Volume 29 (1874) (428 pages)

— MINING AND SCIENTIFIC _PRESS. August 29. 1874.-] Prospectus Compilation. Pine Flat~Mines. We have had occasion to reviow, in some A correspondent writes from Pine Flat to tho Souoma Denoeraf, under date of Augnst 20th: Unnsnal aotivity prevails in thia mining oamp, ey owing to the fina showing that has latoly 26. made in some of the miucs, but mainly owing to the decision in the Caslamayomi grant case, which hus encouraged mauy of the miners to go to work in earnest to devolop of onr recent numbers, tho history of various companies, originally hronght out under what were apparently promising circumstances, but 4 which hava Bia iy* neial disappointment, sud the rain of 3 éinhers of that confiding body, tha Britis shyreholdor. But while wo hardly feel inoliued to hestow much symathy upou that section of tha British eharctheir claims. At the Flag Stat¥ thoy have made Guldue which allows itself to be tickled out of a very riob atrike in the tuunel, which has tapits money hy seductive aud hixh-promising A the ledge at a depth of two huudred feet. prospectuses, we cannot too strongly condemn those who work behind tho scenes, and are thu weana of leading so many iuio nufortunnto speculations. The art of prospectus oompilation has at he length of the tnnnel from the mouth’ to where they struck the metal is ahout two hnn Directory. THE survey of a narrow-gauge railroad ronte from Nevada city to Colfax has heen completed, and the report of the engineer suhmitted. He makes the distunce hetween the two points 22 and three-touthe miles. The cost of eonatruction is estimated at $411,132.56. A resolntion haa heen passed hy the Board of Directors not GiLNe 5. GRay. capital stock has been taken, and in tho event that it is not all taken withiu a few werks, the charter he thrown up. Only $70,000 remoius to bo taken to complete this amount.—-El Do JaMUs M. maynn, GRAY & HAVEN, to commence the work nntil $300,000 of the ATTOHNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW In Bullding of Pacific Insurance Co. N. E. corner Cali ‘orniaan: Leldesdori streets, RAK FRANGISCO rado Republican. JOHN ROACH. Optician, In iho two French colonies of Martiniqne dred aud eighty feet. The owners nro in high and Gniana, there are more than 6,000 acres hat as the uew strike makes it a very valuunder oultnre with annato, the annual produce able mine. Atthe Sonowsa they are turning heiug 3,000,000 pounds, The production of now exceeds tho domand, as no fresh tained, at the present day, a high etate of deout ahont forty or fifty flasks per month. The aunato They uses have heen found for this coloring subvelopment, aud it appears to be gaided by Rattlesnake ia looking splendidly. stance. certain well-defined rulea and regulatious. 139 429 Montgomery Street, W. corner Sacramento. PERG H UT ta repaired and adjuatod Sarv vite It sirock metal in their lower tunnel last week. does net much mutter whether the company, They are putting np a twenty ton furnace, and for which it is issued, is one uudertakiug havo over three hundred thousand adohes pohlie whrks, such as railways, docks, canals, mada of au average weight of ten pounds, aud oto , or for the purpose of carrying ont indushave a largo force of meu eugaged still meking trial eniorprises on the juiut-atock principle, them atthe rate of eight or ten thnsand por or eveu for the purchaso and developmont of day. Atthe Missouri they also made a rich some patent iuvention, which promises to restrike last week. Pap Hopkins, the original volutiouize all our; preconceived notions; the "Hermit of the Gevser Peak,’' hss been engaged geueral scope of the prospectus is ever the there, and he developed a very fine hody of ore vame, and the idea iuoulcated is thnt promoters in the bottom of the gulch, east of the retorts. and inventors ere ihe most disinterested people They ure also taking oni aplendid metal in the Tue custom-honse retnrus show that the quantity of opium imported into the country, now uoarly 250,000 tbs annually, is ten times more than it was thirty years ago; and it is the opiuion of physicixns snd droggists that uot more than one third of the qnuntity is used for medical purposes. Iy 1873, ahont 8,000 American mowers and Notwithstinding the “diversity of objeots tuok, and they charge the Missunri and Ken treated hy thy prospectuses, there isa marked tuck folks one dollsr for a six horse team going resemblances hetweon them, both in style and from the Missouri to the Keutuck. ‘This is at mode of treatment. They have all a pleasing the rate of fifty cents per mile. They also