Volume 28 (1874) (430 pages)

An Illustrated Journ al of Mi ning, Popular Se ence and Progressive Industry. BY DEWEY & CoO., Patont Sealicitors. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1874. VOLUME XXVIII Numbor 5S. An Anticipated Invention. Tho past Ofty years have beeu such an cra of inventions that meny people suppose uothing ever was "invented" excopt during the past few generations, Patent offices wore not in vogue in the days of the Greeks and Romans, nor for soaie hundreds uf years after the decline of their governments. Onoof our uational characteristics is self-conceit, and the popular idea is that " nobody hut a Yankee can invent anythlag worth sbucks.’’ Ou the uther hand, people are apt to uver-estimate the knowledge possessed by the ancionta, and attach a high degree of importance to the crndest inventions thet have long since gone untof nse. Now, no intelligont man, noless he ia an enthusiast to whom the very name '‘ Lost Arts’’ has a charm, will concede that all knowledge died with the ancients; at the same time he mnst allow that the phrase ‘’ Nothing new onder the snn,’’ is in ® great mensure true. Wes are constantly meeting with proofs of the correctness of Solomon's seying. It is hardly worth while to detail even a few evidences in its favor. There have heen so many lectures on the ‘* Lost Arts’’ that the subject is famillar tu the general pnhlic. We taks oocasion, however, to illustrate one anticipated nvention in its crude shape, of which the present velnehle systom of wire tramways, such as Hodgson'’s or Hellidie's, is the result. The invention of the steem engine gava subsequent inventors a chance to enlarge npon and perfect the plan shown in our engraving. The following description of the apparatns is extracted from Derhem’a ‘‘ Philosophical Experimenta and Ohservations of the late eminent Dr. Robert Hooke,” London, 1726: a, the hasket to be filled; vb, the basket emptying itself by the lower partof it hitting ageinst the axis of the two pulleys, 0; ¢ the filled besket passing from a to b, snpported by the pnileys, n; d, the empty haskets returning without any support between the extremes; e, é, ¢, the rope carrying the filled baekets; tf, f, f, the same rope returning them empty; g, the pally at the filling end, supported by the post, m; h the pulley at the emptying end, supported by the post, i, aud hy turned the handle, i; / the to support the interposed trestles, n, Fig. 2.— post b, b, the two pulleys festGambling. Wo believe it perfoctly legitimate to purchase the stock of any mining or mannfactnring company or organization, with a view of realizing reasonable or even large profits or dividends, from development, or increased value given to prodnets, by the labor bestowed upon their mannfacture. Bnt when we see mon of probity and character, men whom it might be expected would lend all reasonahle aid to enterprises which alone can give weelth and permanent prosperity to the State, tnrning their attention to, and using their means in simply huying one day and selling the next, the stock of some wildcat mining or other company, with no other object than hnying low and selling high, building their own fortnne on the ruin of their friend who may chance to he the loser, it becomes e mstter of douhtfnl propriety if not of morality, and searcely deserves a milder neme than pnhlic gambling. We would not, however, interpose objections solely on this ground, every man being the keeper of his uwn character and conscience, and the city of San Francisco is the protector of its repntation as against gamblers. But look at the nhility, the energy, the! business talent, the oapital in money, and the great good to The Ohio Consolidated Mine. The Secretary of the Ohio Consolfdated Mining Co., W.Aug. Knapp, has issued n circular in relotion to improvements upon the company’s minc for the general information of shareholders, from which we make a few extracts. The improvements have all been made with e view to permanency, and constracted at the same time on economical principles. It is designed shortly to erect an 8-stamp battery, which will eneble the company to cmsh their own ores, perticularly the low grede, of which the present shaft is expected to open up a very large amonnt. The drift on the vein has been sunk ahout 146 feet aud hes all been well’ timhered. It shows a well defined vein of nearly two feet in thickness. ‘“A shaft snonk npon the middle vein for hoisting purposes, and pumping, the power used heing en overshot wheel of 30 feet diameter, 4 feet face, supplied hy water froma ditch ehove. This wheel will enewer to ettach end drive an 8-stemp