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MsrtVTv first rrryt hts wife. some Ch,-
nese have obtained permission from the
owner Of the ground on which IL lies 20
work over a pile az several THOUSAND
cubic yards Of gravel. sand and bowl
ders which originally came out Of the
bed cf the Yubs river at that point
when the early placer miners were TAX
ing hundreds of thousands of dollars
out OF that stream. By "A crude but In
genious arrangement Of buckets and
floats on an undershot water wheel the
Chinese raised the necessary amount
Of water for their work o. n short fiume.
or sluice. and ~ Is said they are max
ing excellent wages. This pile Of debris
has been lying there FOR 20 years. known
all that time 20 contain some gold. But
ii has only been the pressure Of hard
times that has set anybody Al work
getting the comparatively small amount
Of gold out Of 70.
4 little farther down the same stream
three white men found n place where.
In ages past when the river flowed IN
higher bed some immense granite
powders rolled down into ~. DETECTING
the current and impounding the auris-
er0us sand As these men found a. q
was a pocket of sand haif Way up the
steep bank % the stream underneath
these b0Wlders. II had been overlook
Cd or thought too trivial and inHigniG-
cant In the paimy days of placer ufa-
ing 70 be bothered with But out - u
these men have taken 200 or 800 ia
a few months.
4 man rode into Nevada city on ~
trucks - passenger coach Re bought
the right 90 voTz over fte "tai mas
from ;he Providence mine mater. ~
that was being run ito Deer rrerk -
order 20 get rid q a. ~ running 'hsss
falling over q series ~ cars ar COW
cred piatens he Was soon in receipt ct
an income - 300 or f50o a month
Abandouad workings al over Caiifor-
MA abandoned berauae ~ the i0|
grade a. the material oT difhCuity o.,
working. have been taken up ~ men
forced out ~ other lia@s % employment
By the bard times and are being rrzds-
TO yield. not fortunes. bu; fair wagss.
with little or no investment And it -
these. rather than new discoveries =
rich ores Or 1epoalfs. Ehich have n13as
up the increased output ~ California
during the last three oT four yeara-
Eut j. is not this sort - ihirr -
whlch TIE fevssei DrosDecfor - looking
He wants o. strike 3 lead thaf wi3
make hira rsch ~ short order. HprR
strikes are icing made and w.n -. egt
they are ihs p1.zss iu ths lottery whlrn
never yet has pad haek as E4E-a 80 =
has received
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t, offer hastens to take 1t to Mr.. Mum
sey's room, where the entire outfit is
displayed to the best advantage on the
walls, on desks and chairs, anywhere
and everywhere sometimes, for it is
not at all unusual for 200 or 300 pictures
to be put through at a Sitting" When
everything has been arranged Munsey
goes over the collection thoroughly. but
rapidly, making running comments
thus:
"I'lI take that: full page"
Don't want that. Take it away"
That's good suggestive material. but
won't do as it is. Take it, though. and
have something drawn from it,"
"Get that out of sight. The next one
is excellent, and / want it."
He rarely needs an hour TO go through
the biggest collection of photographs,
and his decisions. though made so rap
idly, are always well considered and
never reversed. "a ,-s
His examinations of drawings in pen
Gil. pen and ink. water color, chalk and
black and white, both wash and oil.
done on his orders, are made N much
the same way though not quite so rap
idly. Possibly some might criticise his
artistic taste, but he knows exactly
what he wants and gives orders accord
ingly.
1.-The left leg of the main figure in
that drawing Is too long. Have it short
ened"
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Is red. It's use began when some one by
mistake put an uncovered bottle of
best carmine" on his table He ac-
cepted it. and care has been taken ever
since that the red ink should always be
in its place.
At o'clock he leaves the office with
whatever manuscript he wishes TO ex-
anime personally. He dimes at the Up-
ion League club, after which he reads
and plans till midnight or later. When
he has finished such a days work as ]
have described. he is ready To sleep
without a break till the beginning of
another day.
Mr.. Munsey belongs to one of the New
York city Presbyterian churches. though
he said frankly when he Joined that he
couldn't accept all OF the Presbyterian
creed. He is very sociable with his own
heads OF departments and has many
friends among doctors and clergymen.
Formerly he rode horseback n good
deal. Now his chief outdoor relaxation
is golf. but he doesn't play very well,
for he can't keep his mind off his busi-
ness. He is 43. almost or quite feet
tall. and neither spare nor stout. His
eyes are blue and his hair and mus
tache sandy MILLARD.
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THE SEARCH
FOR GOLD,
Upward Of One Hundred 7 Thou,
sand People Will Make the
Journey to the Klon>
dixie Next Spring.

