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Show I ON NORTH FORK I OF THE DUCHESNE Facts Regarding a New District Oppiifd Up on Uintah Reserve. t RECORDER SULLIVAN GIVES MICH INFORMATION Advises Prospectors Not to Attempt At-tempt to Go Into t li o District Before kpril. H 8pcc4aJ tO Th Trlhun" MYTOX, Utah. Jan. ". The miner and prospectors wintering on the North Fork B of tho Duchesne In the former Uintah In- rlian reservation have organised it district H. known ns the North Fork Mining dlMrlct. J Thej have received numerous letters from people in different mining cam pa in Nevada, Utah and Colorado who have ppH expressed a desire to come to the North ppH Fork district this winter and asking for ppH Information regarding th (.imp and tho pppfl climatla conditions. The men In the North pppM Fork most strongly want to discouragi ppH any atteniit to . r at a stamped.- into the ppH camp lids winter as it would only result In disaster similar to that of Thunder pppfl Mountain Htid have requested that the H facts bv given out. I Snow Is Deep. The conditions on the North Fork are I very unfavorable to winter prospecting The .now Iks three and four reel deep In the mountains and tho storms at times are extremely t'ere. it is impossible to prospect WhCn one cannot see the ground and living In a tent at Oils time of M ar would entail the greatest privation and Buffering Tint.- ...ill.) ho nothing but disappointment and perhaps worse for a prospector with the temerity to venture Into the country before April IK. January, February and March nr. months of the m.vl Inten;... eold and the snow do. s not have th.- mountains till June It Is a hard untry to prospect even In th.- summer on account of the mountains being so Steep and rugged. In the winter It would b. next to Impossible to obtain a footing oi: some of them The valley of th.- North Fork Is at an altitude of about 73 but ihe mountains rise abruptly from tho rlvr and attain a height Of 12T feet In u yen miles Few Men in District. There are about fifteen men wintering On the North Fork but they have been there since the oi.enlng of the reservation list August and have made adequate provision pro-vision for tin winter, having warm log h uses and barns and feed for their stock The men there now aie old time prospectors prospec-tors who have been in every new camp for th last twenty years, competent prospectors, men with trained Judgment and good rock sense, men whose opinion Is entitled to respect and th. v all pronounce pro-nounce the district to be far and away the superior of anything In T'tah and equal In surface Indications of anything ever found. Has Every Formation. Tito district has every formation and contact known to mining men, trachyte, porphyry, granite, limestone, quartslts and sandstone, with clear cut contacts that would make glad the heart of aSiy man. The veins are strong and well de- roped and can be traced for many hundred hun-dred feet. Much of the district Is "high I v mineralised and a variety of metals is found. Surprising veins of cinnabar are found from four to fourteen feet wide. Porphyry that cannot be told from that of 'ripple Creek. Tho lime carbon, sand carbon and lead carbon of Leadvllle are there In great quantities, but gold is the predominant metal, most of the ass.. showing but a trace in silver What Assays Disclose. The first assays from which we had fe-ti.ms fe-ti.ms were run In Vernal They went a ppS trace. That was last September. The samo J month we had fifteen samples tested In ppS Heber The lowest was $1.80, the highest pppj $11 SO, and not a blank in the lot. That ppH was more encouraging but still it was ppH kt own that men were not getting the ppH values because the rock looked rich. Then the flouriiie was found, und It was pppfl concluded that the rock must carry pppfl sylvanlte and that the local aasaycrs. not being familiar with that volatile form of gold, were losing the value.-,, mo the sam-pppj sam-pppj pies werti sent to Cripple Creek and Lead- pppB vllle and the usual reward of persever- pppj anco resulted, $11, $17, and $22. Since then pppj assays of $4-1. $M and $SH have been ob- ppH taJned. There are reports of float run- J nlng $3 to fl8. but this has not l en v rl- Flouriiie Found. Flourlnc has been found In two different places and William Shl.lehr who is representing rep-resenting J. Angus McDonald and other Cripple Creek mining men, has rock that pppfl will pan sylvanlte. Free gold In quartz pppH has been found in but one place What few placer panlngs have been mad.