The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-11
ALPINE COUNTY ON THE RAMPAGE.

--N
il the estimation of the Chronicle
editor Alpine county is at the head
Of it. Its terrestrial importance is
as exalted as its position. Its dizzy
nights are only equalled by the
magnificent proportions of its self
consciousness.
1t IS a remarkable thing in nature
thai the further oneis removed from
the busy centers of society, and the
deeper he IS buried in the primeval
solitudes, the greater Is his own
opinion of his self-impOrtance. Ma
ture happily compensates the depre-
citation OF others by a remedial self
appreciation that preserves the equl-
librum, and maintains the personal
identity, sometimes vel an over
growth. Removed far from others
he sees no shadow but his own.
A year ago the Nevada Legislature
considering the necessities and con-
venience of many of the inhabit-
ants along the eastern declivity of
the Sierra Nevada, and of many To-
Gated ever far down on the plains
and in the valleys at the foot of the
range, who we're cut off by nature
from a ready ces to California,
but bound to her by an unreasonable
boundary line, conceived the idea of
afording them some relief by cor
recting that line, and releasing them
from heavy pecuniary expenses in
separable from afrequent attendance
On county seats, which in the Winter,
at least, are almost inaccessible.
The Legislature adopted a memorial
to the Legislature of California rec
o~mmending joint action to accom-
plish this purpose. If the change
were made in conformity with the
memorial it would affect portions of
FL Dorado, Mono, Inyo, Plumas,
Lassen and Siskiyou counties, in
California. and last of all a portion
of Alpine county.
The editor of the Chronicle i'm
medlately jumps to the conclusion
that the great State of Nevada has
designs upon the integrity OF Alpine;
that the whole movement is simply
to gain possession of the wonderful
mines OF that altitudinious region,
under cover Of a scheme to simply
correct the boundary; that Nevada
cares nothing for the fertile valleys
aad argentiferous districts Of Siski-
YOU and Lassen, or the timbered and
well-watered slice from Plumas and
e. Dorado, or the valleys and mines
of Mono and Inyo, but that it is
after Alpine. That the world is
wonderfully and fearfully asitated
eve tie extraordinary mineral pro-
auctions of that inintisimial portion
Of creation, and eagerly connecting
schemes to grasp this modern Peru.
Nevada Is another Pizarro, sword in
hand. at the head of a countless
throng Of Comstock pirates rushing
up the sleeps of the sierras to fill
their treasure boxes with the metal
lie streams that are bounding down
the. silver peaks and moDitorial Hills
of that frost-bitten region.
The. Chronicle man arrays himself
in ferOcio1s arraor and calls loudly
upon taa faithful to save the. scored
soil Of Alpine from 1.-The starvlings'
of the lower regions. "Weae Cali
fornians," he exclaims. what has
Nevada done for us that we should
allow ourselves to be picked up and
placed in her family circle Of starv-
lings?" He appeals to, ancient hos
~tilities-telIs them hoM Nevada has
refused to construct .~herroads, how
its moneyed men have shaken
their mines, how Nevada's "insinua-
have injured its mining repu-
how her press have teemed
with Jealous articIes-andhowf finally |