Volume 18 (1869) (430 pages)

94 The Mining and Scientific Press, Machinery. VARNEYW’S PATENT AMALGAMATOR These Machines Stund Unrivaled. for rapidly pulverizing and amalgamating ores, they have nocqual. Noetfort has been, or willbe, spared to have them constructed iu the most perfect manuer, and of the great number now iu operation, not one has everreuired repairs. The constant and inereasiug demaud for thew is sufticient evidence of their merits. They are constructed so asto apply steam directly into the pulp, or with steam bottoms, as desired. This Amalgamator Operates a3 Follows: The pan being filled, the motion of the muller forees the pulp to the center, where itis drawn down throngh the aperture and between the grindiug surfaces. Thenee it is thrown to the periphery into the quicksilver. The curved . plates again draw it tothe center, whereit passes down, and to the cireumferenec as betore. Thus itis ecoustantly assing in aregular How between the grinding surlaees and . ito the quicksilver, until the ore is reduced to an impalpable powder, aud the metal amalgamated, Sctiers made on the sume principle exeel all others.— They bring the pulp so eonstantiy and perfectly in ecoutnet with quicksilver, that the particles are rapidly and coin pletely absorbed, Mill men are invited to examine these pans and setlers for themselves, at the PACIFIC FOUNDRY, lvl Sau Francisco. Patent Rigits for Sale. For Preserving Timber from Decay The cheapest method for curing Wood. HAMAK’S PATENT. WOOD PAVEMENT, MILLER’S PATENT. i. PERZITIRA, A. s. vis im 2UL Montgomery street, Room 4. ELLERY’S PATENT India Rubber Cement and Paint — FOR — TIN, 1RON AND METALLIC (ROOFS, Iron, Brick and Wooden Muildings, SHIPs, STEAMBOATS, STAGES, CARS, AND FOR ALL EXPOSED SURFACES, ls water-proof and indestructible; will neither rot, peel, nor crack; Will withsiand aby elmate; ean be pur on in auy eolor, ald is less eXpeusive than other Part New Cloth Roofs put on. Old Roofs cemented and pulnted. Leaky Roots made tirht. No Voal Tar or Asphaltum used. All work guaran. tecd, Urders pmiuctually aireuded to. GEO. T. EROMLEY, Agent, Battery street, coruer Jackson, 24v17-3n1 San Francisco, BLAKE'S QUARTZ BREAKER ! ‘PRICES REDUCED! MACHINES OF ALL SIZES FOR SALE —sy— WM. P. BLAKE, Corner First and AIssion streets, or Box 2,077 avl3t SAN FRANCISCO. GLASGOW Iron and Bletal Importing Company . . Nos. 25 und 2% Fremoot strect, SAN FRANCISCO, Keep constantly on hand a large stoek of hest Bar and Bundle tron, sviter Tubes, Plate and sheet lron, Gus and Water Pipe, Auvits, Vast Steel, Gus and Water Frttioy+ which they viler to the trade on liberal terins. W. WeCKINDLE, Manage. 2116-310 Removal. NELSON & DOBLE, AGENTS FOR Thomas Firth & Sons’ Cast Steel, Files, Ete., Shear, Spring, German, Plow, Blister and Toe Calk dteel; Manulacturers of Mill Picks, Sledyes, Hummers, Picks, Stone Cutiers’, Blacksmiths’ and Horse-Slivers’ Tools, Have remuved to 13 and 15 Fremont street, near Market, sau Fraueiscu. tUyliur Notice to Diners, Well-Borers and Water Companies, PRAG 15 NOW PREPARED TO MANUFACTURE « Hydranhe and Artesian Well Pipes in Lhe best workmaulike uauncr, aud at the lowest inarket rutus. Havas ‘nade jarse auudivious Lo my stuck OL machinery Yor thar braneh of pusiiess, Law prepared to mliall orders with drstce cunire satistaction. 1 alsc mauutaeves, Ol the latest lumproved patieris, £0) vesocls of ali classes, Also, Ship #Jumbing done. Me. PRAG, Stove Slore. No.1 Clay street, below Mavis. 8vi3-ly CALIFORNIA TOOL WORKS, Blacksmith and Machine Shop, HAS REMOVEN To 143 Beale St., bet. Mission and Hownurd, SAN FRANCISCO. All kinds of Edge or other Tools made to order. Im. portico Tools, it too hard or sofl, re tempered to give satistaclion. EAPER AND MOWING KNIVES; eomplete sections always on hand, or will be made at the shortest notice. Particular attention paid to pulting in order AG. RICULIURAL MACHINERY. Job Grinding and Polish. ing by steam. Orders!rom the: Country proinptly attended lo @apAll work warranted. Prices reasonable. 