San Andreas independent., 1857-09-05
For the independently
The Ranch Chinese immigration.

The Ranch Chinese Immigration.
SoUrH FORK CALAvEnAs, Aug oath, 81
Nr. Editor :-Presuming on your known lib
eralty, venture to address few lines to the
miners and citizens of this county, through the
medium of the columns of the peoples paper,
the Independents In these times of anxiety
amongst political pretenders, it becomes neces-
sary for the intelligent voter to look around
and try and discover why so great a solicitude
should be manifested by those patriotic gentle
men who are running for offices, about the dear
peoples interests and rights. 1t is apparent to
any intelligent voter that it is the emoluments
of Office, including salaries, fees, perquisites and
spoils. Ito say nothing about the stealings)
which has created such Juror of patriotism
and disintercStedness for the good of the dear
people which will be quite certain to subside
as soon as they are ensconsed in good, fat
Offices. Every voter whose vision is not OBJ
scured by the dust kicked up by those stump
politicians or old and obsolete party issues
which is adapted to the other siGe of the United
States which we are about as much interested
in as we were about the questions which in
volved Russia and the allies in their war, to-
wit the balance of power in Europe. There
is one party, those political leaders who assume
to manufacture and disseminate political creeds
for the people, have entirely overlooked or
ranked them amongst old political organiza-
tions, as matter of course. / mean the white
mining citizens of the United States, or those
competent to become such. The fact is self
evident that almost every interest in California
receives its impetus and its very vitality from
the success of the white miners, whose inter-
ests are identified with the permanent prosper
ity of their adopted State-consequently every
legislative act relative to the mines, should not
only protect but encourage the mining interests
of California especially should the interests of
those miners be protected who were the pio-
neers in the hazardous and untried enterprise
of coming across the plains, or Drawing the un-
accustomed dangers of long sea voyage, and
who, through series of Improbable mining
enterprises are yet detained in the mines man.
fully, and most commonly, ably struggling to
procure competency for their families, and
declining years, great many of whom, through
choice or necessity, have concluded to make
California their future homes. Such under
takings as tunneling the hills and mountains,
daming and fuming large rivers, enterprises
known amongst miners to be quite uncertain,
but expensive, which, if wholly neglected
through the exercise of too much caution, the
yield of the mines would be small compared
with the present product. Those are the men
who comprise the worthy class referred to, and
who have contributed more than any others to
develop the wealth of the mines and of whose
rights have few words to say. In the first
place, the mines belong to the general govern
ment, who has generously permitted her own
citizens to work without let or hindrance and
are evidently left for the free and unrestricted
occupancy of miners and mining operators, to
conflicts with theirs. Otherwise, the mines
would have been surveyed and offered for sale
like agricultural lands.
The mining public are at present unjustly
oppressed by what is known as a law to protect
Ranches in the mines, making it necessary for
miner to 60 to a great expense and trouble to
even prospect ground which has been enclosed
by some kind of a temporary fence, and planted
and seeded, which has not unfrequently been
done to monopolize mining ground, to either
work out at their leisure or speculate on, by
selling out to miners, and even diverting the
water from its natural channels to irrigate small
ranches located on the mining streams, which,
BY the absorption and evaporation wastes the