Volume 11 (1865) (424 pages)

INY, gag, Mae f ournal of Useful Arts, Science, and Blining and Mlechanical Lrogress. DEWEY & CO., PUHLISHERS And Patent Nelleltora, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1865. VOLUME xi. Number 1. “TABLE OF CONTENTS. Volume Eleven. )Anothor Glass Factory. The Froblein of Gold and Sit xelentifie Expediitun. ver Extractlon—No, 13 The Deepest Gold Mite, A Trip to Sau Jose aud Santa! Grass Valley Direeiwry. lara The Mvaican Ewlyration Mining Oporatlons In Lawer. Seheme Callforula, {Lan sittes on Lako Erle. Cottun aud les Manufaclure; All Qulet Suuth of the PotoWnt Calbornia, hac. Colttou Manufacture In Eng-. Earinquake In Missoarl. land. Novel idea, On Welts aad OULWell Boring A Bnttoniless Lake. atthe Rast. Minty Summary, MrowaxteaL—Our Foandrics; Kidltorlal and Xefected. fuprovewment tn tron. Mluing Shareholders’ DireeSuchlag: Tho Bessemer} tors. Patent in the Unit Staten;/Stuck Sales and Reports, mar cacnt In Carslage/an Francisco lriees Uurrent Muking, Brick Making: AlNew Nining aud Other AdLg ace Loading dtus-] vertlsemutite, Ete. Be~New Mining and Miscelluncous Adverisoments on page 429-%3a New Volume —oOFr ThHE— Mining and Srientific Press Issted every Saturday. Each number contalus 16 pagesand 64 columns (size of llarper'a Weekly). PUCLISHED DY DEWEY & CO., Patent Agents, Pablishers and Job Printers, 605 Cliny Street, San Franclace, THEELEVENTH VOLUME ‘Of the Misine am Sciextivic Press commences under advantages wost gratifying to lis publishers, wlio assert, with pleasure, that a contluucd Improvement In this Journal may be antlelpard by Its numerous and raplily Increasing readers. Wo slinll eontlaue todevote a large space In our columns to the varlous aid best methods of [reatlng ores and saving gold and other preclous metals In every form, furnishing valnable hints to milmen, prospectors, ult: workers and miners generally, not to be faund In any other publication. New taachinery, Jatcat Inventions and discoveries, and all niatters pertaining tothe mechonleul!, manufacturing and Industrial resources of the Paclfle States, will recelve eureful attentlon, Stock market reports will be published ag recelved from the offielal records. Our earefully complicd “Mlulng Shareholders’ Directory " will prove a falthtul monitor to purtles holding stock, and a desirable reeord for reference to brokers, Fricnds pleased wlth our efforts In tho publication of the Press ean render us casentlal ald by furnishing correspon: <dlonce and ull Important Information whieh niay come under tholr observation, and by enlllug ihe attention of thelr to the com dnble features of the paper; the uppreelation of which Yavora wlil be duty manifested by the conatant Improvement of our journal. Specimen coples will be sent free to those desiring to examine the paper beforo subserlblug. Postmasters, Express Agents and News-dealers, acting as our agente, willrecelva liberal contmissions. Rap Dounp Votomes For Gare, iY SUBSCRIPTION IN ADVANCE, Oue Year, (two volumes). sees $5.00 @lx Months, (one volume). wees 5.00 FOR ADVERTISIN Our terms are very rcayonoble. dluninc Compantss are especlally favored by our rates, and careful attention la glven to the legal publication of Minixc Norticxs. Orrics--No. 505 Clay strect, corner of Sansome. DEWEY & CO., Publishers, GoW. M. SMITH.» scene ee ol) De RWER cceees verde Te DEWEY, Tur Fourta 1n Wasuor.—The denizens of Virginia City made extensive preparations for a big bonfire on the top of Mount Davidson on the evening of the Fourth. Some thirty gallons of tar, two or three tar barrele and a lot of wood were hauled up to the summit on Mcday; also a flag-staff eixty-two feet in longth. The task of getting them up there must have beea up-bill work ; but the splendid appearance of the national emblei, lit up by the bonfire at that sightly point, must have been aniple remuneration for tbe trouble. Our Rivers.