The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-24
UP AMONG THE CRAGS
Of the West Mountains of
Sanpete.
ESSAY CAIGH AFTER WEALTH,
Which He is Certain AbOunds Where
He Is-Sheep and WOol-Gen-
eral Mention.
ESSAY CAIGH AFTER WEALTH,
Special Correspondence of THE HERALD.

Special Correspondence of THE HERALD
Straddling the line which separates
Sanpete from Juab Counties is nice
thing to do, but getting into position
to do it is another matter. However, 1t
is healthful pastime, this straddling
county boundaries, and is respectfully
recommended to those who have been
doing the same thing with reference to
the fence for along time. The thought
that person can leave Salt Lake in the
morning, and find himself, if active
enough, at or very near the summit of
the west mountains in the evening, is
an inspiring one to those who read
about it, and there is not little of that
quality in realizing it after the.climb
has been made. Sitting on a rock amid
the very refinement of solitude, with a
ceaseless breeze chanting miserere in
in the evergreen foliage of the cedars,
would be fatal to consumption" in the
case of everybody but one accustomed
to nail-kegs for seats and dry goods
boxes for tables.
The object of all this wear and tear
of clothing and persistence in going up
higher is to ascertain what there is here
that can be conveyed below with profit
to the conveyer. This particular part
of the range contains a great deal
which it is quite willing to keep. and
will not part from without struggle.
CLAIMS ARE LOCATED
IN every direction, up and down. None
is paying anything SO far. because the
development attained has not led to
that uniformity and regularity of ore
deposits which make shipments profit
able. There is any amount of mineral
scattered around variousiY; indeed, this
latter is the chief trouble; it is much
too much scattered. There is scarcely
foot of ground in all this region
where you take out spadeful that does
not present to the naked eye, undoubted
evidence of being the home of one or
another of the metals. And all are not
low grade, either; now and then a piece
is found that runs way up among the
hundreds; and indications are that
some of the work going on is leading to
ore bodies in which more or less steadi-
ness in value will be reached. To work
through adamant so unyielding that
noEe but tie most determined would
follow it very far, and keep it up when
the rock is worth from nothing to few
dollars, until the hardest and most per-
sistent are discouraged, then, when
hope is about extinct, to get piece that
rekindles the flame, and sends
RENEWED HOPE AND DETERMINATION
throughout the system like an electric
wave, is about the regular experience of
the miners in this neighborhood. Thus
they keep pegging away, and every body
is willing to say, when he sees what is
being done and how it is done, that
somewhere along the path of such
laborious perseverance.
There are, perhaps, fifty men actively
at work here and in the vicinity.
Several others come occasionally. like
the subscriber. Each comes away with
a pocket full of rocks" However. this
need not have been quoted, as 1 meant
it literally. Forty or fifty feet in depth
is the greatest development yet reache d
here, and in nearly every instance,
there is gradual average improvement
in the vein matter. The greatest
trouble is that the majority of the
workers are not wealthy, and mining
cannot be prosecuted without more or
less outlay from the start to the finish.
Others become Disguised because the
naked ingots are not found in at least
a weeks work, and these generally
abandoned the unequal struggle at IN
essIy stage of il. IqqestiUn seriously
if more than one out of Eve will