21v17-ay J. WEICRMAR'T, Proprictor. ean Standard Milling Machine, UNION VISE COMPANY, OF BUSTON, MASS. Extra jaw, and heavy Vises, Warranted for heavy work. New style Wood and Covered Serew Vises, turty styles and kinds; Standard Milling Machines, simple, great capacity, pew nnd sircnugih—two sizes, large, 2,300 Ibs; siuall, 950 bs. For sale by the trade, 23v16 G, H. NOTT, Pres, v16-ly PATENT Boiler Scraper and Tube-Cleaner. 1T 18 THE CHEAPEST, MOST durable, caslest to adjust. nnd eleanest apparatus to use tor the purpose designed, yet offered to the public. Being eonstrneted on simple and mechanical prinelples, it is not liable to get out of order, and will continue to perform its office until the materials are worn ont. ltean rendily be adjusted, even by any inexperienced person—will serape off the seales and eleause the tubes just as smooth and elean as they were when new, without In the least affecting their inner surtace, ns the Elliptte Spring Scraper has a_ smooth Square edge, and springs in or ont to tlt the tubes. Itis partleularly applicable for steamboat boilers wheu muddy water is used, continuous Jron rod runs through the center ot the top and bottom hubs. The soft steel scrap. ers are fastened with screws to the hubs, under the caps, which cover and protect the screwa that fasten the serapers on the hub. The serapers are expanded or con. tracted by screwing or unscrew ing the lower hub,—first loosening the cap. There 1s acollur on the rod to prevent the scrapers being jammed. <An elastic or flexible brush or scraper, made of leather, rubber. or some Pliable material, is altached to the nut for ihe pitrpose ot removing from the tube the seale and dust loosened by the action of the scrapers, These serapers are made from one to slx inches in diameter—the prices of those trom one tothree inches ranging FEL at ELUReO, g SO nyse from lo $12. They are now extensively tised in the HA Qulte a number have already been sold in this State, y For sale by MeAfee, Splers & Go., hoiler makers, Howard street, hetween Fremont and Beale, San Francisco, and at the Union Foundry, Sacramento. E. M, D., P. U. box 17, San Francisco, Manutacturers’ Agents. 2avl7tf Portable Engines. The Swamseot Co's (warranted equal to any mannfac.Inred, nay be seen in use In this cviky), PURTABLE and STATIONARY STEAM FIRE ENGIN STEAM PUMPS aud ROTARY PUMPS, and WUOO.WORKING MACHINERY of every deserlptinn, at Eastern prices, Address W. O. ML. BERRY & CO., SL een street, San Franeisco. 26v 17-3 Ss. & s. J. RR. R. E, BR, WATERMAN, W. 1, TOBEY. WM. H. TOBEY & CO., RAILROAD ADVERTISING AGENCY, G41 Murket street, Between Second and Third streets (up stairs). é a . FRAMES, CARDS, CIRCULARS, POSTERS Elc., put up in allthe Cars and Depots of the San Fran cisco and San Jose Rallroad, Advertise your Business for the Country Trade 4vlStf The Oakland Daily Transcript A BIT PAPER. The Largest Circulation in the County, PACIFIC FILE WORKS, No. 53 Beule Street, bet. Market and Mission, SAN FRANCISCO, Files Re-cut and warramed as good as new, with a saving of ntty per cent. REAVER AND MUWER SECIIUAS Mibea tv URVER. The only establisiiment on the Coast. vurders Irom the cuitntry promptly aitended to. 93> First Prewmiun awarded at the Stare filr, 1307. 2v 17-3 C. &. IURNUNG & CO Postuge.