The San Francisco call., 1896-06-04
MINING The MOTHER LODE.
General Turnbull Explains the
Benefits of Pursuing the
Precious Metal.
Stereoptican Views of Lodes, Ledges
and Seams in the Sierra
Belt

Union-square Hall was filed last even
ing with ladies and gentlemen to hear
lecture on gold mining. The Gold Mining
Exchange, in the furtherance of its plan to
assist in the development of gold mining
in California, believed that it could be
aided by a series of lectures given by ex-
perts and scientific men upon the great
mineralized belt known all over the world
as the mother lode of California.
To accomplish this purpose General
Walter Turnbull has made arrangements
to give series of lectures upon the sub
iect the first of which was given last
night.
In his opening remarks General Turn
bull said:
Just who old Father Lode was is not
apparent. However We have great faith
in the solid character of the old lady OF
the mountains, who probably came to
California under the plains, and was well
settled before Marshall and Sutter, or even
Bret Harte and Joaquin Miller, were ever
heard of, and whose shortcomings, II any,
can eas1iv be condoned if she produces
gold enough.
There is an old widow in the East they
brag about known as Hettie Green, whose
supposed yearly income is about five mil
lions.
our rich California widow, old Mother
Lode, and the little lodes showed an in
come last year of fifteen millions, so that
California has still the richest prize in the
world, with titled suitors seeking her
wealth from all nations, as her invest
ments in realty show that fifty mlIllons
will be her annual income before long.
That the gold was not cast down from
above is a fact pretty well established.
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convulslve throes OF molten masses 'cht-
ing for place will be told you by "ur
speakers here tonight.
"At the present time mining is not tie
poor mans business as II was in the days
OF 40, where each individual miner dug
up and washed out his own pan OF dirt,
closely watching for the golden simmer
and setting a quicksilveI-trap for the
minute particles which would otherwise
have been washed away and lost.
The mining industry now needs an ag-
gregation of the poor mans savings to
meet The great expense OF deep mining,
which is necessary TO success. To afford
an opportunity for the safe investment of
Il ese savings with a certainty of large re-
turns the Gold Mining Exchange has been
formed.
1T has already been instrumental in as
s>ting six meritorious prospects which
have been listed in the six weeks of its ex-
istence.
II now take pleasure in introducing
Professor Harold Fairbanks, who has so
kindly volunteered to lead US into un-
known depths and show Us what is hid
den there"
Professor Fairbanks proceeded without
any preliminary remarks to read very
interesting paper on the formation of gold
quartz veins, lodes and lodges, winding
up with a series of views produced by
stereopticon lamps on a canvas stretched
at the back of the platform, upon which
all the seams, veins and lodges were formed
in the hidden crevioes of the rocks of our
State.
George Hogg, mining engineer, fol-
lowed in the same line, only varying by
producing some ludicrous scenes of the
early miners when hunting for hidden
wealth.