now attracting much at-
tention, allow me to say a few words in regard
to our mines, and the best method of extracting
their minerals. What little knowledge I claim
is chiefly of" a practical nature, derived from
some twenty years' experience in the mines of
California and the silver districts of Nevada.

To commence with the Comstock lode, the
usual and best known process is to roast the
ores in the German reverberatory furnace — a
mode of treatment adapted to only a certain
class of rich ores, and exceedingly expensivet
not only in the original outlay for machinery
and furnaces, but also in reduction; in fact, too
expensive for ores running lower than from $30
to $40 per ton, the actual cost of working, after
being delivered at the mill, being about $30 per
ton. In addition to this, the bullion, when ob-
tained by this process, is only about 500 fine,
when it should be 900.

The question then arises, how are the lower
grades of ores to be worked ?

Can the result be attained by the smelting
process? Both science and practice, so far as
this coast is concerned, answer in the negative.
This mode, as a general rule, has proved a failure.
Such has it been in my own experience. Few
mines have the requisite amount of galena for a
proper flux. The great cost of fuel is often an
insurmountable objection. The variety and
different combinations of minerals so fre-
quently found render this mode of working
in most instances utterly impracticable. In all
my experience I do not know of a single case
where smelting works have proved remunerativej
or even successful, so far as the reduction of the
ores was concerned. "Whether the Hagan Fur-
nace, though not designed for smelting, recently
introduced and not yet fully tested, will prove
any more successful, remains to be determined.

It seems to me, therefore, after a survey of
the whole ground, that the only feasible plan
for cheap and profitable working of the lower
grades, as well as of many of the more rebel-
lious higher class ores, is the more general adop-
tion of the pans now used in our mills with
some modifications,, which I will state hereafter.
It is to this source we are to look for rapid
strides in the next few years, in the opening of
many mines which are now unproductive. A
brief account of the introduction of the process,
together with some of the advances made in this
mode of working, may not be amiss in this con-
nection.

On the discovery of the Comstock lode, it was
but in its infancy. The Bartola pan, the first
introduced — diameter 30 inches., with a capacity
of 50 lbs. — was too small and too slow for any
practical use.

The Smith pan, built soon after, 4 feet in di-
ameter, proved to be a decided irnproYenient on
the former, but was rather slow for the fast days
of Washoe.

The Knox pan, of the same diameter as the
last, was the next in order, did its work well,
but was objectionable on the ground of slow-
ness and the consequent cost of working.

Next followed the "Wheeler pan, diameter also
4 feet, a fast runner, very popular at that time,
and making an entire revolution throughout the
whole coast from Idaho to Mexico.

About the same time appeared the Varney
pan, the Hepburn & Peterson, the Wheeler &
Randall, and a number of others of greater or
less merit, which for want of space we are com-
pelled to dispatch in a line. The next step in
advance was the Wheeler improved fiat-bottom
pan, much better in my opinion than the conical
bottom, and destined to supersede all others in
use.

It is a fast pan, of five different sizes, work-
ing in the largest as much as one ton at a charge
in four hours. It is the invention of Mr. J. H.
Stewart, a practical miner and mechanic. Hav-
ing run all the pans in use, and seeing their de-
fects, he was led to get up the one which now
bears his name, and which he believes is far su-
perior to any other hitherto introduced. The
principal improvement claimed for it consists in
a galvanic pan or battery in the pan, generating
its own ele ctricity at a cost of only two cents
per ton. They are believed to be the best for
the White Pine ores, where eight of them have
already gone, being best adapted to dry crush-
ing, which mode will save a much larger per
cent, of the mineral from this region than the
wet.

This pan has a false steam bottom, so that
the ore or pulp becomes very hot without get-
ting too wet. The pulp is worked thick. When
chemicals are to be employed, which can only
be determined by experiment, some kind of an
alkali, such as cyanuret of potassa, with a
little sal ammoniac, is the best in my experience,
and to be used with caution. The White Pine
ores are generally easily worked, seldom re-
quiring chemicals of any land.

Any information in regard to these pans, or
the new galvanic process, can be had by address-
ing Mr. J. H. Stewart, care of the Miners'
Foundry, San Francisco, or calling upon him at
the office of the same.

Practical Miner.

COLLIER <fc SILLIMAN'S
METALLIC PRESSUBE PISTON ROD PACKING,

jv7.J,

toy.

r , 11,

_- - ' _ ^ -

This invention relates to the packing used to render piston rods or propeller shafts
steam and water tight, and has for its object the construction of a metallic packing, which
shall be operated upon by gas, the vapor or liquid exertingthe pressure, in such a man-
ner as to forma perfectly tight joint. It also consists in so forming the gland of the
stuffing box, that it shall serve as a support and guide for the rod and shaft, and at the
same time afford great facility for lubrication.

Two small openings now connect the inierior of the cage with the source of press-
ure— as the cylinder in an engine or pump, or the water outside of the ship if il is for
a propeller shaft — so that the greater the pressure the closer are the rings forced
against the rod and inner face of the gland. In any case the Packing is to be applied
to a water or air pump, so that the pressure will come from the liquid or the gaseous
substance, as the case may be. One of the most important uses of this Packing is in
the stuffing boxes of propeller shafts, in which case the openings connect with the out-
side water, the pressure on the rings depending upon the depth to which the shaft is
submerged. This device is simple, and not easily got out of repair; is perfectly effica-
cious and self-regulating, and in the case of shafts, especially, will do away with the
great expense of repairing the derangements of the stuffing box which now so frequently
occur. This new invention has already been adopted on the Central Pacific Bailroad
and by some of the principal Flouring Mills in San Francisco and Sacramento, and
is growing at once into popular favor. A description of the engraving accompanying
this will be found in the Mining and Scientific P?'ess Jan. 9, lgli'J, and in the patentees'
circular, which can be had free on application.

Certificates of Recommendation :

Office C. P. K. E. Co. of Cat... Sacramento, Nov. 24, 1868. — To Whom il may Concern: — This Company has
made a thorough practical test of Collier & Sillimun's Patent Metallic Rod Packing, and mid it a superior
mode of packing to any other in use, and accordingly recommend it to all others interested.

E. B. OKOCKEK, Gen. Agent C. P. E. E. Co.
This is to Certify, that we have been using the Collier & Sillimnn's Patent Metallic Eod Packing, and find
it a superior mode of packing to any other in use, and would recommend it to all others interested.

SETH H. GARFIELD, Prop. Pioneer Mills, Sac. City ; Wm. Etchells, Engineer.

For sale at the principal Machine shops and Foundries in San Francisco. Full

particulars can be obtained by addressing OKEIN COLLIER, Sacramento, Cal., or

E. B. Silliman, Bridgeport, Ct.

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From Idaho. — Our correspondent from
Boise City, under date of February •±th,
writes :

The Monarch Company, Mr. Atkins, Su-
perintendent, at Yuba, Alturas County,
I. T., lmve just cleaned up their first run
of six tuns of Atlanta ore, and have as the
result. 1,200 pounds of dry amalgam, of
about $500 to the ton, — as it is silver, with a
small percentage of gold only.

The Leonora I wrote about before; it
produced $6,060, valuing which at £13.50
per ounce, the assaying rate, from 130 tons;
only about half the gold and no silver be-
ing saved,

We do not want any White Pine for
either Owyhee or Altnra^ counties, both of
which are superior to White Pine in many
respects. Water is free, — instead of twenty-
five cents a gallon, — and in Alturas lumber
is $60 a thousand, and enough for a cen-
tury; provisions plenty nnd cheap; flour,
£15 per cwt., etc. The good time for Al-
turas County is comirjg, and capitalists can
see for themselves, for all we want in
Yuba is capital. Observer.

Hawaii, the Island of the Great Vol-
cano, Sinking. — During recent earth-
quakes it is asserted that Hawaii, the larg-
est island of the Sandwich group, em-
bracing 4,000 square miles, settled upon
its foundation a few feet on the southern
and western shores, a few inches only on
the east and north, but enough to cover the
old tide-marks, and to overflow the vege-
tation of the more level beaches. The isl-
and is entirely volcanic, and was formerly
at least partially under the ocean — a fact
established by the marine shells distributed
over its surface, at considerable altitudes.
Accurate and reliable data with regard to
the present alleged submergence have not
yet reached us.

Nevada City Foundry. — Under the ac-
tive supervision of the energetic proprie-
tor, John McCone, the Nevada Foundry,
Silver City, continues daily to turn out au
immense amount of work. The number of
workmen at present employed is 105, and
the average amount of castings turned out
per day is 14,000 pounds. They have just
cast a mortar for the Bay State Mill, which
weighs 4,500 pounds, showing that they are
prepared to do heavy as well as light work.
They are getting up a large amount of
White Pine machinery, also a great number
of pan bottoms of a new style for use every-
where. The foundry presents a scene of
the greatest activity in every department
during working hours. It is one of the
most important and successful institutions
in the State. — Gazette.

The Chilean Exhibition in April. —
According to late intelligence from the
South American coast, it appears a consid-
erable number of manufacturers and agri-
culturalists in England, France and the
United States, are preparing to forward ar-
ticles to the exhibition.

Government Sale of Gold. — In accord-
ance with instructions received by the As-
sistant U. S. Treasurer in this city, $1,000,-
000 in gold coin will be sold for currency
in lots of $250,000 each, the first lot
being offered on the 23d instant. The sale
of this money will retain between $7,000,-
000 and $8,000,000 on this coast, which
amount has heretofore been shipped East
yearly.

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BOOTS AND SHOES.

Those who have worn Pa Rett's Patent Elastic Ventilat-
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and successful use. The foot re-its upon a cushion ofair
cells between points of vulcanized rubber, every cell open-
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by the foot. There isnn contact of the foot with the wet
bottom of the boot. The elastic points su-tain the weight
of the wearer, leaving an nlr space always, between the
font; and all dampness. Every step compresses and re-
stores the air chambers, thus con-alluring hundreds ofair
pumps, working at every step of the foot.

The rubhi»r points will not ahorb the moisture from the
boot, so that the soft flannel which covers them Is nl .vays
dry. Their springiiiT elasticity renders them of peculiar
value to the aged and Infirm, who feel itie jar of walking
upon hard substances, a 'so to all persons whose business
requires nun'li walkinc or standing.

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wlthrhumatism and consumptive complaints, chilblains,
corns, cold and sweatv feet.

For warm and dry feet use the Patent Elastic Ventilat-
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No i5Ej-''/i,in<r--<:tr^-f,7j,r:ton,Od: 15, 1S67:— This may cer-
tify that I have used the Patent Elastic Ventilating Inner
Sole*, through the spring and summer past, and Have
f.iund them to be the best contrivance for keeping the feet
dry and comfortable, that I have ever used, an, I for any
one having corns or tender feet, the best article ever in-
vented. CHARLES K. DARLING. Stationer.

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article for vonr feet, a real luxury in cod weather, obtain
a pair of theP.ifi'nt Elastic Ventilating Tuner Soles. Hav-
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mend them as tending nol only to promote the comfort of
the feet, and case in walking, but also the equalization of
the temper it on' of i ne feet, which renders them almost in-
valuable.—[Boston Traveler, Oct. 1S67.

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increased patronage and friendly support of the
intelligent and progressive readers of the Pa-
cific: States and Territories, we are confident in
asserting that the new volume of the Mining
lnd St ikntific Press, commencing with 1869,
shall be in all respects superior to its predeces-
sors. Of the past, we will give the written

OPINION OF OTHEIts:

Kvituy miner in toe comniuQJty Should RubBcrlbe f-ir
tti" MLutogand Soli otitic Press. — Ortm PttUey Union.

Mining, am. Scientific Pubss.— This excellent aolen-
UflcjonmalluiB entered upon its eighteenth volume.—
Chica Coura.nl, Jan. 151A.

Tin: Mining and Scientific /Vet* should have an exten-
Bive ciivnlaliuii in every milling community on the
Coast. — Plattr.Htrald, />•■.■. \\t_

W. Frank Stewart is Dewey k Co'b accredited agent
for the Patent business in this city, and will attend to
their affairs in that specialty. — San Jose Mercury.

Minims and SciKNTirie Pbess. — This journal is de-
voted to mining and scientific researches, and has been
conducted with threat ability. It has been greatly en-
larged and improved.— San Jose Patriot,

The Mining and Scientific Press has become al-
most indispensable to the miner aud machinist, and is
will di sn-vtiig of tin- patronage which we are pleased to
learn it receives. — Mariposa Mail, Jan. lvUi.

To all wo may wish to obtain a thorough knowledge
of the industrial resources of the Pacific Coast, the
PnESS will be found a valuable puper. — Oakland Trans
script.

The Press is a credit to the State, and is fast gaining
In popularity. It commends Itself to all classes, and we
hope many in this section will become subscribers. —
J'ajuronian.

These gentlemen not only print a first-class scientific
and mining journal, but are also trustworthy Patent
Agents, and doing much towards the inventive business
of this coast. — San Jost Mercury.

Tar. Mining ana" Scientific Press is oneoftho best pa-
pers of the kind ever published, and to California miners,
especially, it has become an almost indispensable requi-
site for the successful prosecution of their calling. — Ne-
vada Gazette,

New Volume. — The Mining and Scientific Pkess has
entered upon another year's work looking improved and
promising. This paper is devoted to the interests of the
scientific world, and to the miner and mechanic is al-
most invaluable. — Gilroy Advocate.

The Mining and Scientific Press comes to us this
week in a new dress throughout, much improving its
appearance. The Press is one of our most valuable
exchanges, and fills a place in mining and scientific mat-
lei's never attained by any other journal. — Colorado
Miner

The Mining and Scientific Press commenced a new
volume with the new year. It is a credit to the State,
and to the mechanic or miner, is a great source of valua-
ble information. It has every appearance of prosperity,
and we hope it may continue growing in wealth and in-
fluence.— Pajaro7iian.

To Minkrs. — William H. Murray, traveling agent for
the Mining and Scientific Press, published by Dewey &
Co., of San Francisco, is in town soliciting subscriptions
for that paper. To the intelligent miner, a paper like
the Press is particularly valuable, keeping him posted on
the latest" discoveries in reduction of ores, new machin-
ery, etc. — Grass Valley National,

We CoNsrDER the Mining and ScrENTTFio Press the
most valuable mining and mechanical newspaper issued
in the United States. Dewey & Co., publishers, are also
solicitors of foreign and American patents and conduct
patent cases of every kind. We guarantee that all busi-
ness confided to them will be carefully attended to, and
we further behove that every miner, mechanic, and sci-
entific man should have their valuable paper. — Auburn
Stars and Stripes.

A Valuable Paper — For many years after the Amer-
ican settlement on this coast, a journal devoted entirely
to mining and scientific interests did not exist. Vast
sums of money were expended, or rather squandered, by
capitalists and ethers, for lack of proper practical and
scientific information about the mines and their devel-
opments. This necessity has been iully met by the Min-
ing and Scientific Press, published by Dewey & Co., at
No. 414 Clay street, San Francisco. — San Jose Mercury.

Mintng and ScrENTiFio Press. — We look upon this
papei as one of our most valuable exchanges, in fact
it deservedly stands at the head of all publications em-
bracing mining, scientific and mechanical subjects,
and contains much miscellaneous matter of interest,
and is a gem of neatness. The Press is published by
Dewey k Co., San Francisco, and at its present low price
of five dollars per annum, should be patronized by every
one, but more especially by miners, mechanics and in-
ventors who wish to pursue their avocations with intel-
ligence and economy. — Tidal Wave, Idaho.

A Useful Puulication. — The Mining And ScrENTTFio
Press, published at San Francisco by Dewey & Co., is a
publication valuable to all cla.1 S3S and indispensable to
miners and inventors— the pnteuts for nearly all Cali-
t'orni i inventions having been secured through the Pa-
tent Agency of the proprietors of that paper, and the in-
ventions themselves brought into notice through its col-
umns. We are glad to learn, from Mr. Wm. H. Murray,
the travebng agent of the paper, who dropped in upon
us Monday evening, that its merits are so well appre-
ciated; and we unhesitatingly commend both the paper
and its gentlemanly agent to the confidence and patron-
age of scientific and practical men of all classes and every
occupation. — Solano Herald,

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free on application.

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414 Clay st., below Sansoine, San Francisco.

A. T. DEWEY.

W. B. EWEIt.

SULPHUEETS ;

What they are;

How Assayed ;■

How Concentrated;

And How "Worked;

With a Chapter on the

BLOW-PIPE ASSAY OF MI3J2RALS.

By WM. BAKSTOW, M. D.

Published by A. Roman & Co., San Francisco.

F"r Hrtle at this OIBee.-Price, One Dollar.

With the aid of this Book, the miner can assay his own

ores, requiring but few materials, etc., except such as are

generally to be found in the interior townt. Slvlatf

New Mining Advertisements.

Chalk Mountain Blue Gravel Company.— Lo-
cation of Works: Nevada County. California.
Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
thirteenth day of January, 1869. the several amount*

set opposite the namta of the reipeoUva shareholders as
follows:

Name* No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.
g . J*c omi, & ,.,,, ;$2500

K <! McCimb Ol Ail «LU •>&

SUW"8 "••■ I" SWW

1 * '° ■; « K DTI DO

John R Mend ig 2.1 6000

JH Paawon <;4 a«i 510

\\.-.i.v Henderson S7 ioo 200 OH

Albinos IukIq 71 6 10 HO

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board

ot Trustees, made on the thirteenth day of January, 1863,
M many shares of each parcel of said stock as may ho
necessary, will be Bold at public auction, by Mcsars,
OlneyACo., auctioneers, No. 426 Montgomery street, on
Monday, the eighth day of March, 18G9.£nt the honr of 12
o'clock M. of sufd day, to pay said delinquent assestj.
inont thereon, together with costs of advertising and ex-
penses of sale.

J. M BUFFINGTON, Secretary.
Office, 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California street,
San Francisco. fcb2U

Golden Rule MlnlnffCompuny, Tuolumne Conn-

ty, California.— Regular Bi-monthly dividend (No. 18) of
the Golden Rule Mining Company, of Tuolumne County,
Cal., of 2>i per cent, per month, or fifty cents per share.
Is now declared, and will be paid to the Stockholders on
and arter the 2fith mst. Office, 432 Monlgomery street,
Boom No. 5.

_ m „ ^ J. H. RUSSELL, Secretary.

W. T. Bosworth. President.

A. S. Pn-FKn, Superintendent of Mine. febSl

North American Wood Prciervlnie Company.

Location of Works: San Francisco, California.

Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
llflecnlh day of January, 18fi9, the several amounts set
opposite the names of the respective shareholders, as fol-
lows:

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amohm.

John L Samuels nntlsMicd 800 $801100

George W Dent 1 4i-u 400 OU

Henry S Dent not issued 200 200 00

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board of
Trustees, made on the fifteen!]! day of January, 18G9, so
many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be necessary
will be sold at public auction, at the otllce of the Com-
pany, No. 4'JO Montgomery street, San Francisco, Cal., on
Monday, the eighth day of March, 18C9. at tlie hour of
12 o'clock M. of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment
thereon, together with costs of advertising and expenses
ol sale.

WM. B.LAKE, Secretary.

Ortlce, 430 Montgomery street. San Francisco, fct>2t>

Star Creek .Vtninif Company.— Location: Stur

District, Stale of Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board ol
Trustees of said Company, held on the seventeenth day of
February, 1869, an assessment of one dollar and tlfty cents
per share was levied upon the capital stock of said Com-
pany, payablv immediately, in United Slates gold and silver
coin, to the St creiaiy.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the twenty-third d.w of March, 18C9, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall be made before,
will he sold on Monday, the twelfth day of April, 1869,
to pay i he delinquent assessment, together with costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of
Trustees.

Ieb2u HORACE MORRISON, Secretary.

Mining Notices—Continued.

Chloride Monntnin Tunnel anil Afllnliiff Com*

pany.— Location of Works: White Pine Mining District,

Lander County, Nevada.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the second day of
February, 1869, an assessment of fifty cents per share waa
levied upon the capital stock of said Company, payable
immediately, in United States gold and s'lver coin, to the
Secretary, at his oihcL', No. 6!5 Kearny street, San Francis-
co. Cal.

Any stock unon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the thirteenth day of March, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale
tit public auction, and unless payment shall he made be-
fore, will be sold o>>, Saturday, the tenth dav of April.
1869. to pay the delinquent assessment, together with
costs of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the
Board of Trustees.

JAMES RICE. Secretary.

Office, No. 615 Kearny street, S.m Frntici-co. feb!3

I. 3l. )L. Gold and Silver Mining: Company. —

Location of Mine : Silver Mountain District, Alpine

County, California.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of Bald Company, held on the nineteenth day of Jan-
uary, 1869, an assessment of one dollar and fifty cents (SI. 50)
per share was levied upon the capital stock of said Com-
pany, payable Immediately, in Uniied States gold and
silver coin, to the Secretary, at his office. Pioneer Hall,
Montgomery street. San Francisco, California.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain
mi .nil 1 on the twenty seven tli day of February, 1869, shall bo
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless payment shall be made ba-
fore. will be sold on Wednesday, the seventeenth day of
March., 1869, to pav the delinquent assessment, together
with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. By order ot
the Board of Trustees.

J. CROWNINSTTTELD. Secretary.

Office, Pioneer Hall, Montgomery street, up stairs. San
Francisco. jan.10

>Ionnt Tennbo Sliver Minini; Company.— jLo-

cation of Works : Cortcz District, Lander County, State

of Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty-third day of
January, 136ft, an assessment of seventy.flve cents per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able Immediately, in United States cold and sliver coin, to
the Secretary, at the office of the Company, 426 Montgom-
ery street, San Francisco,.

Anv stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the u/th (5th) day of March, 1869, shall h,?
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless payment shall be made be-,
fore, will be sold on Tuesday, the thirtieth (With) day of
March, 1869. to pay the delinquent nSjscssment, toeethcr
with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. By order
of the Board of Trustees.

R. N VAN BRUNT, Spcrei* r-y~

Office 426 Montgomery street, San Francisco. jan30

By Express.-^Two cents per- Gftpy- will be added to oar
usual rates of subscription (to |.«v Wells. Fargo ACe'^tarin
on papers sent hv oxpross. ir connecting rxprosses in the
ntoriormako additional charges, subscriber* must ihem.
60)vos»etUe the same.

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Machinery.

PATENT AMALGAMATOB

These Machines Stand Unrivaled.

For rapidly pulverizing and amalgamating ores, they
have no equal- No ettort has been, or -will be, spared to
have thein constructed in the most perfect manner, and of
the great number now in operation, not one has everre-
ouired repairs. The constant and increasing demand for
them is sufficient evidence of their merits.

They arc constructed so as to apply steam directly into
the pulp, or with steam bottoms, as desired.

This Amalgamator Operates as Follows:

The pan being filled, the motion of themuller forces the
pulp to the center, where it is drawn down through the ap-
erture and between the grinding surfaces. Thence it ]S
thrown to the periphery into the quicksilver. The curved
plates again draw it to the center, where it passes down,
and to the circumference as before. Thus it is constantly
passing in a regular flow between the grinding surfaces and
into the quicksilver, until the ore is reduced to an impalpa-
ble powder, and the metal amalgamated.

Setters made on the same principle excel all others. —
They bring the pulp so constantly and perfectly in contact
with quicksilver, that the particles are rapidly and com
pletely absorbed.

Mill men are invited to examine these pans and setters for
themselves, at the PACIFIC POUKBBT,

lvl San Francisco.

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MACHINERY. Job Grinding and Polishing by steam.
Orders from the Country promptlyl attended 10. fl®*-All
work warranted.

21vl7-qy J. WEICHHAKT, Proprietor.

Patent K-ig-lits for Sale.

For Preserving Timber from Decay

The cheapest method for curing Wood.
A. HAMAR'S PATE3TT.

WOOD PAVEMENT,

MIUEK'S PATENT.

S. TL<. PEREIRA,
SvlS lra £04 Montgomery street. Boom 4.

ELLERT'S PATENT

India Rubber Cement and Faint

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SHIPS, STEAMBOATS, STAGES, OIKS,

AND FOR ALL EXPOSED SURFACES.

Is water-proof and indestructible ; will neither rot, peel,

nor crack; will withstand any climate; can be put on in

any color, and is less expeusive than other Faint.

Kew Cloth Koofs |>ui on. Old Hoofs cemented
and pointed. JL.enk.y Jttoofs made tight.

5gp-No Coal Tar or Asphaltum used. All work guaran-
teed. Orders punctually attended to.

GEO. T. BBOULET, Affent,

2-ivl7-3m

BLAKE'S QUARTZ BREAKER !

;£» R I C JS S REDUCED!

MACHINES OF ALL SIZES FOK SALE

— BY —

WM. P. BLAKE,

Corner First »ud Mission streets, or Box 3.CJ7

Syl3|- SAN FHAJSCISCO.

GLASGOW
Iron and Metal Imparting Company

Xon, 35 and 27 Fremont street,

SAN FRANCISCO,

Keep constantly on hand a large stock of best Bar and
Bundle Iron, lioiler Tubes, mate and Sheet Iron, Gas and
Water Pipe, Anvils, Cast Steel, Gas and Water Fittlu/-*.
wliivti they offer to the trade on liberal terms.

21vili-3m W. ucOULNI>LE, Manage.

Removal.

NELSON &

AGENTS FOH

DOBLE,
Thomas Firth & Sous' Cast Steel, Files.

Etc., Shear, Spring, German, Flow, Blister and Toe Calk
Steel; manufacturers of

Mill Picks, Sledges, Hammers, Picks,

Stone Cutters', Blacksmiths' and Horse-Shoers' Tools.

Have removed to 13 and 15 Fremont street, near

.Mai-ii^t, San Francisco.

luvliqr

JVotice to 3Xiuei*es,

Weil-Borers and Water Companies.

MPRAG IS NOW PREPARED TO MANUFACTURE
• Hydraulic and Artesian Well Pipes in the best work-
manlike manner, and at the lowest market rates. Having
made large additions to my stock of machinery for that
branch of business, I am prepared to rill all orders with dis-
paten, and guarantee entire satisfaction. I also manufac-
ture Mississippi Stoves, oi the latest improved patterns, for
vessels of all classes. Also, Ship Plumbing done.

ail. 1BJSC AG,
8vl3-ly Stove Store, No. I Clay street, below Davia.

PACIFIC FILE WORKS,

A'o. 53 Benle Street, bet. Market and Mission,

Files Re-cut and warranted as youd as new, with a savins
of lifiv per cent. REAPER AND MOWKH SECTIONS
MA.D1O To ORDER. The only establishment on the Coast.
orders from the country promptly attended to. l&y First
Prelum oi awarded at ii»- Stain Pair, 1S(>7.

2V17-&U 'V. 9i. U<L klXlSQ *fe CO

Postjise,— The postage on the Mining and Scikntifig
pRtiss to any portion of the United State.- is twentv cents per
annum, or rive ceiita per quarter, payable in advance at the
Post Ortice doUveriim the paper. Postage free in the city
ano county. Foreign postage (with few exceptions) two
cents per copy, prepaid. To Bremen and tiie German
States (marked via Bremen and Hamburg line), three cents
per copy, prepaid. Single copies to auv address iu the United
State*, two cents

Pipe Vise, with or without

Extra Jaw.

Standard Mailing Machine.

UNION VISE COMPANY,

OF BOSTON, MASS.

Extra jaw, and heavy Vises, Warranted for heavy work.
New style Wood and Covered Screw Vises, fortv stj-les and
kinds; Standard Milling Machines, simple, great capacity,
power and strength— two sizes, large, 2,3U0 lbs; small, Dot)
lbs. For sale by the trade.
23"16-ly g. H. NOTT, Pres.

Trades and Manufactures.

WM. BARTUNG. HENRY KIMBALL.

BARTLING & KIMBALL,
BOOKBINDBBS,

Paper Killers and Blank Book Manufacturers,

SOS Clay Htreet* (southwest tor. Sansonie),
15vl2-3m SAN FRANCISCO,

JOHN DANIEL,

(SUCCESSOR TO 0. QORl)

MARBLE WORKS,

No. 421 Pine st. bet. Montgomery and Kearny, San Francisco

Mantels, Monnmeiita, Tombs, Plumbers* Slabs

Etc., On hand and Manufactured to order.
JJS* Goods shipped to all parts of the State. Ordera re
spectfulli solicited. 5v8-3m

Palmer's 3?ateivt

ARTIFICIAL LEG-,

Manufactured in Philadelphia, Penn.
JAKVIS JF.WETT, AG EXT.

218 Montgomery Street. Salt Francisco. 10v8-lm

PATENT

Boiler Scraper and Tube-Cleaner.

IT IS THE CHEAPEST, MOST
durable, easiest to adjust, and
cleanest apparatus to use for the
purpose designed, yet offered to
the public. Being constructed on
simple and mechanical principles,
it i< not liable to get out of order,
and will continue to perform its
office until the materials are worn
out. It can readily be adjusted,
even by any inexperienced per-
son—will scrape oil ihe scales and
cleanse the tubes just as smooth
and clean as tliev were when
new. without in the least affecting
their inner surface, as the Elliptic
Spring Scraper has a smooth
square edge, and springs in or out
to fit the tubes. It is particularly
applicable for steamboat boilers
when muddy v?ateris used.

A continuous iron rod runs
through the center of the top and
bottom hubs. The soft steel scrap-
ers are fastened with screws to
the hubs, under the caps, which
cover and proiect the screws thut
fasten the scrapers on the hub.
The scrapers are expanded or con-
tracted by screwing or unscrew
ing the lower hub,— first loosening
the cap. There is a collar on the
rod to prevent the scrapers being jammed. An elastic or
flexible brush or scraper, made of leather, rubber, or some
pliable material, is attached to the nut for the purposeot
removing from the tube the scale and dust looseued by the
action of the ?crapers.

These scrapers arc made from one to six inches in diam-
eter—the prices of those from one to i hree inches rangimr
from $5 to S12. They are now extensively used in the
Eastern Stales. Quite a number have already been sold in
this State.

For sale by McAfee, Spiers & Co , boiler makers, Howard
street, between Fremont and Beaie, San Francisco, and at
the Union Foundry, Sacramento. E. M. D., P. o. box 17,
San Francisco, Manufacturers' Agents. 24vl7tf

J. M. STOCKMAN,

Manufacturer of
PATTERNS AJVT> DMTOEOEU^,

(Over W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry,
S. K. Corner of Mission and Fremont sts>,

6vl«f SAN FRANCISCO.

S. F. «& S3. J. R. It.

J. F. PAGES,

SEAL ENGRATER,
AND LETTER CUTTER,

Brass and Steel Stamps and Dies, ©OS Sacramento street,

San Francisco. Orders bv express promptly attended to.

6vl6

DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITURE.
JOHNSON-^ BEST,

Manufacturers of all kinds of

I>eslcs and Office Furniture,

71? Market street, near Third.

Warerootm up slairs. A large variety of Desks always on

hand; all kinds oi Ottiee Furniture and Cabinet

Work made to order.

liSvlTur

Novelty and Usefulness Combined.
Wilson's Prepared Solder

Dispenses with the Soldering: Iron.

E. R. WATERMAS.

W. H. TOBSY.

WM. H. TOBEY & CO.,
RAILROAD ADVERTMN& AGENCY,

641 Htlarket street,

Between Second and Third streets (up stairs).

FRAMES, CARDS, CIRCULARS, POSTERS,

Etc, put up in all the Cars and Depots of the San Fran

Cisco and San Jose Railroad.
Advertise your Business for the Country Trade

4vlStf

The Oakland Daily Transcript

A. BIT JP^PER.

The Largest Circulation in the County.

Advertisements In the Transcript will reach
every part of Alameda County.

RATES FOR ADVERTISING

VERY LOW.

PATENT EIGHT

— FOR —

MANUFACTURXNa PROOF SPIRITS

FOR SALE.

Attention is called to MARTIN'S NEW" PATENT for a
process for Distilling Alcohol (85 per cent, or higher), with-
out rectifying, which is offered for sale on favorable terms.
Samples may be seen, aud further information obtained, at
No. £&3 Washington street.

26vl7 E. M. DEWEY.

It will saveyuu until time ano ittoor. one uuliicof thi=
Solder will mend ail the tins you have laid one side lor
months, and make them good as new. Get them out and
mend them. It is cheap— only 50 cents a bottle; it is con-
venient and compact. Use any kind of lamp that has a
blaze no larger than a single wick; a spirit hi nip will make
no smoke. You may mend a dish or can over the best table
without fear of spoiling it. Try it, and vou will never want
a soldering iron in the house again What a saving
to farmers. No more stopping up of holes 111 inilk pans
with a rag. Milkmen can merd their own cans. It
does thepreitiest job on any anicle you have In the house,
from a pint dish to a wash boiler It is a sure thine to stick
when resin and solder will iii>t. It will stand heat as well
as any solder ever u*ed over tire

Agcncv tor the Paci ic Coast, Room No. 10, No. 423 Wash-
ington street, San Francisco. AGENTS WANTED.

Addre-a P. 0. box 17. 23vl7tf

LEA & PERKINS'

CKLF.EKtTkO

WORCESTEUSHtRE SAUCE

Declare'! by connniscurs
to be the only

GOOD SAUCE. irj

■ — ■ a

The success of this most r3
delicious and unrivalled [C!
condiment having caused
certain dealers to apply the name of "Wor- „
cestershire Sauce to their own inferior c
compounds, the public Is hereby informed ^
that the only way to secure the genuine, tc
Is to ask for a

Lea «fc Fcrrlns' Sat

ce,

and see that their names arc upon the -g
wrapper, labels, stopper, and bottle. js

So.ne of the lurelgn markets having been ts.
supplied with a spurious Worcestershire O
Sauce, upon the wrapper and labels of
which the names of Lea and Ferrlns have hee

forced, L.

Small Pcxx.

We nave been shown by Win. Zclner, the best and most
convenient aud portable apparatus containing Chlorine,
for rooms, which we consider the .best disiulectant out,
and should advise all housekeepers not to be without one.
Price $1, complete; to be had, with full directions, at WM.
ZEljNh.R'd German Drurf Store, la* Ueary street, 2ovl7-3m

and P. give police that they llive furnished their

pendents with power of attorney to take instant proceed S +l1p hptf. pntpvniMQpq in r.Tm Sfitp
fngs against Manu aclurcrs and Vendors or such, or any 1 , °, enieipiises ID Hie ^iaie.
outer imitations bv which their right inav be infringed.

AskforLiiA S PKUiUNS' Sauce, and see name on the
Wrapper, Label, Bottle, and Stopper,

Wholesale an.! lor Export by Ihe Proprietors, Worcester;
Crosse A Blackwell, London, etc., eic.; and by Croeers and
Oilmen universally. Agents, CRUSS & CO.. San Fran-
Cisco. 3vl8-lv

Our JPntent Agency.

The Patent Agency of the Mining and Scientific Press
has been signalized with remarkable success during the
past few years. The importance to the inventive genius of
this coast of a thorough and reliable agency for the solicita
Lion of Letters Patent from the United States and foreign
Governments cannotbe over-rated. and Ihe Proprietorsof the
Press, feeling the responsibility which rests upon them, and
the reward which must follow the faithful performance oi
their trusts, will take care to anord inventors every advan-
tage to be secured to them through a competent and re-
sponsible agency upon this coast.

The Fikst Locomotive. — Peu-j-Jarran,
Wales, is chiefly remarkable for its con-
nection with the first tramway, — for which
an act of Parliament was obtained in 1803
for the first locomotive ever tried, — and
with the able inventor Trevethiclt. who
there made his first essay. The first ran
of the locomotive occurred in February,
1804. Previously there had been a whisper
in the scientific world of the use of steam
and of its employment in propelling vehi-
cles, and abortive attempts having been fre-
quent Samuel Homfray by some means
was brought into connection with Treve-
thick, and the result was that this able but
eccentric man visited Merthyr, and in con-
junction with a self-taught mechanic, one
Eees Jones, whose homely portrait can be
seen in the Kensington Museum, began to
build his locomotive. Building is not au
inappropriate word in this case, for the
stack was actually built up of bricks the
same as an ordinary chimney, and the
whole affair was peculiarly odd. The stack
was tall and clumsy, the body dwarfed,
perched on a high framework, so as to ap-
proximate to the spider fashion; the cylin-
der, in addition, was upright; the piston
worked downwards, and at every revolution
of the wheels there was a monstrous clang
produced, which, heard nowadays with the
asthmatic puffs of steam, would provoke
the gravest mechanician to laughter. When
completed Homfray introduced his friend
Bichard Crawshay to the novelty, doubtless
much to that individual's amusement, cer-
tainly to his incredulity as to its being fit
for anything, for he readily accepted a wager
with Homfray for £1,000, maintaining that
it would not convey a load of iron from
Pen-y-darran to the Navigation — a distance
of nine miles. The eventful day arrived
for the trial, and never had there been so
much excitement The sturdy Englishmen
were there, and natives from every Welsh
county lined the road, and mounted every
eminence that commanded the tramway;
aud when Trevethick jumped on his iron
steed, and began slowly to move onwards
amidst clangingiron and puffing steam, the
uproar was terrific. By the arrangements
made no one was allowed to assist the daunt-
less Cornishman, and for a time he did not
seem to want it. Surrounded by a host,
he passed down the valley making about
five miles per hour, when a sad misfortune
happened, — the clumsy stack came in con-
tact with a bridge aud was ruined ! Treve-
thick stood for a moment amongst his
bricks, but only a moment. Fertile in re-
sources, he was soon steaming onward
again, and not only conveyed his load of
iron to the Navigation, but a crowd of ex-
ultant passengers along with it, who to
their latest day prided themselves on their
glorious ride. It was fortunate for Hom-
fray that the wager was a loose one. The
iron was taken down and the bet won; but
Trevethick failed to bring his empty trains
back, and for some time the feasibility of
the new invention as a mode of transport
remained in abeyance. — The Engineer.

An Immense Gravel Mining Enter-
prise.— Many of our readers are aware that
there is a large range of rich ground some
three miles in length and from one to one
and a half miles wide, extending from Bad-
ger Hill in Bridgeport township, to Co-
lumbia Hill in Bloomfield township. This
ground has been worked, but the bottom
has never been reached. The lead was
struck at Badger Hill a year or two ago,
and §30,000 taken out in a few weeks; but
the Columbia Hill bottom has never been
reached. The gravel pays from the very
surface, and millions of dollars have been
taken out by the Shady Creek outlet. A
project is now on foot, backed by abund-
ance of capital, to get an outlet for the ex-
tensive range from the Middle Yuba. The
parties undertaking this work are Mills,
McMurray, Cook, and Hunter. They pro-
pose to commence one hundred feet from
the river, and run a bedrock tunDel 1,900
feet to Badger Hill. By this tunnel they
will be able to clean up to the bottom for
three miles, and to wash off one of the rich-
est ranges on the coast. It is estimated that
the enterprise will cost in the neighbor-
hood of $80,000, an(j it js certainly one of

We had
rather have this than the Eberhardt mine
to-day. — Nevada Transcript, Feb. TUli.

National Bcbeau of Statistics. — Gen.
Francis A. Walker, for some time connected
with the editorial department of the Spring-
field (Mass.) Republican, is to take charge
of the statistical work of the Revenue De-
partment under Mr. Wells. He is said to
possess qualities of industry, intelligent ,
and knowledge of finance that will make
his services of great value there. Delmar
retires. Conducted by a thinker, the bu
reau of statistics must prove of very great
national value.

Tlt\e Mining and Scientific Press.

127

C'ommkni inis Operations on a Vein. — J.
S. Phillips writes as follows on this sub-
ject, in a communication to the U. S. Rail-
roml uii'l Mining Register of Philadelphia:

The first and most important duty of the
qualified expert is to make a most careful
examination of the vein, by every means
within his power, snob as indicative ma-
trices, position in stratum, surrounding
junctions of other strata therewith, and to
assay a well assorted average of the ledge
for its value; secondly to these, the natural
facilities for development of mine and ship-
ment of produce— as water power, tire wood,
easy access, cheap labor, etc., must be con-
sidered; and lastly, the best methods for
reduction of the ores into marketable con-
dition. If, after due consideration of all
the necessary facts, the property is deemed
worthy of trial, a further examination should
bo made, by a few shallow pits, to ascertain
where the lode is most enticing in appear-
ance for value, and a shaft sunk therein,
first by hand tackle, then by horse or steam
power, as deep as may be deemed requisite
for a fair trial: in the meantime it will be
expedient to explore the ledge linearly by
a drainage tunnel, which will expose the
value of the vein, drain the water away at
this depth, and greatly assist the general
development and ventilation of the works.

Largest Bolls in the Would. — There
was recently cast at the Phoenix Foundry,
Bilston, England, a pair of iron rolls for
Sir John Brown's works at Sheffield, said
to be the largest rolls in the world. These
rolls are fifteen feet six inches in extreme
length and three feet in diameter, and each
weighs eighteea tons. They are to be used
for rolling armor-plates.

CALIFORNIA.

BUSINESS UNIVERSITY

soi Montgomery Strefit.
Full particulars reeardliiti o <r Practical Course of Studies
may bo h-iii liy calling ut lite Unlverally, or by addressing
17vl7-i|vli|i E. I*. IIEAL.U, San Kruncisco.

OCCIDENTAL

Insurance Company,

OF SAN FRANCISCO.
Ca-ih Capital, $300,000

GOLD COIN.

Office S. "W. corner of Montgomery and
4Julli'oritIu utreeLs.

Pirc and Marine Insurance,

AH Losses paid In U. S. Gold (Join.

CUR. CHRISTIANSEN, President.
B. Rotiisciulp, Secn-tary' S!Uvl7-3m

mm A WAKNING-

TO ILL WHO ARE AFFLICT-tiD.

Before thuralnv season comes net cured nf Rheumatism
and Neura gia. by liTbionly. The receipt was given some
years ago by an old Indian hi New Orleans, and it has never
fuiled to cure all It says. Many have been cured in this
city and In Benton, jiiid all say it is the best they have
tried. Manufactured by MRS. MARY BIGGINS, Oregon
street, two doors west of D'tumm. Orders «eni by mail or
express attended to on receipt of $5 per bottle. 22vl7-3m

MECHANICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL

Drawing School

— po a —
^ I? 1? R E JXTICES.

SIR. FREDERICK HELLERT,

An experienced Draughtsman and Teacher, ban opened an
Evening School at No. 414 CLAY STREET {same entrance
as the Mining and Scientific Tress Office), where ho is wiv-
ing thor >ugh instructions in DRAWING to apprenticeswho
are inclined to self-improvement. His terms are moderate
and within reach of the humblest apprentice; und we are
pleased to say that the enterprise Is mot- ting with success.

ivifur

CTG-AR AND CIGARETTE
~R oiler and W rapper.

This useful Utile article is the GREATEST INVENTION
of the age for the benefit of s. linkers, r educing the cost of
Cigars and Cigarettes lo the mere cost of the Tnbuccn. Very
convenient to carry In ttie P >ckkt, producing no smell, and
adapted to the me of any tobacco, in two size* and three
atvlcs— Japanned. Brass, a'ld Silver-plated. Sample ma-
chines, wiili HID wrappers, sent free ot postage on receipt
Of $2, The highest prlZ'j awarded at the Fair o( the Amer-
ican Institute, -epti-miier mitl October. 18i>7 For particu-
lars, address II. 0. Witt, 57 Cudar street, New York.

Beware of infringements. All genuine have my name
printed on the bands.

E. M. DR.WEV, Agent Tor Pacltlc States, 433 Washington
street, Sau Francisco. 2jvl7-Jin

ROOT'S PATENT FORCE BLAST ROTARY BLOWER.

Patented Nov. 1st, 1804; July B*, 1HG0 ; unil Oct. 1>, 1S00.

A.-»vsir<Ietl the First Premium at the I?a.i-is Exposition.

Metallurgy.

MOSHEIMER'S

PIONEER MINING- SCHOOL,

— A NO —
METALLVROIC WORKS.

Having established the tlrsl Practical Mining and Metal
lurgleal School In the United States, I would call the at"
tentlon Of gentlemen who may wish to obtain a practlca
knowledge of

Chemistry, Assaying and Metallurgy,

That I am prepared to teach all the above branches In less
time than la anv Eu opcan School.

I also undertake to assay and work any kind of ore, or
mineral substances,

For terms, apply to JOS. MOSIIEIMEB,

Praclical chemist and Metallurgist.

OHlce, 32* Montgomery street; Meialiurglc Works. 2005
Powell street, San Francisco. fivl8-0m

Steamships

REQUIRES

li'ty Per Cent.

LESS POWER

Than any Blower

Now in use.

One of these Blowers may he seen on exhibition at W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry, corner of
Mission and Fremont streets. They are also in use at the Almaden Quicksilver Mine; Gridley's
Foundry, Gold Hill, Nevada; Mtmi Iron Works, San Francisco, and many other places.

Caution. — Purchasers will find it to their advantage to apply direct to the Stockton Agency, as
certain parties, not authorized to manufacture the Blower, have put in the market machines of inferior
construction, which do not answer all the requirements of the genuine article.

For circulars and further information, address

KEEP & BARG-ION,

4vl6 3m a; l-.. he Iron Works,Stocktan( Cnl.

PAINE & STEPHENS'
IMPROVED CONCENTRATOR,

For Saving: Gold and Silver SulphurctH.

LEOPOLD KUH,
Assayer and Metallurgical Chemist,

(Formerly of tlio U. S. B. Mint, S. P.)

Office, \o. Oil Commercial Street, opposite

the Mint, Situ Fran«l«co.

BULLION MELTED AND ASSAYED,
I The corrcctcss of which la guaranteed in every respect.
j All kinds ofOre and Mineral turned, assayed and analyzed

in the most satisfactory manner.
I Refers by permission to W. C. Ration, Cashier Bank ot
! California; Messrs Plochu A Baycr<iuc, Win. M. Lent, John
D. Fry, E. Cahlll A Co., A. K. Grim, President Pacltlc Union
Express Co.; John M. Eckfeldt, M. and R. U. S B. Mint;
1 1 ,iic & Norcross S. M. Co., and the principal mining com-
panies on tin- Comstock Lode. 26vl7-tf

JOHN TAYLOR & CO.

IMPORTERS,

AND DEALKR3 IN

ASSAYERS' MATERIALS,

Druggists' & Chemists' Glassware,

Photographic ©toclt, J'-tc.

51S und G14 Wnshlnjrton Street,

SAN FRANCISCO.

WE are receiving directtrom MESPRS. LADD A OfcKT
LINO (London) and BEEKER & SUNS (Antwerp, Bel-
glum) their superior

ASSAY AM) Kl'LMO\ KAI.AXKS,

And from France and Germany, as -well as the Eastern
States. FURNACES, CRUCIBLES. MUFFLES. BLOW-PIPE
CASES, GOLD SCALES. CHEMICAL GLASSWARE, and
every article required for ASSAY OFFICES. LABORATO
RIES, etc. We nave given this branch of our business par
ticular attention, to select such articles as are necessary
In the development of the mlnrral wealth r>f this coast.

A Full Assignment of DRUGGISTS' GLASSWARE and
DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES, ACIDS and CHEMICALS, cod
stantly on hiuid.

San Francisco March 6.1865 llvIO-tf

PROF. HENRY WURTZ,

Formerly Chemical Examiner in the U. S. Paloni Office
may he emnluvi-d professionally as a Scikntific Expert.
Geological Examinations and Reports, Analysis and Assays,
etc , etc. Practical advice and iiivi-stigiiiioiiw in the rht-in
ical Arts and Manufactures, Invention and pxanliintion
of new chemical methods und nmducts. Address, Hti Pine
street, Rooms, ^5 ami 36, New York. Always In from 12 to
H.3U. £9- Written communications preferred.

Important to Gold and Silver Min-
ers and Companies.

PROFESSOR TVTJUTZ,

Whoisthe Tnventor and Pateniee of the new and wonder
ful nseBof.SHDIUM IN WORKING GOLD AND SILVER
ORES AND JEWELERS' SWEEPINGS, will furnish at the
above address n forma Hon In relation thereto, together
with experimental packages of

SODIUM AMALGAM.

One Machine, costing abont $1,300, is sufficient to -work the Sands from 35 to 30 Stamps,

Less power being required than for any other Machine. The attention of qim-tz millmcn throughout
the State is directed to the subjoined certificates, and if they desire they can visit the Amador Mining
Co's mill, near Sutter Creek, the Eureka Go's mill at Grass Valley, or the Banner Co's mill near
Nevada, and see for themselves-.

CERTIPCATES :

Grass Valley, Jan. 4th, 1869. — This is to certify, that we have used the Paine, Stephens &
Hurry Concentrators for over twelve months. They have given us entire satisfaction, and are the
best we ever used. WILLIAM WATT, Supt. Eureka Mine.

This is to certify, that we have had in use for the past 18 months one of Paine, Stephens &. Co's
Sulphuret Saving Machines, constructed by John T. Harry, (called a biuldlej and which operates
satisfactorily, particularly so in saving fine sulphnrets, arid we recommend it as well worthy of use,
even where other Concentrators are used above it, as it will pay if there are any sulphurets.

WM. L. TISDALE, Supt. Star Spangled Banner Mine.

Nevada City, Oct. 26, 1868.

Any one wishing to purchase one of these useful machines, can do so by applying to THOS.
N. PAINE, at Grass Valley, Nevada County, or JOHN" T. HA.RRY, Sutter Creek,
Amador County.

All Instructlonsand experiments elsewhere obtained are
spurious and nnreliahle. WORKING EXPERIMENTS ON
AMALGAMATION OF ORES, Eic. Prof. W. has in opera
Hon In New York a large and email Ilepbur"' Pan, for work
lite l.ni'H or 20-lb. charges of material lor experimenta
purposes. 3vl7

R. TAVLOK.

WM. n. TAYLOR

ROBERT TAYLOR & CO.,
METALLtJEGISTS.

SMELTINC WORKS,

Eleventh wtreet, between Folsom and Howard.

GA HTVA-TVIZriVG.

Also, Antl-Frlctlon, Alloys for JonrnalR, Type

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branches of Metallurgy, on liberal terms.
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Ti Kront street Portland, Oregon.

Our wholesale House, 628 Commercial street, extending
through to 637 Clay street. Sun Francisco, contains always
a most choice, and the largest, assortment In this State.
Every Steamer brings the latest issued novelties from Eu-
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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Ventilation Alakm fob Theaters and
CmmoHES. — Plants take up carbonic acid,
and give off oxygen, while the animal crea-
tion reverses the process; taking up oxygen
and giving off carbonic acid, which is poi-
sonous when the air contains more than
three or four per cent, of the gas, destroy-
ing life, putting out candles, etc. The pro-
duct of burning wood or coal is carbonic
oxide CO and carbonic acid CO ; these are
the operating agents in the French lover's
suicide. When derived from exhalations
of the lungs, in apartments having cracks,
or doors that are occasionally opened, there
is seldom closeness enough to reach the
absolutely poisonous percentage, though it
may be the predisposing cause for coughs,
colds, consumption, ete.

An apparatus for giving an alarm in case
of the presence of carbonic oxide or coal
gas in a room, has recently been invented
by a Prussian; and if a similar reaction
could be brought into operation to show
the existence of an injurious percentage of
carbonic acid gas in churches and theaters,
the community might be freed of many ail-
ments, which are not often enough con-
nected with the true cause. The apparatus
in question consists of a galvanic battery
with a bell and a glass tube filled with
liquid chloride of palladium. This metal-
lic salt is extremely sensitive to the pressure
of carbonic oxide gas. A small quantity of
the gas will at once throw down some of
the metal from the solution, and this pre-
cipitate collecting in the bottom of the
tube, at once establishes a connection in
the current of electricity, and the violent
ringing of the bell will warn the sleeper of
danger.

At a recent meeting of the New York
Board of Health, Engineer Mathews asked
for an appropriation of $50 to purchase ap-
paratus for the purpose of analyzing the air
in theaters, public schools, and churches.
The apparatus is simply a silk bag of large
dimensions, which is suspended from the
roof. After the bag is inflated it is closed
like a balloon and its contents analyzed.

■Willamette University. — This institu-
tion located at Salem, Oregon, has be-
come one of the most important, at
present, amongst our young and flourishing
seats of learning on the Pacific Coast. It
is a university in fact, having its several
departments well attended to by full corps
of able professors. From the Professor of
Chemistry, — the well known mineralogist
Dr. Veatch, — we obtain the following com-
plete list of professors in the Medical De-
partment :

H. Carpenter, M. D., Professor of Sur-
gery-

D. Payton, M. D., Professor of Phys-
iology aDd Hygiene.

E. B. Fiske, M. D., Professor of Patho-
logy and Practice of Medicine.

J. Boswell, M. D., Professor of Obstet-
rics and Diseases of Women and Children.

M. B. Lingo, M. D. , Professor of Anat-
omy.

J. A. "Veatch, M. D., Professor of Ma-
teria Medica and Toxicology.

Prof. J. H. Mitchell, Professor of Med-
ical Jurisprudence, Portland.

Lectures commence on the 4th of Novem-
ber, annually, and continue four months —
six lectures daily.

Mobtaes, pestles, aud other human rel-
ics have been found in connection with the
bones of the mastodon, by John Dane, in
a gravel mine belonging to him at Grass
Valley ranch, Amador County.

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For Saving Gold, Snlpkurets, Quicksilver, etc.

Quarts Mill Amalgamating

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There is no description of machinery of so much importance to the mining interests of Califor-
nia, at the present time, as that for the separation of sulphurets. Many machines have been tried,
and abandoned ; and none seems to meet the requirement of the mining interest so well as that now
patented by Mr, Hungerford, which is au improvement on the well known Hungerford & Prater Con-
centrator, with which his name is already 60 familiar.

KECOMME Xl> ATIONS :

San Francisco, October 19th, 1868.
Mr. M. Hdngerford — Dear Sir: — Wo have had twelve of your Concentrators at work at the
Oneida Mine, Amador County, for about six months. They give entire satisfaction. They are
strong and substantial, requiring, thus far, no repairs, and do their work thoroughly and effectively.
At a recent clean-up of four ot them, I found that in four weeks* time we saved about $51)0 in free
gold, besides the sulphurets, or not far from one dollar per ton on the entire crushing of the ten
stamps connected with them. In my opinion, it is for the interest of every quartz mill to have your
machines. Yours, respectfully, GEORGE PRINGLE, Supt. Oneida Mine.

Office of the Oneida Mining Company, Jackson, May 13th 1868
Mr. Morgan Hungerford — Dear Sir; — In regard to the four Hungerford Concentra-
tors that I bought of Messrs. Goss & Lam bard last month, I will say that I put them up in the
Oneida Mill soon after I arrived here, and find that they save sulphurets well and clean, and work to
my entire satisfaction. I have tried many other concentrators, but these stand up and work better
than any others I have used. I have ordered Messrs. Goss <& Lam bard to make eight more for mo as
soon as possible. Very truly yours, JAMES MORGAN.

Big Oak Flat, May 25th, 1868. — Mr. T. W. Mul/brd— DearSir:— I have used two of M. Hun-
gerford's Concentrators in the Rattlesnake Quartz Mill, at this place, and find that they work full as
well as they arc represented to do. E. M. SMITH, Supt.

A full description of the principle- and mode of action of this pan, is described in circulars, which
will be forwarded to any party who may desire them.

The Hungerford Concentrator has only to be seen to be appreciated. No millman will use any
other kind after he has tried that. They are in active operation in mills throughout tho Stute, and
give perfect satisfaction.

It should be borne in mind that Mr. Hungerford is the original builder and maker of the cele-
brated Prater Concentrator, and his name should be sufficient guarantee to warrant tho public in ex-
amining his new machine before purchasing elsewhere.

In future these Pans will bo manufactured by Goddard & Co., at the Pacific Iron Works, San
Francisco, which is a guarantee that they will be huilt in tho most substantial manner.

These Pans may be seen at the Pacific Iron Works, First street, near Howard, San Francisco.
Address^

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Or M. HUNGERFORD, at the Pacific Iron Works.

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Thl* department of Yale College, Instituted in 1810, and
endowed with the National Land Grant in 1SGI5, lurnlshes
advanced instruction in the various brai.chcs of Mathe-
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The School is under the direction ol the President of the
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A Journal of Useful Arts, Science, and Mining and Mechanical Progress.

BY DEWEY * C**.,

!'iil«-iit. Sollc lt.«»i*N.

San Francisco, Saturday, February 27, 1869.

volume atvui.

Plumber y

Table of Contents.

Tin' Stimdl*h Rteam Plow

lliii-.Tjn.Hl.
Fsc's and 8>lrnce of Silver

r<- DapoatU,
P >rtland and 10 Realm
P- enervation of Timber.
Hydraulic Mining
Study <ii Alcliomv In iMilua.
J>nng<Tou* Coal nil*

1 ilnmH Ma*todon.
Hafcni-gKcr Bxplutlve Pow

IncoiTibuMiMe But dtujr*.
Buintilu* 01 Nevada silver

1'ro.luc Ion.
Pa ■ -.ue of ilie Copper Tartn

Kill.
Teriltrv Dcpoxilo In China,
( onlrlliutiuni Lr Our Cabl

net.
Boaonreeaand Developments

Km; I.-" . t:ui>i; MtrCILLirfT.—

Ano in.- r overland Tele-
graph Line: [iitpurtaiiiTei-

CHrauhic .Scliciuc; iCutuodd

Item*.

Mew Incorporation*.

(fRCHAIOOit WtSCKI.t.AHY —

1 1 crahiuifH't) ProccMn;

[nitcnloUN »:omp"W to Indi-
cate Local Attraction ;
Wooden Car WliceU; Shel-
bnurne Bub murine Drill;
Broken Rukl* ; Clothing
Boiler*.

-<CI KNTlrt-O MlKCKLLJIHY —

Cunniltuttmi of the Suit
and its Source* of llrat;
Vmcanoea in the Moun;
Primeval rh«-ml*iry.

Mi mi hokum wary— Cmnprtslnii
lull' Intelllynoee trom ihe
various c-nintit* mid din-
trlcn In Onlllorttia. Brt Uli
Columld t, (N.o. iidn, lonho.
Montana. Ni-vru'a, Nuw
Mexico ami Oregon

v.w Patents ami Invention!.

Sum Kranctn 0 Hilling Slum;
holder*' Directory.

San Kranclncn Metal Market.

itati Praiictaco Market Baton

Noticed to Correspondent*.

Stock Prices— Bid and Aiiked.

The Standish Steam Plow.

We present herewith a side view of the
newly-invented and already well tried
Standish steam plow, from which a good
idea can be obtained of the appearance and
method of operation of that machine.

The invention, in brief, is an improved
locomotive steam plow, so constructed that
the power is transmitted directly from the
engine to the plows or cutters, thereby
greatly lessening the power ordinarily re-
quired for traction. It also consists in a
novel mode of operating the plows, by
which the earth is plowed transversely to
the travel of the machine, and is thoroughly
broken up and pulverized, so as not to
need any further cultivation, the seeding
being also done at the same time.

The plows are attached to a movablosup-
plementary frame, which, by the proper
mechanism, may be easily raised and low-
ered to regulate the depth of the cut, or
they may be elevated so as to entirely clear
the ground when necessary, while by a
simple device the cutters are so mounted
as not to be broken by stones or other ob-
structions.

To more fully explain the invention, ref-
erence may be had to the accompanying
engraving and letters marked thereon. A
very strong frame of wood supports
the machinery and is mounted upon two
broad wheels, B, B'. The front of the
machine is supported by two guiding
wheels, C, C, turning on an axle, which
passes through a vertical standard, D, with
a device at the point of its support on the
axle, by which the wheels, C, C, are al-
lowed to accommodate themselves to any
irregularities of the surface. A gear wheel,
E, is keyed to the top of the standard, D,
and is turned to the right or left by a
screw, F, working in its teeth, and operated
from the platform, G, by a long rod and a
wheel or crank attached. The engines,
I, I, and boiler, are supported upon the
frame and suitably stayed, so as to be firm.
An upright tubular boiler is preferred, in
order to accommodate the machine to de-
clivities, without danger by a change in
the water level, as would be the case in a
horizontal boiler, and also to economize
room. A pair of horizontal engines, as
shown, will give the reqnisite power, and
will be much more steady in their action
than would be possible if they were verti-

cal. The plows or cutters are driven by
the beveled wheel, U, on the shaft, K, also
thrown in and out of gear by a clutch, as
shown, and which, by engaging the wheel,
V, turns the shaft, W, and through this the
beveled gear, X,at the other end, by which
means the plows or cutters may be revolved.
The cutters are mounted upon a supplemen-
tary frame, b, b, which has the arms
extending forward to a point at the sides
of the frame, where they are pivoted so
as to be movable about an axis in a line
with the engine shaft. The driving gear,
x, is keyed to a horizontal shaft, and by
means of the beveled gears, g, g, drives
the vertical shafts, h, h, which operate the
cutters or plows. A disk, i, is keyed to
the bottom of the cutter shaft or spindle, h,
and has the arms, k, k, projecting from it,
radiating from the center. These arms
are bent at right angles at the outer
ends so as to form supports for the axes of

struction, so as to allow the cutters to pass
over it. The cutters may be either straight
or curved, as may be the most efficient.
They are elevated or depressed by various
devices, one of which is shown at (, being
a screw operated by a wheel from the plat-
form, G. Any approved seed sower may
be attached to the apparatus as shown at
u, having distributing pipes, V, so that
the grain may be sown, and then plowed
and harrowed in. A roller, or a series of
broad wheels, J, are attached to the frame,
b, so as to run on the ground just in front
of the cutters, thus regulating the depth of
the cut, and preventing them from being
thrown out by inequalities in the surface.
The following is quoted from the circu
lar of the "California Steam Plow Com-
pany," as the best account we can give of
the aims and intentions of the inventor
and manufacturers, in presenting to the ag-
riculturists of California a practical method
of applying steam to farming :

"The Standish Steam Plow has at last
arrived at such degree of perfection that
we can now safely offer it for sale to the
farmt r and others who wish to engage in
w lui timn Immm 01 i
<M MO i at ,u, 1 J v<IiL
ra-nrtroo mwcra
■U
1 .■:•.!• r,d) aq pUmn* M
dl to a^oaactt no :m
" o-.ciial " nod I.-4
i aafT .7-<:.-.'cn to tarn

U> .tJ'ii
suioe jm (

THE STANDISH STEAM FLOW.

the hubs, m, m, to which the cutters are
attached. The cutters, n, n, pass vertically
through the hubs, and when not fastened,
can turn with them about their axes. For
use in soil that contains but few etones,
the cutters are retained in position by light
supporters; r, r, which may be made of
cast iron. The supporters are bolted to
the arms, k, k, and each have a slot made
in the projecting end which clasps the head
of the cutter, and holds it rigidly in place
under the ordinary strain of plowing ; but
if the cutters strike a stone or other ob-
struction, one of the projecting lugs or
sides will be broken off; so that the hub
can revolve, the cutter being swept back-
wards until the obstruction is cleared, when
a new supporter can be attached. As these
castings cost but a few cents, and are easily
replaced, they will sprve as an efficient pro-
tection to the cutters. But if the soil be
very stony or full of obstructions, the cut-
ters may be kept in position by a stiff
spring which is attached to the arm, k,
I and curved around so as to clasp the cutter
below the hub. This spring is sufficiently
stiff to withstand the ordinary strain of
plowing, but will yield to any great ob-

steam cultivation. After repeated tests,
and the most severe trials for two seasons
of flowing, we can now answer the often-
asked questions, What can the Steam Plow
do? What does it cost? Will it pay? etc.
This principle of plowing is entirely differ-
ent from any ever yet invented, and com-
bines the harrowing and plowing in one
and the same operation. It most effectu-
ally pulverizes and mixes up the soil to any
required depth, from two to twelve inches,
cutting up and destroying all grass and
roots, and thoroughly incorporating and
combining the surface dirt with that under-
neath, leaving the soil in a light, mellow
condition from top to bottom, at the same
time electrifying and aerating it by means
of astonishingly rapid motion. This is no
digger, or spader, or revolving cylinder, or
paddle-wheel propeller, or scratcher, — de-
vices tried and condemned years ago. The
principle is that of horizontal cutters work-
ing on a vertical axis, having been invented
and wrought out by the necessities of this
age of progress.

What has the plow done? It has plowed
hundreds of acres of laud from which
splendid crops are growing, that promise
an increased yield such as will more than
pay the expense of plowing; it liks plowed
at the rate of three acres per h'dur, at a
cost of from seventy -Jive' cents to one ^ol-
lar an ftcfe,1 'It Consumes from fdrty' to
one hundred pounds' of coal per' acre, Or

its equivalent in other fuel. It uses up
from eight to fourteen cubic feet of water
per acre. One hundred and eight pounds
of cast steel cutters will plow 1,000 acres,
which, at thirty cents per ponnd, is equal
to 3% cents per acre; cost of sharpening,
ten cents per acre on an average. The lo-
comotive requires an engineer, a steersman,
and a man with team to supply fuel and
water. This estimate is made upon a depth
of five and six inch plowing, and with a
plow cutting to the width of twelve feet
An increased depth willproportionably in-
crease the expense. The locomotive ad-
mits of a graduated speed to suit the vari-
ous conditions of soil and kinds of work
required; advancing from 150 to 350 feet
per minute when plowing, and seeding the
land at the same time, if desirable. This
principle of plowing does not drag or re-
tard the propelling power of the machine,
but rather assists it, and crowds forward,
thereby preventing the tendency of the lo-
comotive to settle down in soft soil. The
driving wheels are broad and of large diam-
eter, being six feet diameter on the small
plows, and ten on the large ones, and cov-
ered witha soft spongy wood, affording at
the same time elasticity and great adhesion
to the ground. This method is very suc-
cessful, answering the purpose of india
rubber, and being extremely economical,
as they require covering but once in a sea-
son. Two-inch plank or scantling in the
rough state is preferred, cut the requisite
length and spiked on the main tread. We
use Oregon spruce and fir; bass-wood or
pepperage wood answers admirably. The
main weight is carried upon the two rear
driving wheels.and the power is applied
S3 near the periphery as possible, the for-
ward wheels serving as guide wheels, and
but a small part of the weight of the loco-
motive resting upon it.

Our machine will ascend quite steep
grades, say one in four, and performs won-
ders on the common road in the way of
hauling loaded wagons, gang plows, etc.,
although not expressly built for that pnr-
pose; as a steam-power to drive threshing
machines, saw wood, pump water, run
grinding mills, haul grain, and general
service on the farm, they are not to be ex-
celled. They can be sold at the following
rates :

I1/, feet cat, 10-horse power, plowing capacity
from %toiy, acres per hour, for $2,800.

6 feet cut, 15-horse power, plowing capacity
from 1 to 2 acres per hour, for $3,500.

8 feet cut, 20-horse power, plowing capacity
l1/, to 2% acres per hour, for $4,400.

10 feet cut, 30-horee power, plowing capacity
from 2 to 3% acres per hour, for $-VJ0l).

12 feet cut, 35-horse power, plowing capacity
from 21/, to 3% acres per hour, for $7,500.

16% feet cut, 60-horse power, plowing capac-
ity from 3 to 5 acres per hour, for $12,000.

Weight, about 400 pounds to each horse
power.

This plow drew the gold medal for
the best California invention at the Me-
chanics' Institute Fair of 1868; also a
diploma and prize of $300 at the California
State Fair of 1868. It is patented in Eu-
rope, and the patents for France, England
and Russia are now offered for sale; also
the right for use and manufacture in the
United States, excluding the Pacifio Coast.

For further information, address Mr. P.
H. Standish, San Francisco, Cal,

Cookino "Labobatoby." — Professor
Blot, the scientific Frenchman whose lec-
tures on cooking attracted attention a few
years ago, is about to establish in New
York a laboratory for the preparatioa of
soups and meats, preserved in hermetically
sealed cans intended to bear transport and
storage. He has been for nearly a year
engaged at the Bumford Laboratory iu
Boston in similar business,

130

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Facts and

Science of Silver
Deposits.

Ore

The nature of ore deposits "is of itself a
science; bat neither chemical geology nor
the valuable generalizations -which have
been made from a systematic comparison
of the important ore deposits of the min-
ing-world, have proved sufficient to furnish
the prospector with an infallible rule,
which is not likely to appear false in some
new locality, by reason of altered condi-
tions. Ample information with regard to
occurrences in like formations, in the
hands of persons intelligent enough not to
go to extremes in their deductions from only
locally correct theories, is the safest, and
in general the only guide. It is for this
reason that laboring miners, even the most
ignorant, are frequently the best judges of
the value of a vein or deposit not yet ex-
plored; at the same time that to be guided
implicitly by their verdict in a new situa-
tion, perhaps deduced from trifling or ir-
relevant circumstances, would frequently
be as ridiculous as following the witch

THEORIES AND FACTS.

A well informed mining geologist is slow
in "running to theory," on the subject of
the probable yield of any given deposit,
but is always able to furnish valuable in-
formation bearing unequivocally upon the
probabilities in the case; furnishing, there-
fore, the necessary data for action in the
premises.

The following instances, quoted from the
Times, are illustrative of the liability to
error of theorists, be they ignorant or
well informed as to the established gener-
alizations of science', on venturing to ex-
press conclusions from a too limited knowl-
edge of the nature of the ore deposits and
of the country they are dealing with :

In 1863 a company of capitalists in Sac-
ramento employed a very eminent mineral-
ogist, since deceased, to represent them at
Beese River. He spent the entire summer
in the Beese Biver and Humboldt country
without acquiring any property for his
company, simply because the country for-
mation did not correspond to his precon-
ceived ideas of what a silver-producing re-
gion ought to be. He predicted that the
mines of Central Nevada, and especially
about Austin, would have no permanence
—pinching out in the hard granite at a
slight depth. Fortunately his theories and
speculations have not been sustained by
the subsequent developments in that coun-
try. , A San Francisco expert, not \ long
sinoe, made an elaborate report on the sil-
ver mines of Central Nevada, in which he '
was particularly severe on the "impover-
ished limestones " of the Hot Creek coun-
try— and, in fact, by implication, all the
central portion of the State.

We find the following interesting facts
in regard to leading silver ore deposits in
Mexico and in Nevada, (with several very
unjustifiable deductions therefrom) in an
article by "W. W. P. .'"published in the
Times of February 20th :

INFLUENCES OF GEOLOGICAL FORMATION,
AND DIRECTION OF VEINS.

After an examination of the mining dis-
tricts of Mexico and subsequent fair expe-
rience in the three most important — says
the writer — the conclusion is, that silver
deposits itself irrespective of geological
formation. The direction of the veins,
however, appears to modify the elementary
composition of the ore. Instances :

EAST AND WEST VEINS HAVE DOCILE ORES,

In the Beal del Monte, twenty-five leagues
north of the City of Mexico; formation,
hard porphyry interstratified with green-
stone syenite, gray trap, amygdaloid
trap, conglomerate; contains east and west
veins— also north and south. In former
times the wQl'k was confined to two— east
and west veins=4he Tapoqa an& the Bis-
caina, running about east and. west, Some-
times parallel, then in contaot, but never
interlacing. Subsequently in driving the
adjt of jfclqi'an( the veins of Moran, Eica,
San Estephen and .Aoosta were found; later
and farther north, in driving tl}e deep adit,
the veins of Valenciana Qnyaguez. an4 gan
Felipe. -

This system of veins appears to belong
to thb Panujda 61 Qihitlan, and yield docile
ores. "'"' ' ' ' ' -

NORTH AND SOUTH VEINS HAVE CALCINING
■B foBES. B; I
In Beal del Monte are found the north
and south veins of Santa Brigida, and
Santa Ignes, yielding ores requiring calci-
nation.

CONTACT VEINS MAT BE A3 RICH AS TRUE
FISSURE VEINS.

At Guanajuato, in going up the Canada,
the whole distance (being about six miles)
high walls of jasper conglomerate, con-
taining enormous boulders present them-
selves— an old sea bottom, in fact. Between
this conglomerate and a mountain of chlo-
ritio slate, is the celebrated Veta Madre,
with the ruins of magnificent mining es-
tablishments and specimens of the most
skillful mining works ever laid "out by man...
This vein built up and maintained one
hundred years and more a town of 80,000
people, and has this grand mass of sea bot-
tom for a covering, a mountain of chlorltic
slate to repose upon, and carbonate of lime
for its gangue. A sight of these conditions
should do away with the prejudice in favor
of fissure' veins — -and against veins of con-
tact, saying nothing whatever about the na-
ture or the want of nature of the forma-
tion contacting.

A CASE OF POOR CROPPINGS AND DIFFERENT
COUNTRY ROCK.

Now, step out to "La Lnz;" about ten
or twelve miles from Guanajuato; you will
find a range of mines surpassed only by
those of the mother vein (Veta Madre), and
converging with her in their course north-
erly, and which prejudice would not turn
her eye to for more than two hundred years,
simply because the vein did not assay in
the croppings and the formation ' 'Diorite. "

ONLY EAST AND WEST VEINS RICH AT ZACA-
TEOAS.

This district contains as mother veins the
Quebradilla, the-Cantera, the Veta GraDde,
aad Panueo, parallel, and from one to three
miles' apart. There are hundreds of inter-
mediate veins not worth speaking of, al-
though they yield a great deal of money.
(Zacatecas miners and good engineers, too,
will tell you that it is useless to look for
large masses of ore in north and south
veins) . The four principal veins, however,
run about east and west, the others in aDy
direction, and one as good as the other.

BYENITE COUNTRY BOCK BARREN, AND
GREENSTONE RICH. -. ''

The syenite, on the south, appears to be
barren ; on the north of the district it has
yielded from " Panueo " an' enormous
amount of money. The formation' which
has yielded the most of the one thousand
millions of dollars is a compact greenstone,
carrying some very unwelcome strata of
slate, which, in this district, acts like
poison on the ore when the vein comes in
contact- with it.

AT FRESNILLO, DIP AND FORMATION MAKE
NO DIFFERENCE.

Frefenillo, lilso in tbe State of Zacatecas,
and until lately a very important district,
revived in 1827, and since theu has main-
tained a city of about 18,000 inhabitants.
These mines are 2,000 feet in depth. The
principal system of veins run from south-
east to northwest, crossed by various
others running east and west. In both,
systems, one vein dips one way and an-
other another, without prejudice to their
yield, and do the same with the formations
they penetrate, starting in gray wacke,
passing (richly) through clay slate, then
into calcareous slate, tnen limestone, then
slate, then wacke, slate, limestone (a fine
school).

OBE ON HORIZONTAL SHELVES ON EACH
SIDE OF THE VEIN.

Now step over to the State of Potosi,
oyer horrid alkaline plains, with a drink-
ing-place for your animals (but none for
you) about every fifteen leagues, and have
a look at the mine of San Augustin, in the
district of Cartorce. The formation is ap-
parently a homogeneous mountain lime-
stone, but in cross-cutting from the vein it
is found to be as rich in marine fossils as
the limestone of White Pine. The pecu-
liarity about this fissure vein is that the
ore is not found in the vein at all, but in
horizontal shelves on each side of the. vein,
the latter being simply a guide to the en-
gineer. This is still a very important mine
and district, and like that of White Pine,
admits of two systems of mining, one for
the poqr man and one for the' rich — the
first for superficial deposits, the second on
■the well formed, robust and rich veins, re-
quiring capital for their development.

It may have some effeot in allaying the
anxiety of the people as to the permanency
pf the mines in the limestone formation, to
state that San Augustin is now 400 yards
deep — and would that the Gomstobk looked
as well in the bottom.

FACT AND THEORY ABOUT THE HEADS OF
CANONS.

As this is an attempt to guide explorers, the
writer will point out another fact, — that the
best mines of a district are generally found
at the heads of the canons. Now all the
districts that I have spoken of, save Fres-
nillo, have their ca/wnes, and even that may
have a subterranean one. Nay, some, like
White Pine, with her Shermantown Canon
and Hamilton Canon, have two. The good
mines of "* Beal del Monte," at the head of
the Canon of Omitlan; the "Veta Madre,"
at the head of the Canon of Guanajuato;
the "Quebradilla," at the head of the Canon
of Zacatecas; the mine of "Urista,"at the
head of the Canon of Sauceda, in the same
district, and twenty-two other bonanzas,
varying from.'five to forty millions each, from
mines on the same Veta Grande, crossing
the heads of the branches of the same
Canon of Sauceda. Nearer home, Gould
& Curry, at the head of Gold Canon ; the
Ophir, Gould & Curry, and Savage, cross-
ing branches of the Six-Mile Canon, yield-
ing up the metals they have brought from
the plains at tbe point of contact of the
saturated porphyry and hard hornblendic
rock. Waste not your time on hillsides.
Follow up the canons.

ORIGINAL THEORY ABOUT TWIN DISTRICTS.

The foregoing is respectfully submitted
to the noble and hardy band of men de-
voted to the exploration of the Great Basin,
the bottom of the once Mediterranean of
this continent. They will find each dis-
trict twins, good mining ground within,
say, ten miles of each other; expect then
to find another pair within one hundred
miles in any of the cardinal directions.

w. vr. p.

Portland and its Realm. „ ,

Wo have received from Mr. J. McCor-
mick, the editor of the "Oregon Almanac,"
a copy of the Portland Directory for 18G9,
containing a map of , Portland, and a great
deal of interesting statistical information
relative to the progress and present condi-
tion of that northern business center, from
which we make the following extracts :

PERMANENCY OF PORTLAND.

Portland has enjoyed more than ordinary
prosperity. In the line of permanent im-
provements alone, it is safe to estimate that
more than double the amount of capital
has been invested in the improvement of
real estate — erecting brick buildings, stores,
warehouses, and other permanent struc-
tures— during the year just closed, than
had been invested in a similar class of im-
provements during any two years previous.
This gratifying fact may be attributed to a
variety of causes, the more prominent
among which is the settled fact that has
worked conviction in the minds of capital-
ists— Portland has ceased to be an experiment

MANUFACTURING INTERESTS.

In every department of industry we find
active demand existing for all articles now
being manufactured in our midst. Scarcely
a month passes without some new branch
of manufacture being introduced, and in
this manner we are rapidly developing a
trade for home-manufactured articles which
must ultimately be conducive of a vast
amount of benefit, not only to those inter-
ested but the success of home manufac-
tures will also be found to exercise a
marked influence on the prosperity of the
entire State. A few years ago all the ma-
chinery used in working the quartz mines
of Eastern Oregon and Idaho had to be
procured in San Francisco and shipped to
its destination through Portland, but a
change has gradually been working in this
branch of industry as in many others, as
we find that quartz mills and other mining
machinery can now be manufactured in
Portland as speedily, successfully and
economically as at any point on the coast.

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.

Oregon is destined to become the great
agricultural State of the Pacific, hence the
requirements for agricultural machinery
will annually be on the increase; it is well,
therefore, to begin in time to make such
preparations as are requisite for the man-
ufacture of that class of fanning machin-
ery without which agricultural pursuits
cannot be Carrie'd out on a scale of such
magnitude as the future export trade of
this country will warrant. With inex-
haustible beds of iron ore, within a few
miles of the city — smelting furnaces al-
ready in operation, and with foundries and
machine shops capable of constructing
every variety of agricultural machinery,
there will hereafter be no necessity of send-
ing beyond our own borders for that class
of machinery now being manufactured at
home.

STEAMBOAT COMMUNICATIONS.

Portland and Astoria — Steamer " John H.
Couch " leaves Portland Monday and Fri-
day, at 6 A. M. Arrives at Astoria same
day, 5 p. m.

Returning,- leaves Astoria Tuesday and
Saturday, 7 A. m. Arrives at Portlaud same
day, at 6 p. m. Distance 110 miles; fare
$5; freight per ton, $6.

Portland and Monticello — Steamer " Res-
cue" leaves Portland Monday, Wednesday
and Friday, at 7 A. M. Arrives at Monti-
'.eello same day at noon.

Returning, leaves 'Monticello Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday, at 2 p. m. Dis-
tance, 45 miles; fare, $1; freight per ton,
82.

Portland and Dalles — Steamer "Wilson
G. Hunt," "Cascades," or "Julia," leaves
Portland daily, Sunday excepted, 5 a. m.
Arrives at Cascades at 11 a. m., and there
oonnects, by the Cascade railroad, with the
steamer "Oneonta,"on the middle Co-
lumbia. Arrives at Dalles same day, at

4 P. M.

Returning, steamer "Oneonta," "Idaho"
or " Iris, " leaves Dalles at 5 A. M., con-
necting as ahove with railroad and lower
steamers. Arrive at Portland same day at
3 p. M. Distance, 124 miles; fare, $6. 25;
freight per ton, $15.

Dalles, Umatilla, Wallula and Levriston —
Steamers "Owyhee," "Spray," "Web-
Foot," "Yakima," "Tenino," or "Nez
Perces Chief," leaves Dalles on Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday, at 4:30 a. m , by
the Dalles railroad, connecting with the
steamers on the Upper Columbia. Arrive
at Umatilla same day, at 5 p. M. Distance,
97 miles; fare, $10; freight per ton, 815;
Arrive at Wallula next day, at 6 a. m. Dis-
tance, 121 miles; fare, $11; freight per ton,
$20. Arrive at Lewiston on the following
day. Distance, 284 miles; fare, $20; freight
per ton, $45.

Returning on alternate days,

Portland and Oregon City — Steamer
' ' Alert," leaves Portland for Oregon City
every morning at 6% o'clock. Returning,
leaves Oregon City for Portland at 1 o'clock,
p. M.

Steamer ' ' Senator " leaves Oregon City
daily, (Sunday excepted) at 8 a. m. Re-
turning, leaves Portland at 2 p. m.

Oregon City and Corvallis — Steamers
"Fannie Patton," "Albany," "Active,*
and " Reliance, " leaves Oregon City for
Corvallis and intermediate points every
morning, upon the arrival of the "Alert"
from Portland.

For Eugene City — Steamer "Echo"
leaves Canemah onoe a week for Eugene
City. MM yrilra

For Lifayette and Dayton — The steamer
" Union " leaves Oregon City every Mon-
day, Wednesday and Friday, on the arrival
of the "Alert." "

For Colfax — The steamer "Onward"
leaves three times a week for Hillsboro.

Portland and Vancouver — Steamer "Fan-
nie Troup " leaves Portland every day at
2% p. m. , (Sunday excepted) for Vancouver
and intermediate points. Returning, leaves
Vancouver every morning at 8 o'clock.

For Monticello — Steamer "Ranger," J.
N. Fisher, Master, leaves Portland for
Monticello every Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday, returning alternate days.

Portland and Oregon City — Willamette
Steamboat Co's steamers "Carrie" and
"Wenat," daily. Returning every after-
noon.

RAILROAD COMMUNICATIONS.

The Oregon Central Railroad is the line
following up Willamette Valley, entering
Saoramento Valley at its head, and con-
necting with California roads. Its actual
building is being pushed very energetic-
ally, by two rival companies, the " East-
side "and "West-side," which will con-
struct two roads throughout the length of
the Willamette Valley, to Corvallis, from
which point southward the route is iden-
tical. To all appearance the California and
Oregon Railroad is a fact, within a year or
two of accomplishment.

The Largest Railway Station in Eu-
rope.— The London station at the terminus
of the various branches of the Midland
Railway, which has been some two or three
years in progress of construction, was re-
cently opened. The building is 700 feet in
length, 240 feet in width, and 100 feet in
Light. Its construction consumed 9,000
tons of iron, 80,000 cubic feet of dressed
stone, and 60,000,000 of brick, to say noth-
ing of the many thousand feet of timber
and glass. It is already one of the sights
of London , and it is doubtful if it will ever
be exceeded, as no other company can ever
require a building of such magnitude.

Tt\e Mining and Scientific Press.

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Mechanical.

The Ellershausen Process.

The Iron Age describes in fall this recent

! and rernarkublu iuvoutiuu, and says it is
being already rapidly introduced all over
the country. Tin- process ooosiste in the
conversion of crude cast iron, as it runs
from the smelting furnace, into wrought
iron, by the simple admixture of granu-
latcd iron ore. It is carried out at the
works of Messrs. Shoenberger, at l'Uts-
bnrgli, in the following manner: On the
Boor of the smelting furnace, a cast
iron turn-table, about 18 feet in diameter,

| is revolved on rollers by a small steam en-
gine. Upon the outside edge of the table

, stand a row of cast iron partitions, forming
boxes, say 20 inches wide and 10 inches
higb, open at the top. Just above the cir-
cle of boxes stands a stationary, wide-

! mouthed spout, terminating in the tap hole

I of the furnace. When the furnace is tapped,
the liquid iron runs down this spout in a
thin stream into the boxes as tbey slowly
revolve under it, depositing in each a film
of iron say one-eighth of an inch thick.

i But before the fall of melted iron reaches
the boxes it is crossed, at right angles, by a
thin fall of pulverized iron ore, which also
runs out of a wide spout from a reservoir

I above. The thin layers of iron and ore
soon chill and solidify, so that by taking
u« ay the outer partition of the boxes (which
form the rim of the tnrn-table) they may
be removed in cakes of the size of the boxes,

I and weighing about 200 lbs. each. Pour of

| these cakes or blooms are put into a rever-
beratory puddling or beating furnace, and
raised to a bright yellow heat. They will

I not melt at this heat, but become softened
so as to be easily broken up with a bar.
The four blooms are formed in the furnace
by the " rabble" of the workmen, as in or-

| dinary puddling operations, into eight balls.
The balls are brought out, one after anoth-

| er, squeezed in the ordinary " squeezers"

I toexpel the cinder and superfluous ore, and
then rolled into wrought iron bars, jm wmt

Ingenious Compass to Indicate Local
Attbaction. — A citizen of Roanoke County,
Va. , Mr. Samuel Custer, has invented a
compass, which professes to show the
presence and direction of local attraction,
the extent of the same, and to indicate,
under all circumstances, the magnetic me-
ridian as tiuly as does any compass when
under no local influence. It consists of
three systems of magnetized needles, or
bars, (each system numbering from two to
a dozen bars) arranged in different horizon-
tal planes. When placed on board an iron
ship, for example, the middle system of
needles is adjusted at a point on a perpen-
dicular rod in such a manner as to repel
the upper needles back to the magnetic me-
ridian. It is only necessary to adjust the
middle system of needles with reference
to the local attraction existing on board of
that particular ship. -No change in the
direction of the ship makes any difference
in the pointing of the upper needle; while
the lower systems have a graduated card
attached to the upper end of the axle to
which they are attached, to indicate their
movements.-.! MV aM

Wooden Cab Wheels. — The New York
Post says that wooden wheels are coming
into favor. They aro used on the London
Underground Eailway, — and the Hudson
River Railroad Company has recently
placed twelve of them upon their "draw-
ing-room cars" as an experiment. These
wheels, — the "Mansell", — are made of sea-
soned elm or teak, with steel tires. Al-
though they cost three times as much as
the cast iron wheels, they will wear eight
times as long, owing to their elasticity.
Moreover, the wear to the track is less.
They are said to add much to the comfort
of passengers; the motion of the car being
so noiseless that conversation may go on
without inconvenience, and so smooth that
reading and even writing may fee easily and
comfortably done,

The Shelbocbne Submabinb Drill.—
Hell Gate is to be cleared of rocks. Nitro-
glycerine wid be used. Shelbourne's steam
drill was at work on January 14th , — accord-
ing to the 7W6i<»e,— in putting four 6-foot
holes into the rocks at the bottom, to re-
ceive as many 6-foot ring-bolts, to which
the vessel containing the apparatus will be
moorod in the midst of the boiling waters.
The diver who superintends the work com-
municates with the men in the vessel by
means of an electric bell. The reporter of
the journal named above says the drilling
of one of these holes occupied only one
hoar. The vessel was held in its place
meantime by anchors. The work could po
on only at a certain stago of the tide.

New Railway Joint.— An Edinburgh
engineer has patented an improvement
which " consists, in the first place, in
the insertion of two cast iron keys
or wedges, which are driven into the
chair from opposite directions against the
rail, and are tied together with a single
bolt and nut in a direction parallel to the
rail. Secondly, in casting on the inner sur-
face of one side of the chair two projecting
pins, which pass into elliptical orifices at
the extremity of eaoh rail opposed to the
plane of the wedges, thus making the nec-
essary provision for the expansion and con-
traction of the metals."

Scientific Miscettan y

Constitution of the Sun and its Source
of Heat.

Broken Rails. — A writer in the New
York Times suggests an oak plank a foot
wide, fitted to the outside of the rail, bolted
to it every three feet, and screwed down to
every cross sleeper, — as a means of pre-
venting those breakages of rails which are
the cause of so many frightful acoidents.
It would not only lessen the chances for
the breaking of the rail, but would prevent
its displacement even if it did break. The
car therefore could not be thrown off the
track. To make this doubly sure, the
writer in question proposes an inside plank
also, — thinner than the first, to allow space
for the flanges of the wheels. The cost, —
he says, — would be some $2,000 per mile,
and its saving of damage at least as much.

Power Looms. — The first power loom
was constructed by Rev. E. Cartwright in
1787. In this country, Mr. Francis Lowell,
— after whom the city of Lowell, Mass.,
was named, — employed a mechanic to build
one at Waltham in that State. This was in
1815. Patterns had been received from
Glasgow during the previous year, through
William Gilmour, who built a loom soon
after at Providence, R. I. This commenced
the era of power looms in the United States;
and the hand looms which had up to that
time done all the work, become compara-
tively idle. ' . "

Clothing; Boilers. — The economy of
covering boilers with some non-conduct-
ing coat is strikingly shown by some
recent experiments at the Newport (Eng.)
ironworks. The result was as follows: The
conditions and circumstances being in all
respects the, same for two consecutive
weeks, during one of which weeks the boil-
er was left uncovered, but during the other
was covered with a certain patent cement,
eleven thousand gallons of water was evap-
orated in the first case, against sixteen
thousand in the last. The immense loss of
heat, and of course waste of fuel, in the
first case, is evident.

Machine Tools. — ■! One of the best fea-
tures of modern mechanical engineering is
the increased weight and better fitting of
machine tools; not simply because the work
they turn out is better done, but because it
is done more cheaply. For instance, a
light planer can neither take a heavy cut
nor a true one. When work leaves a tool
it should be finished — subsequent hand-
scraping and draw-filing are neither bene-
ficial nor economical. A planer can hardly
be too heavy. Another feature of modern
practice is the use of special tools that can
do one thing rapidly and truiy, iustead of
convertible tools that can do anything.
Versatility js riot tp b,e condemned. ; but jo
the extensive and regulay reproduction of
a'gJYen prqduct, flip sphere of tlie Jack^at-
all-trades is limited, "—Van Noslrand's En-

We condense the following ■ from Prof.
Henry Morton's lecture beforo the Franklin
Institute upon "Sunlight and Moonlight":

" We believe that the Sun consists of a
dense central mass, composed of only the
most refractory materials, inteusely hot,
and probably fluid, at its surface, at least,
with heat. From this supernatant ocean of
melted matter, rise, continually, streams
of vapor, which, at a certain distance, be-
gin to condense, throngh loss of a part of
their heathy radiation into space, and form
clouds of minute liquid particles, intensely
hot, and therefore luminous in a high de-
gree. These clouds form the visible sur-
face or photoscope of the sun, and are
composed of such elements only as will en-
dure an intense heat without vaporizing.
Above this cloud region, extends another,
which may be called the true atmosphere of
the sun, being composed of such elements
as are permanently gaseous under the condi-
tions of high temperature there existing.
Such substances as sodium, magnesium,
calcium, iron, are believed to exist as per-
manent vapors in this region, as well as hy-
drogen and other gases. Into this region
are occasionally projected douser aggrega-
tions of similar vapors, as of sodium, mag-
nesium and iron, which float, for a time, as
clouds of ignited gas, before diffusing
among the surrounding mixed atmosphere.

As a source of this intense heat, we be-
lieve there exists the following action : The
space of the solar system is filled with a
vast number of ponderable objects, individ-
ually minute, but, in the aggregate, consid-
erable. Some of these, from time to time,
fall upon our planot, and are then called
meteors; they are, however, much more
densely aggregated as they approach the
sun, and, by mutual interference and dis-
turbance, will be constantly losing their
orbitual directions, and, under the influ-
ence of gravity, fulling in upon the solar
mass. A cannon ball has a velocity of
1,500 feet per second, or about one-third of
a mile; it almost grows red-hot by its im-
pact with an iron target; what heat would
it develop if its velocity were 60 or 80
miles — that is, 180 to 255 times as great ?

But what evidence have we that such
masses of matter are in existence, and are
rolling in upon the sun ? The zodiacal
light is the first proof. The most natural
hypothesis as to this appearance in the
plane of the ecliptic is, that there are here
a cloud of minute bodies revolving around
the sun, illuminated by his light. Varia-
tions in the apparent magnitude and inten-
sity of the light, point to changes in the con-
formation of this swarm of minute planets,
and agree with the supposition that part of
them are, from time to time, falling in upon
the sun. The next proof is furnished by
the meteors. There are a great number of
streams, rings, or elongated cosmical clouds
of such bodies sweeping in, to and around
the sun, from all parts of space. Through
these streams the earth passes at certain
seasons, and we then see a shower of shoot-
ing stars. It would appear from the ob-
servations of Schiaparelli and Newton, as
well as of others who have given attention
to Meteoric Astronomy, that the earth's
orbit intersects at least thirteen of these
streams, among which, some, as that of the
November meteors, are well defined.

The mutual interferences in motion, and
consequent in-fall upon the sun, of masses
so grouped and thus moving, must be con-
stant; and, indeed, in at least one remarka-
ble case, we have palpable evidence of such
an action. In December, of 1845, Biela's
comet was seen to be divided in two, and,
on the date of its calculated return, in 1865,
it had disappeared entirely. Now, at each
of these periods the comet appears to have
passed through the orbit of the meteors of
November 27th, whose direction of motion
is retrograde, while that of the comet is
direct; and it would thus seem that the re-
sistance offered by the innumerable minute
particles of the meteoric stream, had first
divided the comet, and then caused it, to
gether, no doubt, with these conquering
atoms, to fall into the sun."

visible to us, there hud been three volca-
noes in activity at the time of the eclipse,
and close to the moon's border, the smoke
or ashes ejected by them would have been
visible, and would have presented the ap-
pearance described by M. de Crety."

l>r. MontUCci shows by calculation that
an observer's eye could just skim the crest
of a lunar mountain 780 feet high, at a dis-
tance of one degree from the border, or
6,000 feet of elevation at five degrees dis-
tance, in which cose the whole volcanic jet
would be lancet-shaped, because the moon's
atmosphere, being infinitely thinner than
ours, could not, by its resistance, force the
ejected matter into a mushroom form, as
is thb case with our volcanic eruptions.
Dr. Montucci proves that the jet must nec-
essarily end in a point, and rise to an enor-
mous bight. The three supposed volca-
noes may very well have been in commu-
nication with each other, as is often the case
on our earth. Hence, most probably, M.
de Crety witnessed a volcanic action on the
posterior hemisphere of the moon, for the
first time manifested to us in this strange
way. ;

gineering Magmine.

Volcanoes in the- Moon. — Dr. Mon-
tucci, in a recent communication to the
French Academy of Sciences, explains cer-
tain remarkable luminous protuberances
upon the moon's limb, which were observed
by M. de Crety at the time pf the solar
ecjipse in August last; " The protubpp
ances were either gaseous or composed of
matter in an ej tremely fine state of division
If on the pos'erior jar- of the moon, in

Primeval Chemistry.

We quote the following from a lecture
upon this subject recently delivered before
the American Institute, by Prof. T. Sterry
Hunt:

' ' Suppose the earth to be now melted
with fervent heat. Every chemist can read-
ily see that by bringing together the lime-
stone and the waters of the ocean under
such conditions, sulphur also being present,
the sulphur, the chlorine, and the carbon
would be transformed into gases; the alka-
lies, lime, alumina, and magnesia, would
unite with the acid gases to form sulphates,
carbonates, and chlorides, while the metals,
with silica and alumina, would combine in
the crust to form a substance similar in
composition to what are now known as
slags, and over and above this an atmos-
phere, charged with acid vapors — sulphur
and carbon in the form of gases, and water
in the form of steam, mixed with the ele-
ments of the atmosphere, nitrogen and oxy-
gen, and carbonic acid, or the elements of
carbonic acid in the free state. Under the-
Under these conditions the atmospheric
pressure would be immense, and the baro-
meter would stand three or four times as
high as it now does. Under the pressure
of such an atmosphere, water and the less
volatile materials would be precipitated
upon the rocks.. The water would, ef
course, be strongly charged with acids —
hydrochloric and sulphuric — aud being
fluid, would fill the cavities aud spaces
in the solid earth. The result would be,
at this high temperature, to give rise to the
immediate decomposition of the silicates
and carbonates, and set free the whole of
the silica, while the acids would combine
with the- lime, magnesia, soda, and many of
the metals; chlorides and sulphates would
be formed, while the silica, separating,
would form quartz. The salts of lime,
magnesia, and soda would dissolve in the
water, and form sea water. The activity of
the combinations would gradually become
less violent, as the affinities would be rap-
idly satisfied. The acids would combine
with the rocks until they got their full
equivalent, and then would commence a
new process. A process of slow decompo-
sition by air and water would now set in.
Carbonic acid and water would attack the
silicates, and take the lime from them;
clay, bicarbonates of soda, etc., would be
formed, which, dissolving, would find their
way to the sea, where chloride of sodium or
common salt would also be formed. This
action is still going on upon the feldspathio
rocks, decomposing the strongest quartz
and making clay, though much less rapidly
than formerly on account of the diminished
quantity of carbonic acid in the atmosphere.
Every lump of clay, then, upon the earth's
surface represents granite decomposed,
limestone formed, and salt added to the

Death of a Naturalist. — John Cassin
died in Philadelphia on Jan. 10th, aged 56.
He was an ornithologist of note. He pub-
lished a work entitled " Birds of California
and Texas" — a handsome octavo volume,
containing descriptions and colored engrav-
ings of fifty species not given by Audubon.
He also published "Synopsis of the Birds
of North America;" "Ornithology of the
United States Exploring Expedition;" "Or-
nitholpgy of the Japan Expedition;" "Or-
nithplpgy of Gillis' Astronomical Expedi-
tion, to Chili;" and the chapters on rapa-
cious and wading birds in the "Ornithology
of the Pacific Railroad Explorations and '
Surveys."

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Ti\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Difficult Harboes Made Safe "With-
out Engineering. — The trial trip of the
tug "Escort," built at and intended for
Coose Bay, suggests the facility with which
our difficult harbors on the Pacific coast
are made quite safe and easy of entrance,
without the necessity for great engineering
undertakings. Coose Bay has one of the
finest coal mines in the world, adjacent to
ship landing; and the principal difficulty
in the way of its rapid development, has
been its dangerous bar. This has been over-
come by the enterprise of Messrs. Howard
& Pool, who have wisely purchased the coal
mines, and of Mr. Pershbaker, the present
proprietor of several saw mills in the vicin-
ity. Thus, Humboldt Bay, Coose Bay,
and the mouth of the Columbia, are not by
aDy means the unpromising points, com-
mercially, that they have become reputed
to be, from the misfortunes of ill advised or
ill piloted sailing vessels. In estimating
the availability of harbors on the Pacific
coast it is only necessary to take into con-
sideration the proportion of days in the year
when the bar breaks so violently as to en-
danger or incapacitate a steam tug.
m ■■ ^b* — ■• •

Incombustible Buildings. — Signor A.
Borghi has been experimenting for four
years with the view of removing the serious
objection to the Burnett process which ex-
isted in the fact that the smell of wood pre-
pared by it was intolerable. The process,
as is known, consists in the use of tungstate
of soda for rendering wood and other sub-
stances incombustible. Signor Borghi,
aided by the Italian government, has, it is
said, removed this objection, and thus per-
fected the process. The new theater in
Florence has all its wood work and timber
prepared by the new process; and an at-
tempt to set it on fire from the stage, which
was made by way of experiment, failed.
The formula is not as yet published by the
Italian journals.

♦-•• -^» •*-■«.

Darwinism xn Germany. — Prof. Carl
Vogt, the most popular scientific lecturer
in Continental Europe, has been giving an
interesting course of lectures on prehistoric
man at Antwerp, lately. His object is to
show that, the farther back we go into the
past, the less development there is in the
human form. Everywhere in the prehis-
toric period we meet in man with charac-
teristics bringing him nearer and nearer to
the lower animal ; prominent eyebrows,
slanting teeth, flat chin, are always found
in connection with the earliest periods of
the human race. Development of form has
always kept pace with that of the brain,
the size and weight of which are propor-
tionate to the increase of the intellectual
faculties. In the ape, all the peculiarities
of the skull and face are the fruit of advanc-
ing years ; the new born creature has the
appearance of a hnman infant But a man
cannot be traced back to the ape actually
living ; he descends with them from a com-
mon stock, from which they have branched
out into three races : the orangoutang, the
chimpanzee, and the gorilla. According
to Dr. Vogt, man unites in himself, certain
characteristics of each of these branches,
viz. : the brain of the orangoutang, the skull
and teeth of the chimpanzee, and the limbs
of the gorilla.

Locker's Steam Plow at Oroville has
been completed, and a public trial was to
have taken place on the 24th inst. , the re-
sults of which we look for with interest
At a private trial which took place on the
loth, the work is said to have been done in
a manner satisfactory to those present We
are informed by Mr. Locher that his plow
both turns and pulverizes the soil in a very
thorough manner.

Beport of the Nevada State Geolo-
gist.— The report of the Nevada State Geol-
ogist, the Bev. Mr. White, has been sent
in to the Legislature, at Carson, but is no
yet published. We notice several extracts
in the Nevada papers, from which we ex-
pect that the report will furnish ns with
much valuable information.

We need scarcely tell our readers tbat it is the best
mining and. scientific paper published on the continent.
'-Arizona Miner. - -

New Incorporations. — Articles of in-
corporation have been recently filed in the
County Clerk's office in this city as follows:

Appleton S. M., M. & T. Co.— White
Pine, Nev. Capital stock, $4,000,000; 40,-
000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: Samuel
Adams, E. J. White, S. C. Bradshaw, T.
Stahl and John D. Dusheon.

Cliff Lode and Tunnel Co. — White
Pine, Nev. Capital stock, 81,000,000; 10,-
000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: A. K P.
Harmon, W. B. Bourn, W. E. Dean, H.
Degroot and Chas. Hosmer.

Golden City Lodge, No. 1, of Knights
of St. Crispin. — Trustees: W. F. Meagher,
Dennis McCarthy and John Kinsella.

Cortez S. M Co.— White Pine, Nev.
Capital stock, 82,400.000; 24,000 shares,
$100 each. Trustees: G. C. Sogers, H. E.
Green and Henry Schmieden.

Tabasaoa S. M. Co.— White Pine, Nev.
Capital stock, $750,000; 7,500 shares, $100
each. Trustees: A. K. P. Harmon, H. De-
Groot, W. E Dean, Chas. Hosmer and W.
H V. Cronise.

Crown Lode and Tunnel Ci. — White
Pine, Nev. Capital stock, $1,000,000; 10,-
000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: W. B.
Bourn, A. E. P. Harmon, Chas. Hosmer,
W. E. Dean and H. DeGroot.

Ascendant M. & M. Co. — Capital stock,
$1,300,000; 13,000 shares, $100 each. Trus-
tees: L. L Alexander, C. W. Kinsman, D.
McLaren, Albert Shepard and L. B. Drew.

Dundee S. M. Co. — White Pine, Nev.
Capital stock, $1,000,000; 10,000 shares,
$100 each. Trustees: W. E. Dean, Chas.
Hosmer, A. K P. Harmon, H DeGroot and
W. H. V. Cronise.

Willimantic Silver Mining Co. — White
Pine, Nev. Feb. 20th. Capital stock,
$1,000,000; 4.000 shares, $250 each. Trus-
tees: James B. Johnson, H. W. Fortune,

C. A. Unrig, H. J. Stone and Fred Lux.
Dantel Webster Silver Mining Co. —

White Pine, Nev. Feb. 23d. Capital
stock, $1,200,000; 1,200 shares, $100 each.
Trustees: Wm. Selby. C. A. Uhrig, H. J.
Stone, J. D. Thompson and Andrew Jack-
son.

Treasure Hill Consolidated Mining
Claims and TunnelCo.— White Pine, Nev.
Feb. 24th. Capital stock, $5,000,000; 50.-
000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: E. W.
Heath, P. J. White, J. H. Baird, James
Hitchins and Geo. F. Maynard.

Treasure Hill Tunnel Co. — White
Pine, Nev. Feb. 25th. Capital stock,
$2,000,000; 20,000 shares, S100 each. Trus-
tees: C. W. Fox, M. J. McDonald, A. Hty-
ward, Frank Livingston and R. E. Brew-
ster.

Five-fortyS. M. Co. — White Pine, Nev.
Feb. 25th. Capital stock, 81.200,000; 12,-
000 shares, 8100 each. Trustees: D. W.
Taylor, H F. Wheeler, J. M. BuffingtoD,
A. Averill and R S. Miller.

Silver Terrace Mining Co. — White
Pine, Nev. Feb. 25th. Capital stock,
81,000,000; 10,000 shares, $100 each. Trus-
tees: J. D. Thompson, Samuel Hyneman,
E. S. Gauer, E. M. Hall and Henry De-
Groot. ■>'« amt] mm» idt a

San Rafael and San Qcentin Railroad
Co.— Feb. 19th. Capital stock, $500,000.
Directors, A.Mailliard, S. V. Smith, James

D. Walker, Jacob Short, P. K. Austin, L.
A. Hinman and James Ross; President, A
Mailliard; Treasurer, James D. Walker;
Secretary, Chas. Stevens.

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Elevated Roadway for Velocipedists,
Mr. Dana, of the New York Sun, one of the
most expert velocipedists in that city, ad
vocates a project to build an elevated road-
way from Harlem to the Battery, to be used
only by the riders of velocipedes. The
Scientific American says: "By this means it
would be possible to go from one eDd of
Manhattan Island to the other in abont an
honr, making allowance for delays from
stoppage and accidents. The proposed
roadway ought to be at least thirty feet
wide, upon an iron framework; with a
flooring of hard pine. By all means let ns
have the ' elevated roadway,' and let the
sidewalks be kept clear for pedestrians,
who are otherwise likely to be endangered
by the carelessness or awkwardness of ve-
locipedists. "

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The Exact and Natural Sciences,— Mr.
Latham's lecture on this subject before the
Young Men's Christian Association, on
Tuesday evening last, was listened to by a
large audience, and was highly appreciated.
It was published in full in the Herald of
February 24th.

-Engineering.

Important Telegraphic Scheme. — A
bill is before Congress authorizing James
F. Hall and associates to construct, at their
own expense, a new experimental telegraph
between Washington, New York and Bos-
ton, and to run opposition to the present
lines on condition of charging but one
cent per word.

The company propose to use the iron
pole, a model of strength and beauty, of
which there are over 400,000 in use in
India. Instead of the present wire, they
will use an " air cable," consisting of ten,
perhaps fourteen copper wires, which will
make the cable about one inch in diameter.
Each wire is composed of four strandscom-
pactly twisted, separately insulated, and
again insulated, so as to prevent any dis-
turbances from atmospheric causes. The
company have given this cable the most
thorough tests for over a year, and they
find it is just as reliable in stormy weather
as in fair. They will use their new ma-
chine, which at a low and reliable working
test will transmit one hundred words per
minute (as rapidly as a very slow speaker)
for each wire, or for a ten-wire cable sixty
thousand per hour. Their messagesare sent
and received on metallic bands, and when
they have to be repeated it is not necessary
that they bo re-written, but the receiving
band is placed in the hopper of the deliver-
ing machine, and the message is off with-
out delay, and with mathematical exact-
ness. This can be repeated any number of
times. The company own nearly all the
telegraphic inventions which have been
made for the last five years.

Another Overland Telegraph Line. —
Arrangements have been made between
certain capitalists East and in this city, says
the A/ln, which will insure the construction
of a telegraph line from this city to the
East, making a connection with lines on
the other side running west from New York.
It is considered that the enterpise will be a
paying one. The line is projected to touch
all the paying routes, including Virginia
City, White Pine, etc.

Railroad Items. — The Virginia and
Trnckee Railroad, on which ground was
broken last week, is to run to Carson, it
appears, — a direction opposite to that of the
Truckee, — and it is stated that a number of
other points will be " connected with" be-
fore it reaches the Truckee; for example,
the wooded section up the Carson Cation.
Two tnnnels are to be run, one at the head
of American Ravine, of 600 feet. The work
of track-laying will commence at Carson,
as that is the nearest point where ties can
be obtained. I. E. James is chief engineer
of the road, and H M. Yerkington, super-
intendent It is expected that the road will
be completed and in running order by No-
vember next.

The side tracks, switches, turn-table,
water-trnk and passenger depot, at the Gil-
roy railroad terminus, are all in rapid pro-
gress, while the ballasting is being pnshed
forward with energy. Preparation is being
made for an early reception of the passenger
cars.

Tax tracklayers on the Central Pacific
Railroad, February 20th, reached a point
567 y, miles east of Sacramento, and were
going ahead at the rate of 2% to 3 miles
per day. Some heavy cuts had been en-
countered in front, and the tracklayers were
crowding the graders. The company have
on the other side of the mountains a suf-
ficient quantity of mils, spikes, etc., to lay
80 miles of road. This lot of material is
deposited at Reno, Wadsworth and other
places on the road, and constitutes a sort of
" reserve" to be used in case of a serious
blockade in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

The two o'clock train of the Central Pa-
cific Railroad took out, on the 23d inst., a
large number of additional tracklayers,
the company employing all the men of
this class they can obtain. They pay them
$2 a day and board. The Sacramento He-
porter says the company is determined to
lay four miles a day till the road is com-
pleted.

On the 16th inst. the construction trains
reached Independence Springs, 60 miles
east of Elko. There was no more snow
than in the vicinity of Austin. At Cedar
Pass, four miles west of the springs, the
railroad company has a force of 800 wood
choppers, and J. M. Dorsey has 300 more.
It is estimated that the cedar and nut pine
timber of the locality will supply the wants
of the road for a couple of years. The
wood is now carried as far west as Winne-
mucca.

The interruption of travel upon the Union

Pacific road during the present winter, by
reason of the snow, has been very trivial,
says the Chicago Tribune, and not more than
that experienced on the Northwestern Rail-
roads. Overland passengers, however,
report being snow-bound for ten days near
the hight of land east of Green river.

When the railroad is completed, it will
take 48 hours for transit between Salt Lake
and Omaha. Vice-President DuraDt says
the road will reach Ogden City between the
1st and 10th of March next.

Robebt L. Harris, C. E., late of the
Sacramento and Vallejo Railroad, has been
engaged with a surveying party in making
a preliminary survey for the location of a
railroad from Monterey to the Salinas river,
under what is known as the Titus Hale fran-
chise. The length of the road will be
about 13 miles.

The Stockton Gazette of the 18th says :
We are informed that next week the cars
will commence running regularly from
Sacramento to the Cosumnes, a distance of
about 20 miles, where the Stockton and
Sacramento stage will connect with the
railroad and transfer its passengers to the
cars. This arrangement will shorten the
time between this point and Sacramento
several hours, and be a great convenience
to travelers.

The Gazette, of February 23d, says a
surveying party, in the employ of the
Central Pacific Railroad Company, with
(.'apt Stade at its head, commenced ou that
day the survey of a route for a railroad
from Stockton up the San Joaquin Valley.

It is a coincidence worthy of note that
the Suez Canal and the Pacific Railway will
be completed and open for service in the
same year and at nearly the same date.

Suspension Bridge between New York
and Brooklyn. — The House Committee ou
Post Roads and C'anais reported in favor of
bridging East river, between New York and
Brooklyn, and the telegraph reports that a
bill granting the right of way, has been
passed. The bridge must be 130 feet high,
with but one span, having no piers in the
river. Its estimated cost is $10,000,000,
and will take five or six years to construct it.

Nevada City Survey. — The Nevada Ga-
zette says that the city trustees have con-
tracted with H. S. Bradley to make a sur-
vey of the lands within the corporation *
limits. The contract price is $750, for
which he measures every lot, and makes
two maps on the scale of 80 feet to the inch.

The Quail Hill "Chemicals."— Some
time ago we gave an outline of the results
obtained at Quail Hill, where ore which
bad paid only $4 per ton by amalgamation
in the battery and on copper riffles, had
been made to yield $32 of silver and gold
in the pan. At that time we were not in-
formed of the nature of the chemicals
used, but we have since been told that they
were merely quicklime and common salt —
thirty pounds of each to the ton of ore.
After the muller is raised and the quicksil-
ver put in, the pulp should be examined
from time to time. A spoonful of it should
contain a multitude of globules of bright
quicksilver; if there is no quicksilver, the
pulp is not thick enough; i} the mercury
is not bright, more lime and salt are needed.
There is little danger of having too much
of them. Cyanide of potassium was used
also, but the opinion prevailed that it was
not needed with quicklime. — Alta.

Mining in China. — A Chinaman has come
in, says a Hongkong letter writer, with the
report that a certain hill, about seven li
from Tan Yang, which last year at this
time was supposed to contain coal, and lor
which some foreigners were then negoti-
ating, has tu-ned out to contain gold and
silver. The country people are said to he
in excitement about the discovery, and the
place has been walled in to prevent depre-
dations.

Causes of Explosion. —The Hartford
(Connecticut) Steam Boiler Inspection
Company report for the month of Deember
341 boilers examined externally, and 70 in-
ternally. In these, 168 defects, of which
32 were especially dangerous, were discov-
ered. Fractures, burned and blistered
plates, incrustations and corrosions, safety-
valves overloaded, blow-out apparatus,
water gauges, and pressure gauges out of
order, stop-cocks between the safety-valve and
boiler, etc., etc. — were among these defects.
All these boilers were in actual use.

Continental Life Insurance Company,
203 Montgomery street, corner of Pine.

TI\e Mining and Scientific Press.

133

Weekly Stock Circular.

By A i M8iiU4 Broken ef th« 8. r BtMk ut 1 itUsp Bo*rf .
Sam Francisco, February 17. 1M*.

Tho market for stocks other thun mining has
been remarkably quiet. Sales of Spring Valley
Water stock were made at $68 50; a 09. A small
summit of Santa Clara Co. bonds were disposed
of at $76.

A meeting of the stockholders of tho Sacra-
mento Gas Company is to be held on the 30th of
March next, for the purpose of considering the
increase of the capital stock of si*id company
from $500,000 to $1,000,000.

The returns ot our local insurance companies
to the Internal Revenue Department, for the
month of January have been as follows, upon a
currency basis of 75 cents to the dollar:

Pacific. $».«U

Union.. +.'.!"'•

Kir*m*n'sFand '.'.', -Wt

( 'aliform*. 9.078

• aU' Mutual 34,0«9

On i denial- H.M8

Hume Mutual 13.731

People'*. 17,130

Tottl JsHSftSA S222.3-U

Baa* time in IMS 1SM.A73

Increase $61,778

The receipts of the city railroads for the month
of January have been as follows:

Oranlbna. #K.218

North Beach and Mission 20.9118

Central- U.K74

FronlSUf.-t. Mi»«I'>d tad Oc«io T.Stf

M«rknt Street ».«**>

Potr<iro*ad B*y View 2,009

ToUl f76,S43

him« time io IBM 67,068

Increue $9,~*

>l liitntr Sliar© Market.

Few persons are aware of the mineral product
of what is termed the Comstock Lode. It oc-
cupies a foremost place among the silver yield-
ing regions of the world, and has proved a grand
dispenser of material benefit to this State. From
the date of its location and exploitation to the
1st of April, 1866, the bullion product of this
lode amounted to $51,380,588. Since then the
average annual yield has been about $11,000,-
000, which will make a total production of about
$85,000,000 by the first of April, 1869. The cost
of reducing the ore has been gradually lessened
from $30 to about $20 per ton, at which latter
figure it remains until superior and cheaper meth-
ods shall be discovered. Owing to mill facilities
the Imperial and Empire companies, several
years ago, were enabled to mine and reduce ores
at an. expense of $15 per ton. The claims upon
this lode are too numerous to particularize; but
from our voluminous statistics we select the
Gould & Curry and Savage as fair samples. The
first was opened and work commenced on it in
June, I860, since which time to November 30th,
1866, it yielded $13,626,871 in bullion, from 230,-
516 tons of ore, being an average of $59 02 to the
ton; but the highest yield of this ore was from
July to December, 1860, when it amounted to
$156 62 per ton. In 1867 it decreased to $24 66
p ?r ton, and at the close of that year the total
bullion product of the mine was $14,282,876.
During the year 1868 the receipts from bullion
and ore sold only amounted to $95,285. The
average yield of ore reduced was $18 14 per ton.
The Savage mining company, from date of its
organization to July, 1868, nearly seven years,
shows an ore yield of 270,521 tons, from which
was obtained $11,327,700 in bullion, equal to
upwards of $41 per ton. Since the above period
to the close of January, 1869, the bullion yield
has been $1,183,389, making an aggregate pro-
duction of $12,211,089.

Although the expenses which have been in-
curred by working the Comstock Lode have
nearly equaled the value of its product, im-
mense benefits have inured to almost every in-
dustry in the State from its discovery and ex-
ploitation. It has been a fountain of wealth to
thousands beside its owners, its influence being
felt far and wide, stimulating enterprise [and
facilitating operations in other fields of industry.

The new discoveries in Lander county, Ne-
vada, promise to become valuable adjuncts to
the Comstock Lode. The returns from that
r.gion, for the three months ending Decem-
ber 31st, 1868, show that, fori y -nine mines
yielded 2,493 tone of ore, valued at $870,554 45,
which is an average of $349 20 per ton, in cur-
rency. As these mines are still in their infancy
we are not in possession of any very definite
statistics in their regard; but all accounts agree
in describing them as unprecedentedly rich.
Whether they will match the endurance and
steadiness of the Comstock Lode remains to be
proved, although nothing has yet transpired to
cast doubt upon the permanence of many among
them. One thing is certain : They will attract a

large immigration bent upon producing only the
precious metals, and all their supplies mast be
drawn bran this city. Like the Comstock Lode
they must put new life into nearly all our in-
dustries, and command respectful attention
from all classes. If additional expense attends
the working of these mines it is more than com-
pensated by the greater richness of its ores.
With the possession of the Comstock Lode and
the White Tine district, Nevada can flourish her
silver sceptre in the face of all the world.

The transactions at the Stock Board were very
fair for the week, if we take into consideration
that no sessions were held on last Monday and
Tuesday. Some stocks exhibit a marked im-
provement, and, as a general thing, the stock
market is in a very healthy condition. We no-
tice a considerable falling off in time purchases.
At the close the market is not so strong, and,
as a general thing, stocks are slightly off.

Beuher — closed at $30 50. They reached ore
on the 200 level which assays $300 to the ton, but
the deposit is not yet very large. On the 335
level they are still following up the ore, with
strong hopes that it will turn out well. They
have been successful in finding three feet of ore

on the 335 level Kkntcck gained rapidly

within the past few days, rising from $217 last
Saturday to $250 on the 25th, and closing
yesterday at $238. Receipts of bullion for Feb-
ruary account to the 23d foot up $30,248.

Hale & Nobckoss— ruled at $87@71, and
closed at $74 50. On February 23d the quartz
was about eight feet wide in north face, four
feet of which is said to be very good ore, the
balance being very low grade. The winze from
the fourth to the fiith level is down twelve feet,
showing about four feet of fair grade ore. No
material change in the winze from the third sta-
tion, or in the raise up from the fourth. In

both places they find moderately fair ore

Segregated Belcher improved to $13, and
closed at $11 75. The drift inside the line of the

Belcher ground is reported to look well.

Amadou (Cal.) is in request at an advance, sell-
ing at $275. The reports from the mine con-
tinue very encouraging. On the 24th inst., the
ore in the north face of the drift was six feet
wide and of rather fair quality. In the winze
from the fourth station the ore is about three
feet wide.

Imferiax— sold at $109®112, closing at $110.
Resumed work in 1,000 level drift on the morn-
ing of the 25th, and at noon of same day on
the 1,100 level. Previously had gone 115 feet
northward on 1,000 level and 16 feet beyond the
east clay .... Savage was in the market to a con-
siderable extent at $71@65, closing at $67 50.
During the week ending February 20th, it is re-
ported, 1,400 tons of ore were extracted, valued
at $50,000, which is nearly equal to $36 per ton.

Chollak-Potosi was in very limited request

at $165@169, closing at $167. During the
week ending February 19th 830 a>ns of ore were
extracted from the Blue Wing locality of this
mine. This portion of the claim is reported to
be rapidly giving out. In the new shaft at the
920 level the drift opened into a larger amount
of quartz, but no ore is yet visible. On the
1,100 level drift work has been suspended, hav-
ing reached the west wall. On the 22d inst.
$15,640 in bullion was. sent forward to the office

in this city It is reported that the Justice

and Independent has developed some ore. Sales
of this stock have been made at $21@13 50,
and at close realized $15.

Ophir— is in better request, improving from
$40 50 to $42, and at the close selling at $41 25.
The lower drift is now thirty feet in length.
On the night of the 23d inst., they cut a clay
seam from one to three inches in width, run-
ning north and south. The rock shows no
change, and at present there is no water in the
drift. .. .Yellow Jacket has been less active
than last week, improving from $67 50 to
$72 25, and closing yesterday at $71 75.

Match It. — Ay, Messieurs- of the Faculty,
furnish if you can from your repertory of med-
icaments, a compound or a simple substance
that will produce the same benefieient results
that the Plantation Bitters are producing in
all parts of the United States, tropical America,
and the West Indies, every day. What will this
preparation do ? Briefly, it will replace debility
with strength, regulate the disordered liver, tone
the relaxed nerves, arrest the progress of ema-
ciation, restore the appetite, relieve headache,
cure fever and ague, prevent the evil effects of
uu wholesome water, chase away mental gloom,
and mitigate or remove most of the physical
troubles peculiar to the gentler sex. Will any
of the official preparations do all this, or half
this ? If so, how is it that the masses reject
them all, and put their trust unhesitatingly in
this widely advertised specific ?

-CNIUG SHAREH0LDEE8' DLKE0T0KY.

(Compiled for every Ueue, from advertisements in the

MimtiQ akd ScixNTiric J'kkss and other Sao

Francisco Journal*. J

Comprising tho Names of Companies. District or County
ol Location; Amount and date of Answufnl; Date ol
Meeting; Day of Delinquent Sale; and Amount and Time
of Payment or Dividends.

MASK. LOCATION, AMOUNT, AJTD DAT DAT

DATK or AasKSJMkKT. DSLI ROBERT. OT SAL*

AmadorCfi., dividend. |6 per share.... Payable Feb in, \SfiH

Hacuh. Storey co, Nev., div ...Payable J urn* 19. 1663

Belcher, storey co. Nev, Dec. 31, $26 Jan. 30- March 1

Chalk Mountain. Nevada co.. Jan. 13, %Z .. Feb. 16-March 8*

Chollar PnlowLdlv . %U Pavab'r Oct. 15, IM7

Grown Point, dividend. *7.M Parable Kept. IS 1009

'/iiy K. It , San Fnuicl'Cu. Jan. 6, $4 Feb. li>— Miirrh 8

fi y. preferred Brock, div tjj tier cent Feb. 10. 1869

Chloride Mt- Tun.. White Pine, rcb. 2, 50c. .Mar IS— Ap W

Dane.v. Lyon co. Nev ,Jan. 9, $2 Feb. 12-Marcli 1

Emi'in- M. A M., Nev., dividend 10.. ...Payable Mav IS. ]R>7J

Eureka, div. 95 Payable Jan. 30. 1WS9

FolsotnSt. * Ft. PL R. B. Jan. 3", $5.... March 3— March 20
Gold Hill Cons., 8 lorry co., Jan. S. SI.... ...Feb. IS-March I

Gould A Curry, div.. $7.80 Payable Mav Ift. 1%7

linlvn Chariot, ldnho, div., $2.50 Payable Feb. 10 L869

Ooldco Char Int. Idaho Annual Mretlnr. March l

Uol.l Hilly M A M-dtvldcud. WW... .Payable Julv 13. 1h<;s
Golden Ituic. Tuolumne co. div. 50c » Mi.-.Fav. Feb. 20. i*>9
GU'nwood, Kl Dorado co,, Feb 19, $25.... April 2— April 1"

link- A HorcroSB, div. $125 Mcpt 16. lKr>7

Hale A SorcroM, Storey co.. Feb. 12. $6 .. March 2h— April 8

Hide A Norcross, Storey co Annua! Meeting March l<t

Mope Gravel, Nevada co , Feb. 24. $1.... March 29— April 19

I X L, Alpine co.. Jan. 19, $1 W Feb. 27— March 17"

Imperial, Storey co., Nev., div Payable June 20, Ifjfig

Juan ItmiiiNtii, Sun t» Clara co.,Nov. 27 Rale Ian. 30

Julia. Storey co , No\.. $160. Feb. 10— Feb. 27

Kcniuck.dlv.>$20per share Payable Jan. 10, 1869

Mt. Ti_iiaho, Lander co .Jan. 23, 75c March 5— March 30"

Moiinwk A Mont real, Nev. co., Feb. 10, $3... Mar. 16— Mar. SI

Mohawk A Montreal, Nevada co Meeting March 15

Maxwell. Amador co., Feb. 9, $1 March 13— April I

North Amer. Wood p. Co,, Jan. 15, $1 F<b 1B-Marcl. 8*

North Star, dividend, $5 Payable Aug. 15, lew)

Oriental, Sierra co., Jan. t, $2.60..... Feb. 6— Feb. 20

Peninsula, Storey co., Dec. 15, $10 Feb. 11 -March C

Pacific Unassessable, dtv Payable June 18, 1808

Kitttlennake, Yubaco.. Dec. 19, $7.50 Jan. 2l-Feb. 18*

Rl.ilngSur, Idaho, Feb. 8, $6 ....March 31— April 3

SantlaRii. Silver City, dividend, $2 50. ..Payable Dec 19, 1868

Band Sprint- -alt. dividend $1 Payable Jan 8,1869

Savage. Virginia, Nev, dividend, $2-50. Payable Feb. H, 1RP9

Star creek, Nov., Fob. 26, $1.50 March 29-AprlI 19*

Tallulah, Humboldt co., Dec. U,$I7.50 Jan. 29— Feb. 27

Virginia A O. H Water Co. .Dividend, payable Nov. 20. 1868

V.rginla. White Fine, Nev ...Annual Meeting Feb 27

Yellow Jacket, div., $5 Payable Feb. 16,1869

Those marked with an asterisk <a) are advertised In this

ournal. '

Latest Stock Prices Bid and Asked.

8. T. STOCK AND EXC11AHOB BOARD.

Fridat Evemkg, February 26, 1869.

MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS. Bid. AsUed.

United States Bonds, 6 2ils, 1885, '67, '68 $83 83^

United Stales Hunde, 5 20s, 18*4 83 84

Unite I States Bonds. 5-20M, 1802 81 M\i

Legal Tender Notes 76 76K

California State Bonds, 7s, 1857 95 95

San Francisco Bonds, 10s, 1851 par A hit,

San Francisco City Bonds, 6s. 1855 — —

San Francisco City and County Bonds. 6s. 1858. 85 87^

San Francisco School Bonds, lOs, 186n 100 —

San Francli co School Bonds, Ms, lHfil nar * int

San Francisco City aud Co. Sch'l B'ds, 7s, 1866. 91 —

San Francisco Citv and Co. Bonds. 7s, 1862 85 89

San Francisco City and Co. Honds, 7s, 1864 87J£ 89

San Francisco City and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1865 87itf 89

San Francisco City and Co. Judg. Bds. 7s, 1863. 87V; 89

San Francisco City and Co. Judg. Bds, 7s, 1864. S7JJ 69

Sacramento City Bonds 30 31

Sacramento County Bonds, 6s 65 —

Marysvillo Bonds, 10s 75 80

Stockton City Bonds 65 —

Yuba County Bonds, Ms 77 79

Santa Clara County Bonds. 7s 70 77

Butte County Bonds, lUs, I860 65 —

San Matcn County Bonds, 7fi 76 80

California Steam Navigation Co 65 70

Spring Valley Water Co „.. — 69

State Telegraph Co 26 —

GAS COMPANIKS.

8an Francisco OasC-0 76 80

Sacramento Gas Co 85 —

RAILROADS,

Sacramento Vallev Railroad — —

San Frai. Cisco and San Jose Railroad 40 45

Omnibus RailroRd 7IH 72

Central Railroad W) —

North Beach and Mission Railroad 70 —

Front Street, Mission and Ocean Railroad 11 12

8ANKIKa IKSTITUTIONS.

Pacific Bank ^% 100

Tho Bank of California 15; 168

California, Loan and Savings Society — —

INSURANCE COHFANIKS.

Flremana' Fund Insurance Co 92.V 9*

Pacific Insurance Co 126 127

San Francisco Insurance Co — lu5

Merchants' Mutual Marine Insurance Co 600 520

California Insurance Co..... I3U0 1400

Union Insurance Co 92 93

Home Mutual Insurance Co 19}^ 20

Occidental Insurance Co 72 —

National Insurance Co 84 87

Builders' Ineuranco Co. — —

HIKING -STOCKS— WASHOS DISTRICT.

Alpha 53 63K

Baltimore American — —

Belcher 30 :-0W

Bullion. O. H 20 21

Crown Point 72 72W

OlefVa.) 10 11

Confidence 3(1 34

Consolidated Virginia 0 9

Chollar- Potosl h» 166

Daney 3 JJJi

Exchequer 26 27

Empire Mill aud Mining Co 81) 83

Gould 4 Curry 104 105

Gold Hill Quartz 50 60

Hale A. Norcross 75 76>£

Imperial 109 1W

Julia 3 4

Justice and Independent 15 I.'1,

KentucK. 23S 240

Ladv Bryan 15 17

North American 12K 13

Opltir 41 41 H

Overman 67 68

Segregated Belcher il?i 12

s a vage 67 67$£

Sterra Nevada ' . . . . 27 25

Yellow Jacket 7i>£ 72

Union... — —

United Slates — —

MtSCKLLANKOUS MINING STOCKS.

Amador (California! 275 290

North Star (California) : — —

Eureka (California) 230 —

De Soto (Humboldt) — 2

Golden Rule. California 10

San Francisco Market Rates.

TPholesuIe Prices.

Fhiday, February T6. 1869.

Flour, Extra, $bbl S5 25 '*$5 60

Do. Superllnc 4 MS @ 4 75

Corn Meal. 9 100 lbs 3 25 @ 3 50

Wheat, 9 100 lbs 1 '0 @ 1 7f

Oats, 9 10 ( lbs 1 85 @ 2 25

Barley, % lou lbs 1 90 @ 2 26

Beans, %* lOti lbs 5 00 Q 7 00

Potatoes, B loo as 75 @ 90

Hay. » ton \2 M ^M 00

Live Oak Uond.ficord 9 00 ®10 w

Beef, extra. dresj*d. ^ ft. II 9 12

Sheep, on foot 5 no <2> 8 25

nog*, .hi root, ?»R. & a 6

BagfedJBMBCd.*! lb 9 ® lo

GBOCU1K*. BTO.

Smrar. crn*hed, 9 lb _ a 17

Do. Chlnn in ,» 13

-la Rica, ft B... _ a 18

. Do. Rh. 16*i a 17

Tea. Japan, 9 fc |" jj* g ^

Do Green w « 1 26

Hawaiian Rice, 'f, lb _ 2 S

China Itlce, VIb 6 a 7

Coal Oil, JH callon 45 S *8

' ft 16 « 18

Ranch Hiitu-r, « ft ' io a 47U

Uth.nus Hitltcr. V* ft "..".'. 40 a 45

'•il'urnia. » & 16 a at

Eh^ « frozen ". Jo a f'«

Lard.Vft 11 i 13*

Ham and Bacon, « ft * ,s

Shoulders, *&... ""* e £ g

Retull Prices.

Butter, California, fresh, ji ft m a —

do. pickled, TR ft 3,r 5 _

do. Oregon.* ft 20 a m

do. New York, j* ft 35 a 4.'

Cheese, jp lb w 3 y

Honey, Aft a q ^

Eggs, p dozen to a m

Lard, j* ft 16 a lfl

Hams and Bacon, $ lb 10 « 26

Cranherrle*, 9 gallon l ;b a 1 60"

Potatoes, » ft l'i a 2

I'otiih.c*, Sweet, 9 lb 3 a 6

Tomatoes, $ ft 3 a —

Onions, "S lb s a —

Apples. N.>. I,» lb 4 a 6

Pears. Table. W lb A a

Plums, dried.* lb 10 @ li

Peaches, dried, %* ft in @ 12

Oranges, » dozen 75 a —

Lemons, $ dozen 75 a —

Chickens, apiece _ a 75

Turkeys, >t ft ;.,.. 23 a 25

Soap. Pale atidC. 0 7 a 12

Soap, Castile. W ft , is a —

San Francisco Metal Market

PRICES FOR 1XVOICBS.

Joblring pritf rule from ten to fif Urn per cent, higher than th
fallowing quotation*.

Friday-. February 26, 1669.

Iron.— Doty: Pig, $9 per ton; Railroad, 60c ^iinofts; Bar
K«i !-ic ?4 ft; Sheet, polished, 3c V ft; common, Ui(Sri?4'c
# lb; Plate, l)4c # ft; Pipe, l>fic |1 lb; Galvanized, 2fcc
7) lb.

Rco'ch and English Pig Iron ^ ton $40 00 ®$41 no

White Pig ft ton ;...-. 36 00 a 37 00

Refined Bar, bad assortment ?tft — 03 a

Refined Bar, good assortment, ^ ft....... — 04 a

Roller, No. 1 to 4 — 04K®

Plate, No. 6 to 9 <a _ 04K

Sheet. No. 10 to 13 — 04H@ — 6

Sheet. No. 14 to 20 .' — 05 a — 6K

Sheet, No. 21 to 27 —05 ffl — 6H

Coppsb.— Du ly : Sheathing, 3>iC >* ft ; Pig a nd Bar, 2kc * ft

Sheathing, $ ft a — 26

Sheathing, Yellow —20 a — 21

fheathing, Old Yellow — 10 a — It
olts ...•.....*.. — 21 a — 22

Composition Nails ., — 21 a — 22

Til* Plates.— Dutv: 2ft « cent, ad valorem.

Plates, ChftrcoaX IX, ^ box 12 00 a

Plates, I C Charcoal a 11 00

Roofing Platen. 10 00 a 10 50

BaneaTln. SlabB, # ft a — 35

Ptkel.— English Cant Steel, ^tt» @ — 16

Quicksilver.— $ lb — 65 a — 60

LHAD—PIC^ft - 7J£©— 8

Sheet — 10 a

Pipe..... — 11 a — —

Bar .............'. ....— 9 a— pu

Zinc —Sheets. # ft • — l«>i@— II

Bnntx.— California. $ ft — 35 a — 38

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s mentioned.

CALIFORNIA.

AI.PIKE COUNTY.

Markleeville Miner, Feb. 16th : The work-
men in the Globe tunnel on Thursday
night struck into quartz and sulphurets,
■with an increase of water; indication of
near approach to the deposit sought, or a
branch thereof.

The Mt. Bullion tnnnel is now running
in soft rock, and the Manager hopes to
strike the first ledge of the series as soon
as April next.

The Star shaft is now down 75 feet, and
a drift will be run from about this point to
the old workings at bottom of incline.

The Banner mining property, lying ad-
joining the Morning Star ground, has been
disposed of in London, and the work of
opening up the same is expected to com-
mence in early spring.

AMADOR COUNTY.

Amador Ledger, Feb. 20th : Work on the
Summit mine is being carried on with vigor,
and the prospect is splendid. They are
now taking out rock that pays 830 per
ton.

CAIITMIS COUNTY.

Mokelumne Hill Chronicle, Feb. 20th : A
recent clean up in the claim located on
Buena Arista Hill, yielded at the rate of $25
per day to the hand. A number of compa-
nies in the same locality are doing exceed-
ingly well.

The 30-stamp mill belonging to the An-
gels Quartz Co., has again commenced
crushing. On the Bovee mine the shaft is
been sunk to the depth of 300 feet. Times
are lively in Angels.

The correspondent whom we mentioned
in our last issue as " evidently writing from
Bailroad Flat," seems to think that we in-
tended to convey the idea that he was writ-
ing in the particular interest of that place,
and eDdeavors to correct us. We will
simply state that wegavehis item verbatim,
as it appeared in the Chronicle, and headed
it as being evidently written at Bailroad
Flat, as no other heading appeared, and no
other locality was given other than the par-
ticular description of Bailroad Flatas given
in our items. We have always taken a
lively interest in the mines of Bailroad
Flat, especially since the Petticoat, Chemi-
sette, and Balmoral lodes have been lo-
cated. Our correspondent adds : To show
the Press that I am not writing in the par-
ticular interest of Bailroad Flat, permit me
to inform that most excellent journal that
the favored locality of which I wrote so
hopefully, is quite dull at present. The
heavy storms and more especially the re-
cent fall of snow, has nearly closed -all
active business. Even the famous Petti-
coat had to succumb to the hopeful and
chilling influence of the Storm King, and
until within a day or two past, the mill has
been idle. It is now, however, crushing
away.

EI. DORADO COUNTY.

Placerville Democrat, Feb. 20th : Work
was resumed a few weeks since on the Pa-
cific mine, and a quantity of rock taken out
and crushed, the result of which was so en-
couraging as to induce the proprietor to
erect a new 10-stamp mill, which com-
menced crushing this week, and is doing
good work. We were shown a sample of
rock from the dump pile, by Mr. Stevens,
which was liberally sprinkled with gold.
There is a large quantity of this class of
rock taken out, ready for crnshing. The
main shaft is 300 feet deep. At that depth
there is adriftrunningnorth 130 feet, from
which the rock is being taken. The ledge
is from five to six feet wide, and improves
rapidly.

The Epley quartz mine, situated in our
immediate neighborhood, continues toyield
handsomely. They are now down 240 feet,
but at present are crushing rock from a
depth of only 100 feet from the surface.
The lead improves in richness as they go
down. It now varies from two to eight
feet in width, and pays on an average $20
per ton.

KGRS COUNTY.

Havilah Courier, Feb. 16th: Hammer &
Denker have struck a young White Pine in
the Belmont mine,, Washington district,
about eight miles from Havilah. We
have been shown specimens recently ex-
tracted from the Belmont of surpassing
richness. It will pay probably §800 to the
ton, though the average is not so large.
This is a new discovery, the old lead hav-
ing "pinched out." There are also some
other valuable mines in the Washington
district, among which we may mention the
Kohinoor, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, and the Occi-
dental.

NEVADA COUNTY.

Transcript, Feb. 17th: Berg & Co. have
located and claim all the waters of Bnsh
Creek below the Excelsior Canal Co's ditch,
for minim purposes. They have also lo-
cated 200 ft. of ground on the creek, com-
mencing above the dam of Drum & Co.

Feb. 21st: Davis & Co. have located
2,000 ft. on the Imperial quartz ledge, lo-
cated on Worthington's Banch on the Grass
Valley road.

The damage occasioned by the breaking
of the reservoir of the South Tuba Canal
Co. at Blue Tent is so far repaired that an
abundance of water can be furnished for
mining purposes.

Feb. 18th: The pleasant weather has
been a blessing to the miners. They have
now abundance of water and are working
in good earnest. Many new claims have
started up in the county since the late
storm.

Gazette, Feb. 17th: Alexander and An
drew Berry have located two claims of 100
ft. each, for mining purposes, on Bush
Creek, commencing 200 ft. above the dam
of Drum & Co., and extending up the creek
200 ft., including the bed and banks of the
creek. The same parties have filed notice
of a location of all the water running in
Bush Creek below the ditch of the Excel-
sior Canal Co.

Feb. 20th: Philip Dahle has just erected
a 3-stemp quartz mill at Bough and Beady,
which was started up this week. It is situ-
ated near the Bunker Hill ledge. It was
built for the purpose of working this ledge,
which is owned by Dahle & Ebelin, who
are engaged in developing it The ledge
averages abont 18 inches in width, and the
rock ranges from &9 to 830 per ton.

A large slide occurred in the McCauley
diggings, near Bough and Beady, during
the late storm. Some two or three acres of
ground, to the depth of eight or ten feet,
slid off, carrying 30 or 40 rods of the Squir-
rel Creek ditch.

Feb. 22d: A new ditch to bring water
from the Malakoff ditch to Nichols &
Whiteside's diggings, was completed some
time ago, and an extensive flume across a
deep cut was finished on Saturday. This
flume is about 250 ft in length, and a por-
tion'of the trestle work is 75 ft in hight.
Fifteen men have been employed upon it
for nearly five weeks. The Malakoff Co.
have recently lined their flume with new
blocks, preparatory to obtaining a larger
supply of water. They are now running
three pipes, but as soon as water comes
more freely they will have more pipes and
employ a much larger number of men.

Grass Valley Union, Feb. 16th : The snow
being on the ground much outside pros-
pecting has been stopped. The regular
mines of Grass Valley, however, continue
to turn out pay ore in quantities to suit
owners. The Eureka will not pay the cus-
tomary dividend this month because the
company have bought the Boannaise ground
and paid therefor about $45,000 in coin.

The North Star continues to take out rich
rock, and the part of the ledge they are
now in appears to be of miraculous rich-
ness.

In the lower part of the county there is
considerable mining, and with prospects of
success. The Scandanavian Co. have con-
tracted that 500 tons of rock shall be taken
out at $2.50 per ton. The company
will immediately put up three arastras,
to be run by water power, and the man
who builds the arastras has such confi-
dence in the lead that he also waits for his
pay until the rock yields it.

The Bed Jacket Gravel mine, near the
same place, also shows well. They have,
undoubtedly, the same lead as the Smarts-
ville district, and many say it is as rich as
the claims at Smartsville and Timbuctoo.
The Bed Jacket Co. start up in the spring
with high hopes for big pay.

Feb. 17th: Yesterday morning Findley
& Co. shipped to San Francisco about $26,-
000 worth of gold.

The Idaho Minin» Co. day before yester-
day brought in the sum of $16,000, the
proceeds of two week's run.

The North Star made a clean up day be-
fore yesterday, of over $10,000. The rock
coming out now is especially good.

The Young Pines ledge promises to be a
good one. The men employed there have
found a ledge which is clearly defined and
shows free gold.

The rock in the Garden City mine is look-
ing well. They are down about 60 ft., and
have a well denned ledge in the bottom of
the shaft, from eighteen inches to two feet
thick.

Grass Valley National, Feb. 18th: The
editor, after visiting the Frank Morse mine
thus describes it: The quartz has changed
to blue ribboned rock, and looks very fa-
vorable. We broke open a number of
piec-es on the dump pile and not only found
the color but struck several rich specimens.

The rock is rich in sulphurets, which are
worth $150 per ton. They are down about
150 ft. on the incline, and have 175 loads
out now ready for crushing. The last lot
paid $51 per load, and that now being taken
out is of better quality. The stamps will

be started by about next Tuesday The

North Star continues to yield excellent rock
which will average $30 per ton, although
some of it is much richer. The mill runs
30 stamps, and 10 of Hendy's concentrators
are in use for saving the sulphurets ... .At
the Shanghai a whipsidary is at work and
some very good rock is being taken out.
We had no difficulty in finding specimens
of free gold on the dump. They will have
a crushing before long. They have out
about 18 or 20 loads With the excep-
tion of the above mine, everything looks
quiet and deserted on Massachusetts Hill
and vicinity which a few years ago so teemed
with life and activity. There is yet abund-
ance of gold, but disagreements between
companies have prevented concert of ac-
tion and hardness of the rock and the im-
mense expense of pumping deter any single
company.

A San Francisco company have located a
ledge on Kate Hayes Hill, which is to be
called the Crescent, and will commence work
immediately.

Excelsior. — Transcript, Feb. 21st: We
learn that the Mohawk and Montreal Co.
have struck a very rich ledge over four
feet wide. The ledge was struck in the
lower level, near the mill, on the 15th inst.
The owners now consider that the perma-
nency of their ledge is established.

Virginia Enterprise, Feb. 17th : Meadow
Lake is pretty much deserted. The snow
is about eight or ten feet deep. But
little work in tile way of mining is being
done in Excelsior district.

PLACER COUNTY.

Auburn Stars and Stripes, Feb. 18th: W.
H. Puffer informs us that a crushing of
about 60 tons of rock from the Jenny Lind
ledge, just made, yielded iu free gold $30
per ton. It is estimated that the sulphu-
rets will pay $500 per ton. This ledge is
situated on Dutch Bavine, about one mile
below Newcastle. It is believed that there
are many ledges in the vicinity of New-
castle that will pay equally well.

SISKIYOU COUNTY.

Yreka Union, Feb. 13th: The miners on
Humbug Creek are laying on their oars, at
present, as the ground they sluiced off last
year has been washed up and there has not
been water enough yet this winter to enable
them to commence ground sluicing again.
The priucipal mining on this stream now is
in deep flats or high banks, where it is
necessary to remove an immense amount of
dirt, requiring a large body of water to do
it successfully and profitably.

Mining on McAdams Creek has been
more successful during the past year than
it has been for several seasons previous.
Nearly all the claims worked have turned
out well and some of them largely.

The Etna Mining Co. has not been doing
anything in their claim for some weeks
past, on account of the scarcity of water.

The claims in the Klamath river, near
Cottonwood, did not do as well during tho
year as it was supposed they would.

Lash & Co. have now been running their
tunnel on the Accidental, which is intended
to strike the ledge 100 ft. below the sur-
face, for three weeks, and have, got in a
little over 100 ft. They have still some 60
or 70 ft. to run. They are at the same time
taking out quartz at a higher level — about
40 ft. from the surface. At this level they
have extended along the ledge a distance
of about 100 ft. and find that it averages in
thickness about 2% ft.

Haislip's new diggings on the East Fork
of Scott Biver, prospect well, and from
present indications bid fair to prove the
richest mines yet discovered on the head-
waters of Scott Biver. Duffy & Co. last
week picked up a piece of pure gold in their
claim valued at $37, which is proof conclu-
sive that coarse as well as fine gold abouuds
in these new diggings. A number of new
claims are being opened with every pros-
pect of striking as good pay as has be.n
found in either Duffy & Co's or Magill's
claims. There is an extensive country on
East Fork that has not been prospected.

TRINITY COUNTY.

Weaverville Journal, Feb. 20th: Suther-
lin, McMurry & Hupp, in Weaver Basin,
are running a cut at almost right angles
with the line of their flume to the low flat
along East Weaver Creek. They expect to
run across to the creek this winter, and will
then have an opening of a 1, 000 ft. face upon
the pay streak, with a mile of bedrock
ditch and flume.

Fox & Fox at Lewiston, are making their
claim on the hill, back of town, pay well.
P. Cronin & Co. are still working a low
water claim on Jackson's Bar. Squire Mus-

ser, in the Frank Woods claim, has found
a channel in the hill that has so far paid
him $7 or $8 a day to the hand, in coarse
gold, picked up while sluicing.

The miners on lower Trinity are com-
plaining of the scarcity of water. Shaber
& Co. are making from $110 to $150 per
week.

The miners at Minersville are pushing
ahead as energetically as the supply of
water will permit. A few days ago Jonn
Weeden picked up an 8-oz. piece of gold
on Mule Creek. Excellent prospects are
obtained on Buckeye.

A telegram from Trinity Center dated
Feb. 22d, sayf: A miner named Weeden,
at Minersville, within the past week, has
taken out over $5,000 in coarse gold — some
of the nuggets weighing eight ounces. The
ground worked is not over 20 ft. square.
In consequence of this rich strike, consid-
erable excitement has been occasioned and
several companies are preparing to open
claims in that vicinity.

(A later despatch confirms the report
above given. — Eds. Pkess. )

ARIZONA.

Prescott Miner, Jan. 30th: Mr. Borger
has completed his working tests of the
Sterling mine. He has proven that the
ores of the Sterling can be worked suc-
cessfully by chlorination; that they are
rich enough to pay exceedingly well, and,
also, that the Sterling is a mine. A contract
for tunnelng 50 feet more into the minehas
been let.

The Eureka mill, Walker's district, was
ruuning on Plymouth and Box Elder rock,
Wednesday last, and from the looks of the
plates and batteries, the rock was paying.

At Black Canon, Big Bug, Lower Lynx
Creek, the Placeritas, and on the Upper
Hassayampa, the placer miners are working
away, and doing well.

A party who recently arrived from Brad-
shaw mining district, brings highly eu-
conraging news concerning the mines in
Black Canon Creek. Three of the seven
companies now at work there were sluic-
ing when the party left the creek, and
making from $8 to $12 per day to the man.
The other companies were outting ditches,
making sluices, and otherwise preparing
for work. The bar owned by Behman k
Co. , is on the south side of the river, about
one mile below Montezuma Bar. Before
coming here, the company prospected it
thoroughly, and Behman informed us that
he would not board a man who could not
make $10 a day in it. We saw several
prospects which he had carefully kept sep-
arate—the poorest of which was 18 cents
out of two pans. There is one channel in
the bar, the dirt of which prospects 40
cents to the pan.

Jackson, Lovejoy & Co., at Lower Lynx
Creek are piping away.

The companies engaged in mining in
Big Bug district, are making from $5 to
$10 per day to the man; those on the Hasa-
yampa are also doing well.
"At the Placeritas, near Walnut Grove,
at Weaver, and near the Vulture mine,
placer mining is being carried on, and
those engaged in the business have been
and are doing well.

About 20 tons of refuse rock has been
crushed at the Eureka mill, on Lynx Creek
but owing to the intense cold, which pre-
vented amalgamation, they were unable to
get the gold together.

Work on the Chase tunnel is steadilv
progressing, and the mine is growing
wider.

BRITISH COLUMBIA.

The Victoria Colonist gives the following:
The new mines at Suqwash, near the north-
ern extremity of the island, are being rap-
idly opened. The Nanaimo Packet reports
that the Superintendent, with his gang of
laborers, has driven a tunnel some distance
into the side of the hill, and that the coal
ranks in quality with the best heretofore
discovered on this island.

The indications of a " rush " to the Koo-
tenay diggings are so favorable on the
American side that two Oregon drovers are
preparing to drive in 2,000 head of cattle
for the supply of the gold-seekers.

COLORADO.

Central City Herald, Jan. 13th: The
Whitcomb mill, Nevada, is now running
on better ore than at any time since 1860,
from the Forks lode. Its 12 stamps are
constantly busy.... Col. Tannett is now
running 20 stamps of the Bocky Mountain
Co's new 30-stamper on Bates ore. The ore
vein has somewhat improved of late . . .A
quartz mill is being put up on Fall river
with a view to crushing ore from Bnssell
and Nevada.

We have the following from Nevada dis-
trict: Wheeler & Vanderen have a 14-inch
vein of galena in the bottom of their mine.
Besides this, the mine is yielding a large

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quantity of ore which is being crushed at tions for a few days, in a day or two, for the ore to Swansea. One interest in this mine
tin- new Beverly & Koonee mill. It pays t purpose of making some alteration about ! was sold last week to Dr. Hutchins, for
very 'well. The galena is about as pure as the mill as well as the mine. The mine 31,000.
ar.y we ever saw. Specimens will yield as looks splendidly, and the ore is as rich and

high as 7."> ]>cr cent., and on average of the
galena vein will po as high as 60 per cent.
We saw some remarkable cubes of lead
this morning, which surpass anything of
the kind we havo ever Been, for 6ize and
singularity of shape.

A. M. Jones has got through the cap on
the Hidden Treasure, which is situated
near the Forks. He has struck a largo
body of very rich ore. It is thought to be
the same as the California lode.

B. C. Waterman sold his last lot of first
class ore to Prof. Hill for §172 per ton.
He is building a new mill in Eureka, which
will be ready to start up next week. It will
have 15 stamps.

A consolidation has been effected re-
cently, of the Ophir, Gilpin and the First
National property, on the Burroughs lode,
making 602 ft.

Same, Jan. 27th: From Clear Creek we
have the following items: Rockwell has
struck mineral in the Gilpin lode similar

to that found in the McClellan The

Equator has recently opened up better than

ever The Mendota has now a two-foot

crevice of solid mineral, worth from $100
to $800 per ton by fire assay.

The Terrible tunnel is now over 50 feet
long, progressing favorable. Iu the shaft
150 feet deep they have s wider vein and
better ore than ever before. They have
about 25 tons of assorted ore in the shaft
house, worth 81,000 per ton . The Brown,
Coin, Lilly, Elgin, Quaker, Emmet, Ben-
ton and other lodes on Brown and Sher-
man mountains are being worked with sat-
isfactory results. A large per cent, of ga-
lena is being found in the Brown, where
they are now working. .. .At the Brown
works the cupel furnace started up yester-
day Huependen, Wolters & Co. will

soon be ready to start three new cylinders.
Central City Register, Jan. 28th: We have
been presented by Stanley & Stalker, with
a beautiful specimen of arborescent native
copper. It was taken from their claims on
the California lode, Nevada district, and is
one of the best Colorado specimens of na-
tive copper that we have ever received.
The rock which carries this metal appears,
from a casual examination, to be quite rich
in silver.

Work has been shutdown on the Bobtail
mine, owing to insufficient means for pump-
ing out the water.

A. one-third interest in the Cliff lode at
Georgetown was recently sold for $1,500.

From Sugar Loaf district we have the
following: The Hoosier mine is looking
very well — better than usual. The shaft is
now 125 ft. deep, and in the bottom they
have ore the whole width of the shaft. A
cross cut has been started from the bottom
towards the west wall, and they have good
ore in that as far as they have gone. A
level has also been started north from the
shaft in which they have ore the whole
width. The other mines in the district are
nearly all idle at present, and but little
prospecting is being done. Ward district
is quite dull, the Ni-Wot mill and mine
both being at present shut down. The
Long's Peak mill is doiog a little work on
surface ores. The' Hoosier mill was run-
ning one pan only on rich ores, but it was
expected that one more Hepburn, and one
Blatchley pan would be started in a few
days. They have a good supply of rich
ore out, and a very large amount is in sight
in the mine that can be taken out as fast as
it is wanted.

Denver Jfews, Feb. 3d: A party just come
down from Granite district gives us the
following: The Treasury Mining Co. are
running their mill, 15 stamps, and crushing
'2yt cords of ore per 24 hours. The ore is
from the Magenta lode, on which the shaft
is now 120 ft. deep. It yields $95 per
cord .... Partridge & Morrison's 9-stamp
mill, has just fiuished a run of 2% cords of
ore from the Jessie Johnson lode. It was
supposed the yield would not be less than
$150 per cord. The ore was taken from a
shaft 40 ft. deep .... Work i3 being done in
a number of lodes, and considerable pros-
pecting is being dune, resulting in many
valuable discoveries.

IDAHO.

Owyhee Avalanche, Feb. 6th : We were
this week shown a large specimen from the
Baxter mine, one of the handsomest we
have ever seen; it is very rich in sulphu-
rets of silver. The shaft is now down to a
depth of 190 feet, and the lode is growing
wider as it goes down. The pay streak, out
of which this specimen was extracted,
ranges from 18 inches to two feet in width.

New and rich deposits have been struck
lately in the Poorman and in the Rising
Star at Flint.

The Ida Elmore mill will suspend opera-

abondant as ever. They propose to sink
the south shaft to a considerable depth be-
fore forming a new level; after which the
mine will continue to furnish its accus-
tomed flow of bullion.

The total amount of bullion assayed in
Owyhee Conntv during the month of Jan-
unry was S115,'803.39.

Silver .City Tidal Wave, Feb. 9th :
Black's mill is running on Pickens & Ed-
ward's ore; a fine yield is anticipated.

Dalles Mountaineer, Feb. 12th: The
quartz mills at Warren's Diggings have
been running nearly all the winter and
have been paying quite well. The placer
miners have been able to continue their
work all through the winter. The new
quartz mill lately put in operation at Flor-
ence, crushing rock from the Davis lead,
has been paving well.

Silver City Tidal ^Yuve, Feb. 16th : The
Poorman is now yielding ore that in quan-
tity and quality is fully up to the standard
of the famous mine in its palmiest days.
Large quantities of ore are being taken
from the level, 200 feet from the bottom of
the main shaft, which is 300 feet deep. The
rich vein matter in which gold predomi-
nates, is from two to four feet wide.

A force of 70 men is now employed at
the Golden Chariot mine, and large quan-
tities of glittering ore are being brought to
the surface. The deeper and more exten-
sive the mine is worked, the better does its
immense richness become evident.

We have recently been shown several
pieces of gold-bearing quartz of marvelous
richness, from Peck & Porter's mine. The
ore is similar in appearance to that of the
Golden Chariot and Ida Elmore.

L. W. Greenwell is engaged in develop-
ing another mine immediately south of Peek
& Porter's claim, on the same lode. En-
couraging prospects are obtained.

Operations have been resumed on the
Minnesota. The north shaft is now down
80 feet on the vein, which is yielding quartz
that will doubtless pay largely for working.
MONTANA.
Helena Post, Jan. 29th : John Potter
yesterday concluded the purchase of 200
feet on the Park quartz lode. The price
paid we did not learn. Mr. Potter will im-
mediately proceed in the development of
his interest, and place sufficient quartz on
the surface to commence.

The 12 mile ditch which is to carry all
the water of McClellan's Creek into Up-
ton's Bar and Maguire's Gulch, is now
nearly completed. Six hydraulics will be
in operation on Upton's Bar and Maguire's
Guloh early in the spring.

A shaft has been sunk on discovery
claim of the 10-Mile Mining Co., some 23
feet, and a gravel has been reached which
contains gold to the prospect of ten cent3
to the pan. The gold is of a coarse na-
ture.

William Nolan arrived last night from
Cable City, bringing with him 329 ounces
of gold retort, which amounted to nearly
$8,000 in currency, being the result of one
week's run of the Nolan mill. This mill is
at present engaged on another run. The
Hanenr mill will probably be started in a
few days. McCartney started for Cable
this morning to provide means for a speedy
delivery of quartz at this mill.

The Deer Lodge Independent has the fol-
lowing: Prof. Swallow's mill is now oper-
ating on quartz from the Nevin's lode. The
mill is in fine condition and doing well. It
constantly improves in condition.

The Pittsburg & Montana Mining Co's
quartz mill at Georgetown has changed
hands. We understand that active opera-
tions will at once commence, which will
keep this mill actively employed.

NEVADA.

HUMBOLDT.

Unionville Register, Feb. 6th :. Fall &
Co. shipped this week, per Wells, Fargo &
Co's Express, 1,500 ounces of fine bullion.

The Winnemncca correspondent writes :
There are four companies at work in this
district — the Wearmonth, Stars and Stripes,
Accident and Pride of the Mountain. The
Wearinouth Co. are now at work clearing
out an old tunnel which had been run to
the ledge some three years ago, which is
about 150 feet in length, and opens the
ledge 60 or 75 feet from the surface. Be-
iow this another tunnel has been started,
which will cut the ledge 50 reet lower. A
shaft will then be raised to the upper tun-
nel, and from that to the surface, which
will thoroughly ventilate the mine and at
the same time determine the value of the
ledge. The company intend to thoroughly
open the mine this winter, and build a
mill in the spring, unless satisfactory ar-
rangements can be made for shipping the

The vein in the Accident mine is rather
small, but is said to be exceedingly rich.
A tunnel is in 60 feet, at the end of which
the vein iu the ledge is 15 inches wide, with
ore that is said to assay as high as $800.

The Stars and Stripes, or Union Series,
which eonsists of six ledges, is owned by
a New York Company. This mine is more
thoroughly opened than any in the district.

The Pride of the Mountain mine may be
considered the "Ebcrhardt" of the dis-
trict It is owned by Buck & Eunkel, who
are now taking out and sacking ore from
three different tunnels, on which they read-
ily get an advance of 50 per cent of the
pulp assay delivered on the platform of the
freight depot at this place.

There are a number of ledges in this dis-
trict, aside from those mentioned above,
which will in all probability be worked this
coming summer. Among the richest of
them are the Grant, World, Lodl, High
Star and Last Chance.

ui-:i:sr. iti VKic.

Austin Reveille, Feb. 11th: Six bars of
bullion, the product of ore from Leon &
Co's El Dorado South in the district of Sil-
ver Bend, were brought to this city last
evening.

The Manhattan mill closed on Saturday
and will remain closed for several weeks.
Cause, want of ore.

Feb. 12th : The stage which arrived
from Belmont last evening brought into
this city seven bars of bullion, the product
of Leon & Co's El Dorado South.

The first consignment of bullion from
Austin across the continent to New York
city was made this morning by the First
National Bank in this city through Wells,
Fargo & Co. The shipment comprised
seven bars produced from the ore of Leon
& Co's El Dorado South, in Silver Bend
district

Feb. 13th : The second consignment of
seven bars of bullion overland to New York
city, through Wells, Fargo & Co., was
made to-day by the First National Bank in
this city. The bullion is the product of
the El Dorado South mine in Silver Bend
district.

Feb. 16th : We are informed by good
authority that on Thursday last the vein of
the Buel North Star of the Lane and Fuller
Co., was uncovered of the great width of
five feet, and that it contains a stratum of
ore ten to twelve inches thick that is
worth from $450 to $500 per ton, as shown
by assays, and that the remainder of the
vein will pay at the rate of $100 to $150
per ton.

We mentioned the other day the finding
of a large and beautiful crystal of polybas-
ite in the Buel North Star mine in Lander
hill ; and we saw yesterday in the cabinet
in Boalt & Stetefeldt's office four fine speci-
mens of tetrahedrite — argentiferous gray
copper ore, or silver fahlerz, which were
obtained from the same mine. These
pretty, three-cornered crystals are called
pseudo-morphous, being covered by a very
light incrustation of copper pyrites, of fine
yellow hue, closely resembling native gold,
and very attractive to the eye of the novice.

Feb. 17th : By the stage which arrived
from White Pine this morning six bars of
bullion, weighiug 592 pounds, consigned to
the- Bank of California, were brought into
this city.

Belmont CJtamploii, Feb. 13th : The
mill of the Belmont Co., last week finished
a six-week's run on ore from Leon & Co's
El Dorado South, and "cleaned up" on
the 7th instant. The run comprised 343
tons of ore, which yielded 58 bars of bull-
ion, weighing 53,605 ounces. The product
of the ore is about $50,000.

WASIIOE.

[In the Stock Circular, in another portion
of this paper, will be found late mining
news from this district.]

Virginia Enterprise, Feb. 13th : We are
informed that the Belcher Miuing Co. have
cut into a body of ore assaying $90 per
ton, between their 300 and 400 foot levels.
The deposit is said to be over 12 feet wide
in places.

The total shipment of bullion from this
city, last week, was but 3,025 pounds, val-
ued at $89,423 86.

The Justice & Independent Mining Co.,
have started up again in good shape.
They have two powerful engines and two
new 11-inch pumps, capable of throwing
25,000 gallons per hour. The shaft has
been pumped out and repaired to the bot-
tom, a depth of 380 feet. The company
now have in sight a large quantity of ore
which will pay very well for crushing at
the prices charged by the mills at the pres-
ent time.

The new Ophir shaft is now down to a

depth of 700 feet, at which point prepara-
tions are being made to start a drift. Work-
men have been engaged for two or three
days past in cutting out a station from
which to open the drift, and drifting will
be commenced as soon as this work is
completed. The whole depth of this work
is 725 feet, but tho25 feet below the station
is counted as "sut"p." The company
claim to have a front ledge, and one object
in running the present drift doubtless is to
ascertain if there be such a ledge.

WHITE PIXIi

Austin Reveille, Feb. 8tU: The stage
which arrived in this city yesterday from
White Pine brought fivo liars of bullion
from one of the mills of that district.

Feb. 13th: A passenger who arrived in
this city this morning from White Pine in-
forms us that a severe storm prevailed in
that district for two days previous to the
departure of the stage, but that the snow
was not deeper than it was in this city. The
snow was proceeded by terrific wind.

Feb. 15th: The stage which arrived in
this city from White Pine this morning
brought five bars of bullion from one of
the mills in that district.

A correspondent writes to the Virginia
Enterprise, under date of Feb. 4th, as fol-
lows in answer to the question "Shall I
come out ?" put by a friend in this city:
" If you could have the least idea of how
matters stand here, you would not ask.
Just imagine the wind blowing a perfect
hurricane, the thermometer 10 degrees be-
low zero and a dense fog that you can
hardly breathe enveloping this oity, and
you will have some idea of a day on Treas-
ure Hill. Add to this a place- overcrowded
with people, with no other occupation than
standing around whisky-shops drinking
whiskey — as <the snow is so deep no pros-
pecting can be done — and you have some
idea of White Pine at the present season.

A correspondent writing to the Nevada
Gazette, under date of Feb. 9th, says: The
exceeding richness of some of the ore here
is beyond question, and capitalists are in-
vesting in both mines and real estate freely,
and paying prices for both that I do not
think the prospects will justify. Most of
the purchases of mines are made by specu-
lators or stock gamblers, who are willing
to take any risk, being, as a general thing,
so situated that they can evade any lossthat
may be incurred, and at the same time reap
their portion of any profit that may accrue.
Some of the mineral deposits on Treasure
Hill are of immense richness; but from my
observation all the ore is found in beds or
"pockets," there being apparently no fis-
sure veins, although the deposits on Chlo-
ride Flat would approximate nearer to such
than anything I have seen if the upheaval
of the hill had left the strata of limestone
standing at an angle of 30 to 40 degrees,
instead of horizontal or flat, as it is. This
hill I look upon as more favorable to the
laboring man than any quartz district I
have seen, from the fact that he can go to
work with his own hands, and by sinking
15 or 20 ft. have as good a chance as any
capitalists of striking rich ore, from which
he may make a snug raise.

NEW MEXICO.

A correspondent writing from La Me-
silla, New Mexico, to the New York Tribune,
under date of Nov. 23d, 1868, says : Con-
siderable excitement has been manifested
here, lately, owing to the reports of the
discovery of rich silver mines in San A.n-
dreas Canon, about 40 miles from this
place. The discoverer, a poor Mexican
living in Las Cruces, accidentlly found the
lode, and sank a shaft to the depth of 20
feet. On two or three occasions he has
gone out there alone, and after an absence
of several days, he has returned with his
small native donkey loaded with about 300
pounds of ore. This ore was bought either
by Lesinsky & Co., or Louis Rosenbaum;
but, until within a very few days, the ex-
act locality of the lode was unknown. On
the 17th inst. a party left here to prospect
San Andreas Canon. They returned yes-
terday, and report the discovery of silver
lodes of fabulous wealth and magnitude.
There is one lode of some 50 feet in width,
which can be distinctly traced for several
miles by the eye. The blossom rock which
lies on the surface, and marks the direction
of the lode, is pure quartz, and contains
silver and lead in large and plainly visible
quantities. Three hundred pounds of the
ore, taken indiscriminately from the bot-
tom of the shaft, have been assayed, and
prove that the ore will yield $1,700 to the

ion. i i I m. -In -nma'/f , -I
ORECON.

Dalles Mountaineer, Feb. 12th : A small
party of prospectors left a few days ago
for some place across the river, said to be
about 12 or 14 miles from here, where it is
said they have discovered placer gold dig-
gings.

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The Petaluma Mastodon—Tertiary and
Post-Tertiary Geology in California.

£ta.n Francisco:

Saturday Morning, Feb. 27,

1869.

Notices to Correspondents.

Ibbbia. — The chemical powers, as they are
usually termed, of the voltaic pile, were
first observed in association with the de-
composition of water and certain saline
solutions, by Messrs. Nicholson & Car-
lisle, in the year 1800. They were after-
wards more accurately investigated by
Haisinger & Berzelius; and in 1807 Sir H.
Davy communicated his celebrated lec-
ture " on some chemical agencies of elec-
tricity" to the Eoyal Society, in which the
electro-chemical powers of the pile were
more minutely explained, and formed
the basis of those brilliant discoveries
with which he subsequently startled the
scientific world. It remained, however,
for the late illustrious Farraday to explain
much that had been left incomplete by
former experimenters.

Gold Pen. — Iridium and osmium were dis-
covered by Smithson Tennant, a native
of Yorkshire, England, a gentleman of
moderate fortune, but of great talent,
amiability and worth. Like his great
countryman Cavendish, he was an exact
experimenter, and also somewhat retir-
ing. His experiments on the identity of
the composition of the diamond and char-
coal (1796) still remain models for ele-
gance and exactness.

Thunder. — When a tree is struck by light-
ning, it often happens that it becomes
nearly completely barked. This phenom-
enon is owing to the eleofcricity taking
that direction which forms the best con-
ductor; which, when sap and moisture
exist, is between the bark and the wood.
The bark so stripped is sometimes found
curiously spread round the tree in the
form of a circle.

Lignum, Nevada. — Wood conducts heat
much better with the grain than across
it, that is better in a direction parallel
with the fibers than across them. Dr.
Tyndall has not only confirmed this fact,
but has also proved that heat passes
rather more rapid in a direction from the
external surface towards the center than
it does in the direction parallel with the
ligneous rings.

B. S., Grass Valley. — It is not in all cases
indispensably necessary that liquefaction
should take place preliminary to crystal-
lization, the deposition of a solid from
the gaseous state sometimes takes place
in crystalline forms. Iodine, arsenious
acid, sulphur, iodide of mercury, and
camphor afford familiar illustrations of
this faot. KiamJd

BorLEB. — With water and dilute solutions
generally, fluidity is accelerated through
minute tubes, with increase of tempera-
ture. Water, for instance, at 113° Fah.,
has been found to escape through a tube
2% times as quickly as it did at 41° Fah.

Betubning.— Weare pleased to state that
our W. B. Ewer, A. M., and his worthy
family, left New York on the steamer of
February 9th, aDd friends may anticipate
their arrival in San FraDcisc:> next week,
after an absence of six months.

The skeleton of the mastodon, discovered
on Petaluma Creek by Messrs. Dickley and
Gilmore, projected from a bank where the
late storm had washed the dirt -away. The
tusk measures twenty -two inches in cir-
cumference, and the width of the skull is
is nearly three feet.

A list of other localities in this State
where the remains of the mastodon have
been found, has been made out by Dr. L.
G. Yates of Centerville, Alameda County,
and will shortly be presented to the Acade-
my of Sciences. The mastodon is not a
rarity by any means in this State; though
there are few well preserved specimens in
existence, from the fact that the discover-
ers usually do not take the necessary steps
to prevent them from crumbling to pieces.
Specimens of the kind are frequently held
at an extravagant price while they continue
to be a novelty, and are then put aside and
allowed to become worthless even to the
finders. Their only value is to complete
the fossil collections made by a few per-
sons in this State who take an interest in
the study of paleontology. For any other
purpose a mastodon bone is a piece of dead
property. The best thing to be done with
fossils always, is to make a present of them
to some geologist or amateur collector,
who is able to appreciate them for what
they may signify.

There are several species of the elephant
kind, found nearly everywhere over North
America, from the Gulf of Mexico to Beh-
rings Straits: E. Ameriaxmis, E. primoge-
nius, together with the mastodon gigantens
especially, the latter being found most
abundantly over the northern half of the
United States — representing the post-Plio-
cene age. This is the newest or fourth
subdivision of the Tertiary, or modern pe-
riod— of the Mammalian Age — being sep-
arated like the Eocene, Miocene, and Pli-
ocene subdivisions, by evident natural
records left in the rocks all over the world.
The mastodon in California marks the end
of this Mammalian era, in which the animal
kingdom, apart from man, may be said to
have culminated, " for," — says Dana — "the
system then reached the highest grade of
development presented by the merely ani-
mal type, and brute passion had its fullest
display. In the era now opening, the ani-
mal element is no longer dominant, but
Mind, in the possession of a being at the
head of the kingdoms of life; and the era
bears the impress of its exalted character-
istic even iu the smaller size of its beasts
of prey."

Id the bones of the mastodon, geology
records distinctly, in California, the origin
and comparative position in creation, of the
human species. They have been found re-
peatedly with marks of fire, and in associa-
tion with implements of human manufac-
ture, as well as with human bones — in the
deep placer or gravel mines of post-Plio-
cene or " post-Tertiary " age in the foot-
hills.

The post-Tertiary period had several
distinct features, marking so many subdi-
visions in it. These were: 1, The Glacial
epoch, when, as Dana supposes, the mount-
ains of the crust of the earth iu northern
parts at least, were elevated some thousands
of feet, into colder regions, which created
streams of ice everywhere like those of the
Alps and of Alaska, the evidences of which
are so universal to this day, and dug out the
fiords of the northwest coast, etc. 2, The
Champlain epoch, or epoch of river border
and lake border formations, evidenced by
lake, river, and ocean terraces, from Maine
to California, and accounted for by a sub-
sidence, again, of the crust, to its former
position, such as would enable the material
of the terraces to be deposited underwater.
3, The Terrace epoch, when the crust of

rivers and lakes into their present shapes; a
marked feature of the epoch being that there
was an increase in the amount of elevation
towards the north; as the terraces of Fraser
Biver are higher than they are at Hum-
boldt Bay or farther south, the elevated
sea beaches of the Arctic are higher than
those of the St. Lawrence and of the New
England shores, and the upper terraces of
the great lakes higher than those south of
the Ohio. 4, In the California gold min-
ing section in particular, and west of the
Bocky Mountains in general, the Volcanic
epoch, when the mountain river channels,
scooped out, and filled up again in one or
another of the preceding periods not vary
exactly defined, with auriferous gravel — a
part of which, from its quantity, must have
been formed during the Glacial period, and
was perhaps dammed upand deposited to the
remarkable depths disclosed in hydraulic
mining during the subsidence of the Cham-
plain epoch — were overflown with streams of
lava from Shasta, Lassen's and Downieville
peaks, and the numerous other " sugar
loafs " and volcanoes along the Sierra Ne-
vada.

This lava period marks the end of masto-
don life on this coast. All the mammal spe-
cies that lived up to the Volcanic epoch,
the horses, buffaloes, tapirs, and the proboscis
kinds, became extinct; while the oysters and
shells of the sea outlived them, and are the
same in the hills as those inhabiting the
waters to-day. Moreover, man outlived
them, — but not necessarily the Californian
of that day. The great eruptions that cre-
ated our highest mountain peaks, and cov-
ered the ancient river channels with lava
and trachytio cement, were witnessed by
human eyes, as was even the formation,
perhaps thousands of years before, of the
gravel deposits themselves, which suc-
ceeded the Glacial epoch. But at a time
when all other living mammalia in this
country appear to have become extinct, in
the order and manner of nature as wit-
nessed in geology, it is not impossible
that nearly entire races of mankind also
may have been forced to succumb to like
vicissitudes.

According to Dana's calculations of rel-
ative time, — the only kind practicable
after all between two eternities, — deduced
from the thickness of observed geological
deposits, the duration of the several ages
of the Mollusks (Palaeozoic) of Reptiles
(Mesozoic) and of Mammals (Cenozoic or
Tertiary) were 14 : 4:3: thus bringing the
history of the rocks down to the age of
man; the duration, in the last mentioned,
of the Tertiary proper to the post-Terti-
ary, being 2 : 1. itmw
We cannot do better than to quote from
Dana in regard to the significance -of the
history of the Tertiary, and post-Tertiary
periods, — the geology of which is applica-
ble and interesting especially to man :

In the Tertiary, there was (1) the fin-
ishing of the rocky substratum of the con-
tinents; (2) the expansion of the conti-
nental areas to their full limits, or their
permanent recovery from the waters of the
oceans; (3) the elevation of many of the
great mountains of the globe, or consider-
able portions of them, through a large
part of their hight, as the Alps, Pyrenees,
Apennines,' Himalayas, Andes, Bocky
Mountains, the loftiest chains of the globe,
— a result not finally completed until the
latter part of the Tertiary. In North
America there occurred a small extension
of the continent on the Atlantic and Gulf
borders; a vast increase west of the Mis-
sissippi ; a small rising of the land on the
east and south, an elevation of 6,000 to
7,000 i'e it in the Boeky Mountains (nearly
the whole hight of the mass) and 2,000
feet or more on the Pacific border.

In the post-Tertiary, the great events, in
America at least, were (1) the excavations
of valleys over the lifted mountains and
plains, and the shaping of the lofty sum-
mits; (2) the distribution of earth and
gravel, covering and leveling the rugged
surface of the earth, laying the foundation
of prairies, and filling the broad valleys
with alluvium; (3) the finishing of the vai

the sea, — a work completed in the age of
Man. The excavation of valleys by run-
ning water began with the first appear-
ance of dry land, and increased with its
extent. But the greatest augmentation
took place after the lofty mountains had
risen in the course of the Tertiary period.
The great gorges and canons over a large
part of the Bocky Mountains, below a level
of 6,000 or 7,000 feet, and most of the deep
channels occupied by rivers in other n-
gions, then had their beginning.

There were great oscillations of level in
the post-Tertiary as well as Tertiary; but
(1) the post-Tertiary were mainly hk/h-lati-
tttde oscillations, being most prominent over
the colder latitudes of the globe, the cold,
temperate and Arctic; (2) th«y were move-
ments of the broad areas of the continents;
(3) they brought no mountain ranges into
existence.

Great rivers, glaciers, and icebergs were
especially characteristic forces of the post-
Tertiary ; and the ice accomplished what was
impossible for the ocean. In no other pe-
riod of geological history have so large
masses of stone moved over the earth's
surface as in the Glacial and later epochs.

These post-Tertiary agencies were active
everywhere over the continents, putting
the finishing strokes to the nearly com-
pleted globe. There was a development of
beauty as well as utility in all these later
movements. Those conditions and special
surface details were developed that were
most essential to the pastoral, agricultural,
and intellectual pursuits which were to
commence with the next age.

This Petaluma mastodon belongs proba-
bly to the post-Tertiary deposit made up
of beds of gravel, sand, clay and oyster
shells, which rests nearly horizontally upon
the upturned edges of the Cretaceous
rocks, around Vallejo; at Bottle Hill, near
Benicia; between Martinez and Bull's
Head Point; on San Pablo Bay between
Point Pinole and the Embarcadero; on the
San Bafael and Tomales road, north of
Tamalpais, and at numerous other locali-
ties around the Bay of San Francisco. "The
Valley of Petaluma" — says Whitney — "ex-
tends through to the Russian River, is in
the direct line with the Tertiary strata of
the Contra Costa Hills, and is probably an
excavation in that belt, with metamorphio
cretaceous and eruptive rocks on both
sides."

The Austin Reveille is impatient on
White Pine topics, and furnishes its read-
ers with many a sarcastic article, the
motive of which is amusingly apparent to
outsiders. Out of a brief paragraph, in
which we attempted to state merely a legal
point at White Pine, it picks a sentenoe
(inadvertently quoted) which makes us re-
sponsible for the statement that Chloride
Flat ' ' has a stratum of rich ore, say a hund-
red feet deep. " As it was evident from the
connection that the word stratum was used
in the sense of belt or zone, and merely a
supposed case at that, we are sorry that
the Reveille could see in it only a " flat de-
scription" of that overrated countiy, which,
thinks the Reveille, " may be appreciated as
a valuable suggestion respecting the min-
ing geology of White Pine, and so on. "

A Stukning Meteokio Exploson took
place near Bald Hills, at the head of Roar-
ing River, Shasta County, on the 5th inst.
The Shasta Courier reports that the earth
was felt to tremble and vibrate for several
seconds after the explosion, and a flash of
yellowish light illuminated everything
around. While the sounds were still re-
verberating, an immense ball of blazing
fire fell with great velocity to the earth,
producing a shock. For several minutes
after falling, the air was strongly impreg-
nated with a peculiar odor resembling that
caused by heat generated by friction in
heavy machinery.

the entire continent again rose slightly, and leys and lake borders with a series of plains
the terraces mentioned were carved by the I or terraces, aud the extension of flats alung

Quicksilver neab Vallejo. — The re-
ports referred to in the Press, some time
since, of a quicksilver discovery near Val-
lejo, are repeated, The lead is a few miles
northeast of Vallejo, and tho owner of the
land has sold a half interest in the vein for
$1,000. The discoverer was Mr. J. D.
Neate, who has been quarrying for the Be-
nicia Cement Works.

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137

Hafenegger Explosive Powder— Power-
ful Blasting.

The principal testa yet mode with this
new explosive compound, took place jnst
beyond Fort Point, on Friday of last week.
Something like a month since it was an-
nounced that this trial would take place,
but the time appointed proved unpropi-
tious, owing to the high sea prevailing
and washing over the rock.

THE FIRST BLAST.

The first rock blasted was round in form,
about 35 feet diameter and 25 feet in hight,
in its greatest dimensions. In this rock a
IVinch hole was drilled to the depth of
9 feet, and charged with 5 pounds of No.
2 (or what is termed weak) powder. The
explosion was not a loud one, and the
debris was not thrown in quantity to any
great hight, or distance, but the execution
in the rock was remarkable, it being broken
in every direction from top to bottom.

SECOND BLAST.

The seoond and most powerful blast wks
fired in a rock near 40 feet in length, 25 feet
high and 20 wide — irregular. It rested in
a bed of sand, and the tide washed entirely
around it. We were present and saw the
blast prepared in the early part of the day.
The hole, 1%-inch diameter and 10 feet
deep, drilled weeks before, hod filled
with water from the pouring of the surf
over the entire rock. The water being
entirely swabbed out, a 1%-inch car-
tridge several feet long was inserted con-
taining the strong, or No. 1, powder. Into
this, by means of a funnel and tube, was
ponred the liquid which renders the dry
powder explosive. Top of this was placed
a small charge of the weak powder, which,
by the power of its concussion, breaks the
cartridge containing the strong powder, and
exposes it to the fire which ignites the
strong powder. No tamping was used. A
redwood plug was inserted, grooved on one
side to admit the common safety fuse used
to explode powder No. 2. The charge was
placed in about the center of the rock, the
body of which is composed of hard creta-
ceous Bandstone, bound partly by quartz.
Notwithstanding our knowledge of the
great strength of this new compound, the
rock looked so large, the hole and charge
so small, we could not persuade our judg-
ment out of the belief that this blast at
least would prove a failure. Unfeigned
then was our delight, upon witnessing the
discharge, to see the center of the rock
rising in air, and nearly two-thirds of it
parting and tumbling into the water.
Seams were rent through the entire mass.
But a small portion was broken fine or
thrown to any great distance, although the
rock was well fractured in the center, the
largest pieces, — some of them of nearly 20
tons weight, — were thrown from the edge.
The rock is supposed to have contained
about 1,600 tons — not 16,000, as our types
erroneously stated last week.

Parties who have visited the largest rock
since the blast, at very low tide, say a con-
siderable portion is imbedded in sand, but
that it was completely broken through.

It is questionable whether one hundred
pounds of blasting powder could have been
made to do equal execution to that wrought
by the single charge of strong powder. To
have done the work with common powder,
would have required at least ten times the
amount of drilling, nnd it is the time and
cost of drilling, rather than the consump-
tion of powder, that renders blasting opera-
tions expensive.

About one hundred intelligent witnesses,
including Col. Mendell, who has charge of
the construction of the Government fortifi-
cations on Lime Point; Maj. Elliott, cum-
mandinir U. S. Engineers at Fort Point, and
other officers, miners, and members of the
press, were present at these experiments,
who seemed to manifest much interest and
great satisfaction with the results.

The American -and foreign patents for

this powder are held principally by the in-
ventor, Prof. Joseph Hafenegger, an Aus-
trian ; Budolph Herman, President of the
Hafenegger Powder Company, and Fred-
erick Wcisenborn, Prussians.

Mr. Herman, the leading manager in the
enterprise, who had charge of the experi-
ments, is owner of the Harbor View House,
some three-quarters of a mile this side of
Fort Point He has appropriated a small
portion of his National Shooting Gallery
for manufacturing the powder and making
experiments for the benefit of any interested
parties who are desirous of fully under-
standing the merits of the powder. One
realizes more clearly the merits of the
powder in five minutes by seeing liir.i mix
and fire it, than by reading columns of
descriptions. The compound is simple.
It requires no laboratory to manufacture it
in when the ingredients can be obtained in
large quantities.

The proprietors are very willing to ex-
hibit their powder and its operation to all
parties and interested persons, who are in-
vited to call and see for themselves.

THE SAFETY

Of the powder is shown by Mr. Herman in
his experiments. He takes an ashy -looking
powder, containing three ingredients, which
he pounds with impunity, and into which
he thrusts a lighted match without effect.
He also subjects a white powder, looking
like fine salt, to the same treatment with
like result. Neither can by any means be
exploded separately. He then takes a com-
mon No. 30 sieve and sifts the two parts to-
gether, when we have

powder no. 2.

This powder is just as explosive — and no
more so— than common gunpowder, and is
used in the same manner for blasting. Its
power is rated as 10 to 1 of first quality of
common blasting powder; its cost as 3 to
1 of gunpowder. It can be used for rifle
powder, creates less offensive smell, and
blacking and fouling effect, than the article
in common use. To show its effect, a bulk
equal to a musket charge of gunpowder
was placed in a slight hollow of an anvil,
over which a 32-pound cannon ball was
placed. The detonation was equivalent to
the discharge of a 6-ft> cannon, and the ball
was thrown several feetin the air. The same
amount of first quality rifle powder, fired in
the same way, had no more effect than a
flash in the pan of an old flint-lock nvusket.

One and a half ounces of this powder was
placed in a water-proof cap box, arid this
cap box placed in an iron cylinder of
2-ineh bore and 6 inches depth. Over this
was placed an iron-bound lager beer keg of
75 pounds weight. The discharge sent the
keg some thirty feet in the air. Two and
a half pounds of blasting powder, placed in
an iron mortar underneath the same keg
and fired in the same way, resulted in less
noise, but much more smoke and fire, suc-
ceeding in raising the keg but a foot or two.

The two prepared parts of this powder
may be soaked with water and dried, with-
out losing their properties or wasting in

strength.

powdeb no. 1

Appears the same color as No. 2, but it may
be hammered and filled with live coa's
and it will not explode in any manner till
after being saturated with the fluid — and
then it may be fired by a fuse, spark, or fire
applied in any way.

We believe no powder in use has ever
exhibited power equal to this, and for ex-
traordinary or heavy operations it seems to
be the best thing known. It has not, how-
ever, been sufficiently operated to determine
positively its greatest relative strength, as
compared with other compounds. Its safe-
ty is shown in the fact that it cannot be ex-
ploded until the liquid has been applied,
and all is nearly or quite ready for the dis-
charge, and then it is only exploded in
the ordinary manner.

SELF-IGNITING MATCH.

The powder No. 2, which is commonly

used by the same method as gunpowder,
may be exploded, or paper or other com-
bustible material may be lighted, by satu-
rating it with a certain liquid which com-
poses a part of Prof. Hafenegger's inven-
tion. The time required for producing
this spontaneous combustion is regulated
by the composition of the liquid. After ap-
plying the liquid to the prepared match
paper, we observed the flame in about one
minute.

Our faith in the ultimate success of this
powder was greatly increased by our ob-
servations on the day of trial. Tho fact
that the No. 2 powder can bo used after
mixing, the same as gunpowder, will make
it popular with the mass of miners, while
the safety of storing it and transmitting it
the same as any common article of mer-
chandise, before mixing the two parts,
gives it a great advantage over ordinary
powder.

We think the proprietors are entirely
too slow in manufacturing and putting the
powder into market.

Passage of the Coppeb Tabiff Bill. —
A telegram on the 25th announced that the
protective copper tariff bill, which was in-
troduced and pressed mainly in the inter-
est of the Lake Superior miners, but also
vigorously sustained by petitions from this
State, has finally passed the Senate. The
Lake Superior Miner states that President
Johnson's personal assurance has been given
that he will sign the bill. The bill was
passed by a vote of thirty-eight ayes to
twelve noes. Among the ayes were Cole,
Corbett, Williams, Nye and Stewart.
While the bill was yet pending, Mr. Ferry,
of Connecticut, charged that the movement
to increase the duties was not in the inter-
est of the copper-miners, but of speculators
in copper stocks.

The Detroit Tribune says: "This assertion
was contradicted by our Senators, and from
our own knowledge we are able to corrobo-
rate their statements. Speculators may
have operated in stocks, and made the prob-
able passage of the tariff bill the basis of
their calculations. Be this as it may, the
bona fide copper-mining interests must have
relief, and their petitions, therefore, are
based upon actual and crying necessities.
If they do not obtain such relief, the Min-
eral Bange of the Upper Peninsula will
again become a wilderness."

Nominations foe Officers of the Me-
chanics' Institute. — At a meeting held on
Saturday, the 20th, the following gentle-
men were put in nomination as the regu-
lar candidates for officers of the Institute
for the ensuing year: For President — A.
S. Hallidie, manufacturer of wire rope;
for Vice President, J. R. Wilcox, builder;
for Treasurer, H. L. Davis, President Cali-
fornia Trust I'ompany; for Corresponding
Secretary, J. H. Gilmore, moulder; for Re-
cording Secretary, George Pardy, mechan-
ical engineer. For Directors: George C.
Hickox, of Hickox & Spear, bankers; H.
P. Herrick, cai-penter; H. O. Macy, archi-
tect; W. Bartlett, County Clerk; H. Kim-
ball, of Bartling & Kimball, bookbinders;
A. Cameron, stair-builder; Robert G. Car-
lyle, machinist. The election will be held
on Monday , March 1st, from 12 M. to 9 p.m.

Tebtiaby Deposits in China. — Baron
Richthofen has returned from Nanking and
from his geological tour through parts of
Chekiang and Kiangsn. He reports terti-
ary limestones full of nummulites, overly
ing the carboniferous limestones near Ta -
hu. In connection with similar deposits
in South Europe, in the Himalayas, in
Japan, and the Philippines, and probably
also in Formosa, trie fact is of interest. It
is known that the tertiary deposits of China
cover a considerable area, but hitherto
limestone had not been noticed of that age.
■ i ,» i a

Yankee Mechanical " Notions. "—The
clock factories at Bristol, Connecticut, are
busy making "movements" for walking
dolls. A New York firm keeps five hund-
red girls at work making the dolls. Auto-
matic baby-swings and cradle-rockers are
turned out in quantities at Bristol; and
among the new things is a self-winding
clock,— operated by the chimney draft. |

O. M. T.tlor, who doled aa agent— for a very ihort time—
for this paper In the Scute of Nevada, last Atlgait, 16 re-
CJMatoNi to call at this office and attend to business matters
on that account.

RBTtmNKD.— Br J. H. Falne. Dentist. Wadswortb House,
No. 226 Bush street, between the Occidental and Cosmopoli-
tan Hotels. San Francisco. 2Jvl7-sm

O. M. Tatior, who acted as affent a brief time for this
paper In Washoe, is requested to cull at or address title office,
without fall.

Co-OraaiTivK Urttott Bronte. — This Is becoming one of the
most useful Institutions In tho city, and tho Mechanic and
Laboring Manfully appreciate It They are now enabled
to buy their Groceries and Provisions 20 per cent, cheaper
than ever before, and the very best articles In the market.
The store is located at 116 Sutter street, Lick House Block,
San Francisco. Svl8-nlm

Where to Advkhtise.— The attention of traders and
mill machinists in called to the fact that tho Mountain
Mcucngar, of DowniovlUo, Sierra County, possesses many
Bpeciftl advantages ue an advertising nmlivun over a on.
ority of the iuteriorpress, it beiiie, the only public jour-
nal published within a radius of sixty miles, in the rich-
est and most populous mining sections of the State. Its
weekly edition is double the average of country papers,
being without the range of large dailies, and having no
competition at home. Its local rolums afford many items
for our city cc-temporarles, while its rates of advertising
are reasonably low Jl)vl7if

_ ACROSTIC.

J*nlu Killer Is irorlJt what It weigh *. In cold,

All around the wi.rlrt are its praises told;

It will Clioleracure— scourge ol southern climes,

Itj'o victim dies, who takes it betimes.

Keen Fain Killer— a true friend by vour side,

It Will cure CoUtfri or Cold, or Colic beside ;

Look out to api lv It for Bruise or for Sprain,

fjei It once be tried—"' 'brio* he luetinffaiii;

Kvery word I um tellln-' you, Header, is true;

Remember that Fain KlHer \s good fnr you.
The Pain Killer la sold by all Druggists and dealers In
Family Medicines.

KEU1NUTON A CO., and HOSTETTER A SMITH. San
Francisco, Cal., General Wholesale Agents. fe 1.1 in

Offices to Let.

Two convenient front rooms (No. 9 and 10) In second story
of No. 123 Washington street, to let on favorable terms
Apply at th Is office, up stairs. No. 411 Clay street

jgTOCK QERTIFICATES

FOB

MINING COMPANIES

AND

Mantjfaotubing cobporatiohS

HANDSOMELY PRINTED

AT GREATLY BEDCCEB RATES

At the Office of tho

Utiamg aadl J^cie&tific §?ress

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BLANKS, RECEIPTS

And STOCK BOOKS

Iu tho most approved form.

Onr experience Is large In this line of printing, and wo
ni e bound to glvo satisfaction In prices and work.
he-wet A CO.,

114 Clay Street

PACIFIC

Rolling Mill Company,

SAN FBANCISCO, CAL.
Established for the Manufacture of

RAILROAD AND OTHER IRON

— jlHD —

Every "Variety of S»lmfti«K,»

Embracing ALL SI2ES of

Steamboat 8h.ift», Crank*, PlatM «nd Con-

nectlng Bods. Car nnd Locomotive Axle*

and Frame*
— ALSO —

HA-MIlVIErtEO ITtOlLV

Of every description and size.

■a- Orders addressed to PACIFIC? ROLLING MILL

COMPANY Post Office, San Francisco. Cal., will receive

Crucibles.

The Patent Plumbago Crucible Co.,

Manufacturers of all Kin-Is of

Melting Pots, Portable Furnaces,

CRUCIBLES, and other flrc-standing Goods,

Batterneu Work*, London,

THE MORGAN PATENT CRUCIBLES have uniform

quality, never crack, withstand the greatest heat wiiliout

danger; heats more rapidly thtin any other; change of tern -

pcraiure hai no effect on ihcm; stand on the average forty

to tli'iy pourings.

On hand and for sale by the Agents,

A. S. HALLIDIE A CO.,
Ivl8-3in9p 619 Front street, San Francisco

$20,000 to $25,000.

A PRACTICAL SMELTER wishes to enlist capital to
build a Furnace on a Mine of rich Argentiferous Galena at
White Pine. From $800 to $1,000 a day can be cleared
with ease. Security and best of references, etc., given.
Address, WM. P. HILTON.

7vlS-lui9p gan Francisco P. O.

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Machinists and Foundries.

PALMER, KNOX & CO.,

Golden State Iron Works,

Koi. 19, *1, 2S and 25 First Street,
SAN FKANCISCO.

MANUFACTURE ALL KINDS OF

MACHINERY,

STEAM EXGIXES AND QUARTZ MILLS

DUNBAE'S IMPROVED

SeltVA-<lj Tasting Piston Packing,

Requires do springs or screws; is always steam tight;

without excessive friction, and never

gets slack or leaky.

WHEELER A RANDALL'S

NEW AK1XDEB AST1> AMALGAMATOR

HEPBURN & PETERSON'S

AMALGAMATOR AK 1» SEPARATOR*

Knox's AmiilaaniatorK,

WITH PALMER'S PATENT STEAM CHEST,

Superior tor working either GOLD OR SILVER ORES, ant*
Htheouly Amalgamator that has stood the test of seveu
years' continual working.
Genuine White Iron Stamp Shoes and Dies

Having been engaged for the past ten years in quart*
mining, and being conversant with all the improvements,
aitoer in alining or Milling, we are prepared to furnish, ai
Ihe shortest notice, the most perfect machinery for reduc
ng ores, or aaviug either gold or silver. l3vlUqy-tf

IRA. r. RASKIN.

A. F. BRAYTON.

A. C. AUSTIN.

Pacific Ii'on Works.

First and rFremont Streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Having been established since 1851, wehave accumulated
a very large variety of Gear and other Patterns, which,
wilh our superior tools aid appliances, give Us lacililies lor
doing first class work uuequaled on the Pacilic Coast.

Among other things, we manufacture the following:

SXEAM ENGINES,

Horizontal and Vertical, for either Stationary or Marine

use.

BOILERS- HIgli and Low Pressure,

Pump, Pipe and Sheet Iron Work of every kind.

Quartz Mill Work,

Including High and Low Mortars.for wet or dry crushing-

Fm ii.ic. Irons lor Roasting Ores; Freiberg Barrel*;

Vamev's and W I tester's Amalgamating Puns

and Settlers; Stamp Slices and Dies of

best White Iron; Kussialron

Screens, etc., etc.

Flour Mill, Saw Mill and Sugar Mill Work in every variety;

Pumping and Hoisting Machinery ; Hansbrow'a

Patent Challenge Pump, for Domestic,

Ship and Mining use— the most

approved and successful

Pump manufactured.

Cftstins;s tf every description, Iron and Brass.

We would cail especial attention to " Wright's Patent Va-
riable Cut-off Engines," of which we are the sole manufac-
turers on the I'ucmc Coast, under license from the Wood-
ruff A Beach Co., Hartford, Ot. As a simple, erlective, fukl
saving, nrst-cl-tsa Engine, this is, without doubt, the best
Engine made in the United States.

Orders promptly attended to. Prices as low as possible
for hrst class work, and we intend to do no other.

GO±>l> Ait J> A CO.

San Francisco. May 1, 1868. ltfvitir"

WILLAMETTE IRON WORKS,

POBILAXD, OBEBOK.

Steam Engines, Boilers,
SAW AND CRIST MILLS,

MINING MACHINERY, WBOUQHT IEON SHUTTER
WORK. AND BLACKSUITHINQ IX GENERAL.
Corner A orth-Front una E atreela,
lavl3-ly One block north of Couch's Wharf.

Globe Iron Works,

STOCKTON, CAL.

KEEP & BABGION,

MAM'I-'JCTUREHB OF

(luartz, Saw and Grist Mill Irons, Steam
imagines, Horse Powers,

High and Low Pressure Steam Engines, Steamboats and

Propellers, made at short notice.

13vl3lf

SOUTH BEACH IRON WORKS,

Near corner ot King and Third streets, San Francisco.

hakim; engines,

JlSD ALL KINDS OF

MACHINERY FORGING.

All kinds of Ship-smiihing and Mill work manufactured to
order. Jobbing ot every description promptly attended to.
All work done guaranteed. Uvlj-ty

CALIFORNIA BRASS FOUNDRY.

No. l"i> First street, opposite Minna,
SAN FRANCISCO.

All KraDsof Brass, Composition, Zinc, and Babbitt Metal
Castings, Brass Ship Work ot all kinds, Spikus, Sheathing
Nulls, ri udder Bruces, Hinges, ship mid Steamboat .Bel Is and
Goligsoi superior tone. All kinds of Cocks and Valves, liv-
draukic Pipes and Nozzles, and Hose Couplings and Connec-
tions of all sizes and patterns, furnished with dispatch.

«©- PRICES MODERATE. -£*

J. P. GALLAGHER. J. H. WEED V. KING WELL.

8vlS-lj

QTARTZ MILLS.
SAW MILLS,
POWD£B MILLS

Miners' Foundry

—AND—

MACHINE W O It IS S

Nos. 245 to 255 Fiest Street,

Sun Frunciseo,

HOWLAND, ANGELL & CO.,
phofkietoks.

Manufacturers of machinery for

Fl.Ol K MILLS,
SUGAR MILLS,
rAFEK MILLS

Steam Engines of all Kinds.
Amalgamators of all Kinds.

MINING PUMPS, MOISTING WOKKS

OIL WEIL TOOLS, BOCK BHEAKLKS,

— AND

Machinery and Castings of all kinds, either
of Iron or Brass.

Boilers and Sheet Iron Work in all its
Branches. Dlij —,

Mhoen »n<l Ole. of "Willie Iron, irmnnfiictDred
for una Imported by itn exprewtly for thlsiur.
pone, nun will lo.t 3WS per eeut. loiiuer thuu i.ny
other niude on thin count.

Kunnln Iron Screens, ot any decree of flnenenn,
We ore the only niuuufuelurc, s on thin count ol
the

SICKS I31VGI1VE,
The mont compact, Mmi.lt- In conntructlon, and

durable, of any Engine in u.e.
W.H. UUIVLlMI, H.B.A.VOELL,

IStIi „r I'VIils I'JLMLK.

FULTON

Foundry and Iron Works.

HINCKLEY & CO.,

MAKOTACTURfvRS Ot

STEA-M ENGINES,

Quartz, Flour and Saw 3X111*,

Hayes* Improved Steam Pnmp, Rrodle's Im-
proved Crasher, M Inline JPnmpa,

Aoiiiltiini.-idit", n nil all kinds
ot Machinery.

N. E. corner of Tehama and Fremont streets, above How
ard street, San Francisco. 3-qy

McAFEE, SPIERS & CO.,
I*OI I- E R MAKEBS

AND GENERAL MACHINISTS,

Howard A, between Fremont and Bcalc, San Francisco.

Fine or Tubnlar Bollcru, with plain circular or spiral
ci>ur«cs. Upright Flue or Tubular Boners, Locomotive and
and Marine Boilers, and Wrought Iron Tanks ot every de-
scription,

Hydraulic Pipe snpplied at reasonable rates. Inor
derlnc, Rive the quantity of water to be supp'led, hightof
tin' full, and l"i:ii length of pipe, so as to enable ihe ilnn to
determine the diameter of the pipe and thickness ul' iron to
be used.

Ktpalr*.- Boilers, Smoke Stacks, Pipes, etc., put in re-
pair wiih promptness.

To Boiler Mnkcr« und Machinists In the In-
terior.—Trie hrui Is prepared to furnish estimates of
BoIlcrs.su ply new Heads, drilled and punched, and attend
to the selection and forwarding of Iron fur Boilers, Vines
and other purposes.

Finns, Drau'lnR" and Specification*.— The Arm
is prepared to make out Plans and Spec id cottons, leceivo
csiiniuii's, and superintend the Erection of any Machinery
that may be enirusted to their care

To Inventors.— The Arm Is prepared to assist In de-
veloping the plans of those who have the ideas hut not the
practical experience necessary to put the samu in form, by
•linking Drawings ol their Inventions, giving iheut the ben-
efit of their pracli i>1 knowledge in the construction of Ma-
chinery, aim attending to the manufacture and introduc-
tion of their inventions. lvlbtf

UNION IRON WORKS,

Sacramento.
WILLIAMS, ROOT & NEILSON,

MANDTACTDRBR9 Or
CROSS' PATENT BOILER FEEDER,

-STEAM ENGINES, BOILCBS,

And all kinds of Mining Machinery.

Also, Hay and Wine Presses made and repaired
with neatness, durability and dispatch.

Dunbar's Patent Self-Adjusting Steam Piston

Front Street, between X and O streets,

Uvll Sacramento City

THOMPSON BROTHERS,
eureka jroTTivrnsrsr,

LIGHT AND nilTI (ASTI56S.

of every description, manufactured 24vl6qr

JAMES MACKEN,

COFFER. SMITH.

SSO Fremont st.« bet. Howard *fc Folson.

All kinds of COPPER WORK done to order m the best
manner. Particular attention paid to steamboat, Sugai
House and Distillery work.

G. T. PRACY.
MACHINE WORKS,

NOS. 109 and 111 MISSION STREET,
Between Main and Spcnr.

New and second-hand

Engines and Boilers,

FOR SALE.

Also one first-class Polstlng

Engine ; one I'm i ju it L

fcnplne. oi entirely

new pattern.

MANUFACTURER OF

ILa tiles, Drills,

And MILL MACHINERS of
every description.

P R A. C "ST '8

New and Improved
STEAM ENOINE

REGULATOR'S,

The hest and cheapest yet In-
vtntcd— mnnuf'ncinred and
for sale. Parties are In-
vited to examine It
In practical op-
eration.

F. A.HUNTILVGTOK*S

Shingle Machines

on houd.

Particular attention paid to
Repairing.

agp* All work Guaranteed to be done In a first-class man-
ner, and at the lowest rates. 12vl7tt

THE RI83DOIV

Iron and Locomotive Works.

Incorporated, April 30, 1868. Capital, $1/00,000.

Location of Works, Corner Scale and Howard streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Succpwors to Pacific Mail <=. R. Co. Works at Bonicia, Coffey

& Rlsdon, and Devue, Dinsmore & Co., Sail Francisco.

Stcnm Engine Builders, Boiler Makers,

MACHINISTS AND FOUNDRVMEN.
All wort in their line attended to with promptness and
dispatch.

Directors i

S. F. Butterworth, Clia". B. McLnno,

Lloyd TYvis, John N. Rlsdon,

Jan. Pollock, Joseph Moore,

□en. Uolladay,

JOHN N. TtTSDON, Prewldent.
Josenh Moore, Vice President and Superintendent; Ohns.
E. McLnne, 'Irea^urer; Lewis R. Mead, Secretary, Lewis
Coffey, Superintendent Boiler Works. 24vl7-qy

NOBLE & FLEMING,
MACHINE WORKS,

"So. lO Sterenson street, near First,

SAN FHANCISCO.

Partleulnr attention clven to repairs on Portable and Sta-
tionary Enuliiea: also nil kinds of Wood Working
Machinery, Shafting*, IlannTo, Pulleys, etc.
made to order; Screw Cutilng, Iron
Flanint'. and al! kinds of JOB »

WORK promptly attended to.
Absents for F. !S. Pct-kln*' Knttlnc I>«the»,
Plunem, l'in Inh. Drill*.
And nil kinds ot MACHINISTS' TOOLS; also the Davis
Wood Planer and Mitre Dove-Tallinn Machines.
SST-Also. on hand for sale a complete set of Tools for
makmc Blaekinc Utixcs, consisting of Press, Dies, Shears,
and Crimninc Mnohlne. etc. <vl« n.r

Phoenix Iron Works.

JONATHAN EITTREDGE, Proprietor,

Ho*. 18 and SO Fremont street, near Market,

UANtJTACTOBEB Or

Fire-Proof Doors, Shutters,

Wrought Iron Girders, and all kinds of Housesmlth work.
Bridge and Prison Work;

BAUE VAULTS AKD MONITOK SAFES,

FOB6INO AND MACIIINE WORK.
Agency for the ISHAM KEY REGISTER BANK AND SAFE
LOCK, ihe only first class Lock in the
lvI7tf United States

CITY IRON WORKS COMPANY.

CLERC & CO.,
IRON FOUISDEKS,

Steam £nfflne Builders nnd Makers or all
kiinl" of Machinery,

6vll6qr No. 28 Frrinoiit Hreet. Son Francisco.

Blanks, Blank Mining Books

Constitution and By-Laws

— roR —

Miming: and Prospecting
Companies

Elegantly primed, with care and dispatch, at the office ol 111 o
Mining and Scientific Press.

Orders from the Interior faithful? attended to.

The Study op Alchemy in China.— At
the October meeting of the Oriental So-
ciety in New Haven (Conn.) Rev. William
A. P. Martin, of Pekin, read a paper on the
"Study of Alchemy in China." After
tracing briefly the connection between al-
chemy and chemistry, the paper proceeded
to demonstrate that the origin of European
alchemy was to be sought in China. In
Bupport of this view the following consid-
erations were adduced, and illustrated by
citations from Chinese and other works:

1. The study of alchemy had been in full
vigor in China for at least six centuries be-
fore it made its appearance in Europe. It
did not appear in Europe until the fourth
century, when intercourse with the far East
had beoome somewhat frequent. It ap-
peared first at Byzantium and Alexandria,
where the commerce of the East chiefly
centered, and was subsequently revived in
Europe by the Saracens, whose most fa-
mous school of alchemy was at Bagdad,
where intercourse with Eastern Asia was
frequent.

2. The objects of pursuit in both schools
were identical, and in either case twofold-
immortality and gold. In Europe the for-
mer was the less prominent, because the
people, being in possession of Christianity,
hod a vivid faith in a future life, to satisfy
their longings on that head.

3. In either school there were two elix-
irs, the greater and the less, and the prop-
erties ascribed to them closely correspond.

4. The principles underlying both sys-
tems are identical — the composite nature of
the metals and their vegetation from a sem-
inal germ. Indeed, the characters tsing
for the germ, and 1'ai for the matrix, which
constantly occur in the writings of the Chi-
nese alchemists, might be taken for the
translation of terms in the vocabulary of
the Western Bchool, if their higher an-
tiquity did not forbid the hypothesis.

5. The ends in view being the same, the
means by which they were pursued were
identical — mercury and lead being as con-
spicuous in the laboratories of the East as
mercury and sulphur were in those of the
West It is of less significance to add that
many other substances were common to
both schools than to note the remarkable
coincidence that in Chinese as in European
alchemy the names of the two principal re-
agents are used in a mystical sense.

6. Both schools, or at least individuals in
both schools, held the doctrine of a cycle
of changes, in the course of which the pre-
cious metals revert to their baser elements.

7. Both are closely interwoven with as-
trology.

8. Both lead to the practice of magical
arts and unbounded charlatinism.

9. Both deal in language of equal ex-
travagance; and the style of European al-
chemists, so unlike the sobriety of thought
characteristic of the western mind, would,
if considered alone, give us no very uncer-
tain indication of its origin in the fervid
fancy of the Orient.

A Coal Field on Fibe. —The Louisville
Courier' Journal publishes the following :

We learn that a great conflagration is now
at the hight of its progress in the cele-
brated Millar coal mines, on the Mononga-
hcla River, at the mouth of the Toughio-
gheny, fifteen miles southeast of Pittsburg.
The fire began sometime since, and great
efforts have been made to extinguish it, but
to no purpose. An attempt to check its
career was made by the erection of mud
walls and the pumping in of large quanti-
ties of water, and by this means the fire
was partially smothered; but the heat be-
came so intense and the pressure of gas so
great that the walls were burst, and the
flames are now sweeping onward with
greater force than ever. The fire is spread-
ing through the old mines at the rate of
sixty yards per day, and it is feared the en-
tire field may be destroyed. So much pro-
gress has been made by the flames that it
is estimated that the cost of extinguishing
them before they have spread over the face
of a thousand acres will not be less than
$150,000. Twenty-two loaded wagons aDd
all the tools of the miners have been lost
thus far. The Millar mines are carried on
by A. Millar & Co., of which firm Charles
Millar, of this city, was formerly a mem-
ber.

The coal field over which this great sub-
terranean deluge of fire is sweeping, is one
of the most valuable on the Monongahela,
and extends a distance of some eight or ten
miles. It is difficult to fay what will be
the result of this underground conflagra
tion if it is not checked very soon.

Coal in Montana. — The coal mines near
Dearborn, Montana, produce a superior
article of bituminous coal, which is found
much better than charcoal for welding iron
or steel. A load brought to O'Bannon's in
Helena, is highly spoke of by the Post.

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Tlc\e Mining and Scientific Press.

139

Hydracijc Mixing.— Thi9 interest is at
its highest stage of activity throughout the
State, in steady and nnexcited bnt sure and
paying operations. From Dntch Flat, for
example, oar correspondent "A. E. K.,"
under date of Feb. 22d, writes :

Another mill has made a run on the Blue
Gravel lead at this place, and had a splen-
did clean up, taking out a large amount of
gold. The Baker Boys' Company have
been bnsily engaged in bringing dirt to the
mill, and as it is brought to daylight out of
the drift, the yellow particles may ba seen
in every car load; and it promises to eclipse
all the former yields by a large amount.
The Roanoke, a new set of claims, have
mode a run and cleaned up well. All of
the numerous hydraulic- claims around
here, at Canon Creek and Gold Run, are
paying about their old amounts, viz. , eight-
een to sixty hundred dollars, for from
twelve to eighteen days to the run. There
is considerable excitement about the Cham-
pion quartz lode. Some of the parties who
went up to the claims, report, after exam-
ination, that the rock generally is much
improve-!, in fact, immensely rich. I saw
rock that prospected §2,800 per ton.

" Expbessional Dentistby."— A corres-
pondent of the Scientific American says of
dentistry and dentists: The most popular
material used by the profession for six or
eight years past has been vulcanite. It has
been popular on account of its cheapness,
and the ease with which it can be manipu-
lated; aud yet the result of the use of rub-
ber has been to retard rather than advance
the artistio part of dentistry. Art has suf-
fered sorely from tbi3 cheap and easily
made work, and nature smiles at our at-
tempts to imitate her work with rubber and
porcelain teeth in rows like soldiers in a
ten cent lithograph. To be convinced of
this, we have only to notice in crowds, on
steamboats, on the railroad car, on the
streets, everywhere, the many, many sets
of glistening, regular artificial teeth worn;
and when we can discern the artificial, the
thing is proved, for expressional dentistry
would so hide the art dame Nature herself
would not suspect another's work."

A Good Little Thing. — It is only three
months since Charles Nye of Elizabethport,
N. J., patented a bag-fastener ; and he
has already received cash orders for over
80,000, and several offers of $10,000 for the
patent, which he declines. He has estab-
lished ^a factory capable of turning out
15,000 of the article per day. The fastener
consists merely of a couple of small leather
straps, united by a central buckle.

GEO. E. ROGERS,

[Successor to G. W. Bell.)

-A. !S S A. Y E It 9

S1Z Callfornlu U., San FruncUco.

J. A. MA US. Assnyer.

Ores carefully Assayed. Guld and Silver Ores worked.

23vt6-,irlil|,nr

CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, DRAPERIES,

SHADES, Etc., Etc.

LOUIS F. KNIGHT,

54-i California St., east aide of Kearny,

SAN FRANCISCO.

I can offer from the largest and best assorted stock In the

city anything In our line.

AT PRICES TO SPIT ALL.

FURNITURE AND MATTRESSES

Made to order.
All kiuds of upholstering executed with neatness and
dispatch. 9vl7

The Oakland Daily Transcript

A. BIT PAPER.

The Largest Circulation in the County.

Advertisement" In the Transcript will reach
every part of Alameda County,

RATES FOR ADVERTISING

VBKT LOW.

Delays .are DuuijerouH.- Inventors on the Pacltlc
Coast should bear in mind that by patronizing our Patent
Agency they can sign all necessary papers tor securing pa-
tents almost immediately, thereby avoiding the three

month's delay requisite in transacting" business through
Eastern agencies.

Business Cards.

RODGERS, METER & CO.,

COMMISSION METtCIIAJVTS,

ADVANCES MADE

On all kind, or Ore., and particular attention
PAID TO

CONSIGNMENTS OF GOODS.

lYlMm

KATI1AKINL CAT.

N. GRAY & CO.,

tTNr>13HTjl>.ICEIt8,

841 Sacramento St, cor. Webb, 8an Francisco.

Farmers and Mechanics
BANK: OF" SAVINGS,

No. 3'i » Snnaome Street.

Interest paid on Deposits. Moncv Loaned on Real Estate.
H. DUTTOKT, Prenldcnt.

OEO M CONDEE Cannier. lftvlfi ,1m

J. J. JONES,

CARPENTER and BUILDER,

X©. 334 Jiitkion street* between Swtsome and

Battery,

Stores and Offices fitted un with neatness and dispatch.
7vl8if

FREDERICK. HANSELL.

Mechanical & Architectural Draughtsman,

No. 422 California street, corner of Leldsdorff.

Drawings of Models made for parties apply for pa-

ents at Washington or London. ar23-tf.

"W. T. ATWOOD,

PURCHASER OF

COPPER 0EES, BAR3, MATT, Etc., Etc,,

SOS Montgomery atrcct.

Room No. 6, over Parrott ft Go's Batik, San Francisco.
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Professional Cards.

J. S. PHILLIPS,

MINING EIVCiUVj^ER, JCto.,

Wadswortb H.>iise San Francisco.

Having hud 33 vears experience in the various do pun -

nil/in- ..I Milium liiufimMrrmg and Metallurgy, In Cornwall

l.'lisoiderD lor the exunili mi'Mlu-

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JOHN" R0A0H, Optician,

Has removed from bli Montgomery street to
G-iO Wnnulnii-ton ■treet.

Bust of Montgomery.
Surveying Instruments male, repaired and adjusted
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DAVID B. SMITH,
Olvlland Mechanical Engineer.

Is prepare d to furnish Plann, Model*. Specifications and
full detail Drawings for Steamers and Sailing Vessels and
Machinery In general.

fttontvoniery Block. I3vl7-3m

J. M. HAVEN,

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
No. <LSO California street,

!7vl6 SAN FBANCISCO.

JAMBS M. TAYLOR.

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,

Court Block, 636 Clay Street

SAN FRANCISCO.
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S. FOLK & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS OP

WAWOIXG, BV'nr\(., und COMFOItTEK-S
Ul and U'i Brannan st., Between Third and Fourth,
SAN franoisco. 4vl8qr

W. C. CAMPBELL.

riTTERX AX» MODr.L MAKER,
No »0 Fremont street, over Phoenix Iron Works, San

Francisco.
Particular attention given m MODELS forthePntent Office
Brands and Pattern Letters Cut. 4vl8mtf

Pump Leather.

The attention of MIXING COMPANIES, and others re -
quirlnga superior article for Hydraulic purposes, isinvited
to the heavy Oaked Tanned Pump Leather, manufactured
and prepared expressly by the undersigned.

ired expressly by the undersigned.

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N E.JONES&C? •

Coustapllyon Hand and lor sale oy

GRA.Y, JONES <Sfc CO.,

Denol of the Santa Cruz Tannery,

418 Buttery St.. San Fi-uuclaco.

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OF SAX FRANCISCO, Oil.,

Office, No. 422 California street.

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DIRECTORS:

San Prawcisco:
W. C. Kalslon,
A L. Tuiibs. .
Win. Alvord,
Jonathan Hunt,
A. B. Forbes,
A. G. Stiles,
A. sellgnian,
L. B. rtenchley,
Wm. Sherman,
L. Sachs,

James De Fremery,
J. G. Bray,
David S-ern,

D. 0. Mills,

I Frledlander, ,
Motes Heller,
ll. M Mew hall,
G V. LawM'i.
Miles U. Sweeny,
Chas. Mayne,

E. 1-. GolOBtein,
J. O. E«rl,
Lloyd Tevis,
Thus. H. Selhy,
Adam (Irani,
Alpheus Bull,
S. M. WIUou,
D.J. Oliver,

W. Scholia,
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Oliver Eldridge,

J. B. Roberts.

J. C. Wilmerdlng,

P. L. Weaver,

Win. H oper,

J. W. Clark.

A. Havward,

T. L Barker,

Alexander Weill,

Chas. Meyer.

Chas E.McLnne,

M Rosenbiiuin,

A. J. Ralston.

T. Lemraen Meyer,

J. T.. Dean.
Nkw York:

Louis .McLane,

Frederick Billings,

J'imcs Lees,

J. 0. Kellogg,

Win- T. Coleman,

Musi'S Ellis.
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Ed^ar Mills,

J. II. Carroll,

C. T. Wheeler.
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J. H. Jewctt.
PoRTt.ANn, Oregon:

W S LatH,

Jacob Kamm.
VinciNiA, Nevada:

Wm. Sharon.

Eley's Ammunition.

The»e Cartrldaen are made in
three sizes, viz . .577 (or Snider Enfield)
bore; .61)0 (or half inch) bore; and .J5l
(or small) bore

Those Cartridges have- been adopted,
after careful comparative (Hals
against all other description?, by HER
M vJESl'Y'S WAR DEPARTMENT, as
the Standard Rifle Ammunition for the
BltlTl.sll ARMY, and arc not only
used exclusively for the Snider-Rifle,
but are adapted to all other svs ems of
miliniry BREECH LOADING RIFLES.

They are the cheapest Cartridges
known, carrying their own ignition,
being made wholly of metal, are wa-
ter-proof and imperishable in anyclt-
maie.

Boxer Cartridge Oases (empty),' of all
3 sizes, packed with or without bullets,
and machine for fastening same in
Cartridges.

Makers of BOXER CARTRIDGES.
-<a Miore for Revolving Pistols, ill use
in Her Majesty's Navy.

PIN OAKl'KIUGES for Lefaucheux
Revolvers of 12 m, U m. and 7 m, bore.

CENTRAL FIRE and PIN FIRE
CARTRIDGES, to i all sizes ofGuns,
Rifles and Revolvers.

Double Water-Proof and E. B. Caps.
Wire Cartridges for killing game at
long distances. Felt Waddings to im-
prove the shooting of guns; audevery
description of Sporting and Military Ammunition.
WhoJenule. only;

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officers:

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W. ALVORD, Vice President.

A.. I. RALSTON, Secretary. -

ANDREW BAIRD, Marine Secro'arv.
ivlStf n. U BIGELOW, Gen'l Agent,

The Perfection of Prepared Cocoa.

MARAYILLA COCOA.

Sole Proprietors— TAYLOR BROTHERS, London.

The Cocoa (or Cacao) of Miravllla is the true Theobroma
of Liameus. Cocoa is indigenous to South America, of
which M-u-rivilla is a favored portion. TAYLOR BROTH-
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uble principle and elaborate machinery, produced what is
so undeniably the penect'mn ot Prepared Cocoa, that it haa
not only secured the preference of homo; i paths and cocoa-
drinkers generally, but many who had hitherto not found
any preparation to suit them, have, ader one trial, adopted
the Maravilla Cocoa as their constant beverage lor break-
fast, luncheon, etQ.

"A SUCCESS TJSPKHCEDENTED."

[See following extract from Hie Globe of May 14, 1*68]
"Various Importersand manufacturers have attempted
to attain a reputation for their prepared Cocoas, but we
doubt whether any thorough success hud been achieved
until Messrs. T ■ylor Brothers discovered ihc extraordinary
quulhies of "Maravilla" Cocoa. Adapting their perfect
sy-temof prco»raiioii to this finest of all species of the
Theobroma, they have produced an article which super-
sedes every other Cocoa in the market. Entire solubility,
a delicate uroma, and a rare concentration of the purest
elements of nutrition, distinguish the M iravilla Cocoa
above all others. For homoeopaths and invalids we could
not recommend a more agreeable or valuable beverage.

Sold i • packets only by all Grocers, of whom aho may
be had Tavior Brothers' Original H<nn<Eopathic Cocoa aud
Soluble Chocolate, Steam Mills. Brick Lane, London.
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Mining Secretary.

THE SUBSCRIBER, HAVING SERVED FOR THE LAST
five years as Secretary of various mining companies,
feels fully competent to serve In that capacity. Any par-
ties wishing to secure the services of a Secretary car. be
accommodated on reasonable terms. Information given,
and all necessary papers correctly made out.

Having had a long experience In the purchasing of goods
and machinery for miners, parties in the mines will find it
to their advantage, where purchasing agents are emplojed.
to send their orders to the undersigned.

J. .M. BUFFINUTOy.
Room 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California street
San Franciaco 17vl5-tf

WE ABE NOW OFFEKING-
OTJK, IMMENSE STOCK

Fine Custom Made Clothing

AND —

Gents' Furnishing G-oods

A.T PRICES THAT DEFT COMPETITION.

Our Stock of Clothing Con»UU of

ALL TJIE I^A/TEST STYLES

BOTH OF X1TKBIAL AHD FIKI8B.

A Large Ansortmen lot
Trunk*, Tallica, Carpel Bati, HLinket-, Ete.,

AT VXTRRMKLT LOW PRICH8.

J. R. MT3A.T> & CO.,

8rl0 Cor. of Washington and Saneome streets.

THE GIANT

POWDER COMPANY

Is now prepared to nil alt orders for

GIANT POWDER,

Put up In Boxes, rIMier In Balk, or In Cur

ti'iduei.
General Agents.

BANDMAWW, NIELSEN & CO.,

25vI6-3m 210 Front street, San Francisco.

SIX Fit AX CISCO

Pioneer Screen Works,

, _, ( JOHN W. QUICK, Manufacturer,
Removed to A. Pritzel's Iron Works, an Fremont street,
near Howard, San Francisco.

Screen Punching In all its hranche". nt rates reduced
from 25 to -I" per cent less than t lie established rates. I can
furnish Improved Quartz Screens several nizns finer fhnn
any Scrr.en ever punched. civiiiK universal satisfaction,
and for strength, cheapness and durchtlltv are not excelled.
Also, PunchBd .screens of all sizes and fineness made from
all qualities ot material, for Quartz. Cement, Flour and
Rice Milts, etc. Screen Punching made a specialty; there-
fore millmen forward ine their orders to me will receive
none hut the beat. Orders solicited.

N. B — J. W. QUTCK U the onlv competent and successful
manufacturer of Screens in ihe State, h a vinp made Screens
forthe princihal mills Inthls State and adjolninj* Terri-
tories for many vears. Quartz mill owners nsinc punched
Screens wHch have universally failed to fflve satisfaction,
when visiting the city will please call and see me. 6vl7-ly

California Steam Navigation

12^ COMPANY.

Steamer CAPITAL CAPT. E. A. POOLE

CHETSOPOLIS CAPT. A. FOSTER.

" YOSEMITE

CORNELIA CAPT. W. BROMLEY

JULIA CAPT. E. CONCKLIh.

Two or toe above steamers leave BROADWAY wharf
at 4 o'clock P. M. EVERY DAY (Sundnvs excepted), opo
for Sacramento and ope tor stocktoo, those for Sacra-
mepto coppectlpR with lichr-drafl steamers for Marvsville
Colusa. Chlco, and Red Bluff.

Office of the Company, northeast corner of Front and
Jackson streets.

B. M. HARTSHOlt \ F„
"v" Prt.ld.-nl,

International Hotel,

JACKSONu 8TEEET

BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AND KEARNY ST8.,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE IS IN PERFECT
order forthe accommodation of cuests. Persons seek-
ing comfort and economy will find this the best Hotel In
the city to stop at. The Beds sre new and In Rood order,
and the Rooms well ventilated. The Table will always be
supplied with the best In the market.
Prices varying from $1 So to S3 per day for

Board1 and Room.

FINE BATH HOUSE AND BARBER SHOP ATTACHED

TO THE HOUSE.

1ST* Teams belopelnE to the House will be in attendance
at all the boats and cars to convey passepcers to the House
fbee or chargb, and tp any part of Ihe city for SO cents

«vl2 F. E. WEYGANT, Proprietor.

Pacific Chemical Worts.

stn-pniritic etiieii.

SPIRITS OP NITRE,

ADVA AMMO VIA,
ACETIC ACID,

CXAJTIllE OP POTASSIUM

— AND —

ACIDS AND CHEMICALS OF ALL KINDS.

FALKENAU & HANKS.

Office and JLabofntory. Sixteenth utreet. be-
tween Folm.nn anil llarrlaon,

LOUIS FALKENAU, State Assayer.

Particular alteiition paid to the Analysis of ORES,

8vl7

l.NEUALS METALS. etc.

"IMPROVED SPRING-BED BOTTOM:."

(Patented July 21st, 186U

The undersigned, having purchased the Patentee's inter
est in the States and Territories of the Pacific Coast, is now
prepared to supply Private Homes, Hotels and Steamers
with this comfortable, econ imical and durable "IM-
PROVED SPUING BED B.iTTOM."

Persons golog to White Pine will greatly promote their
comfort by taking one of these Patent Bottom*, which is
secured to a folding bedstead, the cost of which Is less than
that of the materials at White Pine.

"Wareroom, No. 1002 Market Street.

P. HUDSON, Proprietor.

jB5F»CaH and examine. Open until 8 o'clock P. a.

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

New Inventions.

Swjab Making on a Small Scale. — A
recent invention for the evaporation of
sugar has added materially to the induce-
ments for the manufacture of sugar on a
small scale, by laborers or farmers who
have not the capital or inclination to erect
large establishments. The new cane-mill
has a capacity of V/t hogsheads a day.
The principal feature is that the evaporator
has a copper bottom with a number of
transverse channels through which the cane
juice is caused to flow back and forth, boil-
ing violently, until it reaches the last chan-
nel at the opposite end of the pan, when it
is fully concentrated, and flows off a con-
stant stream of liquid sugar. It will enable
operators to produce 10, 20, 50 or 100 hogs-
heads of sugar with the expenditure of a
few hundred dollars for a complete and
perfectly manageable outfit.

Eakth Excavating and Ditching Ma-
chine. — The Denver News describes a new
earth excavator and ditching machine in.
vented by Nelson Plumb of that city. It
consists of a revolving cylinder, on which
are securely fastened obliquely across it
two rows of teeth, or shovel plows by which
it is proposed to break up the earth. In
addition to these on the cylinder are double
rows of boxes, which catch the dirt and by
means of a spring operating within the cyl-
inder throw it in any direction required.
It is proposed to propel and operate the
machine by steam, placing the engine on
wheels behind the cylinder.

Mr. Plumb thinks their cost will be
about $2,500, and that they can be pro-
pelled at the rate of ten feet per minute,
excavating dirt at a cost of about two cents
per yard.

New Wood Splitting Device. — The
Sacramento Record says : We were shown
yesterday, by Matthew Cooke, of this city,
a new style of wood-splitting wedge, for
which he has filed a caveat, and applied
for a patent. It consists of a bar of cast-
steel, about fourteen inches in length,
sharpened at one end, to admit of its being
driven into timber. Above this wedge,
about three inches from the end, is a cham-
ber for the powder. From the top of this
chamber to the head of the bar is drilled a
hole ; through this, when the wedge is
driven into position for a blast, fuse is in-
troduced by a rod, which not only holds
the fuse in position, but by means of a set
screw renders the charge air-proof. The
effect is said to be terrible, no log being as
yet strong enough to blow the blast.

India Rubber Sponges. — A new Euro-
pean invention is an imitation of sponge
made from india rubber. The imitation is
stated to be perfect in appearance, but
much softer than the real sponge, and its
power of absorption, owing to its elastic
quality as well as its durability, is said to
be much greater. It has the advantage of
being shaped into any required form with-
out loss, and its softness is not impaired by
the process.

Improved Botaby Engine.— Messrs. Sal-
mon Brothers have completed the model, of
an improved rotary engine, of double action
— reversible. It is a very simple machine;
so simple that any one can be an engineer
wherever it is used. It will be applicable
to locomotives, or steamboats; and we pre-
dict for it a leading place in that catalogue.
The model is finished and will go on to
Washington in a short time. — [Oregonian,
Feb. 13th.

Land Transportation. — Jaime Lopis
Alfaro, a citizen of Aguascallentes, Mexico,
has petitioned that Government for a
patent for a new invention devised by him
for the transportation of freight and pas-
sengers by laud. He claims to be able to
propel wagons and carriages by steam or
expanded air over public highways without
the use of rails, i. e, over common roads.
Another invention claimed by him in the
same petition, is, well balanced two-wheeled
vehicles, adapted for general use, drawn
by horses or other animals.

Improved Hop Kiln. —Daniel Flint, of
Sacramento, has invented a new hop kiln,
which is believed to require less time and
less fuel than the ordinary one. The hops
are dried witlnut turniug and removed at
once without breaking, by means of rail-
road tracks on which the drying shelves
rest, to a store room to cool. To avoid the
necessity of bailing the hops before they
are properly cooled, there is a partition
across the store room which makes two
bins, so that the hops can be bailed out of
one, while the other is being filled. Other
arrangements for cooling evenly and work-
ing with economy of labor, are attached to
the hop house.

Rkgistkr voir Lkttkkh containing iminev addressed to
u<. or we will not be responsible. Remittances by Express
must be in package*, prepaid. When practicable, it is best

> remit by dratt, or order, on some Sau Francisco bank or

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below San some, San Francisco.

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IMPORTERS AND REFINERS

Illuminating;.. Lubricating,

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INDIA. FLEA. DJKTJGr!

A California Discovery.

This Is a simple but very efficient FLEA POWDER.

It Is Death to Flens and Vermin, but not Inju-
rious to persons.

TKT IT! TRY IT!! TKT IT!!!

After a thorough test you will use none other.

PUT TP IN BOXES ONLY. FOUR SIZES.

It lathe best and cheapest article of the kind ever offered

to the public

Directions for Use.— Spilnkle your bedding and

clothes, and add a Utile in your washing.

For sale, wholesale and retail* by DrueuUti,

jt^-For further information, address

Prof. C. E. JTAXCOX,
Care of Langley & Crowell, Druggists,
8vI8-3m San Francisco.

SULPHURETS ;

What they are;

How Assayed ;

How Concentrated;

And How Worked;

With ft Chapter on the

BLOW-PIPE ASSAY OF MINERALS.

My WM. BARSTOW, M. D.

Published by A. Roman A Co., San Francisco.

For sale at this Office— Price, One Dollar.

With the aid of this Book, the miner can assay his own
ores, requiring but few materials, etc., except such as are
generally to be found In the interior town*. 21vl5tf

Small Pox.

We have been shown by Win. Zelner, the best and most
convenient and portable aptiaraius containing Chlorine,
for moms, which we consider the be>t disinfectant out,
mid -hould advise all housekeepers not to be without on«
Price $1, complete; to be had. with full direction-, at WM.
ZELNER'S German Drug Store, IS Geary street, 25yl7-3m

For Miners, Millmen and Metallurgists.

XUSTEL'S NEW WORK,
CONCENTRATION

Of all kinds of Ores, and the

CHL0RIWATI0N PROCESS,

For Gold-BearLog Sulphurets. Arseniurets, and Gold and
Sliver Ores generally.

Price.

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SUCCESSORS TO

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SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK,

Announce to the friends of the old firm, and the public at
large, lhat their present business arrangements are such
that they are enabled lo offer the bot and most stylish
goods on the Pacific Coast at a great reduction from former
prices.

AT WHOLESALE.

The attention of the merchants throughout the Pacific
Coast. Is called to the fact that we arc now prepared to fill
their orders for superior goods in

Strictly Cnntom-Mn.de Clothing*
Suits, Gloves, Hosiery, and

Furnlthlnc Goods, Trunks.

Traveling Bngi and Valises,
In lots to suit at regular wholesale rates.

CLOTHING TO ORDER,

Made cither lu New York or San Francisco, under the su-
pervision of the best cutters in America.

DIRECTIONS FOR MEASUREMENT

Sent to any address upon application, and goods forwarded
by Express on receipt of orders. Satisfaction guaranteed.

C. C. 1I1STI.X5S «t CO.,

Successors to

HEUSTON, HASTINGS* CO..

The Fashionable Clothiers.

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The following Steamships will be dispatched on dates as
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Connecting with ALASKA, Capt. Gray

February 1;« h — COLORADO Capt Wm. H. Parker,

Connecting with kisino 8TAK, Cnpt. King.

Fchmnry 2 d-bACRAMENTO Capt. A West,

Connecting with HENRY CHAUNCEY, Capt. Connor.

February 27th— MONTANA Cnpt Win. H Hudson

Connecting with ARIZONA, Capt- Maury.

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An experienced Surgeon on board. Medicine and attend-
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M., from wharf corner ol First and Brot.imn streets, tor
HONGKONG, connecting at Yukohuma with the stenmer
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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

141

Resources and Developments.

Silk. — Mr. Newman, of San Jose", has
fifteen silklooms at Sao Jose, and two of
them are at work weaving dress silk.

Fios.— DcnDen and Lagselle have taken
np 160 acres of land in the foothills, in the
neighborhood of Bugby's vineyard, and are
engaged in setting out a fig orchard, a vine-
yard and a large number of fruit and mul-
berry trees. — Faltom Jitegraph.

Cobk Oaks in California.— Mr. J. H.
Lick, Lick's Mills, Santa Clara County,
Cal., planted acorns of the cork oak in
1858, and now has 85 trees, from 15 to 20
font high and from eight to 10 inches in
diameter. This would indicate that the
climate of California is very favorable to
the growth of this valuable tree. — Vullyo
Recorder, Feb. 23-i.

New Road fboh Salt Lake to Mon-
tana.— A number of the most enterprising
citizens of Virginia City, Montana, contem-
plate forming a company for the purpose
of constructing a wagon road from that
city, via Henry's Lake, to Taylor's Bridge,
on Snake river. It is said that this pro-
posed new road will shorten the distance
between Virginia and Salt Lake, or the
railroad, fully eighty miles; while the
route selected is reported as otherwise far
preferable to the one now traveled.

The Nortkebn Timber Belt stretching
along the coast north of San Francisco,
(says the Russian River Flag) for a hund-
red miles, and further, is a belt of redwood
and pine timber from twenty to forty miles
in width, nearly every stick of which is
available to mills now running, or to eli-
gible sites where mills will at some future
day be erected, from whence the lumber
can bo sent to sea. There are no good har-
bors along this part of the coast, but, ex-
cepting in the winter season, vessels can
anchor or moor and load in perfect safety
anywhere.

Prosperity of Pcget Sound. — Business
of all kinds on the Sound, say our ex-
changes from that section, is becoming very
lively. The Land Office is doing a large
business. For the month of January thjre
was sold for cash 6,744 acres; located under
the Homestead Act, 1,860 acres; final
proofs upon homestead claims, by five
years residence and cultivation of the same,
1,977 acres. Thus it will be seen that the
Puget Sound country has taken a start,
and there is little doubt that before an-
other decade of years that country will con-
tain one of the largest and most.nourishing
cities on the Pacific coast.

A Great Grazing Country. — A gentle-
man just in from Elko says that the region
of country surrounding that place is the
finest for grazing purposes that he has seen
in the State. He says no finer or sweeter
beef can be found anywhere in' the world
than that upon which the Elkoites daily
feast The bunch-grass is in many places
t'iree feet high, and loaded down with seed,
which is said to be more nutritious than
barley, and horses and cattle are very fond
of it. There are immense herds of cattle
scattered through the country. Major
Bradley, formerly of Stockton, Cal., has
15,000 head of cattle in that region, scat-
tered abont in droves of from 1,000 to 1,500
head. The hills for miles and miles are
said to be alive with cattle. — Enterprise.

Alaska Resources and Enterprises by
Sea. — White Pine, says the Bulletin, may
take the land lubbers, but the skippers
have got Alaska and fur-bearing seals on
t le brain. As it is now conceded that no
oill will go through Congress granting any
trading monopolies, wide-awake parties are
taking advantage of the prospects, and
within a day or two every schooner which
is sound and seaworthy enough for the voy-
age, and which could be procured, has been,
taken up for the Alaska venture. The own-
ers say very little, but are very busy.
Whaling, fur trade, barter with Indians,
anything in the way of a commercial ven-
ture in the region of Alaska, is now the
rage.

Physical Degeneration of the Paris-
ians.—Dr. Raoul le Roy, who has made the
matter a special study for years, says the
physique of the inhabitants of Paris has
been, of late years, distinctly deteriorating.
One cause of this is the enormous increase
in the use of tobacco and alcohol. The
consumption of the latter has exactly doub-
led since the year 1825. As to tobacco, in
1832 it produced a tax of 28,000, OOOf ; while
in 1862 the consumption of tobacco brought
into the government a sum of 180, 000, OOOf.
Iu 1852, 200,000,000 cigars were smoked in
Paris, whereas, in 1867, the number in-
creased to 761,625,000.

White Pine Items.

Telegraphic despatches are now received
in this city from Hamilton direct

Sanguine people, says the Sacramento
Union, believe that emigration to White
Pine District will reach 25,000 before the
middle of June.

Sometimes for a whole week together,
Treasure City is wholly above the clouds,
and the top of Treasure Hill seems an
island in mid ocean.

The present population at White Pine
is estimated at 6,000 to 8,000. Real estate
speculation occupies the attention of a
good many at present.

Letter Writers, and all the Nevada
papers are already canvassing the merits of
a dozen or more new districts oast of White
Pine. Much that is known, however, is
kept secret, with a view to further pros-
pecting; and little can be said of their
value at present.

The altitudes of prominent localities at
White Pine, have been taken with the ane-
roid baromttor; but it must be remem-
bered that the aneroid is very unreliable at
such altitudes. Let the observations be
token properly, with two cistern barom-
eters, and repeated at least half a dozen
times before making calculations.

Bituminous shale, which bums freely,
even in an open air fire, and is supposed to
overlie a bed of genuine coal, his been dis-
covered 1% miles east of Hamilton, and a
claim has been located by parties in Ham-
ilton and San Francisco. The shale is of
the same character as that at Elko, and will
serve for fuel for generating steam.

The business of driving tunnels into the
bowels of Treasure Hill is likely to prove
especially active from this time onward,
not less than a dozen of these important
enterprises having been projected, four or
five being already under way. In one of
these tunnels, that of the Treasure Hill
Company, a veiuof exceedingly rich ore has
already been struck, while in another, ore
of a much lower but moderately good
grade has been reached. These tunneling
operations are becoming very popular litre;
as it is generally believed, they must result
in great and almost certain success.

An Elko correspondent of the Bulletin
writes : Wells, Fargo & Co. intend to run
two stages daily from Elko to White Pina
Their overland stages which have been
running for the last four months from
Argeoti, consisting of some 12 coaches and
over 100 head of horses, arrived at Elko on
Monday, the 15th, the remainder of the
running stock going via Austin to Jacob's
Wells, and from thence will stock the por-
tion of the road nearest White Pine.
Hughes & Middleton's accommodation line
has also commenced running, and their line
is iu some respects superior to the Over-
land. Andy Poland £ Co's opposition is
another very good line. They are at pres-
ent running" tri-weekly, but will start a
daily through coach shortly. This firm
have also an excellent Saddle Train on the
same road, which seems to be well patro-
nized. The Pioneer Line owned by Len
Wines, and run in connection with the
Pacific Union Express Co., does not fall
short of the others. It is currently reported
hero that the Idaho line of stages, belonging
to Hill Beachy, will commence running
from Elko early next Spring.

IMPROVED INNER SOLES

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BOOTS AND .SHOE*.

Those who hfive worn Daggett's Patent Elastic Ventilat-
ing Inner Soles, are unanimous in testimony that Ihe cor-
rect principle lias been hit uoun and reduced to practical
and mecsaful use. The foot rests upon a cushion of air
cells between pidntsof vulcanized rubber, every cell open-
lug freely into each other and through the apace occupied
by the foot. There Is no contact of the foot with the wet
iiottoin of thebuot The elaatic points su-taln the weight
of ihe wearer, leaving an air space always, between the
fool and all dampne.is. Every step comprense* and re*
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pumps, working at every step of the foot

Tne rubber points will not ahorb the moisture from the
boot, so that the soft flannel which covers thera lsal<vays
drv. Their springim: elasticity- renders them of peculiar
va'lue to theaged and loflrm, who feel ihe jar of walking
upon hard substances, a'.st, to all persons whose business
i-L-quiren much walking or standing.

These soles are affording great relief to persons afflicted
wMi rhumalisrn and consumptive complaints, chilblains,
corns, cold and sweaty feet.

For warm and dry feet use the Patent Elastic Ventilat-
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No 15 Exchftntfn Street, Boston. Oct. 15, 1867:-Thi» may cer-
tify that I have used the Patent Elastic Ventilating Inner
Soles, through the spring and summer paxt. and have
found them to be the best contrivance for keeping the feet
dry and comfortable, that I have ever used, and for any
one having corns or tender feet, the be-t article ever in-
vented CHARLES K. DARLING, S-ationer:

Patent tlastk Ventilating Sole* —If you wish a comfortable
article for *our feet, a real luxury in cod weather, obtain
a pair of the Patent Elastic Ventilating Inner Soles. Hav-
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the lect, and ease in walking, but also ihe equalization of
the temperature of the feet, which renders them almost in-
valuable.— r Boston Traveler, Oct. 1867.

Price, per pair, $1. Bv mail, postage paid, $1.35. For
sale by PATRICK KELLY, No. 3i7 Bush street, Sun Fran-
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Having received the patent for Symons & Co's Tossing
and Keflning Concentrator, through your Agency, we
return our sincere thanks to you for your unrivalled
Buccesa. Yours, respectfully, Symonb & Habby.

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asserting that the new volume of the Mdsino
and Scientific Pbess, commencing with 1869,
shall be in all respects superior to its predeces-
sors. Of the past, we will give the written
opinion or others:

Evebt miner In the community should auhscrlbe for

th.- Mining and Scientific Press. — Crass Valley Union.

Mmyo AHD Scikntikic Preps.— This excellent sci- n-
titu- journal haa entered upon it-i eighteenth volume. —
C'kico Gourant, Jan. 15th.

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\V. Frank BVKWaBT is Dewey & OVs ■ocredfted agent
for the Patent butunesw in thin city, and will attend to
their affairs iu that specialty.— San Jose Mercury,

nflNora ami SriKNTiFic Press.— Thin journal is de-
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conducted with great ability. It has been greatly en-
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of the industrial resources of the Pacific Coast, the
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script.

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especially, it has become an almost indispensable requi-
site for the successful prosecution of their calling. — iXe-
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entered upon another year's work looking improved and
promising. This paper is devoted to the interests of the
scientific world, and to the miner and mechanic is al-
most invaluable. — (Jilroy Advocate.

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week in a new dress throughout, much Improving its
appearance. The Pbess is one of our most valuable
exchanges, and fills a place in mining and scientific mat-
ters never attained by any other journal. — Colorado
Miner n^L

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volume with the new year. It is a credit to the State,
and to the mechanic or miner, is a great source of valua-
ble information. It has every appearance of prosperity,
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the Mining and Scientific Press, published by Dewey i;
Co., of San Francisco, is in town soliciting subscriptions
for that paper. To the intelligent miner, a paper like
the Press is particularly valuable, keeping him posted on
the latest discoveries in reduction of ores, new machin-
ery, etc. — Grass Valley National.

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solicitors of foreign and American patents and conduct
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to mining and scientific interests did not exist. Vast
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capitalists and ethers, for lack of proper practical and
scientific information about the mines and their devel-
opments. This necessity has been fully met by the Min-
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us Monday evening, that its merits are so well appre-
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New Mining Advertisements.

Glen wood Mill and Mining Gompauv. Green.

wood, El Dorado County, California.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting. of the Board of
Trustees of said Com puny, held on the nineteenth day oi
February, 1859. an assessment of twenty-five dollars per
share was levied upon the capital stock of said Company,
payable immediately. In United Satesgold and silver ooin,
to the .Secretary, Room II, No. 431 Calilorula street. Sun
Francisco. . „

Any stock unon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the second day of April, isra, "hall be deemed
delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale at public
auction, and unless payment -hull be made before, will be
sold on Monday, the twenty-sixth day ot Apill, 1869, to
pav the delinquent assessment, together with costs oi ad-
vertlslng and expenses of sale. By order ot the Board of
Trustees. WILLIAM VALE, Secretary.

Office, 424 California street, San Francioco. febff

8tur Circk M In tar Company.— Location : Star

I>1*| net. Stale of Nevada.

Notice la hereby Riven, that at a merlins of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty-sixth day of
icnt of one dollar and fifty ccn's
per »har<- ■ m Mir capital stuck m gn

panv. pav«l>1r Immediate' v. in United Slauagold and silver
c«l». in the Si crctai* at Sun FraiuUco.

Any stock upon which said asseasintnl shall remain tin-
Mid on the twenty ninth . lav oi March. 186* shall bo
deemed delinquent, und win i,c dulv advertised for sale at
public auction, and unle« payment shall be made before,
will be sold mi M pen, |Rii9.

to nay rnciicllnqij*" together with coi-Tsnf Hd -

von king and expenses or sale. By order of the Board of
Trust ces.

, „• „ r, „ Hn«*rE Morrison. Secretary.

Office, N. E. cor. Front and Jackson streets.

N B.— The assessment levied on the seventeenth Inst,
has been rescinded, by order of the Board of Trustee-.

febZT

Mining Notices— Continued,

Chalk Mountain Blue Gravel Company.— Lo-
cation of Works: Nevada County, California.
None*.— There are delinquent, npon the following de-
scribed slock, on account of assessment levied on the
thirteenth day of January, 1W9, the several amounts
set opposite the names of the respective shareholders a«
follows: - — ' ■ -

Nnmea No. Certlfieatfl. No. Shares. Amonm.

E C MeComb ») lji; -«:5 on

EC McCin ... 91 '!$>£ 5* '.*

),Vl 3 0 L'l)

II W Hall IS 25 &>U)

John R Mead ', ,.\9 25 50 tjy

J II Pfar-on 64 2>i 5 -u

Wealey Henderson 67 100 200 Oi

Alhtnus Ingle 71 6 10 I 0

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
oi Trustees, made on the thirteenth day of Jannary, 1869,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as maybe
necessary, will bo sold at public auction, by Messrs.
OIney .It Co., auctioneers. No. 426 Montgomery street, on
Monday, the eighth day of March, I869,jat the hour of 12
o'clock M. of said day. to pay said delinquent assess-
ment thereon, together with cost* of advertising and ex
pensesof sale. - . — — ^_ .

J. M BUFFINGTON. Secretary.

Office, S7 New Merchants' Exchange, California street,
San Francisco. feb20

Chloride Mountain Tunnel and Mining Com-

pany.— Location of Works: White Pine Mining District,

Lander County. Nevada.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees" of said Company, held on the eccond day of
February. 18», an nssessment of llftv cents per share was
levied upon the capital stock of said Company, payable
itely, in United State* old andslvercnln. to the
Secretary, at his office. No 6)5 Kearny street, S«n Francls-
c

Any stock upon which saidatsessment *hatl remain un-
paid on the thirteenth day of...March. l«69. shall he
deemed rhpJinoiient, «nd will be dtilr advertised lor sal«
:\t public miction, arid unless payment shall lie m:iUe be-
i-ii. will be sold cAi Saturday, the tenth dav of April.
1869. to pay the delinquent assessment, together with
costs of advertising and expenses of .sale. By orderol the
Board of Trustees.

JAMRS RICE. Secreisrv.

Office, No 615 Kearny street, Sui Franci-co. Iebl3

Golden BuleMtntno; Company, Tuolumne Coun-
ty, California— Regular Bimonthly divMond (No. 18! nf
the Golden Rule Mming Company, of Tuolumne County,
Cal., of 2)4 percent, per month, or fifty cents per share,
is now declared, and will be paid to the Stockholders on
and after the 26th tost Office, 432 Montgomery street.
Room No. 5. . • :;

J. B. RUSSELL, Secretary.

W. T. Rosworth, President.

A. S. pHirim, Superintendent of Mine. fct>20

I. X. I-. Gold and Silver Mining" Company.—

Location of Mine : Silver Mountain District, Alpine

County, California.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the nineteenth day of Jan-
uary, I8C9, an assessment of one dollar and fifty cents (StJSO)
per share was levied upon tne capital stock of said Com-
pany, payable immediately. In Unl'e'd Stj»»es gold and
silver coin, to the Secretary, at his office. Pioneer Ball,
Mon-gomery street. San Francisco, California. » a

Any aloes UPOU which said assessment shall remain
anna id on the twenty-seventh day of February. 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent,' and will be duly advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless payment shall be made be-
fore, will be sold on Wtdnt-sday, the seventeenth|dav of
March,,, 1869, to pay the delinquent assessment, together
with cost* of advertising and expenses of sale. By order ot
the Board of Trustees.

J. CROWNINSHIELD. Secretary.

Office, Pioneer Hall, Montgomery street, up stairs. San
Francisco, jan30

Mount Temibo Silver Mining Company.— Lo-
cation of Works: Cortez District, Lander County, State

of Nevada. g^M ■ ^amr

Notico Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on Ihe twenty-third day of
January, 18C9, an assessment ofseventy -five cents per share
was levied upon the capital Mock of said Company, pay-
able Immediately, in Uni'ed Mtates gold and silver coin, to
the Secretary, at the office of the Company, *26 Montgom-
ery street, San Francisco.

Ailv stock upon which snid assessment shatl remain
unpaid on the fifth (Alh) dav of March. JS69. shall he
deemed delinquent, nnd will be duly advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless pavment shall be made be-
fore, will be sold on Tuesday, the thirtieih (with) day of
March. 1869. to pav the dellnoiiDnt assessment, together
with costs ot advertising and expenses of sale. By order
of the Board ol'Trusteea

R. N VAN BRUNT, Secretary.

Office 426 Montgomery street, San Francisco. ian3T

SOU $80-100

41 '0 400 00

200 200 00

North American Wood Preserving Company.

Location of Works: Sun Francisco, California.

Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stook, on account of assessment levied on the
fifteenth day of January, 1869, the several amounts set
opposite the names of the respective shareholders, as fol-
lows:

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

JohnLSamuels not issued

ticorge W Dent 1

Henry 8 Dent not Issued

And In accordance with law, and an order of the Board of
Trustees, made on the fifteenth day of January. 1869. so
many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be necessary
will be sold at puhllc auction, at the office of the Com-
pany, No. 410 Montgomery street, San Francisco, Cal., on
Monday, the eighth day of March, 1869, at the hour of
12 o'oloek M. of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment
thereon, together with oosts of advertising and expenses

01 Sale" WM. B. LAKE, Secretary.

Office, 430 Montgomery street. San Francisco. feb20

Bv Express.— Two cents per copy will be added to rnr
usual rates of subscript ion (to pay Wells, Fargo ACu'sin iff
on papers .sent bv express. If connectine expresses- in 'ha
nteriormake additional charges, subscribers must |l.em
selves settle the same.

142

Tlc\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinery.

VARNEY'S

PATENT AMALGAMATOR

These .Machines Stand Unrivaled.

For rapidly pulverizing and amalgamating ores, they
have no equal. No effort has been, or will be, spared to
have them constructed in the most perfect manner, and of
the great number now in operation, not one has everre-
quired repairs. The constant and increasing demand lor
them is suiticient evidence of their merits.

They are constructed so as to apply steam directly Into
he pulp, or with steam bottoms, as desired.

This Amalgamator Operates as Follows :

The pan being tilled, the motion of the muller forces the
pulp to the center, where Itis drawn down through the ap-
erture and between the gritmiug surfaces. Thence it 1b
thrown to the periphery into the quicksilver. The curved
plates again draw it to the center, where it passes down,
and to the circumference as betore. Thus it is constantly
passing in a regular rlow between the grinding surfaces and
into the quicksilver, until the ore is reduced to an impalpa-
ble powder, and the metal amalgamated.

Setters made on the' same principle excel all others.—
They bring the pulp so constantly and perfectly in contact
with quicksilver, that the particles are rapidly and coin
Dletely absorbed. , „

MilUneu are invited to examine these pans and setters for
themselves, at the JPACIFIC io UMDRI,

Ivl San Francisco.

ELLERY'S PATENT

India Rubber Cement and Faint

TIN, IRON AND METALLIC tROOFS,

lion, Brick and Wooden UuiWlhujs,
SBI I PS, STEAMBOATS, STAGES, CAJIS,

AND FOR ALL EXPOSED SURFACES.

Is water-proof and indestructible; will neither rot, peel,
nor crack: will withstand any climate; can be put on in

any color, and is luss expensive than other Fault.

New Cloth Roof* put on. Old Kooft cemented
and pointed. J.eiil.y Hoofm made tight.

agp* No Coal Tar or Asphaltum used. All work guaran-
teed. Orders punctually attended to.

t GEO. T. .UROBfXEX* Aarent,

Battery street, corner Jackwn.
24vl7-3m San Francisco.

CALIFORNIA TOOL WORKS,

Blacksmith and Machine Shop,

143 Scale St., but. Mission nnd Howard,

SAN FBANCIBCO.

All kinds of Edge or oiber Tools made to order. Par-
ticular attention paid to pu- ting in order AOHIC. LI ORAL
MACHINERY. Job Grinding and Polishing by sieain.
Orders from the Country promptly! attended to *S"A)1
work warranted. __

21vl7 qy O". WEICIIHAWT, Proprietor.

Boiler

PATENT

Bcraper and Tube-Cleaner.

Staudard Milting Machine.

UNION VISE COMPANY,

, «M OF BOSTON, MASS.
Extrajaw, and heavy Vises, Warranied for heavy work.
New st vie Wood- and Covered Screw Vises, forty styles and
kinds; Standard Milling Machines, simple, great capacity,
power* und-streng U— two alzas, large, 2,300 lbn; small, 9su
lbs. For sale by the trade.
23vlti-ly G, H. NOTT, Pres.

BLAKE'S QUARTZ BREAKER !
IPBICES REDUCED!

MACHINES OF ALL SIZES FOR SALE
— ay —

WM. P. BLAKE,

Corner First and MtuMon itreeti, or Box £,0?7
SvlSf SAN FRANCISCO.

PACIFIC FILE WOBKS,

No. 53 Benlo Street, bet. Market nad Minion,
SA.N FUANCrSGO.

Files Re-cut and warranted as good as new with a saving
of fifty per cent. REAl'EK AND MOWEK SECTIONS
MAUU'fo ORDER. The only establishment on the Coast,
orders from the country promptly ati^iuled tu. «aF* First
Premium awarded at tin* Slate Fair, i$i37.

2vl7-4in T. «. lHJttJVtAO Or CO

Removal,

NELSON~& DOBLE,

AGENTS FOE

Thomas Firth & Sons1 Cast Steel, Files,

Etc., Shear, Spring, German, Plow, Blister and Toe Calk

Steel; manufacturers of

Mill Picks. Sledges. Hammers, Picks,

Stone Cutters', Blacksmiths' and Horse-Shoers' Tools,

Have removed to 10 and 15 Fremont street, near

.Market, San Frauoiaeo.

ItlvUqr

MACHINERY AGENCY.
W. O. M. BERRY & CO.,

Are the manufacturers' agents for Richardson, Merriam

& Co's celebrated

WOOD WORKING 31AC1I1XERT,

Embracing every description of Planers, Matchers and
Murlisera, Moulding, Teiloulna, Boring, Shaping, Vertical
tind Circular Kunming Mucmues; scroll, Railwuv, Cut-off
and Bin saws, etc., eic. Agents for the Swttmicot (Jo's

Improved Portable Bngir^es,

Warranted fully equal to any in the market; Dtivis & Fur-
bur's Woolen Machinery; Blake's Patent Steam Pumps;
Kilburn' - and Warren's f urbtne Water wheels, cto , etc.

Orders for Machinery of any kind will receive prompt
attention Maclunes tor special purposes built io order.
Sonl tor Illustrated Cttuloyue W. U, M. BEKKV&CO.,

Svlts-m H4 Call ornia st., s'an Francisco,

IVotioe to 3Iiuei's,

Well-Borers and Water Companies.

MPRAQ IS NOW PREPARED TO MANUFACTURE
. Hydraulic and Artesian Well Pipes in the best work-
manlike manner, «ud at the lowest market rates. Having
made large additions to my stock of machinery for that
branch of business, I am prepared to till all orders with dis-
pute!!, .tud guarantee entire smlsruotiuu. I also manufac-
ture Mississippi Stoves, ol the latest improved patterns, for
vessels of all classes. Also, Ship Plumbing done.

ML. I'HAti,
8vl3-ly Stovo Store, No. 1 Clay street, beiow Davis.

41%

IT TSTHE CHEAPEST, MOST
durable, easiest to adjust, and
cleanest apparatus to use tor the
r aawug.IU "*^T purpose designed, yet offered to
X?"" £% Co ,he public. Being constructed on

^^flgjB^£fc»n'<£> simple mid mechanical principles,

it i- not liable to get out oi order,
nnd will continue to perform its
office until the materials are worn
out. It can readily be adjusted,
even by any inexperienced per-
son—will scrape off the scales and
cleanse the tubes just as smooth
and clean as thev were when
new, without in the least affecting
their inncrsurface, as the Elliptic
Spring Scraper has a smooth
square edge, and springs in or out
Io flt the tubes. It is particularly
applicable for steamboat boilers
when muddy water is used. -

A continuous Iron rod runs
ill rough the center of the top and
bottom hubs. The suft steel scrap-
ers are fastened with screws to
the hubs, under the caps, which
cover and protect the screws that
fasten the scrapers on the hub.
The scrapers arc expanded or con-
tracted bv-screwliisr or unscrew
inu the lower huh.— flrstloo'cnfng
the cap. There is.a collar on the
rod to prevent the scrapers being jammed. An elastic or
flfxibie -hrusli or scraper, madeol leather, rubber, or some
pliable miilerial. isastached to the nut for the purpose ol
removing from "he tube the scale and dust loosened by the
action ol' the scrapers '■• ,• .,

These scrapers are made from one tn six inches in diam-
eter— the prices ol those from onetoihree Indus rangint;
from $5 to $12. They arc now extensively used in tlio
E stern Stales. Quito a number have already been sold in
this State.

For snle by McAfee, Spiers A Co , boiler makers. Howard
street, between Fremont and Bcale, San Francisco, and at
the Union Foundry, Sacramento. B. M. D., P. a. box 17,
San Francisco, Manufacturers' Agenis. Mvl7tl

BLAKE'S PATENT

S T E A. M PUMP!

This Pi mo is warranted superior to any in the market,
for Breweries, Sugar ll< uses. Tanneries, Boiler-Feeders,
Steamboats, Mining and Fire purposes, etc. It throws a
full stream ol the thickest beer mash without clogging,
a«d sugar syrup boiling hot without difficulty.

Warranied a pcisiilvo Pump under all circumstances; It
never stops nor eets out of order, and by reason of the pa-
tent device in the valves, is kept clear and always ready
for action. It is SIMPLE, COMPACT and POWERFUL,
and needs no expert io run It.

BSrlf one falls to do the work for which it is sold. It may
be reiurni d and the money will be refunded Mny be seen
in operation at Risdon's, or Union Iron Works, or at
W. O. M. BKUKY «fc CO'S,
Agents (or Pacific Stales,

Svl8-3ih 114 California street, san Francisco.

GLASGOW
Iron and Metal Importing Company

Xiih, 3S nnd 27 Fremont street*

SAN FRANCISCO,

Keep constantly on hand a la^ge stock of best Bar and
Bundle Iron, Boiler Tubes, Plate and Sheet Iron, Gas and
Water Pipe, Anvils, Cast Steel, Gas and Water FitUnf*.
which thoy offer to tho trade on liberal terms.

21 vie ■■•Mn W. McCRINDLE, Manage.

PATENT RIGHT

— FOB —

MAWUFAGTURIMG PROOF SPIRITS

FOR ©A.X/E.

Attention U called to MARTIN'S NEW PATENT for a
process for Distilling Alcohol (85 per cent, or higher), with-
out rectifying, which is offered for sale on favorable terms.
Samples may be seen, and further information obtained, at
No. 4S3 Washington street.

36vl7 E. M. DEWET.

CIGAR AND CIGARETTE
K oiler it ii tl W x* a p j> e r .

This useful little article is tile GREATEST INVENTION
of the age for the benefit of smokers, reducing the cost of
Cigars and Cigarettes tot lie mere cost ot the Tobacco: Very
convenient to carry In the Powdbt, producing no smell, and
adapted to the use of any tobacco, in two sizes and three
stvle-s— Japanned, Brass, ami Silver plated. Sample ma-
chines, with 100 wrappers, sent free ot postage on receipt
ol"$2. The highest prize awarded at the Fair of the Amer-
ican Institute, September and October. 18(57. For particu-
lars, address H. 0. Witt, 57 Cedar street. New York.

Beware of infringements. All genuine have my name
printed on the bauds.

E. M. DEWEY, Agent for Pacific States, 4J83 Washington
street. San Frsnclsco. 24vl7-6m

Elkctrotvpe Engravings, Cuts, Etc.— Our Job Printing
Ottice is abundantly supplied with elegant engravings, or
naments, and other embellishments te suit the various
branches of industry In this State

Trades and Manufactures.

WM. 8ARTLIMO. HBNRT KIMBALL.

BARTLING & KIMBALL,
BOOKBINDERS,

Paper Rulers and Blank Book Manufacturers.

505 Cluy street, (southwest cor. Sallsotoe),
15vl2-3m SAN FRANCISCO.

JOHN DANIEL,

(SUCCESSOR TO O. GOBI)

MARBLE WORKS,

No. 421 Fine st. bet. Montgomery and Kearny, San Francisco

H;iiite)«, MonnmentH, Tombs, Fliiml>ern»81a.b»

Etc., On hand and Manufactured to order,
j^- Goods shipped to all parts of the State. Orders re
spectfullj solicited. 6v8r3m

Palmer's Patent

ARTIFICIAL LEG,

Manufactured In PHUmltl]*!. in, Penn.
JARVI8 JEWETT, AGENT.

218 Montgomerj* Street, Ban Francisco. 1Qv8-1dq

J. M. STOCKMAN,

Manufacturer of
PATTERNS AND MODEM,

(Over W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry,
S. K. Corner of mission and Fremont sts..

6Tl«f SAN FRANCISCO.

J. F. PAGES,

SEAL ENGKAVER,
A XI) I.ETTEK CUTTEK.

Brass and Steel Stamps and Dies, 608 Sacramento street,

San Francisco. Orders by express promptly attended to.

6vl6

DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITURE.
JOHNSON & BEST,

Manufacturers of all kinds of
"Oodles and Office Furniture,

tit Market n*reet,ne«r Third.

Warerooin* np sialrs. A large variety of Desks always on

hand; all kiuds ot ( llllce Furniture and Cabinet

Work made to order.

lSvIiur

Novelty and Usefulness Combined.
Wilson's Prepared JSoiclex-

DUpemei with the Soldering Iron.

It will save you both time and luiior. uiie i.oiiic of this
Solder will mend all the tins you have laid one fide for
months, and make them good as new.. Get them out and
mend them. It is cheap— only SO cents a bottle; it is con-
venient and coiupuet. Use any Kind oi' lump thnt has a
blaze no larger ihtiu a single wick; a spirit lump will make
noamoke. You mav mend n dish or can over the liest liihlc
without ("car of spoiling It. Try it, and voo will never want
a snldt-rillg iron in the house again What a saving
to farmers. No more stooping up of holes in milk 'pans
with ii rag. Milkmen can merd their own cans. It
does the prettiest job on an v article you have in the house,
from a pint di-h to a wash boiler Ii is a sure thine to stick
when rosl" and solder will not. It will stand heat us Well
hp «nv snider ever used over lire

Agencv ior the Pacific Coast. Room No. 10, No. 423 Wash-
in,'iL.n street. San Francisco. AGENTS WANTED.

Address p, (). box 17. 23vl7tf

LEA & PERKINS'

WOBCE8TEBSHIRE SAtJCE

Declared by connoisuurs
to be tlte only
GOOD sircE. to

3

The successor this most £
delicious anil unrivalled jv
condiment having caused ^
certain dealers to apply iho name of "War- ^
cestershire sauce to tlieir own Inferior a
compounds, the public is hereby informed "i
that the only way to secure the genuine, to
is to ask for ctj

JLen «fe Perrlna' Sauce, £

o
and see that their names arc upon the "J3
wrHPPer, labels, stopper, and bottle. si

So.ne of the lorelgu markets having been ni
siiiiplied with a spurious Worcestershire O
Sauce, upon the wrapper and labels of
which the names of Lea and Perrlns have been foreed, L
and P. give nolice that they htve furnished their corres-

fondentsv-'ith power of attorney to take instant proceed-
ngs aguiust Maniiiaciurers and Vendors of such, or any
other imitations bv wtiieh tlieir rittlit ntav be infringed.

Ask for LKA. & PKRltlNS' Sauce, and sec uaine on (he
Wrapper, Label, Bottle, and Stopper,

Wholesale and for Export by the Proprietors. Worcester;
Orosse ii Bluekwi'll, Lnndun, etc.. etc.; and by Grocers and
Oilmen universally. Agents, CROSS ,fc CO. San Fran-
cisco. SvlS-lv

Our Patent Jt^cuiy.

The Patent Agency of the Mining ANn Scie«ti?ic Press
has been signalized with remarkable success during the
past few years. Tho Importance to the inventive genius of
this coast of a thorough and reliable agency for the soliclta
tion of Letters Patent from the United States and foreign
Governments cannotbcover-ratcd.and Hie Proprietors of the
Press, feeling the responsibility which restsupon them, and
the reward which must follow the faithful performance of
their trusts, will take care to afford Inventors every advan-
tage to be secured to them through a competent and re-
sponsible agency upon this coast.

Preservation of Timber with Sulphate
of Copper.

The following communication dated
Boise City,! T., February 4th, 1869, on
this subject, is of practical interest :

Editors Pkess: — In your issue of 23d
nit., is an article touching on the preserva-
tion of wood, headed "N. T. Society of
Practical Engineering. " The process there
referred to is similar to one for which my
grandfather held a patent in England and
France; and as it is very simple and also
very effective, and the patent is long since
passed away, I will give the general par-
ticulars for the benefit of those of your
readers unacquainted with it. The article
used was sulphate of copper in the propor-
tion of one pound of sulphate to eight
gallons of water. The ordinary process
was almost boiling the timber to be pre-
pared, for from one to three hours in the
solution and then plunging it into cold
water. A section of the wood then showed
the sulphate to have been driven into the
very center of the timber. Canvas and
other like material was prepared similarly,
by steeping in the solution for an hour or
two. A captain of a vessel bound to Mar-
tinique thus prepared one of his anchor
stocks, and on arriving at Martinique,
(where the "terredo navalis " abounds) used
two anchprs, one with a prepared stock,
and the other a new, sound, but unpre-
pared stock. The vessel lay there at anchor
for several months, and on weighing the
unprepared stock, it was found to be en-
tirely riddled, and almost destroyed by the
" terredo navalis," whilst the prepared stock
was untouched, and a microscopic investi-
gation showed that it was proof against the
insect. It has also been used for railway
sleepers, with the greatest success. The
value of this mode of preparation is its
cheapness as well as its perfect security
against rot. I have seen poplar wood thus
prepared, buried for a year or two in rotten
sawdust; when it was taken up it was
quite sound, whilst unprepared wood
placed with it, was quite destroyed by rot.

Wood, etc., can also be prepared by sim-
ply steeping it in cold solution for from
three to live weeks, according to its size.
Material thus prepared is also almost in-
combustible, h. w. o. M.

Chickort worse than a Cheat. — The
common adulterant for coffee is chickory.
The use of chickory is openly acknowl-
edged in some places, and even defended
by grocers on the score of health and econ-
omy. We have medical testimony that
chickory is extremely injurious to health.
Dr. Hassall says that its frequent use pro-
duces heartburn, cramp in the stomach,
loss of appetite, acidity in the mouth, con-
stipation with intermittent diarrhoea, weak-
ness in the limbs, trembling, sleeplessness,
a drunken cloudiness of the senses, etc.
Again, it is the opinion of an eminent ocu-
list in Vienna. Prof. Beer, that the con
tinual use of chickory seriously affects the
nervous system, and gives rise to blindness
from amaurosis. Its nxe ought, therefore,
to be discouraged, and grocers who sell it
for coffee ought doubly to be put under
the ban. — World.

Campttjlioon. — This substance is much
nsed in England (but is only of late intro-
duction into the United States) as a substi-
tute for carpets or oil clotha, especially in
public libraries and churches, as it dead-
ens the sound of footsteps to a remarkable
degree. It is made by a combination of
powdered cork and the poorer qualities of
india rubber, and is painted or ornamented
on the surface like oil cloth. A convenient
application of this substance is for clean-
ing knives, and is made by covering a strip
of wood with it; then sprinkling the sur-
face with the cleansing powder, and rub-
bing on the knife. The surface does not
wear away, and the result is very satisfac-
tory.— Iron Age, Jan. 28.

Natural Gas. — In Erie, Penn., there is
a large manufactory of workers in brass,
where the machinery is driven and the
buildings lighted by the gas from an un-
productive oil well. For more than two
years the proprietors have brought the gas,
by means of 3-inch iron pipes from an un-
successful oil well 1,200 feet distant from
the manufactory, and used it for fuel for
their boilers and as lights for tlieir works.

Bees and Water. — The American Bee
Journal, in referring to an instance where
a swarm of bees settled upon the head of a
horse standing in front of a church, and
the owner, who went to them was stung
senseless, says that all the difficulty could
have been obviated by the useof cold water
sprinkled upon them.

Tt\e Mining and Scientific Press.

143

I'leasCBE Anai.yzeii A<:cohdMO to Bci-
em-e. —A writer in the Q»«rti-rli/ Journal of
Psychological M-ilirine contributos B moDO-
prapli ori pleasure, i>D6 of tlie first attempts
nt summarizinR and explaining existing
views on the subjects. Describing pleas-
ure as that which is agreeable to os, he uc-
knowledaea the difficulty of defining it.
if the state of pleasure is noth-
ing moro than a negation implying that
whatever is positively discordant with our
consciousness must be disagreeable to us.
The contrast of pain is not pleasure, neither
is the contrast of pleasure pain. They are
both properly contrasted with indifference.
It is easier to point out the sources of
pleasure, and these are, according to the
writer we refer to, five. 1, an instinct sat-
isfied. 2, a desire, a propensity, an appe-
tite gratified with the appropriate material.
:t, the special senses supplied with the ob-
jects adapted to meet the elective affinity
which seeks and accepts them. 4, a dis-
comfort or annoyance, a harassing or a dis-
agreeable condition removed. The writer
adds a fifth source, but he is, nevertheless,
prepared to find it disputed. It is certain
diseased states of the organism.

