Volume 38 (1879) (440 pages)

138 MINING AND SC ' IENTIFIC PRESS {March 1, 1879. Railroads. Guatemala Railroad Co. Chronicle, Janu, 14:, The ship Reunion, at Mission-street wharf, chartered by the Gnatemala Central Railroad Co, takes a cargo of railroad supplies to the port of San Jose de Guatemala, to be used in the construction of the road extending from the latter port to the city of Escuintla, Guatemala, 28 miles from the sea. The cargo will consist of about 1,800 tous of railroad ties, a large qnantity of iron-plating and castings for building purposes, coal, rice, coustruction implements, aud last, but not least, about 100 Chinamen, who will he put to work at once on the line of the road. Seven miles of the road-hed are already prepared for the rails, and they are on their way from New York via Panama, and wil! be received in San Jose about the time the Reunion reaches there. Thus enterprise, the successful inangnration of which has heen quietly accomplished, cannot fail to ultimately result in great henefit to San Francisco, The present objective point of the compauy is Escuintla, to which city they have a frauchise from the government of Guatemala for 99 years, and during the first 25 years thereof, after the opening of the line, they are guaranteed a net profit of 12%4per annum on $1,000,000 and aloan of $210,000 towards construction. It is the intention of the company to eventually ush the coustrnction of the line to the city of teen almost 60 miles inland. The city of Escnintla is the great center of the coffee trade of Guatemala, and, when once facilities are given for moving it, the production will he greatly increased. The present annual exports from the coffee section consist of ahout 6,000 tons of coffee, 300 tons of cochineal, 300 tons of hides, 300 tons of rubber, cocoa, etc., 300 tone of timher and native manufactures, By far the most important of the fntnre prospects of this road, however, is its extension to the Atlantic side, a distance of little more than 200 miles, where it reaches the magnificent harbor of Santo Thomas, the finest port hetween New York and Rio Janeiro, The Gnatemala route has no serious topographical. difiicnlties to overcome, and is 2,000 miles sborter than the route via the isthmns of Panama, Oregon and California. The Oregonian of January 25tb, says: KR. Koehler, ageut for German capitalists interested in the 0,& C. R. R. and O R. R, was called some months ago to Fraukfort-onthe-Main to report to the boudholders, npon the affairs of the road. He retnmed by the Oregon, on her last trip, and be confirms a statement, that the bondholders have decided to extend tbe road to Corvallis, 50 miles from its present terminus. He informs us that while in New York Mr. Villard and himself contracted for steel rails, the same in pattern and weight as those on tbe Central Pacific road between Sacramento and San Francisco, and for all the necessary rolling stock and motive power. The rails are completed, and will be shipped for Portland immediately, Myr. Koehler has contracted for ties and has put in the field a locating party now busy in the vicinity of McMinnville. The road will go by way of Amity and Dixie. Grading will commence as soon as right of way is obtained, Oregon Narrow-Gauge. The Oregonian further publishes the following from Ellis G. Hughes, Vice-President of the road, copied from the Brownsville Advertiser: Your favor of the 19th inst. making enqniries as to the nse of Chinese labor in the construction of the Oregon Narrow-Gauge road is at hand, It is our pnrpose to do almost the entire grading of the road with plows and scrapers, and in such work only white labor can be nsed asa matter of conrse, nor do we intend to use anything else in getting out ties, laying track, etc,; however, there are some parts of the work sucb as heavy ents, ete., which will probably be let by contract. When we let in this way we will let at the lowest prices attainable, and as a matter of course the contractor will employ such lahor as he chooses, Tbe suhseription at Salem is progressing favorahly, and J donht not will be closed in a few days, and at Lebanon, Scio and Aumsville, and elsewhere along the line the people