Volume 12 (1866) (428 pages)

Ey ournal of Asefnt Sh rts, Srienee, and Rlining and Rlechanical Lragress. DEWEY . €O,, PUBLISHERS And Patent Soilcitors, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, L866. VOLUME XII. Number 18. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Brear's Improved Valvetess Letter froin our Regulur Cor Steam ur Ale Pump—Ius-. re spoudeut. trated. Properties ol Hodles—A Tabu. The Miner's Inch of Water, tur Statetacnt. . Important to Secretaries—The. Interesting Leow for Cult dew Mule Law. dren — The Pillusuphy of The Tr iisnimiation of Metals! Cor reath—Sinsular Develupinents. ing. Onur Fousdeles, A Geucral Guido and Business The Location and Posseaslou} Directory of the VPrluelval of Mtniuig Clasias. . Minesint the Upper Country. The Potralewm linerest, Munim Summary. The Use of pudium. Edltorlal and selected. Silver Mining In Placer Co./Mithug Shareholders’ DirecA New ithile Box. ory. le there Anthraclle Coal injxto Caliiornle? sua ¥ isco Prices Current The fractury Curve and the) New Mining and Other AdProperties of Grinding, vertisenients, ele. Plates—Nu. 6. J nuustion and ol alter and Reports, THE PETROLEUM INTEREST. We leorn, from privote sourees, that the Bennett Well still continues to flow wuter ond oil at obout tho somo rote na heretofnre reported. ‘lhe work of boring is still going on, und, it is suid, that the yield of oil perceptibly inercases. The ‘lompkins company, ot Pescadero, who have been for some time prospectiny the surface sond-rock on their, ground, huve recently put up a new ond lurger retort, from which they are obtuiniug still more sntisfactory results— aud much better than they had anticipated. Their rock is soid to yield about 40 gallons of, crude oil to the too. hey find, in practice that with three men, they ore enabled to collect nnd work two tons of rock a day ; ‘thus producing, ot o cost of $7.50, eighty gullons of oil, worth in this city forty ceats per gallon. We hove thus— 80 gallons of nil, worth...+. CARRIE $32 00 Labor of producing the same. 8 Freight and cust of puckageus... 12 00— 19 50 Twelve dollurs per day profit on the lubor ol three nen, with only the iovestment of a common © gas retort, is a pretty good business, especially when the number of men nnd retorts may be indefinitely increased. We may be niistukeo in the fienres; but we have endeuvored to give them correctly. Pennaylvonia bos recently beea boasting of her newly found wealth in the immense extent of her oleaginous surface rock, or sand, recently discovered. If we ore not inisinlcrmed, Culifornia also possesseg a0 inexhaustible quantity of such rock equally as rich as any lound iu the Atlantic States. We con make n good thing out of this, even if we don’t get flowing wells, New Parest Suuice Box.—R. E. Washburn. of this eity, has just received, through the Misine anp Screyvivic Press Patent AGency, Letters Putent of the United States for n uew improvemeot in sluice boxes, which consists of an easy and effective method for saving the precious metals, in aluice or hydraulic miniag, by placing one or more’ hoxes along o flume, each box having an inclined floor, upon which is placed tapering bars or teeth, arranged iu a Tow, at suituble distances. Underneath the upper eod of this box is placed a hollow castiron box, with riffle bars placed across it; in tris box quicksilver is placed, lor the purpose of amalgainuting the metals, the whole being closed by means of a door, which may be gecured by a lock. By this orrangenient no quicksilver can escape, or amalgain be stolen, asis often the case, by robbers, for the door tay be lockcd, or the box he removed toa place of safty at uight. BREAR'S IMPROVED VALVELESS — STEAM OR ATR PUMPS. The pumns, illustrated in the onnexed engraving, ore improvements upon o former patent of Mr. Brear’s, granted April Ist, 1862, and reissued October 27th, 1863, nnd which is now the property of o Compony ; butis oot desicned to work coarse gravel, Fig. 1—LITTLE GIANT. Following is the inventor’s descriptioo of the pump, and what he claims to be its capacity : Figure 1 is particularly designed for the purpose of forcing water or other liquids. Fig. 2 is tur water, or for sond and gravel with wa. ter, which may he required to be raised or displaced. Figure 1, or the Little Giant, is now at work io large numbers, bilging steamboats, etc., in and about New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and other harhors. It can be used to elevate water in brewerics, distillerics, sugar refineries, for pumping out cellars, irrigating laod, ete. , or where water or other liquids are required to be raised upwords, It may be employed lor filliug locomotive tanks or teoders, by placiag it permaoently in wells, rivers, or ponds convenient