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and has specially imported medicines and APP
pliances necessary to cure nervous debility sad
gloomy feelings, physical defects, Impaired
memory, heart trouble, aversion to society,
lost power, &c.
Permanent Office-No. ZIG Ohio Street, Soda
Tia, Mo, where every medical and surgical APP
pliance can he found and where all correspond
ence should be directed.
En- Consultation Free in Every Case.
And charges within reach of all.
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even beans and potatoes. But, given in.
telilgence and industry and reasonable
length OF time, he can learn how to raise
these and other products, for some of
which there is always demand, widening
at once his knowledge and increasing his
interest in agriculture as a pursuit and
realizing profit from his labor and man
agement.
A few years will do a great deal for
farmers who have turned their attention
to diversity of crops. This will be es-
pecially true of those who are so situated
as to be able to study at the same time the
problem of irrigation by means of prac-
tlcal illustration. Later on the greater
problems of State and National irrigation
will satisfactorily solve the question of
crop production over large areas where
now the most careful husbandman plows
and sows with misgivings as to the harvest.
The avidity with which thirsty plant life
drinks and the bountiful return that it
yields in fruits. vegetables and corn
through opportunity to drink are matters
OF common knowledge, to which more or
less crude methods of irrigation have long
been applied. Growth in this direction is
inevitable. The solution of question so
easily demonstrated and so valuable in its
application to great pursuit in sections
constantly menaced by drought may be
delayed by various causes, but it cannot
be dismissed from public attention.-Port-
land Oregonian.
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exuberant growth would all represent
something of value. An Illinois hemp
grower recently stated that he was making
money where he got one crop OF stalks
averaging six feet; it is claimed that two
crops of twelve feet each can be produced
here. If the fiber could not be converted
into cloth here we ought to be able to ship
the raw fiber to the point of manufacture.
It appears to have been fully demonstrated
that at least ramie and hemp produce
large and certain crops here. What stands
in the way of their extensive cultivation?
Some interesting observations have re-
Gently been made by the chief of the Di-
vision of Ornithology of the Agricultural
Department concerning the habits of birds
that are supposed to be enemies of the
farmer. 1t is said to have been proved
conclusively that 95 per cent of the food of
hawks owls, crows and blackbirds consists
of animals and insects that are far more
dangerous to agriculture than are the birds
themselves. The charge against crows is
that they eat corn and destroy eggs, poul-
try and wild birds. Examination shows
that they eat noxious insects and destruc-
tive animals, and that, although 25 per
cent of their food is corn, it is mostly waste
corn picked up in the fall and winter.
With regard to eggs, it was found that the
shells were eaten to very limited extent
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peach tree last twenty to thirty years. If
they will come to Oregon, Webfoot Planter
says, we can show them trees bearing well
whose seed was planted fifty years ago.
The peach is long-lived if well treated and
will bear well for all its age if it is cut back
occasionally to make new growth, as was
there recommended. The cutting back
should be continued and not occasionally.
Will Morrison reports the largest yield
of wheat that we have heard of this season,
says the Garfield (Wash.) Enterprise.
From thirty acres of summer fallow he
thrashed $50 sacks, or an average of %
sacks per acre. He has not weighed it yet,
but it will without doubt make by weight
SO bushels to the acre. Charley Whistler
had yield of over 60 bushels of oats to the
acre from tract of 130 acres.
A mammoth sunflower, measuring four
teen inches in diameter and forty-five
inches in circumference, was brought to
the Office this week, says the Santa Clara
Index. This monster sunfower was
grown in Santa Clara, without any cuIti-
walton or care, and has been donated to the
Board of Trade at San Jose, where it is
now on exhibition. 1t is estimated that
fully three pounds of seed are contained in
this one flower. Sunfiower seed is one of
the very best foods known for chickens,
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wholly lacking. and the pioneers have
houses of tin and sheet iron; wood for fuel
often ranges from SIS to $50 per cord; labor
is ignorant, unskilled and uncertain-and
so on the catalogue of disadvantages might
be enume rated, the general result being a
final cost four or five times greater for
mining and milling than in California.
The Pacific Coast, outside of California,
offers better inducements for mining than
Africa or Australia ever can; and the
miners of the Pacific Coast are beginning
to appreciate the fact that California
stands par excellence above them all.
"Find me big mine below the snow belt,
was the message recently received from a
Colorado mining millionaire. And that is
the sentiment which is bringing back to
us the pioneers who spread out from Cali
fornia over the length and breadth of the
land, penetrating the deserts and exploring
the mountains almost from the Isthmus to
the Pole.
