The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-20
THE GOLDEN WONDER.
Great Excitement Prevails Over the
Vernal Gold Discoveries.
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| Especial Correspondence
| Vernal, Jan. 16-It is reported from
the new gold camp over Green river
! that in the dash for claims the lines
have become much confused, and in
some instances one location is made
on the top Of a prior location. 1t is
| also said in many instances locators
guessed their distance, and, as a con-
! sequence, there may be many disputes
arise
The interest and excitement contin-
ues TO spread, in spite Of the efforts of
some 20 hold it in check. Several out
fits loaded with tools. supplies. etc,
for prosecuting work. were loading up
in Vernal today for the mines. 1t was
learned today that recent assay from
rock taken from the Golden Wonder
shows SIS in gold, with a ledge thirty
feet in thickness. The Golden Wonder
was located Two years ago by eX-Coun-
ty Assessor William H. Gagon, and
showed values Of from 81 to So in gold
on the surface. Upwards of $1,000 was
expended in sinking on this mammoth
vein. with the above result.
During the two years, While work.
ing upon this property, it never &C.
Cured to the owners that the great
yellow ledge that doomed up scarcely
800 feet away held the yellow metal for
which they were so patiently working.
anu in quantities that would astonish
the natives.
1t has been learned on reliable au-
thOrity that a specimen sent to As
sayer Kroupa of Provo was full of wire
gold, easily visible to the naked eye.
The assay went UP in the thousands,
and the assayer took pains to state
that although the returns seemed fab
ulous, they were absolutely correct.
There is said To be line vein of coal
in close proximity to the mines, and
indications OF gilsonite not far away.
Altogether, il is considered the most
promising find in the history of this
section. Its accessibility is an import
ant factor in the treatment of the ore,
as the great vein crops out almost to
the edge OF the valley. and the sur
rounding country is covered with cedar
and pinyon pine.
The range-riders for the different
cattle outfits Of Blue mountain have
ridden over the ground for years, and
sheltered themselves from the driving
storms behind the walls of the great
sold ledge, which, in places, towers up
many feet.
While the surrounding formation is
sandstone, there are several strata of
lime that cut the formation as true as
line. and an immense dyke of what
is termed by local mining men as por-
phyry. Along with this dyke runs the
big ledge that carries the values. The
ore is soft, and is red and yellow.
Some pronounce it similar in some re-
spects to the Mercur ores, but the re-
turns so far received characterize it as
free milling gold ore.
1t is now claimed by men who are
familiar with the country that while
the ledge disappears under the noun
tain on the western side, it is cut
in two several miles farther east by a
deep gorge, and despite the snow,
which has fallen to considerable depth
in that section. an effort will be made
to catch the vein on the east side of
the ridge.
Several fine pieces of float have been
picked up in that section, and it is now
believed that il came from a continual
ton of the gold belt.
The samples that have been the |
cause of the present stir. came from /
the Gold Standard and Manila claims. |
which are lying parallel with the old |
Golden Wonder.