Volume 39 (1879) (446 pages)

348 MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS. [November 20, 1849, 2 ConTINVED FRON Pace 341. and prospects appear favorable. The wiuze on the 10th level looks first rates in the drift we have low-grade ore that will pay well when we gct the place opened up in shape. We are making all due preparations to start work ou the black lede, so as to have a good quantity of ore on hand when the furnace starts up. Mr. Kélbonrne was in town last night and reports the grading for the furnace finished and is getting ready for the stone work. The mill ig rnuning smoothly and everything around the miue likewise. SANTA FE DISTRICT. Rica Discovery.—The Esmeralda Herald speaks of a very rich discovery ahout five miles in a northerly direction from the famous Sunrise mine. The ore is a black sulphuret, galena and antimony. The rock was taken from the surface, and several assays were made, ranging from $2,200 to $2,026. The vein is 22 inches wide, and in a limestone formation. Jt is pronounced hy old_prospectors to he the greatest discovery ever known, Work will be d ou it i diately. ARIZONA. Sinver Prixce.—Arzonan: Mr, Curtin, who, with Hotaling, is owuer in the Prince, informs us that there is now on the dump, at the mine, 100 tons of ore that will mill $400 to the ton throughont, which is a pretty good showing for any mine. But the bestis not told. Three men receutly took from the mine, iu one day, five tons of ore worth $1,000 per ton, and there is four ft of this ore in the ledge now iu sight. COLORADO. CLEAR Creek County.—Mincr: The Magnet and Sequel mines are associated properties on Saxon mountain, and are under the superinteudency of E. Le Neve Foste:. They have been leased by Hopkins, Withrow & Co., and are turning out profitahle quantities of ore. In the lower drift there are 10 inches of nearly solid ore, in the hottom, and two streaks in the ton, one of six and one of eight inches. The largest streak at this poiut mills 355 ounces of silver per ton, and the smaller one from 500 to 800 ounces per ton. In addition to this there is a considerable amount of scattered mineral. A level recently commenced below this carries six incbes of 350-ounce ore, aud at other points in the inine there are from one to three inches of ore. Four men are employed on the-property and are doing well, IDAHO, Ireus.—Idaho City World, Nov. 18: Charles Smith discovered 2 mine ona line with the Last Chanes, on the Yuba side of Atlauta hill, and about a mile below the summit, Itisa promising mine. ‘wo tons of ore from the Qucen’s river mines, worked in the Buffalo mill recently, yielded $100 per ton. The Yuba tunnel company have tapped the Atlanta mine at a depth of 1,500 ft from the surface. The tunnel is neurly 1,400 it in‘length. The ore body tapped promises to be a houanza of immense proportions, Fifty-dollar ore is now boing extracted. The people ef Atlanta have heen anxiously waiting for the tnnnel to tap the ledye, and as it is now proven good at a great depth, intense excitement prevails. It is rumored that the company will erect a mill early next spring. Good ore is being taken out of the Buifalo mine. The mill was shut down a few days ago, but will be started up again soon. The Last Chanco is leoking splendid and good rock is heing taken out of it. Hall & Co, have struck rich ore in the shaft, but it is not yet known whether it helongs to them or the Last Chance eompany. A goad deal of prospecting is boing dene in the mines around Atlauta. Yanker Foru.—A strike of very rich rock was made on the Charles Wain ledge a fewdays since, Recent developments on the Charles Dickens mine are very flattcring. Good ore is found in the lower tunnel, and a very rich strike was niade lately in the crosscut at the end of the old tunnel. This leayes many thousand tons of good ore in sight, New Mixine District.—Tie Idaho Statesman, of Nov. 15th, publishes a letter from Hon. V. S. Anderson, from Rocky Bar, in which it is mentioned that Merrit Kelly arrived here last night. He has discovered a new mining district on Wood river, which contains a large number of ledges, one of which, 2 galena ledge, he says is 50 ft wide. This is an entirely new discovery, Kelly being the only person.who has yet been there. The ore looks well, but lio assays have yet been made. The new district is called the Black Barb, from a black-bharbed Indian arrow-head which he fonnd, and which led to the discovery. This diseovery is situated on tho west side of the main Wood river, and on the West Fork of that stream, between GaJena City and Mineral Hill. Kelly says he has also discovered a hig iron mine and some limestone, He thinks it isan important discovery, and that it will rival the other districts on Wood river. He came in to have his claims recorded, and if the weatber pormits he intends to return to the new district, MONTANA. LexixeTon.—Butte Weekly Miner, Nov. 18: This mine has been pretty thoroughly prospected above the water level. There has heen about 800 ft of crosscuttiny done, which may he called dead work. The sbafts and levels have prohably more than paid their expenses, being driven mostly in ore. In some of the levels the ore hody ig very rich, and varies from 4 to 13 ft, some of the assays going from 200 to 1,000 ounces in silver. Gagxyon Mixu.—From the west drift, 150 level, they are extracting some magnificent-looking base ore. I know it is easy to grow enthusiastic over good ore, but there is a pile on the dnmp which shows natiye silver to an extent whict must do the eyes of the owners of the Cagnon good. Bette Mine.