Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-04-08
DAILY INDEPENDENT.
Nevada's Great Resources.

of the resources OF Nevada, it's needs
and capabilities. He has an able ar
ticle in the last issue of the Forum in
reply to an editorial in the Chicago
Tribune entitled "How to Deal With
Nevada" In tho course of his rely
MIR. Smythe speaks as follows concern
ing our resources:
Elko in the extreme northeastern
corner OF the State, yielded placer
gold to the earliest prospectors of the
Great Basin and has gold lodges of
promising extent and value which are
now being carefully explored. Hum
boldt, central on the northern bound
airy, presents as great variety of re-
sources as any district in the United
States. Besides silver, it possesses
gold. copper, lead, tin; iron, antlmony.
nickel, cobalt, bismuth, nitre, sui
pher, gypsum, borax, soda and salt
Coarse gold to the value Of several
millions has been taken from its
gravel and placer mines. Gypsum is
shipped to San Francisco for fertiiz-
er. Near Lovelock, in this county
are great bills of fine bessemer iron
ore, yielding ST per cent of iron and
12per cent of aluminium, with no
trace OF impurities. Eureka county.
in the central part OF the State, has
many mines i'll which gold pre- iomin-
ates, besides large deposits of mag
netic iron ore, of lead, of granite and
other building stones. Lander,
adjoining Eureka on The west, has
valuable undeveloped gold deposits,
and the richest mines of anthony in
the world. OF the western counties,
Washoe reports recently discoveries
Of gold, copper and iron; Douglas,
quartz and placer gold; Lyon, mines
which run high in gold, with but Lit.
tie silver; Churchill, gold, copper
and 9th r minerals; while Storey
county contains the Comstock. Es-
meralda, bordering California on the
extreme southwest, is very rich in
gold bearing quartz, and is being ac-
lively developed. Lincoln and Nye,
the two great counties Of the south,
have gold, copper, lead. anthony,
zinc, quicksilver, fire clay, chalk,
soapstone, borax, and alum. In Lin
coln there is deposit of zinc, esti-
mated to he worth several millions,
which cannot be worked owing to a
lack of transportation facilities. There
are hills Of salt, the product of which
commands but 81 per ton, owing to
it's inaccessibility, though other To-
caities in the State pay $40 to $40 per
ton for similar product. White
Pine county, along the eastern bound
airy has extensive gold placers. FL
nally there is large deposit in EIllo
county of something which is said
never to have been discovered else
where, viz, mineral soap, superior in
cleansing virtues to any Of the manu-
featured varieties known to the stu
dent of modern advertising.
AS the county was principally &C.
cupied by Piute Indians the deposit
remaining undisturbed for nameless
centuries; but it was exhibited at the
Worlds Fair where, it is feared, it
added nothing to Nevada's fame. The
thing was so palpably and unmistaka.
bly, the perfection of the toilet article
that it overtaXed Eastern credulity,
and was quietly set down as a larger
piece Of mendacity than of soap.
II is further charged that Ne.
vada, "has no agricultural resources"
or all arrangements, this is the most
mistaken and unjust; yet it is the one
which will find reediest credence by
those who know the State onIv
through the experience Of a restless
days travel by the railroad across its
waste Of sagebrush, OF sunshine, and
of dust. The more need, then, for its
emphatic refutatiCn, for there are
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