appearauce, are printed upon the hest of paper, charge toll to the Mis.ouri folks at the same aud eolor is judiciously used, so that the sperate tor hauling from Little Sulphur up the cial points may stand out prominently in vyrihill to the mine, und the Missouri folks put gited type to attract immediate attention; ihe road in repair lasi spring, ut a large expense where diagrams or illustrative plans can he into themselves. How long are these vampires troduced thy add much to the general effect. to he permitted hy onr Board of Supervisors to On the first pago is placed in goodly array the chsrge such enormous tolls? Our mine ownnames of tha gentlemeu forming the direction, ers ont in that vicinity have snfficient obthose with handles beiug specially selected, stacles to overcomo from loreign interference, aud great caré is takeu iu duly advertising the aud it seems,that our own citizens, whose intitles of the various other compsnies which have terest it should be to lend every sasistsnce in the honor of having them npon their boards. their power toward the development of these Next follows the body or descriptive part of the important miuing interests, should do so. STHEEL PENS. cy 19v26-ly WM. BARTLING. » BxNRer wimpann. BARTLING & KIMBALL, BOOK BINDERS, reapers were sold in Europe; and it is estimated that, during the present year, no less than Paper Rulers and Blank Book Manufactarers. A nationaL exhihiiion of textile plants, and machines employed in their mannfacture, will he held in St. Petersburg this fall. The Russian Government seems disposed to giva special enconragement to the cultivation of fihrous plants and the manufacture of textila fabrics. Attorney at Law and Counselor in: Patent Cases. iu the world, and that it is a foolish thing for old workings above. The two retorts are turn12,000 mowers will he sold abroad, representing the over-cantious British shareholder to retain ing out six to eight flasks regularly every week. a yalue of $1,000,000 paid to American manuhig money in inveatments, bringiug in a The Missouri looks hetter than ever. facturers of thie class of maohinery. Atthe Lost Ledge they have opened out a miserable four or five per cent. interest, when he can so readily aud safcly ohtain mauy times very fine ledge of ore, and-are turuing out a that amount, by simply siguing his name to Isrge amount of quicksilver. The Kentuck is the "form of application'’ accompunying the opening out splendidly—and, by the way, what prospeotus, ihe demand for which i3 consider#D imposition is hciug worked upon the Jessecs ahle judzing from the large snpply which of these miues. A toll house bus been estabcomes to fill our waste-paper baskots. : lished half way between the Mi-souri and K+sn JOSEPH GILLOTT'S qd by all Dealers thronghoul the World, A neat thing in hair-cutling in vogue amoug the Nagis, a tribe in British Indis, is described as follows: The operator inserts heneath the Inxuriant locks of his customer a hatchet or knife, whereon he pouuds with a wooden mallet until the edge shines through, A Recent writer on food says that,a gent'e man of his acquaintance hns fur the last filty years eaten daily two eggs at breakfast, making 730 per annum, or a total for the whole period 605 Clay ctreet, (southwest cor. Sansome), {6v12-3m BAN FRANCISCO: BENJAMIN MORGAN, Office, 207 Sansome Street, S. F. Refers to Dewey & Co., Patent Agenta; Judge S. Heydenfeldt or H. H. Halght, 6v28-3m ATWILL & CO.'8 WESTERN MINING AGENCY, No. 240 Montgomery street, S. E. cor. Pine, opposlt Russ House, San Francisco. Mining Stocks hought andsold, Offices in New York, Philsdeiphia and London. Vlaltors to the clty invited to call and make our rooms their headquarters. Mining Companies incorporated and Working Capital furnished. Interest of Locators and Sbareholders attended to. Milnes reglatered and descrihed. Information relatlve to Mines, Ores, etc-, given. P.'O0.Box771, oc8-ly Ayer’s Hair Vigor of 36,500 eggs. Tae atone quarry on Point San Pedro, leased by Mr. Jordan, is heing worked hy a force of 12 men. —FOD— REC ORING GRAY HAIR TO ITS NATURAL VITALITY AND COLOR. prospectus, and if written, as it should he, hy a Some of them, at least, are disy o3sed to claim the = Advancing yearg, sickFires allover the coun try. x ness, care, disappointlively pound of flesh, aud wore too. ment, and hereditary At the Geyser mine a move is being made imagination, and with sufficient taot to keep SECOND EDITION—REVISED AND ENLARGED. predisposition, alt turn within the exact limits of truth, we have set looking toward commencing active operations, before us, in a tempting and fascinating mansnd there is a well authenticated rumor that a the hair gray, and either The Explorers’, Miners’ and ‘ ner, all cirenmstances relevent and irrelevant, furnace 18 to be erected. of them incline lt to shed which may tend to persuade the British shureprematurely. Ascent of Mount S#asta—ReEMAREABLE holders of the maguificence of the investment Ayven's Harr Vicor, hy offered. It is necessary, of course, that such a Feat.