Volume 24 (1872) (424 pages)

March 16, 1872.] SCIENTIFIC PRESS. 171 Business Cards. J. ROSS BROWNE, oMece, No. 45 Montgomery llocic, Ham Francieco, Car. H. C. BENNETT, STATISTICIAN. Reports and estimates madcabout all departments of a [S , and Sfanufacture, of tay peeiie weet Coast, Spectacles My Specialty. C. MULLER, Optician, 203 Montgomery atreet, Ruse Biock. JOHN ROACH, Optician, 429 Montgomery Street, 8. W, corner Sacramcnte. : Surveylog Insteumnonts mado, repaired and adjusted F2vt7-3m E. J. FRASER, M. D., SURGEON, No. 102 Stockton Street, 8an Francisco, Cal. N. P. LANGLAND, Stair Builder, Wood Turner, and SCROLL SAWYER, No, 485 Brannan Street. San FRANcrsco, And Ne. 9 Q 8t., bet. First sud Second, Qhv23-tf SACRAMENTO. WM. GAATLING, HENRY KIMBALL. BARTLING & KIMBALL, BOOK BINDERS, Paper Rulers and Blank Book Manufaoturers, 60S Clay street, (southwest cor. Sansome), t$vl2-3m SAN FRANCISCO, SAN FRANCISCO CORDAGE COMPANY. Manila Rope of alisizes. Aiso, Baie Rope and Whais Line conatantiy on hand. Tarred Muniia Mining Ropes of any size and iength wnanufactured to order. TUBBS & CO., Agents, 26 611 and 613 Front street. H. N. COOK, Leather Belting and Hose, HYDRAULIO HOSE, SUCTION IOSE of afi sizes, for Mining Pumps, N. W, Corner Battery and Broadway, SAN FRANCISCO. ASS J. F. PAGES, SEAL ENGRAVER, AND LETTER CUTTER, Brass and Steci Stamps and Dics, 608 Sacramento street, San Francisco. Orders by express promptly attendcd to. L. SCHUMANN, PIONEER Meerschaum Pipe Manufacturer, 3v243m No, 841 KEARNY STREET, Between Bush and Pine streets, San Francisco, The firat and only Manufaetory on tho Pacifie Const. MeeascHAuMa MouNTEn WITH SiLvErR. Meersehaum Pipes Boiled and Repaired, Amber Mouth-pieces Fitted. The Merchants’ Exchange Bank OF SAN FRANCISCO, Capital, One “Million Dollars. LEVI STEVENS.. R.N. VAN BRUNT.. «President. «+» Cashier. BANKING HOUSE, No. 415 California street, San Francisco, 25v20-qy FRED. KRAJEWSKI, MANUFACTURER OF TOOLS —FOR— Molding, Turning, Carving, Etc. Mortise Chisels, Blind Chisels, Crotchet Chisels, and also all kinds of Screws for Stair Work and Sash Joints on hand and made to order. Berry street, bet. Fourth and Fifth, SAN FRANCISCO. 26y23-tf GILES H. GAAY, JAMES M. HAVEN, GRAY & HAVEN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW, In Bullding ef Pacific Insnranee Co., N. E. corner Calt . fornia and Letdesdorff atreets, 8AN FRANOIOO. WM. M. BETTS & BROTHER, CARRIAGE SPRING WORKS, 218 Fremont street, het. Howard snd Foisom, SAN FRANCISCO, LOCOMOTIVE, CAR, And ali kinds of Carriage and Wagon Springs made to Order and Warranted, a 8y24-3m CAMERON'S STEAD PUMPS. PIOKERING'S Engine Regulators, OIFFanD's INJECTORS. BARTOLS STEAD TRAP. Surface Condensers. DAVID STODDART, 114 BEALE STREET, 8. F. NIAGARA STEAM PUMP WORKS. FIRST PREMIUM American Inetitute,2£1867 and,1870. CHARLES B. HARDICK, 23 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N. Y SOLE MANUFACTURER Hardick’s Patent Double-Acting Steam Pump and Fire Engine PATENTED IN ENOLAND, BELGIUM AND FRANCE. SEND FOR CIRCULAR. 22v26t-cow Combines Simplicity and Durabitity to a Remarkable Degree. Its parts are easy of access, and itis adapted to all purposes for which Pumps are used— aspecially Mining. Full description in Sclentijic Press of August, 1871. Catalogues sent on application. 