i^tikU. Bate received ° 5°£7 12003 7 4 4 California State Librae *«. 54 ?^" From an Act prescribing Rn(en /or the Government of the Stnte Library, passed March StJi, 1861. Section It. The Librarian shall cause to be kept a register of all books issued and returned ; and all books taken by the members of the Legislature, or its officers, shall be returned at the close of the session. If any person injure or fail to return any book taken from the Library, he shall forfeit and pay to the Librarian, fur the benefit of the Library, three times the value thereof; and before the Controller shall issue his warrant in favor of any member or officer of the Legislature, or of this State, for his per diem, allowance, or salary, he shall be satisfied that such member or officer has returned all books taken out of the Library by him, and has settled all accounts for injuring such books or otherwise. Sec. 15. Books may be taken from the Library by the members of the Legislature and its officers during the sessioD of the same, and at any time by the Governor and the officers of the Executive Department of this State who are required to keep their offices at the seat of government, the Justices of the Supreme Court, the Attorney-General and the Trustees of the Library. ^^^^m^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^g^^ CA r t;p„,p, Single Copies, 13 Cents. A Journal of Useful Arts, Science, and Mining and Mechanical Progress. I1V DEWJ2Y .t CO., Pal i* 11 1 Solicit oirs. 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 Sei Turiion lite M.-brt-kn; UlMM.Sl M.I I. IN' illlullll Various coi IrlCln Alcohol a-i Fond. l.i. 1 ul Nc , M..11111 Mo 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 r si ^rf i^p 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. o O . 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 Leideadoru atrei ts JUVJ3K IILURIJUGE, Agent. 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. 8 Tlcye Mining and Scientific Press. Lining and Scientific 4|jress. W. B. EWER SeniorEditor. W. B. EWER. A. T. DEWEY. XHEWjEY «fc CO., I>\xl>Ueliers. Office— No. Hi Clay street, between Sansome and Battery. Writers should be cautious about addressing correspon- dence relating to tlic business or inteiestsof a tlrm to an in- dividual member thereof, whose absence at the time might cause-delay. Terms of Subscription : One copy, per annum, in advance S.1 On One copv, six months. In advance 3 CO .OS-For sale by Carriers and Newsdealers..©* Our AgrexAts- Odr Fbienbs can do much in aid of onr paper and the cause of practical knowledge and science, by assisting our Agents in their labors of canvassing, by lending their influ- ence and encouraging favors. We shall send none but ■worthy men. Travellua; Agents. A. B. Butler, California, agent and correspondent. Wm. H. MnRKAY, California. Dr L. G. Yates. California. R. H. Herring. California and Nevada. T. G. Anderson, Nevada. Resident -A.gents. Helena, Montana.— R. F. May. Black Hawk, C. T.— Harper M. Orahood. Central City, C. T.— Messrs. Richards A Crane, of the Citv Book Store, Main street, will act as our agents. Georgetown, c. T.— John A. Lafferty, Postmaster, is our agent in this place. Denver City, C T.— Messrs. Woolworth & Moffat, are onr agents for this place. Chryennk, d. t Mr. Robert Beers Is our authorized agent for tins place. Omaha, N. T.— Messrs. Barkalow & Brothers, aro our agents for this place. A. S. Hopkins, No. 70 J street, Sacramento. Mr. A. C. Knox, is our city soliciting and collecting Agent, and Rll subscriptions, or other favors extended to him, will be duly acknowledged at this office. Jan. 11, 1866. @£ixl Francisco: Saturday Morning, Jan. 2, 1869, 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. Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press. 0 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 PREMIUM FOR BEST COIVCETNTRATOIfc AWARDED BY THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, 1868, ALSO AT THE STATE FAIR FOR 1S6S, To J. HEIXT3Y. Read and Subscribe. With the advantages of past experience, the increased patronage an l friendly support of the intelligent and progressive readers of tho Pa- cific States mid Territories, we are confident in asserting tlmt the new volume of the Mining) and Scientific Press, commencing with 18G'J, shall be in all respects superior to its predeces- sors. Of the past, we will give the written opinion or others: , Every minor in tho community should Pubscribe for lliu Mining and Scientific Press. — Grass Valley Union. Thk Mining and Scientific Preu should have nn exten- sive circulation in every mining community on the Coast.