Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-08-10

| tlgliant beat the Defender yesterday in
 a run of 6t miles from Eaton Point, on
 the Long Island shore five miles from
 Huntington harbor, to this port. The cup defender gave up tte race not far from thi5 place because her steering gear became deranged.
 A strong southwest by south breeze, ,, varying in strength from IS to p knots, blew throughout the greater part
 Of the race, which was broad reach on the starboGrd tack from start to finish, ard with hardly the shift of sail. When inc Defender dropped out it was estimated that she was fully Iive min . utes ahead of the Vigilant, and the new yachV was looked on as & sure winner,
 barring accidents, but the unexpected , accident occurred, and Defender receiv- ed her first defeat. X better day for racing than yesterday could not be i'm agined. The wind was strong and true } and increased in strength until this port was reached, when 6 stiff 9 knot breeze
 was blowing, md just as the last yacht made New London a severe wind, rain and squali. lasting about an hour, sprang up and set the people at Bridge
 port and New Haven wondering wheth-
 CT the smaller yachts were caught cut in it. Happily such was not the case, and Iarring the damage to the Defend
 er's steering gear, the splitting of enc
 of Der club topssils and a lib, and the loss of boat on board the schoone, MOntauk, there were no accidents to re-
 cord.
 |, The Vigilant had little the best of
 the start. and kept well ahead for some
 time. Finally, however, she got into 8 ] lufling match with the Defender, the latter pressing her closely, and Defender
 walked mp eneGd and to wiDdward. nov ing gradually away. It Is estimated that Defender was about five minutes ahead. When nearing New London she
 suddenly luffed up, lowered her topsaIIs, signalied for a tug, and was lowed to shore in the harbor.
 The general opinion expressed after
 1t was ended was that Defender would
 have undoubtedly won the race had she
 been able to finish. Vigilant thereupon saiied grandly across the line and up the harbor, winning in four hours and forty minutes and thirty-seven seconds. The race across the sound was one of the finest ever witnessed by the oldest , yachtmen hero. The breeze was strong
 enough to test the sail carrying power
 of any sailing yacht ahOat, but they all ciung on to the full sail from scratch to ) finish and made a strong record break
 Ing pace.
 The result of yesterdays races demon strated very little, unless tt IS that on r broad reach over sixty miles iu stiff
 breeze the Defender can beat the Vlgii-
 ant, but not by quite hs wide margin 8s her admirers would like to see. The Constellation of Boston, In the
 schooner class, made remarkable run, , covering the course in hours, 30 min utes, 54 seconds, 0 really remarkable 1 performance. She was the first yacht
 to reach thIs harbor, and her time com pares favorably with the VIgilant's,
 4:40:37. The race today YVES started with tha first ebb tlde, which helped the yachts greatly.
 After the race the Associated Press
 tug Alert went alongside the Vigilant
 and the Defender and asked Captain
 Barr and Captain Half for their views of the race. Ths former could only say
 that the race spoke for itself, and the
 latter simply admitted that the Defend
 CT had split few salls, but the Defend CT people did not look happy.
 A veteran yachtsmsn who saw the race from the schooner Iroquois, which
 also made q remarkably fine run, sad
 the stiffness of the breeze about il a. m.
 when he estimated it was blowing fully
 twenty-two knots and the Defenoer dur ina the worst slowly crept away from the
 Vigilant, both yacts standing up grand ly considering. He added, however,
 that he hoped the Vigilent had been
 greatly improved, otherwise he was of
 the opinion that the cup was in dagger. i Another expert yRchtsman said the
 Defender was undou btedly the best boat
 and that she would beat the Vigilant in
 any weather by good margin, but he
 added, she will be much faster when she
 meets ValkyrIe III.
 New London harbor never looked So gay as It did this evening. To be sure
 :he New York yacht fleets put in here
 every year, but this year the contast be-
 tween the old and new cup defenders
 has proved a drawing card tha. brought
 out such tiSet as even the capacious
 deei. water harbor of New London never saw before.
 Tbe Vigilant, like the Defender, was
 the cent9r of a fleet of row boats, sail
 boats and launches whose occupoants
 looked with all their eyes at these tri-
 umphs of A ulericen snipbuilding skill.
 The United States dispatch boat Dol phin, Secretary Herbert's flagship, was one of the conspicuous objects ir the 1 hcr 0f in
 with even the Emertest of the steam yachts. Tbis evening the Defenders damaged steering gear was taken ashore
 to the Moregsu iron works, where sever | al men were put to work on 1t. 1t is expressed the Defender will be able to | start with the rest of the fleet tomorrow | WASHINGTON, July 31-In discussing the lead mining industry for 1894 the geological survey says that the year was one of exceptionally low prices. Mining declined and 1t was necessary to draw on foreign sources to supply the de- fciercy. The production Of refined lead in the United States bas grown from 1500 short tons in l625 to 1l4, ,000 l in 1891. The product of 1893 was the largest l on record, amounting to 229,C00 short 1 t1na. The lead markets of the United l States are supplied from four sources. | The first IS from domestic mining, d.vid- | ! ed between the soft lead ores O, the Mis-. l sissippi valley and the silver lead ores of of the Rocky mountains. The | second source IS Mexico and British | Columbia. The third is the base bullion sent from Mexico for delivering and re- lining in bond in this country, ana tle 1 fourth is refined foreign lead. The in- teflocking sources have greatly comp Heated the compilation of lead statistics, and made knowledge of the domestic