Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-10-02
CONTRASTED PICTURES.


In Frenss county, California, Stanford &
Co. are still pressing the settlers Of Mussel
Slough for the lands which the railroad COM
Pany sold them years ago. These settlers
bought in good faith, paid their money, i'm
proved their lands and are now being dispos
sessed Of their property, improvements and
homes where they have reared families and
crops for years. These settlers are henest.
industrious men who are striving to develop
the resources of the conntry. All such men
should be encouraged and assisted, because
they stand cut in splendid contrast to the idle
shiftless, loatng, thieving, vagabona, non
producing class who really should be dead
and fertilizing the soil where honest farmers
raise their crops. The act of the railroad
company is most outrageous piece Of ipjus-
tice and we hope to see enough law in the
United States to prevent it's contamination
How exactly opposite has been the course of
William b. Carr and James b. Haggin in this
respect. Carr and Haggin reclaimed vast
tracts of desert lands in Kern county Cali
fornia. This act was denounced by the papers
as grand land grab, but the men who &C.
cured the land knew pretty nearly what they
were about and paid no attention to the news
papers. The excitement died out, the news
papers made little cheap capital and Carr
and Haggin went to work They spent nearly
half a million dollars to make this desert
garden and succeeded. Their big irrigation
ditch cost 5000, 900 and the ground began to
ylisten with pure water and bssssm with pre-
duee. This land was staked OF into farms
and house with FIVE rooms put on each farm.
Then an experienced farmer was put to wsrk
on one of the tracts and backed with every
thing he wanted to make msdel farm. He
produced nearly everything that would grew
in the ground, grain, fruits, flowers and good
Kentucky bluegrass. Then Carr and Hasgin
waylayed the Immigrant trains, kidnapped a
lot of men, transported them to Kern county
and turned them loose on the farms. Hun
dreds of families settled Oh these farms and
we're told that they could pay for them in in
stsllments as they sold their crops, and Carr
and Haggin agreed to purchase everything
they could raise at the regular market price !
All the while they were doing this they we're
denounced as land grabbers and thieves, and !
Carr was painted as the most depraved pol |
iticsl manipulation and demagegse politician |
in California. Last year the crops partially !
failed, and the settlers on the land, instead of
being driven OF for non, payment Of their in
stallments, as they would have been under |
Stanford and Cs's method, were told to main
tain stiff upper lip, keep right ahead and
not a cent demanded of them Now, if some |
Nevada capitalist would start such a grand !
scheme as this, how easy it would be for him to
20 to the United States Senate without
buying vote This is q good way to central.
ize voters. Jones spent $500, 600 for his of.
flee, such a sum would turn any county in
Nevada into paradise Sharon spent, &C.
cordiDg to report, million think of the irri-
eating schemes this would further. The
money that Fair will spend this fall, would
give hundreds of peer men comfortable homes
We have shown how money has been used to
good purpose in Kern county by men of
sense and humanity. We do not claim that it
has been done for purely philanthropic me-
tives; the originaters of the scheme will
make millions in the long run and make it
more honestly than those who build railroads
and Cypress the people with exorbitant freight
tariffs. We would like to see Fair Or Sharon
inaugurate some such scheme which will be
permanent benefit to the State and its PEG.
pie, and the man who can do the most good
With his money will be enabled to 60 to the
Senate, term after term, and corrupt nobody.
WINNIE REAMs statue of Admiral Farraeut !,
s soon to be unveiled at Washington. There .