Amador Ledger from Jackson, California • Page 2

ENTERED AT THB POSTOFFICR AT JAORDOR AS BBCOHD-CLAS9 MATTF-H. THfQ PAPPD en nle at E. C. DARK'S Adverttiilmr Agency, Market street Imo I ivrciv Ban tfranoliico, California where tot advertising can be made or It AMADDR LEDBER Published every BWday Afternoon RICHARD WEBB Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION RATES! Oas year (In advance One year (If not in advance) 8 Six months 00 Three months 0 BO One or more copies, each OS Legal per square of 231 urns- First insertion 11.00 Subsequent per square-each MpMOMC." BRtriAV TIFrPMRER 0 1010 KttilUA I miii tttMM4tli.il I'-l 'V- I i.UJ Jlj Iv Vf I 1 17 THE LOCAL CENSUS. By the returns of the census just given out California has gained in pDpulation in greater ratio than any other state in the Union during the past ten years, the increase being over 6o per cent.

The figures are very gratifying for the state as a whole, but most disappointing for the iesidents of the mining counties of the mother lode, which section has the unenviable distinction of suffering a serious decline in population. Amador county has lost more heavily, proportionately than her sister mining counties. By the census of 1900. Amador county had 11,116 inhabitants. By the census of 1910 the population is given as 9086, a loss of 2030 in the ten years.

This means that we have less people by nearly one-fifth than we had ten years ago. At the same ratio, the county would become depopulated in fifty years. On an average we have lost 203 persons each year during the past decade. A falling off was expected, because it was indicated by a reduced registration of voters and a diminishing school census, Still such an alarming outflow of population as. that revealed by the census was unlooked for.

Our neighboring counties are in the same category. Calaveras has lost 2029 in the same period, El Dorado 1494, and Tuolumne 1140. Nevada, the banner quartz mining county, has been hit in the same way with a loss of 2834. It is remarkable that while California has been reaping a steady harvest of immigrants at the rate of over 70,000 per year, these foothill in natural weath and for home-making purposes should lag behind so badly. There is a cause for it, probably a combination of causes.

As far as Amador is concerned the anomaly is presented of a steadily increasing assessment roll and a substantial increase of gold output, keeping step to the march of depopulation. In other words, we have thrived in spite of our loss richer instead of poorer by the depletion of our ranks. Though comparatively few in numbers, we are prosperous. The census returns show the value of persistent advertising in attracting population. Southern California owes its wonderful growth to the fact that it has never missed an opportunity to sound its own praises in the ears of the homeseeker.

The "knocker" is not much in evidence in the south land. And yet they cannot and do not deny that the northern portion of the state is far ahead of- the south in all that appeals to the one seekiug a desirable home place. But the booster spirit has had full swing in the country of lesser natural advantages, and has made it what it is to-day. The advertising business has been a totally neglected science as far as Amador county is concerned. The stranger has been left to find us out in his wanderings, instead of being invited and guided by an extended hand.

Being off the usual path of travel, the intending settler finds a home elsewhere, ignorant of everything that this foothill country has to offer. The mining industry has not contrtbuted to this outflow 'of population. We are taking out as much gold as we ever did from quartz mining, and the future in that line is very bright. But our farmers have declined. Many have sold out to stockmen, and thousands of acres formerly occupied by small farmers are now surrendered to stock-raising.

These foothill lands have been found peculiarly adapted to cattle, and the stockmen have steadily increased their holdings at the expense of the actual tillers of the soil. The process of cutting up big land holdings to accommodate the demand for small farms, so prominent a feature of other parts of the state, has been reversed here; we have been breaking up the farms to accommodate the increasiug herds of the stockmen. How to create a tendency the other way is the problem that faces the foothill sections. There are ten school districts within a of half a dozen miles of the county seat. This territory contains about one half the school census children of the county, exclusive of the existing lone high school district.

From the viewpoint of "the greater good to the greater number," it has far superior claims for high school facilities than any other district, and equal to all other districts combined; It cannot be expected that this population will submit to a county high school located beyond reaching distance. SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY Reported weekly for the ledger The Survival of the A Gas- Electric A Reversed Cloth Gears for A Diet for Obesity-Light Alloys -What Forestry Is An Imported Zinc for Mortar. Changes of temperature and habitat are found by Prof. Henri Douville, of the Paris school of mines, to offer a plausible explanation of the evolution of man from the lower animals. A great and permanent fall of temperature at the close of Secondary times seems to have ended the reign of Reptiles, and favored the development of animals, which are better organized to resist cold.

