The Nevada journal., 1852-11-19

district meetings be requested to instruc-
their delegates how TO vote upon these laws,
at the adjourned Convention in December.
The following address has been prepared
by the committee appointed for that purpose:
To the Quarts Miners of Nevada county.
Gentlemen:-At mass convention of those
interested in quartz operations in this coun-
ty, held on the 18th instant, at the Court
House in Nevada, the undersigned were ap
| pointed committee to draft an address, for
the purpose of calling your attention to the
importance OF taking decisive measures in
relation to quartz mining laws the tenure to
quartz leads, sc.
! 1t is well known that there has never been
uniform code of quartz mining laws
throughout the county-that there is no ten
u-e by which quartz leads and veins are held,
sufficient to induce monied men to invest
capital to any extent, for the purpose of
working the numerous quartz veins which
intersect our county. An adjourned County
Convention OF quartz miners, will be held at
the Court House in Nevada, on the first
Monday of December next; and, gentlemen,
we ask you to attend as delegates, in person
or by proxy, aud mutually assist in devsing
and putting in force, such laws and regula-
tions as shall be thought advisable. We
urge upon you the necessity of meeting, and
of passing laws that will tend to give
uniformity, security and permanency to
quartz operations In the lack of any State
legislation, we must legislate for ourselves as
our wants demand. We can come together
and talk over these matters, and compare
the laws of the various districts, and then di-
gest code that will be best adapted for the
county. Accompanying this address is
code of laws which met the approval of the
first meeting OF the Convention; but that
Convention wishing to act with deliberation,
and respect for your opinions, determined to
send the laws for your consideration, and
hear your opinions at the adjourned meet
ing. We need not tell you that our county
has within its borders, wealth sufficient to
give employment 10 population ten times
that which is now here; and all that is neces-
sary to make it popuous and wealthy, is to
develope our resources-to make our mining
laws uniform-and to give security to those
who would invest capital with us. This
committee believe that the only way to do
this, is for the quartz miners of the county to
meet and move unanimously in the matter
We call upon you, then, to attend the ad-
journed meeting of the County Convention,
on the first Monday of December next, and
adopt such a code Of laws as will give per-
manency and security to quartz operations,
and be Of that uniform character which i.
required, in order to make quartz stock a
source of profit, instead of a loss and re-
proach. BY making uniform code of laws
for the county, you will not only benefit
yourselves as class, but the county and the
State. Come then, to the adjourned Con-
vention-and come prepared to act. Let
every quartz company, and every hill and
ravine have its representative on that occa-
sion. We would call your attention to the
resolutions presented at the Convention on
the 18th instant, d ask Of each quartz COM
pany and district to take the same into con-
sideration before the adjourned meeting of
the County Convention; aud if you send no
delegates to the Convention, TO give IN
your adhesion to the same, or your opin-
ions in writing.
II. c. HODGE.
A. A. SARGENT,
DAVID PHELPS,
T. ii. ROLFE,
DR.. ]. WEAVER,
Committee