The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-22
LOST MINE IS
FOUND AGAIN
Party of Provo and Springville
Men Leave for the ReSer-
walton Country.
LURED BY TALES OF GOLD
BELIEVED LOST JOSEPHINE"
MINE is FOUND AT LAST.

toNo5 June z.-BreSldent Singleton OF
the Lost Josephine Mining company, Sec
rotary Smoot and a large party of men. in
charge OF George Drury of SpringviIe.
have left for the Lost Josephine Mining
company's property on Currant creek.
about thirty-five miles east of Heber. The
party was accompanied by two eastern
newspaper writers. who will inspect the
workings and present reports to their
papers.
''ReaI Thing" This Time.
The property is claimed 10 be the one
for which a search has been kept up in
this section for many years The story
goes that a valuable placer proposition
was worked about a hundred and fifty
years ago by SpaniaTds in some part of
s The country which was formerly the Tin
tah Indian reservation. Maps of the cOun-
try where the bonanza was located were
procured in some way from Mexico and
so prominent a mining man as Senator
W. A. Clark sent an expedition in charge
of Major W. H. Berry 10 look for the
property. This was several years ago
and proved a fruitless quest The reason
given FOR the failure is that in the de
scriptiOn the location of the mine was
stated TO be east of the great lake" and
the great lake was taken 10 be Salt
lake. The present discoveries are now
sure that the great lake was Utah lake,
and then everything fits
Since the failure of the Clark expedition
several men have been looking for the
Lost Josephine; in fact, several Lost JO-
seThine locations have been made. but
they have all proven false Josephines
Among The persistent hunters for the Jo-
sephlne has been Phil Beesley of this
city. Last summer he ran across old
mine workings on Currant creek There
were two parallel tunnels running for a
great distance. with large strip of cOun-
81. L.
numbered, but the timbeTs were in many
places broken down and the earth had
caVed in This was in the bottom of
what appeared TO be an old river bed
There was dump al the end of the
tunnels and a channel between them or
such evidences of a channel and a dunn
as the erosion of years would leave.
Recognized as Lost Josephine"
Mr.. Beesley at once recognized the lost
girl. Josephine, and came to Provo high
" elated. He enlisted the aid OF Mr.. Sim
gleton, prominent Provo business man
who is interested in mining in Gold noun
tam and other parts OF the state, and a
company was formed 10 thoroughly pros
pect the country. Mr.. Lee CarmOdy a
Klondike miner. was sent to inspect the
ground. He pronounced il good and il
was determined 10 thoroughly prospect it,
contract Was let 10 Mr.. Drury TO sink
a SHAFT 70 bedrock, estimated to be about
SlXty-IlVe feet. and he has taken cut a big
loTte OF men 10 90 the work as eXpedl-
tiously as possible. Ii is expected the
work will take about sixty DAYS, al hOugh
MI Singleton and Mr.. Smooth viii be
back soon.
In the meantime. those who are inter
ested are awaiting developments The
company Is not selling any stock and there
is no disposition TO boom what NAV only
be false lead; but they have confidence
in the outcome and if il proves 10 be
what they expect there will be several
men milliOnaires in this neck of the
woods. as large area Of ground mas
been taken up and steps have been taken
10 secure adjoining territory which shows
indications of proving valuable.