Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-07-30

HIl uriting for your paper be sure
ito iay ii 10 the land holders for claim
ing oxorbltant rents and refusing to
lease their lands on such terms as
mining companies can afford to pay
for Gcroloping them. Here, sir, are
amy auds-I know them valuable,
bgt J cannot afford to put on eEpen>
awe machinery Tor their drainage
and nobody else viii undertake it
unless these old bunker land holders
will consent 10 lease theirs on such
term as arc just Here | am my
fortune ell IN mineral lands, and they
tied no bv these internal old misers,
Of they arc countrymen of mine and
they and 1 being impoverished with
p taxes- and no change promised UNI
til death comes and removes a score
Of US. Write for your paper these
fling, and send us the cholera, bad
whskey, anything that will break up
this Id land monopoly about Ha>
eel Green.
An intelligent miner, whom We
have known twenty years, remarked
thus and more during our recent
visit to Hazel Green, and we give
him the advantage Of printing his
opinions reduced 10 words very near
II rs he spoke them. Doubtless he
expresses the enlightened judgment
and policy Of the land interest at
Hazel Green. The difficulties are
Just these the land owners as q gen-
eral thing are jealous of each other,
and in no mood whatever for co-op>
Grating in any common movement
for developing their lands Indi-
vidual mining, or rope and MINDLESS
enterprise by couples ofminers, is so
near played out that the best of min.
eral lands have but little value on
account ofany prospect Of their ever
being worked the old way this side
Of eternity. II any real value they
may have for mining, it is on account
Of their being useful some day in the
future for company and capital en-.
terpriso. How long in the future is
a matter with the land holders, for
no mining company will organize and
venture their capital at deep drifting
and machine labor so long as unrea-
sonable land rents are exacted.-
Company and capital enterprise is
always under skilled and intelligent
bead Oneratora 81 tho+ ~ o,.~ =
use in any duplicity or shenanegan tc
butool hem into working where the
land holders are unwilling to be gov>
crnod by reason and Justice. Many
oi the Hazel Green land holders will
refuse during their brief tenure OF
lite TO open their lands for mining
hut, III al such cases it may be set
ya 1s a fixed prospective in ma
'Hto'S svs Of physical government,
81 their heirs will be liberal even to
racElossness. The misers property
ways aies from the hands Of his
Fl with a loseness inverse to the
ral5o Gifts acquisition. # there be
exceptions ta ~ni ral il will be well
ior Interested persons TO note them
1Ht never To trus to the like IN dis
posing al estates So considering
tile Ha2eI Green mineral lands will
gradually ut surely change about
Low speedily must very much depend
upon thc quality Of beverages, visi-
tationa from cholera, &c
/ agencies could be formed that
wa4.d reach the mineral land owns
err by Winning and holding their
confidence; and then bargaining with
then upon such moderate terms as
would cad TO developing the mines.
it would insure fortunes to the own.
ers and great general income to the
public A few mining companies
about Hazel Green would beoet n
renewal of business, start up enter
prise il trade and building. augment
the population and increase the val,
ne Of all real property.
We have thought that perhaps the
initial part of such work, which
would insure the whole. could be ac>
complished by means of o committee
OF first rate citizens from neighborino
towns-such to go and talk with land
owners and bargain with them for
the development of their property.
A committee, say of the following
names, could certainly move the
stubborn mountains II. /. Nessnv
y. Dewey, y. B. Turev. J. AIlcn
Barber, J. Ii Rountree-6ve in All
and no ADLER or better qualified in
the county.
THE FAIRPLAY MINES
Fairplay is famed in memory and
written documents. Its record of eor-
ly mining incident and adventure il
r1plete and interesting. Its history
opens with that ofDubuque and Gale
ia, Tales well told and slightly
true opened at Fairplay and had such
= run as to give it more fame abroad
man any place in the northwest.
me mineral figures recorded for
fairplay make it the greatest old
inning town of the Galena lead dis
'rlct Up TO 1913 fourteen ,odes had
Yielded over nine millions ofminaraI
ans since then new ones at least ne
much more. And it is estimatod
that, "a the bottom of old lodes NOT
worked on account Of water, there Is
~ much or more mineral untouched
as has been removed-brsides tLe
untold Wea!tn hidden in nnworlrad
places " IN =" orheu
sa't an old miner, at present -
taeh4d % one of the engine Jiao;s AZ
'9tf am poor now, but thirty ~ g co.,
@s9 ! worked a lode upon THIS y er ears
IS. a"d vas Their thought to be a r :
naa spent fortune 81 f+Ltie
tle water, with tons of minoraI I; :
Vi" which never could be taxi a. 81, ~
Tor the Nater. Mining. excent 1' G%
iaf&eeapi.oi.and powerful marbiner,'
can neFer pay rs 4, did IN early timeSs
wLoA lodes appeared plentier than