The record-union., 1897-08-25
VOICE OF THE PRES S
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions ON Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

JecCs OK Living news
Interest.
Wheatland Four Corners: If silver
goes on declining during the next three
years at the rate which il has declined
during the last twelve months, Mr.
Bryan in 1900 will have to argue for a
ten cent dollar. The value of the met
al in a silver dollar is but A cents
now, while year ago it was o3 cents.
Yet the inconsistency of proposing to
permit people to pass 80 cents worth
of silver for a dollar is not so much less
than a similar proposition with refer
ence to 10 cents of metal when the
principle of the thing is taken into con-
J sideration.
THE FAKE EXPOSED.
Stockton Mail: In the news columns
of the Mali to-day will be found
complete expose Of the Trinity County
fake
The whole thing was Matched in San
| Francisco. 1t is the result of con-
spiracy to get up a groundless mining
excitement, and to this conspiracy the
San Francisco press lent itself with the
enthusiasm, skill and vigor of veteran
falsifiers
Nothing could be more damaging to
legitimate mining than such taking as
this. 1t is a blow between the eyes
of a splendid industry. There is room
for thousands Of poor men to make a
| moderate living in the old placers of
California. The reaction of this foolish
excitement will keep those placers idle
for another ten years. There is oppor-
tunity for the safe and profitable in
vestment of millions of dollars in
quartz mining in this State. and this
atrocious and damnable folly will keep
those millions on the other side of the
Sierras-at a time, too, when they had
| begun to move westward. 1t is too
bad. The San Francisco papers went
into this fake deliberately. Their cor
respondents were ordered to make sto-
ries of gold if there were none. They
were told to lie to the limit. 1t must
be owned that they obeyed orders with
great success. We ask the 'Exami-
ner,'' the Call" the Chronicle" the
Bulletin" the Report" and the rest
of them but one question. Having
deliberately lied about the mines of
Trinity, how can you expect Eastern
| investors to believe you when you do
show the way to really safe and good
mining investments? You have hurt
the State thousands of dollars worth.
QUITE AS GOOD.
Santa Barbara Press: In the light
of the recent decision by the Los An
geles court anent marriages performed
by shippers three miles or more from
California. We fail to see the use of
chartering a tug, supplying the we'd
ding feast and becoming sea sick in
the bargain. The old Irish ceremony
jumping over a broomstick together
would be quite as efficacious and much
more economical
! COFFEE CREEK RUSH IL
Shasta Courier The Tliaity gold rush
is amusing. The new gold fields"
known for nearly half a century to the
pioneers and their children, are just be-
coming knownt to the gold-fevered mass $
who could not reach the Klondike fields.
and are expending their feverish excite
ment on the more accessible regions of
Trinity.
This Triniticitis is Klondicitis in
mild form, and numbers as its victims
scores of tenderfeet, and inexperienced
would be miners. All this week a steady
;
through Shasta. They go by stage, by
lcarriages or wagons, on horses, bicycles
and afoot.
| Many wear billed shirts and new ties.
Most of them are of a class not fitted
for the hard work of practical pros
pecting Here and there is an old pros
lpector, lured by the magic power of all
inew strikes. But they are few. for the
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Creek, time and time again, years ago.
What he has left, the rest are welcome
to. But they will have to look sharp if
he has missed it.
The old miners are not excited. Men
who have seen gold pans heaped with
dust in the Dlacers around old Shasta
and Weaverville. don't 90 wild over
pocket strike. Many men have passed
over the Graves pocket. Hundreds of
pockets lie all over these northern hills
but mining is a lottery where few draw
prizes.
The tenderfoot boom may bring many
lnen and much money into the country
1t may keep men and money away
These tenderfeet will soon tire of bacon
and beans Prospecting in the heated
hills is hard work And once tangled in
a deep canyon, with no water or horse
feed, a strong desire for city life will
strike them Trinity is the best country
lin the State for the real miner, but these
sickened tenderfeet, who don't savoy
how to pack mule, will 20 away and
give it black eye. After they have gone
the natives will go on taking out gold.
The country has had some cheap adver-
Using And it will be strange if some
discoveries are not made by mere force
of numbers or pure fool luck
GOOD ROADS.
Fresno EXDositor: No man in the
community profits so much by good
iroads as the farmer. You cannot scare
him by road taxes if he is assured that
the sum will be honestly and pracJic
ally applied TO the roads. But the peo-
pie at large in county should bear the
burdens of road-making uniformly.
There is not a property holder in Fresno
lCity that is not in a degree benefited by
the construction of good roads i'll the
Icounty, and the cost of such work should
be more uniformly distributed.
THEY WILL NOT SEE.
yisaIia Delta: The attitude of some
people who refuse to admit that times
are better and getting better, and still
argue that there can be no Improvement
except on the lines laid down by ihen,
are like the small man who wa to eight
a duel with a. fat man. The latter OBJ
iected that he afforded a bigger target
than his prospective adversary. and the
latter proposed to chalk out his outline
on the fat person and count no shots