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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-04
Starting q Fire with Ice.

Two very surprising things may be
done with ordinary ice. First, you
may make a burning glass out of the
ice which will burn holes in paper and
even start a fire in the woods. The
only tool you will need will be a pocket
knife, and with this it may be we'll to
remember that no boy need freeze to
death in the woods when the sun shines
and there is plenty of ice around. He
may make his fire as follows: Select the
clearest ice o can find. In frozen
ponds will often be found a little hill.
lock of ice caused by an eddy in the
water beneath. Knock off a piece OF
this clear ice and white it into the
shape of a double convex lens. You
should have no trouble doing this, FOR
ice can be cut very easily with a peck
etknife. Perhaps it may be well to
inform the uninitiated that a double
convex lens is one which bulges on
both sides, 1t gathers up the rays OF
sunlight and concentrates them against
one spot, which is called the focus
point. Ordinarily a lens is made of
glass, but ice will perform the same
feat if correctly shaped. First cut
your ice into a fat piece, a little thicker
than and as round as a silver dollar.
1t might be we'll, also, to leave a long
silver on one side of the circular piece
to serve for a handle. When you
have cut your fiat circular piece, scrape
down the edge, gradually working to-
wards the center, until you have round
ed off both sides. A little practice
will enable you to do this evenly, al
though you may waste or break two
or three pieces of ice in the effort. As
you go along with the work of scraping
put the round piece, or lens, in your
mouth every few minutes. The heat
OF the mouth will not only polish the
lens, but it will smooth away those ex-
tremely fine ridges or knife marks
which might otherwise interfere with
the concentration of the light. BY
holding it a proper distance from a
piece Of paper, say about an inch, it
presently will set the paper on fire. The
other feat spoken of above is the MAX
Ing of a good magnifier out of a piece
of ice. If you are in the woods some
winters day and wish to examine some
minute objects thoroughly you may do
so very readily with ice. Proceed as
when you made your lens, only instead
of making slightly convex sides make
your lens in the shape of a ball or
sphere. Opticians sell glass balls filled
with water for magnifying purposes.
The ice will act the same as the water
filled glass ball, and it is wonderful
how much you may add to a days en-
joyment in this very simple way. There
are winter insects. branches of trees,
dead leaves and bark, snow and ice, all
of which will reveal hidden wonders
under this very simple microscope,
which nature places within the reach
of any ingenious boy. OF course the
city boy may also amuse himself with
ice quite as readily as his country cou-
sin. and he may do it in summer time,
if need be, with the help of the COM
modify which the ice-man leaves at
the door every day.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-04
New Air Cooling Machine,

A machine has been built on novel
principles for cooling the air of houses
and apartments. 1t differs from the
re~frigerating machines now in use,
which convert mechanical energy into
heat, distracted through the medium
of liquefed gases. in that 1t depends
on utilizing the great latent heat of
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-04

Each wheel of this bicycle has two
rims. The inner one is connected tc
the hub by the ordinary means OF
spokes, but between the inner and
outer rims is an arrangement of fai
springs having n end fastened firmly
to the outer rim, while the other end il
fastened by a yielding slot connection
to the inner one.
This combination is said to be more
comfortable to ride than the pneumatic
tire, as there is a wider range of move
ment.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-04

Pairing Hoofs of Sheep.-Many far
mers are keeping sheep this year for
the first time in many years. To all
such it may be wise to suggest pairing
the hoofs early in the spring, or be-
fore they are turned out to pasture.
In the barnyard, always treading on
soft, fermenting manure, the Sleeps
hoofs grow too long n develop foot
rot if it is pastured on low, wet land.
On rocky, high and dry land, the sheen
wears off its hoofs on the sharp edges
of the rocks. 1t is probably instinct
that teaches the sheep at night to seek
a high and dry place to sleep upon
Ex.
Never resurrect an evil that has been
fairly buried.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-04

Overfeeding.-When any kind of
bowel disease exists the cause NAV he
traced to the f~ood-usually too much
but some times too much green bone,
or letting the birds out on stubble-
fields may be the obstacles. AS a rule
overlooking is the cause. The remedy
is to change the food and reduce the
quantity. The males are also fat, and
il they are removed from the flock the
leg weakness will disappear, as well
as the blindness, the real difficulty be-
ing spinal affection. The medicines
used should be avoided, as less food
and removal of the males is all that is
neceSsaTy.-EX.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-04
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR
JUNIOR READERS.