— I'hicrr Herald, Dec. 19. Tat Mining and Scientific Press is one of the best pa- pers of the kind ever published, and to California miuern, especially, it has become an almost indispensable requi- site for the (successful prosecution of their calling. — Ne- vada Gazti.lt, Thk Mining and Scientific Frkss hai entered upon its :-. '. n.ii VoIuiiil'. It has donned a now-stvie tint; or. In iiowapnoer parlance, a new heading, winch glvcslttho iMild, ■■■ i'"ii Iflc look It merits. Other improvements typo Era -lilcal are also noticeable. No call for Improvement In Its matter.— Amador Ledger, July 18th. The Mining and Scientific Press comes to us this week in a new dress throughout, much improving its appearance. The Pbess is one of our most valuublu exchanges, find tills a place in mining and scientific mat- ters 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 Ban 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. Tint Mining and Scientific Press, which commenced Is seventeenth viduine on the 4th, coiiioh to us with a new. ly engraved head, and presatiting otherwise Its usual taste- nil appaarance. We take this occasion to say that the Paicssiaoneof tho best papers of the kind hi the United States, and every miner and mechanic in the State, as well os the bUSlDCSS man, who would keep posted on our indus- trial resource*, should have Its name on its subscription bonks Nnuda GuxeUe. "We Consider the Mining and Scientifio Press tho most valuable mining and mechanical newspaper issued in tho United States. Dewey A: Co., publishers, are also Bo'icitors 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 wo further believe that every miner, mechanic, and sci- entific man should have their valuable paper. — Auburn Stars and Stipes. 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 S 4 0" 3 UP 6 00 fi 1)0 15 00 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 Tr\e Mining and Scientific Press. 13 Trades and Manufactures. W«. BABY LI AG. Ilr.VUT KIMBALL. BARTLING & KIMBALL, BOOHBINDEKS, Paper Balers and Blank Book Manufacturers. !»0.*a Cluy «trf el, <«<n[li«t"t lor. S.llsumc), B IN PRANC1GGO, JOHN DA.IVIT3L,, (fOOOMSOBTO O. GORII MARBLE W OEKS, No. 1^1 Fine 8t. bet. Montgomery a^d Kearny, Sun Francisco UnnteU, Monument', Tomb*, I"luinber«'Slaba Etc., On hand and Manufactured to order. 1&- Goods shipped to All paru of the State. Orders ro HH-cifulli solicited. 5v8-3m Palmer's Patent ARTIFICIAL LEG. Manufactured in Pli ii n<l< I pli i it , Pi nn. JABV1H JEWETT, .»Ui:.\T. S19 Montgomery Street. Ran Francisco. 10v81m J. M. STOCKMAN, Manufacturer of PATTEHNN ATVX> MODELS, (Ov*t \v. t. Gai-ntt's Brass Foundry, S. K. Corner ol 3II**loii and Friinont sts., OvUtl SAN FRANCISCO, J. F. PAGES, S E JL JL, ENGRAVER, AXD LETTER CUTTER, Brm* and Steel Slsmpfl and Dies, .VJ"J Montgomery street, San i i.iin:i....i. orders by express promptly attended to. 6vl6 DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITURE. JOHNSON_& BEST, Manufacturers of a'l kinds of I>eslts and Ofllce Furniture, 7 17 Market ttrect, near Third. Warcrooms up sialrs. A large variety of Desks always on lis ml, all km. I- ..I Office Furniture and Cabinet Work made to order. 18vl7rjr LOOK TO YOUR ROOFS! XVieiUe Concrete Compaiiy, No. ©23 Cluy street. Factory on Kings rect, between Third and Fourth street. New roofs covered and leaky roofs repaired. In thorough and substantial manner, promptly and at very reasonable rales. Proprietors of Pagan's Patent. 18vi7if AMEEICAN (WALTriAM) W.A. T O H E S TUE BEST ! 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. ROBBINS & APPLETON, AGENTS, 183 Broadway, New Yorlc. II. B. GRAY «fc CO., Agents for California., OIC Merchant street, San Francisco. Ivl7-6m favorable to Inventor*).