—The postage on the Mining anp Scienniric Press toany portion of the United States 1s twenty ceuts per BUNUN, OF ve cents per quarter, payable in advanee at the Post Untice delivering the paper. Postage free in the city anu conuty. Foreign bostage (with tow exceptions) two evnts per copy, prepaid. Yo Breinen and the German Sunes (narked via Bremen aud Hamburg tine), three ceuts per copy, ptepald, Single copies toany addresgi the Umted Bliss, tWu veats Adver ts iu the Traascript wlll reach every part of Afamedu County. RATES FOR ADVERTISING VERY LOW. Gur Patent Agency. The Patent Acency of the Mrnine anv Scientiric Press has been siguaiized with remarkable suceess during the pasi tew years. ‘the importanee tothe mventve venus of this cust of a thorough and reliable agency tor the solielta tion of Letrers Parxat trom the United States and forelgn voverniuents cannot be over-rated, and the Proprictors ot the Press, Veeling the responsibility which rests upon them, and the reward which must lollow the falthlui performance ot tholr trusts, will lake eare to afford inventors every advantaye to be secured to them throngh a competent and resnonsible agency upon this coagt. Trades and Manutactures. WM. BARTLING, HENRY EIMBALL. BARTLING & KIMBALL, BOORBINDERS, Paper Rulers and Blank Book Manufacturers. 50S Clay street, (southwest cor. Sausome), 15v12-3m SAN FRAN€1SCO, JOHN DANIEL, (sueexssoR TO 0. GORI) = MARBLE WORKS, No. 421 Pine st. het. Montgomery and Kearny, San Franclseo Mantels, Monuments, Tombs, Plumbers’ Siabs Ete., On hand and Manufactured to order. Sar Goods shipped toall parts of the State. Orders re gpeetfully solicited. 5v8-3m Palmer’s Patent ARTIFICIAL LEG, Manufactnredin Philadelphizc, Penn. JARVIS JEWETT, AGENT. 218 Montgomery Street, San Franclseo. 10v8-1m. J. M. STOCKMAN, Manufacturer of PATTERNS AND MODELS, (Over W. T. Garratt’s Brass Foundry, S. E. Corner of Mission and Fremont sts., 6vi4tf SAN FRANCISCO. J. F. PAGES, SEAL ENGRAVER, AND LETTER CUTTER, Brass and Steel Stamps and Dies, 6G8 Sacramento street, San Franciseo. Orders by paces proniptly attended to. v DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITURE. JOHNSON & BEST, Manufacturers of all kinds of Desks and Office Furniture, 212 Market street, near Third. Warerooms up stairs. <A large variety of Desks always on haud; all kinds ol Otfice Furulinre and Cablnec Work made to order. isvi7ur Novelty and Usefulness Combined, Wilson’s Prepared Solder Dispesses with the Solderlug Lron. Bhs One bottle of this PATTI twill save you both time and labor, Solder will mend all the tins you have laid one side tor months, and make them good as new. Get them ont aud mend them. ltischeap—only 50 cents a boitle; It is convenient and compact. Use any kind ol lamp that hasa blaze no larger than asingle wick; aspirit lamp will make nosmoke. You mney mend a dish or can over the hest tuble without fear of spoiling it. Try lt, and you will never want a solderlug iron in the house azaim What a_ saving to furmers. No more stoeping up of holes in milk pats with a rag. Milkmen can mend their own cans. It does the preitiest job on any article yon have in the house, trom a pint dish to a wash boller is asure Ihing to sick when resin aud solder willnot. It will id heat as well as any solder ever nsed over tire Ageney tor the Pacitie Coast, Room No. 10, No. 423 Washington street, San Francisco. ACENTS WANTED. Address P. O. box 17, 231 7tl M. M. COOK & SON. Efose and Wciting. Hydraulie Hose and Leather Beltiny. made of the stand best quality of Ouk-tanned Shinghter Leather, Fire, << s Buckets, Suction Hose, ete, Our Belting is well stretehed, ceinented and wariailted to ran true, aud our Unose guaranteed to give satisfaction. A lirge assortment proinptly piled No 801 Batalways on hand and onlers 3v16 3meow tery street, Sau Francisco. Pacifie Chemical Works. SULPHURIC RIMER. SPIRITS OF NETRE, AQUA AMMOALA, ACELIC Acip, CYANIDE OF POTASSIUM eA Bo ACIDS AND CNEMICALS OF ALT KINDS. FALKENAU &% HANKS, Office aud Lavoratory, Sixteenth street, between Folsom and Wfarrlson. LOUIS FALKENAO, State Assuyer, . rqy-Partienlar attention paid to lhe Analysis of ORES, MINERALS, METALS, ete. 8yl7 What Blacksmiths Want. WATSONVILLE, Santa Cruz County, Cal., Jan. 20th, 1869. Editors Press:—We want a traveling bellows-maker