Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-09

no compromise; that there is but one solu-
ton of the matter, and that is, a cessation
of the cause of the evil. 1t is settled that
the methods of the hydraulic miners
are illegal that not only are the
equities all on the side of the valley, as
the REcoRD-UNIoS has uniformly main
tanned, but that the valley cause is the
cause of legal right. The four remaining
families in the mining town once populous
and prosperous, from which the above
letter is dated, themselves admit the right
eousness and wisdom of the Interpretation
of the law that no one shall so use his own
as to work the injury or destruction Of the
right of another, since there is not one OF
them, who, in prosecuting hydraulic min
ing, will for moment admit the right Of
any other of the group to pour the tailings
of his mine npon the property of his fel-
low miners.
1t is too late in the day for the noun
tain people to discuss these matters of law
They have been settled by the highest tri
bunals of the land. There remains but
one thing for the residents of the mining
regions to do, and that is to obey the law
| and submit to the inevitable. 1t is not the
question of what paper is for or against
them. No just paper is either for OF
against them. Honest journalism is for
the right, and the law, irrespective of its OPP
Grafton upon this, that or the other person
Nothing our mountain neighbors can dc
will change the irrevocable decree that has
been made in this matter 1t is not their
right to send down slickens and bowld-
ers upon the valley lands, or to impede and
work the destruction of the navigable
rivers. If they can pursue hydraulic
mining without these effects, and with
out doing injury to material interests
of the State, it is their right to do so, and
the whole Sacramento valley will up
hands and clap palms for joy, since it is
to the interest of the valley people that
their neighbors of the mountains and hills
shall prosper and be happy.
So much for the issue-no longer an
issue. 1t remains for the people of the
mountains to take good advice. And
since their local journals mislead and
badly advise, let the people of the hydrau-
lie mining regions look beyond such
counsel and beyond the present. Let them
soberly ask themselves, if, after all, they
are so servilely dependent upon the hy-
draulic mining industry? If indeed they
have not been neglecting possible crown
above them while raking for dross in the
dust heap? Have they no other re-
sources? Is their section SO sterile that il
will yield nothing but gold? Are theil
possible industries so limited that there i.
nothing left for them but the wages of the
hydraulic mining corporations, starvation
or abandonment of the hills?
Their local journals, with few notable
exceptions, foster the spirit of re-
venge and resistance, and encourage the
delusive hope OF a possible triumph 70,
hydraulic mining They do whatever they
can to inhame the people of the mount
aims, and to embitter them against the
people of the valley.
Does it not occur to the people of the
mountain regions that such counselors as
these are their worst enemies? Do thew
really believe that the time will ever come
when they will be permitted to defy the
DEGREES of Courts of the land, and to cover
the valley section with the refuse of the
mines? And do they really believe that
certain of their local journals are sincere
IN thus advising them? Cannot thew see
that an ignoble self-interest actuates the
counselor who seeks to stir up strife, and
who deludes by encouraging vain hopes ?
Can they not rise to a realization of the
fact that such journals could be more
profitably employed in the interest of the
mining sections by counseling the people
how best to adapt themselves to the new
order of things, and by bestirring them
selves to develop legitimately the re-
sources of the mountains, and in laying off
the lines of industries within the law? In
short, will the mining people cor tinue to
be misled, and still longer postpone the
day when they must give their attention
to the evolution of the highest and the
probable great possibilities of their sec
ton?