—A purty of tourists who lately ascended Comprising a Practical Exposition of the Valong and extensive use, person should have had considerahle experiMount Shasta performed a feat which has not rious Departments of Exploration, m has proven that It stops euce in this special art, so that whilst allowing often, if, indeed, ever been hefore accomMining, Engineering, assaying, full scope to his imsgination he will always plished. They made the trip from the camping. and Metallurgy, ¢ q 6 , é keep in mind the necessity of avoiding making ground to ibe highest summit of the mountain, ositively inaccurate stutements, as they have came back to ihe cumping-ground, and went Containing 672 Pages and 83 Engravinga news the growth, and always aurely restores tts color, when fadedor gray. It stimulates the nntritive organs from thence down to Sisson’e house, all in one [ates this been the ouuee of much subsequeut BY J. 8S. PHILLIPS, M. E., grief tothe direotors. Auything of a doubtful day. The amonut of climbing and fatigue inOf California, a Practicat Operator for Thirty-fonr to healthy actlvity, and preserves both the hair and Ita heauty. Thns brashy, weak or sickly hair hecomes Years; Explorer, and Resident in the Pacifico States character is generally made to appear in the volved in such a trip can only be appreciuted person of sunguiue temperament having a Metallurgists’ Companion, special lettere or reports which accompany the hy thoee who have ascended Shasta. The most prospeotue. The prospectus having heen duly prepared and launched, it remaius to be seen whether the public nihble at the hait. We presume thore ie alwaye a certain sate average numher of hiies to a given circulation, to pay the printing expensee, otherwise the system of prospectuses would not he kept up. Now what can we say to thnt very innocent remarkahls feature of the matter wae that four of the party were ladiee, viz: Mrs. Churchill, of Yreka, Mrs. Cushing of. Oakland, Miss Ellen Newhold, of this city, and Mrs. Sieson, wife of J. H. Sisson, the Shasta guide, and keeper of the house on the etuge-road at the foot of the mountain. An nonusually large number of tonriste have made the trip to and ascended Mount Shasta thie year. The view from the section of the British shureholder who will so mountuin is wuneurpassed, und tho region readily part with ita money, to appear hereafter around it is one of the most thickly wooded, npon the scene iu deep lameutation, hecause it attractive, and beautiful in Califoruia, It is has found ont in the meanwhile that it is not full of game and the rivere (the Upper Sacraall gold that glittere? We remark that in mento, the Pit and McClond) are full of _ many ouses the investors alone aré to hlame, fish. for not haviug taken the precautione which Goon Enucation.—The late Edward Ever wonld have saved this fuiure trouble. For inttAcondensed into a single briet paragraph hie stance, it generally happens ihat when a proeestimution of what constituted a good educapectue is issued, there ure already many comjion, Here itie: ‘“To read ths Euglieh lanpaniea in exietence of a similar character, and well, to write with dispatch a neat, legithat reliahle information ie to he obtained of guage hle hand, and be master of the first four rules of their capital, earnings, ete ; eo that little else arillrmetic, 80 as to diepose of at once, with ie required to be done, heyond instituting a accuracy, every question of figures which comes compurison hetween them, to teet the probable up in practice—I call this a good educalion. velue or otherwise of the Pe scheme, And it you add the ahility to write pure, gram. Of course, all the poetry of the prospectus is matical English, I regard it ae an excellent eduto he discarded, and only such allowancee are cution. These are thetools. You cando much to be made for speoial cirenmstancee as comwiih them. hut you are hopelese withont them. mon eense will dictate. In munufacturing en They are the foundation; and unless you begin terprieee thie is not quite eo eaey, ac there may With these, not with flachy attainments, a litile be contingenciee affecting in a different manner and Territories