Show NEPHIS LATEST the capital of juab county makes quite a stir in business circles and the energy of its citi citizens zons is felt among its neighbors it has roller mills gypsum works salt works marble quaff quarries ies mines an electric light company a well conducted newspaper and a hundred other features within its reach to give it influence in soma some of thew these it has an ad vantage advantage over other cities in the territory in being the exclusive possessor but in order to vary the monotony of boom pr praises aiges a new feature is introduced it is giyen given in the NephiE nephi ensign nAga as follows for some time past pad mr aft cleoo jackson of this city BBS bas been prospecting in the bills northeast ot of town last monday while prospecting in Quaking asp canyon about three miles from nephi he came upon some gold bearing quartz and commenced an investigation he removed a few pieces of tiie the rock fram the foot of the ledge and found them to be as he says pretty good he commenced tieu then to investigate f urther further when he found there was a hole large enough for a man to work in in fact every semblance of a mine having been worked there looking into this hole he found a brass kettle that had been used at some time it being blackened with soot boa he removed the kettle he came upon an ax this also he be removed proceeding further he found a buffalo robe all sewn up anxious to find out what was in it he ripped it open when to his surprise he found the skeleton of what proved to be an I 1 indian the robe was much de decayed caved and showed evidences ol of having been lying at this place for twenty or thirty among the bones were a number of beads buckskin sacks dacks one of which contained the pipe of the old warrior whittled out of clay after he got through with this portion of his discovery he returned to the hole bole which now proved to be a grave and resumed tits his explorations the next thing he got hold of was a couple of old indian saddles which had undoubtedly been the property of the chief and had been deposited with his remains he then hauled out another old bucket and another buffalo robe he knew directly he got hold bold of this last article that it was another skeleton and so it proved to be he noticed that there was a difference between both remains and concludes that one of the boales bodies must have been the squaw of bf the redskin Ashe As he found six brass barss bracelets on in each of this last skeleton he be is of opinion that it must have been a chief other portions were also decorated and ornamented and the buckskin worn durings durin guUs life was still there an empty powder horn born was also in this robe HS also a chunk of red paint attach d to one of the buckskin I 1 leggings of the chief was a very small small sleigh bell another ax wis wi s found under ahls last bundle but the handle had been broken off going down a little further mr jackson came across the remains of J a horse tn in fact it seemed to him that the whole earthly possessions of an indian warrior had been laid to rest here mr jackson has herded stock all around the place where he made pa this discovery for the last ten years and he knows of no indian having been buried there so the burial must have occurred in the early days of utah certain it is that it was a very strange and weird discovery and was not the kind of material mr jackson was hunting for he intends to make further investigations in vent gat ions |