The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-02-19
Another Protest.
ED. COURIER.


News and Gardnerville Record, whC
believe in progress and prosperity tt
all in the development of any legiti
mate industry, desire space in YOU
paper in which to publish in milo
form their feelings and views respect
ing the items recently published by
the News and Record concerning the
Carson river placer mines and their
management.
First.-We believe both papers made
bad mistake in publishing those
items. We believe that great and ir-
repairable damage to the business OF
the community, to all kinds of mining
operations not fully developed, wheth-
er they are quartz or placer properties,
and personlly to Mr.. Everett and Mr..
Thomas, may result from the publica-
ton of the aforesaid items.
We believe that public and private
interests and welfare would have been
better subserved by leaving the space
occupied by those items blank, for
surely no good came from their pub
LEGATION, and that which does no good
frequently is harmful. We believe
subscribers expect and demand the aid
and support of their paper in all legit-
innate industries.
We believe that large quantities of
gold will yet be extracted from the
sands of the Carson; that other COM
panies will erect, at great expense,
number of modern gold-saving plants
along the Carson, from the valley 20
Silver King, in both Douglas and Al
pine counties. We believe that Mr..
Everett, Mr.. Thomas and their associ-
ates, to the best of their ability, are
striving to make placer mining ON
the Carson river a success and pay
ing business to investors, and thereby
add to the prosperity and happiness of
all.
Second.-We do not believe, as stat
ed in the Record, that the gold exist
ing in the sands of the Carson is likely
to remain there, nor do we believe the
articles published concerning the pla-
Ger mines harmless. Neither do We
believe that Thomas or any one else
should stand idle and say nothing,
when many sensible people who read
the items had to confess that they
were unfair and damaging to the
mines, to the best interests of the
country and to Mr.. Everett.
We do not believe that any publica-
ton or person is justified in placing
the slightest obstacle in the way of
any legitimate enterprise until there
is proof positive, and beyond all doubt,
that such enterprise is an Intentional
| fraud and a fake. We do not believe
that any one individual or set of indi-
viduals have yet, or are likely hereafter
to meet with any financial injury by
reason of Mr.. Everetts operations on
the Carson.
Third-We know that the country
drained by the Carson river, from its
source to the sink, is full of mineral
bearing quartz veins and gold-bearing
gravel, from which many millions of
dollars have been extracted; that new
discoveries are being made every
year, that many mines once thought
to be worthless, with the new and inn
proved methods of handling, are now
being made to pay handsome profits
We know there are still great oppor-
tunities for mining developments in
this section, that the average prospect
or is seldom able to develop and oper-
ate mine after he has discovered it;
that it requires capital to work mines
successfully; that it often requires
years of time to secure the capital
necessary to operate even the most
promising prospects; that capital is,
and should be cautious and timid;
that the local press usually gives the
brightest side to mining and other in
dustries, and the slightest discourag-
ing remark by the press concerning
any undeveloped mine often retards
development, and sometimes stops the
sale and operation of good properties.
We know Mr.. Everett has labored
long and hard to secure capital to
operate the placer mines; that he has
already expended large sums of money
in their developement; that he has
furnished employment and paid good
wages to a large force of laborers,
teamsters, mechanics and others, that
he has completed and had in operation
for a short time one small plant,
which gave at least some degree OF
satisfaction; that he is preparing to
erect several other and larger plants
along the Carson at different points
between Silver King, in Alpine county
and the Carson Valley, in Douglas
county; that gold exists in every