—A breast of free ore eight ft wide has heen struck in the west drift of shaft No. 2; eight tons of free and five tons of hase ore per day, . NHW MEXICO. Grant County.—The New Mexican Herald, speakiug of-the minerals of this connty, says: J.G. Mahany, who has large experience in mining and with mining men, recently returned from an extended trip through the mining camps of Arizous. With the exception of two deposits in the Tombstone district, our neighboring Territory is in uo wise superior to Grant county, either in point of deposit, richness of ore, supply of wood and water or uatural advautages for successful mining operations, New Distaicr.—Shakespeare is the name of a new mining district recently opened in the northwesteru portion of New Mexico, close to the line of Arizona. The main ledge of the district crops from 30 to 40 ft above the surface, and can be traced for miles, and the top ores yield from 109 to 200 ounces of silver per ton. The district is coming into notice, and the inevitahle newspaper, which always follows upon the heels of the prospector, is to make its appearance shortly. The district will he traversed by tho Atchinson & Santa Fe and the Southern Pucitic railroads, hoth of which are in process of Tapid construction. OREGON, Truss.—Jacksonville Sentinel, Nov. 19: Piping commenced at the Eckleson & Hamilton mining claim, on Applegate, last Monday, with every prospect of success. Magruder & Hays last week reccived 660 ft of 11-inch pipe for their mine ou Rowue river. The pipe is now being put in position. Sturges & Beckner cummeneed groundsluicing at their mines ou the 10th iust. Last season they did uot get to work till the Ist of March. J. H. Hyzer, Sanford Carter and John Gale discovered a rich gold-hearing quartz ledge in the vicinity of the Sqnaw Lako mines last week, which prospects well. The Grave Creek ditch and mining company have their ditch about completed and will he ready for work ina short time. The late rains have furnished water enough to start some of the mines in this section providing our miners had heen prepared for it. It was not expected so soon, however, and did no food. At the quertz mine in the Willow Springs district, owned by parties living in Portland, silver ore was discovered one day last week, assaying about $6 per ton, A thorough prospect of this ledgeis now heing made. Coan Bep.—Mr. J. C. Callahan, of Coos Valley, Douglas county, has found a coal bed; the vein six ft in thickness ata depth of 49 ft, Ihe Roschurg Independent saya that this discovery proves what hag frequently been claimed, that under the entire valley of Umpqua there is an inexbaustible coal hed. Notices of Recent Patents. Among ths patents recently obtained through Dewey & Co.’s Scrmntiric Press American and Foreign Patent Agency, the following are wortby of special mention : Cans For HERMETICALLY SEALED GooDs.— Charles C. Lane, New Wastminster, B. C., patented Nov. 11th, 1879, No. 221,468. In the ordinary process of sealing the cans after their conteuts have been put in, the flange or rim of the cans is crimped against the side of the can, sud the can then rolled through the mechanical soldering-bath. This is simply a bath of melted solder, and by passiug the can through it, the top or cover, and sides of the can are joined by the solder. Difficulty is, however, experienced in sealing the whole rim, as, while the can is being rolled, air which is displaced or expanded inside, isapt to coms through the space around the rim of the cover, thus forming blowholes, and that place whers the air comes through will not he soldered, but will remain open. All cans which bave this oceur to tbem, have their contents spoiled, not being hermatically sealed. ‘The object of this invention is to overcome this obstacle to perfect sealing. To do this, asupplemental inner coveris formed which is corrugated or crimped radially and has adepression at its center into which the corrugations or grooves lead. This supplemental inner cover is laid into the can after filling, or, if desired, it may be attached to the outer cover, which has its rim crimped on ths can in the usual way and in the center is formsd a small hole. This small hole is made immediately over the depression in the supplemental cover, and as the groovas or corrugations all canter at this depression, any air which may bs in the can during ths process of soldering, instead of escaping through the rim, will be cirected toward the center and escape through the bole. The rim is accordingly always thoroughly soldered, there being no air to blow through the soft solder. As soon as the cau is removed from the hath, a small piece of solder is put over the hole in the cover, aud the can is thus hermetically sealed. — Parton Manre, Grates.—John L, Tuasler and William H. Loomis, Alameda, Cal. Patented Nov. 1Sth, 1879. No. 221,756. It is well known that in grates of ordinary constrnction it is found impossible to keep the fuel at the farther sides of the grates in a state of combustion, and that the fire is usually brigbtest and best in the center. It is customary, thercfore, to put in fire hricks or loose brick of any kind at the two sides of the grate, so that the fuel will be confiued to the center, where it will burn. The flanges formed in this grate do away witb tbe necessity of plating hricks in the grate by confining the fire to the center, keeping out the cold air from the corners and directing the fuel to the center of the fire-place. This invention consists iu the use of a peculiarly formed basket having side curved flanges and a peculiarly closed front, whereby the fire ie confined to the central portion of the grate and the fuel is directed toward the center. It also consists in the employment of a cooking attachment, secured to the grate and made removable, provided with ahole or plate, by meaus of which ordinary cooking operations may be performed. Frycer Rines.