- have pfpfS proven Very good; those at two- foot depth being the best. Owing to the lateness of the season when men were ! permitted to enter th.- reservation and to ppH tho necessity of building houses, barns und getting in provisions for tho winter, 1 only a limited amount of prospecting could be done. Thero are hardly one hundred locations made so far and none will be till spring opens. The district Is about twenty-one miles from north to south and twenty -four from east to west nearly all of it ; being highly mineralized to there will he room for all next spring. Most of the lo-cations lo-cations made to date are within four or f J Ave miles either side of the valley of the , 1 North Fork in places most easy of ac- 5. 1 Heber Is the Gateway. V. -1 Heber, on the Denver & Rio Grande f '. 'd railroad, is the gateway to tho North I -3. Fork; from there to Woodland If. sixteen v .a miles, thence twenty-six miles to the dls- I '.) trict. The road at tho present Is In very I bad condition and Impassable on the sum- I ' ;j mlt. but It Is probable that the people of ig Heber will Improve the road by spring I ; -a Tlie summit of the Fork pass, down I ''"gl which the road comes, is at an altitude of I about 9000 feet and covered with about I J four feet of snow in winter. A road will Hi also be built In from Park 'its. aboul 'i'fci. '! forty-five miles away, which will greatly facilitate travel from rhe west. jrj&iS: Surveys for Moffat Road. H One survey of the Moffat road east Br i from S;iit Lake comes through Park ii '-.iS' r,1 down the u.s-t fork of the Duchesne Vjf running through the distiicl tor about Wr'.-sa twenty miles. A - nd survey goes & Ta1 through Heber ami down th- Strawberry Sfi.'ffl leaving the district about forty miles to ppppS the south. SStjfi Coal Lands Located. H A i Farm creek, which is the south- 9E5i easterly boundry of the district, 640 acres KjSfc,; g of coal has been located. The coal has l,)e appearance of being bit umlnous Is mj&ZM good cooking coal and burns to a iim- 113 white ash in a grate. It will be an added 8fcfe-4',3 inducement t-, the Moff.it line to come HsMa: that way. Tho veins are about three fe, t raHt No 0110 "houid attempt to come into the l(yt country without a good team and at least gnuyj three months provisions. Prospectors 9gM should also bring st.-.-l an.l powder There Apii are no stores on the North Fork ami mmM "very one coming ln should he in a posl- MHHH tlon to maintain themselves at least mi KjffiXm BUGh time as there are st,,,.:- (.-, , (1 WBfflBM u5 bought and tin- grazing H as fine as HBH anV ln the world In the summer and' the greya summer months are unexcelled gwBawl ,-Ab 11 located In the forest reserve Mill 2rrV1 an abundance of Que timber. The BKBHi Teluridj Pow.jt and EUectric company MfMffil' J.V mada application for water rights on the North Pork, Insuring power and lighting facilities. Worked by Spaniards. Many years ago the North l-'ork country was worked by the Spaniards and there are evidences of tb ccupancy in the foil)) of bar i h ades. tntii-hcs and rifle pits, wli.-r. they made tht lr last Stand against the Indians There was an old Spaniard there last fall about the time of th first snow, who stopped iti the cihin of Rey Sh'-ldler. He said he had como to locate omi of tholr old workings of which his father had told him. Jb related how thero had been a great massacre of Spaniards Span-iards In 17X0. The w athei was cold and hi went out. sa ing there would I..- many of his people In next summer. There are old shafts In the country, but none have evei been cleaned out Very little development work hag as yet been none, tint some sinking and drifting will be done this winter. William Shldeler will put down a fifty-fool hoi.- on aft. Lookout, Which should ylv B good d. IS of what can bo expected from depth. Tho district bears every surface indication of being ,i wond.-r and the assays h. Ip to support the belief it Is a big district and but few locations have been made. Th. n-Bre n-Bre opportunities for all. Don't cone- unless un-less you are prepared, and don't come till April 16. W I!. SULLIVAN. Recorder of the North Fork Mining District. |