to come around oneée a year and repair our bellows. We often have bellows that want fixing and filled with new leather; and to freight the bellows to aud from the city, and have them repaired, would not pay, and would eost as mueh asa newone. We also want a good man to put our stocks and dies in order, or we want duplicates of those we buy. I think if some good mechanie would come along with a small hand planer to put in a vise, and would travel around putting our serew-plates in order, and sharpening saws, ete., he would do well, find plenty to doin each town, and at the same time oblige the blacksmiths in this part of the couutry. A Buacksmrra. New Iron Sures.—A eorrespondent of the Loudon Evening Post says: ‘‘It seems that about half the iron ships lost are lost in their first voyage; chiefly owing to the imperfect adjustment of eompasses. The iron of the vessel is counteracted, in its influence on the needle, by strong masses of magnetic iron placed about the compass boxes. Bunt the adjustment of these, in amount, strength, distance from the needle, and direction, is delicate and difficult. A lake near Greenoek, is used for adjusting the compasses for the Clyde vessels. Yhey are slowly moved through the various inclinations to the meridian, the variation at each point noted, and the magnets contrived, by a complicated caleulation, to counterbalauce it. But the variatiou itself differs with each change of the ships’ position, relatively to the horizon, as woll as to the meridian, These differences are measured by au ingenious coutrivanee known as the ‘inclinometer,’ and corrected by rules empirically deduced from a multitude of observations uuder all varying circumstauces. The record of observations is still kept up on tho ships, with a view to perfecting theserules. An old East India captain lately lost a fine new iron steamer on her first voyage, only eight hours out of Glasgow, by utter inability to tell which way was north, his compass beiug entirely capricious.” Statistics or Frour, Saw, SHINGLE, Quartz AnD Wooien Mitus.—There are now in California, as shown by the reports of the County Assessors, 62 steam grist mills, with 205 run of stone, aud 67 water, with 116 run of stone, all of which turned out 1,400,413 barrels of flour, and ground 166,780 bushels of corn during the year. Sawmills: 207 steam-power, and 161 water-power, which produced 220,991,213 feet of lumber, 108,007,000 shingles were mace. There are 360 quartz mills, which erushed 391,480 tons of rock. Water ditches, for mining purposes, with an aggregate length of 11,9494 miles, and using 711,936 inches of water per day. Water ditches, for irrigating purposes, 720, irrigating 70,588 acres of land. Woolen mills, six, which used up 3,125,000 pounds of wool—about half the produet of the State. Two or threo more woolen mills have been completed since the assessors’ reports were made. Lecrure on Pucer Sounp.—The Hon. Elwood Evans, of Olympia, delivered a lecture at Port Townsend, recently, ou “Puget Sound—its Past, its Present, and its Future.” Tothose who knew the great reputation of Mr. Evans, as an historian, —saysacorrespondeut—the long and patient labor and unwearied research which he has bestowed upon his forthcomiug work, ‘‘The History of Oregon and Washington,” a rich intellectual feast was anticipated, nor were they disappointed. The lecture is to be published. Perriraetion oF 4 Huan Bopr.—The Troy Press gives an account of the recent removal of the body of a man who died some years siuce in the neighborhod of that city. It was in a perfeet state of petrifaetiou; and was covered with a dry mold, which, when removed, revealed a surface almost as white and pure as marble. The body showed not the least particle of decay. Every feature and lineament was perfectly preserved, aud wheu stood upright it presented the appearance of a finely ehiseled statue. —. hideoictiade

