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Show J ri { 5 " ; of ' & THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE THE GOLD. FIELDS.| PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY —BY A Sermon on the Irreverent Sun- “day Lode. THE— Publishing Company Year | | Over the Precipice Down Into the —_— SUBSCRIPTION: § _ Bowels of the Earth. $4.00 | Six MOmtS......ccceceteeetee Wee sttaaie BOO Three Months 100 on the: Fly, Authorized Agents ‘and Weekly of the Tribune. Daily - Alta City) Uta. so... ariiice C. H: ENOS Bingham, Utah........ J. MENDELBAUM Corinne, Utah...........+-+ W. BARNARD Evanston, Wyoming...... J.G. WINSLOW. Zron City, Utah... 2.2... GEO. A. HICKS Sureka, Nev.........+. W. J. CARNDUFF 'Tybo, Nye Co., Nev....Wm. A. OLAYTON Buel, Nevada............ J. D. ANDREWS M’t Pleasant, Sanpete Co......J. D. PAGH Ogden ‘R.R. depot)... JOHN LOW & BRO Ogden, Utah......... JNO. G. CHAMBERS Ogden, Utah.......... GEO. W. TURNER Ophir City, Utah............ W.B. SAGER ce ck cesses W. BR. WILSON ¢ Jacob City, Dry Canyon...... T. G. QUINN Park City, Parley’s Park... cece pilates Sune W. J. MONTGOMERY Stockton, Utah..:..... Ss aes J.G. BROWN San Francisco, Cal...... C.A. PRESCOTT ——TueE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY will recognize no others as agents than those appearing above, nor hold itself responsible for money paid on subscription, job work, etc., to others than the above regularly authorized agents. FROM BEAVER. Military and the Battie-Axes--Trouble Still Impending. Eps. Trrpune: Yesterday . the streets of Beaver were enlivened with the appearance of Company Hi, 14th Infantry, passing through on their way to the camping-ground of the battle-axes of the bord—Brigham. By some mistake, [ suppose, these troops were ordered to Spring Valley in Nevada, instead» of Circle: Valley in Utah, sixty miles distant from here. They had, however, proceeded only as far as Greenville, four miles, when they received orders to right-about face, which suited the boys in blue toa dot, as a march of - 200 miles,in this arid country, is too much to ask of the walk-a-heaps. ~ We want cavalry to scout the country round about and go after ye gentle redskin. News came in last. night from Potato Valléy, that the Navajoes had run off nineteen head of horses, besides committing other depredations. This is a Mormon settlement, and the villainy the chosen of the Lord have taught their hopeful pets is now coming back upon.them like..a boomerang: Res -Lieutenant-Oolonel Woodward returned fo camp, to-day. One of the officers has been put under arrest. I have not known the nature of the offense charged against him. The Gentile settlers in Circle valley andon the Sevier river have petitioned Governor Kmery to protect them against the threatened attacks of the Navajoes. A.messenger has been dispatehed from Beaver to our triends in Circle valley and Iam informed that assistance will be promptly sent. A large number of Indians are reported to be on this side the Colorado river. Many ask way the Government acts with such dilatoriness in this maiter. The Corn Creek Indians havé ‘some inkling of the programme laid out, for they are every day. asking when the Americats are begin fighting. B.S a Braver Crry, U. T., Sept. 8, 1875. —e @>—2 Strange Murder andl Suicide. Some weeks ago,two Germans were ~ traveling on foot near Sialmon City, Idaho. Subsequently one of the two was floating down Snake River dead, with his head other, erushed in, and the on suspicion of haying com- “mitted the murder, was arrested and lodged in jail, where he remained until the 30th of last August, when he was found dead in his cell, with the arteries of his left arm severed. He had written a J i Mr. Morton,.of Alta, has made letter to a German ealoon keeper-in Silver City, and anther addressed to a man in Los Angeles, California, in both of which he asserted his innocence of the crime with whieh he was charged. .This. unknown ‘man; who called himself C. . Myers; bore go close a, resemblance to ‘the notorioue Bender, that: he an- - gwered to the description perfectly, excepting that his nose was too large. Thus the time honored belief that no ¢wo men in‘ the world look