Volume 11 (1865) (424 pages)

V Kali $ EE OUT of Alsetul Arts, Science, and ining and Werhanical Lrogress. DEWEY & €CO., PUBLISID ni aes cind Patent sollettorn, Se VOLUME XI, Number 15, TABLE OF CONTENTS. The Recent Earthquake. No Low of Contidunce Electricity—lts Relation to. Mattor—Ocean Telegraphy. The Silver Mines of Nevada, Direct Acting Pumplog En. ae and Direct Acting Winding Engines Cteap lallroads for the nes, The themlatrv of Stlver Veins A Fatent Wetl. Verrible Steaiuboat Explosion Bineltlng Copper Ores —A tew Discovery. the Rawhide Mining Investments. 7 Washoe Consolldated Mining Company. The Bunker Nil Cupper Mine The Esyle Quartz Mining Co. The Fomudries, Wood for Another day. Preparing forthe Future, Huw to Train Athletes. Miutng Sninmary. Edltorial and selecled. Mining Shareholders’ Directory. Stock Sales and Reports, Sun Francisco Prices Current New Mining and Other A vertiscinents, Etc, The Sale of Hanch. THE EAGLE QUARTZ MINING COMPANY. This company is located about three and a half miles eoutheasterly from Volcaao, Amador county, and is now mnking preparatione for a vigorous development of their mines. Tbe property was originally loeated and for a long time worked by a large company of Mexicans, who erected eome four or five small etamp mills and arastras, with which they took out fully $700,000 of freo gold, chiefly from the eurface of the mines. Like most otber Mexi. can opcratioas, thie also gradually suffered from neglect and bnd management, uatil the proprietors finally found themselves in debt, when tho property eoon passed ont of their hands. It snbeequently was held for short intervnls by several otber parties, and finally passed into the bands of tbe present proprietors—all San Francisco partiee—who are now, as we have already stated, about to recomMmence operations in earnest. The mills were originally located upon the top of tbe high river hank, where tbe Mexicans did all their miniag, never going down more thaa forty feet ia any of the five leads of which tbe property consists. One of the late proprietors removed the principal mill dowa near the bed of tbe Mokelumne, where it aow staads with two twelve-foot araetras, aad from which point tbe company propose to tunnel into the veine, all of which, crossing the river pase directly into the bill, affordiag most favorable facilities for workiag toa great depth. Thecompaay owas 4,000 feet ia eacb vein, and 750 acres of heavily timbered wood laad adjoining. <A tannel bas been etarted on the principal vein, which it struck in about eighty feet, and ata point where it is twelve iacbes thick; but whicb has widened to thirty-two incbes in a distance of tweaty feet. Tbe rock looks remarkahly well, shows considerable free gold and carries a large amonnt of eulpharete, which assay at the rate of $1,000 per toa, whea coacentrated. An assay was sbowa us with a buttoa wortb $2.02, which was takea from twenty-five pouads of the rock--$168 to the toa. This bids fair to become a very valuable property. It is loeated withiu tweaty-four hoars’ travel of Saa Fraucisco. ae Smver Meaar.—Messrs. Kaowlee & Clark have been awarded a eilver medal, epecial premiam, by tbe Mechanics’ Fair, for their new Combination of gold aad vulcanite dentistry, instead of a diploma, as was previously pabliebed. Another SHocx.—Aaotber distiact earthquake shock was felt ia this city about a quarter before one o’clock yeeterday morniag. It Was quite as severe at Saata Clara os tbe one on Monday. j THE RECENT EARTHQUAKE. The grent sensation of the week has been tho earthquake, which occurred at fifteen iniautes hefore one on Sunday last, nnd which, by conimion consent, lias been prononnced the most eevere which has visited this coast for the last sixty ycars, at least. It was an occurrence which will long be remembered in the history of San Francisco ond tbe State. Towever light men may speak of it now that it ie pnst, nnd our beautiful city still stande triumpbant over the convulsions of nature ; certaia it is thnt the terrible moment of panic which occurred when the final ehoek came to those who were pent up within walls of brick and stone, was an instant in which the bravest henrt might well qnail, aad oac which might reasonnhly be expected to unnerve the strungest maa, and render him weak like a child. It has beea our lot to experience eome of the heaviest shocks felt in this city