Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-01-26
THE COAST PATRONAGE.

patronage is we'll distributed when some
other man has the distribution. Mr.. Gorham
is charged with repudating the Republican
party. The party which Mr.. Gorham declined
to train with was not the Republican party at
all, but a party headed by Leland Stanford
and run solely in the interest Of the Central
Pacific Railway Company. Gorham did not
leave the party at all; the party LETT him. If
anybody now thinks that Gorham is not a
good Republican, ask Garfield, Conkling,
Logan, Cameron ct al. California went Dem
ocratic last year in Presidential election.
Had Gorham been stumping the State the
railroad crowd would have laid the loss Of
the State to Gorham's door bat they cannot
now do so because the individual > ,s,, ION
happened to be in Indiana hel ,.I,.. 10 " keel it
into the Republican phalanx. If Gorham's
Republicanism was in such bad odor why
was he placed in responsible quarter as
Indiana where the fate Of the party hung?
The patronage of the Pacific Coast will not be
in very bad hands long as Mr.. Carr has
hold OF 1t. lie is making the deserts of Kern
county green with produce, and last year,
when the crops yielded poorly, he said to the
tenants to whom he had sold land on INSTALL
wear; wait till you have better luck" At
the same time that this was being done the
agents of Stanford & Co. were driving the set
tiers off their lands with Sheritfs' writs and
shotguns.
THE Wall Street News says that the three
great operators who have made by the rise in
Western Union are Messrs. keene, Wander
scheme to break down the price and after
ward consolidated the companies. Mr.. Van
derbilt joined in the plot and aided in its exc
cution. Mr.. keene had nothing to do with
the alliance, but kept posted and bought an
immense line Of stock from IS to the lowest
figures. When Messrs. Gould and Wander
bilt found it was impossible to shake him out
Of his holdings they went ahead with their
project. AS nearly as can be ascertained, the
California operator got away with about as
much as either of the others, and his profits
ran up into the millions. This money was
made fairly and squarely, without doing the
dirty work of shaking people out of their
stock. In other words, Messrs. Gould and
Vanderbilt did the shooting and Mr.. Keene
made off with the game.
Boston, New York and Chicago capitalists
have subscribed 1000, 600 for the Inaugural
ton and equipment Of one of the most extern
sive mining operations ever undertaken in
California. The scheme contenplates the
working out of thirteen miles of the bed of
the Feather river, commencing at Big Bend,
ten miles from Oroville. The process adopted
will be tunnel constructed of sufficient
capacity to drain the river bed so that it can
be worked in the manner familiar to the early
miners. The tunnel will be IL 600 feet in
length, and will be little larger than an or
binary railroad tunnel. 1t will have a fail of
tifty-two feet and nine inches to the mile, with
u capacity of discharging $50 miners inches
Of water per second. The greatest hight of the
tunnel will be l 500 feet above the surface. A
dam will be constructed at Hamilton Bar,
where the water is to be taken out.
LEGISLATIVE EXPENsES.-The correspond
ent of the Reno Gazette makes the following
observations on the question of the useless
expenditures of the Legislatures: 1.-The third
week Of the Nevada Legislature has passed |
and three bills have been sent to the Governor |
for his approval, costing the State so far about
$oo,UoO. Inc SieIh Vi tHe SENATE |
has enrolled one bill and received twenty |
days pay $50. The Engrossing Clerk |
has had three bills, costing the State $50. |
The Copying Clerks have had little or no |
work; also the Chief Committee Clerks, who |
have each received the same amount-SlS0.
A bill has passed the Assembly and is now
being enrolled for the Governors approval,
W hich cuts these clerks out, also some smaller
positions. and reducing the pay Of all clerks,
thereby saving the State S. 900 per session of
the legislature"
Mr.. EDISON declares his readiness to begin
electric light, having perfected his lamp and
brought his manufacturing establishment to
a degree of efficiency which viii! supply lamps
as fast as wires can be laid III the streets for
their use. At the same time he puts up no
lights and people are quito content to worry
along with the Brush and half dozen other
lights.
A GOOD SToRY.-Jos Goodman has just fin
shed thoroughly we'll told story in the
Argonaut, entitled, "A Temporary Million
aire." 1t is a love story whose currents min
gle with a stock deal, is full OF searching
ouches which analyze character, combined
with pleasant hunor, which make a particu-
arly readable story, all told in q modest style
which only genuine man of letters can sue