— Persons holding new in- ventions of machinery and important improvements, can have the same Illustrated and explained in the Mining and Scientific Prbss, free ot charge, If in our judgment the discovery is one of real merit, and of sufficient interest to the public to -warrant publication Pacific Chemical Works. S1I.IMI1 RIO ETHER. SPIRITS OF KITBE, A«r.V VMVIOMA, ACETIC ACID, CYANIDE OF POTASSIUM — .ND — At Ills VXD CHEMICALS OF All KINDS. FALKENAU & HANKS. Ofllce, <J15> Montgomery Street. LOUIS PALKEKAO, Stoto Assaycr. CJ)~PartiruIar altolitiou palil lu IhQ Analysis of ORBS, MINERALS. METALS, oto. 8vl7 A Book for Every Miner and Soiontifio Man. JUST i' l iii.isii i:i». KUSTEL'S NEW WORK, COJVCE3VTRA.TI01N Of all kinds uf Ores, and the CHLORUMTIOAT PROCESS, For Goid-Benring Sulphurels. Arsemurets, and Gold and Silver Ores generally. Price, S7.50 A liberal discount to the Trade. For sale by the Booksellers Sent to anj part of the United States, postage paid, on receipt of iho price. Address, DEWEY «fc CO., Fiibllshevs, Ofllce of the Mining and Scientific Press, 414 Clay street, lGvltf SAN FRANCISCO. f^s(^:WRDi^toCMJp0.£ I 'HOB ? "AIR D ;VN cO S TR I ALTP.UBU St) BJ WALNUT ST. PHILAOEL PHI A . P$> 19vl7tf Reoistkk your Lettkrs containing money addressed to us, or wo will not be responsible. Remittances by Exprest must be in packages, prepaid. When practicable, it is boss to remit by draft, or order, on wme San Francisco bank or 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. CALIFORNIA BUSINESS UNIVERSITY 304 AKvtttffOtnory Street. Full particulars regarding 0 ir Practical Course i>f SiniUes ni;iv in.* Ii.id by calling ul tin- University, or bv ami lfvtfnylZp E. 1*. tltiA^D, Suu Francisco. AmericaD, Waltliam, Watches— The Best, The Cheapest, Recommended by Railway Engineers, Con- ductors and Expressmen, and the most exacting 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- vorable to the B au y without bein.,' injurious to the Hoaltb, comprising a description of the sub- stances used In Perfumery, the Formulas of more than one thousand Pfeufirntioiw, snub us Cosmet- ics Perfumed Oils. Tontli Powders, Waters, Ex- tracts, Tinctures, In'usions, Spirits. Vlnalgres, Essential oils. Pastels, Creams, Soaps, airi many new Hygienic Products not hitherto described. Edited trom Notes itnd Documents of Messrs. De- bay, Luncl, etc., with additions by Professor H. 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 bedsteads in great variety: chests of drawers; wardrobes; dressing bureaus; tables for the chamber; work-tables; extension dining tables; card and chess tables; parlor tables, Louis XV. an 1 other styles; otlice tables; chiffon- ier.-*; ladles1 and oilier secretaries of different forma and 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, Illustrated by 23 large and beautifully 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 BSp-Thc above, or any of my publications, sent free of postage, at the publication prices. Mv new and enlarged CATALOG U E OF Pit AC 1*10 A L, AND SCIENTIFIC BOOKS, 66 pages, 8vo, ism trendy, and will be sent free of postage to any one who wll favor me with his address. ZOvlCtf 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 entitle Churn" for all of the territory west of IhO Rocky Mountains, except one half of Oregon, and the counties of 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 MeCONATHT <fe KI.NCAID, PACHECO, CAL. San Francisco, Dec. 3, 1860. 24vl7-lm A NEW PAPER THE SPIRITUAL LIGHT. Published (for the present) Monthly. It is especially designed to promoie the cause of SPIRIT- UALISM, and assist in the discussion and in csliga- tion of all subjects pertinent thereto; which will naturally include Religion, Phil- osophy, Eilues, Morality and Universul Liberty. Terms of Suuscmr-TioN.— One copy 1 year (invariably in advance) $1 ; Three copies to one address l year, $2 50. For convenience of remission. Or. enbacks will (ior llic present) be received at SI 25 to the dollar in gold— we hope soon to be able to receive them at par. Tkhm< of Advbhtising.— One square, one insertion, SI (equal to 10 lines of ordinary brevier type); One square? months, S2; One square 1 year, SO; One column, I year, $25; do. 0 months, $15; do 3 month--, S10. A copy will be sent gratuitously on application to Hie publisher, to all places where one cannot be seen at the bookstores. Address GEO. G. W. MORGAN, Editor ami Proprietor. 172 Harrison street, between Third and Fourth street; or, 1578 Post Ollice, San Francisco. 