The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-11
Encouraging Report Made to
the Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION.
CAPTAIN LEES CRITICIZED
He Is Reported as Not in Favor of
the Policy of Home
Patronage.


Importance was transacted at the meeting
| of the board of directors of the Manufac-
turers' and Producers Association of Cali
fornia yesterday afternoon. The first
matter of special moment was the report
of the committee on fuel, submitted by
Louis Blankenhorn, which reads:
| Pursuant to your request we visited the coal
mines at Corral Hollow, the property of the
San Francisco and San Joaquin Coal Company,
a company but lately incorporated for the pur-
poses of mining and marketing coal.
The letters of introduction furnished US by
your secretary, Mr.. Mead, secured for US the
| privilege of making a careful and extensive
examination and We beg to submit the follow
| ing facts and conclusions as the result OF our
! examination:
The coal mines are clearly traceable in and
include territory over six and half miles
| long and one and quarter miles wide, lying
| In Corral Hollow Valley, about ten miles south
| east from Livermore and eighteen miles from
! navigable tidewater.
| The owners of the mines have in contempla-
ton the construction OF their own railroad
| east to the San Joaquin River and tidewater,
about eighteen miles on down grade in the
| direction OF traffic, thus insuring the lowest
possible cost OF operation and transportation
market.
The work during the past five years has CEN
tered chiefly. in the Eureka mine, and we ex-
| plored closely nearly 1000 feet of tunnels
drifts, shafts and slopes-dry, well timbered
| and ventilated-crossing,o or drifting with nu-
merous veins of coal, cleanly and clearly de-
| fined, several of six and seven feet width, and
number of smaller ones, the larger ones easy
to mine, and the smaller ones seemingly
feasible, and, as claimed, with profit
The inspection left no doubt in our minds of
| the immense quantity OF available coal, and
We are not disposed to question the engineers
estimate of 20,000,000 TONS The veins dip
from so deg. to 20 deg. approximately, and are
visible In numerous other tunnels and OPEN
lngs along the course OF the veins for distance
OF over six miles.
AS to the quality and character of the coal
1t is, when freshly mined, or in the veins,
deep jet or glossy black Ignite. We watched
1t as used in the several boilers of the coal
company, finding it to ignite readily and burn
freely, making a very hot fire, leaving no
clinker and but small proportion of ash. 1t
seems to have the quality of high-grade Ignite
like the New Mexico Goals and others now in
use in California.
The comparative value of the coal in sta
| tionary boilers is now being determined by
practical tests in this City and power plants
here and in Oakland. More important is the
result of a months test by the Southern Pacific
Railroad in its engines on the Oregon express
between Sacramento and Red Bluff, the report
of which concludes as follows:
"The result of the test shows conclusively
that the Corral Hollow coal. is entirely salts
factory for locomotive USE"
So much for possible quantity and quality.
The managers offer to contract to deliver to
the San Francisco and San Joaquin Railroad,
at the mines, the entire supply required by
them, for five years, at 81 per ton.
They also say they will be able to mine with
proposed facilities, 1000 tons per day, and to
market the same in San Francisco for So per
ton, and maintain selling price not TO ex-
coed So and So so per ton, based on handling
coal over their own railroad to tidewater and
thence, in steel barges, to San Francisco or
accessible river points. The resulting 100000
tons year would represent over one-third of
the average importation and commercial
supply, and, if maintained, prove a potent
factor both in stimulating industries and keep
ing large amount of money at home.
San Francisco can hardly hope for CHEAP coal
from any source but these mines, on account
of the distance between San Francisco and
other coal fields. From the personal examine
ton we have made we are OF the opinion that
there is enough coal there to supply this city's
entire consumption for many years.
Your committee hope to offer something in
the near future to your board on the outlook
and possibilities of crude petroleum as fuel for
manufacturing purposes.
In an informal discussion the PROPOSE
ton was considered of having about 100
tons of the coal from these mines sent to
several of the members of the association
who are large consumers, and this will
probably be done. Should the quality of
the coal meet expectations it will be given
preference over the imported article.
In the matter of the Securities Exchange,
the committee to whom it was submitted
reported that it is such Importance that
they preferred not to make any recon-
mendation in the matter, and asked that
special meeting of the board of directors
be called for the purpose of having full
discussion on the subject at an early day.
The report was ordered filed.
1t was then decided to hold special
meeting of the board of directors on Tues
day, May IA, at s P. M, to consider the
proposition of organizing securities ex-
change.
A resolution was passed extending
thanks to the Stockton Commercial Asso-
n,o &c. H. I'll IL
resentatives of the Manufacturers and
Producers Association at the time of their
visit.
In communication presented by George
w. Snyder it was suggested as a remedy
Tor the present unsatisfactory condition of
the cigar-manufacturing industry that to-
bacco be generally introduced throughout
the State as one of the staple products.
''This," the writer states, ''by giving us a
local growers market from which to draw
our stock, would enable our manufacture
ers to sell their goods in competition with
any sold throughout the entire United
States" Attention is then called to the
fact that J. d. Culp of San Felipe has had
thlrty-tive years experience in growing
tobacco i'll this State, and is now DESTROYS
of placing his experience and service at
the disposal of California producers.
Mr.. Culp, it is stated, proposes to publish
book which shall embody all the knowl-
edge acquired by him during his thirty-five
years experience in tobacco culture, but
he requires that at least $4,000 copies of the
book shall be taken up by the various
counties of the State at uniform price of
81 copy. The communication was re-
ferred to the committee on new industries.
Oscar Lewis then described the visit of
the delegation of the Manufacturers Asso-
citation to Stockton and argued that in ad-
d1t1on to enllstlng the cooperation and
support of commercial and industrial
bodies outside of the City, the education of
the people was necessary. To accomplish
this he suggested that public meetings be
arranged IN all the larger cities under the
auspices of the local organizations and
that lectures be delivered showing the i'm
portance OF home patronage for home in
dustries.
Attention was then called to the article
pose of the Police Department to have the
new style uniforms of the police officers