to the roodside, aod connecting it, by means of a steam hose or swing joint, with a stop cock on a locomotive boiler, whenever it is required to take in water ; or it can be carried upon the tender ready to be used at any station or place where water can he obtoined from any source. This pump will bilge a low or high-pressure steamboat, and deliver the water ot a rapid rate. It ia ulso useful to sweeten no boat; as fresh water can be let into the bilge, and delivered quickly by its agency, by which means the boat may be kept sweet and healthy. If there isno water in the bilge, by lettiog the steao through it, foul uir will be removed, such as is consequent from nir being contined ander the ceiling, between the planking. By conuecting a tabe to the outlet pipe, ond leading The combustion is thereby greotly increosed, saving coal aud ecunowizing fuel by getting a larger per centuge of hent from a less amouut of coul. By changing two cocks it is ready for bilging ogain, or vice versa. The great rapidity with which it delivers water is wonderful. Its advontages are that sand, slum, and such like substunces do oot obstruct its operatioa. Its simplicity also recommends it; there being no working ports, it connot get out of order. Figure 2 is on open pipo from eod to end, ond is designed for mining or wrecking. raising sunken vessels, or displocing sond or mud, forming bors in navigoble streoms or rivers, to improve navigotion. It will work submerged, or will rnise sond, grovel, nud, or slum from the bottom, from nny depth up to ood ahove the surface ot the water, whence it can be cooveyed away to ony desiroble point. It can he used oo sand bars, or in quicksands, and in or on the beds of rivers. Tt will drink and deliver up into a sluice, or other apporatus set upon a level surface, snnd, gravel, or slum, with water. Several hundred tons of such mutter, per day of ten hours, can thus he moved with one hundred pounds pressure applied to it. It will nolso wreck a steamboat that carries a high pressure, ond is involuohle for that purpose ; aod no steamboat should be without them, especially where soags and other dangers exist ; for two of the four-inch sizes will keep a vessel with a lurge opening mode by such, ahove water with ense, thereby saving lile and cargo. <Also, by having one ready with hose, a sinking vessel can be freed from water and towed into port ia safety, when the pump ts opplied ns above described for use on railroads. Furtber particulars con be obtained from the patentee, or from the proprietors of the Miners’ Foundry, 245 First Street, where the pumps are on exhihition and kept for sale. Mr. Brear is sule owner of the improvements aod offers for sale State and county rights, reserving to hiinself the right to manufacture, giving parties who purchase rights the beoefit of one-holf the price list. He has come nmongst us for the speciol purpose of introducing them here for inioing ond other purposes. Mr. B. is also the first inventor and patentee on record of any apparatus of this kiod. ‘The improvements herewith illustrnted were patented October 25th, 1864. and August 29th, 1865, “TRansMUTATION oF Metats."—We would invite attention to an article, in uwother column, on the tronsmutatiou of metals—especially to the concludiog paragraphs, giving certain forinulas, ete. ‘Ie moin portion of tlie article is a translation from a French paper received by the last steamer. ‘The parties oamed os having pursued the curious investigations described, are of high scientific standing in Poris. We vive the article for what it is worth. The experiments can and doubtless will be tried in this city. 0 oe oe Tae Hyprostatic Miu.—The Amador Ledger says that the quartz mill, driven by one of Hausbrow & Redding’s hydrostotic engines, this under the grates or lire of the boiler, and . ond crected by Judge Clark, Mr. Nichols and shutting off a cock in the outlet delivery pipe, it . others, at Irishtown, is now in successiul operwill be lound to answer the purpose ol a blower, . ation, ond fully meets the expectotion of its ou account of the oir passing with the steain.' enterprising proprietors. OUR FOUNDRIES. Work at the principol foundries in this city is brisking up, ond we are repeotedly told by different proprietors thut the prospects for full orders for the approoching seuson ure unusually promising. New quartz mills seem to be the leading inquiry. THE GOLDEN STATE IRON WORKS Have shipped this week a fine lot of machinery for the New York Moss Associntion, to Arizoco. Chos. L. Strong is the new Superintendent of this company. ‘Ihe mochinery, above meotioned, comprisea one 4U-lorse-power engine, 12 x 24-inch cylinder—one of the beat ever turned out in this city; two five stomp hatteries, with mortor