Volume 35 (1877) (426 pages)

An Illustrated Journal of Mining, Popular ence and General News. BY DEWEY «& Co., Patent Solleitors. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1877, VOLUME AXAXXV. Number 24. Mine Locomotives for Gold Mines. Description of the Mine Locomotive ueed by the Bald Mountain Gold Mining Co. We present in this issue engravings of a mine locomotive which is now in uso at the mincs of tho Bald Mountain gold mining company, at Forest City, California. It is employed in a tunnel 4,000 feet in length, in which is a track of only 20” gauge, laid with T rails, and having grades some of which are as stecp as 220 fcet per mile. The tunnel is four feet wide at the track and for 1$ inches up; thence it tapers to two and one-half feet in width atthe top. The extreme hight from level of rails to the top of tunnel is five and one-half fect. The track has curves of from 60 to 150 feet radins, Small four-wheeled cars, having wheels 12 inches in diameter, and working completely in every respect; in fact, it is what engiueers call a remarkahly smart one, running since we had it without any repairs excepting replacing tho cylinder leads, which wero too light. We find the tires too soft, causing them to wear rapidly, The estimates made by you were under its capacity, and cost of operating. We can haul 45 of our cars with 80 men and 10 loads of timher aud material, up our grade and iuto the mine, making the trip in five minutes, or at the rate of nine iniles per hour. We can hring ont 18 loaded cars with the locomotive alone, with the use of the hrake which we put on here. We have no hrakemen. We use anthracite coal, and find no deleterious cffects from steam or gas on our ventilation. Our air shaft is sunk 2,000 feet from the mouth of the tunnel, aud is in two compartments of 34 feet square each. At the top we drop two inches of water into the center of each compartment, which forces a strong Cost per car-load, 4} cts.=2% cts. per ton; distance run, not including switching, 200 miles; mule power costs 9 cts. per car-load; nan power costs 21 ceuts per car-load. H. W. Wattis, Tn relation to the above facts we arc told that the locomotive descrihed is of the greatest utility, and fills a want long felt amongst miners, viz.: the economic and rapid moving of large quantities of pay gravel through long tunnels, This engine is so construeted that it will work well in any ordinary sized tunnel and on heavy grades, where mule power is impracticahle, on account of the number of hrakemen required. The machine will he extremely useful in any mine with a 2,000-foot tunnel, and moving any considerahle amount of dirt. Any further information concerning these locomoWealth—A Few Thoughts for the Times. [Written for the Press by J. L. Boone. ] We can write down as one of the laws of nature the following maxim: ‘Let every man succeed according to his talents.” If a man is naturally endowed with superior talent in one direction, he is capahle of accomplishing more in that direction than his less gifted neighbor or competitor. Natural capacity counts more in the race of life than education, practice or hard work.’ It is when all four of these re. quirements are comhined in one individual, to a greater or less extent, that he hecomes powerful, hrilliant and a leader of his fellows in his husiness or proleior Take a Digger Indian that has talent in any direction, give him education, experience and a will to succeed and he will succeed. Education, experience or hard a wheel base of 20 iuches, and which weigh 750 pounds each, and can carry two tons each, are used on this track. The ventilation is ohtained from air sbafts and air ways, without any hlowers or furnaces, the current of air moving at the f prcesenrseemmesnay much separately, hut they must he kept at work will accomplish . the work to retain what they gain, otherwise it will gradually slip away. You can fill a sieve with rate of ahout four miles per hour. In the summer of 7 1876, Mr i VV) Wallis, in hehalf of the Bald Mountain gold mining company, opened a corressand if you keep at work and pile it in fast enough, hut stop the accumulation a moment and the an” sieve is as empty as it was hefore, Divide the riches of the world equall y amongst the people, regardless of their ca1 pacity, and, like waondence with the aldwin Locomotive Works, of Philadelphia, with reference ~RS ter seekiug its level, it will concentrate itself again into the very hands that now toa mine locomotive for working on this track. His requisition waa for a locomotive to work by ee MINE LOCOMOTIVE MADE AT THE BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS. compressed air, if possihle, some fears be{current of air down the shaft and thro ugh the ing entertaincd as to the practica-bility of working a coal hurning locomotive, on account of the effect of the gasses on the ventilation. The Baldwin Locomotive Works, believing from their experience in the construction of mine locomotives for underground work in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, that a locomotive hurning anthracite coal would he unobjectionahle in the tunnel of the Bald Mountain mine, in view of the ventilation as descrihed ahove, recommended such amachine for the purpose. They undertook to construct a locomotive which could