Cement for Leather. — Of many snb-
stsucea lately brought very conspicuously
to notice for fastening pieces of leather to-
gether, and in mending harness, joining
machinery belting and making shoes, one
of the best is made by mixing ten parts of
sulphide of carbon with one of oil of tur-
pentine, and then adding enough gutta
percha to make a tough thickly-flowing
liquid. One essential prerequisite to a
thorough union of the parts consists in
freedom of the surfaces to be joined from
grease. This may be accomplished by lay-
ing a cloth upon them and applying a hot
iron for a time. The cement is then ap-
plied to both pieces, the surfaces brought
in contact and pressure applied until the
joint is dry. I A VM

Test for Weje. — According to a Ger-
man chemist, a very simple test to deter-
mine whether wiue has been colored arti-
ficially or not, is furnished by adding
powdered superoxide of manganese to the
suspected liquor, shaking them together for
a quarter of an hour, and then filtering. If
the liquid be then light colored and trans-
parent, the color is natural; if darkened,
the contrary is the case.

CA-LHTOrUVIA.

BUSINESS UNIVERSITY

204 M< > affront cry Street.

Full particular* regarding 0 ir Prhotfcal Course of Studies
mm Ik.' It til bv culling at the Uiilvursily, or by Addressing
i, ■■ 17.| > U|. E. I', ii tiALLi, San Francisco.

DEWEY & CO.,

American and Foreign Patent Agents,

Messrs. DkWky ACo.,*l'ubllsliuranf tltfe MINING and SCI

ENTiKii: I'Kiiss.ihe only wHie-muliiiied successful patent
AriuiiK w*-8t ulllic Knck.v Mountain.", ulve Iuventornund Pa-
leuteeshoucst ajul rclmhle Hd vice, tree Thr. Patent Uu-I-
tteiH In all lis lefr.lt imaTc branches N transacted t>v us Intel-
li^eilLly mid skillfully, in an aide and straiildnor .Mini
milliner. Paleuta secured In J-.VEKY COUNTKY IN THE
World where Patent Lawscxfat. Being long eatabllanefl,
and transacting a large bualneasv our appolutrm?n'*arc now
thorough throughout, sasc. prompt and responsible. Con-
tmltutioiis by leiter or otherwise, arc kenl luvi,, lately se-
crct. Circulars containing inkoumatih.* fuii invkntobs sent
in'f. Valuable Inventions, patented through our agency,
will be Illustrated ur explained through the columns of the
Jtinim/ and Scientific PrcM, a juuriial must widely circulated
throughout the Pacific Coast, among mechanics, miners.
iiiHitinaclurertt, and commercial men.

Inventors on tliu Pacific Cna-tt, located at great distance
from the Patent otticc. of all others, should be caret ul to
av ,id Inexperienced, dishonest, or otherwise unreliable
and liresiio>i)ilbic amenta. ^*m

DEWEY & CO.,

Patent Agents, Publishers und Printers, 414 Clay street
below Suiisoiiic. Sun Francisco.

A. T, lo-.wi-.V. W. B KWKR.

OCCIDENTAL

Insurance Company,

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office 8. w. corner uf Mi>ntBom«ry and
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All Losses paid In U. s. Gold Coin.

CHB. CHRISTIANSEN, President.
B. Bi.THScnlLn, Secretary* 20rl7-3m

MEOHaNIOAL AND AROHITEOTUKAL

Drawing School

— FOR —

MR. FREDERICK HELLERT,

An experienced Draughtsman and Teacher, has opened an
Evening School at No. 414 CLAY STUEET (same entrance
ns the Mining and Scientific Frcsa Office), whore he ia i ty-
ing thorough instructions in DRAWING to apprentices who
are Inclined to .self-improvement. His terms are moderate
and within reach of the humblest apprentice; «nd we are
pleased to say that the enterprise is meeting with iucccss.
Ivl8.tf

ROOT'S PATENT FORCE RLAST ROTARY BLOWER.

Patented Nov. 1st, 1S04 ; July 34, 1866; and Oct. 9, 1866.

Awarded the Fii^t Pr-oraiuoi at tlie Paris Exposition.

S

Reqvires

Fifty For Cent.

LESS POWER

Than any Blower

SiteamKliips

One of these Blowers may be seen, on exhibition at W. T. Gamut's Brass Foundry, corner of

Mission and Fremont streets. They nre also in use at the Almaden Quicksilver Mine ; Griillcy's
Foundry, Gold Hill, Nevada ; iEtna Iron Works, San Francisco, and many other places.

Caution. — Purchasers will find it to their advantage to apply direct to tlie Stockton Agency. aB
certain parties, not authorized to in mufaeture the Blower, have put in the market machines of inferior
construction, which do not answer all the requirements of the genuine article.

For circulars and further information, address

KEEP & BARGION,

4 v 10 3m Globe Iron Worki, Stockton, Cat.

STOOD ART'S IRON WORKS.

CAMERON'S

Special Steam Pump.

PICIfERING'S

Engine Regulator.

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Steam Gauges, Steamboat Machinery, Morrison & Seller's Patent Steam Hammers,
Seller's Patent Bolt Screwing Machines, Lathes, Planers, Shafting and Hangers, Cooper
& Phillips' Turning Tools, Machinists' Tools, Engines and Boilers, Wheeler's Patent
Tumbling Beam-Engine for Screw Propellers.

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Metallurgy.

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PIONEER MINING- SCHOOL,

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VET.ILLUROIO WOBK8.

Having established Hie first Practical Mining and Metal
Inrplcal School in iho United State*, I would call Die at
u-uikm or i^-n tit-nun wlm may wish to obtain a oractlca
>w ledge of

Chemistry, Assaying and Metallurgy,

That I am prepared to teach all the above branches In less
tloib limn In anv Euopean School.

I a i«tu undertake to amuy and work any kind of ore, or
mineral substances.

For terms, apply to JOS. MOSHKIMKK,

Practical Chemist and Metallurgist.

Office, 343 Montgomery street; Mctallurgic Woikn. 2005

owt-11 street, Han Pranclfco Cvl8-6m

LEOPOLD KUH,
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(Formerly of the U. 8. B. Mint, S. P.)

OflBce, No. Oil Coiuraerclnl Street, opposite

the Mini, Sua Francisco.

It I LLImn MELTED AND ASSAYED,
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AH kinds of Ore and Mineral lu8iou\ assayed and analyzed
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PROF. HENRY WURTZ,

Formerly Chemical Examiner in the H. S. Patent Office
nuiy be employed r>rofeanio«fllly as a BCiEjirinC Eipkrt.
Geological lixjiminatiunsand Reports, Analysianml Assnyn,
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Important to Gold and Silver Min-
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PROFESSOR WTJRTZ,

Who lithe Inventor If no Patentee of the new nml wonder
fUl use* of SODIUM TN WORKING GOLD AND SILVER
ORES AND JEWELERS" SWEEPINGS, will furnish afthe
above addrcsa nformntlon In relation thereto, together

with experimental imekaKcaof

SODIUM AMALGAM.

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apurlonsand unreliable. WORKING EXPERIMENTS ON
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tlmi in New York a larjre and small Hepburn Pan, for work
In? 1.0**0 or 2u-)b. charges of material lor experimenta

purposes.

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Tr\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Contributions for cur Cabinet.

No. 360. — Miargyrite, from the Eising
Star mine, Flint, Idaho. Pahlerz, or gray
argentiferous copper, is found in the upper
levels, and the miargyrite at greater depths.
It is easily distinguished from fahlerz by
its giving a rusty red streak, and from
ruby silver by its gray color. Presented
by Guido Kustel.

No. 361. — Aphanite, from a dyke which
crosses the vein containing the above, but
which appears to be of older formation
than the vein. Guido Kustel.

No. 362. — Iron amalgam, from the work-
ing of fahlerz at the Rising Star mine.

No. 363. — Gold in banded quartz, from
the Pacific mine, Placerville, out of a drift
300 feet below the surface ; one of the
first quartz mines worked in El Dorado
County, or in California, having been
worked for over two years by the present
manager, Mr. Stephens. In drifting from
the main shaft, 300 feet deep, at a distance
of 85 feet north, a "horse," in miners,
parlance, was encountered; but within the
past two months the workmen have been
" raising on the ledge, " and at a hight of
about 20 feet a fine ledge developed, carry-
ing five to eight feet of pay ore, working
over $18 per ton at the last run. This
fixes the existence of a large body of good

ore. . jam ■■ |U(|(r»|Bai

No. 364.— Diollogite (carbonate of man-
ganese), from Penitencia Creek, Santa
Clara County. . J. H. C. Bennett

No. 365. — Asbestus, from near Monte-
zuma, Tuolumne County, where a large
deposit is found in taloose slate. Presented
by W. O. Sleeper.

Danqebods Coal Oils.— At last some-
thing has been done in New York towards
the checking of the outrageous frauds
which have been practiced upon the public
in the matter of kerosene. Although the law
distinctly declares the manufacture or sale,
for illuminating purposes, of oil which is
inflammable at a less temperature than 110"
Pah., to be a misdemeanor, punishable by
fine and imprisonment, it is notorious, not
only that oil imperfectly freed by distilla-
tion from the lighter oils is sold, but even
that some dealers actually purcliase, at a
low price, these light oils from the con-
scientious refiners, and add them to heavy
oils, which are then sold for domestic use !
A recent case of the fatal burning of a girl,
has brought up the matter. On investiga-
tion before the courts, the oil in question
was found to burn at 80° Pah., instead of
110°; and to vaporize at 68°, whereas that
point should be at least 96°. The coroner
very properly, — says the Gas Light Jour-
nal,— "held the manufacturers ofj this ex-
plosive compound, Eeisser & Co., of Wil-
liamsburgh, to bail in the sum of $5,000
each, and the retail dealer from whom it
was purchased, Schoonmaker, in the sum
of $2,000, to await the action of ,the Grand
Jury."

The American Artisan says that seventy-
eight samples of kerosene from as many dif-
ferent retail dealers in New York, were tested
by the Board of Health. " Of these one ig-
nited at a temperature of 18°, while a large
majority of the others showed a burning
point between 44° and 100°; very few indeed
going higher than the latter, and only one
specimen in the entire list possessing all the
characteristics essential in an absolutely
safe burning oil. Other samples were sub-
jected to analysis to determine the relative
proportion in them of the dangerous fluids,
and some of these showed the presence of
benzine, gasoline, naphtha, etc., in quanti-
ties varying from six to ninety per cent.
The specimen containing the last-mentioned
percentage was about as appropriate to the
burner of a keroseDe lamp as a coating of
nitro-glycerine would be to the top of a
blacksmith's anvil.

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In towns or citieB where there is no free delivery by
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MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, 1868,

ALSO AT THE STATE FAIR FOB 1868,

To jr. h;etvi>y.

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A LARGE NUMBER OF THESE
IMPROVED CONCENTRATORS

AIE IN FJIAIT1CAL X'SE OJJ THE PACIFIC COAST.

Mb. Hendy, by diligent and practical application, has improved his Concentrators
until they now stand unrivalled, far in advance of any yet brought to public notice.
By recent alterations in the patterns for these machines, they are now made
Stronger and more Durable than Ever.

Office of North Stai» Mine, Ghass Valley, Nov. 12, 1868.
Josiifa Hendy, Esq. — Dear Sir :— I take pleasure in certifying to the efficiency of the two Inst
Concentrators ordered Irom you. We have run them steadily since July Inst, with hut a very trifling
expense for repairs. The additional length of step is n decided improvement. The first six sent to
us have run stendily for nearly nine months, and are still doing good work. * * * The concen-
trations from the eight pans alone much more than psy our entire surface expenses. Without them
we should lose a large proportion by any system of concentration now in use. The eight Concentra-
tors receive the pulp from our 24 stamps, which are crushing 1.040 tons per month. Our sales of
Sulphurets last month amounted to 70 tons, "or nearly'7 per cent, of the mass crushed. The sul-
phurets from the reooncentration, contained about 10 per cent. Band. In addition to their properties
as concentrators, they have done us good service as amalgamators, they having saved us the past
mouth 50 ounces of hard amalgam, worth $350, which otherwise would have been lost.

Respectfully yours, J. H. CKOSSMAN, Supt. N. S. Mine.

HENDY, Patentee.

Office at Union Iron Works.

DEWEY & CO.

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San Francisco, Saturday, March 6, 1869.

VOLUME XVIII.
Number lO.

Table of Contents.

Tli.- (lowland Rotary Buttery

lllimratcd.
Tin; VU-cliunii.'ii A^IruTiumiciil

can <*.'.- of Oeolnntcnl Chang'

u and Bturlbguakea,
Bxploalveaand MiHr l/ses.
The koiM Pine Hint
Bow Wbjte Pine Incorpora

llom an formed.
Loiter [torn Idaho.
Uouni Diablo Hoal Hlnea,
a Private Word about White

Pine.
T)it- I.ucIiit Steam Plow.

California Academy ui Natu
ml Sciences.

Time by TelekTnph.

The Rfvot Hydrogen-Burn

tin; Roasted.
Remarkable Wait Springs.
Resources and Developments
TelocIpedLnn.
Railroad Items.

EjtOINKKItCNO MlSOKLLANT.—

upcrtlons at Llvermorc
I'a-ifl; Mission Rock; Piling
Tor Foundations, etc.

MKCHAMICIL MlSCFLLANT —

Heaton Procow; Pumping
Engine*: Belting; Sharpen-
ing of Piles by Corrosion;
Printing In Color*; Cement
for Leather.
Sciitdiiric Mitvi.i.am —
Obemlcal Reactions Pro-
duced by Llgbt; National
Itistbute of Sciences, Let-
ters and Art.

Minute 8 tnutiaT— Comprising

late intelligence Iroin Hie
various •-■ ui hi t.,- , and dis-
tricts In Cnllloriila, BrIMi
Columbia, Colorado, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, New
Mexico, Oregon, Wyoming
mul Wu-diington.

Now Patents and Inventions.

San Francisco .Mining Shate-
holders' Directory.

San Francisco -Metal Market.

San Francisco Market Rates.

Notices to Correspondents.

Stock Prices— Bid and Asked.

New Incorporations.

The Howland "Rotary Battery."

This invention, of which we present an
illustration, recommends itself especial-
ly to oar attention at the preseut time.
It is conceded throughout the world that
the American quartz milling machinery
developed and produced in the foundries
of San Francisco, is superior to anything
of the kind in use in any other country.
The stamp-mill is really the simplest of all
machines, the commonest, and the most
ancient of devices for crushing coarse sub-
stances fine; and its application has been
very extensive in the arts outside of min-
ing. In economy and efficiency, and for
general application, it has held its ground
against all subsequent inventions of our
inventive century having the same pur-
pose in view.

But the lumbering old wooden quartz
mill of the Erz Mountains, though very
cheap aud durable,— and not by any means
unworthy of consideration to-day for dis-
tant mountainous regions possessing water-
power minus capital, — was not the thing
for Washoe. Mechanically ingenious
Americans who had roamed around the
world before trying silver ore reduction,
machinists, ex-sailors, and jacks of all
trades, took up the stamp-mill the moment
that there was "money in it," and made
out of it a perfect machine. The smooth-
working, and durable iron framing and
shafting; the rotary stamps, addinga grind-
ing effect to that of stamping; and a score
of other practical details, soon made out of
the Washoe stamp mill as pretty and as
thorough a piece of working machinery as
any one could desire to see. The truth of
modern industry asserted itself hereagain —
that steam and iron are the true and the
most economical agencies of development
wherever they can be advantageously ap-
plied. Ever since the palmy days of Char-
ley Strong's management, accordingly, the
mill has been everything with us, — our
ores are "milled," and the metallurgists are
"millmen."

The circular battery is a progressive
step in the construction of the stamp-mill;
and like the improvements shown in the
efficient and elegantly-working Washoe
quartz mill, the conception, and the pecu-
liar trait evidenced therein, are eminently
American in their character. First, riek-
etiness and inefficiency were overcome, as

far as practicable. Now we add to the prin-
ciple of the stamp-mill the perfection of
simplicity aud economy in the method of
applying the elevating power to the stamps;
the greatest possible quantity of screen
surface to each stamp, the screens being

the foundry; aud besides, if properly con-
structed to avoid jarring, also of durability.
Another peculiarity of the circular stamp-
mill is, that in wet crushing with quick-
silver in the battery, it serves at the same
time as an amalgamator, in creating

spoken of in several certificates which have
been shown to us. In the new mills, one
of which was recently mentioned in the
Pbess, and is now on its way to Grant Dis-
trict, east of White Pine, there is more
by thejmet.il than heretofore in the mortar or base,
and the leakage, jar, loosen"
ing of bolts.and wear of guide-
boxes, heretofore complained
of, are obviated by simple de-
vices, such as wood-packing,
etc The claims in its favor
are that it costs one-half less
when set up and ready to run
—viz., $1,800 and $2,800 for
8 and 12-stamp mills, weigh-
ing 12,000 and 18,000 pounds
respectively, plus the freight,
and one or two days of work
in setting up — and that it re-
quires less power than the or-
dinary mill.

In explanation of the en«
graving, it is scarcely neces-
sary to add that there is a cen-
tral revolving shaft driven by
the bevel gear seen in the
middle, having two triangular
or wedge-shaped arm-attach-
ments, which elevate and drop
the stamps in turn, two (op-
posite ones) at a time. The
feeding is from the center, the
rock being shovelled in, or
brought on automatically, as
may be preferred.'

the outer circumference of a circle — an
important point, as millmen will recognize,
especially in dry crushing, for which this mill
is particularly adapted, though we believe
not inferior to the ordinary one for wet
crushing; the greatest economy of space, com-
pactness and comple(ene:s, as issued from

successive falling of the stamps, a current
of fluid pulp round the circuit of the dies,
which keeps the quicksilver and the ore in
constant and perfect agitation, and contact.
The circular stamp mill has stood the
test of practical operation at the Gold Hill
mill during seven years, and is highly

Kkmaekable Wall Speings
of immense depth and varying
level, are not uncommon
throughout Nevada, and are
to be accounted for as being
natural artesian wells. The
change of level in one of these
situated perhaps a hundred
miles east of Austin on the
old overland route, is Baid by
the station-kepeer, to have a
marked connection with the
direction of the wind. As ap-
plying to particular seasons,
or to continuous winds, this
fact could be easily accounted
for. Another of theBe wall
springs is on the Humboldt
and Honey Lake read. This
is a perfectly circular spring,
one hundred feet in diameter,
and of unknown depth; from
which flows a stream of about
one hundred inches of the
purest water, in which are
thousands of small fish. If
nature forms artesian wells in
Nevada, how much may yet
be done for that country in a similar
manner by art? Many a way-worn and
thirsty miner may profit by the hint
so strikingly furnished him. Some of
the dry barren soils of Nevada have been
found the richest in the world, under
moisture.

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Communications.

In this Departmknt we invite tlie rnKK discussion of all
proper subjects— correspondents alone being responsible for
the Ideas and theories they advance.

Written for the Mining and Scientific fress.

Mechanico-Astronomical Cause of Geo-
logical Changes, and Earthquakes.

It would seem that tbe following simple
circumstance in the physics of astronomy, —
furnishing a mechanical explanation of
geological changes not otherwise sufficiently
accounted for, and at the same time a very
possible constant cause of earthquakes, —
could not have been overlooked by the cos-
mogonists, from Laplace down; yet we do
not remember seeing or hearing the point
of our correspondent heretofore advanced.
The writer is known to our readers as
having furnished us, not long since, with a
method of obtaining perfect crystals of
gold artificially :

Editors Press : — I propose to set forth
a few ideas in relation to geological changes
and earthquakes, which I have not yet
heard advanced. We are living upon a
sphere which revolves around the sun, — not
in a perfect circle, but with an orbit of an
elliptic form; and at the same time it is
making 365 revolutions per annum, upon
its own axis.

Now the question naturally arises, does
one motion affect, or have any influence,
upon the other? I cannot but think it
does. Thus, as it passes from the flat side
of theellipsetotheends, — or in other words,
from a long curve to a short one, — the two
forces embodied in the earth must necessa-
rily have a twisting effect — the orbit mo-
tion ou the revolving motion, — conse-
quently gradually changing the position of
the poles and equator.

We have various facts that go to prove
that this change does take place; for in-
stance, we find the remains of plants and
animals imbedded in coal beds and rock in
the Frigid Zone, which are now known to
inhabit none but the Torrid Zone. How
came they there? Simply because the
equator was once there. Professor Agassiz
has also discovered the remains of immense
glaciers in the Andes of South America,
directly under the equator. How came
they there? Only by once having had
one of the poles at least nearer than at
present. Now admitting that this theory
of the changing of the poles is correct, let
us see what the effect would be upon the
globe. The earth is said to be about forty-
five miles thicker through at the equator
than it is at the poles; making twenty-two
and one-half miles depression of the ball
on each side of the equator; and as it is
about six thousand miles from the equator
to the poles, we have a down grade of about
nineteen feet to the mile. If the earth's mo-
tion were stopped, the water from the equa-
tor would commence rushing to the poles
and fill up that twenty-two miles and a
half, or until all parts of the surface of the
earth would be at an equal distance from
the center. But as the earth revolves at
the immense velocity of about one thou-
sand miles an hour, it throws back the
waters from the poles towards the equator
sufficient to counteract the attraction of
gravitation on the down grade to the poles,
and keeps up aperfect equilibrium; and the
waters remain comparatively of a uniform
depth. If the solid earth were not of
spheroid shape, but perfectly round, there
would be all land at the poles, and all water
at the equator.

The point thatlwish to advance, bearing
upon geology and the causes of earth-
quakes, is that as this change of the poles
goes on, the surface of the earth must nec-
essarily change with it, for if it did not, the
earth would get out of balance, or in other
words, would not run true, and would soon
make a wreck of itself. But if the earth is
a shell inclosing soft material, as most
geologists concede it to be, then the crust
would necessarily yield and conform itself
to that motion; and as the surface is com-
posed of two substances, a fluid and a solid,
of course the fluid, which predominates,
is always ready to yield to it, as we see ex-
emplified in our ocean currents, which are
constantly flowing from one part of the
world to another, to keep it in perfect bal-
ance. This, too, is probably the reason why
we have so much more water upon the sur-
face of the earth than land, for God never
made anything for naught. If the land
predominated, it would have an unsteady
motion, and would evidently destroy itself.
We have had an evidence of the changing
of the ocean currents since the earthquake
at St. Thomas, as it is said that the Gulf

Stream has changed several degrees since
that event, from its old course; and per-
haps in a few thousand years, or after a
few more such earthquakes, the stream
may be destroyed entirely, or flow in some
other direction to supply some deficiency
ereated elsewhere.

I have end avored to show the effect of
this change of motion upon the fluid part
of the earth; now let us see what effect it
would have upon tbe solid portion. Of
course that must yield and conform to it
also, but as it is not free to move like the
water, it will have a tendency to rise up
bodily at the equator and sink down at the
poles; but when it moves it goes in small
sections at a time, and gives way with a sud-
den jar or quaking motion. If it is in a
portion of the world that is rising, there
will be two distinct shocks; one is the up-
ward motion, the other is the vibration of
the rocks caused by that motion. If it is
in a portion of the earth that is sinking,
there will be but one shock at a time, a
sudden downward jar, for it tightens on the
surface and prevents any vibration ; and the
latter consequently are less destructive.
Upheavals loosen the surface, set it to vi-
brating, and are therefore more destructive
in their effects.

Thus the earth gives way, first in one
part, then in another, in one hemsiphere,
and then in another, on the land, and under
the ocean; and I venture to say that there
is not a day passes in the year but there
is an earthquake in some part of the world,
perhaps not an hour. If it should give
way in large sections at a time, they would
be so destructive that it would render the
world uninhabitable; but by a wise pro-
vision of nature the rocks are full of joints
and seams, allowing the crust of the earth
to move in comparatively small sections.

As I before remarked, we have twenty-
two and one-half miles of difference be-
tween the extreme elevation of the equa-
tor, to tbe extreme depression of the poles,
(deducting the difference between the free-
dom of the water, and the resistance of the
rocks to move) ; therefore an abundant mar-
gin to go upon, in concluding that there is
here cause enough to submerge tbe highest
mountains or make dry land of the lowest
depths of ocean. If the geologist will ap-
ply this principle to his science, be can
readily account for all the geological
changes which are constantly going on in
tbe earth; for as one portion of the earth
is lifted above the water, and as the vapors
of the ocean rise and float over the land,
the latter is condensed, falls in the shape of
rain, and washes off the loose particles into
the ocean, where each particle of a like
specific gravity will be deposited in strata
of like character, and by the immense
pressure of the ocean they will be speedily
converted into rocks, to be again sub-
merged. And thus the work goes on from
age to age.

The idea has been advanced that earth-
quakes are caused by electricity. Would it
not be better to say that the appearance of
electricity on such occasions is the result,
and not the cause of the earthquake. Let
us see which theory looks the most reason-
able. We know that friction excites elec-
tricity; and if an earthquake takes place,
there must be a powerful friction, in the
joints or crevices of the rocks. We see the
evidence of this immense friction of one
mass of rock upon auother, in working our
quartz veins. There will always be, in a
true fissure vein, on one side of it, a thin
stratum of clay, or very finely pulverized
rock, which I know of no way to account
for but by the friction of tlie adjoining
rock caused by the earthquakes. These
same veins themselves are nothing more
than immense cracks in the rock, caused by
the earthquakes, and filled again by the
circulation of the waters of the earth con-
taining minerals. Like the blood of tbe
human system, which is always ready to
repair any injury done to it, so the waters
of the earth — its blood — are ever ready to
perform a like office.

William A. Begole.
Nevada, Feb. 18th, 1869.

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Mechanical Progress in China. —
Amongst the numerous evidences of the
great changes that have begun in the
Flowery Kingdom is the report, by the last
steamer, that fresh artisans from Woolwich
have been engaged at the Nanking arsenal,
and that a small steamer, native owned,
managed and engineered, is running from
tbe Yangtze to Soochow, on the grand
canal.

More Smelting. — Swansea is a new town
in tbe White Pine district, about half a
mile above Silver Springs. Smelting
works are being erected there, and are
promised to be in operation in a few days.

[Written for the Mining and Scientific Press.]

Explosives and their Uses.

New York Society of Practical Engineer-
ing held a regular meeting on Tuesday
evening February 2d, at room 24, Cooper
in the chair. Tbe regular topic for the
Institute, the President, James A. Whitney,
eveniug was "Explosives and their Uses,"
and a paper on that subject was read by
Dr. Dubois D. Parmelee. The paper first
glanced at the histcry of gunpowder and
inflammable compositions generally, re-
ferring their origin to a very early date in
the history of the eastern nations. The
formation of a large volume of gaseous ma-
terial and its composition, and the effect of
heat on the dilation of the gases produced
was next discussed. The writer then passed
to a consideration of the accidents due in
many cases to the fact that precautions es-
sential to safety in the manufacture of tbe ex-
plosive have been neglected. A method has
been proposed for rendering gunpowerless
dangerous, consisting simply in diluting the
powder with finely pulverized sand or glass.
By this means the grains are separated from
each other, and although the process does
not prevent the burning of gunpowder
when a spark reaches it, has yet tbe effect
of retarding the combustion and preventing
a violent explosion. The great objection,
however, to this process, lies in the fact
that the sand is liable to become separated
from the gunpowder during transportation,
and the former dangerous properties of the
latter are renewed. The writer then gave
a description of several compounds and pre-
parations explosive in their character,
among which we notice the following: The
pulvis fulminas is composed of two parts
of carbonate of potassa, one of sulphur,
and three of nitre. When heated gently to
fusion it explodes with a deafening noise.
Augendre's white gunpowder, consisting of
chlorate of potash, ferro-cyanide of potas-
sium, and sugar; this was tried many years
ago, and failed. An invention of Mr.
Harsley and Dr. Ebrhardt, consists of a
mixture of chlorate of potash with organic
substances of a permanent character, such
as tannic acid. This mixture is stated to
be more powerful than gunpowder. An
application of chlorate of potash has been
proposed by M. Nochstaelter, a German
chemical manufacturer. In the process
for effecting this end, unsized paper is
soaked in and coated with the chlorate,
charcoal and sulphide of antimony, to-
gether with gum or some other substance
of a binding character. The paper rolled
up compactly burns with considerable vio-
lence. An explosive preparation which
has been employed to some extent in blast-
ing, consists of spent tan in small fragments
saturated with chlorate of potash. Gun
saw dust consisted of purified lignin con-
verted into a substance of 'the nature of
gun cotton, and then, when required for
use, impregnated with saltpetre or a mix-
ture of this with nitrate of baryta.

Gun cotton and its explosive properties
were then considered. One pound of this
material was stated to produce as much
gas as three pounds of gunpowder. It is
formed by exposing cotton prepared from
finely carded and carefully purified cotton
wool to the action of sulphuric and nitric
acid of certain specific gravities. During
the process of manufacture the cotton in-
creases in weight about 78 per cent. One
of the great difficulties in tbe way of using
gun cotton as an explosive is its rapid com-
bustion. One of the most successful ex-
pedients for modifying this is to dilute tbe
gun cotton with raw cotton. Cartridges
formed of this material burn more slowly
than cartridges forme;l of pure gun cotton.
A plau has also been put in practice for re-
ducing the gun cotton to a pulp, as in the
process of paper malting.

Tbe properties of nitro-glycerine as an
explosive agent were next discussed. It is
formed by tbe action of a mixture of strong
nitric and sulphuric acids upon glycerine,
the apparatus all the time being kept at a
low temperature. The nitro-glycerine forms
upon the bottom of the mixing vessels after
standing for a few hours. It has a sweet-
ish taste, no odor, and when placed upon
the tongue produces headache. When left
to itself it is exceedingly liable to spon-
taneous decomposition. Its destructive

action has been estimated at about ten times
that of gunpowder. Its frozen state is an
exceedingly dangerous condition, for then
a blow producing friction of the particles is
apt to cause explosion. The writer closed
his paper by describing the fnses employed
for exploding charges of nitroglycerine.
The Bishop fuse, now in use in tbis'eountry
to a considerable extent, has two copper
wires about five feet long insulated with
gutta percha. The ends of these wires are
fixed in a small wooden tube containing a
priming powder. This tube is inserted"in
a copper cap containing the fulminate.
The fuse is then connected with an electric
machine by long wires and tbe charges ex-
ploded by the passage of the electric spark.

The reading of the paper was followed
by some remarks on the subject of nitro-
glycerine by Col. Chester, a gentleman who
has bad much to do with the material in
blasting. He described the process by
which the mixture is kept cool durinu the
mingling of the ingredients. A glass tube
passes down into the mixing vessel con-
nected with a gasometer containing car-
bonic acid gas under pressure. Tbe tube
is furnished with radial arms bent at their
extremities in a horizontal plane and per-
pendicular to the original direction of the
arms.- As the mixing of the ingredients
warms the liquid, theescapeof the carbonic
acid gas through the arms, cools it. Tbe
principle here involved is that the gas es-
caping from pressure absorbs heat and ren-
ders it latent.

Dr. Biirstbinder, who has had consider-
able experience in company with Colonel
Chester in the use of nitro-glycerine, then
addressed the society. He remarked that
the most important point in tbe employ-
ment of this liquid as regards safety, is the
makiug of the material upon the spot.
When this is carried out it is a much less
dangerous article than gunpowder, while, if
it be allowed to stand for a few months; it
may decompose so much as to become ex-
ceedingly dangerous. It possesses an im-
portant advantage over gunpowder, in the
fact that it requires no tamping.

The President spoke of the difficulty at
first experienced iu the introduction of
gunpowder, as analagous to that experi-
enced in tbe introduction of nitro-glycerine,
and expressed a belief that the latter will
soon be recognized as an important explo-
sive agent. Tbe meeting then adjourned
to meet again in two weeks.

The Lone Pine Mint, says a correspond-
ent of the Sacramento Union, is in active
operation. The owner, superintendent
and workmen, are combined in tbe person
of Charles H. Aaron, who is also a correspon-
dent of the Mining and Scientific Press.
The coins are one-eighth of an inch, more
or less, in thickness, with rounded edges
and somewhat convex sides. Aaron buys
siver which has been run through a fur-
nace or base at Cerro Gordo, and refines it
in a small furnance. Some gold, which is
generally obtained from Coso, is melted
with the silver. After the mass of seething
metal has become sufficiently pure, it is
poured into cold water, where it becomes
finely granulated. From thence it is taken
to a pair of delicate scales and carefully
weighed and divided into small piles.
Some of these bunches weigh 86-100 of an
ounce, tbe remainder weighing 1 72-100
ounces, or nearly two ounces. Thus evenly
divided, the metal is. placed in separate
crucibles and remelted. A very small iron
pot is now brought forward, and a crucible
taken out of tbe furnace, where its contents
have been subjected to ahigh degree of heat,
and the boiling metal is poured into tbe
iron pot. After tbe liquid has become
solid, tbe new coin is taken out and another
coin is run. This operation is continued
until all the crucibles are empty.

We have before us two pieces of silver
which were formed in the above manner.
One of them is a dollar and tbe other two
dollars. The figures 86 on one side of the
dollar show its weight, and on the other side
a e the initials "C. A.," immediately be-
low which is stamped " SI." The two dol-
lar piece, besides the mark indicating its
value, is stamped " C. H. A.," and on the
opposite side, " 172."

Valuable Patents. — Mr. Bessemer do-
rives an annual income of about $2,000,000
from his British steel patents, and the pa-
tentee of a device for dressing mill-stones
bv a revolving diamond, has realized over
$1,000,000 the first year of bis patent. The
use of a diamond for this purpose is an
American invention, and the estimated
value of the exclusive right in England,
for ten years, is $5,000,000.— Hazeltine,
Lake <£" Co's Circular.

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Mechanical.

TheHeat'in Pbocess.— The English pa-
pors arc still full of this subject We have
repeatedly referred to this method of steel
making, and have given the comments of
ring and its correspondents. A re-
cent number of that journal gives a sum-
ming-up of the experiments which were
made, and upon which Prof. Miller's favor-
able opinion wasfoimded. We have not space
for the figures, bat quote two paragraphs
from the article, — the latter of which two
is the concluding one : "It is unnecessary
hero to refer particularly to the chemical
principles on which this method is based;
in question is as to the result, and a
careful examination of the chemical data
hitherto published to elucidate that result
is, alone, calculated to confirm and justify
much of the advorse comment which
Beaton's method has called forth. " * *
"Altogether, then, it is evident that the
rationale of this method is involved in
much obscurity, and that from a chemical'
point of view there is room for considera-
ble doubt as to what is really the result ob-
t. lined by its application to pig iron con-
taining phosphorus and sulphur. These
eireiiinstances alone certainly justify the
demand for much fuller information thau
has yet been furnished, so that a fair op-
portunity may be afforded of arriving at a
correct estimate of the method."

Pumping Engines. — In a comparison of
the relative merits of the Cornish and the
Fly-wheel pumping engines, by Robert
Briggs, in the Journal of the Franklin In-
stitute, for January, the writer shows that,
in the first, the power is applied to the rais-
ing of a counterpoise from which is ob-
tained the utmost possible effective im-
pulse for the purpose of raising the
column of water; while in the other, the
tendency of the fly-wheel to a variable ve-
locity, owing to variable impulses, being
opposed to its effort to maintain a uniform
one, there is a waste of power. The con-
cluding sentence of the article is as fol-
lows.

" It is the losses of momentum and the
fractional resistance of the water in the
pumps, and passages, and pipes encoun-
tered in the transformation of a uniform
circular motioa into an irregular and rec-
tilinear motion, that give the theoretic as
well as practical superiority of the Cornish
engine over any possible Fly-wheel one
for pumping."

Belting. — Among the "belting facts
and figures" compiled by the Journal of the
Franklin Institute, we find the following :
' ' A leather belt will safely and continu-
ously resist a strain of 350 pounds per
square inch of section. The usual way of
joining the ends of a belt — that is, by
means of the leather thong — is the best
after all, because it is the most convenient;
the thong being an article more readily ob-
tained and applied than any other of the
numerous and ingenious means devised for
securing the ends of a belt.

In the use of thoncs, it is the practice of
some engineers to cross them in lacing on
both sides of a belt; with others to cross
them on the outside only, laying the double
strands evenly on each other in the line of
motion and on the pulley side of the belt,
which experience proves to be the better
way."

Steam-poweb Transmitted. — The Port-
land and Kennebec Railway Company have
run a 3-inch pipe from boiler-shop to ma-
chine-shop, a distance of four hundred and
fifty feet, conveying steam-power for driv-
ing two engines of twenty-five and fifteen
horse-power, carrying all the machinery of
an extensive establishment. The j>ipe is
four feet underground, is inclosed in three-
quarter inch hair felting, and encased in a
7-inch box filled with calcine plaster. It
has three slip joints to prevent breakage by
expansion. When there is a pressure of
80 pounds of steam at the boiler, the same
pressure is maintained at the other end of
the pipe. The new arrangement is found
to work admirably, and will be a great sav-
ing in machinery, labor and fuel. — Railway
Times.

Specific Gravity, of Steel. — M. Caron
has noted that the specific gravity of steel
diminishes with the number of times it is
tempered.

SHABPHHXH6 OS FrLE-S HY Coitnosiox. —
Prof. Wurtz translates for the Gas Light
Journal, from the I

the following directions for restoring worn-
out files by means of acids : The tiles are
lir.-t washed with a hot lye of soda, and all
grease removed with brushes. They are
then suspended in a mixture of concen-
trated nitric acid with eight parts by meas-
ure of water for twenty-five minutes; then
well cleaned in water with brushes, and re-
immersed for twenty-five minutes more in
the acid mixture with addition of another
eighth of strong acid. Brush again and
reimmersr, after adding to the bath a IGth
part of concentrated sulphuric acid. This
heats the bath, and the etching proper now
commences, and is kept up for three min-
utes, with a vibratory motion of the bath.
Wash and brush and reimmerse in a bath
similar to the last, with similar agitation
for five minutes. Wash repeatedly with
water, then with milk of lime, finally rinse
again with water, dry quickly at a gentle
heat and varnish while still warm with oil.

Infusorial SlLtCA fob Cement. — The
following is from the Mechanics' Magazine:
Bottger informs us that a cement of extra-
ordinary binding power is made by using
infusorial silica iu place of quartz sand.
This infusorial earth is found in Germany
only, but it has been imported into this
country in considerable quantities. It con-
sists of hydrated silica, which combines
with bases much more readily than silica
in the anhydrous conelition, as in quartz
sand. The infusorial silica is mixed in
about equal proportions with oxide of lead;
about half a part of freshly slacked lime is
then added, and the whole is then made into
a paste with boiled linseed oil. The cement
thus made quickly becomes as hard as sand-
stone, and will be found, extremely useful
in such work as fixing iron in stone for bal-
usters and railings. It is not likely to ex-
pand in setting, and thus no risk of split-
ting the stone will be incurred.

Feinting in Coloes. — The Tribune de-
scribes the new press, by which the simul-
taneous printing in several colors is accom-
plished. Its novelty consists in the ad-
justment of a series of secondary cylinders
around the main printing cylinder. To each
of these secondary cylinders are attached
fountains, distributors, and rollers for dis-
tributing and rolling each color separately;
and to this cylinder is also attached the
electrotype whose impression is to be given
to the paper in its passage over the main
cylinder. The final impression, being
black, is received by the form on the bed-
plate, in the usual manner; and the paper
comes forth with its illustrations impressed
in seven colors, as well as with the oroli-
nary letter-press— all done at one revolu-
tion of the cylinder.

Utilizing Ieon Tuenings. — A very sim-
ple and efficacious method of utilizing the
abundant refuse of the machine shop, has
just been patented by Mr. Edward Ham-
monel Bentall. Iron cuttings, borings, or
turnings are placed in cases of sheet irou,
capable of containing about one hundred
weight of the waste iron; the case, when
filled, is submitted to the heat of a rever-
beratory furnace. When brought to a
white heat, it is stamped with stampers, or
put under severe pressure, which, owing to
the highly heated and partially softened
state of the metal, will convert it into a
solid plastic mass or bloom. — The Student.

Cement foe Leather. — The best is made
by mixing ten parts of sulphide of carbon
with one part of oil of turpentine, and then
adding enough gutta percha to make a
tough thickly-flowing liquid. One essen-
tial consists in freedom of the surfaces to
be joined from grease. This may be ac-
complished by laying a cloth upon them
and applying a hot iron for a time. The
cement is applied to both pieces, and press-
ure applied until dry.

Grades upon Raileoads. — It is found
by calculation and experiment that heavy
trains may descend a grade of l-100th with-
out attaining a greater speed than about
forty or fifty miles per hour, even if al-
lowed to run freely without applying the
brake to check the speed. The velocity
due to the accelerating force of gravity
soon attains its greatest limit, and remains
constant during the remainder of the de-
scent, owing to the resistance of the air.

Scientific . Wiscellan ; ■

Chemical Reactions Produced by Light.

Professor Tyndall recently read before
the Royal Society, a remarkable paper, de-
tailing some of his experiments with the
vapors of volatile liquids. A glass tube
was exhausted of air, and a given vapor
then allowed to enter it together with sir
which had been purified. An electric lamp
placed at one end of the tube, sent a beam
of intense light lengthwise through this
mixture of air anil vapor. The effect upon
the different vapors experimented upon, was
various and remarkable. In some cases,
the beautiful clouds which were formed,
exhibited the appearance of leaves and
flowers. Each vapor had its own specific
cloud. "With vapor of nitrite of amyl, a
shower of liquid spherules was precipi-
tated on the beam. With a modification of
the beam, the precipitation was so rapid
and intense that the cone formed by the
beam, before invisible, flashed suddenly
forth like a luminous spear. With iodide
of allyl, the vapor column revolved round
the axii of the decomposing beam, drawn
iu at certain places like an hour-glass,
while delicate cloud -filaments twisted them-
selves in spirals round the bells of the ap-
parent hour-glass. With iodide of isopro-
pyl the vapor formed globes and cylinders,
which were animated by a commou motion
of rotation, disturbed at times by a parox-
ysm, in which beautiful and grotesque
cloud-forms were developed, some repre-
senting a serpent's head, others budswhich
seemed to grow into flowers, and all of a
gorgeous mauve color. With hydrobromic
acid the cloud resolved itself into a series
of disks and funnels, then parasols and
rings of a very pale blue color, and all ro-
tating as in the former instance.

" With hyelrochlorie acid the cloud re-
quires twenty minutes for its full elevelop-
nient, but then it appears in sections, each
possessing an exceedingly complex and or-
nate structure, exhibiting ribs, spears, tun-
nels, leaves, involved scrolls, and iridescent
fleur-de-lis. With hydriodic acid another
modification is seen, having a family like-
ness to the two immediately preceding, but
with marketl differences of development,
for the green and crimson produced were
the most vivid that Dr. Tyndall has yet ob-
served. The development of the cloud, as
he describes, was like that of an organism,
from a more or less formless mass at the
commencement, to a structure of marvel-
ous complexity, at which he "looked in
wonderfor nearly two hours.' "

The different vapors are in these experi-
ments differently decomposed. "Certain
specific waves of the electric beam shake
the molecules asunder."

Prof. T. anticipates "wide, if not entire,
generality, for the fact that a liquid and its
vapor absorb the same rays."

In this connection, we give this item :
At a recent meeting of the Photographic
Section of the American Institute, Profes-
sor Joy read the following extract from a
private letter which he had received from
Professor John Tyndall :

" My daylight hours have been recently
occupied with the question of the chemical
action of light upon vapors, and also with
the blue color and polarization of the sky.
These questions, which have been so long
the great enigmas of meteorology, have, I
hope, at length been brought within the
grasp of experiment, and have been, to a
great extent, satisfactorily solved. The
condensed summary of my results is at the
present moment in the hands of Sir John
Hersehell, who has manifested great inter-
est in the inquiry. As soon as he sends it
back to me I shall hasten its publication,
and it will give me great pleasure to send
you a copy of it."

Peussic Acid in the Laboeatoby. — M.
Bsrthelot has just discovered that when a
series of electric sparks is passed through
a mixture of nitrogen gas and acetylene, or
any hydrocarbon, in presence of a little
potash and a certain quantity of hydrogen,
prussic acid is slowly formed and absorbed
by the potash.

Photogeaphing the Pyeamtds. — An ex-
pedition has started from Germany to visit
Egypt, for the purpose of making a collec-
tion of photographic views of ancient in-
scriptions and monuments.

National Institute of Sciences, Let-
ters and Art. — On December 29th a meet-
ing was held in New York, for the purpose
of organizing a National Institute. A Con-
stitution was after several preliminary meet-
ings adopted, which was founded upon that
of the French Institute, although of course
modified according to circumstances. Sev-
eral Academies will be organized under this
Constitution.

The following circular was sent to the
leading scholars of the country :

"The lack of any means of easy inter-
course and free communication, and conse-
quently of united effort and mutual sup-
port, has been felt for some time past by
men of letters, artists, and scientific men
in the United States. They constantly find
themselves reminded of this lack by their
weakness as a class, because although a
class they are not a body with a recognized
organization. Scattered over a wide ex-
panse of country, they are, from this dis-
persion and this want, no less morally thau
physically isolated. There is no authority
other than the temporary and shifting, al-
though in some respects valuable one, of
public opinion, by which their claims may
be passed upon — no tribunal of their peers
or of those of their own class to whose ex-
perience and judgment they would will-
ingly defer — no representative council, the
stamp of whose approval would be acknowl-
edged by the public as well as by them-
selves. From the lack of such a center of
union, of communication, and of combined
action, they, and with them the cause of
truth and knowledge, and the public wel-
fare, suffer. In the hope, therefore, of
compassing these objects, we propose t j es-
tablish a National Institute of Letters, Art
and Science, upon a plan outlined in a Con-
stitution accompanying this Circular. We
ask your cooperation."

The American Naturalist says :

" If, as it promises to do, the National
Institute will bind together and thus effi-
ciently guide and control the army of work-
ers in letters, science and art, a new era has
dawned for the development of knowledge
and its practical results in America. "

The Land of the Njamnjams. — The
French brothers Poncet, and Piaggia, an
Italian traveler, have penetrated to longi-
tude 24° E. — seven degrees west of the
White Nile, and nearly to latitude 1° N.
They have established the fact of the ex-
istence of another immense lake, lying on
the equator, out of which flows a river,
Babura, in a northwesterly direction, to-
wards the Benui and Lake Tsad. Piaggia
spent nearly two years among the Njamn-
jams, who are tailless, but cannibals. He
was kindly treated by the chief, and was
only prevented from reaching the new lake
by civil wars. The account is one of the
most important recent contributions to the
geography of Central Africa. It is accom-
panied by a map of the region, by Dr.
Petermann.

Ueea from Caebonate of Ammonia. —
Basarow has discovered that anhydrous car-
bonate of ammonium is converted into urea
by heating in a sealed tube to 130a C.
(2663F.) The carbonate he obtained by
the action of COj on NHt dissolved in ab-
solute alcohol. He has observed that the
same result, conversion into urea, follows
to a notable degree, upon the subjection of
commercial carbonate of ammonia to a
temperature of 130—140° O; whence he
infers that this latter may contain the an-
hydrous carbonate of ammouium. The
following equation will make clear the
theory on which Basarow based his inves-
tigation:

2(NH' O, CO2 )=C: H1 N2 0; + 4 HO.
Gas Light Journal.

Renewed Polae Explobations.— Dr.
Hayes delivered a lecture in November last
in New York, before the American Geo-
graphical Society, in which he proposed
the renewal of explorations in the North
Polar regions, and gave his reasons for be-
lieving that they could be successfully ac-
complished. He urges the "American
route " by the way of Smith's Sound. This
route is familiar to him, and he says he is
as earnest as ever in his desire to lead a
party over the course. The lecture has
been printed in pamphlet form, and now
the question is whether the men of wealth
will aid the enterprise.

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Co?nmu?iicalions .

In Tim Departmkkt we invite the frkk discossion or all
proper subjects— correspondents alone being responsible for
the tdcnsnnd theories they sdvnnce.

Written for the Mining and Scientific l*rcss.

Mechanico-Astronomical Cause of Geo-
logical Changes, and Earthquakes.

It would seem that the following simple
circumstance in the physics of astronomy, —
furnishing a mechanical explanation of
geological changes not otherwise sufficiently
accounted for, and at the same time a very
possible constant cause of earthquakes, —
could not have been overlooked by the cos-
mogonists, from Laplace down; yet we do
not remember seeing or hearing the point
of our correspondent heretofore advanced.
The writer is known to our readers as
having furnished us, not long since, with a
method of obtaining perfect crystals of
gold artificially :

Editobs Pkess : — I propose to set forth
a few ideas in relation to geological changes
and earthquakes, which I have not yet
heard advanced. We are living upon a
sphere which revolves around the sun, — not
in a perfect circle, but with an orbit of an
elliptic form ; and at the same time it is
making 365 revolutions per annum, upon
its own axis.

Now the question naturally arises, does
one motion affect, or have any influence,
upon the other? I cannot but think it
does. Thus, as it passes from the flat side
of theellipseto the ends, — orin other words,
from a long curve to a short one, — the two
forces embodied in the earth must necessa-
rily have a twisting effect — the orbit mo-
tion on the revolving motion, — conse-
quently gradually changing the position of
the poles and equator.

"We have various facts that go to prove
that this change does take place; for in-
stance, we find the remains of plants and
animals imbedded in coal beds and rock in
the Frigid Zone, which are now known to
inhabit none but the Torrid Zone. How
came they there? Simply because the
equator was once there. Professor Agassiz
has also discovered the remains of immense
glaciers in the Andes of South America,
directly under the equator. How came
they there? Only by once having had
one of the poles at least nearer than at
present. Now admitting that this theory
of the changing of the poles is correct, let
us see what the effect would be upon the
globe. The earth is said to be about forty-
five miles thicker through at the equator
than it is at the poles; making twenty-two
and one-half miles depression of the ball
on each side of the equator; and as it is
about six thousand miles from the equator
to the poles, we have a down grade of about
nineteen feel to the mile. If the earth's mo-
tiou were stopped, the water from the equa-
tor would commence rushing to the poles
and fill up that twenty-two miles and a
half, or until all parts of the surface of the
earth would be at an equal distance from
the oenter. But as the earth revolves at
the immense velocity of about one thou-
sand miles an hour, it throws back the
waters from the poles towards the equator
sufficient to counteract the attraction of
gravitation on the down grade to the poles,
and keeps up aperfect equilibrium; and the
waters remain comparatively of a uniform
depth. If the solid earth were not of
spheroid shape, but perfectly round, there
would be all land at the poles, and all water
at the equator.

The point that I wish to advance, bearing
upon geology and the causes of earth-
quakes, is that as this change of the poles
goes on, the surface of the earth must nec-
essarily change with it, for if it did not, the
earth would get out of balance, or in other
words, would not run true, and would soon
make a wreck of itself. But if the earth is
a shell inclosing soft material, as most
geologists concede it to be, then the crust
would necessarily yield and conform itself
to that motion ; and as the surface is com-
posed of two substances, a fluid and a solid,
of course the fluid, which predominates,
is always ready to yield to it, as we see ex-
emplified in our ocean currents, which are
constantly flowing from one part of the
world to another, to keep it in perfect bal-
ance. This, too, is probably the reason why
we have so much more water upon the sur-
face of the earth than land, for God never
made anything for naught. If the land
predominated, it would have an unsteady
motion, and would evidently destroy itself.
We have had an evidence of the changing
of the ocean currents since the earthquake
at St Thomas, as it is said that the Gulf

Stream has changed several degrees since
that event, from its old course; and per-
haps in a few thousand years, or after a
few more snch earthquakes, the stream
may be destroyed entirely, or flow in some
other direction to supply some deficiency
created elsewhere.

I have end- avorpd to show the effect of
this change of motion upon the fluid part
of the earth ; now let us see what effect it
would have upon the solid portion. Of
course that must yield and conform to it
also, but as it is not free to move like the
water, it will have a tendency to rise up
bodily at the equator and sink down at the
poles; but when it moves it goes in small
sections at a time, andgives way with asud-
den jar or quaking motion. If it is in a
portion of the world that is rising, there
will be two distinct shocks; one is the up-
ward motion, the other is the vibration of
the rocks caused by that motion. If it is
in a portion of the earth that is sinking,
there will be but one shock at a time, a
sudden downward jar, for it tightens on the
surface and prevents any vibration; and the
latter consequently are less destructive.
Upheavals loosen the surface, set it to vi-
brating, and are therefore more destructive
in their effects.

Thus the earth gives way, first in one
part, then in another, in one hemsiphere,
and then in another, on the land, and under
the ocean; and I venture to say that there
is not a day passes in the year but there
is an earthquake in some part of the world,
perhaps not an hour. If it should give
way in large sections at a time, they would
be so destructive that it would render the
world uninhabitable; but by a wise pro-
vision of nature the rocks are full of joints
and seams, allowing the crust of the earth
to move in comparatively small sections.

As I before remarked, we have twenty-
two and one-half miles of difference be-
tween the extreme elevation of the equa-
tor, to the extreme depression of the poles,
(deducting the difference between the free-
dom of the water, and the resistance of the
rocks to move) ; therefore an abundant mar-
gin to go upon, in concluding that there is
here cause enough to submerge the highest
mountains or make dry land of the lowest
depths of ocean. If the geologist will ap-
ply this principle to his science, he can
readily account for all the geological
changes which are constantly going on in
the earth; for as one portion of the earth
is lifted abovo the water, and as the vapors
of the ocean rise and float over the land,
the latter is condensed, falls in the shape of
rain, and washes off the loose particles into
the ocean, where each particle of a like
specific gravity will be deposited in strata
of like character, and by the immense
pressure of the ocean they will be speedily
converted into rocks, to be again sub-
merged. And thus the work goes on from
age to age.

The idea has been advanced that earth-
quakes are caused by electricity. Would it
not be better to say that the appearance of
electricity on such occasions is the result,
and not the cause of the earthquake. Let
us see which theory looks the most reason
able. We know that friction excites elec-
tricity; and if an earthquake takes place,
there must be a powerful friction, in the
joints or crevices of the rocks. We see the
evidence of this immense friction of one
mass of rock upon another, in working our
quartz veins. There will always be, in a
true fissure vein, on one side of it, a thin
stratum of clay, or very finely pulverized
rock, which I know of no way to account
for but by the friction of the adjoining
rock caused by the earthquakes. These
same veins themselves are nothing more
than immense cracks in the rock, caused by
the earthquakes, and filled again by the
circulation of the waters of the earth con-
taining minerals. Like the blood of the
human system, which is always ready to
repair any injury done to it, so the waters
of the earth — its blood — are ever ready to
perform a like office.

William A. Begole.
Nevada, Feb. 18th, 1869.

Mechanical Peogkess in China. —
Amongst the numerous evidences of the
great changes that have begun in the
Flowery Kingdom is the report, by the last
steamer, that fresh artisans from Woolwich
have been engaged at the Nanking arsenal,
and that a small steamer, native owned,
managed and engineered, is running from
the Yangtze to Sooehow, on the grand

canal.

Moee Smelting. — Swansea is a new town
in the White Pine district, about half a
mile above Silver Springs. Smelting
works are being erected there, and are
promised to be in operation in a few days.

[Written for the Mining and Scientific Press.]

Explosives and their Uses.

New York Society of Practical Engineer-
ing held a regular meeting on Tuesday
evening February 2d, at room 2-1, Cooper
in the chair. The regular topic for the
Institute, the President, James A. Whitney,
evening was "Explosives and their Uses,"
and a paper on that subject was read by
Dr. Dubois D. Parmelee. The paper first
glanced at the history of gunpowder and
inflammable compositions generally, re-
ferring their origin to a very early date in
the history of the eastern nations. The
formation of a large volume of gaseous ma-
terial and its composition, and the effect of
heat on the dilation of the gases produced
was next discussed. The writer then passed
to a consideration of the accidents due in
many cases to the fact that precautions es-
sential to safety in the manufacture of the ex-
plosive have been neglected. A method has
been proposed for rendering gunpower less
dangerous, consisting simply in diluting the
powder with finely pulverized sand or glass.
By this means the grains are separated from
each other, and although the process does
not prevent the burning of gunpowder
when a spark reaches it, has yet the effect
of retarding the combustion and preventing
a violent explosion. The great objection,
however, to this process, lies in the fact
that the sand is liable to become separated
from the gunpowder during transportation,
and the former dangerous properties of the
latter are renewed. The writer then gave
a description of several compounds and pre-
parations explosive in their character,
among which we notice the following: The
pulvis fulminas is composed of two parts
of carbonate of potassa, one of sulphur,
and three of nitre. When heated gently to
fusion it explodes with a deafening noise.
Augendre's white gunpowder, consisting of
chlorate of potash, ferro-cyanide of potas-
sium, and sugar; this was tried many years
ago, and failed. An invention of Mr.
Harsley and Dr. Ehrhardt, consists of a
mixture of chlorate of potash with organic
substances of a permanent character, such
as tannic acid. This mixture is stated to
be more powerful than gunpowder. An
application of chlorate of potash has been
proposed by M. Nochstaelter, a German
chemical manufacturer. In the process
for effecting this end, unsized paper is
soaked in and coated with the chlorate,
charcoal and sulphide of antimony, to-
gether with gum or some other substance
of a binding character. The paper rolled
up compactly burns with considerable vio-
lence. An explosive preparation which
has been employed to some extent in blast-
ing, consists of spent tan in small fragments
saturated with chlorate of potash. Gun
saw dust consisted of purified lignin con-
verted into a substance of ' the nature of
gun cotton, and then, when required for
use, impregnated with saltpetre or a mix-
ture of this with nitrate of baryta.

Gun cotton and its explosive properties
were then considered. One pound of this
material was stated to produce as much
gas as three pounds of gunpowder. It is
formed by exposing cotton prepared from
finely carded and carefully purified cotton
wool to the action of sulphuric and nitric
acid of certain specific gravities. During
the process of manufacture the cotton in-
creases in weight about 78 per cent. One
of the great difficulties in the way of using
gun cotton as an explosive is its rapid com-
bustion. One of the most successful ex-
pedients for modifying this is to dilute the
gun cotton with raw cotton. Cartridges
formed of this material burn more slowly
than cartridges forme! of pure gnu cotton.
A plan has also been put in practice for re-
ducing the gun cotton to a pulp, as in the
process of paper making.

The properties of nitro-glycerine as an
explosive agent were next discussed. It is
formed by the action of a mixture of strong
nitric and sulphuric acids upon glycerine,
the apparatus all the time being kept at a
low temperature. Ttie nitro-glycerine forms
upon the bottom of the mixing vessels after
standing for a few hours. It has a sweet-
ish taste, no odor, and when placed upon
the tongue produces headache. When left
to itself it is exceedingly liable to spon-
taneous decomposition. Its destructive

action has been estimated at about ten times
that of gunpowder. Its frozen state is an
exceedingly dangerous condition, for then
a blow producing friction of the particles i.s
apt to cause explosion. The writer closed
bis paper by describing the fuses employed
for exploding charges of nitro-idycerine
The Bishop fuse, now in use in this country
to a considerable extent, has two copper
wires about five feet long insulated with
guttapercha. The ends of these wires are
fixed in a small wooden tube containing a
priming powder. This tube is insertecfin
a copper cap containing the fulminate
The fuse is then connected with an electric
machine by long wires and the charges ex-
ploded by the passage of the electric sparis

The reading of the paper was followed
by some remarks on the subject of nitro-
glycerine by Col. Chester, a gentleman who
has had much to do with the material in
blasting. He described th« process by
which the mixture is kept cool durin? the
mingling of the ingredients. A glass "tube
passes down into the mixing vessel con-
nected with a gasometer containing car-
bonic acid gas under pressure. The tube
is furnished with radial arms bent at their
extremities in a horizontal plane and per-
pendicular to the original direction of the
arms. As the mixing of the ingredients
warms the liquid, theeseapeof the carbonic
acid gas through the arms, cools it. Tlie
principle here involved is that the gas es-
caping from pressure absorbs heat and ren-
ders it latent.

Dr. Biirstbinder, who has had consider-
able experience in company with Colonel
Chester in the use of nitro-glycerine, then
addressed the society. He remarked that
the most important point in the employ-
ment of this liquid as regards safety, is the
making of the material upon the spot.
When this is carried out it is a much less
dangerous article than gunpowder, while, if
it be allowed to stand for a few months; it
may decompose so much as to become ex-
ceedingly dangerous. It possesses an im-
portant advantage over gunpowder, in the
fact that it requires no tamping.

The President spoke of the difficulty at
first experienced in the introduction of
gunpowder, as analagous to that experi-
enced in the introduction of nitro-glycerine,
and expressed a belief that the hitter will
soon be recognized as an important explo-
sive agent. The meeting then adjourned
to meet again in two weeks.

The Lone Pine Mint, says a correspond-
ent of the Sacramento Union, is in active
operation. The owner, superintendent
and workmen, are combined in the person
of Charles H.Aaron, who is also a correspon-
dent of the Mining and Scientific Peess.
The coins are one-eighth of an inch, more
or less, in thickness, with rounded edges
and somewhat convex sides. Aaron buys
siver which has been run through a fur-
nace or base at Cerro Gordo, and refines it
in a small furnance. Some gold, which is
generally obtained from Coso, is melted
with the silver. After the mass of seething
metal has become sufficiently pure, it is
poured into cold water, where it becomes
finely granulated. From thence it is taken
to a pair of delicate scales and carefully
weighed and divided into small piles.
Some of these bunches weigh 86-100 of an
ounce, the remainder weighing 1 72-100
ounces, or nearly two ounces. Thus ovenly
divided, the metal is placed in separate
crucibles and remelted. A very small iron
pot is now brought forward, and a crucible
taken out of the furnace, where its contents
have been subjected to ahigh degree of heat,
and the boiling metal is poured into the
iron pot. After the liquid has become
solid, the new coin is taken out and another
coin is run. This operation is continued
until all the crucibles are empty.

We have before us two pieces of silver
which were formed in the above manner.
One of them is a dollar and the other two
dollars. The figures 86 on one side of the
dollar show its weight, and on the other side
a e the initials "C. A.," immediately be-
low which is stamped " SI." The two dol-
lar piece, besides the mark indicating its
value, is stamped " C. H. A.," and on the
opposite sidp, ' ' 172."

Valuable Patents. — Mr. Bessemer de-
rives an annual income of about S3, 000,000
from his British steel patents, and the pa-
teotee of a device for dressing mill-stones
bv a revolving diamond, has realized over
$1,00U,000 the first year of his patent. _ The
use of a diamond for this purpose is an
American invention, and the estimated
value of the exclusive right in England,
for ten years, is $5,000,000.— Hazeltine,
Lake & Go's Circular.

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Mechanical,

TheHeato.n Process.— Tho English pa-
pore arc still full of this subject. We have
repeatedly referred to this method of steel
making, and have given the comments of
ring and its correspondents. A re-
cent number of that journal gives a snm-
ming-ap of the experiments which were
made, and upon which Prof. Miller's favor-
able opinion wasfounded. Wehavenotspace
for the figures, but quote two paragraphs
from the article, — the latter of which two
is the concluding one : "It is unnecessary
here to refer particularly to the chemical
principles on which this method is based;
the muiii question is as to the result, and a
careful examination of the chemical data
hitherto published to elucidate that result
is, aloue, calculated to confirm and justify
much of the adverse comment which
Heaton's method has called forth." * *
"Altogether, then, it is evident that the
rationale of this methodis involved in
much obscurity, and that from a chemical1
point of view there is room for considera-
ble doubt as to what is really the result ob-
tained by its application to pig iron con-
taining phosphorus and sulphur. These
circumstances alone certainly justify the
demand for much fuller information than
has yet been furnished, so that a fair op-
portunity may be afforded of arriving at a
correct estimate of the method."

Pumping Engines. — In a comparison of
the relative merits of the Cornish and the
Fly-wheel pumping engines, by Robert
Briggs, in the Journal of the Franklin In-
stitute, for January, the writer shows that,
in the first, the power is applied to the rais-
ing of a counterpoise from which is ob-
tained the utmost possible effective im-
pulse for the purpose of raising the
column of water; while in the other, the
tendency of the fly-wheel to a variable ve-
locity, owing to variable impulses, being
opposed to its effort to maintain a uniform
one, there is a waste of power. The con-
cluding sentence of the article is as fol-
lows.

"It is the losses of momentum and the
frictional resistance of the water in the
pumps, and passages, and pipes encoun-
tered in the transformation of a uniform
circular motion into an irregular and rec-
tilinear motion, that give the theoretic as
well as practical superiority of the Cornish
engine over any possible Fly-wheel one
for pumping."

Belting. — Among the "belting facts
and figures " compiled by the Journal of the
Franklin Institute, we find the following :
' ' A leather belt will safely and continu-
ously resist a strain of 350 pounds per
square inch of section. The usual way of
joining the ends of a belt — that is, by
means of the leather thong — is the best
afterall, because it is the most convenient;
the thong being an article more readily ob-
tained and applied than any other of the
numerous and ingenious means devised for
securing the ends of a belt.

In the use of thones, it is the practice of
some engineers to cross them in lacing on
both sides of a belt; with others to cross
them on the outside only, laying the double
strands evenly on each other in the line of
motion and on the pulley side of the belt,
which experience proves to be the better
■way."

Steam-power Transmitted. — The Port-
land and Kennebec Bailway Company have
run a 3-inch pipe from boiler-shop to ma-
chine-shop, a distance of four hundred and
fifty feet, conveying steam-power for driv-
ing two engines of twenty-five and fifteen
horse-power, carrying all the machinery of
an extensive establishment. The pipe is
four feet underground, is inclosed in three-
quarter inch hair felting, and encased in a
7-inch box filled with calcine plaster. It
has three slip joints to prevent breakage by
expansion. When there is a pressure of
80 pounds of steam at the boiler, the same
pressure is maintained at the other end of
the pipe. The new arrangement is found
to work admirably, and will be a great sav-
ing in machinery, iabor and fuel. — Railway
Times.

Specific Gravity, op Steel. — M. Caron
has noted that the specific gravity of steel
diminishes with the number of times it is
tempered.

Sharpening op Files iiy Corrosion. —
Prof. Wurtz translates for the Gas Light
Journal, from the Ohemischea Oentralblatt,

the following directions for restoring worn-
out files by means of acids : Tho files are
first washed with a hot lye of soda, and all
grease removed with brushes. They are
then suspended in a mixture of concen-
trated nitric acid with eight parts by meas-
ure of water for twenty -five minutes; then
well cleaned in water with brashes, and re-
immersed for twenty-five minutes more in
tho acid mixture with addition of another
eighth of strong acid. Brush again and
reimmersc, after adding to the bath a Kith
port of concentrated sulphuric acid. This
heats tho bath, and the etching propter now
commences, and is kept up for three min-
utes, witli a vibratory motion of the bath.
Wash and brush and reimmerse in a bath
similar to the last, with similar agitation
for five minutes. Wash repeatedly with
water, then with milk of lime, finally rinse
again with water, dry quickly at a gentle
heat and varnish while still warm with oil.

Infusorial Silica for Cement. — The
following is from the Mechanics' Magazine:
Biittgor informs us that a cement of extra-
ordinary binding power is made by using
infusorial silica in place of quartz sand.
This infusorial earth is found in Germany
only, but it has been imported into this
country in considerable quantities. It con-
sists of hydrated silica, which combines
with bases much more readily than silica
in the anhydrous condition, as in quartz
sand. The infusorial silica is mixed in
about equal proportions with oxide of lead;
about half a part of freshly slacked lime is
then added, and the whole is then made into
a paste with boiled linseed oil. The cement
thus made quickly becomes as hard as sand-
stone, and will be found extremely useful
in such work as fixing iron in stone for bal-
usters and railings. It is not likely to ex-
pand in setting, and thus no risk of split-
ting the stone will be incurred.

Xcic/it/'ft'c Miscellan j ■

Printing in Colors. — The Tribune de-
scribes the new press, by which the simul-
taneous printing in several colors is accom-
plished. Its novelty consists in the ad-
justment of a series of secondary cylinders
around the main printing cylinder. To each
of these secondary cylinders are attached
fountains, distributors, and rollers for dis-
tributing and rolling each color separately;
and to this cylinder is also attached the
electrotype whose impression is to be given
to the paper in its passage over the main
cylinder. The final impression, being
black, is received by the form on the bed-
plate, in the usual manner; and the paper
comes forth with its illustrations impressed
in seven colors, as well as with the ordi-
nary letter-press— all done at one revolu-
tion of the cylinder.

Utilizing Iron Turnings. — A very sim-
ple and efficacious method of utilizing the
abundant refuse of the machine shop, has
just been patented by Mr. Edward Ham-
mond Bentall. Iron cuttings, borings, or
turnings are placed in cases of sheet irou
capable of containing about one hundred
weight of the waste iron; the case, when
filled, is submitted to the heat of a rever-
beratory furnace. When brought to a
white heat, it is stamped with stampers, or
put under severe pressure, which, owing to
the highly heated and partially softened
state of the metal, will convert it into a
solid plastic mass or bloom. — The Student.

Cement for Leather. — The best is made
by mixing ten parts of sulphide of carbon
with one part of oil of turpentine, and then
adding enough gutta percha to make a
tough thickly-flowing liquid. One essen-
tial consists in freedom of the surfaces to
be joined from grease. This may be ac-
complished by laying a cloth upon them
and applying a hot iron for a time. The
cement is applied to both pieces, and press-
ure applied until dry.

Grades upon Railroads. — It is found
by calculation and experiment that heavy
trains may descend a grade of l-100th with-
out attaining a greater speed than about
forty or fifty miles per hour, even if al-
lowed to run freely without applying the
brake to check the speed. The velocity
due to the accelerating force of gravity
soon attains its greatest limit, and remains
constant during the remainder of the de-
scent, owing to the resistance of the air.

Chemical Reactions Produced by Light.

Frofessor Tyndall recently read before
the Royal Society, a remarkable paper, de-
tailing some of his experiments with the
vapors of volatile liquids. A glass tube
was exhausted of air, and a given vapor
then allowed to enter it together with air
which had been purified. An electric lamp
placed at one end of the tube, sent a beam
of intense light lengthwise through this
mixture of air and vapor. The effect upon
the different vapors experimented upon, was
various and remarkable. In some cases,
the beautiful clouds which were formed,
exhibited the appearance of leaves and
flowers. Each vapor had its own specific
cloud. "With vapor of nitrite of amyl, a
shower of liquid spherules was precipi-
tated on the beam. With a modification of
the beam, the precipitation was so rapid
and intense that the cone formed by the
beam, before invisible, flashed suddenly
forth like a luminous spear. With iodide
of ally], the vapor column revolved round
the axii of the decomposing beam, drawn
in at certain places like an hour-glass,
while delicate cloud-filaments twisted them-
selves in spirals round the bells of the ap-
parent hour-glass. With iodide of isopro-
pyl the vapor formed globes and cylinders,
which were animated by a common motion
of rotation, disturbed at times by a parox-
ysm, in which beautiful aud grotesque
cloud-forms were developed, some repre-
senting a serpent's head, others budswhich
seemed to grow into flowers, and all of a
gorgeous mauve color. With hydrobromic
acid the cloud resolved itself into a series
of disks and funnels, then parasols and
rings of a very pale blue color, and all ro-
tating as in the former instance.

" With hydrochloric acid the cloud re-
quires twenty minutes for its full develop-
ment, but then it appears in sections, each
possessing an exceedingly complex and or-
nate structure, exhibiting ribs, spears, tun-
nels, leaves, involved scrolls, and iridescent
fleur-de-lis. With hydriodic acid another
modification is seen, having a family like-
ness to the two immediately preceding, but
with marked differences of development,
for the green and crimson produced were
the most vivid that Dr. Tyndall has yet ob-
served. The development of the cloud, as
he describes, was like that of an organism,
from a more or less formless mass at the
commencement, to a structure of marvel-
ous complexity, at which he "looked in
wonder for nearly two hours.'"

The different vapors are in these experi-
ments differently decomposed. "Certain
specific waves of the electric beam shake
the molecules asunder."

Prof. T. anticipates "wide, if not entire,
generality, for the fact that a liquid and its
vapor absorb the same rays."

In this connection, we give this item :
At a recent meeting of the Photographic
Section of the American Institute, Profes-
sor Joy read the following extract from a
private letter which he had received from
Professor John Tyndall :

" My daylight hours have been recently
occupied with the question of the chemical
action of light upon vapors, and also with
the blue color and polarization of the sky.
These questions, which have been so long
the great enigmas of meteorology, have, I
hope, at length been brought within the
grasp of experiment, and have been, to a
great extent, satisfactorily solved. The
condensed summary of my results is at the
present moment in the hands of Sir John
Herschell, who has manifested great inter-
est in the inquiry. As soon as he sends it
back to me I shall hasten its publication,
and it will give me great pleasure to send
you a copy of it."

Prussic Acid in the Laboratory. — M.
Berthelot has just discovered that when a
series of electric sparks is passed through
a mixture of nitrogen gas and acetylene, or
any hydrocarbon, in presence of a little
potash and a certain quantity of hydrogen,
prussic acid is slowly formed and absorbed
by the potash.

Photographing the Pyramids. — An ex-
pedition has started from Germany to visit
Egypt, for the purpose of making a collec-
tion of photographic views of ancient in-
scriptions and monuments.

National Institute of Sciences, Let-
ters and Art. — On December 29th a meet-
ing was held in New York, for the purpose
of organizing a National Institute. A Con-
stitution was after several preliminary meet-
ings adopted, which was founded upon that
of the French Institute, although of course
modified according to circumstances. Sev-
eral Academies will bo organized under this
Constitution.

The following circular was sent to the
leading scholars of the country :

"The lack of any means of easy inter-
course and free communication, and conse-
quently of united effort and mutual sup-
port, has been felt for some time past by
men of letters, artists, and scientific men
in the United States. They constantly find
themselves reminded of this lack by their
weakness as a class, because although a
class they are not a body with a recognized
organization. Scattered over a wide ex-
panse of country, they are, from this dis-
persion aud this want, no less morally than
physically isolated. There is no authority
other than the temporary and shifting, al-
though in some respects valuable one, of
public opinion, by which their claims may
be passed upon — no tribunal of their peers
or of those of their own class to whose ex-
perience and judgment they would will-
ingly defer — no representative council, the
stamp of whose approval would be acknowl-
edged by the public as well as by them-
selves. From the lack of such a center of
union, of communication, andof combined
action, they, and with them the cause of
truth and knowledge, and the public wel-
fare, suffer. In the hope, therefore, of
compassing these objects, we propose to es-
tablish a National Institute of Letters, Art
and Science, upon a plan outlined in a Con-
stitution accompanying this Circular. We
ask your cooperation."

The American Naturalist says :

"If, as it promises to do, the National
Institute will bind together and thus effi-
ciently guide and control the army of work-
ers in letters, science and art, anew era has
dawned for the development of knowledge
and its practical results in America. "

The Land of the Njamnjams. — The
French brothers Poncet, and Piaggia, an
Italian traveler, have penetrated to longi-
tude 24° E. — seven degrees west of the
White Nile, and nearly to latitude 1° N.
They have established the fact of the ex-
istence of another immense lake, lying on
the equator, out of which flows a river,
Babura, in a northwesterly direction, to-
wards the Benui and Lake Tsad. Piaggia
spent nearly two years among the Njamn-
jams, who are tailless, but cannibals. He
was kindly treated by the chief, and was
only prevented from reaching the new lake
by civil wars. The account is one of the
most important recent contributions to the
geography of Central Africa. It is accom-
panied by a map of the region, by Dr.
Petermann.

Urea from Carbonate of Ammonia. —
Basarow has discovered that anhydrous car-
bonate of ammonium is converted into urea
by heating in a sealed tube to 130° C.
(266° F.) The carbonate he obtained by
the action of CO.» on NH( dissolved in ab-
solute alcohol. He has observed that the
same result, conversion into urea, follows
to a notable degree, upon the subjection of
commercial carbonate of ammonia to a
temperature of 130—140° C; whence he
infers that this latter may contain the an-
hydrous carbonate of ammonium. The
following equation will make clear the
theory on which Basarow based his inves-
tigation:

2(NH' O, CO3 )=C! H1 N2 0; + 4 HO.
Gas Light Journal.

Renewed Polar Explorations. — Dr.
Hayes delivered a lecture in November last
in New York, before the American Geo-
graphical Society, in which he proposed
the renewal of explorations in the North
Polar regions, and gave his reasons for be-
lieving that they could be successfully ac-
complished. He urges the "American
route " by the way of Smith's Sound. This
route is familiar to him, and he says he is
as earnest as ever in his desire to lead a
party over the course. The lecture has
been printed in pamphlet form, and now
tho question is whether the men of wealth
will aid the enterprise.

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California Academy of Sciences.

A regular meeting of the Academy toot
place on Monday evening, March 1st, the
President, Dr. Blake, in the chair, and fif-
teen members present. Dr. George Hews-
ton, A. Earenstein, James F. Breed and
Mr. Easton, were elected members.

METEOROLOGY.

The subject of Meteorology was intro-
duced by the President as regularly before
the Society, for consideration. Dr. Henry
Gibbons stated that no part of the world
occupied an analagous position to Califor-
nia, as we had three climates — one in South-
ern California, near Mexico, one in the
northern portion of the State adjacent to
O.egon, and one in San Francisco. It was
seldom that so long a mountain range was
found parallel to the meridian line. The
telegraph he thought could be made useful
in San Francisco as an indicator of storms.
He spoke of an occasion when he was at the
Smithsonian Institute at Washington,
where daily or hourly reports of the weather
are received from all parts of the Atlantic
States. On that occasion he sat down with
Prof. Henry before a large relief globe, and
located the storms as they were reported.
In this way they traced a storm as it was
approaching, hundreds of miles away, until
it finally burst upon the city. He said
that had he been placed five hundred miles
above the earth, and c6uld have looked
down upon the atmosphere, he could not
have obtained a better view of it than he
did on that occasion. The phenomenon of
storms was a most interesting one, particu-
larly here, where the prosperity of the
whole State depended on rains. An almost
certain prognostic of rain was the occasion
of three hot days in succession. We had
just experienced three hot days, and the
rain he expected would soon be here.
Three hot days always followed a Norther,
and rain followed the three hot days.

Professor Davidson and Dr. Ayers were
named as suitable men to act on the pro-
prosed Meteorological Committee, the lat-
ter having given much attention to the
subject it was stated. Colonel William-
son was named as a suitable member, and
also Mr. Mumford. The matter of appoint-
ing a committee was postponed to the next
meeting.

THE SAN JOSE MEAT SHOWER.

Specimens of some meat that fell from
the sky at San Jose recently, were pre-
sented by Dr. Kellogg. He gave an ac-
count of the fall of meat over twenty acres
of ground, as learned from an observer,
Mr. Houck, aud said he was informed that
nerves, muscle and bone were found, some
imbedded in ihe soil, belonging either to
small animals or fish. This meat was
alleged to have fallen about three o'clock
p. M. , when the sky was clear, and to have
struck persons upon the shoulder. Re-
ports were read from persons at San Jose,
in which it was stated that flesh.brains, blood
and bones covered an area of twenty acres.
The samples of the flesh introduced had a
fishy smell.

A member argued that during the recent
flood multitudes of gophers and squirrels
were drowned, and it was likely that this
flesh was the remains of those small ani-
mals after they had been picked by hawks.

Another member thought that they might
have been carried up by a whirlwind, which
might have lifted even larger animals, such
as cattle ; or that if it was the remains of
fish, it might have been carried up from
the sea by a waterspout. The President
stated that there had, no doubt, been show-
ers of frogs ere now.

Mr. A. F. Beardsly said such a shower
occurred in Tennessee some years since.

Dr. Henry Gibbons said the lightness of
the bones would not let them be imbedded
in the earth by their weight, but an over-
flow might do so. The disgorging of flesh
and bones by birds was not uncommon.
They throw up and let fall such things
from time to time, and in over-dry atmos-
phere these fragments would not corrupt.

Dr. J. G. Cooper said only the indiges-
tible parts would be disgorged, while the
digestible parts w.ere what was found.
These pieces might have been washed from
some slaughter house.

Mr. Beardsly said rats were often found
with their skins turned wrong side out, and
all the flesh gone ; so also were rabbits,
squirrels, and gophers.

Mr. H. G. Bloomer asked what effect
waterspouts had on animals taken up in
them.

President Blake thought a whirlwind
could not tear things to pieces as these
things had been torn.

Dr. Kellogg said he had seen it done on
the hardest substances, trees, rocks, etc.

Mr. Beardsly said such a case occurred
at Gold Hill, in 1862, when a whirlwind

took up 4,000 feet of lumber and tore it all
in shreds.

Mr. H. G. Bloomer asked if a microscopic
examination had been made of the bones
sent here from San Jose.

Dr. James Blake said they had been ex-
amined, but not with sufficient care to de-
termine the kind of animal they belonged
to.

MAGNETIC STORM.

A communication was read, from W. F.
Stewart, stating that a magnetic storm oc-
curred at a place near San Jose, in which
the needle suddenly varied greatly. Mr.
Herman was making a survey, and saw the
needle whirl suddenly around. Dr. Blake
said he had seen the needle dip in San
Bamon Valley, Contra Costa county, far
more than on this side of the mountains.

DONATIONS AND SPECIMENS.

A number of books on Microscopy, etc.,
were donated by Mr. Stretch.

A specimen resembling coke, strikingly
like authracite, being a residuum of pe-
troleum from Downersville Foundry, at
Corey, Pennsylvania, was presented to the
Society by A. F. Beardsly.

A specimen of the Dertdrocygna arborea,
or long-legged duck, recently arrived from
Mexico, and found in our market, was
exhibited by Dr. Cooper.

New Patents Issued to Pacific Coast
Inventors.

Especially reported by the U. S. Patent Office, Washing-
ton, D. C, to Dewey & Co., American and Foreign
Patent Solicitors, and Publishers of the
Mining and Scientific Pbess.

Fob the Week Ending Febbuaky 2d.
86,318. — Improvement in Carriage
Springs. — John Balbach, San Jose, Cal. :
I claim the adjustable thorough-brace F,
right and left hand screw-bolt L, spring B,
and fixed standard A, combined and ar-
ranged substantially as described for the
purpose set forth.

This invention relates to an improvement
in carriage springs, and it consists in a sin-
gle leaf without any holes in it, so attached
to the reaches, and supported by standards
or braces, that in combination with the
straps which support the carriage body it
forms a perfectly easy spring and without
any strain on the reaches.
86,371. — Improvement in Churns. — G. A.
Dabney, San Jose, Cal.:
I claim the combination of the dasher-
handle F, lower dasher G H, adjustable
upper dasher I J, tube K, and detachable
guide-frame B D, with each other, sub-
stantially as herein shown and described,
and for the purpose set forth.
86,375. — Improvement in Harvesters.—
Sharron P. Doane, San Francisco, Cali-
fornia, assignor to Self and Leonard
Treadwell, of same place :

1. I claim tjie levers 1 1, shaft K, arm N,
and rods M and O, combined and arranged
substantially as described for the purpose
specified.

2. In combination with the levers I I,
supporting a harvester reel, the arrange-
ment of the pulleys U and V, on an axis
forming the fulcrum of one of said levers,
substantially in the manner and for the
purposes described.

This improvement consists in so connect-
ing the reel which brings the standing
grain to the knives, that it is instantly ad-
justable and can be raised or lowered by
the driver when necessary. This is ac-
complished by attaching the reel to the
frame of the machine by levers at either
end, and more especially so that the belts
are not effected by raising or lowering the
reel. These levers are connected by an-
other series with a hand lever by which the
whole are operated, and which is within
easy reach of the driver.

86,379. — Improved Apparatus for Saving
Gold Amalgam and Quicksilver. —
George B. Evans, Virginia City, Nevada,
assignor to Self and John White, of
same place:

I claim the curved plate A, slotted at a a,
together with the box C, having the parti-
tions D D, with the slots E E and F, the
whole constructed and operating substan-
tially as herein described.

This is a corrugated riffle, of amalgam-
ated iron or copper, which has recently at-
tracted considerable attention in Gold Hill,
Nevada, where it has been introduced. It
is described in our issue of Oct. 17, 1868.
86,388. — Improved Apparatus for Saving
Floating Gold. — David Gay, Jr., Val-
lejo, Cal. :

1. I claim surrounding a hollow cylinder
of light material A, either inside or out-

side, or both, indented and amalgamated
metal plates a and b, or equivalent device
for gathering the gold from auriferous
sands on the beach, substantially as de-
scribed.

2. I claim the spindle C, rotating in the
metal plates D D, and the supporting arms
c o o, in combination with the hollow cyl-
inder C, or equivalent device, substantially
as described.

3. I claim the cable E, when attached to
the hollow cylinder A, together with the
anchor F, for regulating the movements of
the cylinder, substantially as described for
the purpose set forth.

4. I claim washing the auriferous sands
on the sea shore by means of amalgamated
surfaces, either cylindrical or otherwise,
when the same is operated by the surf or
waves of the sea, substantially as and .for
the purposes described.

An apparatus for beach gold washing,
consisting of a series of rolling logs or cyl-
inders, anchored in the surf. The claims
explain the device. •

86,392. — Bearing for Shafts. — Jerome
Haas, Stockton, Cal. :

1. claim the combination of the cam
groove E, roller H, lever F, and pump D,
for forcing a lubricator beneath the shaft,
substantially as described.

2. In combination with the above claimed
device the discharge cock J, operated by
the crank or arm O, adjustable rod N, lever
K, and groove M, substantially as and for
the purposes set forth.

This invention relates to an improved
device known as an anti-friction step or
bearing for shafts, it being applicable to
propeller shafts and all such as have a hor-
izontal throat, but more especially as a
step for vertical shafts, and it consists in
the introduction of water beneath the end
of the shaft, by a pressure sufficient to
slightly elevate it. This is accomplished by
means of a small force pump, operated by
the revolution of the shaft, while, by means
of a discharge cock on the opposite side —
also operated by the shaft — the elevation to
which it rises is always regulated and con-
trolled.

86,601. — Improvement in Gate Latches.
John W. Still, San Francisco, Cal.:
I claim the spring B, hook C, handle D,
and plate or catch G, combined and ar-
ranged to form a gate or door fastening,
substantially as herein described.

This gate latch can be easily operated
from either side of the gate. It cannot
be opened by cattle. The latch is in the
form of a hook, having a suitable place ar-
ranged, in which the fingers may be placed
to draw back the book in order to unlatch
the gate. The hook is attached to the gate
so as to leave a connecting spring between
it and the attachment, aud an inclined slot
is cut in the gate beneath the spring, to
allow the hook to be drawn back. The in-
ventor is now engaged in manufacturing
his improved latch, which can be made and
sold cheap.
i,475. — Improved Boot and Shoe
Stretcher. — Perry Veitch, San Fran-
cisco, Cal.:

I claim the combination in a boot and
shoe stretching last of the adjustable sec-
tions A and B, provided with the plates a
and F, and screw D, with the hinged ad-
justable instep H, and adjusting screw J,
substantially as described and for the pur-
poses specified.

This is a very simply but evidently
effective device for stretching the toes of
boots ; consisting of a last with a split toe,
operated by a screw.

86,474. — Improvement in Guides for
Sewing Machines. — W. H. Van Vlear,
Stockton, California, assignor to Self
and William E. Green, of same place :
I claim the guide a, provided with the
toe a' and the spring flange b b, as and for
the purpose specified.
86,489. — Improvement in Lubricating
Journal Boxes. — Ephraim A. Atwood,
and Harry H. Bodwell, of San Francisco,
Cal.:

We claim the box A B, having a reser-
voir C, hung below the shaft F, said box
being provided with the circumferential
grooves x x, passages G G, and y y, and with
an elastic sui faced- wheel D, all as herein
shown and described.

The wheel above mentioned carries the
oil upwards, thereby repeating its use.
The device is used by the inventors in the
construction of their windmills. After
well testing they consider it a very effec-
tive lubricator.

86,608.— Improvement in Gang Plows. —

J. Tustin, Portland, Oregon :

I claim the levers ABODE, the links
G and F, (in which may be rotated the
bent axle R) the bent axle E, and the latch
I, when used in the manner described and
for the purposes set forth.
86,564. — Improvement in Elevator and

Table for Feeding Grain Separators.

Don Carlos Matteson and Truman Pane

Williamson, Stockton, Cal.:

1. We claim the cross bar D, and the
boxes or eyebolts E E, substantially as and
for the purpose specified.

2. We claim the hiuged-drop bar K, and
the holding-braces N N, constructed and
operated substantially as and for the pur-
poses herein described.

86, 565. — Improvement in Horse Hay
Forks. — Don Carlos Matteson and Tru-
man Pane Williamson, Stockton, Cal.:

1. We claim the plate O, with its lugs M
M and u, and the spur P, constructed and
arranged substantially as herein described.

2. The stirrup A passing around the post
N, substantially as and for the purpose de-
scribed.

The last patentees named have made
quite a number of improvements in agri-
cultural impliments during the past few
years. Their inventions are worthy of a
full notice, which we shall be able to give
next week.

New Inventions.

Gas from Bituminous Shale. — Jacob
E. Bowman, of Sacramento, has entered a
caveat for a new method of manufacturing
gas from the bituminous shales found along
the railroad in the foothills, and taken by
many to be coal, but which will not bnrn.
The cost of the apparatus for the largest
house will not exceed $80.

New Shingle Machine— A machine for
shaving sawed shingles has been invented
by H. C. Babcock, of Humboldt county.
The thick end of two wedges in the shape
and of the length of- a shingle are each
placed between the edge of two knives, one
over the other, and with their edges toward
the thin edge of the wedges. The guards,
wedges and shingles are stationary. The
butt end of the shingle is placed between
the edges of the knives, and the knives are
drawn to the thin ends of the wedges. In
front and behind the knives are two sliding
platforms, each with a gutta percha roller
next to the knives; the one to force the
shingle between the knives, and the other
to remove it when shaved. The knives and
platforms are connected by iron rods. A
fixed frame is placed over the sliding plat-
form in front of the knives to hold the
shingles. A knife and spring are attached
to the end of the platform furthest from
the shaving knives to edge and feed. The
platforms and knives move horizontally.

Foard's Vacuum Ventilator. — Mr. J.
W. Foard, Deputy-Collector of S. F. has
taken out a patent, says the Times, the ob-
ject of which is to ventilate ships by means
of horizontal draught pipes near the deck,
through which the winds circulate, the
same being connected by vertical suction
pipes with such parts of the hold as are to
be kept under perfect ventilation. The
air rushing from the hold through
the perpendicular pipe is the same in
amount and velocity as that which is im-
pelled through the horizontal pipe by the
movement of the vessel. The ventilator
being an exhausting apparatus, Mr. Foard
places it as far aft on the ship as practica-
ble, and provides an opening as near the
bow as may be, to let in air; when, with
every other part hermetically sealed, there
must be a current under the ship's decks,
from bow to stern, in exact ratio to the
size of the ventilator, meanwhile effectively
preventing the admission of rain into the
ship through the pipes, The invention is
responsive to one of the most important
problems that has come up, in connection
with commercial navigation, how effectu-
ally to ventilate ships so that damage to
cargoes so common from sweating, may be
prevented. It is said to accomplish the
purpose in ships, and is to be adapted to
theatres, hotels, churches, mines, and rail-
road cars.

Nourishment in Beer. — Professor Liebig
says that fourteen hundred and sixty quarts
of the ■ best beer, contains exactly the
amount of nourishment which is contained
in one loaf of bread weighing 2% pounds.
So that if a man is in need of that amount
of nourishment, and has plenty of time to
spare, he can, if he likes, take the beer.
We prefer the shortest way.

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Weekly Stock Circular.

By Aitoeitted Brokers of the 8. T. Stock udCzekug* Board

S*s Fiusrisco, March 6, 18©.
Olty stocks.

Since our lust similar reference the transac-
tions in city aharea and bonds have been com-
paratively small, and mostly from private bands.
In the Board oalesof Ban Prancisoo Gas vers

effected at $77@78. The usual monthly divi-
dends ">f our local institutions have been made
as announced on the third page of this circular.
The North Beach and Mission Railroad resumed
the monthly disbursement of dividends the pres-
ent month, the last one having been made in
October, 1868. We also call attention to our
corrected statement of assets of the various lo-
cal insurance companies of this city, as ren-
dered to the Iusurunce Commissioner at the
close of 1868.

Mining Share Market.

The mining share market for the period un-
der review has been characterized by the usual
activity, and embraced a number of stocks that
have been quiet for some time past. Some of
the lately incorporated claims also made their
appearance, selling to a considerable extent.
At the close, the market is quite firm for several
leading descriptions.

The Amount of bullion shipped through ^Vells,
Fargo &. Co's Express from Gold. Hill, Nevada,
during the month of February, amounted to
$939,251.

The following resolution concerning the plac-
ing of stocks on the regular list, came up on the
25th of February, in regular order, and, on mo-
tion, was amended and adopted, and reads as
follows: Thut all applications to have stocks
placed upon the regular list of this Board, shall
first be referred to the proper committee, and
if by such committee they shall be reported fa-
vorably upon, then, after paying into the treas-
ury of this Board the sum of three hundred
dollars, they may be placed on such list for the
term of one year; and on the payment of one
hundred dollars yearly thereafter, they shall be
retained on said list.

We notice, according to the returns made by
the Assessors of the State of Nevada, that the
bullion yield for the entire State amounted to
$16,172,500 during the year 1867, and $13,-
317,000 for 1868, giving a yield of about $2,-
500,000 over and above the product of the Corn-
stock lode in 1867, and §4,800,000 in 1868.

The past condition of White Pine, Lander
county, Nevada, affords no possible criterion of
its future. It has already achieved so great a
celebrity as to have become 'an object of deepest
interest in all portions of the Union, and the
results obtained since the discovery of its rich
lodes have been so wonderful as to cast all
former precedents into the shade. Whether
White Pine will prove to be as permanent as
the Comstock Lode, is of course mere matter of
conjecture at present, and each person will
form some theory for himself. A large number
of mining companies, representing over one
hundred millions of dollars, have already been
organized to work the mines of that region ;
but this fact does not seem to at all deter others
from pursuing a like course, and the number
increases with such rapidity as to defy exact
mention. The bullion product of Lander county
is given in the official biennial report of W. K.
Parkinson, Controller of Nevada, as follows:
In 1867, Lander county yielded $1,357,816 in
bullion, and in 1868, $2,463,980, showing an
increased production of $1,106,164, due entirely
to the recent discoveries at "White Pine. The
heavy disbursement of capital, and the thou-
sands of miners who will be employed by it to
vigorously unfold the mineral resources of that
region, together with the astounding richness
of its ores as developed so far, can scarcely fail
to render White Pine a place of remarkable
bullion production.

Alpha— declined from §54 to $47 50, then
sold at $50, and closed at $52. On the 3d inst.
the northeast drift was reported to be getting
into a fine white quartz, almost powdered, con-
taining sulphurets. Will soon connect with
Imperial ground, when better air will be ob-
tained for the workmen Belchek ruled at

$30@24, improved to $27 50, and closed at 27.
This company has accumulated about 350 tons
at the old dump, and 100 tons at Segregated
Belcher dump. They are drifting south on 335

level in hopes of finding a new body Chol-

lab-Potosi sold at $166@176, and closed at
$173. For the week ending Feb. 26th, 700 tons
of ore were extracted. Nothing of special in-

terest concerning the mine Confidence im-
proved to $44, closing at $41.

Cnows Point — has been more active than
usual, improving from $7U 75 to $S0, and clos-
ing .it £7';. For February account, so far,
$21,535 in bullion has been received. Most of
the ore is taken from the BOO level. The east
drift on 1100 level is in 10S feet, and the rock,
although still quite hard, is said to be easier to
work than heretofore. The northeast drift on
900 level is iu east of east clay wall over 100

feet, the face being in granite Golden

Chariot (Idaho) advanced from $48 to $57,
and at close $55 is bid. The receipts of bul-
lion during tho months of December and Janu-
ary amounted to $101,656 from 589 tons of ore.
During the same time they disbursed $50,000 in
dividends.

Hale & Nobcboss — gained great activity to
ward the close of the week, advancing from $77
to $97, and closing at $95. A telegram states
that the tunnel on the fifth level is in ten feet
of ore, and tho street report is that the ore is
thirteen feet wide. Assays show it to be a good
milling quality.

Empire Mill — was in the market at $75(«.76.
The bullion returns for the month of February
foot up $15,736 84 against $13,655 in January.

Gold Hill Quartz sold at $50. For the

month of February the bullion receipts aggre-
gate $5,169. . . .Eureka (Cal.) shows a bullion
yield of $53,000 during the month just closed.

Kehtfjck — is in fair request, rising from $238
to $285, receding to $255, and closing at $263.
The receipts on February account have been
increased to $50,676. .. .Ophie declined from
$41 to $37, and closed at $38. On the 3d inst.
the lower drift had been carried a distance of
57 feet. No change in the rock.

Imperial — sold within a range of $99@104,
and closed at $109. During the month of Feb-
ruary the ballion returns amounted to $38,070
against $46,728 in January, and $44,288 in De-
cember. It is believed that from 10,000 to 12,-
000 tons of ore still remain in the Alta mine,
which will mill from $12 to $14 per ton, the
principal portion of which is found on the 230,
400 and 517 levels, the 90 and 150 levels being
about exhausted. The mill can be kept run-
ning four months longer on ore from the Alta
mine, during which time it is expected they will
be able to thoroughly prospect the two levels
now being opened from the Imperial-Empire
shaft, and these localities do not show any fa-
vorable indications at present. . . .Sierra Ne-
vada sold during the week at $27 50(^29. The
bullion returns for February foot up $3,728. In
January the bullion yield amounted to $9,998,
and in December, $7,568. At present the mine
exhibits an improved appearance, and the fu-
ture prospects are apparently much brighter.

Savage— did not sell to so large an extent as
the previous week, commanding prices varying
from $66 50 to $71 50, and at the close realiz-
ing $70 Yellow Jacket declined from $75

to $70 75, and closed at $71 Silver Coed

(Idaho) sold to a large extent during the week,
advancing from $10 50 to $19. The mine con-
sists of 600 feet, divided into twenty shares to
the foot The office is located at 418 California
street; W. J. Williams, Secretary For Ama-
dor $295 is asked. The bullion yield for Feb-
ruary will reach $64,000.

Occidental — sold at $32@34 50, and closed
at $35. The Enterprise of the 2d instant, says:
Yesterday morning the lower tunnel of the Oc-
cidental tapped a vein of about fifteen inches of
water. The tunnel is being run on the west
side of the lead and the water comes in at the
bottom and from the east side of the tunnel.
The striking of the water is considered a very
favorable indication. The water will be of
great value to the company, as they intend
building a large mill at the mouth of their tun-
nel. The water found comes up through the
solid rock. It is well known that there is a
large body of water east of the ledge which can
be reached whenever it is needed, by running a
drift through the east clay wall. The point
where the present stream of water has been cut
is about 850 feet from the mouth of the tunnel.
This company will declare a dividend on Friday
next of $2 per share. This is their first divi-
dend, and although not large, is still very good
when we consider the great amount of work
which is being done for the development of the
mine. They expect hereafter to declare a divi-
dend regularly every month.

The New " City Gas Company," of
which Hay ward, Bell, Friedlander, Tevis,
etc., are trustees, have purchased land on
the Presidio, now occupied by North's
shipyard, near the rolling mills. If they
obtain a franchise from the Board of Su-
pervisors they will immediately commence
the construction of their works, intending
to have them in full operation, with pipes
laid, and all the necessary accessories, to
supply the city with gas within from eight-
een months to two years.

An Old Prospector. — Wm. Sublett, in-
ventor of several improvements in paddle
wheels and steel saws, recently left this
city to pitch has tent in White Pine.

MINING SHABEH0LDEBS' dibeotoby.

[Compiled for every issue, from advertisements in the

JIinimo and Scmjmnc Press and other San

Francbco Journals.;

'omprlslnE the Names of Companies, District or County
lUod; Amount and date of Assessment; Date ot
Meeting; Day of Delinquent Sale; and Amount and Time
of Payment ol" Dividends.

Amador Co.. dividend. S*i pet-share.. ..Payable Feb in, tsffl

Bacon, BlOKy co., Nov., div Payable June 19. 1868

Cal. Borax Co Annnal Meeting March 10

Chalk Mountain, Nevada co.. Jan. 13, $2.. Feb. 15-March S*

Chollar P -I, div , $:5 Pavahte Oct. 15, 1867

Grown Point, dividend. f7.S> Pav'able Sept. 12 1863

City K- K ,Sati FraiKi-co, Jan. 6,$5 "..Feb. It1— March 6

Curie v. preferred Stock, div. 2^ percent Feb. 10, 1869

Chloride Mt Tun.. White Pine, feh. 2, aoc.. Mar 13— Ap. 1'f

Cordillera, Mex Annual Meeting March 15

Empire M. A M,, New. dividend $6 Payable Maj 15. 1881

Eureka, div. $5 Payable Jan. 20, IS69

Folsom St. A' Ft. Pt. R. R. Jan. 30, $5.... March 3— March 20

Gould A Curry, div .57.50 Payable May 15. 1867

Golden Chariot. Idaho Annual SUeitnr. Man h t

Gold Hilly M A M-dlvfdond. $7 SO... Payable Julv 13. 1*8
Golden Kulc. Tunlunine co. div, 50c # sh...l*av. Feb. 26. 18-9
Glenwood. El Dorado Co., Feb 19, $25.... April 2— April 2.*

Hale A Norcross, div. $125 Sept. 16, 1867

Hale A Norcrow, Storey co., Feb. 12, $5... March 20— Aprils

Hale A Norcron, Storey co Annual Meeting March In

Hope Gravel, Nevada co , Feb, 24, $1 March 29— April 19

I X I,, Alpine co.. Jan. 19, $1 50 Feb. 27— March 17-

Inipcnal, Storey co., Nov., div Payable June 20, 1868

Juan l';i in i-i.i. Santa Clara co,, Nov. 27 Sale Ian. 30

Julia, Storey co . Ne\„ $2.50 Feb. 10— Ft-b 27

Kemuck,dlw,$20 per share Payable Jan. 10,1869

Keystone MeeUi g Apr) bZ

Mi. Tenabo, Lander co .Jan. 23, 75c — March 5— March 30*
Mohawk A Montreal, Nev. co., Feb. 10, $3... Mar. 15— Mar. 31

Mohawk A Montreal, Nevada co Meeting March 15

Mnxwcll. Amadorco.. Feb. 9. $1 March 13— April 1

Morning Star, Alpine co , March 3, $2. ...April 5— April 28

North Amcr. Wood P. Co., Jan. 15, $1 Feb 18— March 8*

North Star, dividend. So Payable Aug. 15, 1868

Oriental, Sierra co., Jan. 4. $2.50 Feb. 5— Feb. SO

Peninsula. Store v co., Dec. 16, $10 Feb. 11— March 6

Pacilic Unassessable, div Payable June 18. 186S

Pocollllo Annual Meeting March 1 2

Rattlesnake. Yuba co , Dec. 19, $7.50 Jan. 21— Feb. 18*

Rising Star. Idaho, Feb. 8, S6 March 31— April 3

Santiago, Silver City, dividend, $2 50... Payable Dec 19. 1868

Sand Spring -alt, dividend $1 Pavable Jan 5, 1869

Savage. Virginia, Nev, dividend, $2 50. Payable Feb. 11, 1869

Siskivou Annual Meeting March 8

Star Creek, Nev., Feb. 26, $1.50 March 29— April 19*

Tallulah, Humboldt co., Dec. 11, $17.50 Jan. 29— Fob. 27

Treasure Trove, Lander co., Feb. 15. 20c. M'ch 21— April 12
Virginia A G. H Water Co. .Dividend, payable Nov. 20,1868

Virginia, White Pine, Nev Annual Meeting Feb. 27

Yellow Jacket, div., S5 Payable Feb. 15, 1869

Latest Stock Prices Bid and Asked.

B. W. STOCK AND EXCHANGE BOARD.

Friday Evening, Mach 5, 1869.

MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS. Jii-t. Atlked.

United States Bonds, 5 20s, l«>5, '67. '68 $ 84 85

United States Knnds, 5 20s, 18i4 84 85

United Stales Bonds. 5-20s, 1862 Hi 85

Legal Tender Notes 77 77ya

Calilornla State Bonds, 7s. 1857 97^ —

San Francisco Bonds, ios, 1851 par A int.

San Francisco City Bonds, 6s. 1855 — —

San Francisco City and County Bonds. 6s, 1858. 85 87^

San Francisco School Bonds, 10s, I860 100 —

San Francisco school Bonos, His, 1*61 rtar & Int

San Francisco City and Co. Sch'l B'tls, 7a, 1866. 91 —

San Francisco Cliv and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1862 85 89

San Francisco Cltv and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1864 87^ 89

San Francisco Citv and Co Bonds, 7«. 1S65 87^ 89

San Francisco City and Co. Judg. Bds. "s, 1863. 87*4 89

Sail Francisco City and Co. Judg. Bds, 7s, 1864. 87J-£ 89

Sacramento-City Bonds 30 51

Sacramento County Boiid3, 6h 65 —

llarysvillc Bonds, 10s 75 80

Stocklon City Bonds 65 —

Vuba County Bonds, 8s 77 79

Santa Clara County Bonds, 7s 76 77

Butte County Bonds, 10s, 1860 65 —

San Mateo County Bunds, 7s 75 80

CalllorniaSteain Navigation Co 6» 70

Coring Valley Water Co e8 70

State Telegraph Co 26 —

GAS COMPANIES.

San Francisco GasCo 78 86

Sacramento Gas Co 85 —

RAILROADS.

Sacramento Valley Railroad — —

San Frai.cUco and San Jose Railroad 40 45

Omnibus Railroad 72 —

Central Railroad t FO —

North Beach and Mission Railroad 70 —

Front Street, Mission and Ocean Railroad 11 XI

BANKING INSTITUTIONS.

Pacific Bank 97^ 100

The Hank of California 157 158

People's Insurance Company — —

INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Flremans' Fund Insurance Co .... 92,*£ 9i

Pacilic Insurance Co 126 127

Merchant1!' Mutual Marine Insurance Co 600 520

California Insurance Co 13UQ 1400

Union Insurance Co 92 93

Home Mutual Insurance Co 19>£ 20

Occidental Insurance Co 81 87

MINING STOCKS— WASHOE DISTRICT.

Alpha 52 63

Baltimore American — —

Belcher 26 27

Bullion, G. H 20 21

Crown Point 76 76M

Cole(Va.) 10 —

Confidence 40 41

Consolidated Virginia -■ 4 —

Chollar-Potosi 175 —

Daney 4*4 43*

Exchequer. 19 2n

Empire Mill and Mining Co 77 89

Gould A Curry 114 115

Gold Hill Quartz P45 48

Haie & Norcross 95 9i

Imperial 109 110

Julia — —

Justice and Independent 13 —

Kentuck 263 264

Lady Bryan IS 19

North American 14 15

Ophlr 38 38

Overman 71 72

Segregated Belcher 10J£ 10>i

Savage 70 70j£

Sierra Nevada ".... W 30

Yellow Jacket 70 71

Union — —

United States — —

MISCELLANEOUS MINING STOCKS.

Amador (California) 290 295

North Star (California) : — —

Eureka (CaliforniH) 230 2<0

Golden Rule. California 10 12

San Francisco Market Kates.

■Wholesale Prices.

Friday, March 5, 1

Flour, Extra, ^bbl $5 25

Do. Superfine 4 50

Corn Meal, r* 100 lbs 3 25

Wheat, f* 100 lbs 1 50

Oats, "^ tOO lbs 1 85

Barley, ^ 100 lbs 1 75

Beans, %» 10u lbs 0 00

Potatoes, # M) lbs 75

Hay, $ ton 12 00

QSa 50

<3> 4 75
@ 3 50
<9 1 70

Live Onk Wood, 1* cord 9 00 ®10 00

Beef, extra, dressed, fl lb 11 ® 12

Sheep, on foot 3 00 « 3 25

Hogs, on foot, Vi lb 5 @ 7

HogB, dressed, g lb 9 £ 10

QR0CEKIK3, KTC.

Suaar, crushed. ?t lh _ ® I7H

Do. China iu (A 12

Coffee. Costa Rica, >* lb — a 18

D<\Blo »6?i® 17

Tea, Japan, & o» 74 @ yo

i»" Qreen ,■< <a 1 25

MawuiiiMi Kkc. y lb _ « 10

China Rlce,^ lb 6 I 7

Ooal Oil, g gallon is « 43

r"ni11'- "f » 16 @ IS

Ranch Butter, f« lb 35 a 45

lathmup. Butter. $lb «k « «

I'hevw. I'alliomiu, -pt lb 16 fij 2»

£***< fiiOMn 40 « 45

SfrttM- 12 a 13

Ham and Baron, ^ rb 14 ,4 j5

Shoulders, ^4 lb 7 a e

Retail Price*.

Bnttcr, California, fresh, ji lb 60 A —

do. pickled, V ft so a —

do. Oregon, m lb 20 a 25

do. New York, ^ lb 36 a 4J

Cheese, 'gib 20 ® 2a

Honey, ?* lb 25 a SO

Eggs, « dozen M) a 611

Lard, pi lb 15 a 16

Hams and Bacon, B B) 2D a 25

Cranberries, g gallon 1 25 @l»l

Potatoes, "S lb 1J» a 2

Potatoes, Sweet, g lb 3 @ S

Tomatoes,** ft 3 a —

Onions, i* ft 3 a —

Apples, No. 1, a n> 4 a s

Pears, Table, ¥* lb 5 a 7

Plums, dried. «i lb 10 a 12

Peaches, dried, V ft lo a 12

Oranges, a dozen 75 a —

Lemons, "pj dozen 75 a —

Chickens, apiece _ a 75

Turkeys .f* ft 23 a 25

Soap. Pale and CO 7 a 12

Soap, Castile. ^ tb 20 a

» 1 — -.*- «•

San Francisco Metal Market.

PRICES FOR INVOICES.

Jobbing price* rule from ttm to Ji/Um per cent, higher tfian th
following quotation*.

Fridat, March 5, 1869.
Ibon.— Duty: Pig, $9 per ton; Railroad, 60c a. 100 lbs; Bar
l@l^c <pl lb; Sheet, polished, 3c a. lb; common, IJsai&c
f. lb; Plate, l,^c 13 lb; Pipe, l>ic Q lb; Galvanized, 2>£c
?» lb.

Scotch and English Pig Iron "pi ton $40 00 ffl$41 00

White Pie ^ ton 36 00 a 37 00

Refined Bar, bad assortment ^Ib — 03 a

Refined Bar, good assortment, ^ lb — 04 a

Boiler, No. 1 to 4 — 04&a

Plate, No. 5 top a — 04Jtf

Sheet, No. 10 to 13 -IHU@ — 6

Sheet, No. 14 to 20 — t)5 a— 6K

Sheet, No. 24 to 27 —05 a— 6>S

Copper.— Duty: Sheathing, 3^c "0 lb; Pig and Bar, 2&c $!b

Sheathing, a Di a 26

Sheathing, Yellow — 20 a 21

Sheathing, Old Yellow — 10 a — 11

Bolts — 21 (5 — 22

Composition Nails — 21 a 22

Tin Plates.— Dutv: 259 cent, ad valorem.

Plates, Charcoal, IX, pi box 12 00 a

Plates, I C Charcoal a 11 00

Roofing Plates. iu 00 a 10 50

Banca Tin. Stabs, ^ lb a — 35

Pteel.— English Cast Steel, ^Ib a 15

Quicksilver.— # lb — 55 a — 60

LEAD.-Pig.'pilb - 7X®— 8

Sheet — 10 a

Pipe — 11 a

Bar _ 9 a — 9W

Zinc— Sheets. "$ !b • — 10>Sa— 11

Bobax.— California, $ lb — 35 a — 38

The Elko Bittjminous Shale is fourd
two miles from the railroad in a stratum
eight feet thick, and has been located over
six square miles. The Virginia Enterprise
says: "Scientific men who have examined
the deposit pronouDce it bituminous shale,
covering cannel coal, but Bay that it, is su-
perior in every respect to anything of the
kind ever found in America. From testa
made it is said to have shown 42^ per
cent, coal oil, and it is said that one ton of
the shale will make 800 feet of gas, of a su-
perior quality." The authority is no doubt
good, but we would like to see some of
this'cannelcoal; and it strikes us as possi-
ble that an error of thirty or forty per
cent, may have been made in determining
the coal oil.

Physical Law and Postage Stamps. —
Postage stamps that are wet on both sides
are not liable to peel off. If wet only on
one side, the expansion is uneven, and the
adhesion must be very perfect to prevent
peeling.

The Great Modern Specific. — " Nothing
new under the sun," said Solomon: "History
repeats itself," says a modern essayist. Every
day some sententious fellow or another insists
that the Present is indebted for every so-called
" new idea " to the Past. Some folks go so far
as to believe that there is an allusion to the iron
horse of the railroad in the old testament. But
where among the mists of antiquity is the pro-
totype of the Plantation Bittebs to be discov-
ered, that stimulant without a sting, that tonic
without one injurious or even questionable ele-
ment to interfere with its perfect work of phys-
ical regeneration? In a general way the sages of
long ago recommended vegetable remedies for
the "healing of the nations," but it was not
until this incomparable Vegetable Elixir was in-
troduced, that the desired object was attained.
It is the best combination of tonic and altera-
tive botanic materials that the world has ever

It may be singular, perhaps not, that no one
purchasing spectacles of C. Muller, 205 Mont-
gomery street, is ever dissatisfied with his bar-
gain. ^ V

The Mining akd Scikntitic Press, which commenced
ts seventeenth volume on ihe 4th. comes to us with a new-
ly engraved head, and presenting otherwise its usual taste-
>ul appearance. We take this occasion to say that ihe
Press is one of the best papers of the hind In the United
States, and every miner and mechanic in the State, as well
as the business man, who would keep posted on our Indus-
trial resources, .should have Its name on its subscription
books. Herada Gazette.

150

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press,

Mining Summary.

The following information is gleaned mostly from jour-
nals published in the interior, in close proximity to the
mines mentioned.

CALIFORNIA.

ALPINE COUS TT.

Chronicle, Feb. 20th : The Pennsylvania
Co. is making gratifying progress toward
the ledge. The tunnel is now in about 905
feet. The rock is seamy, and it is evident
that the ledge is not far off.

In sinking the Morning Star shaft Su-
perintendent Gamble has struck a body of
the rich black ore which has made this
claim so valuable. The shaft having been
completed, Mr. Gamble, by running a
short drift, will soon strike the heavy body
of ore in the lower level. The experimen-
tal working of the ore by the chlorination
process at the Markleeville Mill has proved
a perfect success in every way, and the ore
can now be worked without the use of salt,
which will be a saving of $10 on every ton
of rock worked. The Co. will soon com-
mence the erection of new furnaces at
Markleeville, and expect to have the mill
running again as a permanent institution
in about six weeks.

The Herald, of this city, says : From
private correspondence we learn that splen-
did headway is being made in the Imperial
mine, and the prospects are fair to cut the
Triumph ledge by the 1st of May. They
made 14 feet last week with but two shifts
of men. The Mount Bullion, on the op-
posite side of the river and a little lower
down than the Imperial, is also making
better headway than for a long time, having
made 16 feet in the last week. This Co.
will soon cut their finest ledge, which gives
good promise of yielding rich ore in abund-
ance. The Morning Star, in Mogul, have
got their main shaft down to a point even
with the lower level, and are now running
a tunnel to intersect the drift from the in-
cline. They have cut several small bodies
of good ore in sinking the main shaft, and
as soon as the connections are made be-
tween the new and old works, they will
commence taking out ore. The Township
mine is soon expected to start up, when,
with good management, the mine can be
made a paying institution. There are sev-
eral other miues steadily at work, but with
what success we are unadvised.

A1I1SOS COUNTY.

Jackson Ledger, Feb. 27th : The mill of
the Coney & Bigelow mining Co. has been
shut down for the purpose of making some
needed repairs.

The Alturas mine, four miles above Vol-
cano, is proving to be very rich. They
have just finished crushing a run of 60
tons that yielded a little over $35 per ton.

The S. F. Herald, March 2d, says : A
letter from the Amador Mine, dated the
26th, says the north shaft continues to im-
prove as sinking goes on. From the mine
there is but one uninterrupted succession
of good news.

EL IHUMOO COUNTY.

The Herald of this city, of March 2d,
has the following : The Pacific Co. have
shut down their mill to add another bat-
tery. The mine is looking well and show-
ing good signs of improvement as the work
progresses, as to warrant this addition to
their mill. The ore is said to pay hand-
somely, which is encouraging to the quartz
interests of El Dorado, which for a long
time have been in a languishing condition.

INYO COUNTY.

San Diego Union; Feb. 13th : Fourteen
thousand pounds of bullion arrived in this
city yesterday in charge of Gray, Bro. &
Arcado, from the Cerro Gordo mine.

MARIPOSA. COUNTY.

Gazette, Feb. 26th : During the past
week a large boiler, smoke stack and other
portions of machinery, have been brought
into Mariposa by the Company, and will
immediattly be placed in working order for
the purpose of pumping the water out of
the mine. Quite a number of hands will
soon be at work on the mill below town,
and it is to be repaired as speedily as pos-
sible.

The Washington mill and mine is situ-
ated about one eighth of a mile "West of
Quartzburg, and is owned by Page it Co.,
of San Francisco. At present the mine is
worked from a shaft 265 feet in depth, the
vein averaging from seven to ten feet in
width, and the ore yields from $20 to $30
per ton. Three miners and three strikers
are sufficient to furnish an abundant sup-
ply of rock to keep the mill constantly run-
ning. It is a ten-stamp mill and crushes
over ten tons of rock every 24 hours. The
ore is raised to the surface directly in front
of the batteries, where the spalling process
is performed by two Celestials. The water
to supply the batteries and the boiler is
raised by a pump of five feet stroke and

eight inch bore, and the hoisting works,
pump and mill are all driven by an engine
of two feet stroke and nine inch bore.
This engine was obtained at the Miner's
Foundry, San Francisco. After a run of
two weeks the mill was clea,ned to-day, and
160 ounces of amalgam obtained, which
■will return about §12,400 in coin.

SEV4D1 COUNTY.

Transcript, Feb. 23d : The weather has
been exceedingly cold for the past few
days, freezing up the ditches and putting a
quietus on the operations of miners. A
valuable tail sluice, in Sweetland creek,
was recently sold by Stephen Spencer &
Co. to Evans, Stidger & Co. for $20,000.
This property is located below the claims
of Evans & Co. and is the outlet for some
of the most valuable claims in Bridgeport
township, situated along the gravel range
from Buckeye Hill to Birehville.

Feb. 25th : The repairs on the Blue
Tent reservoir, which was broken during
the late storm, were completed yesterday.
The break was caused by a gopher.

We understand that satisfactory arrange-
ments have been made between the mining
companies that have an outlet through the
flume running through the city, and the
property holders, and that the flume is to
be built by the companies from the Masonic
building to Deer creek.

Feb. 26th : The prospect for a prosper-
ous Spring among miners in this county is
exceedingly excellent. The snow in the
mountains will furnish abundance of water
for many months, and our miners are gen-
erally satisfied that it is foolish to leave
Nevada county, where the value of the
mines is fully demonstrated, for any place
of uncertain resources. The weather is
now excellent, and if there is no more se-
vere weather miners will be in the hight
of prosperity in a short time.

Leavitt & Co. yesterday commenced work
on the flume which is to be the outlet for
their mining claims from the Masonic
building, under the houses on Commercial
street, to Deer Creek. It will be completed
and the miners will resume operations in a
short time.

Gazette, Feb. 24th : Bobert Irving, J.
C. Duel and others have located 2,500 feet
on a quartz ledge situated on Worthing-
ton's ranch, Grass Valley township. Wil-
liam Dawes and others, under the name of
the Imperial Quartz Mining Co., have lo-
cated 2,000 feet on a quartz ledge on the
south side of the Nevada and Grass Valley
Turnpike.

Feb. 25th: The Eureka Mining Co.
shipped on Tuesday $33,000 from Grass
Valley. Of this sum, $24,000 was the yield
of two weeks' run of the mill, and $9,000
was from the yield of sulphurets from the
mine.

We understand from a gentleman over
from Birehville that the Kennebec Co. at
that place have recently cleaned up, after
five days' run, $8,000.

Feb. 26th : We saw yesterday, at the
Sneath & Clay mine, a considerable quan-
tity of good rock which has recently been
taken from the lower- north level.

Grass Valley National, Feb. 23d : A con-
tract has been let for sinking 100 feet on
the Crescent Ledge, Kate Hayes' Hill.

Everything at the Sebastopol Mill is
moving along smoothly, with immense piles
of rock in waiting to be reduced to a gold
basis. Eighty loads from the Ben Frank-
lin, near the lone ledge, are now being
put through. The last crushing paid as
high as $40 per load. The company are
down on their ledge 100 feet and the rock
is looking better than ever before with the
ledge ranging in thickness from 14 to 18
inches. From the Lamarque ledge, lo-
cated on New York Hill, 120 loads of rock
will also be crushed. The last crushing
paid over $40 per load, and it is thought
this ore will average $50 per load. We
also saw an immense pile of rock from
Gregory & Mansau's ledge, on Osborne
Hill, to be put through the batteries.
Some lively betting is going on as to how
much it will pay per ton, but it is gener-
ally conceded that it will be in the vicinity
of $100. Things certainly look very en-
couraging for a lively and prosperous min-
ing season in Grass Valley, so much so,
that many who had the White Pine fever
are wisely concluding to stay at home and
invest their coin where there is a chance of
having a return for it.

Mr. Nash, just arrived from Eureka
South, says : At Moore's he found the
snow four feet deep, but melting very fast.
Several of the mills at Eureka are busy at
work, among the number the Birehville,
New Era, Young & Stacy's, Mutual, etc.
The rock from several of the ledges is look-
ing well and paying as well as any in the
county, considering the depth the com-
panies have prospected.

Feb. 22d : The Hope Gravel Co. , on

Alta Hill, are still hard at work developing
their mine. Recently a contract was let
for sinking a shaft 230 feet at a point 1,000
feet west of old works, where the company
have been operating for three years past.
Wm. Paul & Co. took the contract for $9
per foot. The size of the shaft is 12x14
feet — divided into three compartments,
two " hoist-ways" and a pump-shaft. The
shaft has been sunk about 50 feet so far,
and the work is being prosecuted with con-
siderable energy. From the old shaft,
4,000 feet east of the new one, the company
have drifted to a point near the new shaft
which is being sunk to facilitate the devel-
opment of the mine. The gravel bed is
about 200 feet wide, running east and west,
and the new shaft, when completed, will
open up enough ground for at least two
years' work.

Feb. 24th : The Brown Brothers have
suspended operations, at their mill, on
Wilcox Bavine, near You Bet, in order to
overhaul their machinery and make repairs.

Grass Valley Union, Feb. 25th : During
the late heavy snow storm at Graniteville
the following quartz mills kept continu-
ously at work : The Mutual, Birehville,
Norfolk, Jirncraek, and Black and Young's.
The Black and Young mill is running on
rock from the Banberry ledge, and the
clean-ups prove very rich. An active and
prosperous season in quartz mining is an-
ticipated at Gi aniteville the coming sum-
mer.

Excelsior. — The Gold Hill Neics has the
following from the Excelsior mines : Joe
Bavelle, recently returned from Meadow
Lake, gives us the following items relative
to Excelsior District : The Mohawk and
Montreal mine is steadily being worked.
The tunnel from the level of the mill of
the company is steadily progressing toward
the ledge, which it will intersect at a depth
of 400 feet beneath the croppings, thus af-
fording a grand chance to extract ore to the
greatest advantage at all seasons of the
year. The Pacific Co. also propose com-
mencing work soon ; also the Independent.
The Enterprise mine and mill are still idle,
with a man there in charge of the property.
The company will probably commence
operations again when the snow goes off.
The Lake Co., about a mile southesat of
the town of Meadow Lake, has developed a
valuable ledge of rich gold-bearing rock,
three feet in width, and has let a contract
to sink a working shaft on the same — the
contractors to take the rock extracted dur-
ing five months in sinking said shaft for
their pay. The shaft is already 35 feet in
depth, with a good house erected over it.

PLUMAS COUNTY.

Quincy National, Feb. 13th : A corres-
pondent at Snake Lake writes : Lile Jacks
(Smith & Co.,) has again brought water on
the old Badger Hills claims, after building
a large reservoir up Hill's ravine, and cut-
ting and digging a new ditch, over a mile
long, and a large portion of it in bed rock.
It will carry 600 to 700 inches of water.
Squire Jacks is also waiting the tapping of
the clouds by a warm rain current. John
O'Brien and MeDougal, at New Boston, are
pitching into Goodwin Point, with a pros-
pect of better diggings as soon as they can
get to the bottom of the channel. From
present indications it will pitch below the
present running creek. They have flatter-
ing prospects. Metcalf and Haycock have
not yet got a good head of water, but are
ready when it arrives. Jenkins, Richards
& Co., on the Wah-pon-see Hill, and Col-
man on Pine Leaf, are doing a good busi-
ness, considering the lack of water. Max-
well & Copeland, in the bed of Wah-pon-
see creek, are beginning to make things
look in "ship shape" order for a lasting
claim. Their propects are good. John
Ball, at Logansport, will make the thing
shell out this summer, judging from the
prospects. Tommy Taylor, on Wet Hill,
and Trimble, on Gambler's Ravine, are
still following good prospects, drifting,
and waiting for water to do something bet-
ter. Riddle, of Soda Bar, is making thing's
look lively around his camp. Bob Holmes
and Hugh McLawland, at Dutch Bar, have
diggings, and lasting ones.

The Caledonia Co., at Cherokee, has
struck extra good pay rock, has put on
several work hands, and is doing very well.
Judkins & Kellogg's mine is looking better
than it has for a long time. In J. Blood's
Indian Valley mine, they have struck extra
good rock in one of the several gold bear-
ing chimneys. The mines are, on the
whole, looking up. Bidwell is putting the
Waterworth mill in runniDg order again.
The Crescent is a quien sabe case. Shorkly
and Cook have sold their interest in one of
the Cherokee quartz ledges, for $2,100, to
Bidwell, and an interest in another lode
for a big sum, figures not known. The
Cherokee mining district is one of the best
in Plumas county, when it gets to be thor-

oughly opened and worked in a scientific
manner.

SISKIYOU COUNTY.

Yreka Union, Feb. 20th : The Oak Grovo
Co. are doing well in their claim on Mc-
Adams Creek. Carroll & Co have suspend-
ed operations for a few days, but will soon
be at work again.

TEINITY COUNTY.

Weaverville Journal, Feb. 27th : We
understand the flume across Brown's creek,
near Davidson's mill, will be completed
and conveying water to Douglas City by
the first of next week.

A miner, whose name we have been un-
able to learn, found a piece of gold weigh-
ing three pounds, last week, near Trinity
Center.

Paulsen & Co. have a ditch full of water
and are briskly at work in their claim at
Smith's flat.

YUBA COUNTY.

Marysville Appeal, Feb. 28th : We
learn that the Jefferson mine, at Brown's
Valley, has been working old ground for
some months past, and doing very well.
At the same time the' Superintendent has
kept up prospecting. One drift has been
run westwardly into the hill.
ARIZONA.
Prescott Miner, Feb. 13th : A piece of
gold weighing $26 was found at the Placer-
itas, near Walnut Grove, in this county,
a short time ago.

BRITISH COLUMBIA.
A despatch from Victoria, dated Feb.
15th, says : Late mining news from Car-
riboo is very favorable. The weather con-
tinued mild and all the principal mines
were paying well. A movement was on
foot to organize a company to prospect the
meadows on Williams Creek.

The steamer Sir James Douglass arrived
at Victoria, March 1st., from Nanaimo.
She reports that there are 10,000 tons of
coal ready for shipment at that port._

The Vancouver Register says : M.Eaton,
on Lewis River, has discovered a number
of lumps of gold, recently, varyingin value
from twenty-five cents to a dollar and a
half. He declines revealing the place of
their discovery till he makes some further
explorations.

COLORADO.
Georgetown Miner, Feb. 4th : At the
Brown mine, which we visited a day or two
since, we found work progressing favora-
bly in the adit, which is now 200 feet in
length, the vein carrying from 8 to 14
inches of mineral; in one place, where we
measured this vein, it was full 18 inches in
width. The mineral has been improving
for the last 20 feet, carrying more galena
and less blende.

At the Coin lode we also found an adit
in progress, which is now 65 feet in length.
The pay vein averages 14 inches in width,
four iucbes of it being solid mineral, and
the balance a rich gangue, carrying native
silver in abundance. On Sunday last they
took off. at the works, 4,356 ounces of sil-
ver bullion, coin value $5,662. The run
was from 20 tons of Brown ore, and gave
an average yield of $283. 10 coin value, per
ton. The cost of reduction was $10 per
ton, and 94 per cent of the fire assay was
saved.

IDAHO.
Owyhee Avalanche, Feb. 20th : The Ida
Elmore is being rapidly put in order. The
Golden Chariot is yielding large quanti-
ties of ore at this time, which has dimin-
ished none in the richness of quality.

The Poorman looks more permanent, and
is in better working trim now than at any
time since its discovery. Tbe ledge ranges
from 1% to 3% feet in width, and is pro-
ducing an excellent' quality of ore. The
new hoisting machinery works welL There
is quite a pile of ore in the dump.

The Peck & Porter mine is developing
well, the ore resembles that of the Ida El-
more and Golden Chariot. We were shown
by Mr. Peck a large specimen extracted
from the mine, literally speckled with gold.
The Baxter mine is turning out well.
Silver City Tidal Wave, Feb. 19th : Hi-
ram Gove and John Hildreth, have left
with us some excellent specimens of South
Mountain ore. One piece from tbe "Orig-
inal," shows almost every metal known to
this region, but is especially rich in silver,
lead and iron, the other is from the Galena
ledge, and abounds in silver and lead.
Many assays have been made of these
South Mountain ores, all of which have
proven very satisfactory. Certainly the
specimens in our possession present an ap-
pearance of richuess quite equal to those
shown us from White Pine, or elsewhere.

The Boise Statesman says : A friend late-
ly from Lewiston informs us that consider-
able interest is taken in a new discovery of
rich placer mines in a branch to the Bitter
Root Range, and that a number of the citi-
zens of that neighborhood are preparing to

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visit tliat country at an early date. There
is a very extensive country through North
Idaho, which has never been much pros-
pected, which will some day he opened up
to a large mining population.
NEVADA.

HEE1E HIVEK.

Austin Reveille, Feb. 25th: Yesterday the
First National J!. ink of this city shipped
overland to New York oity five bars of hul-
liin. the product of the Belmont mill. The
bullion was the product of ores obtained
from the mines of Col. Buel iu tire district
of Silv.-r Bend.

WHITE PI.VE.

The country papers are filled with letters
from parties now at White Pine, all bear-
ing the same tenor. The snow covers the
entire country, so that prospecting to any
great extent is out of the question. All
look for lively times in the spring. The
country is tilted with persons ready to start
out ou the first symptoms of spring, to more
thoroughly prospect the adjoining country,
and many are still arriving. We give be-
low the latest from this section.

Treasure City News, Feb. 20th: Consid-
erable activity has been manifested iu miu-
ing matters during the past week, and sev-
eral important trausactionshave taken place.
The Seymour and adjacent mines, situated
under PogouijJ Flat^ were sold to Mr.
George Hearst, an old pioneer silver miner,
for the sum of $95,000, which sum is be-
lieved to be not one-tenth of its real value.
Unlike most of the mines here, the Seymour,
(or rather the Silver Treasure, as it is to be
called hereafter,) shows a true and distinct
fissure vein, with both hanging and foot
walls. It is about twenty feet in width,
and shows as uuiform a record of assays,
and averages as high, as auy mine in the
country.

A very rich chamber of ore has been
struck in the Progress mine, on Chloride
Flat, which bids fair to be both rich and
extensive.

The Illinois Co. have commenced work
again in good shape. They have workmen
engaged sinking a shaft on the vein, and
purpose sinking until they get as good ore
as that of the Eberhardt, and from present
indications there is not the least doubt but
what they will. This claim is situated on
Silver Glance Hill, about 2,000 feet directly
east of the Eberhardt mine, and 200 feet
east of the Silver Glance. The location is
excellent, aud in a very short time it will
be one of the prominent mines of this Dis-
trict.

According to the Austin Reveille, 613
pounds of bullion arrived from Hamilton
on Feb. 22d, 209 on the 23d, and 202 on the
25th.

The Virginia Enterprise says: We con-
versed with a person yesterday who saw at
White Pine several of the men of a party
which had returned from a prospecting trip
to the eastward, bringing specimens of sil-
ver ore and a very meagre description of
the country. Our informant stated that the
ore is chloride of a superior quality, and
the prospectors said thatit occurred in great
quantity. Their explorations were cut
short by a severe snow storm, aud they
were compelled to abandon the place in
haste, but they intend to return with the
first approach of summer. Of course the
prospectors did Dot give an accurate ac-
count of the locality where they made the
discoveries, and only stated generally that
it was near Egan Canon, or about 65 miles
east of Hamilton, White Pine. There are
several organized districts in that direction
which were discovered years ago. The
Hercules district is situated in the Egan
range of mountains, about 160 miles nearly
east from Austin, and bordering on the fine
and extensive Steptoe valley. Many veins
or deposits of silver ore were reported to
exist in the district, aud were located by the
discoverers. It was also said that copper
ore occurred in limestone iu some parts of
the district. All the prospectors that vis-
ited this section united in saying that Step-
toe valley, with its numerous streams of
water and lush meadow land, is the graden
spot of Nevada. Further southward, and
lying directly on the route from Pahranagat
to While Pine, is the Bobinson district,
which is said to exhibit extraordinary pecu-
liarities in its mineral occurrences. Cop-
per, silver, lead, and gold ores, were re-
ported as abundant. There are entire hills
apparently of copper ore, and there are dis-
tinct veins of fluor spar in which occur
cubes of galena. We have seen specimens
of the silver-bearing ore reported to be
from the Bobinson district, which were of
excellent quality. About 170 miles east
from Austiu lies the district of Egan, or
Gold caSou, as it is sometimes called from
the occurrence of gold iu the quartz. It
was discovered in 1863, is very accessible,
apd is well supplied with water; but out-
side the property of the Social aud Steptoe

Co., there is very little development in the
district The Kinsley district is situated in
the Antelope range of mountains 40 miles
northeast of Egan canon, and 200 miles

from Austin, on the eastern border of the
State. The peculiarity of this district is
the many massive veins of copper-bearing
ore. Samples of this ore taken from the
surface is represented to have yielded by
assay from Slid to si 00 per t-n in silver.
We believe the Central Pacific Railroad will
pass through the Kinsley district. Direct-
ly south of White Pine and in the same
range of mountainsare the lately discovered
districts of Grant and Troy, iu both of
which tine silver ore has been discovered.
In this vicinity, in a radius of perhaps 60
miles, there is a plexus of veins and depos-
its of silver ore of immense value, which
will reward the labors of the prospector,
who may fail to secure anything in over-
crowded White Pine. Possibly the re-
ported new discoveries may be in some of
the districts we have mentioned; or they
may be original and in the same direction.
A correspondent writes: There is no
doubt but that the mines here are very
rich, as far as they have been developed,
but as yet none have been sunk upon to any
great depth. The ore is found almost
everywhere by sinking a few feet in the
limestone, but the whole country around
has been located, and wherever chloride has
been found the holes are so thick that the
rock can hardly be thrown from one hole
or shaftwithoutfallinginto another. Every-
body here is on the sell. If a prospector
goes out aud strikes " chloride," as they
say, he is at once worth iu his own estima-
tion from $10,000 to $500,000, even though
he has not a dollar with which to buy a
square meal.

A correspondence published in the Ha-
vilah Courier, dated Silver Springs, Feb.
1st, says: Medberry is doing well, and is
greatly^ enco.iraged. He was working a
claim iu company with Ed. Emory. He
found pure silver on the top of the ground,
and it raised a great excitement. He pays
$5 a day for hands. The day before he
wrote he had two tons of rock carried six
miles to a mill — the transportation costing
810; he thinks the rock will pay 33,000 a
ton. A great influx of population is ex-
pected at White Pine from all parts of the
United States. The mines are not held at
so high a figure as formerly. There are a
good many rich mines there, but notenough
to give the population a foot each. There
are only 25 stamps there, and those not
working, but if all mills spoken of are put
up there will be at least 30 in the spring.
So far, with one exception, the mines that
have been sunk on have turned out poorly
below 40 feet.

In regard to mining developments, says
the Bulletin correspondent, it may be stated
that while the older claims, such as the Eb-
erhardt, Hidden Treasure, Stanford, Auro-
ra, Pocotillo, Virginia, and the leading
claims on Chloride Flat, are exhibiting in-
creased signs of wealth to the extent of fur-
ther exploration, a great number of mines
ranking here in the third and fourth classes
are affording the utmost satisfaction upon
being opened. In this category we have
now coming into prominence the Mazeppa,
the Copper Glance, the Pennsylvania and
the Featherstone, all of established value,
while the Hornet, California, Emersly,
Charter Oak, Poorman, Hlinois and the In-
dependent, with some new strikes about
Pogonip and Bromide Flats, fall into a class
but one grade lower; two or three of them
being by some esteemed equal to either of
the three first mentioned. From all these
claims, ores — and in considerable quantities
— are now being taken. From the Belle
Chloride, Plata Pura, Argyle, Umatilla,
Coulson, Neptune, and perhaps a hundred
other lodes, the names of which do not oc-
cur to me, fair milling ore is being raised
in moderate quantities, while the mul-
titude of shalts sunk on Chloride Flat
continue to yield their usual complement
of rich ores. Among the rising claims of
the district, the Hornet seems just now to
be most conspicuous. The lode is large,
very regular and highly metalliferous,
though the assays do not run extremely
high. Some rich developments recently
made on the California lode is causing it to
be the theme of much conversation in min-
ing circles here. This mine is situated a
short distance southwest of the Eberhardt,
and, at a depth of less than 20 feet, is yield-
ing ores that assay equal to the Eberhardt,
and have milled nearly $400 perton. Thus
one mine after another becomes conspicu-
ous, and, passing upon the list of proper-
ties of recognized value, is afterwards not
much more heard of. A rich strike iu the
Hidden Treasure mine, whereby a body of
ore milling $100 per ton has been laid open
at a dep«h of 80 feet, is also reported. Tnis,
if true, will prove a significant fact, as es-

tablishing the continuance of the rich ore
channels at this considerable depth.
WASHOB.

[In the Stock Circular, in another portion
of this paper will lie found late mining
news from this district.]

Virginia Enterprise, February 24th. ] The
Twin mine, Silver City, is yielding a very
considerable amount of pay ore, but it
is all being extracted at present from above
the water level, as the pump in the
lower part of the mine has been removed to
give place to one of greater capacity, which
will soon arrive. The best ore is below the
water level.

Tho Bacon will start up on ore from the
Hale & Norcross mine in a few days.

The mill of the Gold Hill Mill and Min-
ing Company started up day before yester-
day on oro from their tunnel, dumped by
means of the new car track directly into the
mill.

The Ophir Co. a-e again at work at their
new shaft. They are running a drift to the
westward from the bottom of the shaft.

Feb. 25th: The work of retimbering the
paved portion of the Gould & Curry shaft
will be finished about the middle of next
month.

The Cole Co. is still hard at work, and
have out a large lot of rock which will be
hauled away for crushing as soon as the
snow leaves the side of the mountain.

Workon the Julia mine is being vigorously
prosecuted. The shaft is now 350 feet in
depth, and from this level two drifts are
being run, one east and the other west, to
tap two ledges which the company claim to
own. They suppose they have from 50 to
60 feet to run, before striking their east
lead, and 40 to 50 to carry them to their
west vein. In the west vein some fine
"stringers " of quartz have been cut, from
which assays running from $10 to $12.72
have been obtained.

Feb. 26th: The Yellow Jacket mine is at
present looking be tter than before in its
history. There is plenty of good ore in
sight almost everywhere from top to bot-
tom.

Feb. 29th: In drifting upon the west view
on the two hundred-feet level of the Justice
and Independence mine, it has been found
to widen out, till it is now some ten feet
across, and several assays, averaging about
$100, have been obtained from it. There
was considerable excitement in regard to
this strike yesterday.

MONTANA.

Helena Post, Feb. 5th : A party of Ger-
mans, last week, discovered a small and
very rich gulch one mile west of Blackfoot
City, which prospected from 25 cents to $1
to the pan. From a pit eight foet square
$400 was taken out with a rocker. The
new discovery has been staked and is being
actively worked.

The miners on Ophir Bar have been
working their claims all winter, and have a
promise of good times in the spring, as
there is more snow in the mountains at the
head of the streams than at any time last
winter.

A lump of retort weighing 14 ounces,
the result of four days' run in an arastra
from 250 pounds of rock from the Johnson
& Stanton lode, Brown's Gulch, has been
brought to Virginia City. This lode is
four feet wide and has a shaft 30 feet deep
upon it.

We saw yesterday at the assay office of
S. F. Molitor a gold bar worth $4,097.07,
the result of a clean up in the Diamond
City 10-starop mill, on Saturday last, from
160 tons of unselected ore, product of the
Whitlatch Union mines. This rock was
taken from the bottom of an incline 175
feet in depth, at which point the ledge pre-
sents a face of splendid quartz five feet in
thickness. The workmen have now been
engaged in this rich deposit some two
weeks, and it retains all the characteristics
of permanency and value which have per-
tained to it from the first. Numerous spe-
cimens of free gold bearing rock have been
procured from it which compare favorably
with auy that have ever been found on the
Whitlatch Union lead.

The Bannack correspondent writes :
Men are doing well rocking along the old
bars these warm days. Quite a number are
working in the bed of the creek, aud are
bringing to light many tubfulls of good
pay dirt. Other ditch companies are mak-
ing preparatious for mining iu the spring.
Of the various discoveries that have been
made the past fall we will speak of only
one. That is a lead in the Blue Wing Dis-
trict, about three miles from Bannack,
named the Brick Pomeroy. It was discov-
ered byBassett & Ney. It is amalgamating
silver-bearing rock, and rich. The lead at
the point where they are sinking is 15 feet
wide. There is now enough quartz in sight
to keep a twenty-stamp mill at work till it
wears out.

Same, Feb. 12th: The Diamond City
mill, situated in Grizzly Gulch, is now en-
gaged in a run upon rock from the Wiscon-
sin lode, and we learn that the amalgamat-
ing plates give evidence of a greater yield
than from any like run ever before made
iu tho Territory.

The Boulder diggings— the first discov-
ered in tho Territory, and the center every
year since, of a new excitement— again
loom into importance. The prospects are
brighter now, we think, than ever before.
The bars originally discovered have been
constantly mined, yielding from $8 to $10
a day to the hand ; and good prospects have
been obtained on the opposite side of the
creek. Then five or six miles lower down
are several small gulches prospecting well
for hydraulic diggings, besides the bars on
Burkins' place, which are to be developed
the coming spring.

From A. J. Smith, lately arrived from
Bannack, we learn that every one in Ban-
nack is employed in some manner. Some
are drifting and extracting pay dirt to sluice
when then water runs ; some are repairing
ditches and others are opening up claims
for active mining in the Spring. It is his
opinion that there will be over twice as
much gold taken out in Bannack next sum-
mer as there was the one just past. Horse
Prairie, 30 miles from Bannack, is destined
next summer to be one of the greatest gold
producing mines of any placer diggings in
the Territory. The pay ground is very
rich and covering a large surface.

Active preparations have been going on
all winter in the tunnel which is being run
across Hunter's Bar. The bar is some 400
feet wide, and this tunnel is being run
across the channel, keeping on the bed-
rock which slopes from the rim-rook to a
depth of 17 feet, at the distance of 300 feet,
the length of the tnnnel. This bar is some
2,400 feet loDg and is from 9 to 18 feet
deep, containing good pay from the grass
roots to the bed rock. It is supposed that
it is the old channel of Confederate Creek.

The Granite Mountain Co., in Tucker's
Basin, have run a tunnel over 300 feet in
length on the Granite Mountain Lode, and
extracted a large quantity of rich pay
quartz. Another tunnel, 210 feet in length,
has tapped the Levi Blossom at a depth of
70 feet. Shafts respectively 60 and 75 feet
have been sunk in the Winscott, Munson
and Merritt Lodes, and developed true aud
permanent veins. As high as $2.50 to the
pan has been repeatedly taken from a sin-
gle panful of the crevice dirt. On the dis-
covery claim of the McClellan Lode a shaft
and two tunnels have been excavated. The
vein exposed in their workings is 12-15
feet wide, with well defined walls. Actual
milling results, as well as numerous assay
returns, have shown that every portion of
the vein matter contains free gold in large-
ly paying quantities. Numerous runs
made on the quartz from this district in the
mills at Unionville have yielded as high as
$78, and none less thau $15 per ton.

OREGON.

Jacksonville Sentinel, Feb. 13th : Duffy
& Co., at Pickett's camp in Josephine coun-
ty, are taking out an ounce per day to the
hand. Water plenty and ground unlimited.

WASHINGTON.

New Coal Fields. — Edward Giddings,
Esq. , Chief Clerk of the Surveyor-Ceneral's
office at Olympia, (W. T.), informed the
editor of the Oregon Herald that parties
have recently discovered the largest and
deepest coal beds ever before found in that
Territory, located near the military road
between Claquato and Shookum Church.
He, together with three others, have en-
tered 1,400 acres of land covering this
miue, and he is on his way to New York to
negotiate a sale of shares therein. The
discovery is said to be the most important
of the kind yet known, and he seems quite
sanguine that its proceeds will yield an im-
mense reward.

WYOMING.

A correspondent writing from South
Pass City to the Nevada Gazette, under date
of Feb. 1st, gives the following : Tozer
and Eddy's mill suspended operations
about the 1st of November, after an ex-
ceedingly rich run of four months. The
Miner's Delight mill (steam) commenced
running with ten stamps on the 14th of
January, and cleaned up $8,000 after a 12
days' run. Anthony, of Colorado, is bring-
ing a ten stamp quartz mill into the coun-
try. The Young America Co. are getting
out timber for their mill building. The
mill is to be here as early as possible in the
spring. Arrangements have been made for
procuring other mills. Developing and
prospecting goes bravely on. Of the sev-
eral important discoveries made recently,
the Nel.ie Morgon lode is perhaps the
richest. The times are good. Wages for
miners are five dollars per day.

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Notices to Correspondents.

Velocipede. — The title originally applied
to this machine was exactly the same as
the one which yon have assnmed as a
nom de plume. "We are informed, how-
ever, that Boon after their introduction
they were contemptuously called dandy
hobby-horses, and sometimes for brief-
ness, ' 'hobby-horses. " The same inf orman t
states that the newspaper paragraph
which dates the history of the introduc-
tion of velocipedes to the days of Pitt,
Fox, and Sheridan, is equally erroneous,
none of those having ever had the op-
portunity of witnessing one of the ma-
chines, much less of havingmade spec-
tacles of themselves by being 6een astride
of them in the London Park. Veloci-
pedes were not brought into public no-
tice until after the battle of Waterloo,
(1815) by which year all the statesmen
named had departed this life.

Pbotozoan, Napa County. — Silicious for-
mations composed of the exterior coat-
ings of minute organisms similar to
those you describe, generally are to be
found in many geological formations, es-
pecially over our Cretaceous ones. They
appear to have existed during all time,
and continue to exist, forEhrenberg cal-
culates that there are formed annually in
the mud deposited in the harbor of Wis-
mar, on the Baltic, 17,496 cubic feet
of silicious organisms. These silicious
infusoria are said to form a mouldy cov-
ering, about half an inch thick, upon
stagnant water during warm weather.
Although it has been calculated by the
microscopist named that one hundred
millions only weigh one grain, yet he
ha? stated in Poggendorff's Annals that he
has collected as much as one pound in
the course of an hour.

B. P. — Becquerel found that when laminse
of gypsnm were immersed in a very di-
lute solution of silicate of potash in a
loosely covered vessel, the atmospheric
carbonic acid gradually decomposed the
silicate, and the carbonate of potash con-
verted the sulphate of lime iuto carbon-
ate. At the same time granules or lami-
nce of silica separated, which was capa-
ble of scratching glass, and contained
12 per cent of water. Very thin lamina?,
of the same hardness, were found at the
bottom of the vessel; when acted upon
with a hot solution of carbonate of pot-
ash, they left transparent laminae, which,
when examined with two of Nichols'
prisms, present id the colors peculiar to
doubly refracting crystals; from which it
was iuferred that tliey were quartz.

A. L. , Washington District, Idaho. — Tour
very acceptable account of tbe perma-
nent mining that has developed itself in
the Salmon Biver country, is received,
and will appear in our next issue.

The Suez Canal. —Mr. Lange, the Eng-
lish representative of the Suez Canal
Com] an,,, announces that the caDal will be
" comp.eted ana open to the general navi-
gation of all countries on the 1st of Octo-
ber, 1869."

Time by Telegraph.

Professor Davidson, of the Coast Survey,
is making a specialty of telegraphing time,
or, in other words, of determining longitude
with the aid of the telegraph; and his oper-
ations at his temporary observatory on one
of the public squares are, if our daily co-
temporaries are not overdoingit, calculated
to "attract the attention of the scientific
world." The American method of deter-
mining longitude has the merit of being
very simple, and accurate; but itisnotvery
new, and the probability does not appear
very great, as one might be led to suppose
from reportorial accounts, that Professor
Davidson is about to inform us that we are
actually in a different part of the world
from what we have imagined ourselves to
be in.

It is eminently practical, and very meri-
torious on the part of Professor Davidson
to place time telegraphing on a good work-
ing footing on this coast and in connection
with our great unsurveyed interior, where
the telegraph wire passes through countries
whose position has not yet been located on
the map, and where the traveler in posses-
sion of the best existing data is more likely
than not to find himself from ten to a hun-
dred miles out of the true reckoning.
Every telegraph station in the land may
thus be used as a surveyor's starting-point,
so far as the longitude is concerned; the
latitude being quite easily and accurately
obtainable by means of the solar compass,
or sextant.

As a preliminary to the above practical
ends, Professor Davidson has been experi-
menting in the telegraphing of time to the
greatest distances at present within the
command of the telegraph. Two obstacles
are encountered : waste of electric power
in the moist air on land-lines, from imper-
fect insulation; and in ocean cables, or in
the case of perfectly insulated wires, the
melting of the cable or wires on the appli-
cation of the same powerful current that is
made use of on land. The former diffi-
culty is easily overcome by means of a
dozen or so telegraphic repeaters; the lat-
ter renders the problem at present imprac-
ticable to telegraph time reliably any far-
ther than to Newfoundland.

The instrument made use of in telegraph-
ing time is the chronograph, which is thus
described :

Essentially, it is a revolving cylinder,
propelled and regulated by clock-work. It
is covered by a sheet of white paper, and
when revolving, a continuous spiral line is
traced by a pen, connected to the armature
of a small magnet in the local circuit, pass-
ing through the clock. At each oscillation
of the clock pendulum the circuit is inge-
niously broken and the armature relieved,
causing a la'eral movement of the pen.
This break lasts abont one-twentieth of a
second, and when the circuit is again com-
plete the pen resumes its former position
in the line. By an insulated prolongation
of this pen armature, a break is also made
in the main circuit leading to Cambridge,
and is recorded ou the chronograph along-
side the clock pen of that observatory.
Thus there are two pens recording 'simul-
taneously on the chronograph — that of the
Cambridge Observatory making a black
line, and the other, of the local clock,
tracing in red. Signals are transmitted
each way for five minutes, and each ob-
server sends word to the other of the hour
and minute of the five-minute work accom-
plished.

Each stroke of the pendulum makes a
break in the mark, and the length of the
space between the commencement of the
break in the red line and the commence-
ment of the next break in the black line
shows the variation between the clocks,
and, supposing their time to be accurate, the
longitude, after allowing for the time lost
by the current in traveling. On Sunday
nigbt two wires were used, and the current
from San Francisco passed through Cam-
bridge, 3,500 miles distant, and returned
here, making a journey of 7,000 miles in
eight- tenths of a second, the greatest length
of wire ever used for a similar purpose.

Since 1852 Professor Davidson has made
three hundred independent determinations
of loDgitude at San Francisco and other

points on the coast, by the ordinary astro-
nomical and chronometric methods in use
in the Coast Survey. The telegraph must
confirm the results taken from the sun and
stars. As the sun travels a quarter of a
mile in a second, the minuteness to which
longitude can be determined telegraphic-
ally with the aid of the chronograph is,
theoretically, about to a Gunter's chain , or
sixty-six feet

Dry Baebel Amalgamation. — Mr. A. B.
Paul, at the Miners' Foundry, and Mr. Hes-
ter, at Mosheimer's works, are both using
and experimenting in a dry barrel amalga-
mation process, for the reduction of sulphu-
rets, etc., the results of which are claimed
to be very flattering. The former has had
his process in operation for several months,
and has been making careful assays of the
work, but has interdicted newspaper men-
tion of the process until he should be in a
position to present his results in a more
tangible shape. In principle this dry bar-
rel process appears to be very similar to the
Byerson process. Mr. Hester's machinery
and process are thus described in the Times
of March 1st:

It consists of three barrels, one of cast
iron and two of wood. The iron cylinder
is about half filled with sulphurets or pul-
verized ore, and revolved over a moderate
fire for one hour, keeping it below a red
heat. Ttie ore having been thoroughly
heated through, is drawn out into a wooden
cylinder, and 10 per cent, of quicksilver
added, and the opening then made air-tight,
to prevent the fumes of quicksilver from
escaping. After revolving for two hours,
the ore and quicksilver are found to be in-
timately mixed together, and the gold and
silver amalgamated. The charge is then
drawn off into the third barrel and diluted
with water, and after revolving for two
hours the quicksilver and amalgam are
drawn off. The secret of this process is in
this last barrel, used as a settler, for, in
every instance, with the most refractory ar-
senical sulphurets, and with combinations
of lead and iron, the quicksilver is found
at tbe bottom, collecting and forming an
amalgam containing nine per cent, of the
gold and silver, while tbe only appreciable
loss in quicksilver in a month's working
was what was spilt by carelessness outside.

Statistics op Nevada Silvek Peoduc-
tion. — The Comstock lode produced, — ac-
cording to statistics given in the Commer-
cial Herald,— Tip to April 1st, 1866, $51,-
380,5S0; since then an average of S11.000,-
000 annually, or a total of §85,000,000 to
the first of April, 1869. The Gould &
Curry, from 1860 to 1866, yielded 813,626,-
871, from 230,546 tons of ore, or 859.02 to
the ton, the content afterwards falling off
to 818. 14. The Savage yielded in seven
years preceding July, 1868, 811,327,700,
from 270,521 tons of ore, or $41 to the ton.
The cost of reduction at Virginia City was
originally about 830 to the ton, and now
stands at about 820, where it will remain
until cheaper agencies, or methods, are in-
troduced.

From Lander County (including White
Pine) a three months' return ending De-
cember 31st, 1S68, shows that49 mines have
produced 2,493 tons of ore, yielding 8870,-
554.45, or an average of 8349.20 to the ton.
With the possession of the Comstock Lode
and the White Pine District, Nevada can
"flourish her silver scepter in the face of all
the world."

The Rivot Hydrogen-Burning Roaster.

Tbe proprietors of the Bivot revolving
iron cylinder patent, for the roasting of
sulphurets with the aid of hydrogen, seem
to have more than presumptive or theoret-
ical evidence of the practical success of
that process, in point of economy of roast-
ing, judging from the enormous expense
that the moneyed men in the business have
felt justified in going to, in the French Com-
pany's extensive works at Canada Hill, near
Nevada City. The transportation of the
casting (weighing 21,600 pounds), from
Colfax to Nevada, a distance of fifteen
miles, has alone cost from 81,000 to 81,500,
it having been found necessary to
strengthen the bridges on the way; and the
same company has already expended, on the
works at Canada Hill, for the treatment of
sulphurets by tbe Bivot process, about
S100,000. We may look, accordingly, for
an important success, or for a more than
commonly remarkable failure. Tbe claim
is that gold can be extracted within 4 per
cent, of the assay, which may be very cor-
rect, that being more a matter of proper
roasting than anything else; but the im-
portant consideration in tbe case is the
comparative cost, in regard to which we
shall probably be enabled to inform our
readers more definitely soon. Some idea of
the working of the cylinder roaster can be
gained from the following, in the Nevada
Transcript, of March 2d :

It is fourteen feet long, and the space in-
tended for the furnace is ten feet in length,
and five feet in diameter. This space ha3
eight or ten triangular projections, which
are intended to throw the sulphurets to-
wards the center of the cylinder as it re-
volves. The casting is to be rigged on ma-
chinery, and at either end it will be closed.
It is intended to revolve slowly, while the
sulphurets are charged with superheated
steam and roasted.

Machine Woek at Saceamento. — We
learn from H. F. Boot, of the Union
Foundry, Sacramento, that the machine
and foundry work is now quite brisk.
Messrs. Williams, Boot & Neilson, have
orders on hand for two 14-inch engines,
5 feet stroke, forC. S.N. Co. japair of 12-incU
cylinder and 4-foot stroke engines, for
steamer San Joaquin, owned by a joint-
stock corporation, known as the Towing
Company, to run on the Sacramento Biver;
a 14-inch cylinder, 30 inches stroke, for
McCreary's new flouring mill, on Front
street— the above engines all to be fur-
nished with Cross' patent boiler-feeder,
and sediment collector; a quantity of saw
mill work for Jones' mills at Truckee,
State of Nevada ; besides a large lot of mis-
cellaneous jobbing and manufacturing.
Mr. Boot also mentions that mechanical
business, and most trades and manufac-
tures, are progressing lively in the " city
of the plains."

The El Dorado, edited, published and
printed by ladies of this city, has made its
appearance, and is running the gauntlet of
criticism. To those who may see the El
Dorado the fact will be of interest that its
attractive engraved head, representing the
Golden Gate and ships at sunset, was also
executed by a young lady.

The Conducta which left the City of
Mexico about January 28th, for Vera Cruz,
took over three millions of dollars down
for exportation, on which eight per cent
export and circulation duties were paid.

Continental Life Insurance Company,
203 Montgomery street, oorner of Pine.

HOEIZONTAL BeVOLVTNG AMALGAMATION

Baeeels. — At Gold Valley, Sierra County,
amalgamation barrels are used, made of
pine wood, and revolving horizontally like
a butter churn instead of vertically like the
Freiberg barrel, — twenty revolutions per
minute, for about twenty hours to the
charge. It requires three barrels (four
feet long and two and one-half in diameter),
to do the work of one pan ; but the latter
is said to cost ten times as much, and re-
quires twenty times as much power.

Snow Belts in the Siebbas. — A writer
in tbe Union attempts to show that there
are four transverse snow belts in the Sierra
Nevada range, between each of which the
fall is slight and the obstacle to railroading,
on that score, insignificant. The causes he
thinks are independent both of altitude and
latitude. One of these belts is at latitude
37° (Tosemite Valley), not extending as
far north as the Sonora Pass; another is
the Donner Lake belt; towards the south,
the Inyo County belt; and the Shasta belt,
about latitude 41°.

Tt\e Mining and Scientific Press.

153

Velocipedism.

The bicycle is now thoronghly acclima-
tized, and an institution in onriuiilst. The
number of the vehicles of this kiml in the
city has grown beyond our oounting — and
from onr oxohanges we infer that the inte-
rior is also getting well supplied every where,
as f.ir us Salt Luke city. Manufacturers in
this city have found the making of them to
be quite a business. Every newspaper has
an item on the subject In the way of
new inventions, there is little to report. It
i»|held by many that the three wheeled veloc-
ipedes are too simple and easily worked to
afford the diversion which makes the use
of the two-wheeled ones so popular. We
observe in the last number of the Sden-
fgto American an illustration of a steam ve-
locipede, and also of a 0(ic-wheeled veloci-
pede; but tho genins that would ride the
latter has not yet immortalized himself.

A velocipede excursion party to the Cliff
House, a little while a£0, was not a perfect
success. The excursionists appeared in
very high spirits while going out; but ob-
serving parties who returned from there
at a late hour, reported them belated, 'out
of spirits, dejected in appearance, and mak-
ing slow progress towards the city. It is
evident that amusement, not utility, is the
strong point of the velocipede.

It now appears that there is a patent on
the velocipede in this country, taken out
by a shrewd Frenchman iu 18C6, though
there is nothing of tho kind in the old
country. Several New York and New-
ark, N. J., firms, have suspended operations,
having discovered on the patent records the
following: "Patent No. 59,915, Pierre Lal-
lument, Paris, France, assignor to himself
and James Carroll of New Haven, Ct. .Vel-
ocipede; Nov. 20, 1866. The fore wheel
is axled in the jaws of a depending bar.
This wheel is revolved by a treadle-crank.
Claim: The combination and arrangement
of the two wheels, provided with the trea-
dles and the guiding arms, so as to operate
substantially as and for the purpose here-
in set forth. This patent is claimed by a
Mr. Calvin Witty, of New York.

The Gas Engine ok " Moteur Lenoir,"
imported from Paris by Mr. Derbec, and
now driving the press of the French Cour-
rier of this city, has justly won great
favor amongst those who went to the Cour-
rier office to witness its operation. It is so
simple, and cheap, costing $250 plus 30
per cent duty and transportation, and fur-
nishing half a horse-power French, equal
to several horse-power English computa-
tion, and can be used in any parlor where
there is gas, at 15 cents an hour, without
delay as in getting up steam — that in all pro-
bability it will soon come into extensive
use ; and in view of the interest taken in
the matter we will endeavor to furnish
our readers a fuller account of the points
relative to it and an illustration of the
machine in a future number. The Herald
reporter says of it :

" The gas engine resembles in every re-
spect a steam engine, only the cylinder is
a little larger, and there are two valves in-
stead of one. Through one of the valves a
mixture of ninety per cent, of air and ten
of our common gas is introduced in the
cylinder. This mixture is ignited at both
ends of the cylinder by an electric spark.
A part of the oxygen of the air consumes
the carbon of the gas which produces car-
bonic acid, and hydrogen. The whole of
this gasiform matter, like steam, forms a
pressure on the piston, which sets the ma-
chine in motion. The other valve is in-
tended to let off the residue of the consumed
matter. A one-horse power gas engine
consumes about forty feet of gas per
hour."

The California. Medioal Gazette for
March contains a continuation of Dr.
Stout's paper on Hygiene and Sewerage in
San Francisco ; do. of Dr. John Scott's pa-
per on Uterine Displacements; editorials
on small pox, etc. ; and a report of the
meeting of the California Medical Society,
besides a number of selected articles of im-
poitance to the medical profession.

The Locher Steam Plow.— We have
received the following from one' who was pre-
sent at the recent public trial, at Oroville, of
Locher's steam-plow — of which. wo will
furnish an illustration and full description
in tho Press in duo time:

Emrous Press :— It is with pleasure
that I give an account of tho successful
trial of Locher's steam plow.

The farmers in this vicinity are highly
elated with tho result, as also several gen-
tlemen from your city and from Solano
county.

The plow was started at ten o'clock, and
plowed up the field at tho rate of three
'acres per hour, cutting eight inches deep;
there wero some stumps and large boulders
in the field, which retarded the speed of
the plow some. During the day the plows
came in contact with a stump, and a few
of the points broken; but it could scarcely
be noticed in the work they performed.
The farmers express themselves freely,
that it is impossible to put the soil in as
good condition with a gang-plow and har-
row, as this plow leaves it atone operation.

The machine is mounted on six wheels,
which are all driven by the engines, by
means of gearing, so in turning a curve
each wheel adopts the speed the curve re-
quires; this is accomplished by the applica-
tion of equalizing gears On a straight track
the six wheels have the same speed. The boil-
er rests on the front and middle wheels, in
the rear of which there are a pair of ten-
inch engines, which drive the wagon and
plow by means of gearing. The thirty-
nine ploughs are on a transverse shaft,
in the rear of the machine, and cut a swath
of twelve feet wide; the shape of the plows
is such as to turn and pulverize the soil.
A Farmek.

Oroville, March 2d, 1869.

The New Light. — The "bourbouze"
light, produced by throwing upon a pencil
of magnesia equal parts of common street
gas and oxygen, "literally," — says the
Scientific American, — "throws all other
lights in the shade. We tried it with a
sheet of white paper corrugated, and in-
clined so that portions should be thrown
into shadow, thus magnifying any motion
that might be imperceptible to the unaided
eye, but could not detect any motion what-
ever. So brilliant and pure is this light,
that the ordinary gaslights look like spots
of sickly and ghastly yellow when placed
between the eye and the pure white illumi-
nation of the bourbouze burners."

Professor Doremus, at a recent lecture at
Steinway Hall, New York, described this
light, and the manner of preparing the oxy-
gen by passing superheated steam over
mangauate of soda. Among the advantages
claimed for^the light are the saving of 30
per cent, of cost, and the diminished effect
in deteriorating the air of the metropolis, —
since it does not, as is the case with com-
mon gas, rob it of its oxygen.

Officers Elect of the Mechanics'
Institute. — The result of the annual elec-
tion held on Monday last, is as follows:
President, A. S. Hallidie; Vice-President,
J. B. Wilcox; Treasurer, H. L. Davis;
Corresponding Secretary, J. H. Gillmore;
Becording Secretary, George Pardy; Di-
rectors, William C. Pease, John Hancock,
D. B. Coleman, Jacob Browning; George
C. Hickox, H. P. Herrick and H. C. Macy.
For directors there were two opposi-
tion tickets, besides the regular one;
the successful one being one of the opposi-
tion. The successful ticket comprises many
of the old officers, who have been well tried
and were popular. The President and sev-
eral others were reelected by a unanimous
vote, the total number cast being 254. Mr.
Cherry, Chairman of the Committee on
Election, installed the new officers on
Thursday evening, giving them an excel-
lent address. The annual address of the
President was well received.

Public Conveyances, Etc. — The weekly
and monthly tabular publications interest-
ing to business men, travelers, freighters,
etc., of the Commercial Record, F. B.
Voight, publishers No. 33 New Merchant's
Exchange, are received regularly, and are
found always up to date, and of great con-
venience to everybody.

Committee on Earthquake Topics. — At
the meeting of this committee, on Thurs-
day evening last, it was "Besolved that the
Secretary be directed to notify each mem-
ber of ' tho Joint Committee,' by the inser-
tion of a copy of this resolution in each no-
tice calling the next meeting, to be held on
Thursday evening next, that the reports of
the Secretaries and some of the sub-com-
mittees will be read at that meeting, show-
ing the present condition of the inquiry,
and that it will then be proposed that the
Joint Committee do adjourn until such time
as all the sub-committees will be ready to
make their final report. For the above ob-
jects the attendance of every member of the
committee is particularly requested.

Excellent Paper Again. — We have now
received a large stock of superior printing
paper for the Press, shipped direct from
the East for ourselves. For the past few
weeks we have had to buy our paper here,
and although we secured the best news-
paper stock afforded in this market, it was
very unsatisfactory, compared with our
usual quality.

The Islands of Pyramid Lake at this
season are thickly covered with the eggs of
gulls, ducks, pelicans, and other aquatic
fowl, that have crossed the Sierra. The
Indians never visit them, on account of
some local superstition.

L. Carpenter. — The Postmaster at Benton
Harbor, Michigan, says the copy of this paper,
sent [by some individual] to the above name,
is not taken out.

RETcnNKD.— nr J. H. Paine. Dentist, Wadswc-rth House,
No. 225 Bush street, tictwecn the Occidentaland Cosmopoli-
tan Hotels, San Francisco. 21 v 17 i in

O. M. Taylor, who acted as affent a brief time for this
paper in Washoe, is requested to caU at or address thisolllce,
without fall.

O. M. Taylor, who acted as airent— for a very short time—
for this paper in the State of Nevada, last August, is re-
quested to call at this ofhec and attend to business matters
on that account.

Photografht.— For Cabinet Photographs, or Enameled
Cards, of the very best quality, you must ro to the NEW
YORK GALLERY, Nos. 25 and 27 Third street, San Fran-
cisco- Every picture warranted to give satisfaction.

iUvlS 6m B. F. Howland.

Co-Opkhativu Union Store.— This is becoming one of the
most useful Institutions in tlio city, and the Mechanic and
Laborimt Mnn ful'y appreciate It. They are now enabled
to buy their Groceries and Provisions 21) per cent, cheaper
than ever before, and the very best articles in the market.
The store Is located at 115 Sutter street, Lick House Block,
San Francisco. 6vl8-aim

Where to Advertise. — The attention of traders and
mill machinists is caUed to the fact that the Mountain
Messenger, of Downieville, Sierra County, possesses many
special advantages as an advertising medium over a ma-
ority of the interiorpress, it being the onlypublic jour-
nal published within a radius of sixty miles, in the rich-
est and most populous mining sections of the State. Its
weekly edition is double the average of country papers,
being without the range of large dailies, and having no
competition at home. Its local colums afford many items
for our city cotempornries, while its rates of advertising
are reasonably low lOvntf

[From the nfw "Dominion.]

At this season, when coughs and colds arc so prevalent,
ail cnVctual remedy, and one easily obtained, is Perry
Davis' Vegetable Fain Killer. Ii is tut new nostrum, vei dt-d
bv unknown agenls, but has stood th<> te.l of over twenty
years, and those who use iho article. Internally or exter-
nally, will connect with it grateful recollections of lis
worthy Invenlor —Uixtinijx' Clirooicte, c. W

Pain Killer.— The testimonials borne to the efficacy of
this valuable medicine are sufficient to wnrrant its Iniro-
duelion in every house our own opinion Is that no family
should be wilhoui a bntllc of it lor a single hour. In flesh
wounls, aches, pains, sores, etc., it is the most effectual
remeilv we know of- A boille will last for a very long
lime, nnrt its low price places it within ihc reach ol all.—
St John Neirs.

C3r-\Ve are glad to learn that the "Pain Klller'^is having
so large a sale in our city. We have every reason to believe
It to be nn almost never falling cure lor onin. and a medi-
cine tha' no family -honld be wilhonl.— Montreal Pilot.

The Pnln Killer Is sold by a'l Druggists and dealers in
Family Medicines.

KEOtNGTilN A CO, and II0STETTER A SMITH, San
Francisco Cal , General Wholesale Agenls. mlm

J. S. PHILLIPS, M. E.,

CON9UL.TING ENGI1VEER,
Examiner of Ml new, etc.*

433 Washington street San Francisco.

(Hnving had 33 \ ears' experience in Europe and America,)
supplies drawings and designs for Pumping, Uolstiue,
Crushing Separating, Roasting, Olilorin'/.ing, Milling. Lix
Ivlatin1,', Prccipilatin-', untl .Smelling Works. Minerals .-.n-
alyzed, and iidvice tiven lor benellchil treatment. Lea-
sons on the Discri'iiinitiou and Assay of Minerals by Blow-
pipe, Chemicals, Scorifler and Crucible. 4vl7tf

FOUNDRY F^CITNGrS.

BENJAMIN" ELLIOT,

No. 483 Brannan street San Francisco,

Manufactures Foundrv Facings constantly, lrom choice
coals (Bituminous Anthracite, and Charcoal, packed in
tight sacks.) eround together or separate, packed in whole
or halt barrels. Black Lead. Coke and Snapstonc ground to
order. Koundrvineu located far from choice m iterial, can
rely oil having superior Facings forwarded to order.
luvlSqr

Offices to Let.

Two convenient front rooms (No. 0 and 10) in second story
of No. *2i Washington street, to let on favorable terms
Apply at this otllce, up stairs. No. 414 Clay street

Valuable and Popular Practical
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Painter, Gilder, nnd Varnisher's Companion.

OontalnlijK Kules and Heimlnthm* in everything
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plan staining win. tninnT..us Useful and Valua-
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Guide— A Concise Treatise on Brass Founding,
Woy,LnB' tne Petals and their Allovs. elc.; to
which are added rceent Imprmements'ln the Man-
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A New and Complete Treatise on the Arts of

Tannin?, Currying, and Leather Dressing,— Com-
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by 212 wood engravings, 8vo lo 00

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CATALOGUE OF PRACTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC BOOKS.
56 pages, 8vo, is ju-t ready, and will be sent Treo of postage
to any one who will favor me with his address.

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EEMOVAL.
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HAVE R3M0VED TO

East side of* Battery street* Nos.
614, 616 and 618,

Between Jackson] and Pacific sts:,

One Itlock north of (ho Cnatom House nnd
Port-Office.

Richmond Range*; Baratow Cook with Rot

Closet; Improved Empire City; Freuch

Bnngew of nil Size*; Monitor

Stoves, Metals, Etc., Etc.

iovis-im

To Mining- Secretaries.

THE NEW COMBINED

Stock Ledger and Journal,

The most simplified form that has ever yet been offered to
the public, Is now ready, for sale. This one book is a com-
plete abbreviation of the old Ledger, Journal and Transfer
Book, and therefore takes the place of the three.

Stock Incorporations

Now organizing ae Invited to examine this Book before
buying the old style.

JOHN CI. HODGE «fe CO.,

Imponcrs and Wholesale Stationers,
32?, 330 and 331 Sansomc street, cor. Sacramento.
luvlS-lm

PACIFIC

Rolling Mill Company,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Established for the Manufacture of

RAILROAD AND OTHER IRON

— AKD —

Every "Variety of" Sliaffcingf,

Embracing ALL SIZES of

Steamboat Slmfts, Crunk.*, PI* ton nnd Con.

nectloif Rods, Car nnd T^ocomotlve Axles

and Frames

— ALSO —

UAJWtTMIETt^O IRON

Of every description and size.

OS- Orders addressed to PACIFIC ROLLING MTL1,
COMPANY Post Office, San Francisco, Cal., will receive
prompt attention.

SSJ- The highest price paid for Scrap Iron. JrvH3m9p

Crucibles.

The Patent Plumbago Crucible Co,,

Manufacturers of all kinds of

Melting Pots, Portable Furnaces,

CRUCIBLES, and other fire-standing Goods,
HSattersea Worko'Londoii.
THE MORGAN PATENT CRUCIBLES have uniform
quality, never crack, withstand the greatest heat without
danger; heats more rapidly than anv other; chnnge of tem-
perature has no effect on thein; stand on the average forty
to fifty pourings.
On hand and for sale by the Agents,

A. 8. HALLIDIE «fe CO.,
Ivl8-3m9p 619 Front street, San Francisco

$20,000 to $25,000. .

A PRACTICAL SMELTER wishes to enlist capital to
build a Furnace on a Mine of rich Argentiferous Galena at
While Pine. From $301) to Sl.OllO a day can be cleared
with ease. Security and best of references, etc. , given.
Address, WM. F. HILTON.

7vlS-lm9p San Francisco P. O.

154

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinists and Foundries.

PALMER, KNOX & CO.,

Golden State Iron Works,

Nob. 1», 21, 33 and »« First Street,

SAN FKANOISCO.

MANUFACTURE ALL KIKDS OF

MACHIN 3SM5, Y ,

BTKAM EX SIXES AXU QUAMTZ MIV.S..S
DUNBAR'S IMPROVED

Self-adjusting Piston. Packing,

Requires no springs or screws; is always steam tight;

without excessive friction, and never

gets slack or leaky.

WHEELER A RANDALLS

NEW C.RIXBER AND AMAtSAMATOB

HEPBURN & PETERSON'S

AHALGAftEATOR AND 8EPABATOK,

Knox's Ainalffamators,

WITH PALMER'S PATENT STEAM CHEST,

Superior tor working either GOLD OR SILVER ORES, and
utile only Amalgamator that has siuod the test, of seven
years' continual working.
ttei-iuine White Iruu Stamp Shoes and .IMes

Having been engaged for the past ten years in quartz
mining, and being conversant with all the improvements,
either in Mining or Milling, we are prepared to furnish, at
ihe shortest notice, the most perfect machinery for roduc
ng ores, or saving cither gold or silver. 13vlUqy-tf

1B,1 P. K.iSKlN.

A. P. BUAYTOA'.

A. C. AUSTIN.

Pacific Iron Works.

First aiicL Fremont Streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Having been established since 1851, we have accumulated
■ very large variety of Uoar and oilier Patterns,- Which,
with our superior tools and appliances, give u.i lacilitieslor
doing lirst class work uneqiiuied on the Pacific Coast.

Among other things, we manufacture the following:

fefTEASl EJNTGrllViSSS,

Horizontal and Vertical, for either Stationary or Marine

use.

BOILERS— High and Low Pressure,

Pump, Pipe and Sheet Iron Work of every kind.

Quartz Mill Work,

Including High and Low Mortars, for wet or dry crushing-

Furnact irons lor Roasting Ores; Freiberg Barrels;

Varncy's and Whaler's Amalgamating Pans

and Settlers; {Stamp Shoes and Dies of

best White Iron; Russia iron

Screens, etc., etc.

Flour Mill, Saw Mill and Sugar Mill Work in every variety;

Pumping and Hoisting Machinery; Uansbrow's

Patent Challenge Pump, fur Domestic,

Ship and Mining use— the most

approved and successful

Pump manufactured.

Castings »f every description, Iron and Brass.

We would call especial attention to " Wright's Patent Va-
riable Cut-oil' Engines," of which we are the sole manufac-
turers on the i'ncihc Coast, under license from the Wood-
ruff & Beach Co., lianlord, Ct, As a simple, ellective, pu*.l
saving, Hi'si-eUss Engine, this is, without doubt, the best
Engine made in the United States.

Orders promptly attended to. Prices as low as possible
for drat class work, and we mtend to do no other.

UUDVAUl) «fc CO.

San Francisfeo, May 1, 1868. laviiitf

WILLAMETTE IRON WORKS,

POKTI.AXD, U££GON.

Steam Engines, Hollers,
SAW AND GRIST MILLS,

MINING MACHINERY, WROUGHT IRON SHUTTER
WORK, AND BLACKS MIT HING IN GENERAL.
Corner ATortu-Front and JE streets,

18vI3-ly One block north of Couch's Wharf.

Globe Iron Works,

STOCKTON, C.VL.

KEEP & BARG-ION,

aiA>'UJUCTURKHS OF

(Quartz, Saw and Grist Mill Irons, Steam
JSugiues, Horse Powers,

High and Low Pressure Steam Engines, Steamboats and

Propellers, made at snort. notice.

13vl3lf

J. NKU-,sll.\Jl. J. BIGW00D.

SOUTH BEACH IRON WORKS,

Near corner ot King and Third streets, San Francisco.
MARINE ENGINES,

ANJU ALL KINDS OK

m:a.chinek.y^ forging.

All kinds of Ship-smithing and Mill work manufactured to
order. Jobbing oi every description promptly attended to.
Alt work done guaranteed. i3vH-iy

CALIFORNIA BRASS FOUNDRY.

No. 135 First street, opposite Minna,

SAN FRANCISCO.

All kinds of Brass, Composition, Zinc, and Babbitt Metal

Castings, Brass Ship Work of all kinds, Spikes, Sheathing
Nails, Rudder Braces, Hinges, ship mid Steamboat Bells and
Gongs of superior tone. All kinds of Cooks and Valves, Hy-
draulic Pipes and Nozzles, and Hose Couplings and Connec-
tions of all sizes and patterns, lurnished with dispatch.

j®- PRICES MODERATE. .£*

J. P. GALLAGHER. J. H. WELD V. KINGWELL.

9vl3-lj

Miners' Foundry

— AND—

MACHINE WORKS

Nos. 245 to 255 First Street,

San Francisco.

HOLLAND, ANGELL & CO.,

rKOPRIITOIS,

Manufacturers of Machinery for

QUARTZ MILLS.
SAW MULLS,
rOWDJEK MILLS,

FLOTIt MILLS,
St OAK MILLS,
J-APJEK, MILLS

Steam Engines of all Kinds.
Amalgamators of all Kinds.

MINING PTJMrS, HOISTING WOICK9

OIL WELL TOOLS, KOCK HJIEAKKKS,

— .AND —

Machinery and Castings of all kinds, either
of Iron or Brass.

Boilers and Sheet Iron "Work in all its
Branches.

Shoe, and Dies of "Willie Iron, mnnnfactu-rcd
for and imparled I>y us exprewtly tor this pur-
pose, mid will l:iKt SJ5 per cent, longer than ;. ny
ol her made ou this coast.

Russia Iron Screens, ol any degree of fineness,
"We are the only manufacturers on this coast ot

HICKS ENGINE,
The most compact, simple In construction, and

durible, of any .Engine in use.
W. H. MOWLAM*, H.B.ASUELL,

13vU-nr CYRUS FALM1K,

FULTON

Foundry and Iron Works.

HINCKLEY & CO.,

MAN0FACTUK&R3 OP

STEAM ENGINES,
Quartz, Flour and Saw Mills,

Hay eft* Improved Steam J*unip, ISrodte's Im-
proved Crusher, Mining Pumps,
Amalgamators, aiifl all kinds
of machinery.

N. E. corner of Tehama and Fremont streets, above How
ard street, San Francisco. 3-qy

McAfee, spiers & co,,

liOILEK MAKEKS

AND GENERAL MACHINISTS,

Howard jt, between Fremont and Beale, San Francisco.

Flue or Tubular Boilers, with plain circular or spiral
courses. Upright Flue or Tubular Boilers, Locomotive and
and Marine Boilers, and Wrought Iron Tanks of every de-
scription.

Hydraulic Pipe supplied at reasonable rates. In or-
dering. Rive the quantity of water to be supp'led, hlg-ht of
the fall, and toiai length of pipe, so as to enable the firm to
determine the diameter of the pipe and thickness of iron to
be used.

Repair*.- Boilers, Smoke Stacks, Pipes, etc., put in re-
pair with promptness.

To Boiler Makers aad Machinists In the In-
terior,—The firm is prepared to iuruish estimates of
Boilers, sn ply new Heads, drilled and punched, and attend
to the selection and forwarding of Iron fur Boilers, Pipes
and other purposes.

Plans, Drawing* and Specifications.— The Arm
;s prepared to make out Plans and Specifications, leceive
estimates, and superintend the Erection of any Machinery
that may be entrusted to their care

To Inventors.— The firm is prepared to assist in de-
veloping the plans of those who have the ideas but not the
practical experience necessary to put the same in form, by
making Drawings of their Inventions, giving them the ben-
efit of their practi;i>l knowledge in the construction of Ma-
chinery, and unending to the manufacture and introduc-
tion of their inventions. lvlBif

traiojsr mora works,

Sacramento.

WILLIAMS, ROOT & NEILSON,

MANUFACTURERS OP

■ste^m: engines, boilers,

CROSS' PATENT BOILER FEEDER AND SEDIMENT
COLLECTOR,

And all kinds of Mining Machinery.

Also, Hay and Wine Presses made and repaired
with neatness, durability and dispatch.

Dunbar's Patent Self- Attfu sting Steam Piston

Front Street, between X and O streets,

Hvll Sacramento CiTy

THOMPSON BROTHERS,
EXJEtEIiA. FOUNDRY,

129 and 131 Bealc street, between Mission and Howard,
San Francisco.

LIOllT A3fB HEAVY CASTINGS,

of every description, manufactured 2dvl6qr

JAMES MACKEIST,
coi»i*3h:xism:it,ii.«

S3© Fremont St., bet. Howard *fc Folsor.

All kinds of COPPER WORK done to order m the bes
Ttanner. Particular attention paid to Steamboat, Sugai
House and Distillery work.

G-. T. PRACY.

MACHINE WORKS,

NOS. 109 and 111 MISSION STREET,
Between Main and Spear.

New and second hand

Engines and Boilers,

FOR SALE.

Also one first-class Hoisting

Engine ; one Upright

Engine, oi entirely

new pattern.

MANUFACTURER OF

ILatlies, I>rills9

And MILL MACHINERY of
every description.

PBACY'8

New and Improved
STEAM ENGINE

REGULATORS,

The best and cheapest yet in-
vented— manufactured and
for sale. Parties are in-
vited to examine it
in practical op-
eration.

P. A. HUNTINGTON'S

Shingle Machines

on hand.

Particular attention paid to
Repairing.

JUST All work guaranteed to be done in a first-class man-
ner, and at the lowest rales. 12vl7tf

THE KI©X>OTST

Iron and Locomotive Works.

Incorporated, April 30, 1868. Capital, $1,000,000.

Location of Works, Corner Beale and Howard streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Successors to Pacific Mail P. S. Co. "Works at Bcnlcia, Coffey

& Risdon, and Devoc, Dinsuiore &. Co., San Francisco.

Steam Engine Builders, Boiler Makers,

MACHINISTS AND FOUNDRYMEN.
All work in their line attended to with promptness and
dispatch.

Directors:

S. F. Buttcrworilt, Ohas. E. McLane,

Lloyd T.'Yis, John N. Risdon,

Jas. Pollock, Joseph Moore.

&cn. HoUaday,

JOHN N. RTSDON, President.
Joscnh Moore, Yice President and Superintendent; Chas.
E. McLane, treasurer; Lewis R. Mead, Secretary; Lewis
Coffey, Superintendent Boiler Works. 2ivl7-qy

NOBLE & FLEMING,
MACHINE WOKKS,

No. IO Stevenson street, near First,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Particular attention given to repairs on Portable and Sta-
tionary Engines; also all kinds of "Wood Working
Machinery; Shafting*, Hangers, Pulleys, etc.
made to order; Screw Culling, Iron
Planing, and all kinds of JOB
WORK promptly at. ended to.
Agents for F. S. Perkins' Engine Lathes,
Planers, Upright Drills,
And all kinds ot MACHINISTS' TOOLS; also the Davis
Wood Planer and Mitre Dove-Tailing Machines.
jjg$*-Also, on hand for sale a complete set of Tools ff>r
making Blacking Boxes, consisting of Press, Dies, Shears,
and Crimmne Machine, etc. 4vl3-qr

Pncenix Iron Works.

JONATHAN KITTKEDGE, Proprietor,

Nos. 18 and £0 Fremont street, near Market,

MANUFACTURER OF

Fire-Proof Doors, Shutters,

Wrought Iron Girders, and all kinds of Housesmith work,
Bridge and Prison Work;

BAHK VAULTS AND MONITOR SAFES

FOBGING MD MACHINE WORK.

Agency for the ISHAM KEY REGISTER BANK AND SAFE
LOCK, Ihc only firs! class Lock in the
lvl7tf United States

CITY IR0M WORKS COMPANY.

CLERC & CO.,
IKON FOUNDERS,

-steam Engine Builders and Makers of oil
kinds of Machinery,

6vll6qr No, 2S Fremont street, San Francisco.

Blanks, Blank Mining Books

Constitution and. By-Laws

— FOlt —

MjUiirag; a.ii<3 Prospecting
Oosiipsinies

elegantly printed, with care and dispatch, at the office of tha
Mining antl Scientific Press.

Orders from the interior faithful,1 attended to.

[Written for the Mining and Scientific Press.]

From the Mount Diablo Coal Mines.

Editoes Pkess : — On a visit to the coal
mining region of Mountj Diablo, the first
place reached after leaving Antioch, on the
San Joaquin, is Somerville, a mining town
situated 760 feet above the sea. Here are
three very large mines, which are worked,
however, only ten hours out of the twenty-
four. Nearest to Antioch is the Pittsburgh
mine, of which Mr. C. E. Clark is the Su-
perintendent. The discoverer of the vein
was a brother of the present superintend-
ent, and died three months ago. I was
kindly piloted through the Pittsburgh
mine, and found fifty men employed in
getting out coal. We went down 300 feet
on an incline and struck the Clark vein,
which is three feet thick; then went up in
the cars for 200 feet and struck another
vein, the Black Diamond, which was first
discovered by H. S. Hawshurst, in digging
a well sis miles from this place. The shaft
is down 500 feet. Coal is brought out of a
tolerable quality at the rate of 2,000 tons
per month. It is immediately dumped
into the railroad cars and run down the
grade without engines, to Pittsburgh land-
ing, and there dumped into flat boats for
different destinations. The railroad is
owned by another company, which carries
all the coal for the Pittsburgh, "Union and
Eureka mines.

The nest mine is the^ Independence, 200
feet below the Pittsburgh. This mine is
at present standing still, but I am told that
it will be running again in three or four
months. It is 700 feet deep, and has pro-
duced quantities of very good coal; but the
water in the mine is so acid that the iron
pipes, boilers, etc., for pumping, were
eaten through in a day's time, and it seems
that the company cannot get the water up
through metal pipes. I am told that at
places where the water dropped on the pipe,
holes were eaten through the latter in the
course of the very first day the pipe was
placed there. A few drops, the miners
say, will go through thin pipe in twenty
minutes. For use in the boilers, good
enough water could be obtained from the
other mines situated above this.

The Eureka mine is about 300 feet from
the Pittsburgh, and is in active operation
under the superintendency of Mr. R Win-
gate. The shaft is down 600 feet. Num-
ber of men employed, fifty-five. There are
two engines in the mine, one for pumping
water and the other for hoisting to the first
level. Steam is carried to the engines by
means of 2-inch, covered pipes. A good
deal of bad air has been experienced in
this mine, but a ventilation shaft was
opened, and boxes were constructed to carry
it out, since which there has been no diffi-
culty. Product, 2,000 tons per month.
In this, and in all the other mines, the men
are paid by the yard ; here the price is SI
per running yard, the vein being three feet
thick.

The Union mine ig a quarter of a mile
from the Eureka, and employs sixty men.
The Superintendent is Mr. George Hawx-
hurst, brother of the discoverer of the
Black Diamond vein. There are two en-
gines in the mine, one for pumping, and
the other for hoisting to the upper level.
They are down 600 feet.

The Manhattan is a small mine between
the Union and Eureka; it is standing still
at present.

We now leave Somerville and cross a
ridge west of the town, to Nortonville, 1 %
miles distant, — the locality of the Black
Diamond Company's three mines — owned
by the California Steam Navigation Com-
pany— a sooty black spot, showing much
activity. These mines turn out 6,000 to
7,000 tons of coal per month, and could
turn out 11,000 if there were a demand for
that amount. As the coal, when exposed to
the atmosphere for more than a mouth or
two, is liable to ignite, the aim of the com-
pany is to take out just what they can
sell for the season, thereby avoiding loss.
Large piles of self-ignited "slack" may be
seen burning night and day at the mouths
of the mines.

The number of men employed by the
company is 325, and the wages are $1 per
yard. A man will get out from two to six
yards per day.

Not only does the Steam Navigation Com-
pany own these mines and the railroad

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leading from thorn to New York landing,
■bant six miles distant, but they liavomade
arranu'emeDts witU the Pittsburgh, Knreka
mad I nion mines, to take 500 tons of coal
per month from each of them for five ye ire
le; thus gaining the control of the
market.

Two very large engines are used in the
Black Diamond mines, one for hoisting
and the other for pumping. Both the
Clark and the Black Diamond veins are well
developed here,- the latter furnishing the
best coal in the district. The veins seem
to be broken in a good many places.

Both at Nortouville and at Somerville
the veins dip to the northward, varying in
different places with tho coal measures,
from lit; to .'W;. Tho country rock is sand-
stone of Cretaceous age, which is immedi-
ately overlaid by strata taken by Whitney
to be of the Eocene Tertiary formation.

A Private Word About White Pine.

Editors Press : — As an offset to some of
tho flourishing letters from White Pine,
which constantly appear in the papers, I
send you an extract from a private letter
received from a man who went from
here about two months ago, and who is
personally known to me. The letter is
dated Silver Springs, February 3d. He
Bays:

11 This country is one grand swindle, and
everybody is on it as big as a skinned horse.
As for myself, I can't make up my mind
that I can swindle anybody, therefore I ap-
pear perfectly helpless. * * * Think
you did well to stick to Lone Pine. You
will spend a mnch more pleasant winter
than I, for I can assure you it is as cold
as," (it is supposed the writer meant, as
Heaven) ; ' ' still "we have had a very moder-
ate winter for this country ; the snow lies
now about a foot in depth, but yet it don't
' seem to stop the travel. Every stage comes
loaded. To tell you the fact, I think they
are coming to be humbugged. Yet those
who go into " business " will make money,
but a man can do nothing here without
three or four thousand dollars. I have been
told by two different persons, that they
would furnish everything for me to start
business, if I could get a house; but I
can't get one for any price, without it is in
some out of the way locality. * * *
Keep me a stall in the stable to sleep in
next summer, as I will be there as sure as
I live. It costs §5 a day to keep a horse
here. "

The writer certainly gives only one side
of the picture, but it is the side which many
who go there will have to encounter. His
letter has diminished the intensity of the
fever hereabouts. C. H. Aaeon.

Lone Pine, February 21st, 1869.

Mining vs. Agricultural Claims. —
The Register and B ceiver of the Sacra-
mento Land Office, ou the 18th inst. , de-
cided in favor of the Treasury mine, as
against agricultural claims. This mine is
situated about half a mile above the Eu-
reka mine. The Eurekita and the Branch
Miut claims, situated in the same neighbor-
hood, were decided to be mining and not
agricultural lands a few weeks ago. — Gratis
Valley Union, Feb. 21.

Storm Telegraphing. — It has been as-
certained that the storms which visit France
come from the Atlantic, with a single ex-
ception, viz., that of local storms engen-
dered by the winds of the Mediterranean
when they skim the declivities of the south-
eastern coast. It has, however, occasion-
ally been observed that when the clouds
proceeding from the sea have covered the
sky in the maritime departments, thunder
and lightning are observed in the irJand
ones.

GEO. E. ROG-ERS,

(Snccessor to G. W. Bell.)
A S S A Y E B,

-"►1 '■£ California i.;., San Francisco.

"J. A. MAKS, Assayer.

Ores carefully Assayed. Gold ami Silver Ores worked.

£lv 16-ri rLUpnr

Mining Secretary.

THE SUBSCRIBER. HAVING SERVED FOR THE LAST
live years as Secretary of various mining companies
feels fully competent lo serve In that capacity. Any par-
ties wishing to secure the services of a Secretary cai. be
accommodated un reasonable terms. Information given,
and all necessary paners correctly made out.

Having had a Ion:,' experience in Hie purchasing of goods
and machinery for miners, parties in (lie mines will lliid il
to tlmlr advantage, where purchasing ugmits are employed.
lu seud their orders lo the undersigned.

J. M. BUFFINUTOV,
Room 37 New Merchants Exchange, California ttreet
San Francisco. 17 \* 15- li

Business Cards.

RODG-ERS, MEYER & CO.,

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

ADT1MCS MADE

On all kind, or Ore., una i'.ii i Iculur utlentlon

PAID TO

CO.\Sl(lXMl\T!i OF GOODS.

4> IMui

KATIIAMkL GRIT.

II. M. CRAY.

N. GRAY & CO.,

U TV T> IE II TAKERS,

611 Sacramento St., cor. Webb, Sun Francisco.

gSF-Rolp Agents for Baratnw'* Metallic Burial Cases and
25vUir Casket*.

Farmers and Mechanics
BANK OF S-A-VIlNGSsi,

No. 335 8an«ome Street.

Interest paid on Deposits. Money Loaned on Heal Entnte.
II. DUTTOX, Preiddent.
r.v.n M GONDEE Cashier. iflvlfi.lm

J. J. JONES,

CARPENTER and RUILBER,

No. :Wi Jack* on atreet, between Saniiome uud

Battery,

Stores and Offices fitted un wi'h neatness and dispatch.
7vl8tf

FREDERICK MA\SELL.

Mechanical & Architectural Draughtsman,

No. 422 California street, corner of Leidsdorff.

Drawings of Models made for parties apply for pa^
ents at Washington or London. ar23-tf.

W\ T. ATWOOD,

rURCHASBR OF

COPPEE ORES, BARS, MATT, Etc., Etc,,

SOU Montgomery street, San Franclrtco,

The highest market price paid for ores assaying 10 per cenl.
23vI7qr

s. FOLK.

G. TOCHOLSKV.

S. FOLK & CO.,

MANUTACTURKRS OF

WADDING, BATTIVG, und COMFORTERS

441 and 443 Brannan St., Between Third and Fourth,
san francisco. 4vl&nr

W. C.CAMPBELL.

PATTERN AND MODEL MAKER,

No. 30 Fremont street, over Phceuix Iron Works, San
Francisco.

Pump Leather.

The attention of MINING COMPANIES, and others re-
quiring a superior article for Hydraulic purposes, is invited
to the heavy Oakcd Tanned Pump Leather, manufactured
and prepared exprcs-dy by the undersigned.

n E. JONES&C? _

Constantly on hand and lor sale by

GRAY, JONES «fc CO.,

Depot of the Santa Cruz Tannery,
418 Battery St., San. Francisco.

25vl7-ly

CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, DRAPERIES,

SHAKES, Etc., Etc.

LOUIS F. KNIG-HT,

~> t'i Calilornla St., ea»t side of Kearny,

SAN FRANCISCO.

lean offer from the largest and best assorted stock In the

cily anything in our line.

AT PRICES TO SUIT ALL.

FURNITURE AND MATTRESSES

Made to order.
All kinds of upholstering executed with neatness and
dispatch. 9vl7

OCCIDENTAL

Insurance Company,

OF SAN FRANCISCO.

Ca-«h Capital 8300,000

GOLD COIN.

Office S. "W. corner of Montgomery and
California streets.

Fire and Ma/pine Insurance.
All Losses paid in U. P. Gold Coin.

CUP.. CHRISTIANSEN, President.
B. EiTnacuiLD, Secretary* 2QvT7-3m

Professional Cards.

JOHN E0A0H, Optician,

lius removod from 622 Montgomery street to

.Vlt» Washington street.

East ol Montgomery .

Surveying instruments male, repaired Mid adjusted

22y17-3id

DAVID R. SMITH,

Olvll and Meeliauleal Engineer,

[.prepared to furnish Pl»ns, Models, Bpecifloallons uxd
lull dotal! DrawlngaTor Bteamors and Sailing Vessels and

.Muclilm-rv in general.

Montgomery niockL.

iavl7-3m

J. M. HAVEN,

ATTORNEY AMD COUNSELOR AT L.AW
No. 420 Cnllfornln street,

27vl6 SAN FRANCISCO.

JAME8 M. TA.YLOR,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,

Court Block, G3G Clny Street

BAN FRANCISCO.
2vl5-lqy

-PACIFIC

INSURANCE COMPANY

OF SAN FKANCISCO, CAI,.,

Office, No. 422 California street.

Cash AiMts, Jan. 1, lfl69, - - SI, 539,7 40 18

FIRE,

MARINE,

AST)

IXI.AI

INSURANCE.

San FrA'Cisco:
W. O. RaNton,
A, L. Tubbs.
Win. Alvord,
Jonathan Hunt,
A. B. Forbes,
A. G. Stiles,
A. Heligman,
L. B. Heiichlcy,
Wm. SHeruian,
L. Sachs,

James Dc Frcmcrv,
J. G. Bray,
David S em,

D. O. Mills,

I Friedlander,
Moses Heller,
H.M Nowhall,
G.T, Lawton,
Miles D. Sweeny, ]
Chas. Mayne.

E. L. Goldstein,
J. 0. Earl,
Lloyd Tevis,
Thos. H. Selby,
Adam Grant,
Alpheus Bull,
S. M. Wilson,
D.J. Oliver,

W Scholle,
Thos. Brown,
Chas. Main,
Chas. R. Peters,

DIRECTORS:

Oliver Eldrldge,
J. B. Roberts.
J. C. Wilmcrding,
P. L. Weaver,
Wrn.H. oner,
J. W. Clark,
A. (lav ward,
T. L. Barker,
Alexander Weill,
Chas. Jlever.
Chas. E.McLane,
JM Rnscubaum,
A. J. Ralston.
T. Lemmen Meyer,
J. T. Dean.

Nkw York:
Louis McLane,
Frederick Billings,
J nines Lees,
J. G. Kellogg,
Wm. T. Coleman,
Moses Ellis.

Sachamksto:
Edgar Mills,
J. H. Carroll,
C. T. Wheeler.

MarysVILLk:
.1. H.Jewett.

Portland, Oregon:
W S Ladd,
Jncob Kamm.

Virginia, Nevada:
Wra. Sharon.
officers:
JON A. HUNT, President.

W. ALVORD, Vice President.
A. T. RALSTON, Secretary.
ANDREW BAIRD, Marine Secretary.
jvlStf H. H BIGELOW, Gen'l Agent.

The Oakland Daily Transcript

A. BIT PAPER.

The Largest Circulation in the County,

Advertisements In the Transcript will reach
every part of Alameda Counts'.

RATES FOR ADVERTISING

VERY X.O-W".

The Perfection of Prepared Cocoa.

MARAYILLA COCOA.

Sole Proprietors— TAYLOR BROTHERS, London.

The Cocoa (or Cncno) of Maravilla is the true Thenbroma
of Linn reusi Cocoa Is indigenous to South America, of
which Maravilla is a favored portion. TaYLOK BROTH-
ERS having sucurod the exclusive supplv of this unri-
valled Onr.Mii, li ive, by the skillful implication of their sol-
uble principle and chihoratc machinery, produced what Is
so undeniably the perfection ol Prepared Cocoa, ihat it has
not nnly secured the preference of humompaths and cocoa-
drinkers generally, but many who had hiilierto not found
any preparation to suit ihem, have, nf; er one trial, adorned
the Maravilla Cocoa as their constaut beverage for break-
last, luncheon, etc.

"A SUCCESS UAPKECEDENTED."
[See following exlractfrom the Globe of May 11, 1*68-]
"Various Importers and manufacturers have attempted
to attain a reputation for their prepared Cocoas, but we
doubt whether any thorough success had been achieved
until Messrs. T-yior Brothers discovered the extraordinary
uualliles of "Maravilla" Cocoa. Adapting th.Hr perlect
sy-teni of preparation to this finest of all species of the
Thcobroina, they have produced an arlicle which super-
series every oilier Coc->a in the market. Entire solubility,
adelicate aroma, and a rare concentration of Hie purest
eN: incur.? of nutrition, distinguish the Miravilla Cocoa
above till o' hers, h'or houncopaths and invalids we could
not recommend a more asreeabln or valuable beverage.

Sold l-i packets oil ly by all tir'-CRrs, of whom ah o may
be had Xavlor Brothers' uneinal Unino:o|K!thic Cocoa and
Soluble cliucul.Ue, S.eam M1M- Rrick Lane, London.
• . 6vlS-ly

WE ARE NOW OFFERING-
OTJK II>X5JEIV!SE STOCK

OF

Fine Custom Made Clothing

Gents' Furnishing Goods

AT PRICES THAT »KPTr7 COMPETITION.

Our Stock ol' Clothing Consists of
A.X-.X* TJEIHl H.A.TEST STTLES

Bi.iTll Or MATUiHL AND I'lMMl.

A Lotro Assorlmen lo!
TnmKn, TuIInom* Curpet Rukh, Ulmilnct*, Etc.,

AT KXTKKMKLT LOW PRICKS.

J. it. i\it:a.t> & co„

8vl0 Cor. of Washington and Sansome strecU.

THE GIMT

POWDER COMPANY

Is now- prepared to fill all orders for

GIANT POWDER,

Pul up In Boxen* cither InBnlk or In Cur

triage*.

General Agents,

BANDMANN, NIELSEN & CO.,

25vl6-.3m 210 Front street, San Francisco.

SAX FRIXCfSCO -

Pioneer Screen W oris gi»

JOHN V7. QUICK, Manufacturer,

Removed to A. Prltzol's Iron Works, 2ut Fremont street,

near Howard, San Francisco.

Screen Punching in all Its branches, at rates reduced
from 25 to 4'i per cent less thnn the established rates. I can
furnish Improved Quartz Screens several sizes finer thnn
any Screen ever punched, giving universal snti«fnction,
and for strength, cheapness find durability are not excelled.
Also, Punched Screens of all sizes and fineness made from
nil qualities ot material, for Quartz. Cement, Flour and
Rice Mills, etc. Screen Punching made a specl.iltv; there-
fore millmen forwarding iheir orders to me will receive
none but the be*t. Orders solicited.

N. B — 1. w. QirrCK is the only competent and finrcessHil
manufacturer of Screens in i lie state, having mnde Screens
for the principal mills In this State and adjoining Terri-
tories for many years. Quartz mill owners using punched
Screens which have universally failed to give satisfaction,
when visiting the cily will please call and see me. 5vl7-Iy

California Steam Navigation

j|jj^ COMPANY. .^llllljS

Steamer CAPITAL CAPT. E. A. POOLE

CHRYSOPOLIS CAPT. A. FOSTER.

TOftEMITE

" CORNELIA CAPT. W. BROMLEY

JULIA CAPT. E. CONCKLIh.

Tw-o of the above steamers leave BROADWAY WHARF
at 4 o'clock P. M. EVERY DAY (Sundays excepted), ono
for Sncramcnto and one tor Stockton, iltose for Sacra-
mento connecting with ligbl-drafl steamers for Marysville
Colusa, Chlco.and Red Bluff,

Office of the Company, northeast corner nf Front and
Jackson streets.

B. M. HARTSHORVK,
I3vl2 President.

International Hotel,

JACKSON STREET*

BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AND KEARNY STS.,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE IS IN PERFECT
order for the ac?omraodation of guests. Persons seek-
ing comfort and economy will find (his the best Hotel In
the city to stop at. The Beds are new and in good order,
and the Rooms well ventilated. The Table will always be
supplied with the best in the market.
Prices varying from SI SO to S3 per day for

Board »nd Room.

FINE BATH HOUSE AND BARBER SHOP ATTACHED

TO THE HOUSE.

OSr- Teams belonging to the Honse will be in attendance
at all the boats and cars to convey passengers tn the Honse
rBEK of charge, and to any pnrtof the cily for GO cents

alvI2 F. E. WEYGANT. Proprietor.

Pacific Chemical Works.

suitFirrrietc ethbr.

SPIRITS OF NITRE,
AQUA AMMONIA.,
ACETIC ACID,

CYANIDE OF POTASSIUM

— AND —

ACIOS AND CHEMICALS OF ALL KINDS.

FALKENAU & HANKS,

Office und Laboratory, Sixteenth direct, be-
tween FolHom and Harrl&on.

LOUIS FALKENAU, State Assayer.

B3-Partir.ular attention paid to the Analysis of ORES,
MINERALS METALS, etc. 8vl7

HINKLE'S

"IMPROVED SPRING-BED BOTTOM"

(Patented July 21st, 186S.

The undersigned, having purchased the Patentee's inter
est in the States and Territories of the Pacific Coast, is now
prepared to supply Private Homes, Hotels and Steamers
wiih this comfortable, ccon -mical and durable "IM-
PROVED SPRING BED BiiTTOM."

Persons going to White Pine will greatly promote their
comfort by taking one of these Patent Bottoms, which is
secured to a folding Bedstead, the cost of which is less than
tl.at of the materials at White Pine.

"Wareroom, No. 1002 Market Street,

P. HUDSON, Proprietor.

g-Call and examine. Open until 8 o'clock P. M.
u'vl&ir

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Kailroad Items.

Mb. Banning, the Superintendent of the
"Wilmington and Los Angeles Kailroad, says
lie will have that road completed and the
cars running by the 1st of July.

Julius A. Skilton, representing an
American company, has received the con-
cession to build a railroad from Paso del
Norte, Mexico, to Guaymas, or some other
point on the Gulf of California.

The Bulletin's City of Mexico correspond-
ent says a railroad will be built from Zaca-
tecas to la Villa de Guadalupe, and J. M.
Elmos has been already appointed engineer
to make the necessary surveys.

The Vallejo Chronicle mentions a rumor
to the effect that the California Pacific Co.
have purchased the Napa Kailroad, which
is to be at once extended from Calistoga to
Healdsbarg, and completed during the
present season.

A well known citizen of Storey county,
says the Enterprise, has gone to Washing-
ton to secure a land grant from Congress
to aid the construction of a railroad from
Elko, on the Central Pacific, via. White
Pine, to Callville, on the Colorado, at or
near which point it is intended to intersect
the Southern Pacific.

The ship Edith, from New York, laden
with stock for the Central Pacific Kailroad,
and lying at Vallejo street wharf, on Feb.
25th unloaded six locomotives, named
"White Eagle," "Roller," "Herron,"
"Eagle," "Jupiter," and "Rambler," all
complete and in good condition.

By June or July the Santa Cruz and Sa-
linas Kailroad — says the Sentinel of Eeb.
27th — will be surveyed, located, and the
company duly incorporated. The align-
ment survey and working plans will be
made and grading commenced soon after.
The parties interested in the road are said
to have ample means to complete the work.

From Colima we learn that Mr. Gibbs,
one of the directors of the Vera Cruz and
Mexico Railroad Company, has arrived
from England, and it is hoped that the
work on the line will be taken up with more
energy. The line from Mexico to San Au-
gustine de las Cucoas is finished, and an
American company has received the con-
cession to build a railroad from the Kio
Grande, near El Presidio del Paso, to Guay-
mas, or some adjacent point

The late snow storms in the Sierra have
been unusually severe. The snow between
Coburn's and Alta, a distance of fifty miles,
was from five to fifteen feet deep, and at
one gorge the snow plow was pushed by
four locomotives, and they being insuffi-
cient, their number was increased to nine,
which were used for about three miles to
burst through the drifts. The trains were
five days getting through from Coburn's to
Sacramento.

The Mountaineer is informed by a letter
from Boise City, that Col. Hudnutt, chief
engineer of the Idaho and Oregon branch
railroad, says that the road will most prob-
ably pass up the Malhner river, cross the
Blue Mountains through the lower pass at
the head of John Day river, and continue
down on this side of the mountains through
the rich and fertile valley of the John Day
river to Dalles City, and thence down the
Columbia.

The Peruvian railway lines in progress,
viz. , between Arequipa and Mejia and the
one from Lima to Huacho, are being active-
ly proceeded with. The line that is to con-
nect the Capital, Janja, and eventually Cer-
ro de Pasco, appears also to be seriously
thought of, say the south coast correspond-
ents, and not to remain a mere project as
ft first supposed. Mr. Joseph Hindle, an
eminent English engineer, has set out for
Janja to make a final survey, and on his re-
turn it is reported active operations are at
once to commence.

Col. Hudnutt, the locating engineer of
the Union Pacific Railroad, is now about at
Farewell Bend of Snake river, marching
steadily on with a corps of eighteen engi-
neers and four supply wagons, and making
a very thorough survey and examination of
the route. If a grant of land is given this
company, and no extraordinary money cri-
sis arrives before spring opeus, it is ex-
pected that this branch railroad will be put
under contract from the north end of Salt
Lake to some point on the Columbia river,
early next spring. At the rate of speed that
has been obtained in construction, the road
will be in running order to the Columbia
river by July, 1870. — Portland Oregonian,
Feb. 15th.

JUngineering :

Opekations at Livekhoke Pass. — A
correspondent who recently traveled
through Livermore Pass and witnessed the
railroad operations in progress there, states
that powder is being used at the rate
of 1,200 kegs per month, and that a con-
siderable force of white men and Chinamen
has been employed, which is to be
increased in the spring to 1,500 men. In-
stead of going through the pass along its
lowest practicable route, the road skirts the
spurs and ravines high up on one side of
the pass at a heavy cost for construction,
then crosses the pass near its highest
point by a great trestle bridge, and strikes
through the mountain on the opposite side
by a tunnel 900 feet long. About six miles
beyond the Mountain House, or thirty miles
from Hayward's, the country becomes per-
fectly level, and continues so to Stockton
and Sacramento.

Bridging Navigable Kivees. — The
steamboat interests on the Mississippi and
Missouri river have sent a delegation to
Washington to procure the passage by Con-
gress of a law compelling railroad compa-
nies to construct bridges hereafter to be
built over the navigable Western waters,
with one unbroken span of at least 450 feet.
It is the opinion of the Senate Committee
that the long span will be approved by Con-
gress, and that the bill of Mr. Drake, mak-
ing it applicable to the Mississippi and Mis-
souri rivers, will pass.

Reclamation of Tule Lands. — The tule
lands, says the Stockton Gazette, can all, or
nearly all, be reclaimed by cheap and sim-
ple engineering, and when reclaimed will
be found easily cultivated, and unsurpassed
in productiveness. These lands can be re-
duced to cultivation at a cost not exceeding
ten per cent, of the cost of reclaiming the
sugar lands of Louisiana, or the rice lands
of South Carolina; while their annual yield
would greatly exceed the product of any
other rice fields in the world.

The breaking of the dam on the outlet
of Clear Lake, has lowered the water in that
lake eighteen feet.

Geading and Paving. — The City Paving
Company have the contract for grading,
sewering and paving with the "Stow Foun-
dation " pavement, the extension of Mont-
gomery street, from Market to Howard
street. They will also lay asphaltnm side-
walks about 15 feet wide. The new street
will be about six feet wider than Montgom-
ery street.

The Cosumnes bridge, on the Western
Pacific, will be a Howe truss, 6U0 feet long,
and the trestle work immediately connected
with it will be 800 feet long, while another
piece of trestle work over a slough through
which the waters of the Cosumnes run in
flood time, will be about 300 feet long, thus
making an opening for the waters of the
river of 1,700 feet.

Cost of Piling fob Foundations. —
One of the buildings on California street,
near Sansome, which was badly injured by
the earthquake, is about to be replaced by
a more substantial structure, which is be-
ing built upon piles. The lot has a front-
age of 100 feet by a depth of 89 feet, and
the piling of it has cost $20,000.

Cable between Cuba and Spain. — The
Spanish Minister of Marine and the Colo-
nies has invited tenders for the establish-
ment and working of a submarine cable be-
tween the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico,
the Canary Islands, and some point on the
Spanish coast.

Telegraph Matekial. — We noticed up-
on the wharf of the O. S. N. Co.'s wharf,
yesterday, a large lot of telegraph wire
which the Company is about to ship np the
Columbia to be used in the construction of
the Portland and Boise line.— Portland Ore-
gonian, Feb. Wth.

Mission rock is being graded off to a
safe point above high-water mark, in order
to adapt it for the ways and docking appa-
ratus now at the foot of Second street, be-
longing to H. B. Tichenor.

The sea wall has been extended nearly to
Market street, and a dredging machine is at
work north of Market street removing mud
from the proposed foundation.

The frame of the bridge to be built over
the river at Marysville, will be made at
South Vallejo.

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White Pine Items.

Some very able correspondents have get
to White Pine, ami ure contributing letters
to tin- leading journals; every newspaper
in the State having -its special correspond-
ent, presenter prospective, from Eastern Ne-
vada. "Chloride," in the Virginia Kut grpries,
writes a series of letters, tolling iu an en-
tertaining manner the story of the discov-
eries that were made up to last Fall, and
the manner in which title to the rich depos-
sits lias become tangled up at law.

It is saddening — at our distanco — to read
the following account of one who recently
went over 65 miles of the White Pine road:
" The weather was intensely cold, the snow
deep, and the entire country a bleak, tiui-
berless waste, with only here and there a
black rocky peak piercing tho surrounding
banks and peaks of snow. The thermome-
ter was below zero every day. The stations
are exceedingly primitive, nothing but
light tents for shelter to man or beast. On
the road were crowds of men, struggling
along on foot in tho directiou of the frozen
El Dorudo. The stages cannot afford trans-
portation for all. At some points we en-
countered men making their way alone
through the wilderness, carrying only a
single blanket and a few ounces of provis-
ions. '|

The thf rmometer has been ranging many
degrees below zero, down to 10 , suys the
Bulletin correspondent of Feb. 23d, at Treas-
ure City, and the snow falling thick and
fast is tumbled by the fierce wind into heaps
and driven through the chinks of the ill-
constructed habitations with a freedom that
leaves its distribution pretty even indoors
and out. Coses of pneumouia, congestion
of the lungs, erysipelas, etc., are still com-
mon, many of them proving very severe and
fatal. Two hospitals are located at Sher-
mantown— one a private and the other a
public establishment. Into the latter per-
sons in needy circumstances are admitted
without charge, a fuud having been raised
by citizens for defraying its expenses.

The tide of immigration from the East
has already set in. From ten to fifteen and
twenty men were passing Kuby Station
daily.

Results thus fsr at White Pine are sum-
med up as follows: Four quartz mills have
been completed, and several others gotten
under way ; three smelting works have been
put up; nearly twenty miles of mountain
wagon road, some of it very difficult and ex-
pensive, have been graded; and work, in a
few cases very costly, and in all of greater
or less magnitude, has been done on about
a thousand mines.

Though mining and prospecting are only
exceptiouably possible, by reasou of the
extreme cold and snow, the business of
forming corporations in this city is, if any-
thing, increasing. ,

American Rifles. — The only repeating
rifles now made in this country are the
Winchester, at Bridgeport, and the Spen-
cer at Boston. The former is an improve-
ment on the celebrated Henry rifle, carry-
ing eighteen shots, and can be fired with
great rapidity. The latter is a seven-shoot-
er, and in Sherman's campaign through
Georgia six men on a picket post armed
with the Spencer carbine kept at bay some
time a whole battalion of the enemy by the
rapidity of their firing. These repeating
rifles are used for hunting on the plains,
and meet with much favor in foreign coun-
tries. American gun makers regard the
famous Prussian needle gun as inferior in
every respect to our best patterns.

Eighty Oxen Cooked peb Hour. — The
largest kitchen in the world is that of Lie-
big's Extract of Meat Company's establish-
ment at Fray Bentos, on the river Uruguay,
South America. The building covers an
area of 20,0U0 square feet. In one hall
there are four meat-cutters, which can dis-
pose of 200 bullocks each per hour. There
are 12 digesters, in which the meat is boiled
by steam. They can hold altogether 144,-
0J0 pounds of beef. About 80 oxen per
hour are actually slaughtered for this im-
mense establishment.

Onions as Weather Prophets. — In
Southern France farmers prognosticate the
probable temperature of the season in get-
ting in their crop of onions. If the weather
is to be mild, they say the skins are thin, if
severe, extremely strong and tough.

Births and Deaths. — A man, woman or
child dies every second. Of births, rather
more than one per second occurs. So the
world's population increases.

AHint.— Ground chicory sinks — Ground
coffee floats.

Resources and Developments.

Among tho resonrces of Los Angeles
county is hydraulic lime or cement, of good
quality.

The Los Angeles Canal and Reservation
Compauy have 100 men at work, and ex-
pect to have their work completed iu a
short time.

The demand for public lands in Colusa
county continues brisk at the land office in
Marysville, and from 15,000 to 20,000 acres
have been sold the past week or two at §1
25 per acre, enrroncy.

Cork Tree. — Tho Tulare Tunes says:
Mr. J. N. Thomas has a cork tree growing
in his front yard, about three inches iu di-
ameter and twelve feet high, which grew
from the seed, planted about seven years
since.

The Stockton Gazette says A. O. Thomas
and James R. White are fitting up a num-
ber of warehouses at the head of steam navi-
gation on tho San Joaquin, or rather on
Fresno Slough, eight miles from the river.
It is an importaut freighting point, and is
in a rich section of country.

St. George, in Southern Utah, has in
operation eight sawmills, two shingle ma-
chines, ten flouring mills, two carding ma-
chines, and an extensive cotton factory,
owned by Brigham Young. The prin-
cipal product is raw cotton, for the success-
ful cultivation of which the mission was es-
tablished.

A Montana hunting party, consisting of
six men, who went out for profit not sport,
and remained in one camp, a few miles be-
low Kennedy's on the Missouri, since win-
ter set in, have closed their operations for
the season, having killed and sent to mar-
ket 170 deer, 20 antelope, 91 mountain
sheep, 16 elk, 4 gray bears, 2 panthers, and
11 lynx, which netted the party, from sales
in the Helena market alone, upwards of
$3,000 in gold.

Whaling Stations on the Northwest
Coast. — Mr. Dawson intends establishing
a whaling station on Cortez Island, in the
vicinity of which he anticipates a good
catch during the coming season. Another
whaling expedition, under Capt. Roys, is
preparing to start for Barclay Sound short-
ly. The schooner "Kate" arrived at Vic-
toria from the Gulf of Georgia, with 2,400
gallons of whale oil, on Feb. 23d.

Semi-Tropical and Nut Trees. — In Los
Angeles Co. , says the Star of Feb. 20th,
the purchasing and planting of trees is now
very general. There is scarcely a wagon
leaves town but-carries with it a lot of fruit
trees for planting. The prevailing kinds
are the semi-tropical, with the walnut and
the more hardy and common fruits. On
the "Brent place" at Los Angeles, Gen. H.
B. Davidson has planted 250 walnut, 1000
orange; and 1000 lemon trees. Its value
has tripled within a year.

Alaska Seals. — Joseph Krewskewsky
and other natives of Alaska, stated before a
committee of the Chamber of Commerce
this week, that the number of seal that flock
to St. Paul's Island each year is estimated
at 3,000,000, while 1,000,000 visit St..
Georee's. One of the witnesses thought
that 150,000 could be taken annually; but
another thought that to kill over 100,000
would destroy the trade and drive them
away. One witness estimated the numbers
taken last year at 202,000. The proper time
for killing is about the 25th of May, but
they state that Hutchinson, Kohl & Co.
commenced killing in the latter part of
March, and took at least 160,000 skins, of
which they now have about 100,000 on
hand.

Solano County Quicksilver. — We have
just been shown specimens of cinnabar
taken from the mine owned by Mr. John
Brownlie, near this city, which for richness
equals anything to be found in the cele-
brated Almaden mine. The extent of the
lead is not yet known, but Mr. Brownlie is
sanguine of having struck a good thing,
without having to go to White Pine. — Val-
lejo Recorder, March 2d.

- Sale op Vallejo White Sulphur
Springs. — It is currently reported on the
streets, says the Vallejo Recorder, that Mr.
Connolly has sold the White Sulphur
Springs near this city, for the round sum
of $25,000, and that the purchasers intend
to conduct the sulphur waters of the spring
to this city.

Delays are Xlnneeroas.— luvcntors on the Pacific
Coast shuulii bnar In mind thut by patronizing our Patent
Agency they can aign all necessary papers lor securing pa
tents nlmost immediately, thereby avoiding the three
month's delay requisite in trunaactlnir business throufih
Eastern agencies.

SULPHURETS ;

What they are;

How Assayed;

How Concentrated;

And How "Worked;

With a chanter on tho

BLOW-PIPE ASSAY OF MINERALS.

By WH. BAKSTOW, M. D.

Published by A. Roman A C,n„ San Franclseo.
For -iilf at iltU Office.--I*rlee, One Dollar.

171th the aid of thU Book, tho miner call assay h'sown
ores, requiring but (few materials, etc., except suehnsnre
generally to bo round in the interior tuwn<. sivistf

Whitkun -build be cautious nimui addressing correspon-
dence re I itiln-.' in i In- business nr Interests ol n ilrm to un in-
dividual member thereof, whose absence at the time might

cause delay.

IMPROVED INNER SOLES

— FOR —

BOOTS AND .-SHOES.

Those who have worn Daggett's Patent Elastic Ventilat-
ing Inner Soles, arc unanimous in testimony that the cor-
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and successful use. The loot rests upon a cushion of air
cells between points of vulcanized rubher, every cell open-
ing Creel V Into each other and through the space occupied
by the Tool. There Is no Contact of the foot with the wet
biiitom of the boot. Tlic elastic points SUotaln tho weight
of ilie wearer, leaving an air spaco always, between the
font and all dampness. Every step compresses and re-
stores ihe air chambers, thus constituting hundreds of air
pumps, working at every step of Ihe foot

The rubber points will not ahorli the moisture from Ihe
boot, so that the soft flannel which covers them is always
dry. Their springing elasticity renders thcin of peculiar
value 1o tlic aired and lntlrm, who feel the jar of walking
Hi-.. ii hard substances, alsr, to all persons whose business
requires much walkim.' or standing.

'these sole* arc afford in? great relict to persons afflicted
wlih rhunoitlsm ami consumptive complaints, chilblains,
corns, cold and swoatv feet.

F..r warm and dry feet use the Patent Elastic Ventilat-
ing Inner Soles.

jVo. IS Exchange Street, Boston, Oct. 15, 18(57:- This may cer-
tify that 1 have used the Patent Elastic Ventilating Inner
Sole*, through (he spring and summer past, and Have
found them to he the best contrivance for keeping the feet
dry and coin for table, that I have ever used, and for any
one having corns or tender feet, the be.-t article ever in-
vented. CHAHLES K. DARLING, Stationer.

Patent Elastic Ventilating Soles —If vou wish a comfortable
article for »onr feet, a real luxury In cod weather, obtain
a pair or the Patent Elastic Ventilating Inner Soles. Hav-
ing used these soles the past winter, we can saiely recom-
mend them as tending not only to promote the comfort of
the teet, and ease lu walking, but nlso the equalization of
the temperature of the feet, winch renders them ulmost in-
valuable.—[Boston Traveler, Oct. 1867.

Price, per nair, SI. Bv mail, postage paid, $1.35. For
sale by PATRICK KELLY, No. 3.!7 Bush street, San Fran-
cisco. Svlfctf

New Mining Advertisements.

Cordillera, fioltl and Silver Milling Company. —

Chihuahua, Mexico.

Notice —The Annual Meeting of the stockholders, for tho
election of Trustees will take place on MONDAY AFTER-
NOON, March fifteenth, at 3 o'clock, at the office of the
Company, No. 321 Washington street, San Francisco.

inaiS HENRY R. REED, Secretary

I. X. JO. Gold and Silver Mining Company.

Location of Mine : Silver Mountain District, Alpine

County, California.

Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the nine-
teenth day of January, 1809, the several amounts set oppo-
site the names of the respective shareholders as follows:
Names. No. Certificate. No. shares. Amount.

John A Johnson 'J8:i 1 Jl 50

J S Adams 23 5 7 50

J S Adams 325 2 3 00

JSSRobinson 322 5 7 fit)

Mary (3 Bridges. 860 12ȣ 18 75

Catherine Jones 144 30 45 00

Catherine Jones ,....155 17 HB 50

Catherine Jones 238 5 7 50

TB Clark 875 10 15 '0

TB Clark ,W6 Wtf 33 75

E M Long 354 lo 15 fit!

C Goodell 248 15 22 50

C Uoodell 312 5 7 50

Wm Davidson 340 5 7 50

Win Davidson 74 ^ 75

Ann Hosan 176 7 10 50

Charles l-'lsk 15*1 5 7 50

W J Th 'mas 371 3 4 50

Dan el H Dickinson 2{U 10 If. 00

Daniel H Dickinson -869 10 15 Ol)

L E Wsihlburg ....277 5 7 50

Henry Jard:no 183 5 7 50

Henry Jardlne 304 3 4 SO

llemv Jardine R'io 12Ji 18 75

Henry Jardiuc 331 6 7 50

HeiirVJartline 334 15 22 5')

Hepburn James 16 5 7 50

Hepburn James 153 5 7 50

Hepburn James 217 10 15 i '0

A Wagner 207 5 7 50

Chns Saunders ZH 5 7 50

Caroline A Nelson 293 2 .H 00

George Hrosle 229 10 15 Hi)

James Wylctt 211 ft 7 50

HT BiUke 380 4^ ti 40

Lout- Bl.inding 217 28 42 00

John GSIuvin 254 1 | fiO

Henry Eno Ifc'l 3 4 50

Henrvl-no 3 7 7« 11 25

E FGihsoii ?70 12 18 CO

E F Gibson 271 12 18 t'O

K K Gibson 274 5 7 60

E FGib"on ;■}■. 2 3 4 50

Wm Ji.nos 246 3 4 50

John Cairns *49 70 105 00

.lohnBolts 381 10 15 >U

John Holts 2:>6 8 12 0-:

D O Kiddle 258 5 7 50

Julius Zabel 259 5 7 50

M D Scott 2(50 5 7 50

J A McMahon 2(>3 7 10 50

RK Love 275 5 7 5'l

RK Love 3'i3 4 6 HO

R K Love 329 12 18 00

RK Love 312 6 7 60

h Wechelhauscn ?81 4 ti in)

Wm West 352 5 7 50

NGrnfT. 357 }£ 75

A S Culler HW 3>£ 5 25

RS Cutler 384 10 J5 Oil

E Ekeluiul 302 3 4 60

EEkclund 304 2 3 00

Philip Alyers 370 2 3 III)

M Long 335 22 7-16' 33 GJ

And In accordance with law. and an order of the Boara
of Trustees, made on the nineteenth clay of January
1869, so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may
be necessary, will be sold at public auction, b>r Messrs.
Olney & Co., auctioneers, No. 426 Montgomery street, San
Francisco, on Wednesday, the seventeenth day of March,
1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock, M., of said day, to pay said
delinquent assessment thereon, together with costs of ad
vertislng and expenses of sale.

J. CROWNINSHIELD, Secretary.

Office, Pioneer Hall, Montgomery street, up stairs, San
Francisco, mar6

Mining Notices—Continued.

Chnlk Mountain Blue Gravel Company.-Lo.

cation of Works: Nevada County. California.

Notick.— There arc delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
thirteenth day of January, 1809. tho several amounts
set opposite the names of the respective shareholders as
follows:

omiw. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amonnf.

F (" Mi'nmb 50 12J£ $25 00

KCMcCnb 91 28'tf 5« 25

U ii-iiu White 5 mi sou un

H *' ll«H 45 25 5-' HO

Jot. n R Mead 49 25 SO 00

J II ''par-oii fi4 2'i 5 '0

WeBlry Henderson r>7 100 2oo on

Afbinus Inglo 71 5 ]Q to

Ami in accordance with law. and an order of the Board
ot Trustees, made on ihe thirteenth dny ol January, 18ii9,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as mny be
necessary, will be sold nt public auction, by Messrs.
OIney A Co., auctioneers, No. 426 Montgumeiy Mrcet, on
Monday, the eighihdiiy of March, 1869, at the hour of IS
o'clock M. of said day, to pay said delinquent assess-
ment thereon, together with costs of advertising and ex
penses of sale.

J. M BUFFIXGTON, Secretary.

Office, 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California street,
San Francisco. feb20

Glenwootl Mill and Mining Company, Green-

wood, El Dorado County, California.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board o f
Trustees of said Company, held on the nineteenth day of
February, 18C9, an assessment of twcnty-tlvc dollars per
share was levied upon the cnpltal stock of said Compnnv,
payable immediately. In United S'atesgold and silver coin,
to the Secretary, Room 11, No. 431 California street. San
Francisco.

Any stuck upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the second nay of April, 18IJ9, shall be deemed
delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale at public
auction, and unless pavmeni shall be made before, will be
sold on Monday, the twenty-sixth dav of Apiil, 1869, to
pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of ad-
vertislng and expenses of sale. By order ol the Board of
Trustees.

WILLIAM VALE, Secretary.

OfTlcc. 434 California street, San Francisco. feb'27

Chlorlilu Mountain Tunnel nnd Mining Com*

pany.— Location of Works: White Pine Mining District,

Lander County. Nevada.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the second day of
February, 1869, an assessment of fifty cents per share was
levied upon the capital stock of said Company, payable
immediately, in United States cold and silver coin, to the
Secretary, at his otllce. No. 6!5 Kearny street, San Francis-
co. Cal.

Any stock unon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the thirteenth day of March, 1869, shall he
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale
at public auction, ai|d unless payment shall he made be-
fore, will be sold on Saturday, the tenth day of April,
1869, to pay the delinquent assessment, together with
cowts of advertising and expenses of sale. Ry order of the
Board of Trustees,

JAMF.S RICE, Secretary.

Ofllcc, No. 615 Kearny street, San Franei-co. leblS

Mount Tenubo Silver Mining Cumpany,-Lo.

cation of Works: Cortez District, Lander County, State

of Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty-third day of
January, 18G9, an assessment of seventy-five cents per share
was levied upon the capital stock of* said Company, pay-
able immediately, in United States gold and silver coin, to
the Secretary, at the oflicc of the CoDipany, 426 Montgom-
ery street, Ron Francisco.

Anv stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the fifth (5th) day of March, 18C9, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless paviuent shall be made be-
fore, will be sold on Tuesday, the thirtieth (30ih) day of
March, 1869. to pav the delinquent assessment, together
with costs ot advertising and expenses of sale. By order
of the Board of Trustees,

R. N VAN BRUNT, Secretary.

Office 426 Montgomery sireet, San Francisco. jan3t)

Postponement.— The day for deeming stock delinquent on
the above assessment is hereby postponed until the second
day ot April, I860, and the sale thereof until Tuesday, the
twenty n-ventb. day of April, 1369. By order of ihe Board
of Trustees.

inar6 R. N. VAN BRUNT, Secretary.

North American Wood Preserving Company.

Location of Works: San Francisco. California.

Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
fifteenth day of January, I860, tho several amounts set
opposite the names of tho respective shareholders, as fol-
lows:

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

John L Samuels not Issued 800 $800 00

George W Dent 1 4M 400 01)

Henry S Dent not issued 200 200 00

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board of
Trustees, made on the fifteenth day of January, 1869, so
many shares of each parcel of said stock as mny be necessary
will bo sold at public auction, at the office of the Com-
pany, No. 4:i0 Montgomery street, San Francisco, Cal., on
Monday, the eighth day of March, 1869, at the hour of
12 o'clock M. of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment
thereon, together with cost3 of advertising and expense*

WM. B.LAKE, Secretary.
Office, 430 Montgomery street. San Francisco. feb20

Star Creek Mining Company.— Location t Star

District, State of Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty-sixth day of
February ,1869, an assessment of one dollar and fifty cents
per share was levied upon the canitai stock of said Com-
pany, payable immediately, in United States gold and silver
coin, to the Secretary at Sun Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the twcniy-ninth day of March, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall be made before,
will be sold on Monday, the nineteenth day ot April, 18t>9,
to pav the delinquent assessment, together with costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of
Trustees. HORACE MORRISON, Secretary.

Office, N. E. cor. Front and Jackson streets.

MECHANICAL AND AK0HITE0TUEAL

Drawing School

— FO tt —

MR. FREDERICK HELLERT,

An experienced Draughtsman and Teacher, has opened an

Evening School at No. 414 CLAY STREET (same entrance

the Mining and Scientific Press Officp), where lie Is iv

g thorjugh instructions in DRAWING to apprentices who

e inclined to self- improvement. His terms are moderate

and within reach of the humblest apprentice; find wo are

pleased to say that the enterprise i3 meeting with success.

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinery.

VABNETS

PATENT AMALGAMATOR

THese Machines Stand Unrivaled.

For rapidly pulverizing and amalgamating ores, they
bave no equal. No effort has been, or will be, spared to
have them constructed in the most perfect manner, and of
the great number now in operation, not one has everre-
quired repairs. The constant and increasing demand for
them is sufficient evidence of their merits.

They are constructed so as ro apply steam directly into
he pulp, or with steam bottoms, as desired.

This Amalgamator Operates as Follows:

The pan being filled, the motion of themuller forces the
pulp to the center, where it is drawn down through the ap-
erture and between the grinding surfaces. Thence it is
thrown to the periphery into the quicksilver. The curved
plates again draw it to the center, where it passes down,
and to the circumference as before. Thus it is constantly
passing in a regular How between the grinding surfaces and
into the quicksilver, until the ore is reduced to an impalpa-
ble powder, and the metal amalgamated.

Setlers made ou the sume principle excel all others.—
They bring the pulp so constantly and perfectly in contact
with quicksilver, that the particles are rapidly and com
pletely absorbed. .

Mill men are invited to examine these pans and setlers for
themselves, at the JPAOIFXC FO UNIMKY,

Ivl San Francisco.

ELLERY'S PATENT

India Rubber Ccinent and Paint

— FOE —

TIN, IRON AND METALLIC EROOFS,

Iron, JSricli'and 'Wooden ttuildingft,

SHIPS, STEAMBOATS, STAGES, CARS,

AND FOR ALL EXPOSED SURFACES.

Is water-proof and indestructible; will neither rot, peel,

nor crack.; will withstand any climate; can be put on iu

any color, and is less expensive than other Faint.

BFew Cloth Koofs pot on. Old Kooi's cemented
and puiuted. Leaky Kooi's made tlgrht.

Cgj- No Coal Tar or Asphaltura used. All work guaran-
teed. Orders punctually attended to.

GEO. T. BROMLEY, Agent,

Standard Hilling Machine.

UNION VISE COMPANY,

OF BOSTON, MASS.
Extra jaw, and heavy* Vises. Warranted for heavy work.
New Ntvle Wood and Coven d Sciew Vises, forty styles and
kinds; Standard Mil ing Machines, simple, great capacity,
power andstreng h— two sues, large, 2,300 lbs; small, 96U
lbs. For sale by the trade.
23v]6 ly G. H. NOTT, Pres.

BLAKE'S QUARTZ BREAKER!

;PEICES ItJEDTJCED!

MACHINES OF ALL SIZES FOK SALE
— BY —

WM. P. BLAKE,

Corner First and Mission streets, or Box 2,07?

3vl3f SAN FKANCISCO.

PACIFIC FILE WORKS,

No. Si* Beale Street, bet. Market and Mission,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Files Re-cut and warranted as stood as new, with a savins
of fifty per cent. REAPER AND MOWER SECTIONS
MADKTo ORDER. The only establishment on the Coast,
orders from the country promptly attended to. KSJ-FirsI
Premium awarded af "-lu- Siato Fair, 1S07

2vl7-Si.i T. G. KUK\T.\G <fc CO

Removal.

NELSON~&~ DOBLE,

AGKXTS FOK

Thomas Firth fk Sons' Cast Steel, Files.

Mill. Picks, Sludges, Hammers, Picks,

Stone Cutters', Blacksmiths' and Horse-Shoers' Tools,

Have removed to 13 and 15 Fremont street, near

Market, San Francisco.

IUyUut

MACHINERY AGENCY.

W. O. M. BERRY & CO.,

Are tlie manufacturers' agents for Richardson, Mcrrlam
& Go's celebrated

Wood Working Machinery,

Embracing every description of Planers, Matchers and
Mortisers. Moulding, Tenoninj, Boring, Shaping, Verticnl
and Circular Ke-vuving Maeiunes; scroll. Railway Cut-off
and Rip Saws, etc., e.c. Agents lor the Swain-cot Go's

Improved Portable Engines,
Warranted fully enual to any in the market; Davis & Pur-
ser's Woo en Machinery; Blake's Patent Steam Pumps;
Kiluurn*. mid War mi's turbine Water wheels etc , etc.

Orders fur Machinery of any kind will receive prompt
attention Machines for special purposes built 10 order.
Semi for Illustrated Catalogue W. u. M. BEuKYT & CO ,

Svlei- m IU California st., dan Francisco.

Notice to 3XIu.er'fi59

Well-Borers and Water Companies.

MPRAG 13 NOW PREPARED TO MANUFACTURE
. Hydraulic and Artesian Weil Pipes in the best work-
manlike manner, and at the lowest market rates. Saving
male large additions to ray stock of machinery for that
branch of business. 1 am prepared to till all orders with dis-
patch, and guarantee entire satisfaction. I also manufac-
ture -Mississippi Stoves, oi the latest improved patterns, for
vessels of all classes. Also, Ship Plumbing done.

8vl3-lj Stove Store, No. 1 Clay street, below Davis.

CALIFORNIA TOOL WORKS,

Blacksmith and Machine Shop,

143 XScule St., feet. Mission and Howard,

SAN FBANCISCO.

All kinds of Edge or other Tools made to order. Par-
ticular attention paid topu ting in order AGRECi El URAL
MACHINERY. Job Grinding and Polishing by steam.
Orders from the Country promptly] attended to. Jfc^-All
work warranted.

21vl7-qy J. WEICHHAKT, Proprietor.

PATENT

Boiler Scraper and Tube-Cleaner.

IT IS THE CHEAPEST, MOST
durable, easiest to adjust, and
cleanest apparatus to use tor the
purpose designed, yet offered to
the public. Being constructed on
simple and mechanical principles,
it is not liable to get out of order,
and will continue to perform its
office untilthe materials are worn
out. It can readily be adjusted,
even hy any inexperienced per-
son— will scrape off i he scales and
cleanse the tubes just as smooth
and clean as they were wiien
new, -without in the least affecting
their innersurface, as the Elliptic
Spring Scraper has a smooth
square edge, and springs in or out
to fit the tubes. It is particularly
applicable for steamboat boilers
when muddy water is used.

A continuous iron rod runs
ihrough the center of the top and
bottom hubs. The soft steel scrap-
ers are fastened with screws to
the hubs, under the caps, which
cover and protect the screws that
fasten the scrapers on the hub.
The scrapers are expanded or con-
tracted bv screwing or unscrew
jug the lower hub,— flrstloosening
the cap. There is a collar on the
rod to prevent the scrapers being jammed. An clastic or
flexible brush or scraper, made of leather, rubber, or some
pliable material, is attached to the nut for the purpose oi
removing from the tube the scale and dust loosened by the
aciion of the :-crapers .

These scrapers are made from one to six inches m diam-
eter—the prices of those from one to three inches ranginsr
from S5 io S12. They are now extensively used in the
E stern States. Quite a number have already been sold in
this State. „

For sale by McAfee, Spiers & Co , boiler makers, Howard
street, between Fremont and Beale, San Francisco, and at
the Union Foundry, Sacramento. E. M. D-, P. O. box 17,
San Francisco, Manufacturers' Agents. 24vl7tf

BLAKE'S PATENT

S T E A. M PUMP!

This Pi mn is warranted superior to any in the market,
for Breweries, Sugar H. uses. Tanneries, Boiler- Feeders,
Steamboats, Mining and Fire purposes, etc. It throws a
full stream or the thickest beer mash without clogging,
and sugar svrup boiling hot without difficulty.

Warranted a positive Pump under all circumstances; it
never stops nor eels out of order, and by reason if the pa-
tent device in (he valves, is kept clear and always ready
for action. It is SIMPLE, COMPACT and POWERFUL,
and needs no expert to run it.

03-Ifone fails to do the work Tor which it is sold, it may
he returned and the money will be refunded. May be seen
in operation at Ri.mIod's, or Union Iron Works, or at
W. O. M. B KRUY «& CO'S,
Agents for Pacific States,

8vl8-3m 11 4 California street, san Francisco.

GLASGOW
Iron and Metal Importing Company

\os. 25 and 37 Fremont street*

SAN FRANCISCO,

Keep constantly on hand a la-ge stock of host Bar and
Bundle Iron, Boiler Tubes, Plate and Sheet Iron, Gas and
Water Pipe, Anvils. Cast Steel, Gas and Water Fitting"
which they offer to the trade on liberal terms.

21vIfi-Hm W. McCRINDLE, Manage.

IPA/XOEIVT BIGHT

— FOR —

MANUFACTURING PHOOF SPIRITS

FOB SALE.

• Attention Is called to MARTIN'S NEW PATENT for a
process for Distilling Alcohol (35 per cent, or higher), with-
out rectifying, which is offered for sale on favorable terms.
Samples may be seen, and further information obtained, at
No. 4S3 Washington street.
2Gvl7 E. M. DEWET.

CIGAR AND CIG-ARETTE
K oiler and W rapp e r ,

Thisuaeiui little article is the GREATEST INVENTION
of the age for the benefit of smokers, i educing the cost of
Cigars and Cigarettes io the mere cost of the Tobacco. Very
convenient io carry in the P .ckrt, producing no smell, and
adapted to the use of any tobacco. In two size.-, and three
styles— Japanned, Brass, and Silver-plated. Sample ma-
chines, with IUO wrappers, sent free or postage on receipt
of$2. The highest urize awarded at the Fair of the Amer-
ican Institute, -cptember and Member, 1867 For particu-
lars, address U. C. Witt, 57 Cedar street, New York.

Beware of infringements. All genuine have my name
printed on the bands.

E. M. DEWEY, Agent for Pacific States, 433 Washington
street, San Francisco. 24vl7-fam

Electbotyff. Engravi-nhs, Cdts, Etc— Our Job Printing
Office is abundantly supplied with elegant engravings, or
namculs, and otner embellishments ts suit the various
branches of industry in this State

Trades and Manufactures.

WM. BARTLING.

UENIlY KIMBALL.

BAHTLING & KIMBALL,
BOOItBINXJEItS,

Paper Bulers and Blank Book Manufacturers.

505 Clay street, (southwest cor. Saiisome),
I5vl2-3m SAN FKANCISCO.

JTOITIS" DANIEL,

(SUCCESSOR TO O. GORl)

MARBLE WORKS,

No. 421 Pine st. bet. Montgomery and Kearny, San Francisco

Slant els, Monuments, Tombs, Plnmbers' Slabs
Etc., On hand and Manufactured to order,
a®- Goods shipped to all parts of the State. Orders re
speetfulli solicited. 5v8-3m

Palmer's Patent

ARTIFICIAL LEG-,

Manufactured in Philadelphia, Penn.
JARTIS JEWETT, AGEST.

218 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. lOvS-lm

J. M. STOCKMAN,

Manufacturer of

(Over W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry,
S. E. Corner of Mission and Fremont sis.,

6vl4tf SAN FRANCISCO.

J. F. PAG-ES,

© IE A. I^ E IV G R. A. "V E It ,

AKD LETTER CUTTER,

Brass and Steel Stumps and Dies, 60S Sacramento street,

San Francisco. Urders bv express promptly attended to.
6vl6

DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITURE.
JOHNSON~& BEST,

Manufacturers of ail kinds of

IDeslcs and. Office Furniture,

717 Market street, near Third.

Warernoms up siairs. A large variety of Desks always on

hand; all kinds ot Olllee Furniture and Cabinei

Work made to order.

lSvljqr

Novelty and Usefulness Combined.
Wilson's Prepared Solder

Dispenses with the Soldering Iron.

It 'will sjive you uutu ume and labor, une bottle of this
Solder will mend all the tins you have laid one side lor
months, and make them good as new. Get them out and
mend them. It is cheap— only 50 cents a bottle; it is con-
venient and compact. Use any kind of Innip that has a
blaze no larger than a single wick; aspirit lamp will make
nn smoke. You mav mend a dish or can over the best table
without fear of spoiling it. Try it. and you will never want
a soldering iron in the house again What a saving
to farmers. No more slopping up of holes in milk pans
with a rag. Milkmen can mend their own cans. It
docs the prettiest job on any ariicle you have in the house,
from a pint di-sh to a wash boiler It is a sure thing to siick
when resin and solder will not. It will stand heat as well
as nnv solder ever used over lire

Agency tor the Paciric Coast, Room N'o- 10, No. 423 Wash-
ington street, San Francisco. AGENTS WANTED.

Address P. O. box 17. 23vl7tf

LEA & PERRINS'

CRLfcSlttTED

WOBCBSTEBSHIRB SAJCJCE

Declared by connoiscurs
to be the only
«oo» SAUCE. •a

— s

The success of this most g
delicious and unrivalled r-
condiment having caused
certain dealers to apply the name of "Wnr-
cestershire Sauce to their own inferior
compounds, the public is hereby informed
that the only way to secure the genuine,
is to ask for

l*ea *C' Ferrlns* Sauce,

and see that their names are upon the
wrapper, labels, stopper, and bottle. pj

So. ne of the lorelfjn markets havine been nj
supplied with a spurious Worcestershire O
Since, upon the wrapper and labels of
which the names of Lea and Perrins have been forsed. L
and P. give notice that they hive furnished iheir corres-.
pendents wilh power of attorney to t. ike instant proceed-
ings against Manufacturers and Vendors id" such, or any
oilier imitations bv which their right mav be infringed.

AskforljEA A PRRU1NS' Sauce, and see name on :he
Wrapper, Label, Bottle, and Stopper,

Wholesale and for Export bv llle Proprietors. Worcester;
Orosse & Hlackwell, London, etc.. elc; and by (Jrocers and
Oilmen universally. Agents, CROSS & CO., San Fran-
cisco. 3vt8-ly

Our Patent Asency.

The Patent Agency of the Mining anp Scientific Press
has been sigualized with remarkable success during the
past few years. The importance to the inventive genius of
this coast of a thorough and reliable agency forthesolicita
tion of Letters Patent from the United States and foreign
Governments cannot be over-rated.and the Proprietors of the
Press, feeling the responsibility which restsupon tiiein, and
the reward which must follow the faithful performance of
their trusts, will take care to afford inventors every advan-
tage to be secured to them through a competent and re-
sponsible agency upon this coast.

[Written for the Mining and ScienllUc Press.

Idaho Correspondence.

TUBA.

Editoes Pbess :— 1\1>. Matthew Graham,
the original vendor of the mines owned by
the Lucy Phillips Gold and Silver Mining
Company, has lately struck the Atlanta
lode on the 5th easterly extension — east of
Montezuma Gulch, and about IK miles
easterly from where the Monarch Company
have been taking out the rich ore, — referred
to in the Press a few weeks since, — the
same streak or vein is found, thus showing
that the Atlanta is a lode for at least 1%
miles. This will cause intervening owners
to renew their exertions to develop this ex-
traordinary lode, which, without any other
ledge, is enough to build a town there;
but the owners of the Varieties are also de-
veloping a lode very rich in gold. The
Minerva Company have their tunnel in
nearly 200 feet, and find a valuable vein,
and other lodes referred to, all sufficient to
satisfy any one but such as are not willing
to be convinced, that the prophecy hereto-
fore made, that in three years Yuba will
rival Owyhee, will ere long be a fixed
fact.

Although a good many are leaving here
for White Pine, yet they almost invariably
say, ,they will go and see that place and re-
turn here after a time. Few, if any of
those who "weathered" the first hard
times of this country but have a firm faith
in it that cannot be shaken by any White
Pine or Grant districts.

BOISE VALLEY.

Farmers are plowing and sowing, and the
feeling is that large crops must be put in
the ground; but little fear is felt of grass-
hoppers (the pest of two years past) as the
eggs left here last year are, -from examina-
tion, generally supposed to be barren..

SNOW AND PLACEB MINING.

The snow that has fallen in the mountain
districts is very hard, being well packed,
and the recent heavy storms have so far
added to the earlier well-packed snow, that
the miners are looking forward to a very
favorable season for placer mining, and
those of Boise Basin are therefore in cor-
respondingly good spirits.

The Granite Bar claims, on Boise Biver,
ten miles above this city, will be in opera-
tion in a few days, and we shall soon learn
if Ada is to come into the circle of placer
mining counties.

VELOCIPEDES.

Our enterprising blacksmiths, Maupin
and Carlton, have made two velocipedes,
the first with two, and the second one with
three wheels; but few, if any here, under-
stand the former. They can not be made
at less than from $60 to $100 each, in gold.

TBUTHS ABOUT THE TRADE OF THE
INTERIOR.

"Whilst the Cahfornians are striving for
the trade of the interior, let them hear a
few wholsome truths. Before July, mer-
chandize can be brought here from Chi-
cago, or even New York, for about §53.75
per ton weight, in very little more time
than from San Francisco. Our merchants
can buy cheaper East, of everything, ex-
cept East Indian and China produce, and
can get a reasonable time on the goods.
San Francisco time has always been sixty,
and never over ninety days, without inter-
est, and after that time, as high rates as tlie
law would allow, and the Ocean and River
Steam monopolies have made freights come
to be pretty near — as our Teutonic friend at
Colville, W. T.,said, (in 1859) when, in de-
manding twenty five cents for a needle, the
purchaser (a French Canadian ) inquired :
" Why, what makes a needle so dear?" "It
is not the firsht cosht," replied the Teuton,
" dat is noting; it is the cash monish for
the freights — dat ish h — 11. "

INDIAN DEPART1TENT CONTRACTS.

To-day, some contracts for the Indian
Department were let, amongst them, $60,-
000 as freight from here to Fort Hall,
about 250 miles, at $97.80 per ton — in Le-
gal Tender Notes — to Mr. Hardy, and as
he will load back either with the Oneida
salt, or else go to the B. R. for a load, it
will pay him well.

WINTER ROADS AND INTERIOR COMMUNICA-
TION.

The roads are all good east of us, whilst
westward are the Sierras on the California
route, and the Blue Mountains on the Co-

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lumbia River root*?, but tlielatter have been
njn-n all winter, ifor Bix winters past] with
ODe abort exception only, whilst the Sier-
ras get blocked, even in spite of snow
sheds, etc. If California wants to keep the
trade of the interior, they innst offer far
preater indncemente to the merchants of
Washington, Idaho, an.l Montana, than they
have ever yet done. "A word in time to
the wise." Pi .asos.

Boise City, I. T., Feb. 28d, 1869.

How White Pise TNcoitroiuTioss are
Foi:mi.i>. — Man; of our readers, perhaps,
have wondered how and by what means I lie
public wero so frequently and thoroughly
" bilked," to use a familiar term, into pat-
ronizing " wild-cat" schemes during every
mining excitement. " Being once bit the
bitten turns upon the biter," is an old say-
ing, which in this case at least seems to
fail; but like the swine spoken of in holy
writ ho returns to his wallow to be again
sacrificed by the speculator. The Treasure
City correspondent of tho Austin Reveille
gives ns a slight insight into tho modus op-
erandi as follows :

We are informed that the Knox Tunnel
Co. has been incorporated in San Francisco
with a capital of not less than one million.
This tunnel was located about ten days ago
on the east side of the hill, and, so far, two
days' work has been done on it. In fact
the parties locating have selected a place
where a tunnel can be run — then incorpor-
ated. It is a fact within my knowledge,
that the notice of location of this tunnel
■was not recorded until yesterday, and that,
after the parties beard that the same was
incorporated. The speed of this claim,
when compared with a land office business,
■would be like running a locomotive against
a jackass. No doubt they will be taking
out chloride next week, although the tun-
nel will have to be run 1,000 feet to strike
it. This tunnel scheme is almost as good
a joke as the location of the Slim Jim claim,
and that is too good to be lost. We give
it as it occurred.

The Slim Jim ledge, so called, is some-
where between this and the Eberhaadt and
on the side of the hill. About one month
ago a party of capitalists were coming up
the hill ; before them they noticed a man
with a crooked stick in his hands walking
back and forth like a soldier on his beat.
Coming up to him they inquired what be
was doing? He informed them with the
utmost confidience that he bad found the
"old he" ledge. Then he twisted himself
into a thousand shapes, walked back and
forth, and showed them that when he came
to a certain place, his rod would turn in
bis bands, thus indicating beyond all doubt
that he had found the " old he one." Some
of the others tried it, but owing to the want
of faith or something else, it would not
work in their hands. He said he was about
to make the location. They told him they
wanted a chance in it. After considerable
negotiations, on learning who they were,
he consented. They at once paid four bits
apiece to have it recorded. When they got
home, they commenced to form plans to
get their money back. Their fertile brains
invented the following plan : when a cap-
italist comes they call his attention to the
claim, and inform him that so many feet
can be had of a certain party. He bites ;
a few feet are sold for a small sum, as au
accommodation. On this plan it has nearly
all changed hands, and now some of it is
held by some of the wealthiest men in the
State of California, who, I suppose, think
they have a big thing.

CALIFORNIA

BUSINESS UNIVERSITY,

204 M.»ntg;oinery Street.

Full particulars reeardiiuro ir Practical bourse of Studies
may lie hud by culling tit iln< Univ.M-.siiy, ur by undressing
ifvU-nyll\} E. 1\ HEALtD, Sail KrailClsco.

DEWEY & CO.,

American and Foreign Patent Agents,

Messrs. Dkwky&Co., Publishers «f tho MINING AND SCI-
BNTLKIOPKK&Mheuiily wtli e-tabluhed successful Patent
Agents west ur t lie Rockv Mountains, filvc Inventor and Pa-
jentces honest and reliable huvIcc. iree The i*utcnt Ku-i-
itesi In nil lis legitimate branches l<i transacted by us intel-
ligently and skillfully, in an aide anil Mruiirlniorward
mimnur. Patents secured In EVERY COUNTRY IN THE
WORGD where Patent Lawscxlst. Being lorn; established,
and transacting a large business, our anpolntracn sure now
thorough throughout, sate, prompt and responsible. Con-
sultations by Idler or otherwise, are keiu invjotatcly se-
cret. Circulars containing inkokmatio.n von invuntgrs sent
free. Valuable invent Ions, patented through our agency,
will be Illustrated or explained through the :olumns of the
Mining and Scientific Preen, a journal most widely circulated
throughout the Pacific Coast, among mechanics, miners,
manufacturers, and commercial men.

Inventors on the Paeillc Coast, located at great distance
from the Patent Otllcc, of all others, should be careful to
av ud inexperienced, dishonest, or otherwise unreliable
aud it responsible agents.

DEWEY & CO.,

w. n. EWER.

HOOT'S PATENT FORCE BLAST ROTARY BLOWER.

Patented Nov. 1»t, 1864; July B4, 1NCG ; and Oct. 9, 1S6G.

A-WCurded the First Premium at tHe l?aris Exposition.

REQUIRES

JTifty Pep Cent.

LESS POWER

Than any Blower

Steamships

One of these Blowers may be seen on exhibition at TV. T, Garratt's Brass Foundry, corner of
Mission and Fremont streets. They are also in use at the At mat-ten Quicksilver Mine ; Gridley's
Foundry, Gold Mill, Nevada; ./Eina Iron Works, San Francisco, and many other places.

Caution. — Purchasers will find it to their advantage to apply direct to the Stockton Agency, as
certain parlies, not authorized to manufacture the Blower, have put in the market machines of inferior
construction, which do not answer all the requirements of the genuine article.

For circulars and further information, address

KEEP & BARG-ION,

4vlG3ra Globe Iron Works, Stockton, Cnl.

PAINE & STEPHENS'
IMPEOVED CONCENTRATOR,

For Saving Gold and Silver Sulphurct..

One Machine, costing about $1,300, is sufficient to work t!»e Sands from 35 to 30 Stamps,

Less power being required than for any other Machine. The attention of qua-tz millmen throughout
the State is directed to the subjoined certificates, and if they desire they can visit the Amador Mir.ing
Co's mill, near Sutter Creek, the Eureka Co's mill at Grass Valley, or tho Banner Co's mill near
Nevada, and see for themselves.

OERTIFCATES :

Grass Valley, Jan. 4th, 1869.— This is to certify, that wo have used tho Paine, Stephens &
Harry Concentrators for over twelve months. They have given us entire satisfaction, and are the
best we ever used. WILLIAM WATT. Supt. Eureka Mine.

This is to certify, that we have had in use for the past 18 months one of Paine, Stephens & Co's
Sulphuret Saving Machines, constructed by John T. Harry, (called a huddlej and which operates
satisfactorily, particularly so in saving line sulphurets, and we recommend it as well worthy of use,
even where other Concentrators arc used above it, as it will pay if there are any sulphurets.

WM. L. TISDALE, Supt. Star Spangled Banner Mine.

Nevada Citt, Oct. 26, 1868.

Any one wishing to purchase one of these useful machines, can do so by applying to THOS.
N. PAINE, at Grass Valley, Nevada County, or JOHN T. HARRY, Sutter Creek,
Amador County.

I3vi6t(nr

Metallurgy.

MOSHEIMEK'S

PIONEER MINING SCHOOL,

— AKO—
UETALLVRGIC WORKS.

Having established the first Practical Mining and Metal-
lurgical School In tlie I'liMcd States, I would call the at-
tention of o;entlemen who may wish to obtain npniclual
knowledge of

Chemistry, Assaying and Metallurgy,

That I am prepared to teach all the above branches in lesa
time than In anv Eu opcan School.

I also undertake to assay aud work any kind of ore, or
mineral substances.

For terras; apply to jos. MosnElHGR,

TracHcal Chemist and Metallurgist
Omce, 323 Montgomery street; Mcialluiglc Works. 2005
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New Incorporations.

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this city as follows:

White Pine Beai, Estate, Eoad and
"Water Co. — White Pine, Nev., March 1st.
Capital Stock, 81,000,000; 10,000 shares,
§100 each. Trustees: J. ft[. McDonald, W.
P. O'Neal, M. S. McDonald, Jno. Skae and
David Pay.

Obispo Mining Co. — White Pine, Nev.,
March 1st. Capital stock, §720,000; 7^00
shares, §100 each. Trustees, Thomas H.
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400 shares, §100 each. Trustees: Thomas
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ache.

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12,000 shares, §100 each. Trustees, A. K.
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Williams, W. G. Doolittle, Chas. D. Wheat,
P. B. Wilde and S. Littleneld.

HUNGERFORD'S IMPROYED CONCENTRATOR,

For Saving Gold, Sulphurets, Quicksilver, etc.

Eelction op Officers. — Golden Char-
iot Mining Co. San Prancisco, March 1st.
President, J. D. Pry; Vice-President, Chas.

E. McLane; Treasurer, Wells, Pargo & Co. ;
Superintendent, P. S. Buekmaster; Secre-
tory, Joseph L. King; Trustees: J. D. Fry,
G. W. Beaver, Thos. Cole, Jr., W. Ash-
burner, M. J. McDonald, Hill Beachy and
Chas. E. McLane.

California Beal Estate Association.
San Francisco, March 3d. A. J. Shrader,
President; H. Koster, Vice-President; T. P.
Biordan, Treasurer; Wm. Monahan, Secre-
tary. Directors: A. J. Shrader, H. Kjster,
Wm. Monahan, T. P. Biordan, David Lan-
ders, Michael Meagher, Owen McMahon,
Denis O'Leary and Herman Zadig.

Virginia S. M. Co.— White Pine, Nev.
Trustees: Wm. H. Sharp, J. M Byrne, L.

F. Loveland, A A Whitney and Mark Mc-
Donald. President, Win. H. Sharp; Secre-
tary, John Perrie; Treasurer, L. J?. Love-
land.

Daney Mining Co. — San Francisco,
March 4th. Trustees: H. F. Cutter, A.
Cameron, Jas. Patterson, J. D. Fry and J.
C. Wade.

Depth and Origin of Donneb Lake.
Mr. Cadwallader, of the Central Pacific
Bailroad, has sounded Donner Lake to the
depth of 1,600 feet without finding bottom.
It is surmised that the lake occupies the
site of a crater of an extinct volcano; but
as the entire country is granite, this cannot
have been a crater of the ordinary volcanic
kind. Lake basins in granite do not take
the circular shape of those owing their ori-
gin to volcanic craters. Though granite is
usually considered to be eruptive rock, its
elevation into mountains and the manner
of its eruption in the remotest ages, are
very imperfectly understood. Tahoe and
Donner were formed by similar causes.

The Miners' Conflict with the Central
Pacific Bailroad Company will be argued
in the Supreme Court next term, by
Messrs. McConnell, Hale and Hamilton, on
behalf of the miners. All the mining
camps are making contributions to sustain
their cause against the Bailroad Company.

March Overland Monthly. — The solid
articles this mouth are, " Our Manufactur-
ing Era;" " How our Chinamen are Em-
ployed;" "Art Possibilities;" "Foot-prints
of Early California Discoveries." ." Up in
the Pogonip " is replete with character.

Another Water Co., at Victoria, (V. I.,)
to be " under the sole control of the Gov-
ernment," is proposed, with a view to bring-
ing water from Elk Lake, five miles distant.

There is no description of machinery of so much importance to the mining interests of Califor-
nia, at the present time, as that for the separation of sulplmrets. Many machines have been tried,
and abandoned ; and none seems to meet the requirement of the mining iuterest so well ns that now
patented by Mr. Hungerford, which is flu improvement on the well known Huugerford & Prater Con-
centrator, with which his namo is already so familiar.

RECOMMISBATIOSSi

San Francisco, October 19th, 1SGS.
Mr. M. Hungerford — Dear Sir: — We have had twelve of your Concentrators at work at the
Oneida Mine, Amador County, for about six months. They give entire satisfaction. They are
strong and substantial, requiring, thus far, no repairs, and do their work thoroughly and effectively.
At a recent clean-up of four ol them, I found that in four weeks' time we saved about S5UU in free
gold, besides the sulphurets, or not far from one dollar per ton on the entire crushing of the ten
stamps connected with them. In my opinion, it is for the interest of every quartz mill to have your
machines. Yours, respectfully, GEORGE PRLNGLE, Supt. Oneida Mine.

Office of the Oneida Mining Compant, Jackson, May 13th 1868
Mr. Morgan Hungerford — Dear Sir: — In regard to the four Hungerford Concentra-
tors that. I bought of Messrs. Goss & Lambard last month, I will say that I put them up in the
Oneida Mill soon after I arrived here, and find that they save sulphurets well and clean, and work to
my entire satisfaction. I have tried many other concentrators, but theso stand np and work better
than any others I have used. I have ordered Messrs. Goss & Lambard to make eight more for me as
soon as possible. Very truly yours, JAMES MORGAN.

Big Oak Flat, May 25th, 1868.— .Mr. T. IF. M ulford— DearSir :— I have used two of M. Hun-
gerford's Concentrators in the Rattlesnake Quartz Mill, at this place, and find that they work full as
well as they are represented to do. E. M. SMITH, Supt.

A full description of the principle and mode of action of this pan, is described in circulars, which
will be forwarded to any party who may desire them.

The Hungerford Concentrator has only to be seen to be appreciated. No millman will use any
other kind after he has tried that. They are in active operation in mills throughout the State, and
give perfect satisfaction.

It should be borne in mind that Mr. Hungerford is the original builder and maker of the cele-
brated Prater Concentrator, and his name should be sufficient guarantee to warrant the public in ex-
amining his new machine before purchasing elsewhere.

In future these Pans will he manufactured by Goddard & Co., at the Pacific Iron Works, San
Francisco, which is a guarantee that they will be built in the most substantial manner.

These Pans may be seen at the Pacific Iron Works, First street, near Howard, San Francisco.
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VOLUME XVIII.
>niiiln-r 11.

Table of Contents.

Evans' Corrugated Rlrtlo — II

uutraled.
1111U' l- in ihu Salmon River

Country.
Back Again.

Tin Ml n in I'allforula.

'III.- Leacnlng Process.

Ill ill" ' '.'i reepoudc

Prom mi. I'tiM.i tu Vallejo.
Too uui.' I. ml jii Dutch Plul
Sulphate of Siuiul.i Dyeing.
I. rctrlcal Bxperlineuu.
Bread Milking.
Science iinil Art go hand In

I. ....1
Sir. .'H'li and Economy ol

Hydraulic Pipe.
Contribution! lor our Cabinet
I.. Mm. nun 1 " Underground

Lire "
Work at the Foundries.
Dry Barrel Amalgamation.
Wliiie Pino Items.
11 mi" 1. 1 Items.
Koaourcea mid Developments
New P .items and Inventions.
Hail l-rmicisio .Mining Suate

holders' Directory.

ilniuMi-ii Misci:t.L*ar —
An Apparatus for T.iklng

BlrdV-Bre Views; Steel in

iiie st. Louli Bridge; Oir-

turd's Injector mid .Mor-
ton's Ejector, Etc.

itaiBHTirtc iii-i'i Li-isY —
Science for Qrnne Grower*:
Cause ..I ilie Blue Color it
the Sky; The Alotal Uydro-
gen; Etc.

BnaiHRRRiMa Mi&ottLuKT.—

Calcntullng Area- , Mi.si
can lililir.iveiiielll scheme;
The Suez Canal; The Pro-
jected Mok i.ke lllll Wat-
er M'oriis: Etc.

M in 1. sgSumm Ally— Comprising
late Intelligence from ttio
various counties and dis-
tricts In 1 ,ii ni.i Brltisb

i'..iuuii.i,i. litaho, Arl/nna,
.Molitiiiiu. Nevada, dull.

San Francisco Metal .Market

San Francisco .Market Kates.

Notices to Correspondents.

Slock Prices— Bid and Asked.

New Incorporations.

Evans' Corrugated Riffle.

In our issue of October 17th, 18G8, notice
was made of the invention and patenting
of Mr. George R. Evans' Corrugated Riffle,
of which we herewith present an engraving.
The object of this very simple and prac-
tical device is to save the mercury that
leaves the battery, or other amalgamation
process, in the same manner as, and in place
of blankets, whose costly and perishable
character render them of limited applica-
tion. As the corrugated riffle of Mr. Evans
has been applied in a number of Washoe
and California mills, and as the verdict has
been invariably favorable, so far as we are
aware, a more definite representation of it
will be of interest to our readers.

The pulp from the stamp mill flows into
the riffle at E, and out at F, upon another
section similar to the one represented in
the engraving ; as many of these sections
being put together as may be thought best
suited to the locality or to the ore. It will
be seen that the riffle is a simple trough,
the front side of which is left out in the
engraving, having a corrugated bottom,
and a slit, as at A, in every alternate corru-
gation, the object of which is to let the
mercury and concentrated uacticles of ore
through into the reservoirs below. The
latter are little more than reservoirs, as
they stand full of water when the appa-
ratus is in operation, retaining all the heav-
ier particles, while the lighter ones are
overflown or carried from one into the other,
and off. The corrugation semi-circles in
the upper trough are 3 inches in diameter ;
and the dimensions for a trough suitable for
a 20-stamp mill are 2 feet in width and
about 30 feet in length. If such a con-
trivance will, as is claimed, perform the
same work as three times that length of
blankets, or even the same length, it is evi-
dent that the latter must speedily be super-
seded.

The effect of this semi-circular corruga-
tion is that the particles of ore are so tossed,
rolled and ground against each other, as to
be alternately under the sway of. the cur-
rent, and thrown off successively into a
series of eddies. An idea of the manner
in which even light particles, like splinters
of wood, are revolved in these frothing
eddies, can be obtained only by witnessing
the operation. After returning into the

eddy five or six times, depending upon the
quantity of water let on, the splinter finally
receives an impetus from the current which
carries it over into the next corrugation,
where the tossing aud grinding are re-
peated. Any other shaped riffle than that
of semi-circular corrugation, encounters
the difficulty of caking, rendering useless
the amalgamated copper surface, as well as
much of the mechanical advantage of the
riffles, by filliug them up.

The following result of a practical test,
as given by a correspondent of the Herald,
we subjoin :

The Superintendent of the Rhode Island
Mill, Virginia City, in experimenting with
this improved concentrator, placedjit at the
cud of the line of sluices attached to the
mill, thus making it third in the chain of
apparatus for saving the gold and silver,
and obtained good results. This mill re-
duces about CO tons of ore per day, in the
working of which there is a loss of between
75 aud 100 pounds of quicksilver. The
sluices catch about ten per cent, of this loss

months. The owners of the patent are
George R. Evans, the inventor, S. P. Tay-
lor, 3 ohu White and Charles Cousins. The
agent is S. P. Taylor, 416 Clay street, San
Francisco.

Tin Mining in California.

The San Jacinto Tin Mining Company,
which was recently organized in this city
for the purpose of mining for tin at the
locality popularly known as the Temescal
Tin mines, some fifty miles east of Los
Angeles, have now some thirty men em-
ployed in raising ore and opening up the
mine, preparatory to still more extensive
operations. A very rich streak of ore has
been developed, from which about thirteen
tons have already been delivered in this
city. One hundred sacks were received by
the last steamer from Los Angeles. The
ore, as fast as received, is being crushed,
pulverized and concentrated at the Union
Foundry. It is first broken up to nut size

EVANS' PATENT CORRUGATED RIFFLE.

from the pans, thus reducing the absolute
loss to from 67% to 40 pounds per day.
The first two days' run was so astonishing
in its results that he thought there must
have been some unusual leak connected
with the pans, and therefore at once made
a thorough examination and clean-up, but
found nothing wrong. He then made an-
other run of twelve hours with this con-
centrator attached, setting them at an in-
clination of one inch to the foot. The
result was three common water-buckets
full of rich sulphurets saturated with glo-
bules of quicksilver, while at the bottom
of each bucket was a pool of the bright
metal. There were at least 25 pounds of
quicksilver in these three buckets, which
of course contained a quantity of amal-
gam.

Evans7 riffle may be seen in operation at
the Nevada, Ogden and Rhode Island
mills, in the vicinity of Virginia City. It
has been ordered for a number of Cali-
fornia mills, and also for Lower California.
In silver rnilla it is next in order to the set-
tler, and does away with the necessity for
an agitator. In gold mills it forms a very
excellent apron, — an important part in such
a mill. It will also serve as a concentrator
for sulphurets, saving the very lightest sul-
phuret particles. On the score of durability
it is superior to blankets, in lasting about
five years, while blankets will decay
and become useless in from three to six

in a rock-breaker, after which it is reduced
to a very exceeding degree of fineness in
one of Hnnt's Improved Ball Crushers — a
machine something similar to those in use
for pulverizing quartz on the Mariposa Es-
tate. After being thus pulverized the pulp
will be concentrated by Hunter'B concen-
trators.

The ore as delivered in this city averages
from 12 to 15 per cent, of tin, and after
being pulverized, is concentrated up to
about 70 per cent. In this condition itwill
be taken to Mosheimer's Works, at the foot
of Powell street, where a suitable furnace
has been erected for smelting and refioing
the same. The present is merely an exper-
imental test for ascertaining the value of
the ore, and tho thoroughness of the vari-
ous manipulations through which it must
pass to obtain metallic tin. About twenty
tons of ore will be subjected to this test.

The principal work now being done at
the mine is in the way of its development.
Two shafts are being sur^k, one to a depth
of 100 feet, and the other 150 feet; these
shafts will be connected with a drift 350
feet in length. From developments al-
ready made, the managers are confident that
when the shafts and drift are completed, a
body of about 125,000 cubic feet of 12
to 15 per cent, ore will be proven.

which will yield about 12,000 tons. Should
these anticipations be realized, an ex-
tensive plant of works will bo immediately
erected at the mine, and tin mining will be
inaugurated in earnest on the Pacific coast.
We shall watch with much interest, the
progress of this preliminary work, and re-
port results as soon as reached.

