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AOAIN ha llii' folly of jiiiri'ly Hrulative mining
M Ihtm impressed with a heavy hand upon nuiny
jutiplc, in the failure of tin1 liig Iteiid Tuimi'l A
Mining Co. Thin -oininy tx nl(l :',(Nll),(NN)
in constructing a lied n k tunnel H.fiiKt firt in length
through a high hill around whose base Feather river
ruiiH, in Puttc fount y, Cal.. fur the purpose of draining
tin- river a distance of ten mile, with the exuviation
of finding the yrrnvt'l in it bed rich in placer gold.
Tin1 river IhnI ha lvn lail hare ami ha proved to In
fill! of rock, to remove which cost an much in the
(told extracted in worth. I.'ithunt mining cnterpris
c are of great Wiiel'it to the country and add million
of dollar to the nation' wealth. Imt it in such purely
vuhitive M'hciiii'H a thin that have causnl mining
every where to looked um a an uncertain mid
haiardoiia busincs. A usual in such case, the stork
holder who furnished the money had no practical
knowledge (lf mining, nd it i doubtful if manv of
them had the faintest conception of what was Iving
umlertaken. Ir. K. V. IWr, of Ittitliilo, f patent
incdieiiii' fame, wa president ami the largest to k
holder. The thousand who have made a tunnel of
their l-odirn Ct hi patent lustrum can now have the
satisfaction of knowing that their m y ha madr a
tunnrl through a California mountain. If the Nv.plc
could reverse matter by drinking the clear water f
Krathrr rivrr and turning the elixir through the tun
nel, it const ruction would U a blessed U,n to th,.
alllictrd instead of iimnumrnt to human folly.
The I'acillo hm i mVtcd with ,uullV ihi,, f
ahich it i. imil,h. to M-ak w ith a feeling of pride,
and a few thing, that art. ralculat.il to make all decent
men hang their head for shame, i if t Mt.r ,
mania for pru fighting W the m.t ,,,!,,, BIu
the m.t to I rvgrvttd. fimu j,, ,.,m.f n
the greatest center of population and business, the
city of San Francisco, from which its demoralizing and
brutalizing influence spreads throughout the coast. A
few days ago, at one of the "clubs" organized for the
patronage of this disgusting "sport," two men, link
more than boys in size, fought until they were Wh so
badly injured and exhausted that they could scarcely
stand, and then the crowd of " gentlemen " who had
assembled to witness this disgusting spectacle, his-d
and taunted them in the most heartless and brutal
manner. It is impossible, to conceive of a sKrt more
Isastial in its efl'ects Mn the rising generation, and
the authorities in San Francisco are sadly remiss in
their duty in permitting it to continue. Nor is their
the entire blame, for the better elements of society
should rise up in righteous wrath and sweep these
"clubs" from existence and purge the community of
this mess of corruption.
One of Portland's opportunities that ought to be
! improved is the projected railroad from Vancouver to
; the Yakima country. Such a road would place Port
I land in direct and indeendeiit communication with t
I region that is rapidly becoming the most opulouaand
j productive in Washington. Kven if built no farther
than Yakima it would be of vast commercial advan
tage to the city, but its extension to the Okanogan
; mines and other sections of Eastern Washington would
! render it still more beneficial. Near the Klickitat
pass, through which the line has been surveyed, have
1hcii discovered vast coal measures, and thousands of
! acre of as fine timber as can be found on the Pacific
; coast lie contiguous to tho line. No road projected in
the northwest has more weighty reason for its con
struction than this, and the business men of Portland
should interest themselves in thus securing entrance to
' what will one day U one of tho best fields it will have
at its command.
Possibly our business men do not feel any interest
in the deep harlsir convention which met at Toeka
on the first of Octoln-r, hence the failure of Oregon
and Washington to send delegates. If such U the
j ease, their apathy must lie attributed to ignorance,
i "or great agricultural, pastoral and mineral industries
I hve direct interest in the establishment of a deep
water harUir on the coast of Texas, the prime object
of the convention. Besides this, much could I' a
; eomplished for our own harbors by establishing a gen
S erul community of interest and union of effort with
i other state west of the Mississippi. This is the third
j year that we have neglected our plain interests in this
matter, and it is to hojMHl that we will I repre
sent. when another such Ixidy assembles to consider
so iniortaiit a uestion.