18vl7t Blanks, Blank Mining Books Constitution and By-Laws — FOR — 9£inin-£-; ami JPr-osspe-btingf Conipauies Elegantly printed, with care and dispatch, at the office of tha Mining and Scientific Press. [Orders from the interior faltiifulv attended to. Eley's Ammunition. The«e Cartrldften are made in three sizes, viz, .577 (or Snider Enfield) bore; .500 (or half-inch) bore; mid .d&l (or small) bore. These Cartridges have been adopted, alter careful comparative trials against ail other descriptions, bv HER M UBSrVS WAR DEPARTMENT, as the standard Rifle Ammunition for the BRITISH ARMY, and are not only used exclusively for the Snider Ritle, but are adapted to all other systems of inilkary BREECH LOADING RIFLES. They are the cheapest Cartridges known, carrying tiieir own ignition, being made wholly of metal, are wa- ter-proof and imperishable in any cli- mate. Boxer Cartridge Cases (empty), of all 3 sizes, packed -with or without bullets, and machine for fastening same in Cartridges. Makers of BOXER CARTRIDGES. ■I5J bore for Revolving Pistols, In use Revolvers of 12 m, 9 si. and 7 m, bore. CENTRAL FIRE and PIN FIRE CARTRIDGES, fot all sizes of Gnus, Rifles and Revolvers. Double Water-Proof and E. B. Caps. Wire Cartridges for killing game at long distances. Felt Waddings to 1m- LEOPOLD KUH, Assayer and MetaUurgical Chemist, (Formerly of the ff, s. B Mini, s. f.) Office, No. Oil Commercial Street, opposite .the Mint, Sun Frim<.-l*co. BULLION MELTED AND ASSAYED, THE CORRECT- m-ss t.f which is gueranteod In every respect. All klnuiot Ore mill Mineral lesie.l. msnveil mi, I analyzed in li. iini.t Miiiisinetnry milliner, Refers hv iiermlsulnn to W.O. Hiilslon. i ashler Hank nl' Calil.-rnln; Messrs Ploche, A- Bayeniiie, Win. M. Lent, John D. Pry, K lulilll A On., A. K SrllD, President faellle 1 nl.in Ex|ire» r... : .li.lni II. Leklelill.M nni! It. O. 8 B. Mint; Hale .1 Noroross 8 Nl. i i). ami the principal mlulns companies on ilie Cotnstock '■"''"■ 2,'ivIMi JOHN TAYLOR k CO. IMPOKTEUS, AND DKALKIIS IN ASSAYERS' MATERIALS, Druggists' & Chemists1 Glassware, Fliotogjraphio ©toolc, Etc. 513 :ui<i ."ill Washington Street, SAN FRANCISCO. WE are receiving direct from MESSRS. LADD A OKET- LINU (London) and BEEKER A SONS (Antwerp, Bel- gium) tlielr superior ASSAY AN» BULLION BALANCES. And from Prance and Oermanv, as well as tho Eastern Stal.-s. ITRNACEK, C It t:i :i I'.l.KS, MUFFLES. HLoW-PH'E CASES, GOLD SCALES, CHEMICAL CI.ASSWARE, and every article required for ASSAY OFFICES, LAKORATO KIES, etc. We have given this branch of our business par tlcular attention, to select such articles as are necessary in the development of the mine nil wealth of this coast. A Full Assortment of DKF.'CISTS* (iLASSWARE and DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES. ACIDS and CHEMICALS, con stantly on hand. San Francisco March 6, 1866. llvlO-tf PROF. HENRY "WURTZ, Formerly Chemical Examiner in tho IT. S. Patent Office, may be emnloyed professionally as a Scikntific Expkrt. Geological Examinations and Reports. Analysis and Assays, etc, cto. Practical ad v lee ami investigations in the Cluni ical Arts and Manufactures. Invention and examination of new chemical methods and products. Address, 2fi Pine street. Rooms 35 and 36, New York. Always In from 12 to ,t,30. tf-jr Writ ten communications preferred. Important to Gold and Silver Min- ers and Companies. PROFESSOR "VrtJItTSC, Who Istlic Inventor and Patentee of the new and wonder ful uses of SODIUM IN WORKING GOLD AND SILVER ORES AND JEWELERS' SWEEPINGS, will furnish at Ihe above address1 nformation In relation thereto, together with experimental packages of SODIUM AMALGAM. All instructions nnd experiments elsewhere obtained arc fipurious and unreliable. WORKING EXPERIMENTS ON AMALGAMATION OF ORES, Ere. Prof. W. has in opera tlon in New York a large and small Hepburn Pan, lor work imr 1,01)0 or 20-lb. charges of material Jor experiment*, purposes. 3vl7 G-. "W. STRONG, ASSAYER AND WORKER OF ORES, No. 10 Stevenson street, near First.San Francisco. Highest price paid for choice lotaofOres, Sulphuiets, ai say Ashes, Sweepings, etc., etc. Students instructed in all brancnesut Metallurgy, on liberal terms, Uvlfiqr. prove the shooting of guns; and every description of Sporting and Military Ammunition. "WholcMule only. EI.EY BROTHERS, 18vl6cowlj* Gray's Inn Road, London, W. C. Novelty and Usefulness Oombined. Wilson's Prepared ©older Dl«i>eii8e» with the Soldering; Iron. y|, MEUSSDORFFER, H^ HAT MANUFACTURER And dealer In Hats and Caps AT WHOIiESAI-E AND RETAIL. 