The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-18
UYAH'S NBN ELDORADO.
Description of the Region so Rich
in Placer Gold.
HOW TO REACH SAN JUAN.
The Anchor Mine at Park City Dis
charges SeYenty-twO Men.
Mining Notes from the Park-The Dixie
Deal-How the Fish Springs Mines
organized-Local Stock Quota
tions-The Beaver Strike.

Would you like to go to the San Juan?
There are terrible stories told of this
country in southeastern Utah that would
raise the hair of tenderfoot and come
near curling the whlskers of an old pros
pector.
There are wierd wonders, such as the
abodes of the cliff jewellers and the mas
sacre OF a half dozen miners by the savage
and bloodthirsty Navajoes not more than
a year ago. The very name San Juan has
mysterious sound, and when it is linked
with the Colorado and the many strange
murders that haunt the memory Of this
grano canyoned stream, the very rush of
whose waters. wedged in by preciplces
whose perpendicular walls defy the eX-
ploratlon OF the most daring, this tabled
country has a terror that almost freezes
the Imagination even OF person smitten
with the gold fever.
But San Juan is not such terrible
place after all, and is much more acceSsi-
bic to the ambitious prospector than
many other new mining districts that are
reached with greater toll and have more
attendant dangers than stand in the path
that leads to the new Ell Dorado in south
eastern Utah.
John Morgan, the proprietor of the
Morgan hotel, knows every foot of the
ground, and as many Salt Lakers are de-
batting whether they shall join the army
OF gold-Seekers and there is a general
public interest in the recent rich discover
les OF gold in that region, a HERALD re-
porter gathered several points that will be
appreciated at this time.
NOW IS THE TIME TO PROSPECT.
The winter climate is delightful, and
while the miners are being driven from
the camps III the mountains about Salt
Lake, prospecting can be carried on to
better advantage in San Juan in the win
ter than IN the summer. In the summer
the sun is intolerabiy hot, while the tenn
perature in the winter season is so mild
that snow never lasts more than twenty
four hours.
The much dreaded Navajoes are not
such blood thirsty demons as they have
been pictured, and as long as the white
man keeps off their reservation he need
have no fear OF his hair. But he had bet
ter have his life insured who dares to
cross their boundaries, for the Navajoe |
knows his rights, and knowing, dare
The San Juan country is on the banks
of the San Juan river and embraces a
part of the four corners of Utah, |
Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, these |
point. The Navajoe reservation takes in |
the northwestern corner of Arizona, so |
that the country open for the prospector
lies in southwestern Colorado and south
eastern Utah.
HOW TO GET THERE.
If you want to go to San Juan and
reach the mining country in southeastern
Utah that is now so much talked about
take the Rio Grande Western to Grand
Junction, 291 miles from Salt Lake city.
Here you change cars and ride ninety
miles on the Denver & Rio Grande
narrow guage to Montrose, at which
point you take the Rio Grande Southern
which bears to the west, passing through I
Telluride, and Rico. By getting off at
Mancos you are in the Colorado corner OF
-he San Juan country. From MancoS
.he prospector can easily work his way
westward into the Utah corner, there be-
ng q white settlement of twenty-five
antilles at Bluff, of which Mr.. Morgan
vas the founder.
If you desire to save railroad fares you
an leave the Rio Grande Western at
rhompson's Springs, 213 miles from this
'ity, and make the journey by wagon,
here being good wagon road. except !
where it crosses the DoloruS mountains.
Crossing the Colorado and passing the
Blue mountains on the eastern slope you
viii strike the San Juan river a little east ;
# the Utah line, after covering some 125
niles.
Burnham, eighty miles from Bluff, on
he edge of New Mexico, is another Nor
non settlement of about forty families.
Mr.. Morgan says the San Juan is big ]
stream, close to the size of the Green .
liver, and that the country thorough
which it flows is level and easily travelled {
Until it approaches the Colorado. The
ountry about Telluride and Rico is quite
ough and mountainous, but this is over
ONE by the Southern railway in going to
Gancos. He does not believe that the
placer discoveries are as big as repre-
ented but be has known for years that
here were rich lodges of ore in the Blue {
nd other mountains that some day would
make great mining camps. The climate
s semi tropical, and peaches and water
Melons are Indigenous to the soil and
Innate. {
Mr.. Morgan established most of the ,
White settlements in the San Juan coun-
~, and is entirely familiar with the lay
i the land, as he makes a trip to that re- :
ion every year and finds rest and recrea-
ion in fishing, hunting and bagging an
OCCASIONAL deer.