Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-06
THE DEBRIS CONTEST.
Suits Begun by Hydraulic Miners Against
Yuba County Supervisors.


Yuba County Supervisors.
The relation between those who insist
upon continuing hydraulic mining and
dumping additional debris into the tribu-
tarics Of the rivers, to come down and
overwheln the homes and property of resi-
dents of the valley, and those who are
seeking to save their homes and property,
is fast becoming strained to an extreme de
gree. 1t is impossible that tie present ag-
gressive movements, and the methods en-
ployed to continue mining by hydraulic
process, contrary to the law as now de
clared By the Courts of both the State
and the United States, can be con-
tinued much longer without arriving
at crisis which will necessitate
the exercise Of authority in a form to be
respected and acqmesced in. The recent
meeting held at North Bloomfield, and the
resolutions there adopted, taken together
with transactions which are reported to
have since occurred in connection with
parties soiOurning or travelling in the
mountains, and regarded by the hydraulic
miners as spies display a condition of
affairs not likely to grow less intense, or to
yield 10 more temperate or wiser counsel.
The action of the hydraulic miners in
securing the issuance Of an Injunction By
Judge Walling, OF Nevada county. directed
to the Board of Supervisors of Yuba
county, 10 prohibit said Board from ex-
pending any further funds in prosecuting
the anti-debriS suits, is another step which.
taken in the orderly walks of the Courts.
will be met with even greater resentment
by the anti-debris people than the infam-
matory resolutions at North Bloomfield.
The injunction was issued at Nevada City
on July 30th, upon the petition of Joseph
Merriam, and has been received at Marys-
vile by the Guba Supervisors. The attor-
neys for the miners are Senator Cross and
7. +. Simonds, Of Nevada City
Simultaneous with the procuring of this
injunction, the same attorneys commenced
another action in Nevada county, in the
name of Albert Hedges. against the Super
yisors of Huba county TO recover from them
peFsonaily-between thirteen and fourteen
thousand dollars-the money expended BY
Iuba county in prosecuting the anti-hv-
draulic mining suits.
Upon receiving notice of the suits, the
Supervisors of Nuba county employed ex-
Acknowledgement 4. L. Hart to conduct the
defense, in connection with the District
Attorney OF Guba county, The Nevada
Transcript refers to the injunction suit as
follows:
The papers in the case of Merriam
against the Supervisors of Tuba county
were served Monday morning. just after
the Board had gone into session for the
purpose of allowing bills for spies and at
! t0rneNs services, etc, in the anti-mining
eases to the amount Of $4,000. The scrv-
I ing OF the temporary injunction fell like a
( thunderbolt striking dismay TO the hearts
of the honorable body. The meat of the
joke IS that recently the anti-mincrs applied
. 70 L. s. Marshal Drew to have twenty. fopr
Of their spies sworn in as Deputy AIarshals.
lie refused to do So, unless assurance vas
given that the United States would not be
held responsible for the pay for their serv-
ices. The Supervisors gave q guarantee
that they would furnish the necessary
money, the commissions were issued and
on Saturday last they were distributed
among the spies, giving the latter fuller au-
thor!ty than they had heretofore possessed
Now that the Supervisors are to be pre-
vented from drawing any further on the
, county treasury, the spies will have to go
home or work for glory alone
The writer of an article in the Marvsville
4Ppedt upon the same subject, says:
The injunction issued III the case of
Merriam VS.. the Board of Supervisors of
Guba county is a novelty in Judicial pro-
ceedings One would suppose that the
: N'hii'N VI ubi- tilAOAl7u us AtNItS ana
officers. ought to be able TO manage and
conduct its own financial affairs, without
/ the assistance of outsiders 1t seems to
have been discovered, however by an as
! tute lawyer and learned Judge in the coun-
/ " of Nevada that cur finances are not to
! be managed by the officers elected by our
! people, but that in such matters we are in
! some way under the guardianship OF the
] Judge of that county. The attorneys who
! have been consulted by the Board concern
! ing the matter do not lool, upon the action
as one which may involve any serious con-
/ sequences, and ii would seem that the in
! junction has been obtained for the purpose
only of harassng and annoying our peo-
pie. While, however, we look upon the