Volume 14 (1867) (436 pages)

Ma Terma: One Year, $5; Six Months, $3. $ Z Mininag al ots Single Coples, Fifteen Cents, Y Yournal of sett Arts, Seience, and BYining and Wlechauical Progress. DEWEY & CO., PUBLISHERS sind Patent Solicitors, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1867. VOLUME XIV. Aumber 1, TABLE OF OONTENTS. Miulng Sales ot the Week 5 IMinIng Shareholders’ DiGaston's New Orinder and Amalgnmator—lius. A Word to Reade its) Atinutle Piates. Fragress of Sct und Saving of Fucl Isan Franelao Stock und Atnericun Culieil Iron. . Mxcusnicat. — Gas glues vs. Rteam; The ~ Xyphon. Suggestions by Froft, Brewer, Advanitornla, Nevada. Oregon, Iduho, Colorado, Arlzonu, Montaua, New Mexico. aud British CoJumbla. i 3) Nailces ta Correspondents 8 Volume Fourteenth.,.0. 8 Ritiuger’s Funnel vr Po ned Boxes.. o-+s 8 List of OMcers of Corpora. tlona and Mining ComOMICS pose ceerearee3 City Amurements. . 4 Rights ot ForelenersIng French Patents.+ Ausirallan Gold at tages of steam Power; Gement and Tar. sss Scirxtivic.—The Oldint Land, Meridlonal bitference In ‘Flue; An Artists Night Light; Suyar from Coal; The Cause of Fever and ARUC, or esceccscneccoeeees Wuwekty Stock Clreular. The Use of tron Spouge for the Reductlon of Metallle — Salphurets, Parls Exhibition. n Phisosphates, AntimoGol. Buel’s Mine uid M MIGES, WIC. . ees erererecne 4 Copper in Nevada. It dh Inve. 16 4 Utihzatlon of Peat. A WORD TO READERS IN THE ATLANTIO STATES, Mauch complaint has reached us, through various sources, at the general lack of knowledgo at the East, with regard to mining and other operations on this coast, and the frequent impositions practiced upon the public there, in consequence, by irresponsible persons passing off upon unsuspecting vietims worthless mining stoek, or persuading them, by falso representations, to organize companies and advanee moneys upon worthless ground, or ground which oftentimes has neither value or locality. If our friends at tho East, who are still anxious to engage in the laudable venture of mining enterprise, would do go intelligently, let them subscribe for and carefully consult the only journal on the Pacific coast where every mining enterprise that is worth naming is, from time to time, noticed, as its merits may warrant. A mining enterprise on the Pacific coast, which is not referred to in this journal, in some way or other, as often as once in three or four months, is certainly one whieh people in the Atlantic States should beware of. Our advice to people at the East is never to venture small amounts in mining. If you must start small, let a number of such club together, so as to make the aggregate amount to beinvested, such as may be worth your while to inquire into. THe Manreosa Company has obtained a temporary injunction against the further control of the property of the eompany by Dodge Bros., of this city. The eompany complain that the said firm have not kept good faith with them, inasmuch as the assignment was made with the understanding that the debts of the eompany were to be paid out of the proceeds of the working of ¢he mines on the estate ; whereas the firm has been buying up the debts at a diseount, and now demand that the company should pay gold in full. The damages elaimed are from $200,000 to $300,000, A receiver has been appointed. Tue Pionrers.—We have received a copy of the constitution and by-laws of the Society of California Pioneers, as revised and adopted in October, 1866. The publication also coutains the lists of officers annually elected since the organization of the society in 1850, together with a full list of memGASTON'S NEW GRINDER AND AMALGAMATOR. Improvements never cease; and we hail with pleasure any real improvemeut in machiuery for extracting tho precious metals from their ores, because every improvement in that direction adds directly and materially to the wealth and prosperity of the whole Pacific coast. Persons interested in quartz and eement mills, would do well to examine the principles of Mr. H. A. Gaston’s Screw Grinder and Amalgamator, an illustration of which is given herewith, before concluding their purchases of amalgamating machinery for their mills. The working of this pan differs, in manner, from any other inuse. The mullers