The Placer herald., 1872-01-13
GONE THING THOU LACkEIH.o

the crsi,r Of Commissioner Drummond, the
very document that gave rise to the whole
discussion at this time. Surely our neigh
Dor did not and does not want the railroad
company TO receive patents for every odd
section of mineral land in the county, with
all the mines, mining improvements develop
ments and machinery on them, and yet,
without this order, which he is opposed to
''in toto, such would have becn the case.
Even now, when our neighbor approves of
The commission we suggested, he yet, in the
same sentence, says, eve would in the mean
time have the Drummond order rescinded or
suspended" the effect of which would yet
give the railroad company every Government
mineral odd section in the county, with all
the mines and mining property they contain
Let us make the matter plain to our neigh
Dor, for he is now groping in the dark, or
aiding deep and rascally game of robbing
the miners and mine owners of the county,
with his eyes open. On the 9th Of Novcm-
Der the township plat of 13 north 10 east,
was filed in the land Office at Sacra mento;
within the limits of this township is Spring
Garden (Bryan's), Dickensons Ranch, Wat
sons saw mill, DIR. Todd's ranch and vine
yard, Garland's, Nortwood's, Binkham's,
peckham Hill, Paradise, Ford's Bar, Dar-
danels' claim and other mines and Todd's
Valley, in Placer county, and Spanish Dry
Diggings, Donahoc's, Cooper's, Rice's, Gra-
vel Hill, Bottle Hill. Buckeye Hill, Bald
Mountain, New York Hill, Georgia Slide,
ETC., in FL Dorado county. Every acre of
the 90 Gao acres was returned as ogrtcul-
ural, and without Drummond's order one
half of all this land, with all its mines and
improvements, would have been irredeemably
passed over to the Il. r. company on the
7th day of February next. On November
1lth, 1871, the official plats of township IA
north, 10 and IL east were filed in the Sac
ramento land office. This AZ, $50 acres of
land was all returned as agricultural, every
acre of it. These two townships contain
these places familiar to our neghLor: Michi-
gan Bluff, Bath, Deadwood, Bakers Ranch,
Kings Mill, Pennsylvania Point, Byrd's
Valley, Whisky Flat, Drummond's Dig
gings, Gass Hill, Ayre's Diggings, El
Dorado, Indian, Lady's and Volcano Can
yons, Bogus Thunder, Ground Hog S Glory,
Forest Hill, Yankee Jims, Wisconsin Hill,
Mount Pleasant, Grizzly Flat, Elizabeth
Hill, Smiths Point, Young America, For
est Shades, Indian, Shirt Tail and Brasby
Canyons.
Without Drummonds order the half of
all these lands, and towns and mines on the
same, would have passed into the hands of
the r. r. company on the 9th day of Feb
ruary next, and been gone from the occu-
pants and miners forever. And if Drum
mond's order is rescinded or suspended, as
our ncighbor demands it shall be, then at
the expiration of the 90 days excepting the
days the order was in force) this "a $50
hCIeS VI idHu, to"HS, HiheSb c'S'b "M So
Immediately to the r. r. company. All
| the lands east of Auburn in this county are
in the same danger as those townships we
have specified as is every foot of land and
mines on the odd sections within 90 miles of
railroad, which includes near y the entire
belt of mineral land in the State. This is
the law and these are the facts. Now, after
being thus plain and specific in giving our
neighbor this information, pointing out the
lands, towns and mines that would have
gone from the owner without remedy but for
this order, we ask our neghbor to be equally
plain and specific in telling us whether he
yet prefers this wholesale robbery of our
people, for purse proud corporation, to
Drummond's order. The returning of all
the lands covered by Drummond's order
,S26, 600 acres all in the mineral belt passing
through and embracing nearly all the mines
in the State, lying in Tuolumne, Calave-
ras, Amador, FL Dorado. Placer and Ne
vada. and other counties--by the surveyors,
was the grandest and most diabolical scheme
to grab half of all the mineral land and
mines, and thus at one fell swoop rob thou
sands upon thousands of men of all they had
on earth, that has yet been unearthed on
the Pacific coast. Let Drummond's order
stand until the character of every acre of
land is determined by commission, as we
suggested last week, or by some other
mode, is our voice. and it must be the voice
of every fair minded, honest man in the
State
WE publish to-day the official vote at the
late judicial election, in tabular form. 1t
will be seen that 50 ,1S4 voters who voted at
the September election stayed at home or
refused to cast their ballot at the judicial
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