| Show WAX MIXES XEARFOBTDUCHESXE All Prospectors on the Reservation to be Removed by the Military In the early spring the people of Ashley began to feel gloomy over the water prospects pros-pects this season but of late the creeks have risen until there is plenty for all the land under cultivation The crops are looking well and promise a large harvest this year There are great prospects of a coal oil excitement ex-citement in the Ashley country in fact petroleum has been found in pools sufficiently suffi-ciently large to enable the finder to dip it up with a cup An eastern company has located claims covering a tract of land about eight miles in length It looks like ta li egWe At kn I the natural resources of the Ashley country coun-try will soon place her in the front ranks as a producing section A correspondent writes from Fort Du chesneas follows I just arrived here after taking the wax mines in and locating 100 acres under the placer act in which Heber parties including the editor of the Haw is interested There are some large veins of the wax located and the hills appear to be full of oil and wax There are about one hundred and fifty men in the hills around thee prospecting and making records of the various claims This will no doubt be a great mining district in the near future but it is all on the Indian reservation that is all that is discovered and I was just informed in-formed by parties here that the commander of this post has received instructions to remove re-move from the mines all parties and I am told that the instructions will be fully carried car-ried out and that too immediately Thus will end one of the greatest mining excitements that has ever existed in the Uintah valley Many parties who mire now working at the mines feel confident that they are not on the reservation and their disappointment at being removed will be very great But the making of the discovery discov-ery public will no doubt end in the reserva tion being cut down so as to make the Strawberry river the southern boundary Wasatch Wave |