for the past Hight Yeara. PRIGE, bound In cloth, $10.50; in leather, $12, For warded hy mail for 60c. extra, at the MinInc anD ScIENTIFIO PREss Office, hy DEWEY & CO. Ninth Industrial Exhibition HELD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE, Is NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, Corner of Eighth and Mission Streels, The Musical Exercises is noder the immediate direc. . tion of Professor GEO. T, EVANS. The Art Department ls under the arrangement of the 8. F. Art Association. The Horticnltural Department ig under the charge of the Bay District Horticultural Society, and will he one of the pleasing features of the exhlhition. PRICES OF ADMISSION: Season tickets, admitting gentleman and one lady.$5 00 Season ticke's, almltting ome person. ... $00 Season tickets, admitting juveniles under 14 yesrs 1 50 89” The ahove tickets are not transfershle. Single admission.. seee-s 50 cents. Children under 14 yeara 255 *t Tickete can be ohtained from any of Ihe Managers, at the Mechanics’ Institute, 27 Post street, and at the principal mnaste and drug stores, ag15-hp-2t A. 8. HALLIDIE, President. geology, and all other ologies and osophies, are undertakinge of a like nature, and in the same oetentatioue ruhbish,”” district, but with railway companies, especially BUSH STREET, ABOVE KEARNY, those for conetructing worke in foreign counA CORRESPONDENT writee to the Scientific tries, the matter offere no difficnity, and the JOHN MoOULLOUGS.. -Proprietor and Manuger. probable result can almost he reduced to posiAmerican and gives the following directions tive figures.— Engineering. A New Inga. — Mr. Wm. Pesohey says : In hoth wrought and cast iron a skin is formed upon the eurface in the procose of manufacture with reference to the proportions to he ohserved in constructing huildings for acoustic purposee: Let the whole stractnre he held in entire eubserviency to the auditorium, regard. less of needlese ornamentation, and let ihe cleir inside lines thereof he as follows: Make or take the whole length as one eum in feet, make the whole width one-half that sum, and the whole hight, to the center of the ceiling, one-half of the latter sum. into the shape required. In wrought iron thie skin will come off eooner or later in scalee, even if the iron is painted. Iu cast iron it is throwu off ina granular rust. This skin is of no materinl valne, nnd would he better removed ae soon ae manufactured, it it were not for the Srreet Cieansino 1n New Yorx.—In ten cost of doing so; when it is removed, uud the yeurs the annua! expenditure for cleaning the iron painted with an oxide of iron paint, there streets of New York has increased from $13,500 will be no recurrence of ecaling. to $1,000,000. CALIFORNIA Maz. Barton Hut THEATER. glossy, pliable and strengthened; lost hairregrows with lively expression; falling halr ls checked and stabtlshed; thin hair thickéns; and faded or gray hair resume thelr original color. Its operation is sure and harmless. It cures dandruff, heals all humors, and keeps the scalp cool, clean and soft—under which conditions, discases of the scalp are impossible. As a dressing for ladies’ halr, the Vicon ls praised for its grateful and agreeahie perfume, and valned for the soft luster and richness of tone it lmparts. PREPARED 8Y DR. J. C. AYER & CO., Lowell, Mass., PRACTICAL AND ANALYTICAL OHEMISTS. &? Sold hy all Druggists and Dealers In Mediclne. CRANE & BRIGHAM, Wholesale Agents, jyl8-sa SAN FRANCISCO. ¢ A MAMMOTH FREE PAPER. MECHANICS’ FAIR DAILY. Having been awarded the pnhllcation of the Daily Newspaper in the Pavilion during the Fair of the Mechanics’ Institute of the Oity of San Francisco, commencing Angust 18th, 187+, we would’ respectfully announce that no.-efforts wlll be spared to issue a LIVE AND DESIRABLE SHEET. Its i circle of readers will Include all adult visitors at the Fair, embracing during the exhihition a large proportion of the most intelligent, energetio and infl ial citizens thr t the Const. Advertisers will secure the best terms and space hy handing in their orders early. DEWEY & CO., Publishera. Acting Manager. ENGAGEMENT OF THE OELEBRATED VOKRES FAMILY. Prices of Admission: Dress Circle and Orchestra. Dress Circle and Orchestra, Balcony.. Balcony, Reserved. 18 Famlly Circle 5 soe 25 Boxes, according to location.. $10 & $6 Doors open at half past seven; Commence at eight o’clock. ja24-tt Brittan, Holbreosk & Co., Importers of Stovesand Metals, Tinners' Goods, Tnols and Machines; Mlard 11 California St.,17 and 19 Lavie St., San F. Tranelsco, and 176 J St., Sacrarr ente. mr-hy Certificate of Partnership. We certify that we constitute a partnership, transacting the husiness of Printing in this State; its principal place of huslness is San Francisco, Callfornia; Its name ia SPAULDING & BARTO. The fnll names and respective places of resldence of all its members are slgned hereto. Dated San Franelsca, Aug. 5th, 1874. GEORGE SPAULDING, HARRISON BARTO. Indorsed. Filed Aug. 5th, 1874. WM. HARNEY, County Clerk. 620-3 By W. Srvenson, D. C.

