Show 1 I Ethos F From om J The Thi Dust Dusti J i ches from the Dust bust is la actual news taken from Crom the files tiles of The Vernal Vet Vcr nal Express on the dates noted at the top of oC the story V Vernal r Uintah County Utah June Junc 17 1897 J Jessie Ewing week the t high mogul as our junior partner pleated pleased to call caU me In the last issue of the Express x In In the thc company of L. L Johnson Johnson John son sun Wm McCaslin and W II n. Gagon visited the mining district of Jessie Jessio Ewing Canyon We left Vernal Tuesday afternoon and before getting out of an ansy easy easy sy Walk valk to 10 town a n vote W was S' S taken and carried that any any ono one of the party who would get Ret mad at l tiny remarks made by the others would have his Ids tobacco taken away from Crom him and be obliged to ride on on the wagon lounge between the horses Th The conse s' s sw w was s everybody was good natured na na- turgid and had n a jolly jolty time A small supply of suye pOp pop on snakes rattlesnakes was was taken along but as there was plenty of m mosquitoes to do the biting and to do the rattling it did not last long The camp was reached Wednesday evening evening ev ew ening and Thursday was spent in looking at the mine or rather prospect holes as there thero arc are no mines opened up yet although a lU ough the pr prospects are r good for some valuable mines in that locality i in thon the tho n near a lutu future e THE FORMATION FORMATI N. N Is s composed of conglomerate quartz jasper and mica schist and stands nearly perpendicular The vein carrying the alleged tin lore ore t lies lieson on side of the large ledge ol of of qu quartz conglomerate and is about six ix feet thick and can be traced for lor miles and all staked oft off The only work done to amo amount to anything to show what what Is In the vein Is th the shaft about thirty feet deep on the Last Chance M i Black and Beaty are running running run run- ning a cut on their claim and andare are are tak ing ng out outs out s some ne very good chopper chopper- ore These Thes g gentlemen are are not spending their time time- in running a around und and trying to gobble up everything in sight but are ting putting all their work on the one claim I claim a rel relocation of the theold old Jessie which hada boo foot foott t tunnel run run into the hill by byan an eastern company company whom Jessie Ewing represented r presen ted The new owners ers ers' have driven a foot incline above the old tunnel el and nd have tons of copper ore on the dump and plenty morean m more re In sight LYONS and W Webber have several claims caim near near the X but have struck struck no perm permanent nent vein excepting t the Black Rock which carries a black slag slag- gy gy looking ore that they y do not know whether valuable or not The Jack a good goo copp copper copper r prospect pros pros- and nd has about ten tons of of ore ore on the dump from a twenty five twenty wenty foot shaft ha t. t The above mentioned prospect with k j further Development develop e t prove t to be te a a. a pa paying ing mine and work rk on it will Vill be commenced immediately by s the owners owners who are confident that they will strike it rich wh when n a little m more E dp depth lis' lis is at attained 1 SEV SEVERAL OTHER prospects ts were vi vis visited Hed and a a. a gr great many missed i sed as our our time was were wel-were were assured by the the men men i in th the camp that what we had seen see and what is is' is mentioned above Vas wasai at fair sample s mple of f the work ork done in Inthe the canyon That good paying mines win ill b o opened n h in that locality at some early date dato is an assured fact Mineral Minerai be bearing rh g r rock k can can be picked up everywhere every everywhere every where and untiring energy that thatIs thatIs thatis Is displayed by the gentlemen I who care are prospecting that country vein or lode from whence this this mineral mineral came is ill sure to tobe bc be found THE CANYON li lies s ab about two miles i north of Gr Green en River or or about three I miles Ferry in Br Browns Brown's wn's Park It Itis is easy of access being about forty miles from the theU U. U P P. P railroad and about sixty miles mlles fr from m. m Vernal with la a good mountain road leading to it from both the present time the mos mos- snake make life a burden to the hardy prospector and any one contemplating visiting Jessie Ewing Canyon should be before be before fore they start to lay layn in a supply of arnica 1 ica or sheet Iron on clothes as the writers writ writ- ers ers' ers fa fancy were punched full of f bol holes holes' s' s by bythe tOO the trouble troublesome me insects JOHN JARVIE the gentleman who runs the ferry Jerri h has s' s a store where he keeps a good stock of general I dise to supply travelers and the ranchers who live Uve along the river Mr Jarvie was not at home when we crossed his ferry but George Law and Mr Jarvies Jarvie's little boys took us rapidly across The boys are are bright little fellows fellows' and are always busy on on some experiment in In the blacksmith shop testing ores or for forging pieces of iron into sonie some tool They have acquired a knowledge from their father and from books upon mineralogy that enables enables' them to converse upon the subJect subject subject sub sub- with an intelligence e above the average average av avo av- av prospector tor In their th lr explorations 5 along the tiie riv river this spring they found some some wild goose eggs and transferred them to a hens hen's nest and the old hen hatched out three thre goslings They also had a wild gander they rais raised d three years ago go who I was the big chief of the barn yard Mr Law gave us some some very val c Information in to the resources resources re reo sources of Browns Brown's Park wh which ch was was- was highly appreciated The mineral products are gold silver sliver copper tin and iron In order to show us that the stories that there was gold in the sand of of Green River is true he took a pan of sand from the rivers bank and w washed shed it out rout and it showed plenty of colors of gold some as large as a pin pinhead head All of the bars along the river are said to carry gold but it is of the kind known as flour gold and is hard to save save F THERE IS a large deposit of garnets in Jessie Ewing canyon and jasper of all aU makes a beautiful polish and may maY sometime in the near future be 00 a a source source of revenue to the citizens of Browns Brown's Park but is difficult of access rIt r It was was was' our intentions to visit the Red Creek mines while in hi the Park but cir clr- circumstances over which we had no control prevented it it The mines ar aro ara about six miles mUes from the ferry and are said to tobe tobe be richer tha than the ones in Jessie Ewing Canyon but carry the same minerals The tin ores ores found in Re Rell Redi Creek and Jessie Jessl Ewing Canyons runs runs all aU the way from to 30 percent tin and if the tho tests are correct Browns Brown's Park will have bave havethe the richest m mining ning campin camp in Eastern Utah as several gentlemen in Vernal who have I spent a great deal of time and money are interested in the above mentioned prospects the Express wishes them the success to which they are justly entitled |