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The Placer herald., 1874-01-31
AUBURN, JANUARY 81 1874.
INVESTIGATE.

Last Monday Mr.. Edgeyton introduced
in the Senate bill TO authorize the State
Treasurer to commence and prosecute civil
actions against Newton Booth, Governor of
the State of California and ex-ofcio member
of the State Board of Examiners, Drury Me-
lone Secretary of State and exotficio mem
Der of the State Board of Examiners, John
L. Love, Attorney General and ex-oficio
member of the State Board of Examiners,
and j. j. Green, Controller of State and ex-
officio member of the State Board of Equal
ization.
1t is understood by our readers that these
men are, under the Code, constituted ex-of
fcio members of the boards referred to above,
by virtue of their offices, and under the Code
they are each allowed $1,000 per year for
services rendered as members of such board.
The Codes went into effect after they were
elected to the positions they now hold, and
it is claimed that this 81 900 year is re-
ceived on the same principle as the Back
Salary bill. 1t has at least caused great
deal of comment, and should be adjusted
DIR. Edgerton in his remarks said the bill
was introduced at the request Of the parties
named therein. There being contrariety
of legal opinion on the matter, they desired
the question should be settled, and if they
have no right to the money they wanted to
return it. Whether these officials should
have this 81 900 e'ch annually as COM
pensaticn for said services, we will not pre-
tend to say. But thee is nothing more GER
tain in our opinion than that the salary of
the Governor and State officers is higher
than they should be. There is not another
State in the Union where the Governor and
State officers are paid as much as they are
in California, and we know no reason why
this should be. This is a subject for our
legislators which they would do we'll to
consider.
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CONSTITUTION,

Should we be favored with a Corstitu-
tional Convention soon, which we claim is
demanded, the discussion of proposed
amendments is not out of place. Among
numerous other amendments there has been
one proposed by Senator Neff, which de-
serves approval. Sec. q of article X1 of
the State Constitution now reads "Al laws;
DEGREES, regulations and provisions which
from their nature require publication, shall
be published in English and Spanishr." Mr..
Netf's proposed amendment would make the
same section read "All laws, DEGREES, regu-
lations and provisions, which from their ma
ture require to be published, shall be pub
lshed in such manner as the Legislature
may direct" The object sought is to do
away with the very expensive requirement
of printing in Spanish. In 1S49, when the
Constitution was first ratified, the provision
for printing laws and important documents
in Spanish was wise and essential one.
For at that time a majority of the popula-
ton were Spaniards, who could neither
read nor speak the English language. This
condition has changed. Now the Spanish
population is mparatvely small, and what
there are have become by association sufli-
GENTLY educated in our language as to read
write and speak it nearly as well as the av.
erage torn American, especially the young
er class. Spanish children attend our
schools in common with other children, and
it is safe to assert that there is scarcely a
Spanish boy or girl, of the age of 20, who
has been raised in California, but what, il
educated at all, is as we'll educated in En-
glish as Spanish. The amendment, though
does not forbid that laws and documents
shall be printed in Spanish, but leaves the
matter with the Legislature. This is wise
provision, for as long as it can be shown
that such printed documents are necessary,
they can allow it. But as soon as it ap-
pears that there is no use for them, they can
be prohibited without violating the Con-
stitution. And that day, if not here, is
not far distant. And when the day does
come, it will bring with it relief from what
is now heavy tax, which it would be hard
to hold the people to, on account of Con
stitutional provision which could do no good
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Delinquent Sale Notice.

MINARICA MINING COMPANY, LOCATION
OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS, SAN FRAvr,s.'
CAL, LOCATION OF WORKS, AUBURN, p1Acrp ~
CALIFORNIA. wy
n OIlCE-Ihere are delinqent upon the fol.
~ lowing described stock, on account of Vi- ta
sessment levied on the 23d day of Decemhas
1878, the several amounts set opposite the nana
of the respective shareholders as follows: ''
Names. No. Cert. No. Sbrs H.,
Ladd, VIM. Ii. ....... ..... 1000 sooo
And in accordance with law, and an order 90
the Board of Directors, made on the 23d dav -.
December, 1873, so many shares of each nayooi
of sad stock as may be necessary. will be sold
at public auction at the salesroom of John Md
dleton a. Son, No. 80 Montgomery St. Sar,
Francisco, CAL, on the 10th day of February
1874, at the hour of o'clock, p NJ of said day
to pay said delinquent assessment thereon TO-
Sether with costs Of advertising and expenses of
sale. G.. r. S!'INNEY. Secretarv
Office. No. 800 California ST., Room 5. San
Francisco, Cal. no24 ID
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COnStabIe'S Sale,