mill as well. Connected with this sheft at a depth of ahout 130 feet there is a drain tunnel 330 feet in length, saving the hoisting of water above the tunnel, and nt the depth of 150 feet there is a cross drift of ehont 120 feet to the east vein, also a reise 32 feet high. N. Stope open 80 feet, which prospects . ANCIENT ROPE TRAMWAY. ened on; 7, 7, a0 iron axis to be turned hy the industries uf the State that might accrue, 4; g, & winch; ¢, ¢, the rope lying in 1s tepering edge, as shown in Fig. 3; 0, 90, the hasket hung by its heudles; p, p, a stick tied with psckthread on the rope, ¢, ¢, ¢, ¢. Fig. 3—g, g, the shape of the edge of the pulley, expressed in the first figure by 4, which is grooved with a tapering groove, thet may hold the rope on which is tied, e, the stick thrust throngh the handle, J, f, of the besket. Fig. 4.—athe rope on whioh is tied, b, the stick, thrust throngh the handles of the hesket; ¢, c, the truokles’ edge, hollowed with a half ronnd, h, for the rope to run on. No particnlars are given as to the quantity of work performed hy the ectual machine, but the author says that ‘* hy this wey ‘tis eesy to trensport earth, sand, etc., 1, 2, 3, 4, or 500 yards, whether ascending or descending; and, I conceive, two men can do more than six in the common way."’ Dratn or Dr. Lrvinastone.—Dr. Livingstone, the world-renowned explorer, died in the interior of Africa in Jnne last. traveling over a. partially submerged country, and after weding four days in the water, he was seized by the illness of which he died. His perilous trevels aud explorations in search of the source of the Nile heve been continued for many years and he hes at lest met his death in the field of his lahors. It is hardly prohahle that any one uan he found who will risk his life in exploring with as much persistence and self-deuiel as Dr. Livingstone, the great unEnown country of central Africa. Snow sutmes have heen very destructive in the cefione uf Uteh during the late storms. In Big Cottonwood Cajion particularly, several avalanches are reported. Quite a number of lives have been lost. He had heen . all withdrawn, locked up in the hrains and pockets of fonr or five hundred men daily assembling at the corners of Celifornia and Montgomery strsets. a Is it any wonder thet San Francisco should lose her prestige as the qneen commercial city of the Pacific, or that interior projects for the development of the Stete’s industries and interests should lenguish ? The wonder only is, thet with so mnch of the cesh capital of Sen Frencisco entangled in the meshes of hezerdous stock speculations, there is enough left for the development of even the few industries ar are ‘now and then inangnrated in our midst. t. Mrntno Surr.—A suit has been hronght b M. A. Wheaton, sgeinst the Le Grnnge Ditch end Hydreulic Mining Co., in the 19th District Conrt. The complaint avers thet on the 4th of Decenther, 1873, the plaintiff was the owuer and entitled to the possession of a tract of lend commencing at a point on the east line of the north-west querter of Section 16, in township 3 sonth, in renge 14 east, from Mount Diablo hase and meridien. The land lies near or at the houndary line of Stanisleus and Tuolumne counties. Wheaton says thet while he was the uwner of the lend, the defendent un, lawfully ejected him. Thet the value of rents of the leud is $300 perday. He esks judgment for the restitution of the premises, for $100,000 .damages for the withholding, end $100,000 damages ceused hy the Joss of the velue of the rents and profits, Carson Mint.—During December there were received at the Carson Mint 6,845,466 ounces of gold, velued et $127,357.52, end 138,976,019 over $50 per ton. In the cross drift of E vein a large hody of ore has been reeched 80 feet below where it hes been worked from ahove, and in consequence of went of ventilation and to secnre greeter end better fecilities for working, it wes deemed ndvisahle to sink another and more substantial working sheft on this vein. This necessitated the purchase of a ‘steem engine and hoiler, together with permanent hoisting geer, etc., also the huilding of a house over the seme for protection ageinst the weather, storage of tools, dry wood for the engine, ete.” Pratinum in Queensuanp.—The Northern Argus etates thet a discovery of platinum hes recently heen made within a distance of 250 miles of Rockhampton. A party who had heen prospecting for gold arrived in town with a small percel of mineral deposit that to him presented unususl feetures. He submitted it to Mr. A Tucker, assayer, who, after cereful examination, pronounced the parcel to contein en excellent sample of platinum, with the usual combination or osmium aud iridium. . Geotooroan Survey or Uran.