Volume 29 (1874) (428 pages)

An Illustrated Journal of Mining, Popular Science and General News. BY DEWEY & CO., Patent Soliclturs, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1874. VOLUME xX*XIX Number 1. Straw-Burning Engines. The London Times, of May 16th, describes at length the visit of the Czar of Kuesis, Grand Dake Alexis, the Duke and Dutchess of Edinbnrgh and others, to the Flemish farm, to wituess the operstion of a straw-hurning eugine, which ia soon to be introduced upon this ooast. The engine referred to is the Joint invention of Mr. Join Head, of the firm ot Ransomo, Sims & Head, Eoglaud, snd the late Mr, Schemioth, a Ruasisn engineer, ° The Temes says: ‘ Altbough it ia only now that the Czar has seen it in nction, it has already obtsined the approval of the: most compétent agricultnral anthoritiee. We bave already made mention of itin letters we published on the Vienua Exhibition, where it was one of the great centers of attraction in the ag-. rieultnral machinery hall, snd we have no in-tention now of entering into technical details, We shall merely ssy the engine is fed by a selfacting apparatus driven by 8 strap. attached to itself. The straw is passed in between a couple: of rollers, which spread it ont lightly with 8 lateral and fan-like motion, exposing it to the full foree of the fire., One man only is required to supply it, andit rednces the sverage consnmption of straw to something like four times the weight of coal. Itis exceedingly simple; and, indeed, its geners] ntibty must depend almost entirely npon its simplicity in a country . where the laborers have heen only accustomed to the most primitive implements, and where the most skilled artisan to be found within * resch is probably an ordinary village black‘. smith. The tris] witnessed by the Czar went off most satisfactorily.” By means of this straw-feeding apporatns, it is claimed that almost any kind of vegetable prodact can bo utilized as 8 {nel, and thus per. ’ mit of steem being need as a cheap motive power in conntries which are devoid of ordinary fuel, but whioh are covered with vegetable products. The spparstus for feeding the fur, nsce with straw is self-acting, being driven by a belt from the engine; ont if desired, the belt esn be discounected and the spparstus operated by hsud;.or, whennecessiry,.the entire appsratus can be resdily disconnected and removed, snd the ordinary furnsce door substitnted in its place. » , a In getting np stesm it is mecesssry to operate the spparatns by hand .nntil the engine begins to work. Ons man csn easily feed the straw to the mschine, thns reqniring no more men than an ordinary stesm engine. It is claimed that the sversge consnmption of straw . ’ or cotton stalks is ahout fonr times in weight to cosl, and that abont eight or ten sheeves of straw are required to thrésh one hundred sheaves of grain, ‘ The apparatns can he adapted to fixed as well as porteble engines, This invention has been seenred by American patents. For fnrther psrtionlars, address Eruest L. Ransome, manufacturer of artificisl. , stone, San Francisco, Cal. 1 : Hansoom & Oo., of the tna Foundry, who . recently huilt the machinery for Capt. Dick Ogden’s steam yacht ‘Qaickstep,” have jnst completed the mschiuery fora new stesm yacht belongiug to Capt. Wilcox, of San Diego, ‘This little craft is 40 feet long, 1014 feet besm, snd will drsw only fonr feet cf water. . They expect her to attain 8 speed of 10 miles anhour. The engine is of the overhesd A frame description, with oylinders eight inches in diameter sud 12 Tullock’s Automatic Ore Feeder. We illustrate this week s new device for feeding ore to batteries, receutly pateuted through the Miying anp Sorentirro Prees Patent Ageucy, by James Tullock, of Sonora, Tnolmmne county. A tray placed beneath a hopperis given a vibratory motion by means of 8 rock sheft and arm, snd an iuterveniug mechstamp stem, The trey is stopped abruptly at the end of each forward vibration, by conoussion tronble by the sticking of dsmp or wet ore is avoided. By referring tothe engraving on this page, the details of the machine may be noted. A Beneath this