Volume 17 (1868) (428 pages)

196 The Mining and Scientific Press. [Reported for the Mining and Scientific Press.) Fifteenth Annual State Fair. The attendance at the Fair this year is uuusually large, and the display of articles on exhihition in the various departments is exceedingly fine and creditable to the State. Many articles were late in making their appearauce here, owing to the continmance of the Mechanics’ Institute Fair at San Francisco, hardly giving time to transport and arrange them in the time intervening hetween the closing of one and the openiug of the other. Notwithstanding this necessary delay, the articles made a good display on Friday, and on Saturday everything was in successful operation. The attendance at the Hall during the day is not large, which is no douht owing to the attractions at the Park, where the stock is on exhibition, and one or more races come off every afternoon at 2 o’clock. In the evening crowds assemble in the pavilion, filling the various rooms to such an extent as to make locomotion exceedingly difficult. In my opinion, the huilding is mnch too small, not to say inconvenient, for the proper display of the increasing uumbher of articles which seek exhibitiou at all onr Fairs. But this will no doubt he remedied another year, by ample additions to the present huilding, as I understand the Society has ample room adjoining for all fature needs. Willis’ Band, of Sau Francisco, furnishes the music at the pavilion, which is a guarantee that visitors will he well entertained. On Thursday evening the Introductory Address was delivered hy the President of the State Agricultural Society, C. F. Reed, of Yolo. He congratulated the,farmers of the State on their prosperous coudition in the following langnage: ‘‘ Ony farmers are not only doing well, and laying up a competency for themselves and famililies, but they are absolutely becoming rich. An abundance of crops and highly remunerative prices are filling their coffers with gold and silver ; enabling them to improve and beautify their farms and homes, to build uew and commodious dwellings and barns, to purchase and use the most approved labor-saving machinery in the cultivation of their land and the gathering and saving of their crops ; to supply their families with all the necessarics aud luxuries enjoyed by older and less favored communities, As prospers agriculiure, the great fountain of all wealth, the great mother of all other oceupations, and promoter of all civilizatiou, so prosper the towus and cities, the State and the entire people.” The address was an ahle one, and was listened to with evident interest by all who were present. T shall not attempt to give a list of even the most prominent articles on exhibition in any department, much less to attempt to descrihe them. Many of the articles exhibited here, were on exhibition at the late Mechanics’ Institute Fair in San Francisco, and were fully descrihed in the Damy Farr Press ; in fact, to leave out all those articles, would be to materially curtail this exhibition. But this was to be expected. THE MACHINERY DEPARTMENT. This department of the exhibition is not as fully represeuted as I expected to find it. The main propelling power is furuished by Wright's Pateut Variahle Cut-off Steam Engine, built at the Pacific Iron Works, San Francisco, and was ou exhihition at the Mechanics’ Institute Fair, where it was much admired, and received a gold medal as the best steam engine entered for competion there. It was fully described iu a recent number of the Pruss. Numerous diminutive steam engines are scattered through the building, doing good service as motors, J. Hendy, of San Francisco, has ou exhibition two of his improved concentrators, which are in practical operation. These concentrators received 2 diploma at the Mechanics’ Instute Fair of San Francisco. There are a large numher of pumps on exhihition,and considerable interest is manifested as to the merits of the several inventions, Those representing these pumps are always ready to point out what they consider their superior merits, and each pump is extolled in a manner that wonld do credit toa modern auctioueer. We noticed the American and Gerrish suhmerged pumps in operation. Mr.M. D. Lasswell, of San Francisco, has a numher of pumps on exhibition. These pumps make a fiue display, and are one of the hest features in the machinery department. Pierce’s patent incline elevator is on cxhibition, and is much admired for its ingenuity and novelty. J. B. Johnson, of San Francisco, has on exhibition a patent friction hoist, for which he received a diploma at the Mechanics’ Institute Fair. ' AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. The display of agricultural implements is very large and creditahle. I noticed articles from Messrs. Baker & Hamilton, of Sacramento, Treadwell & Co., of San Francisco, Webster Bros., of Stockton, and some others, who display a large assortment of all kinds of implements, from the gang plow, which first turns