—Charles M. Halsey, 131 Kearny street, San Francisco. Patented Nov. 18th, 1879, No, 221,728. In the construction of this ring an outer perforated ring is provided with a milled edge or flange, and an inner ring baving characters upon it and a milled edge or flange, the edge of onc of said rings having a teat or lug which fits into a groove in the edge adjacent to the milled flange of tbe other, for securing them together. Different designs or combinations of letters may be engraved on the iuner ring, which will all ehow through the openings or slots in the outer one, as it is turned one way or another, one design sbowing at one time and another at another, as the outer ring is turned. Ore REDUCING AND PULVERIZING APPARATUS. Wm. Bruckuer, San Francisco. Patented Nov. 18th, 1879. No. 221,773. This iuvention relates to tbat class of ore pulverizers in which the orc is placed iu a drum or cylinder and crushed hy metal balls passing over it as the drun: revolves, and consists, first, in providing a pulverizing barrel with a grate, said grate beiug connected with a conveyor eo arranged along the circumference of the harrel that in every revolution of the latter the ore, after being grouud between iron halls, passes through the grate out of the barrel into the conveyor, by means of which it is conducted over a screen, and the coarser ore which will not pass the screen is thence returned into the barrel. Vatve ror Water Ciosets.—Thomas Hennessy, Oakland, Cal. Patented Nov. 18th, 1879. No. 221,816. This invention relates to certain improvements in valves for water closets, hasins and other purposes, aud it consists in a novel construction of the valve, wherebyit may be made extremely light, so as to act quickly, and at the same time it will resist the blows caused by the force of the water, which otherwise will indent and bruise it so as to render it useless, Decisions in Patent Cases, Ete, Schillinger ve Gunther. U. §S. Cirenit Court, Southern District of New York. Decided Aug. 26th, 1879. Blatcbford, J.: 1. A disclaimsr niay embrace subject-matter set up for ths first time without right in the reissue patent; and it may apply not only to the iuvalid claim, but to statements in the hody of the specification upon which the invalid claim or part of claim is founded. The reissued specification is to be thereafter read as if the disclaimer were incorporated init. 2. Where the statements in the specification and claim of the reissns patent which the disclaimer seeks to modify were mistakes in fact, and were founded upou experiments made after the date of the original patent: Held, that the disclaimer was lawful both to remedy the misstatements and to save the reissue from impeachment as for a different iuvention, it appearing that the inventor had acted throughout in good faith. The defenses set up are overruled as not sustained by evidsncs, and a decree to that effect will be entered. Williams vs. The Boston and Albany RailE road Co. : Nortbern District of New York. Wallacs, 1, Altbough the subordinats combinations will not produce a useful result without the addition of other parts necessary to make the complete article (a locomotive lamp), they are nevertheless sufficient to sustain the patent, because, by their co-operation, they contribute to a new result, and may bs used in conjunction with such other parts ag are ordinarily employed in locomotive headlights, 2. Alleged anticipations of a patented combination must show not merely the devicss or elements themselves, but sbow them constructed and arrsnged substantially as in the patent, and having the same mode of operation. 3, Whars the defendant employs all the parts in combination covered by the claims of the patent, infringement is not escaped, because others are pralaved in addition. 4, Mere delay in bringing suit for infringement is not sufficient to establish an ahandonment or dedication of the patent. There must be an acquiescence in the appropriation of the right of such charscter as reasonably to inducs the bslief that the owner intended to relinquish it to the public use. Inssmuch as complainant’s patsnt has expired since the bill was filed, the decrea will be for au accounting only. COMMISSIONER'S DECISIONS. Ex-parte Hogan—Water Closete. Interlocutory appeal from Primary Examiner. Decided Aug, 26th, 1879. Distinct independent inventions cannot be joined, but distinct dependent inventione may, uuder certain circumstances, be joined in the same application. The decision of the Primary Examiner is affirmed. Rogers ve. Bear—Telegraphy. Motion to re-open the interference. Decided August 26tb, 1879. A motion for a rehearing will not be granted on tbe ground of newly-discovered evidence, unless due diligence shall bave been shown in procuring thetcstimony. The motion is denied, without prejudice. . Thomas vs. Gutman. Decided Aug, 26th, 1879, Interlocutory appeal. Corsets: Au issue declared in the following words, A corset having the abdominal portion provided witb incased transverse bones extending from the busks to longitudinally arranged incased bones,” is ambiguous, because it is eqnally applicable whether there are eeveral longitudinal hones or only one on each half of the article. Kenerson ve. Brown and Brown. Decided Aug, 26th, 1879, Interlocutory appeal from the Examiner of Interferences, Manufacture of wire: Where a party to an interference, baving failed to examine a witness produced by himself, whose name was not included in the list of witnesses furuished