Show G E N 8 N UAN 1 utah is is becom ind J was orce once iz r t t f fu i S V S MINERS FLOCK TO THE FIELD f A the indian scare scara is over as the diggings aings gings are sot mot on the navajo res reservation viti oner byrll dec al in responds 1 1 I 1 ancs r Cs leing being se debt ni ta aa i mines in s bein being 10 loa CU 0 o reservation wal wor I 1 cc t I 1 I 1 today that aali a chans a m I 1 tho the res ex at ion w was as madea made 4 ral alit pai tian of the reserva reservation tio aj fc ai feted aged biti within an the 11 chow fe t stand tand that it had b IM I 1 a I 1 very quietly by some per son immediately interested in the move it was done so quickly 41 that but little attention was paid to it till those who had bad manipulated it had accomplished what was desired then the boom was started it is presumed that parties lia have v 0 been loc locating abing 0 claims in that con country 11 and 3 nd working corkill wor kill 0 important discoveries co veries and that they obtained we tho influence of prominent men to secure the release it is remembered by some that land was thrown open to settlement but none seem deemed ed to understand why it had been done the sanie same thing occurred in the eastern portion of utah a few years ago by parti parties ac having 0 asphalt claims located b but lit the movement was too open in in arouni arousing na attention and the president vetoed the bill captain G r A jackson of ouray writes to otto mears president of the rio grande southern ir in regard 0 to 0 the new fields about which lie he has considerable knowledge as has recently returned from that vi vicinity cil lily captain jackson I 1 is an old time prospector having 0 spent 10 forty r arty yen years rs in the mountains and is is capable of speaking intelligently of tho mining sections from color rado to california the follain fol following loin 0 is the letter dated dec 23 the file much talked of gold strike is is 0 on 11 the aitio llio san sail juan ju in in san juan county utah and extends so FO far n as s it lias has been prospected fro from III I 1 its it ajun junction action with the rio colorado up the bed of the alic river to the mouth of clay wash something over forty miles outside of tho the river bed gold has been discovered in both clay wash and moonlight C canyons this clay wash takes its rise riso near elk mountains an isolated group of hills situated south and west of the blue mountains on the divide between the rio colorado and rio INO san juan the major portion of this divide is a sedimentary surface capping eruptive rr rocks icks which are in many placeit easily reached and in some places cut down several hundred fe feet t in in deeper canyons I 1 believe it will be a great campy camp 4 J |