Volume 35 (1877) (426 pages)

400 MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS (December 22, 1877. JNO. L. BOONE. GEO. H. STRONG. ESTABLISHED IN 1860. 202 SANSOME STREET, W. B. EWER. A. T. DEWEY. ABLE, FAITHFUL AND REASONABLE, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Removed August Ist to 202 Sansome Street, Northeast Corner of Pine. Mining and Scientific Press Patent Agency. THe Mininc anp SCIENTIFIC Press Patent AGEncy was estab lished in 1860—the first west of the Rocky Mountains. [t has kept step with the rapid march of mechanical improvements. The records in its archives, its constantly increasing library, the accumulation of information of special importance to our home inventors, and the experience of its proprietors in an extensive and long continued personal practice in patent business, affords them combined advantages greater than any other agents can possibly offer to Pacific Coast inventors. Circulars of advice, free. Address, DEWEY & CoO.,, 202 Sansome St., N. E. Cor. Pine, San Francisco. Thanks for Six Patents, Etc. SACRAMENTO City, November 28, 1877. Messrs. Dewey & Co.—Dear Siv:—Please accept my thanks for the prompt and successful manner with which you have conducted my business in obtaining patents for fire brick, and for a smelting and condensing furnace, making six patents I have obtained through your patent seeney. Four of the above patents were for the purpose of saving fine gold, quicksilver and amalgam, and the concentration of ores of all kinds. J can cheerfully recoinmend the firm to all with whom I may come in contact, especially inventors, I remain, respectfully yours, GEO. R. EVANS. Tue Besr Fireuonnsr.—after having used Dewey’s pateut elastic hinge fileholder for over a year past, the News cheerfully indorses it as the best newspaper fileholder in existence, possessing important advautages over any and all others in use. The holders are neat, light and convenient, and the newspapers are placed iu them with the utmost facility and least possible time and exertion. They are the simplest, bandiest and cheapest of all. Anybody keepiug files of papers in reading rooms, offices or at home, should send at once to the proprietor, A. T. Dewey, San Francisco, and get the only oe fileholder. Samples by mail fifty cents.—G@old Hill News. San Lorenzo, December bth, 1877. . * Masses. Dewey & Co.—Gentlemen: I received the Let. ters Patent for my invention on the 5th inst., aud beg to thank you for the gentlemanly and business-like manner in which yon have dealt with me from the beginning of my application. I shall always feel it a pleasure to recommend you to all 1 come in contact with who need Letters Patent. Respectfully, Wa. DALE. London Assurance Corporation, OF LONDON, ENGLAND, Established in 1720. Cash Assets -' $14,993,466 Western Assurance Company, OF TORONTO, CANADA. Incorporated 1851. Cash Assets $1,576,307 CROSS & CO., Gen. Agents, San Francisco Buy the Best. Before purchasing an American Watch, examine the different styles manufactured by the HAMPDEN WATCH COMPANY, at Springfield, Mass. They are the latest and best improved manufacture. You can depend upon them for fine finish, durability and perfect time. They are sold at favorable prices—in fact, no higher than many of the inferior styles. Examine into the merits of this Watch before you buy any other. Our word for it, you will not regret it. DEWEY & JORDAN, Agenis, 433 Montgomery Si., S. F. SUMMER QUEEN AND FAIRY QUEEN COAL OIL STOVES. The best in the World. Address for Catalogue WHRISTER & CO., 17 New Montgomery Street, S.F. fe =) Baciric RURAL Press, A first-class 16-page Illustrated Agricultural Weekly, filled witb fresh, valuable and iuteresting reading. Every farmer and ruralist should take it. It is iiumensely popular, Send for a sample