Since the above was written we learn that
later intelligence has been received from
the mine, stating that the vein has already
been reached in the drift now in progress
from the bottom of the 100-foot shaft.
This development renders the continuance
of rich ore in depth an ascertained fact.

Work at the Foundries.

Not as much work, in the way of mining
machinery, is in hand at the foundries at
present, as might be expected from the re-
newed interest that is generally taken in
mining since the development of so many
additional rich mines at White Pine. A
single 20-stamp quartz mill at the Union
Foundry, for the Stanford Brothers at White
Pine, is the only order of the kind that we
have heard of ; though a number of other
mills are on the tapis. A great number of
old Washoe mills are being transported
eastward.

At the the Fulton Foundry there is in
hand a sawmill for Crossman & Co. , Red
Bluffs; a flouring mill for Coghill, Harrison
Fogus, or the "Reno Mill Co." at Reno,
which is to have two run of stones
a steam engine, 12x24, for a sawmill at
Fisk's mill, Sonoma Co., ordered by F.
Heinike.

At the Risdon Iron Works, there is do-
ing a great deal of steamship work, besides
a propeller double engine for the Dry Dock
Co. , 22-inch cylinder and two feet stroke ;
another of the same size and kind for a tug
for Capt. Kentfield; two boilers for the
steamer Brisk, belonging to A. A. Cohen,
for Oakland'Ferry Co. ; a steamer engine,
24x24, for another party; two engines, 22x5,
for a side-wheel steamer for Capt. Tyler ;
new shafts for the steamer New World, of
the valley railroad route; and repairs are
being made on the steamers Senator, Ante-
lope, China, Idaho, Princess, Constitution,
the propeller California, etc. Mr. Moore,
of the Risdon Works, has gone to England
for the purpose of acquiring all that is new
in the iron working art, and the company,
having purchased thirty acres of ground on
the Potrero, near the Rclling Mill, are
about to erect new works of a capacity and
with facilities that will be suited to the
times. Mr. Cummings is the acting super-
intendent, in the place of Mr. Moore.

Arizona. — Charles Gentile, the photo-
grapher, has issued the prospectus of an
illustrated work on Arizona ; its Scenery,
Climate, Geology, Natural Productions,
Inhabitants, Present Condition, and Pros-
pects in the Future.

The Union Pacific Railroad was com-
pleted on the 20th to within seven miles of
the mbiith'of Weber Canon, which is vir,-
tuaUy^o' Salt &:\!,e(

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Commun ications.

Ltt this Depahtmhnt we invite tlie frkk discos3ion of all
proper subjects— correspondents alone being responsible for
the Mens and theories they advance.'

Written for the MTiiing and Scientiflc Press

Permanent Mining in the Salmon Kiver
Country.

Idaho Co., I: T., Jan. 25th, 1869.
Editors Pbess: — Having been a con-
stant reader of the Pbess during a year
past, I inter from the character of its col-
umns that you would not object to mining
items, even from the far-off North Idaho.
The Peess has occasionally during the year
contained clippings from the Lewiston
Journal, and from the Portland dailies, per-
taining to our mines, but not enough has
been anywhere published to furnish you
■with any clear, full and distinct conception
of our district.

GEOGRAPHICAL.

Our district comprises a basin in the Sal-
mon River range of mountains, and is
bounded north by the main Salmon river,
east by what is known as South Salmon,
and south by a western tributary of South
Salmon, which takes its rise within about
four miles of the main Salmon, so that the
waters of said river flow nearly around our
district. Our area is about equal to that of
a circle whose diameter is twenty miles.
Near the center of this area are located
what have long been known as the

WARRENS PLACER MINES.

These were discovered in the summer of
1862, the year of the great stampede to
Florence, or what was then termed the Sal-
mon River mines. The Warrens placers
have been worked with much success every
year since their discovery, between .the
months of April and November. The qual-
ity of the gold produced has even indicated
the presence of silver, ranging in value
from $10 to $14 per ounce. The hills and
gulches within the basin are densely cov-
ered with a small growth of mountain pine,
which grows straight and tall, and com-
paratively free from limbs till near the top,
so that these forests can easily be pene-
trated by prospectors.

VEIN MINING.

Not till the summer of 1866, was there
any stir in this district worthy of note,
in relation to quartz, although the hills
and gulches around the placers abound in
rich deposits of drift gold and silver-bear-
ing quartz. In June of that year the quartz
attracted the attention of the miners so
much that not less than 100 apparently dis-
tinct veins of gold and silver-bearing quartz
were discovered, and upwards of 5,000
claims were located and recorded upon
them. In the summer and fall of 1867, two
mills were brought into the district. One
of them was set in motion in November of

of the earth in this vicinity to the depth of
fifty or sixty feet evinces the result of vio-
lent changes and commotions of former
ages. What may be disclosed at the depth
of a few hundred feet, no one can tell at
present. Most of the veins are so situated
that they cannot be drained to the depth of
from one hundred to five hundred feet by
drifts. The whole country around the cen-
ter of this basin is a succession of hills
and eulches of gentle grade, _ rising one
above the other as we recede, till we reach
the crest of the range of mountains, which
border immediately on the Salmon rivers.

DEMAND FOR EXPERIENCED MEN.

Our district as described in general
terms, may awaken some interest in your
readers, though with the astonishing rich-
ness of the White Pine district and its sur-
roundings, as portrayed from time to time
in the Press and other journals, we can
hardly expect to excite the multitude, who
are eager to get rich quick. But we do
want some experienced quartz miners here,
and some first-class quartz millmen; and
we want capital to develop our mines, and
we think that when capital is liberally and
judiciously invested in the quartz of this
district, and under the contract of skillful
quartz operators, it will give as steady and
constant interest as the White Pine invest-
ments, though the percentage may not be
so large in some cases.

DISTANCES AND COMMUNICATIONS.

We are distant from Boise City 140
miles, with a good natural wagon road the
entire distance, save about twenty-five
miles, and we expect that when that branch
of the Pacific Railroad, of which tbe Press
makes mention, extends to Ruby City, we
will be a near neighbor to the denizens of
your city of San Francisco. The twenty-
five miles of road which requires to be
built, would be through a natural gap in
the mountains to the head of the Payette
lakes.

Will not some San Franciscau, who has
capital to invest, and who has the leisure
for the trip, take a stroll up this way next
summer, and see that we do not overrate
things here? We look to the people of
your State, and to the capitalists of your
city, for taking ventures in all extensive
mining enterprises, for their experience
must have made them more sagacious than
others, and less liable to fail. A. L.

The Leaching Process.

APPLIED TO SILVER ORES AT THE RISING STAR
MILL.

Editors Press:— Some representations
in regard to the results of leaching silver
ores at the Rising Star mine, brought into
circulation by some friends of mine in Vir-
ginia (Nev.), induce me to request you to
insert the following few lines of rectifica-
tion. The gentlemen referred to under-
take to explain; a process the nature of
which they are not able to comprehend,
simple as it is. It is objected that "all
the silver is leached out together with the
base metals, and lost."

that vear. The other commenced opera- . , ,

tions in January 1868. These mills have celve instantly (provided there is no special
reduced ores from about fifteen of these purpose for misrepresentation) that the dif-
veins, mostly as tests of the veins, for free ficult problem of treating refractory silver
gold, more than half of which have dis- ores is solved at onee. But ag it is> tuo
closed average ore yielding upwards of $30 , ., .. .... t . , ,.

per ton, and some over $175 per ton in "Monde of silver still refuses to be dis
gold. Of the other veins discovered and solved in hot water, even to oblige those
yet unprospected by the mills, it is impos- gentlemen.

sible to determine the value. Fire assays In the jfININQ AND Scientific Press of

of samples from a large number of them T „ . ., r • j u _ „ti <.

warrant the hope that they will prove Jan. 2d, it was explained how a small part

equally rich. Fire assays of samples from of the chloride of silver can be dissolved,

the silver veins show from $50 to $7,000 to and carried out with the leaching water.

the ton, but as yet the mills here have made The quantity varies from y, to 1% per

but little effort to work for silver. In fact, depending on the quantity of salt,

they have not the appliances for working *""""' ™"r" , ,., . ,.

silver ore with success, and furthermore and intensity of heat applied m roasting.

we have not among our miners men practi- This silver, although in a place where it is

cally skilled in working for silver, save a not wanted, is by no means lost ; it pre-

few who know something of the Patio pro- ci jtate3 b itself and the only trouble is

cess which cannot be successfully adapted . , . ., ' . . ., . . r , ,

in this rigid climate. 1U taking it out. Being in the state of chlo-

developments. ride, there is no difficulty in reducing it.

Onr veins, so far as developed, show a But without taking this stuff into consider-

width of from six inches to three feet of ation, the ore of the Rising Star mine is

quartz; but the deepest shaft sunk upon now worked up to 91 per cent of the

any vein in the district is seventy-five feet, fire assav yielding a metal of over .860

and the amount of quartz extracted from „ J,. . ,, , ... ,,

all the veins will not exceed one thousand fineness. This result, compared with the

tons. No vein has been exhausted in sink- previous extraction of iron without any

ing. On the other hand, most of them loss of silver in the leaching water, is as

have increased in size, with an increase of favorable as could ever be expected; and

depth of shaft. Some of them exhibit nu- the Rising Star mill has, by the aid of the

lherous breaks within the first forty or present leaching process, become, now,

fifty feet in depth; in fact, the whole crust well paying institution

[Written for tlie Mining and Scientific Press.]

From Mount Diablo to Vallejo.

Editors Press : — In my last I gave you
a detailed account of the coal mines, and
what may be seen in them. The distance
to the nearest point on the San Joaquin is
only six miles, but the mines are situated
so high up in exceedingly rugged canons
that, without the two railroads mentioned,
they would be comparatively worthless
to-day. A nearly level plain extends from
the river back to the foothills,— within a
mile of the Black Diamond Company's tun-
nels at Nortonville, — the same entering on
the northeast of the mountain and then fol-
lowing the veins to the west.

From the verge of the plain up into the
mines, a distance of a mile and a half, the
Pittsburg and Somerville railroad has the
remarkable gradient of 275 feet to the mile,
cuts through one tunnel of 300 feet, and
crosses eight large trestle bridges, the
largest being 304 feet long and 60 feet
high. As the coal cars would run down
the grade of themselves, the only point to
be considered was the construction of an
engine capable of pulling them up again
when empty.

This problem was solved satisfactorily
by (Mr. I. M. Scott,) the mechanical en-
gineer, of San Francisco. He devised and
constructed an engine weighing 17 tons,
and supplied the same with three pairs of
thirty-six inch driving wheels, and power-
ful brakes. So successful was the result
that in the construction of the Black Dia-
mond company's railroad from New York
landing to Nortonville, a grade of 305 feet
to the mile was ventured upon ; and simi-
lar engines are now running upon it with
success. The cylinder of these engines is
thirty-six inches, diameter 14x18. The
Pittsburg and Somerville railroad is 5%
miles in length ; the Black Diamond or
New York railroad is 6% miles in length.

MOUNT DIABLO QUICKSILVER MINES,

about 4% miles from Clayton in the
northeasterly flank of Mount Diablo itself
there is a quicksilver mine from which
$8,000 was extracted, the product of a sin-
gle pocket, in 1866. Further explorations
have not developed any extensive paying
deposits ; and the company at work is
scarcely able, from want of capital, to go
ahead and prospect Diablo's bowels as the
project merits. They hold on to the belief,
however, that there is a good chance in the
neighborhood to make a fortune. The
Superintendent is Capt. Harding, of Clay-
ton ; the Secretary, L Blum, of Martinez.
About thirty persons are interested in the
mine, mainly residing in different parts of
Contra Costa Co. As an evidence that
there is something in the mine worth own-
ing, it may be mentioned that the title to it
If such a result could be possible, any uas been under litigation ; but that matter
millman of limited experience would per- \ has been settled by Harding's finally buy-

idg off the adverse claimats.

A tunnel is at present being run into the
mountain 200 feet, perpendicular, below
the old tunnel. The former tunnel was in
250 feet ; the present one is in 200 feet;
and at 250 or 300 feet they expect to strike
the continuation of the pocket above men-
tioned.

Mount Diablo is at present covered with
snow.

THE GOLDEN STATE POTTERT,

at Antioch, deserves attention in passing.
Lobree & Co. are making all kinds of stone
ware, from clay obtained at Marsh's, four-
teen miles distant. Three kilns are in con-
stant operation.

PACHECO,

on Mount Diablo's bucolic plains, is a
thriving town, business of all kinds ap-
pearing brisk. I learned that H. N. Dal-
ton, the agricultural implement manufac-
turer at Pacheco, who is at present putting
up a very large agricultural implement
manufactory, has been obliged, by the in-
crease of work on his hands, to enlarge
his establishment three times. His new
works are seventy-five by about fifty
feet in dimensions, and two stories in
hight. He makes every kind of machin-
ery that is required by farmers, and is
building also a foundry in connection with
his manufactory.

The farmers on the shady side of Mount
Diablo are very busily engaged in putting
in their crops.

BENICIA,

appears to be at a stand still at present,
but faith is entertained by the citizens that
a large town will grow up, as mills and
manufacturing establishments are going
up here, and large ships can come to har-
bor conveniently.

AT VALLE.IO,

the frame work of the first elevator on
the coast is going up in great haste ; it is a
very large building, situated at South Val-
lejo. R. W. Mackie is the chief builder,
being a Chicagoan, who was specially sent
for on account of his extensive experience
in the building of elevators.

On Mare Island there are employed,
in the government shops, about 750 men,
and there is made now, in the way of ma-
chinery, everything that is required in con-
nection with the building, repairing, and
alteration of iron ships, and monitors, as
well as of wooden ships. They make their
own gas here of whale oil, which drops
into a vaporizing retort from pipes con-
nected with a reservoir in another apart-
ment.

Vailejo, March 1st, 1869. *

G. KuSTEL.

*- [Written for the Minnie and Scientiflc Press.

The Bine Lead Opened at Dutch Plat.

Editors Press: — The King Bros.' Mill
and Mining Company, of which I spoke in
my last letter, are now fairly into the lead,
and have a sight in their drift that makes
the eyes of old Californians sparkle, as in
the days of '49 (as I predicted, you will
recollect, " when they were fairly into the
channel.")

They came up with a specimen of their
cement; it is blue and yellow. The blue
is cement, and the yellow is gold. One
piece the size of a man's head, contains
about $60, and on the edge of this same
piece they scraped up over two ounces of
gold.

Having reported these magnificent
strikes, I will now give you the probable
extent of this ' ' Blue Lead " deposit at this
place. The ridge is about one and a half
miles long; that is about the distance from
the King Bros.' claims to the Buckeye; and
it has been drifted crosswise in both ends
to the distance of seven hundred feet.

A large portion of the intermediate
claims are now owned by Mr. James Teaff,
who some time ago sunk a shaft in about
the center of the ridge, and the same rich
deposit, (that is now being worked at the
two mills already in operation) is gone
through. Numbers here have been down
this shaft, Hon. E. L. Bradley, Mr. James
Gould, Mr. A Towle, and others, who, I
think, all report the same. There is gold
visible in the drift to the depth of thirty
feet from the bedrock. It is the general
opinion that this lead may be some seven-
teen hundred feet wide at this part of the
channel, as it seems to have been the recep-
tacle of several old channels making a
junction. We are bow hopeful of better
times than we have ever had here, because
the mills have proved a magnificent suc-
cess, and the King mill will clean up a
larger amount of gold than was ever had
from the same amount of labor in Placer
County, when they complete the present
run.

Mr. Teaff informs me that at present he
is unable to employ the necessay means
and machinery to work his ground from
his shaft, consequently, but a small por-
tion (comparatively) will be worked until
he is aasisted by capital, for which there is
no better chance that I know of in the
State. There is enough of this immensely
rich deposit to run twenty 20-stamp mills
for twenty-five years, and it will not be
" worked out" then.

Since writing the above, I have been
shown richer and larger pieces of cement,
just taken from the King Bros.' claims.
Two hundred dollars was obtained from a
single pan of the crushed cement, and a
number of pans contained from two to six
ounces of gold. There is a larger body of
this pay channel, as I have stated, and it
only awaits capital to open up a "golden
stream " that will eclipse the pale "chlo-
ride luster " of White Pine.

I will give a particular description of the
different strata or layers of the gravel de-
posit in the Teaff shaft, in my next, and
note some of the singularities of the same.

A. E. R.

Dutch Flat, Feb. 9th, 1869.

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Mechanical.

Apparatus run Taking Eiki
Views. — A now instrument named the
"Ophthfllmo '. word for eye) has

been devised for the above named purpose
bj a Virginia clergyman. Professor Wil-
liamson, of the Virginia Military Institute,
describes it as an "automatic magnetic
raphic camera, to be attached to a
small ball. urn and elevated, without the op-
erator, to any hight above the earth's sur-
face, when, by a clock, working on a lever,
in one form, and by an eleotro-magnet
drawing the lever, in the other form of the
invention, by the revolution of a disk at
tlio lower end of the. pendent instrument,
the camera is opened and then shut and the
photograph of the subjacent surface of the
eartli is instantly taken. At the same in-
stant that the revolving disk operated by a
coiled spring, opens the camera, the mag-
netic needle is fixed in its position by a
mesh of wire that is thrown down upon it;
and when the apparatus is drawn down by
the cords the picture is found taken, with
all the poiuts and bearings of the compass."

Professor W. says that it will be of great
use not only for making military recon-
noissances, etc., but in the explorations of
shoals, estuaries, and rivers to be made by
the Coast Survey. Aeronauts testify that
lakes, rivers and seas are transparent to a
great depth when viewed from a balloon
nt a great hight. The geological forma-
tions at the bottoms of rivers are distinctly
traceable by the naked eye from a mile's
elevation above. Thus the rocks and reefs
may actually be photographed for the mar-
iner's use; and the general in the field may
see the lay of the land for himself without
being dependent upon the report of an
aeronaut.

Steel in the St. Louis Bridge. — The
following is from the report of Mr. Eads,
the Engiueer-in-chief for tbis magnificent
work: "To insure a uniform quality and
high grade of steel at the lowest prices,
and at the same time avail myself of the
advantages of the tubular form of construc-
tion, I propose to have the steel rolled for
the arches in bars of 9 feet length and of
such form that 10 of them shall fill the cir-
cumference of a 9-inch lap-welded tube
about %-inch thick, in the manner that the
staves of a barrel fill the hoops. This
would virtually form a steel tube 9 inches
in diameter and of 6 inches bore, the steel
being about 1% inches thick, and would be
much less expensive than if the tube were
rolled or drawn in one piece. The man-
ufacture of steel in such small bars will in-
sure a more uniform quality in the metal,
and in the tube each bar will be supported
against deflection in every direction. The
tubes will be retained in their positions by
an effective system of bracing, which will
sustain the voussoirs, or pieces against
which the tubes are butted throughout the
areh. The upper and lower members of
ea h arch will each be formed of two
courses of these tubes, from end to end of
the arch, each tube having a sectional area
of 36 square inches at the summit of the
arch. As each span would be made up of
four arches, and each arch of four of these
tubes, the span would have an aggregate
sectional area at that part of 576 cubic
inches of steel."

A Glue which will Unite even Pol
ished Steel. — A Turkish recipe for a ce-
ment u?ed to fasten diamonds and other
precious stones to metallic surfaces, and
which is said to strongly unite even sur-
faces of polished steel, although exposed
to moisture, is as follows :

Dissolve five or six bits of gum mastic,
each of the size of a large pea, in as much
spirits of wine as will suffice to render it
liquid. In another vessel, dissolve in
brandy as much isinglass, previously soft-
ened in water, as will make a two-ounce
vial of strong glue, adding two small bits
of yum ammoniac, which must be rubbed
until dissolved. Then mix the whole with
heat. Keep in a vial closely stopped.
When it is to be used, set the vial in boil-
ing water.

(in 'f Ann's EmsOTOB ami Morton's Ejec-
toh — Engineering has the following : "Par-
adoxical 08 (IilVard's injector appeared, at

firs! sight, it miction admitted of clear expl rtl-
ation. In a boiler under pressure of lOOtbs.
per square inch, equal to a bead of water
of 230 feet, the water would rush out of
any opening with a velocity (were there no
friction, atmospheric resistance, or loss of
head] of about 121 feet por second. But
were an opposing jet to move with a greater
velocity it would drive back the escaping
steam and foros its own way into the boiler.
This is what happens in the injector, and
for a simple reason. A jet of steam mov-
ing with a velocity of perhaps 1,700 feet
per second is instantly condensed in per-
haps twelve times its own weight of water.
The combined jet will then move with one-
thirteenth its former velocity, or about 1-11
feet per second, the motion of the steam
being wholly imparted to the water. Thus
the jet, properly directed, enters the boiler.
"In Morton's condenser the escaping ex-
hauststeam, properly directed, is condensed
in, aud its own motion imparted to, a
jet of water previously set in motion by a
small steam-jet, and the experiments re-
corded appear to show that the lateral
action of the jet is sufficient to draw with
it all the air that collects down to a vacuum
of 12 lbs or 13 Itis. The abstraction of the
air is perhaps the only thing that is really
puzzling in the matter, uuless it be that
the very rapidity with which the stream
concentrates upon and within the passing
jet of water carries the air wholly against
or even into the jet also. But there is one
thing in the record of experiments which
requires some explanation. The uuits of
heat imparted to the injection-water were
from 2-1 to 2'9 times those contained in the
heat of condensation of the steam shown
by the indicator. Not only this, but the
steam represented by the increase of tem-
perature imparted to the injection-water
amounted to more than 60 lbs. per indicated
horse-power per hour. It might be sus-
pected that, notwithstanding the assertion
that no steam was used direct from the
boiler to keep the jet in motion, the little
regulating valve was open, and thus it
might prove that as much live steam was
used to work the condenser as to work the
engines themselves. This, however, is not
said as in any way conclusive, but as a mat-
ter requiring explanation. The new con-
denser is at least the simplest and most in-
teresting apparatus of the kind ever pro-
posed, and we sincerely hope its results
will equal in success those of the injector
itself."

Scientific . Hiscellmiy.

A Museum of the Elements of Ma-
chines.— A new plan is to be adopted in the
collecting of machine models which is to
be made for the Museum of Arts connected
with the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology. Models of the elements of ma-
chinery, and their simple combinations, are
to be procured; not the machines them-
selves. The latter are so constantly chang-
ing, by improvements of every conceivable
description, that a collection of them would
be not only of immense bulk, and extremely
expensive, but would very shortly be found
to consist in large proportion of machines
which are out of date and comparatively
valueless. Moreover, as the object of the
collection is to provide specimens for study,
it is obvious that the end is attained far
more effectually by means of models of the
manageable elementary parts than by the
more complex entire machines. It is the
characteristic portion only which is the ob-
ject of study. The elements are the roots, —
and never change essentially. The Scien-
tific American speaks of the idea as an excel-
lent one; and shows that such a collection
will be of great assistance to inventors
themselves, — serving for them the same
purpose that dictionaries and gazetteers
serve for authors. An inventor, for in-
stance, has a certain point to gain in the
detail of the construction of his machine.
A brief consultation of such a collection as
this, settles the point, and saves much
study. "Many simple and familiar con-
trivances are constantly re-invented. * *
Without diminishing the field for inventive
genius, it will instruct inventors as a class
in what has already been done."

To Tin Leon. — Clean by immersion in
dilute sulphuric acid and scratch-brushing,
or by any other convenient method, and
immerse in melted tin. H sulphuric acid
is used for cleaning, the castings, after be-
ing scratched-brushed, should be dipped
in a bath of limewater to neutralize the acid
and then dried. They will take tin better
by being first dipped in melted tallow free
from salt. The tin shouldalso have melted
tallow on its surface while the dipping is
going on. — Scientific American.

Science ion Grape-gbowehs — The

Oidium. — Many of the smaller fungi have
two or more entirely different forms; which
have nt first been regarded as different
species belonging to different genera. Sev-
eral instances of this "dimorphism" are
given by John L. Iiussell, in the February
number of the American Naturalist. Among
them is the " delicate niouldiness which
covers the leavos of many plants, as the
lilac, the grape, and the fruit of the goose-
berry, and looks like strings of beads made
of colorless cells, — in this condition known
and described as Oidium; the spores being
the self-same beads, and egg-shaped or ovi-
form, whence the generic name. Butcare-
ful observation will persuade us that this is
not the perfect condition; later in autumn
these threads become more compact, and
are surmounted on their horizontal sur-
faces by shining black capsules, or peri-
thecia, each of which is filled with elegant
liptical and elongated cells, and these each in
turn containing several spores. The famous
grape mildew, so destructive to the foliage
of the wine and table grapes of Europe,
and known as Oidium Ttw/ceri, is thus only
an imperfect form of some common Eri-
si/phe, or mildew; and in this portion of
Massachusetts, so far as I have observed,
it is the Uncinula spiralis which attacked the
foliage of the sweet water grapes at Salem,
in 1850, and the same parasitic fungus
which covered the leaves of the wild grape,
Isabella, and other hardy varieties, and
which can be detected every season to a
greater or less extent."

Cause of the Blue Coloe or the Sky.
In a recent lecture (Jan. 15th) at the Boyal
Institution, Professor Tyndall exhibited
some of the experiments in the decomposi-
tion of vapors by means of the electric
light, to which we have referred in a pre-
vious issue, and showed that the light from
the blue sky is polarized by transmission
through particles of some kind. The light
of the blue cloud in the tube employed in
the experiment aforesaid, was polarized in
such a manner that it was completely
stopped by a piece of tourmaline held par-
allel to the cloud; but if the tourmaline
was held at right angles to it, the light
passed freely. Examination of the light
from the blue sky in a similar ^manner at
sunset, by means of a prism of Iceland
spar, showed that it was transmitted at one
angle by the prism, but at another was
quenched. The sky and clouds were differ-
ently polarized, for in his prism he could
get a dark sky with light clouds, and black
clouds with a background of light sky.
The greatest polarization was at right an-
gles to the track of the solar beam. The
experiment with the tube proved that it
was only necessary to have very small par-
ticles in the atmosphere to produce blue
sky and the polarization of the solar light.
What these particles are is doubtful. Pos-
sibly the phenomena may be due to the
slow formation or melting away of the
clouds.

Archaeological. — The American Con-
sul in Larnaca, Cyprus, was recently led
to make excavations at the village of Bali,
the ancient Idalium, by the reports 'of a
peasant. The result was, the discovery of
an ancient Greek necropolis at a depth of
only three feet, under which were older
Phenician graves, oven-shaped, and closed
with great blocks of stone. In some of
them were found vases with Phenician in-
scriptions and statuettes of women. The
spoils of the Grecian tombs are exceedingly
rich. Among the articles are golden neck-
laces and ear-rings, silver bracelets, coj)per,
and bronze battle axes, lance and spear-
heads, mirrors, tripods, coins, medallions,
gems (especially of amethyst, ruby, and
agate), glass vessels, statuettes, busts, and
a great quantity of objects in terracotta.
Many of the painted vases are three feet
in hight. What disposition will be made
of these treasures has not yet bten an-
nounced.

Tun Metal Hydrogen. — We have before
alluded to the announcement that Dr. Gra-
ham baa probably verified the conjecture
of scientists, that hydrogen is a metal. The
extraction of a large amount of occluded
hydrogen from the Lenarto meteorite,
which astonished tho world a year or so
ago, — as our readers will remember, — was
a step towards this splendid conclusion.
Professor Graham has since experimented
largely in this direction; and, as we have
seen from time to lime, has succeded in ar-
tificially occluding this gas in iron, plati-
nium, palladium, and other metals. In other
words, he has, by causing any one of these
metals to absorb hydrogen, — as melted sil-
ver absorbs oxygen, or as water absorbs
ammonia, — produced an allot/ of that metal
with hydrogen; which alloy is less dense,
but more magnetic, than the aforesaid metal
alone. Palladium occludes, or "shuts up,"
or absorbs, eight or nine hundred times its
volume of hydrogen. This gas, so volatile
in its character, is thus effectually impris-
oned, so to speak, as to its particles, be-
tween the particles of the denser metal;
andtheresultingcompound metal, partakes,
like other alloys, of the characters of both
its constituents. Professor Graham has,
by calculation, found the density of hydro-
gen to be 1.951.

Death of Peofessoe Foebes. — James
D. Forbes, D. C. L., died on the last day
of the year. He was a scientist of note.
For twenty-six years he was Professor of
Natural Philosophy in the University of
Edinburgh, to which Chair he was elected
at the age of twenty-three, in preference
to Sir David Brewster, who was a candidate
for the position. He was Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the
Boyal Society of London, Corresponding
Member of the Institute of France, Fel-
low of the Geological Society, and member
of various other scientific societies at home
and abroad ; and he received the degree of
D. C. L. from the University of Oxford.
His scientific investigations in reference to
heat and light, were original aud important.
He was the first to prove the polarization of
beat, and the first to investigate the laws of
glacier motion. He is the author of a mul-
titude of papers upon scientific subjects.

Different Constitution of Tiffeeent
Planets. — Eraser's Magazine has an article
entitled "The Materials of our Universe,"
in which the writer thus speaks of the tes-
timony borne by the spectroscope to the
diversity of constitution amongthe planets:
' ' It has long been known that, on earth,
the interruptions in the solar light are un-
changed by reflection, even from an irreg-
ular surface. If, then, the spectra of the
planets are not faithful reproductions of
that of the sun, the difference must be due
to a diversity of elementary constitution —
and probably in the quality of the sur-
rounding atmosphere. The moon, thus in-
terrogated, 'takes up the wondrous tale'
in accurate repetition, according with the
absence, or rather the extreme tenuity, of
atmospheric covering. Venus, too, shows
no deviation. But it is otherwise in Mars,
Jupiter, and Saturn, the light of each of
which indicates a something which would
probably not be visible in the terrestial
spectrum viewed from a corresponding dis-
tance, and which leads to the impression
that their atmospheres, though ill general
character similar to our own, contain ele-
ments not identical with those which sur-
round our globe. "

Test foe a Feee Acid. — Mr. E. Smith,
gives the following in the Chemical News:
" Dissolve chloride of silver in just suffi-
cient ammonia to make a clear solution.
If a little of the test be added to ordinary
spring water the carbonic acid present in
the latter will neutralize the ammonia, and
precipitate the chloride. The above forms
a good lecture experiment, the test being a
very delicate one."

Niteogen Gas. — Signor M. Levi, an
Italian Chemist, has made known anew
method of preparing this gas. It consists
in heating bichromate of ammonia in a re-
tort ; the salt is by this means resolve I
into green oxide of chromium, water, an I
nitrogen gas.

164

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Contributions for cur Cabinet.

Nos. 365, 366, 367, 368 and 369. -Aurif-
erous sulphurets, from Hites' mine, Hites'
Cove; Harbor mine, Snow Creek; Fergu-
son mine, near Hites' Cove; Oakes & Reese
and Lafayette mine, Hunter's Valley, Mar-
iposa County. Presented by agent.

Nbs. 370 and 371. — Peacock copper ore,
and blue carbonate of copper, from Hunt-
er's Valley, Mariposa County. Presented
by agent.

No. 372.— Gold in steatite, from Dr.
Hill's mine, Angel's Camp.

No. 373. — Micaceous iron, from Angel's
Camp. Dr. Hill.

No. 374— Pyrites, apparently but not
actually containing nickel. Dr. Hill.

No. 375. — Croppings of Tuscon mine,
Treasure Hill, containing chloride of sil-
ver. Presented by C. H. Dewey.

No. 376. — Cinnabar; a very rich, pure
specimen, crystallized in small prisms;
mixed with iron pyrites. From the Mount
Diablo Quicksilver mine, near Clayton.
Capt. Harding, Superintendent.

No. 377. — Quicksilver, from the same.

No. 378. — Arragonite (rhombic or pris-
matic carbonate of lime,) found in Tuol-
umne county, by Mr. Johnson, and sup-
posed by him to be identical with a very
. excellent flax mineral which he has seen
used in Nevada, but which was probably
fluor spar.

No. 379. — Jasper. Presented by Dr.
Hough, Martinez.

No. 380. — Fossils from from Tertiary or
Cretaceous rocks, near Martinez. From
Dr. Hough.

No. 381. — Magnesite (carbonate of mag-
nesia) , containing a little alumina. From
W. Frank Stewart, of San Jose, who says :
" This substance occurs in extensive
gangues, between granitic and metamorphic
rocks in the Mount Diablo range, six miles
eastwardly from San Jose. The beds of
this mineral are inexhaustible and easy of
access, and if it proves to be what I think ij
is, will be valuable.

The Tin and Coppeb Market. — We ex-
tract the followingfrom Winterhoffs Metal
Circular, dated New York, Feb. 4th:

Tin has advanced, with quite a large busi-
ness, to 31%c. gold for Straits, 32%c. for
Banca, and 30c. for English. The supply
for the spring trade is thus very small, and
it is probable that we shall have to draw a
little Straits from England, although our
prices are still 10 per cent below the cost
of importation from there. The stock is
all in speculators' hands, viz. 10,500 slabs
Straits, 1,200 slabs Banca and Billiton, and
50 tons English, equal to 1,500 slabs; total
New York and Boston, 13,200 slabs, against
11,900 slabs 1st February, 1868. In Singa-
pore the quotation was §26% on the 20th
January. The production of England and
the East Indies for 1868 is estimated at 19,-
600 tons against 21,500 tons iu 1867; the
consumption of Europe and America last
year has on the other hand increased to 22,-
500 tons against 21,500 tons in 1867. The
stocks in London and Amsterdam, includ-
ing the expected arrivals amounted on the
1st January to 8,000 tons, against 10,100
last year, and 11,800 tons in 1867. The
consumption of Tin plates, as well as the
raw material, is likely to be still more
stimulated by the introduction of tin cans
and cases for the transportation of petro-
leum now coming into use.

Copper has been largely dealt in on
speculation, and is quoted to-day 26%c. for
Baltimore, 26%c. for Lake Superior; an ad-
vance of 3c. per pound since the 1st of Janu-
ary.

The Tariff Bill passed by the House and
amended by the Senate is again to be voted
and will probably become alaw. Thesmelters
iuthe Atlantic States have almost ceased op-
erations, and at Lake Superior the produc-
tion has been very small daring the win-
ter. The consumption is good, and there
is every prospect of a still further rise in
the price.

The London market was quoted on the
30th ult., £74 for Chili bars, adecliae of £1
from the highest point in the middle of
January.

45 tons Quiney have been shipped from
Havre to our port, and probably a few more
parcels rnay conje back.

New Patents Issued to Pacific Coast
Inventors.

Fob the Week Ending February 9th.
86,64S. — Improvement in "Wagon-Bkake

Blocks. — Heman Crowell, Washington

Corners, Cal.:

I claim confining the brake boards or
strips F, F, to the brake block by the clips

C, C, provided with longitudinal pieces D,

D, having points E, E, or the ends of the
clips bent at right angles over the said
strips, substantially as described.

The rubbing boards or strips are held
by clips, the shanks of which pass through
the brake-block, where they are held and
adjusted by set-crews.

86,677. — Improved Appaeatds fob Con-
fining Hoese Powers. — Richard Knott,

Suisun, Cal. :

I claim the bars B, B, and D, D, rods C,
C, and straps E, in combination with the
frame A, the whole constructed and ar-
ranged substantially as and for the purpose
above described.

This device consists in the combination
and arrangement of iron bars and stakes in
securing horse-powers to the ground.
86,681. — Improvement in Machine for

Cutting Grape Vines. — Louis W. Mayer,

Sonoma, Cal:

1. I claim the vine-cutter, consisting of
the stationary knife E, and the revolving
knives a, a, a, or equivalent device, to-
gether with the feeding-hopper or trough
H, the whole constructed and operating
substantially as and for the purpose de-
scribed.

2. I claim the long curved fingers b, b,
b, for taking up the vines, together with
the revolving arm G, and its fingers c, c, c,
or equivalent device, for carrying the vines
to the feeding trough or hopper, substan-
tially as herein described.

This is a machine for cutting grapevines
which have been pruned from the main vine
into small pieces, in order that they maybe
useful as a manure, by being turned under
by the plow and allowed to rot, thus restor-
ing to the ground the substance which is
drawn from it to produce the vines. It is
a well-known fact that where the grape is
grown for a series of years upon the same
spot, the ground will lose in a great meas-
ure that substance which is required to
nourish them. The invention consists of
a frame mounted upon two broad-faced
wheels furnished with inside gearing in
which pinions operate for driving the knives
or cutters, which are attached at intervals
around the pinion shaft, and stand at an
angle. A stationary knife is also attached
to the axle of the wheels. Passing across
the frame back of the wheels and turning
loosely on small axles which have their
bearing in the side timbers of the frame,
is a shaft, from which long curved fingers,
which sweep the ground in front, depend
and gather up the vines. To one of the
wheels near its face is attached an arm which
carries a series of shorter curved fingers,
which, passing around with the wheel, take
up the vines from the long fingers, and
drop them into a trough over the knives,
where they are caught by the kuives and
cut into small chips, which fall to the
ground beneath.
S6.695. — Improvement in Sewing Machine

foe Sewing Leather. — William Wilson

Russell, Tepic, Mexico:

1. I claim in combination with the swing-
ing head M, the double wheel G, and the
awl and needle-carrying arms H and I, sub-
stantially as described.

2. I claim the combination with the
head M, and arm S, provided with adjust-
able rollers, of the cams or plates P and R,
substantially as described.
r 3. I claim the combination of the hook
V, with the awl L, making a hole for the
needle, for taking, carrying forward, and
holding the loop until the needle descends
through it to form a new one.

4. I claim the combination of the awl L,
and the needle K, when so arranged that
the rising of the needle-holder lilts the
presser, and the awl moves the material the
length of a stitch, before withdrawing from
the hole it has made, to give place to the
needle, substantially as described.

The object of this invention is to provide
an improved machine for stitching leather
and other heavy, firm materials, and it con-
sists iu the employment of an awl which
first pierces the leather for the passage of
the needle. This needle is passed into the
same hole by an arrangement of cams which

produce a peculiar swinging motion of the
head of the. machine, and they may also be
regulated so as to give a long or short stitch
as desired. It also consists in a peculiar
movement of the hook or looper, which
takes the thread from the needle and holds
it till the needle leaves the leather, then
advances and forms a loop for the awl and
retires as soon as the point of the awl passes
the loop, so that the leather can feed at the
same time the thread is tightening around
thu awl.

86,880. — Improved Drill Stock. — Edward
A. Stockton, San Francisco, Cal. :
I claim the roller E, the inclined pieces
D, and the spring C, arranged in handle B,
and combined with the drill-stock A, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose described.
This invention relates to a new mode of
operating a drill-stock by means of a fric-
tion roller placed in an inclined recess or
chamber on the inside of the eye of the
handle, so that by moving the handle in
one direction the roller is moved into a
deeper portion of the recess, and allows the
handle to turn freely on the stock in that
direction. By reversing the movement of
the handle the roller moves up the incline
and binds against the stock, and moves it
also, and at the same time the drill is fed
by a screw in the usual manner.

The following are from the list published
last week, — with additional descriptions.
86,564. — Improvement in Elevator and

Table for Feeding Grain Separators.

Don Carlos Matteson and Truman Pane

Williamson, Stockton, CaL:

1. We claim the cross-bar D, and the
boxes or eyebolts E E, substantially as and
for the purpose specified.

2. We claim the hinged-drop bar K, and
the holding-braces N N, constructed and
operated substantially as and for the pur-
poses herein described.

This is an improved movable elevator
and table for feeding the nnthreshed straw
from the stack to separators, dispensing
with much of the manual labor heretofore
necessary. The whole machine is so con-
structed that it can be easily moved from
stack to stack as required. A table is con-
structed of sufficient size to hold the neces-
sary quantity of straw to feed the thresher
or separator, and is mounted upon wheels
having a pole and the usual devices for at-
taching horses to move it. A derrick of
considerable hight rises from the table, its
foot being pivoted on a movable bar be-
neath the table. The elevating fork is at-
tached to a rope passing over a pulley at the
top of the derrick, and thence to another
beneath the table, so that horse-power may
be used to elevate the straw. In order to
place the latter pulley low enough, it is
fastened to a bar which is hinged at one end
to one of the side sills of the machine. The
other end is dropped on the ground and to
adjustable braces passing from it to the op-
posite side sill, to keep it down when in
use. Whenever it is necessary to remove
to another place, the braces are discon-
nected and the cross-bar drawn up.out of
the way.

86, 565. — Improvement in Horse Hat
Forks. — Don Carlos Matteson and Tru-
man Pane Williamson, Stockton, Cal.:

1. We claim the plate O, with its lugs M
M and u, and the spur P, constructed and
arranged substantially as herein described.

2. The stirrup A passing around the post
N, substantially as and for the purpose de-
scribed.

This is an improvement for strengthen-
ing hay forks at that point where the strain
comes in operation, and it consists in bind-
ing the head or cross timber to which the
tines are attached and the upright post to-
gether without a mortice, by means of iron
straps and bands, which closely and 'firmly
hold them. In a horse hay fork, the point
where all have so far failed to withstand
the rough usuagj they are subjected to, is
at this junction of the several parts, on ac-
count of the cutting away of the wood nec-
essary to secure them and give them a
proper amount of firmness.

After the loth inst., the San Jose Rail-
road trains will run as far as Gilroy. The
Bulletin furnishes additional points in favor
of the early prosecution of construction
on the Southern Pacific Railroad.

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before the patent is applied for, and while the in-
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made, it operates as a bar to applications respect-
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reason of such defect. The Patent Office always
returns a receipt for caveat papers, but does not
seek to point out its incorrectness, unless there
be some glaring defect.

Our fee for a caveat varies from $10 to $15.
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patent issues and rejections, enables us to determ-
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and how much can be claimed as new and novel,
and be covered by Letters Patent. This is one of
the most difficult questions encountered by both
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165

Weekly Stock Circular.

By Aiiooiated Briton of tkeS F. Stock ud Exokingi Bond
Sis Puitetioo, March L

Tho niisi-.llai 115 share market lm* been

eharaoterizi .1 by Blightly increased activity over
the transactions o( the previous week. We
DOte sales o( Pacific Iusurauco stock at $128.
One hundred shares of National Insurance Btock
(this company is uow winding up its business)
sold at $86 pur slmre. The Sim Fruncisco Ins.
Co. (also in Bourse of liquidation) will hold
a meeting on the 16th inst The nssets of this
company continue to pay very handsome divi-
dends to its stockholders. Gas stock was in
the market at $80(5 79, soles to a considerable
extent having been effected at these figures.
Spring Valley Water sold ut $68 50@G8.

The amount of marine premiums paid to the
several insurance companies of this city, for the
throe months ending January 81, 1869, as com-
pared with the quarter ending October 31, 18G8,
are as follows:

Companies.

, Jan. SI, '69.

Oct. 31, T.8.

MtTohauU'

$05,012

$76,972

Pociflc

43,681

66,705

Union

.. 11,896

62,079

GaUfornia

38,288

41,649

Fireman's Fund

. . lh.'itiJ

18.460

Occidental

11,249

6,889

Home Mutual

8,836

6,186

5221,375

$277,390

Co the railroad company 526,000, payable iu monthly in-
Btallments of $5,000 each, — first Installment payable 16th
Much, inst., and monthly afterward, to the amount of
tin- subscription (925,000) - Tha recent developments in
tin mine an more oncouragtnj?, showing <'"!.
tmprovemi nt, with the itnu train the ohafl on thi Bftli
station, dow In some bi renty feet, which will eoi
the vi nih above, and it i- hoped and believed, will soon
place the i ompany In a man Bonriahlng condition.

1 mm the Secretary's report we obtain the

following financial facts:

BECFJPTS.

Oash on hand February 29, 1868 18,918 IS

From osscesmentE 20 i

Bullion and one sold 895,091 77

abaft

-tmusftT of materials to

19,542 86

Fair

mini' account

Cash for amount of overdraft at Bank of Cali-
fornia 4,687 00

Sundries 4.720 21

$630,469 61

DISBURSEMENTS.

Mine account $275,286 79

Ore account— reduction ". 216,775 47

Machinery account 9,846 65

Fair shaft BCOOUSt 12,278 90

Salary account 18,100 no

Bank of California 61 ,784 72

BUlB payable 7,283 1)8

Sundries 34, 177 20

Cash on band 137 74

MINING SHAEEH0LDERS' DISE0T0ET.

(Compiled for every issue, from advertisements In the

Minihq inn Set k.n Tine I'hkm and other Han

Francisco .Journals.;

^omprlsintr the Names of Companies, District or County
ni Location; Amount ami ihiit- ut A~.sv ,s i n ■ ■ n t ; Pnte <>i
Meeting; Day of Delinquent Bale; ami Amount ami Tinu
ol Payment ol Dividends.

n*T rtAT

nil. i ■-.>[.' r-.T or SAI.R

..Payable March 10, 1869
...Payable June 19. 1£68
....Payable Oct. 15, IW
..Payable Sept )

$030,4(19 51

Bhowing a decrease of $50,015.

The Bank of California disburses its usual
monthly dividend on the 15th inst.

AflninfE SlMure MurUet.

During the past week the mining share mar-
ket manifested a slight recession from the ac-
tivity that prevailed during the previous simi-
lar period; however, there was a larger variety
of Btocka disposed of, though the transactions
did not aggregate so large an amount. Prices
were also somewhat off; and, as a general thing,
the market was not so firm.

Opuir— declined from $39 to $34,and at the
close realized $35. The long continued hard-
ness of the rock in the lower drift is quite un-
expected. On the 9th inst., they cut a strong
seam of clay, but it produced no change iu the
rock. The probabilities are that it indicates a
near approach to the ledge. On the 10th inst.,
the drift had attained a dista ce of 74 feet.

Imperial — sold within a range of $110 @
101 50, improved to $107, aud closed yesterday
at $103 50. The operations in the lower drifts
have not yet shown any favorable developments.
On the 12th inst., the drift from 1,000 level was
in 72% feet, and on the 1,100 level 44% feet of

drifting had been accomplished Kentuck

■was in moderate request at §255@270, and at
the close sold at $265. The bullion returns in
February amounted to $54,014 against $83,335
in January. No dividend the present month.

Hale & Noecross — has been in good request,
selling within a range of $93©88, then at $90,
aud closing at $88. The eighth annual meet-
ing of the stockholders of this company was
held on tne 10th inst. From the President's
report we make the following extracts:

From the third station to tbe fourth — from the sill
flour in third station— it was, from appearances, confi-
dently anticipated that in going down to fourth station,
that the ore would widen out and prove richer as we
went down on it, but it pinched out in going down, and
the ore deteriorated in value or grade, so that in reaching
and drifting in on the fourth station we did not find a con-
tinuous ledge from third to fourth stations. In the
fourth level, or station, so far as opened, ore has been
developed north and south. In the north drifts and
cross-cuts, portions of the ore is high grade, while por-
tions of it are only fair and low grade. In the south
drifts, from main tunnel, the ore developed thus far ie
tif low grade. In upper levels, say from one hundred
and seventy-five feet from surface down to three or four
hundred feet, there are large quantities of low grade ore,
which, under present prices of mining and working ores,
do not pay the company much, if any profit, to mine and
work them, as in drifts below these low grade ores do not
pay a profit to take out and work, but a reduction in
mining expenses and milling, would pay the company a
handsome profit; hence these low grade ores have not
been taken out to any extent. In this view of the case,
and with a view to lessen the expenses of mining and
working all ores, tbe price of wood and timber must be
reduced, which, in working the mines (at and around
Virginia City) , are the heaviest items of expense in min-
ing and working the ores. To effect this, the transpor-
tation of wood and timber, from districts producing
them, must be reduced, which can only be accomplished
by railroad facilities. The Truckee Railroad Company
propose and will, no doubt, effect this object, and reduce
the price of wood and timber about one-half, or at least
fifty per cent., as well as upon the price of other mate-
rial required at the mines; it being a foregone conclusion
that this railroad will be completed during the ensuing
year. Therefore, it is almost certain that the expenses of
working the mines will be reduced as soon as the Truckee
Railroad is completed and in working order, at least fifty
per cent., which will enable the Hale & Norcross mine to
work all their low grade ores at a handsome profit. To
accomplish thi* desirable result, it was necessary that
the different mining companies should aid in the con-
struction of this road, by advancing certain sums of mo-
ney to tbe Truckee Railroad Company, to be reimbursed
to the mining companies in freights of all kinds of ma-
terials required at the mines, at fair and moderate rates.
Seeing and believing that the construction of this rail-
road would enure greatly to the benefit of this and all
other mining companies in this section, and eventually
be a great saving to the mining companies, the Board of
Trustees deemed it advisable to subscribe and advance

The expense of reducing 10,535% tons of ore
amounted to $13 11 per ton. During 1866,
the bullion yield aggregated $1,355,220, equal
to $47 32 per ton; in 1867, $864,998, equal to
$34 14 per ton; in 1868, $395,146, equal to
$23 89 per ton. The statement shows an ex-
cess of assets over liabilities amounting to $218,-
981 51. Assessment No. 34, of $5, has been
rescinded. On the 10th inst., there was from
three to four feet of ore in the winze to the fifth,
station, and reported to be of improved quality.
Necessary dead work has prevented sending out
larger quantities of ore from the fifth level.

Savage — sold quite largely at $71@64 50,
closing at $65. A dividend of $4 per share is
payable since the 11th inst. The bullion re-
turns for February aggregated $174,300 against
$176,700 in January Yellow Jacket exhib-
ited a fair degree of activity, selling at $71®
69, and closing at $68 50. A dividend of $5
per share is payable on the 15th inst. This
company is said to have reached an excellent
paying body of ore in a very considerable quan-
tity.

Amador (Cal.)— closed at $290. This com-
pany continues to maintain its well-merited
reputation. The bullion for February account
is the largest yield for any one month, reaching
$65,400. A dividend of $10 per share was paid
ou the 9th inst Eureka (Cal.) shows a bul-
lion yield of $22,500 for the first twelve days'
run of the present month. A dividend of $5
per share is payable since the 10th Confi-
dence sold at $40(^34. No bullion returns
during the month of February. On the 11th
inst., $3,066 came to hand.

Alpha — was quite active at a decline, reced-
ing from $51 50 to $42 50, and closing yester-
day at $44. On the 11th no change had taken
place in the southeast drift. They had cut
eight feet into the quartz and porphyry on the
east side of the clay. The northeast drift is in
more quartz, and is said to look quite favorable
for ore. Work proceeds slowly, on account of
hardness of rock . . . Chollar-Potosi changed
hands at $174@,163, and closed at $165. Dur-
ing the week ending March 5th, they extracted
740 tons of ore. Nothing of a favorable nature
from the mine. The bullion receipts during
the month of February amounted to $74,869
against $50,700 in January.

Pocotillo (White Pine)— was in the market

during the week at $20@18 50 per share

Large sales of Silver Cord (Idaho) were made
at $17 50®15.

The sales in the San Francisco Stock and Ex-
change Board since last Saturday amounted to
$1,547,566.

Amador On., dlv, $0 po. share,
Bacon, Storey co.. New, div...

Ohollar Potoal, dlv , %:f>

Crown ('■■int. ilivul. ml. $7.80..

Cl.lorld.-Mt Tun., W'hlL- Pine, Feb. 2, Wc.-Mnr |$— An. It.

Cordillera, Mox Annual .Meeilnj,' March IS

Coney preferred Stock, dlv. llj per cent March 10, 18G9

Cherokee Flal, Bullc 30. March I. S5. April 3— April 20

Daney, Lyon Co. Nov., March 8, $2.50 April 12— May 3

Empire M. A M., Nev., dividend SG Payable Mnvl5. 18f.;

Eureka, dlv. $5 Payable March 10, 1*09

Poison. St A Ft. Pt. R. R. Jan. 30, $5. ...March 3-March 20

Gould A Curry, (Hv..$7.M Pa value Mnv 16, 1847

<iold Hilly M ft M -dividend. $7 W.,.. Payable .1 ul v 1.1, ISt.rt
Golden Kulc. Tuolumne co. dlv. 50c "3 »h....Pav. Feb. 26, 18 0
Glenwnod, El Dorado co , Feb 19, $25. ...April 2— April 2 •

Hale & Norcross, dlv. $125 Sept 16. 1867

HopcUravol, Nevada co , Feb. 24, $1.... March 29— April 19

I X L, Alpine CO.. Jan. 19, $1 50 Feb. 27— March 17*

Imperial, storey co., Nov., dlv Payable June 20, ISU8

Julia, S.loroy co , Ncv Meeting. March J5

Keninck,div.,$20 per share Payable Jan. 10,1809

Keystone Meeting April 2

Lyon M AM., El Doradoco., Mar 6, $1. .April 12— April 2C»

Mr. Tenabo, Lander co , Jan. 23. 75c April 2— April 27"

Mohawk ,fc Montreal, Ncv. en., Feb. 10, $3... Mar. 15— Mar. 31

Mohawk A Montreal, Nevada co , . Meeting March 15

M.ixwell, Aniailor co., Feb. 9 $1 March 13— Aiofll

MorniiiB Star, Alpine co , March 3, $2... .April 5— April 26

North Star, dividend, $5 Payable Aug. J 6. 18S8

North Aincr. Wood P. Co., March 12, $1 April 14— May 1"

Oriental, Sierra co , Jan. 4. S3. 60 Feb. 5— Feb. 20

Occidental, div $2 Payable March 2, 1859

Peninsula, Storey co., Dec. 15, $10 Feb. U-Marchfi

Pacific Unassessable, div Payable June 18, 18lW

Pocollllo Annual Meeting March 22

Rattlesnake. Tuba co , Dec. 19, $7-50 Jan. 21— Feb.

Rising Star, Idaho, Feb. 8, $6 March 31— April 3

Santiago. Silver Citv, dividend, $2 50... Pavahlc Dec 19, 1868

Sand Spring -alt. dividend $1 Pavnble Jan 6. ISiip

Star Creek, Nev., Feb. 26. $1.50 March 29- > prll 19'

Ravage. Virginia, Ncv. dividend, $4. .Payable March 4, 18M9

Sun Mnrcial, Sonora, Mex Meeting, March 16

Treasure Trove, Lander co., Feb. 15. 20c. VTch 21— April 12
Virginia & G. H Water Co. .Dividend, payable Mar. 10, 1869
Yellow Jacket, dlv., $5 Payable March 16, 1869

with an asterisk (*) are advertised In this

Boring for Horizontal Chloride De-
posits.— A correspondent of the "White
Pine JVews, says : "Several gentlemen, -with
the assistance of Mr. Stanton, are boring for
mineral. The present pioneer work in that
line is on the Lapatria mine, west of the
Eberhardt mine, and to the right of the
road leading to that mine. The work is
prosecuted so quietly by two men that one
can hardly find them, and yet they are doing
good service. I believe it to be the proper
mode of prospecting here where the ore
seems to be under the limestone lying hor-
izontally."

Tide Lands at San Francisco. — The
map of the tide lands in this city and
county, prepared by Engineer Allardet, has
been completed, and a copy is being pre-
pared for the office of the Secretary of
State. The Board of Tide Land Commis-
sioners have not as yet passed upon the
numerous claims which have been pre-
sented, but have them under an almost
daily consideration. It is more than likely
that these claims will be so far settled that
the railroad reservations may be made in a
few days. — Herald.

OKOCKRIKS, KTC.

Sutrar, crushed, ft lb

Do. China

Coffee. Oosta Rica, ftVb

Do. Rio

i'c-ii , Japan, ft lb

Do Green

Hawaiian Klco, ft H

China Rice, V lb..

35

* S
1%

Goal Oil,* pal lo»..

Candle*, ft lb

K.nirii Butter, $ it

[sthniua Mutter, 9 rr.

Cheese, California, , ; Q>

EffKB, 5g dozen

Lard, r1- ib is

Ham ami Bacon, %a lb ., 14

Shoulders, "& lb 7

Kvtull Prices.

Butter, California, fresh, W lb 45

do. pickled, % lb 3,,

do. Oregon, 9) lb 20

do. New York, ^Ib 35

Cheese, "^ lb , ^p

Honey, *) ft 25

Eggs, « dozen 45

La rd , $ lb 15

Hams and iiacon, ^lb 23

I'ninl'crrlcM, fy gallon 1 2fl

Potatoes, f* tb ijj

Potatoes, sweet, f* lb s

Tomatoes. %( ft 3

Onions.^lb 3

Apples, No. 1, H tb : 4

Pears, Tabic. %i lb f,

Plums, dried, & ft it)

Peaches, dried, "^ ft ...; Id

Ora lines, S dozen 75

Lemons, p dozen.. 75

Chickens, apiece _

Turkeys, ^ ft 23

Soap, Pale and 0. O 7

Soap, Castile. % ft 20

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Latest Stock Prices Bid and Asked.

8. F. STOCK ANU EXCHANGE BOARD.

Fbidat Evening, March 12, I8fi9.

MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS. Bill- Axl.Cil.

Hnitcd States Bonds, 5 ais, IStf, '67, '68- * H 85

United Stales Bonds, ft '20s, lSHi «* 85

Unile-1 Stales Bonds. 5 20s, 18(32 S5 8fi

Lecal Tender Notes 77*6 77%

Oalilomia State Bonds, 7s. 1857 97}£ PS

San Francisco Bonds, IDs, 1851 par A int.

San Francisco City Bonds, 6s. 1855 — —

San Francisco City and County Bonds. 6s, 1838. 85 87>£

San Francisco School Bonds, UK ISfio 100 —

San Fnmei'Co School Ron-is, His. lrtfil — par & int.

San Francisco City and Co. Sch'l B'ds, "s, 1S6G. 91 —

San Francisco City and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1862 85 89

Snn Francisco City and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1864 87J^ 89

San Francisco Citv and Co Bonds, 7s. 1865 87^ 89

San Francisco City and Co. Juilc;. Bds. 7s, 1863. 87^4 89

San Francisco City ami Co. Judg. Bds, 7s, 1864. 87}£ 89

Sacramento City Bonds HO SI

Sacramento County Bonds, G» 65 —

Marysvilk- Bonds, 10s 75 SO

Stockton City Bonds 65 70

Vuba County Bonds, 8s SO 85

Santa Clara County Bonds, 7s 76 77

Butte County Bonds, 10s, I860 75 —

San Mateo County Bonds, 7s 75 80

California Steam Navigation Co o1! —

Snrine- Valley Water Co tf8 —

State Telegraph Co 26 —

GAS COMPANIES.

San Francisco GasCo 77^ 80

Sacramento Gas Co 85 —

RAILROADS.

Sacramento Valley Railroad — —

San Francisco and San Jose Railroad — —

Omnibus Railroad 72 —

Central Railroad 50 —

North Beach and Mission Railroad 7 1 3-a 7JJi

Front Street, Mission and Ocean Railroad U 12

BANKING INSTITOTIOWS.

Pacific Bank 9-K J™

Tbe Bank of Oalilorma 157 160

People's Insurance Company 100 —

INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Firemans' Fund Insurance Co... 32$tf 9t

Pacific Insurance Co 12li 128

Merchants' Mutual Marine Insurance Co 600 520

California Insurance Co WOO 1400

Union Insurance Co 100 —

Home Mutual Insurance Co 19}£ 20

Occidental Insurance Co 84 87

MINING STOCKS— WASHOE DISTRICT.

Alpha « <»

Baltimore American — —

Belcher 20^ 21

Bullion, O. H 19 20

Crown Point 74 75

C-de(Va.) — —

Confidence 54 d5

Consolidated Virginia — —

Chollar-Potosi 164 165

Daney * 5

Exchequer^ 20 2' «

Empire Miff and Mining Co 70 7ft

Gould&Curry lj"« H8Ji

(iold Hill Quartz 37J£ 40

Hale & Norcross 67 88

Imperial 103 103

Justice and Independent 13 14

Ken tuck. 26* 2£5

Lady Bryan " W

American J* ™K

pphir 34 35

Overman °' Jo

Segregated Belcher 9^a 10

Savage « *"

Sierra Nevada *J *~

Yellow Jacket 68 69

Union — —

United States — —

MIeCELLANF.OCS MINING STOCKS.

Amador (California) 290 206

North Slnr (California) : ■- —

Eureka (California) 230 2-10

Golden Rule, California 10 12

San Francisco Market Rates.

Wholesale Prices.

Friday, March 12, I860.

Floor, Extra, ^ bbl 55 25 $$3 60

Do. Superfine 4 50 @ 4 75

Corn Meal, ft 100 lbs 3 25 @ A 50

Wheat, #100 lbs J 50 @ 1 70

Oats, ft 100 lbs J 75 ©2 20

Barley, ft 100 lbs 175 @ 2 25

Beans, ft lOu lbs b 00 ©7 00

Potatoes, ft MO fts 75 @ 90

Hay pi ton 1° 00 (5)18 00

Live Oak Wood, ft cord 9 00 @10 00

Beef, extra, dressed, ft lb „ 11 @ '?

Sheep, on foot 3 00 ® 5 2o

Hogs, on tool, ft tb 5 ® 7

Hogs, dressed, ft lb 9 «j 10

@ 1 50
@ 2

@ 12
® 12
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San Francisco Metal Market.

PRICES FOR INVOICES.

1 per rent, higher than ffi

Jobbing price* rule from ten to jiftee
folloicinq quotatin

Fkidat, March 12, 1869.

Iron.— Duty: Pig. S9 per ton; Rnilroud, 60c ftlOOIbs; Bar
l@l>Sc ft Ib; Sheet, polished, 3c ft lb; common, H;@13£c
ft tb; Plate, I>Jc ft lb; Pipe, iyac ft lb; Galvanized, 2>jc
ft lb.

Scotch and English Pig Iron ft ton S42 50 @$

While Pig ft ton 37 00 @ 33 00

Refined Bar, bad assortment ft Ib — 03 ®

Refined Bar, good assortment, ft lb — m ®

Boiler, No. 1 to 4 — 04%@

Plate, No. 6 to 9. ® Qiu

Sheet, No. 10 to 13 — 04k© — 5

Sheet, No. 14 10 20 _ 115 ra_ sw

Sheet, No. 24 to 27 -05 @_ fiQ

Copper.— Duty: Sheathing, 3;;c ft Ib; Plgand Bar,2kc ft tb

Sheathing, ft lb <3j — 26

Sheathing, Yellow — 20 © — 21

Sheathing, Old Yellow — 10 ® — H

Bolts —21 ® — 22

Composition Nails — 21 ® — 22

Tix Plater.— Duty: 25ft cent, ad valorem.

Plates, Charcoal, IX, ft box 12 00 ®

Plates, I C Charcoal @ 11 00

Roofing Plates iu 00 ® 10 50

BancaTin. Stabs, ft Ib

Ptrel.— English Cast Steel, ft lb..

Quicksilver.— « a

Lead.— Pig, ft lb

Sheet

Pipe

Bar

Zinc —Sheet*

- — ® — 35

. @ — 15

. — 55 (Si — 60
. - 7%® — 8

. — 10 @

. - 1 1 ® - -
. - 9 ® _ 9^

■ lOJiC '

Borax.— California. ft lb — 35 @ •

The Inter-Oceanic Canal. — Captain "W.
G. Somers, Commander of a steamer on
tbe Magdalena River, Columbia, South
America, has arrived at Washington with
dispatches from Bogota for the State De-
partment relative to the mission of Caleb
Cushing and the Darien Canal. The mis-
sion is considered, at Washington, as a
complete success.

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Minitiff Summary.

The following Infon

aation is gleaned mostlj

from jour-

nals published in the

interior, in close proxi

tut j* to the

mines mentioned.

CALIFORNIA.

A(.PH'E COWl'V.

Markleeville Miner, Feb. 27th: Work lias
been commenced on the Alpinetunnel, now
in 58 ft., which will be continued in to in-
tersect the underground workiugs of the
Tarshish mine, thought to be not over 300
ft. distant.

The Illinois California Co., which has
been operating in the granite of Raymond
district for several years past, has sus-
pended work.

The Morning Star shaft is now down so
near the lode that small strata of ore are be-
ing encountered, and the appearance of the
ground is very encouraging. The com-
pany have portions of the castings for more
roasting furnaces to be put up at the Pio-
neer mill, along the way from Cisco to
Carson, and will probably get the mill run-
ning again as soon as the roads are in or-
der for the delivery of ore. Parties are de-
sirous to work the Star ore, refractory as it
is, at $14 per ton and work it closer up to
an assay than is done with Comstock ore.
It is further intimated that the second class
ore will pay over $100 clear profit per ton.

The new Hagan furnace at Angel's has
been running for some time, and some of
the roasted rock has been sent to SanFran-
eisco and examined. The sulphur was
driven off, and so far as an opinion can be
formed from the specimens examined, the
success was complete in roasting.

AHASOK COUNTY.

Jackson Ledger, March 6th: The mill of
the Coney Mining Co., after undergoing a
thorough overhauling, and being greatly
strenghtened, was started up on Thursday
evening, and is now hammering away.

Jackson Dispatch, March 6th: We noticed
the other day, that some of our.citizens had
commenced sinking a shaft — or rather a
prospect hole — on what is supposed to be a
rich quartz lead, right in the heart of town,
on Court street. We did not learn how
much the rock was expected to pay per ton,
but were informed that the proprietors con-
template the erection of a mill on the lead
immediately.

<AI.V1ER.1S COUSTTT.

Mokelumne Hill Chronicle, March 6th:
The timber for the new hoisting works to
be erected on the Palomo mine, in Lower
Rich Gulch, are being hauled as rapidly as
possible, and the work will be pushed for-
ward to an early completion.

York, Smith & Co. have purchased the
mill formerly in use on the Radford claim,
and are busily engaged in transporting it
to their quartz lead in Jackass Gulch. . The
company have developed what promises to
be an excellent claim in that locality. More
energy is being exhibited this spring, in
quartz mining, than ever before.

Since the commencement of the fair
weather, mining operations have been re-
newed with increased vigor. At Railroad
Plat labor has been resumed upon all the
claims temporarily abandoned during the
storm, and pay rock is being extracted in
large quantities. The custom mill being
erected at the Plat, by Mr. Smart, is nearly
ready to commence operations, and will af-
ford the miners of tLiat locality increased
facilities for crushing. The celebrated
Petticoat mine continues to yield the pre-
cious metal with its usual liberality, their
mill being kept constantly employed in
crushing ore which averages $100 per ton.
This is the most productive claim in the
county, and when its resources and wealth
ai-e fully developed, it will eclipse any in
the State. Sanderson & Co., Gay & Co.,
the Balmoral, Chemisette and others, are
being worked with profit to their owners.
All the mines in the district are looking
favorably, and the prospects for the future
were never brighter.

At West Point, with the opening of
spring, we have the assurance that opera-
tions in quartz will be resumed with spirit.
West Point was once the " banuer" district
o£ tlie county ; but the abundance of water
has been too great an obstacle for the min-
ers, witU their limited means, to overcome.
Proper machinery is now being erected on
. several claims, however, to obviate this dif-
ficulty, and as the season advances we ex-
pect West Point to regain its former flour-
ishing condition.

In Ajower Kich Gulch, work is being
prosecuted vigorously and successfully.
Alexander & Co. are running their mill day
and night, and it is giving a first-rate ac-
count of itself. This company have been
remarkably fortunate from the start. Their
mine paid from the commencement of work
upon it, and their mill has never been al-
lowed to remained idle. The Palomo Go's

mill is not running, it being impossible to
get out ore until the new hoisting works
are completed. When they are finished,
the mine will be thoroughly developed.
Norton & Co. are still running their tunnel,
endeavoring to find the lead.

From Angels the reports are comforting.
Both the large mills in that town are run-
ning, business is flourishing and times
lively. We have no late advices from the
Sheep Ranch district. Calaveras will pro-
duce more quartz gold, the present season,
than ever before.

JGX. DOEADO COTXTV.

Placerville Democrat, Feb. 27th: We un-
derstand that a gravel deposit has been
struck in Castle Hill about two miles east
of Georgetown, which prospects well.
There was a great deal of labor and money
spent in prospecting this hill, in '54 anil
'55, but nothing of account was then found.
Our informant tells us that two companies
have now struck it, and from present indi-
cations, the deposit is quite extensive.

March 6th: The syenitic hills on the
northern bank of Webber Creek, in the vi-
cinity of Cold Springs and Gold Hill, are
traversed by belts of dioritic porphyry, car-
rying narrow veins of auriferous quartz.
These veins can be divided into two classes;
those which contain native gold only, and
those in which the gold is combined with
various minerals. But little has been done
towards developing the former; some in-
deed, as the American lead and the Grey
Eagle, have yielded good quartz from the
very surface, and one at least, the Colum-
bus, has at one time been famous for its
uncommon richness; but none, so far, has
been opened at a greater depth than about
40 to 60 ft. Among the veins belonging to
the latter class, the most important occur
a short distance from the line of junction
of the granite and slate. On this vein two
companies have made locations: Schleicher
& Co., who have done just work enough to
hold their claim and ascertain the presence
of good ore; and the Hill Lead Mining Co.,
who hr>v3 put up steam hoisting works as
well as a 4-stamp battery, and sunk a shaft
about 100 ft. deep. In the Hill Lead
mine the width of the vein varies from 2 to
18 inches and will average one foot. The
gangue matter consists essentially of quartz,
diorite and carbonate of lime, with some
carbonate of manganese. The ore is re-
markable for its complexity. Native gold,
which was abundant near the surface, soon
disappeared, and now occurs as an excep-
tion only. The gold is found combined
with iron pyrites and tellurium, while a
great variety of minerals, as copper pyrites,
galena, telluret of iron, etc., are accident-
ally met within varying proportion. The
ore, although rebellions, is rich; the first
class paying not less than $200 per ton.

It is rumored that the U. S. Grant mine,
on Brush Creek, has been sold to some
Eastern parties. Parties have already ne-
gotiated for machinery to place on the
mine, and have agreed to have the same
completed within three months. The mine
has been prospected to the depth of 59 ft.,
the rock from which worked in an arastra,
yielded $30 per ton.

The Silicon mine, on Smith's Flat, has
been sold to parties i a San Francisco, who
have made several shipments of the rock,
recently, to the Bay.

A Frenchman and a German have discov-
ered an exceedingly rich vein of gold-bear-
ing quartz up at American Camp. The
specimens they brought down to the city
to day are very rich. It is somewhere near
the U. S. Grant and the Star veins.

It is rumored that Andrew Eocco has
bought the interest of Irwin Davis, in the
Golden Rock Water Ditch.

KEitX CODSTT. •

Havilah Courier, March 2d: The well
known McKeadney mill, has been clattering
away since Thursday.

La Esperanza claim, in Kelsoe Valley,
about five miles south of Sageland, worked
by Birdseye, Carter and others, is turning
out well. They have a 5-stamp battery, and
last week retorted 13S ozs. after a run of 13
days. The claim promises to continue
profitable.

MARIPO^l Ct*TJVT"V.

Gazette, March 5th: It is reported that the
Crown Lead Mining Co., near Coulterville,
will commence operations again soon. At
present the company are engaged in repair-
ing roads and preparing to raise quartz,
etc., for the purpose of getting this mining
property uuder full operation.

The Washington quartz mill, situated
near Hornitos, crushed, week before last,
40 tons of rock which yielded $1,400 — for
six days' run.

XJ2VABA. COIT^TY.

Transcript, March 2d : The North Bloom-
field Gravel Mining Co. have located that
portion of Canon Creek, from a point be-
low the Jefferson Quartz Mill to Bowman's

ranch. The creek is located for the pur-
pose of diverting the waters of said creek
for mining purposes. The claim includes
all the waters of the creek, and its tributa-
ries above Jefferson mill.

Andrew & Co. have located and claim
1,500 feet on the extension of the West
Idaho ledge, situated between Deer Creek
and Slate Creek, in Grass Valley township.

March 5th : For some months past ce-
ment mining in Little York township has
been rather dull, but during all the time
the claims of Brown Bros., near You Bet,
have been yielding handsomely, and they
are now turning out more dust than ever
before. Taking into consideration the dif-
ference in cost of working, these claims
beat White Pine.

During the past three weeks the Brown
Bros, have taken out in the neighborhood
of 817,000, the claims averaging over $6,-
000 per week. The last run of two and a
half days yielded $2,700. The mill has
since then been stopped for repairs in the
batteries, and will be ready to start up
again on Monday next.

Neeee and West, at Brown's Hill, near
You Bet, have commenced work in their
claims, after being idle for six months, and
they struck the channel last week, where
they found excellent prospects. Some
three years ago these parties opened upon
a basin or hole which was then supposed
to be the channel, and they took out a large
amount of money, after which they ran out
of pay, and pushed their tunnel ahead sup-
posing that the channel went through the
hill in a direct line to the Brown Bros,
claims. Since they again commenced work
the channel has been found, and it is as-
certained that it takes a shaq:) bend around
the hill, and that the hole or basin from
which they got such good pay was formed
by the short turn and eddy in the old river
bed. They are now breasting out in the
true channel, for the purpose of getting
the cement ready for milling.

Gazette, March 2d : The Grass Valley
correspondent writes: Among the new
enterprises which promise success, I notice
the Garden City mine, located above the
old Gold Hill mill on Wolf Creek, and
owned by a San Francisco Co. The ledge in
this mine is about two feet in thickness,
with beautiful walls, and shows some gold
with heavy sulphurets. The miners are
now engaged in raising the incline shaft to
the surface. Gregory & Mansau, at Sebas-
topol Hill, are taking out some splendid
rock, which good judges say will pay as
high as $75 per ton. The ledge is not a
very large one as yet, but has improved as
the miners go down on it.

The "Young Pines" Co. think they have
a good ledge, as it is an extension of the
Wm. Penn Co's lead. Work will be re-
sumed on the Young Pines claims some-
time in the summer.

There has been but little said about the
U. S. Grant, the Seven-Thirty, the Bowery
or the Bay State ledge lately, because no
crushings have been made from either of
them, on account of the roads being too soft
for hauling rock to the mills. All of these
mines have lots of good looking ore on the
surface, and will be enabled to crush with-
in a week or two.

March 5th : A flume is now being con-
structed by Leavitt & Co. from Deer creek,
up Kelsey's ravine, to connect with the old
flume across Pine and Commercial streets.

March 6th : Work is soon to be resumed
on the Allison Ranch mine. One-half of
the mine has been purchased by Erwin
Davis.

Grass Valley Union, March 5th : Philip
Day has started a quartz mill at Rough &
Ready and is running it night and day on
very satisfactory rock. His company is
running into Bunker Hill, and it is thought
that good rock will come out of the hill.
The Rough & Ready mill has a battery of
three stamps and an arasta.

Ludington & Co., hauled some rock from
Grass Valley to the Rough & Ready mill
and received a return of $40 per ton.

March 7th : Gregory & Mansau, of Sa-
bastopol Hill, have had a crushing. Thir-
ty tons of their rock yielded them the sum
of $2,500. The ledge, as they go down on
it, is improving in thickness as well as in
appearance.

In the upper part of the county, about
Graniteville, the miners are preparing for
a brisk summers' work. A gentleman just
from Eureka informs us that the snow is
rapidly melting ; only about two feet re-
maining now on the ground. Some of the
opened mines have not stopped work dur-
ing the winter, and when the snow goes off
many new ledges will be prospected.

The gravel mines of Underwood & Co. ,
near Union Hill have lately been paying
very handsomely. The scarcity of water
during the winter prevented work upon

these claims, but now from $12 to $15 per
day to the hand are realized.

Grass Valley National, March 5th : Lud-
dington & Co., recently struck a stringer of
this ledge, which is situated in Rhode Is-
land Ravine, and took out three loads of
rock from which they realized $125. The
rock was crushed at the mill of Philip Day,
at Rough & Ready.

March 6th : We saw last night at Find-
ley's bank a bowlfull of gold worth over
$2,500, the yield of 30 tons of rock from
the ledge of Gregory & Co. , near Osborne
Hill.

Transcript, March 7th : The blue gravel
mines, at Smartsville, are among the most
valuable in the State, and the ground is
held by three companies as follows : Tho
Blue Gravel Mining Co., the Blue Point
Mining Co., and the Smartsville Consoli-
dated Hydraulic Co. For the past three or
four years these companies have been en-
gaged in litigation about their respective
boundary lines, but all matters of dispute
are finally settled, and the three compan-
ies have gone to work in earnest upon en-
terprises of great magnitude.

The Blue Gravel Co. have started upon
their deep bed rock tunnel. They have
been at work on this tunnel one year and
expect to reach the channel in two more,
when they will have a face 60 feet deeper
than the claim has yet been worked. The
Blue Point Co. have been running their
tunnel three years, and expect to finish it
in a year aud a half. They have raised two
shafts and are now working upon the tun-
nel in five places, to strike the channel at
about the same depth as the Blue Gravel
company.

The Smartsville Consolidated are wash-
ing off the top level, and have ground enough
to last three or four years without running
a bed rock tunnel.

From the chaunel at this point immense
sums of money have been taken out and
the owners have become rich. When they
are opened to the new levels the claims will
be more valuable than ever before.

Grass Valley National, March 8th : John
Calbert & Co. have located 900 feet on the
Uncle John Co. , commencing at the resi-
dence of John Calbert, on Missouri Hill,
and running north 400 feet to Kelly's house
and south 500 feet to the Allison Ranch
stable.

The Hartory mine has been leased to a
Company of about 25 men. The mine has
been pumped out and work was commenced
to-day taking out rock.

Work was resumed this morning on the
Wisconsin mine. For a year or two, Den-
nis O'Keefe and others have been hard at
work running a bed rock tunnel, above
Nevada, in order to strike a gravel range.
They wore about giving up in despair,
when last week they finally struck it rich.
The gravel prospects from 25 cents to $3.75
to the pau, and from four car-loads they
took out $67.

Frank Morse started the stamps at work
this morning at his mill. He has a large
quantity of good looking rock on hand, and
the stamps will be kept busy.

Leavitt & Co. have been sluice mining
for several days past in the ravine between
Main and Broad streets. The same ground
was worked over 19 or 20 years ago.

Gazette, March 5th : We noticed a fine
specimen of copper ore at the Uuion Hotel,
weighing about sixty pounds. It was re-
cently brought up from the Well lead, near
Spenceville. It is estimated to contain
from 12 to 15 per cent, of copper.

PLACElt tOCSTT.

Auburn Stars and Stripes, March 4th :
We are informed that a sale of one-fourth in-
terest in the mine known as the Paragon,
has just been made for $25,000. The claim
is divided into four shares, and has paid in
dividends within the last three years over
$30,000 to the share. The tunnel is now
3,000 feet into the hill, and no signs of the
claim paying less than heretofore.

SOI.AXO COUNTY.

The Vallejo Recorder has been shown
specimens of cinnabar taken from the mine
owned by John Brownlie, near that city,
which, for richness, equals anything to be
found in the New Almadeu. The extent of
the mine is not known.

SISKIYOU COUNTY.

Yreka Union, Feb. 27th : After giving a
general history of quartz mining on Hum-
bug Creek, the editor says : The Eliza and
Accidental are both of good width and will
supply an abundance of quartz. In the
Enapp ledge the quartz is not so abundant,
but is of better quality, yielding an aver-
age of $50 to the ton. Lash & Co. having
prospected the Eliza and Accidental suffi-
ciently to satisfy themselves of the qual-
ity and quantity of the quartz, intend to
push operations on them with vigor, and
we may confidently expect as the result,

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

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an important addition to our gold yield

from this source. During the past t
four years there baa been also a San Fran-
cisco company operating on the Middle
Fork. In 1n';.j tuey erected an arastra,
driven by water-power, and have pros-
pec I their ledge very thoroughly, and

i understand, perfectly satisfied with
tbe n-, nit. More than a year ago they

I a mill tj be erected on the claim,
but owing to some want of harmony among
the members of the company, the mill h.is
never been Bbipped from Sao Francisco,
and no work has heeu done on the ledg-
since. During the past few years still
Other parlies havo prospected considerably
witb more or less satisfactory results. A.
M. Jones has erected an arastra at the Forks,
with which he has been crushing reck ob-
tained from up near the base of " Old
Craggy." How much per ton his rock
yields wo have not been able to learn.

TUOI.liMVE IOI.VTV.

S.oiora Democrat, March 6th: Ryland &
Parsons, of Kincaid's Flat, are doing well
in tho old Dobbinspeek ranch, minim; it
up. The claim is 15 feet deep, and will
last 20 years. It pays from $5 to £0 per
day to the hand. Five men are employed.

Knox A- Boyle are buildiug a fine 10-
st-imp mill at the foot of their claim, in
Quartz Mountain. It will be completed
about the 15th of April. They have two
tunnels running into the mountain; one in
about 400 feet, the other about 2U0, and are
being pushed forward as fast as possible.
This tunnel is 50 feet lower than the uppar
one. The rock averages $40 per ton. They
have out now some 30 tons, aud are still
getting out more. When they get their
mill in operation they will take out large
sums of gold.

Heslep's claim, adjoining, is paying very
well. Mr. H. wants to purchase a larger
mill, his old rickety 8-stamp mill don't
suit him.

App'a claim, adjoining Heslep's, is also
paying remarkably well. This claim has
always been considered the best in the
county. The mill, a 10-stamp one, is lo-
cated on "Wood's Creek, one mile from the
claim. Mr. App intends to build a new
mill upon the claim next fall. He has two
engines in his mine hoisting rock and
water. A tunnel pierces the mountain some
600 feet. The shaft from surface, is 350
feet deep, and from level of the tuunel 250
feet. The rock averages §11 per ton. Eight
tons per day is crushed.

D. Kelly, of this city, has half a ton of
rock from his vein on Fox Gulch, that is
very rich. Streaks of gold run through
every inch of the rock; it will pay §2,000
per ton. He has sunk a shaft some 60 feet
deep. Mr. K. will send this half ton of
rich rock to San Francisco, to have crushed.

Mr. Stage, Superintendent of the TJ. S.
Grant vein, near American Camp, is push-
ing forward the completion of the mill and
and hoisting works. Some 20 men are em-
ployed at present in the mine and building
the mill.

J. B. Hiskey, of the Star mine, near the
U. S. Graut, says that his company will
soon start iu again and get out rock. They
have been running a tunnel for the past
eight months, which will s rike the vein
some 400 feet lower than the old tunnel.

A party of gentlemen went down to La
Grange, Stanislaus County, last Friday, to
make arrangements about cutting a ditch
to take water from their Columbia ditch
into that place.

1" V K V CO VST Y.

Marysville Appeal, March 4th : We un-
derstand that tka Pennsylvania mine is
crushing fair rock, and that its futu.-e pros-
pects were never more flattering. Owing
to the depth of the main shaft the claim is
troubled with water, and we understand
that the Trustees have ordered a 12-inch
pump, at an expense of $3,000.

E. Halphen, an old resident of Brown's
Valley, called upon us yesterday and exhib-
ited specimens of very rich quartz from the
Howard Hill Mining Co., a mine located
on Union Hill, two and a half miles south
of Grass Valley. There is a 15-stamp mill
crushing on this claim, aud judging by the
rock shown us the proprietors have a bright
prospect for a fortune.

ARIZONA.

Prescott Miner, Feb. 20th: The White
Picacho miue, Dear Wickenburg, in this
county, is looming into importance. Ac-
cording to tests recently made of the ore,
by Reese & Krause, of Wickenburg, for B.
Hussey and P. Richardson, who design
working the mine, it yields as follows to
the ton:

By Fire Assay— gold, $87.20; silver,
$18.95; total, $106.23. When smelted, it
produced, lead 25 per cent.; silver, $16.00;
gold, $78.28.

Prof. Hodges, of Boston, recently paid a
visit to the Sacramento mining district,

aud was well pleased with the prospects.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
The total export of coal from Nanaimo,
British Columbia, during the months of
January and February last, amounted to
3, 834 tons.

IDAHO.

Boise Democrat, Feb. 20th: Tho Rising
Star .Mining Co's property, in Flint Dis-
trict, has been attached at the instance of
Thomas Cole Jr. & Co., for about 854,000.
This is but the result of mismanagement,
as the mine has been paying very fairly.

Tho news from the Golden Chariot mine
continues favorable. For the last eleven
days they have run out an average of 15
tons per day, making an aggregate of 165
tons.

A correspondent of the Helena Gazette
writes from Leesburg that the snow is
about 18 inches deep iu the basin, aud from
three to four feet on tho divide between
Leesburg and Salmon City. The citizens
have quartz on the brain, growing out of
the discovery of two ledges ou Arnet's
Creek, seven miles from Leesburg. James
G. Viar discovered the Eureka, which is
rich iu fine gold. The other is called the
Musgrove ledge, half a mile below the Eu-
reka, and is also very rich in gold. Work
is going on vigorously on these ledges.

MONTANA.

Helena Post, Feb. 19th: J. T. Harvey
who has just returned from the Missoula
mills, informs us that ho is at work mu-
lling a drift into the White Cloud lode, 16
miles from Fort Owen, and taking from it a
species of decomposed quartz, which, run
through arastras, yields very richly.

The Whitlatch Co. which suspended
work last summer, have again resumed
most active operations upon that mine at
Unionville. A large force of miners have
commenced cleaning out the shafts on the
lead and getting everything in readiuess
for taking out rock in large quantities. It
is the purpose of the company to have a
mill at work upon this lead as soon as one
can be erected.

We learn that the prospects of the Lind-
sey Mining Co. improve as the work pro-
gresses. For the last week two shifts of
miners have been constantly at work on the
shaft, which has been suuk to the depth of
about 29 ft. It is calculated from the indi-
cations of the gravel in which they are uow
working, that they will strike bedrock in
about six more feet, which will consume
the greater part of this week. The water
which accumulates iu the shaft has decreased
in volume, and at the present time, during
stoppage of the pumps, the water reaches
a poiut a foot below former water marks.

The splendid tuunel which has been in
progress during the past winter, for the
purpose of striking the McClellan lode, has
at last struck it after running 200 ft., and
is being run through the quartz compris-
ing the ledge. There is no doubt but that
this is one of the richest lodes iu the coun-
try. A mill is all ready to be put up upon
this lead, and will be erected the moment
the season will permit.

The Virginia Democrat says: Morris1
Creek, situated a few miles from Rochester,
in Deer Lodga County, is being rapidly de-
veloped. The lodes of the district are sil-
ver producing, and are said to be very rich.
It is said that a large number of the own-
ers of lodes are at work upon their prop-
erty with the greatest hopes of success.

A new lead has been discovered at Ster-
ling which is Slid to be richer than any-
thing ever before discovered iu that sec-
tion.

NEVADA.
HUMBOLDT.

Unionville Register, Feb. 27 th: The
Alpha miue, situated in Butte canon, on
the west side of the Humboldt range, about
six miles from Unionville and three from
the Central Pacific Railroad; ranks high
among the first-class mines of this State.
The vein is at present 12 feet wide in the
shaft, now 130 feet deep. A tunnel is be-
ing run on the vein, following its course,
aud will intersect the shaft at a depth from
the surface of 220 feet. The vein in the
tunnel is 13 feet wide and the ore of a su-
perior quality. Arrangements are being
made by the owners to ship the ore by rail
road to the Desert mill, at the lower or
west side of Humboldt Lake. A graded
road to facilitate hauling ore is almost com-
pleted to the railroad switch.

Mr. Smart, who returned from Elko a
few days ago, informs us that Frank Dor-
man is shipping ore, by railroad, to the
Truckee, from a mine in Panther canon.

The mines in Gold Run district continue
to "pan out" regularly. T. G. Negus
shipped from the Golconda mine in tnat
district, on the 21st instant, by the Pacific
UnioD Express, two bars of bullion, valued
at $1,500 ; and Holt & Elzy one bar valued
at $800.

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REEsF. RIVER.

Aii-tin Reveille, March 4th: Arrange-
ments are now in progress, and there is
every reason to believe will soon be com-
pleted, by which the fine and extensive
property of the United Reese River .Mining
Co., will lie work systematically and exten-
sively. Tho company own a large number
of veins iu this district, which they have
allowed to remain idlo up to tho present
time.

Belmont Champion, Feb. 27th: A corres-
pondent, writing from Hot Creek, after al-
luding to the White Pine exodus, says:
But the most of us are remaining on the
merits of the district as a mining camp,
knowing as we old residents well do, that
we have many a ledge in the foothills, as
well as immensely rich chimneys or pock-
ets on our limestone mountains, many of
which, I have no doubt, will prove perma-
nent veins. We have oDe positive mine in
particular, the locators of which, owing to
financial difficulties, have been obliged to
suspend work for the last two or three
months — a fine chance for capital to step in
and get a valuable piece • of mining prop-
erty at a comparatively low figure. There
are many claims partly developed which
could be bought cheap for cash, that would
return to capital the fattest of dividends.
Van Gillet has located and opened a new
vein of some 20 inches iu thickness, which
bids fair to rival the best. This district,
so far, has been unfortunate. Capital has
done nothing for us; the companies that
have been represented here, it is well
known, have kept their money at home —
apparently expecting to openmines without
disbursements. Whenever we have live
capital invested, with efficient management
then will our section render up its hidden
treasures to the satisfaction of all parties
interested.

The Montezuma mill, better known as
Dean's mill, situated in the lower part of
Belmont Canon, is daily hammering away
on ore from the Galvin mine, situated on
Arizona Hill, with fine results. This mill,
with a capacity of four stamps of 180 lbs.
each, is doing bravely for one of its size.

During the past week there was shipped
by the Belmont Silver Mining Co. to the
First National Bank of Austin five bars of
bullion, weighing 355 lbs., valued at $4,-
214.85.
w isaiiE.

[ In the Stock Circular, in another por-
tion of this paper will be found late mining
news from this district. ]

Virginia Enterprise, March 2d : Yester-
day moring the lower tunnel of the Occi-
dental tapped a vein of about 15 inches of
water. The tunnel is being run on the
west side of the lead and the water comes
in at the bottom and from the east side of
the tunnel. The striking of this water is
considered a very favorable indication.

The Bacon Mill, Silver City, started np
last eveuing on Hale & Norcross ore. The
mill contains 20 stamps, eight Wheeler,
eight Knox and two Hepburn pans, and is
capable of working 40 tons of ore per day.

The Alpha Co. yesterday struck a small
vein of very fine ore in drifting toward their
ledge. Tho vein found is on the west side
of the main lead, It is expected that the
main vein and good ore will be reached in
about six days.

The lone mill, Lower Gold Hill, has re-
cently been purchased by tbe proprietors
of the Twin mine, Silver City, who will
start the same into operation to-day or to-
morrow on ore from their mine.

Tho experts are looking for ore in the
Imperial in about ten days.

March 3d : Wells, Fargo & Co. shipped
from their Gold Hill office during the
month of February, bullion amounting to
$229,251 55.

March 4th : Some excellent ore has been
found in the west vein of the Justice and
Independent mine at the 260-foot level.
Assays running as high as $300 have been
obtained from it. The old caved drift at
the 350-foot level has been cleared out and
retimbered. It was found to run north-
ward from the shaft a distance of 150 feet.
At the north end some very promising ore
has been found. The lead at this poiut is
said to very much resemble the Comstock
in the lower level of the Hale & Norcross.

The Sierra Nevada mill is running to its
full capacity (20 stamps) on ore from the
company's mine. Of late they have found
a deposit of ore much superior to that
which they have been crushing during the
time this mill has been in operation.

A dispatch dated Virginia City, March
4th, says Wells, Fargo & Co. shipped, last
night, 39 bars of bullion, weighing 2,760
pounds, and valued at $73,233.59.

Much anxiety is felt over the result of
operations in the Hale & Norcross, aud
strong hopes are entertained that a good

body of ore will be struck soon, in the lower
level.

WHITE PISE.

Our exchanges from this district have
not come to hand this week, vet we believe
that nothing of a startling character, fur-
ther than lias already been published, has
been developed, and indeed we cnnnot ex-
pect any new aud reliable information until
the ground has been cleared of snow and a
chance has been given to more thoroughly
prosp et and develop the mines, which, ac-
cording to some, will be within a month,
but others postpone tho bright day until
the mouth of June.

Virginia Enterprise, March 3d : Many
persons are still leaving this part of the
State for White Pine. The pleasant weath-
er which has of late prevailed, has kept the
fever raging, when it would otherwise
have subsided till spring. Most of those
leaving at present, are going out on "gen-
eral principles." Having neither mines or
town lots in the new region— they expect
to make fortunes in some way at present
unknown to themselves and everybody
else

The Robinson district, some 30 miles
east of White Pine, is said to contain some
very large and valuable lends. A party of
gentlemen interested in the district leave
this city to-day to look after locations made
for them there. The assays of the princi-
pal leads discovered run from $80 to $275.
There is said to be plenty of wood and water
in the district, and the country rock is sim-
ilar to that at White Pine, being limestone
and granite.

Austin Reveille, Feb. 27th : We were in-
formed to-day that bullion amounting to
$30,421 99, was shipped by the agency of
the First National Bank of Nevada, at Treas-
ure City, White Pine, to Elko and thence
overland to New York city, on the 24th and
25th instant.

March 1st : The stage from White Pine,
which arrived here this morning, brought
eight bars of bullion, weighing 673 pounds,
which were consigned to the Bank of Cal-
ifornia and forwarded by Wells, Fargo <fe
Uo's Express.

UTAH.

Salt Lake Reporter, March 3d : We have
been shown by a gentleman an assay of ore
from a mine within 40 miles of Salt Lake
City, which has heretofore been worked
merely for lead and silver. The assay was
made at the office of Rein, Hennire & Co.,
San Francisco, with the following results :
18.20 oz. of silver, at $1.30 per oz., $23.69;
48.60 oz. of gold at $20.67 per oz., $1,004.-
51. 66.82 oz. per ton of 2,000 pounds,
rating at $1,026.25.

Japan. — The editor of the Virginia En-
terprise has been shown a letter from Yo-
kohama, Japan, from which the following
extracts are taken: I am convinced that
these islands contain as rich gold and silver
mines as any in the world. The heretofore
exclusive policy of the Government has
prevented the proper development of the
mines — besides, the peeple until now en-
tertained the opinion that it was criminal
to extract more ore than was required for
immediate aud necesaary use, and that a
great sin would be committed in case no
ore was left for future generations. Oh,
for a dozen or so Washoe prospectors ! Yet
there are some Japanese, not having the
fear of their gods before tnem, who have
smuggled to this place enough gold and
silver ore to till 13 large warehouses. Dif-
ferent and more liberal ideas are now pre-
vailing with the party at present in power.
The rebellion between the Northern and
Southern parties still continues. The party
now in power is entitled to the ownership
of the mines, and being in need of money
to carry on the war, has for the first time
invited foreign miners to act as superin-
tendents, on large salaries, in order to ex-
tract as much bullion as possible in a short
space of time.

Thirteen and a half Centuries ago. —
A curious discovery, kept secret for four-
teen years, has just come to light at Ra-
venna. The workmen engaged in digging
a canal near the present railroad station,
in 1854, found a skeleton with a breastplate
of fine gold buried face downward. The
precious piece of armor, which weighed six
pounds, was broken up and the pieces se-
cretly sold to jewelers. Two larger pieces,
which appear to have been the shoulder
bands, and are covered with chasing and
enamel, have been given up by a jeweler
in Faenza, but the remainders are proba-
bly lost. It is known that Theodoric buried
the body of Odoacer, after his murder at
Ravenna, face downward ; and the Italian
antiquarians suppose that this goldeu har-
ness is really that of the first King of Italy.
The conquest of Italy by Theodoric, the
Goth, took place about the year 500.

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Notices to Correspondents.

Washoe. — Water can penetrate not only
through fissures, crevices, and planes of
stratification, but also through the mass
of rocks. It is necessary to distinguish
the penetration of water through capil
lary interstices between crystalline or
amorphous minerals and rocky matrices,
from actual penetration into minerals
themselves. The larger the last named
are, for example coarse-grained granites,
syenites, trachytes, conglomerates, etc.,
the more readily does water penetrate
into their capillary interstices. Very
fine-grained sedimentary rocks, similar
to those known as clay slates, are readily
permeated with water in the direction of
the planes of stratification, but with great
difficulty in a direction at right angles to
such planes. Water when absorbed by
crystalline minerals follows the direction
of the cleavage planes. In shafts and
mines it can readily be seen whether a
rock is readily penetrable by water or not.
The greater the obstacles presented by
water in mining operations, the greater
the penetrability of the strata to aqueous
influences may be inferred. In agate
quarries in the Amygdaloid rocks of
Oberstein, the roof is always wet, water
dropping from all parts. A quick and
tolerably simple method of determining
the greater or less porosity of rock, is to
place it in very dilute sulphuric acid in
the vacuum of an air-pump. By this
means, the air in the pores of the rock is
removed, and on the restoration of the
atmospheric pressure, the vacant pores
are refilled by the acid. If the piece ex-
perimented on be now broken and
washed, the presence of acid may be
tested by litmus paper.

Calabria. — " Apennine," as applied to the
mountain chain that traverses Italy, with
many spurs diverging from it both in
easterly and westerly directions, is de-
rived neither from the Greek nor Latin
languages, but from a much more an-
cient one, the Celtic, which language, at
a remote period, pervaded Europe, and
probably Asia also. " ' Alp " and " Pen ,"
in the Celtic language, both mean high,
or lofty. It has generally been asserted
that the word Albion has its derivation
from the Latin word album, white, from
the white chalk cliffs of the southern
coast of Britain. The probability is
asserted that Albion may be derived
from the word Alp, or high, as additional
examples of which may be mentioned
the Clan Alpin, of Scott's Lady of the
Lake, and the Alpeens or long sticks of
the Kilkenny, Tipperary and Waterford
boys, which they know well how to use
in a " scrimmage — alpeens being longer
than a cudgel, shillelagh or walking-stick.
The Alpenstock of Swiss guides and
mountain climbers is derived from the
same root as the term alps itself. Pen,
for a mountain, is generally used in
Wales as Penmanmaur, and in Cornwall,
Penrose, Peudonnis, Penzance, and a
long list of pens could be' adduced. In
Scotand, Pen has been changed into
Ben, as Ben Lomond, Ben More, Ben
Cruachan, Ben Lawun, Ben Nevis, Ben
Mac Dhui, etc.

Strength and Economy of Hydraulic
Pipe.

Amongst the important new develop-
ments that have been made in mining since
the era of the discovery of gold on the
Pacific coast, some engineering ques-
tions involved in hydraulic mining are in-
teresting, and worthy of a much more
special attention than has been paid to
them. Of the greatest, and most general
importance to miners andengineers, are the
data that have grown out of trial and prac-
tice in the use of iron hydraulic pipes,
touching their dimensions, weight, strength
and cost. At the same time we may men-
tion, in this connection, that there are other
engineering problems of very great practi-
cal and economical importance to gravel
miners, which are only partially developed,
or but locally applicable, and which have
not been duly considered in publications
on the subject.

In the construction of iron pipe, orders
are usually given to one or another of the
foundries in this city, for plate or sheet
iron pipes to contain a certain volume
of water, at a certain head, under conditions
of slope and distance applying to the par-
ticular mine in which the ordering party is
interested. As the price is in proportion
to the amount of metal used, miners have
not been slow in discovering the limits be-
tween the greatest practicable reduction in
weight and strength, and the economy and
durability of pipe under specified heads of
pressure; and colossal experiments were
thus inaugurated and carried quietly to a
successful issue, by persons generally who
interested themselves not in the least in the
oapacity of sheet iron pipe to resist press-
ure, further than that it concerned the pro-
duction of gold in their particular mine.

Amongst the fouudrymen in this city
certain rules have been established on this
subject, which may be accepted as the law,
being generally followed by miners in or-
dering hydraulic pipe. The best approxi-
mation that we are able at present to make
to a rule of this kind is that, in the case of
11-inch pipe, for example, one-sixteenth
inch iron, (called "No. 16 iron",) — with-
standing half a pound of pressure to the
square inch for each foot in hight — will
bear a head of 250 feet perpendicular.
Were the pipe inclined along the surface of
a bank a slight variation due to friction
would admit of increased head with safety.
The pressure on the pipe laterally will
in every case be equivalent to that which
would give to the water a certain velocity.
In figuring it down to the " lowest
notch," and taking the chances in thin
pipe, we might mention a number of hy-
draulic miners whose experiences would be
worth noting. Mr. W. D. Clark, a ditch
owner at Railroad Flat in Calaveras County,
some years ago purchased at 40 to 50 cents
per foot, or less, large lots of corrugated
iron intended for houses, and unsalable
for that purpose at the time in the market,
the same being l-20th and l-24th of an inch
in thickness; rolled it out, and constructed
pipe seven inches in diameter, which stood
a pressure of 250 feet perpendicular. Mr.
Chabot, of the Oakland Water Works, has
also made and brought into use a consider-
able quantity of very light pipe.

But the most extensive, systematic and
thorough tests yet made of the strength of
thin pipe material under a great head, took
place about a year ago in connection with
the water supply of this city under the
auspices of the Spring Valley Water Co.;
Messrs. Moore and Cummings, of the Ris-
don Iron Works, having the matter specially
in charge. The results arrived at were im-
mediately put into practice in the construc-
tion and laying of the 30-irich pipe which
is now supplying this city with water — a
length of seven miles. The greatest press-
ure at any point in that distance is 300 feet
perpendicular, and the iron made use of
there, in accordance with the tests pre-

viously made, is No. 9, or one-ninth inch
cast iron. At a great many places there is
a pressure of near 200 feet, at which either
No. 9 or No. 11 iron is used. No. 11 iron
is used to withstand the pressure at 100 feet
head, and No. 14 at 60 feet. The latter,
however, withstood, in the tests that were
made, a pressure of 140 pounds to the
square inch, equal to about 300 feet head;
the tests being made in the yard of the Ris-
don Works with an ordiuary hydraulic ap-
paratus, and allowed for at the rate of one
pound to two and three-tenths feet head.

In hydraulic mining the most common
description of pipe is from 12 to 14 inches
in diameter, and of No. 14 iron (l-14th of
an inch in thickness) the same withstand-
in?; from 100 to 300 feet head; the highest
pressure in use that we are aware of, being
400 feet, though we are unable to state
what weight of iron wasusedin that case.

Becently wrought iron pipes have been
brought into use to some extent in the
Spring Valley Water conduits. It is esti-
mated that one-sixteenth inch wrought iron
pipe affords the same resisting power as a
% inch of cast iron material, or that the
former is six times the strength of the lat-
ter. But as wrought iron costs much more
than cast iron for the same weight, the
point has not been proven, thus far, that
wrought irou is any cheaper than castiron.
Some tabular data on this subject are found
in " Molseworth's Mechanics Companion."

Back Again.

It is with pleasure that the senior Edi-
tor once more greets the readers of the
Press, after an absence of some six months
in the Atlantic States. The fact that the trip
was undertaken for the benefit, of his
health, wThich had become seriously im-
paired from long continued editorial la-
bors, is his only apology for silence during
so long an abseuce. Had circumstances
been different, it would have given him
much pleasure to have drawn from his
notes of travel many facts which would
doubtless have proved interesting and pos-
sibly instructive to our readers. It is with
much pleasure, however, that we are able
to refer with confidence to the satisfactory
manner in which the editorial chair has
been filled during our absence, and our
readers will doubtless share with us in the
additional satisfaction that they are not, for
the present at least, to be deprived of the
pleasure and instruction to be derived from
the facile and able pen of our late^iro tern.

At no former period in the history of in-
dustrial progress, has there been so much
apparent need, or so marked a desire for
the acquirement of practical knowledge as
is witnessed at the present day; and in no
department of knowledge is this necessity
so strongly felt as in those branches in-
volving the application of chemistry to
the arts and sciences, and to industry. The
one most important industrial specialty to
residents on this coast, is that of metallurgy.
This is one, the general importance of
which, has recently stimulated to a high
degree the minds of scholars and thinkers
of all countries, and the result has been
large additions to our stock of metallurgi-
cal knowledge, and greatly increased facili-
ties for pushing difficult metallurgical
operations to more successful and econom-
ical issues.

Notwithstanding the important progress
already made, we have good reason to hope,
in the immediate future, even more than
has been accomplished in the recent past.
Eully impressed with this opinion, we
shall endeavor to make the Mining and
Scientific Pkess in future, a still better
exponent of progress in this direction.

The difficulties involved in many of the
questions now brought forward in connec-
tion with mining and metallurgical opera-
tions seem to require, in carrying out the
above idea, that we should associate upon
our editorial staff one who, by recent per-

sonal inspection and foreign study, has be-
come thoroughly informed with regard to
the latest advances in this direction in Eu-
ropean practice and in the Europeon schools.
To this end we have secured the continued
advantage of the assistance above alluded
to. With such assistance, added to our
numerous valuable scientific coutributors,
we have no hesitation in promising that we
shall hereafter be able to make the Press of
far more practical value than heretofore —
that we shall be able to keep our readers
fully posted in every important industrial
improvement, and bring them into direct
and easy acquaintance with the most ad-
vanced truths of science.

The Paris Exposition Reports.

It will no doubt be a matter of consider-
able interest to most of our readers to learn
that active measures are in progress to
spread before the public a full and com-
prehensive report of the late Paris Univer-
salExposition. The work necessarily attend-
ant upon the production of such a report,
is much greater than would be supposed by
persons unacquainted with labors of this
kind; in fact, in thisinstance, it has greatly
exceeded the anticipations of the Commis-
sion which was appointed for its accom-
plishment.

The special reports from the different
commissioners have all, we believe, been
some time since handed in to the Secretary of
State; but it has been found necessary
in order to obtain from such a diversity of
material and writers, a unity of expression
and purpose, to submit the whole mass to
the supervising eye of one individual. Our
California readers will doubtless be pleased
to learn that this supervising labor has been
intrusted to the Commissioner from this
State— Professor William P. Blake. This
labor was undertaken at the request of the
State Department, and is now in a most sat-
isfactory state of forwardness.

The reports cover a wide range of sub-
jects, some of them constituting exhaustive
treatises upon their respective branches of
industry. The prominent authors are :
Professor Barnard, of Columbia College;
Professor Morse, Professor J. Lawrence
Smith, of Louisville, Ky.; Commissioner
General N. M. Beckwith, Mr. A. S. Hewitt,"
C. B. Norton, of New York, and Mr. E. B.
Mudge, of Mass. Professor Blake, of this
State, is the author of one of the most im-
portant of these reports — that on the Prec-
ious Metals, which is extended to a volume
of nearly 400 pages.

The series of reports is prefaced with a
" General Survey of the Exhibition; with
a report on the Character and Condition of
the United States Section." This volume
has been prepared by a special committee,
consisting of Messrs. Seymour, Evans, and
Auchincloss, assisted by Commissioner
Beckwith and Professor Blake. The entire
series, with the accompanying illustrations,
will form five or six large volumes of from
five to six hundred pages each. About fif-
teen hundred pages were already through
the press, but not yet bound, at the time of
our visit to Washington, the last week in
January, and comprised the following
special reports :

The "General Survey of the Exhibition,"
already alluded to; Beport on the Precious
Metals, by Professor Blake; the Production
of Iron and Steel, by A. S. Hewitt; Wool
and Manufactures of Wool, by E. B.
Mudge; Munitions of War, by C. B. Nor-
ton and W. J. Valentine; Silk and Silk
Manufactures, by E. C. Cowdin; on the
Fabrication and Use of Beton-Coignet (ar-
tificial stone), by L. F. Beckwith; on the
FineArts, by Frank Leslie; on Instruments
and Apparatus of Medicine, by T. W.
Evans. These pages, a set of which was
kindly placed in our possession, constitute
about one-half of the entire series. They
are beautifully printed, on very superior
paper; while the style of execution and
the arrangement of the details of the pub-

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licution reflect the highest credit upon the
Editor, Professor Blake, and the Congress-
ional printing office.

These reports do not present tho usiinl
slovenly and cheap appi aronce, which is
observed in ordinary public documents.
They are printed on new type, with profuse
and well-executed illustrations; and it is
gratifying to find In their appearance, that
public documents oan be made to assume
an interesting dress. It is in ''very way
Biting that this official report of oneof the
most, important industrial events of the
19th century, should thus be presented to
tho country and to the world, in a manner
ami form every way worthy of careful
study and permanent preservation.

Dry Barrel Amalgamation.

Eoferenco was mado in our last issue to
a dry barrel amalgamation process which,
we stated, had been under experimetal and
working test at the Miners' Foundry during
several months past, in the hands of the
inventor, Mr. Alniarin p. Paul.

Previous to the extended series of ex-
periments above referred to, this process
has been in operation for some time at the
Kearsarge mill, in Inyo County, where it
sjems to have originated. Mr. Paul's
claims in favor of tho success, and of the
great value of this process, are sufficiently
definite, and sustained by assays and docu-
mentary testimony, to enable us to present
a tangible statement in regard to it for the
information of metallurgists, so far as the
results are concerned. A patent having
been applied for, and the papers not yet re-
turned, wo are restricted to an outward de-
scription; the chemical reagents .used in
connection with the dry oro and quicksilver
in the revolving iron barrel being for the
present withheld. Bntasthe inventor him-
self does not pretend to explain the chem-
ical action in its details— claiming only that
the results are remarkably favorable, and
that friction electricity has something to
do with the matter — it may be as well to
ignore theory for the present, and to at-
tempt merely to state the facts.

The patent is named the " Paul & Wood
Electric Process," the patentees being A. B.
Paul, the introducerof the present Washoe
pan process, and I. L. Wood. We have
taken from Mr. Paul's statement the follow-
ing notes : The process was first brought
into practical operation six months ago on
the b^se silver ores of Kearsage District,
and has been at work privately in this city
for four months. It embodies in its results,
says Mr. Paul, the Patio, Freiberg barrel,
and Washoe pan processes. Its remarkable
feature is that all ores containing lead, cop-
per, antimony, and iron with the precious
metals, may be cheaply and successfully
amalgamated, and in such a manner that
only gold ami silver are taken up by the
mercury. The latter point is claimed to
he substantiated beyond all question. Cal-
ifornia gold ores are said to yield their
metals at a percentage never before attained
in any other manner. The machinery con-
sists of a plain hollow iron barrel, set in
brickwork, so as to revolve over a fire bed.
The ore is very thoroughly pulverized and
introduced dry, with certain chemicals not
specified; the barrel is set revolving and at
the same time the fire is kindled, heating
up the ore to a degree such as certainly to
expel all atmospheric dampness. The effect
of this, according to the inventor, is to cre-
ate electrical conditions in the ore which,
in some way unexplained, operate advan-
tageously. The evidence of the existence
of such electrical condition does not appear
to be anythingmore positive than thattheore
clings to the periphery of the iron cylinder,
and has the appearance of a body of mag-
netic particles clinging to a magnet. Mer-
cury is now introduced, and the fire with-
drawn; as the barrel revolves amalgama-
tion goes on rapidly. Two hours completes
most ores, though four hours is sometimes
necessary. Before introducing mercury
the heat must be allowed to subside so far
as to avoid all volatilization of the mercury.
The amalgamation being completed, the ore
is discharged in the shape of a mass of ore in-
timately mixed and combined with mercury
into a Steven's Galvanic Settler — a tub with
a copper bottom and floating zinc lid con-
taining acidulated water, constituting the
simple elements of a galvanic battery. The
negative pole being at the bottom, the
precious met:ds are precipitated, and run

off as usual. It is claimed that in this way
mercury is less liable to be lost, notwith-
standing its intimate admixture with large
quantities of barren oi*o or gangue, than in
ordinary wet amalgamation.

The circumstance alleged of amalgamat-
ing only tho gold and silver in ores com-
bined with such troublesome substances as
lead, copper and antimony, is ascribed by
Mr. Paul to the development of some new
principle, the nature of which will bo
moro fully dwelt upon hereafter.

The machinery certainly is simple and
inexpensive enough. Cylinders may be
made to contain from fifty pounds to fivo
tons; sago brush will make all the fire that
is necessary; and little water is required
for the settling, which may be used over
and over again; a fact which would render
this process applicable to many localities
where reduction has been heretofore im-
practicable.

A large number of certificates of the re-
sult of workings by this process, in com-
parison with ordinary wet amalgamation,
have accumulated in the iuventor'R hands
from which we select the following :

Mr. T. B. Wingard, Secretary of the
Kearsarge Gold and Silver Mining Com-
pany, Inyo County, states that in conse-
quence of the ores of that company being
so thoroughly impregnated with lead, an-
timony, and other rebellious substances,
they have not been able to get out over
$123 to the ton by pan working, and the
bullion went down to forty-seven cents to
the ounce; while by this process the same
ore was worked up to $314 to the ton, and
the bullion brought out was .962 fine, or
§1.91 to the ounce, of which ©1.21 was sil-
ver, and 70 cents gold; chemically pure
silver being $1.29 to the ounce.

Mr. Henry B. Beed, Superintendent of
the Cordillera Mining Company, Chihua-
hua, Mexico, testifies that the moderately
rebellious ores of that district worked up
to $780 per ton by ordinary pan amalgama-
tion, and to $867. 40 by the present process.
Nathaniel Page, of the Quartz Mountain
mine, Mariposa County, states that some
auriferous pyrites from that mine were
worked by the Plattner chlorination, and
also by the present process; resulting in
favor of the latter by the difference of the
silver contained in the ore, which is lost
in Plattner's chlorination; amounting to
$i or $5 to the ton.

Mr. N. O. Noyes, of the Chase mine, Ari-
zona, containing gold sulphurets with some
galena, states that he could not obtain $10
a ton bycnill working, while this process
paid him $37.74, the ore assaying $44.86,—
nearly all gold.

We are informed by Mr. Paul that three
different parties, who have thoroughly and
practically tested thisprocess, have ordered
the necessary apparatus at the Miners'
Foundry, viz': Mr. Chapin, of Silver City,
Nevada; Mr. Noyes, of Prescott, Arizona;
and the Silver Sprout Company, Inyo
County.

Mechanics' Institute. — The last monthly
meeting of the San Francisco Mechanics'
Institute, was more than usually important
on account of the installation of the new
officers, and of various propositions consid-
ered. Mr. Hallidie, the outgoing, and also
the incoming President, read bis annual ad-
dress, in which he alluded to the rapid ad-
vance of the mechanic arts, and mentioned
especially the proposals to establish a Poly-
technic Institution, in connection with
the Institute, which subject is in
the hands of a committee. The Institute,
he said, was steadily and surely progress-
ing. It now numbers 1,399 members, has
a library of 12,431 volumes, and property
worth $140,854. Mr. Brittan advocated a
re-incorporation of the Institute, and in the
course of his remarks favored the removing
of all entrance fees to the library. His
motion to direct the officers to take the
necessary steps to re-incorporate, was car-
ried.

Becetved. — We have received " Lower
California, its Geography and Character-
istics, with a sketch of tho Grant and Pur-
poses of the Lower California Co., 8vo. pp.
44. Also a copy of the Transactions of the
California State Agricultural Society, from
the late Secretary, Mr. I. N. Hoag, contain-
ing amongst other valuable matter, the re-
port of Wm. P Blake on California pro-
ductions, etc., at the Paris Exposition."

Annual Beport of the Hale & Nor
cross. — We have received the eighth an-
Dual report of this prominent mining com-
pany, embracing the statements of George
S. Mann, President, C. C. Thomas, Super-
intendent, and Joel F. Lightner, Secretary,
with an ore table showing the entire pro-
duct of the mine. The cost of reduction
is given at only $13.09% per ton.

Continental Life Insurance Company,
203 Montgomery street, corner of Pine.

New Job Printing Office.

In order to devote our attention more exclu-
sively to tho publication of our pnper,and the bus-
iness of our American and Foreign Patent Agency,
we have disposed of tho pressea and job printing
material, and fixtures, in our office — with the en-
tire future good will and patronage of our Job
Printing Office, — to George Spaulding and
Harrison Barto. Messrs. Spaulding & Barto will
coutinue the operation of the same, in our office,
414 Clay street, under the title of " Tho Mining
and Scientific Press Job Printing Office."

Both of these gentlemen are practical printers
of good attainments and enviable reputation.
They have been long engaged in this office, and it
is with pleasure that we can recommend them to
the favor and patronage of all our old customers
in the line of Job Printing. A. T. Df.wet.
W. B. Ewer.

P. S- — This change relates to our job printing
department alone, our parent agency and news-
paper business remaining as before.

Dewet & Co.,
Mining and Scientific Press Office, 414 Clay

street.

March 1, I860.

California Protective Association. — One
of the noteworthy features of a progressive civili-
zation consists in the large and increasing num-
ber of associations organized for the relief, protec-
tion, or to advance the interests of their members,
respectively, embracing all classes of the commu-
nity, and nearly every branch of industrial pursuit.
The attention of our readers is specially called to
the prospectus of tho above mentioned associa-
tion, which appears in full in our advertising col-
umns. As this form of insurance is comparatively
new, and different in some respects from most life
plans, it is worthy of examination, and possesses
somo attractions not presented by the latter. The
objects, advantages, and general management of
the association, are t>o fully set forth as to obviate
the necessity of an extended notice. ^*^

Returned.— Dr J. H. Paine. DcntiHl. Wadsworth Hruse,
No. 2-25 Basil street, between the Occidciitaland Cnsiiioeuli-
tun Llotcls, San Francisco. 21vl7-lm

O. M Tatlok, who acted as agent a brief time for this
paper in Washoe, is n quested to call at or ad.lrcss tills office,
without fail.

PootogRjH'iiy.— For Cabinet Photographs, or Enameled
Cards, of the very besi quality, you must {to to the NEW
YORK GALLERY, Nos. 25 and 27 Third street, San Fran-
cisco. Every piclure warranted to give satisfaction.

il)vl8 Gm B. F. UofUND.

[From the n-w " Oominlon.J

At this season, when couubs and cidds are so prevalent,
an enVettial remedy, and one easily obtained. Is Perry
Davis' Vegetable 1'aio Killer. It is no new nostrum, vei ded
bv unknown agents, but has stood tile test of over twenty
years, and those who use the article, internally or exter-
nally, will connrci with it grntcful recollections of Its
worlhy inventor —Husling*' Chronicle, C. W

Pai.v KiLi-Ett.— The testimonials borne to the efficacy of
this valuable medicine arc sufficient to warrant Its Iniro-
duelion in every house, our own opinion Is lhat nc family
should be without a bottle of it for a single hour. In flesh
wounds, aches, pams, sores, etc.it is the most effectual
remedy we know of. A bolile will last for a very long
time, and its low price places it within iho reach ot all.—
St John Nairn.

flrS-VVe are clad lo learn that the "Pain Killer" is having
so large a sale in our city. We have every reason to believe
It to be an almost never failing cure lor pain. and n medi-
cine that no family should he without.— Montreal Pilot.

Tile Pain Killer is sold by ad Drugglsis and dealers in
Family .Medicines.

ItEUlNGTUN ,fc CO.. and llflSTETTER & SMITH, San
Francisco Cul , General Wholesale Agents. mint

O .A. K I> PICTTTKES,

ONE DOLLAR PER DOZEN,

And Photographs, Ambrotypcs and Sun Pearls, by first

class artists, at the lowest rates,

At SILVA'S, 04 Third Street",

Northwest corner of Mission, San Francisco.

Ilvl8-3ra

ELECTitoTYCE Enguavisos, Curs. Eto.— Our Job Printing

nthce is abundantly supplied with elegant engravings, or
naments. and other embellishments to suit the various
branches of Industry In this Slate

To Quartz Miners.

Having a new system of Amalgamation, styled the

PAUL & WOOD ELECTRIC PROCESS,

And which has been so I'ul.v tested as to be worthy of your
consideration, l n<>w invite it, relying only on the precious
metals produced, cheapness and simplicity of machinery,
to gain favor lor It.

Partial having mlnei containing a high percentage of
gold and silver, but which cunn >t be obtained, on account
of fineness, or rebellious churnetcr of the ^re. wlK do well
to investigate. Attention given tocoinmun'catlons.
Address, ALMARIN B. P.U'L.

408 California at., or Miners' Foundry.

llvlS lin Snn Knuielseo.

PROSPECTUS

—OF—

THE SALT POINT
SILVER MINING COMPANY.

Thl3 mine Is situated on the western slope of Treasure
HIM, about half a mile Trom Trensuro City.

It Is admirably located for working purposes, being on
the hillside, at an elevation of six hundred feet ahovo the
flat or "swale" through wblch the road to Shcrmnntown
passes. The road is on an easy grade, abotit *«ne mile frrm
Shermantown, where the prln'ipnl mills are located. The
flat in front of the mine affords ample room for the damp-
ing and piling up of milling ore.

The mine Is surrounded by fine groves of trees of a largo
growth; the wood of which for fuel can be purchased at $8
per corl, and at a corresponding rate for timber for mining
purposes.

The ledge lies favorably for working by a tunnel or cut.
It Is well defined, and apparently from ten to twelve feet ,
In width. Assays of the rock are remarkably uniform in
character, ranging from S3f0 to $385 per ton.

Work Is now being done upon the mine, and It Is believed
that the sale of One Thousand Shares of Full Paid Stock
at $2 50 per share will give all Ihe working capital neces-
sary for its development. The Company are i ow wot king
'hi? mine, throuch a shaft from fifteen to twenty feet in
depth, and, so far as developed, the mine shows Itself f> be
one of the richest and most extensive In this wonderfully
rich District. Within a few days the owners have been of-
fered for the whole mine $'0,000, but prefer to sell a portion
for working capital at a lesser rate.

Subscriptions received.at the ofllce of the Company, No.
211 California street.

E. J. WEEKS, President.

O. DICKINSON, Jr., Treasurer.

Ilvl8-2w T. A. MUDGE, Secretary.

To 3VTiniiig Secretaries.

THE NEW COMBINED

Stock Ledger and Journal,

The most simplified form that has ever yet been offered to
the public, is now ready, for sale. This one book Is a com-
plete abbreviation of the old Ledger, Journal and Transfer
Book, and therefore takes the place of the three.

Stock Incorporations

Now organizing a -c Invited to examine this Book before
buying the old style.

JOHN «. HODGE A GO.,
Importers and Wholesale Stationers,
:f2T, 320 and 331 Sansome street, cor. Sacramento.
lOvlS-lm

PACIFIC

Rolling Mill Company,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Established for the Manufacture of

RAILROAD AND OTHER IRON

— AND —

Every "Variety of Jsiliaffcingr,

Embracing ALL SIZES of
Steamboat Shafts, Crunk", Plnton and Con-
necting KodifCnrnnd locomotive Axles
and Frames

— AtSO —

HAMMERED IRON

Of every description and size.

B®* Orders addressed to PACIFIC ROLLING MILL
COMPANY Post Office, San Francisco, Cal., will receive
prompt nttentinn.

93r The highest price paid for Scrap Iron. 9vU3m9p

Crucibles.

The Patent Plumbago Crucible Co.,

Manufacturers of all kinds of

Melting Pots, Portable Furnaces,

CRUCIBLES, and other fire-standing Goods,
GISatterKea. Woi'kit,"London.
THE MORGAN PATENT CRUCIBLES have uniform
Quallly, never craclt, withstand the greatest beat wtihont
danger; heats more rapidly than any otlicr; change of tem-
perature has no effect on tbem; stand on the average forty
to fifty poii rings.
On hand and for sale by the Agents,

A. S. HALL1BIE .V CO.,
IvlS-:imOp 51» Front street, San Francisco

$20,000 to $35,000.

A PRACTICAL SMELTER wishes to enlist capital to
build a Furnace on a Mine of rich Argent I terous Galena at
White Pins. From $80U to SI.OUO a day can be cleared
with ease. Security and best of references, etc., given.
Address, WM. F.HILTON,

7vl3-!m9p San Francisco P. O.

170

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinists and Foundries.

PALMER, KNOX & CO.,

Golden State Iron Works,

Koi, 19, «1, 33 and 25 First Street,

SAN FKANC1SCO.

UANOFACTDltE ALL KINDS OF

MACHINERY,

g i'EAM £\UI\£» AND QUAItTZ MiLLs
DUNBAR'S IMPROVED

B5elf--A.djustins X»iston. I*aclciiig,

Requires no springs or screws; is always steam tight;

without excessive friction, and never

getstdack or leaky.

WHEELER & RANDALL'S

NEW GBLWEK AMI* AMALGAMATOK

HEPBURN & PETERSON'S

AUALGAMATOIt AXIS SEPAKATOK,

Knox's -A-mnlsramatoi-S;,

WITH PALMER'S PATENT STEAM CHEST,

Superior tor working either GOLD OR SILVER ORES, and
b the only Amalgamator that has stood the test of seven
years' continual working.
Ueuulue White Iron Stamp Shoes and Dies

Having been engaged for the past ten years in quam
mining, and being conversant with all the improvements,
either in Mining or Milling, we are prepared to furnish, at
the shortest notice, the most perfect machinery tor reduc
ng ores, or saving either gold or silver. 13vlUqy-tf

IK.I P. ItASKIN.

A. P. BRAYTON.

A. C. AUSTIN.

Pacific Iron Works.

First and Fremont Streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Having been established since 1851, we have accumulated
a very large variety of Gear and other Patterns, v. hich,
with our superior tools and appliances, give u« taciliuestor
doing tirst class wort uiieyuuled on the Pacidc Coast.

Among other things, we manufacture the following :

SSXEAM EJXG-I1V IflaS,

Horizontal and Vertical, for either Stationary or Marine

use.

BOILERS- High and Low Pressure,

Pump, Pipe and Sheet Iron Work of every kind.

Quartz Mill "Worlt,

Including High and Low Mortars, for wet or dry crushing-

Kurnact Irons I'or Roasting Ores; Freiberg Jlarrels;

Varney's and Wlieeter's Amalgamating Pans

and .Settlers; Stamp Shoes and Dies of

best White Iron; Russia Iron

Screens, etc., etc.

Flour Mill, Saw Mill and Sugar Mill Work in every variety;

Pumping and Hoisting Machinery; Hansbrow's

Paieut Challenge Pump, for Dumeauc,

Ship and Mining use— the moat

approved aud successtul

Pump manufactured.

Caatlns* »f every description, Iron aud Brass.

(Ye would call especial attention to "Wright's Patent Va-
riable Cut-off Engines," of which we are the sole manufac-
turers on the rueinc Coast, under license from the tvuotl-
ruff it Beach Co., tlartiord, Ct, As a simple, ettective, fo^l
saving, Jtrst-eUss Engine, this is, without doubt, the best
Engine made in the United States.

Orders promptly attended to. Prices as low as possible
for hist class work, and we intend to do no other.

ttOA»l>AlCi> «fc CO.

San Francisco, May 1, 1868. lavltiif

WILLAMETTE IRON WORKS,

POUTLlMt, OKEfiOA.

©team. Engines, Boilers,
SAW AND CRIST MILLS,

MINING MACHINERY, WROUGHT IRON SHUTTER
WORK, AND BLACKSMITHING IN GENERAL.
Corner JVorth-Front and E streets,

18vI3-ly One block north of Couch's Wharf.

Globe Iron Worts,

STOCK. TO X, (;.IL,

KEEP & BARGION,

JLAM'F.ICTUKERS OF

(Quartz, Saw and Grist Mill Irons, Steam
Engines, Horse Powers,

High and Low Pressure Steam Engines, Steamboats and

* Propellers, made at short notice,

13vl3Lf

J. M-.WMl.iM. J. BIGWOOD,

SOUTH BEACH IRON WORKS,

Near corner of King and Third streets, San Francisco.
MAKIXE ENGOES,

AND ALL KINDS OF

MACHINERY FORGING,

All kinds of Ship-smithing and Mill work manufactured to
order. Jobbing ol every description promptly attended to.
All work dune guaranteed. lifvU-ly

CALIFORNIA BRASS FOUNDRY.

Ao. 1S5 Pimt street, opposite Minna,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Ai.l kinds of Brass, Composition, Zinc, and Babbitt Metal
Castings, Brass Ship Work of nil kinds, Spikes, Sheathing
Nails, Rudder iir&ces, Hinges, ship and Steamboat Bells mid
Gongs of superior tone. All kinds of Cocks aud Valves, Hy-
draulic I'ipes and Nozzles, and Hose Couplings and Connec-
tions ot all sizes and patterns, furnished with dispatch.

O®- PRICES MODERATE. -fi»

J. P. GALLAGHER. J. H. WEED V. KINO WELL.

9via-ly

Miners' Foundry

— AND —

MACHINE WORKS

Kos. 245 to 255 Ftrst Stbeet, ^

San Francisco.

HOWLAND, ANGELL & CO.,

lMtOPKIi/JL'OKS,

Manufacturers of Blachinery for

41IABTZ MILLS.
SAW HILLS,
l'OWSLE MILLS,

FLOUR MILLS,
Sl'GAK MILLS,
PAl'LB MILLS

Steam Engines of all Kinds.
Amalgamators of all Kinds.

aiMse pumps,

OII..IVE1.L TOOLS,

HOISTIft'tt "WOIEKS

KOCK It it KAKKHS

Machinery and Castings of all kinds, either
of Iron or Brass.

Boilers and Sheet Iron Work in all its
Branches.

shoea and Diet) of White Iron, mrmDfactnred
for and imported by u, exuresgly J'oi- thi-. , m-
po»e, UUU will liiKtSS per it,.!, longer Ihan i.ny
other made ou this const.

Russia Iron Screens, of anydeerce of fineness,
■We ure the only manufacturers on this coast ot
the

HICKS ENGINE,
The most compact, simple In construction, and

durable, of any .Engine in use.
W. M. 11U \V LAJ If, H. B. ASfiELL,

UvU-qr CTTKUS PALMEB.

FULTON

Foundry and Iron Works.

HIMCKLSY k CO.,

HANDFACTORE-RS OF

STEAM ENGINES,
Quartz, iriour and. iSaTT Mills,

Huye*' Improved Steam Pump, Brodle'i Im-
proved Cruvher. Alinlntr Pumpft,

Amalsainst'ir'-, and nil h. in tin
of Machinery.

N. E. comer of Tehama and Fremont streets, above How
ard street, San Francisco. 3-qy

McAfee, spiers & co,

I* O I L E R MAKERS

AND GENERAL MACHINISTS,

Howard Jt, between Fremont and Bealc, San Francisco.

Flue or Tubular Boilers, iv tin j.lain circular or spiral
courses. Upright Hue or Tubular Boilers, Locomotive and
and Marine Boilers, and Wrought Iron Tanks of every de-
scription.

it vuruultc Pipe supplied at reasonable rates. In or-
dering, Rive Lhe quantity of water to be supplied, night of
the fall, and toiat length of pipe, .so as to enable the Ann to
determine the diameter of the pipe and thickness of iron to
be used.

Repair*.— Boilers, Smoke Stacks, Pipes, etc., put in re-
pair with promptness.

To Boiler Multt-m and MiiehltilxtH In the In-
terior.—The firm is prepared to furnish estimates of
Boilers.su ply new Heads, drilled aud punched, and attend
to the selection and forwarding ol Iron fur Boilers, Pipes
and other purposes.

Plana, I>ra\vingK and Specification*.— The firm
is prepared to make out Plans and Specifications, ieceive
estimates, and superintend the Erection of any Machinery
that may be entrusted to their care

To Inventors.— The firm is prepared to assist in de-
veloping the plans of those who have the ideas but not the
practical experience necessary to put the same in form, by
milking Drawings or their Inventions, giving them the ben-
efit of their practical knowledge m the construct ion of Ma-
chinery, and attending to the manufacture aud mtniduc-
tion of their inventions. lvltitf

urciOBi mow works,

Sacramento.

WILLIAMS, ROOT & NEILSON,

MANUFACTUHKRS OF

■iTEAM ENGINES, BOILERS,

CROSS' PATENT BOILER PEF.DER AND SEDIMENT
COLLECTOR,

And all kinds of Mining Machinery.

Also, Hay and Wine Presses made and repaired
with neatness, durability and dispatch.

Dunbar's Patent Self-Adjusting Steam Piston

Front Street, between X and O streets,

llvll Sacraxexto ClTT

THOMPSON BROTHERS,
EUREKA FOUNDRY,

LIGHT AND HUTT CASTINGS,

of every description, nuinufucturcd iMvieqr

JAMES MACKEN,

COPPER8MITH,

£2G Fremont St., bet. Mo ward Si FoIxgil

All kinds of COPPER WORK done to order tn the besi
manner. Particular attention paid to Steamboat, Sugai
House and Distillery work.

G. T.-FRACV.
MACHINE WORKS,

NOS. 109 and 111 MISSION STREET,
Between Main and Spear.

New and second hand

Engines and Boilers,

FOR SALE.

Also one first-class Hoisting

Engine ; one (Jnrjgjic

.Engine, oi entirely

new pattern.

MANUFACTURER OF

X-atlxes, Drills,

And MILL MACHINERY of
every description.

F It A. C Y * S

New and Improved
STEAM ENOINE

REGULATORS,

The hest and cheapest yet In-
vented— ma nu fnetured and
for sale. Parties are In-
vlti-d to examine It
in prnetirai op-
eration.

F. A. HUNTINGTON'S

Shingle Machines

on hand.

Particular attention paid to
Repairing.

arantced to be done in a first-class man-
■est rates. I2vl7ti

THE KISDON

Iron and Locomotive Works.

Incorporated, April 30, 1S6S. Capital, $1,000,000.

Location of Works, Corner Beale and Howard streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Successors to Pacific Mail s. S. Co. Works at Benicio; Coffey

& Risdon, and Devoc, Dinsinorc A Co., ban Francisco.

Steam Engine Builders, Boiler Walters,

MACHINISTS AND FOUNDRYMEN.
All work in their line attended to with promptness and
dispatch.

Directors:

Chas.E. McLnne,
John N. Risdori,
Joseph Moore.

S. F. Buttorworth,
1.1. .v.l Tevis,
Jas. Pollock,
ecn. llolladay.

JOHN N. RTSDON, President.

Jnsenh Moore. Vice President and Superintendent; Chan.
E. McLniie. treasurer; Lewis U. Mead, Secretary; Lewis
Coffey, Superintendent Boiler Works. 2lvI7qy

NOBLE & FLEMING,
M A. O H I 3V E WORKS,

No. lO Stevenson street, near First,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Particular attention given to repairs on Portable and Sta-
tionary Enelues; also all kinds of Wood Wnrking
Machinery; Shaftings, Hangers, Pulleys, etc.
made to order; Screw Cutting. Iron
Planing, and all kinds of JOB
WORK promptly at. ended to.
Agents Tor F. S. Perkins' Engine loathes,
Planers, TTprlsht Brills,
And all kinds ot MACHINISTS' TOOLS; also the Davis
Wood Planer and Mitre Dove-Tailing Machines.
ttgy-Also, on hand Cor sale a complete set of T'mlsfnr
making Blacking Boxes, consisting of Press, Dies, Shears,
and Crimping Machine, etc. 4vl8-or

JONATHAN KITTEEDGE, Proprietor,

\on. 18 and SO Fremont street, near Market,

a.l.M'l.U'ILTiKI. OF

Fire-Proof Doors, Shutters,

Wrought Iron Girders, and all kinds of Housesmith work,
Bridge and Prison Work;

BANE VAULTS A3SD MOHITOE SAFES

FORGING AM> MACHINE WOEK.

Agency for the ISHAM.KEY REGISTER BANK AND SAFE
LOCK, the only first class Lock in the
lvl7tf United States

CITY IRON WORKS COMPANY.

CLEBC & CO.,
IKON FOUNDERS,

■ilea ai J£nxliie Builders and Makers of all
kinds of Machinery,

6vllfinr No. 28 Fremont street, San Francisco.

FOUNDRY FACINGS.
BENJAMIN" ELLIOT,

No. 483 Brannan street San Francisco,

Manufactures Foundry Faclnps constantly, trom choice
coals. Bituminous, packed in lisht sacks. Anthracite and
Charcoal cround together or separate, packed in whole
or hall barrels Black Lead. Coke and Soapscniie ground to
order. Foundrymell located far from choice material, can
rely on having superior Fucines forwarded to order.
lOylStir

Fatknt ort-icK Bkcohts, from ls.J.1 to 1847, Mkchamcal
arc wanted for d indicate copies ai .his office. Parties hav
i:ig Iheni tor sale will please state price, and address
DEWEY ,t CO., Mining and Scientific Press otlice, San
Francisco.

Science and Abt go hand in hand.— The
following isfromanew work entitled "How
Crops Grow," by S. "W. Johnson, P.-ofes-
sor of Agricultural Chemistry in the Shef-
field Scientific School, Yale College :

" Strictly considered, the art and science
of agriculture are of equal age, and have
grown together from the earliest times.
Those who first cultivated the soil by dig-
ging, planting, manuring and irrigating,
had their sufficient reason for every step.
In all cases, thought goes before work, and
the intelligent workman always has a the-
ory upon which his practice is planned.
No farm was ever conducted without
physiology, chemistry and physics, any
more than an aqueduct or a railway was
ever built without mathematics and me-
chanics. Every successful farmer is, to
some extent a scientific man. Let him
throw away the knowledge of facts and the
knowledge of principles which constitute
his science, and he has lost the elements of
his success. The farmer without his rea-
sons, his theory, his science, can have no
plan ; and these wanting, agriculture would"
be as complete a failure with him as it
would be with a man of mere science, desti-
tute of manual, financial and executive
skill." * * * "It is the boast of some who
affect to glory in the sufficiency of practice
and decry theory, that the former is based
upon experience, which is the only safe
guide. This is a one-sided view of the mat-
ter. Theory is also based upon experience,
if It be truly scientific. The vagarizing of
an ignorant and undisciplined mind is not
theory. Theory in the good and proper
sense, is always a deduction from facts,
the best deduction of which the stock of
facts in our possession admits. It is the
interpretation of facts. It is the expres-
sion of the ideas which facts awaken when
submitted to a fertile imagination and well
balanced judgment. A scientific theory is
intended for the nearest possible approach
to the truth. Theory is confessedly im-
perfect, because our knowledge of facts is
imcomplete, our mental insight weak and
our judgment fallible. But the scientific
theory which is formed by the contribu-
tions of a multitude of earnest thinkers and
workers, among whom are likely to be the
most gifted intellects and most skillful
hands, is, in these days, to a great extent
worthy of the divine truth in nature, of
which it is the completest human concep-
tion and expression."

Decades.— It is a curious fact, says the
Times, that gold was discovered in Califor-
nia in 1818, and the rush to the Pacific
coast took place in 1849. Silver was dis-
covered at Washoe in 1858, and the immi-
gration thither commenced in 1859. The
fabulous treasures of White Pine were dis-
covered in 1868, and during this year of
1869, a prodigious human tide will set to-
ward the new Silverado from both sides of
the continent. The movements of the car
of progress seem to be by decades. That
of 1878 and 1879 will probably be the ab-
sorption of the Spanish American republics
down as far as Panama ; provided circum-
stances shall not have precipitated the event
before the coming decade is half over.

Difference between Disinfectants
and Antiseptics. — The antiseptics, such
as corrosive sublimate, arsenical acids, car-
bolic acid, etc., act, as such, by destroying
all sources of decay and decomposition ;
that is to say, they destroy or prevent the
formation of the germs of putrefaction and
fermentation, without acting on the min-
eral or vegetable matters present ; while
disinfectants operate either by oxydizing
the gaseous prodiicts given off by pu-
trefaction, as in the case with permanga-
nate of potash, or by removing their hydro-
gen, as is the case with chlorine. — Medical
Investigator.

Machine Power and Labor. — The ma-
chine power of Eugland and Wales is com-
petent to perform the labor of nearly six
hundred million of men, and is probably
greater in productive capacity than the
labor power of all the world beside. The
machine power of the United States, though
growing with amazing rapidity, does not
more than equal the labor power of two
hundred millions of men.

Sadt Lake Permanently Eising. — It is
stated that explorations made by General
Conner on Salt Lake, in his new steamer,
prove that the water has risen thirteen feet
since the first surveys, and is rising now
one foot per year. The boat ran for a mile
in one place over what was grazing land
five years ago. It is thought that perhaps
the subterranean outlet has been partially
choked up.

Tr\e Mining and Scientific Press.

171

Colobed Flames Produced by Alka-
line Salts. — Tobacco contains nitrate of
]»»tu:-h. If a cigar be lighted at or near
the edge of a flame of a common bat-wing
gas bur Dei beautiful violet tinge will be
imparted to the flame. The violet color ia
the characteristic color of the heated rapor
of potassium salts. Soda imparts to the
flame a rich yellow tint. Very minute
quantities of these metals can be detected
thus ; but the flame ought to be as free as
posaible from the ropers of other sub-
stances, as the presence of more than one
may easily obscure, or at least modify the
tint of the flame, so as to prevent the suc-
cess of the experiment. The salts of sodi-
um (more particularly the chloride) are to
bo found almost everywhere. Even the
dust floating in the air contains it. Light
your alcohol lamp, set it upon your table,
and let it stand until the flame is steady.
Now drop a book upon the table. Instantly
your flame, which was before a very pale
blue, emitting very little light, becomes
strongly luminous and bright yellow. This
is because you have raised a dust, and some
of its particles containing chloride of sodi-
um have passed into and have been vapor-
ized by the flame. — Scientific American.

The New Zealand Gold FreLDS. — The
Thames District, not far from Aukhrnd, on
the northern Island, are continuing toyield
remarkably well. A crushing of 21b'
pounds of rock, taken from the vein worked
in the Dawn of Hope claim, yielded 252
ounces of retorted gold ; and a piece of
gold quartz found in the Clyde claim, on
Tapu creek, which weighed 25 ounces
lt,roy), was estimated to contain at least
Beven -eighths of pure gold of a very rich
quality. It was washed out of the quartz
taken from the vein at a depth of twenty-
eight feet, and comprised flakes of pure
gold, intermixed with quartz of a semi-crys-
tallized and brown character. The line
rabbje accompanying the quartz was thick
with gold.

Coose Bay Coal. — The coal business at
Coose Bay is having a rapid and renewed
development ; and at no time since the com-
mencement of the shipping of coal from
that point in 1850 to this port, has that
branch of industry looked so favorable as
at present. We understand that the East-
port Coose Bay Coal Mining Co. intend to
ship large quantities to this market hence-
forth. The members are Levi Stevens, I.
W. Raymond, J. S. Dean, Oliver Eldridge,
Claus Spreckles, TV. H. Sharp, and J. Law-
rence Pool. From the report of Mr. Ash-
burner, the mining engineer, who has made
a thorough survey of the coal fields of
Coose Bay, it appears that the coal produced
from the mine of this company is of the
quality known as " brown coal ;" that it is
of a superior quality for domestic pnrposes,
is remarkable clean, leaves but little ash,
burns without disagreeable odor, and can
be laid down in San Francisco at a cost of
seven dollars per ton. The mine belong-
ing to the above company comprises six
hundred and forty acres of land, underlaid
by the coal deposit. — S. F. Times.

Density and the Boiling Poixt.— The
presence in a liquid of a substance dissolved
in it (as salt in water) resists ebullition
arid raises the temperature at which the
liquid boils. The boiling point of satu-
rated brine under one atmosphere is 2iC°
Fah., and that of weaker brine is higher
than the boiling point of pure water by
1 2° Fah. for each I-32d of salt that the
water contains. Average sea-water contains
1 32d; and the brine in marine boilers is
not suffered to contain more than from
2-32ds to 3-32ds.

G-EO. E. RO&ERS,

(Successor to G. W. Bell.)

A. S ft* A. Y E It ,

SIS California. at., San Fi-uucIhco.

.1. A. .MARS, Asaaycr.
Ores carefully Assayed. Gold and Silver Ores worked.

■-!3vUM|rlUi>nr

rump Leather.

Tbo attention of MIXING COMPANIES, and others re-
quiring a superior article for Hydraulic purposes, Isinvlled
to tlic heavy Oaked Tanned Pump Leather, manufactured
and prepared expressly by the unnV rsfene<L

TANH E^

N E.JONES &C? ^

Constantly mi imuJ and lor. sale uy

ORA.Y, JONES «fc CO.,

. Depot of the Santa Cruz Tannery,

418 Battery St., Sun Francisco.

2jvl,'-ly

Business Cards.

RODG-ERS. MEYER & CO.,

C031MIS9ION MERCECAJffX©,

ADVANCES HA UK

On all Linda of Oit«, and particular attention

PAID TO

COXSIOXMFVTS OF GOODS.
tvlO-Sm

AAT1IAMKL GHAT.

II. M. GHAT.

N. GRAY & CO.,

U TV I> 33 II T A. IC E K 8 ,

S41 Sacramento SL, cor. Wcbh, San Francisco.

Farmers and Mechanics
BANK OF SAYINGS,

No. -'- • Siiiinimi- Street.

Interest paid on Deposits. Money Loaned on Real Estate.
H. BUTTON, President.

GEO M CONDEE Pushier. l!ivlfi-3m

J. J. JONES,

CA.RPENTEn ana UUILDER,

\u. tlUk Juckion Street* between Sumiome and

Battery,

FREDERICK MANSELL.

Mechanical & Architectural Draughtsman,

No. 122 California street, corner of Leidsdorff.

Drawings of Mookls made for parties apply for pa^
cuts at Waihinnton or London. ar23-tf.

W. T. ATWOOD,

riTllCHASER OF

COPPER ORES, BARS, MATT, Etc., Etc,,

-*iO."» Montgomery wtrcet, San Frnnc.NCO.

The highest market price paid for ores assaying 10 per cent.
;3vi7qr

S. FOLK. G. TUCUOLSKY.

S. FOLK & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS OF

WADDI\6,BATTIVG, and COMFORTERS

111 and 113 Br aim an st.. Between Third und Fourth,
san francisco. 4vJ8qr

"W". C. CA PBELL.

PATTERN' AND MODEL MAKER,

E0 TEAMSTERS!

CONTINUE TO

CELEBRATED

H & L Axle Grease,

To which you have given so decided a
preference for the last

FOURTEEN YEARS,

It is the only reliable article

Every care will continue ts be used to sus-
tain the high reputation the II & L Axle
Grease, has so long and justly attained.

sure and ask for the H & L brand,
and Pee that the

TRADE MARK H & L

IS ON THE COVER OF THE PACKAGE

NONE OTHER IS GENUINE.
FOK SALE IN EVERY STATE IN TEE UIION,

The Perfection of Prepared Cocoa..

MARAYILLA COCOA.

Sole Proprictors-TAYLOlt BROTHERS, London.

The Cocoa (or C;icao) of Maravilta is tlie true Thcobrom.i
of Uniueus. Cocoa is indigenous lo South America, nf
which Mflravilla is a favored portion. Taylor broth-
ERS having secured the exclusive supply of this unri-
valled Cocoa, h ive, by the skillful implication of their sol*
ulde principle a'ld elaborate machinery, produced what is
so undcniahlv the perfection ot Prepared Cocoa, that it lias
not only secured 'lie pret'eence of hoinre ipaths and cocoa-
drl niters generally, but many who had hitherto not found
any preparation to suit them, have, after one trial, adopted
the Maravilla Cocoa as their coiisiaut beverage lor break-
last, luncheon, etc.

"A SUCCESS U.XPRECEDEXTED."

[See following extract from the Globe of May 14, 1868.]
"Various Importers and manufacturers have attempted
to attain a reputation for their prepared Cocoas, but we
doubt whether any thorough success had been achieved
until Messrs. T *ylor Brothers discovered the extraordinary
qualities of "Maravilla" Cocoa. Adaption tlljir perfect
py.lem of pre miration to this finest of all Species of the
Theobroma, they have produced an article which super-
sedes every other Cocoa in the market. Entire solubility,
a delieate aroma, and a rare concentration of the purest
elements of nutrition, distinguish r lie Mmivilla Cocoa
above all o;hers. For homoeopaths and invalids we could
not recommend a more agreeable or valuable beverage.

Sold i-' packets onlv by all Grocers, of whom alto may
be had Ta\ lor Brothers' imchml ll-mireupnthie Cocoa aud
boluble Chocolate, Steam "Mi-\ Brick Lane. London.
CvlS-ly

Professional Cards.

J. S. PHILLIPS, M. E.,
corvsTJiL/ritVG engineer,

Examiner of "M im ■», ete.,

4X3 WasblngtOU Btreot San Francisco.

iiia\ lug had S3 i ears' expoi lonce in Europe and America,)
suppltod drawings nnd design* for I'uinplug, uolsilug,
Crushing Separating, Koaattng, Ghlorlnizl ig, Hilling, Lis
Ivtatlng, Prcciiiliatln r, and Smelling Works. Mineral* ah-
iilyced, and hutIcu Riven for bouuDciu] treatment Lcs
bods heDiaorluilnttlon md Aaaay of Minerals bj Blow-
pipe, utivmlcal-t, s turiflei aa 1 Orucibla. iviitf

JOHN E0A0H, Optician,

lias removed from 5-J Montgomery street to
51© Washington llreet,

EtiM of Montgomery,

Surveying Instruments ma le. repaired mid adjusted

22vI7-3m

DAVID R. SMITH,
Civil and. AXeclianlcal Engineer,

[a prepared to furnish Plans, Models, Specifications and
full detail Drawing* for Steamers and Sailing Vessels and
machinery in general.

Montgomery Rlocls. I3vl7-3in

J. M. HAVEN,

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR. AT LAW
No. 4SO Cullfornl:, street.

27vl6 SAK FRANCISCO.

JA-lkTES M. TAYLOR,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,

Court Block. G3G Clay Street

BAN FRANCISCO.
2vl5-lqy

PACIFIC

INSURANCE COMPANY

OF SAX FRANCISCO, CAL.,

Office, No. 422 California street.

Ca-.li Aueti, Jan. 1, 1S«», - - 81,530,740 IS
FIRE,

MARINE,

AND

I.\ J.AMU

XTSrstTRAJN-CE.

DIRECTORS:

San Fr.\* Cisco:

Oliver Eldridge,

W. U. KaNton,

J B. Roberts.

A L Tuiibs.

J. 0. Wilmerdtug,

Wm. Alvord.

T. L. Weaver,

Jonathan Hunt,

v\ m. H oper,

A. B. Forbes,

J. W. Clark,

A. G. Stiles,

A. Kavward,

T. L Barker,

L. b Kenchley,

Alexander Weill,

Win. Sherman,

Ctias. Meyer.

L. Sac lis.

Cluis E.McLane,

James De Fremcry,

M. Roscnbauni,

J. G. Brav,

A. J. Ralston.

David S era,

T. Leinmcn Meyer,

D. O. Mills,

J. T. Deau.

I Fried lander.

Nh,w Yokk:

Louis McLnnc,

H. M Vewhall,

Frederick Billings,

G.T. Law ton,

James Lees,

•Miles D. Sweeny,]

J. G. Kellofjg,

fihas. Mnyne.

Win. T. C.dcuian,

£. L. Goldstein,

Moses Ellis.

J. O. Eur',

Sachamknto:

Lloyd I'evis,

Edgar .Mills,

Thos. 11. Sciby,

J. U. Carroll,

Ailmn Grant,

O.T. Wheeler.

Alpheiis Bull,

Mauvsvill- :

S. M. Wilson,

J. H.Jewett.

D.J. Oliver,

}*mkti,am), Oregon:

\V ScboUc,

W S f.add,

.lacub Kaioiu.

Chad. Main,

Viugisia, Nevada:

Clias. K. futers,

Wm. Stiaroii.

oFFiCKas:

JONA. HUNT. President.

\V. ALVtjRD, Vice 1'resiacnt,

A.J. RALSTON, Secroiar}-.

ANDREW BAIliD, M

irini' Secretary.

.ivlgtf

II. 11 DIGELOW, Gen'l Agent.

CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, DRAPERIES,

SUADES, Ete., Etc.

LOUIS F. KNI&HT,

54*i CaUlnrnln St., c:wt side of Kearny,
SAN FRANCISCO.

lean offer from the largest and hest assorted stock In the

city anything iu our line,

AT PIS.ICES TO SCIT AXL.

FURNITURE AND BVJATTRESSES

Made to order.
All kinds of upholstering executed with neatness and
dispatch. 9vl7

ise;:lx>tjx5e .sc

OF CONJORD, N. H.,

CO.

Long employed at the celebrated firm of Downing & Son,

have opened a ma nu factory of

Concord Wagons,

Of all descrintlons, at No. 820 and 833 Folsom street, be
twceti Fourth and Fifth streets, San Francisco.

Orders received for Buggies, Expresses, and Light and

Heavy Thorough-brace. Carriage Springs made to order.

lBvlS-lam 6m

WE ARE NOW OFFERING
OTJIfc IMMENSE STOCK

or

Fine Custom Made Clothing

AND

Gents' Furnishing G-oods

AT PRICKS THAT 1>£JT¥ COMPETITION.

Our Stock of Clothlnir Con»Ut« ot
AXiL THE LATEST STYLES

BliTU or MATKRIAL j. mi h.MMI.

A Large Assorlmen lot
Trmiltn, Vallsea, Carpet Haifa, ttlanketi. Etc.,

AT KXTRKMKI.T LOW PRICES.

J. Tt. MEAD & CO.,

8vlO Cor. of Washington and Sansome streets.

THE GIANT

POWDER COMPANY

Is now prepared to All all orders for

GIANT POWDER,

Put np In Boxe«, either In Bulk or In Car
trldnes.

Gen eral Aucnts

BAWDIHANN, NIELSEN h CO.,

25vl6-3in 210 Front htreet, San Francisco.

SAX FKAXCISCO

X^ioneei* Screeu Works,

JOHN W. QUICK, Manufacturer,

Removed to A. Prltzel's Iron Works. 2iri Fremont street,

near Howard, San Francisco.

Screen Punching In all its hrnnche«. at rates reduced
from 2.'>to 4" per cent less lhan the establishrd rates. I can
furnish Improved Quartz Screens several sizes finer than
any Screen ever punched, giving universal sntlsfaction,
and For Strength, cheapness and dun'.hilitv arc not excelled.
Also, Punched Screens ol'all sizes and fineness made from
all qualities ot material, for Quartz. Cement, Flour and
Kiee Mills, eic. Screen flinching made a specialty; iliere-
fore millinen forwarding llieir orders to me will rcceivo
none hut the be^t. Orders solicited.

N. B —J. W. QIJTCK Is the onlv competent and snecessful
manufacturer of Screens in ihe State, having made Screens
forthe princinal mills in this State and adjohilne Terrl-
tories for many years. Quartz mill owners using pnnched
Screens which have universally failed to give satisfaction,
when visiting the cily will please call and see me flvl7-Iy

California Steam Navigation

COMPANY.

Steamer CAPITAL CAPT. E. A. POOLE

CHRYSOPOHS CAPT. A. FOSTER.

" YOSEMITE

" CORNELIA CAPT. W. BROMLEY

JULIA CAPT. E. CONCKLia.

Two of the above steamers leave BROADWAY WHARF
at 4 o'clock P. M. EVERY DAY (Sundays executed), one
for Sacramento and one lor Stockton.' those for Sacra-
mento connecting with liglit-drafl steamers for Marysvillc
Colusa, Chico, and Red Bluff.

Office of the Company, northcaBt corner of Front and
Jackson streets.

B. M. HAKTSHOBVE,
13vl2 President.

International Hotel,

a a. c k: s o iv street

BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AND KEARNY STS.,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE IS IN PERFECT
order for the accommodation of euests. Person." seek-
ing comfort and economy will find this the best Hotel In
the city to stop at. The Reds are new and in good order,
and the Rooms well ventilated. The Table will always be
supplied with the best in the market.
Prices varying- from $1 GO to SS per day for

Board and Room.

FINE BATH HOUSE AND BARBER SHOP ATTACHED

TO THE HOUSE.

B3r* Teams belonging to the House will be m attendance
at all the boats aud cars to convey passengers to the House
free of chakok, and to any pifrtof the city for SO cents

uivlli F. E. WEYGANT. Proprietor.

Pacific Chemical Works.

suLPnumc ether.

SPIRITS OP NITRE,
AQUA AM1UOXI1,
ACETIC ACID,

CYANIDE OF POTASSIUM

— AND —

ACIDS AND ClIEMICALS OF ALL KINDS.

FALKENAU & HANKS,

Office and Laboratory, Sixteenth Htreet* be-
tween Folftom and Harrison.

LOUTS FAL.KENAU, State Assayer.

ASJ-Particular attention paid to the Analysis of ORES,

MINERALS METALS, etc.

8vl7

HINKLE'S

"IMPROVED SPRING-BED BOTTOM"

(Patented July 21st, 1868.

The undersigned, having purchased the Patentee's inter
esl in the States and Territories of the Pacific Coast, is now
prepared to simply Private Houses, Hotels and Steamers
with this comfortable, eenn mical and durable "IM-
PROVED SPRING BED B iTTOM."

Persons golngto White Pino will greatly promote their
comfort by taking one of these Patent Bottoms, which is
secured to a folding bedstead, the cost of which is less than
that of the materials at White Pine.

"Wareroom, Mo. 1002 Market Street.

P. HUDSON, Proprietor.

jBSr"Ctll and examine. Open until 8 o'clock P. 51.

172

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

_Enffineerinff.

Mexican Internal Improvement Scheme.
In connection with the railroad now build-
ing by a British company between Vera
Cruz and Puebla, a Mexican company has
been organized to continue the route to the
Rio de las Balzas, in the rear of Acapulco,
a branch of the Mescal, passing the great
Tolcano Popocatapetl, and down the latter
river to steam navigation, or to the sea.
Another company is forming to make the
Mescal navigable to the sea. An expendi-
ture of ©100,000 is anticipated, and is to be
provided for by the sale of a thousand
shares at §100 each. The net annual profits
from the transportation, and sale of salt,
merchandise, Brazil wood for exportation,
ajonjoli, soap, hides, fruit, ore, passengers
etc., are expected to reach §184,000, after
deducting current expenses. Theprecious
woods and rich mines on the margins of
said river would alone secure a fortune to
those who would take the matter in hand,
and this long deserted waste would give em-
ployment to thoiisands who are now shut
off from the rest of the world and living as
the Mexicans do, from hand to mouth.

Observations foe Longitude at Salt
Lake. — Professor George W. Dean, Assist-
ant in the TJ. S. Coast Survey, has set up a
fine transit instrument on Temple Block,
Salt Lake City, and has been making transit
observations and telegraphing time in con-
nection with Cambridge, Massachusetts,
and Professor Davidson's observatory in
this city. It is stated that with No. 8, or
common wire, electricity passes at a rate
varying from 20,000 to 25,000 miles a sec-
ond. After getting all these observations
recorded, it will, — says the Salt Lake .Re-
porter, for the Coast Survey, — require a year
to reduce them, amd at the end of that time
the latitude and longitude of Salt Lake City
will be determined with the utmost exact-
ness.

Pacific Protective Association of California.

The Suez Canal will, according to later
French papers, not be completed till the
end of the present year; but as there are
not less thau 20,000 men employed, the
great event cannot be postponed long. The
canal is one hundred and twenty miles
long. Steam dredges and excavators scoop
out the sand and dirt. Vessels will be pro-
pelled through the canal by means of end-
less chains along the bottom, to be worked
by stationary engines at intermediate
points. The tariff charges will be about
$5 per ton.

The Projected Mokomoke Hill Water
Works at White Pine, are in the hands of
A. P. Stanford and other capitalists of San
Francisco, and are likely to be proceeded
with energetically, as the franchise is said
to be valuable. The water is to be taken
from Illapah Creek, a stream two miles
east of Hamilton, carrying several hundred
inches of excellent water. The plan con-
templates lifting this water to the top of
Mokomoke Hill, some 800 feet, whence it
will be supplied to Hamilton and the nu-
merous quartz mills that will occupy the
ravine skirting the northern and eastern
base of Treasure Hill, and also to such
towns as may hereafter spring up along the
latter, the design being also to carry it to
Ti easure City some time during the pres-
ent year. The engines and pipes for this
work have been already ordered in San
Francisco. Mr. Aron Schmidt is the engi-

I.VCOEFORATED OCTOBEK, 180S.

PEOSPJBCTUS.

Object— The object of tbis Association is to secure a cash payment, within sixty days atrcr the dea!h of a subscriber,
to his or tier heirs or assigns of as many dollars as there are individuals of the class to which .-aid deceased subscriber
belonged.

AltiMBKRSHiF.— Tbe subscription fees arc Ten Dollars atj inm;, and One Dollar on the death of each subscriber.
The One Dollar from each .-ubscriher is naid to the heirs or assigns of the deceased.

The Funds.- J lie By-Laws of the association require that a ponion of the money received as subscription fees
shall be a Sinking Kund 10 meet assessments falling due by ihe delinquencies of subscribers. The balance of the
money received to be u-ed lor ihe payment ot" the expenses incurred by the Association.

Mkmbeks.— A subscriber 'ailing to pay his or her assessment 01 one dollar within Thirty days from receipt of no-
tice lorleits his or her Certificate, ami all claims upon theajssociation, unless good cause is show n for further delay.
A subscriber can forward money in advance, which a mount will be credited on fulure us-essmeuts. The subscribers are
divided inio classes iocludingiiiules and females Each class is limited lo 5,ujj subsciibers. As classes arc ailed,
new ones will be lonned. No person is so . oor that he cannot pay Ten Dollars at joining and One Dollar ocea-
sionallv, thus securing SS.UU0 to tlis oilier heirs or assigns.

An'vA tvgks.— The advantages of this Association are, that no money panic can affect it. Its benefits are easily
obtainable hy all, and every subscriber added lo the Association enhances the interest and protection ol all; Ihe
amount paid being so small, and only at long intervals, that any person can secure lor his family a competency upon
his death.

classics.— In Class A. all persons between the ages of 15 and 40 years; in Class B, all persons between the ages of JO
and tsu years.

Any one that has not stated his or her age correctly, will forfeit all money paid and his or her Certificate.

One class cannot be assessed if one of another class dies. Classes have no conn, ction with each other.

How to Become a .Member.— a person desirous 01 becoming a subscriber must till out an application, and forward
with it Ten Dollars bv Check. Draft, or by Express, in gold or silver coin. Persons can pay agents, when regularly ap-
pointed and authorized to receive money. Each subscriber should interest himself in ohtaluing new members, bv so
doing all are benefited

Board or Directors. — Benjamin H. Freeman, George H. Russell. Samuel A. Raymond, James A. Fritchard, W. Le-
Roy.

Officers —Benjamin H Freeman, President; George H. Russell, Vice Fresidcntf John H. Warren, Secretary;
James A. Pritcbaid, treasurer.

References.— lion. Henry Dutton, President of Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank; Hon. Samuel Cowles, late Judge
Cotnitv Couri, Salt Francisco; Hon. A..]. Gunnison, Attorney at Law, San 1-ranclsco; U J. Booth, Esq., Union lion
Work'", San Francisco; Henry F. Williams, Esq., Heal Esiale, San t'rancisco; John u. Uanscom, Esq . .Elna Iron Works,
San Francisco; John H. O'Brien, E-q.. 01 O'Brien, Bush & Co., San Francisco; Hon. J. P. Jones, Gold Hill, Nevada,

All communications should be addressed to the secretary of the

PACIFIC PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION,

S. E COR. OF MONTGOMERY AND SACRAMENTO STREETS, (Over Donoboe & Kelly's Bank,) SAN FRANCISCO.

[10vl8 3mos.]

White Pine Road, Wateb and Land
Company. — A company has been formed,
and has filed articles of incorporation in
this city, for the purpose of bringing water
by means of a pipe from the Base Eange
to "White Pine City," a quarter of a mile
below the Eberhardt, and of building a
road- from Treasure City to the same place;
the company owning there 500 acres of
land, of which 125 acres are already subdi-
vided into town lots.

The bridge over the Yuba is a mile and
one-eighth in length — the longest in the
State.

New Incorporations.

Articles of incorporation have been re-
cently filed in the County Clerk's office in
this city as follows:

Salt Point S. M. Co.— White Pine, Nev.
Feb. 26th. Capital stock, $100,000,000;10,-
000, shares, $100 each. Trustees: O. Dickin-
son, Jr., B. T. Browne, E. B. Dickinson,
E. J. Weeks and E. E. Brewster.

Bowden S. M Co. — White Pine, Nev.
Feb. 26th. Capital stock, 81,000,000; 10,-
000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: M. Tubbs,
R. Sherwood, C. B. Xoung, E. Haft and H.
L. Lewis.

Louisiana S. M. Co. — White Pine, Nev.
Feb. 27th. Capital stock, $200,000; 2,000
shares, $100 each. Trustees: A. Hayward,
A. P. Stanford, Thos. Bells, M. J. Mc-
Donald and J. D. Fry.

Phcenix S. M. Co.— White Pine, Nev.
Feb. 27th. Capital stock, $800,000; 16,000
shares, $50 each. Trustees: J. L. C.
Wtidsworth, J. D. Fry, A. Cannon, G. F.
Walters and W. C. Parker.

Brothers Mining Co. — White Pine,
Nev. Feb. 27th. Capital stock, $1,500,-
000; 5.000 shares, $300 each. Trustees:
T. C. Pedler, S. H. Wetherbee and J. W.
Wesson.

Little RivekM. Co.— White Pine, Nev.
Feb. 27th. Capital stock, $1,500,000; 5,-
000 shares, $300 each. Trustees: T. C.
Pedler, S. H. Wetherbee and J. W. Wes-
son.

Badger Mining Co. — Same capital,
shares and Trustees as Little River Co.

Silver Moon M. Co. — White Pine, Nev.
Feb. 27th. Capital stock, $800,000; 16,000
shares, $50 each. Trustees, (}. S. Mann,
M. Ashbury, Wm. Sherman, A. Massey and
T. R. Hopkins.

Blue Rose S. M. Co.— White Pine, Nev.
Feb. 27th. Capital stock, $800,000; 16,000
shares, $50 each. Trustees same as Silver
Moon.

North Pacific Steamship Co. — San
Francisco. March 5th. Capital stock,
$5,000,000; 50,000 shares, $100 each. Trus-
tees: Ben. Holladay, W. Norris, W. C. Ral-
ston, Lloyd Tevis.W. F. Babcock, A. Hay-
ward and S. F. Bntterworth.

Water Front Building Association. —
San Francisco. March 5th. Capital stock,
$36,000; 48 shares, $750 each. Trustees:

A. S. Gould, James Graves, G. W. Inslee,
W. G. Doolittle and F. B. Wilde.

Pioche Shaft and Mining Co. — White
Pine, Nev. March 5th. Capital stock,
$1,000,000; 10,000 shares, $100 each. Trus-
tees: E. N. Terrey, F. L A. Pioche, S. B.
Clark, M. W. Kales and Thos P. Hawley.

Ben Franklin MiningCo. — White Pine,
Nev. March 5th. Capital stock, $1,200,-
000; 12,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees:

B. H. Freeman, Jno. McDonald, Jr., R. G.
Brown, E. L. Smith and J. A. Eaton.

MockingBibd Mining Co. — White Pine,
Nev. March 5th. Capital stock, $1,400,-
000; 14,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees:
W. H. Smith, Robert Riddle, C. S. Kasson,
E. H. Shaw and J. M. Bumngton.

Eberhardt M. & M. Co. — White Pine,
Nev. March 5th. Capital stock, $12,000,-
C00; 120,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees:
Frank Drake, E. Appleton, J. W. Craw-
ford and E. R. Sproul.

San Francisco Daily Herald Co. —
March 8th. Capital stock, $200,000; 200
shares, $1,000 each. Trustees: S. F. Bnt-
terworth, L. Maynard and F. L. Sullivan.

Hearst Mining Co. — White Pine, Nev.
March 8th. Capital stock, $3,000,000, in
$100 shares. Trustees: D. D. Colton, A.
Hayward, J. O. Earl, J. M. Wilson and
C. G. Hooker.

Treasure Box Mining Co. — White Pine,
Nev. March 8th. Capital stock, $2,000,-
000, in $100 shares. Trustees: George
Hearst, Thomas Sunderland, George Wal-
lace, A. E. Head and Lloyd Tevis.

Chicago Mining Co. — White Pine,
Nev. March 8th. Capital stock, $2,000,-
000, in $100 shares. Trustees: A. Hay-
ward, J. C. L. Wadsworth, John O. Earl,
George Hearst and A. E. Head.

New Era G. & S. Co.— White Pine,
Nev. March 8th. Capital stock, $1,000,-
000, in $100 shores. Trustees: John Curry,
S. F. Tteynolds, D. McLaren, W. Hutchin-
son, C. H. Chamberlain, James Battersby
and Albert Shepard.

Astor Silver Mining Co. — White Pine,
Nev. March 9th. Capital stock, $1,000,-
000, in $100 shares. Trustees: William
Selby, John B. Dilley, Henry W. Fortune,
Joseph C. Edwards and William P. Pier-
son.

Mazeppa Silver Mining Co. — White
Pine, Nev. March 9th. Capital stock,
$800,000, in $100 shares. Trustees: David
L. Williamson, W. S. Perkins, A. C.
Morse, W. C. Budd and C. E. Gibbs.

Silver Eagi.e Mining Co. — White Pine,
Nev. March 8th. Capital stock,»$8.000,-
000, in $100 shares. Trustees: A. E. Head,
David D. Colton, W. Thompson, Jr., G.
Wallace and George Gordon.

Dora Chauncey Consolidated Silver
Mining Co. — White Pine, Nev. March
8th. Capital stock. $1,200,000, in $100
shares. Trustees: Theodore Reiehert, A.
J. Shrader, C. P. Van Schaack, George
Loomis, H. B. Rathbun, J. T. Pomeroy
and Samuel Drake.

Pick and Shovel Mining Co. — White
Pine, Nev. March 12th. Capital stock,
$1,600,000, in $100 shares. Trustees: A.
P. Stanford, A. W. Von Schmidt, Jos.
McArtliur, John W. Conner and George
H. Ensign.

City Park Homestead Association. —
San Francisco. March 10th. Capital stock,
$54,000, in 360 shares. Trustees — Stephen
T. King, J. N. Choynski, M. Waterman,
Samuel Feeler and B. P. Avery.

Silver Star Consolidated S. M. Co. —
White Pine, Nev. March 10th. Capital
stock $520,000, in shares of $100 each.
Trustees : Anson Averell, J. M. Buffington,
( :. I. Hanson, T. R. Reynolds and W. P.
Raymond.

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Register tour Lkttkks containing money addressed to
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must be in inickages, prepaid. When practicable, it is hest
to remit by drutt, or order, on some Sati Franciscu bank or
urm.

Small Pox.

We hnve been shown by Wm. Zelner, the best and most
convenient and portable apnnnnus containing Chlorine,
for rooms, which we consider the bent riisinlectunt out,
j»nd jhnuld advise all housekeepers not to be without one.
Price £1. i-omnlete; to be had, with full directions, at WM.
ZELNER'S German Drug Store. 18 Geary street, 25vl7-3in

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

173

White Pine Items.

A work in k assay of 23'^ pounds of ore
from the Iila mine, White tine, produced
Pin us, showing a return for trie ton of
S7.J7 8B, bi ing 98G fine.

The following infections item is ex-
tracted by the Enterprise from a letter
written bv Captain Rnwlings, lately Snper-
intendent of the Manhattan Mill, Washoe,
and dated March 4th :

" Great excitement this morning on
Treasure Hill. New discovery one mile
north of town. The ore assavs as high as
99,000. At least 2. 000 have gone to see it.
The sides of the hill are covered with peo-
ple making locations. I have sent a man
Up. You must come and see this wonderful
country. It is almost impossible to sink a
hole in the ground anywhere without find-
ing rich ore. The only question is to ex-
tent. Men every day bring in small bars
of silver to the bank for sale. Everybody
has money. This is certainly the " poor
man's paradise.'"

Last accounts from the "Pogonip" rep-
resent the weather to be as balmy as spring,
anil the Alia correspondent writes : The
rush has commenced, and the stage com-
panies find it impossible to accommodate
all who arrive at Elko, consequently they
have advanced the fare to $50. One stage
arrived at Hamilton yesterday with eleven
passengers, the faro amounting to 8550,
and the freight to S250, so that the gross
receipts of the trip amounted to S800.

Some of the members of the House-Car-
penters' Eight-Hour League have on foot a
proposition to nse 82,500 of the funds on
hand to send two practical miners to White
Pine to locate mines for the League, and
that twenty per cent, of the monthly dues
of the association shall be set aside for the
expense of working the mines.

There are nine "Great Eastern" claims
on the Recorder's books at White Pine ;
and in some cases there are said to be as
many as fifty claims of the same name.

TnE number of rich mines at Whit ■ Pine
affords such excellent domain for wildcat,
that the germ promises to become as pro-
lific as in 1860-3. In these times nothing
shonld be done in mining without the full-
est information.

From the Bulletin correspondent's letter,
dated Treasure Hill, March 5th, we extract
the following :

Ores that will yield from $60 to S100 per
ton exist in great abundance — there being
considerable quantities that will mill three
or four times that amount, while those of
a grade ranging from $30 to S60 per ton
seem quite inexhaustible. * * * The
ores here can generally be extracted at
small cost, ai-e facile of reduction, and can
be transported to the mill at a moderate ex-
pense; as they must, always pass over a de-
scending grade, while wood, water and
salt can be supplied at rates that will in-
sure their economical reduction. With the
number of developements made, it is esti-
mated that the mines would sustain a pop-
ulation of at least 30,000, and that they will
afford a sufficiency of S 1 00 ore to keep 500
or 600 stamps employed as soon as they
can, or, at least, are likely to be brought
in ; while there is no limit to the amount
that could be supplied to smelting works
were they ready for operations. * * *
The entire probable immigration is vari-
ously computed at 50,000, 60,000, and even
as high as 70,000, it being estimated that
30,000 will be drawn from the States and
Territories west of the Rocky Mountains,
and as many more from points to the east
of that meridian. * * * Eight or ten
thousand might settle to advantage in the
valleys adjacent to White Pine, or along
the Humboldt, where the Central Pacific
Railroad Co. have much excellent land to
dispose of. * * * In the California
mine a streak of veritable Eberhardt ore
has been laid open at a depth of 15 or 20
feet, having every sign of permanency. Of
this ore two men regularly extract half a
ton per day, that will mill at the rate of
S2.000 per ton. The body of $200 ore al-
ready exhibited in this mine is immense.
* * * The strike spoken of in my letter
as reported to have been made in the Hid-
den Treasure, turns out also a reality. The
Independence, Featherston and Hornet im-
prove daily under a steady and judicious
application of labor, whiln further explora-
tions of the rich one channel laid open
sometime since in the Mazeppa fully jus-
tifies the importance attached to that dis-
covery from the first. Quite recently a fine
body of best class ore has been reached in
the Silver Cloud claim, lying below the
Genesee, on the western verge of Chloride
Flat. It is the earliest location made in
that vicinity, and, it is feared, will cut a

broad swath through the numerous loca-
tions since made on that part of the Flat,
which famous locality has now to share its
glories not only with other Flats, such as
Pogonip, Bromide and Alta, lying near by,
but also with a still more formidable rival
situate over against the Base Metul Range,
directly opposite and some three miles to
the west. Here some rich chloride ore, as
yet only in small quantities, has been found,
causing quite a rush to the spot. As the
snow, however, still covers the ground to
a depth that precludes successful prospect-
ing in the neighborhood, it will probably
be sometime before the extent and value of
this discovery cau be fully ascertained.

An illustration of the great richness of
this district, says the White Pine News, was
given during the past week. Masten & Ar-
lington, at Menker, engaged two men to
sink a well in Mazeppa Canon, near their
establishment. After sinking to the depth
of about fifteen feet, a ledge bearing a rich
body of ore was encountered and located as
a mine by the well-diggers. Of course no
more progress for the purpose proposed
could be made, and a new locality was
sought. Here again, after sinking a few
feet, another rich vein was struck, claim
made and well abandoned. This was too
rich a place to devote to furnishing water
only, aud in a more distant locality it was
concluded to dig the well. Sinking has
been resumed, but with what result the
flews is not advised.

Some of the recent ore from La Monte
mine, 250 feet north of the Eberhardt and
parallel thereto, shows both native gold
and silver.

Prospecting parties are already ventur-
ing out into the wastes. For many of these
the summer will belongenough, and weary
distances and rough mountains gone over
will be looked back upon with reduced
energies and hopes, yet with no reason to
be at all sorry for having made the trip.
One under James Basey, has left Treasure
City and has gone in the direction of Step-
toe Mountain. They intend to prospect in
the Wasatch Range, south of Salt Lake.
The party will be absentfor several months.

Some 800 or 900 tons of ore have accu-
mulated on the platform of the Stanford
mine, with large quantities on that of the
North Aurora, and considerable lots about
the shafts of many other claims, the most
of the latter being so assorted as to consti-
tute a high grade ore.

Railroad Items.

Capt. W. H. Freeman, who has been ex-
ploring a line of railroad from the Blue
Mountains, Oregon, to Pnget Sound, ar-
rived at Seattle, W. T, Feb. 25th— dis-
tance, 247 miles. Left the Blue Mount-
ains Jan. 2d; arrived at the Suaquaimie
Pass, Feb. 13th; found the snow in the Pass
about by, feet deep; length 23 miles; grade
65 feet to a mile; considers the route one of
the finest mineral and timbered countries
in existence, terminating at the fiuest har-
bor in the world. — Portland Oregonian.

All the grading on the Western Pacific
Railroad, between Sacramento aud Stock-
ton, is completed. Seven hundred graders
are at work at various points between Stock-
ton andLivermore's Pass, the bulk of them
being near the latter place, where the heavy
work extends for about eight miles. Ma-
sons are engaged in building culverts and
doing other stone work in Alameda Canon.
After the grading has advanced enough to
let the track-laying commence in the canon,
a switch will be put down from Vallejo's
Mill to the Warm Springs Landing, where
iron and ties will be landed.

On Feb. 23d all the bridges on the Union
Pacific in Weber Canon, were reported com-
pleted down to Strawberry Creek, and all
the forces available were engaged on the
two remaining bridges, viz. , across Straw-
berry Creek, and the Weber at Devil's
Gate. Later dispatches report the comple-
tion of the bridges, and the arrival of the
locumotive at or near Ogden.

It is alleged that much of the road bed is
beiug made out of frozen clods, which will
necessarily subside as soonasspring comes.

The average travel over the Central
Pacific Railroad is about 200 each way
daily.

On Wednesday the extension of the San
Jose Railroad from San Jose to Gilroy, a
distance of twenty miles, was inaugur-
ated by a grand excursion. This road is
intended by those interested in it, to be the
first branch of the South Pacific, which is
to be in running order by the summer of
1873.

Resources and Developments.

A Beet Sugar Factory is about to bo
erected by the Sacramento Beet Sugar As-
sociation under the auspices of Mr. Wads-
worth, who lately returned from a second
trip to Europe, where he has been spend-
ing some months as a laborer in beet sugar
factories, to familiarize himself with the
details of the business. Mr. Wadsworth is
enthusiastic in praise of the simplicity of
making sugar from the beet as compared
with the cane sugar process, and oonfident
that the business will pay a large profit

Slate for Boildings. — Since our item
upon the economy, durability and weather-
proof qualities of slate for covering build-
ings in this climate, we learn that an ex-
tensive quarry exists in Tuolumne County,
and that the quality near the surface is un-
usually good, promising a superior mate-
rial at a little depth. A specimen of that
near the surface has been left at Barry &
Patten's, 413 Montgomery street. —Alta,
March 6th.

We understand that the working force
engaged in developing this quarry will be
materially increased the coming week, and
the first shipment of roofing slate may be
expected in this city by the first of May.
All the slate heretofore used in this State
has been imported at a cost of about $24 to
the ton. A material equally good, can be
furnished from the above locality at a cost,
with reasonable margin for profits, not to
exceed twelve or thirteen dollars.

Olive Trees. —People at Santa Barbara,
says the News, have set out this season
200,000 olive cuttings, from mature trees.
The demand has been so great that it was
found impossible to supply the market
with the better class of olive, and conse-
quently parties have been obliged to put
up with an inferior article. E. F. Sanborn,
of San Diego, has shipped several thou-
sand cuttings to Santa Barbara, for Cap-
tain Wilcox and others.

Patent Office to Remain Intact. — The
House resolution providing additional ac-
commodations for the Interior Depart-
ment was discussed for two hours or more
in the Senate on Monday, Feb. 1st. Many
Senators held that as the inventors of the
country bore the expenses of the Patent
Office, and the Government really derived
a handsome revenue from it, the building
ought not to be diverted from the uses to
which it was originally intended, and hence
the models, which Mr. Fessenden says ac-
cumulated at the rate of 14,000 per annum,
will be left alone in their glory.

The new discovery in the Base Range is
a mile and a half due west of Treasure city,
or three miles by the road. The locality is
known under the various names of North-
ern Light Hill, Chloride Flat No. 3, and
Base Range, but a town has been laid out
and named Babylon. It is said to be a
favorable locality for mining.

New Mining Advertisements.

JL;, in Mill and Mining Cmnpaoy, lielKO.y 1)1*-

trict, El Dorado County, California.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, licld on the sixth day of
March, 1809, an assessment of onc dollar per share was
levied upon the capital stock of said Company, payable
immediately, in Uniied States gold and silver coin, to
tlit Secretary.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the sixth (ti'ht day of April, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall be made before,
will be sold on Monday, t lie twenty-sixth day ot April, 1809
to pay the rtelinqueiitassessmeni. together with costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of
Trustees.

J M. BCFFINGTON. Secretary.

Office. Room 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California
street, San Francisco. marl3

Those Spectacles advertised " Lost," for
which a very large reward was offered, were pur-
chased at Muller's, 205 Montgomery street. *

rYorth American Wood Preserving: Company.

Location of Works: S;in Francisco, California.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Directors of said Company, hold on the twelfth day of
March, I860, an assessment of one (SD dollar per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able i milled lately, in United States gold and silver coin, to
the Secretary, a' the Company's office, 4J0 Montgomery
street, San Francisco,

Any sine it upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on < lie fourteenth (14th) day of April, 1809, shall be
defined delinquent, ami will be duly advertised lorsaleat
public auction, and unless pavmeni shall be made before,
will be sold on Saturday, the first day of May, 1869,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs
" advertising a;id expenses of sale. By order of the Board

Chloride Moantuln Tunnel and Mining Com.

pany.— Location of Works: While Pine Mining District,

Lander County. Nevada.

Notice Is hereby given, that at ft meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the second day of
February. 1869, fin assessment of fifty cents per share was
levied upon the capital stock of said Company, payable
immediately, In United States told and sliver coin, to the
Secretary, at his office, No 6!5Koarny street, San Francis-
co. Cal

Any stock unon which said assessment shall remain nn-
pal.l on the thirteenth day of March. 1*69. shall ha
deemed delinquent, and will be dulv advertised lor sale
ai public auction, and unless payment shall be made be-
fore, will be sold dn Saturday, the tcnih dav or April.
1K69, to pay the delinquent assessment, together with
costs pi advertising and expenses of sale. By orderof the
Board of Trustees.

__ „ JiMRS RICE. Secretary.

Office, No. 615 Kcarnv street, Sin Francico. febl3

Glen wood Mill itnd Mining Compauy, Green-
1 wood, El Dorado County, California.
j Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
I Trustees of said Company, held on the nineteenth day of
i February, 1869, an assessment of twenty-five dollars per
share was levied upon the capital stock of said Company,
1 payable Immediately, in United S'ates cold nnd silver coin,
I to the Secretary, Room II, No. 431 California street. Sua
| Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
I paid on the second day of April, 1859, shall be deemed
delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale ot public
auction, and unless payment shall be made before, will be
sold on Monday, the twenty-sixth dav of Apiil, 1869, to
pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale. By order ot the Board of
Trustees.

WILLIAM VALE, Secretary.
Office, 434 California street, San Francfcco. feb27

I. X. I-. Gold and Silver Mining: Company,-

Location of Mine : Silver Mountain District, Alpine

County, California.

Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the nine-
tenth daj' of January. 1869, the several amounts set oppo-
site the names of the respective shareholders as follows:
Names. No. Certificate. No. shares. Amount.

John A Johnson 28;t 1 $1 50

.1 S Adams 23 5 7 50

JS Adann 326 2 3 IK)

J S S Robinson 322 5 7 fit)

Mary n Bridges 360 12>£ 18 75

Catherine Jones l-i-i 30 iS HO

Catherine Jones 155 17 25 50

Catherine Jones 233 5 7 50

T B Clark 375 10 15 i 0

TB Clark 386 22^ 33 75

E M Long ... 354 HI 15 DO

C Goodell 2*8 15 22 50

COoo'lell 312 5 7 50

Wm Davidson 340 5 7 50

Wm Davidson 74 J^ 75

Ann Hogan 176 7 10 50

' MirlesFisk 150 6 7 50

W J ihomas ..371 3 4 50

Daniel H Dickinson '-'<>i 10 15 00

Daniel H Dickinson -359 10 15 00

1, E Wahlhurg 277 5 7 60

Henry Jard:ne IfS 6 7 50

Henry Jardine 304 3 4 50

Henrv Jardlnc 330 12W 18 75

Henry Jardine 331 5 7 60

Henry Jardine 334 15 22 SO

Hepburn James 16 5 7 50

Hepburn James 153 5 7 50

Hepburn James 217 10 15 i 0

A Wagner 2ti7 5 7 60

Ohas Saunders 224 5 7 50

Caroline A Nelson 293 2 3 00

George Brosle 229 10 15 00

James Wjlctt 231 5 7 50

H T Bjiske 380 4K 6 40

Lou I Bl ndlng 237 28 42 110

John G Slavin 254 1 l 60

fle^ry E110 3-H 3 4 50

Henrv fno 3 7 7W H 25

EP Gibson 270 12 I8i0

E FfJibson 271 12 18 00

F. P Gibson 274 5 7 60

E FGib«on 302 3 4 50

Wm J 1 .ties 246 3 4 60

John Cairns 249 70 105 00

John Bolts 381 10 15 i0

John Bolts 2^6 8 12 00

D 1: Riddle 258 5 7 50

Julius Zdbe] 259 5 7 50

H D Scott 260 5 7 50

J A MeMahon 263 7 10 50

RK Love 275 5 7 50

RK Love 3i3 4 6 HO

R K Love 329 12 18 00

RK Love 3*2 5 7 50

L Wechelhausen 231 4 fi IN)

Wm West 352 5 7 50

N Gruff. .357 % 25

R S Cutter M6 3Ja 5 75

RS Cntier 384 10 15 00

E Fkelund 362 3 4 50

EEkelund 364 2 3 00

Philip Myers 370 2 3 W

M Long. 385 22 7-16 33 60

And in accordance with law. and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the nineteenth day of January,
1869, so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may
be necessary, will be sold at public auction, by Messrs.
Olncy & Co., auctioneers. No. 426 Montgomery street, San
Francisco, on Wednesday, the seventeenth day of March,
1369, at the hour of 12 o'clock, M., of said day, to pay said
delinquent assessment thereon, together with costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale.

J. CROWNINSHIELD. Secretary.
Office, Pioneer Hall, Montgomery street, up stairs. San
Francisco. . mar6

>\ Directors.
Office, 4?.0 Moiltgo

WM. B.LAKE, Secretary,
lery street. San Francisco. marl3

Mining; Notices—Continued.

Cordillera Gold nnd Silver Mining Company.—

Chihuahua, Mexico.

Notice —The Annual Meeting or the stockholders, for the
election of Trustees will take place on MONDAY AFTER-
NOON, March fifteenth, at 3 o'clock, at the office of the
Company, No. 321 Washing'on street, San Francisco.

mai6 HENRY R. REED, Secretary.

Mount Teiiabu Silver lUlnlng Company.-Lo-

cation of Works: Cortez District, Lander County, State

of Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty-third day of
January, 1869, an assessment of seventy-five cents per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able Immediately, in United States gold and silver coin, to
the Secretary, at the office of the Company, 426 Montgom-
ery street, San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the filth (5th) day of March, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless payment shall be made be-
fore, will be sold on Tuesday, the thirtieth (30[h) day of
March, 1869, to par the delinquent assessment, together
with costs ot advertising and expenses of sale. By order
of the Board of Trustees.

R. N VAN BRUNT, Secretary.

Office 426 Montgomery street, San Francisco. jan30

Postponement.— The dav for deeming stock delinquent on
the above assessment is hcrcl.iv po-tpnued until the second
dav ot April. I86i», and the sale thereof until Tuesday, the
twenty i-eventh day of April, 1369. By order of the Board

° mar6 CeS" R- N. VAN BRUNT, Secretary.

Star Creek. Sllnlnor Company.— Location: Star

District, State of Nevada-
Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty-sixth day of
February, 1869, an assessment of one dollar and fifty cents
per share was levied upon the capital stock ot said Com-
pany, payable immediately, in Uniied Slates gold and silver
coin, to the Secreiaiy at Sim Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the tweniy-nintb day of March, 1869. shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale at
publicauction, and unless payment shall be made before,
will be sold on Monday, the nineteenth day of April, 1869,
to pay thedelinquent assessment, together with costs of nd^
vertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Boarc of
Trustees. HORACE MORRISON, Secretary,

Office, N. E. cor. Front and Jackson streets.

174

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinery.

PATENT AMALGAMATOR

These Machines StandUnrivaled.

For rapidly pulverizing and amalgamating ores, tney
have no equal. Ho effort has been, or will be, spared to
have them constructed in the most perfect manner, and of
the great number now in operation, not one has everrc-
quired repairs. The constant and increasing demand for
them is sufficient evidence of their merits. *

They are constructed so as to apply steam directly into
he pulp, or with steam bottoms, as desired.

This Amalgamator Operates as Follows:

The pan being filled, live motion of the muller forces the
pulp to the center, where it is drawn down through the ap-
erture aud between the grinding surfaces. Thence it is
thrown to the periphery into the quicksilver. The curved
plates again draw it to the center, where it passes down,
and to the circumference as before. Thus it is constantly
passing in a regular flow between the grinding surfaces aud
into the quicksilver, until the ore is reduced to an impalpa-
ble powder, and the metal amalgamated.

Setlers made on the same principle excel all others.—
They bring the pulp so constantly and perlcctly in contact
with quicksilver, that the particles are rapidly and com
pletely absorbed.

Mill men are invited to examine these pans and setlers for

icmselve&. at the PACIFIC FO UA1B JEY,

San Francisco.

themselves, at
lvl

ELKERY'S PATENT

India Rubber Cement and Faint

— FOR —

TIN, IRON AND METALLIC .ROOFS,

Iron, Brick and Wooden Buildings,
SHIPS, STEAMBOATS, STAGES, CABS,

AND FOR ALL EXPOSED SURFACES.

Is water-proof and indestructible; will neither rot, peel,

nor crack; will withstand any climate; can be put on in

any color, and is less expensive than other faint

JVew Cloth Roof's i-tit on. Old JRof»t~« cemented
and ;i tinted. Leaky Roofs muuu tiy.it.

agp- No Coal Tar or Asphalttim used. All work guaran-
teed. Orders punctually attended to.

GEO. T. BBOULET, Agent,

24vl7-3m

Standard Milling Muchine.

UNION" VISE COMPANY,

OF BOSTON, MASS.
Extrajaw, and heavy Vises, Warranted for heavy work.
Newalvle Wood and Covered Screw Vises, forty styles and
kinds; "Standard Milling Macmnes, simple, great capacity,
power and strength— two sizes, large, 2,3UU lbs; small, 960
lbs. For sale by the trade.
23vl61y G. H. NOTT, Pres.

BLAKE'S QUARTZ BREAKER !

.PKICES REDUCED!

MACHINES OF ALL SIZES FOB SALE

WM. P. BLAKE,

Corner First und Mission streets, or Box 3,07?

Svl3f SAN FRANCISCO.

PACIFIC FILE WORKS,

No. 53 Beale Street, bet. Market und Mission,

Files Re-cut and warranted as good as new, with a savins
of fifty per cent. REAPER AND MOWER SECTIOi\S
MADK Tu ORDER. The only establishment on ihe Coast,
orders from the country pn.imptlv intended to. agp* Firil
Premium awarded at tl>« Statu Fair, 1867.

2vl7-3m T. G. Wi itM.VG «fe CHfc

Removal.

NELSON~& DOBLE,

AGENTS FOR

Thomas Firth & Sons' Cast Steel, Files,

Mill Picks, Sledges, Hammers, Picks,

Stone Cntters', Blacksmiths' and Horse-Shoers* Tools,

Have removed to 13 and 15 Fremont street, near

Market, San Francisco.

luvHar

MACHINERY AGENCY.

W. O. M. BERRY & CO.,

Are the manufacturers' agents for Richardson, Merriam
& Co's celebrated

Wood Working Machinery,

Embracing every description of Planers, Matchers and
Mnrtiscrs, Moulding, Tenoning, Boring. Shaping, Vertical
mid Circular Ke-s.tning Macnnies; scroll. Railway, Cut-off
ami Rip Saws, etc., eic. Agents lor the Swuni-cot Co's

Improved Portable Engines,
Warranted fully eo.ua! to any in the market; L»avis & Fur-
ber'a Woo>en Machinery; Blake's Patent Steam Pumps;
KUburn'T and Warriii's turbine Water wheels etc , etc.

Ord is t'ur .Machinery of any kind will receive prompt
attention Machines tor special purposes built 10 order.
Send lor Illustrated Catalogue W. o. M. BEttRi' & CO ,

8vl8-.im 114 Caliioruia sL, San Francisco.

Notice to Miiiei*s,

Well-Borers and Water Companies,

MPRAG is now prepared to manufacture
. Hydraulic and Artesian Well Pipes in the best work-
manlike manner, mid at the lowest market rates. Having
made large additions to my stock oi machinery for iluu
branch of business. 1 ain prepared to rill all orders with dis-
patch, and guarantee entire satisi'actluii. I also manufac-
ture Mississippi Stoves, o" the latest improved patterns, for
vessels of all classes. Also, Ship rlumbing done.

U. I'tUG,
8vl3-ly Stove Store, No. I Clay street, below Davis.

CALIFORNIA TOOL WORKS,

Blacksmith and Machine Shop,

143 Eeiile Sti, net. Mission and H«nv;iril,

SAN FK AN CISCO.

All kinds of Edge or other Tools made to order. Par-
ticular attention paid to pu ting in order AGRICi LI URAL
MACHINERY'. Job Grinding and Polishing hy steam.
Orders irom the Country promptly! attended to a^-All
tvoi k warranted.

21vl7-qy J. WEICHIIAKT, Proprietor.

Boiler Scraper and Tube-Cleaner.

fflrHLa* IT IS THE CHEAPEST, MOST

^Sritii £inL&0~ durable, easiest to adjust, and

Wli Ct W cleanest apparatus to use tor the
<3" oAUGf <V,^ iairw.se ueM-ned, yet uttered to
-^O* is3 «W*» tP the public. Being constructed on
simple mid mechanical principles,
it i- not liable to get out of order,
and will continue to perform its
office until the materials are worn
out. It can readily be adjusted,
even bv any inexperienced per
sou— will scrape off the scales and
cleanse the tubes just as smooth
ftnd clean as they were wiien
new, without in the least affecting
their inner surface, as the Elliptic
Spring Scraper has a smooth
square edge, and springs in or out
io tit the tubes. It is particularly
applicable for »teamboat boilers
-when muddy waterisused.

A continuous iron rod runs
Hi rough the center of the top and
huttom hubs. The soft steel scrap-
ers are lastened with screws to
the hubs, under the caps, which
cover and protect the screws that
fasten the scrapers on Hie hub.
The scrapers are expanded or con-
tracted h.v screwing or unscrew
ing the lower huh.— first luoM-nine
the cap. There is a collar on the
rod to prevent the scrapers biing jammed. An elastic or
fl.-xihlc brush or scraper, made of leather, rubber, or some
pliable material, is aitached io the nut for the purpose ol
removing from 'he tube the scale and dust loosened by tile
action of the >crapers

These scrapers are made from one to six inches in diam-
eter—Hie priros of those from one to three inches rang I in.'
from S5 to S12. They are now extensively used in ihe
E stern Staies. Quite a number have already beensold in

this

tate

For sale by McAfee, Spiers & Co , boiler makers, Howard
street, between Fremont and tfeale. San Francisco, and at
the Union Foundry, Sac-amento. fi. M. D., P. U. box 17,
San Francisco, Manufacturers1 Agents. 24vl7lf

BLAKE'S PATENT

STE-A-M PTTMP!

This Pi mn is warranted superior to any in the market,
for Breweries, Sugar H' uses. Tanneries, Boiler-Feeders,
Steamboats, Mining and Fire purnoses, etc. It throws a
full stream of the thickest beer mash without clogging,
and sugar syrup boiling hot without difficulty.

Warranted a positive Pump under all circitmatnnces; it
never stops nor cetsou* of order, and by reason of the pa-
tent device in the valves, is kept clear and always r.adv
for action. It Is SIMPLE, COMPACT and POWERFUL,
and needs no expert to run it.

as-irmip falls to do the work for which It Is sold, it may
he returned anil the money wilt be refunded May be seen
in operation at Risdon's, or Union Iron Works, or at
W. O. Af. B t.KKY <fe CO'S,
Agents tor Pacific States,

8vl8-3m 1U California street, sau Francisco.

GLASGOW
Iron and Metal Importing Company

A'oh. '*."> and -"J Fremont street,

SAN FRANCISCO,

Keep constantly on hand a large stock of best Bar and
Bundle Iron, Koiler Tubes, Plate and Sheet Iron. Gas and
Water Pipe, Anvils. Cast Steel, Gas and Water Fitting"
whieh they offer to the trade on liberal terms.

21vl6-3in W. McCRINDLE, Manage.

Eley's Ammunition.

I 1 IIC 3C \Jlll LI IlifclTS Mil* U Lii-i. ■ M :ii li i 1

1 after careful comparative t

A nuainst all other descriptions, hv !

a majksi'PS w-\r departmen

1 the Standard Kille Aimnuniiiun fo

The««e Cartridges are made in

three sizes, viz , .577 tor Snider Enfield)
bore; .600 (or halt inch; bore; and -J5t
(or small) bore

These Cartridges have been adopted,

after careful comparative trials

hv HER

ENT, as

_. Tor the

BRITISH ARMY, and are not only

used exclusively for the Snider Rifle,

but are adapted to all other sys ems of

military BREECH LEADING BIFIiES

They are the cheapest Cartridgts
known, carrying their own ignition,
beine made wholly of metal, arc wa-
ter-proof and imperishable in any cli-
mate.

Boxer Cartridge Cases (emptv), of all
3 sizes, packed with or without bullets,
and machine for fastening same in
Cartridges.

Makers of BOXER CARTRIDGES.
--15U bore for Revolving Pistols, in use
in Her Majesty's Navy.

PIN CARTRIDGES for Lefaucheux
Revolvers of 12 m, 9 m. and 7 m, bore.

CENTRAL FIRE and PIN FIRE
CARTRIDGES, to: aU sizes of Guns,
Rifle.- and Revolvers.

Double Water-Proof and E. B- Caps.
Wire Cartridges for killing game at
long distances. Felt Waddings to im-
prove the shooting of guns; and every
desrriptinn of Sporting and Military Ammunition.
Wholettule only.

ELEY BROTHERS,

13vl6cowly

Gray's Inn Road, London, W. C.

PATENT KIGrHT

— FOR —

MMrUFACTURIWS PROOF SPIRITS

FOR SAIJ3.

Attention is called to MARTIN'S NEW PATENT for a
process for Distilling Alcohol (S5 per cent, or higher), with-
out rectifying, which is offered for sale on favorable terms.
Samples may be seen, and further information obtained, at
No. 423 Washington street.

26V17 E. M. DEWEY.

Trades and Manufactures.

WM. DAUTLING. OENRY KIMBALL.

BARTLING- & KIMBALL,
BOOKBINDERS,

Paper Eiders and Blank Book Manufacturers,

uOS Cluy street, (southwest cor. Sansoine),
I5vl2-3m SAN FRANCISCO,

JOHTV DANIEL,

(SUCCESSOR TO 0. GORl)

MARBLE WORKS,

No. 421 FinesLbet Montgomery and Kearny, San Francisco

3£a.utel9, monument*, Tomlii, PI iimbcrtt' Slabs

Etc., On hand and Manufactured to order.
SSf- Goods shipped to all parts of the State. Orders re
ipeett'iillj solicited. 5v8-3m

Palmer's Patent

ARTIFICIAL LEG,

Manufactured in Philadelphia., Penn.
JARVIS JKWETT, AGENT.

218 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. 10v8-lm

J. M. STOCKMAN,

Manufacturer of
PATTERNS -A_IVT> MODELS,

(Over W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry,
S. E. Corner of Mission and Fremont sts>,
6vl4tf SAN FRANCISCO.

J. F. PAG-ES,

SEAL E IV G H A. V E IR,
AND LETTER CUTTER.

Brass and Steel Stamps and Dies, 608 Sacramento street,

San Francisco. Orders bv express promptly attended to.

6vl6

DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITURE.
JOHNSON~~& BEST,

Manufacturers of all kinds of
X>eslcs and. Office Fiirnltixre,

TIT Market ntreetf near Third.

ffareroom* up stairs. A large variety of Desks always on

hand; oil kinds of Office Furniture and Cabinet

Work made to order.

18vl7qr

Novelty and Usefulness Combined.
Wilson's Prepared Solder

Dispenses with the Soldering Iron.

It will sn>t j.-u uuiii nine iinu im.uj1. ui.e Pottle of this
Solder will mend all the tins you have luid one side lor
months, und make them wood as new. Oct them out and
mend them. It is cheap— only 50 cents a hohlc; It is con-
venient and compact. Use any kind of hmip that has a
blaze no larger than a single wick: a spirit lump will make
no smoke. Yi>u innv mend a dish or can over the best table
without fear of spoiling It. Try it, and yon will never want
a soldering iron in the house acain What a saving
to fanners. No more Stopping up of holes in milk pans
with a rug. Milkmen can merd their own cans. It
does the prettiest job on any anicle ymi have In the house,
from a pint dish to a wash boiler. It is a sure tiling to silck
when resin and solder will not It will stand heat ns well
as an v solder ever used over lire

Agencv lor the Faci kc Cmist. R<inm No- 1", No. 423 Wash-
in-iun slreet, Sun Krimciscu. AGENTS WANTED.

Address f . O. box 17. 23vJ7tf

LEA & PERRIN3'

CkLi.nR\TfcD

■WOHCESTJB«SHmE SATJCE

Declared by connoisnurs
to be tbe only

GOOD SAXTCE. .rj

— d

The success uf lliis most g
delicious and anrivnllcd r?
condiment liaving caustd ^
certain dealers to apply ihe name of '"Vor- ^
cesterslliro Sauce to their own inferior c
compounds, the public is hereby iiiformefl "d
that the only way to secure the gcuuiuc, ^
is to ask tor a

Lea & Pcrrin** Snnee, c:

o _^
and see that their names arc upon the ■£ jM|^
wrapper, labels, stopper, anil bottle. rj

Some ol ihe turcigii markets bavine been iti
supplied with a spurious Worcestershire O
S mce, upon the wrapper and labels ot
which the names of Lea and Perrins have been forged, L
and P Rive notice that tney hive furnished1 their corres-
pondents with power of attorney to take instant proceed
ings against Mauuiaelurers and Vendors of such, or any
other imitations bv which ihi-ir riRht inav he infringed.

Ask for LEA .t PERltlKS' Sauce, and see name on the
Wrapper, Label, Bottle, and Stoupc-,

Wholesale and for Export by tbe Proprietors. Worcester;
Orosse & Blackwell, London, clc.. etc.; aud bv Grocers and
Oilmen universally. Agents, CROSS ,t CO. San Fran-
Cisco. svl8-lv

Our Patent Aeeuej'.

The Patent Agency of the Mining and Scientific Press
has been signalized with remarkable success during the
past few years. Tho importance to the inventive genius if
this coast of a thorough and reliable agency for the solicita
tion of Letters Patent from the United States and foreign
Governments cannot be over-rated. and t lie Proprietors of the
Press, feeling the responsibility which rests upon them, and
the reward which must follow the faithful performance of
their trusts, will take care to afTord inventors every advan"
tage to be secured to them through a competent and re-
oonsible agency upon this coasL

Our Idaho Correspondence.

JOTTING NEWS.

Editors Peess : — By private letter from
Yuba, I learn that the energetic Superin-
tendent of the Monarch Gold and Silver
Mining Company, Mr. Atkins, is now
down on the Atlanta over one hundred feet,
and has found the vein much richer than
ever. There are two veins in the main
lode running parallel to each other; one is
two feet and the other six inches in width,
plainly discernible in character from the
other parts of the pay streak or seam, the
whole seam containing precious metals,
and the matter enclosed between the cas-
ings being over twenty-five feet — some say
near forty, but I will be moderate. These
two veins are now yielding ore that assays
over $20,000 to the ton, and the highest as-
say given is $26,400. Does not this put
White Pine in the background ?

Work done last fall by the owners of the
Willamette lode, running east from the
Discovery Stake, gives evidence that at the
depth of seventy-five feet there is a splen-
did body of ore, very rich in silver, and al-
though no practical assay of it has been
made, yet by common fire test, experienced
mineralogists pronounce it first-class ore.
The owners on the west propo-e to open up
at a low level this spring. The lode at
seventy-five feet deep is over six feet wide,
easy to work — timber in the way, which has
to be cleared,— and good water-power close
at hand.

White Pine and Elko have taken away
most of our floating population, and some
that we did not like to lose; but Boise City,
though dull, is not dead yet. We hope yet
to see a railroad near, if not right at our
doors, and think that the railroad compa-
nies are making an error in judgment in
not bringiug their iron horse snorting, close
to our vicinity.

COMMTJNIOATIONS.

The storms which have been burying the
country with snow, or inundating it with
water all arouDd, have left us untouched,
and we have been reveling in warm spriog
weather.

It is now a week since we have had a
through mail from the East, and the Cali-
fornia route ifibut little if any better.

Hailey is running thestage through from
Umatilla to the railroad at Ogden aud Salt
Lake, and promises, as soon as the roads
get good, to make the distance, 625 miles,
aud the Blue and other mountains en route,
in eighty-four hours; Umatilla to Boise, 1%
days; Boise City to Ogden, two days.

Peoasus.

Boise City, March 5th, 1869.

Bbead Making. — The following commu-
nication has been called out by the article
in our issue of Feb. 6th, giving Professor
Horsford's directions " How to make good
bread :"

Editors Press: — How I make gocd
bread ; very much as Prof. Horsford ai -
vises, except that I prepare yeast as follows:
Select one good potato about the size of a
goose egg, cleanse, peel and grate it raw,
add a table spoonfull of brown sugar and
enough lukewarm water (80°) to fill a com-
mon bottle three-fourths full; cork it tight,
and tie down the cork. In a day or two,
according to temperature (which ought
never to be much above 80°), it will be
ready for use. Open carefully lest you
lose all. The bottlefull will make four or
five large loaves. If a spoonful or two of
yeast is left in the bottle it can easily be
renewed, and will be ready for use in less
time. This method of preparing yeast
will be convenient for those miners who
cannot readily procure " Best Bakers*
Yeast" at any moment tbey need it.

Prop. Jeigh Arkh.

Progress in Agricultural Chemistry.
It is only fifty-eight years since the first
accurate analysis of a vegetable substance
was made, and about forty years since Lie-
big commenced to make reliable and sys-
tematic determinations of the chemical na-
ture of plants and soils. The fact is almost
incredible, that up to 1838 so little positive
knowledge existed concerning the agricul-
tural value of ashes, that the Gottingen
Acfdemy offered a prize for a satisfactory
solution of the question, "Whether the in-
gredients of ashes are essential to vegetable
groir/Jis." — Boston Journal of Chemistry,

T1c\e Mining and Scientific Press.

175

Actios of StophatbopBoda jx Dtbiho.
The enlpbate of Boda, which is Boaroelj ever
treated of in books on dyeing, because of ita
phemica] indifference f<ir coloring matters,
elevates, as every soluble substance does,
the speoifio weight, anil tints also tho boil-
i ii i-T poiat of the solution. It is possible,
f.>r instance, to change the shade of aniline
violet into blue or red, according as the
temperature of the solution is more or less
elevated. When the dyeing is performed
in an aei.l bath (the dyers very frequently
mM sulphuric acid to their baths), the sul-
phate of soda combines with the free sul-
phuric aoid and forms with it bisnlphate
of soda. In tliis manner the bath retains
its acid reaction without the presence of
bee sulphuric acid. Hence, wheu half-
woolen elotbs are dyed, the cotton in them,
extremely sensitive to tho action of the
mineral acids, will be very well preserved.
Dissolved in water in great tiuantities, tbe
sulphate of soda diminishes tbe capacity of
the bath to dissolvo tbe added coloring
matters.

As on example ;— the red coloring mat-
ters possess tho property of combining only
with the greatest difficulty with the fiber
wben dyed in acid bath. Therefore, wher-
ever the substances are employed in tbe
acid bath — and often this is necessary — the
greatest part of the coloring mutter is
wasted and lost if the common process is
employed. By adding sulphuric acid, tbe
dyeing power of tbe pigments can be put
into activity, and by varying the quantity
of sulphate of soda employed, it is possible
to control the combination of tbe pigment
with tbe textile liber. Therefore, by means
of the sulphate of soda various shades can
be pnduced. — Dr. Beimann, in Scientific
American.

Electrical Expemhent. — Procure four
plass tumblers, and having wiped them
dry, hold them over the fire, for the least
moisture spoils tbe experiment. Place
them upon the floor in a square, about one
foot apart ; place a piece of board upon tbe
tumblers; and a person upon tbe board.
This person is now completely insulated.
Now take a common rubber comb, and hav-
ing wound a piece of silk around one end
of it, rub it briskly through your hair, and
draw tbe teeth parallel to tbe insulated per-
son's knuckles, leaving a little space be-
tween tbe comb and the hand. Tbe result
will be a sharp, crackling noise, and if it is
dark, there will be seen a succession
of sparks. Repeat tbe process until tbe
phenomena cease. The person is now
" charged" with electricity, the same as a
Leyden jar. To draw off tbe electricity,
approach your knuckles to the person's
bauds or bis nose ( being careful not to al-
low any portion of your body to come in
centact with his), and there will be aloud
snap and the sparks will be very brilliant.
If a cat be held so that the charged person
can place bis knuckles in proximity with
tbe animal's nose, it will suddenly appear
as if it were in contact with an electric bat-
tery. Much amusement may be derived
from this simple experiment. — Boston Jour-
nal of Chemistry.

American Akms Abroad. — The New
York Sun says tbe llemington Company
has recently delivered to the Danish gov-
ernment, 40,000 of their guns, and to tbe
Swedish government 30,000, and tbe Greek
government has eontractedfor 15,000, which
have not yet been delivered. The Reming-
ton pattern is a single cartridge breech-
loader. Tbe Cuban government has bought
upwards of 20,000 of Remington and Pea-
body rifles, — the latter an arm manufac-
tured in Providence. Tbe Russian govern-
ment has a contract with the Colt Fire-
arms Company at Hartford, for 30,000
rifles, an improvement on the Prussian
needle gun.

CALIFORNIA

BUSINESS UNIVERSITY,

VJO-1 Montgomery Street.

Full particulars retarding o>ir Practical Course of Studied
ma > bo had by calling at the University, or by addressing
17vi/-i|yUp E. P. HEALD, Sail Francisco.

OCCIDENTAL

Insurance Company,

OF SAN FRANCISCO.
Ca«h Capital, »:{(;«,000

GOLD COIN.

Office S. "W. corner of Montgomery and
California streets.

Fire a ii rl Mlarlne Insurance.
All Losses paid In U, P. Gold Coin,

CHR, CHRISTIANSEN, President.
B. RoTnaciitLp, Secretary* 2Qvl7-3m

ROOT'S PATENT FORCE BLAST ROTARY BLOWER.

Patented Nov. 1st, lUGt ; July 24, 1SOO ; ami Oct. 9, 1800.

Awardod tho ITii-«t Premium nt tlie Paris Exposition.

REQUIRES

JTil'ty Per Cent.

LESS POWER

TU n n any Blower

!^(o;im.shij>s

One of these Blowers may he seen on exhibition at W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry, corner of
Mission ami Fremont streets. They are also in use at the Altnaden Quicksilver Mine ; Gridlcy's
Foundry, Gold Mill, Nevada ; ./Etna Iron Works, San Francisco, and mauv other places.

Caution. — Purchasers will rind it to their advantage to apply direct to the Stockton Agency, as
certain parties, not authorized to manufacture the Blower; have put in the market machines of inferior
construction, which do not answer all the requirements of tlie genuine article.

For circulars and further information, address

KEEP & BAKG-ION,

■ivl6 3m Globe Iron Work.*, Stockton, Col.

JOHN WRIGHT & CO.,

-DEALERS IN-

IPXOKS AND Flore HANDLES.

Sole Agents for "Washoe Tool Company,

Wo. 331 Fremont St., T>et. Howard a nil Polsom, 8an Francisco.

L.IST OP PRICES OP PICKS:

No. 1
" 2

Round Eyo surface, 4 lbs..

i% " .

" " 5 " .

5« " .

Flat Eye surface

6%

7

i

m

12 "

13

14

15 Drifting.

20

24

10

No. 17 Drifting

20.
21

20

27

. W, ]ba .

.5

. 5H " .

0

4 " .

an

G

0«

7

2

. 2«

Also PICK EYES ready for the steel, for the Blacksmiths, -which 'will

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San Francisco, Saturday, March 20, 1869.

VOLUME XVIII.
Kuniber 19.

Table of Contents.

Dreyf"*' Patent Sclf-Ollcr—

IIIlU
II,. Johnston Hrandy Distil

i.ui.iii Proeaia

WuhIuh' fau Process.

WblM Pine Items.

Railroad Items,

Kenorcesond Developments

Paten) System In Oermiiny.

Contributions I or our Cabinet

L. siiuuiiln'a " Underground
Lite."

The Welcome Rain.

K -111 in Mortur.

The Weight of Hydrogen.

California Acad, of Sciences.

Electricity and Amalgama-
tion.

Imperceptible Earthquakes.

Irrigation.

EXGISKKltlNC MlSCSLLAST —

Bringing water Into oak
land; Railroad In Persia:
Building Railroads over the
Alps; Etc.

M 1 ill .Mi'.l. ll|;i'i'M.i,ir-

The Smallest Steam Engine
In the World; Hardening
ami llamiiiiTing; Progress
In Electro MeU lurgy; Etc.

SciKNTIrIC MlKCKLLANV.—

The Hadrosaurus ; Hydro-
gen; Opals; New Form of
Permanent Magnet; Etc.

Snow on the Central Pacific.

Mining SUMMAKr— Comprising
late Intelligence from the
various counties and dis-
trlctsln California. Ar 7011a,
Colorado. Idaho, Montana,
Oregon, Nevada. Washing-
ton, South America.

San Francisco Melal Market.

San Francisco Market Rates.

Notices to Correspondents.

Stock Prices— Bid and Asked.

New Incorporations.

New Patents and Inventions.

San Francisco Mining Share-
holders' Directory.

Contributions for cur Cabinet.

No. 382. — Coal shale, from a point four
to six miles east of Hamilton, White Pine
District. It has an obsidian-like anthracite
surface, and a fracture resembling cannel,
but it is neither; a very large percentage of
the specimen being earthy matter, so that
it burns only from the surface to a certain
depth, requiring further fracture to com-
plete the burning process. The geological
age of this coal is not determined, but it is
probably carboniferous, or older, — a fact
easily determined, as there are many fossils
in the vicinity. The vein is horizontal,
five to six feet in thickness, and under ten
to fifteen feet of calcareous shales at the
point of discovery. It is very probable
that veins of a better quality will yet be
discovered, as there are good, bad and in-
different veins in all coal countries. Pre-
sented by Julius Von Schmidt, C. E.

No. 383. — Auriferous pyrites- which have
proved very rebellious, for reasons un-
known to the millman ; from the Wheeler
mine, Pine Grove, Amador County. The
ore contains from 8100 to §200 to the ton,
but only S50 has been obtained in working.
A lot of 300 pounds worked raw in a pan,
with twenty pounds of mercury, resulted
in a product of only half a pound of amal-
gam and mercury. Mr. Kustel's attention
being called to the difficulty, it was sur-
mised that some soluble substance in the
ore — either a sulphate or chloride — might
be the deleterious cause, and on examina-
tion a large percentage of sulphate of lime
(gypsum) was founds present, one part of
which is soluble in 400 of water. On try-
ing the effect of gypsum upon mercury,
separately, however, the same deleterious
effect was not experienced. The real cause
of the rebelliousness of the ore appears,
therefore, to remain in doubt. Presented
by G. Kustel.

No. 3t>4. — Pitch copper ore with red ox-
ide of copper, from near the Buchanan
copper vein, Fresno County. Presented
with Nos. 385-6-7, by C Wrage, of Ante-
lope Ranch, Merced County.

No. 385. — Chrysocolla, or green silicate
of copper; cuprit, the red oxide of copper,
accompanied by the same in an earthy con-
dition, which is called "tile ore;" and
limonite, or brown iron ore; from the Bu-
chanan copper vein (German Company)
Fresno County.

No. 386. — Quartz stained with red oxides

of copper and iron. Near Buchanan vein.

No. 387. — Tile ore, or perhaps red iron
oeher disseminated iu granular quartz,
having fine crystals of white mica. Cow-
chilla Mining District, Mariposa County.

No. 388.— Black garnets in green-earth,
or seladonite. Moore Hill, Mariposa
County.

No. 389. — Serpentine, the hardness ex-
ceeding that of calespar; and steatite, ap-
parently the same, in a decomposed state,
and a little harder than butter. The com-
position of both is, in the main, silicate of
magnesia. From Duncan's Mill, Sonoma
County, where it is known as mineral soap.
Both steatite and serpentine bear intense
heat; the latter, when put into water, has a
soapy feel, but will not answer for wash-
ing. B. C. Bell.

No. 390. — Several dozen specimens of
well-preserved fossils from White Pine
District, partly silicified. Several of them
are in quartz, which seems to be pseudo-
morphons from limestone. The most nu-
merous and best preserved are brachiopods
(mollusks) which appear to be of the
spirifer and terebratula families, but there
are very perfect seaweeds, (algae) , corallines,
etc. The memorandum of localities and
details has not yet come to hand. Pre-
sented by J. E. Clayton, M. E., through
Andrew G. Gove.

Imperceptible Earthquakes. — Geolo-
gists tell us that the crust of the earth is
subject to a constant lateral pressure, from
shrinkage, (as is the case in the skin of an
apple) ; and the faults and slidings of rock
along its cracks and fissures, as witnessed
in mines, are known to exist everywhere
underground. It is a very reasonable con-
clusion that movements of strata past each
other may be going on so gradually and
regularly as to be ordinarily imperceptible.
Delicate tests sustain the hypothesis. On
the 29th of September, last year, in the
Astronomical Observatory near St. Peters-
burg, Bussia, a slight, almost impercepti-
ble movement of the air in the spirit level
was noticed, without any apparent cause.
Councilor Wagner attributed it to an earth-
quake somewhere, and noted the hour and
minute of the occurrence. Afterward it was
known that at Malta there had been an
earthquake at the time, and that the heav-
iest shock preceded, by several minutes,
the observation at Pulkowa. Subsequent-
ly the same thing was noticed again, and it
was at the same time with an earthquake
iu Central Asia.

A one-wheeled velocipede design haa
been shown to us by Mr. A. Frick, the in-
ventor, who thinks that the motion of the
machine as he has it arranged will make
the machine self-balancing, longitudinally
as well as laterally. Unreasonable as this
appears, we understand it to be his inten-
tion to test the matter by the construction
of a one-wheeled velocipede.

Continental Life Insurance Company,
203 Montgomery street, corner of Pine.

Dreyfus' Patent Self-Oiler.

This invention, represented in the en-
graving, is one of the best illustrations
that we have seen for some time of the ben-
efits, and the easy triumphs of invention as
well as of the substant'al rewards attending
the carrying out of a "good idea." Drey-
fus' patent oiler is simply an air-tight, glass
oil box, having a hole in the bottom, which
is nearly filled by the wire rod seen rising
up in the middle in the engraving. The
lower end of the rod rests on the revolving
shaft of any piece of machinery to which
it is applied. The slight disturbance of
the rod given by the motion of the machin-
ery causes the air to find its way up into
the oil box, through the oil, and to letdown
the same, consequently, as fast as it may be
desired.

1

I

The ordinary method of oiling machin-
ery is to pour oil on the journal by means
of an oiling can. Oiling in that manner
must be very frequently repeated, necessi-
tating considerable labor, and much of the
oil flows off at once. Another method is
to pour it into a little stationary funnel;
but as there is no vacuum to hold back the
oil, it flows through too fast, and runs to
waste. Dreyfus' oiler saves 75 to 90 per
cent, of the oil ordinarily required. The
size seen in the engraving, filled with oil,
will not run empty in a month. It is ap-
plicable to any common bearing, and pre-
vents both heating and freezing of the oil.
The wire is regulated inside the tube to
feed according to the demands, and there
is no flow of oil whatever while the machin-
ery is not in motion. It is reliable in win-

ter, for the reason that the friction produced
by the action of the bearing on the wire
causes the wire to heat, thereby causing
the oil to become limpid. Being perfectly
air-tight vessels, the oil will never gum.

The agent for the Pacific Coast is Wilkie
Darling, Esq. , No. 629 Washington street.
For further particulars, see advertisement
in another column.

The Welcome Bain — Most welcome to
the people of California has been the warm
and gentle rains of the past week. A fever-
ish anxiety had begun to manifest itself,
lest the drouth of the previous weeks should
have been continued for a length of time
which would have proved detrimental, if
not destructive, to our grain crops. All
anxiety is now happily dispelled. The
rain has been general over all the agricul-
tural lands of the State, while a small
quantity of snow has fallen in the Sierra
and over the more elevated regions, as far
east as Salt Lake. Croakers and grain
speculators are the only parties who do not
welcome this refreshing visitation of Prov-
idence. The latter, who had hoped to re-
alize high prices for flour in consequence
of the failure of the present crops, are
now, happily for the masses of the people,
disappointed in their expectations. If
those who are still holding grain and de-
manding New York and Liverpool prices,
will send it forward by some of the tonnage
now in port and waiting anxiously for
freights, at such prices as the markets will
actually warrant, they will doubtless find
the operation greatly to their own profit,
and highly beneficial to the general com-
mercial interests of the coast The present
assurance of abundant crops will also tell
largely upon the overland emigration for
the coming summer, as a failure in that
direction would have gone greatly against
us with the transient thousands who will
visit us during that time, and would also
have deterred many others from coming at
all, who had made up their minds to em-
brace the opening of the overland road as
a favorable time to transfer their residences
to the Pacific Coast

Snow on the Central Pacific. — It is
gratifying to Californians to observe that
the delays from snow on the overland rail-
road, the past winter, have been almost ex-
clusively confined to the Eastern division.
Many doubts have been expressed as to the
stability of the " snow sheds;" but the
experience of the past winter has settled
that question most satisfactorily. A few
imperfections, which were revealed a year
ago, have been promptly attended to dur-
ing the summer, and the modifications
have proved all sufficient. The company
has now about twenty miles of sheds; some
ten miles more will be required to span the
snow belt, all of which will be constructed
during the coming summer. It is the de-
termination of the Central Pacific Company
to keep their road as free for the passage
of trains in winter as in summer, and we
trust for the benefit of both companies and
for the public that the Union Pacific will
exhibit an equal degree of foresight and_
enterprise,

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Commumcatwtis .

IH tbis Department we invite liieFREK rnscossio* of all
proper subjects— correspondents alone being responsible for
the ideas and theories they advance.

Writlen for the Mining and Scientific Press.

The Johnston Brandy Distillation Proc-
ess—The Aroma and Fusil Oil.

San Fbancisco, March 1st, 1869.

Editoes Press : — My attention has been
called to an article in your valuable paper
of the 20th of JFebruary, as follows :

" The Johnston Still substitutes a col-
umn rectifier between the still and the
■worm, in which the spirit as distilled is fre-
quently washed with water before conden-
sation, and the fusil oil thereby thoroughly
extracted. A small sample sent us, which
was distilled by Mr. Bugby, though 35
per cent, above proof, possessed anunusual
smoothness for its age, with a delicious per-
fume and flavor of the grape from which it
was made. "

In the first place, I would remark that a
column still is not a very recent invention.
It has been used in England and France
for some years. I have several diagrams in
my possession, such as are used in France,
invented by one Gantheir Tellars. The
most, celebrated cognac distilleries of France
do not favor the use of column stills for
the manufacture of brandy; they adhere to
the old style of still. The column still is
better adapted to the manufacture of neu-
tral spirits and alcohol. They rectify the
spirit too high to retain much of the
aroma and boquet of the grape.

My object is not to condemn the column
still; but the statement that brandy distilled
by it has all the fusil oil extracted, and yet
the brandy possessing all of the perfume and
flavor of the grape, is an error too apparent
for any one acquainted with the chemistry
of liquors to credit. The flavor of brandy
is due to the fusil oil it contains. Dispos-
sess it of this oil, and you have a flavorless
spirit called pan spirit, neutral spirit, or,
alcohol.

Dr. Ure, the great English chemist, says
brandy is the name given in this country to
ardent spirits distilled from wine, and pos-
sessed of a peculiar flavor due to a minute
portion of a peculiar volatile oil. The
most celebrated of the French brandies —
thosa'of Cognacjand Armaquaa — are slightly
rectified, to only from 0.935 to 0.922; they
contain more than half their weight of
water, and come over, therefore, highly
charged with the fragrant essential oil of
the husk of the grape. I will here state
that 0.935 and 0.922 refers to the specific
gravity, and has the strength respectively
of 50 per cent, by volume or 42 by weight
for the former, and 56 per cent, by volume
or 48 by weight for the latter. You will
perceive that the greater the specific grav-
ity, the weaker the spirit is. Absolute al-
cohol has a specific gravity of 0.794.

j. D. T.

Origin of the Washoe Pan Process.

Editoes Peess: — In your last week's
issue you stated that Mr. Almarin B. Paul
first introduced the "WashoePan Process."
Permit me to say that this is an error. It
is true that that gentleman brought pans
for amalgamation to "Washoe in 1860 or 1861,
but pans for amalgamating purposes had
for eight years previous, at;least, been as
plentiful as blackberries in this State.

What is known as the Washoe Pan Proc-
ess, was first introduced by the late Captain
Hatch, at Col. Trench's mill, in Silver
City, about the same time as that above
meutioned, and was then known as the
" Hatch Process."

Captain Hatch having carefully observed
the working of similar processes, during a
lengthened stay in Mexico, studied the sub-
ject, and first introduced substantially the
same process in Washoe, but with some
modifications and alterations.

About the end of the 16th century,
Alonzo Barba, a priest of the city of Poiosi,
iu South America, a man of inquiring
mind and undeniable industry, originally
discovered and perfected this method. Two
hundred years later it was introduced into
Europe, and it was the origin of the Frei-
berg Process.

The ores best adapted for this process are
chlorides, bromides, iodides, iodio-bro
mides, oxides, ami some sulphuretsof sil-
ver, native silver and amalgam.

Its advantage is the production of a very
pure silver in a shorter time than by any
previously known process. The loss of
quicksilver, where carefully attended to, is
not greater than in the barrel process.

Its disadvantageAs the heavy loss of silver
in mixed ores; compound sulphurets, ar-
senides, etc., not being decomposed, are
only recoverable from the ' ' polvillos " or
concentrated tailings.

The method of working is this : The pul-
verized ore is boiled with a solution of
common salt in a copper vessel, or wooden
vessel with copper bottom, the mixture be-
ing constantly stirred; quicksilver is grad-
ually added; gentle ebullition is maintained
for some time longer, and the amalgam
washed and strained as usual. Where cu-
preous pyrites are not present, it is advisa-
ble to add during the operation, sulphate of
copper, or its equivalent.

Thus there is nothing new in the Washoe
Pan Process, save itsintroduction here, and
that is due, as I have mentioned, to Cap-
tain Hatch. " Let justice be done, though
the heavens (and some folk's pretensions)
fall." This claiming by individuals of the
discovery of old, though not generally
known methods, is about played out.

J. s.

Railroad Items.

Utah Annexed. — It was on the 18th
inst. that the Union Pacific tracklayers and
the locomotive and advance cars hove in
sight of Ogden. The welcome given them,
the enthusiam manifested on all hands in
an impromptu meeting, the running up of
the United States flag by Col. Dan. Gam-
ble to the strains of the Star Spangled Ban-
ner, presented a scene that must become
historical, for the Mormons themselves
participated. With a characteristic mili-
tary-like brevity, the chief railroad build-
ers, Warren, of the Utah Division, and
Captain Clayton, the tracklayer, though
greeted with all the honors, and loudly
called upon to make speeches, both declined
to detract in that manner from the elo-
quence of the event, the greatness of which
lies so significantly in action, not words.

Salt Lake City Bbanch and BrvAii
Metropolis. — J. W. Fox, Territorial Sur-
veyor, and J. A. Young, left Salt Lake
City, March 9th, to ascertain the feasibility
of taking the branch railway between this
city and Ogden from Haight's Bench to
Farmiugton Bottom, and from Ogden Bot-
tom on to Wilson Bench. This project is
called "Brigham's Grand Cooperative
Bulls'-Eye Railroad Company," by the Salt
Lake Rejjorter, which says the Mormon or-
ganizer has not yet obtained the right of
way from the United States. For several
days after the departure of the surveyors,
there was, says the Reporter, " a great rush
to Bear River crossing, north, the great at-
traction being corner lots and good busi-
ness locations in the. new town which the
railroad company, it is said, will soon lay
off in that vicinity. It is confidently ex-
pected that the site of the great commer-
cial metropolis of the Rocky Mountains
will soon be determined upon. We are in-
formed that it is extremely difficult to obtain
passage in the stages, as enough persons
have booked themselves to load the coaches
during the next two or three days."
. Sacramento as a Raileoad Centee. —
Sacramento is in semi-daily railroad com-
munication with San Francisco on the west,
Folsom and the Cosumnes on the east, with
all points on the line of the Central Pacific
Railroad, in daily communication with
Marysville, and with San Francisco by
steamers running to all points on the Sac-
ramento River as far as Red Bluff.

The Rocky Mountain Snows. — A
month's blockade on the Union Pacific,
which seems to continue still, has lowered
" stock " on that road, and furnishes the
newspapers with a good text to write about
southern routes. Though Durant has ex-
hibited very remarkable energy in getting
the Union Pacifio road completed to Salt
Lake, notwithstanding these difficulties, in
winter, he falls far short of the excellent
administration of the running management
on the Central Pacific, where accidents and
detentions in loftier and more difficult
mountains, are scarcely heard of. Numbers
of passengers on the Union Pacific are said
to leave the railroad and proceed on foot.
The Union Pacific snow-plow is 200 feet
long, 10 feet wide, and about 11 feet high,
four feet of the front fiat running three
inches above the rails, and then two molds,
similar to the molds of a plow, form to a

point within four feet of the front, which,
when running at the rate of thirty-five to
forty miles an hour, often throws the snow
over the telegraph wires.

Central and Union Pacifio. — The
Union Pacific is finished to Ogden. The
Central Pacific is finished to within about
ninety miles of Monument Point, or the
north end of Salt Lake — leaving about 170
miles of the continental railroad uncom-
pleted. To reach Monument Point, the
Union Pacific has about eighty miles of
track to lay. The Central Pacific is laying
three miles one day and four and a half the
next; the difference being caused by an ex-
tra train of material coming forward on al-
ternate days. The Central has its grading
completed to Monument Point.

The Virginia City Raileoad. — The
Herald of March 15th says : Work is being
vigorously prosecuted on the first section
of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, and
the road from Carson or Empire to Vir-
ginia, will be completed and in running or-
der by December next Thereafter the
most of the coarser grades of ore will be
taken to mills on the Carson for working;
and so soon as the road is extended to
Washoe and the Truckee, the probabilities
are that there will be but little mill work
done in Storey County. But employment
in Virginia, Gold Hill, American Flat and
Flowery, will be afforded to three or four
thousand more miners than the number
now engaged.

Okoville and Virginia City Railroad.
We learn from Chief Engineer Stangrooms,
who passed through this city yesterday,
says the Marysville Appeal of March 12th,
that ground will be broken immediately on
the Oroville and Virginia City Railroad.
Work will be commenced as soon as a labor-
ing gang can be organized, near Oroville,
and it is hoped that it means work, not
show. We understand that the prelimin-
ary survey, which was completed some
time ago, will be adopted with slight varia-
tions. There have been so many suspicions
raised against this road that it will require
straightforward work to regain confidence
sufficient to satisfy the people that it is a
bona fide railroad building.

Westeen Pacifio. — The Bee says that
this rosd, from the turn it makes at Brigh-
ton, five miles east of Sacramento, is as
straight as an arrow to the Cosumnes and
beyond it all the way to Stockton, and al-
most as level as the surface of a lake. Forty
miles per hour can be made on it all the
way to San Francisco with ease. It is sub-
stantially constructed, the sleepers being
heavy and close, the rails 65-tti iron, fast-
ened together by the Fish joint. At pres-
ent a daily train runs to the Cosumnes, a
distance of eighteen miles from Sacra-
mento, but the road is not yet ballasted.
The intention is to make this the best piece
of running road on the continent for time,
if steam and skill can do it, and it is to
bring San Francisco and Sacramento nearer
to each other than they have yet been.

Stockton and Tejon Pass Raileoad. —
Mr. Cole has introduced a bill in Con-
gress granting lands to aid in the con-
struction of a railroad from Stockton to
connect with the Southern Pacific Railroad
near Tejon Pass. It authorizes the con-
struction of the road by the Stockton and
Tulare and the Sycamore Bend and Tejon
Pass Companies conjointly, and besides the
right of way, etc., grants ten alternate sec-
tions of unoccupied, non-mineral lands per
mile on each side of the line. The bill will
not be acted on this session and must be re-
vived in the next Congress.

Stockton and Tulaee Raileoad.— The
Stockton Independent of the 10th inst., inti-
mates that " some new light has dawned "
in regard to this enterprise, and that the
plans of the directors were about to take
definite shape, and their immediate inten-
tions be made known. On the evening of
that day, at a railroad meeting held in the
City Hall, Messrs. Gray and Peters, two of
the trustees of the company, stated that
iron and ties for the road had been pur-
chased, and that the iron is now on the way
from the East. The company have se-
cured a line for the road to the Stauislaus
River, and have set their grade stakes for
twelve miles from town. They are, how-
ever, not recivingsuch encouragement from
the citizens of Stockton in the way of sub-
scriptions to the stock as they expected,
and as they think they have a right to de-
mand. The original incorporators of the
road consisted of ten men, who each sub-
scribed .$10,000, making $100,000. In ad-
dition to this, the citizens of Stockton sub-
scribed $49,000, and thus the total sub-
scription to the stock is now but $149,000,
a sum insufficient if all in the hands of the
company, to complete the road for twenty
miles from the city this season.

Dr. Holden, President of the Stockton
and Copperopolis Railroad Co., has issued
a neat little pamplet of fourteen pages, in
which he sets forth the advantages to be
derived from the building of the road, and
presents some elaborate statistics concern-
ing the resources of San Joaquin, Calaveras,
Alpine, Tuolumne, Mono, and Stanislaus
counties.

The Oregon Road is working its way
down to the California line, via Umpqua
and Rogue River valleys. The surveyors
and graders are now at work in the Ump-
qua valley, near Oakland, and it is expect-
ed the road will enter the Rogue River val-
ley in the vicinity of Table Rock, near
Rogue River. It will strike the Klamath
probably at Bogus. The Yreka Journal
says : Yreka is the most central point on
the direct route of the railroad and depot
for Scott Valley and Klamath, Del Norte
and Trinity counties, and will also be the
most central depot for all the Klamath
Lake country business between this place
and Surprise Valley. The road will run
from Red Bluff up the Sacramento river to
within a few miles of Shasta, thence to
Soda Springs, thence through Shasta Val-
ley to Yreka, following out the Oregon
road to Bogus, probably through Hawkins-
ville.

The Oregon East and West Side
roads are in Congress, vigorously contend-
ing for the land grant made to Oregon by
act of 1866. Delay in the construction of
the Oregon and California road, will be the
only result, so far as the public are inter-
ested.

The citizens of Pacheeo, Contra Cofta
Co., held a meeting on Monday, March 8th,
with a view to the construction of a Tram,
or Railroad, to deep water, near Bull's
Head. The project was determined upon,
in a decisive manner.

A kaileoad has been surveyed from the
Soquel Landing, several miles up the So-
quel Creek. A company is in course of
organization, with $50,000 capital, for the
burning of lime. Rumor says the money
men are talking strongly of erecting an
elevator on the beach. — Sentinel, March 6.

Berkley College Horse Railroad.- -
The Oakland Horse Railroad Company have
received the material to complete their road
from the foot of Broadway, Oakland, to
Temescal Creek. As soon as the college
buildings are completed at Berkley, the
road will be completed to that place.

Branch to Vacaville. — The citizens of
Vacaville are about building a branch rail-
road from that place to connect with the
California Pacific. This will make Vaca-
ville an important grain and fruit depot.

The San Lorenzo horse railroad, now
mostly graded, will open up the lumber
region on the upper San Lorenzo, now un-
available through lack of transportation.

The Patent System in Germany. — The
Prussian Government has made the propo-
sition to the North German Confederacy to
abolish the system of protecting any spe-
cific industry by granting a patent to the
inventor, and it is very probable that the
North German Reichsrath will concur in
the views of the presiding Government. In
Germany the patent system has not proved
productive of any of the beneficial results
for which it was originally established. It
neither stimulated inventive genius to a
noteworthy extent, nor has it proved ad-
vantageous to the public in general. Even
the patentees themselves complain that the
character of a patented invention did not
materially augment their profits above what
they would have realized as the original
manufacturers of a patented article. On
the other hand, the proportion of patents
granted, for instance, in Prussia, is not
quite one-ninth of those granted in the
United States; the examination of any new
method or contrivance for which a patent
is claimed being so scrupulous in Prnssia,
that 87 per cent, of all applications is re-
jected. The abolition of a patent system,
therefore, is an infinitely smaller affair in
Prussia than it would be here, where im-
mense fortunes are realized in consequence
of it, and innumerable trades established
on the perpetuity of the present system.
Ex.

The Weight of Hydrogen. —The light-
est substance in nature is hydrogen. The
next lightest is marsh gas. But that is as
much heavier than hydrogen as iron is
heavier than water. Some idea of the ex-
treme lightness of hydrogen may thus .be
arrived at.

New Photographic Paper. — The new
paper of Messrs. Shaeffner & Mohr is sen-
sitized by carbonate of silver. Ammoni-
acal vapor is used as the reducing agent.

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

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Mec'fia/iical.

The Smallest Steam Enoine is the
World. — A writer in a London periodical
thus describes a minute model of the en-
gines of the steamship Warrior, — made by
Thomas Smith: "Tbis tiniest working
model in the world is now in the possession
of John Penn (of Greenwich), the eminent
maker of the groat enginas of which it is
the infinitely reduced counterpart. It will
stand on a threepenny-piece; it really cov-
ors less space, for its base-plate measures
only 3-8th of an inch by about 3 10th. The
engines are of the trunk form introduced
by Ponn; the cylinders measuro 1 -8th of
an inch diameter, and the trunk l-20th.
The length of stroke is 3-40th of an inch.
They are fitted with reversing gear, and are
generally similar in design to the great ma-
chines with which ships of the Warrior
class are equipped. From the extreme
smalluess of this model a few minutie—
such, for instance, as the air pnmps — have
necessarily been omitted; there is a limit
beyond which human skill aud minuteness
cannot pass. Still, so small are some of
the parts that they require a powerful mag-
nifying glass to see their form. The screws
which hold the members together are only
l-80th of an inch diameter, and these are
all duly furnished with hexagonal nuts,
which can be loosened and tightened by a
Liliputian spanner. The whole weight of
the model is less than a tbreepeuny-piece.
It works admirably, and when working its
crank-shaft performs from twenty to thirty
thousand revolutions in a minute."

Hardening and Hammering. — VanNos-
trand's Engineering Magazine, has a trans-
lation of an article upon steel from "Qruner
in Annates des Mines." The writer attributes
the effect produced upon steel by harden-
ing, or by hammering, not to the fact that
they facilitate the combination of the car-
bon with the metal, but that they prevent
tho separation of these two substances al-
ready combined. He says : " The mole-
cules of soft bodies require a certain time
for motion." "H the body is suddenly
cooled, the carbon cannot isolate itself. In
my opinion, hammering canses the same
result, because it prevents the iron and the
carbon from crystallizing, as it were, sepa-
rately, in cooling, but forces all parts with
great power into and through each other.
A proof of the want of harmony in the ef-
fects of hardening and hammering lies in
the fact that hammering increases, while
hardening decreases, the specific gravity of
steel."

Wooden Batleoad. — The New York
Stockholder gives part of a letter from the
President of the Clifton Iron Co. , describ-
ing its road as follows: "The rails are
of hard maple scantling, 4x6 inches, set on
round ties, on which are framed slots 6x4
The rails set on edge and keyed in the slots
by two wooden wedges driven against each
other, project two inches above the ties.
The rails admit of bending sufficiently to
make the curves. The ties are laid on the
earth and ballasted in the usual manner to
two inches of the bottom of the rail. It takes
21,120 feet, board measure, of scantling for
a mile, and 1,760 ties at three feet apart.
Our road is a very rough one. We have a
great deal of trestle-work, some of it over
thirty feet high, which is vastly more ex-
pensive than a level route. The engines
used weigh from ten to fourteen tons. The
rails will probably last about five or six
years. An engine will move about thirty
tons of freight at about six to eight miles
an hour, with heavy grades and sharp
curves. The company expects to move over
the road next year from 50,000 t> 100,000
tons freight. Trains have passed over the
road, light, at the rate of twenty miles an
hour; but this would not do for freight."

Heating a^id Cooling Surface. — The
heat-transmitting power of boiler surface
varies as the square of the difference of tem-
perature between its opposite sides; and it
has been found experimentally that a square
foot of freely exposed cooling surface (such
as that of the main steam pipe) has about
one-fifth of the heat transmitting power of
the heating surface, on an average; or sup-
posing that in a given boiler the areas of
heating aud cooling surface are equal
(which is very seldom the case, however),
the effect of the latter, if freely exposed, —
that is, not properly lagged, — would be to
reduce the evaporative efficiency of the
boiler twenty per cent. — Artisan.

New Process in EliECTBO-MBTAliiiUEGT.
The Mechanics' JUagaane describes an im-
provement, recently patented, by which
silver is directly deposited upon iron and
steel surfaces, without an intermediate coat-
ing of some other motal, as has heretofore
been thought necessary : " Tho surface of
the iron is purified by nascent hydrogen,
the hydrogen being produced by the elec-
trolysis of hydrate of potash and soda.
With care no other salt neod be added to
tbis solution, but in manufacture it is ex-
pedient to add a small quantity of one of
the compound cyanides; those preferred
are the nickelo or cobalti-cyanides of pot-
ash. If care be not taken to regulate the
current of electricity according to the
strength of the solution and the number of
articles in it, as well as the heat of the so-
lution, sodium will be deposited on the ar-
ticles as well as hydrogen, and if trans-
ferred to the silver solution with that on,
the silver will not adhere. The compound
cyanide prevents that. When tho article is
coated with silver it is subjected to a heat
of between 400° and 500° Fall., so as to fix
the silver, and after that it will stand a red
heat without injuring tho eoatiug. Knife-
blades and all cutting instruments are sil-
vered at a pale straw temper, so that the
burning in or fixing of the silver may bring
them down jnstto a proper cutting temper.

Enameling of Iron Vessels. — The
usual method of coating iron vessels has
been by sprinkling a fusible enamel, in pow-
der, over the highly heated surface. But
this coat will not withstand acids. A new
French process is thus described : The
metallic surface is brought in contact with
the ingredients of ordinary white glass, and
heated to vitrification; the iron is said to
oxidize by combination with silicic acid,
and the glass thus forms one compact body
with the metal. The coating of enamel
may be laid on as thinly or as thickly as de-
sired. Experiments are being made in
coating the armor plates for ships iu this
manner.

Scientific Miscella?ij>.

Tempering Taps — George Jones sends
the following to the Scientific ' American :
" Most of your readers are aware of the
difficulty in tempering taps and reamers
without springing, especially long and
large ones. To accomplish this let the
blacksmith select his steel for the job and
forge the tap with a little more than the
usual allowance, being careful not to heat
too hot, nor to hammer too cold. After the
tap or reamer is forged, heat it and hold it
on one end upon the anvil. If a large one hit
it with the sledge, if a small one the hammer
will do. During this operation the tap will
give away on its weakest side and become
bent. Do not attempt to straighten it. On
finishing and hardening the tap it will be-
come perfectly straight. If any are doubt-
ful a simple trial will convince them. "

Metallic Ceilings. — A system of me-
tallic ceilings, which consists in the appli-
cation to the joisting of very thin stamped
metal, in ornamental embossed panels, has
lately been invented. These stamped pan-
els ere fitted for every kind of decoration
in color, and if inserted as plain surfaces,
may be used for the ground for every de-
scription of cartoon painting, combining
with lightness and durability, artistic and
ornamental effect, at a comparatively small
cost.

An Old Plan Eevived. — A steam driv-
ing-wheel for canal boats is being adopted
on the Erie canal, constructed upon an old-
fashioned plan. It is placed in the middle
of the boat, and rolls on the bottom of the
canal, being armed with^spikes to give it a
firm hold. It is so arranged as to rise and
fall, and thus accommodates itself to the unj
even bottom. The speed attained is two
or three miles an hour.

What is Steel ? — Pig iron, the raw
product of the reduction of the ore, may
be hardened when chilled quickly.
Wrought iron is malleable either cold or
hot, but cannot be hardened. Steel may
be hardened, although malleable. There
is a continuous line of products in iron
manufacture, from tho lowest to tho high-
est; each merging into the next. It is not
an easy matter, therefore, to draw the line
distinotly, and answer the question, " what
is steel?"

Toe Hadrusaurus. — A huge reptile, 25
feet long, and 14}, high, with .a tail 12 feet
iu length, has been restored by Professor
Hawkins, and was exhibited before the
American Institute in New York, on Janu-
ary 27th. Portions of the skeleton were
found at Haddonfield, New Jersey, and the
parts which were wanting were supplied
after many months of study, by Professor
Hawkins. It was first described by Joseph
Leidy, of Philadelphia, who named it the
Badrosaurus Foulhii, in honor of W. P.
Foulke, of the same city, through whose
efforts it wasexhumed; he having employed
men expressly to search, in consequence of
the report of the discovery of a number of
largejvertebno, some twenty years since,
at the spot in question. The bones were
found at a depth of nine feet, imbedded in
a stratum of tenacious bluish black mica-
ceous elay, in association with a multitude
of shells, an eehinoderm, several small
teeth aud vertebrae of fishes, a ] coprolite,
and some fossilized coniferous wood. Mr.
Leidy considers tbis enormous reptile to be
allied to the Iguanodon. It will be placed
in the Central Park, together with the re-
mains found with it, in a special saloon to
be prepared for the purpose.

Distillation of Hydrocarbons Under
Pressure.— In Silliman's Journalior Jan.,
S. F. Peckham gives the result of some ex-
periments made by him in the distillation of
California hydrocarbons for the State Geo-
logical Survey. Tho volume of Beportsof
that Survey on " Economical Geology,"
containing these results, is, — he says, —
" now ready for the press, but its publica-
tion is delayed by the failure of the last
California Legislature in making the neces-
sary appropriation. " The yield of illumi-
nating oil from these dense petroleums, is
by the ordinary method of distillation very
small, but when by distillation under press-
ure, they are subjected to what is techni-
cally termed " cracking," — it is largely in-
creased. With a pressure of between thirty
and forty pounds to the square inch, a per-
centage of illuminating oil ,as high as 60
was obtained by him from crude material
which yielded only 20 per cent, by the or-
dinary method.

Hydrogen. — When the announcement
of the recent experiments of Professor Gra-
ham upon the metallic nature of hydrogen
was made before the French Academy, M.
Wurtz reminded that body that he discov-
ered a compound of copper and hydrogen
twenty years ago. This compound was
Cu2 H, and was a result of treating sulphate
of copper by hypophosphorous acid. With
other metals he failed, except with palladium;
the chloride of which, treated with the
same acid, gave a hi/druret of palladium, in
powder; but as it soon gave off its hydro-
gen, ho neglected to record the fact.

Opals. — At a meeting of the Lyceum of
NaturalHistory,inNew York, January 18th,
the subject of opals was introduced. Pro-
fessor Eggleston, of the School of Mines,
stated there were two kinds of opal, the
Mexican, or soft opal, and the precious
opal, which retained its luster for a cen-
tury. He had noticed a curious property
of these stones, viz : that the Mexican opal
showed its ' ' fire " according to the damp-
ness of the season, being dull in dry
weather. The effect of putting a drop of
water on the stone was to make it quite iri-
descent. The peculiar appearance of the
stone was caused by the decomposition of
light in its microscopic fissures. He was
not prepared to state what effect the action
of the water had on this decomposition.
It was certain it had some. In fact, he con-
sidered it indubitable that the opalescence,
under the circumstances he mentioned, was
caused by hydration. In the precious opal
the fire was lost by handling. He had been
engaged on some experiments to ascertain
how it might be restored. Heating would
not do. He had found alkaline solutions
useful in restoring it. He had used cya-
nide of ammonia with good effjet.

New Form of Permanent Magnet.—
Frederick A Paget, C. E., communicates
to tho Philosophical Magazine, an article
upon artificial magnets, from which we ex-
tract the following :

" Without any distinctly given reason,
it is taken for granted in all works on mag-
netism, and in all the practical applications
of mechanism, that it is impossible to mag-
netize a plate except in the direction of its
greatest length. Dr. Lanont. in a paper
c immunicated to the Philosophical Magazine,
fir November, 1801, by the Astronomer
Boyal, investigated the question of the
most advantageous form of magnets. In
all the forms he experimented upon the
breadth was always less than one-third tiie
length, aud generally about one-fifth, and
he does not seem to contemplate the possi-
bility of magnetizing a square plate, and
still less an oblong plate, in a direction
transverse to its greatest length. Now I
fi id that by cutting slits nearly up to tie
middle of a steel plate, a square plate in one
piece can with such slits be regularly mag-
netized, and by this means even an oblong
square plate can be regularly magnetized,
and with as many poles as may be required
in a direction transverse to its greatest
length. I herewith forward a square plate
magnetized in this way. It is of watch-
spring steel, 0'0075in. thick, and %in. +
V, in., it has four pairs of slits ;<in. wide
out from its edges, and leaving a central
web %in. -wide uniting the whole. On
moving a small needle round this square
plate it is seen to be regularly magnetized,
and on sprinkling iron filings on the mag-
net, covered by a sheet of paper, they ar-
range themselves in lines, proving that the
magnet really consists of a number of
small regular similar magnets, arranged be-
low each other in the same vertical plane.
On suspending an oblong magnet of this
kind, with its longer axis in the vertical
plane, the needles set themselves to the
magnetic meridian ; on suspending it flat-
wise, with its longer axis in the horizontal
plane, the longer axis points east and west.
As well as can be judged by subjecting them
to slight shocks, the magnets are as perma-
nently magnetized as if they were separate
from each other. Only time can prove
whether they will lose their magnetism."

Correlations of Electrical Force. —
D. G. Fitz-Gerald, in The Engineer, in the
course of a demonstration in reference to
the calorific and dynamic equivalent's of
electricity, states the general law "which
has been verified in the case of most other
metallic elements, and which probably ap-
plies to all elementary bodies, with the ex-
ception of oxygen, viz : that 'an equivalent
of any element, in combining with a given
body electro-negative to it, liberates the
same quantity of electricity.' What, in
fact, — he says, — is termed the 'chemical
equivalent,' 'equivalent weight, 'or 'combin-
ing proportion ' of a body, in contradis-
tinction to its 'atomic weight,' 'is that
weight which is associated with, or which
by combination evolves a constant quantity
of electricity. Equivalents of platinum,
copper, zinc, and potassium, are of very
different value as electromotors, yet they
are each combined, in their metallic state,
with the same quantity of electricity. The
value of a metal as an electromotor, orpos-
itive element of a voltaic couple, is, theo-
retically, and also generally speaking,
commercially, proportionate, not to the
quantity of electricity associated with a
given weight, but to the quotient of the
calorific equivalent by the atomic weight;
in other words, this value, for an equiva-
lent of any metal, is as the calorific equiva-
lent. The practical value of an electromo-
tor is in fact its capacity to produce, not
electricity, but electrical effect or work;
and the dynamical or calorifical value of
any quantity of electricity is as the quan-
tity of energy stored up in it, or the elec-
trical force which we have to correlate with
the various other modes of force."

Barometric Fluctuations. — At a recent
lecture upon the barometer, before the
American Institute, by Professor Guyot, he
stated that there was a yearly, monthly,
daily and even hourly fluctuation, the tidal
ware of the atmosphere rising highest in
the morning about nine o'clock, then fall-
ing, rising again in the evening, till about
ten o'clock, and again falling during the
night, the difference between the maximum
and the minimum being about two hun-
dredths of an inch. The regular variations
might be called great tides, the irregular
variations the tidal waves, the barometer
falling and rising all the time, a stationary
condition being very rare. These irregular
variations predominate in our latitudes,
but die out gradually as we approach the
tropics,

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

White Pine Items.

By a private letter from Sherinantown,
or Silver Springs, dated March 11th, we
are informed that the weather in that shel-
tered spot has been severe for only a day in
the course of the winter; that building is
progressing as fast as lumber can be ob-
tained; that every stone in the country is
about to be overturned, people arriving at
White Pine by thousands; that there are
two quartz mills, two smelting work?, and a
sawmill at Shermantown. One of the
smelting works was to start Bhortly, and
the other was " trying experiments." The
mills are running night and day; two more
are in progress of building, and there is
obtainable ore enough for about fifteen
mills.

The White Pine excitement is on the
increase as spring approaches. The stages
in Nevada are said to be crowded every day
and passengers booked a week ahead. * *
Mr. Oscar, of Virginia City, who returned
from White Pine on the 15th, says that he
found the road between Hamilton and Elko
completely lined with adventurers, rushing
out to the " poor man's paradise " — some in
coaches, some on horseback and some on
foot, with their blankets on their backs. A
few men have arrived from the Atlantic
States. * * The Portland Oregonian of
the 6th, says: There is a great deal of talk
in this city about going to the White Pine
mines, and we learn that a similar state of
things exists up the valley, especially in
the various towns. A good many will
doubtless go from Oregon in the course of
the season. * * On the 12th inst. five
plucky Frenchmen from California passed
through Austin, packing their blankets,
baggage and grub, on their way to White
Pine. By the time they had crossed the
mountains they were out of money, so they
stopped at Carson three weeks to earn
enough to carry them through.

On the shady side of the question, Dr.
C. C. Green, of Virginia City, writes : You
no doubt hear men saying that White Pine
will far surpass Virginia in point of wealth
and greatness as a mining region, but it is
my opinion, after a careful examination of
the country, that there is not enough ore in
sight, or even in prospect, to keep the pres-
ent population in bread and whisky for the
next two years, to say nothing of the thou-
sands who are preparing to come next
spring. That the ores of this district are
of a very high grade cannot of course be
denied; but the quantity of ore to sustain
a large mining population is not here.
Mines, or what are called mines, are not
numbered by hundreds, but by thousands,
and the ore taken out is not computed by
tons, as in Virginia, but by pounds. Every
man you meet is a millionaire in his own
estimation — and is on the sell.

Albert S. Evans writes to the Alia,
dated March 13th : A rich strike was made
in the Phcenix mine, on Chloride Plat, yes-
terday, and similar developments are being
made in other claims in the vicinity. The
finest ores I have yet seen, outside of the
Eberhardt, was taken a day or two since
from the Colleen Bawn (a private claim),
on Bromide Plat. It is almost solid silver.
The workmen in the Governor Bross
(square location), on the same flat, last even-
ing, blasted through the limestone into the
spar and "got the color "at once. They
think they are nearly down into the main
deposit of rich ore, which is known to run
through their gravel.

Pilgrim, the Bulletin correspondent, says
of the Eberhardt : There are strata pockets
of chloride which will run from 81,000 to
$20,000. There are horses of limestone
and spar in the vein the size of the old
Bulletin office, and encircling these are rich
chloride shells. The south wall is rough
and not well defined, and pitches slightly
towards the north or foot wall. Such was
the ease with the Comstock, and after go-
ing down it turned parallel with the other.

Of the Keystone, now consolidated
with the Eberhardt, he says : The north
wall is as smooth as polished marble the
entire distance, and as true and straight as
a bee line. Every miner who has seen it
pronounces it the most perfect and truest
foot wall iu this State. It has about an
inch of soft clayey substance common to
most fissure veins. Itis 183 feet between the
walls. The hanging wall will undoubtedly
turn a few feet down and dip parallel with
the foot wall. We estimated that there is
in sight, -making liberal allowances for
horses and waste, at least §8,000,000.

There are recorded in White Pine Dis-
trict at the present time over 3,000 claims.

T. Catttt.Ii & Bro., the assayers, have
made over 1,300 assays, running from noth-
ing as high as 821,000. A great many run
as high as 85,000. The average of all the
assays is $130.

The late Base Range discoveries have
turned out very ordinarily. Half a dozen
men only are left on the flat at work open-
ing a claim or two. The crowd has dis-
persed— gone, our informant says, " Heaven
knows whither."

On the 11th inst., the air was warm, says
the Alta correspondent, as it usually is at
this season in the Bay City, say 60° to 65°,
and the snow fast disappearing. It has, in
fact, already left all the exposed hillsides
and slopes, and even on the northern slopes
it is growing thin. Prospecting is conse-
quently going on with a " perfect loose-
ness," and everybody having aspirations
that way is off with pick and shovel. At
the rate that this work is going on the
whole country will soon be prospected from
the Humboldt to the Colorado. Later dis-
patches says that it is again snowing.

The same correspondent says further
observation has confirmed his belief in the
existence of a continuous ledge running
from the Hidden Treasure northwestward
along the western side of Treasure Hill
down to a point just west of Hamilton, in
the vicinity of the Featherstone, Echo, and
Excelsior mines, for a distance of two miles
and a half.

Beach & Henderson have left Los An-
geles with a flock of sheep for White Pine.

PocoTiLiiO is the name of a new town site
on the slopes of Treasure Hill, where lots
are advertised for sale.

Greenville is the name of another pros-
pective rival of Treasure City. It is being
laid out on the strength caused by rich dis-
coveries in the Base Metal Bange.

Speaking of the developments of Treas-
ure Hill, the editor of the White Pine
News, (we recognize the able pen of Myron
Angel) writes: Whether its prototype in
history is known or not, we cannot at pres-
ent tell, but the nearest like it, in its dis-
covery, isolation, wealth and character,
seems to be the great peak of Potosi in
South America. That lofty peak of the
Andes, described as reaching some 13,000
feet into the sky, is, from where it rises
above the surrounding mountain gorges or
valley, some ten miles in circumference,
and its silver, as every school-boy knows,
was discovered by an Indian, who, in pur-
suit of a goat up the precipitous, rocky
sides, grasped a bush to aid him in his as-
cent, and this giving way at the roots, ex-
posed some glitering silver beneath. This
was several centuries ago, and since then
countless millions of the precious metal
have been extracted from that single moun-
tain, until it is but a honey-combed shell,
and it is not yet exhausted of its treasure.
Treasure Hill is isolated like Potosi, is of
similar formation, of equal size, or perhaps
a little larger at the base and not quite so
high; its mines are of Indian discovery,
and its future promises equal brilliancy,
and equal if not superior in wealth. Two
years since, a degraded and starving Indian
carried to a camp of miners a piece of the
ore from the locality of the Hidden Treas-
ure mine, and this led to the exposure of
the wealth of Treasure Hill. In the ex-
plorations following, quantities of pure
silver were found where trees had fallen
and burned, or where the Indians had built
fires on the beds of chloride ore, reducing
the easily smelted rock. Such discoveries,
made in different localities, created a won-
derful excitement, and plainly indicate our
unexampled wealth. Following the dis-
covery of the ore which crowned the sum-
mit, came the discovery of the great Eber-
hardt deposit, or vein ; then those of Chlo-
ride Flat, Pogonip, Sunny Side and the
" Base Bange," all most surprising in their
wonderful richness. The geological form-
ation of the mountain is as singular as its
riches are rare. It is an isolated peak of
fossilliferous limestone, overlying Silurian
rocks at a great depth, and these having a
foundation on others of more primitive age.
Into the crevices, caves and chasms of the
limestone, or in displacements occasioned
by the action of thermal waters rising from
the primitive and Silurian rocks, were de-
posited the lime, silica, spar and ores which
now constitute the mines and veius of the
hill. By such process of change has been
formed that singular feature of mineralogy
— fossilliferous quartz. The limestone has
been carried away by the action of the
water, while all its features, the form and
character of its fossils, have been preserved
in the obtruding silica. These crevices,
chasms, caves or displacements, are iu
every portion of the hill, and of every size,
from that of a bull's eye to that of the
mammoth chasm of the Eberhardt.

Great competition between the Pacific
Union and Wells, Fargo & Co. Express
Companies, reduces the present running
time between Elko and Treasure City to
18 hours. Mr. Grim, President of the Pa-
cific Union Express, thinks of running a
pony express from Elko.

Much lumber is still being shipped to
White Pine from the Carson and Truckee
mills. It commands a more ready sale in
that region than any other article.

The weather being fine, writes Mr. Jack
White to the Gold Hill News, and the snow
disappearing rapidly, nearly everybody is
out during the day prospecting. Iu the
evening the saloons are crowded and the
faro, keno and monte tables do a thriving
business.

Plenty of White Pine stock is for sale
in San Francisco — offices having been
opened, the mining secretaries flourishing
again, and newspapers containing adver-
tisements accompanied by special notices
indicating the road to fortune.

DEWEY & CO.

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SA5 FRANCISCO.

California Academy of Sciences.

A regular meeting of the Academy was
held on Monday evening, March 15th., the
President, Dr. Blake, in the chair. Dr.
Spencer, of San Jose, was elected a resident
member.

ARTESIAN WELL BORING IN SAN FRANCISCO.

Gregory Yale presented a specimen of
copper pyrites taken from the artesian well
boring at Francis & Valentine's establish-
ment, on Commercial street, at a depth of
208 feet. It was found not in a regular
stratum, but in a drift intermingled with
pieces of flint and pebbles, showing the
drift of a subterranean stream. Some spe-
cimens of shell and wood were also brought
up from the well. The water had come up
to within fifteen feet of the sidewalk.

Dr. Blake remarked that other attempts
had been failures ; that in one instance a
stratum of rock was encountered which was
bored through some forty feet, when no
water appearing the project was abandoned.
The same result attended the attempt to
bore an artesian well in Portsmouth Square
some years ago, by the City government.

MORE ABOUT THE MEAT SHOWER.

Dr. Cooper having called on Dr. Kellogg
for further information on the subject of
the shower of meat, Dr. Kellogg remarked
that he believed the statement of the wit-
nesses of the phenomenon to be reliable
and correct, and read a communication
from W. Frank Stewart stating that in-
stances had been known, especially during
the drouth of 1863, of flocks of buzzards
having gorged themselves with the meat
from dead cattle, and then disgorging it
upon the plain.

Mr. Bolander stated that Mr. Eloesser
desired him to say that instances had been
known in Italy of substances falling in this
manner, which were mistaken for meat,
but which proved to be vegetable matter —
a species of fungus resembling decomposed
flesh.

Dr. Blake said that the specimens had
been carefully examined, and found to be
flesh.

THE PETALTJMA MASTODON.

Mr. Yale stated that he had corresponded
with the discoverer of the skeleton of the
mastodon lately found near Petaluma ; the
bones he said, were being removed and
scattered, and the Academy ought to take
steps toward preserving the remains. The
head had been carried away, and other por-
tions disturbed, but the vertebra were still
in position.

Mr. Brooks remarked that the animal was
said to have been horned, but that more
probably these were tusks.

Dr. Cooper said the animal was probably
either an elephant or mastodon, and the
tusks had been mistaken for horns.

Mr. Yale said a similar discovery was
made last year in the vicinity of the Mis-
sion of San Jose.

Dr. Copper stated that Mr. Hoffman, a
member of the society, examined one of
these animals discovered in the valley of
San Jose, and that upon being exposed to
the air, the tusks crumbled to pieces.

Messrs. Bolander and Yale were under-
stood to agree to serve as a committee on
the subject, with the purpose of visiting
the spot.

San Francisco Exports. — The exports
of merchandise from this city during the
first half of the present month were $752,-
852. During the same period for 1867,
the merchandise exports were §136,179;
and in 1868 they were .§569,796. This ex-
hibit shows a most healthy and satisfactory
increase.

Letters Patent.

A patent is an open letter, embodying; all the
language of an inventor or his agent, contained in
the specification, without alteration, and is granted
to citizens of the United States, or Foreigners,
male or females, (inclnding minors), and is
signed by the Secretary of the Interior and the
Commissioner of Patents, with the seal of the Pat-
ent Office affixed. Its jurisdiction is for the whole
United States, for the term of seventeen years.

A patent right is personal property, and is as-
signable, but cannot be seized and sold on execu-
tion.

Caveats.

A caveat is a description of the invention de-
signed to be patented, lodged in the Patent Offieo
before the patent is applied for, and while the in-
ventor is perfecting his design. When properly
made, it operates as a bar to applications respect-
ing the same invention from any other quarter ;
but when improperly done, it is inoperative by
reason of such defect. The Patent Office always
returns a receipt for caveat papers, but does not
seek to point out its incorrectness, unlcBs thcro
be some glaring defect.

Onr fee for a caveat varies from $10 to $15.
The Government fee is $10.

What Claims can be Patented ?

A knowledge of Ancient and Modern Mechan-
ics and familiarity with American and Foreign
patent issues and rejections, enables us to determ-
ine in a measure in all cases what can be patented,
and how much can be claimed as new and novel,
and be covered by Letters Patent. This is one of
the most difficult questions encountered by both
old and new inventors — ono in which an experi-
enced counsel is of great service.

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We guarantee inventors against losing their
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Patent Office Reports.

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Weekly Stock Circular.

By AsiwUUd Brokers of the S. F. Stock »ndExefcinge Beard
San Pkancisco, March 20, 16G9.
Fliiuii<-Iul.

From tho Commercial Herald we take the fol-
lowing:

Btncc oar last iKKuf? wi? have been favored with refresh-
ing showers, which have greatly astmrod the farming
comiuunUy, and promise to crown their labors with an
i. tite.l harvest. As we write the pluvial boun-
ties are becoming more copious and appear to extend
over a wide field, with every prospect of an abundant
supply, on the Sierra Novadaa and cast of tliut range
much mow Iius fallen, clogging the railroads and hinder-
ing communication with these districts. The Central Pa-
cific Railroad is no pressed to transport its own effects in
order to complete the enterprise ut the earliest possible
day, that orders have been received here to ship mer-
chandise by the old-fashioned methods. It is unneces-
sary to explain that so soon as the railroad shall be com-
pleted all its available facilities will be placed within
reach of the public. Largo amounts of Eastern capital
«v finding their way here for early investment in White
Tim- nulling and real estate stock, and wc learn that vig-
orous efforts will bo made to divert the trade of that sec-
tion and Salt Lake from San Francisco. They must all
prove vain, for there is nothing which Chicago or any
Other Eastern city can supply so cheaply as the Metro-
polis of the Pacific. Especially is this true in reference
to all sorts of groceries, such as salt, spices, sugar, tea,
coffee, soap, candles, and the like. In tho matter of
fruits, silk and woolen goods, lumber, machinery, etc.,
there can be no competition against us.

The North Pacific Transportation Company filed its
certificate of incorporation in the County Clerk's office
on the 13th of March. Its capital stock is $5,000,000, di-
vided into 50,000 shares at $100 per share. The Trustees
are Jesse Holladay, William Alvord, W. C. Ralston, Loyd
Tevis, Alvinza Hayward and S. F. Buttcrworth. Its ob-
jects purport to be the transportation of passengers and
freight on the waters of the Pacific ocean and all the
rivers and bays accessible from it, and to transact all
other business necessary to carry out the design.

The Commissioner of Immigration has obtained a
Satisfactory settlement of his claims upon various par-
ties who have long contended against the collection of
the State tax as being illegal. We understand that the
claim against Koopmanschap & Co. was withdrawn' on
the payment of $20,000 by that firm. This was the last
of the lot, with tho exception of a claim against tho Pa-
cific Mail Company for the tax upon six Chinese, which
has, by agreement, been referred to tho Courts, to be
Settled upon the intrinsic merits of the case.

City Stocks.

Increased interest has been manifested in
miscellaneous securities, and the sales during
the period under review have been very consid-
erable. Spring Valley Water stock sold to the
extent of 395 shares at a uniform rate of §G8
per share. San Francisco Gas stock was in the
market at $78(^77 50, and North Beach and
Mission Railroad at $72@71 50. A few shares
of Sacramento Gas Company stock were dis-
posed of at $95 per share. The annual meet-
ing of stockholders will be held at Wells, Fargo
& Co's office, in this city, on the 30th inst.
This company has been paying regular monthly
dividends of % per cent. For California Steam
Navigation Company stock 70 per cent, is bid.
A dividend of 1 per cent, upon their capital
Stock was disbursed on the 15th inst. The last
previous dividend was paid in October, 1868.
The State Telegraph Company also disbursed a
dividend of 1 per cent, on the 15th. This is
announced as their tri-annual dividend. The
last previous dividend was paid in July, 1868,
amounting to §1 per share. At the annual
meeting of the San Francisco Insurance Com-
pany, held on the 16th inst., 'John Arc-ribald
was elected President and R. B. Woodward
Vice-President. This company is winding up
its business, and these officers were elected in
order to legalize the signing over of mortgages,
etc., in their possession. The accrued earnings
of the assets enables tbem to disburse a divi-
dend of 2 per cent, per month on -the first of
April next.

Mining Kliare Ma/ricet.

This market has been more or less demoral-
ized since our last reference. Prices have been
very generally irregular and fitful, effecting a
serious decline in a number of stocks, while
others have been barely able to maintain them-
selves under the strong "bear " pressure which
was very observable. This state of things in-
duced many to let their stocks "slide," while
others, who are commencing to operate in White
Pine claims, also appear inclined to drop the
Washoe line and brace themselves for a vigor-
ous campaign in the new and more exciting
speculative struggle soon to be inaugurated in
our mining share market. Hundreds of White
Pine companies have already been incorporated
and additions are daily made to the number.
Many have placed their claims in the hands oi
skillful manipulators, and it will be as well to
scrutinize them closely, Non- speculative in-

:

vesters will probably look more to actual de-
velopments than verbal reports, and pay more
attention to results than to anticipations.

Alpha— receded from $38 to $27 50, improv-
ed bo $3 I, ami dosed at $31 25. On the 17th,
the north drift under the east clay, on the 1,030
level, was in 15 feet, and the quartz is reported
to look very favorable, but as yet shows no pay.
There is a slight increase of water in the face of
the drift.

Chollaii-Potosi — has been in moderate re-
quest, selling at $16G(ml57, and at the close
realizing $161. During the week ending March
12th, 8-tA tons of ore were extracted. In the
new tunnel the ore has been stoped for a dis-
tance of about 90 feet in length, varying in
width from 8 to 20 feet. TJp to this date it is
reported there are no evidences that this deposit
extends much below the tunnel level. In the
shaft work was suspended at the 920 level on
the 8th inst. The only drift now being run on
the lower levels is at the 1,240 station, which
extends 129 feet from the incline, and 500 feet
east from the shaft. The rock is hard and
there are no indications of quartz in any por-
tion of it. On the 16th inst. 110 tons of ore
were shipped to custom mills.

Crown Point— opened at $75 50, declined to
$71 50, and closed at $71 50. Nothing of im-
portance from the mine so far as we can learn.
On the 18th inst. bullion valued at $7,754 49
was send forward from the Bhode Island mill.

Gould & Curry sold at $100©109 50, and

closed at $107 50. Work is now rapidly prose-
cuted at the bottom of the shaft, with the pur-
pose of soon resuming the further sinking of the
shaft.

Hale & Norcross— sold quite largely at an
advance, rising to $98 on the 17th, and closing
yesterday at $91. They are breasting out ore
on the fourth level, both north and south of the
winze, and it is said to be of good quality,
showing an average width of 5% feet and 275
feet in length. The winze extending from the
third level down, a depth of 130 feet, shows
continuous ore within 15 feet of the third
level, and is of an average width of about 8%
feet. From the fourth to the fifth level the
winze is 53 feet in depth; ore good, and now
five feet wide in the winze. A drift is being
run to connect with the winze on the fifth level,
and where the ore is cut on t"h at level the vein
is twelve feet wide and looking well. Since the
annual meeting they have been extracting from
55 to 60 tons of ore per day.