—It is stated that the Yuba and Feather rivers are fast settliug down to low water mark, ANOTHER GLASS FACTORY, Wo hetieve it is known to hut few of our citizens that we have in full operation in this city, a second glass factory, only recently established, yet npparently doing a very good husiness, and ina fair way of teeoming not only a permanont but a paying institution. Oa the rear portion of the open lot on the southcast corner of Third und Townsend streets, may be seen a wooden building, with very litpretention to architectural merit, from the central portion of whose roof springs a tall iron sinoke-stack or ehimney. ‘This unpretentious building has recently beeu converted into a glass fuetory hy Messrs. Newman & Brannan, which will hereafter he knowa as the “San Francisco Glas3 Works." It started hlowing on the 22d of May last, with a five-pot furnace. business, and have conimenced operations in a small, quiet manner, with the intention of gradually inereasing their facilities for work as circnmstaices may seem to require. One of the partners is from Pittshurg, Penasylvania, which is the chief point of glass manufacture in America; the other was edueated to his bnsiness at the New England Glass Works, in Cambridge, Mass. Their head workman is also from Cambridge, and is one of the best glass-blowers ia the country. Nothing but white ware is turned out at this establishmeat, and the quality of the articles subinitted to our inspection will compare favorably with any thiag of the kind from the East. Atthe time of our visit they were at work upon preseription bottles and lamp chimneys. Their speciality of manufaeture will be druggists’ and chemists’ ware, philosophical instruments, lamp chimneys, etc. Particular attention will be paid to private moulds. Orders for any kind or quantity of gonds will be taken on the premises, and the goods manufuctured and delivered at the shortest notice. Druggists and others will do well to give them a call, and, by favoring home productions, aid in building up this new branch of enterprise in our midst. The pots of this furaace are so eet as to be closed from the direct action of the heat, and open only to the operator from the outside. By this arrangement tbe metal is kept free from the dust aad dirt of the furnace, and consequently the work turned out is mucb clearer and more free from impurities. Rain.—The Virginia City papers chronicle the occurrence of a regular rnin storm ia that vicinity on the afternoon of the 3d inetant. Tho fall was so abundant that etreams of water ran down tbe streets. It will be recollected tbat the weather in this city on that day was such as in any other locality would indicate immediate and heavy rains. Ae it was, we got a few scattering drops, but the air was sufficieutly filled with moistare to form one of the most magnificeat rainbows ever seen in San Fraucisco. Fiuxes.—The number which we give to-day on the “ Prohlem of Gold and Silver Extraction ” is devoted to a brief discussion of the theory and philosophy of fluxes and fluxing. It will be found very interestiag and instructIts proprietors nre thoroughly skilled in their J. MINING OPERATIONS IN LOWER OALIFORNIA. Wo lind tne pleasure of a call last week from Mr. Henry S. Brooks, general business ageut of the Triunfo Mining Co., located in the San Antonio district, Lower Culifornia. From him we learn thnt mining operations ia that district continue very much as heretofore ; the political trouhles and interruptions of business on the Eastern side of the gulf have uot and probably will not reach the Peninsula. The governor of Lower Colifornia having neither neu nor means to take any active part in the disturbances which are now distracting the nation, will continne to remain quietly at his post, and recognize any central power which nay reach, with its agents, his distant and isolated province. The Triuafo und tho Maria are the only mines in the district which work their own ores; all the other mines are shipping. The Trifano Company owns its own mill; thn Maria, an adjoining claiin, rents the Pichaco mill. Mr. Brooks eaiphatieally condemns the working of mines iu that district merely for obtaining ore for shipment. His reasons are stated in substance as follows : first no ore paying under $150 to tbe ton will pay for sbipping. Lo obtain a ton of Ist class, or shippiug ore, it is necessary to raise and sort tentons. The expeuses of shipment nud reduction in Europe cannot fall short of $50 per ton, leaving $100 for interest on investment and cost of miniag and raising ten tons of mineral. The shipper gets an advnnce of about $60 per ton for his ores. In this operation the company throws aside nine tons of ore, worth ahout $40 to the ton—$360. ‘This ere can be worked on the ground #t an expense of $20 per ton, or $180 for the lot, which