Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-10-13

down, and drifting for high grade ore
has ceased.
A syndicate composed of six Salt
Lakers and one San Francisco gentle
man has just been formed, and If fa'
vorable reports are received from
Klondike in the near future, the party
will leave for this land of gold dollars
early in the spring. Two doctors will
form part of the personnel of the party
while druggist will also go along
and take with hum stock of drugs
Some prominent business men of Salt
Lake intend to join the adventurers.
Prospecting on the La Sale noun
tains in southern Utah, aregion which
gives promise of great richness, is
being energetically pushed The rich
float which has been so often found
came from some place and 1T remains
for some lucky prospector to find II,
Gold can be found in the gravel OF
every stream leading from the La
SAILS and can come from no other
% irce than the mineral veins in the
mountains
Utah prospector has found "a piece
of sylvanite ore in an unfrequented
region, mot hundred miles from
Salt Lake City" and is spending much
time looking for the vein The float
suggests eXtravagant values, and mon
led men are encouraging the pros
pector in his search, as they believe
another Cripple Creek viii be built il
the ledge is found, as the ore is iden-
tical with the famous Cripple Creek
| ore.
Roy Wayne, n. Fitzgerald and W.
Gear, three Camp Floyd miners were
visiting the Bicycle group and had
gone down an incline in that property
run some time ago. When down about
200 feet in the incline, bear said to
weigh somewhere between ZOO and 70OG
pounds, met them and protested their
right to the tunnel The three gentle
men are good miners, but don t make
any pretensioDs to bear hunting. con
sequently they retired as rapidly as
possible No lives were lost, and the
purchase of new pair of pants fitted
Geer up as good as new.
An old and experienced mining man,
from Tolumne county, California Just
returned from the Yaqui country in
Mexico, brings the first authentic in
formation about the gold region there.
He describes the country as a rolling
valley about 35 by 80 miles in area and
says the gold is found in the foothills
at the edge. 1t is reached by road
from Ortiz station on the Sonora rail
way, 2l5 miles south of Nogales anc
80 miles north of Guaymas. Tn,
ground is very rich in placer. Tn,
gold is coarse and heavy and Is wei
washed. In the vicinity are man,
quartz lodges from six to ten feet with
free milling gold ore, much of it higt
grade.
Among the nrraerors Klondikes
that are daily being discovered, Utal
has probably the origina onel. II
was discovered many years ago, befor,
the Uintah reservation, in whose con
fines it is, was established by Abe Lin
coin, then president Through tn,
personal influence of Brigham Youns
the discoverer abandoned the claim
and later the reservation was estab
lished which precluded further work
Assays have shown $1,000 to the ton
but as the story has been growing 70
thirty years, the real values may b.
somewhat less. At any rate, heirs o
Rhodes, who was the original discoy
6 erer, backed by influential Denve
parties, are endeavoring TO get a leas
from the Indians and its endorsement
by the interior department, in orde
10 work the mine. The values ar
said to exist.
, The Statesman of Boise, Ida, saws
The Loon creek excitement is we'll r,
. membered by the old miners of tf
state. Loon creek became famol
9 because of rich placer deposits foun
/. there. These were so good that the
, created stampede. The diggi NC
however, did not prove to be cxtensi,
- and the excitement soon died out y
ledge was found that could ha,
= thrown off the gold and the form
4 tion and the lay of the land were su,
:, as to puzzle the explorers. But whe
!, the gulch was abandoned ii was wi
- the conviction, that the key to Il
% problem would some time be foun
# According to the story now broug
e. in, the source of the gold has be-
" discovered. 1t is reported that led
has been found and opened that is
81 feet wide and comparatively hi
,r grade. Several holes were sunk in t
=. ledge and the ore found TO be good
NJ each point. From the location of t
N lead the prospector is satisfied
al gold In Loon creek gulch came fir,
IT, Loon creek is tributary of I
:. south fork of the Salmon.
! Five men took SI4, 900 from Inc
- peaseHse mountain, Wyoming, plac
6igzings. in two weeks A long dit
- costing slO0. 900 has been constructe
- and the company is likely to get
nonev hack before snow flies I