Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-29
A PERTINENT LETTER.
Some Statements Which Should be H.
vestigated by Proper Authorities.
DIrcu Flat Dnean1her d 1885

DUTCH FLAT, December q, 1886.
EDS. REcoRD-UNIoN wish to call your
attention, and the attention of the valley
people generally, to the following facts in
regard to hydraulic mining in Dutch Flat
and its vicinity
Does the law compel white men only to
stop hydraulic mining, and permit China
men to continue filling up the rivers the
same as if nothing happened? There is
now crew of Cinnamon hydraulicking in
Olsen & Martins claim below Dutch Flat.
There is another crew of Cinnamon work
ing Grey's claim below Dutch Flat. There
is a crew of Cinnamon hydraulicking Lib
erty Hill diggings There is crew of
Cinnamon, in connection with Mr.. Parri-
man, fitting up claim about quarter of
a mile above Dutch Flat, which they pro-
pose to work this season by hydraulic
process. Another crew of Cinnamon is
now fitting up the Birds Eye claim at Red
thence into Bear river; and there is crew
of Cinnamon working Tom Bailey's claim
below Dutch Flat.
Why are Cinnamon allowed to hydraulic
at Iowa Hill and You Bet? The Liberty
Hill and Little York Consolidated Mining
and Water Company only laugh at you
valley folks. The said company built
dam-or at least the Cinnamon built it for
them-which they know will not stand
more than half the water of Bear river;
and in fact every dam so constructed is
only menacing danger to your cities and
towns along the river below, for when one
dam breaks, which it surely will, the next
one cannot hold more than its own load
and will also break, and so on; then good
by to property below. Yet this same COM
pany gives lease of some kind, either real
or fraudulent, to q Chinaman, or a COM
pany of Cinnamon, and sells them water to
hydraulic with, and this is what they are
doing at the present time.
How is it that jeff Doolittle and Tom
Bailey were allowed to hydraulic last
winter right at the edge of town? And
why was Sam Hartman allowed to run
the Southern Cross, with crew mostly Of
Portuguese and Cinnamon? How is 1t
that those parties knew beforehand when
the Marshal or Deputy was coming
Those claims would then shut the water
off, yet their crews would continue work
ing cuts, tunnels, powder drifts, and blast
ing powders, and as soon as the Marshal or
Deputy was out of town the water was
again turned on.
AnQ another thing we would Ike to
know, why the hydraulickers are con-
stantly bowling about drift and quartz
miners, who were foolish enough to pay
assessments or donations to help fight the
hydraulic law suits? Yet these same men
now want to stop drift and quartz mines,
who mostly employ white labor, and still
let the China hydraulickers fill up the rivers
and harbors, and finally destroy your towns
and farms.
There is one thing about this matter
quite remarkable. The small claims, which
are mostly owned by poor men, and who
usually employ white labor, have, as gen.
eral thing, shut down and obey the law,
while the big claims, which do the most
damage, and which are worked by China
men and Portuguese, and are owned by
rich men or companies, still continue to
work their claims, either directly or indi-
rectly.
If you stop one hydraulic diggings, why
do you not stop them all? There appears
to be something rotten in this matter. Do
the hydraulic companies and Cinnamon
pay for their privileges of running mines,
or was the law only intended to stop the
poor white trash? Respectfully, yours,
GEO. S. JOHNSON, Drift Miner.