The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-08
HUNDREDS RUSH
INTO RESERVE
Uintah Treasure Box Is Open and
Many Seek It.
UNIQUE STAMPEDE NOW ON
THOUSANDS OF CLAIMS sTAkEp
BY PROJECTORS.

A n
u this sections history is Row on
with the Uintah forest reserve a.
its objective point Thousands OF claims
have been already staked in the add
tional strip OF forest reserve set aside
by President Roosevelt IN his prOcla-
nation OF June Il Salt Lake men
have sent out many prospectora. one
/ outfit Of sixty having been gotten to-
gether in this city
Unique circumstances surround IRIS
rush into a section known to he rich
in mineral It is no recent discovery
( to which hundreds are stampedIns. Tts
gold. silver, copper and iron deposits
have been facts Of which men were
aware during years. But the country
was a closed treasure box. and these
men kept the knowledge to themselves.
Late in the day, only a week ago.
men began 70 realize that the kew
had been turned-that In making this
strip forest reserve President ROose-
Welt had thrown open for mineral entry
what has been termed the mineral belt
of the Uintah reservation. At One
outfits began to start out Now the
steep walled gOrges ring to hammer
strokes. and the mountain meadows
give pasture to grazing pack animals
forests hundreds Of camps have been
made
smyth Brings News.
These hgures are well within the
/ facts Deputy United States Marshal
Lucian H Smyth. who returned yes
terday from a dash into the promised
land, says that the thing has passed
the stage where it car. be called a
movement and has developed into a
0 " p noe
salt Lakers. who had business Of their
( own IN the mineral belt Like many
others the knowledge that this bust
ness could be attended to came recent
~. They QUILTED and pushed up the
/ headWaters OF Provo river into the re-
serve
There are three routes into the min
eraI belt, said Mr. Smyth AL Of
which Soss il without reaching the
reservation They are that we took
up the headwaters of Provo river. one
! by way Of Lake Fork and another up
Center creek The Daniels canyon
route is being used by the men who
have registered and are on their way
into the reservation proper to get agri-
cultural lands.
All these roures are By way or Pro
vo. then Heber- And today there is
hardly a horse left in Heber You
cant get one for love or money Men
from ali the mining camps in the state.
from Salt Lake, and from points around
Heber, have rushed into the reserve.
They came, most of them, knowing
what they were after They went right
to the mineral they had known Of. and
staSed their claims Hundreds OF them
have gone to the ground. One party
Of sixty was made up in Salt Lake.
backed by Salt Lake people.
Country Is Picturesque.
The country in the reserve is rough
and well cut up Along the northerly
end it has dense forests Of oual1ing asp
and pine, with beautiful mountain
meadows through which wind ice cold
streams OF clear mountain water To
the south It is a region OF barren rocks.
steep and forbidding- And in thai sec
ton is most Of the mineral It Is a
hard country to cross without knowing
II well. At the best Il Is a difficult
country for travelling Even pack
horses cannot reach some parts Of IL.
But mineral is there have heard
of some remarkably rich surface show
ings, and the men who are there claim
that it viii be the richest mining sec
ton in the state Most Of these men
came after having years ago gotten
knowledge of the mineral. They say
that they always knew 1t would be a
rich place.
with many OF those who went in
the matter was kept quiet, and the con
sequence is that the most OF the world
outside knew nothing Of what was go
ing on in this place. Even as il is.
with the incoming proSpectOEs being
only men who knew of the mineral
wealth, hundreds have already sought
il out In spite Of the fact. too, that
this wealth has been known for years,
there remain in this reserve. vast tracts
which are utterly unexplored 1t is a
wild rugged mountain country, and IL
taxes mems energies TO ever reach IL,
to say nothing Of travelling over IL
THE agricultural land all lies below
this strip, which is at the headwaters
Of the Duchesne-the watershed whence
come most of Utah's larger rivers