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10 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1900. MM MAI STAflONS ItEPOttT OF RGREAU OF COXSTRTJC TIOS AJfD REPAIRS. Snbata&tlal "Wharf. Xecemarr to Good DrydocJv on Paget Sonnd Sl&adyantajrex of-Cnvlte. WASHINGTON. Nov. 2. Probably the most Interesting report that comes from the Navy Department each ycr 13 that of the Bureau of Construction and j Itepalr, now under the direction of Rear Admiral HIchborn. The report of this ' year is fully as interesting aa those that I have preceded It, and aside Lorn tv. at , lias heretofore "been telegraphed, the iol- j lowing extracts are madt: j Paget Sonnd Naval Station. j "In order that repair work may be p;r Xormed elsewhere than In the dry dock. It Is absolutely necessary that a suba an- ' tial wharf be provided. Repair work on ' the Iowa in the stream cost 15 to 4) per cent more than it would had Chat vessel been conveniently located at i tne wbarr. There has been available dur ing: the past three years an appropriation for a wharf. j "The following work under the cogni zance of the Bureau of Yards and Docks is. In my opinion, essential to the prompt I an.d economical performance of repai.s: ' "Narrow - gauge railway connect ng wharf with the shops. Additional boilers for the pumping plant, as the pres nt boilers are overtaxed. Steam separator j fn main steam pipe. Composition fitti gs ' in dry dock. Three power capstans j around the do dock. ! "The skylights of the construction shop I Jeak badly in many places. Attempts to I repair them have been unsuccessful, and, j In my opinion, new glass skylights should be fitted. i "The low ground around the dock and shops should be properly drained, as it becomes very muddy during the Winter eeason, and a permanent roadway, sci.d . enough to carry a large traveling crane, constructed around the dock. j "It is recommended that the following ( needed buildings for the use of this de- i partment be constructed. "Shipwrights' and riggers' shed, to be a two-story, galvanized iron building, wth steel fraroewerk, dimensions 75x150 ft et. The wooden shed hi present use Is "falling down. "Coal shed for use of this department, COxSO feet, to be constructed of galvan s.d Iron and located convenient to the pump ing plant, also to the water front. The present coal shed is a wooden structure, In had repair and of lnsufflcUnt capacity. "Joiner shop, to be a two-story brick building, of construction similar to that of the large shop, dimensions, 00x250 feet. On the ground floor of this shop could be located sparmakers', blockmakers and coopers shops. It is very desirable that the woodworking machinery be taken out of the machine shop, on account of tl-e eawdust, shavings, etc., and lack of room Trhjen" other machine toolsare purchased. "It Is also recommended that a fire proof paint shop and a wooden bo it ched, located as shown, be constructed for Immediate use. "DurlHg the past fiscal year angle and plate furnaces have been constructed, a pneumatic plant installed, woodworking machinery, with driving motors. Installed, shipyard machinery, including plate straightening rolls, angle punch and bender, and plate planer, each with In dividual motor, installed. Some small machinery has been added to the machine shop, and the foundry, coppersmith rand tinsmith shop, pattern shop and boat s op have been put Into operation. Two hun dred and fifty men In all tradeB .can be worked to advantage on ordinary repair work. "It is recommended that the following additions be made to the plant The Items have been placed in the order of their importance: "The present 76-kllowatt generator is overloaded when all too's are In opera tion. The pneumatic plant is of small capacity and should be enlarged. The es timated cost of extension is: One 75-ktWjwatt generator, similar to that installed J3.200 On 12x 12-Inch ale croprepr and tools, Flmllar to preont Installation 1,800 Pipes and miscellaneous 1.000 Total 50.500 "The tools recommended have , been needed at times since this shop has been in operation. One 48-lnch'by 14-foot engine, lathe $ 2.C00 Qae horizontal drilling and boring ma chine, with SO-lach swing 2.000 One 4Sx4S-lnch Detrlck & Harvey open Bide planer 4.500 Two 18-Inch engine lathes... 1.400 i One portable boring machine 400 Motors, shafting and Installation 2,000 I Total $12,900 I "The room now occupied by the black, i smith shop is needed for the foundry. It Is, therefore, recommended that this shop i be moved to the north end of the angle and plate furnace shed for which there i la an appropriation. The SOO-pound steam hammer at present installed Is too small for work which has been done with it, , and it is recommonded that a larger ham mer be purchased. The estimated cost is as follows: One 2600-pound steam hammer .....$8,200 Piping and Installation 1,000 Total 54.200 "There Is Installed In the foundry one 3-ton, one 3-pot braes furnace with ca pacity of 1000 pounds, and one hand crane. The purchase of the following is recom- ' mended: I On 10-ton cupola- $ 700 I 'Motor-driven foundry erase and elevator. 