copy. DEWEBY & CO., Publishers, S. Fr 202 . Dewey & Co. { ssnsomes. }Patent Ag’ts. . PACIFIG MAIL STEAMSHIP CO. The Company’s Steamers will sail as follows, at 12 M.: BW PO con oo doco on codesges sos gaueescnosdEs JANUARY 1. For YOKOHAMA and HONGKONG. GEORGIA S53 caer ee tre meee es ere DECEMBER 31, For Panawa and New York, calling at Acapulco, San Jose de Guatamala, La Libertad and Punta Arenas. Tickets to and from Europo by any line for sale at the lowest rates, ZEALANDIA, Moxpay, DECEMBER 31, at 12 o'clock, noon, or on arrival of tho English Mails, for HONOLULU, AUCKLAND and SYDNEY. $10 additional is charged for passage in Upper Saloon. DAKOTA, eamemeteeirc css: + «7 semen DECEMBER 20. For Victoria, Port Townsend, Seattle, and Tacoma, conuecting at Tacoma with Northern Pacific Ruilroad for Portland, Oregon. Tickets must be purchased before 11 A. M. on day of sailing. 4 For freight or passago apply at the office corner First aud Brannan streets. WILLIAMS, BLANCHARD & CO., Agts. N. W. SPAULDING'S PATENT DETACHABLE TOOTH SAWS, Manufactory, 17 & 19 Fremont St., S. F. Smelter and Refiner. A competent person is desirous of receiving the position of Superi d of a and Refini Works. Cau give satisfactory reference for ability to smelt all lead ores, refine silver and make market lead. No objections to goto the Territories. Address P. F. M., this office. Smelt} . Washington St., © 504 ps Zz SAN FRANCISCO. > Oo o ZXAMINER ogee 2 RONSULTING ENGINEE™ NER a MINS) “<L o MINERAL ASSANER & WETALLURCSt =: The Explorers’, Miners’ & Metallurgists’ Companion 672 pages, 83 Illustrations (2d. Edition.) Price.s 10.50 The roetactans Patented "Wee Pct” Assayer. 100.00 The Testing machine for Gold, Silver, Lead, Ete. 40.00 Cabinet of Fluxes ete., for these machines, a 3. $2 per metal. Pocket Laboratory for Blowpipists. Vest Pocket Blowpipe. .. CHARGES.—AssayIna Amusements, GRAND OPERA HOUSE. MISSION Street. use ree see Between Third and Fourth. M. A. KENNEDY, Acting Manager. Opceu every evoning with a first-class dramatic company. Box office open from 94. ™. to10 P.M. Doors open at half past seven. Commence at eight. CALIFORNIA THEATER. Joun McCubLovatt. .,.Proprietor and Manager. Barton Hibb... Acting Manager. Bush Street, above Kearny. Open every ovening with the best dramatic company in the United States. Box office open from 9 A. M. to10F. M. Seats may bo secured six days in advance. BUSH STREET THEATER. Cuas. E. Locke. Lessee and Manager FRANK LAWLOR. . Acting Manager Open every evening and Saturday matinec. MR. AND MRS. FRANK FRAYNE, AND THE— Famous Kentucky Rifle Team in Si Slocum. Seats may be secured six days in advance. BALDWIN’S THEATER. THOMAS MAGUIRE. . 0.1. c cece ccc ce ence eens ones Manager. Corner Market and Powell Strects. Open every eveniug aud Saturday matinee. Union Square theater company. Magnificont scenery; elegant appointments. Box office open daily. W. T. GARRATT’S . BRASS and BELL FOUNDRY SAN FRANCISCO. MANUFACTURER AND IMPORTER OF Church and Steamboat BELLS and GONGS, BRASS CASTINGS of all kinds R GATES, G. a OCK HYDRANTS, GARDEN HYDRANTS A General Assortment of Engineers’ Findings. Hooker’s Patent Celebrated STEAM PUMP 4@The Best and Most Durable in use. Also, a variety of other PUMPS rT. GARRATTI, C MANUFACTURER. mill For Mining and Farming Purposes. ROOT’S BLAST BLOWERS, For Ventilating Mines and for Smelting Works. HYDRAULIC PIPES AND NOZZLES, For Mining Purposes. Improved Journal IMPORTER OF IRON PIPE AND MALLEABLE IRON FITTINGS. ALL KINDS OP WORK AND COMPOSITION NAILS, AT LOWEST RATES. Wi N D M . LL One of the bestmade in this State = for sale cheap on easy terms. Address, W. T., care of Dewey & Co.,5. F. Garrati’s Metal. This paper is printed with Ink furnished by ‘Chas. Eneu Johnson & Co., 509 South 10th St., Philadelphia, & 59Gold St., Cor. Ann,N.Y,

