anaheim-gazette 1909-01-28

TIMBER AND MINERAL RICHES IMPORTANT PART FORMER PLAY IN PRODUCTION OF LATTER Views of Expert in Preservation of Mine Timber Who Has Just Returned to National Capital from the West—Problem of Wood Decay [Correspondence of The Gazette] Washington, D. C., Jan. 21.—"Few persons not directly interested in mining realize the extent to which timber is used in this very important industry," said a government expert in preservation of mine timber who has just returned to Washington from the west. "'The average man has only a vague understanding of the importance of the part that timber plays in the mining industry, and self-dom thinks of the enormous quantities required each year to prevent the caving of the over-hanging ground and to keep clear the main working passages of mines. "There are two general classes of such timbers," he continued, "the first is used in bracing the stops as they are called, where the ore is being taken out. As the ore is mined, the surrounding rock is held in place by bracing it with heavy timbers, framed into rectangular sets. When ore directly above the first set is removed, a second set is built in on top, and so on. The service of these timbers ends when the ore is exhausted and the active mining transferred to another vein or ore-body. "After a time these timbers decay to a point where the pressure of the rock walls crushes them, and a cave-in occurs. This causes no damage if as I have said, the mining work has been finished; but it sometimes happens that decay has weakened the timbers to such an extent that the cave-in occurs prematurely, and then lives are sacrificed. In such cases the remaining ore is also a loss, for when the ground has once commenced to move or work, as the miners call it, it is almost impossible to clean it out and hold back the rock so that the remaining ore may be ob- that treating with an efficientervative will prolong the life ber indefinitely in places wh fore it was subject to a rapid and the interest shown by the consumers of timber and therness to supply the infec that has been obtained to ther particular problems has been spread and indicative of the of wood preservation." BUTTER-SCORING CONTENT Final Announcement From University of Novel Contest The attention of California makers is hereby called to the university of California educationter-scoring contest, for which first entries will be called durbruary. If you did not reply former announcement you send in your application immediately, if you care to enter. The is designed for the busy butter er who cannot leave the chur-enough to take a short course who desires to improve his p He can, however, ship an ex-specified times, have it score criticised and will profit greatly so doing. All butter makers state are invited to participate Hitchel, the federal butter ex San Francisco, will assist a scoring. This is an opportunity any worthy butter maker can ford to miss. The following plan will be re-ed: Each contestant to submit try at six specified periods in the year—bi-monthly. Each contestant limited to one cubical package at each morning. The butter submitted to regi the regular run. The score card recommended by U. S. dairy division to be The contestant to pay all traction charges and donate one for the premium fund. The r for the remaining butter to be mitted to contestants. Only one class will be made.—Creamery butter. A first and second prize cu be awarded in the class ind- rock walls crushes them, and a cave-in occurs. This causes no damage if as I have said, the mining work has been finished; but it sometimes happens that decay has weakened the timbers to such an extent that the cave-in occurs prematurely, and then lives are sacrificed. In such cases the remaining ore is also a loss, for when the ground has once commenced to move or work, as the miners call it, it is almost impossible to clean it out and hold back the rock so that the remaining ore may be obtained. "But of still greater importance is the second class of timbers used in the main working openings, tunnels, shafts, etc., which are to be maintained for as long a time as possible. Timbers for this service are chosen not only for their strength and firmness, but also for their ability to resist decay. "In nine cases out of ten, when timbers are crushed, the indirect cause is decay, produced by low form of plant life. The dwindling of our timber supply has driven consumers of wood all over the country to study decay and its prevention, and it is safe to say that in the very near future we shall see many more mines putting in small plants for the treatment of their timbers, after the pattern of the plants that have been designed and installed for this purpose by the United States Forest Service. By treating the permanent timbers with some one of the various preservatives, they may be made to resist decay almost indefinitely. The additional cost is slight. "Not only this, but since timber when it is once treated retains its original strength, many of the so-called inferior timbers which have hitherto been considered almost value-less because they decay rapidly, will find wide use in many localities. Such species are loblolly pine and, to a certain extent, shortleaf pine, Engelmann spruce, fire-killed lodgepole pine, white fir and many other more local timbers. "The first of the treating plants for mine timbers was put up by an