The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30
LATEST BERKELEY NEWS,
Discovery of Gold Quartz in the
Berkeley Hills Near Lake
TemeSCaI.
President Kellogg Issues a Univer-
sity Calendar for the Open
ing of the Year '95-'96.

Gold has again been discovered in the
Berkeley hills.
Last February several citizens of Clare
mont, near Temescal, found fakes of the
precious metal ON AshbY avenue near the
hills, and the theory was advanced that it
had been washed down from the foothills
went prospecting in the Contra Costa
range on the strength of the discovery in
South Berkeley by tracing the streams
which flow down the avenue in winter to
their sources in the hills, confident that
there must be ledge somewhere in the
canyon.
After several months of prospecting the
searchers were about TO give up the task
when they found rich ledge of gold bear
ing quartz near Lake Temescal, five miles
from Oakland.
DIR. w. D. Huntington, young Oakland
physician, is the proprietor of the newly
discovered mining property, and he has at
present an experienced miner at work on
the ledge.
A short time ago an assay of some of the
rock was made, which showed that the
gold ran $50 to the ton, and miners assured
the doctor that the rock can be taken out
and milled for 81 so per ton. The ledge
can be traced for several miles up the
canyon. A practical miner, Mr.. Van
Harlengen, has tunneled into the hill
thirty-five feet, and finds there is we'll
defined ledge of low-grade ore. Some years
ago there was also little gold excitement
in the vicinity, but DR.. Huntington believes
that the work then done by the prospectors
was very superficial, and that the explora-
ton he is now carrying on is the first
thorough one.
The Contra Costa Water Company has
received an application from those inter
ested in the new discovery for permission
to prospect their ledge where it runs
through the corporation property.
University Calendar.
President Martin Kellogg of the Univer-
sity of California has issued the following
calendar for the opening of the academic
year 1856:
Monday, August 12-Academic year begins.
Monday to Wednesday, August II to 14-Sec-
ond entrance examination at Berkeley for the
Colleges of Letters, Sciences and Law. Filing
OF credentials by the recommended graduates
OF accredited schools. Filing of credentials by
applicants for admission to graduate and spe-
cial status and to advanced standing.
Wednesday and Thursday, August Ia and 15-
Professors and instructors will keep Office
hours for consultation with students concern
ing election of courses for the first hall
year, etc.
Thursday, August Is, from 8 O'Clock A. M. to
o'clock P. M. registration day-Registration
of graduate and upper class students for
courses of the first half year. Registration of
such students after Thursday will not be per-
mitted, except on presentation of official leave
of absence.
Thursday August 10, / O'Clock p Mn
struction in upper-class and graduate courses
begins.
Tuesday, August 20, organization of instruc-
ton for freshmen-The freshmen will assemble
at 10 O'Clock A. NJ. in Stiles Hail. North Hall to
meet the president of the university and the
freshman instructors and advisers. Freshmen
and other qralified intrants will register for
courses of the first half year before o'clock
p NJ. All incoming able-bodied male students
Qncluding special students) will register for
the courses in military science and physical
culture.
New Presbyterian Church.
1t seems probable that the contract for
the new Presbyterian church building
which is to be erected at the cornr of Els
worth street and Allston way will be let
this week. The estimated cost of the
structure, with furnishings, is in the
neighborhood of $1,000.
University Brevities,
An oil portrait of Benjamin Parke
Avery, one of the university's most stanch
friends in its infancy, was received yester-
day from New York by the president The
painting will be given q place in the north