Volume 28 (1874) (430 pages)

396 MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS. [June 20, 1874. E " & General News. e . = Kt nee Tux CurRENCY QUESTION IN THE U. S. SENATE appears to be in very much of a muddle. The probable workings of the currency bill now before that body appears to he very differently understood. The bill fixes Jan. let, 1878, ay the period for the beginning of the conversion of the United States notes into honds of the three descriptions authorized by the Act of 1870. The theory of the bill, as nnderstood hy one party, is that a five-per cent. hond will be then at par in coin, and that United States notes, heing convertible into them, will also he at par; that in the meantime United States notee will gradnally appreciate to par, and that the appreciation will he gentle and slow, not exceeding three and a qnarter per cent, per annnm, 80 that specie payments may he bronght ahout without oppression to the dehtor class or the derangement of the business of the country. Others claim,on the contrary, that the hill is in favor of expansion; while still others hold that itis a fair compromise hetween the inflationists and resnmptionists. Mr. Sherman says if the bill would settle the vexed financial question, if it wonld stop people talking ahont what kind of money they were going to have, and go to work to earn it, it wonld be a blessed thing; but he did not helieve it wonld have any snch effect. It is still doubtful what action the Senate will take upon the matter of the bill, if it passes as it etands. Roya. EnporseMeENT.—It is said that Queen Victoria has sent an autograph letter to President Grant, fnlly endoreing Mr. Sartoris as one every way worthy the hand and heart of the danghter of a President of the United States. It is also hinted that the royal heart will prohahly be moved to give some special mark of approbstion of this union, hy inviting the couple to visit Windsor Castle and conferring some title of nohility upon the bridegroom. It is also ssid that this action has been prompted from the sincere personal attachment which the Queen formed for Miss Grant, during the hrief visit which that young lady made to the palace on her former visit to Europe, and also for the esteem she feels for the President of this Republic in his official capacity. Beet Sucar mm Franczr.—The amount of juice expressed in France from beets, for manufactnring into sugar, for the year ending in October, 1873, at which time the grinding for that year’s crop is being prepared for, is represented to he 485,746,810 gallons, being less than that of the previous year, by 38,642,523 gallons. In 1872, the density of the juice was 3.9, while that of 1873, was4. The sugar produoed in 1878, was 224,268,210 pounds, less hy nearly 20,000,000 pounds, than in 1872. French sngars are also stated to have become a formidable rival to.Austrian sugars. It is not improbable that heet sugar will yet drive cane sugar from the market, unless the planters of cane devise some meaus to reduce the cost of cultivation. SourH Carotiva UnprEr RULE or CRIMINALS. A special correspondence from Charleston saye South Carolina has more criminals in office than any other State, and that the official records show that one-third of the persone holding minor positions have been indicted for offences during their term of office, anda much larger proportion of offeuces committed prior to election or appointment. In Charleston county nearly every State officer, from the highest to the lowest, hasbeen charged, and many convicted of one or more offences. Tur RarRoap Companies hetween this city and St. Louis have tendered the ladies of this State free transportion for 20 tons of provisione to St. Louis for,relief of the Louisiana sufferers. The Mail Steamship Company has also made a similar tender of free traneportation for the eame amount, Forty tone of provieious may thus find free treneit, if the people of this State who cannot, afford the money, will thus furnish the substantiale needed. Crors oN THE TuLE Lann.—Circumetances that have favored crops this eeason in the valleye and the foothills, the latter especially, have heen rather unfavorahle to those on the tnle land, though the average production of these lands, will, it ie’said, still be large. In some cases the estimate is placed as high as 70 buehels to the acre. The breadth of tnle lund sown to wheat and barley ie greater than that of last year. A Great storm visited the. Hastern States, and particnlarly Rhode Island, on Monday of last week, which did an immense amount of damage in causing freshete throughout the central and eouthern portion of New England. Seven inches of rain fell at one locality on Sunday night, the 7th iustant, the largest fall of water ever hefore recorded iu that locality. Tux paper mill of 8S. P. Taylor & Oo., on Paper Mili creek, Marin county, hae four paper or rag engines propa ed hy a 100-horse power steam engine. Its capacity ie one ton of white or newepaper per day, and 1,600 to 1,800 pounds of brown. Sun Stroxe.