haul 30 or 40 empty cars up the maximum gradein the tunnel, which was then assumed to be only 166 feet ver mile. They estimated its consumption of fuel would he from 400 to 500 pounds of coal daily in haulinga total of 192 cars up the grade in eight hours. y The locomotive was ordered, constructed, and shipped in Octoher, 1876. It reached its destination, and hegan service Decemher 8th, 1876, The results of its work are fully and carefully stated ina letter from Mr. H. W. Wallis, of the Bald Mountain mining company, to Messrs. Burnham, Parry, Williams & Co., of Philadelphia, which we print below. The dimensions of the locomotive are mostly shown in the engraving. We add the following particulars of this engine: Cylinders, 8” x 12”; diameter of driving wheels, 24”; wheel hase, 3 ft. 4”; tank capacity, 110 gallons; weight, in working order, 15,000 pounds; hight, 61”; width across cylinders, 464”; width across tank, 39”. Orrice Batp Mounrarx Gotp Mining Co. ) Forest Ciry, Cat., May 13th, 1877. . Messrs. Burnham, Parry, Williams & Co,— Gentleman:—Your note making inquiry regarding the working of the mine locomotive huilt hy you for us last fall has remained for some length of time unanswered, for tho reason that our haul was too short to give a fair statement of its capacity. -I am now ahle to furnisba statement of its work, although it is capahle of doing twice the work which we have for it. The locomotive has given entire satisfaction, air-ways, giving the air to the workmen first and carrying off the steam and what little gas is generated from the coal. We have already made a saving of more than the cost of the locomotive and attending expenses in the working of the mine. The following is a statement for the week of tives will no doubt he furnished hy the manufacturers to any one addressing them. Bu.iion Suiements.—Since our last issue shipments of hullion from the prominent mines have heen asfollows: California, Dec. 6th, $339,530.81; Chollar-Potosi, 5th, $10,019.87; Con. Virginia, 6th, $238,002.62; Tybo, 6th, $4,078.14; Grand Prize, 11th, $18,300; Alps, 10th, $3,056; Standard, 8th, $39,425.92; Martin White, 10th, $17,084; Northern Belle, 8th $2,er End View of Locomotive. six days uow closed, which is a fair comparison with all of the work: Length of haul, 3,800 feet; grade, 166 to 220 feet per mile; weight of cars, 750 pounds each; diameter wheels, 12 inches; wheel hase 20 inches; gauge of track, 20 inches; cars each carry two tons; carloads gravel taken out for week 2,936=5,872 tons. EXPENSE. 4,370 pounds Anthracite coal. Engineer's wages Headlights, oi] and tallow 2a 92. 44 Ka Section of Mine Locomotive. 606.10; Leopard, 11th, $5,900; Tyho, 8th, $8,313.79; Alps, 11th, $1,300; Arizona, 11th, $1,623.12; Con. Virginia, 11th, $405,488. 06. At Santiago, Chile, a perfect shower of lawsuits are pending, instituted by purchasers of the Paraf shares, to recover their money, on the ground that the alleged discovery bein, untrue, there was no consideration given, an that, consequently, the sales were void. Some of these suits are said to he already compromised, Paraf is in jail, hold it. Why? Because it requires a special talent to accumulate money, and the hest indication of that development is the fact that these persons once accumulated it, Again, the capacity of an individual to aceumulate riches is not so much in his superior faculty for getting hold of money as itis in fis superior faculty for keeping what he does get hold of. In other words, he is a sieve with an imperforate hottom, every drop of sand that enters remains. Such a nature must necessarily he mean and sordid to a certain extent, for every generous action, every Christian impulse, makes a hole in the hottom of his sieve, and his accumulatious hegin to run out. Rich to-day, poor to-morrow, is the motto of the energetic hard worker who is deficient in the talent or natnral capacity to getrich. How many 49ers, who accumulated upon their perforated sieve hottoms large fortunes when gold dust was measured in quart cups, and 20-dollar pieces were used as convenient pebhles for throwing at a mark, retained what they had accumulated when the supply hecame less plenty. Extravagance, shiftlessness, passion and vice are all enemies of the rich man; so are charities and social pleasures. It is a common saying that such and such men are rich in spite of themselves, that they spend their money freely, but always seem to have enough. Fortnne is fickle. It does, sometimes, seem to favor certain individuals, but hold on for a while, the end must come, and it always does come. Such fortunate individuals in the end are usually the most unfortunate. Luck is a favorite term. Many, like the ancient mythologists, have planted a star in the firmament which they call “Luck,” and to it they how down astoagod. They pray for luck. Luck is a cowardly assassin. It is a sneak thief, the devil’s assistant. It isareward to the undeserving, a hlessing to the accursed. The hope of luck creates misery, damns souls and disorganizes society. Out with it. Thesweat of an honest brow hrings profit, an easy conscience, charity, good will toward our fellows, and learns us to appreciate its fruits so that our sieve hag enough perforations to accomplish good, hut is imperforate enough to contain all the halance.