would leave a net profit of $180. This amount is therefore thrown away to realize less than $100 from tbe single ton of selected ore. Suppose the oreis all worked as it comes from the mine, we have—10 tons of ore Worth $51 per ton=$510 ; cost of working, $20 per ton = $200, aet profit, above cost of working, $310; or $210 more than can be realized from the ehipping policy. These figuree are based upon eix monthe of actual working at the rate of 200 tons per month, of ore from the Triunfo and Maria. The Kohler Bro’e, Franco Auwerican, Santa Gertrude and other mines on the samc lead are coasidered equally as gnod as the Trifuno and Maria. Alt of these mines would undoubtedly pay well with mills. ‘he process of working now employed thnrn ig to crush dry, roast, chloriuize with salt, work in barrels with iron to reduce the cliloride to metal, and amalgamate. Our iuformant expressee the opinion that the average of the ores on the Peninsula will equal that of aay other locality on the Pacific Coast. The superinteudents now in charge of the mines shipping ores are working under instructione from their principals, are thoroughly efficient and competeat men, and are expected to ship ores by every steamer; but under the mnnagement above described nothing bnt failure can attend their most intelligeat exertions. In order to initiate a plan for working the ores, it would nnt he necessary for each individual ive to all interested in metallurgical operations. . company to put up a mill; for with proper representation eapital might readily be interested to put up onc or more mills, sufficient to reduce nlt the ore thnt might be raised. Wood would soon beeoie scuree, were a very general movement made for working the ores on the ground, although it is now selling for from $5 to $6 per cord. Salt is delivered at Vestana or La Paz for $9 per tnn. We uaderstand that the course of Mr. Brooks, in tle management of the affuirs of the Triunfo Company, at the wine, was fully cndorsed by the Trustees, at a regular meeting, and that he was unanimously retnrned to his post. He left on the last steamor. Scientific Exprotrion.—The United Statns steanier Shubrick, Captain Scammon, sailed yesterday morning for the southern ports of this State, baving on board Prot. Jackson, of Boston, Prof. Torrey, Chief Director of the United States Assay Office, New York, and the Hon. Levi Parsons, of this city. The object in view is to secure a scientific investigation into the oil regions of Southern California. The report of these gentlemen will be looked for with much interest, and will do much toward settling the uncertainty which now exists in the Atlantic States with regard to the charaeter of the oil regions of California. This expedition is tbe sante to which we alluded ia oar issue nf the 17th ult. as then in contemplation. Z J. Ross Browne:has been talking to large and appreciative audiences at Reese River. We had hoped ere this to lve given our readers some of his views with regard to thn mines of that region. Mr. Browne is a man of unusual observation. It has heen truly said of Rim that ‘he walks along the highway of life with his eyes wide open, sceing everything.” We trust he will not forget to tell the readers of the Press something of what he has seen in the depths of the mines of Reese River. A. Borromiess Laxe.—A lake has recently been discovered near the Eclipse claim, in the Excelsior district—the latest discovery among the talt peaks of the Sierra Nevada—which, altbough but 400 feet in length by 200 in breadth, bas been sounded to the depth of 700 feet without finding any bottom. It probably occupies the crater of an extinguished volcano. A large numher ef quartz leads appear to radiatu in every direction from this lake, as a center, and quite a mining camp is growing up there. Petroteva Marrers.—There is nothing particularly new with regard to petroleum matters the past week. The Del Norte took up several additional sete of tools on Thursday. Our readere will find a very interesting article in another column on “ Oil Wells and Oil Well Boring at the Fast.” Steam Enoinre ar Avcrton—We would direct especial attention to the advertisnment of machinery for sale at anction, on Wednesday, July 19th, at No. 39 Fremont street. Caristrantry is the element in mndern civilization that secures it against the vicissitudes of ancient civilization.

