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supports thousands more. It is more than probable
that the fight over tho Sutro tunnel property wJH
so conducted as not to interfere with the use of the tun.
iicl by the mining companies depending upon it
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I'OHTUXII, OkKUoN, hATl MIWY, Octohir 111, 1889.
MOW to hiiild a large frame building within the lire
M limits in a problem that the proprietor of Cor-
dray'a Munee han apparently solved. To the
urrfieial oliwrver tlie proi-cns Htrnis to 1 nim
pie enough. A few h,Mm are net in the ground and
Ixiardu nailed on them, making a high fence. Thin in
then covered with canvas. A little later Home more
IxwU arc act on top of the first ouch and more Umrds
attached, making a two-story fence. Then the canvaH
in removed and a nh.rt iron roof substituted for the
canvaa, and lo! we have a two-story frame building
covering a quarter of a block in the heart of the city.
An oU-rvcr not o HUxrfieial, however, may dineover
another ntep in the process, such, for instance, an a
iiiict, unoHteiitatioiiH, private interview with somemie
in authority. It would seem that if thin were not the
cane. Hiieh fire trapn would never be crmitted in viola
tion of city ordinance. lVHrty owners would like
to know a little more aUmt thin matter.
What will Uvome of the great Comstock lode if
the threatened litigation should result in locking up
the Sutm tunnel for a year or two? For ten yearn
th.e mine have Urn ojrrat.il for Mock jobbing pur-pom-a,
and nearly every cent taken out ha Urn put
Uek into them to keep them going, and to cUe theni
now would let the U.ttom out of the San Fram tH,
Uwi market. Vrhp thin in not much to 1. ,,..
plorvd, but the cessation of wrk M Virginia City would
I- a grrat calamity, throwing thousands of men out of
rmployment and robbing their ,hl.rtj. of (h(, in(i
value the collar of the mining Us-m a few years
ago left it. Si long th, ru.uM.nk mine, 'yield
enough to pay the rMM-se f operation, the ...ntinu
anee of work in them will U U,U ,,,,, , , ti,i(
biding, applying a livrlil.,N dirvtly to thousands
of Je.-ple, and maintaining a business and market that
Portland comes to the front with a genuine case of
arbitration of labor troubles, in which the arbitrator
plainly tells both parties that they were guilty of id
attempt to infringe the natural rights of tho other.
This in generally the case, in all instances of dillicultr
U'tween capital and labor, each making a selfish and
uneijuitable demand upon the other which can not be
acceded to without surrendering a legal and natural
right which ought not to be given up. Tho principle!
laid down in Judge Shattuck's decision in this matter
should be carefully studied, not only by the plumberi'
union and the master plumbers' association, of this
city, but by all trades unions and organizations of em
ployers as well. They lay deep the foundation of in
dividual right that theso combinations are prone to ig
nore and violate, simply because they have the power
to do so and selfishness prompts them to use it.
Probably the most extensive maxillary railroad
builder on the Pacific const is Mr. J. T. Flynn, of Port
land, whose various transportation routes cover manj
thousands of maps specially issued to show their lo
cation. His latent enterprise is reported in the Ait
patches from San Francisco, where he has "received
assurance" that his projected road from Grant'i Paa
to Crescent City, to meet Donahue's coast line, will be
built. We certainly hopo that such a lino, or any oth
er that will aid in the development of Southern Ore
gon, will be constructed, but of more substantial ma
terial than Mr. Flynn's jaw bone.
Now in progress in Portland is tho largest, mod
complete and most attractive exposition ever hold in
the northwest. The gentlemen who conceived and
haye carried out this great enterprise, as well a thf
citizens generally, have reason to feel proud of thii
successful crowning of the labor of the past two year
The North Pacific Industrial Exposition has come at
a permanent institution, and each passing year will
it increase in volume, attractiveness and inlluenee for
good.
The San Francisco Chroniclt is making a fight to
"eciire a three-cent faro on the cable roads of that citr.
Thin is going too far, and is a movement in restraint
of trade. What will the poor jurymen do if the pr
htn of the companies are so cut down that they cinw
longer employ thene gentlemen ? IXcs the Chr
desire to deprive a large numbrr of respectable citi
enn of an honest livelihood ?