The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-05
What the Golden Jubilee Fair
Means to the Mining
Counties.
Stanford University Gives Signifi-
can't Recognition to the
Industry.

Calaveras County has been the first of the
mining counties to awaken to the advertising
value OF the coming Golden Jubilee Fair to
be held in this city, and which will run five
weeks, beginning January "a Secretary
Julian Sonntag has received communica-
tlon OF inquiry from the Calaveras County
committee and report that meeting to con-
slider participation in the fair will De held
next Tuesday evening.
This is an exhibition of life and alertness,
for the plans for the fair have been too indef-
mite until within the past day or two to give
the counties much time 10 act upon, and the
requests to Boards OF Supervisors that they
assist their county exhibits were not sent out
until yesterday. Within few days all of the
mining counties will be found taking hold.
Any mining county that does not embrace
this chance TO let the world know OF its min
ing resources in an effective way.will miss one
OF the great opportunities of its history. In
county exhibits in the past, whether at Chi
cagO, the Midwinter Fair, the rooms OF the
State Board of Trade or elsewhere, the agri-
cultural and horticultural counties have had
The field. Horticulture was prosperous and
fruits, flowers and sunshine were the most
effective allurements to people thinking OF
coming to California. Mining was still rather
in the background far as popular interest
went A mining community had 40 great in
centive to get out and hustle for a share in
TIDE OIL wealth ana pOpu latlOn.
But now the turn of the mining counties has
come The State, the country and the world are
turning to mining. The proportion of the pop
ulation OF San Francisco that is turning to min
ing and seeking mining investments, small
and large, is surprising. To these alone
promis sing mining region may probably Dro-
claim its resources ana opportunities. But
there is vast tide of gold-seek coming
this way. Many thousands of Alaska-rushers
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Francisco, and will see and study the Golden
Jubilee Fair. Not all will go on; some viii
realize that California offers them greater
chances for golden veal tn than the NJ ondike,
besides being miners paradise. and they
Will 60 no farther Thousands who go TO
Alaska Will early turn back disappointed, and
many of those who have acquired the mining
fever and who have learned of Californias
plenitude of untouched gold deposits VIII
come back to expend their money and gold
seeking energies here. Many who are not
Alaska bound win be carried hither by the
tide. As these thousands come and scatter
again over the earth they will carry with
them the knowledge and impressions of Cali
forniR mining opportunities which they
gain. In many ways the Golden Jubilee Fair
will be a nuge and effective advertisement.
In any event it Will be big advertisement
for California a whole, and it will be big
advertisement for the mining counties that
make attractive and effective displays and dis
tribute carefully prepared and illustrated lit
erature. No industry could possibly afford so
varied, interesting and picturesque display
as the mining industry, and the plans OF the
air management contemplate an exposition
on so large a scale, SO complete and OF so
much popular interest that it Will be by far
the greatest mining exhibition the world has
seen. To this each county should contribute
the best display of minerals II can possibly get
up ami a great deal besides. 1t should have
maps pictures, odels, etc, and show the
salient things it wishes to show i'll graphic
way. There should be much to appeal to the
popular interest we'll as to the miners, and
there is in this endless field for genius and
enterprise. The horticultural counties have
added greatly 10 their population and millions
to their wealth by the advertising they have
done, and now the time hiss come when the
mining counties can do the same for them
selves.
Stanford University Enters the Great
Field of Mining.
The creation at Stanford University of a de-
partment OF mining nd metallurgy, with Wal
demar Lindgren at its head, is significant
progress sive step in Pacific Coast mining af-
fairs. 1t IS result of the new life in the min
ing industry and the opening of a new and
boundless future for it on the Pacific Coast. 1t
IS a recognition by q great and liberal institu-
ton of the greatly increased demand of men
OF scientific skill in the economical develop
ment of mines Never was that demand so
great as now, but the demand will rapidly in
crease with the growth of the industry.
Mining has at last become q science, and the
merely practical miner cannot compete
with the man who adds practical experience
to long scientific training. In one of the first
stsmp-miIls set upi in California, milling quartz
ore alone cost $50 ton Now ore is both
mined and milled in this State for from is
cents to So ton, the average cost being per-
haps So ton. The cost of mining has been
reduced TO a fraction of what it was within
the experience OF men now engaged in min
ing by mechanical inventions and metallur-
gical researches, and there is a cons tant de-
crease in the cost and constant improveme emit
in the efficiency of methods. Capital has
created an Unsuitable demand for men of skill,
and this has recently opened wide q new field
for young men, which has crowded the chief
minlng-schools of the country and of them
there are few. The College of Mines of the
State University has treble the attendance it
had four years ago. AID prospective endow-
ments for this department promise to make it
in the future the leading mining school of the
world.
Now Stanford comes to the front with the
beginning of q department of mining engi-
neering and metallurgy, which may be ex-
pecteu 10 develop INTO great one IN the
future, along with the other departments of
this young but magnifcently endowed insti-
| tuition. In accordance wit President Jor-
dams policy, he has selected q young man of
high attachments, who gives promise OF do
ing something in the world in his field. Mr..
Llndgren IS graduate from the worlds old
est and greatest school OF mines. that of Frei-
berg, Germany, and has done some valuable
work in this country. e has for some time
been in the service of the United States Geo.
logical Survey, and his report on "The Gold
Quartz Veins of California" recently pub
ished in the reports of the survey, is pro ba-
| bly, the most valuable scientific report that
| the industry in this State has ever received
| the benefit OF. He is now engaged on Govern
ment work in Idaho, and will assume his
| chair early in the coming year.
1t is the policy OF Stanford University TO be
helpful 10 the comm unity at large, as the sue
! cession of popular lectures by already emf
| nent young men OF the faculty attest. and it
| is also the policy 10 encourage original re-
search on the part of both professors and stu
dents Hence the coming OF Me- Lindgren to