Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-21
THE SUPPLY OF GOLD.
The Unbounded Optimism Of Cali
fornia Congressman.
Thinks There May be future Cverpseduc ion
Of the Yellow lnstal.

| tlVc OF the state OF laillOrElsA tOSutSh VII
gross and represents district which has
since the opening Of the year 1918 produc'
ed about 81, $50, 600, GOO in gold He thinks
that no other equal area in the world has
produced so much. The very name OF his
counties-Amador, Calaveras. Ell Dorado,
Mariposa, Placer, Tuolmnne and others
call up stirring rccollections of romance
and suddenly acquired fortunes of the ar
gonauts of 1919 and tho heroes celebrated
| by Bret Hartc. He was born in Amador
county in its golden age, when it was one
| great mining camp, and was brought up,
SO to speak, at the feet Of the old miners
A Eoseate Opinion.
He Is an enthusiast as to the future OF
mining and in the course of lengthy con-
versation said: The common mistake Is
to suppose that when the placer mines
were exhausted the gold supply was ex-
hausted, and it did seem SO, because the
placers were only the loose overflow OF the
real mines, and when they were WORKED
out the gold seekers Of tie early times quit
| mining, and most of them left the state.
In fact, placer mining experience gave
man no advantage in deep mining. Inc
placers were called poor mans mines, and
| SO they were, for any man who could han
die pick and shovel and had money
enough to buy the tools and few weeks
supply of provisions could mino IN them.
| AS matter Of scientific fact however,
the real mines, due to great commissions OF
nature, were deep in the rocks, and it was
only where the tops of the mountains had
been weathered away, lesving the gold Ill
| the loose earth, that there were placers.
| The supply of gold il deep mining IS III
exhaustiblc, and now that necessity c.
| lists Cor getting it the business Will be
pushed and the product increased. New
| inventions will bc made end now processes
brought to bear, and all the old processes
| will be applied more economically.
| Never fear that Americans will not get
anything they really need if it is to be had
| on the earth or in the earth within reach
| ing distance. The demand will insure the
supply, and once American genius and in
| dustry is directed to deep mining for sold
| it win act just as it has done il hundreds
I of other things-that is as we produce
more and more the capacity to produce
will increase as rapidly, and by and by it
| will be as it is now with SO many other
| products-thcrc will be IN enormous sup
| ply, possibly an oveiproduction. Yes, sir,
l expect my district to produce in the flu
| ture as it hes done in the past"
| Democratic View.
| Here Mr. Carlinctti gave his reasons for
| concluding that there is gold enough still
in the deep mines of his district, but tho
| subject is ra:hor too technical for tho
writer. The IS counties of his district
| Sacramento being ono--at one time con-
tanned more miners than all the rest of tho
Pacific slope, and they organized county
| governments ON a gorgeous scale. When
| the placcrs were worked out, Il scant pop
ulation of fruitgrowcrs and rCnchcrs bad
| to bear the burden, and in 1SG5-10 the min
| ing counties were in very bad condition,
| overwhelmed with doGt and the taxes of
| ten as high rs per cent. They are now
| blooming with fruit and other farms and
| prosperous again, and, said Mr.. Caminctti
in conclusions: "Wc California Democrats
| will lose no votes b. the talk of hard
| times. think the trouble just now is that
the people do not realize what hard task
| we had before us when we came here. Tho
| party which elected us expected us to go
| right in and transform the whole policy
| of the government at once. They forgot
| that the protected interests had 30 years
to intrench themselves and have their
agents so thoroughly trained that they can
resist at every point and arc stocked with
| all those figures and arguments which look
| so plausible on their face. They forgot
also that a party which has just come into
| power must take some months to get or
gained, and, worst of all, they forgot the
senate, which is the great bulwark against
every kind of reform. tell you that if
| We get this tariff bill through this year
ard it makes a reduction of even 10 per
cent on the Mckinley bill, it will be a
grand triumph But, in fact, it will mako
much larger reduction, and VIC shall get
it sooner and the people will like it SO
well that they will call for moro of the
| same sort"
| Fierce Political Fight.
Such rosy views of the gold supply and
the immediate future of the dominant par
ty, contrasted with tho ,lespairing talk of
some silveritcs shows that thd y are born
| optimists and born pessimists in congress
as well us among common folks. Mr..
Caminetti also has on his hands pccul-
iarly pulling fight for Office, as one of tho
hardest postmastership contests for many
years is raging over the office at Sacra-
mento. Russ d. Stevens, who was post
master there in the first Cleveland admin
| lstration, wants the place again and wants
it bad. His rivals are Samuel Leake and
| NJ. r. Beard. The extraordinary nature
of the fight is shown by the fact that on o
single day $3.50 were paid to one telegraph
company for dispatches from Sacramento
to members and officials here Mr.. Beard
is the business mems candidate, and Mr..
Leake is alleged to be the politicians can
didate, and all the Democratic congress
men from California arc bombartled in
cessantly by the friends Of the three appli-
cants. Senator White refused to take any
action on the ground that the office is in
the district of Democratic member, so
there has been wide field for the fighters
during the time Mr.. Cleveland has been
on his jaunt down the co,,st.
A tolerably important bill introduced
by Mr.. Baldwin of Minnesota has been fa-
vorably reported by both committees to
which it was referred and will be pushed
with vigor in the house. 1t is entitled an
.ct to increase the navigibility of the st.
Louis and Cloquet rivers, etc. The Alta
monte Water company proposes to invest
50, 600, 900, more or less, and collect all the
waters of the drainage basin of those riv-
ers in an immense reservoir, which will
| supply Duluth with all the water power