within the last fifteen years ; and we remained quietly in our sent, (at church) during tho first shock, whieh wae quite a heavy one for San Francieco; but that maa must have been eitber more or less than human, who could have remained stoically indiffereat to the rujp nnd déstruction which was threatencd when the convulsiva reached its crisis, and the heaviest walle swayed to and fro and trembled like an aepen, while others tottered and fell. Thousands of our populatioa were in the churches at the momeat—the most dangerous clnss of edifices in which we can be placed at euch a time—but we hear of no unmaaly act on the pnrt of any of our citizens. The mea of Califoraia arc noted the world over for their bravery and preseace of miad, when ia suddea danger, in the presenee of tbe opposite sex,as has repeatedly been aoticed oa board of our crowded aud ill-fated steamers. This peculiar trait was especially noticeable oa that occaeioa ; aad, forgetful of eelf, thousands of stout arms were raised ia an attitnde of protectioa or with the view to quiet alarm nnd restore confidence to those whose weaker aervee may excuse a yieldiag to enddea and overwhelming danger. The daily press of tbe city has given with the most miaute particularity the chief iacideats of tho occasioa, aad a full detail of tbe injuries which resulted to persons and property. It was certaialy a most remarkable circamstaace that ao oue was killed or eeriously injured, from tbe numerous falling of fire walls, cornices, etc., whicb occurred in almost every part of the city. Tbelimits at our disposal will aot admit of any detail, ia tbis connectioa, of the catastrophes which occurred; our remarks must neceesarily be confined to a few generalities or euch particulars ae bave not come uader the aotice of our cotemporaries. As tothe foree aad directioa of the disturbance, we have abundaat proof. Perhaps a0 better iadex of this caa be cited than a cireumstance which oecurred in the eouthwest corner room of the third story of tbe old Exchange buildiug opposite the post office. Tbat room was occupied by two gentlemea of our acqaaiataace as a dormitory. A sbort time previous to the occurreace, a comimoa wash tub, holding about five pails full, had been filled to SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1865. middle of the room. After the shock had passed, the fact was carefully noted that fully tico-thirds of the water had been thrown out of this tub. ‘The exteut and violence of the vibration which could produce such a result may be readily nppreciated. ‘Ihe opposite directione in which the water wns evidently tbrowu, also nfforded a very good iudex of the direction of the earth-wave, which nearly all observers agree iu saying to have beea from the nortbwest to the southenst. So violent and rapid was the vibration that n great number of chimneys were entirely broken from their supports, but mostly left etanding iu almost their natural position, a few only being tbrown down, nnd a few more or less twisted apparently as by a circular movement. The fact of an upward as well as forward wave-like motioa, is proved by a fact which occurred during the lighter sboek which was experienced about half past tea the next day, in the plilosopbical instrument shop of Mr. Roach, on Wasbingtou street, directly opposite tho postoffice entrance. When that shoek oceurred, one of his workmen was sitting in a chair directly’ fronting a very large barometer, which was hanging against a brick wall, with his eye, at the iastant, upou the mercury ia the tube. While thue looking be saw tbe mereury suddenly drop about half an inch, and at the same instant perceived tbe tremor. Tbis shock, it will be recollected, was a very slight one compared with the one on Sunday ; yet. tbe upward movemeut whicb depressed tbe barometer aust have beea several inches. Ia tbe same sbop, oa Sunday, a thermometer tabe somo eightees iaches in length, witbout a case, was banging against a brick wall by the side of a barometer, the case of which etood out from the wall some three inches, but was so placed thatit could not swing out as tbe tube might. ‘The latteral movement of the wall, on Sunday, threw this tube out eo that it swung over upoa the face of the barometer hanging by its side, and lodged there, where it is still suffered to remaia for the examiaation of the curious. Water was slopped out from