are alive to the importance of tbe road to them and are earnestly pushing forward the good work, and I have no doubt will have their part of the subscription complete in a very short time, As we mnst await the completion of the suhscription hefore ordering cnr material from the Hast, or taking any active steps in the constraetion of the road, it is desirahle to have the entire matter closed withont delay if itis desired to have the road completed this year, and if there has so far hecn only $10,000 subscribed for Brownsville and the surrounding country, it is necessary that if push the work with more energy if it would not he left in the race, Santa Rosa and Napa. The project has been revived for the construction of a railroad from Santa Rosa to some point in Napa or Solano counties. Tbe object is to place Sonoma county generally in direct communication witb the Sacramento valley and the railroad system of the State. The proposed road will also be of advantage in other ways. The North Pacific railroad wall soon be extended from Cloverdale to Ukiah. This will make the projected road au outlet generally for the nortbMr. ern coast counties, All passenger travel and freights from Sonoma county to tbe northern portions of the State are now carried by water to Sau Francisco, and thence tothe Central Pacific and California Pacific railroads. This occasions great loss of time, besides incurring considerable expense in the handling of freight, Sonoma is one of the leading counties in the State for producing early fruit; hut the growers there must remain at a disadvantage, so far as Kastern markets are concerned, until there is direct eommunication with the trans-continental road. The entire length of the proposed road will he 38 miles, of which the distance between the towns of Sonoma and Napa juuction is 13 miles. lt can be graded its whole length at an average cost of $1,500 per mile. ‘The ties would cost, in addition, $600 per mile. Engineering and other expenses will raise the cost of the road-bed to abont $125,000. The citizens of Sonoma county propose to subscrihe that amount, grade the road, put the ties down, and then bond it to some Hastern mauufacturing firm for supplying rails and the rolling stock. There is still a large area of redwood forests in Sonoma county. Although they are within a comparatively short distance from the Saciameuto valley, yet lumber from the mills of Sonoma for that district has to be carried between 200 and 300 miles, The projected road will open direct communication, and thus increase the facilities for putting down the lumber of Sonoma in all the connties of the Sacramento valley. Sucb a road as the one projected must be constructed at some time, or Sonoma county mmst remain isolated from the northeru counties of the State. 7 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, According to the Silver City Herald, a great reduction has been made in the passenger fare on this road. This reduction took effect January Ist, 1879. To all points in Kansas rates are reduced to four cents per mile, Tbrough rate from ‘Trinidad to Kansas City is $28,25, One thousaud mile tickets will be sold for $30. No second-class or shipper’s ticket will be sold. Also, freight tariils have been greatly redneed, and hills of lading will he made by agents of the A. T. & S, F. to all points on the D. & R. G. South Pacific Coast Narrow Gauge. A correspondent of the Santa Crnz sentinel writes as follows: This railroad is being constructed in a solid and substantial manner, the ties and iron being of extra thickness. <A railroad mau of mnch experience says that it will he one of the best and safest roads in the United States—that is, for a narrow-gauge. The road will probably not stop at Santa Cruz, but be rna on sonth, Branch lines will probably be run in throngh Hihu’s Angmentation, and it is probable that a line will be run from Felton to the Great Basin. Tbe camp atthe soutb end of Tunnel No. 6, presents an animated appearance ; 450) Chinamen and 50 white men are encamped in the canyon, A white man has started a saloon, and a Chinaman, a store and opium den. The Chinamen employed by the contractors are all bired from two companies in