Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-01

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 We print in another column Jay Gould's opinion of the Knights of Labor. Jay Gould has no reason to think very we'll of the order.
 Haven't the strikers in this city had 8 suf- 6ciently long vacations They had better go back to work. Those who go first will, in our opinion, show the best judgment. We are told of who left good place in one of the shops of this city be cause he was ordered to. He is now work ing more hours than he did and for less than half the pay he had before he struck. And he is luckier than most of his fellows.
 MT. Jones, a missionary who has recently returned from China, would not be very pop ular in San Francisco. He says: The China men returning from California are even worse than any class in China. It is no un- common thing for the missionaries to be cursed in English by the Chinamen, and even little children follow the example. I hope that no more Chinamen will come to America as they learn all the vices here. An exception is seen, however, in the cases of those boys who have been gathered into Christian Sunday schools and their in nfuence for good is untold
 At Sand Springs, in Churchill county, Nevada, there is a deposit of rock salt four teen feet in depth, free from any particle of foreign substance, which can be quarried at the rate of five tons day to the man. The great Humboldt salt field is about fifteen miles long by six wide. When the summer heats have evaporated the surface water salt to the depth of several inches may be scraped rock salt of unknown depth. Soda, borax and other valuable minerals also exist in large quantities near these localities, and branch railroads will sooner or later bring them into market A considerable business in gathering borax is already established on the line of the Carson and Colorado railroad.
 Edward Atkinson says something worth thinking of as follows: The great disparity in condition is not the disparity between laborers and capitalists; it is rather the dis parity among those who themselves do the work upon which they depend for their daily bread. The tools fall on him who can use them best It is the best workman who does the greatest amount of work in the least number of hours with ths least effort to himself. It is by such workmen that goods of all kinds are produced at the lowest cost. These facts will become the more ap- parent, the more speedily the attempt IS made to combine all workmen upon gen. eral average, under rules imposed by cen tral authority which has no power to en- force them.
 A great scheme for the supply of water to Bombay has just been begun. At point sixty miles distant from the city, under the Bhore Ghauts, there will be created lake eight square miles in area, and from it an acqueduct will be constructed to carry the water to the city. A dam 9,0OO feet ID length, 119 feet in.height, and 100 feet wide at the base, is being built across the Tansa valley to impound the waters of the river, and will require six years for it's completion. It will contain over 10, 900, COG cubic feet ot masonry, which will be built in installments, each years work stretching across the valley, so that the water may accumulate behind it from the gathering ground. The neighbor. hood is entirely desolate, and all the arti- sans have come from a distance Already 5000 people have gathered to the place, and it is expected that the number will rise to 10000. A special water supply has been laid down for them, and every arrangement made for their health and comfort. The stone is found in the neighborhood, but the kunker and chunam come from great dis tance, and. branch line is to be laid from the railroad to deliver them direct to the