From the present outlook over 100 900
people will go to the Klondike next
spring. On the average they Will un-
doubtedly take several hundred dollars
apiece with them in provisions and out
fit. The question has been mooted
whether they will take out as much gold
as they take in. Up to the present time
it is pretty certain that a great deal
more has been taken into the Yukon
than has been taken out and that with
out counting the wages value of the
time spent by the men who in the last
tour or five years have crossed the Chill
kat pass and descended the river.
The same question of the relation of
the value of time and effort spent to
gold actually secured is pertinent to
every gold mining region.
a reporter recently asked United
States surveyor General w. S. Green of
California if, figuring at the going rate
of wages, the time spent in prospectine
and mining in California since gold was
discovered in 1876 of all the men who
have been engaged in it there had been
enough gold taken out to pay them He
thought a little while and then replied,
mo, there hasn't"
Surveyor General Green went TO Cali
fcrnia from Kentucky in 1850 and has
been on the Pacific coast ever since. He
mas been a merchant, surveyor. poll
tcian, journalist, prospector and miner
and done well in every one of these avo-
cations, but least well as a prospector
and miner. He knows the west proba-
bly, as well as any man in il. He is
thoroughly acquainted with every part
Of California and every phase OF min
Ing. In Il years he has grub staked
hundreds Of prospectors and taken his
chances of some of them making a
lucky md. And yet his conclusions
after all his experience are summed
up In his answer to the above question.
Gold mining is a lottery in which
there are some rich prizes. but an over
whelming lot of blanks Go into any
mining town in California and YOU will
mo men who have spent their entire
time for the last 10. % or 20 years pros
pecung for gold or working interr1it-
tently at some other occupation for the
soie purpose of. getting a grub stake TO
prospect again. But il is at least one
OF The compensations Of this gold hunt
lng madness that failure never imhit-
ters- 1t never destroys hope or bouv-
sney. Success has led TO suicide. but
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number of specimen impressions from
his machine. but generally Munsey
makes the rounds and inspects the
sheets as they come from the flies"
He can spot" defective printing much
quicker than most experts, and he new
er hesitates to order any number of
sheets destroyed when the work is bad,
for no one knows better than he that
much of the success of his periodicals.
depends on good printing. There is
nothing that win chagrin him more
than to find that a lot of sheets have
been inadequateiy printed too late to
have other sheets printed in their place
If there is little for him to do at the
pressroom, he is at his publishing office
in Fifth avenue by $50; by 10 surely.
PUBLISHER AND EDITOR.
There his attention is first given to
the morning mail. Generally he looks
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at none Of the letters, though some
times a small number are honored by
personal perusal-say frcm two or three
to half a dozen. But he is made ac-
quainted with the contents of every
one by a secretary. who reads some
of them in their entirety to his en-
ployer and sums up in a few terse
words the essential contents OF others.