San Francisco, and are little better than slaves. They receive nothing directly from tbe men for whom they work—all the money is paid to the company, whicb pays them when tbe contract is completed, In Névada. The Gold Hill News of Jan. 21st, thus discourses: D. O. Mills, tbe chief owner of the Virginia & Truckee railroad, has returned from his Eastern trip. It is generally understood that his mission East was to huy railroad iron and rolling stock for the proposed railroad from . the Mound house to Bodie, The eontract to} ent 250,000 ties was made last September, and . they are ready now. In a year tbe road will be! running to the new camp, and in two, it will be! pressed through to Los Angeles, and give ns another route to California, It will he of the same gauge as the V. & T. Clinton Narrow-Gauge Railroad. The San Francisco Bulletin, of January 24th, has the following: This is a private enterprise seldom spoken of, yet of considerable magnitnde, lis used for logging purposes, and is four miles in length, tapping the heavy belt of timher near Lake Tahoe. At the terminns of the road there is a chute 1,700 feet loug, into which the logs are dumped. Down this chute they fly and fallintothe river. Once tbere it is an easy matter to take the logs to the mills. The workmen, taking advantage of tbe hardness of the ground, are hringing from 60,000 to 70,000 logs daily, to he taken down in the spring. The road has one locomotive of seven tons weight, and six flat cars. The .cars can convey 100,000 logs daily to the head of the chnte, There is talk of pushing the road through to Lake Tahoe To Maxx Inon Take a Brteur Pouse Lire STEEL.—Pulverize and dissolve the following articles in one quart hot water: Blue vitriol}, one oz.; horax, oue 0z.3 prnssiate of potash, one oz.; charcoal, one oz.; salt, one-half pint; then add one gallon linseed oil, mix well, bring yonr iron or steel to the proper heat and cool in the solution. It is said the maunfacturers of the Judson governor paid $100 for this recipe, the object being to case-harden iron so that it would take a hright polish like steel. A Great deal of difficulty is experienced in cementing metal to glass, The Faerber Zeitung says that a mixture of two parts finely gronnd litharge and one part white lead, and working. itnp toa stiff paste with three parts hoiled oil and one part copal varnish, adding more litharge and white lead as required, is the best material for joining the two substances, Business Directory. WM. BARTLING. MENRY KIMBALL BARTLING & KIMBALL, BOOKBINDERS, Paper Rulers & Blank Book Manufacturers. 505 Clay Street,(sonthwest corner Sansome), SAN FRANCISCO, Lewis PETERSON. JouN OLSSON. PETERSON & OLSSON, Model Makers, and Manufacturers of Emblematic Signs. Models for the Patent Office, in Wood or Metal, a Specialty, NO328 BUSH STREET, Bet. Montgomery aud Kearny, (np stairs), San Francisco, All kinds of tin, copper and brass work made tu o-der, San Francisco Cordage Company.® Established 1856. We have just added a large amount of new machinery of the latest aud most improved kind, aud are again prepared to fill orders for Rope of any speciai lengths and sizes. Constantly on hand a large stock of Manila Rope, all sizes: Tarred Manila Rope; Hay Rope; Whale Line, etc, ete TUBBS & CO., 611 and 613 Front Street, San Francisco MANUFACTURED BY rt. ROY Hk, Nos, 855, 857, 859 & 862 Bryant Street, Cor, Park Avenue SAN FRANCISCO, CAUTION To Hydraulic Miners. The public generally and Hydraulic Miners especially are hereby notified that any parties making or using the contrivance known as the HOSKIN DEFLECTOR will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, said machine having been dcclared by the U, S, Circuit Court an infringenient upon my patent, the Bloomfield Deffecting Nozzle. The public arc also cantioned against using the Hoskin Deflector because of its danger to life and limb, -this device having already occasioned several deaths and other serious accidents. The BLOOMFIELD DEFLECTOR is entirely safe, its two aud a half years use without accident, as well as its construction, proves it to be a reliable eontrivanee. Any parties wishing to purchase the right to use these Deficctors cau do so by applying to the undersigned, HENRY C. PERKINS, North Bloomfield, Nevada Co., Cal, Octo— ber 1st, 1878. J. S, PHILLIPS, m. e, Consulting Engineer & Metallurgist, Examiner of Mines and Assayer, 702 CALIFORNIA STREET, Author of — San Francisco, The Explorers’, Miners'and Metallurgists' Companion, + ete 672 pages, 83 Dlustrations, (2d Edition.) Price. Io 50 The Prospector'’s "Wee Pet” Assayer, (Patented) 100 00 ‘the Testing Machine for Gold, Silver, Lead, etc.. 40 The "Little Wonder" Self-calcnlating Sample aud if Tn ton Weigher, (Patented) ..