alike, has been again disproved. AMERICAN Fork Canyon, t Sept. 10, 1875... § - The stampede from Alta and other mining towns in the neighborhood, still continues, and the mountains and gulches here arejfilled with prospectors for gold. The large deposit of tis precious metal in the Sunday lode, is the occasion of the great excitement, and new locations and discoveries are of daily occurrence. THE SUNDAY LODE, | however, {is the great attraction and hundreds have. visited it to feast their eyes upon the gold there so plentifully exposed. Through the courtesy of the mine owners, Messrs. Fry, Eply and Behrman, him to prosecute his work with better facilities... several assays of ore taken from new prospects in American Fork, which Correspondence Tribune. } Regiment emer. : small pieces of light’ gold, which led | Facts, Fiction and Folly Taken THE TRIBUNE, Salt Lake City, Utah. The , Paes ‘ pans out very fine gold, and no doubt will be found in paying quantities. About twenty claims have been taken up along this creek, and at themouth; | afew rods, above : Horrest. City, Thos, i. Oraft has taken up. a placer claim, which hé was’ prospecting: on’ Wednesday, with what result we have not ascertained. . In... prospecting. last. Sunday, Mr. Craft: panned out:several | co Address, Procher NOV: fle id SALT LAKE, UTAH: SATURDAY MORNING, VOL. VI. One 3) ; hy Tribune 7 we were offered every facility to take a look through the works of thisitamed mine, It is located near the head of American Fork canyon,, on the divide between that and Mary Ellen creek. Access is gained from an almost perpendicular path, rough hewn out of sold rock to the craggy projections to which one has to cling tenaciously to prevent his falling over the cliffsa thousand feet below. After climbing down a distance of a hundred feet, we reached the dump, and was welcomed into the mine by Mr. Eply, who is in show from $400 to $600 in gold. The future of the district. is very promising, and’ American Fork may-yet' be the, greatest gold-producing district: on. the coast. nes HOW TO REAOH THE MINES, The American Fork mines can be reached by the way of. the American Fork narrow gauge railway, which connects with the Utah Southern at the town of American Fork, and has its canyon terminus at Deer creek, where the remainder of the distance, seven miles, can be made over a good road. by. team,.on horseback, or afoot.. The distance from Salt Lake by this route is fifty-five miles, and the time about eight hours. | The other route is by way of Alta, which place can be reached by noon by rail and stage. « Saddle-horses. can here be procured for $3 per day, which will afford time enough to see the gold fields. The distance from Alta to the ‘Sunday lode is two miles and a-half; Alta measure, but by foot it is fully five. It can be made in an hour and a-half by horse, and on foot in three hours, by average walkists. The cost by either route, from Salt Lake to the mines, is about six dollars. ‘The new tramway to Alta, from the end of the Jordan:Valley Railway, will be. completed by Sunday, way, as related. by comes mit. me.to SEPTEMBER 18, 1875, himself: ‘I Gion to see der NO. 38. _ FROM DRY CANYON, AMERICAN FORK. What Ye Honest Miner is doing-Brofit -of .. der Lord Brickham. Sales and Developments---Ac-_ Von day.:I goes mit.me to der tivity imereasing --- Business |. Dabernacle.to. hear der Brofit: breach. im Jacob’s City. Be He got up an’ said, ‘‘Preddern an’; Swysteren, we poot des. beoples ofer Correspondence Tribune. | her to petter der. condishun. Now, . Dry CANyon, Sept. 9, 1875; vot you-dink dey do mitem?. Dey ; Seeing nothing of late regarding come to me an’ say, brudder Brick| um, ve vants our monish you got; our mining property and improye/ ve vant tithing from] der office.. Dey ments in this camp,1 deem it my vants to lif.on tidings ust like me. Vell, why done dey vork, .why done duty to give: you a few items. dey dick roots ust like me, hey? Ophir Hill the German Mining Co.; because they are too'lacy an’ so-iorth have completed their ore road to con- | an’ so on. Now breddern, let us nect with our toll road. This mine is sing dat goot song so appropriade to reported sold for a large figure to dis occashion—‘Root ‘hog or die!’ ‘And all joined in but me, an’ 1| Eastern parties. It has a large body | walked out that Dabernacles an’ not of high grade ore. been in it again since.” THE CALIFORNIA BOX And that was all of ~ the was lately sold to the Lancaster Minminer's story when the conIt has ductor cried out ‘Deer Creek,” ing Co., of Lancaster, Ohio. the end of the track. This place re- continued to develop finely, throughminded us of not a story, but thata out a fifty foot contract just completed. party of Salt Lake girls and hoys .L. AH. Hopkins, Esq., is superintendcamped there last July to court and ent, and Owen Long takes immediate say ‘‘dear” all they wanted to without charge to-day and will work eight This mine promises fair to beany allusion to creek, and with none men. to molest.- It is remarked by the come one of the standbys of the camp ‘settlers that the way those girls In ores. THE RESUSCITATOR MINE sloshed over hill and yale was a caution to snakes—but they were always belonging to F. Robinson & Oo., has buoyed up—of course they were. an incline down 140 feet through ore, The same crowd made a raid on the also a shaft twenty-five feet in depth Miller mine and eat My. Humphrey’s to tap the incline, showing three feet out of house and home, and then of good ore at the bottom. They in“went up to the monument, and after tend resuming work at once. writing their names on it, proclaimed Thomas Oney is sacking high grade themselves “‘maniacs”’ of all they sur- ore froma two foot vein in his Pine veyed. What they couldn’t take in Grove mine. The Galena Mining ‘from that point, wasn’t worth taking Co. are doing the same from a three in. | 1 foot yein. But Foot & Walker’s line. is ready, HIDDEN TREASURE MINE. and we'll all jump on. Our next will) Mr. Smiley is working sixty-seven be from Alta, Till then,no more) men, and is shipping thirty-five tons ET ey Lire. | of ore per day. On More About the Gold Fields---Prog pecting aud Locating, Correspondence Tribune.| Forrsr Crry, Sept. 21, 1875. Thinking many of the readers of ‘your valuable paper ‘would be in- terested in the recent discoveries in this canyon, I will state a few ‘facts for their benefit, and also for the benefit of those desirous of visiting the district. ‘Tieft Salt Lake City by the Utah Southern morning train, and arrived at. American Fork minutes past’ nine, City at twenty waiting long enough to refresh. A few steps brings us to the American Fork Railway depot, where I take the tourist cars, anxiously awaiting the cry of ‘‘all aboard,’’ from the stentorian lungs of the Major—noted for his urbanity and tender feelings toward that suffering class of humanity—the traveler, away we BOUND TOWARD THE GOLD REGION. have lost all taste for sublime scenery and look listlessly upon various views as I pass along; filthy lucre was driven from my mind the soft, artistic, poetic feelings which heretofore existed, and we see visions of $20,000 rock, immence placer diggings and ledges which I have only to tap and rug outthe crude metal and resume specie payment. — At 11:2) 4. m., the train arrives at Deer Oreek, the terminus of the railroad, avd after partaking of lunch, proceeded ON my Way rejoicing, over a good canyon wagon road. Four miles 7d a half brings me to Th scy FOREST €Iry, ; he MOB as filer bavian 16 the once lively town of this mining Cottonwood than formerly. We find the following Mountain Mr. Davis is working about seventy district, and where the Miller Mining A WORD TO TOURISTS. Although Ore shipments from bothare Co. have their: smelter. Meadows special telegram in last men. the place is comparatively dead, good from seventy to eighty tons daiily. | Those who desire to seo the moun- evening’s Deseret News :. charge. ‘The workings so far consist | accommodation’ can be had at the THE MAHOGANY MINING COMPANY, solely of. an incline, which is in fifty tains and canyons clothed in their St. GEORGE, Sept. 12, hotel kept by Thos. Croft. A+ this feet, showing a body of ore fully greatest beauty, can find no better Deputy Marshal Stokes and a posse con- Messrs. Wall and Read, ovfiers, are place the smelter is connected: by three feet_in width, and with TERY | time than the