2.500 ' Installation and miscellaneous 800 Total $4,000 I "I recommend the purohase of an elec tric crane, to travel the full length or , the building, and to cover both the foun- ! dry and machine shops. The essential oost la & '.follows: Ten-Con, tratetihg -nlectrlc ctqr .,.. Huppgrla .and lfcatfcMatloa- ..'... ;v.... Total 55.000 "The woodworking machinery and boat shop are located in thf galleries of the large shop. This temporary in stallation possesses many disadvantages. The new joiner shop and boat shefl rec ommended are much needed. The follow ing machinery should be purchased and cn.$. be ..set up temporarily 'until butld dnssf arp provided: jOb be&vy Rawing machine, adjuetlble on radius $1,100 Other woodworking machinery 1.S00 Motor and Installation 1,000 Total .' $3.1KK) "I recommend the. Installation of a steam traveling crane for the drydock. t to lave an overhang of at least 50 feet i und a capacity of IE tons at extreme j oVarhang. It will be necessary to make theroadway around the dock much more Bond before this crane can be safely In stalled. Ksumwted cost, not Including roadway. Is J36.C00. "I recommend that a modern steam sawmill be constructed at this station, to be located approximately as shown. This sawmill should be capable of handling- logs GO Inches in diameter and Co feet leng. and should be equipped with a. large band saw, edging machine cut off saws, dimension planer, two small planers and automatic saw-sharpening machines. It is recommended that pre served piles be used In the buHd'ng and for the wharves, that the building be et galvanised Iron, and of dimensions 25x900 feet "Logs can be purchased here In an quantities at reasonable prices, and I am convinced that yellow fir, particularly tB;eoendi growth. If oawn and a r sea soned for about one year. Is the cheapest and best available wood t "r deck nla-k- Jng. Heavy timbers cf all kinds could be out at small cost, both for this a alsn or elsewhere, as might bo requlrea. Bail road cars could be brought over on .$3,000 I . 2.000 ! scows from Seattle and conveniently loaded, as Is the practice at many of the larger sawmills In this region. The esti mated cost of this installation, incdud ng boilers, engine, sawmill machinery, build ing and wharves, is $"003. Xnral Station In the Philippines. "The naval station at Cavlte suffers under considerable disadvantages on ac count of limited space available, and the shallowness of the. water oft the station rendering it Impracticable for vessel? ot any size to He near to It. Some cons'd efatlon has been given to the qu'stlon of the establishment of a naval stat on In the East at which the larger vssels could dock and carry out minor repalu. The bureau has received a report of the Naval Constructor at the naval station, Cavite, upon a site proposed at Olongapc, on Sublc Bay, from which It qu Crs: " "My examination of the Matlon con vinces me that It is eminently suited for a naval station of the first size The natural advantages are extraordinary. The harbor and its apprra'hes adrrlt of excellent defense by fortification ana mines, and inside there is shelter and anchorage for a fleet of any size. The water frontage Is large and carries a good depth close up to the shore line, j sula and In the inner baln. The land is level and has a wide extent, admitting of expansion to almost indefinite size. I bellove It would be impossible to find anywhere In the Philippines a p-rt or harbor with anywhere near the combina tion of advantages offered by this har bor.' "Pending a decision as to the estab lishment cf a permanent naval station in the Philippines, and the site for the same, the bureau withholds Its recommenda tions as to Improvement in facilities for repair work at that station. Steamship Tncomrt. "The contract for the United States steamship Tacoma was signed December 14, 1S99. July 1 work had not advancsd sufficiently to allow of a rercentage of completion being assigned. "Work has been begun in the drawing room. The lines have been laid down li the mold loft, scrive board has been pre pared and the patterns for .the stern post and rudder are practically complet ed. A large part of the material for the main framing, decks 'and bulkheads has been ordered; 330.09 tons of steel mate rial has been received. "July 1 it was estimated that If there are no unforeseen delays this vessel should be ready for trial about May 1, 1902, and for delivery to the Gove nment June 14. 