400 MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS (December 22, 1877. JNO. L. BOONE. GEO. H. STRONG. ESTABLISHED IN 1860. 202 SANSOME STREET, W. B. EWER. A. T. DEWEY. ABLE, FAITHFUL AND REASONABLE, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Removed August Ist to 202 Sansome Street, Northeast Corner of Pine. Mining and Scientific Press Patent Agency. THe Mininc anp SCIENTIFIC Press Patent AGEncy was estab lished in 1860—the first west of the Rocky Mountains. [t has kept step with the rapid march of mechanical improvements. The records in its archives, its constantly increasing library, the accumulation of information of special importance to our home inventors, and the experience of its proprietors in an extensive and long continued personal practice in patent business, affords them combined advantages greater than any other agents can possibly offer to Pacific Coast inventors. Circulars of advice, free. Address, DEWEY & CoO.,, 202 Sansome St., N. E. Cor. Pine, San Francisco. Thanks for Six Patents, Etc. SACRAMENTO City, November 28, 1877. Messrs. Dewey & Co.—Dear Siv:—Please accept my thanks for the prompt and successful manner with which you have conducted my business in obtaining patents for fire brick, and for a smelting and condensing furnace, making six patents I have obtained through your patent seeney. Four of the above patents were for the purpose of saving fine gold, quicksilver and amalgam, and the concentration of ores of all kinds. J can cheerfully recoinmend the firm to all with whom I may come in contact, especially inventors, I remain, respectfully yours, GEO. R. EVANS. Tue Besr Fireuonnsr.—after having used Dewey’s pateut elastic hinge fileholder for over a year past, the News cheerfully indorses it as the best newspaper fileholder in existence, possessing important advautages over any and all others in use. The holders are neat, light and convenient, and the newspapers are placed iu them with the utmost facility and least possible time and exertion. They are the simplest, bandiest and cheapest of all. Anybody keepiug files of papers in reading rooms, offices or at home, should send at once to the proprietor, A. T. Dewey, San Francisco, and get the only oe fileholder. Samples by mail fifty cents.—G@old Hill News. San Lorenzo, December bth, 1877. . * Masses. Dewey & Co.—Gentlemen: I received the Let. ters Patent for my invention on the 5th inst., aud beg to thank you for the gentlemanly and business-like manner in which yon have dealt with me from the beginning of my application. I shall always feel it a pleasure to recommend you to all 1 come in contact with who need Letters Patent. Respectfully, Wa. DALE. London Assurance Corporation, OF LONDON, ENGLAND, Established in 1720. Cash Assets -' $14,993,466 Western Assurance Company, OF TORONTO, CANADA. Incorporated 1851. Cash Assets $1,576,307 CROSS & CO., Gen. Agents, San Francisco Buy the Best. Before purchasing an American Watch, examine the different styles manufactured by the HAMPDEN WATCH COMPANY, at Springfield, Mass. They are the latest and best improved manufacture. You can depend upon them for fine finish, durability and perfect time. They are sold at favorable prices—in fact, no higher than many of the inferior styles. Examine into the merits of this Watch before you buy any other. Our word for it, you will not regret it. DEWEY & JORDAN, Agenis, 433 Montgomery Si., S. F. SUMMER QUEEN AND FAIRY QUEEN COAL OIL STOVES. The best in the World. Address for Catalogue WHRISTER & CO., 17 New Montgomery Street, S.F. fe =) Baciric RURAL Press, A first-class 16-page Illustrated Agricultural Weekly, filled witb fresh, valuable and iuteresting reading. Every farmer and ruralist should take it. It is iiumensely popular, Send for a sample copy. DEWEBY & CO., Publishers, S. Fr 202 . Dewey & Co. { ssnsomes. }Patent Ag’ts. . PACIFIG MAIL STEAMSHIP CO. The Company’s Steamers will sail as follows, at 12 M.: BW PO con oo doco on codesges sos gaueescnosdEs JANUARY 1. For YOKOHAMA and HONGKONG. GEORGIA S53 caer ee tre meee es ere DECEMBER 31,

