The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-13
Property Near vernal Goes For
the Sum of 100000.
DEAL VIRTUALLY CLOSED
MIDDLE MAN PINE MAKES A
PROFIT OF S25, 900.
]. M. Miller of Emery County Dis
covers the San Rafael Reef Vein,
Which Is Very Rich In Copper,
Gold and Silver-Causes Great
Excitement In Emery County.
fsnecial TO The Herald.l

Price. June 12.-The deal for the
Bromide mine, situated in the Blue
mountains near the Colorado line, east
of Vernal. will go through. In fact. the
papers have probably by this time
been signed in Denver. 1t passes to
the control of Colorado capital. and the
sum paid for ii is an even 100000. r.
5. Collett, a prominent mining man
and merchant of Vernal. who owns a
control in the property, is now in Den
Yer, where he has gone to perfect some
technicalities in the deeds, and which
can be easily Strengthened out by his
personal attention.
He represents all of the owners and
carried with him powers of attorney
to close matters up. The middle man
in the deal is ]. NJ. Pine Of Denver,
who has been an extensive operator in
eastern Utah gilsOnite properties for
several years and is now preparing to
work the coming summer on an extern
sive scale some half dozen properties
in the vicinity of Cotton, this county.
He was in Price last week, and in re-
ply to his message by wire, was Joined
here by Mr.. Collett. Mr.. Pine makes
small fortune out of engineering the
Bromide mine DEAL his portion for the
sale being $4,000.
4 new and rich strike is reported in
the property and soon an additional
force of men will be put to work. The
Bromide was discovered about a year
ago and has been a producer from
grass roots. though until copper be-
came king it was not a producer, owing
to the great distance of the mine from
the railroad.
Bert Seaboldt, manager of the Good
Hopes placer mines on the Colorado
river was here the other day on his
way to Boston, where-those who are
in a position to know say-he Will eff
feet a consolidation of placer interests
that will embrace several thousands of
acres, and deal that means the leav-
ing in eastern Utah of several thou
sands of dollars of Boston money. He
carries with him an option from the
other owners in the Good Hopes and
adjoining claims, among which are
several in which Price parties are
heavily interested.
The Good Hopes has about 100 acres
of as good placer ground as there IS
on the Colorado river, and with the
options that Seaboldt has with him.
the new owners can obtain about 800
acres of ground upon which estimates
have been made by experts of 30 cents
to S165 per yard. At present the wa
ter for the Good Hopes is lifted onto
the bars from the Colorado river by an
immense wheel. which works to salts
faction in certain seasons of the year,
when the water is low, but a big rush
of water, which often comes with the
melting SHOWS above, browns them
out.
The desire of claim owners is to dam
the Dirty Devil river at a point above
and bring down the water by pipe line.
This can be and will be done when
ever company of sufficient capital
can be interested. A survey has been
made. and the work will not cost TO
exceed $4,000. 1t would make it pos
sible TO work thousands of acres of as
rich gravel as there is along the Colo
RADIO river.
]. NJ Miller, postmaster at Hunt
ington, Emery county, was in town
yesterday with samples of copper ores
from a new discovery on what is known
as the San Rafael reef, sixty-five miles
south of his town. He says the people
there are the next thing to crazy over
the assays they have had from the
surface, and that fully ten miles of
the. vein has been staked off and To-
cation work is being done He showed
assay certificates giving values of from
SO a ton to $165 in copper, gold and
silver
Mr. Miller says. by way of explana-
ton. that the Halverson brothers, who
uncovered this vein nine years ago, but
gave the thing no attention for the rea-
son that copper was not at the time
in much demand. Some sixty days ago
Ira r. Browning. who is operating a
property in Emery county, ran onto
the lead and the fact became noised
about When Browning went out to
stake off his claims he was followed by
a party. which was in turn Swallowed
by a crowd.
The vein is described as ten inches
wide where Mr.. Miller dug down on it
two feet, which widened out from an
outcropping on the surface the thick
ness of knife blade. The vein mat
ter occurs in tale and sandstone and
runs along a reef for miles. There is
eight feet of tale on the east side of
the vein and sandrock on the west, the
vein running north and south. The
vein first outcrops at point known
as the old Fidwell ranch, ten miles be-
low Huntington and can be easily
traced for ten to twelve miles.
In many places there are huge boul-
ders that could be picked up and
shipped. and never before has there
been such an excitement in Emery
county Several claim owners have
combined to sink shaft that Will
demonstrate the continuity of the
vein. Mr. Miller left for home today.
after buying tools and supplies in
Price to work his claims there. Some
of the most conservative business men
of the county have become interested,
and already steps are on foot to build
a wagon road in there from Green
River station, which will bring them
some seventy-five miles nearer the
railroad than Price.
Noah Bartholomew and Henry Henri
man left today for the Cedar noun
tains, not far from Lower Crossing,
where they have a shaft down on their
property now to a depth of twenty-five
feet. 1t will be put down seventy-five
feet further as fast as the work can be
done by a double shift. They are much
encouraged by assays and tests had
from Salt Lake. and lately refused IN
offer of $4,000 for the claim they are
now working.
The completion of the railroad, upon
which work will begin this week, Up
Whitmore canyon, will this fall open
up some splendid gilsonite, asphaltum
and kindred wax" propositions about
five miles north of the coal camp. at
a. point put down on the maps as Pat
mos Head Options are held there by
officials of the Rio Grande Western on
some ten or fifteen promising claims,
and it is believed that when these are
brought closer to the outside world by
rail they will be developed. There are
large bodies of ores in sight. George