The morning call., 1893-04-20
ORE FOR SHELTERS
1t Will Come by Water to
San Francisco.
RAILROADS WON'T GET 1T.
The North Pacific Coast Will Conn
mence Work Very Shortly on
Their Branch Line.

1t will probably be great surprise to the
generous Mr.. Huntington to learn that the
ores for the new smtlter which is promised
to be erected at San Francisco will nearly
all be transferred to this city by river boats
ana as ballast in ships.
Mr.. Huntington has benignly expressed
his hopes for the consummation of the
smelter scheme through the columns of the
press. telling how deeply interested his
companies are in the welfare of any enter
prise which might benefit the State.
The mining men are greatly concerned In
the building of smelters at San Francisco,
but are equally interested in seeing that
their ores shall reach a market in the
cheapest possible way.
Mr.. Huntington, it seems, has been
little TOO hasty in congratulatng himself.
The Portland Smelling Company, which
proposes to establish a branch here, will
undoubtedly do SO with view to being
closer to the market for Mexican and for
eign ores. Their move Is more than likely
made to offset the scheme of the Tacoma
Smelter Company, which is TO erect ore de-
poSit0r!es all along the coast of North and
South America, the rock to be brought to
San francisco or the north as ballast IN
ships. AS almost all of the richest mineral
Sacramento or San Joaquin rivers the plan
suggested by mining man yesterday Will
undoubtedly be adopted. He said: snip
the ore by railroad If it must be done as FAR
as the rivers. then transport 1t by steamers.
This would be a sad blow indeed to the
magnanimous offer of the railroad to put
the rates on crude ore down so low that the
transporting company would simply cover
expenses.
This startling announcement revlves
or Of In Far hO 81 n
ship potatoes to Arizona. The railroad
covered expenses. but said farmer is still
figuring how to cover his losses.
No; mining men and persons who know
something of the proposed movements OF
the smelter people-whO, by the way, are
ern Pacific Company's competitors In the
north-say that in California the steamer
lines and ships will enjoy exclusively the
benefits to be derived from the enterprise.
and that the railroads of this State Will not
gohble up the lions share of the profits.
1t VIII o doubt be distressing to witness
with what sad and tender regrets Mr..
Huntington will accept the inevitable.
Leroy q. Harvey of the North Pacific
Coast Railroad syndicate announces that
the work of extending the corporations line
from above Sausalito to Bolinas Bay will
shortly be pushed TO completion.
The early part of this month the property
back OF SausalitO known as ThrockmOrton
TdHCu WAS puIGudstu DT IOI
100000. The purchase comprises 10000
acres of land. including stretch of Bolinas
beach leading inland to the slopes of Mount
Tamalpais.
It is proposed to erect big hotel. with
broad balconies, facing the ocean, and hay-
ing large grounds around it.
On the beach will Re erected bathhnuse,
with tanks of hot aud cold salt and fresh
water and rooms for surf-bathers.
During the summer season regular trains
will be run to the watering place, connect
ing with all boats of the company from Sal
Francisco.
Eureka is reviving In earnest the project
of a coast line to this city. A business man
of Humboldt said to-day that very de-
cided steps were about to be taken by Hum
boldt merchants to secure the line. 'Next
summer" he said, would see the scheme
an established enterprise"
On or about May tunnel of the narrow
gauge road TO Santa Cruz, which cavrd in
some time ago, will, in all probability, be
opened for traffic. On Friday last the
workmen broke through the landslide and
began work on the timbering and shaping
of n new mouth, which will be about 10
feet beyond the Ioint of the old one. A
vein of dark-blue clay, which looks like
very fine quality of fire clay, has been
crossed in boring. An opportunity Is Of
fered for those interested to investigate.