Volume 11 (1865) (424 pages)

Che Wining and Scientific Press, a Mining and Scientific Press, W. B. EWER, Snxron Epiror, a. YT. DEWEY. DEWEY & Co. Publishers. ©. WM eetiTH. w, & KWER, Orrice—No. 35 Clay xtreet. comer of Sansome, 2 floor. Terms of Subscription: Onc copy, per awnam, Inazvanee,. . One cupy, slx montha, In advance, @ar For sale by Carriers and se neeeeenee $5 00 » $00 T¢ la Imposstbie for editors to kiiow are the merils and demerits of their correapiindenes, consequently the teader mast not receive ibe opiniuns of our contributor: aseurown. lutedllerat discussion te Invited upon all rides and the evblence of any error which may appear will be re. celved lu friendship and treated whith orepect. Amertenn and Forcign Patents,—Lellera Patenl for Inventors canbe svcuredt [nike Cotied States nid forelen countelea hepuch the SasaxG asp Reizattric Pavas Patest Auascy We offer apnllextts cearonable terns, and they ean mat acaired ofa atelet compliance with gat oblizatlous, awl afalth(al perforimanes of allaontracts, Vor reference, we «1.1 facaish the pamex of vamerous parties tyr whom we bavo obtained patents during tho past two years, Favorable to Iuventors.—Persons holding aew InVveattops ol wackluery aint Important linproventents, can have whe came [Ilurtrated and explained In iho Misina axo Kespirte Press, free ol charge, If in one judgment the dl<covery la one of real merit, and of sufliclent latorestto our readers to Warrant publication. Payment im Advance.---Tlils paper will nol be seni toanhserlbers bevond the ferm pald for. The publislices well ktiow that a good Journal cunitot be ausialned om lle ered aysiem. San iitencisco: Saturday Morning, Aug. 5, 1865. Removal. The Ofice of the Misxaxo ana Scixstivto Prees has been removed lo the old priuilng stand known as Waters Dros. & Co., soulli west corner of Clay and Sansome sircets, opposite the Nlantle Uotel (beluy one block south of our furmer locallon), where we ay now be found, wlih nore commodlous apartments and an extensive Jos MninranG Orricx. San Fraucisco, April leh, 1365, Canvassing Agents. We would call allcstion lo ihe followlug named agents of the Mining axn Screxttric Press as gonileman worthy of the countenance of any communily whieh they may visit, and assislance rendered thom In thelr efforts, by friends and old patrous, or our brothren of the Presa, will be acknowledged as a personal faver to us:— Mr. Robert Laitimore—Amador and Alplue countles and the Stale of Nevada. Thos. Poyzcr, ol Grass Valley, for Nevada, Yuba and Storra counties. Vasitna.—A suceessful effort, it is said, has been made to raise this plant in Franee. The experimont was inade in the publie gardens of tho St. Bruno, and the quality is affirmed to be equal tothe best imported from the West Indies. The seed of the vauilla is remarkable for its fragrant odor. and yields aa oil which is mueli used as a flavor. It is also employed in medicine in place of valerian, all the virtues of which it is eupposed to possese, while it is at the same time far more grateful to the taste. Courax ie to be the naine of the town to be built up at the aext stopping place of the Pacifie Railroad. ‘This will be the nearest point on the railroad for the business of Grass Valley, Nevada, Saa Juuu, Downieville, Towa Hill. Forest Will, Todd’s Valley, Michigaa Bluffs and Yankee Jima, whieh businees will ineure it permnnence and stability. To Breax ve ler.—A plan has been devised: to prevent the dieasters whieb usually accompaay the epring: freshete nt Albuny, by sinking a auniber of torpedoes in the river, and eo coaaect them by wiree ns to explode them einiultancously, and thereby break up the iee and prevent it from forming a dam to the downwurd flow of the surplus water. Sarety Lanr.—Moosieur Olanier hae contrived a mining lamp eo that the workman cannot open the flame to the air without extinguiehing it. He considers that no lamp is eafe if it caa be used at all without the wircgauze guard. Ir ie reported that the White Sulphur Springe, ia Napa couaty, have been eouaded oa frequent occasione to a great depth, without finding hottom. A New Frouriyo Mitt will soon be in op eration at Santa Rosa. It has been erected by William Hood, Esq.,aad will be o great public convenienee to that eection of country. There is said to be a petrolcum lake ia Churebill couuty, Nevada. THE FOUNDRIES. In most of these establishments a large . amouut of work is going out and new orders . are ennstnntly eoming in, . ‘The Paciric hua a great variety of work on hand, among which marine orders predominate. . The propeller eugino, acticed heretofure us . buildiug for a tug buat for the Colambia bar, is now rapidly approaching evinpletion, A hori‘gontal eugiue