Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-04
ROW ABOUT CHINESE.
Miners Intimidate Them n Drive
Them From Road. Building.

Miner Intimidate Them and Drive
Them From Road. Building.
Under date Of May 26, 1884, Willow
Greek, T. J. Harlan and F. J. Mette, the
latter until lately q resident Of Eureka,
publish a card in the Silver State, in which
they give their version of a row that
occurred on account of some Cinnamon
they employe to build a road to a mine
they have under bond. About q dozen
white men, miners, came and scared the
Cinnamon off. Messrs. Harlan and Mette
say in their card: ''It was not proposed to
work Cinnamon in the mine, and they
were employed to grade the road, simply
because we could not afford to pay the
ruling price for doing that kind of work."
Commenting upon the affair the Silver
State says editorislly: In no part of the
country that the writer is aware of, are
Cinnamon prevented from making roads,
and doing what miners call ''outside
work." Rich men and companies almost
everywhere employ them to do such work
as unskilled hands can perform, yet they
are not molested, but poor men who are
struggling to develop q property, that may
give employment to q large number OF
white men, and make q n~on-productive
district prosperous, are not accorded a
| right which the rich exercise without
hindrance.
Since the above was printed, Saturday
| afternoons Silver State has come to hand.
1t contains the following article, coupled
with the request that the SENTINEL re-
publish the same:
WILLOW CREEK, May 20, 1884.
EDITOR SILVER STATE: Herewith | in
close an anonymous letter to you for pub
LEGATION, which, I trust, you will publish
in your paper, in order that the people of
Winnemucca and of Humboldt county and
the Pacific Coast at large may know and
appreciate at their proper value the obsta-
cles thrown in the way Of men who come
here, in good faith, to help develop the re-
sources of the district. l also send you a
printed copy of a mining report over my
signature. which, / doubt not, will intro
duce me and tell you who and what l am.
Further comment is unnecessary, as you
~have~aiready published q letter which
gives my views and covers the ground.
The district seems to be handicapped by a
class of men who will not, or cannot, ac-
complish anything; but are ready and will
ing to prevent anyone else-an not very fiat
tering prospect for parties contemplating
any considerable outlay of capital here,
without which the place must ever remain
dead, as it is now. l have followed min
ing for the greatest and best part of my
life; | have never advocated the employ
ment of Chinese, either here or elsewhere.
The people of Eureka District-where l
an best known-will bear me out in this.
l will not be intimidated by any man who
ia base enough to seek that end through
the d~isreputable means of an anonymous
letter. +. j. METTE.
P. s. I have not the least doubt that,
should l make the fact known in Eureka,
that l am at the mercy of lawless men and
in danger, ready and willing hands would
respond at short notice; but / prefer to
, appeal to the law for protection. I have
agreed to pay the round sum Of $40, 900 in
two years for a mining property here, and
don't intend to be run off. FL. M.
Following is the anonymous letter re-
ferred to above:
WILLOW CREEK, May 20, 1884.
Mr.. Mettee it is evident from your action
Since you have Been in this Vicinity that
you are in favour of Chinese labour and by
so doing your action is injurious to White
labour for your own good you had better
make yourself Scarce in Willow Greek and
leave here right away and save trouble.
fSigned): Rory OF THE HILLS.
n, fMr. Mette refers to II. D4nnelly and J.
A. Fulton, formerly of the Eureka Con-;
T. j. Read, NJ. E.; N. Wescoatt, M. E.;
Hon. Thomas Wren and Prof. Clarence
King.