43 Cortlandt Street, New York. AoEnT WanteD for Pacific Slope. PATENTED Aug. 2, 1870. Dec. 20,1870. A. CARR, 7v23-ly-eow Ransome’s Patents International, For whieh Commissioners for the Exhihition of 1862 awarded the Prize Medal, and Gold Medai at the Me. ehanics’ Institute Falr, 1871, of San Franeisco, REMOVAL This Company have removed from the corner of Turk and Larkin atreets, to their new and Commodious works corner of Greenwich and Oetavin. They have estahlished an offiee and salesyard at the Junetion of Market and Buah, where they will keep conatantly on band an assortment of ORNAMENTAL, BUILDING, CEMETERY and GRINDSTONES, Orders wili bs received at tho ahove office from aii who wish to get good work at iow prices. Send for Gireular. Sy24-3amslamrly To Parties About Building. A person who ia eompetent to prepare plans and take chargs of the eonstruetion of " Dwellings,Miils,Bridges, or other architeetural improvements, will make favorahie engagementa with per60ns or corpirationa in the eity or the interior. Has had full experience on this coast, and can insure good satisfneEDW. W. TIFT, No. 807 Howard street, San Franeisco. tion. 5-y24-sa Address . The Holy Family, size 22 by 28. HOOVER’S New and Superior Chromos. The Changed Croes, size 22 by 28. The Faithful Crowned, size 22 by 28. Virgin Mary and St. John, eize 22 by 28, The Beautiful Snow, size 16 by 22. Delhi, Delaware County, N. Y., eize 20 by 28, ALL REAL GEMS OF ART. Sold by Leading Dealers throughout the United States, and Wholesale by the Publiehere. J. HOOVER, 804 Market Street, PHILADELPHIA. 6y23.8m-cow CUNDURANGO. BLISS, KEENE & CO.’S Fluid Extract, the wouderful remedy for Cancer, Syphilis, Scrofuia, Uicers, Pnimonary Compiainta, Salt Rheum, and all Chronie Biood Diseasea, is prepared from the Genuine Cundurango Bark, from Loja, Eeuador, seeured hy the assist ance of the authorities of that eountry. It is the moseffective, prompt and certain alterative and hiood puriflerknown. Soid hy all Druggtsts, in pint hotties, hav ing on them our“name, trado mark and directions. Send for a eircnlar. Office and Lahorstory, No. 60 Cedar street, N. Y. 25v23-3m CRAIG & BREVOORT’S Condenser PUMPS, Patent for Steam &e. NO. 1. The annexed engravings represent a Condenser {ntended to be attached to the ordinary steam pump, therohy bringing it within the ciasa of iow pressure, or more properiy speaking, of eondenaing engines; the steam, when it has done its work in the cyiinder, in. stead of being exh d into the at here, is condueted to the condenser, on ita entry into which, it meets the water drawn by the pump, and is immedi. ately condensed. The Cnt No. 1 representa a verticai section of the Condenser, and No. 2 an efevation, The flange D ia hoited to the suction ortflee of the pump, and the flange 8 to the pipe leading to the well, or whatever source of suppiy the pump may have; W is a water Jacket surrounding the main ehambcr of the condenser, B, aud with which the suction pipe, 8, comTaunicates, permitting a free circulation of water within the Jacket and into the hoilow eover or top throngh tho series of openings, one of which is shown at A, and from thence into the body of Condenser, B, through pipe P, earried by float F; the pipe P aiao acts autom. aticnliy as a vaive te eniarge or oontract the apsco through which the water entera it, hy which means the poasihllity of the condenser being at any time flooded ia avoided. The pips P, it wiii he ohserved, aiso acts as guids to float F. The vaive, O, (shown in Cut No. 1), which is ralaed or iowered by meana of serewed stem—ahown coming throngh cihow in Cut No. 2—ia for the purpose of increasing or decreasing the flow of water according to the espacity of the pump to which it is attachod. The exhauat pipe from steam eyiinder ia serewed into eover at E; the exhaust steam is thus thrown direetiy Into contaet with the wster entsring the condenser on ita way to water eylinder of pump through D. A vacuum heing of course immediately formed, aeta on the exhaust side of the steam piston, aiding it in its work. If atany time itis desirahle to run the pump withont the d itis only y toturn the three-way cock, which is piaced in the exhrust pipe, into aueh a position as to eause the