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SAH if IJAIn CISCO CHitOMCL SAHJliDAV 11BKUAK1 Ll ISCS EFFECT OF THE BUILDING STRIKE ON REAL ESTATE ALTHOUGH there is somewhat more movement in the real estate market than has been the case for several weeks Ist no marked or permanent improvement is to be anticipated while nnflirts are in progress in the building trades Cnder present conditions investors are not inclined to purchase ithT unimproved property or realty which is held at such high values that it can be made profitable only by expensive improvements A number of large deals are hanging fire or have fallen through on this account and in this latter category comes one of the amount of 133000 For much the same reason owners of good Incorm prndur ing properties are unwilling to part with them on the income basis value as they find 11 difficult if not irnjos5ible to make equally profitable investments Thus with the demands of labor and the wide margin between ih view of owners and would be placed on the Forty ninth avenue bou build an apartment house instead of a levard has bten signed by nearly all of hotel on the southwest corner of Sutter the residents and has been presented to I and Mason streets David Dush Son have removed to the California Safe Deposit and Trust the Spring Valley Waterworks KASTOX KIDRIDGK A tOS AVCTIO A new style of illustrated catalogue has been issued by Eas ton Eldridge for their next auction yhieh to be held on Tuesday next at their salesrooms at 63 Market street Among the properties fo be offered will be ih northwest corner of McAllister and Fillmore streets being a lot 666 by 76 on which are three stores and seven haadsome flats The rental of each is stated the aggregate of which Is 475 monthly and 5700 per annum On the flns catalogue are also found the following plereg of real estate The dwelling on the lot on the southeast corner of OKarrell and Gough streets to be removed by the buyer a lot 25 by 90 feet with improvements on the north line of Twenty third street 50 feet east of Bryant street the house and fiats In the rear op the south side of Clara street between Third and Fourth streets Nos 25 27 and 27A renfire fm buyers of Income property large J4V per annum the lot 761 by 82 feet transactions are few What improve and two two story frame buildings ori ment there 1 to be noted is chiefly the southeast corner of Mission and in medium and cheaper kinds of Lafayette streets therental from which realty I A DIM IVisT5liT is 2064 a year a lot 25 bv 136 feet on the east line of Clara avenue 160 feet south of Seventeenth street a lot 25 by 1356 on the west side of Uranus street 40 feet north of Seventeenth street a ot 276 by 120 feet through to the rear street with two flats on the north line of Oak street near Gough street the northeast corner of Bryant street and Stanley phire 76 by 100 feet on which are improvements renting for J1344 per annum thirteen lots on the southwest corner of San Jose avenue and Faral lone street near the line of the San Mateo electric railway and a lot 25 by i 1376 on the north line of Green street 100 feet east of Laguna street COlTRV nEAL ESTATE I The demand for general farms stock ranches and vineyards jS the largest in many years and Is nearly equal to the supply As evidence of the activity Iths respect Chatfield Vinzent report inil inej nave sold for the account of The principal event of this week has been the sale of the Puritan restaurant property on the southeast line of Market street 300 feet northeast of Fourth by Mrs I Powers to a i llent of the Burrham Marsh Com pr for the reported price of 115000 The improvement consist of a three nry building which brings in a net tental of afcout 4 per cent on the pur hase figure These premises were by the same firm about six months ago for 108000 but the price va declined by the owner ui the second time within a month McNutt Sanitarium has changtd ownership Toward the middle of January it was sold by Ir Nutt to a ent of the talifornla Safe Deposit nd Trust Company fur about 100000 has now been resold for an advance 500 The property is located on the north side of Sutter street 120 Keinhold Bauske 320 acres In Fresno i eai of Van Ness avenue and Is county for 10000 and 160 acres of tim by 120 feet in dimensions On the her land in Mendocino eountv for iinno Another large transaction by this Mini MINING NEWS OF PACIFIC COAST Famous Idaho Maryland to Be Keopened by Boston Capitalists Other Notes REVIEWS OF SOME NEW PUBLICATIONS MISCELLANEOUS I IDXEY WHITMAN admits the public to the Intimacy of the family life of his hero in his Personal Reminiscences of Prince Bismarck Therein lies the special charm of the book The period cov ered is the last seven years of the states IS reported that the old Idaho mans life from 1S91 to 1898 the date of i scribes the industries dependent upon Companys