Katy's Experiences Davies Surgical
Hint-NeIlie's Doh House, and What
the Mouse and the Cat Did to It-A
Curious Fountain.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-04

OF English coast. This machine is
what is known as the whistling buoy.
1t is capable OF giving nj a mucn more
effective signal than the old-fashioned
bell buoy, which it has just replaced
off the Manacles. This new buoy
works automatically, and every short
while emits a most doleful but far
reaching whistling scream.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-04

An engineer in Tunis has invented a
deep sea diving apparatus which has
been tried without accident at a depth
of ia feet near C%herbourg. The in
ventor declares his purpose of search
ing for the hull of the Alabama, which
lies where she was sunk by the Kear-
sarge, off C~herbourg harbor.
London capitalists are interested in
the proposal to lay a cable from Van
couver, B. c., to Skaguay, Alaska, to
connect with the telegraph line to
Dawson City, which is expected to be
completed soon. THIS will put the
makers in touch with the gold
fields and incidentally the cause Of CIV
liza ton and humanity will be greatly
aided, when the suffering in these
drsary districts can to a degree be re-
duced by this connection with the civ
ilized world,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-04

A Chicken Trust.-The Leaven-
worth Times says: The three larg-
est poultry and produce dealers in
the West have organized a chicken
trust at Fort Scott and capitalized it
under the laws of Missouri for $780,
600. The general offices will be at
Springfield, Mo. Throughout Kansas.
Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky and
other states, the company has well
established buying stations, and the
aggregate business of the three firms
last year is said to have amounted to
several million dollars. They buy and
ship chickens n eggs. 1t is esti-
mated that an average of a train-load
a day from Kansas alone is handled
by them"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-04
The Whistling BUOY,

The accompanying little illustration
shows a device which, had it been in
position on the Manacles, would have
saved the Paris and tho Mohegan from
running ashore on that dangerous bit
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-04

The special agent of the Agricultural
Department, Mr.. Swingle, who has
been travelling in southern Europe and
Asia during the past season, has just
returned, having accomplished several
things which may be advantageous to
American farmers and fruit owe
Two of the most interesting items of
Mr.. Swingle's work have been date
palms and fig insects. In Morocco and
Algiers he studied the best varieties
of the African date palm and sent
over and made arrangements to send a
large humble of small trees for plant
Ing in the date section of America
our arid southwest, where the dry al
Kali conditions are very similar to
those in Africa, where this magnifi-
cent palm iourishes. The work in figs
show what intelligent perseverance
will do and also shows the advantages
OF good quick transportation. The
dried figs of Smyrna are justly re-
noWned. They are large and perfect.
and have the distinctive aromatic fig
flavor highly developed. Californians
nave tried raising them, but while the
trees grew well, they were shy bear
ers and the fruit was imperfect. 1t
was then seen that the blossoms did
not evidently properly f~ertilize and in
quiry developed that the fig growers
of the Mediterranean annually brought
down limbs of the wild mountain Capri
fig and tied them to the cultivated fig
trees. These wild fig blossoms con-
tanned minute insects, which, crawling
from blossom to blossom, fortified the
Smyrna figs, making large, perfect
fruit, full of seeds and highly favored.
Various attempts were then made to
import these insects into California or
chards, but without success; the in
sects died. But this year Mr.. Swingle
kept sending by mail small lots of fer
tilted figs wrapped in ~tinfoil, until
finally the object was attained and a
colony of the live insects was started
in California fig trees.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-04

An Anglo-Saxon sinner Ia no better
than one in Africa
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-04