steam cylinder to exhaust into the stmoaphere; when this ia done the pump is perfectiy free from the condenser, and acta as if it were not attached, This condenser is specially useful for pumps running in mines, or any other position where trouble ia experienced in getting rid of the sxhaust steam. Addresa H.L. BREVOORT, 6y2deowly 128 Broadway, New York Oity. Pheenixville Bridge Works OF PENNSYLVANIA. CLARKE, REEVES & CoO., ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS. New Briwwaes, Vianvots, Roors, Ero. Would respeetfully cali the attention of the officers of Raiiway Companiss, and Engineera having charge of New Bridge Constructions, to their new Album of Designs, showing various styies of New Railroad Bridges, Viaduets, etc,, whieh they have either eoustrueted or are prepared to construet, A copy wili be malied on applieation to our address, No. 410 Wainnt Street, Phiiadeiphia. ap&ly DICKINSON’S Patent Shaped Diamond Carbon-Points. Mgt Pige2 ys Figd Bg G ie Diamond and Carhon, ahaped or erude, furnished and aet for Dressing Miil-Burrs, Emery-Wheeis, Grindstones, Conglomerate, Driiiing Rock, Sawing or Working Stone, Trueing up Hardened Steei, and for other meehanieal purposes. Also Glaziers’ Diamonds. See Scientific Ameriean, Juiy 24th, Nov. 20th and 27th, 1869; Engineering and Mining Journai, Jan. 17th, 1871; Journai of the Franklin Institute, Philadeiphia, June, 1870. For Cireulars deseriptive, and Prices, send stamp to 1v24.6m J. DIOKINSON, 64 Nassau Bt., N. ¥. First Preaniums awarded by American Institute, N.Y, MICROSCOPES. Illustrated Price List sent free. Magic Lanterns and Stereopticons. Catalogue, priced and illustrated, sent free, McALLISTER, Optician, 49 Nassau street, New York 3y23-ly J. M. STOCKMAN, Manufacturer of PATTERNS AND MODELS, (Over W. T, Garratt’s Brass Foundry), N. W. corner Natoma and Fremont streets, 8. F. En trance on Natoms street. 6y23-3m

March 16, 1872.] SCIENTIFIC PRESS. 171 Business Cards. J. ROSS BROWNE, oMece, No. 45 Montgomery llocic, Ham Francieco, Car. H. C. BENNETT, STATISTICIAN. Reports and estimates madcabout all departments of a [S , and Sfanufacture, of tay peeiie weet Coast, Spectacles My Specialty. C. MULLER, Optician, 203 Montgomery atreet, Ruse Biock. JOHN ROACH, Optician, 429 Montgomery Street, 8. W, corner Sacramcnte. : Surveylog Insteumnonts mado, repaired and adjusted F2vt7-3m E. J. FRASER, M. D., SURGEON, No. 102 Stockton Street, 8an Francisco, Cal. N. P. LANGLAND, Stair Builder, Wood Turner, and SCROLL SAWYER, No, 485 Brannan Street.. San FRANcrsco, And Ne. 9 Q 8t., bet. First sud Second, Qhv23-tf SACRAMENTO. WM. GAATLING, HENRY KIMBALL. BARTLING & KIMBALL, BOOK BINDERS, Paper Rulers and Blank Book Manufaoturers, 60S Clay street, (southwest cor. Sansome), t$vl2-3m SAN FRANCISCO, SAN FRANCISCO CORDAGE COMPANY. Manila Rope of alisizes. Aiso, Baie Rope and Whais Line conatantiy on hand. Tarred Muniia Mining Ropes of any size and iength wnanufactured to order. TUBBS & CO., Agents, 26 611 and 613 Front street. H. N. COOK, Leather Belting and Hose, HYDRAULIO HOSE, SUCTION IOSE of afi sizes, for Mining Pumps, N. W, Corner Battery and Broadway, SAN FRANCISCO. ASS J. F. PAGES, SEAL ENGRAVER, AND LETTER CUTTER, Brass and Steci Stamps and Dics, 608 Sacramento street, San Francisco. Orders by express promptly attendcd to. L. SCHUMANN, PIONEER Meerschaum Pipe Manufacturer, 3v243m No, 841 KEARNY STREET, Between Bush and Pine streets, San Francisco, The firat and only Manufaetory on tho Pacifie Const. MeeascHAuMa MouNTEn WITH SiLvErR. Meersehaum Pipes Boiled and Repaired, Amber Mouth-pieces Fitted. The Merchants’ Exchange Bank OF SAN FRANCISCO, Capital, One “Million Dollars. LEVI STEVENS.... R.N. VAN BRUNT... «President. «+» Cashier. BANKING HOUSE, No. 415 California street, San Francisco, 25v20-qy FRED. KRAJEWSKI, MANUFACTURER OF TOOLS —FOR— Molding, Turning, Carving, Etc. Mortise Chisels, Blind Chisels, Crotchet Chisels, and also all kinds of Screws for Stair Work and Sash Joints on hand and made to order. Berry street, bet. Fourth and Fifth, SAN FRANCISCO. 