Volume 23 (1871) (426 pages)

August 19, 1871.] SCIENTIFIC “PRESS. ca po (GoRRESPONDENCE. A Trip to Colorado.—-No. 6. Dy Ocr Own TRAVELER. Georgetown. This is the county seat of Clear Creek Co., situated on south Clear ercek, affording tho best water-power in Colorado. It is the center of the richest silver region in tho Territory. Miuing in tho vicinity this year is giving botter returns than ever before. Ono of the essentials for tho rnpid advaneement of this eity is ‘‘the eoming railroad,” making direct rail eommnunieation from abroad and ennbliug the transportation of base ores to the valley in proximity to the eoal beds, cheapening the cost of rednetion and increasing tho produets immensely. The proposed routo is from Denver to Golden, thence to Central City, rie Gilpin and Clear Creek eouuties, and theuee to Goorgetown. Here silver and lead are the predominating metals, while at Empire, only a few miles distant, gold is the priueipal metal. The MeCoy and the Leggett hotels offer the greatest accomodation to the traveling pnblie, affording a eordial weleome to the stranger. ‘I'welvo miles distant from this city is the well-known Gray’s Peak, 14,245 feet high. Many Eastern tourists are now yisiting it. On horseback parties can go up and down on the samo day, and view the numerous small ranges, spurs and peaks. Visitors say it affords a grand sight never to be forgotten aud uusurpassed hy any scenery on our Continent. [Our correspondent gives deseriptive notiees of Arey’s furnaee and Bruckner’s revolving furnace, (which hive already been illustrated in the Press,) and Krom’s dry coneentrator, also previously deseribed), all of which are reported to he in useful operation. We havea list of figures to show the eeonomieal working of these furnaces but the sehednles are too lengthy for publieation in this connection.—Eps. Press. ] Mines. The Trrri re Mine said to he the best in the Territory, is situated about .fonr miles from Georgetown on Clear Creek, at a small place kuown as Brownville. I received a pass from the superintendent, R. O. Old, and went up some 300 feet from the road and entered the main tunnel with the foremau, H. I. Lampshire. We passed iu some 180 feet which was run by the well-known Burleigh drill in 1869. From this point the company used hand drills and run 230 feet where we come to a drift running east and west. This eost $42.50 per foot. The west drift is in some 90 feet on the lode, the company having struck the main lode at A, as represented in our diagram, some 360 feet from the entrance. The total number of hands employed is thirty-six men iu the British Co., and eight men in tho Philadelphia Co., tho mine being owned hetween the two eompanies. Tho lode, or crevice, will avorage four inehes and where it is only two inches it is very rich and yields largely. I see it stated by the superintendent that with the present amouut of ground that can be worked the mine will yield per month 15 tons of Ist class, 60 of 2d class, 100 of 3d class ore; a total of 175 tons. Tho 3d elass pays the expense of mining the ore. They will put on more men at an early day and this will make the amount much larger. . The stoped ground that has been worked will not make over 200 feet square on the lode, this heing all the work done on the mine for the large amount of money that lias been taken ont. They pay tle miners by contract, $20 per foot, aud in some few plnees pay only $16. ‘Thoy pay $35 to — . $40 per fathom for stoping on the lode. ‘The ore is sorted at the mine and the firstclass is taken to Swansea. ‘The Philadelphia Co. own 500 fect and the British Co. 1,100 feet. ‘The two companies own a small Burleigh drill and will havo it going shortly. ‘Tho eharacter of the oro is galeua, zine blendo, iron pyrites, silver, ete. The formation is ‘ peach granite,” a term used by niiuers. Tho Cnasmie Sitver Mine is about half a mile from the ‘Terriblo, on Shermau Mountain, Griflith distriet. C. A. Hoyt is agent aud superiutendeut. The main shaft is 140 feet deep with drifts 6U feet deep on each sido. ‘Tho main shaft is filled with water up to the drift running west, but a small pump keeps the drift dry. Twelve meu are cmployed. Considerable stoping lias been done. The lode is small, about four to six inehesin granite, ‘The ore is argentiferous galena, pyrites, gray eopper, and specimens of native silver, whicli assays $50 and npwards. A new engine for hoisting and driving a fan has heen put up. Yho BurtereH Tunsxen axnp Minrxe Co. While passing up the middle branch of Clear Creek I visited this well-known tunnel, with Mr. C. Burleigh, ono of the owners and the inventor of the famous Burleigh drill. In eompauy with him I was shown through the mine. The main tunnel is in 1,075 feet. They have one of the tunneling machines (formerly illustrated in the Press), at work, doing very well indeed. It costs the company from $32 to $33 per foot to run the tunnel, 9x9. The expensos before have