Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-02-25
NEPHrS LATEST.
An Indian Grate Uncovered Near
the Town.

The capital Of Juab County makes
quite stir in business circles, and
the energy Of Its citizens is felt
among its neighbors. 1t has roller
mills. gypsum works, salt works,
marble quarries, mihes, an electric
light company, a well conducted
newspaper, and a hundred other
features within It's reach 70 give it
influence. In some Of these 1t has
an advantageous other cities in the
Territory in being the exclusive
possessor, but in order to vary the
monotOny Of ''boom praises" a new
feature is introduced. 1t is given
IN the Nephi Ensign az follows.
For some time past Mr.. Cleou
jackson OF this city has been pros
pecting in the hills northeast Of
town. Last Monday, while pros
pecting in Quakingasp Canyon,
about three miles from Nephi, he
came upon some gold bearing
quartz, and commenced an investi-
CATION. He renewed n few pieces Of
the rock from the foot Of the ledge
and found them 10 be, as he says,
"pretty good" He commenced
then TO investigate further, when he
found there was hole large enough
fof 4 man 10 work in, in fact every
semblance Of a mine having been
worked there Looking into this
hole he found a brass kettle that had
been used at some time, is
being blackened with SCOT.
He removed the kettle, when
he came upon an Ak. This also he
removed. Proceeding further, he
found a buffalo robe, all sewn up.
Anxious TO find out what was in it,
he ripped il open, when to his sur
prise he found the skeleton of what
proved TO be an Indian. The robe
was much decayed, and showed
evidences Of having been lying at
this place for twenty or thirty years.
Among the bones were a number OF
beads, buckskin sacks, one Of which
contained the pipe Of the old war
riOr, whitfield out Of clay.
After he got through with this
portion Of his discovery, he returned
to the hole, which now proved TO be
n grave, and resumed his explOra-
lions.
The next thing he got hold Of vas
n couple Of old Indian saddles,
which had undoubtedly been the
property Of the chief and had been
deposited with his remains. He
then hauled out another old bucket
and another buffalo robe. He knew
directly he got hold Of this last arti-
Gle that it was another skeleton, and
so it proved TO be. He noticed that
there was a difference between both
remains, and concludes that one Of
the bodies must have been the
squaw Of the redskin. As he found
six brass bracelets ON each Of this
last skeleton, he is Of opinion that it
must have been a chief. Other por-
tons were also decorated and Orna-
IutDleus auu tue huthshlu hOIu
during his life was still there. An
empty powder horn was also in this
robe, us also chunk Of red paint.
Attached to one of the buckskin
leggings Of the chief was n very
small sleigh bell.
Another AK Sas found under this
last bundle, but the handle had been
broken of.
Going down little further MIR.
jackson came across the remains Of
a horse. In fact. it seemed to him
that the whole earthly possessions Of
an Indian warrior had been laid TO
rest here.
Mr. jackson has herded stock all
around the place where he made
this discovery for the last ten years,
and he knows OF no Indian having
been buried there, so the burial
must have occurred in the early
days of Utah. Certain il is that il
was a very strange and weird dis
cCvery, and was not the kind Of ma
terial Mr.. Jackson was hunting for.
He intends 10 make further Invest
cations.