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Show A NEW p CAMP. A locality Where the Prospector Eu Fanned Oat His Maintenance for Five Tears. UTAH OIL COMPANY'S PE0SFE0T Another Feeder From Which the Metropolis Metro-polis Host Ultimately Derive Some Fat Colonel Tom Hall, the statuesque exponent of Green river's metallurgical merits, has returned to the metropolis after a pilgrimage along its gold fringed banks and reports "unprecedented activity" ac-tivity" among the placers. "Another year," says he, "and we will be cleaning up as much of the yellow motal as any of the new districts. dis-tricts. Our camp met with something of a disaster this season, or we would all be walking iu clover by this time. You see we had constructed a ditch and flumes at an enormous cost and tapped the Colorado river on a low water bar. Bye and bye came the high water and the flumes were literally filled and packed to the surface with sand and gravel. We could have removed this but what's the use? The job is too expensive. The next raise would have filled it up again and there we would hae been with another costly undertaking under-taking on hand. The problem is ou the way to settlement jow,v however, and next season wo will begin to send ont our product. Cass Hite, who by the way is an old correspondent of the Globe-Democrat, has boen down there on the verge of anything but a banquet for five years, and having formed a company of which J. T. Criuer of Denver Den-ver is president, Will soon have machinery machin-ery on the ground. He and his partner have been panning out gold enough to keep up thoir messbox for fivo years, and when that can be done I say to you there is an opportunity for capital to double itself. i "The boys down there are all well known in Zion and are as plucky a crew as ever went liungry. Hall's camp is booming and expects big things in a short time. Then there is the California camp(i old Jack Butler's oimp and by the 'way the Colorado people ..ought " to know him. He is one of the best known prospectors pros-pectors in the country. He prospected the best placers of the Centennial state, and says White River Canyon mining min-ing district beats anything he has ever seen. Then there is Cass Hite's camp, Lyle A Anderson's, Sumner's, Charley Arraltage's and Bob Farley's. All of the latter are making preparations prepara-tions for the energetio washing of their sand, and the next year will see the employment em-ployment of a large number of miners. There is scarcely a way of estimating the amount of ground that awaits the flume. There is scarcoly a larger area in the country. It will average about 25 cents a yard, although others, less conservative, say it will go to a figure between 50 and 75 cents. Twenty -Awe cents is high enough, however, how-ever, to make it one of the biggest things ever discovered in the country, east or west." "And the boreings of the Utah Oil company f" "They are going ahead on a pace that must soon decide the question, if there is any question about it, of the presence pres-ence of the lubricant in that country. On Tuesday last they had acquired a depth of 800 feet, and there is every reason to believe that within . a few more shifts -a flow will be ' had. They have experienced experi-enced some delays or, I believe, 'pon honor, they would have tapped the current that to my mind undoubtedly, exists in the country before this." Mr. Hall will remain in the city several sev-eral days and is in the meantime enjoying enjoy-ing the hospitalities of a host of friends. |