Imperial — dropped from $103 to $85, and
closed at $87. The work in the lower levels

has not yet produced any favorable results

Kentuck sold at $262@25G, and closed yester-
day at $260. The bullion receipts for the cur-
rent month to the 17th amounted to $30,910.

Overman declined from $66 to $55 and at

the close sold at $51. On March account the

bullion returns aggregate $5,061 43 Ophir

sold within a range of $35 50@30, and closed
at $29 50. On the 17th instant the drift was 91
feet in length from the shaft. Bock continues
hard Confidence sold at $32 50. The bul-
lion yield to date on March account aggregates

$7,929 Sierra Nevada sold at $32 50@35,

and closed at $36. Receipts of bullion to date
for March account, $7,339.

Amador— experienced a decline, a few shares
selling at $260@.265, and yesterday afternoon
realized $272 50. We understand that the
first clean-up for the present month will aggre-
gate between $30,000 and $31,000 in bullion. . . .
Belcher closed at $17 50. An assessment of

$3 per share was levied on the 15th instant

Golden Chariot (Idaho) sold at $50. The bul-
lion yield for the month of February aggre-
gates $43,027 24 ; in January it amounted to
$45,630 88. A dividend of $2 50 per share is
payable to-day.

Earthquake-proof Chimneys. — "We no-
ticed at No. 749 Market street three very
large galvanized iron chimneys, the outside
being an octagon shaft, with ornamental
cap and base, fourteen feet in hight, with
an average width of four feet. Within the
shaft are four heavy iron flues to convey
the smoke— the whole being firmly riveted
and making a very substantial chimney.
No external bracing is required, as the ap-
paratus is held in place by angle irons at-
tached inside the flues, extending down
and fastened to the brick work of the
chimney below the roof. It is thought by
Messrs. Conlin & Roberts, by whom they
are built, to answer all the requirements of
an earthquake region. They are intended
for Mr. Thos. H. Selby's gothic residence
at Fair Oaks.

JOKING SHAREHOLDERS' DIRECTORY.

(Complied for every issue, from advertisements in the

MiMMi and Scmrmric Press and oihcr Sim

Francisco Journals. J

loraprlslna the Names or Companies, District or County
' Location; Amount and dale of Assessment; Dine ol
Meeting; Day <>l Delinquent Sale; and Amount aud Time
oi Payment of Dividends.

■JJtS, LOCATION, AMOONT, AND DAY DAT

OATK Or ASSESSMENT. DKLINyOKNT. OF SALE

Aniador Co., rilv.Jiipei share Parable March 10, t SCO

AJauaOD. Nevada, March 17, $2 April 2d— May 3

Rftcon, Storey CO., Nov., div Payable .June 19, 1668

Belcher, Storey co., Nov., March W, S3.. ..April 17— May 3
ChoiiarPotosi. dlv., sa Payable Oct. 15, im

Crown Point, dividend. S7.60 Payable Sept, 12. 1866

Chloride Mi. inn., w inii- Pin,-, Feb. 2,50c. .Mar ili-Ap. w»

Coney, preferred Stock, div. \y, per cent March in. ifrio

Cherokee Hal, Ruttc en. March 1, $5 April 3— April 20

Cordillera, Mox., March 16, SI April 20-Mav 10*

U>nsUiIiindc Flat. White Ptne Meeting March 24

Dancy, Lyon co. Nov., March 8, $2.50 April 12— May 3

Empire M. A M., Nov., dividend $6. ...Payable Mav 15, 1867

Eureka, div. $r, Payable March 10,1869

Folsom St. A Ft. PL R. R. March 13, $5... April 13— April 30

Gould A Curry. dlv..S7-A0 Payable May 15, 1867

Hold Hill ii M A .M-dlvidend. S7 SO. ... Payable .l.ilv 1:< ISrfS
Golden Rule. Tuolumne co. div. 60c @ Ah. ..Fay. Feb. 26, 18.-9
Uleiiwnnrt. El Dorado cr» , Feb 19, $25.... April 2— April 2.*

Great Union. White Pine Meeting March 29

Hale A NorcroHS, div. SI25 Sept. 16 lgi>7

Hone Gravel, Nevada co , Feb. 21,51 March 29— April 19

Hidden Treasure, White Pine Annual Meeting Apill fi

I X L, Alpine co., Jan. 19, $1 50. Feb. 27— April 5*

Imperial, storey co., Nov., div Payable June 20, 1868

Julia, Storey co , Ncv Meeting, March 25

Kentuck, div., $20 per share Payable Jan. 10,18(i9

Keystone Meeting April 2

Lyon M A M„ El Dorado Co., Mar 6, $1.. April 12— April 26"

Mt. Teliabo, Lander co .Jan. 23, 75c April 2— April 27"

Maxwell, Amador co., Feb. 9, $1 March 13— April 1

Morning Star, Alpine co , March 3, $2.. ..April 5— April 26

Mohawk A Montreal, Nov. co.,$3. March 31— April 16

North Star, dividend, $5 Payable Aug. 15, 1868

North Auier. WoodP, Co., March 12, $1 April 14— May 1"

Occidental, div. $2 Payable March 2, I8G9

Pacific Unassessable, div Payable June 18, 1868

Pocotillo Annual Meeting March 22

Rising Star, Idaho, Feb. 8, $6 March 31— April 3

SanrIago,SllverCity,dlvIdena,$Z50...PayableDec 19, 1868

Sand Spring 'alt, dividend $1 Pavable Jan. 5, I860

Star Creek, Nev., Feb. 26, $1-50 March 29— April 19*

Savage, Virginia, Ncv, dividend, $1.. Payable Marcli 4,1869
Treasure Trove, Lander co., Feb. 15. 20c..M'ch 21— April 12
Troy Ledge, White Pine, March 16, 15c... April 23— May 24"
Virginia A G. H Water Co. .Dividend, payable Mar. 10, 1869
Yellow Jacket, div., $5 Payable March 15, 1869

Thoso marked ■with an asterisk ("tare advertised in this
ournal.

Latest Stock Prices Bid and Asked.

fl. r. STOCK AND KXCUANGE BOARD.

Friday Evening, March 19, 1869.

MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS- Mtt. Asf.ol.

milled Stoteti Bonds, 5 20s, 1815, '67. '68- $ 87 87

United Stales Honda, fl 20s, 1864 87 87

United Stales Bonds. 5 20s, 1862 88 89

Legal Tender Notes 77 ii 78

Calilornla State Bonds, 7s, 1857 95 —

San Francisco Bonds, 10s, 1851 par A int.

San Francisco City Bonds, 6s. 1855 — —

San Francisco Citv and County Bonds. 6s, 1808. 83 87J.J

San Francisco School Bonds, 10s, I860 100 —

San Francbco School Bonds, His, IKfil par & int.

San Francisco City and Co. Sch'l B'ds, 7s, 1SGG. 91 —

San Francisco Cltv and Co. Bonds, 7s. 1862 S3 87^

San Francisco City and Uo. Bonds, 7s, 1864 91 —

San Francisco Cltv and Co Bonds, 7*. 1865 91 —

San Francisco Citv and Co. Judg. Bds. 7s, 1863. 91 —

San Francisco City and Co. Judg. lids, 7s, 1864. 91 —

Sacramento City Bonds 30 31

Sacramento County Bonds, 6s 70 —

Marysville Bonds, 10s 75 80

Stockton City Bonds 65 70

Yuba Countv Bonds, 8s 8a 85

Santa Clara County Bonds, 7s 76 77

Butte County Bonds, 1 Us, I SCO 75 —

San Mateo County Bonds, 7a 75 80

California Steam Navigation Co fi"i —

Spring Val)cv Water Co 67 68

State Telegraph Co " 26 —

GAS COMPANIES.

San Francisco Gas Co 78 80

Sacramento (fas Co 85 —

RAILROADS.

Sacramento Valiey Railroad — —

San Francisco and San Jose -Railroad — —

Omnibus Railroad 72J^ —

Central Railroad 50 —

North Beach and Mission K:ulniad 7 % 72 J£

Front Street, Mission and Ocean Railroad 11 12

BANKING INSTITUTIONS.

Pacific Bank 97H 100

The Bank of California 157 160

People's Insurance Company 100 —

INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Flrcmans' Fund Insurance Co .... 92>£ 94

Pacific Insurance Co 126 128

Merchant-' Mutual Murine Insurance Co 600 520

California Insurance Co 1300 1400

Union Insurance ^° MW —

Hume. Mutual Insurance Co lOJ-a 20

Occidental Insurance Co 81 87

MINING STOCKS— WASllOK DISTRICT.

Alpha. .' 31 3lW

Baltimore American — —

Belcher I7ii 18

Bullion. G. I! 15 16

Crown Point 71 J£ 72

Cole <Vn.) — 15

Confidence 32 35

Con.-olidatcd Virginia — —

Chollar-Potosi 161 161K

Daney 3 4

Exchequer 15 17

Empire Mill and Mining Co 60 70

Gould A Curry !■ 7 1'8

Gold Hill Quartz 35 45

Hale & Norcruss 9i 91

Imperial 87 —

Julia — 4

Justice and Independent 8 12

Kentuck 259 260

Lady Bryan 12 13

American 17 17>£

Ophir 29 30

Overman 60 61

Segregated Belcher 8 $X

Savage *>7 67 %

Sierra Nevada 35 36

Yellow Jacket 62 62M

Union — —

United States — —

Ml ■• i I M> I "I • MINING STOCKS.

Amador (California* 275 —

North S'ar (California) : — —

Eurcku (Callfnriil.0 230 240

Golden Rule. California 10 12

San Francisco Market Kates,

"Wholesale Prices.

Friday, March 19, 1869.

Flour, Extra, $bbl S5 25 @S5 50

Do. Superfine 4 50 ® 4 75

Corn Meal, *$ 101) lbs 3 25 @ 3 50

Wheat, ^ 100 lbs 1 50 @ I 65

Oats, "A 100 lbs 1 75 @ 2 20

Barley, ft 10U lbs 1 75 @ 2 25

Beans, %( 10U lbs 6 00 @ 7 00

Potatoes, ft lUUlbs 75 @ 90

Hay, ft ton 10 00 <^18 00

Live Oak Wood, ft cord 9 00 <5)10 00

Beef, extra, dressed, ft It) U @ 12

Sheep, on foot 3 DO ® 3 25

H ogs, on foot, ftlb 5 @ 7

Hogs, dressed, ft a 9 @ 10

GKOCKRIKS, ETC

Sucar. crushed, 33 lb — @ ]■;%

Do. Ohlna iu @ 12

Coffee. Costa Rica, ft lb _ @ is

Tea''ja,'an';ftib:::::;:;. :;:;:;:;;::;::;;::;;: J?4! Ju-
DO Creeii go a 1 25

Hawaiian Rice, ft lb _ a 10

china uk-e, ?th ::::::;;■ e % ?

Coal Oil, feallon 45 | fa

Candled, i* lb ig /» is

Ranch nutter, ft lb !$ f J5jy

Isthmus Bolter, ft lb r;u 1 46

cuee,e c11i„„rn,a,ftib I:::::::::::: iri S

Salfc?::::::::::: SIS

Hani and Baeou.ftlb ....'...'..'.',.'.',.'. il ? I

Shoulders, ft lb.... % S o

„ „ Ketall r'rio'*'«V W

Butter, California, fresh, ft lb 45 <a 60

do. pieklcd.ftft *i I _

do. imtoii. rift 20 © 2f

do. New York, ft lb 35 a ?

cfioese.ftib .T. ::;:;:;:; 35 § &

Lard,$lb |6 {g 18

UanisandBaeon.ftlb 20 ® 25

Cranberries ft gallon Ul ffl 1 26

Potatoes, ft lb..:. U'{& 2

Potatoes, Sweet, ft lb 3 | %

Tomatoes, ft lb S (a —

Onions.ftlb , a § _

Apples, No. 1, ft lb 4 Z 5

Pears, Table, ft lb s a ?

Plums, dried, f) ft in @ 12

Peaches, dried, ft lb io @ 12

OraiiRCH, ftdozen 76 @ —

Lemons, ft dozen 60 @ 75

Chickens, apiece — (a 76

Turkeys ft lb " ; 26 @ 30

Soap, Pale and CO 7 @ 12

Soap, Castile, ft lb 21 @ 22j4"

San Francisco Metal Market.

PRICES FOR INVOICES.

Jobbing price* rule from ten to fifteen per cent, higher than the
following quotation*.
t. . ™ „„ Fridat, March 19, 1869.

InoN.— Duty; Pig. $9 per ton; Railroad, IWc ftlOOfts; Bar
l@l^c ft ft; Sheet, polished, 3c ft ft; common, li&@I^c
ft ft; Plate, l>fic $ lb; Plpc,l>icftffi; Galvanized, 2kc
^ lb. *

Scotch and English Pig Iron ft ton S42 50 @$

White Plgftton. 37 00 ©38 00

Rpllned Bar, bad assortment ft ft — 03 ©

Refined Bar, good assortment, ftft —04 <a

Boiler, No. 1 to 4 _ 04&(3>

Plate, No. 5 to 9 ffl — W*tf

Sheet, No. 10 to 13 _ oW,a - 5

Sheet. No. 14 to 20 — 05 a - 6M

Sheet, No. 24 to 27 _ ns © _ cS

Coppkr.— Duty: sheathing, 3,^c ft lb; Pig and Bar,2Jic ft lb

Sheathing, ft ft hi ~ 26

Sheathing, Yellow —20 © — 21

Sheathing, Old Yellow — io <a — n

Bolts _ 21 © — 22

Composition Nails — 21 @ — 22

Tin Platks.— Duty: 25ft cent, ad valorem.

Plates, Charcoal, IX, ft box 12 00 @

Plates, I C Charcoal @ Il 00

Rooting Plates. iy 00 © 10 fl0

Banco Tin, Slabs, ft ft a — 35

Ptekl.— English Cast Steel, ft to © — 15

Quicksilvkr.— f) lb —65 a - 60

LKAD.-Pis,ftlb ' - 7J^a- 8

Sheet —io ©

Pi»c — 11 ©

Bar _ g ©_ au

Zinc -Sheets, ft ft ■ _ 10W9- n

Borax.— California, ft lb — 35 © — 33

The Redemption of Tide Lands on the
San Joaquin, at and around Sherman Is]-
land, is estimated by a correspondent of the
Sacramento Union, at a probable cost of
from three to five dollars per acre. When
reclaimed they would be worth from twenty ■
to thirty dollars per acre, with a prospective
increase to forty or fifty. In very severe
winters, like '61-'2, these lands would be
flooded, but not subject to any currents.
The dykes, dams, and ditches, used for re-
clamation, would remain uninjured, while
the rich alluvial deposits of the flood would
add additional richness to the soil. After
reclamation the crops of grain and staple
products would be certain every year.
Bice evidently, he says, could be cultivated
on these islands. The soil is rich, and the
means of reclamation would afford the
same convenience and cheap process which
have been long practiced in the Carolines;
that is to say, make the water do the work.
Dams erected across the mouth of the sloughs
would check the tide-water, and also form
a reservoir from which the field of rice
could be flooded at pleasure. No grain, on
lands situated as these are, can be culti-
vated more cheaply than rice. It requires
but a small quantity of seed for the crop,
and, having the convenience of flooding
the land, the principal cost is the gather-
ing.

The Eecoix. — The parties who thought to
lessen the popularity of the Plantation Bitters
by alleging that, under a different name, the
same article effected the most astonishing cures
in the West Indies thirty years ago, have af-
forded the world another proof that malice and
envy often defeat their own objects, and give
new prestige to that which they would fain dis-
credit and destroy. The proprietors of the
Plantation Bitters, Messrs. Drake & Co.,
while acknowledging the origin of the prepara-
tion, have had an opportunity of showing that,
the rare elixir admitted, even by its interested
enemies, to be so wonderfully potent before it
changed hands, has had its remedial properties
almost doubled by the addition of a new ingredi-
ent—Calisaya Bark — since it became the prop-
erty of its present owners. If,therefore, it was
so nearly infallible in cases of intermittent and
remittent fever, dyspepsia, biliousness, etc.,
then, it must be quite so now, *

Our Office.

The office of the Mining and Scientific
Press is located in the second story at No. 414
Clay street, north side, just below Sansome. Hero
we have spacious accommodations, wi:h ourpotent
rooms, editorial room, counting room, newspaper
and job printing offices, — all conveniently ar-
ranged and connected, and our facilities for dis-
patching business correctly and economically,
better than ever before. Don't forget the number
—414 Clay street, below Sansome.

DEWEY & CO.

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Mining Summary.

Thk following information is gleaned mostly from jour-
nals imblisliod in the interior, in closo proximity to tho
mines mentioned.

CALIFORNIA.

11IJIOX COBKTT.

Jackson Ledger, March 13th : The new
shaft at the Coney mine is gradually going
down, and looks well. The timbering is
done in a substantial and workmanlike
manner, and presents an appearance of du-
rability seldom seen in any mine in this
district

(.ILlVRItAS COUNTY.

Mokelumne Hill Chronicle, March 13th :
The weather continues warm and delight-
ful— too pleasant, in fact, to suit the miners,
who are complaining of the scarcity of
water in those localities which are not
reached by the ditch. The gulches are al-
most as dry as they are during the summer
months, and those who had calculated upon
late rains in the spring, to afford them
facilities for washing the dirt accumulated,
are venting their spleen upon the clerk of
the weather.

Champion, Peters & Ahnert, have deter-
mined to re-open the old Union shaft, on
Stockton Hill, and are engaged in perfect-
ing preliminary arrangements. The mine
has been abandoned for years and is filled
with water.

EI. »ORADO COUNTY.

Plaeerville Democrat, March 13th : We
are informed that the Crystal Lead Co.,
whose claims are near Brownsville, are now
down 100 feet, and at that depth have a
ledge three feet wide. From a ten days'
run recently, they had thirty pounds of
amalgam, worth $70 per pound.

Ninety tons of rock, recently crushed
from the Stillwagon and Norton claim, sit-
uated near Brownsville, in this county,
yielded $1,140.

FRESNO COUNTY.

Mariposa Gazette, March 12th : Nathan
Harbert has just completed his new mill of
ten stamps, for crushing the ore from his
rich mine in Fresno county. He only
awaits some necessary machinery already
ordered from San Francisco. The rock
from his vein will pay $80 per ton, which
is surpassingly rich.

Marysville Appeal, March 14th : Eleven
tons of copper ore were shipped from
Stockton to San Francisco on Thursday.
It was from the Buchanan mine in Fresno
county.

KERN COUNTY.

Havilah Courier, March 9th : Col. A. A.
Band, as trustee, gives notice according
to law that he intends to apply to the United
States for a patent for the land on which
the Belief mine is located.

MARIPOSA. COUNTY.

Gazette, March 12th : A correspondent
furnishes the following concerning the new
mill recently finished on the Merced Eiver
by the Mariposa Co: The new mill at this
place is in full blast, having 16 stamps
crushing about 15 tons of ore in 24 hours.
The mill crush 13 tons of the hardest white
quartz that comes from the Pine Tree mine
so fine that four-fifths of it will pass through
a sieve of 2,500 meshes to the square inch.
This fine sand is carried by conveyers and
elevators to the drums. These drums are
four in number, and are made of boiler
iron, and riveted together in the same man-
ner as steam boilers. Each drum is five
feet in diameter and three feet long, lined
inside with cast iron one inch in thickness,
and is charged with 2,000 pounds of cast
iron balls, of about one ounce weight each;
then 1,000 pounds of sand is thrown in,
and the mass set in motion, making 25 re-
volutions per minute. This revolving,
grinding motion is continued from 40 to 60
minutes ; the sand is then discharged and
conveyed to the amalgamators, where it is
subjected to a boiling process with super-
heated steam for about 30 mjjiutes ; it is
then let out into a tank below and cold
water from a hydraulic hose is let on which
washes it down into a shaking table below.
When the charge has been washed through
the table the table is cleaned up and the
amalgam panned out, which completes the
process. The whole process taken together
is called the Eureka, or Byerson process.
The rock pays to my certain knowledge
about double what it will by the wet pro-
cess, and yet there is not a corresponding
difference in the cost of reduction. An-
other important item of machinery lately
put up in connection with the new mill is
the Tnunderbolt Crusher, recently received
from New York. It is claimed by the in-
ventors that the Thunderbolt will reduce a
large proportion of the rock to a fine sand ;
but that is a mistake — only about one tenth
is reduced to a sand fine enough for the
drums. It is au excellent spaller to pre-
pare rock for the batteries, and in some re-

spects an improvement on the Blake spaller.
The Co. have a large quantity of rock on
hand, and the mine is in a condition to get
from 75 to 100 tons a day. Another new
mill of 25 stamps is being commenced,
which, when finished, will double the
capacity for reducing quartz.

NEVADA COUNTY.

Transcript, March 9th : Hook, Crawford
& Co. have located 600 feet of Green Horn
creek, Little York township. The location
commences at the first falls and extends
down the creek.

March 11th : The West Eureka Mining
Co. filed their certificate of incorporation
in the County Clerk's office yesterday.
The Co. is organized for the purpose of
mining the Turnpike Milk Banch Quartz
Ledge.

March 12th : The Buckeye Co., owning
the North Star ground, have sold their
mine to H. Mackie, Henry Philip, Butter-
worth, Pioche and Bobinson. The inter-
ests of Stoakes, Watt and McCowen were
transferred by this sale. This Co. has been
prospecting for some time for the gravel
channel and have recently found excellent
pay dirt. The new owners are fully able to
prospect the ground thoroughly.

March 13th : M. C. Taylor has located
the waters of Wolf Creek for mining and
milling purposes, commencing at a point
100 feet above the crossing on Auburn
street, Grass Valley, and conveying the
waters to such points as may be desired for
mining purposes.

Henry Thomas & Co. have located 1,000
feet on the second extension of the Boan-
aise mine, Eureka ledge. The location is
bounded on the southeast by Dorsey &
Co's claim, and extends thence northwest-
erly 1,000 feet.

Since the last storm ditches which carry
water to the Scott's Flat miners, have been
closed by snow, but now they are running
water, and the miners will soon commence
washing.

The Eagle claim, at Moore's Flat, is be-
ing worked. The Co. have been engaged
in raising their shaft to the surface, and
will soon be ready to commence washing.

Grass Valley National, March 9th : We
paid a brief visit to the Eureka mine this
morning, and found them engaged in melt-
ing. The proceeds from a run of two
weeks were three bricks, the aggregate
value of which was over $23,000.

Grass Valley Union, March 10th : The
Empire Co., on Ophir Hill, is now taking
out very rich rock from the bottom of the
shaft. Free gold in abundance can be seen
in the rock, while the sulphurets are un-
usually heavy and rich. This morning
they sent of $23,000 worth of gold bars,
the proceeds of two weeks run of the mill.

Yesterday the Allison Banch mine was
sold at Beferees' sale, and the property
was knocked off to Alfred E. Davis, for tho
sum of $60,000 in currency.

The West Eureka Mining Co's claims are
situated on Worthington's ranch, just about
a mile northeast of Grass Valley. Their
ledge is supposed to be the same one on
which the old Eureka and the Idaho mines
are located. The owners are sanguine of
having a good thing, as gold in great quan-
tities has been seen in the ledge.

March 11th: The Harterey mine, on
Wolfe creek, ■ not far above the Allison
Banch, is again at work, the Co. reopening
it having obtained a lease on favorable
terms from the owners.

The Wisconsin Co. started up their
pumps day before yesterday, and as soon
as the water is all out of the mine men will
go. down into it to take out rock.

The Grass Valley mine did yesterday, or
will to-day, start up its pumping apparatus
to free the shafts of water.

The Mobile ledge situated just north of
the Eureka Co's works is being opened up
in shape by the Eureka Co.

The New York Hill mine must be worked
the coming summer, since the yield of the
mine in times past has been very great;
and where the mines left off in the levels
the rock was looking better than any which
ever came out of the mine.

On Massachusetts Hill, famous in times
past, the mills are idle and the rust is fast
eating up the machinery.

On Osborne Hill, and on Sebastapol Hill,
several companies are working away, and
are paying their way as they go. Miners
on both these hills have the true theory and
are working up to it.

Altogether the mining prospects of Grass
Valley were never better than they are to-
day. The summer, it is calculated, will be
very favorable to mining, since the winter
has been a comparatively dry one.

Transcript, March 16th : The owners of
the San Jose Gravel claims have found in
then- prospect tunnel gravel which yields
seven grains of gold to three pans of dirt,
and they have now commenced sinking a

working shaft, in which they expect to
reach the channel 125 feet below the sur-
face.

Thirlwell & Co., adjoining the Young
America claims, have for some time past
been prospecting the ground with a tunnel,
which is in some 700 feet. At the end of
the tunnel gravel was struck that paid as
high as $1.30 to the pan, but on account of
bad air, and the bed-rock pitching down-
ward, it was found necessary to sink a shaft
in order to prospect the ground more thor-
oughly. The company are now sinking a
double shaft, which is down about 50 feet,
and which they intend to sink 80 feet deep-
er, when it will be 50 feet below the tunnel.

Grass Valley Union, March 18th: The
pay streak in Underwood & Co's hydraulie
diggings has been lately struck in a very
rich spot, and as high as $10 a day to the
hand has been taken out, since the new cut
was run into the hill. The bed-rock pitches
into the hill, giving evidence of an exten-
sive and rich gravel deposit. We saw a
number of beautiful specimens of washed
quartz gravel covered with gold.

PLACER COUNTY.

Truckee Tribune, March 12th: From
Dutch Flat we learn that the Baker Bros.'
mill cleaned up a few days since, after eight
days run with eight stamps, $1,350. The
cement averaged about $2. 75 per car. The
claim is imperfectly opened and much dif-
ficulty is experienced in getting out gravel.
The King Bros, have struck an immensely
rich streak of gravel in their claim. As
high as $300 having been obtained from a
single pan of dirt. Very rich specimens of
cement are on exhibition in town. A great
excitement prevails among the people and
activity once again seems to pervade the
town.

PI. I '.« AS COUNTY.

Quincy National, March 6th : A corres-
pondent writing from Crescent Mills says :
The Enterprise Mill, in Light's Canon,
Indian Valley, is in operation and is run-
ning on good paying silver rock. Mr.
Wilmot, the Superintendent, has made two
" clean-ups," and says the rock will pay
well. The quartz mills in the Cherokee
district are running regularly and paying
finely. Chapman & Bros., of Coppertown,
hare made a short but paying run with
their smelter.

SHASTA COUNTY.

Courier, March 13th : Mr. Freeman, a
member of the Shasta Hydraulio Co., at
Piety Hill, has selected specimens of ore
from several of the South Fork ledges, with
a view of thoroughly testing their worth by
means of careful assays. About half a ton
of these specimens have been shipped to
San Francisco, where Mr. Freeman has
made arrangements to have them worked
and assayed by the best experts in the city.

SIERRA COUNTY.

Downieville Messenger, March, 13th : J.
Alexander took from his diggings, behind
Armory Hall Livery Stable, on Saturday
last, a piece of gold weighing five and one-
half ounces, besides two ounces in fine
dust.

SISKIYOU COUVTY.

Yreka Union, March 6th : Owing to the
scarcity of water, but few Chinamen are
now at work in this county.

Lash & Co. have just cleaned up a small
crushing— about 30 tons — from the Acci-
dental. The yield was $19 to the ton.

But little is being done in mining on
Scott Biver at the present time, on account
of the scarcity of water.

We understand a Portuguese company on
the Lower Flats have struck it very rich in
their claim and are taking out the ore by
the pailfull.

A friend writes from Cottonwood that
times are very dull there at present, and
mining almost suspended. The Blue Lead
Co. struck gravel on Wednesday and the
prospects look favorable.

TRINITY COUNTY.

Weaverville Journal, March 13th ; Phil-
lips & Daniell have recently made a dis-
covery of very rich quartz on Dead wood, a
small creek emptying into Trinity river,
about one mile above Lewiston. They are
said to have found rock abounding in free
gold, visible to the naked eye. Deadwood
is noted for quartz gold, and it has long
been the current opinion of residents in
that vicinity that valuable gold-bearing
quartz existed in the adjacent hills. We
are satisfied, from our own observations,
that there are good paying ledges on the
head of the creek.

H. A. Jones is opening a claim iu the
banks of Trinity river, a short distance be-
low McGillivray's. Mr. Jones has already
found gravel that prospects 50 cents to the
pan. His claim is in a locality that has al-
ways been reputed to contain rich deposits
of gold, but could not be tested for want of
water. McGillivray's ditch has supplied
this deficiency, and the diggingsat Park's

Bar and the claim first mentioned have al-
ready been discovered, promising to pay
well.

YUB.V COUNTY.

Marysville Appeal, March 13th : We
hear that 150 shares in the Pennsylvania,
owned by Hannsman, were sold at San
Francisco, a day or two ago. The price
was not ascertained, though $16 has been
asked for the same.

ARIZONA.
Prescott Mner, Feb. 27th : Seven or
eight miners have arrived here from Black
Canon diggings, Bradshaw mining district,
and all expressed themselves well pleased
with the diggings. There are about forty
men on the creek. Poland, Marsh, and
others, have a bench claim, iu which the
dirt prospects well. As high as $1.50 to
the pan has been got by them. We saw a
lot of the gold brought up by the miners
and it looked as though it were worth $17
the ounce. We predict that the Bradshaw
mining district will never again be aband-
oned.. There are plenty of claims there
that will pay from $4 to $10 a day';to the
hand. Indeed, Poland & Co., expect to
make $20 a day to the hand, as soon as their
ditch is completed.

Dr. Alsap gave us a small piece of quartz,
found by one of the party, near Big Bug,
which contains a great deal of gold. Mr.
Williamson found a piece of quartz from
which he took one piece of gold weighing
twenty-five cents.

Owing to the cold weather, Jackson,
Lovejoy & Co., on Lower Lynx Creek, have
been unable to work their hydraulic claims
to advantage. We learn that the last run
made yielded $9.33 to the hand. Now that
the weather has moderated, they expect to
make as high as $12 and $15 per day. They
have sent to California for another hydraulic
apparatus, and, as soon as it arrives, will
start work on another claim, above that iu
which they are now working.

Young, Scott & Slone are working a bar
on the Hassayampa, below the mouth of
big Copper Creek, and are making fair
wages. Other parties are working jabove
them on the creek.

Beports to the effect that rich placer dig-
gings have been found near Camp McDow-
ell, 100 miles east from Prescott, have
reached this place, but we know nothing
definite in regard to the diggings. It would
not surprise us, however, if rich diggings
had been found in that vicinity.

Outside of Wickenburg, little is being
done in the way of quartz mining. At that
place, at last accounts, both mills were run-
ning with good success, and the mine was
as good as ever.

At Walnut Grove, some men have built
an arastra and will commence working ore
from the Mammoth lode as soon as it can
be hauled.

The ledge in the Stirling mine is nearly
twelve feet thick, and the quartz is as good
as ever.

Some of the ore from the Chase mine
taken to San Francisco, and worked there,
paid as high as $600 per ton.

Nothing can be done at Walker's Creek
until the snow — which is four or five feet
in depth — melts.

With the opening of Spring, we have
reason for believing that our miners will
have new life and energy instilled into
them, and that several companies now idle
will go to work in earnest.

COLORADO.
Georgetown Ifmer, Feb. 17th : The edi-
tor says that many persons suppose that the
ores of White Pine, by assay, overshadows
all other ores in the world, and goes on to
name a number of mines about George-
town that have yielded as rich assays in
silver as any yet discovered in White Pine,
amongst which are the Bethany, $22,000
per ton, and the Amador mine $19,000 per
ton. He says : Besides those two veins we
have seen recent assays from the Anglo
Saxon, situated on Saxon mountain, of over
$8,000 in silver to the ton. If we had the
time and space necessary we could give
hundreds of assays over $1,000 in silver to
the ton.

The Terrible still continues to increase
its production as the workings are extended
to greater depths. The main shaft is now
170 feet in depth, carrying five inches of
solid mineral. From the main shaft, 50 ft
from the surface, two levels have been run,
the east one 140 feet in length. A winze is
being sunk from the floor of this level, 160
feet from the main shaft, to connect with
the 125-foot level. There is eight inches of
solid mineral in this winze. The east 125-
foot levei is now in 40 feet, and is being
driven as rapidly as possible. The west
50-foot level is now 150 feet in length. The
stope in this level, 50 feet from the main
shaft, is carrying five inches of mineral.
The ore from this mine is galena and zinc-
blende, the former predominating, carrying

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brittle and ruby silver, argontiforous gray
c roper and Dative silver, and yields in bulk,
JjOOto the ton. Nino and a lialf tons,
shipped to Balbach's works, Newark, New
Jersey, some three or four months since,
gave a gross return of $5,772.12 in cur-
rency ■ Twenty tons are now on the routo
to the same works, and ten more will be
shipped as the sacks can bo ob-

l. in their dumps there is

.•in tons of second class ore, which
they intend to crush and dress.

The Felton mill in I ■' i let is

running regularly on oro from the M igenta
.ery good results. Harrison's
mill is running on oustom rook from various
lo les. Their last clean up from llittio
June ore indicated a yield of nearly §1,000
per cord The voins, which are nearly all
quite narrow at the surface, have generally
increased in width as they have been sunk
on, without any perceptible diminution in
the richness of the ore. The ore has thus
far been almost exclusively decomposed
quartz roek, with no sulphurets, but id' late
some of them are yielding considerable
iron.

Denver Neios, Feb. 10th: Thero has been
some talk recently of an attempt to start
works in Denver for working gold, silver,
copper and lead ores by smelting.
IDAHO.
Owyhee Avalanche, March Cth : The
south extension of tho Silver Cord, lately
incorporated in Sau Francisco, is going to
he worked soon.

The shipments of bullion from Wells,
Fargo & Co's office in this place, during
the mouth of February, amount to $91,-
64". 70, coin rates.

The Ida Elmore mill will steam up again
about the 20th of the present month. The
mine has been put in excellent condition
for working, and tho yield for several
months to come will bo euormous. Teams
are now engaged in hauling ore from the
mine to the mill.

Boise Statesman, March Cth: "William
Nevill, returned from a trip to Centerville,
says the town is extremely dull, but if the
pleasant weather continues, the water will
begin to run in a week or two longer. A
few miners are already making preparations
for work.

W. A. Goulder writes from Shoshone
County, to a friend in this city, dated
l'ierce City, February 15th, 1809. He says:
Snow is about two feet deep here now. The
weather is very fine. A party came in from
Moose Creek the other day on snow shoes,
having been seven days on theroad. They
report all well, and prospecting. Many
good claims have been found during the
winter, aud considerable money has been
taken out with rockers and pans. There is
no longer any doubt that they are good
mines, both rich and extensive.

The recent news from the Alturas mines
is of the most encouraging nature. The
great Atlanta ledge, if located in White
Pine, would have thousands of men rum-
agiug every cranny in it before a week,butas
it. lies in quiet Alturas, and has been a com-
mon-place topic so long, people now are
loth to believe that it assays from $500 to
820,000 to tho ton. M. O. Moody called in
yesterday aud gave us some information
from there, at the same time exhibiting
some specimeus of ore from the Atlanta,
one of which assays $26,540 per ton. That
class of ore lies in a body or streak about
six inches in tuiokuess on the west side of
the mine and next to the casing. About
one-half of the body of that vein is com-
posed of tho same grade of ore, nearly
solid silver. Next to the east casing is an-
other vein about two feet in width, a trial
of which yielded one-half its weight in
metal. No assay of it had been made when
Mr. Moody left. These are struck in the
tunnel, which is now 150 feet long, aud
reaches a point 105 feet perpendicular from
the surface. Tho mine is over 20 feet wide,
and tho rock lying between the two veins
described above, yields over §100 per ton.
Mr. Armstrong, foreman in the mine, says
there is three years work in sight. The
Mouarch Co. have now on handsome 1,500
to 2,000 pounds of bullion awaiting passa-
ble roads to get out.

Walla Walla Statesman, Feb. 19th: A
gentleman just down from Kootenai reports
tho new mines on ferry Creek as prospect-
ing finely. Large numbers of miners who
had wintered in the Hell Gate Valley, were
coming in and taking up claims. They re-
port very little snow on the mountains and
the traveling excellent. The new mines
will furnish employment for several thou-
sand men, and now is tho time to, secure
claims From a private letter dated Hum-
boldt Basin, Feb. 9th, we glean the follow-
ing information in relation to their spring
prospects lor mining: "We are having a
far better prospect lor a mining season thau
the last two years, the snow being about 30

inches deep on a level. Altogether, the
boys are in better spirits than usual If
any of your friends think of comiug up
this way in the Bpring, I would recommend
tin m to the following camps, wherethore

is g i diggings, and where they employ q

large number of hands during the mining
season and pay good wages: Humboldt
Basin, Rye Valley, and Amelia, or New
age, all of which aro good camps.
Considerable prospecting lias been done
within a circuit of from 2D to oil miles, and
in sovoral districts good prospects have
been found. I have no doubt but that sev-
eral new camps will be worked the coming
season with good success."
MONTANA.
Helena Pes!, Feb. 27th: Tho Lindsley
Mining Co. havo struck pay dirt in their
shaft, and are actually taking the gold out.
The Diamond City mill of Hervey & Ad-
dis, which has been for tho last 10 days
pounding away upon rock from tho Whit-
laeh & Parkinson lode, cleaned up on last
Sunday night. Tho result was a bar of
gold weighing 293 ozs. ,'and valued at $7,000.
This is the product of 200 tons of uuse-
Leoted rock, crushed in 10 days by 10
stamps.

Affairs in MeClellau Gulch aro in a pros-
perous condition. A drain ditch is being
run from MeClellan to Poor Man's Gulch,
tho enterprise being undertaken and con-
ducted by the owners of tho claims in
Poor Man's. By means of this diteh tho
entire length of the gulch will be worked
tho comiug summer. In MeClellan a great
number of the mines have been worked all
winter. Tho water that supplies that gulch
in a great measure flows from springs and
bears a temperature of such a degree of
warmth that it flows in the sluice boxes
even in the coldest weather. On the cold-
est days of this winter earth was being
sluieecl. Price & Co. are busily engaged
in drifting, in the lower part of the gulch.
Iu the upper part, where the pay dirt is not
deep, ground-sluicing is resorted to. It is
auticipated that the coming summer will
see a large amount of gold taken out in the
gulch. The ground which is now being-
worked has all been worked before, and in
this re-working, from good wages to $9 a
day per hand, is realized.

We wore shown recently a lump'of beau-
tiful retort, which was the result of a four
days' run in the mill being operated by the
Plymouth Mining Co. In this mine four
shafts are in process of sinking, the most
extensive one having reached a depth of
over 50 ft. From the rock taken from this
shaft a run has been made which resulted in
the aforesaid lump of retort valued at §400.
This run was simply an experimental one,
more for the purpose of regulating and
coating the plates.

NEVADA.

£8>IBKALDA..

The Aurora correspondence of the Sac-
ramento Union, dated March Sth, writes :
A friend who came in from the Pine Grove
mining district to-day, informs me that the
mines there are looking very favorable.
The mills are running successfully and the
mines are improving in richness. The peo-
ple are nraeh pleased, andtheir prospects of
success are very promising. Two or three
Dew ledges have recently been located; in
one of them about five and a half tons of
rock have been worked, from which six and
three-quarter pounds of retorted amalgam
was obtained, aud estimated at about $150
per ton of rock. The rock in tho district
is generally gold-bearing, but a recent lo-
cation is of silver. The croppings are said
to be over 50 feet wide, aud the rock shows
rich in wire silver. Crocker, the locator,
was offered $1,000 for 200 feet of the ledge.

Parties came in to-day from Palmetto aud
Silver Peak, and report that there is much
work being done iu the mines, and that
the prospects in both districts are very
favorable.

REESE ICIVER.

Austin Beveille, March Sth : Mr. Clark,
of the Fisherman Co., in the district of Be-
veille, recently showed us a lot of samples
of ore, weighing about 40 pounds, which
were to be forwarded to San Francisco.
The ore was obtaiued from three claims,
belonging to the company, known as the
Victorine, Santa Fe, aud Fisherman, aud
much of it, especially the larger pieces of
horn silver, is identical with that produced
by the richest deposits of White Pine.

March 9th : We were informed by a per-
son who returned from Belmout last even-
ing, that it was becoming harder every
day to keep men at work iu the mines aud
mill in that neighborhood, even under the
prospect of steady employment and liberal
wages. The workmen are bursting their
shirts in their haste to go to White Pine.

March 10th : To-day the First National
Bam; of this city shipped the last of nine
bars of bullion, weighing 075 pounds, pro-

due, d by Col. Buell's mill at Belmont from
Highbridge and Transylvania ores. The
destination of the bullion is San Franoisco.
Belmont Champion, March Cth : As rich
ure us was ever found in any country, 1ms
been taken from Beveille district, ami re-
duced at Austin aud this place. The prin-
cipal portion of tho veins or deposits of the
district are, ns in White Pine, snrronudo 1
by a limestone formation, aud the general
opinion that mines of this character were
not permaneut, has seriously retarded the
development of Beveille district. A new
discovery has recently been made here
which bids fair to havo the effect of bring-
ing the district into favorable notice. Dur-
ing the present week Captain Baker brought
into Belmont a ton and a half of ore, from
this recent discovery, for reduction, which
yielded $247 to the ton, and Captain Baker
has every confidence that the ledge will
yield many thousands of tons of the same
kind of ore. This lot of ore was taken from
the ledge indiscriminately, aud was not as-
sorted at all.

John M. Beed on Wednesday last, fa-
vored us with an examination of' a sack of
specimens of ore, weighing 30 or 40
pouuds, from the Seueca Co's location on
the U. S. ledge, iu what is known in this
section of country as the Stone Cabin
range of mountains. Mr. Beed has had
some eight or ten assays made of the ore,
the lowest of which gave a result of $161
per ton, and the highest showed a value of
$1,367 per ton. One pound of ore from
different portions of the ledge, pulverized
and thoroughly mixed, gave an assay of
$987 per ton.

In both the north and south shafts of the
El Dorado South mine, work is being pros-
ecuted vigorously, and daily large quanti-
ties of high grade ore are beiug raised to
the surface. These portions of the mine
never looked better than at the present
time.

The Belmont Co's mill is running stead-
ily day and night upon ore from their
Transylvania mine, and is doing good work,
as the number of bricks shipped fully at-
test.

WASHOE.

[ In the Stock Circular, in another por-
tion of this paper will be found late mining
news from this district. ]

Virginia Enterprise, March 9th: Tho
Belcher Co. now have some 400 tons of
good milling ore on their dump. They
have good bodies of ore both at the 200 and
335-foot levels.

March 10th : The Julia Co. are vigor-
ously engaged in prospecting their mine,
situated to the eastward of the Cornish.

A very large body of fine sulphuret ore
has lately been found in the 900-foot level
of the Yellow Jacket mine. The mine is at
present looking well in every part.

Operations will shortly be resumed in
tho Sacramento mine, situated on Cedar
Hill. The ores extracted will be crushed at
the Summit mill, as formerly.

March 11th : The Sierra Nevada Co. yes-
terday found a deposit of quartz much
richer than anything they have yet found.
From some of the specimens taken out,
wires of gold half an inch in length pro-
jected.

The Ophir drift west is now in about 70
feet. They expect to strike their front
ledge in going 130 feet farther. The rock
through which they are drifting is very
hard.

March 13th : The Imperial is now yield-
ing about 120 tons of ore daily from the
upper portions of the mino, sufficient to
keep both of the mills of the company
running.

The Savage mine yields between 1,000
and 1,400 tons of ore per week, averaging
about $35 per ton, aud employing about
170 men daily.

WHITE PXSE.

Treasure City News, March 6th : An .il-
lustration of the great richness of this dis-
trict was given during the past week. Mas-
ten & Arlington, at Menken, engaged two
men to sink a well in Mazeppa Canon. Af-
ter sinking to the depth of about 15 feet, a
ledge bearing a rich body of ore was en-
countered audlocated as a mine by the well-
diggers. Of course no more progress for
tho purpose proposed could be made, and a
new locality was sought. Here again, after
sinking a few feet, another rich vein was
struck, claim made and well abandoned.
This was too rich a place to devote to fur-
nishing water only, and in a more distant
locality it was concluded to dig the well.
Sinking has been resumed, but with what
result we are not advised.

A prospecting party under the leader-
ship of James Basey, left this city a few
days siDCe on an extended tour of explora-
tion iu tho direction of the Steptoe Mount-
ains, aud possibly to extend into tie- Wa-
satch range, south of Salt Lake.

Quito a stir was created iu tho neighbor-
hood of the Eberhardt mine, a few days
since, by the discovery of native gold and
silver in the La Monte mine, which is lo-
cated about 250 feet north of the Eberhardt,
and runs parallel with that great voin.
The ore extracted contained beautiful spec-
imens, showing both gold and silver in con-
siderable quantities, besides the usual ores
of the latter metal.

The developments on tho Willimantie,
situated at the foot of Chloride Flat, have
been very favorable during the past week,
and some of the best ore of the district ob-
tained. Assays of ordinary oro show a
value of $161.03 per ton, and some of the
choicest specimens reach $2,500 per ton.
The ledge is now showing a width of four
and a half feet, and all appiears to be min-
eral of a fiood quality.

Ou Tuesday last, some miners working
iu one of the old locations on the Base
Metal range, came upon a mass of ore rival-
ing iu purity and value the best of Treas-
ure Hill. The oro found was brought to
town, ami upon assay proved to be worth
from $2,000 to $3,000 per ton. The story
of its discovery soon became noised abroad,
creating a great excitement, and on Wednes-
day a rush of prospectors, speculators,
surveyors and town locators commenced
for that locality. The point is about one
and a half miles northwest of Treasure City ,
although by the road leading there it is
about three miles. The locality is known
under the various names of Northern Light
Mill, Chloride Flat No. 3, and BaseBange;
but a town has been laid out and named
Babylon.

The bullion receipts of the assay office of
T. M. Luther, Silver Springs, from Feb.
7th to the 28th, amounted to $105,857.33;
and for the week ending March 2d, 37,731
ounces of crude bullion.

Several new and rich claims have been
located in the immediate vicinity of Ham-
iltdn. The ore is said to assay rich.

Austin Reveille, March 9th : The Silver
Springs correspondent writes : Great ex-
citement prevails iu prospecting ciroles,
most particularly on the west side of the
road leading from this place to Hamilton,
where some very rich strikes have been
made, some two or three days ago. This
new discovery is in the Base Metal Bange.
Luther & Huey aro still pushing tho
work on their tunnel. They are now work-
ing four sets of hands, and the tunnel is
over 300 feet in length.

The Moore & Barker mill has started, and
is running with good success. The Oasis
mill was shut down a few days for repairs,
but started up day before yesterday.

March 10th: Eight bars of bullion,
weighing 815 pounds, and valued at $14,-
839. 29, were shipped by the agency of the
Nevada Bank at Treasure City, White Pine,
overland to New York city, on Thursday,
the 4th inst.

OREGON.
The Jacksonville Sentinel of March 6;h
says that mining in that section during the
past winter has been a complete failure ou
account of the scarcity of water, and urges,
not only the miners, but the farmers, to
unite and contribute a small sum each to
be expended in bringing the waters of Ap-
plegate Creek to the Sterling mines. The
editor says that the enterprise can be com-
pleted at a cost of less than $60,000, and
that the "round thus provided with a suffi-
ciency of water cannot bo worked out in
the next 40 years.

SOUTH AMERICA.
A company has been formed with a capi-
tal of half a million of dollars, to work the
mines of Oreamuno andtheir continuations,
called the San Bafael aud La Minta, in
Chili. Those mines were discovered and
worked in 1825, yielding, it is said, large
profits, but unfortunately were flooded with
water. The Directors assert that during
the short time they were in operation they
yielded one million and a half of dollars,
which forms the foundation of the capital of
the Bepublie. The corporation is called
"CompaSiadel Monte del Aguacate," and
located in San Jose.

WASHINGTON.
Olympia Transcript, Feb. 20th : For
some time past, a number of men havebeeu
prospecting in the region of the Black Hills
for gold. We have heard rumors of their
finding the "color," which could hardly bo
otherwise, considering that it can be found
in small particles in almost every ravine in
the county. Wo learn, however, that some
of the citizens of Miami Prairie and that
vicinity have opened a road to Waddle's
creek, and would take a wagon load of
sluico boxes in on Wednesday last, to test
some ground on the creek.

We need scarcely tell our readers that it Is the best
mining aud sciontiiic paper published on iho continent.

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Notices to Correspondents.

Alkali, Sacramento. — The mode of obtain-
ing soda, which has been employed so
successfully from the date of its inven-
tion, by decomposing in the first in-
stance common salt by means of mundic
acid, was invented by LeBlanc, in re-
sponse to the offer of the First Napoleon
of a reward of 1,000,000 francs for a
more cheap and extensive method of ob-
taining soda — a promise, however, which
Napoleon never fulfilled. There are few
instances of an industrial improvement
holding its own for half a century
against so many competitive efforts to
outvie it. The patented inventions in
England on this subject since 1830,
amount to more than 300, and "the cry
is still they come."

A Lovek op Obnament. — The flexible cups
you are inquiring about have no doubt
reference to some specimens of Burmese
varnished ware — a variety of art in which
that nation excels beyond all others.
This ware, in its hot state, is like very
fine papier niaehe; it is thin and light,
and so flexible that the two sides of a cup
may be pressed together so as to touch
each other, without cracking the coloring
or at all injuring thearticle, which returns
to its former shape as soon as the press-
ure is removed. The colors usually em-
ployed are black and Vermillion, but
more commonly yellow or green, upon a
red ground, or red upon a black ground;
and very superior articles are decorated
with raised figures of gold.

Sauce, San Diego. — Of the olive tree, Mr.
Lang (a Scotchman) observes in his
travels through Italy: "Truly, their
(the Italians) plenty is their curse. Sup-
pose every kail-yard in Scotland had a
tree growing at the dyke-side, like the
old pollard saughs we usually see there,
and requiring as little care, or cultiva-
tion, and from this tree the family gath-
ered its butter, suet, tallow, or an oil
that answered all the household uses of
these substances, whether as a nutritious
adjunct to the cooking of the daily meals,
or for soap, or foraffordinglight, — all, in
short, that our grass-lands and dairies,
our Russian trade, our Greenland fish-
eries, produce to us for household uses.
Would it be no blessing to have such
trees ?" We do not think we could bet-
ter advocate the cultivation of this valu-
able tree and emblem of peace, as desired
by our correspondent, than by inserting
the above quotation.

H. C. K, Dutch Flat.— We will endeavor
to throw some light on the subject of
your inquiry next week.

Slate Quakbies. — We are informed by
Mr. M. Honigsberger that a first-class arti-
cle of slate can be quarried in the vicinity
of Copperopolis, to which point the Stock-
ton and Copperopolis Railroad will be ex-
tended in the course of the summer, unless
the railroad company should choose to for-
feit their charter.

"Going to White Pine."

It is a common expression, — for White
Pine is El Dorado now. Everybody is go-
ing to El Dorado; but people take very
different roads to the same, and the sober
country finally attained is never exactly the
same as the country sought for, and pic-
tured by the imagination.

The road to White Pine, as described by
correspondents, must be indeed an instruct-
ive sight — a comment upon poor humanity
and the laws governing wealth and society.
Mankind are slaves, willingly and enthusi-
astically so, to an arbitrary conventionality
or law, the Rule of Coin, which is more in-
exorable and more tyrannical than monarch
ever dreamed of being; exalting the rich
and relentlessly crushing the poor or un-
fortunate into the most helpless degrada-
tion and even suffering. White Pine is a
Mecca, at this moment, because nature, in
her odd, apparently freakish way to our
present scientific discernment, has concen-
trated tens and hundreds of millions of
dollars' worth of silver there. We would
like to photograph this stream of travelers
to White Pine — from Salt Lake, from Chi-
cago, from Idaho, and from Oregon, and
the great main artery from California, as
briefly noted in their proper department in
this number of the Peess. The stream has
been flowing for weeks and months, and
neither frost, nor bitter winds, nor want of
covering at night, nor dilapidation and
scarcity of shoe-leather, nor hunger and
want of the means of providing against
the same, have been able to congeal it into
rigidity for a single moment. It is a piti-
able, and yet a merry pilgrimage, — at the
risk of life, conscience and soul with not a
few. Mankind are reduced in it to naked
first principles; and how wonderful are the
resources of energy developed in such an
aggregated mass I It is sublime to think
of the unlimited possibilities of combined
human energies, excited by an adequate
cause.

And worthy indeed, shouldbe the cause,
or motive, that has set all this in motion.
The rude shuffling race for wealth has been
decried, and the abandoned devotees of un-
scrupulous money-power have called forth
nothing but contempt from all the nobler
minds of the world; yet power the rich
undoubtedly possess, no matter how they
may have attained it; the truth being that
we are all subjects to the same Law, and
we must either submit to and adapt our-
selves to its conditions, or be abject slaves,
not even feeling that we are men.

But the rush to White Pine as we see it is
really not created in any sense by unwor-
thy motives, but, on the contrary, in nearly
every case there are individual reasons
the most meritorious in the world, could
we but read the hearts and the history of
those who are passing. Accidentally we
may know the secret springs of action —
not in the " dead broke " cases alone, of
chronic or temporary affliction. We can dis-
tinguish, perhaps, amongst the rude and
roughly-accoutered crowd, a fair and
smooth-faced young man of intelligent ap-
pearance who shows a genial and hopeful
eyej but deeper in his heart, if you should
h arn to know him, would evidence a reso-
lute and profound purpose as unquencha-
ble as the force of life itself, for he has
left a worthy mother who not only hopes
for, but is dependent upon him, and whose
anguish of solicitude the world probably
never even suspects. We see another, a
sturdy honest fellow who can drive oxen,
getting along in the strife as best he can ;
we saw his sister — unfortunate slave, too ! —
in the company of some fancy men and
women at Elko the other day (vide tele-
graphic dispatch.) We take our bearings of
these disgusting but exquisitely booted and
jeweled and ringed " gentlemen," who carry
navy six-shooters, and a little derringer be-
sides, and who use both unhesitatingly, but
are arrant cowards nevertheless. The "cap-

italist " passes us, in the most extensive of
overcoats — but he is, more probably than
not, only an agent of capitalists, and he may
be on the scout, with possible victims in
his mind's eye. A served-out convict who
comes along, enters into the front of the
excitement, and feels that life here places
him on a tolerable equality, and gives him
a " fair show " again. A scientific man
plods along, who unassumingly interests
himself in the geology of the famous
mountain, and its chlorides; but no com-
parisons, or generalizations of his, from
the closest observation and study of the
ground, can place his opinion on an equal-
ity, at White Pine, with the man who has
"struck it," especially if the latter has an
indefinite way of using a few technical
terms. But undeniably the general tone of
those we meet on the road or at the mines
is generous and manly; public sentiment,
wherever it manifests itself, is rough and
aboriginal, but it is sound ; and the sympa-
thies that rule stand out nobly in contrast
with the extremest acts of selfishness of
which men are capable — as if the observers
felt apologetic for such human weakness,
and meant to counterbalance matters for
their own satisfaction.

It is well that men have motives for ex-
ertion. White Pine will not be a failure —
for the country will at least be developed.
It is well indeed that the nine-tenths who
fail in their hopes may yet be all success-
ful; while the few who get tons of silver
may prove the greatest failures of all, for
we know that silver is only a conventional
measure of things held valuable in the
world for the happiness they may confer,
which resultdepends upon the use made of
it, but not more than upon that made of
our daily surroundings without it, the basis
being in the individual's character and ab-
solutely independent of wealth.

Let every man, then, travel to his own
White Pine ; and let him press forward
resolutely, laboriously, perseveringly, and
with manly spirit ; for our wealth, silver or
no silver, is in the telling deeds we can ac-
complish, our share of happiness in the
use we make of the beautiful and the good
things that creation offers to us out-doors
and in, at every turn, and from which we
have only to select. The incentives that
move us through life shall thus carry us to
a worthy goal ; the successful being those
who, having worthy motives, accomplish
the same — the more worthy the greater the
success.^

We would not hinder the rush to White
Pine. Let every body go that feels im-
pelled, or justified by the promise. There
is something captivating to the imagina-
tion in going to a Potosi for wealth. No
harm can come of it, for the railroad is
open, and it will be easy to rush back
again, and be the more content in develop-
ing positive and certain resources. As a
matter of course White Piue will have to
be overdone, and "when the smoke clears
off" there will be many a flat, and many a
ledge like the late new discoveries in the
Base Metal Range, deserted to the few who
intend to deal hard knocks in mining ; the
dupes, with the dupers in the crowd, and
the "leading capitalists" who lend their
names to a good thing or a swindle for a
three-fourths interest, having all gone far-
ther on, but still pressing forward franti-
cally on the straight road to El Dorado ;
whether it bo called White Pine, or any
other name that sounds as well.

Testing, and Assaying of Oees. — Mr. J.
S. Phillips has fitted up a room at No. 423
Washington street, near the Postoffice, for
the purpose of giving instruction in the
testing and assaying of minerals, with the
blowpipe and also in the wet way. He has
every facility, and is a competent instruc-
tor ; being the best bio wpipist that we know
of in this city. A few hours of instruction
might be made of great value to silver pil-
grims. His advertisement will be found
in another column.

Electricity and Amalgamation.

There are now two processes of amal-
gamating with the aid of electricity before
the public, both of which are put forward
with very fair pretensions to economy ; and
we are rather pleased to note that the pro-
prietors, or inventors, have fallen into a
contest with each other as to their respect-
ive merit and originality. The battle is
very mild, it is true, and not much to the
issue. But it will do more good than harm
to all concerned ; for these new proc-
esses should rather be torn to pieces than
to be allowed to die of inattention and neg-
lect. The Nolf and the Paul process ap-
pear to be entirely different in every res-
pect. It does not seem to us to be proven
that electricity has much to do with the
success of either of them ; as in the Nolf
process no comparative working test has
been made on the same ore and chemicals
with electricity, an.d without, — that we have
heard of, — to show how much is due
to the electricity and how much to the sul-
phate of copper and salt ; though it is evi-
dent that electricity has a tendency' to pre-
vent the latter from cutting up the quick-
silver, which is a matter of great import-
ance ; while in the Paul process no curren t
of galvanic electricity is applied at all, and
no test has been made, so far as we are
aware, to show that friction electricity
has anything more to do with it than in
ordinary barrel amalgamation. The Paul
process is yet in the dark, as no one knows
what chemicals Mr. Paul uses. Concern-
ing the originality of the Nolf process, wo
understand that a caveat was filed for a
patent about a year ago, but that no patent
has yet been obtained, owing probably to
the continuance in making improvements.
Both Nolf and Paul deserve -every encour-
agement in their efforts. We must state
that we deem it both wise and commend-
able in Paul to have given at once his re-
sults on particular ores, for in that manner
the public will be enabled to form some
judgment as to the merits of his invention.
In the working of the Nolf process we un-
derstand that the difficulty of separating
the mercury and amalagam satisfactorily
from the ore treated, has prevented them
from giving any fair statement of the re-
sults of their process, — a difficulty which
they hope soon to overcome.

Mention has been made to us of the re-
duction of rebellious ores lately, at Pio-
che's works, in three hours, at a cost of $5
per ton; and Mr. Paul thinks he can do the
same by his process at §3 per ton. If there
is sufficient truth in these assertions to
make them stay true — new processes being
notoriously liable to give us the slip on
such questions after a little while — we can
assure our readers that the additional evi-
dences from working tests to convince
everybody, will not be long withheld.

A New Mantjfactubing Entebpbise. —
The prosperity of a country depends less on
the abundance of its raw material, than upon
the amount of its manufactured products.
The prospectus of the California Tar and
Turpentine Manufacturing Company, has
been placed in our hands by Mr. Alex. C.
McKean, of 424 Montgomery street. The
principal object of this company is the
manufacture, under a new and improved
method of tar, turpentine and resin, to-
gether with their concomitant substances,
pitch, charcoal, potash and woodacids,etc.
for which the dense pine forests of our
northern coasts are so well adapted. All
needed information in regard to the opera-
tions of the company can be obtained from
the above named gentleman.

View of Tbeasube Hill. — H. H. Ban-
croft & Co. have published a fine litho-
graphic view of Treasure Hill, including
Hamilton and Treasure City, from a sketch
taken by E. W. Peet, which gives a better
idea of White Pine as one would fiad it on
going there, than would be obtained in any
other manner, short of the journey.

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

185

Simonin's " Underground Life."

We have mentioned the receipt, from H.
H. Bancroft & Co. , of a copy of this splen-
did production, the largest and most sn-
perbly gotteu-up work on mining in the
English langnage. It is translated from
the French, and added to by H. W. Bristow,
F. B. S., of tho British Geological Survey;
tho French work, " Lit Pie Sou/crrai>ti.j}"
having been bofore the public for some
little time.

"Victor Hugo." says the author in his
preface, " has recently described the strug-
gles of the Bailor in " The Toilers of the
Sea." What lie so happily calls the irre-
pressible power of the Elements, addresses
itself alike to the Mariner and the Miner,
for each is the soldior of tho deep, against
whom the powers of nature wages at times
their utmost fury."

"The fh'st part of the present work is de-
voted to Coal, a substance indispensable to
all civilized nations; the second to Metals,
the origin of all progress; the last to the
Precious Stones, which'play so important
a part in the decorative arts. The intrepid
coal-miner, whose advent is but of recent
date; the veteran of the mineral world,
whose origin dates from the dawn of his-
tory; and the patient seeker after gems —
are the types of industry we have to con-
sider."

' ' Underground Life " is large octavo in
form, pp. 510, printed ou the best quality
of paper, and is illustrated by real artists,
in the designing as well as in the work of
the wood engraver. There are 160 engrav-
ings, many occupying nearly a whole page,
illustrating interesting underground scenes,
and all the tools and machinery that the
miner has to do with; twenty maps geolog-
ically colored, representing the great coal
fields of the world, and the metalliferous
regions of Chili, California and Nevada,
Lake Superior and Australia; besides ten
chromo-lithographic plates representing all
the minerals commonly met with as ores,
with their crystallized forms. The first
half of the book is devoted to coal. In the
latter half, devoted to metallic mines and
gems, are, amongst the valuable matter,
quite a number of vein sections showing
the different character of some of the noted
ore deposits of the world.

The social and ideal features of under-
ground life seem to have been kept in view
by the author throughout the entire work;
making it entertaining as well as instruct-
ive, an agency calculated to inspire at once
an interest in mining on the part of those
unacquainted with its realities, and pride
in those who are carrying on or aiding in
its engineering operations. It ia such a
work as one would make a present of to an
ambitious youth whom we would make sure
of interesting in matters worthy and sub-
stantial. To Californians, Simonin's book
is valuable, because it contains excellent de-
scriptions, not only of our own North
American mining fields, but of Mexico,
South America, Australia, Bussia, etc.
Though covering in general the same ground
as J. Arthur Phillips' new book, "Mining
and Metallurgy of Gold' and Silver," the
treatment is so different, that the same
ground is apparently never covered, and
the sources of information and observation
drawn from appear to be so independent
as to render both books a desideratum to
the intelligent mining engineer of this
coast, too valuable to be dispensed with.

In regard to the function of the precious
metals, Simonin says :

"But if the common metals, especially
iron, are so iutimately bound up with the
progress of civilization that the existence
of a refined state of society cannot hence-
forth be imagined without their aid, the
precious metals, on the other hand, play a
part in this world which cannot escape us.
In consequence of their exceptional quali-
ties, their rarity, inalterability, and weight,
they have not only become the sole repre-
sentatives of value; but they are also those
which, at all times, have helped in the col-
onization of different countries, by the fas-
cination which they exercise on the minds
of the multitude.

The important part which they play in
the life of the peoples is known: it remains

to be seen how their history composes, to
some extent, the very history of civiliza-
tion."

Tho price of
818.

' Underground Life " is

Irrigation.

Immense expenditures are being made in
India to secure tho benefits of a geueral
system of irrigation. Tho land in Central
India, susceptible of such improvement,
exceeds, by fully ono-quarter, the entire
area of the State of California. There are
quite a number of ancient canals, formerly
used there for irrigation, but now filled up
with rubbish from disuse, which are to be
restored, and great numbers of new ones
are to be constructed. At one locality, in
Central Hindostan, an immense reservoir
is being built, at a cost of not less than
§150,000; while several important canals
are to bo made to answer the double pur-
pose of irrigation and navigation. Ex-
tensive embankments are also to be thrown
up along the banks of tho Ganges, the Lr-
riwadi, and other principal rivers, to re-
claim waste territories of overflowed land.
Everywhere, indeed, throughout that mag-
nificent country, where the hand of mod-
ern civilization has secured the occupancy
and control, the refreshing and fertilizing
element is to be compelled to flow over
desert places, or restrained from its waste-
fulness in regions where hitherto native
skill has been insufficient to control the
overflowing waters.

So large and urgent is the work to be ac-
complished that there is said to be a great
demand throughout India for competent
civil engineers; while there is work enough,
in carrying out the contemplated improve-
ments, to give employment to many thou-
sands of men for a lifetime.

Should not we, as Californians, in con-
sidering these facts, bear in mind that we,
too, have immense tracts of unreclaimed
land, equally as fertile as the best in India,
and equally as susceptible of improvement
under the hands of the skillful engineer ?
Our position with reference to the corn
markets of the world is much more favor-
able than that of our antipodes, and it
should never be said of such a people as
are building up this great empire of the
Pacific, that we have allowed the half-
civilized, enervated races of the East
to out-do or out-rival us in such im-
portant engineering improvements as those
to which we are alluding. The Darieu
Canal project seems now to be in a fair
way of realization. When that is com-
pleted, freight to New York and Liverpool
will be materially decreased, and grain can
be shipped in bulk and laid down in either
city cheaper than it can be produced and
transported from any of the Mississippi
States. With such advantages, California
might and ought to send twohundred grain-
loaded ships through the Golden Gate every
month in the year, the aggregate returns
from which would be more than four times
our present annual yield of gold ! Such is
the harvest in store for California, within
twelve or fifteen years, if her people will
only put themselves in readiness to take
advantage of the means which nature has

placed within their easy reach.

' *--»---«^-*--* .

Mining in Montana.— According to the
"Montana Statistical Almanac for 1869,"
there are thirty-four quartz mills in that
Territory, with an aggregate of 476 stamps.
Only eighteen of these mills are now run-
ning. The total gold yield up to July,
1869, is set down by the same authority at
©92,000. Prof. Blake, in his Paris Exposi-
tion report, sets down the total yield to
January 1st, 1868, at §71,500,000, and adds
an estimate of §12,000,000 for 1868, which
would make atotal of §83,500,000 up to the
present year. Mr. Taylor, U. S. Commis-
sioner, sets down the total yield to 1868 at
only §37,000,000. Coal is said to exist in
numerous localities throughout the Terri-
tory, several veins of which have been par-
tially developed.

Am Bubbles in Opal. — Mr. Winant,
late of Yaquima Bay, Oregon, has shown
us a number of quartz specimens of a
milky opallino variety, which contain air
bubbles, or a gas which rises always to the
top of the little translucent cavern that
contains it Quartz crystals not unfre-
quently contain water bubbles; showing
that during tho formation of the crystal
from watery solution, both water and air
may be inclosed. The peculiarity of the
present specimens consists in the quartz
being amorphous, and in their having out-
wardly a common resemblance to the shape
of a small mussel shell. They appear to
be silicious concretions formed around gas-
eous bubbles which were arrested under
water, from some cause, long enough toen-
able a skin to be formed.

New Job Printing Firm.

In order to devote our attention more exclu-
sively to tho publication of our paper, nnd the bus-
iness of our American and Foreign Patent Agency,
we have disposed of tho presses and job printing
material, and fixtures, in our office — with the en-
tire future good will and patronage of our Job
Printing Office, — to George Spaulding and
Harrison Barto. Messrs. Spaulding & Barto will
continue the operation of the same, in our office,
414 Clay street, under tho title of "The Mining
and Scientific Press Job Printing Office."

Both of these gentlemen are practical printers
of good attainments and enviable reputation.
They have been long engaged in this office, and it
is with pleasure that we can recommend them to
the favor and patronage of all our old customers
in the line of Job Printing. A. T. Df,wet.
W. B. Ewek.

P. S. — This change relates to our job printing
department alone, our patent agency and news-
paper business remaining as before.

Dewey & Co.,
Mining and Scientific Press Office, 414 Clay

street.

March 1, 1869.

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an effectual remedy, and one easily obtained, is Perry
Davis' Vegetable Pain Killer. It is no new nostrum, vended
by unknown agents, but has stood the test of over twenty
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Paim Killkb.— The testimonials borne to the efficacy of
this valuable medicine arc sufficient to warrant its Iniro-
duclion in every house, our own opinion is that no family
should be without a bottle of it for a single hour. In flesh
wounds, aches, pains, sore*, etc., it is the most effectual
remedv we know of- A boitle will last for a very long
time, and its low price places it within the reach ot all.—
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jp-Wc arc glad to learn that the "Pain Killer" U having
so large a sale in our city. We have every reason to believe
it to be an almost never-failing cine (or pain, and a medi-
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by any In the District. With a view to the immediate and
vigorous prosecution of work in opening this mine, the
Board of Trustees propose to sell a limited number of tho
reserved UNASSESSABLE Shares of Capital Stock at tho
nominal price of £2 50 per share, the entire proceeds ot
which will be devoted to developing the mine.

Only l.OOO Shares will be sold at the above named
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In issuing Stock the subscribers will take precedence in
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— AND —

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«gj- The highest price paid for Scrap Iron. 9vl43m9p

To White Pine Prospectors.

J. S. PHILLIPS TEACHES ASSAYING (OR TESTING
Silver Ores, by Blowpipe, Crucible, or Chemicals, at room
11, No. 423 Washington street An Evening Class from 7
to 9 o'clock. 12vl8tf

HELIOG-RAPHIC

STEEL ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. COMPANY.
E. VON EGLOFFSTEIN, Supt.,
133 and 135 West Twenty-fill h st., New York.
Steel Engravings produced by an Improved Process at
one third the usual rates. Portraits. Country Seats. Illus-
trated Circulars, Reproductions of Engravings. Designs,
etc JNO. VINCENT IIKIGINS, Sole Agent.

3vl8-6mlGp O&S Broadway, New York.

186

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press,

Machinists and Foundries.

PALMER, KNOX & CO.,

Golden State Iron Works,

Stan, 10, SI, &3 una 2<~> First Street,

SAN FJ&ANCISCO.

K.JNOFACTUKK ALL KINDS Of

MACHINEK^S ,

ei'KAM KX6HXES AMI) QUARTZ MJLLS
DUNBAR'S IMPROVED

«S^lf-A.tljizstriixg IPIstori I*ac3s:iiigt

Requires nosprincs or screws; is always steam tight;

without excessive friction, ami never

gets slack or leaky.

WHEELER & RANDALL'S

K E W GIUXDEK AX1» AMAl.6AIUd.TOJi

HEPBURN & PETERSON'S
AMALOAMATOK AM> SEPAKATOB,

Knox's AintilffamatorN,

WITH PALMER'S PATENT STEAM CHEST,

Superior for working either GOLD OR SILVER ORES, and
stho only Amalgamator that has stood the teat of seven
years' continual working.
WeMuiuii White Iron Stump SIioch and .Ule j

Having been engaged for the past ten years in quartz
mining, and being conversant with all the improvements,
either in Mining or Milling, we are prepared to furnish, ai
the shortest notice, the must perfect machinery for reduc
ng ores, or saving either gold or silver. 13vl0qy-tf

IRA P. 11ANKIN.

A. P. DKAYTON.

A. C. AUSTIN.

Pacific Iron Works.

First and. Fremont Streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Having been established since 1851, we have accumulated
a very large variety of Gear and other Patterns, which,
with our suporior touts and appliances, give ua lucilities lor
doing lirst class work unciiuulcd on the Pacidc Coast.

Among other things, we manufacture the following:

Horizontal and Vertical, for either Stationary or Marino

use.

BOILERS— Hig!i ami Low Pressure,

Pump, Pipe and Sheet Iron Work of every kind.
Quartz lVtill Work,

Including High and Low Mortars, for wet or dry crushing ■

Furnace Irons lor Roasting Ores: Freiberg Karrcls;

Varncy'sand Wheeler's Amalgamating Pans

and Settlers; Stamp Shoes and Dies of

best While Iron; Russia Iron

Screens, etc., etc.

Flour Mill, Saw Mill and Sugar Mill Work in every variety;

Pumping and Hoisting Machinery; HansOrow's

Patent Challenge Pump, for Domestic,

Ship aud Mining use— the most

approved aud successful

Pump manufactured.

Caatlnffi of every description, Iron und ISi-uhh.

We would call especial attention to " Wright's Patent Va-
riable Cut-oil Engines," of which we are the sole manufac-
turers on the laeilie Coast, under license from the U uod-
rufl'ft Beach Co., Haitlord, Cc As a simple, eflectivc, fukl
faving, lirsi-cUss Engine, this is, without doubt, the best
Engine made in the United States.

Orders promptly attended to. Prices as low as possible
for lirstclass work, and we intend to do no other.

<£OJL»l>Alil» A: CO.

San Francisco, May 1, 1868. Ittvltiif

WILLAMETTE IRON WOBKS,

FUltTLiSl), OREGON.

Steam Engines, Hollers,
SAW AND CRIST MILLS,

ttlNINO MACUINERV, WROUGHT IRON SHUTTER
WORK, AND BLACKSA1ITUING IN GENERAL.
Corner North-Front ainu E streets,
lSvlS-lv Oae block uorth of Couch's Wharf.

Globe Iron Works,

STOCKTON , CAL.

KEEP & BARG-ION,

MANUJMCTDRERS OF

Uiinviz, Saw a ti<I Grist J>I ill Irons* Steam
.Engines, Horse Powers,

High and Low Pressure Steam Eneinea, Steamboats and

Propellers, made itt oliurL notice.

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SOUTH BEACH IRON WORKS,

Near corner ol King and Third streets, San Praucisco.

M A I? J X E ENGINES,

AND ALL KINDS OF

MACHINERY FORGING.

All kinds of Ship-smithing and Mill work manufactured to

order. Jobbing ot every description promptly attended to.
All work done guaranteed. idvH-ly

CALIFORNIA BRASS FOUNDRY.

No. 125 Flrttt street, opposite Album,

SAN FRANCISCO.

All kinds of Brass, Composition, Zinc, and Babbitt Metal
Castings, Brass dliip Work of nil kinds, Spikes, Sheathing
Nails, it udder Braces, Hingts.ship andriteamboal Uellsand
Gongs of superior tone. All kinds of Cocks and Valves, Hy-
draulic Pipes and Nuzzles, and llusc Couplings and (Connec-
tions of all sines and patterns, lurnisbed with dispatch.

53- PIECES MODERATE. -®e

J. P. GALLAOUER. J. H. WEED V. KiNOWELL

Svlu-ly

Miners' Foundry

—AND—

MACHINE WOEK8

Nos. 245 to 255 First Street,

S:iii Francisco.

HOWLAND, ANG-ELL & CO.,

jV-KOrMSI ETOltS,

Manufacturers of Machinery for

liCAKTZ MI1.X.S.
SAW HILLS,

romiEK mills.

ILWE HULLS,
SUGAR S1ILLS,
I'Al'HE HULLS

Steam Engines of all Kinds,
Amalgamators of all Kinds.

MINIITS PUMPS, HOISTING WORKS,

OIL WELL TOOLS, ROCK BREAKERS,

— A.N'D

Machinery and Castings of all kinds, either
of Iron or Brass.

Boilers and Sheet Iron Work in all its
Branches,

shoeii und JDIch oi* White Iron, manufactured
for and Imported by us expressly for llii.iin--
posc, unci will last ~-~ per cent, longer than .. ny
other miidc on thlH coast.

Kuh.i a Iron Screens, o I' any degree of fineness.
We are the only manufacturers on this coast ot
the

HICKS ENGINE,
The most compact, .inii.l,- in construction, and

durable, of any Eiibrlne In use.
W. II. UtnVLiMi, H. B.AKuELL,

UvU-Qr CYRUS PALBIEM.

FULTON

Foundry and Iron Works.

HINCKLEY & CO.,

MANUFACTDREttS OF

STEAM ENGINES,
Quartz, Fiona? and. Saw Mills,

Hnyeo' Improved Stenm Punti*, ISrodte'a Im-
proved Crn-ht-r, Mlnlnir Pumps,
Amalgmnntnrt, imuI nil kinds
of Machinery.

N. E. corner of Tehama and Fremont streets, above How
ard street, San Francisco. S-qy

HIcAFEE, SPIERS fit CO.,
BOILER MAKERS

AND GENERAL MACHINISTS,

Howard dt, between Fremont and Beale, San Francisco.

Floe or Tubular Boilers, with plain circular or spiral
courses. Upright Flue or Tubular Kuilers, Locomotive and
and Marine Boilers, and Wrought Iron Tanks of every de-
scription,

llydi-uulic Pipe supplied at reasonable rates. In or-
dering, Rive the quantity of water to be xupp'ied, hightof
the fall, and total length of pipe, so as to enable the rlnn io
determine the diameter of the pipe and thickucssuf iron to
be used.

Kepuir*.— Boilers, Smoke Slacks, Pipes, etc., put in re-
pair wiih promptness.

To Boiler Sinker* and MacIilnUtN In the In-
terior.—Tlic Arm is prepared to furnish estimates of
Boilers, su' ply new Heads, drilled and punched, and attend
to the selection and forwarding of Iron fur Boilers, Pipes
and other purposes.

PluiiH, Drawing*) and Specifications.— The firm
!s prepared to make out Plans and Specifications, lecoivc
estimates, and superintend the Erection of any Machinery
that may be entrusted to their care

To Inventor H. —The firm is prepared to assist in de-
veloping the plans of those who have the idea* but not the
practical experience necessary to put tlic same in form, by
muking Drawings ot their Inventions, giving them the ben-
efit ol their practical knowledge in tlie construction of Ma-
chinery, and attending to the manufacture and introduc-
tion of their inventions. lvlblf

UNION IRON WORKS,

Sacramento.
WILLIAMS, ROOT & NEILSON,

MANUFACTURERS OF

STEAM ENGINES, TJOII^EIIS,

CROSS' PATENT BOILER FEEDER AND SEDIMENT
COLLECTOR,

And all kinds of Mining Machinery.

Also, Hay and Wine Presses made and repaired
with neatness, durability and dispatch,

Dunbar's Patent Self-Adjustlntr Steam Piston

PACKING, for new and old Cylinders, manufactured

to order.

Front Street, between X and O a tree tit,

Uvll Sacramento City

THOMPSON BROTHERS,
EUREKA FOUNDRY,

LIGHT AND HEAVY CASTINGS,

of every description, manufactured 21vl(5qr

JAMES MACKEN,
coj?:e»e:r,smith..

22<S Fremont at., bet. Howard <fe Folnor.

All kinds of COPPER WORK clone to order in the besi
manner. Particular attention paid to Steamboat, Sugai
House and Distillery work.

Repairing promptly aud ncail.v alU-ndcd to.

lavii

G-. T. PRACY.
MACHINE WORKS,

NOS. 109 an^ "> 1 I MISSION STREET,
tin and Spear.

New and secondhand

Engines and Boilers,

FOR SALE.

Also one first-class Foisting

Engine ; one Unright

Engine, ol entirely

new pattern.

MANUFACTURER OF

X.at lies, Drills,

And MILL MACHINERY of
every description.

PRACY'8

New and Improved
STEAM EWOKVE

REGULATORS,

The best and cheapest yet in-
vented—manufactured and
for sale. Parties are in-
vited to examine it
In practical op-
eration.

F. A.. HVJTTIXGTOK'S

^ff Shingle Machines

Particular attention paid to
Repairing.

K^-All work guaranteed to bo done In a first-class man-
ner, and at llie lowest rates. 12vl7tf

THE KISDON

Iron and locomotive Works.

Incorporated, April 30, 18C8, Capital. SI, r 00,000.

Location of Works, Corner Beale and Howard streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Successors to Pacific Mail P. S. Co. Works at Bcnicia, Coffey

& Risdon, and Devoc, Dinsmorc &. Co., San Francisco.

Stcain Engine Builders, Bdilci- Walu-rs,

MACHINISTS AND FOUNDRYMEN.
All work in their line attended to with promptness and
dispatch.

Directors:
S. F. Ruitorworth, Chas. E. McLano,

Lloyd Ti-vis, John N. Rit-don,

Jas, Pidlock, Joseph Moore.

Ben. Holhtday,

JOHN N. RISDON, President.
Joseph Moore, Vice President aud Superintendent; Ohns.
E. McLunc, Ireasnrcr; Lewis R. Mead, Secretary; Lewis
Coffey, Superintendent Boiler Works. 2lvl7 qy

NOBLE & FLEMING,
MA-OniNE WOKKS,

So, 10 Stevennon wtroet, near Flrat,

SAN FHANOIf-UU.

Particular attention given to repairs on Portable and Sta-

tionnrv Engines; also all kinds of Wood Wurklng

Macliineiy; Sliaftlng'", Hangers, Pulleys, etc.

made to order; Screw Cutting, Iron

eianlng. and all kinds of JOB

WORK promptly at. ended to.

Agents for F. S, Perkins1 Engine Lulhi's,

Planer**, Upright I»t ill-.

And all kinds 01 MACHINISTS' TOOLS; also Ihe Dnvls

Wood Planer nnd Mlira Dove-Tailing Machines.

SSJ-AIso. on hand for sale a complete set of Tnols for

mukink' Blacking Boxes, consisting of Press, Dies, Shears.

and Crimping Machine, etc. 4vl8-qr

CITY IROKT WORKS COMPANY.

CLERC & CO.,
IltON FOU1NDEKS,

Steam Engine KnllucrM mid Makers of all
kinds of Machinery,

6vllOir No. 28 Fremont street, San Francisco.

FOUNDRY FACINGS.

BENJAMIN" ELLIOT,

No. 483 Brannan street ...San Froneisco,

Manufantures Foundry Facings constantly, irom choice
coal*. Bituminous, packed in tight sacks. Anthracite and
Charcoal ground together or separate, packed in whole
or hall barrel1*. Black Lead. Cuke and Soapstrtne ground to
order. Foundrymen located far from choice material, can
rely on having superior Facing* forwarded to order.
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EEMOVAX.
TAY, BEOOKS^ & BACKUS,

HAVE R2M0VED TO

East side or Kattery street, Nos.
614, 61G and. 618,

Between Jackson and Pacific sts:,

One "lock tmrlli nflhe Cistoni House and
Fo.t-Olute.

Klcliinnn.l TEiiiiKe.; Bui-Mtnw Cook with Hot

Closet; improved Kmpirc C'ily; Fi'CoCh

ICitn^L'f, of all SIzcn; Monitor

8toveH, MetalM, Etc., £tc.

lUvlSlm

Mining Secretary.

THE SUBSCRIBER, I7AVING SERVED FOR THE LAST
live .years a.s Secretary of various mining companies.
Feels fully competent to serve in iliat capacity. Any nar-
tips wishinc to secure tlie services of a Secretary cat. be
accotnntoilntcd on reasonable terms. Information given,
and all necessary papers correelly made out.

Havint.' had a long experience in lite purchasing of goods
ami nuiehuiorv tor miners, parties in the mines will find lt
to their advantage, where purchasliuragents are employed,
to send their orders io the undersigned.

J M. BUFFINUTON,
Room S7 New Merchants' Exchange, California ttreet
San Franciaeo I7vl5-tl

l'ATEKT OFFICK Rl.rOKTS, fTOlD 1H13 to 1817, MKCHAMCI,

arc wanted forttuplicate copiesai .l'is olllcc. Parties hav
ing Ihem for sale, will phase state price aial aldress
DEWEY & CO., Mir. ing and Scicntilic Press olllce, San
Francisco.

Resources and Developments.

Mexican Internal Impeovements. — Tl e
Bulletin's Acapulco correspoiitlent Btiys :
All tlie late acts of Congress and public tit -
crees tend to favor a few, and aim at cheap
popularity. In tlie City of Mexico tbey
are going to open a new avenue, to be called
"Avenida de bombres illustries," and to be
adorned with the statues of Columbus,
Morelos, Hidalgo, etc. The new steam-
boat " Guatomatzin" is now plying on the
late of Tescoco, which will be connected
with that of Chalco. But when will the
water of these lakes be deepened aud the
channel widened ? To everything in Mex-
ico the foundation is waDtiug. Numerous
railroad concessions have been made, but
the grants remain waste paper, because the
funds are wanting to carry them out.

Woolen Factory at San Jose. — Within
a few days a few enterprising gentlemen of
San Jose have formed a company for the
purpose of establishing a manufactory of
woolen goods in that city. The capital
stock of the company is to be .$100,000, and
already $50,000 have been subscribed and
pledged. T. EUard Beans, S. O. Hough-
ton, B. Peckham, Daniel Murphy and J.
H. Flickenger, have been selected as the
truste.es.

The Ship Building Besoueces op Pcget
Sound. — It is now certain, says the Bul-
letin, that a great ship building interest will
be concentrated on Puget Sound. There
are a thousand miles of shore line on the
Sound, deep water, very few shoal places
or rocks, easy of access in nearly all weath-
er. The timber is there. But iron enters
largely into the construction of ships.
There is enough iron in Cowlitz, Lewis and
Thurston counties to bind the earth in
chains, with the mines yet scarcely pros-
pected. The iron ore in the Black Hills,
within fifteen miles of Olympia, is of as
good a quality as can be desired, in exhaust-
less quantities, very near to both the Sound
and Hood's Canal, and all it wants is capi-
tal and enterprise to make all the railroad
iron the Northern Pacific Company will
evor want. The iron ore of Lake Superior
is conveyed as far as Pittsburg, where it is
mixed with other grades to produce certaiu
desirable qualities of iron ; the distance be-
ween the two points is nearly the same as
it is between Olympia and San Francisco.

Beet Sugar. — A report on beet sugar
production in Europe has been made by
W. Wadsworth, agent of the Sacramento
Valley Beet Sugar Co., to whom we are in-
debted for a copy. This conxpany is un-
derstood to "mean business." The officers
are W. E. Brown, President ; Chas. Klein-
serge, vice-President ; Edgar Mills, Treas-
urer, and Sparrow Smith, Secretary.

Alaska "Resources. — A Victoria corres-
pondent says: The Alaska salmon fisheries
will be eventually far more valuable than
fur seal, owing to their fine flavor, large
size, good color, etc. Sitka is not Alaska.
Farther north, salmon weighing from 60 to
100 pounds can be obtained at compara-
tively no cost. Any company embarking
in the business, and only curing the bellies,
could make thousands of dollars yearly.
The market would be the whole world, con-
sequently it could not be overstocked. They
are worth from 20 to 25 cents per pound,
when the entire fish (salted) sells for four
cents. Codfish are in abundance, and in
other localities than where the schooners
have been fishing for them.

Distillery por Nicaragua. — Col. Har-
azthy has shipped on the Mary Belle Bob-
erts the machinery for a distillery in Nica-
ragua, valued at about $10,000. Ho has
obtained exclusive privileges for carrying
on this business, from the Nicaraguan Gov-
ernment.

Peevost's Los Angeles Silk Commu-
nity.— Mr. Prevost, late of Sau Jose, has
located in Los Angeles, where his aim is to
found a city of silk; aud to gather the prac-
tical silk-workers around a common center,
where suitable land can be obtained. The
locality, we understand, is on the San Ber-
nardino road, about thirty miles east of Los
Angeles city. A number of others have
joined Mr. Prevost, and large plantings of
mulberry trees are in jirogress.

San Luis Obispo Asphaltttm. — A con-
tract has been signed between Mr. Lambert
Menant, of Menant& Co.'sasphaltum works
of this city, and Mr. Francis Branch, of
San Luis Obispo county, to work the beds
of asphaltum situated on the rancho of the
latter, near the Arroyo Grande, about ten
miles below the town of San Luis Obispo.
According to the terms of the contract, as
published in ihe Republican, Mr. MenaDt is
to commence operations within three months
from the signing of the same, and is to ex-
port from a thousand to fifteen hundred
tons of crude asphaltum per annum, for

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187

which he is to pay Mr. Branch one dollar
per ton. •

California Ntjtmeob.— Perhaps it is not
generally known that the native nutmeg
tree grows in the Sierra Nevada range of
mountains in California, but nevertheless
sm-li is the fact. We have with our own
hands picked them from the treo in the
upper portion of Placer county, and about
the head waters of Feather river, and after
properly drying them, found them fully
equal in point of strength and flavor, to
those imported from the East Indies. Some
nineteen years or more have elapsed sinco
that time, and of course we are unablo to
describe with accuracy the nutmeg troo of
California, more than to say that it resem-
bles some of the species of pine, and in fact,
most people would pass it by, as we did at
first, without suspecting it to bo anything
else but a pino tree. — San Mateo Gazelle,
March Villi.

CrANRKRRIES PROM OREGON, PuGET

Sound, Kodiak, etc. — The principal sup-
ply of cranberries for this market is ob-
tained from the plant in its wild state. In
Illiuois, Wisconsin and Michigan immense
tt-arts of marsh land exist, upon which
Utile or nothing else is produced. On the
Pacific coast, the principal supply is ob-
tained from the country bordering on
Puget Sound, where it is gathered by the
Indians and sold to traders in exchange for
whisky and blankets. There is quite an
extensive trade carried on between San
Francisco and Oregon in this fruit. Con-
siderable quantities are also imported from
the Atlantic States, which command about
ten cents per gallon more than those of
Oregon. Although a large portion of the
supply conies from Puget Sound, they are
all known in the market as Oregon cran-
berries. Large tracts on Kodiak Island,
of the Aleutian group, are covered with
the cranberry vine, which produces fruit
unsurpassed iu size and flavor. The Ko-
diak fruit readily commands in the market
from 15 to 20 cents per pound more than
the Oregon. It is thought that the fruit
could be afforded in the market for one-
half the present price, and then leave a
large margin for profit to the dealers. One
favorable feature in the cranberry trade is
the ease with which they are prepared for
shipping. They are put into kegs and bar-
rels into which sufficient water is poured
to cover the fruit, "when they are headed
up, and are then ready for transportation.
Iu this State they will keep for months
through hot and cold weather .unchanged.

Coal Mine on Queen Charlotte Isl-
and.— The steamer Oiler was to leave Vic-
toria, V. L , about the lGth, for the north-
west coast, to take up a squad of miners to
Skidegate, on Queen Charlotte's Island, for
the purpose of working a vein of anthra-
cite coal. The coal company have ex-
pended considerable money during the past
two or three years in developing this mine,
and they are sanguine of having struck a
good vein . They expect to place their coal
in the market this season.

Gold having been found in many places,
it is suggested that the prospecting of deep
digging can be done to better advantage in
winter than in summer, provided the
ground be saturated with water, as in win-
ter the surface water will be frozen, which
would render sinking of shafts less ex-
pensive.

GEO. E. ROGERS,

(Successor to G. W. Bell.)

A. S £* A. Y E It ,

313 California .t., Siui Francisco.

J. A. MAHS, Assnyer.

Ores carefully Assayed. Onhl ami Silver Ores worked.

23vl6-{JrtUjmr

Pump Leather.

The attention of MINING COMPANIES, aod others re-
quiring a superior article for Hydraulic purposes, is Invited
to Hie heavy Oaked Tanned Pump Lealher, manufactured
and prepared expressly by the undersigned.

Constantly on hand and for sale by

GBA.T, JONES «fc CO.,

Depot of the Santa Cruz Tannery,

418 Battery St., San FranclKCO.

25vl7-ly

Business Cards.

RODGERS. MEYER & CO.,

COMMISSION MERCIIAJVT®,

ADVANCES Si A in:
On all kind, of Orea, and particular uttcntlon

PAID TO

CONSIGNMENTS OF GOODS.

4vlG-3m

ChutiBlnirthe Address.— No chargois made for chang-
ing the address of this paper. To give all necessary inform
atlon, write us plainly as follows: "Change address of the-

Jrtitijie and Scientific Prttx from Mr. .. at .... P. O

County Stale, to Mr at .... P. 0. ... County

Stale 180-."

CAItD PICTURES,

ONE OOLI.AR PER DOZEN,

And Photographs, Ambrotypcs and Sun Pearls, by first

class artists, at the lowest rates,

VI SIMM'S, 64 Third Street,

Northwest corner of Mission, San Francisco.

llvlS-Sm

NAT1IAMKL CUAV.

II. U. GHAT.

N. GRAY & CO.,

UTVr>ElTTA.B:ER,S,

Wl Sncramcnto St, cor. Webb, San Francisco.

Farmers and Mechanics
BANK OF SSA-VITSTGrS,

No. 2S> Saninine Street.

Interest paid on Deposits. Money Loaned on Beat Estate.
H. BUTTON, President.

GEO. M. GONDEE Cashier. I9vlfi-3m

J. J. JONES,

CARPENTEU ana HTJTX^TVEIt,

No. :t-I Jn.ck.iion street, between Satutome aud

Buttery,

FREDERICK IKAXSEI-T,.

Mechanical & Architectural Draughtsman,

No. 422 California street, corner of Leldsdorff.

Drawings of Models made for parties apply for pa
ents at Washington 0r London. ar23-tf.

"W. T. ATWOOD,

TUKCFIASER OF

COPPER ORES, BAES, MATT, Etc., Etc,,

505 Mnntcomery utreet, San FrnnclMco.

The highest market price paid for orea assaying 10 percent.
23vl7qr

s. folk.

G. TUCHOLSKY.

S. FOLK & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS OF

WADDING, BATTING, and COMFORTERS

«1 and 413 Branuan st„ Between Third and Fourth,
saw francisco. 4vlSqr

W. C. CA FBELL.

PATTERN AND MODEJD MAKER,

No. SO Fremont street, over Phcenix. Iron Works, San
Francisco.

Professional Cards.

J. S. PHILLIPS, M. E.,

CON8U LTING ETVG IiV l^ER,

Exiiinlner of !U im-., it <.-.,

■i'-iH Wa*hlnt;l<ni.sin.'t"t San Francisco.

(Bavins l,;,,i w J oars' oxporlenoe in Europe and American
Buppliea drawings ami designs for Pumping. Hoisting,
finishing SupnrntlnK. Roasting, Chlorlntelug, Milling, Llx

iviiilini:, I'ricipiiutin _■, .mil Smcliint; Works. Minerals an-

jih/.c.i. and advice given i'or boncuclnl treatment. Lis
sin in on iIil' Dlscrlmln rtlou ind Assay of Minerals by Blow-
pipe, Uhenitcahj, Scorlflor and Crucible. 4vi7tf

PROSPECTUS

THE SALT POINT

SILVER MINING COMPANY.

This mine is situated on the western slope of Treasure
Hill, about halfa mile from Treasure City.

It is admirably located for working purposes, being on
the hillside, at an elevation of six hundred feet above the
flat or "swale" through which the road to Shermantown
passes. The road is on an easy grade, abnut one mile from
Shermantown, where the principal mills are located. The
flat In front of the mine affords ample room for the dump-
ing and piling up of milling ore.

The mine is surrounded by fine grove3 of trees of a large
growth; the wood of which for fuel can he purchased al $8
per cord, and at a corresponding rate for timber for mining
purposes.

The ledge lies favorably for working by a tunnel or cut,
It is well defined, and apparently from ten to twelve feet
inwidlh, Assays of the rock are remarkably uniform in
character, ranging from SS^O to S3S5 per ton.

Work Is now being done upon the mine, and it is helleved
that the sale of One Thousand Shares of Full Paid Stock
at $2 50 per share will give all the working capital neces-
sary for its development. The Company are now working
the mine, through a shaft from fifteen to twenty feet In
depth, and, so far as developed, the mine shows itself to be
ono of the richest and most extensive In this wonderfully
rich District. Within a few days the owners have been of-
fered for the whole mine S^UOO, but prefer to sell a portion
for working capital at a lessor rale.

Subscriptions receivcd.at the office of the Company, No.
21i California street.

E. J. WEEKS, President.

O. DICKINSON, Jit,, Treasurer.

Ilvl8-2w T. A. M UDGE, Secretary.

STOCK CERTIFICATES,

STOCK TRANSFER JOURNALS,
STOCK LEDGERS,

ASSESSMENT RECEIPTS,

And all other Blanks, Blank Books, etc. , required by Min
ing aud other Corporations, kept on hand or printed to
order on short notice, at moderate prices, at the office of
the Mining and Scitntil'tc Prass.

JOHN E0A0H, Optician,

Has removed from 522 Montgomery street to
.">:« Wellington street,

EaM of Montgomery.

Surveying Instruments male, repaired and adjusted

2L'vlT-;im

DAVID R. SMITH,

Civil and Mcolianloal £ngineer,

Is prepared to furnish Plans, Models, Specifications and
full detail Drawing* for Steamers and Sailing Vessels and
Machinery in general.

Montgomery Block. t3vl7-3m

J. M. HAVEN,

ATTORNEY AMD COUNSELOR AT L1W
No. 4SO California street,

27vI6 SAN FRANCISCO.

JAMES M. TAYLOR,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,

Court Block, G3G Clay Street

SAN FRANCISCO.
2vl5.1qy

To Mining Secretaries.

THE NEW COMBINED

Stock Ledger and Journal,

The most simplified form that has ever yot been offered to
the public, is now ready, for sale. This one book is a com
plcte abbreviation of the old Ledger, Journal and Transfer
Book, and therefore takes the place of the three.

Stock Incorporations

Now organizing a -e invited to examine this Book before
buying the old style.

JOII1V O. WOnOE «fc CO.,
Importers and Wholesale Stationers,
'■i£l , 339 and 331 Sansome street, cor. Sacramento.
10 v IS- 1 in

The Oakland Daily Transcript.

A. BIT PAPEK.

The Largest Circulation in the County.

Advertisements 111 the Transcript will reach
every part or .Alameda County.

RATES FOR ADVERTISING

■V"ER"X' LOW.

PACIFIC

INSURANCE COMPANY

OP SAN FRANCISCO, CAT..,

Office, No. 422 California street.

Cash Assets, Jan. 1, {»«!», - - IB 1 ,52»,740 IS
FIKE,

MARIN P.,

AN J)

INSURANCE.

San Fiukcisco:
VV. 0. Ralslun,
A. L. Tubbs.
Wm. Alvord,
Jonathan Hunt,'
A. B. Forbes,
A. G. Stiles,
A. scligiium,
L. B. Ktncliley,
Win. Sherman,
L. Sachs,

James De Frctnery,
J. G. Bray,
David Siern,

D. O.Mills,

I. Friedlander,;ii
Moses Heller,
ti. M Nowhnll,
G. T. Lawton,
Miles D. Swteny.a
Chsis. Mavnc,

E. L. Goldstein,
J. O. Earl,
Lloyd Tevis.l
Thos. II. Selhy,
Adam Grant, J
Alpheus Bull,
S. M. Wilson,
D.J. Oliver,

W. Scholle, '■
Thos. Brown,
Chas. Main,
Chas. Ji. Filters,

DIRECTORS:

Oliver Eldridge,
J. B. Robcrls.
j. 0. Wilinerding,
1". L. Weaver,
Wm. Hnuper,
J. W. Clark
A. Havward,
T.L. Barker,
Alexander Weill,
Uhus. Meyer,
«'h. is. E. McLane,
M. Roscnhauiu,
A. J. Ralston.
T. Leuimeu Meyer,
J, T. Dean.

Nkw York:
Louis McLane,
Frederick Billings,
,i..inr.-; Lees,
J. G. Kellogg,
Wm. T. Culeuian,
Moses Etlis.

Saciumunto:
Edgar Mills,
J. II. Cam. II,
C. T. Wheeler.

MAitvsvu.r.Kj
J. H.Jewott.

PoaTLANn, Oregon:
W S Ludd,
Jacob Kaniin.

VinuiKu, Nevada:
Wm. Sharon.

officers:
JONA. HUNT, President.

W. ALVUKD, Vice I'resiaent.
A.J. RALSTON, Secretary.
ANPRKW BAIKD, Marine Secretary.
4vlStf il. U BILiELOW, Gcn'l Agent.

WE ARE NOW OFFERING-
OXJK, IMMENSE STOCK

or

Fine Custom Made Clothing

— IM>

(■rents' Furnishing Goods

A.T PfiICF.8 THAT DEFY COMPETITION.

Our Stock or Clothing Conalnt« of
A.1L*IL. THE LATEST ©TYXVES

BOTH or il ATI. RIAL AND F1KISI1.

A Larjjo Assortmen lot
Trunki, Valises, Curpet lt;iir», l&lunket«« Etc*

AT HXTKIMKLY LOW FB1CKS.

J. Xt. MEAD & CO.,

SvlO Oor. of Washington and Sansome street!.

THE GIANT

POWDER COMPANY

Is now prcpftrcd to fill all orders for

GIANT POWDER,

Put up lu Boxes, cither In Bulk or In Cur
triune*.

General Absents,

BAWDMAKW, NIELSEN & CO.,

25vl0-.1m 210 Front street, San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO

Pioneer Screen. Works,

JOHN W. QUICK, Manufacturer,

Removed to A. Pritzel's Iron Works, 203 Fremont street,

near Howard, Sun Francisco.

Screen Punching In ail Its branches, nt rates reduced
from 2.'ito 40 per cent less than the established rates. I can
furnish Improved (Juarlz Screens several sizes finer than
any Screen ever punched, giving universal satisfaction,
anil for strength, cheapness and durability are not excelled.
Also, Punched Screens of all sizes and fineness made from
all qualities ot material, for Qnnrtz. Cement. Flour and
Rice Mills, etc. Screen Punching made a specialty; there-
fore millmen forwarding their orders to me will receive
none but the be^t. Orders solicited.

N. B —J. W. QUICK is the only competent and successful
manufacturer of Screens in the State, having made Screens
for the princinal mills in this State and adjoining Terri-
tories for many years. Quartz mill owners using punched
Screens which Have universally failed to give satisfaction,
when visiting the city will please call and sec me. 5vl7-Iy

California Steam Navigation

COMPANY. sSBl

Steamer CAPITAL CAPT. E. A. POOLE

CHRYSOPOLIS CAPT. A. FOSTER.

" TOSEMITE

" CORNELIA CAPT. W. BROMLEY

" JULIA CAPT. E. CONCKLIN.

Two of the above steamers leave BROADWAY WHARF
at * o'clock P. M. EVERY DAY (Sundays excepted), one
for Sacramento and one lor Stockton, those for Sacra-
mento connecting with light-draft steamers for Maryaville
Colusa, Chico, and Red Bluff.

Office of the Compauy, northeast corner of Front and
Jackson streets.

B. M. II AKTSIIOK % t:,
I3vl2 President.

International Hotel,

aACKl©03V STIfcEET

BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AND KEARNY STS.,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE IS IN PERFECT
order for the accommodation of guests. Persons sock-
ing comfort and economy will And this the best Hotel In
the city to stop at. The Beds arc new and in good order,
and the Rooms well ventilated. The Table will always be
supplied with the best in the market.
Prices vurylnc from »1 SO to »3 per dny for

Bonvrd nnd Room,

FINE BATH HOUSE AND BARBER SHOP ATTACHED

TO THE HOUSE.

OS*" Teams belonging to the House will be in attendance
at all the boats and cars to convey passengers to the House
free of ouakge, and to any part of the city for 50 cents

Ulvl2 F. E. WEYGANT, Proprietor.

Pacific Chemical Works.

sur.PnuTCic etheil

8JMKITS OP BTITRE,

A«H' V AJDKIM.l,
ACETIC ACID,

CYANIDE OF POTASSIUM
— AND —
ACIDS AND CHEMICALS OP ALL KINDS.

FALKENAU & HANKS,

Office nnd Laboratory! Sixteenth dtrcct, be-
tween FoUoiu nnd Harrison.

LOUIS FALKENAU, State Assaycr.
OS?- Particular attention paid to the Analysis of ORES,
MINERALS. METALS, etc. Svl7

(f IMPROVED SPRING-BED BOTTOM"

(Patented July 21st, 1868.

The undersigned, having purchased the Patentee's inter
est in the States and Territories of the Pacific Coast, is now-
prepared to supply Private Houses, Hotels and Steamers
wllh this comfortable, economical and durable- " IM-
PROVED SPRING BED BOTTOM."

Persons going to White Pine will greatly promote their
comfort by taking one of these Patent Bottom?, -which is
secured to a folding Bedstead, the cost of which Is less than
that of the materials at White Pine.

"Wareroom, No. 1002 Market Street,

P. HXT-DSOIV, Proprietor.

03-Call i"d examine. Open unlil 8 o'clock P. M.
tivISqr

188

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

The Ancient Chinese in America. — It
is a well known fact that the Chinese have,
in their - musty libraries of by-gone ages, a
narrative of travels in a country called Fu-
sung, situated far to the eastward, and be-
yond the great world-ocean. This account
is rendered definite and substantial by the
accompaniment of a map — which can be
seen at the Mercantile Library — represent-
ing, with a considerable degree of accuracy,
the Pacific Coast of North America, in-
cluding, as the most marked and recogniza-
ble delineation, the peninsula of Lower
California. The same map represents the
Atlantic side of the American Continent,
but with such glaring inaccuracy as to make
it evident on the surface that the authors
drew entirely on their imaginations for their
data. Owing to the difficult nature of the
Chinese language,, few of the details have
been brought to light. It is now reported
that Professor Carl Neumann, the linguist,
late of Munich, but latterly of Berlin, who
has interested himself specially in Ameri-
can historical questions, has ascertained, by
the most incontestable proofs — the Chinese
Year Book — that a company of Buddhist
priests entered the Continent of America
by the way of Alaska, a thousand years be-
fore Columbus, and explored thoroughly
and intelligently the Pacific borders, pene-
trating southward into the tropical regions
of the Toltees and Aztecs, or the land of
" Fusung," so called after the Chinese
name of the Mexican aloe. California they
examined carefully,-but did not cross the
Sierra Nevada. Ancient documents in the
Chinese archives, detailing these discover-
ies, are to be translated.

_ Bdby Valley, in Nevada, is said to de-
rive its name from the fact that rubies
abound in the sands of the mountain
brooks flowing through it. These are gen-
uine gems, perfect in form and color, and
wanting only size to render them valuable.
They have the peculiar octagonal shape of
the crystallized quartz, and their size varies
from that of a pin's head downwards.

Valuable and Popular Practical
Books.

Painter, Gilder, and Varnisher's Companion.

Containing Rules and KfiKulations in everything
relating tullicAns of Palntlwr. VarniahinE, ami
Glass Staining, with numerous Useful and Valua-
ble Reci-ints; 'tests tor the Detection of Adultera-
atlons in Oils and Colors, and a statement or the
Diseases and Accidents to which Painiers, Gilders,
and Varnishers are narticularlv li.iblc, with ;ho
simplest methods of Prevention andR-mcdv. with
directions for Graining, Marbling. Sign Writing,
and Gil. ing on Glass. To which are added Com-
nlete Instructions for Painting and Varnishing.
12mo., cloth ,. $1 50

The Practical Brass and Iron Founder's

Guide.— A Concise Treatise on Brass Founding,
Molding, the Metals and their Alloys, etc.; to
which are added recent Improvoments'in the Man-
ufacture of Iron, steel by the Bessemer process,
etc By James Larkin, late conductor of the Brass
Foundry Department in Reany, Neanc A Co'sPeim
Works. Philadelphia Fifth edition, revised, with

extensive additious. In one volume, !2rao '. 2 23

A New and Complete Treatise on the Arts of
Tanning, Currying, and Leather Dressing.— Com-
prising all the Discoveries and Improvements
made in France, Great Britain, and the United
Stales. Edited from Notes and Documents of
Messrs. Salleron, Grouvelle, Duval, Dcssablcs, La-
barraaue. Payen, R^ne. De FontenePe, Malapeyre
etc. By Prot. u. Dussauce, Chemist. Illustrated
by 212 wood engravings, 8vo 1(1 00

The Miller's, Millwright's and Engineer's
Guide.— By Henry Pnllctt. Illustrated. In 1 vol.
12mo 3 no

American Miller and Millwright's Assistant.

By Win Carter Hughes. A new edition. In one

volatile, ]2mo 1 50

*3"Tho above, or any of my publications, sent free of
postage, at the publication prices. My new and enlarged
CATALOGUE OF PRACTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC BOOKS,
66 pages, 8vo, istu-itready, and will be sent free of postage
to anyone who will favor me with his address.

IIE.VRY OAKET JI.lIKa,
Industrial Publisher,

406 Walnut Street,
20vl6tf Philadelphia.

y^ METJS3DORFFER, ^
HAT MANUFACTURER

And dealer In

Hats and Caps

AT WHOLESALE AND KETAIL.

635 and 637 Commercial street San Francisco

laa J streei Sacramento'

Corner of D and Second streets. Marvsville.

TZ Front street Portland, Oregon.

Our wholesale House, 628 Commercial street, extending
through to 637 Clay street, Sun Francisco, contains always
a most choice, and the largest, assortment in this State
Every Steamer brings the latest Issued novelties from Eu.
roDe and New York, which can be found at all tha above
stores, at moderate prices. 23vl6-3m

Ei-kctrotype Enghayiugs, Cuts, Etc.— Our Job Printing
Othce is abundantly supplied with, elegaut engravings, or
nainents, and other embellishments to suit the various
brunches ol Industry in this State

PAINE & STEPHENS'
IMPROVED CONCENTRATOR,

For Saving: Sold and Silver Sulphuretg.

One machine, costing about $1,300, is sufficient to work the Sands from 35 to 30 Stamps,

Less power being required than for any other Machine. The attention of qua-tz millmen throughout
the State is directed to the subjoined certificates, and if they desire they can visit the Amador Micing
Co's mill, near Sutter Creek, the Eureka Co's mill at Grass Valley, or the Banner Co's mill near
Nevada, and see for themselves.

CEKTIFCATES s

Grass Valley, Jan. 4th, 1869. — This is to certify, that we have used the Paine, Stephens &
Harry Concentrators for over twelve months. They have given us entire satisfaction, and are the
best we ever used. WILLIAM "WATT, Supt. Eureka Mine.

This is to certify, that we have had in use for the past 18 months one of Paino, Stephens & Co's
Sulphuret Saving Machines, constructed by John T. Harry, (called a buddle,J and which operates
satisfactorily, particularly so in saving fine sulphuretSj and we reeommend it as well worthy of use,
even where other Concentrators are used ahove it, as it will pay if there are any sulphurets.

WM. L. TISDALE, Supt. Star Spangled Banner Mine.

Nevada City, Oct. 26, 1868.

Any one wishing to purchase one of these useful machines, can do so by applying to TH03.
N. PAINE, at Grass Valley, Nevada County, or JOHN" T. HARRY, Sutter Creek,
Amador County.

Pacific Protective Association of California.

INCORPORATED OCTOBER, 1808.

X»Ii,OS4i»ECTXJS.

Object — Tito object of this Association is to secure a cash payment, wlihin Mxtv days after the deaih of a subscriber,
to his or iier heirs or assigns of as many dollars as there are individuals of the class to which ^aul deceased subscriber
belonged.

MiiMBi'TRsnir.— Tbo subscription fees are Ten Dollars atj ining, and One Dollar on the death of each subscribe)".
The One Dollar from each sut^crilur is paid to the heirs or assigns of Ihe deceased.

Thk Funds.— The. K.y-Laws of the Association require that a ponton of the money received as subscription fees
shall be a Sinking Fund to meet assessments falling due by the delinquencies of subscribers. The balance of the
money received to be u>>cd lor the payment of the expenses incurred bv 'he Association.

Mkmbkks.— A subscriber (ailing to Pay bis or her assessment 'of one dollar within Thirty days from receipt of no-
tice lorleits his or Iier Cerliticaie, and all claims upon the Association, unless goo.l cause is shown for further delav.
A subscriber can forward money in advance, which amount wilt be credited on fulnrc assessments. The subscribers aro
divided into classes including mules and females Each class , is limited to 5.0J0 subscribers. As classes are Ailed,
new ones will be lonncd. No person is so , oor that he cannot pay Ten Dollars at joining and One Dollar occa-
sionally, thus securing $5, MX) to his or her heirs or assigns.

Adva' tages. — The advantages of this Association arc, that no money panic can affect It. Its benefits are easily
obtainable by all, and every subscriber added to the Association enhances the interest and protection of all; the
amount p:iid beinn so small, and only at long intervals, that any person can secure lor his familv a competency uuon
his death.

Olassks.— In Class A, all persons between the ages of 15 and 40 vears ; in Class B, all persons between the ages of 40
and 60 years.

Any one that has not stated his or her age correctly, will forfeit all money paid and his or her Certificate.

One class cannot be assessed if one of another class dies. Classes have no connection with each other.

How to Become a Memdkk.— A person th-sirous ot becoming a subscriber must All out an application, and forward

with it Ten Dollars by Check, Draft, or by Express, in gold or silver coin. Persons can p;iy agents, when regnlarly
pointed and authorized to receive money. Each subscriber should interest himself in obtaining new members, b
doing all arc benefited

pointed and authorized to receive money. Each subscriber should interest himself in obtaining new members,
' ' ng all arc benefited

KoAno of Dikkctors.— Benjamin II. Freeman, George II. Russell, Samuel A. Raymond, James A. Pritchard, W. Le-

Roy.

Offd ers -Benjamin 0 Freeman, President; George H. Ru=scll, Vice President; John H. Warren, Secretary;
James A. Pritchard, Treasurer.

Kefekkn: ks — Hon. Henry Dutton, President of Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank; Hon. Samuel Cowles, late Judge
County Ciuir', San Francisco; Hon. A. J. Gunnison, Atlorncy at Law, San Francisco; H J. Booth, Esq., Union lion
Work-, San Franei.-co: Henry F. Williams, Ksq , Real Esiaie, San Francisco; John U. Hanscom, Esq , ..Etna Iron Works,
San Francisco; John II. O'Brien, E-n.. ot O'Brien. Bush & Co., San Francisco; Hon. J. P. Jones, Gold Hill, Nevada,
All communications should be addressed to the Secretary of the

PACIFIC PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION,

S- E COR. OF MONTGOMERY- AND SACRAMENTO STREETS, (Over Douohoe & Kelly's Bank,) SAN FRANCISCO.

[10vl8 3mos.]

HUNTINGTON'S IMPROVED SHINGLE MACHINES.

3s

SHINGLE MACHINES CONSTANTLY ON HAND.
Steam Engines Saw Mills, Lath and Picket Machinery, and Flax-Breaks,

I^C-A-IDE TO OKDEB.

F. A. HUNTINGTON, Manufacturer,

SvlS-lam3m X? and ltt Fremont Stieet, Sau Francisco

HAYWARD & COLEMAN

4

IMPORTERS AND REFINERS
—OF—

Illuminating, Lubricating,

— AKD—

a? A. I If T OILS,

CONSISTING OF

KEROSENE, LARD, SPERM, ELEPHANT, POLAR,

TANNERS. NEATSFOOT, BOILED AND RAW

LINSEED, CASTOR AND CHINA NUT.

— ALSO—

Spirits of Turpentine and Alcohol,
Lamps and Lamp Stock !

An elegant and complete assortment.

SOLE IMPORTERS OF
HeToe's Illuminating' Oil.

PATEUTT CASTS.
5vl7-tf. 414 Front street, San Francisco.

CHANGE.

C. C. HASTINGS & CO.

Wholesale and Retail!

SUPERIOR GOODS! REDUCED KATES!

C. C. HASTINGS & CO.,

SUCCESSORS TO
Mncston, Hasting" A Co.,

SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK,

Announce to the friends of the old Arm, and the public at
large, that their present business arrangements are such
that they arc enabled to offer the be-d and most stylish
goods on the Faeiuc Coast at a great reduction from former
juices.

AT WHOLESALE.

The attention of the merchants throughout the Pacific
Coast, is called to the fact that wc arc now prepared to Oil
their orders lor superior goods in

Strictly Cnstoni-Made Clothing,
Suits, Gloves, Hosiery, and

Furnlvulng Goods, Trunks.

Traveling Hags and Valises,

In lota to suit at regular wholesale rates.

CLOTHING TO OKI* Kit,

Made either in New York or San Francisco, under the su-
pervision of the best cutters in America.

DIRECTIONS FOR MEASUREMENT

Sent to any address upon application, and goods forwarded
by Express on receipt of orders. Satisfaction guaranteed.

C. C. HASTINGS A CO.,

Successors to

HEUSTON, HASTINGS & CO.,

Tlic .Fashionable Clothiers.

New York and San Francisco.
8vlS-3m

TJNIMA. JFJLEA. I>:RXrO !

A California Discovery.

This Is a simple but very efficient FLEA POWDER.

It Is Death to Fleas nnd Vermin, but not inju-
rious to persons.

TRY IT! TRY IT!! TRY IT!!!

After ft thorough test you will use none other.

PUT UP IN BOXES ONLY. FOUR SIZES.

It is the best and cheapest article of the kind ever offered

to the public.

Directions for ITee.— Sprinkle your bedding and

clothes, and add a little in your washing.

For sale, wholesale and retail, by Druggists.

agp-For further information, address

Prof. C. E. JAYCOX,

Caro of Langley & Crowcll, Druggists,
8vI8-3m San Francisco.

Offices to Let.

Two convenient front rooms (No. 9 and 10) in second story
of No. 423 Washington street, to let on favorable terma
Apply at this ottice, up stairs. No. 414 Clay street

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

189

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New Incorporations.

Articles of incorporation have been re-
cently filed in tho County Clerk's office in
this city as follows:

Mr.uitiMUj Mill and JIini.vg Co. — Bntte
County. March 12th. Capital stock, $800,-
000; 8,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees:
Jas. A. Pritohard, S. A. Raymond, John H.
Warren, Lyman Kainow and J. D. Little-
held.

Mutual Keal Estate Co. — San Fran-
cisco. March 12th, Capital stock, S52,-
500; 350 shares, S150 each. Trustees:
Edmund Scott, Thos. Anderson, Stephen
T. King, E. C. Lovell, Wallace Everson,
Geo. W. Fisher and M. G. Cobb.

Allison Ranch Mining Co. — Grass
Valley, Nevada County. March 12th. Capi-
tal stock, $000,000; 6,000 shares, $100
each. Trustees: Alfred E. Davis, M. Col-
bert and J. D. Fry.

Red Jacket S. M. Co. — White Pine, Nev.
March 12th. Capital stock, $1,000,000;
10,000 shares, $100 each, Trustees: Geo.
L. Kenney, J. M. McNulty, Smyth Clark,
F. J. Thibault and H. L. Van Wyck.

Pamlico Mining Co. — White Pine, Nev.
March 12th. Capital stock, $1,200,000;
12,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: A. P.
Everett, Thos. J. Poulterer, J. A. Drink-
house, N. Hayes aud E. Wertheimer.

EsiriitE Mining Co. — White Pine, Nev.
March 13th. Capital stock, $800,000; 8,000
shares, $100 each. Trustees: Geo. W.
Preseott, Chas. Bonner, Jos. Barron, G.
W. Beaver and D. J. Williamson.

Aboyle Tunnel and Mining Co. — White
Pine, Nev. March 13th. Capital stock,
$1,400,000, 14,000 shares, $100 each. Trus-
tees: L. Godcheaux, A. Godcheaux, Anson
Averill, W. H. Smith and B. L. Schmitt..

Pilot Mining Co. — White Pine, Nev.
March 13th. Capital stock, $2,400,000;
24,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: Jno.
Hewston, Jr., F. L. Castle, W. B. Swain,
H. E. Green and C. T. Fay.

West Ebebhabdt Tunnel and Mining
Co.— White Pine, Nev. March 13th. Capi-
tal stock, $1,200,000; 12,000 shares, $100
each. Trustees: J. M. Bnffington, L. God-
cheaux, A. Godcheaux, James Adams and
W. H. Smith.

South Ebehhaedt Tunnel and Mining
Co.— White Pine, Nev. March 13th. Capi-
tal stock, $1,440,000. 14,400 shares, $100
each. Trustees: B. L. Schmitt, L. God-
cheaux, Jos. L. Wilson aud Jos. R. Bad-
ger.

Philadelphia Bkeweby Tunnel and
Mining Co. — White Pine, Nev. March
13th. Trustees: L. Godcheaux, James
Adams, A. Godcheaux, J. Wieland and
Jos. M. Wilson.

Nobth American Mining Co. — White
Pine, Nev. March 13th. Capital stock,
$1,200,000; 12,000 shares, $100 each. Trus-
tees: S. Piukhaui, H. C. ' Hemenway, J. A.
Eaton, W. E. Wood aud Geo. R. Spinney.

Gbeat Union Tunnel and Mining Co.
White Pine, Nev. March 13th. Capital
stock, $6,000,000; $60,000 shares. $100
each. Trustees: Geo. 1). Roberts, John
Sitae, Chas. L. Low, Geo. Oulton, Patrick
Henry, F. F. Low and W. M. Janson.

State University Homestead Associa-
tion.— Alameda County. March 13th.
Capital stock, $28,470; 39 shares, $730
each. Trustees: S. Lungstadler, Valentine
Smith, Ebenezer Knowlton, George Tait,
Peter N.' Ryan, Rev. L. Walker and H. G.
Prince.

Washington Mining Co.— White Pine,
Nev. March 13th. Capital stock, $2,500,-
000; 5,000 shares, $500 each. Trustees:
Nath. Page, Geo. Webber, B. F. Tuttle, T.
B. Wingard and J. P. Dyer.

Opal Silvf.b Mining Co. — White Pine,
Nev. March 13th. Capital stock, $1,000,-
000; 10,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees:
W. J. Williams, F. Lawton, D. C. Ferris,
Jno. A. McQuaid and M. S. Martin.

Snow Flake Silver Mining Co. — White
Pine, Nev. March 13th. Capital stock,
$1,100,000; 6,875 shares, $160 each. Trus
tees : W. A. Darling, D. W. Taylor, H. S
Warren, A. C. Taylor and J. H. Brewer.

Oakland North S. M. Co. —White Pine
Nev. March 13th. Capital stock, $600,
000; 6,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees
J. H. Alderson, Geo. W. Stewart. Sam
E. Oakley, E. O. Brown and Johu Gray.

Oakland Prospect Homestead Associa
tion. — Brooklyn, Alameda County. March
13th. Trustees: J. F. Crosett, Geo. R.
Eckley, Wm. Hollis, Amos Currier, Jno.
Bays, H. L. Chamberlain, J. H. Coleman,
C. J. King and Jas. Collins.

Carbington M. Co. — White Pine, Nev.
March 13th. Capital stock, $1,200,000;
12,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: A.
Kohler, R. E. Raitnond, J. N. Eckel, J. M.
Shotwell and Julius A. Palmer, Jr.

U. S. Grant M. Co.— White Pine, Nev.
March 16th. Capital stock, $80,000; 1,600
shares, $50 each. Trustees: Chas. Mc-
Cormick, Jos. R. Rollin and C. V. Hub-
bard.

North Star M. Co. — White Pine, Nev.
March 16th. Capital stock, $1,000,000;
20,000 shares, $50 each. Trustees: Thos.
T. Dougherty, H. G. Coward, James Patter-
son, Bernard Lande and L. P. Davis.

Blue Eagle M. Co. — White Pine, Nev.
March 16th. Capital stock, $600,000; 6,000
shares, $100 each. Trustees: E. L. Smith,
J. S. Curtis, John Lunders, J. A. Eaton
and S. Pinkham.

Chas. Sumneb S. M. Co. — White Pine,
Nev. March 17th. Capital stock, $600,-
000; 6,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees:
Anson Averill, R. A. Hawkins, J. M. Buf-
flngton, J. W. Tabor aud S. F. Tortell.

Nantucket M. Co. — White Pine, Nev.
March 17th. Capital stock, $1,200,000;
12,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: W. H.
Brown, T. B. Bishop, Ira G. Hoit. W. H.
J. Brooks and J. Holmes.

South Point Mill Co. — San Francisco.
March 18th. Capital stock. $50,000; 5,000
shares, $10 each. Trustees: Cyrus Pal-
mer, J. J. McKinnon, J. P. Sheldon, S. H.
Harmon and C. A. Hooper.

Geemania Consolidated S. M. Co. —
White Pine, Nev. March 17th. Capital
stock, $1,000,000, 20,000 shares, $50 each.
Trustees: Theo. Meetz, R. J. Touin, J.
Liebe, H. Hadeler and J. L. Koster.

Larcombe S. M. Co. — White Pine, Nev.
Capital stock, $280,000; 1,400 shares, $200
each. Trustees: Jos. Mandlebaum, W. M.
Jensen, J. S. Fried, Jos. Larcombe and
Chas. Kohn.

Election op Officers. — California
White Pine M. Co.— March 10th. Presi-
dent and Treasurer, D. W. Connolly; Vice-
President, John S. Hager; Trustees, D. W.
Connolly, J. S. Hager, C. J. Brenham,
Lloyd Tevis, L. L Robinson. I. Fried-
lander and L. Maynard.

Allison Ranch M. Co. — Grass Valley,
Nevada County. March 16th. President,
Alfred E. Davis; Vice-President, J. D.
Fry; Secretary, B. B. Minor.

Cordillera G. & S. M. Co. — Chihuahua,
Mexico. March 15th. Trustees; Nathaniel
Page, Wm. H. Tillinghurst, Henry R.
Reed, Wm. A. Wade and Isaac M. Rutan;
President, Nathaniel Wade; Secretary and
Treasurer, Henry R. Reed.

B. P. Spectacles. — The genuine Brazilian
Pebble, so cool to the eye, can be had at O.
Mullers', 205 Montgomery street, Euss House
Block. V

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New Mining Advertisements.

CortUllcra O-nld and Silver Alining Company.—

Morolos District, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting ot the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the sixteenth day of
March, 1869, an assessment of one dollar ($1> per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, paya-
ble immediately, in United States gold and silver coin,
to the St/cretary, at the otllcc of the Company, 321 Washing-
ion street, San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the twentieth (2oili) day of April, 18C9, shall be
deemed delinquent, aud will be duly advertised lor sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall be made bclore,
will bo .sold on Monday, the tenth day of >Uav, 180a,
io pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of
advt-rlising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of
Trustees.

HENRY R. REED, Secretary.

Office, 321 Washington street, San Francisco. mari!0

Troy fledge Stluln^ Company* Wnlte Fine

District, Lander Count>, Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board
of Trustees of said Company, held on the sixteenth day of
March, 18(i9, an assessment of fifteen cents per share was
levied upon tho (Midtal -lock of said Company, payable
immediately, in United States gold and silver coin, to the
Secretary

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain unpaid
on Kil lav, the iweiity-lhird dav of April. 18I-9, shall
be deemed delinquent, mid will be duly advertised for
sale at puldic aiiciion, and unless payment shall be made be-
fore, will be sold on Monday, the iwcmy-fourth day of May,
18'iSJ, (o pay the deli nq tii- ii i assessment, together with costs oi
advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board
of Trustees.

J. M BUFFINGTON, Secretary.

Office, 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California street,
San Francisco. mar2U

Mining Notices— Continued.

Lyon Mill mid Mining Company* Kelsey Dis-
trict, El Dorado County, California.
Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees or said Company, held on the sixth day 'of
March, I8ti9. an assessment of one dollar per share was
levied upon the capital stoek of said Company, payable
immediately, In Unhcd States gold and silver coin, to
the Secretary.

Any stock upon whirl, said assessment shall remain nn.
paid on the sixth (fPm day of April, IS09, shall be
deemed delinquent, ami will he duly advertised for sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall be made neiore,
will be sold on Monday, the twenty-sixth day ot April, 1SG!»
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs oi ad-
vertising aud expenses of sale. By order W the Board of

J. M. BUFFINGTON, Secretary.
Office, Room 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California
street, San Francisco. maris

Olenwood Mill and Mlnlnir Company* Green*

wood. El Dorado County, California.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the nineteenth day of
February, I8C9, an assessment of twenty-five- dollars per
share was levied upon the capital stock of sntd Company,
payable Immediately, In United Stales sold and silver coin,
to the Secretary, Room II, No. 431 California street, San
FrancUco

iny Block upon which sn!d assessment shall remain un-
paid on the second day of April. 1869, shall he deemed
delinquent, and will be dulv advertised for sale at public
auciion. mid unless payment -bat] be made before, will be
BOld Oil Monday, the twentv-sixth day Of Apill, 1869, to
pay tho delinquent assessment, together with costs of ad-
vertlsing and expenses of sale. By order ol the Board of
Trustees.

„ „ „ WILLIAM VALE, Secretary.

Office, 434 California street, San Francisco. feb27

I. X. 1- Gold and Silver Mlnlntr Compnny.—

Location of Mine : Sliver Mountain District, Alpine

County, California.

Notick.— There nre delinquent, upon the following dc.
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the nine-
teenth day of January, 1869, the several amounts set oppo-
site tho names of the respective shareholders as follows:
Names. No. Certificate. No. shares. Amount.

John A Johnson 2ftS

J s Adams 23

J S Adams X25

J S S Robinson 322

Mary C Bridges M6U

Catherine Jones 144

Catherine Jones 1S5

Catherine Jones 238

Til Clark S7fi

T It Clark .

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...342
...340

CQoodell

Wm Davidson

Wm Davidson

A n n Hogan 176

Charles Fisk 1 50

W J Thomas 371

Daniel H Dickinson 294

Daniel H Dickinson -359

L E Wnhlhurg 277

Ilenrv Jardme 183

Henry Jardine 304

Henry Jardine 330

Henry Jardme 331

Henry Jardine 334

Hepburn James. 116

Hepburn James 158

Hepburn JameB 217

A Wanner 207

Chas Saunders .224

Caroline A Nelson 293

George Brosle 229

James Wylett 231

H T Bjlske - 380

Loul-" Blinding 237

John G Slavin 254

Henry Eno 3(il

Ilenrv Fno 3'7

E F Gibson 270

E F Gibson 271

F. F Gibson 274

E F Gibson .302

Wm Jones 246

John Cairns 249

John Bol^ 381

John Holts 2*6

D Ii Kiddle 258

Julius Znbel 259

II D Scott 260

J A McMahon 263

It K Love 275

R K Love 303

It IC Love. 329

R K Love 332

L Wt'chclhauscn 281

Wm West 352

N G r n IT. 357

R S Cutter 366

R S Cutter 384

E Ekelund 362

EEkelnnd 364

Philip Myers 370

M. Long 385

And In accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees* made on the nineteenth day of January,
1869, so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may
be necessary, will be sold at public auction, by Messrs.
Olney A Co., auctioneers, No. 426 Montgomery street, San
Francisco, on Wednesday, the seventeenth day of March,
1869, at thehour of 12 o'clock, M., of said day, to pay said
delinquent assessment thereon, together with costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale.

J. CROWNINSHIELD. Secretary.

Office, Pioneer Hall, Montgomery street, up stairs, San
Francisco, man.

Postponement.— The above sale Is hereby postponed until
Monday, the fifth day of April, 1869, at the same hour
and place. By order of the Board of Trustees,

mar20 J. CROWNINSHIELD, Secretary.

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Noi-ih JLmerlcun Wood PreHervlno; Company.

Location of Works: San Francisco, California.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Directors of said Compnny, held on the twelfth day of
March, 1869, an assessment of one ($1) dollar per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able Immediately, In United States gold and silver coin, to
the Secretary, at the Company's office, 430 Montgomery
street, San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the fourteenth (14th) day of April, 1869, shall bo
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale at
public auction, and unless pavment shall be made before,
will be sold on Saturday, the first day of May, 1869,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs
of advertising aud expenses of sale. By order of the Board
of Directors.

WM. B. LAKE, Secretary.

Office, 430 Montgomery street. San Francisco mar!3

IIBoiiiit Xennbo Silver Alining; Compnny.— Lo-
cation of Works : Cortez District, Lander County, State
of Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of tho Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty-third day of
January, 1869, an assessment of seventy- five cents per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able Immediately, In United States gold and silver coin, to
the Secretary, at the office of the Company, 426 Montgom-
ery street, San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the firth (5th) day of March, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless pavment shall be made be-
fore, will be sold on Tuesday, the thirtieth (30th) day of
March, 1869, to pay the delinquent assessment, together
-vith costs of advertising and expenses of sale. By order
of the Board oi Trustees

R. N. VAN BRUNT, Secretory.
Office 426 Montgomery sireet, San Franolseo. jan30

Postponement.— Tile day for deeming stock delinquent on
tho above assessment is hereby postponed until the second
day ot April, 1869, and the safe thereof until Tuesday, the
twenty seventh day of April, 1869. By order of the Board
of Trustees.

marC R. N. VAN BRUNT, Secretary.

Minr Creek. IM lultifc Company.— Location : Star

District, State of Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty -sixth day of
February, 1869, an assessment of one dollar and fifty cents
por share was lovied upon the capital stook of said Com-
pany, payable immediately, in United States gold and silver
coin, to the Secretary ai San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the twcniy-nintb day of March, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will bo duly advertised for sale at
public auction, and unless pavment shall be made before,
will be sold on Monday, the nineteenth day of April, 1869,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of
Trustees. HORACE MORRISON, Secretary..

Office, N. E. cor. Front and Jackson streets.

190

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MACHINERY. Job Grinding and Polishing by steam.
Orders from the Country prom ptlyj attended to. flSp-All
work warranted.

21vl7-qy J. WEICHHART, Proprietor.

INTENT

Boiler Scraper and Tube-Cleaner.

^H%

IT IS THE CHEAPEST, MOST
durable, easiest to adjust, and
cleanest apparatus to use for the
purpose designed, yet offered to
the public. Being constructed on
simple and mechanical principles,
it i* not liable to get out of order,
and will continue to perform ite
office until the materials are worn
out. It can readily be adjusted,
even by any inexperienced per-
son—will scrape oil" the scales and
cleanse the tubes just as smooth
and clean as they were when
new, without in the least affecting
their inner surface, as the Elliptic
Spring Scraper has a smooth
square edge, and springs in or out
to fit the tubes. It is particularly
applicable for steamboat builers
when muddy water is used.

A continuous iron rod runs
through the center of the top and
bottom hubs. The soft steel scrap-
ers are fastened with screws to
the hubs, under the caps, which
cover and protect the screws that
fasten the scrapers on the hub.
The scrapers are expanded or con-
tracted by screwing or unscrew
ing the lower hub.— first loosening
the cap. There is a collar on the

rod to prevent the scrapers being jammed. An elastic or
flexible brush or scraper, matleof leather, rubber, or some
pliable material, is attached to the nut for the purposeot
removing from the tube the scale and dust loosened by the
action of the scrapers.

These scrapers are made from one to six inches in diam-
eter—the prices of those from one to three inches ranginir
from S5 to $12. They are now extensively used in the
Eastern States. Quite a number have already been sold in
this State.

For sale by McAfee, Spiers & Co , boiler makers, Howard
street, between Fremont and Beale, San Francisco, and at
the Union Foundry, Sacramento. E. M. D., P. O. box 17,
San Francisco, Manufacturers1 Agents. 24vl7lf

BLAKE'S PATENT

S T E A. M PUMP!

This Pump is warranted superior to any In the market,
for Breweries, Sugar Houses. Tanneries, Boiler- Feeders,
Steamboats, Mining and Fire purnoscs, etc. It throws a
full stream of the thickest beer mash without clogging,
and sugar syrup boiling hut without difficulty.

Warranted a positive Pump under all circumstances; It
never stops nor gets out of order, and by reason of the pa-
tent device in the valves, is kept clear and always ready
for action. It is SIMPLE, COMPACT and POWERFUL,
and needs no export to run it.

agj-If one fails to do the work for which it is sold, It may
be returned and the money will be refunded. May be seen
in operation at Risdon's, or Union Iron Work?;, or at
\V. ©. M. IS Kit ICY A* CO'S,
Agents for Pacific States,

8vl8 3m IU California street, san Francisco.

GLASGOW
Iron and Metal Importing Company

Xos. 35 and 87 Fremont street.

SAN FRANCISCO,

Keep constantly on hand a large stock of best Bar and
Bundle Iron, Boiler Tubes, Plate and Sheet Iron, Gas and
Water Pipe, Anvils. Cast Steel, Gas and Water Fitting11
which they offer to the trade on liberal terms.

21vl6-3m W. McCRINDLE, Manage.

The Perfection of Prepared Cocoa.

MARAYILLA COCOA.

Sole Proprietors— TAYLOR BROTHERS, London.

The Cocoa (or Cacao) of Maravllla is the true Thcobroma
of Liniiaius. Cocoa is indigenous to South America, nf
which Maravilla is a favored portion. TAYLOR BROTH-
ERS* having secured the exclusive supply of this unri-
valled Cocoa, liuve, by the skillful application of their sol-
uble principle and elaborate machinery, produced what is
so undeniably the pencction ot Prepared Cocoa, that it has
not only secured the preference of homoM paths and cocoa-
drinkers generally, hut many who had hiiherio not found
any preparation to suit them, have, after one trial, adopted
the Maravilla Cocoa as their constant beverage for break-
fast, luncheon, etc.

"A SUCCESS UNPRECEDENTED."

[See following extract from the Globe of May 14, 186S.]
''Various Importers and manufacturers have attempted
to attain a reputation for their prepared Cocoas, but we
doubt whether any thorough success had been achieved
until Messrs.T.iylor Brothers discovered the extraordinary
qualities of "Maravilla" Cocoa. Adapting their perlect
system of preparation to this finest of all species of the
Theobroma, they have produced an article which super-
sedes every other Cocoa in the market. Entire solubility,
a delicate aroma, and a rare concentration of the purest
elements of nutrition, distinguish the Maravilla Cocoa
above all others. For homoeopaths and invalids we could
not recommend a more agreeable or valuable beverage.

Sold in packets only by all Grocers, of whom a ho may
be had Taylor Brothers1 Original Homoeopathic Cocoa and
Soluble Chocolate, Steaui Mills. Brick Lane. Loudon.
6vl8-Iy

On i- Patent Agency.

The Patent Agency of the Miking and Scientific Peess
has been signalized with remarkable success during the
past few years. The importance to the inventive genius of
this coast of a thorough and reliable agency forthesollcita
tion of Letters Patent from the United States and foreign
Governments cannot be over-rated. and the Proprietors of the
Press, feeling the responsibility which rests upon them, ami
the reward which must follow the faithful performance of
t'.ieir trusts, will- take care to afford inventors every advan
cage to be secured to them through a competent and re
sponsible agency upon this coast.

By Express.— Two cents per copy will be added to our
usual rates of subscription (to pay Wells, Farco .t Co's tariff
on papers sent by express. If connecting expresses in the
nteriormakc additional charges, subscribers must them
selves settle the eamo.

Trades and Manufactures.

W 11. BA RILING.

HENRY KIMBALL.

BARTLING- & KIMBALL,
BOOKBINDERS,

Paper Kulers and Blank Book Manufacturers.

505 Clay street, (southwest cor. Sansorue),
I5yl2-3m SAN FRANCISCO.

JOHW DANIEL,

(SUCCESSOR TO O. GORl)

MARBLE "WORKS,

No. 421 Pine st. bet Montgomery and Kearny, San Francisco

&[antels, Monument^, Tombs, Plumbers' Slabs

Etc., On hand and Manufactured to order.
05F* Goods shipped to all parts of the State. Orders re

qpectfulb solicited.

5v8-3m

J. M. STOCKMAN,

Manufacturer of
PATTERNS AND MODEXfi,

(Over W. T. Qarratt's Brass Foundry,
S. E. Corner of Mission and Fremont sts.,

6vUtf SAN FRANCISCO.

J. F. PAGES,

S E A. TJ 3B N G H A "V E K ,

AND LETTIE CUTTER,

Brass and Steel stamps and Dies, U08 Sacramento street.

DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITURE.
JOHNSON~& BEST,

Manufacturers of all kinds of
Desks and Office Furniture,

TIT Market street, near Third.

Warerooms up stairs. A large variety of Desks»always on

hand; all kinds of Office Furniture and Cabinet

Work made to order.

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THE GOLDEN ERA.

Founded In 1852, it is the oldest Weekly Paper in the
State,permancnllyeslab:ished, p.ndmore widely circulated
at home and abroad than any other on the Pacific Coast
In California, the Atlantic States, and throughout the en-
tire field of its great and rapidly Increasing circulation,
TheGoldkn Eka is universally regarded asn Literary and
Family journal of unequalled excellence. Among its con-
tributors are all the best writers on this side of the Conti-
nent

TITE GOLDEN ERA
Isthe most universally popular of all the Weekly journals.
It presents forty-eight columns, containing the greatest
possible variety of Valuable and Entertaining, Origlualand
Selected matter. It Is a welcome guest In Cottage and Cab-
in; the favorite at the fireside in city and country; the
most useful, agreeable and altogether desirable publication
for California readers and their kindred and friends In the
Atlantio States, Europe and elsewhere. Every household
in the mountains and valleys, the cities, towns and mining
camps of California, and throughout the Pacific States and
Territories, should receive aud welcome The Goldkn Era
as a regular weekly visitor. Inspired with the genfusof
the age, It is progressive, and aims not so much at dis-
tinction as a newspaper, as at honorable success In its ca-
pacity of a great Moralizing and Improving Influence, Ex-
ercising a positive power for good, and wielding a perma-
nent influence, many able and eminent writers choose its
columns as a means of communicating with the public.
No effort will be spared to make it a thoroughly California
newspaper, and worthy of the support of all classes of oui
citizens.

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WM. H. TOBEY & CO.,
RAILROAD ADVERTISING AGENCY,

641 Market street ,

Between Second and Third streets (up stairs).

FRAMES, CAKDS, CIRCULARS, POSTERS,

Etc., put up in all the Cars and Depots of the San Fran

cisco and San Jose Railroad.
Advertise your Uu sines* for the Country Trade

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MEGHANIOAL AND ARCHITECTURAL

Drawing School

— FOR —

MR. FREDERICK HELL£KT,'

An experienced Draughtsman and Teacher, has opened an
Evening School at No. 41* CLAY STREET (.name entrance
as the Mining and Scientific Press oilier), where he is lIv
ing trior jush instructions in DRAWING to apprentices who
are inclined to self-improvement. His terms are moderate
and within reach of the humblest apprentice; und we are
pleased to say that the enterprise is meeting with success.
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JEngi?ieering .

Bringing Water into Oakland. — The
" California College "Water Company " has
appropriated several springs and rivulets in
the hill back of the University ground,
now belonging to the State College, and is
asking of the Supervisors of Contra Costa
the privilege of taking, at prices to be fixed
by public appraisement, the water from the
San Pablo and Sobrante ranches, situated
eight miles north of Oakland. The arte-
sian wells of Oakland do not overflow, and
are said not to be unsatisfactory. It is ex-
pected that the growth of Oakland will
make the water supply franchise valuable
in time.

Beclahation of Swamp Lands et Steam
Powee. — The acquisition of correct knowl-
edge as to the depth and duration of over-
flow of swamp lands, is the first step to re-
clamation; and the next is the construction
of a dike high enough at least to keep off
the ordinary floods. The Sacramento Union
quotes the Alta's description of the Fowler
steam plow driven by a stationary steam
engine, and adds that it is just the thing
fordiking and plowing the tules. The Union
says : " Generally the tules lands on the
sloughs of the San Joaquin and Sacra-
mento are submerged from two to three
feet in average winters, and not exceeding
six feet in extraordinary floods. This may
appear to be a rash statement, yet its truth
will be apparent when it is known that the
highest point attained by the great flood of
January, 1862, at the city of Stockton, was
but eleven feet eight inches above low-
water mark at ebb tide. There were no
tule lands between Stockton and Snisun
Bay which would not have been fully pro-
tected from that extraordinary flood by
dikes eight feet above the natural level of
the land. Against ordinary floods, embank-
ments of five feet would suffice. Yet even
these are not expensive to be thought of in
any system for general reclamation, when
the work has to be done with pick and
shovel, with labor at its present rates. It
is true small farms have been so reclaimed
— some as large as fifteen acres — in every
case paying well, though at a low estimate
the land so reclaimed can hardly have cost
less than $250 per acre. No lands in the
United States are as prolific and unfail-
ing."

Baileoad in Persia. — The shrill whistle
of the railway engine is soon to be heard
in Persia. The Shah has granted to a com-
pany of English capitalists the exclusive
right to construct railways in the country
for a period of twenty years. These cap-
italists begin operations with a short road
extending from the capital to the suburban
village of Bey, a famous weekly resort of
pious Teheranlees. Ground has been
broken, and the engineer employed esti-
mates that the line can be constructed and
stocked for less than $500,000, on which
the passenger traffic of some 40,000 devotees
a week will, he reckons, yield a remunera-
tive dividend, exclusive of an eight per
cent, guarantee.

Baileoad and Mining Explorations. — ■
Mr. John Nystron, who lately published a
report on his previous expedition into the
interior of Peru, has been supplied by the
Peruvian government with funds for set-
ting out on an exploring expedition in the
direction of Chanchamayo, the object of
which is said to be the opening up of the
country, and to report as to the feasibility
of connecting those distant regions with
Lima by means of the iron horse. Another
well known gentleman, Mr. Josiah Harris,
has been engaged by Government to make
mineralogical researches — there being a
belief of the existence of extensive coal
fields to the north, not very far from the
capital.

Building Batlroads over the Ajlps. — ■
Mr. Fell, an English engineer, has offered
to the Swiss Federal Council to undertake
the construction of their railroads over the
Alps for a guarantee of interest of 600,000
francs annually. He estimates the cost of
that over the Simplon at from eleven to
thirteen millions ; of the St. Gothard at
from thirteen to fourteen ; and at fifteen to
eighteen for the Luckmanieu.

British-American Overland "Wagon
Boad. — At a recent people's convention
held in British Columbia, resolutions were
adopted setting forth a scheme for the con-
struction of an overland wagon road from
Lake Superior to the head of Fraser Biver
— the expenditure to be guaranteed by the
British Government. A road from the head

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of Lake Superior to the Red River settle-
ment is Dow being male at the expense of
the Canadian (ruvernment.

Socth Amkrican Railway Progress. —
The present Peruvian government is doing
nil that it ean with respect to railways and
fublic works. The two railway lines
actually in construction from Ajreqoipa to
the coast, and from Lima to Huaeho are
being actively proceeded with, and the lat-
ter line, it is stated, will bo opened as far
as Chancay, by the end of the year. The
proposal presented bj Mr. Meiggs, the rail-
way contractor, to take a survey and make
the preliminary tracings for the prolonga-
tion of tho formor lino to Puno and Onzco
has been, moreover, accepted. Orders have

likewise been given t ake a survey of a

line that will join the city of Taena with
Pnno and the frontiers of Bolivia via Lake
Titioaca.

Tblbobaphic Items, — It is expected that
the Western Union Telegraph Line will be
in working order through to White Pine in
the course of two weeks. Tho operations
of construction have been considerably re-
tarded by the snow.

It has been definitely decided to land the
American end of the French-Atlantic cable
on a high knoll on the Duxbury shore, in
Plymouth comity, Massachusetts. From
Duxbnry the cable will communicate with
New York by means of land wires. The
Great Eastern will cross with the cable in
.Tune — sailing from Brest and convoyed by
a fleet of French naval vessels as tenders.

More than 3,000 miles of telegraphic
cables have been laid in the last year, as
appears from the following list: From
Malta to Alexandria, 920 miles ; Tasmania
and Australia, 205 miles ; French Atlantic
cable, 700 miles ; Baltic Sea, 320 miles ;
Persian Gulf, 500 miles ; Sweden, Norway
nud Italy, 100 miles ; from Denmark to
Newcastle, 310 miles ; between Cuba and
Florida, 120 miles. The projects for a fur-
ther increase of lines are abundant also, and
during the year 1809 it is not unlikely that
quite as many miles of cable will be laid as
during the year 1808. Furthermore the
Indo-European Telegraph Association con-
templates a double wire line overland from
Nordeuey through Prussia, Russia, and
Persia, as far as Teheran, to connect with
existing cable lines ; and the Anglo-Med-
iterraneau Co. means to exteud the present
telegraphic system by a cable to run from
Suez, through the Red Sea, to Aden, and
thence to Bombay. A line of cable be-
tween Cuba and Jamaica, and Panama, is
also contemplated, and another from Scot-
lane to the coast of Norway.

Scientific Exploeation and Travel, as
a road to distinction, has been amongst edu-
cated and titled Germans, possessed at the
same time of wealth, ever since the youth
of Humboldt. An expedition of scientific
men has just started out from Vienna to ex-
plore Eastern Asia and South America.
The object is commercial as well as scien-
tific, and is pursued under the authority
and at the expense of the Austrian Govern-
ment. Karl von Scherzer is the chief, who
goes by way of Egypt, the East Indies,
China and Japan, thence to San Francisco,
and from here to Buenos Ayres. He left
Vienna on the 20th of last December.

Bo-man Mobtab. — The mortar used in the
Roman aqueducts, still in existence, was, it
is said, composed of pure lime mixed in
large proportions with fragments of brick
coarsely powdered. These dry fragments
absorbed the moisture, and hastened the
solidification of the mortar.

CALIFORNIA

BUSINESS UNIVERSITY,

-O-l -H'iii1:,'hiiut;,' Street.

Full particularsrosarding oir Practical Course of Studies
may be had hv calling at the University, or by addressing
Uvl7-Hjls\> E. i\ tfulAuU, San Francisco.

OCCIDENTAL

Insuxancs Company,

OF SA\ FaiXCIHCO.

Ca>h Capital.

GOLD COIN.

Office S. W. corner of Montgomery and
California tttreela.

Fire a-tidL Mlarine Insurance.
All Lo3ses paid In U. S. Gold Coin.

CUR. CHRISTIANSEN, President.
B. Rothschild, Secretary" 20vl7-3tu

HOOT'S PATENT "FORCE BLAST ROTARY BLOWER.

Patented Nov. 1st, 1864 ; July 24, 1866 ; *nd Oct. 9, 1800.

Awarded tHo ITii-rst Premium at llio X*ai"is Exposition.

Metallurgy.

REQllRKS

ITirty I»ex* Cent.

LESS POWER

Than any Blower

Stcamsliips

One of these Blowers may be seen on exhibition at W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry, corner of
Mission and Fremont streets. They are al^o in use at the Almaden Quicksilver Mine; Gridley's
Foundry, Gold Hill, Nevada; Mlna. Iron Works, San Francisco, and many other places.

Caution. — Purchasers will rind it to their advantage to apply direct to the Stockton Agency, ns
certain parties, not authorized to manufacture the Blower, have put in the market machines of inferior
construction, which do not answer all the requirements of the genuine article.

For circulars and further information, address

KEEP & BARG-ION,

4vl6 3m Globe Iron Works, Stockton, Cal.

STOBBART'S IRON WORKS.

CAMBRON'ls!

Special Steam Pump.

PICKERIN Gt'S

Engine Regulator.

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Giffard'a Injectors, Pickering's Engine Eegulators, Wilson's Steam Traps, TJtica
Steam Gauges, Steamboat Machinery, Morrison & Seller's Patent Steam Hammers,
Seller's Patent Bolt Screwing Machines, Lathes, Planers, Shafting and Hangers, Cooper
& Phillips' Turning Tools, Machinists' Tools, Engines and Boilers, "Wheeler's Patent
Tumbling Beam-Engine for Screw Propellers.
._ |1>^lVXL> STODDART, 114 Beale street, San Francisco.

MOSHEIMER'S

PIONEER MINING- SCHOOL,

METALLITKOIC WORKS.

Having established the first Practical Minimi and Metal-
Inimical s,:liuUl in 11k- 1'iiltcJ Suites, I would call the at-
tention of gentlemen who may wish to obtain a practical
knowledge of

Chemistry, Assaying and Metallurgy,

Tlinti am prepared t<i teach all the above brunches In less
time than in any European School.

1 also undertake to nsaay and work any kind of ore, or
mineral substance*.

For terms, apply to tjos. uiwurnuic,

Practical Chemist and Metallurgist

OfTlce, 328 Montgomery street; Metallurglo Works. 2005
Powoll struct. Sun Francisco. Cvl8-6m

LEOPOLD KUH,
Assayer and Metallurgical Chemist,

(Formerly of the U. 8. B. Mint, S. F.)

Office, No. (Ill Commercial Street, opponlte

the Mint, San Fruntlaco.

BULLION MELTED AND ASSAYED.
The correctess of which is guaranteed In every respect.
All kinds of Ore and Mineral tested, assayed and analyzed
In the most satisfactory manner.

Refers by permission to W. C. Rulston, Cashier Bank of
California; Messrs. Plocbc A Raycrque, Win. M. Lent, John
I). Fry. E CahlU A Co., A. K. Grim, President Pacific Union
Express Co.; John M. Eckfeldt, M. und R. U. S H. Mint;
Halo A Norcross S. M. Co., and tho principal mining com-
panies on the Comstock Lodo. 25vl7-tf

PROF. HENRY "WURTZ,

Formerly Chemical Examiner in the U. S. Patent Office
may be employed professionally as a Scikntific Eipkkt.
Geological Examinations and Reports, Analysis mid Assays,
etc, eic. Practical advice and Investigations in the f'hem
ical Arts and Manufactures. Invention and examination
of new chemical methods und products. Address, 2ti Pine
street, Rooms H5 and 36, New York. Always in from 12 to
3.30. flSP" Written communications preferred.

Important to Gold and Silver Min-
ers and Companies.

PROFESSOR WURTZ,

Who Is the Inventor and Patentee of the new and wonder
ful uses of SODIUM IN WORKING GOLD AND SILVER
ORES AND JEWELERS' SWEEPINGS, will furnish At Hie
above address nfurinatlon in relation thereto, together
with experimental packages of

SODIUM AMALGAM.

R. TAYLOR, WM. H. TAYLOR.

ROBERT TAYLOR & CO.,
METALLURGISTS.

SMELTING WORKS,

Eleventh street, lie L ween Foluora nud Howard.

G A LVANIZ rtVG.

Aim, Antl-Frtctlon, Alloy* Tor .Journals, Type

ami Stamping Meta.N, Tinner* und

Plumbers* Solder, Etc.

HSF-The best price given for the most rebellious or re-

G. W. STRONG-,

ASSAYER AND WORKER OP ORES,

No. 10 Stevenson street, near First.Kan Francisco.

Highest price paid for choice lots ofOres, Sulphuieis, As
say Ashes, Swei-mngs, etc., etc. Students instructed in all
branches of Metallurgy, on liberal terms.
UvlStjr.

LEA & PERRIN3'

CKLF.BBVTKD

WORCESTERSHrKE SAUCE

Declared by connoiscurs
to be the only

GOOD SAUCE. .*

The success of this most £
delicious and unrivalled £
condiment having caused "
certain dealers to apply ilie name of "Wnr- "£
cestershire Sauce to their own inferior a
compounds, the public is hereby Informed *S

<h-it Ilii> nnlv wnv tn unpuro tlm irnimEnn ...

Lea «fc Perrlns* Sauce,

and see that their names are upon the £ I
wrapper, labels, stopper, and bottle. pi f

So.ne of the foreign markets having been d
supplied with a spurious Worcestershire O
Sauce, upon the wrapper and labels of
which the names of Lea and Perrlns have been forged, L.
a«d P. give notice that they hive furnished their corres-
pondents with power of attorney to take Instant proceed-
ings against Manulacturers and Vendors of such, or any
other imitations bv which ttipir right mav be infringed.

Ask for LEA & PEKRINS' Sauce, and see name on the
Wrapper, Label, Bottle, and Stopper,

Wholesale and for Export by the Proprietors, Worcester :
Crosse & Blackwell, London," etc., etc.; and by Grocers and
Oilmen universally. Agents, CROSS & CO., San Fran-
cisco. 3vl8-ly

SULPHURETS ;

What they are;

How Assaved ; "

How Concentrated;

And How "Worked;

With a Chapter on the

BLOW-PIPE ASSAY OF MINERALS.

By TVM. BAB8TOW, M. D.

Published by A. Roman & Co., San Franclseo.
For sale at this Office.— Price, One Dollar.

With the aid of this Book, the miner can assay his own
ores, requiring but few materials, etc., except such ns are
generally to be found In tho interior town?, 21vl5tf

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

New Inventions.

Safety Hoox. — We were recently shown
a new atyle of safety hook, the invention
of Andrew Peasley, of this city, which is
far superior to aDy hook of the kind we
have ever seen. It is absolutely impossible
for any bucket to become detached from it
by any kind of accident that can happen in
the course of lowering or hoisting, and at
the same time it is so strong and simple in
construction that it is impossible for it to
break or get out of order. Cages being in
use at all of our principal mines, there is
little demand for the hook here, but in
White Pine, where buckets, whims and
windlasses are everywhere used, the hook
would be most useful. A specimen hook
will be sent out to White Pine to-day. — JSm-
lerprise.

A Sailing Velocipede. — An improved
three-wheeled velocipede, with a mast and
large square sail, was navigated over the
Point Lobos road lately, and attracted
much attention from its nondesoript ap-
pearance. The machine was managed by
its builder, Mr. David R. Smith, who made
good time, up hill or down, and particu-
larly when returning to the city with a
favorable wind. In dimensions it is about
nine feet in length by five in breadth, and
not unlike a light-wheeled buggy. The
hind wheels are four feet in diameter, and
the forward one about thirty inches. In
its management the sail and forewheel are
both adjusted by cords attached to the
driver's seat. When the sail is set the view
ahead is nearly obstructed, but by means
of two large holes or eyes, cut in the can-
vas, at about the hight of the head, the ve-
hicle is directed with safety. An applica-
tion for a patent has been made for this
unique contrivance. — S. F. Herald.

Sweet Juice op the Gbape. — Dr. B. F.
Headen of Santa Clara, claims to have dis-
covered a process by which the juice of the
grape can be kept without fermenting, for
years. This wine is said to be entirely
free from alcohol, and properly corked in
bottles, will keep perfectly sweet Dr.
Headen proposes to manufacture this wine
for sacramental purposes in the churches.

Improvement in Guide pob Sewing
Machine. — William H. Van Vlear of Stock-
ton, has obtained a patent for a valuable
improvement in guide to- be used with the
" presser-foot " for sewing machines. The
nature of the invention consists in provid-
ing the guide with a clasp or turn at the
toe, and two flanges projecting upward, one
from either side, inclining slightly toward
each other, except at the extreme top
edges, where they flare a little, for the pur-
pose of adjustment to the foot, so that when
adjusted to the foot the clasp hooks over
the toe, and the flanges clasp the sides
of the foot, thus holding the guide firmly
thereto, without further fastening by means
of screw or otherwise.

Grapes Perennial. — H. C. Shattuck,
who owns a fine vineyard about three miles
from Woodbridge, claims to have discov-
ered a cheap and efficient plan by which
the market may be supplied with grapes
throughout the whole year.

Photography and the Printing Press.
The Court Photographer of Munich, J.
Albert, is said to have discovered a process
by which he can multiply copies of all sorts
of photographs to any extent through the
press. The smallest and largest pictures
can be re-produced with great rapidity, as
perfectly as by the old process. Large sup-
plies of favorite pictures can be furnished
without regard to the state of the weather,
and in a very brief period of time. Albert's
photographs of the renowned pictures in
the two Pinckotheks, and of Kaulbach's
productions, are sold throughout the world.

Petaluma Water Velocipede. — An in-
ventor at Petaluma, whose name is not
given, has attempted the construction of a
water velocipede which is described as fol-
lows in the Petaluma Journal of the 11th:

The machine is about twenty feet long,
and consists of three barreled-shaped air-
tight drums, resting in the water, two aft
and one forward, on the surface of which
are paddles, about four inches wide, at in-
tervals of eighteen inches. Between the
drums there is a crank, which is attached
to the drums by means of bells. Afloat
and in motion, it has the appearance of
three great barrels possessed of internal
powers of locomotion. The drums draw
about seven inches of water with six men
aboard, are capable of floating many tons,
but iu his calculations of speed, the inven-
tor was somewhat disappointed.

A Dispatch of yesterday, March 19th,
reports that the Union Pacific Railroad
track has been laid fifteen miles this side
of Ogden.

HIWGERFORD'S IMPROVED CONCENTRATOR,

For Saving Gold, Sulphurets, Quicksilver, etc.

'';£^£

Wmm

■HIOT^HI

There is no description of machinery of so much importance to the mining interests of Califor-
nia, at the present time, as that for the separation of sulphurets. Many machines have been tried,
and abandoned ; and none seems to meet the requirement of the mining interest so well as that now
patented by Mr. Hungerford, which is au improvement on the well known Hungerford & Prater Con-
centrator, with which his name is already so familiar.

KECOMMEVDATIOAS :

San Francisco, October 19th, 1868.

Mr. M. Hcngerfokd — Dear Sir: — We have had twelve of your Concentrators at work at the
Oneida Mine, Amador County, for about six months. They give entire satisfaction. They are
strong and substantial, requiring, thus iar, no repairs, and do their work thoroughly and offer lively.
At a recent clean-up of four or them, I found that in four weeks' time we saved about $5(10 in free
gold, besides the sulphurets, or not far from one dollar per ton on the entire crushing of the ten
stamps connected with them. In my opinion, it is for the interest of every quartz mill to have your
machines. Yours, respectfully, GEORGE PRINGLE, Supt. Oneida Mine.

Office of the Oneida Mining Company, Jackson, May 13th 1868

Mr. Morgan Hongerford — Dear Sir: — In regard to the four Hungerford Concentra-
tors that I bought of Messrs. Goss & Lambard last month, I will say that I put them up in the
Oneida Mill soon after I arrived here, and find that they save sulphurets well and clean, and work to
my entire satisfaction. I have tried many other concentrators, but these stand up and work better
than any others I have used. I have ordered Messrs. Goss &, Lambard to make eight more for me as
soon as possible. Very truly yours, JAMES MORGAN.

Big Oak Flat, May 25th, 1868.— Mr. T. W. M ulford— -DoarSir :— -I have used two of M. Hun-
gerford's Concentrators in the Rattlesnake Quartz Mill, at this place, and find that they work full as
well as they are represented to do. E. M. SMITH, Supt.

A full description of the principle and mode of action of this pan, is described in- circulars, which
will bo forwarded'to any party who may desire them.

The Hungerford Concentrator has only to bo seen to he appreciated. No millman will nse any
other kind after he has tried that. They are in active operation in mills throughout the State, and
give perfect satisfaction.

' It should be borne in mind that Mr. Hungerford is the original builder and maker of the cele-
brated Prater Concentrator, and his name should be sufficient guarantee to warrant the public in ex-
amining his new machine before purchasing elsewhere.

In future these Pans will be manufactured by Goddaud & Co., at the Pacific Iron Works, San
Francisco, which is a guarantee that they will be built in the most substantial manner.

These Pans may be seen at the Pacific Iron Works, First street, near Howard, San Francisco.
Address,

GODDARD Sc CO., San Francisco.

Or M. HUNGERFORD, at the Pacific Iron Works.

THE STANDARD OF AMERICA.

DREYFUS5 PATENT SELF-OILER.

For Lotomoi I vet, Marine and Stationary Engines, Fun*, Plrkeri, Looms. Cnrdlnor and Spin-
nlns Frames, .Lathes, Maw Frames, Shafting, and Machinery of every description.

A Saving- of from T'S to OS per oent- G-ixarainteefl.

They are composed of a Transparent Glass Cup, mounted in Britannia and Brass, provided with a hollow
tube, inside of which is placed a loose-acting solid wire, which acts as a Feeder and ltegulator. The wire restB
constantly upon the journal, thereby acting with the bearing in its motion. The wire ia bo regulated inside the
tube as to feed according to the demand only. There is no ilow of oil whatever while the machinery is not in mo-
tion. They are as reliable in winter as in summer, for the reason that the friction produced by the action of the
bearing on the wire causes the wire to heat, thereby causing the oil to become limpid. Being perfectly air-tight
vessels, the oil will never gum in them, as this has been proven by two years' constant use. They are constructed
in a very neat and substanial manner. We spare no pains in making them as perfect as it is possible for them to
be made, and guarantee them to give pe.fect and entire satisfaction.

DIRECTIONS:

Fill the cup full of oil, then screw the cap down air-tight. Place the tubo in the oil-hole in an upright posi-
tion, or upon an angle of 45 degrees. Permit the rod to have a perfectly free action. If yuu desire to have the oil
flow faster, reduce the wire.

REFERENCES :

For the convenience of persons desiring references, we annex the names of a few Manufacturers and Railroad
Companies, who are using the Dreyfus Patent Oiler in different parts of the country: San Francisco — Mission
Woolen Mills; Pioneer Woolen MiUs; Pacific Woolen Mills; Golden State Foundry; iEtna Foundry; Fulton Foun-
dry; Empire Steam Mills; San Francisco Gas Co.; Mechanics' Mills; Bacon & Co , Printers; Bouqui & Co., Print-
ers; E. F. Sterrett, Printer. Sacramento — Union Iron Works. Stockton — Globe Iron Works.

HJEVISOIV BROTHERS,

Sol© Agents for- tlio Pacific Coast, GSlt Wttsliing-toa St.,
fSA.jN' FRANCKCO.

W. T. GARRETT,

City

BRASS AND BELL FOUNDER

Cor. Mission and Fremont sts..

SAN FRANCISCO.

Manufacturer of Brass, Zinc, and Anti-Friction or
3Ba"t>"bet Metal Castings;

CtiUHCll AN J) STEAMBOAT

kei^ls,

TAVTCRN AND HAND BELLS AND GONGS,

FIRE ENGINES, FORCE AND LIFT FTJMP8,

Steam, Liquor, Soda Oil, Water and Flange Cocks, and

Valves of all descriptions, made and repaired. Hose and

all other Joints, Spelter, Solder, and Copper Rivets, Ac.

Gauge Codes, Cylinder Cocks, Oil Globes, steam Whistles,

HTDRAULIC PIPES AND SOZZEL8
For Mining purposes, Iron Steam Pipe furnished with Fit*
tinga, Ac. Coupling ■) nints of tkMsisw. Particular attention
paid to Distillery Work. Manufacturer of "Uarrutt's Pat-
tern Improved Journal Metal."

N. W. SPATJLDING,

Saw Smithing and Repairing

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(To whom all Communications must bo addressed,)

«KS» Wniihlutflon street. Sun lr.ui.-Uco.

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EACH SAW IS WARRANTED IN EVERY RESPECT.

Particular attention paid to construction of

Portable & Stationary Saw Mills.

MILLS FURNISHED AT SflORT NOTICE,
At the lowest Market Prices.

Sheffield Scientific School

Of Tale Colleee. New Haven, Conn.

This department of Tale College, instituted in 1840, and
endowed with the National Lund Grant in 186t>, furnishes
advanced instruction in the various branches of Mathe-
matical, Physical, and Natural Science.

The School is under the direction of the President of the
College, a Board of thirteen Professors in different special
tics, and six assistant instructnrs.

Regular courses of study, leading to the degree of Bach-
elor of Philosophy, conferred by Yule College, are ar-
ranged as follows: 1— CllKMISTKY AND MINERALOGY. 2— OlVIt
Engineering. 3— Mechanical Engineering, 4— Mining
Engineering and Metallurgy. 5 — Agriculture. G— Nat-
ural History and Urology, and 7— Select Course.

Advanced students are also admitted to optional courses,
and if already College graduates, arc received as candi-
ates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Tuition, $125 per year of forty weeks.

The Libraries, Museums, Laboraiories and Apparatus,
accessible to students, are vai led and extensive

For copies of the Annual Circular and lieport, letters
may be addressed to the "Secretary of the Sheffield Scion*
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San Francisco, Saturday, March 27, 1869.

VOLUME XVI II.
Wuiubor 13.

Table of Contents.

Phillip*' Imp. Rock Drilling

m icnlno -Jtlustmied,
Boun'a r.itoiit Smoke stack—

III nitrated,
Origin of the Washoe "Pan

Process 1
M fiint nC I'mmothur i 1 « +-■ Pro-

.1. tell. hi ul the Precious.

Miluk
Woaf of Metallic Currency.
Patent OIDco h'acts.
Btyptic Paper
Utter from the Foothills.
I l.ihu t'urruMUoiidi
cHiUmy In
Hug Areas,
juciai-.
v\ hlii- fine Ill-ins.

Ballroad ttoma
Resources ami Development*
C incoming the Washoe Pan
Process-

L'gtit fur Hvdraullc Mining.
N. V. Elevated Hallway.

'...I. l Id i'Iiih.i and Japan.

Gold Discoveries* In Alaska.
Mki.ii apical MlBOKttbaer.—

Ueaton Again ; Now Pro-
ccssfor Preparing Paints:
Tin- Relation of Piston and
Crank; Surface and Jet
Condenser a; Etc,

SoiKWTirii: Ml.tCKI.LANT —

lilvengctt; Binocular Vis-
ion; The Ecniiiudenns: The
Calorillc Spectrum; Etc.
MiningSummaky— Comprising
late intelligence irom the
various counties mid dls-
trlcta in California. Colora-
do Idaho, Mnniuna and Ne-
vada.

San Krancisco Metal Market,
san FranciBCO Market Kates.
Notices to Correspondent*.
Stock Prices— Bid and Asked.

v Incorporations.

v Patents and Inventions
San Francisco Mining Share-
holders' Directory.

Light for Hydraulic Mining.

H. C. Kelsey, of Dutch Flat, inquires
whether there is in existence any lamp or
illuminator by -which a hydraulic miner
can throw light upon a bank at a distance
of 200 feet, sufficiently strong to work by.
Besides the very expensive electric, fresnel,
and the calcium lights, the only practica-
ble lights that we are aware of are the kind
used in front of locomotives, and the ben-
zine lamp of Mr. John J. Hucks of this
city. The locomotive lamp itself is not dif-
ferent necessarily from an ordinary argand
burner, its principal feature being the par-
abolic reflector, which throws a cylinder of
light in any direction that may be desired
and to a great distance. The cost of this
parabolic reflector alone is about $100, that
of the lamp being inconsiderable. Partic-
ulars may be learned from any railway en-
gineer, or from Conroy & O'Conner of this
city, metal importers, who deal in articles
of the kind. Several of these, at 200 feet
distance, would answer the purpose, but
would of course, be exposed to danger from
caving. A cheap light, which cannot be
put out even by a gale of wind, nor by
very copious sprinklings of water or rain,
is Mr. Huck's benzine light. This costs
S5, and lights to read by at a distance of
30 or 40 feet. A number of them might be
stuck into a bank; and a little tumbling
and battering would not do them much
injury. The cost for oil is about the same
as for a wood fire, or five cents an hour.
Benzine, being a lightoil, is pressed through
the burning orifice by giving it a head of
about two feet, while the heat from burning
converts it constantly into gas as fast as
used. This lamp, we understand, is used
in hydraulic mining at Moorestown, Bid-
well's Bar, and other places.

One of Mr. Paul's new dry amalgama-
tion barrels, made of iron, was shipped
from the Miner's Foundry, on Thursday
last, for Mr. Ghapin's mill at Silver City.
It measures 4 feet in length, 38 inches in
diameter, and will work 1,000 pounds. Un-
derneath the cylinder is a common wood
fire-place, which, with the cylinder, is in-
closed in sheet iron ; and at the top there is
a common stove-pipe. The apparatus is
very simple, and cheap. Mr. Chapin states
that he has found this process to work his
ores for from $14 to $18 less than by the
common pan process.

Phillips' Improved Rock Drilling
Machine.

The object of the invention herewith
illustrated is to provide an improvement in
the machine drill, for drilling rocks, for
blasting purposes, etc. The machine
consists of a cylinder and piston for em-
ploying either steam or compressed air for
actuating the drill. The improvements
consist in certain mechanical devices for
controlling and regulating the operation of
the drill, which we will endeavor to make
intelligible by reference to the accompany-
ing engraving.

The machine, as represented, is intended
to work downward. The four lateral arms

of the piston E, is hollow, and incloses the
reduced prolongation of the ratchet-rod M,
which latter fits steam tight, in the stuff-
ing box Q. The object of this ratchet-rod
is to rotate slowly the drill G, whereby the
edge of the drill is presented to its work in
a different radial direction from the pre-
ceding one, at each successive stroke.

The drill, piston-rod, piston and ratchet-
rod, all rotate together. This motion is ef-
fected by the ratchet-pinion O, actuated by
the spring and pawl C, and all operated by
means which will become apparent from the
following :

H is a slide-bar which has a vertical mo-
tion, properly guided, by means not shown.
This motion is imparted by bringing the

PHILLIPS' IMPROVED ROOK DRILLINO MACHINE.

terminate in screw-jacks, as shown at D,
for the purpose of fixing the machine firmly
to the walls of a tunnel or to any suitable
framework of wood, according to the work
required.

The drill and drill-holder are seen at G
and S, while the set-screw, which holds the
drill firmly in place, is seen on the drill-
holder, but not lettered. The cylinder A
is so adjusted by finished contact with its
supports and properly arranged feed-
screws, and other mechanism not shown, as
to slide forward with the progress of the
drill in its work. This feed motion is
maintained through the cog-wheels sup-
ported between the two plates N and I, and
the shaft shown at the right of the engrav-
ing, between I and TJ. The piston-rod F,

lower end so as to fit loosely in the groove
of the drill-holder S, in such a manner that
the rod must move up and clown with every
stroke of the drill. The object of this mo-
tion is primarily to operate the valve J,
which admits the air or steam for actuating
the piston E. This is accomplished by
means of the lever V, which works in easy
contact with the ratchet-rod M. This
lever, which also bears the pawl and ratch-
et-pinion, already mentioned, is moreover
caused to vibrate backward and forward by
means of a diagonal slot, partially shown
near the top of the slide-bar H. The ratchet-
wheel is held from lateral motion on the
rod M, by a set-screw, the point of which
enters a longitudinal slot in the rod. By
this slot and set-screw the ratchet is per-.

mitted to move along on the rod M, with
the lever V, while the cylinder is gradually
moved forward, as it is, in following up the
progress of the drill.

The end of the lever V, which is oppo-
site to the end b, is formed with a slotted
head, not distinctly shown, but running di-
agonally upwards, and in which slot a stud-
pin or projection from the blocks e is made
to work — the said block e being firmly
clamped to the guide-rod L by the set-
screw d. By this arrangement, a modifica-
tion of the movement of the ratchet-rod M
is conveyed to the guide-rod L, just suffi-
cient to work the valve J.

K is the steam induction pipe; the educ-
tion pipe is not shown. When the cylin-
der has descended to the length of its
limit, it is again elevated to its first position
by means of a crank readily adjustable on
the top of the set-screw, which is a pro-
longation (not shown) of the pinion-rod
between I and TJ, upon the right of the en-
graving.

This device was patented by George Phil-
lips, December 1, 1868. The inventor pro-
poses for ordinary tunnel work a machine
weighing about seventy-five pounds, hav-
ing a cylinder six inches in diameter, and
the piston eight to ten inches stroke. Its
length would be three feet, without the
drill. It is so adjustable as to be calcu-
lated to drill in any direction, for which
purpose it will be observed that the lateral
arms are made shorter upon one side than
on the other. The inventor says from 300
to 500 strokes can- be made per minute, and
estimates that one machine will do the work
of twenty men. Mr. Phillips is a working
miner of long experience in Europe and
the Eastern States, and is now engaged at
Alleghany, Sierra County, California,
where parties can address him. He is de-
sirous of disposing of the whole or a part
of his invention to some one who has the
means to introduce it into use, and thereby
secure a fortune and benefit humanity. He
guarantees to satisfy any party who will in-
terest themselves in the matter, of the en-
tire practicability of his invention.

♦-..-^^ •••-■•

Ehigolene. — Considerable quantities of
this highly volatile liquid are now being
manufactured for commercial uses. It is
the lightest of all known liquids, and in
many respects is a very remarkable sub-
stance. Its specific gravity is 0. 625. It is
so volatile that a small portion poured upon
the warm palm of the hand produces a
hissing sound, very similar to pouring
water upon hot iron; it almost instantly
vanishes into vapor. It has so little odor that
an ounce of it evaporated in a close room
will scarcely be noticed. It is manufac-
tured in Boston, and put up in packages of
from one pound to five gallons each.

Received. — Tick's Illustrated Catalogue
of Seeds for 1869 (James Tick, Rochester,
N. Y.) It contains accurate description
and illustrations of the leading floral treas-
ures of the world, with plain and full direc-
tions for sowing seed, and transplanting
and cultivating; also a similar list of choice
seeds for the vegetable garden. Furnished
by the publisher for ten cents in currency
or postage stamps.

194

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Communications.

Is this Department we invite the free discussion of all
proper subjects— correspondents alone being responsible for
the ideas and theories they advance.

Written for the Mining and Scientific Press.

Origin of the Washoe Pan Process.

" Let justice be done though the heavens fall."
This is an admirable motto, and if others
would observe it as they desire to have
folks think they do, I would have more
justice extended me. In your issue of 18th,
"J. S." uses the above motto, but endeavors
to put forth as incorrect, my assertion re-
specting the "Washoe Pan Process, and
would have the reader believe I was de-
tracting from Captain Hatch that which
was his due, and appropriating it to my-
self.

The writer evidently is less acquainted
with Captain Hatch, and certainly less with
the early history of Nevada, than your
humble servant. He says, "what is known
as the Washoe Pan Process, was first in-
troduced by Captain Hatch, at Col. French's
•mill in Silver City, about the same time as
that above," — meaning my introduction.
Now the facts of the case are, I built two
mills, one a 24-stamp (and the first for
working the silver ores in the State), and
a 48-stamp one— as I was using Patio chem-
icals— before ever Captain Hatch came to
Nevada. As to the pans in French's mill,
they were in previous to Mr. Hatch going
there. What Captain Hatch did try to in-
troduce, was the use of dissolved sulphate
of copper and salt, as a "process," and he
tried to sell the same to me.

Not knowing at the time what his process
was, I invited him up to the Gold Hill
mill to work a pan against me, which he
did. We cleaned up, and without waiting
to see fully the result, but knowing by the
bulk of amalgam that I had beat him, he
remarked that " I did not wan this process."
He knew what I was using — salt and cop-
per. Captain Hatch was a fine worker of
metals, and I would be the last one to ap-
propriate to myself anything due to him.
He, however, never worked iron pans in
Mexico, or the Washoe Pan Process, as I
had many talks with him on the subject.
As to the iron pans in use in Europe and
South America being the same as the
Washoe pan, there has been no nearer ap-
proximation than the Hungarian bowl or
Bartola pan, which I have excepted, pro-
vided they can be called pans. In South
America and Mexico, a copper pan was
brought out about 200 years ago; but even
that was not the Washoe system.

If the gentleman had read my article, in
order to "do justice tho' the heavens fall,"
he would not try to make it appear that I
undertook to claim the origin of pans, or
the use of pans, as I knew too well that
pans were used in California, and yet not
"as thick as blackberries." It was "up
hill " work to introduce them in gold mill-
ing, when I introduced them in the silver
mines.

If J. S. refers to the use of copper and
salt as the Washoe process that was known
all over the mining world over 200 years
before Captain Hatch was born, I would
ask J. S. what he calls the Washoe Pan
Process ?

At the same time that I hold a very great
regard for the many highly educated for-
eign gentlemen engaged in mining pursuits
on this coast, yet this thing of eveiything
being either French, English, German, or
some other country beside our own, or that
we are not capable of originating anything
new or valuable to the mining interest, "is
about played out."

Almarin B. Paul.

Cocoonery Expedience. — A lady in Ana-
heim, who had raised a fine lot of cocoons
from her own feeding, was somewhat sur-
prised, a few clays since, to find on the un-
der side of each, a very fine perforation,
through which the small red ant had en-
tered and devoured the silkworm. Not one
of about a thousand cocoons had escaped
the little intruders. This experience may
be of value to some of our silkworm grow-
ers.

Means of Promoting the Production of
the Precions Metals.

ENCOURAGEMENT OF VEIN MINING.

[We find the following, under the above
head, in Professor Blake's Report on the
Precious Metals at the Paris Exposition :]

In view of the continued decrease in the
production of gold from placer deiDOsits, it
becomes important to encourage and pro-
mote the extraction of gold from vein3 in
every possible way. There are other great
reasons fo- encouraging vein mining enter-
prises. They are permanent in their na-
ture, and promote the general development
and prosperity of the country by attracting
a fixed population, composed of artisans,
agriculturists, and others. In California,
thriving towns and villages spring up
around the quartz mines in the interior,
where, without the mines, all would be
comparative desolation. The superficial
placers in California and elsewhere are soon
worked out and deserted, and the placer
miners are constantly roving about without
fixed homes or property. It is somewhat
different in regard to the deep placers and
cement mines ; they partake of the nature
of permanent vein mines, yet are not so at-
tractive as centres of population.

It is an extremely encouraging fact that
vein mining in California and Australia is
now, or at least was in 1866, more success-
ful than at any former period. The num-
ber of successful vein-mining enterprises
is increasing. In Australia, this branch of
mining appears to have been extraordina-
rily developed, and to be followed to rel-
atively greater extent than in California.
*******

GOVERNMENT PROTECTION REQUIRED.

It is a primary duty of the government
having a public domain of such great ex-
tent and wonderful richness to foster and
protect mining enterprises, not only in
order to promote the production of gold,
silver, and ordinary metals, but as one of
the best means of stimulating immigration,
settlement, and the march of industry in
all directions. Mining considered in its
importance to the wealth of the country, is
an interest which cannot be neglected in
legislation without serious loss.

The veins of gold, silver, and other met-
als should be regarded as the heritage of
the people, and while these veins should be
left free to all who choose to work them,
they should not be completely abandoned
to hap-hazard destructive development.
The government should exert over them an
intelligent protecting and directing care,
and adopt such laws and regulations as will
best promote permanent successful mining,
preventingwaste, the loss of precious metals
by careless and ignorant working, the com-
plication and conflict of titles, and the hold-
ing of claims for merely speculative pur-
poses, without any efforts being made to
open and work them.

Nearly all the great exhibitions of min-
eral products in the Exposition illustrated
the value of government direction and reg-
ulation of mining industry. The most sat-
isfactory and perfect exhibitions were those
made under the direction- of government
mining engineers. The collections were
methodical and complete exhibits of the
mineral resources of each country, and
they were accompanied by maps and sec-
tions of mines in detail and by statistical
publications prepared with the greatest care
every year. The relations of' position of
the veins of ores and of beds of coal to the
geological formations were shown by geo-
logical maps and sections and by models
on a large scale, showing not only the in-
equalities of the surface of great Tlistricts
of country, but the position of the coal
beds below the surface, and the location of
every mine.

By fostering mining enterprises and by
thoroughtly educating and training men to
conduct them, many countries, whose re-
sources in the precious and other metals
are comparatively meagre, are successful
producers of gold and silver from ores and
veins such as in the United States would
not be regarded as worth the labor of work-
ing. Every portion of an ore is utilized,
and valuable products are obtained where
without science and skill they would be
wasted in residues. It has been shown in
these pages that gold ores produced upon
the slopes of the Bocky Mountains and
found to be "rebellious" — difficult to work
— have been transported with profit, in a
partly worked state, over the immense
plains and across the whole breadth of the
States east of the Mississippi, and then
shipped across the Atlantic, to be success-
fully worked at Swansea, in Wales, simply
for the want of a proper development of
metallurgical science and industry in the
United States. We must not lose sight of

the fact that we not only send some of our
ores abroad to be worked, but that many of
our young men are also sent abroad to ob-
tain that thorough education and training
in government institutions which they are
unable to obtain at home.

IMPORTANCE OF A NATIONAL MINING COLLEGE.

The establishment of a national college
would be one of the best or most effective
means of securing the proper working of
the mines and of promoting permanent and
profitable mining enterprises' and thus
tend to maintain a large production of the
precious metals, especially from veins and
deep placers, or whenever capital and skill
is required. The dissemination of accurate
information regarding mineral veins and
their contents, and upon the various meth-
ods for extracting and reducing the ores
economically, would prevent much of the
present ill-directed energy and expendi-
ture of time and money, often upon local-
ities where there is little room to hope for
success. Such institutions are absolutely
necessary to gather the teachings of expe-
rience and to place them in a form avail-
able to the many persons now interested
and yet to be engaged in mining, and to the
prospectors who are penetrating our un-
equaled mineral regions in all directions
and are constantly discovering new sources
of wealth. The country cannot do too
much to sustain and encourage the men
who are thus prospecting the unexplored
and almost inaccessible portions of the
public domain, and to whom we are chiefly
indebted for the discoveries which have
been made. We should not leave them to
labor unaided, but should follow them by
organized explorations, by careful examin-
ations of the veins and mineral deposits
which they discover, and by the speedy
publication of reliable and full information
upon them. One of the prominent features
of a school of mines should be practical
laboratories and metallurgical works upon
a moderate scale, in which the students
could take practical lessons in the working
of ores by all the known and approved meth-
ods, including the mechanical prepara-
tion of ores, their concentration by water
and by fire in furnaces, or their reduction
in pans or otherwise. These laboratories
would be miniature metallurgical establish-
ments, where ores of all kinds, " docile" or
" rebellious," would be received, experi-
mented upon , and treated by the best meth-
ods, while the theory of the processes
would be fully given and the chemical re-
actions explained, so that the students
would obtain a thorough knowledge and
comprehension of the principles involved
in the chemical treatment of ores and be
prepared to adapt themselves to other cir-
cumstances in which they might be placed
when called upon to treat ores in regions
remote from supplies. Such a government
mining school would not only directly pro-
mote mining industry, but it would greatly
increase the amount of exact scientific
knowledge among the people, and thus
promote, in the most effectual manner,
general scientific education, the results of
which would be felt in all our industrial
pursuits.

It is gratifying to all the friends of min-
ing industry to know that the establish-
ment of such an institution is already en-
gaging the attention of Congress. Fore-
most among its advocates is Senator Stew-
art, of Nevada, who iu 1867 introduced and
ably supported a bill for the organization
of a National School of Mines.

CORPS OF MINING ENGINEERS SUGGESTED.

In connection with, and as partly grow-
ing out of, such a mining college, the gov-
ernment should organize and make provi-
sion for a corps of mining engineers, to be
filled subsequently by the graduates of the
college ; the members of the corps to have
rank and promotion corresponding with
the grades of the corps of military engi-
neers.

Such a body of thoroughly educated
men should be charged with the duty of
exploration of our mineral regions ; with
the collection of information upon them ;
with the preparation of reports upon min-
eral deposits, and memoirs xipon mining
and metallurgy, all of which would form
the basis for publications at regular iuter-
vals, giving to the people such information
as would best promote their interests and
the national prosperity.

Engineers, so educated and sustained by
the government, would be animated by
laudable ambition and enthusiasm, and
would be strengthened by an esprit de corps
tending to their moral and cesthetic eleva-
tion. They would be in a position to give
independent and reliable opinions aud ad-
vice upon the value of our mineral depos-
its and the best methods of developing
them.

Such an organization would open a new
and inviting field to our young and enter-

prizing men, the graduates of schools of
science, and others, who seek a career in
the fields of science.

In view of the recognized necessity of
thorough technical education to the high-
est industrial and commercial development
of a nation, the organization of a national
corps of mining engineers has an increased
importance ; for, as already argued in re-
gard to the influence of a mining college,
it would have an immense influence in pro-
moting general scientific education, there-
by causing an exact knowledge of the fund-
amental laws of nature to pervade the peo-
ple, and giving them a greater power over
onr vast material resources.

Another great means of increasing the
production of the precious metals is the
construction of railways across the country,
by which prospectors and supplies can be
carried into the heart of what are now com-
paratively unexplored and unknown min-
eral regions ; and by which machinery can
be delivered at moderate cost to extensive
regions already known, but remaining com-
paratively dormant for the want of rapid
and' cheap communication with the centers
of supply both east and west.

Abrasive Wear of Metallic Currency.
Few, we presume, are aware of the extent
of the decrease in the world's stock of prec-
ious metals, by the abrasion consequent
upon the passing of coin from hand to
hand, in ordinary traffic. According to a
carefully prepared report of an examina-
tion instituted by the British Government
on or about the year 1800, it was shown that
the abrasion in an interval of ten years
amounted, in crown pieces, to 3.28 per
cent. ; in half crown pieces, to 8.8 per cent. ;
in shillings, to 24. 29 per cent. , and in six-
pences, to 38.22 per cent. It will be ob-
served that the loss was greater in small
than in large coins; owing, of course, to
the increased amount of handling to which
the former were subjected. The large ag-
gregate loss of the world's stock of prec-
ious metals from the source alluded to,
becomes strikingly apparent from the
above exhibit. Was it not from the fact
that the abrasion in the larger pieces is
greatly modified by the employment of
warrants in delivering orders, or some sys-
tem of exchangp, which allows such coin
to remain almost always in bank vaults,
the loss to tho world from this source
would be a most serious one. We are not
aware that any similar investigation has
been made by any other than the British
Government. The question is one, how-
ever, which certainly deserves serious con-
sideration, especially in a hard money coun-
try like California, where the coin is chiefly
gold, a metal which suffers much more
from abrasion than silver.

The Wisdom of Providence. — The ad-
mirable fitness of things in nature, gener-
ally, and the wise adjustment of substances
with regard to their usefulness, and their
sanitary influences upon man and animals,
is a matter which is often strikingly appa-
rent to the most careless mind, and one
which can never be overlooked by the more
observant. The almost universal juxta-
position of coal and iron is a matter often
referred to. The peculiarities of the ox-
ides of the various metals and metalloids,
which comprise so large a proportion of
the earth's surface, is wonderful to con-
sider. If the oxides of copper and lead
were anything like as widely diffused as
that of iron, the result would be most dis-
astrous to animal life. The refreshing ele-
ment of water would, in such a case, be-
come a deadly poison. How wisely has it
been ordered that the oxide of iron, the
most useful and widely diffused of all met-
als, is almost the only harmless one ! If
carbonate of baryta had been formed as
abundantly as carbonate of lime, animated
life, as now constituted, could not have
gained a foothold on the earth. Facts of
this kind might be extended almost indefi-
nitely; but there is no necessity for dwell-
iog upon them. Yet it is proper that we
should now and then reflect for a moment,
to the end that the mind may be elevated
from finite things to the great Infinite, who
has so manifestly ordered all things well.

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Mechanical.

Beaton Aoaik. ng, whiob has

from tin' lirst sunken disparagingly of the
■ steel process, always giving good
anil sufficient reasons, apparently, for so
doing, lias a capital chance to laugh at that
inventor in illustrating and describing a
" wonderful furnace " of his devising. This
furnace has been mysteriously talked about
of late, and excited great curiosity among
metallurgists; but has now, by the publi-
cation of tho patent specification, become
accessible to the public, and a subject for
criticism. Nothing " bogus " in science or
the mechanic arts escapes the critical eye of
the journal aforesaid; and here is a chance,
which, presenting itself so soon after the
lively newspaper controversy about tho
Heaton steel, was not likely to bo over-
looked. A careful copy of the patent
drawing is given to illustrate the inven-
tion (!); and Engineering finds an ample
field for fun-making, in describing it, and
quietly admiring the accommodating man-
ner in which, for Mr. Heaton's sake, the
gases disregard all the natural laws ordina-
rily in force. At last, " by way of further
elucidation," Mr. Heaton's own explanation
is appended. This caps tho climax; for it
is " confusion worse confounded." Unless
Engineering is for once wofully at fault,
Mr. Heaton is a mere pretender.

New Pkocess of Pbeparing Paints. —
The French Government has ordered a
commission to examine and report upon the
following process for preparing paints,
based upon the fact that they are chemical
compounds, and not simply mechanical
mixtures. When the pigment is merely
ground and mixed with oil in the ordinary
manner, particles will remain in spite of
every care, which win cause the paint to
blister when laid. But by this plan, the
pigment is mixed with both water and oil.
The water aids in its minute division, and
by virtue of the principle of elective affin-
ity it leaves the water and unites itself with
the oil, leaving the water upon the surface.
The latter is then drawn off, and the paint
consolidated and pressed into a cake for use.

Watch Making: by Maohineky. — We
clip a few paragraphs from the description
of the Elgin watch factory, by a corres-
pondent of the N. Y. Evening Post :
"Watch wheels are struck out from thin
plates of brass or steel with a punch which
leaves their edges round and smooth. Then
a dozen in a pile, held together by an up-
right standard, which passes through the
middle of each, are attacked by a furious
little circular saw, which whizzes down the
side of the pile, and then up again, cutting
one tooth in each wheel as it passes. * *
An atom of a circular saw, no larger than a
pearl shirt button, cuts up garnets and
rubies into cubes, each of which is turned
in a lathe with a diamond chisel. Then a
revolving microscopic drill bores the hole.
This is polished by a Bteel wire charged
with diamond dust, which revolves one way
while the jewel whirls the other. The two
combined make 15, 000 revolutions a minute.

* * Here are delicate sapphire knives,
used for cutting brass, because they leave a
polished surface. Here are pinions of pixies
barely visible to the naked eye, which the
workman only handles with pincers and ex-
amines through a magnifying glass. They
are made of wire,— fed to a hungry little
wolf with muscles of iron and teeth of
steel, which ravenously bites them off at
proper lengths, — and turned in ridiculously
tiny lashes. * * The London Illustrated
News insists that watches cannot be made
successfully by machinery. The best an-
swer lies in the fact that a hundred thou-
sand watches are made annually in the
United States. They are rapidly driving
all grades of foreign watches from our
markets. At the beginning of this century
there were few watches or clocks in Amer-
ica, and those were imported. The enor-
mous "bull's eye" watch, or the wooden
clock six or seven feet high, resembling a
coffin standing on end, was a rare luxury.
Now we supply the whole world with
clocks, even to the Island of the Sea and
the farthest Indies. Ultimately we shall
supply it with watches. In the long run,
European hand labor has no sort of chance
against Yankee machinery, directed by
Yankee brains. "

Relation of Piston ash ('hank. — The
following is from Mr. Porter's new work

on the indicator: " The motion of tl ranli

is supposed to be uniform, passing through
equal arcs in eqnal times; the motion of the
piston, on tho contrary, is, first, scarcely
two-thirds that of the crank, being to the
latter in the proportion Of 1: L6708, and.
second, it changes at every point of the

stroke. At the instant that the ■•rank is on
the dead center tho piston has no motion.
Then its motion, at first infinitely slow, be-
comes gradually accelerated, until the ve-
locities of the piston and the crank are
equal, when it begins to be retarded, the
ratio of retardation increasing until on the
opposite ceuter its motion has ceased. But
whether the revolution of tho crank is uni-
form or not — as in fact it can never be ab-
solutely, since then the fly-wheel would
cease to act as a regulator, and might be
dispensed with — tho motion of the piston
has a fixed relation to it, being equal (if we
disregard for tho present the effect of the
angular vibration of the connecting-rod) to
the versed sine of the angle which the
crank makes with the center line."

Scientific . Wscellan t ■

SURFACE AND JET CONDENSERS. "With

jet condensers only a given amount of
water is required for condensation, and to
give more only needlessly lowers the tem-
perature of the feed-water, besides throw-
ing additional work upon the air-pump,
without obtaining any real improvement in
the vacuum. With a surface condenser a
moderate quantity of cooling water out-
side the tubes requires a relatively large
amount of tubular surface. Some engi-
neers maintain that it requires as much
cooling surface to get the heat out of the
steam as it required of heating surface to
get it in. The usual proportion of the
former to the latter is about 2 to 3, or 3 to
4. A pair of engines working to about
2,000 indicated horse-power would, in mod-
erately fair practice, require every hour the
quantity of steam that would be evaporated
from 900 cubic feet of water, or 15 cubic
feet per minute. To condense this by in-
jection, with water at about G0°, would re-
quire 350 cubic feet, or ten tons of water
per minute. This water has to be lifted
out again to the sea level, perhaps 10 feet
or 15 feet, the work thus amounting to eight
or ten horse-power. This amount of water
pumped through a surface condenser would
not require much power. But in surface
condensation much more water is required
and much more power is consumed. The
power necessary for surface condensation
may be very materially reduced by utiliz-
ing the momentum of the flow from the
sea, which is entirely extinguished in the
jet condenser by the rose of the injection-
pipe. " — American Artisan.

New Plan fob Testing Rails. — Instead
of the established method for testing steel
rails by dropping a ton weight upon them
from a hight of eighteen feet, a 75-pound
weight dropping four feet, is to be used by
the Philadelphia and Baltimore Eailway
Company. It is now considered that to
subject the rail to some thousands of blows
from this comparatively light hammer, is a
nearer approach to the treatment which it
receives in actual service, than the old
plan. The weight is so arranged as to be
caught on the recoil by a pawl, so as to
strike no short blows.

New Method of Testing Labge Pipes.
The usual practice has been to close the
ends by caps and then force in water until
the pipe was completely filled; but with
large pipes, very strong caps were required,
and there was a waste of time and of
water,— thus largely increasing the ex-
pense. The new plan is simply to place
within the pipe a core, of nearly as great
diameter as the pipe itself, and then force
in water enough merely to fill the space
between the two.

New Alloy fob Coin. — The French
mint authorities recommend an alloy com-
posed of 835 parts of silver to 93 of copper
and 72 of zinc for coin and silverware, — as
being more homogeneous than the one at
present in use, and notr liable to be turned
black by the sulphureted hydrogen or
green by acids.

Steel ' ' Laid" on Cast Ikon. — Our best
tailors' shears, household scissors, and
smith's anvils are made of cast iron and
steel. The molten iron is poured upon the
steel in a mold, until the steel is brought
to the proper heat, — that of welding or fu-
sion, the surplus metal being allowed to
escape — when the union is effected and the
iron fills the mold. — Scientific American.

Glycogen.

This substance, the "sugar-generator," —
as its name implies, — in the animal organ-
ism, stands between starch and dextrine,
iu its properties. Bernard prepared it in
1857, from the livers of animals fed en-
tirely upon meat. Tho process is in brief
as follows : The liver is cut into fine shreds
and thrown into boiling water to coagulate
the ferment, — then bruised, mixed with a
little water, boiled and strained; a precipi-
tate is then obtained with alcohol, which is
filtered and dried. It is afterwards puri-
fied by divers re-precipitations and re-fil-
trations, until it resembles hydrated starch,
in its appearance and its properties gener-
ally. It is changed into dextriue and then
into sugar, by the same agents which
change starch into those substances.

Bernard concluded from his experiments
that the formation of sugar in animals
should be divided into two parts, — one en-
tirely vital, the other entirely chemical; —
the first consisting in the production of
the glycogenic matter in the liver, — the
second in the transformation of it into su-
gar by means of a ferment. We find in
Silliman's Journal for January, under the
head " Notices of papers in Physiological
Chemistry," an abstract of Bernard's pa-
per on the subject, by Dr. George F.
Barker, from which we quote :

" This ferment was at first supposed to
belong to the liver, but finding that blood
effected the change in a marked degree, Ber-
nard referred it to this fluid. During di-
gestion, the circulation is much more
active, and the transformation of the gly-
cogenic substance is correspondingly great;
in torpid animals like frogs, on the other
hand, where the circulation is slow, the
sugar disappears from the liver, while the
glycogenic substance remains. If these
animals be warmed, however, the sugar re-
appears, and so on alternately. 'The con-
dition of the nervous system also affects the
transformation of the glycogenic matter.
When the spinal cord is cut or wounded
near the neck, below the origin of the
phrenic nerves, the activity of the hepatic
circulation ia diminished, and after four or
five hours there is no trace of sugar in the
liver, though glycogenic matter is found
there. On wounding the cerebro-spinal
axis near the fourth ventricle,- the phenom-
ena produced are precisely the reverse ; the
abdominal circulation is accelerated, and
the glycogenic matter is so largely trans-
formed that it appears in the urine. The
paper closes by comparing the liver to a
seed; first, a vital action stores up starch
in it; then a chemical one changes this
starch into sugar."

Subsequent experiments confirmed these
conclusions, and established two points;
first, that the formation of sugar in the
liver was entirely independent of any ex-
ternal supply of dextrine or sugar; and
second, that it is necessary that the animal
economy should be in full vigor, in order
that it be so formed. The livers of hos-
pital patients, and of sick horses, were
found to contain no sugar; — those of exe-
cuted criminals and of healthy animals,
were necessary for the experiments in which
it was detected. The formation of starch
in the flesh-eating animals is from food en-
tirely free from carbohydrates, and on the
other hand in the herbivora from food rich
in those substances; while it ceases to take
place in a diseased individual of either
class.

In 1858 Dr. Pavy asserted, upon the
strength of more than sixty observations,
that the change intosugarwas a post-mortem
change; and that "the condition of the
blood after death could not be taken as an
indication of its state in life." He found
that the injection of potassic hydrate into
the liver, instantly after death, prevented
the formation of sugar. The subjection of
the liver to a low temperature by instantly
throwing it into a freezing mixture, had the
same effect. Dr. Pavy objects to the name
" glycogenic matter," of Bernard, as incor-
rect; and proposes " hepatine " instead.
He found that if a sufficient quantity of

this substance is artificially injected into
the blood, the urine becomes diabetic.

Iu 185!) Borthelot and De Luca deter-
mined by experimental research the nature
of the sugar produced by the transforma-
tion of this substance. They found it to
be identical with tho ordinary glucose of
grapes and the sugar of diabetes.

Binocular Vision. — Professor Le Conte,
of South Carolina, in an article in Sillimfin's
Journal for Jauuary, upon the above
named subject, describes in detail certain
interesting experiments, from which he
concludes that, contrary to the heretofore
universally accepted doctrine among phys-
iologists, the axial and focal adjustments
of tho eye can be dissociated at will, and
that with perfect ease, after suitable prac-
tice. He succeeded in so educating his
own eyes that he could bring out success-
ively four distinct images of a figure upon
the carpet, one above the other and in per-
fect proportion to each other, according to
the distance. The nearest of the four im-
ages was but seven inches from his eyes. ■

Professor Le Conte thinks that upon this
principle of " disassociation of consensual
adjustments" may be explained the fact
that many persons experience difficulty in
seeing stereoscopic pictures distinctly, even
when the two pictures are brought into per-
fect coincidence. He says: "We judge of
distance, as is well known, by the axial ad
justment. If then the two pictures are
so taken that, in order- to bring them to-
gether, the visual lines must meet at a cer-
tain distance, say fifty yards, then the pic-
ture will be seen at that distance, and of
course very much enlarged. But in order
to see the picture clearly, the rays must
come to the eye as if they diverged from
the same distance; for the eyes are adjusted
for that distance. To fulfil this condition
lenses are always used; but it is obvious
that a given pair of lenses are suitable for
one distance only. For all other distances,
or degrees of optic convergence, there
must be some degree of dissociation of the
two adjustments, and this is both difficult
and fatiguing to most persons. "

What the Nineteenth Centuky is to
Being Fokth in' Science. — The following
passage is from the opening address of Dr.
J. A. Meigs at the commencement of the
session for the year at the Jefferson Medical
School: " The great advance of our knowl-
edge in histological and morphological de-
velopment since the beginning of the pres-
ent century, coupled with the new doctrine
of the forces, has given rise to the growing
conviction in the minds of physiologists that
we are upon the eve of some great discovery
in Biology, which will prove, in the hands
of future physiologists, as powerful a
means of research as has already been in
those of the chemist, the law announced by
Kirchoff in 1859, relative to spectral analy-
sis. It may be that this' discovery is to be
reserved as the crowning glory of the com-
ing century."

The E'chinoderms. — A Viviparous Echin-
oid from the Chinese seas, is described by
Dr. Edward Grube. This completes the
parallel, — says the London Quarterly Jour-
nal of Science, — between the Echinoderma
and the worms:

" We now know, in both groups, of ani-
mals laying eggs which produce embryos
developing directly into the adult form ; of
others which present strange larval condi-
tions which either become completely al-
tered, so as to form the adults, or bud off
from their interiors a small mass of living
tissue which becomes the adult, leaving
the larva to perish.. We know, in both
groups, of hermaphrodites and of dioecious
species, and now we hare added a vivip-
arous form of Echinoderm, such as was
previously observed in some Nemertian
worms. We have yet to discover among
the Echinoderms the various modifications
of asexual reproduction, by pseudova, fis-
sion, or true parthenogenesis. "

The Calorific Spectrum. — M. Desains
finds that the delicate bands of the spec-
trum, having the same refrangibility, but
proceeding from different sources, are un-
equally absorbed by the same medium.

Spectrum of the August Meteors. —
Mr. A. S. Herschel says the spectrum of
the August meteors was like that of a spirit
lamp flame supplied with moistened salt.

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White Pine Summary.

During the week the prevailing senti-
ment with regard to White Pine has been
less excited than in the week preceding,
the tendency beingto accept White Pine, its
excitements, and the important attending
and resulting developments of the interior,
as a fact of the times which must of necessity
be got used to, as we get used to war, small
pox, or any other great or small event that
may, or can happen.

THE WEATHEK.

The weather after the 13th inst. became
stormy again, and the four or five thousand
people who left this State during the mild
three weeks preceding that date, undoubt-
edly found occasion to appreciate the qual-
ity of their California blankets. Once more
frozen feet, fingers, noses and ears have be-
came the order of the day. The streets of
Treasure City, previously dry except be-
hind houses, are again clothed in white,
the winds bluster, the prospectors shoulder
their tools and return to the ravines, cabins
and fires, or to the shades of the hurdy
gurdy. "I think," say the wise ones
while it snows and blows, "thatweshall see
some severe weather yet. " For five days the
silver pilgrims were cooped up to their own
excitement-breeding company, enveloped
in the Pogonip; and many letter writers
confess somewhat dolefully that matters ap-
peared dull, an anxious feeling of relapse
probably from a consciously artificial ex-
citement. On the road to White Pine, from
the east especially, there has been much
suffering. Something of the character of
the experiences detailed in our exchanges
may be obtained from Charlie Manley's let-
ter from " Hole in the Eock," Idaho, copied
in the Montana Post of March 5th: He
says :

" The worthy Superintendent for Wells,
Fargo & Co., Mr. Taylor, passed here yes-
terday. He suffered dreadfully from Pleas-
ant Valley, holding the buffalo robes over
a lady and little girl who would have frozen
to death only for him. I do not think he
could have .stood it half an hour longer.
He froze one foot and suffered more than I
would for Wells-Fargo's whole outfit. We
would have had it rough enough but for
his kindness in letting us have wood here.
We noticed a man half a mile from here
last night leading his horse, and saw by the
way he traveled all was not right. So one
of the boys and myself went to him. When
we reached the spot he could not speak.
We throwed him around miscellaneously
and got him to the station as quickly as
possible. His hands and feet were both
frozen. He was insensible with cold, but
we kept his hands and feet in water a half
hour when he came to. He says his game
would have been up, but for us, as he could
never have made the station alone."

CONTRADICTORY ACCOUNTS.

From Treasure City the weather reports
appear to accord with the feelings of the
writers. "P," in the Herald, writes that it
is not colder than at Virginia City, and
that the country is a splendid one to "make
a raise" in. The Bulletin correspondent of
the 17th says just then it was fearfully
cold, and speaks of hail driving, sleet fall-
ing at intervals, the streets being a bed of
slush knee deep, the snow four to ten feet
deep in the mountians ; so that prospect-
ing would not be possible before May, and
in some localities not before June. He
predicts two months more of extremely
stormy weather, and says he has spent ten
years beyond the Sierra, and three winters
ia that region. These facts, however, ap-
ply only to those who do not own, or ex-
pect speedily to own any chloride pockets.
'"P," above refered to, could distinctly see
the stars through the rifts of the Pogonip.
A similar discrepancy exists on the subject
of pneumonia and small-pox. ' ' Chloride,"
of the Enterprise, says pneumonia is a bug-
bear; is rare, and where it exists does so
more in imagination than in reality ; the
unusual mildness of the winter at White
Pine being the cause ! Small-pox, accord-
ing to " Chloride, " has not got up the hill
yet. The Bulletin correspondent, on the
other hand, sees coffins carried through

the streets every day, and says the report
is that the unfortunate pilgrims died of
small-pox ; while pneumonia, he says, is
common, and is generally fatal. Sickness,
he thinks, will prevail to a considerable ex-
tent for several months, until the exposure
resulting from bad housing will cease.

RATHER COMPREHENSIVE.

"P" says: "No mining district ever
discovered has created the attention which
this has received. I am shown letters daily
from all parts of the globe anxiously en-
quiring about the condition andthe future
prospects of White Pine." He expresses
himself relieved to think that the peculiar-
ities of the mineral deposits of Treasure
Hill will discomfit that unmitigated class
of humbugs, or worse, known as mining
experts, and as a lover of genuine science
rejoices.

ROAD TO WHITE PINE.

The White Pine Neios, of the 13th, says
the road from Elko was in an excellent con-
dition, teams going over it heavily laden,
and experiencing no difficulty, the present
traveled road being by Denver's toll road,
which crosses a low range of hills border-
ing the valley of the Humboldt, and after
about 15 miles enters Huntington valley at
Shepherd's station, following the same due
southward 100 miles to a canon in the
White Pine mountains, whence the road
continues at a rapid rise for eight miles to
Treasure City. Generally the road keeps
at the foot of the Diamond range of mount-
ains, which forms the western boundary of
the valley. Although this is a mountain-
ous country the mountains are so broken
and cut by great chasms that easy passes
are found leading east and west, while the
great valleys running north and south
offer unexampled facilities for the con-
struction of roads of the very best charac-
ter.

The Bulletin correspondent of the 18th,
however, says, of the Elko road, that it is
now very bad in places, and will be almost
impassable in a short time, with very little
prospect of its improving for the next two
months. The stages, which a week ago
came through iu less than 20 hours, and
latterly in 24 hours, now take 34, and will
soon require 40 hours, and perhaps more,
to get through.

At Virginia, and other places beyond the
Sierra, pack and saddle animals are being
advertised for sale.

The Reveille, of the 19th, is informed
that the eastward bound train went on from
Argenta with "about 200 enterprising souls
from California," and that "there were
thirty petticoats in the number."

THE PROSPECTS.

The Enterprise of the 20th states that a
few persons are still leaving almost daily
for White Pine, but there is no particular
excitement iu regard to that country at
present. Most persons say that it is now too
late to go out there to locate mines and
town lots, and if the mines are all right, and
prove permanent, it will be as well to go
six months hence as to rush out there at
the present time.

The correspondent of that paper on the
same date writes that miners are in great
demand, and any number would be able to
get employment at 85 a day, the demand
increasing in proportion to the number of
mills that are being put up. But the
trouble was that all who knew how to set
off a blast were off prospecting for them-
selves, and could not be had. One fortu-
nate possessor of this desirable knowledge
at White Pine was working the night shift
by preference, in order to have a chance to
prospect during the day. On the same
subject the Grass Valley Union of the 20th
publishes an extract from a letter from
White Pine, in which the writer says :
"My advice to all in Grass Valley is to re-
main there, as it costs considerable to live
here, and for workingmen there is very
little to do; and unless they have cabins to
live in, it will cost them every cent they
receive to live." " M," writing to the Am-
ador Ledger, says miners and carpenters

will do well. As all who go to White Pine
will be either miners or carpenters to the
extent required there, — after taking a few
lessons from " P," perhaps, — there is hope
that the gloomy and rosy correspondents
will yet, in some way, strike an average on
the prospects, without the necessity of
coming to any unhappy catastrophe.

LESS BRILLIANT VIEWS.

Amongst our clippings, those giving
gloomy colorings to White Pine this week,
outnumber every other subdivision of the
subject. Part of this is owing undoubt-
edly to the late storms in Nevada, and part
to a jealousy of the new field, from the in-
jury it does in drawing off labor and cap-
ital from other first-class mining districts.
But mining on this coast is like sea-faring,
a roving life; and the adventurers are on
the move to and fro constantly, between
centers that command the power to attract
them. The general opinion is gaining
ground that the number of rich mines at
White Pine is limited. It would be strange
indeed, if the wild fancies of excited lo-
cators should all be realized , since silver
does not concentrate itself naturally in the
way that gold does, in convenient surface
deposits; and though the metal actually ex-
ists pretty plentifully almost everywhere,
the circumstance of its being mineralized
and ' ' rebellious " renders it to a greater
extent unavailable where found.

A correspondent quoted in the Idaho
Tidal Wave, of March 9th — Louis Gazelle —
writes thus to a friend in Silver City, I. T. :
"To come right down to the facts, Tom,
this thing is not what it is cracked up to be,
mind what I say, and I have taken pains to
find out for myself. It is true, if a man is
on tire rustle he can make money here.
Anything in the shape of a location will
sell for cash down; money is plenty here,
but my advice to the boys is to stay where
they are; there is no use talking, there is
more wild-cat business done here than I
ever saw in all my life. Peter and I are
rushing around locating, and Jim and
George are working for wages to keep us
in grub, for to tell you the truth, of the
of the $2,000 we brought here a month
ago, there is not a cent in the whole fam-
ily. We think we have some good loca-
tions, and will pitch in next week to open
them up."

The Enterprise, of the 18th, also gives an
item which is "Not so Fine." It mentions
that a private letter received in that city
from White Pine a day or two since, says
that unless something more is found than
is now known of, crowds of men will be
walking barefoot out of that region next
fall. The writer says that even now he
sees two or three hundred men daily look-
ing in vain for work.

A correspondent of the Amador Ledger
says a building lot costs from one to eight
thousand dollars ; mechanics get $8 and
laborers $5 per day. " I am paying$4 per
day for my living ; there is very little build-
ing material, consequently but little work
to be done. From my view of the matter
I think I have come here about five months
too late to make a strike."

The Nevada Transa-ipt, of the 18th, says:
" The truth is, White Pine is already run-
ning over with people, and every man who
goes there with great expectations of wealth ,
soon begins to ask why he sees so little
work done, and parties of ten and a dozen
leaving for other points every day. "Why
don't the people stay and dig, if there is so
much silver?" The only answer a White
Piner can give is, ' ' The Eberhardt is very
rich," and this is the sum and substance of
all there is of White Pine."

A large amount of space is devoted by
correspondents to town lots — about as much
as to the actual mining memoranda. One
of the most enterprising new towns, on
paper, is Pocotillo, a map of which we ob-
serve has been posted on the walls and
fences in and around San Francisco within
a day or two.

THE MINES.

Mazeppa Flat is another of the newly
discovered flats reported to be rich. It is
far down on the southern slope of Treasure
Hill, more than a mile below the Eber-
hardt. In the Carolina miue, situated
there, a twelfth interest is reported just
sold to a San Franciscan for $25,000. The
Orphan Boy, Comstock and Thunderbolt
are hard by, the latter being traceable on
the surface for 60 yards, it is said, the sur-
face ore assaying $500 to $2,000.

A great Union Tunneling and Mining

enterprise, says the White Pine Neios of the
13th, is on foot, the object of which is to
get an inside view of Treasure Hill. The
line as laid out is through the entire mount-
ain, near the Hidden Treasure mine, be-
ginningonthe east side. " Weunderstand,"
says the News, "that some of the heaviest
capitalists of San Francisco have taken hold
of the matter, and that they propose showing
us what the inside of Treasure Hill is made
of. They will hold all isolated deposits of
ore found in their area, and three thousand
feet in length on all blind ledges discov-
ered by them. "

"A Miner" writes deprecatingly of the
presumption of those companies which pro-
pose to tunnel through Treasure Hill, and
claim several thousand feet on every blind
ledge they strike. Such a claim, he thinks
would take in the property of other people
who are sinking on "indications," but
have as yet struck no pay ore. He asks
which would have the best right to the
mines struck, the tunnel or the shaft party;
and the News replies that the one first strik-
ing a ledge, or body of ore, would be the
owner.

Babylon is the name of a city once fa-
mous, whose name is now of the past.

NEW DISCOVERIES.

The principal characteristic of a mining
excitement is that there is a happily re-
freshing number of "rich strikes." They
are heard of a hundred times a day. How
insignificant these become after a year's
test of time, the deserted mining districts
can attest; yet the assays are always en-
titled to respect. * * A quantity of ore
from a newly discovered mine called the
Angel ledge, near the Hamilton and Sher-
mantown road, assays $746.32. It is in a
locality where no metalliferous veins have
heretofore been found. * * Good re-
ports are brought from the Bed Jacket and
Alexanderine mines. The first is located
near the Eberhardt, and is about thirty feet
in width. Late developments indicate a
mine of great value. The Alexanderine is
on the east side of Treasure Hill, near the
Pocotillo. * * The California, on Sun-
nyside Slope, below the Eberhardt, has
made big strikes of unexpectedly rich ore.
This is owned by the Stanford brothers,
having been bought by them about six
weeks ago for$50,000. They have stripped
the ledge about 400 feet in length westerly
from their notice, up to the west extension,
and find the walls perfect and the ore very
rich. * * The Highland Chief lies a short
distance above the Aurora, and the vein
runs parallel with it, the course being
northwest and southeast. A large opening
in the mine shows a width of ledge of about
nine feet. Six tons of Chloride ore were
lately reduced at the mill, producing $100
per ton. * * Among the discoveries
lately made by the prospectors hunting for
the Eberhardt extension, is a fine appeai--
ing ledge called the Golero. This is a few
hundred feet northeast of the workings of
the Eberhardt The present developments
show a beautiful and well-defined ledge of
spar, carrying but little metal. * * "In
an excursion, (says the editor of the News,
March 20th,) around the southeastern bape
of Treasure Hill, and down the ravine be-
low the Eberhardt, we were surprised at
seeing the number of people sinking shafts,
running tunnels and otherwise reaching for
the extension of that great vein or mine.
One, called the French Co., of which, we
understand, Pascal, Dubedat, Bourgoing
and other capitalists of San Francisco are
leading members, is pushing work with con-
siderable energy." * * Half adozen cases
are reported of fresh strikes on Chloride
Flat, which are notespeeially worth noting,
except that in the Canton shaft where a good
body of ore has been struck at a depth of
116 feet. This shaft passed through the
first stratum of ore at a shallow depth, but
the owners, not being satisfied with the
prospect, pushed on down and are now
working in a mass of chlorides-of the finest
grade. We are not advised as to the dip and
strike of this deposit, [if ithasany, — whether
it is conformable with the limestone, or a
mere bunch or pocket inform. * * The
greater part of the workdone recently, says
"Chloride," aside from prospecting, con-
sists in "tracing" the veins so as to he
ready for "injunctions" as soon as the
Court is established. "The Great Bear of
Chloride Flat," as the Bank of California is
called, is expected to make things particu-
larly lively. There are a thousand and one
locations on Chloride Flat, in a space but
little larger than a 40-acre lot. But the claims
call for from 800 to 1,000 feet each on the
ledges, with all " dips, spurs, angles, off-
shoots, outcrops, depths, widths, varia-
tions, and all the minerals and other valu-
ables therein contain "d." So sa3'Sthelaw,
and the oldest location wins. The Bank
has bought up nearly all the old titles, and
now proposes to "go for them."

T\\e Mining and Scientific Press.

197

Weekly Stock Circular.

By AuociaUd Brokers oft.be S F. Stock »nd Eichmg* Bond

Sak Frahcisco, March 27, l*».
Cits- OtOCks,
Innii- urttiea then vna very little done

frirfng thi past week In the open miritot; however, prl-
in legal tender ootee md Qowaaaient
mhle. We note bbduII sale
-..: Valley Water Co rtocl at MM SO per share.
Ttii- r- ■ ui Insurance companies to the

IiiUtuuI Itevriim* Department, fur the months of Juuuary
■ni i"> bruary. have been a* follows, apon aenrrenoy
1 1 et ots on the dtillar for the month of January,
and " ', cents i«>r February :

> Sompanles. January. Fobruiiry.
Pacific. #*'."U *AHI0

i ,, «.iiw 3«.o:«

Finmaaa fund 2*869 20.2W

feUHCamia 9,078 11.726

Mfichauta- Mutual U.089 16.M4

O.-.-i.b-r,.! 1-'. K IT.'-!'

Homo Mutual VJ.-M 13.fiW

Pccplfl-a 17.130 ll.Ma

Total mua »aa».242

main 1968 158,573 158.183

Increa/ie $63,778 $56,059

['in receipts of the city railroads for the months of
January and February were a* follows:
DomDaniea. January. Fcbruriry-

n,;. i u. fli.llH W.'M

■ North B»aob A Mi»3ion 20.909 19,9911

Ovatral WW4 13,41)9

1 r .nf "itr.'.'i. Mi-si'in .1 Ocean 7.m9 7.7M

Mnrk-t Btreol »■**« MM

potrero&Bay View 2.0.KI &123

Total tT7fi,843 973,001

Barne time in 1S&J 67.089 6tf,03B

Incrcaao *9.771 93,963

.Miuinjv Sliaro Max-ltet..

There ho* been a slight improvement in mining storks
during the past week, imparting considerable activity to
tin- market. The short interest continues to attract the
■Mention of isoine dealers, and sellers' option contracts
on1 made with more freedom, giving strength to the mtir-
fcrt upon the prospective demand for stock for future de-
li very. Favorable reports are at hand regarding the de-
\i].ipui'iits in several of the Comstock claims, which we
heyc every reason to believe will continue. Other com-
panies ure vigorously driving drifts with great confidence
as to favorable results within a brief period.

The Interest taken in the White Pine mines is increas-
ing from day to day, and the present hue weather has
gnu-tea1 many in thut direction, who intended to remain
hr -rv some time longer. The incorporation of companies
is also on the increase, not a day passing without the en-
tering of a number of certificates. In the Board the
transactions of this class of stocks during the past week
embraced Aurora Consolidated, Featherstone, Pocotillo,
Brodt and Virginia.

Amadou (Cal.)— sold at $277 50@290. This mine con-
tinues to look remarkably well. The bullion returns

for the current mouth are expected to exceed $G0,000

Cuollak-Potosi improved from $102 to $173 50, and
closed at $173. During the week ending March 19th, C00
tons of ore were extracted, against 844 the previous
Mvk. The various developments in this mine have not
yet taken a favorable turn. On the 23d inBt. the ship-
ment to custom mills amounted to 80!i tons of ore.

Crown Point — ruled at $72@75, and closed at $72.
The receipts of bullion to date for March account foot up

$16,800 Gould &. Cuiuty sold within a rangaof $106@

115, und at the close realized $111. On the 22d instant,
they commenced sinking on the solid quartz in the shaft,
which appeared as promising as that found before work
was suspended, but unfortunately the machinery broke
on the following day, requiring a stoppage of from three

to four days Hale & Norcross improved from $89 to

$91, and at the close sold at $93 50. The bullion receipts
to date for March account reach $34,000. At present the
future prospects of this company are quite favorable.

Imperial — advanced from $85 to $93, and closed at
$31. The accumulation of water in the shaft, reaching
to the 1,900 level, at present prevents further develop-
ments in the lower levels; however, this will be speedily
removed. The shipments of bullion to the 21st instant,
aggregate $10,717 85 against $16,256 27 same time in
February , . . .Kentock improved to $270, declined to $259,
and closed at $258. To the 21th, the bullion returns for
(he current month foot up $37,65i.

Oram — sold quite largely at S29@32 50, closing at $32.
The new hoisting works "are situated south of the Sierra
Nevada, and about 150 feet east of the supposed east vein
developed in the Savage and Hale & Norcross. The shaft
1b 700 feet in depth, from which a drift is now being
driven west, which was in 111 feet on the 21th — all the
way in hard rock, requiring, so far, no timbering. The
rock is improving, and working to better advantage. It
is expected that the east vein will be struck in fifty feet
further; the west lode, upon which the old works of the
company, now closed, are situated, being distant some-
thing over 500 feet. At preseut no water of consequence
is met with in the shaft. The company have on hand a
large supply of wood, timber and other materials. They
arc said to be free from debt, and the Superintendent is
pushing forward the work of development with great en-
ergy and economy."

Occidental— sold to a large extent during the past
Week, improving from $27 to $31, and at the close realiz-
ing $28. From a letter to the Daily Herald we extract
the following in regard to this mine: The Occidental is
situated about three miles from Virginia, on the north-
east side of the Leet & Birdsall toll road to Dayton. It
was originally taken up in 1860 for lime ; the character of
the surface rock fitting it for that purpose. The amount
of silver contained was so small that it could not be pro-
fitably worked for that metal in those days of high prices,
although several parties during the succeeding five years
attempted it at various times. Finally, in July, 1865,
the mine passed into the possession of Messrs. Weston &
Slanck, who, having a mill of their own eligibly situated,
ware enabled' to work the rock with a small profit. Since
then the quality of th'j ore has steadily improved, as

depth was attained, and the bullion shipment has risen
- 10,000 monthly; 10.000 was shipped during the
post week, Qnderthe management of these gentlemea,
about 10,000 tons "f ..re here been worked) yielding ovi r
1700,000; the rook averaging from H~> to (18 pt r ton, and
paying a proAl of from $S to $7. At pn s< at but eighty
tone per day an b tag shipped to the mill, owing to the
to tehed condition of the roads, which renders hauling
almost an Impossibility, n i- Intended, as soon as the
weather admits, to commonoe the construction of a mill
nt the mouth of the lower tunnel, to contain forty
stamps, or nnre. it nquind. with a daily crushing capa-
city of 100 tuns. The mill will cost ;So,iiim). When

completed, tin' immi nse bodies of low grade ore which
the mine coutaius can be extracted and reduced at a cost
which will have a net profit of from $3 to $5 per ton.
This mine is located upon the same lode as the claims in
Flowery District; the croppiugs being plainly traceable
for its entire length of 1,800 feet, and through the adjoin-
ing claimB on the north. No assessment has ever been
levied; the rock paying from the surface down. By the
workings at present, a body of ore of uniform quality,
milling from $15 to $18, averaging ten feet in width, is
exposed for 600 feet in length and 100 feet in depth:
equivalent to 120,000 tons. Of this, 40,000 to 110,000 tons
have been worked, leaving on band about 75,000 tons.
The quantity of low grade ore in Bight, which will mill
from $9 to $12, and can be worked at a profit when the
DOW mill is erected, is fully as great. Should the lode
continue of the same width and quality to the depth of
the lower tunnel, a distance of 300 feet from the bottom
of the first winze, the company will have sufficient ore
for a number of years.

SrEmtA Nevada — exhibits marked improvement In
price, advancing from $35 to $47, and at the close selling
at $46. Wo quote again: The rock at present being
worked is obtained from the southeastern slope of Cedar
Hill, the excavation commencing about 150 feet above
the mill, and being now breasted out 300 feet in length by
40 feet in width, and from 20 to 40 feet in height. In the
northern portion of the breast no indication of a wall is
shown, but the whole mass presents every appearance of
a yield equally good with that now being worked. A
drift has been run in on that side twenty feet, all the way
in the same material. The extent of the pay on the
north side is unknown. The south side of the breast, at
several points, showB indications of a wall, or bed rock.
They are now taking from the bottom of this excavation
about four feet in depth of quartz gravel, which prospects
and pays much better than that taken from above. It is
not yet known to what depth it will continue. All the ore
taken from the excavation is dumped into chutes which
deliver it at a tunnel running below the road, whence it
is taken in cars to the mill, a distance of about 120 feet.
Westerly from this breast, a distance of 300 feet, there is
another excavation made at a depth of 30 or 40 feet,
which develops the same character of gravel and quartz,
that prospects equally as well as that now being worked.
From all appearances this will in future be one of the
paying mines of Storey county. About twenty men are
at present employed in the mill and at the mine. The
mill contains twenty stamps, crushing from 40 to 50 tons
per day. Under the present efficient management, the
rock, being sorted and worked to better advantage, yields
much larger returns than formerly, and the fortunate
stockholders need not be surprised to lcam that the pro-
duct for the present month, although a stormy one, is
treble the amount of that for any other since the mill has
been put in operation. All the water used in the mill is
pumped from the shaft. The ore is worked for gold
alone, being amalgamated in the batteries and run over
copper plates. The tailings are run through blanket
sluices a distance of from 800 to 1,000 feet. The total
cost of running and working is from $3 to $4 per ton, and
the yield is from $12 to $15 — leaving a very handsome
profit. ThiB only refers to the quartz gravel, which is
shoveled in as it comes, the sorted coarse rock netting a
much larger amount — probably from $40 to $G0.

Golden Chariot (Idaho) — was in the market at $50@
51. From Prof. Ashburner's report of this mine, we
learn that the yield for the month of December, 1868,
was at the rate of $190 74 per ton, and in January, 1869,
$154 08. It is stated that about $1,000,000 in bullion has
been extracted since the autumn of 1867. The monthly
product of ore at present varies from 300 to 325 tons, and
the total expense, including mining, milling, transporta-
tion of ore from the mine to the mill — a distance of 2?i
miles— and all dead work, are from $15,500 to $17,000
monthly. It is stated that there are in sight, and thor-
oughly developed, about 1,200 tons of ore between the
first and second levels, which it appears safe to assume
will yield an average of $150 per ton, or $180,000; that be-
tween the second and third levels the vein is developed
on two sides, and partially on a third, and that so far as
explored there appears every indication that this portion
of the mine will furnish at least 4,000 tons of ore, the av-
erage value of which there is now no reason to suppose
will prove less than that taken from above.

Bullion levied an assessment of $10 per share on the
20th, Julia $2 50 per share on the 19th, and Overman
$20 per share on the 20th inst.

The Poet Longfei»low's Mistake. — The
author of Evangeline relateB in excellent meter
thut on a certain evening an enterprising youth
was observed climbing a mountain (probably one
of the Sierra Nevada range), bearing in his hand
something which had the appearance of a banner,
inscribed with the word " Excelsior." As " the
shades of night were falling fust," and the weather
was somewhat misty, it was, of course, easy
enough for the spectator to be mistaken as to
the character of the article borne by the traveler,
and the nature of the inscription. There is now
sufficient reason to believe that this was the case ;
for at the time when this individual was seen, a
corps of active young fellows, numbering in all
some two hundred, were engaged in planting in
the most elevated and conspicuous positions all
over the country, signs or tablets bearing on their
face the letters and figures, " S. T. 1860— X," the
mysterious equivalent of " Plantation Bitters." *

JOKING SHAKEHOLDEES' DIRECTORY.

U-om plied for every Issue, from advertisement* in the

'■■.:..■..: and BoiXHTino 1'nt.ss mill other San

Francisco Journals. ;

Comprising the Names or Companies, District or County
Ol Location; Amount ami ilalv i-f \-s. smih ill; Date 01
Meeting; Day ol Delinquent Sale; mid Auiuunt and Time
of Payment of Dividends.

SAMK, LOTATlOW, A HOP ST, AND DAT DAT

DAT1 OF ASSKSKMBltT. DRLINQCKKT. OT 8A1 K

Aiplm Cons , Storey eo., Nev ,illv. $2.. ..Pay. Juno 19, 18*8
Anmuoi i:...,<liv. $tj pei «!)iiru ruyntjle" Match lit, 1869

llmaden, Nevada, March 17, $1 Aiirii 2u— May 8

n. Storey Co., Ney.,div Payable June 10. 1PCR

April 17— May 3

.... Storey eo-. Nov., -March 15. Si

B""i biurey eo. Nov . March 2d. .. .Payable Immediate

Chollar Potcel. dl<K, S25 Pnvahlc Oct. 16, 1867

Crown p.iuit. ilividi ml. *7 SI 1'uvable Sent 1" IWW

Chloride Ml Tun.. While Pine. I Vb. EflS..BSr lS-ip 10'

('Oney. preferred block, div. \% percent March In. 1SW

Cherokee Flai, Dulteon. March 1, $5 April s-Aniii 20

t.ordlllura, Mex., March 16, SI April 20— May lit"

Dancy, Lyon cu. New, March 8, S2.5I April 12— Mav 3

Douglas, White Piin- Annual Meeting April U

Empire M. A M., New, dividend S6 ..Payable Mnv 15 1867

Eureka, dlv. 85 Payable March in. 1«69

hi Taste, Sonera, March 22, 5uc April 23— May 17

PoUom St. & Kt. PL R. ft March 13, $5... April 13— April 30

Could ,t Carry, div.. S7.H0 Payable Mav 15, 1R67

Col.] IIIU4 M * M-dtvldctid. S7 5U... I'avablo.lulvln, I8US
C.ilden Rule, Tuolumne eo.dlv.6llc vh sli..-1'av. Feb. 26, 18i>9
lilenwnori. El Dorado en., Feb 19, $25.... April 2— April 2 •

Great Union. White Pine Meeting March 29

Hale & Norcross, div. $120 Sept. 16. 1867

Hope tlravel, Nevada co , Feb. 24, $1 March 29— April 19

Hidden Treasure, White Pine Annual Meeting April 5

I X L, Alpine co .Jan. 19, $i 50. Feb. 27— April 5*

Imperial, Storey CO., Nev.,dlv Payable June 21 >, 1868

Julia, Storey co , Nev., March 19.42.50 April 22— May 10

Kentuck.dlv.,$20 per share Payable Jan. 10,1868

Keystone Meeting April 2

Lyon M A»M„ El Dorado co., Mar 6, $1.. April 12— ApiJI 26*

Mt. Tenabo, Lander eo . Jan, 23.75c April 2— April 27*

Mux well, Amador co.. Feb. 9. SI March 13— April 1

Morning Star. Alpine co . March 3. $2 April 5— April 26

Mohawk «t Montreal, Nev. eo.,$3 ...March 31— April 16

North Star, dividend, S5 Payable Aug. ]fi, 1868

North Auier. Woort P. Co., March 12, $1 April 14— May 1*

Occidental, div. $2 Payable March 2, 1869

Overman, Storey co. Nev., March 20, $20... April 23-Mny 8

Pacific Unassessable, div Payable June 18, 1868

facillc, Coai. Contra Costa co.. Mar. 20, $t. .Ap, 27— May 17*

RIsinRStar, Idaho, Feb. 8, $6 March 31— April 3

Santiago, Silver City, dividend, $2 50. .. Payable Dec 19. 1868

Sand Spr inn -alt. dividend $1 Payable. Jan. 5. 1869

Star Creek, Nev., Feb. 26, $1.60 March 29-Anril 19*

Savage, Virginia, Nev. dividend. St.. Payable March 4,1869
Senator, Storey co., Nev., March 26, 50c... May 1— May 28*

Silver Sprout, Inyo co, March 25, flue May 1— May 28"

Treasure Trove, Lander co., Feb. 15, 20c..M'ch 21— April 12

Troy Ledge, White Pine, March 16, 15c April 23— Slav 24*

Troy Ledge. White Pine Annual Meeting, April 19

Virginia & G. U Water Co. .Dividend, payable Mar. 10, 1869
Williamantlc, White Pine, March 22, $1.. ..April 24— May 12
Yellow Jacket, div., $5 Payable March 16, 1869

Latest Stock Prices Bid and Asked.

S. F. STOCK AND EXCHANGE BOARD.

Fridat Evening, March 26, 1869

MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS. But. <1*A«T.

Dnited States Bonds, 5 2ns, 1S'J5, '67, '68 $87 88

United States Bonds, 5 2Us, 1864 87^ *»&

United Slates Bonds. 6 20s, 1862 59 90

Legal Tender Notes Jttf. 77%

California State Bonds, 7s, 1857 95d —

San Francisco Bonds, 10s, 1851 par &lnt.

San Francisco city Bonds, 6s. 1S55 — —

San Francisco City and County Bonds. 6s, 1858. 83 87>£

San Francisco School Bonds, IDs, 1860 100 —

San Fraucbeo School Bono's, His, 1H61 par & int.

San Francisco City and Co. Sch'l B'ds, 7s, 1806, 91 —

San Francisco City and Co- Bonds, 7s, 1862 fll _

San Francisco City and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1864 91 —

San Francisco Citv anil Co Bonds, 7s. 1865 91 —

San Francisco Citv und Co. Judg. Bds. 7s, 1863. 91 —

San Francisco City and Co. Judg. Bds, 7s, 1864. 91 _

Sacramento City Bonds 30 —

Sacramento County Bonds, 6s 70 —

Marysville Bonds, 10s 75 80

Stockton City Bonds 65 —

Yuba County Bonds, 8s 8) 85

Santa Clara County Bonds. 7s 76 77

Butte County Bonds, 10s, I860 75 —

San Mateo County Bonds, 7s 75 80

California Steam Navigation Co 65 —

Spring Valley Water Co 67 68

State Telegraph Co 26 —

GAS COMPANIES.

San Francisco Gas Co 77 79

Sacramento Can Co 85 —

RAILROADS.

Sacramento Valley Railroad — —

Sail Francisco and San Jose Railroad — —

Omnibus Railroad 72J* —

Central Railroad Ml —

North Beach and Mission Railroad 72^' 74

Front Street, Mission and Ocean Kailroad i\ 12

BANKING INSTITUTIONS.

Pacific Bank 97^ 100

The Bank of California 157 160

People's Insurance Company 100 —

INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Flremana' Fund Insurance Co 92^ 91

Pacific Insurance Co 126 128

Merchant*' Mutual Marine Insurance Co 600 520

California Insurance Co 1300 1400

Union Insurance Co 100 —

Home Mutual Insurance Co 19>£ 20

Occidental Insurance Co 81 87

MINING STOCKS— WASHOE DISTRICT.

Alpha Zi\i UYa

Baltimore American — —

Belcher 19 20

Bullion, O. H 15 —

Crown Point 72 73

Cnle(Va.) — Jl

Confidence 30 3 1

Consolidated Virginia 6 9

Chollar-Fotosi 172 173

Dancy . 2\i 6

Exch liquer 17 18

Empire Mill and Mining Co 60 —

1)011 Id & Curry lid III

Onld Hill Quartz 45 60

Hale A Norcross 93 9:i^

Imperial 94 95

Julia 1 3

Justice and Independent — 12

Kentuck 268 260

Lady Bryan 14 14(^

American 18 I8J4

Occidental ?8 29

Ophir 31& 32

Overman 68J-£ 69

Segregated Belcher 8>i 9

Savage 73« 74

Sierra Nevada 45 16

Union — —

United States — —

Yellow Jacket 61K 62

MISCELLANKODS MINING STOCKS.

Amador (California) 285 290

Aurora, White Pine 18 20

Eureka, (California) 230 240

Golden Cbaiiot (Idaho) — 60

SilverCord (Idaho) 10 —

Golden Rule. California 10 12

Mohawk (Callforiiin) — —

Pocotillo, White Pine....: 10 20

San Francisco Market Eates.

Wholesale Prices.

Friday, March 26, 1869.

Flour, Extra, ^bbl $5 25 @$5 50

Bo . Superfine 4 50 @ 4 75

,:;•» MmI. fU'Hl tts. 3 25 @ 3 60

Wheat, pt in" tbs 1 50 @ 1 65

"als. r* ".MR* 1 75 @ 2 20

Barley, ¥ ion it* 1 76 @ 2 25

geens, feioulba e mi @ 7 00

Potatoes, t* 1"0 lbs 75 @ yo

vl> S*!*".1;. 1 - >n,,o f*i«oo

Live Oak Wood, Pcord <iui ©iu uo

Beet, extra. drvsM.1. $ ft u @ J2

Sheep, on footj. 3 w @ 3 25

Hogs, on toot, jUti 5 @ 7

Hogs, dressed, £ ft y @ |0

GROCERIES, ETC

Sucar. crushed, 1?. lb _ « i:u

o. China 1,1 a. 19

Coffee, Costa Bleu, H n

Do Rio

lea, Japan, & ii

Do Green..

Hawaiian KUe, V »• '

China Kite, "ft lb

Coal Oil,* gallon ;.

Candles, $ lb

Ranch Butter, "$ lb

Dubious Hotter, 9) ft

Cheese. California, V- lb

Engs, r! dozen

Lard, f< ft

Ham and Baron, ^ ft

shoulders, % ft

Ketnll Price*.
Butter, California, fresh, %t lb

do. pickled, V, lb

do. Oregon, %4 ft

do. Ken* York, ^ lb

Ohevse, *jS ft

Honey,*) lb

Eggs, ft dozen

Lard, $ lb

Hams and Bacon, ^* ft

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PRICKS FOR I.\ VOICES.

Jabbing prices rule from ten to fifteen per cent, higher than the
follmeiiig.quotatitntri.
„ FiurtAT, March 26, 1869.

Iron.— Duty: Pig, 59 per ton; Railroad, bite fa UK) lbs; Bar

l@l^cfa ft; Sheet, polished, 3c fa ft; common, Hi@l^c
|j lb; Plate, l>ac fa lb; Pipe, l^cfaft; Galvanized, 2^c

Scotch and English Pig iron fajton $ @$45 ffl)

White Pig fa ton @ 40 00

Refined Bar, bad assortment fa Ih — 03 ©

Refined Bar, good assortment, fa lb — 04 ®

Boiler, No. 1 to 4 .- - 04?i@

Plate, No. fl to 9 <a _ 04^

Sheet, No. 10 to 13 —04^® — 5

Sheet. No. 14 to 20 — OS « — 5K

Sheet, No. 24 to 27 _ 05 @- 6^

On«BIT—D"tv: Sheathing, 3^c fa ft ; Pig and Bar, 2ijc fa £

Sheathing, fa ft ra -- 26

Sheathing, Yellow — 20 @ — 21

Sheathing, Old Yellow — 10 @ — 11

Bolts —21 ® — 22

Composition Nails _ 21 @ — 22

Tin Plates.— Duty: 2.->facent. ad valorem.

Plates, Charcoal, IX, ^ box 12 00 @ .

Plates, I C Charcoal @ 11 00

Roollng Plates.... 10 00 ©10 60

BancaTin, Slabs, ^ lb @ — 35

Ptkki..— English Cast Steel, ^ft @ — 15

Qdicksii.ver.— if! lb —55 @ — 60

LKAo.-l'ig.falb - 7^@- 8

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Bar _ 9 da _ $u

Zino— Sheets, fa ft ■ — 10U®— II

Borax.— Callfornin.fa ft —35 @ — 33

Aeration of* "Water. — An interesting
fact showing the importance of a thorough
aeration of drinking water, has recently-
been observed in connection with the Fair-
mount water supply of Philadelphia. Some
miles above the point on the Schuykill at
which the water for the city's supply is
taken out, there are several manufactories,
from which refuse matter is drained into
the river. For some distance below these
manufactories the water of the river is
quite dark, from the presence of organic
substances; but as it approaches the city, it
becomes manifestly clearer. This change
has been attributed to an increased absorp-
tion of oxygen from the atmosphere, below
the points of adulteration, by which the
impurities are supposed to be more readily
deposited in the form of mud. A reason
for this assumption is found in the fact that
when the river is covered with ice, as it
sometimes is in winter, the impurities are
carried quite down to the point where the
city's water supply is taken out. So mani-
fest is this latter fact, that at such times
numerous complaints are made with regard

to the impurities of the water.

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Mining Summary.

Tub following information is gleaned mostly from jour-
nals published in the interior, iu close proximity to the
mines mentioned.

Oue interior exchanges are rejoicing over
the late rains. Both miners and farmers
feel that they are all right for the season,
even if we should have no more rain.
" Grain has taken a fresh start, and is
growing rapidly." "The prospects of
abundant harvests in this section are ex-
tremely flattering. ' The dirt thrown up by
miners during the dry season for future
■washing, may now be realized from; —
mining ground is being worked that is only
workable with free water; — and everything
is lovely.

CALIFORNIA.

AEPINE COUNTY.

From the Miner, March 13th: Another
run of 18 ft. was made in the Imperial tun-
nel last week.

The wheel at the M. C. mill is being set
this week and the grading for the flume is
nearly completed.

The last 13 shifts, working in the Alpine
Tunnel, have added 15 ft. to the length
thereof, and that too, all in the ledge. The
character of the ore is improving day by
day.

The Tarshish Superintendent will arrive
here next week, when we may expect an
early resumption of work.

The water is out of the Morning Star
shaft and the work of drifting commenced.
A disinterested party tells us that the drift
is already in the casing of the lode, and
some ore is found all through it.

Silver Mountain Chronicle, March 13th:
For the past few days the condition of af-
fairs at the Pennsylvania claim has been
the chief topic of conversation, and the
prospect of soon striking the ledge has set
some parties post-haste after non-resident
stockholders, hoping to get their stock at a
low figure. The tunnel is now in 920 feet,
in easy working rock, and water is now
coming in in great quantities. The dis-
tance from the mouth of the tunnel to the
perpendicular of the croppings is 1,000 ft.,
and as the ledge evidently pitches toward
the workmen it is very clear that the ledge
will soon be reached. The mouth of the
tunnel has been locked up and none but the
Superintendent and workmen will be al-
lowed to enter until after the ledge is struck
and the stockholders notified. The Trus-
tees are determined that those who have
stood by the company shall reap their por-
tion of the benefit that will accrue.

AKABilK COUNTY.

Dispatch, March 20th : The new shaft on
the Coney & Bigelow lead, near town, has
b=en sunk down to the depth of about 40ft.,
and the work is progressing finely.

C1UVF.E1S COUNTY.

Chronicle, March 20th: One-half interest
in the celebrated Petticoat mine at Bailroad
Flat, has recently been sold to Capt. Mer-
ryman, of Benicia, for 840,000. The terms
of sale, as we are informed, are: $20,000
paid down, the balance to be forthcoming
when the shaft is sunk 100 ft. deeper. Op-
erations upon the mine will be pushed for-
ward with energy. A new shaft in a more
favorable position than the old one, has
been commenced, and powerful machinery
will be erected as soon as it can be obtained
from San Francisco. Work is also pro-
gressing in the levels already run, the ore
extracted yielding from $50 to §100 per
ton.

Chapman, Hopper & Co., at Bailroad
Flat, have out nearly 100 tons of rock, that
will average $60 per ton, which will be
crushed as soon as Stuart's mill is com-
pleted. The rock previously ;taken from
this mine, near the surface, paid $57 per
ton, unassorted. The lead increases in
width and richness as they go deeper. San-
derson, Gay k Co. have also a large quan-
tity of rock out, and are constantly em-
ployed in sinking upon their claim. The
ore prospects largely. The Balmoral and
Chemisette are lyiDg dormant. But very
little work has been done upon them, al-
though their appearance on top is favor-
able. Cudell ii Co., aid a number of
others, are busy at work. Bailroad will be
the liveliest camp in the county this spring.

A letter from the above place says: Lewis
& Co's claims, near Wet Gulch, is being
earnestly worked and is yielding exceed-
ingly rich ore. They willcommencecrush-
ing in a short time.

Twenty pounds of rock taken from the
lead of Sauders & Co., Washington Banch
district, yielded $15.75.

EI. DORADO COUNTY.

Placerville Democrat, March 20th: We
have been informed by a correspondent at

White Oak, in this county, that the Pyra-
mid Quartz Mining Co.' have been doing
exceedingly well during the past winter.
Also that Cooley, Smith and others, have
discovered a very rich vein of quartz on
Mormon Bavine. The lode is well-defined
and about two ft. in width, and as far as
prospected yielded about $100 to the
ton. The indications are favorable of its
becoming a paying claim, as the gold ap-
pears to be evenly diffused through the
quartz.

EOS ANGEI.ES COTJNTY.

We learn from Mr. Messmer, who arrived
on Sunday last from the Soledad mines,
that the mill of Searles & Co. is now in
running order. It carries five stamps at
present, but has a capacity for twenty. It
is running by water-power, having an
abundance of water all the year. The par-
ties invited their friends to partake of a
collation and witness the starting of the
mill, and aconsiderablenumberassembled.
The miU worked beautifully, and will
henceforth be kept going day and night —
they having a large pile of rock on hand.
The erection of this mill will give a new
impetus to mining at Soledad, as large
quantities of rock have been waiting to be
crushed for months. Kabler & Co's mill
has been running some time, and the ore
pays well, and some parties are running
arastras. A large number of people are
flocking to these mines, and prospectors are
finding new lodes every day. It is the in-
tention of the Searles Co. to put on more
stamps as soon as they eau be procured.

NEVADA COUNTY.

Gazette, March 19th: Geo. F. Sharp has
commenced suit agaiust Sheriff Gentry, to
compel the conveyance of the New York
Hill Quartz Co's property, purchased by
Sharp under execution.

E. F. Morse and others located on the
10th inst. 12 claims of 100 ft. each on the
Higgins and Larrimer ledge, situated near
the Larrimer mill on Wolfe Creek.

Letter from Anthony's Flat, March 16th:
This community is highly encouraged with
its quartz prospects. The Scandinavian has
three arastras running. A contract has
been let for the taking out of 500 tons of
rock. The rock shows more free gold than
any yet prospected. A good return is
looked for when the clean-up is made. No
Chinamen are employed.
._. Same of 20th: A crushing of 123 loads of
quartz from the Lamarque ledge, on New
York Hill, just made at the Sebastopol
mill, yielded $2,197.

Transcript, March 28th: A company is
putting up machinery for raising rocks and
opening the lower end of Jones' Bar on the
Yuba river.

The Mohawk and Montreal Co. are mak-
ing good headway in running up the 400
foot level, and the rock shows an increase
of rich sulphurets.

Same of 23d: The mining companies whose
claims are located in the upper part of Ne-
vada township, in the neighborhood of the
Deer Creek Cascades have abundance of
water aod tine prospects. The Nevada
Consolidated Co., Stranahan Superintend-
ent, have two sets of miningclaims at work,
the Burrington Hill and Chalk Mountain
claims. They are now working in the for-
mer with 400 inches of water and are mak-
ing rapid progress in their 60-ft. banks.
Bunning through this claim, which has
been thoroughly prospected by tunnels,
they have seven channels or side washings
from the main channel, all of them rich.
In the Chalk Mountain claims they are run-
ning tunnels for the purpose of prospect-
ing. The Bed Diamond Co. are washing
the gravel which they take out of the tun-
nel, and they have a fine prospect. Ste-
phens <fc Co. commenced running yesterday.
Houton & Co. have been washing all win-
ter in the bed of Green Horn Creek and are
doing well. The Enterprise Tunnel Co.
have struck first rate gravel in their tunnel.
The prospects in this locality were never so
good, and as the late rains have given
abundance of water, there is every pros-
pect that large returns will be received dur-
ing the summer and fall from these claims.

Grass Valley National, MarchlSth: Frank
Morse cleaned up on Saturday $1,108, from
a run of five days with eight stamps. This
is exclusive of the sulihurets, which are
both abundant and rich, and the rock
crushed was tbe poorest which he had on
hand.

Same of 19th: A. E. Davis, Michael Col-
bert aud Johu Anderson arrived from San
Francisco to-day. Mr. Colbert informs us
that work will commence to-morrow at the
Allison Banch mine and the pumps will, in
all probability, be raising water within a
week's time.

Same of 20th: The certificate of incorpor-
ation of the Orleans Mining Co. was filed
in the clerk's office yesterday. The com-
pany is formed for the purpose of locating,

holding, purchasing, and working of min-
ing claims aod quartz lodes on Heuston
Hill, Ophir Hill and Osborn Hill.

Union, of 20th; Several of the old Grass
Valley quartz miners arrived by stage yes-
terday. They mean business, of which the
public will be apprized soon.

Between 40 and 50 passengers came
through from Colfax yesterday. White
Pine is not monopolizing all the travel.

Same of 23d: The incliue shaft of the Al-
lison Banch mine is 480 ft. deep, and as
soon as it is free of water, rock can be
taken from the drifts and stopes. Little,
if any work is expected to be required in
repairs in the levels of the .mine, as the
ground is very firm. If no untoward cir-
cumstance occurs, the old mine, in a few
weeks, will be again in full blast. The
Wisconsin and Illinois mine has again
started up. They expect to have the water
all out of the shaft in 10 days, when work
in the drifts will be immediately resumed.
The Hartery mine, which has also been
standing idle for some time, was leased to
a company of practical miners a few weeks
ago, and yesterday the mill started on rock
from it.

Both the Transcript and the Union, con-
tain editorial articles setting forth the wild-
ness of the rush to White Pine in spite of
the warnings which are sounded; and try
to show that, all things considered, there is
no doubt that a man can do far better by
going to Nevada County. It is by no
means unlikely. The Transcript says: "In
the older mining localities there are many
claims which it would not pay to work
years ago when wages and water cost double
present rates, which can be worked now
at a profit. There are also large ranges
along the gravel channels which have never
been prospected." The Unionmjs: "Dur-
ing the coming season there will be more
work offering in our mines than for years
previously, and the labor of every miner
here will not only be required, but there
will be a demand for more."

PLACER COUNTY.

Auburn Stars and Stripes, March 18th :
We learn of gold-bearing cement being
struck in Thompson's Hill, just below the
town, of almost fabulous richness, paying
$200 or $300 to the pan. It has long been
known that there was a large body of ce-
ment underlying the hill, which contained
gold. From tests recently made there is no
longer reason to doubt that the cement may
be worked to great profit.

Herald, March 20th: We were shown yes-
terday a specimen of the cement recently
struck in Eing Bro's claim, and also in the
Baker Boy's claims, at Dutch Flat. The
piece is about three inches long by one and
a half wide, and three-quarters thick, and
contains, imbedded iu the bluish cement,
coarse, bright washed gold, to the value of
about $20. It is one of the richest and
most beautiful specimens that we have ever
seen. This cement was taken from about
six feet above the bedrock, and will yield
from $300 to $1,000 to the pan. The
miners of Dutch Flat think they have
actually tapped the celebrated "blue lead,"
and have vast sums within reach.

PLUMAS COUNTY.

Quincy National, March 13th : O'Neill &
Leavit have discovered some -rich ground
in one of the branches of the old Betsy
Gulch, near Elizabethtown, and are now at
work on a ditch to bring water to the
claim. Their prospects are good.

The Caledonia mill at Cherokee is run-
ning steadily, and is crushing good paying
rock. Judkins & Kellogg have struck the
ledge in their lower level, — seventy-five ft.
deeper than their old works, — and are tak-
ing out paying rock. As usual, their mine
is paying first rate. Stewart sold out half
of the Stewart it White ledge, recently dis-
covered, to Bachelder & Bellas, for $900.
The purchasers have been offered a large
advance on their purchase, but don't wish
to sell. Cahalan has struck his ledge — the
Bon-Accord — in his tunnel.

SIEKRA COUNTY.

Downieville Messenger, March 20th :
Good pay has at last been struck in the
"Union claim at Queen' City. In five days'
running last week, they took out 149 ozs. ,
washing no stock dirt, but taking it as it
came out of the claim. In the Moute
Cristo, adjoining the Union, in nine days'
running, 189% ounces were taken out.

The Pioneer Co., of Grass Flat, has let a
contract to Phillip Dory and John Jack-
man, to run 1,000 feet of tunnel, at $12
per foot

SHASTA COUNTY.

Courier, March 20th: Moore & Co., of
Portuguese Flat, have cleaned up $800
since the winter set in, and M. J. Hearst,
whose claim is located on the same flat, has
taken out a still larger amount. The bal-
ance of the miners on the flat are making
fair wages. The Hazel Creek mines have

paid better this winter than ever before.
Andrews & Garet have struck good pay on
Pitt Flat, and last week they took out seven
pieces which they sold for $50. Clark &
Miller have cleaned up' over $1,200 during
the last few months, and are still doing
well. Nickols and others opened a claim
on the head of this creek this season, and
have made from $5 to $8 per day to the
hand ever since they commenced work.
Heretofore the mining lias been confined to
the bed of the creek, but experiments made
this winter prove conclusively that the
banks and bars will pay from the head of
the stream to its mouth. There is paying
ground here sufficient to furnish claims for
200 miners, and water is also abundant.
Soda Creek has been almost abandoned
this winter, but will be extensi vely worked
next summer. It is almost impossible to
work on that stream in the winter time.

SISKIYOU COUNTY.

Yreka Union, March'|13th: Hon. John
Dagget, who was in town a few days ago,
informs us that the Black Bear Co. have
been taking out and crushing more rock
this winter than usual.

Scott Valley correspondence has this .
item: The Etna Mining Co. is running
night and day, with every prospect of real-
izing a big yield. I was informed that there
is not a dollar's worth of the companies
stock to be had at any price.

TUOEUMNE COUNTY.

Sonora Democrat, March 20th: A little
daughter of Mr. Jo. Aldridge, of Green
Springs, one day last week, picked up near
her father's house a piece of gold worth
$20.

COLORADO.

Georgetown Miner, Feb. 1 1th : E. W.
Bogers is actively developing the Junction
lode, on Democrat Mountain. The shaft is
now 45 feet in depth, carrying about a 3-ft.
ore vein. The ore is quartz and mineral
combined, some specimens being very
rich, and the whole vein pays a nice profit
above the expenses of mining and reduc-
tion.

The adit on the Mendota lode is now in
100 feet, the vein carrying from eight to
fourteen inches of mineral. The surface
ore carried scarcely any galena, and from
$19 to $90 in silver. The ore they have
been in for the last ten feet, carries 50 per
cent, of galena and $548 in silver, to the
ton of ore.

Same of 25th : Experienced judges esti-
mate that there is now in sight in the Ter-
rible and Equator lodes, not less than
$2,000,000 worth of ore, that can be easily
and economically drifted and stoped out.

Clark Hedge has discovered a fine lode on
Sherman Mountain, about 500 feet below
the Snowdrift. He has about five feet of
quartz, ^carrying a goodly quantity of sul-
phurets.

Work on the crushing and dressing works
is progressing favorably.

Huepeden & Co. have taken out and
shipped, since our last report, silver bull-
ion to the amount of $2,294.48, coin value.
They are not running to their full capacity,
as they cannot obtain a full supply of ore.

Stewart has shut down his works for the ■
purpose of putting in three Blatchley pans.
He will commence running again in about
ten days, prepared to treat ores by raw
amalgamation. He has just finished a lot
of Snowdrift ore, that gave a yield of some-
thing over $100 per ton. The bullion was
.910 fine.

Colorado Herald, Feb. 25th : Bobert
Teats has struck the biggest pocket of rich
ore yet found in his mine. He took out
eight tons of first-class ore yesterday. The
streak is now over eighteen inches wide.

Mr. Fitzpatricl; is running his stamp
mill on ore from the Bates or Hunter lode,
for John Sanderson. Mr. Sanderson has
his shaft down to a depth of 240 feet, and
at that depth has a very large vein of ore.

Neikirk & Virden commenced to sink on
the Dead Broke this morning. For the
past few weeks they have been moving wall
rock. They arealso running Walker's new
18-stamp mill, below Black Hawk, with
good success.

Ten stamps of Brastow's mill in Lake
Gulch are being run on Bobtail ore. There
is not enough water to run the full capac-
ity of the mill, which is a 30-stamper. Be-
low Mr. Brastow, Mr. Cheney manages to
keep his mill in motion on custom ore.

A very rich silver lode has lately been
discovered on North Clear Creek, in what
is known as the Bay State Mining District.

There are five companies at work driv-
ing on North C.ear Creek, above the mouth
of Russell Gulch. The water, since the
advent of the late spell of cold weather, is
very scarce, there being scarcely a full
sluice head. Alex. Cameron is making
preparations to open his claims above the
Junction, and will run two branch flumes.
His main flume is to be 24x24 in the clear.

Th|e Mining and Scientific Press.

199

r, Feb. 17th: D:in. Sut-
pheu is at work on the California lode, in
Ward district Tins lode hns been in the
cap fora lon2 distance. This is now passed

through, aud Dan. reports a line lookiug
vein "f ore. three feet wide.

Bloke & Gli inrtz mill, at South

Bjuhler, is being removed and set up in
Sugar Loaf district. It has eight stamps,
an I will be run by water-power, on custom
or s.

T. J. Hill, of North Bonlder, informs us
that Samuel Conger and himself have dis-
covered a tine silver-bearing lode — an ore of
grey oopner and black sulplmrets. The
ore seam i3 two feet wide and promises very
riehlv.

S.i. ue of 24th: A fund of $ 10,000 has
been secured, to be used in working the
mine and mill of the Hoosier Co. Opera-
tiims will bo carried ou briskly the coming
Benson.

We have been shown sorno samples of

ore from the Legal Tender lode, recently

red by Mr. John Duncan. It looks

the best of any surface ore we have seen in

nntry.

Some parties are mining and prospecting
this winter at Gold Hill. We understand
that a new gulch is to be worked.

Mr. Bamage, from Ward, says that snow
is making surface mining rather tedious.

There is considerable excitement in Bur-
lington over a discovery of gold. The new
diggings are about one mile below the town,
and are very favorably situated for work-
ing.

The Hoosier mill will soon be running to
its fullest capacity, and this will be in-
creased as soon as receipts will justify. The
mine is in shape so as to produce any
amount of ore.

Letter from Sugar Loaf, Feb. 10th :
"Messrs. Blake & Shively have lately dis-
covered a rich lode in Pennsylvania dis-
trict. The name they have given it is the
Viola. They will start work soon.

A few days since, John Duncan, an old
prospector, struck his independent fortune
DJ discovering a 3-foot vein of sulplmrets
of silver. He has given it the name of Le-
gal Tender.

N. G. Snyder has made two rich discov-
eries on Sugar Loaf Mountain, the La
Plata and Marietta.

Several parties talk of erecting reduction
works on Four Mile."

IDAHO.

Owyhee Avalanche, March 13th: We are
glad to be able to announce that the Kising
Star mill is about to steam up again. Mr.
Hall, the Superintendent, is vigorously
making preparations fora long run. Mr.
Cole's claims have been paid off and the at-
tachment released. The hands have been
paid. Mr. Frank Dougherty informs us
that the mill is one of the best arranged he
has ever seen, aud the mine is luoking ex-
ceeding well, the ore rich and abundant.

The Ida Elmore mill will start on the
20ih. The New York mill is running on
Poorman ore.

Total coin value of bullion assayed in
Owyhee County during February, as re-
turned by the Assis' aut Assessor of Internal
Revenue, SOS, 09b'. 05.

The Boise JJemncrat is informed that ex-
tensive preparations are being made for
working the Willow Creek mines, as soon
as the miners have water.

The Idaho City World of March 4th, says:
Miners look hopefully for the working sea-
son to open in a few days. It promises to
be a very profitable one.

Silver City Tidal Wave, March 16th: We
learn from the World that the Elk Horn
mine near Hog'em, has out about 400 tons
of rock, and the mill will commence crush-
ing in a week or two.

Thirteen bullion sacks, each containing
a bar, aggregating a value of over §35,000
coin, were shipped for San Francisco on
Friday morning.

Portland Oreyonian, March 6th: We have
received information from a reliable source,
that a new mining district has been lately
discovered— or rather, the knowledge of its
discovery has just come to light — on Moose
Creek, a tributary of the South Fork of
Clearwater. A party of 10 or 12 men who
made the discovery just at the setting in of
winter, and who have remained there at
work since, came down to Lewiston a few
days since after'provisions. They had with
them several thousand dollars of the dust
they had dug — very handsome aud coarse
gold. They represent the district as rich
as the Florence district, and as extensive.
It is about 18U or 200 miles from Lewis-
ton.

MONTANA.

Helena Post, March 5th: The approach-
ing mining season promises more favor-
ably to all classes than that of last year.
Wo now have 18 quartz mills of 280 stamps,
running regularly, aud yielding generally

good profits. Many new mines have been
opened in Deer Lodge, Jefferson and other
counties, ditches have been brought into
, gulches and upon bars where water

hithi rto could not be had; — and several of
:. which could be worked last season
but, for a short time, will in all probability
be favored.

A I'n. assayed yesterday morning
tho last yield of retort from the Nowlan
mill, at Cable City, forming a large brick,
containing 520 ozs., which was valued at
$11,870, currency.

Virginia City items: Capt. Guyer has
purchased the mill and machinery of tho
New York & New Jersey Gold aud Silver
Mining Co. at Bannack, and several very
valuable silver lodes of Mr. Stanton, situ-
ated in Brown's Gulch. It is the inten-
tion of Mr. Guyer to immediately erect in
the vicinity a splendid first class mill, fur-
nished with a full set of Billiard pans.

Seven bars of gold, aggregating 310 ozs.,
the current value of which was $10,000 in
currency, was brought into Virginia City
as being tho result of about two weeks run
ou unselected rock from the Green Camp-
bell lode. . . A project is ou foot to organ-
ize a company to conduct the waters of the
Madisou river into Alder Gulch.

NEVADA.

REESE HIVF.IC.

The Austin Reveille of March 16th., gives
a full history and description of Roseville
district, discovered and organized in 1806,
butne.vermuch worked, although a5-stamp
mill, the Rutland, was put. up and run for
a tine. The particular reason for the arti-
cle becomes evident towards its close. We
quote a few paragraphs :

" Latterly some attentionbas been turned
to the niiues of tho district, by reason
of the extraordinary developments iu White
Pine. The districts are similar. It was
used to be objected to Reveille that its ore
occured in limestone and would not be per-
manent. But White Pino has made lime-
stone the fashion, and the objectors are
silent. The splendid success of that dis-
trict will prove ' sugar on the lime' of Re-
veille. We believe the mines of that dis-
trict, with their rich ore, will command the
attention of capital before the close of this
year."

Fob the Southeast. — Early this morn-
ing six men, divided into two parties of
three each, with capital outfits for a month's
prospecting, left this city for exploration
in the southeartern part of the State.

In its issue of the 17th, the same journal
gives the history of Battle Mountain dis-
trict, lately become important from the fact
that the cars on the C. P. R. R. run within
a few miles of its principal camp. From
the "Little Giant" have been crushed tons
of ore which averaged .$300. The Reveille
evidently does not believe that there is
nothing else in the world but White Pine,
in the way of mininggroundjand he means
to keep before the people the recollections
of the wealth nearer home.

Nye County. — The Belmont Champion,
March 13th, says : " It is currently re-
ported that Alexander McKenzie has lately
struck an extensive and rich deposit of ore
iu El Dorado Hill, at a depth of about 180
feet from the surface. The claim, which
is owned by a Gold Hill Co., is situated on
the same hill, and some distance north of
W. F. Leon & Go's Ei Dorado South mine,
and the character of the ore is precisely
the same as in that famous mine. There is
no doubt but that it is the same ledge."

WASHOE.-

[ In the Stock Circular, in another por-
tion of this paper will be found late mining
news from this district. ]

Territorial Enterprise, March 18th: The
timbering of the shaft of the Gould & Cur-
ry will be completed within three days,
when the work of sinking will be resumed.
The cave did not break through the plat-
form at the bottom, therefore there will be
a certain amount of slum to remove from
the sump. Some very promising ore had
been struck in the buttom of the shaft at
the time the cave occurred.

Occidental. — The water in the lower
tunnel of this mine is increasing. A vein
struck night before last was found to be
almost milk warm. As yet the tunnel has
cut no vein matter.

Sierra Nevada. —This company have
made a good clean up for their last run of
15 days, and in the works are finding ore
much richer than ever.

Justice and Independent. — The com-
pany are finding some very fine rock on
their 160-foot level. Many specimens con-
taining free gold have been taken out
within a day or two. Ore of a promising
character has also been found at the north
end of the drift.

Imperial. — No developments of an en-
couraging nature have yet been made in

the drifts from the bottom of tho Imperial
Empire shaft. The rock on the lower level
is very hard.
Same of 21st :

Goi-ld A- CuimY. — Owing to a slight ac-
cident to the machiney, tho pumping eu-
gine was stopped for a few hours last night,
when the water raised iu the shaft to the
bight of 10 feet The necessary repairs
have been made, and the water has again
been reduced to its former level.

Sierra Nevada.— This company will
shortly resume drifting on their lower
level. Tho rock fouud on the surface con-
tinues to increase iu richness as the work
progresses to the westward.

CoNFEDERATE.-The parties who are
working tho old Bajazotte and Golden Era
grouud through the Confederate shaft, on
B street, are taking ou t some very good
rock. The shaft is down 150 feet, from the
level of which the old Bajazetto shaft is
used as a winze 50 feet deeper. From 60
to 70 tons of ore per day are being taken
out.

Ckown Point.— The company are en-
gaged in repairing their shaft, which has
been badly injured by the swelling of the
clay aud rock through which it passes. It
will require some two weeks.

WHITE PISE.

[The latest items of news and informa-
tion from this district will be found on an-
other page. ]

Railroad Items.

Stockton and Tulare Railroad. — The
citizens of Stockton, after holding several
public meetings with the view of devising
some way of building this road according
to the plan generally adopted in this State,
— at the public expense, — finally- hit upon
the novel expedient of building it with
their own money. At an informal gather-
ing of a number of citizens, held on Satur-
day of last week, it was proposed to form a
joint stock company, with a capital of $300,-
000, in 50 shares of $6,000 each; the said
company to own and control the road en-
tirely, asking no aid from either city or
county, and locating the line where it will
best suit the interests of Stockton and tho
valley south. The plan was first mooted
about 9 o'clock, and in less thau two hours,
25 shares, representing $150,000, or half
of the required capital, were taken. The
men who are leading in this movement are
some of the most enterprising and substan-
tial citizens of Stockton. In addition to
the amount of capital stock, subscriptions
will be asked of the people iu both city and
county, in such amounts as they may feel
able to make. This plan looks feasible and
business-like, and we trust will be earnest-
ly pushed forward, until the whole of the
large and fertile valley region to the south
of Stockton is opened up to ready commu-
nication with that city, as the initial point
and tide water terminus.

It is estimated that $300,000 will build
the road to the banks of the Tuolumne
river, and that it can be completed to that
poiut the present season. The sum named
is certainly most insignificant for the work
to be performed ; yet it is said to be suffi-
cient. As soon as this initial section is
completed, the investment will no doubt
begin to pay, and will lead to the ready
procurement of whatever additional amount
may be needed to push forward the enter-
prise, southward from the Tuolumne, as
fast as the growing business of that region
will warrant. This road is one that is great-
ly needed, and we hope to see the work go
on with as little delay as possible, aud trust
that we shall be afforded an early opportu-
nity to state positively that the enterprise
is beyond tho possibility of delay or fail-
ure.

Stockton io Visalia.- — It is said that
Gov. Stanford and associates are engaged
in surveying for a railroad route from
Stockton to Visalia. If two roads were
built, they would have to run nearly par-
allel and but a few miles apart, for nearly
a hundred miles— in a southeasterly di-
rection and along the easterly side of the
San Joaquin valley. A main truuk to the

neighborhood of Fresno, some eighty miles
from Stockton, and west and east branches
from that poiut to Visalia, and the west of
the Tulare Lake, respectively, is what and
all that is needed for the present to meet
the growing wants of that region.

The San Pedro Rallroad.— The bridge
about three miles from Wilmington is com-
pleted, and track-laying renewed. The
road is nearly all graded, and it is confi-
dently predicted that the entire road will
bo finished and in running order by the
Fourth of July.

The Vallejo Railroad. — The Marys-
ville Appeal is informed that the Vallejo
railroad will be completed to Yuba City by
the first day of September next, and build-
ing of the Feather river bridge will be com-
pleted as soon as the road reaches that vi-
cinity. The bridge is expected to cross
the river a few rods above the present
bridge.

The Feather River Road.— Work on
this road, which is to connect Oroville
with Virginia City, will be pushed vigor-
ously as soon as commenced, which will be
in a few days. In view of the early com-
pletion of this road the Butte Record calls
on the Chicoites to take hold and build the
California Northern Railroad on to their
city, and thus place themselves in connec-
tion with a feasible railroad over the mount-
ains, and with a line now being built from
Vallejo and Marysville. The Record presses
on them with considerable vigor the ad-
vantages they would thus secure to their
section.

Warming the Hudson Rtveb. — A cor-
respondent of the Brooklyn Union, who has
been visiting Seneca lake — a body of water
that never freezes over — makes the follow-
ing astonishing suggestion : Considering
that the immense volume of water of Sen-
eca lake, in its high altitude, is kept from
freezing by sub-aqueous springs, why can-
not Hudson River, with its currents, its
ocean tide, and salt water, its thousands of
craft plying its surface, be kept from freez-
ing by sinking artesian wells along the bot-
tom of its channel? These wells, when
once bored, never cost anything to- run
them. What millions of freight would be
saved ? This noblest of rivers would be no
more ice-locked for a large portion of the
year, rendering its lovely banks secluded
and bleak; but from the bowels of mother
earth a perennial warm fountain would
flow, unlocking forever the present forbid-
den barriers, and enriching the State.
There are moneyed interests along the
river to expend a sum for the experiment.
If, as in most other places, there can be
the attainment of one warm stream from an
artesian well in the bed of the river, the
entire reclamation of the Hudson River
for winter navigation is an assured success.

Gestation Amonq Fishes. — The modes
of gestation among fishes is astonishingly
various. Some are viviparous. In several
species the eggs are carried about the out-
side of the body of one of the parents. In
some the eggs are attached to the forward
fins and under side of the head. Some are
carried and hatched in a pouch precisely
analagous to that of the kangaroo. In
Guiano, during the breedingseason, cat-fish
are offered for sale with their mouths liter-
ally crammed with eggs and young in dif-
ferent stages of growth and development.
Agassiz has recently observed in Brazil
that many species of chromoids carry their
eggs at the back part of their mouth, and
that some species of the loricarias carry
their eggs attached to the broad membrane
which surrounds their mouth.