1902." The report also contains a strong rec ommendation that the naval station at Puget Sound be provided with facl'it'es for storing torpedo-boats In Winter months. OUR WORK IK CUBA. It Demonstrate, Not Discredits, the Justness of Onr Rule. New York Times. General Leonard Wood says: This brings me to some most unhappy misapprehensions not widely, but Influen tially, held In this country concerning the attitude of the Cuban mind toward the United States and the present Ad ministration. I assure you upon my re sponsibility that it is an error, as com plete as It is lamentable, that there Is distrust of the United States on the part of Curns. A few malcontents there are, as there must be always and in every country and under any conditions. But they are a mere handful, and there can be no greater mistake thin to Interpret the ravines of these idiots as an expres sion of Cuban thought and sentiment. The majority of the Cuban people the Cuban people, I may roundly say, the exceptions are so Insignificant are friend ly in the highest degree to the United States, to the Administration, and to the resident representatives of the Govern ment. With their friendliness go perfect confidence in the purpose of the United Strtes to redeem every promise and un qualified contentment with present prog ress. It might be said that I may be mis led by the general deference, naturally paid to me as the Governor of the island; but the bounds of mere deference are quickly and risily recognized. When everywhere? there are manifestations which surprise by their unexpectedness, warm outnourincs of interest and grati tude which deference could never have conceived, it is Impossible to doubt either the ren"lr.eness or the Intensity of the arnlty toward this country that prevails throughout the length and breadth of Cuba. We Co not see how any American can read this highly expert testimony to the condition of Cuba without a thrill of pa triotic pride; we may add that we do not at all envy the American who is so car ried away by his partisanship, either in the ordinary or in the extraordinary and "anti-Imperialistic" sense of that term, as to refuse the credit of this great Na tional achievement to the Administration to which K properly belongs. The Ad ministration has clearly had no other motive In the government of Cuba than to put in the high places of that govern ment the men who had afforded proof or presumption that they were the right men for the places. And it has not hesitated, as the career of General Wood himself bears ample witness, to set aside presumption in favor of positive proof. There is one statistical fact, cited, fn this same interview, by General Wood, which is worth more, as an evidence of the progress of Cuba, than the assurance could be of any man or of any number of men. It is the fact that since October 1. ISM. 40.000 Spaniards have emigrated to Cuba. It is the most remarkable trib ute to good government that the world has ever seen. We believe It to be quite unexampled. The Spaniards are not only a proud and patriotic people, they are the people who know most about the re sources or Cuba, and the "business op portunities" to be had In the island. Under Spanish rule those opportunities were nullified by the inefficiency and ra pacity of the Spanish rulers. American rule has done away with the inefficiency and rapacity. When a rule of honesty, intelligence, and energy Is given to Cuba, it Is the countrymen of the old currupt rulers who flock to take advantage of the change, to the number of 40,000. It Is not only unprecedented. It is amazing. There is in this proud story a serious moral. Our success In Cuba has been won by taking the rulers of the Island from our one class of trained public servants the officers of the Army and Navy. That success has been marred by but one serious blemish, the malfeasance of the one set of untrained civil servants, of political appointees, of spoilsmen, to which it was necessary to give access to the public moneys In Cuba. The scandal of Rathbono and Neely would have been "the regular thing" in the Spanish administration of Cuba. Now it attracts attention because it Is the Irregular and highly exceptional thing. It should attract admiring attention because the prompt official efforts to ventilate it and to banish it prove that It Is strict ly "localized" and not In danger of spreading. But. "since It must subsist for our shame, let It subsist for our in struction." If the holders of commis sions in the Army or the Navy had held their commissions by the same tenure as the holders of appointments in' the Post office Department, and by no better proofs of fitness, then the whole of our Cuban administration would have been as disgraceful a failure as our adminis tration of the Cuban Postofflce. What He Wanted, "Are you proud of your baking pow der biscuit?" he asked. "I should think not," she replied. "I've tried dozens of times, but I never could equal those made by the cook." "Has anyone ever told you that your pie crust excels anything in that line ever before made?" "Never. My pie crust Is worse than my biscuit." "Are you an adept at preparing dainty little deserts?" "Oh. I've'done-a something In that fct?, of eourse," she answered, "but I ncer would think of doing the cooking for anyone for whom I reallj cared." He gave a sigh of relief. "Will you marrr mel" he asked. Answers. HAS HAD GREAT GROWTH i GOLD HILL'S' MARKED IMPROVE MENT FOR ONE YEAR. Center of a. Very Rich. Mining Sec tion, "Which. Is Being; Extensive ly Developed Other Mntters. GOLD HILL, Nov. G. AH the towns of the Rogue River Valley in Southern Ore gon have prospered during the last year, but, in proportion to population. Gold Hill shows the greatest growth. During this time Ashland has erected as many new buildings as comprise the entire structu