—Two cases of eun etroke have beeu noted in this “tate during the paet week; one in this city and one in Petaluma. Such cases have heretofore heen almost unknown in this State. Dxap Locx.—There is a dead lock in the election for United Statee Senatore from Rhode Island. Tue reported discovery of immense deposits f guano in Southern Peru is confirmed. Arizona Mining Prospects. ~~ Chae. O. Brown took out to the Oro Blanco mine this week a complete outfit to commence work on the northern extension of the Oro Blanco mine, which is owned hy C. O. Brown, E. M. Pearce, J. W. Hopkins and Gov. Safford. The company have hnilt four arastras and will at once commence reducing the ore. Careful tests warrant the helief that the ore will pay $100 per ton in free gold, and the company have eent out animals and a good set of practical miners to commence the work, with eufficient snpplies to last two or three months. The prospect ie encouraging for good returns. The original Oro Blanoo mine owned by Messrs. Handy, Leatherwood, Hewitt, Bartlett, Hopkins, Brown and Ferguson, has heen worked for several weeks, sndaraetras are now in successfnl operation on this mine. Several other valuahle mines have been discovered in the vicinity, and more or less prospecting is heing done on them. m= Good reporte* continne] to come in from the Saoaton and Quajata mines. Small lots of gold and silver are constantly heing hrought to town by prospectors, and these lots aggregate from $500 to $1,000 per week. . The miners are now thoronghly in esrnest. They have waited long enongh for capitalists to come and help them, and they find the minee are extensive and rich enough so that they can with strong arms and willing lahor help themselves.—Citizen. Tur FisHEs FROM THE East, anD WHAT HAS REEN Done with Toem.—The aquarinm car, as alresdy announced, hae this time made the transit of the continent, safe, and its assortment of fishes has been safely delivered at appropriate points throughout the State. Its first stopping place was at the Truckee river, where three csns of fish were safelytransferred to that stream. Another lotwas left at Summit Station, te be deposited in the head-waters of the Yube. The Western bass and Mississippi catfish were dropped in the San Joaquin at the point where the railroad crosses that stream. Seven cans of horn pout and fresh-water eels were placed in the Sacraniento river, near Sacramento city. The perch were sent to the Iskes at Sutterville, and from thence they will find their way to the Sacramento. The lohstere were hronght to this city, and deposited in the ocean, on Saturday of last week; while the salt-water eels and a few tantog were deposited in the waters of the hay. Another lot of bass hae been sent to Napa creek. The catfish have heen put into our watere, notwithstsndiug the urgent protests of many who feared they would hecome trouhlesome. This fish is very destructive to emall fry, and has a mouth of wide capacity, to aid in its natural propensity; but it is a most excellent delicacy for the table. and Mr. Stone, the Fish Commissioner, s.ys they can never injure the salmon. VaiuaBLe Minerat Caprnet.—<A very valnahle oabinet of miuerals, which has heen on exhihition for some time at the office of the Grand Hotel, ie now offered forjsale. The collection is a very rioh and choice one, and contains some epecimens whioh we presume caunot he duplicated on this coast. Any person desirous of obtaining such a cahinet will do well to call upon the owner, Mr. Henry T'ruella, se above, . who has spent eome twenty years in collecting It will he sold for much less than the eame. its actual value. © Wares from the Jowa Hill oanal was introduced into Iowa Hill last week, and the event was the occssion of a grand celehratiou, hy a salute of guns, fire-works, torch-light procession anda ball. The canal, when completed, will he 40 miles long, and will have cost $500,000. A great mining revival in that section is expected. Tue Metropolitan mill near Hamilton, Nevada, hae been leased for a custom mill, and the leseees are making a succese ot their operations. Hynrauric mining ou Cedar hill, north of Virginia City, is heing resumed after a euspeusion of eeveral years. A wacon road is at last opened into Yosemite and no more horsehack riding ie