For Panawa and New York, calling at Acapulco, San Jose de Guatamala, La Libertad and Punta Arenas. Tickets to and from Europo by any line for sale at the lowest rates, ZEALANDIA, Moxpay, DECEMBER 31, at 12 o'clock, noon, or on arrival of tho English Mails, for HONOLULU, AUCKLAND and SYDNEY. $10 additional is charged for passage in Upper Saloon. DAKOTA, eamemeteeirc css: + «7 semen DECEMBER 20. For Victoria, Port Townsend, Seattle, and Tacoma, conuecting at Tacoma with Northern Pacific Ruilroad for Portland, Oregon. Tickets must be purchased before 11 A. M. on day of sailing. 4 For freight or passago apply at the office corner First aud Brannan streets. WILLIAMS, BLANCHARD & CO., Agts. N. W. SPAULDING'S PATENT DETACHABLE TOOTH SAWS, Manufactory, 17 & 19 Fremont St., S. F. Smelter and Refiner. A competent person is desirous of receiving the position of Superi d of a and Refini Works. Cau give satisfactory reference for ability to smelt all lead ores, refine silver and make market lead. No objections to goto the Territories. Address P. F. M., this office. Smelt} . Washington St., © 504 ps Zz SAN FRANCISCO. > Oo o ZXAMINER ogee 2 RONSULTING ENGINEE™ NER a MINS) “<L o MINERAL ASSANER & WETALLURCSt =: The Explorers’, Miners’ & Metallurgists’ Companion 672 pages, 83 Illustrations (2d. Edition.) Price.s 10.50 The roetactans Patented "Wee Pct” Assayer.. 100.00 The Testing machine for Gold, Silver, Lead, Ete. 40.00 Cabinet of Fluxes ete., for these machines, a 3. $2 per metal. Pocket Laboratory for Blowpipists. Vest Pocket Blowpipe.. .... CHARGES.—AssayIna Amusements, GRAND OPERA HOUSE. MISSION Street.. use ree see Between Third and Fourth. M. A. KENNEDY, Acting Manager. Opceu every evoning with a first-class dramatic company. Box office open from 94. ™. to10 P.M. Doors open at half past seven. Commence at eight. CALIFORNIA THEATER. Joun McCubLovatt.. .,.Proprietor and Manager. Barton Hibb..... Acting Manager. Bush Street, above Kearny. Open every ovening with the best dramatic company in the United States. Box office open from 9 A. M. to10F. M. Seats may bo secured six days in advance. BUSH STREET THEATER. Cuas. E. Locke. Lessee and Manager FRANK LAWLOR. . Acting Manager Open every evening and Saturday matinec. MR. AND MRS. FRANK FRAYNE, AND THE— Famous Kentucky Rifle Team in Si Slocum. Seats may be secured six days in advance. BALDWIN’S THEATER. THOMAS MAGUIRE. . 0.1.. c cece ccc ce ence eens ones Manager. Corner Market and Powell Strects. Open every eveniug aud Saturday matinee. Union Square theater company. Magnificont scenery; elegant appointments. Box office open daily. W. T. GARRATT’S . BRASS and BELL FOUNDRY SAN FRANCISCO. MANUFACTURER AND IMPORTER OF Church and Steamboat BELLS and GONGS, BRASS CASTINGS of all kinds R GATES, G. a OCK HYDRANTS, GARDEN HYDRANTS A General Assortment of Engineers’ Findings. Hooker’s Patent Celebrated STEAM PUMP 4@The Best and Most Durable in use. Also, a variety of other PUMPS rT. GARRATTI, C MANUFACTURER. mill For Mining and Farming Purposes. ROOT’S BLAST BLOWERS, For Ventilating Mines and for Smelting Works. HYDRAULIC PIPES AND NOZZLES, For Mining Purposes. Improved Journal IMPORTER OF IRON PIPE AND MALLEABLE IRON FITTINGS. ALL KINDS OP WORK AND COMPOSITION NAILS, AT LOWEST RATES. Wi N D M . LL One of the bestmade in this State = for sale cheap on easy terms. Address, W. T., care of Dewey & Co.,5. F. Garrati’s Metal. This paper is printed with Ink furnished by ‘Chas. Eneu Johnson & Co., 509 South 10th St., Philadelphia, & 59Gold St., Cor. Ann,N.Y,