up the soil and prepares it for receiving the seed, to the reaper and header, which gathers the ripened grain, and the thresher, which completes the harvestiug operation. I also noticed in this department, Walton’s patent ironheaded hay-fork, which seems admirahly adapted for the purposes for which it is designed. <A caveathas been filed for this invention. IN THE UPPER HALL are exhibited miscellaneous articles in great profpsiou and variety. The sewing machine department is represented by all the different inventions, and there is sharp competition. The Art Gallery is well filled with paintings and photographs of superior merit. The manufacture of silk by the Messrs. Newman, of San Jose, or the State at large, as they themselves express it, is a very iuteresting feature, as it was at the Fairin San Francisco. The exhibition of cocoous is also very numerous and fine. It would take much space to enumerate half of the prominent articles that are tastefully and profusely displayed in this room. The Pioneer and Mission Woolen Mills of San Francisco, make a magnificent display of their goods, But I will not further particularize ; suffice it to say, that the exhibition is pronounced superior to any of its predecessors in this department. I noticed in a small room adjoining the the upper hall, a circular iron-clad floating battery, designed for harbor defence, by R. Rutter, of Vallejo. It is a neatly executed model. IN THE LOWER HALL are displayed the fruit, vegetables, and numerous manufactured articles, There was not so large a display of fruit as I expected to find here. The fruit, such as apples, pears, peaches, plums, ete., was very fine though not extensive. Grapes were in great ahuudance and very fine. We donbt if there was ever exhibited at a State Fair anywhere, a greater variety than is here displayed. The vegetahle kingdom was represented by giants; squashes of snc huge dimensions that I will not even give the figures boldly painted on their plump sides, were laid upon the well supported tables; beets, that looked more like the underground growth of the forest, than of the vegetable kingdom, were here shown; but I need not give a description of these vegetahles, for auy one who has spent six months in California, has seen their couuterparts in our markets. The American Saw Company, and Pacific Saw Company, of San Francisco, are well represented, the former, weunderstand, only for exhibition, the latter for competition with any and all saws, either of foreign or home manufacture. THE STOCK. At the Park there is a fine display of stock, consisting of horses, horned cattle, sheep, Cashmere goats, swine, poultry, etc. At no previous exhibition of this Society, Tam told, has there heen so fine a collection of thorough hred horses. Norfolk and Lodi are here, and are exercised in front of the judges’ stand every day. They are prohahly the finest horses of their class on this continent. The stock on exhibition is all very fine, and would do credit to older States than ours. THE STEAM PLOW of Coffin & Standish, of Martinez, attracts a good deal of attention here. It is exercised on the track to show its propelling power, and hefore the Fair closes will he put to practical testin plowing. The operation of this plow has heen so recently fully descrihed in the columns of the Press, that I need not speak of it further than to mention its presence here. — Sacramento, Sept. 21, 1868. Ss. Scientific Reconnoissance of Russian America. We were much gratified on Thursday to meet Mr. Wm. H. Dall, late Chargé of the Russian American Telegraphic Scientific corps, shortly aftcr he had stepped ashore from the schooner Fraucis L. Steele, 18 days from the Fox Islands, and the month of Yucon river, Behrings Straits. Mr. Dall was one of Prof. Agassiz’s former pupils, and he has shown himself quite an enthusiast in science, especially in the departments, of geology and zodlogy. Bronzed and rusty in appearance, he reminded us strongly of the little Frenchman Du Chaillu, as he -looked when he landed at New York fresh from his first African adventures, and before the world knew anything about him and his gorillas, Full of narrative of the most wonderful adventures, the explorer and real adventurer does not realize himself how eloquent asimply told story becomes to the listener. Mr. Dall went out with the Western Telegraph Expedition in 1866, having previously spent two or three winters in San Francisco; and most of the time since then he has been traveling through and snrveying the very heart of Russian America—not Sitka, but that far northwestern corner of the continent which fronts on Behrings Straits, and which is drained through its center by a great river flowing nearly due westward, occupying a hasin nearly as large as that of the Mississippi river. Thisis the Ywconriver, and a country which is marked ‘‘ unexplored” }on the hest maps that can be had. Bark or skin canoes and dog sleds are the . modes of conveyance. Kotzebne Sound on . the Arctic, was a point