Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-25


One of the penalties Of successful II
iustry is the intrusion of ingenious ad'
venturers into the midst Of its exclusive
roneerns. Scarcely has the tollsoTt
prospsc.or discovered a promising nine
when he finds lis title disputed and HIM
self harrassed by & counter Claimant
Who has the hartshooa 70 weigh his own
aggressive efrontery against another
Ensn's labor. The patient inventor; the
protector of business enterprises; TIE
,ionesr IN new direction; tie SUCCESS
full man Of business; the lucky winner
Of a p,ize; each 0. these finds, when his
good fortune sselIs fairly opened, that
himself is waylliI AMI beset BY someone
whose only industry kas been directed
howard the possession of wha: promises
10 Be the vantage ground of a sef-rroa St
ab,s annoyance. These ere the spurns
which patient merit OF the unworthy
lskes;'' ani we suppose they exist as
BY some rule in nataze which bears a
more or less remote relation to tie doc
trine of balances. Again. there are dis
linctive races of parasites, each genius
finding congenial Judgement upon some
peculiar thing of It's destiny or its
choosing. Thus the oak has its MISC
toe; the cypress its moss; the oil rain
its ivy; TIE fallen monarch OF the fores:
ifs fungi; the ship it, barnacies; the toad
its warts; the untu.osed savage his in
sepsrable rerniin; III. potato its striped
bug. and tbs Con;stcek quartz lods its
Eutro. The motto of this vigorous and
Unsuitable advsntursr seems to be that
that great interest or combination Of IN
terssts shall yield hin, tribute. Tho
central point Of his life. the purpose for
which he exists, the impulse which un-
derliss all his hopes, is the completion
Of plans and Vaccinations which shall
enable him to levy tolls against the mos.
important silver mining interest in the
world. He knows that his hobby has
lost all virtue by the course of time; he
knows himself to be nothing else than
interests with which his name is con-
nectsd; he knows that if his Tunnel
were completed and the Courts should
confirm his right to exact tolls from the
Comstock mining companies, such tolls
would be paid as money is paid for
whose expenditure the receiving of no
equivalent is possible; he knows, in
short. that the SutIo Tunnel Project is
nothing better than The most bars-iacsd
specimen OF iiiegitimaey as related to
honest, equitable and well grounded
business enterprises; knows al this.
and yet he has never an apparent period
of self-dOubting, neyer airy shrinking
from the ungracious performances Of the
professional intruder, never any sense O!
The impropriety and very sordidness OF a
course of procedure which can bring or
no other eject than that OF eaIbarrass-
msnt and injury to the most important
mining operations OF the present age.
And the remarkable phase Of the matter
in that be finds y large and inGuentiaI
party IN Congress ready AMI eager to
i've him audience and backing. Regard
ing the latest performances Of tbs IN
blUshins ard most persistent self-seeker
:he Washington dispatches 10 the Sacra-
haenio Record give e quite fell pa-ticu
lars. The attempt vas made by SCt-C's
friends. when IL. Mineral Land Patent
Bill came I'D to amend il SO IS 20 require
81 parties holding possession Of mineral
|,snds on and about the CaIas.ock !oda TO
obtain a patent therefor within six
months, or foEfei. their claims. This,
OF course, is plan devised by Satro to
compel the said Coms.ock mining CON-
paries to strengthen the lien which tho |
Tunnel Company is supposed to have |
Upon them. Congressman Page OF Cal |
itornia Jumped the proposition and !
exposed It's moustrosity; and he arer-cd,
in the course Of his remarks, that Sutro |
had declared ,ha. the Mining Pateu. Eli |
should not pass Congress unless this
amendment were adopted. As to the
very comInsndable action of Mr.. Kendall |
IN the premises, and what followed as
portion Of the debate, we quote as b.
Ios. froln Ike report Of the Record