Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-07-08
NEW ourLer-srorEN WAIVERS.

A company has been organized in San
Francisco, whose corporate object is an
nounced to be the drawing of Of the sur
plus water from Lake Tahoe-to be car
ried to Sacramento, Stockton aud San
Francisco, for domestic consumption. At
first, the idea, though supported as a
practical proposition by a large number Of
heavy San Francisco capitalists, was deri-
ded and hooted at as a wild brain scheme
or a kind of sober joke. But it appears
now that the plan has in popular Califor-
MIA conviction, settled down as a stupen-
dous fact of the future. 1t is certain, we
believe, that Nevada owns a goodly half
of Lake Tahoe. Can the natural outlet
of the Lake-the Truckee River-one fer
tilizing and cheerful stream through q
barren country-ca this natural ann
be deprived lawfully of its waters without
compensation (Which, it seems to u.s. would
be i~ncalculable in currency. Is u only
really fresh, sparkling and clear stream Of
water, coming down Immediately upon
US from the Sierras, to be taken also even
down under the hawking hammer Of the
"bear" Board of Stock Jobbers in San
Francisco Not content with ciphering
up and down-and down, down, down
our mining property, they actually pro-
pose to deprive US of every thimble full Of
mountain spring water, which they can
by any speculative possibility induce to
tumble or trickle towards the Pacific
ocean! 1t occurs to us-whether this
project be a sound and serious n or not
that an eminently more rational and
proper spirit of enterprise would be mani
tested by these San Francisco purse-men,
if all of them contributed-as some few Of
them have, though only a few-to the
building of a railroad across our noun
tains. Then our richest ore would be
crushed in CALIFORNIA; majority Of it
would be sifted in San Francisco. But is
there q peculiar flavor in this speculative
enterprise which we have noticed, because
Of the universal and literal force OF
the old adage: "Stolen waters are
sweet" AS we understand the pres
ent pre-empted condition Of affairs
of the Dutch Flat Toll Road Com
pany could cnjoin the Lake Tahoe water
grabbing corporation, on the basis Of
~sprinkling privileges from a portion Of
the Truckee. If this be so, W. have
not the slightest doubt but that the water
grabbers will find themselves brought to
a legal pause at the beginning of their
charter privileges. They may as well
mention, however, the triAing circum-
stance Of tunneling that exists in the pre-
face of this project. A mile and a half Of
tunnel will. it is said, be required at the
outset of the channeling that is necessary
in orderto carry the waters of Lake Tahoe
entirely to the west.
What has become of the Company that
once upon a time, and that not long ago,
proposed to bring the Tahoe waters into
Virginia and Gold Hills We notice that
one of those persons prominent in the
San Francisco Company, was President
of our own mythical Croton Company.
That man-from his everlasting promin-
ency in water companies-giyes evidence
OF having that common fluid "on the
brain" The aqua seems to wind around
his cerebellum with most indefinite and
tumultuous currents. Probably q regular
medicinal course of saw-dust plasters ap-
piled to his Uranium would reduce the in
hamanon, and result in the continued flow
OF the refreshing Truckee from Tahoe"
to Crystal Peak and Fuller's Crossing.