Volume 11 (1865) (424 pages)

The Rining and Scientific Press, A Froveixc Mivt at Conras.—Several experieaced Grass Valley nil mea are making arrangements to start a floariag mill at Colfax. A mill loeated nt that point, within a eonvenent distance of the agricultural districts of the Sacramento Valley, aitd near the fertile raneltes of the foot-hills, cold scarcely fail to bea profitable investinent, An excellent atarket would be obtained in the mines, wtd beyond the moantaius, for the articles produced at the imill. — A Goon Namwe.— Morris Ketehum, tte father of the great defaulter in New York, is reported to havo said to ltis creditors, “If 1 could havo my son back, with his good name, and yon were all paid in full, I would dio eontent.” Such is the last ambitioa of great finaneiers. A lifetime of activity, aa ample fortune its reward ; and now nll would be given for a sou’s good name, Young mea—tfast young men—think of tls. Tue first soldicr mustered into the Uaited Strtes servico to suppress the rebellioa is still in service, aud on duty at Washingtoa. He was sworn in April LOth, 1861, orderly sergeaat of the Washington Light Iafnatry, and bis name is James Coleman. Gexivs is simply a natural aptitade possessed by a persoa for learning haw to do soute particular thing better aad more easily tha other persons. Ovreomiercial citics are rapidly heaping up tiches. Bostoa is valued at four hundred million dollars ; Philadelphia is estimated nt six Itnadred ntillions ; and New York is wortlt about ag ntucli as both of them combined. GROCERS EVERYWHERE SHOULD ADD TO TItEIR ASSORTMENT OF OOODS THE STANDARD WASHING POWDER, Which has heeome, sinco Its Introductlon In thls State— about twelve months since — with at least ten thonsand Famllies, nn INDISPENSAULE of E bold Ei Se NOVEL! USEFUL! INDISPENSABLE! COVrYRIGILT SECURED. BROCHKW AWS PERPETUAL CALENDAR NEW! Slows without hesitation The Date or Day of the Wee k Or Any Day or Date in the 19th Century, Renderlag It a prompt and accnrato ASSISTANT RECIONER, Besides answering fully Aud Convenlently All the Purposes of tho Ordinary Counting-Ilonse Calendar 1852. 1866 ANEW VOLUM™ME. Feurtcenth Yenr of Publfication, THE GOLDEN ERA. Founded in 1852, The oldest Weekly Paper In the State, permancntly cs. tablished, and more widely circulated nt home and abroad than any nther on the lactic Coast. In Callfornja, tho Atluulle states, curd throughant the ontire Meld of its great and rapidly lngreasing clrculatlou, Tar Gotpex Era Is nalversally regarded aga Literary and Faintly Journal of unequalled excellence, Among its contribnters are alt the hest writors on this sido of the Continent, and correspond: ents of distingulshcd abillly lu New York, Parls and London. Liberal Terms to Clubs. Tue GotvEN Ika Is furnished tn CLUBS at the following rates; Three Copies, one year, Ten Dollars ; Fivo Copies, ono year, Fitteen Dollars ; Ten Copies, one your, Twenty five Dollars. Ah extra copy will be forwarded, free, for one year, to the persou seudjug aciub of live or teu subseribers, S Tnx Cotpen Era Is now enlarged by the addition of cigbt During tbo NI 'b Century. The Galondar for earch month Is arranged in a singie colnnin, asin the regularly published (book) Almuannes, renderlug it more ensy for r ig, In most 1 , than the!customary Counting-House form of Calendars. It ls simply underslood, It affords Ibe simw reference from year to year. It avolds errors. It ocenpies aconveulent space. Its nsefulness Increases by use. QOndce used It becomes Indisponsable, Itls worth one hundrei times Its eost. « Its cost Is trifling, but Its value fs constant and perpetual. For a single reference It ls often worth ten tlmes Its cost.in FINANCIAL, LEGAL aiid pusiNness transactions, It saves many. grave and Important mistakes. DEWEY & CO., Sole Agents For the Copyright on the Paclifie Ceast. Fon sate only hy Canvassing Agents, and at tho Mining and Selentific Press Putent Agency, Beok, News and Job Printing Office, 505 Clay Street, San Francisco. No person, nfter trying oar Washing Powder, WHI ever be withont It-NO OTHER SOAP NEEDED— Harmicss to the Clothing, CHEAP, of quick results, anda THOROUCCH CLEANER, It Is every way prefcrabte to Seap. TRY IT! Manufactured hy the STANDARD SOAP CO., 23vtl-tm 207 Conmnerelal