Volume 17 (1868) (428 pages)

eye 40 2 O40 4 8 7 040404 040,9, 09, © Subseription, SS Per Annum, XG Single Copies, 15 Cents. A Journal of Useful Arts, Science, and Mining and Mechanical Progress. IBY DIOWIEY & ¢CoO., Patent Solleltars, >. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, December 12, 1868. VOLUME XVII. WNumbex 2-4. Table of Contents, Great Blast In the Gravel ste Mines—with diagram, and pie wwh-American Mechanicst MiscuLLaNy.— Haller Explosions; Besse. aemer Steel and MachineFaddled tron; Borlng Machities wt Mant Cents: HeBrae Stecl Engraving. PIR NTIVIC MIsthLLANY — another Bi Elecirle Earthquake ne ealloeia Acadeiny of SclGautoelent Philosophy. Metallurgical RY of the White Ping O our Metaliurgical isinblishments, printsin the New Red SaudStone; Chloreplyl; Aru. elat Production nt trou Snlpiles; Production of the Coyne Rednetion Works at}; Dlamomit; Determinanon San froanelac of Su'phur ia Orgame What May Happ nen In Africa. Compounds ; Dishifectlug The Vearth ot invention. Agents Postnitice Peot plo, Vining So¥mary—Comprising God Quartz Crushing InMexlate intelligence from the varlous counties and districts In Calltornla, Artzoua, Idaho and Nevada. Zine Mincs. San Francisco cto Shareholders’ Director San Franclsco Metal “Market. San Francisco Market Rates. Notlces to Correspondents. Stock Priccs—Bld and Asked. Now Incorporatlous, Osclory of Vancenuver Island. Metallifcrous Mlucrals, Ocolngical Table. Preveution of Danger from Stored Petroleum. Who Ate Roger Whitams. Conk's Telegrap Mexlean sfc Pasicnzer Ratc3 on the Postage Vrinelple, Geological Philosophy. The following poem, by W. A. Kendall (of this State), is a gem that will certainly please and instruct every reader of the Press. Itisthe far-reaching philosophy attaching to geology that makes its pursuit So interesting, aud its dednetions so profoundly suggestive. Kendall heads it TERRAQUEOUS. {From ‘‘Ansted’s Great Stone Book,"] Finst PERION. Bare rocks and vacnons water— Liquid and solid wastes alternate span Primeval Harth abont— No Plant, no Beast, no Man. SECOND PERION. Cycles of unrecorded time— Slow transmutations, vast upheavals, shocks: Dawning of vegetable ife— Lichens upon the rocks. THIRD PERION. Centuries of rain and snushine— Fins flash the ocean depths, the land Teems with crudé animation— Brutes wallow on the sand. FOURTH PERION, More slnggish centuries lapse— Forests snrmount the hills—nmbrageons gloom: Incense exhales and melodies are piped— Birds twitter—flowers bioom, FIFTH PERION. The age of final preparation wanes— Declared the consninmation of the Plan: The Honse is ready—lo, its master comes— The ‘Jack of all Trades’'Man! * * * * * A link discovered wanting— ~ A section to complete the circlet human; ‘The Man is /ess a rib, and straightway finds Himself—plus Woman ! SIXTH PERION. Generations of masters come and go— The house absorbs its tenuuts—all is mystery: Reason toddlecs a-pace, babbles, and founds Traditional History. SEVENTH PERION. Inventions and contentions— Wars, famines, feasts, and plagnes; Prophets and puppets; ernciiixions, trinkets— Reformers ou bewaltees Not yet the end—perhaps. not yet the middle— Uncertainty its fullness still retains; Yet, for their derivation—stone and water— How wonderful are brains! Tne Lararsr Locomotrve.—A correspondent of the American Artisan says: ‘“The ‘Reuben Wells’—a locomotive built at Jeffersonville, Ind., for the J. M. aud L RB, R., to be used on the ‘ plane’ at this city A Great Blast in the Gravel Mines. Tt cannot be gainsaid that the Pacific Coast has contributed to the world, besides its pyramids of gold and silver, also a material addition, in several not unimportant particulars, to its previons acqnirements in the arts of mining and civil engineering, and in metallurgy. Gold and silver, we are almost ready to maintain, are the veritable eomponent metals of that lever with which Archimides proposed to move the world, — we arenot sure thateven any place is needed tostandupon. To builil tho Pacific Railroad over the lofty aud snowy Sierra Nevada, was no great matter atall to the takemountains must come down,—if it takes a hundred years to sweep them away to the clean bedrock. The elements do it, and man controls the elements, as it is his privilege to do. An idea can be formed of the dimensions of some of tholarge blasts which are set off to loosen up the hills for the operation of the hydranlic stream, from the followiug communication : Epitors Minine anp Screntiric Press: Learning from paragraphs in the papers of the day that a great blast was to be exploded in the mines at Smartsville about the 15th of the month, I took a stroll to the place, to examine the preparatious. Shaft 74 feet deep. ce) GROUND PLAN OF DRIFTS hold, practical engineering mind of Californians; yet it is the most meritorious