Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1872-10-25
AN OFFICIAL OUTRAGE.

Under this head the San Francisco
Alta speaks good word for the Ely Min
ing District, for which our citizens will
thank that paper, especially as it repro
bates in fitting terms the attempt of an
incapable official to decry the mining en-
terprises of q region which he does not
understand or dislikes. We copy from
the Alta as follows
There has seldom come within our OBJ
servation q more uncalled-for and out
rageous attack upon branch of popular
industry than was approvingly paraded
in the Bulletin of Tuesday as the judg-
ment of United States Mining Commits
sioner Raymond upon the value of the
Ely District, Nevada, as bullion pro-
ducer. 1t will be borne in mind that
that district has been settled by some
thousand of industrious and entcrprsing
miners, who, with little capital, have for
years sought their own fortunes by de-
veloping what is known to be the vast
mineral wealth of that district. These
Woodworking men struggle against all
the disadvantages which want of capital
throws in their way. Their only aid is
the credit derived from the natural
wealth of the region. In the midst of
their struggles, Bohemian of Brooklyn,
New YORK, by some adverse fate having
been appointed to what is called United
States Mining Commission, comes for
ward in his official capacity and denoun-
ces the whole Ely district as composed
of wild cat and blackmail enterprise
ers. OF course this abominable SANDER
finds ready echo in the Bulletin, which,
in reproducing it, chuckles over this stab
Mt leading interest of this coast. Hav-
ing failed in its effort to betray this city
to st. Louis, it omits no opportunity to
injure its interests. In order not to
lnisstate, We will reproduce what it gives
from the Commission reports.
Here follows Commissioner Ray
mond's report, which will be found in
another place
There are several towns and thousands
OF individuals who comprise the popula-
ton of the district, and whose interests
are thus flippantly held up to discredit
by an officer whose existence seems to be
only the exponent of an enormous print
ing job, for which the people have to
pay, in addition to having their interests
slandsred. There have been for years
an immense number of mines in that
district. The stocks Of forty OF them,
embracing $50, 900 shares, are represented
at the Stock Board in San Francisco, and
the capital for working them is supplied
from here. All these and other compa-
MES were started to develop the ore, and
all of them have found it in greater or
less extent. Two years since the Meadow
Valley found it unusually rich. A little
more than year since the Raymond L.
Ely discovered an immensely rich body
OF ore. Before that date the whole dis
trict came under the denunciation of the
Commissioner, who now undertakes to
tell the world that this latter is the only
ore body in the district, insinuating that
the Meadow Valley has run out, and that
no more ore bodies can be discovered
Yet before his Islander is published the
ore 10 again coming in, and the Meadow
Valley is again richer than ever. That
Now York poetaster undertakes to tell
the world that the experienced and hard
working men who are working the hun
bred mines of Ely District, are forming a
deceptive and dishonorable occupation
in getting up "wild cat and blackmail T"
mining companies, and the Bulletin tells
its readers: GAS his responsibility is
greater than that Of ordinary experts, he
is taken to be the best mining authori-
IT," Who made that eminently incapa-
bic person IAN expert" is q mystery.
II the Bulletin had said his Ignorant
presumption, instead Of his "responsi-
bility," it would have bsen nearer the
marx.