ral landscape of Gold Hill. But Ashland was already so large that the new houses scattered about within its limits are not noticeable. And Grant's Pass, within the last 12 months, has reared half a dozen bricks, any one of which cost as much as the combined Improvements of Gold Hill. Gold Hill does not claim to be a full grown city. It puts on the aire of a Mrs. Mary A. Pryce and Mrs. Margaret Jones, two widowed sister, aged 29 and 27, re spectively, own and operate a 1500-acre farm adjoining Gold Hill. Their country home Is shown in the Illustration. It Is elegantly furnished. Besides being capable business man agers, these young women are highly cultured and excellent entertainers. Mr. Pryce Is skill ful as an artist, and Mrs. Jones Is a fine performer on the piano, being a graduate of tho Boston Conservatory of Music. Their father, Thomas Chavauer, was a pioneer of the Rogue River Valley, and, being shrewd and able, accumulated a fortune. He was one of the original operators of the Gold Hill ledge, which yielded, while he worked It, $270,000. The Centennial wagon bridge across Rogue River was built by Mr. Chavauer In 1870, and ho collected toll from all who traveled for a number of years. healthy little town, and It lives up to all of Its professions. It is supported al most wholly by miners. There is not an other mining camp in Oregon where trade is so even and so steady. Characteristic of its leading industry, it is an Importer and consumer of raw and manufactured products. For every carload of exports there are three of Imports. There Is nothing which can be seen from the streets of Gold Hill which shows how the people make their living. The town is situated in the canyon or Rogue River, where the Southern Pacific Railroad crosses the stream by that name, and the site is barren of vegetation. Still the stranger sees money circulating freely. In respect to its visible backing, Gold Hill differs from Medford, Jackson ville and Ashland, where horticultural and agricultural wealth Is very much in evidence. The epoch of quartz mining has been ushered In In Southern Oregon. This form of the mining business is as scientific and as certain of returns as farming. And towns which build up on it income as permanently prosperous as those which depend entirely upon the products of the soil. The placer mines in this locality, which will not be exhausted for several generations, contribute yearly to the gold output. Money which comes directly or indirectly from the quartz ledges is seen in the stores of Gold Hill every day. Bags of placer gold put In an appearance only during and after the wet season. The product of the placers Is to this country what the wheat crop is to .East ern Oregon. The quartz gives the every day use of coin, which is provided by cattle to the herders or Central and Southern Oregon. The placer miner, however, differs from the wheat farmer in a matter of habit, which is Important to the prosperity of his trading point. When the placer miner has exhausted the year's clean-up he hies himself back to the mountains to dig for more gold. He keeps out 'of sight and out of hearing until he has again tilled his pouches. Then he reappears In town with confidence in his step and hope in his countenance. He Inspires everybody about him with the feeling that the country is all right. The stranger who Is In the locality catches the Infection and goes away advertising the place with more success than a subsidized immi gration agent. The average wheat farmer, on the other hand, after disposing of his crop for Eu ropean gold, and then getting rid of that gold, complains for several months ot hard times. If anyone In his hearing ex presses optimistic views he becomes saw age in proving that everything is going to ruin. The stranger who hears this tirade against farming goes away suspi cious of all real estate values In the agri cultural districts. The result is a mate rial and spiritual depression in the purely agricultural community. The hopeful view of affairs, the ambi tion to dare and to do great things, im pulses attendant upon mining enterprises, create an inviting social atmosphere in the towns of Jackson and Josephine Counties. Two rich strikes have been made 'dur ing the last week In quartz mines, each within two miles of Gold Hill. A chute carrying free gold in large quantities has been tapped in the old Bradcn mine, and another of the same character has been found In the Blackwell Hills Mining Com pany. The writer visited the Blackwell mine and In 20 minutes picked out of the ledse, crushed in a mortar, and panned out about $3 In coarse gold. The Braden mine is one of the oldest quartz properties in this part of the state. It has yielded thousands in free milling gold. It was recently purchased by Dr. C. R. Ray for $14,000. The stamp mill at this mine has been used until it Is worn out and out of date. The new owner has ordered Improved machinery for its modernization. Being advanced in years and desiring to retire from the activity and anxiety peculiar to the management of a large property. Dr. Braden let his mine and farm go at a low figure. The