several vessels, ia this shop, similar to that from the tub in the Exchange Building already mentioned, and distaat eome 500 feet. This occurreace indicates a latteral movemeat of the wall of at least oae foot 1 It occurred in the secoad story of the building. At tbe time the shock occurred, oae of tbe proprietors of this paper was standing upoa a high mountainoue: elevation a sbort distance to the northward of Santa Cruz, eome seveaty miles south of thie city. The first indicatioa of the shock there was a loud tumbling aoise, evideatly from below tbe surface of the earth, and approaching the spot where he stood from tbe northward. The avise was aceompaaied with the usual vibration of the eartb, immediately upon which there was aa evident commotion among animate as well as iaaaimate natare. The cattle masifested their cognizance of the phenomenom by an evident coasteraation and unueual bellowing, while aumerous flocks of quail suddealy rose from their bidiag places nnd whizzed away in unmistakehle fright. At tbe same iustant a huge boulder, staudiag upoa a aeigbboring height, a quarter the hrim with water aad left standiug in the, of a mile distant, aad weighing maay toas, whicb had withstood the earthquake sbocks of hundreds of years, and tho numerous efforts of mon who had vninly endenvored to dislodge it by levers, was loosed from ita fonndation by this extrnordinary coavulsion, and went crashing nnd tbundering down tbe mountain side into the canoa below ! The shock of the earthquake was very distinctly felt in the barbor nud outside of the Heads. ‘The sehooner Fayaway, on ber trip from Mouterey to tbis port, experienced a very eensiblo ebock, from which the first thought was that she liad struck a rock ; the ehock was heavy enough to jarthe dishee on the tahle. The sea was perfectly smooth at tbe time, but a etiff breeze immediately eprung up, ond ia a few minutee they bada very rough sea. The experience of a vessel just oatside the Heads was very similar to the Fayaway. Aa, officer of a vessel which lay at ancbor in tbo barbor, states to us tbat his first notice of anything uausual wasa rattling of the cbain cable, as tbough it were dragging the anchor over rocks upon the bottom ; the vessel was also eeasibly agitated witb a trembling motion, as from a violeat agitatioa of tbe water. Almost immediately thereafter came a confused aoise from the city front, and dust was also noticed to rise from several points which must bave been produced from the falling walls. The calm that preceded tbe shock in the city was also bere, as at eea, succeeded hy a violent wind. We bnd iateadedto bave followed the example of our cotemporaries and pbilosophize a little upon the subject of seismology, a term by which the diecuesion of facts connected with eartbquakes is known; but the epace which we bave already occupied upoa this eubject, iaducesas to defer euch discussion uutil another week. Treaecrs Recerers—We would call especial atteation to tbe Associated Brokers’ Stoek Circular, of the preseat week, whicb willbe foundin another column. It contaias the usaal quarterly report, recapitulating the treaeure receipts for the first three quarters of tbe present year. It isa gratifying fact that our treasure yield has beea gradually and regularly increasing for the past four years. The recorded receipts of treasure from the aiiaee for the past year to date bae been $41,640,420, which, by adding the uaual ten per cent. for private haads, will be inoreased to $45,804,562, a gaia of $2,594,455, over the same period last year. Piantine Cuesnuts.— We notice in aa Ohio journal,a commuaication from Dr. Kirtlaad, in relatioa to the cultivation of cbestauts. He raised in his garden, from seed, tbe Freneb, Spaaisb, aad Italian cbestnuts, some twenty years ngo, which be traasplaated, and which, when ten years old, commeaced bearing crops. He tbinks they will pay well to cultivate, and also recommends the ehellbark bickory nat for cultivation. He saysthe three kinds cf chesaute aamed are about equal in eize. Tbe chéstnut has beea epokea of ns a tree well suited to California. We see ao reason why the chestaat and hickory might not: be made to tbrive bere aad retura a rich reward to the plaater. Tbey would, doubtless, both produce fruit mucb sooner here thaa ia the Atlaatic Statee,as all other treee which have . hitherto been tried here are found to do.

