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From all over the United States
comes a cry of hard times, no work,
and no money, j Just why this
should be so with millions of dol
lars in waT orders^ being poured
into this country daily, and with
the Dink deposits the largest ever
known it the history of the country,
is hard to understand. Capital
seems a'raid to loosen up its purse
s'rings, and the money received
fr'.im .Lurope goes to enrich, but a
few mtu. After the war we may
look for big things, but as long as
it lasts investors will be afraid
to trust their money to 'he inse
cure conditions.—Ex.
\\ HERE MUCH OF WORLD'S
i;OLI> WAS PRODUCED
The historically important discov
ers- ot pOld in California was made
iu Jauu;«.ry, 1S4S, at John Sutter's
mill ou South Fork of American
river near Coloma, a point only 10
or 15 miles southeast of the town
of Auburn. From 1S50 to 1S53 the
greatest yield was derived from
the gravels, and the largest an
nual output for this period was
more than $65,000,00, in 1S52.
There was some reaction in 1354,
due to previous wild speculation,
but a production of about $50,000,
ooo a year, chiefly from placer
mines, was maintained up to 1861.
At first the gold was won chiefly
from the gravels along the present
streams. Those who first got pos
sesion of the rich bars on Ameri
can, Yuba, Feather, and Stanislaus
rivers hi d some of the smaller
streams in the heart of the gold
rtgiou made at times from $1,000
to $5,'>00 a day. In 1S4S $500 to
$700 a day was bot uuusual luck;
but, on the other hand, the in
come cf the great majority of min
ers was far less than that of men
who seriously devoted themselves
to trade or even to common labor.
lfie gold pan, me rutioi, mc
' torn," the sluice, and the hydraulic
"giant,"' or "monitor," named in
*he order of increasing efficiency,
w<.-rc the tools successively used by
the miners. Into the "rocker" and
the "toui" the miner shoveled grav
el or "dirt," rocking the machine
as he poured iu water and catching
the gold, often with the aid of
quicksilver, on riffles set across
the bottom of his box. Sometimes
a stream was diverted into a flume
to lay tare the gravel in its bed so
that the miner could get at it. In
sluicing, the gravel was shoveled
into a similar but much longer box
through which a stream of water
was allowed to run. The hydraulic
giant was employed to wash into
long riffle-set sluices immense
quantities of ixavel, especially from
the higher (Tertiary) deposits,
much of .which was too lean to
work ovt by hand. Water was
brought for many miles in ditches
and flumes from the high Sierra
and conducted under great head to
a nozzle, from which it was pro
jected whh tremtndous force against
the gravel. It was the vast quanti
ty of refuse washed Into the streams
by th'--se hydraulic operations that
brouaht about the conflict between
mining and agricultural interests,
finally decided In favor 'of the
farmers. Of late years the gold
State cf Ohio. C.iy of Toledo. I
Lucas County. \ a3*
Frank J. Cheney mal:es oath that he Is
senior partner cf the firm of F. J. Cheney
& Co.. doincr buslne-*: !n the City of To
ledo. Cot: ity and State aforesaid, and
that saiu rtrm will »• • • the sum of ONE
HUNDRED DOLLAR foe each and ev
ery cn.*w» ,f Ca'arrh tha? cannot he cured
by the use oi KAI.I/S CATARRH CURE.
FrtA.VK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before end subscribed In
mv presence, this 6tii uay of December,
A D.
(Seai; A. T7. GT.EASON.
Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh C"~c l. ; tafcen internally
rnd acts direct! •' u;h v. c!»o Mood and mu
cous surfaces of th« system. Send for
testimonial*, fp e.
/•' J. CHKN'EY CO . Toledo, O.
Sold by all Drus^l*^, T5C.
Take Halt's Family Pli.s for const'«*Hon.
obtained from quartz veins in Cali
fornia has exceeded that won by
placer mining.
SOME ROADHOUSD MEN XOT
LIVING UP TO NEW MW
According to some late arrivals
from the coast, there are some of
the roadhouse men along the big
highway who arc not living up to
the law passed by the last legisla
ture, requiring all roadhouses j to
keep a register of all persons who
atou or oass the places. One man
who came iu from the coast stated
that he was required to register at
only three roadhouses, and .in sev
eral places he did not even. see a
register. There area few, however,
! who live up to the letter of the
law and do all they; can to keep
track of everyone that passes their
j roadhouses, either day or night.
For several years before the law
was passed, the people along the
trail and in town advocated 6uch a
requirement and almost everybody
was delighted when the act was put
: ou the statute books. The prime
purpose of the law was to prevent
, and detect crime, but incidentally
shows the whereabouts of a num
ber of men who are inquired for by
1 friends.