C, C, consist of a screw with broad flanges or threads (similar to a propeller screw,) and forms a layer or strata of quicksilver upon the bottom of tho pan. The revolution of the serew produces a strong downward and under eurrent of the pulp, drawing it down between the threads in fonr broad sheets, when the shoes offectually rub it into the quicksilver ; after which it passes out of the cylinder through tho spaces in its base, and is forced up between the outside of the cylinder and the inside of the pan and over the top of the cylinder, when it is again drawn down by the screw and rubbed into the quicksilver, and so on indefinitely. In this manner a constant circulation of all the pulp in the pan is kept up, and . alternately brought in contact with and rubbed into the quicksilver, and then forced from it, to bo again returned with that precision attendant upon perfect ma. chinery. “THE SCREW GRINDER AND AMALGAMATOR.” which flanges overlap each other a short distance, to permit and compel a free passage of the pulp between them. The screw is about three feet in diameter, and revolves horizontally within 2 low, vertical cylinder, ond the shoes for grinding, H, are attached to the base of the flanges or threads. Through the base of the cylinder are oblong holes or spaces, 5, corresponding in sizeand number to the spaces between the threads of the screw. These permit the pulp to pass out from or into the eylinder. ‘The revolution of the screw in either direction, causes the pulp to flow to the center of the pan and forces it between the shoes and the dies, thus adding the immense force of the screw to that of gravity, when rotated in one direction, and forcing to its aid a powerful atmospheric pressure when revolving in the opposite direction. In the ordinary pans gravity aloue causes the pulp to pass beneath the mullers, while it is drawn to the eenter by guide blades intercepting the current of the pulp, caused by the revolution of the muller. We are informed by the inventor that he does not grind quicksilver in his pan, but after the pulp has been ground to a proper fineness, the screw muller is raised a sixteenth, an eighth or a fourth of an inch, (the hight being different with silver or bers from that date, gold ores,) and the quicksilver is poured in The screw muller is the heart ; the spaces in the eylinder are the arteries ; the spaces between the eylinder and the sides of the pan are the veins of tho system, while the pulp answers for the blood, and the circulation of this appears to be as perfect and as regular as in the human system. With the screw amalgamator, it is caleulated that settlers are not reqnired ; for the under current spoken of, draws the quicksilver and amalgam down benesth the screw and holds it there as closely and quietly as if in a tank. The above inelndes the inventor’s description and claims for this new pan, which we have thus fully given, because we consider it likely to prove a valuable improvement ; and, for the further reason, that we take pleasure in contributing our meed of praise to the exertions and success of men of enterprise and genius. One of these pans is now daily put in motion at the ‘‘Pacifie Iron works,” in this eity, where the inventor, Mr. Gaston, will take pleasure in illustrating its movements to those interested in quartz and cement milling operations. We understand that arrangements will soon be made for the manufacture of these pans at any of the foundries in this city, and we are informed, in the meantime, that . persons desirous of negotiating for them! can do so by addressing the inventor, at tle Cosmopolitan Hotel iu this city, or R. L. Thomas, Esq., at Virginia City, Nevada THe Curia Mam Bangver.