—The citizens of Uteh wish for a geological survey, and a memoriel has heen presented to the Legisleture to promote the object. The committee appointed to get up this memorial was composed of P. Edwerd Connor, R. C. Chemhers, Henry Sewell, W. S. McCornick, ‘L. U. Colhath, J. E. Cleyton, E. M. Barnum, C. H. Hempstead, and Alhert Carrington. Tuoiumne county, a few years ago, produced hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold annnally, hut no wheet. In 1873, it produced over 5,000,000 bushels of wheat, and only $50,silver, valued at $155,938.21. Coinage and bars exocuted, $365,134,15. H 000 gold, \ Eureka Artificial Stone. The world hes exhausted itself In the effort to produce s material which ehonld do away with the laborious ond expensive operetion of stone-cnttiug, but until receutly with very indifferent s Those prc which were valuable, so fsr as cxcellence of prodnct is concerned, have almost uniformly been so expensive that good artificial stone has cost nearly ae mnch as the netural. In one notahle instance this was not the case—that of M. Coignet, whose material has beeu used for ahout twonty yeors In France oud the neighboring conntries in the construction of buildings, nrches, aqueducts, sea-walls, etc. It seems, however, to have beeu reserved for Californie to achieve a yet greater trinmph. A young Californian, who hed seen something of the success of M, Coignet’s process, undertook to cheapen it, to nse common and cheap materials to ohtain the same chemical result, and et the same time to improve it iu some important perticnlars. We have often called attention to the fact that California inventors have teken a front rank, and we hope and helieve it will he so in this case. Oerteinly it eppeers as if nothing wes lacking in the present invention to insnre the success of the company who have purchased the patent. We visited the office of this company —the Eureka Artificial Stone Company, 804 Mont-gomery street—a faw days ego. It is n young corporation, hut composed of men of known worth and hnsiness ability, as the following list of Directors will show: M.G. Cobh, President; O. F. Gehricke, J. B. Cox, Peter Portois and G. E. Sloss. The cspital stock is $500,000, divided into sheres of $25 esch. The books are open et the uffice for suhsoriptions to the stock, which is heing repidly taken. The company propose to mannfncturs stone for huilding, for cemetery and other urnemental work, for hridgee, sva-walls, and for all kinds of work where n beantiful, durahle, fire-proof and waterproof materiil is required. They exhibit at their office substantial and convincing specimens of their stone. A& a test of the non-absorbing quelities of this stone we tried an experimsnt at our office by sinking a hollow in a piece uf the stone with a hemmer end chisel, filling it with weter and letting it stend for twenty-four hours. It proved itself entirely imperviousy, to weter, none heing ahsorhed or lost in eny way except whet escaped by evaporation, Of the many ndvantages claimed for it, we abbreviate a few from the compeny’s circuler: “Tt cen be menufactured cheaper then any other, no machinery or costly appliances heing necessary; no soda or salt weter being nsed in the menufecture, it does not lose its heauty by ege and exposnre, Piers, arches, pillars and hlocks too large to be handled, can be made in situ; and the composition cen he laid on with e trowel over brick walls, forming a heeutiful and durable covering, which weter cennot penetrate, needirg no peiut, eud giving the appearancs of a handsome stone front.’’ Roots, also, fire-proof and weter-proof, have heen made of it, and have given thorough satisfaction. As we have nlready mentioned, stone somewhat similar to this has heen used for many years in Frauce,in the Suez Canal, and in other pleces. That first-class stone can be menufactured is undouhtedly true, end it ‘appears as if our California inventor had discovered the method not only of making it, hut of making it cheaply. This, after all, is the essential point, for those who take stock in an enterprise of this kind do so with a view to profit. Hence an expensive stone, huwever excellent in quality, would he worthless. But in this matter the inventor has hed in view not the meking uf a wonderful scientific experiment, hut of 2 commercial and profitable fact. Those who wish to see end judge for themselves, cen do so hy celling at 304 Montgomery streets, the office of the compeny. The patents were grented through the Mrinine anp Screnztrro Press Patent Agency.