independent of the lramework ; three of the Wheeler & Roodall tractory paos; two}Knox pans, two 7-foot separators; one large portable 10-ton derrick; framework for tanks, milla, ete., complete. ‘The Moss Associstion have exhibited good judgment in securiug the munofacture of their machinery here, in place of attempting to procare suitable work in New York. Under the present manogement we shall expect to hear fuvorable reports from the mine. ‘The Golden State Works are now finishing up a large propeller, and other steamboat work. They are olso monufocturing a large nomher of Danbar’s Steom Pucking Rings, which ore being intrnduced into oll the loconiotives oo the San Francisco ond San Jose Roilroad. We shall take occasion to visit other foundries and report lurther from week to week. a Mretino with Success.—We are credibly informed that Leffels’ American Double Turbine Water Wheel is being successfully introtroduced in Oregon ond other northern sections of this coast. It is also stated that the principul estublishment engaged in the manufacture of these wheels in the Eastern States has been driven with work recently. Messrs. Knapp & Graot, commission merchonts, ot No. 310 Washington street, huve recently been appointed ageots for the sale of the Americun Double Turbine Wheels. ‘They are also agents for Leffel’s Pateot Lever Jacks, which are very useful and efficient articles in thot line. Further information will be obtained coucerning the above named instrunients by reference to our advertising coluwns, or by calliog upon the agents. ee Tue Atreyrion or Mining Corporations js especially called to the fact thot Senntor Rubinson’a bill, concerning nssessnients of corporations, has passed the Legislature, and will doubtlesa become luw within no tew days by receiviog the npproval of the Governor. It is an important and desirable improvement on the old statute, aud will be hailed with satisfaction by all parties interested in corporations. Provertigs or Bonirs.—We ure indebted to the “ Annual: Circular of the Miners’ Foundry, for 1866,” now being priuted at this office. for the very excellent and useful table giving the various properties aad choracteristies of a large number of such bodies us most commonly occur in nature. An iron tank, with a capacity of 57.000 gallons, is building nt New Bedford, Mass., for a petroleim company. It will take quite a atrike to fill it.

Ey ournal of Asefnt Sh rts, Srienee, and Rlining and Rlechanical Lragress. DEWEY . €O,, PUBLISHERS And Patent Soilcitors, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, L866. VOLUME XII. Number 18. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Brear's Improved Valvetess Letter froin our Regulur Cor Steam ur Ale Pump—Ius-. re spoudeut. trated. Properties ol Hodles—A Tabu. The Miner's Inch of Water, tur Statetacnt. . Important to Secretaries—The. Interesting Leow for Cult dew Mule Law. dren — The Pillusuphy of The Tr iisnimiation of Metals! Cor reath—Sinsular Develupinents. ing. Onur Fousdeles, A Geucral Guido and Business The Location and Posseaslou} Directory of the VPrluelval of Mtniuig Clasias. . Minesint the Upper Country. The Potralewm linerest, Munim Summary. The Use of pudium. Edltorlal and selected. Silver Mining In Placer Co./Mithug Shareholders’ DirecA New ithile Box. ory. le there Anthraclle Coal injxto Caliiornle? sua ¥ isco Prices Current The fractury Curve and the) New Mining and Other AdProperties of Grinding, vertisenients, ele. Plates—Nu. 6. J nuustion and ol alter and Reports, THE PETROLEUM INTEREST. We leorn, from privote sourees, that the Bennett Well still continues to flow wuter ond oil at obout tho somo rote na heretofnre reported. ‘lhe work of boring is still going on, und, it is suid, that the yield of oil perceptibly inercases. The ‘lompkins company, ot Pescadero, who have been for some time prospectiny the surface sond-rock on their, ground, huve recently put up a new ond lurger retort, from which they are obtuiniug still more sntisfactory results— aud much better than they had anticipated. Their rock is soid to yield about 40 gallons of, crude oil to the too. hey find, in practice that with three men, they ore enabled to collect nnd work two tons of rock a day ; ‘thus producing, ot o cost of $7.50, eighty gullons of oil, worth in this city forty ceats per gallon. We hove thus— 80 gallons of nil, worth......+. CARRIE $32 00 Labor of producing the same.. 8 Freight and cust of puckageus..... 