The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-09-12
Such as Was Never Before Wit
messed in California.
THE HISTORICAL EXHIBITION.
Ta-day's Races and Other Attractions
at the Park.

There was a good attendance at the
Pavilion on Saturday, both during the
day and evening, but visitors from the
country will come in greater numbers
this week, and both Pavilion and Park
will be crowded from now until the close
of the fair. The tableaux representing
life among the early day miners were
enjoyed on Saturday evening by thou
sands of persons. That representing
"a Miners BuriaP' was very touching,
and brought back to hundreds of old
pioneers memories of many such sad
events in the argonaut days, when nearly
all the population were miners. Albert
Hart, who is managing this feature of the
fair, is preparing several new tableaux to
be given this week by Native Sons and
Daughters, and there is demand for the
repetition of those given last week with
such fine effect. The evenings set apart
for the tableaux are Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
MUSIC AT THE PAVILION.
A large throng of people collected in the
vicinity of the music-stand, occupied by
the First Artillery Band, where a round
of very choice selections were given.
The trombone and cornet solos by Pro-
lessor Tobin and Miss Pearl Noble are
greatly appreciated by all lovers of music
Conductor Neale and his splendid band
receive warm compliments on every side.
The programme for tonight is as follows:
March-"Sound of" ......,J p Sousa
OVerture-"Crown Diamonds. A uber
Characteristic piece-''Simp licity' ....... Moses
Seiection-'La FaYOrita" DoniZeth
lQVlle-s'(iOlQD
Selection-''Funeral March of a Marion
Trombone soio.'',''-,'',.,'.'',
+. Tobin.
INTERMIssIoN.
Baetans
Cornet Miss Pearl Noble
Selection-'Grand American Fantasia"
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Idylle-"Those Evening Bells''
Mexican dance-"Roses and Thorns'' Roderig
The exhibition given by Chief Cabezone
and his little band of San Bernardino In
dams was very interesting feature on
Saturday evening. The old chieftain ex-
planned, through his interpreter, Pablo,
many of the ancient customs of his race
the use Of the bow and arrow, and the
significance of certain signs conveyed
through the manipulation OF these weap-
ons. He told of the heathenish rites OBJ
served before the Indians were converted
TO Christianity by the good padres, who
NGnb tSLdDlISulHg 1llSSlOllS
and preaching the Christian doctrine:
gave illustrations of the manner in which
the women learned the art of making
cloth with which to clothe themselves
after discarding the more primitive APP
parel made from the skins ofanImaIs. The
old chief told also how his people had al
ways been the friends OF the whites, and
his young men described their dances
and many other OF their native customs
The exhibition was greatly enjoyed by
those who were fortunate enough 10 get
near the platform, which was early taken
possession of by a crowd of a few hundred
completely shutting of the view OF those
on the floor. The management should
see to 1t that few spectators are not al
lowed hereafter to monopolize the plat
form on which the Indians give their ex-
hibition.
THE MINING EXHIBIT.
The rewards that mother earth gives
from her treasure vaults are the price of
tireless labor and boundless ingenuity.
This thought will impress itself on the
mind when one visits the mining eX-
hibit and observes the many devices con-
nected with gold mining. Then you re-
fleet that almost all those shown are used
in extracting the bullion from the ore.
and that an exhibit of shafts, tunnels, in
cllnes, cages, skips, hoists, drills, pumps,
air compressors, etc., used in mining the
quite as extensive, interesting and broad
in its scope as the present exhibit. Great
as this is it represents the industry as an
exhibit of harvesting machinery repre-
sentS farming.
That thing the visitor sees chewing the
hard rock into little pieces with the APP
parent relish that hungry pig deyours
the yellow corn, is the grizzly" The
fine rock drops into the ore bin, from
which 1t passes to an automatic feed that
regularly sends supply to the
battery, where the heavy machinery
Keeps i've great stamps at about one
hundred strokes a minute upon solid
steel dies, where the rock is pounded in
TO what would be dust if it were not
mixed with water. AS it is, it passes out
through the metallic screen purforated
by small holes, which inclose the battery
as fast as 1t is made fine enough. This
pounded rock, mixed with water, is kind
of thin mud, called pulp. The machinery
for separating the gold contained in this
pulp works on the basis that the heaviest
substance will be deposited first, and that
quicksilver forms an amalgam with gold:
so they work by currents, RIFLES, eddies.
ETC., with creviceS for the gold to drop
into, quicksilver for it to run over, and a
Serking or rocking motion to keep throw
ing the debris forward and holding the
gold back.
Commentators are Of many. kinds and
plans. The very latest gives notary
motion TO the current, something like the
old Mexican plan of panning-out, and as
this is about the first working model of
the new system it will be carefully
watched by those engaged in quartz min
ing.
Another concentrator is an endless belt
over which the pulp is carried by vi
brating motion that separates the gold.
AS we examine the old Mexican arastra,
with mule dragging some great rocks
over bed of stones, where the ore is
slowly ground to pulp, it seems a tedious
and Anticipated process; but when we see
one arastra after another that has been
probably used 1or many years upon the
pulp from which some OF the best mining
machinery has extracted all the gold it
could, we are at first amazed and then
prepared for the statement of scientists,
showing how great percentage of gold
escapes the most careful processes. On
certain kinds of pulp even the slow