heen as high as $60. Yor many years efforts have heen made to hring out a drill for working tunnels, and now this seems to be a suecesss. This company have eight drills, and employ two rock men, two blacksmiths, and two engineers, working day and night. They have struck some very fine smelting ore that will yield 55 per cent. of lead and 30 ozs. of silver. This was the return from a sample lot worked. “Idaho Springs. Ahout six miles from Central City and 85 miles from Denver, on South Clear Creek, are situated these noted hot springs, amidst grand mountains and heautiful seenery. Eastern tonrists are visiting them numerously and enjoying the accommodations of the Beehe and Springs hotels. W. H, M. Great Waste of Precious Metals. Eps Press:—I observe in your issue of Aug. 5th, that the ore of the ‘‘California” mine, in Julian District, San Diego county, has yielded $1 per pound in a hand mortar, and $57 by mill process.” We are left entirely in the dark as to whether itis $57 per pound by mill process, and $1 hy hand, or whether it is $57 per ton hy mill, and $1 per pound hy hand, In either ease, the services of our mutual friend, Mr. A. B. Paul, are very mueh needed in Julian Distriet, to prevent sueh a shoeking waste of the precious metal. There must he either gross carelessness or gross dishonesty onthe part of the millers of such rich ore, for the difference between $1 per pound and $57 per ton is something enormous—say only $1,943. Perhaps, it might be mildly suggested that there is no dishonesty or carelessness in the working of theore, but that the dis. crepancy shows the need of more accuraey of statement on the part of the mining correspondent. If thisis not tho true eause, Mr, Paul should visit that distriet without delay. T. 7 We suppose that the ‘‘ $57” was so much per ton; and there need be no diffieulty in accounting for the wide margin between the $1 per pound and $57 per ton, if wo suppose the ‘ pound” was simply a “ specimen.” As remarked by “‘T.T.” there is “need of more aecuracy of statement on the part of mining eorrespodents.” Wandered to the Left. Eps. Press:—I see in the late daily papers of San Francisco, an acconut of the wanderings of a young girl in Sonoma county, Miss Steen, residing at Garcins mills, who was found, after four days’ search, seven miles from the point from whence she started on her return home, and far to the left of the true course. This seems a snbstantial cenfirmation of the theory advanced a few weeks since in your colunins, und a refutation of tho opposite opinion expressed hy your correspondeut ‘*Curiosity” and aeertain leeturer, as to which side a porson would be inelined to walk under similar cirenmstauces. The situation of Miss Steen, lost in the woods, without path or road to which she had been acenstomed, is preeisely tho one I proposed to your correspondent as an experiment that would be conclusive on this point. He has been saved the trouble of trying it for himself, however, by the experieuce of the young lady ahove mentioned. He will find a fnll aeconnt of the eveut in a late uumber of the Alta. If his ‘‘euriosity” is not thereby wholly satistied he ean still continue his experiments until it is. If properly and fairly coudueted, they ean lave only the result above given, iu the opiuion of Puito Sopxos. Shermantown, Nev., Aug. 8th, 1871. The Hell Gate Obstructions. ny OUR NEW YORK EDITOR. ° The Blossom Roek Plan Being Tried There. From a time to whieh the memory of man reached not, onr venerated Uncle Samuel has been at work removing obstructions from Hell Gate at the entrance of New York harhor. Divers, drills, gun powder, nitro-glyeerine, dynamite, dualin and noboby-under-tho-sun-knows-what not —have been tried, and lots of money sunk in reudering the passage to the sound reasonably safe. But Hell Gate, opening its jaws for all that came, took the powder and nitro-glycerine with as much eomplacency asit did the vessels afterwards. Nothing came amiss. Visit to the Works. Uncle Sam is patient, hut his loug suffering has an end. Now he proposes to ‘eo for” Hell Gate and ‘‘knock the bottom out of it.” In other words he proposes to treat the obstructions to a dose of the same medicine which ‘‘settled” Blossom Rock so effectually. To do this, a large shaft or rather a pit, for such it seems when looking into it, has been sunk near low-water mark at a point near the ohstructions. This shaft is nearly egg shaped with the side toward the shore very much flattened. One side may be said to be against the shore, as there is no water on the land sido at low tide. This hig hole is now a trifle above 31 feet deep, though some places may go as much as 35 or 36, Ou the water side, headings, drifts, tunnels, or whatever the mining men call them, are being put into the solid rock. Beg pardon we did not mean it for from appearances the gneiss, as it is called, did not appear to us of a very formidable character. It is filled with perpendicular