cighteen inches diameter and taventy-four ineh stroko, was also building for the euw-mill of Pupe & ‘lalbut, of Puget Sound. ‘lwo sixty-horse power engines, with pumping nnd hoisting geur lor a shaft 500 feet deep, nie in proeess of eoustruetion for the Baltimore American Company, of Virginia City. A pair of engines, each twelve ineles diumeter und fuur feet stroke, intended for a steru-whoel boat for the river trade, were also under way. A twenty-stamp quartz ill, with German amalgamating burrels, building for a New York company and intended to bo eent to Idaho, is tho inain feature uf the mining orders for the month, besides which, however, there nre several small mills for the California and Reese River mines. Pussing down by tbe Porttaxn Borten Works, our xttention was attraeted by two imnmense hollow cylinders lying inside, aod we braved the noise and entered, wheu we were informed that the eylinders in question were the boilers of a new ferry bout now building for the Alameda ferry line. They are to he return-flue boilers, each being twenty-three feet long and seven feet, ia diameter, containing two furnaces, each six feet six inches by three feet eight. ‘The proprietors of these works are also building & locomotive boiler for the Alamedu Railroad Co., said to be the “largest ever employed upon this road, the diinensions of which we did not learn. Atthe Uxion Wonks, in additiou to tbe locomotives nentioned eome time sinee as lorming un important feature, an unusually largo nuinber of mining orders are now being filled. One of the locomotives for the San Jose R. R. was finiehed and sent from the shop this week. ‘I'wenty borses were required to draw it from the shop to the station, and tbe display furnished the residents of First street with the most marked “sensation” thatthey have enjoyed for months. Aoother loeomotive has been commenced here for the Saeramento Valley Railroad Company, being the fourth that has been built in this establisbment, which will probably hereafter make locomotive building one of the permunent features of its busincse. The miuing orders now being filled include the following : Two engines, one of eight and one of tea iaghes diameter of cylinder, for the New York aad Grass Valley company, of the Union mine, of Grass Valley, with eight inch punip, six feet stroke, aad hoisting geur complete, for a shaft 300 feet deep; one twelve and one eight inch engine, for the New York and Santa Fe Company, of Reese River, with ten inch pump eix fect stroke, and hoisting geur complete, for a depth of 350 feet ; onc tell-stainp mill with five of Wheeler's pane, on a New York order, for Iduho ; ten-stamp mill and ull fixtures for Little York, Nevada County, Cul. ; one twenty-stamp mill, with eight flat-bottomed Wheeler pane, for the Maabuttan Company, of Reese River, with engine and fixtures complete ; ten stamps, tea Whiceler pans and five eettlers to be added tothe already fine mill of Birdsul! & Carpenter, of Duytou, Nevada, and a small engine and boiler with hoisting gear for the Old Colony Company of Recse River. Ia addition to all these, the proprietors are building a fine engine, fourteea inches diameter and thirty iaehes stroke, to drive the machiaery at the coming Mechanics’ Fair, besides doing a large amount of geaeral work, including the forging of three niae and a half-inch snafts of hammered iron, for a sugar-mill, the remaiaing macbiaery of which is being built at anotber estahlicbmeat in this city. On our retaro, we dropped ia for a moment at the Gotpen Srare Taon Works, where we were welcomed by tbe smiling face of Mr. l ‘ { Hanseom, who informed us that they” were huving all the work they eould do, nmong which he mentioned the iron-work for six bridges fur thle Western Paeifie Ruilrond Com-pouy. We were sorry thot want of time prevented onr uiiking w personal observation of the work going on in this estahlishinent, but ns time waits far no mun, not even a newspaper-mutt, we wero compelled to hurry away without enjoying the privilego of seeing for ourselves. From sppenrancee wo judge the other fonadries to be eqnally busy, but we were prevented by want of time from visiting any of them. EE ee “MOUNT LINCOLN.” Wo seo it stuted that A. B. Paul (Cosmos), of Gold Hill, Nevada, reeently left that place with the portraits of Washington and Lineoln in his possession, which he intends to place upon the top of a lofty elevation in the Kearsargo district, and christen tho same “ Mount Lineoln,” after having erected n suitable imonument for the reeeptioa and protection of the portraits. ‘he claim for the above named title is based upon the asserted fact tbut this is tho highest point of land in the United States. We believe the