building on the southeast corner of Montgomery and California streets A Buckingham the real estate broker is taking a fortnights outing in the southern part of the State and comparing changes that have come about during the last seven or eight years in such places as Redlands San Bernardino and Pasadena corner of Slxteenthnd Mission Vtrets f01 wTk fr0m i ba a lon has been leased by William Taylor tne eary fifties until 1901 and no mine and often stormy career with the im to the Pattoslen Company for nine years in the State has been a mere reliable partiality of the philosopher To com and seven months from February 1st I producer It has a record of produc prehtnd the manner in whichthe author pages intended for use In the grammar grades of the public schools It tells In a simple way about the forest and the laws of its growth something about planting and caring for forest trees and a good deal about the care and protection of the forest It de ASK YOUR GROCER FOR Walter Bakers Maryland mine at Grass Valley is i his death during which the sting arts to be reopened The property has ing from his summary dismissal from been acquired by a Boston com office gradually loses its Intensity even pany and it is to be fully developed If his strong character did not alto The Idaho is one of the most famous gether acquire that mellowness that i a five story building which is inder lase to Dr McNutt for three years at a monthly rental of 650 with the privilege of two years additional li both transactions Benjamin Uunn were the brokers ne of the most interesting events this week has been the pun hase by Major i harles Tilden of the II Moxley property the northeast orner of Van Ness avenue and McAI iter street The lot fronts 12o feet on Van Ness avenue and has frontages 109 feet on both McAllister street and Ko uet avenue The improvemfnts cnslst of two two story buildings which occupy 50 feet on the corner while the remainder of the land is ovoreti by a wood and coa yard The property produces an income of 160 month and has chanced hands at the figure of o00 Boardman Bros fc acted for the seller and Baldwin Howell for the buyer Another transaction of Baldwin Howell Is th sale for the account of Rivers Brothers of thr lot and improve ments on the east sid of Jones street s6 north of OKarrell for 2S500 to Crane who has a tenant for improvements which will erect and i hat will bring him in per cent on his investment This property was sold in November last for 1500 and by the resale 3000 has been realized in three months by Rivers Brothers The higher value of this property compared to other renl estate on the inside of the Mock in which it Is situated is due to the fact that it extends 896 on ar alley which gives it a southern pfi ure Two sales have Ven made by Imbsen Co this week in both of hioh the consideration has been about jr iio One as of the premises on th southeast corner of Golden Gate avenue and Krarklin street on account of Charles Schlessgnger to Slminoff The iot is 135 by 120 feet in size and is improved with thrc flats The other transaction was the sale of protrty onging to a client of the firm on the eouth line of OFarrel street 1376 west of Jons It is SI by 1376 to Antonio st et thus having two frontages The improvements consist of a row of two story houses William Shotwell was lle purchaser Hlgeiow has sold tftV lot and I residence or the northwest corner of I Aiiister and Sin streets which I has leen his home fr thirty years to client of Koardman Brothers Co fi ooo This property ha frontages 174 on McAllister street and 376 i Steiner and during its occupancy by I iv pr sident of the Savings and Loan So ty has be considered one of the i it ison st residence places in that i prn of San Francisco It will prob Kv be subdivided hy the purchrser if is expected that there will be a ni demand for the lots as that neigh I hood has het popular with builders i ti He ht his loucht from tht estate of Iaura Ieiney the fifty vara on ti southwest tortier of Ja kson and ivu strf ts for 4iofM It abuts on I Tcth on his ml property on te iiirilmeH nrn of Washington i tavia streets and in addition Cte bten bought for a ver rea i i ticure its possession enables He ht to protect his marine view 1 asi corn of Fourth and Folsom is Jh bv T7 6 has been sold the strtii of Kugene Botinet to Joseph I ham Ion ft 171 A it answ tiii of atout the ame rl I impiirtancf has Uni the purcnase I I Mrs Kmilie Pauli from I Brown I i premises or the southeast sidt of I tory is watd street 153 northeast of Fourth for 17500 Speck Co were ih brokers The premises on the northwest ror re of Fourth and Howard streets havje be sold by A Penny to a client of Bovee Toy Sonntag for a considera tioi a little below Si00fi The corner faces on Fourth street and SO feet Howard The improvements consist a rr Mrry brik and frame build rp tenting for j50 