—Tho first mail steamer of the new line to China and Japan, sailed as announced on New Year's Day. The occasion was duly eelebrated by a grand banquet on the cvening previous at the Oceidental Hotel. Many of the San Francisco notables were present, representing in a highly ereditable degree, the wealth and the intelligence of tho city. The banquet hall was magnificently and tastefully arrayed, and was appropriately ornamented. with tho mingled devices characteristic of the two countries thus for the first time to be brought into intimate acquaintance with each other. Governor Low presided and Bishop Kip acted os chaplain. After the dinner—which was of course unexceptionable—had been duly discussed, when men were in the comfortable coffee and eigar state, which is said to usually sneceed such @ performanee, came ‘‘the feast of reason and the flow of soul.” In answer to tonsts drank, speeches were made by General MoDowell, Captain Eldridge, of the P. M8. Company, Hall M’Allister, Ex-Governor Stanford, R. B. Swain, Rev. Dr. Stone, Rev. Horatio Stebbins, A. A. Low, Ex-President of the New York Chamber of Commerce ; R. G. Sneath, President San Francisco Chamber of Commeree ; Samuel L. Wilson, Fung Tang, one of our noted San Francisco Chinese merchants; W. H. L. Barnes, Samuel Williams, of the Bulletin; E A. Rockwell, of the Call; Asher B. Bates, F, M. Pixley, and Governor McCormick, of Arizona. <A congratulatory dispateh from the Mayor and Council of Placerville was read. At three anda half o’clock the meeting was declared dissolved, and the guests separated, all on good terms with each other, with “the occasion,” and with everybody else. Sar For THe Paris Exuisrrion,—Messrs. Winegar & Shaw, 308 and 310 Front street, have shown us four samples of salt which they have prepared to go forward by our Commissioner to Paris, No, 1 is a very fine specimen of Arizona rock salt, as elear as erystal, and some five inches in length. No. 2, ‘California Solar Evaporated Salt.” No. 3, California salt ground in water after a peculiar method, by Messrs. W. & S.; and No. 4, Fine salt for table and dairy use. For the last article, Mossrs. W. & S. have taken premiums for the last six years. Art anp Narurr.—The Pacifie Art Gallery, No. 28 Third street, in addition to some fine paintings, coutains a small but select assortment of stuffed birds and animals worth seeing. Among the latter our attention was, perhaps, more particularly attracted to a large wild goat from Montana, a spotted deer of beauty, and rather a curious animal of the carnivorous order, known as tho carcajon ; possessed of an unusual degree of sagacity, it is seldom entrapped. Hence its rarity. i

Ma Terma: One Year, $5; Six Months, $3. $ Z Mininag al ots Single Coples, Fifteen Cents, Y Yournal of sett Arts, Seience, and BYining and Wlechauical Progress. DEWEY & CO., PUBLISHERS sind Patent Solicitors, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1867. VOLUME XIV. Aumber 1, TABLE OF OONTENTS. Miulng Sales ot the Week 5 IMinIng Shareholders’ DiGaston's New Orinder and Amalgnmator—lius.. A Word to Reade its) Atinutle Piates. Fragress of Sct und Saving of Fucl Isan Franelao Stock und Atnericun Culieil Iron. .. Mxcusnicat. — Gas glues vs. Rteam; The ~ Xyphon. Suggestions by Froft, Brewer, Advanitornla, Nevada. Oregon, Iduho, Colorado, Arlzonu, Montaua, New Mexico. aud British CoJumbla. i 3) Nailces ta Correspondents 8 Volume Fourteenth.,.0. 8 Ritiuger’s Funnel vr Po ned Boxes... o-+s 8 List of OMcers of Corpora. tlona and Mining ComOMICS pose ceerearee3 City Amurements. . 4 Rights ot ForelenersIng French Patents..+ Ausirallan Gold at tages of steam Power; Gement and Tar.. sss Scirxtivic.—The Oldint Land, Meridlonal bitference In ‘Flue; An Artists Night Light; Suyar from Coal; The Cause of Fever and ARUC, or esceccscneccoeeees Wuwekty Stock Clreular.. The Use of tron Spouge for the Reductlon of Metallle — Salphurets, Parls Exhibition. n Phisosphates, AntimoGol. Buel’s Mine uid M MIGES, WIC. . ees erererecne 4 Copper in Nevada.. It dh Inve. 16 4 Utihzatlon of Peat. A WORD TO READERS IN THE ATLANTIO STATES, Mauch complaint has reached us, through various sources, at the general lack of knowledgo at the East, with regard to mining and other operations on this coast, and the frequent impositions practiced upon the public there, in consequence, by irresponsible persons passing off upon unsuspecting vietims worthless mining stoek, or persuading them, by falso representations, to organize companies and advanee moneys upon worthless ground, or ground which oftentimes has neither value or locality. If our friends at tho East, who are still anxious to engage in the laudable venture of mining enterprise, would do go intelligently, let them subscribe for and carefully consult the only journal