DY virtue of an execution issued out of the
ID Justices court of r. G. Poland, Justice of
the Peace of township No. 3, Placer COUNTY
State of California. and to me directed on n
certain judgment rendered therein on the 2etb
day of January A. d. 1874, in favor of Richard
Perry and against the Greene Mining Company
a corporation, for the sum of one hundred and
eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents, and interest
on said sum at the rate of Z per cent per an
mum from the Goth day of January, A. D. 1874
together with costs of suit, taxed at S22 with
accruing costs have levied upon and seized
and shall expose for sale at public auction. at
the Greene Mine in township No. 3, county Of
Placer, State of California on
Monday, the 23d day of February a. d. 1874,
at the hour of 10 o clock A. NJ, all the right.
title, interest and claim of the said Greene Min
ing Company, corporation, Of in and to the
following described property, to-wt:
That certain quartz mine, vein or lode, known
as the Greene Mine, situated in township No. g.
Placer county, State of California. Also the
quartz mill belonging to said mine, and all the
machinery, the hosting works, engine and all
buildings and appurtenances thereto belonging,
to satisfy said execution.
The above described property will sell as
aforesaid, or so much thereof as may be sufh-
cient to satisfy said judgment, interest cost, ac-
cruing costs and expenses of sale.
B. F. GWYNN.
Constable Township No. 3.
Auburn, Jan. 81, 1874. MA I'd
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California increase yearly. He infers that
on account of the presence of the Chinese a
laboring man with family cannot llve'
when the truth is, there is no country in the
world where honest laboring men live SO well
as here, notwithstanding the presence OF the
Chinese. Drive out these heathens, and the
laboring mans condition would be princely.
He says no crops are sure here without lrrl-
CATION. What an idea! To be su.3 there
are large tracts of country in the southern
part of the State which it is conceded would
be greatly benefited by irrigation. But in
these parts. and all the northern and central
portions of the State, where millions of
acres of the finest grain in the world is raised,
there is no such thing as irrigation known or
contemplated, outside of garden patch, and
in many parts the finest vegetables in the
world are raised without knowing what irri-
cation is. He says rain falls almost contin-
ually during the months of November and
December If he is here yet we guess he
will add January to the months in which
it rains. He says one acre of land in Ne
braska is worth fifty acres Of land here for
farming purposes. We never were in Ne
braska, but if what he says on this subject
be true, 1--WE doubt if it is, since his other
assertions are wrong,) Nebraska must be
most famous country. We have heard that
in Sonoma county, which by the way Is in
California, that corn grows so large that the
settlers use the stalks for house logs and the
leaves for lumber. But Nebraska beats
this according to L. r. Hilluary, the Re
porter's California correspondent. If the
Reporter is not partial, and it need not be
since it is located in such blessed country,
it will give room for our comment on MIR.
Hilluary's letter.
The Placer herald., 1874-01-31