transaction Is a benefit to this locality, as the pur chasers are progressive and have means with which . to carry on development. While the mill has been shut down until the new machinery Is installed, work In the mine goes ahead Just the same. There Is now enough rich ore on the dump to keep five stamps busy day and night for two months. The free milling chute, which was struck this week, shows greater depth than any other part of the mine. Dr. Ray believes that he has found the or iginal fissure through which was shot up the large deposit of quartz and yellow metal which has made this mine famous as a producer. Interested in Investments In Southern Oregon with Dr. Ray is his brother, of New York, manufacturer of the Racy-, cle and promoter of trust corporations. These gentlemen may become an Impor tant medium between the undeveloped re- sources of this country and the idle capi tal of the Eastern metropolis. Ivaxl Humason, well known In Portland, Is manager of the Blackwell Hills Min ing Company. He Is very much elated over the discovery in the 45-foot shaft at the end of their 200-foot tunnel. "The mine is Jn such shape now that work can be done on three pay chutes, all of which go hundreds of dollars to the ton. The quartz in these chutes 13 so rich that the free gold is in sight when a candle la held up to it. The property belonged to the Jackson County Land Association up to a few weeks ago. This corporation owns sev eral thousand acres of land In this part of the state, which it has been accumu lating for speculative purposes. Graham, the lessee, began work on the ledge with out capital and picked, pounded out and panned out for himself, by the most primitive means, a snug grubstake. In one spot of the pay chute he took $1800 from two cubic feet of quartz. Supposing that he had accumulated capital enough to buy the mine, Graham covered up his finds and opened up negotiations with tho agent of the land company for the purchase of the property. He was disap pointed to find that the tract covering hla finds had been bonded by Portland par ties Humason took in tho ledge and 320 acres of adjacent ground and employed Qougtry jlome Hear Qo!d Graham as the foreman of the mine. Gra ham went directly to the rich quartz for the new owners, so that they are In pay weeks before they had hoped to be when they bought the mine. There are 20 well-developed pay chutes on the ledge. By surface excavation these are known to have yielded over $50,000, the single firm of Beekman & Reams, Jacksonville, having bought from the early owners and operators of the mine $40,000 in gold. When the Oro Fino ex citement broke out in the 60s this property was abandoned, as were many other good mines in Southern Oregon. The old and primitive arastra employed In separating the values from the are still stand at the foot of the ledge, as a monument to early endeavor In quarts mining In this region. The ledge In which the high values oc cur Is narrow, as are all the quartz veins In this country where free gold Is found In quantities. Sometimes it pinches from two feet to four inches in thick ness. At the points where pay chutes are in sight it is about 18 inches in thickness. At the Nye mine, where It Js said that $25,000 In ore, Is blocked out, the miners are now pjcklng away at a quartz seam which runs from three to five Inches in width. In this section rich pay is encountered at the points of con tact between the main ledge or fissure vein and cross-stringers. A heavy ledge of bull quartz, which can be traced across the country for several miles, cuts the Blackwell vein at right angles, but the contact falls to produce values such as are found at the intersection of the stringers with the fissure vein. Humason and his associates are opening up another ledge on a 40-foot tract two miles north of Gold Hill. They have on this property a 14-foot ledge of ore, assaying from $3 25 to $51 per ton. In doing 100 feet of development they have piled up about 20 tons of milling ore. Fifteen tons of this orex will make one ton of concentrates, a value of $775 13 in gold and $3 in silver. The new five-stamp mill of Cheney & Humason was started up this week. After a continuous run of 72 hours it proves to be one of the best plans for saving values which has come Into Southern Ore gon. The machinery was all manufac tured in Portland and Is particularly adapted to treating this class of ore. The mill has about 2000 tons of custom work In sight. It Is a boon to tne miners of this region, who heretofore have been Isolated from a modern mill plant. A number of prospectors have now gone to work on their ledges, hoping to mill enough ore as they go along to defray the expense of development. As many of the prospects In this locality have paid without careful treatment of the ore, It Is to be assumed that there are very few which will fall to give returns with mill ing and scientific treatment. The follow ing prices are named for custom work: For 10 tons, $5 per ton; for 30 tons, $3 per ton; for 100 tons or more, $2 per ton. For several years Jesse Houck, the flour miller at Gold Hill, has operated a two