--.0--2-reeeees » 3 Dlow-pipists' Pocket Lahoratory of Tools, Fluxes, ete, 50 00 Nort Pocket, Blownipe ees. c serge. ses ce te rete 3 00 CHEARGES.— Assavi1no, $3; TesTinG, $2 per metal. Assaying and Testing Taught. PRINTER’S PROOF PRESS, COMPLETE AND IN GOOD WORKING ORDER, [For Sale at this office, AT THE LOW PRICE OF $37.50. 427 Call and sce it. TA Pocket Map of California and Nevada. Compiled from the latest nuthentie sources, by Chas. Drayton Gibbs, C. E. This wap comprises information obtained from the U. 8. Coast and Land, Whitney's State Geological, and Railroad Surveys; and from tbe results of explorations made by R. §. Williamson, U. §, A., Henry Oexroot, C. D. Gibbs and others. The seate is 18 miles to linch. It gives the Judicial and U.S. Land Districts. lt distinguishes the Townships and their subdivisions; the County Seats; The Military Posts; the Railroads built and proposed, and the limits of some of them; the occurrence of gold, silver, copper, quicksilver, tin, coal and oil. It has a section showing tho hights of the principal mountuins. The boundaries are clear and unmistakable, and the print good. 1878. Sold by DEWEY & CO. 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138 MINING AND SC ' IENTIFIC PRESS {March 1, 1879. Railroads. Guatemala Railroad Co. Chronicle, Janu, 14:, The ship Reunion, at Mission-street wharf, chartered by the Gnatemala Central Railroad Co, takes a cargo of railroad supplies to the port of San Jose de Guatemala, to be used in the construction of the road extending from the latter port to the city of Escuintla, Guatemala, 28 miles from the sea. The cargo will consist of about 1,800 tous of railroad ties, a large qnantity of iron-plating and castings for building purposes, coal, rice, coustruction implements, aud last, but not least, about 100 Chinamen, who will he put to work at once on the line of the road. Seven miles of the road-hed are already prepared for the rails, and they are on their way from New York via Panama, and wil! be received in San Jose about the time the Reunion reaches there. Thus enterprise, the successful inangnration of which has heen quietly accomplished, cannot fail to ultimately result in great henefit to San Francisco, The present objective point of the compauy is Escuintla, to which city they have a frauchise from the government of Guatemala for 99 years, and during the first 25 years thereof, after the opening of the line, they are guaranteed a net profit of 12%4per annum on $1,000,000 and aloan of $210,000 towards construction. It is the intention of the company to eventually ush the coustrnction of the line to the city of teen almost 60 miles inland. The city of Escnintla is the great center of the coffee trade of Guatemala, and, when once facilities are given for moving it, the production will he greatly increased. The present annual exports from the coffee section consist of ahout 6,000 tons of coffee, 300 tons of cochineal, 300 tons of hides, 300 tons of rubber, cocoa, etc., 300 tone of timher and native manufactures, By far the most important of the fntnre prospects of this road, however, is its extension to the Atlantic side, a distance of little more than 200 miles, where it reaches the magnificent harbor of Santo Thomas, the finest port hetween New York and Rio Janeiro, The Gnatemala route has no serious topographical. difiicnlties to overcome, and is 2,000 miles sborter than the route via the isthmns of Panama, Oregon and California. The Oregonian of January 25tb, says: KR. Koehler, ageut for German capitalists interested in the 0,& C. R. R. and O R. R, was called some months ago to Fraukfort-onthe-Main to report