Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1889-01-26
WHAT EUREKA HAS DONE.
work and bread Eaough For All
what Are the Facts NOwT

what Are the Facts NoWE
Ed. SENTINEL: Eureka has produced
and sent out into the circulation OF the
country, mainly in the last eighteen years,
in round numbers, $3.50 900 of gold
and silver bullion, and $4,000 tons OF
lead. At least s75,OOO.OOO Of this vast
sum has gone to pay the army Of laborers
employed in the mines and around the
reduction works, and to the wood chop
per and charcoal burner, who went out
into our rugged mountains and cut wood
and burned charcoal to supply the hoist
ing works and furnaces Of the district.
Less than $40, OO0, 900 have been paid out
by the mining companies in dividends.
Over two hundred and sixty mines have
been worked In the district, and ore OF
good quality taken out and sold.
Two months ago our furnaces were in
full blast-business Of all kinds was &C
tive and aourishing-" there was work
and bread enough for ALL" What are
the facts now! The furnaces and hoist
| ing works are closed down, business Of
all kinds Is psrslyzed, and there Is no
work for q large majority Of our laboring
men. The stream Of gold and silver that
was wont to flow outward has entirely
ceased. Gloomy looks meet US on every
| hand. What has wrought this great
= - ALA-A q TINA llna nan
clothed in q little brief authority, I'M
acquainted with the history Of mining in
the gold and silver mining States and
| Territories; unacqusinted with the pol
icy Of the Government towards gold and
silver mining in the past; unacquainted
with the absolute needs Of the gold and
silver miners; without investigation,
save through the representations Of at
torneys greedy for fees, and Of q Timber
Agent, whose chief occupation while here
was reading . novel in front Of the Jack.
son House, and who grossly violated his
duty as an officer Of the Government in
failing to follow the plain general instruc.
lions Of the Land Department, ordered
suits commenced against companies and
individuals in Eureka alone for nearly
$40, 00O, 900.
The duty Of commencing these suits
seems to have been entrusted to the U.
s, District Attorney for the District of
Nevada. In duo time the writer will
show that the greatest favoritism has
been exercised by that officer in the dis.
charge Of that duty.
In 1873 Chsrl Schurz directed his Tim.
Der Agents, in the dead Of Winter, to
seize all Of the wood in Helena, Montana.
At that time Mr.. Blaine was a Senator
rom Maine. On the 18th Of March, 1878,
Mr.. Blaine, who by the way in public
life has always been the friend OF the
new States and Territories, made aspeech
upon this seizure that in many respects
fits the case OF our present Commissioner
Of the Land Office so well that l cannot
refrain from reproducing a portion OF it.
Mr.. Blaine said:
81 arraigned the Secretary OF the In
terror as being in that action not an in.
telligent man Of affairs; that 1t was not
the work or decision Of a practical man
Of business; that it was the chimera, the
d~elusion OF an utterly impracticable the
orist. The Department
of the Interior has been presided over by
| great men IN tnls country, ny ChTeiui
men. 1t was organized by a great man,
Thomas Ewing Of Ohio. 1t has had
Browning Of Illinois for Secretary, Nc.
Clelland Of Michigan. Cox Of Ohio, a dis
tinguished Representative in the other
branch at the present time; Chandler Of
Michigan. q man acquainted with affairs,
pre-. eminently careful, p~ainstaking, and
economical. l challenge any gentleman
here to tell me where under any of these
Secretaries, careful, thorough, practical
business men, guarding with jealousy
all the rights and interests Of the United
States, q settler has been asked to pay
stumpage ON cordwood. Sir, it is one Of
the beneficences Of the Government, il is
a thing which has been conceded by the
Government, that the hardy pioneer who
goes forth and bears the flag Of c~iviliza-
ton onward against difficulties and
through dangers that appal stout hearts.
that you and l never undertook, shall
have the air and the water and the wood;
that he shall breathe and drink and be
warmed freely, that he shall enjoy with.
out money and without price the air oil
heaven and the waters that trickle down
the mountain sides, and the wood that
grows on the mountain tops" PFC.