a month ll THK KA DOI IKVARD Real estate on the Ocean boulevard south of Golden Gale Park is being rap i taken up by buyers able and will it to erect substantial houses thereon Plces are at the same time rapidly ad vaiiing ard in some instances values lave doubb in a little over a year Of ate being made and sales are being tff eed lots by 12u feet at 1000 a In addition to the purchase of an i tire block near the ocean William tttmple has bought a latpe lot fronting oi the Forty ninth aiue boulevard in the near future will erect a handsome tesideree on the property wi Getz cSl Sen have been making further vestni nts in that neighborhood and have Just bought nearly half a block on the Ocean boulevard between and streets which Is to be graded ard then subdivided into building lots A building has been rented temporarily the Board of Education on the For riiith avenue boulevard in order to I ert delay fn the optniig of a much rtnied school in the district and plans ha been examined by the Board for 1 000 schoolhouse which is to be erected during the course of this ytai Th great requirement of the Ocean boulevard section is an abundant sup pl of fresh vvatr So many houses have been built and so many people are row living there that it Is Imperative that water should be furnished them at once A petition for water mains to be is tne sale of PS acres in Butte eountv for the account of Bullard to the Diamond Match Companv for 9870 In addition chatfield Vinzent have sold durinR this week for the account of the Home and Farm Company 286 acres fix parcels near xovato and Rla Point stations in Marin county An auction sale of fifty nine lots remaining in i ne own or ovaio win De held at 10 oclock to day THK LOAN MAIIKKT Loans on real property continue to exceed creatly payments of indebtedness During the ueek there were recorded ninety nine mortgagesand deeds of trust of the amount of 4o974 against sixty eight releases and reconveyances of the total of L70723 Among the loans were 70W by Henry IJothin from the Cerman Bank on the premises on the southeast corner of Leldesdorff and Sacramento streets and on the north line of California street a05 west of Kearny 4S000 bv Joseph i Affolter from the Hibc rnia Bank on the properties on the east corner of Third and Minna streets on the southeast I line of Minna stteet 1376 northeast of i Third on the east side of Chenev al feet northeast frnm the northwest corner of heney and Charles streets on me ea i inie neney street near harles and on the north side of Fifteenth street 100 feet west of Guetreio 45000 by William Shotwell from the German Bank nn the premises on the south side of OFarrell street 1376 west of Jones purchased from Rivers Brothers for 70000 and 40000 by Mrs Al vina Goodrich from the Humboldt Bank on her half interest in the property on the southeast line of Market street 350 feet southwest of Third The only releases of any size recorded were those of onoo hy the Hibernia Bank to Julius Finck on the properties on tne nortneast corner of Haight and Gough streets and on the southwest corner of street and Twenty first avenue replaced by a new mortgage in 650001 and of 25000 by the San Frai Cisco Savings Crion to Reinhold Bauske on the premises on the east cor ner of Third and Minna streets AMOMi THK Bt ILDERS i I I he prot ricted strike of the bricklay ers is having the ine number and the amount rr tmiin irg contracts placed on record and the announcement of new construction work During the week there were thirty building contracts registered but their total amount was only 144066 50 A few bricklayers are at work on some of the more important buildings at wages of 6 a day but where this price is paid the men another difficulty is experienced by owners and their agents in obtaining material as under such conditions members of the briekmakers combine refuse to supply brick for the buildings In some instances it has been found necessary to send as far as Fresno in order to get a sufficient amount tn keep th 6 a day bri kla ers employed Contracts for excavation have been let by Kentfield for a three story and basement semi fireproof huildinir at the aggregate rental of 48 The lot 38 by 132 feet on the south line of Broadway 140 feet east of Devisa dero street has been Fold for 6000 by Joseph Eliot to George Duiton Boardman Bros Co were the brokers A three story and basement building to contain nine fiats is to be built by Bovve on the south line of TwentyTwenty second street 65 feet west of York street It will cost about 10000 Axelrood intends to erect a three story attic and basement flat building on the west side of Octavla street 30 feet south of Sutter street Its cost is placed at 9000 A Meussdorffer is the architect Sales are reported by Sol Getz Son as follows A lot 25 by 120 feet on the west line of Eleventh avenue 100 feel north of street to Grace