V Kali $ EE OUT of Alsetul Arts, Science, and ining and Werhanical Lrogress. DEWEY & €CO., PUBLISID ni aes cind Patent sollettorn, Se VOLUME XI, Number 15, TABLE OF CONTENTS. The Recent Earthquake. No Low of Contidunce Electricity—lts Relation to. Mattor—Ocean Telegraphy. The Silver Mines of Nevada, Direct Acting Pumplog En. ae and Direct Acting Winding Engines Cteap lallroads for the nes, The themlatrv of Stlver Veins A Fatent Wetl. Verrible Steaiuboat Explosion Bineltlng Copper Ores —A tew Discovery. the Rawhide Mining Investments. 7 Washoe Consolldated Mining Company. The Bunker Nil Cupper Mine The Esyle Quartz Mining Co. The Fomudries, Wood for Another day. Preparing forthe Future, Huw to Train Athletes. Miutng Sninmary. Edltorial and selecled. Mining Shareholders’ Directory. Stock Sales and Reports, Sun Francisco Prices Current New Mining and Other A vertiscinents, Etc, The Sale of Hanch. THE EAGLE QUARTZ MINING COMPANY. This company is located about three and a half miles eoutheasterly from Volcaao, Amador county, and is now mnking preparatione for a vigorous development of their mines. Tbe property was originally loeated and for a long time worked by a large company of Mexicans, who erected eome four or five small etamp mills and arastras, with which they took out fully $700,000 of freo gold, chiefly from the eurface of the mines. Like most otber Mexi. can opcratioas, thie also gradually suffered from neglect and bnd management, uatil the proprietors finally found themselves in debt, when tho property eoon passed ont of their hands. It snbeequently was held for short intervnls by several otber parties, and finally passed into the bands of tbe present proprietors—all San Francisco partiee—who are now, as we have already stated, about to recomMmence operations in earnest. The mills were originally located upon the top of tbe high river hank, where tbe Mexicans did all their miniag, never going down more thaa forty feet ia any of the five leads of which tbe property consists. One of the late proprietors removed the principal mill dowa near the bed of tbe Mokelumne, where it aow staads with two twelve-foot araetras, aad from which point tbe company propose to tunnel into the veine, all of which, crossing the river pase directly into the bill, affordiag most favorable facilities for workiag toa great depth. Thecompaay owas 4,000 feet ia eacb vein, and 750 acres of heavily timbered wood laad adjoining. <A tannel bas been etarted on the principal vein, which it struck in about eighty feet, and ata point where it is twelve iacbes thick; but whicb has widened to thirty-two incbes in a distance of tweaty feet. Tbe rock looks remarkahly well, shows considerable free gold and carries a large amonnt of eulpharete, which assay at the rate of $1,000 per toa, whea coacentrated. An assay was sbowa us with a buttoa wortb $2.02, which was takea from twenty-five pouads of the rock--$168 to the toa. This bids fair to become a very valuable property. It is loeated withiu tweaty-four hoars’ travel of Saa Fraucisco. ae Smver Meaar.—Messrs. Kaowlee & Clark have been awarded a eilver medal, epecial premiam, by tbe Mechanics’ Fair, for their new Combination of gold aad vulcanite dentistry, instead of a diploma, as was previously pabliebed. Another SHocx.—Aaotber distiact earthquake shock was felt ia this city about a quarter before one o’clock yeeterday morniag. It Was quite as severe at Saata Clara os tbe one on Monday. j THE RECENT EARTHQUAKE. The grent sensation of the week has been tho earthquake, which occurred at fifteen iniautes hefore one on Sunday last, nnd which, by conimion consent, lias been prononnced the most eevere which has visited this coast for the last sixty ycars, at least. It was an occurrence which will long be remembered in the history of San Francisco ond tbe State. Towever light men may speak of it now that it ie pnst, nnd our beautiful city still stande triumpbant over the convulsions of nature ; certaia it is thnt the terrible moment of panic which occurred when the final ehoek came to those who were pent up within walls of brick and stone, was an instant in which the bravest henrt might well qnail, aad oac which might reasonnhly be expected to unnerve the strungest maa, and render him weak like a child. It has beea our lot to experience eome of the heaviest shocks felt in this city within the last