to the opposite party, because the opposite party left the place of examination, moved for an extension of time for taking testimony, in order to take the testimony of such witness, and on an appeal from a decision of the Examiner of Interfereucee granting the motion, the other party denied the materiality of the proposed testimony, it is ordered that additional time should not he granted, uuless the opposite party should, in rebuttal, attempt to controvert the same testimony previously given hy other witnesses; but that in such case a reagonahle time ehould be assigned for supporting eucb testimony by additional proof. The order of the Examiner of Iuterferences is modified accordingly. Wx-parte Wiard et al : Decided Aug. 26th, 1879. Appeal from Examiners-in-Chicf. Plows: 1, The’ difference between an open web of diagonal hars in a plow-heam, and web of diagonal bars connected by thin plates, is not patentable. 2. A claim for a plow: beam witb an open web of diagonal bars of malleable irgn is anticipated by a prior patent for a plow-beam with a web of diagonal bars connected by thin plates, the patentee having designated steel, cast iron and mallesble irou in his original specification, and steel alone in his amended specification, as ths material of the manufacture. , The decision of the Examiners-in-Chief ig affirmed. ACTING COMMISSIONER’S DECISIONS. Richmond vs. Hibbard—Feather Dusters, Motion to re-open Interference. Decided September 4th, 1879. 1, Order to show cause why an interferences should .not be redeclared after final judgment rendered, and patentissued, grantsd on ex-parte motion of the defeated applicant, sustained by affidavits of witnesses setting forth newly dis. covered and material testimony opposed to pravious findings in ths case, 2. On final hearing of said order, at which all parties in interest were present, the allegations of the affiants in behalf of the moving party not being disproved or weakened by the counter-aifidavits submitted, the motion was sustained, and a new interference betwcen said application and the patent directed to be declared. To tbat end a declaration of a new interfsr. ence between the said application of Gilbert M. Ricbmond and said patent of Susan M. Hib. bard is ordered. ‘ Bx-parte Pace, Talbot é Co —Trade-mark. Appeal from Examiner. Dacided September 17th, 1879. 1, The name ‘‘ Bayard,” a portrait of a United States Senator by that name, held to bs propsr matter for a trade mark in chewing tobaoco. 2. Any proper word or phrase, whetbsr ths name of a person, firm, or corporation, or a geographical term, may be ragistered as a trademark, unless the same is dsscriptive of the quality of the goods, or is the name of the applicant or manufacturer, or place of manufacture, or is deceptive. 3. The name of ths applicant or firm manufacturing the goods cannot be registered as an essential part of the mark. In conclusion, it is held that the nsme sought to be registered by applicants is an entirely fanciful and arhitrary designation, aud a proper subject of a trsde-mark, but the name of the firm must not bs representsd as constituting an essential part thereof. Lorg vs. Welsh—Trade-mark. Appsal from the Examiner. Decided September 19th, 1879. 1. A concession of priority of adoption, use, and right of a trademark amounts to an ac: knowledgment of ownership by the one giving it in the one to whom it is given. 2. When one who has obtained the registration of a trademark for an entire class of merchandise is found to be the proprietor of the mark for part only of the class, it would seem that his registration was void, in view of the doctrine of Smith vs. Reynolds. 3. Different persone may apply for the same mark to different kinde of goods in the same class, provided their nature and rescmblance are not 8o nearly the same as that the identity of the trade-mark would deceive the public as to origin or ownership. 4. Where the registered trade-mark covered the class of manufactured tobacco broadly, and the latter applicant conlined his application to plug tobacco, the declaration, as to other interference tases, should have been confined to tbe issue made by the later applicant. 5. If there is not sufficient distinction between fine-cut chewing tobacco and plug tobacco to justify registration of the same mark for hoth kinds by different parties, then a concession of adoption for plug tobacco would be an acknowledgment of ownership of the mark on chewing tobacco. Examiner’e decision reversed. _ Bullion Shipments. "Since onr last issue, we have noticed tbe following bullion shipments: Hillside, Nov. 22d, $3,000; Nortbern Belle, Nov. 19th, $5,843.14; Christy, Nov. 24th, $6,201 ; Hillside, Nov. 25th, $3,500 ; Northern Belle, Nov. 22d, $8,811.73. Cuinzse Miners.—The Silver State, publisbed at Winnemucca, Nevada, contained, a few days ago, an item with reference to the number of Chinamen engaged at placer mining in the northern part of Humboldt county. It says: At Willow Creek there are some 25 of them at work, and there are 47 at Flat Craek. Occasionally they send 10 or 12 ounces of gold dust here by white men, but it is thonght that what they send hy the whites is only a emall portion of what tbey take out. They think that if the whites knew that they were msking big wages, there would be a rnsh to the mines, and tbe whites would locate what they believed to be the best part of the diggings; consequently they do not tell how mucb gold they get out or how rich the mines are. A patent was issued November 24th for El Rincon Rancho, comprising 4,431 acres in Ssn Bernardino connty, Bernardo Yerba confirmee. Quite a heavy snowetorm prevailed at Augusta, Ga., on the 19th.