Davis for 1900 lot 50 by 100 on the southeast line of Paris street near China avenue to Lattie for 700 a lot 25 by 100 on the north line of street 576 east of Tenth avenue to James Warren for 700 a lot 25 by 120 on the east line of Forty ninth avenue boulevard 1626 south of street to Miller for 1000 a lot 25 by 120 on the east side of Forty ninth avenue 2376 south of street for 1000 to Whipple a lot 0 by 120 on the east side of Fwrty eighth avenue 2376 south of street to Jessen for 900 a lot 50 by 120 on the east line of Forty eighth avenue between and streets for 900 to and Claude Langley on which two cottages will be erected McEvven Brothers of the Santa Ke tract Point Richmond tjeport that the ing over 18000000 fn gold Operations I was able to penetrate Into the intimacy were suspended in 1901 and the mine of the Iron Chancellor and the spirit In was allowed to fill with water The which he has composed his work a few workings are down nearly If not quite preliminary words regarding the writer 3000 feet and it Is we believe the deep are essential Mr Whitman is an Eng est mine in California The vein is not very wide but in that portion of it which has been worked the ore was of good value and uniformly rich In Its prime It was the most reliable dividend paying mine In the State Even the wastt dumps paid well to be worked over and thousands of tons of ore was picked out and run through the mill before the mine was finally closed down Probably the real cause for shutting down was the necessity for new hoisting and pumping equipment The new corporation is said to be rich enough to develop It to any liahman who differs from the vast majority of his countrymen in being exempt from that Jealousy of the new German empire which causes them to view its statesmen and subjects with unfairness if not pronounced hostility Sympathetic in his feelings his volume on Imperial Germany brought him to the attention of the Bismarck family and he was invited to Kriedrichsruh where such close relations speedily grew up between him and his Illustrious denth which enn he reached hv mHern khost that visit after visit to him at one mining methods and machinery and the or the other of his residences succeeded old Idaho Is likely to figure again among It is accounts of these stays ith BIs the productive mines of the State markt descriptions of his manner of ssxirtrTSK7Ubie his vTchollpctrs occupy months as an enormous reser of eonversations held with the Prince voir must be emptied before the lower i that constitute the Reminiscences drifts can be entered California The Senger group of mines on Blue gulch has been bonded to Berkeley capitalists The group which is owned i worlds history by Jacob Milan and Peter Senger and simplicity of his country life surrounl Mrs Kate Hughes comprises 420 acres by the members of his family and in of good mining ground The gravel daily contact with the peasantry of his The Bismarck to whom we are intro duced is the Prussian junker who has involuntarily returned to the life which he had left to fill one of the most prominent positions on the stage of th He Is shown In th bank averages loO feet in depth and prospects from the surface to the bed sale of lots continues actively I hey rock There is plenty of dump and are preparing to put cement sidewalks the mine lies favorably for working through the entire tract as it is much The mine can be fitted up and water needed owing to the number of houses i brought to it at a comparatively small that have been put up and the increase expense It is a eood nronertv Ren ine construction oi resentatlves of the parties holding the in the population the Belt Railroad at Point Richmond is the most Important feature of the present condition as this will help large manufacturing plants to be placed in a fine natural situation where they will be connected with the great transcontinental railroad and also bring them to deep water In addition they will be enabled to procure cheap fuel from the pipe line which is now nearlng completion for he transporting of oil from the Kern county oil fields to Point Richmond A 300000 mortgage by Henry Bothin to the German Bank was placed on record yesterday afternoon It covers twenty three pieces of real estate mostly situated in the down town sections of the city Among the salts made by Easton Eldridge Co which have not been reported heretofore arc those for the account of Mrs Coleman of the premises on the north line of Post street 62 feet west of Laguna to Glaser Levy for 16100 for the account of Mrs Aiken premises on the north side of Frederick street near Clayton for 9250 to Mrs Mogan and for the account of Mr Gillert to Mr Steele the property at 230 and 232 Oak street for 7000 The Jacob Heyman Company has sold three cottages on Twenty third street for prices ranging from 3000 to 3500 a two story house on the corner of