fifteen years ; and we remained quietly in our sent, (at church) during tho first shock, whieh wae quite a heavy one for San Francieco; but that maa must have been eitber more or less than human, who could have remained stoically indiffereat to the rujp nnd déstruction which was threatencd when the convulsiva reached its crisis, and the heaviest walle swayed to and fro and trembled like an aepen, while others tottered and fell. Thousands of our populatioa were in the churches at the momeat—the most dangerous clnss of edifices in which we can be placed at euch a time—but we hear of no unmaaly act on the pnrt of any of our citizens. The mea of Califoraia arc noted the world over for their bravery and preseace of miad, when ia suddea danger, in the presenee of tbe opposite sex,as has repeatedly been aoticed oa board of our crowded aud ill-fated steamers. This peculiar trait was especially noticeable oa that occaeioa ; aad, forgetful of eelf, thousands of stout arms were raised ia an attitnde of protectioa or with the view to quiet alarm nnd restore confidence to those whose weaker aervee may excuse a yieldiag to enddea and overwhelming danger. The daily press of tbe city has given with the most miaute particularity the chief iacideats of tho occasioa, aad a full detail of tbe injuries which resulted to persons and property. It was certaialy a most remarkable circamstaace that ao oue was killed or eeriously injured, from tbe numerous falling of fire walls, cornices, etc.,

whicb occurred in almost every part of the city. Tbelimits at our disposal will aot admit of any detail, ia tbis connectioa, of the catastrophes which occurred; our remarks must neceesarily be confined to a few generalities or euch particulars ae bave not come uader the aotice of our cotemporaries. As tothe foree aad directioa of the disturbance, we have abundaat proof. Perhaps a0 better iadex of this caa be cited than a cireumstance which oecurred in the eouthwest corner room of the third story of tbe old Exchange buildiug opposite the post office. Tbat room was occupied by two gentlemea of our acqaaiataace as a dormitory. A sbort time previous to the occurreace, a comimoa wash tub, holding about five pails full, had been filled to SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1865. middle of the room. After the shock had passed, the fact was carefully noted that fully tico-thirds of the water had been thrown out of this tub. ‘The exteut and violence of the vibration which could produce such a result may be readily nppreciated. ‘Ihe opposite directione in which the water wns evidently tbrowu, also nfforded a very good iudex of the direction of the earth-wave, which nearly all observers agree iu saying to have beea from the nortbwest to the southenst. So violent and rapid was the vibration that n great number of chimneys were entirely broken from their supports, but mostly left etanding iu almost their natural position, a few only being tbrown down, nnd a few more or less twisted apparently as by a circular movement. The fact of an upward as well as forward wave-like motioa, is proved by a fact which occurred during the lighter sboek which was experienced about half past tea the next day, in the plilosopbical instrument shop of Mr. Roach, on Wasbingtou street, directly opposite tho postoffice entrance. When that shoek oceurred, one of his workmen was sitting in a chair directly’ fronting a very large barometer, which was hanging against a brick wall, with his eye, at the iastant, upou the mercury ia the tube. While thue looking be saw tbe mereury suddenly drop about half an inch, and at the same instant perceived tbe tremor. Tbis shock, it will be recollected, was a very slight one compared with the one on Sunday ; yet. tbe upward movemeut whicb depressed tbe barometer aust have beea several inches. Ia tbe same sbop, oa Sunday, a thermometer tabe somo eightees iaches in length, witbout a case, was banging against a brick wall by the side of a barometer, the case of which etood out from the wall some three inches, but was so placed thatit could not swing out as tbe tube might. ‘The latteral movement of the wall, on Sunday, threw this tube out eo that it swung over upoa the face of the barometer hanging by its side, and lodged there, where it is still suffered to remaia for the examiaation of the curious. Water was slopped out from several