The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-04-04
Carson Letter.

Democratic victories in the west, mid
die west and northwestern States at
the ensuing Congressional elections.
They can be felt and seen right now.
The Republican Congressman from
those sections are now afraid to return
home to meet their constituents. The
people are going to elect Democratic
Congress to hold up the hand of the
President in his attempt 10 render the
corporations amenable to the law.
The visit of Wolmeran and Vessels,
representatives of the South African
Republics, has cost the Republican
party hundreds of thousands of votes,
and if Dom Paul comes over and in
quires for the place where it is alleged
in history George Washington, Thomas
jefferson and q few others founded
republic, It will be all over with the
Big Swede 1.-THE Republican Elephant. J
It looks as though President Roose-
Welt had taken General Miles across
his knee to spank him good, and that
the General had suddenly lifted a
spurred heel backward, and caught
the President on the point of the chin.
The Gold Canyon Tunnel Extension
Company has been organized by Frank
lin Leonard, Superintendent of the
Comstock Tunnel Company The al
legged object of the new corporation is
to extend the Sutro Tunnel to tap and
work and drain the mines of Silver
City, but the real object is to create
sympathy for the Oomstock Tunnel
Company in a certain snit brought
against 1t for 1927 900 damages for vio-
lation of contract with the Occidental
Mining Company. Leonard, who is
better known as ''Dry WASH" on ac-
count of habit he has of rubbing his
hands as though he was washing them
when he is driving unconscionable bar
gains, has been threatening to extend
the Sntro Tunnel for the past IL years,
and he goes wild over the project every
time he Is sued or gets his company
into trouble with the mining companies
Of the Comstock lode, but he has not
the refnotest intention of doing any,
thing whatever, unless he can get the
miners to dig the tunnel for him, and
give 1t to'him, for the privilege of pay
ing royalties to the full value of the
ore, and even then he will try to
squeeze little more. He has not even
kept the tunnel In repair, but has so
neglected it that 1t is in absolutely
dangerous condition TO travel through.
He has driven every company out OF
the tunnel that has ever tried to do
any mining work, by his outrageously
uncomfortable contracts, until to-day
there is not a pick being struck or a
shovel polished within the confines of
the magnificent mineral grant of Con-
gress to Adolph Sutro and his heirs
and assigns, where hundreds of men
should be at work. The Sutro tunnel
and it's lateral branches cut a number
Of promising lodes and lodges, and
company after company have tried to
develop them, but they have all been
driven out by the terms of contracts
which Leonard insisted on. For in
stance, he Insists that he shall be paid
81 per day for every miner employed,
and they must employ and work n
given number, and if they do not do
so that he shall be paid the same num-
Der of dollars, and shall be paid for a
certain amount of material that the
men would knock down if employed,
whether the men are employed or not.
and whether the material is knocked
down or not, and he shall be paid SO
much ton for carrying the material
out of the tunnel, and that all material
knocked down shall be carried out of
the tunnel, and shall not be used to fill
up old excavations, and if so used he
shall be paid the same price as though
he carried it out, and If any ore is
found it shall be worked at his mill, at
q larger price than any one else
charges, and he will not agree to work
1t as well as any one else, but he
promises to do the best he can to work
II as we'll as any one else. IN short,
every clause and sentence of his con-
tracts are in similar vein. He has been
and is O. bigger stumbling block to
mining operations on the Comstock
and Brunswick lodes since he has been
in'charge of the Sutro tunnel than the
poverty of the ore itself. The mining
companies have demonstrated to the
Board of Directors of the Comstock
Tunnel Company, but to no avail be-
cause he is practically the whole board
itself. The mine owners of silver City
know him well, and they are hardly
prepared to make him gift not only
Of their mines, bat of their work be-
sides, because they would simply be