street San Franclsco. FOR SALE! A STEAM ENGINE! WS 38 CYLINDER,F JUR-FOOT STROKE, IN PERret Order, Cun be seen rimning at ihe San Franelseo Vioneer Woolen Factory, Black Point. Inquiro at VULCAN IRON WORKS, 137 and t39 First atrect, or to , HEYNERMANN & CO., SIL and 313 Callfornia street, 36v1ltf Important to Miners. NEW PATENT ROASTING PROCESS. T AM NOW PREPARED TO OFFER TO THE MININO eommunity s New Ronstlng Process, whleh has been approved as novel and benefielal by the best anthoritles In Europe. A Furnaco cnn be erected In a few days ata trifllng expense, and one man Is able to Roast ten tonsof Ore or Conceutrated Sulphurets per day, MORE COMPLETELY AND CHEAPER Than uny other Process. <All the Sniphur Is saved, hy peing converted into Bisulphide of Carbon, whieh is a yaluable product, and will pay nearly all expenscs. For paorticalars, apply to . J. MOSHEIMER, 423 Washington street. 26v-3m ‘WENDY'S IMPROVED BLOW-PIPE. This Convenient Helpmeet —~To THR —— ASSAYER, CHEMIST, DENTIST, JEWELLER, PROSPECTOR AND MILLMAN, Can now be procured, at the Patentee’s price, hy sending your erders, by mail or otherwise, to the Office of the Mining and Scleutifie Press, This artiele was moro fully mentioncd in tbe Press of April 15th, 1805. Since that time, however, Mr, Hendy has made a further iinproyement by attachiug a ruhver hose betweoa the mouth-pieco nnd the pipo, enabling tho blower to change his position withont disturhing the direetion or constant accuracy of tho enrrenton tho vbjeet upon which it is turued. Tho main portion of tho vlow-pipe Is mao with a joint, at which .« yulvo {s placed, whieh 13 oponed when the operator blows and elosed immediately whoeuheecases. By this arrangement tho littia hag or bladder is readily lilled at a single breath, aud with yery little exertion. When so filled, a continous eurrent of alr is fureed Irom the nozzle of the plpe by the mere contractive force of the gutta percha. This foree is uniform nutil the air is yery nearly exbansed. Tho current may bo easily varieil or courely cut otf hy gently pressing the fingers npou the neck of the bladder aboyo the nipple to whicl it is attached, Price, Complete. CAML AND EXAMINE SAMPLES, Sent by mail, il’ desired, Address DEWEY & co,, No 505 Clay street, Sin Brancisco + ARE.O8, 16¥10-tf New Volume — OF THE — Mining und Sclentitic Press Issued every Saturday. Each number contains 16 ’ pngesnnd 6t columns @lze of Larper’s Weekly). PUALISHED BY DEWEY & CO., Patent Agents, Pablishers nud Jeb Printers 605 Cluny Street, San Frunclseo, THE ELEVETTH VOLUME Of tbe Minine anp ScieNtIFIoO Press commences under advallages most gratifying to lts pubUshers, who assert, with pleasnre, that a continued Improvement in this journal ine be anticlpated by lts numerous aud rapldly inereasing . readers. We shuil continne to devote n large space in our columng to the varlous and best methods of treating ores and saving gold and other preelous metals In every form, furnlshin; valuable hints to millimen, prospeetors, oil-workers an inIners generally, not to be found tn any otber pubiicntlon. New inachincry, latest inventlons and ciscoverles, and . all matters pertalnlug tothe mechanical, nanufacturiag and indystrial resources of the Pactiic States, wlll receive careful attention. Steck markot reperts will be published as recelved from tho officlal recerds. Our carofuily compiled “ Mining Sharehyldcrs’ Directery ” will qg ve alalthiul monitor to pares holding stock, aud u desirable reeord for reterence o brokers. s Friends pleased with our efforts in the publication of the Pnzss can render us essential aid by lurnishing correspondence and all Inipertant laformation which may coimc under thelr observation, and by calling the attcntlen of their Ig) the dable features ot the paner the appreciation of which fayors will be duly munilested by tho constant Improvement of our journal. “ Specimen coples will be sent tree to those desiring to exnmino Allene cr before subscribing. 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The Rining and Scientific Press, A Froveixc Mivt at Conras.