Volume 35 (1877) (426 pages)

x. An Illustrated Journal of Mining, Popular Se ence and Geni ral News. BY DEWEY & cCo., Patent Solicitora, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1877. VOLUME x3XXXV. Number 15. Straw and Corn Cutting Machines. The advanced stato of agriculture bas produced a demand for improved machinery and applianees, by which the preparation of fecd and tho cost of raising stock can be reduced to a more economieal system. Hence it has been the study of numerous inventors how to conatruct a machino for cutting hay, straw, ctc., in a first-class manner, and in combination will reduce even corn stalks and tbe eoarso material nsually found in fecd, fiue enough for all kinds of stoek to cat, requiring that class of feed, and that the machino will not destroy the tender parts while reducing the coarser portion to a proper degreo of fineness, That the machine will not be cumbersome aud too complicated in construction, as wellas to be too difhcult to keep in running order, and too laborious to operate; to perform these several operations at once, also that it wil! meet the wants of all requiring that class of machinery, such as paper mianufacturers, collar makers, egg packers, stock breeders, dairymen, farmers, liveryinen, and numerous others. The machines illnstrated on this page, manufactured by J. Dick & Bros., Canton, Ohio, embrace the foregoing requirements in practical form: Fig. 1 is a fair representation of the No. 1 Dick’s superior hay, straw and cornstalk cutter and splitter, arranged for horse or steam power. ‘It has a pulley onthe main shaft to receive a belt. It will ent from 3,000 to 5,000 Ibs. per hour, according to the material aud length of eut. It has two sets of feed rolls and two boxes. It is so arranged as to cut on both sides of the main shaft; by this device the knives cut from two boxes instead of one. This machine cuts 19 inches wide and three inches thick, with 12 inches long. The cut can be changed to eight different lengths, between one-quarter and oneeighth inches. The shear.plates are made adjustable, and are independent of the workiug parts. In case of wear they can be readily taken out and ground and are easily replaced and adjusted. All the working parts are encased, to prevent straw, etc., from getting in contact with the machinery, also to guard against accident. The encasing is sll indepeudent of the frame of the machine and can be readily removed if desired. This machine is built with two or three knives as the purchaser may wish, Fig. 2 gives a perspective view of the machinery and the arrangement of folding the feed boxes over the machine. Lach of the feed rollers are set, driven independent of each other by endless space chains, so as to give them perfect freedom in adjusting themselves to the irregular thickness of material passing between them. In the cutting of corn stalk, especially with the ear on, it is difficult to feed even thickness, as it often happens that on one end of the feed roller several corn stalks and ears of corn will pass between them, at the same time ou the other end of the roller will be comparatively nothing. By this device of driving the feed rolls, the machine cannot be injured by over feeding. he tension springs that give press. ure to the feed rollers are made of tempered steel and are mounted underneath the feed roller, pressing on the center of cross-bars. These cross-bars are hinged to iron rods which are connected with the bearings on each end of the feed roller; by this arrangement the everchanging position of the rolls is not interfered with by the tension springs. The feed gears are made interchangeable and can be changed vice versa. By this device a great’ many different lengtbs of cuts can be made with bnt few wheels. Allthe working parts are made to take up in case of wear. The feed gears are provided with a uew plan for keeping them luhricated; the oil is applied through the center of the bearings, and cannot go to waste unless passing through the bearings first and performing its. duty. Figure 3 gives a view of the fly wheel as eonstructed for all the machines, hand and power, of different sizes. This wheel is mounted on the main shaft; on this shaft is mounted the driving pulley and the bevel piniou that gives motion to the feed gears. On the fly wheel is placed the whole cutting apparatus— the knives, two or three in number, as the caso may be, is supported on adjustable supports. These supports are provided with inclines or clutches and are made to revolve on similar inclines on the spokes of the fly wheel. By partly revolving these supports the knives cau be adjusted to or from the shear plates, as the case may require, and firmly sccured in their Poe position hy two strong bolts passing through each knife, the supports, and the arm of the fly wheel. The knives are straight blades, This form of knife is readily adjusted and easily kept in order, New Mining Districts. Ata meeting of miners at Royal City, on the 25tli ult., it was unanimously agreed on the vote of the miners to segrogate that district from Bristol district, the new district to he called the Jackrabbit mining district. The boundaries of the Jackrabbit mining district to be bounded on the southeast by the Highland mining district, on the northwest by the Last Chance district, on the south by the summit of Fig. 1, Dick’s Straw and Corn Stalk Cutter and Splitter. Preceding the cutting kuives are a series of . the mountain to the valley. These . Lincoln county, Nevada, and has lately atsteel blades, arranged on curved hars, This district