Hardness of Silver. — Goldsmiths often
complain of the hardness of silver, which
is sometimes very difficult to carve, and
presents a dead gray cut. These proper-
ties are generally attributed to the presence
of a foreign metal; butM. Mathey, assayer
at Locia, has shown that in this silver there
is neither tin, lead, nor any other injurious
metal. He considers this property to be
due solely to the high temperature at which
silver is cast. By letting the crucible cool
till a slight solid crust is formed on the sur-
face of the fused metal, and casting at this
moment, a soft silver with a brilliant cut is
obtained. — Dingler's Journal.

One Million. — The weight of one mill-
ion of dollars in gold is within a few pounds
of one aud one quarter tons, avoirdupois.

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OAKLANn.— W. B. Hardy.

Califoiinia and Nkvaoa— S. H. Herring.

Sicramento— A S Hopkins. No. 711 J street.
' White Pine District. — Alex. Bruckman, Hamilton, Kev.

Helena, Montana.— R. F. Slav.

Black Hawk, C. T.— Harper if. Orahood.

Central Citv, 0. T. — Messrs. Richards A: Crane, of the
City Book store. Main street, will act as our agents.

GVorgetown. C. T.— John A. Lalferty, Postmaster, Is our
agent In this place.

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agents for this place.

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him, will be duly acknowledged at this office. Jan. 11, 1866.

San Francisco:

Saturday Morning, March 27, 1869.

Notices to Correspondents.

Mendoza, San Bernardino. — The planting
of trees, no matter of what species, would
undoubtedly tend to ameliorate the peri-
odical dry season of your extensive in-
land county. Mr. Boressiugault, in a
wide experience in both Americas, and
devotedly deep study of this interesting
subject, asserts that extensive clearing of
■wood is followed by aridity, and when
the reverse from accidental causes has
occurred, the converse result has fol-
lowed. In the first place, he contends
that where extensive clearings are made,
the ann ual rain- fall for such a district
diminishes. In the second place, where
the soil is deprived of umbrageous cov-
ering, evaporation goes on more vigor-
ously; and lastly, when a great extent of
land is dis-forested, and brought under
arable cultivation in warm climates and
the absence of moisture compensated by
artificial irrigation, the latter greatly di-
minishes the amount of water flowing in
the lower courses of rivers, and prevents
the formation of lakes and similar natu-
ral compensating reservoirs, calculated
to more equally regulate the flow of
streams throughout all seasons of the
year.

Tapioca, in chemical composition, does
not vary much from rice, being chiefly
composed of starch. This alimentary
substance is derived from the jatrqpha
manihot, a plant chiefly indigenous to the
Brazils and Guiana. It contains, as ex-
pressed from the green root, one of the
most active vegetable poisons known, be-
ing so deadly poisonous, that the natives
employ it to poison their arrows. The
juice, if allowed to stand after express-
ion, the supermatant fluid is then de-
canted, and the crude precipitated tapi-
oca is repeatedly washed with water un-
til eventually the tapioca is rendered fit
for use. A bread known as cassava
bread, is also obtained from the same
root.

Flobal. — May-day celebrations are derived
by us from our English forefathers; even
the ascetic pilgrim fathers not being in-
sensible to the beauties of the hawthorne
and its customary accompanying charm-
ing weather. The English derived their
practice from the Komans, and the Bo-
mans from the Greeks. A floral holiday
betokens a poetical taste for nature and a
mind free from griping and sordid cares.

Fmeltee, San Francisco. — You put the
matter on the propel' basis, in inquiring
as to the most economical way of smelt-
ing your ore. Without the aid of a com-
petent smelter, however, you can do
nothing. If your ores are pure enough,
a Scotch hearth , or the Japanese contri-
vance, illustrated in the Press some time
ago, would answer, and be more econom-
ical. Pure galena need not be crushed
fine. The separation is by cupellation,
in which the oxide of lead flows off.

Continental Life Insurance Company,
203 Montgomery street, corner of Pine.

Gold in China and Japan.

Mr. Pumpelly, in his recent Smithsonian
publication, referred to in our issue of the
10th of October last, gives a table of local-
ities of gold washings in the Chinese Em-
pire, from which it appears that the gold
regions there are quite extensive. Gold
washings are found in fourteen out of the
eighteen provinces of the Empire. Most
of the localities furnish coarse placer gold,
some of them quite large nuggets, and
many are said to be very rich. The gen-
eral working of these mines has been dis-
continued by order of the government, in
accordance with some of their peculiar
theories of finance. Unless the exhaustion
of these placers has been greater than the
imperfection of Chinese mining would lead
us to suppose, there is much reason for
believing that the gold regions of China
are among the most extensive and richest
which yet remain for scientific exploration.
Gold in place undoubtedly exists there,
although it does not appear from the papers
before us that it has been discovered.

The existence of gold in Japan was
known to the early Dutch traders in the
East Indies, many of whom enriched them-
selves by purchasing and exporting the
gold to Europe. The relative value be-
tween gold and silver was then, as more
recently, much less than those in other
parts of the world; hence a most favorable
opportunity was presented for such traffic.
The export of gold at one time reached an
average of $2,500,000 annually, and nearly
the same amount of silver found its way
out of the country. This drain of the
precious metals so alarmed the Japanese
that important restrictions were placed
upon their export. Good authority has
estimated that fully $225,000,000 in gold
and silver were exported from Japan dur-
ing the seventeenth century.

During the early intercourse with that
country gold was mostly exported ,in ?co-
banffs, a Japanese coin, worth in Europe
$11 in silver; but which was valued in
Japan at only $8.40. A still less dispro-
portion between gold and silver existed at
the time of Commodore Perry's visit to
that country. At that time the relative
difference was as one to three and one-sev-
enth. To avoid the great drain which fol-
lowed this discovery in connection with
the reopening of the Japanese ports, that
government reduced the weight of its gold
coin without changing its value, so that
the relative values of gold and silver are
now about the same in Japan as in other
countries.

The first discovery of gold in Japan
dates back to the year 708, previous to
which time that people imported all their
gold from China. The first recorded visit
of a European to a Japanese gold-field
was that of a Boman Catholic priest in
1620, a glowing and no doubt exaggerated
account of which was sent to Europe.

The gold mines of Yesso, Northern Ja-
pan, were visited in 1862 by Mr. Pumpelly
and Prof. W. P. Blake, of this State, acting
as Commissioners for the Japanese Govern-
ment. According to the publications of
these gentlemen, the mines are government
property, and are worked only on a limited
scale. The works consist merely of wash-
ings, and yield but a small annual amount.
The gold is found in the river beds and in
the high terrace deposits on hill sides.
Some of the placers have been worked
over many times. (The Japanese method
of washing for gold was illustrated in the
PKESSof October 10th, 186S.) Trees were
observed stauding in some of the old work-
ings which it was thought could not be
less than 300 years old. To work these
old placers, extensive ditches had been cut
for many miles, exactly similar to those in
use in this State. Ground sluicing is a
method much employed there, aided by
straw mats, upon which the concentrated
gravel is drawn with a hoe. Up to the

time of the visit of Messrs. Blake and
Pumpelly, no board sluices, toms, or quick-
silver appear to have been used; but these
American adjuncts were subsequently in-
troduced upon their suggestion.

The New York Elevated Kailway.

The crowded thoroughfares of New York
City have long urgently demanded addi-
tional conveniences for passenger transpor-
tation between the upper and lower por-
tions of that city. Two plans, only, ap-
pear to be practical for the accomplishment
of this end — either an underground or an
elevated railway. The practicability of the
latter will soon be thoroughly tested. A
railway of this description has already been
constructed from Cortland street to the
Battery — a distance of about one-third of
a mile. The road is supported on iron pil-
lars, at an elevation of about twelve feet
above the pavement — the inner rail being
directly over the outer edge of the curb-
stone.

Experimental trips were made upon this
road on the 5th of February, in presence
of the directors a,nd a few invited guests.
We were present at this trial and had the
pleasure of a ride over the road. The cars
are constructed very much like ordinary
street cars, with front and rear platforms,
where the conductor or brakeman controls
the movement of the vehicle. The car is
propelled by a series of endless wire ropes
passing over pulleys, and kept in motion
through the entire distance by a stationary
engine placed underground, at the Cort-
land end of the route. At intervals of
about 200 feet, along these ropes, and
firmly attached to them, small upright iron
standards are fixed, projecting upward
three or four inches. When the brakeman
wishes to start the car, he simply moves a
lever and throws down a strong iron clamp
which comes in contact with the first one
of the aforesaid uprights which comes
along, and by means of which the car is
instantly set in motion and carried forward
until it reaches the desired stopping place,
when the brakeman has merely to reverse
his lever, thus elevating the " clamp," so
as to break the connection with the endless
rope, and the car is brought to a standstill.
The whole process and machinery is ex-
ceedingly simple and equally as safe as
horse-power.

The car moves along very quickly, and
with a steady, gliding motion, forming a
most pleasant contrast with the ordinary
travel upon a horse railroad, especially
through crowded thoroughfares. We
particularly observed that the horses below
did not appear to take any notice, what-
ever, of the car. The road presents but
little obstruction to the occupants of the
buildings along whose front it passes.
Most of the people in the street gazed with
evident surprise at this new mode of travel,
and evinced much curiosity to learn the
secret of the locomotion.

The directors and invited guests ex-
pressed their fullest confidence in the appa-
rent success of the enterprise, and were
quite unanimous in pronouncing the Ele-
vated Bailway a practical success. We un-
derstood that it is the intention of the com-
pany to push the construction of the road
out as far as Thirtieth street, as soon as
possible, where it will connect with the
Hudson Biver Bailroad. Trains will be
run each way every fifteen minutes. The
rate of speed attained at this trial was about
one mile in six minutes. If the anticipa-
tions of those who witnessed this same are
realized, this mode of travel will soon be-
come decidedly popular among the deni-
zens of Gotham.

Eepoeted Gold Discoveries in Alaska.
The schooner Ann Eliza, which arrived at
this port on Tuesday last, from the Island
of Kodiak, brings intelligence of valuable
gold discoveries reported to have been made
at three different points, wide apart, on the
coast of Alaska. The first and most import-
ant, was on the banks of the Knyak river,
which empties into Cook's Straits. The
locality is near the seacoast, and in about
latitude 62°, longitude 150°; the second was
on the banks of the Chicut river, at a point
about sixty miles above Sitka, and near the
northern base of Mt. Fairweather; the third
was on an island, the name and locality of
which are not given. At the first named,
according to the reports, one teaspoonful
of gold dust was obtained from three shov-
elsful of gravel, taken six feet from the
surface. The steward of the schooner ex-
hibits specimens of fine dust, and several
nuggets, said to have been obtained from
the first locality. The discoveries were made
by a Bussian engineer, who was out on a
prospecting expedition. There is nothing
particularly improbable in the finding of
gold in Alaska; but that country is too far
off and too far north to make it a very de-
sirable locality for mining operations. The
season there would not admit of out-door
work more than five months in the year.
Moreover, much allowance should be made
for exaggerated accounts of any discoveries
which might be made there.

We have received from the Montana
Publishing Company a copy of the Mon-
tana Statistical Almanac, and Year Book
of Facts, for 1869. It contains much valu-
able information, of which we shall avail
ourselves hereafter.

The Gentle Showees of Spring still
continue, at intervals, to scatter their re-
freshing bounties over the land, and our
interior exchanges are profuse in their ex-
pressions of gratitude and joy at the pros-
pects of the comiug harvest. By some, the
recent pluvial bounties are regarded even
in the light of a special Providence, which
has visited us just in season to avert ca-
lamity from our fields. Judging from the
tone of the press, it is seldom that we wit-
ness a community more full of thankful-
ness and hope. With an abundance of
water for agricultural and mining purposes,
with the sure prospect of a most unprece-
dented emigration by the ove:'land rail-
road, with an increase of railroad travel
and traffic generally, with a great enlarge-
ment of coastwise and foreign commerce,
and a corresponding increase in our man-
ufacturing enterprises, to say nothing of
the wonderful discoveries of new and rich
mines, the proceeds from which are already
pouring in upon us, there is no reason
why California ahould not realize, during
the coming season, a far greater and more
general degree of prosperity than she has
ever before enjoyed.

Peopobtion of Gold to Silver in Com-
stock Ores. — The State Mineralogist of
Nevada in one of his reports publishes a
table from which we collate the following
figures, which probably show a very close
approximation to the average amount in
value, of gold and silver in the bullion
from Comstock ores. The bullion taken
from 5,162 tons of ore, from five of the prin-
cipal mines, assayed with the following re-
sults;

Torts' of ore

Mine crushed.

Mexican 2,458

Savage 1,1104

Potosi 133

Goul'l A: Curry 440-

1 nele Sam 827

Proportionate value of

Gold. Silver,

47.80 52.10

27.35 72.05

25.84 74.16

24.03 75.37

32.12 67.88

The average value of the two metals in
the ores above specified, is — gold 31.51,
silver, 68.45; gold very nearly representing
one-third aud silver a little over two-thirds
of the value of the bullion. This may
doubtless be taken as a very fair statement
of the proportionate value of gold and sil-
ver in the Comstock ores.

Subteeeanean Water-Cotjeses. — The
celebrated French geologist, the Abbe
Lombard, has lately discovered in the val-
ley which separates Yvetol from Auzebose,
France, a point where two sources of water
cross each other at about thirty-five yards
beneath the surface, which on boring have
been found capable of furnishing neatly
300,000 gallons every twenty-four hours.

Tt\e Mining and Scientific Press.

201

Concerning the Origin of the
Pan Process."

' Washoe

In oar last week's issue our correspond-
ent "J. 8." stated that Captain Batch was
tlie man who blessed tlio country with tlio
"Washoe pan process." " J. S." evidently
considered this process as identical with
the present common "pan process." Tlio
Washoe pan process consisted in a contin-
uous amalgamation of the ore, the pulp
running directly from the battery through
a scries of pans. This method of treating
the ore in pans was called tho Washoe pan
process, and was introduced by Mr. Alnia-
rin B. Paul, in Gold Hill — who speaks for
himself on the subject in another column.
It lias not tho slightest similarity, as wo are
informed by others, whose judgment there-
fore stands in opposition to J. S. , with the
process of Captain Hatch, who simply
tried, wo believe, to apply the Patio proc-
ess, in a modified manner, iu pans, — which
were in fact introduced before Mr. Hatch
commenced to operate his process, the lat-
ter having had ouly a short existence.

In California the pan process was origi-
nally carried on in a simple iron flat bot-
tomed pan, having stirring arms, to which
shoes were here fastened exactly on the
principle of the Mexican arastra. In both,
the iron arastra, or pan, and the Mexican
arastra, the ore was ground and amalga-
mated under a slow motion. The present
pan process has surely little in common
with the Mexican copper kettle boiling
process, which is especially adapted to
chlorides, iodides and bromides. Unless
"J. S." can show, therefore, that the prin-
ciple is the same, we shall have to agree
with Mr. Paul that our present pan process
is a material addition to the science and
practice of metallurgy.

A Good Place for Emigbants. — It is
said that in boring wells along the San
Joaquin Valley, above Stockton, the augur
in most place) penetrates through about
forty feet of rich black soil, before coming
to gravel ! We question whether any of
the Mississippi prairies or Texas bottoms
can equal this. If a single acre of this soil
could be spread out, it would cover a very
respectable New England farm. The far-
mer who contemplates leaving the Eastern
States for a western home, will make a sad
mistake if he chooses a farm on the plains
of Kansas or Nebraska, which are winter
bound a large portion of the year, in pref-
erence to locating his family in the San
Joaquin Valley, where a delightful climate
awaits him, never visited by winter storms,
and where a soil of unsurpassed richness
can be found, suited to all the varied pro-
ducts of a semi-tropical climate, as well as
affording a more abundant harvest of cereals
than can be taken from any other land in
the world. When the contemplated rail-
road is pushed out into this region, as it
will be within one or two years, these
lands will become very valuable. Now is
the time to buy while moderate prices pre-
vail.

A Magnificent Boulevaiud. — The city
of Chicago has resolved upon the most
magnificent Boulevard in the world. It is
to be fifteen miles in length, covering
an area of 2,000 acres, and will encircle the
entire city. There is no city better situ-
ated for such an enterprise, and no muni-
cipality better able to execute such a re-
solve. Applications has been made for
leave to borrow two millions at seven per
cent, to start the enterprise.

The New Mint Bdilding. — Work is to
be commenced immediately on the new
Mint building, at the corner of Fifth and
Mission streets. The lot is a full 100-vara.
Mr. W. P. C. Stebbius is superintendent
of construction. He has advertised for
proposals for excavating for the founda-
tion. ■

Benn's Patent Smoke Stack.

We give herewith an illustration of an
improved spark arrester, designed for uso
on locomotives, or other steam chimneys
whore danger or inconvenienco may be ap-
prehended from the issuance of lighted
cinders. Tho subjoined illustration pre-
sents a sectional view of a smoke stack with
the spark arrester attached. The letters C
0, represent a conical shaped vessel, sur-
rounding the upper portiou of the smcke
stack, and filled with water to a point near,
its upper edge. The stack is surmounted
by a hollow couo, in such a manner that
while the apex enters tho mouth of tho
same, the base is so bent back upon itself
as to encircle the chimney, as shown in the
engraving. This arrangement, as will bo
seen at D, D, causes the smoke to so im-
pinge upon tho surface of the water that
the escaping cinders and dust are th ere ar-

Fiee at the Caldfobxia Bisass Foundry.
Messrs. Gallagher, Weed it Kingwell were
unfortunate iu having their brass works
burned lust Sunday night. Their loss is
estimated at not less than 83,000, 81,800 of
which was insured. Workmen are busy
cleaning up and ropairing, and business
will soon be resumed. The finished work
in the front part of the shop was not much
damaged. By addition of some new and
improved tools and machinery, they intend
to be better prepared for work than ever
before

RKTPitMfn.— Dr J. II. Pftlne, Demist, Wnrtsworth House,
No. 225 Buxh sircut. between lite Ocelileutuliiml CosinopoU-
tan Hotels. San Fntuclsco. 21vl7lin

O. M Taylok. wlto acletl as agont a l.rlef time for tills
paper in Waslioe.ismiuesteuto cull at or address tlilsotllce,
without fall.

Photography.— For Oabinbt Photographs, or Enameled
Cords, of tile very liest ciimllty, you must go !i> the NEW
YORK GALLERY, Nos. 25 and 27 Third street. Salt Fran-
cisco. Every picture warranted to give satisfaction.

itlvlS 6m B. K. Uowl.wd.

BENN'S PATENT SMOKE STACK.

rested, while the smoke and gases rise from
the surface of the water, and pass out into
the open air. The cone may be readily
elevated or depressed by turning the hand
wheel F, which works the lever E. The
tube H being connected with the water
tank, is employed for filling the vessel C,
C The outlet I, prevents the overflowing
of the vessel, while a faucet is placed at G,
by which the accumulated cinders and
ashes may be drawn off when found neces-
sary. The device is certainly very simple,
and if it should prove as effective as it ap-
pears to promise, it must be very desirable
for threshing machines, and wherever else
steam power is employed in the midst of
highly combustible material. A patent
was recently obtained for this inven-
tion through the Mining and Scientific
Press Patent Agency. Mr. Benn is the
inventor of several important improve-
ments, which we may mention in future
as occasion presents.

Further information can be obtained by
addressing Walter C. Bfnn, Stockton, Cal.,
or calling at Baker & Hamilton's, San
Francisco.

Madden Mine, White Pine District.
A letter was received in Sacramento, on
Tuesday, — says the Stale Capital Rejwter, —
stating that a out had been run ten feet into
the Madden lead, reaching the vein about
seven feet below the prospect hole; and
that ore had been struck assaying 8850 to
the ton. The mine is owned by parties in
San Francisco.

Mining and Scientific Pituss. — The Mining and Sci-
entific Press, published at San Francisco by Dewey & Co.,
is one of the most valuable of our exchanges.

Miners, mechanics, and the reading public generally,
will find its regular perusal profitable and interesting.

Its scope and purpose are expressed in the title, and
we recommend miners and mechanics in particular to
subscribe for it. Terms $5 per annum, in advance. —
Trinity Journal, March 13Ui.

[From the nAw " Dominion.]

At '.his season, when coughs and colds are so prevalent,
an effectual remedy, mid one easily obtained, is Perry
Davis1 Vegetable Pain Killer. It is no new host rum, vended
by unknown agents, Init has stood the test of over twenty
years, jind those who use the article. Internally or exter-
nally, will connect with it Krnteful recollections of Its
worthy inventor —It'tstinarf Chronicle, C. IF

Pais Ktllkr.— Tlie testimonials borne to the efficacy of
this valnable medicine arc sufficient to warrant its intro-
duction in every home our own opinion is that ne family
should be without a bottle of it lor a single hour. In flesh
wounds, aches, pains, sores, etc.it is the most effectual
remedv we know of. A bottle will last for a very long
time, and its low price places it within iho reach oi all.—
St John iVcics.

Bbi)MVe are glad to learn that the 'Vain Killer" is having
so large a stile in our city. We have every reason to believe
it to be an almost never failing cure tor pain. and a medi-
cine tbat no family .-hould be without.— .Vontrcaf pilot.

Tlie Pain Killer is sold by all Druggists and dealers in
Family Medicines.

KEOINGTON & CO . and HOSTETTER A SMITH, San
Francisco Cal , General Wholesale Agents. jnlm

lyery Pump and Tube Well.

Complete for XJse.

The TUBE WELL is fo med by driving prepared iron
piping into The ground with a sledge. Although of compar-
atively recent invention, these wells have won a world-
wide rv putation, and are proven to be superior to the ordi-
nary dug well, costing. sometimes lees than one-fourih tliat
of others, and at the same time excluding the surface water
and dirt. The tubing is coupled together In lengths of
about six feet, as they are being driven Into the earth ; the
valves arc then dropped in and the Pump screwed down on

FORCE AND LIFT PUMPS

Always on hand For case of Working, durability and
force, the Avery Pump has no superior. For circulars,
etc., address Postoflico box 17.

UHICIG «fc DEWEY,

12vl8tf 318 Pine street, San Francisco.

Agents Wanted!

For the " American Tear Book, and National
Koarlster," forlSGO.

Horace Greeley's Autobiography, and other new and pop-
ular works. S.nd fur descriptive circulars.

P. DE^INCrA CO ,
12vlS 3m 418 Montgomery street, San Francisco.

Farms and City Property.

C. H. WAKELEE <fe CO.,

OOl California street, S. W. Corner Kearny street, buy and
sell Farms and City Real Estate. Parties wishing to Invest
will and it to their Interest to call on them. 12vl8-3m

Letitia and Poole

CONSOLIDATED

SILVER MIXING COMPANY

WHITE PITVE.

Twenty-Flcht Hundred Shares of Unnwoesstk-

blc Stock for Sali* at Two Dollars

per Share.

This Company consists of two locations near tho Blair
and Banner State Mines. The Lctltia. Mine and the Poole
Mlnecacli 1,400 feet, made into 11,000 shares-par value
$100 each. Tlio proceeds from tlie sale of the 2,800 shares
Is to be applied to the development of the Mines.

Title Perfect.

President. ..

e.s.tibbi:v.

Trustee* i

E. S. TIRBEY, J. IT. NICHOLSON,

PRENTICE CUOWELL, W. U. LADD,

D. C. FERRIS.

Apply to cither of the above named Trustees, or to

JOSEPH P. NOURSE, Secretary.
Office, Room No. 11 Haywar \s Building,
!Svl8 California street

Bromide Tunnel Company,

White Fine, Nevada.

NOTICE.

The above Company having been incorporated under the
laws of the State ot California, has opened a Subscription
Book for subscribers to its Capital Stock, at

No. lO Stevenson Building* San Francisco,

Where full particulars relative to tho working of tho Com-
pany's property can be ascertained. 13vl8-lm

iCruciWes.

The Patent Plumbago Crucible Co.,

Manufacturers of all kinds of

Melting Pots, Portable Furnaces,

CRUCIBLES, and other flrc-Btnnding- Goods,
gBattersea Works ," London.

THE MORGAN PATENT CRUCIBLES hnve uniform
quality, never crack, withstand the greatest heat without
danger; heats more rapidly than any other; change of tem-
perature hai no effect on tbcm; stand on the average forty
to fifty pourings.

On hand and for sale by the Agents,

A. S. HALLIDIE «* CO.,

Ivl8-3m9p 519 Front street, San Francisco

To Quartz Miners.

Having a new system of Amalgamation, styled the

PAUL & WOOD ELECTRIC PROCESS,

And which has been so fullv tested as to be worthy of your
consideration, I now invite it, relying only on the precious
metals produced, cheapness and simplicity of machinery,
to gain favor for it.

Parties having mlneo containing a high percentage of
gold and silver, bnt which cannot be obtained, on account
of fineness, or rebellious character of the ore, wll*. do well
to investigate. Attention given to communications.
Address, ALMARIN B. PAUL,

408 California St., or Miners' Foundry,

llvlSlm Snn Francisco.

PACIFIC

Soiling Mill Company,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Established for the Manufacture of

RAILROAD AND OTHER IRON

— .AND —

Every "Variety of ShalTting-,

Embracing ALL SIZES of
Steamboat Shaft*, Crank*, Pi* ton and Con-
necting Bods, Car and locomotive Axle*
and Frames

— ALSO —

U-AJMCMEUE O IRON"

Of every description and size.

Sffl- Orders addressed to PACIFIC ROLLING MILL
COMPANY Post office, San Francisco, Cal., will receive
prompt attention.

flSr- The highest price paid for Scrap Iron. 9vH3m9p

To "White Pine Prospectors.

J. S. PHILLIPS TEACHES ASSAYING (OR TESTING
Silver Ores, by Blowpipe. Crucible, or Chemicals, at room
11, No. 423 Washington street. An Evening Cluss from 7
to 9 o'clock. 12vI8tf

202

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinists and Foundries.

PALMER, KNOX & CO.,

Golden State Iron Works,

Mos. 1», SI, •*;; and 35 First Street,

SAN FRANCISCO.

MANUFACTURE ALL KINDS OF

MACHINERY,

gl'EA.U EXGIXES ASI) yi'AKTZ MILLS
DUNBAR'S IMPROVED

(Self-A-djusting Piston I*acltiiig,

Requires no springs or screws; is always steam tight;

without excessive friction, and never

gets slack, or leaky.

WHEELER &. RANDALL'S

NEW GRINDER AND AMALGAMATOR

HEPBURN & PETERSON'S

AMALGAMATOR AND SEPARATOR,

1 v uox'S -A. m. ii 1 i£ a xmx ators,

WITH PALMER'S PATENT STEAM CHEST,

Superior lor working either GOLD OR SILVER ORES, and
b the only Amalgamator that has stood the test of seven
years' continual working.
Genuine White Iron Stump Shoes and Dies

Having been engaged for the past ten years in quaria
Diining, and being conversant with all the improvements,
either in Mining or Milling, we are prepared to furnish, ai
ihe shortest notice, the most perfect machinery for reduc
ng ores, or saving cither gold or silver. 13vlUn.y-Lf

IRA P. HA.NKlN.

A. P. BIEAYTO.V.

A. C. AUSTIN.

Pacific Iron Works.

First a.ii<l ITi-enxoixt Streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Having been established since 1S5I, we have accumulated
a very large variety of liear and other Patterns, which,
with our su pel iur tools and appliances, give Us lac ill lies lor
duiug arst class work, uueimaled on the Pacific Uoast.

Among other things, we manufacture the following:

STEAM ENGINES,

BOILERS- High, and Low Pressure,

Pump, Pipe and Sheet Iron Work of every kind.
CJuax-tz Mill "Wox-lc,

Including High and Low Mortars, for wet or dry crushing-

Furnace Irons for Koasung Ores; Freiberg Karrels;

Varuey's and Wheeler's Amalgamating Pans

and Settlers; Stamp Shoes and Dies of

best White Iron; Russia Iron

Screens, etc., etc.

Flour Mill, Saw Mill and Sugar Mill Work in every variety;

Pumping and Hoisting Machinery; Hausbrow's

Patent Challenge Pump, for Duuiesltc,

Ship and Mining use— the most

approved and successful

Pump manufactured.

Castings »f every description, Iron and Brass.

We would call especial attention to "Wright's Patent Va-
riable Cut-off JtSngiiMjs," of which we are the sole manufac-
turers on the facttic Coast, under liceuse from the Wood-
ruff & Beach Co., Hartiord, Ct. As a simple, effective, fui%l
saving, lirst-cUss Engine, this is, without doubt, the best
Engine made in the United States.

Orders promptly attended to. Prices as low as possible
for lirst class work, and we intend to do no oilier.

GUDUARD .V: CO.

San Francisco, May 1, 1S6S. ISvloif

WILLAMETTE IRON WORKS,

PORTLAND, OREGON.

Bteam Engines, Boilers,
SAW AND CRIST MILLS,

MINING MACHINERY, WROUGHT IRON SHUTTER
WORK, AND BLACKSMITH IN G IN GENERAL.
Corner North-Front and E streets,

18vl3-ly One block north of Couch's Wharf.

Globe Iron Works,

STOCKTON, CAL.

KEEP & BARG-ION,

MANUFACTURERS OF

U»i«i iz. Saw and Grist Mill Irons, Steam
Engines, Horse Powers,

High and Low Pressure Steam Engines, Steamboats and

Propellers, made at short notice.

I3vlbif

CALIFORNIA BRASS FOUNDRY.

.No. 1S5 First street, opposite Minna,
SAN FRANCISCO.

All kinds of Brass, Composition, Zinc, and Babbitt Metal
Castings, Bras.-- snip Work of all Kinds, Spikes, Sheathing
Nails, itudder (truces. Hinges, Ship and steamboat Bellsaud
Guitgs of superior tone. All kinds of Cocks ami Valves, Hy-
draulic fipes and Nozzles, and Hose Coupling and Connec-
tions ot all sizes and patterns, furnished with dispatch.

AS- PRICES MODERATE. -ffiO

J.P.GALLAGHER. J. H. WEED V. K1NGWELL

9V1S-Iy

BENJAMIN- ELLIOT,

No. 483 Brannau street San Francisco,

Manufactures Foundry Facings constantly, irom choice
coals. Bituminous, packed In tight sacks. Anthracite and
Charcoal ground together or separate, packed in whole
or hall barrels. aitn-.K bead. Coke and Snapstone ground to
order, l-oundrymen located far from choice material, can
rely on haviug superior Facinus forwarded to order
iOvlSijr

Miners' Foundry

— AXD —

M^CHIIVE WOKKS
Nos. 2i5 to ^55 Ftrst Stbeet,

Sun Francisco.

HOWLAND, ANG-ELL & CO.,

PBOPSICTOJiS,

Manufacturers of Machinery for

QUARTZ M1L.L.S. FX.OTJK MILLS,

SAW .HI1.I.S, S1GAB MILLS,

POWDJEB MIX.I.S, PAPIB MILLS

Steam Engines of all Kinds,
Amalgamators of all Kinds.

JIISISC FTJMPS, IIOISTIX'C WOBKS,

OIL HELL TOOLS, BOCK BKIAREBS,

— AND —

Machinery and Castings of all kinds, either
of Iron or Brass.

Boilers and Sheet Iron Work in all its
Branches.

Shoe* and Ales of "Whit,* Iron, innnnfnctni-ed
lor and imported by uk expressly for this pur-
pose, ami will Ijist 25 per eeut. longer than any
other made ou this coast.

lCussiu Iron Screens, of any degree of nueuess,
~We are the only manufacturers ou this coast ot
the

HICKS EUNTGnVE,
The most compact, simple In construction, and

durable, of any J^ugine in use.
W. IMlOHI.lMi, H. B. AHIJELL,

UTM-qr CTfBUS PAL11LB.

FULTON

Foundry and Iron Works.

HUSCXLEY & CO.,

MANUTACTURfe-RS Of

S 1' X2 A im: engines,
Quartz, Flour arid Saw Mills,

Hayes* Improved Steam Pump, Bro die's Ini-

proved Crusher, lUlnlng Pumps.

AmalgumaiiirK, mid nil kinds

of Machinery.

N. E. corner of Tchnina and Fremont streets, above How
ard street, San Francisco. 3-o.y

MCAFEE, SPIERS & CO.,
XiOILEK, MAKERS

AND GK.\EKAL MACHINISTS,

Howard Jt, between Fremont and Beale, San Francisco.

Flue or Tubular Boiler*, with plain circular orspiral
courses. Upright Flue or Tubular Boiler.'-, Locomotive and
and Marine Boilers, and Wrought Iron Tanks of every de-
scription,

Hydraulic Pipe supplied at reasonable rates. In or
daring, give the quantity of water to be supplied, hhjbtof
tlte fall, and total leugtli of pipe, so as to enable the tirin to
determine the diameter of the pipe and thickness uf iron to
be used.

Repair*.— Boilers, Smoke Stacks, Pipes, etc., put in re-
pair with promptness.

To Boiler Maker* aad Machinist* In the In-
terior.—The firm is prepared tu furnish estimates of
Boilers, su1 ply new Heads, drilled and punched, and attend
to the selection and forwarding of Iron fur Boilers, Pipes
and other purposes.

Plans, Drawings and Specification*.— The firm
!s prepared to make out Plans mid Specifications, icceive
estimates, and superintend the Erection of any Machinery
that may be entrusted to their care

To Inventors.— The firm is prepared to assist In de-
veloping the plans of ihusc who have i he ideas hut not the
practical experience necessary to put the same in form, by
mnkinc Drawing* of their Inventions, givit-g them the ben-
efit of their nracti •»" knowledge in the construction of Ma-
chinery, and attending to the manufacture aud introduc-
tion of their inventions. lviBtf

UJSIOW IROW WORKS,

Sacramento,

WILLIAMS, ROOT & NEILSON,

MANUFACTURERS OF

<TEAM TSNG-XNUlfS, BOILERS,

CROSS' PATENT BOILER FEKDER AND SEDIMENT
COLLECTOR,

And all kinds of Alining Machinery.

Also, Hay and Wine Presses made and repaired
with neatness, durability and dispatch.

ttun bur'- Patent Self- Adjusting Steam Piston

PACKING, for new aud old Cylinders, manufactured

to order.

Front Street, between X and O street*,

Uvll Sacramento Citt

THOMPSON BROTHERS,
EUREKA FOUNDRY,

LIGBT AN1> HE1YT CASTINGS,

of every description, manufactured 24vl6or

JAMES MACKEINT,

COPPERSMITH,

SSO Fremont at., net. Howard «fe Folson.

All kinds of COPPER WORK done to order in the best
manner. Particular attention paid to Steamboat, Sugai
House and Distillery work.

Bepalrlng proraptlyand neatly attended to.

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Gr. T. PRACT.

MACHINE WORKS,

NOS. 109 and 111 MISSION STREET,
Between Main and Spear.

New and second hand

Engines and Boilers,

FOR SALE.

Also one first-class Hoisting

Engine ; one Upright

Jtingine, oi entirely

new pattern.

manufacturer op

DOatlxes, I>rills,

And MILL MACHINERY of
every description.

PR A. C Y» S

New and Improved
STI'AH EKttlXE

REGULATORS,

The best and cheapest yet in-
vented—manufactured nnd
lor sale. Parties are in-
vited to examine it
in practical op-
eration.

F. A.HUNTI\GTOA"S

Shingle Machines

Particular attention paid to
Repairing.

THE KISDON

Iron awl locomotive Works.

Incorporated, April 30, l?r.S. Capital, $1,100,000.

Location of Works, Corner Beale nnd Howard streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Surc*"=sors to Pacific Mail P. S. Co. Works at Bmicifi, ColTcy

.t Risdon, and Devoe, Dinsmore & Co., Sinn Francisco.

Steam Engine Builders, Boiler Makers,

MACHINISTS AND FOUNDRVMEN.
All work in their line attended to with promptness and
dispatch.

Directors:
S. F. Butterworth, Obas. E. McLnnc,

Lloyd TV-vis,
Jas. Pollock,
Ben. Jlolladj.y,

JOHN N. RTSDON, President.
Josenh Moore, Vice President and Superintendent; Chns
E. McLane, Treasurer; Lewis B, Mead, Sccretnrv; Lewis
Coffey, Superintendent Boiler Works. 24vl7-qy

John N. Risdon,
Joseph Moore.

Phoenix Iron Works.

JONATHAN KITTKEDGE, Proprietor,

No», 18 and SO Fremont street, near Market,

San Francisco.

manufacturer or

Fire-Proof Doors and Shutters,

Wrought Iron Girders, and all kinds of llouscsmith work,

Bridge, Prison

FOKOT\6 AX 1> MACHINE: WORK,

IMPROVED FIBE-PROOF SAFES,

PIKE AND BUEGLAR-PROOF SAPES,

Of a superior make. Sole manufacturer of the celebrated

MONITOR SAFE.

BANK VAULTS AND SAFES,

Of every description, made to order at short notice. A

large stock of SAFES of ah kinds constantly on hand.
Agency for the ISHAM KEY REGISTER BANK AND SAFE
LOCK, the only first class Lock in the
lvl7tf United States

NOBLE & FLEMING,
MACHINE WORKS,

No. lO Stevenson street, near First,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Particular attention given to repairs on Portable and Sta-
tionary Engines; also all kinds ol Wood Working
Machinery; Shaftings,. Hangers, I'uHeys, etc.
mad.1 to order; Screw Cutting, Iron
Planing, and all kinds ol JOB
WORK promptly at. ended to.
Agents for F. S. Perkins* Engine Lathes,
Planers, Upright Brills,
And all kinds ol MACHINISTS' TOOLS: also the Davis
Wood Planer nnd Mure Dove-Tailing Machines.
03?-Also, on hand tor sale a complete set ol Tools for
making Blacking Bi>xcs, consisting ot Press, Dies, Shears,
and Crimpiiui Machine, etc. JvlS-qr

CITY IRON WORKS COMPANY.

CLERC & CO.,
IRON FOUNDERS,

Steam .Engine Builders and Makers of all
kinds ot Muchinery,

6 llfio,r No. 2S Fremont street, San Francisco.

STOCK CERTIFICATES,

STOCK TRANSFER JOURNALS,
STOCK LEDGERS,

ASSESSMENT RECEIPTS,

And all other blanks, Blank Books, etc., required byMin
inR and other Corporations, kept on hand or printed to
order on short notice, at moderate prices, at the office of
the Mining and Scientific Press.

CALCtJLATING AREAS— THE I/ABOK-SavINO

Method. — The following, from an English
engineer in the employ of the Syrian Gov-
ernment, we copy from Engineering:

Thinking that any plan for simplify-
ing the rather tiresome calculations nec-
essary for taking out areas, more es-
pecially when of curved or irregular sur-
faces, would be of service to engineers and
surveyors, I take the liberty of laying the
same at their disjiosal, so that others may
profit by my suggestion, should they find
it as useful as I have done.

So as not to be tedious by emiuierating
the difficulties at present experienced in
calculating areas of irregular section, all
of which my invention completely ovei-
comes, I will at once proceed to describe
the principles on which I have acted.

Principle. — Take paper of good manu-
facture (tracing or otherwise) and it will bo
found that its substance is verv accurately
distributed; any one square inch weighing
precisely the same as any other — even in
common papers it varies but slightly.
The thicker the paper for my purpose the
better.

Example. — Bequired to find the area of
any map.

The paper on which the map is drawn is
first to be accurately squared, the area
thereof computed in inches, and its weight
accurately ascertained. Next proceed to
cut out carefully all that portion the area
of which is required, and weigh that also.
Then as the weight of the whole is to the
weight of the portion cut out, so are their
respective areas.

Suppose the scale of map to be 20 miles
= lin. ; size of map, 20in. X 10in.=200
square inches; weight of map, say 2,000
grains. Then if weight of piece cut out is
1,500 grains, the area of it will be 150
square inches or 300 square miles.

In cases where the plan or map is valua-
ble and is not advisable to destroy it, a
tracirjg of the part required has to be made,
and the same process gone through for find-
ing its area.

For iron sections, earthwork calculations,
agricultural surveys, etc., it will be found
most useful. J. L. H addon,

Chief Engineer to the Syrian Government.

Betbodt, Deo. 31st, 1868.

MetaI/S— What ake They ? — In relation
to this query, a late number of the Mechan-
ic's Magazine makes the following per-
tinent remarks: " We have no general
definition of a metal to show us what
const tutes any substance metallic or non-
metallic. This is very odd, as metals are
considered to form such a distinct class
from other substances. Besides, chemistry
is held to be such a marvellously exact sci-
ence. Still, the most learned in chemistry
are not agreed as to what substances are
metals. Some say ' silicium,' which is its
name as a metal; others say *silicon,'
which is its name as a non-metallic sub-
stance. Then, some take into the list of
metals arsenic and tellurium, and others re-
ject them. There apparently is no prop-
erty yet discovered that is common to the
whole list of fifty-two metals. Some even
go so far as to consider that a metal may be
a compound of two gases, nitrogen and hy-
drogen. In fact, it is altogether uncertain
what constitutes a metal, and what does
not. The word metal, apparently, is just a
name, without any distinctive and well-as-
certained properties attached to it or under-
stood by it. It is hardly in agreement with
the pretensions of our chemists that there
should be such looseness and uncertainty
about the application of a name, and a name
of such importance, which represents such
a common class of substances."

The Gaeden of China — The Chinamen
who walk over bridges built 2,000 years
ago, who cultivated cotton before this coun-
try was heard of, and who fed silk worms
before King Solomon built his throne, have
50,000 square miles around Shanghae,
which they call the Garden of China, aud
which have been tilled by countless gener-
ations. This area is as large as New York
and Pennsylvania combined, and is all
meadow, lakes, rivers, canals— a complete
net-work of communication; thelandunder
the highest tilth; three crops a year har-
vested; population so dense that, wherever
yon ltiok, you see men and women in blue
pants and* blouse, so numerous that yon
fancy some fair or muster is coming off and
all hands have turned out for a holiday.

New Illtjmxnating Mateeial. — A new
illuminating material, recently pateuted iu
Germany, consists of a mixture of two
parts of the poorest rape seed oil and one
part of good petroleum. It is burned in a
lamp of peculiar construction, but some-
what similar to that of the ordinary mod-
erator lamp, and gives a light not to be sur-
passed for purity and brilliancy.

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

203

The K'PYAr. Minim; Aiimmv in Br.m.iN.
As tliis Uinios Academy is a scientific
institntioo of the first rank in Germany,
the following notice concerning it may
lm interesting to tlie scientific public:
Tlio lectures of tbe Mining Academy are
arranged in anch a manner that a student
may finish tlie complete course in two
years ; the students also enjoy the privilege
of inspecting tlie different Prussian mining
and metallurgies] establishments daring |
th'1 vacations, and besides several times
yearly they have the opportunity of ex-
cursions to those establishments in com-
pany of tho professors. The lectures of
the present half year, commencing on the
2d of November bust and endiug on tbe
19th of March, 180'.), treat of the following

subjects :

I. Mining Technology — five lectures
weekly by Dvrgratli Hauchecoruc; half
yearly.

•_!. Technology of Saltworks — one lec-
ture weekly by Bergrath Hauchecoruc; 3s.
ball yearly-

y. General Metallurgy — four lectures
weekly by Professor Kerl ; 12s. half yearly.

i. Metallurgy of Iron — four lectures
weekly by Bergrath Wedding ; 12s. half
yearly.

.">. Founding and Molding — three lec-
tures weekly by Dr. D'urre; 12s. half year-
ly-

6. Chemical Technology — two lectures
weekly by Professor Kerl; 6s. half j'early.

7. General Assaying— six lectures week-
ly by Professor Kerl; £1 7s. half yearly.

8. Blowpipe Assaying — two lectures
weekly by Professor Kerl; 9s. half yearly.

9. Assaying of Iron — three lectures
weekly by Bergrath Wedding; 13s. Od.
half yearly.

ID. Petrography — four lectures weekly
by Dr. Laspeyres; 12s. half yearly.

II. Geology, with special attention to
the Stratified Formations— four lectures
weekly by Professor Beyrich ; 12s. half year-
ly-

12. The Geological Formation of the
Globe — one lecture weekly by Dr. Los-
Ben ; gratis.

13. On Volcanoes — one lecture weekly
by Professor Roth; gratis.

14. Mineralogical Bepetitions — four lec-
tures weekly by Professor G. Bose; gratis.

15. Mineralogical Exercises — four lec-
tures weekly by Dr. Eck; 12s. half yearly.

16. Chemistry of Minerals — three lec-
tures weekly by Professor Bammelsberg ;
gratis.

17. Bepetitions of Analysis of Minerals
— four lectures weekly by Dr. Finkener ;
gratis.

18. Practical Instruction in the Analysis
of Minerals — (V(), quantitative ; five hours
daily by Dr. Finkener ; £3 half yearly.
(b), qualitative ; four hours weekly by Dr.
Fiukeuer ; £1 4s. half yearly.

19. Analytical Geometry — five lectures
weekly by Professor Bertram ; 15s. half
yearly.

20. Mechanical Science — six lectures
weekly by M. Hormaun ; 18s. half yearly.

21. Applied Mechanics — six lectures
weekly by M. Hormann ; 18s. half yearly.

22. Surveying of Mines — four lectures
weekly by Berg-Assessor Kauth ; 12s. half
yearly.

23. Instructions in Drawing — eight les-
sons weekly by Berg- Assessor Kauth ; gratis.

24. Law of Mines — two lectures weekly
by Geh. Oberbergrath Ackenbach ; gratis.
London Mining Journal.

Those Prophets of Old ! — How rich the
following paragraph appears, which was
originally printed in the English Quarterly
Review in March, 1825: "We are not advo-
cates for visionary projects that interfere
with useful establishments. We scout the
idea of a railroad as impracticable! What
can be more palpably absurd and ridicu-
lous than the prospects held out of locomo-
tives traveling twice as fast as stage coaches!
We should as soon expect the people of
Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired
off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets,
as to put themselves at the mercy of such a
machine, going at such a rate."

Geological Subvey. — The result of the
geological survey, under Prof. Hayden, of
the coal fields of Wyoming and Colorado,
is being published at Washington. These
coal fields cover thousands of acres, and
are from five to fifteen feet in thickness.
The Union Pacific Railroad runs through
the best of them.

GEO. E. ROGERS,

(Successor to G. W. Bell.)
A. S S A. Y E !R ,

518 California at., San Francisco.

J. A. MARS, Assaycr.

Orej carefully Assayed. Gold and Silver Ores worked.

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Business Cards.

RODGERS. MEYER & CO.,

COMMISSION IWEIlCIIiiJVTS,

-\ IM l\( lis MADE
On all kinds of Ore*, und particular utlentlon

PAID TO

(i).\SI(;\Mi:\TS OF GOODS.
4 v 16 3u»

CARD PICTUUES,

ONE DOLLAR 1'E.R DOZEN,

And Photograph*. Ambrotypoa and Sun Pearls, by first

clawt artists. Hi tlie lowest ratea,

AC Ml.VAs, 04 Third Street,

Northwest corner of Mission, San Fruncteco.

1 1 \ LS-3m

HATtlAMlKL GHAT.

II. H. GKAY.

N. GRAY & CO.,

UlVDEIt.T.A.rciaTtS,

6-tl Snernmcnto St., cor. WcM>. Snn Francisco.
0^-Si.le ARenw for BarstnwN Metallic Burial Cases anil

SsvUtr Ctuikets.

Farmers and Mechanics
BANK OF SAVINGS!!,

No. S'3<» Sim-iime Street.

Interest paid on Deposits. Money Loaned on Real Estate.
H. BUTTON, President.

GEO. M CON'nEE Cashier. l<)vlfi-3m

J. J. JONES,

CARPENTER and IBTJTIVDTEII,

No. 334 Jackson street, betweeu SanNome and
Mattery,

W. T. ATWOOD,

FORCIIASEK OF

00PPEK OEES, BARS, MATT, Etc., Etc,,

5<K» Montgomery street, San Francisco,

The highest market price paid t'ororcs assaying 10 per cent.
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s. FOLK.

G. 1UCBOI.SKY.

S. FOLK & CO.,

MASDFACTDRKRS OF

WAI)ni\G,B4TTI\G, und COMFORTERS

441 and 443 Brannan st., Between Third and Fourth,

SAN FRANCISCO. ■iVlSoT

W. C. CAMPBELL.

PATTERN AND MODEL MAKER.

No. SO Fremont street, over Pliceuix Irun Works, San
Francisco.

HO TEAB1STEES!

CONTINUE TO

USE HOCKS I HUH

CELEBRATED

H & L Axle Grease,-

To which you have given so decided a
preference for the last

FOURTEEN YEARS,

It is the only reliable article

IN THE MARKET

Every care will continue ts be need to pus-
tain the high reputation the H &. L Axle
Grease, has so long and justly attained.

JSSt-Be sure and ask for tbe H & L brand,
and see that the

TRADE mm H & L

IS ON THECOVEEOF THE PACKAGE

NONE OTHER IS GENUINE.

FOR SALE IN EVERY STATE IN THE UIM

Pump Leather.

The attention of MINING COMPANIES, and others re
quiring a superior article for Hydraulic purposes, is Invited
to the heavy Oaked Tanned Pump Leather, manufactured
and prepared expressly by the undersisned.

5^°^

E.JONES&C? ,

Conatantlyon hand and for sale by

GRAY, JONES «fc CO.,

Depot of tbe Santa Cruz Tannery,

418 Rattcry St., San Francisco.

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Favorable to Inventors.— Persons holding new in-
ventions of machinery and important improvements, can
have the same illustrated and explained in the .Mining and
Scientific Prkss, free ol charge, if in our judgment the
discovery is one of real merit, and of ijutllcient interest *o
the public to warrant publication,-

Professional Cards.

J. S. PHILLIPS, M. E.,

CONSULTING .ENGINEER,
Kxumluer of Mine*, etc.,

£98 (VuhlDgtoa Blmot San Francisco.

[Bnvlng bud SS yean1 experience In Europe and America,)

BUppllOfl >li «« mi;:- Md deslgnl for fUMplng, hVoliUllK,

Crushing Sepnraiiiur, Routing, Ohlorlnizl ig. Milling. LIx

[vltUIng, ['ri-uiplniun-', uti'I Snu-liin^ \\ oil;*. Minerals- un-
iii\zv*ii, ami advice Klveu fur beiiuSolal treatment. Let*
aoiic on tii.' Dlacrimln 1 1 n i ii and as.-.iv of Minerals by Biow-
plpoi Chemicals, Scorlfler an i Crucible. «vl7lf

JOHN E0A0H, Optician,

Has removed from bit Montgomery street to
.l I O 'WiiihlniEtun *trect,

liasi u( Montgomery,

DAVID R. SMITH,

Olvil and .">! ec 1 i;i . ii m -;t I Engineer,

Is prepared to furnish Plans, Models, Specifications and
full detail Drawings for Steamers and Sailing Vessels and
Machinery in general.

Montgomery Block. I3vl7-3m

J. M. HAVEN,

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
Ka. 420 Cullfornl:. street,

27vl6 SAN FRANCISCO.

JTA-MES M. TAYLOR,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,

Court Block, G36 Clay Street

SAN FRANCISCO.
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PACIFIC

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OP SAN FRANCISCO, CAX,.,

Office, No. 422 California street.

Cuttli Assets, Jan. 1, 18C»,

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INSURANCE.

DIRECTORS:

Oliver Eldridge,
J. B. Roberts.
J. U. Wilmertling,
K U Weaver,
w in. H oiht,
J. W Clark,
A. Hnvward,
T. L Brtrker,
Alexander Weill,
('has. Meyer,
Ohaa E.MeLano,
M. Riisenhanm,
j\. .). Ralston.
T. Lemmeti Meyer,
J T. Dean.

Nkw Yokk:

LiHlis MuLiino,
Frednilck Hillings,
Jumen Lees,
J G. Kellngg,
Wni. T. Coleman,
Moses Ellis.

SACUAMr:^To:
Edtfnr Mills,
J, H. Carnill,
0. T. Wheeler.

MAKYaVlLLC :

J. H.Jewett
Poiixi.Asn, Oregon:

W S Ladd,
. .Jacob Kainm.
Virginia. Nevada:
Win. Sharon.
officers:
JONA. HUNT, President.

W. AX.VORD, Vice President.
A. J. RALSTON. Ppcvolary.
ANDREW BAIRO, Marine Secretary.
4V181C U. H EIGELOVT, Gen'l Afient.

San Frakcisco:
VV. C. ItaNlon,
A L Tubbs.
Wm. Alvonl,
.TonathKii Hunt,
A. B. Forbes,
A. G. Stiles,
A. Hellcman,
L. B. Benchley,
Wm. Shermnn,
L. Sachs.

James DeFrcmery,
J. O. Bray,
David S'crn,

D. O. Mills,

I Fried hinder,
Mo-es Heller,
11. M ^ewliall,
G.T. Lawtuii,
Miles D. Sweeny,
Ohus. Mnync.

E. L. Goldstein,
J. O. E'lrl,
Llovd Tevw,
Tims. IT. Selby,
Ad'im Grant,
Alphens Bull,
S. M. Wilson,
D.J Oliver,

W Selinlle,
Thos. Brown,
Clias. Main.
Chas. 11. Peters,

Mining Secretary.

THE SUBSCRIBER, HAVING SERVED FOR THE LAST
Ave vears as Secretary of varfous mining companies,
feels DUly competent to servo In lliai caiiacity. Any par-
tics wLslmiR to secure the services of a Secretary can be
accommodated on reasonable terms. Information given,
and all necessary papers correctly made out.

HaviiirT bad a long experience in the purchasing of soods
and machinery tor miners, parties In the mines will find It
to their ndvaniaire, where purchasing agents are employed.
to send their orders to the undersigned.

J. M. BUFFINGTON,
Room 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California street
San Francisco I7v;s-tf

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or

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AT PRICKS THAT DEFT COMPETITION.

Our Stock of* Clothlnic CormlKtv of
ILL THE LATEST STYLES

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AT KXTRKMKI.T LOW PKICKS.

a. it. m:ejvt> & co„

8vl0 Cor. of Washington and SanBorae streets.

THE GIANT

POWDER, COMPANY

Is now prepared lo All all orders for

GIANT POWDER,

Pat up la Boxes, cither In Balk or In Car
trlUBCB.

General Ajrents,

BANDMANN, NIELSEN & CO.,

25vl6-3m 210 Eront street, San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO

Pioneer- Screen Works,

JOHN W. QUICK, Manufacturer,

Removed to A. Pritzel's Iron Works, 2<tt Fremont street,

near Howard, San Francisco.

Sereen Punching In all its branches, at rates reduced
from 2?>tn 4o per cent Jess than the established rates. I can
furnish Improved Quartz Screens several sizes finer than
any Screen ever tiutiehcd, giving universal sattsfnetmn,
and forstrength.clieapnes.snnd durability are not excelled.
Also, Punched Screens of all sizes and fineness made from
all finalities ot material, for Quartz. Cement, Flour and
Rice Mills, etc. Screen -Punching made a specially; there-
fore millmcn forwardintr their orders to me will receive
none but the best. Orders solicited.

N. B —J. W. QHTCK is the onlv competent and snecessfnl
manufacturer of Screens in ihc St ate, having ouidc Screens
for the princinal mills In this State and ml 'mining Terri-
tories for many years. Quartz mill owners using punched
Screens which have universally failed to give satisfaction,
when visiting the city will please call and sec me. 5vI7-ly

California Steam Navigation

H^ COMPANY.

Steamer CAPITAL CAPT. E. A. POOLB

CHRYSOPOLIS CAPT. A. FOSTER.

YOSEMITE :

" CORNELIA CAPT. W. BROMLEY

" JULIA CAPT. E. CONCKLIN.

Two of the above steamers leave BROADWAY WHARF
at * o'clock P. M. EVERY DAY (Sundays excepted), one
for Sacramento and one tor Stockton, those for Sacra-
mento connecting with light-draft steamers for Marysville
Colusa, ChiCo, nnd Red Bluff.

Office of the Company, northeast corner of Front and
Jackson streets.

B. M. HARTSHOK1VE,
13vl? Premdent.

International Hotel,

JACKSON STREET

BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AN*D KEARNY STS.,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE IS IN PERFECT
order for the accommodation of guests. Persons seek-
ing comfort and economy will find this the best Hotel in
the city to stop at. The Beds are new and In good order,
and the Rooms well ventilated. The Table will always be
supplied with the best in the market.
Prlcea varying from igl 50 to S3 per day for

Board und Boom.

FINE BATH HOUSE AND BARBER SHOP ATTACHED

TO THE HOUSE.

flSr" Teams belonging to the House will be in attendance
at all the boats and cars to convey passengers to the House
prkk or charge, and to any part of the city for SO cents

aivl2 F. E. WEYGANT, Proprietor.

Pacific Chemical Works.

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CIAJUJIE OP POTASSITTM

— .NO —
KIDS AND CHEMICALS OF A I.I, KINDS.

FALKEKTAU & HANKS,

O flit: e: anil Laboratory," Sixteenth »trcett be-
tween Folsom and Marrition.

LOUIS FALKENAU, State Assaycr.
BSJ- Particular attention paid to tlie Analysis of ORES,
MINERALS. METALS, etc. 8vl7

"IMPROVED SPRING-BED BOTTOM."

(Patented July 21st, 1868.

The undersigned, having purchased the Patentee's inter
est in the States and Territories of the Pacific Coast, is now
prepared to supply Private Houses, Hotels and Steamers
with this comfortable, economical and durabto "IM-
PROVED SPRING BED BOTTOM."

Persons going to White Pine will greatly promote their
comfort by taking one of these Patent Bottoms, which is
secured to a folding Bedstead, the cost of which is less than
that of the materials at White Pine.

Wareroom, No. 1002 Market Street.

P. HUDSON, Proprietor.

fl3T"Call and examine. Open until 8 u'clock P. M.
6vlSo.r

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Tr\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Canning Fktjits Not New. — The plan
of preserving fresh fruits and vegeta-
bles by bringing them to the boiling point
in a liquid and then sealing them up, is by
no means as new a thing as is generally
supposed. Appert, a Frenchman, sug-
gested and practically tested the thing more
than a hundred years ago, and Gay Lussac,
the celebrated chemist, wrote a report upon
it, fully endorsing the same and suggesting
its general use. But probably through the
lack of any adequate means of bringing it
directly before the masses of the people,
the matter was allowed to drop. The mod-
ern newspaper is a wonderful aid to the
spread of information. "Without its assist-
ance a large proportion of the labors of in-
ventors and discoverers, in all the various
walks of life, would be useless for them-
selves or the world — a knowledge of but
few of their inventions or discoveries would
ever pass beyond the circle of their own
immediate friends and acquaintances* In-
ventors, generally, have a full appreciation
of the utility of newspapers in bringing
out and making known their inventions.
Our own experience with California invent-
ors enables us to speak from the book in
this particular.

Our Office.

The office of the Mining and Scientific
Press is located in the second story at No. 414
Clay street, north side, just below Sansomo. Here
we have spacious accommodations, with our patent
rooms, editorial room, counting room, and news-
paper printing office, — all conveniently ar-
ranged and connected, and our facilities for dis-
patching business correctly and economically,
better than ever before. Don't forget the number
— 414 Clay street, below Sansome.

DEWEY & CO.

Valuable and Popular Practical
Books.

Painter, Gilder, and Varnisher's Companion.
Containing Rules and Regulations in everything
relating to the Arts of Painting, Varnish iug, and
Glass Staining, with numerous Useful and Valua-
ble Receipts; Tests for th^ Detection of Adultera-
utions in Oils and Colors, find a statement of the
Diseases and Accidents to which Painters, Gilders,
and Vamishers are particularly tlnblc, with .the
simplest methods of Prevention and Remedy, with
directions for Graining, Marbling, Sign Writing,
and GiUlng on Glass. To which are added Com-
plete Instructions for Painting and Varnishing.
l2mo., cloth SI 60

The Practical Brass and Iron Pounder's

Guide — A Concise Treatise on Brass Fcmnding,
Molding, the Metals and their Alloys, etc.; to
which :ire added recentlmprovements inthe Man-
ufacture of Iron, Steel by the Bessemer process,
etc By James Larkin, late conductor oi the Brass
Foundry Department in Rcany, Neafle & Co'sPenn
Works. Philadelphia. Fifth edition, revised, with
extensive Additions. In one volume, !2mo 2 25

A New and Complete Treatise on the Arts of
Tanning, Currying, and Leather Dressing.— Com-
prising all the Discoveries and Improvements
made In France, Great Britain, and the United
Stales. Edited from Notes and Documents of
Messrs. Salleron, Grouvelle, Duval, Desssibles, La-
barraque. Payen, Bene, Dc Fontenelle, Malapeyre,
etc. ByProt. H. Dussuuee, Chemist. Illustrated
by 212 wood engravings, 8vo 10 00

The Miller's, Millwright's and Engineer's

Guide.— By Henry Pallett. Illustrated. In 1vol.
Kmo ; 3 00

American Miller and Millwright's Assistant.
By Wm Carter Hughes. Anew edition. In one

volume, 12mo 1 50

BQ-Tho above, or any of my publications, sent free of
postage, at thff.pubhcation prices. My new and enlarged
CATALOGUE OF PRACTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC BOOKS,
56 pages, 8vo, isjmtready, and will be sent free of postage
to any one who will favor me with his address.

HJE.XItV CAREY BAIRD,
Industrial Publisher,

400 Walnut Street,
20vl6tf Philadelphia.

Sll^JSia COMET

Mining, Mill and Tunneling

COMPANY,
"White IPiiie X>Istricts

NEVADA.

This Company's claim adjoins the celebrated Virginia
Mine, on TREASURE HILL.

Fioru Its outcrop pings and the richness of the Virginia
and other mines which ha\e been opened in the immediate
vicinity, the prospective value of this mine Is not exceeded
by any In the District. With a view to the Immediate and
vigorous prosecution of work in opening this mine, the
Board of Trustees propose to sell a limited number of the
reserved UNASSESSABLE Shares of Capital Stock at the
nominal price of $2 50 per share, the entire proceeds ol
which will be devoted to developing the mine.

Only 1,000 ShareB will be sold at the above named
price, and a portion of that number has already been en-
gaged.

in Issuing Stock the subscribers will take precedence In
the order of their names.

The Books of the Company are now open for subscription
at the Secretary's ofllce, 417 Kearny street. By order.

12vl8-lt IHA G. HOYT, Secretary.

Pacific Protective Association of California.

IBrCOKPOBATED OCTOBER, 1SG8.

IPKOHX'JECTTJS.

Object —The object of this Association is to secure a cash payment, within sixty days after the death of a subscriber,
to his or her heirs or assigns, of as many dollars*as there are individuals of the class lo which raid deceased subscriber
belonged.

ftlKMBKRsnip.—Tbc subscription fees are Ten Dollars at joining, and One Dollar on the death of each subscriber.
The One Dollar from each suliscriber is r-aid to the hens or assigns of ihc deceased.

The Funds.- The By-Laws of tire Association require lliat a portion of the money received as subscription, fees
shall be a Sinking Fund to meet assessments falling due by the delinquencies of subscribers. The balance of the
money received to be used ior the payment of the expenses incurred by the Association.

Mbmbers.— A subscriber i ailing to i ay his or her assessment or one dollar within Thirty days from receipt of no-
tice torieits his or her Certificate, and till claims upon (lie-Association, unless good cause is shown for furihtr delay.
A subscriber can forward money in advance, which amount will be credited on future assessments. The subscribers are
divided into classes including males and females Each class is limited to 5,000 subscribers. As classes are filled,
new ones will be formed. No person is so our that he cannot pay Ten Dollars at joining and One Dollar occa-
sionally, thus securing SS.UGO to his or her heirs or assigns.

Advantages.— The advantages of this Association arc, that no money panic can affect it- Its benefits are easily
obtainable by all, and every subscriber added io the Association enhances the interest and protection of all; the
amount paid being so small, and only at long intervals, taat any person can secure for his familv a coinpeiency upon
his death.

Classes.— In Class A, all persons between the ages of 15 and 40 years; in Class B, all persons between the ages of 41)
and OU years.

Any one that has not stated his or her age correctly, will forfeit all money paid and his or her Certificate.

One class cannot be assessed if one of another class dies. Classes have no connection with each other.

How to Becomb a Mkmbkk.— A person desirous ol becoming a subscriber must fill out an application, and forward
with it Ten Dollars by Check, Draft, or by Express, in gold or silver coin. Persons can pay agents, when regularly ap-
pointed and authorized to receive money. Each subscriber should interest himself in obtaining new members, bv so
doing all are benefited

Board of Dikectors.— Benjamin H. Freeman, George II. Russell, Samuel A. Raymond. James A. Fritehard, W. Le-
Roy.

Offickus —Benjamin H Freeman, President; George H. Ku>sell. Vice President; John U. Warren, Secretary;
James A. Pritchard, Treasurer.

Rkfkrkkces.— Hon. Henry Dutton, President of Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank; Hon. Samuel Cowles, late Judge
County Court, San Francisco; Hon A.J. Gunnison, Attorney at Law, San Francisco; H J. Booth, E=q , Union Iron
Work«, San Francisco; Henry F. Williams, E?rj , Real Esialc, San Francisco; John O. Hanscom, Esq . jEtimlron Works,
San Francisco; John H. O'Brien, E-q., ol O'Brien. Bush & Co., San Francisco; Hon. J. P. Jones, tiold Hill, Nevada,

All communications should be addressed to the Secretary of the

PACIFIC PKOTECTIVE ASSOCIATION,

S. E. COR. OF MONTGOMERY AND SACRAMENTO STREETS, (Over Donolioe & Kelly's Bank,) SAN FRANCISCO.

fl0v!S-3mos.l

Rails, Newel Posts,

AND BALUSTERS,

Constantly on hand for sale, and

shipped, together with

all kinds of

STAIR WORK,

To any part of the coast. Practi-
cal workmen sent, when desired,
to put up the same.
Work "Warranted to Fit

by simply sending n correct ground
plan of stairs, together with hight
of story.

Wood-Turning and Scroll Saw-
ing of all kinds promptly executed.
BSr" Spanish Cedar, Walnut and
California Laurel always on hand
for sale.

mJWEfErEmifcX

Pacific Mail Steamship Co's

STEAMSHIPS FOR

NEW YOBK, J^PAN ATO CHINA.

rfSFjJSafc LEAVE WHARF, CORNER OF FIRST AND
SEew&KS. Bran nan streets, at II o'clock A. M. of the
following dates, for PANAMA, connecting via Panama Rail-
road, with one oi the Company's splendid steamers from
ASPINWALL for NEW YORK.

On the Gth, 11th, 33d and 30th of every month.

Steamer leaving San Francisco on the 6th touches at
Manzanillo. All touch at Acapulco.

Departure of the 14th is expected to connect with the
French Trtuis- Atlantic Co. 's steamer for St. Nnzaire, and
English steamer for South America. Through tickets can
be obtained.

Departure of 14th Is expected to connect with English
sttamer for Southampton and South America, and Austra-
lia, and P. R. R. Co's steamer for Central America.
Through tickets can be obtained.

STEAMERS FOK SIARCII, 1SOO.

The following Steamships will be dispatched on dates a*
given below : .

March 10th— GOLDEN CITY Capt W. F. Lapidgc,

Connecting with ALASKA, Capt. Gray.

March 18th— MONTANA Capt E. S. Farnsworth,

Connecting with RISING STAR, Capt. Connor.

March .HOth— COLORADO Cant Wm. H. Pnrker,

Connecting with HENRY CHaUNCEY, Capt. Maury.

Cabin passengers berthed through. Baggage checked
through— 100 pounds allowed each adult.

An experienced Surgeon on board. Medicine and attend-
ance free.

These steamers will positively sail at 11 o'clock. Paasei.
gers are requested to have their baggage on board before It
o'clock.

Through Tickets for Liverpool by the Cunard, Inman and
National Steamship Lines, can be obtained at the office oi
the P. M. S. s. Co., San Francisco, where may also bo ob
taiued orders for passage from Liverpool or Southampton
to San Francisco, either via New York or St. Thomas— il
desired an amount of £10 to £20 will be advanced wilh the
above orders, Holders of orders will be required to iden-
tify themselves to the Agents in England.

For Merchandise and Freight to New York and Way
Ports. Company's Form of Bill 1 ading only used.

No Freight will be received on board alter 2 P. M. of the
day prior to (he steamer's departure.

The steamship CHINA, Capt. Warsaw, will be dispatched
on FRIDAY, March 5th, iSfiU, at 12 o'clock M.. from wharf
corner of First and Brannan streets, for HONGKONG, con-
necting at Yokohama with the steamer NEW YORK, for
Shanghai.

For passage, freight and all other information, apply at
the Pacific Mail Steamship Co's office, corner of Sacra-
mento and Leidesdortf streets.

OLITEK ELDBISGE, A tent.

Tor Miners, Millmen and Metallurgists.

KUSTEL'S NEW WORK,
CONCENTRATION

Of all kinds of Ores, and the

CHL0RINATIQN PR03ESS,

For Gold-Bearing Sulphurets, Arseniurets, and Gold and
Silver Ores generally.

I»rice,

$7.5 O

A liberal discount to the Trade. For sale by the Booksellers

Sent to anj part of the United States, postage paid,

on receipt of the price. Address,

DEWEY <fc CO., Fixblisliers,

Office of the Mining and Scientific Press, 414 Clay street,
lCvltf SAN FRANCISCO.

Patent Office Reports, from 1S43 to 1847, Mechanical
are wanted fbrdunlicatc copies ai .his office. Parties hav-
ing them for sale will please state price, and aldress
DEWEY & CO., Atluiug and Scientific Press office, San
Fruiicisoo.

KEMOVAL.
TAY, BROOKS" & BACKUS,

HAVE REMOVED TO

East side of Battery street, ]Vos.
614, GIG and (J18,

Between Jackson and Pacific sts:,

One Block, north • fine Custom House und
I'ost-Offlce.

Richmond Rantcc*; Bnrntow Cook, with Hot

Closet; Improved Emolrc City; Fi-cuck

Ranges of all Sizes; Monitor

Stoves, Metals, Etc., Etc.

lOvIS-lm

Eley's Ammunition.

The»e Cartridges are made in

three sizes, viz, .r.77 (or Snider Enfield)
bore; .51)0 (or hall inch) bore; and .J5I
(or email) bore

These Cartridges have been adopted,
alter careful comparative trials
iK-aiim all nther descriptions, bv HER
MUESIV'S WAR DEPARTMENT, as
tlic Standard Rifle Ammuniliuii for the
BRITISH ARMY, alio are not only
used exclusively for the Snider Rifle,
but arc adapted to all other sysienis of
military BREECH LuADINU RIFLES.

They are the cheapest Cartridges
known, carrying their own ignition,
being made wholly of metal, are wa-
ter-proof and imperishable in any cli-
matc.

Boxer Cartridge Cases (empty), of all
3 sizes, packed with or without bullets,
and machine for fastening same in
Cartridges.

Maker* of BOXER CARTRIDGES.
.45') bore for Revolving Pistols, in use
In Her Majesty's Navy.

PIN CARTRIDGES for Lcfaucheux
Revolvers of 12 m, 9 m. and 7 m, bore.

CENTRAL FIRE and PIN FIRE
CARTRIDGES, Cot all sized ofGuus,
Riflca and Revolvers.

Double Water-Proof and E. B. Caps.
Wire Cartridges for killing game at
long distances. Felt Waddings to im-
prove Hie shooting of guns; and every
description of Sporting and Military Ammunition.
Wholesale only.

ELEY BROTHERS,
I8vl6eowly Gray's Inn Road, London, W. C.

y^ MEUSSDORFFER, y^
HAT MANUFACTURER,

And dealer In

Hats and Caps

AT WHOLESALE A\I» BETAIL.

635 and 637 Commercial street San Francisco.

125 J street Sacramento.

Corner of D and Second streets Marysville.

72 Fron L street Portland, Oregon.

Ourwholesalc House, 628 Commercial street, extending
through to 637 Clay street, S>in Francisco, contains always
a most choice, and the largest, assortment in this State.
Every Steamer brings the latest issued novelties from Eu-
rope and New Tork, which can be found at all the above
stores, at moderate prices. 23vr6-3m

Elkcthotypk Engravings, Cots, Etc.— Our Job Printing
Othce Is abundantly supplied with elegant engravings, or
naments, aod other embellishments to suit the various
branches ol industry in this State

HAIWARB & COLEMAN

IMPORTERS AND REFINERS

—OF—

Illuminating, Lubricating,

— AND—

PAINT OILS,

CONSISTING OF

KEROSENE. LARD,. SPERM, ELEPHANT, POLAR,

TANNERS. NEATSFOOT, BOILED AND RAW

LINSEED, CASTOR AND CHINA NUT.

— ALSO—

Spirits of Turpentine and Alcohol.
Lamps and Lamp Stock !

An elegant and complete assortment.

SOLE IMPORTERS OF
Devoe's Illuminating Oil.

PATENT CAN'S.

5vI7-tf. 414 Front street, San Francisco.

CHANGE.

C. C. HASTINGS & CO.

Wholesale and Retail*
SUPKRIOK GOOIW! REDUCED RATES!

C. C. HASTINGS & CO.,

SUCCESSORS TO
Itneston, Hastings A Co.,

SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK,

Announce to the friends of the old firm, and the public at
large, lhat their present business ariangcments arc such
that they are enabled io oiler the be^t and most stylish
goods on the Pacific Coast at a great reduction from former
prices.

AT WHOLESALE.

The attention of the merchants throughout the Pacific
("oast, is called to the fact that we are now prepared to till
their orders for superior goods in

Strictly Cnstom-lUtudc Clothing,
Suits, Gloves, Hosiery, and

Furnl thing Goods, Trunks.

Traveling Bags uud VuIUch,
In lots to suit at regular wholesale rates.

CLOTHING TO ORDER,

Made either in New York or San Francisco, under the su-
pervision of the best cutters in America.

DIRECTIONS FOR M EASIKF.MEST

Sent to any address upon application, and goods forwarded
by Express on receipt of orders. Satisfaction feuarantetd.

C. C. HASTINGS A CO.,

Successors lo

HEUSTON, HASTINGS & CO.,

The Fashionable Clothier*.

New York and San Francisco.
8vlS-3m

INDIA FLEA. DRUG!

A California Discovery.

This is a simple but very efficient FLEA POWDER.

It Is Death to Men* nnd Vermin, but not In|Q.
rlous to persons.

TRY IT! TUTIT!! TRY IT!!!

After a thorough test you will use none other.

PUT UP IN BOXES ONLY. FOUR SIZE3.

It is the best and cheapest article of the kind ever offered

to the public.

Directions for Use.— Sprinkle your bedding and

clothes, and add a little in your waging.

For sale, wholesale and retail, by Druggists,

#9* For further information, address

Prof. C. E. JATCOX,
Care of Langley A Crowell, Druggists,
8vt8-3m Snn Francisco.

Offices to Let.

Two convenient front rooms (No. 9 and 10) in second story
of No. ±23 Washington street, to let on favorable tcrind
Apply at this office, up stairs. No. Ill Clay street

Tr\e Mining and Scientific Press.

205

Resources and Developments.

Improved Grape Growing. — The Saorn-
mento liee says that a now winc-amkiug
and Rrai>egrowiug company has been
Organized iu Sacramento, the object
of which is, by the concentration of capital
and ubility, to make wine of superior qual-
ity atcheap rates; and to help redeem the
disrepute into which we are likely to fall as
vinters, because of the numerous parties
who undertake to make wine without know-
ing the first rudiments of the business.

Sawmills Wanted. — The Los Angeles
Neics says there is a great want of sawmills
in the vicinity of the Solednd mines. There
is timber in abundance, and a ready market
for the lumber, and but little road-making
needed.

Irrigating Canal. — The Los Angeles
Neics says that one of the most notable en-
terprises, looking to the development of
that region, which has been recently un-
dertaken, is an irrigating canal, now being
constructed for the improvement of the
San Pascal Rancho, by Mr. B. D. Wilson
and Dr. J. S. Grilliu. This tract of
laud consists of several thousand acres
which will become veVy productive as soon
as it can be furnished with water for irriga-
tion. It is well calculated for vines, semi-
tropical fruit or cereals. The News thinks
this undertaking will do much by affording
substantial evidence of what may be done
in other similar situated localities. It ex-
presses the opinion that millious of dollars
might be added to the commerce and busi-
ness of that county by a few other enter-
prises similar to this.

Olive Trees. — The Los Anueles News
says two hundred thousand olive cuttings
have been set out in Santa Barbara County
the present season.

Cashmere Wool. — The Folsom Tele-
graph has a piece of wool from a Cashmere
buck, the pioperty of Oakley &■ Shirley,
about one-quarter blood. The staple is
about ten inches in length, exceedingly fine,
and has a beautiful appearance. These
gentlemen have a fine range in that county,
and a large flock of goats. The wool is
worth from a dollar and a half to five dol-
lars, the price depending upon the length
of the staple, some of it reaching twenty
inches in length. The annual clip being
about five pounds to the goat. The Tele-
graph thinks there is a fortune in prospect
fur enterprises of this kind.

Wheat on Bed Soil. — The Yreka Union
says that Mr. Richardson, of Willow Creek,
in that county has sowed some tough red
soil with wheat as an experiment. It came
up quicker and looks better than thatsown
on the black soil usually cultivated, but
whether it will come on and mature prop-
erly is yet to be determined.

Mulberry Business Thriving. — The Ne-
vada Gazette says the planting of mulberry
trees in that section, with Jhe ultimate view
of raising silkworms and the production of
silk, is increasing.

Walnut Trees. — The Yolo Democrat
says that in various parts of that county
quite a number of walnut trees have been
planted this season. Until recently there
were but few trees of this species in the
county. The oldest and largest, perhaps,
is one planted several years ago by J. A.
Price, at Cottonwood. The tree referred
to is a thrifty nut-bearing and beautiful
shade tree, the trunk of which is about
twelve or fourteen inches in diameter.

A Plantation of 4,000 mulberry trees
will be laid out shortly in Analy township,
Sonoma county.

New Job Printing Firm.

In order to devote our attention more exclu-
sively to the publication of our paper, and the bus-
iness of our American and Foreign Patent Agency,
we have disposed of the presses and job printing
material, and fixtures, in our office — with the en-
tire future good will and patronage of our Job
Printing Office, — to George Spaulding and
Harrison Barto. Messrs. Spaulding & Barto will
continue the operation of the same, in our office,
414 Clay street, under the title of "The Mining
and Scientific Press Job Printing Office."

Both of these gentlemen are practical printers
of good attainments and enviable reputation.
They have been long engaged in this office, and it
is with pleasure that we can recommend them to
the favor and patronage of all our old customers
in the line of Job Priming. A. T. Dkwky.

W. B. Ewer.

P. S. — This change relates to our job printing
department alone, our patent agency and news-
paper business remaining as before.

Dewey & Co,
Mining and Scientific Press Office, 414 Clay

street.

March 1, 1869.

New Incorporations.

Articles of incorporation have been re-
cently filed in the (Anility Clerk's office in
this city as follows:

Albermarlf. MlNTNG Co. — White Pine,
X.-v. March 'Jith, Capital stock. SI, 200,-
000; 1,200 Bhares, 8100 each. Trustees:
Geo. O. Eoker, John Xightingale, Edward
Chevessus, Geo. S. Ladd and Charles Read-
ing.

Mount Mobiah S. M. Co. — White Pine,

Nev. March 20th. Capital stock, s:iou,( :

G.000 shares, S50 each. Trustees: Carl
Precht, Louis Colin, D. W. Taylor, Thos.
Ansbro and A. De Land.

(Ikant Invincible S. M. Co. - White
Pine, Nev. Capital stock, §800,000;
8,000 shares, S100 each. Trustees: S. B.
Whipple, C. W. Chase, A. Hayer, S. C.
Burley and Theo. Beichart.

Silver Wave Mining Co. — White Pine,
Nev. March 23d. Capital stock, *2,0()0,-
000; 20,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees:
W. J. Williams, C. W . Fox, M. J. McDon-
ald, W. N. Hawley and L. J. Lewis.

Alhamdra Silver Mining Co. — White
Pine, Nev. March 23d. Capital stock,
§1,200,000; 12,000 shnres, 8100 each. Trus-
tees: F. P. Swett, Washington Ayer, M.
D. Carr, A. J. Downer and I. G. Hoitt.

Estella.No. 2, Mining Co. — White Pine,
Nev. March 23d. Capital stock, $1,200,-
000; 12,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees:
A K. Grim, E. J. Cornfield, W. T. Fisher,
A. K. P. Harmon and M. D. Bantu.

Alexander Silver Mining Co. — White
Pine, Nev. March 23d. Capital stock,
$1,000,000; shares, $150 each. Trustees:
W. H. Sharp, W. Seligsberg, A. C. Frank-
lin, M. Byrne and J. Greenbaum.

Silver Key Boring and Mining Co. —
White Pine, Nev. March 23d. Capital
stock, $600,000; 6,000 shares, $100 each.
Trustees: W. H. Bruner, E. A. Pool, B. A.
Hawkins, Geo. S. Evans and J. M. Buffing-
ton.

La Belle Mining Co — White Pine, Nev.
March 23d. Capital stock, $500,000; 25,-
000 shares, $20 each. Trustees: W. H.
Brown, B. R. Swain, William Irelan, W.
S. Thompson and J. A. Hall.

Somkrville Silver Ledge and Mining
Co.— White Pine, Nev. March 23d. Capital
stock, $140,000; 2,800 shares, $50 each.
Trustees: James Jewett, W. H. Tabor, P.
H. Moses, B. J. Astler and Chilion Beach.

Bailroad Avenue Extension Homestead
Association. — San Francisco. March 23d.
Capital stock, $38, 760; 102 shares, $380 each.
Trustees: W. J. Gnrra, Chas. F. Brown,
W. Everson, O. B. Huff and R. W. Gluyas.

Florence Mine and Tunnel Co. — White
Pine, Nev. March 24th. Capital stock,
$1,000,000; 10,000 shares, $100 each. Trus-
tees: L P. Rinkin, F. F. Low, A. P. Ho-
taling, N. B. Stone and Warring Wilkin-
son.

California Marine Paint Co. — San
Francisco. March 24th. Trustees: Lloyd
Tevis, James Pollock, Lathrop L. Bullock,
Scott Tidball and Thos. A. Talbert.

Imperial Mining Co. — White Pine, Nev.
March 25th. Capital stock, $1,000,000;
10,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: Lewis
Cook, H. H. Schaefer, J. H. H. Williams,
O. V. Sawyer and G. B. Merrill.

Silver Star Silver Mining1 Co. — White
Pine, Nev. March 25th. Capital stock,
$1,000,000. Trustees: H. A. Deming, Jno.
H. Tobenboske, J. W. Littlefield, H. P.
Burr and E. E. Harvey.

Great Republic Mining Co. — White
Pine, Nev. March 25th. Capital stock,
$1,000,000. Trustees, same as Silver Star
Co.

Silver Crown S. M. Co.— White Pine,
Nev. March 25th. Capital stock, $1,000, -
000. Trustees, same as Siiver Star Co.

Eureka S. M. Co.— White Tine, Nev.
March 25th. Capital stock, $1,000,000.
Trustees, same as Silver Star.

Bay Park Homestead Association. —
San Francisco. March 23d. Capital stock,
$117,000; 325 shares, $360 each. Trus-
tees: A. S. Gould, F. B. Wilde, J. Bindle-
berger, C. E. Dunshee, W. A. Woodward,
H. F. Williams and J. W. McKenzie.

Orleans Mining Co. — Nevada County.
March 20th. Capitalstock, $500,000; 5,000
shares, $100 each. Trustees: J. P. Pierce,
A Delano and E. L. Tuttle.

Latawana Mining Co. — White Pine,
Nev. March 25th. Capital stock, $192,-
000; 1,020 shares, $100 each. Trustees:
J. A. Drinkhouse, E. W. McKinstry, Geo.
Pratt, Thos. J. Poulterer, John H. Wise,
N. Hayes and B. Savage.

March 24th. Trustees, A. Havward, Thos.
Bell, A. E. Head, J. D. Fry. W. B.
Thomburg; President, J. D. Fry; Secre-
tary, Chas. E. Elliott.

Dave Williamson Tunnel and M. Co.
White Pine, Nev. March 25th. Presi-
dent, Geo. S. Evans; Secretary, Wm. S.
Ustick; Engineer, D. Wilson.

Latawana M. Co. — White Pine, Nev.
March 25th. President. J. H. Wise, Treas-
urer, J. A. Drinkhouse; Secretary, A. Marti-
non; Superintendent, B. Savage.

To Test Flour.— Place a small quantity
in the palm of the left hand and rub it
gently with a finger of the right. If it
feels very smooth, silky and slippery, it is
of inferior quality, though ever so white.
It is badly ground and made from damaged
wheat, or perhaps containing too much
gluten. But if it feels a little rough on
being rubbed, and has a slight orange tint,
you can depend with much confidence on
its being a good article and one that will
make excellent and nutritious bread.

I. X, 1.. Oold ttml sllvt-r Mining: Company.—

Location of Mine : Silver Mountain District, Alpine

County, California.

Notice.— There, are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, "ii account of assessment levlod on the nlne-
leenth day or January. 1889, the several amounts set oppo-
site the names of the respective, shareholders as follows:
Name*. No. Oortlltcsite. No. shares. Amount.

John A Johnson.... -2&1 1 $150

JS Adams H3 6 7M

J s Adams 82S 2 3 00

J S S Rohinscn :i2l- ft 7 an

Mary O BrldRas S6U n>« 18 75

Catherine Jones- 144 sy 4fl 1 0

Catherine Jones 165 17 25.10

Calhertne Jonoa 238 5 7 flo

Tit Clark 375 to 15.0

TR Clark ssli 22« 1175

E M Lmin :e,4 In 15 ,4;

15 22 SO

7 SO

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(' Goodefl..
Q (loo'lcll .

7 50
75

New Mining Advertisements.

Pacific Coal Mining Company, Contra Co.ta

County, California.

Notice Is hereby Riven, that at a meeting of the Board of
frustces of said Company, held on the twentieth day of
March, IS69, an assessment of four dollars per share wan
levied upon the capital stock of saiil Company, payable
immediately, in United States gold and silver coin, to the
Secret ary

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid mi the iwvnty-sevciith day of April, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will he duly advertised for sale
it public auction, and unless payment shall he made be-
t'lirc, will lie s<dd nn Monday, the seventeenth da.v of May,
1869. tti pay the d-'liuqucui assessment, together with costs
ol advertising and expenses olsale. By order of the Board
oi Trustees.

S. LACTTMAN, Secretary.

OhVc. southeast corner Market and First streets. Man
Francisco. mar27

Senator Silver Mining Coninany.-Lucatlou of

Mine: Virginia City. Storey County, State of Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board
of Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty-sixth
day of March, 18G9, an assessment of fifty cents per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able immediately, in United States gold coin, to the Sec-
retary, at the office of the Company, No. 408 California
street, San Francisco.

Anv stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpa'id on the first (1st) day of May, 1W9. shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised tor sale
at nuhllc auction, ami unless payment shall be made be-
fore, will be sold on Friday, the twenty-eighth day of
May, 1869. 10 pay the delinquent assessment, together
with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of
the Board of Trustees.

T. B. WINGARD, Secretary.

Office. 408 California street. Ran Francisco. mar27

Silver Sprout Mining Company.-Locatlon of

Works and Mines: Kearsarge District, Inyo county, Cal.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board
of Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty-fifth
day of March, 1869, an assessment of fifty cents per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, ply-
able immediately. In United States gold coin, to the" Secre-
tary, at the oiflce of the Company, No. 4t)8 California street,
San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the first (1st) day of 11a , 1869, shall be deemed
delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale at public
auction, and unless payment shall be made before, will be
sold on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of May, 1869, to
pay Hie delinquent assessment, together with costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of
Trustees.

T. B. WINGARD, Secretary.

Offlce. 403 California street, San Francisco. mar'27

Win Davidson 310

Win Duvldson 71

Ann Hnpnii 176

Charles Flsk-. 15(1

I WJ Tht.mas ..371

Daniel H Dickinson 291

Daniel H Dickinson 359

L E Wahlhurg 277

Henry Jflrfl.no 188

Tlonrv Jardlne 304

Hcnr'v Jardlnc 330

HonrvJardme :wi

Henry Jardine 334

Hepburn James. , il6

Hepburn James 158

Hepburn James 217

A Wagner 2n7

Chas Saunders 224

Caroline A Nelson ,293

George Brosle 229

J h mes Wy lett 231

II T Bjlske 380

Loul* Blinding 237

John G Slavln 254

Henry Eno an

ID'nrv lino :t"7

E Ffilbsou 270

E F Gibson 271

E F GlbSOD 274

E FGil>on 302

Wm Jones 246

Jnhn Cairns 249

John Bolts 381

John Bolts 256

D fl Riddle.... 258

Julius Zabcl 259

I ! D Scott 260

J A McMahon 263

R K Love 275

R KLove 3"i3

R K Love 329

R K Love 3t2

L Wrchelhausen 281

Wm West 352

N Graff. 3r>7

R S Cutter 3«6

RR Cutter 284

E Kkelund 362

EEkclund 364

Philip Myers. 370

M Long 385

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the nineteenth day of January,
1S69, so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may
be necessary, will be sold at public auction, by Messrs.
OIney Jt Co., auctioneers, No. 426 Montgomery street, San
Francisco, on Wednesday, the seventeenth day of March,
1869, at thohour of 12 o'clock, M., of said day, to pay said
delinquent assessment thereon, together with costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale.

J. CROWNINSniELD, Secretary.

Office, Pioneer Hall, Montgomery street, up stairs, San
Francisco, mar6

Postponement.— The above sale is hereby postponed until
Monday, the fifth day of April, 1869, at the same hour
and place. By order of the Board of Trustees.

mar20 J. CROWNINSHIELD, Secretary.

Mining Notices—Continued.

Election op Officers. — Consolidated
Chloride Flat M. Co.— White Pine, Nev.

Cordillera. Oold and Silver Mining Company.—

Morclos District, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a nieoting ot the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the sixteenth day of
March, 1809, an assessment of one dollar ($D per share
was levied upon the capital slock of said Company, paya-
hle immediately, in United siaics gold and silver coin,
to the Secretary, at the office of the Company, 321 Washing-
ton street, San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said Assessment shall remain un-
paid on the twentieth (2oili) day of April, I8C9, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will he duly advertised (or sale at
public auction, antl unless payment shall be made before,
will be sold on Monday, the tenth day of May, 1869,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of
advertising and oxpenses of sale. By order of the Board of
Trustees.

ITEVRY R. REED, Secretary.

Office, 321 Washiny'on street, San Francisco. mar20

G-lenwood Mill mid Mining Company, Green-
wood, EI Dorado County, California.
Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the nineteen'.h day of
February, 1869, an assessment of twenty-live dollars per
share was levied upon the capital stock id' said Company,
payable immcdialolv, iu United S ates uold and silver coin,
to the Secretary, Room 11, No. 431 California street. San
Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the second nay of April, I8S9, shall be deemed
delinquent, and will lie duly advertised for sale at public
auction, and unless pnvinent shalt be made before, will be
sold on Monday, the twenty-sixth da.v of April, 1869, to
pay thedelinquent assessment, together with costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of
Trustees.

WILLIAM VALE, Secretarv.
Office, 434 California street. San Francisco. feb27

Lvimi Mill and Mining Company, Kel*ey II!*-

Irict, El Dorado County, California.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Bonrd of
Trustees of said Company, held on the sixth day of
March, 1869. an assessment of o"e dollar per share was
levied upon the capital stock of said Company, payable
immediately, in United States gold and sliver coin, to
the Secretary.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the sixth (6-h) day of April, 1869. shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised tor sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall he made before,
will he sold on Monday, the twenty-sixth day of April. 1869
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale. By order ot the Board of
Trustees.

J M BUFFINGTON. Secretary.

Office. Room 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California
street. Sail Francisco. inarl3 |

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North American Wood Prenervlngt Company.

Location of Works: San Francisco, California.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Directors of said Company, held on the twelfth day of
March, 1869, an assessment of one ($1) dollar per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able immediately, in United States gold and silver coin, to
the Secretary, at the Company's office, 430 Montgomery
street, San Francisco.

Any stoctc upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the fourteenth (14th) day of April. 1869. shall be
deemed delinquent, and will he duly advertised for sale at
put. Ik- auction, and unless payment shall be made before,
will be sold on Saturday, the first day of May, 1869,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together vtitu costs
of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board
ol Directors.

WM. B. LAKE, Secretary.

Offlcp, 430 Montgomery street. Son Francisco mnrI3

Mount Xenabo feillver Mining Company.-Lo<

cation of Works: Cortez District, Lander County, State

of Nevada.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty -third day of
January, 1869, an assessment of seventy-five cents per share
was levied upon the capital slock of said Company, pay-
able immediately, in Uni'cd Stales gold and silver coin, to
the Secretary, at the office of the Company, 426 Montgom-
ery street, San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the fifth (5th) day of March, 1869, shall bo
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless payment shall be made be-
fore, will be sold on Tuesday, the thirtieth (30tli) day of
March, 1869, to pay the delinquent assessment, together
«ul. costs ot advertising and expenses of sale. By order
of the Board of Trustees

R. N VAN BRUNT, Secretary.

Office 426 Montgomery street, San Francisco. j«n30

Postponkmknt.— The rhiy for deeming stock delinquent on
the above assessment is hereby postponed until the second
(1st ol April, 1869. and the sale thereof until Tuesday, the
twenty sevenih day of April, 1869. By order of the Board
of Trustees.

mar6 R. N. VAN BRUNT, Secretary.

Star Creek Mining Company.-Locatlon: Star

District, State of Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty-sixth day of
February, 1869. an assessment of one dollar and fifty cents
per share was levied upon the capital stock of said Com-
pany, payable immediately, in United States gold and silver
coin, to the Secretary at San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the twenty-ninth dav of March, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall be made before,
will be sold on Monday, the nineteenth day of April, 1869,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with cosis of ad-
vertising And expenses of sale. By order of the Board of
Trustees.

HORACE MORRISON, Secretary.

Office, N. E. cor. Front and Jackson streets.

Troy Hieugc Mining Company, TTnlte Pine

District, Lander County, Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board
of Trustees of said Company, held on the sixteenth day of
March, 1869, an assessment of fifteen cents per share was
levied upon the capital stock of said Company, payable
immediately, in United States gold and silver coin, to the
Secretarv

Any stock upon which said .■issc-ssmentsli all remain unpaid
on FriJav, the twenty-third dav of April, lSt.9. shall
be deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for
sale at public auction, and unless pavmcut shall be made be-
fore, will be sold on Monday, the twenty-fourth day of May,
1869, to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs ot
advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board
of Trustoos.

J. M BUFFI.VGTON, Secretary.

Office, 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California street,
San Francisco. niarflJ

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinery.

TABNET'S

PATENT AMALGAMATOR,

Those Machines Stand Unrivaled.

For rapidly pulverizing and nmalgamaling ores, they
have no equal. No effort has been, or will be, spared to
have them constructed in the most perfect manner, and of
the great number now in operation, not one has cvorre-
gutred repairs. The constant and increasing demand for
them issufiicicnt evidence of their merits.

They arc constructed so as to apply steam directly Into
lie pulp, or with steam bottoms, as desired.

This Amalgamator Operates as Follows:

The pan being tilled, the motion of the muller forces the
pulp to the center, where Itis drawn down through the ap-
erture and between the grinding surfaces. Thence it is
thrown to the periphery Into the quicksilver. The curved
plates again draw it to the center, where It passes down,
and to the circumference as before. Thus itis constantly

fiasslng in a regular flow between the grind lug surfaces and
uto the quicksilver, until tlio ore is reduced to an Impalpa-
ble powder, and the metal amalgamated.

Setters made on the same principle excel all others.—
They bring the pulp so constantly and perfectly in contact
with quicksilver, that the particles are rapidly and coin
pletcly absorbed.

Mill men are invited to examine these pans and setlers for
themselves, at tuo FAOIFIC POUNDItY,

lvl San Francisco.

ELLERY'S PATENT

India Rubber Cement and Faint

— fob —
TIN, IRON AND METALLIC ROOFS,

I , IS rick mut "Wooden IfufldliiffH,

SHIPS, STKAMKOATS, STAGES, CABS,

AND FOR ALL EXPOSED SURFACES.

Is water-proof and Indestructible; will neither rot, peel,

nor crack; will withstand any climate; can- be put on In

any color, and is loss expensive than other Faint.

New Cloth Roofti put on. Old RoofH cemented
mul painted. Leaky Bool's matte Unlit.

Ogr No Goal Tar or Asphaltuin used. All work guaran-
teed. Orders punctually attended to.

GEO. T. UROMLET, Affcut,

Pipe Vise, with or without
Extra Jaw. __

Standard Milling Machine,

UNION" VISE COMPANY,

OF BOSTON, MASS.
Extra jaw, and heavy Vises. Warranted for heavy work.
New stylo Wood and Covered Screw Vises, forty styles and
kinds; Standard Milling Machines, Simple, great capacity,
power and strength— two sizes, large, 2,sixl lbs; small, 9£0
lbs. For sale by tbetrado.
23vl6-ly G. H. NOTT, Pros.

SLAKES QUARTZ BREAKER !
IPKICES REDUCED!

MACHINES OF ALL SIZES FOR SALE

— BY —

"WM. P. BLAKE,

Corner Flrat mid mission atreetu, or Box 8,077

SvlSf SAN FRANCISCO.

PACIFIC FILE WORKS,

No. 53 Beule Street, bet. Market and Allsrfon,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Files Re-cut and warranted as wood as new, with a saving
Of ilfty per cunt. REAPER AND MOWER SECTIONS
MADKTU ORDER. The onlv establishment on the Coast
Orders from the country promptly attended to. «^- First
Premium awarded at tha State Pair. 1S67.

2vir-3.ii T. «. DtliMXO <fe CO

Bemoval.
NELSON~& DOBLE,

AGE.VTS FOR

Thomas Firth & Sons' Cast Steel, Files,

Etc., Shear, Spring, German, Plow, Blister and Toe Calk

Steel; manufacturers of

Mill Picks, Sledges, Hammers, Picks,

Stone Cutters1, Blacksmiths' and Horse-Shoers' Tools,

Have removed to 13 and 15 Fremont street, near

MarRet, sail Kranuuiso.

LOvMqr

MACHINERY AGrEIVOY.

W. O. M. BERRY & CO.,

Are the manufacturers' agents for Uichardson, Merrlam
& Go's celebrated

Wood Working Machinery,

Embracing every description of Planers, Matchers and
Mortisers. Moulding, Tenoning. Boring. Shaping, Vertical
ami Circular lie-aawlng Machines; Scroll. Railway, Cut-olf
and Rip Saws, otc, oic. Agents for the Swamscot Go's

Improved I*ortal>lo Engines,

Warranted fully equal to any in the market; Davis & Pur-
her's Woolen .Machinery; Blake's Patent Steam Pumps;
Milium'* and Warrni's Turbine Water wheels etc ,otc

'■'■id will receive prompt
»-«"«His built io order.

Urd irs for Macliim
Attention Machines for i
Send for Illustrated Catalogue W. O.'M. BERRY A 00,

Svis-Mii 114 Calliornia st, San Francisco.

ptirp.

Notice i:o Minei'ss,

Well-Borers and Water Companies,

MPRAQ IS NOW PREPARED TO MANUFACTURE
. Hydraulic and Artesian Well Pipes in the beat work-
manlike manner, and at the lowest market rates. Havlna
made laiye additions to my stock 01 machinery for thai
branch ol business, 1 am prepared to till all orders with dis-
patch, and Kuainntee enure s:iti-oaeuon. I also manufac-
ture Mississippi Stoves, ol the latest Imnroycd patterns, for
vessels of all classes. Also, Ship Plumbing done.

8V13-17 Stovo Store, No. 1 Clay street, 'below Davis.

CALIFORNIA TOOL WORKS,

Blacksmith and Machine Shop,

1 l:> llculc St., 1>ct. MlMNion i.u.i Howard,
SAN FRANCISCO.

All kinds of Eil^o or oilier Tools made to order. Pav-
tlculur attention paid topu tine In order AGRICl L'tUKAL
MACHINERY. Job Grinding and Polishing by steam.
Orders from llie Country promptly! attended to. fltfi-AH
work warranted.

21V17 qy J. WEICHIIAXT, Proprietor.

PATENT

Boiler Scraper and Tube-Cleaner,

IT IS THE CHEAPEST, MOST
durable, easiest to adjust, and
cleanest apparatus to use lor the
purpose designed, yet offered to
the public. Being constructed on
Simple and mechanical principles,
it i- not liable to got out of order,
and will continue to perform its
office until the materials arc worn
out. It can readily bo adjusted,
even by any Inexperienced per-
son—will scrape oil the scales and
cleanse the tubes just as smooth
and clean as they were when
new, without In the least affecting
their imier surface, as the Elliptic
Spring Scraper has a smooth
square edge., and springs in or out
tu lit the tubes. It is particularly
applicable for steamboat boilers
when muddy water is used.

A continuous iron rod runs
through the center of the top and
bottom hubs. The soft stcelscrap-
crs are fastened with serews to
the hubs, under the caps, which
cover and protect the serews ihat
fasten the sorapers 011 the huh.
The -scrapers arc expanded or con-
tracted by screwing or unscrew
ins the lower hub,— tlrstlooscnlng
the cap. There is a collar on the
rod to prevent the scrapers being jammed. An clastic or
flexible brush or .scraper, made of leather, rubber, or some
pliable material, is attached to the nut for the purposeof
removing from the tube the scale and dust loosened by the
action of the scrapers.

These scrnpers are made from one to six Inches in diam-
eter—the prices of those from one to three Inches ranging
from £5 to S12, Thev are now extensively used In the
Eastern States. Quite a number have already been sold in
tilts state.

For sale by McAfee, Spiers A Co., boiler makers, Howard
street, between Fremont and Bealc, San Francisco, and at
the Union Foundry, Sacramento. E. M. D., P. O. box 17,
San Francisco. Manufacturers' Agents. 2-lvl7tf

BLAKE'S PATENT

STEAM PUMP!

This Pimp is warranted superior to any in the market,
for Breweries, Sugar Houses, Tanneries, B oiler- FccdcM,
Steamboats, Mining and Fire purposes, etc. It throws a
full stream of the thickest beer mash without clogging,
and sugar syrup boiling hot without difficulty.

Warranted a positive Pump under all circumstances; It
never stops nor eels out of order, and by reason of the pa-
tent device In llie valves, Is kept clear and alwavs ready
for action. It Is SIMPLE, COMPACT and POWERFUL,
and needs no expert to run it,

OSp-If one falls to do the work for which It Is sold, It may
bo returned and the money will be refunded. May be seen
in operation at Risdon's, or Union Iron Works, oral
W. O. M. at *:k icy Ob GO'S,
Agents for Pacific States,

SvlS-Sm 114 California street, Kan Francisco.

GLASGOW
Iron and Metal Importing Company

Xon. 35 and S57 Fremont street*

SAN FRANCISCO,

Keep constantly on hand a large stock of best Bar and
Bundle Iron, Itoiler Tubes, Plate and Sheet Iron, Gas and
Water Pipe, Anvils, Cast Steel, Gas and Water Fitting,
which they oiler to the trade on liberal terms.

2lvl.l3.3m W. McCRINDLE, Manage*

The Perfection of Prepared Cocoa.

MAKAYILLA COCOA.

Sole Proprietors— TAYLOR BROTHERS, London.

The Cocoa (or Cacao) of Maravilla Is the true Theobroma
of Elntiajus. Cocoa is indigenous to South America, of
which Maravilla Is a favored portion. TAYLOR BROTH-
ERS having secured ttie exclusive supply of this unri-
valled Cocoa, hive, by ihe skillful application of their sol-
uble principle and elaborate machinery, produced what Is
so undeniably the perieetlon ol Prepared Cocoa, that it has
not only secured the preference of htunce-tpalhs and cocoa-
drinkers generally, but many who had hitherto not found
any preparation to suit them, have, after one trial, adopted
the Maravilla Cocoa as their constant beverage for break-
last, luncheon, etc.

" A. STTCCESS XrXPKECEBEBfTJEB."

[See following extract from the Globe of May 14, 1868.]
"Various importers and manufacturers have attempted
to attain a reputation for their prepared Cocoas, but wo
doubt whether any thorough success had been achieved
until Messrs. Taylor Brothers discovered the extraordinary
oualilles of "Maravilla" Cocoa. Adapting their perieet
system of preparation to this iinest of all species Of the
Theobroma, they have produced an article which super-
sedes every other Cocoa in the market. Entire solubility,
a delicate aroma, and a rare concentration of the purest
elements of nutrition, distinguish the Maravilla Cocoa
above all others. For honueopaths and invalids wo could
act recommend a more agreeable or valuable beverage.

Sold la packets only by all Grocers, of whom aho may
be bad lavlor Brothers' Original Honueopathlc Cocoa and
Soluble Chocolate, Steam Mills, Brick Lane. London.
CvlS-ly

Our Patent -Ajteuey.

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has been signalized with remarkable success during the
past few years. The Importance to the inventive genius of
this coast of a thorough and reliable agency for the sol lei ta
Lion of LBTTBR8 Patknt from the United States and foreign
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Press, feeling the responsibility which rests upon them, and
the reward which must follow the faithful performance of
their trusts, will Mike care to afford inventors every advan
iage to be secured to them through a competent and re
aoonslbloueency upon this coast,

Trades and Manufactures.

WM. BARTLINU.

IIEKHV KIB1UALL.

BARTLING & KIMBALL,
BOOltBIISTOEIftS,

Paper Kulers and Blank Book Manufacturers,

GOG Clny street, tsoulhweet tor. Sawsome),
16vl2-3m SAN FRANCISCO,

JOHN DANIEL,

(SUCCESSOR TO O. GOltl)

MARBLE WORKS,

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Drawing School

— FOR —

MR. FREDERICK 1[EI.].EKT.:
An experienced Draughtsman and Teacher, hn< opened an
Evening School at No. 414 CLAY STREET (same entrance
as the Mining and Scientific Press Office), where he lat-iv
ing thorough instructions in D It AWING to apprentices Who
arc inclined to self-improvement. His terms are moderate
and within reach of tho humblest apprentice; und wo are
pleased 10 say that the enterprise is meeting with success.
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From the Toot Hills and Mines.

We obtain the following items from notes
sent us by our agent W. H. M. :

CENTKAI. PACUTIO EAILKOAD.

The trains that leave Sacramento now
consist usually of four passenger cars,
which are taken up to the summit by two
engines. The cars are well filled, about
half of the men being bound for White
Pine. Some women, with dogs and cals,
were also noticed, who procured tickets for
Elko.

AT ATJBTHiN,

Placer county, the Green Emigrant mine,
Capt. C. Lind superintendent, has been at
a stand still for six weeks, being filled up
with water. There is a mill, and forty or
fifty holes are dug into tho hill, not built
over by sheds. Very good rock has been
struck, but no ledge yet found well enough
defined to warrant the putting up of hoist-
ing works.

AT GRASS VALLEY

Frank Morris has put a fine 8-stamp water
power mill on Wolf creek. It can be run
for $25 less than a steam mill, and has
plenty of ore to crush. He uses eight of
Knox's old pans. There are 45 men em-
ployed in the mill and mine belonging to
the same parties, the latter producing 400
tons per month, from a depth of 150 feet,
assaying $25 to $30 to the ton, the ledge
being 18 inches wide.

The Allison Ranch mine will start up
again early in the spring.

At the Young America mill and mine,
two miles from Grass Valley, there are 22
men, all Irishmen, working on shares, get-
ting ten per cent of what is taken out, the
contract lasting for several years longer.
The boys are striving hard to make it pay
well.

At the North Star mine or French lead
some gold quartz is produced of a good
enough quality for breastpins, and which is
sold for that purpose. The pumping ap-
paratus of this mine was made at M. C.
Taylor's Foundry, Grass Valley, and cost
$30, 000. The miners are required to change
their clothing on coming out, to prevent
peculation. Wood is getting scarce and
has to be hauled from three to six miles.

Idaho Correspondence.

MINING.

Editors Press: I have before spoken of
the Varieties lode of Yuba District, Altu-
rus County. Seven pounds of ore from
that lode was assayed and run into a bar of
gold value $15, being $4,285.71 per ton.
The owners are Wm. Clemens and J. B.
Barnhart, and the- above was tested by J.
D. Heath, and assayed and run into bar by
Prof. Liebnaud, of First National Bank of
Idaho. In spitetif winter weather, every
company there is making active prepara-
tions for work this summer, with firm con-
fidence in the future of Yuba.

THE BOISE VALLEY WATER DITCH

is so far completed that the Superintendent,
Mr. J. B. Walling, purposes to turn in a
head of water on Monday next, and our
citizens are planting out fruit and shade
trees and gardens, so that we shall present
a more cheerful appearance than hereto-
fore.

THE FARMERS

are making preparations for larger crops
than ever before, and in spite of the cry of
hard times, every one looks forward with
hope. Pegasus.

Boise City, I. T. , March 19th, 1869.

The London Underground Railway.
Over this road runs a train every three
minutes during the business part of the
day. The constant use of the electric tele-
graph prevents the possibility of any col-
lision. Thirteen millions of passengers
have been carried over this road in six
months. No smoke is given out by the en-
gines in the tunnel. The steam is got up
to 130 or 140 pounds pressure at the start-
ing point, where the line is open, and when
the traiu enters the covered way the dam-
per is closed and combustion is practically
prevented. The engine then continues to
run on the steam already made so long as
it is in the covered way, the pressure being
generally lowered to eighty pounds when it
emerges again into the open cut. The
steam, instead of escaping into the tunuel,
is conveyed by pipes to a condensing tank,
which is filled with cold water at each end of
the journey. Four carriages are usually
run in a train. They weigh about fourteen
tons when empty. The speed is usually
fifteen miles an hour, including stoppages.

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

207

Patent Office Facts. — Tlie Secretory
of the Interior, in hiSannna] report to Con-
gress, states that daring the year ending
September 30, 1868, there were 20,112 ap-
plications !<>r patents; 14,158 patents (in-
cluding tnd designs) wore issued;
1,692 applications allowed on which patents
did do( issne owing to the non-payment of
the final fee; 3,789 caveats filed; I80oppli-
9 for tho extension of patents re-
ceived, of which 189 were granted. The
receipts were S69G,786, being 8171 less than
tho expenditures. The Secretary also re-
news his former suggestion in favor of re-
pealing so mneh of the law as allows an
appeal from the decisions of the Commis-
sioner on application for letters patent and
in interference cases, and respectfully re-
fers to the views on the suhject presented
iu his former reports.

Heretofore tho Judges of the Supreme
Court have been paid a fee of 825 in each
and every ease of appeal from the Commis-
sioner of Patents. Hon. Klishrt Foote has
come to the conclusion that such payments
are illegal, and has discontinued the same,
so that now until some legislation is had in
the matter by Congress, no fee will he re-
quired for an appeal to tho Judges of the
Supreme Court.

Styptic Papeii.— A French recipe for
preparing paper to he carried iu the pocket
for application to small wounds to arrest
hemorrhage, is as follows : A mixture of
one pound of gum benzoin, one pound of
alum, and four and one-third gallons of
water is to ho kept boiling for four hours,
and skimmed from time to time. The water
evaporated is to be replaced by tho same
quantity of fresh water, and, as soon as the
solution is cooled, it is to bo filtered off.
The paper is then dipped into it, kept
there until saturated, and then dried.
When dry, a solution of the perchloride is
applied by a brush. The paper is folded
up and preserved from the action of the
air in a piece of waterproof taffeta.

Mosquitos, Flies, Ants, Etc. — F. Jager,
a German traveler in the East, says: "A
tincture prepared by macerating one part
of pyrethrum roseum in four parts of di-
luted alcohol, and when diluted with ten
times its hulk of water, applied to any part
of the body, gives perfect security against
all vermin. I often passed the night in my
boat on the ill-reputed rivers of Siam with-
out any other cover, even without the net-
ting, and experienced not the slightest in-
convenience. The 'buzzing' at other times
so great a disturber of sleep, becomes a
harmless tune, and, in the feeling of secu-
rity, a real cradle song. In the chase,
moistening the beard and hands protects
the hunter against flies for at least twelve
hours, eveu in spite of the largely increased
transpiration due to the climate."

Mild "Winteks. — The past winter has
been mild in Europe as well as upon our
own continent; and the " fact" hunters
state that in 1822, 1807 and 1791, the tem-
perature was as unusually warm as it is
this year; that in 1692 the Germans never
lighted their stoves; that 1617, 1612, 1607
were likewise wonderfully mild; that in
1538 the gardens were full of flowers in the
month of January; that in January, 1421,
cherries ripened, and grapes in May; and
that in 1172 the trees were covered with
leaves, Hewers bloomed, and birds built
their nests, while the little ones fledged in
the month of February.

CALIPOUNIA.

BUSINESS UNIVERSITY,

'•iOl SLimtcomery Street.

Full particulars regarding o-ir Practical bourse of Studies
may he. had by calling at the University, or by addressing
l/vl7-ijylip E. f. HiiAuu, San Francisco.

OCCIDENTAL,

Insurance Company,

OF HA.N riEA.VCISCO.
*'..-!. (upltiil, ...... $:|(>otOOO

GOLD COIN.

Office S. "W. cornet* of 3f ont-roniery mid
California MtreetM.

Fire and IVEarlixo Insurance.

All Losses paid In U. S. Gold Coin.

CUR. CHRISTIANSEN, President.
B. RfjTuacniLU, Secretary' 20vl7-:jni

ROOT'S PATENT FORCE BLAST ROTARY BLOWER.

Patented Nov. 1st, 1864 ; .Inly 24, W06 : and Oct. 9, 1N0G.

Awarded the First Premium «t tlie I?5iriK Exposition.

Ste»ni*slii ps

RKQl'IKES

UHrty Per Cent.

LESS POWER

Tli tin any Blower

Now In use.

One of these Blowers may be seen on exhibition at W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry, corner of
Mission ami Fremont streets. They are also in me at the Almailen Quicksilver Mine; Gritlley's
Foundry, GoM Mill, Nevada ; Muv.\ Iron Works, San Francisco, and many other places.

Caution. — Purchasers will find it to their advantage to apply direct to the Stockton Agency, as
certain parties, not authorized to manufacture the Blower, have put in the market machines of inferior
construction, which do not answer all the requirements of the genuine article.

For circulars and further information, address

KEEP & BARG-ION",

4vl6 3m Globe Iron Worku, Stockton, Cal.

COLLIER & SILLIMA.N'8
METALLIC PRESSURE PISTON ROD PACKING.

liKClSTBR youu Lettkks containing money addressed to
Us, or we will not be responsible. Remittances by Express
must hi- In packages, prepaid. When practicable, It is beat
to remit by draft, or order, on eonie Sau Francisco bank or

This invention relates to tlie packing vised to render piston rods or propeller shafts
steam and water tight, and has for its object the construction of a metallic packing, which
shall be operated upon by gas, the vapor or liquid exerting the pressure, in such a man-
ner as to forma perfectly tight joint. It also consists in so forming the gland of the
stuffing box, that it shall serve as a support and guidefor the rod and shaft, and at the
same time afford great facility for lubrication.

Two small openings now connect the inlerior of the cage with the source of press-
ure— as the cylinder in an engine or pump, or the water outside of the ship if it is for
a propeller shaft — so that the greater the pressure the closer are the rings forced
against the rod and inner face of the gland. In any case the Packing is to be applied
to a water or air pump, so that the pressure will come from the liquid or the gaseous
substance, as the case may be. One of the most important uses of this Packing is in
the stuffing boxes of propeller shafts, in which case the openings connect with the out-
side water, the pressure on the rings depending upon the depth to which the shaft is
submerged. This device is simple, and not easily got out of repair; is perfectly effica-
cious and self-regulating, and in the case of shafts, especially, will do away with the
great expense of repairing the derangements of the stuffing box which now so fi e ^uently
occur. This new invention has already been adopted on the Central Pacific Railroad
and by some of the principal Flouring Mills in San Francisco and Sacramento, and
is growing at once into popular favor. A description of the engraving accompanying
this will be found in the Mining and Scientific Press Jan. 9, lg69, and in the patentees'
circular, which can be had free on application.

Certificates of Recommendation:

Office C. P. It. It. Co. op Cal., Sacramento, Nov. 24, 1SG8. — To Whom it may Concern: — This Company has
made a thorough practical test of Collier & Silliman's Patent Metallic Kod Packing, and find it a buperior
mode of packing to any other in use, and accordingly rucomnicnd it to all others interested.

E. B. CROCKER, Gen. Agent C. P. R. It. Co.

This is to Cekttfy, that we have been using the Collier & Silliman's Patent Metallic Rod Packing, and find
it a superior mode of packing to any other in use, and would recommend it to all others interested.

SETH H. C-AJtFIELD, Prop. Pioneer Mills, Sac. City ; Wm. Etchells, Engineer.

For sale at the principal Machine shops and Foundries in San Francisco. Full
particulars can be obtained by addressing ORRIN COLLIER, Sacramento, Cal., or
E. B. Silliman, Bridgeport, Ct.

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Metallurgy.

MO!SIIEIME R\S

PIONEER MINING- SCHOOL,

METALtlTRGlC WORKS.

Having established tbe Ant Practical Mining and Metal-
lurgical SchooLln the United state*, i would call the at-
tention of gentlemen who may wish to obtain a practical

knowledge of

Chemistry, Assaying and Metallurgy,

That I am prepared to teach all the above brunches In less
time than to any Europenn Scbool.

lalsouiidertuko to tuouy and work any kind of ore, or
mineral substances.

For tonus, apply to JOS. MOSIIEI1UER,

Practical Cbemlsl and Metallurgist.

Office, 328 Montgomery street; Metallurgic Works. 3K>5
Powell street, San Francl«co. GvJ8-Gm

LEOPOLD KUH,
Assayer and Metallurgical Chemist,

(Formerly of the U. S. B. Mint, 8. F.)

Oince, Ufa. Oil Commercial Street, opposite:

the Mint, Nan FranclMco.

BULLION MELTED AND ASSAYED,
The enrrectess of which Is guaranteed In every rennet.
All kinds of Ore and Mineral tested, assayed and analyzed
In the most satisfactory manner.

Refers by permission to W. C. Ralston, Cashier Bank oi
California; Messrs. Ploche A Raycr<|iie, Wm. M. Lent. John
D. Fry, E.Cahtll iCo., A. K. Grim, President Pacific Union
Express Co.; John M. Eekfeldt, M. and R. U.B B. Mint;
Hale ic Norcross S. M. Co., and the principal mining com-
panies on the Coinstuck Lode. 25vl7-tf

PROF. HENRY WURTZ,

Formerly Chemical Examiner in the U. S. Patent Oflire

may he employed lirofe.^h.nully as a Scikntific Kxi-kht.
ecological e-xaiJiiimtioiiHand Reports, Analysis ami Assavs,
etc., ere. Practical ail vice and Investigation* in (lie I'heui
leal Arts and Manufactures. Invention and examination
of new chemical methods and oroducls. Address, 26 Pino
street, Rooms H5 and 36, New York. Always in from 12 to
H.30. aSF" Written communications preferred.

Important to Gold and Silver Min-
ers and Companies.

PROFEgeOR WTJRTZ,

Who lathe Inventor and Patentee of the new and wonder
fill ii^.sr.f SoDIi;.M IN WORKING <;<)LD AND SILVER
ORES AND JEWELERS' SWEEPINGS, will furnish at tho
above address nlWmation in relation thereto, together
with experimental packages of

SODIUM AMALGAM.

All Instructions and experiments elsewhere obtained are
spurious and unreliable. WOHKINC EXPERIMENTS ON
AMALGAMATION OK ORES, Elc. Prof. W. has iu opera
lion In New York a large and small Hepburn Pun, for work
Inr l.uno or 2U-lb. charges ol material ior expcrlmouta,
purposes. 3vi7

H. TAYLOR.

WM. n. TAFLOR.

ROBERT TAYLOR & CO.,
METALLURGISTS.

SMELTING WORKS,

Eleventh street, between Folxom and Howard,

GALVATVIZING.

Also, Vnt l.riiWlmi, Alloys \\„- Journal*, Type

und Stamping Metal*, Tinner* and

Plumber*' Solder, JElc.

Q3P*Thc best price Riven for the rnr st rebellious or re-
fractory ores. Ores and minerals assayed and analyzed.
4Y18-3m

G. W. STRONG,

ASSAYER AKO WORKER OP ORES,

No. 10 Stevenson street, near Flrst.San Francisco.

Hichest price paid for choice lots of Ores, Sulphuiets, as
say Ashes, Sivcepim.'s, etc., etc. Students instructed lnall
branehesot Metallurgy, on liberal terms.
Hvl5qr.

LEA & PERRINS'

CKLKBB4TKD

WORCESTERSHIRE 8ATJCE

Declared by connnlscurg
to be the only

GOOD SAUCE.

The success of this most
delicious and unrivalled c
condiment having caused "
certain dealers to apply ilie name of "Wor- *J
cestershire Sauce m their own inferior q
compounds, the public is hereby informed -~
that the only w.iy to secure the genuine
is to auk lor

Lea A" Porrlns* Sance,

and see that their names are upon the ■£ J
wrapper, labels, stopper, and bottle. & I

Some ol' the foreign markets having been aJ I
supplied with a spurious Woreestcrshlie O '
Sauce, upon the wrapper and labels of
which tlie names of Lea and Pcrrins have been forced, L
and P. give notice that they hive furnished their curres-"
pondentKwitn power of attorney to take instant proceed-
ings agulnst Manufacturers and Vendors of such, or any
other Imitations bv which their right rnav be infringed.

Ask for LEA & PERRINS' Sauce, and see name on tho
Wrapper, Label, Buttle, and Siopper,

Wholesale and for Export by the Proprietors, Worcester:
Crosse & Blackwell, London, elc.. elc; and bv Oroccrs and
Oilmen universally. Agents, CROSS &. CO"., San Fran-
cisco. 3vI8-ly

SULPHURETS ;

WTiat they are;

How Assaved ;

How Concentrated;

And How Worked;

With a Chnpter on the

BLOW-PIPE ASSAY OF BIIWERALS.

By WM. EAKSTOW, M. D.

Published by A. Roman & Co,, San Francisco.
For «ale at this Office—Price, One Hollar.

With the aid of this Book, the miner enn assay bJsown
ores, requiring but few materials, etc.. except auchasara
generally to be found In the Interior t,Q,wni, Ulvlatf

208

Trie Mining and Scientific Press.

New Patents Issued to Pacific Coast
Inventors,

Fos the Week Ending Pebedaby 23d.
87,132. — Psipkoved Amalgamated Plate
foe Collecting Gold and Silteb. —
Melville Attwood and John Eoach, San
Francisco, CaL :

1. I claim zinc amalgam for coating
metal surfaces, substituting the same for
amalgamated copper for collecting precious
metals, substantially as described.

2. The application of mercury to metals
covered with zinc, substantially as and for
the purposes herein described.

If successful, this invention will prove
one of immense importance in the produc-
tion of the precious metals, both cheapen-
ing and greatly extending the use of amal-
gamated plates. We shall speak of it
again.

87,222. — Improvement in Steam Engine
Lubbicatoks. — George W. Teasdale, Lex-
ington, Cal. :

1. I claim in combination with the globe
A, the tube B, extending to near the top,
and the screw E, for regulating the supply,
substantially as herein described.

2. The supply-passage H, together with
the float J, and stem K, for closing the
passage and indicating the quantity intro-
duced, substantially as herein described.

3. The passage C, and cock D, when ar-
ranged in relation to the above, as herein
described.

This relates to that class of oil cups
from which the lubricant is introduced to
the cylinder, or other point of application,
against the pressure of steam, and also to
such as should furnish a constant supply
of oil; and it consists in so constructing
t he globe that after it has been filled with
oil or tallow, it will allow a small quantity
to pass continuously to the point where it
is needed, till it is all exhausted. This is
effected by constructing the globe with a
discharge pipe passing through the bottom
to the point of delivery and rising within
it to near the top. The steam rises through
this pipe, and a small portion is constantly
being condensed. This condensed water,
by its greater gravity, sinks to the bottom
of the globe, and thus raises the oil so that
it flows down the tube and supplies a small
quantity continuously till the globe is full
of jrater and the oil or tallow exhausted.
The water is then drawn off by a cock at
the bottom, and the globe again filled with
oil. A small float is so arranged in the np-
per part, that when the globe is full, it
rises and closes the supply tube, and shows
that enough has been introduced, after
which the process goes on as before.
87,168.— Excavating Machine. — Peter W.

Hamel, San Francisco, Cal.:

I claim the roof R, over the working end
of the conveying buckets, to protect them
from land slides, substantially as described.

This is an improved excavator or digging
engine, designed to work in sand or light
earth, constructed so as to be removable on
rails, and having buckets similar to our or-
dinary dredging machines, but so arranged
as to work continuously. It has also a
roof or covering over. the working end, to
protect the buckets from the effects of
slides and a consequent clogging or stop-
page of the whole machinery.

The following will be published with
claims and notices on receipt of patents :

Febbuaby 16th.
86,898.— "Washing Fluids. — James Bell, of

Sonora, Tuolumne Co. Cal.
86,931. — Winding Ratchet. — For Time-
pieces.— Wm. H. Lamb, San Francisco.
86,932. — Bbick Elevatob. — Thomas Mann,

San Francisco. Ante-dated Feb. 1, 1869.
87,020. — Motive Poweb fob Sewing and

otheb Machines. — Jacob Zuckerman,

San Francisco.
87,077. — Elevated Railway. — William A.

Sutton, New York, aud Eugene Crowell,

Sau Francisco.
87.0S2. — Folding Cabd Globe. — Dennis

Townsend, Fiddletown, CaL
Maech 2d.
Folding Seat fob Stbeet Cabs. — Charles

H. Foster, San Francisco.
Pbocess of Working Silvee Obes.— Henry

Janin. Virginia City, Nev.
Horse Shoe. — William Rickie, Stockton,

Cal.
Oscillating Engine. — Horace Bartine

Martin, San Francisco.
Boot Detaching Appabatus. — E. Wake-
man, Brooklyn, Cal.
Pbojectiles. — R. H, Jones, San Francisco.

Ante-dated Feb. 21st.
Appabatus fob Concentbating Metallic

Obes. — Zenas Wheeler, San Francisco.
Boot Designs. — Amelia Straipg, Oakland,

Cal.

PREMIUM FOR BEST CONCENTRATOR

AWARDED BY THE

MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, 1868;

ALSO AT THE STATE FAIR FOR 1868,
To J. HEIVXfrY.

A LARGE NUMBER OF THESE
IMPROVED CONCENTRATORS

Alt F. IX PKACTICAL TJSE OX THE PACIFIC COAST.

Mb. Hendy, by diligent and practical application, has improved his Concentrators
until they now stand unrivalled, far in advance of any yet brought to public notice.
By recent alterations in the patterns for these machines, they are now made
Sti-oiig-er and more Durable tliau Ever.

Office of North Star Mine, Grass Vallet, Nov. 12, 1868.
Joshua Hendy, Esq. — Dear Sir :— I take pleasure in certifying to the efficiency of the two last
Concentrators ordered Irora you. We have run them steadily since July last, with but a very trifling
expense for repairs. The additional length of step is a decided improvement. The first six sent to
us have run steadily for nearly nine months, and are still doing good work. * * * The concen-
trations from the eight pans alone much more than pay our entire surface expenses. Without them
we should lose a large proportion by any system of concentration now in use. The eight Concentra-
tors receive the pulp from our 24 stamps, which are crushing 1,040 tons per month. Our sales of
Sulphurets last month amounted to 70 tons, or nearly 7 per cent, of the mass crushed. The sul-
phurets from the reconcentration, contained about 10 per cent. sand. In addition to their properties
as concentrators, they have done us good service as amalgamators, they having saved us the past
mouth 50 ounces of hard amalgam, worth £350, which otherwise would have been lost.

Respectfully yours^ J. H. CKOSSMAN, Supt. N. S. Mine.

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Table of Contents

John«iin's Baton Separator
Ami AinalfRunator— tutu

s .Mm rlii» ing.

The Washoe fan Process.

Hindoo Phlloeuph.'.

l'a<-illc|IUilriwd i; !,

Hi. Age ofSteel.
Leaden Sialnctltca.
Industrial Enterprise.
Tlie most Valuable Mine In

111.- VV.TlJ.

Tin- Earth.
Oold Excitement In Scotland
Bar.m Von lleiehenbnck.
S.-partitiun of Bullion.
Ban Francisco Manufacturing
Notes.

Culiivullon of the Orange.

BDelont Kiio Department.

Willie run: Items.

Resourccsand Developments

E.ir.l.NkKKlaG MlsOKLLANr —
Sanitary Ellgincerli g, The
Suez Canal; iJrand EucJ-
nourlng Scheme, Etc.

Method of Mounting Draw-
ings and Map-.

MBCHaMOAb misckllahy —
"Blowing otr "and " Fir-
lnc"; Tile Enlcycloldal En-
glno;Lliiitld Fuel In France;
Casting Iron Pipes; Etc.

il.ilili MlSCKLLANV. —

Transpiration of Gases; Au-
riferous Bucks In Africa ;
The Himalayas; Etc.

Miming a on ma ay— Comprising
lato Intelligence troui the
various counties and dis-
tricts In California. Arlzoi a,
Brlitsh Columbia, Iduho,
Nevada. Wyoming.

flan Francisco Metal Market.

flan Francisco Market Kates.

Notices to Correspondents.

-(lock Prices— Bid and Asked.

New Incorporations.

New Patents and Inventions.

San Fruncisco Mining Share-
holders' Directory.

The Shady Side of this week's White
Pine history, as it develops itself, may be
summed up in a growing distrust of wild-
cat, and in doubts of continued very rich
yields from the renowned deposits of the
district. Wild-cat is very innocent as yet,
so little work having been done that the evil
nature of the beast has not become apparent.
Two hundred millions of capital stock to
several hundred of actual working miners
in our ' 'mountain of solid silver;" the weekly
and monthly bullion product, as stated in
another column, noted in comparison; and
the fact that companies considerthemselves
dealing in millions when the workings
are but very shallow, and the ground
unexplored in the regular mining sense, are
facts not to be overlooked by the excitable.
Where the ore occurs in seams and pockets,
and is so liable to run out, it is not strange
that there should be a disposition to sell
out, with fine imaginative colorings thrown
in gratis to, accompany beautifully execu-
ted stock certificates, rather than to strike
the pick at one blow through a promising
vision into hard realities and underground
sterility. One correspondent "understands"
that the Eberhardt is getting poorer every
day. The fact, if it prove a fact, charac-
teristic of that region (as is quite pos-
sible), that silver quartz does not run
very definitely in ledges, but that the
laws of veins are so modified by the
intangible and broken-up character of
limestone as to prevent all systematic pur-
suit of the ore, will decide merely that we
shall have to expect White Pine to be a
field for " luck," rather than for solid work
for some little time to come, until White
Piners shall have more thoroughly learned
to read the method and manner of the dis-
tribution of the vein matter which is inter-
esting to them — quartz, spar and chloride,
or the sulphide mineralizers of silver
which take the form of carbonates at the
surface.

"What bothers me," writes a White
Piner, " is to know what one-tenth part of
the people who are coming here will do.
When you come to speak seriously with
those who are deeply interested here, they
will generally admit that they are going to
make somebody pay for their time, and they
say it will last one or two years. "

We might quote a great deal of matter
unfavorable to White Pine, but it is gener-
ally expressed in a style of conclusion evi-
dently premature. The Eeno Crescent
points significantly to the actual bullion
product of the Eberhardt, aud candidly ex-
presses the belief that " White Pine is not
a region that will ever exhibit extensive
mining operations."

Johnson's Patent Batea Separator and
Amalgamator.

All experienced niillmen know that the
principal waste in milling gold and silver
ores is from the loss of granulated or pow-
dered mercury, and the gold and silver that
is carries off with it, in an amalgamated
state. A common wet-battery may be con-
sidered a perfect amalgamator. The mer-
cury put into the same is, by the action of
the stamps, kept in a constant spray
throughout the battery; all the gold, no
matter how fine, is amalgamated almost as
soon as it is liberated from the rock. The
same may be said of the pan and barrel
process. But the sulphurets contained in
the rock, and the wear of metallic iron,
whether in shoes, dies, or the grinding sur-
face of iron upon iron, as in pans, corrupts
the mercury aud coats it with a film of iron
or other extraneous matter. When the

run to waste, or at the discharge from the
amalgamating pans or barrels, the loss from
which is not sufficient to pay for saving by
any other process.

These machines are made of cast iron,
five feet in diameter, and covered with sheet
copper, which will be constantly coated
with mercury. They require but very little
power, and no attendance or expense after
being set in motion. They are designed
to receive the stream from a battery or
from amalgamating pans. The movement
will be seen by reference to the engraving,
at a glance, by every practical mill man,
and will keep the sands and sulphurets
loose and in constant motion from center
to circumference. The powdered mercury
containing gold or silver, is, by the law of
gravitation, precipitated to the bottom on
the copper. The weight of the loose sand
and water, together with the movement of
the machine, will cause a gentle friction,

J0HNS0N'3 PATENT BATEA SEPARATOR AND AMALGAMATOR.

mercury, so coated, comes in contact with
stamps, or is subjected to any arbitrary
friction, it is divided and subdivided into
minute particles, each one assuming a
globular form, until it becomes so fine that
it will float upon the surface of even placid
water; but a slight agitation will precipi-
tate it to the bottom, with the other heavier
metals. The chief object sought to be
gained by the different sulphuret con-
centrating machines now in use, is to
collect the powdered mercury with the sul-
phurets, and pass off the lighter and useless
sands. By this process the separation of
the precious from the base metals is incom-
plete; as the sulphurets carrying with them
the powdered mercury have to be subjected
to a further separating process before the
object sought is attained, and at a cost for
labor and machinery which, oftentimes,
only high grade ores will justify.

In Johnson's separating machine it is
claimed that the desideratum of saving the
powdered mercury is fully accomplished,
in one process, and that without extra cost
for labor — making the machine an import-
ant acquisition to mill owners, even in the
working of the lowest grade of ores; as,
for instance, taking the stream directly
from a wet battery, where it is allowed to

sufficient to concentrate the powdered
mercury. When concentrated, the amal-
gam adheres to the copper, whilst the mer-
cury flows on down to the recess in the
rim, where it is confined, and the sands
and sulphurets are allowed to discharge
over the top of the rim all around upon a
circular apron, terminating in a sluice.
This machine is simple, new, novel and
to all appearances should prove effective.
The machine is about five feet in diameter,
and will weigh about 1,000 pounds. The
The cost, for a pair, will be about $500, or
$300 for a single machine. The inventor
is Mr. S. Johnson, of this city, who has
obtained a patent for the same through the
Mining and Soientieio Press Patent
Agency. Manufactured and for sale by
Howland, Angel & Co., at the Miners'
Foundry.

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lot on Market street, a short distance west
of Third, running through to Stevenson,
on which they will erect an immense build-
ing, sufficiently large to accommodate, for
some time to come, their

Efficient Fire Departments.

How important a desideratum fire de-
partments of the greatest possible practical
efficiency are in large cities, need not be
asserted after witnessing the havoc and pit-
iable ruin occasionally made in a few min-
utes' time by an unchecked conflagration.
It is gratifying to be able to note that very
few destructive fires have occurred in San
Francisco, for a long time, notwithstanding
our wooden houses and high winds. With-
out unduly praising our Fire Department
for this result, the reasons are evident. Our
telegraphic alarm, and paid steam fire en-
gine systems are efficient. The city's em-
employes are wide awake. No fire can
break out but that, with the greatest cer-
tainty, in a few minutes there is a powerful
steam-projected deluge of water playing
upon it; and all the appointments are in
the hands of experienced persons, who
know the character of every building in
their precinct.

Comparing this system with others still
in vogue in nearly all of the sleepy ancient
cities of the old world, one may be excused
for taking some little pride in American
handiness. Prevention there, as in the
tinsel and wooden cities of China and Ja-
pan, is the chief reliance. When a fire
does occur in those ancient centers of civ-
ilization, the effect is rather ludicrous to
our traveling barbarians. One will witness
on the continent for example, a commotion
on the streets, caused bysomeveryunmusi-
cal demonstrations from a long old-fash-
ioned country dinner horn, projecting from
the topmost habitable cranny of an adja-
cent church steeple. The firemen depart
hastily for their homes to don the proper
legal dress, and in due time — a quarter to
half an hour, perhaps — a few ridiculously
inadequate machines — small-wheeled, anti-
quarian curiosities — are dragged along.
The military with their muskets come to
the rescue in large force, but not to work,
their business being simply to wall out the
populace. If the building burns down
quietly, and the adjoining fire-wall does its
duty, the demonstration is considered suc-
cessful.

A recent illustration of the efficiency of
our paid fire department, occurring very
near home, demands especial notice in the
Mining and Scientific Press. On the
floor underneath this office a fire broke out
at 5 o'clock on Tuesday morning last.
Damage was done on the lower floor amount-
ing to about $1,000. The firemen broke
open our doors, passed through, chopped
a hole through the floor in the rear, and
extinguished the flames without causing a
title of di.mage in the office, or even
pieingany type.^TJnder the old system this
item might have amounted to many hund-
reds of dollars.

The Overland Monthly for April con-
tains articles entitled "Outside the Lines,"
"A Day in Panama," " A Cup of Eio Cof-
fee," "A Consulate among the Fejees," "A
Prospector's Story," "Touch of Nature,"
"Chinese Women in California," "Savings
increasing busi- 1 Banks of California," " On the Texan Prai-
ness. This structure will be first class in I ries, "and poetry entitled "Tu-duy," "Friar
construction, and as near earthquake-proof ' Pedro's Bide," and "Sunset from ' Puu
as bricks and iron can be made. ' j Mahoe.' " '

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Communications.

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proper subjects— correspondents alone bchig responsible for
the ideas and theories they advance.

Written for the Mining and Scientific Press.

Steam Plowing.

The New York Society of Practical En-
gineering held its regular meeting at the
Cooper Institute, on the evening of the
16th of February, James A. Whitney, Pres-
ident in the chair, William B. Harrison,
Recording Secretary. Dr. A. W. Hall
read an elaborate paperon "Steam Plowing
in England and America, its History, Sys-
tems and Connections with the Bread Sup-
ply-"

In approaching the subject of Agricul-
tural Engineering, and especially that part
relating to steam tillage, the speaker was
not unmindful, he said, of the skepticism
which prevails as regards the steam plow
ever being made to take the place of plow-
ing by animal power in this country, but
argued that the partial success of many
steam plowing devices in this country and
Europe, showed these skeptics not justified
by the facts in the case. In proceeding
with his topic, he touched upon many col-
lateral subjects, and particularly the re-
sources of this country, agricultural and
mineral. He showed by statistics, that
with our agricultural resources properly
developed we could feed and clothe the en-
tire population of the world, but under the
present Btate of cultivation, he said we
could not previously provide bread for our
own population for a single year of fam-
ine. He held that a successful system of
steam plowing would amply guard against
any such contingency as famine, which
though not probable, is, at least, possible;
further, such a system would add in a great
measure to the intrinsic wealth and great-
ness of our nation. He then referred to
that universal law of progress which seems
to declare that necessities develop resource,
and instanced the steam engine, the tele-
graph, and other important inventions, as
examples of the operations of that law. He
lield that the course of events points un-
erringly to the successful steam plow as the
next coming revolutionizing invention, —
the crowning agricultural consummation of
the age.

In the classification of the different plans
that have been tried, the gentleman stated
that in all, but four principles have been
involved. The first and oldest plan em-
braces all those devices in which driving
wheels are used, as in locomotives. This
plan, it was stated, had never succeeded
on account of great weight, complication,
cost, and inability to move over soft or un-
even ground. The second class included
all those plans in which are used rotary
shafts armed with spades, forks, or other
digging arrangements, which perform the
double office of loosening the soil and pro-
pelling the machine. The objections to
the first plan applied to this, also, the more
fatal objection of the small working capac-
ity claimed for it. The third plan men-
tioned was that known as the English or
Eowler plan, which he said must be ad-
mitted possesses considerable merit, as
proved by the fact that there are now more
than a thousand in permanent use, with
the number constantly increasing. Though
not meeting the conditions of economy in
this country, he stated that no foreign
farmer had dispensed with the system men-
tioned, after having once tried it. This
plan in its latest improved form consists of
two 20-horse-power locomotive engines,
stationed at opposite sides of the field,
across which the plows are windlassed back
and forth by means of rope wound around
pulleys on drums. One engine pays out
rope while the other winds up, meanwhile
moving along by their locomotive power,
as the plowing progresses. It was stated
that this apparatus complete, costs in Eng-
land $8,000. The fourth plan, the inven-
tion of Dr. Hall, patented five years ago,
was next considered. This consists in a

simple portable engine of about 14-horse-
power, placed on a common wagon truck,
and provided with a set of traction pulleys,
between which passes a wire rope, its ends
being securely anchored at opposite sides
of the field. In whichever direction the
steam is let on, the engine moves, drawing
itself by its infallible hold upon the rope,
and pulling after it a gang of half a dozen
or more plows. It was claimed that this
apparatus would in a day plow more than
can twelve teams of horses, at a saving of
two-thirds in current expenses. The esti-
mated cost of this machine was $2,500, in-
cluding a mile of wire rope. Its many ad-
vantages over the English plan were clearly
shown by the inventor.

An interesting discussion followed the
reading of this paper, and several ideas re-
lating to further improvement in steam
plowing were advanced. The meeting then
adjourned.

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Origin of the Washoe Pan Process.

" Strange it is, such difference he
'Twixt tweedledum and tweedledee."

Editors Press : — It is consoling that
the motto of my letter, if not the matter,
met Mr. Paul's approval.

Captain Hatchjwas mining and working
silver ores in the State of Sinaloa, Mexico,
long before the discovery of silver in
Washoe. On his arrival at the latter place,
he used substantially the French mill, a
modification of the "Boneficio de Cazo,"
or kettle amalgamation. He substituted
iron for the copper-bottomed pan, or kettle
of the Mexicans, and iron mullers for the
wooden stirrer. These were the only dif-
ferences in the'apparatus. The chemicals
were the same as those used by the Mexi-
cans and South Americans for the last 300
years.

Though T claim for him the merit of
introduction, I do not claim for him any
invention or discovery. Mr. Paul admits
that he was "a fine worker of metals," but
as he (Mr. P. ) tells us that he beat him, it
is to be inferred that he himself is a finer.

The Pan, Barba, Kettle, Cazo, Fondon,
Cocimieuto, or Washoe pan process, are,
with but slight differences in detail, pre-
cisely identical in principle, and suitable
for the treatment of chlorides, iodides, bro-
mides, iodo-bromides, simple sulphnrets,
and oxides of silver, and as stated in my
letter of the 20th of March, also for native
silver, electrum and amalgam. I fail there-
fore to see anything but & possibly more con-
venient arrangement, that Mr. Paul can lay
claim to.

Referring to the remark that all improve-
ments in metallurgy are claimed as either
English, French or German, or of some
other foreign country, I may observe that
I fully endorse Mr. Paul's sentiments. Cap-
tain Hatch was an American, and if the
credit due to him is claimed for another,
let us hope, for consistency's sake, that he is
also a native born American. J. s.

JSngineerinff .

Tule Gbowth. — The Paeheco Gazette
says that a small redwood box was recently
dug out from an overlaying surface pof
more than three feet of tightly-matted tule
roots. It is thought that the box could
not have remained in the position in which
it was found more than eighteen or twenty
years at most; and yet during that time
that deep bed of tule had formed over it.
This fact affords a striking evidence of the
rapid accumulation of vegetable matter
through the (.growth of this plant, and
points to the probability of an economical
care of Jits growth being made an import-
ant aid in the reclamation of overflowed
land. A large, if not the principal part of
the material entering into the composition
of this plant is derived from the carbonic
acid of the atmosphere, which, with
proper care may be retained in its solid
state, to aid iu elevatiug the land above
the overflow.

Sanitary Engineering.

The influences which climate, water and
soil exercise upon human life should be
subjects familiar to the civil engineer. Not
the builder only, but he who lays out dis-
tricts, should study them. The subject
cannot be agitated too frequently. Dr.
Bumsey recently addressed the "Health
Department of the National Association
for the Promotion of Social Science," and
made practical suggestions, which de-
serve,— says Engineering, — "the best con-
sideration of the legislature."

By means of the circulation, every "par-
ticle of blood in the body is submitted to
the purifying action of the air in 2^ min-
utes, according to some physiologists, while,
according to others, the time is limited to
half a minute. Whichever computation be
adopted, it is very certain that where the
natural conditions of the atmosphere are
neglected the blood becomes vitiated, and
health deteriorated with great rapidity.
Where the air is free to circulate there are
35 parts of carbonic acid gas in 100,000.
In towns of any magnitude 80 parts, and
in ill- ventilated rooms and work-shops from
100 to 700 parts. But this is not all: where
human beings are crowded together the air
becomes quickly loaded with organic mat-
ter of inconceivable minute forms, a fact
confirmed by the recent conclusive experi-
ments made, by order of the War Office,
by Professor de Chaumont, M. D., of Net-
ley Hospital, in the prisons and barracks of
London. According to M. Lemaire (Comptes
Rendues October 14, 1867) skin dirt is
composed of perspiration, oily matter, and
dust. When allowed to accumulate, it is
found to contain myriads of microscopic
beings, vegetable and animal (Bacteria and
Vibrios), which convey specific germs of
disease to the human system. If to these
organic particles there be added, — says Dr.
Rumsey, — "the pulmonary exhalations of
phthisical and scrofulous persons, charged
with elements of disease, believed by many
to be contagious, we may obtain some clue
to a source of atmospheric vitiation in
dense populations, of which there is not
the faintest popular notion."

It is in vain that our architects exercise
their skill in devising modes of ventilation
in our houses; for not only is the motion
of the air in towns impeded by the proxim-
ity and hight of buildings, but the great
purifying element (oxygen) being ex-
hausted, it cannot be restored by motion
only. The necessity, then, for the intro-
duction of a supply of pure air becomes as
obvious as that of pure water, to which
the public is at length aroused; and here,
we submit, is a problem, the solution of
which may well occupy the attention and
the skill of our most accomplished civil
engineers; while in the valuable discovery
of Cavallo, of the power which air, sub-
jected to the electric current (ozone) exer-
cises on organic matter "by resolving or-
ganisms into primitive and innocuous
forms," we have another question of quite
as great importance for our chemists.

The Suez Canal. — In view of the speedy
opening of the Suez Canal, various exper-
iments are being made in the part already
finished, to ascertain how fast steamers can
go in it, and how rapidly sailing vessels can
be drawn through it without injury to its
sides. The length of the canal is about
110 miles, so that at ten miles per hour,
only eleven hours need be occupied in pass-
ing from sea to sea. A steamer of 2,000
tons burden is in course of construction
at Hartlepool, England, at present, de-
signed to traverse the Baltic in summer,
and to run by the Suez Canal to the East
Indies in winter. At Newcastle other
steamers of 1,400 and 1,500 tons are being
built to carry out pit coals and bring back
Indian cottons.

and machine shops in this city, and are
nearly ready to be forwarded to their des-
tination. The supply 310 miners inches,
or four million gallons a day, at its lowest-
stage. The water is pumped up through
12 inch pipe, iu successive stages. Along
this water course are about forty mill sites,
some ten or twelve of which, belonging to
Mr. Von Schmidt, are located between
Treasure Hill and Hamilton; and about
thirty, the property of Mr. Perley and
others, lying to the southward towards Po-
cotillo. It is estimated that the works can
amply supply fifty mills of twenty stamps
each.

A Grand Engineering Scheme. — In
December last, General B. S. Roberts, U.
S. A., read a paper before the Connecticut
Scientific Academy, — says the New York
Times, — on the Hydraulics of the Conti-
nent. "He undertook to show that the
system of confining the flood-waters of the
Mississippi River in one narrow channel,
by dyking, is obstructing the creative laws
of delta bottoms and basins, and working
the most serious evil by emptying into the
Gulf of Mexico the delta-forming material
that would, if the waters were left free,
spread themselves over the low marshes
and swamps, and in time raise them up to
higher levels, by the cumulative process of
delta deposit, and create cotton lands. He
made a very clear demonstration of an easy
and economical plan of engineering these
dykes by a system of waste weirs, that
should create artificial rivers and carry all
the flood-waters into tho swamps, morasses,
bayous, etc., of the Mississippi basin.

He insists that all the flood-waters that
come from the great Western tributaries
can be controlled and made available to
undo the evil that had its beginning with
the French and Spanish who commenced
this vicious plan of dyking when they
owned the States of Louisiana and Florida,
and the vast country west of the Missis-
sippi.

After engineering and disposing of the
flood-waters of the Mississippi that come
from the great Western tributaries, he pro-
poses another plan for engineering the
waters of the Lakes, so as to supply at all
seasons to the Upper Mississippi, the Illi-
nois and Ohio rivers, enough of their sur-
plus waters to fix a minimum low water
navigation. He makes Lake Superior the
natural feeder of the Upper Mississippi,
and demonstrates the ease with which all
the waters that empty out of it down the
Sault St. Marie can be canaled into the
headwaters of Rum River, and through
that channel into the Mississippi, into the
falls of St. Anthony. The waters of Lake
Huron and Lake Michigan, that are emptied
into Lake Erie through the St. Clair River,
by deepening the Chicago River, and car-
rying them in an artificial bed to the head
of navigation of the Illinois River. In like
manner he would draw from Lake Erie the
waters that discharge themselves over the
Falls of Niagara, by deepening the Grand
River, and from its head waters cutting an
artificial river to the head of the Beaver
River, and down that into the Ohio."

The Sacramento Gas Co. has increased
its capital stock from $500,000 to $1,000,
000, in shares of $100 each. A dividend
% per cent, has been declared. The price
of gas in SacrameDto is $9 per thousand
feet.

Sewerage and the Sea Wall. — In re-
gard to Dr. Stout's charge of a want of pro-
vision for sewerage in connection with the
new sea wall, the engineer in charge, Mr.
Wm. J. Lewis, shows that the Doctor has
spoken unadvisedly, and says: "We ex-
pect, in cooperation with- the owners of
property, to present in a short time a water
frontage and permanent structures between
Montgomery and East streets which will
favorably compare with similar improve-
ments in the principal maritime cities of
the world."

White Pine Water Wobks. — The steam
pumps, boilers, pipe, and machinery for
the Von Schmidt Water Works at White
Pine, are being made at various foundries

Telegeaphio. — The Oregon Steam Navi-
gation Company have completed their line
of telegraph from Portland to Umatilla on
the 31st inst.

The French Atlantic Cable is on board
the Great Eastern at Sheerness, and is to be
laid in July. The distance from Brest to
St. Pierre is 2,325 miles.

Pacific Railroad Bonds. — As an evi-
dence of the confidence which European
capitalists are beginning to manifest in the
permanence of our institutions, we may in-
stance the fact that the bonds of the Cen-
tral Pacific Railroad are now being almost
exclusively taken up abroad, and on terms
far more favorable than the Company has
heretofore been able to realize from Amer-
ican capitalists. The bonds of the Union
Pacific Road, although not quite so much
sought after, are nevertheless being rap-
idly absorbed in the same quarter. When
we reflect that European banks have for
years held in their vaults not less than
$500,000,000 of idle capital, with no pres-
ent prospect of any employment for the
same in Europe or Asia, this renewed con-
fidence in American securities gives prom-
ise of most important results, which, if
rightly improved, may be made to aid
largely in the development of the varied
industrial interests of the Pacific Coast.

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211

Mechanical.

"Blowing off' and " Firing."

Two of the sources of tlio waste of fuel
used in the generation of steam, — or rather,
of the waste of heat obtained from that
fuel,— are, improper firing and the use of
impure water. Tho Scientific American has
au article upon the subject, in which the
statement is made, that careful experiment a
made under the supervision of experienced
engineers show tho loss of fuel caused by
■be necessary "blowing off," even with
good management, to be about 33 per cent,
of tho total amount used. " Iu the British
navy oue-half, or near that quantity, of the
total amount of water is extracted from the
boilers by means of brine pumps, and al-
though this immense loss of heat is equiva-
lent to nearly three- fourths of tho whole
consumption of fuel on the grates, it has
been found that incrustations of variable
thickness will invariably form after a voyage
of a few weeks' duration. In the Freneh
navy tho blow-off is continuous, the water
in the boilers being kept at 0.10 of total
concentration, so that one-half pound is
blown off for every one pound transformed
into steam, or one-half pound is blown off
for every one and one-half pounds of feed
water, corresponding to three degrees (ob-
served while hot) of the standard saturom-
cter adopted by the service. In the Dutch
navy the blow-off is effected by hand, peri-
odically, according to the indications of the
salinometer, care being taken to allow the
water to rise three or four inches above its
normal level in the boiler before opening
the blow-off cocks."

The only way of avoiding the waste of
heat is by using only perfectly pure water.
This is secured by the use of condensers,
of which there are many forms, most of
them, however, open to objections of one
kind or another.

The firing of a furnace, although appar-
ently a simple matter, is by no means prop-
erly done by all who make it their business.
A difference of as much as one-fourth of
the amount of fuel used, is perceptible
under the management of two different
stokers. The following rules for the guid-
ance of such of that class as are willing to
learn, are given by W. Wye Williams, C.
E., and are quoted in the article aforesaid:

1. Begin to charge the furnace at the
bridge end, and keep firing to within a few
inches of the dead plate.

2. Never allow the fire to be so low be-
fore a fresh charge is thrown in that there
shall not be at least four or five inches of
clear, incandescent fuel on the bars, and
equally spread over the whole.

3. Keep the bars constantly and equally
covered, particularly at the sides and bridge
end, where the fuel burns away most rap-
idly.

4. If the fuel burns unequally, or into
holes, it must be leveled and the vacant
spaces filled.

5. The large coals must be broken into
pieces not bigger than a man's fist.

0. Where the ash-pit is shallow it must
be frequently cleared out. A body of hot
cinders overheat and burn the bars.

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Liquid Fuel in France. — An American
who signs himself " H. H. H.," writes from
Paris to_ the Scientific Am&'ican, describing
a practical test recently witnessed by him
in that city, of the working of an American
invention for the use of liquid fuel in
steam making. The engine was of 15-horse
power. The fuel used was ' ' the refuse of
oil," at the rate of two gallons per hour.
Its cost was three cents per gallon, say $7
per ton. A ton of coal, — he says, — will oc-
cupy 44 cubic feet; liquid fuel only 33, — and
the latter will evaporate more than twice as
much water as the former. The labor re-
quired is moreover only about one-tenth
that necessary for managing a coal fire.

After several hours running, it was found
that the ratio of oil consumed, to the evap-
oration obtained, had diminished to about
one-half the amount used at first.

The writer says that capitalists have

bought the patent tot several European
countries, at a 1 1 i :-; 1 1 figure. The inventor
considers the plane specially applicable to

metallurgical | i . and has d<

and patented furnaces for such processes
which are calculated for the use of liquid
fuel. Tho scientific and practical gentle-
men who were present at the trial, unani-
mously gave it as their opinion that the use
of liquid hydrocarbon as a fuel was a " suc-
cess."

The Epicycloidal Engine. — The London
Milan;/ Journal reports a paper read by Mr.
Laird, at a recent meeting of the London
Association of Foremen Engineers, entitled
"The Epicycloidal Engine; au Effort to-
wards Improved Screw Propulsion." "The
modern Bhort-stroke horizontal screw en-
gine," said Mr. Laird, "owes its short-
comings to the desire to pack tho whole
machine in the smallest possible compass.
That engine, however, is the best which,
with a given total length, has the longest con-
necting-rod. Thedisadvantages of the short
counecting-rod may be comprehended as
thus: 1 st, Increased friction produced by the
augmentated rubbing pressure of the guide
pieces; 2d, a certain amount of increased
friction on the joint-piu between the piston
and connecting-rod; 3d, increased friction
at the crank-shaft bearings due to the alter-
nate lift and down pressure upon the shaft;
4th, and most important of all perhaps, the
irregularity of motion induced by two vio-
lent pressures succeeding each other at
short intervals, and the long pause inter-
vening when the force is very small. In
the epicycloidal engine two cylinders of
rather unusual length are placed on either
side, and parallel to the screw shaft. To
the ends of the piston-rods guide-blocks or
slippers are keyed, or otherwise secured.
Two pins pass through the blocks, and
these carry friction rollers with V edges.
The rollers work into epicycloidal grooves,
cut on the circumference of a barrel, and
thus communicate to the latter a rotary mo-
tion. The barrel communicates motion to
the serew-shaft and propeller. The object
is to create on the face of the barrel such a
curve as would give the action of the crank
transmitted to the travel of the piston. In
order to obtain this end the circumference of
the barrel was divided into a given number
of parts (say) 12, and half its length into
144, or the square of 12. Then, starting
from the middle with 2 on the circumfer-
ence, and drawing a line to 4 on the half
length — from 3 to 9, 4 to 16, 5 to 25, and so
on till reaching 12 to 144 — a geometrical
curve. The alternate action of the friction
rollers into the groove give the required ro-
tary motion."

Casting Iron Pipes. — An exchange gives
the following French method: "The boxes
for easting the tubes are set up on end, in
a semi-circle, around a crane that com-
mands the whole of them, and consists of
two semi-cylindrical jointed portions con-
nected by pins. At their lower end is a
valve, serving to close the tube, while a
conical depression in the middle receives
the spindle of the pattern and of the core,
exactly centering them. Tubes of different
sizes are provided, so that there need not
be more than one and a half or two inches
space between the pattern and the walls,
and the labor of stamping is thus dimin-
ished. Small apertures in the tubes per-
mit the escape of the gases. The mold is
made in the usual manner, the patterns be-
ing of smooth and polished iron, and turned
round onee on the axis, before being with-
drawn, by means of the crane. Heated
gas is then admitted from the furnace into
and through the tube until the sand is per-
fectly dry, which takes from one to two
hours. The core is then inserted, and the
casting effected. The connect between the
furnace and the casting tube is established
by means of a slide or valve."

Fire-Proof Flooring. — A new French
plan for making the floors of warehouses
fire-proof, consists in first spreading upon
the planks a layer of clay about an inch in
thickness, and running upon this a layer
of asphalt about half an inch thick. Nu-
merous experiments, it is stated, have
proved the efficacy of this as a protection
against the spread of fire, and it has been
adopted in all the corn stores of the Gen-
eral Omnibus Company of Paris.

Varnish for Artists. — A good varnish
for mechanical and architectural drawings,
maps, etc., is obtained by dissolving in one
gallon of alcohol one pound of white shel-
lac, one-quarter of a pound of camphor,
and two ouuees of balsam fir. This varnish
dries rapidly, and has been successfully
used by experienced artists.

Scientific Miscellan ; ■

Transpiration or Gases. — The Engi-
neer reports a lecture delivered on January
30th, at the Royal Institution, by Dr. Od-
ling. IIo said that in the passage of gases
through capilliary tubes, the same quantity
of any oue gas will pass in the same time,
all the conditions being equal, whatever
may be tho material of the tube; probably
because the sides of the tube are lined with
a still layer of the gas, so that the moving
portion does not touch them. "Each gas
has its own rate of transpiration, hydrogen
traveling through tho orifices rnuoh more
rapidly than oxygen. If the two gases be
mixed, tho rate of transpiration will not be
that of the mean between the two gases,
but the rapid hydrogen will impress its rate
upon the slow oxygen, a fact at pres-
ent which is quite inexplicable. When the
capillary tubes are very small indeed, gases
diffuse through them at entirely different
rates, which rates are inversely as the
square roots of the specific gravity of the
gases. When hydrogen diffuses into air, it
travels at the same relative rate as into a
vacuum, but not at the same real rate;
whenever one gas diffuses into another,
there is reciprocal action ; and when four
parts of hydrogen diffuse into air, one part
of air will diffuse into hydrogen, so that
there is an effective pull of three volumes
of hydrogen. To show this diffusion, Dr.
Odling took six long clay tobacco-pipe
stems, and connected them together at the
ends with joints of black india-rubber tub-
ing. He then decomposed water in a flask,
by means of an electrical current, and al-
lowed the explosive mixture of oxygen and
hydrogen to pass along the bore of the
pipes. The hydrogen all diffused out
through the substance of the clay, whilst
one-fourth its bulk of common air diffused
inwards. Nothing, therefore, was delivered
at the further end of the pipes but a non-
explosive mixture of oxygen and common
air. He then held up a long glass tube
with a bulb at the end, and asked the list-
eners to assume the globe to be a cell of
the lungs, which, in expanding and con-
tracting, causes air to flow backwards and
forwards through the tube. This explains
the mechanical action of the lungs, and it
is believed that they take up oxygen from
the air by diffusion. Ether will diffuse
more rapidly into hydrogen than into air.
Gases will also pass through other than cap-
illary and porous septa; they will pass
through cold, soft, colloid substances, such
as india-rubber, albumen, and some of the
metals, but the rate of passage is again al-
together different."

Auriferous Rocks in Southeastern
Africa. — This was the subject of a paper
read at a meeting of the Geological Society
of London, January 27th, by Sir R. L
Murchison. We find it reported in the
London Mining Journal. The author of the
paper was Dr. Sutherland, who, fourteen
years ago, expressed the opinion that gold
would be found in the metamorphic rooks
of Natal. A few months since Mr. Parsons
found this metal by washing the iron-sand
of some of the southern rivers of the col-
ony. The gold is in microscopic rounded
grains. Dr. Sutherland considers that the
gold is diffused as minute particles in the
granite and gneiss underlying the Silurian
rocks of South Africa. These old gneissic
rocks are much contorted, include exten-
sive veins and lenticular masses of quartz,
and are traversed by basalts. The Silurian
strata, resting uneouformablyon the gneiss,
have been invaded by igneous matter
(which is never granitic) , and though gen-
erally horizontal, are frequently flexuous,
and in some places greatly faulted, to the
extent of even 1,000 feet, together with the
gneissic rocks beneath. These latter have
been deeply eroded by the rivers, frequently
to the depth of 500, 1,000, and even of
3,000 feet in some valleys; and in the al-
luvia of these valleys gold occurs. The
valleys have sometime evidently com-
menced in great displacements, forming
" valleys of elevation," on which the de-
nuding agency has been operating ever
since, In certain mountains in the basin
of the St. John's River, Natal, dioritic rock
traverses the secondary strata; and along the
line of contact it contains copper ores, with
100 grains of gold to the ton.

Mr. David Forbes was glad to find that
Dr. Sutherland corroborated his views as
to the occurrence of gold in two ways :

1, In auriferous granite, as in Wicklow
and elsewhere.

2. In eruptive diorite, a basic rock with-
out free quartz, and certainly of post-oolitic

date, almost always accompanied by copper
veins. Most California alluvial deposits of
gold were derived from this class of rocks.
In constructing some of the railways of
South America the granite was found to be so
soft, from decomposition, that it could be
cut with tho pick and spade, and this soft-
ened granite when washed produced gold.
Professor T. Rupert Jones considered that,
by means of Dr. Sutherland's communica-
tion, the Laurentian and Silurian rocks
were now, for the first time, to be recog-
nized as existing beneath the DicynoUoa
rocks of the Natal ridge.

The Himalayas.— Robert Von Schla-
gentweit, one of three brothers from Mu-
nich, who have been traveling in the East
for the last fourteen years, recently lec-
tured at Stoinway Hall, New York. Ho had
just concluded a course of eleven lectures
before the Lowell Institute at Boston. The
brothers traveled separately and in dis-
guise, having only occasional meetings,
months apart, previously agreed upon. The
lecturer was listened to at Steinway Hall
with great interest as he described the
charming Sprinagor, with its artificial isl-
ands and swimming gardens, — its exquis-
itely beautiful women and its symmetrical
men. " Here also grows the veodara, which
appears asif covered with gold dust, which,
with the sun shining upon it, looks truly
gorgeous." The lecturer described, — says
the Tribune, — ' ' the wonderful effect of the
sudden transition from rich vegetation to
snow-clad mountains, of which 216 had al-
ready been measured, 17 of which meas-
ured 25,000 feet, 40 over 23,000 feet, and
120 over 20,000 feet, while the much-re-
nowned Mt. Blanco measures only 15,784
feet. The Gaurisankar or Mt. Everest
measures 29,002 feet; the next highest
mountain in tho Himalayas is the Kanihin-
iinca, reaching the hight of 28, 156 feet, or
2,000 feet more than the famous Dhovala-
ghiri."

The Solar Prominences. — Professor
Alexander Hersehel, of Glasgow, recently
lectured upon this subject. He said that
the theory of M. Faye as to the constitu-
tion of the sun was very difficult to be
shaken, and was the one generally received;
viz., that the sun is purely gaseous in its
nature, and is composed of substances vol-
atilized by the intensity of the heat : "In-
candescent solid or liquid matter always
gives a continuous spectrum, but the light
of the sun shows a spectrum which,
though nearly continuous, is cut here and
there by fine dark lines. Such effects can
be produced on earth by placing an absorb-
ing gas between the spectroscope and a
white-hot body emitting the light under ex-
amination. Hence it is believed that the
white-hot particles in the sun float in and
are covered by a gaseous atmosphere. That
the solar prominences are gaseous in their
nature, was proved by the spectroscopic
observations of the last eclipse, and al-
though the observers vary in their accounts
of the lines they observed, all tend to show
that burning hydrogen is very plentiful
outside the more luminous photosphere of
the sun. The largest prominence of blaz-
ing gas seen during the eclipse was about
90,000 miles high."

Speed of Signaling through Carles.
The " speed of signaling" through a tele-
graph cable varies,— other things being
equal, —as the square of the uninterrupted
length. That is to say, if a cable were di-
vided into two equal parts, the speed of
signaling through either would be four
times as great as through the entire cable
in one piece. So the gain in speed by
dividing a cable into parts would be iu
proportion to the number of those parts.

Early American Maps. — Rev. D. L.
Woods, late President of Bowdoin College,
secured reduced copies of thirty-two early
maps relating to the discoveries on the
northeastern coast of America., during the
first half of the 16th century. They are
soon to be reproduced among the collec-
tions of the Maine Historical Society. He
discovered also a manuscript of Richard
Hakluyt, drawn up at the request of tiir
Walter Kaleigh, in 1584, giving au account
of the results of the "Western Discoveries
lately attempted."- Am. Journal Sci. and
Arts.

212

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

White Pine Summary.

VEINS UNDER CHLOEIDE FLAT.

In the Charles & Teresa mine, an old
location, for a thousand feet on "the ledge,"
Captain Malletthas struck not only §10,000
ore, but a vein; at the lowest workings
three feet in width , in regular casing, and
dipping to the west at an angle of between
twenty-five and thirty degrees. The vein
is of^quartz, and spar, and is well filled
with horn silver, the latter appearing in
broad scales wherever a mass of ore breaks,
seeming to permeate every portion of it.
The appearance of the rock at the lowest
depth reached, indicates — says the White
Pine Nev>s — a regular system of veins run-
ning through Chloride Flat.

NAMES.

There are so many mines of nearly or
quite the same name at White Pine, that
the personal names of owners are coming
into favor as the best means of avoiding
confusion.

Antimonial Sulphurets. — The St. Law-
rence ledge, near Hamilton, shows beauti-
ful ruby silver, in quartz. The News men-
tions especially several rich specimens, as
beautiful as the rarest ever obtained at
Austin.

Fissures Lined with Spae. — One of the
characteristics of Treasure Hill is that
these are frequently traced to a connection
with chloride deposits. The Canton shaft,
for example, followed a fissure of this kind
to a depth of 115 feet and struck rich chlo-
ride ore. Whether these fissures are con-
tinuous cracks, or mere cavernous openings
caused by the well known, and frequently
observed dissolving influences of water upon
limestone, appears to be very imperfectly
determined. Some of the larger chloride
bodies are very possibly re-fillings of such
openings, where the limestone for some
reason or other was more easily dissolved
out than elsewhere. The spar following
the fissure, being nothing but limestone,
was deposited there very probably by the
same solutions that deposited either the
quartz or the chlorides, or that metamor-
phosed the latter from sulphurets. It is
nothing astonishing or novel therefore to
find that there is frequently a connection
between them, for both seem to have trav-
eled the same road. But if quartz and
lime accompany silver, it is yet not safe, as
we know, to conclude that the reverse is
inevitably true — that silver accompanies
either quartz or spar wherever they occur
in metalliferous regions.

Cases of Shabp Practice, may, in the
excitements that steep Treasure Hill, be
overlooked, after a few days, in that vicinity,
on the principle that " might is right," and
the successful money-catchers be encour-
aged by all the world to hold their heads
aloft. But at this distance from Treasure
Hill the attempts of Brandow and of the
honest minor, (we are sorry that our im-
perfect memory prevents us from doing
justice to his name,) to obtain a look even
less commendable than the raids of our en-
terprising burglars and highway robbers
in San Francisco. A successful burglar
may enjoy the satisfaction of getting away
with his spoil and his neighbors' not being
the wiser of it. But a mining sharp is
sure to be found out at the very instant
that he pockets his gain ; and tricks like
those referred to must cause the rogues a
fine sensation in the act of being caught.

Indefinite Bepoets of newly discovered
rich districts, " eighty miles southeast " of
here or there, circulate so plentifully m the
silver regions, and there is so little to them
ordinarily, that justice cannot be done in
making much notice of them at the present
time. Silver and copper of course exist,
nearly everywhere, in traces; the additions
to this fact, as detailed in the reports,
varying to a considerable extent, as the im-
aginative capacity of the observers. Their
effect, however, will be to develop, in the
end, substantial deposits in more than one
good locality besides 'White Pine.

Before the Summer is ended, says the
Reese Eiver Reveille, there will be no place
on the map of the region between the Wa-
satch and the Sierra Nevada that can prop-
erly be marked as " unexplored regions,"
but in these blank spaces may be towns and
cities, with all the busy life of prosperous
communities. This is possible, and from
facts lately come to light, is more than
probable. Few would have thought one
year ago that upon this lofty, rocky peak
would be built a city of six thousand in-
habitants, which at this time would become
famous throughout the world. Now every
barren rock will be examined, and none so
precipitous, snow-covered, or cloud-capped
will repel the silver hunter.

About the Diamond Bidge. — The most
important developments yet made in the
Diamond range are in the Eureka district,
where the ore occurs under conditions sini-
lar to that of White Pine. It exists chiefly
m the form ' of deposits in limestone, and
the ore produced in many of the claims is
of a high grade. Experiments have shown
that much of the ore may be treated suc-
cessfully by smelting, and a company is
now engaged in building a furnace for the
purpose, which will be completed this
month. There appears to be no doubt of
the success of these smelting works, and
when it is known Eureka will receive a
share of the attention now concentrated on
White Pine. Besides the smelting ores,
others suited to the process of amalgama-
tion are said to exist in abundance, and
several tons have been worked at the Man-
hattan mill in this city which yielded hand-
somely of silver. The slight explorations
of prospectors encourage the belief that the
Diamond range is highly metalliferous. —
Reveille, March 15th.

The Weathee during the last days of
March was fine at Hamilton, says the tele-
graph, with northerly winds and passing
clouds ; thermometer 60° during the day,
below freezing at night. Streets bare. At
Treasure City, and on Treasure Hill, the
snow was melting very slowly, but on the
30th and 31st there came another snow
storm, — snow in the mountains but rain
principally in the valleys, — which stopped
the stages, and treated passengers who gen-
erally went on "footing it," to an old
style rough time, there being six inches of
snow in Buby valley. To imagine it is
enough for us.

Population, Houses, Etc. — We are
told by different correspondents that more
work is to be found by new comers, at pres-
ent in connection with building, than
mining, about Treasure Hill. Before July
40,000 people are counted upon, that will
have to be housed somewhere in the dis-
trict. Employment is promised to at least
20,000 miners and millmen. In Treasure
City the lower side of Main street is built
up solid for half a mile in length, with one
story and quite often two story houses,
which are devoted to merchandizing and
saloons; the upper side of Main street, we
are told, "is devoted principally to what
the old French chroniclers call ' ' La
noblesse de robe," that is to say, the gentle-
men of the law," — who are surely in force
enough to secure justice to everybody that
may deem that he has a right to be rich,
and who finds himself left in the lurch by
an unjust world. Accommodations still
fall far short of the demand, and as lumber
enough cannot be had, even carpenters by
the score are said to be lying idle; the local
sawmills being of but small capacity and
entirely unable to supply the demand made
on them by the towns of Treasure City,
Hamilton, Silver Springs, Eberhardt,
White Pine City, Swansea, Babylon, Poeo-
tillo, etc. Streets and grades are not yet
established. Wells, Fargo & Co., in con-
nection with the Bank of California, have
purchased two lots on the west side of
Main street, near Virginia street, and will
build thereon a fire-proof building of stone,
having forty-six feet^front, with a depth of
sixty feet.

A private letter states that a number of
persons have left White Pine to get work
on the railroad. * * The Daily Inland
Empire, published by Ayers and Putnam,
formerly of Virginia City, has made its ap-
pearance. * * That part of Lander
county in which White Pine is at present
situated, says the Reveille of March 25th,

appears to be exceedingly insalubrious to
" witnesses." In the return of the Deputy
Sheriff made to the District Court that
morning there were affidavits from three
physicians, and a certificate from the fourth
setting forth that the persons subpoened
were too sick to "travel to Austin." * *
Three stages containing some 27 passengers
for White Pine, nearly all old miners and
prospectors, left Virginia City on the 22d.
Letters received there at present are said
to be about half and half as to the pros-
pects in paradise. * * During the last
week Hamilton presented a scene of life
and business not often witnessed in older
cities. The street in front of the offices of
Wells, Fargo & Co. and the Pacific Union
Co. has been almost entirely blockaded
with goods of all kinds. * * During the
month of March, up to the 27th, bullion to
the amount of 842,994.22 was shipped from
the express office of Wells, Fargo & Co.
During the preeeeding week the Pacific
Union Express Co. shipped from their
office, 38 bars of bullion, weighing 3,864
pounds, and valued at $63,599. * * The
Board of Brokers, at Treasure City, is not
yet fully under way. The number of mem-
bers is limited to 50. A regular member's
seat commands a premium of $200. No
quotations are yet reported.

Elko of To-Day. — There are some ninety
tents and three or four board houses in
Elko. There are about forty places where
whisky is sold, some ten places where gen-
eral merchandise is sold, one drug store,
two butcher shops, some dozen lodging
tents, two harness and two blacksmith
shops, a good many apple and peanut
stands, one place of general trade, kept by
Kate Forrest, and one hurdy-gurdy house.
Mr. Erlanger says there is no work being
done in Elko except the putting up of a
tent occasionally, though considerable
preparation is being made to commence
farming in the country adjacent. — Enter-
prise.

Mining and Milling.— The California
mine, says the telegraphist to the Bulletin,
bids fair to rival the Eberhardt. * * The
Katie lode near the toll house on the road
to Shermantown, ^is four feet in thickness,
and has the appearance of being a true fis-
sure vein. Quite a number of very fine ap-
pearing veins have been found in that vi-
cinity lately, and the locality is rising into
high favor with the prospectors, says the
White Pine News. * * At Shermantown
two mills — the Oasis and Moore & Bor-
ker's — are steadily at work on a full supply
of ore from the miDes of the Eberhardt Co.
The first mill is running on ore producing
$600 per ton, and the other on ore of a
lower grade, producing only at the rate of
$250 per ton. Sixteen tons per diem are
reduced, producing in the agm-egate, $7,000
daily. * * Extensivecontractshavebeen
let for doing work in the Florida mine and
on the mines of the Manhattan Co. * *
The Happy Jack vein carries metal through-
out, and range, from $136 to over $900 per
ton. It is estimated that the entire mass
will work near $900 per ton. * * The
Phcenix mine has been further developed
and now shows a breast of splendid ore,
between well defined walls of from twenty
to thirty feet. It is located near the Peter
Bice toll road, about a quarter of a mile
from Hamilton, and is said to be the most
promising ledge on that side of Treasure
Hill. The company are taking out several
tons of ore daily, which it is estimated will
mill from $200 to $500 per ton. * * The
Wheeler mine, beyond the small pox hos-
pital from Hamilton, is in a vein contain-
ing plentifully the black sulphurets of sil-
ver, which the editor of the Inland
Empire traces from the well-defined crop-
pings observable near the northern base of
Treasure Hill, by way of the Virginia,
Parker, Phcenix and Featherstone mines;
forming quite a list of valuable mines in
the vicinity of Hamilton, to which the Mag-
gie, Donnelly and others might be added.

Prospecting and New Developments. —
Mr. James Basey has explored several
mountain ranges lying between the White
Pine and Eagan ranges, and found mineral,
but is not satisfied with the prospects ob-
tained. In Patterson district he found
about 100 men engaged in prospecting. A
large number of very promising veins have
been found, the mostvaluable appearing to
be the Grey Eagle and the Peck, which
show a width of about six feet, and crop
out for a distance of three or four thousand
feet. About three miles north of the Grey
Eagle are the Curtis and 'McClure ledges,
which are very wide and assay $95. * *
Judge Lindsley and four other gentlemen
left Shermantown on the 25th instant, for
the purpose of examining the mines of
Grant, Troy and Beveille districts. * *
The Black E.igle ledge, located six weeks
ago, in the Spring Mountains, 7 miles north
of Hamilton, has developed a rich deposit

of a gold and silver ore, the gold largely
predominating — some of the rock being
literally spangled with the precious metal.
The lode is represented to be from 20 to 40
feet wide, the pay streak being about two
feet in width and running along the north
side of the ledge. * * Valuable discov-
eries have recently been made about 40
miles from Treasure City, in a direction a
little north of east, in a new district called
the Bobinson. The ledges are large and
well defined, assays running from $100 to
$500 to the ton in croppings, and some se-
lected specimens going as high as $1,500.
Large timber and good wood is abundant.
Messrs. Lamb, Kussell and Hicks, old Vir-
ginia City men, have bought Robinson's
ranch for a town site, at a cost of $6,000
coin, and have also located a toll road from
the new diggings to Egan Canon, the near-
est settlement. * * On the 17th instant
" Cave District " was organized in the range
of mountains which contain the great Mor-
m°n cave. The country rock is limestone,
and six large veins of metalliferous quartz
pass through it. Two of these, the Home-
stake and Lizzie's Potosi, show ore of great
richness, the Species being stettefeldtite,
which was found so plentifully in the crop-
pings of the Highbridge, at Silver Bend.
The district abounds in timber and water
and is surrounded by a good agricultural
country.

British Letters Patent.

The attention of Pacific Coast Patentees and
inventors is invited to the annexed abridgement of
the Laws and Regulations relating to patents in
this country :

The invention mast bo new in the kingdom, but
may have been used aDd published abroad at the.
date of application. An invention patented in
America may be secured at any time during the
life of such prior patent. The application must
be limited to ono invention. The invention must
be useful to support a patent, and there is a nomi-
nal investigation of its merits, by the law officer —
Attorney or Solicitor General.

The actual inventor or first importer — a native
or foreigner — and the resident legal representative
of a deceased applicant, may become a patenteo.
The first importer or communicator need not be
the actual inventor, or even meritoriouslv con-
nected with the invention. There is generally no
remedy for the actual foreign inventor who has
been anticipated in his application by a first im-
porter or communicator. A joint inventor cannot
secure a patent in his own name, but may, when
residing abroad, singly communicate the inven-
tion. A minor or married woman may secure a
patent. It is for many reasons advisable to secure
British patents in the name of a resident agent.

The first stage of a patent is " provisional pro-
tection." The invention is 'protected from date
of application. To complete tho patent, "notice
to proceed" must be given within four months,
" warrant and seal" be applied for within five and
a half, and "complete specification" filed within
six months when not lodged with tho petition.
The application may be abandoned at any stage.
The invention may be worked and negotiated
under the "provisional protection," but an assign-
ment cannot be recorded or properly made before
the issue of the patent. The grant of the patent
may bo opposed within three weeks of the publi-
cation of "notice to proceed." Tho patent -may ho
completed two months from first application. A
limited extension of time may be obtained for tak-
ing the several steps when failure has arisen from
accident or death of applicant. No model or spec-
imen can be deposited. No patent of addition is
granted, but disclaimers are allowed, and a dupli-
cate patent, in case of the loss of tho original, may
be obtained. The patent is granted for fourteen
years, but expires with a prior foreign patent. An
extension, not exceeding fourteen years, is some-
times granted, or the patent may be annulled for
good reasons. A stamp duty is payable at tho
end of the third and seventh years of the patent.
The patent-right does not extend to the Colonies.
An assignment, to convey the title, must bo re-
corded. The patented invention maybe freely im-
ported, subject to the revenne laws. Either joint
patentee may make and sell the patented article
for his sole benefit. Tho law does not require
the invention to be worked. Tho patent right ex-
tends throughout Great Britain, Ireland and Scot-
land.

DEWEY & CO.,
American and Foreign Patent Agents, Mining
and Scientific Press Office, No. 414 Clay street,
San Francisco.

REGISTER vour. l.rcn'Kifs contitinlmi money u dressed to
us, or we will not lie responsible. Remittances liy Express
must be in pnekuges, prepaid. When practicable, il is best
to remit by dr.il t, ur order, on toiue sun Francisco bunk or
Arm.

Tri,e Mining and Scientific Press.

213

Weekly Stock Circular.

By Associated Brokers of the S F. Steele and Etchings. Beard

San Fhaxcisco, April 3, 1909.
Flnnncuil.

Our loo.il mom I exhibit so much

plethora as at tho date of our lust Issue. The di mand
en anastullyaetlTa for some days past.
DoiayH end obstacles to the rogalertnuisnilBBtoaof mails
have am il j For duplicate remittance b cast-

ward, iu order that they might reach their destination in
tiin". Wry largo drafts havu been made upon our cash
supplies for mining and real estate operations, neverthe-
less our market works steadily and with unchanged rates.
Tin l i iiK-sa done by our savings and loan BOOieUesln
the way •'( advances opon real estate and cancellation <■£'
mortgages la heavier than at any previous period, and
though their cash balances are remarkably large, loans of
fh« Undfl named readily command 1 per cent, per month.
Hunk rati * rule steady at l@lltf percent, monthly, ax-
i I paper being done at \% per cent.

Business is improving, and shows signs of sprightly
activity at an curly day. Our wheat crop — much the
largest ever seeded in the States — is uow considered as be-
Lng fully assured, the plant being sufficiently high to
Shelter tho roots and prevent tlx ■ moisture from going
off by solax evaporation. Moth, mildew and rust are
scared; known in Ihis Stat-1, and tin1 only cinritii s \w
have any reasonable cans' to dread are blighting noithor 8
and the chnncu of conflagrations in the ripened fields.
The former arc not likely to occur after the vernal equi-
nox, and tho ground is thoroughly saturated by late
copious nuns. The wheat yield for 18G0 is estimated at
Upwards of ten millions of centals.

Oity- stock8<

Diirine tho week under review we noto sales of San Fran-
cisco Gas stock at $<7 per share, and North Beach and Mis-
sion Railroad at $12 25. Tho usual monthly dividends are
announced by the following incorporations: San Francisco
Gas Co., Spring Valley Wafer Co., and Sacramento Gas Co.
The latter company increased its capital stock from $500,-
OiH) to $1,000,000, divided into 10.000 shares of $100 each. In
connection with the State Telegraph Co. dividend an-
nounced in onr issue of the 21th of March, we stated that
tho last previous dividend was paid in July, 186S, whereas
tho but previous dividend was paid to stockholders in No-
vember of that year. Tho Pacific Bank and Merchants'
Mutual Marino Insurance Co. also announce their usual
dividends for tho present month. At the close, we noto
sales of San Francisco Gas stock at $77 .10, and ono share of
California Steam Navigation Co. at 71 percent. The North
Beach and Mission Railroad Co. disbursed their usual
monthly dividend on* the first instant, having changed
their dividend day from tho 15th to the 1st of the month.

I*rinl«s Sliitre market.

Since our last issue the market for mining stocks has
been somewhat irregular, and prices, as a general thing, are
loss firm than at the opening of the week; however, several
prominent claims have appreciated considerably >n view,
no doubt, of approaching dividends during tho present
month.

From our carefully compiled record of the sales in the San
Francisco Stock and Exchange Board, we give the following
interesting figures for the first throe months in I860, 1807,
1868 and 16GSI:

MONTH.

1866.

1867.

1863.

1869.

January....

February...
March

3,752,2ft!
5.29S, DM

fc.G64.322
3,303,520
4,034,289

88,698,934
9,716,596
11.471,830

S7. ('64.7:14
6.818,644

6,9.54,145

Totals....

811,718,563

$11,002,131

829,887,360

$21.7:17.52;)

White Pino becomes more and more fascinating, as the
time approaches when prospecting can be conveniently car-
ried on. It is affirmed that the mineral belt is very exten-
sive, stretching away to the southeast of Treasure Hill, and
that tho ore is remarkably rich. It needB to bo extensive,
to give room for tho 170 companies organized to carry on
mining operations in that district. The amount of capital
represented by these companies is about $250,000,000, and it
is said that over $100,000,000 more will be " stocked ' ' in the
same business from the East. In March alone, there were
80 new companies incorporated in this city, nine of them
being incorporated in one day. Should this furor continue,
and there are no evidences of a decline yet, tho amount of
money represented in "White Pine companies will reach to
SiOO.000,000 by the end of June next. Wo know too littlo
about the facts yet to separate "wild cats" from good
claims; but there will bo a terrible commotion some day
not very remote.

Gould & Curht— sold within a range of $98@119 in Jan-
uary, 31030110 in February, and $100(0)118 in March. We
again make copious extracts from a correspondent to the
IhuUj Hta-ald. Concerning the Gould & Curry mine hesayB:
In its hey day of prosperity was tho most famous of all the
silver mining companies of this district, the lode being
wider and the amount of rich ore larger than in any other
claim. Even now tho old levels yield considerable quanti-
ties of pay rock, which was passed by as unprofitable in the
days of high milling charges. The present prospecting
work is being done through tho Bonner shaft on D street,
which has been sunk to the depth of 1,140 feet. About six
weeks ago the shaft caved, caused, perhaps, by a little care-
lessness in the retimbering to put it in proper working or-
der for the pump, guides, etc., preparatory to drifting at
that level. The shaft has since been put in proper shape,
and work was resumed in the bottom some ten days ago,
and sinking for a sump commenced with very fair prospects.
Quartz, carrying considerable metal, has been extracted, as
the work has been prosecuted to greater depth. Unfortu-
nately, a few days since, they broke their spur wheel shaft,
requiring four days and nights to repair, and, in conse-
quence, the shaft tilled with water to the height of about
3 *l feet. The hoisting and pumping machinery are now in
good running order, and the water in the shaft is being re-
duced at tho rate of about forty feet in twenty-four hours.
It is proposed to sink about twenty feet deeper, for the
purpose of a sump. When that is done the drifting from
ttiat level will be commenced, west through the lead, and
north and south upon it. I call it a lead, because every in-
dication shows conclusively that it is one or, at least, what
some term the east body of ore, from which the Savage and
Hale & Norcross have been extracting a large amount of
pay rock since the suit with the Mitchell Company in 1867,
and from which they are still taking immense quantities.
The 1,140 level or bottom of the shaft is about 300 feet lower
than the Savage sixth station, and the Savage sixth sta-
tion is about 200 feet higher than the Hale & Norcross fiElh
station. Those are the working levels, at present, of the
Savage and Halo & Norcross. Tho Savage Company aro

now sinking t it their seventh station, which, will probably
bo opened in the courso of two months, as they are now
down between seventy and eighty feet. Should the Gould
J: i urry Bntf, M Ea confidant!? Imp^d. an rich a body of ore
as has been -truck in the claims immediately SOUth, il v. ill
prove of groat advantage in reviving the fipirits of stock-
ol bave unsuccess-
fully searched for tho minting lode at th" present depthn,
From « bat la called tho old mine, Nome forty to sixty tons
of fuir milling ore, averaging from 918 to $28, is now being
extracted daily.

Savauk — was largely dealt in during tho pastquarter.
selling at ?7.i D0@81 50 in January. S6Q SOgtfft in February,
and $64079 in March. "This claim— S00 feet— adjoins the
Gould A Curry on tho south. Their present works are si t-
onted a little cast and south of the Bonner shaft. They aro
extracting over 200 tons of ore daily, of a very good quality,
milling from $3.1 to $10, averaged. The larger portion of it
is being taken from what is called the Potosi chimney.
The breast at that point, which is on the third station, is
from thirty to forty feet wide. It is said that tho winze
from the third to the fourth station is looking very prom-
ising, Tho extent of this body of ore is not known, but
there are no indications c f it "petering" at present. A con-
siderable amount of ore is oIbo boing taken from the old, or
west works. On the sixth station, in tho north mine, a few
days since they struck a formation similar in character to
the body of oro found in tho Potosi chimnoy, on tho third
station. But as yet it has not been sufficiently developed
to demonstrate fully whether it is a continuation of that
body or not. Some portions of tho shaft having been sunk
through swelling ground, it has been a mutter of consider-
able trouble and difficulty to keep it in good working con-
dition. Below the sixth station, however, the ground is
harder and of a much more favorable character, greatly fa-
cilitating tho work of sinking. From all appoarances this
mine is being worked for the benefit of tho stockholders,
and not. as some other valuable claims here are, apparently
for the advantage of the mills alono."

Hale & NOBOOOSS— changed hands to a very largo extent
during tho past threo months, selling within a range of
$44 50(3)70 per share in January, $6I(«i98 in February, and $77
(aj98 in March. The fourth station level of this mine pro-
duces a large quantity, and on tho fifth level the ore is now
two and a hulf fuet wide, appearing regular in its forma-
tion. The breasts on the 175 lovol are reported to look well,
and work done by the Chollar company below this levol ad-
joining this claim (Bajazotto ground) shows a body of good
ore 18 feet wide as far down as has been worked— about 55
feet. The HMe <fc NorcrosB company are opening the 300
level, in order to take out this body of ore to greater advan-
tage. To this date the March receipts of bullion aggregate
$14,840.

Kentock— has also been active during the first quarter
of the present year, selling as high as $263 in January, fall-
ing to S200 in February, and rising to $'85 in March. The
bullion returns, so far, on March account, foot up $-52,461.
Rumor has it that a handsome dividend will be disbursed
the present month.

Chollar-Potosi— sold at $158f»177 50 as extremes during
the month of January, $16Q@lil in February, and $I57@1B0
in March. During tho week ending March 26th, 740 tons of
ore wore extracted, of which the new tunnel stopeyieldfd
80 tons. En tho new shaft the rock is said to work easier,
but nothing of an encouraging nature has yet been encoun-
tered. This mine is yielding at tho rate of 120 tonsperd: y.
The Secretary's office has been removed to 10 Hayvvard's
Building, California street.

Imperial— ruled at $100@149 in January, $104@I49 50 in
February, and at $82 50toltl9 50 in March. To the 27th ult.,
the bullion receipts for tho month of March aggregate $17,-
008. Tho lower drift-1,100 level— is still obstructed, and
work delayed.

Chows Point — has been quite active during the post
three months, selling at $52 50@70 in January, $65 50@73 75
in February, and $70^30 in March. The shaft is at present
being repaired, which will take about a week to finish.
Commenced drifting from the 1.000 level, and it is believed
they will cut the vein simultaneously with the drift from
the 1.100 station.

Ophir— has been watched with great anxiety during the
past few months, and considerable stock changed hands,
selling within a range of $33(o)39 in January. $39@45 in Feb-
ruary, and $29 oOfgHO in March. The face of the west drift
in the new shaft is reported to look better, the rock being
more seamy. The drift has attained a distance of over 130
feet.

Occidental— gained considerable prominence during the
first quarter of the present year, selling during the month
of January at $21(0)31 as extremes, in February at $27@33,
and in March at $26 50fgJ35. A correspondent writes that
tho ore in the winze continues to improve; in fact, the
whole south mine shows better prospects than ever. The
lower tvinnel is being steadily driven on, and the face is now
dry. About ninety tons of ore per day are now being
shipped to the mill, where it is the intention to accumulate
1,000 tons, in anticipation of more stormy weather, and con-
sequent bad roads. A dividend will certainly be paid this
month.

Sierra Nevada— is m good request, having greatly ap-
preciated in price during the month of March. In January
sales were made within a range of $25fo)33, in February at
$21@30, and in March at $27 50t&4& This claim has lately
been yielding increased quantities of ore, showing quite a
large production of bullion. It is stated that a drift will
shortly be run to the southeast, from the 700 level, with the
expectation of cutting the east vein found in the Savage
and Hale & Norcross claims.

Mammoth (White Pine), placed on the Board list during
the past week, sold at $10 per share The claim consists of
1.800 feet, divided into 20 snares to tho foot at a par valua-
tion of $100 per share PHU3NIX (White Pine) sold atS4'al

6 per share.... Tho Flowery Mining Co. (Washoe) recently
elected the following Trustees: A. K. P. Harmon, Presi-
dent: J. H. Jones, Vice-President; A. H. Barker, Charles
Hosiner and M. J. McDonald. T. W. Fenn was appointed
Secretary, and O. S. Carville, Superintendent. This stock
sold during the week at $#$0 per share.

A Canard. — " Pure liquors for medicinal pur-
poses sold here." Tins sentence is conspicuously
exhibited in the store windows and on the sign-
boards of many spirit merchants, druggists and
general dealers. The information it imparts would
be invaluable if true, but unfortunately it is not.
All the liquors of trade, foreign and domestic, are
more or less adulterated. If a stimulant is needed
in the hospital or the sick room, prudence dictates
the selection of an article absolutely free from every
deleterious element. There is only one such arti-
cle in the market — "Drake's Plantation Bitters."
The spirits of which they are in part composed is
not an ordinary commercial staple, but a whole-
some, rich, thoroughly rectified liquor, distilled
from the sugar-cane for the proprietors of the Bit-
ters by their own employees, on their own planta-
tions in St. Thomas, and not to be obtained at any
price from any other source. *#*

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■ Location; araouni and date ol Assessment; Dare oi
Hooting; DftJ Of Delinquent Salt; and Amount and Tlsnt-
of Payment ol Dividends.

51«, LOCATION, MOUNT, AMD n*T OAT

DATK Of A3SHSMBJIT. DHLtMiUKNT. OF SAl.K

Alpha Cons , Store v m., Nl-v ,dtv. $2 Pay. June 19, I8*fl

Annular Co., dlv. go pu< share Payable M.irch pi, ist'i

Mmudan. Nevada, Mutch 17, $ I Aurll 2y— May 3

U'l-nU'ii'Ai, \\ Ij:i.- Pi tie, Murch 3ii, 2Jc April 30— May 80

Bacon, Bldrcy co.. New, div Payable June 19, 1868

Belcher, Storey co . Nev., March 15. Si... .April 17— Hay 8
Bulliiui, bturey co. Nov.. Murch 2).... Payable Immediately

Chollar- Potosi, dlv , S'>5 Payable Oct. 15, IS67

Crown P.. Int. rlmd.mi, *7 Wl Pavable Sept. 12 )f*(>-i

Chloride Ml Tan., White Pme. Kt-b. 2. sue... Mar 13- A p. !"•

Coney. pi< ferred Stock, div. 1^ per cent March in. 18'">9

Cherokee Fin', Butte ao. March l, ss April s— April 20

Cordillera, Mcx , March 113, §1 April 20— May lit"

Duncy. Lyon co Nov., March $, $2.50 April 12— Mav ,'i

Douglas, white Pin.* Annual Meeting April IJ

Empire M. A M., Nov., dividend $6. ..Payable Mav 15. 186?

Bureka, dlv. $5 Payable March in, 1S6Q

El Taste, Solium, March ll, 5'>c April 28— May 17

Polaom st A Ft Pt. R. R Maroh IS, $5... April 13— April 30

Gould ,t Curry, div . S7.50 Pavable Mav 15, 1867

■ .-.it I till Q M A M-divldoml. $750... Payable July l\ IHtW
Ooldon Rule. Tuolumne co, dlv. 50c $ ftp... .Pay. l-'eb. 26, 1809
Ulenwood, El Dorado co , Feb 19, $25.... April j^-April 2 *

lliile A Norcross, dlv. St25 Sept. 16. 1857

Hope Snivel, Nevada co , Feb. 24, $1.... March ay-April 19

Hidden Treasure, While Pine Annual Meeting April &

I X L, Alpine co .Jan. 19, $1 50. Ffb. 27— April 5"

Imperial, storey Co., Ncv .dlv Payable June 20, 1868

Julia, Storey co , Nov., March 19, $£60 April 22— May '0

Kentuck,div.,$20 per share Payable Jan. 10,186a

Keystone Meeting Apri 1 2

Lyon M A M., El Dorado CO., Mar 6, $1. .April 12— April %"

MI. Teiiabo, Lander co .Jan. 23, 75c April 2- April 27-

Maxwell, Amador co., Feb. U, $1 March 13— April 1

Morning Star, Alpine co , March 3, $2.... April 5— April 2G

Mohawk A Montreal, Nev. co.,$3 March 31— Api il Iti

North Star, dividend, $5 Payable Aug, 15, 1868

North Anier. Wood P. Co., March 12, $1 April H— May !•

Occidental, div. $2 Payable March 2, 18G9

Overman, Storey co. Nov., March20, $20. ..April 23— May 8

Pacific Unassessable, dlv Payable June IS, 18GS

Pncltlc, Coal. Contra Costa co.. Mar. 20, $1.. A p. 27— May 17»

Rising Star. Idaho, Feb. 8, $6 March 31— April 3

Santiago, SilvcrCity, dividend, $2 50. .. Pavable Dec 19, 1868

Sand Spring >alt, dividend SI Pavable .Jun 5, ISti'i

Star Creek, Nev., Feb 2G, $1.50 March 29-Aprll 19*

Savage, Virginia, Ncv, dividend, $4.. Payable March 4, 1869

Senator, Storey co.. Nov., March 26, 50c May I— May 28"

Silver Sprout. Inyo co, March 25, 50c May l— May 28"

Sail Buentii Veil Una Annual Meeting April 19

Sierra Nevada, Storey co., March 15, $3 April 17— May 3

Treasure Trove, Lander Co., Feb. 15, 20c..M'ch 21— April 12

Troy Ledge, WhLe Pine, March 16, 15c April 23— May 24*

Trov Ledge, White Pine Annual Meeting, April 19

Virginia & G. H Water Co. .Dividend, payable Mar. 10, 1869
WilliamanUc, White Pluc, March 22, SI.... April 21— May 12
Yellow Jacket, div., $5 Payable March 15, 1869

Thoso marked with an asterisk (*) aro advertised in thle
ournal.

Latest Stock Prices Bid and Asked,

8. F. STOCK J

KGK BOARD.

Fkiday Evening, April 2, 18G9.
MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS. Bid. Asl.etl.

United States Bonds, 5 2ns, lSi.r., '67. '68 $ 67 88

United States Kumts, 5 2Us, ISM 87^ KS&

Uniled States Bonds. 5 2Us, 1862 $9 90

Legal Tender Notes 77 77M

Oalilornia State Bonds, 7s. ISu7 95 —

San Francisco Bonds, 10s, 1851 par Aint.

San Francisco Oity Bonds, lis. Isn5 — —

San Francisco Oitv and County Bonds. 6s, 1838. 83 87^

San Francisco School Bonds, His, I860 100 —

San Franci-no school HonOs, ins, 1HK1 pari int.

Snn Francisco City and Co. Sch'l B'ds, 7s, 1£G6. 91 —

Sau Francisco City and Co. Bonds, 7s, 18CJ 91 —

San Francisco Oity and Oo. Bonds, 7s, 186-1 91 —

San Francisco City and Co Bonds, 7*. 1865 91 —

Sun Francisco Oity and Co. Ju/lg. Bds. 7s, IS63. 91 —
San Francisco Oity and Co. Judg. Bds, 7s, 1864. 91 —
Sacramento Oity Bonds ap

70

Sacramento County Bonds, 6s

Marvsville Bonds, 10s

Stockton Oity Bonds „

Yuba County Bonds, 8s 80

Santa Clara County Bonds. 7s 76

Butte Count v Bonds, lUs, 1860 75

San Mateo County Bonds, 7s 75

OalilorniaSieiini Navigation Oo 65

Spring Valley Water Co 67

State Telegraph Oo 26

GAS COMPANIES.

San Francisco Gas Oo 77

Sacramento Gas Oo 85

RAlLROAnS.

Sacramento Valley Railroad —

San Frawcisco and San .lose Railroad. —

Omnibus Railroad 72}£

Central Railroad 60

Nqrth Beach :ind Mission Railroad 72Ja'

Front Street, Mission and Ocean Railroad 11

BANKING INSTITUTIONS.

Pacific Bank 97^

The Hank of Caliiorma 157

People's Insurance Company 100

INSDRARCK COMTAiilES.

Firemans' Fund Insurance Co 98

Pacific Insurance Co 125

Merchants' Mutual Marine Insurance Co 500

California Insurance Co 1300 1

Union Insurance Oo 100

Home Mutual Insurance Co 19J£

Occidental Insurance Oo 85

MINING STOCKS— WASHOE DISTRICT.

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Alpha..

30

Baltimore American

Belcher

Bullion, G. II

Crown Point

ColeiVa.) ___

Confidence 3a

Consolidated Virginia 5

Chollar-Fotost 179

Daney

Exchequer

Empire Mill and Mining Oo.

Gould A Curry

Oold Hill Quartz

Hale & Norcross

Im pcrial

Julia

Justice a"d Independent —

Kentuck

Lady Bryan

American

Occidental.

17

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277

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Ophir 33

Overman 58

Segregated Belcher 7}£

Sierra Nevada 50

United States —

Vellow Jacket 67 3

MISCELLANEOUS MINING STOCKS.

Amador (California) 285

Aurora, White Pine —

Eureka, (California) 2 0

Golden Chariot (Idaho) 45

SilverCord (Idaho) 10

'Joldcn Rule. California 10

Mohawk (California —

Poeoiilio, White Pine....: 10

A Singular Fact. — A young man lived to the
age of 25 before discovering that he was near-
sighted. What a world of beauty opened up to
him at once on a trial of a pair of Mailer's Specta-
cles—2U5 Montgomery street. #**

Sau Francisco Market Eates.

Wliiilv.:ik- Prices.

Friday, April

Flmr, Extrn. 'Phbl $5 25

Do. Buperntic l 60

Own Meal, * 100 tba 3 25

W]i>;n. ~f I0U lbs.... 1 w

I tuts, -fi i.Mir.s 1 75

Barley , !■ loo lbs 1 75

■ ■ lOu Dm 6 00

Potatoes, rUoo itia 75

Hay. % ton 10 no

Lis.' ";rk \Wm.i1, %■ cord 9 00

Beef, extra, drcsted, f)& 11

Sheep, on loot 3 no

Hogs, on toot, ~£ lb 6

Hogs. dressed, tr* lb 9

GKOCKK1KS, ETC.

Sugar, crushed, 13 lb

Do. China.. 10

Collec, Costa Rica, ISC _

Do. Rio jojr

Tea. Japan, ^ lb 75'*

Do Green eo

Hawaiian Rice, t^Ib __

China Rice, ^ tb c

Coal Oil, ^t gul km 43

Candles, p lb ig

Ranch llutlcr, (j*lb 35

IM hm us Mutter, jj4 lb yju

Cheese, Cjililornia, p It. 16

Em:*, F* dozen 25

Lard, iH lb 14

I I urn and Bucoil, %J lb H

Shoulders, fr lb 7

Kt-iiiil I'r I.e.

Butter, California, fresh, V- H> -15

do. pickled, Bib ft)

do. Oregon, %( lb 20

do. New YorK, i$Ib S5

Cheese, p tb ,. 20

Honey, $lb 25

Eggs, gl dozen 4?>

Lard, ,' lb 10

Oumsiuid Uncon, $ lb £)

Oranlierriep, p gallyii l 00

Potatoes, ^ lb iu

Potatoes, Sweet, fl lb 3

Tomatoes.?* lb '" 3

Onions, ft lb 3

Apples, No. 1, ft ft 4

Pears, Table, ft ft R

Plums, dried, ft lb iy

Peaches, dried, ft ft 10

Oranges, ft dozen 75

Lemons, ft dozen 60

Chickens, apiece

Turkeys, ft lb ., 25

Soap, Palo and O. O 7

Soap, Castile, ft ft 21

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San Francisco Metal Market.

PaiCES FOR INVOICES.

Jobbin/] prices rule /mm ten In fifteen per cent, higher than tie
faUmcwtj quotation n.

Friday, April 2, 1809.
Iron.— Duty: Pig, $9 per ton; Railroad, 60c ft 100 lbs; Bur,
I@Hic ft lb; Sheet, polished, 3c ft ft; common, \'..c> I \c
ft ft; Plate, ljjc ft lb; Pipe, ljfic ft lb; Galvanized, 2Jae
ft lb.

Scotch nnd English Pig iron ftlton $ @§-l5 00

White Pig ft ton 35 00 © 37 00

Rcrliied Mar, liad assortment ft ft — 03 (31

Refined Rar, good assortment, ft lb — 04 ©

Boiler, No. 1 to 4 — 04&@

Plate, No. fl to 9 @ — Qihi

Sheet, No. 10 to 13 — Oii-S® — 5

Sheet, No. 14 lo 20 .-. —05 @— 5M

Sheet, No. n to 27 —05 @— 6&

Coppkb.— Dutv: Sheathing, 3Jic ft lb; FlgandBar,2>£c ft lb

Sheathing, ft ft ® — 26

Sheathing, Yellow — 20 ® — 21

Sheathing, Old Yellow — 10 @ — 11

Bolts —21 ® — 22

Composition Nails — 21 © — 22

Tin Plater.— Duty: 25ft cent, ad valorem.

Plates, Chnrcoal, IX, ft box 12 00 ©

Plates, I C Charcoal @ 11 00

Rooting Plates 10 00 © 10 50

Hanca Tin, Slabs, ft ft @ — 35

Ptkkl.— English Cast Steel, ft ft © — 15

Quicksilver.— ft ft — 65 © — 60

Lead.— Pig.ftlb - 7J£@ — 8

Sheet — 10 @

Pipe — 11 @

Bar — 9 ©— £)«

Zinc— Sheets, ft ft ■ — 10>;@— 11

Borax.— Calif'ornia.ft ft — 35 @ — 38

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Mining Summary.

Thk following information is gleaned mostly from jour-
nals published in the interior, iu close proximity to the
mines mentioned.

CALIFORNIA.

ALPISE COUNTY.

From the Miner, March 20th:

Imperial. — This tunnel "was pushed ahead
a distance of 16 feet last week.

The crashing and pulverizing machinery
of the Monitor C. Mill are now ready to
run, and further delay in starting the
■works is now only caused by the state
of the roads, which prevents the delivery
of flume lumber.

The proprietors of the Alpine tunnel,
after several tests by assay, are now saving
the rock as it comes out, believing that it
will pay to work in mill.

Morning Stae. — We hear a pleasant ru-
mor on the streets that Mr. Kustel him-
self, who has just returned from Idaho,
will soon come up and introduce his leach-
ing process on Morning Star ores. The
ores of the Eising Star mine, in Idaho, are
very similar to those of our Morning Star.

Tn the Globe tunnel, this week, over a
foot a shift has been made. This is more
than double the rate of running heretofore
made.

Chronicle, March 20th :

Pennsylvania Ledge Stbuck. — "We con-
gratulate all interested in Alpine county
upon the striking of this mammoth ledge.
The company, on the 6th instant, after
nearly four years of hard work, struck their
ledge, which is 8% feet wide, of which four
feet is solid quartz and the balance quartz
boulders and decomposed quartz. The ore
resembles that of the I X L, but the pre-
cious metals seem to be more evenly dis-
tributed. The ledge was struck at a dis-
tance of 918 feet from the mouth of the
tunnel, and 500 feet from the surface.
With the exception of the first 200 feet, the
tunnel has been cut through bard granite
the entire distance, to within 12 feet of the
ledge, when they struck soft rock. After
passing through the ledge, the tunnel cut
through a seam of blueish clay 6 inches
wide to the foot wall. From appearances,
this mine promises to be one of the best.

Pittsburg. — The tunnel is being pushed
ahead as rapidly as possible. It is now in
about 720 feet, and it is thought that 80 feet
further in it will strike the Dunkirk ledge,
which is supposed to be an extension of
the III.

From the experimental workings of the
Morning Star ore, at the Markleeville mill,
a ton of copper has been obtained.

AJliDOE COUNTY.

Ledger, March 27th :

Altueas. — Forty-five tons of rock from
this mine was crushed last week, and
yielded over 840 to the ton. The shaft is
now sunk to the depth of 60 feet, and the
owners are erecting hoisting works.

Summit. — Work on this mine is being
pushed night and day. The shaft is now
over 200 feet deep, and the rock is of first
class, yielding from 815 to $20 per ton.
The machinery is perfect and kept in good
order.

Casco. — The owners of this mine are
pushing the work on their shaft as fast as
possible, and are putting up a new engine
of greater capacity.

CALAV1!B18 COUNTY.

Chronicle, March 27th :

We are informed that in Brackett & Co's
claim, located in Tunnel Ridge, two pounds
of gold were extracted last week.

Colby & Co., whose claim is located on
the Old Woman's Gulch side of Tunnel
Ridge, have their claim opened iu good
shape and are ready to commence active
operations.

Shaw is still energetically striving to
wash a hole through Stockton Eidge.

The Golden Gate Co. and Paul & Co. are
also pushing operations with favorable re-
sults. Our mining interests are assuming
a very promising aspect.

Work has been commenced on the old
Union shaft in good earnest. A whim is
being erected for the purpose of clearing
the mine of water and hoisting the dirt.
The proprietors, Messrs. Peters, Champion
& Ahrnot, are all practical miners.

Lower Rich Gulch correspondence of
•same : The mining interest of Rich Gulch
at the present time is rather dull. Alex-
ander, Henry & Go. keep up the pounding
in their batteries day and night, smashing
up the rock and smashing out the gold,
with a lead of ore nine feet in width, and
mauaged in such a way that it is easily
mined. The Palomo Co. is now erecting
steam hoisting works.

EL lORADO COUNTY.'

Placerville Democrat, March 27th :
New Ditch. — Mr. B. T. Hunt is having

a survey made for a new ditch of large ca-
pacity to bring water at an altitude of 200
feet above the present South Fork canal,
to strike the South Fork of the American
river in the vicinity of Brockliss' bridge.
The altitude of the proposed ditch, we are
told, will command a very large extent of
good and permanent mining ground, which
is now worthless for want of water. With
this ditch completed the prospects of this
city would be as bright as any place on the
coast.

KERN COUNTY.

Havilah Courier, March 23d :

The McKeadney mill is clattering away
on rock from the Delphi mine. We are
assured by Mr. Dalton, the present propri-
etor of the mine and mill, that within
thirty days he will have taken out rock
enough to keep the mill running night and
day.

MAHIPOSA COUNTY.

Gazelle, March 26th :

The owners of the Washington mill, near
Hornitos, cleaned up on the 14th instant,
after two week's run, the sum of $2,775.

KEVADA COUNTY.

Transcript, March 24th : Mining opera-
tions have commenced in earnest. Since
the late storm, Blue Tent, the latest locality
to obtain water, has abundance, and the
miners are at work. At the Cascades one
company is running 600 inches. From
every quarter of the county we have good
reports, and miners have great expectations
for the season.

Rough and Readt.t— The mining pros-
pects in the vicinity of Rough and Ready
are more encouraging than they have been
for several years. We yesterday briefly
alluded to the discovery of a nugget in the
Eacine claims owned by Miller & Co., on
Squirrel Creek, weighing 16 ounces, and
worth 8300. In addition to this they took
out seven ounces of fine gold in three days.
These claims were located about two months
ago, and ever since they commenced work-
ing they have been taking out good wages.
The hydraulic claims of Glidden & Co.,
and those of Eex & Barker are looking
well. - Dahle & Co's quartz mill has com-
menced running.

The Bed Diamond at the Cascades, on
Deer Creek, is turning out first-rate. The
channel was reached on last Friday, and
the first car load taken out yielded 820 in
gold.

Same of 25th : Leavitt & Co. yesterday
commenced washing in the Birchfield
claims. They have just completed a fine
flume from Deer Creek, up Eelsey's Ravine,
a half a mile in length.

Same of 28th :

The Red Jacket. — The Red Jacket
Gravel Mining Co. are about commenciug
work on their claims. The channel is sup-
posed to be a continuation of the channel
which runs through Sucker Flat.

The Scandinavian Co. have commenced
operations on their ledge, and are taking
out fine looking rock, from a lode a foot
and a half in thickness. They have three
arastras in operation.

At Mooney Flat the mining prospects
are excellent. The miners have recently
held a meeting for the purpose of making
arrangements to open their claims, and it
is thought they will commence a tunnel in
the hill on the Deer Creek side.

Gazette, March 23d :

Nubth BiiOOMrrELD Ditoh.— On Tues-
day the first installment of water from Lit-
tle Canon and North Poorman's creek ar-
rived at the works of the North Bloomfield
Gravel Mining Co. through their new ditch.

Grass Valley Union, March 26th :

Splendid Rock. — Yesterday, Capt. Lee
brought in from the Empire mine, teKDe^
lano's banking house, a piece of quartz
weighing about 80 pounds, that for richness
in gold could hardly be excelled. Fine
gold was distributed entirely through the
rock, besides a good showing of sulphurets
and galena. The lowest valuation of gold
in the rock was placed at 8800, and some
estimated it as high as 81,200. The piece
came from the 800-foot or present lowest
working level of the Empire mine. From
where this specimen came other rich quartz
was blasted out yesterday morniug, the es-
timated value of all being 82,000.

Gabden City Claim. — The owners of
this claim propose to give it a thorough
prospecting during the summer. We were
shown several pieces of rock from it yes-
terday that looked well.

Same of 27th :

Rich Rock at the Empiee. — Besides
the rich rock taken from the Empire mine,
on Thursday, of which we spoke in yester-
day's issue, there was taken out during the
day four car loads in all, from the same
part of the ledge on the 800-foot level,
worth 85,000.

The Rivot Pkooess. — The company at
Canada Hill have got the mammoth roaster

iu position, and set their machinery in mo-
tion. Every part works well.

Grass Valley National, March 24th :
The William Penn Mine, below Hill's
Ranch, is being energetically worked. Jas.
Edwards & Co. have taken a contract to
sink 100 feet, and are already down 38 ft. ,
the shaft being 9x5% feet in size. The
ledge is from 18 inches to two feet thick,
and is getting more solid.

PLUMAS COUNTY.

Quincy National, March 20th:

Cheeokee Items. — Bidwell & Co. are
pushing ahead the work in their mine vig-
orously. They are running a branch tun-
nel from the lower or 150 foot level in the
Caledonia, to the Dunlap lode, where they
expect to find some rich rock. They were
very near the ledge at last accounts. From
their 100-ft. level the company are running
a cross cut to what is known as the Big
White lode. The rock prospects well, and
some of it will be crushed in a short time.
The Caledonia mill is running steadily, and
doing well.

Judkins & Kellogg's mill pounds along
regularly, as usual, getting good pay. The
rock in the lower level of their mine (re-
cently opened), turns out to be good, and
as they raise their shaft from the lower to
the upper level, they find some extremely
good paying quartz.

It is rumored that the Bull Frog mill,
near Rush Creek, will be started in a short
time.

Catalan's ledge proves to be a large one,
his tunnel being over six ft in quartz, and
not through it yet. The rock prospects
welL

SIERKA COUNTY.

Downieville Messenger, March 27th :

Gibsonville. — A friend informs us that
water has begun to start, and that in a short
time the now well filled dump sheds will
be empty, and a goodly quantity of prec-
ious metal in the pockets of the miners.

Poet Wine. — Considerable excitement
existed at Port Wine, owing to the striking
of good pay in the Union mine. The own-
ers were highly elated, and well they might
be, some of their dirt paying about 85 to
the car load.

Eueeka and Moeeistown. — Water was
just beginning to start, but not much work
had been done.

Howl and Flat. — We recently visited
the Union gravel mine. Plunging down
the incline in a car, we found a splendid
tunnel called Broadway, dry witli a double
track, and with numerous evidences along
the sides, that side tnunels had been run
and the pay gravel taken out. At the end
we found workmen running the tunnel
ahead and to the left to open a large quan-
tity of new ground which is expected to
pay well. The end of the tunnel is already
supposed to be under pay, but will have to
be carried some distance further to make a
grade.

We learned that the Monumental claim
was more than paying expenses. The Pitts-
burg is said to be paying moderately well.

SISKIYOU COUNTY.

Yreka Union, March 20th:

The United Quartz Co. had 35 tons of
rock crushed this week at Dash & Co's mill.
The yield was over 825 to the ton. Their
claim on the Middle Fork of Humbug, is
the same that was opened by Isaac Ranck
in 1852. They have sunk on the ledge to
the depth of 90 ft. and have run two tun-
nels striking it at different levels. The
ledge is over a foot in thickness and well
defined. ~:^^^^m—-

Quaetz o^JjbHBBBBWSe. — Ab. Spidell

and Geo.JSanders have struck a quartz ledge

^"1m~French Creek which promises well. It

is about 12 inches in thickness and abounds

in gold visible to the naked eye.

Etna Mining Claim. — They have struck
the bedrock in this claim and expect soon
to commence taking out money.

Oeo Fino. — In this camp the miners have
now an[abundance of water and all are busy
at work. The ditches are full, caused by
the melting of the snow by the warm
weather of the last two weeks. It is ex-
pected the mining season will be short there
this year, but quite lively while it lasts.

TKINITY COUNTY.

Weaverville Journal, March 27th :
Noethfoek. — Accounts rep resent that
some Frenchmen have found good mines
on Yellow Jacket. The claims of J. Fru-
tige and Henry Faubel are paying largely,
and E. J. Holmes is drifting with first-rate
success. Engle & Miller are at work in the
quartz ledge on Eich Gulch, and have al-
ready taken out considerable rock for crush-
ing. Some of the quartz which was taken
to town and prospected in a mortar, yield-
ed one dollar to the pound.

Rush Ceeek. — V. Chamberlin's claim is
paying well, and there are three companies
of Chinese at work just below the mouth of

the creek, who are believed to be making
money.

George W. Wood has extended his ditch
some distance down the river, and will fur-
nish water free of charge to all persons de-
sirous of prospecting below it, until good
pay is found.

TFOLBn'R COUNTY.

Sonora Democrat, March 27th :

The Eagle Mine. — For the past two
months a full force of miners have been em-
ployed on this mine getting out rock, and
the mill was started a few days ago. We
are informed that the rock on hand is very
rich and that no doubt is entertained of the
mine paying well. The Eagle is situated
on Blue Gulch above Jacksonville.

Feench Bar. — A communication from
this place, known also as Lagrange, says
there is in that region a large extent of
country known to be rich, which has never
been worked except by rockers and rain
water. A few are doing well. Kelly & Co.
are taking out 160 ounces per week; Thnrs-
by & Co. are doing as well, while the claims
of Messrs. Keogh, Rudolph and Thomas
are pa'iently awaiting water.

On the East side of the river, the gravel
hills do not seem to have been so well
prospected ; it is known, however, that
they contain gold from the surface to the
bedrock, and with sufficient fall. Between
La Grange and the Crimea House, about
fourteen miles, is a wild, broken country,
whose gulches would furnish employment
for hundreds of miners, if they had steady
water. To the eastward, toward Don Pe-
dros Bar, there is also a largo extent of
mining ground yet unworked. One com-
pany there, Messrs. Freuch and Brown,
having had the forethought to build reser-
voirs, are now making from 810 to 815 per
day to the hand, in '49 Gulch.

The attention of the Tuolumne County
Water Co. has been turned to the section
described, and they are about instituting a
survey to estimate the expenses of a ditch.

YUB.V COUNTY.

Marysville Appeal, March 23d.

Brown's Valley.— .It was reported iu
town yesterday that a rich ledge had been
struck in the south drift of the Jefferson
mine.

Same of 28th : We are informed by a
reliable person that very rich rock has been
struck in the great ledge on which the
Pennsylvania mill has been running for the
last month — richer rock than ever before
taken out of a mine in Browu's Valley.
ARIZONA.

From the Prescott Miner, March 6th :
Black Canon Diggings.— News from these
diggings on Tuesday last, is quite favora-
ble. We learned that the miners were mak-
ing from $4 to 810 per day. Poland, Marsh
& Co. had their ditch almost completed, and
were confident that as soon as they com-
mence washing they will make 820 a day to
the hand. The proceeds of five pans of
gravel from their claim weighed $1.70. It
is certain that when properly worked, al-
most every bar on the creek will pay fair
wages, and it is our opinion that rich creek
claims will be struck whenever the creek
bed can be prospected. If the hills on the
west side of the creek are as rich as tliey
are said to be, we have the best of reasons
for believing that those on the east sideare
still richer.

Lower Lynx Ceeek. — Late news from
Jackson, Lovejoy & Co's hydraulic dig-
gings on Lower Lynx Creek, eight miles
east from Prescott, is quite cheering. Mr.
Shoupeinformsus that last week, after arnn
of 60 days, — three men working, — the sum
of $360 was«realized, which gives to each
hand engaged 820 a day. On this same
Lynx Creek there are miles of gravel banks
that will pay fully as well. Mr. Shoupe
informs us that in an old channel in his
claim, above Jackson & Co's, he has struck
very rich dirt. His reservoir is nearly com-
pleted, and next week he expects to take
out gold.

Same of 13th : Work is progressing at
the Sterling. The Chase mine, in the tun-
nel, is looking well. Ore taken from it to
San Francisco, by Mr. Noyes, yielded, by
working test, over $500 to the ton. . . .On
Saturday last, a letter from Theodore W.
Boggs, who is opening the Independence
mine, in Bug Bug district, stated that the
lode opened finely, and was fully eleven ft.
thick, with a rich pay streak, half the
width of the ledge. . . .C. C. Bean, of this
place, has purchased the interest of A.
French, in several lodes in Walker's and
Hassayampa district, for the sum of $4,000,
and has sent a gang of men to Walker's to
work the Tie-Tie, which is said to be a
very rich gold lode ...We have no placer
mining news this week, the miners being
too busy at work to come to town .... A let-
ter of recent date from San Francisco, states
that the Sterling Co. had secured the ser-
vices of a No. 1 mining superintendent, and
that he would leave in a few days for this

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215

conn try. ...The news from Wickenbnrg,

where the ore from tlio great Vulture mine
is worked, is as of yon — both mills run-
ning Ulght and day and pai ing well. . . .At
Qila City, Eureka, and other plat
Yuma Couuty, parties are working quartz,
with what result wo do Dot know.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Portland Oregonian, March 20th:
I'nuM tiii: Kootk.sai Mines.— News has
been received in this city, by letter, to the
etl'eet that a great many of the people in the
neighborhood of Fort Colville have gone
to the Kootenai mines during the winter
and many more are going this spring.
Tien- is talk of opening a new trull to these
mines as soon as the snows on the moun-
tains shall bo sufficiently melted to allow
of work.

IDAHO.
Owyhee Avalanche, March 20th:
Ida Elmore. — The teams havo been en-
gaged hauling quartz for several days. A
large quantity is now piled at tlio mill.
The mine is now producing more ore thau
ever, of a very rich quality. The mill will
be started up on Monday.

Mining Difficui/ty. — Tho rich placers
of Calaveras Flat appear at present to be a
huge bone of contention. Work is sus-
pended and tho vicinity is in a state of
siege. Tho Henry Brothers, who havo
worked the claims for two or three seasons,
arc in possession. Messrs. Curlew, Brown,
Woodward and others contend that the
Hourys havo not complied with the mining
laws, and have, therefore, forfeited their
tenure. We know nothing of the merits of
the matter.

Crank & Dbiggs. — An assessment of 812
per share was levied upon tho capital stock
of the above company, payable on the lUth
inst., at Portland. This mine is near the
Golden Chariot. It was formerly worked
by tlio Oregon Steam Navigation Co. There
is a shaft 21)0 ft. deep, said to have pro-
duced some very rich ore. The prospects
are that work will be resumed this spring.

Flint Items. — The Rising Star mill
started on Thursday. The prospects are
good. . . .Black's mill will start up in a few
days, on Astor rock.

Silveb Cord. — We are informed by Mr.
Jones, Superintendent, that the "work on
the mine is progressing finely. Hoisting
works are to be erected early in the spring.

Idaho City World, March 11th:

Elk Hoiin. — From Mr. Mesick. we learn
that the company have already about 4U0
tons of good ore for crushing, which was
taken out of the ledge this winter. The
quautity of snowr on the mouutain about
the mill is not so large as was promised
from weather indications a month ago, but
yet good heads of water will be supplied to
the ditches over on that side of the Basin
for a fair season of mining.

Silver City Tidal Wave, March 19th: The
Golden Chariot keeps up its lick in the
yield of bullion, and is now in excellent
shape for a good summer's work.

The road to the mines is bjcoming bare
in many places, making the operation of
quartz hauling rather difficult.

Same of 23d: .

Rising Stab. — Ten large bars, weighing
nearly 50U Ihs., and valued at $7,125 coin,
or between $0,000 and $10,000 currency,
were shipped by the Kisiug Star Company
through Wells, Fargo & Co. to San Fran-
cisco yesterday morning.

NEVADA.
IIVMIIOI.IIT.

lier/isler, March 20th :
Stab District. — Joseph Organ has leased
the Sheba mine, and is py^Baring for active
operations. The Sheba ore is rich, some
of it assaying as high as $8,000 per ton,
but very refractory. It is the intention to
ship tho ore to San Francisco or to Swan-
sea, for reduction.

On the National work has again com-
menced. A few years ago a large quantity
of quartz from this mine was reduced,
which paid from $30 to $250 per ton in
gold. The ledge is large and well defined.
Humboldt can boast of as rich ore as can
be found in the State of Nevada, or else-
where. We will wager a hat that we can
produce a specimen from the Grant mine,
in Indian district, as rich in silver as any
piece of its size in the State. Test to be
made and bet to be decided by an assayer
in Virginia City or Gold Hill. Who wants
it?

The shaft on the Sixty-nine ledge is now
60 feet deep, and the vein is well defined
and three feet wide. The average yield of
eight different assays of the ore was $150
per ton.

T. G. Negus shipped this week, by the
Pacific Union Express, from his mine at
Golconda, 1,110 ounces of bullion, valued
at $1,500.

The Little Giant Co., at Battle Mountaiu,
shipped two bars, valued at $1,800.

The Silver Mining Co. shipped this week
4,103 ounces of bullion.
BEEIX IIIVIII.

Austin Maroh 25th :

BELMONT. — Three bars of bullion from
Col. Buel's mill, at Belmont, were brought
into this city by the stage which arrived
last night.

Mount pton, March 20th:

BELMONT — We are informed that the
Company's mill will remain closed until
tho White Pino excitement subsides a little,
wdien it is presumed that it will be possible
to obtain miners who will work steadily at
fair wages. Considering the fact that this
last run on Transylvania oro has yielded
S2.V? per ton, it is to bo regretted that men
havo become so wild with tho White Pine
fever as to compel the company to suspend
operations for the want of laborers.

Stone Cabin Range. — Late last evening
Mr. Keed arrived in town with two and a
half tons of beautiful ore from the Seneca
mine, in the Stone Cabin Kange, 15 miles
to the south of this place, which experts
say will work from $300 to $400 per ton.

El Dobadoo Sooth. — Notwithstanding
the scarcity of laborers work progresses,
and the ore being raised is as rich as here-
tofore.

WASHOE.

[ In the Stock Circular, in another por-
tion of this paper will be found late mining
news from this district. ]

Territorial Enterprise, March 23d :
The Justice and Independent are find-
ing excellent ore. An assay of rock from
the west vein at the 100-foot level, yielded
at the rate of $600 per ton, and the average
appears to have improved.

On the Belohee work is being vigorously
prosecuted. No strike has been made,
though small veins and stringers of good
ore have been found.

On the Sacbamento we understand that
•work will be resumed shortly. The ore
will bo crushed in the Summit mill.
Same of 24th :

The Yellow Jackbt Tnino is looking ex-
ceedingly well.
Same of 25th :

The Ophib drift west from 700-foot level
of the new shaft is in over 100 feet. The
rook encountered is very hard, but about
two or three feet a day are made.

The Savage mine is yielding at the' rate
of over 1,000 tons a week of ore averaging
nearly $40 per ton.

Hale & Noeceoss. — The shaft of the
upper works is being retimbered between
the 175 and 300-foot levels. At the new
shaft the lower level is yielding large quan-
tities of excellent milling ore.
Same of 26th :

The Sieeea Nevada Co. have struck in
their car tunnel the same deposit of rich
rock and dirt that they have above. The
rock which is being extracted is exceedingly
rich.

Same of 28th :

The Gould & Cueby repairs being com-
pleted, resumed work night before last.
VVhen the pump started the accumulated
water in the shaft measured 320 feet in
depth ; yet the company expect to be able
to clear it within three days. The pump
works splendidly.

The Occidental Co. yesterday sent to
Gold Hill for melting and assay 400 pounds
of crude bullion, the result of their last
week's run. This lot of bullion will yield,
it is thought, nearly $12,000.

Ceown Point. — it will take several days
yet to make the necessary repairs to the
main shaft, when the drift east at the 1,100-
foot level will be proceeded with again.

The Adeiatio is again attracting atten-
tion. They now have out at their mine
about 150 tons of good milling ore, with
plenty more in sight and conveniently sit-
uated for extraction.

Ihpeeial- Empire. — The new cable for
the shaft is now in use. It is of the best
English steel and wider and better in every
respect than the old one. During the
delay occasioned by the breaking of the old
cable the water accumulated in the shaft to
the depth of 100 feet. It will probably be
bailed out to-day.

Gold Hill News, March 24th :
Chollab-Potosi. — The rock in the drift
east at the 1,240 foot level from the shaft
grows harder as the drift advances. It is
pretty good blasting ground, however, and
satisfactory progress is made.

Jayhawk and Bilkemall. — The Mohawk
and Montreal Consolidated Gold and Silver
Mining Co. have postponed the time for
declaring delinquent their last assessment
of $3 per share until March 31. The rea-
son probably is that the stockholders are
beginning to lose faith in the management.
Carson Appeal, March 25th :
Some excitement occurred

yesterday, occasioned by the reported dis-
covery of rich gold and silver bearing
quartz a few miles south of Empire City,
and about eight miles from Carson in a
southeastly direction. Extravagant reports
were in circulation, to the effect that it was
a new White Pine, and that 1,000 persons
were on tho ground seeking for good loca-
tions. A German who came direct from
there to Carson, last evening exhibited to
us a specimen of the outcropping of the
rock, and asserted there were several hund-
red persons there who would camp upon
the ground, and that the excitement among
them was very great. We havo no further
particulars.

WHITE PIXE.

[The latest items of news and inferma-
tion from this district will bo found on an-
other page. ]

WYOMING.

Sweetwater Mines, March 10th : We have
been informed that on the 4th inst. a very
rich ledge was discovered in the California
district, by Mr. Soles. No namo has been
given it yet, but prospecting and develop-
ment is going ahead. Several ledges have
been discovered close around this town
during the present mouth, that promise
to turn out something good.

Frank Zerrener, superintendent of the
Young America mine, is increasing his
force of men, and will probably in a month
or two have some 60 or 70 hands employed.

A shaft is down on the Golden Leaf
ledge 35 feet, and very rich ore is being
taken out of a crevice averaging about 24
inches in thickness. A specimen we saw
was sticking full of free gold.

The Bed of Sweetwater Kivee. — "N.
L. T." writes that he prospected the banks
of the stream a little last summer, and
found everywhere from one to three cents
to the pau; but that he was prevented from
doing anything further by the Indian scare.
He says : " I believe, and so do others,
that good pay can be found on bed-rock, in
Sweetwater, below the canon, and probably
very rich diggings. It will require per-
sons with some capital to test it, as doubt-
less it is deep to bedrock. There is ample
work on this stream for 100,000 persons,
provided it should pay. Gold can be found
in the bars and along the edge's of the
water all tho way to the mouth. "

The Eabth. — Although there are at lea"t
sixty-three chemical elements known to
exist in the earth, yet one of these, oxy-
gen, forms nearly or quite one-half of its
entire bulk, so far as known to mau; two
other elements silicon and aluminum form
about a quarter — leaving but one-quarter
more to be made up from all the remain-
ing sixty original elements. The next, in
order, most abundant elements are prob-
ably calcium, iron, carbon, hydrogen, ni-
trogen, etc. While the metallic elements
are far the most numerous, the non-me-
tallic aro much the most abundant in quan-
tity. The metallic elements aro character-
ized for sameness, tho non-metallic for
variety in qualities. The idea that the
earth was once in a gaseous condition is
greatly coufirmed by the fact that about
half tho known substance of the globe, by
weight, may be rendered gaseous at ordi-
nary temperatures. The difference in den-
sity between the heaviest known elements
is as 1 to 257,000— platinum representing
the former and hydrogen the latter. The
sun is known to have an almost infinite
number of elements — the spectroscope de-
velops at least 1,000.

•* — » ^ — — •

Gold Excitement in Scotland. — A gold
placer has recently been discovered along
the banks and bed of a creek on a farm
tenanted by a Mr. Rutherford, on lands be-
longing to the Duke of Sutherland, in Scot-
land. About 150 miners were, at last ac-
counts, at work there, including several
experienced returned Australians. Some
$200 worth of gold had been purchased by
a neighboring jeweler. Gold has been
found there in very limited quantities ever
since the days of James the First, and the
Duke has still in his possession a ring
made of gold found there some thirty
years ago.

Babon Von Reichenbach, Again. — A
physician writes to the Dublin Journal of
Medicine in support of the notion that peo-
ple sleep much better with their heads to
the north. He has tried the experiment in
case of sick persons with marked effect,
and insists that there are known to exist
great electrical currents, always crossing
in one direction around the earth, and that
our nervous systems are in some mysterious
way conuected with this electrical agent.
Baron Von Reicheubaeh's book on the
" Odic Force," published some years ago,
detailed a large number of cases which oc-
curred in the practice of the author, where
abnormally sensitive individuals were ben-
efited, and in some cases cured, by acting
upon this idea. The Baron urged that the
bodies of the patients should coincide with
the axis of. tho earth, in order that the cur-
rent of terrestial electricity which is con-
stantly passing round the earth at right an-
gles to that axis, might have no disturbing
effect upon the analogous current of ani-
mal electricity which is as constantly pass-
ing around the axis of the patient, — of
which axis the head and feet are the poles.

The

The Railroad and the Indians.
impression seems to prevail that the In
dians will not make any serious attempts to
interfere with the operation of the Over-
land Railroad. The Reno Crescent thinks
the "Iron Horse " will do more to subdue
the Indians in one season than all our forts
and Indian armies could do in many years;
and adds the following paragraph, which,
although it contains a deal of fancy, no
doubt conveys much of fact : " The savage
can combat with his pale-faced brother
man to man ; he knows the pale face, like
himself, is vulnerable and mortal; but in
the iron steed there is a something incom-
prehensible. He hears the roar of the iron
chariot wheels, the shriek of the whistle,
the clang of the bell, and the hoarse respi-
ration of this fiend. He sees it move for-
ward and backward at will, with speed that
puts to shame the swiftest rider of the
plains, and his spirit is humbled and his
hereabout | courage cowed."

A Boston Notion — Monster Concert. —
The Bostonians are making arrangements
for a series. of monster concerts, to take
place on the 15th, 16th and 17th of June
next, at which there will be one thousand
instrumental performers, and a chorus of
twenty thousand voices, mainly selected
from the public schools. A temporary
building is to be erected for the occasion,
and the President and other dignitaries, as
well as the Governors of the States, will be
invited. The secret of the whole matter is
the suppositious inference that the crowd
of strangers which will visit the city on the
occasion, will leave about $8,000,000 at the
"hub."-

Illustrated Trade Circulars are rap-
idly increasing among manufacturing es-
tablishments in the East, and will soon
become popular on this coast. We have
recently received a good sized catalogue,
published some time since by W. T, Gar-
ratt, brass founder, on Fremont street,
which contains illustrations of many arti-
cles in his line.

Water vs. Land Teanspoetation. — It
appears from a memorial recently addressed
to the New Jersey Legislature, that more
than half of all the goods transported be-
tween New York and Philadelphia, are car-
ried by the circuitous sea route, in prefer-
ence to the more direct land route; and
this, notwithstanding there are two distinct
lines of railway and an inland water route
by way of the Delaware river and Raritan
Canal.

Laege Map op Mexico. — Colton, of New
York, has just iesued a large wall mar) of
Mexico, including all the country round
the Gulf, about 4x4 feet in dimensions. On
the margin are smaller maps of Spain and
Cuba. It is a useful map, but contains
nothing new or topographically than is
given in Colton's complete atlas of some

years ago.

♦.-» i' « — »

San Jose is unquestionably the best gov-
erned city in California. It is not only free
from debt, but has $50,000 invested in
county bonds.

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6£ltx Francisco:

Saturday Morning, April 3, 1869.

Notices to Correspondents.

" Mat op the Mint." — The wear of gold
coin underwent an elaborate investiga-
tion from 1798 to 1801, the conductors
being the celebrated chemists, Hatchett
and Cavendish. The report occupies 150
pages of the "Philosophical Transac-
tions " for the year 1803. From the ex-
periments made, the reporters declared
that only two metals were adapted to al-
loy with gold, in order to increase the
durability of the latter, viz., copper and
silver. One of the experiments con-
sisted of a given number of coins com-
posed of various alloys, being placed in
a square box. Into this were placed forty
pieces of coin of equal size and weight,
but varied alloy, all, however, being
what is known as fine gold, or 22 carats
fine — 22 gold and 2 alloy. The box was
made to rotate on its axis, so that the
coins rubbed against each other. It was
found on examining the contents of the
box after having been rotated 71,720
times, that the alloy of silver and copper,
such as used formerly for coinage at the
English mint, was more durable, or
less diminished by abrasion, than the
fine gold alloyed by silver alone, or that
alloyed by copper alone; the loss in the
first case being found only to amount to
l-230fch part, and in the second, to about
l-29th part. Yet it is a fact that the En-
glish Government is in the constant prac-
tice of melting up its old sovereigns and
guineas, composed of the first named,
and more durable alloy, and replacing
these old coins with gold 'alloyed with
copper alone. We believe all European
governments now follow the same prac-
tice, and the United States mint also. In
the second column of page 195, of our
last number, will be found a brief ac-
count of some recent experiments in the
alloy of Bilver by the officers of the
French mint, by which, for reasons there
given, it is recommended that silver coin
should be alloyed as follows : 835 parts
silver, 93 copper, and 72 zinc. If all
civilized nations would agree to employ
the above proportions of alloys respect-
ively, for silver and gold coins, great

' economy would result in their wastage.

Visalia. — The carp, says Isaac Walton, "is
the queen of the rivers." Had he said
ponds, the old angler would have been
nearer the mark. There can be no doubt
but that both carp and tench, if intro-
duced, would flourish well in the upper
part j of the San Joaquin, and add much
to the luxuries of the neighboring dis-
tricts.

S. C. W. , Timbuctoo. — The article in-
quired about, relative to the "uniting of
zinc with quicksilver for the purpose of
increasing the affinity for gold," was
perhaps d'Houreuse's zinc process ; or an
item of eurs describing several simple
methods of getting zinc out of quicksil-
ver. Find out the date, or page.

Continental Life Insurance Company,
203 Montgomery street, corner of Pine.

Separation of Bullion in Bars without
Granulation.

A patent for this mode of separating gold
from silver was applied for in 1865, by
John Eeynolds, a boiler in Kellogg,
Heuston & Co's refinery in this city. It
was a return to first principles, known and
practiced in the separation of metals for a
hundred years; but not being the general
practice at the time, or since granulation
had got into practice as an approved pre-
liminary operation, (in order, theoretically,
to present so much larger a surface for the
acid to work upon,) this patent was allowed,
somewhat to the surprise of other experts
in the business, who had not thought of
such a thing as a patent in so simple a mat-
ter. It is in the main, merely for putting
the bullion bar at once into sulphuric acid,
instead of pouring it first into water to gran-
ulate, and then putting it in. Separation of
gold and silver, or "refining," is done at
the Mint with nitric acid in porcelain ves-
sels set to boiliug by steam, as iron pots
would be destroyed by the nitric acid ; and
a common fire cannot be used for heating
because it would orack the porcelain ves-
sels. The reason why nitric acid is in use,
— so much more expensive and even less
efficient than sulphuric acid — is because
the mints are usually in town, and the fumes
of the latter acid cannot be tolerated there.
Sulphuric acid admits of the use of iron
vessels, and of the most violent boiliug, by
a direct coal fire. Hence sulphuric acid is
used wherever the circumstances admit.

A bar of silver bullion cast into boiling
sulphuric acid of the proper density, dis-
solves " like butter," figuratively speaking,
leavingthe gold in a brown sediment at the
bottom. Eeynolds noted this fact— and
that it was not at all necessary to granulate
in the process with sulphuric acid, but that,
on the contrary, the separation would be
more rapid and thorough without it, ren-
dering the intermediate melting likewise
unnecessary.

The cause of this difference in favor of
bars was for some time a puzzle; but there
are two good reasons assigned for it. One
is that, in treating granulated bullion, as
the silver rises into solution aud the gold
thickens at the bottom, the latter partially
covers up some silver-holding grains, and
prevents the acid from operating upon
them. This can be prevented by stirring.
The other reason is a theoretical one,
which, however, is believed by the Phila-
delphia mint refiners to be founded in f ac t,
viz : that in pouring ni9lted bullion into
cold water, the sudden chilling is attended
by a tendency on the part of some of the
golden particles in the alloy, to come to the
surface of the granule. Thus the latter
gets coated to a degree, (scarcely or not at
all perceptible, it is true), by the richer
metal, which is impervious to acid, hinder-
ing the process of separation.

Assayers and refiners feign that they
would pay little or no attention to Eey-
nold's patent if they had any occasion to sep-
arate buttons or bars by the use of sulphu-
ric acid. Whether at law the Patent Office
would be sustained in the matter, is a ques-
tion that need not be entered into in this
connection. To furnish an idea of the ex-
act nature of Eeynold's patent, we quote
from the document itself. The inventor
says :

' ' I take a charge of crude bullion of any
convenient weight (a pot which in work-
ing by the old process would work a charge
of from 130 to 140 pounds, will in working
by my improved process work from 300 to
400 pounds) and place it on the bottom of
an iron pot, adding a sufficient amount of
sulphuric acid to cover the said charge of
bullion, and boil the whole mass together
for about one hour, after which I add more
sulphuric acid, from time to time, as may
be necessary, until the silver and baser
metals are all dissolved and held in solu-
tion in the acid, the whole amount of acid
required being generally about equal in
weight to the charge of crude bullion in
the pot.

The time necessary for boiling will vary
according to the heat applied; the usual
time being from four to five hours.

The acid holding in solution the silver
aud baser metals is then drawn off or bailed
into a tank lined with lend, leaving the gold
settled in the bottom of the pot, where it
is washed with hot sulphuric acid, in order
to remove as much of the sulphate of sil-
ver remaining as possible.

I then place the gold in a filter corres-
ponding in size to the amount of gold to
be treated, where hot water is poured over it
until it is perfectly sweetened, that is, un-
til no trace of sulphate of silver or acid
can be found in the water as it runs away
from the gold. It is then pressed and
dried, after which it is melted and molded
into ingots or bars, whose fineness will be
found to be from .992 to .994^.

The tank into which the solution of sil-
ver aud baser metals is drawn off is sup-
plied with a perforated lead pipe, through
which steam is introduced for heating pur-
poses, as in the method now in common
use. It is then drawn off into a precipi-
tator in which heat is kept up by means of
steam passing through a closed lead pipe
passing through the said precipitator. Cop-
per is now introduced, as in the old proc-
ess, which precipitatesthesilver iu metallic
state of fineness varying from .995 to .998.

The copper remaining in solution is then
drawn off into the copper house, where it
is converted into crystals by the methods
now well known and in common use in
refineries.

Some of the advantages to be derived
from my improved process of "refining
gold and silver bullion," may be enumer-
ated as follows :

First — The melting and alloying with
copper and granulating before treating
with sulphuric acid, are rendered entirely
unnecessary.

Second — By my process, gold from .992
to .994% fine is produced by the first treat-
ment, whereas by the old process with one
treatment, gold of the fineness of only .950
to .970 is produced, rendering it necessary
oftentimes to go through the process two
and even three times before the gold can
be brought up to a fineness of .992 or .994;
thus increasing more than double the ex-
pense required by my improved process of
refining.

Third — Close returns can be made by my
process every day, whereas two or three
days or more are required in order to make
close returns by the old process.

The claim is for "the improved method
of refining gold and silver bullion in bars
or bricks, or any other shape, whereby the
necessity of melting and alloying with
copper and granulating before refining is
obviated, substantially as described."

Mrs. Hall's Smelting Furnace. — The
Alia inquires what has become of the Vol-
cano Smelting Furnace invented some
years ago by Mrs. E. J. Hall, and highly
spoken of at the time of its trial in this city,
in 1864. The inventor is in this city, and
anxious to furnish those interested in
smelting with data to judge of the value of
her invention. In principle Mrs. Hall's
furnace is an attempt to solve an interest-
ing aud important problem to the metal-
lurgist— to smelt reductively in such a man-
ner as to prevent sulphides from forming a
matte product (or sulphur-metal), by desul-
phurizing and reducing the matte as fast as
formed. In ordinary smelting there are
two ways of desulphurizing matte; the
simplest, and the kind practiced in assay-
ing, is to throw in iron, which has a greater
affinity for sulphur, and therefore takes it
to itself; but the cheaper and more gener-
ally practiced is a separate treatment of the
matte, in which grinding and roasting are
finally resorted to as the only thorough
means of accomplishing the desired result
— the oxygen of the air in that case carry-
ing it off. Mrs. Hall endeavors, by confin-
ing the whole in an egg-shaped furnace
supplied with powerful blasts and having
a comparatively small flue, to burn out the
sulphur with charcoal, in the form of gas-
eous sulphides of carbon, and SO- as fast
as it combines with liquid products at the
bottom. Having seen only a drawing, we
are not able to furnish further details at
present.

Moee Fossil Dwarfs. — Mr. Busk has
discovered in Malta, a species of dwarf
fossil elephant only 2% to 3 feet high. Dr.
Falconer has found another about 4% feet
in hight.

"Mad Stones"— What are They?

The public is frequently treated to news-
paper paragraphs, alluding to remarkable
cures of the bites of mad animals, and
poisonous reptiles and iusects, by what are
termed "mad stones." The subject has
been revived in this city, the past, week, by
correspondence in two of our dailies, from
one of which we learn that we have one of
these wonderful " Stones" in San Fran-
cisco. During our newspaper reading, for
the past ten years, we have been curious
to collect, among other matters, such ac-
counts of these "mad stones" as have
come under our observation. The reports
all agree as to their wonderful effects ; but
differ very widely in the description of the
so-called "stones." Thinking it may in-
terest some of our readers, we have col-
lated the following items from our clip-
pings, from which it will appear that any
person may become possessed of a " mad
stone," equal to the best, at a trifling cost
or trouble :

Carlos Johnson, of Warnick county, In-
diana, is in possession of one of these
remarkable stones, which was originally
brought from England ; this specimen is a
species of pumice stone, very porous and
of greenish color.

Mrs. Baugh, Valparaiso, Ind., has one
which was recently shown to Professor
Wyhe, of the State University, of Bloom-
ington, Ind., who immediately produced a
counterpart of the same from the Univer-
sity collection of minerals, and which was
there classified as a coral of the genus
astrea. This stone was a portion of one
originally brought from England by the
mother of Mrs. B's husband, who, at his
death, divided it into three pieces, and gave
one each to his three children.

Mrs. W. Bundy, of Martinsville, Ind.,
has one which has also been pronounced by
Professor Wyhe to be an astrea coral.

The late John King, of Bicbmond, Va.,
had one in his possession about twenty
years, from the application of which won-
derful cures are claimed, but the stone is
not described.

Dr. E. H. Ayres, Jackson, Tenn., has
one of a cubical shape, containing about
seven cubic inches of matter, aud which,
from the description, we presume must be
an astrea coral.

Mrs. Taylor, Terre Haute, Ind. , has one
which has been in her family eighty years,
and which is described as being "white,
smooth, hard, with star-shaped pores, two
inches in length by three-quarters thick,"
most probably another astrea coral, with
one of its surfaces ground smooth .

Col. B. Lee Milam, Waterford, Marshall
County, Miss., has one (the same as de-
scribed in the Herald of Monday last) about
the size of a hen's egg, one end of which
is flat, as if sawed off across the grain, hav-
ing very much the appearance of wood or
bone, said to have been brought from
China, by Dr. Barker, in 1810. Has been
offered $5,000 for it; will sell it for $10,000;
and well he might, as he could probably
produce a counterpart equally good for
five dollars.

The publication of the description of the
above, brought out Dr. Horst, of this city,
who keeps an apothecary store corner of
Eddy and Taylor streets, and who has one
which closely answers the above descrip-
tion, which he obtained, as a great favor,
from an Abysinian chief, during his travels
in that country. We have caref ully exam-
ined the same, which is undoubtedly a
piece of petrified bone, cut across the
grain.

There are said to be several so-called
" stones " in Southern Virginia, which are
of undoubted animal origin, pronounced by
some to be portions of the rennet of some
animal, whether dried or fossilized, we are
not told.

We have descriptions of quite a number
of others, in different parts of the country,

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to the nso of nil of which are ascribed
wonderful cures.

From the above it must be inferred that
there is no uniformity in the material of
which these "stones" are composed. The
accounts given of the circumstances aftend-
ing their assumed cures also lead us to
infer that tltorc generally has been no virus
injected into the persons of those upon
whom the euros are supposed to havo been
made, and that in most eases other remedies
wero also used, from which probably more
benefit was derived than from the " mad
stone." It is possible that the porous sub-
stances used may have some effect in ex-
tracting the virus, when applied instantly;
but any one substance of equal porosity
with another would, no doubt, be equally
as efficacious. There is also a possibility
that when the stones aro composed of coral
the carbonate of lime may have a chemical
effect in neutralizing the virus, which is
genorilly of an acid nature; but such an
effect could not result from the use of pum-
ico stone, or of fossil organic substances,
where the original material has been re-
placed with silica. The adhesive character
of lymphatic discharges from a slight
wound will generally cause any porous
substance to adhere, if promptly applied.

In view of the above, wo believe that any
person who thinks he may have been
bitten by a mad animal or venomous
reptile, would be much more likely to obtain
relief from the application of ammonia, a
poultice of tobacco and soap, or an applica-
tion of bromide of potassium, with a free
use of strong alcoholic stimulants, than to
rely upon the supposed virtues of a '■" mad
stone." A piece of light dry bread would
be more efficacious than a " mad stone,"
made from a petrified bone.

Industrial Enterprises.

A Rubber Factory, says the Herald of the
31st, is about to be established in this city;
an agent or superintendent and raw mate-
rial being now on the way from the East.
Not only the caontchouc tree, but the gum
ofithe aselepias, euphorbia, poppy, lettuce,
and chicory plants, will furnish elastic ma-
terial suitable for manufacturing purposes;
and the company proposes to introduce the
cultivation of one of these. California uses
large quantities of rubber goods. The con-
sumption in the United States amounts to
about $8,000,000, the capital invested' in the
manufacture being about $5,000,000.

California Ale and Porter. — Mr.
Samuel Marks has established a brewery at
the corner of Folsom and Fourteenth streets,
which produces an article pronounced by
the Alia reporter to be superior to, while
it is cheaper than "Barclay & Perkins." The
chief point of difference between the man-
ufacture of ale and lagor is, that the beer
is generally ready for use in two or three
days, while ale requires two weeks.

Cooperative Wine Making. — The Wine
Makers' Association of Los Angeles pre-
sents a successful example of the coopera-
tive principle applied to wine making, and
to the relief of vintners from exclusion by
isolation. The company has two store-
houses of stone and brick. One is above
ground, 42x270 feet, and the other is a half
basement, 40x90 feet. It has on hand 150,-
000 gallons of wine and 60,000 gallons of
brandy. Its superintendent, M. Emile
"Vaehe, is a Frenchman, and he makes
Sherry, Madeira, Port and brandy. Grapes
are bought at 75 cents to $1, those of share-
holders having preference. Every work-
man employed is a stockholder. It has a
house in San Francisco, and divides 25 per
cent, per annum on its capital of $50,000,
with assurance of improvement.

Canvassing for the Oroville Woolen
Mill.— The Oroville Record of March 27th
says of this mill enterprise : Berry, of
San Francisco, visited Oroville on Thurs-
day, and canvassed the subject of a woolen
mill for Oroville, with many of our citi-
zens. The prospect is fair for the erection
of a woolen mill here, most of our citizens
viewing it favorably.

The Oakland Cotton Factory has
changed hands, and been converted into a
bag factory. The demand for grain bags,
etc., this season, will not fall much short of
twelve million in number. From 700 to
800 pounds of manila jute have been or-
dered shipped, at an outlay of $75,000.

New Patents Issued to Pacific Coast
Inventors.

Especially reported by the V. S. Patent Office. Washing-
ton. D. 0., to Dewki & Co.. American and Foreign
Patent SoltcltOEB, and Publishers of tlto
."\Ii\im, a.nli s. iLvriric PsESS.

For the Week Endinb February 16th.
86,808. — Improved Washing Fluid. — Jas.
Bell, Souora Cal. :

I claim the above described composition
for washing thud made of the ingredients
enumerated mixed or compounded in about
the proportions specified.

This compound is intended for general
use in washing, and is claimed to be supe-
rior for softening hard water and rendering
the water suitable for cleansing purposes.
86,931.— Improvement™ Winding Batchet
Time Pieces. — Wm. H. Lamb, San Fran-
cisco, Cal.:

1. I claim the disk D, operating in the
indentions of the ratchet wheel B, and im-
pinging against the plate or equivalent de-
vice for preventing the wheel from turning
backward, substantially as described.

2. Forming the wheel B, with indentions

C, C, C, to fit the circular shape of the disk,
and holding the said disk between the in-
cline F, and the wheel by means of the
spring E, substantially as described for the
purpose set forth.

The nature of this invention is to pro-
vide a ratchet for time piece, so constructed
that it cannot be wound the wrong way up,
winding the pieces, aud thereby breaking
the teeth of the ratchet wheel in the ordi-
nary construction of time pieces. The in-
ventor is a practical watchmaker, of long
residence in this sity.

86,932. — Improvement in Brick Elevator.
Thos. Mann, San Francisco, Cal. (Ante-
dated Feb. 1st, 1869.)

1. I claim the gates C, C, sliding on the
ways B, B, B, B, operated by the ropes or
cords G, K, K', and pulieys and blocks H,
J, J', L, substantially as and for the pur-
pose set forth.

2. The peculiar construction of the brake
M, with the sweep O, operating in the slot
P, so that the driver may hold the gates in
position, while the horse is changing his
direction of travel, substantially as de-
scribed.

3. The hooks S, S, for attaching the hods
to the gates, substantially as described.

This is an improved device for hoisting
brick and mortar for building purposes,
and is intended to be employed after the
first or lower story has been constructed.
It consists of a frame which is well braced,
having vertical posts or ways on which
gates slide up and down. The gates are
constructed so as to admit the hanging up-
on them of mortar and brick hods. While
one gate is ascending on one side with
loaded hods, the opposite gate is descending
with empty hods, by means of cords pass-
ing over a pulley at the top of the frame.
The inventor is now a resident of Portland,
Oregon.

87, 020. — Improved Motive Power for Sew-
ing and other Machines. —Jacob Zuck-
ermann, San Francisco, Cal. :
I claim the motive power consisting of
the frame, the series of semi -elliptic springs

D, connected at their ends by hinge joints,
in combination with the spirally grooved
fusee G, the fusee and the springs being
connected by means of the chains, the gear
wheels, shafts, belt and brake, the whole
constructed and arranged substantially as
and for the purpose set forth.

The object of this invention is to provide
an improved motive power for light ma-
chines, and more particularly for sewing
machines. The device is applicable to any
of the machines for sewing, giving the
requisite motion, by being occasionally
wound up. It consists of a series of gear
wheels operated by a series of semi-elliptio
springs united at each end by hinged joints,
and so arranged that the power exerted up-
on the machine will be uniform. The num-
ber of parts liable to get out of order are
few, while the machine can be constructed
very cheaply. A company of capitalists in
New York have engaged to manufacture
and introduce the machines into use.
87,077. — Improvement in Elevated Rail-
ways.— Wm. A. Sutton, New York, and
Eugene Crowell, San Francisco, Cal. :
1. I claim the combination of the sprocket
wheel C, and brake applied to hold the
same with the endless rope B, having knots,
collars, or prutuberances b, on it essen-
tially as herein set forth.

2. The rope-lifter constructed substan-

tially as described, of a sheave c , carried by
a lever I, which is pivoted to a rack J, op-
erated by a pinion K, essentially as herein
set forth.

3. The combination with a rope lifter
constructed to operate substantially as de-
scribed of the sprocket wheel C, arranged
to have a sliding motion or lateral adjust-
ment relative to the rope, essentially as
specified.

i. The rope take-off or Bhifter e, L, in
combination with the sprocket wheel C,
arranged to have lateral adjustment rela-
tively to the rope, substantially as de-
scribed.
87,082. — Improvement in Folding Card

Globe. — Dennis Townsend, Fiddletown,

Cal. :

1. I claim a flexible, expansible and com-
pressible geographical or manographical
globe; when made of a series of quadrantoe
triangles, substantially as described.

2. Also a coating or covering for the su-
perfices of a collapsible hemisphere, when
figured and made of one piece in quadran-
tal triangles, joined at or near a common
apex, substantially as and for the purpose
described.

3. Also combining the two halves of the
superfices of a globe on an equational line
by means of a joint between each pair of
quadrantal triangles, substantially as and
for the purposes specified.

i. Also the combination of folding liga-
tures with the quadrantal triangle, sub-
stantially as and for the specified purpose.

5. Also in combination with the flexible
globe, the bow spring for expanding it
substantially as described.

6. Also the combination by attachment of
a compressible globe with the cover of a
book or with a base confined within such
covers.

Issued February 9th:

86,840. — Improvement in Driers. — C. Kai-
bel, Sacramento, Cal. :

1. I claim the stationary caps C, C, and
perforated hollow shaft E, in combination
with the perforated drum B, and fan-blower
G, substantially as and for the purpose de-
scribed.

2. The arrangement and combination of
the furnace A, Blower G, caps C, C, C, C,
drums B, B', perforated hollow-shaft E, E',
trunk I, discharge- tube J, all substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.

The inclined trough L, in the lower part
of the furnace A, in combination with the
perforated drums B, B', substantially as
and for the purpose set forth.
Issued February 23d:
87,260. — Tire-TJpsetter. — William M.

Hughes, San Francisco, Cal. :

I claim the combination of the parts I, I,
plate J, the clamp E, the wheel and eccen-
tric F, the compound F, eccentric H, the
handles A, A, lever G, and cams or eccen-
trics B, B, substantially as shown for the
purposes specified.

Brief Hints to Inventors.

Tho assignee of every invention may have the
patent issue to him directly, when he is the pur-
chaser of the entire interest ; or the patent may is-
sue in the joint names of the inventor and as-
signee, the inventor himself being one of the as-
signees.

The application must be mndo by the actual in-
ventor, it alive ; but if the inventor be dead, it may
be made by his executors.

A working model is always desirable to enobie
the office to determine its precise operation. The
name of the inventor and also of the assignee, if
assigned, must be fixed upon it in a permanent
manner.

What is really embraced in the original inven-
tion, and so described or shown that it might have
been embraced in the original patent, may bo the
subject of a reissue.

The mere fact of prior invention abroad will not
prevent the granting of a patent, unless the inven-
tion had been descried in some printed publica-
tion.

When the patent is applied for in the United
States, after being obtained abroad, it will extend
only fourteen years from the date of the foreign
patent.

Patentees or assignees aro required to affix the
date of the patent on each article vended or offered
for sale, under a penalty of not less than one
hundred dollars.

Every assignment should he recorded in the Pa-
tent Office within three months from its date.

If old materials and old principles are used in a
state of combination to produce a new result, the
inventor may obtain a valid patent for such result.

When an application has been rejected, the in-
ventor may manufacture his invention for two
years, with tho privilege of renewing his applica-
tion within that time, if he so desires.

The inventor or inventors must sign the petition
and claims, tho latter to be attested by two wit-
nesses, also take the required oath before some aa
thorized person.

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Co-Opcrativk Ukios Stork.— This is becoming one of the
most useful Institutions in the city, and the Mechanic and
Laboring Man ful'y appreciate it They are now enabled
to buy their Groceries and Provisions 20 per cent, cheaper
than over before, and tho vory best articles in the market.
Tho store is located at 115 Sutler street, Licit House Block
San Francisco. 6vl8-alm

IFromthenew "Dominion.]

At this season, when coughs and colds aro so prevalent,
an onectual remedy, and one easily obtained, is Perrv
Davis' Vegetable Pain' Killer. It is no new nostrum, vendca
by unknown agents, but has stood the test of over twenty
years, and those who use the article. Internally or exter-
nally, will connect with it grateful recollections of ita
worthy Inventor.— IT'istiiia*' Chronicle, C. W.

Pain Ku.lkk.— The testimonials borne to the efficacy of
this valuable medicine arc sufficient to warrant itaimro-
ducllon in every house Our own opinion Is lhat no family
should bo without a bottle of It for a single hour. In tlesh
wounds, aches, pains, sores, etc.lt is the most effectual
rerncdv we know of. A bottle will last for a very long
time, and its low price places it within the reach ot all.—
St John Netra.

OSP-We arc glad to learn that tho "Pain Killer" is having
so large a sale in oar city. We have every reason to believe
it to be an almost never failing cure lor pain, and a medi-
cine that no family fhould bo wllhoat.— Montreal Pilot.

The Pain Killer is sold by all Druggists and dealers in
Family Medicines.

KELHNGTON A CO., and FIOSTETTEP. & SMITn. San
Francisco, Cal., General Wholesale Agents. mint

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for mining purposes claim of.... feet on this rein

or lode of mineral-bearing rock or ground, discovered by

, and known by the name of Lode, Said claim

commencing at this notice, and following thence, in a ....
direction, such vein or lode, with lis dips, spars, angles, va-
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wide reputation, and are proven to be superior to the ordi-
nary dug well, costing sometimes less than onc-fonrth thnt
of others, and at the same time excluding the surface water
and dirt. The tubing is coupled together ir. lengths of
about six feet, as they are being driven into the earth ; the
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(Battersea Work*, London.
TDTE MORGAN PATENT CRUCIBLES have uniform
quality, never crack, withstand the greatest hent without
danger; heats more rapidly than any other; chnngc of tem-
perature ha^ no effect on ihcm; stand on the average forty
to fifty pourings.
On hand and for sale by the Agents,

A. S. IE AB tr.ll> J E A, CO.,
Ivl8-3m9p /S1» Front Btreet, San Francisco

PACIFIC

Rolling Mill Company,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

Established for the Manufacture of
RAILROAD AND OTHER IRON

— AND —

Eyery "Variety of JShafitiiigr,

Embracing ALL SIZES of
Steamboat Shafts, Crank*, Piston and Con-
necting BodK, Car and Tjoconiotlve Axles
and Frames

— ALSO —

HAMMEBE D IRON

Of every description and size.

CS- Orders addressed to PACIFIC ROLLING MILL
COMPANY Post Office, San Francisco, Cal., will receive
prompt attention. «_,,„-.

8SB- The highest price paid for Scrap Iron. 9v143m9n

Patent Office Reports, from 1S43 to 1347, Mechamcai.
arc wanted for duplicate copies ai .bis office. Parties liav-
inc them for sale wilt please stiiTe price, and jrhlrcss
DEWEY & CO., Mining and Scientific Press office, San
Francisco.

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinists and Foundries.

PALMER, KNOX & CO.,

Golden State Iron Works,

Nos. 19, 31, Ha and 25 First Street,

SAN FRANCISCO.

UANDFACTDKE ALL KINDS OF

STEAM EXUIXE3 AND QUARTZ AKIULS

DUNBAR'S IMPROVED

Selt-A.clju.stin.gf I*iston SPadting,

Requires no springs or screws; is always steam tight;

without excessive friction, and never

gets slack or leaky.

WHEELER & RANDALL'S

KJ2W OJtIM>i:H A1VJD AMALOAMATOJt

HEPBURN & PETERSON'S

AMALGAMATOR AIVJ» SEPARATOR,

It nox's Amalffamators,

WITH PALMER'S PATENT STEAM CHEST,

Superior lor working either GOLD OR SILVER ORES, and
s the only Amalgamator that has stood the test of se\en
years' continual working.
UeMuiuti White Iron Stamp Shoes and 1*1 en

Having been engaged for the past ten years in quartz
mining, and being conversant with all the improvements,
cither in Alining or Milling, we are prepared to furnish, at
ihe shortest, notice, the must perfect machinery for rcduc
ng ores, or saving either gold or silver. ISvluqy-tf

IRA I'. RASKIN.

. f. mixvtos.

A. C. AUSTIN.

Pacific Iron Works.

ITirst and Fremont Stx*eets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Having been established since 1851, wc have accumulated
a very large variety of Gear and other Patterns, which,
■with our superior tools and appliances, give u.s facilities lor
doing first class work uncqualed ou the Pacific Coast.

Among other things, we manufacture the following:

STEAM ENGINES,

Horizontal and Vertical, for either Stationary or Marine

use.

BOILERS— IligH and Low Pressure,

Pump, Pipe and Sheet Iron Work of every kind.
Quartz Mill Work,

Including High and Low Mortars, for wet or dry crushing-

Furnace Irons lor Roasting Ores; Freiberg Barrels;

Varney'sand Wheeler's Amalgamating Pans

and .Settlers; Stamp Shoes and Dies of

best White Iron; Russia Iron

Screens, etc., etc.

Flour Mill, Saw Mill and Sugar Mill Work In every variety;

Pumping and Hoisting Machinery ; Haiishrow'a

Patent Challenge Pump, for Dmncoitc,

Ship and Mining use— the most

approved and successful

Pump manufactured.

CaatlnffH of every description, Iron and Rrutis.

Wc would call especial attention to "Wright's Patent Va-
riable Cut-oil liu^inus," of which we are the .sole manufac-
turers ou the fact lie Coast, under license from Hie Wood-
ruff Jt Beach Co., Uaitlord, Ct. As a simple, cllective, fukl
saving, Hisi-cIjss Engine, this is, without, doubt, the best
Engine made in the United States.

Orders promptly attended to. Prices as low as possible
for lirst class work, and we intend to do no other.

GUJDKAKIt «& CO.

San Francisco, May 1, 1868. IHvltitf

WILLAMETTE IRON WORKS,

PORTLAND, OREGON.

Steam Engines, Boilers,
SAW AND CRIST MILLS,

MINING MACHINERY, WROUGHT IRON SHUTTER
WORK, AND BLACKSMITH IN U IN GENERAL.
Cornet* North-Front and E Htreelit,

iavl3-ly One block north of Couch's Wharf.

Globe Iron Works,

STOCIiTO >. , CA1„

KEEP & BARGION,

MASoF.lCTURERS OF

(Quartz, Saw and Grist Mill Irons, Steam
Engines, Horse Powers,

High and Low Pressure Steam Engines, Steamboats and

Propellers, tnudc at short notice.

13V13U'

CALIFORNIA BRASS FOUNDRY.

No. 1£» Fii-Kt street, opposite 31 Inn u,

SAN FRANCISCO.

All kinds of Brass, Composition, Zinc, and Babbitt Metal
Castings, Brass Ship Work of all kinds, Spikes, sheathing
Nails, Kuddcr Bruce a", Hinges, ship and steamboat Bellsauu
Gongs of superior uiue. All kinds of Cocks aud Valves, Hy-
draulic t'ipes and Nozzles, and Hose Couplings and Connec-
tions of all sizes aud patterns, furnished with dispatch.

ffST PRICES MODERATE. _ffiO

J. P. GALLAGHER. J. H. WEED V. KINGWELL

9vl3-lj

BENJAMIN" ELLIOT,

No. 483 Brannan street San Francisco,

Manufactures Foundry Facings constantly, lrom choice
coals. Bituminous, packed in tight saeks. Anthracite and
Charcoal ground together or separate, packed in whole
or Hall barrels Black Lead, Coke and Soapstone ground to
order. J>ouudrymen located far from choice m aerial, can
rely uu ha\ iug superior F acinus forwarded to order.
luvlSrjr

Miners' Foundry

— AND—

MACHINE W O K I£ S
Nos. 245 to 255 Fiest Steeet,

Si»n Fruncluco.

HOWLAND, ANG-ELL & CO.,
rjaopitiETOits,

Manufacturers of Machinery for

QTJAKTZ MII.I.S. FLOUK MIX.I.S,

SAW MILLS, SUCAK MILLS,

roWDEJS MIX.1.S, FAPBi MULLS

Steam Engines of all Kinds,
Amalgamators of all Kinds.

Kl.MSC PUMPS, HOISTIU'e WOIKS,

OIL iV LLL TOOLS, BOCK. IS £5 EAJCEJ2S,

— AND —

Machinery and Castings of all kinds, either
of Iron or Brass,

Boilers and Sheet Iron Work in all its
Branches.

shoe* and Dies of 'White Iron, manufactured
for :iuu imported by uh expreimly for this Fiir-
potie, tiud will l:«*t 2i5 per cent, longer thun tiDy
other ninde on thin coast.

iCusvi:, »,-,»ii Screens, of nny degree of fineness,
We ure the only mitniifucturcrs on this coast of
the

HICKS ENGINE,
The most compact, slniule in constrigctlon, and

•uralile, of any Engine in use.
W.U.HUWLAIII), H. H.ASOELL,

Uvli-qr CTEDS PALMEJt.

FULTON

Foundry and Iron Works.

HINCKLEY & CO.,

MAKDFACTDBBRS 0>*

SrX,3S^3U: ENGINES,
Quartz, Flour and. (Saw BOlls,

1H ii ye?.* Improved Steam Pump, Bro die's Im-
proved Crusher, Mining Pump**,
Amalgnmatorn, untl all kind*
of Machinery.

N. E. corner of Tehama and Fremont streets, above How
ard street, Ban Francisco. 3-qy

McAFEE, SPIERS & CO.,

AMD GENERAL MACHINISTS,

Howard Jt, between Fremont and Beale, San Francisco.

Flue or Tubular Boilers, wiih plain circular or spiral
courses. Upright Flue or-Tubular Boilers, Locomotive and
and .Marine Boilers, and Wrought Iron Tanks of every de-
scription,

aivitr.tnlfc Pipe supplied at reasonable rntes. In or
derlnp. Rive the (]Uiiiui!v of water to be stipp'ied, hlg'htof
the fall, and total length of pipe, so as to enable the firm to
determine the diameter of the pipe and thickness of iron to
be used.

Repairs.— Boilers, Smoke Stacks, Pipes, etc., putin re-
pair wlih promptness.

To Boiler Maker* n-ad Machinist* In the In-
terior.—Tne firm is prepared to furnish estimates of
Boilers, su ply new Heads, drilled and piiiielieci, and attend
to the selection and forwarding of Iron fur Boilers, Pipes
and other purposes.

Plan», Drawing* and Specification*.- The firm
Is prepared to make out Plans and Specifications, icceivc
estimates, and superintend the Erection of an}- Machinery
thai may be en I rusted to their care

To Inventors.— The firm is prepared to assist in de-
veloping the plans of those who have the ideas but not the
practical experience necessary to put the same in form, by
.nuking Drawings ol their Inventions, giving them the ben-
efit of their practical knowledge in the construction of Ma-
chinery, and attending to the manufacture and Introduc-
tion of their inventions. lvlBll

UMIOSJ IRON WORKS,
Sacramento.

WILLIAMS, BOOT & NEILSON,

MANUFACTURERS OF

<TEAM ENGINES, XSOIX^JEXtS,

CROSS' PATENT BOILER FEEDER AND SEDIMENT
COLLECTOR,

And all kinds of Mining Machinery.

Also, Hay and Wine Presses made and repaired
with neatness, durability and dispatch.

Uanbar's Patent Self-Adjn sting Steam Piston

PACKING, for new and old Cylinders, manufactured

to order.

Front Street, between N and O streets,

Hvll Sacrasento City

THOMPSON BROTHERS,
EUREKA OFOTnyrUfcY,

LIMIT AND HEAVY CASTINGS,

ol" every description, manufactured 24vl6qr

JAMES MACKEN,

COJPFEItSMIITiaL,

320 Fremont St., bet. Howard <fc Poison^

All kinds of COPPER WORK done to order in the best
manner. Particular attention paid to Steamboat, Sugai
House and Distillery work.

