The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
IN THE BLUE FOUNTAINS.
Likely to Make a Lively Camp This
Summer.

The Denver Mining Record of recent
date contains a descriptive write-up
! OF the Blue Mountains, in San Juan
county, Is follows:
The newest excitement tributary to
! Denver is Camp Jackson in the Blue
mountains, Utah, located about ~
! miles nearly west of Dolores, a sta
ton on the Rio Grande Southern rail-
way, 479 miles southwest of Denver.
AS will be seen by consulting the ac-
companying maps, there are two
routes, the other of which is ia miles
over a rather poor road from Thomp-
sons Springs, Utah, on the Rio Grande
Western. The latter is patronized by
the Utah people already interested in
the camp, as they usually buy in Salt
Lake
Captain George A. Jackson, in an in
| terview with a representative of the
| Record, stated that in a persistent
search for over 80 years he had not
found a camp possessing the combina-
ton of advantages offered by the ter
ritory around Camp Jackson. He
first heard sf the country last spring
from friend of his, Ben Haywood, a
SALT LAKE MINING MAN,
who discovered the Queen lode and put
in a stamp mill to work the ores.
liable placer and gold lode claims in
the La Plata mountains up the West
MancoS, located several claims along
the contact and made some surface de-
VelOpment. The result was so satisfac-
tory that he shipped in f1ve-stamp
mill, with which he made thorough
tests of the ore found. He says it is a
free milling ore and very similar in
general character to the Baker contact.
Of
ere was uncovered at a depth of &c
feet, which cleaned up S16.S8 per
ton on the plates. a second shaft
showed five feet of ore which yielded
$31 a ton on the plates; a third test
from still another shaft, with
till heavier body of ore, gave
the result of 5000 ton on
500 feet from the last named on
the same contact yielded over $50 a
ton. The original intention was to
run the mill 80 days, but after a
four days test, during which 1900
pounds was run through, a cleanup
was made and a retort secured worth
$61. Though only surface work has
been done, the showing has been such
That 1t was decided to put in
A 2O-sTAMP MILL,
the machinery for which will be
shipped at once. Since Captain Jack
son left camp he has received a letter
from his foreman in charge of the
work, saying that the ore In one of the
shafts at "a feet is richer than any
heretofore found. The gold is 1855 fine
which is several points purer than any
thing ever found before in the ex-
perience of Captain jackson.
The camp is well located as to water
and timber, sufficient power being at
hand for 500 stamps. The town is
building rapidly, IA houses having been
built and or more under way about
Jan. l. The rich finds have already
attracted the attention of Salt Lake
people and the advance guard of %
mad begun to arrive, saying that over
200 men were on their way from that
section. Captain Jackson thinks there
PLENTY OF OPEN GROUND
at present just as good as any already
located. He believes that 1000 men
VIII be in camp within the next so
days and five times that number before
the close of the season. The great
merit of the district lies in its COM
paratively low altitude, $500 feet, the
highest peaks being only a little over
l1,0GO feet, and the large bodies of
strictly free milling ore found At
present there is room for a boarding
house, store and blacksmith shop, but
the threatened influx of prospectors
will soon multiply the demands for
business. A petition has already been
forwarded for postoffice, Monticello |
Is miles away, being the nearest at |
present. Should the Rio Grande South
ern decide that the traffic created by |
the rush would justify the building of |
q branch from Dolores, the camp could |
hn6 N
hours. a stage line from Dolores is |
already projected which will put pas
sengers into camp from that point in |
"A hours, making Sc hours from Den
yer. The Montezuma valley is not I'M
favorable to the economical building of |
/ railway, and the wagon road already |
built is unusually good.
In reply to an inquiry whether Den !
yer could reasonably expect to secure |
The trade of the new camp, Captain
Jackson said:
SO far all the trade of the camp
GOES TO SALT LAKE.
rhe Rio Grande Western is pushing for
he business, but we have the advant-
lge if Denver will use it. The Rio
irande Western has made rate of 80
'ents per hundred to Thompson, from
whence the distance to the camp is
90 miles, and the freight rate of 81. so
Ter hundred. This gives a rate of 81
,er hundred from Salt Lake On this
ide the railroad rate to Dolores from
Denver is $l.50 per hundred From
Dolores to the camp the distance by the
present road is so miles and the freight
ate 70 cents per hundred This gives
'alt Lake an advantage of 25 cents per
hundred. A reduction of 25 cents on
he railroad rate to Dolores would
make it even and a reduction of so
ents would give Denver an advantage
# % cents, which it would be difficult
o meet on the other side. as the wagon
rates are already down
o starvation prices.
Stock Broker.