Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-04-22
OPPOSED TO THE rLumr


= es III opposition to the Bedrock
hume enterprise. To what ore.t
u' 'ne'r petition is to be present
Gu is not learned. Before a ,b,no
can oe stopped, it must first be start.
ed, and when started it mp.t ha
proven that some one, or more, has
been, or is likely to be, damaged be.
lore the work can be stopped. If the
people OF Boise valley wait until thew
are hurt before squealing, they will
wait forever, so far as the bedrock
Hume is concerned With the great
amount OF debris that has been washed
into More creek during the past
'wenty-seven years, Boise valley has
not been damaged to the value of
one cent, If we except the spelling of
Dose river as trout stream by mud.
dy water, and bedrock flume can
cause no more damage than has the
other placer mining operations car
ried on since 1862. The idea that a
large, rapid river like the Boise can
not carry off all debris that small
stream like More creek can carry to #
Is preposterous. In California the case
was different. The dumping there
was into swift streams that emptied
into sluggish rivers, or into the rivers
themselves, and the rock that was
carried into those rivers remained
there, and also the big powders that
were dumped directly into the rivers.
In the More Creek Bedrock Flume
enterprise, nothing but light material
will be put through the hume, and it
is only the very lightest of this that
can ever reach Boise river, and that
stream will carry it away much more
rapidly than More creek can carry it
to the river. This light material
sand-can never even settle to the
bed of the river, but will be all through
the water, and the only effect it can
produce will be to cause the water to
lose its sparkling, crystalline clear
ness. But come to think of it, we
take that back, for the Boise below
the mouth of More creek has never
been clear stream since placer min
ing began In Boise Basin, but, of
course, as mining has diminished, the
waters of the river have regained
their crystalline clearness to certain
degree. Now we will give those val
leyites pointer as to the only good
ground of opposition they can pro-
sent. 1t is this: Placer mining
sands the water, the sanded water
sands the gills of the little fishes, and
the little fishes having an antipathy
to having their gills thus sanded,
have sufficient "sand in their consti-
tuition" not to stand it, and they emf
CRATE to less sandy waters, and the
farmers are thereby deprived of the
pleasure of hooking those speckled
beauties from the aqueous fluid, ane
regaling their appetites with the de-
liclous fishes. There would be some
"sand"in such an objection. The farm
ers will exhibit some grit and sand
by coming right down to arguing the
only good cause for trying to kill the
goose that lays them the golden eggs
The only cause they can assign fo
wanting to Kill the aforesaid goose
with any show of reason, is for th'
protection of fish, and then they mus
include all forms of placer mining
and even more than that-they mus
demand that the waters of More creel
cease to flow. Its bed is already
filled with debris from twenty tt
forty feet deep for many miles, an(
this continues to wash down Just th'
same as it will when the fiume enter
prise is in operation. The Boise val
lev farmers would like to kill th'
goose that will lay golden eggs TO
them, but they will fail. They vii
only show that they possess all tn
stupid characteristics of that proverb
ially witless, historical aquatic fowl
But let them sail in; they will b.
worsted in more ways than one,