Show I THE LA SAL REGION I Prospecting Active and a Number of New Strikes Reported I Miners Basin La Sal Mountains Grand County Utah April ISSalt Lake speculators and mining Investors no doubt are beginning to speculate on the outcome of the La Sal country this season and all of that portion of southeastern I south-eastern Utah naturally tributary to Salt Lake Cily Tho Huntsman combination was about the worst scarecrow we have had but when It I Is known that the properly Itself was not to blame then the sedimentary I or sandstone country will again come to the front If the truth were known generally bad judgment judg-ment inexperienced men and an Intended In-tended sharp deal were llio Initiatory I slops of ho Huntsman programme I The ore is there and Its values arc there but as 1 have said before II will require depth through the sandstone sedimentary formation to gel to tho h mineral In place Other sandfitonu miners In this country may profit by the same advice The most Important discovery made this year is that made by tho Aldrich people on the north end of the moon tain In the break between the upheaval and the sedimentary formations in a big lime dyko that cuts through that I I locality The rock Is a sort of con glomerate mixed up with lime and I porphyry They have had a number of tests made from the vein which Is I from live to eight feet in width and the ore runs from 15 to 80 in gold They have about fifteen tons of thin I class of ore out now and In a few I days will haxo a carload lot ready for shipment This dyke extends l for four I miles around the mountain and whenever I when-ever opened shows this same character of ore r Another richfind has been made on Copper mountain near Miners basIn where a large has cave been opened on the Rich claim owned by Tom Kone The cave Is lined with a hlghgrado sulphide ore running high In gold and I copper and Is a shipping proposition from the start Mr Koneg Is now busily busi-ly l pushing development on the property proper-ty und taking out ore preparatory for a shipment as soon as the roads out of the basin will permit The recent storms havo been considerable consid-erable of a drawback to the early development I de-velopment of the country and more snow has fallen since the first of April than at any other time during the winter win-ter The valleys surrounding the mountains are rapidly filling up with prospectors waiting to gtt Into the hills Many of them have become Impatient Im-patient and have started to explore tho foothills up to the snowllnc and some good prospects are being found The most recent Is on the west slope near the new town of Caslleton The new discoveries arc mostly gold veins In I the contact between 1 the sedimentary and tho upheaval In addition to this several uranium properties have been found and are being opened up A number of deposits of elaterlte have been discovered and arc being looked after by parties socking such properties proper-ties tiesTho Tho new town of Casllelon at the bead of Castle valley and at the foot of the mountain promises to become quite a point of Interest as a supply center v townslte has been laid off t lots are being sold and a number of good buildings are going up among which Is a new hotel assay olllce schoolhouso and a building for a printing print-ing office from which will lie issued the I La Sal Miner I A cutoff I road la I also being built from Richardson thus I shortening the distance from Cisco on the Rio Grande Western railroad to the mountains to 32 miles Messrs LAn I L-An ties and S L McLean are the prime promoters Roads are being built from I I Castleton into Miners and Beaver ha slims and while people are waiting for the season to open all are taking a I willing hand and helping push tributary tribu-tary Interests as much as possible A number of prominent Denver and Colorado Springs mining men backed I by unlimited capital have taken hold of several properties at Miners I basin and arc prepared to begin Investment of money In developing some of the claims When it is i conclusively demonstrated demon-strated that the country will Justify larger Investments In development I here are thousands of dollars ready to be put Into the mines here G1D R PROPPER |