Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-08-14
RANCHER AND MINER.
THE INTEREST OF THE TWO
IDENTICAL.

. An Interview Witt, the Superin
tendent OF the Mexican.
Yesterday Mr.. cyan William
t Superintendent Of the Mexica
mill was in the city and an APPEA
| reporter interviewed him relativ
to the shutting down of the Belche
and Crown Point mines.
They arc shut down" said h.
because there is no water in tn
, mill. The shutting down of thu
) mill is due to the waste of water il
Carson Valley. The Genoa Cour
Ter has pronounced the statements
made by the APPEAL and Chron
icle as untrue, but the truth Of
your statements can be easily dem
onstrated by going up the valley
and seeing vast quantities of water
run to waste"
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The mills have acquired a title
from the Courts decisions. We
own every drop of it, ard if we
wanted to make burdensome litiga-
ton we could 90 so. But | hold
that the interests of the miner and
rancher are identical, they can i'll
afford to waste their earnings in
litigations. Your paper a few
weeks ago had an article on that
subject, which all thinking men in
dorse. We depend on each other
in great measure but I must say
it is little rough to have the val
ley ranchers come down to the mill
and sell produce to us. and ask us
full price, when by their waste of
water our mills are closed for
months at time. We ask no IA
vors of them except a square deal.
We have man up there watching
the water, he is active and reliable.
He reports that the water is run
ming to waste over sand and sage
brush, and not being utilized for
crops at all. Some men turn water
on a field, and after the necessary
irrigation is done, they let it run on
sand and sage-brush and pay no at
tention to it for weeks. Let num-
Der of ranchers do that and the |
first thing you know the water gets
low in the Carson and the mill is |
shut down. The next result is that |
five hundred miners. all with faml |
lies are thrown out of employment.
If each rancher along the river
would turn the water back into the
river we could start up the mills.
Newspapers are always talking
about the honest farmer and the
thieving miner. We miners are
getting tired of this distinction.
stealing water is taking twenty dol
lar pieces out of mans pocket.
Why, two years ago, We supposed
we had made compromise with
the ranchers we agreed to let the
ranchers have the water, all they
needed, for two weeks while we
hung up our stamps. They agreed
Tor this, to turn all the water back
md give US the full benefit of it.
Well they had the full swing of the
liver for two weeks, and at the end
# that time we began to look for
water, but it didn't come. We
vent up there and travelled over
places where the water was nearly
Up to the horses bellies. Not
ingle man who had been a party
O the agreement had kept his COM
'act with US, and the bed of tie
liver was almost dry, This can be
PROVEN by pie nty of competent wit
lesses. Now these men do them
elves no good by their action
7hen they waste the water, stop the
Mills and throw miners out of work,
means hard times all over this
tate, and they feel it as much as
nybody. If your paper can keep
n showing that the attempt on the !.
art Of one interest to hamper the
Their, results in a loss to both, it
ill be doing good work"
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