is in blades are set closely to each other so as to ent, . tracted considerable attention. split and crush corn stalks, ears of corn, and all coarse material into minute particles. blades operate at a right angle, or nearly} Fresno county. so, with the entting knives, and are arranged in . Recorder. By this. as follows : eurved lines from tho main shaft. Fine Gold Gulch district has been formed at These . Fine Gold Gulch, 35 miles northeast of Borden, C. E. Strivens has been elected The boundaries of the district are Commenciug at John Williams device the blades precede each other and will. ranch ; thence west to Harbert’s mill; theuce operate easy, and cannot clog up soas to preveut . in a westerly direction to Johnson’s ranch ; Fig. 2, Perspective View of the Mechanism. them froin performing this work. For cutting hay, straw, ete., these splitter bars are not Fig. 3, The Fly Wheel. thence to the San Joaquin river; thence up the San Joaquin river, following the meanderings of required and can be readily detached by loosen-. the stream, ten miles, and from thence northing two bolts in each bar, thus leaving only the cutting knives a.tached to the fly wheel. The main hearings are filled with bahbitt metal in all the machines, and can be readily refilled in case of wear. Tur Water Commissioners have decided to recommend the Blue lakes scheme for supplying San Francisco with wator, erly to the place of beginning. Tue Los Angeles Republican says: Captain Kraszynski, of Andrew station, informs us that on Friday last the well on the Pico district known as ‘‘Pico No, 2,” struck oil at a depth of 200 feet, and at last accounts was flowing 300 barrels per day. : The Hayden Surveys, The work done by the Hayden Geological and Geographical Survey has beeu probably better appreciated by the people at large than any similar work ever done in the United States, As a general thing tbe public seems to be opposed to the expenditure of public moneys for things of this kind, for the results attained do not seem to the average mind to be commensurate with the expense. Of course this conclusion is erroneous, as anywell-informed person knows. However, in this case, the survey has been, aud is, very popular with all classes of people, aud the reports have been properly appreciated by all, To scientific meu they are of deep interest as the sections of country examined by the survey have been entirely new, and the discoveries important. The publications have been issued in first-class style and are satisfactory iu every respect. To show how the work of the survey is appreciated abroad we publish the following extract from a letter from J. Barrande, the eminent paleontologist of Prague, Bohemia, to Professor F. V. Hayden, the chief of the survey: In 1876 I received of you a series of varions publications, for which I heg you to accept my warmest thanks. Among those publications there are two which are especially distinguished by their extent and the accompanying illustrations. One is Mr. Meek’s last work on the invertebrates of the cretaceous and the tertiary formations of the upper Missouri; the other is Mr. Cope’s work on vertebrates of the cretaceous landsin the West. Theso two magnificent quarto volumes give the measure of the grand plan which is to immortalize the work of your United States Geological Survey of the Territories, You have laboriously and successfully conducted that survey over an immense area, and you continue to do it with an equal success in the co-ordination and the publication of the incomparable mass of observed facts. Iamhappy to have the chance to express to you my congtatulations for this double success. _ The heanty of the plates and the typographical luxury of your two largo quarto volumes honor the artists of your country, and contrihute to ennobling the monument erected by you to science. That monument will testify that the supreme legislature of the United States, by exercising a sovereign mnnificence in the . name of a great nation, well understands that a narrow parsimony would be very much out of place and show very little patriotism in regard to securing a national glory. After all, pacific glories of science cost much less than bloody laurels, and secure more desirahle sympathies among other nations. Honor to your intelligent legislators! The day will come when they will show you more positively their gratitude. Hare & Norcross.—The total expenses of running the Hale & Norcross works, underground aud on the surface, for the month of Septemher was $16,820.13. There were consumed for running the pumping engine alone 521 cords of wood, or an average of 174 cords per day; in all 655 cords were consumed. On the lst instant there were on hand at the works 1,0614 cords of wood. The number of days’ lahor performed was 1,4644; and the average wages per day was $4.41}. Coe the month the pump was stopped 47 hours ay 16 minntes, or one hour and 344 minutes per day. The pump made 299,420 strokes during the month, being an average of 6 97-100 per minute, and hoisted 14,976,000 gallons of water. Tux mine owners of Gold Ruu have concluded to discharge all the Chinese in their employ, and work their mines in futnre exclusively with white labor at reduced wages. The wages paid miners to be $35 per month, and furnished with board and sleeping apartments. Itis said Mr. Stone, Superintendent of one of the Gold Run mines, is now working the men he employs ou this lay-out, and the miners working the Hayward mines at You Bet are hired on the same terms,