An Illustrated Journal of Mining, Popular ence and General News. BY DEWEY «& Co., Patent Solleitors. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1877, VOLUME AXAXXV. Number 24. Mine Locomotives for Gold Mines. Description of the Mine Locomotive ueed by the Bald Mountain Gold Mining Co. We present in this issue engravings of a mine locomotive which is now in uso at the mincs of tho Bald Mountain gold mining company, at Forest City, California. It is employed in a tunnel 4,000 feet in length, in which is a track of only 20” gauge, laid with T rails, and having grades some of which are as stecp as 220 fcet per mile. The tunnel is four feet wide at the track and for 1$ inches up; thence it tapers to two and one-half feet in width atthe top. The extreme hight from level of rails to the top of tunnel is five and one-half fect. The track has curves of from 60 to 150 feet radins, Small four-wheeled cars, having wheels 12 inches in diameter, and working completely in every respect; in fact, it is what engiueers call a remarkahly smart one, running since we had it without any repairs excepting replacing tho cylinder leads, which wero too light. We find the tires too soft, causing them to wear rapidly, The estimates made by you were under its capacity, and cost of operating. We can haul 45 of our cars with 80 men and 10 loads of timher aud material, up our grade and iuto the mine, making the trip in five minutes, or at the rate of nine iniles per hour. We can hring ont 18 loaded cars with the locomotive alone, with the use of the hrake which we put on here. We have no hrakemen. We use anthracite coal, and find no deleterious cffects from steam or gas on our ventilation. Our air shaft is sunk 2,000 feet from the mouth of the tunnel, aud is in two compartments of 34 feet square each. At the top we drop two inches of water into the center of each compartment, which forces a strong Cost per car-load, 4} cts.=2% cts. per ton; distance run, not including switching, 200 miles; mule power costs 9 cts. per car-load; nan power costs 21 ceuts per car-load. H. W. Wattis, Tn relation to the above facts we arc told that the locomotive descrihed is of the greatest utility, and fills a want long felt amongst miners, viz.: the economic and rapid moving of large quantities of pay gravel through long tunnels, This engine is so construeted that it will work well in any ordinary sized tunnel and on heavy grades, where mule power is impracticahle, on account of the number of hrakemen required. The machine will he extremely useful in any mine with a 2,000-foot tunnel, and moving any considerahle amount of dirt. Any further information concerning these locomoWealth—A Few Thoughts for the Times. [Written for the Press by J. L. Boone. ] We can write down as one of the laws of nature the following maxim: ‘Let every man succeed according to his talents.” If a man is naturally endowed with superior talent in one direction, he is capahle of accomplishing more in that direction than his less gifted neighbor or competitor. Natural capacity counts more in the race of life than education, practice or hard work.’ It is when all four of these re. quirements are comhined in one individual, to a greater or less extent, that he hecomes powerful, hrilliant and a leader of his fellows in his husiness or proleior Take a Digger Indian that has talent in any direction, give him education, experience and a will to succeed and he will succeed. Education, experience or hard a wheel base of 20 iuches, and which weigh 750 pounds each, and can carry two tons each, are used on this track. The ventilation is ohtained from air sbafts and air ways, without any hlowers or furnaces, the current of air moving at the f prcesenrseemmesnay much separately, hut they must he kept at work will accomplish . the work to retain what they gain, otherwise it will gradually slip away. You can fill a sieve with rate of ahout four miles per hour. In the summer of 7 1876, Mr i VV) Wallis, in hehalf of the Bald Mountain gold mining company, opened a corressand if you keep at work and pile it in fast enough, hut stop the accumulation a moment and the an” sieve is as empty as it was hefore, Divide the riches of the world equall y amongst the people, regardless of their ca1 pacity, and, like waondence with the aldwin Locomotive Works, of Philadelphia, with reference ~RS ter seekiug its level, it will concentrate itself again into the very hands that now toa mine locomotive for working on this track. His requisition waa for a locomotive to work by ee MINE LOCOMOTIVE MADE AT THE BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS. compressed air, if possihle, some fears be{current of air down the shaft and thro ugh the