inountain in question hae already received a name from its discoyerer, to whom belongs the right of naining it. Mr. Pan! may not be aware that there exists a lofty and promineut peak in Colorado, whieh for threo yeare has borne the name of the immortal statesman whom he designs to honor, and whieh has equal if not superior claims to the title, to that poseessed by the tall peak in Kearsarge. We have before us a lengtby ond eloquently written description of the trip, hy oue of the party, which made the first aseent three years ago, christened the hight “ Mount Lineoln” with approprinte cereinonies, and published a ehort aecount of tbe aet at the tine. This mountain is located in the oortbwest corner of South Park, and forms a eorner etone to the three great counties of Park, Lake ‘and Summit. From its eides flow the headwaters of tbe threo great rivers, Platte, Arkansas and Rio Colorado. By the instrumeats whieh the party took with them, it was found that the mountain wae over 15,000 feet high, and in all probability higher then the Kearsarge Sunimit. ‘The eummit is represcated as a eonieal peak of granite—a fitting apex for a monumeut, which rests upoa the base of the mountain, like “ Pelion oa Qssa piled.” Such is Mount Lincoln, which is. We copy from the description above referred to : “ Few ever beheld as magnificent a prospect as is seen froin its summit. Colorado is spreud at your leet. ‘The South Park—sixty miles loug aud thirty wide—with its undulating hills, green meadows, and a thousand glittering lakes aud brooks, dwindles to a pleasure parden. You look over Long's Peak, north, almost into Ducotah. You look over the plains of Utah, to the west. stretching towards the golden ehores of the Pacific. You look over the Spanish Peaks, south, into New Mexieo; and turning to the east, your vision wanders over Pike's Peak where the great plains seem to rise up like an emerald ocean. : Such is Colorado's nouunent to our dead but immortal Preeident, Jfroin its side, the great rivers suck the nutriment which feeds both ocrane, and upon which ride the natioue’ nuvies and the eomterce of the world. A thousand etorms swept over it, but in vain to level it. A thousand cataraets lash around its feet, but from its summit you hear not their murinurs. Lightniugs and thunders glanee barmlessly from its crest, but its foundations reinain uusbaken. Its base is clothed in evergrecas—sublime wreaths, such as uever hung on the tombstones of emperors. Its top reaebee so near the heavens as to attain the epotless purity of eteraal white—bright emblem of immortality. s Let, thea, other States and other peoj.le raiee their monumeuts of patriotism and of art, to gild the fame of the great dead; but Colorado ean point in all time to this proud mouuniental mouutuin, which rears itself as the gigantic spine of this continental vertebra: —she can point it out buudred of miles away, tothe traveler ashe travels from ocean to eeean, oa the future international railway, aud exelaim with the old Latin poet Ovid: "Hwregi monumentunr aere perenior, atque altior Pyramides." J have ereeted a monument more enduring thaa brass, and loftier than the Pyvramids. INCREASING COMMEROIAL VALUE OF PETROLEUM, -As a proof of the great and increasing commerci! value of petroleum and its products, we niay cite the fact thut x single Freneh company has, within the past two yeurs, manuFactured from it $1,200,000 worth of the new anilinu eolora. They have already supplanted quite a number of substanees heretofore eimployed us dyes. Some of tho aniline eolors, especially the blue, are sold for their weight in silver, which, by the way, is not quite equal in price to the ancient ‘Tyrian purple, whieh is said fo havo been euld for ite weight in gold. British iuventive genius, as well as our own, is at the present time niost aetively employed in devising new methods for turning to advau‘tage the various products to be derived from our oil wells. Quito a number of patents , lave already beea taken out for employing it in ordinury heating purposee, in cooking and for warming rooms, and with a very fuir prohability of introducing it into quite general use in that direetion, ho grent object in view, however, ie to employ it econowieally for making steam. The inventors of Eoglaud and Americu are now ruaniug a lively race, to determine who shall soonest realize the problem, The practibility of the theory appenrs to be pretty generally nekoowledged ; the interest in tbe event is as to who will have the hoaor of winaing in the race. Wo shall watch with inueh iuterest for future developments, and report whatever transpires. The latest effort in this direction hae been made by Mr. C. J. Riehardson, at Woolwich, England, who, with bis improved petroleom boiler, has sueceeded in evaporating 150 gallons of water with fourteea gallons of petroleum. It appears that with the improvements, he vaporizes, on an average, at the rate of J237 pounds of water per one gallon of petroleum, and Mr. Richardson anticipates reaching fourteen or fifteen pounds to the gallon of petroleum. Jor sucb early trials, be considers the results hitherto obtained as extremely satisfactory, Tho oil ie under psrfect control, there is ao danger whatever, aod the boiler is very easily worked. Tue Favewer1e Mitt.