Show EXCITEMENT I EIi1TRY People Going Wid Over Copper On the San Rafael Special Correspondence PrIce Utah March Partes In from the south yesterday and today say there fs a veritable mining panic on nt Caste Dale and tile surrounding towns of Emery county the like or whIch has never ben seen in eastern Utah before The excItement appear to be some forty miles to the southeast of Caste Dale on what Is known a a dry wash that breaks oiL into the San Rafael river Sonic fine specimens of copper ore have been brought in and the country coun-try 115 been staked for miles along the veIn So great Is the Interest and excitement at Caste Dale that it is difficult to obtaIn a horse packing out ft or conveyance to get into the new diggings Nothing much had been thought the country until about ten days ago 81 V Le Sleur of Provo and Wi E Hubbfr the Salt Lake pr motel mo-tel went In there They are understood under-stood to have made a big debt and their presence on the ground wrought the people up to fever heat Several parties here in Price have sent out prospectors and there are now no less than a dozen men from her 1n the lis there Good assays have been had in a number of lnsttincs and the only fear of doubt as to perJanency Is that the veins will not hqld out wIth depth The country was thorolghly prospected years ago but a an oldtmer said they were then looking for silver and gold and passed up copper like a white chip In tills connection there Is a story to the effect that when the Robbers Roost gang were monarchs of all they surveyed sur-veyed in eastern Utah they went Into retreat in that part of the country That they dl not look with disgust upon mIning Is a welknowr fat Mar well who is now in the penitentiary for he prlngIe bank robber Is known to have given consIderable attention to mlnerology and to have had some good prospects Sine he was sent up it is Jmown to The Herald correspondent that parties here have been in cores pondence with hIm and it Is more than lkely he ha given out I tip for a consideration con-sideration A prominent business man here has a map of some claims in that recton whIch was furnished him by Maxwell sInce his incceraton and at different times he ha expressed him in tenton to friends togo in there when the snow should havedisappeaed and prOspecting was possIble The question now in the minds of many here is Has someone run onto the Maxwell bonaza |