work of the kind, if we have not been overpraised, that the world has seen. Hydraulic mining engineering is, to Hastern and European miners, engineers and geologists, an unrealized fact; or if presented to them in tangible hights, distances and quantities, a myth,—so far removed from them ond their snrroundings, that it matters not to them whether it be true or false. That the gravel miners of California aro digging away miles of hill and mouutain to a depth of 200 foet or more, and do(Madison) —has ten driving-wheels and weighs sizciyjfive tons. This is the largest locomotive iu the United States, and runs on the steepest grade in the world, T believe, the rise being 400 feet to the mile.” positing them in Sacramento Valley, from teu to thirty milos distant, ean be best believed when seen, But it is nothing for self-glorification. = G A 2 . 3 en Es) Le 19 ls eI nd S <= 40 20 = Te) he 19 A tI a S 15. EM) 20 io) =] fe) No) 4 1 a 1D So a Nes 40 20 he l a 1D ire) a TO CONTAIN THE POWDER. I found that it was proposed to burn 1,200 kegs, or fifteeu tons, of powder in one blast. To understand the nature of the ground to be blasted, place yourself ou the side of a mountain rising on an angle of about twenty-five degrees. There is no opening to start from; and to get to the level of the flume through which tho earth is to be washed ufter the explosion, a shaft is sunk at the head of tho finme seventy-four feet in depth, aud inclines are run out north and south from the bottom of shaft, for tho purpose of washing the gravel into and through the finme. From the bottom of this shaft a drift three by four feet is run into or uuder the Gold is there, and the] mountaiu a distance of 185 feet, the surface of the mountain being at this point 105 feet above the drift. Then, seventy fect from the shaft, there is a cross drift of forty feet in length from the main drift south; then, at a distauce of twenty feet from tho main drift, on this sido of the drift, a second side drift is run back fifteen feet towards the mouth of the tunnel ; then, at the end of the forty feet, auother drift is run fifteen feet towards the mouth of tunnel, aud directly opposite this side drift of forty feet south there is another side drift south twenty feet, at the end of which a drift is rm fifteeu feet towards the month of the drift on this side—forming an I, aud onthe other side a double lL. Then, fifty feet further under the monntain, the main drift is cross-drifted as before. Then, fifty feet further iu, the main drift is crossed again as before, only the cross drift of forty fect is crossed each way, forming a donble T; the opposite side the same. In these cross-drifts the kegs of powder will be stored, with only the heads broken iu. The wires from the battery will pass throngh one or more kegs of powder in each cross drift, thus igniting the whole mass at the same iustant. The main drift will be tamped from bottom of shaft to the first cross drift,a distance of seventy feet. In the remainder of the drifts, nothing but the powder is placed, leaving a large vacuum, where the lorce of the powder is collected before it begins its work. This is the largest blast that has ever been attempted in the mines of this State. I will try and be preseut when it is discharged, and will send you au accouut of the result. Yours, A. Smartsville, Dee. Sth, 1868. Quartz Minu Storey.—The Humboldé Register, of Nov. 28th, gives an account, and discourses as follows, concerning the stealing of a quartz mill from Vicksburg District, Nevada, near the Oregon liue: The mill was built by a party of adventurous miners, who failed, aud the property was sold for delinquent taxes. An euterprising Humboldter bought it, and eonsidering it perfectly safe where it was, albeit it was in tho Indian country, left it alone in its glory, nntil such time as he could find employment for it. While resting iu fancied security, some equally enterprising farmers from Snrprise Valley, in California, went to Vicksburgh District and “‘snaked” tho mill over to Surprise, and put it to crushiug grain. People who have gold filing in their . teeth, or hot stoves, or post-holes for fencing out that way, will do well to keep a sharp lookout. ‘There would be no use iu a blind hog of the female persnasion hoarding up aeorns for winter in that seetiou of the country. The fellow who stole the blankets and east-off clothing of the Santa Crnz Small-pox Hospital, recently, will find a colony of his countrymen in Burpyse Valley. Gerwan Waanixe Gun.—Mr. Rechten, of Bremen, has been exhibiting the newly pateuted Gorman whaling gun at New Bedford. The gun is doublo and very heavy, mouuted ou trunnions. One barrel is designed for a harpoou and the other for a bomb lance. The harpovn is said to have been thrown a long distance with great aceuraey.