necessary, toget into the valley. Pror. B.S. Mors is delivering a course of lectures in this city, on natural history subjects. Nevapa, with a population of 50,000 sonle, hoasts of 18 newspapere, eeven weekliee and 11 dailies. j Tuer Live Oak quioksilver mine, situated on Carrie’e ranch, wae recently eold by ite discoyerers to I. P. Allen, of San Francieco. ! Tue coinage at the Carson Mint for May amounted to $571,352 94, Work on the Livermore coal minee is to he immediately resumed. Tue quicksilver mines in the Pine Flat dietrict are doing well. THE Virginia Consolidated mining company ie ahout putting up a new sixty-stamp mill. ‘Tae Eureka and Palisade Railroad is heing vigorously puehed ahead. : Crmwanan ie still heing discovered in Lake county. wal Rocwester Disréicr.~—Mr. (P:.H. Meagher, of Rochester, was in town vesterday. He informs ne that there are now sixty men working the quartz mines of the Rochester district. Oaks & Meagher's lode is turning out an abundance of. rich ore; ‘They have ten inches of very rich ‘ore. Every lode in»the district is looking well, and every bodyin the camp is contented. This camp had been entirely ahandoned; for years not 2 man had heen in it until last summer; hut it is now, probahly, the best quartz mining camp intheTerritory. So much for development.—Jontanian. : Tuer town of Mnrphy’s, in Calaveras county, was visited by a disastrous conflagration, Friday, 30thnlt. The fire originated in Doyle’s fruit store, and destroyed every wooden huilding on tbat (south) side of the street, from Sperry & Perry's hotel to Rowland’e store. + Tuer are eleven woolen mills on the Pacific coast—eight in California and three in Oregon. They have in the aggregate 28,840 spindles and 232 broad looms. Patents & aUNVENT IONS A Weekly List of *U. S. Patents Issued to Pacific Coast , Inventors. [Fzom Orrioran Rerorts Fok THE MIntne anp SormmntIFio Press, DEWEY & OC., PuBLIawERS AND U. 8. anp Foreign Parent Acrnts.] By Special Dispatch, Dated Washington. D. C., Inne i6th, 1974. ” For Werk Enniwe June 2, 1874." Srenen Trar.—John P. Schmitz, 8. F., Cal. Cuoprine Brock.—Henry Anderson, §. F., Cal. Prockss IN THE Manoractury or ARTIFICIAL Stone.—Gilbert$. Dean, S. F., Cal. Process oF Propuctnc Prorocrarnic PicTURES.—James M. Pimental, 8. F., Cal. Hyvravtic Lirtine Jack.—Anthony J. Ojeda, S. F., Cal. Uxtoantnc Heanzr Wacons.—Henry Klehn, Crow's Landing, Cal. Harzow.—William H. Wolfe, Santa Clara, Cal. : Scrarer.—Edward H. Farmer, Chas. Remington and Joseph Dimmock, 8. F., Cal. Stace Sosnery ann Sawrine DEvices.—Henry F. Parsone, Los Angeles, Cal. —— "The patents are not ready for dellvery by tke Patent Office nntil some 14 days after the date of Issue. NorE.—Ooples of U. 5.and Foreign Patents furnished by Dewex & Go., in the sbortest time possible (by telegrapb or otherwise) at the lewest rates. “All patent bneiness for Pacifio coast Inventors transacted witb perfect secnrity and in the ehortest time possible. ” mo mt. 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396 MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS. [June 20, 1874. E " & General News. e . = Kt nee Tux CurRENCY QUESTION IN THE U. S. SENATE appears to be in very much of a muddle. The probable workings of the currency bill now before that body appears to he very differently understood. The bill fixes Jan. let, 1878, ay the period for the beginning of the conversion of the United States notes into honds of the three descriptions authorized by the Act of 1870. The theory of the bill, as nnderstood hy one party, is that a five-per cent. hond will be then at par in coin, and that United States notes, heing convertible into them, will also he at par; that in the meantime United States notee will gradnally appreciate to par, and that the appreciation will he gentle and slow, not exceeding three and a qnarter per cent, per annnm, 80 that specie payments may he bronght ahout without oppression to the dehtor class or the derangement of the business of the country. Others claim,on the contrary, that the hill is in favor of expansion; while still others hold that itis a fair compromise hetween the inflationists and resnmptionists. Mr. Sherman says if the bill would settle the vexed financial question, if it wonld stop people talking ahont what kind of money they were going to have, and go to work to earn it, it wonld be a blessed thing; but he did not helieve it wonld have any snch effect. It is still doubtful what action the Senate will take upon the matter of the bill, if it passes as it etands. Roya. EnporseMeENT.