— MINING AND SCIENTIFIC _PRESS. August 29. 1874.-] Prospectus Compilation. Pine Flat~Mines. We have had occasion to reviow, in some A correspondent writes from Pine Flat to tho Souoma Denoeraf, under date of Augnst 20th: Unnsnal aotivity prevails in thia mining oamp, ey owing to the fina showing that has latoly 26. made in some of the miucs, but mainly owing to the decision in the Caslamayomi grant case, which hus encouraged mauy of the miners to go to work in earnest to devolop of onr recent numbers, tho history of various companies, originally hronght out under what were apparently promising circumstances, but 4 which hava Bia iy* neial disappointment, sud the rain of 3 éinhers of that confiding body, tha Britis shyreholdor. But while wo hardly feel inoliued to hestow much symathy upou that section of tha British eharctheir claims. At the Flag Stat¥ thoy have made Guldue which allows itself to be tickled out of a very riob atrike in the tuunel, which has tapits money hy seductive aud hixh-promising A the ledge at a depth of two huudred feet. prospectuses, we cannot too strongly condemn those who work behind tho scenes, and are thu weana of leading so many iuio nufortunnto speculations. The art of prospectus oompilation has at he length of the tnnnel from the mouth’ to where they struck the metal is ahout two hnn Directory. THE survey of a narrow-gauge railroad ronte from Nevada city to Colfax has heen completed, and the report of the engineer suhmitted. He makes the distunce hetween the two points 22 and three-touthe miles. The cost of eonatruction is estimated at $411,132.56. A resolntion haa heen passed hy the Board of Directors not GiLNe 5. GRay. capital stock has been taken, and in tho event that it is not all taken withiu a few werks, the charter he thrown up. Only $70,000 remoius to bo taken to complete this amount.—-El Do JaMUs M. maynn, GRAY & HAVEN, to commence the work nntil $300,000 of the ATTOHNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW In Bullding of Pacific Insurance Co. N. E. corner Cali ‘orniaan: Leldesdori streets, RAK FRANGISCO rado Republican. JOHN ROACH. Optician, In iho two French colonies of Martiniqne dred aud eighty feet. The owners nro in high and Gniana, there are more than 6,000 acres hat as the uew strike makes it a very valuunder oultnre with annato, the annual produce able mine. Atthe Sonowsa they are turning heiug 3,000,000 pounds, The production of now exceeds tho domand, as no fresh tained, at the present day, a high etate of deout ahont forty or fifty flasks per month. The aunato They uses have heen found for this coloring subvelopment, aud it appears to be gaided by Rattlesnake ia looking splendidly. stance. certain well-defined rulea and regulatious. 139 429 Montgomery Street, W. corner Sacramento. PERG H UT ta repaired and adjuatod Sarv vite It sirock metal in their lower tunnel last week. does net much mutter whether the company, They are putting np a twenty ton furnace, and for which it is issued, is one uudertakiug havo over three hundred thousand adohes pohlie whrks, such as railways, docks, canals, mada of au average weight of ten pounds, aud oto , or for the purpose of carrying ont indushave a largo force of meu eugaged still meking trial eniorprises on the juiut-atock principle, them atthe rate of eight or ten thnsand por or eveu for the purchaso and developmont of day. Atthe Missouri they also made a rich some patent iuvention, which promises to restrike last week. Pap Hopkins, the original volutiouize all our; preconceived notions; the "Hermit of the Gevser Peak,’' hss been engaged geueral scope of the prospectus is ever the there, and he developed a very fine hody of ore vame, and the idea iuoulcated is thnt promoters in the bottom of the gulch, east of the retorts. and inventors ere ihe most disinterested people They ure also taking oni aplendid metal in the Tue custom-honse retnrus show that the quantity of opium imported into the country, now uoarly 250,000 tbs annually, is ten times more than it was thirty years ago; and it is the opiuion of physicixns snd droggists that uot more than one third of the qnuntity is used