The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-06-04
A STATE MINERS HOME.

A STATE MINERS HOME.
The Eureka Leader, referring to the
charter granted by the California Leg
islature for a Miners Home in that
State, makes the following timely sug-
gestion in regard to the establishment
OF a similar institution in Neada
Among the bad things that the California
Legislature has done. and the gecd things
which it has not done, it has passed one law
for which it should receive warm commenda.
ton. At its regular session it chartered q
State Miners. Home. As we understand it,
the charter provides for a Board Of Directors
to DO appointed by the Governor, who shall
have the chargs and direction of all matters
Connected with the project, and who shall
have pow or TO resolve all donotions, gifts and
bequests made for its benefit. The State
mad no appropriation to carry out the plans
or il it did it was n trihing one. The obi ecto of ii
is, Ii the appeal to the charitable and fortu-
nate is successful in endowing it with the nee
essary resources, to build in some salubrious
spot in California a retreat where the impe-
~cunious and broken down miner can be sent
in case of sickness, and where, when he has
outlived the days of active service, he can
spend the evening of his life free from care
and want, and at its close be sure of decent
burial.
The first Board of Directors have been APP
pointed by Governor Perkins, and we notice
among them the names of such mining mag
mates as George Hearst, of San Francisco. and
Edward Coleman, of Grass Valley. Different
portions of tn State are bidding for the loca-
ton Of the Home, and it is said hat the sue
cess of the project is already assured. 1t is a
shame that such an institution was not in OPP
GRAFTON in Nevada years ago. Our paramount
industry is mining, and thousands of men are
wearing out their lives for a ~pittance COM
pared to the fortunes which they unearth and
bring to the surface for their lucky employ
ers. For years the columns of our local pa
pers have been full of accounts of accidents
whereby miners have been mutilated and in
capacitated from earning a livelihood by
their vocation. Aside from that. how many
wrecks are to be seen everywhere in the State
Of those who we're once bEawny miners, but
who are 50 crippled up with rheumatism and
other diseases contracted by working in our
deep and wet mines, that they no longer are
capable of caring for themselves or eting as
bread-winners for Aeir families.
Scores of men have become wealthy beyond
their widest dreams through mining OPP
e~rations in this State. Some of the bonanza
Princes" as they delight to be called, have
worked themselves in the depths Of the dark
some mine for four dollars a day, and know
by experience the hardships and dangers OF
q miners life Not one Of these children of
fortune appears to have ever given a thought
to the amelioration of the lot of the sick OF
broken down miner. Now there are several
places in the State any one of which could be
purchased for a reasonable sum, where a
miners hons could be erected and conducted
for the benefit, care and healing of diseased
and broken down miners. Among these can
be mentioned Wally's Hot Springs, near
Genoa, Douglas county, Steamboat Springs,
near Elko. Now suppose that under some
such charter as California has given to her
Miners Home, we had one endowed with a
million Of dollars, Civ en- by such fortunate
mining operators as Flood, Mackay, Fair,
Sharon. Gen. Tom Williams, the Cook Broth
ers and others, how little would it deplete
their enormous fortunes, and what an amount
Of human suffering would it relieve. They
have made their fortunes directly or indl-
rectly off of the bone and muscle Of the labor
ing miners. who rave periled life and health,
and often lost one or the other in their en-
ploy. To be sure these miners have received
their regular four dollars a day. and these
Bonanza Princes are under neithes q legal or
moral obligation to de more for them. The
only plea is that they have become almost by
accident the posessors of inOrdinats wealth,
more than they or their children can put to
legitimate use, and il would be 4 graceful and
kindly act to use some Of it for the relief of
human suffering, especially when that suffer-
ing arose from disease contracted in giving
this immense wealth to them and the world.
Hospitals have been endowed for worn out
horses, for faithful dogs. aud even for cats.
BY the ultra benevolent. Is ii too much to
hope that a ray Of divine mercy aud benev-
olenee NAV some day penetrate tn boson of
on o. o IT mining magnates. and that by his
exeriions a Nevada Min ,rs' Home ma be
endowed ss a + fuge and sanitarium for worn
out and diseased miners7
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