—Messrs. Gerard & Faneherie are putting up one of their mills in Gold Hill, Nevada, at a point just below the Petalumr mill. ‘bis, it will be recolected, is construeted oa the crushing or masticating priuciple, by whieh the rock iereduced to a proper fineness from the paas in being put through a pair of vibratiag jaws. Tbe craehing by this machiae isa dry process, and it is claimed that a great saving ia gold is thereby made over etamping, which muet be doue ia water, ia all the ordiaary constructed mills. Prorosep Nationau Minine Convention.— We have received a eircular from Gilbert E. . Currie, editor of the American Mining Gazette,79 Pine street, New York, recommending a National Couvention of miners, and asking for hiuts or suggestions from officers of mining companies. We are not informed of the precise object of the Convention, hut there ean be no doubt but that mucb good could be done by holding such a conventioa whereia tiiners of all classee might confer togetber. ae oo A Frounine Miut in Carson Vattey.—The people of Nevada have determined to take the initiatory steps to free themselves froin the flour speculators of this city. They have commenced the crection of a flouring mill in Oarson Valley, and will soon be reudy to turu out the “staff of life.” The farmers of Cursoa Valley are thie year raising large crops of wheat, which will eooa be ground to flour in this mill. The proprietors of tbe mill will also lay in a large stock of California wheat, so that the mill cau be kept in eoastant motion. “ Tue Kearsaros Mines—The Mariposa Free Press iutimates that the aewly discoyered Kearsurge mines are not likely to realizo the anticipatione of the diseovers. It saye that silver cannot be found except in one claim, and but little in that. This yvepert « laeks coufirmation.”

Che Wining and Scientific Press, a Mining and Scientific Press, W. B. EWER, Snxron Epiror, a. YT. DEWEY. DEWEY & Co. Publishers. ©. WM eetiTH. w, & KWER, Orrice—No. 35 Clay xtreet. comer of Sansome, 2 floor. Terms of Subscription: Onc copy, per awnam, Inazvanee,. .. One cupy, slx montha, In advance, @ar For sale by Carriers and se neeeeenee $5 00 » $00 T¢ la Imposstbie for editors to kiiow are the merils and demerits of their correapiindenes, consequently the teader mast not receive ibe opiniuns of our contributor: aseurown. lutedllerat discussion te Invited upon all rides and the evblence of any error which may appear will be re. celved lu friendship and treated whith orepect. Amertenn and Forcign Patents,—Lellera Patenl for Inventors canbe svcuredt [nike Cotied States nid forelen countelea hepuch the SasaxG asp Reizattric Pavas Patest Auascy We offer apnllextts cearonable terns, and they ean mat acaired ofa atelet compliance with gat oblizatlous, awl afalth(al perforimanes of allaontracts, Vor reference, we «1.1 facaish the pamex of vamerous parties tyr whom we bavo obtained patents during tho past two years, Favorable to Iuventors.—Persons holding aew InVveattops ol wackluery aint Important linproventents, can have whe came [Ilurtrated and explained In iho Misina axo Kespirte Press, free ol charge, If in one judgment the dl<covery la one of real merit, and of sufliclent latorestto our readers to Warrant publication. Payment im Advance.---Tlils paper will nol be seni toanhserlbers bevond the ferm pald for. The publislices well ktiow that a good Journal cunitot be ausialned om lle ered aysiem. San iitencisco: Saturday Morning, Aug. 5, 1865. Removal. The Ofice of the Misxaxo ana Scixstivto Prees has been removed lo the old priuilng stand known as Waters Dros. & Co., soulli west corner of Clay and Sansome sircets, opposite the Nlantle Uotel (beluy one block south of our furmer locallon), where we ay now be found, wlih nore commodlous apartments and an extensive Jos MninranG Orricx. San Fraucisco, April leh, 1365, Canvassing Agents. We would call allcstion lo ihe followlug named agents of the Mining axn Screxttric Press as gonileman worthy of the countenance of any communily whieh they may visit, and assislance rendered thom In thelr efforts, by friends and old patrous, or our brothren of the Presa, will be acknowledged as a personal faver to us:— Mr. Robert Laitimore—Amador and Alplue countles and the Stale of Nevada. Thos. Poyzcr, ol Grass Valley, for Nevada, Yuba and Storra counties. Vasitna.