Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-28
BUSINESS And MINES
rESr DE,iNoYLn NueGEsiIoSs.
4 Living from Half az Acre. The
Luler Miurs, Mise llaurous
Mattrs.

"Dcur III; VIII you kindly morn
| the salt Lakc Chamber NJ Commytco
| what grower In y our rvIrhb rhaJi bns
hud the hrses. iuit, luiu, potato ot
beet Yield, rur acre, curing ,hc sanson
Jus; rlosrug"
Two replies have teen receive one
from the postmastor ut American Fork
being as iollows;
Name Of crop raised: Sugar bruis.
NumuVr ui acre.; Two.
Average yield yer ucui Twenty
tons.
Amount received fir SAINT: s-JO.
Name VI ErOwui: Jghn Wu1uOu.
The postmaster OF Kaysvil,r, Davis
county, reports on iu.lu~t;
Name Of crop uissi: Club harley.
Number ui acies: twenty.
Average yicll pur acre: sixty i've
bushels.
AmD.ut received firsam,: Not sold.
Value pbtimatUd at 500.
Name u gt0wcg JUnn Il Barnes,
The Chamber NJ Commerce 10 about
10 issurA circular letter tu the iarmcfs
ANA huttlculturrti 4 Utah asking Tor
tuggtEtiona A. Co the hest ma thgua in
. I fNHfAN - H&NANAN NNNNAAAA" W ~ HN
struction OF pests such ~ grlsshOpIefs,
worm, etc. q
q. o. johnson, who resides on Oss
street, tcporls 10 the Chamber Of Com.
mufuu that he has half acre OF land
on tue Ninvtoouth ward bench GA
/ which hc IL ablc to make good living.
lie has u planted in peach, apple,
plum, strawberry aud other lruitr, TO
Tie cultivation VI which he gives care.
ful attention, with gratifying results.
THE GOLFER MINIS.
In the IIgr,ss of Saturday there wac
~ account 81 tue development Of gold
IN the GJler regions, fOrty miles north.
est Of M0jAye, Cal. Il. T. Foster,
another proprietor, also uuquulltirdly
declared that this region was rich In
gold. hO states that prospectOn arc
Hooking there, ami added; "fhc place
h very easy Of accois and by this time
q stage will be running from MoJnvr 10
the various settle ments that are inHt he.
ing established To Nugget, Last Chance
anu other canyons Of the locality. Be.
sides the immense nugget on exhibition
In the chow window u Montgomery
Brothers, ON Spring street, | was IN.
formed last saturday that "A nugget 0i
rough gold worth : 100 had been picked
up, anu II now Ia this city. The gold
II Of the coarse variety, anu is gotten
hy dry washing. rhis II "a species Of
passing the digg!ngs through a mum.
Der Of sioy8s operated by crank aud
pTecipitatlng tho residue on n final
sieve with upright bars bent al an
angie, 70 which the gold clings Con.
nocted with the apparatus II u below,
which blOwH OF thu hue dust anu
sediment. | would advise ptOspectofs
10 provide Themselves with Iicke,
shOvels aud ono VI these dry washefs.
Although there ~ wa.cf at there
regions iu abundance flr the physical
noeus OF tue minots, there h not sum.
cicnt 10 wash the gold with. 10 my
mind there IL no Necessity OF water, AS
the dry washing Accompanies tue
purposes aud very little gJlL escapes
In the process. Although provisions
can be had at Moi ave IL would be we'll
TO secure lhom AT los Augclrs.
"lho GOlor miuvs get Their name
from a man named Gller who started
out prospecting with "A party from SAT-
Lake City forty years ago. Al VI the
party pcIishtd tut Gblur nud he mau.
aged to come 20 Los Angeles more
dead than alive huu nearly iamishui.
lie picked up several nugge b ami
brought them to this city. lie stated
ihat he could have loaded twU.h0fse
with nuggets had lac mai 10 nj hi die.
pJsRl. IL Is tupposoi that G1lsr picket
az tue nuggets 10 the locality that now
bears his name.
81 ITO not wish 20 eXHggcratc the
prospects Oi THIS section, because | ut.
liovc 1t hurts even "A good mining
region % cXaggoratb It's claims, but |
do bel eve that II IL rich Ia gold. ia
Nugget Gulch the huds have hren
many and the indications atu that
there n mufe yet 10 Ice dis.
covered. There Is quartz, Iorphyfy
anl slate In this lo,ality, sItn ruu sand.
Stone ami Other uiaeTa,s chaTAo .efis.
tic OF regions ia which gult 4. found.
Tue lncaiity has an altitude OF about
5000 feet. lt is my opinion that the
nuggets described by HOluT have buon
coveted up by water opJuts aud
fushuis from the Mountains and that
by a littu digging thpy can he found.
wncn / len the locality last Thursday
there ", re- bI. huy per.ons there, blt
on my way I passed hundreds VI pe..
sons on burr0s Rui Ia all sorts Of cor
| yeyauces making for tho spot anu
should not bs surprised TO had over
| .Uuu people there at the ond of the
week, Most OF the prOepeitOrs stake
out claims twenty acres, the nui Ii
allowed by tue government. Nupret
Guloh i- situated fifteen miles eistof
Rcd Gu'ch canyon, where gold Inns
been prnspuuted Tor several years. fl IL
supposcl that guli exists ali along lilo
line o. the Nuggo. Gulch, way VIZ
iuto Doth Val y. 1 shall stsit Tor
the locality this morning and int M
not ul ~ DO Wu,k lur miurs bus % n
outa tOwusiIo L,af Nugget Gu ch p
NOTES.
Laramie Bo0mVanU Tho Utah 4
Wyoming railroad L. pushing the sur.
vey ofn route through Wyoming Ia
OFdun, UtRr. Two corps Of surveyors
arc now at work ia Uintah county.
| one near willow creek gap anu tIs
olhur between Fossil and Nugget.
| Ihtse uTu tho SAME outfits which
| worked from Casper west, up the Plate
river across TO South Pas, down tho
swcrtWuttr TO SANDY creek, across
sandy 20 Slate creek and thence 10 In,
points indicatgd,ut which they are now
10 work.
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