hopper is the trsy, B, which recoives the ore from the hopper as fast as may be desired, a suitable regulating gste being employed. The tray, B, is inclined ss much ss msy be desired, snd is snspended by the links, ¢, c, from the frame, O, so that it can receive an Oecillating motion forward and back. Benesth the tray 8 rock shaft, D, crosses the frsme transversely, snd sn srm, H, extends the Ings in the bottom of the tray, snd through inches stroke. Hanscom & Qo. have also fiuished the machinery for a tiny ‘side wheel steamer, iutended to do service on Lake Tulare, for Meséra, Goldstein, She will be tbe first steamer ou the Iske, The paddle wheels are only seveu feet in diameter, and the engine has oscillstory cylinders 10 inches diameter and,24 inches stroke, : : ‘ue .tplt y Ja By. ‘3 . . Ps iY PE Mave matters in England are dull, snd the Loadon Mining World says that mines, whose names have been fsmilisr as household words, are ‘being abandoned; and it wonld’seem thet the prospects of British mining were never hlacker thkn uow. It hss, however, been often ‘remarked that the darkest hour is thst which precedes the dawn, snd the present is donbtleas another illnstrstion of the truth of this sdage, the slotted upper end of thesrm,,#. The end of the shaft, D, has 8 crsnk, G, formed upon it, snd from this ersnk the rod, , connects with one end of a lever arm, J, . The lever is pivoted near its middle to the. frame, snd the other end extends to a point near the stamp stem, J, An sdjustable collar, . B, is secured to the stem, J, snd whenever the stsmp falls, thé collar will striké the end of the rock shaft will be opérated so aa to draw the trsy back. When the stamp is sgain raised, the trsy will, be sllewed to swing forstrike s bar or post, Z, which will abruptly especially valuable when the ore is wet, against a stationsry hlock or bar, so that all TULLOCK’S AUTOMATIC ORE FEEDER. is a hopper apppesied by snitsble frame. work. upward and is secured by apin passing through . milling. the lever, snd through the connecting rod, H, . ward nutil the lugs on tlie bottom of the tray — Tn practice it is fonnd that the force of gravitation is snfficieut to operate these psrts, no springs being used; a spring, P, is placed npon the end of the lever, J, which is strnok by the collar, H, so as to relieve the strain and trsnsmit the force gradaally. Suitable adjustable screwa serve to regalste the movements of the different pirts, aud the ammouut of ore beneath the stamps will regulate the smount fed. This ore feederisin use in several mills on auism, which connects.tbe rock shaft with the. this cosst. There sre two of them at the Bu_chansn mill, about eighteen miles esst of Sonora, Tuolumue county. Two of them are at the Shawmnt mine, snd two of them st the Knox & Boyle mill, in Tuolumne county. A. B. Preston writes concerning the operstion of the lsst four, thst his mill-men say they are the i iN _—_— best feeders they have ever nsed, being simple in construction and good for either wet or dry crushing. At the Spring Gnloh mill, owned by sn Eaglish compeny, end situsted sbout sixteen miles from Sonors,,Tuolumne county, Cal., they have used them a short time, A letter from this company recommends them highly, saying the maohines have given satisfaction. They give them credit for economy in the wear of shoes snd dies and the regulsrity of discharge. They think they will pay for themselves in five months in tbst respect, where thero is constaut’ They sre a great saving in every respect. The msnagers are confident that they have put throngh two tons of rock per day more, since they, have worked these machines thsn they did before. Jsmes Bawden, Vincent Johns, Thomss Whitto, Richard Martin and John Shsrwood, owners of the mill, ssy: ‘* We have been more or less connected with quartz sud the, milling of it for twelve or fonrteen years, and do not hesitste to say that the machine is the best we have seen introduced in a quertz mill, snd with propriety we osn recommend it to all qasrtz mill owners.”’ In Elko county, Nevads, the mines’ never looked so well, snd; gave so mnch promise of stop the tray, snd thus tend to luosen snd. permanency as at present, being now worked throw forward its contents, this feature being. more earnestly and with 8 better directed pur: pose, A Our Holiday. Although the date of the Parss is Jnly 4th, our many readers are not to suppose that the issning of it has necessitated anything like a desecration of thst day; for the busy hands sud brains that have toiled all the week in “gettiog it up,”’ closed the labors of the week on the ‘night before the Fourth,’’ asthe youthful patriots say, Aud before the ‘'one gan at day-hreak’’ gave the formal announcement of the dawuiug of the glorious day, the Pnrss was on its way to its thousenda of destinetions fer and nesr. Those of us who have kept “Fourth of July’ for half a century have noticed a msrked differeuce in regard to the uniformity with which this holiday ie celebrated. Even twenty years ago it was considered optionel with the employer whether his workmen kept holiday or not, and many worked of their owu choice; sometimes to gratify their greed, and sometimes from a supposed necessity. Now no employer requires his workmen to stick to their tasks on this day, and tbey would not do it if it were required of them. : The whole country to-day leys aside its esres, runs awsy from its labors, and throws up its cap éxultingly in city sand country. Onr readers have probahly discovered before this, thst tho Press is not given to croakiag on any subject; end they will not he surprised when we declare, as we now do, our helief that, the growth of true patriotiem among the American people is in full keeping with their increasing power to maintsin their liberty. Tue Comet may now be distinctly seen hy the naked eye in the northern part of the heayens, a short distance below and to the west of the North Star. It is moving. almost directly towarde the sun, and will pessso near the earth 8s to form a most brilliant object iu the heavens, It will reach its nearest approech to the earth about the Ist of Augnst, when it will be seen in the west only for a short time after the setting of the sun, and very near its point of setting, As its motion is rapidly increasing, with its spprosch to the sun, it will from this time until it reaches its perihelion (apes to the sun) increese very tapidly in brilliancy. Still another comet is annonnced. It is ssid that-Rev. R. B. Fsirhsirn, D. D., Wardeu of St. Stephen’s College, at Anendale, hss discovered snother comet, in the vicinity of Jupiter. So it is possible that we may soon be treated tothe rsre sight of two comets in the heavens at one snd the same time. Ponuman Cazs uv Itary.—A fifteen-year contract has been defioitely closed at Milsn, Italy, for pntting Pullman palace cara on sil trains snd lines in Upper Italy. This covers the great routes of pleesure travel via the northern lskes, The Italisn press highly compliments American progress, snd Director-Geners] Amilhsn on his euterprising application of pnblic wents. New Horse Oars,—The cer lately built at the railroad shops in Sacrsmento for the Potrero and Bay View Railroad wss received here last Ssturdsy. The car weighs 2,200 pounds, snd ig 12 feet long. The old-style street-oar is 16 feet long, snd weighs 4,700 pounds. A notable feature is the addition of a pstent carstarter, to start the car without strsin on the horses. j 1 B.V. Sancent reports that the Monterey coal mining company are ‘actively, exploring their mine’ Twenty-five feet below the'surface, 8 well defined’ stratum three 3 in thickness was discovered, and on drifting forty feet on the level it'increased in size'abont'an inch to the foot. ., : 1 mr Mn. Lyrux is obtaining good resnits im his: cinnsbar mine, ahove Trinity’ Center, Lest week forty-five ponnds’ of the cinnahsr were placed ins oommon retort, snd. from, this sixteen pounds of quicksilver were obtained. Tue property in Olifton district, or Deep creek, in Utsh, known asthe Gilberson property, has been sold to.s St. Louis company for the snug little snm of $90,000 cash. ©“ Tas Virginis and Truokee rsilrosd contemplate building s narrow-gauge rsilway from the hesd of the Summit flume to Lake Bigler.