Dryness and Root Injury.-The past
winter has been more disastrous than
any within the fCrty-seven years l
have been in the nursery business.
Vineyards have suffered equally with
orchards. Blackbcrries and old rasp-
berries have suffered almost a total
loss. The young paintings of Loudon
are alive root and branch. Plum, pear
and cherry have not injured in the
root like apple, and are giving a prom
Using bloom. About one-half the straw
berry beds are weakened or entirely
ruined. The thirty-sayen cold days of
last winter aggregate 327 degrees be-
low zero. But why the frost should
have gone down seven feet is a mys-
terry | cannot fathom. True, the ground
was bare, but the excessive deep freez-
ing is beyond precedent. The ground
was in good condition when it froze
up, but the continuous evaporation
from the dry surface must have been
the cause of tie root injury.-George
J. Kellogg, in Wisconsin Horticulture
list.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-04

Pennsylvania Seeking a Butter Stan
dard.-The Pennsylvania department
OF agriculture has been advocating the
necessity for a butter standard and has
recently made analyses of 100 samples
OF butter collected in Philadelphia and
vicinity. Five grades OF butter were
tested, including boiled" or process
butter. The average per cent of water
was about II per cent, of butter fat
about 85 per cent, curd between one
and two per cent and salt about 2 per
cent. Of the Is samples of unmelted
butter examined, only one contained
less than so per cent of fat, and only
six did not reach an SO per cent but
ter-fat standard, TO which any dairy
man, it is stated, can bring his butter.
The percentage Of water, according to
the results obtained, should not exceed
IA per cent at the very most. The
percentage of salt is considered about
right when kept below 8 per cent.
Two thirds of the samples contained
curd less han los per cent. Curd, in
all buffers it is stated, should be re-
ouced below 2.05 per cent.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25

THE mining men of California and the
coast cordially welcome the visiting
members of the American Institute OF
Mining Engineers. Many prominent
representatives of the institute are not
strangers, for in ranging round the earth
in quest of treasure some have frequently
visited California and her sister States
and Territories. But it is the first time
that the greatest technical society In the
world has held one of its meetings west
of the Sierras. Established in 1911 and
embracing in it's membership most OF the
leaders in mining and metallurgy, the
influence Of the institute has been great
on mining and scientific progress, and In
every part Of the world are found mem
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
Ell DORADO.

The number of claims recorded in Ell
Dorado County during the present year
was as follows: January, 92; February,
65; March, &c; April. 81; May, Al; June, %;
July. Al: August, "a; September, s; total,
1853
"Only two mining districts have been or
panized in the county since the repeal of
the mining act of 1887 writes the corre-
spondent, zone at Georgetown and one
AT Volcanoville. In both cases demands
We're made upon the County Recorder for
the return of the mining records of the
districts, which upon legal advice were
refused.
There has been much development
work during the year and all in all the
outlook for the steady and profitable ex-
plotting of the quartz mines of the old
empire county was never brighter than
to-day. With the other mining counties
along the great lode FL Dorado has suf-
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
YUBA.

Yuba County is small and has much
fruit but its early settled eastern end
reaches into the mineralized Sierra Ne
vada foothills and the Yuba River pro-
vides one of the coming dredging fields
Yuba's report is:
The outlook for the mining industry in
this county has not been better for twen-
tv wears, although the records show that
there have been only nineteen location
notices filed, one-third the number that
were filed during the same period last
wear. This is accounted for by the fact
that most of the claims are located and
now the owners are working them. There
is great activity in placer mining on the
Yu6a River by means of dredgers. The
Introduction Of electricity into several
districts has made it possible to work
profitably many mines that have lain idle
for wears Twenty sales and three bonds
have heen recorded.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
Demonstrates
Industry

developed and unprospected mineral
wealth. Mining activity is being resumed
for the first time in many years. Copper
ore is being shipped by sea and number
of copper and gold mines are undergoing
development. The record of locations
reads: February, s; March, z; April, 5;
May, Z; June, II; July, 49, August, /.
Total, 5S.
The correspondent writes: The mining
industry of Del Norte County is prac-
tically undevelOped, but it is not from
aims are rich. The lack of shipping facil-
tiles is the greatest bar TO the. develop
ment of the mines. Copper has been
tent that demonstrates that it exists in
paying quantity and quality. Placer min
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25

