Urokmt reports from California in
di-ate a remarkable increase in gold
quartz mining. For the past three
years, owing to the disputes between
the farming interest anl that of the
great hydraulic or placer mines, over
Hie disposal of the debris of the latter
technically termed "slickens,” gold
mining has been at a standstill. The
revival of quartz mining is a lucky
thing for California. Through the
injunction of the courts, by which
hydraulic mining has been virtually
slopped, owing to the inability or un
willingness of the great hydraulic
companies to make or find a place of
deposit for the “shckens.” other than
the rivers of the state, a good deal of
capital has been lying idle. Again,
the enormous growth of the agricul
tural interests has created surplus
wealth, which, since the cessation of
an absorbing speculative furor over
the Comstock mine shares, has bad
fortunately no place of investment
other than that of land, mining or
manufacturing. There must be a
good deal more of the two first before
the latter becomes fully available.
VOL. XX.
TELEGRAPHIC.
GENERAL NOTES,
The National Grange of the Patrons
of Husbandry began its nineteenth an
nual session at Boston Wednesday,
opening in the sixth degree.
Bartholdi, the French sculptor, has
arrived in Washington with two models
for a monument to be erected in that
city in honor of Lafayette.
The St. Louis Crematory society, or
ganized by three hundred business men
has secured a permit for a building on
Grand avenue, near Tower park, to cost
SII,OOO.
Work has been resumed at John
Roach’s ship-yard on the cruiser Chi
cago, and at his New York shops 150
men are employed on the cruiser At
lantic and and spatch-boat Dolphin.