the matter, hope you will not find the fol-
lowing statement entirely unuseful. First,
complete hydraulic outfit, consisting Of
main pipe, lead pipe, with necessary lum-
ber, shops and tools, boring tunnels, and es-
tablishing grades, to commence with, will
not cost less than from 81, 800 to $3,-
90, and in very many cases much more.
This being admitted, the next proposition is,
that small mining claims will not pay to
work by this process; onsequentlv, in an
the old mining districts, the tendency IL,
mining laws is to enlarge the area Of min
ing location until to-day, feel entirely safe
in saying that mine containing one hun
dred acres, owned by one person, is no nov
city, and is not considered very oppressive
monopoly. Corroborative of this statement,
the reader is cited to existing contested
cases now pending before Commissioners
Drummond, which will show numerous
16O-acre tracts claimed for agriculture, and
will also show the same land is claimed for
gold mine every inch of which has passed
by conveyance into the hands of one man
before the case is disposed of by the Com
missioner. Now, the point | am driving at
is lUlS. III eStdUllsutu CUSTOM HIONtS tHc
utility and necessity Of large mining loca-
tions, what possible use is it to the govern
ment or the pre-emptor for him to file his
declaratory statement, for which purpose
he made the location. He pays precisely
the same price per acre. But this is not all
by long shot. The privilege of locating a
mining claim is not like the privilege of the
moor nre-emntor ami vino for Agricultural
lands. To-day the mining location is made
and sold, and a valid title given; tomorrow
and next day the same operation can be re-
peated, and thus the door to a harvest of
fraud is thrown wide open; splendid timber
land Suddenly becomes of great mineral
value to the lumberman, and when the
forests disappear the mines are forgotten;
or, if located for agriculture, the filing is
Cancelled. Hoping that the public may
come to fair understanding of the matter,
| have been induced to write the above.
G.. B.
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Probate Notice.

County of Placer. Oouf'.
ceased oe-
DURSUANT TO AN ORDE r of said Co,,-.
4 made en- the 26th day of January, A n'
1874, notice is hereby given that Mondau ~ ~
10th day of February A. d. 1874 at l ocloccL 'te d
NJ of said day, at the Court room Of this CO e.
at the Court House, in Auburn, County of fPis Pis
Ger, State OF California have been appointed '' q.
the time and place for hearing the report Of the
homestead from said estate for the use of ~
widow and minor child of said deceased n,tn sne
and where any personinterested NAV apnesr aeh ns
file their objections in writing and contest ai,1 t
same. b. F. RIJRT CI, ne
Dated Jan. 26, 1874. no9i ..
The Placer herald., 1874-01-31
CORRESPONDENCE.
SHERIDAN. Jan. 26, 1874

SHERIDAN, Jan. 70, 1874.
Ed. HERALD:-
Stock men are everywhere complaining of
the tough weather. The long-continued
cloudy weather-the cold fogs and frosts
retard the growth of feed The foothills
are quite green; but the grass is as short as
in new-mown lawn. Stock came out Of
the mountains last fall unusually thin, and
they are dropping off one by one. The re-
markable yield of acorns last fall was good
for the swine, making pork reduced, and
bacon cheaper; but bad for cattle, sheep,
and goats. The latter are not so much in
jured, themselves, as are their young.
Calves, lambs and kids are under-sized, and
great majority of them have no use of
their legs-are unable to stand up and seek
the maternal fountain, and consequently die.
One large owner states that he is losing
fifteen or twenty lambs day. A majority
of stock men attribute this to the acorns, but
there are others who stoutly resist the theory.
| see several newspapers contain the intel
ligence that crevices in the Bear River levees
have inundated and destroyed much vaua-
BILE farm land. Until quite recently this was
not true. There was break at Wheatland,
and the river cut sharp around fine body
of land, but very little injury was done. The
farmers, however, are very generally discus
sing the necessity of more leveeing, and tba,
soon. A week ago the river cut out two
hundred yards of the dyke near Nicolaus,
and inundated large area of the ranch of
Moses Hopkins, brother to NJ. Hopkins, but
the exact extent of the damage is not yet re-
ported. Bear River has been more than u.s.
ually erratic this winter. The volume of
water has been heavy at times, and it has
chiseled away the sediment down to the
rocks a mile or two lower than it was last
year. | have stood on the bank and seen
the water go down in huge waves or rolls,
six or seven feet high, like pillows on the
sea. 1t was struggling with the enormous
accumulatons of sediment, and being unable
to keep it moving, occasionally leaped high
over it. A few days ago the river took a
sudden freak to go down in its ancient chan
mel, and under the railroad bridge it gouged
an enormous hole, nearly down to the
level Of its bed of thirty years ago. The
company were obliged to dump in several
car loads of stone to save the piling of the
bridge.
A few nights ago the good people of the
foothills organized downright, old-fashion-
ed surprise party, and proceeded to call on
Mr.. VIM. Nicholson. Representatives were
present from Grass Valley, Sheridan and
Coppertown. Besides the youth and beau
ty of the foothills, there were present several
of the old pioneers, including Messrs. J. and
w. Stoddard, G. Karcher, E. Barkers, d.
G. Newman,S. French and others with their
spouses. These old boys kept up the dance
until nearly morning with all the ardor and
zest Of youth of twenty. Nothing occur
red contrary 10 the strictest propriety. A
quiet, s.i:ial hop like this is especially COM
mendable, because the ru,al life of California
is usus ally so dreary, isolated and selfish.
'SYENITE
The Placer herald., 1874-01-31
CORRESPONDENCE.
GOLD Run, Jan 26. 1877.