12 00— 19 50 Twelve dollurs per day profit on the lubor ol three nen, with only the iovestment of a common © gas retort, is a pretty good business, especially when the number of men nnd retorts may be indefinitely increased. We may be niistukeo in the fienres; but we have endeuvored to give them correctly. Pennaylvonia bos recently beea boasting of her newly found wealth in the immense extent of her oleaginous surface rock, or sand, recently discovered. If we ore not inisinlcrmed, Culifornia also possesseg a0 inexhaustible quantity of such rock equally as rich as any lound iu the Atlantic States. We con make n good thing out of this, even if we don’t get flowing wells, New Parest Suuice Box.—R. E. Washburn. of this eity, has just received, through the Misine anp Screyvivic Press Patent AGency, Letters Putent of the United States for n uew improvemeot in sluice boxes, which consists of an easy and effective method for saving the precious metals, in aluice or hydraulic miniag, by placing one or more’ hoxes along o flume, each box having an inclined floor, upon which is placed tapering bars or teeth, arranged iu a Tow, at suituble distances. Underneath the upper eod of this box is placed a hollow castiron box, with riffle bars placed across it; in tris box quicksilver is placed, lor the purpose of amalgainuting the metals, the whole being closed by means of a door, which may be gecured by a lock. By this orrangenient no quicksilver can escape, or amalgain be stolen, asis often the case, by robbers, for the door tay be lockcd, or the box he removed toa place of safty at uight. BREAR'S IMPROVED VALVELESS — STEAM OR ATR PUMPS. The pumns, illustrated in the onnexed engraving, ore improvements upon o former patent of Mr. Brear’s, granted April Ist, 1862, and reissued October 27th, 1863, nnd which is now the property of o Compony ; butis oot desicned to work coarse gravel, Fig. 1—LITTLE GIANT. Following is the inventor’s descriptioo of the pump, and what he claims to be its capacity : Figure 1 is particularly designed for the purpose of forcing water or other liquids. Fig. 2 is tur water, or for sond and gravel with wa. ter, which may he required to be raised or displaced. Figure 1, or the Little Giant, is now at work io large numbers, bilging steamboats, etc., in and about New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and other harhors. It can be used to elevate water in brewerics, distillerics, sugar refineries, for pumping out cellars, irrigating laod, ete. , or where water or other liquids are required to be raised upwords, It may be employed lor filliug locomotive tanks or teoders, by placiag it permaoently in wells, rivers, or ponds convenient to the roodside, aod connecting it, by means of a steam hose or swing joint, with a stop cock on a locomotive boiler, whenever it is required to take in water ; or it can be carried upon the tender ready to be used at any station or place where water can he obtoined from any source. This pump will bilge a low or high-pressure steamboat, and deliver the water ot a rapid rate. It ia ulso useful to sweeten no boat; as fresh water can be let into the bilge, and delivered quickly by its agency, by which means the boat may be kept sweet and healthy. If there isno water in the bilge, by lettiog the steao through it, foul uir will be removed, such as is consequent from nir being contined ander the ceiling, between the planking. By conuecting a tabe to the outlet pipe, ond leading The combustion is thereby greotly increosed, saving coal aud ecunowizing fuel by getting a larger per centuge of hent from a less amouut

of coul. By changing two cocks it is ready for bilging ogain, or vice versa. The great rapidity with which it delivers water is wonderful. Its advontages are that sand, slum, and such like substunces do oot obstruct its operatioa. Its simplicity also recommends it; there being no working ports, it connot get out of order. Figure 2 is on open pipo from eod to end, ond is designed for mining or wrecking. raising sunken vessels, or displocing sond or mud, forming bors in navigoble streoms or rivers, to improve navigotion. It will work submerged, or will rnise sond, grovel, nud, or slum from the bottom, from nny depth up to ood ahove the surface ot the water, whence it can be cooveyed away to ony desiroble point. It can he used oo sand bars, or in quicksands, and in or on the beds of rivers. Tt will drink and deliver up into a sluice, or other apporatus set upon a level surface, snnd, gravel, or slum, with water. Several hundred tons of such mutter, per day of ten hours, can thus he moved with one hundred pounds pressure applied to it. It will nolso wreck a steamboat that carries a high pressure, ond is involuohle for that purpose ; aod no steamboat should be without them, especially where soags and other dangers exist ; for two of the four-inch sizes will keep a vessel with a lurge opening mode by such, ahove water with ense, thereby saving lile and cargo. <Also, by having one ready with hose, a sinking vessel can be freed from water and towed into port ia