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Show STEWART RICH AGAIN OWES LAST CHANQE OP FORTUNE FOR-TUNE TO SENATOR JONBB. Onld on tho rolomae -Narad Baaotors Hop Id ria How IIimiii Within fifteen Mllro at Wa.hlar.tao llli Third Rlao o Wonllh. Senator Jones of Nevada la reported to have been quietly at work for the last year or two perfecting a process (or extracting gold In paring quantities from the gold-bearing rock In the territory ter-ritory of Maryland and Virginia, around about the Great Falle of the Potomac, twelre or fifteen miles north of Washington. He haa employed expert ex-pert metallurglsta, and It Is said that they have applied some of the latest sclentltlo discoveries to the problem liven them with signal success. Senator Sen-ator Jones haa acquired a large Interest Inter-est In mining property near Oreat Falls. There are great deposits of auriferous aurifer-ous rock on both sides of the Potomac north of Washington, and at various time large capital has become Interested Inter-ested In mining experiments In the vicinity. vi-cinity. Only a few yrara ago Mr. At-lerton, At-lerton, Mr. fleam and Mr. Hale of Chicago Invested something like 1100,- BENATOR BTEWAIIT. COO In a mining enterprise near Great Falls. They bad on exhibition a bar of gold worth 111,000, which represented represent-ed the work of several months. They were obliged to confess, however, that Jt cost more than a dollar to get a dollar's dol-lar's worth of gold out of the rock, nd they abandoned the proposition na a failure. Their experience Is similar to that of etery capitalist who has attempted at-tempted mining operations on u lsrge scale In the a rest Falls district, and, for that matter, at any of the mining districts along the Appalachian range, clear down through Vlrglula, North Carolina and Oeorgla. It Senator Jonea can mine gold at a profit from the rock deposlte In the . ,, a . "" Great Falls district, hla process can ' . be applied with equal advantage to the district south, and If the reports provo to be true that bo has succeeded, as In-, In-, dlcated, a mining rovlval may be ex pected In the states named. Senator Jonea haa been remarkably successful In bis mining ventures In recent years. He Is understood to havo a large Interest In the famous Tread-well Tread-well mine In Alaska. He also baa large mining Interests In California, Arlsona and Nevada, which are turning out handsomely. The friendship of nearly forty eara which has existed between Senator Jones and Senator Steward, the two Nevada senators, cootlnuea unbroken, and It Is common belief that Senator Jones has been largely Instrumental Instru-mental In rehabilitating the fortunea of hla colleague, which were somewhat shattered by reverses some Ave or six years ago. Senator Stewart Is said to be once more In exceedingly prosperous circumstances, cir-cumstances, and for tbe third or fourth time In bla life he Is worth over II,-004,008. II,-004,008. He was at one time rated at i$(,l00,000, but this was probably an lovsrestlmats. Senators Jones and Stewart have been for many years on 'Intimate terms with Jamea R. Keene, 'one of tho kings of Wall street, and .have been In with htm on many profit-rH profit-rH , 'able deals. Mr. Keene became ac quainted with these men during the mining excitements and speculations lattsnssnt upon tbe Ilonansa development. develop-ment. Senator Jones and Mr. Keene Ibave been close as brothers ever since. |