for medical purposes. Iy 1873, ahont 8,000 American mowers and Notwithstinding the “diversity of objeots tuok, and they charge the Missunri and Ken treated hy thy prospectuses, there isa marked tuck folks one dollsr for a six horse team going resemblances hetweon them, both in style and from the Missouri to the Keutuck. ‘This is at mode of treatment. They have all a pleasing the rate of fifty cents per mile. They also appearauce, are printed upon the hest of paper, charge toll to the Mis.ouri folks at the same aud eolor is judiciously used, so that the sperate tor hauling from Little Sulphur up the cial points may stand out prominently in vyrihill to the mine, und the Missouri folks put gited type to attract immediate attention; ihe road in repair lasi spring, ut a large expense where diagrams or illustrative plans can he into themselves. How long are these vampires troduced thy add much to the general effect. to he permitted hy onr Board of Supervisors to On the first pago is placed in goodly array the chsrge such enormous tolls? Our mine ownnames of tha gentlemeu forming the direction, ers ont in that vicinity have snfficient obthose with handles beiug specially selected, stacles to overcomo from loreign interference, aud great caré is takeu iu duly advertising the aud it seems,that our own citizens, whose intitles of the various other compsnies which have terest it should be to lend every sasistsnce in the honor of having them npon their boards. their power toward the development of these Next follows the body or descriptive part of the important miuing interests, should do so. STHEEL PENS. cy 19v26-ly WM. BARTLING. » BxNRer wimpann. BARTLING & KIMBALL, BOOK BINDERS, reapers were sold in Europe; and it is estimated that, during the present year, no less than Paper Rulers and Blank Book Manufactarers. A nationaL exhihiiion of textile plants, and machines employed in their mannfacture, will he held in St. Petersburg this fall. The Russian Government seems disposed to giva special enconragement to the cultivation of fihrous plants and the manufacture of textila fabrics. Attorney at Law and Counselor in: Patent Cases. iu the world, and that it is a foolish thing for old workings above. The two retorts are turn12,000 mowers will he sold abroad, representing the over-cantious British shareholder to retain ing out six to eight flasks regularly every week. a yalue of $1,000,000 paid to American manuhig money in inveatments, bringiug in a The Missouri looks hetter than ever. facturers of thie class of maohinery. Atthe Lost Ledge they have opened out a miserable four or five per cent. interest, when he can so readily aud safcly ohtain mauy times very fine ledge of ore, and-are turuing out a that amount, by simply siguing his name to Isrge amount of quicksilver. The Kentuck is the "form of application'’ accompunying the opening out splendidly—and, by the way, what prospeotus, ihe demand for which i3 consider#D imposition is hciug worked upon the Jessecs ahle judzing from the large snpply which of these miues. A toll house bus been estabcomes to fill our waste-paper baskots. : lished half way between the Mi-souri and K+sn JOSEPH GILLOTT'S qd by all Dealers thronghoul the World, A neat thing in hair-cutling in vogue amoug the Nagis, a tribe in British Indis, is described as follows: The operator inserts heneath the Inxuriant locks of his customer a hatchet or knife, whereon he pouuds with a wooden mallet until the edge shines through, A Recent writer on food says that,a gent'e man of his acquaintance hns fur the last filty years eaten daily two eggs at breakfast, making 730 per annum, or a total for the whole period 605 Clay ctreet, (southwest cor. Sansome), {6v12-3m BAN FRANCISCO: BENJAMIN MORGAN, Office, 207 Sansome Street, S. F. Refers to Dewey & Co., Patent Agenta; Judge S. Heydenfeldt or H. H. Halght, 6v28-3m ATWILL & CO.'8 WESTERN MINING AGENCY, No. 240 Montgomery street, S. E. cor. Pine, opposlt Russ House, San Francisco. Mining Stocks hought andsold, Offices in New York, Philsdeiphia and London. Vlaltors to the clty invited to call and make our rooms their headquarters. Mining Companies incorporated and Working Capital furnished. Interest of Locators and Sbareholders attended to. Milnes reglatered and descrihed. Information relatlve to Mines, Ores, etc-, given. P.'O0.Box771, oc8-ly Ayer’s Hair Vigor of 36,500 eggs. Tae atone quarry on Point San Pedro, leased by Mr. Jordan, is heing worked hy a force of 12 men. —FOD— REC ORING GRAY HAIR TO ITS NATURAL VITALITY AND COLOR. prospectus, and if written, as it should he, hy a Some of them, at