safety, when the pump ts opplied ns above described for use on railroads. Furtber particulars con be obtained from the patentee, or from the proprietors of the Miners’ Foundry, 245 First Street, where the pumps are on exhihition and kept for sale. Mr. Brear is sule owner of the improvements aod offers for sale State and county rights, reserving to hiinself the right to manufacture, giving parties who purchase rights the beoefit of one-holf the price list. He has come nmongst us for the speciol purpose of introducing them here for inioing ond other purposes. Mr. B. is also the first inventor and patentee on record of any apparatus of this kiod. ‘The improvements herewith illustrnted were patented October 25th, 1864. and August 29th, 1865, “TRansMUTATION oF Metats."—We would invite attention to an article, in uwother column, on the tronsmutatiou of metals—especially to the concludiog paragraphs, giving certain forinulas, ete. ‘Ie moin portion of tlie article is a translation from a French paper received by the last steamer. ‘The parties oamed os having pursued the curious investigations described, are of high scientific standing in Poris. We vive the article for what it is worth. The experiments can and doubtless will be tried in this city. 0 oe oe Tae Hyprostatic Miu.—The Amador Ledger says that the quartz mill, driven by one of Hausbrow & Redding’s hydrostotic engines, this under the grates or lire of the boiler, and . ond crected by Judge Clark, Mr. Nichols and shutting off a cock in the outlet delivery pipe, it . others, at Irishtown, is now in successiul operwill be lound to answer the purpose ol a blower, . ation, ond fully meets the expectotion of its ou account of the oir passing with the steain.' enterprising proprietors. OUR FOUNDRIES. Work at the principol foundries in this city is brisking up, ond we are repeotedly told by different proprietors thut the prospects for full orders for the approoching seuson ure unusually promising. New quartz mills seem to be the leading inquiry. THE GOLDEN STATE IRON WORKS Have shipped this week a fine lot of machinery for the New York Moss Associntion, to Arizoco. Chos. L. Strong is the new Superintendent of this company. ‘Ihe mochinery, above meotioned, comprisea one 4U-lorse-power engine, 12 x 24-inch cylinder—one of the beat ever turned out in this city; two five stomp hatteries, with mortor independent of the lramework ; three of the Wheeler & Roodall tractory paos; two}Knox pans, two 7-foot separators; one large portable 10-ton derrick; framework for tanks, milla, ete., complete. ‘The Moss Associstion have exhibited good judgment in securiug the munofacture of their machinery here, in place of attempting to procare suitable work in New York. Under the present manogement we shall expect to hear fuvorable reports from the mine. ‘The Golden State Works are now finishing up a large propeller, and other steamboat work. They are olso monufocturing a large nomher of Danbar’s Steom Pucking Rings, which ore being intrnduced into oll the loconiotives oo the San Francisco ond San Jose Roilroad. We shall take occasion to visit other foundries and report lurther from week to week. a Mretino with Success.—We are credibly informed that Leffels’ American Double Turbine Water Wheel is being successfully introtroduced in Oregon ond other northern sections of this coast. It is also stated that the principul estublishment engaged in the manufacture of these wheels in the Eastern States has been driven with work recently. Messrs. Knapp & Graot, commission merchonts, ot No. 310 Washington street, huve recently been appointed ageots for the sale of the Americun Double Turbine Wheels. ‘They are also agents for Leffel’s Pateot Lever Jacks, which are very useful and efficient articles in thot line. Further information will be obtained coucerning the above named instrunients by reference to our advertising coluwns, or by calliog upon the agents. ee Tue Atreyrion or Mining Corporations js especially called to the fact thot Senntor Rubinson’a bill, concerning nssessnients of corporations, has passed the Legislature, and will doubtlesa become luw within no tew days by receiviog the npproval of the Governor. It is an important and desirable improvement on the old statute, aud will be hailed with satisfaction by all parties interested in corporations. Provertigs or Bonirs.—We ure indebted to the “ Annual: Circular of the Miners’ Foundry, for 1866,” now being priuted at this office. for the very excellent and useful table giving the various properties aad choracteristies of a large number of such bodies us most commonly occur in nature. An iron tank, with a capacity of 57.000 gallons, is building nt New Bedford, Mass., for a petroleim company. It will take quite a atrike to fill it.