Volume 23 (1871) (426 pages)

6 SCIENTIFIC PRESS. {July 8, 1871. Patents & a] NVENTIONS. Full List of U. S. Patents Issued to Pacific Coast Inventors. (Faow Orrioian Reports ro DEWEY & CO., U.S. anD Forni PATeNt AGENTS, AND PUBLISHERS OF THE SOIENTIFIO PRESS.) For THE WEEE ENDING JUNE 20TH. Rouuer-Sxate.—Allen Thompson Covell, . San Leandro, Cal. Dyrine anv Conorme Furs.— Adolph Miller, San Francisco, Cal. Macuinxe ror Mouprxa, Pressino axnp Corrine Svucar.—Peter Spreckels and James Peterson, San Francisco, Cal., assignors to Claus Spreckles and Peter Spreckels, same place. REISSUE. Spars-ARRESTER.—Edw’d Wand, for himself, and Benjamin F. Dorris, assignee of Edward Waud, Eugene City, Oregon— Patent No. 99,378, dated Vebruary 1, 1870. DESIGNS. Srmam-Pomp.— William W. Hanscom, San Francisco, Cal. Grats-Hearnta.—John G. Us, San Francisco, Cal. Editorial Notes Eastward.—9. To have visited Salt Lake City, and to have seen the place of which so much has been said, where the wonderful works of religious zeal have wrought the most surprising change in the face of Nature aud made ‘the waste places glad,” would have been a great pleasure to me; hut the nature of my errand to the East admitted of no such delay, and I hastened on toward the rising sun. Soon after leaving Ogden we come to one of the most noted jlocalities on the road. We ride straight for the tall barrier of mountains, through which we 4 ‘ nat al New Publications. Siew Wartine and GuAsSs Empossine; A Complete Practical Dlustrated Msnual of the Art. By James Callingham, To which sre added numerous Alphsbets. Philadelphia: Henry Csrey Baird, Industrial Publisher, 406 Walnut street, 1871. 8 yo. pp 210. Price $1.50. Forsale by A. Romsn & Co., 8. F. This is a most excellent work, gotten up in fine style and containing most valuable matter for the interest of which it treats. . It is said to he the first work which has appeared on the subject of Sign Writing, personally, I know nothing of your education or capahilities. Some men with the requisite skill and capital would make a fortune out of the manufacture of wooden clothes-pins. Icould not. Whether you could or not is more thanI know. If you had a son you designed to put into mercantile life, you would not ask, Does it pay, hut, Will my son make a successful merchant ? More and more attention has heen turned to farming of late years. Many are thinking of following the example of myself and FINGER OR NEEDLE ROCK, WEBER CANON. and takes precedence as treating of glass;husband. For them I have but one word: ‘emhossing. Such a book as this will be ‘found of great value to many on our Coast. ‘It is full of valuable rules and hints, and -we recommend it cheerfully. Beginners Be sure and farm ‘“‘with brains, sir.” A Protest Against the Tariff, We have received ‘‘a protest against the Thus our country has to this extent lost the benefits of this industry, which is larger in the value of its product and the numher of hands employed than any other single industry in the country.” A most pregnant fact is the following statement: ‘‘The comhined taxes upon all the articles forming the materials of our industry yield the government a revenue of only $3,500,000, while they impose upon the manufacturers of boots and shoes a tax of $18,000,000—which must eventnally be paid by the wearers of these necessary articles ” ‘The system of protective duties raises the price of house-rent, fuel, food, clothing and all supplies, so as to render extravagant wages anecessity to our workmen. This apparent increase of wages, however, yields no suhstantial henefit to our workmen, hecausc it is all consumed in the greater cost of living. “We helieve that the entire removal of all protective duties would greatly advance our industry, as we should then have the market of the world in which to sell our products, thus largely increasing the lahor employed and the profits of manufacturing. ‘We, moreover, helieve that the enhanced wealth and comfort of our own people, consequent upon a change of system, would be evidenced in an increased consumption of our goods.” The wool manufacture at the East seems to he another industry which is being crushed hy the tariff, and other mauufactures are beginning to ask to be ‘‘protected against protection.” Rerics or tae StonE Aoz,— There are but few of the valleys in Arizona in which may not be met with the remains of ancient art, which furnish ahundant evidence that the country was once inhahited hy a people who had attained a high standard of civilization. Among the most remarkahle of these will find the hook the greatest help, and/. tarifi hy the shoe manufacturers of the. relics, says the Arizona Miner of June 10, find, however, the Weber river has cleared a grand way for us. As we puff slowly up a steep grade, we see wonderful cliffs and buttresses of rock, lofty walls betweon which the river rushes frantically at our feet. We pass into the infernal regions, according to the nomenclature of the localities, for