An Illustrated Journ al of Mi ning, Popular Se ence and Progressive Industry. BY DEWEY & CoO., Patont Sealicitors. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1874. VOLUME XXVIII Numbor 5S. An Anticipated Invention. Tho past Ofty years have beeu such an cra of inventions that meny people suppose uothing ever was "invented" excopt during the past few generations, Patent offices wore not in vogue in the days of the Greeks and Romans, nor for soaie hundreds uf years after the decline of their governments. Onoof our uational characteristics is self-conceit, and the popular idea is that " nobody hut a Yankee can invent anythlag worth sbucks.’’ Ou the uther hand, people are apt to uver-estimate the knowledge possessed by the ancionta, and attach a high degree of importance to the crndest inventions thet have long since gone untof nse. Now, no intelligont man, noless he ia an enthusiast to whom the very name '‘ Lost Arts’’ has a charm, will concede that all knowledge died with the ancients; at the same time he mnst allow that the phrase ‘’ Nothing new onder the snn,’’ is in ® great mensure true. Wes are constantly meeting with proofs of the correctness of Solomon's seying. It is hardly worth while to detail even a few evidences in its favor. There have heen so many lectures on the ‘* Lost Arts’’ that the subject is famillar tu the general pnhlic. We taks oocasion, however, to illustrate one anticipated nvention in its crude shape, of which the present velnehle systom of wire tramways, such as Hodgson'’s or Hellidie's, is the result. The invention of the steem engine gava subsequent inventors a chance to enlarge npon and perfect the plan shown in our engraving. The following description of the apparatns is extracted from Derhem’a ‘‘ Philosophical Experimenta and Ohservations of the late eminent Dr. Robert Hooke,” London, 1726: a, the hasket to be filled; vb, the basket emptying itself by the lower partof it hitting ageinst the axis of the two pulleys, 0; ¢ the filled besket passing from a to b, snpported by the pnileys, n; d, the empty haskets returning without any support between the extremes; e, é, ¢, the rope carrying the filled baekets; tf, f, f, the same rope returning them empty; g, the pally at the filling end, supported by the post, m; h the pulley at the emptying end, supported by the post, i, aud hy turned the handle, i; / the to support the interposed trestles, n, Fig. 2.— post b, b, the two pulleys festGambling. Wo believe it perfoctly legitimate to purchase the stock of any mining or mannfactnring company or organization, with a view of realizing reasonable or even large profits or dividends, from development, or increased value given to prodnets, by the labor bestowed upon their mannfacture. Bnt when we see mon of probity and character, men whom it might be expected would lend all reasonahle aid to enterprises which alone can give weelth and permanent prosperity to the State, tnrning their attention to, and using their means in simply huying one day and selling the next, the stock of some wildcat mining or other company, with no other object than hnying low and selling high, building their own fortnne on the ruin of their friend who may chance to he the loser, it becomes e mstter of douhtfnl propriety if not of morality, and searcely deserves a milder neme than pnhlic gambling. We would not, however, interpose objections solely on this ground, every man being the keeper of his uwn character and conscience, and the city of San Francisco is the protector of its repntation as against gamblers. But look at the nhility, the energy, the! business talent, the oapital in money, and the great good to The Ohio Consolidated Mine. The Secretary of the Ohio Consolfdated Mining Co., W.Aug. Knapp, has issued n circular in relotion to improvements upon the company’s minc for the general information of shareholders, from which we make a few extracts. The improvements have all been made with e view to permanency, and constracted at the same time on economical principles. It is designed shortly to erect an 8-stamp battery, which will eneble the company to cmsh their own ores, perticularly the low grede, of which the present shaft is expected to open up a very large amonnt. The drift on the vein has been sunk ahout 146 feet aud hes all been well’ timhered. It shows a well defined vein of nearly two feet in thickness. ‘“A shaft snonk npon the middle vein for hoisting purposes, and pumping, the power used heing en overshot wheel of 30 feet diameter, 4 feet face, supplied hy water froma ditch ehove. This wheel will enewer to ettach end drive an 8-stemp mill as well. Connected