least, are disy o3sed to claim the = Advancing yearg, sickFires allover the coun try. x ness, care, disappointlively pound of flesh, aud wore too. ment, and hereditary At the Geyser mine a move is being made imagination, and with sufficient taot to keep SECOND EDITION—REVISED AND ENLARGED. predisposition, alt turn within the exact limits of truth, we have set looking toward commencing active operations, before us, in a tempting and fascinating mansnd there is a well authenticated rumor that a the hair gray, and either The Explorers’, Miners’ and ‘ ner, all cirenmstances relevent and irrelevant, furnace 18 to be erected. of them incline lt to shed which may tend to persuade the British shureprematurely. Ascent of Mount S#asta—ReEMAREABLE holders of the maguificence of the investment Ayven's Harr Vicor, hy offered. It is necessary, of course, that such a Feat.—A purty of tourists who lately ascended Comprising a Practical Exposition of the Valong and extensive use, person should have had considerahle experiMount Shasta performed a feat which has not rious Departments of Exploration, m has proven that It stops euce in this special art, so that whilst allowing often, if, indeed, ever been hefore accomMining, Engineering, assaying,

full scope to his imsgination he will always plished. They made the trip from the camping. and Metallurgy, ¢ q 6 , é keep in mind the necessity of avoiding making ground to ibe highest summit of the mountain, ositively inaccurate stutements, as they have came back to ihe cumping-ground, and went Containing 672 Pages and 83 Engravinga news the growth, and always aurely restores tts color, when fadedor gray. It stimulates the nntritive organs from thence down to Sisson’e house, all in one [ates this been the ouuee of much subsequeut BY J. 8S. PHILLIPS, M. E., grief tothe direotors. Auything of a doubtful day. The amonut of climbing and fatigue inOf California, a Practicat Operator for Thirty-fonr to healthy actlvity, and preserves both the hair and Ita heauty. Thns brashy, weak or sickly hair hecomes Years; Explorer, and Resident in the Pacifico States character is generally made to appear in the volved in such a trip can only be appreciuted person of sunguiue temperament having a Metallurgists’ Companion, special lettere or reports which accompany the hy thoee who have ascended Shasta. The most prospeotue. The prospectus having heen duly prepared and launched, it remaius to be seen whether the public nihble at the hait. We presume thore ie alwaye a certain sate average numher of hiies to a given circulation, to pay the printing expensee, otherwise the system of prospectuses would not he kept up. Now what can we say to thnt very innocent remarkahls feature of the matter wae that four of the party were ladiee, viz: Mrs. Churchill, of Yreka, Mrs. Cushing of. Oakland, Miss Ellen Newhold, of this city, and Mrs. Sieson, wife of J. H. Sisson, the Shasta guide, and keeper of the house on the etuge-road at the foot of the mountain. An nonusually large number of tonriste have made the trip to and ascended Mount Shasta thie year. The view from the section of the British shureholder who will so mountuin is wuneurpassed, und tho region readily part with ita money, to appear hereafter around it is one of the most thickly wooded, npon the scene iu deep lameutation, hecause it attractive, and beautiful in Califoruia, It is has found ont in the meanwhile that it is not full of game and the rivere (the Upper Sacraall gold that glittere? We remark that in mento, the Pit and McClond) are full of _ many ouses the investors alone aré to hlame, fish. for not haviug taken the precautione which Goon Enucation.—The late Edward Ever wonld have saved this fuiure trouble. For inttAcondensed into a single briet paragraph hie stance, it generally happens ihat when a proeestimution of what constituted a good educapectue is issued, there ure already many comjion, Here itie: ‘“To read ths Euglieh lanpaniea in exietence of a similar character, and well, to write with dispatch a neat, legithat reliahle information ie to he obtained of guage hle hand, and be master of the first four rules of their capital, earnings, ete ; eo that little else arillrmetic, 80 as to diepose of at once, with ie required to be done, heyond instituting a accuracy, every question of figures which comes compurison hetween them, to teet the probable up in practice—I call this a good educalion. velue or otherwise of the Pe scheme, And it you add the ahility to write pure, gram. Of course, all the poetry of the prospectus is matical English, I regard it ae an excellent