—It is said that Queen Victoria has sent an autograph letter to President Grant, fnlly endoreing Mr. Sartoris as one every way worthy the hand and heart of the danghter of a President of the United States. It is also hinted that the royal heart will prohahly be moved to give some special mark of approbstion of this union, hy inviting the couple to visit Windsor Castle and conferring some title of nohility upon the bridegroom. It is also ssid that this action has been prompted from the sincere personal attachment which the Queen formed for Miss Grant, during the hrief visit which that young lady made to the palace on her former visit to Europe, and also for the esteem she feels for the President of this Republic in his official capacity. Beet Sucar mm Franczr.—The amount of juice expressed in France from beets, for manufactnring into sugar, for the year ending in October, 1873, at which time the grinding for that year’s crop is being prepared for, is represented to he 485,746,810 gallons, being less than that of the previous year, by 38,642,523 gallons. In 1872, the density of the juice was 3.9, while that of 1873, was4. The sugar produoed in 1878, was 224,268,210 pounds, less hy nearly 20,000,000 pounds, than in 1872. French sngars are also stated to have become a formidable rival to.Austrian sugars. It is not improbable that heet sugar will yet drive cane sugar from the market, unless the planters of cane devise some meaus to reduce the cost of cultivation. SourH Carotiva UnprEr RULE or CRIMINALS. A special correspondence from Charleston saye South Carolina has more criminals in office than any other State, and that the official records show that one-third of the persone holding minor positions have been indicted for offences during their term of office, anda much larger proportion of offeuces committed prior to election or appointment. In Charleston county nearly every State officer, from the highest to the lowest, hasbeen charged, and many convicted of one or more offences. Tur RarRoap Companies hetween this city and St. Louis have tendered the ladies of this State free transportion for 20 tons of provisione to St. Louis for,relief of the Louisiana sufferers. The Mail Steamship Company has also made a similar tender of free traneportation for the eame amount, Forty tone of provieious may thus find free treneit, if the people of this State who cannot, afford the money, will thus furnish the substantiale needed. Crors oN THE TuLE Lann.—Circumetances that have favored crops this eeason in the valleye and the foothills, the latter especially, have heen rather unfavorahle to those on the tnle land, though the average production of these lands, will, it ie’said, still be large. In some cases the estimate is placed as high as 70 buehels to the acre. The breadth of tnle lund sown to wheat and barley ie greater than that of last year. A Great storm visited the. Hastern States, and particnlarly Rhode Island, on Monday of last week, which did an immense amount of damage in causing freshete throughout the central and eouthern portion of New England. Seven inches of rain fell at one locality on Sunday night, the 7th iustant, the largest fall of water ever hefore recorded iu that locality. Tux paper mill of 8S. P. Taylor & Oo., on Paper Mili creek, Marin county, hae four paper or rag engines propa ed hy a 100-horse power steam engine. Its capacity ie one ton of white or newepaper per day, and 1,600 to 1,800 pounds of brown. Sun Stroxe.—Two cases of eun etroke have beeu noted in this “tate during the paet week; one in this city and one in Petaluma. Such cases have heretofore heen almost unknown in this State. Dxap Locx.—There is a dead lock in the election for United Statee Senatore from Rhode Island. Tue reported discovery of immense deposits f guano in Southern Peru is confirmed. Arizona Mining Prospects. ~~ Chae. O. Brown took out to the Oro Blanco mine this week a complete outfit to commence work on the northern extension of the Oro Blanco mine, which is owned hy C. O. Brown, E. M. Pearce, J. W. Hopkins and Gov. Safford. The company have hnilt four arastras and will at once commence reducing the ore. Careful tests warrant the helief that the ore will pay $100 per ton in free gold, and the company have eent out animals and a good set of practical miners to commence the work, with eufficient snpplies to last two or three months. The prospect ie encouraging for good returns. The original Oro Blanoo mine owned by Messrs. Handy, Leatherwood, Hewitt, Bartlett, Hopkins, Brown and Ferguson, has heen worked for several weeks, sndaraetras are now in successfnl operation on this mine. Several other valuahle mines have been discovered in the vicinity, and more or less prospecting is heing done on them. m= Good reporte* continne] to come in from the Saoaton and Quajata mines. Small lots of gold and silver are constantly heing hrought to town by prospectors, and these lots aggregate from $500 to $1,000 per week. . The miners are now thoronghly in esrnest. They have waited long enongh for capitalists to come and help them, and they find the minee are extensive and rich enough so that they can with strong arms and willing lahor help themselves.