AS Munsey hears each one he indicates
the answer to be sent. generally in a
word or two. but sometimes debating
slowly and in full. When he finishes.
every letter is answered. nothing being
held open for further discussion. He
hates loose ends.
After the letters the manuscripts. So
licited and contributed. have his atten
ton. Thousands of articles, stories and
pieces of verse are received at Mum
sey's and returned without his ever
hearing about them, for, like every 9th.
err editor publisher. he can hire men
and women to do the rejecting for the
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mare than tao years BY TIE aid q this
mirror = hair can be seen a. a distance
of Leo keet. and Ire reflection C ins
Enoo1 a. th= focal point EouIc - ass0-
lu1e,y biiu5irE-
among the r7ost remarkable FORKS =
Australia - fhe overland re.errarh
from Port LyzrEin 10 -Er south Cg tie
cr1rfnsut. which -zs ccss9ietes n i.s1
Almost fhe whole Zgas niles q lfs
ieaEth Ezs through uzEahaes:eS cs.a-
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office. But he can't hire any one to
accept things, and therefore every piece
OF manuscript in which his subeditors
see promise is taken to him. Any given
manuscript in which it is supposed he
may be interested is first described as
briefly as possible. Often this is sufti-
cient, and the fate of the production is
sealed by a favorable or unfavorable
monosyllable. Sometimes the whole is
read aloud before he is ready to say
yes or no, and occasionally, but much
more rarely, he decides to read the
manuscript himself. In such cases it
is left to be taken away by him at
night.
LUNCHEON, THEN PICTURES.
He lunches at the Up Town club,
which, by the way, is located in the
same building as his office. Much Of
what he eats he prepares himself at the
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that the whole coal supply OF our planet
would barely suffice 10 produce heat
equal 10 thar which the sun dissIpaies
in one-tenth OF a second
A very successful and beautiful trial
demonstration OF the lighting by cleo
tricity or the whirlpool rapids of Mag
ara falls was given recently and great
y pleased every observer Special par
ties ot ladies and gentlemen took the
gorge route cars. acccnpaaied by q
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known anything beyond the common
est food and the toughest clothing.
1t is said that during the present sea-
son there have been from 10000 to 49,,
900 men prospecting in different parts
of California. They are scattered from
the extreme southern part of the state,
in the desert that spreads south of the
Tehachipi mountains from the Colorado
river until it encroaches on the orange
groves Of Riverside and Los Angeles. to
the extreme northern part, in Siskiyou
and Modoc counties. For 700 miles,
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north and south. prospectors are at
work in struggling but unbroken line.
Some of them have outfits which in
clude a team and wagon: others make
use of burros to pack their provisions
and tools, while still others have only
their own willing and determined shoul-
ders on which to transport their sup
plies and utensils. In the desert coun-
try to the south a team and wagon
are practical necessities. because it is
imperative TO carry supply of water.
Some idea of the wealth of prospectors
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Especial Correspondence

