The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-04-02

agent at IWinnemucca, and Charley Hays,
agent at Silver, are bound to make any line
popular.
Owyhee county II the northern neighbor Of
Elko county, and. like the latter. is chiefly de-
pendent upon its quartz resources. It has
been a very rich mineral district, and at one
time contained large population. White
Pine, Elko, Cope and other districts have at
tracted many Of its former residents, and Sill
yer City shows the effects Of the emigration.
Still there is q great deal of business tran
sacted there, and some Of the lodges and mills
are doing well. Among these the Ida Elmore
and Golden Chariot are particularly success
full. The Ida Gilmore has one of the finest
forty-stamp mills on the coast, and under the
management Of Col. FOCUS, and that most
genial Of gentlemen, John Wilson, the COM
pany is in very prosperous condition.
Owyhee country favors annexation to the
State Of Nevada. There is no question as to
the sentiment of the people. The feeling is
confined to no particular party, but seems to
be general among business men and politi-
clans. The people Of that county have an
impression that it would be advantageous to
them to be connected with Nevada; that capt.
tai would flow more readily into the country
and ind more ample protection than under
a Territorial government. The idea of a
change, whether for the better or worse, has
made Stewards bill popular in Owyhee; but the
principle cause perhaps originates in dis
satisfaction in the judiciary The same cause
which induced Nevada to adopt State gov
eminent, to certain extent, influences the
sentiment of the Owyhee country. Federal
judges are not always appointed for their le-
gal attainments, nor long hold their positions
for n just or able administration of their Off
ces. Idaho has had some able judges who
have given general satisfaction, but the excep-
tions are scarcely equal to the general rule.
The Owyheeans are disguised with the con-
slant changes and uncertainty Of the courts,
and want an opportunity to elect their own
judges. and insure an adherence to the code
of mineral law in accordance with the decis-
ions of the Pacific States.
John Earleys daily stages, Charley Hays,
agent, connects Silver City with Boise City.
the capital of the Territory. Boise City is one
of ''the loveliest villages of the plain" and
shows signs of continued prosperity. It is
the commercial center of fine valley, popu-
lated with an agricultural community, now
busily engaged in putting in their crops. The
Boise valley is much. lower than the Hum
boldt valley-probably about fifteen hundred
feet-and the difference is plainly manifest in
the increased mildness Of tile climate, but lit
tie snow falling through the Winter If the
Humboldt river were turned north through
the mountains it would strike Snake river
over falls not less than thousand feet high.
This Boise valley is the section alluded to
by the White Pine News as "the lands
of the Webfeet and the Teuderfeet. "
This is IN error. The Webfeet prop
er are five hundred miles to the north
ward, on the other side Of the Cascade range.
The population Of all this country north of
Nevada to the British Possessions is mostly of
Calfornians. There is but slight sprink-
ling of the old inhabitants of Oregon, and no
more "Tenderfeet" than in the State of Nevn-
da. Two currents of population met in this
country: one, the extension Of the Fraser
river emigration, which sweeping eastward
IRON the exhausted Dars OF Fraser, stopped
for n time at Cariboo and Kootnai, and
thence to Salmon river and the Boise Ba-
sin; here, meeting another and later human
current flowing nOrthward across John Day s
river, Auburn and Owyhce. California was
the mother of nearly all these migrations,
whether from the north or south; and they
were moved by the same adventurous i'm
pulses as those which during the same period
were peopling tue State of Nevada from the
I sane source with one of the most enerpetic
enterprising people on the continent. As the
old Normans in every portion of conquered
Europe ever turned with respect and affection
to the little corner which gave them birth on
the shores of the North Sea, these old pio-
neers of every mining district from British
| Columbia to Mexico, in whatever State or
Territory they have made their transitory
homes, look back upon California as the
mother of them all.