Show MRS BASES GOLD High Grade Ore Found in the la Salle Mountains The Grand Valley Times published at Moab in the southeastern portion of Utah makes mention of the mining interests in-terests of the La Salle mountains as follows The Times man found on his visit to Miners Basin this week development work going on as midly a can be expected and all the prospects showing show-ing better than when he was there a month ago Fowler Hepburn Wolf have opened a nw lead on their ground with a body of ore averaging t 7er 100 per ton free mililng gold They have constructed a ditch and taken the water from the head of the Basin to a point located for a millsite and are clearing the ground for the placing of an arrastra We visited the Little Dot claim of McGraw and Loutsenheizer in which they iiave a vein df 1000 ore The tunnel tun-nel they have run is but little below the apex of the vein and they will do further development work in unning a tunnel further down the mountain and thus get greater depth on the vein 1 McKee Is working on his claims which lay onthe same mountain as the other claims in the basin Mr McKee has a fine photograph outfit with him and has taken a number of views of the district Mr Fowler ha gone to Telluride and will be absent several weeks We found Alex Caldwell an old prospector pros-pector and miner well known In Utah and Colorado mining camps staking a claim on one of the forks of Mill creek and he said he considered the surface surace indications a good a he has ever seen Mr Caldwell located years ago several of the producing mines of Gilpln and Clear Creek counties Colorado and says that the La Salle mountains in I the formation character of rock etc resembles very closely those well known I Colorado districts |