New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-28

CLIMATE-THE CHINESE AND OR TRAFFIC
WITH ASIA MINING WIEE-aAlNG-THE
OLIVE-THE TEA-PLANC-THE sILK-w0RM-
THE sEA-LIONS.
TPRoM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
SAN FRANCISCO, June ISIS the climate of San
Francisco healthy This is cOnundrum, and give
it up. The mean temperature of December differs
little from that of July. Fir re practically IN.
known, but thin clothing is : worn. At Christ.
mas roses bloom in open air. midsummer, the man
who celebrates about his overcOat is lost.
The Sacramento valley is supply pipe for the hot
basins of the interior. At its mouth is the Golden
Gate gap in the Coast Range and through 1t from
noon until night streams the cool breath of the Pa
cific Sea winds sweeping over the land are always
cutting, but this is twoedged sword piercing even.
to the dividing asunder of the joints and marrow
1t is sure detective which viii find ones weak spot
in two minutes by the watch, still morning is one
in which man, gallOping over the hills. can hold his
hat on with one hand. And when the winds do not
blow, dense fogs clotbe the city as with garment
bit Of personal experience: In 1865 this climate
acting upon sensitiyeness of the lungs and throat,
cut me down upon the instant The bleakest winds
of the Atlantic coast bore without inconvenience,
but here, my invariable experience was first day,
growing weak; second day, compelled to live on
stimuants third day. chest covered with blisters to
allay irritation fourth day. beginning to cough, and
confined to my room till the steamer left for Sacra-
mentO. short stay in the interior would restore
me; and friends would say; "This is the worst sea-
SON. come back in O few weeks and you will find the
winds mder." did return four times between July
and January, but always with the same result, until
| concluded that thirty days among these gentle
zephyrs would leave me in Lone Mountain Cemetery.
Announce any theory, no matter what, and somebody
will furnish the facts mine was confirmed by divers
persons who had similar experience to relate.
This time approached with fear and trembling.
was not conscious of any change in health, and
took only the old precaution of doubling my under
cothing-One which no stranger should neglect,
The fogs seem just as heavy and the winds just as
cutting as before; but to my surprise and delight
they prove only pleasant though very powerful
tonic imparting new vigor and endurance and some
thing of that buoyancy which rarely outlives the
exulting vitality of youth. And find one acquaint-
ance with infrm lungs who left New-York after two
attacks of hemorrhage and another who, on account
of bronchial difficulty, was unable to stay in Chi
cago, both living here IN excellent health.
Even in hot interior towns like Sacramento the
air is exceedingly bracng. The midday sun scalds
and brOils, but in the shade one never finds the at
mOsphere close and sitting; and at night, In the
phTaseOlOgy of the country, she always needs to
sleep under blanket" Notwithstanding the in
tense heats no case Of sun-strOke has ever been
known in California, and mad dogs are unheard of.
The climate of this city-and in less degree that of
the interOr-bTaces up the nerves and eXcites the
brain like champagne 1t is potent stimulant,
quickening all human machinery, mental and phys
ical kinding unwonted activity restlessness, and
keenness of perception and causing, more than any
other influence the highpressure life of California
doubt IL there is any one sluggish of blood that
L. ,,,1J gtoy in San wifi
finding his old self strangely vitaized and intensi-
fed. Observing writers, too, begin TO notice the
change in physque-the universal tendency toruddi-
ness, corpulence, and certain English cast of cOun-
tenance. What have the Yankees, who have lived
here ten or fifteen years. done with their thin faces
and narrow chestsi Do they mean tamely TO yield
up their birth-right, and suffer sea change into
somethingnew and strange Defeating Englishmen,
for exampei Already the pioneer is a modified
man; the Californian of the second generation will
be a new man.
wAsHoE-wHITE PINE-GIANT-PowDER.
Industrial and commercial interests l can only
touch upon with that liability to inexactness which
a flying visit involves. Mining speculatiOns are
enormous. A new stock exchange has Just been or
ganized and in the old board memberships stand at
5000 There are two daily sessions conducted with
the St. Vitus gesticulation and Babel jargon which
soothing pursuit. The recent statement that Cali
fornians don't invest in their own mines is con-
spcuousy erroneous. 1t is difficult to find business
man on this coast who is not more or less T" in
quartz Through the WashOe region everything is
depressed; but railroad 20 miles long, now building
from Virginia City to the mountains,
will give new facilities for working ores
where wood and water are abundant. White Pine
is the excitement of the hour. Wonderful stories Of
the Eberhardt describe it as well-dened mine 200
feet wide. have seen piece otits ore about foot
long worth SlGOO-almost its weight in pure silver
In all mining the world over, there is an enormous
element of uncertainty only to be counterbalanced
by large profits The most trustworthy gold or sill
yer mine in order TO sell for given price, must be
paving from p to 40 per cent annually upon IL Inc
White Pine region is unique that the cloud OF I'M
certainty enyeoping it is unusually Dense In spite
of its unquestionable richness the public still re-
mains in doubt whether it will prove permanent or
whether "the bottom will drop out"
Just now the workmen in Grass Valley and some
other leading quartz regions are on strike against
the use of gant-powder. They claim that its fumes
are unhealthy; but their real objection seems to DO
that it requires o much smaller hole for blasting
than "black powder" and, therefore, employs only
one man with a hand.drill where two were busted
under the old system, one in holding the drill and
the other in striking Mine owners assert that the
new powder is from Is TO 25 per cent more powerful
than the DID, and equally heathyi and, after suffer
ing from serious riots, they have suspended work,
and are waiting for the miners TO yield. The giant
powder will multiply the opening of new mines, and
like all other laborsavng contriyances, in the long
run it will benefit the workman as much as the
capitalist
| THE CHINESE.
! Labor is perhaps more defiant and aggressive IN