The record-union., 1895-04-29
NOTE AND COMMENT.

When the HalEMfllion Club returns to San
Francisco we shall be glad TO learn from it
what ii purposes doing in the way of induc-
ing 100000 more people TO come 10 san
tranclsco.-can Francisco Evening Post.
1t might pass some resolutions denouncing
those already here who have any capital and
who invest it in the development of the State
The following extract from the report of the
United States Debris Commission will be
suggestive to those who are disposed to claim
that the debris from hydraulic mining ceases
in its damage with the obstruction Of the
navigable rivers OF the State: "The Commits
sion has examined, to some extent the
condition OF the Sacramento River and of
Sulsun Bay, into which it emptes, with
reference to changes of the bottom since the
beginning of Hydraulic mining Comparison
Of sections (similar to those of previous sur
veysj, taken every half mile over this terri
tory, gives the following average depths:
1850, 14.05 feet; 1873, 7.92 feet; average fill
6.13 feet showing that nearly one-haIf of the
original volume of water in this bay was re-
placed by sediment between 1850 and 1878.
x The part lot the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey, made in 1881 pub
lished indicates a fill OF 1.5 feet near the
mouth OF the Sacramento River since 1873.
Taking the above figures as reliable there
were deposited in Suisun Bay between 1850
and 1873, 4O7, 100000 cubic yards. Assum-
ing that the ill since 1878 has been at the
same ratio for the whole bay as that shown at
the mouth of the river, the indications are
that the rate of deposit in the bay was about
100000 cubic yards per year from 1878
to 1885" That is to say, an aggregate of H.
900, 900 for these seven years, or a grand
total deposited in SuIsun Bay up to 1885
/ 10, al cuh
ing ten years. OF Asa 100000 cubic yards of
hydraulic sediment!
We lift our hat and bow low and respect
fully to one woman-she who wrote recently
in the editorial columns of the journal
W0HlanIind, that it is not certain that women
know what they want, why they want it, and
| the best way to get it. And then this sensible
woman adds in reference to the political-de-
manding woman: "Not all men are bad, not
ali women are good not all men are foolish.
not all women are wise; multiplying votes is
not the only way to purify the country, even
if the increased votes are all female. 1t will
not do to be too sanguine as to results,
merely because the women we happen to
know seem desirous for the good of the COM
munity IN which they live and of the nation
| of which that community forms a part
| People do not see things just alike, and the
! New Woman Is as likely to find perplexity as
/ TO what is best, and how to secure it, as her
brother has found it in the past" Sensible
! editor of Womdnkind, we greet you.
Here is an interesting incident in the his
| tory of the debris question: L. L. Robinson.
who afterward figured conspicuously as de-
! fendant in the case against the North Bloom
! field Company, owned ranch at the base OF
Mount DiablO on which the Black Diamond
! Coal Company was operated. This mine
caused coal dust, ashes, sand and other debris
! to be deposited in a natural stream of water,
and thence 10 spread on to his land He in
| stituted suit and the coal company was
! held liable for damages; and this although
the stream, in its natural course inundated
the plaintiffs land. The judgment of the
! Superior Court was confirmed by the State
/ Supreme Court.
1t is notable that although the investments
| in hydraulic mining at the time OF Judge
| Sawyers decision footed up S10o,ooo,oo
no appeal was taken therefrom. Such a course
was considered useless because his rulings
were accepted by bench and bar as sound.
The Rev. Lansings charge against the Pres
ident has brought upon him more bitter re-
| buke from religious than from secular papers
/ One of these, the Methodist organ in Massa.
chusetts says that even if the charge were
| true it was unwise and indecent TO utter it.
Another Methodist paper, the church organ
4 in Pennsylvania, declares that to accept mere
slanderous gossip of that character and repeat
! it is nothing less than criminal. In casti-
eating Lansing the church press has distinctly
augmented the respect In which it is held by
decent people.
The ''mountains coming down to the sea" is
! one of the pretty pictures of Ovid-a figure OF
! speech representing the tall frs converted
! into tapering masts and graceful ships. But
/ our California mountains come down to the
sea differently. This is our process: Run
drifts, side drifts and counter drifts into a
| bank of aariferous earth, 400 feet below the
surface of the blun; place within these cham
| bers forty tons of blasting powder. The ex.
plosion of this mass is more effective for the
purpose than an earthquake; it disintegrates
| the mass. Then discharge through an S-inch
| nozzle 1S5. 900 cubic feet of water per hour.
with velocity of i 80 feet per second, against
this mass ready to move Of itself almost. A
night scene of this sort, when several moni.