Those who think the crown of gold has
been permanently wrested from California
have no conception of the magnitude and
possibilities of the region of the mother
lode. 1t is the largest and richest gold
field in the world to-day. The Rand it.
self does not cover one-tenth the area of
It's gravel banks alone. It is the greatest
in extent. the most varied in character,
and all the circumstances of location, eli
mate, wood, water, power, facilities for
communication and means of transporta-
ton favor it above all others. Considering
its extent it is not only undeveloped but
unprospected. It's climate is one of per-
petual spring and summer, the health
lest in California, the sanitarium of
the world. 1t lies at the foot of high
mountains covered with timber, always
accessible and available at reasonable cost.
1t is accessible by railroad at many points
and by wagon roads everywhere. Living
is cheap and an abundance of skilled labor
always at hand. The foundries and ma
chine shops of San Francisco can supply,
on short notice, the best mining machinery
in the world. All varieties of rebellious
ore can be treated by the most improved
methods at the lowest cost. The region is
crossed by numerous streams and rivers
flowing from the mountains to the plains,
making water-power available everywhere,
either by direct application or by trans
mission through electric wires.
Electricity is going to play an important
part in future mining along the mother
lode. Big plants will be erected and power
conveyed to mines for often one-half or
one-third the cost of bitches, fumes or
water-pipes, thus reducing still further the
cost of development and production. The
Importance of this new element in mining
is we'll stated by Irving Hale in the Engi-
neering Magazine, writing of its success
full introduction in Colorado:
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gin of profit is close. The supply is also
uncertain. Mine-owners are reluctant to
invest $4,000 or $4,000 in a mill plant
depending on single ditch, when they
know that the necessities of the water
company may bring them to standstill
at any moment. 1t is this uncertainty
and this fear that has retarded the devel-
opment of the mines at Angels more than
any other cause. What is needed, what is
projected now and what must inevitably
soon be brought about, is the creation of
great electric plant on the Stanislaus
that shall supply power to all on reason
able terms.
Angels Camp is single district that may
be made to illustrate the future possibilities
of the mother lode. Work has been going
on there for forty years, but it is just Begin
ming to be prospected. Within year, from
present indications, single mine there
may be producing million month, and
the district more than the whole of Cali
fornia at the present time. G. C. Lane of
the Utica says they have just discovered
that they have mine. One of the owners
said to me, ~ would give my interest in
the ore reserves, representing at least seven
years continuous run, for what is out of
sight below" There are several miles of
equal possibilities on the same ledge.
There are several parallel lodges Just as
big, which show as well as the Utica
showed on top. There are innumerable
spurs and minor lodges between Is it be-
yond the bounds of credibility to say that
this district alone may yield as much per
annum as all California did in palmy days,
when there shall be hundred prospect
holes at Angels as deep as the Utica now
is? Look at the map of the mother lode
and see what small place Angels is: and
this hundred miles is but ''streak" of the
mother lode.
The most natural and permanent wealth
of California is in her mines. The long
hoped-for revival has begun. The signs of
the times indicate it and observation and
official returns confirm it. The foundries
are hard at work turning out every appa-
ratus for mining and milling ores; invent
ors are busy as never before perfecting old
methods and devising new ones in me-
chanics and metallurgy; the returns of
bullion thus far reported, by Wells, Fargo
& Co. and at the Mint are 25 per cent
greater than last year. Let the good work
go on, and let it be encouraged by earnest.
practical support. Let the Miners and
the Manufacturers Association. the Half
million Club, the metropolitan press and
all other patriotic and progressive agencies
work tremendously in presenting clearly
to capital at home and abroad the safe and
profitable opportunities for investment in
California mines. In no other way can
San Francisco's half million be so Quickly
obtained or general and lasting prosperity
throughout the State be as Certainly as
sureo. A. ]. BROOKS.
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"1t is conservative statement that there
are in Colorado alone hundreds of mines
using steam power produced by very ex
pensive fuel that are sufficiently near te
good water-power to be operated by cleo
tricity at saving that would pay from 4t
to 100 per cent per annum on the invest
ment, and it is not wild prophecy to say
that within the next three years scores o.
such plants, developing thousands O.
horsepower, will be installed. The effect
of such enterprises will be powerfully an6
widely felt. By decreasing the cost of min
ing and treating ores mines which now
pay will pay better, while many proper
ties which on account of low grade ore OF
sometimes from lack of railroads or fuel
supply cannot now be worked without q
loss can be made by means of electric
power to yield satisfactory profits. The
effect will be to increase the metal output,
give employment to more men, build UP
the mining towns, exert beneficial reflex
influence on the commercial cities, and in
general benefit the entire mining districts.