—A suceessful effort, it is said, has been made to raise this plant in Franee. The experimont was inade in the publie gardens of tho St. Bruno, and the quality is affirmed to be equal tothe best imported from the West Indies. The seed of the vauilla is remarkable for its fragrant odor. and yields aa oil which is mueli used as a flavor. It is also employed in medicine in place of valerian, all the virtues of which it is eupposed to possese, while it is at the same time far more grateful to the taste. Courax ie to be the naine of the town to be built up at the aext stopping place of the Pacifie Railroad. ‘This will be the nearest point on the railroad for the business of Grass Valley, Nevada, Saa Juuu, Downieville, Towa Hill. Forest Will, Todd’s Valley, Michigaa Bluffs and Yankee Jima, whieh businees will ineure it permnnence and stability. To Breax ve ler.—A plan has been devised: to prevent the dieasters whieb usually accompaay the epring: freshete nt Albuny, by sinking a auniber of torpedoes in the river, and eo coaaect them by wiree ns to explode them einiultancously, and thereby break up the iee and prevent it from forming a dam to the downwurd flow of the surplus water. Sarety Lanr.—Moosieur Olanier hae contrived a mining lamp eo that the workman cannot open the flame to the air without extinguiehing it. He considers that no lamp is eafe if it caa be used at all without the wircgauze guard. Ir ie reported that the White Sulphur Springe, ia Napa couaty, have been eouaded oa frequent occasione to a great depth, without finding hottom. A New Frouriyo Mitt will soon be in op eration at Santa Rosa. It has been erected by William Hood, Esq.,aad will be o great public convenienee to that eection of country. There is said to be a petrolcum lake ia Churebill couuty, Nevada. THE FOUNDRIES. In most of these establishments a large . amouut of work is going out and new orders . are ennstnntly eoming in, . ‘The Paciric hua a great variety of work on hand, among which marine orders predominate. . The propeller eugino, acticed heretofure us . buildiug for a tug buat for the Colambia bar, is now rapidly approaching evinpletion, A hori‘gontal eugiue cighteen inches diameter and taventy-four ineh stroko, was also building for the euw-mill of Pupe & ‘lalbut, of Puget Sound. ‘lwo sixty-horse power engines, with pumping nnd hoisting geur lor a shaft 500 feet deep, nie in proeess of eoustruetion for the Baltimore American Company, of Virginia City. A pair of engines, each twelve ineles diumeter und fuur feet stroke, intended for a steru-whoel boat for the river trade, were also under way. A twenty-stamp quartz ill, with German amalgamating burrels, building for a New York company and intended to bo eent to Idaho, is tho inain feature uf the mining orders for the month, besides which, however, there nre several small mills for the California and Reese River mines. Pussing down by tbe Porttaxn Borten Works, our xttention was attraeted by two imnmense hollow cylinders lying inside, aod we braved the noise and entered, wheu we were informed that the eylinders in question were the boilers of a new ferry bout now building for the Alameda ferry line. They are to he return-flue boilers, each being twenty-three feet long and seven feet, ia diameter, containing two furnaces, each six feet six inches by three feet eight. ‘The proprietors of these works are also building & locomotive boiler for the Alamedu Railroad Co., said to be the “largest ever employed upon this road, the diinensions of which we did not learn. Atthe Uxion Wonks, in additiou to tbe locomotives nentioned eome time sinee as lorming un important feature, an unusually largo nuinber of mining orders are now being filled. One of the locomotives for the San Jose R. R. was finiehed and sent from the shop this week. ‘I'wenty borses were required to draw it from the shop to the station, and tbe display furnished the residents of First street with the most marked “sensation” thatthey have enjoyed for months. Aoother loeomotive has been commenced here for the Saeramento Valley Railroad Company, being the fourth that has been built in this establisbment, which will probably hereafter make locomotive building one of the permunent features of its busincse. The miuing orders now being filled include the following : Two engines, one of eight and one of tea iaghes diameter of cylinder, for the New York aad Grass Valley company, of the Union mine, of Grass Valley, with eight inch punip, six feet stroke, aad hoisting geur complete, for a shaft 300 