New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-14

oEo Gay npQI eSel ~ het0 W ~"as3 ~ ~, u
think tie demand for u in Mining woaA very
speedily be doubled and soon quadrupled. 10 not
imply that such reduction 10 either desirable or
probable; but can zee why the owners Of large
estates or Of mining claims should strongly essfre
an ample and incessant immigration. This PLAIN
enough while it Is not 90 obvious though Dom il
equally true, that An immigration Of one
hundred thousand effective workers peR annum
would be readily absorbed by Calfornia, and would
add steadily ard immensely to her prosperity and
wealth.
Yet carrot conclude this survey without
abiding once more to the dePlorabe confusion and
uncertainty of Land Titles which has been AID stu
10 the mater scourse Of this State. The vicious
Spanish Mexican system Of granting lands BY the
mere viii of some provincial governor or municipal
chief without limitation to area or precise dslu
eaton of boundaries, here develops and natures it,
most pernicious fiuts. Your title may bc ever 20
good, and yet your farm be taken from under you
by new survey, proving that said hte does uos
cover Jour tact, or coytrsit but partially. Hence
many refuae or neglect TO improve the lands
they occupy, lest some title adverse to theirs 30
established, and they legally busted or compelled to
pay heavily fcr their own improvements. And, in
addition t. the genuine Spanish or Mexican grants,
which the Government and Courts must c)nnrn
aud uphold, there are fictitious and fraudulent
grants-some Of them only trumped up to b
bought of, and often operating 10 create anarchy
and protract litigation bet seen settlers and tho
real owners. Then there are doubtless s9ussters
who refuse to recognize and respect valid titles, and
waste in futile litigation the money that might
make the lands they occupy indnpusAbly
their own. blame 10 party exclusively, while L
entreat the State and Federal Governments ana
Courts to do their utmost to settle the titles
to lands in this State beyond controversy
at the earliest possible day. Were tho titles to
lands in California to day as clear % in Ohio or
Iowa, nothing could checA the impetus with which
California would bound forward in career Of an
paralleled thrift and growth. IL were far better
for the State and her People that those titles were
wrongly settled than that they should remain ~
now met to-day an intelligent farmer who has
had three different farms 10 this State, and has lot
them successfully BY sdjudication' adverse 10 his
title would earnestly impore grantees anS
squatters to avoid lii CATION wherever that 10 pos
sibe, and arrest it % soon 80 possible, eschcwiug
appeals save in fsgrant cases, and meeting each
other halfway in settlement as often {" may be.
The present cost Of htigstion, enormous - u H.
is among the lesser evil consequences Of THE general
anarchy as to land titles
Should these ever be settled, it will probably 30
found advisable 10 egisate for the speedy breaking
up and distribution of the great estates nov held
under GOOD titles by few individuals. There will
never be good Common Schools on or about these
great domains, which will mainly be inhabited BY
needy and thriftles tenants or dependents Of tho
landlords An annual tax of q few cents per acre,
the proceeds to be devoted to the erection ofschoo
houses and tho opening Of roads through those
princely Estates would 60 far to effect tho desrod
end. But, whether by this or some Other means,
the bene6cen end of making the cultivators OF tho
soil their own landlords must somehow be attained
the sooner the better, 40 that it DO done Justly
and legally In the course of several hundred miles
travel through the best settled portions Of this
State, remember having seen but two school
houses outside of tho cities and villages, whe tho
churches are sti1 more uniformly restricted 70 tho
centers Of population. Whenever the liabilities
shall have been settled and the arabic lands have
become legally and fairly the property Of their
cultvstOrs, all this will be speedily and happily
changed.
/ believe, too, that the time is at hand when
some modification Of the present Mining Liws will
be demanded and conceded Hitherto, the opera
tors with pick and pan have been masters Of tho
State and have ruled it, like other arstocrsciss,
with sharp eye to their own supposed interests.
To dig up mans fenced garden, or dig down his
house, in quest Of gold, is tho legal right Of any
miner who does not even pretend to have any
rights n the premises but such as the presumed o.
istence Of gold thereon gives him. OF course, tho
law contemplates payment for damages sustained;
but suppose the digger is pecunisrily irresponsible,
and digs down your house without finding any moro
gold than be spends in the quest what arc you TO
do about iti Such laws trust cannot stand. l
am sure they should not. But must break of for
tonight d. q.
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