G-. T. PRACY.
VI ACH I NE WORKS,

NOS. 109 and 111 MISSION STREET,
Between Slain and Spear.

New and second-hand

Engines and Boilers,

FOR SALE.

Also one first-class Hoisting

Engine ; one IJnright

■Engine, oi entirely

new pattern.

MANUFACTURER OF

Eatlies, I>rills,

And MILL MACHINERY of
every description.

3? H A. C Y * B

New and Improved
STJEAM ENGINE

REGULATORS,

The best and cheapest yet In-
vented—manufactured and
for sale. Parties are in-
vited to examine it
inpmciical op-
eration.

F. A.. HUNTINGTON';^

Shingle Machines

Particular attention paid to
Repairing.

AS?- All work guaranteed to be done In a first-class man-
ter, and at the lowest rates. 12vl7ll

ron

THE KISDON

and Locomotiie Works.

Incorporated, April 30, 1SGS. Capital, 51/00,000.

Location of Works, Corner Bealc and Howard streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

BuccPPfiors fo Pacific Mail P. S. Co. Works at Briilcia, ^offey

&. Risdon, and Devoe, Dinsinore & Co., San Francisco.

Steam Engine Builders, Boiler Makers,

MACHINISTS AND FOUNDRVMEN.
All work in their line attended to with promptness and

dispatch.

Directors:

Chas.E. McLnnc,
John n. Risdon,
Joseph Moore.

S. F. Bntterworlh,
Lloyd TeVls,
.las. Pollock,
Ben. llolladay,

JOHN N. RTSDON. Prp.sldcnt.
Jnsenh Moore, Vice President and Su peri ntcn dent; Chos,
E. McLnne, Treasurer; Lewis R. Mead, Secretary; Lewis
Cufiey, Superintendent Boiler Works. 24vl7-qy

Pli(»nix Iron Works.

JONATHAN EITTEEDGE, Proprietor,

Nob, 18 and SO Fremont street, near Market,
San Franelsco.

MANUFACTURER OF

Fire-Proof Doors and Shutters,

Wrought Iron Girders, and all kinds of Housesiuith work.

Bridge, Prison

EOICGING AXJJ MACHINE WORK,

IMPROVED FIKE-PROOF SAFES,

EIRE AND BURGLAE-PK00F SAFES,

Of a superior make. Sole manufacturer of the celebrated

MONITOR SAFE.
BANK VAULTS AND SAFES,

Of every description, made to order at short notice. A
large stock of SAFES of all kinds constantly on hand.

Agency for the ISHAM KEY REGISTER HANK AND SAFE
LOCK, the only first class Lock in the
lv!7tf United States

NOBLE & FLEMING,
MACHINE WOKKS,

No. lO Stevenson street, near First,

SAM FRANCISCO.

Particular attention given to repairs on Portable and Sta-
tionary Engines; also all kinds of Wood Working
Machinery; Shaftings, Hangers, fullers, etc.
made to order; Screw Cutting, Iron
Planing*, and all kinds of JOB
W UKK prompt lyaUended to.
Agents for F. 8. Perkins* Engine loathes,
Planers, Upright Brills,
And all kinds ot MACHINISTS' TOOLS; also the Davis
Wood Planer and Mitre Dove-Tailing Machines.
flSyAlso, on hand for sale a complete set of Tools for
making Blacking Boxes, consisting ol Press, Dies, Shears,
and Crimping Machine, etc. 4vIS-qr

CITY IRON WOEKS COMPANY.

CLERC & CO.,
I IS, O N FOUNDERS,

41enm Engine Builders and Milker, of nil
kinds wf Slaehiuery,

6vllfyir No. 28 Fremont street, San Francisco.

STOCK CERTIFICATES,

STOCK TRANSFER JOURNALS,
STOCK LEDGERS,

ASSESSMENT RECEIPTS,

And all other Blanks, Blank Books, etc., required by Mfn
Ing and other Corporations, kept on hand or printed to
order on short notice, at moderate prices, at the office of
the Mining aud Scientific Press.

The Most Valuable Gold Mine in the
World.

The most valuable and extensive gold
mine in the world is that known as the
" Mono "Velho," in Brazil, which is worked
by an English company, known as "The
St. John de'El Kay Mining Company," an
association which was first formed in 1830,
for working the St. John d'El Eey Mine.
Operations were continued on this mine for
two years, when it was abandoned, and the
company bought and transferred their
works to the "Mono Velho," a mine lo-
cated about 90 miles north of the former,
and some 250 north of the city of Eio
Janeiro. Valuable details with regard to
this mine are given iD the late work pub-
lished by J. Arthur Phillips, entitled
"Mining and Metallurgy of Gold and Sil-
ver," from which we collate as follows:

The mine is located in the midst of an
extensive mining region, on the western
slope of a range of mountains closely re-
sembling in topography and geology, the
western slope of the Sierra Nevada of this
State.

At the time of the purchase of the prop-
erty it had been extensively worked by na-
tive proprietors for more than a centnry,
chiefly by open cuttings, and with varied re-
sults and reported profits; but a consider-
able outlay having been found necessary
to increase the resources of the mine, the
company worked at a loss during the first
four years of its possession. In 1839, the
returns exceeded the outlay; but the origi-
nal capital having been exhausted by the
losses incurred at the St. John d'El Bey
mines, and the purchase of the Mono Velho
property, it was found necessary to apply
the greater portion of the proceeds of the
gold extracted to the extension of plant,
and it was not until 1812 that the first divi-
dend was declared.

Prom that date, with the exception of an
interval of eighteen months on one occa-
sion and twelve months on another, during
which the working of the most productive
portion of the lode was interrupted by a
breakage of the pumping and other ma-
chinery, the company has regularly paid
dividends every s'x months.

The original paid up capital of 'the com-
pany was $642,000, since which time $540,-
000 has been laid out in machinery, etc.,
which with stores on hand valued at $200,-
000, and a reserved working fund of $360,-
000, makes the total working investment
of $1,742,000.

The total value of the precious metals ex-
tracted from this mine, up to 1847, was about
$15,000,000; tons of ore raised, 1,770,000:
total average yield $8.47 per ton. Every-
thing that comes from the mine is recorded
as ore, and weighed. It is all assorted,
however, and about 24 per cent, thrown
aside as second class, and worked sepa-
rately. From the above figures, it will be
seen that it costs $5.64 per ton to raise and
crush the ore, leaving a net profit of $2.83.
The bullion from this mine carries about
20 per cent, of silver. The profits of tbe
mine are steadily increasing, as is also the
yield of the ore, as is shown by the average
yearly yield per ton for the eighteen years
from 1848 to 1865 inclusive. Por the nine
years previous to 1857, theaverage yield was
3.98 oitavas per ton. for the next succeed-
ing nine years the average was 4.71 oitavas.
This improvement, however, is in a great
measure attributable to the improved mode
of treatment, which has been gradually in-
troduced into the milling processes.

The company has six mills in operation
for reducing its first class ore, running from
nine to thirty-six stamps each, and aggre-
gating in all 135. The average daily duty
of each stampis 2,666 pounds. The com-
pany employs 2,400 hands, about 130 of
whom are Europeans.

The sands of the first-class ore, after pass-
ing through the batteries, are conveyed to
a second series of mills where they are
mixed with the second class ore, and again ■
put through other mills, in which are em-
ployed 56 stamps.

The formation affording the gold is a
strong well defined lode, though irregular
in direction, dip and dimensions; its incli-
nation or underlie has also been found to
vary at different depths, and in different
parts of its extent. The vein stone is mostly

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219

composed of quartz with iron pyrites, dis-
seminated, more or teas regularly, through-
out its lunss, an J the lode is not un fre-
quently traversed by clay slate and barren
white quart/.. When pyrites aro absont in
these rocks, pold is seldom present. Ar-
scnsicnl, magnetic, and ordinary ron py-
rites predominate at different points, and
in varying quantities; carbonate of lime;
dolomite, brown spar, and, very rarely,
copper pyrites, are also present in the vein.

In some places the vein is cavernous, and
loss close in its texturo than in others; but
where drnsy cavities are frequent the yield
of gold diminishes. The most productive
matrix for gold is a compact mixture of
quartz and pyrites, with varying quantities
of slate. The average thickness at the pres-
ent depth, 176 fathoms perpendicular, is
10 feet The stoping place extends over
Hi? square fathoms. The enclosing rock
is a olay-slateox tolerably uniform texture.
The shafts, so called, for the whole of the
lode has been excavated from the surface,
are carried down at an inclination of about
45", and tho mineral is brought to the sur-
face by tram carriages of a peculiar con-
struction, carrying large kibbes, contain-
ing a ton each. The mineral brought to
the surface is first freed fromslato and other
unproductive stone on the spalling floors,
and the ore, after being broken to a uni-
form sizo, is stamped fine. The rejected
slate and quartz is removed by tramways
to another establishment, (the second series
of mills above mentioned) half a mile dis-
tant, and there employed to assist in the
further pulverization of the refuse sand
from the first stamping, which is re-
stamped.

Tho stamping mills, as is also the pump-
ing and other machinery, are moved by
water power. The pulverized ore issuing
from the stamp coffers, through finely-per-
forated copper grates, passes over bullock
skins, in the first instance, and lower down
the inclined tables, over woolen cloths.
The bullock skins are taken up and washed
in vats every hour, and the woolen cloths
at longer intervals. The concentrated sand
resulting from washing the bullock skins is
subsequently amalgamated in barrels.

Method or Mounting Drawings and
Maps. — Provide a large drawing-box or a
pine table, or the floor of an empty apart-
ment will answer — in fact, any flat wooden
surface that is larger than the drawing or
map you are about to back. Next you will
require a good paste, that will neither de-
cay nor become moldy; therefore, mix good
clean flour with cold water into a thick
paste well blended together, then add boil-
ing water, stirring well up until it is of a
consistency that can be easily and smoothly
spread with a brush; add to this a spoonful
or two of brown sugar, a little corrosive
sublimate, and about half a dozen drops of
oil of lavender, and you will have a paste
fit to fasten the teeth in a saw. Cut the
backing muslin, which should not be too
heavy, a size larger than the drawing or
map, wet it with fresh water, stretch it out
well, tacking the edges lightly round to the
board or floor, so as to keep it flat as pos-
sible; then while it is damp go over it
evenly with the paste, dabbing and rub-
bing it in well with the brush, but at the
same time not too thickly; next damp the
chart thoroughly with a sponge on the
back; when it looks dull, roll it up on a
clean mop-handle or round ruler, press the
outer edge firmly down on one end of the
pasted muslin, unroll the remainder evenly
along the muslin, smoothiug it down as you
go with a clean, soft, dry cloth; go care-
fully round the edges, pressing all down;
should any air bubbles get between, prick
them with a strong needle, and press the
spot down immediately ; let the whole be-
come gradually and thoroughly dry before
you remove it from the stretch; when it is,
cut the linen even with the edges, and have
them bound round with narrow crimson or
blue ribbon. With some large drawings or
maps, that are on extra strong paper, a
narrow strip of linen pasted round the
edges on the back will be sufficient. — Am.
Artisan.

In Chicago the copper and brass found-
ries number 25, doing a business of over
$6,0(J0,0U0 per annum. Twelve thousand
men are employed in this industry.

Rich Gold Fields, it is said, have been
discovered on the northern frontiers of
Norway and Eussia.

GEO. E. RO&ERS,

(Successor to G. W. Bell.)

A. S S A. Y E IS, ,

51)8 Cull for n In «( ., San Francisco.

J. A. MARS. Assayer.

Ores carefully Assayed. Gold and Silver Ores worked.

|£Jvl6-c.rlUpnr

Business Cards,

RODG-ERS, MEYER & CO.,

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

ADVANCES MAIM:
On ull bind* or Ore*, and particular attention

PAID TO

CO\8I6XMi:\TS OF GOODS.

«ivlG-3m

CARD PICTUKE8,

ONE DOLLAR PER DOZEN,

And Photographs, Amhrotypes and Sun Pearls, by first

class artists, at the lowest rales,

\i MII.VA'N. Ol Third Street,

Northwest corner of Mission. San Francisco.

Ilvl8 3ra

.SATIIAMKL GHAT.

II. U. QUAY.

N. GRAY & CO.,

&I1 Sacramento St., cor. Webb. San Franclnco.

Farmers and Mechanics
BANK OF SAVINGS,

No. »'J » Saiip.nni' Street.

Interest paid on Deposits. Monev Loaned on Real Estate.
II. DTJTTON, President.

GEO. M. CONDEE Cannier. ]Hrl6-3ni

J. J. JONES,

CARPENTER and BUILDER,

X... 324= Jackson street, between saasome and

Battery,

W. T. ATWOOD,

PURCHASER OF

COPPEE OSES, BARS, MATT, Etc., Etc,

SOS Monliromery ntrect, San Francisco.

Ice paid furor
and upwards.

The highest market price paid for ores assaying 10 per cent

Tivllqr

8. POLK.

a. mcHOLssr.

S. FOLK & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS OF

WADDING, BATTIXft, and COMFORTERS

441 and 4-13 Brannan St., Between Third and Fourth,
san francisco. 4vl8qr

W. C. CAMPBELL.

PATTERN AMI ilOIIII, MAKER,

Farms and City Property.

C. II. VAEILEE «fc I <>..
COl California street, S. W. Corner Kearny street, buy and
sell Farms and City Real Estate. Parties wishing to invest
will find It to their interest to call on tliem. 13vlfi-:im

Pump Leather.

: The attention of MINING COMPANIES, and others re-
quiring a superior article for Hydraulic purposes, is invited
to the heavy Oaked Tanned Pump Leather, manufactured
and prepared expressly by the undersicned.

5^TAcf?^v

t E. JONES &C9 ^

Constantly ou hand and lor sale by

GltAJX", JONES «dfc CO.,

Deuot of the Santa Cruz Tannery,
418 Battery St., San Francisco.

2ovl7-ly

REMOVAL.
TAY, BROOKS" & BACKUS,

HAVE REMOVED TO

East sicle of liattery street, IVos.
614, 616 and 61S,

Between Jackson and Pacific sts:,

One Block north of (he Custom House and
Port-Office.

Richmond Itan(re«; Bnratow Cook with Hot

Clone!; Improved Empire City; French

15ung;CM oT ii.ll Size*; Monitor

Wltn-t's Metnli*, Etc., Etc.

Iuvl8-lm

To White Pine Prospectors.

J. S. PHILLIPS TEACHES ASSAYING (OR TESTING
Silver Ores, by Blowpipe. Crucible, or Chemicals, at room
11, No. 423 Washington street. An Evening Class from 7
to 9 o'clock. 12vl8tf

Tub Mining and Scientific Prkss, which commenced
ts seventeenth volume on the 4th, comes to us wiih a new-
ly engraved head, ami presenting otherwise its usual taste-
iul appearance. We take this occasion to say that the
PitRssisone of the best papers of the kind in the United
States, and every miner and mechanic in the State, as well
as the business man, who would keep posted on our indus-
trial resources, should have its name un lis subscription
books. Ncoada Gazette.

Professional Cards.

J. S. PHILLIPS, M. E.,

CONSULTING ENGINEER,
Examiner of Mines etc.,

■42:* Washington street San Francisco.

(Having bad 33 years' experience In Europe and America.)
supplied drawings and designs far Pumping, Hoisting.
Crushing Separating, Boasting, ChlorlnJxing, Milling, Lix

iviaim-'. rnriHialiii.'. und Stuelnug W tirka Mineral* au-

tiKzi-ti, and advice irtven for beiiunala] treatment. Lea-

sniisuii Utu Discrimination sod Assay Of .Minerals bv Blow-
pipe, UheiuIcaU, Scortfler and Crucible. 4vl7lf

JOHN K0A0H, Optician,

Has removed from 522 Montgomery street to

sto Washington street,

East of Montgomery.

Surveying Instruments imvlc. repaired and adjusted

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DAVID R. SMITH,

Civil and. Mechanical Engineer,

Is prepared to furnish Plans, Models, Specldcailons and
full detail Drawings for Steamers and Sailing Vessels and
Machinery in general.

lUontsromery Block, I3vl7-3m

J. M. HAVEN,

iTTOKSEY AND COUNSELOR. AT LAW
No. 430 California street,

27vl6 SAN FRANCISCO.

JAME8S M. TAYLOR,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,

Court Block, 636 Clay Street

SAN FKANCISCO.
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The Oakland Daily Transcript.

A. BIT PAPER.

The Largest Circulation in the County,

Advertisements In tho Transcript will reach
every part ol* Alameda Connty.

RATES FOR ADVERTISING

VBBY r.O"vV.

PACIFIC

INSURANCE COMPANY

OP SAN FRANCISCO, CAL„

Office, No. 422 California street.

Cash Assets, Jan. 1, 1869,

FIRE,

3IARINE,

IS 1,599,710 19

INSURANCE.

Sin Francisco:
W. C. KaNton,
A L. Tubbs.
Win. Alvonl,
Jonathan Hunt,
A. B. Korbes,
A. (J. Stiles,
A. Seligman,
L. B. Hcnchley,
U'm. Sherman,
L. Snobs,

James De Fremery,
J. G. Rrny,
David Siern,

D. (). Mills,

I Fried lander,
Mows Heller.
II. M Sowliall,
G. T. La >v ton.
Miles D. Sweeny,
Ohas. Mnyne,

E. L. Gold-stein,
J. 0. B'trl,
Lloyd Tcvis,
Tho.". H.Sclby,
Adam Grant,
Alpheus Bull,
S. M. Wilson,
D.J. Oliver,

W. Scholle, !
Thos. Brown,
Chas. Main,
Chas. II. Outers,

DIRECTORS:

Oliver Eldrldge,
J B. Roberts.
J. C. Wilmerding.
P. L. Weaver,
Win. H oner,
J. .W. Clark,
a. navward.
T. I, Burlier,
Alexander Weill,
('has Mover,
Ch«a. E.McLane,
M. Rosciibdllm,
A.J. Ralston.

T. Leminen Meyer,
,1 T. Dean.

N*.w Yuhk:
Luiils McLane,
Frederick Billings,
Ji.uies Lees,
J G. Kellogg,
Wm. T. Coleman,
Moses Ellis.

Saohamknto:

Edgar Mills,
J. H. Carroll, -
c. t. Wheeler.

Mahysvii.i.k:
J. H.Jewett.

Portland, Oregon:
W S Ladd,
Jacob Kit mm.

Virginia, Nevada:
Wm. Sharon.
officers:
JON a. HUNT, President.

W. ALVOIiD, Vice President.
A. J. RALSTON, Secretary.
ANDREW BAIRD, Marine Secretary.
■IvlBlf H. H BIGELOW, Gen'l Agent.

Mining Secretary.

THE SUBSCRIBER, HAVING SERVED FOR THE LAST
Ave years as Secretary of various mining companies,
feels fully competent in serve In that capacity. Any par-
lies wishing to secure the services of a secretary can be
accommodated on reasonable terms. Information given,
and all necessary papers correctly made out.

Having had a long experience in the purchasing of gooes
and machinery tor miners, parties in the mines will hnd it
to their advantage, where purchasing agents are employed,
to send their order, to the ™a«™JS™VFFINUTOyt

Room R7 New Merchants' Exchange, California street

San Francisco

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Cha-nfflngrthe Adnreim.— No charge is made for chang-
ing the address of this paper. To give all necessary inform
ation, write us plainly as follows: "Change address of the-
Mininq and Srientific Frew from Mr. .. at .... P. O., ....

County, .... State, to Mr at. ...P. O County,....

State 186-."

y^ MEUSSDORFFER, ^
HAT MANUFACTURER.

And dealer In

Hats and Caps

AT WHOLESALE A>I» BETAIL.

635 nnd 037 Commercial street San Frnnrhco.

126J street Sacnuii.nl. i.

Corner of D and Second utrects Marvsvlllc.

Ti Front street Portland. Oregon.

Our wholesale House, 628 Commercial street, extending
through to 837 Clay street, San Francisco, contains always
a most choice, and tho largest, assortment in thlsSiatc.
Every Steamer brings tho latest Issued novelties from Eu.
rone and New York, which can bo found at all the above
stores, at moderate prices. 23vl6-Sm

THE GIANT

POWDEK COMPANY

Is now prepared to All all orders for

GIANT POWDER,

Put np In Boxen, cither In Bulk or In Car
trldgea.

General Agreiitss,

BANDMANN, NIELSEN & CO.,

25vl6-3m 210 Front street, San Francisco.

SAX FKANCISCO

Pioneer Screen Works,

JOHN W. QUICK, Manufacturer,

Removed to A. Pritxel's Iron Works. 2itt Fremont street,

near Howard, San Francisco.

Screen Punching In all its branches, at rntes reduced
from Zftto 4H per cent, less than the established rates. I can
furnish Improved Quart/, Screens several sizes finer than
any Screen over nunched, giving universal satisfaction,
and for strength, cheapness and durability arc not excel led.
Also, Punched Screens of all sizes and fineness m ado from
all finalities ot material, for Quartz. Cement, Flour and
Rice Mills, etc. Screen Punching made a specialty; there-
fore millmen forwarding their orders to me will receive
none but the best. Orders solicited.

ti- B —J. W. QUICK is the only competent and successful
manufacturer of Screens in the State, having made Screens
for the principal mills in this State and adjoining Terri-
tories for many years. Quartz mill owners using punched
Screens which have universally failed togive satisfaction,
when visiting the city will please call and see me. Cvl7-ly

California Steam Navigation

=^J COMPANY. sSMft

Steamer CAPITAL CAPT. E! A. POOLE

CHRYSOPOLIS CAPT. A. FOSTER.

YOSEMITE

" CORNELIA CAPT. W. BROMLEY

" JULIA CAPT. E. CONCKLIN.

Two of the above steamers leave BROADWAY WHARF
at 4 o'clock P. M. EVERY DAY (Sundays excepted), ono
for Sacramento and one lor Stockton, those for Sacra-
mento connecting with ligbl-drafl steamersfor Marysvillo
Colusa, Chico, and Red Bluff.

Office of the Company, northeast cornor of Front and
Jacksnn streets.

B. M. UABTSHOuVR,
13vI2 Prenlnent.

International Hotel,

BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AND KEARNY STS.,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE IS IN PERFECT
order for the accommodation of guests. Persons seek-
ing comfort and economy will find this the best Hotel in
the city to stop at. The Beds are new and in good order,
and the Rooms well ventilated. The Table will alwavs be
supplied with the best In the market.
Prices -varying: from #1 SO to $3 per day for

Bonrd nnd Room.

FINE BATH HOUSE AND BARBER SHOP ATTACHED

TO THE HOUSE.

USP* Teams belonging to the House will be in attendance
at all the boats and cars to convey passengers to the House
frkk of charge, and to any part of the city for 50 cents

■-!lvl2 F. E. WEYGANT, Proprietor.

Pacific Chemical Works.

sujLmirrRic etheb.

SPIRITS OF MTKE,
AQUA AMMONIA,
ACETIC ACID,

CYANIDE OF POTASSIUM
— ANn —
ACIDS AVI) CHEMICALS OF ALL KINDS.

FALKEISTAU & HANKS,

Office mid Laboratory, Sixteenth street, be-
tween Folmom nnd E 3 aribon.

tOUIS FALKENAU, State Assayer.

OEiy-Particular attention paid to tho Analysis of ORES,
MINERALS. METALS, etc. 8vl?

HINKLE'S

"IMPROVED SPRING-BED BOTTOM"

(Patented July 21st, 1888.

The undersigned, having purchased the Patentee's inter
est in the States and Territories of tho Pacific Coast. Is now
prepared to supply Private Houses, Hotels and Steamers
with this comtortable, economical and durable " IM-
PROVED SPRING BED BOTTOM."

Persons going to White Pine will greatly promote their
comfort by taking one of these Patent Bottoms, which la
secured to a folding Bedstead, the cost of which is less than
that of the materials at White Pine.

"Wareroom, No. 1002 Market Street.

P. BIT7DSOX, Proprietor.

flS-Call and examine. Open until 8 o'clock P. M.
GvlSqr

yaivoranle to Inventors.- Persons holding new In-
ventions of inachinerv and important Improvements, can
have the sam6 illustrated and explained in the Mining a«d
Scikntific Pkkss, free ot charge, if In our judgment the
discovery is one of real merit, and of sudlcient 'ntoreat >o
the public to warrant publication,

220

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Resources and Developments.

Profit of Sheep Baising. — E. J. Hard-
ing, of Marion County, says the "Willamet
(Oregon) Farmer, of March 15th, about
four years ago, purchased 300 head of ewes
for S400. Since then he has sold 100 weth-
ers in different small lots; has used mutton
largely in his own family; sold last sum-
mer to the amount of £500 from the flock;
has now sold §1,162.50 worth of sheep, and
has 200 head left. In addition to these sums
is the amounts, not given, which have been
realized from wool. Such results justify
Mr. Harding in saying that sheep had
proved the most profitable stock to him.

CAiTFOBNiA Fig Culture. — The culture
of the fig in California promises to become
one of the most lucrative branches of hor-
ticulture in the State. The Folsom Tele-
graph says in regard to the fig culture in
that vicinity, that Messrs. Humphrey &
Berry, of Folsom, are planting out an or-
chard of fig trees at Mormon Island. They
have already four hundred rooted trees in
the ground, and are rooting sis hundred
more. The trees were rooted by J. F.
Davol, in Folsom, the slips being from sev-
eral Smyrna fig trees growing in Davol's
garden, which produce a large, luscious
brown fig, nearly double the size of the
common black, and when cured and boxed,
superior to the ordinary fig of commerce.
The fig grows splendidly here in the foot-
hills, and already the young figs of this
variety are appearing ujion the trees.

Sot/thekn Eeoopebation. — According to
the Augusta Chronicle, the present cotton
crop of Georgia will yield from §30,000, 000
to §40,000,000 in gold. Mr. Fourney, who
is making a Southern tour, writes from
Baleigh : " The estimated value of the cot-
ton crop for the last year, including the
recent advance in price, is over §520,000,-
000, a fact which certainly dispels the idea
of prolonged poverty, and refutes the cruel
accusation that the f reedmen will not work.
North Carolina alone has raised nearly
§15,000,000. At this rate the South will
be richer in a few years than she has ever
been."

Labt) in the agricultural districts attracts
increased attention. Buyers are visiting
lots and ranches that are in the market, an<j
all the local land offices are full of business.
The stream to the southern counties con-
tinues, and is overflowing into Tulare Val-
ley. At the Yisalia Land Office there was
sold in March, over 240,000 acres. There
is plenty left, however, the bulk of the even
sections in the railroad grant for 150 miles
being untouched. In San Francisco and
Sacramento, real estate is brisk; at Marys-
ville there is a " fever " still prevailing. At
the Olympia Land Office, W. T., there were
sold for cash, in January, 6,745 acres, in
February, 9,729 acres, about half being for
speculative purposes. Beal estate in all
the towns on Puget Sound has appreciated
one half within a year. A buyer from Illi-
nois informs us that land of equal quality
and market facilities in that State, can be
bought fifty percent, cheaper than in Cal-
ifornia,

Besottbces of Beno. — A correspondent
of the Beno Crescent, says that a large field
for the employment of capital exists in and
about the new town of Beno. Messrs.
Fogus & Howell, will have their flour mill
in operation in a short time, to be driven
by water from the Truckee, along whose
banks, within the distance of a few miles
one hundred mill sites might be found.
The correspondent thinks metallurgical
works should be put up there for working
the richer or more stubborn ores of Nevada,
which might be readily transported to that
place from points along the line of the Pa-
cific Bailroad. Various kinds of manufac-
turing operations might be profitably es-
tablished there. An iron foundry and
machine shop will soon be needed, etc. , etc.
The correspondent adds that a bright future
is in store for Beno, the natural advantages
of which are greater than those of any other
place along the line of the railroad from the
summit of the Sierras to Salt Lake.

Pacific Protective Association of California.

IXCOEPOEATED OCTOBER, 18C8.

PROSPECTUS.

Object — The obiect of this Association i-sto secure a cash payment, within sixty days arTor the death of a subscriber,
to his or Her heirs or assigns of as many dollars as there are individuals of the class lowhich taid deceased subscriber
■belonged.

Mkmbf.rphip. — Tbe subscription fees are Ten Dollars £t joining, and One Dollar on the death of each subscriber.
The One Dollar from each ?uh.-criber is paid to ihe heirs or assigns of the dec-eased.

TnE Fokds.— The By-Laws of the Association require that a ponion of the money received as subscription fees
shall be a Sinking Fund to meet assessments falling due by ihe delinquencies of subscribers. The balance of the
money received 10 be u>ed for the payment of the expenses incurred by 'he Associaiioii-

JIkmbkrs. — A subscriber tailing to yay his or her assessment nl one dollar within Thirty days from receipt of no-
tice forieits his or her Certificaie, ard all claims upon theAssocialion, unless good cause is "shown for further delay.
A subscriber call forward money in advance, which amount will be credited on fuiure assessments. The subscribers are
divided into classes including males nnd females Each class is limited to 5,000 subscribers. As classes are tilled,
new ones will be formed. 1V0 person is so , oor that he cannot pay Ten Hollars at joining and One Dollar occa-
sionally, thus securing S5,L'00 to his or her heirs or assigns.

Advantages.— The advantages of this Association are, that no money panic can affect it. Its benefits are easily
obtainable by all, and every subscriber added to ihe Association enhances the interest and protection of all; the
amount paid being so small, and only at long intervals, that any person can secure tor his family a competency upon
his death.

Classes. — In Class A, all persons between the ages of 15 and 40 years; in Class B, all persons between the ages of 40
and 6u years.

Any one that has not stated his or her age correctly, will forfeit all money paid and his or her Certificate.

One class cannot be assessed if one of another class dies. Classes: have no conm ciion with each other.

How to Becomk a Member.— A person desirous ot becoming a subscriber must nil out an application, and forward
with it Ten Dollars hy Check, Draft, or by Express, in gold ur silver coin. Persons can pay agents, when retrularly ap-
pointed and authorized to receive money. Each subscriber should in;ercst himself in obtaining new members, bv so
doing all are benefited.

Board of Directors.— Benjamin H. Freeman, George H. Russell, Samuel A. Raymond, James A. Pritchard, W. Le-
Roy.

Officers — Bcriamin H Freeman, President; George H. Russell, Vice President; John H. Warren, Secretary;
James A, Pritchard, Treasurer.

References. — Don. Henry Dutton, President of Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank; Hon. Samuel Cowles, late Judge
County Court, San Francisco; Hon A.J, Gunnison, Atiorncy at Law, San Francisco; H J. Booth, Esq , Union Don
Works, San Francisco; Henry F. Williams, Esq., Real Estate, San Francisco; John O. Hanscom, Esq , /Etna Iron Works,
San Franciseo; John H. O'Brien, E-q., ot O'Brien, Bush & Co., San Francisco; Hon. J. P. Jones, Gold Hill, Nevada,

All commumcatious should be addressed to the Secretary of the

P&.CIFIC PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION,

S. E. COR. OF MONTGOMERY AND SACRAMENTO STREETS, (Over Donohoe & Kelly's Bank,) SAN FRANCISCO.

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To Quartz Miners.

Having a new system of Amalgamation, styled tho

PAUL & WOOD ELECTRIC PROCESS,

And which has been so fullv tested as to be worthy of your
consideration, I now invite it, relying only on the precious
metals produced, cheapness and simplicity of machinery,
to gain favor for it.

Parties having mines containing a high percentage of
gold and silver, but which cannot be obtained, on account
of fineness, or rebellious character of the ore, wil'. do well
to Investigate. Attention given to communications.
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entific journal has entered upon its eighteenth volume.

To the scientific, mechanic, and practical men of all
classes it is almost invaluable; and we are glad to learn
that it is increasing in patronage every day.

The publishers, Dewey Hz Co., San Francisco, say the
present volume shall be superior in aU respects to its
predecessors.

The terms are ?5 in advance, $3 for sis months. — San
Bernardino Guardian, Mardt 6(/i.

Bromide Tunnel Company,

White f»iiie, Nevada.

NOTICE.

The above Company having been incorporated under the
laws of the St ite of California, has opened a Subscription
Booh for subscribers to its Capital Stock, at

Xo, IO Steven*on ISulltling, San Francisco,

Where full particulars relative to the working of the Com-
pany's property can be ascertained. 13vl8-lra

SSUVSOER, COMET

Mining, Mill and Tunneling

COMPANY,
"Wlxite Pine X>istriet,

NEVADA.

This Company's claim adjoins the celebrated Virginia
Mine, on TREASURE HILL.

From its otitcroppings and the richness of the Virginia
and other mines which ha e been opened in the immediate
vicinity, the prospective value of this mine is not exceeded
by anyiu the District. With a view to the immediate and
vigorous prosecution of work in opening this mine, the
Board of Trustees propose to sell a limited number of tin
reserved UNASSESSABLE Shares of Capital Stock, at the
nominal price of £2 50 per share, the entire proceeds oi
which will be devoted to developing the mine.

Only 1,000 Shares will be sold at the above named
price, and a portion of that number has already been en
gaged.

In Issuing Stock the subscribers will take precedence in
the order of their names.

The Books of i he Company are now open for subscription
rttthe Secretary's office -417 Kearny streei. By order.

12vlS-lt IRA G. HOYT, riecretary.

A liheral discount to the Trade. For sale by the Booksellers

Scnttoani partnl the United States, postage paid,

on receipt of ihe price. Address,

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KEW Y0EE, JAPAN AND CHINA.

LEAVE WfclAftF, CORNER OF FIRST AND

Eranuan slrceis, at 11 o'clock A. M. of the

following dates, for PANAMA, connecting via Panama Raf l-
road, with one of the Company's splendid steamers from
ASPINWALL for NEW YORK.
On the lOth, l?th and SOtb. of each month that has

30 days.

On the lOth, 18th and 30th of each month that has

31 days.

Wiienthe 10Lh,lSth and 30tti fall on Sunday, they will
leave on Sa'urdaj preceding; when the 17th falls eh Sun-
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Steamer leaving San Francisco on the lOth touches at
Manzanillo. All touch at Acapulco.

Departure of the 17th or Ifitb is expected to connect with
the trench iTrans-Atlantic Co.'s steamer for St.Naziire
and English steamer for South America. Through tickets
can be obtained.

['be following Steamships will bedispatched on dates sb
jiven below :

April 10th- CONSTITUTION Capt Wm. H.Hudson,

ConnectinL' with ALA6KA, C.npt Gray.
April 17th-GOLDEN CITY Capi. Wm. F. Larddge.

Connecting with HENRY CHAlTNCEY,Cai>t. Connor.

April 3Uth— MONTANA. Capt E. S. FArnsworth,

Connecting with ARIZONA, Capt Maury.

Passengers berthed through. Baggage checkco through.
One huudred pounds allowed each adult.

An experienced Surgeon on board. Medicine and attend-
ance free.

These steamers will positively sail at 11 o'clock. PasseL
ners are requested to have their baggage on board before Hi
o'clock.

Through Tickets to Liverpool by the "Inman " and " Na-
tional " Steamship Lines, can be obtained at the office of
the P. M. S. S. Co., San Francisco, where may also bo ob-
tained orders for passage from Liverpool or Southampton
toSan Francisco, either via New York or St. Thomas— il
desired an amount of £10 io £20 will be advanced with the
above orders. Holders of ordero will be required to iden-
tify themselves to the Agents in England.

For Merchandise and Freipht to New York and Way
Ports. Company's Form of Kill Lading only used.

No Freight will be received on board after 2 P. M. of the
day prior to ihe steamer's denarturc.

The Steamship GREAT REPUBLIC, Capt. J. M. Oavarly,
will be dispatched for HONG-KONUon MO> l' AY, April 5th,
1S39, at noon, connecting at YoKOUAM V with the
steamer NEW i'uRK, for SHANGHAI.

For passage, freight and all other information, apply at
the Pacific Mail Steamship Go's office, corner of Sacra-
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Our friends and patrons will bear in mind that
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U. S. and Foreign Patent Agency rooms being
suitably arranged with our Mining and Scien-
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Wholesale and Retail!

SUPEKIOKGCODS! IEEDCCEB KATES!

C. C. HASTINGS & CO.,

SUCCESSORS TO
II n or. ton, Hastings «fc Co.,

SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK,

Announce to the friends of the old firm, and the public at t

large, that their present business arrangements arc sued I

that they are enabled io offer the bc*t and most stylish '
goods on the Pacific Coast at a great reduction from former

prices.

A. T. DEWEY.

W. B. EWER.

AT WHOLESALE.

The attention of the merchants throughout the Pacific i
Coast, is called to the fact that we arc now prepared to HI!
their orders for superior poods in

Strictly Custom-Made Clothing,
Snits, Gloves, Hosiery, and

Furnishing Goods, Trunk*.

Traveling Sues and Taliiei, <

In lots to suit at regular wholesale rates.

CLOTHING TO ORDER,

Made either in New York or San Francisco, under the su- i
pervislon of the best cutters m America.

BIKECTIONS FOB MEASUREMENT

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C. C. HASTINGS & CO.,

Successors to

HEUSTON, HASTINGS & CO.,

The Fashionable Clothiers.

New York, and San Francisco.
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XJNIDI^V FLEA JDItTJG!

A California Discovery.

This is a simple but very efficient FLEA POWDER.

It is Death to Fleas and Vermin, hut not Into-
rions to persons.

TRY IT! TRY IT!! TRY IT!!!

After a thorough test you will use none other.

PUT UP IN BOXES ONLY. FOUR SIZES.

It is the best and cheapest article of the kind ever uflercd

lo the public.

Directions for TJ*e,— Sprinkle your bedding and

clothes, and add a little in your washing.

For sale, wholesale and retail, "by Druggists.

jOfFor further information, address

Prof. C. E. JAYCOX,
Care of Langley & Crowell, Druggists,
8vl8-Sm Sun Frnnclsco.

Offices to Let.

Two convenient front rooms (No. 9 and 10) in second story
of No. 423 Washington street, to let on favorable terms
Apply at this office, up stairs. No. 414 Clay street.

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

221

White Pine Mining Companies.

The routine, iu Nevada mining, is atonee
to form a Company, including of necessity
some responsible names, and to incorporate
the samej at so many shares and a good
round capital, with many noughts repre-
senting the tens, hundreds and thousands
that are to bo brought to ^daylight from
earth's slimy and ignoblo crevices, to re-
ward those who, on faith duly lonnded, pay
out small amounts of cash for stock.
Whilo this wealth is but theoretical, and
these shining millions are absolutely all
yet unborn, in point of fact, notwithstand-
ing our numerous Eberhardts, it cannot bo
denied that the machinery of forming com-
panies, and of incorporating, is au aid to
the development of new and unproved
mines. It is unreasonable therefore to con-
demn a company merely because it has but
little to show of results, or to draw a pen
ruthlessly through i these figures in any
given case; — for the latter, to our way of ex-
plaining it, must be taken as a poetical
expression of a profound seuse of nature's
underground wealth, and figurative acknowl-
edgement of God's munificence in deposit-
ing the same under our very feet, where we
may get it. We extract the following from
the Bulletin:

The first companies were incorporated in
December last, when 11 filed their certifi-
cates. In January this number was more
than doubled, 20 companies having been
incorporated in that month. February
showed an increase of 100 per cent, over
January, 52 certificates having been filed.
The number of incorporations thus far for
March is 80, or nearly as many as were in-
corporated in the three previous months.
The total number to date is 109, represent-
ing a paper capital of 8246,884,000, divided
into 2,330,061 shares. The Consolidated
Eberhardt and the Eberhardt Mill and
Mining Companies have the largest cap-
itals,'namely, 810,000,000 and '812,000,000
respectively. The complete list of White
Pine mining incorporations organized in
this city to date, so far as we have been
able to perfect it, is as follows :

tfame. f Incorporated *

Slu.tr at.

Capital.

Au'nrn Consolidated uec. li.

16, tMO

Sl.t'-OO.OOO

Appleton M. SI. .IcTuii. Co Feb. 18.

4U.01II)

4 000,000

Ascendant. Feb. 19.

1,300,000

Accidental. March 6.

4,'!U0

400 000

Astur. March 9.

10 0 JO

1,000.000

Arilvle Tunnoland M. March 15.

14,400

1,440,001)

Albcnnarle. March 21

12,010

1,200.000

Alexander. March 23.

2o,000

1,000,000

Alhamora. Mirch2J.

1.200,000

Belcher Dec 2

1,000,000

Bfomttrck. Jan. 19.

200,1 ILO

Brodt. Jim 29.

600,01 0

Banner Sla e. Fob. 13.

in 000

1,000,000

Bowden. Feb. 26.

iO.iiUO

1,000,000

Bromide Tunnel. Feb. 27.

3,000.000

B'ue Rose, Feb. 27.

1 liniiu

80.1,0. i0

Badger. Feb. 27

1.0), 00

Bromide Flat. M irch 1.

50.UO0

5,1 0 J 000

BUCK Hawk. Mirch3.

.'..10!)

500.000

Beale Street. March:*.

fi.OUU

1.500,000

Benjamin Franklin. March 5.

12,000

1,200, >'0U

ghick Diamond March ti

•1,000

400.000

Blue Kan «- March 16.

O.ot-i)

000,000

. Hlifornia .Vhite P:no. Dec. 17

15,01.10

1.500,000

Consolidated Chloride Plat Uec. 23.

SO.UoO

6,0u.j,i)uj

Chloride Flat Ai Aurora Tun. Dec. 20.

10,00.1

1,000,000

Continental Dee. 2<i

li t,000

5,000,000

Oavuiia Chief. Jan. 27.

12,000

1, 200.1 00

California. Jan. 29.

15.0U0

1,500,1)00

Chloride Mountain ft Tunnel. Feb 1.

5.0SN)

500,000

Cinderella Gold and .Silver. Feb. S.

4.80J

480,000

Chi.iridc Flat Lode iind Tun. Feb. 17.

lii.iKrrt

1,000, 00

Cro^n Lode ami runnel.

10,000

I.OjO, CO

Clill" Lode, and Tunnel. Feb. 18.

10,000

1,000,000

Curie*. Feb. 22.

21,000

2,10o,000

Canltal. March 2.

6,000

Chloride Range Cons, k Tun. March 5

S'.OOO

5,000,000

Clilciig) Miuin,'. Maienif,

2u,UJl

2,000,000

Carri gton. March 14.

12,000

1,200,000

Charles Sumner. March lfi.

0,000

Consolidated Eberhardt Doc 1.

10,1)00

10,0)10,000

Douglass. Jan. 11

,200

32 >,W)J

Diamond Silver Jan. 15.

14,400

1,400,000

Dolomite Consolidated. Jan. 21.

5.1 ttHJ

Diuero. Feb. 10.

7,500

750,000

Dundee. Feb. It?.

10,000

1,000,000

D intel Webster. Feb. 24.

12,000

Day star. March 4.

Ib.UOO

1,600,000

Dive Williamson T. A M. March 22.

8,000

800,000

Dora and Clinuncey Con-*. March 9.

12, 00

Eclipse Chloride. Flat. Feb 3.

50,000

6,000,OOU

K latern Slope Tun. and Miu'g. Fob. 7.

10,01 10

1,000,000

Etna. ib. 18,

lJllsu.OOd

Edith. FeD. 18.

1U.0-JO

1,000,'WO

Jv-Ilesmnft tfrovrii. March 5.

IIJ.OOO

l.OOo.OOO

Eberhardt M.ll and Mining. March 6.

120,1100

12,0011,000

Estelle No. 2. March 23.

12,00iJ

1,200.000

Eurvk-t. March 25.

K00O

1 ooo.uou

Empire. March 14.

8,000

800,000

Five-Forty. Feb. 25.

12,1)00

1,200,000

Feaihei'fitoiie. Jan. Id

14.U0O

l,4'io,0u0

Klorencu Mining A funnel. March 2l.

10,000

1.000,00 J

Georgia. March 3.

14,400

1,440,00.1

Gfnnania Consolidated. March 18.

20,000

l,u0U,000

Grant luvlneilde. March 21.

8,000

800,000

Great Republic. March 25.

10,0,(0

1,000,000

Golconda. Jan. 25

8,001

Great Union M. ft T. March 11.

C0,t!00

6,000,000

Hidden Treasure Cons. March 21.

.12,000

Hornet. March 26.

1' ,0 10

1,00 ,000

Hearst .Mining. March 8.

3D,. 00

a,o,io,ooo

H ilcombe. Jun. 2j.

8.li0J

800,000

I la. Jan. 23.

3,200

320,000

Jon. Feb. 13.

14, 00

1,100,000

Independence Cons. March 18.

20,' W)

2,ti0u,000

Imperial. March 25.

1i*,i).j0

1,0 0,000

Kewance. Feb. 16.

8,000

400,' 100

Knox Tunnel and Mining. Feb. 2.

4.000

4J.i,oO0

Lutitia and Poole Cotid. teb. 17.

H.iJilO

1,400,000

Little Kiver. Feb. 27.

5,1100

L mi. una. Feb. 27.

2(',0l)0

2,0 0,000

L.i Belle. March 21.

2J.r.O0

Lucky Ledge-. March 18.

20,0e0

1,000,000

Latowana. March 18.

Lexington Mill and Mining. Jan. 29.

16,000

1,600.000

Mouto Crlsto. Dec. 4.

14,000

1,400,000

.V.i

Zhc

Hlld "i Sara^-isia Dec. il.

Monroe Jan. ll.

Moirrpolltan M. A M. Jan. 17.

Mantonoinah. leb. 5.

Uocenu. Feb. a

Marlon. ITeb. ».

Muonmoib. Feb. 16.

Main Street, March 3.

M.iv Wen (worth. March 18.

Mount Morlah. March 21.

Mazt-ppa. March 0.

MockiiK Blru. March 5.

Noonday. Jan 2t,

New Rra Gold -ml Silver. March 8.

North Star. March 16.

Nantucket. March 17.

North America. March 14.

Original Hidden Treasure. Feb. 2.

Omens, P« i>. 1.'.

Obispo, March I.

Original champion m. ft t. March 6.

Oakland North. March 14.
Opal Silver. March 14.
Pociitlo. Dec. 21.
rV-ck, Jan. 25.
Palmer. Jan. 28

Poll Shorldan. Feb. 4.

1'ogonlp Flat Consul. Feb 5,
IVntmlvm la Tun. A Mm'g. Feb. 13.
Pacific Coniolldaiud. Feb. 20.

PilOBlliS. Feb. 27.

rioche Shalt. March 5.

Pick und Shovel, March II.

P.unilcn. March 14.

Philadelphia Brewery. March 15.

Pilot. March 15.

P, ide Of Ihe w est. March 25.

Raven. Feb. 10.

lied Jacket. March 12.

Bathbun. March 4.

EtU88ta. March 2'.'.

Scott. Jan. 15.

South Virginia Jan, 22

S. Francisco and White Pine, Jan. 29.

Silver Cord. Feb. 1

ri. F and Treasure City. Feb. 1.

South Aurora, Feb 3.

Silver Terrace. Feb. 25.

Ball Point. Feb. 20.

Silver Comet M.. M. & T. March 2.

Stuart Street. March 3.

Silver Moon. Feb. 27.

Summit. March 6.

Silver Eagle. March 9.

Silver Star Coins. March 11.

Snow Flake. March 11.

South Eberhardt T. .t M. March 15.

Silverware. March 2.1.

Silver Key Boring A Mining. March 21

S.micrville Silver Ledye. March 24.

Silver Crown. March 26.

Silver Star. March 25.

Silver Mint. March 20.

Troy Ledge. Jan. 12.

Tee»e. Jan. 25.

Treasure Trove Oousol. Jan. 27.

Ilticaca. Feb. lfi.

Tabasaca. Feh. 18,

Treasure Hill Consolidated. Feb. 24.

Treasure Hill Tunnel. Feb. 25.

The Brothers. Feb. 27.

Tidal Wave. Marcli 3.

Treasure Box. March 8.

Treasure Peak Cons. March 22.

Virginia. Die. 1.

Virginia No^ 2. Jan. 19.

White Pine Smelting. Jan. 19.

White Pine Mutual Mill. Jan. 19.

Wells. Feb. 5

Will una 11 lie. Feb. 24.

White Pine Associates. March 8.

Washington. March 14.

West Eberhardt T. A M. March 15.

in

0,000
uo

10,. o-i
4,300

II. 0)

10.400

Rtf.U 0
f.OOJ

10,00,1

I ,"00
11,003
2.1.000
IO.h.nj
2O.0O)
12,000
12.11X1
16,' 00

H.000

7,200
15,0(0

6.000

1 .IX)J
4,00(1
1.000

le.l^O
12,00
10,1100

2 ,000
16,000
1 1 i.O 0
lt.,o(.0
12,000
18 000
1'4,"00
l:i,000

8,iiu0
10 000
10.000
•H.O.-0
2.10

5,0o0
10,000
8,000
S.OiiO
5.J00
11 I 00
14,4)0
2. ,0.,0
0,000
1,10)

10,01 K)

10,000

10,000

1 ,000

',000
5,250

lU.IMH)
7,500

r.o.'-OJ

20,:HH.>
5,000
1 ',000
20..I00
11,000

io,ao

8,U00
5 000
10,000
10,000
4,000

Chptlal,
X.OCU.OU0

l,00O,iW0
l.nm.two

I-'

l.OKMOl

1, ooi.o. iu

■ ■

1, 500,1 W

i,t»io,ono

300,000

Hto.odi

1,400,000
2,000,000
1.1H> 1,000
1, '100 000

12

■,ll -I

1, 310.1,00

l.cOO.UO

800,000

72.1,000

3,5 0,000

6 0,00"

l.OO'.noO

SO0.0JO

IUO,IWO

4 HI iiO

l.OJU.OlO

1,200,0.10

l.HOi.lXAl

2,.4K(,i.0O

B00,000

1 ,1100,000

1 ,600,0110

1,200.. 0 1

l.SOo.iOO
2.40 1,00 J
l.Ofti.O.O
K.lo.0. 0
1,010,000
l.'iOO.uOtl
4.4iA',00O
lS.'OO

1 00 .000

WO.Ot'O

1.2iHJ,ot:0
1000. 000
2,100,000
l.OOO.OHO
1.000,'jOO

1,61111,11,11

1,500,000

800,000

80.1,000

81H.000

52O.0U0

1,100,000

1,440 00

2,lMiO.I)00

600,000

Mo.uOj

1.0.10,000

l.OiiU.tJOu

5.-5.000
l,2i)0,00li

750,. 00
5,000,000
2,1)00,01:0
1,500,000
1,200,000
2,1 00,1 i0-'

720,000
1,000,000

800.0,0
50,000
1,000,000
1.000,100
1,000,000
11,000
2,51r 1,000
l,20i,000

Totals

2,3.10,061 £246,884,000

"The names or the Trustees of these Companies can be
ascertained from the flies or the Mining and Scikktific
Pukss. December 1, 1308, is the date ol" the first incorpora-
tion.

New Inventions.

Barlow's "Inside Boii/er." — Mr. E. T.
Barlow, of No. 116 Third street, has in-
vented and patented through this office, a
device which housewives will appreciate,
and which he calls an "inside boiler;" the
object being to liberate vegetables or meats
which have been boiled, from the water
used, without the necessity of picking out
the material piecemeal, or straining after-
wards. It is nothing more than a perfor-
ated tin pail, which tits into the inside of
the boiler or pot. "When lifted out with
the matter cooked, the water or soup re-
mains in the pot. A curious fact in con-
nection with its use is that the pot is not so
liable to boil over as ordinarily.

A Magnetic Motob. — The Oakland
News speaks of an invention in that place
•whereby a clock is kept in regular motion
by means of stationary magnets. The in-
ventor is about to apply for a patent for
the same.

Improved Ball and Socket Joint. — The
Nevada Transcript speaks favorably of the
operation of an improved ball and socket
joint, for hydraulic hose-pipe, in use at Sar-
gent & Jacobs' mine, at Quaker Hill, where
there are two of them at work. We pre-
sume it consists of a device similar to that
in use at the San Francisco Water Co's
works, near this city, and also to one in-
vented by Messrs. Craig & Sons, heretofore
noticed in these columns. The successful
introduction of such an invention as this
must prove of much importance in hy-
draulic mining.

Deill Sharpener. — The Sonora Demo-
crat has seen a model of what that paper
calls a " Buck," designed to save labor in
sharpening drills. It consists of an in-
clined cast-iron plane attached to an anvil
block filled with notches in which one end
of the drill rests, while the other lays in a
notch made in the anvil, thus doing away
with the necessity of holding a drill in the
hand while sharpening it. In sharpening
long drills, it will do away with one man's
work entirely. Mr. Hamill, the inventor,
has taken the necessary measures to pro-
cure a patent.

To Mining? Secretaries.

THE NEW COMBINED

Stock Ledger and Journal,

The moat simplified form that has ever yet been offered to
the public, is now ready, lor Falc. This one book la a com
pletc abbreviation of the old Ledger, Journnl and Transfer
liutik, mid therefore taken the place of the three.

Stock Incorporations

Nov organizing a -e invited to examine this Book before
buying the old otyle.

<J09IX G. nODGE <fc CO.,

Importers and Wholesale Stationers,
337, :i'i'.i and :i^l Sansoine street, cor. Sacramento.

Star Creek Mini ntr Company.-Locatloat Star
Dislriet, Humboldt County, State of Nevada.
Notick.— There are delinquent upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment {»o. 1) levied on
the twenty-sislh day of February, 1869, the several amounts
set opposite the names of the respective shareholders, as
follows:

Names. No. Certificate

Rnhb, L II unssued li

Rate*, A R, Att'y.. . .unissued 10

DavN, Erwln unissued 2

Davtsson. B S, All'y.iuiisMO'd 9

Ffliilkm-r, George u»is>ued 12

Lem, Win M unissued 1

Livingston, Iaa/o unissued 8

Yfinliirn, Chjirjcs... .unissued 7

Morrison. S A unissued 5

Phcla'i, James unissued 11

And In accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the twenty-sixth day of February, 1SC9,
no many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be nec-
essary, will bo sold at public auction, by J. Middleton &
Son, 310 -Montgomery street, San Francisco, on Monday, the
nineteenth day of April, 18G9, at the hour of 12o'clock M.
of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment thereon,
together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale.
HORACE MORRISON, Secretary,
Office, N. E. por. Front and Jackson streets. ap3

. Shares.

Amount.

20

$<ooc

143

2(4 5l

776

11 W Otl

•2HQ

300 0C

1000

isoo or.

530

795 Of.

108

162 01

100

160 00

100

150 OC

72

108 00

New Mining Advertisements.

Window GlassBloweks command about
the highest wages paid for labor. Some
workmen in the Atlantic States receive as
high as from $10 to $15 per day.

Mount Teuabo Silver Mining Company.-Lo-

cation of Works : Cortez District, Lander County, State

of Nevada.

.Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account ol assessment levied on the
twenty-third day of January, 1869, the several amounts set
opposite the names of the respective share holders, as fol-
lows :

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

Baum, Charles i2 20 $15 00

Baum, Charles 63 50 37 50

Borel, FA 79 200 150 00

Rorel, FA 81 100 75 00

Borel. FA 8.1 (0 37 50

Borel, FA 84 flu 37 50

Borel, FA 122 207 155 25

Durst tig, Cruirlcs 65 jtju "jt, oo

Uorilon, John 18 75 56 25

Gallagher, James 50 1U0 75 00

Hardy, Thomas 21 800 225 00

Lehinann, Chr 24 5 3 75

Leavitt, John 25 250 187 51)

Murdock, C A 105 liQ 75 00

Murdock, (1 A I0t» 150 112 5il

Murdock,CA 120 b9 29 25

Probst, Ernst -137 3 2 25

Vandervoort, J C 28 50 37 50

Wentzell, Justus 133 2 1 50

Wilson, E 96 50 37 50

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board of
Trustees, made on the twenty-third day of January, 18G9,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may he
necessary, will be sold at public auction, at the Falcs-
room of Maurice Dore & Co., auctioneers. No. 327 Mont-
gomery street,- San Francisco, California, on the twenty-
seventh day of April, 1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock M. of
said day, to pay said delinquent assessment thereon, to-
gether with costs of advertising and expenses of sale.

R. N VAN BRUNT, Secretary.

Office 426 Montgomery street, San Francisco. ap.1

Mining Notices— Continued.

Cordillen-n. Gold and Sliver AXIniue Company.—

Morelos District, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the sixteenth day of
March, 1S69, an assessment of one dollar ($Ij per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, paya-
ble immediately, in United States gold and silver coin,
to the Secretary, at the otllce of the Company, 321 Washing-
ion street, San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain tin
paid on the twentieth (20th) dnv of April, I8C9, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised tor sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall be made before,
will be sold on Monday, the tenth day of Mav, 1869,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of
advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of
Trustees.

HENRY R. REED, Secretary.

Office, 321 Washington sheet, San Francisco. maraO

Lyon Mill sind Mining Company, K>Uc.v Ulu-

trict, El D-rado County, California.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the sixth day of
March, 18139, an assessment of one dollar per share was
levied upon the capital stoek of said Company, payable
immediately, in United States gold and silver coin, to
the Secretary.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
rmid on the sixth (0'hj day of April, 1869. shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall be made before,
will be sold on Monday, the tweniy-sixth day of April, 1869
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale. By order or the Board ol
Trustees.

J. M. BUFFINGTON. Secretary.

Office. Room 37, New Merchants' Exchange, Cnllforn

street, San Francisco.

mar 13

Pacific Coal Mining Company. Contra Co«ta

County, California.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the twentieth day of
March, 1869, an assessment of four dollars per share was
levied upon the capital stoek of said Company, payable
immediately, in United States gold and. silver coin, to the
Secretary.

Any stuck upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the twenty-seventh day of April, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent, ami will be duly advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless payment shall be made be-
fore, will be sold on Monday, the seventeenth day of May,
IStiO. to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs
of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board
of Trustees.

S. LACHMAN, Secretary.

Office, southeast corner Market and First streets, San
Francisco. mar27

I. X. I.. Gold and Sliver Mining Company. —

Location of Mine : Silver Mountain District, Alpine

County, California.

Notick.— There arc delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the nine-
teenth day of January, 18C9, the several amounts set oppo-
site the names of the respective shareholders as follows:
Names. No. Certificate. No. shares. Amount.

John A Johnson 28$

J S Adams 23

J s Adama fns

J S S Robinson SJ2

Marv C Bridges SCO

Catherine Jones 144

Catherine Jones 155

Catherine Jones 238

TRClark -J75

T It Clark W6

E M Lrrng 3M

C Goodell 248

C (loodell 312

Win Davidson 340

Wm Davidson 74

Ann Hogan 176

Charles Fisk 150

W J Thomas . .371

Daniel II Dickinson 29 1

Daniel II Dickinson -359

I, E Wahlhurg.. 277

Henry Jardine 1S8

Henry Jardine 304

Henry Jardine 330

Henry Jardine 331

Henry Jardine 334

Hepburn James 1I6

Hepburn James )68

Hepburn James 217

A Wagner 207

Chns Saunders 224

Caroline A Nelson 293

George Brosie 229

James Wyiett 231

HT Bjjske 3X0

Louis Blnnding 237

John G SUvin 254

Henry Eno... 3ol

Henry >no 3'7

E F Gibson 270

E F Gibson 271

F. F Gibson 274

E F Gibson 302

Wm Jones 246

John Calrne 249

John Bolts 381

John Bolts 256

DC Riddle 258

Julius Zabcl 259

H D Scott 260

J A McMahon 263

R K Love 275

R K Love 303

R K Love 329

R K Love 332

L Wochelhausen 281

Wm West 352

N Graff. 357

R S Cutter 366

RS Cutter 381

E Ekelund 362

EEkelund 364

Philip Myers 370

M Long. 385

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the nineteenth day of January,
1869, so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may
be necessary, will be sold at public auction, by Messrs.
Olney & Co., auctioneers, No. 426 Montgomery street, San
Francisco, on Wednesday, the seventeenth day of March,
1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock, M., of said day, to pay said
delinquent assessment thereon, together with costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale.

J. CROWNINSHIELD, Secretary.

Office, Pioneer Hall, Montgomery street, up stairs, San
Francisco. marG

Postponement.— The above sale is hereby postponed until
Monday, the fifth day of April, 1869, at the same hour
and place. By order of the Board of Trustees.

mar20 J. CROWNINSHIELD, Secretary.

1

$1 50

6

7 60

2

3 00

5

7 .'41

18#

18 75

30

45 10

17

25 50

5

7 50

15 10

22«

33 75

15 0U

15

22 50

5

7 50

5

7 50

hi

75

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33 CO

North American "Wood Preserving Company.

Location of Works: San Francisco, California.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Directors of said Company, held on the twelfth day of
March, 1869, an assessment of one (SI) dollar per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able immediately, in United States gold and silver coin, to
the Secretary, at the Company's office, 430 Montgomery
street, San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the fourteenth (14th) day of April, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall be made before,
will be sold on Saturday, the first day of Mav, 1S69,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together wltb costs
of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board
ol Directors.

WM. B. LAKE, Secretary.

Office, 430 Montgomerystrcet. San Kmr, Cisco mar!3

Troy J^edge Mining Company, White Pino

District, Lander County, Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board
of Trustees of said Company, held on the sixteenth day of
March, 1869, an assessment of fifteen cents per share was
levied upon the capital Atock of said Company, payable
immediately, in United States gold and silver coin, to the
Secretary

Anystockupon which said assessment shall remain unnaid
on Friday, the twenty-third day of April, 18H9, shall
be deemed delinquent, and will he duly advertised for
sale at public auction, and unless payment shall be made be-
fore, will be sold on Monday, the twenty-fourth day oi'May^
1S69, to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs oi
advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board
of Trustees.

J. M BUFFINGTON, Secretary.

Office, 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California street,
San Francisco. mar20

Senator Silver ftfljnintff Company.— X.ocatiou of

Mine: Virginia City, Storey County, State of Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board
of Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty-sixth
day of March, 1869, an assessment of fifty cents per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able immejlatelv, in United States gold coin, to the Sec-
retary, at the office of the Company, No. 408 California
street, San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid 011 the first (1st) day of May, 1869, shall bo
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale
at nubile auction, and unless payment shall be made bo-
fore, will be sold on Friday, the twenty-eighth day of
May, 1869, to pay the delinquent assessment, together
with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of
the Board of Trustees.

T. B. WINGARD, Secretary.

Office, 408 California street, San Francisco. mar27

Sliver Sprimt Mining Company.— Itocati on of

Works and Mines: Kcaraarge District, Inyo county, Cal.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board
of Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty-fifth
day of March, 1869, an assessmentjof fifty cents per|share
wa3 levied upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able immediately, in United States gold coin, to the Secre-
tary, at the office of the Company, No. 408 California street,
San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the first (1st) day of Ma., 1869, shall be deemed
delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale at public
auction, and unless payment shall be made before, will be
sold on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of May, 1869, to
pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of
Trustees.

T. B. WINGARD, Secretary.

Office, 403 California street, San Francisco. mar27

Thb Mining and Soikntific Prkss has entered upon its
XVlIth Volume. It has donned a new-style hat; or, In
newspaDcr parlance, a new heading, which gives it the

solid, scientific look it merits. Other improvements typo-
graphical are also noticeable. No call for improvement In
its matter.— Amador Zedner, July I&A.

222

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinery.

VABNET1S

PATENT AMALG-AMATOB,

These Machines Stand I" tirival .ed.

For rapidly pulverizing and amalgamating ores, they
bave no equal. No effort has been, or will be, spared to
have theni constructed in the most perfect manner, and of
the great uumber now in operation, not one has everre-
quired repairs. The constant and increasing demand for
them is sufficient evidence of their merits.

They are constructed so as to apply steam directly into
he pulp, or with steam bottoms, as desired.

This Amalgamator Operates as Follows :

The pan being filled, the motion of the muller forces the
pulp to the center, where itis drawn down through the ap-
erture and between the grinding surfaces. Thence it is
thrown to the periphery into the quicksilver. The curved
plates agaiu draw it to the center, where it passes down,
and to the circumference as before. Thus it is constantly
passing in a regular flow between the grinding surfaces and
into the quicksilver, until the ore is reduced to an impalpa-
ble powder, and the metal amalgamated.

Setters made on the same principle excel all others.—
They bring the pulp so constantly and perfectly in contact
with quicksilver, that the particles are rapidly and com
pletely absorbed. _

Mill men are invited to examine these pans and setters tor
themselves, at the PACIFIC FOUNBItY,

jvi San Francisco.

ELLERY'S PATENT

India Rubber Cement and Faint

— FOB —

TIN, IRONfAND METALLIC [ROOFS,

Iron, Brick, and Wooden VuUdiugs,
SKIPS, STEAMBOATS, STAGES, CARS,

AND FOR ALL EXPOSED SURFACES.

Is water-proof and indestructible; will neither rot, peel,

nor crack; will withstand any climate; can be put on in

any color, and Is less expensive than other Faint.

Slew Cloth K.oof« put on. Old Kooft cemented
and painted. Leaky IE oofs made tight.

85$"- No Coal Tar or Asphaltum used. All work guaran-
teed. Orders punctually attended to.

GEO. T. BKOMLET, Agent,

Battery street, corner Jackson,
24vl7-3m Sau Francisco.

Standard Milling Machine.

UNION VISE COMPANY,

OF BOSTON, MASS.
Extra jaw, and heavy Vises, Warranted for heavy work.
New style Wood and Covered Sercw Vises, forty styles aud
kinds; Standard Milling Machines, simple, great capacity,

fiower and strength— two sizes, large, 2,iJUI} lbs; small, 9o0
us. For sale by the trade.
23vl6-ly G. H. NOTT, Pres.

BLAKE'S QUARTZ BREAKER!

PRICES BEDTJCED!

MACHINES OF ALL SIZES FOR SALE
— ST —

¥M. P. BLAKE,

Corner First and Allusion streets, or Box S,OT7

3vl3f SAN FRANCISCO.

PACIFIC FILE WORKS,

No. 53 Kea It* Street, bet. Market and Mission,

SAN FRANCISCO.

ZHHl

■■•.^—

Files Re-cut and warranted as good as new, with a saving
of fifty per cent. REAPER AND MOWER SECTION'S
MAD hi TO ORDER. The only establishment on the Coast,
orders from the country promptly attended to. ISjf First
Premium awarded at U*e. Stat.; Fair, !Sii7-

2vl7-3in T. «*. UUKXIXG «fc CO

Removal.

NELSON~& DOBLE,

AGENTS FOR

Thomas Firth & Sons' Cast Steel, Files,

Mill Piclcs, Sledges, Hammers, Picks,

Stone Cutters', Blacksmiths' and Horse-Shoers1 Tools,

Have removed to 13 and 15 Fremont street, near

Market, San Francisco.

lllvUqr

MACHINERY AOEKOY.

W. O. M. BERRY & CO.,

Are the manufacturers' agents for Richardson, itierriam
& Go's celebrated

Wood Working Machinery,

Embracing every description of Planers, Matchers and
Mortisers, Moulding, Tenoning, Boring, Shaping, Vertical
and Circular Ke-s.i.viug Macuiues; .-<croU. Railway, Cut-off
and Rip Saws, etc., eic. Agents for the Swamscot Co's

Improved. I*ortat>le Engines,

Warranted fully equal to any in the market; Davis & Fur-
her's Woolen Machinery; Blade's Patent Steam Pumps;
Kilburn'* and Warren's Turbine Water wiieels. etc , etc.

Ordurs for Machinery of a" J' hind will receive prompt
attention Machines for special purposes built to order.
Send for Illustrated Catalogue. W. u. M. BfiRRir &. CO ,

svlS-im 114 California st, San Francisco,

JSTotioe to Miners,

Well-Borers and Water Companies,

MPRAG IS NOW PREPAKEO TO MANUFACTURE
• Hydraulic and Artesian Well Pipes in the best work-
manlike manner, and at the lowest market rnteB. Having
niade large additions to my stock of machinery for that
branch of business, I am prepared to llll all orders with dis-
patch, and guarantee entire satisfaction. I also manufac-
ture Mississippi Stoves, ol the latest improved patterns, for
vessels of ail classes. Also, Ship Plumbing doue.

At. 1'KAC,
8vl3-lr Stove Store, No. 1 Clay street, below Davis.

CALIFORNIA TOOL WORKS,

Blacksmith and Machine Shop,

113 Beale St., net. Mission and Howard,

SAN FEANCISCO.

All kinds of Edge or oilier Tools made to order. Par-
ticular attention paid to pU' ting in order AGElOi L1UKAL
MACHINERY. Job Grinding and Polishing by sieam.
Orders from the Country promptly] attended to. jjgj-AU
work warranted.

21vl7 qy J. WE1CHHAKT, Proprietor.

PATENT

Boiler Scraper and Tube-Cleaner.

-rf\rTU«A IT IS THE CHEAPEST, MOST

A&<vVtt eujaSjU durable, easiest to adjust, and

^^*rtlQr^ <+, cleanest apparatus to use for the
<y <*_\UdCJ^. vjj purpose designed, yet offered to
^v* §§ 4» the Puolic- Kcing constructed on

C*a^^aw simple and mechanical principles,
it i> not liable to get out of order,
and will continue to perform its
office until the materials are worn
out. It can readily be adjusted,
even by any inexperienced per-
son—will scrape off the scales and
cleanse the tubes just as smooth
and clean as they were when
new, without in the least affecting
their inner surface, as the Elliptic
Spring Scraper has a smooth
square edge, aud springs in or out
lo fit the tubes. It is particularly
applicable for steamboat boilers
when muddy water is used.

A continuous iron rod runs
ih rough the center of the top and
bottom hubs. The soft steel scrap-
ers are fastened with screws to
the hubs, under the caps, which
cover and protect the screws that
fasten the scrapers on the hub.
The scrapers are expanded or con-
tracted by screwing or unscrew
ing the lower hub,— lirst loosening
the cap. There is a collar on the
rod to prevent the scrapers being jammed. An elastic or
flexible brush or scraper, made or leather, rubber, or some
pliable material, is attached to the nut for the purpose of
removing from' the tube the scale and dust loosened by the
action of the scrapers.

These scrapers are made from one to six inches m diam-
eter—the prices of those from one to three inches rangincr
from £5 to S12. They are now extensively used in the
E-istern States. Quite a number have already be.en sold in
this Slate.

For sale bv McAfee, Spiers & Co., boiler makers, Howard
street, between Fremont and Beale. San Francisco, and at
the Union Foundry, Sacramento. E. M. D., P. O. box 17,
San Francisco, Manufacturers' Agents. 24vl7tf

BLAKE'S PATENT

S T E A. M PUMP!

This Pump is warranted superior to any in the market,
for Breweries. Sugar Houses, Tanneries, Boiler-Feeders,
Steamboats, Mining and Fire purposes, etc. It throws a
full stream of the thickest boor mash without clogging,
and sugar svrup boiling hot without difficulty.

Warranted a positive Pump under all circumstances; it
never stops nor gets out of order, and by reason of the pa-
tent device in the valves, is kept clear and always ready
for action. It is SIMfLE, COMPACT and POWERFUL,
and needs no expert to run it.

OSf-If one fails to do the work for which it is sold, it may
be returned and the money will be refunded. May be seen
in operation at Risdon's, or Union Iron Works, or at
W. O. St. BtlRKT «fe CO'S,
Agents for Pacitlc States,

8vl8-3ra 114 California street, San Francisco.

GLASGOW
Iron and Metal Importing Company

Nosi 25 and 37 Fremont; street.

SAN FRANCISCO,

Keep constantly on hand a la'ge stock of best Bar and
Bundle Iron, Uoiler Tubes, Plate and Sheet Iron, Gas and
Water Pipe, Anvils. Cast Steel, Gas and Water Fminf"
which they offer to the trade on liberal terms.

21vl6-3in W. UcCRINDLE, Manage.

Tin* Perfection of Prepared Cocoa..

MARATILLA COCOA.

Sole Proprietors— TAYLOR BROTHERS, London.

The Cocoa (or Cacao) of Maravilla is the true Theobroma
of Linnaeus. Cocoa is indigenous to youth America, of
which Maravilla is a favored uortiou. TAYLOR BROTH
ERS having secured the exclusive supply of this unri-
valled Oocoa, h ivc, by the skillful application of their sol-
uble principle and elaborate machinery, produced what is
so undeniably the perfection of Prepared Cocoa, that it has
not only secured the preference of homceipaths and cocoa-
drinkers generally, but many who had hiihcno not found
any preparation to suit them, have, afier one trial, adopted
the Maravilla Cocoa as their constant beverage for break-
fast, luncheon, etc.

"A.SXTCCESS UNPRECEDENTED."

tSee following extract from the Globe of May 14, 1S68-]
"Various importers and manufacturers have attempted
to attain a reputation for their prepared Cocoas, but we
doubt whether any thorough success had been achieved
until Messrs. T.iylor Brothers discovered the extraordinary
qualities of "Maravilla" Cocoa. Adapting their perfect
system of preparation to this finest of all species of the
Theobroma, they have produced an article which super-
sedes every other Cocoa in the market. Entire solubility,
a delicate aroma, and a rare concentration of the purest
elements of nutrition, distiuguish the Maravilla Cocoa
above all others. For homceopaths and invalids wo could
not recommend a more agreeable or valuable beverage.

Sold in packets only by all Grocers, of whom alio may
be had Taylor Brothers' Original lioinceopathic Cocoa ana
Soluble Chocolate, Steam Mills, Brick Lane. London.
6vlS-ly

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past few years. The importance to the inventive genius of
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WM. BAHTLING. HENRY KIMBALL.

BARTLING & KIMBALL,
BOOKBINDERS,

Paper Rulers and Blank Book Manufacturers.

505 Clay street, (southwest cor. Sansome),
15vl2-3m SAN FRANCISCO.

OrOHuN' BAWIEL,

(SUCCESSOR TO O. GORI)

MARBLE "WORKS,

No. 421 Pine st. bet. Montgomery and Kearny, San Francisco

Mantels, Monnmentn, Tombs, Plumber*' Slabs
Etc., On hand and Manufactured to order.
Goods shipped to all parts of the State. Orders re

spectfulls solicited.

5v8-3m

J. M. STOCKMAN,

Manufacturer of
IV^TTIETtlVS AJST> MODELS,

(Over W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry,
. E. Corner of Mission and Fremont sts>,
6vl4tf SAN FRANCISCO.

J. F. PAGES,

SEA.X- IBlVGIt^VIER,,
AND LETTER CTJTTEK,

Brass and Steel Stamps and Dies, COS Sacramento street,

San Francisco. Orders by express promptly attended to.

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DESKS AND OFFICE FDRNITUKE.
JOHNSON~& BEST,

Manufacturers of all kinds of
Desks and Office 3Tnrnitnre,

1X7 Market street, near Third.

Warerooms up stairs. A large variety of Desks always on

hand; all kinds of Office Furniture and Cabinet

Work made to order.

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The Age of Steed. — The Chicago Trib-
une of Feb. 6th, contains an article upon
the rapid changes wrought by scientific in-
genuity and mechanical skill, in the exten-
sive substitution of iron for wood, in ship
building and machinery. It shows tbat
steel is fast taking the place of iron, being
more durable under the wear and tear of
friction, stronger to resist strain, more reli-
able on texture, as a safeguard against acci-
dent, and far superior to iron for a great
variety of uses. The price of -steel has
hitherto been a great obstruction to its
more general use in place of iron, but it is
now produced from iron by aprocess much
more simple, and on a larger scale than
heretofore and its price considerably modi-
fied. It is shown, however, that even at
its former rates, when the first cost was
heavy in comparison with iron , that in the
long run it is the cheapest for wear,
strength and safety. Another objection to
its extensive use was its intractability which
was a great obstacle in the manufacture of
steel, which is now claimed ' to have been
overcome after three years of study and
experimenting by Mr. John T. Barr, of
Chicago. He aud his associates have al-
ready demonstrated that steel can be cast
in any desired shape or of any required
size, and to be absolutely depended upon
for strength, durability and uniformity of
wear. The discovery is applicable to all
kinds of steel castings, and the company
have recently been manufacturing steel
wheels for railroad ears. They are consid-
ered greatly superior to iron wheels in
many respects, and may be depended upon
to run smoothly and last for a dozen years.
It is thought that this new invention will
be found to be the one thing wanted to
facilitate the substitution of steel for ordi-
nary iron where the ability to stand friction
and strain is wanted in its greatest possible
perfection.

Leaden Stalactites. — A correspondent
of the Chicago Jiejmblican, describing the
Berkwait lead mine in Wisconsin, says :
"Thirteen beautiful stalactites depend from
the low roof, varying in length from eight-
een inches to five feet, and in diameter, at
the base, from three inches to seven inches.
Their proportions are symmetrical, taper-
ing gradually down to a point that will
barely sustain a drop of water, as it pauses
there a second, tremblingly, before drop-
ping to give place to another. "Under the
drip of each stalactite is a cone, the several
bearing the same relation to each other that
the stalactites above do, and containing,
severally, perhaps one-fifth as much body
as the latter. Both are in an imperfect
state of rock formation, and may be shaven
down with a knife in granular limy parti-
cles, little coarser than the scrapings of
chalk. At the bases of each, however,
above and below, at their point of attach-
ment, the limestone is very perfect and
hard, in a section three feet wide extending
entirely across the cave. In what manner
the separation is made between the various
deposits, or when the necessary change took
place, is more than I am able to determine;
yet true it is that at one time these stalac-
tites were deeply grooved from the base
downward, as they are suspended toward
the point or apex, and now these grooves
are filled to the surface with pure lead ore,
glittering and beautiful. Connected with
these deposits and extending over a consid-
erable surface of the roof is an incrusta-
tion two and one-half to three inches thick.
On the cones below and the floor, however,
there is very little mineral. The entire
surface of the walls is bathed continually
by a slow ooziDg of water from the crevice
surrounding. It is indeed a more beauti-
ful aud interesting demonstration than any
professor of chemistry or natural philosphy
could hope to give."

To Deodorize Petbolecm. — An English
inventor proposes to remove the peculiar
odor from petroleum in a manner some-
what similar to that by which palm-oil and
other oils have heretofore in some cases
been deodorized — by blowing air through
them while they are kept heated in a suita-
ble vessel to a temperature of from 170" to
230° Pah. In jilace of using the air at
such a pressure only as is necessary to
cause it to How through the oil, the in-
ventor employs it at a high pressure, es-
pecially towards the end of the operation;
so that when it enters the oil it expands
greatly, thereby becoming intimately mixed
with the oil aud also cooling it rapidly bt-
low the temperature of the air, at which
temperature he prefers to commence the
treatment, and not to heat the oil.

"Wooden Shikt Bosoms. — A Philadel-
phian has taken out a patent for the manu-
facture of wooden shirt bosoms, the mate-
rial being prepared from that which is now
used in papering rooms.

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

223

The Hindoo Philosophy.

There is a great deal of suggestive matter
to bo found in the intuitive poetry of that
most ancient of all the world's schools of
philosophy, whoso principal record is tlio
Shutters. Dr. H. M. Scndder's summary
of it as given in his lecture before a very
large, and solid, but considerably Presby-
t«'rian-lookiug audience, ou Tuesday even-
ing, was very good. He said :

*' There were several ancient Hindoo
schools of. philosophy, and their philosophy
always included their theology. One of
these schools, taught in regard to live kinds
of subjects — God, Matter, Man, Futurity
aud Salvation They believed in one su-
preme being, called ' '.Silt," meaning a pas-
sive being, enjoying a perpetual aud over-
lusting condition of rest — a being that was
never active, only as the Bhining sun was
active. The sun, they said, shone upon
the jilunt and caused it to bud, bloom, aud
at last to die. So it was with their god and
matter. The passive power of their deity
fell upon the universe, and produced] only
to bring decay ; yet mutter, in itself, was
somehow eternal. Some of the schools
taught that matter was distinct from God,
and being distinct, they designated it as
primitive Nature. Deity, at certain pe-
riode, shone upon this matter, bringing
forth a succession of products, and, by reg-
ular descending steps, brought forth all
tho material forms of the universe. At
certain periods these forms receded and
disuppeaied, and chaos came again; after
which Deity and Nature reposed. Their
belief as to futurity and salvation was the
well known doctrine of transmigration.
They say that before the human soul lie
millions of births or deaths. Man might
b •■ born and die a thousand million times,
either iu a human, animal, insect, or even
vegetable form, thus experiencing the re-
sults of previous transgression, passing
through various Hells and Heavens before
he reached his final reward in the abode of
the supremely blest. And even when vir-
tuous souls reached Hell, they passed
through the opposite sides, and continued
on forever, for matter required the soul to
travel. The eventual emancipation from
transmigration was the Hindoo Heaven ;
and man was on the eve of his approaching
exemption when he had learned to act dis-
interestedly. He who had arrived at that
point could never more be changed into
fly or horse or cat, but was on the eve of
passing to bis reward. If dying before
their peace was fully attained, the spirit
went to a certain place in the sky, or floated
through the elements until the time arrived
for it to be born again. When perfection
was gained sufficient for the final and per-
fect Heaven, the contemplative and seques-
tered soul viewed all things with calm
knowledge of perfect wisdom. It grieved
at no calamity, nor rejoiced at any success;
puin and pleasure were the same. A Hin-
doo philosopher once said to him that hell
was just the place they wanted to go to,
for it was on the road they had to travel.
One of their proverbs was, "He that knows
himself knows God."

In his comparisons of Hindoo philoso-
phy, or poetry (?) with Emerson's ideas,
his standpoint was that of a popular Pres-
byterian clergyman. Emerson had to
suffer scathingly. Erequent analogies
could of course be traced between them —
Emerson and Boston ' ' transcendentalism"
being but a poetical version of the modern
tendencies of thought evidenced in Kant,
Hegel, and other modern German and
French ideal natural theologians.

ROOT'S PATENT FORCE BLAST ROTARY BLOWER.

Patented Nov. 1st, 1H04 ; July 21, 1800 ; and Oct. 0, 1800.

-A.wiir<letl tlio First Premium at tho Pax-is Exposition.

KEQimtiis

JTlffcy Per Cent.

LESS l'OWER

Than any Blower

One of these Blowers may ho seen on exhibition at W. T. Garrett's Brass Founrlry, corner of
Mission anil Fremont streets. They aro also in use at the Almuden Quicksilver Mine ; Gritllcy's
Foundry, Gold Hill, Nevada ; JEtnn Iron Works, San Francisco, and many other places.

Caution. — Purchasers will find it to their advantage to apply direct to the Stockton Agency, ns
certain parlies, not authorized to manufacture the Blower, have put in tho market machines of interior
construction, which do not answer all the requirements of the genuine article.

For circulars and further information, address

KEEP & BARGION,

4vlC*3m Glob© Iron Works Mo. :k( on, Oal.

PA.IJNTE:

IMPROVED

For M:i.vIiik Gold and Silver Sulphnret

& STEPHENS'

CONCENTEATOE.

CALirOEMA

BUSINESS UNIVERSITY,

JiOt Montgomery Sired.

r Pt'ilctiCiil Course of Studies

Pull particulars reward!
may he had by culling at Hi
Ifv 17-«|>-U|»

Uill

is. t\ tin; a

cil Course of Sti

!, or by mli.lruj.sii
<l>, Suu Pruncisi

MECHANICAL AND AECHTTEOTUBAL

Drawing School

— Pi i It —

APP RE ilVTXODES.

MR. FREDERICK HELLEKT,

An experienced Draughtsman and Teaclicr, Iia-« opened an
Evening School at No. 4=14 CLAY STREET (same entrance
as the Mining and Sclemiflc Tress Office), where he is..iv
inn thorjttgh instructions in DRAWING to apprentices who
arc inclined tu self-Improvement. His icrms arc moderate
and within reach of the humblest apprentice; nnd we are
pleased to say that the enterprise is meeting wltn success.
lviSif

Er,KCTROTYPE Engravings, Cuts, Etc.— Our Job Printing
Oftice is abundantly supplied with elegant engravings, or
natnonts, and other embellishments to suit the various
branches of industry in this State

One ftfaclii nc, costing about SI, 300, is sufficient to work tlie Sanrls from 25 to 30 Stamps,

Less power being required than for :iny other Machine. The attention of qua- tz millmen throughout
the State is directed to the subjoined certificates, and if they desire they can visit the Amador Mining
Co's mill, near Sutter Creek, the Eureka Co's mill at Grass Valley, or the Banner Co's mill near
Nevada, and see for themselves.

Metallurgy.

m:osheimer,'!§

pioneer mining- school,

— AND —

METAL.LURCHC AYOBKS.

Bavins established Ihe flrat l*racilcal Mining and Metal.

lurgloal School In the United States, I would call the at-

tenllou of gentlemen who may wish to obtain a practical

knowledge of

Chemistry, Assaying and Metallurgy,

That I am prepared to tench all the above branches In less
time limn In any European School.

t also underlnko to assay and work any kind of ore, or
mineral substances.

For terms, apply to Jos. MOSHeiimf.r,

Practical Chemist and Metallurgist

Otllce, 1123 Montgomery street; Metollurglc Works. 2U05
Powell street, Kan Francisco. GvlS-Gm

LEOPOLD KUH,
Assayer and Metallurgical Chemist,

(Formerly of tho U. S. B. Mint, S. F.)

OOlco, No. C1I Column re I ill Street, opposite-

tho .Mint, Sao Frnnctaeo.

BULLION MELTED AND ASSAYED,
The corrcclcss of which Is guaranteed In every respect.
Alikinda of Ore and Mineral tested, assayed and analyzed
in the most satisfactory manner.

Refers by permission to W. C. Ralston, Cashier Bank ot
California; Messrs. Pioehe &. Bayerque, Win. M. Lent, John
D. Fry, E. Cahill & Co., A. IC Grim, President Pacific Union
Express Co.; John M. Eckfeldt, H. nnd It. U. S B. Mint;
Halo & Norcross S. M. Co., and the principal mining com-
panies on the Comstock Lode. 25vl7-tf

PROF. HENRY WURTZ,

Formerly Chemical Examiner in the V. S. Patent Office
tuny be emulnyed professionally as a Scientific ExruiiT.
(H-ulngicul Examinations und Reports, Analysis and Assays,
etc , etc. Practical advice and 1 n vest i gallons in the Cheni
leal Arts and Manufactures. Invention and examination
ot new chemical methods nnd products. Address, '26 Pino
street, Rooms 35 and 36, New York. Always in from 12 to
S.oO. ASf* Written communications preferred.

Important to Gold and Silver Min-
ers and Companies.

PROFESSOR WTJItTZ,

Who is the luvcnlor and Patentee of the new and wonder
fill Uses of SODIUM IN WORKING GOLD AND SILVER
ORES AND JEWELEKS1 SWEEPINGS, will furnish at tho
above address nformation in rotation thereto, together
with experimental packages of

SODIUM AMALGAM.

All Instructions mid experiments elsewhere obtained are
spurious and nn reliable. WORKING KXI'KKIMENTS ON
AMALGAMATION OF ORES, Elc. Prof. W. has in opera
tlou In New York a large and .-mall Hepburn Pun, for work
hit: l.Ul'O or l!u-lb. chnrgea ol material tor exuerimenta
purposes. 3vl7

K. TAYLOR. WU, n. TAYLOR.

ROBERT TAYLOR & CO.,
METALLURGISTS.

SMELTING WORKS,

Eleventh street, between Folaom nnd Howard,

GA JLTVAJSIZ1TSIG.

Also, Anti-Friction, Alloyx for Journals, Type

ami Stamping Metal**, Tinners und

Plumbers* Solder, Kit.

BSrThe host price given for the most rebellions or re-
fractory ores. Ores and minerals assayed and analyzed.
4vl8 3ra

G-. W. STRONG-,

ASSAYER, AKB WORKER OF ORES,

No. 10 Stevenson street, near First.San Francisco.

Hlfhcst price paid for choice lots of Ores, Sulphuietx, as
say Ashes, Sweepings, etc., etc. Students instructed in all
brunches of Metallurgy, on liberal terms.
Uvlanr.

LEA & PERRINS'

CKLKBIUTRO

WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE

Declared by connnlseurs
to be the only
COOll SAUCE. ~i

s

CEKTIPCATJES •

Grass Valley, Jan. 4th, ISfiO. — This is to certify, that we have used the Paine, Stephens &
Harry Concentrators for over twelve months. They have ^iven us entire satisfaction, and are tho
best we ever used. WILLIAM WATT, Supt. Eureka Mine.

This is to certify, that we have had in use for the past 18 months one of Paine, Step lions & Co's
Sulphnret Saving Machines, constructed by John T. Harry, (called a buddle,) and which operates
satisfactorily, particularly so in saving line sulphurets, and we recommend it as well worthy of use,
even where other Concentrators are used above it, as it will pay if there arc any sulphurets.

WM. L. TISDALE, Supt. Star Spangled Banner Mine.

Nevada City, Oct. 26, 1868.

The success of this
delicious and unrivalled
condiment having caused
tiers to apply the name of "Wor- ■£
ire Sauce to their own Inferior pj
mjjuuiids, the public Is hereby Informed -3
ut the only way to secure the genuine, Sj
is to ask for «

Lea Ar Perrlns* .Same, g

o
and see that their names arc upon the ■£
wrapper1, labels, stopper, nnd bottle. : '

So. no ot I ho foreign markets having been i.
supplied with a spurious Worcestershire U '
uuce, upon tho wrapper and labels of

which the names of Lea jyid Perrlns have bet

and P. give notice that they hive furnished Iheir corres-
pondents with power of attorney to take instant proceed-
ings against Manufacturers and Vendors of such, or any
other Imitations bv which their right mar he infringed.

Ask for LEA & PEKUINS' Sauce, and see name on tho
Wrapper, Label, Bottle, and Stopper,

Wholesale and for Export by the Proprietors, Worcester;
Crosse A Biackwell, London, etc.. etc.; and by Ujoccrs and
Oilmen universally. Agents, CROSS & CO.. San Prnn-
cisco. 3vl8-ly

I forged, L.

Any one wishing to purchase one of these useful machines, can do so by applying to THOS.
N. PAINE at Grass Valley, Nevada County, or JOHN T. HARRY, Sutter Creek,
Amador County.

SULPHURETS ;

What they are;

How Assaved ;

How Concentrated;

And How Worked;

With a Chapter on the

BLOW-PIPE ASSAY OF MINERALS.

By War. BAKSTOW, M. D.

Published by A. Roman & Co., San Francisoo.
For Male at this Office.-- Price, One Dollar.

With the aid of this Book, the miner can assay his own
ores, requiring but few materials, etc., except such as are
generally to be found In the interior towns. Hlvlotf

224

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press,

New Incorporations.

Articles of incorporation have been re-
cently filed in the County Clerk's office in
this city as follows:

Hoenet S. M. Co. — White Pine, Nev.
March 26th. Capital stock, $1,000,000;
10,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: Eobt.
Sherwood, P. B. Clark, W. G. Wyman, C.
W. Fox and C. H. Bradford.

Pacific Wood PKESEBvme Co. — San
Francisco. March 26th. Capital stock,
$500,000; 5,000 shares, $100 each. Trus-
tees: E. E. Doyle, A. J. Moulder, H. B.
Tichenor, A. Hay ward, Henry F. Williams,
J. D. Fry and K. P. Hammond.

French S. M. Co. — White Pine, Nev.
March 30th. Capital stock, $1,400,000;
14,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: Emile
Pascal, Adrien G. Chauche and A. D.
Grimwood.

Makleokough S. M. Co. — White Pine,
Nev. Capital stock, $1,000,000; 18,000
shares, $100 each. Trustees: Emile Pas-
cal, Adrien Chauche and A. D. Grimwood.

Europe S. M. Co.— White Pine, Nev.
March 30th. Capital stock, $2,000,000:
20,000 shares, $100each.. Trustees: Emile
Pascal, Adrien G. Chauche and A. D. Grim-
wood.

Beichakt and Silver Gate Consoli-
dated S. M. Co. — White Pine, Nev. March
30th. Capital stock, $400,000; 4,000shares,
$100 each. Trustees: Theo. Beichart, A.
J. Shrader, C. C. Bemis, S. J. Loop and
H. B. Eathburn.

Cosmopolitan Baal Estate Association.
San Francisco. March 30th. Capital
stock, $100,000; 100 shares, $1,000 each.
Trustees: Chas. Alpers, Wm. A. Junke,
Louis Schulze, Henry Schmidt and John
Schneider.

West Calteobnia M Co. — White Pine,
Nev. March 31st. Capital stock, $1,600,-
000. Trustees: E. J. Williamson, W. L.
Perkins, A. C. Morse, Ivan A. Weid and
John J. McElhinny.

Bucklin S. M. Co. — White Pine, Nev.
March 31st. Capital stock, $1,400,000.
Trustees: Bobert Sherwood, A. J. Dormer,
Tuos. B. Lewis, G. W. Eogers and J. W.
Bucklin.

Gband Trunk Tunnel and Mining Co.
White Pine, Nev. Capital stock, $5,000,-
000. Trustees: J. De la Montagnie, O. P.
Sutton, E. S. Spear, H. O. S. McCullough
and T. J. Owens.

Gaeden Valley Land Association. —
San Francisco. March 30th. Capital stock,
$34,200; 114 shares,- $300 each. Trustees:
O. B. Huff, Chas. F. Brown, T. W. My-
rick, J. Cohn and Wm. J. Grun.

Calefolnia Silk Culture Co. — San
Francisco. March 30th. Capital stock,
$100,000; 1,000 shares, $100 each. Trus-
tees: Oliver Eldridge, Wm. Blanding, W.
B. Cluness, Chas. W. Eeed and L. A. Gar-
nett.

Silver Mint S. M. Co. — White Pine,
Nev. March 30th. Capital stock, $5,000,-
000; 10,000 shares, $50 each. Trustees: S.
Holliday, M. Kelsay, W. H. Wright, Geo.
Waldenrod and John Johnson.

Eussia S. M. Co.— White Pine, Nev.
March 30th. Capital stock. $4,400,000;
44,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: Theo.
Von Koekull, Theo. Stahl and Jos. Luge-
bill.

Election of Officers. — Nokth Pacific
Transportation Co. — San Francisco,
March 30th. President, Wm. Alvord; Vice
President, Jesse Holladay; Secretary, C.
J. Brenham; Treasurer, Wm. C. Ralston.

Floweet Mining Co. — San Francisco.
March 30th. President, A. K P. Harmon;
Vice-President, J. H. Jones; Secretary, T.
W. Fenn; Superintendent, O. S. Carville;
Trustees, A K P. Harmon, J. H. Jones,
A. H. Barker, Chas. Hosmer, M. J. Mc-
Donald, T. W. Fenn and O. S. Carville.

Sheffield Scientific School

OfTnle College, New Haven, Conn.

This department of Yale College, Instituted in 18*0, and
endowed with the National Land Grant in 186G, furnishes
advanced instruction in the various branches of Mathe-
matical, Physical, and Natural Science.

The School is under the direction of the President of the
College, a Board of thirteen Professors in different special
tics, and six assistant instructors.

Regular courses of study, leading to the degree of Bach-
elor of Philosophy, conferred by Yale College, are ar-
ranged as follows: 1— Chemistry and Mineralogy. 2— Civil
Encikkehing. 3— Mechanical Engineering. 1— Mining
Engineering and Metallurgy. 5— Agriculture. 6 — Nat
ural H istoky and Geology, and 7— Select Coorse.

Advanced students are also admitted to optional courses,
and if already College graduates, aro received aacandi-

ates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Tuition, $125 per year of forty weeks.

The Libraries, Museums, Laboratories and Apparatus,
accessible to students, are varied and extensive.

For copies of the Annual Circular and Report, letters
may be addressed to the "Secretary of the Sheffield Scien-
tial School," New Haven, Couu. B.18v6-lyl6p

HUNGERFORD'S IMPROVED CONCENTRATOR,

For Saving Golil, Sulphurets, Quicksilver, etc.

There is no description of machinery of so much importance to the mining interests of Califor-
nia,.at the present time, as that for the separation of sulphurets. Many machines have been tried,
and abandoned ; and none seems to meet the requirement of the mining interest so well as that now
patented by Mr. Hungerford, which is au improvement on the well known Hungerford & Prater Con-
centrator, with which his name is already so familiar.

KECOMMEXBATIONS :

San Francisco, October 19th, 1868.

Mr. M. Hungerford — Dear Sir: — We have had twelve of your Concentrators at work at the
Oneida Mine, Amador County, for about six months. They give entire satisfaction. They are
strong and substantial, requiring, thus far, no repairs, and do their work thoroughly and effectively.
At a recent clean-up of four or them, I found that in four weeks' time we saved about 3J5UU in free
gold, besides the sulphurets, or not far from one dollar per ton on the entire crushing of the ten
6tamps connected with them. In my opinion, it is for the interest of every quartz mill to have your
machines. Yours, respectfully, GEORGE PRINGLE, Supt. Oneida Mine.

Office of the Oneida Mining Company, Jackson, May 13th 1868

Mr. Morgan Hungerford — Dear Sir: — In regard to the four Hungerford Concentra-
tors that I bought of Messrs. Goss & Lombard last month, I will say that I put them up in the
Oneida Mill soon after I arrived here, and find that they save sulphurets well and clean, and work to
my entire satisfaction. I have tried many other concentrators, but these stand up and work better
than any others I have used. I have ordered Messrs. Goss oo Lombard to make eight more for me as
soon as possible. Very truly yours, JAMES MORGAN.

Big Oak Flat, May 25th, 1868.-377-. T. IF. Mulford— Dear Sir :— I have used two of M. Hun-
gerford's Concentrators in the Rattlesnake Quartz Mill, at this place, and find that they work full as
well as they are represented to do. E. M. SMITH, Supt.

A full description of the principle and mode of action of this pan, is described in circulars, which
will be forwarded to any party who may desire them.

The Hungerford Concentrator has only to be seen to be appreciated. No millman will use any
other kind after he has tried that. They are in active operation in mills throughout the State, and
give perfect satisfaction. ____

It should be borne in mind that Mr. Hungerford is the original builder and maker of the cele-
brated Prater Concentrator, and his name should be sufficient guarantee to warrant the public in ex-
amining his new machine before purchasing elsewhere.

In future these Pans will be manufactured by Goddard & Co., at the Pacific Iron Works, San
Francisco, which is a guarantee that they will bo built in the most substantial manner.

These Pans may be seen at the Pacific Iron Works, First street, near Howard, San Francisco.
Addi'es s , EteSJ

GOX>I>^Tftr> Sc CO., San. Francisco.

Or M. HUNGERFORD, at the Pacific Iron Works.

THE STANDARD OF AMERICA.

DREYFUS' PATENT SELF-OILER.

For Locomotives, Marine and Stationary Engines, Fnns, Plckerx, Loonrn, Cat-ding n«d Spin-
nine Frame*, Lathew, Saw Frames, Shafting, and Machinery of every description.

A Saving of from T'S to £>3 per cent. GrTaaraiateecU

They are composed of a Transparent Glass Cup, mounted in Britannia and Brass, provided with a hollow
tuhe, inside of which is placed a loose-acting solid wire, which acts as a Feeder and Kegnlator. The wire rests
constantly upon the journal, thereby acting with the bearing in its motion. The wire is so regulated inside the
tube as to feed according to the demand only. There is no flow of oil whatever while the machinery is not in mo-
tion. They are as reliable in winter as in summer, for the reason that the friction produced by the action of the
bearing on the wire causes the wire to heat, thereby causing the oil to become limpid. Being perfectly air-tight
vessels, the oil will never gum in them, as this has been proven by two years' constant use. They are constructed
in a very neat and substanial manner. We spare no pains in making them as perfect as it is possible for them to
he made, and guarantee them to give pe feet and entire satisfaction.

DIRECTIONS:

Fill the cup full of oil, then screw the cap down air-tight. Place the tube in the oil-hole in an upright posi-
tion, or upon an angle of 45 degrees. Permit the rod to have a perfectly free action. If you desire to have the oil
flow faster, reduce the wire.

REFERENCES :

For the convenience of persons desiring references, we annex the names of a few Manufacturers and Railroad
Companies, who are using the Dreyfus Patent Oiler in different parts of the country: San Francisco — Mission
Woolen Mills; Pioneer Woolen Mills; Pacific Woolen Mills; Golden State Foundry; iEtna Foundry; Fulton Foun-
dry; Empire Steam Mills; San Francisco Gas Co.; Mechanics' Mills; Bacon Si Co , Printers; Bosqui & Co., Print-
ers; B. F. Sterrett, Printer. Sacramento — Union Iron "Works. Stockton — Globe Iron Works.

LEVISON BROTHERS,

Sole Agents for tlie Pacific Coast, OS

8ilf FKANCISCO.

Washington st.

W. T. GABRATT,
City

BRASS AND BELL FOUNDER

Cor. mission and. Fremont sts.,

8AM FILAHC13C0.

Manufacturer of Brass, Zinc, and Anti-Friction or
Babbet Metal Oastiniyss

CHURCH AND STEAMBOAT

BEILILS,

TAVERN AMD BAND BELLS AND GONGS,

FIRE ENGINES, FORCE AND LIFT FUMPB,

Steam, Liquor, Soda Oil, Water and Flange Cockw, and

Valves of all descriptions, made and repaired. Hose and

all other Joints, Speller, Solder, and Copper Rivets, Ac.

Gauge Cocks, Cylinder Cocks, Oil Globes, Steam Whistles,

HYDRAULIC' PIPES AXU SOZKKJ.S
For Mining purposes, Iron Steam Pipe furnished with Fit-
tings, &c. Coupling Joints of all sizes. Particular attentioa
paid to Distillery Work. Manufacturer of "Garratt's hat-
tent Improved Journal Metal."

Kff- Highest Market price paid for OLD BELLS, COPPEB
AND BRASS. ,£» 6tf

N. W. SPATJLDING,

Saw Smithing and Repairing

ESTABLISHMENT.

±\oh. 1? and 19 Fremont St., near Market,

MANUFACTURER OF

SPAULDING'S

Patent Tooth Circular Saws.

'I'lu'v have provod themnclves to be the inoxt
durable ami ecnnomicsil Saws in the World,

EACH SAW IS WARRANTED IN EVERY RESPECT.

Particular attention paid to construction of

Portable & Stationary Saw Mills.

MILLS FURNISHED AT SHORT NOTICE,
At the lowest Market Pncoa.

Send, for Circular.

12vlS 2tin2ui

"WILKIE DARLING-, Manager,

(To whom all Communications must be addressed,)

CStt Washing; ton street, San Frauelaco.

JOHN G. HODGE & CO.,

Importers and Wholesale Deal In

STATIONERY,

Blank Books, School Books,

opi^^ying ca.:r:d s,

Wrapping Paper, Paper Bag.", etc, e'.c.
Nos. 3SS> and :i»l Snnsome street, corner Sacramento
«jj"ripecial attention given to orders iruin Country Mer
chants 2vl6eow-l6p

MAGAZINES.

Per An.

W, E. L00MIS,

$ 4 00
3 00

5 (hi

6 00
IS 00

Ne-vrs X>enlex*

New York Ledger.

AND STATIONER,

Hours al Home....
Good Words

Southeast corner Sansome and

Harper's Weekly..
Chimney Corner...
Literary Album...

London Society

All the Year Round
London 111. News..

E-ASTERST
I?EXtXO DICA"L9

By the Year, Month or Number

HELIOG-RAPHIC

STEEL ENG RAYING AND PRINTING COMPANY.
E. YON EGLOFFSTRIN, Sunt.,
1.1? nml 185 West Twenty.fllih St., Now Fork.
Steel Engravings uruduced by an Improved Process at
nnc thin! the usual rates. Portraits. Coutiirv St als, Illus-
trated Circulars, Reproductions of Engravings, Designs,
etc JNO. VlNUJiNT HTuGINS, Side Agent,

3vl8-6ml6n 058 Broadway, New York.

Quartz Mill Amalgamating

Plates, Electro- Plated with Fine Silver; also instruc-
tions in Guld mid sdvi-r Plating, on hard uml soil met-
als, EUREKA PHTING WORKS. Terms it.oiierate.
lffli Kearny atrtCt, between Post and Sutler sts. 4vlS3m

Journal of Useful Arts, Science, and Mining and Mechanical Progress.

in DEM'EY &. CO.,
Patent Solicitors.

San Francisco, Saturday, April io, 1869.

Table of Contents.

VOLUME XVIII.
2Viiml>er I £>.

rremlum Farm tiate— Illus.

Vein Characteristics anil Oc
0 UJO of Khlle Pine.

Railroad Items,

Brilliiiut Whitewash.

The Toad Hydraulic Mining
Shaft.

geological Survey of Ohio.

Efltaet of Ou upon Furniture.

Tin' Copper Trade.

El F. <l 1 BCtUI Iri ■ NotCS.

While Fine Specimens.
Carriage rtj.rln^H.
Cultivation ut' the Orange.
■' rn I'ucillc BaUroad.

1 In;

Pine Itema

■ and Uevelopmenls
imorovcd Concentrator.

Nevada Stale Mineralogist's
lte|i(irl.

6 Ring.

Mechanics' Instituto Fair.
.Mining Titles.

San Francis 0 Mining Share-
liuljdra' Directory.

MkciI inic M. Hl«ORLLAPT.—
New Process lor Coloring
Building Stone: The Had

dine Process; AniMncrtM'

tators; Photographic Lens-
ea, etc.

SdKSTIFIC MtSCKLLANY.—

Bauxite; chemical Engl,
necihig; Eoplivioti and Eo-
zoon, etc

ExytXKKKI.IG Ml?CKLt.*NY —
Engineers ill Town; Dell
nition of Engineering, cic.

HlMiHoBOHHaur— Comprising
late lutclligcttcc in. in the
various cottmlea and dis-
tricts lit Cttlliornia.Arizoia,
LI. 1I1., Nevada. Oregon,
Washington and Wyoming.

San Francisco Melnl Market.
Francisco Market Rates.

Notices to Correspondents.

Stock Frlccs— Bid and Asked.

New Incorporations.

New Patents and Inventions.

Smelting.

It is the general impression that most of
tlie base metal mines at White Pine will be
to a great extent dependent in the matter of
profitable operations, on the success of
smelting. To the smelting of carbonates
of lead and copper plentifully found there
in several localities, there can be no ob-
stacle except too low an average of silver
in the ore; and there is never any obstacle
or difficulty in the smelting of very rich
refractory ores, but inexperience and in-
competency on the part of the smelter, —
who may be an assayer, familiar with his
art by rote, rather than with the principles
of metallurgy on which his operations are
based. A smelter, to be depended upon in
the construction and inauguration of new
works, must have had years of experience
in establishments of the kind, precisely as
would be the case with a foundryman, or
an iron ore smelter; but with the difference
that a foundryman 's wastes and failures are
not in precious silver. To smelt low grade
ores, in a new country, with limited re-
sources and appliances at command, or
available only at extravagant figures, is a
question of another kind — a problem that
even the mo,st competent smelter could fail
in solving, or indeed would be likely to
fail in, unless he wore at the same time
somewhat of a financier.

There are half a dozen White Pine smelt-
ing establishments on the tapis, all of them
we believe in statu quo, so far as the pro-
duction remuneratively of bullion is con-
cerned. The cupola furnace is preferred,
with bellows or fan blasts, a good fire-
proof sandstone (?) being found in the vi-
cinity of Treasure Hill. Parties in this
city are taking steps, we are informed, for
the construction also of a reverberatory
furnace, with a view to avoiding, by the
use of a chimney, the exrpense of the
blast.

Smelting has been practiced with varied
success and in every imaginable kind of
furnace, in this city, at Oreana, Adobe
Meadow, and Owen's Eiver, Nevada; at
Stockton and Cottonwood Canon, Utah; and
at Central City and Georgetown, Colorado;
and at several places in Montana. In Mex-
ico there are hundreds of small adobe cu-
pola furnaces, lined with steep, and lime
coating above the melting zones, fluxed

working successfully on rich ores in the
hands of the commonest greasers. Some
of the ores treated by these aboriginal metal-
lurgists are first subjected to heap roasting.
We hear of another universal (lux. — a
new discovery, consequently better than
all former universal fluxes put together.
Its virtues are vouched for to us, by per-
sons who do not pretend, however, to un-
derstand fully the subject — the substance
used being kept a great secret. It is prob-
ably cryolite, some "silicate of alumina," —
or a humbug. Except in one or two very
judiciously managed establishments, it is
safe to predict that smelting stock at White
Pine will very soon be below par.

Improved Concenieatoe. — Mr. Hunger-
ford, of the Hungcrford & Prater Concen-
trator, has recently made some important
improvements to the machine with which
his name is connected. This improved
machine is now at the Pacific Foundry,

Premium Farm Gate.

A substantial and cheap farm gate, which
shall combine economy with practibility
and neatness is a great desideratum among
farmers. Many devices have been patented
and introduced; but none as yet appear to
have come into very general or permanent
use in this State. We give herewith, how-
ever, an illustration of a gate, which seems
to come about as near meeting the precise
necessities of the case as anything with
which we have hitherto met. This is known
as the " Sear's Excelsior Farm Slide Gate, "
and has been quite extensively introduced
throughout the Atlantic States where it is
said to have taken the first premium in
everj' State or County fair in which it has
been entered. Mr. D. S. Lusk, of this city,
who has purchased the right for build-
ing and selling this gate on the Pacific

White Pine Specimens.- — A specimen
from the Eberhardt recently analyzed by
Mr. J. H. C. Bennett, contained GO per
cent, of silver, 20 per cent, chlorine, and
20 per cent of earthy looking matter; the
latter consisting of six to seven of arsenic,
less than one per cent, of copper, and the
rest, or 10 to 12 per cent, of carbonate of
lime. This is the ordinary "chloride"
ore. Miners in Eastern Nevada make a
distinction between " chloride" and " horn
silver;" the latter being simply the pure
chloride, which looks like horn when not
mixed with an earthy gangue.

We have seen a specimen showing chlo-
ride interstratified between layers of car-
bonate of lime, each kind or layer being a
quarter of an inch in thickness. The owner
was satisfied in knowing that it was " White
Pine ore," and was not able to inform us
whether the stratification of the specimen
as found was conformable with that of the

Coast, has already introduced it upon quite I sedimentary rocks of tho country; or
a number of farms in Alameda County. He I whether it is a fact that chloride ore at

where its operation, during the past week,
has been witnessed and closely observed by
quite a number of millmen, miners and
others. The modification consists first, in
the mode of distribution of the sand as it
is fed to the machine. This is now effected
by a series of radial arms springing from
the feeding fountain in the center, the sand
being received through these arms into a
circular trough, which also acts as a screen,
preventing the access of coarse particles of
sand to the table, which seriously inter-
feres with the proper concentration of the
sulphurets. The* second modification or
improvement consists in the application of
an automatic feeding arrangement, which
is to be employed when the machine is put
to work upon sands that have been pre-
viously collected in bulk, and which have
to be shoveled into the machine, instead
of being regularly fed into it, as from a
battery. By this arrangement a box may
be filled, of sufficient capacity to employ
the machine for a half hour or more, and
by the stream of feed water automatically
moved along from front to the rear of the
box, the sand is gradually fed to the con-
centrating table, slow or fast, as may be re-
quired. This automatic feed arrangement

n , . seems perfect in its operation, and must

with alkali (carbonate of soda) principally, save a iai.ge amount of labor, in working
and heated by means of hand-bellows, — sands from masses of that material.

SEAR'S EXCELSIOR FARM SLIDE GATE.

now proposes to dispose of State
County rights.

By reference to the illustration, it will be
observed that the construction and opera-
tion is exceedingly simple; it may be hung
upon any ordinary panel fence — one of the
panels of the fence itself being readily con-
verted into a gate. All that is requisite is
to procure three or four small and simple
castings, when any ordinary workman can
readily construct and hang the gate. These
gates, when made of unplaned fencing can
be constructed at a total cost of from i?4 to
$5. The gateway being narrower than an
ordinary full fence panel, the gate itself is
made to " overhang"and thus partially bal-
ance its own weight, so that on opening, an
expenditure of butlittle strength isrequired
at the start, when the gate is soon balanced
and moves with a very slight effort. For
further particulars, apply to D. S. Lusk, or
to Messrs. Baker & Hamilton, No. 19 Front
street, San Francisco, where a model gate
can be seen.

To be Fenced. — The track of the West-
ern Pacific Boad is to be fenced on both
sides of the same from Brighton to Oak-
land. This is a goqd more, and one which
should be followed by railroads throughout
the State.

and | White Pine sometimes shows the phenom-
| enon of vein stratification — of having lay-
ers parallel with the general direction of
the vein. In either case the specimen was
an interesting one, indicating, 1st, either
that argentiferous and calcareous solutions
alternated; or 2d, that the precipitating re-
agents were different, and that they alter-
nated in their flow; whether the deposit
was sedimentary, or of the character pecu-
liar to veins; or 3d, that the silver solu-
tions infiltrated between the thinnest lime-
stone planes, presuming that these were in
position, without permeating or affecting
the substance of the lime mineral.

Mr. G. W. Stewart brings us specimens
from the Illinois mine, three-eighths of a
mile northeast of the Eberhardt, consisting
of silver glance or black sulphuret of silver
disseminated in granular limestone; from
the Mocking Bird mine, consisting of chlo-
ride with a few stains of blue carbonate of
copper; and a. piece of croppings of the
latter, resembling chloride, but containing
nothing at all. These ores assay from $250
to $2,000, the vein on which these mines
are situated being supposed to be, the same
as that of the Silver Glance mme, and dip-
ping westwardly into fire hilh

Bromides are said to exist quite commonly;
generally the mineral is nothing more than
a brown chloride, distinguished by that
nam". Bromine has been traced in some of
the White Pine ores, as we are informed on
the authority of Mr. Richard A, Cochrane,
assayer.

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Vein Characteristics and Geology of
White Pine.

So slight and unsatisfactory has been the
information of a definite character 'hitherto
obtainable on this subject, that we wel-
come the following data (from the pen, we
suspect, of Dr. Degrcot) as a contribution
of greater importance than most that have
preceded it, descriptive of White Pine and
its ore deposits. It is extracted from Ban-
croft's Guide to White Pine, accompany-
ing the map noticed in another column, —
a 12mo. pamphlet of 31 pages :

Towards its northern extremity and in
the vicinity of the recently-discovered rich
mines, the "White Pine chain of mountains
separates into several parallel ranges; the
most western of which consists of the Po-
gonip Mountain ; the central eminence be-
ing designated Treasure Hill; and the most
eastern Mokomoke Hill, the latter pecu-
liarly constituted and constructed, being
composed of silicious and argillaceous
rocks, but little disturbed from horizontal
in their upheaval. Pogonip and Treasure
Hill are calcareous or magnesian in com-
position; much disturbed and tilted in
their uprising through the superior rocks
and superficial debris, presenting their
naked walls and sides of limestone rock,
seamed by the sparry stria that indicate
the slumbering wealth of their bowels.
The limestone rocks exhibit themselves lat-
itudinally, some eight or nine miles, and
longitudinally are coextensive with the
range some hundreds of miles. They are
the home of the chlorinated ores on Treas-
ure Hill, and of the base metals on the
west. It is yet undetermined which of
these repositovies will be ultimately the
richest, but our practical operators, capti-
vated by the known riches, and especially
by the great facility in working the first-
class ores, have in a great measure con-
fined their observations and labor to them.
In addition to the facility of reduction,
Treasure Hill, from its accessibility on all
sides, and its proximity to wood and water,
has a present advantage that in all proba-
bility the future will not disturb. A ref-
erence to the map will show that the Base
Range has not been entirely neglected,
while the assays, ranging from §20 to §200,
and the abundance of galena and other
fluxes, justify the belief that the four
smelting furnaces now erecting will be
successful ventures, and will swell the
amount of bullion the coming season. Sil-
ica enters into the composition of the veins
of the east and north Treasure Hill, but
westwardly, including Pogonip, the
gangues are calcareous, being calc, fiuor,
and bitter spar, holding in connection chlo-
rides, carbonates, oxides, phosphates end
sulphurets of the various raetals;

The disposition of the metals is not so
easily recognized, inasmuch as chlorine has
altered the usual types of the ores, and the
assays are not yet sufficiently numerous to
cover the ranges of the mineral. Gold,
silver, copper, lead, bismuth, and arsenic
have been exhibited, but their relations in
place to each other lias not yet been accu-
rately indicated. In the Eberhardt and
coincident mines, silver is found combined
with lead, bismuth, antimony and arsenic,
making in special sections a rich, soft,
black ore, valuing up to $20,000 per ton.
The Tirginia and Pocotillo ores are en-
tirely unlike the preceding, though abound-
ing in chlorine, being silicious instead of
sparry, and having copper and iron in lieu
of lead and bismuth. The Aurora and
Hidden Treasure ores are less contaminated,
being more purely argentiferous, occasion-
ally yielding native metal. A marked dif-
ference is apparent in the ores of the differ-
ent sections of the hill, caused by various
amounts of igneous action. In some places
the veins are much, disturbed, projecting
to the surface large masses of conglomerate
and agatized rock, making the ordinary
simple reduction impracticable, while in
other places the veins are sleeping in a nor-
mal state, the only evidence of their exist-
ence being the sparry stripes that furrow
the surface. The paucity of gold in this
connection is a remarkable feature; so far
as has been observed, it is confined strictly
to the gangues and to limited amounts, the
sparry assays having failed to give even an
indication ; whether wasted by chlorinatiou
or non-existent primarily, the future must
determine.

Tbeasuke Hill, exclusive of its outliers,
extends five miles north to south, and two
and one-half miles east to west. It is a
great shaft of calcareous matter, stratified
dolomites and schists, crescent shaped at
its summit, its northwestern horn being
produced in tbe Hamilton Bidge, and its
fcputliwestern tovyards Silver Springs. Its

hight from the gulches that circle it is
nearly 2,000 feet, and from the sea 9,000.
Its northern apex is volcanically disturbed,
while its southern crests are tilted west-
ward, at an angle of thirty degrees. Its
venous system is gigantic in number, size
and wealth, and Potosi and Charnacillo will
have to give precedence to their northern
rival.

The»eand Guanajuato, the richest Mexi-
cau mine, are constituted like Treasure
Hill , not only in the country rock and vein
stuff, but are essentially the same in miner-
alization, all producing more or less the
chloride ores. This likeness should lessen
the prejudices that exist in the breasts of
many against the lime rocks, and their last
misdoubts should be removed by the dura-
tion of the Potosi, and the profundity of
Charnacillo, which, at 1,600 feet in depth,
is yet productive. Treasure Hill has the
advantage of Potosi in accessibility and
temperature, and of Charnacillo in wood
and water, and of both in its extraordinary
facilities for exploitation. The Hill is
nearly encircled by water gulches; its sides
are clothed with wood, and it is rifted from
top to bottom by great metallic lodes, that
course over it in all directions. There is
no water, however, in the hill, to embarass
the miner, who can delve in at the bottom,
sides or top, at his discretion.

Ten systems of veins are exhibited in
Treasure Hill; in addition to which the
great northwest and southeast courses or
belts sweep over, making irregular emis-
sions of vein stuff, that will often compro-
mise the regular fissure veins, dislocating
some and infiltrating others, and the inter-
vals between them, making a seeming,
though false and unreliable vein. These
rocks can be distinguished from those of
true veins by their transverse structure.
A person on Treasure Hill, looking west-
ward on the Pogonip Mountain, will see
ribs and ridges coursing down its sides in
various directions, but westerly and con-
tinuous over the intervening space; and
turning to the Mokomoke on the east, will
perceive coincident impressions. Advanc-
ing to the Pogonip Flat above the Eber-
hardt, he will see the foot-hills shaped into
ridges bearing north and south, and from
Hamilton he cannot fail to note the same
obvious indications on the north end of
Treasure Hill. These are the great north-
ern courses that range over the Hill, con-
tributing largely to its characteristics by
their great size and productiveness. To
form an idea of the tesselated character of
the Hill caused by. these multifarious veins
intersecting each other, rule the mountain
over, creating a labyrinth that can only be
traveled by a rigorous adherence to rule.
The ignorant mind that does not perceive
the venous connection, imagines spurs and
angles. Occasionally a "Stoeckwerk" will
occur, in which a vein will branch and
floor itself; but it is superficial, and in
depth it will resume its integrity. AVbere
the rock is refractory or the vein weak, a
decisive rupture will not be had, and the
vein will expire between the layers that
are partially uplifted, or struggle through
the interstices in an irregular manner. Ex-
amples of these two modes are frequent in
Chloride Plat and many other localities,
and fnduce the most incongruous theories
in respect to the metallic arrangement.
Veins are right-lined (save where faults
occur that are readily noted by the miner) ,
have an invariable dip, not in amount but
in kind, and an unvarying parallelism. The
constant nature of the strike, dip and par-
allelism of veins is a necessity arising from
their creation. Break up a body of ice by
an underflow of a wave, and the ruptures
will be at regular distances conditioned on
the thickness of the ice and the power of
the wave, and they will be found to Lave
a dip accordant with the force exerted. An
earthquake wave flowing from the west
would make a north and south rupture
with a western dip, and the dip would be
greater and the rupture more distant, the
deeper seated the wave. So a north wave
would give a north dip to it3 fracture, and
at ten miles in the interior of the earth
will produce veins more remote from each
other than at five miles. The longer the
spoke, the longer the felloes 'of a wheel.

"When the imaginary lines representing
the several systems of veins are drawn over
the hill, do not expect to find each one rep-
resented by a vein. The crevice was made
but may not have been filled, and therefore
was closed up making, where this is a gen-
eral occurrence, a weak and unproductive
district. In ordinary, the third or fourth
vein of a series will seem to rob its fellows
and attain greater bulk, and sometimes all
the veins will be surcharged and make an
Eberhardt or Chloride Flat, though as in
the case of the flat, they are concealed by
a refractory surface.
Like other sections of Nevada, where

the northwestern and southeastern courses
are secondarily affected, remarkable results
follow. "While not dictating the conforma-
tion of the Hill, they exercise a great con-
trol over it, and their influence is more es-
pecially visible in the veins and bedrock of
the Country. These courses at times give
expression to new vein matter, that fills the
intercalated country, aDd binds the fissure
veins together, apparently in a new vein,
while at other times, without adding mat-
ter, it changes the state of the precxistent
veins by baking them with heat, or by a
reinfusion of chlorine. The schists, more
than the dolomites, exhibit this influence,
by being debilitated even to the point of
incineration, and coated all over by the
gray earthy chlorides. It will not be un-
safe to say, that, in this connection, the
purest silver ores will be found, as the base
chlorides will have been removed under
the conditions needed to produce this state,
— i. e., heat and moisture — while the in-
soluble silver chlorides will remain.

Railroad Items.

The Peoposed Railboad to White
Pine is attracting a large share of atten-
tion. A gentleman intimately connected
with the Central Pacific Railroad has as-
sured the editor of the Waits Pine JNews
that a railroad will certainly be built from
some point at or near Elko to "White Pine
with all reasonable dispatch, and that work
will be commenced within a very few
months. "With the large number of men
which that company could put to work as
soon as the junction is made between the
two overland roads, the "White Pine road
could be graded inside of three months,
and the iron horse might reach there within
four months. The importance of such a
road can scarcely be estimated. Besides
accommodating the vast crowd of travelers
that must for years pass to and from White
Pine, and greatly decreasing the cost of work-
ing the mines there, it would lead to the
rapid development of a large area of agri-
cultural territory. The early extension of
such a road to the Colorado, which would
soon follow, would also give us a connect-
ing link between the two great continental
railroads — the Central and Southern — at a
point precisely where such connection
would be most needed. The inception and
early completion of this road is an im-
provement of the utmost need.

In reference to this road, " Jig," the
Gold Hill News correspondent, says Carlin,
not Elko, should be the point of junction
for an interior north and south road. Along
the line would be a belt of fine agricultural
land, 70 miles in length, and varying in
width from 10 to 30 miles, bounded along
the western side by the Diamond range of
mountains, and on the eastern side by the
White Pine range, through a low gap of
which Ruby Valley is reached six miles
from Jacob's Wells.

Oeoville and Vikginia Ratlboad. —
This company, at the head of which is John
Bensley, the well known capitalist, com-
menced grading near Oroville on the 30th
ult. That work would have been com-
menced sooner but for litigation instituted
by another company. The western con-
nections will be with the California North-
ern Bailroad at Oroville, and the Vallejo
and Mai-ysville road, with a Sacramento
connection at Davisville. The distance
from Vallejo to the State line will be 241
miles. The road runs up the North Fork
of Feather river to a point opposite Qr^incy ,
thence through the American Valley to the
Middle Fork of Feather 'River, and thence
direct to the Beckwourth Pass. The maxi-
mum gradient is 66.7-12 feet; average grade
only 34 feet per mile. The greatest eleva-
tion attained is only 4,682 feet above the
sea.

Tulabe and Gileoy. — The citizens of
Tulare are jubilant over the prospect of
an early connection by rail with San Fran-
cisco direct. The Stockton Gazelle says the
prospect is flattering for the success of the
new plan for building the railroad from
that city up the valley of the San Joaquin.
There is every reason for believing that 30
miles of the road will be in operation by
the first of August next; — while the cars
which are already runuing from this city
to Gilroy will soon cross over the Coast
Bange and plunge down into the rich and
fertile valley beyond. Prudent business

men foresee the value of these improve-
ments and are shaping themselves to take
an early advantage thereof. The comple-
tion of these roads, both of which may
now be considered a matter of early accom-
plishment, will at once fill up the Tulare
Valley with a large agricultural and min-
jng population. The people now'there are
already beginning to prepare themselves
for the approaching train.

The Westeen Pacific. — Work upon this
road is being pushed with vigor, such as'
has been seen nowhere else in the whole
history of railroad building, except on the
Pacific Coast. The whistle of the locomo-
tive will soon be heard in Stockton; while
the San Francisco connection is approach-
ing the same point as rapidly as money,
muscle and gunpowder can push the work
ahead.

The Noetheen Coast Railway. — Oregon
is fully alive to the importance of her sys-
tem of railway connections. She wants
population east of the Cascade range, and
she wants a better outlet to the south for
the increasing products of her rich valleys
to the east of the Coast Range. To accom-
plish this, she is addressing all her ener-
gies to a connection with the Central Pa-
cific, somewhere in Nevada. To carry out
the latter, two routes are proposed, both of
which look to a direct connection of the
magnificent valley of the Willamette with
this city — one by way of Humboldt and
Petaluma; the other down the Sacramento
Valley to Morysville. Both are needed and
are sure to be constructed. The rivalry
between the friends of the two will effect
their construction all the sooner.

California, just now, has a larger interest
in the Humboldt than in the Marysville
route. A road will soon connect this city
with Eureka; while the Oregonians in the
mean time, will be pushing a main trunk
clown the Willamette from Portland to a
point where-the most convenient pass will
be found to cross the Cascade range, on
the way to connect with the Central Pacific.
When both these works are thus far com-
pleted, there will be only about 100 miles
needed to connect Eureka with Jackson-
ville, which point will at any time be in
easy -connection with the Portland and Cen-
tral -Pacific line. The advantage to be de-
rived from such a connection would ensure
its early completion, and we should then
have a system of roads connecting the two
great Pacific States, the importance of which
can scarcely be estimated.

Raileoad to Puget Sodnd. — The move-
ment by Ben. Holladay and others con-
nected with him in the proposal for a
railroad from the Columbia River to Puget
Sound, is attracting much attention from
the large land owners on the southern
shores of that water. Olympia, Stella-
coom, and the new towns of Tacoma and
Jerusalem are each anxious to secure the
terminus of the road within their limits,
and are all making handsome offers to Mr.
Holladay in the way of land. The fact that
the road will be speedily built seems to bo
a matter of no doubt whatever. A glance
at the map will show at once the great ad-
vantage of a railroad connecting the Colum-
bia with Puget Sound.

To Placeeville. — The citizens of Pla-
cerville appear to be at work in earnest, to
remove the difficulties in the way of the
early completion of the Folsom road to that
city. The only hindrance to the accom-
plishment of this much desired improve-
ment, consists of vexatious questions of
conflicting interests, which are now in the
courts; but which it is proposed to settle
amicably, to the end that the pick and
shovel may be put into operation. When
"John" gets to work on the road, unhin-
dered by the pecuniary quarrels of the wl ite
man, the people are sure to be benefited
by his labors.

Raileoad foe Vacavtlle. — The citizens
of Vacaville held a meeting in that place
on Friday of last week, to organize a rail-
road company, to build a railroad from a
point on the California Pacific Railroad to
Vacaville, a distauce of three aud one-half
miles. The books were opened and §15,000
subscribed by citizens of the town. The
estimated cost of the road is §25,000, which
the people here think can be raised and the
road running by the 1st of May.

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.Vcc /truncal.

New Process fob Coiionma Be

Stum:.— Dr. J. M. Weisso, of New York,
has, after long experimenting, iuventeil a
method by which blocks of marble or gran-
ite are colored through ami through, and
that, too, permanently. Heretofore, all
plans having this object for their end,
have failed; the stone being either stained
fey them upon the surfaco only, or the
color being changeable with time. The
process of Dr. W. is not yet given to the
public in detail, but the 8 I American

Bays of it: " We are informed that the pro-
<-<->^ is based upon the discovery of a now
mordant, which has such an attraction for
Btone that when a largo block has only its
base immers*ed in the solution, it will in a
short time become permeated through the
entire moss, increasing its specific gravity,
and tilling its pores so that the absorption
of water is rendered very much less when
subsequently exposed to the weather, than
previous to the operation. When it is re-
membered that the absorption of water,
uud its subsequent expansion by frost is
ouo of the greatest causes of disintegration
in our climate, it will at once be seen that
an important collateral gain is obtained by
the new process. Marbles colored by this
process in the rough, afterward take a most
beautiful polish, and specimens of dolomite
polished previous to coloring have their
polish hightened by it. We have before
us a piece of marble picked up in a com-
mon marhle yard, of a cheap variety, one
side polished the other rough, which has
been colored by this process, aud which the
best judges invariably pronounce to be
genuine Sienna marble."

The Radcliffe Process. — Tlia Engineer
recently visited the Consett Iron Works,
and witnessed in practical operation, the
production, by the Radcliffe process, of
finished bars, sheets, and plates direct from
the puddled ball. An example, taken at
random from the importer's note book, is
given to show of what the process i3 ca-
pable:

"At half-past three p. m. , the first of
eight puddled balls was brought from the
furnace and placed on the anvil. In four
minutes and a half this and seven [other
balls were welded into a slab weighing 584
pounds. At twenty-six minutes to four
o'clock this pile was placed in the heating
furnace; at nineteen minutes to four o'clock
it was taken out and broughtto the rolls; at
fourteen minutes to four o'clock it lay on
the floor of the mill ready for shearing. Thus,
precisely sixteen minutes were occupied in
producing the plate from the puddled ball.
The weight of the plate before shearing
was 574 pounds. It was then sheared to
tlie finished size, 20 feet by 3 feet; thick-
ness, 3-16ths inch nearly; "weight sheared,
448 pounds. It is necessary to point out
here how much is gained in time, coal,
iron, labor, and finally, in money, by the
Radcliffe process, ' as compared with old
systems of manufacture ? The question
here is, what is the quality of the finished
plate, bar, or rail ? We examined some
scores of specimens. Plates 7-8ths inch
thick, bent cold to an angle of 90°. Thinner
rjlates bent upon themselves, coiled into a
helix, split aud bent backwards and for-
wards, dished up into troughs, twisted and
tortured in every imaginable fashion,
punched close to the edge — as close as
holes would go — yet no symptom of crack
or flaw. We have no hesitation in classing
the specimens we examined with the very
best ship-plates in the market; and yet
these plates are produced at a price which
has enabled Mr. Radcliffe to take very
heavy orders from Dutch shipbuilders,
beating Belgium out of the market, and
yet leaving a fair profit."

Our readers will recollect the reference
which we have before made to this process.

Anti-Incrustators. — A writer in the
Scientific American, says: The genius of in-
ventors has been, for some time past, tasked
to discover some means of preventing in-
crustations in steam boilers. Chemical
science, natural philosophy, and mechan-
ics have each contributed many " panaceas"
for the attainment of this purpose, but we
confess that we know of no remedy applica-
ble in all cases, neither do we believe that
such will be discovered. A good chemist,
knowing the impurities of any particular
water, may, in some cases, be able to indi-
cate to the engineer A chemical agent which
will precipitate a portion in a special feed-
water tank; but in many instances the

chemicals will end by acting deleteriously
on the boiler or on the rubbing surfaces of
the engine. Heating the feed water by
means ol the exhaust steam is in most eases
inefficient. Successful precipitation at
temperatures higher than boiling water,
needs the employment of accessory high-
i' i ire boilers, which in the turn become
inerustcd, and waste as ranch fuel as the
original boiler, Blowing off is unsatisfac-
tory. Surface condensers, as at present
mannfoctnred, are too expensive and ob-
jectionable from other canses. A hundred
"patented" and " unpatented" anti-incnex-
tutors may individually find useful applica-
tion in special cases; but nouc will answer
for all sorts of boilers nor for all kinds of
water. The matter must in each case be
left to the judgment aud science of the
competent engineer.

Photographic Lenses.— Wo find the
following in The Engineer: It is not gener-
ally knowrn that a good lens for landscape
photography may be made out of a specta-
cle eyo costing less than sixpence. Sup-
pose a spectacle glass of six inches in focal
length be chosen, it should be slightly
meniscus and nearly plano-convex in form.
The convex side should be turned towards
the inside of the camera, and the diameter
of tho lens be reduced to a little more than
a third of an inch, by means of a piece of
paper perforated by a round hole of the
required diameter, and pasted upon the
lens. A stop of about one-fourth inch ap-
erture should be fixed in the tube of the
lens one-third inch in front of the concave
surface. A simple lens of this kind will
not bring the chemical and visual rays to
the same focus, so after focussing, the lens
must be pushed one-thirtieth of its focal
length nearer to the ground glass. A good
photographer can get excellent binocular
landscape pictures iu a still simpler way,
though the exposure will be rather long.
Two round holes one- fourth inch diameter,
should be bored in the front of the camera,
and an old pair of spectacles then be nailed
on the wood, so that the centers of the
glasses cover the two holes. It is also not
generally known to photographers, that
those who have binocular portrait lenses
may often save themselves tbe expense of
buying a doublet or triplet for copying
purposes. The two front lenses of the por-
trait combinations should be screwed into
opposite ends of the same tube, and a small
stop be inserted between. This makes a
good doublet, giving sharp definition and
straight marginal lines.

Foe Molders in Plasteb. — Dr. Hoff-
man, in the Journal cle Chimie, recommends
the addition of a coat of glycerine to the
ordinary soap coating used in molding in
plaster. For some time past, the separa-
tion of the proof from the mold has be-
come more difficult, from the deterioration
of soap.

Effect of Cold upon Tin. — M. Frit-
sche recently exhibited to the Paris Acad-
emy of Sciences some specimens of tin
which had undergone a change in their
atomic composition during the excessive
cold of last winter. Large blocks had be-
come crystallized throughout their entire
mass, and had assumed a basaltic appear-
ance. The most peculiar circumstance ob-
served was the formation of large hollow
spaces in the midst of the blocks, which in
some cases reached the extent of a hundred
cubic centimeters. The sides of ttkese cav-
ities were perfectly smooth, with metallic
reflections, while the rest of the tin, where
broken up into small grains, or :nto pieces
of various sizes, had a dull surface, caused,
probably, by oxidation. This phenomenon
had been previously noticed in practice,
but, with the exception of a case mentioned
by M. Erdman, in which the pipes of an
organ were found to have been affected in
a similar manner, nothing seems to have
been published on tho subject.

Finishing Taps and Reamers. — " D. B.
K."s ends the Scientific American his method,
which is as follows: " The forgings are got
out in the usual way, left to anneal, then
centered and turned just sufficient to re-
move the scale. Then anneal again and
turn down to within a thirty-second of an
inch or less, of finishing size. Anneal once
more and finish in the lathe. If not sprung
in turning, the tap or reamer will come out
all right when hardened. I have tried this
process with taps one-eighth inch diameter
and three inches long up to those one inch
diameter and two feet long and found it al-
ways safe and sure."

James F. Smith has hit upon a simple
way of cleaning files filled with work. He
simply holds them in a jet of steam under
forty pounds pressure. In one minute the
files come out ' ' as good as new. "

Scientific Miseetlemy

Chemical Engineering. — Under this
head, Prof. Henry Wurtz has an article in
the Manufacturer and Builder. We give a
sentenco from the opening paragraph:

"The time has almost como when few
will sneer at the statement that more is to
be learned, of a strictly practical kind, in
relation to the laws governing the strength
and durability of materials— an accurate
understanding of which is so essential to
the weal of man — from the investigations
of scientists, than from all the experiments
with brick aud mortar since tho building
of the Tower of Babel."

After alluding to the importance of a
knowledge of the matters relating to the
molecular structure and texture of mate-
rials, and the changes which these undergo,
in reference to the disasters caused by the
sudden breaking of axles, the fall of build-
ings, or the bursting of boilers, Prof. W.
says:

"Tbe new experiment of steel rails, in
a climate like ours, whose intense cold is
known to destroy the viscosity of steel and
leave only its brittleness, is contemplated
with foreboding. This leads to the sug-
gestion that no questions require the at-
tention of the investigator more than those
connected with the different kinds of con-
sistence of matter, the influence of various
agents in modifying the same, and the
modes of producing and conserving any
desired form of consistence. Graham has
generalized all consistence under two
heads: the crystalloid and colloid. It
seems clear to me that to these must be
added the viscous or viscoid consistence, if
not still other distinct species. Another
great field for the chemical engineer is the
preservation from decay, from fire and
other destructive agencies, of such sub-
stances as stone, wood and other materials
used in building, and in the construction
of vehicles. It is clear that iron as a mate-
rial for these purposes is continually dis-
appointing the sanguine expectations of
those who do not understand well its in-
herent defects; and I believe the time will
soon come when wood, so prepared chem-
ically as to be incombustible, indestructi-
ble, and a perfect non-conductor of heat,
will be the almost universal material used
in the construction of buildings and vehi-
cles, except, of course, the machinery of
the latter."

Eophtton and Eozoon. — The remains
of a terrestrial flora have recently been dis-
covered in certain Swedish rocks of Lower
Cambrian age. These, so far as we yet
know, are the earliest land plants. The
discovery of this Eophyion is of equal in-
terest with that of Eozoon, — the earliest
animal organism, — in the Laurentian rocks
of Canada. The Quarterly Journal of Sci-
ence says: " A peculiar interest attaches
to this discovery, inasmuch as it carries
back the appearance of terrestrial vegetation
upon the earth's surface through a vast in-
terval of time, no land-plants having pre-
viously been known older than the Upper
Ludlow beds. The Swedish fossils now
discovered appear to be the stems and long
parallel-veined leaves of monocotyledonous
plants, somewhat allied to the grasses and
rushes of the present day. These plants
apparently grew on the margin of shallow
waters, and were buried in sand or silt,
although it is probable that several spe-
cies, and even genera, may occur in the
sandstone blocks which have been exam-
ined. They are provisionally included in
a single species, to which the name of
Eophyton Linnazanum has been given."

Bbitish Academx of Sciences.— It is
reported that an effort will soon be made to
unite all the scientific bodies of London
into one institution, under the title of the
British Academy of Sciences. The Scien-
tific Opinion says: " Of course the Royal
Society must always stand apart; but it
seems to us that a fusion of the other
societies would be productive of advant-
ages both to the societies themselves and
to scientific progress."

St. Domingo. — "We understand that
Prof. W. M. Gabb, formerly connected with
the California Survey, and now State Geolo-
gist of Santo Domingo, will sail in a few
days for the latter country, to commence
the work of a topographical and geolog-
ical survey, with especial reference to the
valuable mineral deposits which are known
to abound in the island." — Am. Journal of
Alining, Feb. 13.

Bauxite. — We clip the following from
tho last number of tho Journal of Applied
Chemistry ; " A v*ry important mineral
has been found in France, which ought to
bo looked for among the irou mines of this
country. It is called bauxite, after the de-
partment in which it was found. We de-
sire to call particular attention to it, as it is
probably overlooked or mistaken for a poor
clay iron ore. It may be regarded as a
hydrated oxide of alumina, in which the
iron has been replaced by alumina. The
most remarkable thing about it is the en-
tire absence of silica, so that it does not
resemble kaolin or potters' clay. Bauxite
has already numerous applications in the
arts. It is employed iu the manufacture
of aluminum; it forms a soluble compound
with baryta, which enables us to obtain
alumina free from iron. By fusing baux-
ite with soda-ash an aluminate of soda is
produced, which has extensive application
in calico printing, and which could be
employed in the manufacture of glass and
of ultra-marine. It is also proposed to
fuse it with common salt, as a first step in
a new process for the manufacture of soda-
ash. A large establishment in Newcastle
prepares sixty tons of sulphate of alumina
every month from bauxite. They also
make aluminate of soda and sulphate of
alumina from it, the latter salt being of
great value in the manufacture of beet
sugar. Very few minerals of recent dis-
covery have attracted more attention thau
this, and it is to be hoped that deposits of
it will be discovered in the United States. "

Kjcskkenmceddings in Iowa. — C. A.
White briefly describes, in the American
Naturalist for March, some aboriginal
relics recently found upon tho banks of
the Des Moines River, near Keosauqua,
Iowa. Heaps of shells like those of the
mollusks which now inhabit the stream,
mingled with bones of the deer, the skulls
of fresh-water turtles, flint arrow-heads and
knives, and fragments of crude pottery,
werefound. Pieces of charcoal were scat-
tered through the mass. The bed of the
stream at this point is especially fitted for
the home of these mollusks; and it is evi-
dent that this was a cooking and eating
place for many years. The examination of
the locality is to be resumed during the
coming season.

Chemical Substitution of Metals. — "A
clean piece of iron dipped into a solution
of copper vitriol becomes immediately
coated with pure copper. If the iron is
left long enough, the blue solution will
turn green, indicating that tho iron has
been dissolved and the copper removed.
The coating of copper has become thicker
and thicker; and if the piece of iron was
large enough, all the copper will be sepa-
rated. It is plain that the iron and copper
have changed places. This is a chemical
substitution, and, with regard to the copper,
a reduction from the sulphate to a metallic
condition. The reason of this is the greater
solubility of the iron. Zinc will thus re-
duce iron, lead, copper, mercury, silver,
and gold; and these, each in the order
given, will reduce those named after it.
These substitutions were well known to the
alchemists; but they erroneously supposed
them to be conversions of one metal into
another.' Thus they supposed the iron
thrown into a copper solution to be actu-
ally converted into copper, whereas in re-
ality tbe iron is dissolved, and of course
the copper is deposited at the spot where
the iron acted upon the liquid." — Prof.
Hinriehs, — in Am. Jour. Mining.

Manufacture of Soda — New Method.
A German chemist takes the double chlo-
ride of aluminium and sodium, melts it, pul-
verizes it, and carries the powder by a
blast of a fan into a retort heated to a very
high temperature, into which enter at the
same time a jet of superheated steam. Hy-
drochloric (muriatic) acid is formed, and
aluminate of soda. The aluminate of soda,
decomposed by carbonic acid, yields a very
pure carbonate of soda, and alumina,
which latter can be used over again. The
hydrochloric acid is also a valuable prod-
uct. The method has been much praised
by the German scientific press. — Gas Light
Journal.

Dissociation.— Henry Deville says that
when hydrogen burns in ordinary oxygen
there is never more than half combustion,
even in the hottest part of the flame, owing
to the "dissociative" tension of the watery
vapor, which resists it. We diminish this,
and increase the combustion, by increasing
the pressure.

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

The Calamity at Gold Hill.

The telegraph has beSn largely occupied
for two or three days past in transmitting
intelligence of one of the most terrible min-
ing accidents which has ever occurred in
the history of mining on this coast. The
lives of some thirty or forty men work-
ing in the Yellow Jacket, the Crown Point
and the Kentuck mines at Gold Hill, Ne-
vada, have been lost in consequence of a
fire breaking out in a drift above the locali-
ties in which they were working. The fire
appears to have been first discovered at the
surface, by the smoke issuing from one or
two of the shafts; but it had made such
headway, that but very few of those en-
gaged below could escape. Every effort
which humanity, skill or daring could de-
vise, was made to reduce, as far as possible,
the effects of the calamity. The first dis-
patches received in this city created much
excitement here, which was gradually in-
tensified as the progress of the fire and the
increased extent of the calamity was made
known from hour to hour, by telegraph.

In order to understand the nature of the
accident, it should be borne in mind that
these men were working a thousand feet or
more below the surface in a locality which
could be reached only through narrow
shafts and drifts containing a large amount
of dry timber supports. The fire seems to
have broken out in the Kentuck mine; but
as the level in which it occurred was di-
rectly connected with a level at the same
depth iu the adjoining Crown Point and
Yellow Jacket mines, access was as effectu-
ally cut off from those mines as from the
Kentuck. Each of the mines had its own
shaft for entrance and exit; but all three
shatts were cut off by the fire in the com-
mon level alluded to. A few escapes were
made immediately on the alarm being given,
but the flames Bpread so rapidly that
at least thirty-two are known to have been
completely cut off. Several of those who
reached the surface did so at great hazard,
from scorching flames and deadly gases,
one or more of whom have since died. The
wood-work which took fire was the timber
and planks which supported the walls and
the roof of the drifts, and which is very
dry at that depth in those mines, some 800
feet below the surface.

At last accounts the fire had been so far
subdued that access could be had to most
parts of the mines, and up to ten o'clock
on Thursday night, twenty-eight dead
bodies had been recovered ; four more were
known to be missing and possibly eight ;
one or two had died from injuries received
while coming up. The cause of the fire
has not yet been ascertained and probably
never will be. The most probable, and in
fact the almost only reasonable surmise is
that some one had thrust the metal socket
of his candle into some dry board or piece
of timber, at a distance from where any
one was working and left it there, in such
a manner that when the candle burnt down,
the blaze came in contact and set fire to
the wood work.

The most lively sympathy has been man-
ifested in this city in behalf of the bereaved
families of the sufferers. The Board of
Brokers promptly telegraphed §1,000 for
their relief ; a benefit is to be given them
at the Alhambra Theatre, and several mis-
cellaneous subscriptions have been raised
or set on foot in their behalf. The damage
done to the mines is probably not very
large. The Yellow Jacket is the principal
sufferer. Eleven of the dead were married,
two of whom left families of five children
each.

P. S. — Since the above was in type des-
patches have been recieved up to 3 o'clock,
p. m. yesterday, from which we learn that
the fires' proke out with still greater vio-.
lence ' yegferday morning. All hopes of
saving any more lives have been abandoned,
and the 'shafts have been closed up, pre-
paratory to attempting to sniother the fire
by injecting steam. There is ' now danger
that the mines will be entirely destroyed.
Additional mystery hangs about the origin
p'f the fife, as some of those who escaped

assert that an explosion was distinctly felt
just as the alarm was given. The superin-
tendant says that there was no powder in
the mine, and that if an explosion occurred
it must have been caused by gases coming
from a source hitherto unlooked for in a
gold or silver mine. The total number of
deaths is now known to be thirty-seven.

Academy of Sciences.

A regular meeting of the Academy was
held on Monday evening, the President,
Dr. James Blake, in the chair.

Dr. H. W. F. McNutt was elected a
member, and L. A. Gould, of Santa Clara,
and Captain Edward Pinney were proposed
as members.

SPECIMENS AND DONATIONS.

Specimens of stalagmites were presented
by W. F. Stewart, of San Jose, and dwelt
upon by Dr. Kellogg in a paper on that
subject. Donations to the library were re-
ceived from Charles Crocker, Esq. , Super-
intendent of the Central Pacific Railroad,
consisting of stereoscopic views of rocks
and scenery taken 5,000 feet above the level
of the sea on the line of the railroad; and
from various other parties, Bulletins of the
Academie Eoyale of Belgium, and other
scientific works in French and German;
Lyceum of Natural History of New York;
Catalogue of reptiles and butrachians,
found near Springfield, Massachusetts;
Canadian Geologist and Naturalist; and
Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences of
St. Petersburg.

DIFFERENCE OP LONGITUDE BY TELEGRAPH.

Professor George Davidson described
his operations for the determination of
longitude by telegraph. The former mode
was by chronometers carried to different
points; also by eclipses or the moon's
declinations. After repeated experiments,
Mr. Davidson made the circuit between
San Francisco and Cambridge, Massachu-
setts, in 82-100 of a second, the distance
being 7,200 miles. The calculations of
former moon determinations, were found
to have been nearly correct by the electric
observations, the difference being only one
second— equal to a quarter of a mile of
longitude.

THE PETALUMA MASTODON

was reported by Mr. Bolander, who visited
the locality of its discovery, to have been
scattered among drinking saloons, etc.,
mainly in this city. He examined the rem-
nants with sufficient care to satisfy himself
that it was a true mastodon.

The Coppeeopolis Slate Quabbies. —
Two specimens of a very superior article of
roofing slate have been left with us by
Mr. L. Honigsberger, formerly of Copper-
opolis, now of this city, and one of the
owners of the newly-opened quarries be-
tween Copperopolis and Macarthy 's, on the
line of the proposed Stockton and Copper-
opolis Eailroad. The entire country is of
slate; and visitors to that section during
the copper excitements will recall the char-
acteristic sharp vertically-tilted ledges run-
ning east and west, from which these roof-
ing-slates are now obtained. Only a few
localities have been found where the qual-
ity is sufficiently good for use. It is found
that under water level the quality improves.
These specimens are from the only mines
that are worked at the present time, viz.,
from Honigsberger's, and Moore's. The
latter company has put up a house to facil-
itate the prosecution of their work. Bil-
liard table manufacturers in this city are
beginning to use slate instead of marble
to form the bed of the tables, alleging that
it is equally good, and much cheaper.

The slate in question is perfectly lam-
inated, in large pieces, and is of very fine
texture. One of them contains specks of
iron pyrites; the other is perfectly pure.
The intention is to cultivate a market in
San Francisco. We have not heard any
prices or contracts spoken of yet.

Reynold's Bullion Separation Pat-
ent.— We are informed that the patent of
John Eeynolds for separating bullion bars
without granulation, noticed in our last
issue, has been sold to Messrs. Reichling
& Sage, the assayers and refiners, at No.
234 Montgomery street, San Francisco.
Kellqgg, Hewston & Co. have the right to
use it in this State.

The Southern Pacific Railroad— Inaugu-
ration Ceremonies.

The Southern Pacific Railroad Co., hav-
ing put in operation the first section of
their road from San Jose, celebrated the
completion of the same on Thursday last.
Although the cars have been running upon
this road for over a month, the magnitude
and importance of the enterprise was con-
sidered of sufficient consequence to merit a
formal inauguration, with fitting ceremo-
nies. Accordingly a large number of invi-
tations were issued to the principal capi-
talists, merchants, and others, of this city,
and to the editorial fraternity, for an ex-
cursion over the road. Some fifteen hund-
red persons, who responded to these invi-
tations, assembled at the depot of the San
Jose road in this city at 9 o'clock, A. M., on
the day appointed, where ample accommo-
dations were provided by the Company.
A band of music was also in attendance.
The day was as beautiful as could be
wished, and the company, consisting of a
large sprinkling of ladies, was as gay and
joyful as could be desired.

On arriving at San Jose, about one thou-
sand additional persons joined the train, and
the whole party proceeded forward on the
new road, which winds, for the most of
the distance, through a succession of val-
leys of unsurpassed richness and beauty.
It was observed that on this portion of the
road the cars appeared to move more
smoothly than upon the San Jose road, in-
dicating that marked attention has been
paid to the character of its construction.
At Gilroy the train was received by a great
concourse of people, which had been gath-
ered in from the town and the region round
about. Cheers, flags, music, and placards
bearing appropriate greetings comprised
the demonstrations of joy on the occasion.
The people were soon ushered into the
Company's immense freight shed adjoin-
ing the depot, where a substantial collation
had been provided. After the well sharp-
ened appetites of those present had been
satisfied, the assemblage was called to order
by Mr. Angney, who introduced quite a
number of gentlemen as speakers, among
whom werB Messrs. George Barstow, W.
H. L. Barnes, H. M. Newhall, Dr. Isaac
Rowell, and others. The speeches were
all well timed and to the point.

Mr. Newhall spoke particularly with ref-
erence to the road, alluding to the difficul-
ties attending the construction of this, its
first section ; but said that all difficulties
were now fairly overcome, and that, in
future, its construction would go right on,
section by section, until it should reach
the Mississippi, and make a proper con-
nection with the great system of roads to
the East of that river. The remarks of
Mr. Newhall was listened to with much at-
tention.

President Newhall, Superintendent Ham-
mond, and other officers and employes of
the road, used every effort to secure the
comfort and convenience of their guests,
with praiseworthy success, especially when
we consider the immense company which
availed themselves of their invitations.
Much interest, we might say enthusiasm,
was manifested by the people all along the
line, evincing a general waking up to rail-
road matters on the part of the people which
we are glad to notice.

The excursion and the attendant ceremo-
nies were in every respect a most complete
success. The company reached this city,
on its return, a few minutes after eleven
o'clock p. M. , without the slightest ac-
cident, and rejoicing heartily in so auspi-
cious an inauguration of this first section
of the great Southern Overland Eailroad,
which is destined to follow so closely
the completion of its predecessor upon
the Central route.

The Rural Gentleman is the title of a
new agricultural monthly, published by J.
B. Robinson & Co., at Baltimore, Md.

New Patents Issued to
Inventors.

Pacific Coast

Foe the Week Ending March 2d.
87,335;— Improved Seat foe Steeet Cabs.

Charles H. Foster, San Francisco, Cal.:

I claim the movable seat B, when hinged
at the edge or front of the fixed seat, and
provided with a leg or support S, which
forms, when the seat is turned back, an
arm to divide the fixed seat, substantially
as described.

This invention relates to an improved set-
tee or extended seat, such as is used in street
cars and other places where a number of
persons are to be accommodated. .The
above claim fully explains Mr. Foster's
manner of arranging the seats in order to
render them capable of doing-double ser-
vice.
87,340.~Pbooess of Working Silver Obes.

Henry Janin, Virginia City, Nev:

I claim the use and application of the
diehloride of copper (Cu2 CI) in the treat-
ment of all classes of silver ores, tailings,
or slimes, whether worked in pans, bar-
rels, or amalgamating tubs, and whether
the diehloride of copper be mado outside
and apart from the ores, or whether it be
made in the presence and during the treat-
ment of the ores, tailings and slimes, by
the introduction into the pans, barrels, or
amalgamating tubs, of the appropriate and
necessary chemical ingredients.

This invention relates to an improved
process for working silver ores, and is in-
tended to avoid the losses, both of quick-
silver and the silver itself, usually experi-
enced in the present manner of working.
87,384.— Hoese Shoe. — William Rickie

Watson, Stockton, Cal.:

I claim the above described shoe for
horses, consisting of a toe-piece, and two
heel-pieces, adapted to fit together, sub-
stantially as described.

It is well known that the usefulness of
the horse depends, to a great degree, on
the endurance and strength of his foot, be-
ing composed as it is of numerous small
bones nicely arranged and adjusted so that
when they are in a healthy condition they
are capable of exerting great strength and
with great endurance. This part of a
horse's foot should be allowed to expand
freely, each part occupying its intended
space, and when from any cause this ex-
pansion is checked, the consequence is that
the foot becomes diseased, and the horse
will be crippled in his feet, so that his
value is greatly impaired. This is espec-
ially the case when horses are shod when
young, and allowed to retain the shoes a
great length of time without changing.

This invention is intended to avoid this
difficulty by constructing the shoe in three
different parts, separating the two heel
pieces from the toe-piece by means of V
shaped joints. These joints are beveled, the
toe resting on the bevel of the heel-pieces,
thus giving the heel a chance to expand
either way.
3,400. — Boot Design. — Amelia Strang,

Oakland, Cal.

I claim the design or model for boots
and shoes, herein set forth.

The object of this invention is to pro-
vide an improved model or design for boots
and shoes, and more particularly for ladies'
shoes, and it consists, first, in constructing
the heel of the shoe in such a manner as to
give a solid and firm base for the entire
heel of the foot, while the beauty and fin-
ish will be equal to the finest finished heel
of ordinary use, without increasing its ap-
parent size; and secondly, in making the
shoe more nearly conform to the shape of
the foot by manufacturing it wider where
the ball or centre of the foot rests in wear-
ing. It also consists in leaving the inside
of the sole of greater thickness than the
portion at the outside of the foot, and thin-
ning it off gradually towards the toe.

3,402. — Design foe Table Service. — W.
K. Vanderslice and Lucius Thompson :
We claim the design or pattern for table
service, herein set forth.

This is a design for embellishing the dif-
ferent articles of a table service, and we
can say from personal inspection of some
of the wares bearing the design, that it
makes a neat and rich service. Messrs.
Vanderslice & Thompson, patentees, have
been long established in this city as prac-
tical manufacturers of silverware.

Tr\e Mining and Scientific Press.

229

Weekly Stock Circular.

By Auoci»Ud Broken of theS F. Stock tod Ezoh&ngo Board
BAM Frawcisco. April 10. 1«K>.

Cltv Stock**.

In niflceUaaortQl stocks tho market remains rather quiet.
We not* *al*a of Sao Francineo G*» Co. Stock at $78 SOffp/0,
and at thn clo»« 100 share* at $it>, and ton ahares of Pacitic
Iasuranco Company stock Bold at (127. A dividend of 1 per
cent, per month for the past three months will be paid on
Ih.- Uth instant. The Union Insurance Company aloo dis-
burse a like dividend on the aamo date. Their statement,
deducting all liabilities and allowing for reinsurance of
ouWaiidinc rinks, shows a net Biirplua of J102.247. Tho Oc-
cidental Insurance Company will disburse a similar divi-
dend as tho above on the 10th instant. The stock of this
oompany lias recently apprecinted considerably. The sec-
ond monthly dividend, I per cent., of the Peoplo'j Insur-
I-. payablo on and after to-day. Tho Homo Mutunl
Insurance Co. will disburse its first dividend on the 1 >th
inst. amounting to $fi,672 on the '« per cent, of capital
stock paid in, which is equal to 2 per cent, on the capital
■took, or 10 per cunt, on tho amount paid in, for the quarter
end ins March 3lsl. Wo are gratified to see the improved
condition of our local insurance companies.

>liiilni; Sliuro Market.
During the past three months, tho stock market did not
acquire activity aa Spring approached, as was the case tho
j.iir pretrioiu, but. on the contrary, activity and prices di-
minished rapidly. This was due to the non-success of por-
•intentdrifting in tho deep levels, and until very recently
matter* looked very discouraging. We are now enabled to
record bettor success, which it is confidently believed will
be more general ax time advancoo. Greater activity is mani-
festing itself, and a largely increased business may soon be
looked for.

The fire in tho Yellow Jacket, Kentuck and Crown Point
Is causing a great consternation and excitement in the
stock murket, and these stocks have declined very much
within the past few days.

Since our annual review, eorly in the present year, in
consequence of the repeated evidences of the value of tho
White Pine district, the minds of & large number of our
citizens have been turned into tho mining channel, and
which will result in more activity and production of the
precious metals for the ensuing year than the one past. As
far as capital is concerned, the White Pine excitement is
characterized with more caution and prudence than is
generally supposed from the number of incorporations
formed within the past quarter for operating in that dis-
trict—there being at the present time 169that are formed
for operating there. That the product of bullion from
White Pine, as soon as mills can be erectod, is going to be
highly encouraging, no one doubts; but that all tho mines
or incorporations are to bo paying ones, no one unlit ex-
pect; there are prizes as well aa blanks, and time, with
development, can only determine wbich they are. It is
conceded, however, by those who are familiar with the
cast-em portion of California and what is known on tho
map as the " unexplored region " of both Califo in and
Nevada, that the multitude are flowing into what may be
considered the great mineral basin of the Pacific, and
wbich extends not only north of White Pine and into our
neighboring territories, but southwesterly to the Sierra
Nevadas, and thence southerly to the Colorado River.

Already we see material improvements in our mining
interests, as illustrated by the dividends of mining incor-
porations in this city — tbo last quarter being, in that
respect, $159,400 in excess of the preceding quartor. and
>.i-''..H'" moro than the first quarter of 1SR8. If private
institutions have advanced at the same ratio — and we have
every reason to believe so— we must regard the prospects of
future prosperity in this channel exceedingly flattering.
One of the features of the past quarter is the entering
among the dividend-paying companies of Storey County,
Nevada, of the Occidental, a mine off of what is considered
the Comstock range. This mine was located in the earlier
days, and for years was considered as unimportant, being
regarded as of but little value save as a lime deposit, and
from the fact that is was not on the Comstock, until pri-
vate enterprise finally developed it into an important mine.
This fact has given life to other outside locations ami we
look, during the ensuing months, to developments that
will maintain the stability of Virginia City and its sur-
roundings. Of the Comstock companies, we can only note
dividends during the past quarter from thr.ee, viz: the Yel-
low Jacket $36U,01W, Savage, $168,000, and Kentuck, $40,000.
Tho remaining companies, however, have been extracting
considerable bullion, pushing developments, and holding
ore in reserve for better roads and cheaper transporta-
tion. From the Empire, Imperial, Consolidated Alpha, and
Gould A Curry there is no very material change as to defin-
ing the ultimate results of the Comstock lode.

At the same time that Nevada has taken quite astride,
both in developments and population, California cannot be
considered as by any means retrograding in her mining in-
terests. The s&ornis during the past quarter have kept up
fully tho supply for sluicing and gravel mining purposes,
and deposited enough snow in the higher portions of the
Sierras to insure a steady supply of water for some time to
come. From every quarter we have as encouraging ac-
couuts of yield as have characterized the same quartor for
the several years past. With the decrease of tho richer de-
posits, there come in corresponding advantages by the way
of cheaper labor and labor-saving supplies, such us powder,
mechanical drills, etc , which keep the flow of gold quite
regular. In quartz mining, the counties of Nevada, Mari-
posa, Amador mid Calaveras, havo fully maintained their
position as the leading ones of the State. Murlposa, we
may say, lias materially advanced in her prospects. In
each of the above there is considerable activity by the way
of tew machinery and new systems of working the ores.
The lower counties, viz: Tulare, Kern and Fre7.no, have
been less successful, not from the fact that the ore is not
good, but that the most of the precious metal carries with
it a slight percentage of antimony, or other rebellious sub-
stance, which interferes with tho collections of the gold
by the present 3yBteni of milling. As soon as this evil is
overcome, these counties should send their full quota of
gold to market.

During tho first three months of the present year. Bel-
cher. Bullion, Daney, and Overman levied assessments, ag-
gregating $l'(ii,'21i0, and Kentuck, Savage and Yellow Jacket
disbursed dividends amounting to $-W8,l'U0. These figures
of Comstock claims compare with previous statements as
follows:

Fi rst quarter, 1809— Assessments $1.16,200

First quarter, W6H— Dividends .rj88,000

First quarter, 1KS8— Assessments Kl.-VXt

First quarter, WW— Dividends f 310,1100

First quarter, lHfi7— Assessments 230,780

First quarter, 1807— Dividends. 7S0.000

Firstquarter, I860— Assessments 474,000

Fi rst quarter' 1806— Dividends 90,000

GOULD & CuiiRY— During the past quarter of I860, they
have experienced great difficulty in carrying the shaft to a
greater depth. During the month of March they extracted
bullion amounting to $7, 500 from the upper works. Tele-
graphed an improvement in quartz yesterday morning.

Savage — This has been the largest producing mine on
the ledge. The bullion returns during the past quarter
were as follows: January. $176,7011: February, $174,300, and
March, $173,600 -total, $'>24.800. The dividends disbursed
during the same time aggregate $168,000. A dividend of
$4 per share will be paid on and after to-day.

Hale k Noncnoss — This mine continues to look well, and
is again yielding considerable quantities of ore Letters to
th-; aii inst. state that in running north from the south

drift on tho fourth level the ore is found to be abmtt ton
feet widf. and of medium quality. The I'S level continues
to look favorable, hut gr»nt diffirulty is experienced in
oponing the M.tt i.m mi tliH ami level. The bullion returns
for March acgreata ■:■"-><■': with anal cImd-up trom Og-
ilen mill to hoar from. No bullion n-coipta in January and
J ebruafy.

Jacket— has boon one of the most nctiw st.n-Us
donna the tirta Quarter of the present year, m-llinc at
Stf WOK] ,Whi January, $«.;■" T'i ,V> in Fuhruary? and $ttfi 50

.,.'. in March. Owing to the fir*, which brol I in bhia

mine on toe morning of the 7th inst.. through which mmv
Uvea were I'-t by suffocation, this stock dropped to f-'n. on
the following day. and closed at $"'7 SO. The dividend ol
$.\ announced us payahl i tlir. l.Uh, bus been rescinded.

Tho ore found on too 800-level i* reported to be more exten-
sive than wns f-xixu-ted. Dividends amounting to .tCItfumit
were disbursed during tho first quarter "f LKGti, We have
not yet been advised as to the amount of bullion extracted
during the same period.

KbKCUCK— ■ sold to a large extent at a decline on the re-
ceipt of lb.- newa in rugatd t<> the lire, dropping to $2W, on
the 7th, and at toe. close helling at ftN. The bullion for
tin- lir-t quarter of the current year amounted to $!0 1,083.
A dividend of $lll.tKHl was paid in January last.

I'limvs Pot s'f— Tim lire winch broke out in the Yellow
Jacket, on the lib, currying the draft through tho Kentuck
and l 'town Point drifts, caused thia stock to fall to $i3
on that day, and to $M> SO on the following, closing yester-
day at $M. Tho bullion receipts for tho first quarter of
1869 BtftregBted $-43.1311.

The annexed tnbular statement of bullion receipts, as-
sessments and dividends, together with the highest and
lowest prices of the stock of tho various Comstock claims,
explains itself. Tho product of tho Yellow Jacket and Oc-
cidental companies we havo estimated:

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coco 2^*ȣ

= 3*

tftiri

2tj|fe2)

lilt

£S3-.cS3£££2£='£tSSgM=I2i33J3g

gsssssssssssssssssssss

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saE-,S5Sg=«s-!*ss"«agss5a

g£8SSSS»8SESSg§88838iS

St~' ~f'. ft: »eE.. ,ts:

Chollar-Potosi— is in much better renoest, improving
to $188 M during the past week, and closing at $lsi The
bullion yield in March is quite large, amounting to $110,392,
and for the quarter aggregating $235,961.

IMPERIAL — is quiet, selling at $90(3)86 during the past
week, and closing yesterday at SH7 SO. Nothing of an encour-
aging nature has yet been found in the lower levels. They
have resumed work in the lower drifts with renewed energy.
During the three first months of MJ69, the bullion receipts
amounted to ffil'23.680.

OPHin— has been quite active within a few days past, clos-
ing at $l:i SO. On the 1th inst., the rock had not changed
much, but an increase of the clay is somewhat more en-
couraging. The drift is in lsli feet Confidence shows a

bullion yield of $18,SS9 during the first three months of
1869 : and GOLD HILL Quartz, §17,701 for the same period ;
Overman, $72,170 during same time.

The New Yobk Copper Market. — Win-
terlioff in his circular of March 5th, says:
Copper has been during the entire month
completely unsettled by the uncertainty in
regard to the tariff. At one time quite a
large business was done at 27c. for Lake
and 26%c. for Baltimore, but the market
became dull again, and since the final pass-
age of the bill a week airo scarcely any
transactions have taken place. To-day's
quotation is nominal 26 %c. for both kinds.

White Pine Letters and Editorials
continue to be very numerous, the tone of
the latter and of half of the former being
cooling, but not sufficiently so to have
much effect on a fever which must run its
course. The letters are made up of an in-
finite amount of detail. White Pine con-
tinues to be " the hub."

MINING SHABEH0LDERS' DIRECTORY.

[Compiled for every Issue, from advertisement* In the

MiMita Ann Boixmna Prkss and other Sun

Francisco Journals. J

•^omprisHK* the Names of Cnmranlep. District or County
el Location; Ani.niiil and date ol AlMfHWrnent; Date ol
Mcctinn; Day of l>i-Hni|iicntSillu; and Amount and Time
ol Paymcut ol' Dividends.

DAT DAT

DKLl.tijOKNT. OF SALE

.dlv. $2....Pnv. .June 19. I8»S
ch 17, *.'..._.. April 20— May3

•it'll . LOCATION, AMOUNT,
Dili Of A33KS83IKNT.

Alpha Colli , atorev co..
vim ..!.■. i. Ncvudti, Mi

Accidental, White Pi no, March Su, 26c April 30— M«

Aumrn Cons, Wl.t e 1'hn- >nniinl Meet Ink', Annl 12

Amador Co., dlv. ?■'. pcrahnre Payable April 7, 18T9

AlinaOeii, Keyadn Annum .Meelliu,'. April 16

Bacon, Siorcy co., Xev., div Payable June iy. lgfit*

Belcher, Storeyco . Nev.. March IB, $t.,.. April 17— May 3
Bullion, storey co. Nev , March 2'. ...Payable Immediately

riiollarPotostl, dlv., $i5 Payable Oct. 15, 1867

Crown p.'lnt. .livid, nd. *7 SO pHwible Sent. 12 Iftbo

Cjjprldtr Ml Tun., While Pine. I'cb. 2,Mc..Mnr 13-Ap. lb"

Coney, piwernd Stock, div. \% percent March In, 1869

Cherokee Flat. Butte an. March 1, $5 April 3— April 2il

Cordillera, alCXT, March 16, $1 April 20-Mav lu«

Coney Annual Mcetlmr, April in

Daney, Lvon co. Nov., March 8, 52.50 April 12 — Mav 1

Douglas, White Pine Annual Mictlny April 12

Empire M. A M.. Nov., dividend JG. ...Payable Mav 15, 186;

Eureka, div, $10 Payable April 6, 1«69

El Taste, Sunora, March 22. 5 ic April 23— May 17

Folsom St. k Ft, Pt B. R March 13, $5. ..April 13— April 30

Gould k Curry, div., 87.50 Payable May 15, 1867

Hold HIIIQ M A M-divld.-nd. S7 50... Payable Julv 13, 1868
Golden Clmrlor, Idaho, dlv. $2.50... Payable March 20, 18H9
Golden Rule. Tuolumne co, dlv. 50c ft sh... Pay April 7, 1869

Glen wood. El Dorado co Annual Meeting, April &)

Hale A Norcross, div. SI25 Sept. 16. 1867

Nope Gravel. Nevada co , April 6, $1 May 10— Mav 31

Hidden Treasure, White Pine Annual Meeting April 6

Imperial, Storey co.. Nev,, dlv Payable June 20, 1868

Julia, Storeyco. Nrv , March 19. $2.50 April 22— May 1Q

Julia, Storey co., Nov Special Mectln-/, April 26

Kentuck, dlv., $20 per share Payable Jan. 10,18139

Koy.-tuite Meeting April 2

Lyon M & M., El Dorado co., Mar. 6, $1. .April 12— April 26«

Mt. Tenabo, Lander co . Jan. 23. Toe April"2- April 27"

Maxwell, Amador co., Feb. 9. SI March 13— April 1

Morning Star, Alpine co , March. 3, $2 April 5— April 26

Mohawk & Montreal, Nev. co.,$3 Marcli 31— Apiil 16

North Star, dividend, $5 Payable Aug. 15, 1868

North Aracr. Wood P. Go., March 12, $1 April 14— May l«

Occidental, div, $2 Payable March 2, 1869

Overman, Storey co. Nov., March 20, $20. . .April 23— May 8

Pacific Unassessable, dlv Payable June 18, 186S

I'acidc, Coa'. Gonira Costa co., Mar. 20, $l..Ap. 27— May lf»

Quail Hill, Calaveras co., April 2. $10 May 11— May 31

Rising Star, Idaho, Feb. 8, $6 March 31— April 3

Santiago, Silver Cltv, dividend, $2.60. . . Pavable Dec 19, 1868

Sand Spring -alt, dividend $1.. Pavable Jan. 5, 18H9

Star Creek, Nev., Feb. 26, 51.60 March 29-^pril 19*

Savage, Virginia. Nov. dividend, S-l.. Payable March 4, 1869

Senator, Store v co.. Nev., March 26, 60c May 1— May 28*

Silver Sprout. Inyo co, March 25, Gllc May)— May 28"

San Buenta Ventura Annnai Meeting April >9

Sierra Nevada, Storeyco., March 15, »3 April 17— May 3

Sierra, Dougla*.- co., Nev., March 26, $Sv.. April 28-May II
Treasure Trove, Lander co., Feb. 15, 20c..M'ch 21— April 12
Troy Ledge, White Pine, .March 16, 15c... April 23— May 21"

Trov Ledge. White Pine Annual Meeting, April 19

Virginia kO.U Water Co. .Dividend, payable Mar. 10, 1869

Virginia, No. 2 Annual Meeting, April 19

Wllliamnnlic, White Pine, March 22, $1.... April 21— Mav 12

White Pine Smelting Co Animal Meeting April 20

Yellow Jacket, dlv., $5 Payable Marcli 15, 1869

Those marked with an asterisk (") are advertised In this
ournal.

Latest Stock Prices Bid and Asked,

18. F. STOCK AKD EXCHANGE BOARD.

Friday Evfninc, April 9, 1869.

BISCHLLANKOUS STOCKS. Bill. At.t.C<l.

United States Bonda, 5 2ns, 18A '67, '68 $ 87 88

United Stales Bonds, fl 20^, 18^4 87^ 8»V«

United Riaics Bonds. 5 20s, 1862 K> 90

Legal Tender Notes 77 77M

California State Bonds, 7s. 1S57 95 —

San Francisco Bonds, 10s, 1851 par k int.

San Francisco City Bonds, 6s, 1855 — —

San Francisco City and County Bonds. 6s, 1858. 83 87>a

San Francisco School Bonds, 10s, I860 100 —

San Franci.-co School Bonds, IDs, 1861 par k Int.

San Francisco City and Go. Sch'l B'ds, 7s, 1866. 91 —

San Francisco Cltv and Go. Bonds, 7s, 18G2 91 —

Sail Francisco City and Go. Bonds, 7», 1361 91 —

Sao Francisco Oltv and Co. Bonds, 7s. 1865 91 —

San Francisco Oity and Co. Judg. Bds. 7s, 1863. 91 —

San Francisco City and Co. Judg. Bds, 7s, 1864. 91 —

Sacramento City Bonds 30 —

Sacramento County Bonds, 6n 70 —

Marysville Bonds, 10s 75 80

Stocki on City Bonds 65 —

Yuba County Bonds, 8s 80 85

Santa Clara County Bonds, 7s 76 77

Butte Count v Bonds, 10s, I860 75 —

San Mateo County Bonds, 7s 75 80

Calllornia Steam Navigation Co 65 —

Spring Valley WaterCo 67 68

State Telegraph Co 26 —

GAS COMfAMKS.

San Francisco Gas Co 77 79

Sacramento Gaa Co 85 —

KAU.KOADS.

Sacramento Valley Railroad — —

San Francisco anil San Jose Railroad — —

Omnibus Railroad 72}^ —

Central Railroad !'0 —

North Beach and Mission Railroad 72J,' 74

Front Street, Mission and Ocean Railroad 11 12

BANKING INSTITUTIONS.

Pacific Bank 97J£ 1"0

The Bank of California 157 16D

People's Insurance Company 100 —

INSURANCE COKPANIKS.

Firemans' Fund Insurance Co 93 100

Pacific Insurance Co 126 127

Merchants' Mutual Marine Insurance Co 600 520

California Insurance Co 1300 1400

Union Insurance Co 100 lol

Home Mutual Insurance Co 19>£ 20

Occidental Insurance Co 85 90

MINING STOCKS— WASHOK DISTRICT.

Alpha 28 29

Baltimore American — —

Belcher U 18

Bullion, G. H 11 14>i

Crown Point 63 54

Cole (Va.) 7 —

Oonlidcnce 32 35

Consolidated Virginia 5 6

Chollar-Potosi 181 132

Daney 5 —

Exchequer 16 —

Empire Mill and Mining Co 50 55

Gould A Curry 126 12?

Gold Hill Quartz -• 45

Hale A Norcross 88 90

Imperial 85 86

Julia — —

Justice and Independent 7H ia

Kentuck 254 255

Lady Bryan 1 '■ ^V*

American — 27

Occidental.. — 27

Ophir .♦ 33 33*

Overman 53 54

Segregated Belcher 7Jfi 8

Savage 77 78

Sierra Nevada 50 —

Union — —

Uni ted St at cs — — ,

Yellow Jacket 57 5,J£

MISCELLANEOUS MINING STOCKS.

Amador (California! 285 290

Aurora, White Pine „"> '5

Eureka, (California) 2.<0 240

Golden Chariot (Idaho) *5 50

StlverCord (Idaho) 8 —

Golden Rule. California 10 —

Mohawk (California — —

Pocoiilio, White fine....: — —

San Prancisco Market Kates.

Whole«nle Prices.

„. , Fridav. April 9. IRt

Hour, Lxtra. ^ bbl if, Sfi 4S6

Do. Superfine 45,1 @, 4

Corn Meal, $ urn it,* 325 @ 3

";.i-. |.J mi lb* 1 75 „ 2

Bnrley.fl looms 1 75 I 2

Beana, r n^it.* 13 on <a 7

Potatoes, %i loo lbs 75 @

liny, fl Ion io „(, ffl 6

LW« link WiK.d, c* cord 9 rji) <aiu

Beef, extra,- drc«!Ted,^ lb u S1U

Sheep, on loot 3 w, & 3

Hogs, on foot,* lb 6 a

Hogs, dressed . fl lb 9 @

GKOCKRIK3, KTC.

Sticar. crushed, <a lb — /a

Do. China ln 1

CoriVc. Costa Kica, Wff. _ «I

Do. Rio |rv %

Tea.. Japan, ^ lb ;6"* Q

Do Green ni a, 1

Hawaiian Klce, %t lb» _ g

China Rice, ft Ih 6 S

Cool < HI, ft gallon 4% @

candles, fl lb i6 @

Ranch Butter, ft lb 35 @

(sthiuiiN liutter, ft lb J7W &

Cheese. California, ft lb 15 @

Eggs ft dozen 25 ®

Lard, ft lb j0 &

Ham and Bacon, ft lb 14 5)

Shoulders, ft lb 7 @

ISelnH Prices.

Butter, California, fresh, ft lb 45 @

do. pickled, ft lb 3,, @

do. Oregon, ft lb '. 20 ra

do. New York, ft lb 35 @

Cheese, ft lb -M g

Honey.ftlb 25 @

fcggs, p dozen 45 a

Lanl.ftth Jo ||

Hams Hiid Bacon, $ lb 2J @

Cranberries ft gallon....' 1 otl a 1

Potatoes, ft lb n; g

Potatoes, Sweet, ft lb 3 q.

Tomatoes, ft lb s ^

Onions, ft lb 31 %

Apples. No. 1, ft lb 4 I

Pears, Table, ft lb B q

Plums, dried, ft lb 10 @

Peaches, dried, ft lb jo <a

Oranges, ft dozen 75 @

Leiimns, ft dozen 50 @

Chickens, aiilcce _ a.

Turkeys, ft ib 25 &

Soap, Pale and 0. o 7 a

Soap, Castile, ft lb 21 a

KM

12

New Incorporations.

12

22*

Articles of incorporation have been re-
cently filed in the County Clerk's office in
this city as follows:

Union Pacxfic Eaixkoad Homestead As-
sociation. — San Francisco. April 3d.
Capital stock, $45 000; 200 shares, $225
each. Trustees: H. L. King, E. Worth
W. H. Knight, A. B. Forbes, J. K. S. La-
tham, Jacob Bacon and N. Heath.

Illinois S. M. Co.— "White Pine, Nev.
April 3d. Capital stock, $1,200,000; 12,000
shares, $100 each. Trustees: B. H, Free-
man, Jas. B. Garniss, James H. Cutter, F,
H. Shaw and David Bush.

Castle Tract Homestead Association.
San Francisco. April 5th. Capital stock,
$26,250; 105 shares, $250 each. Trustees:
Thos. Kerr, D. Steffens, Michael J. Hop-
kins, G. Evans, A. S. Gould, F. B. Wilde
and Geo. Fritch.

Regent Street Homestead Association.
San Francisco. April 6th. Capital stock,
$45,449; 125 shares, $355 eacb. Truetees:
E. P. Heald, B. J. Wise, E. W. Schneider,
G. W. Chapin, C. J. King, Wm. Koch,
Sam. Foster, A. Bosenfeld and James F.
Crosett.

Mission and Pacific Woolen Mills
Consolidated. — San Francisco. April
6th. Capital stock, $5,000,000; 50,000
shares, $100 each. Trustees: J. D. Fry,
Donald McLennan and H. F. Williams.

Pogond? Flat S. M. Co.— White Pine,
Nev. April 9th. Capital stock, $2,400,-
000; 24,000 shares, $100 eacb. Trustees:
John Siuie, B. H. Hastings, George L.
Kenney, John Taylor, and S. P. Kimball.

A new Board of Brokers, to be called the
California Stock Exchange, has been
organized for the purpose of dealing in
White Pine stocks. President, S. Heyden-
feldt; Vice President, Wm. H. V. Cronise;
Secretary, Wm. V. Wells; and T. C. San-
born, Caller. The number of members is
limited to eighty.

Revolution in the Shaker Settlements.
One of those brown-coated, broad-skirted, brond-
brimmed individuals who believe in Ann Lee, cel-
ibacy, and the double-shuffle style of worship, re-
cently entered the store of a somewhat facetious
druggist in Philadelphia to obtain a supply of
medicines for the community to which he be-
longed. When he had purchased the usual assort-
ment of drastic purgatives, soporifics, mineral poi-
sons, etc., the proprietor of the establishment in-
formed him that he was in receipt of letters from
the principal Shaker settlements in the country,
stating that the inhabitants were abandoning their
former habits and becoming like the rest of the
world. The reverend elder smiled incredulously,
but the druggist protested on his honor that it was
a fact, and he could not only prove it, but show
his visitor the means by which the revolution had
been accomplished. Thereupon he placed upon
the counter a bottle of Plantation Bitters. The
saint didn't see it, nut when the man of drugs ex-
plained to him that the great vegetable tonic was
curing ague tmd fever in every malarious district,
it dawned through his hair, that, medicinally
speaking, it was annihilating Shakerism. *#*

Canton Flannel, on the authority of C. Mai-
ler, of the Spectacle Emporium, in the Russ Block,
in this cify, is the hest material, for wiping the
glasses of spectacles. #*#

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Mining Summary.

The following information is gleaned mootly from jour-
nals published in the interior, in close proximity to the
mines mentioned.

CALIFORNIA.

AI.PISE COUJTIT.

From the Mine?; March 20th:

Morning Stab.— The drift running from
the new shaft to intersect the works at bot-
tom of incline, made the connection this
week, the distance being 50 feet. Nothing
now seems to be in the way to prevent the
raising of ore and the consequent prosper-
ity of the mine. ■ •

At the. miners' mass meeting on Wednes-
day, it was voted that undeveloped mining
claims be valued at the rate of $5 for each
200 feet, for the purpose of assessment; —
although in the opinion of the meeting
legally not assessable. It was also resolved
that the several mining districts be re-
quested to pass a law pronouncing all un-
developed claims upon which the taxes
were not paid, abandoned and subject to
re-location.

Chronicle, March 27th:

The Pennsylvania Mine. — Superintend-
ent Carlson yesterday cut into the ledge, in
both drifts, about five feet from the tun-
nel, striking a body of rich ore, different
from that in the tunnel. Four assays have
been made of the rock taken out where the
ledge was first cut, all of which are satis-
factory. Some red rock from the end of
the table, thought to be entirely worthless,
assayed in San Francisco $12.44; blue ore,
assayed by Goldsmith Bros. , San Francis-
co, $22 in silver and $12.50 in gold—
$34.50; the clayey ore assayed by Wiegand,
of Virginia, returned $12. 58 in silver and
$5.34 in gold— $19.92, and quartz assayed
by the same party returned $12.95 in sil-
ver and $6.28 in gold— $19.23 per ton.
The ledge is well defined, from eight to ten
feet wide, half of which is solid quartz;
and putting the ore at $15 a ton, it is a
" big thing," owing to the immense quan-
tity that can be taken out, and the great
facilities the company has for mining and
working it. Some of the stockholders,
after allowing themselves to be sold out
and le'tting others develop the mine, are
how anxious to get their stock again, but
they are too late. The stock, a short time
before the ledge was struck could be bought
for $10 a share. Yesterday parties here
offered $50, but none can be had at any
price.

We learn that the agent of the Tarshish
mine has arrived at San Francisco from the
East, and will soon arrive in this county to
look after the interests of the Schenectady
Company.

The strike in the Pennsylvania mine has
made Mountain stock look up, and those
who expect to get it for the assessments at
the sale will be disappointed.

AHAUOK COUKTY.

Ledger, April 3d:

The Kennedy. — This mine has now been
running six months. Last week we visited
it. Everything about it is of the most sub-
stantial character, and the timbers have
been put together in the best manner. The
engine is a perfect beauty and works to a
charm. Everything about the establish-
ment shows a good management. The
work at the mine is carried on under the
direction of Mr. James Fleming, ouo of the
owners. The " Kennedy" is paying its
proprietors a fair compensation for their
industry and perseverance.

CALAYEKAS COUNTY.

Chronicle April 3d :

We are informed that the Water Co's
ditch is now employed to its full capacity,
a thousand inches of water being run,
which is scarcely sufficient to supply the
demand. The Company are , digging a
branch ditch for conveying water to Bed
Hill, near the Buckeye. There are a num-
ber of claims in that vicinity, known to be
rich.
EL soxado county.

Placerville Democrat, April 3d :

Important Sale. — We understand that
on Monday last Mr. S. J. Freyer sold his
extensive gravel claim, on Beservoir Hill,
to B. T. Hunt, of the South Fork Canal,
for the sum of $3,600.

Two Large Nuggets. — On Saturday last,
says the Sacramento Union of Tuesday,
Daniel Leahey and Francis Coyle found
two gold nuggets at Gray's Flat, El Dorado
county, one weighing 136 and the other 64
ounces of gold, exclusive of qua/tz.

ISYO COUNTY.

Lone Pine. — A Los Angeles dispatch of
April 5th, is as follows: Four wagons
reabhed here to-day from Lone Pine dis-
trict, bringing fifteen tons of argentiferous
lead bars from the Union Mine. It is des-
tined for San Francisco.

The Los Angeles News, of March 19th,
says: Eight tons of silver and lead bullion
from the Cerro Gordo mine, Lone Pine
district, reached this city day before yester-
day. It is estimated by competent assayers
to contain 500 pounds of silver to the ton.
Fifteen tons from the same mine will be
here in a few days.

The Star, of March 27th, has these items
from Lone Pine :

The mill of Wolfskill & Cervantes, which
is to be of five stamps, with four ovens,
was delivered at the mine, the Union, on
the 13d int. , and a contract immediately
entered into to have it erected and in com-
plete working order by the 10th of June.,,

The Belcher works turn out more 6ffi
than they can find wagons to haul. There
are four principal mines in the locality, the
San Ignacio, the Union, the Belmont and
Pedro. The Belmont is turning out better
than the others. Belcher is buyiug the
ore at $220 per ton. The mode of smelting
is rather primitive. A platform is dug out,
on it is erected a pair of bellows, the ore is
brought to it, and by hand the bellows
are worked, and the lead runs out. In
this manner, at the Pedro claim, a bar of
pure silver weighing 20 pounds, was run
out in a day. The Belcher works turn out
from 50 to 60 bars a day. The shaft of the
Union mine is down 100 feet.

3IAEIPOSA COUNTY.

Gazette, April 2d:

Benton Mills. — We learn that the Mari-
posa Co. have the frame of their new -25 or
30-stamp mill already erected at Benton
mills, and the remaining work is being
pushed forward as fast as practicable. This
mill is to be driven by a turbine wheel,
and will stand nearly upon a level of the
spalling shed, several feet above the high-
est water. The mill already running is re-
ported to operate well, and the rock is in-
creasing its yield.

NEVADA COUXTY.

Transcript, March 30th:

The Bed Bock Tunnel Conpany vs.
Bell et als. — The case of the Bed Bock
Tunnel Co. vs. Bell and others, was con-
cluded yesterday, giving plaintiffs the
American ground, the defendant the Monte
Christo ground and the Railroad claims,
and the plaintiffs the Cassiu claims. The
jury also made a general finding of $800
damages in gold coin for plaintiffs.

Scott's Flat. — Four companies are at
work. In Ashburn & Baker's diggings a
cave occurred on Saturday and it will re-
quire some time to clean out the mine.
Word came down yesterday that eight or
ten good men could get work at Scott's
Flat and Quaker Hill.

Little York. — The Little York Hy-
draulic Mining Co. is now working three
sets of diggings, and after a run of 10 days
cleaned up $7,000. There are two or three
other companies in that vicinity whose
claims are paying first rate.... Two Chi-
nese companies are at work. One of them
is workiug the old Buckmau claims . . .At
Bemmington Hill there are four companies
at work, two drifting and two sluicing.
They have just commenced getting water,
and their prospects were never better ....
At Excelsior Hill, two miles from Bem-
mington Hill, a company of six are at work,
and their claims are paying well.

Same of 31st:

Nugget. — Beeorder Slack yesterday
showed us a nugget of pure gold worth
$297, which was taken from Squirrel Creek,
near Bough & Beady.

Same of April 1st:

Mining and Pluming. — The Dean Co.
have located 10,800 ft. of the North Fork of
Deer Creek for mining and fluming pur-
poses. The Cascade Co. have located 12,-
200 ft. on the main branch of Deer Creek.

April 2d:

News prom the Foot Hills. — Mooney
Flat has been taken in hand by men of capi
tal, and the prospect is encouraging. B,
L. Crary & Co. propose to start a tunnel in
a few weeks from the face of the Peterson
alairns on the Sucker Flat side of the ridge,
and run through to tap the Mooney Flat
tunnel, which is supposed to be fully as
rich as the claims on the other side. The
miners held a meeting a few evenings since,
and elected a recorder. At the same time
enougli was raised to buy a safe in which
to preserve the records of the district.
Considerable activity is manifested in the
sale and purchase of mining claims.

Moke Gold. — Frank Morse has just had
another clean up of a month's ruii from his
mine, the Hitchen & Larrimer ledge, and
the result is $8,000 from 300 loads of rock,
an average of $25 per ton.

Gazette, March 30th:

Mooee's Flat. — We are informed that the
miners of that locality have their claims in
active operation, and are making up for
time lost by the breaking of the ditch in
January.
Bank Blast. — A bank blast of 304 kegs

of powder, was set off in the claims of
Weston, Holmes & Co., at Blue Tent, on
Saturday last. The tunnel was run 65 ft.
iuto the hill, and the cross tunuel, in which
the powder was placed was 140 ft. in length.
The blast did good execution, pulverizing
a large quantity of gravel, which will be
worked this spring and summer.

N'ieth Bloomfield. — The Gravel Co. are
conducting their operations upon a mam-
moth scale. Their main ditch supplies 800
inches of water, and smaller ditches half as
much more. This is all used by the com-
pany, who have four pipes running, each
with a 3%-inch nozzle. When their ditch
is completed to the English lakes the com-
pany will have more water than will be
needed, and the surplus will be sold.

Same of 31st:

Hunt's Hill. — The miners are at work in
earnest. The Eastern Co., employing 12
men, are running their mill night and day,
and taking out on the average, $1,000 a
week. The Gougeye Co., working cement
claims, employ 10 men, and take out from
$300 to $400 a week. Muffler & Hanley
employ 15 men in their hydraulic claims,
and are understood to be doing a good busi-
ness. The times at Hunt's Hill are better
than at any period for the last six years.

Same of April 3d:

Bich Bock. — We saw yesterday, at the
Eureka mine, Grass Valley, $5,000; worth
of specimens, in about 400 lbs. of hard
rock, all taken from the drifts in the fifth
level, at a depth of 600 ft. The drifts in
this, the lowest level, are now run 150 ft.
each way from the incline. The indica-
tions are that the mine will hold out for
many years to come. The stock in this
mine is how valued at $1,000,000. The
gross yield of the quartz crushed for the
month of March, is $47,000.'

Good Sulphubets. — Mr. Deetlfln showed
us a gold brick yesterday weighing 128 1-10
ozs., the result of the working of 20 tons of
sulphurets at the Eureka sulphuret works,
from rock crushed at the Idaho mine. The
assay was $4,530, and the actual yield was
$4,450 — or 98 per cent, of the assay.

Grass Valley National, March 30th,

Eureka Mine. — We visited this mine
yesterday. The shaft is down about 600
feet. We found the men working in the
fourth and fifth levels, stoping up from the
fifth to the fourth, and from the fourth to
the third. On the fourth level the drifts
extend about 1,200 feet, nearly reaching
the Idaho claim on the east. On the fifth
level they have drifted 300 feet.

The Idaho bids fair to be a second Eu-
reka. They are drifting and stoping on
the second and fourth levels, and sinking,
being now down 480 feet. They were melt-
ing, yesterday, the proceeds of the last run
of twelve days, the result of which was
$14,000.

Same of April 1st:

Allison Banch. — In three or four days
12 stamps will be started at work crushing
rock from the croppings of the original
working. An immense pile of rock is on
the ground, and is said to prospect well.
The pumps will start in about two weeks.

Brown Brothers, near You Bet, last Sat-
urday, after a run of four days with eisht
stamps, cleaned up 35 pounds of dry amal-
gam, which at $10.50 per ounce, avoirdu-
pois, amounts to $5,880. The claim is on
the celebrated Blue lead.

Grass Valley Union, April 1st:

Howard Hill Mine. —We saw some
specimens of quartz yesterday, rich in gold
and sulphurets, from the Howard Hill mine,
better known as the "Lucky." This mine
has been worked for some time by a com-
pany of practical miners, under a lease.
Their work has been done altogether in the
old levels, the lowest of which is 280 feet
below the surface, and from which they
have been taking out excellent rock. Their
run for two weeks, to the 31st of March,
was 300 tons, which paid $30 per ton.

The West Eureka Co. have made appli-
cation for a mineral patent to their claim.

Same April 4th:

William Pennj Mine. — This mine con-
tinues to look well. The shaft is now
down 61 feet. The ledge is two feet thick,
and has been gradually widening all the
way down. The walls are very regular.
The rock taken is first class, showing well
in free gold, sulphurets and galena, and
fine geld intermixed with the sulphurets.

PJLACJEK COUNTY.

Auburn Stars and Stripes, April 1st:
To be Sold. — Constable Higgins adver-
tises for sale the Black Lead, Bald Hill,
Lone Star district, together with all the ap-
purtenances, to satisfy a judgment and
costs amounting to $274,88.

M.UMAS COUNTY.

Quincy National, March 27th:

Akgentine. — We understand that the
placer miners are doing first rate. The
Knisely & Co. quartz mill and mine in that

Bection has changed hands, and will com-
mence crushing rock shortly.

North Fork correspondent of same:
Balliett & Co. are still working the old
Bamboo. Bryan & Boston are digging a
race to turn the river at the lower end of
Bamboo Bar. Perley & Bowers got their
hydraulic running, atSunnyside, last week.
They have a large piece of deep ground.
The old Dutch Hill Co. are putting a pump
in their tunnel, to run by water. They
ran a bed rock tunnel, but at a distance of
800 feet the rock dropped off. The boys
followed it dowu about sixteen feet, aud
found good prospects all the way. Fergu-
son & Wagoner have been running a bed-
rock tunnel all winter, and , broke through
last week. They are getting very good
prospects. Mechlin is taking pay dirt out
of his tunnel on Barker Hill, for carting in
the summer. He has a piece of ground
that prospects well.

SUKIYOU COUNTY.

Yreka Union, March 27th:

Canal Gulch. — Frank Biley and others
have a quartz ledge on Canal Gulch which
they are prospecting. The rock, where un-
covered, prospects rich. They are sinking
a shaft to strike the ledge at some distance.
If they find it as good aa where it is opened,
they will erect a mill. The gold is not
visible to the eye, but it is impossible to
find a piece but what prospects well when
pulverized.

Shasta River Canal. — The Big Ditch is
now carrying water to its full capacity.

SON 'MA COUNTY.

Silvee Excitement at Petaluma. — Con-
siderable excitement is said to exist at Peta-
luma, caused by the discovery of silver ore
in the Sonoma rauge of mountains, about
seven miles from Petaluma. There had
been previous, discoveries of cinnabar and
coal, and last week, silver ore, assaying $10
to the ton, was found in considerable quan-
tities. Hundreds of acres were at once
staked off in claims, and the rush for loca-
tions is described as being very great.

TRINITY COUNTY.

Journal, March 20th:

Canon Creek. — Banmgartner & Co. have
picked up as much as $100in one day while
ground-sluicing in their claim at Tyson's
old place. They will take out $15,000 this
year. One week Kellenger & fiarwood
picked up $500 in $1 and $2 pieces, also,
while grouud-sluiciog. Mathcwson & Mur-
phy expect to make $50 per day to the hand ,
and Adam Berger is believed to have the
best claim on the creek. There has been
no lack of water.

Same of April 3d:

MlNERSVILLE AND VlOINITY. — Ml'. C. M.

Mead's claim has paid well this season, and
he has just completed a ditch, of 1,200 in.
capacity, conveying water from the East
Fork to his diggings at the month of Italian
Gulch. . . .Mining is being vigorously prose-
cuted on Little Mule Creek. Several com-
panies are at work. . . . Wheedon, Van Matre
& Co. have started in at the lower end of
the bar in which the rich prospects were
found, and are bringing up a drain ditch
that will enable them to work the creek to
the best advantage .... The Buckeye boys
are busy.

Bed Hill. — Lorenz & Jacobs cleaned
up last week, after a run of three weeks,
with three men, the sum of $3,200. There
is plenty of such ground, not only at Bed
Hill, but in other parts of the county.
What is needed is more water and men de-
termined to work.

Douglass City correspondence of same:
On the west side of Weaver Creek, Hinds,
Swift & Dixon are working the old aband-
oned claim ofFlynn & Sudworth, with good
results. The gold is light and flaky, and
could not be saved by the old process. The
boys have their claim rigged up with all
the appliances for mining — hydraulic, res-
ervoir and under-current. Tbey saved
about one-eighth of their gold in the under-
current, at the first clean up, yet found
that some had passed over the screen and
settled in the boxes below.

On Smith's Flat Paulson & Co. made a
clean up, expecting little, aud were agree-
ably surprised to find $1,100 in the flume.
Smith's Flat has " seen its best days." All
the claims but two have passed into the
hands of Portuguese, and are pretty well
worked out.

There are but two claims running on-
Union Hill -McWilliams Bros., and our
own. The McWilliams boys expect to av-
erage $1,000 a month during the mining
season.

TUOLUMNE COUNTY.

The sixth trial of the Table Mountain
Tunnel case, commenced in 1861, has ended
without result, the jury failing to agree.
The Democrat says: The costs incurred have
been enormous, and probably exceed the
value of the ground in dispute. In the
meantime the tunnel, some 4,500 it. in length

in Table Mountain, has gone to decay, the
tinii' rs have rotted away, and it has caved
in many places, raining it For fntm

T than any Other

mining suit ever instituted in this county,

and its Anal termination will be hailed with

ion by court, counsel and wit-

I

YUBA c >r\ry.
Marysville i leal, April 1st:

mi. — We understand that

tin- ownersof the Jefferson mine, at Brown's
Valley, have resolved to suspend opera-
tious, the mine being considered us worked
out. The stopping uf the pump has neces-
sitated a larger pump in the Pennsylvania.
Same of 3d:

Tin: Pennsylvania. — Notwithstanding
the 82 assessment, the mine has rich rock,
and there is every prospect of better snc-
'ter the introduction of the new 10-
inch pump. Tlio mill ran less than ft third
of last month, aud about §2,000 were real-
ized.

A Dividend. — We are told that the Jef-
ferson mine which closed up on tho 31st,
declared a dividend of §15.
ARIZONA.
Prescott 3Iine>; March '20th :
Bn; Be*.;. — Mining items are scarce this
week. We have reports but from two
samps — Big Bug and Lower Lynx Creek.
At the first named place, the companies at
work in the old Mexican Gulch, have been
doing well. We are informed by a man
who has worked for oue of the compauies,
and who came to town this week, that on
an average the diggings have paid about
§8 a day to the man. They are now sluic-
ing at the lower end of the. gulch, where
they frequently fiud, on the bedrock,
pieces of very rich quartz. A short time
ago they found a piece of gold quartz that
weighed §12. The heaviest gold and rich-
est pieces of quartz are found in a streak
or stratum of blue gravel. The compa-
nies estimate that it will, tike them three
years to work out the gulch.

Lrxx Creek. — The news from Lynx
Creek was furnished us by Capt. Shoupe,
and is to the effect that his own claim and
the claims of Jackson, Lovejoy & Co., were
paying exceedingly well. Jackson & Co.
had not cleaned up when he left, but Mr.
Lovejoy informed him that the bottoms of
the sluices were perfectly yellow with gold.
Mr. Suoupe's own claim has paid about
§10 per day to the hand. A piece weigh-
ing J6 had been found, was brought to
town by him and presented to Major
Cleiideniu.

WlCKENBOEO. — From parties who arrived
here recently, we learn that Messrs. Keese
i Krause were enlarging their mill-house
aud placing a new 5-stamp battery along-
side the old one. The Vulture Go's 20-
stanip mill was working away, and as usual,
paying.

Home 25 or 30 Mexicans are workiDg the
old placers at Weaver, and a party of Amer-
icans are engaged in sinking a shaft on a
bar in Antelope Creek.

Sterling. — The latest news from San
Francisco regarding the intended opera-
tions of the Sterling Mining Co. , is to the
effect that §100,000 of the capital had been
paid up; that Mr. Borger was coming back
to take charge of the chlorination depart-
ment, aud that a new general Superintend-
ent would be sent out.

IDAHO.

Silver City Tidal Wave, March 30th :

The Baxter boys have finished running
their 200-foot level and are again sinking.
They propose to commence stoping in three
levels in the spring— one at 100, one at 200,
and oue at 300 feet. The mine maintains
its richness and size admirably as they go
down.

The Rising Star mine and mill, under
Capt. Halt's mauagemeut, continues to pan
out beautifully.

Shep. Osborn, while encamped near Car-
son Baneh a short time since, discovered a
bed of what is pronounced by the black-
smiths very good coal, about 12 miles from
here in the foot-hills, bordering Snake
River Valley. The deposit is twelve feet
thick, and has the appearance of being ex-
tensive.

Stepping into Blake & Co's assay office
on Thursday evening just as they were fin-
ishing up their day's work of melting and
assaying, we took note of the figures on
four large silver bars, yet warm from hav-
ing beeu tried in the furnace and not
found wanting, and ascertained the assay
value to be §8,529.05-, besides one bar that
was not stamped, which would raise the
amount to nearly §10,000.

MONTANA.

Helena Herald, March 8th : The reported
discoveries of rich gold bars of Gold Creek,
which we published last week, is confirmed
by several parties who arrived in this city

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from that vicinity recently. They report
thai bar diggings of considerable extent
and richness b ive b erj found there, which
baa I: id the effect to inspire those inter-
ested with the greatest confidence.

A correspondent sends us a description
of the " Whitlatch Park'' mine and its pre-
sent position, which we condense as fol-
lows : It is about four miles from Helena,
and is owned by Messrs. Whitlatch and
Walker. Ir includes 320 foot ; two inclines,
each 2::o feet in depth on the lode, a shaft
70 .feet deep, and a cross-cut connecting
the bottom of the inclines. Tho vein at
the surface is 20 inches thick ; at tho bot-
tom, 7 feet. About 1,000 tons of ore is out
and on the surface. Some 400 tons has
been crushed in an imperfect mill, aud
averaged over §00 to the ton. The "Phil-
adelphia Enterprise" claim, on the same
lode, which has a 30-etamp mill, cleared
up during 1808 one million one thousand
live hundred dollars. The stratum of de-
composed rock underlying the "Park" is
very rich. Mr. Whitlatch obtained §05
from four pounds of it pulverized in a
mortar ; there is, however, not more than
one ton of this very rich rock to a thousand
of the average ore.

NEVADA.

uirarsoLDT.

Register, March 27th :

Another Quartz Mill. — Recent devel-
opments on the Sixty-nine ledge are favor-
able. Arrangements are being made for
reduction works of a capacity to crush and
amalgamate ten tons a day.

Work on the Seminole is being prosecu-
ted day and uight. The present length of
the tunnel, from the point where ground
was first broken, is almost 340 feet.

Tiie Evening Star. — Wo learn from
Fred. Wright, of Oreana, that work will
be commenced immediately on the Evening
Star mine.

The Silver'Mining Co. are about to in-
crease the capacity of their mill sufficiently
to enable them to crush 20 tons of ore
daily.

Work has been resumed on the Tallulah
ledge, in Dun Glen district.

Winnemucca correspondence, Gold Bill
News:

Pride op the Mountain. — Four years
ago Buck & Kunkle began work. They
have shipped 30 tons of ore., and are now
hauling to the depot their second shipment
of 70 tons. Horu silver is plentifully
spattered throughout the ore, and rich,
black sulphurets abound. Ou the same
lode, another company have in their incline,
down about 60 feet, a fine looking lode,'two
feet thick, full of excellent ore. Two other
companies are just starting in, and we have
every prospect of being a busy camp this
summer. We don't fool with anybody's
mill, but send our ores to Swansea, where
we get their full value.

Battle Mountain is still giving out bul-
lion at the rate of §200 per ton. The Little
Giant lode don't appear to stop in the orig-
inal claim, for the' extensions are turning
out fine ore.

Golconda. — Negus is working away with
an average result of §50 per ton. He has a
three-foot vein at the present level.

Unionville. — Fall & Co. and the Con-
solidated Co. are taking out fine ore. The
ore worked at the Consolidated Co's mill,
report says, works about §48 per ton, and
the tailings assay §100. Fall & Co's mill is
said to be working out §30 per ton from
the same class of ore.

Alpha. — The owners have a shaft down
200 feet, and a lode of mineral 10 and 12
feet thick all the way down. A tunnel is
now being run to connect with the bottom
of the shaft. This tunne! runs on the lode
most of the way, and is designed for a work-
ing level. Five feet of the vein ..will pay
§150 per ton. The owners are going to
take out this rich strike, and ship it to Eu-
rope.

The Grant is an old mine under a new
name. This winter they started in, drift-
ing from the bottom of their shaft, and in a
short time cut a body of ore that astonished
the natives. It is rich. A short time ago
one of the owners took a notion to visit his
old home, and just to show the "suckers "
what kind of stuff grew out in this country,
he took a hand-saw and sawed off a chunk
of ruby silver. I am told that the owners
challenge the State for the production of a
specimen equal to one they will briDg from
the Grant.

The Sheba is again to wake up, after a
sleep of over four years. Joe Organ has
leased it, and begins operations immedi-
ately.

K15ESE BIVKE.

Austin Reveille, March 31st :

Mill to ee Opened. — We learned this
afternoon from Mr. Curtis, the Superintend-
ent of the company, that the Manhattan
mill would be opened to-morrow morning.

Tier, is a large supply of stunning ore on I
hand, and more coming.

Pinto is the name proposed for the new
district taken off' from Eureka. It is aboul
75 miles east of Austin, The ore is found
m isolated deposits, as in White Pine. Lo-
oations may be made by the square, as well
as by linear measurement on the vein. As-
says of rock show from §100 to §0U0 per
ton.

Belmont Cliampvm, March 27th :

We loam that tho mill of the Silver Peak
and Bed Mountain Co. is working steadily,
with good results. Laborers are very
scarce in the district, but tho company
have 2,000 tons of rich ore on their dumps,
and the mill will not be allowed to stop.

The rich ledges of Reveille are begiuuing
to attract the attention of prospectors. Six
weeks ago there were not a dozen men in
the camp, while at the present time there
are from 80 to 100. N. Brobant, an old
resident of tho district, brought into Bel-
mont, last week, a small lot of bullion,
worth §487, the result of six days' run of
eight hours a day, of a small arastra, driven
by horse power, on ore from the Green
Gage and Pearl ledges. The ore from
these ledges pays, by the wet process, §200
per ton. Barnes & Co., Capt. Baker k Co.,
Hammond & Co. .George Nichols, H. L.
Hawes aud Babb & Co. are busily at work
taking out very rich ore.

At the Enterprise mine, there is now a
considerable amount of ore upon the dumps,
which will work not less than §300 per ton.
There are but 600 feet in this claim and
Alexander MeKenzie owns a controlling in-
terest.

Sale op the Arizona Mine. — We are in-
formed that Len Martin has sold his Ari-
zona mine, in this district, to James Stew-
art and Alexander Kennedy. The gentle-
men who have purchased this mine went to
White Pine some months since, located
ground, and have sold a portion of their
claims, bought the above mine, and will
immediately commence the development of
it.

WASHOE.

[ In the Stock Circular, in another por-
tion of this paper will be found late mining
news from this district. ]

Territorial Enterprise, March 3d :

Flowery. — There will be much pros-
pecting in Flowery and in the range of the
Occidental mine northward this spring.
Miners will look for chimneys along the
croppings; not, as in 1860, run tunnels
one to two thousand feet to begin with.

C. Wiegand, assayer, writes that he sus-
pects the rumor of the Empire City strike,
(east of Carson,) is unfounded; and that
the discoverer was tricked by some prac-
tical joker who thrust a piece of gold ore
into the forge where he did the burning.

Same of March 31st :

Savage. — The body of ore struck in the
North Potosi chimney is one of the finest
ever found iu ttie mine.

Yellow Jacket. — A fine body of ore
was struck day before yesterday in this
mine, on the 800-foot level.

Same of April 1st :

We were yesterday shown some beauti-
ful specimens of copper, from the Wheeler
mine, Pine Grove. The specimens contain
a large per cent, of gold. Besides the
copper specimens, we were shown from the
same mine a piece of quartz literally filled
with free gold.

Cole. — The company are having a lot of
ore reduced at the Summit mill. It is be-
ing worked through one of S. Howland's
patent grinders.

Sacramento Co. — The Sacramento Co.
are again at work. Their ore is being
crushed at the Summit mill.

April 2d :

Chollar-Potosi. — The drift at the 1,240-
foot level has penetrated about 170 feet
from the incline. The rock is not quite so
hard.

Same of 3d :

Sierra Nevada. — The Sierra Nevada Co.
yesterday cleaned up 80 pounds of retorted
gold bullion, worth about §15,000. This
yield was the result of a run of 14%
days. The yield for the present mouth
has been over §20,000. The works will be
shut down for some four or five days in
order to mend the boiler.

Ophir. — The Ophir Co. are making good
progress with their drift to the westward
from the bottom of their shaft. The rock
encountered is becoming softer aud more
moist.

Yellow Jacket. — The body of ore
struck on the 800-foot level is even more ex-
tensive than was at first expected, and as-
says from §80 to §900 per ton.

Gould and Curry. — The shaft was
freed from water last evening, when sink-
ing was resumed.

Same of 4th :

The American Mine, the next south of

the Overman, will on Monday or Tuesday,
begin taking out ore for milling.

Hale A- Noecross. — The shaft of the old
works has been retimbered to the 300-foot
level, aud this week they will begin the
work of taking out ore on this level. At
present about 34 tous of ore per day, that
will pay $30 per ton, are being extracted
on tho 175-foot level.

Occidental. — A Virginia telegram of
April 5th, says : This morning the Occi-
dental struck- very rich ore in the bottom
of the winze, 140 feet below the floor of
the upper tunnel, aud 35 feet below the
water level.

NEW MEXICO.
The White Pine Veirs of March 20th,
says: "It is said a silver mine has been
discovered in San Andres canon, near La
Mesilla, New Mexico, with a ledge 50 feet
wide, that can be traced for miles, and that
pays §1,700 per ton, with very poor work
ing We will believe it wheu the min e
furnishes as much silver as does the Eber-
hardt."

OREGON.
Dalles Mountaineer, March 19th : Letter
from Canon City : During the late fine
weather prospecting has been going on
here briskly. Captain Borland has struck
a good prospect a mile above town in tho
bank ot Canon Creek. He gets one dollar
to the pan and has not found bed-rock.
Berry Bros. & Co. have struck a good pros-
pect on the upper end of the Penfield Mill
Flat Claims.

John Campbell's bed-rock flume is- nearly
completed. Campbell's claims are thought
to be the best on the Creek, and in a short
time he will be taking out plenty of money.
The Prairie Diggings' quartz mill is be-
ing pushed ahead rapidly to completion.
WASHINGTON.
A correspondent, of the S. F. Bulletin.,
March 31st: For several years gold has
been known to exist in the Black Hills,
some twelve miles west of Olympia, but it
has been believed not in sufficient quanti-
ties to pay for working. For some two
months past an old and experienced placer
miner, known by the name of "Texas,"
has been prospecting the Hills, and he has
recently demonstrated to a party of gentle-
men who visited his camp that from §3 to
§5 per day can be Made by an ordinarily
industrious man with either the sluice or
cradle. The gold region is extensive, and
several thousand men can find employ-
ment. ' ' Texas " reports finding gold-bear-
ing quartz, but its richness has not yet
been tested.

WYOMING.
New Gold Discoveries. — A rumor was
current in Cheyenne on the 15th ult., that
rich gold discoveries had been made ou
Green River, about 200 miles below tho
railroad crossing of that stream. It is also
stated that the remains of men and horses,
apparently a party of prospectors, were
found in the locality of the reputed gold
fields.

Steam Jets to Clear a Vessel from
Water.— A correspondent of the London
Times proposes to lift water from the hold
of a vessel by means of steam jets, supplied
from the boiler. The idea is a good one ;
but is not new, as the Times might readily
have learned by consulting the back num-
bers of this paper, in the columns of which
it was fully described some two years ago,
as "The American Steam Syphon Pump. "
Such an arrangement would be easily and
simply available in case of the shipping of
a heavy sea, or when any other extraordi-
nary surplus of water was to be got rid of.
In such case, the engine might be for the
time disabled; and pumps to be worked by
it would of course be useless. The jet would
be fully capable of accomplishing the work
at once, being always ready for work as
long as the fires are kept up.

Gold Nuggets. — Some very large nug-
gets of gold have recently been found in
Australia. At Gymple, in Queensland, a
700-ounce nugget was taken out of the
Golden Bar claim. At Berlin, near Ingle-
wood, one man obtained, in a couple of
days, 480 ounces of gold, comprising oue
nugget \>i 286 ounces, and a number of
smaller ones. At the same field two nug-
gets, weighing respectively 225 ounces and
175 ounces, have also been discovered.

Seventeen thousand men aud sixty
dredging machines do the work on the
Suez Canal.

The reports of the discovery of valuable
diamonds at Cape Good Hope are con-
firmed.

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Notices to Correspondents.

P. S. ., Antioch. — The word Pampas means
the same as the Spanish word llanos, as
applied to a plain or flat country. The
the -word Pampas is derived from, an In-
dian, .which to the Quichue language
possesses exactly the same meaning.

AgricotjA, Visalia. —From the days of Cato
the Censor to the present time, in Euro-
pean countries, those lands have ranked
highest in value that were under vini-
culture, and second on the list stood ozier
beds. No civilized State in the world
possesses more faeilitiesand inducements
for the cultivation of both than Califor-
nia.

PocoTiLiiO. — Why do you write anony-
mously ? If the newly enacted Nevada
law legalizing conveyances by minors, —
which you say was " specially passed to
fit McCanley's case," — can be shown to
be ex post facto, the chances are that the
"honest minor" may gain his case.

Communications on a " New Method of
Treating Sulphuret Ores," by M. R.
Jeffards of Chicago, ( a Montana miner),
and on the "Amalgamation of Silver ores
without Boasting," by Charles H. Aaron,
and some Pacific Railroad notes from
W. H. M. , will receive attention in our
next issue. ' •

Cadwalader's Map of White Pine
Range and Distkict. — Bancroft & Co.
have just issued their long promised map
of the White Pine Eange and of White Pine
District ; the former showing the connec-
tion of the district with the railroad at
Elko, in a strip of land seventy miles wide
and extending about seventy-five miles
south of White Pine, as far as Grant Dis-
trict ; the latter showing about a third of
White Pine District proper, on a scale of
four inches to the mile. This scale has en-
abled the compiler to get in ah immense
number of details, embracing three or four
hundred of the principal mines — out of the
three] thousand, which include an unknown
proportion more properly designated as
"wild-cat." The topography of this map
is not so good, or easily comprehended, as
that of some of the previously issued maps,
but the quantity of information conveyed
more than makes up for its pictorial de-
ficiency. All mines, mills, roads, brick-
yards, reservoirs, surveys, etc., are repre-
sented. Gen. Cadwalader, the convpiler, is
the father of the Pacific Bailroad engineer
of the same name. The map seems to have
been drawn on transfer paper, and litho-
graphed from that.

Aecompauying the map is a guide of
thirty-one pages, in the getting up of which
Dr. DeGroot's able assistance is made man-
ifest. The price is 81.50.

The Copper Trade.

The great depreciation iu the value of
copper, for the last five years, has nearly
ruined the copper mining iuterests of Lake
Superior, and put a complete stop to that
branch of business in California. The
large amount of capital invested in the
former locality, however, has been suffi-
cient to warrant the initiation of active
efforts to bring about such legislation as
shall so enhance the value of copper as to
make the working of those mines once more
profitable. These efforts have finally cul-
minated in success, and we have now a
Copper Bill, which has become a law, over
the President's veto, by which some of the
more productive mines of Lake Superior
can be worked to a profit, but which does
not afford sufficient protection to enable
the reopening of the less productive ones,
or any of the mines in this State. The
Eastern papers characterize the Bill as a
swindle, from the fact that its provisions
will enable only three or four of the best
of the mines, as , stated above, to resume
operations, the produce of which will fur-
nish but a mere moiety of the copper re-
quired by our commercial interests; while
the great bulk of that metal must still be
imported at rates which cannot fail to prove
a serious detriment to the ship-building in-
terest of the coast, which is already pros-
trated by over-taxation and other draw-
backs, growing out of the late war. If the
above statement is correct, which appears
to be the case, the people at large are to be
severely taxed for the benefit of a few
greedy stock-speculators in Boston and at
Lake Superior. California will derive no
benefit whatever, from the bill, either in
the way of plunder or legitimate gniu, al-
though her representatives were a unit in
its favor — so voting, no doubt without a
proper understanding of its effects.

It is perhaps to be regretted that legis-
lative action in this direction should have
been taken at this time, as there is good
reason for believing that the natural course
of trade itself would soon have set this
matter right. The great increase in the
production of copper, for the last few
years, which has led to a corresponding re-
duction in price, has been mainly due to a
large supply from rich superficial ores in
Chili — which country has furnished more
than half the world's supply for the eight
years past. This supply being chiefly from
superficial ores, is already beginning to fall
off, and in all probability will still farther
decrease. The production in England has
also been constantly decreasing for the last
ten years, while that of Bussia has now
nearly ceased, and most other sources of
supply, outside of the United States, are
either falling off or quite stationary, from
an exhaustion or depreciation in the yield
of the mines.

Many writers have attributed the late
depression in the price of copper to a
growing decrease in its. commercial use,
and point with much confidence to the
lessened demand for copper sheathing for
vessels, for casting bronze cannon, and for
copper coinage. Although these state-
ments are correct, other things, which
should be taken into account, are forgot-
ten. Though fewer ships are sheathed with
copper than* formerly, there is nevertheless,
on the whole, an increased demand for cop-
per in ship-building, which is used other-
wise about ships, especially steamers, the
construction of which requires much more
copper for a given tonnage than sailing ves-
sels. There are but few bronze cannon
cast now; but the demand for that manu-
facture has for years been almost exclus-
ively supplied by the remelting of old can-
non, so that that business has drawn noth-
ing, comparatively, from the world's
annual production. An important and
quite new demand for copper has sprung
up within a short time, in the shape of
cartridge cases for breech-loading guns.

This demand now averages many thousand
tons annually. Copper used for this pur-
pose never finds its way back again. There
is also a growing increase in the consump-
tion of copper for railway purposes, — for
locomotive boilers, tubes, etc. This de-
mand, of itself, more than doubles the fall-
ing off in any other department of manu-
facture. Bussia, alone, it is estimated,
requires 2,000 tons of copper annually for
this business—an important item when the
total world's production only reaches about
90,000 toDS. There are many other direc-
tions in which new and increased demands
for copper are springing up.

Taking all these things into considera-
tion, there is no bad prospect ahead for the
copper business. During the last few
years, since copper has been so rapidly de-
preciating, everybody connected with its
manufacture or consumption has been aid-
ing to keep the price down, by a hand-to-
mouth way of doing business, fearing to
keep any unnecessary amount of stock on
hand lest it should depreciate in price. The
stock of copper in the world is now very
small, and must henceforth be gradually
iucreased. Consumers and dealers are al-
ready gaining confidence, and speculators
are taking an increased interest in this long-
neglected article. The time is not far dis-
tant, "when, without oppressive legislation,
the copper business, even in California,
will again become profitable. The large
supplies of first-class ores, from this State,
which reached Europe just previous to the
late unfortunate crisis in the business, de-
servedly attracted the attention of opera-
tors there, and led to the remark," in one of
their circulars, by the Messrs. Vivians, the
largest copper smelters in Europe, that
"California, next to Chili, seems deservedly
to attract most attention," of any coprjer-
producing country in the world.

The Nevada State Mineralogist's
Report.

At length we have received a copy of this
document, by the hands of theBev. A. F.
White, the State Mineralogist him self. So
many of our Nevada exchanges have been
findiug fault with it that one would be led
to believe Mr. White utterly incompetent.
We do not find sufficient ground for all of
these left-handed notices in the Report—
which is an octavo pamphlet of ninety-six
pages filled to the end with facts pertinent
to mining developments, and every para-
graph is original. Had Mr. White ven-
tured unwarrantably into theories concern-
ing the geological or mineral formations
observed by him, he might have made his
report more interesting, and laid himself
open to more real occasion for attack. In
adopting Richthofen's lithological terms, as
descriptive of the volcanic rocks met with,
he has-embodied unmeaning words to the
majority, but enabled others to compre-
hend with some degree of definiteness his
observations of the distribution of erup-
tive matter in Nevada. If, instead of speak-
ing simply of ores he had been careful to
not* a little more fully the exact minerals
met with at different depths, and under
varying circumstances, the report would
have been more valuable both to millmen
and miners. Mr. White is a self-made
man, and of even less pretension than his
merits warrant.

California Type Foundry. — We have
received the second sheet of "faces" man-
ufactured at this establishment, and which
has j ust been issued in a very neat pam-
phlet form from the press of Wade & Co.,
411 Clay street. Messrs. Faulkner & Son,
Agents of this Company, say, in their pre-
face, that they have cast over 80,000 pounds
of body type since their establishment in
January, 1867. Their type is now in use
at nearly all the newspaper offices in this
eity. A sample of a new 'Calfornia Italic"
is given, which presents a beautiful ap-
pearance, and is particularly adapted to
blanks, circulars, etc. We are pleased to
acknowledge th is new evidence of Califor-
nia progress.

Permareney of Interests in the Mount-
ain Counties.

Folloving closely on the heels of the
late Lond Office decisions adopting the
policy of grunting fee simple titles to placer
deposits, we find there is leavening and
spreading in the semi-agricultural mining
counties a strong movement showing itself
with the flowers and green growths of'
spring, in favor of permanent and settled
titles to such land as is occupied and con-
sidered most valuable at present for agri-
cultural purposes. The signification of
this movement is that there are now many
people living in those regions who are con-
t int to remain there ; that homes have been
made which are beginning to be worthy of
that permanent name in the foot-hills ; that
"pulling up stakes" is soon to cease being
the rule and the curse of the most delight-
ful and the most prolific region, in material
resources, of the Pacific coast. Possessory
titles have been the law ; — good enough for
temporary purposes, but not satisfying.
Their operations in mining is perhaps all
that would commonly be desired, but in
regard to permanent developments above
ground it has evidently been bad, and it i3
time that there should be some change.
The destruction of all the timber of the
foot-hills is perhaps the greatest injury
that it has done, a man not being hindered
from abandoning his location the moment
that the timber is exhausted, and making a
fresh one to suit the times.

If the status of land titles is the cause of
our otherwise unaccountably neglected
lands in the foot-hills, what legislation
shall Congress be called upon to enact ?
In the first place it was, strictly speaking,
perhaps straining a point to construe placer
deposits as " veins." That point should be
more definitely settled ; there being no ob-
jection to the permanent sale of mineral
lands urged by any of our exchanges, ex-
cept the Calaveras Chronicle, that we have
seen.

It is suggested that petitions should be
circulated in the mining counties asking
Congress to pass a law throwing all public
lands in the mountains open for preemption
and sale, irrespective of the question of
their agricultural or mineral characters —
which is the bar in all present proceedings.
It has been found, in the recent case before
the Register and Beceiver at Sacramento,
calling for testimony iu regard to the classi-
fication of some 30,000 acres of unclassified
land southeast of Auburn, tbatevery agricul-
turist is placed in the unfavorable position
of sustaining an undecidable lawsuit before
obtaining his title, when in point of fact
there is no occasion for conflict with any
body, were the law only left in an open
enough shape to suit the facts.

Possessory titles to mines and lands are
conceded to be equally good at present.
But the numerous advantages that would
accrue from permanent titles, seem to over-
balance all objections that can be stated to
any legislation in the premises, the object
of which is to facilitate permanent settle-
ment and developments of every other kind
in the foothills.

Specimens feom the Glenwood Mine,
El Dorado Co., have been Bhown to us by
Mr. S. P. Leeds, which, besides being un-
usually rich in partially very perfectly crys-
tallized gold, show the accompanying
quartz in that peculiar porus condition
which indicates that there was another min-
eral of a soluble character deposited in the
vein at the same time with its present con-
tents, but which was afterwards carried
farther by similar agencies to those which
filled the vein. Pyrites, gypsum, calcspar,
etc., behave in that manner, under the pro-
per conditions. The Glenwood vein is 14
feet wide, has a fluccan on each side, dips
to the west, and is part of a quartz forma-
tion of similar character extending 7 miles.
The ore assays $13.60, on an average,
throughout, and being 930 to 940 fine. We
are indebted to Mr. W. Tale, the secretary
and treasurer, for a copy of a report of this
mine, which furnishes precisely such facts
and figures as mining managers ought al-
ways to circulate freely amongst those who
are interested, or to become interested, if
the intention is to operate on an intelligi-
ble basis.

T1c\e Mining and Scientific Press.

233

This Year's Mechanics' Institute Fair.

" Forty-nino and Sixty-nine," Baya OKI
Block, are California's most significant Jates
historically. In connection with tho facts,
(already noticed by us, ) that tho Mechanics'
Institute* of this city is in a position to
make a success of another industrial exhi-
bition— the greatest indeed that has yet taken
place under the auspices of that institution,
unless unforeseen obstacles should operate
adversely — and that such an exhibition has
been fully determined upon, additional cir-
culars having just been issued giving due
notice to local manufacturers, we take pleas-
ure in being able to state that steps are also
being taken to connect with it the prestige
of tho great railroad opening to which not
only California, but tho Atlantic States and
the commercial circles of the entire world,
are looking forward with interest. A meet-
ing is to be held at the Mechanics' Institute
building this (Saturday) evening, for tho
purpose of devising a ijlan and making
suitable arrangements; at which some little
" spouting " may take place perhaps, and
a good working committeeo will be ap-
pointed.

The Mechanics' Institute Fair of 1869
will be the San Francisco end of the great
celebration; and that which is destined to
come to pass will surely not prove discred-
itable to our State and coast. September
14t.li is the day fixed for the opening of the
Exhibition. By that time the continental
road will be in good and safe running
order; and it is also the time fixed by the
Odd Fellows of tho United States for their
grand Annual Convention, which is to take
place for 1809 in this city. The East will
come on a visit to tho West, and there will
be such a demonstration at once of na-
tional unity, and of fraternity, as could
never have taken place without a War, and
without the completion of a Continental
Bailroad.

Odd Fellowship signalizes its own high
rank amongst the living forces of the times
by thus recognizing and participating
actively in the spirit of Sixty-nine.

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which yon have put tho matter through, please accept
my thanks. Geo. W. Teabdst,f.

To Dewex fc Co.. Publishers M. & S. Press.

A New Marine Paint. — A company has
recently been formed in this city for the
manufacture and sale of a new paint, known
as the " California Metallic Marine Paint."
This composition is a California invention,
the patent for which was obtained through
the Mining and Scientific Press Patent
Agency. The composition is one of a com-
pound chemical character, quite different
from anything else in use; and one which
has already been subjected to a thorough
practical test. When applied to vessels
or piles, it is said to form an efficient pre-
ventive against the ravages of the teredo,
while its use upon either wood, iron or
copper, upon vessel's bottoms, effectually
prevents their "fouling," and greatly di-
minishes the wear and tear upon the same.
It is also valuable as a preservative for
wooden structures of all kinds, for bridges,
railroad timbers, etc. The names of the
parties who represent the company as trus-
tees and officers, afford a guarantee that the
article which they offer the public is some-
thing of value. See advertisement in an-
other column.

Maurice Dore & Co.,

AUCTION EEKS.

THURSDAY.

THURSDAY MAY 6, 1869,

At 12 o'clock, at Salesroom,
No. 3» MONTGOMERY STKEET,

Special Credit Sale

— op - — •

Montgomery Street Property,

By order of the Trustees or the Montgomery Street
Real Estate Company.

We will sell on the above date
1,000 FEET FRONTAGE
ON MOXTGOHERT,
BETWEEM .MARKET AND HOWARD STREETS,
Which will embrace lit FINE CORNERS, as follows:
One on Montgomery and Market,
Three on Montgomery and Jegftle,
Three on Montgomery unci Miction,
One on Montgomery nnd Minna.,
Four on Montgomery and A'atomn, and
One on Montgomery and Howard Street*.

Montgomery street, between Market and Howard, is fO
feet in width, and will bu sewered, paved with Stow pave-
ment, curbed and sidewaiked.

TERMS— One-fourih cash; one-fourth in one year; one-
fourth In two years; onc-iourih In three years— deferred
payments to bear interest at the rate of ten percent, per
annum, nayablo monthly, and be secured by mortgage on
the property.

Diagram Ontnlo^ues will be ready in a few^lays, and can
be had on application ai our office.

MAUtlK'E 1IOKM A- CO.,

15vlS lin AueiloneerK.

The " Go-Ahead Gold and Silveb
Mining Company," is the name of a com-
pany of energetic miners just organized,
with a capital stock of $50,000, for the pur-
pose of prospecting and developing certain
placer mines in Mountain Spring District,
Sierra County, on the road leading from
La Porte to Gibsonville. There is a gravel
ridge sis or eight miles in length, between
those places, which is believed, for suffi-
ciently good reasons, to be very rich, but
the paying deposits are deep in, and re-
quire a systematic undertaking of the
work.

Sheffield Scientific School

Of IT ale College, Sew Haven, Conn.

This department of Yale College, instituted in 1840, and
endowed with the National Land Grant In 186(5, furnishes-
advanced instruction in Ihe various branches of Mathe-
matical, Physical, and Natural Science.

The School is under the direciion of the President of tht
College, a Board of thirteen Professors in different special
tics, and six assistant instructors.

Regular courses of study, leading to the degree of Bach-
elor of Philosophy, conferred by Yale College, are ar-
ranged as follows: 1— CUKMISIllYANn MlNEKAL JGV. 2— ClVlL
I£m.[m-:kilim; 3— Mkcuanical Enginkeuing. &— Mining
Enginekuing and Metallurgy. 6 — Agriculture. 6— Nat
ural History and Gkology, and 7— Select Course.

Advanced students are also admitted to optional courses,
and if already College graduates, arc received as c anim-
ates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Tuition, S 125 per year of forty weeks.

The Libraries, Museums, Laboratories and Apparatus,
accessible to students, are varied and extensive.

For copies of the Annual Circular and Report, lottcrf
may be addressed to the "Secretary of the ShefUcld Scien-
title School," New Haven, Conn. 13v6-lyl6p

ILLINOIS
SILVER MESINO COMPANY

White Pine r>isti-ict.

JAS. R. CCTTER,
E. U. SHAW,

Tra«tec«:

li. U. FREEMAN,
■IAS. U. GAUNISS,
DAVID BUSH.

Tho Company* Mine adjoins the celebrated "Silver
Glance," and Is In close proximity to the "Argyle," and
other prominent minus of the District.

Prmn dQvelop*n#nta already made, ihe Trustees fceljus-
tlflod in saying to their friends that this is ono of the best
opportunities ever offered for Investment in this State.

For the. purpose of further developing tho mine, the
Company has set aa'de a limited amount of stock, to be
sold as a working capital, of which they now offer lutlO
shares, at the nominal price of S3 50 per share, unasscjsa-
ble-tho entire proceeds of which will be devoted to devel-
oping the mine.

The books of the Company arc now open for subscription
at the otucc of the Company, No. 432 Montgomery street,
Room No. 1, first floor. By ord er.

JAS. H. CUTTER, President

G. W. Stkwart, Secretary.

15vl8-fm

CALIFORNIA.

Marine Metallic Paint.

This Composition, tho result of scientific and chemical
research, alter having u-en thoroughly tested for the past
twelvemonths, is now offered for sale bv the " California
Marine 1 unit Co" Incorporated March 25, ISC'J. The ex-
periments to which it has nenn submitted, have proved
that It Is one of the most valuable discoveries ot this won-
derful age ot invention It has heen extenslvelv used in
painting the bottoms of all kinds of saliing vessels, .wood.
iron and copper, and with invariable success. Wooden
bottoms, piles, etc., are thoroughly protected from the de-
struction of the Inr'tlo ntvnlis, or sea worm ; and iron vessels
eflectually preserved from the adhesion of barnacle*
grass and nil descriptions of zoophytes, no injury what-
ever resulting to the plates, as frequently occurs from the
use ot copper, and other pernieiiuis paints; but, on the con-
trary. Its known properties will preserve them.

By the use of this Paint, coppering vessels is rendered un-
necessary; butwhere a vessel has been eoppered it will not
only keep It Irom fouling, but preserve the copper from the
ordinary wear ana tear, amounting to 1U per cent, per an-
num, and render it almost indestructible

li is also Invaluable for the preservation of all wooden
structures, especially railroad timbers, bridges, floor beams
in houses, telegraph posts, and is a certain preventive
agamst the action ol the white ant and comngen ol Mexi-
co, china, and India.

The company are now prepared to supply all orders, and
enter into contracts for the application of this Paint

Orders and communications in regard to terms, addressed
toCapt. R. H. Waterman, President: James Pollock Su-
perintendent Dry Dock; or L. L. Bullock, Tide Land Com-
missioner, wiL receive prompt attention.

B. H. WATERMAN,

JAMES POLLOCK, |
L L BULLOCK. ^Trustees.
SCOTT T1DBALL, |
TKOS. A. TALBKRTJ

m „ JOHN S. ROLLS, Secretary.

San Francisco, March 29, I8ti9. lo'vlS-lm

Continental Life Insurance Company,
203 Montgomery street, corner of Pine.

ONE THOUSAND SHARES

— OF THE —

UNASSESSABLE STOCK

— OF TUB —

Nantucket Mining Company

Arc offered lor sale at ONE DOLLAR PER SHARE, for
the purpose of raising a fund to aid in the development of
the mine. The mine is located on TREASURE HILL, about
half a mile west of Treasure City, adjoining the "Salt
Point on the east. No other issue of this stock will be
offered at less than $2.50 per share, tho object being to raise
a small fund for the immediate prosecution of the work.
The Trustees, in offering this stock, confidently believe it
to be ONE C F THE BEST INVESTMENTS in the market.
Subscription Books now open at the office of the Company,
No. 610 .Montgomery street. By order of the Board of
Trustees.

W. H. BROWN, President.

15vl3-lm H. B. CONG DON, Secretary.

CARLOS O'DOrJNELX'S

California Cordial Tonic,

— on-

Wiia'cheiMr^r Bitters.

TRADE Qm Qt J)m MARK.

This elegant preparai Ion is acknowledged by all who have
used it to bo the most efficient rumedy lor every disease, of
tho

STOMACH AM) KOWJEX.S,

Yet introduced to the notice of the public Immediately on
taking a dose of It, the patient will find a genial glow per-
vading his entire system, and its steady use for a short
time will be followed by a healthy appetite and a good di-
gestion, even in the case of the most confirmed dyspeptic.
To all who are suffering from

INDIGESTION,

DYSPEPSIA,

DYSENTERY,

DIAflRIItEA,

NERVOUS AFFECTIONS,

Or nny of the manifold troubles caused by a diseased acHon
of the stomach, this remedy is confidently recommended
as a safe and certain cure.

N. B. JACOBS Ac CO., Sole Agents,
15vlS-3m 4&3 Front street, Sji.ii Francisco.

W. T. GAllllATT,
City

BRASS AND BELL FOUNDER

Cor. irHsaton nil d Fremont sts..

Bit* rnANClSCO.

Manufacturer of Brass, zinc, and Antl-Frlctlon or
Babliet Metal Castings,

CHURCIl AND STEAMBOAT
TAVERl, ABD HIHC BKLI.S AHD OOHOS.

FIRE ENGINES, FORCE AND LIFT PUMPS,

v,?K™"\,''W"ir' S',,da. 0I1' wa"r«r,d. Fiance Cocks,' and
>alM-f "I a" iU-si.-nmi.iiis. ma,!,- ami repaired, llnsc and

all t,llu-i Ji.tnls, Spelter, s r, ,„„! r„w„,r Bivr la, Ac.

Qauec locks. Cylinder Cocks. Oil Globes, Steam Whistles

11 VlMt.Y I IK PIPES AND MIZIEI.H
For Mining purposes. Iron steam Pipe fiirnlslie.l with Fit-

tins. ,*c. inn ib .li.ims of all ,i-.„. Particular intention

pnld to DlslilU-rv Work. Maimloclurer of -'Garrett's Pat.
tent Improved Journal Metal."

. ?S'i!IJ,!,'!S?t *iifUot f'00 Pald for 0LD BELLS, HOPPER,

Aftl) HKAbS. ^o fj*f

Crucibles.

The Patent Plumbago Crucible Co.,

Manufacturers of all kinds of

Melting Pots, Portable Furnaces,

CRUCIBLES, and other tlrc-slanding Goods,

lSutteraea Works.'Loadoa.

THE MORGAN PATENT CRUCIBLES have uniform

quallly, never crack, withstand the greatest heat without

danger; heals more rapidly Ihnn any other; change oftom.

poraturo has no effect on ihem; slnnd on the average forty

to fifty pou rings.

On hand and for sale by the Agenis,

A. 8. ILV1.I.IU1I; ,t. CO.,
Ivl8-3m9p G18 Front street, San Francisco

PACIFIC

Rolling Mill Company,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
EstabiishetUfor the Manufacture of

RAILROAD AND OTHER IRON

— AND —

Every Variety of Sliaftinftr,

Embracing ALL SIZES of
Sleamtoont Shafts, Orunks, Ploton nnd Con-
necting lEoug, Ca.r nnd Locomotive A M«-n
und Framen

— ALSO —

ua.m:m:er,ed iron

Of every description and size.

A®- Orders addressed to PACIFIC ROLLING MILb
COMPANY Post Office, San Francisco, Cal., will receive
prompt attention.

03r* The highest price paid for Scrap Iron. 9vl43m9p

M". W. SPAULDING,

Saw Smithing and Repairing

ESTABLISHMENT.

GILES H. Git

JVMUS M. BAVJC1T.

GRAY & HAVEN,

ATTORNEY S AND COUNSELORS AT LAW,

In Bulldlug of Pacific Insurance Co., N. E. corner Cali-
fornia anc Leides-dorff street*,
27vl6 SAN FRANCISCO.

To White Pine Owners and Others.

Abstracts of Titles to Mining Claims, Town Lots and
Lands furnished. Mines examined and reported on by a
competent person now residing in Treasure City. Mining
Claims, Town Lots, etc., bought nnd .«o)d on commission.
For information apply lo ULULKJIaN & CO., C«5 Wont-
gomery street. 15vlS-lm

N<>». IT and 1.9 Fremont St., near Market*

MAKUFACIOR1JB OP

ISP-A-TJlAJOirSTGr'S

Patent Tooth Circular Saws.

They have proved themMelvcn to ne the mont
durante and economic*.. Sawn In the World.

EACH SAW IS WARRANTED IN EVERY RESPECT.

Particular attention paid to construction of

Portable & Stationary Saw Mills.

WILLS FURNISHED AT SHORT NOTICE,
At the lowest Market Prices.

MAGAZINES.

Harpers

Atlantic

Godey

New York: Ledger.

Blackwood

Hours at Home —

Good Words

Peterson's

Arthur

Lady's Friend

Harper's Weekly.,
Chimney Corner.. .
Literary Album...

London Society

All the Year Round
London III. News..

W. E. LOOMIS,
News Dealer

AND STATIONER,

Southeast corner Sansomc and

Washington streets,

SULLIES ALL

■ XASTERK
JPJERIO DICALg

By the Year, Month or Nuinher

HELIOG-RAPHIC

STEEL ENORAVING AND PRINTING COMPANY.
E. VON EGLOFFSTEIX, Snpt.,
133 and 135 West Twenty-nTih St., New York.
Steel Enqravlnffs produced by an Improved Process at
one third the umiuI rates. Portraits. Country Scats, Illus-
trated Circulars. Reuroductions of Engravings. Designs,
elC JNO. VIINGi^T HltJGINS, Sole Agent.

3vtS-6mI6p «58 Broadway, Npw York.

Quartz Mill Amalgamating

Plates, Electro-Plated with Fine Silver; also instruc-
tions in Gold and SIIv.t Fluting, on hard and soft met-
als, EUKEKA PLATING WORKS. Terms moderate.
12t> Kearny atrLCt, between Post and Sutter sts. Ivl8 3m

234

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinists and Foundries.

PALIY£ER, KNOX & CO.,

Golden State Iron Works,

Mos. 1W, SI, 2a and 555 FSrst Slrep.t,
SAN FBANCISCO.

H4HOFACTUEE ALL KINDS Of

MACHINEKY,

STEAM ENGINES AJTI) QUARTZ MJt/LS

DUNBAR'S IMPROVED

Selt-A.'dljiistine Piston Packing,

Requites no springs or screws; is always steam tight;

without excessive friction, aud never

gets slack or leaky.

WHEELER & RANDALL'S

NEW (JK1XDF.K AAi) AHAL6AMATOB

HEPBURN & PETERSON'S

AHALOAMATOIfi A\D SEPAKATOK,

Knox's Amalgamators,

WITH PALJIER'S PATENT STEAM CHEST,

Superior tor working either GOLD OR SILVER ORES, and
s tlie only Amalgamator that has .stood the test of se r.eii
years' continual working.
Gtenuiiie White Iron Stamo Shoes aud l£lea

Having been engaged for the past ten years in quariz
mining, and being conversant with all the improvements,
either in Alining or Milling, we arc prepared to furnish, at
f he shortest notice, the most perfect machinery for rcdnc
ng ores, or saving cither gold or silver. i3vlUqy-tf

IRA F. UANKIN.

A. P. BKAYTON.

Pacific Iron Works.

First and Fremont Streets,

SAN FRANCISCO. .

Having been established since 1851, we have accumulated
a very large variety of Gear and oilier Patterns, which,
Willi our superior tools and uppliuuees, give us iaeilities lor
doing first class work uuci|Ualcd on the Pacilic Uuast-

Among other things, we manufacture the following:

EOiLiUltS— Higli and l<oiv Pressure,

Pump, Pipe and Sheet Iron Work of every kind.

Quartz Mill Work,

Including High and Low Mortars, for wet or dry crushing*

Purnaci- irons lor Roasiing Ores: Freiberg barrels;

Varuey'sand Wheeler's Amalgamating Fuus

and Settlers; Stamp Shoes and Dies of

best White Iron; Russia Iron .

Screens, etc., etc.

Flour Mill, Saw Mill and Sugar Mill Work in every variety;

Pumping and Liuisling Machinery; Hansbrow's

Patent Challenge Pump, for Domestic,

Ship and Mining use— the most

approved and successful

Pump manufactured.

Cauftings of every deacrlptlou, Ii'on and Brass.

ffc would cail especial attention to " Wright's Patent Va-
riable Cut-oil" Engines," of which we are the sole manufac-
turers on the Pacilic Coast, under license from the rtood-
nitl'it Beach Co., liarttord, Ct. As a simple, ettective, yukl
SAVinc lust-cUss Engine, this is, without doubt, the best
Engine made in the United States.

Orders promptly attended to. Prices as low as possible
for hrst class work, and we intend to do no other.

UOJn>l>Al£J> «fe CO.

San Francisco, May 1, 1S68. ' isvlfiif

WILLAMETTE IROIS WORKS,

rUitTLiSB, UJ1ECO.V.

Steam Engines, Boilers,
SAW AND CRIST NULLS,

UINIKG MACUINERV, WEOUOHT IRON SIIUTTEK
WORK, AND BLACKSMITHINU IN GENERAL.
Corner North-Front und E Htreetet.

18v13-1y One block north of Couch's Wharf.

Globe Iron Works,

8TOCH.TOS, CAIL.

KEEP & BARGION,

MANUFACTURERS OF

Ctuartz, Saw and Grist Mill lions, Steam
Engines, Horse Powers,

High aud Low Pressure Steam Engines, Steamboats and

Propellers, made at short notice.

13vl3tf

CALIFORNIA BRASS FOUNDRY.

&'<». 125 First street, opposite Minna,

SAN FRANCISCO.

All kinds of Brass, Composition, Zinc, and Babbitt Metal
Castings, liiyss Ship Work of all kinds, Spikes, Sheathing
Nails, it udder Braces, Hinges, ship and Steamboat Kellsatid
Gongs of superior tone. All kinds of Cocks and Valves, Hy-
draulic Pipes and Nozzles, and Hose Couplings and Connec-
tions of all sizes aud patterns, furnished with dispatch.

03>- PRICES MODERATE. *&g

J. P. GALLAGHER. J. H. WEED V. KINGWELL.

9vl3-ly

BEN JAMIN~ ELLIOT,

No. 493 Brannan street San Francisco,

Manufactures Foundry Facings constantly, lrom choice
Coals. Bituminous, pneked in light sacks. Anthracite and
Charcoal ground together or separate, packed in whole
or hail barrels, Bluett Lead, Coke ami Suapstone ground to
order. Foundry men located far from choice material, can
rely on haviuy superior Faeiims forwarded to order.
lUvlSqr

Miners' Foundry

—and —

MACHINE WORKS

Nos. 245 to 255 Fiest Street,

Sun Francisco.

HOWLAND, ANGELL, & CO.,

l'JtVFXIETOXS,

Manufacturers of Machinery for

(ICAE'fZ BULLS.

SAW MILLS,
POWMJEJl BULLS,

FLOIIJt MILLS,
siUJU BULLS,
JPAPJEJB, MILLS

Steam Engines of all Kinds.
Amalgamators bf all Kinds.

OIL WELL TOOLS,

HOISTISB WOKKS

KOl'K SililCAKEBS,

—AND—

Machinery and Castings of all kinds, either
of Iron or Brass,

Boilers and Sheet Iron Work in all its
Branches,

Shoes und men ofWhl'.e Iron, manufactured
foranil imported by u* evpi-cse-ly for thii, pur-
pose, unit will litat 25 per tent, longer than Liiy
other made on this count.

ItusMin Iron Screens, of any degree of fineness.
We are the onl.v innmilacturerH on this coast 09
the

HICKS ENGINE,
The most cunipact, slniyle in construction, and

durable, ot" any Lnjfine in use.
W. H. HOWLall, II. 15. AJISE1L,

IJVU-qr CtlillS PALBIEIS.

FULTON

Foundry and Iron Works.

HlffiCKLEY & CO.,

UANUFACTtiRli-KS Of

STEAM ENGINES,
Quartz, Flour an*l Saw IlXilLs,

Muyett' I'm proved fit team Pump, Rrodie'n Im-
proved C'ruwhei*, T.Z in! na Puiup«f
ALual^ainnt»rH, and nil kinds
<>< Klactiluery.

N. E. corner of Tehama and Fremont streets, above How
ard street, San Francisco. 3-qy

McAfee, spiebs & co.,

BOILER MAKERS

AND GENERAL MACHINISTS,

Howard jt, between Fremont aud Bcaie, San Francisco.

Flue or Tubular Boilers, with (.lain circular or spiral
courses. Upright Flue or Tubular Boilers, Locomotive and
and Marine Boilers, und Wrought lion Tanks of every de-
scription,

EBydi-uulle Pipe sunplird at reasonable rates. In or
derlng, give ihequantiiy of water to be supplied, hi ghtof
the fail, and total length of pipe, so as to enable the firm to
determine the diameter of tlic pipe and thickness of iron to
be used.

ISepsiIrw.— Boilers, Smoke Stacks, Pipes, etc., put in re-
pair wiih promptness.

To Boiler Klukern a:id Miich3ul»tt<j In the In-
terior.—Tlic firm is prepared to furnish estimates of
Boilers, sut ply new Heads, drilled and punched, and attend
to the .selection and forwarding of Iron fur Boilers, Pipes
and oilier purposes.

Plains, Urawlnau and Specification*!,— The firm
is prepared to make out Plans und Specification?, teceive
estimates, and superlnteud the Erection of any Machinery
that may be entrusted to their care

To Inventors.— The firm is prepared to assist in de-
veloping the plans of those wiio have the ideas, but not the
practical experience necessary to put the sanib in form, by
midtitiR Drawings of their Inventions, giving them the ben-
efit of their praeti :»1 knowledge in the construction of Ma-
chinery, and attending to the manufacture and intrnduc-
tion of their inventions. lvlliif

UIBI03I IRON WORKS,

©acrfiiiiento.
WILLIAMS, BOOT & NEILSON,

STAND FACTO HERS OF

-*t:ea.m: engines, boileks,

CROSS' PATENT BOiLKR PEEPER AND SEDIMENT
COLLECTOR,

And nil kinds of Slinin^ Machinery.

Also. Hay and Wine Presses made and repaired
with neatness, durability and dispatch.

Unnbar'H Patent Self- Adjusting Steam PUton

PACKING, for new and old Cylinders, manufactured

to order.

Front Street, between N and O streets,

14vll Sacrahkkto Citv

THOMPSON BROTHERS,

ETTREKA EOTJN3>IE,-5r,

I.IOIIT ABTD IIIiTT CASTINGS,

of every description, munulaelured 2ivl6iii-

JAMES MACKEN,

COFFDBRSlvriTBL,

220 Fremont St., bet. Blown rd «fe foU«i,.

Allkinds of COPPER WORK done to order In the best
maimer. Particular intention paid to StcamhD.it, tiugai
House and Distillery work. ,

&. T. PRACY.
MACHINE WORKS,

NOS. 109 and 111 MISSION STREET,
letweeu Main and Spear.

New and second hand

Engines and Boilers,

FOK SALE.

Also one flrst-chiss Foisting

Engine ; one UnriithL

Engine, oi entirely

new patlem.

MAKOFjlCTOnKR OF

Latlles, Urills,

And MILL MAPBINEBV of
every description.

I» K A. C Y » S

New and Improved
STEAM EXCISE

REGULATORS,

The best and cheapest vet in-
vented—manufactured and
for sale. Parties are in-
vited t« examine it
in practical op-
eration.

F. A. HTTKTIX»TOK»§

Shingle Machines

on hand.

Particular attention paid to
Repairing.

1153" All work guaranteed to bo done in a first-class man-
ned", aud at the lowest rates. 12vI7lf

i!glSS=^

txxe: bisdon
Iron and Locomotive Works.

Incorporated, April 30, 1PG8 Cnpitnl, Sl,(00,0t'O. '

Location of Works, Corner Benlc and Howard streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

SuccocBors to Pacific Mnil P. S. Co. Works at Mcnicia, CofTcy

& Risdon, and Dcvoc, Dinsniorc A Co., Kan Francisco.

Steam En gi n i- Builders, Boiler JU niters,

MACHINISTS AND FOUNDRYMEN,

All work in their line attended to with promptness and
dispatch.

S. F. Rutt.-rworth,
Uoyfl Ti-vis,
Jus! Pollock,
ocn. HoIIaday,

Directors:

Cha-.E. McLane,
John N. Rtsdon,
Joseph Mooie.

. ,IOHM n. RISDON, President.

Josenh Moore, Vice Preslrtelif und Siiperintimdeni: Clin?
E. Mel, nne, 'treasuror: Lewis R. Mend, Secretarv; l.ewi;
Cnfloy, Sunerintendent Boiler. Works. 2:tvl7-qy

Pli03iiix Iron Works.

JONATHAN EITTEEDGE, Proprietor,

Nob. 18 and ISO Fremont «treet> near Market,
Sua Frnnclseo.

MANDF^CTUUJiR OF

Fire-Proof Doors and Shutters,

Wrought Iron Girders, find nil kinds of Housesmith work,

Bridge, Prison

FOK6ING AND MAC11INE WOKE,

IMPROVED FIRE-PROOF SAFES,

FIEE AND BUEGLAE-PEOOF SAPES,

Of a superior make. Sule manufacturer of the celebrated

MONITOR SAFE.
BANK VAULTS AND SAFES,

Of every description, made to order at short notice. A

largestock of SAFES of all kinds coustnntly on hand.
Agency for the ISHAM KEY REGISTER BANK AND SAFE
LOCK, the only first class Lock In the
lv!7tf United States

NOBLE & FLEMING,
MACHINE WORKS,

No. lO SterciiHon street, near riot,

SAX FRANCISCO.

Particular attention given lo repairs on Portable and Sta-

Lioiuuy Engines; also all kinds of Wood Working

Machinery; Shaftings, Bangers, Pulleys, etc.

n.ade to order; Screw Cutting, Iron

Planing, and ail kinds ol JOB

WORK promptly at. ended to.

Agents Tor F. S. Perkins' JSnglnc XiUthc8t

riuners, ITpriislit Drills,

And all kinds ot MACHINISTS' TOOLS; also the Davis

Wood Planer and Mitre Dove-Tailing Machines.

CITY IRON WORKS COMPANY.

CLERC & CO.,
[RON FOUNDERS,

Steam EiiKim' ISiiIlderH aud M ulcers of all
kinds mi' Aliichinery,

6>116nr No. 28 Fremont street, San Francisco.

STOCK CERTiFIGATES,

STOCK TRANSFER JOURNALS,
STOCK LEDGERS,

ASSESSMENT RECEIPTS,

And all oilier Blanks, Blank Books, etc., required by Jfin
ing and other Corporations, kept on hand or printed to
order on short notice, at moderate prices, at lite ofilccof
the Mining and Scientific Press.

Effect of Gas upon Fobnituke, &c- -
Durirg the recent heaving o£ the pas ques-
tion before the New York Board of Health,
fully reported in the Gaslight Journal, Prof.
Silliman, who was called to give his testi-
mony, as an expert, read, in the course of
it, the following from a recent article by
Dr. Letheby :

" About 15 or 20 years ago, when I began
to inquire into this matter, I was struck
with a circumstance which is now, as it was
then, very remarkable — namely, that wher-
ever gas is burnt continuously, and in large
quantity, it causes a rapid destruction of
textile fabrics, with a very acid condition
of them. This is notably so in our public
libraries, and in warehouses and shops. I
obtained so many striking proof of this,
especially from the libraries of the Atken-
seum Club House, the London Institution,
the College of Surgeons, and elsewhere,
that I made them the subject of a special
report to the authoritias in 1854, and here
you will see the specimens of covers of
books which were furnished to me at that
time. If you apply a piece of the leather
to your tongue, you will taste its acidity,
and if it be treated with water or spirit of
wine and tested with a solution of baryta,
it will be found that the acid is sulphuric
acid. These effects were observed many
years ago, in the library of the Athenaanm
Club House, and they were growing to be
so serious, that the managers requested a
commission of chemists, including Doctor
Prout, Mr. Aiken and others to inquire
into it, and I have before me a copy of their
report on the subject. It is to the effect
that the mischief is clearly due to the pres-
ence of sulphuric acid, which had coino
from the burning gas ; and they state that
the mischief will continue as long as gas iu
used in the library without proper ventila-
tion. Mr. Faraday thereupon designed the
system of ventilation which is still used in
the library. As to the effects of the pro-
ducts of burning gas on shop-goods, thoy
are notorious, for such goods are regularly
disposed of as damaged or gassy things.
It has been remarked, too, that plants are
quickly killed by the products of burning
gas, for they are peculiarly susceptible of
injury from the presence of sulphurous
acid in the air ; according to Drs. Chiisti-
son and Farmer, as little as one part in
10,000 of air will kill plants iu less than
24 hours. And you cannot use gas in a
conservatory, either for heating or for illu-
minating purposes, unless the products of
combustion are entirely removed. Dr.
Christison has written to me very strongly
on this subject ; and he attributed the ab-
sence of flowers and plants from the rooms
of Edinburgh to the circumstance that gas
is universally used in them. Advancing a
step further in my inquiries, I ascertained
that the water produced by burning gas,
collect it how you will, is always acid, and
will rot leather, paper, cotton, and linen.
Here are specimens of such tissues, which
have been dipped in the condensed liquid
products of gas combustion, and you will
observe that they are as rotten as tinder."

Canals and Railways. — The Erie
Canal, originally built for vessels of sixty
tons, has just been enlarged for those of
250 tons, and its increasing traffic already
demands an enlargement for vessels of
1,000 tons. Of the traffic of the great
West it now carries more than all of the
great trunk lines of railway between tho
St. Lawrence and the Potomac. One canal
boat carries more tonnage than a freight
train, and the Erie Canal brings daily to
tide-water more than rive times as much
tonnage as the New York Central. Its ton-
nage exceeds that of all the foreign com-
merce of this city. — Sun. W. J. Mc Alpine.

Mining Titles. — The Nevada Gazette, in
an article on obtaining title to mineral
lands, says that miners should have a full
and complete title to their mineral loca-
tions. It very properly suggests that there
should be a land office exclusively for that
mineral district, and that miners should
not be compelled to go to Marysville or
Sacramento, into purely agricultural dis-
tricts, and put to great expense in proving
up their titles and fighting their way
through the tortuous intricacies of the law.
All that the miners demand is that they be
put upon an equal footing with ranch men.
As the law now stands, the burden of proof
is entirely against the miners, and it takes
four times as long a time, aud infinitely
more trouble and expense for them to ob-
tain a title.

A Portland mechanic has made a fine
cambric needle which can be unscrewed,
and which contains, in a hollow within, an-
other smaller needle.

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235

GBOUXnCMi Snr.i.v OF OlIIO. — Tlio
Cleveland Herald says: "A number of
years since a partial geologies] Biirveyol
the Statu was uiaile. A mistaken economy
mi the pari of the State terminated the
work when bnt a small part had b&
piloted, but that which had been done has
proved an incalculable benefit in revealing
a portion of the mineral wealth of the
State, ami enabling mining operations to
! i ried on intelligently. Every year

has shown the folly ot the legislature in
■topping the appropriations before the sur-
vey was completed ; and the feeKog in
favor of the resumption of the work has
been yearly growing stronger. Tho in-
oreasing demand for coal, the tendency to
Beek out new sources of supply, anil the
reporU from time to time of mineral dis-
coveries in various parts of the State, com-
bine to render desirable a complete survey
thai shall map out the geological structure
of the State and enable projectors of mining
enterprise to work intelligently and not
sink pits at hap-hazard, or with no better
guide than a 'divining rod,' or tho revela-
tions of a spiritualistic medium. Mr. Lee,
of Delaware county, will introduce into the
House of Representatives a bill to provide
for a thorough geological survey of the
State."

This is encouraging. As one of the
*'sigus of the times," wo welcome it.
There is hope that other states may begin
to suspect that there is a money value in a
scientific survey of their resources. The
feeblest glimmering of such a notion will
do more towards bringing about such a
survey, than a thousand eloquent appeals
to the love of science as science.

Business Cards.

RODG-EKS. MEYER & CO.,

COMMISHIOX MFJiC'IIANTH

ADVA.XCIX MVIIK
On nil Kind, of On;«, iiitd purlluular attention

Paid to
consignments op goods.

J v 10 3m

CARD PICTUItEH,

ONB Don, ak i*F.U DOZEN,

And Photographs, Auibrotypea and 6un Pearls, by first

ClOU nriMs. at the loWOflt rates,
At HII.VA'S, til Third Street,

Northwest corner of Mission. San Frnnclxco.

1 1 \ 18 3m

MIII.VMI.1. Ci: IV.

II. M. OKAY.

N. GRAY & CO.,

611 Sacramento St., cor. Webb, San Kranclseo.

Farmers and Mechanics
BANK OF1 SAVINGS,

So. 23 » Mun.nme Ntreet.

Interest paid on Deposit*. Money Loaned on Real Estate.
If. DTJTTON, President.

OEO. M OONDEE Cashier. 19vl6-3m

Important to Railroad Travelers. —
The following "rules of the road" are
based upon legal decisions: The courts have
decided thut applicants for tickets on rail-
road cars can be ejected if they do not offer
the exact amount of their fares. Con-
ductors are not bound to make change. All
railroad tickets are good until used, condi-
tions " good for this day only," or other-
wise limiting time of genuineness, are of
no account. Standing od the platform and
otherwise violating the rules of the com-
pany renders a person liable to be put off
the train. No one has a right to monopo-
lize more seats than he pays for; any article
left in the seat while the owner is tempo-
rarily absent, entitles him to his seat on
his return.

President Dwight, of Yale College, is
. stated to have been the first American to
cultivate the strawberry.

GEO. E. ROGERS,

(Successor to G. W. Bell.)

A. H S A. Y E Xi ,

518 Calirumhi *t.,Sua Fi-undnco,
J. A. MARS, Assayer. '
Ores carefully Assayed. Gold mid silver Ores worked.
# 23vlfi.(|rlU|inr

PACIFIC

INSURANCE COMPANY

OF SAW FKAXCISCO, CAt.,

Office, No. 422 California street.

Conli As.el., Jan. 1, 18G1>, - - !S1,.'»2»,'?40 18

FIRE,

MA.RIXE,

AID

I.VXA9D

IWSUBANCE.

8 ^n Fitocisco:
W, C. IUMoii,
A L TlltibS,
Wm AlTtml,
.1 on nth iii i Ifinit,
A. 11. Forbes,
A. G. Stilus.
A. Seiitgmitii,
L. B. Hun<hlcv,
Win. Sherman,
L. Sh ■

DIRECTORS:

Oliver Eldrldco,
.1 B. Rnberts,
J, C. Wilmerdlng,
P. L. Weaver,
Wm. II oner,
J. W. Clark,
A. Harvard,
T. L. Barker.
Alexander Weill,
Unas. Mover.
CliflS E.McLaife:

.lames DcFrcmery, M. Roaenbaum,

J. G. Bray, A. J. Balaton,

David S^ern, T. Lcmnicn Meyer,

D. 0. Mills, J. T. Dean.

I. Fried lander, Nkw Yoick:
Moses Heller, Louis McLnne,

II. M Mywlittll, Frederick Billings,
O.T. Law ton. Jnmea Lecfl,
Miles O. Sweeny, J G. Ivelhurg,
Ghas. Mavne. Wm. 'V. Oulcinan,
K. L. Goldstein, Moses Ellis.

J. O. Earl, Sacramkkto:

Lloyd Tovln, Edgar Mills, *

Thus. H. Seltty, J. II. Oarndl,

Admu Grant, G. T. Wheeler.

Alpheus Bull, Mahv»vili." :

8. M. Wilson, J. B.JFewott.

D.J. Oliver, Portland, Oregon;

W. Scholle, W S Ladd,

Thos. Brown, Jacob Kunim.

Ohas. Main, Virginia, Nevida:

Cdas. It. peters, Win. Sharon.

officers:
JONA. HUNT, President.

W. ALVuRD, Vice President.

A. J. RALSTOV, Secretary.

ANDRUW BAIRD, Marine Secretary.
4vI8tf H. H. BIGELOW, Gen'l Agent.

J. J. JONES,

CrVTtPISiVTJKIt and IJUILDER,

No. -i'~ I dTueltmon mtrcet, between Sanitome ami
Mattery,

W. T. ATWOOD,

PURCHASER OF

OOPPEE OEES, BAE3, MATT, Etc., Etc,,

505 M«n<Eomcry atrcet. San Frnnclxco,
The highest market price paid for ores assaying 10 per cent
and upwards. H3vl7qr

s. FOLK.

0. 1UCH0LSKY.

S. FOLK & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS OF

WADDIXfi, BATTING, ami COMFORTJEKS

441 and 443 Brannan St., Between Third and Fourth,

SAN FRANCISCO, 4vl8(|r

W. C. CAMPBELL.

PATTERN AND AEODEf, MAKKK,

No. SO Fremont street, over Phoenix Iron Works, San

Francisco.

Farms and City Property.

C. II. WAKELEE «fc UO.,

COl California street, S. W. Corner Kearny street, buy and
sell Farmsand City Real Estate. Parties wishing lo invest
will find It to their interest to call on them. 13vlK-3in

Pump Leather.

£Thc attention of MINING COMPANIES, and others re-
quiring a superior article for Hydraulic purposes, is invited
to the heavy Oaked Tanned Pump Leather, manufactured
and prepared expressly by the undersigned.

c,^AC^

rANH E^

E.JONES&C9 ,

Constantly on hand and for sale by

GiUA/X", JOIVJES «fc CO.,

Depot of the Santa Cruz Tannery,
418 Battery St., San Francisco.

lijvlj-ly

Bromide Tunnel Company,

Whito JPine, TVcvacla.

NOTICE.

The above Company having been Incorporated under the
laws of tho State of California, has opened a Subscription
Book for subscribers to its Capital Stock, at

No. lO Stevenson Building, Sun Francisco,

Where full particulars relative to the working of tho Com-
pany's property can be ascertained. UvlS-lm

Professional Cards.

J. S. PHILLIPS. M. E.,

CONSULTING ENOINKEK,
Exnmlner of Aline*, etc.,

ngion Mr.-, i s m :■ . ■ ■ ,

(Having ii i \iinrkii.i

i..
uroBiili ... wring, fltilorlnUlutf, Hillln ■ Llx

|\ i. ii ,i ■. r, i , mil ,i „ ■, and Kini n tuj W oi :.- U<< ■ ruls »u-
■■ ■ . I. for b In] ti ■■■' .ii-' nt . Lm

ii UlneraUby Blow-
pipe, Ulll Ull< .i!-. S ...-.ii.ii- an I • i .. IV17U!

To "White Pine Prospectors.

J. S. PHILLIPS TEACHES ASSAYING (OR TESTING
Silver Ores, by Blowpipe. Crucible, or Chemicals, at room
11, No 423 Washington street. An Evening Class from 7
to 9 o'clock. 12vl8tf

Tiik MiNiNti and Scikntu-ic Pkkss, wliieli commenced
ts seventeenth volume on Hie 4th, comes 10 ns with a new-
ly engraved head, and presenting otherwise its usual taste-
nil appearance. We take this occasion to .say that the
PREasisone of Hie best papers ot the kind in the Unite;!
States, and every miner and mechanic in the state, as well
as the business man, who would keen posted on our Indus-
trial resources, should have its name on Us subscription
boukd. jVeuiwii Gazette.

JOHN EOAOH, Optician,

i in ... i from B22 Unntgomory street to

*>!:> \\ ]i-!iin;i.m street.

i..i-i of Uoiitgomory,

DAVID B. SMITH,
Civil ami ivrooliaiiloiil Engineer,
to prepared to fumi.-ii Plans, Modelx, BpoelflcRilona end
full detail Drawlngd for Steamoru an 1 ^ailing Vcsaels and
.Machinery in general.

Slnnttromcrj' Illock. r:-. l7--m

JAMES »I. TAYLOR,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,

Court Block, G3C Clay Street

SAN FRANCISCO.
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HO TEAMSTERS!

CONTINUE TO

IS & LfBr"T"

CELEBRATED

H & L Axle Grease,

To which you have given so decided a
preference for the last

FOURTEEN YEARS,

It is the only reliable article

Every care will continue ts be used to sus-
tain the high reputation the H & L Axle
Grease, has so long and justly attained.

/S^Be sure and ask for the H & L brand,
and see that the

TRADE Mk%& U & L

IS ON THE COVER OF THE PACKAGE)

HONE OTHER IS GENUINE.
FOR SALE IN EVERY STATE IN THE UNION.

Eley's Ammunition.

Thee Citrti'9<1ttCN are made fn

three Sizes, viz , .577 (ui-Snider Entlcld)

bore; ..ino (or hnlt inch) bore; and .i5l

(or small) bore

£' \ "'i1 ' ■'• iJ\ Tlicsc Cartridges liave been adopted,

ea . ' ' :-'V";'i'3 ader cnret'iil cmnparalivo trials

tt- ! — taa nsrain^t all otlier dcscriittions, bv HER

M \JKSl'Y'S WAR DEPARTMENT, US
1 1 10 stanilard ttlllo Ammunition for the
HKITiyil ARMY, an>' arc not only
used pxcluaively for the Snider Riile,
but arc adapted to all other svscins oi'
milirary BREECH LOADING-' RIFLES.

They are the cheapest Cartridges
known, carrylnc their own Ik'Uiiod,
beiun nmdc wlndly of metal, are wa-
terproof and Imperishable in any cli-
ni 11 1 e.

Boxer Cartridge Case's (empty), of nil
MS?p3LJJ°| 3 sixes, packed with or without hullcis,
rii_r"h. S and fnaclitne for fastening same In
£3 < t7 2 >" q3 Cartridges.

Makers or BOXER CARTRIDGES.
.45J tiore for Bevulyiiig 1'isiuis, in use
in llcr Maicsiv'a Navy.

PIV CA'li'l'KIDGIW lor Lpfaucheux
Biivoivt rs of 12 m, 'J m. and 7 m, bore.

CENTRAL FIRE and PIN FIUE
CAKTBIDOES, foi all sizes of Guns,
Rifles and Revolvers.

Double Water-Proof and E. B. Caps.
Wlro Cartridges for killing game nt
long distances. Pelt Waddings to Im-
prove the shooting of guns; aud every
description of Sporting and Military Ammunition.

1Vii!>lvi:)Ic only.

ELEY BROTHERS,

ISvlficowly Gray's Inn Road, London, W. C.

BEJOXsTJMiii: &. 00.,

OF CON^OliD, N. H.,

Long employed at the celebrated Arm of Downing & Son,
have opened a manufactory of

Concord Wa gons,

Of oil descriptions, nt No. 8SSO and 88S Folsom street, be
tween Fourth and Flflli streets, San Francisco.

Orders received for Buggies, Expresses, and Light and

Heavy Thorougli-brace. Carriage Springs made to order.

18vl5-lam-6m

Mining Secretary.

THE SUBSCRIBER, HAVING SERVED FOR THE LAST
Ave years as Secretary of various mining cumpanies,
feels fully competent lo serve in that capacity. Any par-
ties wishing 10 secure the services of a secretary can be
accommodated on reasonable terms. Information given,
and all necessary papers correctly nmde out. _ **

Having hud a long experience In the purchasing of gooes
and machinery for 'miners, parlies in the mines will iiud it
to their nd van tace, where purchasing agents are emplojed.
to scd their order, to the ^">^%vrnmmyi

Room 37 New Merchants' Exchange, .California street
San Franciaco 17vl5-tf

^ MEUSSDORFFER, J,
MAT MANUFACXUBEK

And dealer In

Hats and Caps

AT WHOLESALE AM* RETAIL.

6&B -1 « t - 1 W7 CODUnOTClal Street San Francisco,

184 J sir.'.-i Sacrnincnto.

Oornar of i> und Second streets Marvs* Ilia,

Tl Front streel Poriland, Orei?nn.

Our wholesale House, C2S Commercial street, extending
through to KJ7 Clay street. Sun Francisco, contains always
a most choice, and the largest, assortment In thh State.
Bjyecj Steamer brings the latest Issued imveltlcs from Eu-
rope nnd New 7ork, which can be found at ull ih« above
stores, nt moderate prices. HJvNWhn

THE GIANT

POWDER COS1PA.NY

Is now prepared to till all orders for

GIANT POWDER,

Tut Dp In Boxen, either In Bulk or In Oat
tl'Itlgen.

General Apents,

BAWDMAWW, WHLSEM & CO.,

25vl6-3m 210 Front street. Sun Francisco.

SAN FKANCISCO

Pioneer Screen Works,

JOHN" W. QUICK, Manufacturer,

Removed to A. Prllzel's Iron Works, 203 Fremont street,

near Howard, Snn Francisco.