—Several experieaced Grass Valley nil mea are making arrangements to start a floariag mill at Colfax. A mill loeated nt that point, within a eonvenent distance of the agricultural districts of the Sacramento Valley, aitd near the fertile raneltes of the foot-hills, cold scarcely fail to bea profitable investinent, An excellent atarket would be obtained in the mines, wtd beyond the moantaius, for the articles produced at the imill. — A Goon Namwe.— Morris Ketehum, tte father of the great defaulter in New York, is reported to havo said to ltis creditors, “If 1 could havo my son back, with his good name, and yon were all paid in full, I would dio eontent.” Such is the last ambitioa of great finaneiers. A lifetime of activity, aa ample fortune its reward ; and now nll would be given for a sou’s good name, Young mea—tfast young men—think of tls. Tue first soldicr mustered into the Uaited Strtes servico to suppress the rebellioa is still in service, aud on duty at Washingtoa. He was sworn in April LOth, 1861, orderly sergeaat of the Washington Light Iafnatry, and bis name is James Coleman. Gexivs is simply a natural aptitade possessed by a persoa for learning haw to do soute particular thing better aad more easily tha other persons. Ovreomiercial citics are rapidly heaping up tiches. Bostoa is valued at four hundred million dollars ; Philadelphia is estimated nt six Itnadred ntillions ; and New York is wortlt about ag ntucli as both of them combined. GROCERS EVERYWHERE SHOULD ADD TO TItEIR ASSORTMENT OF OOODS THE STANDARD WASHING POWDER, Which has heeome, sinco Its Introductlon In thls State— about twelve months since — with at least ten thonsand Famllies, nn INDISPENSAULE of E bold Ei Se NOVEL! USEFUL! INDISPENSABLE! COVrYRIGILT SECURED. BROCHKW AWS PERPETUAL CALENDAR NEW! Slows without hesitation The Date or Day of the Wee k Or Any Day or Date in the 19th Century, Renderlag It a prompt and accnrato ASSISTANT RECIONER, Besides answering fully Aud Convenlently All the Purposes of tho Ordinary Counting-Ilonse Calendar 1852. 1866 ANEW VOLUM™ME. Feurtcenth Yenr of Publfication, THE GOLDEN ERA. Founded in 1852, The oldest Weekly Paper In the State, permancntly cs. tablished, and more widely circulated nt home and abroad than any nther on the lactic Coast. In Callfornja, tho Atluulle states, curd throughant the ontire Meld of its great and rapidly lngreasing clrculatlou, Tar Gotpex Era Is nalversally regarded aga Literary and Faintly Journal of unequalled excellence, Among its contribnters are alt the hest writors on this sido of the Continent, and correspond: ents of distingulshcd abillly lu New York, Parls and London. Liberal Terms to Clubs. Tue GotvEN Ika Is furnished tn CLUBS at the following rates; Three Copies, one year, Ten Dollars ; Fivo Copies, ono year, Fitteen Dollars ; Ten Copies, one your, Twenty five Dollars. Ah extra copy will be forwarded, free, for one year, to the persou seudjug aciub of live or teu subseribers, S Tnx Cotpen Era Is now enlarged by the addition of cigbt During tbo NI 'b Century. The Galondar for earch month Is arranged in a singie colnnin, asin the regularly published (book) Almuannes, renderlug it more ensy for r ig, In most 1 , than the!customary Counting-House form of Calendars. It ls simply underslood, It affords Ibe simw reference from year to year. It avolds errors. It ocenpies aconveulent space. Its nsefulness Increases by use. QOndce used It becomes Indisponsable, Itls worth one hundrei times Its eost. « Its cost Is trifling, but Its value fs constant and perpetual. For a single reference It ls often worth ten tlmes Its cost.in FINANCIAL, LEGAL aiid pusiNness transactions, It saves many. grave and Important mistakes. DEWEY & CO., Sole Agents For the Copyright on the Paclifie Ceast. Fon sate only hy Canvassing Agents, and at tho Mining and Selentific Press Putent Agency, Beok, News and Job Printing Office, 505 Clay Street, San Francisco. No person, nfter trying oar Washing Powder, WHI ever be withont It-NO OTHER SOAP NEEDED— Harmicss to the Clothing, CHEAP, of quick results, anda THOROUCCH CLEANER, It Is every way prefcrabte to Seap. TRY IT! Manufactured hy the STANDARD SOAP CO., 23vtl-tm 207 Conmnerelal street San Franclsco. FOR SALE! A STEAM ENGINE! WS 38 CYLINDER,F JUR-FOOT STROKE, IN PERret Order, Cun be seen rimning at ihe San Franelseo Vioneer Woolen Factory, Black Point. Inquiro at VULCAN IRON WORKS, 137 and t39 First atrect, or to , HEYNERMANN & CO., SIL and 313 Callfornia street, 36v1ltf Important to Miners. NEW PATENT ROASTING PROCESS. T AM NOW PREPARED TO OFFER TO THE MININO eommunity s New Ronstlng Process, whleh has been approved as novel and benefielal by the best anthoritles In Europe. A Furnaco cnn be erected In a few days ata trifllng expense, and one man Is able to Roast ten tonsof Ore or Conceutrated Sulphurets per day, MORE COMPLETELY AND CHEAPER Than uny other Process. <All the Sniphur Is saved, hy peing converted into Bisulphide of Carbon, whieh is a yaluable product, and will pay nearly all expenscs. For paorticalars, apply to . J. MOSHEIMER, 423 Washington street. 