Show TALK heber begins to believe in skull creek discoveries wo we were blue last week and went into sackcloth sack cloth and ashes ahead of time no jonah ed gourd business here tho the vernal EXPRESS tolls tells of a rich strike in colorado near the utah line which has caused considerable excitement in and around vernal mr A C hatch of this is interested in the mines of that region and word of of the strike was bent to him he could hardly the story until lie got returns from the clio assa assayer in in salt lake which was wa to the effect that the rock in question carried ounces of silver to the ton con this ore was found only four feet from the surface if as is generally believed this story is true and the ore body is as extensive as reported some of he bers denizens will come in for a good sized slice of the new found wealth wave we take great pleasure in acknowledging that we were rather prema ture cure in turning i au our r rules the fact is that things are more encouraging than ever L mcnaughton received an assay of ounces the other day and martin alred aired got the largest yet ca o silver and d the latter is found in a well defined vein as large as a mans hand it would be no surprise to mining men that no developments are made if they could see the manner in which the prospecting is done the Thein miners iners flit from claim to claim like butterflies among the flowers with location notices in one hand and a pick pich in the other here is one of them his eye is aflame with the demon avarice he finds a soft spot and remorselessly plunges the shining pick into the patient and inoffensive earth then withdrawing the earth stained weapon from the loamy bosom of tho the centennial state lie surveys his work with ghoulish glee and rears an alter to the worship of mammon in this he incarcerates a few pieces of paper and hastens away avray on oil the wings 0 of the wind to find another soft place this is a good chance to make a crack about a phrenologist finding a soft place but wo we wont say it in this manner thirty miles have been staked off and in some places three or four doea in all that country the deepest hole is not 10 feet and is in a spot chosen for easy diggin in the ine meantime antime everyone is happy |