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Show INTER-M- O G fact would, however, give no right to Van Gander to patent his treatment. The fact of his using a weaker solution of cyanide of potassium was not an invention which could be patented. The very most which could be said in fa- vour of the MacArthnr-Forres- t process was that it extended the Simpson process. All that the Mac Arthur-Forrepeople had done was to rive to the world the words select-iv- e There was no novelty; there action. was nothing: new in the Forrest treatment. The fact that the process had been successful on the Witwatersrand was not enough. It must be proved that the MacArthur was the first or original invention. After a careful perusal of all the evidence, he had come to the conclusion that judgment must be given for the plaintiff with costs, and that the two patents be cancelled. Mr. Justice Morice, in a lengthy judgment, dissented, and was in favour of leave being given to the defendant company to amend their specification. Justice Jorissen was of opinion that Patent 74 should be cancelled ; but, with regard to st Patent 47, that leave should be given to de-fenda- nts to amend their patent in the terms of their application to the Court. New Districts in California. Correspondence Mining Review ; Randsbuiig, California, Dec. 12, 1S96. There possibly never was a time when UNTAIN MINING REVIEW. rich in all the precious minerals, so that today there is possibly not a single section of the state of twenty miles in extent, which has not been found to contain gold and other valuable metals. The developments everywhere have been attended with a degree of success, and camps are multiplying and growing in importance all over the land. The verdureless mountains all over the des-eare speckled with the miners tent. In an equal ratio with the finding of mineral in the barren ranges, has been the development of water; so that now it is possible to go everywhere and never get beyond a few miles from it. The number of adventurers who perish from thirst on the desert now is very small. The growing demand for water on the desert has necessitated attention from state and county authorities to its development. There is possibly more attention being given to the great camp of Randsburg than to any other in the country, though the prediction can be safely ventured that others possibly rivaling it in riches, will startle the world in the near future. It is however, truly a great camp, and like its great African prototype, it is the ultimathule of the adventurous of every land. It is many miles in extent and its great riches increase and justify the wildest fancies of its promoters, as developments progress. It can in no wise be considered a surface proposition, for in nearly every case values increase as depth is attained, and the territory carrying values is being extended from day to day. With its contiguous camps of St. Elmo, Goler and Red Rock, it will be a section to which st mining received more attention in Southern California than the present. The spirit of investigation pervades the whole country. Rich finds are occurrences so common as to excite little comment. Indeed there is a much capital will be directed, and from current of feeling manifest everywhere, which millions will in time be carried. that the whole country is a vast mineral Many persons acquainted with both, claim measure, which in time will be laid bare in for it a greater future than Cripple Creek or every locality, and systematic mining will Leadville; besides having the advantage of become as settled an industry as that of a lower elevation and equable climate, there orange growing is today. There are many being no day of the year when stress of sections rich in gold, the existence of which weather will interfere with surface work. have long been known, but which until the The only present drawback that confronts present have received little attention. There it as a camp is the water supply and the is now a well defined fever of excitement question of transportation, as all water for growing all over the land and the spirit of all uses must now be hauled by team for investigation is growing in every community. several miles, and all freight hauled twenty districts are being carefully six and fifty miles. The water question will Old, searched as never before. New ones are soon be settled, as several pipe lines are now brought to light which show values that being constructed to different sources. The would have stampeded a camp of forty question of transportation will be settled in niners, in the days of that halcyon period. a few months, as the great Southern Pacfic Discoveries are numerous and widely dis- and Santa Fe systems are preparing to push tributed, so that there are but few localities their lines forward to the rich field as speedwhere the prospector does not report min- ily as possible. Besides it will be the objeceral. Every nook and crannie is being in- tive point of at least two of the lines now vestigated. The desert, long regarded as projected from Salt Lake to the sea board. only the habitation of the coyote and jack With these conditions attained it will soon rabbit, upon which everybody looked with take its place among the busy, bustling a feeling of dread, has been found to be marts of the state, and become one of the -- well-know- n permanent producers of wealth, and with contiguous districts will continually add to the countrys output of precious minerals. Of possibly greater extent and richness is another district a hundred miles east of San Bernardino; and midway between ihe Southern Pacific and Atlantic & Pacific railroads, in the low range of mountains bordering the Colorado and Mohave districts, which has up to this date created no stir outside of a limited territory where its merits are known. It shows up uniformly well from all sections of a large district and the developments now made are sufficient to inn sure its richness and extent. Its local is Virginia Dale and it may safely be predicted that a very short time hence it will be another of the many fields exciting the wonder of the rest of the world. To the east of San Diego, bordering the desert, is a district from which comes startling reports of rich finds. Again near Perris desijr-natio- camp of growing importance. Northwest of Yuma, in the desert are extensive mines and up the Colorado river above The Needles in the country above El Dorado Canyon, rich finds are of daily occurrence. is a nevr The Panamint country and Death Valley are receiving more than ordinary attention and startling reports come from them. Indeed there are few sections of Southern California which will not show up veritable bonanzas as in the near future. D. M. Smith. From Johannesburg. The many friends of E. D. Williams, the blacksmith, who was until his well-know- n departure for South Africa, boss blacksmith at the Mammoth in Tintic, will be glad to hear from him, although it be indirectly. Mr. Williams left Utah last Februarv, and after spending six months in gay pleasure in London, he proceeded to Johannesburg. Under date of November 6, he writes from that place to a friend in Salt Lake. He expresses surprise at the extent of the mines and Johannesburg, and the almost constretch of cyanide plants, tinuous fifty-mil- e some of which, he avers, are the finest in the world. When he arrived there the country was troubled with threatened war, and these disturbing elements, he states, have not yet subsided. The country, he says, is overrun with labor of all classes; skilled miners, mechanics and electricians, and there is not enough work to go around with the surplus of white labor. In addition, mining in toe Rand, he reports as under a cloud at present, re on account of the excesses that investors g fever. 1 his led into by the condition he does not think will be remedied inside of two years, as the investing public has received a shock from which it will he very slow to recover. Taken altogether, Mr. Williams letter shows that he is none too well pleased with the Rand. Of his own affairs, he says he has established asmithy and employs nine white smiu and eighteen black helpers. His busin nets him 40 pounds per month, (about $zc and he says board costs 30 per month, ;u'd is none too good at that. stock-gamblin- |