26v-3m ‘WENDY'S IMPROVED BLOW-PIPE. This Convenient Helpmeet —~To THR —— ASSAYER, CHEMIST, DENTIST, JEWELLER, PROSPECTOR AND MILLMAN, Can now be procured, at the Patentee’s price, hy sending your erders, by mail or otherwise, to the Office of the Mining and Scleutifie Press, This artiele was moro fully mentioncd in tbe Press of April 15th, 1805. Since that time, however, Mr, Hendy has made a further iinproyement by attachiug a ruhver hose betweoa the mouth-pieco nnd the pipo, enabling tho blower to change his position withont disturhing the direetion or constant accuracy of tho enrrenton tho vbjeet upon which it is turued. Tho main portion of tho vlow-pipe Is mao with a joint, at which .« yulvo {s placed, whieh 13 oponed when the operator blows and elosed immediately whoeuheecases. By this arrangement tho littia hag or bladder is readily lilled at a single breath, aud with yery little exertion. When so filled, a continous eurrent of alr is fureed Irom the nozzle of the plpe by the mere contractive force of the gutta percha. This foree is uniform nutil the air is yery nearly exbansed. Tho current may bo easily varieil or courely cut otf hy gently pressing the fingers npou the neck of the bladder aboyo the nipple to whicl it is attached, Price, Complete.. CAML AND EXAMINE SAMPLES, Sent by mail, il’ desired, Address DEWEY & co,, No 505 Clay street, Sin Brancisco + ARE.O8, 16¥10-tf New Volume — OF THE — Mining und Sclentitic Press Issued every Saturday. Each number contains 16 ’ pngesnnd 6t columns @lze of Larper’s Weekly). PUALISHED BY DEWEY & CO., Patent Agents, Pablishers nud Jeb Printers 605 Cluny Street, San Frunclseo, THE ELEVETTH VOLUME Of tbe Minine anp ScieNtIFIoO Press commences under advallages most gratifying to lts pubUshers, who assert, with pleasnre, that a continued Improvement in this journal ine be anticlpated by lts numerous aud rapldly inereasing . readers. We shuil continne to devote n large space in our columng to the varlous and best methods of treating ores and saving gold and other preelous metals In every form, furnlshin; valuable hints to millimen, prospeetors, oil-workers an inIners generally, not to be found tn any otber pubiicntlon. New inachincry, latest inventlons and ciscoverles, and . all matters pertalnlug tothe mechanical, nanufacturiag and indystrial resources of the Pactiic States, wlll receive careful attention. Steck markot reperts will be published as recelved from tho officlal recerds. Our carofuily compiled “ Mining Sharehyldcrs’ Directery ” will qg ve alalthiul monitor to pares holding stock, aud u desirable reeord for reterence o brokers. s Friends pleased with our efforts in the publication of the Pnzss can render us essential aid by lurnishing correspondence and all Inipertant laformation which may coimc under thelr observation, and by calling the attcntlen of their Ig) the dable features ot the paner the appreciation of which fayors will be duly munilested by tho constant Improvement of our journal. “ Specimen coples will be sent tree to those desiring to exnmino Allene cr before subscribing. Pustmasters, Express Agents aud News-dealers, aeting us our agents, will recelye

liberal commissions. $a Bounn Voiunes For Sate. <r SUBSCRIPTION INADVANCE Ono Year, (two volumes). oy Six Months, (one voluine) 4 $5.00 3.00 FOR ADVERTISING Our terms ave very reasonable. Miniisc Companres are es pecially favored by onr rates, and careful attentien Is given to the Iegu! pubitextion ef Minino Notices. OrricE—No. 605 Clay street, corner of Sansomo. DEWEY & CO., Publishers, GO. WM. SMITIT ccee ese We B. UWER cree weed. 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