seams or lines of eleavage, and, taken all in all, wonld not strike an Eastern man as very hard stuff to deal with. Still the powers that be say its tough and we snppose that settles the question for all time. In a good many places salt water is finding its way through the rock in such quantities as to suggest to a stranger tho question of safety. Atseveral places we noticed that a wall of rock had been laid up carefully in cement, apparently hecause the natural rock was too weak to stand the pressure. Two only of the openings beneath theriver were dry,—thatisto say were not raining from the roof. At one of these named, if our memory is correet, “Graut,” we found a hoard nailed to the rock stating that the floor was 31 feet below mean low water, the dimensions 22x13 feet, and that it extended beneath the river a horizontal distance of 320 feet. We helieve the latter faet beeause the board told us so, and not heeause of any mensurements on our part. Hf it had been proper to guess how far the heading had advanced we should have suid about half as much. Plan of the Underground Work. Isend yon herewith a diagram of the drifts and galleries which are now being roan, The tunnel headings average 20 feet in hight by 13 in width. Tho eoueentric galleries average 16 feet in hight hy 10 in width. Tho shaft or pit is 105 feet in length—its brendth being cousiderably less. From this shaft rndiate teu headings as shown in the diagram annexed, whieli have been driven to various leugths; tho first and tenth headings following tho proposed shore line. ‘Lhe headings are to be erossed by galleries, and the piers left standing are to be penetrated hy ehambers, having a ground plau of the form of the letter ‘T, as shown in three of the piers. In these ehambers the fiual charges will he placed and fired, when it is expected tho entire mass of rock, left standiug after tho cuttings, will be broken in pieees of such a size that they ean easily be lifted and removed. The prineipal portion, in faet, practieally the whole of the work, has been doue by Cornish miners, imported for the purpose, and with haud drills. Qn the Surface. There wero no engineers .about, and everything looked as though all went to sleep as soon as possible atter each meal. There were meu loatiug about, one of whom seemed very busy teachiug a dog to bring chips out of the water as fast as they were thrown in. Another mau was doing the ‘theavy looking on,” and much interested. Doggy did uot see the propriety of rescuiug the same chip three times in sueeession, and aecordingly rau off with it, thrust it into a hole beneath the timber-work, and looked ahout for more government work to do, whereupon we all felt called upon to go and look at the hole. Doggy immediately signified his intention of eating up all strangers and visitorg and was promptly chained beneath a new steamhoiler not yet in use. Somebody just then hrought a quantity of newly sharpened drills to be lowered down. For a minute there was a small seramble for the tools at the bottom and then all was moving along properly. The men who handled the drills seemed pretty well oceupied, hut even they did notappearat all troubled by theiz exertions. Long ‘‘dumps” of stone with railway tracks along their crests stretched away from the opening aeross the lowland to the shore. A big dump ear close hy the derrick looked very ready to carry away stone if there wasany to be mored; but its office was apparently a sinecure, for a time at least. We asked as few questions as possible, hecause they seemed to disturb the quiet of the spot aud we did not like to presume too much. The Return. Five o’clock came and we hurried off to catch the hoat. We reached a turn in the road where the laudiug was iu sight, just in season to see the boat leave the wharf. We were sold. It was the last boat down. We rush for the ferry boat, huilt we judge, in the time of Fultou, from remuants of Hudsou’s original galliot. We succeed in getting ou board and eross over to Yorkville. A half-mile walk, uphill, brings us to the 8d Aveuue ears, and we rattle home in those well-known advertising mediums. As to our opinion of the works in progress, we would say that they will be a grand suceess sometime; and there is no douht that when the rocks do get their fina] eharge of powder they will he cowpletely demolished. We only ask when ? New Eneuanp Earruquarrs.—W. T. Brigham states that, since 1638, 227 carthquakes have been recorded as happening in New England, and four previous oues are mentioned in Indian traditions. He thinks that probably there were once volcanoes in New England, and _partieularly in Connecticut. Prof. Dana dissents from this opinion. Fires in tz Movnrarns.—Thus far this season notwithstanding the unusual dryness, the farmers have suffered much less than for twoor three past seasons from fires in their fields. We hear of some fires in the Coast Range mountains, however, which are destroying mueh timher.