we have dashed out of tho sunny plains into the ‘‘ Devil’s Gate.” We climb along the steep sides of the mighty walls, and are crowded from one side of theriver to tho other. We pass into and out of a tunuel, and by a noted rock, called Finger or Needle Rock, of which we hear, which we do zot see, but which has been preserved by the skill of the artist. Natural obstacles present themselves every moment, hut mortal skill has euabled us to overcome them. On we go, winding under, arouud and through the stone obstructions of Nature, the scenery continually presentiug new wonders. Here we see the Devil’s Slide, two ridges of granite projecting as parallel, irregular slahs of rock from 50 to 100 feet high and about 100 feet apart. How his Satanic Majesty managed to slide down those rocks, and how he enjoyed it; whether he took it as a daily pastime, or whcther one trial sufficed; these and other interesting facts are left to the imagination of the visitor. That lonely sentinel of Nature, the One Thousand Mile Tree, sees us come and go unchallenged, and marks the place for our memory. The accompanying engravings are found, with others of much interest, in Crofutt’s Transcontinental Guide. Dd. April 18, 1871. are those recently oxhumed from THE DEVIL’S SLIDE, WEBER CANON. even old hands will fiud very much of the greatest use to them. GaRDENING For Money. How mm was done, in Flowers, Strawberries, Vegetables By Charles Barnard. Loring, Publisher, Boston. 8 vo., pp. 345. Price $1.50. The author has managed to weave many valuahle facts and figures into a story, which is told in an interesting manner. The picture of the farmer is held up in plain, practical colors, and the imagination jis held in check by fact. The last paragraphs of the book are worthy of repub-. lication: _ The question is often asked, Does farm-. ing pay? This is not a fair question, Does. any husiuess pay? Does boat-building, or soap-making, or carpentry pay? 'The question is not, Does farming pay, hut, Can you make it pa: . respectively: ou lastings and serges, 85 U.S,” aud we make some extracts therefrom for the consideration of our readers. ‘The legislation of other countries has aimed to secure for manufacturers and artisans the raw materials of their industry at the cheapest rates. The opposite system has generally prevailed in our country, and has retarded the naturally vigorous growth of our industries. “The tariff tax upon our leather amounts to 85 per cent.; duties on cotton and silk rtubher wehbing are 35 and 50 per cent., per cent. Although these highly protective duties have been levied for four years, they have succeeded in stimulating only two maunfactories, who make these articles ouly in limited quantity and of too iuferior quality to supersede the imported goods. ‘The result is that the manufacture of our products has heen transferred to a great a monument in the valley of Salt river, on the land owned hy Mr. McKinnie. This gentleman has, for some time past, employed his leisure hours at excavating among the ruins which constitute the principal mound on his premises; At two points, after having removed the debris which covers the rnins to a depth of about two feet, he discovered a numher of apartments, varying in dimensions from nine to eleven feet square, regularly built, and still containing the cement with which the walls are couted within. Besides various kinds of agricultural implements made from fragments of slate rock, he has obtained several stone hatchets and various kinds of ornaments made from different kinds of colored stones, shells and the hones and teeth of animals. It is quite prohahle that further research will lead to discoveries of much greater importance—as the work has thus far been confined to the extreme sides or edges of the mounds, and valuahles would probahly he deposited at or near the center. Mr. McKinnie intends sending a few of his most remarkable specimens to the Smithsonian Institute. CaLIFORNIA SHAD.—The Fish Commissioners of California, besides exerting themselves to protect and save valuahle native hreeds of fish, are lahoring to introduce choice varieties from abroad. Their first experiment in this line is the deposit of 15,000 young shad, from the Hudson river, in the upper waters of the Sacramento. This river, at Tehama, where the young fish were placed, is comparatively clear, the branch streams that convey the mining discharges, enteringitfar to the southward. The water had heen tested and found conducive to the health of the fish and full of food for their support, and there is every reason to believe that the young fish placed in it will prosper and multiply until our rivers are stocked with them. The hahits of the shad are much like those of our native salmon. It descends to salt water y? Thisis somethingI degree io Canada. where it enjoys greater. periodically, returning to the upper chancannot answer, seeing I do not know you. advantages and has fewer impedimeuts. nels of fresh streams £0 spawn. ay

