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Show LONG LOST JOSEPHINE MINE NOW SUPPOSED TO BE FOUND HANKSVILLE, Sept. 25.-Every state in tho Vi0 has its hidden treasures, lost mines? J I Utah has many, but it was left to the Impcr a mining district of Grnfield county to demon stratc that they are not all myths. ?Many o?d prospectors know of the legend that cither Gen ' oral Powell or General Fremont on one of their exploration expeditions down Grand Canyon and the Colorado river came across the bleached bones of a pack nnlmnl mule or burro-beside which, on a trail lending from the Henry Mountains Moun-tains to Dandy Crossing, now Hitc, two small piles of gold ore were found. These were re-sacked re-sacked two hundred pounds and sent to Washington, D. C, where it wns discovered that the ore was rich in gold, analysis showing its value to be about twenty thousand dollars a ton. It Is said that the government still has the ore in store. Some years later, probably thirty years ago, a Mexican came into this vicinity in quest of a rich mine that he claimed his father was interested in many years before. His story was about like this: He claimed that his father and a number of Mexican-Spaniards, when he wns a small boy, used to come north from "old" Mexico every spring, returning In tho early winter lndcn with gold dust, said to have been mined in the Henry Mountains. The last time that they mnde the trip north, none ever returned and nothing wns ever heard of any one of the whole number nbout fifty in nil. Putting this story together with the legend thnt Powell, or Fremont, hnd found the remains of a dead pack animal that evidently hnd been killed In battle while carrying Its load, and knowing know-ing that the trail led from the Henrys to Hitc, everyone interested came to tho conclusion that there must be a rich mine in the Henrys: thnt these Mexican-Spaniards had found It and hnd operated it for many years. Also the conclusion arrived at by most of our prospectors was that these miners hnd been surprised and killed by warring Indians, who Infested this locality at the tlmo the whole party being annihilated. Such incidents were not uncommon in those days. Since the visit of the Mexican a man nbout 40 years old thirty odd years ngo, mnny thousand thous-and dollars have boon spent nnd mnny prospectors prospec-tors hnve for. years and years tried to find the lost Josephine. The Mexican said that was the name his father called the mine. It was styled ' the "Old Mexican" mine by many. No trace of it i was ever discovered till August l, 1915, when it is believed D. 1$. Cnmcron came upon it. Cameron Cam-eron and his son Donald of Denver, Colo., together toge-ther with Fred Gates of Trinity county, Cain., had been in the vicinity for several months in quest of the lost mine. Having prospected Fish Lake and Boulder Mountains, and in order partly to get the protection afforded by an organized anining district, they came to the Henrys and re-i re-i ncwcil their quest. Two weeks' work and their lnbor was crowned, they believe, with success. That it is without n doubt the long lost rich mine they hnve every confidence. The type of mining in their discovery is thnt used by the Spaniards about a hundred years ago in Arizona and "old" Mexico. It is mined on an incline with steps and side stopes mnny of these extending twenty to Jhirty feet on each side of the fissure which is from two to two nnd onc-hnlf feet wide. Tho fissure is perfect, running crosswnys of the formntion, from southeast to northwest. The workings can be traced by the "caveins" for more than a thousand feet, while indications point to its being fully n mile long nnd possibly much longer. That the mine just discovered hns been worked extensively is proven by the amount of timber used nnd the immense dump of waste, which most anyone would have taken for a slide from the mountains it is estimnted to contain more than thirty thousand cubic yards. Resides this, all the timbers found so fnr are completely rotted, rot-ted, nothing but a stain mnrking their location. Two hewed slabs, or planks, used for running wheelbarrows on, have been dug up, nn old wheelbarrow wheel-barrow frame, wheel missing, nnd several badly decomposed timbers hnve been recovered. Thnt It hns been mnny, many years since any work has been done about the mine is proven by the second growth timber and shrubs that arc growing grow-ing on the dumping ground nnd the "caveins" of the mine. Some of the oak bushes arc from seven sev-en to olirht tnchcH in tlinmctor nnd the willows that arc growing on the material taken from the mine nre old trees. These prospectors worked upon the theory thnt most, if not nil, the prospecting thnt had been done in the Henrys hnd been at too high an altitude. The finding of this mine has indicated they reasoned correctly. The "Old Mexlcnn" mine, its they hnve named it, is situated about two miles west nnd nbout twenty-five hundred feet below the top of Mt. Pcnncl, nbout ten miles south of the line between Garfield and Wnyne counties, in almost the geographical center of the Imporlnl mining district of which J. W. Heltch Is chairman, E. T. Wolvorton, vice chairman chair-man nnd secretary, and E. F. Marshall of Hnnk.4-vllie Hnnk.4-vllie district recorder. Cameron nnd Gates are busy doing exploration work and will build n suitable house to live in before winter. The lode has not been reached, so no ore has been tested except some "float" that proved very rich and of n free milling variety. The immediate future for the Henrys is very bright. About fifteen additional miners hnve been put to work nt Camp Crescent, or North Wash, at placer mining. Thehtlls are filling up with prospectors nnd several fine prospects have been located rocontly. A good, substantial boom ' seems to )e coming on. I Marshall, as recorder of the district, invites I any who desire further information abot l it to write to him. |