26y23-tf GILES H. GAAY, JAMES M. HAVEN, GRAY & HAVEN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW, In Bullding ef Pacific Insnranee Co., N. E. corner Calt . fornia and Letdesdorff atreets, 8AN FRANOIOO. WM. M. BETTS & BROTHER, CARRIAGE SPRING WORKS, 218 Fremont street, het. Howard snd Foisom, SAN FRANCISCO, LOCOMOTIVE, CAR, And ali kinds of Carriage and Wagon Springs made to Order and Warranted, a 8y24-3m CAMERON'S STEAD PUMPS. PIOKERING'S Engine Regulators, OIFFanD's INJECTORS. BARTOLS STEAD TRAP. Surface Condensers. DAVID STODDART, 114 BEALE STREET, 8. F. NIAGARA STEAM PUMP WORKS. FIRST PREMIUM American Inetitute,2£1867 and,1870. CHARLES B. HARDICK, 23 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N. Y SOLE MANUFACTURER Hardick’s Patent Double-Acting Steam Pump and Fire Engine PATENTED IN ENOLAND, BELGIUM AND FRANCE. SEND FOR CIRCULAR. 22v26t-cow Combines Simplicity and Durabitity to a Remarkable Degree. Its parts are easy of access, and itis adapted to all purposes for which Pumps are used— aspecially Mining. Full description in Sclentijic Press of August, 1871. Catalogues sent on application. 43 Cortlandt Street, New York. AoEnT WanteD for Pacific Slope. PATENTED Aug. 2, 1870. Dec. 20,1870. A. CARR, 7v23-ly-eow Ransome’s Patents International, For whieh Commissioners for the Exhihition of 1862 awarded the Prize Medal, and Gold Medai at the Me. ehanics’ Institute Falr, 1871, of San Franeisco,

REMOVAL This Company have removed from the corner of Turk and Larkin atreets, to their new and Commodious works corner of Greenwich and Oetavin. They have estahlished an offiee and salesyard at the Junetion of Market and Buah, where they will keep conatantly on band an assortment of ORNAMENTAL, BUILDING, CEMETERY and GRINDSTONES, Orders wili bs received at tho ahove office from aii who wish to get good work at iow prices. Send for Gireular. Sy24-3amslamrly To Parties About Building. A person who ia eompetent to prepare plans and take chargs of the eonstruetion of " Dwellings,Miils,Bridges, or other architeetural improvements, will make favorahie engagementa with per60ns or corpirationa in the eity or the interior. Has had full experience on this coast, and can insure good satisfneEDW. W. TIFT, No. 807 Howard street, San Franeisco. tion. 5-y24-sa Address . The Holy Family, size 22 by 28. HOOVER’S New and Superior Chromos. The Changed Croes, size 22 by 28. The Faithful Crowned, size 22 by 28. Virgin Mary and St. John, eize 22 by 28, The Beautiful Snow, size 16 by 22. Delhi, Delaware County, N. Y., eize 20 by 28, ALL REAL GEMS OF ART. Sold by Leading Dealers throughout the United States, and Wholesale by the Publiehere. J. HOOVER, 804 Market Street, PHILADELPHIA. 6y23.8m-cow CUNDURANGO. BLISS, KEENE & CO.’S Fluid Extract, the wouderful remedy for Cancer, Syphilis, Scrofuia, Uicers, Pnimonary Compiainta, Salt Rheum, and all Chronie Biood Diseasea, is prepared from the Genuine Cundurango Bark, from Loja, Eeuador, seeured hy the assist ance of the authorities of that eountry. It is the moseffective, prompt and certain alterative and hiood puriflerknown. Soid hy all Druggtsts, in pint hotties, hav ing on them our“name, trado mark and directions. Send for a eircnlar. Office and Lahorstory, No. 60 Cedar street, N. Y. 25v23-3m CRAIG & BREVOORT’S Condenser PUMPS, Patent for Steam &e. NO. 1. The annexed engravings represent a Condenser {ntended to be attached to the ordinary steam pump, therohy bringing it within the ciasa of iow pressure, or