Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-18

Some of the Eureka Boys stirred
by am Adverse Report in the Sill
yer State.

some of the Eureka Boys Sffrred
by an Adverse Report in the sill
e STATE.
Under the rule to give everybody q hear
ing, the SENTINEL prints the annexed letter
from Mr.. J. s. Allen. The Silver State
was probably enormously informed in this
instance, as it has always been friendly To
the new camp, publishing from time to
time in the past numerous items calculated
to advance the interests Of that section.
The editor Of that journal is q conscien-
tious gentleman and would not knowingly
injure the prospects of any district. We
take it that he has simply been misled in
the matter under notice. Several Eureka
parties have been carrying ON operations
in 1 x L for the past year. They have
invested considerable money in the devel-
opment Of mines in that section and quite
naturally they are sensitive, as they have a
right to be, about damaging reports going
out concerning the camp:
EUREKA, July II, 1880.
a ODbCl you q
paragraph in the Leader of the 18th inst,
copied from the Silver State, it is plain to
me that such q journal as the Silver State
appears to be might publish anything in
the way of giving a black eye to any
worthy mining enterprise that is carried
on On a legitimate basis. That journal
must surely have CLEANED its information
from some soreheads, who have spent their
time in Incidence while in l X L District.
Such parties are ever ready to whine at
the slightest obstacles that may be thrown
in their way in any new mining camp they
may visit. Itappears to me that the Silver
State must have had one of its staff at
TX l. District sparing the miners for adj
vertisements, and possibly for food while
there, before it could publish the article
referred to. The days for discontents and
b~lackmailers are fast waning, and the gen.
tleman of the Silver State ought to take
mining matters in their true light before
publishing derogatory statements about
matters that he is entirely ignorant of.
For the information of the general public
I'M the editor of the journal named Ia
paper very little known outside of its own
section, l will say that the ores of l X L
District will assay from 500 to $3.50. If
this is g poor showing for a new camp l
would like to see the Silver State give like
assays from some of the allegorical
bonanzas hat it has been blowing about
for the past year, But it is not in their
province to do SO. TX L will be a mining
camp OF Importance when the Silver State
newspaper will have passed into oblivion.
Not wishing to discant further on the ma
lgnant intention of such a journal as it is,
claiming to be a sheet for information,
when, on the contrary, it is the opposite.
Therefore its circulation is a detriment
more than a benefit to any new mining
camp in the State Of Nevada. / will show
to any one wishing to call on me at the
Ottawa Hotel specimens Of the rock from
l X l. that are as far ahead Of the uncalled
for reproach made against it as the Saturn
star is above a field daisy. 1 hope that the
public will not pay any attention to the
sentiment OF a man like the editor of the
Silver State appears to be. His object
would be to rather depress than elevate
his fellow man, or n enterprise that
good might accrue from. His game is
like the dog with the bone, when the dog
grasped at the shadow, the result being
hat he lost the real while he only grasped
at the imaginary.
L am going to have a report from a prac-
teal mining expert on l X L District,
which will send to your paper, and have
no hesitancy in saying that it will be of
such q truthful nature that l am not afraid
OF the Silver State attempting to contra
dict it. Respectfully,
JAMES s. ALLEN.