Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-08
THE GOLDEN RULE

Applies here, DO unto others as ye would
| they should do unto you." Put the miner in
the valley ard the farmer in the miners place,
and spply the rule. All, no, it is the sordid
cry, gold, gold, gold; give US gold, and the
rivers and valleys and world may go to the
devil Give US gold, and no rights, no homes,
no possessions, no labor, no industries of
lifetime shall be respected. They declare
they will bury US I; they are doiog it as effect
ually as Pompeii was buried beneath the ashes
of Vesuvius. All that they say when Mr..
Wilson says we have right to do as we are
doing" Aye, bury US; more, they will turn
the Sacramento river away, and Sacramento
will be left an inland town, devoid of water
and navigation, and that right speedily, too.
Yet they say there is n, necessity for them to
do all this but they do it, as it is the easiest
way for them to work the mines. So they
sly,
BURY THE VILLAGES,
Drive out the people, destroy the lands, blot
out life's labors, tell the old men to go and
make new homes in their last years, that we
may do what there is no necessity for doing
By the Debris Act they said we can stop this
flow of ruin; they proved it in Court and
Legislature, and now that the Drainage Act
is declared unconstitutional, thus ask this
Court TO let tham go on as before. They tell
us in geological ages when the Sierras are
gone and the bays filled, the matter the mines
put in the river will there remain, yet in the
same argument they say they are filing rivers
and have a right to do it. That is con.
sistency, truly Over II 600. 600 cubic yards
of earth have been worked off of defend
ants mine. One million yards is how much
Why the new roadway two miles cut from
Oakland, filled in twelve TO fifteen feet above
the water. has in it LOCO, 0C0 yards. Well,
here is II times that thrown into Canyon
creek, and they'd have US believe it is still
there. Counsel at length described the hy-
draulic process, the action of the water on
the rocks and sand and cement, the passage
into the river. its action there. the wearing
iato sand, the percentage of various kinds Of
and and gravel, stc., and concluded so per
n of all mining natter is or becomes tire
saud and gravel. He discussed at length the
proposition that there is misj binder that the
damage each mine does must lie shown, ETC.,
aud also
THE QUESTION OF CONTRIBUTION
Toward nuisance, etc, all in the line of
Of Mr. Belcber then reviewed some of the
cases cited by defendant, and showed that
in several of them the Courts hold,
as plaintiff claims here, that for q
public nuisance there can be no prescription
and also that one in doing lawful labor car
not throw earth and stone on his neighbours
lands. He cited cases in Maine where saw.
mills cast material into navigable river,
and the Courts held it to be public nuts.
ance, and that it must be stopped. In Cali.
fornia in two cases the Supreme Court holds
there can be no prescription or limitation SIS
to nuisance as against tie United States
or one claiming Hereunder. Counsel made
fervent appeal to the Court to interpose
aud save the valley and its people as the Sen
ale interviewed TO save Italy from the effects
of mining, as Pliny records.