An Illustrated Journal of Mining, Popular Science and General News. BY DEWEY & CO., Patent Soliclturs, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1874. VOLUME xX*XIX Number 1. Straw-Burning Engines. The London Times, of May 16th, describes at length the visit of the Czar of Kuesis, Grand Dake Alexis, the Duke and Dutchess of Edinbnrgh and others, to the Flemish farm, to wituess the operstion of a straw-hurning eugine, which ia soon to be introduced upon this ooast. The engine referred to is the Joint invention of Mr. Join Head, of the firm ot Ransomo, Sims & Head, Eoglaud, snd the late Mr, Schemioth, a Ruasisn engineer, ° The Temes says: ‘ Altbough it ia only now that the Czar has seen it in nction, it has already obtsined the approval of the: most compétent agricultnral anthoritiee. We bave already made mention of itin letters we published on the Vienua Exhibition, where it was one of the great centers of attraction in the ag-. rieultnral machinery hall, snd we have no in-tention now of entering into technical details, We shall merely ssy the engine is fed by a selfacting apparatus driven by 8 strap. attached to itself. The straw is passed in between a couple: of rollers, which spread it ont lightly with 8 lateral and fan-like motion, exposing it to the full foree of the fire., One man only is required to supply it, andit rednces the sverage consnmption of straw to something like four times the weight of coal. Itis exceedingly simple; and, indeed, its geners] ntibty must depend almost entirely npon its simplicity in a country . where the laborers have heen only accustomed to the most primitive implements, and where the most skilled artisan to be found within * resch is probably an ordinary village black‘. smith. The tris] witnessed by the Czar went off most satisfactorily.” By means of this straw-feeding apporatns, it is claimed that almost any kind of vegetable prodact can bo utilized as 8 {nel, and thus per. ’ mit of steem being need as a cheap motive power in conntries which are devoid of ordinary fuel, but whioh are covered with vegetable products. The spparstus for feeding the fur, nsce with straw is self-acting, being driven by a belt from the engine; ont if desired, the belt esn be discounected and the spparstus operated by hsud;.or, whennecessiry,.the entire appsratus can be resdily disconnected and removed, snd the ordinary furnsce door substitnted in its place. » , a In getting np stesm it is mecesssry to operate the spparatns by hand .nntil the engine begins to work. Ons man csn easily feed the straw to the mschine, thns reqniring no more men than an ordinary stesm engine. It is claimed that the sversge consnmption of straw . ’ or cotton stalks is ahout fonr times in weight to cosl, and that abont eight or ten sheeves of straw are required to thrésh one hundred sheaves of grain, ‘ The apparatns can he adapted to fixed as well as porteble engines, This invention has been seenred by American patents. For fnrther psrtionlars, address Eruest L. Ransome, manufacturer of artificisl. , stone, San Francisco, Cal. 1 : Hansoom & Oo., of the tna Foundry, who . recently huilt the machinery for Capt. Dick Ogden’s steam yacht ‘Qaickstep,” have jnst completed the mschiuery fora new stesm yacht belongiug to Capt. Wilcox, of San Diego, ‘This little craft is 40 feet long, 1014 feet besm, snd will drsw only fonr feet cf water. . They expect her to attain 8 speed of 10 miles anhour. The engine is of the overhesd A frame description, with oylinders eight inches in diameter sud 12 Tullock’s Automatic Ore Feeder. We illustrate this week s new device for feeding ore to batteries, receutly pateuted through the Miying anp Sorentirro Prees Patent Ageucy, by James Tullock, of Sonora, Tnolmmne county. A tray placed beneath a hopperis given a vibratory motion by means of 8 rock sheft and arm, snd an iuterveniug mechstamp stem, The trey is stopped abruptly at the end of each forward vibration, by conoussion tronble by the sticking of dsmp or wet ore is avoided. By referring tothe engraving on this page, the details of the machine may be noted. A Beneath this hopper is the