eye 40 2 O40 4 8 7 040404 040,9, 09, © Subseription, SS Per Annum, XG Single Copies, 15 Cents. A Journal of Useful Arts, Science, and Mining and Mechanical Progress. IBY DIOWIEY & ¢CoO., Patent Solleltars, >. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, December 12, 1868. VOLUME XVII. WNumbex 2-4. Table of Contents, Great Blast In the Gravel ste Mines—with diagram, and pie wwh-American Mechanicst MiscuLLaNy.— Haller Explosions; Besse. aemer Steel and MachineFaddled tron; Borlng Machities wt Mant Cents: HeBrae Stecl Engraving. PIR NTIVIC MIsthLLANY — another Bi Elecirle Earthquake ne ealloeia Acadeiny of SclGautoelent Philosophy. Metallurgical RY of the White Ping O our Metaliurgical isinblishments, printsin the New Red SaudStone; Chloreplyl; Aru. elat Production nt trou Snlpiles; Production of the Coyne Rednetion Works at}; Dlamomit; Determinanon San froanelac of Su'phur ia Orgame What May Happ nen In Africa. Compounds ; Dishifectlug The Vearth ot invention. Agents Postnitice Peot plo, Vining So¥mary—Comprising God Quartz Crushing InMexlate intelligence from the varlous counties and districts In Calltornla, Artzoua, Idaho and Nevada. Zine Mincs. San Francisco cto Shareholders’ Director San Franclsco Metal “Market. San Francisco Market Rates. Notlces to Correspondents. Stock Priccs—Bld and Asked. Now Incorporatlous, Osclory of Vancenuver Island. Metallifcrous Mlucrals, Ocolngical Table. Preveution of Danger from Stored Petroleum. Who Ate Roger Whitams. Conk's Telegrap Mexlean sfc Pasicnzer Ratc3 on the Postage Vrinelple, Geological Philosophy. The following poem, by W. A. Kendall (of this State), is a gem that will certainly please and instruct every reader of the Press. Itisthe far-reaching philosophy attaching to geology that makes its pursuit So interesting, aud its dednetions so profoundly suggestive. Kendall heads it TERRAQUEOUS. {From ‘‘Ansted’s Great Stone Book,"] Finst PERION. Bare rocks and vacnons water— Liquid and solid wastes alternate span Primeval Harth abont— No Plant, no Beast, no Man. SECOND PERION. Cycles of unrecorded time— Slow transmutations, vast upheavals, shocks: Dawning of vegetable ife— Lichens upon the rocks. THIRD PERION. Centuries of rain and snushine— Fins flash the ocean depths, the land Teems with crudé animation— Brutes wallow on the sand. FOURTH PERION, More slnggish centuries lapse— Forests snrmount the hills—nmbrageons gloom: Incense exhales and melodies are piped— Birds twitter—flowers bioom, FIFTH PERION. The age of final preparation wanes— Declared the consninmation of the Plan: The Honse is ready—lo, its master comes— The ‘Jack of all Trades’'Man! * * * * * A link discovered wanting— ~ A section to complete the circlet human; ‘The Man is /ess a rib, and straightway finds Himself—plus Woman ! SIXTH PERION. Generations of masters come and go— The house absorbs its tenuuts—all is mystery: Reason toddlecs a-pace, babbles, and founds Traditional History. SEVENTH PERION. Inventions and contentions— Wars, famines, feasts, and plagnes; Prophets and puppets; ernciiixions, trinkets— Reformers ou bewaltees Not yet the end—perhaps. not yet the middle— Uncertainty its fullness still retains; Yet, for their derivation—stone and water— How wonderful are brains! Tne Lararsr Locomotrve.—A correspondent of the American Artisan says: ‘“The ‘Reuben Wells’—a locomotive built at Jeffersonville, Ind., for the J. M. aud L RB, R., to be used on the ‘ plane’ at this city A Great Blast in the Gravel Mines. Tt cannot be gainsaid that the Pacific Coast has contributed to the world, besides its pyramids of gold and silver, also a material addition, in several not unimportant particulars, to its previons acqnirements in the arts of mining and civil engineering, and in metallurgy. Gold and silver, we are almost ready to maintain, are the veritable eomponent metals of that lever with which Archimides proposed to move the world, — we arenot sure thateven any place is needed tostandupon. To builil tho Pacific Railroad over the lofty aud snowy Sierra Nevada, was no great matter atall to the takemountains must come down,—if it takes a hundred years to sweep them away to the clean bedrock. The elements do it, and man controls the elements, as it is his privilege to do. An idea can be formed of the dimensions of some of tholarge blasts which are set off to loosen up the hills for the operation of the hydranlic stream, from the followiug communication : Epitors Minine anp Screntiric Press: Learning from paragraphs in the papers of the day that a great blast was to be exploded in the mines at Smartsville about the 15th of the month, I took a stroll to the place, to examine the preparatious. Shaft 74 feet deep.