Screen Punching In nil Its branches, nt rates redncr-d
from 25 to 4n per cent less than the established rates. lean
furnhh Improved Quartz Screens several sizes finer than
any Screen ever punched, giving universal snthfnrtion,
and for&tMllgtbtCne&pnes&and dnn-.hllitv are not excelled.
Also, Punched Screens of all sizes and fineness made from
nil iliiiiliiics ot material, for Quartz. Cement, Flonr nnd
Rice Mills, etc. Screen Punching made a specialty; iherp,-
forc millmen forwarding their orders to me will receive
none hut tin-lie*!. Orders solicited.

N. B — I. W. QttTCK is the only competent nnd successful
manufacturer of Screens in ihe state, having made Screens
for the princinnl mills In this Stnte and adjoining Terri-
tories for manv years. Quartz mill owners using punched
Screej^wiiich have universally failed to give natlsfactlon,
when visiting the city will please call and see me. 6vI7Iy

California Steam Navigation

H&J COMPANY. -

Steamer CAPITAL CAPT. E. A. POOLE

' CHRYSOPOLIS CAPT. A. FOSTER.

" YO&EMITE

CORNELIA CAPT. W. BROMLEY

JULIA CAPT. E. CONOKLIN.

Two of the above steamers leave BROADWAY WHARF
At 4 o'clock P. M. EVERY DAY (Sundays excepted), one
for Sacrnmento and one lor Stockton, those for Sacra-
mento connecting with light-drafl steamers for Marysvillo
Colusa, Chico, and Red Bluff.

Office of the Compauy, northeast corner of Front and
Jackson streets. •

B. M. HAKTSHOHNE,
13vl2 FreNtdent.

International Hotel,

JACKSON STREET

BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AND KEARNY STS.,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE IS IN PERFECT
order for the accommodation of guests. Persons seek-
ing comfort and economy will find this the best Hotel in
the city to stop at. The Beds are new and in gnod order,
and the Rooms well ventilated. The Table will always be
supplied with the best In the market.
Prices varying from $1 SO to $8 per dny for

Board and Room.

FINE BATH HOUSE AND BARBER SHOP ATTACHED

TO THE HOUSE.

US?- Teams belonging to tho House will be in attendance
at all the boats and cars to convey passengers to the House
fbek op chargk, and to any part of the city for i»0 cents

alvl2 F. E. WEYGANT, Proprietor.

Pacific Chemical Works.

STTffJPHTTRBO ETI1EK.

SPIRITS OP NITRE,
AQUA AMMONIA,
ACETIC ACID,

CYANIDE OF POTASSIUM:

— AMD —

ACIDS AND CHEMICALS OF ALL KINDS.

FALKENAU & HANKS,

Office und Laboratory, Sixteenth .trect, be-
tween Folsom and Harrison.

LOUIS FALKENAU, State Assayer.

OST* Particular attention paid to tho Analysis of ORES,
MINERALS. METALS, etc. 8vl7

HINHLE'S
"IMPROVED SPRING-BED BOTTOM"

(Patented July 21st, I8CS.

The undersigned, having purchased the Patentee's inter
cat In the States and Territories of the Pacific Coast. Is now
prepared to supply Private Houses, Hotels and Steamers
wllh this comfortable, cconnmical and durable "IM-
PROVED SPRING BED BOTTOM."

Persons going to White Pine will greatly promote their
comfort by taking one of these Patent Bottoms, which ie
secured to a folding Bedstead, the costofwbich is less than
that of the materials at White Pine.

"Wareroom, No. 1002 Market Street.

* P. HUDSON, Proprietor.

as-Call and examine. Open until 8 o'clock P. M.

6vl8qr

lT-avora-ble to Inventors.— Persons holding new In-
ventions of machinery and important Improvements, can
have the same illustrated and explained in tho Mining and
Scientific Pkkss, free ol charge, if in our judgment the
discovery Is one of real merit, and ol suiticleut "itorest 'o
the public lo warrant publication,

236

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

J?ri(fi?ieering*

Pacific Katjqroad Engineers in Town.
Quite a number of the engineering attaches
of the Pacific Railroad Company have been
in town recently; Col. Gray, the Consult-
ing Engineer, who is in charge at present
of the terminus problem, and the route to
be followed to wharfage ground; Major
Bender, late of the State Surveyor General's
office, in charge of work on the "Western
Pacific line, about Livermore's Pass, etc. ;
and Messrs. Guppy, Henry "Wright and
John "Wood, have also been noticed on the
streets, their employment requiring them
to be partly here, and partly across the
Bay. After all that has been said about the
terminus, and the termini, it seems that
the question is only now in prospect of be-
ing brought speedily to an issue. Owing
to the lagging in Congress of the Goat
Island terminus proposition, the Pacific
Bailroad Company will in all probability
be compelled to bridge the Bay, and this
can best be done at Bavenswood, situated
at its narrowest point between here and
San Jose, and nearly opposite to the road's
emergence from the interior through Liver-
more's Pass. Thence it will continue to
San Francisco in the main along the San
Jose ronte, and make a direct line across
the tide lands for the lots in this city se-
lected, and to be granted by the Tide Com-
missioner for terminal purposes. The dis-
tance across the Bay at Bavenswood is not
greater than from Oakland to Goat Island.

Instead, however, of entering the corpor-
ation limits by the present San Jos$*oute,
it is understood amongst residents of the
Potrero who have had opportunities of be-
coming informed, that the water's edge will
be followed along the San Bruno shore
road, the greater indentations being all
crossed by piling from point to point, like
that in the Long Bridge and the South San
Francisco bridge. These bridges and the
cut through the Potrero hill are to be
widened — so say the Potreroans — for the
accommodation of the Pacific Bailroad. The
terminus will probably be somewhere out-
side the Long Bridge beyond the Steam
Navigation Co's wharf.

Defination of Engineering. — Hon. "W.
J. McAlpine, in the last lecture of the win-
ter course at Stein way Hall, New York,
February 10th, said: "Engineering is
peculiarly the exponent of modern devel-
opment. Its defination is ( the acquisition
of that species oi knowledge whereby the
great sources of power in nature are con-
verted, adapted, and applied for the use
and convenience of man,' which covers the
civil and military engineer, the architect
and mechanician, the closet theorist, and
the practical workman. The subject covers
the locomotive and its railway ; the steam
engine and its application ; the metals and
their manipulation ; the workshops and
their great tools ; modern ordnance and
armor ; naval construction, telegraphy,
bridges, canals, water supplies, harbors,
etc., has been characterized by the various
applications of steam ; the product and
manipulation of metals and telegraphy."

The Canal Schemes of the Kern Lake
country, and of the ' ' Sacramento Irrigation
and Navigation Co.," are meeting with
much opposition, on the ground that the
object is land-grabbing, rather than reclam-
ation and irrigation, If the projectors are
operating on a bona fide basis, they will
only have to present the data in a full and
intelligible manner, in order to gain every
assistance that projects of the kind can
deserve.

Kazlroad Grades. — It has been found
by calculation and experiment, that heavy
trains may descend a grade of 1 -100th
without attaining a greater speed than
about forty or fifty miles an hour, even if
allowed to run freely without applying the
brake to check the speed. The velocity
due to the accelerating force of gravity
soon attains its greatest limit, and remains
constant during the remainder of the de-
scent, owing to the resistance of the air.

Pacific Protective Association of California.

I5COKPORATEB OCTOBER, 1868.

PKOSPECTUS.

A Mining Stock Board has been or-
ganized at "White Pine.

Object. — The object of this Association is to secure a cash payment, within sixty days after the death of a subscriber,
to his or her heirs or assigns of as many dollars as there are individuals of the class to -which t-aitj deceased subscriber
belonged.

AIembkrshif.— The subscription fees are Ten Dollars at joining, and One Dollar on the death of each subscriber.
The One Dollar from each subscriber is paid to the heirs or assigns of ihe deceased.

The Funds.— The By-Laws of the Association require that a portion of the money received as subscription fees
shall be a Sinking Fund to meet assessments falling due by the delinquencies of subscribers. The balance of the
money received iu be used for the payment of ihe expenses incurred by the Association.

Members. — A subscriber failing to pay bis or her assessment of one dollar wlihin Thirty daj'S from receipt of no-
tice forteits his or her Certificate, and all claims upon ibeAssociaiion, unless good cause Is shown for further delay.
A subscriber can forward money in advance, which amount will be credited on future assessments. The subscribers arc
divided into classes Including males and females Each class is limited to 5,000 subscribers. As classes are rilled,
new ones will be formed. No person Is so : oor that ho cannot pay Ten Dollars at joining and One Dollar occa-
sionally, thus securing S5.0O0 to bis or her heirs or assigns.

ArvAMiGEs. — The advantages of this Association are, that no money panic can affect it. Its benefits are easily
obtainable by all, and every subscriber added to the Association enhances the interest and protection of all; the
amount paid being so small, and only at long intervals, that any person can secure for bis family a competency unon
his death.

Classes. — In Class A, all persons between the ages of 15 and 40 years; in Class B, all persons between the ages of 40
and 6U years.

Any one that has not stated his or her age correctly, will forfeit all money paid and his or her Certificate.

One class cannot be assessed if one of another class dies. Classes have no conn> ction with each other.

How to Become a Mkmbkh.— A person desirous of becoming a subscriber must fill out an application, and forward
with it Ten Dollars by Check, Draft, or by Express, in gold or silver coin. Persons can pay agents, when regularly ap-
pointed and authorized to receive money. Each subscriber should interest bimscll in obtaining new members, bv tso
doing all arc benefited.

Board of Directors.— Benjamin H. Freeman, George H. Russell, Samuel A. Raymond, James A. Pritchard, W. Le-
Roy.

Officers — Beniamin H. Freeman, President; George H. Russell, Vice President; John H. Warren, Secretary;
James A. Pritchard, Treasurer.

References.— Hon. Henry Dutton, President of Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank; Hon. Samuel Cowles, late Judge
County Coun, San Francisco; Hon. A.J. Gunnison, Attorney at Law, San Francisco; H J. Booth, Esq , Union Iron
Works, San Francisco; Henrv F. Williams, Esq.., Real Estate, San Francisco; John 0. Hanscom, E^q . -Etna Iron Works,
San Francisco; John H. O'Brien, E-^q., of O'Brien, Bush & Co., San Francisco; Hon. J. P. Jones, Gold Hill, Nevada,

All communications should be addressed to the Secretary of the

PACIFIC PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION",

S. E. COR. OF MONTGOMERY AND SACRAMENTO STREETS, (Over Donohoe <fc Kelly's Bank,) SAN FRANCISCO.

[10vl8 3mos.I

Carriage Springs. — Our mechanics are
generally wide awake. "Whenever any
new branch of manufactures is likely to
pay, they quickly see it. Eeldnke & Co.,
wagon makers, 820 Folsom street, have re-
cently embarked in one of these enterprises
which appears full of promise. "With an
additional outlay of about $8,000 for engine
and boiler, furnaces and other necessary
machinery, they represent themselves as
now fully prepared to manufacture wagon
and carriage springs of all sizes and de-
scriptions, in the very best style of the art,
as conducted in the Atlantic States.

They have provided themselves with all
the latest improved tools and machinery for
conducting the business on a large and
economical scale. The waste heat from the
furnaces'is treasured up and used again in
heating the boiler, an item of economy in
itself, by no means inconsiderable. They
have their steel imported expressly for the'
purpose, to seenre the best material.

The process is about as follows : The
bars of steel being cut the proper length
by the shears, the sections are taken to the
furnace and heated. They are then passed
under the large and powerful rollers,
worked by machinery, and drawn to the
required thinness at the extremities. Thus
prepared, they are returned to a furnace to
be subjected to a uniform heat; after which
they are fitted, tempered and polished. The
last step in the process is to submit the
springs to a test in a machine built ex-
pressly for the purpose, when they are
ready for the market.

The punch and shear press, together
with the rollers, were designed by Mr. T.
Stebins, pattern-maker at the City Iron
Works, and most? of, the machinery and
tools were put up by the Union Foundry,
the whole being of California manufacture.

This firm, from their past experience in
this line, and with all the appliances at
command, are fully confident that they
can compete in all respects, with the East-
ern market. They certainly deserve credit,
as well as encouragement, for the pluck
and energy displayed.

Pacific Mail Steamship Co's

STEAMSHIPS FOR.

NEW YORK, JAPAN AND CHINA.

LEAVE WHARF, CORNER OF FIRST AND

an streets, at 11 o'clock A. M. of the

following dates, for PANAMA, connecting via Panama Rail-
road, with one of the Company's splendid steamers from
ASPINWALL for NEW YORK.
On the lOth, it th and 30th of each month that lias

30 days.

On the lOth, 18tU and 30th of each month that has

31 days.

When the I0ih, 18th and 30th fall on Sunday, they will
leave on Sainrday preceding; when the I7th falls en Sun-
day, they will leave on the Monday following.

Steamer leaving San Francisco on the 10th touches at
Manzanillo. All touch at Acaoulco.

Departure of the 17th or 18th is expected to connect with
the French jTrans-Atlantic Co.'s steamer for St.Nazaire,
and English steamer for South America. Through tickets
can be obtained.

The following Steamships will be dispatched on dates as
iriven below :

April lOth-COXSTITUTION Capt. Wm. H. Hudson,

Connecting with ALASKA, Capt. Gray.

April 17th— GOLDEN CITY Cnpt. Wm. F. Laridgc.

Connecting with HENRY CHAUNCEY, Capt. Connor.

April 30th— MONTANA Capt E. S. F*rnsworth,

Connecting with ARIZONA, Capt Maury,

Passengers berthed through. Baggage cbecktu through.
One huudred pounds allowed each adult.

An experienced Surgeon on board. Medicine and attend-
ance free.

These steamers will positively sail at 11 o'clock. Paeset.
gers are requested to have their baggage on board before 10
o'clock.

Through Tickets to Liverpool by the " Inman " and " Na-
tional " Steamship Lines, can be obtained at the office of
the P. M. S. S. Co., San Francisco, where may also be ob-
tained orders for passage from Liverpool or Souihampton
to San Francisco, either via New York or St. Thomas— If
desired an amount of £10 to £20 will be advanced with the
above orders, Holders of orders will be required to iden-
tify themselves to the Agents in England.

For Merchandise and Freight to New York and Way
Ports. Company's Form of Bill Lading only used.

No Freight will be received on board after 2 P. M. of the
dav prior to the steamer's departure,

The Steamship GREAT KEPl'RLIt\ Capt. J. M. Cavarb",
will be dispatched for HONGKONG on MONDAY, April 5th,
1869, at noon, connecting at YOKOHAMA, with the
steamer NEW YORK, for SHANGHAI.

For passage, freight and all other information, apply at
the Pacific Mail Steamship Co's office, corner of Sacra-
mento and Lcidesdnrff streets.

OLIVER KLDRIDGE. A cent.

Otjh Gilroy contemporary complains of
a correspondent of the Press who inserted
amongst some Gilroy statistical item s ,
which he procured, a stick-full additional
figures which were clipped from the local
paper, and not duly credited. "We do not
think that our correspondent was ambitious
either of undeserved fame, or of a reputa-
tion for industry not exercised by him, but,
that he was simply careless. The author
of every article or item should in general
be held responsible for what he writes, es-
pecially when the noting of the authority
would convey additional information to
the reader concerning the matter, which is
worth possessing. To omit giving credit
intentionally in such a case, though a com-
mon practice, is leaving ont an important
part of the item, therefore worse than care-
lessness— it is stupidity.

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Tr\e Mining and Scientific Press.

237

Resources and Developments.

WOOIiBH Mlt,LS IN CALIFORNIA. — We

ara informed by ono interested in the busi-
ness, that the woolen mills at Sacramento
and Marysvillo are both engaged night and
day at present in the manufacture of White
Pine blankets, and are still unable to sup-
ply the demand. The San Jose Woolen
Mill is likely to be bronght_into existence
at an early day. The Oroville and Los
Angeles projects are not yet brought to a
head. Chinese labor is universally em-
ployed, and found to bo equal, if not su-
perior, to white labor; while it costs 10 per
cent, leas actually than white labor in the
Eastern States. Under existing advant-
ages it is believed that we may, before many
years, export woolen goods to the East
with a profit

Silk in Los Angeles. — The Los Ange-
les Slur says it is intended to form a Silk
Growers' Association in that county, for
the purpose of propaguting the silk worm
and conducting the business connected
with silk culture, as far at least as reeling
the silk from the cocoons.

Messrs. Cover &. Franklin have set out,
in the neighborhood of the city, about
half a mile west of the race track, a lot of
laud about eighteen acres in extent, in mul-
berry trees and cuttings, there being 10,-
000 seedlings of the morns alba, and 150,-
000 four-inch cuttings of the morus niul-
ticulis.

In connection with the foregoing, we
may mention the fact, that Dr. Franklin
bus succeeeded in obtaining, direct from
Japan, through the Italian Consul at San
Erancisco, one cartoon of eggs of the worm
which produces green silk, being one
ounce or 40,000 eggs.

Wormwood appears to be a new article
of traffic in this State. Sixteen bales of
250 pounds each were recently forwarded,
at one shipment, from San Joaquin to this
city, where it is manufactured into bitters.

A Scientific Tract Society has been
proposed in New York as a means for the
diffusion of useful knowledge among the
people.

Coast Lumbering. — Magnificent forests
on the northern coast adjacent to shipping,
are to a considerable extent still regarded
as valueless, on account of the difficult bars
at the outlets of the rivers, rendering them
inaccessible. Steam-tugs are gradually
opening new lumbering fields of this kind.

A new steam-tug was launched at Port
Orchard, Washington Territory, a few days
since. It is 65 feet long, 13% feet beam, 6
feet depth of hold, and was built by and
belongs to the Port Orchard Mill Co.

New Inventions.

The New Style of Pile Driving;. — A
model of the new pile-driving machine, in
which powder is made to play a prominent
part, has recently been brought to this
coast, and is on exhibition by Mr. E. A.
Hill, corner of Sansome and California
streets. The peculiarity of this inveution
consists in the use of an iron chamber,
which fits upon the head of the pile, and
is hollow in the upper part. Into this
chamber is placed a small charge of fulmi-
nating powder. The hammer, released
from the ratchets by which it is held, fall-
ing upon the chamber, compresses the air
(the chamber only being partially filled
with powder) and starts the pile. An ex-
plosion follows, and the hammer is thrown
upwards until caught by the ratchets. A
portion of the force of the explosion is also
expended upon the pile. The invention
has been tried with success, we believe, in
many of the Eastern cities.

New Counting Machine. — Mr. Vanna-
der, of Potter Valley, in this State, has in-
vented a counting machine, " which can
be used in billiards, crib, ten-pins, and is
peculiarly adapted to tallying for a thresh-
ing machine." It will also subtract. Mr.
Vannader will apply for a patent.

Aeriaii Locomotion. — Master Biegrist
has filed a caveat, claiming the invention
of flying a velocipede. The machine is
designed to run on a wire or rope, at any
distance from the ground. Master Siegrist
has become quite expert in managing the
odd contrivance.

Safety Railroad. — Mr. Prettyman, of
Multnomah County, Oregon, has made au
improvement in railroad cars, which con-
sists of wheels or pulleys to prevent the
cars from running off the track.

White Pine Summary.

Work Doing.— If Treasure Hill is
"mountain of solid silver," the tunneling
companies are certainly on the direct road
to luck. In any event the prospects offered
seem to warrant undertakings of the kind,
the rock being soft, and the probability of
striking valuable veins in connection with
Chloride Flat very strong. The Union
and the American Basin are both already
some distauce in. News of actual devel-
opment will bo eagerly sought for, but
kept quiet for speculative reasons. Prob-
ably nothing that is struck in the shape of
veins will escape lawsuits as to title. In
prospecting it seems every stono has not
yet been overturned. From fifty to a
hundred locations are made and recorded
daily. The Mining Recorder invariably
recommends all new comers not to buy old
claims, but to go out and make new loca-
tions.

Prospecting and New Districts. — Men
are leaving Treasure City daily for Grant
and Patterson districts, and other points to
the southeast, where rich discoveries are
reported.

Tunneling for Water. — These enter-
prises at Shermantown are progressing.
Luther and Huey had not struck water in
their tunnel at last accounts. Clark & Co.
had struck a moderate stream of water,
which increases evory foot as they proceed.
The tunnel was on March 9th, some seven-
ty-five feet or more in length, and indica-
tions of a good ledge of silver ore were ap-
parent. In consequence of the water, they
are compelled to use the giant powder,
which is quite as cheap, and answers for
blasting purposes as well wet as dry.

Strikes, Specimens, Etc. — The White
Pine News of March 27th, says : We were
shown on Friday some very rich specimens
of ore from the Schoharie ledge, at a depth
of fifteen feet. The Schoharie was located
in January, and includes 1,000 feet. It is
situated about 1,500 feet from the Mazeppa,
between that and the Eberhardt. The vein
is four feet in depth, and has been explored
to a depth of fifteen feet. * * Mr. J. P.
W. Davis, late of Healdsburg, California,
a printer, has discovered a ledge on the
eastern slope of Treasure Hill, which is
described as a true fissure vein, six feet in
width, and bearing rock similar to the Po-
cotillo. The vein is traceable for over 200
feet. Assays have shown a value of $175
per ton. * * Same of 31st : It was cur-
rently rumored yesterday that another very
rich strike and extensive body of ore had
been developed in the Eberhardt mine, at
a depth of 180 feet.

New Works— NewDevelopments. — The
San Francisco Smelting Co. will shortly
commence the erection of extensive smelt-
ing works at the flourishing little town of
Swansea, a short distance above Sherman-
town. * * Some very rich developments
have been made during the past few days
in the vicinity of the California mine, on
the southern end of Treasure Hill. The
Knickerbocker, a claim situated in the vi-
cinity of the Eberhardt, has turned out
some very good ore, resembling both in ap-
pearance and the assayer's figures the ore
from the Eberhardt. Work has recently
been resumed upon the Knickerbocker. In
the California, considerable quantities of
ruby silver are reported to have been met
with, and other claims in the vicinity are
looking well. * * The Anita mine is
situated about one mile from Hamilton, on
the Shermautown road, and owned 2>rinci-
pally by parties m Napa Valley, Cal. About
two tons of fine ore is now lying at the
dump, and work is progressing favorably.
It is estimated that the ore will mill be-
tween $200 and $300. The Dividend mine,
in the same locality, also turns out some
fine ore, and day before yesterday some
Germans prospecting in the vicinity struck
rock which assays $900 to the ton. * *
The Great Union Tunneling Co., composed
San Francisco capitalists, proposes to run
a tunnel under Treasure Hill, commencing
at the north end, a short distance south of
the Hidden Treasure mine. * * The old
Manhattan mill, from Dayton, ha't been
brought to Hamilton by the Union M. & M.
Company.

Outside Districts. — Patterson. — In-
land .Empire says there are 250 men in the
district, and the road thither is lined with
prospectors. Mr. Barney thinks the Pat-
terson mines are not over 80 miles from
Hamilton, himself and a companion having
ridden the distance in two days quite ea-
sily.

Siiosiione. — A letter from E. J. Hotch-
kiss speaks in the highest terms of Sho-
Bhone district, which is 25 miles northeast
of Patterson. The writer snys it is the best
camp he has visited in the silver regions of
Nevada.

Grant District lies about 65 miles south
of Treasure City, in a continuation of the
same range, the road being through Hunt-
ington valley, and at all times passable for
heavy teams. The ledges are very laivo,
well defined, and cased in limestone and
slate. Some arc particularly massive, one,
the Patriarch, being at least 200 feet
in widtli and cropping for nearly three
miles. Assays from the different ledges in
the district, range from two hundred to as
many thousand. A stage runs regularly to
Shermantown. The town site of Grant has
been surveyed, streets laid out and a num-
ber of houses built.

Piute District is in process of organiza-
tion, about 40 miles west of Hamilton, a
short distance from the road leading from
this place to Austin, and persons going by
stage disembark at Piute creek. The C. L.
Place, the New York, the Last Chance, San
Francisco, and Our Own No. 1, are said to
be large and well defined ledges, the lowest
assay yet made from croppings being $123,
the highest going $624. There are parties
leaving daily for Piute creek, both from
Hamilton and Austin. [The Reveille says
this is Pinto, not Piute. — Eds. Press.]

White Cloud district is 75 miles north
of White Pine. The Santa Clara News of
March 27th. speaks of it as follows : Some
months since a number of gentlemen at
San Jose dispatched a party to prospect
the plafe. He returned six or eight weeks
ago. Mr. Charles Silent, of San Jose, was
sent to examine the district, and returned
with rock which assayed $70 gold, $9 silver,
and from 23 to 43 per cent, copper.

Indian Valley, 80 miles east of White
Pine, was discovered several months since,
but kept secret until the last fortnight. The
ore is said to resemble the best of that at
White Pine.

The mining laws of Eureka have been so
amended that a ' ( deposit claim " shall be
100 feet square, and ten dollars' worth of
work shall hold a square six months.

Mount Tvnubo Mllver Mining Company I_o.

caUonof Works: Oortoz District, Lander County, state

"I NYvndn.

ttOTKnL— There nrc dr-llnnuent. upon tho following tle-
*<t!1hiI stock, mi acoonnt ot easessment levied on the
twenly-thtru day of January. IStW. tbe savor*! amounts set
opposite tile names of the respective sliareltoldeis, as fol -
lows:

.No. OerUOoatO. No. Slmres. Amount.

207

New Mining Advertisements.

Daniel Web .ter Mining Oompniiy,- Location

of Works: White Pine County, State of Nevada.

Notice la hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the seventh day of
April, 1869, an assessment of ten cents (10c) per share
was levied upon ihe capital stock of said Oompanv, pnya-
able immediately, in United Slates gold coin, to the Sec-
rciary, at the office of the Company.

Any stock upon whicn said assessment shall remain
unpaid un the t ntli day of May, 1869, shall be deemed
delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale at public
auction, and unless payment shall be made before, will
be sold on Monday, the thirty-first day of May, 1869,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with cost of
advertising and expenseb of Bale. By order of the Board
of Trustees.

C. A UURIO, Secretary.

Office, No ■IIS California street, San Francisco.

Golden Rule Mining; Company, Tuolumne Coun-
ty, California— Regular Bi-monthly dividend (No. 19) of
the Golden Rule Mining Company, of Tuolumne County,
Cal. , of 2% percent, per month, or fifty cents per share,
Is now declared, and will be paid to the Stockholders on
and after the 26th inst. Office, 432 Montgomery street,
Room No. 5.

J. B. RUSSELL, Secretary.
W. T. BostvoRTH, President.
A. S. Pkifkh, Superintendent of Mine. aplO

Kvoii AIllI and Milliner ComiiilDy, Etelacy Dis-
trict, El Din-ado County, California.
Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
sixth (6tli) day of March, 1869, the several amounts set
opposite the names of the respective shareholders as
follows:

No, Certificate No. Shares. Amount.
S3 1 St 00

Names-
John Amos.
A Bin-ell...
AC Teitina
K C Teitmai
A C Teitmai

HI tit)

IS 82 11-13 8284

Trustee r»i 11 fr-13 it 46

S9 64 8-l.t 61 61

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
ot Trustees, made on the sixth (6th) day of March, 1869,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as maybe
necessary, will be sold at public auction, by Messrs.
Olncy&Co., auctioneers, No. 426 Montgomery street, on
Monday, the twenty sixth day of April, 1869, at the hour of
12 o'clock M. of said tl.'iy, to pay said delinquent assess-
ment thereon, together with costs of advertising and ex
peases of sale.

J. M. BUFFINGTON, Secretary.
Office, Room 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California
street, San Fra/ .Cisco. aplO

Mining; Notices— Continued.

Cordlller.*a Gold and Silver Mining Company.—

Morelos District, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting ol the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the sixteenth day of
March, 1869, an assessment of one dollar ($1j per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, paya-
ble immediately, in United States gold and silver coin,
to the Secretary, at the oHicu of the Company, 321 Washing-
ton street. San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said .i^essniciit shall remain un-
paid on the twentieth (20lh) dav of April, 1869. shall be
deemed delinquent, and will bedulv advertised uir sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall lie made beiore,
will be sold on Monday, the tenth day of .May, 186a,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs ot
advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of

Trustees.

HEN'RY R. REED, Secretary.

Office, 321 Washington stvoet, San Francisco. inar20

l&u <H)
75t*0
■XI 60
37 m

1SR 1!S
7ft Oi)
B6 2.'.
7ft Oil

22ft 00
3 75

187 50
75 00

112 SO
29 25
■_' 2ft
37 50
1 .10
37 50

Names.

Bnum, Chnrlen

Baum, '"li..rle» ft

Borol, r A ;..

Bowl, FA si

Kurd. F A 81

BOW,!, KA 84

Borol, K A 123

Darning, Ch»rles 65

Gordon, John, |g

tiallak'ber, JnmeB m

Hardy, Thomas 21

Lehman ii, I'hr -ji

Leavltt, John 26

, Murl.uk. 0 A 105

! Murdoek. C A HI6

; M unlock, C A 120

Probst, Krnst 1:17

I Vaudervoort, J C 28

Weiilzell, Justus l.HS

Wilson, E 96

And In accordance with law, and an order of the Board of
Trustees, made on the twcnty-rtilrd day of January, 1869,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may bo
necessary, will be nold at public auction, at the sales-
room of Maurlco Dore A Co., auctioneers. No. 327 Mont-
gomery street, San Francisco, t'allfo n'a. on the twenty-
seventhday of April, 1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock M. of
said day, to puy said delinquent assessment thereon, to-
gether with costs of advertising and expenses of sale.

R- N VAN BRUNT, Secretary.

Office 426 Montgomery slreet, San Francisco. p

North American Wood Preserving Computiy.

Location of Works: 8an Francisco. California.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Directors of said Company, held on the twelfth day of
March, 1869, an assessment of one t$l) dollar per sharo
was levied upon the capital stock ol said Company, pay.
able Immediately, in United Stales gold and silver coin, to
the Secretary, at the Company's office, 4:it) -Montgomery
street, San Francisco.

Any stock upon winch said assessment shall remain
unpaid 011 the fourteen!!] (Nili)dnv of April, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will lie duly advertised forsaleat
public auction, and unless payment shall be made liefotc.
will be sold on Saturday, the tlrst dav of May, 1869,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs
ol advert Islug and expenses of sale. By order of the Beard
ol Directors.

WM, B.LAKE, Secretary.

Office, 430 Montgomery street. San Francisco. mar'l3

Pacific Coul Mining Company, Cuutru Co«tuv

County. California.

Notice Is horcby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the twentieth day of
March, 1869, an assessment of four dollars per share was
levied upon the capital stock of said Companv, payable*
Immediately, in United States gold and silver coin, to the
Secretary.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the twenty-seventh day of April, I860, shall he
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless payment shall be mad" be-
fore, will be sold mi Monday, the seventeen: h darnl' May,
1369. to pay the delinquent assessment, together with cinsts
ot advertising and expenses ol sale. By order of the Bound:
of Trustees.

, S. LACHMAN, Secretary.

Office, southeast corner Market and First streets, ^an
Francisco. mar22

Star Creek Mining Company.— Locations Star

District, Huinboldr County, State of Nevada.
P'Notick.— There are delinquent upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment (No. 1> levied on
the twenty-sixth day of February, 1869, the several amounts
set opposite the names of the respective shareholders, as
follows:

Names. No. Certificate.

Babb. 1. H unissued 6

Bales, A B, Att'y.. ..unissued lf>

Davis, Erwfn .: unissued 2

Davlsson. R S, Att'y. unissued 9
Faulkner. George — unissued 12

Lent, Wm M unissued 1

Levingston, Isaxc unissned S

Minturn, Charles... .nMsswea 7

Morrison. S A unissued 5

Pin- 1 an, James ...unissued 11

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
of Trustees, made on the twenty-sixth day of February, 1869,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be nec-
essary, will be sold at public auction, by J. Middleton Jk
Son, 310 Montgomery street, San Francisco, on Monday, the
nineteenth day of April. 1869, nt the hour of 12 o'clock M.
of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment thereon,
together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale.

HORACE MORRISON, Secretary.

Office, N. E. cor. Front and Jackson streets. oj»8

Shares.

Amon-nr.

20

$■'0 00

MS

214 5i>

776

1164 no

2HD

300 00

inno

15011 00

530

795 00

no

162 00

100

150 00

100 •

150 CO

72

108 CO

Senator Silver tlllnlncr Company. —Location of

Mine: Virginia City, Storey County, State of Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board
of Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty-sixth,
day of March, 1869, an assessment of fifty cento per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said CmiioaDy, pay-
able immediately, in United States gold coin, to the Sec-
retary, at the office of the Company, No. 408California
street, San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaJd on the first (1st) day of May, I860, shall he
deemed delinquent, and will bo duly advertised for sale
at nubile auction, and unless payment shall be made be-
fore, will be sold on Friday, the twenty-eighth day of
May, 1869, lo pay the delinquent assessment, together
with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of
the Board of Trustees.

T. B. WINGARD, Secretary.

Office, 40SOnllfornia street. San Francisco marJT

Silver Sprout Allnintr Company.— .Location «■*

Works and Alines: Kearsarge District, Inyo county, Cal.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board
of Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty -fifth
day of -March, 1869, an assessment^! fifty cents per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able immediately, in United State* gold coin, to the Secre-
tary, at the office of the Company, No. 4US California street,,
San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the first (1st) dav of May, 1869, shall be deemed
delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale at public
auction, and unless payment shall be made before, will be
sold on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of May, 1869, to.
pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of ad~
veitising and expenses of sale, iiy order of the Board of
Trustees.

T. B. WINGARD, Secretary.

Office, 408 California street, San Franeisco. mar27

Troy Ledge Mining Company, Wnlte Pine

District, Lander County, Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board
of Trustees of said Company, held on the sixteenth day of
March, 1869. an assessment of fifteen cents per share was
levied upon the capital .stock of said Company, payable
immediately, in United States gold and silver coin,. lo,thie>
Secretary.

Anv stock upon which said assessment shall remain unpaidi
on Friday, the twenty-third day of Ajutsh, I8fi3i shalli
be deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for
sale at public auction, and unless pa vmeiashaH he made be-
fore, will be sold on Monday, the tweK,i\K*iO">nh dayoi May,,
18H9, to pay the delinquent assessinoW;, togother with costs ot
advertising and expenses of sale* s>y- aider of the Boara
of Trustees. •

J. Hi B-JJ'FEeX&TON, Kccc*-iiR>rr.

office, 37 New Merchants'- $xuh>iu£0». ^lUorula »tr<^}*
San Francisco. mar2Q

238

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinery.

PATENT AMALGAMATOR

These Machines Stand Unrivaled.

For rapidly pulverizing and amalgamating ores, they
have no equal- No effort has been, or will be, spared to
have tliein constructed in the most perfect manner, and ol
the great number now In operation, not one has ever-re-
quired repairs, •fl'he constant and increasing demand for
them is sufficient evidence of their merits.

They are constructed so as to apply steam directly into
he pulp, or with steam bottoms, as desired.

This Amalgamator Operates as Follows:

The pan being filled, the motion of the muller forces the
pulp to the center, where itis drawn down through the ap-
erture and between the grinding surfaces. Thence it is
thrown to the periphery into tlie quicksilver. The curved
plates again draw it to the center, where it passes down,
and to the circumference as before. Thus it is constantly
passing in a regular flow between the grinding surfaces and
mo the quicksilver, until the ore is reduced to an impalpa-
ble powder, and the metal amalgamated .

Setters made on the same principle excel all others.—
They bring the pulp so constantly and perfectly in contact
with quicksilver, that the particles are rapidly and com
pletely absorbed.

Mill men are invited to examine these pans and setters for
themselves, at the PACIFIC JPO UK DIET,

]Tj San Francisco.

ELLERY'S PATENT

India Rubber Cement and Faint

TIN, IRON AND METALLIC ROOFS,

Iron, JBricli aud Woodcu liuildliiffH,
SHIPS, STEAMBOATS, STAGES, CABS,

AND FOB ALL EXPOSED SURFACES.

Is water-proof and indestructible; will neither rot, peel,

nor crack; will withstand any climate; can be put on in

any color, and is less expensive than other Paint.

New Cloth Itoof* i»ut oq. Old Kooft cemented
and painted. Leaky Roof's made tight.

03- No Coal Tar or Asphalt urn used. All work guaran-
teed. Orders punctually attended lo.

GEO. T. BROSILEY, Agent,

24vl7-3m

Pipe "Vise, with or without
Extra Jaw. _j

Standard Milling Machine.

UNION VISE COMPANY,

OF BOSTON, MASS.
Extra jaw, and heavy Vises, Warranted for heavy work.
Mew stvle Wood and Covered Screw Vises, forty styles and
kinds; 'Standard Milling Machines, simple, great capacity,
nower and strcngih— two sizes, large, 2,301) lbs; small, 950

lbs. r

For sale by the trade.
23vlC-ly

G. H. NOTT, Pres.

BLAKE'S QUARTZ BREAKER !

IPKICES REDUCED!

MACHINES OF ALL SIZES FOE SALE

' WI. P. BLAKE,

Corner First and Mission streets, or Box £.Q7?
3vl3f SAN FRANCISCO.

PACIFIC FILE WORKS,.

No, 53 Beale Street, net. Market and Mission,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Files Re-cut and warranted as good as new, with a saving
of fifty per cent. REAPER AND MOWER SECTIONS
MADB TO ORDER. The only establishment on the Coast,
urders from the country promptly attended to. S3T First
Premium awarded at tl"> State Fair, 1SG7.

2vl7-3iu T. G. I» VB.H I XG «*S CO

Removal ■
NELSON-^" DOBLE,

AGENTS FOR

Thomas Firth & Sons' Cast Steel, Files,

Mill Picks, Sledge*, Hammers, Picks,

Stone Cutters', Blacksmiths' and Horse-Shoers' Tools,

Have removed to IS and 15 Fremout street, near

MarRet, san t'raucisuo.

IdvUqr

MACHINERY AG-ENCY.

W. O. M. BERRY & CO.,

Are the manufacturers' ngents for Richardson, Merriam
£ Go's celebrated

Wood Working Machinery,

Embracing every description of Planers, Matchers and
M^rtisecs, Moulding, Tenonin,', Boring, Shaping, Vertical
and Circular ite-sawiog Machines; scroll. Railway, Cut-off
and Rip Saws, etc., eic. Agents for the Swam^cot Co's

Improved I?orta"l>le Engines,

Wiirranted fully equal to any In the market; Davis & Fur-
uer's Wooden Machinery; Klake's Patent Steam Pumps;
Kilburn's and Warren's Turbine Water wlieels. eic ,etc.

Orders for Machinery of any kind will receive prompt
attention Machines for special purposes built to order.
Send for Illustrated Catalogue. W. ii.M, BEttRITtCO,

Svi8-*ni 1U California St., San Francisco.

JVotiee t;o Miners,

Well-Borers and Water Companies.

MPttAG IS NOW PREPARED TO MANUFACTURE
. Hydraulic and Artesian Well Pipes in the best work-
manlike manner, and at the lowest market rates. Having
made larnc additions to ray stock of machinery for that
branch of business, I aui prepared Lo till all orders with dis-

fiateh, and guarantee entite ejt Lis [.action. I aiso manufact-
ure Mississippi Stoves, of the latest improved patterns, fur
■vessels of all classes. Also, Ship Piuuibiug done.

ȣ. J* It AG,
3v\$-ly &',5*vo Store, No. 1 Clay street, ueiew Uitvia.

CALIFORNIA TOOIi WORKS,

Blacksmith and Machine Shop,

H:i Senile St., bet. Mission and Ilouiird,
SAN FRANCISCO..

All Kinds of Edge or oilier Tools made to order. Par-
ticular attention paid lo pin ting in order AGKIUt LI URAL
MACHINERY:. Job Grinding and Polishing by steam.
Orders irom the Country jiromptlyl attended to. sgp-All
work wiirranted.

21vl7-q.y J. WEJCHJHAXaT, Proprietor.

Boilej

PATENT

Scraper and Tube-Cleaner.

0ib;

IT IS THE CHEAPEST, MOST
durable, easiest to adjust, and
cleanest apparatus to use for the
purpose designed, yet offered to
the public. Being constructed on
simple and mechanical principles,
£3" pa -'i';, 'J '•*& it i- not liable to ?et out of order,
^ ^ _^-b. ^fv .ni(] ^n| ,.,,,lljUii,_. u, jienurin it-
1 '"■' ollice until the materials are worn
out. It can readily be adjusted,
even bv any inexperienced per-
son—will scrape off l he scales and
cleanse the tubes just as smooth
and clean as they -were when
new, without in the least affecting
their Inner-surface, as the Elliptic
Spring Scraper has a smooth
square edge, and springs in or out
lo fit tbe tubes. It is particularly
applicable for Meainboat boilers
when muddy water is used.

A continuous iron rod runs
through the center of the top and
bottom bubs. The soft steel scrap-
ers are fastened with screws to
the hubs, under the caps which
cover and protect the screws that
fasten the scrapers on the hub.
The scrapes arc expanded or con-
tracted by screwing or unscrew
inft the lower hub,— first loosening
the cap. There is a collar on the
rod to prevent the scrapers being jammed. An elastic or
flexible brush or scraper, made of leather, rubber, or some
pliable material, is attached to the nut for the purposed
removing from the tube the scale and dust loosened by the
action of the scrapers.

These scrapers arc made from one to six inches ill diam-.
eter— the prices of those from one to three inches rungim.'
from $5 to S12. Tliev are now extensively used in the
Eistem Stales. Quitc'a number have already been sold in
this State.

For sale bv McAfee. Spiers & Co , boiler makers, Howard
street, between Fremont and Beale. San Francisco, and at
the Union Foundry, Sacramento. E. M. p., P. U. box 17,
San Francisco, Manufacturers' Agents. 24vl7tf

BLAKE'S PATENT

steam; ptjmp!

This Pt.mn is warranted superior to any In the market,
for Breweries. Sugar Reuses, Tanneries, Boiler-Feeders,
Steamboats, Mining and Fire purposes, etc. It throws a
full stream of the thickest beer mash without clogging,
and sugar svrup boiling hot without difficulty.

Warranted a positive Pump under all circumstances; It
never stops nor gets out of order, and by reason of the pa-
tent device in the valves, is kept clear and always ready
for action.- It is SIMPLE, COMPACT and POWERFUL,
and needs no expert to run it.

KSP*If one fails to do the work for which it is sold, it may
be returned and the money will be refunded. May be seen
in operation at Risdon's, or Union Iron Works, or at
W. O. M. B KKKT A C<FS,
Agents for Paeitlc States,

SvlS3m 114 California street, Mm Francisco.

GLASGOW
Iron and Metal Importing Company

X".>M. 23 and 37 Fremont strcet(

SAN FRANCISCO,

Keep constantly on hand a la>-ge stock of best Bar and
Bundle Iron, Holier Tubes, Plane and Sheet Iron, Gas and
Water Pipe, Anvils, Cast Steel, Gas and Water FUtiuy*.
wl'iieh they offer to the trade on liberal terms.

21vl6-3in W. McCRINDLE, Manage.

The Perfection of Prepared Cocoa.

MARAVILLA COCOA.

Sole Proprietors— TAYLOR BROTHERS, London.

The Cocoa (or Cacao) of Maravilla is the true Theobroma
of Liniueus. Cocoa is indigenous lo South America, of
■which Maravilla is a favored portion. TAYLOR BROTH-
ERS having secured the exclusive supply of this unri-
valled Cocoa, have, by the skillful application of their sol-
uble principle and elaborate machinery, produced what is
so undeniably the perfection ot Prepared Cocoa, that it has
not only secured the preference of homes 'paths and cocoa-
drinkers generally, but many who had hiiheno not found
any preparation to suit them, have, after one trial, adopied
tire Maravilla Cocoa as their constant beverage lor break-
fast, luncheon, etc.

" A SUCCESS UNPRECEDENTED."

[See following extract from the Globe of May 14, 186S.]
"Various importers aud manufacturers have attempted
to attain a reputation for their prepared Cocoas, but we
doubt whether any thorough success had been achieved
until Messrs. T-iylor Brothers discovered the extraordinary
qualities of "Maravilla" Cocoa. Adapting their perlect
system of preparation to this finest of all species of the
Theobroma, they have produced an article which super-
sedes every other Cocoa in the market. Entire soluhilitv,
a delicate aroma, and a rare concentration of the purest
elements of nutrition, distinguish the Maravilla Cocoa
above all others. For homoeopaths and invalids we could
Dot recommend a more agreeable or valuable beverage.

Sold In packets only by all Urccers, of whom also mav
be had Taylor Brothers' Original l-Ioiin:eopalhie Cocoa and
Soluble Chocolate, Steam Mills. Brick Lane. London.
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GOti Cluy street, (southwest cor. Sansome),
I5vl2-3m SAN FRANCISCO.

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(SUCCESSOR TO O.GOBI)

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Mantels, Monument*, Tombs, Plumbers* Slab*

Etc., On hand and Manufactured to order.
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[Written for the Mining and Scientific Preas.1

Developments of the Teaff Hydraulic
Mining Shaft.

Dutch Flat, Mavcli 30th, 1869.

Editoks Pbess: — According to promise,
I herewith furnish you further data of the
Teaff shaft at this place, and of the pecu-
liarities of the curious deposit gone through
in sinking the same. In the first place it
should be understood that the top of this
ground has been worked off to a consider-
able depth in hydraulic mining, and at the
place where the shaft is sunk there is a hard
stratum of iron cement, about sis or eight
inches thick, the result of a cementing
combination of pyrites or sulphurets of
iron, with gravel. Now you find immedi-
ately under this a rich streak of dirt some
thirty feet deep, of a greyish color; and
under this another streak of the sulphuret
deposit, but of a greenish cast. This de-
posit is about two feet thick; and when we
begin to arrive at a depth of about 30 feet
from this tothe bedrock, throughout the
whole distance, goldin coarse particles is vis-
ble in the sides of the shaft. The peculiari-
ties are that there is a perfect line between
each of the great periodical deposits which
have been thrown into this large basin; and
then it seems as though long periods had
been employed in washing away all the
lighter matter than the sulphurets, to cer-
tain depths ; and then another deposit, and
so on, in this manner, until this channel
was broken by the cross streams which now
flow from the Sierras.

Judging from the pieces 'of cemeut that
I have seen from this shaft, and the dis-
tance from the bedrock from which they
were taken, I should be constrained to say
that this is the richest part of the "Blue
Lead" yet developed.

The shaft is now filled with water, up to
the level of Mr. Teaff' s tunnel, from the
end of which the shaft is sunk, the top
ground having been worked through this
tunnel some 3,000 feet. The entire depth
does not contain a pan of dirt without gold;
I mean that from the top or grass roots, to
the bedreck, 425 feet, contains gold in every
pan. This top ground has paid well; but
there must now be a tunnel run this hund-
red feet lower in order to drain the rich de-
posit of cement; and there must be stamps
and machinery employed to work it, JVlr.
Teaff has the necessary energy, and this
large amount of ground, comprising whac
has been known as the " Welamaloo, "
"Franklin," "St. Midas Water Co.," "Lit-
tle Hope," and " Fish Line," will begin to
yield up their millions of golden treasure.

A. E. E.

^ — .. -^». -. — »

Gold Mining .Stlll Pbofitable in
Georgia.— The following item we find in
the Air Line Eagle, of Gainesville, Ga.
Captain Eosworth is a Californian, and an
old subscriber of the Mining and Scien-
tific Pkess :

On Tuesday last, (Feb. 23d) we were
shown by Captain N. S. Bosworth, of the
Nachoochee mines, three nuggets of virgin
gold, recently found in the mines lie is
working there, weighing respectively 375,
249 and 103 dwts. The Captain is opera-
ting for a Boston Company — is working
thirty hands, and is averaging about
100 dwts. per day. He also showed us at
the same time the yield of his mines for the
nineteen days previous, which was a hand-
some "pile" — weighing between six and
seven pounds. Captain Bosworth informed
us that as spring opens, he contemplates in-
creasing his working force to seventy-five
hands, and intends opening several valua-
ble veins upon the property he is now
working. The Captain is a practical miner,
and this success is but an index to what
may be done in the rich mines of this sec-
tion, whenever skill and capital are brought
to bear upon them.

Large Guns. — The largest European
gun is of steel, by Krupp, 14 inches bore,
and will throw a ball of 1,000 pounds, but
has never been fired. The next largest
Europe»n gun is an Armstrong rifle, which
throws a shell of 610 pounds. The 12-ineh
American Kodman rifle throws an elongated
shot of 630 pounds, and the 20-ineb.
smooth-bore, a spherical shot of 1,072
pounds. The "Swamp Angel" is a Par-
rott rifle, 8 inches bore, and threw shot of
150 pounds a distance of 55-2 miles into
Charleston. Its ancient rival, " Mons.
Meg," is 20 inches bore, and threw stone
balls of 18% inches diameter, but its range
did not exceed a mile and a half.

Tl^e Mining and Scientific Press.

239

Brilliant Wimxwwsii, C'i.osli.y Br-
ing Paint.- Many have board ol 1 1 1 . -
brilliarit stucco whitewash on flie easl end
of the President's honse at Washington.
Tlio following is a receipt for it— for which
we are indebted to Mr. Foye, of Oal

Take one-half bnshel of nice unslaked
lime, slake it with boiling water, cover it
during the process to keep in the steam,
strain the liquid through n fiuo sieve or
strainer, and add to it a peak of salt, pre-
viously well dissolved in warm water,
three pounds of ground rice, boiled to a
thin paMe, and stirred in boiling hot, ouo-
balf pound of powdered Spanish whiting,
and one pound of clean glue, which has
been previously dissolved by soaking it
well, and then hang it over a slow tire in a
small kettle within a large one filled with
water. Add five gallons of hot water to the
mixture, stir it well and let it stand for a
few days, covered from tho dirt, ft should
on riffhthot', for this purpose it can
be kept in a kettle on a portable furnace.
It is said that about a pint of this mixture
will cover a square yard upon the outside
of a house, if properly applied: Brushes
more or less may be used according to the
neatness of the job required. It answers
a^ well as oil paint for wood, brick orstone,
mid is cheaper. It retains its brilliancy for
(naby years. There is nothing of the kind
that will compare with it, either for inside
or outside walls. (Buildings or fences
prepared in this manner will take a much
longer time to burn, than if they were
painted with oil paint. This one thing
alone should be inducement for persons
to try the experiment.) Coloring-matter
may be put in, and made of any shade you
like. Spanish-brown stirred in will make
red pink, more or less deep, according to
the quantity. A delicate tinge of this is
very pretty for inside walls. Finely pul-
verized common clay, well mixed with
Spanish-brown, makes a reddish stone-
color. Yellow-ochre stirred in makes yel-
low wash; but chrome goes further, and
makes a color generally esteemed prettier.
It is ditficult to make rules, because tastes
arc different; it would be best to try exper-
iments on a shingle and let it dry. Green
must not be mixed with lime; it destroys
the color, and the color has an effect on the
whitewash which makes it crack and peel.

Ctieiocs Island. — Iu the lake of Using,
in Lavonia, there is an island that rises
above water and disap2)ears periodically.
Daring the summer heat a considerable
quantity of gas is generated from a bed of
cual under the surface, then a huge, black
mass, like a gigantic bladder, is seen to
rise. If the summer is warm and lasting,
the surface becomes one mass of aquatic
plants, but on tho first appearance of cold
nights the whole island sinks and lies dor-
mant until the ensuing year at the bottom
of the lake. The various phases assumed
by this strange phenomenon of nature
serve as a weather glass to the country peo-
ple of. the locality.

ROOT'S PATENT FORCE BLAST ROTARY BLOWER.

Patented Bo-v. 1st, 1864; July -;i. js;-,r, ; and Oet> 9,-9606,

Awarded tlio ITii-st Premium at tlio J?aris Exposition.

jprjc.-j-_.5-

CAIjIPOBN IjV

BUSINESS UNIVERSITY,

204 M hit'.-omery Street.

Full particulars regarding o ir Practical Courac of Studios
may be li.nl Ijv culling at the University, or liv addressluk
tfvll <■>■ i_t> B. i*. HiSAup, San Francisco.

Avery Pump and Tube Well.

Ooi-iplete lor TJse-

Tlie TUBE WELL, is Co med by driving prepared Iron
piping into the ground will] a sledge. Although of compar-
atively recent invention, these wells have won a wc rld-
wLlc reputation, and are proven 10 be superior to the oidl-
n.iry dug well, costing sometimes less thtin one-fourth that
01" others, and at the same time excluding the surface water
and dirt. Tho tubing Is coupled together In lengths of
about six feet, os ihey are being driven Into the earth; the
valves are then dropped in and the Pump screwed down on
top.

FORCE AM) LIFT PUMPS
Always on> hand. For ca«c of Woiking, durability and
force, the Avery Pump has no- superior. For circulars,
etc., address Postolhcc box 17.

XTHICI& «fe DEWEY,

13vl8tf Sis Pine street, San Francisco.

MECHANICAL AND AECHITEOTUKAL

Drawing School

A.I?_?££___ ISTTIOE®.

MR. FREDERICK HELLEKT,

An experienced Draughtsman and Teacher, ha' opened an
Evening School at No. 414 CLAY STREET (same entrance
ftS the Mining and Scientific Press Offic*), whore he lsi.lv
Ing thorough instructions in DRAWING to apprentices who
are inclined to self-improvement. His terms arc moderate
and within reach of the humblest apprentice; and we are
pleased to say that the enterprise is meeting with success.
1 vIS if

Elrcthottpe Engravings, Cots, Etc— Our Job Printing
Olhco is abundantly supplied with elegant engravings or
naincnts, ajid other embellishments io suit the various
branches of industry in tills State

REQUIRES

Fifty Per Cent.

LESS POWER

Than any Blower

Ste_i-__:3l_ii>s

One of these Blowers may be seen on exhibition at TV. T. Gamut's Brass Foundry, corner of
Mission anil Fremont streets. They are also in use at the Almaden Quicksilver Mine; Gtidley's
Foundry, Gold Hill, Navada ; iEtna Iron Works, San Francisco, and many other places.

Caution. — Purchasers will find it to their advantage to apply direct to the Stockton Agency, as
certain parties, not authorized to manufacture the Blower, have put in the market machines of inferior
construction, which do not answer all the requirements of tho genuine article.

For circulars and further information, address

KEEP & BAKG-ION,

ivlfrSm Globe Iron Works, Stockton, Cal.

COLLIER & SILLIMAN'S

METALLIC PRESSURE PISTON ROB PACKING.

This invention relates to the packing used to render piston rods or propeller shafts
steam and water tight, and- has for its object the construction of a metallic packing, which
shall he operated upon by gas, the vapor or liquid exertingthe pressure, in such a man-
ner as to form a perfectly tight joint. It also consists in so forming the gland of the
stuffing box, that it shall serve as a support and guide for the rod and shaft, and at the
same time afford great facility for lubrication.

Two small openings now connect the interior of the cage with the source of press-
ure— as the cylinder in an engine or pump, or the water outside of the ship if it is for
a propeller shaft — so that the greater the pressure the closer are the rings forced
against the rod and inner face of the gland. In any case the Packing is to be applied
to a water or air pnrnp, so that the pressure will come from the liquid or the gaseous
substance, as the case may be. One of the most important uses of this Packing is in
the stuffing boxes of propeller shafts, in which case the openings connect with the out-
side water, the pressure on the rings depending upon the depth to which the shaft is
submerged. This device is simple, and not easily got out of repair; is perfectly effica-
cious and self-regulating, and in the ease of shafts, especially, will do away with the
great expense of repairing the derangements of the stuffing box which now so frequently
occur. This new invention has already been adopted on the Central Pacific Railroad
and by some of the principal Flouring Mills in San Francisco and Sacramento, and
is growing at once into popular favor. A description of the engraving accompanying
this will be found in the Mining and Scientific Press Jan. 9, 18G9, and in the patentees'
circular, which can be had free on application.

Certificates of He coiniTiexi elation : 3

Office C. P. It. Ii. Co. of Cal., Sacramento, Nov. 24, 18GS. — To Whom it may Concern; — This Company has
made a thorough practical teat of Collier & Sillimau'e Patent Metallic Rod Packing, and find it a superior
mode of packing to any other in use, and accordingly recommend it to all others interested.

E. B. CROCKER, Gen. Agent C. P. R. R. Co.

This is to Certify, that we have been using the Collier & Silliman's Patent Metallic Rod Packing, and find
it a superior mode of packing to any other in use, and would recommend it to all others interested.

SETH H. GARFIELD, Prop. Pioneer Mills, Sae. City ; Witt. Etohells, Engineer.

For sale at the principal Machine shops and Foundries in San Francisco. Full
particulars can be obtained by addressing ORRIN COLLIER, Sacramento, Cal., or
E. B. SmiiiMAN, Bridgeport, Ct.

3vl3-3inli!m

Metallurgy.

MOSHEIMEUVS

PIONEER MINING SCHOOL,

— AND —
M r.T.Y I.I.I -KOIC WORKS.

llavlns rrtuuiisiioii the Orel Practical Mining and Metal-

' I '" tho United sim,;., i would Mil the at.

''"""" '" SanUomen wliumny uhtli to obtain a practical

know ledqe Df

Chemistry, Assaying and Metallurgy,

Thai I am prepared toV-acli all the above branches In less
time th m in aw European school.

I also undertake to assay and work any kind or ore, or
mineral substances.

Fur terms, apply to JOS. MOMH EIMEIS,

Practical Chemist and Metallurgist.
Olllce. 32S Montgomery street; MolaUurglc Works. 2U05
Powell street, Snn Francisco. Gvl8-fi<n

LEOPOLD KITH,
Assayer and Metallurgical Chemist,

{Formerly or the U. S. B. Mini, S. F.)

Ofllce, So. Cll Comniurcliil Street, opposite

the Mini, Sim FrancttcOa

BULLION .MELTED AND ASSAYED,
Tnr corrcctesH of which Is guaranteed in every respect.
All kinds of Ore and Mineral felted, assayed and analyzed
in the most satisfactory manner.

Refers by permission to W. C. Ralston. Cashier Bank ol
Cull for n la; Messrs PiocllC A Rayerque, Win. M. Lent. John
D. Fry, E. Oahlll & Co.. A. K. Grim. President Pacific Union
Express Co.; John M. Eckfeldt, M. and R. U. S B. Mint;
Hale & Norcross s. M. Co., aud the principal mining* com-
panies on the Comstock Lode. 25vl7-tf

PROF. HENRY 'WURTZ,

Formerly Chemical Examiner in the U. S. Patent Office
may be employed professionally as a Scientific Expert.

f.tolonical Lx.-inilnati. ms an.] Reports, Analysis and A^iivs,
etc .etc. Fraciica! advice and Investigations in the l "hem
leal Arts and Manufactures. Invention and r-xiin'inntion
nt new chemical methods and products. Address, 2« Pioe
street, RiMinisilsaiirt 36, New York. Always In from 12 to
X.JU. ■jgr-WrltLen communications preferred.

Important to Gold and Silver Min-
ers and Companies.

PROFESSOR WURTZ,

P'hoisthc Inventor and Patentee of the new and wonder
Jill nsesof SllDIUM IN WORKING GOLD AND SILVER
ORES AND JEWELEKS- SWEEPINGS, w ill furnish at the
above address n format Um in relation thereto, together
with experimental packages „f

SODIUM AMALGAM.,

All instructions and experiments elsewhere obtained are
spurious and unreliable. WORKING EXPERIMENT."? ON
AMALGAMATION OF ORE-', Etc. Prof. W. has In opera
tion in New York a large and small Hepburn Pan, for wort
Inn I,0liO or 20-lb. charges of material lor cxperlnicnta
purposes. 3V[f

II. TAYLOR. tvm. H- TAYLOll.

KOBERT TAYLOR & CO.,
METALLURGISTS.

SMELTGNC WORKS,

Eleventh street, between Folaom and Howard.

GA X/V-A-KTIZING.

Also, .V til , .Friction , Alloy** for .Journals*. Type

ami Sta<ni»lne: IU>tal«, Tinners and

Plumbers' Solder. Etc.

ft3r*Tbc best price given for the most rebellious or re-
fractory ores. Ores and minerals assayed and analyzed.
i v 18 3m

G-. W. STRONG,

ASSAYER AND WORKER OP ORES.

No. 10 Stevenson street, near First.Snn Francisco.

Hie-hest price paid fox choice lotsofOres, Sulphuieis, as
sav Ashes, Sweepings, etc., etc. Students instructed inall
branches oi Metallurgy, imliberul terms,
uviaqr.

LEA &. PERRINS'

CKLKUR ITfcD

WORCESTERSHIRE S^JLTCE

t? <ii, Declared by connnlseurs

1 ■' to be the only

GOOD SAUCE. rj

3

The success of this most g
delicious and unrivalled £
condiment having caused "
certain dealers to apply ihc name of "Tor- "g
festers hi re .Sauce in their own Inferior c
compounds, the public is hereby informed 2
that the only way to secure the genuine, yi
Is to ask for a

X.ca. & Ferrlng* Sauce, a

o
and see that their names are upon the '£
wrapper, labels, stopper, and bottle. fl

Some of the foreign markets having been rt
supplied with a spurious Worfesrershire U '
Sauce, upon the wrapper and labels of
which the, names of Lea and Perrins have been forged, L
and P. give notice that they hive furnished their corres-
pondents with power of attorney to take instant proceed-
ings against .Manufacturers and Vendors of .such, or any
other Imitations bv which their right mav bo infringed.

Ask for LEA ,fc PERKINS' Sauce, and see name on the
Wrapper. Label, Bottle, and Stoi.per,

Wholesale and for Export by the Proprietors. Worcester:
Orosse A Blackwell, London, etc., etc.: and by Urocers and
Oilmen universally. Agents, CROSS & CO., San Fran-
cisco. 3vl8-ly

.SULFHUKETS ;

What they are;

How Assaved ;

How Concentrated;

And How "Worked;

TTlth a Chapter on the

BLOW-PIPE ASSAY OF MINERALS.

By WM. BlffiSTOW, M. D.

Published by A. Roman A Co,, San Franciseo.
For »ale at thSs Office.— Price, One Dollar.

With the aid of this Book, the miner can assay his own
ores, requiring but few materials, etc., except such as are
generally to be found in the Interior towns, ?lYl5tf

240

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

THE EXCELSIOR PUMP.

Fig;. S.

THIS BEST PUMP FOB. «»**« *«.<«-,

FARMING AM) DOMESTIC PURPOSES.

Hooker's Patent, August 1£>, 1866 ; Jan. 15, 1867.

IMPEOYED

DOUBLE-ACTING SUCTION" AND FORCE PUMP.

Fm.2

m

rum

iiii

These Pumps are meeting with universal fa-
vor wherever tried, and are now being intro-
duced, in many instances superseding Pumps
which had hitherto been, considered the best in
the world.

Fig. 1 is a sectional view of a 6-inch Mining Pump, showing the plunger and hemp packing on the
left, with the chamber on the right containing the puppet valves. Pig. 2 represents the chamber, with
the water-passages and valve-seats. Pig. 3 is the valve, operating in the chamber. Pig. 4 is the
improved Hand Pump. Fig. 5, a 6-inch Mining Pump, shows the adjustable bonnet opening to the
valves.

For Circulars, or further particulars, inquire of or' address J. "W". BRITTAN" & CO. Agents,
120 Front street, San Francisco; H. J. BOOTH & CO., Union Iron Works,. First street, San
Francisco, or

GUSHING & CO., Proprietors,

San Francisco.

I lit V i£1P"

Mil I

iial

1

■

1

§9 1
Bill

*i^Jsjii^

PATENT BATEA SEPARATOR AM) AMALGAMATOR

Tor Separating Powdered Mercury, Gold and Silver from Sands and

Sulphurets.

These machines are made of cast iron, five feet in diameter, and covered with sheet
copper; they require but very little power, and no attendance or expense after set in
motion. They are designed to receive the stream from a battery or from amalgama-
ting pans. The movement will keep the sands and sulphurets loose and in constant
:notion from center to circumference. The powdered mercury containing gold or sil-
ver is, by the law of gravitation, precipitated to the bottom on the copper. The
weight of the loose sand and water, together with the movement of the machine, will
cause a gentle friction sufficient to concentrate the powdered mercury. When con-
centrated, the amalgam adheres to the copper, whilst the mercury flows on down to the
recess in the rim, where it is confined, and the sands and sulphurets are allowed to dis-
charge over the top of the rim all around upon a circular apron terminating in a sluice.
These machines are simple, new, novel, cheap and effective. Weight of a pair, with
gearing, about 1,000 pounds.

Price, for a Single Machine, complete, - - - §300.
Eor a I»air, ------------------ 500.

Manufactured and for sale by

HOWLAND, ANG-ELL & CO.,

)5vl3-2ara Miners' Foundry, Snn Frun; isea.

PREMIUM EOR BEST CONCENTRATOR

AWARDED BY THE

MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, 1868,

ALSO AT THE STATE FAIR, FOR 1868,
To J. HENDY.

A LARGE NUMBER OF THESE
IMPROVED CONCENTRAT

A HE IS JPHACTICAI. IPSE OX THE PACIFIC COAST.

o:rs

Mb. Hendy, by diligent and practical application, has improved his Concentrators
until they now stand unrivalled, far in advance of any yet brought to public notice.
By recent alterations in the patterns for these machines, they are now made
Stronger and more Durable than Evei".

Office of North Stah Mine, Grass Valley, Nov. 12, 1868.
Joshba Hendy, Esq. — Dear Sir: — I take pleasure in certifying to the efficiency of the two last
Concentrators ordered Irom you. We have run them steadily since July last, with but a very trifling
expense for repairs. The additional length of step is a decided improvement. The first six sent to
us have run steadily for nearly nine months, and are still doing good work. * * * The concen-
trations from the eight pans alone much more than pay our entire surface expenses. "Without them
we should lose a large proportion by any system of concentration now in use. The eight Concentra-
tors receive the palp from our 24 stamps, which are crushing 1,040 tons per month. Our sales of
Sulphurets last month amounted to 70 tons, or nearly 7 per cent, of the mass crushed. The sul-
phurets from the reconcentration, contained about 10 per cent. sand. In addition to their properties
as concentrators, they have done us good service as amalgamators, they having saved us the past
month 50 ounces of hard amalgam, worth $350, which otherwise would have been lost.

Respectfully yours, J. H. CliOSSMAN, Supt. N. S. Mine.

IIENDY, Patentee.

Office at Union Iron Works.

A Journal of Useful Arts, Science, and Mining and Mechanical Progress.

iiv i>k\vi-:v .<
i>iiu>iu Solid

San Francisco, Saturday, April 17, 1869.

VOLUME XVIII.

>innln'l' l<;.

Table of Contents.

BflUevllla BurtVr Spring— III.

Mechanical Hoveuienu— III

Aid ii . iinatlon nl Silver Ore«
Wlthoul K .titling.

Keif M.'iin. 1 ui Treating Sul-
phuretted Oro«,

Al.mfc il»'' Railroad.

Co iper from Al .sia.

New (Jol >rliiR r'roo *8

\ , mm en I ul Minimi Olnlm*

•. r. -i.intil.iiTu-in; Notes!

1< ■-; « ■ u r 1 ■ 1 h mill Uevulupiucilts

Will 1 fine lii-i*!.-*.

T.x Ka'i".

Railroad Iwm.

Wort iti mo K.mnilrle*.

Wblffl il.'iid Mlnmit Uhtrlct.

Pieifl BrtiirouU Survey.

K«W Pdientl .iu. 1 lnvt-nrloiM

InetvaM! IfPnent facilities.

■", fl .1,1 Hi'i Dhiwtor.

Oil Fmuv Vc hunlcs.

Heating Car*

J«IUU1V«Q Demist*.

S-itii-..-Liini-,r More man a Toy.

AdRIOinTDRAL MlBOfCLLAKV.—
L'ultlvutlou Of Cry Liiul.
Bleed llHJ ul* tiranu Vines,
Bio,

UKOUANICAL MlSOKLLANT —

Helling; Glycerine; Cam

t run's Hiuwliiy Engine,
etc.

SilKNTiriR MlDCKLLAHT.—

1-lir.i-Muritt''; (indium on
Hydrogen; Secondary But

I.-rn-, Lie.

Mining £>um hart— Comprising
hiir lutellleenca irom ihe

111I1

and di»

i 1. ii...

Blliomln. Coloru-

ntana

fte-

vnJa ami Wy

San Fraiiclftco Meinl .Market.

.San Francisco Market Rated.

Notices to (JorrpfinondeDts.

stock I'rtces— Blri and Asked.

New Incorporations.

San I'r.iiii'ivi Mining Share-
holders' Directory.

The Belleville Buffer Spring.

This invention shows a new method of
taking advantage of the elasticity of steel
for spring purposes. It consists in placing
over each other a number of steel rings or
dishsof conical shape having a hole through
the middle, always the convex side of one
against the convex side of the next ring,
and its concave side against the concave

side of the next, in such a manner as to
form the pile shown in the engraving.
The buffer is applied in the same manner
precisely as the rubber buffer. The elas-
ticity of steel applied in this manner, ad-
mits of considerable spring on the appli-
cation of a weight from above ; and the
steel buffer is much more durable, not
affected by heat, is less expensive, can be
replaced, each ring or disk separately, in
case of breakage, and is stronger than
either the volute or the elliptic spring.
The agent is S. L. Pereira, No. 410 Mont-
gomery street.

Chloride Wonders are set afloat by sev-
eral of our Neveda cotemporaries, under
date of April 1st. The Enterprise describes
with some minuteness a mammoth tooth
found imbedded in chloride of silver —
which mammal, it appears, must have been
of the carboniferous age. Though this
strikes us as rather early to be out, for the
Enterprise's lone beast, yet we are bound to
concede that nothing is too wonderful for
"White Pine, The Heveille, and half a
dozen soberer aiders and abettors, had a
chunk of chloride journeying heaven-
wards in the fork of a tree, by whose rank
growth it had been lifted from the prolific
soil. It was before the 1st of April that
little puddles of metallic silver were in the
habit of being found where the Indians
had been building their fires.

Mechanical Movements.

Wo continue (from page 113) our illus-
trations of mechanical movements :

85. Obtaining vibratory motion fmma trough divided
transversely at the middle, and support rd on un axis.
Haw been used as a water meter.

SG. Common lifting pump.

87. Force pump, with air-chamber to the outlet, to
produce a constant How. Tbo cylinder is above water,
and is litted with solid piston. When piston is rising,
suction-valve is open, and water rashes into cylinder,
outlet-valve being closed. On descent of piston, suc-
tion-valve closes, and water is forced up through outlet-
valve to any distance or elevation. The outlet from air-
chamber is shown at two places, from cither of which
water may be taken. The air ia compressed by tho
water during the downward stroke of the piston, and
expands and presses out the water from the chamber
during tho up-strokc.

By pulling down the end of the lever, the ends of the
brake-strap are drawn toward each other, and the strap
tightened on the brake-wheel.

100. Otis's safety stop. The weight of the platform
and the tension of the rope keep tho pawls out of gear
from the ratchets in hoisting or lowering tho platform,
but in case of the breakage of rope the spring, c,
presses duwn the pin, b, and the attached ends of the
levers, and so presses the pawls into the ratchets and
stops the descent of the platform.

101. The gyroscope. If the disk is set in x-apid
rotary motion on its axis, and the pintle at one side of
the ring, is placed on the bearing in the top of the pil-
lar, the disk and ring seem indifferent to gravity, and
instead of dropping begiu to revolve about the vertical
axis.

102. Helicograph. The small wheel moves along
the screw as it revolves about the central point, and
describes a spiral,

103. Portable cramp drill. The feed-screw is oppo-
site the drill.

88. Double-acting pump.

89. Pendulums or swinging gutters for raising water.
90 Montgolfler's hydraulic ram. The right hand

valve being kept open by a weight or spring, the cur-
rent flowing through the pipe from left to right escapes
thereby. When the pressure of the water current over-
comes the weight of the right valve, the momentum 0
the whole column of water opens the other valve, and
the water passes into the air-chamber. On equilibrium
taking place, tho left valve shuts and th9 right valve
opens. By this alternate action of the valves, water is
forced into the air-chamber at every stroke, and raised
to a greater hight through the outlet-pipe.

91. One form of rotary pump or stoam engine.

9^. Transmitting motion from one shaft obliquely to
another.

93. Similar to 92.

94. Micrometer screw, by which great power can be
obtained.

95. Chinese windlass, embracing same principles as
£>£ The movement of the pulley in every revolution
of the windlass is equal to half the difference between
the larger and smaller circumferences of the windlass
barrel.

9G. Chain wheel, the cogs locking into the liuks of
the chain on the right.

97- Hoisting blocks.

9S. Longitudinal and rotary motion of tho rod is
produced by its arrangement between two rotating roll-
ers, the axles of which are oblique to each other.

99. A brake used in cranes and hoisting machines.

104. Steam siphon pump. Jet of steam enters
through and into C, and expels the air from C, forming
a vacuum, thus causing the water to rise through B, B.

105. One form of feathering paddle-wheels.

lOG. Ordinary steering apparatus. By turning the
wheel, one end of the rope is wound on the barrel and
the other let off, and the tiller is moved in one or the
other direction, according to the direction iu which the
wheel is turned.

107. Ball and socket joint for hydraulic pipe or
tubing.

108. Boat-detaching hook. A rope attached to the
lower end. of each lever is pulled in such a direction as
to slip the eye at the upper end of the lever from off
the tongue, which being then liborated slips out of the
hook of the tackle and detaches the boat.

109- A knee-lever. Great force is obtained by rais-
ing or elevating the horizontal lever.

110. Shoe and lever brake.

111. Pantagraph for copying, enlarging and reducing
plans, etc. C, fixed point. B, ivory tracing point. A,
pencil trace, the lines to be copied with, and B, the pen-
cil, will re-prodace it double size. Shift the slide to
which Cis attached, also the pencil slide, and size of tho
copy will be varied.

flj]'.8. Johnson's friction clutch. The outer band or
rim revolves freely when moved to the right, but when
turned to the left the four rollers play instantly back
into the narrow portions of the recess, and bind the
rim fast to the journul or center piece.

AVe shall soon issue this series of Me-

chanical Movements iu full, — together with
much other valuable information for in-
ventors,— in pamphlet form, copies of
which will be furnished free on application,
or sent to order by mail.

Cross' Combined Heater and Sedi-
ment ColTjECTOB. — The royalty on this in-
vention— to render more advantageous in
boilers the use of salt or muddy water, and
more fully described in the Mining and
Scientific Press at the time of its inven-
tion, about a year ago, — has been reduced
45 per cent., as will be seen by Mr. Cross*
advertisemeut in another column, enabling
the manufacturers to furnish them at great-
ly reduced prices. Two of these heaters
are being built for tho California Steam
Navigation Company, containing 80 2-inoh
brass tubes. Each of these tubes were im-
ported from the East expressly for this pur-
pose. We are informed by Messrs. Wil-
liams, Root <fc Neilson, of the Union Foun-
dry, Sacramento, that they have made
these feeders with most of the engines
manufactured by them during the past two
years, and that they have invariably given
the best of satisfaction. The principle em-
ployed is simply that the exhaust steam
traverses the length of the heater surround-
ing the water tubes, and thoroughly heats
the water before its admission to the boiler.
The gradual circulation of the water
through the cluster of pipes favors the de-
position of the sediment mechanically sus-
pended in it, which can be readily re-
moved by "blowing out" the water from
the boiler.

(e M. E, ' a San Francisco correspondent
of the Loudon Mining Journal, exposes the
forgery of a letter in that journal signed
with the name of Joseph Organ, a Cornish
miner residing in Humboldt county, Nev.,
with a view to enhancing the stock value
of certain mining property in the market.
The same correspondent continues: "I
am justified in saying that ten square miles
about the Cam Brea Hill, in Cornwall,
have produced more mineral profits than
all this State (Nev.) will do from its mount-
ain veins in 80,000 square miles of coun-
try, during the present generation." The
Cam Brea has excellent mines of tin and
copper ; it is a fine old heath-covered hill,
traced with druidical circles half hidden
in shrubbery, overlooking a peaceful, an-
cient ocean ; and it is all in the blessed
"old country." But every intelligent
reader of the Mining Journal of course knows
the above to be ridiculous. If any old
country conservative capitalists should be
induced thereby to tighten their grasp on
the share they hold in the world's money
power, contentedly, at from three tofive per
cent, per annum, Nevada can afford it.
Correct intelligence will, however, in all
cases produce the proper effect.

Humboldt. — A monument is to be erect-
ed to Humboldt, in the New York Central
Park. The centennial anniversary of his
birthday" will occur on September 14th
next, and will be celebratsd in connection
with the erection of the monument,

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Commmiications .

ts this Department we invite the frkk biscussion of all
proper subjects— correspondents alone being responsible for
he ideas and theories they advance.

[Written for the Mining and Scientific Fress.l

On Amalgamation of Silver Ores With-
out Roasting.

CHAS. H. AAEON.

The effects ascribed to the action of elec-
tricity in Nolf's process, and in Mr. Scott's
experiments, as described in bis recent let-
ter to the Pbess, can, in very many cases,
be obtained as well, practically, without
electricity as with it.

In the fall of 1867, I bought from the
Silver Sprout Company, of Kearsarge Dis-
trict, a ton of their ore, which was part of
a lot of five tons of crushed ore then lying
in the mill, and which, by common pan
process, yielded only §50 or 860 at most
per ton. I took this ore to an arastra, and
ground it to a fine pulp with water; then
heated the pulp in an iron pan, and trans-
ferred it boiling hot to a wooden barrel.
I then added a little salt, some scraps of
copper, mercury, and one per cent, by
weight of cuprie sulphate. The result,
after twelve hours working in the barrel,
was $106.43 in silver, and $13.42 in gold.
The assay of this ore was not made very
exactly, for want of necessary means, but
was about $140 per ton in silver. I next
worked, in the same way, 300 pounds of
ore from the Cerro Gordo, and it yielded at
the rate of $104.26 per ton, the fire assay
giving $145 per ton. I afterward tried to
work the same.kind of ore in iron pans, and
got only 60 per cent, of the fire assay, and
very poor bullion. The bullion from, the
barrel was over .900 fine.

Mr. J. B. Low, then superintendent of
the Kearsarge mine, having consulted me
as to the best method of working his ore,
in which he did not at first succeed, I ad-
vised him, as the best he could do under
the circumstances, to " pickle" it with salt
and bluestone in the vats, before putting it
into the pans. He did so, using six pounds
of bluestone to the ton, and .steaming the
mass by means of a hose and nozzle. Some
forty tons were thus treated, which, when
worked in the pans, gave $120 per ton,
while that worked without "pickling"
yielded but $72 per ton. The bullion, as
was expected from iron pans, was very low,
as the ore contained lead. I caused sam-
ples of ore from Hot Springs, in Mono
County, to be sent to me, which ores have
been pronounced " very rebellious," but
which I find ' ' truly loyal, " at least very
docile. I made the following experiments:

One thousand grains of the Diana ore,
amalgamated in a porcelain -lined iron dish,
with five per cent, of ferro-sulphate, and a
like quantity of salt, and stirred with a cop-
per spoon, yielded at the rate of $513 in
silver, and $15 in gold per ton. The tail-
ings, carefully saved with all the water, and
dried, retained $25 per ton. The yield was
therefore 95 per cent.; 1,000 grains of Co-
manche ore from the same district gave
$538 per ton.

I also got samples of common mill ore
from Virginia and Gold Hill. Of the latter,
just as it came from the battery, and with-
out further grinding, ten ounces were
worked as before with a copper spoon, in a
porcelain-lined dish, with two per cent, of
salt, and one-fourth of one per cent, of blue-
stone, and yielded at the rate of $18.16 sil-
ver, and $5 gold per ton. This ore assayed
$20.50 per ton in silver, and the tailings re-
tained $3 per ton.

A piece of rich ore from the Comstock
vein, treated similarly with three per cent,
of bluestone and salt, gave readily $798 sil-
ver, and $591 gold per ton ; the tailings re-
taining $80 per ton silver, and a little gold.

Ore from the Belmont mine, Cerro Gordo,
treated with ten per cent, cuprie sulphate,
and salt, gave 88 per cent, of fire assay.

Another sample from the same, assaying
$330 per ton, treated with 7% per ceDt.
ferrie sulphate, and, of course, some salt,
gave $316 per ton.
' I made many experiments to reconcile

the use of cuprie chloride with that of iron
pans, by means of an ammoniacal solution;
bnt, whether with iron or copper as a pre-
cipitant, could not get more than half the
silver.

The substitution of ferro-sulphate for
cuprie sulphate, in some of these experi-
ments.inayrequireexplanation. It amounts,
in fact, to the same thing; as in all those
cases the ore itself contained cuprie oxide,
or carbonate; and the reaction of ferrie
chloride (ferro-sulphate and salt) produced
cuprie and cupreous chlorides, which are
the active agents iu this process, according
to the equation 2FeCl+3CaO=OuCl+Cu2
Ol+Fe'2 O , or, in case of the carbonate, a
similar reaction with evolution of GO2 .

In these cases of ores containing cuprie
oxide or carbonate, there are various ways
of producing the cupreous chloride, as well
as the metallic copper required, which will
readily suggest themselves to the properly
qualified millman.
The reaction of f erro-chloride on cuprie ox-
ide, with a similar one which takes place
with ferro-chloride and plomhic oxide, and
again, with cuprie chloride and argentic
oxide,led me to hope that the general law
might be deduced therefrom, that, when
a metal can be precipitated from a given
solution by another metal, the oxide of the
first would decompose a similar solution of
the second; but experiment does not sus-
tain this idea, for, though lead and zinc
precipitate copper from the solution of its
chlorides, yet the cuprie oxide does not de-
compose the solutions of the chlorides of
lead or zinc: on the contrary, the plortb c
oxide, at least, decomposes both cuprie and
cupreous, as well'as ferro-chlorides in solu-
tion.

This is the reason why the Cerro Gordo
ores, containing plombie oxide or carbon-
ate, require so large a quantity of chemi-
cals in this process, as compared with those
of Virginia. These reactions are controlled
by what I shall call the balance of affinities.

The artificially made argentic sulphide is
acted on by both cuprie and cupreous chlo-
ride, either hot or cold, forming argentic
chloride, which, in presence of copper, is
reduced to silver; with reproduction of cu-
preouschloride; and this constant reproduc-
tion of the required reagent is the key to
economy in this process, which, however,
is not a new process, being identical in
principle, and almost so in practice, with
the Mexican process called " beneficio de
fondo," in which the ore is amalgamated in
a copper bottomed pot or pan, with "mag-
istral" or bluestone and salt.

Many other compounds of silver, as well
as the sulphide, are acted on by the cuprie
chlorides, and, to a greater or less extent,
by ferro, plombie and ammonia chlorides;
but none of these approach the chlorides of
copper in efficacy.

The ammoniacal solution of copper with
salt, acts on argentic oxide and carbonate;
but not on the sulphide.

The inference justly deducible from my
experiments, seems to vindicate the asser-
tion I made some time since, in your col-
umns, that "the best process for amalga-
mating the ores of this valley, and of the
Comstock vein, as well as many others, is
nowhere in use in this country."

Californians have depended too much on
" improved pans," and have attempted to
do by brute force, that which must bo done
by the gentle persuasion of chemical af-
finity.

To those who believe that the salvation
of gold and silver lies solely in pans; to
those happily growing fewer every day,
who still hug the delusion that " practical"
knowledge which too often means stupid
ignorance, is all a millman needs, and that
scientific information is only fit for the
laboratory chemist, I say ponder on the
millions of treasure lying buried in the
sink of the Carson, simply because our
millmen did not know that the reactions of
the "patio" or of the "fondo" could not
be obtained in iron pans, but could in suit-
able vessels !

Let iron pans do their proper work of
grinding if you will, for, as the Mexicans
say, "mercury has no teeth;" but for amal-
gamators, at least for wet amalgamation,
give us steam-heated wooden barrels or
tubs.'or pans of Bansome's stone, which can
be made wherever they are wanted, and re-
paired with a bag of sand and a couple of
bottles of solutioos, instead of costly bolts
and castings. Then, with copper as reduc-
ing agent, we shall hear no more of "iron
amalgam," base metal, and such stuff.

The reduction of the ores by copper in-
stead of iron, will give fine bullion always,
and in most of our mines it can be had
cheaper than pan castings. In mauy cases
the ore itself will furnish it. Iron sponge
can be made cheaply almost anywhere, and
with that and a cupreous ore, we have all
the copper we want.

Writlen for the Minnie: and Scientific Press

A New Method for Treating Sulphu-
rated Ores.

A new method for treating ores, invented
by Dr. Charles D. Williams, of St. Paul,
Minnesota, in which the operation of de-
sulphurizing and chloridizing such ores is
performed simultaneously with the roast-
ing of the same, has recently been experi-
mented upon in a practical way in Colo-
rado, and has demonstrated beyond a ques-
tion of doubt, its entire success and utility
in working sulphureted gold and silver
ores. The modus operandi of this method
is very simple, and without doubt will
come into general use at an early day. The
furnace in which the ores are treated is
constructed on the reverberatory plan, and
is built with ordinary brick, provided with
a grate in the usual manner. It is erected
upon a suitable foundation, and consists of
two parallel vertical walls, which terminate
in an arch at the top, the end inclosing
walls being of the same material as of the
sides, viz. , ordinary brick. From the fire-
box to the rear of the furnace are partition
walls running parallel to the side walls,
and which divide the passage for the prod-
ucts of combustion into three distiuot
flues, and they also serve as supports for
the sole or hearth upon which the ores rest
while being roasted. The flues or passages
from the fire-box to the rear end of the
hearth through which the heated products
of combustion, arising from the fuel on
the grate, pass, serve the purpose of heat-
ing the lower portion of the ores on the
hearth. These flues at the rear end unite
with a short vertical flue through which
the heat ascends to the chamber containing
the ore, where it is further utilized in heat-
ing the upper surface of the ore, and from
the front end escapes through a pipe to the
atmosphere. The plate comprising the
bottom of the chamber rests upon a pro-
jection formed in the side walls of the fur-
nace. Its lower surface is exposed to the
action of the fire, while its upper surface
is covered with soapstone, which serves
the purpose of preventing injury to the
metal, consequent upon the presence of the
sulphur which is found in the ore. The
metal arch comprising the roof of said
chamber is also protected by soapstone
blocks for a distance, vertically, of six
inches, or as far up its sides as the ore may
extend. In the top of the arch is a hole
about five inches in diameter, through
which the ore is fed to the desulphurizing
chamber. At each end of the orechamber
doors are placed for the purpose of in-
serting a rod or shovel for agitating
the ores during the operation of desul-
phurizing and chloridizing. At the side of
this furnace is constructed a small furnace
provided with a grate and doors for the in-
sertion of fuel and removal of ashes. This
furnace is divided into two compartments
by means of an iron plate, the lower parti-
tion forming the fire-box, and the upper
the chamber, in which chlorine gas is gen-
erated for use. The upper chamber is pro-
vided with a door through which is inserted
a cup or basin of sufficient capacity to re-
ceive the gas generating vessel. This cup is
filled partially with water, for the purpose
of forming a bath for a glass vessel in which
the chlorine gas is generated; said vessel is
placed within the cup or basin, and is pro-
vided with an aperture in its top for the
insertion of the materials from which the
gas is generated, which aperture is pro-
vided with a stopper which screws tightly
therein, so as to prevent the possibility of
leakage. It is also provided with a pipe
which is secured to its upper surface, and
which communicates directly with the ore
chamber in the first mentioned furnace,
and is for the purpose of conducting gas
generated iu said vessel to said chamber.
In the rear of the roasting chamber is" a
trough or chute for the purpose of convey-
ing the contents of the chamber to an iron
box or car,

THE OPERATION.

The furnace having been constructed as
above described, the ore to be treated is
passed through the aperture in the top of
the ore chamber, and is evenly distributed
over the sole or hearth. When the fire is

kindled in the roasting furnace, and as the
heated gases pass to the rear, they impinge
against the bottom plate of the sole, thusim-
parting a portion of their heat to the lower
portion of the ore. They then pass through
the vertical flue at the rear of the chamber,
and into the space in said chamber above
the ore, and to the outlet in trie front end
or top of said chamber, thus imparting tiie
remaining portion of the heat, or a large
portion thereof, to the upper surface of tbe
ore upon the hearth. Simultaneously with
the kindling of the fire in the furnace, a
fire is lighted in the gas generating furnace,
in order that so soon as the ore commences
to be heated, a stream of chlorine gas
generated from muriatic acid and manga-
nese, also sulphuric acid, (materials con-
tained in the generator) shall commenco
passing into the space in the chamber, thus
envolving the upper surface and filling the
interstices between the parts or particles
of ore upon the hearth. It being a well-
known fact that chlorine gas is heavier than
the products of combustion whieh arise
from burning fuel, or the vapors whieh
arise from the ore, while being roasted or
treated in the furnace, it follows, as a con-
sequence, the gas will remain in inti-
mate contact with the ore upon the hearth,
while the vapor from such ore, and gases
from the fuel will be compelled to rise
through a much heavier and more dense
medium, and it is believed that, as a con-
sequence, a very large portion, if not
all the particles of metal which usually pass
off with the vapor or fumes of the ore, will
be arrested by the enveloping or interven-
ing strata of gas, and be retained and
mingled with the ore in the form of chlo-
rides.

When the ore is desulphurized it is drawn
from the furnace and put into barrel amal-
gamators, when water is introduced, which
places the chloride of gold into a solution.
A solution of the sulphate of iron is then
introduced to precipitate the gold, and me-
tallic iron is introduced to precipitate the
silver and copper, if any. These chemicals
thusintrodueed with the ore, are agitated by
the barrel being set in motion and allowed
torunforthreehours; attheendof that time
quicksilver is introduced, the barrel again
set in motion and allowed to run six to
eight hours, when it is washed out, re-
torted, and placed into a merchantable

Parties wishing to learn more of this
method are- referred to Mr. M. B. Jefferds,
of the North American Bureau of Mines,
Chicago, Illinois. Quilp.
* — ►» ^i»- ■ *

Along the Baixboad. — From W. H
M. we obtain the following notes :

At Truckee — a lively place — only Ellen's
and Scbaffer's sawmills were running last
week, the rest having been at a standstill,
at the time, on account of the heavy snows,
which were from four to six feet deep at
the summit. New buildings were still go-
ing up. The Bailroad Company's round-
house at Truckee, which burned down a
short time ago, was a loss of $40,000; but
the re-building is rapidly in progresr.

At Wadsworth, building is likewise
active; the Bailroad Company are putting
up a semi-circular round-house capable of
holding twenty engines, a fine machine
shop and blacksmith shop, all of which
are to be completed in three months. The
company is selling or renting lots here at
good prices. Ties and other materials are
seen flowing in a constant stream to the
front, smoothly and systematically.

At Hot Springs, on the Humboldt Des-
ert, the company has five men with a 12-
horse-power engine employed boring for
pure water, for the engines. They are
down 612 feet, and have yet struck noth-
ing; but Mr. T. G. MeLeran, the superin-
tendent, thinks, from the kind of clay
brought up, that the prospects are good.
Water in this desert would be a "big
thing." The hot springs are a mile from
the station; near them the sand is turned
iDto stone. The water is very clear, and is
used by the hands to wash their clothes in.

"White Cloud District," opposite Hot
Springs Station, in Churchill County, thirty
miles from Oreana Station, is receiving at-
tention from some Santa Clara and San
Francisco gentlemen just now; the White
Cloud ledge being three to four feet in
width, running east and west, and assaying
in the hundreds. There are no houses
within thirty miles. The Utica 10-stauip
mill, owned by a large New York Company,
is about thirty miles distant, situated two
miles from the railroad. It is driven by
water obtained from Humboldt Lake, which
is controlled by the New York Company,
and is twenty-five miles distant by the race.
Their dam having "busted," the mill has
been standing still for a few weeks. Ore
is obtained from the mountain ranges near

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243

Mechanical.

Belting.

We condense the following from " Belt
ing Facts and Figures "in the Journal 0/
Vie Franklin Institute:

"Palleya covered with leather, with
gsain-flide of hand to pulley, will
60 /»•>• cent. ■ nice 1 hau wil b

pulley being covered. Leather belts,
■tele to pulley, will drive 34 per cent hum-.:
than flesh-aide t" pulley; 18 per cent more
thin robber; 1-1 per cent, more than
gutta percha; 180 per oent more thanoan-
va-; consequently, the very best arrange'
ment (or belting is to oseit with grain-side
to pulley, and have the pulley covered with
leather. The next best pulley is polished
iron, especially for quick motions. Pol-
ished wood is next, and rough iron least, in
value.

Leather, used with grain-side to pulley,
will not only do more work, but last Longer
than if used with llesh to same. The fiber
of the grain-side is more compact and fixed
than that of the flesh,, and more of its sur-
face is constantly brought into contact
with, or impinges on, the particles of the
pulley. The two surfaces, that of the
band and that of the pulley, should be made
as smooth as possible: the more so the
greater the contact surface, and the more
the particles of each impinge on the other.
The smoother the two surfaces, the less air
will pass under the band, and between it
and the pulley— the air preventing the
contact of band with pulley— the greater
this contact, the more machinery will the
baud drive. The more uneven the sur-
face of band and pulley, the more strain
will be necessary to prevent bands from
slipping. What is lost by want of eon-
tact, must be made up by extra strain on the
baud, in order to make it drive the machin-
ery required — oftentimes, if the band is
laced, causing the lacings to break, the
holes to tear out, or fastenings of what-
ever kind to give way.

Bobber, gutta percha, and canvas are the
dearest articles to use for bands. Under
the same circumstances, these will not last
one-fourth as long as leather. When once
they begin to give out, it is next to impos-
sible to repair them. Wide bands cannot
be used for or cut up into narrow ones, as
leather can be. Leather belts may be used
over and over again, and, when of no
further value for belts, can be sold for
other purposes. A rubber band, costing
hundreds of dollars, may be spoiled in a
few moments, by the lacing giving out, and
the band being run off into the gearing, or
by being caught in any maimer so as to
damage the edge, or by stoppage of either
the driving or driven pulley. A few mo-
ments of quick motion or friction will roll
off the gum from the canvas in such quan-
tities as to spoil the band. Leather belts
may be torn or damaged, yet are easily re-
paired. It is otherwise with rubber. Rub-
ber, gutta percha, and canvas belts will
continue to stretch as long as in use, ren-
diring it necessary to shorten them contin-
ually. Gum belts will not answer for
'cross ' or 'half-cross' belts, for ' shifting'
belts, ' cone pulleys,' or for any place
where belts are liable to slip, as friction
destroys them. A well-made leather band,
if properly looked after, will last 12, 15 or
20 years, and yet be of value to work over
into narrow belts."

Won't Weak Odt. — M. Cazeau says that
aluminum bronze, — which is an alloy of
copper and aluminum containing eight to
ten per cent, of the latter metal, — makes a
covering to stair cases which, in a certain
instance cited, was as good as new, after
eleven months wear; while a previous cov-
ering of common bronze, of four times the
thickness, upon the same stairs, was worn
out in six weeks.

Glycerine. — As a lubricator for fine and
delicate mechanisms, such as clocks, chro-
nometers, etc., glycerine is found superior
to the best walnut oil, and mixed with
plumbago or some other material, to give
it due consistency, may yet prove of value
for the same purpose on heavier journals.
Artisan.

Piston Packing.— McClintock's Patent
Metallic Packing consists of rings made of
alternate layers of linen and india-rubber
cement, the whole being compressed in a
powerful apparatus. The inner side of the
ring has a thin copper lining, held firm in
its place by claws, which double over and
into the linen. The rings are dense,
elastic, and possess all the qualities of
good packing. — London Mining Journal,
Jan. 30.

Cauebon's Blowing Engine. — This new

engine is ex| ted to completely revoln-

; - la . of machinery. The Pitt 1-

I . ays : " It is a v .-Il-un-

iod fact that, in u steam engine, while
wheel is making a uniform motion,
the piston is irregnlar in its motion, mov-
ing rapidly is the middle of its stroke, and
slow towards the ends. For driving revolv-
ing machinoy, it is necessary that the en-
gine shaft and fly-wheel should revolve
uniformly, because they communicate the
motion; but in a blowing engine, where
the duty is taken directly from the
and where the fly-wheel gives the piston
an irregular motion— accelerating it when
ii sin mid be retarded, and retarding it when
it should be accelerated — the absence of a
fly-wheel is a necessary condition to a uni-
form blast. Taking ndvantago of this fact,
Mr. Cameron dispenses with the fly-wheel
and all its attendant paraphernalia And
the great advantage of this can be under-
stood when we say that in the average of
blowing engines there is enough of mate-
rial in the fly-wheel alone to construct an
engine from, on Mr. Cameron's principle,
equal in capacity to the engine of which
the fly-wheel only forms a part."

Double Bogies. — "An engine of this
class has 12 wheels, 1 feet in diameter, ar-
rauiied in two groups, each independent of
the other, and driven by a pair of cylinders
IS inches in diameter, with 21-inch stroke.
The fuel and water are carried on the en-
gine, and the whole weight made available
for grip on the rails. The bogies are free
to swivel on their pins, and each can radi-
ate independently of the other. The boiler
has two barrels, each 13 feet long by 4 feet
iu diameter, andlhas altogether a total heatini;
surface of 2,550 square feet. The tractive
power of the engines, with a cylinder press-
ure of 100 pounds to the square inch, is
equal to 33,400 pounds, equivalent to
drawing a gross load of 390 tons up a
grade of 200 feet to the mile, at a speed
of 10 miles an hour. One of these engines
is to be tried on the Central Pacific Bail-
way." — Am. Artisan.

Boileb Deposits — A Few Hints. — The
deposition of the carbonate of lime can be
prevented by dissolving sal-ammoniac in
the water; for that salt and the carbonate
of lime are mutually decomposed, produc-
ing carbonate of ammonia and chloride of
calcium, of which both are soluble in
in water, and the former is volatile.- The
deposition of sulphate of lime can be pre-
vented by dissolving carbonate of soda in the
water; the products being sulphate of soda
and carbonate of lime, of which the former is
soluble and the latter falls down in grains
and does not adhere to the boiler.

The locomotive superintendent of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad has
succeeded in keeping the boilers under his
charge free from scale by merely introduc-
ing, once in about three months, twelve
pounds of pure zinc, in pieces weighing
not more than one-half an ounce. The
zinc wholly dissolves in from three" to five
months, and the inner surfaces of the
boiler plates are then found covered with
a thin coating of zinc. — Am. Artisan.

Scientific . Wiscellanjy,

Heavy Modern Machinery. — A mass of
metal of a ton weight was unknown before
the Christian Era. Now those in cast iron
up to 150 tons, iu wrought iron to 40 tons,
and in steel or bronze to 25 tons, are made
in any desired form, and turned or bored
with the most perfect accuracy. Two years
ago I saw the largest lathe in England,
which swings 22 feet, and will take in a
shaft 45 feet long. Six months ago I saw
one in this country which swings 30 feet,
and will take in a shaft of 50 feet. There
are planers whjch will plane iron 50 feet in
length; others of 18 feet in width; others
of 14 feet in hight, taking oft' metal shav-
ings of two and a half inches in width and
a quarter thick." — Hon. W. J. Mo Alpine.

Effect or Heating upon the Strength
of Metals. - Sudden cooling trom a high
temperature tends to make most substances
hard, stiff', and brittle; gradual cooling
tends to make them soft and tough; and if
often repeated or performed slowly from a
very high temperature, to weaken them.
Up to and beyond the fourteenth melting
the 'resistance of cast iron to crushing in-
creases; but the resistance to cross break-
ing reaches its maximum about the twelfth
melting, and afterwards diminishes, from
the metal becoming brittle and crystalline.

Welding Powder. — A composition re-
cently patented in Belgium, is said to con-
sist of 1,000 parts of iron filings, 500 parts
of borax, 50 parts of balsam of copaiva or
other resinous oil, with 75 parts of sal am-
moniac. These ingredients are well mixed
together, heated and pulverized.

Ultra-Marine.

This beautiful blue pigment was origiu-
allj prepared by simply pulverizing the
mineral lapis lazuli, or sapphire, and was
enormously expensive. It is now made
artificially in large quantities; and what
would have cost Raphael a thousand dol-
lar, .an now be purchased for a dime. It
is now extensively used in the arts and
manufactures. Prof. Charles A. Joy gives,
in the March number of the Journal of
Applied Chatnistry, a description of this
manufacture, and a history of its origin.
In 1814, Tassaert, a French chemist,
chanced to -see a blue slag in the furnaces
of a looking-glass factory. Upon analysis,
its composition was found to be similar to
that of the mineral aforesaid. Divers ex-
periments were made at intervals from that
time, by differentchemists; andin 1S22 Pro-
fessor Gmelin, of Tubingen, succeeded in
preparing a small quantity before the blow-
pipe. In 1834 the process was tried on a
manufacturing scale; in 1838, the Nurem-
burg Ultra-Marine Manufactory was
founded. This is still the largest in exist-
ence, turning out more than two millions
of pounds yearly. There are now in oper-
ation, in Europe, forty factories, which
make, in the aggregate, some twenty mill-
ion pounds yearly. The method of Prof.
Gmelin is still, in all its essentials, the one
employed; the different establishments,
however,— each after its own fashion, which
it keeps secret, — modifying this. It is as
follows :

Soda lye, saturated with freshly-pre-
pared silica, is mixed with pure alumina,
obtained by precipitation from alum, in
such proportions that to thirty-one parts
of dry silica there will be twenty-six parts
of dry alumina; the whole is evaporated to
dryness, pulverized, and mixed with flow-
ers of sulphur; to this is now added a mix-
ture composed of equal parts of dry car-
bonate of soda and flowers of sulphur; the
whole is thoroughly mixed, pressed into a
crucible until the latter is full, when it is
well covered and rapidly heated to glow-
ing, so that fusion may take filace before
the sulphur is volatilized. It is then kept
at a red heat for two hours. It is left cov-
ered until it is entirely cold, and again
fused in porous crucibles. The blue mass
is then pulverized, well leached, and
washed.

The principal modifications of this
method are the use of kaolin, of glauber
salt, of sulphide of sodium, of alum, of
charcoal powder, etc. The product from
different manufactories, as exhibited at the
Paris Exhibition of 1867, was far from being
uniform. Some specimens of it were of a
much finer shade of color than others.
The simple crucible is now substituted by
a reverberatory furnace, aud the gigantic
scale of its manufacture is one of the won-
ders of the age. "

Graham on Hydrogen. — Prof. Giaham,
in his experiments on the occlusion of hy-
drogen by palladium and other metals, em-
ployed, besides the metallic cylinders of
which we have before spoken, wire made of
the same metals. This wtas, at least, the
case in reference to palladium. The de-
crease of density in the cylinders which
took plact when they were charged, could
not be easily measured. But a wire of the
same was so markedly increased in length
when charged, that the change was easily
measured; and the density of the metal hy-
drogenium thencefrom calculated. The
wire was stretched over a finely graduated
surface and loaded with a moderate weight.
It was then charged with hydrogen by
making it the negative electrode of a small
Bunseu's battery. The positive electrode
was a thick platinum wire, placed by the
side of the palladium wire, within a tall
jar of dilute sulphuric acid. An exposure
of an hour and a half charged it so that no
farther addition to the amount afterwards
took place. This was, in volume, 930
times that of the palladium. The increase
in length, of the wire, — which was at the
commencement nearly twenty-four inches
long, — was about y6 inch. The density of
hydrogeuium was Liy thismeans found to be
1.708; aud several experiments gave nearly
similar results.

Secondary Batteries.— The Journal of
vie Franklin Institute condenses as follows
such portion of a recent article by M.
''■ :"" Plante, as is necessary to deiiuo
what secondary hat..

" If two leaden plates, plunged into di-
luted snlphu ic and, are mode terminals of
a small galvanic buttery, the odb connected
with the negative p ile will have its surface
rendered perfectly clean and metallic by
the reducing [action of the hydrogen there
liberated, while the oppo i'te plate, con-
nected with the positive pole, will on the
other hand be rapidly per-oxidized by the
nascent oxygen set fi-eo at that point. If,
then, tho buttery being disconnected, these
two plates are put inlo communication,
they will be in condition to develop a gal-
vanic current opposite in its direction to
that which was before passed through them
by the battery. Thus the clean plate or
former negative pole will tend to oxidize,
decomposing the water of the pile and lib-
erating hydrogen, while the per-oxidized
plate will tend to absorb this hydrogenaud
suffer reduction. These actions are pre-
cisely such as are needed to produce a gal-
vanic current, which experience proves to
be of very intense character though short
duration. Availing ourselves of this fact,
it becomes possible to construct what, from
its practical result, may be called a con-
denser for dynamic electricity; thus we may
employ a small battery, during a notable
time, to bring a number of connected lead
plates into the condition above described,
and then use for a few moments the intense
current they are able to generate, thus ob-
taining a concentratsd and intense momen-
tary effect from a feeble but continued sup-
ply of force; not, as iu the Leyden jar or
other condenser of statical electricity, by
an actual accumulation and storing up of
the feeble force, but by the indirect method
and through the intervention of the chem-
ical reactions above described."

M. Plante used gutta percha troughs,
each containing twenty plates of lead ten
inches square, the odd numbers united by
a copper strip at one end, and the even
ones at the other; the trough being filled
with a mixture of ten parts of water to one
of sulphuric acid. Two such batteries
could be so charged in a few minutes by
three small Bunsen cells as to be capable
of burning up a steel needle four inches
long; and by placing each pair of plates in
a separate trough, such intensity was se-
cured that a steel wire six feet long could
be instantly fused.

Photography and Fusil Oil. —The
Photographic News speculates upon the
light thrown by Prof. Tyndall's recent ex-
periments upon certain phenomena in pho-
tography which have not heretofore been
fully understood. The Professor says that
actinic light decomposes the vapor of ni-
trate of amyl. -Now fusil oil is the hydrated
oxide of amyl. " Fusil oil is known to be
a common impurity in ordinary alcohol,
and its presence in collodion has long been
regarded as conducive to fog, without any
knowledge of the reason, why. When
fusil oil in collodion comes in coutactwith
nitric acid, either free in the bath or liber-
ated by action of free iodine iu the collo-
dion, a trace of nitrate of amyl may be
formed, and this body, being present in the
film when exposed to the action of light,
and possibly decomposed, would, under
some circumstances, yield as a product va-
lerianic acid; or possibly intermediate
bodies, analogous to acetone or aldehyde,
might be formed, with a tendency to pro-
duce fog."

The Bursting op Water Bottles in
Cold Weather. — When a bottle of water
is frozen the bottle is usually burst. Hith-
erto this has been explained by the asser-
tion that the water, on solidifying, sud-
denly expands. Mr. Barthelemy, one of
the professors in the Lyceum of Pau, de-
nies this explanation. In a memoir which
he has written on the crystallization of
water, he alleges that bursting of the bottle
is caused by the disengagement of a large
quantity of gas — hitherto in solution — by
tne water at the moment of its solidifica-
tion. It is alleged, in support of this,
that if a bottle of water be placed outside
a window in frosty weather, it will be ob-
served that the rupture takes place at the
hottest side, viz., that next tlie window.
Scientific Opinion.

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

New Patents Issued to Pacific Coast
Inventors.

Especially reported by the U. S. Patent Office, "Washing-
ton, D. C, to Dewey & Co., American and Foreign
Patent Solicitors, and Publishers of the
Mining and Scientific Phkss.

Fob the Week Ending Maboh 30.

88,267. — Machine for Fitting Felloes
to Wheels. — Frederick H. Brinkkotter,
Callahan's Banch, Cal.:
I claim, 1. The bands B B, secured to-
gether on each end of the hub A, for re-
taining the clamping-frame, substantially
as and for the purpose described.

2. The clamping-frame, consisting of the
block C, having the longitudinal openings
d d d' and cap D, together with the block
G, yoke F, and screw E, the -whole arranged
substantially as above described.

3. The clamp K, with its arms / /,
spring h, and rack i, for securing the
spokes, substantially as herein described.

This device consists, first, in securing to
the hub of the -wheels on each side of the
spokes a circular band or ring, to which
the mechanism for fitting the felloes may
be~attached; and secondly, in an apparatus
for forcing the felloes to the proper posi-
tion, and retaining the spokes where de-
sired, so that the felloes can be marked
previous to having the mortise bored, and
also to correct any irregularity in the lei-
loes after it has been mortised and fitted to
spokes. This apparatus may be placed op-
posite to any spoke in the wheel by merely
changing its position in the rings or bands
around the hub, so that the felloe may be
operated upon at any point necessary on
its circumference or rim.
88,277.— Dumping Wagon.— John Craig,

San Francisco, Cal. :

I claim, 1. The two longitudinal boards
C C, hinged to the reaches, and swinging
vertically to the center, for depositing the
load beneath the wagon, substantially as
described.

2. The longitudinal rods E E, angular
'metal plates b b, cranks e e, slotted bars F
F, and staple I, the whole arranged sub-
stantially as and for the purpose described.

The object of this invention is to provide
an improved dump wagon for the purpose
of quickly unloading the dirt or other sub-
stance or material which it may contain,
and it consists in arranging the floor or
bottom of the wagon on hinges, so that by
removing the supports it will turn and de-
posit the contents of the wagon beneath it.
The supports are operated by levers in
front of the -wagon, and by simply disen-
gaging these levers, which can be done by
the teamster without dismounting from
the wagon, the supporters are relieved so
as to allow the floor to turn.
88,280. — Gang Plow. — Artemas Davidson,

San Leandro, Cal. (Antedated March

20, 1869 ) :

I claim, 1. In combination with the arms
D D' and axes a a', on the bar C, the
clutch, consisting of the jaws F and G, on
the wheel and axle, respectively, substan-
tially as and for the purpose described.

2. The pin, or arm H, and the spring M,
with the lever E, or equivalent device, for
engaging and disengaging the clutch, sub-
stantially as described.

3. The rack J, constructed with the lip
K, together with the holding-projection L,
on the lever E, for retaining the jaws F
and G in contact until the plows are raised,
substantially as described.

4. The slotted arm D, with its set-serew3
c c, to raise and lower the axle a, and adjust
the plows, substantially as and forthe pur-
pose herein described.

This invention relates to an improvement
in gang-plows, whereby the labor of rais-
ing the plows and lowering them into the
ground is performed by the horses, instead
"f by hand in the usual way, thus reliev-
ing the driver of the necessity 04 lifting
the weight of two 01 more plows when he
wishes to raise or lower them. This is
accomplished by means of a coupling, one
section of which is fixed to the axle and
the other attached to the hub of tbewheel.
The fixed section is so arranged as to be
moved upon the axle from side to side by
means of a lever, which will cause them to
engage and thus turn the axle and raise the
plows.

83,298. — Device fob Securing Bed-
Olothes. — George Inwood, San Fran-
cisco, Cal.:

I claim the clamping-bar D, when held
and operated by rods b, sliding in or upon
flie fixed rail or rails of the bedstead, and
secured at the proper point by the set-

screws e, substantially as and for the pur-
pose herein set forth.

This device consists in an improved
method of confining bed clothes so that
they may not be thrown off while the occu-
pant of the bed is asleep, and is especially
serviceable on cribs and children's beds,
or for invalids. It consists in simply placing
an additional adjustable rail above the per-
manent bed rail and so arranging it that the
bed clothes may be drawn under it, after
which it is bound so as to hold them firmly,
and is fixed by set screws or other device.
88,300.— Flea Powder.— Charles E. Jay-
cox, San Francisco, Cal. :

I claim the above ingredients enumer-
ated, mixed and compounded in the man-
ner and in about the proportions specified,
substantially as and for the purpose herein
described.

This invention provides an improved flea
or insect powder which is unusually effect-
ive without disagreeable results, as it does
not stain or injure any fabric. It is effect-
ive for a long time when used in the ordi-
nary manner, and possesses an additional
value from the fact that it can be used in
washing so that the clothing will be thor-
oughly impregnated, and the wearer will
thus be rendered, as it were, flea proof.
88,324. — Aerial Car. — William Morrow,

San Francisco, Cal. :

I claim the combination and arrangement
of the supply-pipes E, blowers B, and dis-
charge-pipes F, substantially as and for the
purpose forth.

This invention relates to a new mode of
propelling aerial vessels, and it consists in
providing the machine with two large fans
or blowers which are driven by a light en-
gine. The sides of the cases which are or-
dinarily left open, are closed in these blow-
ers, and are connected by pipes with the
front of the vessel, so that the air is drawn
in through these pipes. Similar pipes
serve for the ejection of the air at the stern
of the vessel, so that it is propelled both by
drawing in the air and by forcing it out.
The steering apparatus may be so arranged
as to elevate or depress the machine, as well
as to turn it to either side.
88,368.— Spading Machine.— Francis C.

Cone, San Francisco, Cal.

I claim, 1. The above-described ma-
chine-spade^ when provided with an ad-
justable arm, E, and a cutting-edge, F, pro-
jecting in front of the blade G, substan-
tially as set forth.

2. The revolving flanges B, having the
tangential slots D, for determining the
angle of the spades, substantially as herein
described.

3. The notches, or shoulders a a in the
sides of the slots D, for holdimr the spades,
substantially as herein described.

This device consists in a series of flanges
turning loosely on a bearing shaft, and
each having a number of arms extending
outward from its periphery. At the end of
each arm is a spade or knife extending
across at right angles to the travel of the
machine. These spades are placed at such
an angle as to enter the ground vertically
as the flanges revolve, and the arms are so
placed in and attached to the flanges, that
the depth to which the spade enters the
ground may be varied, the distances between
their edges always remaining equal to the
distance from the edge of the flange how-
ever it may be varied. The arm is so
formed as to give a peculiar cutting edge
which is extremely effective in breaking up
the turf and clods. The body of the ma-
chine is also arranged that the angle at
which it stands with reference to the earth
may be varied. Weights may also be used
to increase the affectiveness of the spades.
This machine is intended for very rapid
work, and was exhibited with a degree of
success, by the inventor, at the Santa Clara
County Fair, last fall.
88,384. — Acoustic Stage. — Troutman

Grob, San Francisco, Cal.

I claim, 1. The above described floor,
consisting of radiating timbers B B, diag-
onal timbers C C and D, and boards d d,
when constructed substantially in the man-
ner and for the purposes set forth.

2. In combination with the above
claimed floor, the posts a a, blocks c e, in-
tervening glasses b b, and the sounding-
post E, arranged to support said floor, sub-
stantially as described.

This stage is intended principally for or-
chestras, to strengthen the tone of instru-

ments used upon it, giving a facility for
small orchestras to produce loud and har-
monious music, It is calculated to give
every instrument its full power and sweet-
ness of tone. The stage is built as nearly
as possible in accordance with the princi-
ples of the sounding board of stringed in-
struments, and is arranged to accord with
the nature of the instruments by placing
each one on the particular part of the stage
suited to its tone or gamut, so that the vi-
brations of the instrument will be taken up
by the stage and given to the audience in a
full clear tone. The stage stands elevated
an inch or two above the floor, upon blocks
of wood which rest on blocks of flint glass.
The floor of the stage rests upon wooden
rails which pass diagonally across the top
(being nearer together at one end than the
other) under which are placed braces at one
corner and the center passing across at
right angles to them. Passing downward
to the floor from the middle of the center
brace is a sounding post which is some two
or three inches longer than the supporting
posts on the sides, causing the center of the
stage to be higher than any other part. The
floor of the stage is made of thin strips of
dry spruce or other suitable wood, which
are placed across the top of the stage diago-
nal to the wooden rails directly beneath
them.

88,404. BOTTLE-CORKING APPARATUS.

Giacomo Migliavacca, Napa, Cal. (An-
tedated March 19, 1869.)
I claim, 1. The vertically-moving block
C, with the inclined operating-gauge b, and
the parallel retaining-bars c c', the whole
constructed and arranged substantially as
herein described.

2. The block D, with its tapering pas-
sage e, with the plunger E, the bent arm
<7, and the hand-lever F, substantially as
and for the purpose described.

This machine consists of base having an
upright standard attached to it near one
end ; upon this standard at a convenient
height is attached a semi-circular block
having a tapering hole through it, suffi-
ciently large to admit a cork. A block of
wood or metal is placed under the semi-cir-
cular block at the foot of the standard upon
which the bottle to be corked is placed,
when the block is moved up by a bar which
moves back and forth in a slot in the base,
and which has in its upper side an inclined
plane. By moving this sliding bar towards
the block, the bottle is raised up until its
mouth strikes the block directly under the
hole in the semi-circular block, when the
cork, which has been placed in the hole in
the semi-circular block is forced down and
compressed into the neck of the bottle by
a cone shaped pin, attached to the lower
end of a bent arm, which is operated by a
lever at the back of the upright standard.
88,460. — Machine for Cutting Screws. —
John Dougherty, San Francisco, Cal.
I clarim, 1. Arranging together, a screw-
threading machine, in the manner des-
cribed, the feed-screw P, carriage D, worm-
wheel H, and worm-chuck G, each being
constructed as shown and described.

2. The arrangement, on the two rotat-
ing shafts, of the loose gears X V, fast
gears W, and head-stock S, as and for the
purpose specified.

88,329. — Grape-Crusheb and Stem-Sepa-
rator.— Turner C. Purington, Lincoln,
Cal.:

I claim, 1. The half-oval crusher C, at-
tached to the shaft D by the arms E E,
and imparting to it a reciprocating, or to-
and-fro movement, whereby the grapes are
deprived of their stems, and crushed be-
neath upon the grated bottom of the ma-
chine, substantially as described.

2. The combination and arransement of
the grated bottom B B B' B', with the
crusher C, substantially as and for the pur-
pose specified.

The complete report upon the Precious
Metals at the Paris Exposition has been
issued from the government printing office,
and received by us from the Commissioner
for California, W. P. Blake. It makes an
exceedingly valuable book of 360 pages
octavo.

New Inventions.

A Washington Invention. — Among the
patents issued on the 24th inst. was one to
I. A. Heald, the leader of the Washington
brass band, for a machine for the manufac-
ture of cigars. Mr. Heald had devoted a
great portion of his time forthe past ten or
twelve years to the study of this matter,
and has at last perfected a machine which
will turn out from 1,500 to 2,000 cigars
daily, and requires but a child to attend it.
When we consider that there are 40., 000
cigai'3 smoked daily in the citj of New
York alone, the value of this labor-saviug
machine will be readily appreciated.
Washington Chronicle.

Having seen the above machine in the
process of manufacture, we must say it is
one of the most ingenious inventions we
have ever seen. Mr. Heald is an indomi-
able mechanic and inventor, and worthy of
marked success.

Important Invention for Boot and
Shoe Manufacturers. — Evan T. Rogers,
of San Francisco, has invented a new sys-
tem for marking counters and straps, and
for all ornamental marking, for machine or
hand-sewing, whereby he does away with
patterns, rules and lines. By his method the
impressions are made with one or two blon s
of a hammer or some other hard substance
of the desired shape. There is a pad made
of india rubber or soft spongy leather to
prevent danger of injuring the leather by
hammering the marker. He also makes a
channel for the stick to drop in, so that the
friction of wear cannot rub the face of the
stitehes; which makes his method valuable
in the use of light tension on the machine,
doing away with all contention between
marker and operator, as the lines are all
perfect. One man can perform more work
than three by the old method — says Mr.
Rogers. Mr. Rogers sailed for theEa=t by
the last steamer, with the intention of in-
troducing his patent there. Boot and shoe
manufacturers on this coast desiring infor-
mation in relation to the patent, can pro-
cure the same by addressing John F.
Bugbee, pier 12 % Stewart street, San
Francisco.

New Quartz Sceenes. — The Nevada Ga-
zette alludes as follows to a new description
of quartz mill serenes, which are now being
introduced into the mills about Grass Val-
ley : "The holes, though very fine, are
about half an inch in length, and cut in
such a manner that there is a space of
about one-sixteenth of an inch between
them. There is thus no danger of the iron
between the holes breaking out, as is some-
times the case with the ordinary screen,
while the new style has full as much open-
ing for the pulverized quartz to pass
through. They are cheaper than the kind
in ordinary use — as the labor of punching
is less — and we think they will be found an
improvement. In any event, they are
worth a trial."

New Commissioner of Patents. — S. S.
Fisher, of Ohio, has been appointed by the
President as Commissioner of Patents, to
supersede the Hon. Elisba Foote, the pres-
ent incumbent. The Senate will have to
approve of the appointment before it can
take effect.

The "Eureka Hair" Factory at Dutch
Flat. — Mr. N. W. Blauchard, the super-
intendant of this establishment, has been
in San Francisco lately, making arrange-
ments for some new macinery, etc., the
building, and all on the ground, having been
burned down some time ago. Eureka hair
is the interior of the California soap plant,
or amala, with which all prospectors are
familiar. It is gathered by the hands of
Chinamen, packed down hill as may be
most convenient, — picked, cleansed and
kinked, so as to give a spring to it. Much
ingenuity, on the part of the originator, (a
young upholsterer,) and some very merito-
rious manufacturing enterprise, deserving
of a first class medal at least, have been
shown in the inauguration of this business
in the foothills. The Eureka hair is said
to be the best substitute for curled hair in
the market, and it is sold for one-fourth
the price of the latter. Last year the com-
pany worked up 300 tons of the materia],
employing constantly 20 to 30 men. The
amala grows plentifully on the plains, and
up to an elevation of 4,000 to 5,000 feet,
Dutch Flat being 3,500 feet up. The new
factory is 70x140 feet, in dimensions, V/%
story high, and it will be in operation in
two weeks.

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Weekly Stock Circular.

By Allocated Brokers of IhtS P. Stock tnd Exchange Boatd
But Pbwouoo, April 17. I860.

Flninicliil.

Our loctl money market la vrv stringent; more so
than at any period for jraam. Some of our Sir.
L-Aiih butUaUona have oeuad loaning uu am
having onl; funda enough on hand to meet the possible
demand* "f depoaltora, showing a healthful condition of
affair*. For dome time past their spare balances have
b«-n nn.lily talon at 1U per cent, per month. ImU--
peodfnt f>f l'M'«l t-auN'-H this mnrkit has been constder-
ably Influenced bj thi- extreme pressure at the East,
Gold haw been hi men unusual demand then that Cali-
fornia fnnda have bwn retained in New York, and, In
many oa.Hr-«. duplicated ami triplicated remittances nude
to that eityJ^Our reflneries axe hard at work to supply
the Brtint'h Mint, which la kept going to the full extent
of Uu bullion offered for coining. Our quotations are
• < followi; Bullion in in fair supply, gold barn ranging
from 890MfrD00; silver bars remain steady from par to 1 ';i
per cent, premium; currency bills on Atlantic cities pay
■.av-"1 \ per cent, premium on gold; coin drafts 1 per
cent, premium. There is nothing doing in telegraphic
transfers, which are quntuble at H1^ per cent premium;
sterling exchange, 18S(d; commercial exchange, 491**;
Mexican tlolhir*, fiVfaJ" 4 percent, premium; gold in
Now York, April 16th, 132%; legal tenders with us. 70!-j,
®7T.

Wo arc called upon, in this issue, to chronicle the most
ilihlr- BSing and disastrous mining event which has ever
occurred on this coast. On the morning of April 7th a
destructive fire broke out in the Yellow Jacket mine,
Gold Hill, Nevada, and quickly communicated itself to
tin Kentuck and frown Point mines, the three having
subterranean communications with each other. At the
pnsont writing the conflagration still continues, but tho
apertures have all been closed and powerful jets of steam
arc steadily forced down the shafts to extinguish the
flames. Thirty-seven persons are known to have per-
ished in the mines. Nearly all the bodies have been re-
covered by the extraordinary efforts of as gallant and
noble-hearted men as live. It is, of course, impossible
now to determine the amount of injury done to these
mines, which have heretofore furnished a regular month-
ly supply of above $250,000 worth of bullion ; but we
have no doubt it is very great. The heat was intense,
destroying the heavy timber work, calcining the rocks,
rendering it loose and friable, and causing them to cave
in many places. Wc do not feel at liberty to make any
estimates or indulge in any guesses which must neces-
sarily be vague and unreliable, but there is no doubt a
vast amount of pecuniary damage must have been suff-
ered. Wc learn that it has been determined to keep the
mines closed until Monday, the 19th instant. Much cau-
tion should be used in making explorations after they
are opened, and sufficient time should be given for com-
plete ventilation beiore persons are Gent down to en-
counter the deadly mephitic gases, especially in the lower

levels.

City Stocks.

During the past week we note sales of Spring Valley
Water stock at SCO 50; Omnibus Railroad at S74, and
Front Street, Mission and Ocean Railroad (preferred) at
$20 per share. The Omnibus Railroad Co. disbursed a
dividend of % per cent, on the 15th inst. The last pre-
vious dividend was paid in October, 1868. The usual
quarterly dividend of the California Insurance Co. ($6
per share) for the first three months of the current year,
is now payable. The Directors of the company publish
the following notice to stockholders: "A special meeting
of the stockholders of tho California Insurance Company
will be holden at the office of the company, on Wednes-
day, May 12, 1869, at the hour of 2 o'clock p. M. The ob-
ject of said meeting is to increase the capital stock of the
company from $2(10,000 to $300,000 in United States gold
coin." On the 15th instant the Fireman's Fund Insur-
ance Company disbursed a dividend of 1 per cent., or $3
per share, for the first quarter of the present year. The
California Steam Navigation announce a dividend of 1 per
cent, for the past mouth, payable on and after the 15th.

Tho Bank of California paid its usual monthly dividend
of 1 per cent., amounting to $50,000, on the 15th inst.

At the semi-annual meeting of the Sacramento Savings
Bank, held on the evening of the 13th inst., tho follow-
ing statement was rendered by the Secretary, compris-
ing the business of the institution from the date of its
organization, April 18, 1807, a period of two years:

Total amount of deposits received $1,92G.0RG 61

Total amount of dividends re-depoaited 43. M4 00

Total amount deposits repaid 8^5,148 55

Total amount due depositors 1,114.072 OS

Total amount of loans made 1,080.12!' 19

Total iDiountuf loans repaid.. 1-10.0U9 37

Total amount of loans outstanding 939,519 82

Total amount of interest received 93,635 82

Total amount of entrance lees received 4,372 00

Total amount in reserve fund 7,747 29

Total it mount of expenses, including office fix-
tures, books, stationery. Federal and other

tuxes, fuel, light, office rent and salaries 10,475 67

Total amount invested in I,', s. Bonds, which
have appreciated in value since tbey were pur-
chased, $2.90M 41,037 00

Total amount invested in building, lot and ma-
terials 11,708 IS

Cash on hand 162,547 48

Total number of depositors 2,180

Total number of borrowers 4*>2

M inii»^r Slia.ro Market.
The mining share market has been tolerably active
during the period under review, if we take into consid-
eration the stringency of our local money market, und
the present condition of the three Gold Hill mines Tel-
low Jacket, Kentuck and Crown Point — work having
been totally suspended in them 6ince the dreadful calam
ity by lire. As soon as practicable, however, efforts will
he made to ascertain the damage done in the lower drift:
when a more steady and definite market for the stocks of
those mineB may be looked for. Other portions of the
Comstoek lode show strong indications of paying bodies
of ore in their lower levels, imparting considerable
strength to a number of claims. Of White Pine stocks,
we note sales as follows during the past week: 75 shares
Mammoth, at $10 per share; 20 Chloride Consolidated, at
. $15; 50 Phoenix, at $2 50@3; 200 North American, Base

Range, si ■ i itone, at $9. With regard to

the bullion product of the White Pine region, the yews
Ol Ml. 10th, Boys: "From carefully reported statistics we

i the total production of silver of the
Pine mines, from Uu month of May. 1808, until
lb.- Iht of ,l;mmii ,1880, to b 1968,813 17, and from the
two mills si Shi rmontovm, from January 1st to April 1st
1 u 1 1 ■ , rod tfoon I Barker*! $397,039 U, making
a total of 11,965,836 31. Uoore a: Barker's mill only rim
one month, and wc have no returns from the two mills

at Hamilton. En ton months, tin n, the mines of Treas-
on Hill have produced the large sum of upward of one
million three hundred thousand dollars. This large sum,
fox a new district, is remarkable. What other district,

within the first year of its discovery, ever produced bo

much? Some few gudgeons, who did not find a million
In the wild-cat they bought, grumble at their loss, and
lay it to the district; and also, many papers, in their in-
ezoufiBble ignorance, nsk. Where is the bullion, if tho
mines are so rich ? 'The proof of the pudding," etc. is in
tin r< ports of tho facts and figures. No district but one
of Incomparable wealth could have furnished the amount
this did in the first year of its discovery, and under the
disadvantages of its situation. The report of the month
of March shows a constant increase In production. Sinco
January, we report $297,023 11, and could we add, which
we will in a few days, the results from the other mills,
we wtuld have an aggregate exceeding three hundred
thousand for tho three winter months, of which the
greatest amount would be from the last. The large ship-
ments of bullion now made, are proof of the productive-
ness of our mines, and fully answer tho interrogatories
Of the California press. Our district is sending off more
bullion than any other on tho Pacific coast, excepting
Virginia, and bids fair to surpass even that."

Ohoi.lah-Potosi — sold Within a rango of $182@177,
then at $187, and closed at $186. During the week end-
ing April 9th, 890 tons of ore were extracted, 320 tons
coming from tho Blue Wing stopc and 570 from the New
Tunnel. Within the pa6t week the New Tunnel yielded
a larger quantity and a better quality than was obtained
the previous week. On the 13th inst., the various faces
in the stopes had better ore and more of it, and in the
winze, forty feet below the track floor, a drift was run
northeast, and at the above date the entire face was in
fair ore. In the operations from tho new shaft the
ground through which they are working is reported to be
softer, and they have encountered clay, quartz, etc, but
no metal. The mills, bo far, show better returns than
the previous month.

Hale & Nohcboss — opened at $87, declined to $35, and
at tho close realized $90. On the 13th inst., they reached
the west wall with cross-cut No. 2, running through
fourteen feet of ore, and cross-cut No. 3 carried six feet
of ore. The quality of the ore in this cut is reported to
be good, the lowest assay showing $41 07 to the ton, and
the highest $104 18. In cross-cut No. 4 they are of the
opinion that they have reached the west wall, having
passed through six feet of ore. This drift is now in
heavy clay, which does not resemble their west wall, and
the drift will be continued further west to determine the
fact. They have commenced to raise up in cross-cut No.
2, and will have to raise and sink twenty-six feet to fin-
ish the connection of the winze from the fourth to the
fifth level at that point. The 175 level is said to look
well, and is yielding the usual quantity of ore.

Gould & Cubby — has been more freely dealt in, rising
to $130, falling to $109, and at the close selling at $112.
A telegram of the 14th instant states that assays from
material found in the north end of the shaft, at a depth
of about 1,166 feet, give respectively $50 32, $24 87, $32 30
and $35 43 per ton, showing an average of $35 73. The
whole bottom of the shaft is reported looking well.

Ophtb — declined from $34 50(§(31 50, and closed at $34.
On the 13th inst., the drift was in a distance of 177 feet,

showing no favorable change Imperial dropped from

$80 to $05, and at the close sold at $72. No change in
the drifts from the lower levels. .. .Savage sold quite
largely at a decline, receding from $71 50 to $G6 50, and
closing at $68 25.

Yellow Jacket — was quite active at $60 50@5G, clos-
ing at $59 Kentuck was rather inactive, selling at

$245@2(i0, and at the close obtaining $254 Cbown

Point was comparatively quiet at $5ft@51, closing at
$54 50. These three mines are still closed, on account
of the fire in the lower levels. Another attempt to ex-
plore the lower levels will be made next week. To date,
thirty-seven dead bodies of miners, who were at work at
the time the fire broke out, have been taken from these
mines.

We herewith present acondensed tabular statement rela-
tive to the product of bullion and dividends p. ml by the
various mines on the Comstoek Lode during the first three
iii-miii:-. of 18ii9, together with the assessments levied dur-
ing the same time.

Company.

Bullion
Product.

Dividends.

Assess-
ments.

$31,200

$ 98,130

18.N89
235,961

""47,019'
7. W0
17.71-1
«U,4ft5
123, 681)
201.088
1211,1109
72,170
4,839
5*4.817
33.026
48(1,11(19

Oaney

Empire Mill & Mining Co.

36,000

Gold Hill Q. M. AM. Co..

$40,0(10
29,000

61,000

'" ifis'.otio'

360,000

In 18K9

Ill 1HI»

InlSliT ,

$2,040,885
1,764,046
2,76ft,58l

2,291,883

$588,0110
310,000
850,0(10
00,000

$156,200
556.900

230 780

" Estimated.

The new " California Stock Exchange"
board has been fully organized, and the
Bank Exchange billiai'd room is being
fitted up for their use. The officers are S.
Heydenferdt, Presidont ; T. C. Sanborn,
Caller, and W. V. Wells, Secretary. All
the current mining stocks will be dealt in,
but it is understood that the specialities
will be the best known mining properties
of White Pine. There are 80 members.

Visitors in the city wishing spectacles, mathe-
matical or optical instruments, will rto well to call
at Muller's Emporium, 205 Montgomery street. *

MINING SHAKEHOLDEES' DIEE0T0ET.

[Compiled for every isauw, from advertisements In tho
Mim.m. Awn SciK.NTinc Prku and other San

r'raiiL-lsco .'uurn.ils. ;

lomprUlnn the Names "i Companies, District or County
of Location; Aiuonni ami <!.!!•■ oi Aasesnncnl; Date oi
Heeling; Da] ol Delinquent Bale; and Amount and Time
oi i*a> mem of Dividends.

OAT DAT

>K!.1M]UKNT. OF SALE

Alpha «'■ oi . Blare) eo„ Nov .dlv. $2.... Pay, Juno 19. "8 8

Ulninden. tit v idi, March 17. $-' .April 20— May 8

Acciden a!. While FIhp, March Si> 25c April ,'«i-M;n SO

Amadol (Jn.t dlv. ft) pet share ...Payable April 7. ISt-9

Baenn, Starry co., Nov.. dlv Payable tunc id. 1S68

Belcbi i , Storey co . Nov., .March is. Si... -April 17— May 3
Buiiiun, Siuvey on. Nev . March 8).... Payable Immediately

('hollar PMobI. dlv., $.'5 Payable Oct. IS, iRfi7

Crown Point, tlivuh nd, J7.5U Payable Sept. VI IRi>S

(Toncy, preferred Block;, dlv. IM per cent March in, 18W

Chen.k.-e Flat, Huttc an. .March I, $5 April A— April 2i)

Cordillern, Mcx , March 16, $1 April 20— May 1U»

Daniel We bat Or, Wlil'c Pine Annual Meeting May ll»"

Dauoy, Lyon co. Nov., .\Iurcli8, $2.5U April 12— May 1

Enterprise, Nevada to.. March 22, $1 April 22— Mav 8

Knihlrc U. A M . Nev.. dividend St). ...Payable Mav 16, 18fi7

Eureka, dlv, $10 Payable April G, 1869

El Tame, Sonora, Mitrch22. Site April 23— May 17

PoIaomSt .t Pt Pt R. R March 13, J5.. .April 13— April oO

Gould A Gurry, dlv . $7.W) Payable Mav 15, 18ii7

Hold llllig M AM-dividcnd. £7 M... Payable July 13, 1*8
Golden churl.. i, Idaho, dlv. $2.50. ..Payable March 20, 1869
Gulden Rule. Tuolumne CO, dlv, 50c ft nil... Pay Miril 7. '8''9

Glen wood, El Duradoeo Annual Meeting, April 30

Hale & NororoHS, dlv, SI2.5 Sept. lfi. I8'i7

Hope Gravel, Nevada co , April ti, $1 May lu— Mav 31

Imperial, storey co., Nev, dlv Payable June 20, 18Ti8

Julia. Storey co , Nev , Murch 19, $2,50 April 22— May '0

J u If ii. Storey co., Nev Special Meet.n.', April 2ti

Keniuck,dlv..$20 per shnre Payable Jan 10,1860

Lyon M .t M., El Dorado Co., Mar 6, $1. .April 12— April 20*

Mocking Bird, White Pine, April 15, 10c May 20- June 7

Mt. Tenabn, Lander co . Jun. 23, 75c April 2— April 27*

Maxwell. Amador co., Peb.9, $1 March I3-Aprll I

Morning Star, Alpine co , March 3, S3 April 5 — April 20

New Idrin Annual MccllhR April 26

North Star, dividend, 55, Payable Aug. 15, 1868

North Anier. Woo-1 P. Co., March 12, SI April U— May 1*

Occidental, dlv. $2 Payable March 2, I8fi9

Overman. Storey co. Nev., March 2u, $20... April 23-Mny 8

P.tcltlc Unassessable, dlv Payable June 18, 1868

Pacific, Coal. Contra Costa co., Mir. 20, St. .a p. 27— Mny 17"
Quail UUl, Calaveras co., April 2. $10 May 11— May 31

Siempre. Viva, Mex., April 15, $1 Mav 21— June 7"

South Virginia, "bite Pine ..Annual Meeting April 24

Santiago. Silver Oltv, dividend, S3 50...Pnyable Dee 19, 1868

Baud Spring -alt. dividend ?i. Payable .Ian ft. 18IS9

Star Creek. Nev., Peb, 26, $l.S0 March 29-Aprll 19»

Suvage, Virginia, Nev, dividend. $4. .Payable .March -i, 1869
Senator, Storey CO.. Nev., March 26, 50c... May I— May 28*

Silver Sprou1. Inyo co, March 2d. flue May '—May 28*

San Buenta Ven'ura Annua' Meeting April 19

Sierra Nevada, S'orey Co., March '5, *'( April I" — May 3

Sierra, Douglas,sco , Nov., March 25, $8*. ..April 28-May 14
Treasure Trove. Lander co., Feb. lfi. 20c..M'ch 21— April 12
Troy Ledge, White Pine, March 16, 15c. ...April 23— May'24*

Tiov Ledge. While line Annual Meeting, Apiil 19

While Pine Water, Lmdcr co.. April 14, $50 May 22- June 19

w illiamaniie, Whi'c Pine Annua! Meeting May lb*

Wiiliainanin:, White Pine, March 22, S' April 21— .lav 12

White Pine Smelting Co Annual Meeting April 20

Virginia C ns.. Storey co., April 14. $1.50.... May lO^Tune 5
Virginia &Q. II WaierCo.. Dividend, payable April 16, 1869

Virginia, No. 2 Annual Meeting, April 13

Yellow Jacket, dlv., $5 Payable March 15, 1869

Those marked with mi asterisk Clare advertised In this
ournal.

Latest Stock Prices Bid and Asked.

8. F. STOCK iHD KXCHANGE BOARD.

Friday Evening, April 16, 1869.

MISORLLANRODS STOCKS. Bill. An/,at.

United States Bunds, ft 2i)s, 18 55, '67, '68 $ 87 83

United States Bonds, ft 2Us, 1864 87$£ 8a y

United States Bonds. 5 20s, 1862 b9 90

Legal Tender Notes 76,'£ 77

CaTiloniia Stale Bonds, 7s, 1857... 95 —

San Francisco Bonds, 10s, ia^l par A int.

Sun Francisco City Bonds, 6s. laftu.... — —

San Francisco City anil County Bonds. 6s, 1858. 83 87^

San Francisco School Bonds, IDs, I8«n 100 —

San Francico School Koims, 10s, lHfil par & int.

San Francisco City and Co. Hcb'l B'cls, 7s, 1866. 90 9l

San Francisco Cltv and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1862 90 Ml

San Francisco City and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1804 90 91

San Francisco City and Co Bonds, 7u, 1865 90 91

San Francisco Cilv and Co. Judg. Bds. 7s, 1863. 90 91

San Franeisco City und Co. Judg. Bds, 7*, 1864. 90 91

Sacramento City Bonds 30 91

Sacramento County Bonds, 6s 70 91

Marysville Bonds, 10s 75 SO

Stockton City Bonds 65 —

Yuba County Bonds, 8s 80 85

Santa Clara County Bonds. 7s 76 77

Butte County Bonds, 10s, 1860 75 —

San Mateo County Bonds, 7s 76 80

Calilornia Steam Navigation Co 68 —

Spring Valley Water Co tio 66^

State Telegraph Co 26 —

GAS UOMPANtt-TS

San Francisco Ons Co 77 —

Sacramento Oas Co — 55

RAIL IIO ADS,

Sacramento Valiey Railroad — —

San Frai.cNco and Sun .lose Railroad — —

Omnibus Railroad TL% —

Central Kallrond 51} —

North Beach mid Mi.v.iou Railroad 74 75

Front Street, Mission and Ocean Railroad 11 12

banking institutions.

PaciflcBnnk 97.^ 100

The Bank of Calilornia 157 16u

People's Insurance Company 100 —

INSUKAfvCK COMPANIES.

FlrematM' Fund Insurance Co 98 100

Pacific Insunincc Co 126 127

Merchants' Muiual Marine Insurance Co 500 520

California Insurance Co 1300 I4im

Union Insurance Co 100 lul

Home Mutual Insurance Co 19JS 20

Occidental Insurance Co 85 90

MINIM; STOCKS— WASHOK DISTRICT.

Alpha 25 25>:

Baltimore American — —

Belcher 18 18,',{

Bullion, G. H 10 11

Crown Point 54^ 55

Cde(Va.) — —

Oonlldence. 31 34

Consolidated Virginia 7 9

Chollar-Potusi 185 136

Daney ,3>a *

Exchequer 13 15

Empire Mill find Mining Co 52 60

Hould & Curry HI 112

Cold Hill Quartz 32M —

Hale A Norcross 90 90j£

Imperial ■ Ti W&

Julia — ^

Justice and Independent — It)

Kentuck 251 255

Lady Bryan 13 13J£

American 37 38

Occidental 27 27'i

Ophir ** 34

Overman &2!tf B»

Segregated Belcher 3 8J-J

Sh vage "8 68J£

Sierra Nevada 50 64

Union — —

Untied Slate* — —

Yellow Jacket S8>a E»

Ml-CKI.LANKOUS MINING .'•TOCKS.

Amador (California) 285 29J

Aurora, White Pino — '5

Eureka, (California) — 240

Golden Chariot (Idaho) *'- *»

SilverCord (Idaho) 10 11

Unhleii Rule, California 10 —

Mohawk (Callt'ornlii) — —

Pocotillo, White Pine....: — —

San Francisco Market Kates,

TVhoIeanle Prlcei.

c., „. „ ... F.-.idav. April If, 18'

Flour, Extra, ^ bbl $5 25 4$5

<rn. M riil.pt limits 2 25 @2

"at--. rUiMlt,, 75 S

Beano, ,-■ molt..- ■ g nti @ 7

Poifliin's, ft loo ths 75 ®

Hay r* t"ii...... ]0 lW ^^

LiveOnk Wond,VcQrd 9 ou @io

Beef, extra, tiraased, nib 11 <a

Sheep, on foot 5 I,,, ^. •

nogs, on fro?, « >.:.;.::;.;; st5 I

Hogs, dressed, ft 11. ;."..". 9 @

GKOCKR1K0, KTC.

Suear. crushed, "ft lb _ «,

Do. China.. ]., S

CntTee. Cosia Itlca, -pm '.'..'..'.'.'.'.' is a

Do. Klo i-i. ^

Tea, Japan, 9 lb ..,..; 7^ S

Do nroen go a 1

Hnwahan tticc.ftlb — S

China Klce.tttt '.. 6 ffl

CoalOU,« gallon 4S %

can.ih-sfti; ;;; Jg g

Ranch Hurler, ft th 35 §

tathmUB Kuiter. tA |h 33 «.

Cheese. Calilornia, ft lb 15 @

Lam* ft :.::::::::::::. 15 @

Ham ,ui(l H.u-oii, ^n> u <*

Shoulders, ft lb 7 @

Retnll Price*.

Butter, California, fresh, ft lb /s ffl

do. pickled, $ lb 31) @

do. Oregon, 'f lb 20 @

do. New York, # lb 35 I

Cheese, « lb .„ ^0 a

Eggs, « dozen 45 @

Sar'1' P '" 16 ®

Mams and Hacon.WIb 2,') a

Cninherrie-, ft gallon 1 W g 1

Potatoes, pt th ,w A

Potatoes, Sweet, ft lb 3 ra

ToniiilncH.^ lb '" s ^

OmouB.ffift sa

Apples, fto.l,« lb . . . 4 |

l'cnrs. Table. W lb ft «

Plums, drled.-fe lb ...... 10 @

Peaches, dried, ft lb ]ij a

oranges, ft dozen 75 @

Lemi.us,^ dozen W @

Chickens, apiece _ a

Turkeys, pt lb ;.,., 25 @

Soap, Pale and CO 7 %

Soop, Castile, ft lb '. 21

® 12 %

San Francisco Metal Market.

PRICKS FOR INVOICES*

Jobbing prieen rule/mm ten tojtjiMm per cent, higher than th*
following quotation*.

Friday, April 16, 1859.
Iron-.— Duty: Pig. S9 per ton; Railroad, Otic ft 100 lbs; Bar
liaiHiC 'ft lb; Sheer, polished. So ft lb; common, l^@!^c
?J ft; Plate, l'ic ^ lb; Pfpe, l>ic ft lb; Galvanized, 2^c

Seoich and English Pig iron ^ton S <a*45 00

White Pig -ft ton 36 00 ® 37 00

Kenned Bar, had assortment ft lb — 03 a

Re lined Bar, good assortment, ftjb 04 a

Boiler, No. 1 to 4 — 043^®

Plate, No. 5 to 9 _ _^a _ 04«

Sheet, No. 10 to 13 — 04«a — 6

Sheet. No. 14 to 20 — (tfi a — SM

Sheet, No. 24 to 27 _ 05 @_ e2

COPPKR-Dutv: Sheathing, 3^c ft Ih; PlgnndBar,2>^c » lb

Sheathing, 59 !b a— 26

Sheathing, Yellow —20 a — 21

Sheathing, Old Yellow _ io a — 11

Bolts _ 21 a — 22

Composition Nails —21 a — 22

Tis Plates.— Duty: 25 <H cent, ad valorem.

Plates, Churcoal, IX, ft box 12 00 a

Plates, I C Charcoal... @ tl 00

Roofing Platen 10 00 a 10 50

BancaTm. Slabs, "ft lb a — 35

Ptkkl.— English Cast Steel, ^ tb @ — 15

Quicksilver.— fl ft —55 raj _ co

L«An.-PIB, ft lb - 7>£<a>- 8

^cet _it> ®

P'0e -II a

Bar _ 9 @„ 9«

Zino— Sheets, fttb • _ ]n>'a— II

Borax.— CaHfornia.ft lb —35 a — 38

Tax Rates.— The rate of city and county
taxes for San Francisco, for the coining
fiscal year, have been fixed by the Board of
Supervisors as follows : Eate of local tax
$2.11%, State tax 97 cents; total for State,
county and municipal, $3.08% on each $100
of assessed valuation. The rate of taxa-
tion for the past four years has been as fol-
lows, beginning "with 1865-6 : $3.12; $3.10;
$3.00; $3.05; coming year $3.08%. The
State tax has been decreased in that time
from $1.15 to 97 cents; while the city and
county tax has been increased from $1.97
to $2. 11%. A careful analysis of the ap-
portionments of the city tax' for the com-
ing and ensuing year, as given in the Bul-
letin, shows that the tendency is to an
increase of general expenses in a ratio
greater than the increase of property val-
ues. This fact, taken in connection with
the rapid increase in the value of real es-
tate, and of wealth generally, in this city,
makes a poor showiDg for the management
of our municipal affairs.

Fifty Pounds of Nitro-gxycebine. —
The Titusville (Pa.) Herald says that the
above quantity of this article was exploded
in a single blast at one of the oil wells re-
cently. The operation was a success.

The Inventor's and Manufacturer's
Guide. — This is another New York invent-
or's journal, which comes to us enlarged
and filled with interesting matter. It is
published by Saltiel & Co., No. 37 Park
Row. '

Lexington, April 3, 18G9.

Deak Sms : — The Letters Patent have just come to
hand. For the prompt and business-like manner wifh
which yon have put the matter through, please accept
my thanks. Geo. W. Teasdau.

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Mining Summary.

Tiik following Information is gleaned mo.itl.v from jour-
nals' published in the interior, in close proximity to the
mines mentioned.

CALIFORNIA.

ALPISE COtSTY.

From the Chronicle, April 3d :

The Pennsylvania. — The Pennsylva-
nia's have been drifting alongside of their
ledge, and have run in about 15 feet on
both sides of the tunnel. The ledge ap-
pears to be widening and becoming more
solid, and the ore is improving at every
step.

Miner, April 3d :

Globe. — The mail brings news of the
success of Mr. Winchester in procuring
means to prosecute the wort. Judge
Clark, Superintendent, took an average
sample of a feeder from the main lode, cut
some distance back in the tunnel, and pro-
cured an assay resulting in 826.46 per
ton. At the same time assays of ore se-
lected froin a tunnel went over §250 per
ton.

AK.SBOn COUNTY.

Ledger, April 10th :

The Casco Mine. — The new hoisting
works are now in operation. The new en-
gine is a most excellent one, and the other
machinery of the most substantial charac-
ter.

Eureka. — For March, the Eureka mine,
owned by the Amador Mining Co., at Sut-
ter Creek, cleaned up a little over §64,000.

Coney & Bigelow. — The new shaft is
now down nearly 50 feet, and the rock is
looking splendid. "Work is being vigor-
ously prosecuted.

Hinckley Mine. — "Work has been com-
menced again. Heretofore, some very rich
rock has been taken from this shaft.

CAtATEKAS COUNTY.

Clironicle, April 10th:

Bailroad Flat. — Since the sale of a half
interest in the Petticoat, the utmost energy
has been evinced in operations upon the
mine. The new shaft has been sunk to the
bottom of the old level, a distance of 100
ft., and will be continued to twice that.
Ore is being extracted, keepiug the mill
constantly employed .... Chapman, Hopper
& Co. at 30 ft. found water in such abund-
ance as to prevent rurther developments
without the aid of machinery. As the ore
taken from the prospect shaft paid §50 per
ton, they commenced at the water level and
are stoping out the entire lead to the sur-
face. They now have out 160 tons of rock.
It is the intention to erect machinery as
soon as the rock in sight is crushed. . . .
Sanderson, Gay & Co. are taking out ore
which prospects exceedingly well. Their
previous crushingyiekled at the rate of §57
per ton, unassorted. The lead is narrow,
but well defiued. . . .The Lewis Brothers, on
"Wet Gulch, have reached the water level
and been compelled to suspend operations
iu their shaft. They have commenced a
tunnel which will tap the vein at a depth
of 150 ft Gamble & Co. are urging op-
erations with cheering prospects. .. .The
Balmoral and Chemisette are dormant. . . .
Smart's mill will- commence crushing with-
in a few days.

Lower Bich Gulch. — The extensive
hoisting in process of erection upou the
Palomo mine, will be completed in about
six weeUs. Work is being pushed rapidly,
and by the time the machinery arrives the
buildings will be in readiness.

San Andreas correspondence of same:

Pioneer. — This company have 100 tons
of rock out which will yield from §10 to §20
per ton. Thorn & Co. contemplate putting
a 10-stamp mill on this mine to be run by
water power.

Whisky Slide ditto: Things are going
slowly here. Water is scarce; miners can
only work part of the time. Some are doing-
well, others only making a living. Mr.
Harper cleared §10 per day for the act-
ual labor done on his claim at Wet' Gnlch;
Jameson & Co., on Whisky Slide Gulch,
work two hours per day, and realize small
wages. The Soger Co., on Horse Power
Gulch, have been making an^average of $7
per day. The majority of the miners will
ground sluice asloug as the water holds out,
and not lose time iu cleaning up.

JjX DOBADO C3U.VTI.

Placerville democrat, April 10th :
Beservoik Hill.— We have mentioned
the sale of Judge Freyer's claim for §3,600.
On the 6th iust. a two third interest in the
same claim was sold to Slater «fc Hancock
for §4,200.

Georgetown. — A correspondent sends
us the following : Halls, Beebe & Co., of
Jones' Hill, five miles from Georgetown,
with a 5-stamp mill, in three weeks have
taken out over §5,000. The Eureka, owned
by Keefer & Co., will soon put up an

8-stamp mill. They have plenty of rock
that prospects well. A. T. Wilton, of Mt.
Gregory, picked up a piece the other day
worth about §100, free gold. Mines are
on the improve, with nattering prospects.
isyo cocxTir.

Los Angeles .News, April 3d :

Lone Pine. — The Union mine, at a
depth of 300 feet, has developed a lode 20
feet wide, of argentiferous galena, which
yields §160 of pure silver per ton. The
mill of Louis Wolfskill, of this city, which
is to have five stamps, will be in running
order by the 10th day of June, and have a
crushing capacity of 15 tons daily. The
Belcher mill is now crushing ore that yields
about §500 in silver every 24 hours.

In the Cerro Gordo mines proper there
are about 400 miners at work, all of whom
appear to be well pleased with their pros-
pects.

Mr. L. Laskie, of this city, who owns
1,000 feet in the San Bonita mine in Lone
Pine District, has permitted us to make the
following extract from a letter recently re-
ceived by him :

" Enclosed I send the silver that I got
out of twelve ounces of the San Bonita
rock. All the lodes that have had work
done on them since you left, improve as
they go down, so I think you had better
return as soon as you can. I had an assay
of the Queen City rock made by Mr. Elder;
it assayed §316 per ton, and is still getting
better."

Mr. L. exhibited to us a piece of silver
as large as a bullet, that came from twelve
ounces of rock taken from the San Bonita
lode, sixty feet from the surface, where the
lode shows a width of four feet, and proves
by assay to cod tain §2,140 to the ton. The
Queen City, a short distance from the
former, has a lode four feet three inches
wide.

KEKS COUNTY.

Havilah Courier, April 6th : The Mc-
Keadney mill is hammering away.... The
St John mine, at Sageland, owned by
Thomas Walker and others, is in blast
again. It pays as well as ever.

LOS AXGELES COUNTY.

News, April 3d :

Soledad. — By the arrival of stage from
Soledad, we were the recipient of some ore
from the new discovery of Dr. Columbo,
made about two or three weeks ago. This
ore is gold and extremely rich, the vein be-
ing about four feet wide, with well-defined
casings.

AIVADA CODXTT.

Transcript, April 8th:

Bich Strike. — An old miner yesterday
brought into town a specimen of quartz
weighing three pounds, containing about
§25 in fine gold. It was obtained from a
ledge in this township, the location of
which he refused to give.

Same of 9th:

Leek Creek.— A company of men are
washing away the site of the Old Eagle
sawmill on Deer Creek.

Same of 10th:

Little York.— The Little York, Hy-
draulic Mining Co. are taking out, after
every 10 days' run, from §3.000 to §4, OHO.
Last month they cleared a litt'e, over §10,-
000. At other places iu Little York town-
ship the miners are doing well.

Gazette, April 6th:

Hunt's Hill. — Tucker & Williams, are
doing a heavy hydraulic business, and also
the McLeod Co. adjoiuiug. The former
company employ 10 men, and the latter
six.

Quaker Hill. — Jacobs & Sargent are
running their extensive hydraulic claims
every day, haviug adopted the Monitor
pipes, and. are using 650 inches of water.
The claims are paying on an average §300
a day with 14 men.

Sale of Claims. — John C. Cookerly has
sold one-half of the claims on Woolsey
Canon, near Moore's Flat, to John Caldwell
for §3,250.

Same of 7th:

There is a good demand for laboring men
at §3 a day, gold coin. Good miners, who
understand drifting and working hydraulic
claims, can get steady work at Scott's Flat.
Quaker Hill, Hunt's Hill and Gougeye.
Fifty good men are wanted.

Same of 10th:

Bed Diamond — Oscar Maltman, who re-
cently examined the Bed Diamond claims,
states that the surface of the entire claims
will pay a good profit for hydraulic-
ing, and that all the ground within ten
feet of the bedrock will pay well for drift-
ing and milling. As soon as the surface is
worked off, the company will build a mill.
From a pan of gravel 10 ft. from the bed-
rock Mr. M. realized §3.75. Stranahan, on
Barrington Hill, near the above claims,
cleaned up last week, from eight days' run,
§1,300. The Stevens claims, on the oppo-

site side of the ridge, a-e being worked
worked with good results. The mining
prospects from Scott's Flat to the Cascades
are better than they have been befoie.

Grass Valley Union, April 4th:

Union Hill. — This mine is improving
daily in appearance, in the new shaft. The
clean up for last month was §6,000.

Same of 7th:

The Idaho. — The Idaho Mining Co. de-
clare dividends on the first Monday of each
month. For March the receipts in free
gold, not including any from sulphurets.
amounted to §30,428.35. For the month
the company declared a dividend of §15, 500
and carried over a surplus of $14,200.

Eureka. — Yesterday the mine made a
shipment of §23,000 worth of gold bars.
This was the result of two week's run, aud
is exclusive of gold contained in sulphurets.
Taking the free gold yi-ld and the sulphu-
rets gold together, the two weeks' run
shows about §30,000,

Same cf 9th:

Harterey. — This mine, on Wolfe Creek,
north of Allison Eanch, is being worked
by John Ford & Co. under a lease. We
yesterday sawanicelot of gold just cleaned
up. The value is about §3,000, the pro-
ceeds from 115 tons of rock.

William Penn. — This mine is now yield-
ing excellent rock — recent crushings hav-
ing paid as high as §60 per load.

Young Pines. — The Young Pines mine
joins the Wm. Penn. Very fine quartz has
been found on the croppings, and the com-
pany will commence taking out rock as
soon as the rains are over.

Grass Valley National, April 6th :

North Star. — We are informed by J. H.
Crossman, the Superintendent, that on
Thursday the company will commence put-
ting in their new 10-iuch pump.

Howard Hill. — The Lucky mine, on
Howard Hill, cleaned up yesterday §2,400,
the result of eight days run with 10 stamps.

Jone's Bar. — Fogarty & Co. have pur-
chased the 10-stamp mill of J. J. Collins,
of Brown's Hill, aud are moving it to Jones'
Bar. The cement, which prospects well,
lies in the bed of the river and is covered
with five feet of tailings. The pay streak
U from one to ten feet in thickness.

Black & Young have purchased one-half
of the celebrated Barbary mine, at Eureka.

Same of 8th:

Empire Co. — The Empire Cor started
work on Monday on the Bich Hill ledge,
1,500 ft. east of the present shaft of the Em-
pire. They are cleaning out the old tun-
nel, and intend to sink a shaft, put up a
pumping engine, and erect hoisting works.

1'Ll'MAS COUNTY.

Quincy National, April 3d :

Mill Creek. — The miners are all busy
at work, have plenty of wrater, aud are do-
ing well.

East Branch. — A gentleman informs us
that the miners in that vicinity are all busy
at work and have an abundance of water for
mining purposes, but have made no clean-
ups yet.

La Porte Union, April 3d : J. P. Denoon,
in the Bedding claims near the line of the
Gem Co's ground at Gibsonville, has struck
rich pay dirt. The Gem has not been
worked for several years, aud Denoon has
purchased the claims for §1,000.

A company was organized in this town a
few days since for the purpose of opening
a set of claims in Bald Mountain. This
compauy moans business. Work will be
commenced immediately.

SIKKRA COUNTY.

Downieville Messenger, April 3d : The
Fir Cap Co. last week struck rich pay.
Messrs. Alleman and Burgess exhibited 2S
ounces of gold taken from about five car
loads of gravel, bedrock, etc. The largest,
apiece of pure gold, weighed eight ounces.

SI'KITOU COUNTY.

Yreka Union, April 3d :

Brady & Co. — Brady & Smith have
struck a stratum of cement in their claims,
in the northwest suburb of Yreka, that is
just " lousy " with gold.

Large Nugget. — Bobert Pitt took from
his claim on Portuguese Flat, recently, a
nugget worth §300.

Lash & Co., of Humbug, commenced
this week to crush a lot of rock from the
Knapp ledge.

Cottonwood. — Frank Merritt and others
own a quartz ledge near Cottonwood, which
they are about to commence to prospect
again. The ledge is about three feet in
thickness, and gold can be seen with the
naked eye in quartz from any part of it.

SHASTA. COUNTY.

Courier, April 10th :

Fine Specimen. — Last Saturday, John
Wilson exhibited a piece of nold weighing
§75, found in his claim on Salt Creek.

Bich. — Blair & Banghart, after working
four days in their newly-discovered claim
on Brandy Creek, cleaned up twenty ounces
of gold.

SON MA COUNTY.

Petaluma Journal and Argus. April 8th :
Sonoma Mines. — The numerous claims
are being diligently prospected, but the re-
sult has not shown any well-defined ledge.
Some of the croppings show unmistakable
signs of silver, but we must see more de-
cided evidence before we pronounce the dis-
trict rich in precious metal.

Since writing the above we are informed
that the Buckeye, or Davis Co. have organ-
ized, have purchased mining tools, have
broken ground for a shaft and tunnel, and
intend pushing the work forward as rapidly
as possible. Nature has already sunk a
shaft to the depth of 100 feet. The ledge
is over 40 feet wide, and nearly exposed by
the action of the water. The casings on
the north side of the ledge can be distinctly
seen.

TUOLUMNE COUNTY.

The Golden Bule Co. have declared a
dividend of 50 cents per share, aggregating
§1.500. The ore has averaged from §5 to
§10 per ton, and yet the company have run
a tunnel 500 feet, erected a 15-stamp mill
at a cost of §22,000, and accumulated a
reserve fund of §13,000 in bank. New
hoisting works are now being erected, and
general repairs being made.

TRINITY COUNTY.

Journal, April 10th :

Sale of Mining Claim. — We are in-
formed that last week B. Murphy sold his
mining claim on Evan's Bar, to P Mc-
Grath, for the sum of §2,000.

Letter from "Pest House:" "McGil-
livray's ditch is full of water, night and
day, and every drop iu use. H. C. Wilt
says his claim will pay better than last
season, and then it was admitted to be the
best claim in this section. He has not
cleaned up yet. Below him, on the same
bar, Brown & Barber are opening a new
claim with fair prospects. The claim in
which I am at work (the Humbug) is on
Portuguese Flat. We have not done
enough work as yet, to know how our dig-
gings will pay. The Blow-hard claim, on
Gas Point, is all that it has been repre-
sented— a run of eleven days paying $600.
From what I hear there is not one claim in
the Bed Hill country but what is yielding
largely."

YUBA COUNTY.

Appeal, April 13th :

The Pennsylvania. — This company has
got its new 12-ineh pump in place, and ex-
pects to commence crushing to-morrow.
We are told that the mine now presents a
flattering aspect. The stamps were iu op-
eration eight days in the month of March,
and about §1,800 was the result.
COLORADO-

Central City Herald, March 31st :

Mill City. — The deepest shaft on the
Young America is in poor ore, but the
miners think the vein is improving in
character In the vicinity of the Young
America Mr. Cook has got a good lode
which he has named the Capital. The
crevice is three feet wide, and has a vein
of quartz sulphurets and galena nearly as
wide as the crevice. The galena is remark-
ably pure. Prof. Stewart has found it to
contain 40 per cent, of lead. Select speci-
mens assay as high as §700 per ton. . . .Mr.
Snyder has returned from the East He
kept two arastras running pretty constantly
last summer, on ore from the Culbro lode,
which yielded enough gold to pay all his
mining expenses of the past summer.

Trail Creek.— Judge Colvin, agent for
the Freeland Co., proposes to mine on the
Freeland lode, and will use stamps and
pans in treating the ore.

Hukell Gulch. — J. W. Thackaray,
agent of the Fairmount G. M. Co., is go-
ing to work. He will use arastras.

Denver News, March 31st : We saw at the
express office last evening a monster silver
button, boxed and prepared for shipment
to the East. Its 1-ngth and width was
about two feet by three, weight 535 pounds,
troy, and value in currency $10,200. Ifc
was from the works of the Brown S. M.
Co., the result of about 2J'2 weeks' run.

Georgetown Miner, March 25th : The
building for the crushing and dressing
works is being completed as rapidly as cir-
cumstances will permit. The machinery
is on the route here, and will probably ar-
rive by the time the building is ready.

Stewart has his amalgamating works in
operation, and plenty of ore on hand. Ha
is testing the same ore both by raw amal-
gamation and chloridizing.

We learn that several very fine lodes
have been recently discovered on Shermau
Mountain, below the Snowdrift.

A lot of Mendota ore is being taken to
Stewart's works for smelting.

The mineral vein in the Chit lode has
increased to six inches in width.
IDAHO.

Owyhee Avalanche April 3d :

Ida Ellmore. — This mill started up on

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Thursday. The mill has never been in as
good running condition, and the mine has ,
Dover looked bo well.

Silver City Tid-il 11V,- April 2d:

Walsb & Wabmkbh are making a Rood
rim hi Astir ore in Black's mill, at Flint.
The yield, aa we are informed, is over $200
per ton.

11. ■• (lolden Chariot mine, a short time
■ince, was giving evidence of improvement
in the 250 foot level. We now have the
aararance that it has more thau realized its
must extravagant indications, the ledge is
Dot only wider, but richer in the Bontb
drift than at any point yet explored. The
workmen in the Ida Ellmoro give similar
encouraging accounts of the prospects of
that mine.

Prof. A shimmer's recent report on the
Golden Chariot mine is published in the
same journal. The conclusion is as fol-
lows : "To conclude, therefore, I would
give it as my opinion, that this property
possesses great present and prospective
value. That there are in sight, and thor-
oughly developed, about 1,'200 tous of ore
between the first and second levels, which
it appears safe to assume will yield an aver-
age of $150 per ton, or 8180,000. That be-
tween the second and third levels, the vein
is developed on two sides, and partially on
tiie third, by the shafts and drifts, and that
so far as explored, there appears every in-
dieatiun that this portion of the mine will
furnish at least 4,000 tons of ore, the aver-
age value of which there is now no reason
to suppose will prove less than that taken
from above."

The Boise City Statesman says: There is
a scarcity of miners in Alturos County.
The Wide West and other good paying
mines are idle for want of men to take out
the quartz. The Monarch Co. have bought
the f'arnham mill. South Boise is exhibit-
ing some superior specimens in Boise City.

Salmon Riveu Mines. — Leesburg corres-
pondence of Montana Post: At the head of
Nappias Creek, Mulky, Henady & Co. have
a horse whim erected for hoisting gravel,
and are doing a good business. Next be-
low them Sanborn & Co. are drifting, hoist-
ing, preparing sluices, drains, etc. Dis-
covery (jo's ground immediately below,
which paid such handsome profits last year,
will be worked by the same company this
season. They have also two bars in other
localities, which they will continue to work.
It is a strong company and well managed.
Below are the famous Douglass claims,
which have paid well for two seasons and
have as good promise for the future. These
claims are near the mouth of Smith's Gulch.
Heatle's flume, some distance down the
creek, is ready for operation. Four miles
below Leesburg is Beers, Davis *fc Co's
flume — an extensive affair. The work was
done last winter, and the flume cost some
$25,000 or $30,000. It is now ready for
operation. All the indications are favor-
able.

MONTANA.

Helena Post, March 26th :

Silteb Stab. — We learn that there is
great excitement in regard to the quartz
prospects. The unprecedented success of
the Green-Campbell and Stevens &Trevitt's
mills, has aroused people. Every one own-
ing quartz instead of being anxious to sell,
experiences a desire to prospect, and devel-
opments are being made to a great extent.

Cave Gulch. — In this camp we learn
that drifting has been going on all winter
with very favorable results. Marshall's
ditch, which conducts water from Magpie
Gulch, will be open in about three weeks,
and mining will then commence for the
season in earnest

Deek Lodge. — Charles Hendrie and Dr.
Bay have commenced operations at Butte
City. They are building a smelter, crusher
and roaster, all of which they expect to
have running within thirty days. Among
other leads which they propose to work
upon is the Gem. The prospects for placer
mining on the Bntto the coming season are
flattering. It is expected there will be up-
wards of 500 men employed. In Gold
Creek some new diggings have been discov-
ered, which promise to be very rich....
Another rich and extensive discovery has
been made in the Gold Creek region, at the
head of Squaw Gulch. The pay ranges
from 20 to 4:0 feet in depth, and pays from
the grass roots down. Water will be used
to work this ground from the Bock Creek
ditch, and they will be mined by hy-
draulics.

Lincoln Gulch. — During the past
winter considerable work has been done at
the lower end. Prom present indications
it will yield abundantly. The extent of
pay ground is not large, but it is very rich.

Public Spibited. — Travis Bros., appre-
ciating the energy and untiring persever-
ance of Capt. Robert Parkinson in devel-
oping his- lode ac Unionville, in the face of

many obstacles, manifested that apprecia-
tion by presenting him with a handsome
carriage valued at §550, and they agree to
I to any man who during the present
year shall develop a lode to the same ex
tout as Mr. Parkinson has to tho present
time, a team worth $1,000.

VnaiiNiA Cm Items. — Prom the Demo-
mii we barn that sluicing has commenced
in Alder Gnlch. . . .At Nevada City the sea-
son is a month earlier than usual.... A
specimen of quartz from a new district
called Silver Belt, shows it to be very rich.
... .It is said that the Cork Co. will lease
the ditch from E. Creighton & Co. this
season. This ditch supplies water to Alder
Gulch.

NEVADA.
PAHRANAGAT.

Austin Swielle April 8th:

We learned yesterday from Mr. Frank
Clugage, who just returned from Pahrana-
got, that work was nearly stopped in that
district for want of hands. Two companies
were in want of miners, but they could not
obtain them, so great was the rush to
White Pine. Wages for miners was $6.50
in currency per day. On his way in Mr.
Clugage stopped at Grant and Troy dis-
tricts, where all was life and activity. Iu
the former there was a considerable body
of men at work in opening claims or pros-
pecting.

KEESE RIVER.

Austin Reveille April 3d:

Landeb Hill. — Several of the mines are
producing ore, both chloride and sulpbu-
rets, of unsurpassed excellence, and in con-
siderable quantities. Lane and Fuller has
developed a massive body of noble silver
ore of the sulphuret variety. A liberal
proportion of this ore will yield in the mill
from $500 to $600 per ton ; while the
second class, of which the tons already ex-
tracted will number hundreds, will give
from $150 to $200 per ton. In the works
of the Manhattan Co. fine ore ha3 been dis-
closed in mass at several points. The Flo-
rida is producing very valuable ore ; and
the ore in the Harding and Dickman is not
at all inferior to that produced in its earlier
days.

Same, of 6tli :

The Manhattan mill would have been
opened two weeks earlier but for the diffi-
culty of procuring experienced hands.
White Pine is the great maelstrom which
has drawn to its center the people of con-
tiguous and remote districts. This is a
fact, and a sufficient explanation of the
closing of works in Silver Bend.

Same, of 7th :

As announced, the Manhattan was re-
opened this morning with the thundering
chorus of its full battery of 20 stamps.
The sound is cheering. There is a large
supply of ore of a very high grade at the
mill.

Same, of 8th :

Butte Mountain. — Miners and prospect-
ors are busy. The Little Giant continues
to produce large quantities of superior ore.
The second-class of this, about three-fourths
of the whole, assays about $300 to the ton.
The Atchison mill, where the ore is re-
duced, saves only a moderate proportion of
the silver. There is no timber contiguous
to the mill, aud sage brush is the only fuel
used. On or in the vicinity of Long Ureek,
there are 15 other ledges which produce
excellent silver ore, some of which have
many tons waiting reduction.

Belmont Champion, April 3d :

Peobia Distbict. — A mining district,
situated northwest of Reveille district, has
been organized and called Peoria. The
result of seven assays of the ore is given,
the highest of which is $675, aud the low-
est $125 per ton.

Reveille. — A gentleman just in from
Reveille informs us that the prospects were
never so bright as at the present time.
The population of the district is increasing
daily, and the work of prospecting and
opening the mines is being prosecuted vig-
orously.

Silvee Peak. — We learn that, owing to
the scarcity of laborers, the mill of the Sil-
ver Peakand Red Mouutaiu Co. is able to
run but half the time.

WASHOE.

[ In the Stock Circular, in another por-
tion of this paper will be found late mining
news from this district. ]

The Gold Hill News, of April 10th, says
"All yesterday afternoon and last night
the shafts of the Yellow Jacket, Kentuck
and Crown Point have been closed tightly
as possible, to the exclusion of fresh air
from the surface ; and from the boilers of
the hoisting works of all three mines, a
strong volume of steam has continually
been pouring down each shaft. Through
the large blower tube of the Yellow Jacket
and Crown Point shafts the steam passes to

the lower levels of each miue, and down
the Kentuck it is forced nearly 100 feet,
through heavy iron pipes thrust down for
the purpose."

Flags at Hajj?-Mast. — The flags on the
various mining works and engine houses
throughout Gold Hill and Virginia have
been at half-mast ever since last Wednes-
day.

After the injection of steam as above
described had been kept up sufficiently
long to insure the complete extinguish-
ment of the fire, in the opinion of those best
capable of judging, the shafts were opened.
But it was found that the firo was yet burn-
ing ; and after the recovery of two more
bodies, the shafts were again closed. The
injection of steam was renewed, and is still
going on. The shafts will probably remain
closed during the remainder of the week.
The damage to the mines is believed to be,
upon the whole, not very great.

Virginia Enterprise, April 6th :

Occidental.— Yesterday (Monday) this
company struck into some very good ore
at the bottom of the winze they have been
sinking from their present lower level.
The winze is 140 feet deep, and the ore
was encountered 30 feet below the lower
level. It will probably work about $50,
though assays run as high as $150 and $200.
The Co. sent to Gold Hill for melting
and assay, about 350 pounds of crude bul-
lion, of the estimated value of $10,000.
We understand that the trustees of the Co.
have decided to declare no more dividends
at present. They are satisfied that their
lower tunnel will tap the lead much sooner
thau was anticipated, and, instead of giving
dividends, will retain the cash in the treas-
ury, for the purpose of building a large
mill at the mouth of the tunnel as soon as
the vein has been cut.

Nevada Mill.— A new engine is being
put up in the Nevada mill. The old one
was not of sufficient power to do the work
required.

Siekba Nevada. — The necessary repairs
to the boiler and other machinery of the
Sierra Nevada will have been completed,
and it will start up again this morniug,
about 9 o'clock. The Go. have on hand an
abundance of excellent ore.

Same, April 9th :

Dividend Recinded. — The Yellow Jacket
dividend of $5 per share, payable on the
14tb, has been recinded. It is doubtless
intended to use the surplus funds of the
Co. in re-timbering the mine, and repair-
ing the damages caused by the recent fire.

Same of 10th :

Gould & Cubby. — The Gould & Curry
Co. are finding some very fair quartz in the
bottom of their shaft. The pay occurs in
bunches, and the best ore assays nearly
$70. The indications are very favorable.

Bullion Shipment. — During the past
week Wells, Fargo & Co. have shipped
from their office, in this city, 7,180 pounds
of bullion, worth $193,538 71, and the Pa-
cific Union shipped 2,150 pounds, worth
$55,721 42, making the total shipment for
the week 9,330 pounds, worth $249,260 13.

WYOMING.

Sweetwater Mines, Feb. 24th: Work is
progressing on the Mary Ellen, Calhoun
and Gold Hunter ledges. The quartz from
all three prospects from $75 to $100 per ton.
... .P. Walsh informs us that his shaft on
the Morning Star ledge is down 30 ft. ex-
hibiting a 3-ft. crevice. .. .Lem. Colbath
had arrived at water level with his shaft,
and the St. Lawrence continued to hold its
richness and size. . . .Boj'd and Sickler are
busy at work on Cariso Hill, sinking a shaft
on the Young America extension. .. .Geo.
Dixon is diving into the Nelly Morgan
ledge as fast as powder and pick will carry
him ... An ounce per day is being taken
out of Rock Creek by the rocker process.
. . .The last run of the Miner's Delight

rock milled over $120 per ton Claims

are being prospected on Hermit Creek ....
A. company has been organized to develop

Willow Creek Fairfield and Smith have

just started their shaft on the Norfolk. . . .
Theall and Snider, on the Empire lode, are
now at the depth of 22 ft., and their ledge
is very rich .... A rich ledge was discov-
ered late in the winter, California district,
half a mile below Atlantic City, and called
the Golden Leaf. It assays — miners' pro-
cess, hand mortar and horn — $263 per ton,
a little over 13 cents per pound.... Mr.
Grace has taken out 500 tons of excellent
ore from the Reedell claim, Cariso ledge,
Robert's claim is being worked during the
winter. Work will be resumed on all the
Cariso claims in a short time.

Same of March 3d: Sage Miller and party
are constructing an arastra below the month
of Slate Creek on rock, for working ore
from the eastern end of the Cariboo. Peas
& Co. worked rock last summer from the
western end by the same process, which

paid $55 per ton ... Morris, Moliter &
Co. have driven their shaft of 22 ft. on the
Garden City . . The Miners' Delight rock
is turning out over $150 per ton. In four
days' run, $4,800 was taken ort'of the plates
alone. . . .Ramsey & Stark, of the Dnncan
ledge, have a shaft down 15 ft. with a 3 ft.
crevice. Chris. Smith on the Barbary, has
a shaft down about, the same depth.

MiNEEVA.— Erwiu & Co. have a shaft
down some 15 feet, and a crevice of 16
inches.

Same of 14th: We paid a visit to the Car-
iso ledge a few days since. On the dump
is to be seen between 600 and 700 tons of
the finest quality of ore, for easy milling,
to be found in this or any other country,
and of extraordinary richness. We were
permitted to carry away our pockets and
arms full of specimens, sticking full of
gold. On Reedell's claim the ledge has a
width of from 10 to 15 ft. along the drift.

Diamonds at the Cape of Good Hope.
Mr. H. Emanuel, a resident of the Cape,
has sent a suitable man to explore the re-
ported diamond region, — in order that he
might contradict or confirm the stories
which have been set afloat upon the sub-
ject. This person " failed to find anywhere
those geological and mineralogical signs
which havo hitherto been invariably seen
wherever diamonds have been found, and
nowhere does the formation of the country
warrant the inference that diamonds could
exist there. He is of opinion that no dia-
monds have nor ever will be found in the
Cape Colony — saving such as are there de-
posited for a purpose; and he fully believes
that all the reports that have been so indus-
triously circulated on this subject and
about gold fields owe their origin solely to
interested parties who aim at enhancing the
price of land and attracting a flow of immi-
gration."

Japanese Dentists. — Dr. Alexander M.
Vedder, for some time resident in Japan, in
the American Journal of Medical^Science for
January, says: ";The extraction of a tooth
is regarded by the Japanese as a capital
operation; and not without reason, if the
information given me be reliable, that death
(from tetanus, I presume) is not unfre-
quently the result. The tooth is extracted
by the operator's fingers, but not until it
has been well loosened by means of a stick
and a mallet vigorously wielded. The
operation is seldom performed; but I saw
some teeth in the possession of these char-
latans that had large portions of the alve-
olar process attached. In the face of these
facts it can scarcely be credited that artifi-
cial teeth, sustained by atmospheric pressure,
have been in use from time immemorial.
These teeth are carved out of sea-horse
ivory."

Something Mobe than a Toy. — Now that
the irrepressible Yankee has got hold of
the velocipede, he is not likely to let go of
it until he has perfected it. He will make
' ' something useful " out of it, for it has
"possibilities." The papers are full of
descriptions of new improvements upon it.
We see that a Detroit man has made one
which has been run a mile in two minutes
and a quarter, upon a common road. We
are quite prepared to learn that some genius
has leaped his four-wheeled machine upon
the rail track in front of an approaching
locomotive, and, with thumb to nose and
fiugers impudently gyrating, has bid defi-
ance to the engine driver, challenging him
to catch him if he can!

The Daeien Canal Business is still in a
muddle, although its friends continue to
think that it will come out all right, so far
as governmental negotiations are con-
cerned. In the meantime a resolution has
been offered in Congress to authorize the
President to appoint a commission " to ex-
amine into the practicability and best
method of establishing a ship canal at the
Isthmus of Darien."

The St. Louis Aetesian Well is now
down something over 3,000 feet, and still
going down at the rate of about three feet
a day. This rate of descent has been kept
up for over two years. We are not in-
formed as to the depth at which they expect
to find water. This well is being sunk at
the expense of the county.

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Saturday Morning, April 17, 1869

Notices to Correspondents.

S. P. — Anthelia is the naine given to the
phenomena you allude to, and, according
to Sir J. Emerson Tennent, is frequently
to be seen in Ceylon in great beauty at
early morning, when the light happens to
be intense and shadows consequently are
proportionably dark. On such occasions
when the sun is near the horizon, and the
shadow of a person walking is thrown on
the deim/ grass, each particle of dew fur-
nishes a double reflection ; one from its
concave and a second from its convex:
surface. From the se causes the spectator
perceives his figure, but more particu-
larly the head, surrounded by a halo as
vivid as though it were radiated from
diamonds. Scoresby has described a
similar occurrence as taking place in the
Arctic Seas, when fogs rest upon calm
water. Something similar has also been
witnessed in India in the Khasia Hills,
and by Vigue in Cashmere. Remond
mentions a still more striking phenom-
enon as being occasionally observed in
the Pyrenees, viz : that of the reflection
of the human body with a halo round it,
on the surface of a cloud, lyiDg level
with the spectator.

Interesting contributions for our cabinet
have been received from Dr. L. G. Yates,
of Alemada ; from W. P. Stewart, of San
Jose ; Henry Kohlong, of Napa, and J.
H. C. Bennett, of Santa Clara.

The Giant Powder is now undergoing a
pretty thorough practical trial in the quartz
mines at Grass Valley. The Union says it
has been employed over a month in the Em-
pire mine, where it is regarded with much
favor by the superintendent, Captain Lee,
and by the men who are using it. What-
ever doubts or prejudices existed, previous
to its introduction there, have now been
quite effectually dispelled, even to the seri-
ous question of injury to health from the
fumes of its explosion. The great saving
in its use is found in the fact that a three-
quarter inch hole, which can be drilled by
one man, when charged with this powder,
will do more execution than an inch and a
quarter hole, which must be drilled slower
and with two men, can do when charged
with ordinary powder. The North Star
mine and the Eureka mine have also com-
menced experimenting with this powder.
Mr. Watt, the superintendent of the latter
mine, is determined to give it a practical
trial, and become thoroughly convinced of
its merits or demerits. His opinion will
doubtless have much influence with miners
throughout the State.

Wooden Hams. — The Chinese made
wooden hams, covered with hogskiu and
smoked, five hundred years before a Yan-
kee was ever thought of.

San Francisco Manufacturing Notes.

A ride to the suburbs on any of the rail-
road routes of San Francisco, discloses un-
expectedly to the observer so great a num-
ber of new manufacturing establishments,
that it is beginning to be quite impossible
for even an old citizen to keep the trade of
tbem, otherwise than by devoting several
days or weeks especially to the business.
Many of these manufacturing processes are
of great interest and importance to the
State; all their doings are certainly of in-
terest to the capitalists and specialists who
thus occupy vacant fields, and derive splen-
did and permanently flowing profits from
them, or who in consequence of their own
miscalculations, lose. We shall refer to
some of the salient points, at random, as
our attention maybe directed to particular
establishments in our excursions. Manu-
facturing is especially active around Mis-
sion Bay. There are several score at least of
smoking chimneys or high walled manufac-
turing enclosures to be met with on a walk,
the object and detailed operations of which
reach the cognizance of the public only
over the tradesman's counter.

Another favorite locality is along the
roads or the water between North Beach
and Fort Point. The variety is too great
to admit of specification in classes. In
general it may be stated that aboat every-
thing can now be manufactured here to
profit, that is done in the Eastern States,
only that is under modified circumstances.
Very many of the establishments are small,
or temporary looking — of redwood boards —
but none the less promising on that ac-
count.

samttel's wood preserving establishment,
which has been noticed in the papers, is
one of those which does not appear to have
fairly commenced in its career of hoped-for
success, though there are large heaps of
Nichol>on pavement blocks that have been
treated by it, lying in the vicinity of the
works on Berry street, between Third and
Fourth. It has a collossal iron cylinder ex-
tending from the wharf's edge through a
small redwood engine building, to the load-
ing place for wagons in the rear; the dimen-
sions being seventy-four feet in length and
four feet in diameter, and a railroad track
running through its entire length for trucks
to carry in and out the timber to be treated.
A15-horse power engine first exhausts the
air, then forces the solution sulphate of
iron and lime out of the tanks into the cyl-
inder, to a pressure of 130 pouuds to the
square inch. This is kept up from three
to eight hours, according to the kind of
timber. One set of cars admits of curing
12,000 feet of lumber in twelve hours; two
sets nearly double the quantity. The
charges are about $8 per thousand feet, or
one-fourth the price of the wood. Piles
exposed to the attacks of borers, and wood
in general liable to rot, is preserved, ac-
cording to the representations, for fifty
years. Mr. Gray is the Superintendent.

ASPHALTUM DRAIN FIPE FACTORY.

Oil Berry street, between Second and
Third, there is a new drain pipe factory,
which has been started by Mr. Christian
Wise. This article is very superior for acid
and alkaline waters, lasting indefinitely, at
the same time that it is the cheapest in the
market except common clay pipe. It is
made of San Bernardino asphaltum, clay,
and lime saturated with the impurities of
coal gas, from the gas works. These are
ground fine, mixed in melted asphaltum,
and worked into pipe of 6, 8, and 12 inches
diameter, in upright molds of the kind in-
vented by Mr. Carlyle, of the Golden State
Iron Works; a revolving weight packing
the matter in firmly as it is fed, and a jet of
water from below cooling it off. The as-
phaltum used costs $16 a ton, and contains
about 20 per cent, of oil. Where there is
no great pressure or head of water, asphal-
tum pipe is excellent. It is used for sew-

ers and salt water drains especially, where
iron would corrode, and cement pipe would
soften.

A joint of pipe three feet in length, is
made in about five minutes. Mr. Bichard
Gaines, the foreman, has invented a new
machine, however, by the use of which the
same can be done in one minute; steam
pressure and suitable cylinders being the
agency employed,

A NEW CRUSHING! AND GRINDING MILL,

on a principle entirely original, is em-
ployed at this establishment, the invention
of Mr. John Doherty, a poor and decrepid
old shoemaker, who hit upon the idea while*
lying disabled upon his couch in the hospi-
tal. It is highly spoken of by the foreman
as performing successfully the functions
both of a crusher and grinder, and as pos-
sessing the merit of being remarkably
cheap, and requiring little power. It is
very simple. There is a stationary disk,
thick and indented on one side, and a re-
volving one, similarly indented so as to
open a space between it and the stationary
one. As the movable one revolves, this
opening gradually closes, and grinds up
the rock, reopening and closing in succes-
sion. Blocks of granite the size of a fist
were instantaneously reduced to powder.
The cost is §100 or less, while any other ma-
chine to do the work would cost the fac-
tory §400 or $500. An old coffee mill
grinder has been discarded as worthless.
Doherty thinks that his mill will do the
work of a 10-stamp quartz mill. It is esti-
mated to crush a ton an hour, and is in-
tended to work wet as well as dry.

IMPROVEMENTS AND DEVELOPMENTS,

along the newly piled and leveled water
front beyond Bincon Hill, are rife at every
hand. Pope & Talbot have opened a lum-
ber yard at the foot of Third street. The
Napa and the San Francisco Wood and
Fuel companies occupy wharves, and are
running steam cutting and splitting ma-
chinery, both doing an active and growing
business. Granite stone yards occupy
many vacant lots. The Pacific Linseed Oil
and Lead Works are finely ' ' fixed" for a
career of prosperity, the buildings being
substantial, of brick, and ample. The lin-
seed oil of the market is refined, and metal-
lic lead is transformed into carbonate or
white lead, by fumes of acetic and carbonic
acid. The gas works in this vicinity are
extensive, and very substantial and neatly
kept. The entire hill to the rear, of solid
rock, and about 200 feet in hight^is coming
down. The Oakland Ferry Slip and other
improvements in prospective, are biding
their time. Passing the Marine Hospital
we may note Beichling's Gold and Silver
Refinery. Brodie is here erecting a large
foundry, at the corner of Harrison street,
the building being a frame, and of red-
wood.

The Pacific Railroad Celebration. —
A special meeting of the Mechanic's Insti-
tute was held at the Institute rooms, ou
Saturday evening last, to take some initia-
tory measures to secure a proper celebra-
tion, in this city, of the opening of the
Pacific Railroad. After considering sev-
eral resolutions, and carefully canvassing
the whole matter, the following resolution,
offered by Gen. A. M. Winn, was finally
adopted :

Resolved, That the President and Board
of Directors are hereby requested to issue
circulars to every association in this city,
and to advertise the same in the daily
papers, requesting their attendance by del-
agates to a Convention, for the purpose of
taking measures to celebrate the opening
of the Pacific Railroad, and to fix the time
and place for the Convention.

The President and Board of Directors
were then selected by the meeting to attend
the proposed convention as delegates from
the Institute.

At a subsequent meeting of the Directors,
the President of the Institute was in-
structed to to communicate with the Mayor
and Board of Supervisors, of San Francisco,
asking that they extend invitations, in the
name of the city authorities, to such other
cities, towns, societies and organizations
as they might deem expedient, to join in
the celebration of the completion of the
Pacific Railroad, and to tender the free use
of the Pavilion for such purpose.

It is to be hoped that our citizens, and
the people generally, th -oughout the State,
will take hold of this matter in earnest, and
secure such a celcbrrtion as shall be fitting
to the completion of the greatest engineer-
ing enterprise ever undertaken in the his-
tory of the world.

On the second page will be found an
article of some importance to millmen, by
Charles H. Aaron, on the amalgamation of
silver ores without roasting. Mr. Aaron
depends on the proper use adapted to the
chemical ingredients of the ores, mainly of
the sulphates of iron and copper, and en-
deavors to Explain the chemical operation
under various circumstances, presenting at
the same time an ample array of facts, from
experience. The words "cuprie" and
1 f errie " should in every case read ' 'cuprie"
and " ferric," etc.

The article on "A new Method for
Treating Sulphuret Ores, " describes in de-
tail a process for chloridizing roasting, in
which Plattner's gold chlorination is made
to precede amalgamation. In regard to
the practical operation or economical value
of this method of procedure we must be
permitted to" express a doubt.

Mineral Phosphates. — Seven compa-
nies are engaged in working the mineral
phosphates near Charleston, South Caro-
lina,

The Gold Hill Disaster. — When we
went to press, last week, telegraphic dis-
patches had just been received in this city,
to the effect that all hopes of rescuing any
more lives from the burning mines had
been abandoned, and that the mouths of
the shafts leading to the mines had just
been closed with the view of injecting
steam to smother the fire. The steam from
some six or eight boilers, under heavy
pressure, was thus forced into the mines
from Friday evening until Monday noon;
when, under the supposition that the fire
had beeD extinguished, the shafts were
again opened, the foul gases pumped and
forced out, and exploring parties sent down
to examine into the condition of things.
Three more dead bodies were brought up;
but the fire was found to be still raging, so
that no others could be recovered. The shafts
were once more closed, after some two days
ineffectual effort to subdue the fire with
water, and steam again forced into the
chambers of the mine, until it was sup-
posed every part thereof had been reached
by the vapor. They will not be opened
again until next Monday, when it is hoped
the fires will be effectually subdued, and the
balance of the bodies removed, prepara-
tory to the resumption of work. Some
eight or ten thousand dollars have already
been raised for the benefit of the sufferers,
and money is still coming in to the com-
mittee appointed by the citizens for the
proper disbursement of the same.

Cyclops Engine and Machine Works,
is the name of a new establishment just
opened at 113 Beale street, by Messrs.
Hugh H. Lamont and Wm. Caldwell, as
will be seen by reference to their card
which appears to-day. It is the intention
of this firm to engage in constructing and
repairing stationary and marine engines of
every description, together with mill and
mining machinery, and all other work in
their line. The building is new and suffi-
ciently commodious, and as their ma-
chinery is also new, the establishment pre-
sents altogether a very pleasing and tidy
appearance.

Continental Life Insurance Company,
203 Montgomery street, corner of Pine.

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White Pine Summary.

Continued bafl weather during the past
few weeks lias given idle people and
correspondents ample oooasion to see the
future of White fine in its most unfavora-
ble lislit ; the results being risible in a still
larger proportion of unfavorable editorials
this wick, in our exchanges from this
State, as well as from Nevada. Kunjors
are circulating in this city that the half
dozen leading chloride mines havo been
sacking their rich ores, to scud below, and
to New York, with a view to selling the
minis on the strength of what has been
found near the 6urfaco. Iu certain quar-
ters a growing confidence iu the base metal
range is also noticeable. White Pine
stock has been selling very slowly, in San
Francisco as well as in New York ; so that
tlicre is no danger of the White Pine mines
being valued for much more than they will
prove to be worth, except by those who
hove gone into mining as they would into
gaming. Travel on the Central Pacific
Effilroad has fallen off twenty j)er cent.,
aud the tent makers iu this city, — who are
furnishing the housing for the summer's
army of occupation in our great interior —
report a marked decrease in their orders.
Freight to Hamilton has been reduced from
30 to 20 cents per pound. All kinds of
goods, and especially stores, are very cheap
at White Pine. No veryr marked increase
is shown in the shipments of bullion, the
total to date, from White Pine district,
being about a million and a quarter.

Rich Devfxopments— The California.
The White Pine New of April 7th, says the
California mine rivals the Eberhardt in ex-
tent and the quality of its ore. The Cali-
fornia is situated on a low bench of Treas-
nre Hill, half a mile east of Shermantown.
The ledge is stripped for 100 feet, and is
about forty-five feet in width. The ore
was covered by four or five inches of dirt,
which being removed leaves the whole sur-
face of the ledge exposed, aud the entire
mass is l'ooc! milling ore, running by assay
from S100 to §8,000 per ton. * * Inland
Empire, April 2d, says of the California:
Some idea of the wonderful richness of this
mine may be gathered from the fact that
the ore — a mass of argillaceous matter, re-
sembling amalgam — after stripping off the
surface dirt, is shoveled into sacks, and that
much of it, by the simple process of smelt-
ing, yields from $3 to $1 per pound. A
ball of this ore submitted to the blowpipe
is almost instantly covered over with glob-
ules of pure silver. The most wonderful
feature of the mine, however, is the vast
quantity of this rich ore now in sight.

Black Hornet. — This claim at the south-
ern point of Treasure Hill, was recently,
says the Empire, the scene of some excite-
ment in consequence of the development of
a mass of chloride ore four feet wide
' ' which is fully equal to the richest of the
Eberhardt or California." * * Same of
4th says: We understand that the owners of
the California mine have put men to work
to ascertain whether the Black Hornet is a
spur of the California or a distinct lead.
The owners of the Black Hornet are per-
fectly satisfied with the arrangement, as
they know that there are 50 feet of solid
limestone between the two leads, similar in
character and rich beyond computation.

Standing Stone. — Empire of 2d, says:
" Dr. S. A. McMeans has taken the super-
intendency of the Standing Stone mine, at
Mahogany Grove or Eberhardt City." * *
Same of 4th: " We understand that Dr.
McMeans has struck the pure stuff in his
Standing Stone mine at Eberhardt City.
For the workmen have taken out consider-
able quantities of metallic silver, and the
Doctor has extended an invitation to a num-
ber of friends to visit the mme to-day and
see the curiosity.

Minor Items — Little Monitor. — This
mine, which is located on the California
belt, presents very encouraging prospects,
and ere long may fully equal in richness
the California or Black Hornet. * * Re-
cently the Great Un^ou Tunneling Co. ad-
vertised for sealed proposals to drive a tun-
nel in a distance of 200 feet, with the
privilege on the part of the bidder to con-
tinue the tunnel to 500 feet. Over forty
bids were put in.

Lady Washington, No. 3. — Col. John
Kerr, Supterintendent and one of the prin-
cipal owners of this mine, situated near
Eberhardt City, is pushing work upon it
with vigor and with the most flattering suc-

cess. A large body of very fine chloride
has been developed.

Bullion. — Wells, Fargo & Co. dispatched
from the Hamilton office, yesterday, six
bars of bullion, valued at §12,000.

Struck Water. — T. M. Luther and Jerry
Huey have been engaged in driving a tuu-
nel in the ravine below Shermantown for
the purpose of procuring a supply of water
for milling. We learn from the News of
the 7th that their efforts havo been success-
ful. * The quartz mill at Sherman-
town, built by L. B. Moore and C. O.
Barker — formerly the Butte of New York
Canon, north of Austin — has recently been
purchased by Drake & Applegarth for the
sum of §40 000.

New Tunneling Co. — The California
State Tunneling and Mining Co. have un-
dertaken to penetrate Treasure Hill from a
point about 1,000 feet south of the Eber-
hardt, running nearly north for a distance
of 2,400 feet, and terminating beneath
Pogonip Flat. It will make a slight de-
flection to the west, in order to pass the
main Eberhardt ground, but will pierco the
west extension of that mine at a depth of
400 feet from the surface. There are a
great number of good mines along the line
of the proposed tunnel. Work has already
been commenced and the discovery of a
promising ledge was made at the start.
They claim the exclusive right of tunnel-
way for a width of 100 feet on each side of
their line, aud will claim 2,400 feet on each
ledge they may discover. The members of
this company chiefly hail from the valley
of San Jose", Cal.

Black Cloud. — White Pine News, April
7th: The Black Cloud is situated on the
southern slope of Treasure Hill, a short
distance south of the Eberhardt. Yester-
day we learned that a rich strike had been
made in the Black Cloud at a depth of but
fifteen feet, and another nearer the surface.
Biggs. — In the Biggs' mine, about half a
mile from here, rock has been blasted out
which is pronounced good by experts. On
the Treasure Street Bange blasting is con-
tinuous, and the exhibitions are such as to
encourage those engaged in its exploration.
We have heard of some fine discoveries near
the Argyle claim at Treasure, but the par-
ticulars are, for the nonce, withheld. — In-
land Empire, Qth.

"Vein" vs. "Deposit." — The White
Pine News of April 3d says: Those who
contend that the silver ores of Treasure
Hill are only in small deposits, and not in
fissure veins, would do well to examine the
vein containing the Phoenix, Parker and
Featherstone mines. On the grade leading
to the Hamilton is seen the opening of the
Phoenix, which attracts attention from the
regularity of its formation and the richness
of its ores. The opening is not very ex-
tensive, but some forty or fifty tons of very
valuable ore is walled up by the side of the
road. The foot wall seems the only one
found, and from appearances we should
judge the main ledge to be about 50 feet in
thickness. Tracing the vein northerly, the
Parker, which is an extension of the Phoenix,
is found. Still further to the north is the
Featherstone. Here the vein is more thor-
oughly opened. Any one examining it will
not hesitate to pronounce it a true vein of
great size and value. Its casings are as
distinctly marked ai the leaves of a book,
and its strike and pitch regular.

Bobinson District. — A private letter of
date March 30th, describes this district and
its advantageous situation. It is seven miles
from Steptoe Valley, one of the finest in
the State. It is 30 miles east of Hamilton,
although it is 45 miles travel from that
place. Among its ledges, the Elijah is 18
feet wide, and essays from §300 to §400
per ton. The City of London, the Bio
Grande, and the Flying Cloud, all have
croppings from 10 to 50 feet high. The
writer goes on to say : ' ' there is more metal
in sight here than I ever saw in the Savage,
Curry, and all the mines put together ;
plenty of wood and water, good roads and
grass, and also a salt mine, and ores can be
reduced as cheap here as iu Washoe."

Systematic Exploration. — On Monday
last there left Sacramento, says the Union,
for White Pine district, a scientific expe-
dition composed of Lieutenant-Colonel C.
S. Drew and J. W. Drew, late of the United
States Army ; Frank E. Brown, geologist ;
Willie Brown, Hermann Bichter, surveyor
and topographer, and S. M. Holdredge,
artist. They will remain in the field about
three months, and probably extend their
explorations as far south as the Colorado
river. They have a complete outfit, in-
cluding a thorough-brace Concord wagon
and harness, etc. , for two or four animals,
saddles and equipments ; portable furnace,
chronometer, surveying instruments, ba-
rometer, thermometers, chemicals, etc.

Treasure City correspondent of the San
Francisco Herald :
New developments are being made daily.

Yesterday I visited the Bogers mine, which
is situated about 2,000 feet below the Eber-
hardt, on what is known as East Eberhardt
Hill. Recent developments have shown it
to bo one of the richest mines in the dis-
trict, and so far as it has been developed,
it shows a well defined fissure vein. It
can be traced about 500 feet. Three assays
of the ore have been made, ranging from
§382 to §1,000 per ton. The shaft is about
five feet deep, and the opening about nine
feet, wide, which is the width of the ledge.

The Bu<-klin mine is situated about 400
feet northeast of the Eberhardt, and is
coming into notoriety rapidly. They have
a shaft down about 25 feet. They are now
in good milling ore, and there is every ap-
pearance of its becoming a second Eber-
hardt. It is, moreover, easy of access.

Seymour District. — Inland Empire, of
April 9th, says this district was discovered
about two months ago by John Centers.
The locality is in a line nearly due south
from Hamilton, and distant about 80 miles.
It is not far from Patterson District. The
ledges of Seymour are from ten feet up-
ward, the Black Warrior being about 80
feet wide, so far as prospected. We were
shown samples of the rock of the district
yesterday, and have no hesitation in saying
that what we saw is exceedingly rich. The
Black Warrior lode has produced speci-
mens which yielded over §5,000 to the ton.
John Centers says he kept his discoveries
a secret as long as he could, and until he
procured all the locations he wanted. He
describes the country as being well wooded
and watered.

California Patents Issued. — We give,
to-day, quite a large list and description of
patents issued to California inventors, for
the week ending March 30th, and reported
to us, especially, by our Washington agent.
The entire number issued was twelve — ten
of which were obtained through the Min-
ing and Scientific Press Patent Agency.

A GOOD INVESTMENT.

THE MOUNT MORIAH

Silver Mining Company,

OF ASGTLE MOITNTAIN,

White Fine XMstriet,

Capital.

§5300,000.

0,000 Share*, !*?-'. O ICnch.

FULL PAID AND NOT LIABLE TO ASSESSMENT.

Pre Pi dent A. Ds LAND

Secretary louis cohk

Supormtendftn! at Mines CHA9. E. HARRIS

A Dk LAND,
CAltLPRECHT,

TV. S TAYLOR.

THOMAS ANSBRO,
LOUIS COHN.

Retdrnfd.— Dr J. H. Paine, Dentist, Wadsworth House,
No. 225 Bush street, between the Occidentaland Cosmopoli-
tan Hotels, San Francisco. 21vl7-4m

Photography.— For Cabinet Photographs, or Enameled
Cards, of the very nest quality, you must go !o the NEW
YORK GALLERY, Nos. 25 and 27 Third street, San Fran-
cisco- Every picture warranted to give satisfaction.

iUvl8-6m B. F. Hovlakd.

Co-Operative Union Stork.— This U becoming one of the
most useful Institutions in the city, and the Mechanic and
Laboring Man ful'y appreciate it. They are now enabled
to buy their Groceries and Provisions 20 per cent, cheaper
than ever before, and the very best articles in the market.
The store is located at 115 Sutter street, Lick. House Biock
San Francisco. 6vI8-aim

PAi\ KHJ.KR!

The Great Family Medicine of the Age. Taken inter
rial y, It cures
Dysentery, Cholrri, Di.irrh.oen,

Cramp, and Pain in the .-tomach.
Rowel Complaints, Painters' folic,

Liver Cainpluint: Dyspepsia and Indigestion,
Sore Throat, Sudden Colds,
Coughs, etc., etc.
Used externally, it cures
Bolls. Felons. Outs,

Bruise. Burns. Scalds,

Old Sores, Sprains, Toothache,
Pain iu the Face, Neuralgia,

Rheumatism, Fro-ted Feet, etc., etc., etc.
The Pain -Killer is sold by all Druggists and dealers in
Fam ly Medicines.

REDI.^GTON k CO, and IIOSTETTER & SMITH. San
Francisco Oal., General Whole- ale Agents. aplm

This Company offer to the public One Thousand Shares of
the Capital Stock for a Working Capital, at the subscription
price or Five Dollars per share— FULL PAID, and NEVER
liable to any as cssment whatever. The mine is admira-
bly located for working, being situate on Arg\le Hill, op"
poMtc Treasure City. Shalt sunk 10 feet, showing a large
body of chloride, which assays $700 per ton, and which will
now mill $200. The capital raised to be used and ex-
pended on the mine. The standing and reputation of the
Trustees is amp'e guaranty of responsibility, etc. Maps
and samples of ore, and subscriptions at the office of the
Company, Rooms No. 15 Stevenson House, eorner Califor
nla and Montgomery, and at 211 and 213 California street,
near Battery street. 16vlfctf

HUGH H. INMOST. WM, CALDWKLL.

Cyclops Engine aud Machine Works,

Construct and Repair every description of
Stationary and Marine Fnglt-es, Mill and Min-
ing Machinery.
Special attention given to Repairing Machinery.
apl7 3m i 13 Beaie street, near Mission, S. F.

PACIFIC

Rolling Mill Company,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Established for the Manufacture of

RAILROAD AND OTHER IRON

— AND —

Every "Variety of S*»li lifting-,

Embracing ALL SIZES of

Steamboat Shaft*, Crank.*, Piston and Con-

ncctlnie lEottw, Car and JLoconiollve Axle*

and Frame*

— ALSO —

tlAJMlM-EREO iron

Of every description and size.

...#- Orders addressed to PACIFIC ROLLING M ILL
COMPANY Post Office, San Francisco, Cal., will receive
prompt attention.

"If The highest price paid for Scrap Iron. 9vl43m9p

CKO.«S> COMBINED

Heater & Sediment Collector

Heater effectually prevents the collection and depn-
01 Si'iilnieni in ihc boiler from impure water. From
April 1, 18(59. the R ■yalty on this Healer hax been
BEWIC - H <k~> PEIE CENT.,

Which enables the Vulcan Iron Works. McAfee, Slders &
Co., of San Fnmcisoo, Keep & Barghin, ut Stockton, and
Williams & Co., of Si-crameiro, the parJies having the
right to hutld litem, to furnish these ilea crs at greatly re-
duced rates, i-end for circular* to WM. B. UROSo,
I6vl8-3iu Patentee, Sacramento, Cat.

Crucibles.

The Patent Plumbago Crucible Co.;

Manufacturers of all kinds of

Melting Pots, Portable Furnaces.

CRUCIBLES, and other fire-standing Goods,
IXatt«crtiea WorkN.Xondon,

THE MORGAN PATENT CRUCIBLES have uniform

quality, never crack, withstand the greatest heat without
danger; heats more rapidly than any other; change of tem-
perature ha* no effect on ihem; stand on the average forty
to fifty pouring?.
On hand and for sale by the Agents,

a. s. n.vff, J.imin «fe CO.,

Ivl3-3m9p 51V Front street, San Francisco

Maurice Dore & Co.,

ATTCTIO * ERRS.

THTJRSDAT.'

THURSDAY MAY 6. 186J,

?.r'.' Al 12 o'clock, at Salesroom,
. No. 827 MONTGOMERY STKJEET,

Special G redit Sale
Montgomery Street Property,

By order of the Trustees of tho Montgomery Street
Real Estate Company.

We will sell on the above date

1,000 FEET FRONTAGE

ON MONTGOMERY,

BETWEEM MARKET AND HOWARD STREETS,

Which will embrace la FINE CORNERS, as follows:

One on Montgomery and Market,
* Three on Montgomery and Jo ante,
Three on Montgomery and Mission,
One ou Montgomery and Minna,
Fnur on Montgomery and Katoma, and
One on Montgomery and Howard Street*.

Montgonerv street, between Marks' and Howard, is TO
feet In width,' aud will be sewered, paved with Stow.pave-

lent, curbed and sldcwalked.

TERMS— One-fourth cash; one-fourth in one. year- one-
fourth in two years; one-iourth in three years— deterred
payments to bear interest at tho rate of ten per ccn'. per
auiinm. oayable monthly, and he secured by mortgage on
the property.

Diagram CaWoeues will be r<-ady in a few days, and can
be had on apDllcation at our office.

MAURICE BOH". «fe CO.,

15vlS lm Auctionce- a.

To White Pine Owners and Others.

Abstracts of Titles to Mining Claim.", Town Lots and
Lands furnished. Mines examined ml reported on by a
competent person now residing in Treasure City. Mining
Claims, Town .Lot*, etc., bought and sold on cinimlHslon.
Kor Information apply to BIDLLM.AN A CO., C«5 Mont-
gomery sticcL 15vI8-lm

250

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinists and Foundries.

PALMER, KNOX & CO.,

Golden State Iron Works,

Kon. 18, 31, SS and Sa First Street,

SAW FRANCISCO.

UANDFACTDH1S ALL KINDS OF

MACHINERY ,

STEAM J&VUIKFS AXU QUABTZ MILLS

DUNBAR'S IMPROVED

a5elt-A.dj usting JPiston Packing,

Requires no springs or screws; is always steam tight;

without excessive friction, mid never

gets slack or lea Ley.

WHEELER & RANDALL'S

SEW GKIiMSF.lt ASW AMALGAMATOU

HEPBURN & PETERSON'S

A.fttALOA.KtA.TOR AX1) SEPAKATOR,

Knox's Amals:aiaators,

WITH PALMER'S PATENT STEAM CHEST,

Superior ror working either GOLD OR SILVER ORES, and
b tlie only Amalgamator that has sLood the test of seven
years' continual working.
Wci-.ulne White Iron Stump Shoes and Hies

Having been engaged for the past ten years In quarts
□lining, and being conversant with all ttic improvements,
either in Mining or .Milling, we are prepared to furnish, at
lhe shortest notice, the most perfect machinery for reduc
ng ores, or saving cither gold or silver. 13vlUq.y-tf

IRA F. RA.NKin.

A. P. BUAYT0N.

A. C. AUSTIN.

Pacific Iron Works.

First and Fremont Streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Having been established since 1851, we have accumulated
a very huge variety of Gear and oilier Patterns, which,
■with our superior tools and appliances, give n» luciliiicslor
doing ui'ai elass work uueq.uo.led on the Paeiuc Coast

Among other things, we manufacture the following:

STEAM ENGINES,

Horizontal and Vertical, for either Stationary or Marine

use.

BOILER'S- High, and Low Pressure,

Pump, Pipe and Sheet Irou Work of every kind.

Quartz lVXill Work,

Including High and Low Mortars, for wet or dry crushing-

Furnace irons tor Kuaating Ores; Freiberg barrels;

Varttey's and Wheeler's Amalgamating Pans

and Settlers; Stamp Shoes and Dies of

best White Iron; Russia iron

Screens, etc., etc.

Flour Mill, Saw Mill and Sugar Mill Work in every variety ;

Pumping and Hoisting Machinery; HaiisDrow's

Patent Challenge Pump, for Domestic,

Ship and Mining use— the most

approved and successful

Pump manufactured.

Casting* of every description. Iron and Brass.

We would call especial attention to " Wright's Patent Va-
riable Cut-off Engines," of which we are the sole manufac-
turers on the riieihe Coast, under license from the \\ ood-
ru if <fc Beach Co., Hartford, Ct, As a simple, effective, flki,
saving, ltrsi-clasa Engine, this is, wituout doubi, the best
Engine made in the United States.

urders promptly attended to. Prices as low as possible
for Urst-class work, and we intend iu do no other.

bOl»lLL.ftl> <fc CO.

San Francisco, May 1, 186S. itJvliiif

WILLAMETTE IRON WORKS,

POJKTLAM), UB£fiOK.

gteaui Engines, Boilers,
SAW AND CRIST MILLS,

MINING MACHINERY", WROUOHT IKON SHUTTER
WORK, AND BLAOKS.VUTHINU IN GENERAL.
Corner S orth-Front and E streets,

15vl3-ly One block uorth of Couch's Wharf.

Globe Iron Works,

8TOCKTOS, tAL.

KEEP & BARG-ION,

WANUF.ICTDRKHS OF

Quartz, Saw and Grist Mill Irons, Steam
Engines, Horse Powers,

High and Low Pressure Steam Engines, Steamboats and

Propellers, made at short notice.

18vI3tf

CALIFORNIA BRASS FOUNDRY.

Mo. ISA first street, opposite Minna,

SAN FRANCISCO.

All kinds of Brass, Composition, Zinc, and Babbitt Metal
Custiugs, Brass Ship Work of all kinds, spikes, Sheathing
Nails, Kudder iiri.ces, Hinges, Ship and steamboat bells ami
Gongs 01 superior tone. All kinds of Cocks and Valves, Hy-
draulic Pipes and Nozzles, and Hose Couplings and Connec-
tions of all sizes and patterns, furnished with dispatch.

»&* PRICES MODERATE, -fit
J. P. GA.Ll.Aij HER. j. H. WEED
Svl3-ly

V. KING WELL.

BENJAMIN" ELLIOT,

No. 483 Branuan street San Francisco,

Manufactures Foundry Facings constantly, trora choice
coals. Bituminous, packed in tight sacks. Anthracite and
Charcoal ground together or separate, packed in whole
or halt barrels Black Lead, Coke and Soapstone ground to
order. Foundry men located far from choice material, can
rely on having superior Facinus forwarded to yrder.
lUvlSqr

Miners' Foundry

— AMD —

MACHINE WOKKS
Nos. 245 to 255 First Stbeet,

Sun JPrauciNcn.

HOWL AND, ANGELL & CO.,
1'jiWItiE'iaiis,

Manufacturers of lyiaekinery for

UtARTZ Mli.JLS.
SAW MILLS,
fU« I>E!i HILLS,

JPLOUK MILLS,
SlKAiC SIIi.JLS,
fArEB MILLS

Steam Engines -of all Kinds.
Amalgamators of all Kinds.

MIKIXO PUMPS, HOISTING WOKHS

OIL WELL TOOLS, BOCJ& ISICJK AK EKS

— AND —

Machinery and Castings of all kinds, either
of Iron or Brass,

Boilers and Sheet Iron Work in all it3
Branches.

Shoes und Ales of "While Iron, manufactured
for and lniuorle<t by un expressly for this pur-
pose, und will last%5 per eeut. lunger than a.uy
other made on this coast.

Russia Iron Screen*, of any degree of fineness.
We are the only manufacturers on this coast ot
the

HICKS EJSTGIIVE,
The most compact, slmule In construction, and

durable, of any Encine in use.
W. U. UOWLANIr, II. IS. A.XUELL,

llvu-qr CIBIIS FALHEK.

FDXTON

Foundry and Iron Works.

HINCKLEY fe CO,,

IfANlIFACTDBE-RS OF

STBAM ENGINES,
Quartz, Flour and Saw 3X111©,

Hayes' Improved Steam Pomp, Brodle'i Im-
proved Crusher, M 1 n I u e: Pumps,
Amalgamntors, aiid nil kinds
of Machinery.

iX. E. corner of Tehama and Fremont streets, above How
ard street, San Francisco. 3-qy

McAFEE, SPIERS & CO,,
UOX 3L. 33 I£ M^VItERiS

AND GENERAL MACHINISTS,

Howard .it, between Fremont and Beale, San Francisco.

Fine or Tubular Boilers, with plain circular or spiral
courses. Upright Flue or Tubular Boilers, Locomotive and
and Marine Rollers, and Wrought Iron Tanks of every de-
scription.

Hydraulic Pipe supplied at reasonable rates. In or-
dering, give the quantity of water to be supplied, hlgbtof
the fall, and total length of pipe, so as to enable the firm to
determine the diameter of the pipe and thickness uf iron to
be used.

Repairs.— Boilers, Smoke Stacks, Pipes, etc., put in re-
pair with promptness.

To Boiler Makers aad Machinists In the In-
terior.— Tlie firm is prepared to furnish estimates of
Boilers, su: ply new Heads, drilled and punched, and attend
to the selection and forwarding of Iron fur Boilers, Pipes
and other purposes.

Plans, Drawings and Specifications.— The firm
!s prepared to make out Plans and Specifications, leceive
estimates, and superintend the Erection of any Machinery
that may be entrusted to their care

To Inventors.— The firm is prepared to assist in de-
veloping the plans of those who have ihc ideas hut not the
practical experience necessary to put the samt; in form, by
m»king Drawings of their Inventions, giving them the ben-
efit of their practical knowledge in ihe construction of Ma-
chinery, and attending to the manufacture and introduc-
tion of their inventions. lvlbtf

UEflOM IRON WORKS,

Sacramento.

WILLIAMS, BOOT & NEILSON,

MAHOFACTCREKS OP

•*TEAM ENGINES, 15 OUTERS,

CROSS' PATENT BOILER FEEDER AND SEDIMENT
COLLECTOR.,

And all kinds or Mining; Machinery.

Also, Hay and Wine Presses made and repaired
with neatness, durability and dispatch.

Dunbar's Patent Self-AdJ nstlnsr Steam Piston

Front Street, between X and O streets,

llvll SACRAMKNTO ClTT

THOMPSON BROTHERS,
EUREKA FOUNDRY,

LIGHT AM) MEATY CASTINGS,

of every description, manufactured 24vl6qr

G-. T. PRACY.

MACHINE WORKS,

JSTOS. 109 and 111 MISSION STREET,
Bel ween iiain and Spear.

New and second hand

Engines and Boilers,

FOK SALE.

Also one first-class Hoisting

Engine ; one Unriyht

Engine, oi entirely

new pattern.

MANUFACTURER OF

ILatlies, Drills,

And mill machinery: of
every description.

I* K- A. C Y > &

New and Improved

STEAM F.:*«I.VE

REG-ULATORS,

The best and cheapest yet in-
vented—manufactured and
lor sale. Parties are in-
vited to examine it
in practical op-
eration.

F. A. HUNTXNOTON'S

^ Shingle Machines

on hand.

Particular attention paid to
Repairing.

BSr" All work guaranteed to be done in a first-class man-
ner, and at the lowest rates. 12vl7if

THE RISDON

Iron and Locomotive Works.

Incorporated, April 30, 1SGS. Capital, 51/00,000.

Location of Works, Corner Beale and Howard streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Successors to Pacific Mail c. S. Co. Works at Bmicia, OolTey

&. Risdon, and Devoe, Dinsinorc A Co., tan Francisco.

Steam Engine Builders, Boiler its a Iters,

MACHINISTS AND FOUNDRVMEN.
All work in their line attended to with promptness and
dispatch.

S. F. Bittterworth,
Lloyd T. vis,
Jas. pollock,
Ben. Holladay,

Directors:

Olias. E. McLnne,
Jnhn N. Risdon,
Joseph Moore.

JOHN N. RTSDON, President.
Joscnh Moore, Vice President and Superintendent ; CJias.
E. McLanc, ireasurer; Lewis R. Mead, Secretary; Lewis
Coffey, Superintendent Boiler Works. Z4vl7 qy

Phoenix Iron Works.

JONATHAN KITTBEDGE, Proprietor,

Nob. 18 and £0 Fremont street* near Market,
San Francisco.

MANUFACTURER OT

Fire-Proof Doors and Shutters,

Wrought Iron Girders, and all kinds of Housesmith work.

Bridge, Prison

IDEGIXe ASK MACHINE WOBK,

IMPROVED FIKE-1'ROOF SAFES,

EIRE AND BURGLAK-PEOOE SAPES,

Of a superior make. Sole manufacturer of the celebrated

MONITOR SAFE.
BANK VAULTS AND SAFES,

Of every description, made to order at short notice. A

large stock of SAFES of alt kinds constantly on hand.
Agency for the ISH AM KEY REGISTER BANK ANI> SAFE
LOCK, the only first class Lock in the
lvl7tf United States

NOBLE & FLEMING-,
MACHINE WORKS,

So, lO Stevenson street, near First,

sax jkancisco.

Partienlar attention given to repairs on Portable and Sta-
tionary Engines; also all kinds oi Wood Working
Machinery^ Shaftings, Hangers, Pulleys, etc.
made to order; Serew Cutting, Iron
Planing, and all kinds ot JOB
WORK promptly at, ended to.
Agents Tor F. S. Perkins' Engine Lathes,
Planers, Upright Brills,
And all kinds ot MACHINISTS' TOOLS; also the Davis
Wood Planer and Mitre Dove-Tailing Machines.

JAMES MACKEN,
confers sxitxi,

2SO Fremont St., bet. Howard A: Folsoik

All kinds of COPPER WORK done to order In the best
manner. Particular attention paid to Steamboat, Sugai
House and Distillery work.

CITY IE0H WORKS COMPANY.

CLERC & CO.,
I It O N FOTJN DEItS,

■*teu hi Dnglae Bnilders and Makers of all

6*lU>nr No.

kinds of Machinery,

28 Fremont street, San Francisco.

STOCK CERTIFICATES,

STOCK TRANSFER JOURNALS,
STOCK LEDGERS,

ASSESSMENT RECEIPTS,

And all other Blanks, Blank Books, etc. , required by Mln
lug and other Corporations, kept on hand or printed to
order on short notice, at moderate prices, at the office of
the Mining and Scientific Press.

Resources and Developments.

GKOWING NCT TBEES.

It is somewhat surprising, — says the
American Agriculturist, — that with all our
cation's love of gain, and the general ap-
preciative admiration of beautiful trees for
shade and ornament, we have so few in-
stances where nut-bearing trees have been
adopted for plauting in the place of maple,
elm, or linden. The chestnut, butternut,
black walnut, and Madeira nut, where the
climate will admit, are all beautiful as
shade or ornamental trees; they grow very
rapidly, and come into bearing usually
from the seventh to the tenth year from
seed. The hickory is more difficult of
transplanting; but even that may be moved
with success by digging deep and obtain-
ing entire, the tap-root. This tap-root is a
feature of importance with all the nut-
bearing trees, its loss often resulting in the
death of the tree, while, if fully retained,
a tree rarely dies. It is however, more
certain, and probably most economical, to
plant the nuts where trees are designed to
stand. This may be done and the ground
yearly cropped to corn, potatoes, or small
fruits, and at the end of five years or so
it may be left in grass if desired.

As a paying productive crop, as a perma-
nent investment, attended with little or no
labor in the cultivation or pruning, etc.,
we know of nothing more reliable than that
of an orchard of nut-bearing trees. The
chestnut commands a ready sale at from
eight to twelve dollars a bushel in the
Eastern States, while the hickory nut sells
freely at from two to three dollars; and
these prices are being enhanced rather than
reduced.

The Agriculturist speaks of an orchard of
nut-bearing trees of sixty acres, twenty-five
years old, from which the owner, last year,
gathered fruit which netted him over $600.
These trees stand in an open pasture, the
cropping from which is scarcely diminished
a dollar in consequence of its partial appro-
priation as above.

If such results can be obtained in the
Atlantic States, where the fruit sells for a
Bmall price, what might not such culture
do here, where extraordinarily high prices
prevail, where the timber would be worth
twice what it is at the East, and where the
trees come into bearing condition in one-
half the time required there ? Twenty acres
of ground planted to-day with nut-bearing
trees, in this State, will be worth a small
fortune in fifteen or twenty years hence.
What better legacy could be left to a child,
or what more profitable enterprise could be
undertaken by a young farmer just setting
out in life ? The cost would be mere noth-
ing— as the labor could all be done in the
leisure time of two or three years. Per-
haps no better soil in the world could be
found for such culture than that of the
foot-hills of this State, and on land which
is lying in waste, in tracts of hundreds of
acres in extent.

The Coke Oak. — The Cork Oak appears
to have been successfully introduced into
Florida. A gentlemen in that State planted
a number of the cork oak acorns, in 1860.
Some of the trees from these acorns are
now eighteen inches in circumference and
from sixteen to eighteen feet high. They
are said to stand the climate well. Quite a
number of these trees were planted a short
time since in Los Angeles County, and the
fact of their successful growth in Florida
may be taken as a full assurance that even
better results may be anticipated on this
coast, where the extremes of heat and cold
are less than on even the most southern
portion of the Atlantic border.

Chicoey. — Although large amounts of
chicory are raised in California, it would
seem that there is yet an abundance of
room for an increase of the home product,
as there are at least 250 tons of the root
imported annually. So long as our people
are determined to be humbugged, it is bet-
ter perhaps, that the profits of such traffic
should accrue to ourselves, rather than
that they should be transferred to strang-
ers. In this connection it may be interest-
ing to coffee drinkers to learn the fact that

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251

chicory can be purchased in thi» market for
oi^'lit cents per ponnd, while, after it is
mixed with coffee, consumers have to pay
for it at the rate of from twenty-five to
thirty cents.

Woolen Mantjpaotubks.— There aro in
Illinois some 12.'} woolen manufactories,
eighty-seven wool carding ma-
chines, which consume annually about
DO pounds of wool, clipped from not
loss than 2,500,000 sheep. There is no
reason why California may not oven ex-
ceed Illinois in this branch of industry,
and it is one of the most promising si^'us
of the times to notice that investments of
capital in this direction aro both increasing
and prosperous. California is destined to
becomo one of tlio greatest wool-producing
ami wool-mauufacturing States in the
Union.

Tin-. Lime Business. — The manufacture
of lime forms quite an important feature
in the industrial resources of many por-
tions of the State, particularly in the
Bounty of Santa Cruz, where, from the
proximity to this city, it must eventually
grow to mammoth proportions, if the sup-
ply is sufficient. With regard to this the
Sentinel says: " The supply of lime rock is
inexhaustible, of the blue, grey, and crys-
tallized varieties; in most localities where
the rock is found, the laud is covered with
timber, to be used in burning. The ship-
ping point is from one and a half to three
miles distant, with a gradual descent nearly
the whole way, an ordinary team hauling
five tons at a load, on wagons built for that
purpose. These natural advantages bid de-
fiance to competition from any other por-
tion of the State. The business was first
started on a small scale by parties without
means except their own labor, but their
success soon attracted the attention of men
of capital." The shipments made by one
firm in this county, reaches sixteen hund-
red barrels per month, which amount can
be readily increased four or five fold when-
ever the demand will warrant the same.

Business Cards.

The Seal Fishery, on our northern
coast, promises to be very lively the com-
ing season. Quite a number of vessels are
already at the Seal Islands, or on their way
thither. Special agent, Charles Bryant, is
on the ground, by this time, with full
powers and means to enforce the law rela-
tive to these fisheries.

G-EO. E. ROGERS,

(Successor to G. W. Bell.)

A. S S A. Y E R, „

-", yz California »t.,Sun Francisco.

J. A. MARS, Assaycr.

Ores carefully Assayed. Gold and silver Ores worked.

23vlii-(irlO|iiir

PACIFIC

INSURANCE C0x>IPANY

OP SAN FRANCISCO, CAL„

Office, No. 422 California street.

Cnoh Aiaets Jan. 1, 1309, - - $1,539,740 19
FUSE,

INSURANCE.

DIRECTORS:

Sin Pra*0wco: Oliver Eld ridge,

W. C. KaNton, J. It. Roberts,

A L TlililH. J. C. Wilin/rding,

Win. AlTiird, 1'. L. Weaver,

Jonathan Hunt, W'm. II nper,

a. u. Forbes, J. \V. Ulark,

A.G. Stiles, A. H li v ward,

A. seilgman, T. L Barker,

L. K. rtenchloy, Alexander Weill,

U'm, S'leriuau, Ghas. Meyer,

L, Sachs, Cliaa E. McLane,

Janes Dc Frcmery, M. Rnsenbauin,

J. G. Hrav, a. J. Ralston.

David S ern, T. Lemmen Meyer,

D. 0. Mills, J. T. Dean.
I Frlcillaiuler, Nrw York:
Mo<es Heller. Louis McL-aoe,

11. M *ewhall, Frederick Billings,

G.T. Lawio'i, Jiines Lees,

Miles D. Sweeny, J "f. Kellogg,

Chas. Mnync. Wm. T. Coleman,

E. L. Goldstein, Muses Ellis. (
J. O, Burl, Sack.vmkntii:
Lloyd I'evis, Edg>r Mills,
Thus. H. Sclby, J. II. Carroll,

|i, Adam Grant. G. T. Wheeler.

Alplieus Bull, Marysvili.i-.:

S.M.Wilson, J. tl.Jewctt.

■ D.J. Oliver, Portland, Oregon:

\V. Scholle, W S Ladd,

Tiros. Brown, Jacob Kamm.

Chas. Main, Virginia, Nevada:

rciias. R. l'uters, Win. Sharon.
omosBs:
JONA. HUNT, President.

W. ALVuRD, Vice President.
A. .T. RALSTON, Sccrotary.
ANDRK\V BAlHD, Marine .Secretary.

4V18U* H. 11 BIGELOW, Gen'l Agent

RODGERS, MEYER & CO.,

COMMISSION MERCHANTS

ADV.lJdS MAUE

On till kind, of Ore., unit particular ..Mention

PAID TO

COXMIONM EN T» OF GOODS.

iTlMm

C A. It O I* I e T TJ Tt E fej.

ONE DOLLAR PEU DOZBM,

And PholoKrnliln. AmbrOtypQI Mid Sun Priirls, liy ftrM

clii" nrtlsts. hi 111, Inwcsl rnli'.\

At NII.VA'N, 04 Third Street.

Northwest corner of Mission. S.ul Krnnelsco.

UvIMm

MTIM.MKL GI1AY.

U. *. GKAY.

N. GRAY & CO.,

UlVOETtTA.lC33K.r5l,

641 S:\crnmento St., cor. Webb. San Francisco.

OS-Sole Agents for BarstoiV. Metallic Burial Cases and
Sovlitf I'mketa,

Farmers and Mechanics
BANK OF SAYINGS,

No, 'J'J'i Siiiinimi' Slri'i'l.

Interest paid on Deposits. Money Loaned on Real Estate,
Iff. nCTTW, President,
GEO. M cnNT.EE Cashier. ISvlG-ani

J. J. JONES,

CA.KPENTER and BUTT^OETt,

Xo. :t- 1 Jackm

t street, between Sunsomc and
Buttery,

W. T. ATWOOD,

rUBCHA-ER OF

COPPEB, OEES, BAR3, MATT, Etc., Etc,,

ROS Montgomery street, San Francisco.

The highest market price paid for ores assaying 1U per cent,
and upwards. 23vl7qr

S. rOLlt. C TUCQOLSKV.

S. FOLK & CO.,

MANUFACTDRKHS OP

W'ADnixn, BATTING, nnd COMFOKTEKS

ill and 413 Brannan St., Between Third and Fourth,

san francisco. 4vl8qr

W. C. CAMPBELL.

PATTERN AXV MODEL MAKER,

No. SO Fremont street, over Plioeulx Iron Works, San

Francisco.
Particular attention Riven to MODELS for the Patent Office
Brands ami Pattern Loiters Cut. 4vl8nitf

Farms and City Property.

C. M. TVAKEL.EE «fe CO.,

601 California street, S. W. Corner Kearny street, buy and
sell Farms nnd City Real Estale. Panics wishing to invest
will dud it to their Interest to call on them. 18vl8-3m

CALIFOKNIA

Marine Metallic Paint.

ThlsOnmposiflnn, the result of scientific and chemical
research after having heen thoroughly tested for the past
twelve months, Is now offered for "ule by the "California
Marine Faint Co" incorporated March 2f>, ISG9. The ex-
periments to which it has been submitted, have proved
ihut It is one of the most v 'luable discoveries ni this won-
derful age of invention It bus heen extensively used in
na'ntintt the bottoms of all kinds of sailing vessels, wood.
Iron and copper, Hn I with invariable success. Wooden
bottoms, pile", etc . are ihnroughly protected from the de-
struction of tin- inmln neeatif, or sea worm; and iron ves-elB
cU'cclua'lv unserved from ihc adhesion of barnacles,
grass nnd all descriptions of zoophytes, no injury what-
ever resulting to the plates, as frequently occurs from the
nso of copper, and other pernicious pa tins: hut, on the con-
trary. Its known properties will preserve them.

By tin; use nf this Paint, coppering vessels is rendered un-
necPSSurv but where a vesseljlfls been coppered it will n- t
onlv'keep it from fouling, but preserve the copper from the
ordmarv wear aim tear, amounting to HI per cent, per an-
num, and re ruler it almost indestructible.

Ii is .ilso invaluable for the preservation of nil wooden
slrnclures, especially railroad timbers, bridges, floor beams
in houses, telegraph posts, and is a certain preventive
against the aciion of the white ant and comugen ol Mexi-
co, <.hinti, and India

The company arc now prepared to supply all orders, and
enter into emit rants for the application ot tins Paint.

Orders and communications In reuard to terms ad.lresserl
to Cant R. H. Waterman, President. James Pollock, Su-
perintendent Drv Dock; or L L. Bullock, Tide Laud Com-
missioner, wil. receive prompt attention.

R. H. WATERMAN,

President of Company.
LLOYD TtVIS. I

JAMES POLLOCK,
* Jj L. BULLOCK, ^Trustees.

SCOTT TID BALL, 1
TUOW. A. TALBKRT, J
JOHN S. ROLLS, Secretary.
San Francisco, March 29, 18(59. 16vl8-lm

California Steam Navigation

KI&J COMPANY. x|iflS

Steamer CAPITAL CAPT. E. A. POOLE

CHRYSOPOLIS CAPT. A. FOSTER.

" YOSEMITE

CORNELIA CAPT. W. BROMLEY

JULIA CAPT. E. CONCKLIN.

Two of the above steamers leave BROADWAY WHARF
at 4 o'clock P. M. EVERY DAY (Sundays excepted), one
for Sacramento and one lor Stockton, those for Sacra-
mento connecting with light-draft steamers tor IMarysville
Colusa, Cbico.and Red Bluff.

Olllcc of the Company, northeast corner of Front and
Jackson streets.

B. M. nAKTSHOUXE,
13vl2 President.

ILLINOIS
SILYEIt MIMXG COMPANY

AVHite Pine Oistirict.

Ti-ii«tee»i

JAS. 11. CUTTER, It. II. FREEW W,

E. 11. BBAW, JAS. It. GARMS-S

DAVID UL.su.

The Company's Mlno adjom« tho celebrated "Silver
Glance." and l.i in close pr.iximily to th« "Argyle." and
other proinliieiil iiiim-n ol the District

From development! already made, the Trustees feel Jus-
tltlod In Baying lo tin ir mends that this is one of the be»t
opportunities ever altered for Investment in this State.

For ihe purpose Of further developing ihc mine, the
Company has set ns de a limited amount of stock, to tie
sold as a working capital, of which they now offer 1001)
shares, nt the nominal price of Si M per share, unassessa-
ble—the entire proceeds of which will be devoted to devel-
oping the mine.

The books of the Company are now open for subscription
at the ottiee of the Cumpany, No. 43J Montgomery street,
Room No I, first floor. By order.

JAS. U. CUTTER, President.

G. W. Stkwart, Secretary.

lSvU-lm

ONE THOUSAND SHARES

UNASSESSABLE STOCK

Nantucket Mining Company

Are offered tor sale at ONE DOLLAR PER SflARE.for
the purpose or raising a fund lo aid in the development of
the mine. Tho mine Is located onTREASURE HILL.about
half a mile west of Troasuro City, adjoining the " Salt
Point on the east. No other issue of this stock will be
offered at less than $2.50 per share, the object beln? to raise
a e-mail fund for the Immediate prosecution of the work.
The Trustees, in offering this stock, confidently believe it
to be ONE GP THE BEST INVESTMENTS in the market.
Subscription Books now open at the office of the Company,
No. OlO Montgomery street. By order of the Board of
Trustees.

W. H. BROWN, President.

15vl8-Im II. B. CONGDON, Secretary,

Bromide Tunnel Company,

White J?iiie, Nevada.

NOTICE.

The above Company having been Incorporated under Ihe
laws of the State of California, has opened a Subscription
Book for subscribers to its Capital Stock, at

No, lO Stcvenuon Bnlldln?, San Francisco,

Whcro full particulars relative to the working of tho Com-
pany's property can be ascertained. 13vl8-lm

Pump Leather.

^The attention of MINING COMPANIES, and others re-
quiring a superior article for Hydraulic purposes, is Invited
to the heavy Oaked Tanned Pump Leal her. manufactured
and prepared expressly by the undersiened,

M
rl

Constantly on hnnd and for sale by

&TIASY, JONES <fc CO.,

Depot of the Santa Cruz Tannery, •
41 9 Buttery St., Sun Francisco.

25vlT-ly

The Perfection of Preonred Cocoa..

MABAVILLA COCOA.

Sole Proprietors— TAYLOR BROTHERS, London.

The Cocoa (or Cacao) of Maravilla is the true Theobroma
of Linnaius. Cocoa is Indigenous to South America, of
which Maravilla is a favored portion. TAYLOR BROTH-
ERS having secured the exclusive supply of this unri-
valled Cocoa, h lvo, by Hie skillful application of their sol-
uble principle and elaborate machinery, produced what is
so undeniably the perfection ot Prepared Cocoa, that it has
not only secured the prefcence of uoinoo 'paths and cocoa-
d Tinkers generally, but many who had hitherto not. found
any preparation to suit them, have, aficr one trial, adopicd
the Maravilla Cocoa as their constant beverage for break-
last, luncheon, etc.

"A8XJCCESS ^TflPKECEDENTED."

[See following extract Trom the Globe of Mny U, IK6S-]
"Various Importers and manufacturers have attempted
to attain a reputation for their prepared Cocoas, but we
doubt whether any thorough success had been achieved
until Messrs. T.i y lor Brothers discovered the extraordinary
qualities of "Maravilla" Cocoa. Adapting thair perlect
syttem of preparation to this finest of all species of the
Theobroma, they have produced an article which super-
sedes every other Cocoa in the market. Entire solubility,
a delicate aroma, and a rare concentration of the purest
elements of nutrition, distinguish the Miravilla Cocoa
above all others. For honueopaths and invalids we could
not recommend a more agreeable, or valuable beverage.

Sold in packets onlv by all Grcccrs, of whom aUo may
be hadTavlor Brothers' Oriclnal Honueopathic Cocoa and
.Soluble Chocolate, Steam Mills. Brick Lane. London.
6vl8-ly

Professional Cards.

J. S. PHILLIPS, M. E.,

CONSULTIIVG ENGINEER,
Examiner of Mine*, etc.,

42« WtfbJngton street San Francisco.

[Having had SS^eaiS' experience In Europe and America.)
Supplies drawings and designs for I'liinping. Hoisting,

(.rushing Separating, Roasting. Chit.riovi ig, Milling. Lix-
[viating, Proeinliatlxur, and Bmolilng Works Mint ralaan,
aiyzed.and advice given i<>r benenela) irvaun.'ni. Lea<

S-...-..I1 Hie Di^-ri oi !nil ion .oil A-...V ,,1 Minerals bv Blow-
pipe, unemlcaU, Scorlfler and crucible. *i i;u

JOHN ROAOH, Optician,

Has removed from 622 Monigomcry street to
ul» W:nhlns(o» *treet.

En st of Montgomery.

Surveying Instruments mate, repaired and adjusted

22vl7-Sm

DAVID R. SMITH,

Civil and Mechanical Engineer,

Is prepared to furnish Plans, Models, Specifications and
full detail Drawing* for Steamers and Sailing Vessels and
Machinery In general.

Montgomery Block. I3vl7-3m

JAMES 3£. TAYLOR,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,

Court Block, C3G Clay Street

SAN FRANCISCO.

2vl5-loy

GILES H. GB*T. JtMltS K. BATBK.

GRAY & HAVEN,

ATTORNEY S AND COUNSELORS AT LAW,

In Building of Picific Insurance Co, N. E. corner Cali-
fornia anP Leldt.'dorl) streets,
*7vI6 SAN FRANCISCO.

Q^ MEUSSDORFFER, j^L
HAT MCATVTJJF'ACTXJliEIt

And dealer in

Hats and Caps

AT WHOLESALE AM> RETAIL.

635 and 637 Commercial street San Francisco.

125 J street Sacramento.

Corner of D and Second streets Marvsvllle.

72 Frontstreet _. Portland, brcgon.

Our wholesale House, 628 Commercial street, extending
through to 637 Clay street, San Francisco, contains always
a most choice, and the largest, assortment in this State.
Every Steamer brings the latest Issued novelties from Eu-
rope and New 7ork, which can be found at all tho above
stores, at moderate prices. 23vl6-Sm

THE GIANT

POWDER, COMPANY

Is now prepared to fill all orders for

GIANT POWDER,

Put up In Boxes cither In Bulk or In Car
trldgea*

General Agents,

BANDMANN, NIELSEN & CO.,

25vI6-3m 210 Front street, San Francisco.

OAELOS O'DOMELL'S

California Cordial Tonic,

— OR—

Wild Olierry Bitters.

TRADE C. 0. D. MARK.

This elegant preparation is acknowledged by all who have
used it to be the most efficient romedy for every disease of
the

STOMACH AMI BOWELS,

Yet introduced to tho notice of tho public. Immediately on
taking a dose of it, the patient will find a genial glow per-
vading his entire system, and Its steady use for a short
time will be followed by a healthy appetite nnd a good di-
gestion, oven In the case of the most confirmed dyspeptic.
To all who are suffering from

INDIGESTION,

DYSPEPSIA,

DYSENTERY,

DIARRHCEA,

NERVOUS AFFECTIONS,

Or any of the manifold troubles caused by a diseased action
of the stomach, this remedy Is confidently recommended
as a safe and certain cure.

N, B. JACOBS dfc CO., Sole Agents,
15vlS-3in 42» Front street, San Francisco.

Mining Secretary.

THE SUBSCRIBER. HAVING SERVED FOR THE LAST
five years as Secretary of various mining companies,
feels fully competent to serve in that capacity. Any par-
ties wishing to secure the services of a Secretary can be
accommodated on reasonable terms. Information given,
and all necessary papers correctly made out.

Having had a long experience In the purchasing of goods
and machinery for miners, parlies in the mines will find it
to their advantage, where purchasing agents are employed,
to send their orders to the MS«*jKg^0mNUTOFi

Room 37 New Merchants' Exchange, .California etreet
San Franclauo i7rio-ti

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sif/rictilttiral .

Cultivation of Dry Land.

The idea that the dry plains of California
are utterly useless for cultivation, without
irrigation, isfast beeomingexploded. True,
irrigation of such land to a certain extent,
if it can be obtained, cheaply, is advanta-
geous; but farmers who till only small por-
tions of moist lands, or such as they can
readily irrigate, and suffer large tracts of
adjoining dry land*o lie idle, are making a
great mistake. Experience has proven that
much of this dry land will produce good
crops of grain, clover, the mulberry,
grapes and other products, without irriga-
tion. The secret of the successful cultiva-
tion of dry land lies in deep plowing and
fallowing. Plow deep and fallow when nec-
essary— fallowing is always advantageous.
Plow in early spring, and do not put it off
till summer, especially on clayey soils.
Subsoiling will generally, nay always pay.

It is useless to argue that dry land cau be
put in order for crops by shallow plowing.
The Belgians, who are the best farmers in
the world, assert that it is advantageous to
stir the ground, if possible, three feet deep.
The roots of all plants will go down for
moisture, till they find it, if the ground is
in proper condition. That is the reason
why the vine, in this State, stands the
drouth better after the second year, — the
roots have got down where they can find
moisture. It is much better to cultivate a
little land well, than to merely run over a
large surface superficially. It is too apt
to be the case that less attention is paid
to the cultivation of poor soil, than rich ;
the reverse should be the rule — if either is
to be slighted. If land is worth plowing
at all, it is worth plowing well.

Experiments on dry lands have been
made in various parts of this State, which
have surprised all who have become ac-
quainted with them. Mr. G. N. Sweezy,
Esq., late, if not now, President of the
Northern District Agricultural Society,
among others, has made important and suc-
cessful experiments in this direction, on
the dry plains near Marysville. Those
lands, he says, yield well in grain and are
good orchard lands; the grape and mul-
berry also do well upon them.

Deep plowing and thorough cultivation
retains the rains of winter, and retards the
rapid evaporation of summer. The red
hills of the mountains, that were considered
worthless a few years since, it is now
known will produce good crops, if prop-
erly cultivated. Scratching land, how-
ever, it should be borne in mind, is not
proper cultivation. These facts, if onr
farmers will only consider and act upon
them, will be worth, in a few years, mill-
ions of dollars to the State. Small experi-
ments cost but little; if those interested,
who are doubtful of these sayings, will
only begin slow, select a small tract, work
it thoroughly and note the result, — our
word for it, they will not fail to put money
in their pockets at the end of two years.

Bleeding of Gb ape Vines — How to Stop
It. — The excessive bleeding of grape vines
over that of other plants, when pruned late,
is due to the larger size of the vessels
through which the sap is propelled, at the
periods of early growth. The vessels of the
vine lack the power possessed by those of
most other plants to collapse sufficiently to
prevent any excessive flow of the sap, as it
is received from the roots. The conse-
quence is the plant becomes unhealthy and
unproductive for the season, and sometimes
flows itself to death. The reason why
there is less flow when the vine is wounded
in the full of the leaf, is because at that time
the demand upon the system by the leaves
is so great that there is no surplus sap in
the vine to find its way out through the
wound.

It often becomes necessary, however, to
remove a portion of a vine when the sap is

in full flow; or it may be accidentally
wounded at such a time, and various expe-
dients are adopted to prevent the conse-
quent flow. Gum shellac paste is often
used, but generally with very little effect;
raw potatoes are also used with less effect.
Shoemaker's wax is sometimes used. Prob-
ably the most perfect remedy, which is given
by a correspondent of the American Agri-
culturist, is the following: Take four parts
of scraped cheese to one part of calcined
oyster shells or other pure calcareous earth .
If this preparation, without any admixture
with water, bepressed strongly into the pores
of the wood, and the wound be closely cov-
ered with it, and bound in place, if neces-
sary, the sap will cease to flow, so that the
largest grape vine branch may be safely
taken off at any season of the year.

To Obtain Ekuit fkom Barken Teees.
This may almost always be done, especially
when the growth of the tree is vigorous,
by winding and tying a small cord or stout
string two or three times tightly around
some of the principal limbs, or if a young
tree is to be operated upon, around the
body of the same. This should be done
in early or middle summer, and the effect
will be seen in the abundant blossoms of
the next spring. The cord prevents the
sap from returning so freely as it otherwise
would to the roots; consequently it per-
forms its legitimate office of forming fruit
buds. This plan is similar in effect to
"ringing the grapevine," and is frequently
made use of by fruitgrowers in the East-
ern States, to hasten the bearing of young
trees. That, however, is a matter seldom
required in this State. Our trees are nat-
urally inclined to bear quite too young,
for their after usefulness. Yet it not un-
frequently happens in our older trees, that,
from some cause or other, the sap descends
too freely or too early in the season for the
proper formation of fruit buds, and the
consequence is, a lack of fruit the next
year. Wire is sometimes used for this pur-
pose; but if either wire or cord is used,
they must be carefully removed before the
next year's growth, or they will rat into
and deform the tree or limb. Lead wire
has been used to some extent; and it is de-
cidedly preferable for the reason that it
compresses the bark sufficiently to accom-
plish the result, while it gradually yields
in length with the growth of the branch,
until it finally breaks and drops off.

California Seeds at the East. — Nursery
men at the East are giving earnest heed to
the wonderfully productive growth of Cali-
fornia, and are taking active measures to
secure seeds, trees, shrubs, and plants from
this State. Large amounts of garden and
other seeds have already found their way to
Eastern farms and gardens, where they
have fully established their superiority over
those grown upon the worn out soils of
older lands. An interchange of seeds is al-
ways advantageous; and especially so when
they are transferred from new to old soils.
There seems to be an invigorating influence
infused into almost everything of California
growth which tells most unmistakably when
transferred to other soils. European nur-
serymen have not been unmindful of these
facts, and are seeking to improve the prod-
ucts of their farms and gardens, also, by
the same means. If nurserymen, seedmen,
florists and others, in the Eastern States
and Europe, would pay still more attention
to the agricultural and horticultural pro-
ductions of our State, they and the world
at large would be decided gainers.

Good Crops at the East. — Intelligence
from the great wheat-fields of Ohio, Indi-
ana and Illinois, are to the effect that the
appearance of the fields promises an un-
usual large crop for the present season.
Good crops and general prosperity are so
clearly allied that the latter is quite cer-
taiu to follow the former, and become gen-
eral throughout the country at large.

A Beecheeism. — Some one recently sug-
gested to Beecher that he might accomplish
much good by traveling about the country
and preaching to the people of various sec-
tions. His reply was, " It is better for the
United States to go through my church
than for me to go through the United
States."

New Mining Advertisements.

Xorth .American Wood Preserving Company.

Location of Works: Sun Francisco, California.

Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
twelith day of March, 1369. the several amounts set
opposite the names of the respective shareholders, as
follows:

Names. No. Certificate. No. snares Amount.

Geo W Dcnr 1 4W $4110 00

Beni R Nickcrson 29 20 Sj 00

B> ni R Nickcrsr.n »i 20 20 00

Bcnl K Nickerson 31 5 5 00

Belli R *ickcrsoii 32 5 6 00

lohn L Simuels 3S 100 10;) i!0

J« hi L Samuels 36 5H SO (i0

John L Samuels unissued l.M) ' 15") 00 I

Henry S bent unissued 20<i 20J 00

And in accordance with law. and an order of the Board of
Trustees, made on the twelith d,ay of March, 1SG9, so
many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be net'.
e^ary, will be sold at public auction, at the office of the
Company, on the first day of May, 1869, at the hour of 12
o'clock M. of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment
thereon, together with costs of advertising and expenses of
sate.

WM. B.LAKE, Secretary.

Office, 4^0 Montgomery street. San Francisco np!7

Slempre Ylva Silver Ailniug Company, Biati'lct

of Zarigossa, SJnalua, Mexico.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the fifteenth day of
April, 1869, an assessment of ore dollar per share was
levied upon the capital stock of said Company, payable
immediately, in Untied States gold and silver coin, to
the Secretary, at his office, No. 318 California street.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the twenty-first day of May, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be dulv advertised for sale at
public auction, and unless payment" shall be made before,
will be sold on Monday, the sevcnili day of June, ISfiS1,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with cubes of ad-
V3rtising and expenses of sale. By order ot the Board ol
Trustees.

JOHN F. LOHSE, Secretary.

Office, 313 California street, San Francisco. np!7

The Anini.il Meeting of stockholders of the
Daniel Webster Silver Mining Company, will be held on
MONDAY EVENING, May 10th, at 7>£ o'clock, at the office
of the Company, No. 418 California street.

apl7-4w C. A. UHRIG. Secretary.

The Annunl Meeting of Stockholder* of the

William an lie Silver Mining Company, will be held on
TUESDAY E.VEN1NG, May lSlh, at 7j£ o'clock, at the office
of the Company, No. US California street,
up 17-4 w C. A. UHRIG, Secretary.

Mining Notices—Continued.

Cordillera. Gold anri Silver Mining Company.—

Morelos District, Chihuahua, .Mexico.

Notice is hereby given, that ut a meeting ol the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the sixteenth day of
March, 1809, an assessment of one dollar ($1; per share
was levied upon the capital slock of said Company, paya-
ble I til mediately, in United States gold and silver coin,
to the Secretary, at the office of the Company, 321 Washing-
ton street, San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un
paid on the twentieth (2i)rh) day of April, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised tor sale at
iHildic miction, and unless payment shall be made beiore,
will be sold on Monday, the tenth day of Mny, 1869,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of
advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of
Trustees.

henry R. REED, Secretary.

Office, 321 Washington street. San Francisco. mar2D

Daniel Web ter Mining Company.— Location

of Works: White Pine County, State of Nevada.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the seventh day of
April, 1869, an assessment of ten cents (I0cj per share
was levied npon the capital stock of said Company, pnya-
ablii immediately in United states gold coin, to the Sec-
retary, at the office of the Company.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the t nth day ot May, 13b'9, shall be deemed
delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale at public
auction, and unless payment shall be made before, will
be sold on Monday, the thirty-first day of May, 1869.
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with cost of
advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board
of Trustees.

C. A UHRIG, Secretary.

Office, No 418 California street, San Francisco.

Golden Rule Mining Company, Tuolumne Coun-
ty, California— Regular Bi-monthly dividend (No. 19.' of
the Golden Rule Mining Company, of Tuolumne County,
Cal., of 2Ji percent per month, or fifty cents per share,
is now declared, and will be paid to the Stockholders on
and after the 26th lust Office, 432 Montgomery street,
Room No. 5.

J. B. RUSSELL, Secretary.

W. T. Bosworth, President.

A. S. Phifer, Superintendent of Mine. ■ oplO

Lyon Mill and Mining; Company, K.elsey Dis-
trict, El Dorado County, California.
Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
Sixth (6th) day of March, I8P9, the several amounts set
opposite the names of the respective shareholders as
follows:
Names. No, Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

John Amos 58 1 $1 00

A Bim-11 17 10 It too

AC Ten man 1C 82 11-13 82 84

A C Tcitman, Trustee ol 11 6-13 11 46

A C Tcitman 19 64 H-l.t 61 61

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
ot Trustees, made on ihe sixth (6th) day of March, 1869,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be
necessary, will bo sold at public auction, by Messrs.
Olney £ Co., auctioneers. No. 426 Montgomeiy street, on
.Monday, the twenty sixth day of April, 1869. at the hour of
12 o'clock II. of said day, to paj' said delinquent assess-
ment thereon, together with costs of advertising and ex
penses of sale.

J. M. BUFFINGTON. Secretary.
Office, Room 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California
direct, San Francisco. aplO

Mount Temibo Silver Mlnlnc Company.— Lo-
cation of Works: Cortez District, Lander County, Slate
of Nevada.

Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
twenty-third dav of January, 1869. the several amounts set
opposite the names of the respective shareholders, as fol-
lows :

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount

Baum, Charles 2 20 $15 (0

Batim, nhxrles 63 50 37 flu

Rorel, FA 79 2110 J SO 00

Bore), FA 81 100 75 an

Borel. FA 8i .'0 37 £0

Borel, FA 84 ftp 37 N)

Bore), FA .....122 207 J 55 25

Durning, Chnries 65 100 750,)

Gordon, John 18 75 56 25

Gallagher, James 50 HO "ft 00

Hardy, Thomas 21 300 225(H)

Lehmann, Chr 24 5 3 75

Lt'avitt, John 25 250 187 50

Mur3ock, C A 105 10 75 to

Murdock, f! A 106 150 H2 50

Murdock.CA 120 39 29 V5

1* rohst, K rust 137 3 2 25

Vandervoort, J C 28 50 37 so

Wentzel', Justus 'S3 2 I f-o

Wilson, E 96 50 37 50

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board of
Trustees, made on the twenty-third day of January, 18ti9,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock a* may bo
necessary, will be sold at public auction, at the sales-
room of Maurice Doro & Co., auctioneers, No. 327 Mont-
gomery street, San Francisco. Califo n>a, on the twenty-
seventh day of April, I8G9, at the hour of 12 o'clock M. of
said day. to pay said delinquent assessment thereon, to-
gether with costs of advertising and expenses of sale.

R, N VAN liRUNT, Secretary.
Office 42G Montgomery street, San Francisco, p

Fuel fie Coal Mining Compuny, Contra Co«ta

County, California,

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the twentieth day of
March, 1869, an assessment of four dollars per share wai
levied upon the capital stock of said Company, parable
immediately, in United States gold and silver coin, to the
Secretary.

Anv stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid 011 the twenty-seventh day of April, 1869, shall be
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sala
at public auction, and unless payment shall be madebe-
fo re. will heboid on Monday, the seventeen'!! dav of Mar
1869, to pay the delinquent assessment, together with co«"rs
of advertising and expenses ol sale. By order of the Board
of Trustees.

S. LAOTIMAN, Secretary.

Office, southeast corner Market and First streets, van
Francisco. inar27

Star Creek IMInlnir Company.— r.orat Ion: Star

District, Humboldt County, State of Nevada.

Notick. — There are delinquent upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment (No, 1) levied on
the twenty-sixth day of February, 1869, the several amounts
set opposite the names of the respective shareholders, as
fjllnws:

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amount.

Babb, L H unissued 6 20 $ 0 00

Ba'ts, A B, Att'y unissued 10 143 -j\i si»

DavH, Erwin unissued 2 77C 1164 0ft

Divisson, R S, Att'y. unissued 9 51 fl 300 00

Faulkner, George — unissued 12 1000 isttn 00

Leu', Wm M unissued 1 530 795 no

Levingston, J.sn,-c — unissued 8 108 162 00

Minium, Charles... .unissiud 7 10') ISO 00

Morrison, S A unissued 5 100 ]5o to

Phclan, James unissued 11 72 108 CO

And in accordance with law, and an order of ihe Hoard
of Trustees, made on the twenty-sixth day of Kcbruay, I819,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be nec-
essary, will be sold at public auction, by J. Middle ton A
Son, 310 Montgomery street, San Francisco, on Monday, the
nineteenth day of April. 1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock M.
of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment thereon,
together with coats of advertising and expenses of sale.
HORACE MORRISON, Secretary,

Office, N. E. cor. Front and Jackson streets. au3

Senator Silver Mlnlnc Company.— Location of

Mine: Virginia City, Storey County, State of Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board
of Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty-pixth
day of March, 18W), an assessment of fifty cents per share
waslcvn-d upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able immediately, in United States gold coin, to the Sec-
retary, at the office of the Company, No. 408 California
street, San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shah remain
unpaid on the first (1st) day of May, 18t9. shall bo
deemed dcliniiucnt, and will be duly advertised lor sale
at nublic auction, and unless payment shall he made be-
fore, will be sold on Friday, the twenty-eighth day of
May, 1869, lo pay the deliimuent assessment, together
with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of
the Board of Trustees.

T. B. W1NGARD, Secretary.

Office, 408 California street. San Froncisco mar'^7

Sliver Sprunt Mining Company.— Locution *\t

Works and Minos: Kcarsarge District, Inyo county, Cal.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board
of Trustees of said Company, held on the twenty -fifth
day of March, 1869, an assessment. of fifty cents per share
was levied upon the capiial stock of said I'ompunv, pay-
able immediately, in United States gold coin, to the' Secre-
tary, at the office of the Company, No.4t>8 California street,
San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain an-

Said on the first (1st) day of May, 1869. shall be deemed
clinqucnt, and will be duly advertised for sale at public
auction, and unless payment shall be madr before, will be
sold on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of May, 1869, to
pay the delinquent assessment, together with c«sti ol ad-
vertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board ol
Trustees.

T. B. WINGARD, Secretary.
Office, 408 California street, San Francisco. mar'27

Troy Ledge Mining Company, Wiilte Fine

District, Lander Count*, Nevada.

Notice is berehy given, that at a meeting of the Board
of Trustees of said Company, held on the sixteenth day of
March, I860, an assessment of fifteen cents per share was
levied upon the capital *tock of said Company. p.iTahle
immediately, in United States gold and silver coin, to the
Secretary

Any stock upon which said assessment ah» 11 remain unpaid
on Friday, the twenty-third dav of April, 18C9. shall
be deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for
sale at public auction, and unless paymeni shall hr made be-
fore, will be sold on Monday, the twenty-fourth day ol May,
18"'9, to pay- the delinquent assessment, together with cosieof
advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board
of Trustees.

J. M BUFFINGTON. Secretary.

Office, 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California street,
San Francisco. mar 21)

Morning Nausea, — To be sick at the stomnch
at the hour when healthy people are hungry for
breakfast, is a very unplcasent thing. Tet there
are thousands of both sexes who "feel just so"
every morning of their lives. Persons who Buffer
from morning nnusea — or from nausea at any time
of the day — ought to know that their organs of
digestion aro in a bad state, and overloaded with
crude bile. The remedy — an absolute specific in
all such cases — is a course of Drake's Planta-
tion Bitters. Their effect will be to tone the
liver and stomach and gently relax the bowels,
and before the invalid has taken this pleasant yet
potent medicated stimulant for a week, he or she
will have no occasion for a physician, bat urgent
need for the services of a cook. *

Tlc\e Mining and Scientific Press.

25,

Work at the Foundries.

MIXERS' FOl'NDRY.

Three of Paul's dry amalgamation bar-
Mil have been made in nil at the Miners'
Fonndrj — the first one [already notioed)
for Silver City. Nevada, another for Ari-
zona, which has been shipped, and one
jnst completed for Kenrsarge District, Inyo
County; severally of tho size to work half
a ton.

Tw" additional Howland's Rotary Stamp
Mills have been made; one for Georgetown,
El Dorado County, and one for Silver
Peak, Southern Nevada. A fine wooden
model of this mill may be seen at the Min-
ers' Foundry.

The newly invented rotary valve engine
of Mr. Howland, seems to be well thought
of, a strong point claimed in its favor be-
ing its economy. A 24-horse-power en-
gine costs $1,600. One of these has just
been made for Georgetown, and another for
White Pine.

The artesian well borers at this establish-
ment have struck bedrock at 220 feet depth.
A pump is put down ISO feet, and water
enongh is gradually drawn to the spot by
it, from surrounding moist earth, to answer
every purpose.

A patent portable cupola smelting fur-
nace for a Mr. McCormick, who is xinder-
stood to be a practical smelter, is about to
be constructed here with a view to smelting
rich base metal ores in different localities
in Nevada. Mr. Stewart, the ore worker
at the Miners' Foundry, has recently been
working thirty-five pounds of "White Pine
ore raw, with thirty-two pounds of amal-
gam as the result. Mr. Strong, on Steven-
son street, generally roasts his White Pine
test lots; a matter which should depend,
of course, upon the mineral ingredients.

FDIiTON FOUNDRY.

A rotary engine of the Eeiehart patent,
and a Poppet engine for a steamboat, are
being made here.

VULCAN FOUNDRY.

The White Pine Water Company's ma-
chinery is rapidly progressing, viz. , four
b lilers sixteen feet long, fifty-four feet in
diameter, and four check valves for the air
chambers of the pipe line. The engines
and pumps (four) are being made at Stod-
dart's; and the pipe, 9,000 feet in length
and twelve inches in diameter, of 1-16, 1-8,
and 316 inch thickness, at Risdon's.

Extensive jobs have been done for the
California Sugar Refinery, on Erannan
street, viz : two ' 'blowers " have been made,
to blow up impurities, (somewhat on the
Bessemer principle), in the refining proc-
ess; one vacuum pan ten feet in diameter;
a 24-inch engine, four foot stroke; two
water pumps, 12x36; two air pumps, 12x36;
one large hoist; four boilers sixteen feet by
sixty inches; and multitudinous appurten-
ances.

Some interesting experiments have been
made in this establishment in regard to the
economy of grinding ores fine, after attain-
ing a certain grain, in the Hepburn pan
grinder; showing unexpectedly favorable
results in favor of that method, as we are
informed. Hepburn uses disks of iron,
three inches in diameter and an inch in
thickness, in his pan, which are shoved
around on the bottom in such a manner as
to grind against each other. Comparative
figures with other methods as to economy
of grinding, are promised us.

There are besides a 54x16 boiler for the
Mission Woolen Mills; several small en-
gines and boilers for La Trinidad mine,
back of Guaymas, and other mines in Mex-
ico; a 30-inch turbine for a 35 horse-power
sawmill near Red Bluffs; and a 6-inch force
pump for the Eureka mine, Grass Valley.

PACIFIC FOUNDRY.

A 20-stamp quartz mill; a heavy hy-
draulic press for the Santa Cruz Powder
Mills; another hydraulic press for hay-
packing; four 10-inch double-acting pumps
or Von Schmidt's White Pine Water

Works; a locomotive for the City Grading
Company, a corporation organized for grad-
ing lots in the suburbs; and a number of
miscellaneous jobs, are keeping this estab-
lishment in the nsnal state of activity.

OOLDEN STATE FOUNDRY.

Palmer, Knox & Co. have been making
velocipedes by the hundred. A portable
self-moving engine, having its wheels cou-
neoted with the machinery by chain gear-
ing, and carrying the tliresheron aframe in
front of the engine, is being made for a
Mr. Jackson. A similar engine for a Blake's
rock-breaker, is being made for T. L.
Walker & Co., to be used for macadamiz-
ing streets in Oakland. Some small mills
arc in hand. A number of very large cen-
trifugal grinding pans and separators, of
the Hurdy pattern, are on the sidewalk,
ready to take their departure for the
Stephenson mill, Gold Hill.

Railroad Items.

Stockton and Tulare Railroad. — It is
rumored that the project of raising §300,-
000 to build the Stockton and Tulare Rail-
road is hanging firo, under the plea that
the amount named is not enough to- com-
plete it This objection is met by the
friends of the project, with the assertion
that the same is quite sufficient to commence
it, and that when once commenced, and a
short section put in working order, the ad-
vantages of the road will become so appar-
ent that no difficulty will be found in get-
ting whatever furtheramount will be needed
to complete the same. The people of
Stockton will be false to their own inter-
ests if they suffer the project to fall
through.

What Railroads do for Farms. — We
commend the following suggestions from
the American Agriculturist to our Stockton
friends who are hesitating to come down
with the necessary funds to start the pro-
posed railroad out into the rich agricultural
district to the south of that eity. The cal-
culations here submitted will apply with
greater force in California where the cost of
ordinary transportation is higher than it is
in the Eastern States. The Agriculturist
says:

To haul forty bushels of corn fifty miles
on a wagon would cost at least $12 for
team, driver and expenses. A railroad
would transport for $4 at the most. Al-
lowing an average of forty bushels per
acre, the crop would be worth S8 per acre.
As the relative advantage is about the same
for other crops, it is clear that a railroad
passing through a town would add §100
per acre to the value of the farms. A town
ten miles square contains 64,000 acres. An
increase of §100 per acre is equal to $6,400.-
000, or enough to build 200 miles of rail-
road, even if it costs $32,000 per mile. But
200 miles of road would extend through
twenty towns ten miles square, and costs
but $10 per acre, if taxed upon the lancK
These figures are given merely as an illus-
tration. If the farmers had taxed them-
selves to build all the roilroads in this
country, and given them away to any com-
panies that would stock and run them, the
present increased value of their land would
have well repaid all the outlay.

Increased Patent Facilities. — A bill
has been introduced into Congress to allow
an increase in the number of examiners in
the Patent Office. This is a matter which is
greatly needed, and we trust the bill will
speedily beoome a law. It is no more than
right that inveutors should have a more
prompt and efficient examination of their
oases. As it is, there is not only oftentimes
a most vexatious delay in the examination
of applications for patents ; but, through
the crowd of business that is forced upon
the examiners, their work is not done with
that care and discrimination which is de-
sirable

Stockton, April Sth, 2869.
Messrb. Dewey & Co.: — Your favor of tho Gth inst.,
accompanying patent for improvement in horBe shoes
is received. I beg you will accept tho earnest assurance
of my gratitude for your Irind assistance and voidable
serviceB. Very truly yonrs, W. R. Watson.

New Incorporations.

Much activity is shown this week in the
formation of compauies for tho undertak-
ing of fresh enterprises in mining and
manufacturing, etc. No better evidence
could possibly be adduced of the inviting
resources of our extensive undeveloped do-
mains, so long as the objects set forth are
real; a point which can best bo determined
by the names and antecedents of the par-
ties concerned, when the genuineness of
the project is not of itself apparent.

As a new and promising field for the ex-
tension of the usefulness of the joint stock
idea, the Bulletin of the 10th suggests that
the homestead principle, which has worked
so well when applied to city and suburban
lots, might be used with good effect in dis-
solving some of the large land grants,
which by being held so long beyond the
reach of all improvements, have greatly re-
tarded the prosperity of the State.

Parties associating on the homestead plan,
says the Bulletin, could buy and manage
one of these grants to great advantage,
when the aggregate cost would be beyond
the reach of a single individual of moderate
means. An additional value would be
given by concerted improvements as to
roads and other facilities; aud small farms
might be readily secured in this way not-
withstanding the general advance in prices,
at moderate cost to the purchasers.

Articles of incorporation have been re-
cently filed in the County Clerk's office in
this city as follows:

mining..

Lee S. M. Co.— White Pine, Nev. April
9th. Capital stock, $1,000,000; 10,000
shares, $100 each.

Eastern Enterprise S. M. Co. — White
Pine, Nev. April 9th. Capital stock,
$1,000,000; 10,000 shares, $100 each.

Evening Star, No. 1, S. M. Co.— White
Pine. April 10th. Capital stock, $1,800,-
000; 8,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees:
G. W. Beaver, H. G. Brown, M. J. Mc-
Donald, J. S. Kennedy and W. R. Wheaton.
Madden M. Co. — White Pine. April
10th. Capital stock, $4,000,000: 40,000
shares, $100 each. Trustees: W. R. Mau^
rice, Henry Baker, B. B. Minor, James
Kellogg and W. Wilson.

Enoch Arden S. M. Co. — White Pine,
Nev. April 10th. Capital stock, $1,000,-
000; 10,000 shares, $100 each. Trustees;
Wni. B. Lake, Oliver S. Hatch and P. H.
Boggs.

Tevis S. M. Co.— White Pine, Nevada.
April 12th. Capital stock, $800,000; 8,000
shares, $100 each.

Wyoming S. M. Co. — White Pine, Nev,
April 13th. Capital stock, $lv400,000; 14,-
000 shares, $100 each.

Stockton M. Co — April 13th. Capital
stock, $720,000; 7,200 shares $100 each.

Emanuel M. Co. — White Pine, Nevada.
April 18th. Capital stock, $1,000,000; 10,-
000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: A. G.
Stiles, J. McMahon, E. B. Wilder, N. C.
Fassett and J. C. Wilmerding.

Ludlow M. Co. — White Pine, Nevada.
April 18th. Capital stock, $1,200,000; 12,-
000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: Jacob
Remmel, Geo. H. Eggers, M. L>. Hyne-
man, H. Bruns and J. H. Gardner.

AngosturaS. M. Co. — White Pine, Nev.
April 18th. Capital stock, $1,000,000; 10,-
000 shares, $100 each. Trustees: J. Pres^
ton Moore, Henry C. Swain, J. R. Garniss,
Wm. J. Stringer and R. N. Van Brunt.

Green Mountain S. M. Co. — White
Pine, Nev. April 18th. Capital stock,
$1,40(1,000; 14,000 shares, $100 each. Trus-
tees: J. T. Hoyt, A. J. Gove, A. T. Fletcher,
D. B. Stacy and Frederick Med::e.
land and homestead associations.

Flint Tract Homestead Association.
San Francisco. April 10th. Capital stock,
$324,000; 5,600 shares, $600 each. Trus-
tees: J. DeForest, J. W. Jordan, H N.
Tilden, Jas. Palache, Gilbert Palache, Wm.
Hollis, Edward Barry, J. L. Jones and
Wm. Sutton.

School House Extension Homestead
Association. — San Francisco. April 10th.
Capital s-tock, $31,500; 105 shares, $300
each. Trustees: J. W. Shaffer, John Kurtz,
W. J. Gunn, Jos. Naphtaly, Charles T.
Brown, D. S. Baehman and B. L. Brandt.

Piedmont Land Co. — Alameda County.
April 13th. Capital stock, $800,000; 8,000
shares, $100 each. Trustees: Lucius A.

Booth, G. W. Beaver, Jas. Gamble, Henry
S. Hudson and Geo. H. Mumford.
Sax Mateo Land Association. — Redwood
City. April 14th. President.John Kurtz; Sec-
retary, L T. Milliken; Treasurer, A. Selig-
man; Trnstces, W. B. Cnmmings, George
Piatt, B. H. Ramsdell, Frank Soule and B.
H. Freemau.

City Hall Homestead Association. —
San Francisco. April 14th. Capital stock,
$70,800; 128 shares, $600 each. Trustees:
Wm. Monnhan, T. P. Riordon, John Re-
gan, B. B. McAllister, M. Meagher, J. C.
Mayuard aud Owen McMahon.

SAYING&

Marysville Savings Bank. — Secretary
and Treasurer, Frank W. Aaron ; Trustees,
J. S. Belcher, Chas. M. Patterson, R. G*.
Stanwood, M. Marcuse and D. E. Knight.

ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

Stockton Gas Co. — Trustees, Henry H.
Haight, C. E. McLane and Joseph G. East-
land.

Aurora Consolidated S. M. Co. — April
12th. President, J. D. Fry; Secretary,
Joel F. Lightner; Superintendent, Frank
Drake; Trustees, Thos. Bell, H. G. Bias-
del, Frank Drake, J. D. Fry and Frank
Livingstone.

S. F. S. &B. Association.- April 12th.
President, M. Waterman; Vice-President,
H. Steinhoff; Treasurer, M. Sichel; Secre-
tary, P. N. Feldtman.

Pacific Glass Works. — April 12th.
Trustees, John Taylor, D. N. Hawley, J.
A. Folger, John Anderson and Edmund
Marks.

Douglas S. M. Co. — April 13th. Presi-
dent, J .L. Blaikie; Secretary, J. M. Buf-
fington; Trustees, J. E. Douglas, Robert
Riddle and C W. Randall.

Bullion M. Co. — Trustees, Thomas H.
Williams, D. W. Bixley, John Mackay, F.
A. Tritle and H. H. Flagg.