INY, gag, Mae f ournal of Useful Arts, Science, and Blining and Mlechanical Lrogress. DEWEY & CO., PUHLISHERS And Patent Nelleltora, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1865. VOLUME xi. Number 1. “TABLE OF CONTENTS. Volume Eleven. )Anothor Glass Factory. The Froblein of Gold and Sit xelentifie Expediitun. ver Extractlon—No, 13 The Deepest Gold Mite, A Trip to Sau Jose aud Santa! Grass Valley Direeiwry. lara The Mvaican Ewlyration Mining Oporatlons In Lawer. Seheme Callforula, {Lan sittes on Lako Erle. Cottun aud les Manufaclure; All Qulet Suuth of the PotoWnt Calbornia, hac. Colttou Manufacture In Eng-. Earinquake In Missoarl. land. Novel idea, On Welts aad OULWell Boring A Bnttoniless Lake. atthe Rast. Minty Summary, MrowaxteaL—Our Foandrics; Kidltorlal and Xefected. fuprovewment tn tron. Mluing Shareholders’ DireeSuchlag: Tho Bessemer} tors. Patent in the Unit Staten;/Stuck Sales and Reports, mar cacnt In Carslage/an Francisco lriees Uurrent Muking, Brick Making: AlNew Nining aud Other AdLg ace Loading dtus-] vertlsemutite, Ete. Be~New Mining and Miscelluncous Adverisoments on page 429-%3a New Volume —oOFr ThHE— Mining and Srientific Press Issted every Saturday. Each number contalus 16 pagesand 64 columns (size of llarper'a Weekly). PUCLISHED DY DEWEY & CO., Patent Agents, Pablishers and Job Printers, 605 Cliny Street, San Franclace, THEELEVENTH VOLUME ‘Of the Misine am Sciextivic Press commences under advantages wost gratifying to lis publishers, wlio assert, with pleasure, that a contluucd Improvement In this Journal may be antlelpard by Its numerous and raplily Increasing readers. Wo slinll eontlaue todevote a large space In our columns to the varlous aid best methods of [reatlng ores and saving gold and other preclous metals In every form, furnishing valnable hints to milmen, prospectors, ult: workers and miners generally, not to be faund In any other publication. New taachinery, Jatcat Inventions and discoveries, and all niatters pertaining tothe mechonleul!, manufacturing and Industrial resources of the Paclfle States, will recelve eureful attentlon, Stock market reports will be published ag recelved from the offielal records. Our earefully complicd “Mlulng Shareholders’ Directory " will prove a falthtul monitor to purtles holding stock, and a desirable reeord for reference to brokers, Fricnds pleased wlth our efforts In tho publication of the Press ean render us casentlal ald by furnishing correspon: <dlonce and ull Important Information whieh niay come under tholr observation, and by enlllug ihe attention of thelr to the com dnble features of the paper; the uppreelation of which Yavora wlil be duty manifested by the conatant Improvement of our journal. Specimen coples will be sent free to those desiring to examine the paper beforo subserlblug. Postmasters, Express Agents and News-dealers, acting as our agente, willrecelva liberal contmissions. Rap Dounp Votomes For Gare, iY SUBSCRIPTION IN ADVANCE, Oue Year, (two volumes). sees $5.00 @lx Months, (one volume). wees 5.00 FOR ADVERTISIN Our terms are very rcayonoble. dluninc Compantss are especlally favored by our rates, and careful attention la glven to the legal publication of Minixc Norticxs. Orrics--No. 505 Clay strect, corner of Sansome. DEWEY & CO., Publishers, GoW. M. SMITH.» scene ee ol) De RWER cceees verde Te DEWEY, Tur Fourta 1n Wasuor.—The denizens of Virginia City made extensive preparations for a big bonfire on the top of Mount Davidson on the evening of the Fourth. Some thirty gallons of tar, two or three tar barrele and a lot of wood were hauled up to the summit on Mcday; also a flag-staff eixty-two feet in longth. The task of getting them up there must have beea up-bill work ; but the splendid appearance of the national emblei, lit up by the bonfire at that sightly point, must have been aniple remuneration for tbe trouble. Our Rivers.