The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-16

with sad expression on his face to the time
when he camped where the Palace Hotel now
stands and felt the spray from the breakers
splash in his face. To say that he could have
bought two acres facing on Market street for g.
bale of hay is nothing at all, and is now be-
coming a common phrase among the has
beens'"
Somebody/asked Colonel Brazell if he remem-
bered when the stock market used to boom.
"Do remember when the stock market was
booming? Well, rather. Now you are talking
about something that touches on fact. Why,
wasn't the Stock Exchange a seething mass of
millionaires, piling over each other and send
ing the shares up into the several hundreds?
Isn't it fact that the entire coast was clothed
in an opulent atmosphere, and didn't the
people reap the harvest of the wonderful gold
and silver output from the ComStock mines?
There was proposition that did the country
some good, and it would act the same way to-
day if we could get free coinage. Don't recall
without an effort the fact that men who hadn' t
a dollar when they struck the town were made
rich in a week specializing in stocks, and didn't
everybody have money even down to the kids,
who were allowed to play jackstones with gold
nuggets? A man could get $4,000 any time for
exporting claim, and do it in less than a
week. Everybody knows of the time"
"Say Jim,'' chimed in voice, saint you
giving little bit of the early-day variety of
romance yourself?"
J. A. Warrington, late commissioner from
Nevada to the Midwinter Fair was at the Pal
ace yesterday, and gave an interesting account
OF the late rich strike in the Silver Star district
In that State. "The mines referred to are
located in Esmeralda County," said he, ''and
the location of the vein illustrates the pro-
verbal good luck of some men. Some time ago,
when the mills at Soda Springs, on the line of
the Carson and Colorado road, shut down
owing to the low price of silver, seven or eight
OF the boys who had been working there went
out in the hills about eight miles from that
point and took up sixteen claims in a locality
which showed surface indications of gold
There was one piece of ground which had not
been located by the party but which attracted
the attention OF one OF their number, Ed Brown.
pathway ran into it which had been made by
the mules which were used to pack wood to the
mill and Brown found spots where the hoofs of
these animals had uncovered rich quartz. He
quietly made location and by working few
feet found the ledge, upon which he started to
sink. He first took out fourteen tons of ore
which he milled as test and got $1O1 ton.
He then went down on the ledge ninety feet
and ran q tunnel in to connect with the incline
and then sank shaft to depth of 100 feet,
where he found the ledge fifteen feet wide By
drifting through the ledge he succeeded in ex-
tracing 120 tons of ore, which netted 10000
A shaft was sunk thirty feet deeper, or 100 feet
in all, and the developments showed III sight
without stopping, 100000 in ore. The claim
seems to hold out in depth both as to size of
vein and quality of ore, and it is impossible to
estimate its worth until it has been fully de-
veloped."
E. F. Hall, an official OF the Chicago City
Railway Company, who was at the Baldwin
yesterday, gave an interesting description of
the methods adnntad hv
| street railways to keep its lines open during a
severe snowstorm 'In Chicago and other
large Eastern cities we are confronted by con-
ditions which do not prevail in San Fran
CISCO" said he 1'Snowstorms are frequent in
the winter time with US, and the heavy ones
cost us from $4,000 to $4,000 EACH besides the
loss of traffic, which amounts to $4,000 day.
We are notified of the approach OF storm some
six or eight hours before it appears by the local
weather bureau, and this message is sent out
to the chief engineer and his main subordi-
mates, so that every precaution may be taken.
1t is frequently the case that we employ $50
extra men for snow work. Up TO year or so
ago we had been in the habit of using hun
dreds OF tons OF salt every winter, but this plan
has now been abandoned, because we believe
it tends to keep the earth moist at rail points
allowing them to go down, so that the pound
ing is increased, and also that it is injurious to
the iron parts of trucks, wiring and the cleo
trlcal parts OF the car equipment. We main
which corresponds to that of fire department.,
as the horses are kept hitched ready to respond
to call at any moment
d.. Robarts, the mining prospector, of this
city, who recently returned from trip to the
Coolgardie gold fields, has wandered over a
good part OF the world in his time and has