Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-10-21
AN OLD MINERS OPINION.

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The following letter from an ancient
mining friend, who formerly worked in
the bowels Of the comstock, but now is
a temporary s~ojourner at White Pine,
will be read with interest:
TREASURE CRY. October Is, 1869.
ED. NEws:-Sincs I left old Washoe 1
have been hard at work prospecting all
through this section of country, and for
the last two or three months l fud my
self q resident among the elevated hills
Of the land Of "Po.go.nip." / aud
many Virginia and Gold Hill acquaint-
anees still here, but many others, /
hear OF, have been here and gone back
to the old stamping ground" where
i, too, loon may follow, especially in
case bad weather sets in soon; for I had
rather winter in your more genial and
comfortably provided section than here,
and so como back next season, when !
know that White Pine will come out all
right. / read the Gold Hill News regu-
larry; and after reading the way you
handled aud dealt with that railroad
Chinese affair, l, as we'll as all the other
members Of the Miners Union living
here, fully indorse all you say.
Just you depend upon it, that the real
Miners Union never had any hand in
driving off those Chinese graders. The
majority Of the members Of that asso'
citation are meu Of good sound sense,
md know vhere their true interest lies
they also know their true friends, ana
therefore know that your position was
consistent, correct and perfectly Just IN
the matter. None of US members OUT
here can see, for the life Of US, what
the Miners Union had to do with Chi
nese working at railroad grading any
more than in washing shirts, or 10
interfere with labor anywhere else tnan
underground; therefore | tell you that
the Miners Union is not at fault IN tne
matter. But let me here remark tnat
the riug.lsaders Of that Chinese driving
crowd, as far as 1 can learn, many ofthem
actually did belong TO the Miners Union.
They always have been discordant
~nui.auces in that body, ever ready with
bad counsels to lead thoughtless men
astray, and blind them to their true in
t~erssts. Those men are even unprin-
cipled enough to aspire to public Office,
and only belong 10 the Union just for
the sake of using their fellow members
as poting tools for their own selfish ng-
prandizement. More mercenary, dis
loyal men, do not exist; just give them
a fair show, aud they will soon play
themselves out. They are and always
have been \ detrimeut to the Union, aud
recommend that all such worse than
useless trash be got rid Of as soon as
possible. want to come back>to old
Virginia this winter just to attend to
their case q littlo. We want none but
good, honest, sensible miners. 10 the
Union, and not a soul that is able and
willing to disgrace it.
Aud now one word in regard to an
other interesting point you are attend
ing to quite handsomely: The Sutro
Tunnel 10 regarded with contempt here
as one of the swindling bubbles occa-
sioually got up to rob the poor man Of
his hard earnings It takes capital to
accomplish a 1.-THE of that undertaking,
and coin Of q different stamp than the
$500 which Sutro pretsnds is sub
scribed by the Miners Uuion. l never
realized how potent " humbug" was till
now.
John I. CHM has returned from the
East. he says he would sooner live on
any alkali fat in Nevada, than in the
mos, prosperous city east Of the Rocky
Mountains. PICK HANDLE.