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GRASS VALLEY UNION FEBRUARY 22 & 23, 1872 43
THE CHALLENGE.—We received, yesterday afternoon, the following;
GRASS VALLEY, Feb. 21st., 72.
MR. EDITOR: Having noticed a Challenge in your issue of the 21st inst., by the Giant
Powder crew offering to bet $500 that with 6 men they can run 40 feet of cross-cut ina
month, in the same drift from which they ceased work on Saturday last; and also offering
to put up the same amount, or twice the amount, that 6 men of the Giant Powder crew can
run in one month more than twice the distance of any crew of the same number using black
powder, have run in the same drift in the past two months, the money being deposited in
Delano’s Bank.
Now, in behalf of the miners, and all those interested in the result of this challenge, a
delegation of miners called at the Bank to cover the aforesaid bet or challenge, and upon
inquiry, found no money deposited. Now we wish to know the purpose of this challenge. Is
it for a gag, or do these parties mean business in this matter? It does not look like it. But if
they mean what they say they can be accommodated. Either put up or shut up.
Yours Respectfully, INTERESTED MINERS.
In reply to the above we have only to say that the Giant Powder men are on hand with the bet.
The men who called at the bank did not see Mr. Delano and the arrangements for a bet of the kind
can be made to-day. One stipulation is that there shall be no shooting from behind bushes during the
month of the trial.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1872
MARRIED. At Grass Valley, February 22d, 1872, by Rev. Thos. G. Thurston, CHARLES E.
MILLER to MARY H. DUNBAR.
THE MINERS’ UNION.—The Nevada Transcript comes out in an article and defends the
Miners’ League in the late assassination affair. By the League we suppose the Miners’ Union is
meant. No one ever accused that body of men of being assassins or of favoring assassinations.
Of course at no meeting of the Miners’ Union was there ever a resolution passed directing
assassinations. The Miners’ Union would not entertain such a proposition for a moment. But what
is the Miners’ Union? Will it allow its members to work with Giant Powder? Will it allow any one
in Grass Valley to work with Giant Powder? Is not the said Union hostile to Giant Powder, and do
not the members of that Union swear that they will prevent the use of Giant Powder in the mines
of Grass Valley? We ask these questions for information, and we hope to get a reply. It is generally
understood by outsiders that the Miners’ Union of this place have as an article of its creed that Giant
Powder must not be used in the mines of Grass Valley district. If this impression is erroneous the
Miners’ Union should correct it. We will take pleasure in correcting such impressions when the
corrections come from an authoritative source. As the Nevada Transcript seems to know, will it
throw some light on the subject? Men are being daily threatened here through the Postoffice, and it is
well to be informed about the whole matter. The people here want light.
LOCAL BREVITIES.—Peach blossoms have appeared in Grass Valley, where the trees are
favorably situated. We fear that the weather is fooling the peach blossoms, and that frosts will
catch the innocent beauties.
Driblets of Eastern mails are arriving, and as yet have not proved very interesting.
The law which exempted mortgages from taxation has been decided by the Supreme Court of
the State as unconstitutional. The case was taken up from this county.
That $500 offered by the Giant Powder boys as a bet is at Delano’s bank. The terms of the bet
can be ascertained by looking at the advertisement. . . .