to the boudholders, npon the affairs of the road. He retnmed by the Oregon, on her last trip, and be confirms a statement, that the bondholders have decided to extend tbe road to Corvallis, 50 miles from its present terminus. He informs us that while in New York Mr. Villard and himself contracted for steel rails, the same in pattern and weight as those on tbe Central Pacific road between Sacramento and San Francisco, and for all the necessary rolling stock and motive power. The rails are completed, and will be shipped for Portland immediately, Myr. Koehler has contracted for ties and has put in the field a locating party now busy in the vicinity of McMinnville. The road will go by way of Amity and Dixie. Grading will commence as soon as right of way is obtained, Oregon Narrow-Gauge. The Oregonian further publishes the following from Ellis G. Hughes, Vice-President of the road, copied from the Brownsville Advertiser: Your favor of the 19th inst. making enqniries as to the nse of Chinese labor in the construction of the Oregon Narrow-Gauge road is at hand, It is our pnrpose to do almost the entire grading of the road with plows and scrapers, and in such work only white labor can be nsed asa matter of conrse, nor do we intend to use anything else in getting out ties, laying track, etc,; however, there are some parts of the work sucb as heavy ents, ete., which will probably be let by contract. When we let in this way we will let at the lowest prices attainable, and as a matter of course the contractor will employ such lahor as he chooses, Tbe suhseription at Salem is progressing favorahly, and J donht not will be closed in a few days, and at Lebanon, Scio and Aumsville, and elsewhere along the line the people are alive to the importance of tbe road to them and are earnestly pushing forward the good work, and I have no doubt will have their part of the subscription complete in a very short time, As we mnst await the completion of the suhscription hefore ordering cnr material from the Hast, or taking any active steps in the constraetion of the road, it is desirahle to have the entire matter closed withont delay if itis desired to have the road completed this year, and if there has so far hecn only $10,000 subscribed for Brownsville and the surrounding country, it is necessary that if push the work with more energy if it would not he left in the race, Santa Rosa and Napa. The project has been revived for the construction of a railroad from Santa Rosa to some point in Napa or Solano counties. Tbe object is to place Sonoma county generally in direct communication witb the Sacramento valley and the railroad system of the State. The proposed road will also be of advantage in other ways. The North Pacific railroad wall soon be extended from Cloverdale to Ukiah. This will make the projected road au outlet generally for the nortbMr. ern coast counties, All passenger travel and freights from Sonoma county to tbe northern portions of the State are now carried by water to Sau Francisco, and thence tothe Central Pacific and California Pacific railroads. This occasions great loss of time, besides incurring considerable expense in the handling of freight, Sonoma is one of the leading counties in the State for producing early fruit; hut the growers there must remain at a disadvantage, so far as Kastern markets are concerned, until there is direct eommunication with the trans-continental road. The entire length of the proposed road will he 38 miles, of which the distance between the towns of Sonoma and Napa juuction is 13 miles. lt can be graded its whole length at an average cost of $1,500 per mile. ‘The ties would cost, in addition, $600 per mile. Engineering and other expenses will raise the cost of the road-bed to abont $125,000. The citizens of Sonoma county propose to subscrihe that amount, grade the road, put the ties down, and then bond it to some Hastern mauufacturing firm for supplying rails and the rolling stock. There is still a large area of redwood forests in Sonoma county. Although they are within a comparatively short distance from the Saciameuto valley, yet lumber from the mills of Sonoma for that district has to be carried between 200 and 300 miles, The projected road will open direct communication, and thus increase the facilities for putting down the lumber of Sonoma in all the connties of the Sacramento valley. Sucb a road as the one projected must be constructed at some time, or Sonoma county mmst remain isolated from the northeru counties of the State. 