Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-06-02
MINING And REALTY.
PrOSpeCtOrs Return from The Henry
Mountains.
BAD PLACE THERE FOR MINERS.
Land Patents. - 10 Advertise Utah.
Notes Of Mining and Real
Estate.

house have returned from the Henry
Mountains, for which place they left
Balt Lake on the first OF January last,
on prospecting tour Mt. Hirsch
has been In The restaurant butlnesn In
Salt Lake, but for n number Of years
has given his attention TO mining
MI Hodonhouse IL an experienced
miner from Colorado. Their re-
cent trip has given them an
experience which enables them
to speak by the book on tho Henry
Mountains a. mining proposition,
and will carry more weight than the
"boom" literature Issued regarding
that district.
ave hal a pretty hard trip" said
Mr. Hiuoh todoy. 1--WE intended,
whom we left here, 10 20 to the San
Juan country ms well as 10 the Henrys,
hut we met good many coming back
rom the former place and concluded
not TO 40 there. We went to tho
Honrys by the Halls Crossing read,
and left our wagon at Bullfrog, On the
west side OF the north mountains In
tue Henry range. That was 30 miles
away from any prospects. We bad n
good prospecting outfit, 30 from the
loint where We left the team we pro-
coded with cur pack animals.
"There were no roads there, and
TIC county IL all broken up never
Jaw such rough place. Along
he lower part Of the mountains
there IL a good deal Of sandstone
that seems turned up ON edge and
pushed up through tue sandy soil.
Up lho mountains the formation IL
chlthy poTphyrltic granite, with
plod deal OF shalc. ! don't know
what use this country can be put 10
unless II should develop into a minetal
lIciiou.
eve were at Eagle City, though
40 didn't know II had such name.
! l cousisle OF three cabins. There was
talk VI a mail there from Green River,
tut the stage only came In once up 10
the time we left. The storg-keeper,
MicDougall, occasionally brings the
mail down from Hankaville,
twenty-eieh. miles distant. The
stage from Price has come
10, but there isn't much patronage, ms
nobody IA going Into the mountains
now. The mail to Hanksvillo comes
by way OF Salina.
"rhero have not been ms many peo-
plo In the Henrys as have been 70.
ported, but most OF those there were
experienced prospectots. The highest
number at any one time was possibly a |
little over hundred. Many OF the |
prospectors were from Colorado, who |
were drawn to the San Juan by the |
talk OF that place, aud came through |
70 blun City. Then they turned into |
the Henry Mountains.
GAS 10 finding anything In |
the Henry Mountains, there has
been nothing discovered up TO |
the present outside OF few |
prospects In the Bromide basin. There |
IN - streak here and there, but nothing |
worth working. In the Bromide basin |
AL the ground Ia taken up. The
bromide Ia fair looking prospect. Its
owners are trying 10 sell out, but had |
not done so when we left. TIE parties
VINO were talking OF buying had been |
gwen an extension Of time. There ar.
only about three men working ut the
luine. There is gold IN the guleh
there, on Crescent Creek. Wllson,s
plaosS are about eight miles below but
nobody knows where the gold that il
there came from. IL should be out
OF tho mountains somewhere. II IL
leaf gold and very light. We
worked there and panued out several
c0l0r., but found no pay dirt.
1--WE were In tho Henry mountains
four months, and went over
them pretty well. We dug down
IN several places, but did
not hnd anything worth having.
Others did the same. There has been
good deal OF prospecting outside OF
the Bromide basin, and by experienced
men, but all were satisfied that they
could not get anything. We did not
avg very deep, but went down enough
70 learn thnt I there are any lodges
they arc bilnd lodges. IL anything Is
lounu u VIII Do ny digging. There are
no groupings. The miners who went
ia thvte hte discouraged. Tue poor man
VINO goes IN prospecting IL out OF luck.
n mSn VINO goes In needs 10 have
enough with him 70 get out again.
rys, but on the road The nticss me-
g'a'ohaoie' There Is no work In there
lnr men, There are only fow In
'N'r;
We never saw man who made
any Wlhg' Ihe country ISL poor one
,v c'..le,anu many have starved there.
'"'es Is scarce III gelllng 10 aud from
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