The Nevada Democrat., 1858-12-15
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TIfe New AIrnaden Mine.
The San Francisco National informs us that
it speaks knowingly, when it asserts that the
mine, as well as the land, is the bone for which
the government is contending. This knowing
journal also assures us that none but an unmit-
igated muggins could fail to see the difference
between this case and any other that may arise.
With sorrow we confess it, we are that mug
gins If the United States rocovers in this suit,
and establishes her right to this mine, she will
occupy precisely the position she does with us
of the mountains, who have always conceded
dicially wiped out, this property will only be
added to the present mining domain. Under the
government who then will own it? from ev-
cry quartz lead and gravel claim. Custom, the
law of ths miner, answers the first locator; this
is the right and the only title by which our
mountain miners hold their claims. They have
no Deeds forged or genuine; they admit the
right of the government to dispossess them had
she the disposition so to do, and they cannot
understand how the Almaden defendants, their
deeds discredited and their grant proven for
gerry, have not the same rights with those who
concede oil that in this case, the government
claims, and rely upon the single fact of prior
possession and location. Nor can the National
make them see the difference between worked
mine, clouded by bogus grant, and mine
worked in the face of a conceded title. This
county is full of such mugginses. But are we
to understand that when this mine is establish
ed as part of the public land, that the first bona
ide miner, who, ignoring all Mexican titles,
shall seize, can hold this as we of the noun
tains do Uncle Sans other mineral territory !?
Oh no, says Mr.. National! When this shall be-
come by judicial decision part of the national
domain, it will be separated from the balance,
and Congress will make some disposition of it;
that is, government will dispossess certain par
but who hold and exercise Independent Of
parchment) precisely the same ownership as all
other miners throughout the State, and will
then legslate specially for this case. Had
some of our miners from the mountains have
believed with the Ndtional that the defendants
grant was fraudulent, their gains enormous
and their birth foreign, had such miners jump
ed this claim, or should they do it now, would
these proceedings, or those of kindred nature
evict them. We opine they would; and yet our
jumpers would be applying to Uncle Sans AL
MAIDEN mine precisely the same rules they ap-
ply to his mines here.
Had the defendants in this suit admitted at
the start the title of the government, they
would have stood in precisely our situation.
The rule that would have then evicted them,
would (if applied) oust our entire mining CON-
munity. If government design establishing
any new rule or tenure Ly which mines must
be held. let it be known to those who are spend
ing their best days in discovering and develop
ing these resources; nor leave them and the
results of their toll and enterprise at the mercy
of the political gamblers who haunt our Ma
tional capital. Again we say, that if the sim
gle fact Of first appropriation and possession, is
not defense for the Almaden defendants, that
the single and only claim by which our quartz
and gravel mines are held is worthless, and
their value has only to tempt the cupidity of
some government favorite to have the Alma
den experiment rehearsed, and the fruits of our
toll reward some corrupt act Of political parti-
sanship.