The record-union., 1895-05-02
NOTE AND COMMENT.

1t is indicative of a very singular state OF
things for California to hear it said in the
mining camps: 'The law doesn't allow white
men to work hydraulic mines, but Cinnamon
can do it all right" OF course, this is not a
correct statement Of the fact. Cinnamon are
not entitled to any privilege in hydraulic
mining that is denied to white men. Mining
of this sort is prohibited-and all alike are
included in this prohibiton-from working
mines by the hydraulic process except by
permit from the United States Debris Com
mission granted on the assumption that the
debris resulting therefrom shall be I'M
pounded. Wherever Illicit hydraulic mining
is done by Cinnamon it is made possible only
through the connivance of white men who
own the property and (as silent partners to
unrecorded leases divide the proceeds. The
latter appear only at the cleanup"
The Troy Times has said nothing better or
more to the point in its social sermons. than
when il declares that while 1t takes two to
make pleasant home, home life should have
resources beyond the family circle, as well as
its privacies confined thereto. That is truth;
truth which some people should ponder.
The home group that is wholly dependent
upon its internal resources is pretty certain
to become dull group, and one In which
there will be rust and stagnation. We are So
cial animals. and must Tor true development
find in communion with friends of ~ther
groups than our own, reasons for Dff Joy
ments. Visiting by and among .,,fgenial
peopie is a necessity to true development and
happiness The hermit home is little less
than a prison, and will develop neither par
ents nor children properly. While the Times
carries its argument so far as to insist that
the social attractions of club life may be
easily duplicated in the home. we go at least
so far with our contemporary as to aver that
husband and wife who have nothing outside
of home in which to take pleasure, are Ill
mated, and their home is a mistake
It Is only question of time and, in many
instances of very short time, when the
dams constructed TO hold back hydraulic de-
bris sufficiently to warrant the issuance OF a
permit will be abandoned altogether; and
then the elements hurry off the diSmantled
concerns with the debris arrested behind
them into the bed of the nearest navigable
river. The history of the Eureka hydraulic
mine, south of Placerville, is substantially the
same as that of scores of others. Like the
rest it, too, worked under permit last fall and
winter The restraining dam in Chile Ravine
is partly of natural bank and partly Of brush;
above it is watershed mile long by a hall
mile wide. Mining was abandoned January
1, 1896. The storms took out part of the
brush and worked several large channels
through the tailings which had been deposited
behind it. Some 1900 or 5000 cubic yards
of the tailings had already been washed out
and there was nothing.to prevent from A, 900
TO 5000 more cubic yards from going the
same way with the freshets to come.
The wisest thing for the University of Cali.
fornia faculty to do is to drop the whole bust
ness concerning the Blue and Gold satires
upon certain of the faculty Professors ana in.
structors. Any investigation will bring ridi.
cuie to supplement satire. Admit that the
editors of Blue and Gold were indiscreet and
far from witty IN their references to some OF
the teachers, and were impolite iu the SO.
called hits about the ladies' two of the Profes
sors are to marry; admit that the youths We're
foolish: still the thing for the faculty Is to
grin and bearit. They know that It was al