94 The Mining and Scientific Press, Machinery. VARNEYW’S PATENT AMALGAMATOR These Machines Stund Unrivaled. for rapidly pulverizing and amalgamating ores, they have nocqual. Noetfort has been, or willbe, spared to have them constructed iu the most perfect manuer, and of the great number now iu operation, not one has everreuired repairs. The constant and inereasiug demaud for thew is sufticient evidence of their merits. They are constructed so asto apply steam directly into the pulp, or with steam bottoms, as desired. This Amalgamator Operates a3 Follows: The pan being filled, the motion of the muller forees the pulp to the center, where itis drawn down throngh the aperture and between the grindiug surfaces. Thenee it is thrown to the periphery into the quicksilver. The curved . plates again draw it tothe center, whereit passes down, and to the cireumferenec as betore. Thus itis ecoustantly assing in aregular How between the grinding surlaees and . ito the quicksilver, until the ore is reduced to an impalpable powder, aud the metal amalgamated, Sctiers made on the sume principle exeel all others.— They bring the pulp so eonstantiy and perfectly in ecoutnet with quicksilver, that the particles are rapidly and coin pletely absorbed, Mill men are invited to examine these pans and setlers for themselves, at the PACIFIC FOUNDRY, lvl Sau Francisco. Patent Rigits for Sale. For Preserving Timber from Decay The cheapest method for curing Wood. HAMAK’S PATENT. WOOD PAVEMENT, MILLER’S PATENT. i. PERZITIRA, A. s. vis im 2UL Montgomery street, Room 4. ELLERY’S PATENT India Rubber Cement and Paint — FOR — TIN, 1RON AND METALLIC (ROOFS, Iron, Brick and Wooden Muildings, SHIPs, STEAMBOATS, STAGES, CARS, AND FOR ALL EXPOSED SURFACES, ls water-proof and indestructible; will neither rot, peel, nor crack; Will withsiand aby elmate; ean be pur on in auy eolor, ald is less eXpeusive than other Part New Cloth Roofs put on. Old Roofs cemented and pulnted. Leaky Roots made tirht. No Voal Tar or Asphaltum used. All work guaran. tecd, Urders pmiuctually aireuded to. GEO. T. EROMLEY, Agent, Battery street, coruer Jackson, 24v17-3n1 San Francisco, BLAKE'S QUARTZ BREAKER ! ‘PRICES REDUCED! MACHINES OF ALL SIZES FOR SALE —sy— WM. P. BLAKE, Corner First and AIssion streets, or Box 2,077 avl3t SAN FRANCISCO. GLASGOW Iron and Bletal Importing Company . . Nos. 25 und 2% Fremoot strect, SAN FRANCISCO, Keep constantly on hand a large stoek of hest Bar and Bundle tron, sviter Tubes, Plate and sheet lron, Gus and Water Pipe, Auvits, Vast Steel, Gus and Water Frttioy+ which they viler to the trade on liberal terins. W. WeCKINDLE, Manage. 2116-310 Removal. NELSON & DOBLE, AGENTS FOR Thomas Firth & Sons’ Cast Steel, Files, Ete., Shear, Spring, German, Plow, Blister and Toe Calk dteel; Manulacturers of Mill Picks, Sledyes, Hummers, Picks, Stone Cutiers’, Blacksmiths’ and Horse-Slivers’ Tools, Have remuved to 13 and 15 Fremont street, near Market, sau Fraueiscu. tUyliur Notice to Diners, Well-Borers and Water Companies, PRAG 15 NOW PREPARED TO MANUFACTURE « Hydranhe and Artesian Well Pipes in Lhe best workmaulike uauncr, aud at the lowest inarket rutus. Havas ‘nade jarse auudivious Lo my stuck OL machinery Yor thar braneh of pusiiess, Law prepared to mliall orders with drstce cunire satistaction. 1 alsc mauutaeves, Ol the latest lumproved patieris, £0) vesocls of ali classes, Also, Ship #Jumbing done. Me. PRAG, Stove Slore. No.1 Clay street, below Mavis. 8vi3-ly CALIFORNIA TOOL WORKS, Blacksmith and Machine Shop, HAS REMOVEN To 143 Beale St., bet. Mission and Hownurd, SAN FRANCISCO. All kinds of Edge or other Tools made to order. Im. portico Tools, it too hard or sofl, re tempered to give satistaclion. EAPER AND MOWING KNIVES; eomplete sections always on hand, or will be made at the shortest notice. Particular attention paid to pulting in order AG. RICULIURAL MACHINERY. Job Grinding and Polish. ing by steam. Orders!rom the: Country proinptly attended lo @apAll work warranted. Prices reasonable. 