A. Johnson in a New Character. — It is
reported that President Johnson will, im-
mediately after his term of office ceases, go
to Europe, for the purpose of negotiating
the bonds of the El Paso and Pacific Rail-
road Company, if that company should get
its joint resolution through the Senate,
now on its table, giving it the right of way
through the public land from El Paso to
the Pacific. The resolution gives the com-
pany a perpetual right of way through the
Territories; also incorporates it. On its
face it appears to be very simple, but it
gives the most valuable franchise which
as yet has been asked of Congress. The
company can in all time forbid any other
company from constructing a road from El
Paso to the Pacific on the 23d parallel.
The franchise, some one estimates, will be
worth five or ten millions of dollars. Mr.
Johnson, they propose, shall become its
President.— N. Y. Stockholder, March 9th.

HATWARD & COLEMAN

IMPORTERS AND REFINERS

Illuminating, Lubricating,

I» A. ITS T OILS,

consisting or

KEROSENE. LABD, SPERM, ELEPHANT, POLAR,

TANNEKS. NEATSFOOT. BOILED AND RAW

LINSEED, CASTOR ANDj CHINA NUT.

Spirits of Turpentine and Alcohol.
Lamps and Lamp Stock !

An elegant and complete assortment.

SOLE IMPORTERS OF
Deyoe's Illuminating" Oil

PATENT CANS.

5vl7-tf. -A l-l Front Mtreet, San Francisco.

OlfcTJiDE BULLION.

Crude'BnlHon of any kind, bought at the highest prices
Address] ALBERT ARENTS, HO Kearny street. San
Francisco. 19vl8-3m

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ing the address or this paper. To give all necessary inform
ation, write us plainly as follows: "Change addressofthe-

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Electbotypk EtJOBAvinGS, Cuts, Etc.— Our Job Printing
Oihce is abundantly supplied with elegant engravings, or
naiucnts, and other embi;lHs<limeiita to suit the varioui
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Machinery.

PATENT AMALGAMATOR.

These Machines Stand Unrivaled.

For rapidly pulverizing and amalgamating ores, they
nave no equal. No effort has been, or will be, spared tc
have them constructed in the most perfect manner, and of
the great number now in operation, not one has everre-
quired repairs. The constant and increasing demand for
them is sufficient evidence of their merits.

They are constructed so as to apply steam directly into
he pulp, or with steam bottoms, as desired.

This Amalgamator Operates as Follows:

The pan being filled, the motion of themuller forces the
pulp to the center, where itis drawn down through the ap-
erture and between the grinding surfaces. Thence it is
thrown to the periphery into the quicksilver. The curved
plates again draw It to the center, where it passes down,
and to the circumference as before. Thus it is constantly
passing in a regular flow between the grinding surfaces and
mo the quicksilver, until the ore is reduced to an impalpa-
ble powder, and the metal amalgamated.

Sellers made on the same principle excel all others. —
They bring the pulp so constantly and perfectly in contact
with quicksilver, that the particles are rapidly and com
pletely absorbed.

Hill-men are invited to examine these pans and setlers for
themselves, at the PACIFIC FOUNUttTT,

Ivl San Francisco.

ELLERY'S PATENT

India Rubber Cement and Faint

TIN, IRON AND METALLIC :ROOFS,

Iron, Brick, and Wooden liulldings,
SHIPS, STEAMBOATS, STAGES, CABS,

AND FOR ALL EXPOSED SURFACES.

Is water-proof and indestructible; will neither rot, peel,

noreracfc; will withstand anyclimaLe; can be put on iu

any color, and is less expensive than othtr Paint

New Cloth Roof's put on. Old Boots cemented
and painted. Leaky Itoofs made tight.

OSf No Coal Tar or Asphaltum used. All work guaran-
teed. Orders punctually attended to.

GEO. T. BEOULET, Agent,

Pipe Vise, with or without
Extra Jaw.

Standard Milling Machine.

UNION VISE COMPANY,

OF BOSTON, MASS.
Extra jaw, and heavy Vises, Warranted for heavy work.
New stvle Wood and Covered Screw Vises, forty styles and
kinds; "Standard Milling Machiues, simple, great capacity,
power and strengih— two sizes, large, 2,301) lbs; small, 96U
lbs. For sale by the trade.
23vl6-Ly G. H. NOTT, Pres.

BLAKE'S QUARTZ BREAKER

PRICES REDUCED!

MACHINES OF ALL SIZES FOR SALE
— BT —

WM. P. BLAKE, '

Corner Flnt and Mission streets, or Ilox 2,077

3vl3f SAN FRANCISCO.

PACIFIC FILE WORKS,

Ho. 53 Beale Street, bet. Market and Mission,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Files Re-cut and warranted as good as new, with a Raving
of fifty per cent. REAPER AND MOWER SECTIONS
MADS Tu ORDER. The only establishment on the Coast
Orders from the country promptly attended to. &&• First
Premium awarded at tha State Fair, 1S67-

2vl7-3m ' T. €t. 1»CHXING <fe CO

Removal.

NELSON & DOBLE,

AGENTS FOR

Thomas Firth & Sons' Cast Steel, Files,

Etc., Sheaf, Spring, German, Plow, Blister and Toe Calk

Steel; manufacturers of

Ulill Picks, Sledges, Hammers, Picks,

Stone Cutters', Blacksmiths' and Horse-Shoers1 Tools,

Have removed to 13 and 15 Fremont street, near

Market, San Franuiuuu.

lOvlAqr

MACHINERY AGrJEiVCY.

W. O. M. BERRY & CO.,

Are the manufacturers' agents for Richardson, Merrlam
& Co's celebrated

Wood Working Machinery,

Embracing every description of Planers, Matchers and
Mor Users, Moulding, Teiiuuin^, Boring, Shaping, Vertical
and Circular Ke-sawiiig Macninus; scroll, Railwav, Cut-off
and Rip Saws, etc., eic. Agents for the Swamscot Co's

Improved Portable Engines,

Warranted fully equal to any in the market; Davis ± Fur-
ber's Woolen Machinery; Blab's Patent Steam Pumps;
Kilburn'i and Warren's f urbine Water wtieels, etc , etc.

Orders far Machinery of any kind will receive prompt
attention Machines for special purposes buflt to order.
Send for Illustrated Catalogue W. O. M. BEtiRV £ CO.,

8vlS-:tra 114 California St., San Francisco.

JXotice to BXinex-ts,

Well-Borers and Water Companies.

MPRAG IS NOW PREPARED TO MANUFACTURE
. rivdniulic and Artesian Well Pipes in the best work-
manlike manner, and at the lowest market rates. Having
made large additions to my stock of machinery for that
branch of business, I am prepared to fill all orders with dis-
patch, and guarantee entire satisfaction. I also manufac-
ture Mississippi Stoves, ot the latest improved patterns, for
vessels of all classes. Also, Ship Plumbing done.

St. 1'KIGI,
8ylS-J7 Stove Store, No. 1 Clay street, below Davis.

CALIFORNIA TOOL WORKS,

Blacksmith and Machine Shop,

1-1:5 Eeule St., bet. JM I»sion and Howard,

SA2S FBANCISCO.

All kinds of Edge or other Tools made to order. Par-
ticular attention paid to pu ting in order AGRIO LIUKaL
.MACHINERY. Job Grinding and Polishing by sicam.
Orders troni the Country prumptlylattenued to flSpAll
work warranted.

21V17 qy J. WE1CHHAKT, Proprietor.

Boiler Scraper and Tube-Cleaner.

^$

IT IS THE CHEAPEST, MOST
durable, easiest to adjust, and
cleanest apparatus to use lor the
purpose designed, yet offered to
the public. Being constructed on
simple and mechanical principles,
it i* not liable to get out of order,
and will continue to perform its
office until the materials are worn
out. It can readily be adjusted,
even by any inexperienced per
son— will scrape off the scales and
cleanse the tubes just as smooth
and clean as they were when
new, without in the least affecting
their inner surface, as the Elliptic
Spring Scraper has n smooth
square edge, and springs in or out
tn tit the tubes. It is particularly
applicable for steamboat boilers
when muddy wateris used.

A continuous iron rod runs
through the center of the top and
b ittoin hubs. The soft steel scrap-
ers are fastened with screws to
the hubs, under the caps, which
cover and protect the screws that
fasten the scrapers on the hub.
The scrapers are expanded or con-
tracted by screwing or unscrew
ing the lower hub,— first loosening
the cap. There is a collar on the

rod to prevent the scrapers being jammed. An elastic or
flexible brusli or scraper, made of leather, rubber, or some
pliable material, is attached to the nut for the purpose ot
removmc from the tube the scale and dust loosened by the
action of the scrapers.

These scrapers are made from one to six inches in diam-
eter—the prices of those from one to three inches ranging
from S5 to S12. They are now extensively used iu the
Eastern States. Quite a number have already been sold in
this State.

For sale by McAfee, Spiers & Co , boiler makers, Howard
street, between Fremont and Beale, «an Francisco, and at
the Union Foundry, Sacramento. E. M. D., P. o. box 17,
San Francisco, Manufacturers' Agents. 24vl7tf

BLAKE'S PATENT

STEAM: PUMP!

This Plhid is warranted superior to any in the market,
for Breweries, Sugar Houses. Tanneries, Boiler-Feeders,
Steamboats. Mining and Fire purnoses, etc. It throws a
full stream of the thickest beer mash without clogging,
and sugar syrup boiling hot without difficulty.

Warranted a positive Pump under all circumstances; it
never stops nor sets out of order, and by reason oi the pa-
tent device in the valves, is kept clear and always ready
for action. It is SIMPLE, COMPACT and POWERFUL,
and needs no expert to run it.

flSflf one fails to do the work for which it is sold, it may
be returned and the money will be refunded. May be seen
in operation at Risdon's, or Union Iron Works, or at
W. O. M. B KKKT JSi CO'S,
Agents for Pacific States,

8vl&3m IU California street, hail Francisco.

GLASGOW
Iron and Metal Importing Company

NOS.

and ST Fremont street.

SAN FRANCISCO,

Keep constantly on hand a large stock ofhestBarand
Bundle Iron, Boiler Tubes, Plate and Sheet Iron, Gas and
Water Pipe, Anvils, Cast Steel, Gas and Water Fittin?"
which they offer to the trade on liberal terms.

2lvl6-3in W. McCRINDLE, Manage.

Avery Pump and Tube Well.

Complete ioi- Use.

The TUBE WELL is foimed by driving prepared iron
piping into the ground with a sledge. Although of compar-
atively recent invention, these ■wells have won a world-
wide reputation, and are proven to be superior to the ordi-
nary dug well, costing sometimes less than one-fourth that
of others, and at the same time excluding the surface water
and dirt. The tubing is coupled together in lengths of
about six feet, as they are being driven into the earth; the
valves are then dropped in and the Pump screwed down on
top.

FOKCE A.XD I.IFT PUMPS
Always on hand. For ease of "Working, durability and
lorce, the Avery Pump has no superior. For circulars,
etc., address PostSflice box 17.

TJHBie <fe DEWEY,

13vl3tf 318 Pine street, San Francisco.

OCCIDENTAL

Insurance Company,

OF SAJT FRANCISCO.

Cash Capital, ...... S300.000

GOLD COIN.

Office S. "W. corner of Montgomery and
California streets.

Fire and Marine Insurance.
All Leases paid in U. S. Gold Coin.

IC1IR. CHRISTIANSEN, President.
S. Rothschild, Secretary1 [20vl7-3m

Trades and Manufactures.

WM. BAKTLING

HENRY KIMBALL.

BARTLING & KIMBALL,
BOOKBINDERS,

Paper Killers and Blank Book Manufacturers.

5«5 Clsiy Mtruct. (southwest Lor. Sansome),
I5vl2-3m SAN FRANCISCO.

(SUCCESSOR TO 0. GORI)

MARBLE "WORKS,

So. 421 Pine st. bet Montgomery and Kearny, San Francisco

tltmtels, Honnment*, TomD§, Plumbers* Slabs
Etc., On hand and Manufactured to order.
83F- Goods shipped to all parts of the State. Orders re
spectfulh solicited. 5vS-3m

J. M. STOCKMAN,

Manufacturer of
PATTERNS AND MOOIEILS,

(Over W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry,
S. E. Corner of Mission and Fremont sts.,
6vl4tf SAN FRANCISCO

J. F. PAGES,

SliAXi ENGRAVER,

iXB IETTEB CrTTEK,

Brass and Steel Stamps and Dies, GOS Sacramento street,

San Francisco. Orders by express promptly attended to.

6vl6

DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITURE.
JOHNSON~& BEST,

Manufacturers of all kinds of

Desks on.cl. Office Furniture,

11 ."* Market Btreet, near Third.

Warerooms up slairs. A large variety of Desha always on

hand; all kinds ol office Furniture and Cabinet

Work made to order.

ISvliqr

Agents "Wanted!

For the '

National

American Tear Book
Keslster," ft.rlBUO.

Horace Greclev's Autobiography, and other new and pop-
ular works; S.ud fur descriptive circulars.

F. DEWING- A CO ,
1'ivlS 3m 416 Montgomery street, San Francisco.

SAN FKAKWSCO

Pioneer Screen Works,

JOHN W. QUICK, Manufacturer,

Removed to A. Prltzel's Iron Works, 203 Fremont street,

near Howard, San Francisco.

Screen Punching in all its branches, at rates reduced
from 25tn 4n per cent less than the established rates. 1 can
furnish Improved Quartz Screens several sizes finer than
any Screen ever punched, giving universal satisfaction,
and for strength, cheapness and iln nihility arc not excelled.
Also, Punched -Screens of all sizes and fineness made from
allqualitics ot material, for Quartz. Cement, Flour and
Rice Mills, etc. Screen Punching made a specialtv; there-
fore railimen forwarding iheir orders to me will receive
none but the best. Orders solicited.

N. B —J. W. QUrCK is the only competent and successful
manufacturer of Screens in the State, having made Screens
for the princinal mills in this Stale and adjoining ferri
tories for many years. Quartz mill owners using punched
Screens which have universally failed to give satisfaction,
when visiting the ell}- will please call and see me. 6vl7-ly

Paciiic Chemical Works.

SULPHURIC F.THEE.

SPIRITS OF NITRE,
AQUA 1H1I9.1II,
ACETIC ACID,

C5TAWIUE OF POTASSIUM

— AND —
ACIDS AXD CHEMICALS OF AI.I. KINDS.

FALKENAU & HANKS,

Office and laboratory, Sixteenth street, be-
tween Folsora and H»n-i«on.

LOUIS FALKENAU, State Assaycr.

£3j- Particular attention paid to the Analysis of ORES,

MINERALS. METALS, etc.

8vl7

"IMPRT)V£D SPRING-BSD BOTTOM."

(Patented July 21st, 1S68.

The undersigned, having purchased the Patentee's inter
est in the States and Territories of the Paciiic Coast, is now
prepared to supply Private Houses, Hotels and Steamers
with this comtortable, economical and durable " IM-
PROVED SPRING BED BOTTOM."

Persons going to White Pine will greatly promote their
comfort by taking one of ihese Patent Bottoms, which is
secured to a folding bedstead, the cost of which is less than
that of the materials at White Pine.

Wareroom, No. 1002 Market Street.

J?. UVDSO.V, Proprietor.

OSF-Call and examine. Open until S o'clock P. 1&.
6vi8qr

The Oakland Daily Transcript.

A. BIT P-AJPER.

The Largest Circulation in the County,

Advertisements Sn the Transcript will reach
every part of Alameda Coanty.

RATES FOR ADVERTISING

■V"33R,-3r LOW.

Assessment of Mining Claims. — A mass
meeting of the miners of Alpine County
was recently held to take action in regard
to the assessment of mining claims. Their
object was to suggsst some mode that would .
secure uniformity and equality throughout
the county, and at the same time satisfy the
Assessor that his work had been legally and
effectually done. Resolutions were adopted
which expressed the opinion that undevel-
oped mining claims are not legally assessa-
ble; but. in order to avoid litigation, they
recommend that such claims, which are
non-producing, and their value unknown,
shall be assessed at the rate of $5 for each
200 feet of ground claimed, whether by an
incorporated company or individual. They
further recommended that mining claims
which are developed to such an extent as
to be producing, and so having an ascer-
tained legitimate value, should be assessed
on the same principle as real estate; and
that all personal property belonging to
claims or to mining companies should be
assessed the same as othrr personal prop-
erty in the county. In addition to the reso-
lutions relating to the assessment, the meet-
ingrecommendedtheminersof the different
districts in the county to pass an abandon-
ment law to the following effect: That any
undeveloped claim on which taxes have not
been paid for one or more years shall be
regarded as forfeited and abandoned, and
liable to relocation; and that the payment
of taxes shall be deemed evidence of title.

Commenting on the above, the Nevada
Gazette says: "The action of the meeting,
in our judgment, was wise and judicious.
The assessment of undeveloped claims at a
nominal rate, is the plan adopted in this
county, while paying claims have been as-
sessed as near as their value could be arrived
at, taking into account the liability of min-
ing property to^depreeiate. The recom-
mendation that the payment of taxes should
be held as evidence of title, and failure to
pay evidence of abandonment, would be a
good rule to adopt in all the mining dis-
tricts. If a man holds a claim with the in-
tention of ever working it, he certainly
would not object to pay a yearly tax of $1
or $2, while with the rule id force, men
could go to work to develop abandoned
ledges, with confidence that they would not
be interfered with by old claimants."

Ou> Fogy Mechanics. — "There are
some engineers and mechanics that seem
profoundly impressed with the belief that
no new thing, no new device, can be an
improvement, and they look with an un-
kindly or careless eye npon everything that
indicates a variance with their present
knowledge or practice. After they arrive
at a certain age and experience, improve-
ment, according to their exhausted ideas of
the possible, is impossible. The positively
perfect theory is reached by men at differ-
ent ages; if it happens to a mechanic when
he is in middle life, or some thirty-five or
forty years old, there is no hope for his
future usefulness except in a very subordi-
nate situation. We have known two marked
instances of the ill results of the belief that
no change can be an improvement in the
managers of locomotive shops. In one
case no change of patterns, no new devices
or methods were allowed, all proposed in-
novations were rejected, and the result was
that in some fifteen years, the concern was
out of date and failed. In the other case
the result was nearly as bad; but before
utter failure the manager was made to per-
ceive his incapacity, and resigned, his place
being taken by a " theorist" from the
draughtsman's office, under whose manage-
ment the works now take a leading posi-
tion. There are many railway shops that
are cursed by just such eonservat.ve me-
chanics. It does not necessarily follow
that these are elderly men, as one of the
best and most successful master-mechanics
we know is on the wrong side of sixty-five;
and no man in his profession is more alive
to all improvements than he." — Railway
Times.

Heating Caks.— The New Haven Journal
thus describes a new method of heating
passenger cars: "A bonnet is placed on
the top of the car at each end, to catch the
wind while the car is in motion, and the
air rushes down a pipe in a corner inside,
close to a stove, which is made with a hot
air jacket. On the floor of the car stands
a closed box, partly filled with water. The
air rushes directly into this water box,
where it is thoroughly washed, and passing
into the heater, is forced into pipes that
run near the floor, the whole length of the
oar, on each side and under the seats. At
proper intervals these pipes are perforated
with small holes, through which the heated
air then escapes. The arrangement gives
satisfaction."

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

255

Copper fkom Alaska. — The Ore
of the 27tli nit., contaiu9 the following pnv-
apru|>h : "We yesterday baw a boulder of
metal brought down from Siik-.i by Captain
Laugdon, of the steamer Geo. S. Wright.
It is heavy and has almost the appearance
of genuine gold, though an expert would
not mistake it. There was among those
who saw it a diversity "f opinion as to what
it really was. some believing it to he merely
copper, while others thought it might be a
compound containing gold, silver and cop-
per, or stiver and copper alone. Accord-
ingly, the nugget was yesterday taken to
Qharles F. Kuulm, jeweller, for test. Upon
applying the acid test, copper was found
to be in large proportion. No silver test
hud been applied when we visited Mr.
Keuhn's place, but he thinks there may be a
small per cent, of silver in the metal. It
is soft as pure copper, and the nugget may
l>e readily sawn or cut. The specimen was
brought to Sitka by the Indians, who say
they procured it on what is called Copper
Creek, and that it came from a burning
mountain in a fused state. It seems to
have been once fused and to have been run
iuto a crevice in the rocks. Whether or
not it contains any metal more precious
than oopper, the locality from which it was
taken must be immensely rich, if the stories
of the Indiaus be true."

Of course the idea that this " boulder"
was thrown out of a " burning mountain,
in a fused state," is all moonshine. Vol-
canoes never throw out metals of any kind
at least not in any appreciable quantity.
It ia more than probable that it may con-
tain a very little silver, as native copper
always does ; and there is no improbability
in the supposition that valuable copper
mines may exist at or near the locality
which this boulder was found.

ROOT'S PATENT FORCE BLAST ROTARY BLOWER.

I'm, in.! Nov. 1«t, ISO I; Jnly 2*, lSl'.O ; ami Oct. '.>, 1H00.

The New Coloring Peocess. — The new
method of permanently coloring stone,
mentioned in our last, is, it seems, equally
applicable to the coloring of wood. The
New York Stockholder says: "The cheapest
woods subjected to the process, take on the
same hues and become as susceptible of pol-
ish as the most costly woods brought from
India and Brazil. We have seen the spruce
and hemlock of Maine and New Brunswick,
cheap and common woods, treated by this
process, assume the glittering surface of
polished rosewood, apparently with all the
hardness of that wood and with even supe-
rior brightness of tint. In the case of
wood as of stone, the material is thoroughly
permeated with the tint which it is deter-
mined to give it, and consequently the
treatment is good for all time."

It is easy to see that the applications of
this invention are endless. For the inside
decoration of buildings and steam vessels,
and for cabinet work, it will be invaluable.

New Manufactuee. — The Lenox (Mass.)
Plate Glass Works are experimenting with
a new article resembling porcelain, for
table-tops and mantels. It is made from
cryolite, a mineral brought from Green-
land, which name the manufactured article
will take. They are also turning glass to
the novel uso of mold-boards for plows, for
the Western prairie lands, where the soil is
very destructive to iron.

Steering ny Hydrostatics. — Capt. En-
gleneld, of the Royal Navy, has invented a
mode of steering ships by hydrostatic press-
ure— the pressure of the water in which the
vessel floats. The apparatus is, of course,
below the water line, and it enri be eon-
trolled from any part of the vessel. The
Captain, sitting in the cabin of the largest
ironclad, with a compass beside him, can
steer her with his thumb and finger. — Iron
Age.

CALirOBNIA

BUSINESS UNIVERSITY,

204 Montgomery Street.

Full pnrlicnlars regarding o r Prm*tieul Course of Similes
may lie li.ttl bv calling ut Uu; University, or by addressing
lA'17-qvliii R. P. HTSAuD, Sun Francisco.

Iiitcriiational Hotel,

JACKSON S T T*. E E TT

BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AND KEARNY STS.,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE IS IN PERFECT
order t'ortlio accommodation of guests. Persons seek
ing comfort and econmuy will And this the best Hotel In
the city to stop at. The Beds are ne w and in good order,
and l lie Rooms well ventilated. The Tabic will always be
supplied with the best in the market.
Price* varying from IB1 50 to &2 per duy for

ISourd :ind E^ooin.

FINE BATH HOUSE AND BARBER SHOP ATTACHED

TO THE HOUSE

OSr* Teams belonging to the House will be m attendance
at all the boats and cars to convey passengers to the House
»bkk ur ciiaKgk, and to any port of the city for SO cents

i!lvl2 F. E. WEYGANT, Proprietor.

Awarded the First Premhim at the Paris Kxposiliou.

feSsi

REQUIRES

Fifty Per Cent

LESS POWEfl.

Thau any Blower

Stcamsliips.

One of theao B lowers may he seen on exhibition at W. T. Gamut's Br.-ws Foundry, corner of
Mission and Frumout streets. They are also in use at the Almaden Quicksilver Mine; Gridlcy's
Foundry, Gold Mill, Nevada ; ./Etna Iron Works, San Francisco, and many other places.

Cautiox. — Purchasers will find it to their advantage to apply direct to the Stockton Agency, as
certain parties, not authorized to tn inufacturo the Blower, have put in the market machines of inferior
construction, which do not answer all the requirements of the genuine article.

For circulars and further information, address

KEEP & BARGION,

4vIG-3m Globe Iron Worka, Stockton, Cal.

PAINE & STEPHENS'
IMPEOVED CON"CEKTTRATOE:

For Saving Gold and Silver Sulohurctn.

One machine, coating about $1,300, is sufficient to work tile Sands from 35 to 30 Stamps,

Less power being required than for any oilier Machine. The nttention of qua tz millmcn throughout
the State is directed to the subjoined certificates, and if they desire they can visit the Amador Mining
Co's mill, near Sutter Creek, the Eureka Go's mill at Grass Valley, or the Banner Co's mill near
Nevada, and see for themselves.

GJEBTIFCATES :

Grass Valley, Jan. 4th, 18G9 — This is to certify, that we have used the Paine, Stephens &
Harry Concentrators for over twelve months. They have given us entire satisfaction, and are the
best we ever used. WILLIAM WATT, Supt. Eureka Mine.

This is to certify, that we have had in use for the past 18 months one of Paine, Stephens & Co's
Sulphuret Saving Machines, constructed by John T. Harry, (called a bnddlej and which operates
satisfactorily, particularly so in saving fine sulphurets, and we reeommend it as well worthy of use,
eveu where other Concentrators are used above it, as it will pav if there are any sulphurets.

WM. L. TISIPALE, Supt. Star Spangled Banner Mine.

Nevada City, Oct. 26, 1868.

Metallurgy.

Any one wishing to purchase one of these useful machines, can do so by applying to THOS.
N. PAINE, at Grass Valley, Nevada County, or JOHN T. HARRY, Sutter Creek,
Amador County.

M08tI£OIER'8

PIONEER MINING SCHOOL,

— AND —

MET\LI<VRaiC WORKS,

Having established the dm Practical Mining and Metal-
lurgical School in thfl lulled States, I would call the at-
tOlltloo ut gentlemen who may wish to obtain a practical
knowledge of

Chemistry, Assaying and Metallurgy,

That I am prepared to teach nil the above brunches in less
time th m la an* Boropenn Bchoo),

I also undertake ti* assay and work any kind of ore, or
mineral substances.

Fur a-rniM, apply to JOS. MOSHEIMER,

Praci [.-,, I Chemist and Metallurgist

Office, 323 Montgomery street; Meiallurglc Works, 2005
Powell street, SBll Francisco 6vlS-6m

LEOPOLD KUH,
Assayer and Metallurgical Chemist,

(Formerly of the U. S. B. Mint, S. F.)

Office, Xw. OH Commercial Street, opposite

the Mint, Nun FruncUco.

BULLION MELTED AND ASSAYED,
Tne corrcctess of which Is guaranteed In every respect.
All kinds of Ore and Mineral tested, assayed and analyzed
In the most satisfactory manner.

Refers by permission to W. 0. Balston, Cashier Bank of
California; Messrs Piochc & Bayerque, Wm. M. Lent, John
D. Fry, E, Cahlll & Co., A. K. Grim, President Pacific Union
Express Co.; John M. Eckfcldt, M. and It. U. S B. Mint;
Hale A Norcross R. M. Co., and the principal mining com-
panies on the Comstock Lode. 25vl7-tf

PROF. HENRY WURTZ,

Formerly Chemical Examiner In the U. S. Patent Office
may he employed profeBfilonaTly as a Scikntific Expert.
ecological Examinations and Reports, Analysis and Assays,
etc , eic. Practical advice Mid Investigations' in the <"he"m
leal Arts and Manufactures. Invention and examination
of new chemical methods und products. Address, 2C Pine
street, Rooms 36 and 3C, New York. Always in from 12 to
K.3D. flSr Written communications preferred.

Important to Gold and Silver Min-
ers and Companies.

PROFES80R WURTZ,

Who is the Inventor and Patentee of the new and wonder
fill uses of SODIUM IN WOltKINU GOLD AND SILVER
OUES AND JEWELEKS' SWELPINGeS, will furnish at the
above address nforination m relation thereto, together
with exjicri men t:il packages of

SODIUM AMALGAM.

All Instrucllonsiind experiments elsewhere obtained arc
.-.puriotis and unreliable. WORKING EXPERIMENTS ON
AMALGAMATION OF ORES, Etc. Prof. W. basin opera
tion In New York a large and ,-mall Hepburn Pan, lor work
hm l.Ouo or 2U-lb. charges ol material tor experiments
purposes. 3vl7

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ROBERT TAYLOR & CO.,
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Eleventh iitreet, between; Fol»om and Howard.

GAX-VANIZIIVG.

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und Stamping; Metal*. Tinner* uuu

Plumber** Solder, Etc.

flfji-The best price Riven for the most rebellious or re-
fractory ores. Ores and minernisassayed and analyzed.
4vl8 3m

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ASSAYER AND WORKER OP ORES,

No. 10 Stevenson street, near First,San Francisco.

Hiehcst price paid for choice lots of Ores, Sulpnuiers, Ae
say Ashes, Sweemngs, etc., etc. Students instructed In all
branches of Metallurgy, on liberal terms.
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which tlic names of Lea and Pcrrins have been forged, L
and P. give notice that they have furnished their corres-
pondents with power of attorney to take instant proceed-
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other Initiations bv which their right may be infringed.

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Wrapper, Label, Bottle, and Stopper.

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SXTLPHUKETS ;

What they are;1

How Assaved ;

How Concentrated;

And How Worked;

With a Chapter on the

BLOW-PIPE ASSAY OF BUOTERALS.

By WM. BAKSTOW, M. O.

Published by A. Roman & Co., San Franciseo.
For *ale ut tbl» Office.- -Price, One I>olIar.

With the aid of this Book, the miner can assay his ova
ores, requiring but few materials, eic., except suchasaro
generally to be found In the interior town*. 21vl5tf

256

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

White Cloud Mining District, Nevada.

In 1862-3 a party of prospectors, includ-
ing Robert Truein, discovered some rich
ledges in the Humboldt silver range, which
they soon abandoned on account of the re-
moteness from civilization and difficult
communication. Now the cars of the
C. P. E. B. run only about thirty miles
west of these mines, which are some 100
miles northwesterly from White Pine Dis-
trict. Oreana, in Humboldt County, Ne-
vada, is the nearest railroad station.

J. H. Adams, Charles Silent, Col. Bee,
and Frederick Smith, and one of the original
discoverers, recently left San Jose on a
trip to the locality above named, and ac-
cording to the San Jose Mercury, made
some twenty-two locations, including the
White Cloud, Balston, Hurricane, Bepub-
lic, Lake View, Mountain View, Editors',
Black Ledge, Loyal, Granf & Colfax,
United States, and Buckeye. They located
a town site and several mill sites, and or-
ganized the " White Cloud District," elect-
ing H. Bassett, Becorder.

A collection of rich and massive speci-
mens were shown us lately at San Jose,
which we are assured assay remarkably
well, carrying gold, silver and copper.

The gentlemen engaged in this undertak-
ing are well-known citizens, and are confi-
dent and energetic, and we expect to hear
remarkable results from these mines at an
early day. The San Jose Patriot alludes to
their prospects as follows :

"A cut of four feet horizontal into the
White Cloud ledge exposed a solid mass of
ore richer than the croppings had indicated
it to be. Five tons of ore were taken out
of the cut, specimens of which may be
seen at Waltenfel's book store in this city.
The company are now running a tunnel to
intercept the ledge about thirty feet below
the croppings.

The ore is a mixture of the blue carbon-
ate of copper, chloride of silver and streaks
of rotten gold-bearing clay, very soft and
easy to work. The ledges are, to all out-
ward appearances, extensive and well de-
fined, having mineral-stained granite for
the wall-rock. The connecting rock is
granite, commencing with the rotten or
decayed granite at the foot-hills next to the
plains, and following in regular succession
towards the backbone of the ridge are the
new granite, the mineral belt of precious
metals, a belt of black rock having the ap-
pearance of being greased and burned, a
belt of iron ore looking as if the foundries
of the whole world had deposited their
molten mass of metal in one grand heap;
and next to the summit, or on the summit,
is the timber land, well wooded with nut
pine and scrub cedar. The country also
contains plenty of good spring water. The
claims located by the gentlemen that started
from this city are situated within a circle of
' about one mile, and as they prospected no
further than in the immediate vicinity of
their claims, and the mineral belt being to
all appearances very extensive, richer dis-
coveries in that district than any yet made
may reasonably be expected,"

Hotel Baggage. — The proprietor of the
Planters' House, in St. Louis, has been or-
dered by the courts to pay 82,389, the
value of the contents of a trunk left there
in 1865, and sold at auction with other un-
claimed baggage.

Sheffield Scientific School

Of Tale Colleirei New Kaveu, Coun.

This department of Yale College, instituted in 1810, and
endowed with the National Land Grant in 1866, furnishes
advanced instruction in the various branches of Mathe-
matical, Physical, and Natural Science.

The school is under the direction of the President of the
College, a Board of thirteen Professors in different special
ties, and six assistant instructors.

Regular courses of study, leading to the degree of Bach-
elor of Philosophy, conferred by Yale College, are ar-
ranged as follows: 1— Chemistry abd Mibebaxogt. 2— Civil
Engineering. 3— Mechanical Engineering. 1— Mininr
Ebgibeeuibg and Metallurgy. 6— Agriculture. 6 — Nat
URAL History and Ukology, and 7— Select Course.

Advanced students arc also admitted to optional courses,
and if already College graduates, are received as candi-

ates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Tuition, $125 per year of forty weeks.

The Libraries, Museums, Laboratories and Apparatus,
accessible to students, are varied and extensive.

For ooplos of the Annual Circular and Report, letters
may be addressed to the "Secretary of the Sheffield Scien-
tific School," New Haven, Conn. 13v6-lyl6p

Quartz Mill Amalgamating

PUtes, Electro-Plated with Fine Silver; also instruc-
tions in Gild and Silver Plating, on hard and soft met-
al*, EUREKA PLATING WORKS. Terms moder te.
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HOTGERFORD'S IMPROVED CONCENTRATOR,

For Saving Gold, SulpEinrcts, Quick silver, etc*

sflk

■ . . ■

There is no description of machinery of so much importance to the mining interests of Califor-
nia, at the present time, as that for the separation of sulphurets. Many machiues have been tried,
and abandoned ; and none seems to meet the requirement of the mining interest so well as that now
patented by Mr. Hungerfbrd, which is au improvement on the well known Hungerford & Prater Con-
centrator, with which his name is already so familiar.

secoum:e.vi)atio\s :

San Francisco, October 19th, 1868.

Mr. M. Hungerford — Dear Sir: — "We have had twelve of your Concentrators at work at the
Oneida Mine, Amador County, for about six months. They give entire satisfaction. They are
strong and substantial, requiring, thus far, no repairs, and do. their work thoroughly and effectively.
At a recent clean-up of four or them, I found that in four weeks' time we saved about £500 in free
gold, hesides the sulphurets, or not far from one dollar per ton on the entire crushing of the ten
stamps connected with them. In my opinion, it is for the interest of every quartz mill to have your
machines. Yours, respectfully, GEORGE PRINGLE, Supt. Oneida Mine.

Office of the Oneida Mining Company, Jackson, May 13th 18b"8

Mr. Morgan Hungerford — Dear &ir: — In regard to the four Hungerford Concentra-
tors that I bought of Messrs. Goss & Lambard last month, I will say that I put them up in the
Oneida Mill soon after I arrived here, and find that they save sulphurets well and clean, and work to
my entire satisfaction. I have tried many other concentrators, but these stand up and work better
than any others I have used. I have ordered Messrs. Goss t& Lambard to make eight more for me as
soon as possible. Very truly yours, JAMES MORGAN.

Big Oak Flat, May 25th, 1868.— Mr. T. W. Mulfbrd— DearSir :— I have used two of M. Hun-
gerford's Concentrators in the Rattlesnake Quartz Mill, at this place, and find that they work full as
well as they are represented to do. E. M. SMITH, Supt.

A full description of the principle and mode of action of this pan, is described in circulars, which
will be forwarded to any party who may desire them.

The Hungerford Concentrator has only to bo seen to be appreciated. No millman will use any
other kind after he has tried that. They are in active operation in mills throughout the State, and

give perfect satisfaction.

It should be borne in mind that Mr. Hungerford is the original builder and maker of the cele-
brated Prater Concentrator, and his name should be sufficient guarantee to warrant the public in ex-
amining his new machine before purchasing elsewhere.

In future these Pans will be manufactured by Goddard & Co., at the Pacific Iron "Works, San
Francisco, which is a guarantee that they will be built in the most substantial manner.

These Pans may be seen at the Pacific Iron Works, First street, near Howard, San Francisco.
Address.

GODDARD «Sc CO., S*5»n Francisco.

Or M. HUNGERFORD, at the Pacific Iron "Works.

JOHN "WRIGHT & CO.,

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VOIiCMB XVIII.
Nuiubrr 1 "7.

Table of Contents.

Jennlng'a Improved Mir

Bluice-lll.
Lou ilr's i;*. Enejoe-Ill.
c ilurluatlon 01 Oliver < ir
Hlneraloglcnl -nd Uuologlcnl

Nine*
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Roaonrcesand Developments

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It illrns.l Items.

Miiiinn hums.

hall Ki.iiuu.co Market Rates.

KoticeH to t'orresiioiidents.

Stock ('rices— Bl.l olid Asked

New Incorporations.

AaKIOULTOltAL MlsCKLLASr.—

TOO Philosophy ol' Uuy-
Unking: What Is to be
Done with Our Wheat, etc.

-XLANV.—

An.

Mkcranical Mis.
Kuoaway Eiil'ii
other Steam Mini; Water
for Stool Uurdeulng; Holler
Ru tjnlnls and Klvcts, etc.

3d K.srl f 10 M ISCKLLANY.—

The Colors of Autumnal

Foliage: Creation by Law
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Submarine Engineering :
Heli.llate Blasting; Level-
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vada and Oregon.

San Krancisio Mining Share-
holders' Directory.

San t'rancisco Metal Market.

Jennings' Improved Mining Sluice.

Whatever presents a reasonable prospect
of improvement in mining operations, is
worthy of attentive consideration. It is
so seldom that we are enabled to give any-
thing new in the direction of sluice build-
ing, that we are especially pleased to be
able, to-day, to give a brief description of a
newly-invented sluice for use either in
quartz or placer mining, the invention of
Mr. Orlando Jennings, of North San Juan,
Nevada County, a well-known and tho>
ough-going practical miner. Mr. J. first
applied the device to the separation of gold
and sulphurets from the sands issuing from
a quartz mill battery; its success there at-
tracted the attention of a neighboring
placer miner who solicited and obtained the
privilege of trying the principle at his hy-
draulic diggings, where it is now giving
the highest satisfaction.

A

A proper working of this sluice, whether
attached to a quartz mill or operated in
placer diggings, requires a previous sizing
of the material to be put through, and Mr.
Jennings is now engaged in perfecting a
convenient apparatus for this work — that
for quartz mill purposes will be constructed
on the principle of Eittinger's Pointed
Boxes, while for placer diggings a modified
" grizzly " or series of grate bars will be
employed.

The annexed engraving represents a short
section of the bottom of the sluice. C C
represents the bottom or floor. A series of
grooves and riffles will be observed at E B,
running from either side to a central chan-
nel, slightly depressed in the bottom of the
sluice. Such is the simple construction of
the device. The principle of its working
is as follows : When the ore or sand, with
the water, is received into the upper end of
the sluice, at A, the action of the grooves
and riffles is to deflect the water, mixed
with the earthy particles, from the sides to
the center, until the same becomes piled
up, in a longitudinal ridge, along the center

of the sluice. From the top of this ridge,
again, there is a tendency of the water to
flowofftovardsthesides. This gives twocur-
rents — one towards the center on the bottom,
and the other away from the center and to-
wards the sides, on the top. The result is
that the particles of the greatest specific
gravity teud to the bottom central groove,
while the lighter and coarser sand rises to-
wards the surface, is rolled outwards and
passes down the sluice in two separate
currents, parallel to the central groove, and
between it and' the sides of the sluice, as
shown by the waving current lines.

By the establishment of these concen-
trating and separating currents, the heavier
particles are more readily and effectually
separated from the lighter, than when the
latter is allowed to rest directly upon the
former; while at the same time the escape
of the waste sands is more readily brought
about and with less admixture with the met-

•■w^

Lenoir's Gas Engine.

To finish an idea of the principle and
method of operation of this most conven-
ient invention, the accompanying diagram
will sufficiently serve. It is necessary only
to premise that one of Lenoir's machines
of one half horse-power French, or nearly
one horse-power English, may be seen
daily at work in the office of the Courrier
de Scm Francisco, on Jackson street a few
doors above Montgomery.

The diagram represents a single cylin-
der, and all that there is of the machine
except the crank-wheel which transmits
the power from the piston rod H, after
changing it into rotary motion, to the
printing press, or any other machine, in
the parlor, cellar, or garret, requiring
power. Common lighting gas is the agent,
in place of steam ; it is mixed with atmos-
pheric air, in a very simple manner, auto-

LENOIR'S GAS ENGINE.

alliferous viarticles, than when both are al-
lowed to pass down the sluice by the same
current — the one superimposed upon the
other. Application for a patent for this in-
vent.on has beeD made through the Mining
and Scientific Psess Patent Agency.
See advertisement in its appropriate
column.

The Fiees not xet Extinguished. — The
latest telegraphic reports from Gold Hill
report that the fire in the mines is not yet
extinguished, and that the smoke is so
dense in the shafts and drifts that but little
effective work can be done towards their di-
rect extinguishment. Since the accident
on Monday last, by which one of the men
engaged in the work of extinguishment lost
his life, nothing special has occurred.
Workmen are still engaged in forcing water
upon the fire, wherever it can be reached;
but apparently with very little effect. The
injury to the mines will probably be far
more serious than has heretofore been ap-
prehended. Aside from the direct loss to
stockholders, aDd the terrible bereavement,
by loss of life, much distress is produced
by the great number of people who have
been thus temporarily thrown out of em-
ployment by the stoppage of work at the
mines and mills. The monetary public
will also feel, to a greater or less extent, the
suppression of the usual yield from these
mines of some 8350,000 worth of bullied^
per month.

matically, in the proportion of nine of air to
one of gas, which makes an explosive car-
bureted hydrogen compound similar to the
explosive gas in coal mines, or marsh gas,
— the same thing. Common coal gas, or the
olefiant gas of the laboratory, is CH, the
explosive mine gas CH2 . Mixture of air
with the former 9:1, imparts the extra
equivalent of hydrogen to make it explosive.

The gas-pipe connects with the machine
at B, where, by means of an inverted cup
it is measured off, at every stroke of the
rod, with the proper quantity of air, and
distributed evenly through the holes C, for
entrance into the cylinder, alternately
through the openings D and E regulated
by the slide valve rod A, which shuts the
one while it opens the other. On the op-
posite side there are similar openings I and
J, and a similar slide valve arrangement L,
to let out the exploded or burnt gases, ( C
Oa and HO ) carbonic acid and vapor,
through I.

The moment that the space (P) in the
cylinder is filled with gas, the automatic
connections are such that an electric spark
touches it off by the wire G, driving the
piston H from a little distance on the P
side of the middle, towards the other end of
the cylinder^ by a pressure of 5 to 6 atmos-
pheres, But at the instant that the piston
reaches a certain point a little beyond the

middle, on the other side, an explosion
takes place on the opposite side of the
piston by a spark from F, which drives it
back agaiu. This repeats itself perpetu-
ally; the only preliminary, in the place of
"steaming up" or engineering necessary be-
ing the turning on of gas, and making of
the wire connection. The device by which
electricity is made to touch off opposite
volumes of gas alternately, is shown at M,
— a piece of iron connecting with a pole of
the battery, which swings by automatio
connection, once to N, and then to O.

A one horse-power engine consumes
about 40 cubic feet of gas per hour; which,
at $6 per 1,000 feet, would amount to 24
cents an hour. The Courrier engine, a
half horse-power, says Mr. Derbec, costs
him not over 15 cents an hour. The cost
for nitric acid in the battery is scarcely
worth mentioning. The only trouble that
has been experienced in the use of the en-
gine thus far, has arisen from the impurity
of our city gas, necessitating cleaning of
the passages I) and E about once a month.

These engines cost in Paris : % horse-
power, 800 fr. ; 1 horse-power, 1,300 fr. ;
2 horse-power, 2,000 fr. ; 3 horse-power,
2,500 fr.

Gold and Silveb Chloeination in
Mexico. — A valuable article by Ottocar
Hoffman, on the second page, seiives as an
example of the definite kind of writing
which is necessary on metallurgical subjects
to enable others to profit by the description
of a process — our real road to progress in
that very important specialty — and at the
same time calls for a word or two from us,
of discrimination.

Chlorides of the base metals and of gold
are soluble in water, while chloride of sil-
ver is not, being soluble only in salt water, or
in water containing byposulphate of soda
in solution. In the Plattner gold chlorina-
tion, silver, accordingly, is lost.

If the base metal sulphurets are roasted
to oxides, they cannot afterwards be chlo-
rinated with chlorine gas; therefore if cop-
per is to be gained, as, for example, at La
Dura, salt must be added during the roast-
ing; which chlorinates the several metals
at different temperatures, but silver last,
the base metal chlorides being ordinarily
re-decomposed by the time that the silver
becomes a chloride. In order to get both
silver and gold into a state of chloride with-
out decomposing CuCl, etc.,Plattner's gas
generation process is taken advantage of;
and gold, copper, etc.— all but silver chlo-
ride— are leached out with water, and pre-
cipitated separately. Then the hyposul-
phite of soda, or the salt water leaching
process, may follow, to obtain the silver.

Kustel's silver chlorinatiqn differs from
the Patera process simply in the method of
chlorinating silver; avoiding, by the use of
chlorine gas, the necessity for a very costly
and complicated double roasting, with salt,
steam, and sulphate of iron.

Add the Gold in the world might be put
into a cube of 26 feet.

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Communications.

Written for the Mining and Scientific Picas.

Chlorination of Silver Ores at La Dura,
. Sonora, Mexico.

BY OTTOCAR HOFMANN.

The favorable result obtained by the
chlorination process of Kustel & Hofman
on a small quantity cf ore in San Francisco,
induced Mr. E. B. Smith, the Superintend-
ent of La Dura, to engage me for the pur-
pose of introducing that process at the
La Dura mines.

These mines are situated on the Yaqui
river, about 140 miles east of Guaymas.
On our arrival, in consequence of a freshet, we
found the Yaqui sixty feet above the normal
stand, the Hacienda with all appertaining
buildings swept away, leaving only the
foundation and the battery. The furnaces,
Varney's pans, boiler, etc., were buried in
the river. The energy of Mr. Smith, how-
ever, replaced the old works in a compara-
tively short time, only substituting chlo-
rination for amalgamation.

The complete property of the Pittsburg-
Sonora Mining Co. consists of three veins,
La Dura, Kamona and Gaxiola. From each
of tbem ore is treated, but principally from
the Kamona, which is the more favorably
situated, and also better opened. Ore is
abundant, and consists of light and dark
fahl ore, argentiferous zinc-blende, galena
and some iron pyrites. The amount of sil-
ver varies from §60 to $130 per ton. Of zinc-
blende there is about eight or nine, and of
copper three to four per cent, in the ore.
Galena and the other base metals formerly
caused a great loss of silver in amalgamat-
ing, destroying at the same time the
pans, aud quicksilver to a considerable de-
gree.

The present manipulation at La Dura is
executed in the following way:

1. Tlie Roasting. — The ore, crushed dry
through a sieve of 35 meshes, in charges of
800 pounds, is introduced in a furnace thirty,
feet long, in three compartments ten feet
each by eight feet width. The bottom of
each compartment is two and a half inches
above the preceding. The charging is ef-
fected through the roof of the last hearth,
where the ore is prepared by a moderate
heat After three hours the charge is re-
moved to the second hearth, and a new one
introduced in the former. On the second
hearth the ore comes soon into a dark red-
hot condition, requiring more stirring than
in the preparatory compartment. The • ore
gets rid of the greater part of its sulphur,
and it is necessary to change sometimes the
ore from the end of the hearth to the
front, nearer the fire-place. After a lapse
of another three hours, the ore is moved
again, now to the first hearth, nearest to
the fire-place. First, an oxidizing roasting
is applied to the ore for two hours, after
which the firing is stopped, three to four
per cent, of salt is introduced, and the ore
chloridized at a low temperature for one
hour. A low heat is here required on ac-
count of the volatility of the chlorides of
oopper fand zinc, by which more silver
would be carried off. Ten minutes before
the discharge, half of each compartment is
cleared by shoveling the ore towards the
fire-place, and moved over on the next hearth
as soon as the discharge of the roasted ore
begins in the first compartment, so that
when the discharge of 800 pounds is fin-
ished, each hearth appears already charged.

These furnaces have the advantage of not
only savingjuel, butrequiringa less skillful
roaster to do good work. A chloridizing
roasting is not necessary, unless for the
purpose of gaining the copper.

The are two roasting furnaces at La Dura,
capable of roasting five tons of ore.

%.— Moistening of Qre—Tlie Tanks.— The
roasted ore, after being cooled down some-
what, is first moisfened, only so much as
to prevent dusting in the next operation of

throwing it through an inclined sieve.
The lumps separated hereby are pulverized
and returned to the roasting furnaces.
What fell through the sieve is moistened
by further addition of water to such a
degree as to allow it to be pressed into a ball
without adhering to the hand. It is mixed
by two workmen, by means of shovels, and
then introduced into the chlorinating
tanks. Carefully charged, the ore lies
loose enough to permit the gas to have an
easy passage.

The tanks are 9 feet by 2J>< feet deep,
made of IK inch plants, lined with a hot
mixture of pitch and tar inside. The bot-
tom is somewhat inclined from both of the
long sides towards the middle, forming a
flat channel length ways. Above this there
is a false bottom formed of wooden staves,
partable in segments, and covered with a
piece of coarse canvas, for a filter. These
tanks are placed parallel with the long
sides of the building, having as front one
of the short sides, which stands 1% inches
lower than the opposite end. Below the
false bottom in front, each tank has a
leaden cock, which, by means of an india
rubber hose may be connected with the
chlorine gas generator when the ore is
ready to be chloridized. The same cock
will also serve for discharging the leach.
On the opposite side, also below the false
bottom, two pipes are inserted, one pro-
vided with a lead cock, communicating with
another chlorine gas-pipe, the other lead-
ing to the water-reservoir.

The upper rim of the tank is lined with
india rubber, on which the cover is fast-
ened airtight by means of screws. This
mode of shntling up the chlorinating vat
air-tight is much preferable to the old way
of pasting the cover with dough or clay, as
is done in gold chlorinatiou. It is cheaper,
cleaner, quicker, and more perfect.

3. — The Chlormation. — The silver con-
tained in the ore is found after roasting
to consist of chloride, sulphate, and sul-
phide of silver. Exposed to the action
of chlorine gas for several hours, all is con-
verted into chloride of silver.

The chlorine is generated in the usual
way, by peroxide of manganese, sulphuric
acid and salt. It is convej'ed through a
lead pipe into the washing apparatus, and
from thence through two pipes along both
sides of the chlorinating tanks. Salt and
manganese are cheap in Sonora ; the sul-
phuric acid, however, is expensive. Under
such circumstances the object is less the
utilizing of every particle of salt, than to pro-
duce the largest quantity of gas in the
shortest time. For this reason I use more
manganese and salt than are required by the
chemical proportion; viz: 32 pounds of
sulphuric acid, 16 pounds of manganese,
16 salt, and 16 pounds-Jof water, which pro-
portions are sufficient to chloridize 2% tons
of ore. The chlorine enters the tanks from
two sides. After 2% or 3 hours, the gas
will be observed to come out through a
pipe fixed above the ore, showing that the
chlorination is fiuished. All pipes are
shut off now, and the gas is allowed to act
on the ore for five or six hours. After this
time the upper pipe is brought in connec-
tion with the lead cock below the false bot-
tom of the next prepared tank, by means of
a rubber hose, and the surplus of chlorine
forced over by the water entering below
the false bottom from the reservoir. Using
over the surplus of chlorine, the expense
of chlorination is considerably reduced,
and the workmen are not at all molested by
the gas. The next tank is now partly filled
with chlorine and the lacking part must be
replaced by fresh generation. Generally
20 pounds of acid are here sufficient in
place of the above 32, taking the ingredi-
ents in the proportion before stated.

4. — Leacliing out of the Base Metals with
Witter. — After all the chlorine has been dis-
placed by the entering of water, the latter
is now shutoff, the tank uncovered, the cock
in front opened and water conveyed on
the lop of the ore, which must be kept
submerged several inches ; regulating the
inflow of the water so as to be equal to the
outflow. The leach is led into a tank of
masonry, coated inside with pitch, ( 12 feet
by 6 and 2 feet deep,) so long as it appears
colored green from the chloride of copper.
The copper is precipitated in metallic con-
dition by means of old iron. The leaching
continues till a solution of sulphide of
sodium shows no precipitate of base metals.
In this case the leaching with water is fin-
ished and the next process follows.

5. — Leaching out Chloride of Silver with
Hyposulphite of Soda. — This salt, possess-
ing the power of forming a soluble com-
pound with the chloride of silver, must be
used in a diluted condition, dissolved in
water. The leach, containing silver, is
conducted into two tanks, each 5 feet by 3,
and 4% feet deep, coated with pitch and
tar. The silver is now precipitated by a

solution of sulphide of sodium as a brown-
ish black substance. A vigorous stirring
accelerates the precipitation. A surplus of
of the precipitant i3 injurious. The liquor
must appear clear, and be neutral, that is,
an addition of some more sulphide of spdi-'
urn should not darken the liquid, neither
should this occur by adding an argentifer-
ous solution. The clear liquid including
the sulphide of sodium used, is now agaiu
in the form of hyposulphite of soda, and
ready to-be used over.

The lixiviation is stopped when, in the
clear liquor, taken in a glass tube with ad-
dition of some sulphide of sodium, no pre-
cipitate is obtained.

6. — Treatment of theprecipitated Sulphide of
Silver. — A few minutes after stirring the
liquor appears clear above the precipitated
sulphide of silver, and is drawn off by
means of a syphon into a reservoir, for the
purpose of using it ajain as a solvent.
The sulphide of silver is conveyed into
canvas bags, filtered, washed with warm
water, pressed, dried and retorted in earth-
en pots connected with like vessels, kept
cool in order to concentrate the silver, and
to regain the sulphur, which serves for the
preparation of fresh sulphide of sodium.

The retorted silver is melted ill blacklead
crucibles with the addition of some iron. In
this operation some iron matte is obtained
which contains from 4 to 5 per cent, of
silver and is thrown iuto the battery with
the ore.

7. — General statement of results. — The ex-
traction of silver, in this mauner, is very
close, tailings assaying from 4 to 5 dollars
per ton. The silver is 900 fine.

Compared with amalgamation this pro-
cess offers so many advantages, locally,
that its general adoption in Sonora is cer-
tain. There is no difficulty in extracting
the silver within 90 per cent, of the fire
assay. The working is easy, no power being
required except for stamping. The process
is cheap, and the capital required for the
erection of such works comparatively small,
so that companies with small meaus are eu-
abled to beneficiate their ores, having be-
sides the advantage of gaining the copper
and gold separately, if present in the ore.

The silver ore from La Dura is known as
the most refractory in Sonora. Its suc-
cessful treatment induced Mr. M. Alsna,
one of the most prominent and industrious
mining operators of Sonora, to call upon
me to introduce this chlorination process
in his Hacienda at Trinidad, which is
being done in the manner and with re-
sults similar to those above described.

The Recent Experiments with the
Telegraph. — In the telegraphing recently
performed for the purpose of determining
the mean time between Boston and San
Francisco, the wires were so connected with
a chronometer at Harvard University in
Cambridge, that the circuit was broken and
reclosed at every tick. Thus the ticks of
the Cambridge time-piece may be almost
said to have been heard in San Francisco.
A repeater was added, aud signals were sent
from that city to San Francisco and back to
Boston, — some six thousand miles, — in less
than one minute.

Insulation of the Atlantic Cable. —
It is found that there is a steady improve-
ment iu the cable, as regards perfect insu-
lation,— from month to month. The first
cable, laid four years since, " leaks " less
than the other, from the fact that the cable
can be manipulated with a much weaker
battery than that originally employed, and
that such diminution has now reached a
surprisingly low point, it has been sup-
posed, inexplicable as it may seem, that the
electricity in the cable is gradually becom-
ing static.

To Distinguish Edible from Poisonous
Mushrooms. — Sprinkle a little salt on the
spongy part or gills of the mushroom; if
it turns yellow, it is poisonous., but if black,
it is wholesome.

Large Product of a Missouri Iron
Furnace. — A hot-blast charcoal furnace,
40 feet high, 9J< feet bosh, made in Janu-
ary 784 tons of pig-iron, ' of 2,268 pounds
to the ton.

National Debts. — The national debt of
France is §58.65 to each inhabitant; that of
the United States is §63, while the debt of
Great Britain reaches the high figure of
$130.70 to each inhabitant.

[Written for the Mining anil Scientific Preas.l

" Why Don't Boys Learn Trades ?"

A mechanic of thirty-five years will en-
deavor to answer the above question, re-
cently asked by the Philadelphia Ledger.

Because the education boys receive now-
adays enables them to perceive where
the tradesmen stand in society, and their
parents also perceive and know in what
^grade any particular calling will place
them. "When the avenues to distinction
ere open to alf, then all will take venture ;
consequently a boy prefers to sweep out a
lawyer's office, with a hope-venture of some
day becoming a lawyer ; and even if he has
not so high aspirations, he knows that his
acquaintance, both male and female, regard
his position there as higher than to be an
apprentice to a trade.

Though the minister or the doctor do
not take boys, yet there have been cases
where their places have been filled and
trades left by men who felt the pressure of
their position and stepped up into them.
A boy will tramp with a civil engineer's
chain, flag staff, or pole, over the most
ragged hillsides, for days, without mur-
mur, because his employer, as an engineer,
stands in society with other professors, and
his pay corresponds to that station. Hope
gives the boy courage to withstand hard-
ships, which, as an apprentice to a trade,
would break him down, spirit and body.

He sees, and his parents and guardians
see, that the high places in the courts, iu
the pulpit, in the legislature, or executive
branches of government, are very seldom
filled by mechanics ; and the parents know
that the average of political judgment
would be quite as likely to be in favor of
the mechanic, as otherwise. The same
may be said of the errand boy, ''counter-
jumper," cash boy or even porters in mer-
cantile establishments. The social posi-
tion, from the first and the material chances
for the future, are infinitely better than
from a trade; though the mere fact of a
living be against the merchant boy, as a
thousand to one. Very few start in life for
a living. All start for fame and fortune,
or rather it should be put now, for fortune,
and fame conies with that. The fault is
not with the boys, nor with their parents,
as individuals ; but with the state into
which society has crystallized.

There is no other standard of respecta-
bility but wealth; consequently that is the
aim of all. It comes less frequent to the
mechanic, than to any other calling except
the farmer. Though the farmer and me-
chanic are the founders and producers of
all wealth ; yet in the present state of soci-
ety, they receive but the very smallest
share of the value of their own productions.

Though money is gathered rapidly and
easily in the ordinary exchange of pro-
ducts, it is not made; and when we say the
merchant has made so much, in such a
time, we do not express the matter in a
proper manner. He has not produced a
dollar. The value of the farmer's or me-
chanic's product has enabled him to place
it where it was needed, and he has charged
three times as much for that service as
the original producer received, he conse-
quently wears fine clothes, lives in more
splendid houses, feasts on finer viands, and
takes a higher place in the social scale.
Boys see all this, and, consequently, won't
learn trades. How far and how long the
world can go on swapping knives, is a
question for Political Economists.

A ErVER UNDER THE KoCKT MOUNTAINS.

Catlin, the prairie traveler, thinks that a
great river, "larger than the Mississippi,"
flows under the Eocky Mountains. Mr.
Catlin is about to submit the evidence
which he has collected in favor of this start-
ling hypothesis to the world.

Immigration Increase. — There was an
excess of passenger arrivals at this port
from Panama, for the first quarter of the
present year, of 5,200 over the same time
for last year.

A Curious Sword. — A sword made from
a piece of meteoric iron, which fell near
Santa Fe de Bogota, was once presented to
Simon Bolivar.

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Mechanical.

Runaway Engines.

The running away of a locomotive is,
thanks to the telegraph, of no great conse-
quence, for the alarm may be flashed past
the truant, and the track kept clear until
another engine can effect the capture of the
runaway. A marine engine can easily be
brought to.reason if it make an attempt to
run. But the running away of a stationary
engine is a serious matter. The Engineer
gives two instances of such an occurrence,
both caused by the giviug way of a gover-
nor wheel. One of these we copy in brief :
"The pace of the engino was steady and
majestic, rendered so by the control of an
excellent governor, which kept the throttle
valve more than three parts shut. This
governor was driven, by a pair of light cog
wheels, from the main shaft, and it unfor-
tunately happened on the day in question
one of these wheels broke, the governor
ceased rotating, the balls dropped, the
throttle valve llew open, and the- engines
ran away. The engine driver rushed to the
door of the engine-house, but a glance
showed him that to enter would bo to risk
his life. He then ran to the stop valve on
the main steam pipe in the boiler-house,
but before he could close it the engines
were a complete wreck ; the fly-wheel was
split, the entablatures and columns torn up,
and the ends knocked out of the cylinders.
The ruin was complete, and an entirely now
pair of engines had to be put down in their
place. The breakage of the governor
wheel thus entailed an outlay of some thou-
sands of pounds, besides throwing several
hundred hands out of work."

How is such an accident to be prevented ?
" Simply," — says the journal aforesaid, —
"by so constructing the governor that
when the balls are close down to the cen-
tral spindle the throttle valve shall be closed.
There is no difficulty whatever in effecting
this. The throttle valve may be a double-
beat equilibrium valve, closing when
raised too high and closing when dropped
too low; or the ordinary throttle valve may
be so adjusted that when free from the gov-
ernor it will close of itself. Then the gear
must be so contrived that when the gover-
nor balls fall down to the spindle, they
shall break the connection between them-
selves and the throttle valve. In either
case it will be necessary to open the throt-
tle by hand to start the engine, but this is
a matter of small moment. When -very
heavy balls are used, it will be well to fix
some brake arrangement to the governor in
order that it may be arrested very quickly,
otherwise it might continue to revolve un-
der the influence of its own momentum,
more and more slowly, opening the throttle
wider and wider each moment, so that by
the time the balls had fallen so far in that
the throttle was allowed tj close, mischief
might have been done; but in very few
cases indeed will this precaution be re-
quired."

Another "Steam Man." — The Newark
Journal thus describes a new steam man
which was first publicly exhibited, Febru-
ary 22d : " The "man " portion resembles
in outline a human being, weighs about
five hundred pounds, and is connected with
a two-seated "rockaway," attached behind
it by iron bands.

" Each breast of the figure contains an
oscillating engine. A steam chest is placed
between these, and the throttle valves are
just below. The legs are composed of in-
tricate machinery, and present an appear-
ance, when walking, similar to that of an
ordinary mortal. When in the act of step-
ping the feet are raised about five inches
from the ground. The steam passes into
the chest by means of a rubber hose, and
when exhausted is carried to the smoke-
stack at the rear of the carriage, through
another tube. A four-horse power is placed
under and at ihe rear of the carriage, and is
provided with water by a .steam pump
"which communicates with a water-tank un-
der the front seat of the vehicle. The
movements of the machine are controlled
and regulated by two handles that rest on
the dashboard. The whole apparatus, in-
cluding carriage, weighs about a ton, and
cost ©3,000.

double-riveted joint the spaces between Ihe
rivet holes (measured along each line of riv-
ets, not zigzag] should be twice as great as
that required in single -riveted joints hiv-
ing rivets Of the same diameter; and tin-
same rule applies to single-riveted butt-
joints with doable-covering strips.

The proportion which the strength of a
riveted joint bears to the solid plate, in-
creases with an increase in the diameter of
the rivets used. The reason for this is self-
evident. The area of rivet increases as the
square of the diameter, whereas the length
of plate (measured along the line of the
j< in1) removed to make room for the rivet
varies as the diameter of the latter only.
'J lie Engineer.

Water for Steel Hardening.— The
following is an extract from a new manual
on the "management of steel" by George
Ede, a practical mechanic employed at
Woolwich Arsenal :

"The more the water is used for harden-
ing steel the softer it becomes, and has a
tendency to act less suddenly upon the
steel; consequently the less frequently the
water used for the purpose is qlianged, the
better — that is, providing thewater has not
by continual use become greasy. The
water is not made better for giving the steel
a greater degree of hardness by being long
in use, but it is made better for the pur-
pose because it is less likely to crack the
steel than fresh water; therefore, as the
water wastes, fresh water should be added
to it. Brinish liquids, such as aquafortis,
urine, or water changed with common salt,
etc., produce rather more hardness than
plain water; but, for most articles, plain
water with the chill oft' gives sufficientbard-
ness to the steel. Water at about sixty de-
grees, measured by the thermometer, is the
most suitable temperature to prevent steel
craoking in hardening. Water holding
Boap in solution prevents the steel from
hardening.

Rolling Wide Plates or Iron. — For-
merly very few armor plate3 were made more
than five feet wide, and none, we believe,
have been made exceeding six feet, in con-
sequence of the practical difficulty of heat-
ing a mass of iron so wide as eight feet in
any one furnace without burning the edges
in obtaining a welding heat in the middle.
This difficulty has now been overcome by
a plan which consists of rolling a pile of
iron lengthways, until the width required
is attained, and then while hot turning it
round and rolling it crossways. The first
plate made by this plan was rolled on Fri-
day. The pile was 6 feet wide, 7 feet long,
and about 16 inches thick, and was first
rolled to 8 feet 6 inches long, and then
turned half round and rolled into a plate
8 feet 6 inches wide, 16 feet long and 5
inches thick. This is certainly the widest
plate of iron of anything like this thick-
ness that has ever been rolled." — Sheffield
Independent.

Are American Watches Absolutely
Perfect? — The very highest priced Euro-
pean watches have sometimes a slight supe-
riority over those of American manufac-
ture in this single respect, viz : the greater
care bestowed upon the adjustment of the
escapement to pure isochronism. This cor-
rection alone is sufficient to run up the cost
of a watch indefinitely. It requires the
selection of a hair-spring that will give ex-
actly equal times of vibration, whatever
may be the extent of vibratory arc ; that is,
the tension of the spring must increase
uniformly with the arc of vibration from
the point of repose. The detection of such
a spring, in any given case, is almost a
matter of pure chance, and can only be
effected by patient and repeated trials. A
timepiece thus adjusted is also a most deli-
cate instrument, and should be handled
with the most profound respect for its re-
fined virtues, lest at any time they should
suddenly depart. Any bindingorstraining
of the spring, while in the hand of a bung-
ler, would greatly jeopardize its safety.
But any good spring will very nearly fulfill
this condition. — S. W. Robinson, C. E.

Scientific Mi sect tan / ■ .

Boiler Butt- Joints and Rivets. — A
properly proportioned single-riveted butt-
joint, with any given thickness of plates,
and with covering strips on each side, pos-
sesses nearly the same strength as a prop-
erly proportioned double-riveted lap-jcint
or butt-joint with a covering strip on one
side only. In a properly proportioned

The Monceieff Invention. — This
method of mounting heavy guns, which
has been already described in our columns,
has been accepted by the English govern-
ment. Capt. Moncrieff receives the sum
of seventy-five thuusand dollars in cash,
and a salary of five . thousand dollars per
annum for the two past years, and for as
much longer as may be necessary to com-
plete the application of his system to the
national defences.

The Colors of Autumnal Foliage. —
Joseph Wharton communicates the results
of some experiments upon the temporary
restoration of the green color of leaves. —
changed by frost,— to Silliman's Journal.
He reasoned that if chlorophyl, the green
coloring matter of leaves, should be, like
mauy other greens, a compound color, it
must have for one of its elements a vege-
table blue, capable of being reddened by
acids. If the juices of the leaves, kept in a
neutral condition by the vital force, or by
alkaline matter brought in the sap from the
earth, should, when circulation ceases, be-
come acidified by the atmospheric oxygen,
those juices would then be capable of red-
dening the vegetable blue of the chloro-
phyl. If, however, that vegetable blue
should be thus reddened, it ought to be-
come blue again, when exposed to an alkali ;
or, in other words, if green leaves should
be reddened iu the autumn in the manner
here suggested, by the unresisted action of
the oxidizing atmosphere, they ought to
return from red to green, if immersed in
an alkaline atmosphere. .

He therefore arranged a wire staging, to
stand under a glass receiver, which dipped
into a dish of water, and under which was
also placed a capsule containing ammonia.
Upon this he placed in succession a variety
of autumnal red leaves, and found that iu
most cases the green color was restored. Mr.
W. adds ; "Fremy separated chlorophyl into
two distiuct substances, one blue, the other
yellow. Frost plays no other part in caus-
ing the autumnal tints, than to arrest the
circulation. When a sharp frost occurs
early in the Fall, while the pulp of the
leaves is still full and plump, the red colors
come out brilliantly, because there is plenty
of the blue substance to be acted upon by
the juices, then also abundant."

Creation by Law ok by Miracle. —
"To meet the question of 'Whence-the
first organic matter'? the Nomogenist, who
holds that primary life is due to the opera-
tion of existing law, is reduced to enumer-
ate the existing elements into which the
simplest living jelly (Prologenes of Hreckel)
or sarcode (Amaiba) is resolvable, and to
contrast the probability of such elements
combining, under unknown conditions, as
the first step in the resolution of other
forces into vital force, with the probability
of the interposition of a miraculous power
associating those elements into living
germs, or forms with powers of jiropagat-
ing their kind to all time.

It seems to mel more consistent with the
present phase of dynamical science and the
observed gradations of living things, to
suppose that sarcode or the ' protogenal'
jelly-speck should be formable through
concurrence of conditions favoring such
combination of theirelementsand involving
a change of force productive of their con-
tractions and extensions, molecular attrac-
tions and repulsions, — than that all exist-
ing sarcodes or 'prologenes1 are the result
of genetic descent from a germ or cell due
to a primary act of miraculous interposi-
tion.

Some, accepting the latter alternative,
teach that, while generations of the first-
created sarcode have descended to us un-
changed from the period of the Laurentian
limestone, other sareodal offspring have
developed and improved, or have been
selected, into all higher forms of living be-
ings. I prefer, however, while indulging
in such speculations, to consider the vari-
ous daily nomogeneously developed forms
of'protozoal or protistal jellies, sarcodes
and single-called organisms, to have been
as many roots from whioh the higher
grades have ramified, — rather than that the
origin of the whole organic creation is to
be referred, as the Egyptian priests did
that of the universe, to a single egg." —
Prof. Owen.

Intense Cold Produced by Saline So-
lutions.— The Scientific Jlevierc says: Dr.
Phipson has recently discovered that sul-
phocyanate of ammonium will produce
while dissolving iu water, an extraordinary
degree of cold ; more intense than that re-
sulting from the similar solution of any
other salt. Iu one experiment, 35 grammes,
dissolved rapidly in 3a cubic centimeters
of water at 23 Cent., caused a descent of
the thermometer to 10° Cent. The moist-
ure of the atmosphere was instantly con-
densed on the outside of the glass in thin
plates of ice.

Cause of Blue in Hydrogen Flame. —
When we break up a colorless flame of hy-
drogen by the introduction of a solid body
the flame suddenly becomes blue. M. Sal-
let, a pupil of M. Wurtz, now shows that
this coloration is due to the vapor of sul-
phur. This sulphur is due to the reduc-
tion of sulphates existing in suspension in
the atmosphere, — especially sulphate of
soda.

The Sun's Constitution. — In the course
of some remarks at the Cincinnati Literary
Club, Jan. 2d, Prof. Abbe said: "We have
thus the sun surrounded by an immense
thin, transparent gas — the zodiacal light,
within which is a denser atmosphere— the
corona, within which is a luminous atmos-
phere— the photosphere, within which is
the liquid molten lava-surface of the sun,
and this doubtless incloses a solid nucleus."

The " Coming" Light. — From an article
in the Boston Journal of Chemistry, upon
some of the new devices for producing
light, we clip the following: " A score of
indefatigable, laborious students, in vari-
ous parts of the world, are hard at work
upon the important scientific problem of
the production of a cheap and practicable
light by the use of the electrical forces, and
it indeed furnishes a promising field for
labor and research. Moses E. Farmer, of
this city,, one of the most intelligent and in-
defatigable experimenters in the country,
has devoted several years to this special
department of study, and the results are
exceedingly interesting and important.
He is not yet ready to report progress, but
this much we venture to say; a very confi-
dent expectation may be indulged, that be-
fore many months pass away, a cheap,
practicable electric light will be ready to
dispute with gas and kerosene a place in
our workshops and dwellings."

Paper from Okra.— The Mobile Reg-
ister describes some experiments recently
made near that .city, by which the follow-
ing points were considered as established :
That the entire okra plant, from root to
pod, is available for paper-making; that it
may be prepared in half the time required
for rags; that it can be bleached as cheaply
as rags; that the pulp works as easily as
any other fiber, — and better than straw or
wood ; and that the paper is very strong,
tough, and elastic.

Recent Explorations™ the Gibraltar
Caves. — Capt. Frederick Brome recently
explored two ancient sea-caves on the east-
ern face of the rock of Gibraltar, — called
Martin's and St. Michael's caves. They are
now more than seven hundred feet above
the level of the Mediterranean. Human
remains were discovered in both. An abund-
ance of flint chips and knives, stone axes,
bone ornaments and pottery, were found.
Carpt. B. is still engaged in explorations.

The Chicago Telescope. — Prof. Bar-
nard says that this great equatorial tele-
scope has, in comparison with the Harvard
equatorial, a light as three to two. The
clear illuminating aperture has a diameter
of eighteen and a half inches, while that
of Harvard measured fifteen. The whole
diameter of the Chicago objective, mount-
ing included, is twenty inches. The defin-
ing power of this glass is unrivalled, as has
been satisfactorily proved by the discov-
ery it enabled its constructor, Mr. Clark,
to make of the companion of Sirius, a star
which was confidently believed to exist,
but which had eluded the refractors of
Cambridge and Pultova (of exactly the
same capacity), and the reflectors of Mr.
Lessell and Lord Rosse.

Cerium. — This metal has a color between
that of iron and lead, and a specific gravity
of about 5.5. It has been prepared by
Woehler in this way: A solution of the ox-
ide in hydrochloric acid is mixed with equal
parts of chloride of potassium and chloride
of ammonium and evaporated to dryness,
fused, and poured out to partially cool,
and then coarsely pulverized and mixed
while still warm with pieces of sodium, and
the whole projected into a clay crucible
previously heated to redness. In this man-
ner the cerium is reduced, and appears in
the slag in the form of two pellets, which
can be collected and fused into one mass.

New Light.— Mr. J. Hogg, of Edin-
burgh, passes a mixture of coal gas and air
through a tissue of iridio-platinum wires at
a given pressure. The metal is heated to a
white heat, the flame disappears, and an in-
tense white light results, which may be
used for photographic purposes as well as
the magnesium light. Neither a gale of
wind or a fall of rain, will extinguish it.

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New Inventions.

Ptebce's New Ditching Machine. — A.
E. Pierce, of Gilroy, recently invented a
novel and ingenious ditching machine.
Through the liberality of Mr. W. C. Ben-
nett,— a public spirited aod thrifty farmer,
■who resides close to Gilroy, — a working
machine has been constructed at consider-
able expense, which, with. some necessary
modification, promises success. The ma-
chine consists of a revolving wheel some 12
feet in diameter, set at an incline, having
self operating buckets arranged all around
its outer edge. This wheel with suitable
gearing is placed in a strong frame, to which
is attached the draft and a large plow. The
lower periphery of the wheel reaches down
to a level with the mold-board of the plow
while the upper edge is above the height
of an ordinary wagon body. As the ma-
chine advances the plow throws up the
earth and deposits it in the buckets, while
the tractory wheel turns the inclined wheel,
carrying the loaded buckets upon its in-
clined circle to the required hight for
dumping into a cart; or the desired distance
for dropping it again upon the ground.
This invention attracts muchinteiestin the
growing and thriving town in which it was
invented, and when sufficiently tried and
proved efficient, our readers may expect an
illustrated description of it in the Press.

Ditching by Machinery. — Mr. W. Rob-
ertson, another of our ingenious mechanics
of the practical sort, has attempted to solve
the important problem, — in itself undoubt-
edly practicable, — of ditching economically
by steam power ; and on Wednesday after-
noon exhibited, to a number of gentlemen,
a quarter working size model of his inven-
tion in operation at the corner of Howard
and Eighth streets. This machine bores
out the earth with a spiral drum revolved
by a steam engine resting on wheels which
run on planks laid on each side of where
the ditch is to be. In stony or rocky
ground the danger of breakage would be
less than in any other machine of the kind
that we have seen. Mr. Eobertson claims
that the machine can be worked by a steam
engine of seven horse power, and that it
will excavate a drain at the rate of a cubic
yard a minute. By means of a universal
joint or crank in the connecting rod, be-
tween the spiral drum and engine, the
drum can be lowered so as to make the
drain a depth of eight feet if required. The
cost is from $3,000 to §5,000.

The Ohio ditcher, described in the Min-
ing and Scientific Press three months
ago, now at work on the Western Pacific
Bailroad, and the " Pioneer Ditcher" of
Washington the Third, are predecessors in
the same field.

Foot Measure. — A shoe dealer of Cleve-
land, Ohio, has invented a novel apparatus
for measuring a lady's foot. With this
machine a correct measurement is taken of
every part that the shoe covers, so that the
whole shoe can be made the exact size and
shape desired.

Invention Wanted. — There is a good op-
portunity for some given to make fortune
and fame, by inventing some way to ex-
tract the sediment from champagne, which
must be taken away from the bottles before
they are finally corked and wired for sale.
The loss from breakage of bottles and waste
of wine, during the process of "ripening,"
as it is called, comprises a large portion of
the cost of champagne. It certainly must
be within the limits of possibility to de-
vise a safety-bottle, acting, perhaps, with
a valve, which will admit of a harmless
"blowing off," when the pressure of the
gas exceeds the bouods of safety.

Artificial Wood. — Some curious inven-
tions in artificial wood have recently been
made in Paris, the principal being that of
combining the saw dust or wood flour with
glue or size, and casting it in molds.
Very perfect imitations of carved wood are
made in this mauner, and they are said to
bp fire-proof.

New Patents Issued to Pacific Coast
Inventors.

Fob the Week Ending April 6th.
Wrench and Pincers. — Edwin Froggatt,
Central City, Col.- 88,621.

I claim, 1. The combination-tool, consisting of the
wrench, hammer, and pincers, with or without the
screw-driver, all operating and arranged substantially as
specified.

2. Connecting the movable jaw B of a wrench, by
means of a bar or tube 6, with a parallel arm c, the jaw
and arm being bifurcated, so as to straddle the slotted
shank A, through which screws d are fitted into the
parts B c, substantially as herein shown and described,
for the purpose specified.

Machine "for Gilding. — James Lick, San
Francisco, Cal. — 88,646.

I claim 1. The three pivoted holder-arms B, two sta-
tionary and one adjustable, provided with catches G,
pivoted levers H, and set-screws. I, the connecting-rod
E, and pivoting-rod C, in combination with each other,
and with the rack L, substantially as herein shown and
described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the long adjusting-screw J
with the pivoted holder-arms B, substantially as herein
shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. The book-holder block K and spring-catches M, in
combination with the grooved rack L and plate-holder
B C E, substantially as herein shown and described, and
for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination of the arms P and springs Q with
the grooved rack L. book-block K, and plate-holder B C
E, substantially as herein shown and described, and for
the purpose set forth.

5. The combination of the pivoted board R. springs
V, catches S, and spring-catch bar T U, with the.spring-
arms P Q, substantially as herein shown and described,
and for the purpose set forth.

6. The combination of the two pivoted adjustable
arms W, provided with catches X, pivoted levers Y, and
set-screws Z, the connecting-rod B. and pivoting-rod C,
with each Other, substantially as herein shown and de-
scribed, and for the purpose set forth.

Fountain Pen. — Franzis A. Odermatt and
Frank Ettlin, San Francisco, Cal. — 88,-
656.

We claim the pen described, consisting of the hollow
handle a, pivoted with the flexible parts b b, and guard-
pieces c e, with tube c, with cock d, and head/, with cock
g, the whole being combined and arranged as described,
for the purpose set forth.

Clip for Neck-Yoke and Whtffle-Tree.
Z. T. Sweet, Engene City, Oregon, (now
at Davisville, Yolo County, Cal.) — 88,-
676.

I claim the clip A, formed by the combination of the
arm <zl, lock-bar <i2, and catch-spring a3, With the per-
forated body of said clip, substantially as herein shown
and described, and for the purposes set forth.

Quilp's Process with Sulphurets —
leading chlorine gas separately into the
roasting furnace, followed by a barrel pro-
cess of dissolving gold, precipitating it
again, and then amalgamating both gold
and silver — draws the following from an
" Inorganic " correspondent :

Quilp asserts that the chlorine gas gen-
erated is heavier than the products of com-
bustion, or the vapors evolved from the
ore while roasting. So far this is strictly
true; but when he declares that it is a much
heavier medium, be is in error. The weight
of the sulphnions acid gas evolved is but
very little less than that of chlorine; being
as 2.21 to 2.47. Now this trifling difference
of gravity is totally insufficient to permit
of the lighter ascending through the heav-
ier in the draught of a reverberatory fur-
nace. Again assuming, for argument's sake,
that the gold is chlorinated, perhaps
"Quilp " will inform us how, at that heat,
the chloride can remain such. If chloride
of silver be formed, that compound is in-
soluble in water, and to precipitate the sil-
ver from its chloride without previous so-
lution, is a new era in chemistry, the full
credit of which is due to " Quilp," which
nobody can deny.

The stage of heat employed under the C.
H. Williams patent is not stated, so that it
is possible a portion of the gold chloride
formed may remain undeeomposed at the
end. The soluble sulphate of silver was
probably intended to be provided for in the
latter case. Quilp's metallurgy affords sug-
gestive reading matter, but is rather finely
theoretical.

The philosophy of chloridizing gold sul-
phurets when the gold is to be precipitated
again before amalgamation, is — though left
unexplained — undoubtedly the idea that
chlorine gas, having a great affinity for gold,
may be used in this manner without any
additional external manipulation, to search
out and .'render amalgamatable the refrac-
tory ' ' rusty " particles that have baffled
millmen.

A Poem, entitled " Fifty Years Ago," il-
lustrating the world's progress, is to be
read at the approaching Odd Fellows' semi-
centennial, in this city, by George G. W.
Morgan.

The Press is one of the most valuable and instructive
papers published in the United States, and every miner,
mnlman, machinist and foundrymau should be a sub-
scriber. The information to be derived from its columns
is worth many fold times the stlbscription.— Grass Valley
National,

Company 2"ra?isactions .

New Incorporations.

New articles of incorporation have been
filed, as reported in our exchanges, during
the past week, in the County Clerk's office
in this city, the Secretary of State's office at
Sacramento, etc., as follows :

MINING, FILED IN SAN FRANCISCO.

The John Hancock T. and S. M. Co. —
Object to mine for silver in White Pine
District. April 17th. Capital stock, $1,-
500,000; divided into 15.000 shares of $100
each. Trustees: H. W. Jones, W. K. Diet-
rick, A. Buswell, J. H Sager, John Han-
cock, H. Tietjen and Horace D. Dunn.

National M. and S. Co. — Location of
claims White Pine. April 17th. Capital
stock §2, 000, 000; 100,000 shares of $20 each.
Trustees, S. J. Murphy, W. E. Dietrick,
Peter Taylor, J. H. Gager and A. Buswell.

Chieftain.— Capital stock $1,000,000;
object, tunneling and mining in White
Pine. April 21st. Stock divided, into 20,-
000 shares.

Nellie Butler M. and T. Co. — White
Pine. April 22d. Capital stock $1,200,000;
divided into 12,000 shares of $100 each.
Trustees: Theodore E. Baugh, William P.

C. Stebbins and Alphonso F. Tilden.
Maxwell M. and T. Co. — White Pine.

April 22d. Capital stock $1,200,000; di-
vided iuto 12..000 shares of $100 each. Trus-
tees: T. E. Baugh, Henry Baker and Wm.
P. C. Stebbins.

Pittsburg T. and M. Co. — White Pine.
April 22d. Capital stock $1,000,000; di-
vided iuto 10,000 shrres of $100 each.
Trustees: T. E. Baugh, Peter McConaghey
and Wm. P. C. Stebbins.

Osceola T. and M. Co. — White Pine.
April 22d. Capital stock $1,000,000; divided
into 10,0'. 0 shares of $100 each. Trustees:
T. E. Baugh, Wm. P. C. Stebbins and
August Buttman.

IxionT. and M. Co.— White Pine. April
22d. Capital stock $1,000,000; divided into
10,000sharesof$100eieh. Trustees: Jnme>
Andersou, Wm. P. C. Stebbins and T. E.
Baugh.

The Thunderbolt M. and M. Co., to do
business in AVhite Pine. April 22d. Cap-
ital stock, $2,800,000; divided into 20,000
shares.

The Eclipse Consolidated M. Co. —
Same obj-ct. White Pine. April 22d.
Capital stock put down at $5,000,000, with
50,000 shares.

The South Featherstone S. M. Co. —
White Pine. April 22d. Capital stock $1,-
000.000, with 20,000 shares.

The Whang Doodle, Armadilla, Pen
and Scissors, and Eeal del Monte —
White Pine. April 22d. Capital stfick^-
400,000, divided into 24,000 shares.

MINING, FILED AT SACRAMENTO.

The Parker Ledge Co., miuing at White
Pine. Capital, $2,000,000, in shares of $100
each. Principal place of business, San
Francisco. Trustees — B. M. Hartshorne,

D. McLennan, Hiram Tubbs, James P.
Hoyt and Frederick Madge.

The Lee S. M. Co., and the Eastern En-
terprise S. M. Co. — White Pine. They
each have a capital of $1,000, in shares of
$100 each. S. W. Lee, S. D. Bosworth,
W. H. V. Cronise, Ellis Ayers and T. W.
Colburn are Trustees for both companies.

The Eureka Consolidated Mining Co.
Capital, $1,600,000, in shares of $50 each.
Trustees — W. A. Hardie, Edward C. Lovell,
James A Hope, W. B. Band, J. A. Lukin,
J. F. Crosett, A. Eosenfield, Wm. F. Marpe,
John Bays and Wm. Stuart.

The Evening Star, No. 1, S. M. Co. —
Capital, $1,800,000, in shares of $100 each.
Trustees— George W. Beaver, E. G. Brown,
M. J. McDonald, J. S. Kennedy and W.

E. Wheaton.

The Latowana M. Co. — Capital, $1,920,-
000, in shares of $100 each. ■ Trustees — J.
A. Drinkhouse, E. W. McKinstry, George
Piatt, Thomas J. Poulterer, John H. Wise,
N. Hays and E. Savage.

The Stockton M. Co. and the John Dare
S. M. Co. , both to carry on the business of
mining in the White Pine District.

land and homestead associations.

Sunny Vale Homestead Association.
County Clerk's office, April 21. The ob-
ject is to purchase a portion of the Eancho
Visitacinn Guadalupe y Eodeo Viejo, and
the division of the same into homesteads
for distribution among the shareholders.
The tract is situated on the borders of the
bay, and consists of 800 lots, 30x112. Each
share will consist of a full-sized lot, and
will be payable in installments of $10 per
month each, for twenty-five months, with-
out interest. The capital stock is $200,000,

divided into eight hundred shares of $250
each. Officers : Joseph C. Collins, Presi-
dent ; Wm. E. Moody, Secretary ; James
L. Blake, Treasurer ; Stephen T. King,
John S. Luty, Joseph Winterburn, and
Charles Cousins. Office, 708 Montgomery
street.

The White Tract Homestead Associa-
tion.— County Clerk's office, April 22. The
object is to purchase fifty-six acres of land
in Solano County, known as the "White
Tract," being a portion of the Suseol
Eancho, and to divide the same into lots
suitable for homesteads. Capital stock,
$40,350 ; shares, 269, at $150 each.

MISCELLANEOUS enterprises.

The Mountain Springs Water Company.
County Clerk's office, April 20. The object
of the Company is to collect the waters of
all the creeks on the south side of the Tamal-
pais, on the Saucelito Eancho, iu the
County of Marin, and convey the same to
this city. Capital stock, $500,000, in 5000
shares of $100 each. Trustees — Samuel E.
Throckmorton, C. E. Bonel and S. E.
Throckmorton, Jr.

New Watering Place.— The Napa Soda
Springs Association. — County Clerk's of-
fice, April 19. Objects, for the purchasing
of the property located in the County of
Napa and known as the Napa Soda Springs
property, and for the purpose of securing,
bottling, and selling the mineral waters of
said Soda Springs, and improving and de-
veloping said springs and property as a
public watering place. Capital stock, $250,-
000, divided into 250 shares of $1,000 each.
Time of existence, 50 years. Trustees,
seven in number — Hon." F. F. Low, San
Francisco ; Hon. John Currey, San Fran-
cisco ; Gen. E. D. Keyes, Napa ; Dr. J. P.
Whitney, San Francisco ; Dr. John F.
Morse, San Francisco ; Dr. A. J. Bowie,
San Francisco ; William Burling, San Fran-
cisco.

The Vaca Valley Eailroad Company,
organized for the purpose of constructing,
owning and maintaining a railroad running
between Vacaville, in Solano County, and
a point on the California Pacific Eailroad
distant in a southeasterly direction 3%
miles. Secretary of State's office. Capital,
$50,000, in shares of $100 each. Direc-
tors— M. Wilson, G. B. Stevenson, A. P.
Bernard, David Dutton, George F. Barker,
Eichard Thompson, Joshua Donaldson, M.
E. Miller, Thomas Deans and Demetrie
Pena. The principal place of business is
in Vacaville.

Meetings, Elections, Etc.

MINING companies.

The Almaden G. and S. M. Co., at their
annual meeting, held April 15th, elected
the following Trustees: J. E. de la Mon-
tagnie, A. K. Grim, John Sime, O.' Dick-
inson, Jr„ and F. G. Smith.

The Virginia No. 2. M. Co. — At a stock-
holder's meeting, held at their office in this
city, Monday, April 19th, at which 6,975
shares of the. stock were represented, the
following Trustees were elected: James P.
Clongh, J. F. Mitchel, E. B. Drake, John
A- Steinberger, John W. Coleman. Subse-
quently John W. Coleman was elected
President, and D. E. Stanford Secretary.

The Troy Ledge S. M. Co. — At a stock-
holder's meeting, held April 19th, the fol-
lowing Trustees were elected: James T.
Dean, (President,) John Prince, D. L.
Dunlap, J. M. Bufflngton, (Secretary,) and
J. L. Brewer.

The Bullion S. M. Co. held their an-
nual meeting in Virginia, on Thursday last,
April 15th. Following are the names of
the Trustees elected: Thomas H. Williams,
John Mackav, H. H. Flag?, D. W. Bixley,
and F. A Tritle.

SAVINGS.

San Francisco.— A certificate of the elec-
tion of Trustees of the San Francisco Sav-
ings and Building Association was filed in
the County Clerk's office April 20th. Their
names are F. Cohn, S. T. King, J. Wieltnl,
C. J. Waldenberger and C. Burghofer.

MISCELLANEOUS ENTERPRISES.

The White Pine Water Co. At a meet-
ing held April 17th, for the election of
Trustees, the following gentlemen were
chosen: J. D. Fry, A. P. Stanford, Thomas
Bell, Charles E De Long and A. Hayward.
The Board subsequently organized and ap-
pointed J. D. Fry, President, and B. Peart,
Secretary.

The San Jose Woolen Manufacturing
Co. — A stockholder's meeting was .held at
San Jose on the 19th inst., at the office of
the Secretary, and elected the following
gentlemen Trustees of the company for the
ensuing year: V. D. Moody, E. F. Peck-
ham, A Pfister, S. O. Houghton, T. E
Beans.

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Slock jReview.

Weekly Stock Circular.

By AuocUtid Brokers of the 8. F. Stock and Exchange Bond

s..i pun iieo, Apr i u, leco.
XTliiniwlui.

The preamtre for money In our local market can scarce-
ly be «ai'l to hiv relaxed, a few d»ya ago a much im-
pitrm ii fa ling nu i vt-i.-nt. ami business men began to
br-atii.- freer; but the dlsplaeement from our Branch

Mint of faith foil Oapabla and long-tri<-d officer*, to muke
ronin for political pcttt, had a very serious effect, because
It will necessitate the clewing of that Institution for some
Vaoka at a period of the greatcht monetary stringency ex.
p-Tn n ■•■'! hi n- sine- lH'i.y As the business of this State
ii pjndicated wholly upon coin, the utoppagu of its sup-
ply will prove our injury beyond the possibility of pres-
ent estimation. Foi weeks all our gold reflm-ricB have
buun worked to their utmost cspsatty to supply the Mint
with material for coining, yet the Mint has been barely
able to moot the demand. The unfortunate change of
offlnen csnnol fsllto entail a vast amount of injury to
every California interest. Government allows $00,000
per annum for shrinkage on the coining operation of our
Mint, but the skill and experience of the removed officers
reduced the actual wastage to $10,000, saving $50,000 a
year to the Government. Ib it for this exhibition of
■kill, competency and honesty, that these gentlemen
have been displaced? Is there any specially vindictive
feeling against Sun Francisco, and California generally,
among the counselors and advisers at the White House?
In city stocks the market has been quiet since our last
similar reference. Wo note saleB of 10 shares North
Beach and Mission Railroad stock at $74 per share, 20
Bharcs Spring Valley Water at $(jfl@f>6 25, and 50 shares
Pacific Insurance Co. at $122 50. At the close 40 shares
8. F. Gas sold at $75 per share, and one share Merchants'
Kxchange at $30.

Mining; Share Market.
The activity of the mining share market during the
past week was confined to some half dozen prominent
stocks, several of which Bhow a very marked improve-.
iii'-nl over previously reported rates, viz: Hale & Nor-
cross and American. The very favorable developments
in the Male & Norcross impart renewed confidence in the
success of finding pay ore in the deep levels of the vari-
ous mines on the Comstock Lodo, and the present vigor-
ous prosecution of work is looked upon very hopefully.
Ttu- rather restricted operations in Comstock stocks is
due to the stringency of the money market and the in-
creased outside investments which require vast amounts
of cash capital.

It has been the opinion of some that at great depths
in the Comstock Lode either no continuous bodies of ore
would be struck, or that it would prove of low grade.
This opinion was supported by somewhat of experience,
but has very recently been overturned by discoveries of
a rich and heavy body of ore in the Hale & Norcross, at
a depth of upwards of two hundred feet below the sixth
level of the Savage mine, and trending in the direction
of the latter. As the work progresses the body of ore
increases in richness and volume, affording every prom-
ise of continuation. This fortunate strike has imparted
a more cheerful feeling to stockholders in the claims on
tho Comstock Lode, and especially so to thoBO of the
Hole & Norcross.

There are some twenty mines in Virginia having large
a uounta of ore on hand, but wholly unavailable, because
of their low grade, which will not pay the cost of milling
on the spot. Some Virginia mills pay as high as $50,000
per annum for hauling lumber and wood, and the Santi-
ago mill pays $70,000 a year to haul ores from the Yellow
Jacket mine. To remedy these drffwbacks and utilize
the vast masses of low grade ore at the Virginia mines,
the project of erecting mills on the Truckee river and
connecting them with the mines by means of a railroad
has been conceived and will soon bo carried to comple-
tion. Timber and water are abundant on the Truckee,
and it is estimated that the cost of crushing in the
Truckee mills will not exceed $3 per ton, for the reason
that all other expenses will be reduced by tho low rail-
road freights. The entiro cost for transportation and
milling is set down at $10 per ton instead of $13 and $14,
as heretofore. Under these favoring circumstances, it is
asserted that $20 ore will pay quite as much profit at the
Truckee mills as $30 ore at the mines. In regard to the
railroad, the Bulletin's correspondent Bays: "The busi-
ness of carrying ore down the grade to the existing mills
— six of them ore on the Carson river — at present rates,
would give tho railroad an income. of $3GO,Q0Q a year.
The number of mills will certainly be increased. The
Union Mill Company will either build new mills on the
river or -remove some of their others from the towns to
the waiter. This mill company owns upward of 30 mills,
moBtly engaged in working Comstock ore. The con-
sumption of lumber would, at present rates of freight,
give the line an annual income of $500,000 from that
source, and the income from hauling fuel would make an
equal sum. The idea of the promoters of the road, it is
understood, iB to make a material reductipn on these
charges, so that while still leaving the railroad an enor-
mous profit so as to make a difference in tho cost of
working both mining and reducing low grade ores of
about one-third." The same writer adds: " The Com-
stock lode has always been laboring under the disadvan-
tage of too much cost at every stage of the work. Even
in the matter of water, the bills are too heavy for the ore
to bear, unless it is very rich. A 25-stamp mill in Gold
Hill pays $700 a month for water, and cannot get enough.
Its owners would save eleven or twelve cords of wood a
day and all the water bill, and get an unlimited supply of
water by going to Carson river; but whether they go or
stay the railroad will serve them, for if they choose to
go, it will bring them the ore from Gold Hill at a dollar
or two a ton; and if they choose to remain where they
are, it will sell them fire wood at $10 instead of $14."
Keports from White Pine continue to be of the most

encouraging character. Facts, basod upon figures, am
furnished, us imont.-stible proofs of the extraordinary
natural wealth of those mines. The Eberhardt mill of 10
stamps crushes at the rate of 2S0 tons per month, and
last month tnnn<i <mt ciini.imo. m ■ ■;■■ . ('■<.'& mill, ft
Bhunps, gives $8,000 per day in bullion, 01 175,000 DOT

month ol 28 working flays. .Miller's null, 10 stamps,
turns out $100,000 monthly. Felton ft Shaw's mill, B
Btampe, yields $60,000 per month. Moore A: Co.'s mill
has Im t n ptirihri.-j.-d by the Eberhardt company fOI $10,-
000. ThP e mills, with an aggregate: capacity of thirty-
two stamps, turn out $300,000 per month. This is uu-
equaled anywhere else in the world.

ALrtiA — declined from S26 to $38, and closed at $26.
From a letter dated the 21st inst., we learu that the 1,030
level is again clear of water. They found that the drifts
wen Slightly caved at the sides. Work has been resumed
in tho face of the cross-cut. No signs yet of the oast
clay.

American— has been in largo request, advancing from
$38 to $48, and closing at $19. They are now extracting
rock, which is reported to yield $38 to the ton.

Amador (Cal.) — told to the extent of 83 Bharea within a
range of $285^287 50. This mine continues to yield
largely, tho first clean-up for the present month amount-
ing to $31,808 in bullion.

Belchkii — sold to a les6 extent than usual, receding
from $19 to $16 50, and closing at $16 75. The mining ex-
penses have been very materially reduced; nevertheless,
they are vigorously prosecuting work in the drifts. They
have commenced hauling ore from tho dump to the mill,
and it is believed the returns will give some profit.

Chollar-Potobi — has been in moderate request, ad-
vancing from $183 to $195, and closing at $199. During
the week ending April lGth, 1,000 tons of ore were ex-
tracted. The yield from the Now Tunnel is quite large,
and the winze connecting this stope with the sixteenth
floor of the Blue Wing has good ore in both drifts that
are now being run from it. The prospectB are favorable
for the ore continuing below the sixteenth floor, and ex-
tending further to the south than it does at the tunnel
level. Both drifts at the 500 station, Chollar-Potosi
shaft, are in porphyry mixed with clay — the ore running
south having water. On tho 16th inst., bullion to tho
value of $21,800 was sent forward to the office in thiB
city. The ore slip of the 20th inst., shows that 137 2tf
tons of ore were sent to three custom mills.

Godld & Curry — advanced to $117 early in the week,
receding to $110, and closing at $112. Tho material in
tho bottom of the shaft is mostly quartz, interspersed
■with small bunches of ore. They will open a new sta-
tion at a depth of about 1,150 feet, from which drifts
will be made.

Hale & Norcross— has been exceedingly active during
the past week at improved figures, rising from $90 to
$132, and closing yesterday at $128. The body of ore re-
cently discovered in this mine has been opened to the
extent of 186 feet, and is widening as the drift proceeds
northward toward the Savage ground, showing an excel-
lent quality of ore, the assays running very high, and
the ore will probably give an average yield of upwards of
$10 per ton at the mill. They are extracting 150 tons
per day, making about 4,000 tons for the present month,
of which amount the lower levels contribute very little
as yet. During the week ending April 18th, the 175 and
300 levels yielded 283 H tons, the third, fourth and fifth
stations 771 ?i, making a total of 1,055^ tons, showing
an assay value of $56,318; and during same week they
delivered to the mills 894 H tons, leaving on hand 905
tons. The March returns of bullion have been increased
to $70,470, with more yet to come in. To the 23d inst.,
the yield for the current month aggregates $35,644. The
yield for the entire month will probably exceed $125,000.

Imperial — has been less active, declining from $73 to
$63, and closing at $71 50. The receipts so far during the
present month aggregate $14,012 — two shipments from
the Bock Point and one from the Gold Hill mill. The
daily amount of ore extracted from the Alta mine aggre-
gates about 100 tons, with prospects of a Blight increase
very soon. A telegram of the 23d, says: "The drifts
from the Imperial-Empire shaft continue in barren
quartz and porphyry."

Kentuck— declined from $260 to $247 60, and closed at

$247 Yellow Jacket from $61 to $56, and closed at

$57 75. ...Crown Point from $56 to $53, closing at $57.
The mines, by latest advices, are still on fire, but it is
expected that they will be able to resume work by the
first of May.

Ormn- has been quite active, declining from $38 to
$33 50, closing yesterday at $34. On the 21st inst., the
drift from the shaft was 202 feet in length. They re-
sumed work in the face of the drift on the evening of
the 20th, and there seems to be no doubt that they are
entering the east clay. They have passed the stream of
water which comes in from the south, and the face of
the drift is dry and nearly all clay.

Savage — shows a very smart advance at the close,
opening at $68, rising to $78, and closing at $77. The
present ore deposit in the Hale & Norcross claim, run-
ning northward toward the Savage ground is about 230
feet below the sixth station of the Savage company, and

may bo looked upon prospectively as of some value

Sierra Nevada is held at the advanced rateB, small sales
having been made at S51 and $o3. A run of 9 % days
Bhows a bullion product of $8,138.

for

Chinamen Underground. — The New
York Journal of Mining inquires of us
" whether any Chinamen in the Pacific
States and Territories are allowed to work
in mines underground," the writer's obser-
vation having yet discovered " no instance
of the kind." They have been employed
and f re highly spoken of as strikers, in
Calaveras and Tuolumne counties. In hy-
draulic mining and tunneling Chinese labor
is common, in various localities.

Weekly Shareholders' Directory,
Meetings, Assessments and

Dividends.

(Compiled for every Issue, trum advertisements In the

Mtitipc ami BnsmPIC 1'ittsa and other Sun

Francisco Journuttt.;

C unrrimrc the Names of Companies. DIMrtct or Cotmly
af Location; Amount and date ot Assessment; Date oi
Meeting; Ukv of he inqueiit Sale; and Amount and Time
of Payment of Dividends.

DAT DAT

DELiMQCKtrr. or UU

A«1rlallc, Store? en., April 30. 51 Mav M-Jim* 7

Alnltu Ci ni , Store: co., Nov .tit v. $2....P,iv. June 19. 18 8

Almulen. Nrvmln. March 17, $! April 2«i-Mnv3

Accidental, White Fine, March &>, 25c April 30— May 30

Ainudur Co., div. £0po> share Payable April 7. IW9

R.-wdeii. While Pine. April 14, Ac May 29 -June 14'

Bacon, Storey co., Nev..div Payable' June 19, 1668

Belcher, Storey co., Nov., March 15, S3., ..April I7-May 3
Bullion, .storey co. Nov., March 20. .. .Payable Immediately

Cinderella Annual Meeting May 4

HuviiKa Chief Annual Meetine Mtij 3

Oipltal, While Pine, April 19, 10c Mav 17— Hay 31 ■

diollar -PciloM. div., $26 Payable Oct. 15, 1867

Crown Point, dividend, $7.50 Parable Sept. 12, I8M

Conev. pret erred Stock, div. IU percent March 10, 1869

Cordillera, Mcx., March 10, $1 April 20— May In"

Daniel Webster, While Pino Annual Meeting May 10*

Dariey, Lyon co. Nov., March 8, J2.50 April 12— May 1

Enterprise, Nevada co.. March 22, $1 April 22— Mav 8

Empire M. A M., Nev., dividend J6. ...Payable Mav 16, 18l>7

Eureka, til v. $10 Payable April 6. 1%9

ElTusie, Soiiora, March 22, 5Jc April 23— May 17

Feather-lone. Whiic Pine Annual Meet I up Miy 5

b'olsom St. A Ft. Pt. K. K March 13, Si... April 13— April 30

Glen wood, El Dorado co Annual Meeting M'iv 7

Gould A Curry, div .57. 60 Payable May Ifi, 18f>7

Gold Hill Q M ft M -dividend, $7 50... .Payable July 13, 1808
Golden Chariot, Idaho, div. $2 60. ..Payable March 20, 1809
Golden Rule, Tuolumne co, div. 50c$ sh... Pay Aprll7, 1809

Hope Gravel, Nevada co Annual Meeting April 27

Hale A Norcross, div. $125 Sept. 16. 1807

Hope Gravel, Nevada co , April 6, $1 May lu— Mav 31

Indepcndenc, Sierra eo Annual Meeting Mav 3

Imperial, storey co., Nev., div Payable June 2u, 1808

Julia. Siorcy co , Nrv , March 19, $3.50 April 22— May 10

Julia, Storey co., Nev Special Meet. ng, April 26

Kentuck,dlv.,$20per share Payable Jan. 10,1869

Lyon M AM., El Dorado co., Mar. 6, $1.. April 12-April2G"

Mocking Bird, White Pine, April 16, 10c May 20— June 7

Mt. Tenubo, Lander co , Jun. 23,75c April 2— April 27#

Morning Star, Alpine co , March 3, $£.... April 5— April 26

Noonday Annual Meeting April 27

New ldria Annual Aieetlbg April 26

North Star, dividend, $5 Payable Au-,'. 16, 1868

North Ainer. Wood P. Co., March 12, $1 April 14— May 1*

Original Hidden Treasure Annual Meeting May i

Oneida Annual Meeting May 3

Occldt-niiil. div $2 Payable March 2, 1869

Overman, Storey co. Nov., March 20, $20. ..April 23-May 8

Planet, Arizona Annual Meeting May 3

Pacific Unassessable, div Payable June IB, 1868

Pacific, Coal. Contra Costa co.. Mar. 20, $1.. Ap. 27— May 17"

Quail Hill, Calaveras co., April 2. $10 May II— May 31

Batlibun, White Pine, April 19, $1 May 26-June 14

Silver Cord Annual Meeting April 28

Situ Bucnta Veniura Annua1 Meeting May 20

Sie.mpre Viva, Mex., April 15, $1 May 21— June 7*

suu ih Virginia, w hile Pine Annual Mecilng April . j

Santiago, silver City, dividend, $2 50... Payable Dec 19, 1P68

Sand Spring -alt, dividend $1 Payable Jan 5, 1869

Savage, Virginia. Nev, dividend. $4. .Payable March ■), 1869
Senator, Storev co.. Nev., March 26. 60c. ..May l-May 28"

Silver Sprou'.lnvo co. March 25. 6ic May —Mav 28"

Sierra Nevada." Sion-y co.. March is, $3 April 17— May 3

sierra, Douglas co., Nev., March 25, $8'... April 28— Aiaj ll
Troy Ledge, White Pine, March 16, 15c... April 23— May 24"
White Pine Water. Lander co.. April 14, $50 May 22-June 19

Wllliamantlc, Wln'.e Pine Annual Meeting May 18"

Williumantic, White Pine, March 22, Si.... April 24— .May 12
Virginia C-n?., Storey co., April 14, $l.5J....May I9-June 5
Virginia AG. H vVaterCo.. Dividend, payuble April 16. 1869
Yellow Jacket, div., $5 Payable March 15, 1869

Those marked « ith an asterisk (") are advertised In this
ournal.

Latest Stock Prices Bid and Asked.

|S. F. STOCK AND KXCHANGE BOARD

FaioAr Evening, April 23, 1869.

' MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS. Bid. ,!»;/..■-(.

United States Bonds, 5 2i'n, 18*16, '6?, '68- $ 86 '87

United Stales Konds, 5 20», lSf>4 87)^ 88

Unlied States Bond*. 5 2US, 1862 88 89

Legal Tender Notes 7oJ» 76

Caiilornfa State Bonds, 7s, 1857 95 —

San Francisco Bonds, 10s, 1851 par.ftint.

San Francisco City Bonds, 6s. lsdi — —

San Francisco City and County Bonds. Gs, 1858. 83 87JJ

San Francisco School Bonds, 10s. I860 100 —

San Fraud, co School Boons, 10s, 1*61 par A int

San Francisco City and Co. Sch'l Il'ds, 7», 1866. 90 91

San Francisco Ciiv and Co. Bonda, 7s, 1862 90 yi

San FranclscoClty and Co. Bonds, 7s, 1864 90 91

San FrancNco City and Co Bonds, 7s, 1865 90 91

San Pranclsco City and Co. Jmlg. Bds. 7s, 1863. 90 91

San Francl-coCiiy and Co. Judg. Bd.-i, 7s, 1864. 9\) 91

Sacramento City Bonds HO 91

Sacramento County Bonds, 6s 70 91

Marysville Bonds, 10s 75 30

Stocklou City Bonds 65 —

Yuba County Bonds, fs 8J 85

Santa Clara Count v Bond*. 7s ;... 76 77

Butte County Bunas, 10s, I860 75 —

Sail Mateo County Bonds, 7s 75 80

California Steam Navigation Co 68 10

Spring Valley Water Co .* 6di4' 6ti>£

State Telegraph Co 26 —

CAS Cn.MP.lMKS.

San Francisco Gas Co 77 —

Sacramento Gas Co — 55

RAILROADS.

Sacramento Valley Railroad — —

San Frai.ci-co ami San lose Kail road — —

Omnibus Railroad 72),; —

Central Railroad .... f>0 —

North Beach and Mission Railroad 74 75

FrontSireet. Mission ami Ocean Railroad 11 12

BANKING INSTITUTIONS.

Pacific Bank 97^ 100

The Bank of California 157 16 (

People's Insurance Company 100 _

INSIMUM'K COUPAMKS.

Firemand' Fund Insurance Co 93 100

Pacific Insurance Co 122 123

Merchant*' Mutual Marine Insurance Co 500 620

California Insurance Co 1.100 14110

Union Insurance Co 100 lui

Home Mutual Insurance Co I9JJ 2n

Occidental Insurance tin 85 90

MINING STOCKS— WASOOK OISTR1CT.

Alpha 26 26>,

Baltimore American — —

Belcher 16 17

Bullion. G. H 17 —

Crown Point 56J£ 67

Cole (Va.) — 20

Confldence. 2.1 M

Consolidated Virginia 6 —

Ohollar-Potosf 199 200

Daney 3&J 4

Exchequer.' .. 12 J4

Empire Mill and Mining Co 61 65

Mould ft Curry U2 113

Gold Hill Quartz — 45

Hale A Norcross 132 133

Imperial 63 63<£

Julia 2b£ Abi

Justiceai'd Independent — —

Kentuck 2l7 248

Lady Bryan 8M 9

American 49 50

Occide.. tal 26^ 27

Ophir 3i»J 34

Overman 66« —

Segregated Belcher 7 PJ.I

Savage 77 78

Sierra Nevada 53 54

Union — _

I DIM 'i Slated — _

Yellow Jacket bl% 68

Ml C»LLA.N>Ol!S MINING HOCKP.

Amador (Callrofniai 285 287K

Aurora, White Pine, — 15

F.iin-ka. (t'jiliioruuO — 24U

Golden Cliarlot (idalioj 42W <5

Eili-erUord (Idaho] 11 nv

Golrt,.n KiiU-.raliln.ma '. . ". 10 -

Moha-vk (t'alllurnlM) _ "

Pucoillio, Wullc l im- ...; \£ _

San Francisco Market Rates,

'w lmiouif Price**

_ „ _.., P..IDAY, April C3 18G9.

Flour, Extra, ^bbl $* 75 «,J6 3^K

Do. Superiliit- 4 2b <A 4 6u

Corn Mial.t* ion lbs 2 25 ® 2 60

Wheat, f> 100 lbs 1 w @ 1 55

Oats, ft 10U lbs l 7J q 2 00

Barley, ft loo lbs 1 90 a i 00

Bcana, ftlOutbs 6 00 @ 7 00

Potatoes. ^ loO lbs :o ® 78

Hay, ft ton 9 o» c^iVa

Live Oak Wood, ft cord 9 00 @(u 00

Beef, extra, drosbed, ft lb jj @ 12

Sheep, on foot 3 on @ 3 25

II oks. on foot, ft lb 6 ® 7

Hogs, dressed, ft lb 9 ® 10

GKOOER1KS, KTO.

Sugar, crushed, ft lb — q \-,%

Do. China ju 3 12

Coffee, Costa Rica, ft lb 19 @ 2»

I*o. Rio ]8 @ MU

Tea, Japan, ft lb *. 76 @ 90

Do Green 60 @ 1 25

Hawaiian Rice, ft Ib — @ 10

China Rlcc.fttb 6 @ 7

Coa I Oil , ft gal Ion 47 9 43

Candles, ft ro ig @ jg

Ranch Butter, ft Ib 35' <a 26

Isthmus Butter, ft lb 3^ @ 35

Cheese, California, ft ib 15 @ ]g

Eggs, ft dozen 40 @ 45

f-urd.ftlb is @ is

Ham and Bacon, ft lb 14 M jfi

Shoulders, ft lb 7 a 8

Kvtiiil l'ricc".

Butter, California, fresh, ft lb 45 @ 60

do. pickled, ft lb 30 <a ■

do. Oregon, fttb 20 ® 21

do. New York, ft lb 35 @ 4$

Cliceac, ft ft 20 @ 25

Honey, ft lb 25 @ 30

Eggs, p dozen 53 @ 60

Lard, ft ft 1$ a ig

Hams and Bacon, ft ft a @ 25

Cranberries, ft gallon 1 to a 1 25

Potatoes.ftft Ik ra 2

Potatoes, Sweet, ft ft 3 a 5

Tomatoes, ft ft 3 @ __

Onions, ft lb 3 a _

Apples, No. I, ft ft 4 @ 5

Pears, Table, ftft , 6 <a *

Plums, dried, ft ft * 10 « u

Peaches, dried, ft ft 10 a 12

Oranges, ft dozen 75 @ _

Lemons, ft dozen ;.,. 60 @ 75

Chickens, apiece 76 a 1 00

Turkeys, ft ft 30 a 3S

Soap, Talc andC. 0 7 a 12

Soap, Castile, ft ft ;., 20 ® —

San Francisco Metal Market.

PRICES FOR INVOICES.

Jobbing price* rule from ten tojiftren per cent, higher than thg
following quotation*.

FamiT, April 23, 1869.
Iron.— Duty: Pig, $9 per ton; Railroad, 6uc ft 100 fts; Bar,
laUic ft lb; Sheet, polished, 3c ft lb; common. lj*@l&c
ft ft; Plate, ljfic ft ft; Pipe, l>icftft; Galvanized, 2^c
ft ft.

Scotch and English Pig iron ftjton * ©$45 00

White Pig ft ton 36 00 @ 37 00

Refined Bar, bud assortment ft lb — 03 '®

Reilncd Bar, good assortment, ftft — 04 @

Boiler, No. 1 to 4 — 04K@ — —

Plate, No. 5 tol> a — 04Jtf

Sheet, No. 10 to 13 — Ol^a — 5

Sheet, No. 14 lo 20 — 115 @ — 5M

Sheet, No. 24 to 27 —05 a— 6^

Cofpkr.— Duty: Sheathing, 3^c ft ft; Pig and Bar, 2^c ft ft

Sheathing, ft lb . a — . 26

Shenthing; Yellow — 20 @ — 21

Sheathing, Old Yellow ,.... — 10 0 — 11

Bolts —21 a— 22

Composition Nails — 21 a — 32

Tim Plaths.— Duty: 25 ft cent, ad valorem.

Plates, Chnrcnnl, IX.ft box 12 00 @

Plates, 1 O Charcoal — — @ II 00

Roofing Plates 10 00 -a 10 50

BaiuaTin, Slabs, ft ft ; @ — 35

Ptkkl.— English Cast Steel, ft ft.... a — 15

Quicksilver.— ft ft — 6S a — 60

LEAD.~PlE.fttt _ 7K@— 8

Sheet — 10 a

Pipe — 11 a

Bar — 9 a— p«

Zinc —Sheet?, ftft ■ — 10ka— II

Borax.— California. ft lb — 35 ® — 38

Panama Bailroad Co. — An election for
Directors of the above company was held at
Tontine Building, New York, April 5th, in
the offices of the same, with the following
result: William H. Aspinwall, Jos. W. Al-
sop, James M. Brown, Henry Cbauncey,
Edward Cunard, Fred. G. Foster, David
Hoadley, Gouverneaur Kemble, Chas. P.
Leverich, Howard Potter, David Stewart,
Chas. W. Kiley, Win. White Wright, Jr.

Poetry at the Mines. — California gold dig-
gers are, as a rule, liberal, whole-souled fellows,
hut there is one article in general use among the
fraternity, that no miner is either willing to give
away or sell, if he happens to bo far remote from
the source of supply. This precious commodity
is Plantation Bitters, the value of which, as a
safeguard against malarious fevers and a support
and solace under privation and hardship, are well
understood bv every member of that ndventuroun
class: Last l?all, a miner who was " prospecting "
on one of the trihutnrics of the Miiriposa, had a
bottle of the elixir (the only one he possessed)
stolen from his tent. After having obtained, with
some difficulty, a fresh supply from Sacramento,
lie scrawled the following lines on the Ijd of the
box containing it:
" Who steals my "dust" steals trash, these yellow

diggin's
Afford the means to pay me for such priggin's ;
But if I cotch them, woo the mean critters
That robs my tent of Plantation Bittkrs.'^**

Pioneer Land and Loan Association. — Cap-
ital $1,000,000 — Incorporated for 50 Years.
This new incorporation is under thoroughly re-
sponsible management, and offers greater in-
ducements for the legitimate investment of
money than any other Association in the State.
Books, with prospectus, can be obtained at the
office of the Company. 304 Montgomery street.

C. Muxler, Occttlist, 205 Montgomery street,
deals in all kinds of spectacles. If yon cannot
apply in person you can be fitted by sending de-
scription, age, etc. ^*^,

262

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Mininff Summary.

The following information is gleaned mostly froinjonr-
nals published In the interior, in close proximity to the
mines mentioned.

CALIFORNIA.
AXPINE COUNTY.

From the Chronicle, April 10th : — The
Pennsylvania has levied an assesraent of
$2 per share. The mine looks promising,
and an additional force will be put on next
■week.

Miner, 10th :■ — The rock now encountered
in the face of the Mt. Bullion tunnel is said
to contain considerable quartz and to look
like being a ledge.

AMAMK COUNTY.

Ledger, April 17th: — Letter from lone
City: — The San Francisco Co., which is
running a tunnel in the vein near town,
have got in 50 feet. The vein is improv-
ing in size and quality — the rock yielding
about $46 to the ton by working process.
Our coal mine has added to the life and
thrift of our village. Those big mule
teams, five or six of which are hauling coal
to the quartz mills above, make quite a
stir. The coal is drawn out of the tunnel
by a horse car. It is the intention to put
up au engine. The tunnel is in about 300
feet.

EX., DOItADO COUNTY.

Pilot Hir.L. — Placerville Democrat, April
17th : — The Boulder claim continues to pay
handsomely. It is owned by Messrs. Blue,
Martin, Owens and Rogers. We are in-
formed that it has yielded the present sea-
son, the result of two months' work by four
men, 100 ounces of gold. "With a sufficient
amount of water, and properly worked, it
will yield three and a half ounces per day
to the man. It is estimated that there are
from four to six acres of ground in it that
will pay.

Georgetown.— The claim of Halls, Bee-
bee & Co. continues to improve as they go
down. There is no doubt that the owners
have a fortune. Georgia Slide has a five
and a ten stamp mill, and Woods & Co, are
making preparation for another ten stamp
mill. The Taylor mine owners will imme-
diately add five more stamps to their mill,
and have the main shaft sunk 100 feet
deeper.

KERN COUNTY.

Havilah correspondence of Visalia Delta:
The pump in the Joe Walker mine has
given out, and nothing can be done until
a new one is .procured. The mine is too
valuable to remain idle long. The Delphi
mine has changed hands, McKeadney hav-
ing sold out to George P. Dalton of Grass
Valley, who is superintending the works,
and expects to run the mill night and day
after ten days. The New York and Clear
Creek Gold Mining Co's mines are still
idle, but report has it that the Co. have
levied an assessment and will begin work.
Col. Band is still prospecting his mine —
the rock in the shaft is very hard, but it is
down over 300 feet, and good rock is found
whenever a drift is run to the ledge — the
shaft being sunk back of the foot wall.

Il.tBirtWI COUNTY.

BuCHANAN.-^-From the Mail, April 16th :
The mine known as the Buchanan Copper
Mine, is now owned and worked by Vilas
& Co. and is yielding richer ore than ever.
The Co. has between 80 and 100 men em-
ployed. The ore, a portion of which is re-
duced to "matte," has during the winter
accumulated to thousands of tons.

NEVADA COUNTY.

Scott's Flat. — Gazette, April 12th: The
American claims are running 200 inches of
water, and employ five men. The Hueston
claims are using 200 inches, and employ
four hands. These claims are said to be
paying well. Morrow & Co. are running
150 inches of water and four men. Cobb
& Co. have eight men, and use 150 inches.
This company are said to be making one
hundred dollars per day above expenses.
Ashburn & Co. on the opposite side of the
creek, will soon be hydraulicing. Bean &
Co. will commence hydraulicing to-day,
working four men and running 200 inches
of water.

Mooney Flat Hydraulic Co. — Same, of
13th : Incorporated yesterday to carry on
mining on the claims known as the Union,
Kinder, Sycropolis and others.

Sneath & Clay Mill— same of 14th :
Commenced crushing rock on Monday.
The company have one hundred and fifty
tons of rock on hand, 'and expect soon to
keep their twelve stumps running. At
present they employ twenty-four men un-
derground, besides those in the mill and
hoisting works.

i he Telegraph company have located
fifteen hundred feet on the Allison Ranch
ledge, commencing at the southern Ixun-
dary line and extending southerly.

IiiiLL Purchase. — 15th ; Fogartr & Com-

pany have purchased the Collins cement
mill at You Bet, and have contracted to
have the machinery removed to Jones' Bar,

Leetle York, 16th. — Atkins, Cozzens &
Co. are putting a large amount of iron pipe
in the Gardner. They are taking out from
$1,700 to $2,200 at a run of two weeks.

You Bet. — W. H. Duryea, is doing an
extensive hydraulic business. His receipts
average about $1, 500 for every two weeks'
run . , . .Ed. Williams is running two sets of
claims, using 800 inches of water, and em-
ploying seventeen men. The yield of gold
averages over jfl,000 for every fifteen days.
. . . .Neece & West, who have been running
their cement mill for several years, have
shut down and commenced hydraulicing,
and the ground is said to be paying well.

Hussey & Co. , with 250 inches of water

and five men; King & Co., with the same
and four men; 'MeManus & Co. , with 100
inches and three men; Brockman & Co.,
with 200 inches and four men; and Henry
Stahr with 250 inches and four men, are
making their regular runs with better pros-
pects... .Brown Bros, are running their
cement mill night and day, and are taking
out better pay than ever. Report says tbjit
for the past few weeks they have been tak-
ing out $4,000 to $5,000 a week. They em-
ploy from sixteen to twenty men The

towns of Red Dog and You Bet are nearly
deserted, the miners mostly living at their
claims. . . .The claims at Remington, Low-
ell, Hunt's and Quaker Hills, and other
places in the township, are in active opera-
tion.

Scott Flat. — The claims of the Ameri-
can company cleaned up Wednesday, after
a run of eight days, and yielded over $1,000.
They employ four men and use 200 inches
of water.

San Juan. — Transcript, 11th : Business is
lively. The mines along the Ridge are
yielding handsomely.

Same of 14th : The county prospects were
never better. Parties are sinking upon the
Talbott ledge in Willow Valley. The Ban-
ner and Pittsburg are yielding handsome-
ly, and other mines will soon be started up,
the Mohawk among them. It is reported
that the California will be started before
Fall, and the old Nevada mine will soon
fall into the hands of men who will work it.
The Rising Star, Cornish and other mines
down the creek are doing well.

Fidelity Ledge.— Same of 17th : This
is now being worked and rich quartz is be-
ing obtained. There is a stratum of rich
gold bearing sulphurets a foot thick, on the
lower side of the ledge, which assays $500
to the ton.

Grass Valley National, April 10th: Rock
now being taken from the Bowery claim
near Dead Man's Flat, averages $50 to the
bucketful. They are down 75 feet on the
ledge, which is from six inches to a foot ia
width and looks well.

William Penn Mine. — Phil. Painter,
Jas. Edwards, and others are putting down
a shaft, and are down about 50 feet. Ledge
from 18 to 24 inches thick. A small engine
of 8-horse power does the pumping and
hoisting. The rock resembles that of the
Eureka.

Mining Sale. — Same of 12th: We hear
it reported that the southern extension o.f
the Allison Ranch mine has been sold, or
bargained to be sold, for the sum of $140,-
000.

Wisconsin Mine. — 13th: The water has
all been pumped out. They commenced
taking out ore to-day. The mine looks
well.

Idaho Mine. — This mine cleared up on
Saturday $9,000 after a run of eight days.

Same of 14th: In Rhode Island Ravine,
the La Cross ledge is being worked with
success. On Gold Hill, new shafts are be-
ing sunk and men are making good wages.
Men on Cincinnati Hill are taking out good
rock. Some crushed recently paid $29 to
the tor.

Grass Valley Union, 13th: Yesterday fifty
feet of the Wm. Penn mine was sold to
Ben. Macauley for $5 50 per foot' cash —
Macauley paying the assessments.

Allison Ranch Mine. —This is now in
the hands of an incorporation, and will be
speedily opened. Two pumps will be at
work by the end of this week. The mill,
which has a battery of twelve stamps, each
stamp weighing a thousand pounds, will be
started up to-day or to-morrow, and will
crush waste rock from the dump pile. The
great richness of the old dump pile is ow-
ing to the fact that in the early days they
disregarded all rock except that which
showed well, and years of exposure has
tread the gold. The incline is down only
465 feet to the lowest level. There are four
leve's, and not one of them has been worked
out o rer 700 feet. When the work stopped
the 1 -rfge was as well defined as ever, the
reck showing a working value of $30 per
ton.

North Star Mine. — Same of 14th: The
workmen are now engaged in preparing to
put in the new pump of sixteen inches in
diameter, to be worked by a sixteen inch
cylinder engine. It is believed that this
will enable the mine to be worked to an in-
definite extent, in spite of water.

Hope Gravel Company. — 15th: It is
thought that the new shaft will strike about
midway across the old river bed. We yes-
terday found that the miners had passed
through the hard cement and come to the
pipe clay which overlays the gravel deposit.
The sinking, from this time forward, will
be comparatively easy. The new shaft is
12 by four feet in the clear. All the ma-
chinery for the new pumping apparatus is
on the ground.

Scandinavian. — 16th: The mine is turn-
ing out good rock. The company are work-
ing the ore with two arastras driven by
water power, and getting about $100 per
ton.

Meadow Lake. — This town, which
boasted but two years ago two theaters, a
Stock and Exchange Board, thirteen hotels,
and3, 000 souls, is to be numbered amongthe
things that were. Only about 200 persons,
great and small, passed the winter th,ere.

FLACER COUNTY.

Rich Specimens. — The Auburn Stars and
Stripes, April 15th: — We were shown yes-
terday a very rich specimen from a newly
discovered ledge, one mile southeast from
Colfax. The parties engaged in prospect-
ing the ledge took out in a short time about
$1,500, crushing the quartz in a common
hand mortar. The Rising Sun have lately
struck good rock at the depth of 300 feet.
The Live Oak has lately started up. One-
half interest in it was recently sold for
$10,000.

FLDHAS COUNTY.

Quincy National, April 10th : — The Cal-
edonia Co. are pushing ahead the work in
their drifts, and expect to strike the Big
White ledge soon. Judkins & Kellogg's
mine is paying as well as usual. "Cahalan
has run out on his ledge about 30 feet, and
hopes to find an abundance of good pay
rock soon. The Crescent Co. have 13 men
at work iu the mine.

La Porte Union: — The miners at Saw Pit
have an abundant supply of water. All of
the hydraulic companies have commenced
piping. Water was turned loose against
the bank in Conly & Gowell's diggings,
near this town, on Tuesday last.

SIKH ISA COUNTY.

Downieville 3Iessenger, April 19th: —
Water has come at last, and pipes are run-
ning night and day in all the Northern por-
tion of the county. Although the season
will be short, there is a prospect that much
ground will be worked.

Newark correspondence: — The different
companies commenced to wash, with flat-
tering prospects. The Swift Sure company
struck an inside lead in their claim, of fab-
ulous richness. Cook is running his tun-
nel to strike the same lead, with good hope
of success. The Nevada Co. have got their
new incline completed — raising the cars
and water by water-power. The Nip and
Tuck, Reading and North America, are
paying handsomely.

SIMilVOl' COUNTY.

Yreka Union, April 14th : Oscar With-
erill is sinking a prospect hole in the sub-
urbs of Yreka, near where Brady & Co.
have struck such rich cement in their claim.
... .We understand that there are but 11
companies of Chinamen mining on Hum-
bug now, against 26 companies there one
year ago.

The United Quartz Co. have sunk on their
ledge to the depth of 100 feet. They have
purchased the mill erected by Sleeper &
Co. some years ago on the South Fork, and
will remove it to the vicinity of the ledge.

SON MA COVNTY.

The Petaluma Journal and Argus has vis-
ited the new silver mines. It says : The
Davis claim is on Faylon Creek, near the
mouth of Graham's Canon, and is believed
to be of considerable value. The assay of
ore sent to San Francisco shows a yield of
$10.56 per ton, and. Mr. Davis has refused
several liberal offers for his interest.
Nearly south of the Faylon Creek is the
South Fork. On this creek we collected a
number of specimens of quartz, among
them some with signs of cinnabar. The
rock in both creeks is principally decom-
posed quartz, of a bluish color, and easy of
reduction. Several gentlemen have located
claims on this ledge; and it would not sur-
prise us if their enterprise proved a profit-
able one. We presume there are at least
500 claims staked out in the district, all
bearing more or less signs of paying rock.
The general opinion of the people of the
neighborhood is that it will pay to work the
rock, and several companies are in process
of formation. There is every advantage
necessary for mining in the way of wood

and water. Our own opinion is, that there
is no use of rushing headlong into the
speculation, as the indications are not up
to our idea of what they should be.

TRINITY COUNTY.

Journal, April 17th : Mining operations
continue to be pushed with energy through-
out the county, and with flattering pros-
pects. The miners have no time to lose
now, as water will soon begin to slacken ;
but notwithstanding theextraordinary short-
ness of the mining season and the great
scarcity of water, we believe that all hands
will come out even, if not ahead.

TUXARE COUNTY.

Visalia Delta, — White River Letter :
There is not much doing here in the mines ■
at present. T. B. Caggle, and E. Ham-
mond, have grouDd-sluiced about 5,000
yards of Gordon's Gulch, during the past
winter, and are now cleaning up — they
hope it will average a dollar a bucket. The
Philadelphia Co. in running their adit, run
the vein out. A. J. Maltby has resumed
work on the Eclipse.

TUOLUMNE COUNTY.

The Old Buchanan Mine. — -Sonora Dem-
ocrat, April 17th: — This claim is again giv-
ing evidence of great wealth. Mr. Breur
started a level 38 feet below the original
tunnel and now has a vein from two and a
half to three .feet in thickness, which for
100 feet in length, will pay from $20 to $46
per ton. The crushing of 46 tons yielded
last week 112 ounces jof gold.

Mine Sold. — The Detweiler and App
Quartz Mine, near Poverty Hill, in Quartz
Mountain, was sold last week to Frederick
Griffing for the sum of $45,000.
COLORADO.

Granite District. — Denver News, March
24th: —The Treasure Mining Co's mill has
started up again. It is crushing ore from
the Magenta lode. The Niagara Co's mill
is about to start up on ore from the Mon-
arch. The Yankee Blade Co. are erecting
a 20-stamp mill, and Mr. Newhonse is pre-
paring to do the same. There will be 87
stamps running in Granite next season.

Same of April 7th: — The branch mint
run into bars, in three days, 1086.98 ounces
of gold. On Saturday there was turned
out the largest gold bar ever made in Den-
ver, 322.55 ounces.

Herald, March 24th: Robert Teat's sil ■
ver miue has been improving. Last week
the vein of solid rich ore was two feet thick.
Yesterday the workmen broke into a body
of ore four feet wide. Dr. Blatchley has
been runuing one of his pans on raw ore
from this mine, with astonishing results.

The Conqueror Lode.— The owners-
Jerry Haskins and the two Disbro brothers,
' — have been working siuce last fall a year
ago. They have sunk a shaft and timbered
it to a depth of about 200 feet. In doing
this they had to pass through 100 feet of
lean ore. ' They have now rich ore six feet
wide, so soft that no powder is required,
a pick and shovel are all. They are put-
ting up a engine for hoisting. The mine
will yeild ore to supply 100 stamps.

Central City Register, April 1st: Judge
Dickerson is fitting up his 15-stamp water
mill on Clear C*eek .... An assay yesterday
of ore from the Fletcher lode gave 208 ozs.
silver, and 3% ozs. gold per ton. Coin
value $459.74. The lode is being worked

by William Cook To-day Dr. Blatchley

starts up his pans in the Excelsior mill on

Circassian ore The Unexpected lode, in

Lake Gulch, is producing more ore than
ever before, and of a much better quality.
The iron yields 11 ounces per cord under
stamps . . . .Two assays of Flora Temple sul-
phuret ore yielded No. 1, 8 ounces, gold,
and over 400 ounces silver, per ton; No. 2,
5 ounces gold, and about 60 ounces silver.

Sugar Loaf Mines. — Correspondence of
the Boulder Miner, March 24th:— Mr. P. E.
Gleason has hands erecting his stamp mill;

will have it running in two months The

Lincoln lode has a tunnel in 90 feet, and

shows a fine vein of ore The Hinman

has a tunnel in 60 feet, showing a large
vein of pyrites. .. .The Bald Prairie has
been .opened to a certain extent for a half
mile in length. Some remarkable rich
specimens, showing native gold, have been
taken out. . . .The Legal Tender oroppings
show that it is a strong vein, and filled with
sulphurets of silver. . . .All the above lodes
are on the North side of the Four Mile
creek, and good roads can be made to all.
The creek has water to supply any number
of steam mills the year round. There is
an abundant supply of wood.

Same of 31st : Sand rs & Co. are working
the Black Tail lode, on Left hand. It shows
very rich argentiferous copper ore.....
Strock & Co. have most of the material
on the ground for an arastra. .. .Steward,
Gillespie & Co. are busy at work on the
Gray Eagle lode. They have developed a
fine vein of rich silver ore. Depth of shaft
50 feet Bottolfson, Fullen & Co.'s t9n

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stamp mill at Gold Hill is approaching
completion .... William Brierly ft Co . on
the Williams lorle. Have some eight or ten
cords of quartz, worth fri 01 8125 to J150
per cord, and a tine crevice of rich ore in
v Co. "ill run their Biir-
irtz Carter, Blake ft Co. have \
need milling on the Old Pay, silver '
lo3e, at Sugar Loaf. This lode carries
tame very riob on-, worth from $300 to
$500 per ton . Glensoo ft Co. bavo nearly
all the timbers out for their stamp mill. |
Tli. v expect to hive it in operation early
in May The Huosier has aline body of
rich ore in the shaft, which is down 140
feet . . Duncan ft Co., of Dexter Point, are
making preparations to work the Legal
Tender . . .M. Towner .V Co. will commence
working their gulch claims on Four Mile
creek iu a few days... Mr. Osborne is
opening a gulch claim. . . .Mr. Jackson will
resume work on his gulch claims in a short
time. The indications are that Four Mile
creek and Gold Run will be worked more
this summer than ever before.

The Hoosebr Mill. — The Hoosier mill
owners, by their present plan of desulphur-
ing, obtain from 85 to 95 per cent, of the
silver contained in the ore. They obtained
§00 per ton, (coin value) from ore that
onlv yielded $5 per ton by raw treatment.
They find their process exceeds their most
sanguine expectations.

Central District. — Jamestown corres-
pondence : There is sufficient material now
on the snrfaco to keep the present arastras
running for several weeks. The Cobb mill,
12-stanip, is undergoing slight repairs.

John Keen and George Jackson have re-
sumed mining on the American, Nottawa,
anil Stanley lodes, and are raising fine ores.
Silas T. Tomlinsonand Johnson Miller will
work the Merrimac and Lost Child lodes.
John Virden will work the Neikirk lode.
Boyd & Co. are working a new lode which
prom'ses well. Uncle John Knoup & Co.
are preparing to work their lodes. Capt.
Hall, superintendent of the Topeka Co.,
has written from Boston that they contem-
plate erecting reduction works.

Georgetown Miner, April 1st : The Brown
Company will soon have ready for ship-
ment another immense plate of silver bul-
lion... Huepeden & Co. have shipped,

since our last report, 8847 85 Stewart's

reduction works are in successful opera-
tion. All that is necessary for these works
to produce from 81, 000 to 82,000 per week
is a full supply of ore. Two Blatchley pans
are in operation, doing well, both on raw
and chlorodized ore. Stewart has treated
four and a half tons of gold ore, from Em-
pire, from which he obtained 82 per cent,
of the assay. The amount of bullion pro-
duced by the new pans, within a week, is
8635 09. All of the ore has been low grade.
Next week he will start up on ore from the
Mendota.

Idaho District. — Bennett, Wright &
Co. commenced work on Thursday, with
three men, and cleaned up, on Saturday,
6 ounces of clean gold. . . .Beauzy, Koons
& Co. are sinking a pit below Grass Valley,
not to bed rock yet. . . .Legault &. Co. are
prospecting two miles below Idaho. . . Fitz-
patriek & Co. are getting ready for the
summer. . .Gus. Reader is stripping ground
this side of the big bridge.
IDAHO.
Astor.— Tidal Wave, April 9th : Walsh
& Warnkee have worked Astor ore in
Black's mill. From Messrs. Walsh &
Warnkee we get the number of tons, aDd
from the assayer's certificate we learn the
ounces of bullion and value, as follows:
13,500 pounds of ore produced 608 ounces
of bullion, worth 81,304.S6 coin value, or
8209.97 11-100 cents per ton of ore.

Atlanta. — South Boise. — A 3-pound
chunk of ore from this lode which has been
shown us, is exceedingly rich. Mr. Atkins
and his company have run a tunnel in on
the ledge 180 feet, commencing in a gulch
low down the hill. Nothing iu the mine
has been found to equal the rock now being
produced from the extreme end, where
they are now at work. Mr. Clemens saw a
piece weighing 100 pounds taken from the
same place, that assayed 812,000 per ton,
by chipping in various places so as to arrive
at an average. Some selected rock from
the maiu ledge assayed 826,000. The Mi-
nerva and other mines in the same neigh-
borhood, though not so large as the At-
lanta, assay quite as well. In fact, Yuba
is just beginning to attract attention: Mr.
Atkins has a small prospecting mill on the
Atlanta, with which he has been working
the rock of that ledge during the winter,
and for want of easy means of transporta-
tion has kept the product on hand, which
now amounts to forty odd thousand dollars
in bullion. »,

.Tlie Oivyliee Avalanche, April 10th, has
these Flint Items : We learu that the Ris-
ing Star Mining Co. is realizing about

81,000 per day . The expenses of the mill
and mine are estimated at about 8350 per
day, which would leave a clear profit of
8650 per day for the company.

Superintendent Hall has consented to let
five stamps of the mill for the purpose of
onsl iqi work, to accommodate the hoys of
Flint

Messrs. Walsh ,1. Warnkee brought in be-
tween 1,800 and 1,400 ounces of bullion,
the proceeds of 6% tons of rock from the
John Jacob Astor lode, And there is any
amount of just as good rock in sight. The
mine is now very wet, lint in tho course of
a week tin- v think it will he dry enough to
commence operations.

MONTANA.

Bannack. — Helena Post, March 12th :
The water will be running in the big ditch
on or before the first of next month, and
then the placer will commence with vigor.
It is stated more gold will taken out iu Ban-
nack the coming summer than ever before.

PHiLLirsntJHO. — Mr. Louis Bugher has
discovered a silver lead running parallel
with the Burnley & Bugher lode, which
prospects finely. This new lead is about
ten feet in width.

Highland. — April 2d : We had the satis-
faction of observing Professor Steitz melt-
ing into a single bar three lumps of retort
which weighed over 720 ounces, the prod-
uct of 14 tons of tailings from .the Myers
& Thompson lode.

It has been supposed for a long time that
there was an immense bauk of pay gravel
between Last Chance and Dry Gulch. We
learn that Messrs. Whitney & Mason have
been prospecting upon this bar. They have
sunk five shafts varying from 25 to 40 feet
in depth, in each of which good prospects
were found. In some shafts they have
found as high as 85 cents to the pan, but
the average prospect was from five to nine
cents.

Red Mountain. — In the Day lode, near
Moose Creek,' in the vicinity of Highland,
the crevice is about 3% feet wide at a depth
of 70 feet. From ten pounds of rock which
was taken at random from the richest por-
tion of the pay crevice, four ounces nine
pennyweights was taken. A pay streak of
this kind of rock over 20 inches in width
extends the entire length of the lode, and
is uniform in width as the depth increases.

Silver Star. — Tom C. Stevens, one of
the owners of the Trivitt & Stevens mill,
arrived last evening with 320 ounces of
gold, the result of five days' run with 12
stamps, the rock crushed being from the
Iron Rod.

Letter from Nelson Gulch : Several com-
panies are sluicing below discovery claim,
and the dirt pays from 820 to 8100 per day
to the hand. Messrs. James and John
Spears have had about six men at work
this winter. Their dirt pays from 875 to
8100 per day to the hand. From discov-
ery to No. 11, below discovery, are a large
number of piles of dirt, which will pay
very handsomely when sluiced. There is
not a claim in the whole gulch but what
will pay from 816 to $100 per day to the
hand when sluiced. The only thing neces-
sary is plenty of water.

Deer Lodge items : Uncle Ben's Gulch
is opening up very richly. .. .The miners
on Pilgrim Bar are making extensive prep-
ar tions for mining. .. .The Pike Peak
ditch, running to the head of Pioneer
Gulch is almost complete, and in about two
weeks mining will commence in Pioneer
Gulch.

NEVADA.

IlI'MFllll.llT.

Pride of the Mountain. — Register, April
10th: — Winnemucca correspondent says :
Buck & Kimble, the proprietors of this
mine, left here this week for San Francisco
with 70 tons of assorted ore.- I think this
is the largest shipment of pre ever made
from this county at any one time. It made
seven car loads. They are having their
mine worked night and day, aud are sink-
ing an incline, which is now 170 feet. In
sinking down, the ledge improves both in
width, richness and permanency. .. .Clark
k Mullen have re-located the Etna ledge,
in Prince Royal District, formerly owned
by an Eastern Co., but abandoned three
years ago. The new owners went to work
in the old tunnel at a point where the old
Co. , under direction of a tape-measuring
New York Superintendent had run over the
vein, and in three weeks' time have opened
a ledge rich in black sulphurets of silver
. . . .The Pioneer mill is being repaired and
remodled. A new 30 horse-power engine
has been added, and two of the largest
sized Wheeler pans . . .JakeStrandeger, on
the Christiana ledge, has a large and well
defined vein, abounding in ore of a su-
perior quality. . . .Ten and one half tons of
ore from the Grant mine, in Indian district,
receutly worked at the Pioneer mill,- yielded
§148 per ton.... The Silver Mining Co.
shipped 2,192 ounces of bullion.

1- AUK 1 V AOAT.

The White Pine Hem of April 6th, says:
The owners of the Illinois Ledge, after
having run a tunnel of 1,200 feet, have
struck their vein ut a great depth and have
obtained ore valued at 8150 per ton.
BF.E1K H1V1 K

Belmont Champion, April 10th: — Work
is progressing on the Enterprise claim with
good results. The level north from the
bottom of the shaft, 175 feet, is disclosing
a ledge from 17 to 20 feet wide, all of good
milling ore, while a large proportion of it
is chloride ore which will work from 8600
to 81,000 per ton.

We learn from Palmetto, that Col. Cath-
erwood's mill started up again on Monday.
The Kentuck and Champion mines never
looked so well as at the present time.

Hot Creek.— Correspondence of the Bel-
mont Chronicle : "I feel confident that a
20-stamp mill in Rattlesnake Canon could
be kept constantly running, on rock that
would yield from 850 to 8125 per ton. The
rogk could be extracted at a small cost."
washox,

[ In the Stock Circular, in another por-
tion of this paper will be found late mining
news from this district. ]

The Flowery Mine. — Territorial Enter-
prise, April 16th: The ore now being
raised from the shaft pays 834 per ton, that
being taken from the open cut and incline
825, and that in the end of the north tunnel
846, by mill process.

Occidental. — Same of 17th: The lower
tunnel is now within 50 feet of the lead,
which it will cut 400 feet deeper than the
present workings.

Twin. — This mine, at Silver City, con-
tinues to yield pay ore, and the ledge is
found to be richer as depth is attained.
The rock is easily worked, and it is essen-
tially a gold vein, containing little or no
silver.

Sunderland Mill. — This institution, in
Lower Gold Hill, has been shut down for
repairs the last two or three days, but again
started up on ore from the Central mine.

Gould & Curry. — Workmen are still en-
gaged in sinking the main shaft, through
quartz of the most promising character.

The Sierra Nevada Co. now have in sight
sufficient ore to run- for four months,
equally as rich as that which they have
been working for the past two months.
OREGON.

Jacksonville Sentinel, April 10th : Dillon
& Bowden, who own nine-tenths of the Oc-
cidental ledge, have sunk on it about 70
feet, and at that depth it has widened to
about two feet. It was almost impossible
to break a piece of the rock last taken out
and not find gold in it; we saw specimens
that were nearly half gold.

White Pine Summary.

Rich Strike. — White Pine News, April
3d : We understand that an exceedingly
rich ledge, which has been called the Paula,
was struck a few days since in the San
Francisco tunnel, a few hundred feet east
of the Hidden Treasure.

The Crossus. — Same of 6th : The mill at
Hamilton yesterday turned out a quantity
of bullion from ore from the Croesus mine
near the Hidden Treasure.

Dr. Brown. — News, of 7th : Some parties
owning the Saginaw "ledge," offered a
"green" new-comer bearing the above
name, 200 feet if he would sink a 30-foot
shaft, " or until he struck pay. " The first
blast he put iu brought "good indications,"
and the second revealed a mass of 82,000
ore.

Black Cloud. — Same of 8th : In the
progress of opening, the vein is exposed to
a width of about 20 feet. This location
was made on the 19th of January, and we
understand that the sum of 8125,000 has
been offered for it.

New Developments. — The Newsof 13th:
From the Ward Beecher and the Sage
Brush, the chlorides are pouring out by the
ton. The Beecher is near the Aurora, and
the Sage Brush is in the middle of the
southern portion of Main street. Upon the
Webster- a shaft has been sunk about thirty
feet in depth, and the ore extracted is en-
couraging. A few rqds south of the Daniel
Webster is the Panhandle. These veins
run parallel to the Eberhardt; a short dis-
tance east of them is the Alta.

Same of 14th says : A rich strike is re-
ported in the Umatilla, at the lower end of
Bromide Flat. The body of ore struck is
so rich that it is shoveled into sacks in the
mines as it is torn loose, without assorting.
. . . .The Evening Star ledge shows a width
of seven feet, and has out several tons of
ore which is estimated to work 8J00 per
ton . Some ten men at work on the Ooha
Vera have developed an extensive lelge of
7/e feet in width. It is opened for 40 feet

on the surface, w-ith numerous excavations,
from which ore is token giving an assay of
81,300 per ton.

Anita. — Inland Empire, April 14th:
Work is progressing rapidly, and the
further down the shaft is sunk the better
the ore. It is on the road from Hamilton
to Shermantown, the ledge crossing the
road directly west of Treasure City. The
ledge is four feet wide at the depth of ten
feet, and assays well. There are now 20
tons of the ore from the shaft on the dump,
which will be sent to mill next week.

Mills at Shermantown. — News, April
3d : Several mills are in course of construc-
tion at Shermantown. One by the Metro-
politan S. M. Co.. of which Alpheus Bull
is President, and Peter Johnson Superin-
tendent, will have 15 stamps. Another, by
the Kohler S. M. Co., of which A. Staples
is Superintendent, of eight stamps, with
preparations for one of 20 stamps. An-
other of five stamps is being erected a
short distance below the Kohler. General
Page is also about erecting one of fifteen
stamps, and several others are in contem-
plation.

Same of 14th : The Oasis has 10 stamps
and eight amalgamating pans, and crushes
nine tons of ore daily from the Eberhardt
mine. The average product is now about
8700. The ore is crushed dry, but not
roasted, it being a chloride and easily
amalgamated. We were shown a large bin
of pulp worth 86,000 per ton. This is too
rich to be amalgamated conveniently and
successfully by itself, and is therefore
mixed with pulp of a lower grade. A great
amount of ore is stored about the mill,
enough to keep it running for half a year
without calling for any from the mine. At
the Moore & Parker mill the same condi-
tion prevails. The latter is of eight stamps,
and reduces six tons of ore daily. The ore
is also from the Eberhardt mine, which,
from the easy manner it is mined, has ac-
cumulated far in advance of the capacity
of the mills to reduce.

Mill at Hamilton.— Virginia Enter-
prise, April 15th : The 10-stamp mill of Mr.
John McCone will start up on the 20th
inst.; just 90 days from the day that work
was commenced on the machinery of tho
mill at the Nevada Foundry.

Outside Districts.— Empire, April 10th:
Grant and Troy.— The Pacific M. & M.
Co. will have a mill by July next. Andy
McDonald is at work on the Blue Eagle in
Troy, for an association of capitalists in
San Francisco, who recently purchased the
mine for 850,000.

The Poorman, Patriarch, and Ramshorn,
are among the prominent ledges in Grant,
and show rock impregnated with chlorides.
The Blue Eagle is the most noted lode iu
Troy. They all constitute one general
mineral belt.

Patterson. — Same of 14th: John M.
Murphy, the Recorder of Patterson Dis-
trict, says there have been 225 distinct
ledges struck, from one to twenty feet
wide. The character of the country is the
same as here — limestone formation. The
country is finely wooded, and water can be
got almost anywhere by sinking. ' There
are about 400 people in the district. The
top roek assays from 850 to 82,000 per ton.

Robinson. — James A. Marschal, just ar-
rived from Robinson district, brings very
flattering accounts, and says they have an
Eberhardt there, assays from which aver-
age 8480 per ton, of top rock.

Silver Canon. — Chisholm and Rams-
dell returned to Hamilton yesterday, after
*an absence of 20 days through the ranges
of mountains running in an easterly direc-
tion. They located a district about 110
miles from here, which they call Silver
Canon District. The ledges are numerous,
and are found in granite and limestone for-
mations. The ores look well, aud one assay
has already been made, indicating profita-
ble yield.

Ely.— News, April 12th: The Ely is a
base metal district, but the ore produces
from 50 to 80 per cent, of lead, which con-
tains from 8200 to 8800 iu silver, and assays
at the rate of thousands of dollars per ton
have been obtained.

Coos Bay Coal. — A business letter from
Empire City, Coos Bay, says: There are
now in this port, loading with coal ana
lumber for San Fraucisco, one barkentine,
one barque, four brigs aud five schooners.
The new steam tow-boat, Escort, owned by
John Perachbaker, has arrived from Sau
Fraucisco. She is said to be one of the
finest tow-boats owned this coast. The
coal mines formerly owned by J. Person-
baker have been purchashed by a company
of capitalists of San Francisco, who intend
to do a largB coaling business.

Rich Gold Fields have been discovered
on the northern frontiers of Norway and
Russia.

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Notices to Correspondents.

Pyrotechnist. — Gun cotton may be pre-
pared for small experiments, by the fol-
lowing method : Mix in a glass vessel
lyi fluid ounces of nitric acid (sp. gr.
1.45) with an equal bulk of sulphuric
acid, and after the mixture has cooled,
pour in upon 100 grains of fine cotton,
contained in a Wedgewood mortar, and
with a glass rod imbue the cotton as
quickly as possible with the acids. As
soon as the cotton is completely saturated,
pour off the superabundant liquid, and
with the- aid of a pestle, rapidly press out
as much of it from the cotton as possible.
Then throw the cotton into a basin of
water, wash it until it has not the slight-
est acid taste, afterwards dry by means
of a gentle heat.

J. P., Silver City.— Gutta Percha is ob-
tained from the East Indies. You are
correctly informed that it is most exten-
sively used iu England as outer soles for
boots and shoes, and that it forms a most
economical and durable material for that
purpose. It is put on by cementing the
old boot or shoe to the gntta pe-eha sole,
by means of a preparation of gutta percha
dissolved in naphtha, which is sold at the
shopSj where the soles can also be pur-
chased, thus enabling every man to be
his own cobbler; an advantage that would
be of some consequence in many remote
mining localities.

Stibium. — Glass of antimony is prepared
by partially roasting the tersulphuret of
antimony (gray antimony ore) and sub-
sequent fusion. There are several steps
in the process that have to be carefully
attended to in order to produce a good,
article. When the operation is properly
performed the resulting mass will be
found to cousist of ter-oxide of antimony
and some decomposed sulphuret. Well
prepared glass of antimony is trans-
parent .; when held between the eye
and the light it appears of a rich orange
red or garnet color, but if imperfectly
made, it presents a black and opaque ap-
pearance.

Black Bear Mine, Klamath County. —
We know of no machinery in operation
in what is called the Eureka process,
nearer than Mariposa County; there is
none in this city at least, capable of work-
ing a ton for you as a test. The appli-
ances for working by this process were
sent to a mine in Sierra County about
six months ago.

G. S. Melbourne inquires whether the
Hagan Kilue Roasting Furnace is an
' ' undoubted success," as stated in a Cal-
ifornia paper, and whether it is really
true that the burning of hydrogen "car-
ries off the base metals in a volatile
form." We are informed that a report is
about to be made, -by a competent judge,
on the recent tests which that furnace
lias undergone in Calaveras County. The
base metals are certainly not volatilized.

Continental Life Insurance Company,
203 Montgomery street, corner ol A-jiie.

Shaking Hands by Rail.

As we write, probably not more than
twenty miles of track remain to be put
down, before the Central and Uuion Pacific
Railroad Companies will clasp hands at the
laying of the last rail that unites two oceans
and completes the grandest engineering
enterprise ever undertaken by man.
The progress and final completion of this
great work, in the presence of the waiting
multitudes upon either extremity, has been
most aptly referred to, as suggestive of the
meeting of two friends, who have been long
separated by distance and the various vicis-
situdes of life; and who, on approaching
each other, extend their arms to full length,
to perform that very common-place, yet
most cordial greeting — the shaking of
hands."

For many long months, and for years,
the two armies of workmen upon the Cen-
tral and Union roads have been toiling their
way up steep mountain declivities and
through deep and rocky canons, leveling
when practicable and surmounting when
necessary, all offering barriers to their pro-
gress. Unlike hostile armies, these two
great bodies of peaceful toilers are coming
together, not with clashing swords and
booming cannon to spread death and de-
struction at their meeting. Their mission
has been to level a smooth highway over a
vast continent for the peaceful occupation
of commerce, and friendly salutations and
most cordial greetings await upon either
hand their welcome coming.

How difficult to realize that this stu-
pendous work is so near completion; but a
few days — nay hours, only, — are to inter-
vene before the telegraph will announce to
us that the last rail has been spiked, and
that California has been annexed to the bal-
ance of the Union by indissoluble bands of
iron.

As the welcome message will be carried
east and west, literally with lightning
speed, deafening screeches will go up from
thousands of locomotives; as the news
flashes by, every steam whistle, far and
near, from one extremity of the Union to
the other, will join in the screeching cho-
rus— a fitting recognition that an uninter-
rupted way is open for the iron-horse from
ocean to ocean, and from the southern gulf
to the northern lakes.

For some weeks past it has been impossi-
ble to arrive at any definite information
with regard to the point of junction be-
tween the two roads; and for awhile an un-
pleasant contest seemed to be waged be-
tween them, the result of which was watched
with much interest. But, like two grand
armies who have fought a great fight, and
find nothing farther to be accomplished by
a continuance of the contest, they have
wisely suspended hostilities to properly
reap the benefits and adjust the losses inci-
dent to the campaign.

The two companies having agreed upon
Ogden as the point of junction, (the
most proper and fitting place therefor) , have
now united forces, to close up the gap at
the earliest practicable moment. Although
the rails will be united, the work of com-
pletion will still remain to be done. Within
a week or ten days, however, after the act-
ual junction, we may reasonably expect to
see a fair establishment of travel ovor the
entire road, and look for regular mails from
New York within seven days at the out-
side. In that event the recent irregulari-
ties in that branch of service will only be
regarded as an appetizer to enable us to
relish more heartily the utmost realization
of the^hopes of the most sanguine of the
Pioneers of the Pacific Coast.

Wet Processes in Colorado.— Mr. John
Agrell, a former chlorination pupil of Beet-
kin's, and manager of .works of the kind in
Amador county, has taken his departure
for Colorado, for the purpose of introduc-
ing there some of the wet processes prac-
ticed in tke Pacific States.

Mineralogical and Geological Notices.

Alum in SonomaCounty. — We have to re-
cord this week another locality among those
heretofore noticed in this State, where nat-
ural alum occurs. The Sonoma Democrat
of April 17th , says : Our county seems to
have nearly everything within its borders.
Coal, copper, silver and gold have all been
found. Last year a soap mine (steatite)
was discovered, and now a mine of very
strong alum has been brought to li'jht on
Hood's Mountain, about four miles from
the Guilicos Ranch, between Sonoma and
Santa Rosa. We have in our possession a
piece from the mine, looking something
like a quartz specimen, which tastes like
strong, pure alum.

Chloride op Silver Disseminated in
Limestone. — A small piece of massive
crystalline limestone shown us by Mr.
Foster, has chloride disseminated through
the limestone, and so intimately incorpor-
ated with the substance of the lime min-
eral, as not to alter its uniform crystalline
character, or appearance in any other man-
ner than by giving it a tinge of brownish
color — the rock assaying, according to Mr.
Foster, not far from $100. Chloride seems
to penetrate and discolor the limestone, ac-
cording to this, in zones following cracks.
Almost anywhere in Treasure Hill traces of
this kind are said to exist. The piece in
question was thrown away amongst the
"cullings" of the Eberhardt.

White Cloud Ore. — Some very beauti-
ful specimens including crystals of blue
carbonate of copper (lasurite) are exhibited
at No. 503 Montgomery street, amongst the
rich gold, silver, lead and copper ores from
White Cloud District, Nevada, — referred to
in our last issue.

The State Geological Reports. — A
Cambridge correspondent, alluding to Prof.
Whitney's labors, says :

" I know that he is hard at work on three
books, and makes almost daily visits to the
printing office. I always find him busy
when I call. Like him better the more I
get acquainted with him, and regard him
as one of the strongest men in his line in
the country — even if not at the very head
of the list. His manner and style of
lecturing is refreshingly different from
our other University lecturers. He is more
blunt, and less polished inthearrangement
of his sentences, and his comparisons
smack more of the rough life of the ex-
plorer than the sedentary confinement of
the professor. * * * Our excursion (a
geological party to the Rocky Mountains
and California) is not completely planned,
but we expect to start about the end of
June, and get back about the 1st of Octo-
ber.

CONTRIBUTIONS FOR OUR CABINET.

No. 291. — Cinnabar from the Belle Union
Quicksilver mine near Oakville, Napa Val-
ley. Presented by Henry Rohling, of
Gravel Pit. The ore is a beautiful light
red, pure, crystalline, and is disseminated
in segregated veinlets through the creta-
ceous country rock. The Santa Clara,
Monte Diablo, Vallejo and Napa localities,
besides a score of others where small quan-
tities have been found, denote that the
sources of quicksilver are very general
throughout the cretaceous rocks of Cali-
fornia.

No. 392. — Cement gravel from the ancient
river channel, known as the blue lead, at
You Bet, Nevada County; resting on and
firmly cemented to a fragment of chioritic
slate, the cementing material being iron
sulphurate, showing the protoxide color.
On exposure to oxygen the red color of
peroxide soon takes the place of the bluish
and greenish protoxide of iron. AVhitney
speaks of these channels a little indefin-
itely as pliocene, but the probabilities seem
that they were not formed until the glacial
epoch, which is usually considered as
post-pliocene. The chioritic slate is much
more ancient, dating from the Jurassic
ocean whose deposits constitute the field
of the auriferous quartz veins. Presented
by K. M. Brown & Bro., who have an
8-stamp water-power mill employed in
crushing it.

No. 393. — A similar specimen from King

& Bro's mine, Dutch Flat, showing gold
on the smooth impression of a boulder.
The smooth clayey surface showing gold
which is so frequently noticed in the hy-
draulic mines, is always in place on the top
or side of the boulder, while the dirt un-
derneath is barren.

No. 394. — Gold quartz containing zinc
blende, galena, and iron pyrites, from the
"Lucky mine," Grass Valley.

No. 395.— San Bernardino asphaltum. It
contains about 20 per cent, of petroleum,
and is itself apparently a thickened petro-
leum, containing the less volatile and les3
fluid portions of the carbureted hydrogens
that come to the surface, whose precise or-
igin is yet in dispute, but is generally be-
lieved to be the natural distillation product
of ancient vegetation, now enclosed in the
rocks. It is solid, brownish black, of wax
glance, and scarcely as hard as steatite, but
the mineral is found from the hardness of
' ' rock " to putty, and the condition of ooz-
ing streams, at the bottom of cliffs, pass-
ing into springlets of limpid oil. Thesup-
ply of asphaltum from the quarries is said
to be unlimited. There is no reason why it
should not be shipped to San Francisco
cheaply enough to pave every sidewalk in
the city. Presented by Christy & Wise, of
the Asphaltum Drain Pipe Factory on King
street, between Second and Third.

No. 396. — Hornblende of the variety
called actinolite.

No. 397. — Three shades of traohytic por-
phyry. From the east side of Monte Di-
ablo, south of Clayton.

No. 398. — Beautifully variegated, veined,
coarsely crystalline limestone, of a grey,
brown, and white color, suitable for orna-
ments, pillars, table slabs, etc. Dry
Creek, Alameda County.

No. 399. — Calc'spar crystals, being very
flat rhombohedrons, on lime and iron-rust
incrustations. Hastings' copper mine, two
miles south of Clayton, Contra Costa
County.

No. 400. — Iron pyrites superficially de-
posited on a silicious decomposition prod-
uct resembling pitchstone. Hastings' cop-
per mine.

No. 401. — Indurated clay, resembling
porcelain, from San Pablo Creek.

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Naval. — We are pleased to learn that
Jonah Hanscom, father of the Hanscom
brothers of this city, and for several years
naval constructor at the Portsmouth Navy
Yard, has been ordered to the Mare Island
Yard, in place of Melville Simmons, trans-
ferred to Portsmouth. Mr. Hanscom was
formerly attached to the Mare Island Yard,
and was the first United States Naval Con-
structor on this coast. The "Saginaw'
was built under his superintendence. Since
he has been 'at Portsmouth he has superin-
tended the construction of not less than
thirteen war vessels, one of which was the
double turreted monitor "Agamenticus,"
which is mate to the " Monadnock," now
at the Mare Island Yard.

Pacific Railroad Celebration. — A call
has been issued by the officers of the Me-
chanics' Institute for a convention, to be
held on Wednesday evening next, to make
arrangements for a celebration of the com-
pletion of the Pacific Railroad, All asso-
ciations and organizations in the city and
vicinity, are invited to send delegates. The
convention will be held in the lecture room
of the Mechanics' Institute, No. 27 Post
street. The people of Sacramento are also
making extensive arrangements for a fitting
celebration of this important event. We
presume .the celebrations of the two cities
will fall upon different days, so that those
who desire to do so can attend both. Ex-
tensive preparations are also being made at
Chicago and other Eastern cities for appro-
priate commemoration of this important
event. We have elsewhere alluded to the
manner in which the actual laying down of
the last rail will be noticed in this State,
and probably all through the Union.

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California Academy of Sciences.

The regular meeting of the California
Academy of Si-iences was held on Monday
evening last. C'apt. Edward Pennix and
L. A. Gould, of Santa Clara, wero elected
members, ;uul Mr. Herman Simon, Mr.
Begret Simon, and Mr. Eugene Evenstine,
were proposed for membership.

Several valine incrustations from Mono
Like were received, as donations to the
cabinet.

President Blako called attention to the
stereoscopic views of Indian sculpture,
which had been forwarded by Charles
Crocker, Esq., of the Central Pacific Rail-
ro.id. He said they looked as if they were
made with some object, as there was a sim-
ilarity between many of them ; yet he
thought they would he difficult to interpret.

Dr. Kellogg exhibited a singularly large
and beautiful plant, very desirable for the
florist, recently found by him on the San
Joaquin river. It was a much larger and
finer plant than either the Lepiosyne or
T/iel,erinannia, or their allied genera, with
which it was nearly connected. He thought
it would do away with those, and bring
them all back to the old Linean Coreopsis.
After reading a description of it, he pro-
posed for it the name of Coreopsis Cali-
fgrnica. He also found specimens of wild
chicory, which might bo used as an article
of food as salad.

A letter from Mr. Stewart, of San Jose,
was read, which gave an account of a re-
markable exhibition of parhelia lately ob-
served at that place.

Dr. Blake said the recent earthquake
had not been noticed at Watsonville. He
concluded that earthquakes were generally
confined to one range of mountains at a
time — sometimes along the Coast Range,
and sometimes in the interior.

President Blake thought that hydrogen
could be classed as one of the metals. It
was known to lengthen wire by absorption,
and when evolved from it by heat the wire
would shorten.

After some further discussion on minor
points the Academy adjourned.

A PLEA FOB THE BETTER SUPPORT OF THE
SOCIETY.

It may not be improper, in this connec-
tion, to allude to a short communication in
a recent number of the Bulletin, from the
Corresponding Secretary of the Academy,
Mr. Leo Eloesser, in which that gentleman
makes an earnest appeal to the public for a
better support for this institution. After
alluding to the great benefits which have
accrued to the world of science through
the untiring and disinterested efforts of
this association, and to the absolute neces-
sity which is found for the existence of
such societies, in order to the performance
of that preliminary work through which
alone all the splendid results of science are
finally wrought out, for the benefit and en-
lightenment of mankind, Mr. E. says:

" Is it not the plain duty of society to
aid such an institution iu the pursuit of
objects most vital. to the interests of whole
communities? Should not they who ac-
knowledge the importance of such an under-
taking, and who enjoy all the fruits of its
success, be willing to contribute a trifle to
the working expenditures of that under-
taking? Whilst even in this community,
where time is money, men of ability and
considerable attainments have ungrudgingly
given their time and labor to the increasing
demands of the Academy of Sciences and
its objects, it is but reasonable to expect
that an enlightened public will comprehend
the propriety of taking henceforth such an
interest in the welfare of the Academy as
will lessen at least the pecuniary burden
which rests upon its active members. The
expectations of the Academy iu reference
to the public are at least not extravagant.
The public are only invited to join the
Academy in the capacity of paying mem-
bers, and by contributing a trifling monthly
fee, enable the working members of the
Academy to publish their observations and
discoveries, and make them useful to the
whole community. No scientific qualifica-
tion is required of those who apply for
membership, and those who are ever willing
to learn will always find an opportunity to
do so at the meeting of the Academy and at
their occasional lectures, and the publica-
tions gratuitously given to the members."

Grafting Was. — The Nevada Gazette
gives the following recipe: Four parts of
resin, two of beeswax, one of tallow, melted
together. If to be used in cold weather,
a'dd a half more of the tallow.

Resources and Developments.

Government Lands.— The amount of Fed-
eral land open to purchasers in this State
is rapidly decreasing. AVithin the last five
years not less than 12,000,000 acres has
been set apart as railroad grants, although
only about 1,000,000 have as yet been sur-
veyed and located. The State has also, un-
der a general Act, become the owner of
some three or four millions of swamp and
overflowed lauds. There is now left in pre-
emption only about 40,000,000 of good agri-
cultural lands, which are being rapidly
taken up, mostly in the San Joaquin and
other counties to the south of this city.
Lands which have been used chiefly for
grazing purposes, and which three or four
years ago were not worth ever $1.25 per
acre, are now in demand at from $o to $10.
The extraordinary agricultural develop-
ments of the last few years, and the ap-
proaching completion of the Pacific Kail-
road, with the anticipated increase of
immigration, account for the extraordinary
increase in prices. The above enumeration
of lands is exclusive of the mineral belt, which
includesall that portion of the Sierra Nevada
which lays, say 500 feet above the level of
the sea; much of which has been proved to
be very valuable for agricultural purposes,
and which is now beginning to be sought
for, through titles from the various rail-
roads and from the Federal Government.

The Berry Crop promises most abund-
antly the present season ; also stone fruits,
cherries, peaches, apricots, etc., will be
abundant and cheap. Our Atlantic friends,
who may visit us the coming season, may
depend upon enough and to spare of the
most ^delicious fruit which the world can
produce. Strawberries are already becom-
ing quite plenty in this market at thirty
cents per pound.

A Sawmilii at White Pine. — A party
which lately purchased a sawmill at White
Pine for $18,000, is reported to be clearing
$800 per day, clear of expenses. That .is
not a bad mine.

Grain Elevators. — The Vallejo grain
elevator, the first upon the Pacific coast, is
fast progressing toward completion. It-is
intended to have it in readiness to handle
the first grain of the incoming crop which
may reach Vallejo.

In connection with the above we may
again allude to the fact that Mr. A. Hay-
ward and other San Francisco capitalists
have recently purchased all the water front
from the foot of Montgomery street to Pow-
ell, and propose to erect thereon docks,
grain elevators, etc. The proposed Stock-
ton street improvements have been sug-
gested in connection with this heavy pur-
chase. A grain elevator, above all other
improvements, is one moit needed in this
city. The present mode of haudling grain
in this State is a direct tax on the farmers,
several times greater than all other taxes,
national and State put together. Whatever
will cheapen the cost of handling grain en-
ables buyers to give a larger price to farm-
ers for it ; hence we look upon the proposed
introduction of elevators as a marked ad-
vance in the development of the resources
of the State.

Silk Culture. — Increased attention ap-
pears to be directed toward the production
of silk, especially in Los Angeles county,
where nearly 1000 acres have been planted
with mulberry the present year. This will
be equivalent to about three million cut-
tings. Mr. Newman estimates the value of
this year's crop of cocoons, for that county
alone, at $40,000, allowing seventy-five
cents per pound. The silk, after reeling,
will be iucreased to the value of $125,000.
The next year's produce is estimated at a
ten fold increase. The first mulberry trees
for silk growing in that county were set
out in 1867. Last year but three acres
were occupied with the mulberry — the
three has increased in one year to nearly
1000. "

The Cultivation of Flax is also at-
tracting increased attention. A tract of 250
acres has been sown by Mr. W. D. Perine,
on the coast, some twelve or fifteen miles

below this, and not far from Half Moon
Bay. This, we believe, is the largest sin-
gle tract yet placed under flax culture on
this coast. Heretofore the culture of this
plant has not been profitable in this State,
from the fact that there has been no market
for the fibre; the seed, alone, will not pay.
Hereafter, however, the Oakland Cotton
Manufacturing Company, which is fitting
up their mill with machinery for manufac-
turing flour and other sacks from flux, will
be able to purchase all that will be raised
for several years to come. Mr. Perine pro-
poses to prepare the fibre by the process of
"half dressing," by which the flax is rot-
ted, broken, and freed from most of the
wood, and which he tbinks will cost only
about $25 per ton, while the material so
prepared will be worth $75 per ton, leaving
a profit of $50 per ton, in addition to the
sale of the seed, as the net profits of the
crop. These figures may be somewhat ex-
aggerated; but there is no doubt a fine field
here presented for a limited culture of this
product.

Climate or Puget Sound. — There has
not been a particle of snow at Port Town-
send, Puget Sound, during the past win-
ter; and ice has not made over one-fourth
of an inch thick. The grass has been green
all winter, and wall-flowers, pansies and
daises have been in constant bloom. This
locality, it should be recollected, is above
the 48th degree of latitude — a point nearly
an entire degree north of the most north-
ernmost point of the State of Maine. Our
Eastern readers will, no doubt, be greatly
surprised at the above fact Port Town-
send is in what was the extreme northwest-
ern corner of the Union previous to the
purchase of Alaska.

Lumber at White Pine. —A load of lumber
recently sold at Shermantown for $300 per
thousand feet.

Boad Improvements. — The Salinas and
Pajaro Turnpike Company has been in-
vested with necessary powers by the Super-
visors, and the road will speedily be ready
for use. Good roads are an indispensable
requisite to the development of any coun-
try, and the- construction of such, every-
where, should be regarded as . important
steps in industrial progress.

San Fbancisco, April 19, 1859.
Messrs. Detvet & Co., Patent Agents. — Gentlemen: —
Allow me herewith to tender you my sincere thanks for
the efficient assistance you have rendered ma in secur-
ing my patent, and other papers, as well as the prompt-
ness and energy displayed by you in our business trans-
actions. Very respectfully yours, C. E. Jaycox.

Returned.— Dr J. H. Paine. Dentist, Wadsworth House,
No. 225 Bush street, between the Occidental and Cosmopoli-
tan .Hotels, San Francisco. 21vl7-4m

Photography.— For Cabinet Photographs, or Enameled
Cards, of the very hest quality, yoa must go io the NEW
YORK GALLERY, Nos. 25 and 27 Third street, San Fran-
cisco. Every picture warranted to give satisfaction.

10vl8-6m B. F. Howland.

Co-Opkratite Umos Stokb.— This is becoming one of the
most useful Institutions in the city, and the .Mechanic and
Laboring Man ful'y appreciate it. They are now enabled
to buy their Groceries and Provisions 20 per cent, cheaper
than ever before, and the very best articles in the market.
The store is located at U:j Sutter street. Lick House Block
San Francisco. Gvl8-aim

PAIN KIILEE!

Tbc Great Family Medicine of the Age. Taken inter
mil y, it cures
Dysenierv, CholerP, Diarrhoea.

Cram'n, an 1 Pain in the Momnch,
Bowel Complaints Painters' colic,

Liver Cmnpliunl: Uvspensia and Indigestion,
Sore Throat, Sudden Colds,
Coughs, etc., etc.
Used externally. It cures
Boils. Felons Cuts,

Bruises. Burns. Scalds,

Old Sores, Snranis, Toothache,
Pain HI ihe Face, Neuralgia.

Rheumatism, Fnmocl Feet, etc., etc., etc.
The Pain Killer is sold by a'l Druggists and dealers In
Familv .Medicines.

KEDINGTON-& CO , and HOSTETTER k SMITH, San
Francisco, Cal., General Wholesale Agenis. aplm

PROSPECTUS

HOMESTEAD FARM
ASSOCIATION.!

This Association proposes to dispose of

£30,0 Q O -A.C0RES

or l ho finest Agricullnral Lands in (he Stale of California
by dividing ihe same into

813 .SHAKES,

lOD Acres l^ioh,

Payable in THIRTY-SIX equal Installments, of J25 each,

Payable Monthly, "Without Interest.

The land is situated in Kern County, on the soathwest of
Tulare Lake, and extends to the foot-hills on tho west.
Every acre of tbc above land is so situated that there Is no
waste, and can be plowed in one body if desired. Water
can be had at from twelve to twenty feet on any purt, while
wood exists in abundance In the foot hills. The west bank
of the lake is high and the country is free from malarious
or climatic fevers, and offers to the enterprising settler an
opportunity for procuring a home upon easy terms,

The projected branch of the Southern Pacific Rallrond
passes through the entire tract, and will, without doubt.be
completed by the time the land will have been paid for by
the shareholders.

TITI/E, 17. 8. PATENT.

Maps of ihe land will be ready In a few days. The Books
of Subscriptions were opened at the office of

KXIBTZ A, SI11EFFER,

Northeast corner of Sacramento and Battery streets, at 10
A.M., FRIDAY, April 23, 18<9.

E. BRIOGS (of Son & Briggs) iPreslden t

JOSEPH ARON (of Weil k Co ) Treasurer

JOHN KUKTZ (of Kurtz & Shacffer) Secretary

Trustees:

THEODORE LEROY Banker

W. B. CUMMINGS Merchant

H. CORDES of Feldman h Co

JULIUS JACOBS ot Gcrmania Life Ins Co

H.G. SEARING Drayman

PAUL NEUMAN (attorney at law) of Whiting, Napthaiy A
Neuman.

17vI81t

A. 3YEW SXVUIOE

For Concentrating Gold, Amalgam, Snlphurets

or Black Sand, in Quartz Mills,

OK PLACER MINES.

It is made without iron work, is cheap, durable, and ef-
fective; can be made by any good mining carpenter at the
mine or mill, of sizes to separate the Sulphurets from one
to fifty tons of sand per hour. There is no expense for mo-
tive power, or to han-lle the sand, if it can be run tr<"m
the mine or mill directly Into the receiving ."-izlng boxes
by means of water. It is continual, self-discharging, »*><*
can be used for concentrating fine gold and black sand, on
the river bank or ocean beach. They may be seen at work
in the American Company's Mine at North San Juan.

For information how to construct, and the cost, address
ORLANDO JENNINGS.

17vI8 North San Juan, Cat.

PACIFIC

Rolling Mill Company,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Established for the Manufacture of

RAILROAD AND OTHER IRON

Every "Variety of" S^hafitiiiff,

Embracing ALL SIZES of *
Steamboat Shafts, Cranlt", JPlaton and Con-
nectEue KoiIm, Car and Locomotive Axles
and Frames

— ALSO —

HAMMERE D IRON

Of every description and size.

ag- Orders addrc^d to PACIFIC ROLLING MILL
COMPANY Fo-;t Office, San Francisco, Cal., will receive

prompt iittentlmi. ' . „_,.„«

8^- The highest price paid for Scrap Iron 9vU3m9p

Crucibles.

The Patent Plumbago Crucible Co.,

Manufacturers of all kinds of

Melting Pots, Portable Furnaces,

' CRUCIBLES, and other fire-standing Goods,
Batterpca Work a ^London.

THE MORGAN PATENT CRUCIBLES have uniform
quality, never crack, withstand the greatest heat without
danger; heats more rapidly than any other; change of tem-
perature has no effect on them ; stand on tho average forty
to fifty pourings.

On hand and for sale by the Agents,

A. S. HALMUIEAr CO.,

Ivl8-3m9p 519 Front street, Pan Francisco

I. S. RUCKELEW. GKO. LAMB. B. GROOM

BTJCKELEW" & CO.,

Importers and Jobbers of

Choice- Teas, Groceries and Provisions.

S3© Marhet street,

Below Montgomery street. 17vl8-3ra

To "White Pine Owners and Others.

Abstracts of Title* to Mining Claim?, Town Lots and
Lands lurnishcd. Mines examined «nd reported on bv a
competent person now residing in Treasure City. Mining
Chums, Town Lots, etc., bought and sold on ciiinrnsion.
For Information apply to BIJDLEMAN & CO., 0«»5 .Mont-

gomery street.

15vI8-lm

Thk Mining and Scientific Press has entered upon its
XVIItli Volume. It has donned a new-sty e hat; or, in
newspaper parlance, a new heading, which givesitthe
sidid. scipntifie look ir merits. Other improvements typo-
gnu hlcalare also noriceable.. No call for improvement in
its matter.— Amador £ed</er, July lSf/i.

266

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinists and Foundries.

PALMER, KNOX & CO.,

Grolden State Iron Works,

Koi, 19, 31,S:i and S3 First Street,

SAN FRANCISCO.

MANUFACTURE ALL KINDS OF

MACHINERY,

STEAJi Ei\'UIX£S A.NJB UHAKTZ MITELS

DUNBAR'S IMPROVED

SeltVA^dj u.stiiijr Piston I? acini rig,

Requires no spriugs or screws; is always steam tight;

without excessive friction, and never

gcw slack or leaky.

WHEELER & RANDALL'S

NEW GJBI2VI>£J£ AKi» AMAJ-OAMATOJft

"HEPBURN & FETERSOK'S
iMALUUllTOK AND SEPARATOR,

It nox's Amalffamators,

WITH PALMER'S PATENT STEAM CHEST,

Superior tor working either GOLD OR SILVER URKS, and
h the only Amalgamator that has stood the lost ul' soven
years' cumiuuai worning.
Ot-Muiue White JLruu Stamp Shoes and JuUeo

Having been engaged for the past ten years in quart*
n.iiimg, and being conversant with all the improvements,
either m jliulng or .Hilling, we are prepared to furnish, ai
ihesliortest notice, the most periect inuchiuery lor reduc
ng ores, or saving oitner gold or silver. 13vI0qy-tf

1EA P. BAISK1N.

. F, BKAYTON.

A. C. AUSTIN.

Pacific Iron Works.

First and Fremont Streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Having been established since 1331, we have accumulated
a, very large variety of Gear and other Patterns, which,
with our superior tuulsand appliances, give da laciiilies'lor
doing nr.il class work uueuuulcd on the Pactiic Coast.

Among other things, wc manufacture the following:

ft*TJEA.lVt ENGINES,

BOILERS- High and Low Pressure,

Pump, Pipe and Sheet Irou Work of every kind.
Quartz Mill Work,

Including High and Low Mortars, for wet or dry crushing*

Furnace irons lor Roasting Ores; Freiberg .Barrels;

Varuey's and Wheelers Amalgamating Pana

and Settlers; Stamp tiiioeaaudlMea of

best White Iron; Russia iron

Screens, etc., etc.

Flour Mill, Saw Mill and Sugar Mill Work in every variety;

Pumping and Hoisting Machinery ; Hans brow 'S

Patent Challenge Pump, for Domestic,

Ship and Mining use— the most

approved and successful

Pump manufactured.

Carting* «*f every deaeriittlou, Iron and Brass.

We would call especial attention lo " Wright's Patent Va-
riable Cut-off Lngiucs," of which we are the sole manufac-
turers on the taciiic Coast, under license from thu *<■ uod-
ruffi. Reach Co., iiartiui'd, Ct. As a simple, eilective, fuhl
saying, hisi-elMss bnyin.L, this is, wltnout doubt, the best
Engine made in the United Slates.

orders promptly attended to. Prices as low as possible
for Brat-class work, and we intend lo do nu other.

**!»!> J>A1S1> A CO.

Ban Francisco. May 1, 1&J8. Hiviiiif

WILLAMETTE IROH WORKS,

l'Ui:T).i.\D, Ult£GOK.

Bteam Engines, Boilers,
SAW AND CRIST NULLS,

MIKING MACHINERY, WBOUUHT IKON SHUTTER
WOBK, AND BLAOKSJUTUINU IN GENERAL.
Corner J\ orth-Frout and £ street*.

18vl3 L v Oue block north of Couch's Wliarf.

Globe Iron Works,

STOCKTON, CAL,

KEEP & BARGION,

MANITF.ICTORKRS OF

Quartz, Saw and Crist Mill Irons, Steam
Engines, Horse Powers,

High and Low Pressure Steam Engines, Steamboats and

Propellers, made at short notice.

13vl3tf

CALIFORNIA BRASS FOUNDRY.

A o. 13I5 First street, opposite Minna,

SAN FRANCISCO.

All kikds of Brass, Composition, Zinc, and Babbitt Metal
Castings, Brass Ship WorK of all kinds. Spikes, Sheathing
Nails, ituddcr Braces, Uhiges, Ship and steamboat Bcllsand
Ci-ottgs of superior tone. All kinds of Cocks and Valves, fcly.
draulic Pipes and Nozzles, and Hose Coupliugs and Connec-
tions of all sizes and patterns, furnished with dispatch.
S3- PR1CES MODERATE, .ffifr ■

J. P. GALLAGHER,

J. H. WEED

9vl3-ly

V. K1NGWELL

BENJAMIN" ELLIOT,

No. 483 Brannan street San Francisco,

Manufactures Foundry Facings constantly, irom choice
coals. Bituminous, packed in tight sacks. Anthracite and
Charcoal ground together or separate, packed in whole
or hall barrels BlacK Lead. Coke and Soapstmie ground to
order, l-oundrymeu located far from choice material, call
rely on having superior Facings forwarded to order.
Il)vl8qr

Miners' Foundry

- — AM*—

MACHINE WOKKS

Nos. 245 to 255 First Steeet,

Sun Frauciseo.

HOWLAND, ANG-ELL & CO.,

l»JEOPl£I£TOJSS,

Manufacturers of Machinery for

QTJAKTZ MILLS.

SAW MILLS,
1-OWDO! MILLS,

JLOTK MILLS,
Sl«AK MILLS,
PAFEK MILLS

Steam Engines of all Kinds,
Amalgamators of all Kinds.

UIMS8 PUMPS, HOISTING WOKKS

OIL M LLL TOOLS, KUl'ii liJCEAK EKS,

— AM) —

Machinery and Castings of all kinds, either
of Iron or Brass. .

Boilers and Sheet Iron Work in all its
Branches.

Sthoei* stud Dies of WMU' Iron, m:innl~a.ctnred
for nnd imported hy lis expi-CMly tor this Blur-
pose, uuu will li.Kt U5 per cent, longer titan :-n.y
other made on this const.

Kussla Iron Screens, ot anydegree of Iinenei.s,
Ws are the only manufacturers on this eoaBt ol
the

HICKS ENGINE,
The most'eompaet, simple ia construction, nnd

aurmble, of any JSnuilie in use.
W. U. UOH1..I.MI, II. B.A.VBELL,

ISVli-Qr CTR1IS FALMJEK,

FULTON

Foundry and Iron Works.

HINCKLEY & CO,,

MAN0r.iCTDEE.R3 OF

@ *x< :e: a m: engines,

Quartz, Flour and Saw IVIIlls,

HnyeN' Improved Steam Pump, Brodle'i Im-
proved Crusher, Mining PumpH,
AmalEumatorii, nnd nil kinds
of Machinery,

K. E. corner of Tehama and Fremont streets, above How
ard street, San Francisco. 3-o.y

McAFEE, SPIERS h CO.,

BOILER MAKERS

AND GENERAL. MACHINISTS,

Howard dt, between Fremont and Beale, San Francisco.

Flue or Tubular Boiler*, with -.lain circular or spiral
courses. Upright blue or Tubular Boilers, Locomotive and
and Marine Boilers, and Wrought Iron Tanks of every de-
scription.

Hydraulic Pipe supplied at reasonable rates. In or-
dering. Rive the quantity of waer to be supp'ied, hightof
tile fall, and total length of pipe, so as to enable the Ann to
determine the diameter of thepipe and thickness of iron to
be used.

Repair*.— Boilers, Smoke Stacks, Pipes, etc., put in re-
pair with promptness.

To Boiler Slaken nad Ma-ehlnlKts In the in-
terior.—The firm is prepared to furnish estimates of
Boilers, SU' ply new Heads, drilled and punched, and attend
to the selection and forwarding of Iron for Boilers, Pipes
and olhcr purposes.

Plant*, Drawlngi and Specification*.— The firm
;s prepared lo make out Plans and Specifications, icceive
estimates, and superintend the Erection of any Machinery
that may be entrusted to their care

To Inventors.- The firm is prepared to assist in de-
veloping the plans of those who have the ideas but not the
practical experience necessary to put the same in form, by
miking Drawings of their Inventions, giving them the ben-
efit of their pructis&l knowledge in the construe lion of Ma-
chinery, and attending to the manufacture and introduc-
tion of their inventions. lvlBtf

UNION IRON WORKS,

Sacramento.
WILLIAMS, ROOT & NEILSON,

MANUFACTURERS OF

STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS,

And all kinds of Mining: Machinery.

Also, Hay and Wine Presses made and repaired
with neatness, durability and dispatch.

Unnbar'B Patent Self- AtU as tins Steam Piston

Front Street, between X and O streets*

Hvll Sacrakkhto Citt

THOMPSON BROTHERS,
ETJREKA. FOUNDRY,

LIGHT AID HEAVY CASTINGS,

of every description, manufactured 24vl6qr

G-. T. PRACY.

MACHINE WORKS,

NOS. 109 and 111 MISSION STREET.

Between Jla

i and Spear.

New and second hand

Engines and Boilers,

FOR SALE.

Also one first-class Foisting

Engine ; one Unright

iMiKini'.oi entirely

new pattern.

MANUFACTUHER OF

X^a. tlies, I>rills,

And MILL MACHINERY of
every description.

PRACY'8

New and Improved
STEAM EXUIXE

REGULATORS,

The hest and cheapest yet in-
vented—manufactured and
lor sale. Parties are in-
vited to examine it
In practical op-
eration.

F. A. HrKTINGTOS'S

^ Shingle Machines

^S on hand.

Particular attention paid to
Repairing.

All work guaranteed to be done in a first-class man-
ner, and at the lowest rates. I2v!7if

HUGH H. LAMOKT.

WM. CALDWELL.

Cyclops Engine and Machine Works,

Construct and Repair every description of
Stationary nnd Marine Knglires, Mill and Min-
ing Machinery.

.Special attention given to Repairing Machinery.
apl7-3m 113 Beale street, near Mission, S. F.

THE RISDON

Iron and locomotive Works.

Incorporated, April 30,1868. Capital. $1,(100,000.

Location of Works, Corner Beale and Howard streets,

SAN FRANCISCO.

Successors to Pacific Mail P. S. Co. Works at Benicia, Coffey

&, Risdon, and Dcvoc, Dinsinore A Co., tan Francisco.

Steam Engine Builders, Boiler Makers,

MACHINISTS AND FOUNDRYMEN.
All work in their line attended to with promptness and
dispatch.

^Directors:
S. F. Buttcrworlh, Cha«.E. McLane,

Lloyd TVvis, John N. Risdon,

Jas. Pollock, Joseph Mode.

Ben. Holladay,

JOHN N. RTfiDDN, President.
Joscnh Moore, Vice President ami Superintendent; Chas.
E. McLnne, Treasurer: Lewis R. Mead, Secretarv; Lewis
Coney, Superintendent Boiler Works. 24vl7-qy

Phoenix Iron Works.

JONATHAN KITTKEDGE, Proprietor,

Xos. 18 and 30 Fremont street, near Market,
San JFrancldco.

MANUFACTURER OF

Fire-Proof Doors -and Shutters,

Wrought Iron Girders, and all kinds of Housesmith work,

Bridge, Prison

rOBGI\G ASD MAXMINE hOKE,

1MPKOVEI) FIRE-PROOF SAFES,

PIKE AUD BffRGrLAE-PKOOF SATES,

Of a superior make. Sole manufacturer of the celebrated

MONITOR SAFE.

BANK VAULTS AND SAFES,

Of every description, mado to order at short notice. A

large slock of SAFES of alt kinds conshin'ly on hand.
Agency for the ISHAM REV REGISTER BANK AND SAFE
LOCK, the only first cliiss Lock In the
lvlTtf United States

NOBLE & FLEMING,
MA.CHINE WORKS,

No. lO Stevenson street, near Flr«t,

SAA' FRANCISCO.

Particular attention given to repairs on Portable and Sta-

tions'iv Engines; also nil kinds ol Wood Working

Machinery, Shaftings Hangi-rp, I'ullt-ys, etc.

made 10 order; Screw Cutting, Iron

Planing, and all kinds ot JOB

i WORK promptly ut.cndcd to.

Agents for F. S. Perkins* Enitlne X>athes,

Plaliers, "UnrIBht »J^£1*.

And all kinds ot MACHINISTS' TOoTo; also the Davis

Wood Planer and Mitre Dove-Tailing Machines.

JAMES MACKEN,
cox»i»er.©m:i't,h.

ZitO Fremont at., bet. Howard A Poison,

All kinds of COPPER WORK done to order in the best
manner. Particular attention paid to Steamboat, Sugai
House and Distillery work.

CITY IRON WORKS COMPANY.

CLERC & CO.,
IRON FOUNDERS,

Steam Engine Builders nnd Alakers of all
kinds of Machinery,

6vli6nr No. 28 Fremont ftreet, San Francisco.

Patkkt Ofkicb Rkpo'ris, Irom 1HJ.1 to IS47, Mkchahicai.
are wanted tor tin plicate copies ai .pis ollioe. Parties liav
Ipe Ihein for sale will please «t:itc lTice, and aldrcss
DEWEY & CO., Mining und Scieiuilic Prcai ollice Ban
Francisco.

Railroad Items.

Lumber by Hail — A New Raixeoad
Pboject. — The Stockton Independent saya
that in view of the growing demand for
lumber, the rapid diminution of timber in
the redwoods, and the constantly increas-
ing difficulty of obtaining a supply from
Oregon, a number of men have under
serious consideration the project of reach-
ing the most accessible and heavily wooded
regions of the western slope of the Sierra
Nevada Mountains by railroad. The prop-
osition is (and it is quite a feasible one) to
construct a road from the neighborhood of
Fletcher's sawmills, or a poiut say ten miles
east of Sonora. Tuolumue County, pursu-
ing a course westward along the lowest
lauds between the Stanislaus and Tuolumne
rivers, crossing the San Joaquin Kiver at
the most available point in Stanislaus
County, and connecting with the Western
Pacific Koad at or near Livermore Pass. In
the neighborhood of Fletcher's mills the
lumber is as good as can bo found in the
world, and the supply is almost inexhausti-
ble. It is estimated that were a railroad
constructed to that point, not less than
three hundred millions of feet of lumber
would be carried over the road annually;
and that amount yearly could be procured
near the eastern terminus of the road for
ten years to come without much difficulty.
So earnestly is this project under the con-
sideration of mountain lumbermen, that
they propose to grade the road and supply
the ties and necessary timbers and take
stock in the enterprise for their remunera-
tion. That part of the road west of the
line of the Stockton and Tulare Bailroad
survey, would be wholly obviated, should
the Stockton and Tulare Kailroad be built
as now contemplated.

The plan of relying largely upon sub-
scriptions of material and labor to be paid
for in stock, as set forth in the Independent,
is a good one. Capital of a kind which
the sturdy sons of toil in the mountains
possess in abundance, will thereby be con-
verted directly into railroads, without in-
tervening fat contracts to eat up a large
portion of the same, and thus increase the
cost of the road to those who are able and
willing to subscribe money instead of labor.
This is a new feature of associated labor,
which we would rejoice to see carried into
practice. A road such as here proposed
would no doubt prove a highly remunera-
tive investment, — and furnish a new source
of lumber supply for this city, the want of
which has been so greatly felt for the past
two or three years.

Increase of Travel with Eatlroads.

But a short time prior to the construction
of the railroad which connects Philadelphia
with Pittsburg, three stages a week fur-
nished sufficient accommodation for all the
travel between those two important cities-
but as soon as the railroad was completed
the cars Jwere crowded with passengers.
Bailroad facilities, above all others, are
best calculated to develop the resources of
a country and fill it up with a thriving
population.

Baixeoad Bridge at Petalttma. — The
work of bridging Petaluma Creek, for the
railroad, according to the Argus, was to
have been commenced on Monday last.
The location of the depot is just now a mat-
ter of considerable interest.

The Western Pacific— Work on this
road in the neighborhood of Stockton, and
at the tunnel is progressing as rapidly as
the nature of the ground and the limited
amount of labor now attainable will admit.

Immigration. — It is said that the emi-
grating population of Ireland is about ex-
hausted, while that of Germany promises
to be an ever overflowing population. Last
year 140,000 German emigrants arrived in
New York agaiDst only 4S.000 Irish. Emi-
gration from the former country will
doubtless increase annually for marjy year."
while that from the latter will as steadily
decline.

California Land Cases.— Sixty-nine
California land cases have been adjudicated
in the Supreme Court— thirty-six have been
rejected and thirty-three confirmed.

Tlc\e Mining and Scientific Press.

267

Mining Items.

Globe Gold and Silvek Mnrma Co. —
From Mr. Winchester's (tlie Presiilent's) ad-
vertisement in the New York Tribune, we
observe tlmt tins properly, situated on
Monitor Creek, in Alpine County, a mile
east of the main Carson, and consisting of
2,000 feet on the Hercules lode, besides
COO feet on the Abe Lincoln lodo, is being
opened by a tunnel which is now in 150
feet, and which has cut several smaller
veins of value; having 150 feet more to run.
The Hercules, says Mr. Winchester, "is the
Central or mother lode in a mineral belt,
two miles wide, the richness of which in
silver, gold and copper, has no parallel in
California or Nevada, when the abundance
of the ores is considered."

That gentleman furnishes occasional ar-
ticles on mining to the Tribune. He re-
gards White Pine as epidemic tej a consid-
erable degree, and furnishes many good
points in favor of regular and legitimate
mining.

The Gold Mines op Scotland. — The ex-
citement with regard to the gold mines in
Scotland, recently noticed in our columns,
appears to be dying away. The mines
don't pay as well as was anticipated, and the
number of miners is steadily decreasing. A
gn at many have not collected the value of
Sl.lio per week; although some of the more
experienced, and perhaps more fortunate,
have realized as high, sometimes, as $3 a
day. Sluices, as well as rockers and other
modes of washing the auriferous sands have
been introduced.

Beport of the Commissioner of Min-
ing Statistics. — Fifteen thousand copies
are to be printed. An appropriation has
been made for the continuance of the wort.
The Commissioner will therefore again take
the field during the ensuing summer.

North Carolina furnished all the gold
of the country for twenty years.

Gramme. — The American Journal ■ of
Mining raises its voice against the cutting
down the word gramme to gram, in accord-
ance with the Websterian rage for abbrevia-
tion and simplification, — and urges, with
force, that gram looks, in a careless manu-
script, too much like grain.

GEO. E. ROGERS,

(Successor to Cr. W. Bell.)

A. S S A. Y E K. ,

512 California, at,,, San FrancUco.

J. A. MAKS, Aesayer.

Ores carefully Assayed. Gold and bllver Ores worked.

£ivlti'-qrlU|iiir

PACIFIC

INSURANCE COMPANY

OF SAN FR.IM'ISCO, CAt.,

Office, No. 422 California street.

Canh A«neta, .Inn. 1, I860, - . S 1 ,530,740 18
FIRE,

MARINE,

AND

ISLAND

ITVHTJRAIN'CE.

DIRECTORS:

8vn Fra-cisco: Oliver Eldrldee, .

.V. C. Hal-don, J. B. Roberts.

A L. Tubbs. J. C. Wilmerdinz,

Win. Alrnrtt, 1*. L. Weaver,

Jonathan Hunt, Wm. H opcr,

A. B. Korbes, J. W. Clark,

A. G-. Stile*. A. Havwanl,

A. Sellgman, T. L Barker,

L. R. Kenchlcv. Alexander Weill,

Wm. Sherman, Chas Mover,

L. Sachs, OhuH E. MrrLane,

Ja'iiea Dc Frcmery. M. Knscubaum,

J. G. Bray. A.J. RuNton.

David S em, T. Lemmeii Meyer,

D. O. Mills, J T. Dean.
I Friedlander, Nh.iv Yokk:
Mines Heller, Louis McLnne,

H. M '"Juwiiall, Frederick B llings,

G.T. La*' tun, J..incs Lees,

Mile* D. Sweeny, J U-. Kellogg,

Clins. Mayne. Wm T. Coleman,

E. L. Goldstein, Moses Ellis. *
J. O. Eirl, Sackamknto:
Lloyd Tevis, Edk'ur Millw,
Thus. II. Selby, J. H. Carmll,
Att.im Gr,tni, C. T. Wheeler.
Aluheus Bull, Mary.-villp:

S. M. WiUi.n, J. H. Jew«tt.

D.J. Oliver, Poutland, Oregon:

W Schollfi, W S Laud,

Thos. Brown, Jacob Kainm.

Onas. Main, Virginia, Nevada:

Chas. K. Putere, Wm. Snaron.

OFF10KK3:
JON A. HUNT, President.

. , «.t™« W. ALVURD, Vice President.
A.J RVLSTON. Secretary.
AND..EW BAIRD, Mariiio Secrelarr.
»vldu . H. UBIGELOW, Gen'l Agent

Business Cards.

RODG-ERS. MEYER & CO.,

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

ADVAXCES MADE
On nil kinds of Orm, nnd purtlr-ulitr attention

PaID TO

CONSIGNMENT!) OF GOODS.

4vl0-3m

CAiin pirTriiES,

ONE DOLLAR PER DOZEN.

And Photographs, Arab retypes and Sun Pearls, by first

clam MribiuL at the lowest rates.

At SI I- V AS, €14 Third Ntreel,

Northwest corner of Ml^im. San Francisco.

Hvl8-3m

MATUAM1KL GRAY.

N. GRAY & CO.,

641 Sncramcnto S>L, cor. WcWi. Snn Francisco.

Farmers and Mechanics
BANK OF SAVINGS,

No. 3 * ~> SaiiMimi- Street.

•Interest paid on Deposits. Money Loaned on Real Estate.
II. BUTTON, President.

GEO. M CONDEE Ciuralcr. ln%>16<3m

J. J. JONES,

CAKPENTEU and BUILDER,

No. :t"-i 1 Jack<on street, between Sunnome mid

Buttery,

"W. T. ATWOOD,

PURCHASER Or

COPPER ORES, BARS, MATT, Etc., Etc,

i»05 Montgomery street. Sun FrancUco.

The highest market price paid tor ores assaying 10 per cent,
and upwards M3vl7nr

"W. C. CAMPBELL.

PATTERN AX I) MODEL MAKER,

No 20 Fremont street, over Fliajulx Iron Works, San

Farms and City Property.

O. H. TfAKEtEE * CO.,

COl California street, S. W. Corner Kearny street, buy and
sell Farmsand City Real Estate. Parlies wishing to Invest
will find it to their Interest to call on them. 13vl8-3in

CALIFORNIA

Marine Metallic Paint.

This Composition, the result of scientific and chemical
research, after having been thoroughly tested for the past
twelve months, is now offered for sale bv the "California
Marine Paint Co" Incorporated March 25, lt$69. The ex-
periments to which It has been submitted, bave proved
that It is one of the most valuable discoveries oi tills won-
derful age of invention It has been extensively used in
painting the bottoms of all kinds of-salling vessels, wood.
Iron and copper, and with invariable success. Wooden
hottoms, piles, etc.. are fhoroughly protected from the de-
struction of the torfiln neraltn, or sea worm ; and iron vessels
effectual ly preserved from the adhesion of barnacles,
grans and nil descriptions of zoophytes, no injury what-
ever resulting to the plates, as frequently occurs from the
u<e of copper, and other pernicious paints; but, on the con-
trarv, Its known properties will preserve them.

By the use of this Paint, coppering vessels is rendered un-
necessary; but where a vessel has been coppered it will not
only keep it from fouling, but preserve the copper from the
ordinary wear ana tear, amounting to 10 per cent, per an-
num, arid render it almost indestructible.

It is also Invaluable for the preservation of all wooden
structures, especially railroad timbers, bridges, floor beams
in houses, telegraph post*, and is » certain preventive
agaiiHt the aciion of tne white ant and cumagen oi Mexi-
co, China, and India.

The company are now prepared to supply alt orders, and
enter Into contracts for tne application of this Paint.

Orders and communications in retard to terms, addressed:
toCapt. R. H. Waterman, President; James Pollock, Su-
perintendent Dry Dock; or L. L. Bullock, Tide Land Com-
missioner, wil, receive prompt attention.

R, H. WATERMAN,

President of Company.
LLOYD TEVIS, "1

JAMES POLLOCK, I
L L. BULLOCK. ^Trustees.
SCOTT TIDBALL, |
THOS, A. TALBKRTJ
JOHN S. ROLLS, Secretary.
San Francisco, March 29, 1869. 15vl8-lm

ME0HAKI0AL AND ARCHITECTURAL

Drawing School

MB. FREDERICK HELLEKT,

An experienced Draughtsman and Teacher, has opened an
Evening School at No. 414 CLAY STREET (same entrance
as the Mining and Scientific Fress Offlc), where he Is lIv
ing thor jugh instructions in DRAWING to apprentices who
are Inclined to self-improvement. His terms are moderate
and within reach of the humblest apprentice: tmd we are
pleased to say that the enterprise is meeting with success.
lvlS.tf

Tii^ Mininr and SciRSTinc Pkess, which commenced
ts seventeenth volume on the 4th, comes lous with a new-
Iv encraved head, and presenting otherwise its usual taslc-
•ill appearance. We take this oceaMon to say that the
Press i^ono of the best papers of the kind in the United
States, and every miner and mechanic in the State, as well
as the business man, who would keep posted on our indus-
trial resources, should have its name on its subscription
books, iftcadtt Gitsetle.

A GOOD INVESTMENT.
THE MOUNT M03MA.H

Silver Mining Company,

OF ABOVLE MOIXT1IX,

AVHito Pino District,

NEVADA.

Capita 1. - - - $IJOO,000.

0,000 Mi:irot, S»<> Encli.
FULL PAID AND NOT LIABLE TO ASSESSMENT.

President A. Df LAND

Secretary LOUIS COTIN

Rupcrintenden' at Mines CHAS. E, HARRIS

A Dk LAND,
CAULI'UECUT,

THOMAS ANSBRO,
LUULS COUN.

W. S TATLOR.

Thi<i Company offer to the public One Thousand Shares of
the Capital Stock for a Working Capital, at the subscription
price of Five Dollars pot share— FULL PAID, nnd NEVER
liable to any as-cssment whatever. Tha mine Is admira-
bly located for working, being situate on Argvle Hill, op-
posite Treasure Oily. SbaTtsunk 10 feet, showing a large
body or chloride, which assays $700 per ton, and which will
now mill S200. The capital raised to be used and ex-
pended on the mine. The standing and reputation of the
Trustees is amp'c guaranty of responsibility, etc. Maps
and samples of ore, and subscriptions at the oflice of Iho
Company, Rooms No. 15 Stevenson House, corner Califor-
nia and Montgomery, and at 21 1 and 213 California street,
near Battery street. 16vlStf

ILLINOIS
SILVER MIKING COMPANY

Wliite Pine District.

Trustees:

JAS. H. CUTTER, B. H. FREEMAN,

E. H. SHAW, JAS. R. QARNISS,

DAVID BUSH.

The Company's Mine adjoins the celebrated" "Silver
Glance," and Is In close proximity to the "Argyle," and
other prominent mines of the District.

From developments already made, the Trustees feel jus-
tified In saying to their friends that this Is one of the best
opportunities ever offered for Investment in this State.

For the purpose of further developing the mine, the
Company has set aside a limited amount ofstock.tobu
sold as a working capital, of which they now offer 1U00
shares, at the nominal price of S2 50 per share, u inisscsa-
ble— the entire proceeds of which will be devoted to devel-
oping the mine.

The books of the Company are now open for subscription
at the office of the Company, No. 432 Montgomery street,
Room No. 1, first floor. By order,

JAS. H. CUTTER, President

G. W. Stewart, Secretary.

15 v 18-1 in

ONE THOUSAND SHARES

— OF THK —

UNASSESSABLE STOCK

Nantucket Mining Company

Are offered tor sale at ONE DOLLAR PER SHARE, for

the purpose of raising a fund to aid in the development of

the mine. The mine is located on TREASURE HILL, about

half a mile west of Treasure City, adjoining the "Salt

Print on the cast. No other Issue of this stock will be

offered at less than $2.50 per share, the object beln-? to raise

a Finall fund for ihe immediate prosecution of the work.

The Trustees, in nffonng this stock, confidently believe it

to be ONE OF THE BEST INVESTMENTS in the market.

Subscription Books now open at the office of the Company,

No. OlO Montgomery street. By order of the Board of

Trustees.

W. H. BROWN, President.

I5vl8 1ra H B. CONGDO"-', Secretary.

International Hotel,

JACKSON STREET

BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AND KEARNY STS.,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE IS IN PERFECT
order for the accommodation of gucsls. Persons seek.
Ing comfort and ecoimniy will 1lnd this the best Hotel in
the city to stop at The Beds arc new and In pond order,
and the Rooms well ventilated. The Table will always be
supplied with the bcBt In the market.
Prices varying from SI 50 to S3 per dny for

Board nnd Room.

FINE BATH HOUSE AND BARBER SHOP ATTACHED

TO THE HOUSE.

A®- Teams belonging to the House will he in attendance
at all the tmats and cars to convey passengers to the House
tree of charge, and to any part of the city for SO cents

xlvl2 F. E. WEYGANT, Proprietor.

Professional Cards.

J. S. PHILLIPS. M. E.,

COX8UT.TIXG ENGINEER,
Examiner of SI I no*, etc.,

•1*3 Washington street Sin Francisco.

[Having bad S3 « ears' expe-ii.-nce In Kurope nnd America,)
supplies drawing* nv6 dea>im« for Pumping, Hoisting,
t.rushlTHj Separating, Roasting, phlorln'zlig. Milling, LU
Ivlatm?, Preciptmi n?, »w\ Smclilns Works. Mif-mi-an-
alyxed.and advice given for beneficial tn-atiiient. Lo*-
sonsuii lb- DI«crlm(D4tlon md Am iy of Minerals br Blow-
pipe, Chemicals, Scorlficr and Crucible. 4vi7lf

JOHN E0A0H, Optician,

Has removed from 622 Montgomery street to
G40 Wa«hlucton utrcet,

Eb6I "i" Montgomery.

Surveying Instruments ma 'e, repaired nnd adlu «id
2£vl7-.1m

JAMES IMC. TAYLOR,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,

Court Block, 636 Clay Street

SAN FRANCISCO.
2vl5-lo.y

CI1.ES U. ORAT. J<MK8 m. BATIK

GRAY & HAVEN,

ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT UW,

In Building of Pacific Insurance Co-. N. E. corner Cali.
fomiaan' Leluodor:! streets,
Wvl6 SAM FRANCISCO.

[J^ MEUSSDORFFER, [j[

hat mantjjta.cttj:r,e:r.

And dealer in

Hats and Caps

AT WHOLESALE AlVB RETAIL.

635 and 637 Commercial street San Frnnclaeo.

12ft J street Sacramento.

Corner of D and Second al recta Marv.ivtlle.

Tl From street Portland, Oregon.

' Onr wholesale Hou^e, 628 Commercial street, extending
through to 637 Clay street, Sun Francisco, contains alwaya
a most choice, and the largest, assortment In this state.
Every Steamer brings the latest issued novelties from Eu.
rone and New York, wblch can be found at all the above
stores, at moderate prices. 23vl6-3m

THE GIANT

POWDER COMPANY

Is now prepared to All all orders for

GIANT POWDER,

Pat ap In Boxes* cither In Balk, or In Car
trldgea.

General Agents,
BAWDMANW, NIELSEN & CO.,

25vl6-3m 210 Front street. San Francisco.

0AEL0S O'DONNELL'S

California Cordial Tonic,

— OR—

"Wild Cherry Bitters.'

TRADE C. 0. D. MARK.

This elegant preparation is acknowledged by all who hare
used It to be tbe most efficient romedy lor every disease of
ihe

STOMACH AND BOWELS,

Yet Introduced to the notice of Ihe publle. Immediately on
taking a dose of it, the patient will find a genial glow per-
vading his entire system, and Its slcady use for a short
time will be followed by a healthy appetite nnd a good di-
gestion, even in the case of the most continued dyspeptic.
To all who are suffering from

INDIGESTION,

DYSPEPSIA,

DYSENTERY,

DIABRH<EAt

NERVOUS AFFECTIONS,

Or any of the manifold troubles caused by a diseased action
of the stomach, this remedy Is confidently recommended
ofi a safe and certain cure.

N. It. JACOBS 3c CO., Sole Agents,
15vl8-3m 4*3 Front street, Snn Frunclsco.

OCCIDENTAL

Insurance Company,

OF SAN FHANCISCO.

Ca»h Capital,

GOLD COIN.

8300,000

Oflice S. W. corner of Montgomery and
California ntreets.

Fire and. Marine Insurance.

All Losses paid In U. S. Gold Coin;

• [CHR. CHRISTIANSEN, President.
B Rothschild, Secretary 20vl7-3ra

268

Trie Mining and Scientific Press.

JLgricultural.

The Philosophy of Hay Making.

Among many farmers there is considera-
ble inquiry as to the proper time to cut
grass for hay; while others appear to think,
that the convenience of the proprietor or
the supply of help is of more importance,
than the difference in the nutritive condi-
tion of the crop, within a range of a few
days or even weeks. Acting upon the old
proverb that "the proof of the pudding is
in the eating," quite a number of intelli-
gent farmers have, from time to time, made
careful camparatiTe experiments as to the
result of feeding early and late cut hay; and
it has thereby been proven that the value
of a ton of hay , cut while green and succu-
lent, and cured in the right manner, con-
tains from 15 to 20 per cent, more nutritive
value than that which has been cut after
the seed has become fully developed.
, Farmers have not, however, been alto-
gether satisfied with mere ' experiments in
this direction; but many of the more in-
quiring and progressive among them have
called in the aid of the chemist and scien-
tist to learn why these things are so. A
very slight examination into the philosophy
of the production of grasses, shows that
all annual plants reach their largest growth
when in full bloom. No additional fibre or
nutritive quality is added to their bulk
after that time; the putting forth of the
bloom is the last stage of growth. The
strength and vitality of the plant is at this
time equally distributed through all its
parts, and its entire after effort is expended
in ripening the seed. In accomplishing
this, it simply exhausts itself, and nothing
is extracted from either soil or atmosphere.
The strength and vitality of the plant gradu-
ally leaves its other members, until it has
nearly all centered in the seed. In corn,
wheat, barley, etc., which are raised ex-
clusively for their seed, this is the end de-
sired; but grasses, or even grains, when
the design is to feed in the straw, should
be cut at the precise time when the nutri-
tious matters of the plant are most uni-
versally diffused throughoutits entire bnlk;
■which, as we have shown, is just at the
point of full bloom, and before the seed
begins to form.

The common practice in cutting grass is
to wait for the formation, but not fully
ripening of the seed; partly for the reason
that at that time the grass is more readily
cured, and partly under the supposition
that while nutriment is added to the seed,
none is lost from the other portions of the
plant. The error of such a course is appa-
rent from what has already been written.
' The chemist farther tells us that all
grasses contain a notable quantity of
sugar in their stalks and leaves when in
bloom. If the plant is cut before it comes
into bloom the sugar has not been formed;
if it is cut after the seed has set, the sugar
is not there at all — it has been converted
into woody matter which contains no nutri-
ment—but merely aids digestion by means
of its bulk.

In curing hay there are also many things
to be considered, and the farmer owes
much again to the chemist for the interest-
ing and valuable information he has ob-
tained through him, with regard to the
chemical changes incident to the plant dur-
ing that process. Most farmers make the
same mistake with hay makiug that they dp
in the handling of manure — they turn it
over and over too much to the weather,
thereby unnecessarily losing much of the
most valuable properties of both.

Don't dry your hay toomuch; good grass
may be dried until it becomes as worthless
as straw. Hay should be simply wilted in
in the sun and dried in the winrow. When
we gather an herb and desir6 to retain its
full strength we dry it as quickly as possi-
ble, and in the shade. Such is the philos-
ophy of haymaking— dry asquickly as pos-
sible, with as much stirring as you can
give it, and forthe shade, substitute as soon
as thoroughly wilted, the winrow and the
cock. Any unnecessary delay of " raking
up," even for a single hour, in a very hot
day, may make a difference of fully fifteen
per cent, in the value of your hay. The
water only should be evaporated. When
that is gone, the aroma and nutritious prop-
erties of the grass will speedily follow if
further exposure is suffered. Tile olfactory
nerves will promptly give notice when that

process commences, and no time should be
lost in " raking up," after the aroma is ob-
served to be passing away. If the weather
is hot, and the ground dry, the grass will
be ready for the rake in two hours after it
is down — even when the weather is cold
and the ground wet, not. more than half a
day should be allowed for wilting and dry-
ing broad-cast. Hay should be placed in
the stack or barn as soon as possible after
it is made— not an hour's unnecessary de-
lay should be permitted.

The chemist, to whom we must always
look for the philosophy of such things, tells
us that with the evaporation of tbe water
the organic cells of the plant are broken
up and active fermentation sets in, unless
it is immediately placed under cover from
the sun. When such fermentation takes
place, the hay depreciates in quality, and is
in a condition to heat when afterwards
placed in the stack or barn. An undue
fermentive change may be known by the
rapid loss of color. As long as the green
color is retained, the work is going on all
right. Its loss, whether in the field or in
the stack, shows that injurious fermenta-
tion has set in.

Heat, light and dry wind will take the
chief part of the sugar and starch (its most
important nutritious qualities) out of hay,
in a very short time after it has lost suffi-
cient water to become wilted. The subse-
quent exposure to even a very slight rain
will render it almost worthless. When all
the conditions of cutting and curing are
properly complied with, the cured hay re-
tains all the characteristics of green grass,
without its iujurious drawback of excess of
water. The dried and condensed juices re-
main in the tender fibre, in just the condi-
tion to be most easily softened and di-
gested.

The true philosophy of hay making,
then, consists in cutting the grass at the
precise time when the sugar and starch is
most fully developed, and before those ele-
ments are converted into seed or woody
fibre; and in curing the same to just the
point previous to which excessive fermen-
tation takes place, and when it is in just
the condition to be put into the barn with-
out danger of subsequent heating.

The Late Rains of the present season
have ensured good crops throughout the
State. The total fall to' the present time is
20. 50 inches ; the average fall for the past
eighteen years is 20.79, by Dr. Gibbons'
record,' although some records make it as
high as 22 inches. The present season
has been remarkable, however, -for the
evenness and timeliness of tbe rains — a most
important consideration in connection with
utilizing the water, whetber for farming or
mining. No decidedly unfavorable reports
have been received from any part of the
State or adjoining regions, on this coast,
although in a few circumscribed localities
some slight damage has been done by the
"lodging" of the wheat, during the late
heavy rains.

Colusi County reports three times as
much grain sown as on any previous year,
and all looking admirably well. Much of
this is on land that was considered almost
worthless three years ago.

From the San Joaquin accounts are
especially favorable. Between Stockton
and Firebangh's Ferry, nearly 100 miles,
there is a strip 20 miles wide, but little of
which has been cultivated before, aod now
grain covers three-fourths of it. The dwell-
ings are cheap, orchards and gardens few,
fences are s arce and loose cattle entirely
wanting. This year's crop, it is estimated,
will pay for the land on many of the farms.
The Monterey Democrat reports tbe crops
in that region in a most favorable condition,
and likely to be earlier than last year by at
least two weeks.

In Santa Barbara the main crop is corn
and beans. Much more land has be<?n
planted there this year than ever before,
not only in corn and beans, but in wheat,
barley, and potatoes as well. That region is
fast improving iu building, fencing, plant-
ing orchards, and in agricultural progress
generally. It is claimed that the almond
will flourish better there than in any other
part of the State. Messrs Clough & Olm-
stead are planting a large orchard of almonds.
The olive, too, is receiving miwli attentiou
there, and it is thought its cultivation viill
be found very profitable. Many farmers
are planting the English walnut. It is a
somewhat remarkable fact, and one alto-
gether inexcusable, that this county should
derive almost its entire supply of flour
from this city and Oregon. There is no
flour mill in the county ; one is greatly
needed and, would do a good business.
There is no reason why that county should
not raise all its own wheat, and some to
spare. A few farmers are just beginning
to grow whea'.

New Mining Advertisements.

Hi»wd.en Silver Mining Cmnpany. Location of

works: White Pine, White Pine County, Nevada.

Notice Is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the fourteenth day
of April, 1S69, an assessment of fl e cents per share was
levied upon the capital stock of said Company, pay-
able immediately in Uniied states gold ami Pi vercoln, to
the Secretary, at the office of the Company, 419 California
street, San Francisco.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the twenty ninth day of May, 1869, shall he
deemed delinquent, and will he d'uly advertised for sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall bo made before,
will be sold on Monday, the Inuncenth day of June, 1S(j9,
to pav the delinquent assessment, together with costs oT
advertising and expenses of Side. By order of the Board of
Trustees.

M. S. MARTIN. Secretary.

Office, No. 11 Hayward's Building, 419 California street,
San Francisco. flP21

Capital Silver Mining Company, White" Pine

District, Nevada.

Notice ishereby glveu, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the nineteenth day
of April, 1869, an assessment often cents per share was
levied upon the capital stock of said Company, payable
immediately, in United States gold and silver coin, to the
Secretary.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the seventeenth (17th) day of May, 1869, shall bo
deemed delinquent, and will be duly advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless payment shall be made be-
fore, will be sold on Monday, the thirty-first day of May,
1869. to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs
of advertising and expenses of sale. By order oi the Board
of 'Trustees. ■

J. M. BUFFINGTON, Secretary.

Office, Room 37. New Merchants' Exchange, California
.itrcet. San Tancisco. ap24

Troy Ledge Mining Company, White Fine

District, Lander County, Nevada.

Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the six-
teenth day of March. 1869, the several amounts set oppo-
site the names of the respective shareholders as follows:
Names. No. Certificate. No. shares. Amount.

GW Hodge 45 120 $ 18 00

U W Hodge 46 6n 9 00

GW Hodge 47 60 9 00

G W Hodge -18 60 9 00

GWHooge 50 60 9 00

GW Hodge 51 120 18 00

J C Harmon 5-4 10 160

J C Harmon 60 10 1 SO

J C Harmon 61 10 1 50

J C Harmon 62 10 1 50

J C Harmon 63 10 1 W

JO Harmon 64 10 1 M>

J C Harmon 65 10 1 50

J C Harmon 66 10 1 60

J C Harmon 67 10 J &0

JO Harmon --68 10 1 50

J C Harmon 69 10 1 50

J O Harmon 70 10 1 50

J C Harmon 71 10 I 50

JC Harmon 72 10 1 50

J C Harmon 73 10 1 50

JC Harmon 74 10 1 50

J C Harmon 75 10 1 50

J C Harmon 76 10 1 50

TC HnniKin 77 60 9 o»

J O Harmon 78 60 9 00

JC Harmon 79 60 9 00

J C Harmon 80 60 9 oil

J C Harmon 81 .60 9 00

,1 C Harmon 8i 6i 9 00

J C Harmon 83 100 15 00

J C Harmon 81 100 15 00

.1 C Haimon 85 100 15 W

jo Harmon 86 120 rum

J C Harmon 87 . 120 18 00

WJ Nichols 13 H> 1 50

W J Nichols 14 10 -160

WJ Nicnuls 15 10 1 50

W J Nichols I« 10 1 50

W J Mcbuls 17 10 1 50

W J Nichols 18 10 150

WJ Mehols 19 III 1 50

W J Nichols 20 10 1 60

W J Nichols 21 20 3 00

WJ Nichols 22 30 4 50

WJ Nichols 2t 60 9 00

W J Nichols -.24 60 9 00

(No Oert!fioa,t ) 1590 238 60

CW Stevens balance 91 100 6 h7

C W Stevens halancc 9! I'i0 6 67

C W Stevens balance 93 100 6 67

C W Stevens balance 91 100 6 l>7

C W Stevens balance 95 ltlO 6 67

C W Stevens balance 9* 1'0 6 67

O WS evens balance 97 100 6 67

C W .Stevens balance 9S M0 6 67

C W Stevens balance 99 100 6 67

OWSfevens balance |i>0 100 6 67

WJMowrcv Mi 18 2 70

JGMitchell 127 12 1 80

JG Mitchell 1*8 12 1 80

JGMitchell 129 12 1 80

JGMi chcH 130 12 1 80

J ti Mitchell 131 12

.! G Mitchell 13! 12

JGMitchell 133 2t

JGMicleU 134 24

IGMi'chell 135 21

JGMitchell 13fi 24

JG Ml ehell 137 21 3 wi

J GM t:hell 138 36 6 40

J GMi chell 139 ?6 5 40

JGMiiclul! 140 36 5 40

J G Mitchell I4l 60 9 uo

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board

of Trustees, made on the sixteenth day of March,
1S69, so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may

be necessary, will be sold at public auction, by Messrs.
olney & Co., auctioneers, No. 426 Montgomery street, San
Francisco, on Monday, the t wen ly- fourth day or Hay,

1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock. M., of said day, to pay said

delinquent assessment thereon, together with costs of ad
vertising and expenses of sale.

J. M BUKFINGTON, Secretary.

Office, 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California street,

San Francisco. *1>24

1 80
3 60
3 60
3 60
3 t'O

Mining Notices— Continued-

Daniel Web iter Mining; Company.— Location

of Works: White Pine County, State of Nevada.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the seventh day of
April, 1869, an assessment of ten cents (iflc) per share
was levied upnn ihe capital stock ot said Company, paya-
able immediately, in United States gold coin, to the Sec-
reiarv, ar- the office of the Company.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain
unpaid on the t nth day of May, 1869, shall be deemed
delinquent, and will he duly advertised for sale at public
auction, and uiilc>s payment shall be made before, will
be sold on Monday, the thirty-first day of May, 18t'j.
to pav the delinquent assessment, together with coat of
advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board
of Trustees.

C. A UH RIG, Secretary.

Office, No 418 California street, San Franci-co.

Lyon Hill and Mining Company, Jk.elt.ey His.

trlct, El Dorado County, California."

Notice. — There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
sixth (6lh) day of March, 1869, the several amounts set
opposite the names of the respective shareholders »
follows;

Names. No, Certificate. No. Shares. Amonnf.

JohnAmos 58 1 $1 CO

A Birrell '. 17 10 into

AC Teitman 16 82 11-13 82 F4

AC Tollman, Trustee 51 11 6-13 li 46

AC Teitman S9 64 8-13 61*1

And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board
ot Trustees, made on the sixth (6th) day of March, 1869,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may bo
necessary, will be sold at public auction, by Messrs.
Olney & Co., auctioneers, No. 426 Montgomciy street, on
Monday, the twenty sixth day of April, 1869. at the hour of
12 o'clock M. of said day, to pay said delinquent assess-
ment thereon, together with costs of advertising and ex
penses of sale.

J. M. BUFFINGTON, Secretary.

Office, Room 37 New Merchants' Exchange, California
street, San Francisco. aplO

Cordillera Gold and Silver Mining Company.—

Horclos District, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting ol .the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the sixteenth day of
March, 1869. an assessment of one dollar (SI) per share
was levied upon the capital stock of said Company, paya-
ble immediately. \<\ United States gold and silver coin,
to the Secretary, at the office of the Company, 321 Washing-
ton street. San K ran Cisco.

Anr stock upon which said .i-wssniont shall remain tin
paid on the twentieth (Ajih) day of April, 1869. shall be
deemed delinquent, and will he duly advertised lur sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall be made bcore,
will be sold Mil Monday, the tenth day ol .May, 186a.
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with co.^ts i ot
advertising and expenses ot sale. By order ot the Board ot
trustees. ue^RY R. REED, Secretary.

Office, 321 Washington street, San Francisco. inariO

Fostpovkmknt.— The dav fot deeming stock delinquent on
the? above assessment is hereby postponed until the Hist
dav ot M«v 1869, and the sa'e thereof until Monday, the
evcnteen.'li day of May, 1869. By order of the Board of

TaUpZ4ea" H. R. REED, Secretary.

Mount Tenabo Silver Mining Company.— lo-
cation of Works : Cortez District, Lander County, State
of Nevada.

Notice.— There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account ol assessment levied on the
twenty-third day of January, 1869, the several n'mouimsct
opposite the names of the respective shareholder, as fol-
lows :

Names. No. Certificate. No. Shares. Amoun*
Baum, Charles '2

Banm, Chiirleg..

Rorel, FA 79

Borel.F A 81

Bnrel, FA 83

Borel, FA 84

Borel. FA 122

Dinning, Charles 65

Gordon, John 18

Gallagher, Jamee 60

Hardy, Thomas 21

Lehmanu. Chr 24

Leavitt, -John -5

Murdoch, C A 105

Murdock. C A 106

Murdock.CA 120

Probst, Ernst 137

Vandervoort, J C 28

Wcmzcli, Justus '5*3

Wilson, E 96

20

$IM0

W 37 50

200 l.MJ 10

100 75 00

(0 37 fO

50 37 N>

207 165 25

110 7& 00

75 56 26

IPO 75 00

300 225 00

5 3 76

250 187 50

HO 76 00

150 112 50

39 29 26

3 ' 2 25

60 37 60

2 ISO

50 37 50

And In accordance with law, and an order of the Board « f
Trustees, made on the twenty third day of January, 18C9,
so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be
necessary, will be sold at public auction, at the sales-
room of Maurice Dore A Co., auctioneers, No. 327 Mont-
gomery street, San Francisco. Califo nla, on the twenty-
seventh day of April, 1869, at the hour of 12 o'clock M. of
said day. to pay said delinquent assessment thereon, to-
gether with costs of advertising and expenses ol sale.

R. N VAN BRUNT, Secretary.

Office -126 Montgomery sircct, San Fr.incisco. p

North Ami-i'iciin Wood Preserving Comp&uy.

Location of Works: S in Francisco, California.

Notice. — There are delinquent, upon the following de-
scribed stock, on account of assessment levied on the
twclith day of March, 1869, the several amounts set
opposite the names of the respective shareholders, as
follows:

Names. No. Certificate. No. snares Amount.

Geo W Dent 1

Beni R Niekerson 29

B< n'i R Nickersnn ....30

Ben'i R Nickerson 31

Ben) RNickers.-n 32

John L Samuels 35

John L Samuels 36

John L .-ainuels unissued

Henry S Dent unissued

And In accordance with law, and an order of the Board of
Trustees, made on the twelfth day of March, 1869. to
many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be ncc-
es ary, will be sold at public auction, at the office of the
Company, on Hie first day of May, 1869, at the hour of 12
o'clock M. of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment
thereon, together with costs of advertising and expenses of

WM. B. LAKE, Secretary.
Office, 430 Montgomery street. San Francisco &»I7

4110

$4110 10

20

2U 10

20

20(0

5

5 10

5

5 CO

100

100 (0

60

50 10

ISO

151100

201

200 00

favorable to Inventor*.— t'ersons holding new in -
veations of machinery and important improvements, cuii
have the sum" illustrated aim !-x|ilniiuid in the Mining ani.
Swkntific FitKss, free ol charge, if in our judgment the
discovery is one of real merit, and of sufficient 'iterest'o
the public to warrant publication.

Pacific Coal Mining Company, Contra Cohta

County, California.

Notice is hereby given, that ai a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the twentieth daj of
March, IS69, an assessment ot lour dollars per shnre was
levied upon the capital stock of said Company, payable
immediately, in United States gold and silver coin, to the
Secretary.

Anv stock upon winch said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the twenty-scvenih day of April, 1869. shall be
deemd! delinquent, and will he duly advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless payment shall he made be-
fore, will be sold on Monday, the seventc- mh dat of May,
1869. to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs
ol advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board
ol Trustees.

S. LACHMAN, Secretary.

Office, southeast corner Market and First streets. *an
Francisco. mar27

SI em pre "\ Iva Silver Alining Company, JUIitrici

of Zarlgoisa, Siniloa, Mexico.

Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of said Company, held on the fifteenth day of
April, 1869, an assessment of ce dollar per share was
levied upon the capital stock of said Company, payable
immediately, in Uniied States gold and silver coin, to
thfc Secretary, at his office. No. 318 California street.

Any stock upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on the twenty-first day of May, 1869. shall bo
deemed delinquent, and will be duly ari\erlised for sale at
public auction, and unless payment shall be made before,
will be sold on Monday, the seventh day ot Jnue, 1869,
to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale. By order or the Board of
Trustees.

JOHN F. LOUSE, Secretary.

■Offlrv, 318 California street, San Francisco. apl7

The Annunl Meeting of .*> tocliholile r» ol" tho

Daniel Webster si ver Mining Company, will be held on
MONDAV EVENING, May 10th, at 7>, o'clock, at the office
of the Company, No. 418 California street.
np!7-4w C. A. UHHIO. Secretary.

The Annuil Mortlu- of Stockholder* of the

Wiliiainaniic Silver Mining Company, will be hell on
TUESDAY EVENING, May lSiji, at 7Mo'clbck, at the office
of the Company, No. 413 California street.
aplT-iw C. A. UHRIG, Secretary.

Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

269

Mining Notices.

Bfantor Mlver Mlnlns; Company.— Locution «f
Mine; Hrglnla City, Storey Oountj . tUittl <rf K»wdf-
Notice is hereby Klven. that at a meeting of the Board
of Trustees .if - ' <he twrni> '-sixth

do ol M nch, i- -'< an ajwejisineni of fttli eenti

., iifi upltal «oflli ol ufd Company, nay-
ii-dlMU'lv, hi t nlied Slates gold coin, to Ih* sec-
i.mce ol it!*: Company, Nu. *'.** i.aliiurmu
tirr<-t, San *'rit . ,

Vnv Itock iil'»n which said awMinnit *nAll remain

'"■'■■' '''■ «holl be

i-nt. and will be duly advertised for aali

at imiilk' auctlim. mot unled payiuani unall be made bo

f(.re, will be mid on i ' iiih day ol

i io imj th? flctliinocni aawsBmeiit. together

[and expeiwcsoisttle. By order ol

U« Board „iTru-Wt.. f R WINO uin, s,.CWIj|ry.

omce, 408 California street, San KrancUco Doonfl

s.iv ■ . n;<> .iiii Mii.li.i_- Company.— l,o<_-ntlon of

\\'..rki and Mlnat: Kcar^nrgc District. Inyo county, Cal.
Notice M hereby given, that at a •meeting of the Board

of Trustees of said Company, held on thfl twenty tilth
day of March. IW9, an aitcMincnt of fifty cent* per share
w,t« levied upon the capital stock of twiil Company, p iy.
able Inimedlutelv. hi Ciiit.it Slate* gold coin, l<> the Seure-
t «i v. ii the office o( the Compaoy, Ho. *liS California street,
mcUco.
Anv stock upon which Mid use&iment shall remain tin-

SUM ,,n Iheflrsl il-D d«v ol Way, ISty. shall be deemed
Blinquent, and will be duly adverti-ed for aale at public
and unless paymenl shall be mad** before, will be
■obi 1 >it Monday, ii"' iweni> eighth day of Mny, 1869, i"
pav tin- delinquent assexKwient, together with Cin.lt ut nd>
MrlUlni and expenses ol sale. By order of the Board ol

t. b. WINOARD, Secretary.

OfljM, (03 California street, ban Francisco. inar.7

The, Perfection of PrepareU Cocoa.

maravilTa cocoa.

Bole Proprietors— TAYLuk BROTHERS, London.

The Cocoa (or Cacao) of Mnravllla Is the true Theohroma
of Unmiuis. Cocoa Is IndlKeti.-us to South America.ol
which Uaravllla Is a favored portion TAYLOR HIMTH
KRS having secured the exilu^ve wltpply ol this unrl-
>. illedC -i, h ive, bv the skillful application of I heir sol-
uble principle and elaborate inichmcry. produced "hat 1<
s.1 nndenlably tii ■ pcnectlon ol Prepared uoooa, ih u it lint

Ik. I i.nlv sei'itrnl 'lie prefe-enec of Ihuiuij i|ialln and dcna-

flrlakcrseenerally, but many who hud ht'iteno not luund
anv preparation to -nit them. have, after one trial, mlu.nt'd
the Maravllla Cocoa a* their constant beverage tor break-
tail, luncheon, etc.

"A SUCCESS UXPUECEDEXTED."

[Bee folto\*in-4 extract from the Globe ol' May 1 1, 1368.]
'•Various Importers and iminiuueturer- have attempted
tn attain u reputation for their prepared Cocoas, out we
d 1'ihi whether any thorough Buccesshnd been uchic ed
until Me-.tr*. T ylor Brothers discovered iheextraord nary
qualities of "Mnravllla" Cocoa. Adapting thjlr perlect
(.y.lem of pre:)nnillon to thin Hm-st Of ull pp. clct ot the

Th roma, they have produced an article which super-

pedes every other Cod>a in the market. Entire jniuuiury,

a delicate uruin i. an I a rare c i^ntration ol ihe plirCdl

clouiwii's of nutrition. dNtingiiUh the Miravilla I ucmi
(ii.ov.. oil mhers. Por homoeopaths and invall-ls we could
I.. .1 recommend \ more asrecablc or valuable bevcracc.

(told i ' packets only by nil Orccers, ol whom uLoinny
bo had Tuvnr Brothers' Orlelmil Homoeopathic ''ocoa and
Soluble Chocolate. Steam MHK Brick Lane. London.
6vl8-ly

California Steam Navigation

COMPANY. ,..,

Bteatncr CAPITAL CAPT. E. A. POOLE

CHRYSOPOLIS CAPT. A. FOSTER.

YOSEMITB

CORNELIA CAPT. W. BROMLEY

JULIA CAPT. E. CONCKLIN.

Two of the above steamers leave BROADWAY WHARF
at 4 o'clock 1'. M. EVERY DAY (Sundays excepted), one
for Sacramento and one lor Mockton, iho.ie tor Sacra-
mento coniiectlnir with liizh r-drati steamers lor Marysvlllc
Colusa. Chico, and Red Bluff.

uiflce ot the Company, northeast corner of Front and
Jackson streets.

15. M. J1A1CTSIIOKN F.,
I3vl2 President.

Maurice Dore & Co.,

AUCTIO - KCES.

THURSDAY.

THURSDAY MAY 6, 1869,

At 12 o'clock, at Salesroom,
No. 32? UOKTOOUERY STREET,

Special Credit Sale

Montgomery Street Property,

By order of the Trustees of the Montgomery Street
Real Estate Company.

We will sell on the above date
1,000 FEET EROKTTA.GE

ON MONTGOMERY,

BETWEEM MARKET AND HOWARD STREETS,
Which will embrace IH FINE CORNERS, as follows:
One on Hontcomcry and iMarkct,
Three on Montgomery and .Ic-sie-,
Three on Montgomery iind Sflttilon,
One on Montffomery mid Minna,
Pour on Montgomery und Nutoma, and
One on Mootuoinery ;"»d Howard Streets.

MonlROTicry street, between .Msrke1 and Howard, is TO
feet In width.and will b« sewered, paved with Stow pave-
ment, curbed and sidewaiked.

TERMS -(Hie-fourlh citsh; one-fourth In one year; onc-
fotirth In two years; one-iourth In three years— deferred
payments to b;-ar Interest at the rate ot" ten per cen'. per
annum, nayoule monthly, and be stccurud by mortgage on
the property.

Diagram Cattlovruoa will be ready in a few days, and can
be had on application at our office.

MAURICE DORP. A CO..

lSvlS lm Auctioneer*.

Mining Secretary.

THE SUBSCRIBER. HAVING SERVED FOR THE LAST
tlve years as Secretary of various mining coinpunics,
TeeU fully competent to serve In lhat capacity. Any par
ties wishing to secure the services of a Secretary cai, be
accommodated on reasonable terms.- Information given,
and all necessary papers correctly made out.

Having had a long experience in the purchasing/ of goods
and machinery tor miners, parties In the mines will find it
' " ingagents are employed,
gned.

J. M. BCFFINUTOy,
Room S7.New Merchants' Exchange, California ttreet
Bau Franciaco 17vl5-tf

Pacific Protective Association of California.

INCORPORATED ctTOBKB, 1808.

x>:rco!5ii?jh;cTU>-i.

i —The . bjeot of thli laoouttlonh to secure n iii-ti p tymont, irltbln Mstrdnyn a'':-r the dM'h of a vubsorlher,

t.i !ni ..r Uqt in ir- or unlgnj "'' as many d..liurs as tnoro me ludh Iduald "i the claea iu « hlcb faui deceased subscriber
belonged.

MmnntsniF — Tbo sabacrlptlon tees are Tin Pnllarn at J inintr. mid One Dfdlar on the death of each subscriber.
The tine Dollar from «a< h mbwrrlber la | aid to ihe heir- or awl? m ol Ibc di ceawd.

Tiik Poniul- The By -Lows of the AHsoelolton n riulre tbaLAjmnlon ol the money received as sub-script ion fct's
shall he a Slnklite. Kuiul \<> meet n.^e>-ininis t'nUUiL- due ).\ ihe ih ll'.iqueiicles id Milii-erlbers. The balance uf the

i > * rccen ed to be uu>d for the paj meni of [be cxponaea Incurred by ihe AJnoclatlou.

Mkmbj u —A vubsci Iber ailing to i n\ iti-> or bet a-wcnmeni i-i one dollar within Thinv dava from receipt of no-

lice rorieiia hlaoi het Ci rilflcatc. iumI all claim* upon ihoAvoclntiun. uuiou (t i - ause Uehovi n for further delay,

i i Krlbarcan forward money In advai ce wblch anmnni wlh be credited on future a»< Bmiiontt>. The subscriber!- u 'o
divided Into clafkca Including mated mid fcmalei Bach elaa Is llutlicd to MWO nuhscribors. As <-m^r-, are rtlhd.
now ones will be rormed NopcrjM.ii i--.. oorthal be cannot pav Ten Doliurs at joining and one Dollar occa-
sionally, thus securing 15,000 to bis oi her helm or aml^Iia

Aova r*oaii.— The advantages of (his a«noclail',u uro, thatno monejr paste pun aflfcel it. Its boneflta are cadly
niitaiMuh'e by all. and every subscriber added in the As-iicni'i.tii (itiliancea the Imci'Crfi and protection 01 all ; the
amounl p:ild helnc so small, ind only at Unit; intervals. 11. a I any 1 ertoil can BQCUrO lor his t'ainih u competency unon
ubdaatb.

clas»k!«.— in Class A. ail pcrrona between the ages of 15 und 4u >-eara; in class b, all persons between the ages of w

and tin years.

Any one that has not stated his or her age correctly. w(M forfeit all money pnld and Iiii or her rerltflcuto.
t'ne elaaa cannot be aasraacd if one "i another dura dhx, ClaastM have 110 cum ctlon with cadi other,
lii.w to Bkcomk a .MtviiiKK.— a pel -on datlroua ol becoming a subscriber moat nil out an application, and forward
with It Ten Dollars by Check. Draft, or by Express, 111 K"Ul vr silver eidn. 1'ersons can pay itvcnta, when reiiuliirly ap-
pointed and authorized to receive money. Each subscriber should lulerest hiuist.il in obliilulm: new members, bv so
dolmtull are beiiellied

Boako or DiiikCToiis.— Beiijuinsu H. Freeman, George II. Russell, Samuel A. Raymond, Jnincs A. I'ritchard, W. Lc-
R.jy

OrricviH — Bcnlani'n II Freeman, President; George II. Ru-sull. Vice President; John 11. Warren, Secretary;
James A. Piltchnru. Treasurer.

RantluutrKa.— Hon. Henry Dutton, President of Farmers' and Meclmnlcs' Bank; lion. Samuel Cowles, la'e Judge
Counb Cour't Sail Francisco; 11 i< A. J. Uunnlsoii, Atiunu-y m Law, Sun Kruneiseo; II J. h.mih, K*i[ , Union Iron
Wink*. San FrailClsCO; Henre y. WlUimns. 1-s,, . Real KMiile. San KcancUeo; John O. llanseom, ti-q . -Kliui Iron Works,
Han Francisoo; John It; O'Brien, E>q„ ol O'Brien, Bush ft Oo., San Francisco; lion. J. P Jones, Oold HJU, Nevada,

ti> the Kccreiary of the

PACIFIC PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION", .

3. E. COR. OF MONTGOMERY AND SACRAMENTO STREETS, (Over Donohoc i Kelly'8 Bunk,) SAN FRANCISCO.

[I0vlS8inos.|

n Fran ci too; John II. O'Brien, Eo,, u
All coiniuunicutlons shuuld be audri

HUNTINGTON'S IMPROYED SHINGLE MACHINES.

SHINGLE MACHINES CONSTANTLY ON HAND.
Steam Engines, Saw Mills, Lath and Picket Machinery, and Flax-Breaks,

MADE TO OHDEE,

HUNTINGTON & BUSWELL, Manufacturers,

8v81-lam3m IT mid 11> Fremont Sticet, Sau Francisco.

Rails, Newel Posts,

AND BALUSTERS,
Constantly on hand lor sale, and
shipped, together willj
all kinds of
STAIR WOTtlt,
To any part of the coast. Practi-
cal workmen sent, when desired,
to put up the same.

Work Warranted! to Fit
by simply sending a correct ground
plnn ot stairs, together wilh llteht
of story.

Wood-Turning and Scroll Raw-
ing of all kinds promptly executed.
AS* Spnnish Cedar. Walnutnnd
California Laurel always on hand
for sale.

Eley's Ammunition.

The-e Cartridge* are made in
three sizes, viz . Jul (in- Snider Eini.-M
bore; .5(10 (or hall inch) bore; and .J5i
(or small) bore

These Cartridges have been adopted.
alter careful comparative trials'
acainst all other dcscrintiims, by 11EH
M \.TESl V'S WAR DEPARTMENT, as
tlie standard Kitle Ammunition tor the
BRITISH ARMY, and arc not onb'
used exclusively for the Snider Kitle.
but are adapted to nil olher -ys 0111s ..1
mili-arv V. l.'KKCH LiAUl.NC, Itll-'LP-S

They arc the cheapest Gaririagrs
known, carrying their own Ignition,
beinii made wholly of melal, are wa-
ter-proof arid imperishable in any cli-

Boxer Cartridge. Cases (empty), of all
3 siz^s, jmcked with nr wlihoui bulteis,
and machine for fastening same In
Cartridges.

Makers of BOXETl CARTRIDGES.
.46.) in ire for Revolving I'istols, in use
In Her Majesty's Navy.

PIN CARTKIUGliS for Lcfaiicheux
Revolvers of 12 a, 9 m. and 7 m, bore.

CENTRAL FIRE and PIN FIRE
CARTRIDGES, for all sizes ofUuns,
Rifle i and Revolvers.

Double Watcr-l'roof and E. B. Caps.
Wire Cartridges for killing game at
long distances. Felt Waddings lo im-
prove Hie shooting of guns; and every
of Sporting and Military Ammunition.

descrlpt .
Wholesale ouly

18vl6eowly

ELEY BROTIIERS,

Gray's Inn Road, London, W. C.

STOCK CERTIFICATES,

STOCK TRANSFER JOURNALS,
STOCK LEDGERS,

ASSESSMENT RECEIPTS,

And all other Blanks, Blank Books, etc. , required by Mln
[ng and other Corporations, kept on hand or printed to
order on short notice, at moderate prices, at the office 01
the Mining and ientific Print.

HO TEAMSTERS!

CONTINUE TO

LiEBSEBrS

CELEBRATED

H El L Axle Grease5

To which you have given so decided a
preference for the last

FOURTEEN YEARS,

It is the only reliable article

IN THE MARKET

Every care will continue ts be used to bus-

tain the high reputation the H & L Axle

Grease, has so long and justly attained.

JESf~Be sure and ask for the H & L brand,
and Pee that the

TRADE mm H & L

IS ON THE COVER OF TIIE PACKAGE

NONE OTHER IS GENUINE.
FOR SALE IN EVERY STATE IN THE UNION.

Electrotype Enghatlngs, Cuts, Etc.— Our Job Printing
Oftice is abitndanlly supplied with elegant engravings, or
naments, and other embellishments to suit the varlouB
branches orindustrv In this state

HAYWARD & COLEMAN

IMPORTERS AND REFINERS

Illuminating, Lubricating,

DPAINT OILS,

C0>S!ST![«O or

KEROSENE. LAKD. SPERM, ELEPHANT. POLAR,

TANNERS. NEATSl'OOT, BOILED AND RAW

LINSEED, CASTOR AND CHINA NUT.

Spirits of Turpentine and Alcohol.

Lamps and Lamp Stock !

Ad elegant and complete assortment.

SOLE IMPORTERS OF
Devoe's Illuminating^ Oil1

PATEJiT CASTS.-
SvTMf. 41-1 Front .ti-eet, San Francisco.

CHANGE.

C. C. HASTINGS & CO.

TVhoIeaalc and Retail!
SVPERIOB GOODS! R1DKF.D KATES!

C. C. HASTINGS & CO.,

SUCCESSORS TO
Huelton, Mantlnira A Co.,

SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK,

Announce to the friends of the old firm, and the public at
large, that their present business arrange'menta nrc such
that they are enabled 10 oiler the be*t and moat stylish
goods on the Pacillc Coast at a great reduction from former
prices.

AT WHOLESALE.
The attention of (he merchants throughout the Pacific
('oust. Is called to the fact that we arc now prepared to fill
their orders for superior goods in

Strictly Custom-Mad e Clothing
Suli», Gloves, lToklery, and

FuruUhlnK Goods, Trunks.

TrayellUBr Bantaud Vlllses.,

In lots to suit at regular wholesale rates.

CLOTHING TO ORDER,

Made either in New York or San Francisco, under thosu-
pcrvisionof the best cutters in America.

DIRECTIONS FOB MEASUREMENT

Sent to any address upon application, and goods forwv.rdcd
\}y Express on receipt of orders. Satisfaction tuara.iteed

C. C. HASTINGS <li CO.,

Successors to

HEUSTON, HASTINGS & 00.,

The Faahlouiible Clothiers.

New York and San Francisco.
8vl8-3m

Pump Leather.

£The attention of MINING COMPANIES, and others re-
quiring a superior article for Hydraulic purposes, is invited
to the heavy Oaked Tanned Pump Leather, manufactured
and prepared expressly by the undersigned.

rA N N E^y

N E.JONES&C? •

Constantly on hand and for sale by

GLKRA/3T, JOXE^ «fc CO.,

Deuot of the Santa Cruz Tannery,
418 Xtiittcry St., San Francisco.

25vl7-ly

CI£TJI>E BtTLLIOJV.

Crude Bullion of any kind, bought at the highest price*
Address, ALBERT ARENTS, HO Kearny street. San
Francisco. 13vl8-3ra

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Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press.

Machinery.

PATENT AMALGAMATOR,

Tliese Machines Stand UinivaU-d.

for rapidly pulverizing and amalgamating ores, they
nave no equal. No ellort has been, or will be, spared to
have them constructed in the most perfect manner, and of
the great number now in operation, not one has everre-
quired repairs. The constant and increasing demand for
them issuinclent evidence of iheir merits.

They are constructed so as to apply steam directly into
he pulp, or with steam bottoms, as desired.

This Amalgamator Operates as Follows :

The pan being tilled, the motion of themuller forces the
puip to the center, where itis drawn down through the ap-
erture and between the grinding surfaces. Thence it Is
thrown to the periphery Into the quicksilver. The curved
plates again draw it to the center, where it passes down,
and to lite circumference as before. Thus it is constantly
passing in a regular riow between the grinding surfaces and
mo the quicksilver, until the ore is reduced to an impalpa-
ble powder, and the metal amalgamated.

Setters w de on the same principle excel all others.—
They brin ,7.16 pulp so constantly and perfectly in contact
with qulckoilvcr, that the particles are rapidly and com
pietely absorbed.

Mill men are invited to examine these pans and setters for
thomselveb, at the FACH'IC t'OtMlKY,

lvl San Francisco.

ELLEBY'S PATENT

India Rubber Cement and Paint

— FOB-
TIN, IRON 'AND METALLIC ROOFS,
Iron, Brick and "Wooden Molldlngs,
SHIPS, STEAMBOATS, STAGES, CABS,

AND FOlt ALL EXPOSED SURFACES.

Is water-proof and indestructible; will neither rot, peel,

nor crack; will withstand imy climate; can be put on in

any color, and is less expensive than other Taint.

JVciv Cloth Koofs put 011. Old Roof's cemented
and painted. JLeaky Hoofs ma tie tight.

03r~ No Coal Tar or Asuhaltum used. All work guaran-
teed. Orders punctually attended to.

GEO. T. BROMLET, Agent,

Pipe Vise, with or without
Extra Jaw.

Standard Milling Machine.

UNION VISE COMPANY,

OF BOSTON, MASS.
Extrajaw, and heavy Vises. Warranted for heavy work.
>cw style Wood and-Covered Screw Vises, iorty styles and
kinds; Standard Milling Machines, simple, great capacity,
power and strength— two sizes, large, 2,3(W lbs; suiull, 93i
lbs. For sale by the trade.
ySvlfi.ly G. H. NOTT, PiCS.

PACIFIC FILE WORKS,

No. Sit lieule Street, bet. Market and Mission*

SAN FRANCISCO.

Files He -cut and warranted as good as new, with a savintf
of ilfty per cent. ltEAPElt AND MOWER SECTIONS
M vi);-; L'u ORDER. The only establishment on ihe Coast
urders from the country promptly attended to.- i&r* First
Premium awarded at Um Statu Fair, 18tS7-

2vl7-3irt T. «. JUUItVI SG .fe CO

Removal.
NELSON~& DOBLE,

AGENTS FOR

Thomas Firth & Sons' Cast Steel, Files,

Mill Picks, Sledges, Hammers, Picks,

Stone Cutters', Blacksmiths' and Horse-Shoera' Tools,

Have removed to 13 and 15 Fremont street* near

Market, San Francisco.

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MACHINERY A-GrElVCY.

Richardson, Mekiam & Co'b Celebrated

wKg Machinery.

W. O. M. Barry & Co. 1 14 California St Snu Francisco.

Embracing every description of Planer*, Matchers and
Mirtisers, Moulding, 'feuonin?, Boring Shaping, Vertical
and Circular Ke-sa*ving Macnnie.-i; scroll, Railway, Cut-o£f
and Kip Saws, etc., oie. Agents tor tue dwdm-tcot Co's

Improved I"ortaT>le Engines,
"Warranted f ally equal to any in the market; Davis A Fur-
ber's Woolen Machinery; Blake's Patent Steam Pumps;
ltiluurn'j and Warren's t'urhine Water wheels, etc., fits.

Urd:rs tor Machinery of any kind will receive prompt
attention Machines tor special purposes built to order.
Bend tor Illustrated Catalogue W. u. M. BEKRV& 00 ,

8\'L8-Mii . 1U California St., San Francisco.

IVotice to JVIiiier-js,

Well-Borers and Water Companies.

M'PRAG IS NOW PREPARED TO MANUFACTURE
. Hydraulic and Artesian Well Pipes in the be^t work-
manlike maimer, atid-at the lowest market rates. Having
made large additions to my stock of machinery for that
branch of business, I am prepared to All all orders with dis-
patch, and guarantee entire satisfaction. I also manufac-
ture Mississippi stoves, of the latest unproved patterns, for
vessels of all classes. Also, Ship Plumbing done.

31. I'jMO,
tvtMy Stove Store. No. I Olav street, below Davis.

GLASGOW
Iron and Metal Importing Company

'Sun. 35 and 587 Fremont street*

SAN PUAN'CIBCO,

Keep constantly on hand a large stock of best Bar and
Bundle Iron, Holler Tubes, Plate and Sheet Irou, Gas and
Water Pipe, Anvils. Cast Sreel. Gas and Water Fittinr«,
which they offer to the trade an liberal terms.
b.**yMi-3m W. 'UcCKINDUS, Manaje.

CALIFORNIA TOOL WORKS,

Blacksmith and Machine Shop,

143 JSeuIc St., bet. Mission aud Howard,

SAN FItANCISCO.

All kinds of Edge or other Tools made to order. Par-
ticular attention paid to pu ting in order A(?K1C< LIUHaL
MACHINERY. Job Grinding and Polishing by sleam.
Orders trom the Country promptly] attended 10 IfcS-All
work warranted.

21vl7-qy J. WEICHHART, Proprietor,

l^ATJENT

Boiler Scraper and Tube-Cleaner.

IT IS THE CHEAPEST, MOST
durable, easiest- 10 adjust, and
cleanest apparatus to use lor the
purpose designed, yet offered to
tlie public. Being constructed on
simple Mild mechanical principles,
it i- not liable to get out of order,
and will continue to perform its
office until the materials are worn
out. It can readily ba adjusted,
even by any inexperienced per
son— will scrape oil ihe scales and
cleanse the tubes just as smooth
aud clean n* they were when
new, without in the least affect imr
their inner surface, as the Elliptic
Spring Scraper has a smooth
square edge, and springs in or out
to lit the tubes. It is particularly
applicable for steamboat boilers
when muddy water is used.

A continuous Iron rod runs
through the center of the top and
bottom hubs. The soft sieel scrap-
ers are fastened with, screws- to
the hub-*, under the caps, which
cover and prolect the screws that
fasten Hie scrapers on the hub.
Tile scrape's are expanded or con-
tracted by screwing or unscrew
iiiK tiie lower hub,— urstloo;ening
the cap. There is a collar oil the
rod to prevent the scrapers* being jammed. An clastic or
flexible brush or HCraper, made of learlier, rubber, or some
pliable material, is attached to the nut for the purpose of
removing from ihe tube the scale and dust loosened by the
aciion of the drapers

These scrapers are made from one to six inches in diam-
eter— tiie prices of those from one toihree inches ranging
from $5 10 S12. They are now extensively used in ihe
Eastern States. Quite'a number have already been sold in
this State.

For sale bv McAfee, Spiers & Co . boiler makers, Howard
street, between Fremont and Beale, San Francisco. and at
the Union Foundry, Sic-nmento. E. M. D., P. U. box 17,
San Francisco, Manufacturers' Agents. !Mvl7lf

BLAKE'S PATENT

This Pimp 13 warranted superior' to any in the market,
for Breweries, Sugar H' uses. Tanneries, Boiler-Feeders,
Stenmbonts, Mining and Fire purposes, etc. It .throws a
full stream of the thickest beer mash without clogging,
und sugar syrup hniling hot without difficulty.

Warranted a positive Pump under all circumstances; It
never stops nor sets out of order, and by reason nf the pa-
tent device In the valve*, is kept clear and always ready
for action. It is SIMPLE, COMPACT aud POWERFUL,
and needs no expert 10 run it.

. aSf-Iione fails to do the work for which It is sold, it may
he returned and the money will be refunded. May be seen
In operation at liisrlon's, or Union Iron Works, or at
W. O. >1. H 1-: K K Y A CO'S,
Agents for Pacific States,

8vI8 3m 1 1 4 California street, Min Francisco.

Avery Pump and Tube Well.

Ooniplete fox- XJse.

The TUBE WELL Is fo.med by driving prepared iron
piping into the ground with a sledge. Although of compar-
atively recent invention, these wells have won a world-
wide reputation, and are proven to be superior to the ordi-
nary dug well, costing sometimes less than one-fourth that
of others, and nt the same time excluding the surface water
and dirt. The tubing is coupled together In lengths of
about six feet, as they are being driven into the earth; the
valves are then dropped in and the Pumpscrewed down on

top.

FORCE AND LIFT PUMPS

Always on hand For ease of Working, durability and
iorce, the Avery Pump has no superior. For circulars,
etc., address Postoffiec box 17.

IHRKi «fe DEWET,
13vlStf 318 Pine street, San Franeisco.

CROSS' COMBINED

Heater & Sediment Collector

This Heater effectually prevents the collection and depo-
sition ot si'dimeni in the boiler from impure water. From
April I, 18o9, the Royalty on this Heater has been
BEDVCED 43 PER CENT.,

Which enables the Vulcan Iron Works, McAfee, Spiers &
Co., of San Francisoo, Keep & Bargion, 01 Stockton, and
Williams '& Co., of Sacramento, the parties having the
right to build them, to furnish these Heaters at greatly re
duecd rates. Bend for Circulars to WAT. B. CROSS,
I6vl8-3m Patentee, Sacramento, Cal.

Chan ffluff the Address.— No charge is made for chang-
ing the address of this paper. To give all necessary inform
atlon, write us plainly as follows: "Change address of the-

Alininq and Scietdific Press from Mr. ... at P. O.,

County, .... State, to Air at ....P. O County

State 186-."

Trades and Manufactures.

Wtt. BAUTLINQ.

HENRY KIM HALL.

BARTLING- & KIMBALL,
BOOKBINDERS,

Paper Rulers and Blank Book Manufacture™.

605 Clay street, (aoutliwesi Lor. Sausome),
I5vl2-3m SAN FHANCISCO.

JOHN DANIEL,

(SUCCESSOR TO O. GORl)

MARBLE WORKS,

No. 421 Pine st. bet. Montgomery and Kearny, San Francisco

MantrlN, Monument*), Tombs, Pliimberi' §lab§
Etc., On hand and Manufactured to order.
>6jr* Goods shipped to all parts of the State. Orders re
spectfulli solicited. 5v8-3m

J. M. STOCKMAN,

Manufacturer of
rVA/TTERlVS JLNT> MODELS,

(Over W. T. Garratt'a Brass Foundry,
S. E. Corner of Mission and Fremont sts.,
6vUtf SAN FRANCISCO

J. F. PAGES,

SEAL ETVOK.A.-VEK,

AND LETTEK CUTTER,

Brass and Steel Stamps and Dies, COS Sacramento street,

San Francbco. Orders by express promptly attended to.

0vl6

DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITUKE.
JOHNSON~& BEST,

Manufacturers of a'l kinds of
Deslcs and Office Furniture,

717 Market mtreet, near Third.

Warerooms up stairs'. A large variety of Deslts always on

hand; all kinds ot Office Furniture and Cabinet

Work made to order.

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Agents "Wanted!

For the "American Teiir Book, and National
Reclater," for ISttO.

Horace Greeley's Autobiography, and other new and pop-
ular works. S.nd for descriptive circulars.

F. DEWING & CO ,
1 ivlS 3m 4\S Montgomery sti eet, San Francisco.

8AIS FKAA'CISCO

Pioneer Screen "W"orlis9

JOHN W. QUICK, Manufacturer,

Removed to A. I'l-itzel's Iron Works, 2n:t Fremont street,

near Hownrd, San Francisco.

Screen Punching in all its branches, at rates reduced
from 25 to 4ii per cent, less than the established rates. I can
furnish Improved Quartz Screens several sizes tlner than
any Screen ever punched, giving universal satisfaction,
and for strength, cheapness and durability are not excelled.
Also, Punched Screens of all sizes mid fineness made from
nil qualities ot material, for Quartz. Cement, Flour and
Rice Mills, etc. Screen Punching made a specialty; there-
fore millmen forwarding their orders to me will receive
none but the best. Orders solicited.

N. B— J. W. QUICK is the only competent and successful
manufacturer of Screens in tin; stale, haMnfi made Screens
for the prlncinal mills in this State and adjoining Terri-
tories for many years. Quartz mill owners using punched
Screens which have universally failed [Ogive satisfaction,
when visiting the city will please call and see me. 5vl7-ly

Pacific Chemical Works.

sur.pntrmc ithee.

SPIRITS OF NITRE,

AQUA lllllll.MA,
ACETIC A CI1>,

CVANIUJE OP POTASSIUM

— .NO —

ACIOS AND CHEMICALS OF ALL KINDS.

FALKENAU & HANKS,

Office and I. nb oratory, Sixteenth street, be-
tween Foliom and UurrUon.

LOUIS FALKENAU, State Assayer.
CS- Particular attention paid to the Analysis of ORES,
MliNEUALS, METALS, etc. 8vl7

'! IMPROVED SPRING-BED BOTTOM"

(Patented July 21st, 1S68:

The undersigned, having purchased the Patentee's inter
est In the States and Territories of the Puerto Coast, is now
prepared to supply Private Houses, Hotels and Steamers
with this comfortable, economical and durable " IM-
PROVED SPRING BED BOTTOM."

Persons going to White Pine will greatly promote their
comfort by taking one of these Patent Bottoms, which le
secured to a folding Bedstoad, the cost of which Is less than
that of the materials at White Pine.

"Wareroom, No. 1002 Market Street.

P. UVDSON, Proprietor.

agrCall and examine. Open until 8 o'clock P. M.
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The Oakland Daily Transcript.

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The Largest Circulation in the County.

Advertisements Sn the Transcript will reach
every part of Alameda County.

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•VBTfST LOW.

Mnffineerinff.

Submarine Engineering and its Modern
Practical Adaptation.

The New York Society of Practical En-
gineering held its regular meeting on Tues-
day evening, March 16tb, the President,
James A. Whitney, in the chair, the sub-
ject for discussion being " Submarine En-
gineering and its Modern Practical Adapta-
tions. "

The regular paper of the evening read on
this subject was by Wm. Robinson, A. M.,
Professor of Sciences, Spring Valley, N. Y.
The paper opened by calling attention to
the importance of the subject as shown in
a variety'of operations in which submarine
skill is requisite, such, for instance, as in
establishing submarine defences in time of
war, and in time of peace in removing ob-
structions from channels and harbors, in
laying the foundations of piers and sea
walls, and in the recovery of rich treasures
and valuable property lost in sunken ves-
sels. Before the introduction of diving
bells, submarine operations were very lim-
ited in extent and were carried on by
means of professional divers who could re-
main under water only while they held
their breath. Aristotle makes some allu-
sion to a "kettle" used by divers, but the
earliest authentic account of the use of the
diving bell in Europe, refers it to 1538. In
this year two Greeks descended under water
carrying si burning light with them, at To-
ledo, in Spain, in the presence of Charles
V and several thousand spectators, and
came up perfectly dry. For a long time
diving bells could be used only at very lim-
ited depths. A column of water thirty-
three feet high is equal to the presence of
one atmosphere, consequently at this depth
the bell was half full of water, and at
greater depths the pressure of water was
still greater, consequently the bell was en-
tirely unsuited to deep water diving. The
diving bell was of comparatively little prac-
tical value until a means was devised for
replenishing it with fresh air, both for the
respiration of the divers, and as a means of
keeping the water out of the bell. The first
noteworthy plan for accomplishing this re-
sult, was devised by Dr. Halley, in 1715.
His method was to sink barrels freighted
with fresh air to the bell. Nevertheless,
practical operations were performed with
the diving bell as early as 1642, and in
1687 an American named Wm. Phipps suc-
ceeded in recovering from a Spanish wreck
sunk on the Bahamas the sum of 81,500,-
000. Of this he received 880,000 for his
own share; he also received the honor of
knighthood from Charles II. In 1776, Mr.
Spalding, of Edinburgh, made an improve-
ment on Dr. Halley's bell. This improve-
ment consisted in placing the control of the
bell, the power to move up and down, and
laterally, in the hands of the divers them-
selve, instead of with the operation above.
The next marked improvement was the in -
traduction of the condensing air pump for
the purpose of forcing air into the bell for
respiratiod. The air pump was used in
1779 by Mr. Smeaton. It is also generally
conceded that he was the first to apply the
diving bell to regular engineering pur-
poses; he used one made of wood in 1779,
in repairing the foundation of bridges over
Tyne at Hexham, in Northumberland. He
used a metal diving bell also in 1788, in
raising large stones from the water, and
building a submarine sea wall in Kamsgate
harbor. Sir John Keussie improved the
diving bell for engineering purposes, and
the distinguished engineer Brunei used a
bell in the construction of the Thames tun-
nel. He also developed the fact that a per-
son can live much longer with a given
supply of condensed air than of air non-
compressed. The writer then noticed the
variousimprovementsoflatertimes. Among
these was noticed the " Nautilus,' patented
by Major Sears. This apparatus is fitted
with chambers to contain condensed air and
water ballast for the purpose of controlling
and regulating the various movements of

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Hip bell by changing its gravity. Prof.
Muillet proposed a plan whirh lias beon
very successfully used in repairing sub-
marine foundations in the waters adjacent
to New York. The apparatus now at work
on the wreck of the frigate Hussar, sunk in
revolutionary times near Hell (V^ite with

r. ,000 sterling, in George III guineas

on board, is claimed to bean improv. ■nn-nt
on all bells preceding it. It is callc 1 the
" Submarine Explorer," and is the inven-
tion of W'm. ttontatorms. It is claimed
I withstands the force of the strong
current running over the wreck no it of
the time Another apparatus inverted by
a civil engineer of this city, was described
in atosinvT. The inventor calls it a " Com-
bjnation Diving Hell and Boat." Near the
In >t to in of the apparatus is a ballast chamhi r
for holding both water and solid ballast.
It has also a *' working compression cham-
ber" and a " safety compression chamber,"
both containing condensed air. The boat
is sunk or raised by admitting wnter into
or expelling it from the water-tight com-
partineut. The solid ballast is thrown over-
board in case of emergency; the water is
expelled by letting in the eumpressed air
of the working compression chamber
upon the water in the ballast chamber.
There is also a tubular projection from the
bottom of the boat designed to be sunk into
the bottom of the river by excavating from
within. When it is designed to excavate
deeper than the length of this air-tube, a
movable pneumatic tube is used, into which
a man enters from the top aud proceeds
with the work of excavation. As he pro-
eeeds the tube is gradually sunk down by
pulleys and ropes from the outside. The
water is forced out by air from a tube
which also supplies air for respiration.

Leveein-g the Interior Towns. — Ma-
ryeville and Stockton have been compelled
to follow the example of Sacramento, in
leveeing themselves thoroughly against the
inroads of the mountain floods. The Ma-
rysville levee was completed a few months
ago, and Stockton, we observe by the Inde-
pendent of the 8th inst., is now employing
Captain C. M. Weber in surveying and
superintending the construction of a levee
along the eastern side of the city. There
are twenty-riv>e teams and a large gang of
men removing earth from Mormon Slough
aud enlarging the channel. For a distance
of seven or eight blocks along East street,
(five blocks east from the railroad line), the
contractors have plows at work, and have
commenced hauling earth to the grade.
The object is to enlarge the canal on the
east side of East street, deepen the channel
of the same, and thereby more effectually
guide the water to Mormon Slough and pre-
vent it from flowing into the city. The
small canal constructed by Captain Weber
along North street, extending from near
East street almost to Bough and Ready, is
being enlarged almost to the capacity of the
channel of the Calaveras River. With that
large canal extending east and west along
the northern boundary line of the eity en-
virons, the means provided to guide water
along East street, and the enlargement of
Mormon channel, together with the high
and solid bulkhead which will be formed
by the grade of the Western Pacific Rail-
road, all who reside on the west side rf the
railroad may, says the Independent, feel cer-
tain of exemption from inundation by over-
flows at any time from the plains.

Hell Gate Blasting.— The 5-ton drill
used for this work is moved by steam from
the boiler of the tug anchored in the rap-
ids. -This steam is prevented from being
condensed in its passage, by being conveyed
in a hose placed within a larger one through
which the exhaust steam escapes. The in-
ner one is therefore constantly surrounded
with a coating or jacket of steam.

ROOT'S PATENT FORCE BLAST ROTARY BLOWER.

Patented Nov. 1««, isoi ; July 21, isr.o ; and Oct. », i860.

CALIFORNIA

BUSINESS UNIVERSITY,

■■ioi Alnntsrotnery Street.

Full particulars regarding o ir Practical Course of SI udles
may lie hurt L>v culling at [lie University, or by arid reusing
lM7-rjvU» E. P. LiKA.L.U.'Siui Franci sco.

Blanks, Blank Mining Books

Constitution and By-Laws

— FOR —

Mining* antl Prospecting

Elegantly printed, with care and dispatch, at the ofHce of tb.3
Mining and Scientific Press.

§ Orders from the interior faithfulv attended to.

Metallurgy.

Awarded t\\G First Preminm nt tlic Farts Exposition.

MO.SIIEIMER'S

PIONEER MINING SCHOOL,

METALLVRaiC WORKS.

Having established the first Practical Mining and Metal-
lurgical School In the United States", I would call the at-
tentlon of gentlemen who may wish to obtain a practical
knowledge of

Chemistry, Assaying and Metallurgy,

That I urn prepared to teach all the above branches in les
lime than in an-' Eu-opcan School.

I also undertake to assay and work any kind of ore, or
mineral fUbstances,

For terms, apply to JOS. mosiieimer,

Practical Chemist and MetallurKist,
Office, 328 Montgomery street; Mciallurgic Works. 2005
Powell street, San Francisco 6vl8-C'n

Steamships

KEQU1KES

ll'ty Per Cent.

LESS POWER

Than any Blower

Now In use.

One of these Blowers may he seen on exhibition at W. T. Garratt's Brass Foundry, corner of
Mission and Fremont streets. Tliey are also in use at the Alinaden Quicksilver Mine ; Gridley's
Foundry, Gold Hill, Nevada; iEtna Iron Works, San Francisco, and mauy other places.

Caution. — Purchasers will find it to their advantage