Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-06-12

SouuAttee OF one nunQred, many meHlUeIs Oh
which are as long-headed, keensighted and
energetic business men as any that compose
the firm of Stanford & Co., has gone to work
in earnest in conjunction with the committee
recently here from St. Louis, to build another
road across the continent in latitude where
travel is not liable to interruption by snow
blockades. Stanford & Co. have evidently
overreached themselves this time. Their un-
firing and persistent efforts to secure Goat
Island and build up there system of dockage
to the confessed permanent injury Of San
Francisco and the harbor, will undoubtedly
have the effect of building competing road
within FIVE years from the present time. Ten
million dollars will be subscribed for the OBJ
ject by this city. One man alone, Alyinza
Hayward, Wilt is said subscribe five millions.
This Mr.. Hayward has made fortune Of
twenty five millions of dollars within the last
eighteen months in the stock business. Him
self and son-in- law l. 2. Jones, own nearly
the whole of Grown Point" mine on the
Comstock Lode in which it is said there is
now developed ore enough to produce forty
million dollars; while there is no conputing
the amount there may be as yet undeveloped.
This mine and the "Belcher" which adjoins it
and is of equal richness, are said to be the
two most valuable ever discovered in the
world. Within the last year and half they
have produced bullion enough to pay for their
development and leave nett balance of near
ly two million dollars each. The Grown
Point has ~ 1000 shares, and last month d.
vided forty dollars per share among stock
holders, aggregating nearly half a million dol
lars for one months work; while at the same
time "Belcher" with 10 400 shares, divided
thirty dollars per share and carried over six
hundred thousand dollars. Eighteen months
since stock in either one of these valuable
mines could have been bought for five dollars
per share. 1t is now worth one thousand and
thought to be good investment at that figure
even. The mining prospect Of this coast
never looked so prosperous as to-day. tab
and Nevada mines are opening ont marvellous
ly, and now that more just and vigorous
policy is to be enforced toward the subsection
of the blood thirsty Apache's of Arizona,
that country will astonish the world with the
uncovering Of its great riches.
Professor Whitney, State Geologist, has
just returned from Inyo where he has been
for the last month interviewing the inhabitants
of that quivering berg, and taking notes in re-
lation to the recent earthquake there. When
he has figured the matter out to his own salts
faction precaution will be Immediately taken,
doubtless, to prevent the recurrence of anoth-
er such catastrophe. We may then build our
houses without iron straps, and go to bed at
night with that delightful feeling of security
one experiences in the colder climate of New
England, when their debts are all paid,
their stock in trade insured to its full value,
their silver plate locked up in a burglar proof
safe and their doors all barred and double
locked. Earthquakes are the only sout" this
country has. Of course we don't care any
thing about them, we have come to regard
them as pets but if we can only get the mat
ter settled in some way, so that timid people
from the east can come here with feeling of
security and without first insuring their prec-
ious lives in the "Travellers," it will be
great point gained. | don't know just how
Professor Whitney proposes to secure
us, whether in iron clad armor or by hang
ing us by the neck to some tree or post
to keep us from falling into the assures and be-
ing crushed but that he n..U do it some way
| have no doubt. When this POLLEN shall
have been settled satisfactorily, we invite you
one and all to come to California and take
stock in our Golden State.
Eastern papers advise US that the famous
bogus Russian, Count Miskiewiscz, has at last
married. What Il sigh of relief must have
welled up from thousand and one maiden
hearts wien this fact became known at the
east. The Count was here for time last
winter, and while his money lasted stopped at
the Grand Hotel. There came time when
he had no more to pay his bills and then he
had to travel On board the train coming
here he fell in with a jolly butcher boy of this
city. The dashing Count and confding
butcher were impressed with each other, and
speedily struck up close friendship. Before
the train arrived at the terminus on Oakland
wharf, the Count was in want of little coin,
and the obliging butcher boy furnished him
with five hundred dollars. After their arrival
in this city, the Count found more congenal
companions, and the intimacy between him
self and the jolly butcher perccptby waned
AT length the butcher boy thought he would
like to see the color of his coin again, and
sought the Count to obtain it but it was not
convenient for the Count just then to produce
it and he was put off with excuses. Again
and again was the demand made, but with like
result each time. Finally the butcher boy
concluded that 'forbearance had ceased to be
a virtue" and determined to force an issue.
So, meeting the Count one evening in the
Office of the Grand Hotel he preached the
subject Of money again, but as usual the
Count had nothing better than excuses to
offer. No formal notice was given by the