more properiy speaking, of eondenaing engines; the steam, when it has done its work in the cyiinder, in. stead of being exh d into the at here, is condueted to the condenser, on ita entry into which, it meets the water drawn by the pump, and is immedi. ately condensed. The Cnt No. 1 representa a verticai section of the Condenser, and No. 2 an efevation, The flange D ia hoited to the suction ortflee of the pump, and the flange 8 to the pipe leading to the well, or whatever source of suppiy the pump may have; W is a water Jacket surrounding the main ehambcr of the condenser, B, aud with which the suction pipe, 8, comTaunicates, permitting a free circulation of water within the Jacket and into the hoilow eover or top throngh tho series of openings, one of which is shown at A, and from thence into the body of Condenser, B, through pipe P, earried by float F; the pipe P aiao acts autom. aticnliy as a vaive te eniarge or oontract the apsco through which the water entera it, hy which means the poasihllity of the condenser being at any time flooded ia avoided. The pips P, it wiii he ohserved, aiso acts as guids to float F. The vaive, O, (shown in Cut No. 1), which is ralaed or iowered by meana of serewed stem—ahown coming throngh cihow in Cut No. 2—ia for the purpose of increasing or decreasing the flow of water according to the espacity of the pump to which it is attachod. The exhauat pipe from steam eyiinder ia serewed into eover at E; the exhaust steam is thus thrown direetiy Into contaet with the wster entsring the condenser on ita way to water eylinder of pump through D. A vacuum heing of course immediately formed, aeta on the exhaust side of the steam piston, aiding it in its work. If atany time itis desirahle to run the pump withont the d itis only y toturn the three-way cock, which is piaced in the exhrust pipe, into aueh a position as to eause the steam cylinder to exhaust into the stmoaphere; when this ia done the pump is perfectiy free from the condenser, and acta as if it were not attached, This condenser is specially useful for pumps running in mines, or any other position where trouble ia experienced in getting rid of the sxhaust steam. Addresa H.L. BREVOORT, 6y2deowly 128 Broadway, New York Oity. Pheenixville Bridge Works OF PENNSYLVANIA. CLARKE, REEVES & CoO., ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS. New Briwwaes, Vianvots, Roors, Ero. Would respeetfully cali the attention of the officers of Raiiway Companiss, and Engineera having charge of New Bridge Constructions, to their new Album of Designs, showing various styies of New Railroad Bridges, Viaduets, etc,, whieh they have either eoustrueted or are prepared to construet, A copy wili be malied on applieation to our address, No. 410 Wainnt Street, Phiiadeiphia. ap&ly DICKINSON’S Patent Shaped Diamond Carbon-Points. Mgt Pige2 ys Figd Bg G ie Diamond and Carhon, ahaped or erude, furnished and aet for Dressing Miil-Burrs, Emery-Wheeis, Grindstones, Conglomerate, Driiiing Rock, Sawing or Working Stone, Trueing up Hardened Steei, and for other meehanieal purposes. Also Glaziers’ Diamonds. See Scientific Ameriean, Juiy 24th, Nov. 20th and 27th, 1869; Engineering and Mining Journai, Jan. 17th, 1871; Journai of the Franklin Institute, Philadeiphia, June, 1870. For Cireulars deseriptive, and Prices, send stamp to 1v24.6m J. DIOKINSON, 64 Nassau Bt., N. ¥. First Preaniums awarded by American Institute, N.Y, MICROSCOPES. Illustrated Price List sent free. Magic Lanterns and Stereopticons. Catalogue, priced and illustrated, sent free, McALLISTER, Optician, 49 Nassau street, New York 3y23-ly J. M. STOCKMAN, Manufacturer of PATTERNS AND MODELS, (Over W. T, Garratt’s Brass Foundry), N. W. corner Natoma and Fremont streets, 8. F. En trance on Natoms street. 6y23-3m