Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1897-10-17
senator STEW RRT.
NEVADA'S CHAMPION OF
SILVER ARRIVES.
Read What He Has to Say About
Nevada, Her Resources aud
the silver Cause.

heRu what He Has to Sny About
Nevada. Her Resources aud
the silver Cause.
Senator Stewart arrived from Wells
today. lie is in good health and looks
rs il he were good for many moro
years Of hard service in the cause OF
silver. He shows no signs Of fatigue.
physically or mentally.
An INDEPENDENT reporter met him
on the street this afternoon and asked
HIM for an interview to which
ho readily assented. lIc ac-
companied the reporter to the Office
nnd dictated the following on his trip
through Lincoln and White Pine
counties and OH the outlook for the
restoration Of silver to its former po.
sition M money metal:
Il have travelled for the last three
weeks in Southern Nevada, princi.
pally in Lincoln and White Pine.
The DcLamar mine is tho best gold
mine | over saw. Tho fact that it is
IA G"artZi.e zone, interseCtcd at fire.
quent intervals by porphyry dikes
Hnd the quartzite itself il trans
formed into orc by infusion from be-
low comIng up with the dikes, is
revelation To experts and has stimu-
lated prospecting i'll Lincoln nnd
White Pine i'll quartZite formations
where no one supposed ore existed.
Similar formations to DcLamar arc
frequently met with i'll different
parts Of the State and they will now
be prospected. Tho process Of work.
ing by tho use Of cyanide ut De-
Lamar is almost ns cheap IA tho
working OF free milling gold ore.
Less than 300 men all told, inside and
outside of the mine, including Oilic-
crs md clerks, take out and reduce
to bullion over 300 tons Of ore daily.
At Ely, in White Pine, they have a
very complete mill of about 80 tons
capacity nearly completed to work
the ore OF the mineral belt OF that
district by tho cyanide process. Tho
mineral belt mt Ely consists OF lime
qunrtzItc and other rocks.
Rich ore has been found in largo
quantities and mined with moro or
lcss success III number OF mines
has been done To make it
reasonably certain TINT n very large
output OF gold and silver, chiefly
gold, will be obtained in the near fu-
turc. Tho mining Mt Cherry Creek
Ii rcviving and, although | did not
visit tho mines thore, the people have
the greatest confidence Of SUCCESS
and tho business OF the town il rapid.
ly improving.
Tho agricultural resources OF
Lincoln aud White Pine counties
Rro more extensive than is generally
They hnvc Ocon depressed
u lutu by Tho want Of tho homo mar
kot which tho mincs when worked
afford.
81 visited largo number Of ranches
and found they all produced in nbun.
dance when thoy had wator and also
that tho water supply
nttainablo wap not utilized. IL tho
methods employed IN Utah in tho
economic use OF water were applied
in Nevada, tho agricultural resources
NJ this State would DO very groat. l
visited ono model ranch at Cleveland.
A. g. Cleveland hns, taking IL oil IN
MI, tho bost farm | over saw. In
OF all kinds OF grnssos,
and no In cnltirnting n very grcat
variety, H. surpassca anything | eyor
snw. IL pro duocs in perfection nll
kinds Of fruits of thoromporato zones.
I}eeilos ho has given grent attention
60 breeding the bost stock OF cattle
md horses, and in this way ho
makes IL profitable whoro othors who
neglect To improve thcir herds mako
"Aftcr Ienving White Pine ] came
10 Elko through Glover Valley nnl
tho Wells. Clover ynllcy il not only
n molcl vnllcy but II has model
Of farmors who 1.-Two near
enough together TO constitute n
Tho fertility OF tho
Wiley and tho humorous mountain
streams by which II ia irrigated can
not bp surpassed.
"1f tho nin,s wcro "pcn to tho coir.
lRo Of silver every agricultural valley
in Nevada would DO occupied nnd i'm.
md Nevada would assumo n
loading position among tho States OF
,hc WesL without onlarging on tho