GOLD Run, Jan 26, 1874.
ED. HERALD:-
l accept the invitation in last weeks
HERALD to miners, to express their views
in regard to Senator Neff's resolution, in
structing our Senators in Congress and re-
questing our Representatives to vote against
the passage of bill introduced into the
the House of Representatives by the Hon.
J. d. Ward, of Illinois. Said bin is known
as an act entitled an act supplemental to
and amendatory of an act entitled an act to
promote the development Of the mining in
terests of the United Ststes, approved
March 10, 1872. Now, the intention of
the supplemental and amendatory act of
Mr.. Ward, as l understand it, is to put
mineral and agricultural lands upon precisely
the same footing so far as obtaining title
10 them is concerned. Having an expert
ence of twenty-three years in the mines,
and mostly as miner, and living in the
exact country whose interest was to be pro.
NOTED by the original bill of Mr.. Sargant,
I can and do speak advisedly upon the
subject To thorough understanding of
The Placer herald., 1874-01-31
ERRONEOUS STATEMENTS.

We notice in the Nebraska Reporter let
ter dated Rocklin, CAL, Dec. Goth, 1878,
in which the writer makes assertions about
as far from the truth as would be possible
to get. The writer had, it seems from the
letter, been here only about month, and
assumes to tell all about the country with
as much assurance as though he knew
whereof he spoke. He says thinning is still
carried on to some extent" lntimatng
that there was very little work in that line /;
when the fact is that the mining interests in
The Placer herald., 1874-01-31
cONSrARLE'S SALE.

V(4 virtue OF an execution issued out of the
- Justices court of r. c. Poland Justice of
the Peace of Township No. g. Placer County,
State OF California, and to me directed on a GER
tain judgment rendered therein, on the 2Sth day
OF January A. d. 1874 in favor of Henry Stone
and against the Greene Mining Company, a cor
poratlon, for the sum of forty-fve dollars and
slxty-three cents, and interest on sad sum at
the rate OF per cent. per annum, from the 2Sth
day Of January, A. d. 1874 together witt costs
OF suit taxed at % dollars with aceruing cos.s
have levied upon and seized and shall exptse
for sale at public auction, at the Greene Mine in
township No. 3, county of Placer, State Of Cal
fornia, on
Monday the 2;sd day of February, a. d. 1874.
at the hour of 10 O'Clock A. NJ, all the RICH
title, interest and claim of the said Greene Mil.
ing company, corporation, Of in and to the
following described property, to-wit:
That certain quartz mine, vein or lode, known
as the Greene Mine, situated in Township No
d, Placer county, State of California. Also the
quartz mill belonging to said mine, and all the
machinery, the hoisting works, engine and all
buildings and appurtenances thereto belonging
to satisfy said execution
The above described property l will sell as
aforesaid, or so much thereof as may be suffi-
clent to satisfy said Judgment, interest, cost,
accrulng costs and expenses of sale.
B. f. GWYNN,
Constable Township No. g.
Auourn' Jan. d. 1874 n24-td
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Smith H J, Yankee Jims, lot of land
with dwelling thereon situated on the
Middle Fork of Owl Creek aoout two
miles south of the town of Yankee Jlms
in tp no 5, Placer County, Cal, land
improvements,
Fagundes John, Yankee Jims, poll tax
Adams V A, Yankee Jims, poll tax, :,
Haselton Ruben, Yankee Jims, pon
tax,
Harris d, Yankee Jims, poll tax,
Richet V H, Yankee Jims, poll tax,
Shatten Jas, Yankee Jims, poll tax,
Rock Island Co, by James Stratten
Yankee Jims, lot of land or hydrannc
mining claim situated at Swindle Hiiir
near the towDrof Yankee Jims tp fIh-
Ger -earinty. CAL, and known as 'ne
Rock ys,ond claim, bounded on the W.
by the Ben franklin claim, on the =!
the San Francisco claims, lou ao''' II
poll tax,
Whitacre Thos, Yankee Jims, possess
DRY claim to 200 acres of land with ipi-
provements thereon, situated in Dew,
Canon about one-half mile from .ne
town of Yankee Jims in tip ., fiaGer
county, CAL and known as the "heeiyt eW
ranch, bound on the W by the lana u
G knight, on the east by land Oh
Williams, 400 dolls; lot of land OF ~
drauhc mining claim situated al Ao''''
CONTINUED ON THIRD PAGE
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cONSTABLE'S SALE.