7 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, According to the Silver City Herald, a great reduction has been made in the passenger fare on this road. This reduction took effect January Ist, 1879. To all points in Kansas rates are reduced to four cents per mile, Tbrough rate from ‘Trinidad to Kansas City is $28,25, One thousaud mile tickets will be sold for $30. No second-class or shipper’s ticket will be sold. Also, freight tariils have been greatly redneed, and hills of lading will he made by agents of the A. T. & S, F. to all points on the D. & R. G. South Pacific Coast Narrow Gauge. A correspondent of the Santa Crnz sentinel writes as follows: This railroad is being constructed in a solid and substantial manner, the ties and iron being of extra thickness. <A railroad mau of mnch experience says that it will he one of the best and safest roads in the United States—that is, for a narrow-gauge. The road will probably not stop at Santa Cruz, but be rna on sonth, Branch lines will probably be run in throngh Hihu’s Angmentation, and it is probable that a line will be run from Felton to the Great Basin. Tbe camp atthe soutb end of Tunnel No. 6, presents an animated appearance ; 450) Chinamen and 50 white men are encamped in the canyon, A white man has started a saloon, and a Chinaman, a store and opium den. The Chinamen employed by the contractors are all bired from two companies in San Francisco, and are little better than slaves. They receive nothing directly from tbe men for whom they work—all the money is paid to the company, whicb pays them when tbe contract is completed, In Névada. The Gold Hill News of Jan. 21st, thus discourses: D. O. Mills, tbe chief owner of the Virginia & Truckee railroad, has returned from his Eastern trip. It is generally understood that his mission East was to huy railroad iron and rolling stock for the proposed railroad from . the Mound house to Bodie, The eontract to} ent 250,000 ties was made last September, and . they are ready now. In a year tbe road will be! running to the new camp, and in two, it will be! pressed through to Los Angeles, and give ns another route to California, It will he of the same gauge as the V. & T. Clinton Narrow-Gauge Railroad. The San Francisco Bulletin, of January 24th, has the following: This is a private enterprise seldom spoken of, yet of considerable magnitnde, lis used for logging purposes, and is four miles in length, tapping the heavy belt of timher near Lake Tahoe. At the terminns of the road there is a chute 1,700 feet loug, into which the logs are dumped. Down this chute they fly and fallintothe river. Once tbere it is an easy matter to take the logs to the mills. The workmen, taking advantage of tbe hardness of

the ground, are hringing from 60,000 to 70,000 logs daily, to he taken down in the spring. The road has one locomotive of seven tons weight, and six flat cars. The .cars can convey 100,000 logs daily to the head of the chnte, There is talk of pushing the road through to Lake Tahoe To Maxx Inon Take a Brteur Pouse Lire STEEL.—Pulverize and dissolve the following articles in one quart hot water: Blue vitriol}, one oz.; horax, oue 0z.3 prnssiate of potash, one oz.; charcoal, one oz.; salt, one-half pint; then add one gallon linseed oil, mix well, bring yonr iron or steel to the proper heat and cool in the solution. It is said the maunfacturers of the Judson governor paid $100 for this recipe, the object being to case-harden iron so that it would take a hright polish like steel. A Great deal of difficulty is experienced in cementing metal to glass, The Faerber Zeitung says that a mixture of two parts finely gronnd litharge and one part white lead, and working. itnp toa stiff paste with three parts hoiled oil and one part copal varnish, adding more litharge and white lead as required, is the best material for joining the two substances, Business Directory. WM. BARTLING. MENRY KIMBALL BARTLING & KIMBALL, BOOKBINDERS, Paper Rulers & Blank Book Manufacturers. 