that Mr. Dall conld . not quite reach, because he ‘‘got out of dog feed.” We did not think of interrupting him to ascertain what that was composed of. When Major Kennicott died, Mr. Dall remained in charge of the scientific corps; it being a year hefore they knew that the telegraph enterprise was abandoned. The winter of 1866-7 was spent at Nulato, in the interior, about 700 miles up Yucon river, or 220 miles from Norton Sound, on the Bebring sea, by portage overland. In the spring of 1867, Mr. Dall continued his journey up the Yucon, 600 miles further, to a Hudson Bay Company’s fort, kept by a Scotchman with the healthy sounding name of McDougal. This was on the borders of Rossian and British America, not far from the Arctic ocean. Mr. Dall seems to have convinced Mr. McDougal that he and his Esqnimaux subjects were located just a little inside of the United States line. Returning to St. Michael’s Bay, at the month of the Yucon,—a canoe voyage of 1,800 miles,—he first learned, in the fall of 1867, that the Telegraph Company had given up their designs. But as the work which Mr. Dall had laid out for himself was notcompleted, beimmediately resolved to continue it at his own expense. The plan was to makea geological reconnoissance of the country, and to collect as many zoélogical and other specimens from those regions as possihle, for the Smithsonian Institute. The next year he went up to Nulato again, to fillin gaps in his snrvey, where the mosquitos seem to have been too thick for scientific observations. On getting to the mouth of the Yucon in the summer of 1863, he amused himself by shooting, and preparing specimens, till one day an Indian came along and told him that two American ‘‘ships ” were in Norton’s Sound. Thereupon there was a hasty packing up, the Francis I. Stcelo was duly reached, and at the same time an opportunity was found to talk English again; Russian and Indian having been the only means of communication for months, as Mr. Dall had heen latterly traveling alone amongst the Indians. The schooner was trading on behalf of the Pioneer Fnr Company, which is coniposed of men who were in the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Reference heing made, incidentally, to the late Mechanics’ Institute Fair, Mr, Dall inquired of us with a good deal of interest ahont the Paris Exposition—‘‘ whether it had taken place,” and ‘‘ whether it had not proved a kind of failure,” as it was thought it would do when he left the confines of telegraph and newspaperdom. Next week we will furnish our readers with a more dctatled account of the country explored by Mr. Dall. We may add here that he has procured fossilsenough to determine the geological age of the country visited, and upwards of 1,000 zo6logieal specimens, _ New Patents Issued to Pacific Coast Inventors. Specially reported by the U. S. Patent Office, Washington, D. ¢., to Dewey & Co., Amerleau and Foreign Patent Solicitors, and Publishers of the MINING AND ScientiFic Prags. Isguep yor THE WrEr Enpine Szptempenr Sth, 1868. 81,894.—ImerovemMEeNT In Expiosrvn ComPounDs.—Joseph Hafenegger, San Francisco, Cal.: I claim the within described explosive compounds consisting of Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, made of the ingredients enumerated, mixed or compounded in about the proportions specified. I also claim the self-igniting match, compounded of the liquids or fluids enumerated, whether applied separately or mixed to the explosive compounds or. materials sought to be ignited or exploded, suhstantially as described. This patent was noticed atlength in our issue of Sept. 12th, 1868, 81,910.—Improvemment In Esoarements.— Wm. C. Kellum, San Francisco, Cal.: 1. Iclaim the detent F, and the adjusting screw d, together with the curved arm H, and the spring I, operating by the liberatiug pin a, or its equivalents locking by spring or gravitation, substantially as and for the purpose described. 2. The escape wheel B, movingin a plane parallel to that of the balance staff and of the plates A, A, and giving impulse to the pallet ec, either from the sides or point of the teeth, in combination with the detent F, arm H, and spring I, substantially as described. 3. The balance staff c, standing parallel with the plate A, and the liberating pin a, passing alternately ahove and below the lip J, at each vibration, substantially as described. We shall mention this patent next week. 81,992.—Iuprovep Drs Srurr.—-C. E. Fox and Mary E. Fox, Gilroy, Cal.: What we claim as our invention and desire to secure hy letters patent is the extract (or coloring mattcr) of manzanita as a new article of manufacture for its varions uses as herein specificd. REISSUES, 3, 114, —IsRovement In Gane Prow.—Don Carlos Matteson, Stockton, Cal.: Iclaim the arrangement as described of the false beam N, goose neck G, axle 7, lever i, catch L, and the system of plows attached to their frame as set forth, the whole being constructed and operating substantially as and for the purposes specified.