with this sheft at a depth of ahout 130 feet there is a drain tunnel 330 feet in length, saving the hoisting of water above the tunnel, and nt the depth of 150 feet there is a cross drift of ehont 120 feet to the east vein, also a reise 32 feet high. N. Stope open 80 feet, which prospects . ANCIENT ROPE TRAMWAY. ened on; 7, 7, a0 iron axis to be turned hy the industries uf the State that might accrue, 4; g, & winch; ¢, ¢, the rope lying in 1s tepering edge, as shown in Fig. 3; 0, 90, the hasket hung by its heudles; p, p, a stick tied with psckthread on the rope, ¢, ¢, ¢, ¢. Fig. 3—g, g, the shape of the edge of the pulley, expressed in the first figure by 4, which is grooved with a tapering groove, thet may hold the rope on which is tied, e, the stick thrust throngh the handle, J, f, of the besket. Fig. 4.—athe rope on whioh is tied, b, the stick, thrust throngh the handles of the hesket; ¢, c, the truokles’ edge, hollowed with a half ronnd, h, for the rope to run on. No particnlars are given as to the quantity of work performed hy the ectual machine, but the author says that ‘* hy this wey ‘tis eesy to trensport earth, sand, etc., 1, 2, 3, 4, or 500 yards, whether ascending or descending; and, I conceive, two men can do more than six in the common way."’ Dratn or Dr. Lrvinastone.—Dr. Livingstone, the world-renowned explorer, died in the interior of Africa in Jnne last. traveling over a. partially submerged country, and after weding four days in the water, he was seized by the illness of which he died. His perilous trevels aud explorations in search of the source of the Nile heve been continued for many years and he hes at lest met his death in the field of his lahors. It is hardly prohahle that any one uan he found who will risk his life in exploring with as much persistence and self-deuiel as Dr. Livingstone, the great unEnown country of central Africa. Snow sutmes have heen very destructive in the cefione uf Uteh during the late storms. In Big Cottonwood Cajion particularly, several avalanches are reported. Quite a number of lives have been lost. He had heen .

all withdrawn, locked up in the hrains and pockets of fonr or five hundred men daily assembling at the corners of Celifornia and Montgomery strsets. a Is it any wonder thet San Francisco should lose her prestige as the qneen commercial city of the Pacific, or that interior projects for the development of the Stete’s industries and interests should lenguish ? The wonder only is, thet with so mnch of the cesh capital of Sen Frencisco entangled in the meshes of hezerdous stock speculations, there is enough left for the development of even the few industries ar are ‘now and then inangnrated in our midst. t. Mrntno Surr.—A suit has been hronght b M. A. Wheaton, sgeinst the Le Grnnge Ditch end Hydreulic Mining Co., in the 19th District Conrt. The complaint avers thet on the 4th of Decenther, 1873, the plaintiff was the owuer and entitled to the possession of a tract of lend commencing at a point on the east line of the north-west querter of Section 16, in township 3 sonth, in renge 14 east, from Mount Diablo hase and meridien. The land lies near or at the houndary line of Stanisleus and Tuolumne counties. Wheaton says thet while he was the uwner of the lend, the defendent un, lawfully ejected him. Thet the value of rents of the leud is $300 perday. He esks judgment for the restitution of the premises, for $100,000 .damages for the withholding, end $100,000 damages ceused hy the Joss of the velue of the rents and profits, Carson Mint.—During December there were received at the Carson Mint 6,845,466 ounces of gold, velued et $127,357.52, end 138,976,019 over $50 per ton. In the cross drift of E vein a large hody of ore has been reeched 80 feet below where it hes been worked from ahove, and in consequence of went of ventilation and to secnre greeter end better fecilities for working, it wes deemed ndvisahle to sink another and more substantial working sheft on this vein. This necessitated the purchase of a ‘steem engine and hoiler, together with permanent hoisting geer, etc., also the huilding of a house over the seme for protection ageinst the weather, storage of tools, dry wood for the engine, ete.” Pratinum in Queensuanp.—The Northern Argus etates thet a discovery of platinum hes recently heen made within a distance of 250 miles of Rockhampton. A party who had heen prospecting for gold arrived in town with a small percel of mineral deposit that to him presented unususl feetures. He submitted it to Mr. A Tucker, assayer, who, after cereful examination, pronounced the parcel to contein en excellent sample of platinum, with the usual combination or osmium aud iridium. . Geotooroan Survey or Uran.