The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-26
MIGHT MAKE GOLD
DRUG ON MARKET
Enthusiastic Expression of
Opinion About Pahreah
and It's Blue Hills.
COMPANY WORKS HARD
Isolated Section Is Being
Opened by Large Force
of Pioneers.

VI / lOllSSlS.
Special TO The Tribune,
MARYSVALE, Utah, Nov. 25.-Tbe fol-
lowing Items OF the details OF the Pah-
reah companys operations on the Colo"
RADIO river at Lees Ferry. and at the late
small Mormon town on the Pahreah
river, are from a wIde-owake Marys-
valcan who returned a few days ago
from 4. business trip TO the workings at
both the above named points.
Some six months since the company
started It's dredge at the ferry on the
Coorado. and has been running contn-
uously since that time. During the
period Just named the dredgc has not
been moved the sand and gravel running
into the "sump' as fast as the large
hydraulic pump lifts II 10 the dredee.
The depth OF the ''sump' is twenty feet
below the bed Of the river The gravel
Is forced up 10 a receiver then over
screens, the fine material is then passed
over plates and recovered as gold ANAL
gam. For every container of quicksilver
used OH the plates two are recovered In
the condition OF amalgam. The csti-
mated net recovery OF gold Is about Sloo
per hour, or close to $500 per. twenty
four hours.
Two ~, 900 pound hydraulic pumps are
now at the plant at the ferry, and will
soon be added 10 the work Of tho one
power boilers, situated on the river bank.
supply the necessary power TO the dredge
and pump. The S0-foot steamer. when
d viii o s w. Sssk the somc Srry dr9 a43
miles up the river to the nearest point
70 the company's coal mines, fourteen
miles inland. from which IL is trans
ported by teams to the mouth OF Warm
creek. The distance from Warm creek
To Pahreah is forty-five miles. The
capacity OF The plant at the latter place
Ferry and is on the land. The recovery
Of gold is about the same. and the plant
Is similar in It's handling OF the dirt.
Extent of Territory.
According to The Tribune's informant
the clay hills extend a distance OF about
two and half miles on each side Of the
Pahreah stream. and are backed, and
particularly covered In places. by soft
red Sandstone. On the east side there
appears TO be a dyke OF decomposed
on each side of the spream is about 800
feet high. and furnishes an ihexhausta-
BILE supply of the precious yellow stuff
over which Europe, Asia. Africa and the
gle for possession,
Two more plants are already In con-
temptation at Pahreah, and IT is fer
those Isolated dlgginGs on the Pahreah
and the Colorado VIII make gold a drug
in the market, and thus eliminate the
Almighty knew what He was doing when
ne made those barren looking, repcIiant
blue clay hills. and deposited them in a
country where according to the belief
was useless for everything except sheep
locality for that.
a portion of the Pahreah stream is
conducted to the top of the hills which
are being washed down into the plant :
the dirt after passing over the plates,
is discharged into the stream, thence to
the Colorado near the plant on that river.
Plenty of fine coal for the Fahrcah plant
is obtained at the mines four miles dis
tant,
dred men and pumber Of teams en-
ployed. Already the surrounding towns
are feeling the impulse of the new life
that has been injected into the hereto
fore sluggish Industrial stream that WAS
wont To carry nothing but sheep. wool.
cattle and hides 10 the outside market.
and that. too. over a road that Is not
suitable for automobiles.
Dixie's Sun Rising.
1t has often been said by The Tribune
Utah are concerned. the country is a
veritable terra incognita. But "DJxie's"
sun Is rising. and the "last frontier" will
soon have vanished so far as Utah is
concerned
Already aged. grizzled prospectors from
Nevada and elsewhere arc seen on the
streets Of Marysvale. and who are punch
Ing their burros toward the new Edo
rado, and whose faces have been turned
thitherward by The Tribune's almost eX-
elusive news from that most interesting
region, Some of those old timers con
tend that those clay hills along the Pah-
reah belong to a lacustrine deposit like
the old Silver Reef country. and that the
placer deposits Of the Pahresh had their
origin IN veins TO the north. east or west.
and IT is the source that those old gold
seekers will attempt to discover; and
with the genuine red-hot enthusiasm OF
nearly byEone days are certain that
they can trace the yellow guudess to the
parent lodes and fissures. And southern
Utah wishes them unboundcd success
In their efforts,
For tho information Of those interested
II is well 10 add that from MarysyaIe,
the terminus OF the railroad. IL is one
hundred and twenty-five rugged and
full I-measure miles via the east fork OF
the Sevier river and Tropic to Pahreah. /.
thence fortyfIve miles 10 mouth of
Warm creek and forty miles 10 Lees
Ferry. From Marysyale 10 Tropic. the
stopping places where supplies for man
and beast can he obtained. are quite fire.
quent. II Is then down hill 10 the ferry.