The record-union., 1895-04-27

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interests are all with the miners, meets, as
State Commissioner. with the United States
! Commission and assists them.
The friends of a division of school funds in
| Manitoba have replied to the protest of the
! Manitoba Legislature. They say that when
the territory was acquired it was under
treaty guaranteeing to the Catholic Church
the right to maint ain its schools out Of
their share of the public school funds. At the
| time of that treaty the section was peopled by
a few trappers and missionaries among the In
! dians. Since then the conditions have wholly
changed and the people who have been in
vited, solicited and aided to come into the
territory claim the right to peacefully revolu-
! ttonlze under the authority of self-govern-
| ment secured to them. Here then, we have
! clearly defined ISSUE namely, whether an
ancient compact shall be made 10 fit new
! civilization, no matter what the i'll result.
! Manitoba came into the Dominion in 1870
with II, 963 population, of whom 5,757 were
French haltbreeds, ,OS3 English halfbreeds,
556 Indians and 1865 whites. But to-day
she has $4,000 people, nearly all whites.
! Or these the Catholics constitute Ii per cent,
or one-seventh of all. The simple question is,
Shall the one-seventh retain and foster sys-
TEN upon siI-sevenths that is obnoxious to
the latter? II comes down simply to the
| right to throw offa yoke.
1t is understood that the hydraulic miners
of the Gold Run District have applied to the
United States Debris Commission for per-
nit to construct dam, about two miles be-
low the old excavations on the American
| River, to impound debris, with the object of
resuming hydraulic mining in that district,
and that the site for the proposed dam will
soon be chosen, whereupon the commission
viii inspect the same, and either allow or pro-
! hibit its construction. If this be true, the
commission while considering the matter will
| not overlook the case of the Brandy City
mines, which were enjoined October 3, 1892,
| by order of the United States Circuit Court,
! Judge Gilbert presiding, from using a dam
! constructed in the bed of a torrenJial stream,
because of the impracticability OF making it
! absolutely secure. To this let there be added
the memorable warning of Judge Sawyer,
when speaking Of impounding dams, in the
case of Peter Hardt VS.. the Liberty Hill:
1t is clear that we should not be justified in
an attemptJo prescribe in advance any kind
OF a dam under which a large community
shall be compelled to live, in dread of a per-
petual seriously alarming, and ever-present
menace.
1t was a long time before the valley farmers
! could be induced to take steps TO protect
| themselves by abatement of the "slickens'
IuISailSSs 1LGS IldL W bC SuuCdtCu 10 IIle DG-
lief, fist, that they had any moral right to
complain; and, second, that they could legally
invoke protection. Many of them were
miners originally, and after they had become
dwellers in the valley they were still con-
troIled by the idea that this was a miners
country. why said they, when urged, 1--WE
can't do anything. The miners were here
first, and every body came here to mine.' But
this is not true; stockraisers aud farmers
were the early pioneers.
There is honest qualification in the sincere
thanks of the departing CUES 5. The Grand
Army men who have been with US this week
are more than profuse and warm in their
hearty expression of acknowledgment OF the
hospitality and kindness with which they
met in Sacramento. That repays.
Dr. NJ. NJ. Chapman, in his report to the
California State Medical Society in 1881, on
Medical Topography, Endemics. - ETC., says:
Z ''The enlarged area Of submerged lands and
the obstruction to drainage greatly tend to
increase the extent and frequency of maIarial
disorders. Physicians OF experience in the
affected districts state that the fresh deposit
contains a principle which engenders disease
that partakes OF typhoid character. and Is
much more difficult to manage, and m : re
liable to fatal termination than the simple
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the advent OF debris. Drainage and the dis
charge of sewage obstructed are among the
effects OF the debris flood.
General Avery, Commissioner of the Cotton
States international Exposition, has re-
turned from an Official visit to Pan-American
States. Why our trade lacks activity and
great volume in South American sections is
thus explained by nim-the items constitute
their own SUFFICIENT commentary. He says
l. We have no banks in South America;
| Europeans have them everywhere. 3 We
run but few steamships to South America;
Europe runs them to all South American
ports. 3. " e have no stores there; European
merchants have them in ali parts OF the cont-
nent. 4. We sell tor cash; Europe gives credit
). Europe makes goods and packs them to
suit the south American trade; we don't.
1t Is estimated that more than 100000
acres OF Iand have been ruined by ''slickens. -
LIS land was deep alIuvial sou moist all the
year around and as prolific as the most fertile
land along the borders of the Nile. 1t is such
land as was rented to small farmers for the
cultivation of vegetables, etc., for $50 an
acre per annum. Similar land tina: has es-
capped the debris rents now readily, in these
hard times for the tiIer OF the soil, for 50 al
acre. The acreage ruined is large, but the
value OF this land per acre is the proper basis
for estimating the damage.
Ha7peT's Weekly Of New York has started
out upon crusade against California inter
| eSts through a series of misstatements. The
latest is that some of our late legislators
| voted against granting the proposed San
Joaquin Railway terminal facilities in San
! Francisco. That is untrue. Those who voted
mo" did SO against the 'Act'' because it was
not businesslike In its form and requirements
and did not fairly guard the waterfront in
terests. Their amendments proposed were
reasonable and only ordinarily precaution-
airy. The New York paper should overhaul
its sources OF information.
The annual report of the United States De-
bris Commission for 1894 is authority for the
following statement: The most reliable esti-
mate of the amount of hydraulic material in
the Yuba, from De Guerre Point TO Marys-
vile, is o5,OOO,0O0 cubic yards. This esti-
the topography, and series of thirty-five
borings through hydraulic material, the aver
age depth OF which was found to be sixteen
feet. a rough estimate of the quantity of this
material between Smartsville and De Guerre
Point, estimating its average depth to be
thirty feet, is about 1OO, 900, 900 cubic yards.
Thus making the total deposit in the Yuba.
between Smartsvile and Marysville, about
4O8, 100000 cubic yards.
Chicago is the first city in the United States
to adopt by popular or other vote a civil
service system. 1t received a larger plurality
vote than did Mayor Swift, It's candidate.