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Show RAILWATSKUS Conflict in Nevada but an Echo of That in This Slate. BAB PEELING ENGENDERED IN EACH OF THE CAMPS Controversy Here Now in tho Hands of Register and Receiver. Tho attempt by tho railway company to establish an ownership of territory upon which has occurred somo of tho most bensatlonnl cold discoveries in tho history his-tory of Nevada, and to evict tho oldest Inhabitants of Ollnghouso and Whllc-horso Whllc-horso upon the margins of Its rail, la about to engender tho bitterest kind of nlrlfo, said lion. Charles S. Varlan on his arrival from Reno yesterday. It la claimed by tho minor whoso urenms of wealth have been so violently nasallcd that for moro than twenty years ho has mined In tho regions ho Is now asked lo abandon on a contention that tliey woru Included In concessions made to the railway rail-way without Intimation that ho was trespassing, tres-passing, and thai ho should at this hour bo required lo leave develops a crisis to which ho Is not willing to submit. Without With-out entering Into Iho legal phase or merits mer-its of tho controversy that threatens tho camp3 in the neighboring Stato, Mr. Varlan Va-rlan called attention to tho similarity of conditions Involving tho Pembroke locations loca-tions In Morgan county, this State, and those now confronting tho miners ai Ollnghouso and Whitehorse. Tn Morgan county the minors are arrayed against tho Union Pacific, which contends thnt the metals thero aro being dug from agricultural ag-ricultural areac? lnstend of mineral-bearing territory, and that under Its concessions conces-sions from the Government tho miner Is a trespasser. Tho facts are that minerals miner-als aro being opened up on tho zono in dispute, although witnesses for the contestants con-testants havo testified against each other In the Ihsuc. The contest involving tho locations In Morgan county is now In the hands of tho Register nnd Receiver of the Land ofllco. to which tho Issue was submitted last May. and from which a ruling has been expected for somo time. In tho Nevnda controversy It Is said of Iho issuo that It Is similar to that which arotio in Morgan county, which rendors Interest In tho outcome all tho keener. In Nevada, said Judge Varlan, thero Is much Interest In tho movements of tho Western Pacific, -nnd whllo there Is tho usual number to discredit the undertaking, undertak-ing, tho belief In the West Is that It Is to bo completed ns soon an It is noBslblo to accomplish It. Reno, whore ho formerly for-merly practiced his profession, Is now ono of tho most prosperous of Nevada's cities, as the entrepot to tho regions of gold on tho south It has been materially benefited by them, and It should continue con-tinue to grow. Judge Varlan met many old friends. In whoso thrift ho. found extreme ex-treme tiatlsfactlon. |