—It is stated that the Yuba and Feather rivers are fast settliug down to low water mark, ANOTHER GLASS FACTORY, Wo hetieve it is known to hut few of our citizens that we have in full operation in this city, a second glass factory, only recently established, yet npparently doing a very good husiness, and ina fair way of teeoming not only a permanont but a paying institution. Oa the rear portion of the open lot on the southcast corner of Third und Townsend streets, may be seen a wooden building, with very litpretention to architectural merit, from the central portion of whose roof springs a tall iron sinoke-stack or ehimney. ‘This unpretentious building has recently beeu converted into a glass fuetory hy Messrs. Newman & Brannan, which will hereafter he knowa as the “San Francisco Glas3 Works." It started hlowing on the 22d of May last, with a five-pot furnace. business, and have conimenced operations in a small, quiet manner, with the intention of gradually inereasing their facilities for work as circnmstaices may seem to require. One of the partners is from Pittshurg, Penasylvania, which is the chief point of glass manufacture in America; the other was edueated to his bnsiness at the New England Glass Works, in Cambridge, Mass. Their head workman is also from Cambridge, and is one of the best glass-blowers ia the country. Nothing but white ware is turned out at this establishmeat, and the quality of the articles subinitted to our inspection will compare favorably with any thiag of the kind from the East. Atthe time of our visit they were at work upon preseription bottles and lamp chimneys. Their speciality of manufaeture will be druggists’ and chemists’ ware, philosophical instruments, lamp chimneys, etc. Particular attention will be paid to private moulds. Orders for any kind or quantity of gonds will be taken on the premises, and the goods manufuctured and delivered at the shortest notice. Druggists and others will do well to give them a call, and, by favoring home productions, aid in building up this new branch of enterprise in our midst. The pots of this furaace are so eet as to be closed from the direct action of the heat, and open only to the operator from the outside. By this arrangement tbe metal is kept free from the dust aad dirt of the furnace, and consequently the work turned out is mucb clearer and more free from impurities. Rain.—The Virginia City papers chronicle the occurrence of a regular rnin storm ia that

vicinity on the afternoon of the 3d inetant. Tho fall was so abundant that etreams of water ran down tbe streets. It will be recollected tbat the weather in this city on that day was such as in any other locality would indicate immediate and heavy rains. Ae it was, we got a few scattering drops, but the air was sufficieutly filled with moistare to form one of the most magnificeat rainbows ever seen in San Fraucisco. Fiuxes.—The number which we give to-day on the “ Prohlem of Gold and Silver Extraction ” is devoted to a brief discussion of the theory and philosophy of fluxes and fluxing. It will be found very interestiag and instructIts proprietors nre thoroughly skilled in their J. MINING OPERATIONS IN LOWER OALIFORNIA. Wo lind tne pleasure of a call last week from Mr. Henry S. Brooks, general business ageut of the Triunfo Mining Co., located in the San Antonio district, Lower Culifornia. From him we learn thnt mining operations ia that district continue very much as heretofore ; the political trouhles and interruptions of business on the Eastern side of the gulf have uot and probably will not reach the Peninsula. The governor of Lower Colifornia having neither neu nor means to take any active part in the disturbances which are now distracting the nation, will continne to remain quietly at his post, and recognize any central power which nay reach, with its agents, his distant and isolated province. The Triuafo und tho Maria are the only mines in the district which work their own ores; all the other mines are shipping. The Trifano Company owns its own mill; thn Maria, an adjoining claiin, rents the Pichaco mill. Mr. Brooks eaiphatieally condemns the working of mines iu that district merely for obtaining ore for shipment. His reasons are stated in substance as follows : first no ore paying under $150 to tbe ton will pay for sbipping. Lo obtain a ton of Ist class, or shippiug ore, it is necessary to raise and sort tentons. The expeuses of shipment nud reduction in Europe cannot fall short of $50 per ton, leaving $100 for interest on investment and cost of miniag and raising ten tons of mineral. The shipper gets an advnnce of about $60 per ton for his ores. In this operation the company throws aside nine tons of ore, worth ahout $40 to the ton—$360. ‘This ere can be worked on the ground #t an expense of $20 per ton, or $180 for the lot, which would leave