| Show Stewart Flays the Land Grabbers of Southern Nevada ni Wr M STEWART E of ot Nevada has hall cut cast bill bis lot In the tha louthern part of ot th Saga Sar Brush state and hll residence In III now DOW at Bullfrog He Ue li Irl law and has hilI already taken part rt In tn some Oll of or the thi big suits started since he curne from tho tha senate to make his hla home among the miner The fhe senator lor Is II making It warm for the n who appropriate the tha earth under numerous locations and andIn In nn Interview for tha tho New upon the to lo min mining InK ing In southern Juth rn Nevada said 1 There Thero Is II no doubt that southern IOU Ne Is l the tho greatest mining r lon In III Inthe the United State tell Tonopah haa creator showing and possibilities than the tha famous lode Inde Imd with the same N mount of ot work Individual prospectors II n seen el enough from time to 10 in arious purls of vast mineral nUlon lIlon to satisfy them Of ot Its gwit but tho th want ut of ot water and tho knowledge knol of If where water could ba want f nt of oC capital rma kept people out for About a 1 half a century Till This Will was not nil all that kept the country undeveloped The San Francisco was eon ly h declaring that there th was nothing In Nevada NenI but the Comstock lk The Th press of San circulated nil 1111 over the country until a lIlon wan II created that Nevada IlK a II rotten borough and should be bo out of lit the Iho The who to th great r re Blon Ilon NIva ll n t only hat had ith to If contend J with but 11 to obtain u Il hour hI I Ing In In III OilY any country where th Mill Hun lU pH Ill read r 80 strong III rOIl a athe all the It I if these thul few fw art r now In n th of miners and tho of ot tho great of nt the tho region r another baneful haa h to hinder Its It II development and Hint I tM habit of ot the few who do not dill dig In III th the earth but who on paper und speculate pt nn In the th country These hese people ll ople tako out and claim dalm from to many thousand In III every elery now district where mines are dis discovered covered Thy They have havo no t for the laws of tho United Stales or the lawn of ot Neada The United States Stat statutes declare that tho tM mineral mInerai land ot of th the United States shrill be free and open to exploration and purchase to all 1 of at the United States and a nd thole who have ha VI declared their Intention to become such but provides that no lo location location cation shall b bit made mad until a vein or lode Is III discovered within the limits of the tha claim located The makes the further requirement that within 90 00 days after such luth location a shaft hatt be mink to the tho depth of 10 feet or deeper i necessary to explore the lode lodo The Tha claim the theland land lond without discovery as al required by bythe bythe the United States Stated statute and with without wih out the work required by the state law lawIt la laI It I 1 I doubtful If an n American can en find tInd a n pleat piece of oC ground free fr from within 10 miles of ot any discovered mine The fhe boldly declare that If It any Rn American attempts to ex exercise 0 his hIl right to 10 mine granted to him by b the law 11 they will 11 shoot hot him down like n I dog Stranger without money loney do not like to be shut down Ilka a dog lor or at all 11 and are desirous of ot avoiding difficulty as 8 a matter of ot course Instead of going Baing upon mineral lands that 1 not been located according to law hut but have hae been grabbed by b the few Ce they wonder off of Into D ath Valley Vall and other Inhospitable place hoping to avoid lold the stakes of at the rapacious The X he only e tor wholesale robbery ot or the rights of American li II that it Is the custom to do It In southern Nevada Is I assuming too much Many yam Yaru ago and before fore Diet ea n law In II Mexico It was cus customary u tomary to rob every P ry passenger who ho wa Wil tool fool enough to ride In the stage iIa Many American quit lul tiding In th tt Mexican stage because they ther did not ap approve prove II rove of at the custom but that custom Wl um harmless compared with the th cus CUI custom tom of ot denting to 10 American the right to pro p ot for tor mines granted to them by hy Congress The gume IUle being played SIbl here her In southern Nevada N vu a IH 18 almost as a outrageous as 1 the power of at attorney attore system Item In Alaska Ten or twenty thousand American citizens w nt there to mine mile an tamo Gie back without mining mil In berau e ea a few tew enterprising monopolists had hod lo 10 located caled the whole country under of at attorney most moat of which were forged and all ul of ot h We a hold bold outrage Alaska 1 I not recover from the Ule Injury by the rs that l that In generation and may not lot In the next The remedy for all aU this in IR in il American merlan their wherever the laws of or tha United have not been complied compiled with L H |
