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Show SAN JUAN DISTRICT. Excitement In Regard Thereto. Some little time ago, the Herald, in speaking of the San Juan Mining District, suggested that Utah, if not alreadv represented there, would be so, to the fullest measure, by spring. We have since learned that a large number of prospectors purpose leaving for San Juan atanearlydate, and they will undoubtedly be followed by more as soon as tlie winter season is passed. The fever is very catching and is rapidly ra-pidly spreading. Gold, silver, iron, copper, coal, and lead existing in the fabulous quantities that are reported in this district are a lodestone whose magnetism it is almost impossible to resist. When men take out dairy from $-50 to 1,00U, talk about ore yielding up to $10,000 to the ton, and report silver leads richer than gold because of their creator size, the temptation to go and enquire into the matter becomes too strong for argument. argu-ment. There being from four to five hundred million acres of land in the district there is abundant room for prospectors to spreadout. Five hundred hund-red valuable locations are reported already made. Mr. Thomas C'ree, Secretary of the Board of Indian Commissioners, who concluded the treaty by which this territory was ceded back . to the United States, gives the following report re-port to the Denver Xetcs: The party visited the San Juan mining min-ing region, and report it unusually rich in gold, silver, copper, lead, iron and coal. One mine the only on fully opened is yielding, with poor machinery, $1,000 in gold per day. This mine, the "Little Giant," was sold without legal title to a Chicago company for $500,000, and- since the treaty is valued at $1,000,000. It is expected that with the improved ma- 1 eumery ei route it will yield i3,000 in gold per week. A mine with as Liood indications, on the same lead. is being negotiated for. The ore from j this lead yielded $i,000 to $5,000 per ton. The country, Mr. Cree reports, is equally as rich in silver ore, oue lead being very rich in a vein six feet thick, and another yields pay ore in a forty-foot vein. There are immense veins of copper cropping out on the surlace, none of which are taken up. Iron and coal lie in close proximity the latter of a superior quality for smelting purposes. Fifty town lots were located on news of the treaty being be-ing received. The country is immense-. ly rich, and, with capital to develop it, is good for a hundred millions of the precious metals, Sir. Or-eb and his party spent seven j days in the saddle crossing three main ranges of the Uncompagre and San j Juan mountains nt an altitude of 12,- ' 000 to 13,000 feet, camping iu the ' open air, riding throutrh rain and j snow over steep trails, aud through fallen timber, swamps and rocks. Any one may go in and pre-empt as they do prairie land. All that is I required is that the person who locates a claim shall dig a hole and post a notice, and thereafter for five years put 'one. hundred dollars' worth of work per annum into it,' as they say. At the end of five vcars ho must go to the land olfiee and pay 500, when a patent issues to him securing the property absolutely. If a man neglects neg-lects to work his 100 worth any year the claim is opened to the first comer. Hid labor is to be rated at miners1 wages. If he desires to buy the land outright he can have it for $5 p3r acre, Just at this season it is very bad do -1 ing anything in the prospecting line, ! ! owing to the severity of the weather i and the heaw snows. Lying 13,000 feet above the sea level, it will be found worse than our own Little Cottonwood j j at the present time. A terrible snow Morm was reported occurring there but a few days ago. Wheuspringopen3 then the boys about Salt Lake ! propose to sally forth in full force j and take the place by storm. That . is the talk on the street corners, and : among little knots of miners up and down East Temple street, to-day. The Pioche liccoiil gives the following information in-formation as to getting there, etc.: |