New York. Dec. 23.-Frank A. Mum
sey's editorial and business methods
are as much out of the ordinary as the
success of his periodicals has been. and
that is saying a good deal. And while
it cannot be stated that his success is
altogether due to his short ways of do
ing things it is unquestionably true
that they enable him to get through
with more essential work in day than
is commonly done by three or four men
of much more than ordinary capacity.
1t is a fact that this man personally
edits all three of his periodicals-Mun-
sey's Magazine, The Puritan and The
Argosy-selects the photographs and
subjects of all the drawings that are
to appear between their covers, passes
on the artistic quality, first of the
drawings and then Of the engravingS,
superintends his own pressroom and at
tends to the duties of publisher, press
room foreman and general office man.
ager with less worry and fuss than
most Of us would go through with daily
in accomplishing the work of any one
of the departments among which he
it? Perhaps the best way to answer
that question is to tell about one Of his
days.
BREAKFAST FIRST, THEN THE
PRESSROOM.
In the first place. Munsey has only
one real object in life, and that is to
climb the ladder of success just as high
as he possibly can. He is unmarried,
and he cares little for society. On those
rare occasions. even when he tries to
take recreation he is continually plan
ming new features for his periodicals.
He lives at the Union League club,
and there he is known as an early riser.
Promptly at he is out of bed, and by
ne is at breakfast. having taken exer-
else, z cold bath and a rub down in the
intervening hour, besides dressing.
When he walks into the breakfastroom,
he is the very essence of immaculate
ness, and, though, as will be seen fur
ther on, he does many things before the
day is over in the doing of which al
most any one would be likely to soil
linen or clothing or perhaps both, he
remains immaculate to the last.
After breakfast he goes directly to
the big pressroom where the Munsey
periodicals are printed. Sometimes he
walks, but oftener he takes a cab, SIM
ply to save time since were he not eco
nomicaI of time he never could get
through with his work. He generally
reaches the preSSroom by o'clock; $50
is late. The length of his stay there de-
pends on the condition Of things. The
pressroom has no foreman except him
self, and he always remains long enough
to inspect everything minutely. He un-
derstands presses so well that he could
without doubt take down and set up
again any one of the many machines
with which his pressroom is furnished.
And he could, no doubt, run a press as
well as any Of his workmen.
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there are in California may be gained
from the fact that within a few months
after the first finds were reported at
Ran6sburg the desert for miles around
had been staked off in claims. and a
town Of 1000 or 5000 had sprung up
Within two weeks after the Graves
brothers made their $4,000 find in Trim
ity county last August there were near
ly 1000 prospectors at work in that re-
gion.
The hard times of the last three or
four years have given a wonderful i'm
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failure never. In Calaveras, Amador
and Placer counties. Cal, are men
whose hair and boards have grown
gray and their shoulders stopped with
years of this unremunerated toll,
bronzed and wrinkled by season after
season of exposure in the mountains
along the mother lode. But there is
not one of them who did not expect to
strike it rich the next time he went out
with pick and shovel and pan, though
in all the years these men have follow
ed this igniS fatuus they have never
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| table. particularly the salads. and it is
as much as walters life is worth to
serve him a salad ready dressed.
After luncheon generally, though
sometimes before. he attacks the prob
lem of illustrations. An enormous num-
Der of pictures is required to furnish
forth the art side of his various pub
locations. and his agents of one sort
and another are constantly searching
for photographs that will suit his pur-
pose. When ne announces that he is
ready for pictures. every member OF the
staff who has anything in that line TO
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petus to gold mining in California and
increased the output by 81. .OO0. 600 or So
600. 900. When men could get nothing
else to do. they went up into the noun
tains and began working over old plac-
ers and abandoned diggings and dis
covering new ones. Improved methods.
even in very simple and elementary
matters. since the auriferous river beds
We're worked for their treasure in the
ffties enabled men TO make fair wages
even in old, worked out and neglected
claims In Downieville, where John ".
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try-uurh g g; a -vafsr5ess 6esert- Th-
Weoceo ? Poles -rere prepared - The nezr-
81 zsiizbse places. bat sorns lad = se
CARED i.-o fhe sutssiar. and ghz total
cost Ezs e. 80 Csc
u il q r1eg-l1n wtth arfhFoFo.c .cgif's
zEo ReTe the aacssuf Slzss a1a 81 BAT
;hsT ueF@ ike fsED<eesn- I-1bcr %.s-
csrts = fsawae. ln the Csc &C. uain~
fagns that they zsre iorE nest~s fss
az e..1s t5e CLASSICAL EsghgrE. Nho
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Mlthlh the next TWO years. but several
Of them viii be likely 10 escape o5serva-
tion.
The Belgian government offers a prize
oi $4,000 10 any one who viii discover
a chemical that VIII take the place o.
white phosphorus in matchmaking.
II has been calculated BY Robert Bail
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THE Background of that group is too