Douglass and Alvarado streets for 4500 a cottage on Alvarado street near Douglass for 3000 ard a lot on Hoffman avenue near Twenty third street for 800 Properties have been sold as follows by Baldwin Son From Mrs Bertha Fischer to Frederic Beaudry the gore lot on the southeast corner of Market and Thirteenth streets 991 by 1136 covered by a one story building containing five stores for 16400 from George Mitchell to Fredetic Marsh the lot 376 by 102fc on the southeast corner of Jackson and Locust streets for 6250 from Mrs vannah to Cevasco the lot 50 by 100 with improvements on the east side bond will be on the ground for the pur pose of examining ard prospecting the same as soon as the weather permits Trinity Journal Day one of the owners of the Enterprise group of mines in the East Fork mining district was In town Thursday and informs us that the mine is looking better than ever On the 30th ult the tunnel being pushed ahead on the Lone Jack cut the ledge Where cut the vein was nine feet in width and carried 20 a ton in free gold Trinity Journal The work of rttimbering the drain tunnel of the Wyoming mine will continue eight hour shifts being employed In order to drain the country in and around the Wyoming and Nevada City mines This work will be completed in about four months and by that time the hoisting and pumpingpumping machinery will be ready to open up the Nevada City mine on a large scale Nevada Chy Transcript estates The pleture thus presented bj Sidney Whitman is so charming as to necessarily disarm the hostility of even Bismarcks most inveterate foes Yet a man has not passed through such scenes anh had sue experiences as tli founder of German unity and remained the same as at his start on his career The exterior envelope of the Junker indeed remains but we feel soon after opening this book that we are to obtain a glance of something more than the mere country squire And so it proves As the authors intimacy ith his host increases on successive visits to Fried richsruh and Varzin the statesman more and more reveals himself and the conversations turn on political topics of the past and the present on the relations of Germany with Russia and Great Britain the temper of the Frech and even on the more Interesting subject of internal olltics such as the Socialist movement in Germany Then we are brought back to the man as age rapidly advances are present at the anniver i saries of his birth and at the peaceful close of his wonderful career and learn i forests the insects injurious to them and the appearance and characteristics of our most Important forest trees The book is profusely Illustrated and the text Is pleasing and clear It Is one of the class of books now becoming so common and useful which are used by the modern teacher to supplement the drill work of the severer studies broaden the outlook of the pupil and relieve the monotony of school life A half dozen of the books for each room of a school of grammar grade will be of great value if the teacher knows how to put them to good use Boston GinnCo nethlehem Since Every Man the morality play was produced in London as usual Imitations have followed A nativity play by Laurence Housman who wrote Th Love Letters of an English Woman has been printed in book form having been presented In London with appropriate music under the stage direction of Gordon Craig What Mr Craig and the music did to illuminate it may have made it something attractive but Mr Housemans book is commonplace and far below the subject of the holy birth in dignity Much of it is merely puerile The dialect used by the shepherds is the most ordinary of English provincial which while it may be argued that the shepherds of old were no more highly educated grates terribly and makes the significance of the Bethlehem episode sometimes ludicrous These are two lines at random Tis as God made em like as they were geese Go ater em and they turns tail and flees There are ambitious choruses all the great figures of the story are brought in but the language Is nowhere of any high poetic dignity The old nativity plays had the quaint earnestness of peo pfe who were saturated with the sense of the divinity and awe of the theme Even if the language was sometimes crude It had always a strangely subtle underlying devotional feeling Bethlehem is clearly the work of a modern Englishman in whom the reverential spirit while it is there is shallow and mechanical New York The Macmillan Company price 125 net BREAKFAST A COCO S535 The FINEST COCOA In the World Costs Less than One Cent a Cup Forty Highest Awards in Europe and America a Walter Baker Go Etatnhed mo Dorchester Mass CHRONICLE BSAJfCH OFTICS JOS AD Trrtlwmeiits anil uh rlptlon Van Neaa tltr 1SOC Markrt it abore Van Net an a SKW Il BLICATIONS Kabbi Rru Kara William Aiiams Slade has made a study of Brownings Rabbi Ben Ezra which is issued