6 SCIENTIFIC PRESS. {July 8, 1871. Patents & a] NVENTIONS. Full List of U. S. Patents Issued to Pacific Coast Inventors. (Faow Orrioian Reports ro DEWEY & CO., U.S. anD Forni PATeNt AGENTS, AND PUBLISHERS OF THE SOIENTIFIO PRESS.) For THE WEEE ENDING JUNE 20TH. Rouuer-Sxate.—Allen Thompson Covell, . San Leandro, Cal. Dyrine anv Conorme Furs.— Adolph Miller, San Francisco, Cal. Macuinxe ror Mouprxa, Pressino axnp Corrine Svucar.—Peter Spreckels and James Peterson, San Francisco, Cal., assignors to Claus Spreckles and Peter Spreckels, same place. REISSUE. Spars-ARRESTER.—Edw’d Wand, for himself, and Benjamin F. Dorris, assignee of Edward Waud, Eugene City, Oregon— Patent No. 99,378, dated Vebruary 1, 1870. DESIGNS. Srmam-Pomp.— William W. Hanscom, San Francisco, Cal. Grats-Hearnta.—John G. Us, San Francisco, Cal. Editorial Notes Eastward.—9. To have visited Salt Lake City, and to have seen the place of which so much has been said, where the wonderful works of religious zeal have wrought the most surprising change in the face of Nature aud made ‘the waste places glad,” would have been a great pleasure to me; hut the nature of my errand to the East admitted of no such delay, and I hastened on toward the rising sun. Soon after leaving Ogden we come to one of the most noted jlocalities on the road. We ride straight for the tall barrier of mountains, through which we 4 ‘ nat al New Publications. Siew Wartine and GuAsSs Empossine; A Complete Practical Dlustrated Msnual of the Art. By James Callingham, To which sre added numerous Alphsbets. Philadelphia: Henry Csrey Baird, Industrial Publisher, 406 Walnut street, 1871. 8 yo. pp 210. Price $1.50. Forsale by A. Romsn & Co., 8. F. This is a most excellent work, gotten up in fine style and containing most valuable matter for the interest of which it treats. . It is said to he the first work which has appeared on the subject of Sign Writing, personally, I know nothing of your education or capahilities. Some men with the requisite skill and capital would make a fortune out of the manufacture of wooden clothes-pins. Icould not. Whether you could or not is more thanI know. If you had a son you designed to put into mercantile life, you would not ask, Does it pay, hut, Will my son make a successful merchant ? More and more attention has heen turned to farming of late years. Many are thinking of following the example of myself and FINGER OR NEEDLE ROCK, WEBER CANON. and takes precedence as treating of glass;husband. For them I have but one word: ‘emhossing. Such a book as this will be ‘found of great value to many on our Coast. ‘It is full of valuable rules and hints, and -we recommend it cheerfully. Beginners Be sure and farm ‘“‘with brains, sir.” A Protest Against the Tariff, We have received ‘‘a protest against the Thus our country has to this extent lost the benefits of this industry, which is larger in the value of its product and the numher of hands employed than any other single industry in the country.” A most pregnant fact is the following statement: ‘‘The comhined taxes upon all the articles forming the materials of our industry yield the government a revenue of only $3,500,000, while they impose upon the manufacturers of boots and shoes a tax of $18,000,000—which must eventnally be paid by the wearers of these necessary articles ” ‘The system of protective duties raises the price of house-rent, fuel, food, clothing and all supplies, so as to render extravagant wages anecessity to our workmen. This apparent increase of wages, however, yields no suhstantial henefit to our workmen, hecausc it is all consumed in the greater cost of living. “We helieve that the entire removal of all protective duties would greatly advance our industry, as we should then have the market of the world in which to sell our products, thus largely increasing the lahor employed and the profits of manufacturing. ‘We, moreover, helieve that the enhanced wealth and comfort of our own people, consequent upon a change of system, would be evidenced in an increased consumption of our goods.” The wool manufacture at the East seems to he another industry which is being crushed hy the tariff, and other mauufactures are beginning to ask to be ‘‘protected against protection.” Rerics or tae StonE Aoz,— There are but few of the valleys in Arizona in which may not be met with the remains of ancient art, which furnish ahundant evidence that the country was once inhahited hy a people who had attained a high standard of civilization. Among the most remarkahle of these will find the hook the greatest help, and/. tarifi hy the shoe manufacturers of the. relics, says the Arizona Miner of June 10, find, however, the Weber river