635 and 637 Commercial street San Francisco. 125 J street Sacramento. Corner of D and Second streets Marvsville. 72 Krontstreet Portland, Oregon. Our wholesale Hou«, 028 Commercial street, extending through to 637 Claj' street, San Francisco, contains always a most choice, and the largest, assortment in this State. Every Slcatncr brings the latest Issued novelties from Eu- rope and Now York, which can be found at all the above stores, at moderate prices. 23vlfi-3m OCCIDENTAL Insurance Company, OF SAN FRANCISCO. Ca*h Capital, ...... 8300,000 GOLD COIN. Office S. XV. corner of Montgomery and California Mtreels. Fir© and Marine Tasiinmco. All Losses paid in U. S. Gold Coin. CHR. CHRISTIANSEN, President. B. R. TnaciuLi', Secretary 2t)vl7-3m It will save you both time and labor, one bottle of this Solder will mend all the lins 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 boitle; It is con- 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, from a pint dish tn ft wash boiler It is a sure thing to slick when resin and solder will not. It will stand: heat as well as any solder ever used over fire Agency lor the PaciOc Coast, Room Na 10, No, 423 Wash- ington street, R:iu t'rnncisco. AGENTS WANTED. Address P. O. box 17. fflvlTtf Beforothc rainy season comes get cured of Rheumatism, and Neura'gla. by herhsonly. The receipt was given some years ago by an old Indian in New Orleans, and it has never failed to cure all it says. Many have been cured in this oity and In Boston, and all sny it is the best they have tried. Manufactured by MRS. MART HIGGINS, Oregon street, two doors west of Drum m. Orders sent by mail or express attended to on receipt of $5 per bottle. 22vl7-3m By MAU The Mining and Srimti fir Press Will be sent by mail to any part of the civilized world. Incase of removal subscribers have only to inform us of the post ollice iid.d.r-cwt of the old and new location, and the paper wiHWiea* accordingly; No. 414 CLAY ST. San Francisco. 1869. i® Established in I860. Our appointments at home, in Washington and in Foreign Countries are complete and safe, and our advantages for obtaining PATENTS For Inventors on the Pacific Coast are altogether superior to any other agency in the world. Confidential advice and Circu- lars for Inventors, free. A. T. DEWEY. "W. B. EWER. JANUARY. S M T W T E" S 3 10 17 24 31 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 30 FEBRUARY. 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 2 9 16 23 w 3 10 17 24 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 CALENDAR FOR 1868. MARCH. 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 30 •w 3 10 17 24 31 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 APRIL. 4 11 18 25 TMZ 5 12 19 26 ■w 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 29 16 23 30 s 3 10 17 24 MAY. 2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 24 31 4 11 18 w 5 12 19 2526 i 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 29 JUNE. 6 13 20 27 IVE 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 24 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 JULY. 4 11 18 25 3VE 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 ■w 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 24 31 AUGUST. 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 24 31 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 SEPTEMBER. s h/l rv "W T ¥• S 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 24 4 11 18 25 OCTOBER. s jue rr -w rr -f s 3 10 17 24 31 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 30 NOVEMBER. 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 24 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 DECEMBER. s 5 12 19 26 :mc 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 24 31 4 11 18 25 No. 414 CLAY ST. San Francisco. The Mining and Scientific Peess is published every Satur- day, containing sixteen pages, size of Harpers' Weekly. Subscription, $5 per Annum. Best facilities for doing Book and Joe Peinting in good style and at LOW BATES. Particu- lar attention given to all orders entrusted to us, and satisfac- tion guaranteed in all cases. CALENDAR FOR 1870. IT. S. Stamp Duties. (INCOMPLETE x,ist.] Agreement or Contract, or renewal of same $0 05 M.ink Check for whatever amount 0 n2 Bill of Lading to foreign ports (except British N. Am. 0 10 Bond of Indemnity, each $1,000 or part 0 60 Bond for Executing Duties of any Office 1 00 Certificate of Stock 0 25 Draft at Sight 0 02 Draft not at Sight, each $100 or part 0 05 Deed for any Realty, each SSOOorpart 0 50 Lease or Assignment of same, not over $300 0 50 Lease above $300, each added S200 or part 0 50 Mortgage or. Assignment of same, over $100 to $500. . 