505 Clay Street,(sonthwest corner Sansome), SAN FRANCISCO, Lewis PETERSON. JouN OLSSON. PETERSON & OLSSON, Model Makers, and Manufacturers of Emblematic Signs. Models for the Patent Office, in Wood or Metal, a Specialty, NO328 BUSH STREET, Bet. Montgomery aud Kearny, (np stairs), San Francisco, All kinds of tin, copper and brass work made tu o-der, San Francisco Cordage Company.® Established 1856. We have just added a large amount of new machinery of the latest aud most improved kind, aud are again prepared to fill orders for Rope of any speciai lengths and sizes. Constantly on hand a large stock of Manila Rope, all sizes: Tarred Manila Rope; Hay Rope; Whale Line, etc, ete TUBBS & CO., 611 and 613 Front Street, San Francisco MANUFACTURED BY rt. ROY Hk, Nos, 855, 857, 859 & 862 Bryant Street, Cor, Park Avenue SAN FRANCISCO, CAUTION To Hydraulic Miners. The public generally and Hydraulic Miners especially are hereby notified that any parties making or using the contrivance known as the HOSKIN DEFLECTOR will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, said machine having been dcclared by the U, S, Circuit Court an infringenient upon my patent, the Bloomfield Deffecting Nozzle. The public arc also cantioned against using the Hoskin Deflector because of its danger to life and limb, -this device having already occasioned several deaths and other serious accidents. The BLOOMFIELD DEFLECTOR is entirely safe, its two aud a half years use without accident, as well as its construction, proves it to be a reliable eontrivanee. Any parties wishing to purchase the right to use these Deficctors cau do so by applying to the undersigned, HENRY C. PERKINS, North Bloomfield, Nevada Co., Cal, Octo— ber 1st, 1878. J. S, PHILLIPS, m. e, Consulting Engineer & Metallurgist, Examiner of Mines and Assayer, 702 CALIFORNIA STREET, Author of — San Francisco, The Explorers’, Miners'and Metallurgists' Companion, + ete 672 pages, 83 Dlustrations, (2d Edition.) Price. Io 50 The Prospector'’s "Wee Pet” Assayer, (Patented) 100 00 ‘the Testing Machine for Gold, Silver, Lead, etc... 40 The "Little Wonder" Self-calcnlating Sample aud if Tn ton Weigher, (Patented) ...--..0--2-reeeees » 3 Dlow-pipists' Pocket Lahoratory of Tools, Fluxes, ete, 50 00 Nort Pocket, Blownipe ees. c serge. ses ce te rete 3 00 CHEARGES.— Assavi1no, $3; TesTinG, $2 per metal. Assaying and Testing Taught. PRINTER’S PROOF PRESS, COMPLETE AND IN GOOD WORKING ORDER, [For Sale at this office, AT THE LOW PRICE OF $37.50. 427 Call and sce it. TA Pocket Map of California and Nevada. Compiled from the latest nuthentie sources, by Chas. Drayton Gibbs, C. E. This wap comprises information obtained from the U. 8. Coast and Land, Whitney's State Geological, and Railroad Surveys; and from tbe results of explorations made by R. §. Williamson, U. §, A., Henry Oexroot, C. D. Gibbs and others. The seate is 18 miles to linch. It gives the Judicial and U.S. Land Districts. lt distinguishes the Townships and their subdivisions; the County Seats; The Military Posts; the Railroads built and proposed, and the limits of some of them; the occurrence of gold, silver, copper, quicksilver, tin, coal and oil. It has a section showing tho hights of the principal mountuins. The boundaries are clear and unmistakable, and the print good. 1878. Sold by DEWEY & CO. Price, postpaid, $2; to subseribers of this jourual, until further notice, $1. DEFLECTED HEAT Boswell’s Combined. Heater, Cooker, Baker, Clothes‘and Fruit Drier, Dry House and Kitchen Range. An application of Scientifie Principles to the economy of living, of labor, of health ant of comfort. .A bandsome piece of Furniture adapted to tl wants of every family. It equally econoizes time, labor fuel, and avoids exposure to heat in cooking as well ag baking. It bakes Bread, Cakes and Pies to any desired tl without turnibg or watching, or danger of burning, A odors produced in cooking are passed up the flue. Foo cooked by deflected heat is improved in flavor, more eaail digested ins more 1 will keep fresh longer, and is also much improved in appearance, The