The San Francisco call., 1896-10-05

magazine form, twenty-six pages, and a high
degree of excellence has been attained in its
printing and illustrations. 1t is the first pub
lication of the kind west of the Missouri
dealers scattered over this great expanse OF
country to feel the pulse of trade without con-
sulting the distant Eastern journals.
That the people of Oakland are not falling
over one another in the effort TO sustain the
cause OF free silver is made evident by the
fate of the short-hved pa per 's16 to l." II died
within month of its birthday and right in
the heart OF the campaign, too. The editors
declare that they obtained no support and
could not run the sheet on wind. There is
lesson in their parting words: ''Our mistake
was In believing that good many more peo-
pie wanted the sort of paper we issued than W
found to be the case. therefore we promptly
closed the incident
The Vallejo Times was twenty-one years old
last Tuesday. 1t is too bad to see a healthy,
good-iooking young paper like that following
Bryanese will-o'-the-wisp at such an age.
The Reno (Nev.) Gazette has just opened its
forfy.second volume. 1t is one of the stanch
Republican papers of our sister State that the
silver barons, with all their influence, could
not draw away from the cause of protection
and sound money.
Eureka, CAL, has a new daily paper, the
Double Standard. 1t strikes US that 1t is mis-
nomer 1t favors policy that will simply
lead to silver monometallism and Single Stan
ddrd would appear to be more appropriate
title for it.
J. S. Taylor has resurrected the Arbuckle
Transcript 1t is a Democratic paper now. AT
the top OF the editorial page is the motto, 'Ir-
rigate or Emigrate." If this be Democratic
order and its alternative it is too severe.
There are many good people who neither drink
nor vote that way.
The Dunsmuir Ne,ps says that the new rail-
road now being built from Upton to the Nc
Cloud River will be a valuable piece of prop
erty when completed. 1t will control body
of sugar-pine timber that is 100 miles long and
can be built through country that is rich in
agriculture and stock-raising, and that is now
400 miles from railroad in any direction. A
country 400 miles square is a principality in
itself. There is nothing to hinder the pro-
jectors OF this road from becoming enormously
rich.
J. w. Lee has commenced the publication OF
the Pomona Democrat. 1t is opined that he
will find it wearing on his strength to row
against the swelling tide of McKinleyism
down that way.
The st. Helena Star has celebrated its twen-
ty-second birthday. The longer it shines the
brighter it gets.
Year by year it becomes more and more ap-
parent, says the Ukiah Herald, that the lands
in Mendocino County, on the headwaters of
Russian River, embracing many thousand
acres, may be ranked among the best grape
growing lands OF the State. ''This is especially
true of table grapes. A number of vineyards
in the immediate vicinity of Ukiah, by the
yield OF the present year, prove this beyond
all contradiction. The wine made by faw of
our vineyardists sells in San Francisco much
above market quotations, and yet but few of
our people have turned their attention 10
grape-growtng as business. Let us hope that
some of our enterprising men having lands
suitable may turn their attention to this In
dustry and show to the world what Mendocino
can do in the way of wine and raisins."
The Redding Free Press informs us that the
Integral Quicksilver Mining Company, at Gin
nabar, have put large force of men to work
cleaning up and further developing their
property. "The Altoona mine is being run
at its fullest capacity. About $50 TASKS OF
quicksilver, valued at $26, 000 are produced
monthly. The company gives employment TO
over $50 men, sixty-tive OF that number being
underground miners. Although the camp is
N.
which might lead one to believe that 1t would
cause sympathy for the free silver movement,
there are large number of Republicans
there"
A rich and extensive copper mine is located
in the mountains near Fresno and the Republi-
can of that city, in telling its readers about it,
remarks that the fact will probably be news TO
a ajority OF Fresno people, but that they
have become accustomed to surprises in the
line OF natural resources and now take them
in a matter of fact way. Says the Republican:
''rhe Copper King was discovered some
twelve years ago, but was not worked to any
great extent until the present company-the
Los Angeles Petroleum, Smelling and Mining
Company-bonded the mine and began oper-
ating 1t, finding marvelously rich body of
ore. The mine is the property of Hugh Knep-
per, who ran about 1S0 feet of tunneling.
This was about eight years ago and the ore
taken out was shipped by way of Cape Horn
to Baltimore, where it was reduced. Copper
was at that time very high.
1.-THE present company, of which Dr. G. Ii.
Bryant of Los Angeles is the prime mover. took
charge OF the property about ten months ago,
and has been developing it ever since. Thir-
teen men are now employed at the mine but
The company will soon put on larger force.
A number of Improvements will be made in
the near future.
'The main body OF ore lies in a semicirce
in laminated formation, and q tunnel 450
feet long has been cut through from one
rayine to another. following the apex of the
ore body, which lies in large swells, showing
width of from a few feet to as high as twenty
eight feet
"The ore is in three forms-black oxide,
sulphite and carbonate. The black oxide pre-
dominates and is the richest. 1t looks not un-
like hard coal, but is much heavier and crum-
bles very easily. A recent assay of the OK
lde, taken from where the ledge is twenty
eight feet wide, showed 81 per cent OF copper,
ton it,rx a LII. IL