The record-union., 1895-04-29

tors are roaring together under the glare of
arc lights, is sufficiently weird and startling
10 inspire another Dante. But there is no
poetry in 1t for the dwellers in the valley.
And now Japan bristles up and gives Russia
to understand that it is not afraid of her
armies and naoies. Japan is going step too
tar. Russian interference is offensive and
autocratic, but for pigmy to assail such
giant is rank folly.
The "49" idea that California is the min
ers' country-which means that the right to
pursue any other industry is dependent and
conditional upon the postulate that mining
must be utterly free from restraint as to any
other interests Observation-Disclosures the
miner to call the watchman. legitimately oc-
cupied in seeing that the law is not violated,
| a "spy." This spy" is simply policeman
who is naturally hated and Stunned by the
laWoreaker. 1t accounts, also, Tor an ingeni-
Gus system OF counter surveillance of signal
! ing, telephoning and telegraph1ng, whereby
any non-miner's approach is heralded. The
habit of every resident of hydraulic mining
section is to "spot' the stranger who intrudes
into his "diggings," and he is apt to invite
him to leave.
Drift mining, which is confined to tunnel
Ing out only the stratum overlying bedrock,
| furnishes, in the aggregate, a large quantity
of ''slickens,D
Here are the Sfamese twins of nations quar-
reling-Sweden and Norway are actually
scoWllng at one another and threatening dis
ruption of the bond between the united king
doms. Each talks of an appeal to arms. 1t is
foolish; severed each one Will become prey to
more powerful nations; united they are rea-
sonably safe from assault. No, Norway and
Sweden cannot afford TO part company.
"The gold mining industry is important in
its bearing upon the general interests OF the
| United States, as well as upon local property,
| ana the risk is SO great that unnecessary or
! ill-advised restrictions and limitations upon
mining activities are to be carefully avoided.
On the other hand, the great amount of mate
| rial that has to be handled and stored by the
| hydraulic process in order to get d little gold
makes the problem of secure impoundment
! and of protection to navigable waters and
! adjacent land one of difficulty and serious
ness" The above is an extract from the re-
port of the United States Debris Commission
for 1893.
! Charles B, Whiting has commenced the
| publication of a daily morning edition of the
| Colusa Herald. 1t is one of the neatest in
! terror dailies in the State, and is filled with
| goou, i've news matter and crisp editorials
! Though the newspaper field in Colusa is
rather crowded, Editor Whitney Will hold his
| own, and we wish him the ample success his
| enterprise deserves.
! Sluice, drift and quartz mining are all 60
! ing without let or hindrance; and yet, so far
as the grievance complained of goes, they are
the same in principle. The quartz grit COM
ing from the stamp mills, all Of which finds
its way into the bed of navigable streams is
the most injurious form of debris; it travels
down on the bottom, and none OF it passes
away in suspension Thousands upon thou
sands of cubic yards of this quartz sand-the
quantity OF which is being constantly in
creased-are slowly, but surely, moving into
the bay of San Francisco. Debris from quartz
mining could be economically impounded.
SARsAPARILLA AND IRON. Get it from
| the sole agent. McMorry 53I NJ street.