—The citizens of Uteh wish for a geological survey, and a memoriel has heen presented to the Legisleture to promote the object. The committee appointed to get up this memorial was composed of P. Edwerd Connor, R. C. Chemhers, Henry Sewell, W. S. McCornick, ‘L. U. Colhath, J. E. Cleyton, E. M. Barnum, C. H. Hempstead, and Alhert Carrington. Tuoiumne county, a few years ago, produced hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold annnally, hut no wheet. In 1873, it produced over 5,000,000 bushels of wheat, and only $50,silver, valued at $155,938.21. Coinage and bars exocuted, $365,134,15. H 000 gold, \ Eureka Artificial Stone. The world hes exhausted itself In the effort to produce s material which ehonld do away with the laborious ond expensive operetion of stone-cnttiug, but until receutly with very indifferent s Those prc which were valuable, so fsr as cxcellence of prodnct is concerned, have almost uniformly been so expensive that good artificial stone has cost nearly ae mnch as the netural. In one notahle instance this was not the case—that of M. Coignet, whose material has beeu used for ahout twonty yeors In France oud the neighboring conntries in the construction of buildings, nrches, aqueducts, sea-walls, etc. It seems, however, to have beeu reserved for Californie to achieve a yet greater trinmph. A young Californian, who hed seen something of the success of M, Coignet’s process, undertook to cheapen it, to nse common and cheap materials to ohtain the same chemical result, and et the same time to improve it iu some important perticnlars. We have often called attention to the fact that California inventors have teken a front rank, and we hope and helieve it will he so in this case. Oerteinly it eppeers as if nothing wes lacking in the present invention to insnre the success of the company who have purchased the patent. We visited the office of this company —the Eureka Artificial Stone Company, 804 Mont-gomery street—a faw days ego. It is n young corporation, hut composed of men of known worth and hnsiness ability, as the following list of Directors will show: M.G. Cobh, President; O. F. Gehricke, J. B. Cox, Peter Portois and G. E. Sloss. The cspital stock is $500,000, divided into sheres of $25 esch. The books are open et the uffice for suhsoriptions to the stock, which is heing repidly taken. The company propose to mannfncturs stone for huilding, for cemetery and other urnemental work, for hridgee, sva-walls, and for all kinds of work where n beantiful, durahle, fire-proof and waterproof materiil is required. They exhibit at their office substantial and convincing specimens of their stone. A& a test of the non-absorbing quelities of this stone we tried an experimsnt at our office by sinking a hollow in a piece uf the stone with a hemmer end chisel, filling it with weter and letting it stend for twenty-four hours. It proved itself entirely imperviousy, to weter, none heing ahsorhed or lost in eny way except whet escaped by evaporation, Of the many ndvantages claimed for it, we abbreviate a few from the compeny’s circuler: “Tt cen be menufactured cheaper then any other, no machinery or costly appliances heing necessary; no soda or salt weter being nsed in the menufecture, it does not lose its heauty by ege and exposnre, Piers, arches, pillars and hlocks too large to be handled, can be made in situ; and the composition cen he laid on with e trowel over brick walls, forming a heeutiful and durable covering, which weter cennot penetrate, needirg no peiut, eud giving the appearancs of a handsome stone front.’’ Roots, also, fire-proof and weter-proof, have heen made of it, and have given thorough satisfaction. As we have nlready mentioned, stone somewhat similar to this has heen used for many years in Frauce,in the Suez Canal, and in other pleces. That first-class stone can be menufactured is undouhtedly true, end it ‘appears as if our California inventor had discovered the method not only of making it, hut of making it cheaply. This, after all, is the essential point, for those who take stock in an enterprise of this kind do so with a view to profit. Hence an expensive stone, huwever excellent in quality, would he worthless. But in this matter the inventor has hed in view not the meking uf a wonderful scientific experiment, hut of 2 commercial and profitable fact. Those who wish to see end judge for themselves, cen do so hy celling at 304 Montgomery streets, the office of the compeny. The patents were grented through the Mrinine anp Screnztrro Press Patent Agency.