has cleared a grand way for us. As we puff slowly up a steep grade, we see wonderful cliffs and buttresses of rock, lofty walls betweon which the river rushes frantically at our feet. We pass into the infernal regions, according to the nomenclature of the localities, for we have dashed out of tho sunny plains into the ‘‘ Devil’s Gate.” We climb along the steep sides of the mighty walls, and are crowded from one side of theriver to tho other. We pass into and out of a tunuel, and by a noted rock, called Finger or Needle Rock, of which we hear, which we do zot see, but which has been preserved by the skill of the artist. Natural obstacles present themselves every moment, hut mortal skill has euabled us to overcome them. On we go, winding under, arouud and through the stone obstructions of Nature, the scenery continually presentiug new wonders. Here we see the Devil’s Slide, two ridges of granite projecting as parallel, irregular slahs of rock from 50 to 100 feet high and about 100 feet apart. How his Satanic Majesty managed to slide down those rocks, and how he enjoyed it; whether he took it as a daily pastime, or whcther one trial sufficed; these and other interesting facts are left to the imagination of the visitor. That lonely sentinel of Nature, the One Thousand Mile Tree, sees us come and go unchallenged, and marks the place for our memory. The accompanying engravings are found, with others of much interest, in Crofutt’s Transcontinental Guide. Dd. April 18, 1871. are those recently oxhumed from THE DEVIL’S SLIDE, WEBER CANON. even old hands will fiud very much of the greatest use to them. GaRDENING For Money. How mm was done, in Flowers, Strawberries, Vegetables By Charles Barnard. Loring, Publisher, Boston. 8 vo., pp. 345. Price $1.50. The author has managed to weave many valuahle facts and figures into a story, which is told in an interesting manner. The picture of the farmer is held up in plain, practical colors, and the imagination jis held in check by fact. The last paragraphs of the book are worthy of repub-. lication: _ The question is often asked, Does farm-. ing pay? This is not a fair question, Does. any husiuess pay? Does boat-building, or soap-making, or carpentry pay? 'The question is not, Does farming pay, hut, Can you make it pa: . respectively: ou lastings and serges, 85 U.S,” aud we make some extracts therefrom for the consideration of our readers. ‘The legislation of other countries has aimed to secure for manufacturers and artisans the raw materials of their industry at the cheapest rates. The opposite system has generally prevailed in our country, and has retarded the naturally vigorous growth of our industries. “The tariff tax upon our leather amounts to 85 per cent.; duties on cotton and silk rtubher wehbing are 35 and 50 per cent., per cent. Although these highly protective duties have been levied for four years, they have succeeded in stimulating only two maunfactories, who make these articles ouly in limited quantity and of too iuferior quality to supersede the imported goods. ‘The result is that the manufacture of our products has heen transferred to a great a monument in the valley of Salt river, on the land owned hy Mr. McKinnie. This gentleman has, for some time past, employed his leisure hours at excavating among the ruins which constitute the principal mound on his premises; At two points, after having removed the debris which covers the rnins to a depth of about two feet, he discovered a numher of apartments, varying in dimensions from nine to eleven feet square, regularly built, and still containing the cement with which the walls are couted within. Besides various kinds of agricultural implements made from fragments of slate rock, he has obtained several stone hatchets and various kinds of ornaments made from different kinds of colored stones, shells and the hones and teeth of animals. It is quite prohahle that further research will lead to discoveries of much greater importance—as the work has thus far been confined to the extreme sides or edges of the mounds, and valuahles would probahly he deposited at or near the center. Mr. McKinnie intends sending a few of his most remarkable specimens to the Smithsonian Institute. CaLIFORNIA SHAD.—The Fish Commissioners of California, besides exerting themselves to protect and save valuahle native hreeds of fish, are lahoring to introduce choice varieties from abroad. Their first experiment in this line is the deposit of 15,000 young shad, from the Hudson river, in the upper waters of the Sacramento. This river, at Tehama, where the young fish were placed, is comparatively clear, the branch streams that convey the mining discharges, enteringitfar to the southward. The water had heen tested and found conducive to the health of the fish and full of food for their support, and there is every reason to believe that the young fish placed in it will prosper and multiply until our rivers are stocked with them. The hahits of the shad are much like those of our native salmon. It descends to salt water y? Thisis somethingI degree io Canada. where it enjoys greater. periodically, returning to the upper chancannot answer, seeing I do not know you. advantages and has fewer impedimeuts. nels of fresh streams £0 spawn. ay