Show BIG MINING EXCITEMENT Ashley S TaUey People Have the Gold Fever ALL e ARE PROSPECTING S MOUNTAINS NEAR VERNAL SWARMING ING WITHGOLD SEEKERS S Town Sites Platted and Locations S Recorded Neirs From CaMs Kite and His Party A TaU With MrS j Mr-S Holliday One of the Original Locators S IVeral Uintah county June 21 Everybody in this beautified valley has the gold fever and a vast number of the inhabitants are seeking earnestly for the gold cure for hard times I Less than one month ago the news of a rich strike near Vernal was her rc aIded throughout our territory and today to-day you find the mountains in this vicinity vi-cinity filled with men New townsites i have been located and the roads leading i lead-ing from Colorado Wyoming and l parts of Utah are lined with miners all bound for the mountains and singing sing-ing as they go of the richness of this S comparatively isolated country i I is estimated that already there are more than 200 men tramping the hills surrounding Baldy and making daily locations The county recorder is kept busy recording the location no tires I The conservative people In this locality say that if the present rush keeps UD for two weeks longer there will be from 1000 t 1200 men prospecting prospect-ing for the riches of the earth supposed sup-posed to be contained in the high range of mountains north and west of here I is stated that already the men are not confining their searches to the country outside of the reservations but that they are overrunning that portion set apart for the < ew remaining wandering wan-dering red men Imaginary boundary lines constitute but feeble barriers to keep out trespassers in search of their fortunes The original strike mad Mr Hatch and others is claimed by some to be on the Uintah reservation but others say it is fully five miles from the line When Mr Hatch and his companions returned from Provo after having learned of the richness of theTi find they were accompanied by Mr S S Rogers of Salt Lake an expert sent out to pass upon the property I is Understood derstood that he has left for Salt Lake city carrying with him god reports of the claims and that he is perfectly satisfied that it is a val uiWe find 1 is reported by men in a position to know that he made some good finds while here from whir he experts good results He a taken about 100 pounds of ore with him to Salt Lake Men who have been up t > the mine say that the vein or ledge of ore can be traced along the mountain for a distance of four miles and some go r far a to say that it can be traced in an easterly direction a far as Green River a iisince o from sixty to seventyfive miles Genial Gen-ial Cass Rite and Ms outfit are still in the mountains northwest of here and are working hard As vet he has recorded no cJatalt but it is a fact that he has found soffrB valuable rnlc but 3ie has little to say about his prospects pros-pects and he ds keeping his business to himself I is said by some however how-ever that lie ha found some placer cams but their workings ani extent is not stated He has ben prospecting in the country immediately surrounding surround-ing the Haitcih find and will undoubtedly undoubt-edly long report something definite before I longMessrs W C Britt S 1 Brown E 1 Harmston E W Davis and S D Colton five Vernal citizens have filed Iwith the county recorder articles incorporating incor-porating a townsiite and at present they have Q surveyor on tlhe ground near the discovery surveying and platting plat-ting the new w which will be named Hillsdale It is situated about forty miles northwest of Vernal and very near the top of the range and is between Dry Fork and White Rnck canyons Your correspondent met Mr G F Holliday one of the original lo catlors today and had a long conversation conver-sation with him in which hfe stated > that he left Salt Lake last April for this sedtion of the country intending t go to some placer claims further east He was unable to get through the mountains on account of the snow and 5 turned west in the direction of i I Dry Fork canyon While plodding slowly along through the snow he met Mr Lorenzo Hatch nnd I his boy CMr Hatch thougfhit that Mr Holliday was one of Mr Kites party but soon learned that such was not the case but that he Mr Holliday was bound for the same part of the country that Mr Hatch was then try ing to reach Mr Holliday informed I I Mr Hatch of the whereabouts of Mr I Hite and from the latters laters course it I was thought that he was coming tt the head waters of the Dry Fork and I White Rock from such a direction that he could reach the ledge first unless they made haste Mr Holliday from I what he could learn Imagined the distance dis-tance was considerable and that itS it-S would be a hard trip and advised their I return to camp that they might get a supply of food but Mr Hatch was i in favor of prompt action and with scarcely two days rations they started Ion I a trip which lasted five days during which time they traveled through snow I and ice and going more than thirty five miles on foot the snow being so I deep and soft that It was impossible to take their horses They were compelled I com-pelled to lay out night after night in wet clothing without food or bedding j and at the end of five days they returned re-turned to their camp more dead than alive bu feeling confident their fortunes for-tunes were secure The story of the discovery as told by Mr Holliday is full of hardships and is sensational in I its nature Since their return from I Provo they have discovered the remains re-mains of an old camp outfit and on a washbasin they discovered the date I 1872 and with it tb < name of a Frenchman Bones 12 a human being and three horses have been found and now the story goes the Indians tell in a jocular manner of having long I ago killed a party in that part of the country for trying to steal Injin I rock These bones and parts Qf a camp outfit are near one of the mining I min-ing claims and the supposition is that in days gone by some prospectors found this property and the Indians believing it valuable killed them rather than let it be known and this Idea is strengthened by reason of the fact that Mr Hatch first learned of this through some of the Indians showing show-ing the ledge to him Ashley valley is in a prospering Ahley valey condition I con-dition and the people are now anticipating antici-pating grand things as a result of the present gold find and during the past two days I have heard so much about the yellow metal that I begin to feel the fever coming on I will go into the mountains for my health GUIKAS |