0 50 Mortgage, each added $500 or part 0 80 Notes, each $100 or part 0 05 Power of Attorney to sell Stocks, collect dividds, etc. 0 25 Power to sell or rent Ileal Estate 1 00 Power to Collect Rents 0 25 Protest of Note or Draft 0 25 Rcccip t for over $20 0 02 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\ ■■7S\: ..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 3(15 rr- A VALUABLE AND USEFUL JOURNAL-ESTABLISHED IN 1860. -"■"■■-'1 PRINTING OF EVERT VARIETY CORRECTLY AND PROMPTLY DONE. L^x; ABOUT PATENTS, Etc. 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, (including minors), and is signed by tho 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. A caveat is a description of the invention de- signed to be patented, lodged in the Patent Office 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, unless there be some glaring defect. 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 eases 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 — one in which an experi- enced counsel is of great service. ADVANTAGES OF OUR AGENCY. Inventors on the Pacific Coast can sign the pa- pers at once, and save at least two months' time in securing patents. When desirable, they can visit and give us personal explanations — better than written instructions. We assist in bringing valuable inventions to the general notice of the public throughout tho Pacific Coast by illustration or description in the columns of the Mining and Scientific Press. Prom long experience in the business, and an intelligent and thorough understanding of the ob- jects and peculiar characteristics of California inventions, we are able to present cases more intel- ligently to the Examiners at Washington than any other agents. We guarantee inventors against losing their cases by delay, or the loss of their money in re- mitting. Patents for inventors on this const are finally secured cheaper through our agency than any other, however flattering may bo the induce- ments offered at the commencement by others. Extensive practice gives us great facilities, se- curing regularity in the transaction of our busi- ness, which extends to EVERY COUNTRY LN THE WORLD where patent laws exist. We invito consultation in person or by mail. Communications kept inviolately secret, and hon- est and reliable advice- given. Our permanent business interests guarantee, and the thousands on this coast who have consulted us will testify, to our strict compliance with our obligations to inventors. INFORMATION FOR INVENTORS.. Printed in circular form, containing list of Gov- ernment and other fees, sent free. Wo draw up legal assignments for patentees; record assignments in the Patent Officii ; procure copies of United States and foreign patents ; make examinations here and at Washington regarding the patentability of inventions ; take up and pros- ecute rejected cases, depending upon success for our fees ; reissues taken out ; interferences prosecuted — in fact, every legitimate branch of the patent agency business is thoroughly conducted by us here and our branch agency in Washington. DEWEY & CO., 414 Clay street, below Sansomo, San Frnncisco. United States Postal Rates. Letters to any part of the United Stales, 3 cents for each halt ounce, or part thereof. Drop Letters, 2cenis for each half ounce, where there Is no delivery by carriers. Advertised Letters, 1 cent In addition to the regular rates. Valuable Letters may bo registered on application at the office of mailing, and the payment of a ngialimion loe Hot exceeding 20 cents. Transient Newspapers, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Blanks, Proot Sheets, Book Mannacrlpis, and all mailable pi mud matter (except books), 2 cents lor each and every i uuiices. Double these rales are charged for books. Unsealed