eduto he discarded, and only such allowancee are cution. These are thetools. You cando much to be made for speoial cirenmstancee as comwiih them. hut you are hopelese withont them. mon eense will dictate. In munufacturing en They are the foundation; and unless you begin terprieee thie is not quite eo eaey, ac there may With these, not with flachy attainments, a litile be contingenciee affecting in a different manner and Territories for the past Hight Yeara. PRIGE, bound In cloth, $10.50; in leather, $12, For warded hy mail for 60c. extra, at the MinInc anD ScIENTIFIO PREss Office, hy DEWEY & CO. Ninth Industrial Exhibition HELD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE, Is NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, Corner of Eighth and Mission Streels, The Musical Exercises is noder the immediate direc. . tion of Professor GEO. T, EVANS. The Art Department ls under the arrangement of the 8. F. Art Association. The Horticnltural Department ig under the charge of the Bay District Horticultural Society, and will he one of the pleasing features of the exhlhition. PRICES OF ADMISSION: Season tickets, admitting gentleman and one lady.$5 00 Season ticke's, almltting ome person.. ..... $00 Season tickets, admitting juveniles under 14 yesrs 1 50 89” The ahove tickets are not transfershle. Single admission... seee-s 50 cents. Children under 14 yeara 255 *t Tickete can be ohtained from any of Ihe Managers, at the Mechanics’ Institute, 27 Post street, and at the principal mnaste and drug stores, ag15-hp-2t A. 8. HALLIDIE, President. geology, and all other ologies and osophies, are undertakinge of a like nature, and in the same oetentatioue ruhbish,”” district, but with railway companies, especially BUSH STREET, ABOVE KEARNY, those for conetructing worke in foreign counA CORRESPONDENT writee to the Scientific tries, the matter offere no difficnity, and the JOHN MoOULLOUGS... -Proprietor and Manuger. probable result can almost he reduced to posiAmerican and gives the following directions tive figures.— Engineering. A New Inga. — Mr. Wm. Pesohey says : In hoth wrought and cast iron a skin is formed upon the eurface in the procose of manufacture with reference to the proportions to he ohserved in constructing huildings for acoustic purposee: Let the whole stractnre he held in entire eubserviency to the auditorium, regard. less of needlese ornamentation, and let ihe cleir inside lines thereof he as follows: Make or take the whole length as one eum in feet, make the whole width one-half that sum, and the whole hight, to the center of the ceiling, one-half of the latter sum. into the shape required. In wrought iron thie skin will come off eooner or later in scalee, even if the iron is painted. Iu cast iron it is throwu off ina granular rust. This skin is of no materinl valne, nnd would he better removed ae soon ae manufactured, it it were not for the Srreet Cieansino 1n New Yorx.—In ten cost of doing so; when it is removed, uud the yeurs the annua! expenditure for cleaning the iron painted with an oxide of iron paint, there streets of New York has increased from $13,500 will be no recurrence of ecaling. to $1,000,000. CALIFORNIA Maz. Barton Hut THEATER. glossy, pliable and strengthened; lost hairregrows with lively expression; falling halr ls checked and stabtlshed; thin hair thickéns; and faded or gray hair resume thelr original color. Its operation is sure and harmless. It cures dandruff, heals all humors, and keeps the scalp cool, clean and soft—under which conditions, discases of the scalp are impossible. As a dressing for ladies’ halr, the Vicon ls praised for its grateful and agreeahie perfume, and valned for the soft luster and richness of tone it lmparts. PREPARED 8Y DR. J. C. 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Balcony, Reserved. 18 Famlly Circle 5 soe 25 Boxes, according to location... $10 & $6 Doors open at half past seven; Commence at eight o’clock. ja24-tt Brittan, Holbreosk & Co., Importers of Stovesand Metals, Tinners' Goods, Tnols and Machines; Mlard 11 California St.,17 and 19 Lavie St., San F. Tranelsco, and 176 J St., Sacrarr ente. mr-hy Certificate of Partnership. We certify that we constitute a partnership, transacting the husiness of Printing in this State; its principal place of huslness is San Francisco, Callfornia; Its name ia SPAULDING & BARTO. The fnll names and respective places of resldence of all its members are slgned hereto. Dated San Franelsca, Aug. 5th, 1874. GEORGE SPAULDING, HARRISON BARTO. Indorsed. Filed Aug. 5th, 1874. WM. HARNEY, County Clerk. 620-3 By W. Srvenson, D. C.