with the well known poem itself Theanalyst brings out the sare and wholesome philosophy of the poet and his steadfast trust in a higher power The notes will also be found helpful New York Thomas Crowell Co price 50 cents ne i William Morris will i ontlnH bU fihihitnn of nirrii nn Indian paintings ly Ulna and Sauer en until Marcb lat 48 Sutler at Admission ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE says In The Bnokman of THE The Epic of the heaL PIT It is the skilled work of the mature artist risi at last to fine and triumphant achievement that brings the reader to his et leaves him in the realization that big hxik a bit of rial literature is in his hands Ths bem ilnq bojk in tht Vnitfi Staen DanbWday pjge Co 34 KSt The Slate Ledge mine located four i to know the Princess Bismarck Count miles below Gras Valley is to be re I Herbert and Count Rantzau as if we opened and machinery erected on the premises capabale of carrying the shaft ilown 1T00 feet Repairs to the shafting of the Zeila mine Amador county are nearly completed The Oneida mines shaft has reached the 2300 foot level Florence Giannini proprietor of the hotel at Drytown assisted by Frank Cupp of that place has sluiced out about 350 worth of fine gold in the had sat at table with the authors hosts had gathered with tl around the domestic fireside at evening or had walked and talked with the mighty Chancellor in the paths and under the trees of his vast domains The impression left on the reader by this book is of admission into the intimacy of one of the worlds greatest men as discreet as It Is frank and sympathetic Mr Whitman has yard at the rear of his hotel within the dedicated his work to Franz von Len of Mission strf et 100 feet south of Twen ffect of restricting ty ixth fair 5000 from Henry Meyers to Butcher the residence and lot 50 Ty 1276 on the north sld of Page last two months The gold Is of fine quality bringing no less than 18 per ounce at the assay office In San Fran Cisco When the rains commenced about two months ago Giannini acri dentally found color in the small rivu i let which runs across his yard from Fred le Moins premises adjoining He at once set to work built a small flume i and commenced washing out with the I successful result above stated The I ha nuggets he has already secured range from 3 to 9 each In value bo far he has only worked his claim for the placer gold but last week on reaching bedrock ht struck a quartz ledge about four Inches thick containing free gold in considerable quantity which he will bach the artist friend of Bismarck and has illustrated his volume with reproductions of excellent photographs of Prince and Princess Bismarck New York Appleton Co price 160 net HORACE HCDSON sales reportfd by this firm are the fol lowing For the account of Wallers to a client of Hawkins three flats on the north side of clay street east of Laurel niinc nr IITkikner nn be erected on the east side of Frp i mini uith int tn hi cs tiTvin I inont street l17 south of Howard for the same account to Charles Ehn The structure will cover a lot 91 by three fiats and a lot 25 by 1376 on Page 1S and will he divided by party street near Golden Gate Park for i walls Its exterior will be of nressed 12000 for the or onnt nr wmiam ff WfFt Brodrirk I proceed to develop in the near future 11000 from George Mitchell to marior Ledge Radke the lot 100 by 1126 on the Tne mininp outlook for the coming southwest cornet of lay and Maple I summer is quite bright as the reser streets for 12000 and from Mrs Emma voirs in thp mountains are all filled Huber to Robert Mercer the lot 87 by with water and there is a good supply feet en the north side of Lake street i hich will fwl the streams io east oi iNintn avenue ror okhi To accommodate their increasing business A Turner fc Co ill remove to 312 Montgomery street where they will ovcupy the entire office about March 1st or as Mon tnereaiter as tne alterations i muirinc oHrtitinnc tn their fciiitfca progress are finished Among the hU means that the outntlt of cold In this county will be greatly increased I over that of last year hen Calaveras later In the season In addition to this the Standard Electric Company has made arrangements to put power in for various properties here New mines are being developed and toe older brick with stone ornamentation and it will rontain two stores with lofts above The cost is placed by Henry Meyers the architect at 56000 A two story and basement brick fac be erected by De Lano Brothers on the west side of Spear strr et north of Mission at an outlay of 14000 Henry Meyers is the architect Plans have been made in the same office for a two story basement and attic building to be erected by Dr George Somers on the north line of Yallejo street east of Devlsadero the cost of which will be 12000 Ten flats and two stores are to be built by William Sohl on the