The new law does not apply only
♦o the Valdez trail, but to every
trail in Alaska, and the federal of
ficials express the intention of
seeing that it Is enforced.
There are a number of new road
houses on the Tolovana. trail and
many men are nasslng them every
days. A federal official expects to
make a trip over the Tolovana trail
in the i ear future and will investi
gate the records of the roadhouses
to see if the law is being complied
with.—Fairbanks Times.
GEOLOGY OF GRAY1XA ISLAND,
ALASKA
Washington, D. C., Dec. 1 — Gra
vina Island, a Bmall island in
Southeastern Alaska, has recently
been examined geologically by
Philip S. Smith, of the United
States Geological survey. whose
report has just been published as
Professional Paper 95-H. Thirteen,
different kinds of rocks are de
scribed, all of them millions of
years old, and although the discus
sion and the conclusions concern
ing the*n are technical, they have
Take a
Tonight
it will act as a laxative in the
morning
Wm. Brltt.
EVERY OWNER OF
A DWELLING
Should Have
*
FIRE INSURANCE
Now ia the Time to Act
Reliable Companies are
Represented by
PHIL ABRAHAMS
Agent
4th'Avenue
SUFFRAGISTS LAUNCH SHIP OF STATE.
Photo by American Press Association.
Mrs. Henry O. Ilavemeyer, the society leader, has adopted a small replica
of the Mayflower as her campaign emblem In New York. The ship Is perchad
on a long staff. It argues that If women were good enough ballast on tbo
Mayflower, why shouldn't they make good ballast on the "ship of itat«" alaot
At night the shin Is lighted with electric lights.
distinct commercial value when lat"
®r research lias determined tlie age
or period in which the mineral de
posits in this region were formed.
I* -will 'hen be possible, by means
of studies such as those on **ra~
vlna island, to point out the rocks
which ere too new to have been
iu extistence a* tho tirno of the
formation of the ore and which
therefore form areas In which pros
pecting will be unproductive of
•results. A copy of the report pay
be obtained an application to the
Director, United States Geological
Survey, Washington, D. a
FLOCK OP TL'KKEYS
KA1SED AT T1IE POST
Jos. Newman, fireman on the
Pos* i lauuch Lieut. Donaldson, taktfcs
exception to a story printed in a
Seward paper to the effect that a
Seward man lias raised the finest
young turkeys ever raised in the
north. He has a flock of seven
young turkeys raised at Fort Lis
cim during the past summer, and
the birds are fine, healthy speci
mens. He. succeeded in raising sev
en out ol nine which were hatched
and believes that a pretty good re
cord for Alaska. He won a pair of
turkeys at a raffle iThanksgiving,
and determined to keep them for
breeding purposes and now has a
flock of nine.—Valdez Prospector.
J37 TOSS TIX CONCENTRATES
FKOM NOME l'EXIXSl'LA
The schooner Arctic arrived in I
the roadstead today on the latt I
voyage of the season to the Port
Clarence section. The [ vessel
brought down twenty seven tons of
tin concentrates from the American
Tin Mining Co.'s Buck creek dredge
and also four passengers: A. S.
Graham, the manager of the Ameri
can Tin Co.'s dredge; llr. Fischer,
Billy Graves and one other. The
Arctic did not stop into Teller on
this trip and will now proceed to
Safety end go into winter quarters.
Captain Whitlam reports the (>>trip
very stormy and the wind blowing a
hurricane at all times. Nothing
was seen of the ice save what is
from the Tiverls along the coast but
the weather is cold.
The Senator took out the last of
the tin product of the beason yes
terday, the sama being the sixty-five
tons brought down on the last
trips oif the Arctic. Mr. R. J. W.
Reed of the cujtoms house states
that the total product ot the sea
son amounted to 157 toius^TbJs re
preaente a value of about one^un,
dred aa^ fifty thousand dollars or
thereabouts.—Nome Nugget.
HoOand.
Holland, known as North and South
Holland, forms pert of the northern
part of the Netherlands. Thee® prov
inces are composed of land rescued
from the son aixl defended by harness#
dikes. Holland was inhabited by Gi*
Batavi in tho time of Cucflar, who mad*
a league with them. It became part of
Gallia Beigiea and afterwa«^o# the
kingdom of Austria. From the tenth to
the fifteenth century It was rorwnfld
by counts under the German etapercrt.
Holland was at one time a Dutch re
public. It was created a kingdom (i)
1800, and Louis Bonaparte, father of
Napoleon III., was declared Jttng.—Ex.
chang*.
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