August 19, 1871.] SCIENTIFIC “PRESS. ca po (GoRRESPONDENCE. A Trip to Colorado.—-No. 6. Dy Ocr Own TRAVELER. Georgetown. This is the county seat of Clear Creek Co., situated on south Clear ercek, affording tho best water-power in Colorado. It is the center of the richest silver region in tho Territory. Miuing in tho vicinity this year is giving botter returns than ever before. Ono of the essentials for tho rnpid advaneement of this eity is ‘‘the eoming railroad,” making direct rail eommnunieation from abroad and ennbliug the transportation of base ores to the valley in proximity to the eoal beds, cheapening the cost of rednetion and increasing tho produets immensely. The proposed routo is from Denver to Golden, thence to Central City, rie Gilpin and Clear Creek eouuties, and theuee to Goorgetown. Here silver and lead are the predominating metals, while at Empire, only a few miles distant, gold is the priueipal metal. The MeCoy and the Leggett hotels offer the greatest accomodation to the traveling pnblie, affording a eordial weleome to the stranger. ‘I'welvo miles distant from this city is the well-known Gray’s Peak, 14,245 feet high. Many Eastern tourists are now yisiting it. On horseback parties can go up and down on the samo day, and view the numerous small ranges, spurs and peaks. Visitors say it affords a grand sight never to be forgotten aud uusurpassed hy any scenery on our Continent. [Our correspondent gives deseriptive notiees of Arey’s furnaee and Bruckner’s revolving furnace, (which hive already been illustrated in the Press,) and Krom’s dry coneentrator, also previously deseribed), all of which are reported to he in useful operation. We havea list of figures to show the eeonomieal working of these furnaces but the sehednles are too lengthy for publieation in this connection.—Eps. Press. ] Mines. The Trrri re Mine said to he the best in the Territory, is situated about .fonr miles from Georgetown on Clear Creek, at a small place kuown as Brownville. I received a pass from the superintendent, R. O. Old, and went up some 300 feet from the road and entered the main tunnel with the foremau, H. I. Lampshire. We passed iu some 180 feet which was run by the well-known Burleigh drill in 1869. From this point the company used hand drills and run 230 feet where we come to a drift running east and west. This eost $42.50 per foot. The west drift is in some 90 feet on the lode, the company having struck the main lode at A, as represented in our diagram, some 360 feet from the entrance. The total number of hands employed is thirty-six men iu the British Co., and eight men in tho Philadelphia Co., tho mine being owned hetween the two eompanies. Tho lode, or crevice, will avorage four inehes and where it is only two inches it is very rich and yields largely. I see it stated by the superintendent that with the present amouut of ground that can be worked the mine will yield per month 15 tons of Ist class, 60 of 2d class, 100 of 3d class ore; a total of 175 tons. Tho 3d elass pays the expense of mining the ore. They will put on more men at an early day and this will make the amount much larger. . The stoped ground that has been worked will not make over 200 feet square on the lode, this heing all the work done on the mine for the large amount of money that lias been taken ont. They pay tle miners by contract, $20 per foot, aud in some few plnees pay only $16. ‘Thoy pay $35 to — . $40 per fathom for stoping on the lode. ‘The ore is sorted at the mine and the firstclass is taken to Swansea. ‘The Philadelphia Co. own 500 fect and the British Co. 1,100 feet. ‘The two companies own a small Burleigh drill and will havo it going shortly. ‘Tho eharacter of the oro is galeua, zine blendo, iron pyrites, silver, ete. The formation is ‘ peach granite,” a term used by niiuers. Tho Cnasmie Sitver Mine is about half a mile from the ‘Terriblo, on Shermau Mountain, Griflith distriet. C. A. Hoyt is agent aud superiutendeut. The main shaft is 140 feet deep with drifts 6U feet deep on each sido. ‘Tho main shaft is filled with water up to the drift running west, but a small pump keeps the drift dry. Twelve meu are cmployed. Considerable stoping lias been done. The lode is small, about four to six inehesin granite, ‘The ore is argentiferous galena, pyrites, gray eopper, and specimens of native silver, whicli assays $50 and npwards. A new engine for hoisting and driving a fan has heen put up. Yho BurtereH Tunsxen axnp Minrxe Co. While passing up the middle branch of Clear Creek I visited this well-known tunnel, with Mr. C. Burleigh, ono of the owners and the inventor of the famous Burleigh drill. In eompauy with him I was shown through the mine. The main tunnel is in 1,075 feet. They have one of the tunneling machines (formerly illustrated in the Press), at work, doing very well indeed. It costs the company from $32 to $33 per foot to run the tunnel, 9x9. The expensos before have heen as high as $60. Yor