The background of that group is too
elaborate. ASAit is il distracts the eye
from the figures. Have ii subdued''
Altogether too stiff and woodeny.
Won't do. Must be redrawn."
That's the sort OF thing he says about
the drawings. Not one is accepted un-
less il comes up to his standard. and he
is by no means done with the illustra-
tiors when he has passed the photo
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Cannot Have MustacheS

Men sIposes 70 tbe figoss o' hs
Aiaska winter never Hsss nsesfsenzE
me- wsa- ssg teards fo protect ihs
throat and face. bg, keep ih1 upr~f Dp
clean shasrn- Th@ rreisiuF4 ife-u tfs
breath coaT~ais - qsi- Elf that q fc2s-
saeha beronsss ~ bss4er1 "a q sa3c cake
- iee ard tie faes - sr1zsn before =
man kaoass a.
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getting up advertisements for his pc
riodicals. He personally composes ev-
cry such advertisement that appears
anywhere, either in his own or other
publications. and he laboriousiy writes
out every word of each in red ink on
sheets of paper not much larger than
the palm of your hand He uses the
small sheets from choice. No one in
the office knows why he uses the red
Ink or whether he Is conscious that il
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30
SCIENTIFIC NEWS NOTES.

Inc hrst use OF Niagara's power was
MADE IN lI25, q primitive sawmiu be-
ing operated Nothing more was done
until 1882. when Augustus Porter con-
eeived the plan of hydraulic canals.
anc IN 1851 one OF them was completed.
Not less than rs comets OF short De-
nod are due 10 return to periheiion
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fat construction car carrying the
searchiights and appliance CUEren;
was taken from the trolley wire SIX
searchligfts being supplied and ma g
ni.cent color effects produced on the
surgirg waters Sy means of the usual
color screens
DR.. Peate Of Lordou has completed
the process oS grinding and polishing =
gigantic disk CT glass over = iucaes IN
dssrnS,sr- on which no has been engaged
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30
The Methods and Habits Of a
Famous Magazine Man,
He Reads Neither Business Letters Nor Manuscripts Yet He
Is Sole Manager and Editor Of His Publications
ious Schemes For Saving Time and fastening Work.
Early to Rise and Late to Bed.

From this it will be understood why
his men are on the qui vive each day
until after Munsey's visit of inspection
is over. His first duty is to examine
carefully the product of each press. If
he is in great haste each man brings
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

One OF the most beautiful orchids was
recently exhibited in London. II was a
white flower. shaped like a sea gull.
with Oiitspread wings and a gold and
vermilion heart. II came from Vene-
zuela and cost s.. 600.
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peace Thackeray, the celebrated Eng
iish novelist Born 1911. he died 1865 honored
every land where English spoken Recently
there discovered London unpublished OF
Thackerays, which is here reproduced
most publication. The
hensngon Sept IL 1851. TO I. W. Gibbs
Sterne in rather harsh language
Of Sterne A man it's
to read OF. Any welcome TO he
for except parson."
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30
Rare Autograph Letter
Of William NJ, Thackeray

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Thirty-four years ago on Friday last
occurred the death of William Make
,esra ThaoEerav fba caiahrafai ErC
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-05-29
SOCIAL HAPPENINGS.
The Weeks Doings Among Well
known People.
HYDROCARBONS.

PURDY-HARRoUN.
Married, on May 81 last, at II O'Clock
IN the morning, in All Souls church, Chi
cage, Miss Nellie Purdy, of Chicago, aud
Phillip E. Harroun of this city. No cards.
The wedding was private and only at
tended by relatives. The bride ia high
" accomplished and charming young lady,
the daughter of leading citizen of Chi
cago, who was visitor here several
years ago in company with Miss Stella
Riordan and who then and there met her
present husband. The groom is we'll and
favorably known in this community and
has many warm friends throughout New
Mexico. He is civil engineer, has at
tanned prominent place in his profess
sion and especially as an irrigation en-
giueer, he's held several offices of honor
and trust with great credit and is now
connected with the photographic office of
the geological survey. He is the son of
DR.. and Mrs. Harroun, who are highly
respected and greatly liked in this city.
The New MEXICAN extends sincere con-
CALCULATIONS and best wishes for the
future felicity ana we'll being of the newly
married pair. Mr.. and Mrs. P. E. Harroun
will make their home in this city and are
expected to reach here on Monday next.