Show CASS hife ON THE SAN JUANI I 1 Z flo eso Is sure that tho coniry Is aich in iii gold HIS MAP OF THE PLACER REGION I 1 A letter r full oil doscha road men man start for the fields tito li laxwell milne adline selwyn aalona G ilono prom dinelt creole creek general 11 mining fleming intelligence oro and bullion I 1 anybody who lm has heard beard anything ot of the iho colorado mid and tile san sad juan the ibe kou gold excitement li Is low con ot of people Liuo plo knows ot at casi no man has lio explored that country to so thoroughly as 13 lim has be to rise BO him bin own expression 1 I thin think k I 1 would know every caory rook rock in that coun country try ho calonod the san joan and Color colorado rdo rivet river country with rm an exploring expedition in the fall all of at ISSI no A as a WJ walh ill tire beauties and wonderful formations vehicle he be fount found ila ha was ru a prospector not adal was there prospecting tuo live min veral deposits wah LJJ party be 1 elored the section thoroughly the names on the snap map ot at that country mavy many of them wore by cua cass imite illde kadi and bli party since Cs s drag entered the san juan I 1 ff I 1 r tn 5 e X er 15 kal av 1 II E C ci aw I 1 11 lita 5 I 1 7 1 7 I 1 E L K I 1 as I 1 10 U MV 1 A n A aia f sh 1 wll 11 41 I 1 I IN I 1 ra ma I 1 s PW IN wm I 1 I 1 1 1 J I 1 I 1 A P I 1 1 Q k V I 1 e N 14 4 V taj tit A Q I 1 telf fi eq 4 q I 1 it ac 14 N 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 r I 1 A n I 1 V 7 kc 1 ZV 6 1 14 t I 1 j N P J a V alp ilp ar i 4 it ll 11 z I 1 J n i s e I 1 ic al J il I 1 q 1 liv ati P t Z I 1 I 1 za 1 woo I 1 ai M f I 1 I 1 P I 1 14 I 1 I 1 4 V it Z 6 1 NO 0 t e r 1 it i I 1 q 0 tv f y I 1 I 1 I 1 r 1 4 11 0 xo V C I 1 v 4 ab q 11 I 1 1 I 1 P 91 N S t ja I 1 el A V Q 0 z a 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 c 4 it kvile 11 I 1 SP Z A af T r 2 Z S I 1 C V C czi I 1 w 4 1 az ar 1 ac cy f ma ial si itzi IZ alwi I 1 nelll rn S I 1 y 0 az az I 1 ca 11 i t C Z I 1 P 0 i C J Y j I 1 it oab 4 11 I 1 3 tl t U I 1 3 0 V 91 aso i 2 E el N l rw M 1 0 tn 1 VIP 15 1 luo A Z alp lz 0 1 II 11 r I 1 I 1 u I 1 0 cr e W ia 1 6 T if f CN 17 11 1 il I 1 1 I KY Z tj 14 t 0 Q tk t k lw N I 1 vi 0 i I 1 17 a arz I 1 1 1 0 V 4 II 11 I 1 1 7 V 11 b I 1 0 U le I 1 t 11 fo 4 1 I 1 01 r f r 1 Z 40 i 6 p I 1 da 01 i I 1 ea ay IV 1 ill 4 as 1 of a A 11 I 1 awes can 0 az 10 W N 41 I 1 el J 71 2 Z 0 I 1 1 11 Y 1 rz L fl I 1 E i ARP X i a I 1 00 it IM IV th 16 11 1 J 05 I 1 fee 1 el l at is I 1 1 ciarra ap 91 fa IP e s fe 0 J iq I 1 1104 k 54 aar I 1 CASS HITES MAP OF THE SAN JUAN and colorado country anco since bo be did ills his first p respecting there ills bin name naino bus been a part at 0 the country with WILL his more than te ten c years of 0 prospecting and exploration there U a DO 0 ono am bettor able to accurately and r reliably ai write on tho the ono one subject all abject at present of f paramount interest than it ho 0 la in a I 1 late a to is essco so 0 ot of the denver republican benave nn an recount account of 0 his bis researches accompanying his description of 0 tho the country with on an uco soup ins 1115 OWN EXPLOITS by way ot at personal preface to what he be writes he hoei says 11 1 1 I 1 moro more than I 1 bad time to prospect the region where I 1 alio llio he gan baa juan placer I 1 lie HP from rom the fall all ot 61 to 0 tho I 1 a fall of IS 63 3 while it Is now easy to invade that country mail look around la in a few brecks with safety and instructions Instruct lotis about the lay rf of tho the land then it was hazardous jn in many buys there were warring elements it dececo ago the navajo vries BBS to kay Y tho the least don ddn gero berous usand and it tool took eternal ix lanco to carry pa on that precarious ot of pros but two lung loni yours years of 0 unceasing ng toll loll in a now country oat not over miles square ought to give ono the right to lu say something I 1 think I 1 would know every rode rock to in that country in his letter vir