348 MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS. [November 20, 1849, 2 ConTINVED FRON Pace 341. and prospects appear favorable. The wiuze on the 10th level looks first rates in the drift we have low-grade ore that will pay well when we gct the place opened up in shape. We are making all due preparations to start work ou the black lede, so as to have a good quantity of ore on hand when the furnace starts up. Mr. Kélbonrne was in town last night and reports the grading for the furnace finished and is getting ready for the stone work. The mill ig rnuning smoothly and everything around the miue likewise. SANTA FE DISTRICT. Rica Discovery.—The Esmeralda Herald speaks of a very rich discovery ahout five miles in a northerly direction from the famous Sunrise mine. The ore is a black sulphuret, galena and antimony. The rock was taken from the surface, and several assays were made, ranging from $2,200 to $2,026. The vein is 22 inches wide, and in a limestone formation. Jt is pronounced hy old_prospectors to he the greatest discovery ever known, Work will be d ou it i diately. ARIZONA. Sinver Prixce.—Arzonan: Mr, Curtin, who, with Hotaling, is owuer in the Prince, informs us that there is now on the dump, at the mine, 100 tons of ore that will mill $400 to the ton throughont, which is a pretty good showing for any mine. But the bestis not told. Three men receutly took from the mine, iu one day, five tons of ore worth $1,000 per ton, and there is four ft of this ore in the ledge now iu sight. COLORADO. CLEAR Creek County.—Mincr: The Magnet and Sequel mines are associated properties on Saxon mountain, and are under the superinteudency of E. Le Neve Foste:. They have been leased by Hopkins, Withrow & Co., and are turning out profitahle quantities of ore. In the lower drift there are 10 inches of nearly solid ore, in the hottom, and two streaks in the ton, one of six and one of eight inches. The largest streak at this poiut mills 355 ounces of silver per ton, and the smaller one from 500 to 800 ounces per ton. In addition to this there is a considerable amount of scattered mineral. A level recently commenced below this carries six incbes of 350-ounce ore, aud at other points in the inine there are from one to three inches of ore. Four men are employed on the-property and are doing well, IDAHO, Ireus.—Idaho City World, Nov. 18: Charles Smith discovered 2 mine ona line with the Last Chanes, on the Yuba side of Atlauta hill, and about a mile below the summit, Itisa promising mine. ‘wo tons of ore from the Qucen’s river mines, worked in the Buffalo mill recently, yielded $100 per ton. The Yuba tunnel company have tapped the Atlanta mine at a depth of 1,500 ft from the surface. The tunnel is neurly 1,400 it in‘length. The ore body tapped promises to be a houanza of immense proportions, Fifty-dollar ore is now boing extracted. The people ef Atlanta have heen anxiously waiting for the tnnnel to tap the ledye, and as it is now proven good at a great depth, intense excitement prevails. It is rumored that the company will erect a mill early next spring. Good ore is being taken out of the Buifalo mine. The mill was shut down a few days ago, but will be started up again soon. The Last Chanco is leoking splendid and good rock is heing taken out of it. Hall & Co, have struck rich ore in the shaft, but it is not yet known whether it helongs to them or the Last Chance eompany. A goad deal of prospecting is boing dene in the mines around Atlauta. Yanker Foru.—A strike of very rich rock was made on the Charles Wain ledge a fewdays since, Recent developments on the Charles Dickens mine are very flattcring. Good ore is found in the lower tunnel, and a very rich strike was niade lately in the crosscut at the end of the old tunnel. This leayes many thousand tons of good ore in sight, New Mixine District.—Tie Idaho Statesman, of Nov. 15th, publishes a letter from Hon. V. S. Anderson, from Rocky Bar, in which it is mentioned that Merrit Kelly arrived here last night. He has discovered a new mining district on Wood river, which contains a large number of ledges, one of which, 2 galena ledge, he says is 50 ft wide. This is an entirely new discovery, Kelly being the only person.who has yet been there. The ore looks well, but lio assays have yet been made. The new district is called the Black Barb, from a black-bharbed Indian arrow-head which he fonnd, and which led to the discovery. This diseovery is situated on tho west side of the main Wood river, and on the West Fork of that stream, between GaJena City and Mineral Hill. Kelly says he has also discovered a hig iron mine and some limestone, He thinks it isan important discovery, and that it will rival the other districts on Wood river. He came in to have his claims recorded, and if the weatber pormits he intends to return to the new district, MONTANA. LexixeTon.—Butte Weekly Miner, Nov. 18: This mine has been pretty thoroughly prospected above the water level. There has heen about 800 ft of crosscuttiny done, which may he called dead work. The sbafts and levels have prohably more than paid their expenses, being driven mostly in ore. In some of the levels the ore hody ig very rich, and varies from 4 to 13 ft, some of the assays going from 200 to 1,000 ounces in silver. Gagxyon Mixu.—From the west drift, 150 level, they are extracting some magnificent-looking base ore. I know it is easy to grow enthusiastic over good ore, but there is a pile on the dnmp which shows natiye silver to an extent whict must do the eyes of the owners of the Cagnon good. Bette Mine.—A breast of free ore eight ft wide has heen struck in the west drift of shaft No. 2; eight tons of free and five tons of hase ore per day, . NHW MEXICO. Grant County.