The record-union., 1897-07-29

service from the klOndyke all winter!
There ought to be big money in such
an enterprise, for any one who should
undertake it, There would be no diff
ficuhy in getting first-class birds to
cover the route. Mrs. Nansen, the
wife of the Arctic explorer received
a message in Norway from her hus-
band, who was somewhere near the
North Pole, two and half years after
he started, the message having been
brought by a carrier pigeon which he
took with him.
OUR UNEMPLOYED CLONDYKES.
Stockton Independent: The mountains
of California offer better inducements
to seekers for gold and permanent en-
terpriSes than any other part of the
West, and the fact is we'll known to
men of means, many of them foreign
ers. The extensive gold bearing dis
trict of the SierTas, stretching from
the northernmost county to the south
ern boundary line OF the State, hold
fortunes for industrious diggers who
are not afraid to toll for gold. This
vast empire is as yet only partially ex-
plored and the possibilities of the fu-
ture cannot be safely estimated by the
productions of the past forty years of
search for the precious metals. A late
estimate of the gold output of Tuol-
umne County alone since the days of
40 makes the total SlS3 100000 and
every man who is familiar With the
conditions knows that the future is of
better promise than the past. In the
days of placer mining the gulches and
flats of Tuolumne County yielded Sl32,-
100000. Pocket quartz veins have
turned out $4,O00G00 and milling prop
critics have yielded S2S, OO0,O 900.
These are partial figures for only one
county of the rich mining section
known to gold seekers as the South
ern Mines" and it is moderate to esti-
mate that not one-half of the produc-
ton of the large quartz mines has been
reported by reason of the secretiveness
of the owners of the properties. 1t is
we'll known to mining men and TO resi-
dents of the gold mining sections of this
State that the development of the
quartz mining industry has only com
menced and yet we have reliable figures
to show that Tuolumne County alone
has yielded SOS, 10000 from her rich
populous county has not been fully ex-
plored, as old residents know, and the
discoveries in that section, when men
regain their senses and turn their backs
on the frozen North and its dangers,
will again astonish the world. The
developments of the past two years
have surprised the mining world who
have watched affairs in Calaveras and
Tuolumne Counties and a start has
only been made. With a railroad run
ming through the district and electric
power furnished from every large
stream home Clondykes are assured.
There is room in Tuolumne County for
thousande of intelligent miners who are
not afraid to work, and when they turn
attention to that section, where they
can work every day in the year and live
ON the fat of the land. the gold pro-
duction Of the world viii be largely in
creased. A poor man has better oppor-
tunities in the hills of California than
in any other place on earth, and time
will demonstrate the truth of the decla-
ration.
DEMOCRATIC EXPRESSION.
Fresno Expositor: Richard Gird,
the Chino beet sugar man,
has recently returned from trip
to Mexico, He says that there is good
opening in that country for California
trade Heretofore the greater part or
their trade has been secured by German
firms but of late the goods have not
been UP to the standard desired, and
they are now willing to make any
change that Will insure better goods.
California Will probably not despise this
Mexican trade because it is done on
silver basis. The gold standard coun-
tries of Europe are eager for 1t and in
every respect Mexico seems to be doing
very we'll. 1t is one of the few countries
that is prosperous just now. 1t is boom
ing in an industrial way. But Republi-
can financiers will not be able to learn
ANYTHING from Mexico's prosperity.
Contra Costa Gazette: We do not
hear much this year about wheat and
silver keeping pace in rise and fall
"since the crice Of '13." Even Bryan
fails to prove this to be fact since
wheat has so steadily advanced in
price and silver has so persistently fall
len in value 1t is now condition,
not theory" which confronts the
howlers who tumble figures in an at
tempt to make the masses believe that
black is white.