on the Pacific coast where every mining enterprise that is worth naming is, from time to time, noticed, as its merits may warrant. A mining enterprise on the Pacific coast, which is not referred to in this journal, in some way or other, as often as once in three or four months, is certainly one whieh people in the Atlantic States should beware of. Our advice to people at the East is never to venture small amounts in mining. If you must start small, let a number of such club together, so as to make the aggregate amount to beinvested, such as may be worth your while to inquire into. THe Manreosa Company has obtained a temporary injunction against the further control of the property of the eompany by Dodge Bros., of this city. The eompany complain that the said firm have not kept good faith with them, inasmuch as the assignment was made with the understanding that the debts of the eompany were to be paid out of the proceeds of the working of ¢he mines on the estate ; whereas the firm has been buying up the debts at a diseount, and now demand that the company should pay gold in full. The damages elaimed are from $200,000 to $300,000, A receiver has been appointed. Tue Pionrers.—We have received a copy of the constitution and by-laws of the Society of California Pioneers, as revised and adopted in October, 1866. The publication also coutains the lists of officers annually elected since the organization of the society in 1850, together with a full list of memGASTON'S NEW GRINDER AND AMALGAMATOR. Improvements never cease; and we hail with pleasure any real improvemeut in machiuery for extracting tho precious metals from their ores, because every improvement in that direction adds directly and materially to the wealth and prosperity of the whole Pacific coast. Persons interested in quartz and eement mills, would do well to examine the principles of Mr. H. A. Gaston’s Screw Grinder and Amalgamator, an illustration of which is given herewith, before concluding their purchases of amalgamating machinery for their mills. The working of this pan differs, in manner, from any other inuse. The mullers C, C, consist of a screw with broad flanges or threads (similar to a propeller screw,) and forms a layer or strata of quicksilver upon the bottom of tho pan. The revolution of the serew produces a strong downward and under eurrent of the pulp, drawing it down between the threads in fonr broad sheets, when the shoes offectually rub it into the quicksilver ; after which it passes out of the cylinder through tho spaces in its base, and is forced up between the outside of the cylinder and the inside of the pan and over the top of the cylinder, when it is again drawn down by the screw and rubbed into the quicksilver, and so on indefinitely. In this manner a constant circulation of all the pulp in the pan is kept up, and . alternately brought in contact with and rubbed into the quicksilver, and then

forced from it, to bo again returned with that precision attendant upon perfect ma. chinery. “THE SCREW GRINDER AND AMALGAMATOR.” which flanges overlap each other a short distance, to permit and compel a free passage of the pulp between them. The screw is about three feet in diameter, and revolves horizontally within 2 low, vertical cylinder, ond the shoes for grinding, H, are attached to the base of the flanges or threads. Through the base of the cylinder are oblong holes or spaces, 5, corresponding in sizeand number to the spaces between the threads of the screw. These permit the pulp to pass out from or into the eylinder. ‘The revolution of the screw in either direction, causes the pulp to flow to the center of the pan and forces it between the shoes and the dies, thus adding the immense force of the screw to that of gravity, when rotated in one direction, and forcing to its aid a powerful atmospheric pressure when revolving in the opposite direction. In the ordinary pans gravity aloue causes the pulp to pass beneath the mullers, while it is drawn to the eenter by guide blades intercepting the current of the pulp, caused by the revolution of the muller. We are informed by the inventor that he does not grind quicksilver in his pan, but after the pulp has been ground to a proper fineness, the screw muller is raised