many years efforts have heen made to hring out a drill for working tunnels, and now this seems to be a suecesss. This company have eight drills, and employ two rock men, two blacksmiths, and two engineers, working day and night. They have struck some very fine smelting ore that will yield 55 per cent. of lead and 30 ozs. of silver. This was the return from a sample lot worked. “Idaho Springs. Ahout six miles from Central City and 85 miles from Denver, on South Clear Creek, are situated these noted hot springs, amidst grand mountains and heautiful seenery. Eastern tonrists are visiting them numerously and enjoying the accommodations of the Beehe and Springs hotels. W. H, M. Great Waste of Precious Metals. Eps Press:—I observe in your issue of Aug. 5th, that the ore of the ‘‘California” mine, in Julian District, San Diego county, has yielded $1 per pound in a hand mortar, and $57 by mill process.” We are left entirely in the dark as to whether itis $57 per pound by mill process, and $1 hy hand, or whether it is $57 per ton hy mill, and $1 per pound hy hand, In either ease, the services of our mutual friend, Mr. A. B. Paul, are very mueh needed in Julian Distriet, to prevent sueh a shoeking waste of the precious metal. There must he either gross carelessness or gross dishonesty onthe part of the millers of such rich ore, for the difference between $1 per pound and $57 per ton is something enormous—say only $1,943. Perhaps, it might be mildly suggested that there is no dishonesty or carelessness in the working of theore, but that the dis. crepancy shows the need of more accuraey of statement on the part of the mining correspondent. If thisis not tho true eause, Mr, Paul should visit that distriet without delay. T. 7 We suppose that the ‘‘ $57” was so much per ton; and there need be no diffieulty in accounting for the wide margin between the $1 per pound and $57 per ton, if wo suppose the ‘ pound” was simply a “ specimen.” As remarked by “‘T.T.” there is “need of more aecuracy of statement on the part of mining eorrespodents.” Wandered to the Left. Eps. Press:—I see in the late daily papers of San Francisco, an acconut of the wanderings of a young girl in Sonoma county, Miss Steen, residing at Garcins mills, who was found, after four days’ search, seven miles from the point from whence she started on her return home, and far to the left of the true course. This seems a snbstantial cenfirmation of the theory advanced a few weeks since in your colunins, und a refutation of tho opposite

opinion expressed hy your correspondeut ‘*Curiosity” and aeertain leeturer, as to which side a porson would be inelined to walk under similar cirenmstauces. The situation of Miss Steen, lost in the woods, without path or road to which she had been acenstomed, is preeisely tho one I proposed to your correspondent as an experiment that would be conclusive on this point. He has been saved the trouble of trying it for himself, however, by the experieuce of the young lady ahove mentioned. He will find a fnll aeconnt of the eveut in a late uumber of the Alta. If his ‘‘euriosity” is not thereby wholly satistied he ean still continue his experiments until it is. If properly and fairly coudueted, they ean lave only the result above given, iu the opiuion of Puito Sopxos. Shermantown, Nev., Aug. 8th, 1871. The Hell Gate Obstructions. ny OUR NEW YORK EDITOR. ° The Blossom Roek Plan Being Tried There. From a time to whieh the memory of man reached not, onr venerated Uncle Samuel has been at work removing obstructions from Hell Gate at the entrance of New York harhor. Divers, drills, gun powder, nitro-glyeerine, dynamite, dualin and noboby-under-tho-sun-knows-what not —have been tried, and lots of money sunk in reudering the passage to the sound reasonably safe. But Hell Gate, opening its jaws for all that came, took the powder and nitro-glycerine with as much eomplacency asit did the vessels afterwards. Nothing came amiss. Visit to the Works. Uncle Sam is patient, hut his loug suffering has an end. Now he proposes to ‘eo for” Hell Gate and ‘‘knock the bottom out of it.” In other words he proposes to treat the obstructions to a dose of the same medicine which ‘‘settled” Blossom Rock so effectually. To do this, a large shaft or rather a pit, for such it seems when looking into it, has been sunk near low-water mark at a point near the ohstructions. This shaft is nearly egg shaped with the side toward the shore very much flattened. One side may be said to be against the shore, as there is no water on the land sido at low tide. This hig hole is now a trifle above 31 feet deep, though some places may go as much as 35 or 36, Ou the water side, headings, drifts, tunnels, or whatever the mining men call them, are being put into the solid rock. Beg pardon we did not mean it for from appearances the gneiss, as it is called, did not appear to us of a very formidable character. It is filled with perpendicular seams or