vessels, ia this shop, similar to that from the tub in the Exchange Building already mentioned, and distaat eome 500 feet. This occurreace indicates a latteral movemeat of the wall of at least oae foot 1 It occurred in the secoad story of the building. At tbe time the shock occurred, oae of tbe proprietors of this paper was standing upoa a high mountainoue: elevation a sbort distance to the northward of Santa Cruz, eome seveaty miles south of thie city. The first indicatioa of the shock there was a loud tumbling aoise, evideatly from below tbe surface of the earth, and approaching the spot where he stood from tbe northward. The avise was aceompaaied with the usual vibration of the eartb, immediately upon which there was aa evident commotion among animate as well as iaaaimate natare. The cattle masifested their cognizance of the phenomenom by an evident coasteraation and unueual bellowing, while aumerous flocks of quail suddealy rose from their bidiag places nnd whizzed away in unmistakehle fright. At tbe same iustant a huge boulder, staudiag upoa a aeigbboring height, a quarter the hrim with water aad left standiug in the, of a mile distant, aad weighing maay toas, whicb had withstood the earthquake sbocks of hundreds of years, and tho numerous efforts of mon who had vninly endenvored to dislodge it by levers, was loosed from ita fonndation by this extrnordinary coavulsion, and went crashing nnd tbundering down tbe mountain side into the canoa below ! The shock of the earthquake was very distinctly felt in the barbor nud outside of the Heads. ‘The sehooner Fayaway, on ber trip from Mouterey to tbis port, experienced a very eensiblo ebock, from which the first thought was that she liad struck a rock ; the ehock was heavy enough to jarthe dishee on the tahle. The sea was perfectly smooth at tbe time, but a etiff breeze immediately eprung up, ond ia a few minutee they bada very rough sea. The experience of a vessel just oatside the Heads was very similar to the Fayaway. Aa, officer of a vessel which lay at ancbor in tbo barbor, states to us tbat his first notice of anything uausual wasa rattling of the cbain cable, as tbough it were dragging the anchor over rocks upon the bottom ; the vessel was also eeasibly agitated witb a trembling motion, as from a violeat agitatioa of tbe water. Almost immediately thereafter came a confused aoise from the city front, and dust was also noticed to rise from several points which must bave been produced from the falling walls. The calm that preceded tbe shock in the city was also bere, as at eea, succeeded hy a violent wind. We bnd iateadedto bave followed the example of our cotemporaries and pbilosophize a little upon the subject of seismology, a term by which the diecuesion of facts connected with eartbquakes is known; but the epace which we bave already occupied upoa this eubject, iaducesas to defer euch discussion uutil another week. Treaecrs Recerers—We would call especial atteation to tbe Associated Brokers’ Stoek Circular, of the preseat week, whicb willbe foundin another column. It contaias the usaal quarterly report, recapitulating the treaeure receipts for the first three quarters of tbe present year. It isa gratifying fact that our treasure yield has beea gradually and regularly increasing for the past four years. The recorded receipts of treasure from the aiiaee for the past year to date bae been $41,640,420, which, by adding the uaual ten per cent. for private haads, will be inoreased to $45,804,562, a gaia of $2,594,455, over the same period last year. Piantine Cuesnuts.— We notice in aa Ohio journal,a commuaication from Dr. Kirtlaad, in relatioa to the cultivation of cbestauts. He raised in his garden, from seed, tbe Freneb, Spaaisb, aad Italian cbestnuts, some twenty years ngo, which be traasplaated, and which, when ten years old, commeaced bearing crops. He tbinks they will pay well to cultivate, and also recommends the ehellbark bickory nat for cultivation. He saysthe three kinds cf chesaute aamed are about equal in eize. Tbe chéstnut has beea epokea of ns a tree well suited to California. We see ao reason why the chestaat and hickory might not: be made to tbrive bere aad retura a rich reward to the plaater. Tbey would, doubtless, both produce fruit mucb sooner here thaa ia the Atlaatic Statee,as all other treee which have . hitherto been tried here are found to do.