southeast corner of Howard and Fifteenth streets The contracts for the work thus far recorded exceed 25000 in amount Building operations for twenty four of the principal cities of the Inited States for January show a decrease of 34 per cent in outlay as compared with the corresponding month of 1902 The figures for 190S are permits or contracts 4442 cost 16317 410 Those of 1902 were respectively 4606 and 16930495 The falling off Is partlv attributable to the increased Perkins a lot 25 by SO with old building on the southeast side of Mission street 475 feet southwest of Seventh for 11200 and on the west line of Eighth street 105 feet south of Market a lot 25 by 55 feet to Charles Sutro for 12500 This last mentioned pie ce of property has been in the same possession for forty years and Is stated to be the first piece of realty on that block to change ownership in thirty years PouHney Bigelow has said that Germany could land 100000 men in the United States and conquer us before we could recover from the blow Prominent Army officers show where Mr Bigelow is badly mistaken See Sundays Chronicle WILL HASTEN EXAMIATIOS Announcement was made csterday bv the Civil Service Commission that it would begin vigorous work in the holding of examinations for all positions under It jurisdiction which have not yet been subject tn examinations It is intended to take un the malor nosltions flrit Cnm cost of labor and material and partly 1 missloner Rotters said If we cannot owing to the extremely cold weather complete the work In six months we will stood second in the list of gold producingproducing counties Angels Record A contract was let this week to run the tunnel of the Jack Rabbit mine 200 feel which in addition to the 425 feet already run will make 625 feet at which point it is expected to strike the ore body Angels Record The outlook for mining on the south side of the Tuolumne river in the vicinity of Grovelard and Big Oak Flat is exceedingly bright Development work on new and old mines is being prosecuted on a large scale and apparently in an intelligent manner Sonora Union Democrat A Irhoolhonk on Forestry Filibert Roth chief of the Division of Forestry Department of the Interior has prepared a little book of 291 Gold Mining Companys group at Gold Mountain near Butler is in 120 feet and a vein cut assaying 47 in geld and silver The tunnel will have to he run i0 feet to tap the ledge which crops on the surface Bonanza Hasbrouck A Mclntyre and Kernlck operating northwest of Gold mountain and six miles from Butler report having opened up a ledge of quartz on the surface in porphyry carrying 30 gold with silver and copper Tono pah Bonanza A Book Worth Having The Seedy Gentleman BY Peter Robertson A Volume of Philosophy Satire and Sentimsnt With Cover Design by Gordon Ross OPINIONS OF THE PRESS Nevada The Silver King mine at Lone mountain Is sinking on a vein seven feet wide of which eight inches on the hang wall is said to carry high values Silver State The Paymaster group of seven claims lying in the range to the north of Lone mountain in Nopah district is said to be making a good showing A shaft forty feet in depth discloses a ledge of quartz four feet wide on a lime an porphyry contact says the Tonopali Bonanza It carries average values of 276 per ton At White Rock the Edgmont Com pany is employing forty five men and has its twenty stamp mill in operation little has been done until Mr Marks Oregon Our representative was called into the offices of the New York Western Minos Company on Wednesday to look at some rock that had just been brought in from their Thompson group of mines on the north fork of Coyote creek The mines had been closed down for a week to make some changes but now have a full en vv of men at work again This rich body of ore was struck in the north drift of the tunnel fifty feet from where the crosscut tunnel intersects and in about eighty feet from the surface The ri streak Is eight to twelve feet wide The rich pay ore is on the hanging wall a ledge about ten feet wide xThe specimen of rock is handsome quartz and gold can plainly be seen In the same This property is situated about two miles north of Greenback and about one mile south of Scrlbner Hendersons mine Oregon Mining Journal Marks of Seattle who recently bonded the Gold King on Jostphine creek has just returned from the creek with the report that he has discovered and opened up the ledge for 1200 feel He says this mine is a wonder to this county Mr Marks claims to have had much experience in mining and is sure this will make one of the richest and greatest mines in Oregon Some very rich rock was discovered several years ago that made quite an excitement in this section and many went out to see the property These parties took out 4000 to 5000 at that time and since very The New York World With his wit he is ingenious and withal