Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-06
THE CALLISON MINING SUIT.

Yesterday morning the plaintiffs IN the
Gsllison mining " rested" and when the
Court met again ex-senator Stewart opened
for the defense. 1t was mastery effort, in
incive, succiuct, cogent such statement, i'll
fact, as was to have been expected from this
very able lawyer and forceful debater The
burden of his speech was that decision
against his clients decision against the
actual miner in favor of the housing parasite,
the professional jumper, mischief maker
and extortionist. His clear, impassioned,
impulsive arrangement of these heartless YER
min was very strong and effective. The Sen
ator's contrast of the theoretical miner, the
= expert mineralogist, who since Silliman S
motion-the contrast of these gentlemen with
the horny handed and rugged hearted pros
pector and practical miner, was very impress
i've. Without too much of display of ego
tism it may be allowable to say that what Mr..
Stewart said in this regard reminds us of
what the Carson APPEAL said upon the sub
ject of 1.-The Miners Craftsmanship in July,
1865. Mr. Speaker Colfax having said some
patronizing, cuddling things about the miners
Of the Pacific Coast, the APPEAL, commenting
upon that smiling statesmans impertinences:
said % Years ago, before the statesman of
the land knew whether the gold placers of
California were located in San Francisco or
along the spurs of the Sierra Nevada, the
rugged miner had conceived of and put into
effect, a Just, simple, practical system of reg
Nations for mines and miners, evincing more
wisdom and directed toward far better con
duct of his peculiar community than any
practiced lawgiver adept in statecraft ever
las or is ever likely to initiate and see car
RED out Peculiar laws are the result of pc
ouliar necessities and in their wise concets
tor regulation. necessity and dear bought
experience have been the parents of the MIN
er's legislative inventions. Up to
this time the miners have worked out their
own diggings in their own best way, and their
own salvation in their own practical fashion.
The miners respect their own laws and abide
by them, and they are the only laws that are
or can be applicable to a country where there
are fifty prospectors to one gold or silver pro
fucer and in public domain where only the
largest liberty, subject only to sef-imposed
restrictions, can conduce to its speedy and
certain development. The men who have |
hailed out the gold from beneath the icy
waters of the California creeks and rivers |
md their brothers who have wrenched the |
silver from the jagged drifts Of Nevada's
mountains, are the statesmen in whose hands |
should be entrusted the task of enacting and |
enforcing the laws and regulations which their |
conditions require. May Congress let well |
enough alone" Now, while this is very crude, |
and at the same time away from the trend and |
intent of Mr.. Stewards statement, still it was
conceived in the same spirit with that which
inspires him to take the part of the actual as
against the theoretical miner. This is very
important case and one which is being tried,
we are glad to see, with great earnestness and
an evident desire upon the part of the Court
and the attorneys to elucidate, and decide in
strict accordance with, the truth. The law
WAS made for man and not man for the law
aud among the great and essential things yet
remaining for the Courts to determine is
What shall be laid down as determinative of
the rights and privileges of the men and cor
porations who are engaged in the all impor-
tant effort to develop the mineral resources
Of Neyada} We are not sufficiently lost to
the properties to attempt to read lesson to
the very honorable and trustworthy and en-
ightened gentlemen who sit upon the bench,
7onder, but rather, we have presumed to hint
1t what We believe to be the true nature of
his case and the spirit in which it is trying
lad will be decided.
BUcoLIC FUN.-The Candelarians, among q
whom was c. S. Mott, and numerous other
witnesses in the Callison case from the rnral $
Of EsmeraIda County yesterdsV :