Show GOLD MINtS IN SOUTHfRN UTAH OLDFASHIONED ARASTRAS ARE IN OPERATIIDr John Long Working Some Fine Veins of Free Milling OreR sources of the Country sOFces eSpecial to The Herald Chloride Ariz March 4John Long a ranchman and miner from southern Utah 200 miles north of here Is in town HIs home and ranch are sltuate in a beautiful beau-tiful level valley of sufficient dimensions In wIdth to have broad level tracts of meadow land besides an almost innumerable innu-merable variety of fruits and grains From these products he reaps handsome sums by delivering them In wagons to the JroSDectorn who are quite numerous in that vicinity The country he describes as being wild and unsettled and his first days trIp out In this direction he drove over forty miles before ho came to a sign of a habItation Much wild game was killed on the trip including deer antelope and the smaller game three mountaIn sheep were killed and Ir Long declares the meat oC thIs weJinigh extinct mountain animal Is most delicious Back of the ranch home of 111 Long and family rise some of the high and rugged mountains continuing In an unbroKen un-broKen chaIn through Utah and Into the stata of Nevada it is in the roothllls of these mountains that Mr Long owns some fine gold and sliver mines The method or treatment used Is the old fashioned fash-ioned arastra and slulc boxes worked by water poeer turning andtrado ma chinery Only the gold veins are treated at present but Long descrIbes rich silver veins which will not be disturbed WI better facilities for handling it are at han His gold claims contaIn ores of a strictly freem1lllng character being a decomposed Iron formation easily crushed and separated The ore belt he declares can be traced for several miles across the mountains and gulches and at present there arc quite a number of miners getting good returns by the prim ithe methods described With modern machinery or a railroad to market the product It wlll become a great distrIct Mr Longs purpose In going there was to establish a home and he expects to follow fruit raising He describes the cOllntl very rich as IL horticultural and mining section which is sure to attract at-tract great attention In the near future |