present. The moun- ‘sisting of Jack Kirby, Tom Winn, Bill working nine men ond shipping five tramway with the Miller mine, two Robérts, Hid. Olark, Jimi Putter and one: to ten tons appearance of a conti:tious Vor. 29 ‘tains aré perfectly gorgeous in their other ot ore perday. A rich and a-half miles up Mary Hilen gulch, of the stamp, surrounded the house far but two chimneys have been variegated hues,and the weather is of John MacFarlane, this morning before strike is reported as made at 400 feet the present gold excitement worked upon, and the ore appears to all that could be desired—neither too daylight, with the expectation of arresting in depth, of copper silver glance ore. where exists. The world pro- Haight, Higbee and others, but they failed consiantly increase in richness. cool nor too: warm. THE DUSENRERRY MINE PLACER LOCATIONS, Back of the incline is a narrow cham: duces no grander scenery than that to find any of the parties they wanted; they visited the house.of H. W. Branch, has it good. They are sacking best Many placer locations have been ber leading into another of greater in American Fork Canyon to-day, and had searching for the. same parties, acting in an. grade ore from a well defined four made, and the Gulch is in a fair way extent, which, as yet, has not.been the admirer of the beautiful should - intrusive and insulting manner. These to be prospected. I had the pleasure explored. The first chamber is full not miss feasting his eyes upon it. night visita have aroused the people of our foot vein, which continues to. grow better as they sink. Mr. Humphry’s, superintendent of quiet city to realize the indignity offered, as of panning out a few shovel’s full, of decomposed quartz containing a we have rcason to believe these characters the American Fork railway, and his THE MONO and found the color every time. © large per cent, of gold and silver, the had other objects in view. than. the arrest former plainly. discernible to the gentlemanly employers wili make a. pretended. ‘hey returned to Washington, has been working afew men, under AT THE HEAD OF THE GULCH . naked eye. ‘he facilities for work- tour to the canyon a pleasant one to apparently crest-fallen, - Mac, the direction of BH, M. Eddy. They prospecting has begun in earnest, ing are quite primitive, yet fully ten all who place themselves in their care. made a shipment of ore this week. and the tent of ye honest miner dots John McFarlane is a Danite, and FISHING AND HUNTING tons have been taken ‘out, and as This mine is O. K., if only worked. the picturesque Horse Shoe. Gold much more is in sight. The ore is is good, and gay sport can be had in made himself extremely officious at They have a ten inch vein where they seekers from Alta are here in squads, being classified into three grades, the enticing the speckled beauties from’ Beaver during the Lee trial, Mar- are at work, of the rich ore for which having packed their grub.and mining first assaying over $21,000 in gold, their watery element, or driving the shal Stokes and posse had good reason the Mono is noted. : tools trom that mountain retreat over $200 in silver, the second $3,000 and affectionate bear THE DESERET from his lair. to suspect him of. concealing his the ridge. Lumber for slucing is the third $1,900. On the dump 15) Speaking of bruin, reminds us of a being brought in, and preparations is working twelve men, and running sacks are filled, mostly of the first huge old fellow hibernating in the| brother murderers. . Of course ‘‘the on a heavy vei, withsomeore. The for active placer mining commenced. grade. Wecould unhesitatingly say canyon beyond. ~He has got away people” are aroused against the visits Thad. Stevens. has at last struck a In this part of the district are located that there is $100,000 worth of ore on with twenty head of fat cattle this of United States. officers, and are threes foot. vein of snid ore. The the famous Sunday lode, with its the dump and in sight in season, and is still crying for more. doing allthey can to prevent the ar- Yankee Doodle has three feet of 90 thousands sacked and in sight; the the mine, and the lode _ is His love for cattle has earned him the rest of Haight and Higbee, . the