—Citizen. Tur FisHEs FROM THE East, anD WHAT HAS REEN Done with Toem.—The aquarinm car, as alresdy announced, hae this time made the transit of the continent, safe, and its assortment of fishes has been safely delivered at appropriate points throughout the State. Its first stopping place was at the Truckee river, where three csns of fish were safelytransferred to that stream. Another lotwas left at Summit Station, te be deposited in the head-waters of the Yube. The Western bass and Mississippi catfish were dropped in the San Joaquin at the point where the railroad crosses that stream. Seven cans of horn pout and fresh-water eels were placed in the Sacraniento river, near Sacramento city. The perch were sent to the Iskes at Sutterville, and from thence they will find their way to the Sacramento. The lohstere were hronght to this city, and deposited in the ocean, on Saturday of last week; while the salt-water eels and a few tantog were deposited in the waters of the hay. Another lot of bass hae been sent to Napa creek. The catfish have heen put into our watere, notwithstsndiug the urgent protests of many who feared they would hecome trouhlesome. This fish is very destructive to emall fry, and has a mouth of wide capacity, to aid in its natural propensity; but it is a most excellent delicacy for the table. and Mr. Stone, the Fish Commissioner, s.ys they can never injure the salmon. VaiuaBLe Minerat Caprnet.—<A very valnahle oabinet of miuerals, which has heen on exhihition for some time at the office of the Grand Hotel, ie now offered forjsale. The collection is a very rioh and choice one, and contains some epecimens whioh we presume caunot he duplicated on this coast. Any person desirous of obtaining such a cahinet will do well to call upon the owner, Mr. Henry T'ruella, se above, . who has spent eome twenty years in collecting It will he sold for much less than the eame. its actual value. © Wares from the Jowa Hill oanal was introduced into Iowa Hill last week, and the event was the occssion of a grand celehratiou, hy a salute of guns, fire-works, torch-light procession anda ball. The canal, when completed, will he 40 miles long, and will have cost $500,000. A great mining revival in that section is expected. Tue Metropolitan mill near Hamilton, Nevada, hae been leased for a custom mill, and the leseees are making a succese ot their operations. Hynrauric mining ou Cedar hill, north of Virginia City, is heing resumed after a euspeusion of eeveral years. A wacon road is at last opened into Yosemite and no more horsehack riding ie necessary, toget into the valley. Pror. B.S. Mors is delivering a course of lectures in this city, on natural history subjects. Nevapa, with a population of 50,000 sonle, hoasts of 18 newspapere, eeven weekliee and 11 dailies. j Tuer Live Oak quioksilver mine, situated on Carrie’e ranch, wae recently eold by ite discoyerers to I. P. Allen, of San Francieco. ! Tue coinage at the Carson Mint for May amounted to $571,352 94, Work on the Livermore coal minee is to he immediately resumed. Tue quicksilver mines in the Pine Flat dietrict are doing well. THE Virginia Consolidated mining company ie ahout putting up a new sixty-stamp mill. ‘Tae Eureka and Palisade Railroad is heing vigorously puehed ahead. : Crmwanan ie still heing discovered in Lake county. wal Rocwester Disréicr.~—Mr. (P:.H. Meagher, of Rochester, was in town vesterday. He informs ne that there are now sixty men working

the quartz mines of the Rochester district. Oaks & Meagher's lode is turning out an abundance of. rich ore; ‘They have ten inches of very rich ‘ore. Every lode in»the district is looking well, and every bodyin the camp is contented. This camp had been entirely ahandoned; for years not 2 man had heen in it until last summer; hut it is now, probahly, the best quartz mining camp intheTerritory. So much for development.