a net profit of $180. This amount is therefore thrown away to realize less than $100 from tbe single ton of selected ore. Suppose the oreis all worked as it comes from the mine, we have—10 tons of ore Worth $51 per ton=$510 ; cost of working, $20 per ton = $200, aet profit, above cost of working, $310; or $210 more than can be realized from the ehipping policy. These figuree are based upon eix monthe of actual working at the rate of 200 tons per month, of ore from the Triunfo and Maria. The Kohler Bro’e, Franco Auwerican, Santa Gertrude and other mines on the samc lead are coasidered equally as gnod as the Trifuno and Maria. Alt of these mines would undoubtedly pay well with mills. ‘he process of working now employed thnrn ig to crush dry, roast, chloriuize with salt, work in barrels with iron to reduce the cliloride to metal, and amalgamate. Our iuformant expressee the opinion that the average of the ores on the Peninsula will equal that of aay other locality on the Pacific Coast. The superinteudents now in charge of the mines shipping ores are working under instructione from their principals, are thoroughly efficient and competeat men, and are expected to ship ores by every steamer; but under the mnnagement above described nothing bnt failure can attend their most intelligeat exertions. In order to initiate a plan for working the ores, it would nnt he necessary for each individual ive to all interested in metallurgical operations. . company to put up a mill; for with proper representation eapital might readily be interested to put up onc or more mills, sufficient to reduce nlt the ore thnt might be raised. Wood would soon beeoie scuree, were a very general movement made for working the ores on the ground, although it is now selling for from $5 to $6 per cord. Salt is delivered at Vestana or La Paz for $9 per tnn. We uaderstand that the course of Mr. Brooks, in tle management of the affuirs of the Triunfo Company, at the wine, was fully cndorsed by the Trustees, at a regular meeting, and that he was unanimously retnrned to his post. He left on the last steamor. Scientific Exprotrion.—The United Statns steanier Shubrick, Captain Scammon, sailed yesterday morning for the southern ports of this State, baving on board Prot. Jackson, of Boston, Prof. Torrey, Chief Director of the United States Assay Office, New York, and the Hon. Levi Parsons, of this city. The object in view is to secure a scientific investigation into the oil regions of Southern California. The report of these gentlemen will be looked for with much interest, and will do much toward settling the uncertainty which now exists in the Atlantic States with regard to the charaeter of the oil regions of California. This expedition is tbe sante to which we alluded ia oar issue nf the 17th ult. as then in contemplation. Z J. Ross Browne:has been talking to large and appreciative audiences at Reese River. We had hoped ere this to lve given our readers some of his views with regard to thn mines of that region. Mr. Browne is a man of unusual observation. It has heen truly said of Rim that ‘he walks along the highway of life with his eyes wide open, sceing everything.” We trust he will not forget to tell the readers of the Press something of what he has seen in the depths of the mines of Reese River. A. Borromiess Laxe.—A lake has recently been discovered near the Eclipse claim, in the Excelsior district—the latest discovery among the talt peaks of the Sierra Nevada—which, altbough but 400 feet in length by 200 in breadth, bas been sounded to the depth of 700 feet without finding any bottom. It probably occupies the crater of an extinguished volcano. A large numher ef quartz leads appear to radiatu in every direction from this lake, as a center, and quite a mining camp is growing up there. Petroteva Marrers.—There is nothing particularly new with regard to petroleum matters the past week. The Del Norte took up several additional sete of tools on Thursday. Our readere will find a very interesting article in another column on “ Oil Wells and Oil Well Boring at the Fast.” Steam Enoinre ar Avcrton—We would direct especial attention to the advertisnment of machinery for sale at anction, on Wednesday, July 19th, at No. 39 Fremont street. Caristrantry is the element in mndern civilization that secures it against the vicissitudes of ancient civilization.