The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-11


of business the Ogden firm should
make a handsome sum out of their
operations at Four Mile. 1t is one OF
the heaviest like projects that mas
ever been launched in the west, anu
as soon as the new canal is ready lof
operation it is anticipated that the
yield of gold from the fields Will De
simply enormous. The Cheyenne pu-
reau of the Rocky Mountain News mas
the following interesting statement as
to the new district:
The Four Mile gold placers are about
seventy-f1ve miles south of RaWEns
on Snake river in Carbon county, Wyo-
ming, and Rout county, Colorado.
The placer belt is about 40x30 miles,
the gravel being from two to twenty
feet thfck-the average being nine
feet
This gravel is the formation of me-
sas, or uplands, of the Snake river.
the bed rock being from ten to one
hundred and fifty feet above the river
level.
The gravel deposit itself is loose in
its formation and free from powders,
pipe clays and harsh, cement, and
therefore washes readily. The gold is
of remarkable average distribution,
and returns from 20 cents upward to
the cubic yard.
The region is abundantly timbered,
thus giving convenient material for
construction purposes. In addition to
the Four Mile itself, the placers cover
the gravel beds of the Undertake,
Thornburgh, Big Hole, Scandinavian
and Dry, and extend also along Snake
river for ten miles.
The paying properties of the region
include those of the Rock Springs pla
GER company. the Nelson, the Booth,
Easum, Mollie G., the West Tide Min
ing association, the Utah Mining COM
pany, the Boyce group and the Ferris
& Scrivner.
The Rock Springs Placer company
has 700 acres of mesa gravel located
seventy feet above the Four Mile val
ley level The deposit averages nine
feet in thickness and runs SO cents per
cubic yard, one yard about producing
equally with the other. The company
has a ditch carrying 500 miners inches
Of water with heavy fall and giant
connection which gives a strong wash
ing force. a days washington Gu
bic yards-costs 500, and 240 days are
utilized during the year. The maxi
mum production so far has been $1S,-
600 from two acres Of ground
The Nelson property comprises 600
acres and procures water from the
Rock Springs company Their gravel
bars are in Timberlake gulch and are
excellent producers.
The Booth property. also in Timber
lake gulch, secures water by an end
/ less chain system of buckets drawn
through a storage reservoir, the buck
/ cts lifting two gallons each from a
distance of forty feet. Tests on both
the Nelson and Booth bars place 81
( per cubic yard as the probable average
return.
The West Side Mining association is
/ composed of Rhode Island CAPITALISTS
and local people, the eastern men pay
I ing $4,000 in cash for d half interest
IN l,51O acres in Dry gulch, further
consideration being the building of a
canal carrying 5000 miners inches
and the putting of necessary machin-
cry for gravel working The grave
deposit averages twelve feet in depth
and returns 80 cents per cubic yard
/ me canal is completed from Snake
river, is thirty-eight miles long, ter
feet wide on the bottom, and cost
100000. The value of these Dry gulcf
placers is estimated at $1,000 per acre
The j: G. Edwards property, also il
Dry gulch, comprises 1000 acres. has
eight feet of gravel depth and aver
ages so per cubic yard
Inc Utah Mining company has wide
placers in Big Hole gulch, and aIsC
along the bed of the Snake river.
The Boyce group. aggregating 400
acres. is also in the Big Hole section.
The Scandinavian placers are ex
tremely rich, yielding as high as $2.7
per cubic yard, with only crude rookie
workings.
The Rhode Island syndicate ALREADY
Interested will add heavily to thei
investment, taking out a second cana
which is to cost S275, zoo, it's waters t,
be utilized after performing their tasl
of gold washing in irrieating an i'm
mense tract Of adjacent agriculture
land.
The Four Mile placers are a mos
valuable adjunct to Rawlins, as tina
southern Wyoming business center i
railroad point of Four Mile acces
and Quitting.