Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-04

He Vents Forth Smoke. Smut an
Bftuminous Shale:::
DECENTRALIZATION AND MEIRMPsICHosIs
MADE MANIFEST i't

are aware that that result of convul
sion of nature is the place of deposit
OF the most marvellous development
of coal ever discovered in the world.
The principal owner of this great
coal mine is that illustriouS Federal
office holder. r. NJ. DaGgett. Esq.
clerk of the u. s. District Court for the
District of Nevada and Editor of the
Territorial Enterprise.
Some months since there was a
dastardly attempt made by certain
dealers in cord wood to destroy the
reputation of Mr.. Dacrett and his
mine These gave currency to the
story that they were selling all their
pitch pine TO Dacgeti to enable him to
reduce 10 ashes the coal that hai been
suffered to accumulate at the mouth of
that mine.
The inference was inevitable, il this
story was believed. That inference
was, that pitch-pine was used to give
the coal an undeserved reputation for
infiammability in short. that the
coal had taken fire by spontaneous
combustion and would burn in spite
of all efforts TO extInCuish it.
Meanwhile Daggett's enemies were
not idle in other directions. The wood
men conspired with State Mineralogist
Whitehill to injure the reputation of
Daggett and his coal.
1t was these secret and dastardly
Vaccinations that elected Whitehill to
his second term Of office.
All this time the coal Of Ell Dorado
Canyon was asserting itself. The
stock sharps Of San Francisco tried to
induce Daggett to place his coal mine
on the market, but that sagacious
capitalist smiled the smile of an an |
.hracite at his temptsrs and resisted !
their sorcsries.
About this time that great man
against whom not even an earthquake
dare shake its CORY locks, W. Frank
Stewart, came upon the scene. He
went down into Eldorad0 Canyon
and came back an eternal thrall to
Daggett and an eternal witness to the
.ombus,ibility and inexhaustibility of
Daggett's coal.
Even the last Nevada Legislature
got enamoured of Daggett and hi. coal
mine and would have passed law
giving away all the State lands and
subsidy of two million dollars for the
of a railroad into the
Canyon, but Jewstt Adams stepped in
md stopped it.
And now the Bank of California, the
sutro Tunnel Company, Mackay &
Fair, the Union Mill and Mining Com
ANY, the DEVILS Gate Toll Road
COMPANY, the Miners Union, Red
Wheeler, all the great mines of the
Lode, Grover 4 Bakers
sewing Machine Co., Piper's Opera
House, the Virginia City Gas Works,
he Independent State Central Com
nittee, the Virginia and Truckee Rail
Dad Company and the Young Mems
Christian Association spend all their
lime burning Daggett's FL Dorado
canyon coal. All the editors and
printers of the Enterprise establish
nent pay for their board and lodging
md drinks with pocket chunks of
he same.
Right in the midst of this furore,
Nhitehill has the audacity to accept !
he position of Specimen Collector in
chief of the Nevada Centennial Board.
And DaTgett, fired with the heat of ,
Il Dorado coal, goes for him. 1t i. [
lot teo much to say that Daggett is in
! state of eruption. In Sundays
Enterprise he buries Whitehill in an
avalanche of scoria, smoke, Stag, smut
md bituminous shale. He hurls
stewart at Whitehill and deluges the
APPEAL with a shower of carbonifer-
'us indignation.
The provocation was great but the
has torn him from center to
Daggett is himself no
more. He is Z walking coal mine in