196 The Mining and Scientific Press. [Reported for the Mining and Scientific Press.) Fifteenth Annual State Fair. The attendance at the Fair this year is uuusually large, and the display of articles on exhihition in the various departments is exceedingly fine and creditable to the State. Many articles were late in making their appearauce here, owing to the continmance of the Mechanics’ Institute Fair at San Francisco, hardly giving time to transport and arrange them in the time intervening hetween the closing of one and the openiug of the other. Notwithstanding this necessary delay, the articles made a good display on Friday, and on Saturday everything was in successful operation. The attendance at the Hall during the day is not large, which is no douht owing to the attractions at the Park, where the stock is on exhibition, and one or more races come off every afternoon at 2 o’clock. In the evening crowds assemble in the pavilion, filling the various rooms to such an extent as to make locomotion exceedingly difficult. In my opinion, the huilding is mnch too small, not to say inconvenient, for the proper display of the increasing uumbher of articles which seek exhibitiou at all onr Fairs. But this will no doubt he remedied another year, by ample additions to the present huilding, as I understand the Society has ample room adjoining for all fature needs. Willis’ Band, of Sau Francisco, furnishes the music at the pavilion, which is a guarantee that visitors will he well entertained. On Thursday evening the Introductory Address was delivered hy the President of the State Agricultural Society, C. F. Reed, of Yolo. He congratulated the,farmers of the State on their prosperous coudition in the following langnage: ‘‘ Ony farmers are not only doing well, and laying up a competency for themselves and famililies, but they are absolutely becoming rich. An abundance of crops and highly remunerative prices are filling their coffers with gold and silver ; enabling them to improve and beautify their farms and homes, to build uew and commodious dwellings and barns, to purchase and use the most approved labor-saving machinery in the cultivation of their land and the gathering and saving of their crops ; to supply their families with all the necessarics aud luxuries enjoyed by older and less favored communities, As prospers agriculiure, the great fountain of all wealth, the great mother of all other oceupations, and promoter of all civilizatiou, so prosper the towus and cities, the State and the entire people.” The address was an ahle one, and was listened to with evident interest by all who were present. T shall not attempt to give a list of even the most prominent articles on exhibition in any department, much less to attempt to descrihe them. Many of the articles exhibited here, were on exhibition at the late Mechanics’ Institute Fair in San Francisco, and were fully descrihed in the Damy Farr Press ; in fact, to leave out all those articles, would be to materially curtail this exhibition. But this was to be expected. THE MACHINERY DEPARTMENT. This department of the exhibition is not as fully represeuted as I expected to find it. The main propelling power is furuished by Wright's Pateut Variahle Cut-off Steam Engine, built at the Pacific Iron Works, San Francisco, and was ou exhihition at the Mechanics’ Institute Fair, where it was much admired, and received a gold medal as the best steam engine entered for competion there. It was fully described iu a recent number of the Pruss. Numerous diminutive steam engines are scattered through the building, doing good service as motors, J. Hendy, of San Francisco, has ou exhibition two of his improved concentrators, which are in practical operation. These concentrators received 2 diploma at the Mechanics’ Instute Fair of San Francisco. There are a large numher of pumps on exhihition,and considerable interest is manifested as to the merits of the several inventions, Those representing these pumps are always ready to point out what they consider their superior merits, and each pump is extolled in a manner that wonld do credit toa modern auctioueer. We noticed the American and Gerrish suhmerged pumps in operation. Mr.M. D. Lasswell, of San Francisco, has a numher of pumps on exhibition. These pumps make a fiue display, and are one of the hest features in the machinery department. Pierce’s patent incline elevator is on cxhibition, and is much admired for its ingenuity and novelty. J. B. Johnson, of San Francisco, has on exhibition a patent friction hoist, for which he received a diploma at the Mechanics’ Institute Fair. ' AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. The display of agricultural implements is very large and creditahle. I noticed articles from Messrs. Baker & Hamilton, of Sacramento, Treadwell & Co., of San Francisco, Webster Bros., of Stockton, and some others, who display a large assortment of all kinds of implements, from the gang plow, which first turns up the soil and prepares