The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-01-15
STOP THE RUSH TO. SAN JUAN.


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DANDY CnossINc. Utah. Jan. IL. via Green
River. Utah. Jan. 1--we send o courier
special to Green River. 100 miles away.
that Inv SUN may be able to put
a stop to the crazy rush to San Juan.
We met dozens OF parties going IN as
we came out and endeavored to turn them
back. but they would not stop. Unless some
thing lie dono to shut of the painstaking and
sweeping liars who are sending dispatches
to tho newspapers from Bluff City. the San
Juan Valley will DO filled with n crowd Of suf-
fering humanity.
The machinery said to have been shipped
to the san Juan field by tho Arizona and Utah
| companies consists OF a wooden pump. a
niece OF hose. and u copper mill TIL whole
thing Is u gigantic fake. ana tho people who
have been dupod are doing all they can to help
THE Sun party to get the fncts to the public.
The story OF q railroad being built from Blum
| City is absurd. There Is Just one ranch be-
tween that town and tho so-called placer felds-
100 miles away. The story OF n lght over IL
find on the river Is all bosh. There has not
/, leen at any timo more than 100 men on the
San Juan River.
Since this great fake show opened. n great
many of the disappointed prosrectors are
coming to the Colorado River. whore there
really is an excuse for prospecting.
The Henry Mountains just west OF hero have
some promising prospects. and AS all this Sec
ton will be thoroughly prosnec.ed this winter.
som good strikes may be looked for.
The San Juan River from Bluff City for a
hundred miles down is simply " groove in the
solid sandstone with bare perpendicular walls.
There are. perhaps. twenty-five miles of open
river, and then comes another box which ex-
tends to tho mouth.
The weather here is like Indian summer In
New England. which is fortunate for the walk
Ing prospectors. We leave tomorrow with
boats. and will go down the Colorado fifty
miles. going out by way OF the Henry
Mountains to Green River. and whatever there
is in this section to encourage tho prospoctor
will be given to the puplic as early as possible.
Meanwhile nothing should be loft undone
to stop the wild rush to the San Juan.
OK THE SAN U 4 RIVER. VIA DOLORES. Col.
Jun. 14.-An experienced placer miner from
Colorado has prospected the river for q week.
and says the richest bar no found would run
fifty cents to tho yard.
There are prospectors here who have walked
in two or three hundred miles. and If the
| Navajos don't get them they must walk out
again. The men are almost desperate. and if
they could find the man who started the boom
he would not last long.
Some OF the prospectors say that the excite
m ept was started by the ~Utah-Arizona Min
ing Company, but there is nothing to warrant
the charge. as they arc making no attempt to
sell any Of their claims.
Another man accused is a prospector called
"Frenchy." and still another Of the name OF
Williams. who has had a trading post on the
reservation and who moved in on tho opened
strip with II herd Of cattlo several weeks ago.
1t is. perhaps. rs vol for SOM Of the pros
pectors that there is no gold on tho San Juan.
as the Nnvajos are very suilen on account OF
the opening Of IL strip Of territory on tho river
which the Indians had always claimed SO as
to got their stock down to water.
The Indians say that II this land is taken
away from them their sheen and cattle will die
and that tho Government will have 10 pay for
them.
Three bucks came over with q snuaw at
dusk yesterd y. but Mt tho sight OF tho kodak
they dashed away and swan back to their OWE
side.
belief exists among tho Indians here that
II the white miners are allowed to enter the
reservation. tho Navnjos will be enslnved again.
as they say their G~randmothers wero on the
Colorado by the Spaniards.