Then the Mammals evolved in the two great classes of the Eaters and the those preyed upon surviving and developing -in various branches, according to their resisting powers. The Insectivora divided into animals furnished with special protection, like the hedgehog; burrowers, like the mole; and Hying creatures, like the bats. Of the Herbivora, some, like the rhinoceros, were adapted for resistance by weight and armor: others, line the horse and the antelope, by their swiftness. One group, the Primates, including the apes and finally man, sought refuge in the trees. Then came the temporary chilling of the region of some of the apes by the Glacial Epoch at the close to the Pliocene period, and the tropical forest became so stunted as no longer to support large tree-dwellers.

Forced to walk, the skeleton of the animals, brain and intelligence, grew, and man was born. The curious gas lamp of a German engineer is given extra draft by means of an electric current generated by the heated waste gases from the lamp itself. A thermo-battery of nickel, copper and aluminum is placed over the lamp, and feeds a small electric motor that drives a fan drawing air into the flame. The battery can endure a temperature of 12 deg. which is about twice that to which it is exposed.

A river flowing up stream the strange phenomenon witnessed in Upper Dahomey by a French geographer during 15 days of last May. The slope of the bed is slight, the nver is dry several months in the year, and the rainy season begins in the downstream country, so that the water runs both ways until the channel is filled. It appears, that the noisiness of the modern high-speed machinery may be avoided by the use of cloth as a material for working parts of the machines. In a paper lately read in New York to the National Machine Tool Builders' Association, John Riddell mentioned experience at Schenectady with gears and pinions made from high-grade muslin, which had been applied to varied uses, and had proven not only almost noiseless but very strong. A pinion of muslin that had been used two years on a boiler maker's punch and shear, both reduced the noise and remedied trouble from the breaking of gears.

On two 10-foot planing machines, operated by electric motors and compressed air clutches, muslin intermediate pinions were applied for the reverse motion, and were found silent and durable in a place where bronze, rawhide and other materials lasted not more than thren or four weeks, and steel made an intolerable noise. In special tests the cloth pinions resisted without injury shocks so severe as to break nearly half of the teeth in a gun-iron pinion. This special dietary was arranged by the medical officer of the Keigley, Yorkshire, to reduce the weight of two very heavy men. For breakfast, porridge, skim milk, stewed fruit, and watercress in season; dinner, bread, lean meat or fish, and vegetables; supper, bread, tea, stewed fruit, watercress and lettuce. Not more than 20 ounces of solid food was allowed on week days, and 22 ounces on Sunday.

The patients, beween 60 and 70 years of age, strictly adhered to the diet prescribed, and between May and Christmas, 1909, their weights fell from 256 to 182 pounds and 248 to 189 pounds. Their health and bodilyjcondition have so improved that they are able to walk about, leaving the chairs to which they had been confined for years. Metals combining lightness and strength are in demand for aeroplanes and other purposes. Many have been made to strengthen neaium without adding much to its weight, as ita specific gravity is only 1.7, while that of aluminum is 2.6, and that of iron i 7.8. An alloy with zinc, containing as much as 90 to 96 per cent of magnesium, is the subject of a recent French patent.

The even lighter calcium, specific gravity 1.68, has been tried by the patentee, and he claims useful alloys with zinc, copper or caluimnum, or all three mixed. Some interesting results of scientific forestry have been collected by D. E. Hutchins in a report on a plaM to reforest Cyprus. The German forests, covering about 35,000.000 acres, yield $110,000,000 a year, and the rapid increase of area and productiveness justifies the hope that the present im- portaUon of $80,000,000 of timber Into Germany will soon be unnecessary.

The spruce forest of the Erzgebirge mountains, supplying 2,128 cubic feet per acre from growing stock, seems to lead in average yield. This land is worth not more than $1.00 an acre for ordinary farming or pasturage, but gives a net annual profit of about $9.00 an acre from the judicious thinning out of the timber. In Prance, the coniferous forest of Besancon gives a net income of about $16.00 an acre. A young forest of 1950 acres on Mount Ventoux in Provence, planted botween 1863 and 1878. is not only already profitable, yielding a return of about 14,000 a year, but has quite transformed the neighboring country.