oz. fine smelting ore, at 285 feet, famous Miller, which is attaining all that Tue TRIBUNE corres- name of Hooper, and like bis illusdepth. The Ira and Kearsarge Co. depth and improving; the Live Yanpondents have heretofore represented. ‘trious namesake, he keepsmum. If Mountain Meadows leaders. Marshal are working three mea and following kee, Bullion, and the Mary Hillen. The mine was discovered one bright any of your citizens have lost Bruin Stokes wouldn’t miss it'far by arrest-' down a small yein of very rieh ore. The gold is oxtremely fine, and it Sunday morning in August of last Hooper, tell them to look for him in ing McFarlane, the man who is so fast The Little Giant belonging to Oap- willrequire very careful working to year, by George Fry, who was then Provo Canyon. The hones of Bruin’s' to send the news to Brigham. save it all.. The owners of the Sun| tain Hardy & Co., have reached a in the employ of the Miller Mine as victims, like those of the innocents at. body. of fine looking smelting ore. day lode, by reason of the fineness of i 4h er ih ik blacksmith. - No miner or expert Mountain Meadows, are left to bleach The Silver Crown continues to im- the gold, are compelled to use close ‘Bear River Coke. would have ever thought of looking’ in the mountain air. Speaking® of prove in. extent ‘aud quality. The ‘sacks in order to prevent loss of ore in such an unlikely and dangerous ‘Mountain Meadows, reminds us of | | The following very gratifying letter | Jefferson is working asmall force and in transmission, : The smelting men place as that for a mine, and all the ».. of Salt Lake and Sandv are desirous THE. CONDUCTOR’ S STORY. has heen handed us. for publication, looking well. practical miners express themselves | of purchasing all the ore produced in coisng?) THE,SENNY COLE. After gaining the bench, above Testsiof the same coke are now. being’ } as greatly puzzled over the singuiar re-commence work next week, this mine to increase the value of formation - (quartzite) and the vast American Fork City, Utah Lake, like made inthe Chicago and Germania (| Itwillshows one foet of No. 1 ore, with a: their bullion. body of ore. Mr. Fry located Mr. a broad clear mirror, spreads itself smelters, and when completed the're. The Wild Dutchman, a short disEply and Little Frenchy—the three away in the distance; but not a sail is: sult will be made known in our col- well defined. banging wall. This is tance above Forest City, is shipping one of the finest prospects ever seen. tobe seen on this beautiful body of comprising the original owners. Mr. considerable fair quality ore to Sandy. Loser soy dade vittetiaes | | for.the amount.efworkdone, Eply has since disposed of a small: water, which is thirty-five miles in UMNSs The. superintendent’s mouth is under OFFICE OF THE WARM SPBING i | “YAQBS Orry > interest, while Frenchy, becoming too length by sixteen in breadth. Relock and.,,.key, soI cannot give you SMELTING WoxrKS, Satur DAke Crry, during the day ‘tinie has a'very dull any information regarding its works. highly elated over his good fortune, marking this absence, the conductor Ape, se i - Sept. 10, 1875. is said to have disposed of 100 feet related a little story, which is remark- |" J. Lathan’ Smith, Esq. Sir: Vhe appearance, but when ithe: miners eg eee es :. « BION. more than he was justly entitled to, able for its truthfulness and awful re- 2,500 pounds of coke received from flock from the hiis at night for re‘‘ Years haye elapsed since your coal mines on Bear-river, Wy-. creation, and ‘their mealls, then} and has since dispensed his money sults. The Lincoln Smelter. with a lavish hand. Such ‘is fickle that great luke’s bosom was ruffled oming .. Territory, 1 -haye carefully. Messrs. Spangler & Kelly’s, Selig& | ~ stores, . The Lincoln.,Smelting ‘and Mining Lipn fortune-—of such is ye honest miner. with the prows of saucy sailing craft. tested in my furnace,. having used it ‘Simons’ and M. H.’ H.’ Lipman’s Mr. Fry retains hisinterest (800 feet) But they werepirates who lived by in the same proportion as I do the. -as well as Kgan & Resse’s, Rioberts & in tact, and has enough assured fora murder and plunder, just the same Eastern coke, with equally ‘good: re- Armstrong’s and..P. Gibbons’ new Company in Beaver county, is reas Brigham does at the present time, rainy day. EOE aA TF sults, considering the fact, that your saloons are all fil'ed and doins a rush- suming work‘on their mine, and ere ~The mine, so. far as we are able io Judge McKean hearing of their de- coke was made in the open air. If ing business. Hiram Lusk, lsq., J. long the company’s furnace will again judge, is permanent, and will mark a vastations, came down from Salt Lake ‘properly prepared in coke ovens, I G. Quinn and S. Alstrand are also be in lively operation. Since the new era in Utah mining. There’s one day under full sail, on the good have no doubt, it would be equal, if doing well as grocers and wprovision dealers. Messrs. Broome & George suspension of operations, the foreman, millions init. The discoverers threw ship Boomerang, aid with his little not superior to any Hastern onke over their dump before they knew of hatchet, which never told a lie, scut- brought to this market. eT 4 have reopened and refitted their sa- Mr. Flag, has developed a large body tled ail the piratical craft ‘and’ killed loon, and command a good trade, of ore above the water Jevel. This -the quality of their ore, about twenty | Respectfully yours, all the pirates but one, who was left Mr. Ohas. Lawson has leased the ore alone will keep the furnace runtons, which has since. been tested, | W. J. P.. Pascos. giving as high as four dollars to the for seed, but subsequently!escaped to Queen of the Hills boardinghouse, ———_—___-_ o <§ @ > —— ; and no better table is spread in any ning for a time, and as soon as the pan. They have contracted with a the mountains, and to this day is: known.as the Ove-Hyed Pirate of the party, agreeing to give half for work Colorado River Gold. | camp. His cellars? filled with a pump, which is now on the road from Wasatch.” He has degenerated into fine stock of groccries, provisions this city, is in position, immense ing and assorting it. It It is estimated | The prospect for gold on the Coloand fruits. The miners can’t com- quantities of ore can be reached in that:this refuse will produce $20,000. an insignificant’ timber thief, and as ‘rado is thought by miners’who have Col. Patton is after him, he'll bé apt plain much if their wages are cut PROSPECTING FOR GOLD to bring up in the Utah Penitentiary, some knowledge of the matter, to be down (to $2.50 pe: day with board the lower level of the mine. in this district amounts to 4 perfect lately vacated by Brigham Young” o—-4£@>— fare is spropd. SUrAn. furor, and claims have been taken up This is all the conductor had to say, good. At Lee’s Ferry, as well as on. when such _———-—_—_ o£ @ pe —__—_—_ . Tue Mountain Meadows boys at not cnly in the immediate: vicinity, as he wiped the prespiration from his all bars above and below for along the Tabernacle, yesterday, wero try“but ata great distance from the Sun-. manly brow and heaved a heavy sigh. distance, gold is’ present in everyday lode, and placer diggings have But story-telling, like the measles, is panful of sand, but it is very fine, ham has never spent any money for. ing to pursuade the Saints that the already. been commenced ~ with: catching and must go around, or we and the question of success depends education, but it isa mistake. Over Indian troubles are not the result of making travel much easier up Little |. Haight and Highee. CHICAGO 97353 AND QUEEN OF THE HILLS Somm of the Saints think that Brig- promising. .results, The most are-all unhappy, so all listened to THE MINER'S STORY. upon whether the, fine scales can be. | collected with quicksilver in rockers. ‘He was a Scandinavian, and: em- The gold is said creek, ai the Horse Soe, where to be of ‘an excellent sluices have beea put in and mining | braced ‘‘ Mormonismon” in hisnorthar ® ern home, but was cured of it in this quguty, begun in good earnest. The dirt attractive at the place. head appears to_ be of} Mary... Hilen $600,000 have been expended on Hy the Mormon endowments. Clawson’s business education, and he has not graduated asa business’ man yet. *. ae the excitement, Corinne During Brigham’s imps said thumbs up, now it’s wiggle waggle. |