21v17-ay J. WEICRMAR'T, Proprictor. ean Standard Milling Machine, UNION VISE COMPANY, OF BUSTON, MASS. Extra jaw, and heavy Vises, Warranted for heavy work. New style Wood and Covered Serew Vises, turty styles and kinds; Standard Milling Machines, simple, great capacity, pew nnd sircnugih—two sizes, large, 2,300 Ibs; siuall, 950 bs. For sale by the trade, 23v16 G, H. NOTT, Pres, v16-ly PATENT Boiler Scraper and Tube-Cleaner. 1T 18 THE CHEAPEST, MOST durable, caslest to adjust. nnd eleanest apparatus to use tor the purpose designed, yet offered to the public. Being eonstrneted on simple and mechanical prinelples, it is not liable to get out of order, and will continue to perform its office until the materials are worn ont. ltean rendily be adjusted, even by any inexperienced person—will serape off the seales and eleause the tubes just as smooth and elean as they were when new, without In the least affecting their inner surtace, ns the Elliptte Spring Scraper has a_ smooth Square edge, and springs in or ont to tlt the tubes. Itis partleularly applicable for steamboat boilers wheu muddy water is used, continuous Jron rod runs through the center ot the top and bottom hubs. The soft steel scrap. ers are fastened with screws to the hubs, under the caps, which cover and protect the screwa that fasten the serapers on the hub. The serapers are expanded or con. tracted by screwing or unscrew ing the lower hub,—first loosening the cap. There 1s acollur on the rod to prevent the scrapers being jammed. <An elastic or flexible brush or scraper, made of leather, rubber. or some Pliable material, is altached to the nut for ihe pitrpose ot removing from the tube the seale and dust loosened by the action of the scrapers, These serapers are made from one to slx inches in diameter—the prices of those trom one tothree inches ranging FEL at ELUReO, g SO nyse from lo $12. They are now extensively tised in the HA Qulte a number have already been sold in this State, y For sale by MeAfee, Splers & Go., hoiler makers, Howard street, hetween Fremont and Beale, San Francisco, and at the Union Foundry, Sacramento. E. M, D., P. U. box 17, San Francisco, Manutacturers’ Agents. 2avl7tf Portable Engines. The Swamseot Co's (warranted equal to any mannfac.Inred, nay be seen in use In this cviky), PURTABLE and STATIONARY STEAM FIRE ENGIN STEAM PUMPS aud ROTARY PUMPS, and WUOO.WORKING MACHINERY of every deserlptinn, at Eastern prices, Address W. O. ML. BERRY & CO., SL een street, San Franeisco. 26v 17-3 Ss. & s. J. RR. R. E, BR, WATERMAN, W. 1, TOBEY. WM. H. TOBEY & CO., RAILROAD ADVERTISING AGENCY, G41 Murket street, Between Second and Third streets (up stairs). é a . FRAMES, CARDS, CIRCULARS, POSTERS Elc., put up in allthe Cars and Depots of the San Fran cisco and San Jose Rallroad, Advertise your Business for the Country Trade 4vlStf The Oakland Daily Transcript A BIT PAPER. The Largest Circulation in the County, PACIFIC FILE WORKS, No. 53 Beule Street, bet. Market and Mission, SAN FRANCISCO, Files Re-cut and warramed as good as new, with a saving of ntty per cent. REAVER AND MUWER SECIIUAS Mibea tv URVER. The only establisiiment on the Coast. vurders Irom the cuitntry promptly aitended to. 93> First Prewmiun awarded at the Stare filr, 1307. 2v 17-3 C. &. IURNUNG & CO Postuge.—The postage on the Mining anp Scienniric Press toany portion of the United States 1s twenty ceuts per BUNUN, OF ve cents per quarter, payable in advanee at the Post Untice delivering the paper. Postage free in the city