vastly ttertairg ir ar nrg iiil way The Boston Journal it is a gMd hook to pick ij it odd moments and the reader will lind its kindly philosophy ever new The Boston Times There are S5 of these charming littie stories of lif and thought and the volume is 1 tj vnble trim ilrst to last page The Boston Evening Transcipt He write upon almost everv topic under the transcontinental sun and with a style and wisdom all too rare among American newspaper writers The St Louis Mirror Lucidity of expression cleverness of thought versatility In observation and a striking familiarity with the worlds best literature The Sn Francises Bulletin The Sr edy Gentleman will find hl3 place with the reverie loving bachelor of Ik Marvel The Louisville Courier One of those convenient books to keep at the elbow And the writer has a style to be envied The Philadelphia Publio Ledger Idight rized by 1 rid tn nversa a great jell hu The Chicago Inter Ocean The edv 1 11 i man has seen nucli il if th leal philosophers itt mor 1171 tin it tedium The Book News Philadelphia jrt re rii tak some ime i soni tni hat at times minor i and rhips the least bit publi taiUtie The Buffalo Courier can to rec nime niTi delightful the of enter Geo Hamlin Fitch In Sunist I know 11 hrg issued In recent years that is its equal in wisdom or readahlcness The rn Francisco Chronicle The spirit of the writing lies larg ly in the stvb which is refined leisurely and fastidious Th 5 Francisco Examiner Th iif rtl man Is very dis curslve and has a fine fancy For Sale at All Book Stores Price 150 Net Published by A ROBERTSON San Francisco EXCELSIOR STILL ONWARD STILL UPWARD 1 THE jnACTJET which has prevailed east of the Mis issippi river The January figures for San Francisco were for 1902 ninety nine contracts calling for the expenditure of 1035994 and for 190n ninety seven contracts of the total of 88163 However the Chicago Construction News says that from the abundance of building news which is now coming in from all sections of the country there is every reason to believe that the record for 1903 will be equally as interesting as it has been for the preceding half decade and while some of the larger cities which have shown a remarkable gain during the past few year will not maintain the high totals they established either cities will more than make up the losses rlERAL NOTES It is likely that the Lachmans will take seven but I think I may promise that we will make more rapid progress than has been made heretofore HASSAWAY A INSPECTOR William Gassaway a clerk In the Chinese Bureau has been notified by the Cnlted States Civil Service Commission that he has beer promoted to the rark of Inspector Gacsaway took the examinations for the higher position some months ago and was confident that he had passed A Guaranteed Core for Piles ItrblDc blind bleerilnc and prntrudlng ptlei cur do pay All drufsliti ubcriieU by tbc mDuacturrra nf Pain Ointment to re food tte uiuiiey KOcre it tall to cure any case of pllra no njjttr in lone atandlnf Cum The Kiddle mine is reported bonded by Kastern men for 100000 Taylor manager and part owner of the Mut phy Curioux mines at Bull Run says the ten stamp mill will be enlarged to twenty stamps and cyanide works added The cost of these and either necessary work will make a total expenditure of 200000 Silver State The ores at Hanapah District Nye county are said to carry 2 40 per ton in platinum I The Wadsworth Dispatch says a clean up of seventy tons of ore from the Gold Center mine In Ollnghouse dls i trict returned bullion valued at 3220 an average of 46 per ton At the Anna Bell property of the Consolidated Nevada Company which adjoins the Wedeklnd on the east a drift is being run from the bottom of the 110 bonding Mr Marks has had a number of assays made and says that much of the rock that shows no free gold will assay all the way from 100 to 51000 to the ton and that it is safe to say there is at least 100000 worth of ore in sight Some parties now think that this Is probably the property that the Frenchman Louis Belrils told about finding when he was coming over the mountains from Crescent City many years ago when Indians were very bad in this country He chanced to stop to tak a drink when he saw the bank filled with yellow metal and picked up rock that was full of gold as large as walnuts He put several pieces of this rock in his pocket and before he had time to thoroughly locate the spot he heard Indians and so left In haste He made many visits through this country after A MACA ZINE 1 foot shaft to cut at that depth a streak that time in search for this hill of gold that gave assays of nearly 10 on the ordinary eaaea tn Hi dyi be worat caiei In surface and which vs encountered In KriiVrf ithfr VT Tsr Blading ror tne large shafthouse re real ueileea Itcblnc inatantly Tbli 11 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