ce) GROUND PLAN OF DRIFTS hold, practical engineering mind of Californians; yet it is the most meritorious work of the kind, if we have not been overpraised, that the world has seen. Hydraulic mining engineering is, to Hastern and European miners, engineers and geologists, an unrealized fact; or if presented to them in tangible hights, distances and quantities, a myth,—so far removed from them ond their snrroundings, that it matters not to them whether it be true or false. That the gravel miners of California aro digging away miles of hill and mouutain to a depth of 200 foet or more, and do(Madison) —has ten driving-wheels and weighs sizciyjfive tons. This is the largest locomotive iu the United States, and runs on the steepest grade in the world, T believe, the rise being 400 feet to the mile.” positing them in Sacramento Valley, from teu to thirty milos distant, ean be best believed when seen, But it is nothing for self-glorification. = G A 2 . 3 en Es) Le 19 ls eI nd S <= 40 20 = Te) he 19 A tI a S 15. EM) 20 io) =] fe) No) 4 1 a 1D So a Nes 40 20 he l a 1D ire) a TO CONTAIN THE POWDER. I found that it was proposed to burn 1,200 kegs, or fifteeu tons, of powder in one blast. To understand the nature of the ground to be blasted, place yourself ou the side of a mountain rising on an angle of about twenty-five degrees. There is no opening to start from; and to get to the level of the flume through which tho earth is to be washed ufter the explosion, a shaft is sunk at the head of tho finme seventy-four feet in depth, aud inclines are run out north and south from the bottom of shaft, for tho purpose of washing the gravel into and through the finme. From the bottom of this shaft a drift three by four feet is run into or uuder the Gold is there, and the] mountaiu a distance of 185 feet, the surface of the mountain being at this point 105 feet above the drift. Then, seventy fect from the shaft, there is a cross drift of forty feet in length from the main drift south; then, at a distauce of twenty feet from tho main drift, on this sido of the drift, a second side drift is run back fifteen feet towards the mouth of the tunnel ; then, at the end of the forty feet, auother drift is run fifteen feet towards the mouth of tunnel, aud directly opposite this side drift of forty feet south there is another side drift south twenty feet, at the end of which a drift is rm fifteeu feet towards the month of the drift on this side—forming an I, aud onthe other side a double lL. Then, fifty feet further under the monntain, the main drift is cross-drifted as before. Then, fifty feet further iu, the main drift is crossed again as before, only the cross drift of forty fect is crossed each way, forming a donble T; the opposite side the same. In these cross-drifts the kegs of powder will be stored, with only the heads broken iu. The wires from the battery will pass throngh one or more kegs of powder in each cross drift, thus igniting the whole mass at the same iustant. The main drift will be tamped from bottom of shaft to the first cross drift,a distance of seventy feet. In the remainder of the drifts, nothing but the powder is placed, leaving a large vacuum, where the lorce of the powder is collected before it begins its work. This is the largest blast that has ever been attempted in the mines of this State. I will try and be preseut when it is discharged, and will send you au accouut of the result. Yours, A. Smartsville, Dee. Sth, 1868. Quartz Minu Storey.—The Humboldé Register, of Nov. 28th, gives an account, and discourses as follows, concerning the stealing of a quartz mill from Vicksburg District, Nevada, near the Oregon liue: The mill was built by a party of adventurous miners, who failed, aud the property was sold for delinquent taxes. An euterprising Humboldter bought it, and eonsidering it perfectly safe where it was, albeit it was in tho Indian country, left it alone in its glory, nntil such time as he could find employment for it. While resting iu fancied security, some equally enterprising farmers from Snrprise Valley, in California, went to Vicksburgh District and “‘snaked” tho mill over to Surprise, and put it to crushiug grain. People who have gold filing in their . teeth, or hot stoves, or post-holes for fencing out that way, will do well to keep a sharp lookout. ‘There would be no use iu a blind hog of the female persnasion hoarding up aeorns for winter in that seetiou of the country. The fellow who stole the blankets and east-off clothing of the Santa Crnz Small-pox Hospital, recently, will find a colony of his countrymen in Burpyse Valley. Gerwan Waanixe Gun.—Mr. Rechten, of Bremen, has been exhibiting the newly pateuted Gorman whaling gun at New Bedford. The gun is doublo and very heavy, mouuted ou trunnions. One barrel is designed for a harpoou and the other for a bomb lance. The harpovn is said to have been thrown a long distance with great aceuraey.