DY VIRTUE of mn execution to me directed.
ID from the court of r. c, Poland, Justice
Of the Peace, in and for the County of Placer
and State of California on certain Judgment
rendered therein ON the 22d day of January
A. d. 1874, in favor of Israel Dyson, plaintiff
and against the Greene Mining Company, Il
corporation, for the sum of One Hundred and
Ninety-seven dollars and interest on said sum
at the rate of per cent. per annum from the
I'D day of January, A. d. 1874, together with
Sll 50-l00 costs of suit, with accruing costs,
have levied upon and seized, and shall expose
for sale at public auction, at the Greene Nine in
township No. three, County of Placer, State OF
California, on
Monday, the 23d day of February, a. d. 1874,
at the hour of 10 O'Clock A. NJ, all the right,
title interest and claim of the said Greene Min
ing Company, a corporation, Of in and to the fol-
lowing described Property, to-wit
That certain quartz mine vein or loie, known
as the Greene Mine, situated in Township No.
3, Placer County, State of California. Also the
quartz mill belonging to said mine, and all the
machinery, the hoisting works, engine and all
buildings and appurtenances thereto belonging,
to satisfy said execution.
The above described property will sell as
aforesaid, or so much tn reof may be sufll-
cient to satisfy said judgment, interest, cost,
accrulng costs and expenses of sale
B. F. GWYNN,
Constable Township Nos
Auburn, Jan. 23, 1874.
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NelC AdUertiSenle eutS.
COnStabIe'S Sale.

DY virtue of an execution issued out of the
ID Justices court of II. G. Poland, Justice of
the Peace of township No. 3, Placer county,
State of California and to me directed, on a GER
tain Judgment rendered therein on the Goth day
of January, A. d. 1874, in favor of Thomas
Hodge and against the Greene Mining Company,
a corporation, for the sum of one hundred and
seventy-four dollars, and interest on said sum Mt
the rate of per cent per annum from the 26th
day of January A. d. 1874, together with costs
of suit, taxed at S22, with accruing costs, | have
levied upon and seized, and shall expose for
sale at public auction, at the Greene Mine in
township No. 3, county of Placer, State of Cali
fornia, on
Monday, the 23d day of February, n. d. 1874,
at the hour of 10 o'cl ock A. NJ, all the right,
title interest and claim of the said Greene Min
ing Company, a corporation, III and to the fol-
lowing described property, to-wit
That certain quartz mine, vein or lode, known
as the Greene Mine, situathed in township No.
3, Placer county, State of California. Also the
quartz mill belonging to said mine, and all the
machinery, the hoisting works, engine and all
buildings and appurtenances thereto belonging,
to satisfy said execution.
The above described property | will sell as
aforesaid, or so much thereof as may be suffi-
cient to satisfy said judgment, interest cost, ac-
cruing costs and expenses of sale.
b. f. GWYNN,
Constable Township No 8.
Auburn, Jan. 81, 1874. n24-td