Next to the silver question the introduce
ton of electric poweris at present the most
important factor affecting the develop
ment of the mining industry"
One of the best places in the State. to
apply electric power to mining is at Angels
Camp. ALI the conditions for its succe S.
full introduction there are perfect. The
Stanislaus, with its snow-fed and never
failing torrent is rushing along its mar
row channel but five or six miles away.
The intervening country offers no OBJ
CT oil m 1oxyipr of o1ocfric rohIac
Unlike the higher attitudes of Colorado,
there are no rocky and precipitous canyons
nor six months of ice and snow. A hum
dred min es are lying idle that might start
into life with cheap and available power.
There are millions of tons of low-grade ore
Gin sight that would pay to mill on big
scale with cheap power. Hosting, pump
ing, milling, drilling and ighting-almost
every operation of mining-could be car
ried on at minimum cost and with in
creased safety and efficiency with electric
power. The Utica disaster would not
have occurred if the miners had been
using electric lights. Nearly all the great
disasters in mines would be avoided by
the exclusive use of electricity at the
lower levels. By it's substitution the
danger from fire and gas would be elm
mated.
At Angels water for power has been
brought fifty miles by ditch and flume and
iron pipe, at enormous cost for construc-
ton and maintenance and repair. The
ditch is owned by the Utica Com pany.
After all their requirements are satisfied
they are willing to sell the surplus. The
price asked may be fair considering the
cost and expense of the system, but it is
prohibitive in many csses where the mar
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in African mines dollar in California
would bring as large returns. The gold
fields of South Africa, extend over wide
area and the aggregate returns are much
greater than those of California at the
present time; but with single exception
gold mining in South Africa has been
more precarious, unremunerative and dis
appointing than in California and the fu-
ture holds out no such promise as does the
Golden State.
The auriferous alluvial deposits of South
Africa have been comparatively insignifi-
cant. Big nuggets and rich finds have been
frequent, but the diggings have'been shall
low and of limited extent. The veins in
place, as a rule, have been small, very rich
at times, but uncertain and irregular and
very expensive to work. From the first
discovery of gold at Potchefstrom, in 1854
in the Orange Free State, up to the great
"rushes'' to Barberton and Witwatersrand
in the Transvaal the African prospector
and miner had to contend with hardships
and dangers only equaled by the early
California pioneers, and his portion was
usually bitter disappointment instead OF
riches at the end. The history of California
affords no parallel to the follies and disas-
tiers of the Barberton rush"
Africa in the past has never approached
the alluvial wealth of California; at the
present she has nothing to compare with
the fabulous riches of the ancient river
channels her claims to equality in future
deep mining have their only foundation in
the bed of auriferous conglomerate at Wit
watersrand. A deposit identical in charac-
ter and of unknown extent has been found
in Siskiyou County.
The Rand" conglomerate has been
traced about thirty miles. 1t is not con
tinuous or uniform In richness. 1t has a
dip of about forty-five degrees so that it is
practically deep mining proposition.
The ore averages about So ton. o.
course. it is free milling. The returns on
all the millions Invested there are less than
t,oO per cent.
Put the same millions into deep mining
along the mother lode of California and
what would be the returns? What are
the returns on the other millions pouring
into the remote regions of South Africa
and Australia, where there is often neither
wood, water or roads?
lt is uot utSiSucu W DSllttlC VI oCliuC
the gold fields of South Africa or Australia
both are of great richness and immense ex-
tent. But they cannot stand comparison
with California rs fields for legitimate and
permanent investment for single mo-
ment. The expense of transportation is
actually prohibitive in some districts as
regards machinery, and enormous for all
the necessaries of life; water is about as
precious as the gold itself, having to be
distilled for drinking purposes; timber is
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and it should be generally cultivated by
chicken-raiseIs. The plant will grow on
any soil, and requires a minimum of care
and attention. The seed is said to produce
a sweet and tender meat in chickens.
The hop crop of this valley is little less
than one-third short, says the Healdsburg
Tribune. However, the quality seems to
be exceptionally good. In many planta-
tons the hops are larger than they have
been in the past several years. Notwith-
standing the superiority there is no de-
mand, and there will likely be some
yards where the crops will not be har-
vested, but left to waste on the vines.
