The Nevada journal., 1852-01-31
U. S. Senate quartz Mines.

} We like the manner in which Judge
Walsh expresses his opinion in answer to
the interrogatories propounded to the
candidates for the United States Senate.
Fhe mining interest is evidently the
paramount interest of the State, and
fIr Walsh being q miner, and having
lived in the mines, evidently has bet
er opportunity of understanding this
interest than the old broken-down poll
,icians of the country, whose only aim
! to court popular favor, without know
ng or caring whether the opinions they
lave adopted are the most conducive to
totes Of the Convention should be set
led upon some man to elect him in op,
|osilion to those standing candidates,
nd we know of no one.who has chance
e success, more deserving than James
Walsh.
In answer to these INQUIRIES, Judge
Walsh says at once, he is in favor of
heir sale or donation especially those
inown as quartz mines IF any thing
as been really misunderstood among
he political managers, it is this and
rc venture to say they no less misun-
erstand public sentiment. We know,
%, that all have been too backward to
xpress an opinion on the subject The
oppression has gone abroad that the
.iiners are all opposed to any disposition
{ these lands The time has been, when
hey demanded to be left alone with
heir mining operations. That WAS when
congress was about to force upon us q
ystcm of sale or lease, accompanied by
'urdensomc and onerous conditions,
githout understanding our necessities,
/ consulting our interests But here
the mines where our wants are known
where the project should take its rise,
nd that too, with due de,iberation and
hndor The time will come. and per-
saps soon, that the interest Of the State
nd nation will demand the sale Of all
dc mines. But for the present, title
hould be secured to the quartz miners,
paving tho placers, as they now are,
nencumbercd. The object of legiSla-
Jon should be to facilitate the extrac-
ion of the gold and the time has now
bme, that to do this, the quartz miner
leeds a safer tide to his claim than that
Gcured by the local customs Of each
teighboi hood, by which he now holds
these are often conilie ting but more
tequently Of SO frail structure, thai
he claimant scarcely knows by wha
authority he holds. 1t necessary tha
,apital should be invested, and wher
men exhaust their means in erectin,
machinery for mining, they want t
know they have something of their owl
TO work upon, and which, after hayin,
made all the requisite improvement
will not be likely to pass from them b,
the operation of some new rule, or som
constructive failure to maintain thei
right by absenting themselves a giyel
number of days. They want 10 know
that whatever improvements they make
belong to them, and when they hay
done with them, to their children. Civ
them such all assurance as this and hoy
much more willingly will men embar
their all in business from which the
have so much hope of reaping rich re
ward. How soon too would it be felt b
way of U permanent settlement of tn
country, which never can be the cas-
except in limited sense, when til
tenure of their possessions is so fckl
Let us have permanency, stability-lt
capitalists know their investments a,
SAFE, ana they Will make their arrang'
ments to become permanent citizens
California. Let laborers know that sue
permanance exists, ard they, too wi
become permanent.
~ Let these lands be either donated,
sold at nominal price, to actual minel
n the consideration, or part of the co
sideration therefor, being an obligati
to erect machinery thereon, or to eau
it te be done. The discovery OF lei
ought to give the finder the preferen
to all others. And when he has sigr
fed his intention 10 work it, his tit
should be secured to such quantity
will justify the erection Of sufficient n
chinery
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