—The New Mexican Herald, speakiug of-the minerals of this connty, says: J.G. Mahany, who has large experience in mining and with mining men, recently returned from an extended trip through the mining camps of Arizous. With the exception of two deposits in the Tombstone district, our neighboring Territory is in uo wise superior to Grant county, either in point of deposit, richness of ore, supply of wood and water or uatural advautages for successful mining operations, New Distaicr.—Shakespeare is the name of a new mining district recently opened in the northwesteru portion of New Mexico, close to the line of Arizona. The main ledge of the district crops from 30 to 40 ft above the surface, and can be traced for miles, and the top ores yield from 109 to 200 ounces of silver per ton. The district is coming into notice, and the inevitahle newspaper, which always follows upon the heels of the prospector, is to make its appearance shortly. The district will he traversed by tho Atchinson & Santa Fe and the Southern Pucitic railroads, hoth of which are in process of Tapid construction. OREGON, Truss.—Jacksonville Sentinel, Nov. 19: Piping commenced at the Eckleson & Hamilton mining claim, on Applegate, last Monday, with every prospect of success. Magruder & Hays last week reccived 660 ft of 11-inch pipe for their mine ou Rowue river. The pipe is now being put in position. Sturges & Beckner cummeneed groundsluicing at their mines ou the 10th iust. Last season they did uot get to work till the Ist of March. J. H. Hyzer, Sanford Carter and John Gale discovered a rich gold-hearing quartz ledge in the vicinity of the Sqnaw Lako mines last week, which prospects well. The Grave Creek ditch and mining company have their ditch about completed and will he ready for work ina short time. The late rains have furnished water enough to start some of the mines in this section providing our miners had heen prepared for it. It was not expected so soon, however, and did no food. At the quertz mine in the Willow Springs district, owned by parties living in Portland, silver ore was discovered one day last week, assaying about $6 per ton, A thorough prospect of this ledgeis now heing made. Coan Bep.—Mr. J. C. Callahan, of Coos Valley, Douglas county, has found a coal bed; the vein six ft in thickness ata depth of 49 ft, Ihe Roschurg Independent saya that this discovery proves what hag frequently been claimed, that under the entire valley of Umpqua there is an inexbaustible coal hed. Notices of Recent Patents. Among ths patents recently obtained through Dewey & Co.’s Scrmntiric Press American and Foreign Patent Agency, the following are wortby of special mention : Cans For HERMETICALLY SEALED GooDs.— Charles C. Lane, New Wastminster, B. C., patented Nov. 11th, 1879, No. 221,468. In the ordinary process of sealing the cans after their conteuts have been put in, the flange or rim of the cans is crimped against the side of the can, sud the can then rolled through the mechanical soldering-bath. This is simply a bath of melted solder, and by passiug the can through it, the top or cover, and sides of the can are joined by the solder. Difficulty is, however, experienced in sealing the whole rim, as, while the can is being rolled, air which is displaced or expanded inside, isapt to coms through the space around the rim of the cover, thus forming blowholes, and that place whers the air comes through will not he soldered, but will remain open. All cans which bave this oceur to tbem, have their contents spoiled, not being hermatically sealed. ‘The object of this invention is to overcome this obstacle to perfect sealing. To do this, asupplemental inner coveris formed which is corrugated or crimped radially and has adepression at its center into which the corrugations or grooves lead. This supplemental inner cover is laid into the can after filling, or, if desired, it may be attached to the outer cover, which has its rim crimped on ths can in the usual way and in the center is formsd a small hole. This small hole is made immediately over the depression in the supplemental cover, and as the groovas or corrugations all canter at this depression, any air which may bs in the can during ths process of soldering, instead of escaping through the rim, will be cirected toward the center and escape through the bole. The rim is accordingly always thoroughly soldered, there being no air to blow through the soft solder. As soon as the cau is removed from the hath, a small piece of solder is put over the hole in the cover, aud the can is thus hermetically sealed. — Parton Manre, Grates.—John L, Tuasler and William H. Loomis, Alameda, Cal. Patented Nov. 1Sth, 1879. No. 221,756. It is well known that in grates of ordinary constrnction it is found impossible to keep the fuel at the farther sides of the grates in a state of combustion, and that the fire is usually brigbtest and best in the center. It is customary, thercfore, to put in fire hricks or loose brick of any kind at the two sides of the grate, so that the fuel will be confiued to the center, where it will burn. The flanges formed in this grate do away witb tbe necessity of plating hricks in the grate by confining the fire to the center, keeping out the cold air from the corners and directing the fuel to the center of the fire-place. This invention consists iu the use of a peculiarly formed basket having side curved flanges and a peculiarly closed front, whereby the fire ie confined to the central portion of the grate and the fuel is directed toward the center. It also consists in the employment of a cooking attachment, secured to the grate and made removable, provided with ahole or plate, by meaus of which ordinary cooking operations may be performed. Frycer Rines.—Charles M. Halsey, 131 Kearny street, San Francisco. Patented Nov. 18th, 1879, No, 221,728. In the construction of this ring an outer perforated ring is provided with a milled edge or flange, and an inner ring baving characters upon it and a milled edge or flange, the edge of onc of said rings having a teat or lug which fits into a groove in the edge adjacent to the milled flange of tbe other, for securing them together. Different designs or combinations of letters may be engraved on the iuner ring, which will all ehow through the openings or slots in the outer one, as it is turned one way or another, one design sbowing at one