anu conuty. Foreign bostage (with tow exceptions) two evnts per copy, prepaid. Yo Breinen and the German Sunes (narked via Bremen aud Hamburg tine), three ceuts per copy, ptepald, Single copies toany addresgi the Umted Bliss, tWu veats Adver ts iu the Traascript wlll reach every part of Afamedu County. RATES FOR ADVERTISING VERY LOW. Gur Patent Agency. The Patent Acency of the Mrnine anv Scientiric Press has been siguaiized with remarkable suceess during the pasi tew years. ‘the importanee tothe mventve venus of this cust of a thorough and reliable agency tor the solielta tion of Letrers Parxat trom the United States and forelgn voverniuents cannot be over-rated, and the Proprictors ot the Press, Veeling the responsibility which rests upon them, and the reward which must lollow the falthlui performance ot tholr trusts, will lake eare to afford inventors every advantaye to be secured to them throngh a competent and resnonsible agency upon this coagt. Trades and Manutactures. WM. BARTLING, HENRY EIMBALL. BARTLING & KIMBALL, BOORBINDERS, Paper Rulers and Blank Book Manufacturers. 50S Clay street, (southwest cor. Sausome), 15v12-3m SAN FRAN€1SCO, JOHN DANIEL, (sueexssoR TO 0. GORI) = MARBLE WORKS, No. 421 Pine st. het. Montgomery and Kearny, San Franclseo Mantels, Monuments, Tombs, Plumbers’ Siabs Ete., On hand and Manufactured to order. Sar Goods shipped toall parts of the State. Orders re gpeetfully solicited. 5v8-3m Palmer’s Patent ARTIFICIAL LEG, Manufactnredin Philadelphizc, Penn. JARVIS JEWETT, AGENT. 218 Montgomery Street, San Franclseo. 10v8-1m. J. M. STOCKMAN, Manufacturer of PATTERNS AND MODELS, (Over W. T. Garratt’s Brass Foundry, S. E. Corner of Mission and Fremont sts., 6vi4tf SAN FRANCISCO. J. F. PAGES, SEAL ENGRAVER, AND LETTER CUTTER, Brass and Steel Stamps and Dies, 6G8 Sacramento street, San Franciseo. Orders by paces proniptly attended to. v DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITURE. JOHNSON & BEST, Manufacturers of all kinds of Desks and Office Furniture, 212 Market street, near Third. Warerooms up stairs. <A large variety of Desks always on haud; all kinds ol Otfice Furulinre and Cablnec Work made to order. isvi7ur Novelty and Usefulness Combined, Wilson’s Prepared Solder Dispesses with the Solderlug Lron. Bhs One bottle of this PATTI twill save you both time and labor, Solder will mend all the tins you have laid one side tor months, and make them good as new. Get them ont aud mend them. ltischeap—only 50 cents a boitle; It is convenient and compact. Use any kind ol lamp that hasa blaze no larger than asingle wick; aspirit lamp will make nosmoke. You mney mend a dish or can over the hest tuble without fear of spoiling it. Try lt, and you will never want a solderlug iron in the house azaim What a_ saving to furmers. No more stoeping up of holes in milk pats with a rag. Milkmen can mend their own cans. It does the preitiest job on any article yon have in the house, trom a pint dish to a wash boller is asure Ihing to sick when resin aud solder willnot. It will id heat as well as any solder ever nsed over tire Ageney tor the Pacitie Coast, Room No. 10, No. 423 Washington street, San Francisco. ACENTS WANTED. Address P. O. box 17, 231 7tl M. M. COOK & SON. Efose and Wciting. Hydraulie Hose and Leather Beltiny. made of the stand best quality of Ouk-tanned Shinghter Leather, Fire, << s Buckets, Suction Hose, ete, Our Belting is well stretehed, ceinented and wariailted to ran true, aud our Unose guaranteed to give satisfaction. A lirge assortment proinptly piled No 801 Batalways on hand and onlers 3v16 3meow tery street, Sau Francisco. Pacifie Chemical Works. SULPHURIC RIMER. SPIRITS OF NETRE, AQUA AMMOALA, ACELIC Acip, CYANIDE OF POTASSIUM eA Bo ACIDS AND CNEMICALS OF ALT KINDS. FALKENAU &% HANKS, Office aud Lavoratory, Sixteenth street, between Folsom and Wfarrlson. LOUIS FALKENAO, State Assuyer, . rqy-Partienlar attention paid to lhe Analysis of ORES, MINERALS, METALS, ete. 8yl7 What Blacksmiths Want. WATSONVILLE, Santa Cruz County, Cal., Jan. 20th, 1869. Editors Press:—We want a traveling bellows-maker to come around