—Jontanian. : Tuer town of Mnrphy’s, in Calaveras county, was visited by a disastrous conflagration, Friday, 30thnlt. The fire originated in Doyle’s fruit store, and destroyed every wooden huilding on tbat (south) side of the street, from Sperry & Perry's hotel to Rowland’e store. + Tuer are eleven woolen mills on the Pacific coast—eight in California and three in Oregon. They have in the aggregate 28,840 spindles and 232 broad looms. Patents & aUNVENT IONS A Weekly List of *U. S. Patents Issued to Pacific Coast , Inventors. [Fzom Orrioran Rerorts Fok THE MIntne anp SormmntIFio Press, DEWEY & OC., PuBLIawERS AND U. 8. anp Foreign Parent Acrnts.] By Special Dispatch, Dated Washington. D. C., Inne i6th, 1974. ” For Werk Enniwe June 2, 1874." Srenen Trar.—John P. Schmitz, 8. F., Cal. Cuoprine Brock.—Henry Anderson, §. F., Cal. Prockss IN THE Manoractury or ARTIFICIAL Stone.—Gilbert$. Dean, S. F., Cal. Process oF Propuctnc Prorocrarnic PicTURES.—James M. Pimental, 8. F., Cal. Hyvravtic Lirtine Jack.—Anthony J. Ojeda, S. F., Cal. Uxtoantnc Heanzr Wacons.—Henry Klehn, Crow's Landing, Cal. Harzow.—William H. Wolfe, Santa Clara, Cal. : Scrarer.—Edward H. Farmer, Chas. Remington and Joseph Dimmock, 8. F., Cal. Stace Sosnery ann Sawrine DEvices.—Henry F. Parsone, Los Angeles, Cal. —— "The patents are not ready for dellvery by tke Patent Office nntil some 14 days after the date of Issue. NorE.—Ooples of U. 5.and Foreign Patents furnished by Dewex & Go., in the sbortest time possible (by telegrapb or otherwise) at the lewest rates. “All patent bneiness for Pacifio coast Inventors transacted witb perfect secnrity and in the ehortest time possible. ” mo mt. The Mining & Scientific Press: Started in 1860, is one of the oldest weekly journals now published in San Francisoo. It has been conducted by its present proprietors for ten yeare, during which period it has been repeatedly onlarged and conetantly improved. The active and steadfast efforts of its publishere bave gained for its conduct an amount of practical experience greater than any other publishers have accumulated on this coast, of a weekly journal. Tbe sum paid by us for the best editorial talent obtainable for onr special class journal; for engravings, for interesting news and correspondence, and for printIng 4 large-eized, handsome sheet, 1s unequalled by that of any other American weekly west of the Mississlppl. As a PractioaL Mrnine Journat it has no rival oa this Continent. it igs tbe only Mecwantcan, and the only Scrznriri0 journal of the Pacific States. Every Miner, Assayer, Millman, and Metallurgist in the United States should take it. Every Pacific Coast Mechanic, Engineer, Inventor, Manufacturer, Professlonal Man, and Progressive and Indnstrial Student should patronize its columns of fresh and valuable information. Every Mining Engineer, Sunerintendent, Metallurgist, Mine Owner and Mine Worker in the world ahould profit by lts illustrations and descriptiona of New Machinery, Pr Di veries and Record of Mining Events. Every intelligent thinkerin the land, in high or humble situation, who would avoid literary trash for gennine informatlon, shonld SUBSORIBE AT ONCE. DEWEY & CO., No. 338 Montgomery street, 8. F A Good Binder for $1.50. Subscribere for thle journal can obtain our Patent Elastic Newspaper File Holder and Binder for $1.60— containing gilt title of the paper onthe cover. It preserves the papere completely and in auch ehape tbat they may be quickly fastened and retained in beok form at the end of the voiume, and the binder (which ia very durable) need continnously for subsequent yolumess Post paid, 25 cts. extra. It can be nsed for Harper’y Weekly and other papers of similar size. If not entirel, pleased, purchasere may return them within 30 days. dust the thing for libraries and reading rooms, and sll who wish to file the PREsa, lambp We will send on receipt of stamp for Hl NTS FOR postage, FREE, our 52-page Circulars containing 112 Mustrated MechaniIN y E NTORS . ‘cal Movements; adigestof PATENT LAWS; information how to obtain patenta,and abont the rights and privileges of inventors and patentees: list of Government fees, practical hints, etc. Address DEWEY & OO., Pubiiahers and Patent Agents, San Francisco. New Inventions ! Gf real merit, if brought plainly before the public when fresh, are most likely to become profitable to the patentee. For this reason, patentees (of worthy devices) ahould have the beat of Engrayings Made, and published inthe Presa. Superior Engravings Made, at reasonable rates, by artiste in this office. . bp-tt THE NEW U.S. MINING LAWS. The new Lawa of 1872, governing the location and -parchase of Placer and Qnartz Mines and Agriculturai Lands in Mining Districts ot the U.