which follows ho he att elates atos that there ingold la eold la in tho the sanjuan sun juan and colorado it ac in id fine gold foll thit that no poor roan man can work ties claims cl alnis but that can I 1 develop derc loti the riches and bo be mulo made to pity pay vv wet ill totter dated tit lit provo january 1 1803 IQ in nil full li it as follows I 1 cass letter latter bluff city utah Is 13 about miles from the mouth ot of the sari J uan river and lies near loony tho the lower inner end of 0 the fertile va valloy lloys si or 0 that stream elre aio tun miles below tile the river enters what Is called the cittee niilo chhon at abels polut it cut cals lit at tire tho depth 0 of t SOW LOUD teat feat through a zeal reef ot of upturned centary for mealun known ns as the conje aub at the ibo base rf ot this reef Is the ibo comb waste which heads in the blus blue thirty ore miles north of 0 it its where it emillis em ullis luto into tho san juan river william uyda ratum ran a trading poat there ten yours years ao a trading with tire kai no ajon the dittos to Is called floco tl oco that Is 18 a ai fr far rs is it a road oun can ever be ba tilen taken dowa tile river and is id about to lo ono hundred to choro luto attic colorado river from that polut point the tha sun san juan ant enlora r s and plunges through tareo aneo that calious cin ions thit ro up pulling as the acl aty cabool dauod on oa the great greal colorado rz t fifteen mlle alil lo 10 ballom cuts cuta through enu band stoma shells and time and li it la in places charged heavily with iron and copper lu in tact fact ro 0 o for ur hi bg tho alio hole e country Is 1 con ceward bernod ft can cali bo be called tills this cullon ut at the ihu mouth of D gypsum crook and onu front from there for five or six elx miles the country lei in lawor TI 14 au the river drops down into rort yur clyto mile diio cation it 16 outs through th tin an uplift ori or high hleb ridge riago which nu no the iho north side 0 of tho the aver la Is called the ilo collar on oil tile south side idu it IS s called ui the ridge this ald u or uplift ilas llah of cr monumental i alley they both bolli darlys the hie name floru boiu lofty which wiloh 1 tand midd ova over r that to uis tw perhaps u hundred and auld put all objects in tho the garden of tile alio to shame willer the ilio man juirl outa oula through this ibis forb or ion which j d old led end ois tono balds marl nod od lime forwood for tuot foot lu in depth it la ili grand I 1 have berott ili i the G grant ramt glen or grand calious oc it tire colorado river cult cali surpass it f for or 1 this edilou I 1 never bad a chance to tf pros pact us i I 1 would 1110 to have done it cannot bo be approach ol except by boat thorn thero lra ft a tow few places where man can climb down those mighty wall walis lu in tire ony tivo mile conan canon ur mo 0 very croog of 0 coil oil off in places the ill if where it exudes I 1 und with the wetter lathe ia iho river cali cad bo be scented fur n R eilif hancl there li Is a mille acan fat relation running n north OL 0 and south from tile olt die to ill iho t h 0 sierra i beyond tho lea tinted ut of moonlight cafini after the san inner leaves 1 orty ova iello it t goes go fur for nix or toven seven miles it a country where the lit in maoli lower coming front from tile south through list ati or calwy Is he b no a nil 11 ad lu in the fall fail of 0 hl 81 touching it IT by after a i a cars ci dui ds toll nod ozo CID 11 allou for or water and rid tho the no karijo joe lylo lying to us na all I 1 tb tho toiuo die B to whom where WB 0 we would u lit find w t n r steu alio clay wash carnow coniah f from rono abe north nort h i and L ui d i flows into the ono baa joan nearly dearly MOO tit C it I 1 I 1 sea 00 oo by the iho papers paper that they are arc claiming conran gold cold 3 in a those places I 1 look opun that as RU an tholly tho elk mesa upon the north und and the moin Cal on tho the s acu ecu coin it tire bra on entirely fort tor ma mallon ion