oneée a year and repair our bellows. We often have bellows that want fixing and filled with new leather; and to freight the bellows to aud from the city, and have them repaired, would not pay, and would eost as mueh asa newone. We also want a good man to put our stocks and dies in order, or we want duplicates of those we buy. I think if some good mechanie would come along with a small hand planer to put in a vise, and would travel around putting our serew-plates in order, and sharpening saws, ete., he would do well, find plenty to doin each town, and at the same time oblige the blacksmiths in this part of the couutry. A Buacksmrra. New Iron Sures.—A eorrespondent of the Loudon Evening Post says: ‘‘It seems that about half the iron ships lost are lost in their first voyage; chiefly owing to the imperfect adjustment of eompasses. The iron of the vessel is counteracted, in its influence on the needle, by strong masses of magnetic iron placed about the compass boxes. Bunt the adjustment of these, in amount, strength, distance from the needle, and direction, is delicate and difficult. A lake near Greenoek, is used for adjusting the compasses for the Clyde vessels. Yhey are slowly moved through the various inclinations to the meridian, the variation at each point noted, and the magnets contrived, by a complicated caleulation, to counterbalauce it. But the variatiou itself differs with each change of the ships’ position, relatively to the horizon, as woll as to the meridian, These differences are measured by au ingenious coutrivanee known as the ‘inclinometer,’ and corrected by rules empirically deduced from a multitude of observations uuder all varying circumstauces. The record of observations is still kept up on tho ships, with a view to perfecting theserules. An old East India captain lately lost a fine new iron steamer on her first voyage, only eight hours out of Glasgow, by utter inability to tell which way was north, his compass beiug entirely capricious.” Statistics or Frour, Saw, SHINGLE, Quartz AnD Wooien Mitus.—There are now in California, as shown by the reports of the County Assessors, 62 steam grist mills, with 205 run of stone, aud 67 water, with 116 run of stone, all of which turned out 1,400,413 barrels of flour, and ground 166,780 bushels of corn during the year. Sawmills: 207 steam-power, and 161 water-power, which produced 220,991,213 feet of lumber, 108,007,000 shingles were mace. There are 360 quartz mills, which erushed 391,480 tons of rock. Water ditches, for mining purposes, with an aggregate length of 11,9494 miles, and using 711,936 inches of water per day. Water ditches, for irrigating purposes, 720, irrigating 70,588 acres of land. Woolen mills, six, which used up 3,125,000 pounds of wool—about half the produet of the State. Two or threo more woolen mills have been completed since the assessors’ reports were made. Lecrure on Pucer Sounp.—The Hon. Elwood Evans, of Olympia, delivered a lecture at Port Townsend, recently, ou “Puget Sound—its Past, its Present, and its Future.” Tothose who knew the great reputation of Mr. Evans, as an historian, —saysacorrespondeut—the long and patient labor and unwearied research which he has bestowed upon his forthcomiug work, ‘‘The History of Oregon and Washington,” a rich intellectual feast was anticipated, nor were they disappointed. The lecture is to be published. Perriraetion oF 4 Huan Bopr.—The Troy Press gives an account of the recent removal of the body of a man who died some years siuce in the neighborhod of that city. It was in a perfeet state of petrifaetiou; and was covered with a dry mold, which, when removed, revealed a surface almost as white and pure as marble. The body showed not the least particle of decay. Every feature and lineament was perfectly preserved, aud wheu stood upright it presented the appearance of a finely ehiseled statue. —. hideoictiade