stages of the cooking or baking can he seen without stooping or openit the doors of the oven. It will dry and bleach your clothes in. from half an hour to one hour and a half, and heat your irons, it dried in the Boswell will gain from TWENTY to FORTY PER CENT, in WEIGHT, and THIRTY PER CENT, QUALITY over that dried by any other process, It will _successfully dry any kind of Fruit, Grapes, Berries, Meats, Fis! Vegetables, Cutfec, Tobacco, Corn and Grain of all kinds, — ALSO — Boswell’s Commercial Fruit Drier, Used exclusively for drying and heating purposes ON A LARGE SCALE. — ALSO — BOSWELL’S CABINET HEATER, Of all sizes and enpacity for heating Private Residences, Hotels, Halls, School Houses, Churches, Offices, Stores, ilroad Cars, Hospitals, etc. All of which can be operated successfully hy a mere child, it is so simple in its construction, and with one-third the usual amount of fuel (coal or wood), used in any other beating, cooking or drying apparatus. Every farmer ay economical housekeeper should use it. It will pay for itsclf in the saving of fuel; it will pay in the suverior character of its FRUIT DRYING, ef its COOKING, ROASTING apd BAKING; it will pay in its salubrious and healthful warm ai will pay the rich and the poor alike, Address, for Price List and descriptive illustrated circulars, Boswell Pure Air Heater Co., No. 606 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California, S. R. LIPPINCOTT, Secretary. EHUGENE L. SULLIVAN, Pres’t. — Barlow J. Smith. M.D. Consulting Physician, Professor of Phrenology and Mental Hygiene. Proprietor of the Smithsonian Medical and ‘Phrenologica Institute, 635 California Street, above Kearny. This Institute, by combining medical hygiene with the ‘yarious Water Cure treatments and the most powerful Electrized orseshoe Magnet in the world, claims to cure speedily ana permanenvly all forms of acute or chronic neryo vital derangements, Braiu, Spinal and Heart diseases, St. Vitus Dance, Palsy, Epilepsy and all Rheumatic, Liver and Kidney troubles. The institution hns for the past 20 years made a specialty of eae ne all forms of weaknesses and diseases peculiar to males and females. By the use of hygiente remedics and electro-motorpathy the worst forms of impotency and seminal weakness in males and sterility im females are speedily and permaueutiy overcome. Hygioni¢ hoard, with or withont roonts. Terms moderate. Electrothermal, Russo-Turkish and Medicated Baths given daily. Mrs. Dr. Smith as Matron has charge of the female bathing department. DR. SMITH has practiced Phrenology the past 30 yeara, and during the last 20 years has beeu constantly using the science Connected with Physiognomy, in exonan iy or diagnosing disease in this city, and claims to have made discoverics in the SCIENCE of Phreuology that enables him, by aii examination of the head, even blindfolded, to detormine the” disease to which the person is constitutionally subject, or whether the disease at the time afflicting the person, is the result of accident or hereditary weakness; whether ConSUMPTIVE, DYSPEPTIc, RHEUMATIC, APOPLECTIC, NEU: RALGIC, LEUCORRNGAL,or SEMINAL. Especially does the form of the head indicate the strength of the uterine, geol tal or reproductive system, e head is also an index of the natural strength of the lungs, heart, stomach, liver, kidneys, spleeu, back or vertebra, and it determines the power of the system in warding otf and overcoming disease Of all kinds. Ladies or geutlemen, desirous of ohtaining a thorongh and correct Phrenological examinations with Fowler and Wells harts, will meet with a respecful reception at his consulting rooms. Parties can depcnd upon a reliable delineation. of the character of their intimate male or female friends, hy presenting a clearly detined photograph. . : hrenolugical or Physiognomical examinations without charts, $1.50 ; with charts, from $2 to $3. INVITATION TO INVALIDS And all persons who are in any way out of health, who desire to know the uature and causes of their disease, may avail themselves of nn examinatiou through pbreuology regard to health free of charge, between the hours of 94. 3. and Sp. M. Sundays from 9A m, to 12 a ‘Dewey & Co{%z,c8%"}Patent Agts