The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-23

trict. A town was started there last
season, called Basin City. Twelve
cabins constitute the place. Business
houses are to be constructed there this
season, and a daily mail route will be
established this season from Richard
son to the new camp At the head Of
Miners Basin is Mineral mountain,
from which all the leading mining To-
~cafities lead out. and upon this noun
tain are located the principal mines
thus far opened in the district, and
from it flows the creeks forming Bea-
YER basin, Deep creek, Mill creek, Min
er's basin and Little Castle. A good
wagon read was constructed into Min
er's Basin last fall and everything got
ten in shape for the opening up of a
live and prosperous camp the coming
season.
In order to familiarize those intending
a visit to that section il will be necee-
sary to inform them of the route. Cisco,
a station on the Rio Grande Western
railway, is the nearest point to this
country. From there by stage it is
twenty-five miles to Richardson, the
present stage terminus, but
ments are now being made for a daily
stage line to Basin City as early as
practicable in the spring. a distance of
| sixteen miles. When at Basin one is
practically in the heart of the country,
and all the necessary conveniences are
easily obtained.
BLUE MOUNTAIN DISTRICT.
The Blue Mountain country is sit
uated in the extreme southeastern part
of Utah, near the four corners of Utah,
Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, but
all the principal mining interests are
within the Utah line. Five years ago
quite an excitement was created there
by the discovery of the Queen and Mon
ticello properties, and a five-stamp mill
vas erected. The ore found in the
Queen property was exceedingly rich
in free gold ON the surface. The other
properties found adjoining it turned
out to be copper and gold. The Jack
son mill, as it is known, has been kept
running from time to time on Queen
ore from the surface, but it, too, with
depth becomes base. Last season an
eastern company got control of all the
outside properties, and a movement is
on foot for the building of a smelling
plant there the coming season. The
results from the surface gold ores on
the Queen ground have been very sat
isfactory, and this mill will be kept in
operation until they have exhausted
the free ores. Last seasons prospect
ing work throughout the region dis
closed many valuable gold and copper
discoveries. which resemble in charac-
ter that. of the La Sale country, and
win be considerably developed this
season.
HENRY MOUNTAIN DISTRICT.
From a number of experienced pros
pectors who entered the Henry noun
ain last Seaso it is learned that the
ores of that section are in many in
stances rich. The character of the ore
on the south side of the range is a
bromide of copper, occurring in large
veins. Upon the north and east slope
the ores are all gold, in many instances
in the form of free gold in a pure
white quartz. Samples from there
have indications of his far-away sec
ton being very rich in both gold, cop
per and silver. A town called Eagle
City, mostly composed of stockmen
and miners, is located Upon the north
ern slope, where considerable placer
mining is don 1t is in this locality
where the Robbers Roost" gang hold
out, and for this reason many people
object to venturing in there, although
-proSpectorS have never been moleSted
by them.
The country along the north and
east slope of the range is said to be
very rich in placer gold, and it is con-
fidently asserted that the ricn gold bars
now so well known along the Colorado
river owe their origin to the alluvial
wash from this range. Prospectors
predict that in a very few years the
Henry mountains will develop wonder
full deposits of copper, as we'll as gold,
and the successful opening of h La
Sale country the coming yes will bring
that section nearer to the civilized
GRAND RIVER PLACERS.
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of the present outlook of the Grand
country is its placer mining in
From WestWater, where the
Rio Grande Western crosses the Grand
to Moab, a distance of over fifty
miles, the channel bars of the river
and the high bars along the valley are
pronounced to be exceedingly rich in
placer gold. For man years prospect
Ors have been working along this river
the crude system of rockers, never
to realize less than 81 per day,
md from that up to Sc. At this time
Of the year and up to May l the river
s low, and they can work pom the
liver bars; after hat they are com
PEELED to go to the high bars, the gravel
of which lays from twenty-five feet to
800 feet above the river bed. On ac-
count of the great expense Of getting
out of the river up to these dig
they have never been worked.
Last season George W. O'Dell, a
PRACTICAL dredge machine man, erected
/ dredge at Westwater, at an expense
II Sc, 1000, and is now waiting for tvs
opening of spring so he a begin
Prospecting operations. This machine
S CAPABLE of running through between
go and 400 yards of gravel, and, if sue
with this small capacity, he VIII
)ut in a larger machine and use the
one for prospecting the differ
mt bars down the river. From a test
I'm made last fall the dredge worked
o his entire satisfaction, and before
fall he will have fully demon
trated the ad%aptability of such ma
hines. when Others will follow, until
Grand river will become a verita-
lie bonanza field for dredging ma
hines, as well as hydraulic operations.
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-radually growing weaker day by day.
7hrea physicians had given me up.
fortunately, a friend advised trying
Bitters, and to my great joy
nd surprise, the first bottle made a {
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