eastern coal company, after extensive experiments in co-operation with the forest service which demonstrated the practical value of the treatments. Since then, other plants have been installed in different parts of the country, two of the latest being in the Coeur d'Alene lead district of northern Idaho, where, while there is an ample timber supply for some time to come, the treatment is warranted by the high labor cost of replacing timber sets. The added cost of treating timbers is from 10 to 25 per cent of the original cost. "An interesting point in the prob- cubical package at each morning. The butter submitted to report the regular run. The score card recommended by the U.S. dairy division to be reviewed. The contestant to pay all training charges and donate one hundred for the premium fund. The prize for the remaining butter to be awarded to contestants. Only one class will be made. Creamery butter. A first and second prize can be awarded in the class indicted to the holders of the highest cond highest average respective to the six separate scores during year. A certificate of merit will be issued to each contestant whose earnings average 92. A new contest begins each Jury and the prizes become the prize of the winner. Each entry will scored, criticised and tested for sturge. As there have been so few cations from makers of dairy or cheese, classes for these have been provided. Directions for ing and shipping will be sent applicant. Those who have responded need not do so. Address all applications or letter inquiry to Herbert A. Hopper university Farm, Davis, Cal. MR. AUBURY WRITES AGAIN Still Insists the Name of His Must Not Be Taken In V California State Mining Bureau San Francisco, Jan. 19, Editor Gazette.—In a recent article of your paper a letter which I wrote to Mr. O. Lagman of Anaheim reference to an examination I conducted of a Holcomb Valley mining property, was published, and as you mentioned on this letter, and I am misrepresented, I wish to place self right in this matter. In the first place, the imprisonment was given out that I had made official examination of a certain property, and that it had recently been placed when the fact of the ter is, such examination had made ten or more years ago before I occupied the position state mineralogist. My object writing to you was to correct an impression, and I stated that had not been in that vicinity many years. I am not, as you "trying to blame any reporter," am I endeavoring to twist facts it had been stated in the first that I had made an examination of the mine about ten years ago, thereabouts it would have place matter in an entirely different forest service which demonstrated the practical value of the treatments. Since then, other plants have been installed in different parts of the country, two of the latest being in the Coeur d'Alene lead district of northern Idaho, where, while there is an ample timber supply for some time to come, the treatment is warranted by the high labor cost of replacing timber sets. The added cost of treating timbers is from 10 to 25 per cent of the original cost. "An interesting point in the problem of wood preservation is the spread of decay in old workings, caused by infection from nearby timbers. A fresh green post, placed between two sticks that are already sick, will become infected and decay much more rapidly than if it were isolated. The contagion is similar to that of the ills that man is heir to, although it usually works more slowly. In one large mine a two mile tunnel was finished eight years ago and during the first four years the timber stood up in fine shape. Then signs of decay began to creep in here and there, and since then the disease has extended throughout the entire length of the tunnel, necessitating an annual expenditure of between four and five thousand dollars for replacing timbers rendered useless through decay. Less than one-fourth of this sum goes for timber, the remainder representing the cost of framing and installing. Unquestionably many of the cave-ins which crush the timbers and block the mine tunnels, often causing many deaths, are due to nothing but wood decay. "The work of treating mine timbers is considered of such importance that one group of men in the forest service gives its entire attention to this subject. Investigative work carried on by this branch of the service since it was organized has demonstrated Remigio Carriaga, believed to be oldest man in Orange county, found dead in his bed at the head of R. C. Marquez at Peralta on Sun Carriaga was 108 years of age. He was born in Lower California and died to Southern California sixty years. For seven years past he had lived in Marquez." POLISH-NOVELIST'S OPINION FORMER RESIDENT THINKS WELL OF AMERICANS Says He Likes People More He Sees of Them—Cultivation More General Distinguishing Mark of Civilization—Author of Quo Vadis When Count Bözenta and Modjeska came to Anaheim thirty years ago to find fame and fortune in the new world, they were accompanied by a young Pole, Henri Sienkiewicz, afterward author of Quo Vadis, who also came to carve out a name for himself after the troublous experiences at Cracow. The failure of the Utopian colony has been written about in newspaper and magazine for many years, and is a story known of all men. Old timers remember this latter young man, as well as his distinguished associates, and will be interested in a recent article which he has given the press upon his impressions of America. He was at first of opinion that he should have to go about with a gattling gun strapped to his trousers, here in the wild and woolly west, but speedily discovered this was a mistaken view of the case. His article in part is as follows: Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 9.