Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-16
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC
Citizens Anti Hydraulic
TO the citizens orsacrarasntoand vicinity:
MINING OEBSIs COMMITTEE or FIFTY.

T5yHE COMMITTEE, IN RECOMMENDING
4 active measures 10 be taken 10 prevent She
further use of the beds of our mouNtain streams as
a place for the deposit OF the deA or tailings
from hydraulic mines, take occasion to say, that
Sacramento has good wishes for the success of and
assistance to extend to all the species OF minin-,
save thai practiced by the hydraulic process.
BAD the hydraulic mining companies observed the
golden rule, or had they respected the law OF all
civilized communities the present unhappy conflict
would have been avoided
As it is she cannot wait longer trust to others
for protection. Delay means simply greater area
OF devastated country, lesser power OF resistance
ON the part of our community Further forbear-
ance with an evil Of such magnitude whether from
trade other considerations, would be blunder
and crime.
The committee think that to our unexampled
spirit of federation, not to say cowardice may be
attributed many of the troubles which, in manifold
form, aftlict this community.
Sufficient testimony is in the possessions OF the
committee TO slow that, hydraulic mining to
cease, the waters of our mountain streams would
Immediately regain and maintain, to the delight OF
both and beast, Feir original purity And
the committee satisfied that no assertion pos
sesses less truth than that the mountain canyons
full of tailings which viii yet come down and cover
the valley, though hydraulic mining were TO i'm
mediately cease 1t should be apparent TO all that
what the huge seething volume Of water Of the last
fortnight failed to move out Of. the beds of the
mountain streams and into the valleys below, would
not De moved lfOul place llouu-NalGIS NCt
to cone: and common sense fails if il does not
show that the beds and banks OF our mountain
streams are not cleared OF mining rubbish to an
extent that makes further abrasion of them pyac
tically impossible.
Information in the possession Of the committee
indicates remorseess swelling of the volume OF the
debris committed to the care of the mountain tor
rents, and which, sooner or later, must find rest
ing place in tEis valley, and it would seem a cOnclu
sion as serious it is certain, that no river systems
in the world, without choking OvertiOwing and rem
dering their adjacent country uninhabitable, coud
carry the millions Of cubic yards OF solid matter
which the hydraulic miners deposit in the channels
OF the American Bear Yuba and Feather rivers
So often has it been shown that hydraulic mining
is praeticed without profit, that an Insignificant
number of persons engaged in it, that the Wild
cat speculator uses it as a to delude unwlry
foreigners and inhabitants of other States that in
stead of numbering amor the industries of States,
out Of which prosperity issues, 1t is high in rank
among the forces that spread devastation and ruin.
In the opinion OF the committee the time for ac
ton has arrived and measures for relief should be
Immediately taken by practically unanimous and
resolved community determined to make all consid-
erations sink before that involving the existence OF
the Capital of California To this end We have in
vited our fellow -citzens to assemble on Thursday
evening Of this week at the Pavilion to initiate the
necessary measures of protection and to instruct
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