feet deep; one twelve and one eight inch engine, for the New York and Santa Fe Company, of Reese River, with ten inch pump eix fect stroke, and hoisting geur complete, for a depth of 350 feet ; onc tell-stainp mill with five of Wheeler's pane, on a New York order, for Iduho ; ten-stamp mill and ull fixtures for Little York, Nevada County, Cul. ; one twenty-stamp mill, with eight flat-bottomed Wheeler pane, for the Maabuttan Company, of Reese River, with engine and fixtures complete ; ten stamps, tea Whiceler pans and five eettlers to be added tothe already fine mill of Birdsul! & Carpenter, of Duytou, Nevada, and a small engine and boiler with hoisting gear for the Old Colony Company of Recse River. Ia addition to all these, the proprietors are building a fine engine, fourteea inches diameter and thirty iaehes stroke, to drive the machiaery at the coming Mechanics’ Fair, besides doing a large amount of geaeral work, including the forging of three niae and a half-inch snafts of hammered iron, for a sugar-mill, the remaiaing macbiaery of which is being built at anotber estahlicbmeat in this city. On our retaro, we dropped ia for a moment at the Gotpen Srare Taon Works, where we were welcomed by tbe smiling face of Mr.

l ‘ { Hanseom, who informed us that they” were huving all the work they eould do, nmong which he mentioned the iron-work for six bridges fur thle Western Paeifie Ruilrond Com-pouy. We were sorry thot want of time prevented onr uiiking w personal observation of the work going on in this estahlishinent, but ns time waits far no mun, not even a newspaper-mutt, we wero compelled to hurry away without enjoying the privilego of seeing for ourselves. From sppenrancee wo judge the other fonadries to be eqnally busy, but we were prevented by want of time from visiting any of them. EE ee “MOUNT LINCOLN.” Wo seo it stuted that A. B. Paul (Cosmos), of Gold Hill, Nevada, reeently left that place with the portraits of Washington and Lineoln in his possession, which he intends to place upon the top of a lofty elevation in the Kearsargo district, and christen tho same “ Mount Lineoln,” after having erected n suitable imonument for the reeeptioa and protection of the portraits. ‘he claim for the above named title is based upon the asserted fact tbut this is tho highest point of land in the United States. We believe the inountain in question hae already received a name from its discoyerer, to whom belongs the right of naining it. Mr. Pan! may not be aware that there exists a lofty and promineut peak in Colorado, whieh for threo yeare has borne the name of the immortal statesman whom he designs to honor, and whieh has equal if not superior claims to the title, to that poseessed by the tall peak in Kearsarge. We have before us a lengtby ond eloquently written description of the trip, hy oue of the party, which made the first aseent three years ago, christened the hight “ Mount Lineoln” with approprinte cereinonies, and published a ehort aecount of tbe aet at the tine. This mountain is located in the oortbwest corner of South Park, and forms a eorner etone to the three great counties of Park, Lake ‘and Summit. From its eides flow the headwaters of tbe threo great rivers, Platte, Arkansas and Rio Colorado. By the instrumeats whieh the party took with them, it was found that the mountain wae over 15,000 feet high, and in all probability higher then the Kearsarge Sunimit. ‘The eummit is represcated as a eonieal peak of granite—a fitting apex for a monumeut, which rests upoa the base of the mountain, like “ Pelion oa Qssa piled.” Such is Mount Lincoln, which is. We copy from the description above referred to : “ Few ever beheld as magnificent a prospect as is seen froin its summit. Colorado is spreud at your leet. ‘The South Park—sixty miles loug aud thirty wide—with its undulating hills, green meadows, and a thousand glittering lakes aud brooks, dwindles to a pleasure parden. You look over Long's Peak, north, almost into Ducotah. You look over the plains of Utah, to the west. stretching towards the golden ehores of the Pacific. You look over the Spanish Peaks, south, into New Mexieo; and turning to the east, your vision wanders over Pike's Peak where the great plains seem to rise up like an emerald ocean. : Such is Colorado's nouunent to our dead but immortal Preeident, Jfroin its side, the great rivers suck the nutriment which feeds both ocrane, and upon which ride the natioue’ nuvies and the eomterce of the world. A thousand etorms swept over it, but in vain to level it. A thousand cataraets lash around its feet, but from its summit you hear not their murinurs. Lightniugs and thunders glanee barmlessly from its crest, but its foundations reinain uusbaken. Its