Springs have reappeared, with restored fertility, and a remarkable increase in the value of the lowlands. A curious insect visitation was lately recorded by a London health officer. A private house became so infested with swarms of a small beetle as to be uninhabitable, and after sulphur dioxide fumigation with only partial success in destroying the pest, the premises were vacated until they could be thoroughly cleansed. A consignment of turmeric at a neighboring warehouse was the breeding place cf the insects. The turmeric- -about 15 tons in 227 had been imported from Bombay, and was found to be honeycombed by maggots.

The beetles were identified as Lasioderma Serriccrne. often known as the "cigar" or "cigarette" beetle, from injury caused to tobacco products. Zinc instead of cement has been in joints of a new concrete bridge near Lyons, France. Molten zinc at 800 deg. F.

was understood to cause no fracture of dry stones, and it was used in one-eighth inch thickness to join the stones of two elliptical arches. The increase in cost was about 82.50 per square foot of the bridge's horizontal The Mother Lode. Men who are well posted in mining affairs are promising great activity along the muther lode in the counties tributary to Stockton and the future looks encouraging for greater development throughout the mining region which has made California famous for more than half a century. When speculators were rushing into the oil fields in the belief that fortunes awaited the inrushers, capital was taken from the surer fields of quartz mining and the leading counties east of Stockton suffered for want of means to develop the known good properties awaiting men of means to handle them. Now that the oil business has been so generally absorbed by great cornbi nations of capital, men of smaller fortunes are again looking to the mother lode and things are brighter for the counties of the southern mines belt.

Deep mining along t.he lode is profitable and men who know the fields look for a boom in the sections where deep shafts have uncovered paying veins in Amador and deep works in the Keystone and Eureka properties, among others, have shown that the great quartz fissures are dividend producers when their ores have been reached on levels 2000 and more feet from the surface and such mining is no longer experimental. The South Eureka, in Amador county, located between the famous Eureku and Kennedy properties, is to-day one of the best paying properties in the state and the development was made within the past year by sinking deeper on the vein. Following the mother lode southward it has been found that deep mining pays in Calaveras, Tuolumne and Mariposa counties, and everybody knows the wonderful success of the deep mines of Nevada county where the vein matter bas been dug into at a depth of close to a mile from the surface. All along the great quartz zone which made California famous us a gold producer are many promising properties only awaiting plucky men with means sufficient to get shafts down to 2000 or 3000 feet. Once capital is turned from the risky oil belt to the surer field of the mother lode and California's gold story will be larger than in the old days for the gold is in the rock in almost unlimited quantities and modern science recovers all of it-Stockton Independent.

The greatest danger from inliuc is of its resulting in pneumona. can be obviated by using cough remedy, as ittnot cures influenza, but counteracts at tendency of the disease towards pneumonia. Sold by all dealers. Improving Home Judge Wood is havijig constructed at his home a new entrance for Chris Kringil. A large open tire place is being built on the north gable of the house, and will be as ornamental as it will be useful when completed.

The fireplace and chimney will be built of buff brick. Dislike Name The people of the city of Folsom are endeavoring to have the name of Folsom prison changed to Repressa prison, the name of the postoflice at that institution, claiming that it is a hindrance to the growth and prosperity of their city to be known only as the prison Exchange. Men's Private Diseases Cured quickly and effectually t.t your own home by a regular physician of long practice. Medicines with full directions sent to your nearest Express office you paying charges $5.00 on taking out package. Address, Mall Medical Dispensary, Lock Box 36, San Franciso, Cal.

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i i I Plymouth Livery i ii W. J. Ninnis i I PIIOP. I i aronable ymouth, Cal. NOTICE FOR O2OS4 Department of the Interior.

U. S. Land Office at Sacramento, California, November 21, 1910. Notice is hereby given that DAVID RHODES, of Defender, California, who, on March 3. 1905.

made H. E. No 7796, for WIAW A of Section 1, and of Section 2, Town- ship 7 Ranee 13 Mount Diablo Meridian, has filed notice of intention to make Final five year Proof, to es- tablish claim to the land above de- scribed, before the U. S. Commissioner for Amador County, at his office in Jackson, California, on the 4th day of January, 1911.

Claimant names as witnesses Samuel Lessley and J. H. Campbell, of Volcano, Fayette Mace and F. B. Joyce, of Defender, Calif.

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