—Henri C. Sienkiewicz, author of "Quo Vadis," and other works which have made deep impressions in America, thinks the American woman is to be envied by her sisters the world over. In this view, however, his opinion is in large measure but a corollary of what he says concerning American civilization. The Americans, according to the Polish novelist and philosopher, have the best civilization of all the peoples of the earth. "Never before, nowhere else in the world," says Sienkiewicz, "has woman had such a good time as in America. The laws make up to her custom gives her freedom, public opinion shields her even when she is at fault, and all men pet and spoil her. This respect for woman is a general trait of the Anglo-Saxon character, but it is greater in America. cratic culture, permeating nation. "I noticed another thing Americans, that is their love of What Americans call a poor person a nice little house all to carpet on the floor, good and the inevitable rocking. What we call a poor man who lives in a cellar, eats a day, and never sees me through a butcher's window; me such poverty in America even the bankrupt farmer his hand to a hundred to earn a living. "One result of their desire their respect for labor. To every kind of work is equated and held sacred, work not divided into higher and classes of the community, according to our ideas, does—only different kinds of exist, and the gentleman who boots is as much respected gentleman who earns his a lawyer." "Herein you will find the American democracy. In though I did not shut my Americans' bad qualities, I that the more I studied more good ones I found." 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If stated in the first place made an examination of about ten years ago, or it would have placed the entirely different light, propose to allow any office or my name to mining property, and there is any false impression, I shall use my best intention to misrepresent mineralogist in our science to the mine in they—we did not care a man had examined the pro- and there was certain-made to "boom" the result of such invest- seems to be stating a nutshell, and there is for any further conis to be commended against mining boom—the case at issue such are not to be charged gentlemen interested in Mariaga, believed to be the Orange county, was his bed at the homeez at Peralta on Sunday. 108 years of age. HeOWER California and came California sixty years ago. His past he had lived with in its department. Poetry, art, intellectual movements—everything, in a word, that makes life really beautiful, spiritual, elevated, that comprises the esthetic and intellectual part of human life—exists in and for this class and acts but through it. Go out of its bounds and you find nobody knows anything, nobody can do anything. "But in America, whereas, perhaps, general science and culture does not reach such height in individuals or one particular class as here in Europe, to make up for it this culture is far more widespread—nay, there is no comparison between the universality of culture in America and here, so much does it exceed ours. And this is what is called American democracy. "If a high state of cultivation does not insure happiness to the human race, then we ought to cast it away and return to times when men walked about on all fours. But if we admit widespread civilization does conduce to human happiness, then I can only affirm that, taking one country with another, human happiness is incomparably greater in America than anywhere in Europe. This is to say, America, the democratic, is nearest of all to that human ideal which man has been striving after for so many years. "Before visiting America some years ago, I was told I should have to go about with a revolver in my belt if I wanted to get home alive. Of course, when I got there I found the people laughed at me. Though I spent more than half a year in the states, I never had the slightest trouble with anybody, was never in personal danger, and never, by American hands, was my pocket in jeopardy. "And all this means a high state of morality among Americans, a high state of culture, not the culture of one single, elegant class, but demo- culture, permeating the whole diced another thing about Americans call a poor man has little house all to himself, a on the floor, good tables, beds inevitable rocking chair. live call a poor man is one in a cellar, eats but once and never sees meat but a butcher's windows. Show poverty in America! There bankrupt farmer can turn to a hundred things and living. result of their democracy is aspect for labor. There, where and of work is equally respecheld sacred, workers are led into higher and lower of the community. Classes, going to our ideas, do not exist different kinds of 'business' and the gentleman who makes as much respected as the who earns his living as you will find the key to democracy. In general, did not shut my mind to 'bad qualities', I must say more I studied them the ones I found." 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