ing entertaincd as to the practica-bility of working a coal hurning locomotive, on account of the effect of the gasses on the ventilation. The Baldwin Locomotive Works, believing from their experience in the construction of mine locomotives for underground work in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, that a locomotive hurning anthracite coal would he unobjectionahle in the tunnel of the Bald Mountain mine, in view of the ventilation as descrihed ahove, recommended such amachine for the purpose. They undertook to construct a locomotive which could haul 30 or 40 empty cars up the maximum gradein the tunnel, which was then assumed to be only 166 feet ver mile. They estimated its consumption of fuel would he from 400 to 500 pounds of coal daily in haulinga total of 192 cars up the grade in eight hours. y The locomotive was ordered, constructed, and shipped in Octoher, 1876. It reached its destination, and hegan service Decemher 8th, 1876, The results of its work are fully and carefully stated ina letter from Mr. H. W. Wallis, of the Bald Mountain mining company, to Messrs. Burnham, Parry, Williams & Co., of Philadelphia, which we print below. The dimensions of the locomotive are mostly shown in the engraving. We add the following particulars of this engine: Cylinders, 8” x 12”; diameter of driving wheels, 24”; wheel hase, 3 ft. 4”; tank capacity, 110 gallons; weight, in working order, 15,000 pounds; hight, 61”; width across cylinders, 464”; width across tank, 39”. Orrice Batp Mounrarx Gotp Mining Co. ) Forest Ciry, Cat., May 13th, 1877. . Messrs. Burnham, Parry, Williams & Co,— Gentleman:—Your note making inquiry regarding the working of the mine locomotive huilt hy you for us last fall has remained for some length of time unanswered, for tho reason that our haul was too short to give a fair statement of its capacity. -I am now ahle to furnisba statement of its work, although it is capahle of doing twice the work which we have for it. The locomotive has given entire satisfaction, air-ways, giving the air to the workmen first and carrying off the steam and what little gas is generated from the coal. We have already made a saving of more than the cost of the locomotive and attending expenses in the working of the mine. The following is a statement for the week of tives will no doubt he furnished hy the manufacturers to any one addressing them. Bu.iion Suiements.—Since our last issue shipments of hullion from the prominent mines have heen asfollows: California, Dec. 6th, $339,530.81; Chollar-Potosi, 5th, $10,019.87; Con. Virginia, 6th, $238,002.62; Tybo, 6th, $4,078.14; Grand Prize, 11th, $18,300; Alps, 10th, $3,056; Standard, 8th, $39,425.92; Martin White, 10th, $17,084; Northern Belle, 8th $2,er End View of Locomotive. six days uow closed, which is a fair comparison with all of the work: Length of haul, 3,800 feet; grade, 166 to 220 feet per mile; weight of cars, 750 pounds each; diameter wheels, 12 inches; wheel hase 20 inches; gauge of track, 20 inches; cars each carry two tons; carloads gravel taken out for week 2,936=5,872 tons. EXPENSE. 4,370 pounds Anthracite coal. Engineer's wages Headlights, oi] and tallow 2a 92. 44 Ka Section of Mine Locomotive. 606.10; Leopard, 11th, $5,900; Tyho, 8th, $8,313.79; Alps, 11th, $1,300; Arizona, 11th, $1,623.12; Con. Virginia, 11th, $405,488. 06. At Santiago, Chile, a perfect shower of lawsuits are pending, instituted by purchasers of the Paraf shares, to recover their money, on the ground that the alleged discovery bein, untrue, there was no consideration given, an that, consequently, the sales were void. Some of these suits are said to he already compromised, Paraf is in jail, hold it. Why? Because it requires a special talent to accumulate money, and the hest indication of that development is the fact that these persons once accumulated it, Again, the capacity of an individual to aceumulate riches is not so much in his superior faculty for getting hold of money as itis in fis superior faculty for keeping what he does get hold of. In other words, he is a sieve with an imperforate hottom, every drop of sand that enters remains. Such a nature must necessarily he mean and sordid to a certain extent, for every generous action, every Christian impulse, makes a hole in the hottom of his sieve, and his accumulatious hegin to run out. Rich to-day, poor to-morrow, is the motto of the energetic hard worker who is deficient in the talent or natnral capacity to getrich. How many 49ers, who accumulated upon their perforated sieve hottoms large fortunes when gold dust was measured in quart cups, and 20-dollar pieces were used as convenient pebhles for throwing at a mark, retained what they had accumulated when the supply hecame less plenty. Extravagance, shiftlessness, passion and vice are all enemies of the rich man; so are charities and social pleasures. It is a common saying that such and such men are rich in spite of themselves, that they spend their money freely, but always seem to have enough. Fortnne is fickle. It does, sometimes, seem to favor certain individuals, but hold on for a while, the end must come, and it always does come. Such fortunate individuals in the end are usually the most unfortunate. Luck is a favorite term. Many, like the ancient mythologists, have planted a star in the firmament which they call “Luck,” and to it they how down astoagod. They pray for luck. Luck is a cowardly assassin. It is a sneak thief, the devil’s assistant. It isareward to the undeserving, a hlessing to the accursed. The hope of luck creates misery, damns souls and disorganizes society. Out with it. Thesweat of an honest brow hrings profit, an easy conscience, charity, good will toward our fellows, and learns us to appreciate its fruits so that our sieve hag enough perforations to accomplish good, hut is imperforate enough to contain all the halance.