Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-17
PRESS OPINIONS, PRO AND CON, on
JUDGE SAVERS DECISION.

PRESS OPINIONS, PRO AND CON, on
JUDGE SAVERS DECISION.
/ a Grass Valley paper gives this
hopeful outlook to the new situation The
gold in the ground of the old river chan.
nels must come out. There is too much of
the metal for which all the world is hun
cry in that ground for idleness to sit on
the hills that cover the old river channels.
Water has for the last many years been
doing most Of the digging up on those old
river channels, and water did not eat food
or wear clothes. It is said that men will
now be put to work in several Of the mines
in which hydraulic MOBILES have been at
work, and the men Of course will have to
be supplied with things that water never
used. II this is true the future working OF
the deep gravel mines will give better
market for food and clothing products, and
for transportation, than has been the case
for many years. The only question is,
VIII the mines pay when they are worked
by human critters in the place Of the tear
ing.down hydraulic machines? Some OF
those mines will SO pay, and some will not.
The Derbsc drift mine, adjoining the North
Bloomfield, has paid. 1t is said that very
much of the North Bloomfield can be
drifted with more profit to the owners than
could be worked by the hydraulic process.
The same of the Milton Company's ground
at French Corral. Indeed it is asserted
that the North Bloomfield has run behind,
during its years of hydraulic workings, in
the sum of 81, 700 600 on its water account
alone. And SO water, it seems, while
working cheaply, costs big money to those
employing it, and at the same time de.
mands but little of the products of the
farm and the factory. Therefore, we ex-
pect that, as soon as the matter can be
fully looked over by the mine owners, there
will be many drift enterprises inaugurated
in that part of Nevada county that we call
the Ridge. The most useless and unprofit.
able cry one can indulge in is that over
split milk. No matter who caused the
spill, don't cry. but go to work and milk
another COW. Drift the gravel mines.
The Mountain Messenger CURLY says
On Monday last Judge Sawyer rendered
| the long-expected decision in the Wood.
ruff debris suits. He decides that the
people of the mining portions of the State
have no rights of property. He finds that
| the bed of the Yuba at Marysville has
been raised fifteen feet. That the waters
of the rivers are so charged with sand as
to be unfit for irrigation. He finds that
dams are inadequate, and cites the brush
dams as instances. He finds that mining
! is unlawful, under the Codes relating to
public nuisances. That neither Congress
nor the State has authorized the use of the
| Yuba or Feather rivers for the flow of de.
bris. He decides that Congress has not
| the power, if it so desired, to authorize the
destruction of navigable waters OF the
rivers of a State. Miners by mining in
iure private property. He finds that delay
IN commencing suit cannot be construed
| into acquiescence. That an injunction
must put an end to mining, That, in his
opinion, dams would prove inadequate
| Therefore he makes the Injunction per-
petual, and adds, "Nhat damage may
accrue to the miners he has nothing to do
with" In conclusion, he permits the
miners, should a plan be devised to abate
the nuisance, to apply to have the injunc.
ton dissolved, or for modification.
Upon this subject the Bodie Free Press
says: "The Salt Lake Tribune thinks it
would be wiser for the mining men to drop
the contest and try some other means to
make it possible to work their mines We
are aware that they have many equities.
| For wears the State encouraged them to
| dig bitches, TO run tunnels, to build dams
and reservoirs, TO expend thousands and
millions Of dollars in acquiring and open
| ing their properties and, in Justice, the
State should settle these bills At the
same time it is quite as plain that the Sac.
ramento valley should not be destroyed.
1t is even more important that the only
and Of J. rbr fpr- ! ON ;log %
golden coast should be preserved. This is
so important that there can be no debate
| even on the subject. And yet the fact re-
mains that by the decision the best and
bravest men Of California are not only to
be financially ruined, but their life. long
occupation taken from them. 1t is an oc-
| cupation, too, which for twenty years the
State encouraged them TO spend their
money in. Something is due these men.
More, with every mine closed down, there
are some scores or hundreds of people,
who depend upon the mine to give them
employment or to buy their products, lett
degtitute. They are entitled to more than
sympathy"
An editorial in Once Wcek, upon the de-
csion, concludes " 1t is not safe to claim
victory over hydraulic mining yet, for the
interest involves too many millions of cap.
ital to be lightly abandoned. Although
the people of the valleys are rejoicing over
this decision, they may not consider the
fight won or the war ended. Litigants are
tenacious, and bad cause dies hard if
there is moneyed power behind it. While
every man living along our rivers which
are affected by hydraulic mining will in
dorse this decision, as well as the resi-
dents of the valleys, how many, who are
not actually endangered at present, will
put their hands down into their pockets
for $40 pieces with which to aid their en-
dangered neighbors fight against the
miners. We opne that their numbers are
not legion, for truth compels the admission
that all men are selfish, and if a farmers
lands are beyond the reach of present
harm, he is not apt to see any great danger,
il it costs coin to buy the view. On the
other hand, the miners are united to q
man, for defeat to one means ruin to all,
and laborers, merchants and all who live
from the mines, will spend their money
freely as long as there is show TO change
Judge Sawyer's decision"
The North San Juan Times speaks Of the
decieion in this wise: On Monday last
Judge Sawyer's decigion in the slickens
suit was rendered. It is said to be very
long and is adverse TO the miners. He
grants perpetual iDjunctions. On receipt
Of the intelligence at this place much anx-
cty was felt to learn the true text, and
after it became known everybody breathed
easy. Nobody was cast down except a
few -employes-who thought they
would be discharged at once. Every man
l. kI,,,r,t,
had happened, for all felt that the decision
would be overruled in time. Our rooster
felt like growing over something, bus as we
could not allow him to do it, we sent him
into Yuba county for that purpose.
The Cloverdale RereiHe says Judge
Sawyer has rendered his decision in the
celebrated debris suit, which IS perpet,
ual injunction against hydraulic mining.