Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-12-08
A CHIEL AMANG Us.

The San Francisco Mining and Scieatif'
Press is among our most valuable ex'
changes. In all those branches which arr
within its legitimate range, the Original
and selected articles which We find IN tne
Press are sound and instructive, and We
copy them extensively. 1t has, however +,
availed itself of Especial contributor ,
from Virginia City, upon wh0m' anu
whose contributions we are soN
strained, in the language Of the samonng
fraternity, to "put large copper" The
cor,ribptor is, of course, anonymous, and
Judging from the tone of his "contribu-
ron to last Saturdays Press, his ser
vices are rendered gratuitoasly, at least so
far as the Press is concerned. One whose
means of information are so extended as
this contributor, and one who proposes to
give such vast and valuable information
as he lays down the programme for, is
hardly to be expected to scatter his inval-
liable pearls without some remuneration.
1t is reasonable, therefore, to suppose that
he is employed and recompensed for his
literary, legal and geological labors by
those whose interests are to be advanced
thereby. In the first place, this anony-
nous contributor announces through the
emphatic medium of italics, that he is
forced" "to the conclusion that along
the eastern slope of Mount Daridson and
the elerations adjoining it. there is bit one,
aud only one ledge. This opinion, 1 know,
is totally at variance with that entertained
by large portion of the community; but
to this conclusion must they come at
last even though" etc., etc. The mod
est man, with one slash of his sharp steel
pen, cuts the Gordian knot, in the tangled
meshes of which are involved the heaviest
mining suits now pending in our Courts.
In trying to solve this knotty point,
Washoe lawyers have lost their sleep,
washoe juries their patience, and Washoe
judges their character, and the mystery
still remains to them unsolved. The
one-ledge" and the "many-ledge "
partisans cling to their original opinions
with a tenacity that has only grown
stronger and stronger during their long
war of opposition, and each party has for
tilted itself with more powerful evidence
Of the correctness of its theory. The
Great Unknown of the Press, however,
sees no difficulty in the question, and de-
cides it at once, and without hesitation.
As he cannot possibly be more than one OF
the Judges of this State, and certainly
cannot be a whole jury, his decision upon
that important point will not go great
way toward quoting the title of any Of
the claims on the Comstock ledge. The
next important feature in the contribu-
tors" programme is as follows:
alt is my intention, in future letter, to
attempt to give list Of those mines which
are considered BY the most competent Judges
to have an indisputable title to the ground
they hold, and which, however much they may
be harrassed and pestered BY jumping claims,
will nevertheless eventually establish, be-
yond all question, and beyond all fear of in
terruption, their inalienable right. As this,
however, is statement which will require
some time and care in its preparation, will
defer it for the present"
As the benevolent intention of the
writer, if carried out, could have no other
effect IF they have any effect at alD than
to "bull" the mines which he should de-
clare to have indisputable titles" and
to "bear" those which he should pro-
nounce Jumpers" we conclude that the
Unknown proposes to exercise control
ling power and influence in the Stock
Boards of San Francisco and elsewhere.
One who could obtain such control
would, in modern parlance, &" have big
thing" and could levy his black mail
most mercilessly. The whole programme
bears the imprint of BLACK mail " upon
It's face, and we should be sorry to see the
Mining and Scientific Press prostituting
its standard and reliable columns to any
such dirty work.