a sixteenth, an eighth or a fourth of an inch, (the hight being different with silver or bers from that date, gold ores,) and the quicksilver is poured in The screw muller is the heart ; the spaces in the eylinder are the arteries ; the spaces between the eylinder and the sides of the pan are the veins of tho system, while the pulp answers for the blood, and the circulation of this appears to be as perfect and as regular as in the human system. With the screw amalgamator, it is caleulated that settlers are not reqnired ; for the under current spoken of, draws the quicksilver and amalgam down benesth the screw and holds it there as closely and quietly as if in a tank. The above inelndes the inventor’s description and claims for this new pan, which we have thus fully given, because we consider it likely to prove a valuable improvement ; and, for the further reason, that we take pleasure in contributing our meed of praise to the exertions and success of men of enterprise and genius. One of these pans is now daily put in motion at the ‘‘Pacifie Iron works,” in this eity, where the inventor, Mr. Gaston, will take pleasure in illustrating its movements to those interested in quartz and cement milling operations. We understand that arrangements will soon be made for the manufacture of these pans at any of the foundries in this city, and we are informed, in the meantime, that . persons desirous of negotiating for them! can do so by addressing the inventor, at tle Cosmopolitan Hotel iu this city, or R. L. Thomas, Esq., at Virginia City, Nevada THe Curia Mam Bangver.—Tho first mail steamer of the new line to China and Japan, sailed as announced on New Year's Day. The occasion was duly eelebrated by a grand banquet on the cvening previous at the Oceidental Hotel. Many of the San Francisco notables were present, representing in a highly ereditable degree, the wealth and the intelligence of tho city. The banquet hall was magnificently and tastefully arrayed, and was appropriately ornamented. with tho mingled devices characteristic of the two countries thus for the first time to be brought into intimate acquaintance with each other. Governor Low presided and Bishop Kip acted os chaplain. After the dinner—which was of course unexceptionable—had been duly discussed, when men were in the comfortable coffee and eigar state, which is said to usually sneceed such @ performanee, came ‘‘the feast of reason and the flow of soul.” In answer to tonsts drank, speeches were made by General MoDowell, Captain Eldridge, of the P. M8. Company, Hall M’Allister, Ex-Governor Stanford, R. B. Swain, Rev. Dr. Stone, Rev. Horatio Stebbins, A. A. Low, Ex-President of the New York Chamber of Commerce ; R. G. Sneath, President San Francisco Chamber of Commeree ; Samuel L. Wilson, Fung Tang, one of our noted San Francisco Chinese merchants; W. H. L. Barnes, Samuel Williams, of the Bulletin; E A. Rockwell, of the Call; Asher B. Bates, F, M. Pixley, and Governor McCormick, of Arizona. <A congratulatory dispateh from the Mayor and Council of Placerville was read. At three anda half o’clock the meeting was declared dissolved, and the guests separated, all on good terms with each other, with “the occasion,” and with everybody else. Sar For THe Paris Exuisrrion,—Messrs. Winegar & Shaw, 308 and 310 Front street, have shown us four samples of salt which they have prepared to go forward by our Commissioner to Paris, No, 1 is a very fine specimen of Arizona rock salt, as elear as erystal, and some five inches in length. No. 2, ‘California Solar Evaporated Salt.” No. 3, California salt ground in water after a peculiar method, by Messrs. W. & S.; and No. 4, Fine salt for table and dairy use. For the last article, Mossrs. W. & S. have taken premiums for the last six years. Art anp Narurr.—The Pacifie Art Gallery, No. 28 Third street, in addition to some fine paintings, coutains a small but select assortment of stuffed birds and animals worth seeing. Among the latter our attention was, perhaps, more particularly attracted to a large wild goat from Montana, a spotted deer of beauty, and rather a curious animal of the carnivorous order, known as tho carcajon ; possessed of an unusual degree of sagacity, it is seldom entrapped. Hence its rarity. i