x. An Illustrated Journal of Mining, Popular Se ence and Geni ral News. BY DEWEY & cCo., Patent Solicitora, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1877. VOLUME x3XXXV. Number 15. Straw and Corn Cutting Machines. The advanced stato of agriculture bas produced a demand for improved machinery and applianees, by which the preparation of fecd and tho cost of raising stock can be reduced to a more economieal system. Hence it has been the study of numerous inventors how to conatruct a machino for cutting hay, straw, ctc., in a first-class manner, and in combination will reduce even corn stalks and tbe eoarso material nsually found in fecd, fiue enough for all kinds of stoek to cat, requiring that class of feed, and that the machino will not destroy the tender parts while reducing the coarser portion to a proper degreo of fineness, That the machine will not be cumbersome aud too complicated in construction, as wellas to be too difhcult to keep in running order, and too laborious to operate; to perform these several operations at once, also that it wil! meet the wants of all requiring that class of machinery, such as paper mianufacturers, collar makers, egg packers, stock breeders, dairymen, farmers, liveryinen, and numerous others. The machines illnstrated on this page, manufactured by J. Dick & Bros., Canton, Ohio, embrace the foregoing requirements in practical form: Fig. 1 is a fair representation of the No. 1 Dick’s superior hay, straw and cornstalk cutter and splitter, arranged for horse or steam power. ‘It has a pulley onthe main shaft to receive a belt. It will ent from 3,000 to 5,000 Ibs. per hour, according to the material aud length of eut. It has two sets of feed rolls and two boxes. It is so arranged as to cut on both sides of the main shaft; by this device the knives cut from two boxes instead of one. This machine cuts 19 inches wide and three inches thick, with 12 inches long. The cut can be changed to eight different lengths, between one-quarter and oneeighth inches. The shear.plates are made adjustable, and are independent of the workiug parts. In case of wear they can be readily taken out and ground and are easily replaced and adjusted. All the working parts are encased, to prevent straw, etc., from getting in contact with the machinery, also to guard against accident. The encasing is sll indepeudent of the frame of the machine and can be readily removed if desired. This machine is built with two or three knives as the purchaser may wish, Fig. 2 gives a perspective view of the machinery and the arrangement of folding the feed boxes over the machine. Lach of the feed rollers are set, driven independent of each other by endless space chains, so as to give them perfect freedom in adjusting themselves to the irregular thickness of material passing between them. In the cutting of corn stalk, especially with the ear on, it is difficult to feed even thickness, as it often happens that on one end of the feed roller several corn stalks and ears of corn will pass between them, at the same time ou the other end of the roller will be comparatively nothing. By this device of driving the feed rolls, the machine cannot be injured by over feeding. he tension springs that give press. ure to the feed rollers are made of tempered steel and are mounted underneath the feed roller, pressing on the center of cross-bars. These cross-bars are hinged to iron rods which are connected with the bearings on each end of the feed roller; by this arrangement the everchanging position of the rolls is not interfered with by the tension springs. The feed gears are made interchangeable and can be changed vice versa. By this device a great’ many different lengtbs of cuts can be made with bnt few wheels. Allthe working parts are made to take up in case of wear. The feed gears are provided with a uew plan for keeping them luhricated; the oil is applied through the center of the bearings, and cannot go to waste unless passing through the bearings first and performing its. duty. Figure 3 gives a view of the fly wheel as eonstructed for all the machines, hand and power, of different sizes. This wheel is mounted on the main shaft; on this shaft is mounted the driving pulley and the bevel piniou that gives motion to the feed gears. On the fly wheel is placed the whole cutting apparatus— the knives, two or three in number, as the caso may be, is supported on adjustable supports. These supports are provided with inclines or clutches and are made to revolve on similar inclines on the spokes of the fly wheel. By partly revolving these supports the knives cau be adjusted to or from the shear plates, as the case may require, and firmly sccured in their Poe position hy two strong bolts passing through each knife, the supports, and the arm of the fly wheel. The knives are straight blades, This form of knife is readily adjusted and easily kept in order, New Mining Districts. Ata meeting of miners at Royal City, on the 25tli ult., it was unanimously agreed on the vote of the miners to segrogate that district from Bristol district, the new district to he called the Jackrabbit mining district. The boundaries of the Jackrabbit mining district to be bounded on the southeast by the Highland mining district, on the northwest by the Last Chance district, on the south by the summit of Fig. 1, Dick’s Straw and Corn Stalk Cutter and Splitter. Preceding the cutting kuives are a series of . the mountain to the valley. These . Lincoln county, Nevada, and has lately atsteel blades, arranged on curved hars, This district is in blades are set closely to each other so as to ent, . tracted considerable attention.