and nit nil gold cold that bun bull over ever yet been lot aund nil la in the sedimentary rook Is ii fino fine gold eold couro coarse gold frold does not far front from tile load rl that thai aholo country lure hm lost several foot of its surface Th tho pro ot of erosion has ban worn wore ibbe the gruvis b car a cle rud 1111 lown down down to tho the OUR C guld 1 it be byln 1 ng s soft oft and I 1 convy bavy b bas as naturally ground i cry fino fine as ai it travels tto the only meow according to my own belief liol lef lor for comiso KUS gold lei in that to hen would b lu I 1 in 1 the short gulches aclin uc lin ou on tile north norih or west of tile navajo mountain ln which in it at tho the it of tho the sari seii juan tend colorado thoy they bead in fit tho the tio format form dilon ion ot of that idland mountain and they havo found course jold gold in alindo mart marl und nand and stork bonc a thun their thoraf Is in no show fur for out tile or of loio hose tow off little short gulob loading up into tire tho nevajo moun talu you on risk aiu my op lolon lalon and although I 1 arm inay bo be wrong I 1 do not think tlora ilioram is any toy coarse gold to la hint country FINC GOLD put nut tor for flue floo gold and larko 0 areas evenly as a alne gold cold niort 11 t hui has a great baturo that anglero calu try li 14 sedimentary rocks las haa caused that great alk b bailon country rod ind loft left between high hah mean forma holed which shohi in tho ghe alost olost man tier tire time tito tho atupan doua clong belts ot at the often 0 tried GOOD feet ret in depth A stratum of quartz bubblo pub blo miny foot cot lei in one of chose groat that cov cover r that country and with that atra tarn I 1 contended tor for two yo monr neris I 1 never found nuy thIm that a poor roan mail could work sl at thou khouth h I 1 uin am convinced 11 I 1 know of much good gold cold property in fit that section that could coald bo be worked tit nt a road profit with enough to put it in working aber in that quartz stratum tho the water loyal lord of 0 tho the tor for grilles would suggest that it wai formed by glaciers ela cleri I 1 lead bad enoy made from rom that and cot from J tied and ft 1 to lo 25 and sa 1 0 O tier per lott ion now to la tho the c canons alons below that immense stratum and a ovon U n u poll the tops of low lower a er mesas me 44 held and bashia where the stratum hs has do posited Us its disintegrated washings I 1 found gold cold every time but it aoa oro jilin tile tho great cultures callous at 0 the lower sari sail juan huun bed and tire tho colorado liaro rare performed the iho functions unc of mighty boxes the flue duo gold cold and aad tire the richest ot of the black sandor owing to their gravity s ively leave have dragged along alone behind UIL all olber matter and do deposited posited wherever they limit had a chance chanco in Jn largo bod ad small bodies bodice and tit in gone bonie instances vory rich from tho the mouth of moonlight calion it lei la about thirty five miles to the iho confluence conDu enco ot of tho the sm sen juan and aad colorado that Is a vory very rough mallon canon end add with but tow few gravel cravel depo it L corning coming into tho the san juan from torn tuc the south are moonlight cablon copper foltos and last east cation the latter being byln tire lust rod it drains everything to the cost bit of the navajo mountain GOOD COLD GOI D COUNTRY couster thill that Is it ft goodgold country and tho the filet fact that I 1 did not strike it rich in there Is no reason in the world why others way may not I 1 drifted over citron on tho the colorado and truck dandy boo need mid good liopo it where hero I 1 could rod and did live for years yeara with a roc ro kor I 1 believe that tho the beds of 0 those streams are yellow but it Is the easiest bar or deposits we wa aro are always after tho the gold cold sIti on streams wll vl I 1 last t for a century ot of active mining it li Is a barren desert country and tire great bialis ot at poor auton