The Shasta courier., 1870-05-07
mass Meeting Held at the Court
stOuSe in Shasta, April Seth.
IS1O, NJ = O'Clock. Il. VI.

"''n e"ileu 10 ofuef by d. an Schalck, and
on motion, Hon. a r. Andrews was
chosen Chairman, who upon taking the
chair made very able, eloquent and ap-
propriate speech. On motion Charles
Mcdonald was elected Secretary and R.
Kennedy Assistant Secretary.
On motion committee of three was ap-
pointed to confer with United States Dept.
Surveyor Magce. The Chairman appointed
the following named gentlemen: Clay
W, Taylor. s. Hull and Chas Mcdonald
On motion a committee of seven was
appointed to draft Resolutions and Protest
The Chairman appointed J. Van Schaick,
Shasta; Robert Kennedy, Middle Greek;
f. Croeker, Whiskytown; Harmon Prackel
Buckeye W II. Wilkinson, Texas
Springs " l.. Carter, Shasta; and A.
v Mount, MddIetown.
Ga motion the meeting adjourned for
one hour to wait report of committees.
At half past 3 o'clock, P. NJ. the meeting
was again called to order and Committee
on Conference reported that they had waited
on the United States Deputy Surveyor and
that he stated that he would receive infor-
nation from any individual in relation to
the character of the land, mineral or agri-
cultural, and on such information make a
supplemental return to the Surveyor Gen
eral and ask that It be received as sup
pement to his original report, ir conse-
quence of his receiving further information
since filing of his return.
Committee on Resolutions, reported the
following preamble and resolution which
were unanimously adopted amid great en-
thusiasm
WHEREAs, The welfare and prosperity
of the people of Shasta county is almost
exclusively dependent OF the mines and
mining interests centered therein, and,
Whereas, the Deputy T. s. Surveyor,
VIM. Magee, has (by order of the T. S.
Surveyor General for the State of Califor-
MIA, made recently asurvey of large por-
ton of the Government lands situated in
the county Of Shasta, State Of California
and has in the report of his surveys to the
Surveyor General, classified all, or nearly
all, the lands situated in Townships No
81 North Range ) West, and Townships
- and 33 North Range West, and Town
ship b North Range west, Township
b North Range West, as agricultural
lands, thereby inficting great hardship
and wrong upon the numerous miners re-
siding upon aud working these !aFyds as
mines, for the precious metals contained
rAerein, as well as great wrong perpetrated
upon the Government of the United States,
inasmuch as all of the above mentioned
l,nds lie within the limit of the grant of
lands made to the California and Oregon
Railroad Road Company, as their line of
survey is now located, therefore these lands
in the survey being classified as agricultural
every odd section will pass to the possession
of the Railroad, whereas had they been
reported as they actually are, to-wit en-
:neutiy minefai, inasmuch as all, or a very
iarge portion have been and are now being
worked as placer mines, and as these lands
contain in addition innumerahle veins or
iodes Of quartz, all, OF nearly all Ct which
e, ntain more or less of the precious metals,
they would have been reserved to the Gov
srnment by the terms of the grant The
practical working of the report of Deputy
Surveyor Magee is:
lst That the Government is robbed of
several thousand acres of valuable leineral
land.
2nd. That the actual miner is robbed
of his claim, as tie lnat may be entered
without his knowledge, and lie elected from
his claim after having spent TINS, labor
and money, to bring it to a proper coudi-
tion for working.
Bird. Numbers of persons are ro* ae-
ttially seeking to enter said lands as agri-
cultural lands with the ayowed intention
of working them for their mineral, and
&nally,
Should the miner by accident or other
wise learn that a party was seeking to enter
the land covering his claim, large en,cbers
of them have not the means and can not
afford to take their witEesses and rrcreed to
the Land Office and eortest the opposing
claims, and therefore will be driven, with
sheir families, from the humble home
which they have been laboring for years
to provide; and should the miner 90 to the
expense of having forty acres of land sur
veyed and segregated, and by affidavit set
aside as mineral land he acquires no rights
on the land. more than the local laws of the
district give to every other miner; there
tore tc it
Res0teeI, That we, the citizens of -'i:a-ta
county, State Of California, do solemnly
protest against the report of Deputy Sur
reyor Magee, in xhich he has classified the
lands contained in the following townships
as agricultural lands, and pray that said
report be so amended as to classify these
lands as mineral lands, as they actually are,
tO-wit: Part of Township No 81, 81,
and 80 n Range West, part of Town
ship No. 81 n Range 6 West, and part
of 30 n. Range West, as is more fully
shown by afidavits accompanying this pro
test
After the reading of the resolutions
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