base is clothed in evergrecas—sublime wreaths, such as uever hung on the tombstones of emperors. Its top reaebee so near the heavens as to attain the epotless purity of eteraal white—bright emblem of immortality. s Let, thea, other States and other peoj.le raiee their monumeuts of patriotism and of art, to gild the fame of the great dead; but Colorado ean point in all time to this proud mouuniental mouutuin, which rears itself as the gigantic spine of this continental vertebra: —she can point it out buudred of miles away, tothe traveler ashe travels from ocean to eeean, oa the future international railway, aud exelaim with the old Latin poet Ovid: "Hwregi monumentunr aere perenior, atque altior Pyramides." J have ereeted a monument more enduring thaa brass, and loftier than the Pyvramids. INCREASING COMMEROIAL VALUE OF PETROLEUM, -As a proof of the great and increasing commerci! value of petroleum and its products, we niay cite the fact thut x single Freneh company has, within the past two yeurs, manuFactured from it $1,200,000 worth of the new anilinu eolora. They have already supplanted quite a number of substanees heretofore eimployed us dyes. Some of tho aniline eolors, especially the blue, are sold for their weight in silver, which, by the way, is not quite equal in price to the ancient ‘Tyrian purple, whieh is said fo havo been euld for ite weight in gold. British iuventive genius, as well as our own, is at the present time niost aetively employed in devising new methods for turning to advau‘tage the various products to be derived from our oil wells. Quito a number of patents , lave already beea taken out for employing it in ordinury heating purposee, in cooking and for warming rooms, and with a very fuir prohability of introducing it into quite general use in that direetion, ho grent object in view, however, ie to employ it econowieally for making steam. The inventors of Eoglaud and Americu are now ruaniug a lively race, to determine who shall soonest realize the problem, The practibility of the theory appenrs to be pretty generally nekoowledged ; the interest in tbe event is as to who will have the hoaor of winaing in the race. Wo shall watch with inueh iuterest for future developments, and report whatever transpires. The latest effort in this direction hae been made by Mr. C. J. Riehardson, at Woolwich, England, who, with bis improved petroleom boiler, has sueceeded in evaporating 150 gallons of water with fourteea gallons of petroleum. It appears that with the improvements, he vaporizes, on an average, at the rate of J237 pounds of water per one gallon of petroleum, and Mr. Richardson anticipates reaching fourteen or fifteen pounds to the gallon of petroleum. Jor sucb early trials, be considers the results hitherto obtained as extremely satisfactory, Tho oil ie under psrfect control, there is ao danger whatever, aod the boiler is very easily worked. Tue Favewer1e Mitt.—Messrs. Gerard & Faneherie are putting up one of their mills in Gold Hill, Nevada, at a point just below the Petalumr mill. ‘bis, it will be recolected, is construeted oa the crushing or masticating priuciple, by whieh the rock iereduced to a proper fineness from the paas in being put through a pair of vibratiag jaws. Tbe craehing by this machiae isa dry process, and it is claimed that a great saving ia gold is thereby made over etamping, which muet be doue ia water, ia all the ordiaary constructed mills. Prorosep Nationau Minine Convention.— We have received a eircular from Gilbert E. . Currie, editor of the American Mining Gazette,79 Pine street, New York, recommending a National Couvention of miners, and asking for hiuts or suggestions from officers of mining companies. We are not informed of the precise object of the Convention, hut there ean be no doubt but that mucb good could be done by holding such a conventioa whereia tiiners of all classee might confer togetber. ae oo A Frounine Miut in Carson Vattey.—The people of Nevada have determined to take the initiatory steps to free themselves froin the flour speculators of this city. They have commenced the crection of a flouring mill in Oarson Valley, and will soon be reudy to turu out the “staff of life.” The farmers of Cursoa Valley are thie year raising large crops of wheat, which will eooa be ground to flour in this mill. The proprietors of tbe mill will also lay in a large stock of California wheat, so that the mill cau be kept in eoastant motion. “ Tue Kearsaros Mines—The Mariposa Free Press iutimates that the aewly discoyered Kearsurge mines are not likely to realizo the anticipatione of the diseovers. It saye that silver cannot be found except in one claim, and but little in that. This yvepert « laeks coufirmation.”