The San Francisco call., 1896-01-24

appliances of different kinds used in modern
railroad building. The whole thing, he says,
cost $72, 900, and five years ago would have
cost fully 1925, ,0o0
Mr.. Erickson says horses which used to
be worth from $400 to $500 a span can now be
bought readily for from $50 to $125. The
latter sum will buy smashing team of big
1400-pound horses.
The ages ne selects are from four or five to
ten years. Under four the horses are too soft,
work too freely and soon strain themselves and
use themselves up. Beyond ten the horses are
too old.
at takes an enormous amount of feed to
supply our horses" he said. They use of hay
alone from 800 to 500 tons every three or four
months. OF the grain there is also tremend-
Gus amount. When any OF our horses get too
old we kill them at once. 1t don't pay TO keep
them. The cost is too great.
''The bicycle and electricity has immeasur-
ably decreased the demand for horses 1
wouldn't think of paying more than $40 now
for horse that few years ago would have
readily commanded 5000.
ain regard to railroad building think Cali
fornia is more promising future field of
operations than any other State know of. I
wouldn't be surprised if the Southern Pacific
would get in now soon and build lot OF road.
From what l can see, too l rather think
work will begin before long on the Salt Lake
road. Mayor W. II. Carlson of San Diego has
interested himselfa a good deal in road-building
He built six miles some time ago by popular
dollar subscriptions"
MIR. Erickson will leave this evening for Og-
den on short visit
Malcolm d. Calkins of the Amador Record is
q guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. His son,
Thomas Donn Caikins, and the latter's wife are
at the same house registered from Sutter Creek.
The son is editor of the Record. The elder
gentleman, or Colonel Calkins, as he is COM
monty known has been a newspaper and min
Ing man for the major portion of his three score
and ten years.
II came from race of Journalists he re-
marked as he sat before comfortable fire,
and believe that have turned out q race OF
newspaper men,"
"What do you mean by that, Colonel?" was
asked
~ mean simply that am the father of more
live newspaper men than any man living" he
replied with a smile. "Here is my son Thomas,
editor OF the Record, who is pretty lively
specimen; and there is L. S. Calkins, Post
master at Nevada City and editor of the
Nevada Transcript; Willard P. is of the
Truckee Republican, and Charles L. is of the
Siskiyou Reporter, published at Fort Jones.
"You want to know something about our
mining boom do you? Well, it has come to
stay, and don't you forget it. Thomas can tell
you all about it,"
"Yes," responded the young man. "Things
are booming at Sutter Creek. We have some
of the greatest gold mines in the world. Many
mines that have been idle fer years are now
being worked proftably in consequence of
modern appliances for taking out and reducing
ore.
"The mother lode runs directly through
Amador County and on it is located such
mines as the Hayward, Eureka, Central
Eureka, or Summit, South Eureka Oneida,
Kennedy, Clyde, Volunteer, Jackson, Argo-
naut, Hoffman and Alma. These all lie be-
tween Suffer Creek and Jackson. The Oneida
is great mine, owned by the Rothschilds and
Seligmanns. 1t has three-comp partment
shaft. New machinery is being erected and
the output Is expected to be very heavy.
Aside from this property nearly all the mines
are conducted by local capital New claims
are being located every day.
"The Central Eureka mine, formerly known
as the Summit, lies in the southern outskirts
of the town of Sutter Creek, occupying some
600 feet in width by 1900 in length, lying be-
tween the old Eureka or Hayward mine and
the well-known South Eureka. Some twenty
years ago it was operated, but the machinery
was inadequate, and there was trouble among
the managers. Now G. w. Randall of San Fran
cisco and his associates have possession OF it
through forced SALE Last week contract
was let 10 build complete plant, similar to
that now on the Gwin mlne and with sufficient
power TO sink any depth the mine will reach.
Il is expected to sink at least 1900 feet before
any cross-cutting is done.
eyes. sir; 1 tell you the Amador has got the
boom of her life on"
VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS.