The morning call., 1893-02-22

yield from 1000 to 10000 horsepower, all
of which, distributed TO various places, will
be available to drive machinery and operate
manufactures. In dry season the ROVER
will hardly fall below the lower estimate,
and in very rainy season the power may
rise above 10000. AS long as rains fall and
the river keeps its channel this tremendous
electric energy will be available without
failure. What work can be done with this
natural force can as yet only be surmised.
The State Prison Directors Will have 1000
horsepower at their disposal. and lower
down several electrical companies are to
obtain great power supply. Sacramento
obtains 5000 horsepower by transmission,
and there will still be 5000 available TO the
highest bidders. 1t is not necessary to set
up works on the line of the canals. The
power can be transmitted by wire on either
side to distances of fifty or a hundred miles.
In time other rivers of the Sierra Will be
utilized by the enterprlsDg.
At last there appears to be some excite
ment about the termination of a count. Mr..
Dundon D.) has actually got slightly ahead
of his opponent, Mr.. Heyer, who was de-
clared elected and has taken his seat A
large number of precincts have still to be
Investigated. and IL would be hazardous to
say who has been elected.
The coyote scalp bill, which has passed to
third reading in the Assembly, does not
repeal the present law. but reduces the
amount of bounty from So to So 30. This
will still leave a large margin to those who
do their shooting In Arizona and Mexico
Nobody seems to have thought it worth
while to consult naturalsts on the value of
coyotes. 1t is undenable that whatever
harm they do the farmer, they also do him
much service by keeping rabbits down. An
animal that Kills score OF rabbits a week
is worth preserving.
The steamer New York. over which the
United States flag will proudly float to-day,
is 527 feet long, GO feet beam and 10000
tonnage, with engines of 5000 horse
power. The companion steamer, Paris,
will begin her voyage from Southampton
under the Stars and Stripes, and there will
also be a jubilant ceremony there to COM
memorate the transfer. The size of the
steamers the Cramps of Philadelphia are to
build for the new line will doubtless be
considerably longer than the Paris and
New York, and probably they will attain
greater speed. On one voyage the Paris
made an average of 04S knots per hour.
The Teutonlc of the White Star line, $50
feet long, with 1900 horsepower, comes
next in average speed. The shortest voyage
across the Atlantic between New York and
Queenstown was made in 1892 by the Paris
III y ud}S II ubulS II ocCuHQo. ltI IdSltSL
single days run is $50 knots.
Before the Chicago exhibition opens the
Campana of the CunaId line will be run
ming. Her companion steamer, lucania,
was launched on February 3 These are
without question the largest vessels afioat,
being only sixty feet shorter than the Great
Eastern was. They are go feet long, 65.3
feet beam. 43 feet deep and 1880 gross
tonnage. The double sets Of engines are
10000 horse power-the most form liable
triple expansion engines that have ever
been constructed. The engines OF the Great
Eastern were 5000 horse power. Those of
the Royal Sovereign battIe-ship, which has
n displacement OF II, $50 tons, are only
1900 horse power. Both the new Gu
narders are expected to make the voyage
under five days. They have each sixteen
water-tigbt bulkheads, and will float safely
if any two of them are filed with water.
and in some positions three. 1t is said that
every stateroom has been engaged for the
first vOyage-a merry company of over a
thousand.
Merchants of San Francisco are finding
some relief in transportation rates from the
East TO Portland and other points in the
Northwest By the Union Pacific, the
Northern Pacific and the Great Northern
they can have goods delivered at Portland
and thence shipped 10 San Francisco az
lower rates than by the Southern Pacific.
The saving is so considerable that mer-
chants will undoubtedly give the northern
routes the preference, unless they are ac-
commOdated with lower rates by the South
ern Pacific. A competing steamship line
has two vessels on tile Portland route from
San Francisco, and this fact gives reasona-
bic confidence In moderate rates prevailing.
1t is anticipated that the Southern Pacific
and its Western allies will reduce rates to
meet the tariff in the north. and perhaps
game of see-saw will be inaugurated for the
hanefif of merchants