The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-10
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

at is an unusually quiet day when Southern
California fails to develop new gold field,
coal mine or oil WE'LL" said C. K. Conger, who
has been spending some time in that section OF
the State and is now at the Russ. ''In San Ber-
nardino the other day ] heard story of mixed
good and bad luck on the part of prospector
which has at least the merit OF singularity.
There has been in the employ of q gentleman
named Woods Frenehman of marked eccen-
tricities who worked portion of the time on
his employers ranch and the remainder he
spent in prospecting alone. While engaged in
the latter work some time ago down in the
desert Salton country he stumbled upon
locality which was seemingly rich with gold
In fact, he picked up pocketful of nuggets in
short time and only desisted from work in
order to make trip to the only source of water
supply, some miles distant, expecting to return
and proceed with his Investigations He made
the first part OF the journey all right, but upon
starting back discovered that the winds had
shifted the sand SO as to obliterate his tracks
in the sand. He returned to his employers
place, told his story and few weeks ago again
started in search of the lost location. Quite
recently Mr.. Wood received several valuable
nuggets from an unknown source and it is pre-
sumed the lone prospector has been successful
in locating his lost find
Arthur Rowan, the real-estate man, and sew
eral other gentlemen were discussing a grow
ing custom in San Francisco in the Palace
yesterday which is thought to be mere cover,
in some instances, for the successful operations
OF thieves. "For some months past" said Mr.
Rowan, 81 presume every business man has
Noticed the rapid increase in peddlers of chew
ing gum and other insignificant articles. These
peddlers are usually young boys, but men are
also found in their ranks. They swarm through
the big Office buildings of the city, and are fire.
quently encountered in places where there
would be no human probability of disposing of
their wares. What directed my attention to
these gentry was the disappearance of several
articles from my Office recently and the knowl-
edge that these peddlers were the only ones
who had had:access thereto at the time. We
ought to have law to prevent this kind of
thing and also to stop other peddlers from
driving half the housekeepers of the city fran
tic by constant jingling of the doorbells.
'iIn a hospital about to be built in Montreal
an experiment viii be tried which will be
watched with interest by all architects and
others enga ged in building matters" said ]. F.
Johnson, a Toledo (0hio) architect at the Occi
dental yesterday. "The floors of this edifiee
are to be made of iron netting, suspended from
wall to wall There viii be no joists or beams.
On this wire netting there will be flooring
OF cement to the depth of six OF eight inches.
There are several objects in view in the intro
ductlon or this experiment. The prevention
OF fire is one and the tendency to suppress
vermin and microbes is another. 1t will also
prove an economical measure, it is thought, be-
cause it will do away with the periodical but
expensive visits by plasterers, painters and
carpenters"
washington is bound to be great sugar
producing State in the near future" said w. F.
Haynes of Spokane at the Grand yesterday.
1--WE already have plans for factory in my
town pretty well under way, and believe the
proposition will go through all right The rea-
son believe there is a bright future before us
In this respect is because of the quality of beets
we can raise. In an analysis of 1000 samples
OF beets recently made there Isl sugar
was obtained, whereas the average is only 12.5