stamp quartz mill for the accommodation of prospectors. He put In no concentra tor, and consequently there was a loss in low-grade pres, but it has been a great convenience ,to prospectors within a ra dius of 15 miles. Both quartz mills are within sight and hearing of Gold Hlfl, on opposite banks of the Rogue River. Their noise day and night is an inspiration to the little city to promote every mining and manu facturing enterprise. A brickyard, which is employed to its full capacity to supply local demands, is an Industry which has been added to Gold Hill within" the last few months. The fine new residence of Mrs. Dekum In the north end of town has started a building boom in that direction. Gold Hill has doubled In business and population since last this hand guided a pencil In making note of Its advantages and development. Dr. James Braden has given Gold Hill a fine power for manufacturing purposes by constructing a conduit two miles long down the south side of Rogue River. The flume and ditch now carries about 2500 Inches of water. It furnishes about 60 horse-power to the Cheney & Humason quartz mill. It is good for 400 horse power and can be enlarged to supply power for a manufacturing city of 5 inhabitants. Gold Hill offers the best water power and facilities for manufac turing of any town in Southern Oregon on the Southern Pacific Railroad. The berme of the High Line Ditch Com pany lines the hills for about 12 miles above Gold Hill, and gives some evidence that the great waterway may be built. This irrigating, mining and transporta tion scheme Is entirely practical. When accomplished. It will be Ihe most exten sive canal In the Northwest. It should pay better than any other that has ever been built on the Pacific Coast because of the several profitable uses it will serve. Any one of the purposes named Is suffi cient to 'justify construction. WILBUR FISK BROCK. TEAMS OF FIFTY HORSES "WONDERFUL OUTFITS THAT DO NEW YORK'S HEAVY" TRUCKING. "Vehicle Designed to Carry Loads of Nearly 100 Tons Qurloas Way Horses Are Hitched to Them. There are employed in this city at heavy trucking teams that for the num ber of horses hooked' up together leave the biggest of circus teams far In the shade. The bandwagon with maybe 30 handsome horses strung out in pairs Is great, and the driving of this outfit by a single man Is considerable of a feat, bur far more impressive are some of the trucking teams which occasionally run up to 50 horses, the passing of such a team being like that of a troop of cav alry; while the weight of the load It Is hauling may fall not much short of 100 tons. This sort of turnout affords one of tiit most striking of the city's great sights. People line up on the sidewalk when it goes by, as they would to watch a procession, and there are not many pro cessions that can equal It for interest. A 30-horse truck team seen In the streets recently hauled a giant spool of wire cable, In Itself a very conspicuous ob ject. The spool Is made of two great discs of wood. Joined by an axlellke spindle, upon which the cable is wound. This particular piece of cable weighed 46 tons. Th triiV iYint irrl(l If wn all of steel platform, frame, wheels, everyinmg ana its weignt about 10 tons. The wheels, about three and a half feet in diameter, have a face a foot In width, so that they will not cut through the pavement- The fifth wheel, upon -whicn the forward axle turns, Is about five feet In diameter, and Is practlcaly a small turntable. How Team la Hooked to Vehicle. The manner In which the team Is nooked to one who sees such an outfit for the first time. Is sure to prove of interest. At the wheel, as mlcht be expected, are a pair of big horses, but these are not hooked to a pole; they stand between shafts. There are three of these shafts, the middle one projecting between the two horses. They are small timbers, six Inches or so in diameter, and at the ends where they are attached to the axle they are framed Into solid steel plates. Like any other shafts they can be raised or lowered at the front end, but framed as they are, at the other end, with these steel plates, there Is no Bprlng or give In any other direction. When they are turned to right or left the axle turns with them" for sure. And not only are they thus held rigidly at the axle, but they are likewise so held at their for ward ends, where a stout bar Is placed across them. The big wheel horses, driven by a man who stands on the front end of the truck platform, are not expected to pull on the load; their work is to keep the shafts steady and true. Hitched on at the end of each outer shaft Is a pair of horses; these two pairs thus stand ing side by side, making a rank of four horses In front of the two wheelers. Then from the end of each one of the two outer shafts there is carlred forward a steel cable, to which additional pairs are attached. The two cables thus running ahead, one from each outer shaft, aro made in sections which can be readily Joined together so as to make practically continuous towing cables of any length desired, according to the number of horses to be hooked on to make up the team. A 