ERE is current record that may
suggest to judicious minds that
California is not worked out,
from a mining standpoint. 1t is
worthy of a little attention amid the
crowding facts of this States mining IN
dustry and mineral resources.
The Call herewith presents a fractional,
but still striking, record of the number Oh
new mining locations made in California
during eight months of 1899 This record
is gathered from counties of all grades of
mining activity and for the period covered
the complete record would undoubtedly
exceed in averages, etc, the totals here
given.
The Call recently sent inquiries concern
ing the number Of mining locations filed
and some other current features of the
industry to county officials or correspond
ents in each county. Many have not yet
replied, but the showing here made is
sufficient for the general purpose of set
ting forth one evidence of the present
mining activity in California and offering
one suggestion of the States future min
ing possibilities.
The record, given in detail below, shows
that during eight months of the current
year Gl24 mining location notices were filed
in twenty-five Of the ffty-seven counties
of the State. If this ratio We're kept up
TO the end of the year there would be 1856
mining locations recorded in only these
twenty-five counties during 1899, the aver
age for these counties being 2do. II the
fiTty two present mineral-producing
counties out of the whole fifty
seven counties sustained this aver
counties for eight months would be IA .456,
and for the whole year q ,6S4. Anything
IKE tIllS WouIu pe pretty soou IeSolu ~.
for brand new mines, or prospects, IN
one State in one year, and it closely ap-
proXimates the true situation.
The Lumber of locations reported by
lee a
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
PLACER.

In Placer County 121 locations in eight
months were about equally divided, ac-
cording to State and Federal laws as fol-
lows:
Lode locations, State law-January, g.;
February 6; March, II. Total, %.
Lode locations, Federal law-January,
O. February, 1; April, 10; May, 13; June,
10; July, I; August, T. Total, so.
Placer, State law-January, Z; Febru-
ary, 4; March, 8; April, A; May, 1; July,
2: August 2.
Placer, Federal law-January, 8; Febru-
airy. /: March, l; May, 2; June, 1; July, 10;
August. 5. Total, 23
Grand total 12l.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
CALIFORNIA ENJOYS A GREAT PROSPECTING BOOM.
the State Demonstrates That Unusual Activity in the Mining
Industry Prevails

in the mining industry in Lake County
this year, although some of the old mines
have been enlarged and furnaces rebuilt,
with one new furnace at the Abbott
THE survival or non-survival of the
State mining law will have but little eff
feet upon the industry as a whole in the
county One group of filings in the Nor
gan Valley section of the county. the ore
Of which is phenomenally rich, through
the mining law. are in a muddle and will
probably go into the courts to have the
matter adjusted. One other, the Bullion,
is now in litigation. but the validity Of
the State law cannot affect it. All the
larger quicksilver producing mines in
Lake County. such as the Great Western.
Standard. Sulphur Bank. Abbott. ct al,
have acquired title in a large measure
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
TUOLUMNE.

Tuolumne County. third in rank in gold
production and fourth in total mineral
production, is about the liveliest of the
mining counties of the great mother lode
region. Though it has been mined and
prospected steadily since 1S49, its hills
have been full Of prospectors, as the fol-
lowing record of mining locations shows:
Lode locations under State law of 1897,
preliminary notices-January "a; Febru-
ary, "a; March, 43; April. II. Total, 1888.
Final certifcates-January, 26; February.
30 March, Al; April, Is. Total, 125.
Lode locations under Federal law-Jan-
uary, 43; February. 81; March, II; April,
~; May, SO; June, 46; July, 46. Total, 3OS
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
INSTITUTES GREAT INFLUENCE ON MINING PROGRESS.

bers of that great organization at the
head of development work.
In accordance with the gigantic scale
on which everything is done in California.
whether welcoming veterans of war or
captains of peace, big programme is
mapped out, which with the business ses-
sions of the next three days will tax the
receptive faculties of the visitors. 1t
were better. perhaps, had they been able
to come before the foothill streams Of the
dusty Channels Of TO-DAY but If their heir
presence or their counsel can in any way
aid in the movement toward conservation
of water in California now in progress,
such aid will be one of the most valuable
results of their visit.
j. F. HALLORAN,
Publisher Mining and Scientific PresA
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
KERN.

