The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-04

1864, said Mr.. Ankeny. .thara -...
about as good mines as ever ~,
Warrens was singular in being 49,
tremely well regulated camp. Wort,-.
had sprung IQtO prominence v-f+t -
diggings. and the rough clemens "a I
gone over there, where most NJ ~
worst desperadoeg were hanged. II uss
the same then as nOW-if a nan -,r-5
ed his business. no one would fr+s--
fere with him I never carried a pr7
and never had any Quarrels.
1T would be hard 10 estimate tbs
population Of Warreus. FloIenca. ana
WarTens. forty miles apart. we're resUv
one diggings, as men went consfarfIv
back and forth. The virtue Of +beg.
discoveries is shown by the length of
time they have been worked without
signs Of giving out"
q q o
February Of 1862 saw some OF the
highest prices which ever existed In
the early days. Il was then that but-
ter went up to 50 a pound cheese 10
Sl-50, sugar 10 $l.25. -four TO 81. bacon
to S1.25, coffee to s., tea to $3.50. sbov-
els 10 SIS. But. on the other hand. IL
was calculated that over Sl0C06O08 In
SUI AACL NJ 80 L4AEA gAL OF LIE new
diggings in 1862.
One year after his first trip l1in War
rens. in 1858, 8Ir. Ankeny passed over
what is now Thunder mountain on
hunting trip with Nez Perez Indians
, Mr.. Ankeny says a suspicion Of tho
! richness Of that country existed in one
or two minds, and that one man act
ually brought down some rock TO Lew
f-N,
i ever created, and nothing was done.
Mr.. Ankeny was asked: when 0To-
! dno was discovered in 1860 Florence 10
1851 or 1862, Warrens in 1889 and MI
ler's diggings in 1864. each one getiiT
Z a little nearer Thunder, why wasn't
[ Thunder discovery until 1902"
"The only reason 7 can assign" va
/ the reply, lis that the rock az Thur
( der is pOrphyry. / have never heard
I Of prOspectOrs bringing back any n-
ports Of Importance abOunt Thun1af
mountain, though many have been IN
I there.
| 1T is curious, by the way, that Che
/ nearer to Thunder mountain dlggilgs
/ were discovered the richer the finds be-
! came. At Florence gold ran 81 TO the
( ounce; at Warrens, $780, and at Ai.-
! ler's. SIS"
/ Strange, indeed, is the tale OF how
/ the first discovery Of what is now lda-
/ no was made. In the late SOS, tradition
/ says. q venturesome Indian of the Nez
/ Perce stripe broke down into CalIor'
{ MIA, where a prospeCtOr named D. ID
| Pearce CLEANED from him tale about
/ a wonderful stone he had found 0lca
I in the distant mountains. The Nel
! Perce told how he had been campo.
with a party Of fellow braves IN tn'
mountains and how they had been al
/ tracted BY a large. bright ball CLEAN
ing at them in the darkness. AuriBht
{ ed at what they considered the eye
the great spirit, none dared move 0l
in the morning they summoned couIds
| TO look more closely. What they sa'
the indians could only compare To
/ lunp Of glass, and the venturesoH
/ Pearce jumped to the conclusion th
/ Indians had found a diamond large
than any known in the world. On ~
slight foundation he determined 10 :
/ and look. He never found the Ola
I mond. but he found gold.
( Making his way northward tnTols
the Wild new country. Pedrce pass
/ Portland. what is now The DalleS a-
! Walla WaHa. and finally got over ~,
far eastern washington This was
/ 1850. Pearce and a party OF ieio" ~
venturers prospected and hume
through the mountains. finally an.
ing where Orohuo now is. here lg
washed a pan Of gold. 1t neltea
I cents. They tried again with oe-- -
luck. Again and again they ts!-a. 81
In a short time $50 resulted. ne Z.
turned TO Waua Walla, and the vi
gold craze Of 1860 was on
Forty-two years have elapsed ..
another wild craze for gold is y
Strange IL should be so near lhs ~
inal one. II leads the old-tIH'5.-. .5-
saw the Eldorados are not All e's-'
| ared vet.