trsy, B, which recoives the ore from the hopper as fast as may be desired, a suitable regulating gste being employed. The tray, B, is inclined ss much ss msy be desired, snd is snspended by the links, ¢, c, from the frame, O, so that it can receive an Oecillating motion forward and back. Benesth the tray 8 rock shaft, D, crosses the frsme transversely, snd sn srm, H, extends the Ings in the bottom of the tray, snd through inches stroke. Hanscom & Qo. have also fiuished the machinery for a tiny ‘side wheel steamer, iutended to do service on Lake Tulare, for Meséra, Goldstein, She will be tbe first steamer ou the Iske, The paddle wheels are only seveu feet in diameter, and the engine has oscillstory cylinders 10 inches diameter and,24 inches stroke, : : ‘ue .tplt y Ja By. ‘3 . . Ps iY PE Mave matters in England are dull, snd the Loadon Mining World says that mines, whose names have been fsmilisr as household words, are ‘being abandoned; and it wonld’seem thet the prospects of British mining were never hlacker thkn uow. It hss, however, been often ‘remarked that the darkest hour is thst which precedes the dawn, snd the present is donbtleas another illnstrstion of the truth of this sdage, the slotted upper end of thesrm,,#. The end of the shaft, D, has 8 crsnk, G, formed upon it, snd from this ersnk the rod, , connects with one end of a lever arm, J, . The lever is pivoted near its middle to the. frame, snd the other end extends to a point near the stamp stem, J, An sdjustable collar, . B, is secured to the stem, J, snd whenever the stsmp falls, thé collar will striké the end of the rock shaft will be opérated so aa to draw the trsy back. When the stamp is sgain raised, the trsy will, be sllewed to swing forstrike s bar or post, Z, which will abruptly especially valuable when the ore is wet, against a stationsry hlock or bar, so that all TULLOCK’S AUTOMATIC ORE FEEDER. is a hopper apppesied by snitsble frame. work. upward and is secured by apin passing through . milling. the lever, snd through the connecting rod, H, . ward nutil the lugs on tlie bottom of the tray — Tn practice it is fonnd that the force of gravitation is snfficieut to operate these psrts, no springs being used; a spring, P, is placed npon

the end of the lever, J, which is strnok by the collar, H, so as to relieve the strain and trsnsmit the force gradaally. Suitable adjustable screwa serve to regalste the movements of the different pirts, aud the ammouut of ore beneath the stamps will regulate the smount fed. This ore feederisin use in several mills on auism, which connects.tbe rock shaft with the. this cosst. There sre two of them at the Bu_chansn mill, about eighteen miles esst of Sonora, Tuolumue county. Two of them are at the Shawmnt mine, snd two of them st the Knox & Boyle mill, in Tuolumne county. A. B. Preston writes concerning the operstion of the lsst four, thst his mill-men say they are the i iN _—_— best feeders they have ever nsed, being simple in construction and good for either wet or dry crushing. At the Spring Gnloh mill, owned by sn Eaglish compeny, end situsted sbout sixteen miles from Sonors,,Tuolumne county, Cal., they have used them a short time, A letter from this company recommends them highly, saying the maohines have given satisfaction. They give them credit for economy in the wear of shoes snd dies and the regulsrity of discharge. They think they will pay for themselves in five months in tbst respect, where thero is constaut’ They sre a great saving in every respect. The msnagers are confident that they have put throngh two tons of rock per day more, since they, have worked these machines thsn they did before. Jsmes Bawden, Vincent Johns, Thomss Whitto, Richard Martin and John Shsrwood, owners of the mill, ssy: ‘* We have been more or less connected with quartz sud the, milling of it for twelve or fonrteen years, and do not hesitste to say that the machine is the best we have seen introduced in a quertz mill, snd with propriety we osn recommend it to all qasrtz mill owners.”’ In Elko county, Nevads, the mines’ never looked so well, snd; gave so mnch promise of stop the tray, snd thus tend to luosen snd. permanency as at present, being now worked throw forward its contents, this feature being. more earnestly and with 8 better directed pur: pose, A Our Holiday. Although the date of the Parss is Jnly 4th, our many readers are not to suppose that the issning of it has necessitated anything like a desecration of thst day; for the busy hands sud brains that have toiled all the week in “gettiog it up,”’ closed the labors of the week on the ‘night before the Fourth,’’ asthe youthful patriots say, Aud before the ‘'one gan at day-hreak’’ gave the formal announcement of the dawuiug of the glorious day, the Pnrss was on its way to its thousenda of destinetions fer and nesr. Those of us who have kept “Fourth of July’ for half a century have noticed a msrked differeuce in regard to the uniformity with which this holiday ie celebrated. Even twenty years ago it was considered optionel with the employer whether his workmen kept holiday or not, and many worked of their owu choice; sometimes to gratify their greed, and sometimes from a supposed necessity. Now no employer requires his workmen to stick to their tasks on this day, and tbey would not do it if it were required of them. : The whole country to-day leys aside its esres, runs awsy from its labors, and throws up its cap éxultingly in city sand country. Onr readers have probahly discovered before this, thst tho Press is not given to croakiag on any subject; end they will not he surprised when we declare, as we now do, our helief that, the growth of true patriotiem among the American people is in full keeping with their increasing power to maintsin their liberty. Tue Comet may now be distinctly seen hy the naked eye in the northern part of the heayens, a short distance below and to the west of the North Star. It is moving. almost directly towarde the sun, and will pessso near the earth 8s to form a most brilliant object iu the heavens, It will reach its nearest approech to the earth about the Ist of Augnst, when it will be seen in the west only for a short time after the setting of the sun, and very near its point of setting, As its motion is rapidly increasing, with its spprosch to the sun, it will from this time until it reaches its perihelion (apes to the sun) increese very tapidly in brilliancy. Still another comet is annonnced. It is ssid that-Rev. R. B. Fsirhsirn, D. D., Wardeu of St. Stephen’s College, at Anendale, hss discovered snother comet, in the vicinity of Jupiter. So it is possible that we may soon be treated tothe rsre sight of two comets in the heavens at one snd the same time. Ponuman Cazs uv Itary.—A fifteen-year contract has been defioitely closed at Milsn, Italy, for pntting Pullman palace cara on sil trains snd lines in Upper Italy. This covers the great routes of pleesure travel via the northern lskes, The Italisn press highly compliments American progress, snd Director-Geners] Amilhsn on his euterprising application of pnblic wents. New Horse Oars,—The cer lately built at the railroad shops in Sacrsmento for the Potrero and Bay View Railroad wss received here last Ssturdsy. The car weighs 2,200 pounds, snd ig 12 feet long. The old-style street-oar is 16 feet long, snd weighs 4,700 pounds. A notable feature is the addition of a pstent carstarter, to start the car without strsin on the horses. j 1 B.V. Sancent reports that the Monterey coal mining company are ‘actively, exploring their mine’ Twenty-five feet below the'surface, 8 well defined’ stratum three 3 in thickness was discovered, and on drifting forty feet on the level it'increased in size'abont'an inch to the foot. ., : 1 mr Mn. Lyrux is obtaining good resnits im his: cinnsbar mine, ahove Trinity’ Center, Lest week forty-five ponnds’ of the cinnahsr were placed ins oommon retort, snd. from, this sixteen pounds of quicksilver were obtained. Tue property in Olifton district, or Deep creek, in Utsh, known asthe Gilberson property, has been sold to.s St. Louis company for the snug little snm of $90,000 cash. ©“ Tas Virginis and Truokee rsilrosd contemplate building s narrow-gauge rsilway from the hesd of the Summit flume to Lake Bigler.