Nevertheless there are more growers now
who intend picking than there were a
week ago, for they take the fact into con-
sideration that they have already ex-
pended half of the total cost of production,
baling, ETC., and that there would not be
any further adverse results if they were to
make speculation on an outlay now of
cents more per pound when the least
figure offered is 4 cents.
In creamery enterprise well managed
the egg business is equally important with
the butter and together they form the
most practical basis for colony develop
ment, writes Frank S. Chaplin in the
Tulare Register. The owner OF forty.
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Of INTEREST TO FARMERS,

The Seattle Times informs US that the
Ilwach (Wash.) cranberry marsh will
yield 1000 barrels of berries this year, and
they will be worth, 1t is said, S12 barrel.
Surely that will pay.
The early beets are turning out from
twelve to fifteen tons per acre, says the
jacksonville Paiaronian. Beets are not
very large, but are of good milling size.
They show the highest saccharine percent
age for early beets that the factory has OBJ
tanned for two years
On piece of ground about the size of
an ordinary room, says the Yuma (Ariz.)
Bee George w. Crane this year raised
enough tomatoes to supply the local de-
mand, and during one month his income
from the patch was SOL, after deducting
commissions. Yet there are people who
say that nothing can be made at ranching
in this country.
The California State Horticultural So
ciety has discussed ways to make the
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Two Problems In Agriculture.

DR.. A. G. True, director of the expert
ment stations in the West and Northwest,
working under the Agricultural Depart
ment, finds, as a result of a recent tour of
inspection, that farmers generally through
out these sections have begun to appreci-
ate the necessity of more diversified agri-
culture. The rule in the past has been to
depend almost solely upon wheat and
corn, and the low prices of these staples,
together with drought and other causes,
have not only made profit to the producer
impossible, but have in many instances
left HIM in debt on the cost of production.
There is but one way out of this condition
and that is through diversity in products
that will give the farmer something to sell
for which there is demand.
1t is not reasonable to expect a sudden
revolution in this matter. The domain of
agriculture is essentially a domain of
growth. The farmer who through long
experience knows how to raise wheat and
corn successfully does not necessarily
know how to grow fruit, fax and hops, or
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past. The home market-always the best
market-would consume all the surplus
products of the State. Every industry
would feel the invigorating impulse and
general prosperity once more return.
ITO the solid ground of nature trusts the
mind that builds for aye" Nature has
made California the great storehouse for
gold, the most precious commodity known.
The pioneers had but to gather in the har-
vest that natures forces had been reaping
from thousands of hills for thousands of
years. But the storehouse is still intact
Its vaults have not been opened yet. Only
the overflow has been gathered up. The
treasury reserve" has been encroached
upon. The Unreasonable reserve is held
in million chambers, reaching from the
surface to the molten depths below.
The gold of the future must come largely
from known sources and from deep work
ings = from quartz veins-its principal
primary source. The attention of the
world to-day is being directed to the au-
riferous quartz veins more largely than
ever before in ancient or modern times.
More companies are being formed, more
capital is being invested, more money
spent in exploration and exploitation. All
Europe is investing in mining shares
Over 300 companies, capitalized at from
$4,000 to So, OOO 900 each, are daily quoted
in the London market alone. Forty new
companies were organized i'll June, with a
combined capital of more than $25, 0O0, 0G0;
larger number with greater capital the
preceding month. The same thing is 60
ing on at Paris, at Frankfort, and in {. less
degree in other Continental cities. But q
ripple of this great wave of speculation
has reached California. Why is this? Can
we offer no inducements that shall attract
a moiety of this plethora of gold seeking
for more gold? Cannot California COM
pete with Buluwayo or Coolgardie?
Europeans are preiudiced against Cali
fornia mines. The English especially in
many instances have been badly bit and
make the loudest ''roar." They blame the
mines instead of the rascals who inveigled
them. But is the folly of a few investors
and the chicanery of few sharpers to re-
main bar to legitimate enterprise for all
time? Even prejudice is hardly so stupid
as that.
English capital is flowing into the wilds
of South Africa and the rainless wastes of
Australia by millions every month. Most
of it will never return in dividends. 1t
has been stated recently by an eminent
English writer that "coincident with the
decline of mining in California and on the
Pacific Coast is arising greater California
in South Africa that promises to eclipse
the old in production and extent" Such
an opinion has absolutely no foundation
to rest upon. 1t is safe to say that for
every pound sterling now being invested