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Show Difficulties of Tlacor Mlnlii. It will not pay investors nowadays to go into placer minii; without looking a long wny ahead. It is only ia countries where there aro no farms or arable ground that pincers can bo mined for any longth of timo without harassing nnd costly legislation. Tlio farmers whoso lands nro injured by tho refuso of the placers washrd down tho streams uro tho ones that make tho troublo, and blackmailers uso tho cloak of tlio farmer to extort money from tho company. Iu Montana Mon-tana thero has been no troublo of this kind, but in California phcor miiiin has been killed, and in Colorado tho fight ia just beginning be-ginning between Uio miners and tho farmers. In one county tlio farmers aro now trring to btfp tho running of every ora mill in tho comity, complaining of tho tailing carried do-vn by tho streams, and if they succeed tho Colorado placerj niiijiit as well bo given up at once. Mining Eagiuccr in Globo Democrat. |