lines of eleavage, and, taken all in all, wonld not strike an Eastern man as very hard stuff to deal with. Still the powers that be say its tough and we snppose that settles the question for all time. In a good many places salt water is finding its way through the rock in such quantities as to suggest to a stranger tho question of safety. Atseveral places we noticed that a wall of rock had been laid up carefully in cement, apparently hecause the natural rock was too weak to stand the pressure. Two only of the openings beneath theriver were dry,—thatisto say were not raining from the roof. At one of these named, if our memory is correet, “Graut,” we found a hoard nailed to the rock stating that the floor was 31 feet below mean low water, the dimensions 22x13 feet, and that it extended beneath the river a horizontal distance of 320 feet. We helieve the latter faet beeause the board told us so, and not heeause of any mensurements on our part. Hf it had been proper to guess how far the heading had advanced we should have suid about half as much. Plan of the Underground Work. Isend yon herewith a diagram of the drifts and galleries which are now being roan, The tunnel headings average 20 feet in hight by 13 in width. Tho eoueentric galleries average 16 feet in hight hy 10 in width. Tho shaft or pit is 105 feet in length—its brendth being cousiderably less. From this shaft rndiate teu headings as shown in the diagram annexed, whieli have been driven to various leugths; tho first and tenth headings following tho proposed shore line. ‘Lhe headings are to be erossed by galleries, and the piers left standing are to be penetrated hy ehambers, having a ground plau of the form of the letter ‘T, as shown in three of the piers. In these ehambers the fiual charges will he placed and fired, when it is expected tho entire mass of rock, left standiug after tho cuttings, will be broken in pieees of such a size that they ean easily be lifted and removed. The prineipal portion, in faet, practieally the whole of the work, has been doue by Cornish miners, imported for the purpose, and with haud drills. Qn the Surface. There wero no engineers .about, and everything looked as though all went to sleep as soon as possible atter each meal. There were meu loatiug about, one of whom seemed very busy teachiug a dog to bring chips out of the water as fast as they were thrown in. Another mau was doing the ‘theavy looking on,” and much interested. Doggy did uot see the propriety of rescuiug the same chip three times in sueeession, and aecordingly rau off with it, thrust it into a hole beneath the timber-work, and looked ahout for more government work to do, whereupon we all felt called upon to go and look at the hole. Doggy immediately signified his intention of eating up all strangers and visitorg and was promptly chained beneath a new steamhoiler not yet in use. Somebody just then hrought a quantity of newly sharpened drills to be lowered down. For a minute there was a small seramble for the tools at the bottom and then all was moving along properly. The men who handled the drills seemed pretty well oceupied, hut even they did notappearat all troubled by theiz exertions. Long ‘‘dumps” of stone with railway tracks along their crests stretched away from the opening aeross the lowland to the shore. A big dump ear close hy the derrick looked very ready to carry away stone if there wasany to be mored; but its office was apparently a sinecure, for a time at least. We asked as few questions as possible, hecause they seemed to disturb the quiet of the spot aud we did not like to presume too much. The Return. Five o’clock came and we hurried off to catch the hoat. We reached a turn in the road where the laudiug was iu sight, just in season to see the boat leave the wharf. We were sold. It was the last boat down. We rush for the ferry boat, huilt we judge, in the time of Fultou, from remuants of Hudsou’s original galliot. We succeed in getting ou board and eross over to Yorkville. A half-mile walk, uphill, brings us to the 8d Aveuue ears, and we rattle home in those well-known advertising mediums. As to our opinion of the works in progress, we would say that they will be a grand suceess sometime; and there is no douht that when the rocks do get their fina] eharge of powder they will he cowpletely demolished. We only ask when ? New Eneuanp Earruquarrs.—W. T. Brigham states that, since 1638, 227 carthquakes have been recorded as happening in New England, and four previous oues are mentioned in Indian traditions. He thinks that probably there were once volcanoes in New England, and _partieularly in Connecticut. Prof. Dana dissents from this opinion. Fires in tz Movnrarns.—Thus far this season notwithstanding the unusual dryness, the farmers have suffered much less than for twoor three past seasons from fires in their fields. We hear of some fires in the Coast Range mountains, however, which are destroying mueh timher.