Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-02-07
A. WORTHLESS CLAIM.

Some years ago the Enterprise
began to work upon an old aban-
doned journalistic lead, which is a
favorite point of operations with
all journalists new to Nevada. It
is the Retrenchment and Reform
claim located about thirty years
ago, and never yet patented to any
body, because nobody has ever yet
been found crazy enough to do the
assessment work upon it.
There is not an ounce of pay ore
in the mine, and nothing to lure on
the inexperienced prospector but
the glittering mica, generally
known as fools gold. This
worthless mineral, which to the I'M
trained eye builds up a thousand
glittering castles, has caused thous-
ands of sleepless nights, hard brain
labor, and plenty of bitterness and
vexation of spirit, to men who
have toiled and delved and aban-
doned the workings in disgust.
As rule, most men after making
a casual inspection Of these old
public slopes and caved-in drifts,
have sense enough to quit, but the
Enterprise seems determined to
work the old claim, even at a dead
loss, as long as there is a pound of
mica or birds-eye porphery in sight.
Looking into the old tumble
down tunnel, you can almost any
time, find the editor Of the Enter
prise at work, down on hia hands
and knees, inspecting the ground
and showing to the world that por-
ton of his anatomy, which might
alone be looked for under the cir
cumstances. In trying to show up
to the people the great expense en-
tailed by the Legislature; it printed
a few days before the meeting of
that body, list of officers and at
taches and their salaries. It was a
false and misleading article in every
particular.
In reality the law fixing these
salaries was repealed in 1881, and
all the salaries have been cut down.
In 1888 it was further amended
and the salaries cut down. Some
of the clerks get but little over
half what they got then.
When the attention of the edi-
tor of the Enterprise was called to
his mistake he naturally did not
like to plead ignorance of the law,
being about to be admitted to the
bar, and excused his blunder by
saying:
'Oh I want to stir 'em up
little.
We can give him the names Of
responsible persons to whom he
made this statement if he wants
our authority.
He stated in yesterday mornings
Enterprise in his correspondence
that the people had paid out $54,-
600 uselessly on the Constitutional
amendments. OF this sum the En-
terprise received over $3.50 for ad-
yertising the amendments, and a
portion of this money went to pay
the editor his salary for time squan-
dered in misrepresenting to the
taxpayers the financial status of |
Nevada.
IF the Enterprise is really sin
cere in its cry of retrenchment it |
ought at once to return that money |
to the State Treasury.
The paper attempts to make fur
Their cheap capital out of bill
which only received three oppos-
ing votes in the Senate. It was
the bill to print the tax-roll, and is
only opposed by wealthy men who
want to evade their honest taxes
and blatent howlers against pub
lie expenditure, who do not pay
over $10a year and would feel
very cheap if the public could see
in print the ridiculous sum they
were bowling over. He says:
''The bill practically involves
raid on the different County Treas
uries by weak and struggling news
papers, which go ia for the old flag
and an appropriation. Messrs.
Fish, Gallagher and Thoma voted
against the bill
The idea that the bill was incu-
bated in some newspaper Office,
has been the only argument used
AGAINST II. The facts Of the case /