it for receiving the seed, to the reaper and header, which gathers the ripened grain, and the thresher, which completes the harvestiug operation. I also noticed in this department, Walton’s patent ironheaded hay-fork, which seems admirahly adapted for the purposes for which it is designed. <A caveathas been filed for this invention. IN THE UPPER HALL are exhibited miscellaneous articles in great profpsiou and variety. The sewing machine department is represented by all the different inventions, and there is sharp competition. The Art Gallery is well filled with paintings and photographs of superior merit. The manufacture of silk by the Messrs. Newman, of San Jose, or the State at large, as they themselves express it, is a very iuteresting feature, as it was at the Fairin San Francisco. The exhibition of cocoous is also very numerous and fine. It would take much space to enumerate half of the prominent articles that are tastefully and profusely displayed in this room. The Pioneer and Mission Woolen Mills of San Francisco, make a magnificent display of their goods, But I will not further particularize ; suffice it to say, that the exhibition is pronounced superior to any of its predecessors in this department. I noticed in a small room adjoining the the upper hall, a circular iron-clad floating battery, designed for harbor defence, by R. Rutter, of Vallejo. It is a neatly executed model. IN THE LOWER HALL are displayed the fruit, vegetables, and numerous manufactured articles, There was not so large a display of fruit as I expected to find here. The fruit, such as apples, pears, peaches, plums, ete., was very fine though not extensive. Grapes were in great ahuudance and very fine. We donbt if there was ever exhibited at a State Fair anywhere, a greater variety than is here displayed. The vegetahle kingdom was represented by giants; squashes of snc huge dimensions that I will not even give the figures boldly painted on their plump sides, were laid upon the well supported tables; beets, that looked more like the underground growth of the forest, than of the vegetable kingdom, were here shown; but I need not give a description of these vegetahles, for auy one who has spent six months in California, has seen their couuterparts in our markets. The American Saw Company, and Pacific Saw Company, of San Francisco, are well represented, the former, weunderstand, only for exhibition, the latter for competition with any and all saws, either of foreign or home manufacture. THE STOCK. At the Park there is a fine display of stock, consisting of horses, horned cattle, sheep, Cashmere goats, swine, poultry, etc. At no previous exhibition of this Society, Tam told, has there heen so fine a collection of thorough hred horses. Norfolk and Lodi are here, and are exercised in front of the judges’ stand every day. They are prohahly the finest horses of their class on this continent. The stock on exhibition is all very fine, and would do credit to older

States than ours. THE STEAM PLOW of Coffin & Standish, of Martinez, attracts a good deal of attention here. It is exercised on the track to show its propelling power, and hefore the Fair closes will he put to practical testin plowing. The operation of this plow has heen so recently fully descrihed in the columns of the Press, that I need not speak of it further than to mention its presence here. — Sacramento, Sept. 21, 1868. Ss. Scientific Reconnoissance of Russian America. We were much gratified on Thursday to meet Mr. Wm. H. Dall, late Chargé of the Russian American Telegraphic Scientific corps, shortly aftcr he had stepped ashore from the schooner Fraucis L. Steele, 18 days from the Fox Islands, and the month of Yucon river, Behrings Straits. Mr. Dall was one of Prof. Agassiz’s former pupils, and he has shown himself quite an enthusiast in science, especially in the departments, of geology and zodlogy. Bronzed and rusty in appearance, he reminded us strongly of the little Frenchman Du Chaillu, as he -looked when he landed at New York fresh from his first African adventures, and before the world knew anything about him and his gorillas, Full of narrative of the most wonderful adventures, the explorer and real adventurer does not realize himself how eloquent asimply told story becomes to the listener. Mr. Dall went out with the Western Telegraph Expedition in 1866, having previously spent two or three winters in San Francisco; and most of the time since then he has been traveling through and snrveying the very heart of Russian America—not Sitka, but that far northwestern corner of the continent which fronts on Behrings Straits, and which is drained through its center by a great river flowing nearly due westward, occupying a hasin nearly as large as that of the Mississippi river. Thisis the Ywconriver, and a country which is marked ‘‘ unexplored” }on the hest maps that can be had. Bark or skin canoes and dog sleds are the . modes of conveyance. Kotzebne Sound on . the Arctic, was a point that