split and crush corn stalks, ears of corn, and all coarse material into minute particles. blades operate at a right angle, or nearly} Fresno county. so, with the entting knives, and are arranged in . Recorder. By this. as follows : eurved lines from tho main shaft. Fine Gold Gulch district has been formed at These . Fine Gold Gulch, 35 miles northeast of Borden, C. E. Strivens has been elected The boundaries of the district are Commenciug at John Williams device the blades precede each other and will. ranch ; thence west to Harbert’s mill; theuce operate easy, and cannot clog up soas to preveut . in a westerly direction to Johnson’s ranch ; Fig. 2, Perspective View of the Mechanism. them froin performing this work. For cutting hay, straw, ete., these splitter bars are not Fig. 3, The Fly Wheel. thence to the San Joaquin river; thence up the San Joaquin river, following the meanderings of required and can be readily detached by loosen-. the stream, ten miles, and from thence northing two bolts in each bar, thus leaving only the cutting knives a.tached to the fly wheel. The main hearings are filled with bahbitt metal in all the machines, and can be readily refilled in case of wear. Tur Water Commissioners have decided to recommend the Blue lakes scheme for supplying San Francisco with wator, erly to the place of beginning. Tue Los Angeles Republican says: Captain Kraszynski, of Andrew station, informs us that on Friday last the well on the Pico district known as ‘‘Pico No, 2,” struck oil at a depth of 200 feet, and at last accounts was flowing 300 barrels per day. : The Hayden Surveys, The work done by the Hayden Geological and Geographical Survey has beeu probably better appreciated by the people at large than any similar work ever done in the United States, As a general thing tbe public seems to be opposed to the expenditure of public moneys for things of this kind, for the results attained do not seem to the average mind to be commensurate with the expense. Of course this conclusion is erroneous, as anywell-informed person knows. However, in this case, the survey has been, aud is, very popular with all classes of people, aud the reports have been properly appreciated by all, To scientific meu they are of deep interest as the sections of country examined by the survey have been entirely new, and the discoveries important. The publications have been issued in first-class style and are satisfactory iu every respect. To show how the work of the survey is appreciated abroad we publish the following extract from a letter from J. Barrande, the eminent paleontologist of Prague, Bohemia, to Professor F. V. Hayden, the chief of the survey: In 1876 I received of you a series of varions publications, for which I heg you to accept my warmest thanks. Among those publications there are two which are especially distinguished by their extent and the accompanying illustrations. One is Mr. Meek’s last work on the invertebrates of the cretaceous and the tertiary formations of the upper Missouri; the other is Mr. Cope’s work on vertebrates of the cretaceous landsin the West. Theso two magnificent quarto volumes give the measure of the grand plan which is to immortalize the work of your United States Geological Survey of the Territories, You have laboriously and successfully conducted that survey over an immense area, and you continue to do it with an equal success in the co-ordination and the publication of the incomparable mass of observed facts. Iamhappy to have the chance to express to you my congtatulations for this double success. _ The heanty of the plates and the typographical luxury of your two largo quarto volumes honor the artists of your country, and contrihute to ennobling the monument erected by you to science. That monument will testify that the supreme legislature of the United States, by exercising a sovereign mnnificence in the . name of a great nation, well understands that a narrow parsimony would be very much out of place and show very little patriotism in regard to securing a national glory. After all, pacific glories of science cost much less than bloody laurels, and secure more desirahle sympathies among other nations. Honor to your intelligent legislators! The day will come when they will show you more positively their gratitude. Hare & Norcross.—The total expenses of running the Hale & Norcross works, underground aud on the surface, for the month of Septemher was $16,820.13. There were consumed for running the pumping engine alone 521 cords of wood, or an average of 174 cords per day; in all 655 cords were consumed. On the lst instant there were on hand at the works 1,0614 cords of wood. The number of days’ lahor performed was 1,4644; and the average wages per day was $4.41}. Coe the month the pump was stopped 47 hours ay 16 minntes, or one hour and 344 minutes per day. The pump made 299,420 strokes during the month, being an average of 6 97-100 per minute, and hoisted 14,976,000 gallons of water. Tux mine owners of Gold Ruu have concluded to discharge all the Chinese in their employ, and work their mines in futnre exclusively with white labor at reduced wages. The wages paid miners to be $35 per month, and furnished with board and sleeping apartments. Itis said Mr. Stone, Superintendent of one of the Gold Run mines, is now working the men he employs ou this lay-out, and the miners working the Hayward mines at You Bet are hired on the same terms,