The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-16

ket at low 1ates she found that it was not pro-
ductive enough TO warrant the labor so she
plunged in and went at it as near old Tom
Keen's figures as she could get"
''Was she successful"
Successful" exclaimed the gentleman
throwing up his hands. "Why, have known
her to have 100000 in brokers' office at
one time, and besides that was interested in
several other deals. There was hardly big
deal made during the last score of years that
she did not take hand in"
''Was she still in the employ of the White
House?"
mo. She left the dry-goods business about
the first plunge she made, and ever since that
time has been well-known figure around the
alley. She seemed to have nature consti-
tuted to the air of the Stock Exchange, and
whether she won or lost 1t made no material
difference in her plans for the next day. She
had at the brokers' offices, unlimited credit
and never let her spirits droop because of
tumble in quotations"
Chow is she fixed now?'
"Umph. used to play little stocks N.Y.
SELF young man, and sometimes make good
haul, but if you were TO ask me how am fixed
now would not feel that l was alone in my
misery if l made some reference to the string
ency apparent on all hands. 1 suppose Mrs.
all used to have money, you know, but of late
well, things don't always run as smooth as
we might hope for"
DR.. c. H. Dwinell of Montague, who is down
attending the sanitary convention and meeting
of the State Medical Society, says that there
has never been as much activity in mining in
Siskiyou as there is this year since early days.
A Salt Lake company has bought for $4,000
porphyry dyke on the Klamath, at Henley,
and has paid half the purchase price down.
They will employ fifty men this summer. The
Black Jack mine, near Henley, has been sold
to some people from Denver for $25 900, and
the big French company that is operating in
gravel, in Trinity, has made large purchases
down in the Salmon River Of hydraulic ground.
At Hawkinsville, three miles from Yreka,
new mining company is lifting water 800 feet
from the Shasta River, to work gravel which
is very rich.
General superintendent J. A Fillmore of the
Southern Pacific Company returned yesterday
from a tour of inspection on the line as far
south as Los Angeles. He said he never saw
California looking so full of promise for rich
harvest as now and never more beautiful.
Everywhere 1 looked 1 saw evidences of
plenty, whether in the grain fields, the
orchards or hay and pasture lands. AS for
California I noticed that more than ever the
people are all astir ana hustling around with
an air of prosperity and enterprise. In long
trip through that city | saw only one vacant
house, and yet they tell me over 1000 dwellings
were erected there last year. The receipts of
our passenger Office at Los Angeles were greater
this past year even than in the time of the
boom in Southern California"
J. A. Belloli of San Jose has good idea. He
said "Last week l got to thinking what an
enormous money drain the bicycle business
must be on this coast, they are selling so fast.
In fact, the dealers tell me they cannot get
machines fast enough to fill orders. And to
think that we are breaking our heads to try to
think what kind of factories We could start to
keep our idle people busy! l believe that If
q bicycle factory was proposed there would be
plenty to take stock in it. We have lots of
machine-shops idle in the city. 1t would not
cost much to convert them into bicycle fac
tories. If some new patents are required there
ought to be enough Pacific Coast inventors to
get them out"