The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14
BRIGHT, GLIf1ERING GOLD.
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from long and arduous trip through
the great Uintahs, he informed The
Herald correspondent that he would
at once go down and take look over
the field.
Well to Keep Cool.
At this juncture, it is well for all who
chase the golden stuff in its virgin
state, to keep perfectly cool. If there
are great gold fields thereabout now,
they will be there little later on when
the snow goes off and the cold is less
intense The snow line extends east
about 80 miles beyond that point, as
yet there being none at Green river.
But in the hills about Sunnyside there
is ample of the beautiful to retard all
prospecting, as well as to make great
hardship for those who would go in
without ample means. The Herald cor
respondent has no other choice than to
give such facts as could be adduced
through personal observation, ard
hopes there will be no mad rush, such
as has been too often in the depth of
winter upon news of new mining
find.
A little while viii suffice to unfold
what is there. 1t certainly looks en-
couraging to those not generally skilled
in mining affairs, while a number of
old mining men declare that "rich gold
lie! : have been found, and in a coun-
try where the mining world had de-
creed there couldn't be any gold"
Much has been said and written about
the Uintah mountains by persons who
visited the range the past season, most
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Man mine" during the excitement
last summer. The swindling ma
ture of that boom, the recoil,
collapse and dashing ITO pieces of
bright hopes for the country, we'll nigh
annihjlated pubic interest in the Uintah
country. The reports so far made have
been by men who spent but a few days
or weeks in one or two localities and,
meeting with disappointment, would
most naturally obey their inclinations
to condemn everything and everybody
in connection with the country. An
other good reason why the public should
feel that they have something like fair
information about the Uintah noun
tains, is its limited area and its close
proximity to Salt Lake and Denver the
great twin cities Of the great mining
region of the world.
1t has been the object of The Herald
to give the public the most reliable
and accurate information obtainable in
regard to the Uncompahgre and Uintah
reservations. The mineral resources of
the former in asphaltum, elaterite,
ozookerites and those valuable minerals
of the sedimentary formation of the
lower lands, the agricultural and graz
ing values of both, and the precious
metals of the Uintah mountains The
reason why the public is not well in
formed as to the minerals, or even the
topography and geography of the
Uintahs, is set forth in an interview
with Mr.. Cass Hite, the we'll known
prospector who had just arrived in
Price, after a seasons most diligent
work exploring and prospecting the
Uintah range
He said he was not ready just yet to
make public the details of his explora.
tons or discoveries, nor impart to a
generous public, to whom he was deep
ly indebted. all the information he
possesses. The following is the inter.
esting interview accorded, in part:
Cass Hite's Opinion.
! My campaign the past season in the
Uintahs covered about eight months
from May to December l left Sail
Lake in the spring, with a splendid out
fit to prospect the Uintah mountains
for precious metals, and to determine
the truth or falsity of Enoch Davis
story of gold galore, with which the
public is so well acquainted with. Davis
supplied me with map and urged me
to go to west tributary of the White
Rocks river at timber line, where
could feast my eyes upon the wealth OF
King Solomon's Ophir, and help myself
always provided the gentle Ute did no.
too strongly admire my beautiful hair
With considerable faith in his story
Notwithstanding his unpleasant sur
roundings, and accompanied by Dr. E
D. Woodruffs, DR.. D. A. Sykes, Uncle
Tom Morgan and my nephew, Homer
Hite, we commenced the ascent of the
Uintahs up the Dry Fork of Ashley
early in May. The snow banks were
yet deep and it was a cold, wet time
with much exposure and hardships tina
we encountered until the middle O
June, when Sykes and Woodruff wen
into Salt Lake. Upon the 3rd of July
Uncle Tom and Homer left for othe
clfmes, and 1 abandoned my belief IL
Davis knowledge of the whereabout
of the Rhodes-Indian gold mine
have had sufficient evidence of the fac
that Davis had very rich piece of golt
ore, which he obtained from an In
dian, but that is all he ever knew. Hi
knowledge of the mountain range wa
confined to the east end OF the rang
around Marsh's Peak, the Dry Fork o
Ashley, and the east tributaries OF tn
White Rocks, and he did not know tn
locality of the lode, but guessed at ii
or possibly gave me the wrong direc
ton as he had obtained it from al
Indian. Be that as it may, persistent
ly explored and prospected the region
he directed me to, and never feastet
my eyes upon anything better thai
quartzite and quartz, and as far as
was able to determine, they were bot
non-mineral bearing. The UintaI
range is capped over with a volcani
sand stone and quartzite blended ex
tensively with massive quartz tn
lime, slate and shale. There are n
trappean rocks, and all that portion O
the range from March's peak on tn
east to the head of the Uintah rive
on the west, a distance of forty miles
was capped and bound SO hard that
true assure did not appear and n
mineral deposits were visible. Now
while [ do not condemn that portion o
the range, will say that found abso
lutely no encourag cement. I did no
prospect the inviting formation of lime
porphyry or slate in the Ashley country
but give it as my opinion that goo
mines will be found there. 1t is in thi
formation and to the east of Marsh
peak that the great Dyer copper min
is situated. The Dead Man mine
misfortune injured the Ashley country
but 1 am satisfied that legitimate pros
pecting will bring that beautiful an
favored country to the front neXt sea
son.
I'm prospecting a new country,
never slight an Indian or "shee
herder story" but in connection wit
my business of prospecting, unless it i
entirely too thin, go and investi