Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-18
THE HYDRAULIC MINING SECTIONS
AND NEW DEVELOPMENT.

THE HYDRAULIC MINING SECTIONS
AND NEW DEVELOPMENT.
1t is a sign in the highest degree en-
couraging that the people of the mount
ain hydraulic mining sections are turn
ing their attention to the possibilities of
their localities as producers of something
better than slickens.
Here we have before us a fat volume on
Nevada county as Bartlett Pear Belt. 1t
is issued by the Nevada County Land and
Improvement Association, and is exposi-
tory of the horticultural resources, health
fulness Of climate, temperature, rainfall,
topography, facilities for irrigation, yield
Of fruits, prices of lands for sale, etc, in
Nevada county.
The association which issues this hand
somely illustrated work from its head
quarters, Nevada City, is organized for the
purpose of furnishing home-seekers in the
foothills with information relative to the
quality and productiveness of the soil, its
adaptability to horticultural and agri-
cultural productions, the location of vacant
Government, school and railroad lands,
and improved farms and orchards, which
are for sale. The purposes of the associa-
ton are to promote immigration and en-
courage settlement. Maps and statistics
are kept on file in its Office, showing the
location of all vacant lands-Government,
school or railroad-and these are corrected
monthly. Persons visiting the office for
the purpose of securing land for settle
ment are furnished with all the desired
information, taken to such tracts as are
for sale, and afforded every facility for
gaining such n knowledge of the resources
of Nevada as will enable them to fern a
correct opinion of the county.
This is the right kind of work. 1t is
home missionary effort certain to meet
with rich reward. Instead of sitting down
and bemoaning the fate of the hydraulic
mining industry, this energetic, brave
hearted people propose TO build up their
county on a new basis, and to bring all its
resources into active contribution to the
support of the people. The RECORD
UNION does not undertake to say that
this action is the result of its advice long
since given, but it is in line with the con-
slant expression of this journal We have
never believed that the subsection and
stoppage of hydraulic mining, means ruin
to the communities heretofore dependent
upon it, Its cessation certainly means
grave injury and a time of suffering, per-
haps. But that period we have always
held must be limited, and that there will
follow sincere legitimate effort to develop
new industries, ample reward and the
prosperity of the people-more abund-
ant prosperity, in time, than ever flowed
from hydraulic mining operations
The Nevada Herald of the 18th, in re-
ferring to the subject, said:
The hydraulic miners have been beaten from
their last retreat. The hydraulic miners have
been beaten and have no more fight to make.
They have accepted the situation, hard as it is,
have bowed to the decision of the Courts as
good citizens should, and have ceased to mine
by hydraulic process. There is neither sense
nor proprety nor justice in further agitating the
question and keeping alive sectional bitterness.
And further on, referring to what it has
deemed assaults calculated 10 engender
bitterness of feeling, and ill-will between
mountain and valley people, it says:
1t is time to stop this unnecessary and sense
less irritation, and TO consider in a serious and
buslueSslike way the best means of harmoni-
ously developing the varied resources OF the
state. No good citizen will be found aiding or
counsellng antHgoniSms nor anything else that
IS calculated to interfere with domestic har-
mony and the promotion of all the business m
teresis of the commonwealth. II isn't dignifed
ana legitimate journalism to do so, and we have
but little respect for the journalist who persists
IN such a course, especially when the reason
Tor II has passed away. 1t is bad enough for the
people OF the mining counties to have to sub
NIT to injury, and generous victor in the con
test would not add insult.
The people of the valley fully appreci-
ate the spirit of this expression, and will
cordially second the thought that the time
has come for utter cessation, along with
hydraulic mining, of all expressions that
lrritate the people or hinder them in the
effort to rehabilitate their counties with
industries, the results of which do net
work destruction to valley sections. Let
our neighbors of the mountains take the
suggestion to themselves, and stop all this
silly and irritating braggadocio about
"sples" and hirelings," while the val
ley frowns down the vituperation that
has been bred in its interest. We
trust and believe that the people of the
hydraulic mining regions bow to the final
decree against that industry, and mean to
honestly obey II. II there are any nv
draulic miners who defy the law or evade
II, and, despite the Courts and Congress
Continue to commit the nuisance, they may
rest assured that they viii be punished.
There is no bitterness Of feeling enter
tanned IN the valley for them, but stern
sense OF duty prevails here, and deter
mnatlon to enforce the law to the utter
most. The people of the valley have at
no time entertained hostile feelings toward
the denizens of the mountains. With
their determination to stop hydraulic
mining, they have not deemed it necessary
to denounce the citizens of the mountains
outlaws, robbers and vandals. Thev
have realized that there is no strength in