Mr. Dall conld . not quite reach, because he ‘‘got out of dog feed.” We did not think of interrupting him to ascertain what that was composed of. When Major Kennicott died, Mr. Dall remained in charge of the scientific corps; it being a year hefore they knew that the telegraph enterprise was abandoned. The winter of 1866-7 was spent at Nulato, in the interior, about 700 miles up Yucon river, or 220 miles from Norton Sound, on the Bebring sea, by portage overland. In the spring of 1867, Mr. Dall continued his journey up the Yucon, 600 miles further, to a Hudson Bay Company’s fort, kept by a Scotchman with the healthy sounding name of McDougal. This was on the borders of Rossian and British America, not far from the Arctic ocean. Mr. Dall seems to have convinced Mr. McDougal that he and his Esqnimaux subjects were located just a little inside of the United States line. Returning to St. Michael’s Bay, at the month of the Yucon,—a canoe voyage of 1,800 miles,—he first learned, in the fall of 1867, that the Telegraph Company had given up their designs. But as the work which Mr. Dall had laid out for himself was notcompleted, beimmediately resolved to continue it at his own expense. The plan was to makea geological reconnoissance of the country, and to collect as many zoélogical and other specimens from those regions as possihle, for the Smithsonian Institute. The next year he went up to Nulato again, to fillin gaps in his snrvey, where the mosquitos seem to have been too thick for scientific observations. On getting to the mouth of the Yucon in the summer of 1863, he amused himself by shooting, and preparing specimens, till one day an Indian came along and told him that two American ‘‘ships ” were in Norton’s Sound. Thereupon there was a hasty packing up, the Francis I. Stcelo was duly reached, and at the same time an opportunity was found to talk English again; Russian and Indian having been the only means of communication for months, as Mr. Dall had heen latterly traveling alone amongst the Indians. The schooner was trading on behalf of the Pioneer Fnr Company, which is coniposed of men who were in the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Reference heing made, incidentally, to the late Mechanics’ Institute Fair, Mr, Dall inquired of us with a good deal of interest ahont the Paris Exposition—‘‘ whether it had taken place,” and ‘‘ whether it had not proved a kind of failure,” as it was thought it would do when he left the confines of telegraph and newspaperdom. Next week we will furnish our readers with a more dctatled account of the country explored by Mr. Dall. We may add here that he has procured fossilsenough to determine the geological age of the country visited, and upwards of 1,000 zo6logieal specimens, _ New Patents Issued to Pacific Coast Inventors. Specially reported by the U. S. Patent Office, Washington, D. ¢., to Dewey & Co., Amerleau and Foreign Patent Solicitors, and Publishers of the MINING AND ScientiFic Prags. Isguep yor THE WrEr Enpine Szptempenr Sth, 1868. 81,894.—ImerovemMEeNT In Expiosrvn ComPounDs.—Joseph Hafenegger, San Francisco, Cal.: I claim the within described explosive compounds consisting of Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, made of the ingredients enumerated, mixed or compounded in about the proportions specified. I also claim the self-igniting match, compounded of the liquids or fluids enumerated, whether applied separately or mixed to the explosive compounds or. materials sought to be ignited or exploded, suhstantially as described. This patent was noticed atlength in our issue of Sept. 12th, 1868, 81,910.—Improvemment In Esoarements.— Wm. C. Kellum, San Francisco, Cal.: 1. Iclaim the detent F, and the adjusting screw d, together with the curved arm H, and the spring I, operating by the liberatiug pin a, or its equivalents locking by spring or gravitation, substantially as and for the purpose described. 2. The escape wheel B, movingin a plane parallel to that of the balance staff and of the plates A, A, and giving impulse to the pallet ec, either from the sides or point of the teeth, in combination with the detent F, arm H, and spring I, substantially as described. 3. The balance staff c, standing parallel with the plate A, and the liberating pin a, passing alternately ahove and below the lip J, at each vibration, substantially as described. We shall mention this patent next week. 81,992.—Iuprovep Drs Srurr.—-C. E. Fox and Mary E. Fox, Gilroy, Cal.: What we claim as our invention and desire to secure hy letters patent is the extract (or coloring mattcr) of manzanita as a new article of manufacture for its varions uses as herein specificd. REISSUES, 3, 114, —IsRovement In Gane Prow.—Don Carlos Matteson, Stockton, Cal.: Iclaim the arrangement as described of the false beam N, goose neck G, axle 7, lever i, catch L, and the system of plows attached to their frame as set forth, the whole being constructed and operating substantially as and for the purposes specified.