time and another at another, as the outer ring is turned. Ore REDUCING AND PULVERIZING APPARATUS. Wm. Bruckuer, San Francisco. Patented Nov. 18th, 1879. No. 221,773. This iuvention relates to tbat class of ore pulverizers in which the orc is placed iu a drum or cylinder and crushed hy metal balls passing over it as the drun: revolves, and consists, first, in providing a pulverizing barrel with a grate, said grate beiug connected with a conveyor eo arranged along the circumference of the harrel that in every revolution of the latter the ore, after being grouud between iron halls, passes through the grate out of the barrel into the conveyor, by means of which it is conducted over a screen, and the coarser ore which will not pass the screen is thence returned into the barrel. Vatve ror Water Ciosets.—Thomas Hennessy, Oakland, Cal. Patented Nov. 18th, 1879. No. 221,816. This invention relates to certain improvements in valves for water closets, hasins and other purposes, aud it consists in a novel construction of the valve, wherebyit may be made extremely light, so as to act quickly, and at the same time it will resist the blows caused by the force of the water, which otherwise will indent and bruise it so as to render it useless, Decisions in Patent Cases, Ete, Schillinger ve Gunther. U. §S. Cirenit Court, Southern District of New York. Decided Aug. 26th, 1879. Blatcbford, J.: 1. A disclaimsr niay embrace subject-matter set up for ths first time without right in the reissue patent; and it may apply not only to the iuvalid claim, but to statements in the hody of the specification upon which the invalid claim or part of claim is founded. The reissued specification is to be thereafter read as if the disclaimer were incorporated init. 2. Where the statements in the specification and claim of the reissns patent which the disclaimer seeks to modify were mistakes in fact, and were founded upou experiments made after the date of the original patent: Held, that the disclaimer was lawful both to remedy the misstatements and to save the reissue from impeachment as for a different iuvention, it appearing that the inventor had acted throughout in good faith. The defenses set up are overruled as not sustained by evidsncs, and a decree to that effect will be entered. Williams vs. The Boston and Albany RailE road Co. : Nortbern District of New York. Wallacs, 1, Altbough the subordinats combinations will not produce a useful result without the addition of other parts necessary to make the complete article (a locomotive lamp), they are nevertheless sufficient to sustain the patent, because, by their co-operation, they contribute to a new result, and may bs used in conjunction with such other parts ag are ordinarily employed in locomotive headlights, 2. Alleged anticipations of a patented combination must show not merely the devicss or elements themselves, but sbow them constructed and arrsnged substantially as in the patent, and having the same mode of operation. 3, Whars the defendant employs all the parts in combination covered by the claims of the patent, infringement is not escaped, because others are pralaved in addition. 4, Mere delay in bringing suit for infringement is not sufficient to establish an ahandonment or dedication of the patent. There must be an acquiescence in the appropriation of the right of such charscter as reasonably to inducs the bslief that the owner intended to relinquish it to the public use. Inssmuch as complainant’s patsnt has expired since the bill was filed, the decrea will be for au accounting only. COMMISSIONER'S DECISIONS. Ex-parte Hogan—Water Closete. Interlocutory appeal from Primary Examiner. Decided Aug, 26th, 1879. Distinct independent inventions cannot be joined, but distinct dependent inventione may, uuder certain circumstances, be joined in the same application. The decision of the Primary Examiner is affirmed. Rogers ve. Bear—Telegraphy. Motion to re-open the interference. Decided August 26tb, 1879. A motion for a rehearing will not be granted on tbe ground of newly-discovered evidence, unless due diligence shall bave been shown in procuring thetcstimony. The motion is denied, without prejudice. . Thomas vs. Gutman. Decided Aug, 26th, 1879, Interlocutory appeal. Corsets: Au issue declared in the following words, A corset having the abdominal portion provided witb incased transverse bones extending from the busks to longitudinally arranged incased bones,” is ambiguous, because it is eqnally applicable whether there are eeveral longitudinal hones or only one on each half of the article. Kenerson ve. Brown and Brown. Decided Aug, 26th, 1879, Interlocutory appeal from the Examiner of Interferences, Manufacture of wire: Where a party to an interference, baving failed to examine a witness produced by himself, whose name was not included in the list of witnesses furuished to the opposite