The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-04-28
THE RIO COLORADO.
Scie Artists Estim stes its Volume g.
Equal that Of the Niagara.

My attention being called to an effusion
of genius, which you copied from the Eu.
reka "Sentinel," dated st. Thomas,
March 10, 1888, and signed 81. B. F."
l feel by your supjoined remarks required
to reply, being the person therein speci.
ally referred to as the 'meanest Mormon
on earth, etc. sincerely regret to have
to notice the unique production: first, be.
cause when lady stoops low behind the
sheltering privileges that hedge in the
adorable sex, and filings mud unsparingly,
it is indeed heavy task to make re-
joinder that shall not jar upon the harmo.
MES and amenities OF life; and, secondly,
because no public edi6cation can result
from spiteful personalities, nor any
wrongs be amended. The source Of the
production is as unmistakable as if life
size portrait Of Annie Rebecca Byers-J en-
nings had been set up on barn door as
signature; but what inspiration of su-
preme malignity has caused her to play
MAID of Orleans, and take up the war
cudgel in defence Of prosecuted Mr..
Cassidy, may mercifully remain problem.
atical. The memories of the thirteen
years Slightly stretched) during which
l had views OF the inside history of many
a little design upon the national treasury,
not as patriotic as the Colorado appropri.
alton, as they file past me might be elab.
grated if they were fruitful Of good re-
suits; but will let it all rest and barely
state that have never claimed any al
legience to the Mormon Church during
those thirteen years aforesaid, nor denied
the same previously, but l do claim to dc
my business in my full name and stand
up to all obligations incur, and know
very many Mormons who are incompar.
ably superior in rectitude and veracity tc
some who contemptuously berate them.
The animadversion as to the size Of
Rioville, flung out in said letter, is sim
ply the pot calling the kettle black, fol
the greatness of st. Thomas is not aston
ishing, and few of our settlements com
pare well with New York or Liverpool,
or even Jerusalem or Jericho. will moi
assail the diatribe on the Rio Virgin
Think myself that it is a fraud as navig
able river, and thought SO when tried il
some years ago; but the Colorado, fol
which l seem to be in some way held re-
sponsible, regard as self-evident fact
that existed without my consent before
knew it, and will probably survive my
pilgrimage here. Competent scientists
have estimated its volume of watel
about equal to that Of Niagara, and an
certain it exceeds the Thames. The fal
of the Colorado from here to the sea il
less than that of the Rhoue or the Rhine
the Wisconsin or Upper Columbia. all o
which are navigated, and the Colorado Ii
navigated, without aid, for six hundred
miles from the sea, to this point, in ever
medium stages of water, and the few bar
and rapids spoken Of are just the point
which the desired Government aid woul(
improve so as to render it navigable for
greater period Of time. Fording place
are, however, extremely rare in the low
est stage of water, and always dangerous
and the very modest sum asked for tn
improvement of this river by the State o
Nevada ought not to find one voice ii
opposition or deterioration
DANIEL BoNELLI.
Rioville, Lincoln County, Nevada,
April IA, 1888.