AGRICULTURE V. MINING.
(To the Editor of the Mount Ida Chbonigle.) Sib,—l observe in your advertisement columns several applications for agricultural leases, and am surprised at the apathy of the miners'on a question so deeply affecting their interests as the one now before you. There can be no question as to whether mining or agriculture be the chief industry of the place; or if the former fails, or is curtailed and. hampered by the latter, how long Mount Ida will continue a prosperous district. That the growth of corn and other produce in the neighborhood is beneficial to the community I readily grant; but the miner must not be encroached upon, or curtailed in his operations thereby. It requires no great knowledge of the state of mining at Mount Ida to to say the ground generally will not be remunerative if the miner has to pay compensation for his claim, or right to cut his tail race j and the outskirts are
being so generally occupied that ere long the.question of compensation will be inseparable from the taking-up' of a new claim, or cutting of a tail race"• and whenever the question arrives, at this stage th; j abandonment of the field will, undoubtedly follow. miners have made the district winit it is, and without their presence agriculture as well as business, will fail to be profitable; hence, it is to the interest of both that mining should have every encouragement. I submit, sir, that either compensation be wholly abandoned, or that the Warden should be fully satisfied that the ground applied for is not aurifetous.;: Misrepresentation on this point to involve the forfeiture of the lease or area. We look to the Warden to protect the industry of the place—the matter is wholly in his hands—and it rests with him to perpetuate the prosperity of the place, or make it a "deserted village." I have but crudely set the case before you, hoping that abler pens will take up the question, and obtain for it that serious attention which tile importance of the case deserves.—l am, &c.,
A Miner.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 72, 17 June 1870, Page 3
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350AGRICULTURE V. MINING. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 72, 17 June 1870, Page 3
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