Circulars (to one address), not exceeding 3 in number, 2cts, and in same proportion iora greater iiuinbe'r. Seeds, Cuttings, Roots, etc., 2 cents for each 4 ounces or less quantiiy. All packages of mail matter not charged with letter post- age must be so arranged that the same can be conveniently exammed by postmasters; if not, letter postage will be charged. All postage matter for delivery within the United Plates must be prepaid by ttamp (except duly certified letters of soldiers and sailors). Weekly newspapers (ono copy on]y)scnt to actual sub- scribers wiiliin the county where printed and published. fhke. Out of the county, but within the United States, :. cents per quarter, payable at office of delivery, in advauce. Postal Mcney Orders, for $20 or less, 1C cents; over $21) to $30, 15 cents; over $30 to $40, 20 cents; over $40 to $60, 25 cents; cacli additional £50, 25 cents. The maximum weight of any [ ackage of printed or mis- cellaneous matter is 4 lbs. avoirdupois. Foreign Postage Rates. Zrlltrfi. Acapulco (Mexico) 10 Algeria, French mail 30 Argentine Republic, by packet fiuN. V.( l&t of each month O'-i oz., ISO 25 do do via France, Fr. mail from Bordeaux (\Joz., 15c) 30 Aspinwall (or Panama) It) Australia, via Panama 22 do by private ship 3 Austria (.See German States below) Belgium— Same as German Slates British N. Am. Provinces, within 3,000 mites 6 do do do over 3.0U0 miles 15 do do do Dom'ns of Canada 6 Central America, P.icitie Slope 10 China, by steamer from Sun Francisco 10 Chili 34 Cuba 10 East Indies, via China ■ 10 France (hi ox., lfic.) 30 German States and free cities, including Aus- tria, Bavaria, Baden, Bremen, Brunswick, Frankfort, Hamburg, Hanover, Luxuiu- burg, Lubec, Mecklcn burg. Oldenburg. Prus- sia, Saxe-Altenburg, Coburg-Gotlia, Meln- liigen, Weimar, Saxony, and Wurtembuig, by North German Union 10 do do by closed mail via England 15 Great Britain (Ireland, Scotland and Wales) 12 Holland... 15 Italv, direct closed mail via Engl-ind 15 Italy, via North German Union direct 14 Japan, via steamer from San Francisco 10 Mexico H) Nicaragua. Pacific Slope of, and Panama 10 N e w Zealand 22 Poland 20 Roman or Papal States, via N. Gorman Union... 14 Russia 20 South American Sta-cs, Atlantic Coast, via Eng. 3* do do do Pacific Coast 34 Sandwich Islands, by steamer 10 Spain, via England (&oz., 22c) M Sweden, via North German Union Hi do closed mail via En^'and 21 Switzerland, direct closed mail via England — 15 West Indies, Br. <fc Danish mail, via St. Thomas. 10 West Indies, North British mail IS •Most of these rates require prepayment. A Journal of Useful Arts, Science, and Mining and Mechanical Progress. iiv DEWfIX «■*■ CO., l-ntoiit Solicitors* San Francisco, Saturday, January 9, 1869. 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. •>.-. -ass- -*■ « 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. 18 Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press. Commmiicatio?is . in this Department we Invite ttie frkk pisr.ussior. »t nil proper subjects— correspondents alone bong respuiis ble for t'ne ideas and theories they advance. [Written for tbe Mining and Scientific Press.] 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. 19 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." 20 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. United States Bonds, 5 3k>, 1SH5, '67, '68 Bid. $ 83 81 82 n 95 par 85 100 liar 90 87)i 87 M 87 tf 87^ 87Ji 24 65 75 60 77 75 70 76 •5 61 25 80 40 70 49 65 11 mi 157 92 K 121 500 13IH1 92 B" 72 51 162 27 52 « 8 36 11 168 3 27W 128 113 66 55^4 no 25lt 3 6Ji 17 2 37 82 8 83 20 1170 247K 210 10 Ax/mI. 83^ 82« Cnlilornia State Bonds, 7s. 1857 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 6a, 1858." 7m, 1866 1SG2 1864 18(55 7 s, 1863. 7s, 1861. 95 ftint, 87W A hit 89 89 89 89 89 75 OAS COMPANIES. San Francisco Gas Co Sacramento Uas Co RAILROADS. San Fraiiciaco and San Jose Railroad Omnibus Railroad 7*U 45 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. MX m 130 66 JiiHticu and Independent Lady Bryan w MISCELLANEOUS MINING STOCKS. 250 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. 22 Tl\e Mining and Scientific Press. 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- Tl^e Mining and Scientific Press. 23 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