§., printed in cirouler eheet, for sale at thlaoffice. Sample copies,25 cts. DEWEY. & CO. American & Foreign Patent Agents, OFFIGE, 338 MONTGOMERY STREET, 8. ¥. PATENTS obtained promptly; Caveats: filed expeditiously; Patent reissues taken ont; Assignments made and recorded in legal form; Copies of Patents and Assignmente procured; Minations of Patents made here and at Washington; Examinations'made of Assignments recorded in Washington; Examinations ordered and reported hy Telegraph; Rejected cases taken up and Patents obtained; Interferences Prosecuted; Opinione rendered regarding the validity of Patents and Assignments; every legitimate hranch of Patent Agency Business promptly and thoroughly conducted. Our intimate knowledge of the varions inventions of this coast, and long practice in patent busiuess, enahle us to ahundantly . Satisfy our patrons; and our success and, business are constantly increasing. . 7 The shrewdest and ‘most experienced Inyentors are found among our most steadfast friends and patrons, who fully appreciate our advantages in hringing valuahle inventions to the notice of the public through the columns of our widely circulated, first-class journals— therehy facilitating their introduction, sale and popularity. Foreign Patents. in addition to' American Patents, we secures with the assistance of co-operative agents, claims in all foreign countries which grant Patents, iucluding Great Britaiu, France, Belgium, Prussia, Austria, Victoria, Peru, Russia, Spain, British India, Saxony, British Columbia, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Mexico, Victoria, . Brazil, Bavaria, Holland, Denmark, Italy, Portugal, Cuba, Roman States, ‘Wurtemberg, New ‘Zealand, New South Wales. Queensland, Tasmania, Brazil, New Grenada, Chile, Argentine Republic, AND EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD where Patents are obtainable.” No models are reqnired in European countries, hut the drawings and specifications ahould he prepared with thoroughness, hy able persons who are familiar with the requirements and changes of foreign patent laws—agents who are reliable and permanently estehlished.Our schedule prices for ohtaining foreign patents, in all cases, will always be'as low, and in some instances lower, thau those of any other responsible agency. We can and do get foreign patents for inveutors in the Pacific States from two to six months (according to the location of the couutry SOONER than any other agents. Home Counsel. Our long experience in obtaining patents for Inventors on this Coast has familiarized us with the character of most of the inventions already patented; hence we are frequently ahle to save our patrons the cost of a fruitless application by pointing them to the same thing already covered hy a patent. We are always free to advise applicants of any knowledge we have of previone applicatious prick will interfere with their ohtaining a patent. We invite the acquaintance of all parties connected with inventions and ‘patent right husiness, believing that the mutual conference of legitimate husinese and professiond] men is mutual gain, Parties in douht in regard to their rights as assignees of patents, or purchasers of patented articles, can often receive advice of importance to them from a short. call at our office. Remittances of money, made hy individnal inventors to the Government, eometimee mis. carry, and it has repeatedly happened that applicants have not only lost their money, but theirinventions also, from this cause and coneequent delay. We hold ourselves responeible for all fees entrusted to our agenoy. The principal portion of the patent businese of this coast hae been done, and ie still heing ~ done, through our agency. We are familiar with, and have full recorde, of all former casee, and can more directly judge of the value and patentahility of inventione diecovered here than any other agents. Situated eo remote from the seat of government, délays are even more dangerous to the inventors of the Pacific Coast than to applicants in the Eastern States. Valuable patents may he lost hy the extra time consumed in transmitting specificatione from Eastern agencies hack to thie coast for the signature of the inventor. Confidential. We take great paine to preserve secrecy in all confidential matters, aud applicants for patents can rest assured that their communications aud hueinees trausactions willbe held etrictly confidential by us. Circulars free, Engravings. We have superior artists in our own office, and all facilities for producing fine and satisfaotory illuetratione of inventione and machinery, for newspaper, book, circular and other printed illustrations, and are alwaye ready to assiet patrone in bringing their valuable iscoveriee into practical and profitable use. DEWEY & CO., United States and Foreign Patent Agents, publiehere Mining and Scientific Preee and the Pacifio Rural Press, 338 Montgomery St., S$ E. corner of California St., San Francisco.