who go co there will likely ditke if buffor groat great ILI as well wall is as for chuck tito tho waters ot of tho the san juan and colorado rivers aro are hard to t tako a I 1 a out tor for and purposes to the iho walla and ban alanl and the rise and full all ot of the water lu in tile river dindy Crossl ns Is 14 on an all air line train boiu mouth ot of moonlight and clay wash abut forty ond and by romil sixty ove frona jonii bault severely nilles and by road 13 ninety to ulab und nil 0 colorado rut to north of pueblo anif and grant gemini ju action ahn best beat road is from bruni green river utah etab by dandy bein beans g front from croon lo 10 tho the crof tIni miles and front froin the crossing to mouth of n moonlight by valto callon five tho the more experience ono gets la in the life of ft mining prospector prod tile tho inore chary lie bo becomes bc cornos in ili tin opinion us its to thoro Is rold gold in on oil a burt area title that thai about tho the expression I 1 cao can think of lix lit this caso case Is that gold Js Is you field it pitr railroad nall road men to tho the front chlof chief clerk smith of orce office toni lon general ter if tho the blu blo grande western and liveral liv cral other railroad retail left yos yesterday morning for or the iho glenry aenry mountain gold abou r nt omen they day jy will lot let a COD rite toe for running it a foot on tho the jt it IH this iho of the alio to login on this property tho the party to aliu sun julia coultry before returning to batt lake testing callandor oro ore the callander llauder Cal Ca laudor company of clifton district deep crook uru tire ranking arrango letters for works and Lory to 0 this end ore tl alio yar was processes saLles now lii in this ea city lt Y tito tho company Is composed if henry din booey president professor via alco a prest dont clont E R wallace Wal laoo secretary nod and tre anser il 1 A ballantyne Ballan Dallan at dinwoodey professor Proff baor Pro professor aber J smith directors twelve 0 ira lonH leaving li avlo nil BI aiduk of ounces silver end and T ji percent cent luid uro aro ct at the to ro ducton works worker for rise pur of attaining Q toji toil result As soon lis known A further to ro 1 on will lea 10 galena from DUCK crook hardy flardy lon IL largo specimen of lead oro on which was brought lu lo by IV L willy botu rotu lila hill prO property DOrLy in ili ibok cr 01 this oro t to scald colonel cited and noung 10 und lead to lu the ton toil there Is 14 said to bo be tiny any quati munir lily of it Itt there boro elect anil that it woud mould pay to run a rall niad raud to deep crook to haut haul tire oro ore efrom thit thal alufuo I 1 tho tl selwyn salwyn plant repaired Port alrod aar adr admiral iral selwyn reports that to io tells has about the on hla tion lion dilot which liach was wa destroyed by cro are liuo 0 time neo and that lip ho will ijo be tandy roudy to tar t in A a few duya buya lg in Is waiting for fop some bonio much loory which wiss from sari IrAlli clano I 1 jsu jit friday I 1 nion mail rite anro uve alting tho the starting of tire alio I 1 lant 11 ui 1 delmay think that tills this process it is the one which toly solves th tho much all it als cussed question or reducing ore tho the maxwell Min Corn company pany tho the stoics states Inu investor calor has the ibo fol fat inquiry and concerning tho abo mine con you sive ino boy in 0 o the eluo D af f like or ar thie alij future VectA or tho company or of utah aboy limo paid quart quarterly irly dividu is up tip to april lust but rot since aru libey ON n are an arly early it greatly bla 0 obliga go I 1 0 ri truly this colne tolne allows more dioro of ten rn average grade crado thao than it lid before due but owing to the low price of sliver rod load it birely bagoly pays the coot coat of mining it during abo last twelve years tho the average profit 0 on it t lie iho ounces of olivor has been 27 cou ceato te during the past year tho 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