Show 14 UTAH DISTRICTS utah has placer mining districts according to a bulletin complied by the bureau of mines showing all the principal placer mining areas of the west the booklet it Is explained was published for the purpose of aiding the unemployed in finding a gainful occupation and to answer many inquiries received from prospective prospectors the bulletin lists eight areas along the colorado river and its tributaries tributa ries in southeastern utah as placer districts three in the vicinity of beaver one at bingham and two near vernal the booklet besides giving the location of the 1 placer districts describes the types of placer deposits and details methods of panning charles F jackson and john knaebel of the united states bureau of mines make the following summary during recent months articles have appeared in the press encouraging the belief that wages can be easily earned in the old placer fields of this country by re washing the sands and gravels of the creek beds and of their bars and I 1 benches the amount of gold recovered by small operators and sold to the government assay offices in some of the western districts in 1931 was about double that of the years immediately preceding to encourage the small operator the assay offices were recently authorized to purchase gold in minimum of 40 dollars worth whereas the previous minimum was 1100 dollars this regulation requires however that the seller states the source of his gold |