party, because the opposite party left the place of examination, moved for an extension of time for taking testimony, in order to take the testimony of such witness, and on an appeal from a decision of the Examiner of Interfereucee granting the motion, the other party denied the materiality of the proposed testimony, it is ordered that additional time should not he granted, uuless the opposite party should, in rebuttal, attempt to controvert the same testimony previously given hy other witnesses; but that in such case a reagonahle time ehould be assigned for supporting eucb testimony by additional proof. The order of the Examiner of Iuterferences is modified accordingly. Wx-parte Wiard et al : Decided Aug. 26th, 1879. Appeal from Examiners-in-Chicf. Plows: 1, The’ difference between an open web of diagonal hars in a plow-heam, and web of diagonal bars connected by thin plates, is not patentable. 2. A claim for a plow: beam witb an open web of diagonal bars of malleable irgn is anticipated by a prior patent for a plow-beam with a web of diagonal bars connected by thin plates, the patentee having designated steel, cast iron and mallesble irou in his original specification, and steel alone in his amended specification, as ths material of the manufacture. , The decision of the Examiners-in-Chief ig affirmed. ACTING COMMISSIONER’S DECISIONS. Richmond vs. Hibbard—Feather Dusters, Motion to re-open Interference. Decided September 4th, 1879. 1, Order to show cause why an interferences should .not be redeclared after final judgment rendered, and patentissued, grantsd on ex-parte motion of the defeated applicant, sustained by affidavits of witnesses setting forth newly dis. covered and material testimony opposed to pravious findings in ths case, 2. On final hearing of said order, at which all parties in interest were present, the allegations of the affiants in behalf of the moving party not being disproved or weakened by the counter-aifidavits submitted, the motion was sustained, and a new interference betwcen said application and the patent directed to be declared. To tbat end a declaration of a new interfsr. ence between the said application of Gilbert M. Ricbmond and said patent of Susan M. Hib. bard is ordered. ‘ Bx-parte Pace, Talbot é Co —Trade-mark. Appeal from Examiner. Dacided September 17th, 1879. 1, The name ‘‘ Bayard,” a portrait of a United States Senator by that name, held to bs propsr matter for a trade mark in chewing tobaoco. 2. Any proper word or phrase, whetbsr ths name of a person, firm, or corporation, or a geographical term, may be ragistered as a trademark, unless the same is dsscriptive of the quality of the goods, or is the name of the applicant or manufacturer, or place of manufacture, or is deceptive. 3. The name of ths applicant or firm manufacturing the goods cannot be registered as an essential part of the mark. In conclusion, it is held that the nsme sought to be registered by applicants is an entirely fanciful and arhitrary designation, aud a proper subject of a trsde-mark, but the name of the firm must not bs representsd as constituting an essential part thereof. Lorg vs. Welsh—Trade-mark. Appsal from the Examiner. Decided September 19th, 1879. 1. A concession of priority of adoption, use, and right of a trademark amounts to an ac: knowledgment of ownership by the one giving it in the one to whom it is given. 2. When one who has obtained the registration of a trademark for an entire class of merchandise is found to be the proprietor of the mark for part only of the class, it would seem that his registration was void, in view of the doctrine of Smith vs. Reynolds. 3. Different persone may apply for the same mark to different kinde of goods in the same class, provided their nature and rescmblance are not 8o nearly the same as that the identity of the trade-mark would deceive the public as to origin or ownership. 4. Where the registered trade-mark covered the class of manufactured tobacco broadly, and the latter applicant conlined his application to plug tobacco, the declaration, as to other interference tases, should have been confined to tbe issue made by the later applicant. 5. If there is not sufficient distinction between fine-cut chewing tobacco and plug tobacco to justify registration of the same mark for hoth kinds by different parties, then a concession of adoption for plug tobacco would be an acknowledgment of ownership of the mark on chewing tobacco. Examiner’e decision reversed. _ Bullion Shipments. "Since onr last issue, we have noticed tbe following bullion shipments: Hillside, Nov. 22d, $3,000; Nortbern Belle, Nov. 19th, $5,843.14; Christy, Nov. 24th, $6,201 ; Hillside, Nov. 25th, $3,500 ; Northern Belle, Nov. 22d, $8,811.73. Cuinzse Miners.—The Silver State, publisbed at Winnemucca, Nevada, contained, a few days ago, an item with reference to the number of Chinamen engaged at placer mining in the northern part of Humboldt county. It says: At Willow Creek there are some 25 of them at work, and there are 47 at Flat Craek. Occasionally they send 10 or 12 ounces of gold dust here by white men, but it is thonght that what they send hy the whites is only a emall portion of what tbey take out. They think that if the whites knew that they were msking big wages, there would be a rnsh to the mines, and tbe whites would locate what they believed to be the best part of the diggings; consequently they do not tell how mucb gold they get out or how rich the mines are. A patent was issued November 24th for El Rincon Rancho, comprising 4,431 acres in Ssn Bernardino connty, Bernardo Yerba confirmee. Quite a heavy snowetorm prevailed at Augusta, Ga., on the 19th.