30-horse team such as Is here referred to would thus be made up, besides the wheel pair, of two columns of seven pairs each, strung along on two cables stretch ing forward from the shafts. The two columns can bo driven out Into the forsl of the letter V; and In some circum stances, as In working the team around a corner. It Is handy to be able to use them In two lines. In the actual straight, ahead haul the two strings of horses march side by side, In a solid column ot ranks of four. The horses are powerful animals, 16 hundredweight or thereabouts apiece, and they take the great load along with ease, presenting, as they move, a stirring spectacle. For the 15 pairs there are 15" drivers, besides the man who stands on the truck and guides the wheel team. And ahead walks a man to clear the road, especially to warn passing teams in intersecting streets; while behind the great truck are a couple of ordinary trucks loaded with the materials that will be brought into use in unloading the reel when It shall Have been brought to its destination. The heavier of these two trucks, weighing T7lth its load three or four tons, serves the purpose of a brake on the great truck If there should be occasion. Of course the wheel team, big as It Is, couldn't begin to hold the truck with its enormous load on a down grade, and so on such a stretch they carry a cable from the rear axle to the end of the pole of the truck behind, and rope that truck's wheels so that they won't turn. With steel shoes under Its wheels to save the tires from being ground off, the material truck with its load of three or four tons thus becomes a drag, and It Is enough to hold the main truck on any grade that would be encountered in tho city. The whole outfit is under the charge of a foreman, who goes sometimes afoot, but commonly in a buggy. All movements are made under his direction, including the starting of the team. 'The foreman has previously determined the route to be followed. He knows the city's streets well; what streets he can go on with heavy loads without sinking through the pavement, and all that. He knows where all the manhole covers are, and, with the heaviest loads, he keeps off them. Hott They Get Around Corners. Of course they can't get around a Con ner with such a load in the ordinary manner, because a team strung out so far ahead as this is wouldn't have, In that situation, a straight pull on the load; and If they did they would pull it across the corner, or get it Into the gutter, or where It couldn't be handled to advantage. So here is the very simple way in which they do it. Suppose they are going up an avenue, and they want to turn to the right into a cross street. They keep the team going up the avenue, past that street, till the lead pairs are half way up the next block. Then they halt with the truck blocking the cross street. Pres ently the driver begins to swing the right hand string of horses around and head them up the cross street; and then the drivers of the left hand, or nigh string, swing their, string around and over into that cross street, and so the two strings of horses are brought together again there, in the same formation as be fore, four abreast. In seven ranks, ahead of the two big -wheelers. The wheelers cramp the front axle round and head themselves along the cross street; and so the whole team stand now In position for a straight pull on the load, and with the load so placed that It will follow where they drag It. Everything ready, the fore man gives a little blast on his whistle; every driver gathers up his reins, and every horse knows what this preliminary touch means. Then from the foreman a louder blast on the whistle, the drivers tighten their lines and the horses settle down to business again. Such loads as that described are aimost Invariably moved at night when the streets are comparatively free of traffic. The truck upon which It was carried has been tested to a weight of 100 tons. There has been carried on it a load of 81 tons in a wire cable, and this perhaps is the heaviest load ever carried on w'heels in the city. Fifty horses were hooked to it, making a team of 12 ranks with four horses abreast and two horses on the wheel. Baseball in England. Two full pages in the latest number of the Illustrited Sporting' and Dramatic News, of London, aro devoted to a con- slderatlon of the "National Game of I America." The article Is splendidly illus trated, and the English writer says: "Baseball has steadily grown In favor during the list few yebrs in this country, and Englishmen are beginning to recog nize that the game is something beyond rounders. Early In the past year a num ber of the admirers of the great Ameri can game met In London and discussed plans for the furthering of the pastime; and though It will undoubtedly tike some time, the game Is sure to eventu ally obtain a prominent position among English sports. Baseball Is now much played In the Midlands, ana there Is a regular league championship which cre ates no little excitement In the district, md is doing much to popularize the game. 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