Kern County has made big record in
mineral locations. largely on account of
the oil boom. though much prospecting is
going on through its Sierra Nevada and
desert mineral regions, where great un-
developed gold and other mineral re-
sources abound. The lode and placer To-
cations were as follows: January, 24S;
February 1893; March. 162; April 167; May,
26S; June 347; July. 1853; August, rs. Total,
1854.
The number of transfers of mining prop
critics recorded is reported by the County
Recorder at 4S8
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
AMADOR.

There were eighty filings on mining
claims in Amador County to August q,
as follows: January 2S; February, H.;
March 7; April. s; May, IA; June. /; July,
6: August 5. There are no existing or
ganized districts, but the district records
of the Volcano and Clinton districts have
been returned to those districts. There
were eighty-one mining properties sold
and nineteen bonded.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25

Napa County is fourteenth in rank
among the counties of the State in min
eral production, which amounted to $780,,
966 in 1898, because of it's quicksilver,
mineral waters and magnesite. in each of
which it leads all the counties of the
State 1t has no other mineral products
worthy of mention. Increased mining
activity is reported this year. The mining
locations in this well settled horticultural
county were: January, Z; March, II; May,
6; June, l; July, L; August, 5. Total, 81.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25

The heart of the mineral region of Mari
posa County is the great Mariposa grant
of many thousands of acres, in which no
prospector may locate and which was re-
Gently sold to a London syndicate. Out
side of the grant there We're 316 locations
filed as follows: January, 80; February,
Al; March. 43; April. Sc; May, 50; June, u;
July. 46; August, %.
Twenty eight mining properties have
been sold and seven bonded.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
ORANGE.

The oil production of Southern Califor-
mia is being rapidly increased by Orange
County in the northern part of which
fine field has been lately developed The
location notices filed. almost entirely for
oil claims, were as follows. January, 4;
February, l: March. 4; April, 5; May, 6;
June. 4; July, IS; August. 8. Total, As.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25

Plumas County is almost exclusively
mining county, ribbed with mineralized
veins and holds vast beds of ancient and
recent auriferous gravels, but suffers
from lack of transportation facilities. 1t
is enjoying new mining activity, however,
as the following record shows:
Placer ocations-January, II: February,
13; March, 81 April. 10; May, II; June. l9;
July "a; August, IA. Total, III.
Lode locations-January 2l; February,
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
LASSEN.

Lassen County includes a great northern
mineral region in the Sierras and is one
of those out -of-the-way counties suffering
from neglect through lack of ready COM
munication. The report from Lassen
County includes the following: THE con-
dition of the mining industry in Lassen
County is far better and more hopeful
than for ten years last past More pros
pecting is being done and with better re-
suits. More capital is being invested in
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25

Scammon. comes the report: There is
there being only three mining notices filed
in this office since last January. There
are no mines in operation in this county
that | know of. -
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
BUTTE.

Butte County displays forty-one quartz
and sixty-six placer locations, total of
107, and fifty-seven transfers of mining
properties The placer locations have
mainly been with a view to dredging and
several gold dredgers will soon be added
to the five now operating on the Feather
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
CoLUSA.

Colusa County has been one of the
smallest mineral producers in the State.
but the recent oil and copper booms have
stimulated great activity in prospecting
this county's latent resources of these
products The number of location no.
tices. which is surprisingly large, is re-
ported as follows:
January. copper; February IL copper;
March, copper; April, s copper; May, l
copper and 1913 placer oil locations; June,
3S oil; July, 5S oil; August. 45 OIL Total,
copper 20 and oil 264 Grand total, 293.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
SAN DIEGO.

In San Diego County the record of min
ing locations is as follows: January, 20:
February, 103: March, SO; April, 3d. May,
81; June, 81; July, 49,; August, 95. Total,
5on
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25

The zinc miners are looking forward to
a new market for zinc. One of the new
usages of spelter which promises to come
in favor is the zinc shingle for roofing.
zinc being a non-conductor of heat and
cold, makes it more agreeable for one do
ing business near the roof.