New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-02
TOPICS IN LEADING CITIES.
SAN FRANCISCO.
rpADE REvIvING-MINING sENsArAoNo-
AhIA'N CABLE ROADS.
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.Sc,sco Dec. 1.-Complaints OF dulness
Gan 80 been freouent this fall, but the APP
oroocb of the holidays revives all retail business
p,;ah w;,l probably be brisk until well into INC
VOW year. 1t has been prosperous year ioi 'rV
ct,e Int the cause of the trouble here Is sh' al
business has been greatly overdone. An a''onpV
hos been made to open two stores where tnoio y" 80
,othpsness for more than one, and shopkeepins oV
came n mania. On many uptown S'io0' .
Joolers do not make enough to pay tneir roh''
- ON the main thoroughfares competition Is 80
,,oon that the profits are small Hence wan goes
- from these people that times are hard, when In
Lit, the times are not out of joint. San Francisco
rrohablv has to-day 3OO,O 900 people. while IL mas
snolI stores enough for q population OF ooo'ooo'
when the small army Of redundant storekeepeIs 70
driven into somo productive work, 1t Will DC pe''oi
for the city and State.
1,,.or,, season witnesses reduction in the number
- ching stock brokers and the retirement OF SONIC
of the speculative gentry to more useful proleSSo'
Tbero has beeu no market in COmstock shares ioi
or siv months not even ptlful twenty -ooii'i
q deal" has gladdened "Pauper Alley, haoi ''N|
Mackev is absorbed in Postal Telegraph S''0i'0
Fair has had enough of California ior SONIC '"n0
ond ia taking an interest in politics at Washihg'on
onJ BLOOD rms ms bank here. Meanwhile theie "io
credulous thousands who believe rch ore cAiS'' i"
4be Comstock mines and that tlOou coulu uh'o'C
bonanza tomorrow if he had all the outS'uo S'ooA
:: Lis h,nds So they hold on to their few shares
nav assessments and wait Tor the giea. u"9 w
= 20 rcconp them for all their losses The specuia-
two instinct dies hard in California. 1t is always
licking ont for a rich strike somewhere. III uleu
hlaska last wear and made dreary failure
Within the last few days have come reports OF
Il 1ohN
Nortbern Pacific, and another in the Rocky Noun
- ON the Canada Pacific. In both camps, 1t is
cold 900 men pan out 800 each daily. Inns Is a
hold lie ON its face as no placer ever yielded 81
,rncb to so many men but 1t is started TO lure pros
pectors up north in order to make use OF them IL
the spring when they shall be out OF funds AZ .
device which, in spite of all warning WIZ lo"u
many adventurous men to go north, where laiiuio
certain TO follow, as mining is out OF the question
from November to May.
Thanksgiving was more generally ceIeora'ou 'h.'
ear than ever before. The chief event IN the sport
inc world was single-scull race, to take place az
Vallejo between Hanlan and Stevenson the aoii,
coast champion. Thousands OF sporting men wen
nm 10 the sleepy old town and waited all uay ioi 'l'
race. which failed TO come on on account ., rug
water The race will probably be roWeu heio W.
morrow.
The new cable road TO ocean De'cn UPouo~ w !
7, =; over seven miles long; yet the trip is made
t.it on bonr and the fare is only 10 cents Messrs
ctanford and Croker are the chief owners and have
rnade the road the best equipped cable line in thu
country.
Tho Sharon scandal case came to the surface agall
.his ,veclk in two forms: one fine of 5000 Ill
0icted ON the counsel of Miss Hill for letter III
wrote 70 the Grand Jury which indicted his client
the other was the rotten-eggng OF Nelson I'M
woman's bully. when he delivered harangue OIL
the sand lots.