Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-06-22
The Freight and Railroad Problem.

view speaks as follows concerning
the freight and railroad problem in
Nevada:
@An the intermountain country
pays double freight and double toll
upon each article it buys from
abroad, aud ID laid under tribute I'M
justly to New York, or is plun'lered
unfairly for San Francisco" contin-
ued Judge Deane.
Nevada is an instance, Colorado
still suffers, Utah is strugg ing in the
web, Idaho held back. Washington SO
unjustly Disseminated against that
multitudes have left homes OF their
own building. in the land of their
choice. to whatever fate may bring.
compelled to 60 elsewhere to earn
food and clothing.
"In the contemplation Of our ma
tional legislators our efforts at con.
sheraton are repulsed as pretentious,
our attempts at participation in Iegis.
lation having regard for our inter-
ests are termed arrogan. assumption,
and we are scorned as rotten Dor
oughs in the wilderness, from which
it were better to take the authority
We WELD. Indeed a petty political
prig accidentally in Congress from
Massachusetts, who may not believe
in the Mississippi river, which he has
not seen, and who has no reason for
faith in the mountains he never has
beheld, has set his puny power to-
ward the restriction Of representa-
ton, is the author of si"y measures
such as a consideration of States, and
like rat gnawing upon an anvil
guages progress by wear upon the
teeth.
To-day Mr.. Duvall is making a
= careful estimate of the ore resources
of Eastern Nevada, together with ex-
perienced Colorado men. with the
view to putting in furnaces for re.
-duction. New York people, upon the
solicitation of Mr.. Mayilam, are in
vestigating in the same field, the
transportation problem, and tho adj
visibility Of the new line from Idaho
south to other connections than the
Central Pacific. Such line would
be of incalculable value to Denver
AMI all Of Colorado, giving us tho
products Of the northwest and afford.
ing a market for coal, oil, coke and
many of our supplies. while the line
would open to Denver merchants u
territory forcibly held by San Fran
CISCO, whose grasp cahnot be retained
for an hour when another way shall
have been opened.
at is worth the while Of this city
to investigate this natter, and. if the
facts'afe as stated, to encourage the
enterprise.
In case Of the building of this line
a score Of smart mining towns vii
spring up, for Nevada is rich in golc
doubly rich in copper, has inexhaust
IDLE lead, plenty Of iron, silver ant
common ores. and has soil good o.
Colorado's best, adapted to varie,
crops, stock ranges unexcelled ant
we'll nigh Gmitless, may be the gran
ary Ut this great West, and can waite
acres to supply the wants of millions
1t is without detractlon to Crippl
Creek, but rather in it's praise, wit
no hope OF rivalry, for Cripple Cree
IL beyond the stage where any aspir
ant can detract from it's fame, ca
impede it's progress or draw from tn
fund the public Is employing in dc
velopment, that we present the al
fractions Of Gold Creek. to which q
field for the prospector we believ
there is no better, and one whose SUI
roundings are enough Like those c
Cripple Creek to warrant comparison
Tho same graf natural convulsior
have fissured strata. in like form,
TORS, so they may contain the pre-
ious ores. Erosion has played Lii
pnrt in demonstrating mineral rich,