Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-04-26


every evidence Of having been worked
on large scale for long period OF
time, hse been discovered la the foot.
hills OF the Laramie range, about
twenty miles north OF Harvillc. Itis
tiiuatcd atuut forty miles east Of
Laramie peak aud about tnl miles
from the old California trail, On the
north silc Of tho Platte river.
AZ described " party Of prospect
ore JuSl Returned ffUm the locality, the
typography Of Tie ground Is peculiar.
The whole region 10 broken into sefiea
Of rugged hills, in'cTspoTsnl with cnn-
yona anu rocky pulchus, except where
the ancient workings wero discovered,
where the hill trGnIg 10 the south IN ma
immunse area OF Hat table land. on
the oigo Of this mesa, NJ II rises from a
nfccipitous gorge, nru found tho shafta,
tunnels anu upon cut Workings i0f thr
mines. At the heal Of tho gulch, neat
the opening, n spring VI wafer gushes
out.
ca the mesa, covering n wide area,
may be seen the remains Of large In
dian villrgc. Hundreds OF topUo beds
are shown ny circles Of stones from
iiiteon TO twenty feet IN diameter. Al
around these tepee beds, scattered In
profusiun on the ground, are the hrok.
en- Hanks Of arrow heals, lance heads
and stone axes, with tue chips anu
clippings, showing that here vefii-
able arrow head Industry was pursued.
All these implements were produced
from the same kind Of rookie a. that
taken from the mine. The cap rock IL
Limestone aud the lower formation
sandstone. Between these two u u
vein Of asate several feet la Thick
nefs, OF various shades aud co!ou, but
mostly Of milky white variety. On
this scam of agate or chnlcedouy the
excavations were made. Practical
miners estimate that tho amount Of
work done would take my men SOW
efnl years 10 accomplish by modern
methods. On the presumption that
this was an old Mexican mine, the
different kinds OF rock were tested for
mineral, but none being found the myf-
tory was solved by the indispulablu
evidences OF Indian occupation. Ton
miles away In Whalen canyon Ia the
scene OF Indian bAtiles ami hundreds
Of grave mounds are now visible as
the result of their tribal conflicts.
The aifuclurV OF the rock Is another
evidence Of It's use, It's fracture being
c0nohOidal breaking In curves and
making sharp edge. The Indians
mined II In u peculiar way, building
fires on the rock aud hoating II, then
throwing cold water upon 1t, which
produced the broakage Into the pieces
adapted to their uses.
A REsERvom SYSTEM.
Greeley, Colorado, Sun: About
twenty-five miles northeast Of Greeley,
on Grow creek, Ia now bsing built by
ID. A. Camiieli, onb OF the largest syf.
TENS Of reservoirs IN the West. Work
on the system began last October, and
Will be- completed by May lst, 1894,
when II II confidently expected that
upwards Of 20, 900 acres OF land will DO
put under water. The syAtom consists
oi three huge reservoirs, one Of which
has Just boon completed and has u
capacity OF l53,0O0,O00 cubic feot Of
water, or TO put II In another form,
covers 1900 acres one foot deep. IL 10
built straight across the creek and has
u natural outlet over ledge Of rock.
Its cost was $40, 900.
The second reservoir, ON which the
contract Is now let and on which
isyonly.four men and teams are work.
Ing, Is nine miles below the first, In
the hills. The two are connected by O
ditch supplied by Crow and Coal
croekg. The eostof tho second ditch
Will be- Sll 200 and It's capacity 90.
900, 900 cubic icet OF wAtor.
The third reservoir Ia tho largest one,
being natural lake and having
natural cut thirty feet deep from an
outlet, emptying into either Of the
reservoirs. lt viii be filled from n
supply ditch, forty feet wide on
bottom anu five miles long, by means
Of a 10000 gallon hot air Swan pump
which will be set In coal mine near
by. The pump Will DO supplied by an
underground How VI Cow creek. and
will be obtained by a ditch half u mile
or more long, twenty feet deep and
twenty feet wide ON the bottom. The
cost OF this reservoir, which will bs
owned by William Deury OF Mosa
county, Illinois, and by ID, A. Cam
field will $500, 900, and will DO finished
May lat, 1894.
NOTES.
IL. j. Faust intends going to Deep
Creek about the lst OF May, 10 do.
yelop some Of his mines there.
The COMMITTEES Of four hundred on
Subscriptions for the Salt Lake 4
Pacific railway meets this evening at
1880 o'clock, at the Chamber VI Conn
merce building.
Tho j. G. mine nj DugwAy Ia one In
which David Iundeen In Interested.
He states that the operators have un.
covered "a aix-ioot ledge, with about
foot OF ore. The shaft Ia In ten feet
deep, and at that depth the ore shows
a per cent lead, o ounces silver and
about 30 per ton gold.
A new feature In tho making Of
platinum vessels for concentrating
acids Is that Of coating the metal with
gold. The coating Of platinum sheets In
this way Is accomplished by simply
heating them 10 temperature higher
than that OF the melting point OF gold,
aud then running the molten gold over
them. Then the double sheet Of tho
two metals can be rolled, and is soady
for making the vessels required for
chemical laboratories and other puT.
poses. This improved method Of coat.
ing 10 found to add materially 10 the
life OF the vessel.
Mr.. w. V. Jackson, late secretary TO
the National Union OF Paper Mil
Workers, OF England, contributes q
letter to the MdHohester Courier, In
which he says; at We take the great
staple industries Of cotton, wool, silk
and iron, We Will find that we have
entirely lost our former position, that
we have heen Of late years struggling
desperately to retain II, anu that We
are being beaten by tho proteouonist
countries. That Is the truth, painful